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The Magnus Archives: Season 4 by NOT A BOOK
Rated: 4.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal... -
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The Magnus Archives: Season 3 by Jonathan Sims
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal... -
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The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin, Eisso Post
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 68 ratingsThis is the second novel in "Remembrance of Earth’s Past", the near-future trilogy written by the China's multiple-award-winning science fiction author, Cixin Liu. In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion — four centuries in the future... -
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The Magnus Archives: Season 5 by Johnathan Sims
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal... -
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Zero In by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThis could be the most important mission of Nameless’s life. Because it’s putting him on a collision course with his own past and the nation’s future.The target: a fortified redoubt in the golden hills of California, the hub of a new world order that’s unthinkably close at hand. The time has come for Nameless to face its designer: the nihilist mastermind behind the One Solution... -
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Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsalternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereThe universe began as an enormous breath being held.From the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others — the basis for the Academy Award-nominated film Arrival — comes a ground-breaking new collection of short fiction: nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories...Categorized as:
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Animal Farm / 1984 by George Orwell
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 72 ratingsThis edition features George Orwell’s best-known novels—1984 and Animal Farm—with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens.In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith joins a secret revolutionary organisation called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party... -
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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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Alive by Courtney Konstantin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRafe Duncan has been working his family’s compound for years in the event of a global catastrophe-- and doomsday has finally arrived. Both he and Charlie Brewer work at a facility where secret government experiments are carried out, experiments that are classified even to them. Then the plague breaks loose, and hell arrives on earth... -
![BETA: A Technological Nightmare by Sammy Scott]()
BETA: A Technological Nightmare by Sammy Scott
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMichael Danvers’ life of self-imposed seclusion is interrupted when he receives a strange the unique opportunity to move into and beta-test a fully automated, state-of-the-art smart home... -
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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Thomas Pynchon
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 82 ratingsThe new novel by George Orwell is the major work towards which all his previous writing has pointed. Critics have hailed it as his "most solid, most brilliant" work. Though the story of Nineteen Eighty-Four takes place thirty-five years hence, it is in every sense timely. The scene is London, where there has been no new housing since 1950 and where the city-wide slums are called Victory Mansions... -
![The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin]()
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsA classic science fiction novel by one of the greatest writers of the genre, set in a future world where one man's dreams control the fate of humanity. In a future world racked by violence and environmental catastrophes, George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his dreams have the ability to alter reality. He seeks help from Dr... -
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Blindness by José Saramago
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 72 ratingsFrom Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of lossA city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and assaulting women...Categorized as:
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![La milla verde by Stephen King]()
La milla verde by Stephen King
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsAt Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, condemned killers such as 'Billy the Kid' Wharton and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in 'Old Sparky'. But good or evil, innocent or guilty, prisoner or guard, none has ever seen the brutal likes of the new prisoner, John Coffey, sentenced to death for raping and murdering two young girls... -
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![20th Century Boys, Volume 8: Kenji's Song by Naoki Urasawa]()
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... -
![The Walking Dead, Book Seven by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard]()
The Walking Dead, Book Seven by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsRick and his group learn the dangers of living behind the safety of the Community walls, and much worse: what happens when those walls give way to those outside. Collects The Walking Dead #73-84... -
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20th Century Boys, Volume 2: The Prophet by Naoki Urasawa
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Friend, an enigmatic cult leader who plans to destroy the world, declares, "The cosmos has begun choosing those who are true friends." Meanwhile, horrifying incidents are taking place: the emergence of a mysterious virus, the revelations of a man on the run... Kenji tries to find out who this Friend is, but the answer is still far ahead... -
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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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Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 60 ratingsKoushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller is based on an irresistible premise: a class of 42 junior high school students are taken to a deserted island where, as part of a ruthless authoritarian program, they are provided with weapons and forced to kill one another until only one survivor is left standing...Categorized as:
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The Complete Short Stories by J.G. Ballard
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Complete Short Stories of JG Ballard are required reading for all connoisseurs of Ballard's writing. This compilation brings together 96 short stories drawn from previous collections of Ballard's short stories, including The Voices of Time and War Fever, as well as four previously uncollected stories... -
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Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys, Volume 12 by Naoki Urasawa
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWill 2015 bring an end to human history?! An urgent but mysterious message left by her mother Kiriko in 2002 finally reaches Kanna. But where is Kiriko, who developed the germ warfare weapons used on Bloody New Year's Eve, and what is she doing now? Memories of New Years past flood the minds of Kenji's friends and family... -
![20th Century Boys, Volume 3: Hero with a Guitar by Naoki Urasawa]()
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... -
![Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys, Volume 9: Rabbit Nabokov by Naoki Urasawa]()
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]()
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.. -
![20th Century Boys, Volume 4: Love and Peace by Naoki Urasawa]()
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... -
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Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys, Volume 14 by Naoki Urasawa
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAs the entire planet grieves over the death of their beloved Friend, the remaining members of his inner circle continue to silence any and all dissenters. Dream Navigator Takasu believes that once they locate Kiriko—Kanna's mother and Kenji's older sister—Manjome Inshu will finally be in a position to control the entire world. However, Manjome hasn't been the same since their Friend's passing... -
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Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 6 by Aka Akasaka
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTwo high school geniuses scheme to get the other to confess their love first.Two geniuses. Two brains. Two hearts. One battle... -
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Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 5 by Aka Akasaka
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWill Kaguya and Miyuki find a way to see each other sooner rather than later over summer vacation? And is tweeting really an effective way to communicate with your crush? Then, Kaguya’s overprotective staff try to prevent her from going to the fireworks festival with the rest of the student council. Miyuki and Kaguya both try to find a way to enroll in the same elective class...
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