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It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, rebuffing expedition after expedition, refusing to reveal its secrets. As Area X expands, the agency tasked with investigating and overseeing it--the Southern Reach--has collapsed on itself in confusion. Now one last, desperate team crosses the border, determined to reach a…
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Tress of the Emerald Sea
Tress of the Emerald Sea
\#1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson expands his Cosmere universe shared by The Stormlight Archive and Mistborn with a new standalone novel for everyone who loved The Princess Bride. Narrated by Michael Kramer.
The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from…
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Junkyard Planet
This novel had its genesis in a much shorter story called "Graveyard of Dreams" (Galaxy, 1958) Piper expanded it to book length, and it appeared in 1963 as Junkyard Planet. Ace later renamed the book The Cosmic Computer for its paperback appearance. This edition returns the book to Piper's original title, Junkyard Planet.Conn Maxwell returns from Terra to his home world of Poictesme, dubbed "The…
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Annihilation
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The twelfth expedition arrives expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers. They discover a massive topographic anomaly and life-forms that surpass understanding. But it's the surprises that came across the border with them, and the secrets the expedition members are…
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Blue remembered Earth
One-hundred-and-fifty years from now, the moon and Mars are settled, and colonies stretch all the way out to the edge of the solar system. But something has come to light on the Moon--secrets that could change everything--or tear this near utopia apar
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Black House
Black House
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The Lost World
Journalist Ed Malone is looking for an adventure, and that's exactly what he finds when he meets the eccentric Professor Challenger - an adventure that leads Malone and his three companions deep into the Amazon jungle, to a lost world where dinosaurs roam free.
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Red Rain
Red Rain
The New York Times bestselling author of the Goosebumps and Fear Street series delivers a terrifying horror novel for adults centered on a town in the grip of a sinister revolt.After travel writer Lea Sutter barely survives a merciless hurricane on a tiny island off the South Carolina coast, she impulsively brings two orphaned twin boys home with her to Long Island. Samuel and Daniel seem amiable…
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Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Anthology of Short Stories
Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Anthology of Short Stories
Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Anthology of Short Stories, is the complete Edgar Allan Poe short story anthology, consisting of such classics as "Tell-Tale Heart", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Murders in Rue Morgue", "The Pit and the Pendulum" and many more, 68 classic short stories in all.
Poe is oft given credit for fathering the Gothic fiction story, as well as the modern detective…
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A Fate Inked in Blood
A Fate Inked in Blood
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The Daughters' War
The Daughters' War
An instant USA Today bestseller!Enter the fray in this luminous new adventure from Christopher Buehlman, set during the war-torn, goblin-infested years just before The Blacktongue Thief.The goblins have killed all of our horses and most of our men. They have enslaved our cities, burned our fields, and still they wage war.Now, our daughters take up arms.Galva — Galvicha to her three brothers, two…
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Lone Women
Lone Women
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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Selected as One of The New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of the Year A Barack Obama Summer Read Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in a Novel Nebula Award Winner for Best Novel Locus Award Winner for Horror Libby Award Winner for Best HorrorKirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction Los Angeles Times Book Prize Award Finalist A Time, The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, The…
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Prince Prigio
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Alchemised
Alchemised
In this riveting dark fantasy debut, a woman with missing memories fights to survive a war-torn world of necromancy and alchemy—and the man tasked with unearthing the deepest secrets of her past.“What is it you think you’re protecting in that brain of yours? The war is over. Holdfast is dead. The Eternal Flame extinguished. There’s no one left for you to save.” Once a promising alchemist, Helena…
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Empire of the Damned
Empire of the Damned
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the New York Times bestselling author of the Nevernight Chronicle, Jay Kristoff, comes the much-anticipated sequel to the international bestselling sensation EMPIRE OF THE VAMPIRE. From holy cup comes holy light;The faithful hands sets world aright.And in the Seven Martyrs’ sight,Mere man shall end this endless night.Gabriel de León has saved the Holy…
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Essential Lovecraft
Essential Lovecraft
Essential Lovecraft features 13 of the horror masters' most terrifying novellas and short stories, including: The Dunwich Horror, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Call of Cthulhu, The Thing on the Doorstep, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Dreams in the Witch-House, Herbert West: Reanimator, The Shadow Out of Time, The Colour Out of Space, The Statement of Randolph Carter, The Haunter of the Dark,…
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H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction
H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction
Written between the years 1917 and 1935, this collection features Lovecraft's trademark fantastical creatures and supernatural thrills, as well as many horrific and cautionary science-fiction themes, that have influenced some of today's writers and filmmakers, including Stephen King, Alan Moore, F. Paul Wilson, Guillermo del Toro, and Neil Gaiman. Included in this volume are The Case of Charles…
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