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  • The Hunted by Charlie Higson

    The Hunted by Charlie Higson

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Hunted is Charlie Higson's sixth terrifying installment in the thrilling The Enemy series. The sickness struck everyone over fourteen. First it twisted their minds. Next it ravaged their bodies. Now they roam the streets - Crazed and hungry The others had promised that the countryside would be safer than the city. They were wrong...
  • After the Fire by Will Hill

    After the Fire by Will Hill

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The things I've seen are burned into me, like scars that refuse to fade.Before, she lived inside the fence. Before, she was never allowed to leave the property, never allowed to talk to Outsiders, never allowed to speak her mind. Because Father John controlled everything—and Father John liked rules. Disobeying Father John came with terrible consequences...
  • 薄雾 Mist by 微风几许, 微風幾許

    薄雾 Mist by 微风几许, 微風幾許

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hyperthymesia. Those with this condition can remember every detail of their lives from something as significant as the world’s turning point to something as small and as insignificant as a minor fleeting thought. They cannot forget and their thirst for knowledge allows them to be considered a genius in some senses.Legend has it that Ji Yushi was this kind of genius...
  • Secrets in the Dark by Darcy Coates

    Secrets in the Dark by Darcy Coates

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Winterbourne Hall is not safe. Even as Clare and Dorran scramble to secure the ancient building against ravenous hollow ones, they face something far worse: Clare's sister has made contact, but she's trapped, and her oxygen is running out. Hundreds of miles separate Clare from Beth. The land between them is infested with monsters, and the roads are a maze of dead ends...
  • Fallen by Karin Slaughter

    Fallen by Karin Slaughter

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    There's no police training stronger than a cop's instinct. Faith Mitchell's mother isn't answering her phone. Her front door is open. There's a bloodstain above the knob. Her infant daughter is hidden in a shed behind the house. All that the Georgia Bureau of Investigations taught Faith Mitchell goes out the window when she charges into her mother's house, gun drawn...
  • Fever by Deon Meyer

    Fever by Deon Meyer

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Nico Storm and his father Willem drive a truck filled with essential supplies through a desolate land. They are among the few in South Africa--and the world, as far as they know--to have survived a devastating virus which has swept through the country...
  • Mist by 微风几许

    Mist by 微风几许

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    yperthymesia. Those with this condition can remember every detail of their lives from something as significant as the world’s turning point to something as small and as insignificant as a minor fleeting thought. They cannot forget and their thirst for knowledge allows them to be considered a genius in some senses.Legend has it that Ji Yushi was this kind of genius...
  • Fire & Ash by Jonathan Maberry

    Fire & Ash by Jonathan Maberry

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    In the gripping conclusion to the action-packed standard bearer (Booklist) of zombie series, the threat of death is given new life.Benny Imura and his friends have found the jet and Sanctuary, but neither is what they expected. Instead of a refuge, Sanctuary is a hospice, and the soldiers who flew the plane seem to be little more than bureaucrats who have given up hope for humanity's future...
  • White: The Great Pursuit by Ted Dekker

    White: The Great Pursuit by Ted Dekker

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    "Never break The Circle."In this final installment of Ted Dekker's groundbreaking Circle trilogy, Thomas Hunter has only days to survive two separate realms of danger, deceit, and destruction. The fate of both worlds hinges on his unique ability to shift realities through his dreams...
  • Red: The Heroic Rescue by Ted Dekker

    Red: The Heroic Rescue by Ted Dekker

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    "We have stepped off the cliff and are falling into madness."The mind-bending pace of "Black" accelerates in "Red," Book Two of Ted Dekker's groundbreaking Circle trilogy. Less than a month ago, Thomas Hunter was a failed writer selling coffee at the Java Hut in Denver. Now he finds himself in a desperate quest to rescue two worlds from collapse...
  • Contagious Chaos by Emily Goodwin

    Contagious Chaos by Emily Goodwin

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Contagious Chaos, the highly anticipated third book in the Contagium Series, winner of the Contagious Reads Horror Con’s 2014 best horror series, follows Orissa and her friends as they struggle through a zombie filled world...
  • Dust & Decay by Jonathan Maberry

    Dust & Decay by Jonathan Maberry

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Six months have passed since the terrifying battle with Charlie Pink-eye and the Motor City Hammer in the zombie-infested mountains of the Rot & Ruin. It’s also six months since Benny Imura and Nix Riley saw something in the air that changed their lives...
  • Blue Moon by James Ponti

    Blue Moon by James Ponti

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Molly is ready for more nonstop, undead action in this follow-up to Dead City, which Kirkus Reviews described as “a fast-paced read for those who like their zombies with just a little fright.”When Molly Bigelow discovered that zombies shared New York with humans, she didn’t think life could get more shocking...
  • Dead City by James Ponti

    Dead City by James Ponti

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Most kids have enough to deal with between school, homework, extracurricular activities, and friends, but Molly Bigelow isn’t your typical tween. By day, Molly attends MIST—the Metropolitan Institute of Science and Technology—but it’s what she’s learning outside of school that sets her apart from her classmates. Molly is a zombie hunter, just like her mother. This, however, is news to Molly...
  • Frenzy by Robert Liparulo

    Frenzy by Robert Liparulo

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Their destiny is to fix history. Their dream is to get home.When you live in a house that's really a gateway between past and present, you have to be ready for "anything." It's a painful fact the Kings have faced since moving to Pinedale eight days ago...
  • Whirlwind by Robert Liparulo

    Whirlwind by Robert Liparulo

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Best-selling novelist Robert Liparulo is a former journalist, with over a thousand articles and multiple writing awards to his name. His first two critically acclaimed thrillers?Comes a Horseman and Germ?were optioned by Hollywood producers. Bestselling author Michael Palmer calls Deadfall, released in November, 2007, ?a brilliantly crafted thriller...
  • Flesh & Bone by Jonathan Maberry

    Flesh & Bone by Jonathan Maberry

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Reeling from the tragic events of Dust & Decay, Benny Imura and his friends plunge deep into the zombie-infested wastelands of the great Rot & Ruin. Benny, Nix, Lilah and Chong journey through a fierce wilderness that was once America, searching for the jet they saw in the skies months ago. If that jet exists then humanity itself must have survived…somewhere...
  • Dark Days by James Ponti

    Dark Days by James Ponti

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Molly’s up against the undead—and the fate of Manhattan is in her hands—in the third and final book of the Dead City trilogy, which Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins says “breathes new life into the zombie genre.”Molly and the Omegas fight to contain the storm unleashed by Operation Blue Moon...
  • Soul's Gate by James L. Rubart

    Soul's Gate by James L. Rubart

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    “Every now and then we get a break from reality. A glimpse into the other world that is more real than the reality we live in 99 percent of our days. The Bible is about a world of demons and angels and great evil and even greater glory.”What if you could travel inside another person’s soul?To battle for them. To be part of Jesus healing their deepest wounds...
  • Timescape by Robert Liparulo

    Timescape by Robert Liparulo

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    In the fourth installment of this stunning young adult series,the King family plummets into a nightmare of head-spinning action, as the house and the worlds that lay beyond grow increasingly dangerous.David, Xander, Dad, and Keal have discovered a terrible secret. Now,finding Mom is only a small part of their mission. And time is running out...
  • Gatekeepers by Robert Liparulo

    Gatekeepers by Robert Liparulo

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The house talks. It breathes. And it's hungry. The Kings have been in the creepy old place, their new home, for only a few days, but they've experienced enough terror to last a lifetime. And the mystery is growing even more baffling...
  • Black: The Birth of Evil by Ted Dekker

    Black: The Birth of Evil by Ted Dekker

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Enter an adrenaline-laced epic where dreams and reality collide.Fleeing his assailants through deserted alleyways, Thomas Hunter narrowly escapes to the roof of a building. Then a silent bullet from the night clips his head...and his world goes black.From the blackness comes an amazing reality of another world-a world where evil is contained...
  • The Forbidden Door by Dean Koontz

    The Forbidden Door by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Jane Hawk—rogue FBI agent and the country's #1 fugitive--confronts her worst nightmare when her enemies strike shockingly close to home in the explosive new thriller from Dean Koontz, bestselling author of The Silent Corner.Jane Hawk thinks her precious five-year-old son is hidden safely away, with vigilant, indomitable friends...
  • The Time Machine/The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

    The Time Machine/The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    The Time Machine and The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras...
  • Hurt by Travis Thrasher

    Hurt by Travis Thrasher

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    His Rebellion Will Soon Turn to Hope When Chris Buckley first encountered the mysteries of creepy Solitary, North Carolina, he had little idea how far he would fall into the town’s shadows. After losing the love of his life, Chris tried to do things his way. He hunted answers. Then he gave up trying to find them.  But now Chris comes back to Solitary knowing there’s a purpose for his being there...
  • The Zombie Room by R.D. Ronald

    The Zombie Room by R.D. Ronald

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    A darkly transgressive tale of criminality and sex-trafficking, but overall a coming together of characters from different worlds, uniting against a common enemy, and fighting for survival and what they believe to be right...
  • Gravestone by Travis Thrasher, Kirby Heyborne

    Gravestone by Travis Thrasher, Kirby Heyborne

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    His fear will soon turn to anger…. At first, Chris Buckley was simply warned. And watched. But as Chris unravels the haunting riddles of the town of Solitary, he finds that much more than the life of a town is at stake. Whether facing a pastor with a house full of skeletons or a cousin he never knew existed, Chris is forced to choose between light and darkness, life and nightmarish death...
  • Dark of Night by Jonathan Maberry, Rachael Lavin

    Dark of Night by Jonathan Maberry, Rachael Lavin

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The dead rose. We fell. The survivors are trapped in a world of monsters who prey on the helpless. Some of them are zombies...but they are not the only predators who feed on pain and suffering. Dark of Night is a story of worlds in collision. Three heroes who have survived the apocalypse are in a deadly race to save a busload of children from ravenous zombies and ruthless human scavengers...
  • Arena by Karen Hancock

    Arena by Karen Hancock

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Callie Hayes is living a life of fear and disillusionment when she volunteers for a psychology experiment that promises to turn her life around. As her orientation proceeds, Callie becomes frightened by the secrecy and evasion she encounters. When she demands to be released from the program, she is suddenly dropped into a terrifying alien world and into a perilous battle between good and evil...
  • Long After Midnight by Iris Johansen

    Long After Midnight by Iris Johansen

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    She wanted to save lives.  The killer wanted to end hers.The first warning was triggered hundreds of miles away.  The second warning exploded only yards from where she and her son stood.  Now Kate Denby realizes the frightening truth:  She is somebody's target.Danger has arrived in Kate's backyard with a vengeance...
  • Elsewhere by Dean Koontz

    Elsewhere by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The fate of the world is in the hands of a father and daughter in an epic novel of wonder and terror by Dean Koontz, the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach...
  • Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer

    Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The dead can't speak to us, Professor Madoc had said. But that was a lie. The body Patrick Fort is examining in anatomy class is trying to tell him all kinds of things. But no one hears what he does, and no one understands when he tries to tell them. Life is already strange enough for Patrick - being a medical student with Asperger's Syndrome doesn't come without its challenges...
  • Never Lie by Freida McFadden

    Never Lie by Freida McFadden

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams.But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate… with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end...
  • Watcher in the Woods by Robert Liparulo

    Watcher in the Woods by Robert Liparulo

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    It's not just the house that's keeping secrets. Pretending everything's all right is harder than it sounds. But the Kings know that even if they told the truth about the bizarre things happening in their house, no one would believe them. They're hyper-focused on rescuing their lost family member before anyone finds out what's going on...
  • Temptation by Travis Thrasher

    Temptation by Travis Thrasher

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The third book in the Solitary Tales series for young adults, Temptation follows the soul-wrenching twists of Chris Buckley’s journey as he heads deeper into a darkness that threatens all he loves best.  As a reluctant student at Harrington High’s summer school, Chris meets a fun-loving senior girl who offers a welcome diversion from Chris’s past...
  • The Occupied by Craig Parshall

    The Occupied by Craig Parshall

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As a youth, Trevor Black unleashed spiritual forces he couldn t comprehend. Years later, Trevor is a high-flying criminal defense lawyer in New York City, with a six-figure Aston Martin and a trophy wife. But in an extraordinary turn of events, he receives a burdensome gift: the ability to perceive the invisible. And the dark forces he now sees are all gunning for him...
  • The Raven by Mike Nappa

    The Raven by Mike Nappa

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As part of his regular street performance, a deception specialist who goes by the name The Raven picks his audience's pockets while they watch. It's harmless fun--until he decides to keep the spare wallet a city councilman doesn't seem to miss, hoping for a few extra bucks...
  • #NoEscape (Volume 3) by Gretchen McNeil

    #NoEscape (Volume 3) by Gretchen McNeil

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The #murder and mayhem continue in this prequel companion novel to the grisly, campy social media insanity that is #MurderTrending and #MurderFunding. Gretchen McNeil brings her signature wit and merciless kills to this gruesome yet hilarious, wildly topical young adult novel.Twenty years before Dee Guerra and the Death Row Breakfast Club took down The Postman and Alcatraz 2...
  • Hacker by Ted Dekker

    Hacker by Ted Dekker

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "My name is Nyah and I'm a hacker. I know things most people would never believe. Things that shouldn't exist, but do." Seventeen-year-old Nyah Parks is a genius hacker who makes a living by cracking the firewalls of the world's largest corporations...
  • The Gifting by K.E. Ganshert, Katie Ganshert

    The Gifting by K.E. Ganshert, Katie Ganshert

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    "If science is right, then I am crazy. And crazy is dangerous."In a world where nothing supernatural exists, Tess Eckhart is positive she’s going crazy. After her complete freakout at a high school party, her parents worry she might be right. So much that they pack their bags and move across the country, next to a nationally-renowned facility for the mentally ill...
  • Thr3e by Ted Dekker, Rob Lamont

    Thr3e by Ted Dekker, Rob Lamont

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    The nightmare has just begun... your world has changed forever. “Evil is beyond the reach of no man.” “But can a man remove himself beyond the reach of evil?” Kevin asked. “Indeed,” Dr. Francis said. “Can man step beyond evil’s reach? I think not. Not in this lifetime.” “Then all men are condemned to a life of evil,” Kevin said. “A lifetime struggle with evil, not a life of evil,” Dr...
  • Double Cross by James Patterson

    Double Cross by James Patterson

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Just when Alex thought his life was calming down into a routine of patients and therapy sessions, he finds himself back in the game--this time to catch a criminal mastermind like no other. A spate of elaborate murders in Washington D.C. have the whole East Coast on edge. They are like nothing Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen...
  • The Oath by Frank E. Peretti

    The Oath by Frank E. Peretti

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    An ancient sin. A long forgotten oath. A town with a deadly secret. Something sinister is at work in Hyde River, an isolated mining town in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. Something evil. Under the cover of darkness, a predator strikes without warning--taking life in the most chilling and savage fashion.The community of Hyde River watches in terror as residents suddenly vanish...
  • The Fall by Thomas A. Watson

    The Fall by Thomas A. Watson

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    What would you do in an apocalyptic event? How would your family and friends survive? Could you survive? Join two families on a journey through hell on earth as they try to save themselves and maybe mankind.A super virus has been unleashed on mankind. Our way of life and the modern day speed of travel spread the virus from the jungles of Africa around the world in days...
  • Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz

    Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Christopher Snow is the best-known resident of 12,000-strong Moonlight Bay, California. This is because 28-year-old Chris has xeroderma pigmentosum (XP)--a light-sensitivity so severe that he cannot leave his house in daylight, cannot enter a normally-lit room, cannot sit at a computer...
  • Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo

    Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Some secrets are too terrible to reveal . . .Some crimes are too unspeakable to solve . . . In the sleepy rural town of Painters Mill, Ohio, the Amish and "English" residents have lived side by side for two centuries. But sixteen years ago, a series of brutal murders shattered the peaceful farming community...
  • The Remnant by Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins

    The Remnant by Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    As the battered earth reels under judgments from heaven, Global community leader Nicolae Carpathia tightens the screws on anyone who refuses to proclaim total allegiance to him. He has a million of his enemies just where he wants them: massed at Petra and within striking distance of devastating firepower...
  • Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne

    Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    An ongoing journal depicting one man's personal struggle for survival, dealing with the trials of an undead world unfolding around him. An unknown plague sweeps the planet. The dead rise to claim the Earth as the new dominant species. Trapped in the midst of a global tragedy, he must make decisions...choices that that ultimately mean life, or the eternal curse to walk as one of them...
  • In the After by Demitria Lunetta

    In the After by Demitria Lunetta

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In debut author Demitria Lunetta's thriller, one girl must fight for her survival in a world overrun by violent, deadly creatures.Amy Harris's life changed forever when They took over. Her parents—vanished. The government—obsolete. Societal structure—nonexistent. No one knows where They came from, but these vicious creatures have been rapidly devouring mankind since They appeared...
  • Mortal by Ted Dekker, Tosca Lee

    Mortal by Ted Dekker, Tosca Lee

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Centuries have passed since civilization's brush with apocalypse. The world's greatest threats have all been silenced. There is no anger, no hatred, no war. There is only perfect peace...and fear. A terrible secret was closely guarded for centuries: every single soul walking the earth, though in appearance totally normal, is actually dead, long ago genetically stripped of true humanity...
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