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When a catastrophic electromagnetic pulse (EMP) strikes Earth, modern life ends in an instant. Power grids fail. Communication collapses. Transportation halts. Within hours, the world descends into chaos—and the fragile threads of civilization begin to snap. What follows is a rapid descent into apocalyptic turmoil as society unravels and survival becomes a daily battle. When the world falls apart, it's not the heroes who rise—it's the unexpected.

Who killed Eric Davenport? A senior mathematics professor at Underhill College has been found dead in his office, the victim of murder. At Underhill, a small liberal arts college with a pricy tuition and a pampered student body, all of the students are close to their professors. But at least one loved Eric Davenport in a deeply inappropriate fashion. Some hated him. And then there is the faculty at war with itself. And the idiotic administration. And the twin boys who live next to campus. And what’s with all those praying mantises?

Pandemic drought, skyrocketing oil prices, dwindling energy supplies, and wars of water scarcity threaten the planet. Only four people canprevent global chaos.

Country music icon Shane Black is this year’s headliner for the New Year’s Eve bash in Times Square, but when violent riots break out, he’ll need more than a six string to escape New York City. After decades of abuse as the world’s reserve currency, the US dollar’s day of reckoning is at hand. Without a functioning monetary system to purchase basic goods, society rapidly descends into abject chaos. Protests, looting, and bloodletting take the place of civility in a country which becomes thoroughly unhinged.

It's barely a few months since the shambling dead began to rise.

The best-selling post-apocalyptic suspense series Outage - the complete series of five books plus bonus epilogue Outage: Control, available for the first time! Something is coming for them. When an early snow ravages the small town of Plainfield, the residents are stripped of heat, power, and mobility. They'll soon wish they had protection. Somewhere outside, something else is lurking. Waiting for the chance to strike.... The complete post-apocalyptic horror suspense series Outage, in one complete collection.

Ten years after the world's oil went sour and a pandemic killed most of the population, Sam Edison is the chief of police of The Little Five, a walled-in community near Atlanta, Georgia. Those who survived share the world with what are known as hollow-heads: creatures who are no longer fully human. A man and a pregnant teenager arrive at the gate and are welcomed into the town. They begin to settle in when suddenly both are murdered by an unknown assailant. In the course of investigation, Chief Edison discovers that the girl was fleeing a life of sexual slavery, and that some members of the community were complicit in the human trafficking network that had ensnared her.

It began on New Year’s Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed - and more than half of the world’s population was decimated. Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magick rose up in its place.

After the initial series of summer blizzards, the snowfall has decreased, but the temperatures continue to drop, the icy wind still blows, and with each passing day, the darkness lasts longer and longer. It is in the darkness the monsters thrive. Confined to the lake house and having no communication with the outside world, Grady and the others live every day in fear, questioning what the future holds. Will the snow melt? Will the sun ever rise? Can the wraiths be defeated? But as the days turn to weeks, no answers come.

Ella ha sobrevivido a lo imposible, pero carga con un secreto que podría cambiarlo todo — si no la destruye primero. Aksel, Belinda y su hija se ven obligados a emprender un viaje desesperado por el desierto helado, perseguidos no solo por los muertos de ojos negros sino también por quienes están dispuestos a sacrificar a cualquiera con tal de seguir vivos. En lo alto de las montañas, Kristoffer y Ragnar luchan por mantener a salvo su refugio mientras la desconfianza, la traición y el hambre de poder amenazan con destrozarlo desde dentro.

The future should have been perfect. Microscopic robots known as nans could repair any damage to your body, keep you young by resetting your cellular clocks, and allow you to download upgrades like intelligence, muscle strength, and eyesight. You were supposed to be able to have anything you wanted with a simple thought, to be able to fly without the aid of a machine, to be able to live forever. But when a small group of five terraformers working on Venus return to Earth, they discover that every other human in the solar system has been gruesomely murdered.

Ana da Silva always assumed she’d die young - she just never expected it to be at the hands of Famine, the haunting immortal who once spared her life so many years ago. But if the horseman remembers her at all, he must not care, for when she comes face to face with him for the second time in her life, she’s stabbed and left for dead. Only, she doesn’t quite die. If there’s one thing Famine is good at, it’s cruelty. In spite of themselves, Ana and Famine are drawn to each other. But enemies or reluctant lovers, if they don’t stop themselves soon, heaven will....

The Surrays and their five children form a prolific writing machine, with scores of treatises, reviews and crime thrillers published under their family name. Following a convergence of the whole household at their Oxfordshire home, Ruth—the middle sister—decides to spend some weeks there recovering from the pressures of the writing life. Their next return is heralded by the tragic news that Ruth has taken her life after an evening at the Surrays' hosting a set of publishers and writers, one of whom is named as Ruth's literary executor in the will she left behind.

Before he was Oldtimer, he was Craig Emilson, a young doctor,sucked into military service at the outbreak of World War III. Enlisting to become a Special Forces suborbital paratrooper, Craig is selected to take part in the most important mission in American military history, a sortie into enemy territory to eliminate the world's first strong artificial intelligence.

El desconocido autor Emiel Steegman inventa una excusa para cancelar la cita que tiene con unos colegas estonios: "Momentos difíciles para la familia". Una frase manida y vaga que se convierte en una idea brillante para su nueva novela, pero inesperadamente acaba haciéndose realidad cuando su hija Renée se queda dormida y no vuelve a despertar. Post Mortem es una novela tan intensa como ingeniosa, una obra que se centra en un momento dramática de la vida del propio autor, Peter Terrin...

Golden Falls è una tranquilla cittadina nella contea di Snohomish, stato di Washington, dove tutti si conoscono e la vita scorre serena, fino a quando un'escalation di terribili eventi scatenerà l'orrore che sconvolgerà la serenità del posto. Daryl Wilson, lo sceriffo incaricato delle indagini, si troverà a dover affrontare una verità incredibile e spaventosa. Per risalire alle radici del male dovrà scavare nei meandri della storia passata di Golden Falls e comprendere perché l'orrore abbia iniziato a riversarsi sulla cittadina seminando morte tra i suoi abitanti.

Dieses packende Hörbuch verspricht ununterbrochene Spannung mit zur letzten Minute. Zusammen mit seinem Freund Eddie macht Robin Greaves mit gewagten Raubüberfällen die Stadt Edinburgh unsicher. Als Robin erfährt, dass sein Komplize eine Affäre mit seiner Frau hat, schwört er Rache. Doch dann läuft alles ganz anders als geplant und plötzlich befinden sich alle drei sowohl im Visier der Polizei als auch eines brutalen Mörders.

Before he was Old-timer, he was Craig Emilson, a young doctor, sucked into military service at the outbreak of World War III. Enlisting to become a Special Forces suborbital paratrooper, Craig is selected to take part in the most important mission in American military history - a sortie into enemy territory to eliminate the world's first strong Artificial Intelligence. The mission is only the beginning of Craig's story, and for the story of humanity as well, as they accelerate towards a world that is post-human.

The Post-Human Trilogy is done, but the Post-Human series is just heating up! Human Plus is fourth story in the smash hit science fiction series. Not exactly a sequel, not exactly a prequel, Human Plus will defy expectations. No matter what you thought was coming next, you're in for a surprise!

Jade Dragon had been crushed. China was forced to relent. But picking up the pieces had only just begun. After years of conflict, the Allies emerged victorious on the battlefield. However, the world was left bruised and battle-worn. American President Maria Delgado had her hands full with the recovery efforts. Blain Wilson would be pulled in… deeper down the rabbit hole than he intended.