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The Governor is defeated; the tides are appearing to turn. But as Caitlin continues her search for the Unknown, guided only by the crudely drawn map the Governor left behind, she finds herself led vastly off-track. A haunting encounter in the woods. A broken city of rebels. A terrible secret hidden in the sewers beneath the earth. The gates to Caitlin's world are opened, and the Mad want in. Set within the wonder of the Kurtherian Gambit Universe, this novel explores the chaos and insanity of the Age of Madness-a time when the world turned on its head and nothing is as it appears...

Caitlin may have freed her town from evil, but the Governor who oppressed them all is still on the loose. Now, Caitlin and her merry band of Revolutionaries take to the Mad-infested woods to hunt the Governor down and deliver revenge before he can do any further damage. But, when they arrive at a town bound under the spell of a strange group known as "The Firestarters," Caitlin starts to realize that this could be a lot more difficult than planned. It's time for Caitlin to jump out of the frying pan and into the fire...

Four clans have been at war for centuries: the Kodiak, the Raven, the Wolf, and the Ram. Through brutal war tactics, the Ram have dominated the region, inflicting death and destruction on their neighbors. Seventeen-year-old Zo is a Wolf and a healer who volunteers to infiltrate the Ram as a spy on behalf of the allied clans. She offers herself as a Ram slave, joining the people who are called the Nameless. Hers is a suicide mission - Zo's despair after losing her parents in a Ram raid has left her seeking both revenge and an end to her own misery.

As Myra Jackson and her friends set out to find the First Continuum, Captain Aero Wright and his two companions from the outer space Second Continuum find themselves banished for treason and stranded on Earth. Wright has vowed to complete his late father's mission to recolonize their ancestral planet, but his true mission is to find the mysterious girl who haunts his dreams.

A decadent rock star. A deeply religious radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage girl who may be the world's last hope. From the mind of Chuck Wendig comes an astonishing tapestry of humanity that Harlan Coben calls "a suspenseful, twisty, satisfying, surprising, thought-provoking epic." Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. She appears to be sleepwalking. She cannot talk and cannot be woken up. And she is heading with inexorable determination to a destination that only she knows. But Shana and her sister are not alone.

"A classic space opera...a universe we've never seen before." -Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestselling author From Hugo Award finalist Max Gladstone comes a smart, swashbuckling, wildly imaginative adventure; the saga of a rag-tag team of brilliant misfits, dangerous renegades, and enhanced outlaws in a war-torn future. A wildly successful innovator to rival Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, Vivian Liao is prone to radical thinking, quick decision-making, and reckless action. On the eve of her greatest achievement, she tries to outrun people who are trying to steal her success.

"Combines the spare poetry of The Road with the dizzying pace of 28 Days Later." -Jennie Melamed, author Gather the Daughters "A riveting novel." -Eowyn Ivey, bestselling author of The Snow Child Remember your just-in-cases. Beware tall buildings. Always have your knives. Raised in isolation by her mother and Maeve on a small island off the coast of a post-apocalyptic Ireland, Orpen's life has revolved around training to fight a threat she's never seen. More and more she feels the call of the mainland, and the prospect of finding other survivors.

*The third novella from Radicalized* Radicalized is a story of a darkweb-enforced violent uprising against insurance companies told from the perspective of a man desperate to secure funding for an experimental drug that could cure his wife's terminal cancer.

From bestselling author Steven James comes a compelling and timely thriller that explores what might happen if machines have free will.

Better Call Saul meets Nineteen Eighty-Four in this first volume in an explosive legal thriller series set in the world of Tropic of Kansas-a finalist for the 2018 Campbell Award for best science fiction novel of the year.Defeated in a devastating war with China and ravaged by climate change, America is on the brink of a bloody civil war. Seizing power after a controversial election, the ruling regime has begun cracking down on dissidents fighting the nation's slide toward dictatorship. For Donny Kimoe, chaos is good for business.