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A revelatory new history of the Irish Great Famine, showing how the British Empire caused Ireland’s most infamous disaster In 1845, European potato fields from Spain to Scandinavia were attacked by a novel pathogen. But it was only in Ireland, then part of the United Kingdom, that the...

Fifteen-year-old Benny Imura lives in a world infested with zombies where, when a kid turns 15, he must get a job to continue receiving food rations. Benny has no interest in the family business of zombie killing, but figures he doesn’t have much of a choice. He’s tried out a bunch of other jobs, and hasn’t found anything he likes. But as Benny starts training with his brother, he learns things about being human that he never expected.

Nine children travel with their families to their Grandfather's vacation property, where strange things begin to happen: eyes blink from the bottom up, mushrooms ooze blood, people's faces don't hang right anymore—except they do, once you look more closely. Transformations warp the children's sense of time and place, the very land itself seeming to encroach upon them.

Hirka is stranded in a rotting world, with nothing but a raven and a notebook to connect her to the life she left behind in Ym. She came in search of her family, believing that she could protect Rime and the rest of Ym from the ancient evil of the blind. Instead, what Hirka finds in this new world are people willing to do anything for the blessing—or the curse—of eternal life. And for Rime, the threat of the blind is only growing stronger… Separated by worlds, unsure who to trust, and in danger from all sides, Hirka and Rime fight to end a thousand-year quest for power and revenge.

Cast aside since birth and denied my true heritage, they know me as the bastard prince. For years I played their game, doing allI could to assist my half-brothers shuffle refugees from the castle, while keeping them and the dying Nobles safe in the old mine tunnels. The Prince of Rats, one girl called me.

Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, she finds her strange home coming to life in unimaginable ways. Jo's sensitivity and all her senses become increasingly heightened and fraught, as the lines between bodies and plants, dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh.

“A masterwork…mesmerizing…We come away troubled, unsettled — and in some subtle way changed.”–The New York Times "The perfect steamy read for those hot summer nights." –People A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning, visionary Akwaeke Emezi One weekend. The elite...

Kyle Brubaker, a carefree California surfer, finds little to celebrate in a small Wisconsin town until he meets beautiful and spirited Marianne Avery. But their budding romance is snuffed when they are brutally attacked by three hoodlum brothers. With his life unraveling around him, Kyle accepts an offer of help from a mysterious carnival fortune-teller. Soon after that, things really go to hell....

A teen girl looking for the truth about her missing mother forms a reluctant alliance with her former best friend...in exchange for hiding him from his cult-leading family. “All hail the new queen of YA horrormance! Arndt’s unputdownable debut crackles with wit and seethes with terrors just...

ROT BENEATH THE BLOSSOMS — HISTORY THAT BLEEDS, NOT BOWS This isn’t your grandmother’s cherry-blossom scrapbook. It’s a war drum. A blade. A book thick enough to bruise, and sharp enough to cut. Myths don’t die gently—they get dissected. I’m here for that. You should be too. I wrote a foreword so long it could legally qualify as Part I. I refuse to shorten it. It’s my polite throat-clearing before I start flaying national myths like they owe me money. After that, you’ll find essays—more like battlefield autopsies—on Aizu loyalty, 47 Rōnin propaganda, Nakano Takeko’s...

Something sinister’s afoot in Windy Ridge... When my mole-rat boss (and I do mean that literal like) goes missing, I’m pretty sure something wicked this way already came. Because Dorcas isn’t the type to miss a shift at the diner, let alone missing three danged days! So, when Sheriff Dean and I go looking for her, and we find her trailer all topsy-turvy, the writing is pretty much on the wall. Dorcas has been mole-rat napped! Not only that, but the singular clue left in the pile that used to be her trailer is a stone arm—one that’s as animated as Dr. Frankenstein’s creature. ...

There are stories that burrow. Inside this volume lie twenty grotesque tales of body horror, cosmic dread, and splatterpunk depravity. From hollow-eyed dolls that stitch children into the walls, to corridors that breathe and birth spider gods, to astronauts rewritten by cosmic hunger—each story drags you deeper into decay. Featured in this collection: • The Rag Girl – A malformed doll-child stalks abandoned homes, sewing her victims into wallpaper or peeling them into new playmates. • The Eighth Corridor – A hallway that stretches into unreality, where spider-human hybrids prepare...

I punish lies and deceit, an eternal damnation of agony and pain. Yet, when it is my wife whose deception plagues me, I know what I must do. Shackle her soul to the lying, cold corpse that she is, ensuring that she never escapes me. My wrath, my torture, my pain, and my pleasure. I am the King of Flesh and Bone. Every part of her I possess and own. She is mine, death shall never do us part. Welcome home, my queen.

Long after the zombie apocalypse wiped out most of the human race, a young man named Noah resides in a remote mountain cabin. Several years have passed since he last saw another human being. The long period of isolation and loneliness has fostered a deep despair in Noah. But Noah is a man who was struggling even before the end of the world, a seemingly helpless slave to his addictions. When the vindictive sister he has long believed dead unexpectedly returns, events transpire that prompt him to leave his mountain refuge and embark on a cross-country trek to find the lost love of his life.

Reeling from the devastation of Dust & Decay, Benny Imura and his friends plunge deep into the zombie-infested wastelands of the great Rot & Ruin. Benny, Nix, Lilah, and Chong journey through a fierce wilderness that was once America, searching for the jet they saw in the skies months ago. If that jet exists, then humanity itself must have survived somewhere.

In a dark and fractured medieval England, a mysterious plague transforms the dead into ravenous undead hordes. As cities crumble and faith is tested, a group of unlikely heroes must navigate a world of superstition, betrayal, and survival. With swords drawn and hearts hardened, they fight not only for their lives but for the very soul of a dying world.

Rot is a mutant potato. Like most mutant potatoes, Rot loves all sorts of games and contests. So when he sees a sign for the “Cutest in the World Contest,” he can’t wait to enter. But when Rot realizes who he’s up against - an itty-bitty baby bunny, a little-wittle cuddly kitten, and an eenie-weenie jolly jellyfish - he loses confidence. Will the judges find room in their hearts for an adorable mutant potato?

Anascha ist ein wunderschönes rotes Kleid aus feiner Seide. Sie hängt an einem Filmset in der Garderobe und wartet voller Spannung auf ihren Auftritt. Sie ist froh, dass sie in guter Gesellschaft ist: Da gibt es Eric, den alten Mantel, der bald ihr engster Vertrauter wird, ein liebenswertes Nachthemdchen, das immer vom Bügel stürzt, oder Lulu, das charmante Revuekleid aus Las Vegas. Nur gut, dass sie alle zusammenhalten, denn es steht ihnen so manches Abenteuer bevor.

Congresswoman Elise Stefanik reveals how America’s elite universities, once proud symbols of academic excellence, have become centers of far-left indoctrination, division, and moral rot in this riveting, behind-the-scenes inside account. Drawing on her experience as the highest-ranking woman...

✨📖 SCOPRI IL LIBRO CHE NON SAPEVI DI STARE ASPETTANDO. Una discesa vertiginosa nei meandri più iconici, surreali e virali della mente umana contemporanea: "ENCICLOPEDIA DEL BRAIN ROT – I PERSONAGGI CHE TI HANNO GIÀ COLPITO (ANCHE SE NON LO SAI)" 🧠 COS’È IL BRAIN ROT? È quel pensiero che non riesci a toglierti dalla testa. È l’immagine assurda che ti fa ridere da solo alle 3 di notte. È il meme che non ha senso… ma ha più verità di una lezione di filosofia. 💥 COSA TROVERAI IN QUESTO LIBRO? Un’opera monumentale, frutto di un’intensa analisi, studio e devozione ...