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Welcome to Richland, Ohio. Things aren't great. The town’s biggest employer is closing shop, and Richland's on the brink. It's where Mike Boyd, with his own set of problems, finds himself returning to after decades away. He's not planning to stay. But Richland has other plans for Mike, his old friend Dave, and a newcomer Andi. They're caught in a swirl of local troubles, private equity, executive theft… and something extremely weird involving Jeremy Keller’s prize cow.

The story of a teenage girl who's turning into a monster—literally. Chloe Dark is an ordinary girl in an extraordinary world. But when her closest friend is kidnapped and the police seem powerless to help, she sets out to find her alone. But things are not what they seem and in this dystopian world, anyone can be a target.

Doug has a normal, quiet life: he has a decent job, eats a lot of tacos, and plays video games with his best bud Ray. But it all goes out of control when Ray brings over a chemical he stole from his job, with the ability to turn animals into amazing human-animal hybrids and people into super soldiers.

Tony Platz had the respect of his peers, a career on the fast track, and the body of an Olympian. There was only one problem: It was an open secret he carried a torch for his already-married partner. When a raid put her in the hospital and finally exposed her husband's ongoing infidelity, Tony got shipped out to Oolytau. Tayra Manes worked hard, graduated the academy, and became the first of her kind to join the Non-Human Investigative Corps. There was only one problem: She was a griffin, and not everyone approved of her being allowed to serve in the previously all-human NHIC.

Before the Age of Monsters, there was Monster Island. Top-secret habitat for genetically-resurrected dinosaurs. But something has gone terribly wrong. Somehow, the beasts have escaped – first there were scattered sightings worldwide – then people went missing. But now a pleasure-cruise shipwrecked on a tropical beach has discovered an entire savage prehistoric jungle.

Cyril woke up in a hospital bed with a ruined body and no memory of how it happened. His only chance at a normal life was agreeing to a splicer's experiment with a twisted condition: he was forbidden to learn the circumstances surrounding his injuries. Rose saved a life and wound up exiled from her gang, friendless and broke in Oolytau. Given an out by a notorious mob boss, she found herself in the Tracts working with a man who might be everything she never knew she needed.

Five strangers drawn together at a roadside bar on the outskirts of Las Vegas. One rampaging monster, escaped from a secret facility, absorbing victims and accumulating biomass as it moves north from Arizona. The miles between them rapidly dwindling. No, this is not the world’s best math problem, it’s Exponential. The rollicking, brutal, gory, and strangely poignant horror novel from Adam Cesare. Criminals and screw-ups need to face down science run amok in this literary tribute to films like Tremors and The Blob.

Stepping up the horror considerably from previous installments in the Krakenstein saga, this fifth tale, and the second in the The Next Regeneration trilogy, sees the return of first trilogy heroes Jeremiah Savage, Key Sharlayne, and even Key's brilliant scientist half-sister, Dr. Deanna Sharlayne, who have just been evicted from the ancient facility that is Emerald Island by its hardly cordial creators.

Former tech leader Liam Murphy is adjusting to a simpler life on his farm, purposely distancing himself from the cutting-edge world of technology he once championed. Amidst the activities of tending to his crops and livestock, Liam fights to push aside the painful memories of the tragic accident that took his wife's life five years ago, involving one of his former company's self-driving cars. However, when a malicious attack from artificial intelligence poses a threat to the world's food supply, Liam unexpectedly finds himself in a position to save humanity from the very technology he created.

Kyle has built his life around the creatures most people fear—But inside the shadowy lab where he works, admiration has twisted into obsession, and the boundaries between research and containment are starting to crack. When a breach unleashes something more dangerous than even Kyle imagined, he finds himself torn between loyalty to his creations and the safety of the only person who has ever seen past his walls—Kim, a fellow researcher suddenly caught in the crossfire.

In a near future where monsters and humans coexist, Hieronymus "Jer" Bennington isn’t your run-of-the-mill psychiatrist. Despite losing his parents to a monster attack, Jer doesn’t judge people by the clothes they wear or the horns on their head. Instead, he runs a controversial clinic where he offers therapy to beastniks, but when his best friend’s suspicious death implicates him for murder, he hunts for the truth in a sexy-dangerous underworld filled with mythical creatures.

Letty Stark is not your typical heroine. At first glance, she appears to be a composed and successful individual, navigating the corridors of her professional life with precision and control. Yet, beneath this facade lies a tumultuous inner world marked by psychopathic tendencies and Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), a condition where multiple distinct identities coexist within a single individual. Each of Letty's personas is a testament to her fractured psyche, each vying for control, each a guardian of different aspects of her personality and memories.

Return to Planet Alpha, where it all began. Save the lost cremates and survive the beasts birthed from madness. With the station secure for now, Operation A-Team is a go! Assistant Engineer Sky and her fellow crew must journey back to the planet they originally crashed on to rescue those they...

In 2043, Pamela just wants to stop feeling like shit. Enter U++, a new black-market gene therapy, that fills her with promises of a genetically enhanced 'best self.' The horrifying discovery? Pam's biology has very different ideas about what constitutes self improvement... As the grotesque transformation accelerates, her desperate husband Mark sees opportunity: why not document his wife's metamorphosis as an unscripted show? With their finances crashing, a new baby to support, and the future-Texas heat literally killing people, exploiting Pam's condition might be their only path to survival.

In a secret base hidden deep within Russia's frigid expanse, the boundaries of science and ambition blur as the Cold War simmers in the backdrop. Driven by geopolitical rivalry and a quest for power, the brilliant Dr. Fyodor Molozov and his enigmatic partner, Dr. Ekaterina Markov, lead a covert sci-fi military project that delves into the uncharted territories of genetic engineering. Their groundbreaking work results in the creation of a team of extraordinary shapeshifters, more monster than man, designed to be Russia's ultimate assets on the battlefield.