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City of Night

Dean Koontz, Ed Gorman · 455 pages

From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of...Dean Koontz's City of the NightThey are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever created--and they must be destroyed. But not even Victor

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Reliquary

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child · 480 pages

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Prodigal Son

Dean Koontz, Kevin J. Anderson · 469 pages

"Detectives O'Conner and Maddison delve deeper into the mysterious life of Victor Helios, trying to uncover his ultimate goal, while members of Victor's "new race" begin to show they are not perfect has he assumed. Randall Six continues his quest to escape from Hands of Mercy, as Officer Harker descends further into madness. And Erika Helios discovers some of her husbands unfinished creations." p.

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Polar Shift

Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos · 522 pages

NUMA operative Kurt Austin takes on a madman fronting as an evironmentalist in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Sixty years ago, an eccentric Hungarian genius discovered how to artificially trigger such a shift in the polar ice caps, which could cause massive eruptions, earthquaks, and even climate changes. But then his work disappeared, or so it was thought. Now, the charismatic lead

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Fugitives

Alexander Gordon Smith · 306 pages

I am no longer trapped in the darkness. But the darkness is still trapped inside me. We did it. We cracked the gates, escaped from Furnace. We're out, but we're not free. Not yet. Now the whole city is in lockdown - the roads sealed, the police scouring every building.

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Stay Out of the Basement

R.L. Stine · 122 pages

When Margaret and Casey see their father become weedy while working on his botany experiments, they worry that his plant-testing may not be entirely harmless.

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The Invisible Man

H.G. Wells · 156 pages

This book is the story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a serum to render himself invisible, and his descent into madness that follows.

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Perdido Street Station

China Mieville · 710 pages

Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos contain a vast mix of workers, artists, spies, junkies, and whores. In New Crobuzon, the unsavory

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Ancestor

Scott Sigler · 288 pages

An isolated location, a deadly scientific experiment, people with hidden motivations and a creature nature deemed to dangerous to exist and hence wiped out thousands of years ago. A thrilling adventure ride with scientific insights and immersive writing, Ancestor is a book that you will not be able to put down if you are fan of horror, adventure and science fiction genres.

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Disturb

J.A. Konrath

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The Angel Maker

Stefan Brijs · 384 pages

It's after many years Doctor Victor Hoppe returns to the small village he grew up in. His return after an absence of many years generates a lot of interest and suspicion as he is accompanied by three triplets, all of whom share the same physical deformity as the doctor a hare lip. These children are very quiet and are rarely seen in the village. But with time, and a series of apparently miraculous

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Endurance

Jack Kilborn, J.A. Konrath · 308 pages

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Point Blanc: The Graphic Novel

Anthony Horowitz · 144 pages

Alex Rider, teenage superspy, infiltrates the mysterious Point Blanc Academy, armed with only a false ID and a set of disguised gadgets. Can he alert the world to what he finds out before it's too late?

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Doctor No

Ian Fleming · 236 pages

The sixth James Bond thriller from Ian Fleming’s typewriter. Dispatched by M to investigate the mysterious disappearance of MI6’s Jamaica station chief, Bond was expecting a holiday in the sun. But when he discovers a deadly centipede placed in his hotel room, the vacation is over. On this island, all suspicious activity leads inexorably to Dr Julius No, a reclusive megalomaniac with steel p

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Peter Clines · 469 pages

Padlocked doors. Strange light fixtures. Mutant cockroaches. There are some odd things about Nate’s new apartment. Of course, he has other things on his mind. He hates his job. He has no money in the bank. No girlfriend. No plans for the future. So while his new home isn’t perfect, it’s livable. The rent is low, the property managers are friendly, and the odd little mysteries don’t nag at hi

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Zero Hour

Clive Cussler, Graham Brown · 420 pages

It is called zero point energy, and it really exists - a state of energy contained in all matter everywhere, and thus all but unlimited. Nobody has ever found a way to tap into it, however - until one scientist discovers a way. Or at least he thinks he has. The problem is, his machines also cause great earthquakes, even fissures in tectonic plates. One machine is buried deep underground; the other

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The Girl with All the Gifts

M.R. Carey · 416 pages

Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her "our little genius." Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh. Melanie loves school. She loves learning about spell

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Invasive Procedures

Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston · 376 pages

George Galen is a brilliant scientist, a pioneer in gene therapy. But Galen is dangerously insane – he has created a method to alter human DNA, not just to heal diseases, but to "improve" people – make them stronger, make them able to heal more quickly, and make them compliant to his will. Frank Hartman is also a brilliant virologist, working for the government's ultra-secret bio-hazard agency.

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The Lost World

Michael Crichton · 96 pages

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The Master Mind of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs · 146 pages

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The Strain

Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan · 504 pages

The visionary creator of the Academy Award-winning Pan's Labyrinth and a Hammett Award-winning author bring their imaginations to this bold, epic novel about a horrifying battle between man and vampire that threatens all humanity. It is the first installment in a thrilling trilogy and an extraordinary international publishing event.The StrainThey have always been here. Vampires. In secret and in d

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House

Frank E. Peretti, Ted Dekker · 400 pages

The stakes of the game become clear when a tin can is tossed into the house with rules scrawled on it. Rules that only a madman―or worse―could have written. Rules that make no sense yet must be followed. One game. Seven players. Three rules. Game ends at dawn. *A mind-bending supernatural thriller from the creators of This Present Darkness and Saint. Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker―two of the

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Caliban Cove

S.D. Perry · 242 pages

THEY KNEW IT WASN'T OVER After surviving the horror of the Umbrella Corporation's genetic research facility, the remaining members of S.T.A.R.S. resolve to battle the evil conspiracy and stop Umbrella's experiments wherever they may be. When rumor comes of anothher sinister Umbrella experiment, combat medic and biochemist Rebecca Chambers, the sole survivor of ravo Team, joins cliffs of Caliban Co

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Piercing the Darkness

Frank E. Peretti · 448 pages

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. John 1:5 (ESV) It all begins in Bacon’s corner, a tiny farming community far from the interstate. An attempted murder, a suspicious case of mistaken identity, and a ruthless lawsuit against a struggling Christian school threaten the peace of the small town. Sally Beth Roe, a young loner, finds herself in the middle of even

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