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Solitary by Alexander Gordon Smith
20 ratingsFurnace Prison ...Where death is the least of your worries.Escape is just the beginning ...We thought we’d made it, we thought we were free. But we should have known there was no way out of Furnace.All we did was slip deeper into the guts of the prison: into solitary confinement, where the real nightmares live - the warden, the Wheezers, and something much, much worse.The clock’s ticking...Categorized as:
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Wayward by Blake Crouch
35 ratingsWelcome to Wayward Pines, population 461. Nestled amidst picture-perfect mountains, the idyllic town is a modern-day Eden...except for the electrified fence and razor wire, snipers scoping everything 24/7, and the relentless surveillance tracking each word and gesture.None of the residents know how they got here. They are told where to work, how to live, and who to marry...Categorized as:
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The Last Town by Blake Crouch
34 ratingsWelcome to Wayward Pines, the last town.Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks ago. In this town, people are told who to marry, where to live, where to work. Their children are taught that David Pilcher, the town’s creator, is god. No one is allowed to leave; even asking questions can get you killed...Categorized as:
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Contain by Saul W. Tanpepper
8 ratingsThey thought they were safe. They were wrong.CONTAIN (BUNKER 12 series pilot)Three years. That's how long Finnian Bolles has been hiding inside the impregnable walls of the hydroelectric complex known as Bunker 8. Three years, with enough resources to last him and the other thirty survivors three more...Categorized as:
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The Lost World by Michael Crichton
41 ratingsIt is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end – the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public.There are rumors that something has survived...Categorized as:
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Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer
33 ratingsIt 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...Categorized as:
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Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
43 ratingsArea X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide, the third in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another...Categorized as:
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Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
35 ratingsThe bone-chilling, hair-raising second installment of the Southern Reach TrilogyAfter thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X—a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization—has been a series of expeditions overseen by a government agency so secret it has almost been forgotten: the Southern Reach...Categorized as:
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Nod by Adrian Barnes
20 ratingsDawn breaks over Vancouver and no one in the world has slept the night before, or almost no one. A few people, perhaps one in ten thousand, can still sleep, and they’ve all shared the same golden dream. After six days of absolute sleep deprivation, psychosis will set in. After four weeks, the body will die...Categorized as:
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The Deep by Nick Cutter
25 ratingsFrom the acclaimed author of The Troop—which Stephen King raved “scared the hell out of me and I couldn’t put it down.…old-school horror at its best”—comes this utterly terrifying novel where The Abyss meets The Shining.A strange plague called the ’Gets is decimating humanity on a global scale...Categorized as:
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The Walking Dead, Book Five by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard
20 ratingsThis hardcover features another 12 issues of the hit series along with the covers for the issues all in one oversized hardcover volume. Perfect for long time fans, new readers, and anyone interested in reading a zombie movie on paper that never ends. Collects The Walking Dead #49-60...Categorized as:
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School-Live!, Vol. 1 by Norimitsu Kaihou (Nitroplus), Sadoru Chiba
10 ratingsMeet the members of the School Living Club! There's the shovel-loving (?) Kurumi Ebisuzawa, the big-sister figure Yuuri Wakasa, club advisor Megumi Sakura, and last but not least, the ever-optimistic Yuki Takeya. The School Living Club is just your average after-school organization where the girls hang out, have fun...and live at school as the sole survivors of a zombie apocalypse. NBD... -
Gantz/22 by Hiroya Oku
10 ratingsA 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/23 by Hiroya Oku
10 ratingsThe 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... -
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Gantz/29 by Hiroya Oku
10 ratingsAs the aliens' merciless war machine continues its systematic slaughter of humanity, Gantz teams from across Japan are assembled against their will for a desperate assault, a strike at the heart of the invaders' mother ship... -
Terra Formars, Vol. 3 by Yu Sasuga
6 ratingsIn the late 26th century, overpopulation on Earth is reaching the breaking point, and humanity must find new frontiers. The terraforming of Mars has taken centuries but is now complete. The colonization of Mars by humanity is an epoch-making event, but an unintended side effect of the terraforming process unleashes a horror no one could ever have imagined.. -
King of Thorn, Vol. 1 by Yuji Iwahara, 岩原裕二
12 ratingsKasumi and her sister, Shizuku, are infected with the Medusa virus, which slowly eats away at the body. There is no cure, but of the two only Kasumi is selected to be cryogenically frozen with 159 others until a cure is found. At some point in the future, Kasumi awakens to find herself in an unfamiliar world with violent monsters. Older teens...
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