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  • Time of Death by J.D. Robb

    Time of Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    J. D. Robb’s In Death novels have been praised as “Law & Order: SVU—in the future” (Entertainment Weekly). Now, together in one volume, 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...
  • For a Lifetime by Gabrielle Meyer

    For a Lifetime by Gabrielle Meyer

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 15 ratings
    Grace and Hope are identical twin sisters born with the ability to time-cross together between 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, and 1912 New York City. As their twenty-fifth birthday approaches, they will have to choose one life to keep and one to leave behind forever--no matter the cost...
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  • Three in Death by J.D. Robb

    Three in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb delivers a potent combination of futuristic suspense, thrills, and passion in these three favorite In Death stories—together in one volume for the first time. INTERLUDE IN DEATH. Lieutenant Eve Dallas is resigned to the fact that she’s been ordered to give a seminar at a police conference—and that she’ll have to leave Earth to do it...
  • Salvage Right by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Salvage Right by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A NEW NOVEL IN THE NATIONALLY BEST-SELLING LIADEN UNIVERSE® SERIES. A door never closes, but a window opens . . . With origins in the Old Universe, the malevolent, acquisitive intelligence of Tinsori Light sought to infect others with itself, and send those agents out into the wide new universe to infect even more...
  • Trader's Leap by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Trader's Leap by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    NEW ENTRY IN THE LANDMARK LIADEN UNIVERSE® SERIES. The only bridge between past and future is a leap of faith. Pursued by enemies, exiled Liaden clan Korval is settling into a new base on backworld Surebleak. Moving is expensive, as is war, and Korval is strapped for cash. Delm Korval has therefore instructed Master Trader Shan yos'Galan to design and implement new trade routes, quickly...
  • All Good Magic Comes to an End by Brenda Trim, Tia Didmon

    All Good Magic Comes to an End by Brenda Trim, Tia Didmon

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    In the shadows of Ravenholde, the things you can't see will kill you. With the infection ravaging our mystical town and no antidote in sight, tensions between the Shadow Council members are at an all-time high...
  • Ice by Kevin Tinto

    Ice by Kevin Tinto

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Archaeologist Leah Andrews stumbles upon something inexplicable in southwestern New Mexico: inside a dark cavern lies an undiscovered, Native American cliff dwelling abandoned for 800 years. While twisting through one of the narrow underground passageways, Leah's flashlight illuminates the remains of a violent massacre...
  • Defiant Vow by Delta James

    Defiant Vow by Delta James

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She had long ago given up on finding her hero. He would make her believe in happy-ever-after again. Serena. There was a time, a very long time ago when I believed in fairytales and happily-ever-afters. Those dreams died a painful death the night my parents were murdered. I need to get close to Aries Borgia in order to get information about my parents' murderer...
  • Otherside Picnic: Volume 4 by Iori Miyazawa, 宮澤 伊織

    Otherside Picnic: Volume 4 by Iori Miyazawa, 宮澤 伊織

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 9 ratings
    Winter is coming. Having been attacked by a group that worshiped Satsuki Uruma, Sorawo and Toriko head to the cult's former base—the Farm in the Mountains. The other world is still chock full of all kinds of dangerous mysteries, but the allure of exploring the unknown is ever present...
  • Otherside Picnic: Volume 3 by Iori Miyazawa

    Otherside Picnic: Volume 3 by Iori Miyazawa

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 9 ratings
    Autumn has arrived. Having narrowly avoided the curse of the Kotoribako, Sorawo and Toriko are back to exploring the other world. With boxed lunches in tow, the two take their agricultural vehicle for a leisurely drive across grassy terrain, deal with the problems caused by Sorawo's kouhai at university, and hang out at cognitive scientist Kozakura's house...
  • Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle

    Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Control the past. Save the future. One morning, Dr. Sam Anderson wakes up to find that the woman he loves has been murdered. For Sam, the horror is only beginning. He and his daughter are accused of the crime. The evidence is ironclad. They will be convicted. And so, to ensure his daughter goes free, Sam does what he must: he confesses. But in the future, murderers aren't sent to prison...
  • Otherside Picnic: Volume 2 by Iori Miyazawa

    Otherside Picnic: Volume 2 by Iori Miyazawa

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 9 ratings
    Summer has arrived, and university students Sorawo Kamikoshi and Toriko Nishina’s connection deepens as they explore the alternate world known as the Otherside. There's a rescue operation for the U. S. forces trapped at Kisaragi Station, a night at the Beach of the End on the other side of a resort in Okinawa, a karate-using kouhai who is under attack by ninja cats…...
  • The Winter Garden by Nicola Cornick

    The Winter Garden by Nicola Cornick

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sweeping across generations from the 1600s to the present day and inspired by the true story of the leader of the infamous Gunpowder Plot, Nicola Cornick’s latest historical mystery combines past and present story lines that fans of Philippa Gregory and Susanna Kearsley will devour. 1605: Anne Catesby fears for her family...
  • Caught in Time by Julie McElwain

    Caught in Time by Julie McElwain

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 19 ratings
    Still stranded in 1815, FBI agent Kendra Donovan finds herself on the trail of a vicious murderer with a shocking secret. October 1815: There is only one place Kendra Donovan wants to travel—back to her own time period in the twenty-first century. But since that’s not happening, she agrees instead to travel with her new guardian, the Duke of Aldridge, to one of his smaller estates in Lancashire...
  • Gantz/19 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz/19 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Gantz's reluctant alien-hunting hero, Kei, has had to deal with all sorts of selfish and seedy teammates, but somehow he's recently fought alongside his best partners yet. Unfortunately, this might be his last fight with them. Not that his story is over, however. Regular readers are in for some treats, and new readers will get hooked!
  • Ghost Ship by James Rollins

    Ghost Ship by James Rollins

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The discovery of a burned body sprawled on a remote Australian beach shatters the vacation plans of Commander Gray Pierce. To thwart an ingenious enemy, he and Seichan are pulled into a centuries-old mystery surrounding a lost convict ship, the Trident. The vessel—with a history of mutiny and stolen treasure—vanished into the mists of time, but nothing stays lost forever...
  • The Garden of Promises and Lies by Paula Brackston

    The Garden of Promises and Lies by Paula Brackston

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    The third installment of a bewitching series brimming with charm and charisma that will make fans of Outlander rejoice! (Woman's World Magazine). New York Times bestselling author Paula Brackston's second novel in the Found Things series, Secrets of the Chocolate House, was called a time-swapping romance [that] will please fans of Alice Hoffman (Publishers Weekly)...
  • Guarding His Melody by Victoria Sue

    Guarding His Melody by Victoria Sue

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Deaf since childhood, Sebastian Armitage had a promising musical future until his. dreams were shattered when he transformed at twelve years old. In a world where enhanced humans are terrorized and imprisoned, his life shrinks around him even more as. he suffers the torment of his father’s experimental research to enable him to hear...
  • Gantz Volume 18 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz Volume 18 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The crazy world of Gantz just got a heck of a lot crazier! First, there were people being recruited at the moment of death to fight aliens living on earth, but unseen by humanity. The battles seemed to take place outside of human sight. Our reluctant hero, Kei, has lived through many of these battles, but now something strange is happening...
  • Gantz/14 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz/14 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    A gang of vampire guys . . . who can grow samurai swords from their very flesh! Once again, Hiroya Oku is pushing the envelope with his crazy manga Gantz! And to add to it, these vampire yakuza guys might not even be aliens! This isn't a mission. These guys seem to know who is working for Gantz, and are coming after them. On the streets where they work and live. In the daylight...
  • Gantz/13 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz/13 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Dinosaurs. Seriously, can the frantic world of Gantz get any more scary? How about a giant doughboy with crazy fangs and a strange outie bellybutton? Yeah, it's not just scary; it's a very strange world for Kei! . At least this time the Gantz crew have a new weapon! It's an awesome state-of-the-art uni-motorcycle thing! And one of the characters uses a massive space samurai sword...
  • Meant to Be by Megan Derr

    Meant to Be by Megan Derr

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The Draconis are a race of unexpected power and ability, complicated by their tendency to ‘match’ with other magics capable beings. The trial to decide whether or not they should be exterminated is about to begin, and both sides have gathered some of the brightest minds in the galaxy to argue before the Star Assembly of the Infinitum Government...
  • The Atlantis Plague by A.G. Riddle

    The Atlantis Plague by A.G. Riddle

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    In Marbella, Spain, Dr. Kate Warner awakens to a horrifying reality: the human race stands on the brink of extinction. A pandemic unlike any before it has swept the globe. Nearly a billion people are dead—and those that the Atlantis Plague does not kill, it transforms at the genetic level. A few rapidly evolve. The remainder devolve. As the world slips into chaos, radical solutions emerge...
  • Gantz/17 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz/17 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    It seems like every new alien creature the Gantz gang fights is just practice for another, tougher, more demented future alien battle. Every new alien means another crew of newly dead citizens, reborn as alien hunters. Except for those who survive for the next battle. And Kei is the only one who’s survived since volume 1...
  • Blown Away by Cara Bristol

    Blown Away by Cara Bristol

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Trapped in a sandstorm, they’ll battle passion and danger…. Breeze O’Day. Windswept, sandblasted Sajave isn’t every astrogeologist’s dream assignment, but it’s been my safe zone from a dangerous past, and now I’m about to announce a game-changing discovery. But on the way to finalize my research, my hovercraft gets caught in a violent sandstorm and crashes...
  • Shattered Alliance by Tricia Owens

    Shattered Alliance by Tricia Owens

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Now that the terrible truth is out, life has only grown more complicated. Genesis has full control over the men of JC2, forcing them to commit atrocities across the city and destroying Black's reputation in the process. Even if Black succeeds in rescuing his teammates, the JCPD and Captain Dickerson may not be forgiving...
  • Gantz/25 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz/25 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    As the Osaka Gantz team falls to the alien monster boss, Kaze of the Tokyo team takes the fight to the superbeast to save the mortally wounded little Takeshi. But even the powerful Kaze is no match for the shape-shifting fiend, and the Tokyo team musters a desperate offensive that could turn the tide . . . or seal their doom!
  • Gantz/27 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz/27 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A massive unknown flying craft lays waste to the planet’s leading military superpower. Choas reigns. Gantz teams from all over the world gather in Italy only to be overwhelmed and ripped to pieces by endless foes. And just as their destruction seems assured, the Gantz warriors are transferred home and released without explanation from their duty by the Gantz orb...
  • Gantz/22 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz/22 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A spectacle without precedent unfolds in the streets of Osaka, leaving a path of complete and utter destruction as the battle with the aliens in Dotombori continues to escalate. Beset by a growing number of ghouls, each more deadly than the last, even the battle-hardened Gantz warriors find their numbers dwindling...
  • Gantz/21 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz/21 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A new chapter in the Gantz saga brings with it a new level of action and mayhem! The alien-hunting Gantz warriors are transported to their new mission, leaving behind their fallen comrades, Kurono and Izumi. Given no time to mourn, they find themselves in a completely unfamiliar location, well beyond the confines of Tokyo in the Dotombori district of Osaka...
  • The Butterfly Code by Sue Wyshynski

    The Butterfly Code by Sue Wyshynski

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Shivering, I wind my arms around my ribs. That's when I see him. Dr. Hunter Cayman. The man the town has been whispering about. The man no one really seems to know. The man my father despises. He's across the street, leaning against a steel monster--a low-slung black car, its curves somehow wicked in the night. Rain sparkles like fire on the front hood under the glow of the orange streetlamps...
  • Willing to Die by Lisa Jackson

    Willing to Die by Lisa Jackson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    WHEN A KILLER HAS NOTHING TO LOSE. The crime scene is as puzzling as it is brutal. Doctor Paul Latham and his wife, Brindel, are found dead in separate beds in their beautiful San Francisco home, each the victim of a gunshot wound to the head.  There are no signs of forced entry, and despite the emptied safe it’s clear this murder isn’t random. THERE’S EVERY REASON...
  • Gantz/23 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz/23 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The battle-hardened Osaka Gantz team has fought with courage and fury to wipe out most of the lower-level (but highly lethal) alien invaders. Now firing on all cylinders, the OGs set out to go toe-to-toe with the insanely powerful boss-class offworlders, including the elusive, shape-shifting "100 Point" boss, a creature that can appear as beautiful as it is deadly...
  • The Strength of His Heart by Victoria Sue

    The Strength of His Heart by Victoria Sue

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    To protect and serve…. All Vance Connelly ever wanted to do was continue his family’s tradition and join the Tampa Police Department, but his dreams were crushed the day he woke with the enhanced mark on his face. After years of struggling to adjust to life as an enhanced human, by a stroke of luck, he met Talon Valdez and became a proud member of the FBI’s Human Enhanced Rescue Organization...
  • Gantz/24 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz/24 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    As the mind-boggling 100-point alien boss unleashes its horrors upon the overmatched Osaka Gantz team, the Tokyo team is forced by the Gantz orb to join the battle, but even their numbers fail to turn the tide. When all hope seems lost, the legendary alien fighter Hachira Oka returns from exile and enters the battlefield with his fearsome arsenal of weapons...
  • Gantz/30 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz/30 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    As masses of helpless humans are brought aboard the gigantic alien mothership, the horror on the ground below looks like a picnic compared to what the monstrous invaders have in store for their prisoners. But despite the odds, Kei Kurono has infiltrated the mothership and its alien city, and he may have only one chance to find his lost love before she suffers a bizarre fate worse than death!
  • On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers

    On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    “Powers writes action and adventure that Indiana Jones could only dream of. ”. —Washington Post. “Tim Powers is a brilliant writer. ”. —William Gibson. The remarkable Tim Powers—who ingeniously married the John Le Carrè spy novel to the otherworldly in his critically acclaimed Declare—brings us pirate adventure with a dazzling difference...
  • BTOOOM!, Vol. 10 by Junya Inoue

    BTOOOM!, Vol. 10 by Junya Inoue

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A genius player hardens his resolve! !"BTOOOM! "--the death game that forces real people to kill each other with explosives--charges into its final stage! Ryouta unexpectedly runs into his former senpai Tsuneaki Iida, now one of the Tyrannos Japan masterminds supervising the deadly contest on the island...
  • Elegy for the Undead by Matthew Vesely

    Elegy for the Undead by Matthew Vesely

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Jude and Lyle's newlywed life is shattered when a vicious attack leaves Lyle infected with a disease that transforms him into a violent and often incomprehensible person. With no cure for the "zombie" virus in sight, the young husbands begin to face the last months they have together before Lyle loses himself completely...
  • Gantz/32 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz/32 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The devastating war against the alien invaders is over! A new day of peaceful coexistence is dawning! Olive branches for everyone! Of course, before tranquility can be attained, something must be done about the nasty Gantz “terrorists” monkey wrenching the works. Fighting monstrous extraterrestrials is tough enough, but how about taking on the entire human race?
  • Gantz/33 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz/33 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    While the war with the aliens is apparently over, aboard the invaders’ mother ship, human prisoners face a parade of horrors for the televised amusement of the offworlders...
  • Gantz/34 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz/34 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Kei is reunited with his beloved Tae only to be torn from her and returned to the streets, where the Gantz warriors are hunted “terrorists,” accused of sabotaging the truce with the alien invaders...
  • Krondor: The Assassins by Raymond E. Feist

    Krondor: The Assassins by Raymond E. Feist

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Book Two of The Riftwar Legacy. A place of unparalleled wonders a sprawling kingdom coveted by enemies on all sides; a bustling center of commerce and magic, vibrantly alive and eternally in conflict...
  • Gantz/35 by Hiroya Oku

    Gantz/35 by Hiroya Oku

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The truce with the alien invaders begins to crumble, and this time the humans are gaining the upper hand against the goliath ETs. Gantz warrior Kei discovers that his beloved Tae still lives, and the race is on to save her before she and her alien protector are brought down together in the rapidly spreading destruction...
  • Winter Moon by Dean Koontz

    Winter Moon by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    In Los Angeles, a hot Hollywood director, high on PCP, turns a city street into a fiery apocalypse. Five die. Heroic LAPD officer Jac McGarvey is badly wounded and lands in the hospital for months, uncertain he'll walk again...
  • Resurrection by Sara Reinke

    Resurrection by Sara Reinke

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jay Frances can resurrect the dead. One touch is all it takes to restore life to even long-since cold flesh. Jay has always considered this ability more of a curse than a gift -- that is, until the night he finds JoBeth Montgomery brutally murdered in a darkened stairwell and raises her. Jo is the first he is able to restore fully, body, mind and soul...
  • The Runestone Incident by Neve Maslakovic

    The Runestone Incident by Neve Maslakovic

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    We found ten men, red from blood and dead…. At the center of an expanding mystery: a fabled Viking runestone left behind in the Minnesota woodland of ages past. In this much anticipated second installment of Neve Maslakovic’s time travel series, St...
  • Down the Rabbit Hole by J.D. Robb, Mary Blayney

    Down the Rabbit Hole by J.D. Robb, Mary Blayney

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Some of your favorite New York Times bestselling authors present five all-new stories told through the looking glass—including a new Eve Dallas novella! You’re late for a very important date. .. Enter a wonderland of mesmerizing tales. It’s a place that’s neither here nor there, where things are never quite as they seem...
  • The Memory Painter by Gwendolyn Womack

    The Memory Painter by Gwendolyn Womack

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Two lovers who have traveled across time. A team of scientists at the cutting edge of memory research. A miracle drug that unlocks an ancient mystery. Bryan Pierce is an internationally famous artist whose paintings have dazzled the world. But there's a secret to his success: Every canvas is inspired by an unusually vivid dream. When Bryan awakes, he possesses extraordinary new skills. .
  • The Rich and the Dead: A Novel by Liv Spector

    The Rich and the Dead: A Novel by Liv Spector

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    To solve the crime of the century, she'll have to go back in time. .. . Welcome to Star Island, where Miami's wealthiest residents lead private lives behind the tall gates of their sprawling mansions...
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