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Cade Clarke spends his last night on Earth drinking with an old Army buddy. When he decides to risk his life to defend a gorgeous bartender, he pays the ultimate price. Resurrected to Antinium, Cade finds himself thrown into a world where the very rules of reality have shifted. He chooses a unique class, customizes his soul weapon, and levels up to unlock vital skills, traits, and attribute points in order to survive.

When the Air National Guard receives an emergency call for help from a remote Arctic research station in Greenland, Senior Master Sergeant Dan Cameron is chosen to lead the rescue mission. In an attempt to combat climate change, the scientists have genetically engineered an aquatic biofilm capable of generating oxygen and lowering the temperature of the underlying seawater, producing environmental conditions that awaken an organism that has lain dormant beneath the ocean floor for millions of years.

As if nearly burning up in a freak accident on her way to Earth wasn't bad enough, Daisy had a whole mess of other trouble on her plate. Big trouble. And she was going to get to the bottom of it if it was the last thing she'd do, which it was starting to look like it very well might be. The thing is, Daisy had a simple rule for space travel. Don't blow up, and so far she'd been managing to abide by that, but mere survival wasn't enough.

From New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant comes the final book in the terrifying Parasitology series. The outbreak has spread, tearing apart the foundations of society, as implanted tapeworms have turned their human hosts into a seemingly mindless mob. Sal and her family are trapped...

Feed is an electrifying and critically acclaimed novel of a world a half-step from our own that the New York Times calls “Astonishing” — a novel of zombies, geeks, politics, social media, and the virus that runs through them all — from New York Times bestseller Mira Grant. The year was...

In Chimera, John Barth injects his signature wit into the tales of Scheherezade of the Thousand and One Nights; Perseus, the slayer of Medusa; and Bellerophon, who tamed the winged horse Pegasus. In a book that the Washington Post called "stylishly maned, tragically songful, and serpentinely elegant", Barth retells these tales from varying perspectives, examining the myths' relationship to reality and their resonance with the contemporary world.

Seventeen altered humans. Abilities no human should have. One team that takes the jobs nobody else can survive. Thomas can access and use the abilities of anyone on his team. Eve is the only one who can merge her mind with electronics, erasing cameras, cracking locks, and frying tracking chips from the inside. Skip dampens or amplifies supernatural ability on command. Matteo reshapes solid ground. Lizzie cloaks vehicles, people, and sound itself. Noah and Mia walk into other people’s dreams. Pearl and Ahmed can wear another person’s face, voice, and fingerprints well enough to walk ...

Some people get the glory. Some people get the mop. Koji Tanaka has spent eight years cleaning up the guts off the concrete left behind by Osaka’s elite monster hunters. He knows the rifts better than the heroes do. He also knows exactly how easily a person can die down there in the dark. The system has a sick sense of humor. When a routine cleanup goes wrong, the universe assigns Koji a new job title. He has to figure it out fast, things are already hunting him.

What happens when science goes too far? Chimera Secrets feature five stories about genetically altered humans who find love. A Nurse for a Wolfman: Only love can tame the beast. Guarding the Mermaid: Love is even more slippery than this mermaid when wet. The Lionman Kidnapping: It’s not just his mane that’s impressive. A Chimera’s Revenge: A mad scientist. An even madder patient. A fiery kind of love. Capturing a Unicorn: Will he betray or save the world’s only unicorn?

When a terrorist group detonates a small nuclear device at a level four biohazard facility, it releases the infection vectors stored within and creates a contagion that devastates the planet. Entire species are wiped out, while those that survive are genetically transformed into prehistoric mutations of their former self. Secret Service agent Alex Durham is assigned to protect the president. As the dangers of the expanding nuclear fallout become apparent, he accompanies the country’s leadership as they seek shelter from the impending contagion.

When a woman dies in agony—her veins filled with a crystalline substance that defies medical explanation—it becomes the first sign of an unstoppable catastrophe. Dr. Michael Bond has seen death in all its forms. As a combat physician, he thought nothing could shock him anymore—until he examines the impossible: human DNA being systematically rewritten from within. Now Bond and his elite team—brilliant pathologist Dr. Clarice Washington and epidemiologist Dr. Nathan Shaw—are in a desperate race against an adversary who has weaponized evolution itself. A modified prion disease is ...

16-year-old Kaito Nakamura stumbles upon a horrifying truth: he may not be fully human. As his body begins changing, so do those around him—people unknowingly consuming genetically altered food, becoming something...different.

Amelia has been running a resistance clinic in a cave system for nine years on black-market suppressants and stubbornness. She's a nurse. She hasn't needed an alpha yet and isn't planning to start. Then her truck goes off a mountain road in chimera territory, her last suppressant shatters, and rebound heat starts counting down the hours until it kills her. Vex finds her stitching her own leg wound on his cave floor. Eight hundred pounds of tawny skin, feathered wings, three centuries of chosen solitude. He claims her because she's dying and he's the only alpha on the mountain. His body does...

Afghanistan veteran Jim Chapel has been enlisted in a new war. This time it's in his own backyard . . . and even more deadly. A small band of fugitives escapes from a secret upstate New York military facility, leaving a trail of bodies in its wake. Each fugitive has a target—an innocent...

The forest is full of secrets. And who knows them better than Nessa Kurland, a 16-year-old cross-country star with a secret of her own: She can transform at will into a werewolf, and her power grows stronger with every moon. Nessa returns home from a run with her pack to find an FBI raid and the shocking news that her mother, Vivian, is being arrested for violations so serious she may be facing life in prison. What did Nessa's mother, a small-town vet tech, do to threaten Homeland Security?

He needs her, and if she won’t come willingly, well then he will have to take her… Maddie Hunter, a gifted Witch Hare, spends her days in dull research. But her safe, comfortable world is shattered when a mysterious stranger kidnaps her and carries her far into the desert. There her captor demands she fix an unsolvable problem – and refuses to release her until she does. Griffin Davis doesn’t give a damn about Maddie. Haunted by his past, he hides a deadly secret – one that will turn the entire Shifter community against him if it’s revealed. To him, the Witch Hare is just a tool...

Deep in the Appalachians a coal mining company's slurry pond collapses sending billions of gallons barreling down the mountain gathering everything in its path as the avalanche of toxic waste crashes through a secret government research facility before destroying Black Bear Creek. The disaster releases the research experiment the government was creating--a new life form is unleashed on an unsuspecting world. Survivors struggle against the disaster and unknown enemies lie in wait to terminate any leaks to the outside world. Government cover ups, corporate sabotage, and the cataclysmic ...

My name used to be Victorian. I was the legendary Chimera Master who devoted his life to his calling. I never liked how people pursued those different from themselves. I changed that . . . My chimeras didn't allow themselves to be pushed around, the way I was later on. Now I'm Victor, the owner...

I've been separated from Atlan, and there's definitely something creepy and deadly going on in this bunker. This isn't the rescue mission we were told it was. No, this is a trap, and we've been lured here on purpose by a beautiful, monstrous man. I'm not sure why he wants Atlan and me, but I need to find out, because this new enemy just might be more dangerous than the zombie hordes racing across the plains. But what if the bunker also holds humanity's best hope for survival?

If you witnessed your parents killed at age five for reasons unknown only to endure eight years of isolation in captivity, what would you do with your life when you were suddenly rescued by family you never knew you had? What if you yourself were even more than you seemed? The universe can be both a terrible and wonderful place to live if you have the courage to explore it. Enter an alternate reality of civil war, secrets, murders and betrayals that transcends space and time with CHIMERA, Book One of the Weaver Series.