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Nightfall
by Isaac Asimov
An expanded version of Asimov's short story, "Nightfall," reveals a world on the brink of chaos, torn between religious fanaticism and scientific denial and faced with the end of civilization.
"A lovely short story about what havoc an eclipse can cause." -Karen T
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
by Gail Honeyman
A socially awkward, routine-oriented loner teams up with a bumbling IT guy from her office to assist an elderly accident victim, forging a friendship that saves all three from lives of isolation and secret unhappiness.
"Eleanor is a quirky, yet delightful narrator who you will not forget." - Elizabeth H
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The Duchess Deal: Girl Meets Duke
by Tessa Dare
After returning from war, the Duke of Ashbury decides he needs an heir and offers a marriage proposal to a vicar’s daughter turned seamstress who happens to be in his library wearing a wedding gown.
"Hot and hilarious shenanigans between a duke and vicar's daughter." - Megan R.
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Meddling Kids
by Edgar Cantero
The surviving members of a forgotten teen detective club and their dog reunite as broken adults to embark on an effort to solve a terrifying cold case that ruined them all and sent the wrong man to prison.
":Scooby-Doo-like sattire/horr story in which former teen detectives, now traumatized adults, revisit their biggest chase!" - Bill S.
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Behind Closed Doors
by B. A. Paris
The friends of a seemingly perfect socialite couple begin to see cracks in the façade when they realize that the husband and wife are never apart and that there are bars on one of the couple's upstairs windows.
"How far do you go to protect the ones you love? How do you get away from the villain that is always two steps ahead when no one knows the truth...or do they?" -Emily B.
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Hematophages
by Stephen Kozeniewski
Doctoral student Paige Ambroziak is a “station bunny” – she’s never set foot off the deep space outpost where she grew up. But when she’s offered a small fortune to join a clandestine salvage mission, she jumps at the chance to leave the cutthroat world of academia behind. Paige is convinced she’s been enlisted to find the legendary Manifest Destiny, a long-lost colonization vessel from an era before the corporations ruled Earth and its colonies. Whatever she’s looking for, though, rests in the blood-like seas of a planet-sized organism called a fleshworld. Dangers abound for Paige and her shipmates. Flying outside charted space means competing corporations can shoot them on sight rather than respect their salvage rights. The area is also crawling with pirates like the ghoulish skin-wrappers, known for murdering anyone they can’t extort. But the greatest threat to Paige’s mission is the nauseating alien parasites which infest the fleshworld. These lamprey-like monstrosities are used to swimming freely in an ocean of blood, and will happily spill a new one from the veins of the outsiders who have tainted their home. In just a few short, bone-chilling hours Paige learns that there are no limits to the depravity and violence of the grotesque nightmares known as…THE HEMATOPHAGES.
"Alien meets The Rising meets The Ruins with a touch of outer space." - Becky S.
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My Cousin Rachel
by Daphne Du Maurier
When Rachel, the beautiful widow of his cousin, arrives at his Cornwall estate, Philip Ashley is enchanted despite his doubts regarding his cousin's death, and must decide whether she's out to destroy him or is an innocent victim of suspicions.
"Beautifully written, about a man's psychotic break with reality." - Sonia R
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Made For Love
by Alissa Nutting
Moving to a senior citizen trailer park with her father and his lifelike sex doll, Hazel, the estranged wife of a monolithic corporate CEO who demanded she install a brain chip so that they could be constantly connected, tries to carve out a new life while her ex uses sophisticated technology to stalk her.
"Weird, funny, and like nothing I have ever read before." - Emily V.
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When the English Fall
by David Williams
A tale told through the diary of an Amish farmer recounts his struggles to protect his family and way of life when a catastrophic solar storm decimates modern civilization, causing "English" outsiders to violently target the Amish for their resources.
"After an apocolyptic event and Amish village is pushed to the moral limits." - Mike H.
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My Mrs. Brown
by William Norwich
Called upon to inventory the estate of a wealthy woman, a frugal and unnoticed woman in small-town Rhode Island discovers an exquisitely tailored Oscar de la Renta dress in the woman's collection and changes her life to be able to purchase the dress, which she believes will give her the voice she has always desired.
"A genteel, leisurely story of a quiet woman who is suddenly gripped by the desire to own a fabulous dress." - Stacy P.
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Emma In the Night
by Wendy Walker
When one of two teen sisters who disappeared three years earlier returns with an astonishing tale about how they were held on a mysterious island, skeptical forensic psychiatrist Dr. Abby Winter investigates the young woman's family and uncovers disturbing evidence of violated boundaries, betrayals and narcissistic parenting.
"Great psychological thriller with a great twist!" - Melissa S
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The Clockwork Dynasty
by Daniel H. Wilson
A young anthropologist specializing in ancient technology makes the astonishing discovery that a race of human-like machines has been hiding among people for untold centuries. By the best-selling author of Robopocalypse.
"Wilson examines the humanity by looking at AI. However, this time he looks to clockwork automatons from the fast instead of looking towards the future."
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World War Z : an oral history of the zombie war by Max Brooks
An account of the decade-long conflict between humankind and hordes of the predatory undead is told from the perspective of dozens of survivors--soldiers, politicians, civilians, and others--who describe in their own words the epic human battle for survival. "Don’t be alarmed by the zombies! Listen to the audiobook: because the story is composed of a variety of interviews, a full cast narrates the immersive story—lending the book true crime and living history elements." - Jennifer A
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