Christopher Golden
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Across Italy there are many half-empty towns, nearly abandoned by those who migrate to the coast or to cities. The beautiful, crumbling hilltop town of Becchina is among them, but its mayor has taken drastic measures to rebuild--selling abandoned homes to anyone in the world for a single Euro, as long as the buyer promises to live there for at least five years. It's a no-brainer for American couple Tommy and Kate Puglisi. Both work remotely, and...
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Language
English
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Both dreading and looking forward to his tenth high school reunion, Will James returns to his hometown, eager to catch up on old friends, only to find a strange, alternative universe in which realities fade and "other" memories begin to block them out, terrifying memories that threaten to remake the entire world, unless Will can stop it.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden's chilling exploration of what happens when the original Pandora's Box is discovered in an ancient subterranean city, stirring international conflict and exposing the archaeological team to curses, whispers, and the terror of a legendary plague. In one ancient variation on the myth of Pandora's Box, there were two jars, one for Pandora and one for her sister, Anesidora. One contained all the blessings...
4) Snowblind
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"The small New England town of Coventry is haunted by its memories of a deadly winter... in which loved ones were lost, families torn apart, and a town buried in a terrible blizzard. Now, twelve years later, the people plagued by their memories of that storm are haunted once again as a new storm approaches, promising to wreak new havoc. Old ghosts trickle back, and this storm will prove even more terrifying and deadly than the last. With richly textured...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
To what lengths would you go to undo the pain of the past?
Max Corbett has returned to New Orleans for the funeral of his former girlfriend, Gabrielle Doucette, but between the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina and the devastation of his ruined relationship, the city feels alien.
At Gabrielle's graveside, Max meets Ray. Over a bottle of bourbon in a dive bar, the two discuss Gabrielle's unique connection to the city. Ray suggests that this...
6) Red hands
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When a mysterious and devastating bioweapon causes its victims to develop Red Hands, the touch of death, weird science expert Ben Walker is called to investigate. A car plows through the crowd at a July 4th parade. The driver climbs out, sick and stumbling, reaching out...and everyone he touches drops dead within seconds. Mae Sinclair watches in horror as people she loves begin to die and she knows she must take action. But in the aftermath of this...
7) Ararat
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
" ... When a newly engaged couple climbs Mount Ararat in Turkey, an avalanche forces them to seek shelter inside a massive cave uncovered by the snow fall. The cave is actually an ancient, buried ship that many quickly come to believe is really Noah's Ark. But when a team of scholars, archaeologists, and filmmakers make it inside the ark for the first time, they discover an elaborate coffin in its recesses ... and when they break it open, they find...
8) All hallows
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's Halloween night, 1984, in Coventry, Massachusetts, and two families are unraveling. Up and down the street, secrets are being revealed, and all the while, mixed in with the trick-or-treaters of all ages, four children who do not belong are walking door to door, merging with the kids of Parmenter Road. Children in vintage costumes with faded, eerie makeup. They seem terrified, and beg the neighborhood kids to hide them away, to keep them safe...
9) Dead ringers
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Language
English
Description
"When Tess Devlin runs into her ex-husband Nick on a Boston sidewalk, she's furious at him for pretending he doesn't know her. She calls his cell to have it out with him, only to discover that he's in New Hampshire with his current girlfriend. But if Nick's in New Hampshire...who did she encounter on the street? Frank Lindbergh's dreams have fallen apart. He wanted to get out of the grim neighborhood where he'd grown up and out of the shadow of his...
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
461 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the great kingdom of Quandis, everyone is a slave. Some are slaves to the gods. Most are slaves to everyone else. Blessed by the gods with lives of comfort and splendor, the royal elite routinely perform their duties, yet some chafe at their role. A young woman of stunning ambition, Princess Phela refuses to allow a few obstacles-- including her mother the queen and her brother, the heir apparent-- stand in the way of claiming ultimate power...
11) Road of bones
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kolyma Highway, otherwise known as the Road of Bones, is a 1200 mile stretch of Siberian road where winter temperatures can drop as low as sixty degrees below zero. Under Stalin, at least eighty Soviet gulags were built along the route to supply the USSR with a readily available workforce, and over time hundreds of thousands of prisoners died in the midst of their labors. Their bodies were buried where they fell, plowed under the permafrost, underneath...
Author
Publisher
Marvel Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
348 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After the death of their Super Villain parents, five teenagers are on the run. Nico, Karolina, Gert, Chase and Molly are now in survival mode, hiding out in an abandoned hospital and trying to regain a sense of normalcy. But Super Heroes don't get to be normal. When the Runaways try to rescue a teenage girl from becoming a human sacrifice, their mission gets intercepted by a bunch of punks dressed up as the Pride, aka their parent's former coven.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
All her life Jazz has known them only as the "Uncles," and her mother seemed to fear them as much as depend on them. Now these enigmatic, black-clad strangers are after Jazz for reasons she can't fathom, and her only escape is to slip into the forgotten tunnels of London's vast underground. Here she will meet a tribe of survivors calling themselves the United Kingdom and begin an adventure that links her to the ghosts of a city long past, a father...
14) The shadow men
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Spectra mass market ed.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
When his wife and daughter mysteriously disappear and leave behind a Boston in which they never existed, Jim, who is the only one who can remember them, must travel between fractured cities and find them before the cities reintegrate in a cataclysmic implosion.
15) Tin men: a novel
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the near future, the U.S. has deployed the Remote Infantry Corps: thousands of robots remote-piloted by soldiers whose bodies lie hidden in underground bases. But the worst occurs when anarchists set off a global pulse that shorts out electrical connections. In Damascus, Private Danny Kelso, Corporal Kate Wade, and their platoon realize they are trapped inside the Tin Men--something the government never warned them could happen. In Athens, the...
18) The wild
Author
Series
Secret journeys of Jack London volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
970L
Physical Desc
348 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jack London makes the arduous journey to the Yukon's gold fields in 1893, becoming increasingly uneasy about supernatural forces in the wilderness that seem to have taken a special interest in him.
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"For centuries earth has been visited by warlike creature that stalk mankind's finest warriors. Their goals unknown, these deadly hunters kill their prey and depart as invisibly as they arrived. Leaving no trace other than a trail of bodies. When a young boy accidently triggers the universe's modt lethal hunters' return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled science teacher can prevent the end of the human race" -- Page [4]...