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On holiday in Venice retired schoolteacher, Gerald Weaver, accompanies his older friend Maurice Snow on a pilgrimage to the cemetery island of San Michele. Haunted by the loss of a former lover, a celebrated dancer whose untimely death lingers over their journey, Maurice decides to retreat to his hotel room while Gerald attempts to enjoy the city and seeks out the company of other hotel guests, including the youngest, a boy called Alessandro, who soon becomes an object of envy, and suspicion. Set against the evocative backdrop of the Venetian lagoon, The Visitors explore themes of grief, ...

Years have passed since Earth encountered its first known interstellar object: Oumuamua. Now an even larger one has been discovered, following the exact same trajectory as its predecessor. Scientists around the world theorize that this can no longer be passed off as mere coincidence - the new contact must be an artificial construct of some kind.

For twenty years, Nathan Hale has lived in self-imposed exile, trading the complications of the human world for the brutal simplicity of a high-altitude cabin. He has hardened his heart against his past, believing that absolute isolation is the only way to survive. But on the night of a historic blizzard, the silence of the wilderness is broken. As the snow buries the peak, Nathan is stalked by three entities that defy the laws of nature. From the ancient, skeletal warnings of a Stag-Man to the grounding, earthen presence of a massive Sasquatch, the forest has come to judge him. But as ...

Rigg’s journey comes to an epic and explosive conclusion as everything that has been building up finally comes to pass, and Rigg is forced to put his powers to the test in order to save his world and end the war once and for all.

With the smart suspense of Emma Donoghue’s Room and the atmospheric claustrophobia of Grey Gardens, this “bizarrely unsettling, yet compulsively readable” (Iain Reid, internationally bestselling author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things) thriller explores the twisted realities that can...

From the author of The Whispers comes a heartrending tale of friendship, hard-won truths, and the healing power of forgiveness. A lonely twelve-year-old boy spends his days “stuck” at the deserted Hollow Pines Plantation in Georgetown, South Carolina with no recollection of his name, how...

For the first time ever, painstaking investigation by the highly-respected French author and researcher Michel Zirger, has uncovered the truth about what really happened in the California Desert on November 20, 1952 when George Adamski and six witnesses encountered a man from a spacecraft in broad daylight. His name came to be known as “Orthon.” The photographs taken that day have been enhanced using new, standard, digital techniques that now reveal the craft, the large mothership floating above and — most intriguingly — Orthon himself. The significance of this photographic ...

The boy appeared in the Spring of 2245. It was April 1, 2245, to be exact. He was found by a couple standing in a field on their farm in Kansas. He was about eight or nine, but his age was never quite pinned down as he was only there for a short time. At first, Doris and Samuel Merritt thought the boy was lost. They tried to find where he was from, but the child refused to speak. He just stood in that field staring. Doris welcomed the boy to come out from the cold, but the child firmly stood in place. After a few minutes, dawn had finally revealed the sun, and its heat began to heat up the ...

The Samantha Leary Psychological Thrillers: Murder House, The House on Teller Hill, and The Midnight Visitors Step into the world of Samantha Leary, where control is never what it seems, and every house hides its own dark secrets. In Murder House, a young woman’s death appears simple—but Samantha knows the details are too precise, the violence too personal. The house itself holds a presence she can’t name, and following the clues drags her into a web of manipulation and deceit. The House on Teller Hill brings Samantha to a home with a hidden history of domination and cruelty. When a ...

Hannah’s life is almost perfect. She’s a mother to two young children and married to successful cardiologist Daniel. The only thing missing is a project of her own. So she pours heart and soul into converting their stone barn into a holiday rental. Things take a dark turn when Mike and Nadia come to stay. They are noisy, dirty, and disrespectful. Hannah is incensed by their behavior, worried they may wreck her barn. But she realizes that property damage is the least of her worries. Nadia and Mike aren’t here just for a holiday—they have a deeper, darker purpose.

All her life, Sally Washington has kept a dark secret: every half-century, her family is summoned by a disturbing entity known as the Visitor and forced to endure a cruel ritual. Two decades since her last encounter and contentedly married in her twilight years, Sally believed she would never experience such horrors again—until, unannounced, a new ritual begins.

Holly never thought she'd move back to her hometown, but then something terrible happened. She doesn't know if she can recover. But she knows she can never tell another soul. People say her neighbour, David, is 'different'. He doesn't go out much, and never after dark. But in David, Holly finds just what she needs: a friend. Someone who's always there. No-one knows Holly's secret or where she lives. She has left the past behind. So why does she feel as though she's in terrible danger?

From visionary creator Kenya Barris (beloved TV sitcom Black-ish and the podcast Unusual Suspects). Starring comedy legends Jenifer Lewis, Cedric the Entertainer, and Niecy Nash-Betts, Big Age follows recently retired couple Dot and Butch Watts' reluctant relocation to their new Floridian home, Sunset Gardens, a senior community that is anything but relaxing.

Acclaimed author Lori Wick has penned more than two dozen books, which regularly top Christian best-seller lists. More than three and a half million copies of her books are in print. In The Visitor, Alexander Tate temporarily loses his eyesight when thrown from his horse. Cared for by the charming Steele sisters, he grows especially fond of Cassandra, who reads to him each day. But Cassandra fears that Alexander will not love her when he regains his sight. Only by trusting God’s plan can the pair find happiness

From the internationally bestselling author of the “unique and unforgettable” (The Wall Street Journal) The Trouble with Goats and Sheep comes a funny and poignant story of a woman who encounters the ghosts of her past as she untangles the mystery of her daughter’s disappearance—a...

Forestry student Jerry Conklin is fly-fishing when something huge lands on his car, crushing it into the earth. It looks like a big black box-about fifty feet high and two hundred feet long-and the object stirs up quite a commotion among the townspeople of Lone Pine, Minnesota. One of them even shoots at it-and quickly pays for it with his life.

The Visitors, the fifth book in the 299 Days series, follows Grant Matson, the Team, and other Pierce Point residents as they adjust to a rapidly changing post-Collapse reality. When the Team is summoned to bust a meth lab and protect their neighbors, they find themselves in an intense crime scene that results in the community having to decide innocence, guilt, and punishment.

It's been a year of upheaval since Bren Cameron's return from space - a year since he and the aiji-dowager, one of his most powerful atevi allies, returned home from their two-year interstellar mission to find the government overthrown and their world in chaos. Now, at last, things on the atevi world seem to be on the right track, and Bren hopes that life may soon become much more tranquil. But something is coming, quietly, stealthily - just the first ominous twinkle of a new star in the heavens....

Cooper Williams is frustrated with her life as she leaves visiting day at the Magnolia Grove Psychiatric Hospital. She's discouraged by the lack of progress she made during the visit with her mother and angry that her younger brother, Carter, didn't show up yet again. As she leaves the visit, she drives through a snowstorm that leaves her stranded outside an abandoned farmhouse. But the farmhouse is not abandoned. It is occupied by the handsome and mysterious Xander, who offers her shelter as she waits for the storm to pass.

Extra-Dimensionality is the key to understanding everything… By everything, we mean all the areas in which we have been deceived to believe the physical world is the beginning and end of all things. “The Extra-Dimensionals” is the stark revelation of where Alien Visitors are actually coming from and to where they are returning. Understanding Extra-Dimensionality is the way to unfold the truth of the paranormal, the spiritual and even the physical world. These Visitors have been with us since time immemorial and their messages to us are everywhere around us. The truth will eventually ...