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Kaleidoscope by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNameless is wrestling with more violent visions of the future when his next mission comes with the assurance, This one will be easy. It’s a promise that leaves Nameless dangerously unprepared.It seems straightforward enough: Get a foot in the door by posing as a potential investor in a lucrative underground business—then bring the place down from the inside. There’s more here than meets the eye... -
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Ubik by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsGlen Runciter runs a lucrative business—deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. But when he and his top team are ambushed by a rival, he is gravely injured and placed in “half-life,” a dreamlike state of suspended animation... -
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The Long Walk by Richard Bachman, Stephen King
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 67 ratingsOn the first day of May, 100 teenage boys meet for an event known throughout the country as The Long Walk. If you break the rules, you get three warnings. If you exceed your limit, what happens is absolutely terrifying. Reissue...Categorized as:
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One Door Away from Heaven by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsMichelina Bellsong is on a mission. She is following a missing family to the edge of America...to a place she never knew existed--a place of terror, wonder, and shattering revelation.What awaits her there will change her life and the life of everyone she knows--if she can find the key to survival... -
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![The Last Town by Blake Crouch]()
The Last Town by Blake Crouch
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsWelcome to Wayward Pines, the last town.Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks ago. In this town, people are told who to marry, where to live, where to work. Their children are taught that David Pilcher, the town’s creator, is god. No one is allowed to leave; even asking questions can get you killed... -
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror by Robert Louis Stevenson
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 65 ratings"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" Stevenson's famous exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil, has become synonymous with the idea of a split personality. More than a moral tale, this dark psychological fantasy is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution, criminality, and secret lives...Categorized as:
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Lexicon by Max Barry
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsAt an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, Virginia, students aren't taught history, geography, or mathematics--at least not in the usual ways. Instead, they are taught to persuade. Here the art of coercion has been raised to a science...Categorized as:
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![Under the Dome by Stephen King]()
Under the Dome by Stephen King
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 72 ratingsIt's a bright Autumn morning in the small town of Chester's Mill. Claudette Saunders is having a flying lesson and Dale Barbara is hitching a ride out of town. Neither make it to their intended destinations...Inexplicably, an invisible barrier has descended over the town... -
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This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsIt's the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won't stop pounding on the doors. One bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a monstrous version of their former self. To Sloane Price, that doesn't sound so bad... -
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The Crimson Labyrinth by Yusuke Kishi
Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsFrom a rising new star of horror comes a killer read that will make you lose track of time and reality. The Crimson Labyrinth is a wicked satire on extremist reality TV in the tradition of The Running Man-if that indeed is what it is. Welcome to THE MARS LABYRINTH where things aren't what they seem. Welcome to the world of Kishi, where the plot is as gnarly as the humor is twisted... -
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Sphere by Michael Crichton
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 66 ratingsA group of American scientists are rushed to a huge vessel that has been discovered resting on the ocean floor in the middle of the South Pacific. What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently, undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old... -
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Rabbits: A Novel by Terry Miles
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsConspiracies abound in this surreal and yet all-too-real technothriller in which a deadly underground alternate reality game might just be altering reality itself, set in the same world as the popular Rabbits podcast. It's an average work day. You've been wrapped up in a task, and you check the clock when you come up for air—4:44 pm...Categorized as:
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![Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed]()
Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed
Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsNever Let Me Go meets The Giver in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems.Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, controlled breeding, and the strict rationing of knowledge and history... -
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Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 71 ratingsArea X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide, the third in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another... -
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Dark Eden by Patrick Carman
Rated: 3.41 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsFifteen-year-old Will Besting is sent by his doctor to Fort Eden, an institution meant to help patients suffering from crippling phobias. Once there, Will and six other teenagers take turns in mysterious fear chambers and confront their worst nightmares—with the help of the group facilitator, Rainsford, an enigmatic guide...Categorized as:
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20th Century Boys, Volume 8: Kenji's Song by Naoki Urasawa
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhat really happened on Bloody New Year's Eve? Kenji, Otcho and Maruo have just driven their dynamite-loaded truck under the robot…where they see what a poor relation to the giant robot they dreamed up in their childhoods it actually is: just two legs with caterpillar treads, held together by an enormous hot air balloon, with cloth hanging down to disguise the underside!Meanwhile, at the meeting... -
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20th Century Boys, Volume 7: The Truth by Naoki Urasawa
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOut in the middle of Tokyo Bay, a man called Shogun is trying to break out of Umihotaru Prison, a maximum-security island fortress, so he can save the world. Accompanied by a frightened young manga artist, these two men are prepared to risk everything as their daring escape plan grows deadlier by the minute... -
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Erased, Volume 3 by Kei Sanbe
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWith Yashiro and Sachiko's cooperation, Hinazuki was taken in by her grandmother. Even though Hinazuki is out of danger, Satoru has no time to rest--the serial abduction slayings are not over... -
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20th Century Boys, Volume 3: Hero with a Guitar by Naoki Urasawa
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt turns out that the Friend's plan to destroy the world was dreamed up long ago by a gang of boys playing "good guys against bad guys"...And now, the only one who can stop this diabolical plot from succeeding is the one who came up with it--Kenji!Kenji races home and picks up the newspaper: sure enough, the mystery microbe has hit London... -
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Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys, Volume 9: Rabbit Nabokov by Naoki Urasawa
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis is the story of a gang of boys who try to save the world! As boys, Kenji and his friends came up with a bunch of stories about an evil organization bent on world destruction... -
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20th Century Boys, Volume 5: Reunion by Naoki Urasawa
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis is the story of a gang of boys who try to save the world!; As boys, Kenji and his friends came up with a bunch of stories about an evil organization bent on world destruction. As adults, someone is now turning their fantasies into reality!The giant robot has already been built and now awaits the Great Awakening.. -
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20th Century Boys, Volume 4: Love and Peace by Naoki Urasawa
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKenji wrote "The Book of Prophecy" in his boyhood. Now this childish fantasy has become the scenario for the Friend's fiendish plot to destroy mankind. Kenji goes underground and waits for a chance to fight back.Meanwhile, the evil organization is closing in on a man called Shogun in the ganglands of Bangkok... -
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20th Century Boys, Volume 6: Final Hope by Naoki Urasawa
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis is the story of a gang of boys who try to save the world!; As boys, Kenji and his friends came up with a bunch of stories about an evil organization bent on world destruction... -
![The Walking Dead, Book Five by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard]()
The Walking Dead, Book Five by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThis hardcover features another 12 issues of the hit series along with the covers for the issues all in one oversized hardcover volume. Perfect for long time fans, new readers, and anyone interested in reading a zombie movie on paper that never ends. Collects The Walking Dead #49-60... -
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![Erased, Volume 2 by Kei Sanbe]()
Erased, Volume 2 by Kei Sanbe
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSatoru Fujinuma's power of Revival has sent him eighteen years into his past to relive his middle school days and prevent the death of his classmate Kayo Hinazuki. But even with the advantage of foreknowledge, Satoru finds himself unable to prevent Kayo from becoming a victim yet again... -
![20th Century Boys, Volume 1: Friends by Naoki Urasawa]()
20th Century Boys, Volume 1: Friends by Naoki Urasawa
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsHumanity, having faced extinction at the end of the 20th century, would not have entered the new millennium if it weren't for them. In 1969, during their youth, they created a symbol. In 1997, as the coming disaster slowly starts to unfold, that symbol returns. This is the story of a gang of boys who try to save the world... -
![Parasyte, Volume 2 by Hitoshi Iwaaki]()
Parasyte, Volume 2 by Hitoshi Iwaaki
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsPERSONAL DEMONShin looks like an ordinary high school boy, but he has a terrible secret: an alien parasite has infected his body. This mysterious creature is ruthless, deadly, and utterly indifferent to human suffering...and it is beginning to assert itself over Shin... -
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Parasyte, Volume 1 by Hitoshi Iwaaki
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsSILENT INVASIONThey arrive in silence and darkness. They descend from the skies. They have a hunger for human flesh. They are everywhere. They are parasites, alien creatures who must invade - and take control of - a human host to survive... -
![Deadman Wonderland, Vol. 2 by Jinsei Kataoka, Kazuma Kondou]()
Deadman Wonderland, Vol. 2 by Jinsei Kataoka, Kazuma Kondou
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsWhile on the hunt for the Red Man, Ganta is thrown into a battle exhibition called the Carnival of Corpses, in which he is matched up against the powerful Senji... -
![Deadman Wonderland, Vol. 13 by Jinsei Kataoka]()
Deadman Wonderland, Vol. 13 by Jinsei Kataoka
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsFramed for the brutal murders of his classmates by the mysterious Red Man, middle school student Ganta Igarashi finds himself sentenced to death and sent to the bizarre and fatal theme park/prison that has risen from the ruins of the Great Tokyo Earthquake—a hell on earth known as “Deadman Wonderland.”Ganta and Shiro finally face off against each other inside a collapsing Deadman Wonderland...
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