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  • Thankless in Death by J.D. Robb

    Thankless in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    In the latest suspense thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, the year 2060 is drawing to a close in New York City and loved ones are coming together for Thanksgiving. But sometimes the deepest hatreds seethe within the closest relationships, and blood flows faster than water… Lieutenant Eve Dallas has plenty to be grateful for this season...
  • True Light by Terri Blackstock

    True Light by Terri Blackstock

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    The darkness deepens in a world without power.But, daring to defend a young outcast, one family strikes a light.In the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to the age before electricity, the Brannings face a choice...
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  • Night Light by Terri Blackstock

    Night Light by Terri Blackstock

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    An era unlike any in modern civilization is descending without lights, electronics, running water, or automobiles. As a global blackout lengthens into months, the neighbors of Oak Hollow grapple with a chilling realization: the power may never return. Survival has become a lifestyle...
  • Golden in Death by J.D. Robb

    Golden in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    In the latest thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, homicide detective Eve Dallas investigates a murder with a mysterious motive―and a terrifying weapon. Pediatrician Kent Abner received the package on a beautiful April morning. Inside was a cheap trinket, a golden egg that could be opened into two halves...
  • Ritual in Death by J.D. Robb

    Ritual in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    J. D. Robb’s In Death novels have been praised as “Law & Order: SVU – in the future” (Entertainment Weekly). Now, together for the first time in one volume, are three stories that spotlight Lieutenant Eve Dallas doing what she does best: solving crime with skill, integrity, and passion. Eternity in Death A seductive killer is luring in victims with a promise of the impossible – immortality...
  • We're Alive: A Story of Survival, the First Season by K.C. Wayland

    We're Alive: A Story of Survival, the First Season by K.C. Wayland

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Riots spread beyond containment throughout LA as people transform and attack each other. Three reserve soldiers, believed to be the last remaining armed servicemen in the area, set out to secure an apartment building and rescue any survivors. If they stand together, perhaps they will live long enough to see things change...
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    dystopian  horror  futuristic  length-novella
  • Missing in Death by J.D. Robb

    Missing in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    J. D. Robb’s In Death novels have been praised as “Law & Order: SVU – in the future” (Entertainment Weekly). Now, together for the first time in one volume, are three stories that spotlight Lieutenant Eve Dallas doing what she does best: solving crime with skill, integrity, and passion. Eternity in Death A seductive killer is luring in victims with a promise of the impossible – immortality...
  • Calculated in Death by J.D. Robb

    Calculated in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 49 ratings
    On Manhattan's Upper East Side a woman lies dead at the bottom of the stairs, stripped of all her valuables. Most cops might call it a mugging gone wrong, but Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows better. A well-off accountant and a beloved wife and mother, Marta Dickenson doesn't seem the type to be on anyone's hit list...
  • Last Light by Terri Blackstock

    Last Light by Terri Blackstock

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    In the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to the age before electricity, Deni Branning's career ambitions have vanished. She's not about to let her dream of marriage go as well. But keeping it alive will require extraordinary measures. Yesterday's world is gone. All Deni and her family have left is each other and their neighbors...
  • Silent Night by J.D. Robb, Susan Plunkett

    Silent Night by J.D. Robb, Susan Plunkett

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    J.D. Robb's " Midnight in Death " features Lieutenant Eve Dallas hunting for an escaped serial killer... Susan Plunkett's " Christmas Promises " brings two lovers back together as they search for a missing child... Dee Holmes's " The Unexpected Gift " is a tale of a woman and her son, who discover the spirit of the holidays after finding a "body" in their backyard..
  • The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

    The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master’s Son follows a young man’s journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother—a singer “stolen” to Pyongyang—and an influential father who runs Long Tomorrows, a work camp for orphans...
  • Blood Ties by Sophie McKenzie

    Blood Ties by Sophie McKenzie

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    A gripping thriller from the Richard and Judy award-winning author of Girl, Missing, Sophie McKenzie. When Theo discovers the father he thought died when he was a baby is still alive, he's determined to find him. The clues lead him to the lonely Rachel, who has problems of her own, including parents who compare her unfavourably to her long-dead sister...
  • State of Chaos by Summer Lane

    State of Chaos by Summer Lane

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Cassidy Hart has had better days. Her dad is missing. Her friends have been captured. And modern society is pretty much gone, thanks to an EMP that destroyed the technological infrastructure of the United States. Surviving in the foothills of California is a challenge, but with the help of former Navy SEAL Chris Young, Cassidy's been able to stay alive. Until now...
  • Sovereign by E.R. Arroyo

    Sovereign by E.R. Arroyo

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Chemical warfare has obliterated most of the world, including America, and the survivors have turned into feral beasts, save one colony, Antius, the last remnant of civilization. Seventeen-year-old Cori (aka Citizen 1206) only longs for wide open spaces and freedom. But Antius has no use for such things, just mindless drones to serve in a place with walls, fences, and laws...
  • Split Second by Sophie McKenzie

    Split Second by Sophie McKenzie

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    2:02...2:01...2:00What the hell was this? I stared at the numbers, numb with horror. The box was a bomb. And it was going to go off in two minutes. Charlie's life is torn apart by a terrorist bomb in a London market. Months later she meets Nat, whose family has been left devastated by the same explosion...
  • The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

    The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 82 ratings
    "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge"More than fifty years on, Iris Chase is remembering Laura's mysterious death. And so begins an extraordinary and compelling story of two sisters and their secrets. Set against a panoramic backdrop of twentieth-century history,The Blind Assassinis an epic tale of memory, intrigue and betrayal..
  • The Worlds We Make by Megan Crewe

    The Worlds We Make by Megan Crewe

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The virus has taken away Kaelyn’s friends, her family, her home.And now a deadly enemy threatens to take the one hope she has left: THE CURE.When Kaelyn and her friends reached Toronto with a vaccine for the virus that has ravaged the population, they thought their journey was over...
  • Surge by Katelin LaMontagne

    Surge by Katelin LaMontagne

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Creatures lurking at your door step, but are those what you should be afraid of, or is there a greater monster to fear? Jared Benson is a survivor, but that's all he's done is survive...
  • The Living by Matt de la Pena

    The Living by Matt de la Pena

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Shy took the summer job to make some money. In a few months on a luxury cruise liner, he'll rake in the tips and be able to help his mom and sister out with the bills. And how bad can it be? Bikinis, free food, maybe even a girl or two—every cruise has different passengers, after all. But everything changes when the Big One hits...
  • The Ninth Orphan by James Morcan, Lance Morcan

    The Ninth Orphan by James Morcan, Lance Morcan

    Rated: 3.46 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    How do you catch a man who is never the same man twice? That is the question posed in The Ninth Orphan, a top-rated international thriller novel and the first book in The Orphan Trilogy. An orphan grows up to become an assassin for a highly secretive organization...
  • Breakdown by Katherine Amt Hanna

    Breakdown by Katherine Amt Hanna

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 21 ratings
    Six years after a pandemic devastates the human population, and the subsequent loss of much of the world's technology, Chris Price finally makes it from New York to Britain to reunite with his brother. But unresolved grief over his dead wife and baby and the horrors he witnessed as he traveled through a changed world have damaged him...
  • The Killables by Gemma Malley

    The Killables by Gemma Malley

    Rated: 3.47 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Everyone accepted that people were different physically. But inside? Inside, they were different too. You just had to know how to tell, what to look for. Evil has been eradicated. The City has been established. And citizens may only enter after having the 'evil' part of their brain removed. They are labelled on the System according to how 'good' they are...
  • Nerve by Jeanne Ryan

    Nerve by Jeanne Ryan

    Rated: 3.47 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    For fans of The Hunger Games A high-stakes online game of dares turns deadly When Vee is picked to be a player in NERVE, an anonymous game of dares broadcast live online, she discovers that the game knows her. They tempt her with prizes taken from her ThisIsMe page and team her up with the perfect boy, sizzling-hot Ian...
  • The Unidentified by Rae Mariz

    The Unidentified by Rae Mariz

    Rated: 3.34 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Kid knows her school’s corporate sponsors not-so-secretly monitor her friendships and activities for market research. It’s all a part of the Game; the alternative education system designed to use the addictive kick from video games to encourage academic learning. Everyday, a captive audience of students ages 13-17 enter the nationwide chain store-like Game locations to play...
  • Trapped by Michael Northrop

    Trapped by Michael Northrop

    Rated: 3.30 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    The day the blizzard started, no one knew that it was going to keep snowing for a week. That for those in its path, it would become not just a matter of keeping warm, but of staying alive. . . . Scotty and his friends Pete and Jason are among the last seven kids at their high school waiting to get picked up that day, and they soon realize that no one is coming for them...
  • The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset by Suzanne Collins

    The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset by Suzanne Collins

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 109 ratings
    The extraordinary, ground breaking New York Times bestsellers The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, along with the third book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, are available for the first time ever in a beautiful boxset edition. Stunning, gripping, and powerful...
  • The Toll by Neal Shusterman

    The Toll by Neal Shusterman

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 88 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman comes the thrilling conclusion to the Printz Honor–winning series Arc of a Scythe.It’s been three years since Rowan and Citra disappeared; since Scythe Goddard came into power; since the Thunderhead closed itself off to everyone but Grayson Tolliver...
  • Tyler by Nyssa Kathryn

    Tyler by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Sometimes, the biggest secrets can bring both salvation and destruction.Emerson Charles grew up luckier than most, going from a difficult life to finding safety and a true home with her stepmother and stepbrother. Years later, when Levi’s in trouble, Emerson will do anything for the brother of her heart, her greatest protector...
  • Hunter's Trial: A Post-Apocalyptic Alien Romance by Lynnea Lee

    Hunter's Trial: A Post-Apocalyptic Alien Romance by Lynnea Lee

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    YVETTEOf all the muscular purple warriors, I get stuck with the grumpy one.Stuck in the cliffside lodge for months, I’m going stir-crazy while all the other women get to explore with their mates. Even Judy has her biker beau. I need to get out of here, so I ask Bre’k to take me foraging. I’m not surprised when, yet again, he says no...
  • Mordacious by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Mordacious by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the universe of the Until the End of the World series Sylvie Rossi has the loner thing down pat, with the exception of her best friend, Grace. But when the two are trapped in a hospital during the last gasp of a dying city, alone time is no longer an option...
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