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Steve Alten · 361 pages
From book jacket: On a top-secret dive into the Pacific Ocean's deepest canyon, Jonas Taylor found himself face-to-face with the largest and most ferocious predator in the history of the animal kingdom. The sole survivor of the mission, Taylor is haunted by what he's sure he saw but still can't prove exists--Carcharodon megalodon, the massive mother of the great white shark. The average prehisto
Beyond the Ice Limit
Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child · 446 pages
That thing is growing again. We must destroy it. The time to act is now... With these words begins Gideon Crew's latest, most dangerous, most high-stakes assignment yet. Failure will mean nothing short of the end of humankind on earth. Five years ago, the mysterious and inscrutable head of Effective Engineering Solutions, Eli Glinn, led a mission to recover a gigantic meteorite--the largest ever d
Natural Selection
Dave Freedman · 414 pages
When marine scientists begin to see huge chunks bitten out of enormous dolphins, and they can't identify the teeth marks as any sea creature that they know of, they become concerned and intrigued. Using imaginative and aggressive scientific knowledge and paleontology, the scientists immerse themselves in tracking the huge beasts up the California coast, coming closer and closer to what seems to be
Congo / Sphere / Eaters of the Dead
Michael Crichton · 720 pages
Contains three of Crichton's previously published novels: [Congo][1], set deep in the jungle near the legendary ruins of a lost city; [Sphere][2], set a thousand feet below the surface of the South Pacific, and [Eaters of the Dead][3] set in Bagdad in 922 A.D. All three novels transform fears of the unknown into moments of believable adventure and unbelievable suspense. [1]: https://openlib
White Shark
Peter Benchley · 340 pages
"At a small marine institute off the coast of Connecticut, only marine biologist Simon Chase realizes that a sixteen-foot pregnant Great White is feeding in the area. But even Simon doesn't know that a far deadlier creature is about to come out of the deep and threaten everything he cares for. A creature whose malevolence is unthinkable. Whose need to feed is insatiable. And whose relentless hunt
Beneath
Jeremy Robinson · 332 pages
When evidence of microscopic life on Europa—Jupiter’s sixth moon—is discovered, a crew of astronauts and scientists embark on a mission to discover its source. Led by oceanographer and biologist, Kathy Connelly, the crew is charged with the task of melting through miles of ice to the hidden ocean beneath, where the search for alien microorganisms begins. But a startling discovery awaits them on th
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
Doctor Who: The Feast of the Drowned
Stephen Cole · 256 pages
Terminal Freeze
Lincoln Child · 336 pages
A group of scientists undertake an expedition to Alaska's Federal Wilderness Zone to study the effects of global warming. The expedition changes suddenly on a routine foray into a glacial ice cave, where the group makes an astonishing find.
Dreamcatcher
Stephen King · 870 pages
Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. It was something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand. Twenty-five years after saving a Down's-syndrome kid from bullies, Beav, Henry, Pete, and Jonesy -- now men with separate lives and separate problems -- reunite in the woods of Maine for their annual hunting trip. But wh
Watchers
Dean Koontz · 406 pages
La vedette, si l'on peut dire, de ce roman de suspense fantastique est un chien rendu intelligent par manipulations génétiques. A la suite de son évasion, malheur à ceux et celles qui l'abritent, le protègent et l'aiment car c'est un secret d'Etat ...
Pandemonium
Warren Fahy · 320 pages
Deep beneath the Ural Mountains, in an underground city carved out by slave labor during the darkest hours of the Cold War, ancient caverns hold exotic and dangerous life-forms that have evolved in isolation for countless millennia. Cut off from the surface world, an entire ecosystem of bizarre subterranean species has survived undetected—until now. Biologists Nell and Geoffrey Binswanger barel
The Land That Time Forgot
Edgar Rice Burroughs · 233 pages
From the book: *It must have been a little after three o'clock in the afternoon that it happened - the afternoon of June 3rd, 1916. It seems incredible that all that I have passed through - all those weird and terrifying experiences - should have been encompassed within so short a span as three brief months. Rather might I have experienced a cosmic cycle, with all its changes and evolutions for
Invasive
Chuck Wendig · 345 pages
On the isolated Kolohe Atoll in the middle of the Pacific ocean, a charismatic billionaire employs a team of scientists to conduct cutting-edge research that he hopes will change the world. In a cabin on a remote lake in the Adirondacks, FBI futurist Hannah Stander finds a barely recognizable human body, which appears to have been skinned alive by thousands of genetically engineered ants. Hannah's
Zoo
James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge · 416 pages
As coordinated attacks by animals against humans increase and escalate, young biologist Jackson Oz and ecologist Chloe Tousignant warn world leaders that soon there will be nowhere left for humans. All over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Oz watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of
Under a Graveyard Sky
John Ringo · 367 pages
Steve Smith is a history teacher who is teaching his family how to prepare for disaster and to make it fun for his two daughters, part of the training is preparation for a zombie apocalypse. Then he gets an emergency text message from his brother, a security expert, and realizes that the zombie training might come in handy.
Raptor
Paul Zindel · 170 pages
Zack and his Ute Indian friend find themselves trapped in a cave with a living dinosaur--the deadly Utahraptor.
Ragnarok
Jeremy Robinson, Kane Gilmour · 384 pages
It starts with a thunderous crack and a flash of light. Screams come next. Then the hunters. With a staccato flicker, the light disappears and everything within a hundred yard radius goes with it. A massive crater is all that remains where a chunk of the world has gone missing. As the deadly phenomenon repeats and expands amidst the world's most densely populated cities--carving apartment bui
River of Bones
Taylor Anderson · 479 pages