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Dead and Alive

Dean Koontz Β· 352 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. Now the mesmerizing saga concludes. . . .As a devastating hurricane approaches, as the benighted creations of Victor Helios begin to spin out of control, as New Orleans descends into chaos and the future of humanity han

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Prodigal Son

Dean Koontz, Kevin J. Anderson Β· 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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The Angel Maker

Stefan Brijs Β· 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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Blackout

Mira Grant Β· 659 pages

In 2041, Georgia Mason, held hostage by a team of CDC researchers, must find her way back to Shaun Mason, who is dealing with his own problems, such as zombie bears, mad scientists and rogue government agencies, before things get worse in her post-zombie, post-resurrection America.

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Reliquary

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child Β· 480 pages

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Fugitives

Alexander Gordon Smith Β· 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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The Invisible Man

H.G. Wells Β· 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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Altered Carbon

Richard K. Morgan Β· 480 pages

Mankind is strung out across interstellar space, and human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies, but some things never change, so when Takeshi is downloaded into the body of a ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer he shouldn't be surprised.

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Piercing the Darkness

Frank E. Peretti Β· 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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Point Blanc: The Graphic Novel

Anthony Horowitz Β· 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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Disturb

J.A. Konrath

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Doctor Sleep

Stephen King Β· 532 pages

The now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) must save a very special twelve-year-old girl from a tribe of murderous paranormals. On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless; mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone

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Hannibal

Thomas Harris Β· 546 pages

Sequel to: [The Silence of the Lambs][1] Invite Hannibal Lecter into the palace of your mind and be invited into his mind palace in turn. Note the similarities in yours and his, the high vaulted chambers of your dreams, the shadowed halls, the locked storerooms where you dare not go, the scrap of half-forgotten music, the muffled cries from behind a wall. In one of the most eagerly anticipa

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Perdido Street Station

China Mieville Β· 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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Synthetic Men of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs Β· 192 pages

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The Girl with All the Gifts

M.R. Carey Β· 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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Little Darlings

Melanie Golding Β· 312 pages

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Endurance

Jack Kilborn, J.A. Konrath Β· 308 pages

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Say You're Sorry

Karen Rose Β· 614 pages

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Criminal

Karin Slaughter Β· 518 pages

"1974: in the blistering heat of an Atlanta summer, a killer prowls the streets, searching for the weak, the vulnerable and the lost. Forty years later, a young woman is found brutally murdered in a sordid high-rise apartment. The specifics of her death are detailed and macabre, but for Special Agent Will Trent they are startingly familiar, and can only mean one thing. Desperate to deny this might

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Kiss the Dead

Laurell K. Hamilton Β· 359 pages

"When a fifteen-year-old girl is abducted by vampires, it's up to U.S. Marshal Anita Blake to find her. And when she does, she's faced with something she's never seen before: a terrifyingly ordinary group of people--kids, grandparents, soccer moms--all recently turned and willing to die to avoid serving a master. And where there's one martyr, there will be more... But even vampires have monsters t

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Batman and the Monster Men

Matt Wagner Β· 144 pages

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Pandemic

Scott Sigler

Third and final chapter of the Infected series

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Alien Resurrection

A.C. Crispin, Kathleen O'Malley, Joss Whedon Β· 276 pages

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