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SOPHIE RAMOS has always had visions—perceptions of beings others don’t see. Even her mother doubted her as a child. Psychiatrists doubted her too. Psychics tried to recruit her to enrich and empower themselves. Now she’s thirty-two, living on her own, and sharing her secret only with her mother and a few friends. A threatening specter begins to visit her at night, and more than her sleep is at stake. She follows a friend’s recommendation to visit Detta Washington, a church lady who believes that Sophie does see angels and demons.

Jake Montana waits anxiously for the letter every 18-year-old receives on Ascension Eve. It’s the one from the Circuit. It’s the one that’ll determine the rest of his life. His partner, his job, his home, and, crucially, his relative importance to the world.

Implantation was supposed to be the savior of humanity. Enhancing brain function and skills for millions, it transformed the world…until The Glitch. Five years ago, implants suddenly malfunctioned. Many who had them dropped dead; those who lived became zombie-like drifters or murderous psychopaths. It was up to the un-implanted to rebuild a damaged society…or just survive another day.

When DARPA builds the ultimate tactical weapon—a portal capable of instant travel across any distance—they recruit Marine Raider Captain Jackson Glover and his elite team to test it. But this isn’t just a new form of transport: it’s Pandora’s Box. Every time the portal opens, the team must pass through Other Earths—alternate realities filled with hostile environments, alien ecosystems, and threats that defy human comprehension. What should be a shortcut through space becomes a gauntlet of survival, where each “layover” could unleash horrors capable of annihilating our world.

Rumors begin to spread of a species of hyperintelligent, dangerous octopus that may have developed its own language and culture. Marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen, who has spent her life researching cephalopod intelligence, will do anything for the chance to study them. The transnational tech corporation DIANIMA has sealed the remote Con Dao Archipelago, where the octopuses were discovered, off from the world. Dr. Nguyen joins DIANIMA’s team on the islands: a battle-scarred security agent and the world’s first android.

On a beautiful October evening, New York City's iconic Guggenheim Museum is closed for a tech company's private gala. Until an explosion rocks the night, instantly killing 702 people, including every single attendee - yet the damage to the building itself was minimal. An explosion of that precision was no accident and, in response, the FBI mobilizes its entire team - but the sheer number of victims strains their resources. Were all 702 victims in the wrong place at the wrong time, or was there only one target and 701 unlucky bystanders?

Possessions, monsters in the mist, alien abductions ... the frickin Loch Ness Monster? He's bitten off way more than he can chew in the second half of this slick urban fantasy series.

Sacramento has its share of spooky, crazy, and unexplained, just like everywhere else, but most other places don’t have a self-appointed paranormal investigator to really stir things up. There are good reasons to fear the night. August Watson is about to kick them in the pants. With an oversized sidekick, a school-skipping apprentice, and too many bad habits to count, August aims to drag the truth into the light. Kicking and screaming if necessary.

Hired by a wealthy developer, August finds himself in Scotland where the mythical beastie is manifesting in physical form. Numerous sightings, together with claw marks and other physical evidence, are causing costly construction delays. Suspecting local objectors, August knows there will be more to the mystery than first meets the eyes, but when things get deadly, he isn’t above calling in a little help.

The word-of-mouth Booktok hit about a supervisor at a top-secret government facility running experiments on human beings, who's always been able to tell himself it's for the greater good. Until the day his works follows him home. Joe works for an organization known only as “The Company.” He...

In this sweeping, timely thriller, a Palestinian American FBI agent teams up with a hardline Israeli cop to solve the murder of the Israeli police chief in Gaza—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Looming Tower and The End of October. "A layered tale of intrigue and betrayal...

NAMED A BEST THRILLER OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE “Suspenseful, provocative and surprisingly tender.”—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW “Cleverly weaves together time travel and memory games into a hard-to-put-down thriller. It’s an expertly...

For twenty years, Greta Davenport has lived with the guilt of surviving the accident that killed her parents. She’s tested the limits of her own mortality ever since, but little gives her the dopamine rush she craves. Not until the night she almost drunkenly crashes her car into a tree, and a peculiar blank card slides under her front door—an invitation to the Found Object Society. What she discovers there is beyond comprehension: an opulent, subterranean playground filled with aisles of objects from different eras and regions of the world.

A desperate scientist's radical attempt to cure his dying daughter unleashes an ancient, predatory potential within humanity, forcing him to confront a shadowy conspiracy and the monstrous consequences of playing God before his creation reshapes the world. Dr. Marcel Johnston, a brilliant scientist driven by the imminent loss of his terminally ill daughter, Calista, stakes everything on Project Fledge—a revolutionary serum designed to unlock humanity's ultimate potential and conquer disease.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Humanity is under assault by malevolent “antimemes”—ideas that attack memory, identity, and the fabric of reality itself—in this whip-smart tale of science-fiction horror, an entirely reimagined and expanded version of the beloved online novel. “Utterly...

Commander Scott McNabb and the remaining crew of the ill-fated Hermes survey ship, journey to Earth to an area formally known as death valley, now an irradiated wasteland. Their mission is to connect the quantum intelligence, Athena, into the pan-solar communications network, enabling the QIs to rollback control of Earth by the seven and their AI servants. But their shuttle is damaged as it enters Earth’s atmosphere and it lands far from their intended location.

When the world burned, survival was just the beginning. Matt and his convoy of survivors escaped the cave system with their lives, but not their peace. With hostile forces closing in and the fallout still choking the land, every mile north brings new dangers. From shattered towns and ghostly farmlands to an enemy convoy led by a ruthless hunter, their journey is no longer about hiding. It’s about enduring. Alliances will be tested. Secrets will surface. Blood will be spilled. As the group pushes toward the uncertain safety in the north, hope becomes more than a dream, it’s a weapon.

All the prepping hadn't prepared her for this... There’s a shock that follows the loss of everything you knew, everything you believed, everything you dreamed. And in that terrible moment, frozen in time, your mind fails to process the pain because every descriptive word, everything you once understood, no longer has a foundation, and without a root, the mind cannot decipher meaning. But as the fog begins to fade in the realization that you will not wake from this nightmare, shock gives way to loss, loss to grief, grief to acceptance.

Auf jedem Zentimeter der Erde fällt Schnee. Etwas, das eigentlich unmöglich sein sollte. Der trauernde Alkoholiker Harry Jobson hatte erwartet, den Abend wie so oft mit dem Gesicht auf einem Kneipentisch zu beenden, doch ein aufziehender Schneesturm zwingt ihn, zusammen mit den anderen Gästen Schutz zu suchen und das Unwetter abzuwarten. Alle machen sich Sorgen wegen des jüngsten Klimaphänomens, doch Harry will nur eines: allein trinken.

Devon Ortega has been tasked to stop the killing. Ortega had quit his job as a detective and left Earth to escape the crime there. Freedom Station was supposed to be free of this type of criminality, but now the sudden brutal deaths are given to him to solve and he is thrown right back into the grime and evil he had been trying to escape.