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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... -
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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... -
![Friends of the Dusk by Phil Rickman]()
Friends of the Dusk by Phil Rickman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA medieval legend spawns an unhealthy cult, and a terrifying 13th case for Merrily Watkins When autumn storms blast Hereford, centuries-old human bones are found among the roots of a tree blown down on the city's Castle Green... -
![The Ruin of Angels by Max Gladstone]()
The Ruin of Angels by Max Gladstone
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMax Gladstone returns with The Ruin of Angels, the sixth novel in the Craft Sequence, which The Washington Post calls "the best kind of urban fantasy" and NPR calls "sharp, original, and passionate"The God Wars destroyed the city of Alikand. Now, a century and a half and a great many construction contracts later, Agdel Lex rises in its place... -
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![Frenzy by Robert Liparulo]()
Frenzy by Robert Liparulo
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTheir 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... -
![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... -
![The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 2: We Can Remember it for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick]()
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 2: We Can Remember it for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsMany thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K...Categorized as:
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![Whirlwind by Robert Liparulo]()
Whirlwind by Robert Liparulo
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsBest-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... -
![Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s: Martian Time-Slip / Dr. Bloodmoney / Now Wait for Last Year / Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said / A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick]()
Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s: Martian Time-Slip / Dr. Bloodmoney / Now Wait for Last Year / Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said / A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPhilip K. Dick was a writer of incandescent originality and astonishing fertility, who made and unmade fictional world-systems with ferocious rapidity and unbridled speculative daring. “The floor joists of the universe,” he once wrote, “are visible in my novels.” The five novels collected in this volume—a successor to Philip K...Categorized as:
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![The Devil's Pawn by Oliver Pötzsch]()
The Devil's Pawn by Oliver Pötzsch
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA showman’s fate is in the hands of the devil in an enthralling novel inspired by the Faust legend from the bestselling author of the Hangman’s Daughter series.Rome, 1518. The church is tarnished by greed. Peasants are rebelling. Tumultuous times demand drastic recourse—before the devil gets his due... -
![Endymion by Dan Simmons, Guy Abadia]()
Endymion by Dan Simmons, Guy Abadia
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 50 ratingsThe multiple-award-winning SF master returns to the universe that is his greatest success--the world of Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion--to tell a story of love and memory, triumph and terror in a novel even more magnificent than its predecessors.Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in Fall of Hyperion, Raoul Endymion is sent on a quest... -
![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... -
![The Souls of Lost Lake by Jaime Jo Wright]()
The Souls of Lost Lake by Jaime Jo Wright
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWren Blythe has long enjoyed being among the Northwoods, helping her father with programming at a youth camp. But when a little girl in the area goes missing, an all-out search ensues, reviving the decades-old campfire story of Ava Coons, the murderess, who still roams the woods. Joining the search, Wren stumbles upon the Coons cabin ruins and a rotting porcelain doll... -
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Seven by Anthony Bruno
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMismatched partner cops Somerset and Mills are on the trail of a psychotic murderer who intends to avenge the seven deadly sins, starting with gluttony... -
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![Black: The Birth of Evil by Ted Dekker]()
Black: The Birth of Evil by Ted Dekker
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsEnter 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 Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 2: We Can Remember it for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick]()
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 2: We Can Remember it for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMany thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K...Categorized as:
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![Beyond by Catina Haverlock, Angela Larkin]()
Beyond by Catina Haverlock, Angela Larkin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings***Sequel out 2018***“Dangerous. Wrong. She could be so close to finding out who I really am, and I don’t want to think about how badly that could damage her. If I have any conscience,I’ll turn and run. But I can’t let her go.” Presley Hale has no idea the guy she just told off in the school parking lot died in a drowning accident four months ago... -
![The Cult of Venus: Templars and the Ancient Goddess by David S. Brody]()
The Cult of Venus: Templars and the Ancient Goddess by David S. Brody
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHistorians Cameron Thorne and Amanda Spencer-Gunn discover a 14th-century journal which confirms a long-rumored historical The medieval Church outlawed the Knights Templar because the warrior monks were secretly worshiping the ancient Goddess...Categorized as:
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![The Pariah by Anthony Ryan]()
The Pariah by Anthony Ryan
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsBorn into the troubled kingdom of Albermaine, Alwyn Scribe is raised as an outlaw. Quick of wit and deft with a blade, Alwyn is content with the freedom of the woods and the comradeship of his fellow thieves. But an act of betrayal sets him on a new path - one of blood and vengeance, which eventually leads him to a soldier's life in the king's army... -
![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... -
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Arena by Karen Hancock
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCallie 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... -
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A Crown of Lights by Phil Rickman
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen a derelict country church is bought by a pagan couple, the local evangelical minister reacts with fury. A modern witch hunt begins, and Merrily Watkins is expected to keep a lid on the cauldron. Meanwhile, there is the problem of the man who won’t be parted from his dead wife, the ancient mystery of the five local churches dedicated to St. Michael, and a killer with an old tradition to guard... -
![Water Walker by Ted Dekker]()
Water Walker by Ted Dekker
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMy name is Alice Ringwald, but the man who kidnapped me says that's a lie.Thirteen-year old orphan Alice Ringwald has no memory beyond six months ago. The only life she knows is the new one she's creating one day at a time with the loving couple that recently adopted her and gave her new hope.That hope, however, is shattered one night when she is abducted by a strange man... -
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Stephen King's The Dark Tower: A Concordance, #1 by Robin Furth
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Dark Tower is the backbone of Stephen King's legendary career. Inspired more than thirty years ago by works as diverse as J.R.R. Tolkien's epics, Robert Browning's poetry, and Sergio Leone's Westerns, this is the tale that Stephen King has never abandoned... -
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![The Offering by Karen Ann Hopkins]()
The Offering by Karen Ann Hopkins
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFollowing a string of crimes and the murder of a young woman in a neighboring community, local authorities make an arrest, but do they have the right man? Sheriff Serenity Adams has her doubts and embarks on her own investigation to solve the case... -
![Full Fathom Five by Max Gladstone]()
Full Fathom Five by Max Gladstone
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe third novel set in the addictive and compelling fantasy world of Three Parts Dead.On the island of Kavekana, Kai builds gods to order, then hands them to others to maintain... -
![Valley of the Shadow by Tom Pawlik]()
Valley of the Shadow by Tom Pawlik
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsConner Hayden is certain he survived his near-death experience for a reason. He thinks it’s to save the life—and soul—of Mitch Kent. Mitch’s body remains on life support while his spirit is trapped with the old farmer Howard Bristol in the Interworld—a strange and dangerous dimension that Conner narrowly escaped during his brush with death in Pawlik’s award-winning debut novel, "Vanish... -
![The Patmos Enigma by Ken Fry]()
The Patmos Enigma by Ken Fry
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA mysterious man walking the earth for millennia...And a discovery we might not be ready for...UK #1 BESTSELLING CHRISTIAN FANTASY, RELIGIOUS FANTASY & BIBLICAL FICTION.With the success of his UK bestselling and award winning religious mystery, The Lazarus Succession, Ken Fry once again crafts a cunning and explosive historical thriller unlike any you've read before.Tel Aviv, Israel... -
![We Sang in the Dark by Joe Hart]()
We Sang in the Dark by Joe Hart
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEighteen years ago tragedy struck The Refuge cult in northern Minnesota. Forty people committed suicide and the entire compound burned to the ground. At just thirteen, Clare was the sole survivor found wandering miles from the encampment, hands blistered, memories of the horrific event wiped from her mind... -
![Don't Scream 3: 30 More Tales to Terrify by Blair Daniels]()
Don't Scream 3: 30 More Tales to Terrify by Blair Daniels
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI hear a train outside my window. Every night, it gets closer. I got called to landscape a strange garden--that blooms in the middle of December. I visited the Titanic shipwreck. There's something down there no one should see... DON’T SCREAM 3 brings you 30 more terrifying tales for your darkest nights... -
![Under the Dome: Part Two by Stephen King]()
Under the Dome: Part Two by Stephen King
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAll hell has broken loose in Chester's Mill after an invisible force field suddenly and inexplicably descends on the small Maine town, isolating all within it from the outside world. As the grim reality of the situation dawns and panic sets in, each other town's denizens reveals their true nature in the face of shortages, rationing, lawlessness, and uncertainty... -
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Intercepts by T.J. Payne
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJoe works at a facility that performs human experimentation.His work just followed him home. The government wanted to unlock hidden abilities in the human mind.They put subjects in extreme sensory deprivation.All the test subjects went violently insane.But the research continued.Today it has been perfected.Almost perfected... -
![Water Sleeps by Glen Cook]()
Water Sleeps by Glen Cook
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsRegrouping in Taglios, the surviving members of the Black Company are determined to free their fellow warriors held in stasis beneath the glittering plain. Journey there under terrible conditions, they arrive just in time for a magical conflagration in which the bones of the world will be revealed, the history of the Company unveiled, and new world gained and lost...all at a terrible price... -
![The Remnant by Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins]()
The Remnant by Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAs 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... -
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![Mortal by Ted Dekker, Tosca Lee]()
Mortal by Ted Dekker, Tosca Lee
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsCenturies 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... -
![Chaos by Ted Dekker, Adam Verner]()
Chaos by Ted Dekker, Adam Verner
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDeep in the mountains of Romania stands a fortress, and deep within that fortress lies a chamber. In that chamber, ruling the dead for over two thousand years, lives one Shataiki bat straight from the bowels of the Black Forest. He seeks the final Books of History with which he will destroy the world. But there are four who stand in the way... -
![The Ishbane Conspiracy by Angela Alcorn, Karina Alcorn]()
The Ishbane Conspiracy by Angela Alcorn, Karina Alcorn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJillian is picture-perfect on the outside, but terrified of getting hurt on the inside. Brittany is a tough girl who trusts almost no one. Ian is a successful athlete who dabbles in the occult. And Rob is a former gang-banger who struggles with guilt, pain, and a newfound faith in God. These four college students will face the ultimate battle between good and evil in a single year... -
![Don't Look Back by Christine Kersey]()
Don't Look Back by Christine Kersey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt is strongly recommended that you read He Loves Me Not (which is FREE) before reading Don't Look Back. The following product description contains spoilers for He Loves Me Not. Hiding from her estranged husband Trevor, Lily Jamison has changed her name and settled in a small town in the California Central Valley... -
![Sinner by Ted Dekker]()
Sinner by Ted Dekker
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsSome say roll with the punches. Drift with the tide. Nothing can stop the inevitability of change. There was a time when 300 Spartans disagreed with such mindless thinking and stood in the gap.Now it's time for 3,000 to stand in the gap."Sinner" is the story of Marsuvees Black, a force of raw evil who speaks with wicked persuasion that is far more destructive than swords or guns...Categorized as:
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![Lucifer's Flood by Linda Rios Brook]()
Lucifer's Flood by Linda Rios Brook
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“The sensation of falling was terrifying…we tumbled out of the realm of the heavenly light into perpetual darkness. We had not seen darkness before--not like this anyway... A strange man shows up at the office of language expert Samantha Yale with a mysterious scroll written in an even more mysterious language... -
![A Warm Place to Call Home by Michael Siemsen]()
A Warm Place to Call Home by Michael Siemsen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrederick is a demon living life to the fullest ... Except, it's other people's lives.UNPAID READERS ARE SOMEHOW SAYING:★★★★★ “Prepare yourself to root for what’s wrong and to hope for the worst” ★★★★★ “Draws you in from the outset…” ★★★★★ “I love him! He’s a jerk! I love him!” ★★★★★ “…couldn’t put it down until the last page was turned.” ★★★★★ “…a moving story, and all-too-real... -
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The Deceived by Bill Myers
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Ryan, Rebecca’s new friend, asks her to go with him to hear a speaker on reincarnation, she figures it’s no big deal. Then she agrees to be hypnotized—and her experiences are so eerie and powerful that she begins to doubt her faith in God.Soon she is caught in a dangerous deception that nearly strangles her faith and destroys her life... -
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Music Box by Anya Allyn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe final terrifying story of The Dark Carousel series. As the day of Cassie's marriage to the centuries-old spirit, Balthazar, grows chillingly close, she finds a secret way to the high tower. The shadowy inhabitant of the tower has haunted her mind since her first day at the castle. In the tower, Cassie makes a shocking discovery, after which nothing can be the same... -
![The Origin of the Brunists by Robert Coover]()
The Origin of the Brunists by Robert Coover
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOriginally published in 1966 and now back in print after over a decade, Robert Coover's first novel instantly established his mastery. A coal-mine explosion in a small mid-American town claims ninety-seven lives. The only survivor, a lapsed Catholic given to mysterious visions, is adopted as a doomsday prophet by a group of small-town mystics... -
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![The Scream by Bill Myers, James Riordan]()
The Scream by Bill Myers, James Riordan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“He has no concept of the danger he’s in.”Rebecca Williams is about to learn this firsthand. She and her brother, Scott, are going to L.A. to the hottest concert in the country. What could be better than that?Rebecca knows she should be excited but since she read Z’s e-mail all she feels is apprehension. They’ve been asked to help the drummer for The Scream, the nation’s top rock band...Categorized as:
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![Werewolves and Shape Shifters: Encounters with the Beasts Within by John Skipp, George R.R. Martin]()
Werewolves and Shape Shifters: Encounters with the Beasts Within by John Skipp, George R.R. Martin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWerewolves and shapeshifters have morphed into the latest pop culture stars. This mind-bending collection includes thirty-two new and classic stories from the best writers in the genreWerewolves and shapeshifters are the latest literary craze following vampires and zombies... -
![Hell's Fortress by Michael Wallace]()
Hell's Fortress by Michael Wallace
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEnvironmental disaster, war, and government dissolution have plunged the outside world into chaos, leaving the embattled polygamist community of Blister Creek facing a host of dire challenges as their lifesaving resources grow treacherously low. When one of their beloved members gets lost in the desert, Dr. Jacob Christianson agrees to send out an expedition that includes his sister, Eliza... -
![Windswept House by Malachi Martin]()
Windswept House by Malachi Martin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Cold War has ended. With a scope and daring not possible until now, an unlikely international alliance of top-level political, financial, and religious interests sees the way clear at last to its ultimate goal: the establishment of a single global society. Utopia.These are men with nothing in common but immense power and a towering ambition for still more... -
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Saint by Ted Dekker
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 36 ratings"We call you Saint."The name ignited a light in Carl's mind. Saint. He'd been covertly recruited for Black Ops and given his life to the most brutal kind of training any man or woman could endure. He was here because he belonged here. To the X Group.An assassin. The most effective killer in the world. And yet . . -
![Green: The Beginning and the End by Ted Dekker]()
Green: The Beginning and the End by Ted Dekker
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsAS FORETOLD BY ANCIENT PROPHETS, an apocalypse destroyed Earth during the twenty-first century. But two thousand years later Elyon set upon the earth a new Adam. This time, however, He gave humanity an advantage. What was once unseen became seen. It was good and it was called..."Green." But the evil Teeleh bided his time in a Black Forest...
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