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From New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant comes the second book in the terrifying Parasitology series. The SymboGen-designed tapeworms were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the majority of the world's population began attacking their hosts, turning...

THE #1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER FROM THE ICONIC AUTHOR OF THE DA VINCI CODE AND THE NEW ROBERT LANGDON THRILLER, THE SECRET OF SECRETS “Impossible to put down.” —The New York Times “Thrilling and entertaining, like the experience on a roller coaster.” —Los Angeles Times Famed Harvard...

James Sutton was an average guy—he couldn’t afford college and didn’t really know what he wanted to do with his life. But when his sister Holly goes missing, he finds out he’s been living in a fantasy: An alien really did land in Roswell and the US has had a secret alliance with them ever since. They are symbiotes—capable of bonding with hosts, enhancing their strength, agility, and stamina. Now mankind finds itself in the middle of an alien civil war between two symbiote factions—those who would be our allies…and those who would subjugate us into slavery.

Mace is back in the third deadly installment of Immersion online, and he is hot on the trail of a serial killer who is stalking his victims in the city of Grandview. Soon, identical murders take place in his hometown. Is there a copycat killer, or are the killers one in the same? Mace and his counterpart in the real world, Detective Donna Driver, search both on and offline for clues that will lead them to the serial killer. Will they be on time to stop him before he strikes again? Will Mace pay the ultimate price?

Ascending should have been the easy part. But after being thrown into the void, Thorn finds himself stranded in a strange world filled with even stranger creatures. Together with his cute battle pet, the mysterious god beast Hati, and a sentient AI named Eve, Thorn must forge a place for himself in this new world. Unfortunately, the local guilds all have other ideas, and soon the Titan finds himself embroiled in plots that even his famed strength cannot help him with.

"Superb ... a perfect horror for our imperfect age.” – The New York Times AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER They were never girls, they were witches . . . . They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood House in St...

As World War III rages, the scientists in Antarctica are thankful for the isolation—until a group of Chinese scientists arrive at the American research base. In their truck is a dead body, the first murder in Antarctica. The potential for a geopolitical firestorm is great, and, with no clear jurisdiction, the Americans don’t know what to do. But they soon realize the Chinese scientists have brought far more with them than the body…

They escaped the jungle. They didn't escape the corporation. Leo thought the hard part was over. Now he's locked in a glass cell, and the corporation that kidnapped him isn't asking questions — it's running tests. Aethon Industries doesn't build weapons — they take them apart to learn how they work. And Leo, Eva, the four women he dragged out of the jungle, and the alien thing coiled inside all of them just became the most valuable stolen assets in corporate space. Voss runs the facility. Chrome arm. Dead eyes. The examinations are clinical. The experiments are worse. The scientists run...

Dev Cameron helped the rebel Confederation defeat the Hegemony forces at Herakles, but his experience merging with an alien Naga consciousness has changed him irrevocably, and the rebellion rages on. After the passive DalRiss unexpectedly attack the Hegemony, Dev and Katya Alessandro are sent to meet with the aliens to determine if they have a common enemy.

Resonance. It's a given on the ice planet, forced upon you by the parasitic symbiont called the "khui". With resonance, a guy and a girl are paired up because they'll make great babies. It's a survival mechanism necessary for this sparsely populated world we're stranded on. Everyone expects resonance to happen when 20 newcomers are dropped onto the frosty world. I doubt anyone expects the gorgeous golden god named Ashtar to resonate to someone like me, though. But resonance seems to think we'd be great together. And Ashtar does, too.

"I remember who I was. And who I stopped being. But if anyone calls me scrap again - I’ll show them how gods take out the trash." "Neurofall: The Sworn Brothers" is a ruthless military sci-fi survival thriller where war rewires the mind - and staying alive demands more than flesh. It demands evolution. John Sol wasn’t meant to survive. Once a special forces soldier. Now just another broken veteran. Brain damaged. Discarded. Forgotten by the system. When a shady offer pulls him into a PMC mission hunting rebels in Eastern Europe, the operation goes south - and the squad is taken captive....

Jonathan Pageau looks at symbolism in all its forms, from its source in sacred stories and images to contemporary culture and ultimately how it shapes the world we encounter.

Ein leichter Wind strich über die Graslandschaft und verwandelte sie in ein wogendes Meer aus Grün; ein Anblick voller Frieden und Harmonie. Aber das war nicht immer so. Dem geologisch geschulten Auge entgingen nicht die Spuren der Vergangenheit: Damals, als der Planet durch die Wucht der Supernova-Explosion auseinander zu brechen drohte, war er nur um Haaresbreite seiner Vernichtung entgangen.

Seth is a surveyor, along with his friend Theo, a leech-like creature running through his skull who tells Seth what lies to his left and right.

In the universe containing Seth's world, light cannot travel in all directions: there is a "dark cone" to the north and south. Seth can only face to the east (or the west, if he tips his head backwards). Every living thing in Seth's world is in a state of perpetual migration as they follow the sun's shifting orbit and the narrow habitable zone it creates.

One hundred years after Dr. Irwin C. Jacobs begins his epic quest to develop a truly cognitive neural array, "artificial sentients" live amongst us and are sold in retail stores. With the establishment of a new slavery comes a new abolitionist movement and a new underground railroad - run by people determined to protect these new slaves from the worst abuses of their human owners.

Kelsoe Shaheera Smith is a seventeen year old pirate, and a damned good one. Her rebellious nature has gotten her into trouble more than once, and this time it’s no different; although the stakes are much higher now as she stumbles on a threat to every man woman and child in the entire galaxy. She can act the role of Primus, the head of the Smith clan, or she can rebel and attempt to save not only the Smith clan, but the very Empire that has put a stupendous bounty on her head. Her headlong rush leads her to another galaxy, with new problems, new questions regarding what she might be ...

A mysterious cylinder lands in the Pacific Ocean near Zuma Beach and Malibu, California. Its contents are part of an insidious plot to depopulate the Earth in preparation for an alien invasion. Will the aliens succeed? Or will the team at Area 51 stop them? Read the latest Sci-fi thriller from Barwell Hollings

Tiana and her partners on La Valishniña sail to Europe during a war with the Barbary Coast pirates.

At least they're primates. That was Commander Riniana Tiana's first thought when she saw the primitive - but sentient - humans of Earth. She should be able to fit in...After all, her own species is primatal too. And she'd only come here to save them from invasion...But humans don't have tails. And most of them seem extremely jealous of hers! Using the curious custom of clothing, Tiana hides her tail, passes for human and pursues the alien invaders in a desperate struggle to save an ungrateful planet.

No one on Earth knows the seeds of the world’s destruction just fell from space. Tiana knows what duty means though. It's why all her friends are dead. Alone on a primitive world. All her all her technology at the bottom of the ocean. Outnumbered by deadly enemies only she can bring to justice. If she fails her mission now, another sentient species will fall. And the Tyrant Empire will rise again - because Earth has just been infected with a fatal parasite.