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"A delectable stew of fantasy, horror, hard science fiction, and alternate history in 27 sumptuous stories and one powerful novella. . . . Stunning" (Publishers Weekly).
Space opera. Superheroes. Horror and fairy tales. What if there was a multi-genre story collection available from a Nebula-award winning author?
Eric James Stone's immersive collection, The Humans in the Walls, contains twenty-seven tales of science fiction and fantasy,...
22) The Snake
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A lethally venomous snake is on the loose in New York City in this thriller by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. On a steamy night in Central Park, a sailor returning from South Africa gets mugged. What the mugger doesn't know is that the sailor is carrying a deadly black mamba-the most poisonous snake in the world. The sailor is murdered, the mugger is bitten, and the snake slithers off into the underbrush...
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As lives go, Buster Heywood's got it pretty good. His job with the town offices of Aviario pays him just enough to keep a roof over his head and food in his kitchen. His job even keeps him free from having to deal with his social anxiety. He's always seen things a bit different from everyone else, and now that he's found a comfortable little bubble, he'll do everything he can to stay inside it.But life never goes as planned, and a combination of the...
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Rebellion and danger on the high seas… The gripping third Matthew Quinton adventure
1665: plague stalks the streets of London, the country is at war and conspiracies against King Charles II are rife. When given command of a vast and ancient Man-of-War, Captain Matthew Quinton finds himself thrust unexpectedly into the midst of the deadliest of these plots…
Grappling with scheming ministers and a rebellious crew, Quinton must sail his 'cursed'...
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Silence can be deadly... What's the best way to frighten a Deaf person? Turn off the light. It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it isn't funny at all. Annie Black, who is profoundly deaf, finds herself at the heart of a set of brutal murders. Teaming up with the lead Detective, the pair attempt to understand the psychology driving the killer. Having a voice, and being able to read not only lips, but body language, Annie realises that the killer...
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Craig Andrews' marriage is over. He checks into the Sunset Motel and begins a gut-wrenching journey to a new life. He meets and befriends Garth Hodgson, an innocent "dead-beat dad" being persecuted by Lorne Davis, the ruthless and philandering prosecutor for the Justice Department's Office for Support Order Enforcement known as the SOE. Garth enlists Craig's help to expose Lorne Davis and destroy his career. The storyline shifts when a mass murderer...
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A routine flight descends into terror in this spine-tingling tale of supernatural suspense from the bestselling Dutch author of Pyrophobia. As Oceans Airways flight 582 takes off from LAX in Los Angeles, passengers and crew prepare themselves for the long fourteen-hour flight to Sydney, Australia. But then the pilot's communication and navigation systems start malfunctioning. And that's just the beginning of a series of inexplicable and terrifying...
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"Distinctive characterizations" in this sci-fi fantasy "contribute to an exciting coming-of-age story with a strong message about the evils of prejudice" (Booklist).
Prisoners of a war they barely remember, Fremont's Children must find a way to survive in a world that abhors their very nature. Or they must discover a way to leave it . . .
Brenda Cooper's Fremont's Children series launches with her award-winning novel The Silver Ship and...
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After a mission in Afghanistan leads to the death of a colleague, CIA agent Hayden Stone accepts what he thinks is a cushy assignment in the South of France. But on the Côte d'Azur, two terrorists, acting separately, attempt to murder him. Meanwhile, Stone meets an old love, a contessa, who he had seduced and abandoned years before. As Stone's love life heats up, he learns that a brutal Middle Eastern terrorist is in Provence to deliver a strain...
30) Band of Brothers
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Danger and bravery at sea from thriller-master Alexander Fullerton.
It is early autumn 1943 and a German U-boat supply ship is sailing under heavy escort from Le Havre to the Atlantic. A mixed force of torpedo boats from Allied Coastal Forces is ordered to intercept and sink her.
Navigator Ben Quarry has other worries. His girlfriend, Rosie, is set on returning to occupied France as an SOE agent, and his former mistress, now the wife of his...
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One mistake reverberates through the lives of many, setting off a series of events that no one could have anticipated The connections between seemingly disparate people can run deep, as Gillian White demonstrates in this gripping novel. Her chain of homebuyers, sellers, and occupants includes a frail woman whose best days are behind her, the upper-middle-class Middleton family and their suspicious neighbors, a pop star, and a sliver of the British...
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Cuba, 1962: The Cold War reaches its zenith with the installation of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba threatening the United States. While JFK and his brother face deep divisions in trying to defuse the apocalyptic crisis, young CIA agent Philip Marsden is sent on a mission to the island where he is betrayed by a joint CIA-Mafia operation.
33) Elimination
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Political fixer Dev Conrad realizes there's more at stake than a mere election when an assassination attempt is made on a US congresswoman. Political consultant Dev Conrad is doing his best to help secure a re-election victory for Congresswoman Jessica Bradshaw, who's fighting a fierce battle against her far-right opponent, Michael Dorsey. But the campaign is thrown into chaos when an assassination attempt is made on Jessica's life. She survives-and...
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Crush and Velocity, two books originally intended to be one (very long) novel, are now reunited, as national bestselling author Alan Jacobson originally intended when he conceived of the groundbreaking story
In FBI profiler Karen Vail’s second adventure after the standout bestseller The 7th Victim, Vail finds herself in the Napa Valley, where a serial killer has been crushing his victims’ windpipes and leaving their bodies in caves and vineyards....
35) Whack Job
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From an author who is "like Quentin Tarantino on paper," a thriller featuring a special agent on a mission to uncover a conspiracy (New York Times–bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson).
When world leaders burst into flame like a string of firecrackers, the President calls on a renegade former agent with a history of mental problems. Otto "Aardvark" White possesses a unique quality. He's lucky. What Otto discovers in the mountains of Colorado...
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This second standalone globe-hopping thriller in the Executive Series finds Secret Service Agent Scott Roarke confronted with Russian spycraft, murder in the White House, and a frenzy fueled by the country's leading hate talk radio personality.
The terrorists who came within a heartbeat of undermining the presidency of the United States in Executive Actions are back in Executive Treason with a new-and deadlier-plot to destabilize the U.S. government....
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Young novelist Dave Newton is instantly smitten when he meets blonde, beautiful Peggy. But Peggy has a past full of abuse and terror-and she's involved with Jerry, a lawyer with mob connections and an old rival from Dave's college days. Soon, Dave finds himself caught in a love triangle with Peggy and Jerry, desperate to win her affections. But when corpses begin to pile up in Peggy's wake, Dave must face the truth that either Jerry is a mass murderer-or...
38) The Post
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Ten years after the world's oil went sour and a pandemic killed most of the population, Sam Edison is the chief of police of The Little Five, a walled-in community near Atlanta, Georgia. Those who survived share the world with what are known as hollow-heads: creatures who are no longer fully human.
A man and a pregnant teenager arrive at the gate and are welcomed into the town. They begin to settle in when suddenly both are murdered by an unknown...
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Three friends take their punk trio into a remote mountain town for an unplanned stop on their Farewell Tour. When the show is interrupted by a catastrophic train derailment, the little resort town is transformed into a landscape of terror, and the three friends must fight for survival against a populace turned suddenly monstrous. But there is more than the infected to worry about, as one of the three carries a dark secret that will test the group's...
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The fate of a continent rests on one devastating battle-and the daring of the special forces soldiers on its front lines.
The Eighth Army, gathering its strength in the Nile delta, was preparing for a major assault against the combined forces of Rommel's Afrika Korps.
One of the places the Korps occupied was the little port of Qaba, two hundred miles to the west of Cairo. British Lieutenant-Colonel George Hockold saw great potential in...
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