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Frank Peretti Value Pack: Prophet/Piercing the Darkness/This Present Darkness by Frank E. Peretti
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOver 5 million sold of these three supernatural thrillers from bestselling author Frank Peretti!This Present Darkness:Ashton is just a typical small town. But when a skeptical reporter and a pastor begin to compare notes, they suddenly find themselves fighting a hideous plot to subjugate the townspeople―and eventually the entire human race... -
![Chisholm by Jo Jones]()
Chisholm by Jo Jones
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHEAVEN OR HELL? DARACH CHISHOLM wants to go to hell.After nearly three centuries tethered to Culloden's ghostly moor, Darach has yet to find peace. He's ready to do penance for his evil deed. First, he must spend two mortal days with a feisty woman and her adorable niece, in a centuries-old manor. However, the manor already has a resident ghost who has no intention of sharing his territory... -
![Fourth Quadrant by W. Michael Gear]()
Fourth Quadrant by W. Michael Gear
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFROM WESTERN WORD-SLINGER AND ANTHROPOLOGIST W. MICHAEL GEAR, COMES THE SEQUEL TO THE BESTSELLING CONTEMPORARY APOCALYPTIC WESTERN, DISSOLUTION.Lauren Davis is closing on her twenty-first birthday when a cyberattack leads to the collapse of the American banking system...Categorized as:
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![The Birthday of the World and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin]()
The Birthday of the World and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, five Hugo Awards and five Nebula Awards, the renowned writer Ursula K. Le Guin has, in each story and novel, created a provocative, ever-evolving universe filled with diverse worlds and rich characters reminiscent of our earthly selves...Categorized as:
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![The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons]()
The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 68 ratingsOn the world called Hyperion the mysterious Time Tombs are opening and seven pilgrims risk their lives to petition the entity called the Shrike - a creature that may well control the fate of all mankind... -
![How Firm a Foundation by David Weber]()
How Firm a Foundation by David Weber
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Charisian Empire, born in war, has always known it must fight for its very survival. What most of its subjects don't know even now, however, is how much more it's fighting for. Emperor Cayleb, Empress Sharleyan, Merlin Athrawes, and their innermost circle of most trusted advisers do know... -
![Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer]()
Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsThe second book of Terra Ignota, a political SF epic of extraordinary audacity. It is a world in which near-instantaneous travel from continent to continent is free to all.In which automation now provides for everybody’s basic needs.In which nobody living can remember an actual war... -
![The Mutation by A.L. Masters]()
The Mutation by A.L. Masters
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe survivors lived through the horrifying first days of the plague and its aftermath. They've found their friends, their family...but others are still missing. Finding them means leaving the only safety they have, which may not be so safe after all.It's the dawn of a new era. One of violence, war, destruction, and horror... -
![The Replication by A.L. Masters]()
The Replication by A.L. Masters
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCan they stay sane in an insane world? Do they even want to?JaredThey made it out of the rubble alive. Mostly. The survivors had lost everything in the disaster. All of it destroyed in one horrific blink of an eye. They were going to have to regroup somewhere and heal, gather more supplies. Cheyenne Mountain, and the answers it would hopefully bring, could wait a little longer... -
![Division 5 by Krista Street]()
Division 5 by Krista Street
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith freedom, comes choice. Dr. Meghan Forester’s dream has finally come true. A vaccine for the deadly Makanza virus is spreading throughout the world. Borders are open. The Kazzies are free.But just when happiness and hope are infiltrating society, Meghan’s world comes tumbling down. Davin’s first love reappears. The Kazzies are incessantly harassed. A young girl falls gravely ill... -
![Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer]()
Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFrom the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the final book of the Hugo Award-shortlisted Terra Ignota series.World Peace turns into global civil war.In the future, the leaders of Hive nations—nations without fixed location—clandestinely committed nefarious deeds in order to maintain an outward semblance of utopian stability... -
![Contamination: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Series by T.W. Piperbrook]()
Contamination: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Series by T.W. Piperbrook
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Best-Selling Post-Apocalyptic Series, Contamination - The complete series Books 0-7, available for the first time in one special box set! Over 1,200 pages of reading! The infection has begun, ravaging the American Southwest and leaving chaos in its wake. In this new world, there will be no last meal, no dying wish. The only reward left is to survive another day.. -
![Bits & Pieces by Jonathan Maberry]()
Bits & Pieces by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBenny Imura’s journey through the Rot & Ruin is well known, but who were the others navigating the ravaged, zombie-ridden landscape? Jonathan Maberry returns to fill the gaps in what we know about First Night, surviving the plague, and the land of Rot & Ruin...Categorized as:
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![The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons]()
The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsThe time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. Now her protector, Raul Endymion, one-time shepherd and convicted murderer, must help her deliver her startling message to her growing army of disciples... -
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![Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber]()
Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsHumanity pushed its way to the stars - and encountered the Gbaba, a ruthless alien race that nearly wiped us out.Earth and her colonies are now smoldering ruins, and the few survivors have fled to distant, Earth-like Safehold, to try to rebuild... -
![The Will to Battle by Ada Palmer]()
The Will to Battle by Ada Palmer
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsA political SF epic of extraordinary audacity.The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end.Peace and order are now figments of the past. Corruption, deception, and insurgency hum within the once steadfast leadership of the Hives, nations without fixed location... -
![Lost and Found by Trish Marie Dawson]()
Lost and Found by Trish Marie Dawson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Review from Michele Wesselman - "Sucked me right back in to the story and wouldn't let me go! I love post-apocalyptic stories and this has been one of my favorites. Not too many have a woman as the main character and Riley is everywoman,so very easy to identify with. I will be wondering about her fate till the next book... -
![Wickham by L.L. Muir]()
Wickham by L.L. Muir
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAnd adventurous lass from Wyoming gets tangled in the lives of two Scottish brothers with wild druid powers. (*Previously published as What About Wickham) Ivy didn't start out wicked... Telling a carefully chosen truth is the only way to get her parents to send her to Scotland for the summer... -
![The Last Archide: Complete Series by Chad R. Odom]()
The Last Archide: Complete Series by Chad R. Odom
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe world is at war. Government titans use sports heroes known as Centauri for political influence. Meanwhile, warriors from another time known as Archides are backed into a corner. The man who brought down their galaxy-spanning empire, is taking advantage of the turmoil and threatens to conquer this world as he did their ancient home. Oryan Jeckstadt is born a slave... -
![Dead Spring by A.L. Masters]()
Dead Spring by A.L. Masters
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA sudden outbreak of violence at a local superstore leaves an eclectic group of people stranded. The isolation from the outside world and news of the devastation forces them to band together to survive. The survivors must adapt to the new rules of the world and seek comfort where they can...while they can... -
![Section 12 by Krista Street]()
Section 12 by Krista Street
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTo save them, she'll risk everything.The last time Dr. Meghan Forester saw Davin and the other infected Kazzies, she made a heart-wrenching choice. Now, her new life is filled with loneliness.Trying to carry on while Davin and her friends are held captive on Reservation 1, Meghan begins a daunting position at Compounds 10 and 11 in Washington state... -
![The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach]()
The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsSince the time of pre-history, carpetmakers tie intricate knots to form carpets for the court of the Emperor. These carpets are made from the hairs of wives and daughters; they are so detailed and fragile that each carpetmaker finishes only one single carpet in his entire lifetime.This art descends from father to son, since the beginning of time itself... -
![A Mighty Fortress by David Weber]()
A Mighty Fortress by David Weber
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsYoung Cayleb Ahrmahk has accomplished things few people could even dream of. Not yet even thirty years old, he’s won the most crushing naval victories in human history. He’s smashed a hostile alliance of no less than five princedoms and won the hand of the beautiful young Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm... -
![By Schism Rent Asunder by David Weber]()
By Schism Rent Asunder by David Weber
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe world has changed. The mercantile kingdom of Charis has prevailed over the alliance designed to exterminate it. Armed with better sailing vessels, better guns and better devices of all sorts, Charis faced the combined navies of the rest of the world at Darcos Sound and Armageddon Reef, and broke them... -
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![Like a Mighty Army by David Weber]()
Like a Mighty Army by David Weber
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFor centuries, the world of Safehold, last redoubt of the human race, lay under the unchallenged rule of the Church of God Awaiting. The Church permitted nothing new-no new inventions, no new understandings of the world...Categorized as:
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![By Heresies Distressed by David Weber]()
By Heresies Distressed by David Weber
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsNow the battle for the soul of the planet Safehold has begun.The Kingdom of Charis and the Kingdom of Chisholm have joined together, pledged to stand against the tyranny of a corrupt Church. The youthful Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm has wed King Cayleb of Charis, forging a single dynasty, a single empire, dedicated to the defense of human freedom... -
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Midst Toil and Tribulation by David Weber
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsDavid Weber's New York Times bestselling Safehold series of military Science Fiction adventure, which began with Off Armageddon Reef, continues with Midst Toil and TribulationWAR AND FAMINEOnce the Church of God Awaiting dominated all the kingdoms of Safehold... -
![The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood]()
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsThe times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners--a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life--has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it...Categorized as:
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![Feral by P.J. Post]()
Feral by P.J. Post
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe’s just a teenager, hollow and lost, looking to keep the past buried, to forget. He surfs the backwash of the westward migration across a dead America; a war-torn desolation devoid of electricity, infrastructure and civilization. It has become a strange and unrecognizable land, rife with the worst of humanity. And his is a life without hope, equally dark and solitary. Until he meets Feral...Categorized as:
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![Revelation X: The 'Bob' Apocryphon: Hidden Teachings and Deuterocanonical Texts of J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs by SubGenius Foundation, J.R. "Bob" Dobbs]()
Revelation X: The 'Bob' Apocryphon: Hidden Teachings and Deuterocanonical Texts of J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs by SubGenius Foundation, J.R. "Bob" Dobbs
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIts hour come round at last: the prophesied do-it-yourself end times religion for swinging mutants and terminal abnormals Eternal Salvation- or triple your money back. Beyond science, reason, and orgasm... -
![Hallows Gate by Michelle Erickson]()
Hallows Gate by Michelle Erickson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlternative Cover Edition for ASIN B0078TEC8WNew Years Eve changed Angelina ‘s lifeShe got lost and fell in love – with a ghostNow she needs to save him by becoming his wifeThe problem?If she succeeds, she frees him, but loses him forever.Love is more complicated than she thought...And that doesn’t include the elves... -
![Weird. Dark. by Luke Smitherd]()
Weird. Dark. by Luke Smitherd
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCOLLECTING THREE OF LUKE SMITHERD'S BOOKS; HOLD ON UNTIL YOUR FINGERS BREAK, THE MAN ON TABLE TEN, AND MY NAME IS MISTER GRIEF, PLUS EXCLUSIVE BONUS STORY THE CRASH, UNAVAILABLE ANYWHERE ELSE!Luke Smitherd is bringing his unique brand of strange storytelling once again, delivered here in an omnibus edition that collects four of his weirdest and darkest tales:MY NAME IS MISTER GRIEF: what if you... -
![Meteor Storm by D.F. Capps]()
Meteor Storm by D.F. Capps
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings63,000 years ago, an ancient civilization existed far advanced over our own, but it was destroyed by a natural cataclysm. Now that same cataclysm is about to strike our modern world… When Carl stumbles upon an unknown robot’s head, he manages with some effort to get it working. From the robot, Carl learns that it was created by an ancient civilization 63,000 years ago in northern India... -
![Scepticism Inc by Bo Fowler]()
Scepticism Inc by Bo Fowler
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEdgar Malroy is the founder of a metaphysical betting shop. A weary atheist, Edgar challenges people to put their money where their mouths are about their faith. If someone really believes that the 16th reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is the one true incarnation, or that God is love, or that his grandfather's spirit lives in a tree, Edgar reasons he should be willing to bet money on it... -
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![The Five Times I Met Myself by James L. Rubart]()
The Five Times I Met Myself by James L. Rubart
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat if you met your twenty-three year old self in a dream? What would you say?Brock Matthews’ once promising life is unraveling. His coffee company. His marriage.So when he discovers his vivid dreams—where he encounters his younger self—might let him change his past mistakes, he jumps at the chance. The results are astonishing, but also disturbing... -
![Abandoned Hope by L.T. Ryan]()
Abandoned Hope by L.T. Ryan
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEight years is a long time. Long enough to prepare for the end of the world.Plagued by unsettling dreams and memories of events he's been told never happened, Sean Ryder spent those eight years readying himself and his family for the event.Four hundred miles to the south, former SEAL Team 8 member Charles "Turk" Turksen knows there is no escaping the Afflicted. So he plans to outlast them... -
![Grass by Sheri S. Tepper]()
Grass by Sheri S. Tepper
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsGenerations ago, humans fled to the cosmic anomaly known as Grass. But before humanity arrived, another species had already claimed Grass for its own. It too had developed a culture...... Now a deadly plague is spreading across the stars, leaving no planet untouched, save for Grass. But the secret of the planet's immunity hides a truth so shattering it could mean the end of life itself... -
![The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin]()
The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsOnce a culturally rich world, the planet Aka has been utterly transformed by technology. Records of the past have been destroyed, and citizens are strictly monitored. But an official observer from Earth named Sutty has learned of a group of outcasts who live in the wilderness. They still believe in the ancient ways and still practice its lost religion - the Telling... -
![Godbody by Theodore Sturgeon, Stephen R. Donaldson]()
Godbody by Theodore Sturgeon, Stephen R. Donaldson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSeducer or savior? He came to a small American town - and suddenly nothing was the same. Meek and mild men discovered the raw power of lust. Sensually starved women learned the ecstasy of fulfillment. Icy hearts were melted by the warmth of aroused flesh, and the spirit blossomed in a lush garden of desire that this stranger planted and nurtured... -
![Contagious by Jacqueline Druga]()
Contagious by Jacqueline Druga
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat starts as an emergence of a new virus quickly turns into Mother Nature’s ultimate population control. While attending a seminar at the Ambassador Hotel, Ava Mason is unknowingly exposed to a carrier of a highly contagious virus. The next morning, she wakes to a steady pounding on her door... -
![Transference by B.T. Keaton]()
Transference by B.T. Keaton
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRebellion. Revenge. Revelation.Barrabas Madzimure is banished to the desert planet Eridania for his many crimes. Slaves to the Church and to the will of its prophet Jovian, a charismatic figurehead who rules everything on Earth, Madzimure and his cohorts toil underground digging endlessly for the substance eridanium—the source of Jovian’s alien power.But Madzimure can no longer hide from his past... -
![Grip of Darkness by Sam J Fires]()
Grip of Darkness by Sam J Fires
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe nation goes dark. Technology fails. Help isn't coming.An EMP has destroyed the nation's power grid.When an EMP shuts down power worldwide, eighteen-year-old Charlie Drews immediately meets death in the way of her neighbor Mrs. Butler who succumbs to a lethal heart attack. Charlie and her grandma Ruby must baton down the hatches to get through the power down and the bitter wintry storm...Categorized as:
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![Nephilim: The Truth Is Here by L.A. Marzulli]()
Nephilim: The Truth Is Here by L.A. Marzulli
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsArt Mac Mackenzie, an alcoholic reporter who is struggling to survive as a freelance journalist after his son's death, stumbles upon evidence of a government cover-up of alien abductions... -
![Betrayed by C.R. Jane, Mila Young]()
Betrayed by C.R. Jane, Mila Young
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSurvival is just the beginning. Ella must fight for love and freedom on the rim of the galaxy...Years ago, the skies blackened with the arrival of the Vepar to Earth. Dominant and secretive, they changed the world, ruling over Earth with fear.Ella’s always been a survivor, a fighter. But now kidnapped, she finds herself on a foreign planet and running for her life... -
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![Sisters of the Forsaken Stars by Lina Rather]()
Sisters of the Forsaken Stars by Lina Rather
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe sisters of the Order of Saint Rita navigate the far reaches of space and challenges of faith in Sisters of the Forsaken Stars, the follow-up to Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black, winner of the Golden Crown Literary Society Award.“We lit the spark, maybe we should be here for the flames... -
![It Takes Death to Reach a Star by Stu Jones, Gareth Worthington]()
It Takes Death to Reach a Star by Stu Jones, Gareth Worthington
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE WORLD YOU KNOW IS DEAD. WE DID THIS TO OURSELVES.The epidemic struck at the end of the Third World War. Fighting over oil, power, and religion, governments ignored the rise of an anti-bacterial-resistant plague. In just five years, the Earth was annihilated. Only one city survived—Etyom—a frozen hell-hole in northern Siberia, engulfed in endless conflict.The year is 2251... -
![The Gathering Darkness by Rod Pennington, Jeffery A. Martin]()
The Gathering Darkness by Rod Pennington, Jeffery A. Martin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings#1 KINDLE BESTSELLER in "Metaphysical & Visionary" Be careful what you wish for. A year earlier, with the help of enigmatic industrialist Michael Walker, all of Penelope Drayton Spence’s dreams had come true. Now, as one of the country’s top journalists, she has discovered what she thought would make her happy was only making her busy... -
![A Star Curiously Singing by Kerry Nietz]()
A Star Curiously Singing by Kerry Nietz
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 10 ratings** Reader's Favorite Gold Medal Award Winner ** Sandfly is a debugger. He is property, bought and paid for in an Earth under sharia law. All faiths but one have been banned. And the rule of the great Imam is supreme. As a debugger, Sandfly has an implant in his head that connects him to the world's technology-and doles out mental shocks to keep him obedient... -
![The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick]()
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsIn the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the drug Can-D, which enables users to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new drug, Chew-Z... -
![The Vanishings: Four Kids Face Earth's Last Days Together by Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim LaHaye]()
The Vanishings: Four Kids Face Earth's Last Days Together by Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim LaHaye
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsIn one shocking moment millions around the globe disappear. Those left behind face an uncertain future—especially four kids who now find themselves alone.As the kids search for help and for answers, they are told the truth behind the disappearances. But are they ready to believe it?In this new series based on the best-selling book Left Behind, Jerry B...
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