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Deadline
by Mira Grant
A medical thriller about a virus outbreak and its impact on the world.
Shaun Mason is a man without a mission. Not even running the news organization he built with his sister has the same urgency as it used to. Playing with dead things just doesn't seem as fun when ... (Goodreads)
Feed
by Mira Grant
A future world where information is controlled by corporations, and a group of journalists fight to uncover the truth.
Feed is set several decades after the zombie apocalypse , referred to as the Rising. Two man-made viruses (a cure for cancer and a cure for the common cold) combined to form Kellis-Amberlee, a virus ... (Wikipedia)
Parasite
by Mira Grant
In a world where genetically engineered tapeworms are used to cure diseases, a group of rebels uncovers a sinister conspiracy.
A decade in the future, humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease. We owe our good health to a humble parasite - a genetically engineered tapeworm developed by the pioneering SymboGen ... (Goodreads)
One Salt Sea
by Seanan McGuire
Urban fantasy novel about a faerie princess who must confront her enemies to save her kingdom.
October "Toby" Daye is finally doing all right—and that inevitably means it's time for things to take a turn for the worse. Someone has kidnapped the sons of the Duchess Dianda Lorden, regent of the ... (Goodreads)
An Artificial Night
by Seanan McGuire
October Daye, a changeling knight, must rescue kidnapped children from the realm of the fae.
Changeling knight in the court of the Duke of Shadowed Hills, October "Toby" Daye has survived numerous challenges that would destroy fae and mortal alike. Now Toby must take on a nightmarish new ... (Goodreads)
Late Eclipses
by Seanan McGuire
Half-fairy detective Toby Daye must solve a murder mystery while navigating political intrigue and personal turmoil in the faerie world.
October "Toby" Daye, changeling knight in the service of Duke Sylvester Torquill, finds the delicate balance of her life shattered when she learns that an old friend is in dire trouble. Lily, Lady of ... (Goodreads)
Hex
by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
A cursed town where a witch roams freely, terrorizing its inhabitants. The curse is passed down through generations.
“This is totally, brilliantly original.” —Stephen King, “HEX is creepy and gripping and original, sure to be one of the top horror novels of 2016.” —George R.R. Martin The English language debut of ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Obelisk Gate
by N.K. Jemisin
A magical journey of survival, facing cosmic forces that threaten the universe.
The story is told primarily from the perspectives of Essun, a powerful orogene driven out of her home at the beginning of the first book, and Nassun, her adolescent daughter. Schaffa, Essun's former ... (Wikipedia)
Guilty Pleasures
by Laurell K. Hamilton
A vampire detective's investigation into a series of mysterious murders in the supernatural underworld.
In Guilty Pleasures , Anita Blake is blackmailed by Nikolaos , the vampire master of the city, into investigating a series of vampire murders. During the course of this investigation, Anita begins ... (Wikipedia)
Neverworld Wake
by Marisha Pessl
A group of friends stuck in a time loop must solve the mystery of their friend's death to escape.
Once upon a time, back at Darrow-Harker School, Beatrice Hartley and her five best friends were the cool kids, the beautiful ones. Then the shocking death of Jim - their creative genius and ... (Goodreads)
Embassytown
by China Miéville
Exploring a distant alien city and unraveling its mysteries.
Embassytown takes place mostly in the city of the title, on the planet Arieka. Embassytown exists on the very edge of the "Manchmal" (from the German for "sometimes"), which is suspected to be the ... (Wikipedia)
The Call
by Peadar Ó Guilín
Nessa must survive the brutal fairyland hunt to save humanity from being decimated by the Sidhe.
Imagine a world where you might disappear any minute, only to find yourself alone in a grey sickly land, with more horrors in it than you would ever wish to know about. And then you hear a horn and ... (Goodreads)
Gwendy's Button Box
by Stephen King
A young girl is presented with a mysterious box that has the power to grant wishes and alter the course of reality.
The story takes place in King's fictional town of Castle Rock in 1974. Twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson encounters a stranger in dark clothes and a black hat who invites her to "palaver". "I had a ... (Wikipedia)
Lumberjanes, Vol. 3: A Terrible Plan
by Noelle Stevenson
Five friends embark on an epic adventure in search of a missing friend, facing supernatural threats.
If you got it, haunt it! Trying to take advantage of the first quiet day at camp in a while, Mal and Molly's date takes a bizarre turn with the appearance of the bear woman! Back at camp, Jo, April, ... (Barnes & Noble)
Fall on Your Knees
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
A multi-generational saga of secrets, tragedy, and resilience in a family of sisters.
At the start of the 20th century, James Piper sets fire to his dead mother’s piano and heads out across Cape Breton Island to find a new place to live. Working as a piano tuner, he meets and ... (Wikipedia)
Bird Box
by Josh Malerman
A family's fight for survival in a post-apocalyptic world, where creatures lurk in the shadows.
Something is out there, something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse of it, and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from. Five years after it ... (Goodreads)
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
by Max Brooks
A collection of interviews recounting tales of the zombie apocalypse.
It has been nearly twenty years since the start of the apocalyptic worldwide pandemic known as the Zombie War, and about ten years since the war has ended in humanity's victory. The framing device ... (Wikipedia)
Red Seas Under Red Skies
by Scott Lynch
A daring pair of con-artists set sail on a swashbuckling adventure across the tumultuous seas.
Two years after Locke Lamora and Jean Tannen fled Camorr, they have created new secret identities for themselves in the island city of Tal Verrar as professional gamblers at an opulent casino called ... (Wikipedia)
Binti
by Nnedi Okorafor
A journey of self-discovery for a young African girl as she confronts xenophobia, racism, and alien cultures.
A young woman named Binti is the first member of the Himba ethnic group on Earth (closely modeled on the Himba people ) , to be accepted into the prestigious intergalactic university Oomza Uni. Upon ... (Wikipedia)
You Should Have Known
by Jean Hanff Korelitz
A successful therapist's life unravels when her husband is accused of a heinous crime, forcing her to confront her own blind spots and assumptions.
Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself, devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son Henry, and the patients she sees ... (Goodreads)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
A young girl's fantastical journey, filled with curious creatures and imaginative experiences.
Chris Riddell's brilliant new full-colour illustrated, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, in a sumptuous hardback and jacketed edition. A perfect gift for families, children and all fans of this ... (Goodreads)
Wilder Girls
by Rory Power
A group of girls are quarantined on an island after a mysterious disease breaks out, causing grotesque mutations.
A, NEW YORK TIMES, BESTSELLER!, "The perfect kind of story for our current era." — Hypable , From the author of, Burn Our Bodies Down, a feminist, Lord of the Flies, about three best friends living ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
by Leslye Walton
A young girl's journey through a magical world filled with love, loss and longing.
Magical realism, lyrical prose, and the pain and passion of human love haunt this hypnotic generational saga. Foolish love appears to be the Roux family birthright, an ominous forecast for its most ... (Goodreads)
The Naturals
by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
A group of teenagers with exceptional abilities are recruited by the FBI to solve cold cases. But their own secrets may put them in danger.
Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell you who you are and what you want. But, it's not a skill that she's ever taken seriously. ... (Barnes & Noble)
Killing Floor
by Lee Child
An ex-military cop is thrust into a dangerous criminal underworld to solve the murder of a woman.
Jack Reacher gets off a Greyhound bus in the town of Margrave, Georgia , because he remembers his brother mentioning that a blues musician named Blind Blake had died there. Much to his surprise, ... (Wikipedia)
The Last Watch
by Sergei Lukyanenko
A group of magic users protect humanity from supernatural threats in the shadows of the night.
Anton Gorodetsky is learning to use his new power when Gesar sends him to assist the Scottish Night Watch in Edinburgh in a murder investigation. A young Russian man has been murdered in a "Vampire ... (Wikipedia)
Assassin's Quest
by Robin Hobb
A daring quest to save a kingdom from a powerful evil, with the help of magical powers.
FitzChivalry Farseer is raised from the dead with Wit magic, becoming more wolf than human. Only Burrich and Chade know he survived his tortures in Regal 's dungeons. They help Fitz regain his ... (Wikipedia)
The Monstrumologist
by Rick Yancey
A young apprentice assists a monstrumologist in the study of monsters, leading to a dangerous encounter with a new species.
These are the secrets I have kept. This is the trust I never betrayed. But he is dead now and has been for more than forty years, the one who gave me his trust, the one for whom I kept these secrets. ... (Goodreads)
The Deep
by Rivers Solomon
The descendants of pregnant African women thrown overboard during the slave trade can breathe underwater and live in a utopian society.
The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society—and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly ... (Goodreads)
Froi of the Exiles
by Melina Marchetta
A young man's struggle to find his place in the world, amidst a chaotic and dangerous kingdom.
Blood sings to blood, Froi . . ., Those born last will make the first . . ., For Charyn will be barren no more., Three years after the curse on Lumatere was lifted, Froi has found his home... Or so ... (Goodreads)
