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Wade Knight expected a simple contract. A short-term audit. Easy money. But aboard the Oceanaius Horizon, nothing is what it seems. Caught inside a hidden test environment, Wade faces the brutal force of the open ocean and an AI engine driven by relentless hunger. As systems fail and illusions blur into reality, Wade must decide: submit to the depths, or challenge the intelligence that controls them. Survival isn’t guaranteed, and escape may be impossible.

THE BOOK BEHIND THE SECOND SEASON OF GAME OF THRONES, AN ORIGINAL SERIES NOW ON HBO. In this sequel to A Game of Thrones, George Martin pursues the embattled Seven Kingdoms through a bitter 10-year winter in which good and evil contend for power. When cruel Queen Cerisi's son takes the Iron...

George MacDonald was a master storyteller, the author of beautiful fictions such as Phantastes, Sir Gibbie, and The Princess and the Goblin. The story of Lilith is no different. A brilliant piece that dives deep into the human conscience. Some believe this is MacDonald's darkest story. It has been said that C. S. Lewis was fascinated with this work. A fantasy indeed, but as with much of MacDonald's work, living truths are ingrained within. Enjoy.

The penultimate volume in the Dark Tower series, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah, a #1 New York Times bestseller, is a pivotal installment in the epic saga. Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, the Dark Tower series...

George loves his mother and only wants to take care of her. Despite working two jobs, he can't afford the medical care she needs and so he must figure things out on his own. Lucky for George, he has a very unique appetite which saves him a lot of money on groceries. In this spinoff to the '80s slasher splatterpunk story, Janitor, affable junior custodian George Crowley tries his best to fit in and to hold down a job, while at the same time being the best caretaker for his ailing mother. Along the way, George demonstrates his taste for the peculiar, described in detail of course!

In the old South, a haint was a ghost or evil spirit. George Haint, originally begun by Helen Diessner in 2012, takes us into the most unusual ghost story you will probably ever hear. It is not only a ghost story but a short story of murder most foul and takes place in the mid-1800s, in the Virginia City, Nevada, area during the gold- and silver-mining days. The story contains a lot of local history of the area.

Le roi Robert Baratheon est mort, son ami Eddard Stark a été exécuté. La dynastie Baratheon n'aura duré qu'une génération et la paix plusieurs fois centenaire qui régissait le royaume des sept couronnes a volé en éclats. Joffrey, le bâtard illégitime, se terre dans sa capitale, les frères de Robert rallient des troupes à leurs bannières, le fils de Ned a levé son armée et crie vengeance, des pirates razzient les côtes et des brigands pillent les campagnes.

Les Sept Couronnes sont exsangues. Le royaume panse ses plaies. Les guerres ont vidé les campagnes, les épidémies ont ruiné les récoltes et les pillards écument les terres dévastées. Pourtant il y a toujours autant de prétendants qui briguent la couronne : chacun dans son repaire échafaude des stratégies. Les Lannister multiplient les alliances fragiles, Stannis Baratheon se réfugie toujours davantage dans le culte de Rhllor, le maître de la lumière, et Robb Stark soupire après son fief en lambeaux.

In 1902 George Andrew Ryland was hired as a janitor at Highville State Asylum for the Incurable Insane. He intended to keep his head down and work hard, but one particular patient had other plans. Follow along as his grandson combs through 50 years' worth of Ryland's handwritten logs, chronicling his torment at the hands of a beautiful woman with long dark hair and terrible, sinister requests.

David Boone, a man with a perfect life, a nice house, a beautiful wife, and a beloved dog. With the house to himself for a week, David is thrilled to have time to pursue his dreams of becoming a successful writer. But as the hours tick by in his dark and empty home, solitude begins to feel suffocating and his grip on reality starts to slip. Suddenly plagued by nightmarish visions and hallucinations, David begins to wonder just how much of what he is seeing is only his imagination. Would you even know if you were losing your mind?

When the dead won’t remain dead, their past is just as threatening as their future… The remaining Midgardians, tragically few in number, have fled the unrelenting elven war only to reenter the realm of the giants. Their physical strain is matched by the dread of what lies ahead. For Líf, this leg of their journey bears a somber weight. Too many dead have been left behind, their souls denied the proper ceremonies to help guide them to the afterlife.

War looms. Magic stirs. And a girl born of silence may become the storm no crown can command. Hidden away by ancient spells, Lirien has lived her life in shadows, unseen by the courts that dread her awakening. But when battle shatters her sanctuary and chaos spreads across enchanted soil, she's thrust into a destiny she cannot outrun. With Kaelen bleeding at the heart of war and her own magic awakening, Lirien must choose: hide as the world burns--or rise as something the crowns never foresaw.

A cursed kingdom. A princess marked for sacrifice. A fallen dragon-slayer with nothing to lose. When Princess Selene's name is drawn from the lottery drum on the night of the full moon, she doesn't run—she hunts. Teaming up with George, a legendary warrior haunted by his past, she journeys through a twisted nightmare forest to confront the ancient dragon that has feasted on her kingdom's maidens for centuries.

You can buy anything on the Internet these days. Books, electronics, and Chinese takeout are just a few clicks away. If you're after something more illicit, all you need is a special browser and some bitcoin to spend. Every drug you might want is readily available on the darknet markets. You can also hire a hitman, get a fake ID made, or have an illegal bug delivered to your door. Ben Samsa is a small-time weed dealer and amateur entomologist. He can't resist buying a mysterious bug he finds on one of the black market sites where he gets his inventory. The splurge leaves him with only enough bitcoin to purchase lower quality marijuana than he normally sells. Unfortunately, Ben doesn't realize one of his customers has been flipping his product to a murderous, one-eyed Nazi. He's soon sucked into a hellish nightmare of dread, drugs, and death.

After a Chinese biological attack leaves 90 percent of the United States infected by the zombie virus, George Hill, AKA, the Mad Ogre, springs to the defense of his country with every manner of firepower known to mankind. George and his allies beat back the zombie hordes, killing hundreds of thousands of the undead beasts in an attempt to save America from extinction.

Enter a city where death, fear, and mystery walk together hand in hand. A city in which wealth or status holds no bearing as to your survival. A city whose inhabitants are a mixture of the innocent, the guilty, and the unnatural.

Sarah Hamilton moves with her parents and her younger brother Jack to Ireland at the start of the summer holidays. The house which has been in the family for centuries is a beautiful manor attached to the turret of an ancient castle. It is set on rambling parkland near the waters of Lough Mor and a large country village with a colourful past. When her father inherits the house from an elderly aunt they move from upstate New York with dreams of opening a guest house but when the disturbing history of the house becomes apparent their dream may just become a nightmare.

Blue McKenna is dead—it isn't pretty. Her innards are strewn all over the bridge in front of Juniper Hollow, but she still can't make it to the white light. Blue's spirit is trapped in a nightmare scenario involving the Department of Motor Vehicles. Evidently, the DMV is as terrible in death as it is in life. Too bad the only one who can rescue Blue is a snarky cat named Skitters. And he hates her guts. All of them. Scottie Sphincter, lead singer of the Rectal Surgeons, can't move on, either. Why does Scottie keep getting ghosted by women like Blue?

Colonel Edward Pierce of the Confederate Army has gone rogue. He and the nearly five hundred men under his command have vanished into the West, pursuing a fabled ancient treasure and leaving only death and destruction in their wake. Tasked with killing the deserter, Jess Shepherd and his two companions will weather the unforgiving trail in pursuit, encountering bandits, bounty hunters, and true evil. A bleak tale of the callous indifference of the frontier, the unsettled West, and man.

Feeling sure he has finally cracked the secrets of man's evolution, Dr. Trenton Hallowed uses himself as a guinea pig for his new genetic mutagen. He soon finds himself upon the threshold of unbelievable power. But a vicious beast is waking within him. An increasing number of people turn up brutally murdered in the lower districts of the city as Trenton celebrates new success.