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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.

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.

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...

In 1969 ten-year-old Hunter Brodie found a manuscript in an abandoned church attic in Independent Hill, Virginia. Decades later, divorced, in debt, unemployed and near suicide, Brodie decides to publish the book as his own not realizing that the manuscript he found was written by a desperate research scientist at Area 51. It was a decision he would deeply regret when Brodie discovers the horror behind the old Air Force radar station near his childhood home in Virginia and the truth behind his father's terrifying "ghost stories".

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.

From his death bed, Jerry for the first time narrates an amazing incident from his youth in 1951. He claims to have communicated with and befriended gargoyles. The crazy ramblings of an old man or a moral man putting to rest his lifelong secret with his last breaths, you decide. Dr. Paul is a mental health therapist who specializes with patients who claim to have had extreme paranormal experiences. Some of his patients have allowed Dr. Paul to edit and publish their experiences. The series may be read in any order.

Project Chimera by Cassian Eldreth In a world of perfect order, one man is the glitch.Johnathan Abernathy is the ideal CIA analyst — meticulous, emotionless, and utterly predictable. His life is a carefully engineered machine of routines, data, and control. Until the day he discovers something impossible in his own genetic code: the XF-7 marker. He is not entirely human.What begins as a routine investigation into a shadowy operative quickly unravels into a nightmare of buried memories, erased records, and a classified program called Project Chimera — a decades-long experiment to fuse ...

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 ...

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.

Skotiná, Pieria. A sunless, deserted village hidden in the shadow of Mount Olympus—its history teeming with legends, ghosts, apparitions, hauntings, and primal fears. Its residents fled in the mid-1960s, collectively and in haste, in search of light and peace for their tormented souls. A wealthy family—now the only remaining inhabitants—resides in an old stone mansion, where horrifying and unspoken secrets lurk, along with a strange, enigmatic girl, forgotten and imprisoned in its filthy underground chambers. A deranged killer is decapitating his victims across the Pierian ...

Tarn and Beck attempt to reunite in the remote town of Baxton where a werewolf has been spotted. Rumors of a shapeshifting chimera also spread. With such monsters hiding among the townspeople, can anyone be trusted? Or will Tarn and Beck permanently split? Meanwhile, Cedric hunts for a cure to a curse as fairies and vampires battle. Zombies pursue Nutmeg, Eric, and Cecily to the tune of ‘Largo al factotum’, aka 'Figaro'.

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?

Faced with the terror-inspiring might of the reawakened Reezh Kazh, the Church of the Nine that once ruled hundreds of stars, the people of the Dual Republics of Chimera have asked Mars and humanity for protection. For now, the Protectorate is united behind their Mage-Queen. Ambassador Connor O'Hannagain and Mage-Captain Roslyn Chambers are charged to do everything they can—but the reality is grim.

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.

The fabulous Chimera - mythic monster, part lion, part goat, part serpent - is more that just an Etruscan bronze discovered by archaeologist David Hewison. It lurks in the background of this novel as a symbol of the man himself: part Italian, part English, an explorer of the past who is haunted by his own past when he parachuted into wartime Italy as an SOE agent.  

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...

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.

A virus unlike any other. A secret buried for decades. A truth that could shatter humanity. In the wake of a devastating pandemic, Dr. Alistair Reed, a brilliant but haunted virologist, faces a new and terrifying threat. A series of bizarre outbreaks, marked by horrific symptoms and an inexplicable genetic link, sweep across the globe. The infected patients share a secret, a genetic anomaly that links them to a forgotten town and a decades-old conspiracy. The virus has rapid mutation and high transmissibility. It can infect anyone now. Driven by a desperate need to understand the disease, ...

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 ...