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The House of Hades by Rick Riordan
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 87 ratingsHazel stands at a crossroads. She and the remaining crew of the Argo II could return home with the Athena Parthenos statue and try to stop Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter from going to war... -
![Islands of Rage & Hope by John Ringo]()
Islands of Rage & Hope by John Ringo
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsBOOK 3 IN THE BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR. Sequel to To Sail a Darkling Sea and Under a Graveyard Sky. A hardened group of survivors fights back against a zombie plague that has brought down civilization... -
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Gargantis by Thomas Taylor
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the second fantasy set in Eerie-on-Sea, Herbert and Violet team up to solve the mystery of the Gargantis — an ancient creature of the deep with the power to create life-threatening storms.There's a storm brewing over Eerie-on-Sea, and the fisherfolk say a monster is the cause... -
![The Scar by China Miéville]()
The Scar by China Miéville
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsAboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade into grotesque biological oddities, is being transported to the fledgling colony of Nova Esperium. But the journey is not theirs alone. They are joined by a handful of travelers, each with a reason for fleeing the city... -
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![Under a Graveyard Sky by John Ringo]()
Under a Graveyard Sky by John Ringo
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsA family of survivors who fight back against a zombie plague that has brought down civilization. Zombies are real. And we made them. Are you prepared for the zombie apocalypse? The Smith family is, with the help of a few Marines... -
![Resident Evil: Apocalypse by Keith R.A. DeCandido]()
Resident Evil: Apocalypse by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFailure of the Hive to contain the Umbrella Corporation's most deadly viral creation has led to an outbreak of apocalyptic proportions. Now the streets of Raccoon City swarm with the living dead, compelling Umbrella to deploy another of its bioweapons, a hulking prototype soldier code-named NEMESIS that kills anything in its path... -
![Deeplight by Frances Hardinge]()
Deeplight by Frances Hardinge
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea meets Frankenstein in this inventive YA fantasy from award-winning author Frances Hardinge The gods are dead. Fifty years ago, they turned on one another and tore each other apart. Nobody knows why. Now, even coin-sized scraps of dead god are worth a fortune because of the strange powers they're said to possess...Categorized as:
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![The Forsaken by Erica Stevens]()
The Forsaken by Erica Stevens
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 13 ratings***Note*** This book is the third compilation of a serial story and therefore does not have a conclusion. This is not a survivalist story.New friendships will be forged, answers will be found, and lives will be lost as the survivors journey deeper into unfamiliar and treacherous areas...Categorized as:
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![Kraken Rising by Greig Beck]()
Kraken Rising by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Arcadian returns to the dark ice in a reprisal of one of his first and most deadly missions. But this time the stakes couldn't be higher.In 2008, a top secret US submarine went missing on its test voyage off the coast of Antarctica... -
![Cyrus LongBones and the Curse of the Sea Zombie by Jeremy Mathiesen]()
Cyrus LongBones and the Curse of the Sea Zombie by Jeremy Mathiesen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStealing into forbidden territory, sixteen-year-old Cyrus LongBones discovers that his small island is in fact a giant, fossilized turtle shell. With his village’s obsession of working the earth, the skeleton collapses in on itself, killing Cyrus’ brother and destroying his village. Forced into action, Cyrus is the first of his kind to leave his land and sail out to sea in search of a new home... -
![The Secret History of Mermaids and Creatures of the Deep by Ari Berk]()
The Secret History of Mermaids and Creatures of the Deep by Ari Berk
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the loremaster who brought us THE SECRET HISTORY OF GIANTS comes an intriguing new chronicle revealing the mysterious ways of merfolk.Since ancient times, seafarers and coast-dwellers the world over have reported encounters with merpeople. Variously known as Finfolk, Dinny Mara, Nereids, Blue Men, and Merrymaids, merfolk have been the source of both gifts and disasters for humankind... -
![Queenie & the Krakens by Aleera Anaya Ceres]()
Queenie & the Krakens by Aleera Anaya Ceres
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNaomi Queen swore to herself she’d never get involved with criminals. She didn’t want any part of the world that raised her because she knew the trouble the malicious underground could bring. But all that changes when she witnesses a murder between a gang of mermen shifters.Swept into the maelstrom of the paranormal criminal underbelly wasn’t exactly high on her to-do list... -
![Helicoprion by Michael Cole]()
Helicoprion by Michael Cole
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA series of violent shark attacks off the shores of northern California draw the attention of pessimistic Detective Luke Jansen. Despite reports of shark sightings by witnesses, the injuries appear to be more reminiscent of a chainsaw-wielding maniac rather than shark bites.Things get stranger when marine biologist Elise Sheldon encounters the creature... -
![When Giants Collide by Jake Bible]()
When Giants Collide by Jake Bible
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTeam Grendel has made some enemies. The Team of ex-Navy SEALs, scientists, and highly trained misfits may have saved countless lives, but they are now paying for their heroism. Pursued relentlessly across the globe by an unknown group, Team Grendel finds themselves disavowed by the United States and other sovereign nations for their work outside legal channels... -
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![Behemoth Island by Jake Bible]()
Behemoth Island by Jake Bible
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRunning from the world, their ship crippled, their supplies dangerously low, Team Grendel follow Ballantine’s lead to a promised paradise. A place where they can hide and regroup, rest and plan the next step in their lives. If only life were so simple...Categorized as:
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![Megalodon: Bloodbath by Michael R. Cole]()
Megalodon: Bloodbath by Michael R. Cole
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA series of bizarre occurrences suddenly plague the island of Cielo Nublado. A dead whale washes ashore riddled with enormous bite marks. A fishing charter is reported missing, jet skiers vanish, and a yacht is found mysteriously ravaged after some kind of enormous impact.Chief of Police Nico Medrano tries to investigate the matter...Categorized as:
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![Rise of the Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste]()
Rise of the Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDeep beneath the waves, a great enemy awakens . . . Corinne LaMer defeated the wicked jumbie Severine months ago, but things haven’t exactly gone back to normal in her Caribbean island home. Everyone knows Corinne is half-jumbie, and many of her neighbors treat her with mistrust...Categorized as:
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![Resident Evil: Extinction by Keith R.A. DeCandido, Paul W.S. Anderson]()
Resident Evil: Extinction by Keith R.A. DeCandido, Paul W.S. Anderson
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFollowing the events of "Resident Evil: Apocalypse," the beautiful, dangerous, enigmatic Alice returns, and this time she and her fellow survivor Carlos Olivera are running with a pack of humans led by a new ally, Claire Redfield. Together they are cutting through the wastelands of the United States on a long trek to Alaska. Hunted by the minions of the scheming Dr... -
![Queenie & the Krakens by Aleera Anaya Ceres]()
Queenie & the Krakens by Aleera Anaya Ceres
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNaomi Queen swore to herself she'd never get involved with criminals. She didn't want any part of the world that raised her because she knew the trouble the malicious underground could bring. But all that changes when she witnesses a murder between a gang of mermen shifters.Swept into the maelstrom of the paranormal criminal underbelly wasn't exactly high on her to-do list... -
![Fathomless by Greig Beck]()
Fathomless by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCARCHARODON MEGALODONThe largest and most fearsome predator to have ever existed on our planet. Rumors of its existence in our modern oceans have persisted for centuries. Now, in a new adventure, the rumors explode into brutal and terrifying reality. BARANOF ISLAND, GULF OF ALASKA, 1952 Jim Granger is searching for a place of legend... -
![Malamander by Thomas Taylor]()
Malamander by Thomas Taylor
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNobody visits Eerie-on-Sea in the winter...Categorized as:
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![The Terror by Dan Simmons]()
The Terror by Dan Simmons
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 49 ratingsThe men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set forth... -
![Resident Evil: Genesis by Keith R.A. DeCandido]()
Resident Evil: Genesis by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Hive: a subterranean genetic research facility owned and operated by Umbrella, an immensely powerful corporation with interests in everything from human longevity to biowarfare. With computerized defenses and heavily armed human backup, the Hive is impregnable and invulnerable. Or so Umbrella believes.But something has gone fatally wrong... -
![Kronos Rising by Max Hawthorne]()
Kronos Rising by Max Hawthorne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Steve refused to surrender. Even though he knew the creature was right behind him, he wouldn't quit. He would make it. Just as that beacon of hope began to shine down upon him, the bright sun overhead vanished from view. Confused, he gazed wide-eyed as the daylight grew dim. Then he realized the ultimate horror: the creature had overtaken him, its jaws opened wide.""He was in its mouth... -
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![Infestation by William Meikle]()
Infestation by William Meikle
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt was supposed to be a simple mission. A suspected Russian spy boat is in trouble in Canadian waters. Investigate and report are the orders. But when Captain John Banks and his squad arrive, it is to find an empty vessel, and a scene of bloody mayhem... -
![Starling and the Cavern of Light by Aisling Fowler]()
Starling and the Cavern of Light by Aisling Fowler
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPhoenix and her friends vow to save Ember from all but certain doom in this final unmissable chapter in the sweeping series that New York Times bestselling author B. B. Alston called “the best kind of children’s fantasy story...Categorized as:
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![Arrival by Paul Elard Cooley]()
Arrival by Paul Elard Cooley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe crew of the deep-sea exploration rig Leaguer discovers oil sweeter, purer, and sure to be more easily refined than anything that’s ever existed. To confirm their own analysis of their billion dollar find, a test barrel is flown from the drill site off the coast of Papua/New Guinea to Houston Analytical Laboratories (HAL)... -
![Primordial by David Wood, Alan Baxter]()
Primordial by David Wood, Alan Baxter
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSometimes, the legends are true. When eccentric billionaire, Ellis Holloway, hires renegade marine biologist, Sam Aston, to investigate the legend of a monster in a remote Finnish lake, Aston envisions an easy paycheck and a chance to clear his gambling debts. But he gets much more. There is something terrible living beneath the dark waters of Lake Kaarme and it is hungry... -
![In Darkness and Dank by K.L. Hiers]()
In Darkness and Dank by K.L. Hiers
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKittisak Amarin is not a scientist—he's barely a student, but he joined his college professor's research team for an expedition into the Amazon as a last ditch effort to pass his biology course... -
![Outbreak by Paul Elard Cooley]()
Outbreak by Paul Elard Cooley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen a Centers for Disease Control quarantine fails at Ben Taub Hospital, a Houston SWAT Team is sent in to secure the facility. What they find is destruction and death. Trapped in the hospital, cut off from the world, a mysterious voice on the radio is all they have to guide them. They're no longer on a mission to quarantine the remaining inhabitants... -
![Pliosaur by Russ Elliott]()
Pliosaur by Russ Elliott
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsArcheologist John Paxton has always been eluded by the great find. But his luck is about to change on a mysterious island near South Africa, where he seeks a rare prehistoric fish. Deep inside the caves, John finds more than he bargained for. He encounters the tribal elder, Kota―practically the devil himself with a plan straight from hell... -
![Thresher by Michael R. Cole]()
Thresher by Michael R. Cole
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the aftermath of a hurricane, a series of strange events plague the coastal waters off Florida. People go into the water and never return. Corpses of killer whales drift ashore, ravaged from enormous bite marks. A fishing trawler is found adrift, with a mysterious gash in its hull... -
![Diablo by Max Hawthorne]()
Diablo by Max Hawthorne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE TERRIFYING PROLOGUE TO KRONOS RISING Barreling along a hundred feet beneath the surface, the giant predator gained swiftly on its prey. Fifty yards ahead, a school of chrome-colored fish fled terror-stricken before it...Categorized as:
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![Baja Blood by Jake Bible]()
Baja Blood by Jake Bible
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTeam Grendel is back and this time they have double the monster sharks and double the trouble as a drug cartel and the Mexican Navy are both ready to blow the Beowulf III out of the water! When a top secret, undercover mission goes wrong for one of the company's operatives, Ballantine must call on Team Grendel and the crew of the Beowulf III to take down a drug lord and stop Southern California... -
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![Creature from the Crevasse by Michael R. Cole]()
Creature from the Crevasse by Michael R. Cole
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA bizarre series of incidents take place on a usually tranquil lake. Boats are found ravaged, a body torn in two, other people are missing and an injured victim cries of a monster. Chief of Police Morgan Sydney must face the reality that a huge monster is lurking in the lake. With bulletproof scales, territorial aggression, and an insatiable appetite, the beast causes mayhem in the peaceful town... -
![Sea Raptor by John J. Rust]()
Sea Raptor by John J. Rust
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom terrorist hunter to monster hunter! Jack Rastun was a decorated U.S. Army Ranger, until an unfortunate incident forced him out of the service. He is soon hired by the Foundation for Undocumented Biological investigation and given a new mission, to search for cryptids, creatures whose existence has not been proven by mainstream science... -
![Julia's House Moves On by Ben Hatke]()
Julia's House Moves On by Ben Hatke
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJulia's house is restless.Julia and her family of lost creatures are ready to move on. But where will they go? And how will they get there?Don’t worry—Julia has a plan for that! Julia always has a plan. But when Julia's plans all fail...What's left for her?Julia and her house full of fantastic friends are back for another sweet adventure from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Ben Hatke... -
![Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant]()
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsSeven years ago, the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a “mockumentary” bringing to life ancient sea creatures of legend. It was lost at sea with all hands. Some have called it a hoax; others have called it a maritime tragedy.Now, a new crew has been assembled. But this time they’re not out to entertain. Some seek to validate their life’s work... -
![Emily Windsnap and the Monster from the Deep by Liz Kessler]()
Emily Windsnap and the Monster from the Deep by Liz Kessler
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsAn enchanting tale with a fabulous monster, engaging characters, plenty of mermaid magic, and a page-turning story, Kessler's new middle-grade fantasy has all the charm and warmth of its predecessor, The Tail of Emily Windsnap... -
![Jaws by Peter Benchley]()
Jaws by Peter Benchley
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 65 ratingsWith the 1974 publication of the novel Jaws and the release a year later of the film based on the book, an American cultural phe- nomenon was born. Today, the remarkable bestseller by Peter Benchley still towers as a thrilling classic of suspense, drama, and the eternal conflicts of man against nature . and man against himself...Categorized as:
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![MEG: Hell's Aquarium by Steve Alten]()
MEG: Hell's Aquarium by Steve Alten
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Steve Alten's Meg: Hell's Aquarium continues his thrilling action adventure series--the basis for the feature film The Meg, starring Jason Statham as Jonas Taylor.The most fearsome predators in history…are no longer history.The Philippine Sea Plate: The most unexplored realm on the planet... -
![MEG: Generations by Steve Alten]()
MEG: Generations by Steve Alten
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn MEG: Generations, Steve Alten New York Times bestselling author continues his terrifying series.MEG: GENERATIONS opens where MEG: NIGHTSTALKERS left off. The Liopleurodon offspring has been moved to a holding tank aboard the Dubai-Land transport ship, Tonga for its journey to the Middle East... -
![The Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton]()
The Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsImagine earthy Tolkienesque characters in a setting full of cemeteries, graverobbers, necromancers, corpse-eaters--even a huge labyrinthine necropolis. Imagine mephitic gardens where the sarcophage, selenotrope, and necrophilium bloom. Then throw in star-crossed lovers, crazed zealots, stalwart heroes, bloodthirsty renegade armies, hideous monsters, and likeable misfits... -
![Rolling in the Deep by Mira Grant]()
Rolling in the Deep by Mira Grant
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsWhen the Imagine Network commissioned a documentary on mermaids, to be filmed from the cruise ship Atargatis, they expected what they had always received before: an assortment of eyewitness reports that proved nothing, some footage that proved even less, and the kind of ratings that only came from peddling imaginary creatures to the masses. They didn't expect actual mermaids...Categorized as:
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![Waking the Merrow by Heather Rigney]()
Waking the Merrow by Heather Rigney
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn 1772, angry Rhode Island colonists set fire to a British ship, sparking the American Revolution. Taxation without representation was a motivator. So was the vengeful, man-eating mermaid who had it out for the commanding officer. That was then. This is now. Mermaids, or merrow, still hunt in Narragansett Bay, but these days they keep a lower profile... -
![They Rise by Hunter Shea]()
They Rise by Hunter Shea
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSome call them ghost sharks, the oldest and strangest looking creatures in the sea.Marine biologist Brad Whitley has studied chimaera fish all his life. He thought he knew everything about them. He was wrong. Warming ocean temperatures free legions of prehistoric chimaera fish from their methane ice suspended animation. Now, in a corner of the Bermuda Triangle, the ocean waters run red... -
![From the Deep by Michael Bray]()
From the Deep by Michael Bray
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSomething has awoken. Roused from its slumber following an Antarctic ice quake, an immense beast has risen from the depths. Dwarfing even the mighty blue whale, the gargantuan wonder of evolution takes charge of the oceans, setting a catastrophic chain of events in motion.Henry Rainwater is a rookie crab fisherman trying to make his own way in life... -
![Sea Monster's First Day by Kate Messner, Andy Rash]()
Sea Monster's First Day by Kate Messner, Andy Rash
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSea monster Ernest is starting his first day of school. But starting school is a big job! Fitting in when you're a sea monster is tough enough, and there's so much to learn and do—reading, singing, playing hide-and-seek with the fishermen, lunchtime in the algae patch... -
![Vector Borne by Michael McBride]()
Vector Borne by Michael McBride
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings#1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR A team of scientists unlocks the secret of the next phase of human evolution in the most unstable geological region on the planet…at the bottom of the sea in the Pacific Ring of Fire... -
![They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran]()
They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA red algae bloom has taken over Mercy, Louisiana. Ever since a devastating hurricane, mutated wildlife lurks in the water that rises by the day. But Mercy has always been a place where monsters walk in plain sight. Especially at its heart: The Cove, where Noon’s life was upended long before the storm at a party her older boyfriend insisted on...
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