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The Girl With All the Gifts

M.R. Carey · Orbit
Format: Hardcover

NOT EVERY GIFT IS A BLESSING.Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her "our little genius." Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into...
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The Stand

Stephen King · Anchor
Pages: 1153
Format: Paperback

Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting and eerily plausible as when it was first published.

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
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The Passage: A Novel

Justin Cronin · Ballantine Books
Pages: 897
Format: eBook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * This thrilling novel kicks off what Stephen King calls "a trilogy that will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction."

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND ONE OF THE BEST...
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Bird Box: A Novel

Josh Malerman · Ecco
Pages: 262
Format: Hardcover

Written with the narrative tension of The Road and the exquisite terror of classic Stephen King, Bird Box is a propulsive, edge-of-your-seat horror thriller, set in an apocalyptic near-future world - a masterpiece of suspense from the brilliantly imaginative Josh Malerman.

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The Andromeda Strain

Michael Crichton · Vintage
Pages: 295
Format: Paperback

In this bestselling classic, four scientists race to prevent a biochemical disaster after a space probe landing goes awry.A military space probe, sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms from the upper atmosphere, is knocked out of orbit and falls to Earth. Twelve miles from the crash...
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Station Eleven

Emily St John Mandel · Knopf
Pages: 333
Format: Hardcover

Pub Date: 2014-09-09 Pages: 352 Language: English Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group An audacious. darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilizations collapse. Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star. his would-be savior . and a nomadic group of actors...
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Pandemic

ROBIN COOK · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook takes on the cutting-edge world of gene-modification in this pulse-pounding new medical thriller.

When an unidentified, seemingly healthy young woman collapses suddenly on the New York City subway and dies upon reaching the hospital,...
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I Am Legend

Richard Matheson · Tor Books
Pages: 312
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone.

An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him.

By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities...

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Zone One: A Novel

Colson Whitehead · Doubleday
Pages: 259
Format: Hardcover

In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead.

Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuild­ing civilization...
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Parasite

Mira Grant · Orbit
Pages: 504
Format: Hardcover

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 Corporation. When implanted, the Intestinal Bodyguard worm protects us from illness,...
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