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Gerald's Game
by Stephen King
An innocent game between a married couple turns into a fight for survival.
Jessie Burlingame and her husband Gerald, a successful and aggressive lawyer, travel to their secluded lakehouse in western Maine for an unplanned romantic getaway. The titular "game" involves ... (Wikipedia)
Jaws
by Peter Benchley
A small beach town is terrorized by a great white shark, leading to a thrilling battle of man versus nature.
The story is set in Amity, a fictional seaside resort town on Long Island , New York. One night, a massive great white shark kills a young tourist named Chrissie Watkins while she skinny dips in the ... (Wikipedia)
The Light Fantastic
by Terry Pratchett
An adventure to save the world from a mysterious, magical force threatening to destroy it.
The book begins shortly after the ending of, The Colour of Magic, , with wizard Rincewind , Twoflower and the Luggage falling from the Discworld. They are saved when the Octavo , the most powerful ... (Wikipedia)
Contagion
by Robin Cook
A medical thriller about a deadly virus outbreak and the race to find a cure before it spreads globally.
One of Cook's most successful—and timely—bestsellers. Contagion is a terrifying cautionary tale for the millennium as a deadly epidemic is spread not merely by microbes—but by sabotage.... ... (Goodreads)
The Mist
by Stephen King
A group of survivors confront terror and terrorizing creatures in a thick mist.
The morning after a severe thunderstorm , an unnaturally thick mist gradually envelopes the small town of Bridgton, Maine. Artist David Drayton, along with his son Billy and neighbor Brent Norton ... (Wikipedia)
The Carpet People
by Terry Pratchett
In a world where people live on a carpet, two tribes go to war. But a small group of heroes may be able to save them all.
In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness. Then came the Carpet . . . That’s the old story everyone knows and loves. But now the Carpet is home to many different tribes and peoples, ... (Goodreads)
Malice
by Danielle Steel
A woman's life is turned upside down when her husband is accused of a heinous crime. She must navigate the fallout and rebuild her life.
In her 37th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel tells the compelling story of a woman who must struggle to overcome a shattering betrayal, and the cruelest kind of malice. At seventeen, the night of ... (Goodreads)
The Abyss
by Orson Scott Card
A group of scientists discover a mysterious underground world and must navigate its dangers to uncover its secrets.
Librarian's note: There are Alternate Cover Editions for this edition of this book, here, and, here,. From the author of "Speaker's for the Dead", and "Seventh Son", this science fiction thriller is ... (Goodreads)
Dreadnaught
by Jack Campbell
A young officer is given command of a powerful warship and must navigate political intrigue and battle against an alien race.
The Alliance woke Captain John "Black Jack" Geary from cryogenic sleep to take command of the fleet in the century-long conflict against the Syndicate Worlds. Now Fleet Admiral Geary's victory has ... (Goodreads)
Vittorio, The Vampire
by Anne Rice
Vittorio, a young Italian nobleman, becomes a vampire and struggles with his newfound immortality and thirst for blood.
In the twentieth century, from his castle in the northern part of Tuscany , Vittorio writes the tragic tale of his life. In 1450, Vittorio di Raniari is a sixteen-year-old Italian nobleman, when his ... (Wikipedia)
The Mediterranean Caper
by Clive Cussler
Dirk Pitt, a marine engineer, searches for a lost treasure and battles a criminal mastermind in the Mediterranean Sea.
Dirk Pitt, Special Projects Director for the National Underwater and Marine Agency, and his Deputy Special Projects Director, Al Giordino, are traveling to their assignment in the Aegean Sea in ... (Wikipedia)
Relentless
by Jack Campbell
Captain John "Black Jack" Geary awakens from a century-long sleep to lead the Alliance Fleet against the Syndicate Worlds.
The plot of Relentless picks up in Dilawa. John 'Black Jack' Geary, commander of the fleet, after much deliberation, mostly due to struggling with potential losses regardless of his decision, sets ... (Wikipedia)
Six Days of the Condor
by James Grady
A CIA researcher returns from lunch to find his colleagues murdered. He must evade the killers and uncover the truth.
Ronald Malcolm is a CIA employee who works in a clandestine operations office in Washington, D.C. responsible for analyzing the plots of mystery and spy novels. One day, when he should be in the ... (Wikipedia)
Courageous
by Jack Campbell
A military science fiction novel about a captain who must lead his crew through dangerous missions and political intrigue.
The Lost Fleet continues its perilous journey home. Badly damaged and low on supplies, the Alliance Fleet is raiding Syndic mines for raw materials-and Captain "Black Jack" Geary hopes they can ... (Goodreads)
Selected Stories
by O. Henry
A collection of short stories with surprise endings, often featuring ordinary people in unexpected situations.
20世纪普通人的心灵之书！你经历过的每一个小愚蠢，总能被欧·亨利治愈！ 全书精选了30篇欧·亨利短篇小说作品，涵盖了他不同创作时期所有著名的代表作——《麦琪的礼物》 《最后一片叶子》 《警察与赞美诗》 《女巫的面包》等等。 欧·亨利留住了一整个世纪的读者。这些读者都在他的故事里发现了他们自己，不是更真实、或者更奇怪，而正是曾经或者当下的自己。 ... (Goodreads)
Job: A Comedy of Justice
by Robert A. Heinlein
An entertaining and thought-provoking exploration of faith and morality.
The story examines religion through the eyes of Alex, a Christian political activist who is corrupted by Margrethe, a Danish Norse cruise ship hostess—and who loves every minute of it. Enduring a ... (Wikipedia)
Sharpe's Prey
by Bernard Cornwell
Richard Sharpe is sent to Denmark to protect a British fleet from Napoleon's forces. He must navigate political intrigue and battle enemies on land and sea.
The year is 1807, and Richard Sharpe is at a very low point in his life. His beloved aristocratic lover, Lady Grace Hale, has died in childbirth, along with their newborn son. Her family's lawyers ... (Wikipedia)
One Past Midnight: The Langoliers
by Stephen King
A group of travelers find themselves stranded in time, facing a mysterious and horrifying force.
The first of a four-part audio series from Stephen King's best-selling book, Four Past Midnight . On a redeye flight from Los Angeles to Boston, only 11 passengers survive—but landing in a dead world ... (Goodreads)
When the Lion Feeds
by Wilbur Smith
Epic adventure of two brothers in the African wilderness, facing danger and learning life lessons.
The novel begins in Natal in the 1870s, with the introduction of twin brothers Sean and Garrick, the sons of ranch owner Waite Courtney. After one of Sean's hunting accidents results in Garrick ... (Wikipedia)
Blood Canticle
by Anne Rice
The vampire Lestat falls in love with a witch, and together they face a dangerous enemy threatening their supernatural world.
Lestat is back with a vengeance and in thrall to Rowan Mayfair. Both demon and angel, he is drawn to kill but tempted by goodness as he moves among the pantheon of Anne Rice's unforgettable ... (Goodreads)
The Ipcress File
by Len Deighton
A British spy investigates a brainwashing scheme. Full of twists and turns, it's a classic espionage thriller.
The novel is framed as the unnamed protagonist delivering his personal report on "the IPCRESS affair" directly to the Minister of Defence , thus making the novel itself the 'IPCRESS File' of the ... (Wikipedia)
Chains of Command
by Marko Kloos
A military sci-fi novel about a soldier caught in the middle of a political conspiracy.
The assault on Earth was thwarted by the destruction of the aliens’ seed ship, but with Mars still under Lanky control, survivors work frantically to rebuild fighting capacity and shore up planetary ... (Barnes & Noble)
Team Yankee
by Harold Coyle
A fictional account of a hypothetical World War III in Europe, told through the perspective of an American tank company.
The novel is set in West Germany and East Germany in the months of August and September; the year is unspecified. Team Yankee ("Y" in the ICAO and NATO phonetic alphabet ) is an armor-heavy ... (Wikipedia)
The Prophet of Yonwood
by Jeanne DuPrau
A small town discovers a mysterious prophet who speaks of a much greater danger in the future.
Nickie will grow up to be one of the first citizens of the city of Ember. But for now, she's an eleven-year-old girl whose father was sent away on some mysterious government project. So when the ... (Goodreads)
Berlin Game
by Len Deighton
A British spy in Cold War Berlin must uncover a traitor in his own agency. Full of twists and turns, it's a classic espionage thriller.
The time is the early 1980s. A highly placed agent in East Germany codenamed "Brahms Four" wants to come to the West. Brahms Four is one of Britain's most reliable, most valuable agents behind the ... (Wikipedia)
Terrier
by Tamora Pierce
An adventure of discovery, as a young girl discovers her true strength and courage to save her beloved city.
The story is told in the form of a series of journal entries made by Beka Cooper as she trains to become a Provosts Dog, a nickname for the police men and women in the employ of the Lord Provost of ... (Wikipedia)
The Fog
by James Herbert
A deadly fog descends on London, bringing with it a terrifying and deadly force that threatens to wipe out humanity.
John Holman is a worker for the Department of the Environment investigating a Ministry of Defence base in a small rural village. An unexpected earthquake swallows his car releasing a fog that had ... (Wikipedia)
Ice Station Zebra
by Alistair MacLean
An explosive mission to rescue a British spy from a remote Arctic base.
Drift ice Station Zebra, a British meteorological station built on an ice floe in the Arctic Sea , suffers a catastrophic oil fire; several of its men die, and their shelter and supplies are ... (Wikipedia)
Sackett's Land
by Louis L'Amour
A man's journey of survival and adventure in the wild west, searching for his destiny.
After discovering six gold Roman coins buried in the mud of the Devil’s Dyke, Barnabas Sackett enthusiastically invests in goods that he will offer for trade in America. But Sackett has a powerful ... (Goodreads)
Blackwood Farm
by Anne Rice
A young man's life is forever changed when he becomes a vampire and inherits a haunted estate in Louisiana.
Tarquin "Quinn" Blackwood , heir to a powerful old family in New Orleans , has been plagued by a mysterious spirit named Goblin for his entire life. Made a vampire in his youth, Quinn seeks out ... (Wikipedia)
