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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.

A forensic assistant is pulled into the wilderness by a beguiling fugitive accused of murder in this taut, emotionally-charged romantic thriller, as the author of the Booktok-viral survivor romance Still Beating explores how love can take root in even the darkest places. Dead bodies always tell...

Paranormal crime stories by best-selling fiction writers like Kelley Armstrong, Anne Perry, Simon R. Green, Patricia Briggs, and more. A massive, monumental volume of paranormal crime fiction by best-selling authors. Gripping tales of mayhem include both novellas and short stories like "Stalked By", by Kelley Armstrong; "The Judgment", by worldwide best-selling author Anne Perry; "Appetite for Murder", by Simon R. Green; "Road Dogs", by Norman Partridge; "The Hex Is In", by Mike Resnick; and many more.

Night lasts for days on Jannix, a planet with a synodic day of 16 standard days - 145 hours without sunlight. The sun is going down for another long night, and disgraced ex-detective Jack Tarelli has been called to the home of an enigmatic billionaire, just hours after the murder of his only son. Led on a chase deep into a city that never wakes, Jack finds himself on the trail of a killer whose motives remain unclear.

Three prominent world leaders disappear following the World Summit in Kuala Lumpur. The following day, US President John Remy is found dead in his hotel room. Meanwhile, two friends on a road trip across North America come to the aid of a mysterious woman, washed up on the banks of the Colorado River. Somehow, all these events are linked. Choosing to help her plunges them into a nightmarish race across the globe, for she holds a secret that defies all we know about human evolution. Pursued by a deadly force, they must recover a relic so ancient it's fallen into legend.

Best-selling, award-winning, author Kim Stanley Robinson continues his groundbreaking trilogy of eco-thrillers - and propels us deeper into the awesome whirlwind of climatic change. Set in our nation's capital, here is a chillingly realistic tale of people caught in the collision of science, technology, and the consequences of global warming - which could trigger another phenomenon: abrupt climate change, resulting in temperatures. BONUS AUDIO: Includes an exclusive introduction by author Kim Stanley Robinson.

Jamal Weathers is a Black FBI agent and one of the bureau’s top behavioral experts. He has followed the suspect across three states, trying to stop the assassin’s next attack. When Jamal discovers that all of the slain cops bear the names of Black victims of police shootings, it is clear that the killer is a vigilante dedicated to revenge. And in the inner cities, the killer’s sigil appears with his name “Kifo”, the Swahili word for death.

Wenn die Zeit zerbricht, herrscht das Chaos. Im American Museum of Natural History in New York City steht der Paläontologe Noah Clark kurz davor, seine größte Entdeckung zu präsentieren. Doch am Tag der geplanten Enthüllung erschüttert ein kosmisches Ereignis die Realität. Die Trümmer...

When a mysterious blast goes off in a small college town, triggering a blizzard, college Professor Dominic and the few remaining survivors must decide whether to stay or leave and face the monsters who came with the snow. 

The walls of Brightside no longer contain the danger, and freedom forces the surviving telepaths into a conflict far larger than the prison town they escaped. Escape was supposed to mean freedom. Instead it's a death sentence. The survivors of Brightside have made it past the boundaries of the telepath prison town, but the outside world has been taught to fear them, and the people who built Brightside won't let them simply disappear.

It's been five years since Paul Connert's fiancée died of a drug overdose and he's never forgiven himself for not trying harder to help. Now he plans to atone. He seeks a woman who reminds him of his lost love and fantasizes about getting her into rehab, even if by force. But then he meets the feisty, alcoholic, Vika Koslava, a beautiful Russian model who was sent on an erotic website assignment to Santa Barbara with her heroin-addicted sister. When her sister goes missing, Vika is left homeless.

Sea Gold is the third book in the Rick Brant Science Adventure series, where young adult Rick Brant and his ex-Marine pal, Don Scott, live on Spindrift Island off the coast of New Jersey, where Rick's father, Hartson Brant, heads the scientists of the Spindrift Foundation.

A Living Relic. A Tropical Prison. A Fight for the Top of the Food Chain. Butcher thought he’d struck it rich when he pulled a set of colossal, perfectly preserved eggs from the prehistoric mud of a Madagascar swamp - specimens from the extinct Aepyornis, a bird that dwarfed the tallest man...

"Before there were robots, there was the Dynamo - and it was hungry." In the heart of a Victorian electric shed, amidst a deafening roar of iron and steam, sits the Big Dynamo. To the cruel engineer Holroyd, it is just a powerful tool of the modern world. But to his mistreated assistant...

Osiris was no longer a simple virus. It had developed a form a shape, though still not human. It was a mass of black tendrils, twisting and writhing like a living thing, and yet it had no true form.

A faction of fringe military scientists develop a new formula NXY-314 to make an ordinary soldier into a superhuman, killing machine What can go wrong? NXY-314 has mutated into a virus, and it is spreading from one person to another. The end result: the infected changes into strange creatures that are both intelligent and fierce fighters.