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1) The Becoming
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The Michaluk Virus is loose. In the heart of Atlanta, Georgia, the Michaluk Virus has escaped the CDC, and its effects are widespread and devastating. Most of the population of the southeastern United States have become homicidal cannibals. As society rapidly crumbles under the hordes of infected, three people-Ethan Bennett, a Memphis police officer; Cade Alton, his best friend and former IDF sharpshooter; and Brandt Evans, a lieutenant in the US...
2) The Lilitu
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It's been one month since the beast once known as Lilith MacIntyre and her unborn child were taken to a secret facility in Connecticut. CIA operative Gabrielle "Gabe" Lincoln is now tracking the others involved in Lilith's organization. She soon finds most of them are Lilitu, a race of beings as old as time who may have once dominated the galaxy itself. Unless Gabe can stop the Lilitu from advancing their agenda, humanity may soon be facing not only...
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TIME TRAVEL IS THE ULTIMATE DO-OVER. It's funny how second chances usually wind up being just another opportunity to make the same mistakes, though. The authors represented in the collection you now hold were tasked to create grim and gritty tales of time travel gone horribly wrong. They have done so, in some wildly varied ways. There are stories of rare and exceptional beauty; stories of dark, otherworldly horror; stories of white-knuckle thrills...
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A disaster prepper is ready to see his family through anything-until his readiness makes them a target-in this gripping survival thriller.
Steve Taylor does everything he can to protect his family from what he sees as a looming economic collapse. His daughters roll their eyes at his diligent preparations. But, when disaster does arrive, those very resources become more valuable than gold... a treasure that some would do anything to get their hands...
5) The Flu
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Throughout history there have been several thousand different strains of influenza. Each year hundreds are active. Chances are, this year, you will catch one of those strains. You will cough, sneeze, and your body will ache. Without a second thought, you'll take a double dose of green liquid, go to bed, and swear you'll feel better in the morning. Not this time. In 1918, forty million people succumbed to a particular strain of swine flu. It appeared...
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Humanity is in its death throes. The grueling task of finding a safe haven and securing supplies is far more difficult than it should be simply due to human nature. Witness the best and the worst that humanity has to offer as the dead tide surges, and what is left of civilization sinks into a morass of madness.
7) Resurrect
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Nearly two months after a kidnapping, brutal gang attacks and the death of the only man she had ever loved, Avery Whitlock believed she could survive anything-until she crossed the Tennessee border and straight into hostile territory. Hunted by a ravenous pack of mutated Withered, she stumbled right into the military's crosshairs. Avery discovered a group of survivors concealed within the ruins of the once Grand Ole Opry Hotel. Although protected...
8) Animosity
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A bestselling horror author discovers that nothing is more frightening than his own neighbors in this dark tale of psychological suspense.
After his wife leaves him for another man, Andrew Holland throws himself into his writing more vigorously than ever. He lives a quiet life in the town of Poinsettia Lane, where his neighbors are proud to know a celebrity author. But all that changes when Andy discovers a murdered child not far from his home.
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9) Lucid
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Lori Blaine is not your average seventeen-year-old high school student. Cool and iconoclastic in her dread-locks and natty thrift shop garb, with an IQ that's off the charts, she is the ersatz leader of a pack of Goth kids that circle around her in the halls of Valesburg Central like a school of pilot fish. Lori speaks softly, but when she does speak, people have a tendency to listen. But Lori Blaine has one problem: The door. Lori's dreams are haunted...
10) Dark Crescent
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If you could change the future, would you? Bud Primrose, assistant coach of a Little League team, gets smacked in the head with a line drive and wakes up in the hospital with a kind of second sight. If you saw a stranger's death coming, would you try to save her? He sees others' deaths hours before they occur. When he uses this strange new ability to save a woman from a brutal murder, he becomes the thwarted next target. If you had the power, would...
11) Sundowners
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Fifteen years ago, siblings Coil and Cassiopeia suffered an incident in the woods behind their family home. An incident that neither of them are willing to remember. Something that nearly killed Cass and left Coil accused as her abuser. An act that robbed young Coil of his artistic potential, yet boosted his little sister into an almost overnight sensation in the art world.
Now, the self-exiled Coil has come home to deal with his world-famous sister...
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In Sea of Fire Patrick Featherstone, a former JSOC sniper is pressed back into service to find CIA agent Tyler Kang who has apparently defected to North Korea with sensitive missile technology. Patrick has been practicing Buddhism in Japan, but finally agrees to find, and if necessary, kill, Tyler Kang despite his Buddhist vow of non-violence. However, Patrick has a hidden agenda, to rescue the love of his life from a North Korean prison. Before leaving,...
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When a family hunting trip collides with a terror plot in the Colorado Valley, a father and his sons must fight for their lives in this survival thriller.
Military veteran Tony Acero would do anything to help his two sons succeed. With his thirteen-year-old floundering at his new Kansas prep school, and his older son on a downward spiral, Tony decides to take both of them on an elk hunt in Colorado.
Meanwhile in Boston, another pair of brothers...
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Deep beneath the Arctic Ocean, a covert team of Chinese operatives uses stolen U.S. technology to capture Russia's newest attack submarine. Loaded with massive torpedoes carrying city-destroying payloads, the sub is headed west. The Americans want to sink her, the Russians want her back, and the Chinese claim they're not responsible. NCIS Special Ops agent Jon Shay is a former SEAL Team Two operator. Activated for a mission in the Arctic, he pairs...
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The year is 1806, and a new French Empire is rising from the shadow of the Reign of Terror. The citizens who shouted "Death to Kings" now chant "Vive l'Empereur!" for Napoleon. While the peace and prosperity he promised is decadently enjoyed in Paris, fear spreads across Europe. In Poland, Andre Valiere's efforts to serve out his conscription and return home to his family are complicated when he finds himself lured into a plot to seize a hidden fortune....
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When the Professor and Doc are attacked in Abu Dhabi, it feels as though the world has changed in an instant. In reality, the threat had been there and growing for a long time. That day was simply the day they failed to prevent it. Few security operations are fully prepared to prevent the unprecedented and highly sophisticated threats the world's leaders are facing. They are coming from unusually organized and adaptable criminals and terrorists, whose...
17) All Up
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All Up plunges its readers into the cloak-and-dagger espionage and blitzkrieg battles of World War II that swirled around rocketry; it introduces them to extraterrestrial phenomena, secret organizations, and the nail-biting missions launched from Cape Canaveral-as well as the secrets and unknown history behind Apollo 11's legendary trip to the Moon. All Up tells the incredible true story of Nazi Germany's Wernher von Braun, Soviet Russia's Sergei...
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Light bends around the edges of a cloaked elliptical sphere as it glides down and attaches to a freeway overpass. It begins spraying a green mist that wafts down across all lanes of traffic. It's the evening rush hour in Tokyo and there are millions of cars on the freeways so the green mist goes largely unnoticed. Continuing to lift up and away, the less populated areas can be seen saturating with green as well. Not as quickly as the cities have,...
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Among the Northern Cheyenne of the Great Plains lives a boy named Winterfox, whose family has fought monsters since the days of the Spanish conquistadors. In the aftermath of Westward Expansion, he has become the sole heir to their blood feud against the Beast.
Winterfox comes of age in the long shadows of the American frontier, a time when magic has not yet passed into myth. It is a place where the mundane and fantastic still walk side-by-side, and...
20) Harry Wall's Man
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The Man is an architectural marvel: a stunning residential structure built in the shape of a human. When Harry Wall, its designer, dies in mysterious circumstances, fellow architect Ridley Case investigates the tragedy. When he discovers the Man's dark secret he realizes he must act quickly before the building's residents and perhaps thousands more meet a terrible fate…
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