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Assassins

Assignment: Jerusalem, Target: Antichrist

by Tim F. Lahaye, Jerry B. Jenkins

After selling nearly two million copies since its release in August 1999, Assassins in now availabe in trade paper! The seven-year Tribulation reaches its halfway mark in the sixth book of the blockbuster Left Behind series, Assassins. Nicolae Carpathia is assassinated, setting the stage for the Great Tribulation.

Left Behind: Book 5

Apollyon

The Destroyer Is Unleashed

by Tim F. Lahaye, Jerry B. Jenkins

The Tribulation Force travels to Israel for the Meeting of Witnesses as further judgments are released upon the world. Satan falls from heaven and opens the bottomless pit, releasing Apollyon and his plague of locusts that torture the unsaved. Now available in trade softcover, Apollyon is a thriller that will be tough to put down

Way of the Wolf (The Vampire Earth, Book 1)

Way of the Wolf (The Vampire Earth, Book 1)

by E. E. Knight

Louisiana, 2065. A lot has changed in the 43rd year of the Kurian Order. Possessed of an unnatural hunger, the bloodthirsty Reapers have come to Earth to establish a New Order built on the harvesting of human souls. They rule the planet. And if it is night, as sure as darkness, they will come. But on this pitiless world, the indomitable spirit of man still breathes in Lieutenant David Valentine. And his... (more)

Dead Sea

by Brian Keene

With another bleak vision of the zombie apocalypse, Keene makes a triumphant return to the still-thriving subgenre he helped revive with his 2004 debut The Rising (a movie version of which is currently in the works). Trouble begins when a virus infecting the rat population of New York City begins spreading among animals and humans alike—one bite, one drop of blood or one string of saliva is all it takes to kill... (more)

Choice of the Cat (The Vampire Earth, Book 2)

Choice of the Cat (The Vampire Earth, Book 2)

by E. E. Knight

The alien Reapers have ruled Earth for forty-five years. David Valentine is a member of the human resistance, who is now being trained as a Cat-an elite stealth warrior. His first mission is to investigate the threat of the Twisted Cross, a mysterious new force under Reaper control.

The Taking

by Dean Koontz

In one of the most dazzling books of his celebrated career, Dean Koontz delivers a masterwork of page-turning suspense that surpasses even his own inimitable reputation as a chronicler of our worst fears—and best dreams. In The Taking he tells the story of a community cut off from a world under siege, and the terrifying battle for survival waged by a young couple and their neighbors as familiar streets become... (more)

Parable: Book 1

Parable of the Sower

by Octavia E. Butler

In 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others' pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages.

Hocus Pocus

by Kurt Vonnegut

This novel tells the story of a devilish pair of twins whose enormous intellect is hidden behind a facade of idiocy.

Battlefield Earth

by L. Ron Hubbard

A towering masterwork of science fiction adventure and one of the best-selling science fiction novels of all time. L. Ron Hubbard's "Battlefield Earth" opens with breathtaking scope on an Earth dominated for 1,000 years by an alien invader--and man is an endangered species. From the handful of surviving humans a courageous leader emerges--Jonnie Goodboy Tyler, who challenges the invincible might of the... (more)

Emberverse: Book 6

The Sword of the Lady

A Novel of the Change

by S. M. Stirling

The New York Times bestselling author continues his “epic of survival and rebirth” ( Library Journal ), chronicling a modern world without technology. Rudi Mackenzie has journeyed far across the land that was once the United States of America, hoping to find the source of the world-altering event that has come to be known as The Change. His final destination is Nantucket, an island overrun with forest,... (more)

On the Beach

by Nevil Shute

Farnhams Freehold

by Robert A. Heinlein

Hugh Farnham was a practical, self-made man, and when he saw the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he built a bomb shelter under his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war. What he hadn¿t expected was that when the apocalypse came, a thermonuclear blast would tear apart the fabric of time and hurl his shelter across two thousand years into a future both strange and appallingly familiar. In the new world... (more)

Eternity Road

by Jack McDevitt

The Roadmakers left only ruins behind -- but what magnificent ruins!Their concrete highways still cross the continent. Their cups, combs and jewelry are found in every Illyrian home. They left behind a legend,too -- a hidden sanctuary called Haven, where even now the secrets of their civilization might still be found. Chaka's brother was one of those who sought to find Haven and never returned. But now Chaka... (more)

The Folk of the Fringe

by Orson Scott Card

Only a few nuclear weapons fell. But in the chaos of famine and plague, there existed a few pockets of order. The strongest of them was the state of Deseret. The climate has changed, and the lake has filled up. There, on the fringes, brave, hardworking pioneers are making the desert bloom again.

Dr. Bloodmoney

by Philip K. Dick

Dr. Bloodmoney is a post-nuclear-holocaust masterpiece filled with a host of Dick’s most memorable characters: Hoppy Harrington, a deformed mutant with telekinetic powers; Walt Dangerfield, a selfless disc jockey stranded in a satellite circling the globe; Dr. Bluthgeld, the megalomaniac physicist largely responsible for the decimated state of the world; and Stuart McConchie and Bonnie Keller, two unremarkable... (more)

The Pesthouse

by Jim Crace

Jim Crace is a writer of spectacular originality and a command of language that moves a reader effortlessly into the world of his imagination. In The Pesthouse he imagines an America of the future where a man and a woman trek across a devastated and dangerous landscape, finding strength in each other and an unexpected love. Once the safest, most prosperous place on earth, the United States is now a lawless,... (more)

Wolf And Iron

by Gordon R. Dickson

The U. S. has been devastated by worldwide financial collapse. Civilization as readers know it has disappeared. Marauding bands are terrorizing the countryside, killing and looting. Jeremy Bellamy Walthers' goal is to cross 2,000 miles of ravaged countryside to reach the security of his brother's Montana ranch. En route he befriends a wolf who becomes a partner and companion via verbal and nonverbal communication.... (more)

Black Monday: A Novel

by Bob Reiss

A plague that will cause the death of millions. A plague that will destroy countries. A plague that will plunge the world into a dark age. A plague that will make nobody sick... When the first planes go down -- in Europe, in California, in Asia -- authorities blame terrorists. All flights are grounded as world leaders try to figure out how the global assault has been coordinated. And when cars, ships, and... (more)

Ariel

by Steven Boyett

It’s been five years since the lights went out, cars stopped in the streets, and magical creatures began roaming Earth. Pete Garey survived the Change, trusting no one but himself until the day he met Ariel—a unicorn who brought new meaning and adventure to his life.

Left Behind: Book 12

Glorious Appearing

The End of Days

by Tim F. Lahaye, Jerry B. Jenkins

Thousands of years of human history stained by strife, death, and sin come to an end when the King of Glory returns to earth. The satisfying conclusion of the seven years of tribulation covered by the Left Behind series portrays the return of Jesus Christ to earth in both glory and judgment at the height of the battle between the forces of evil gathered at Armageddon and the remaining Christian believers at Petra... (more)

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Assignment: Jerusalem, Target: Antichrist

by Tim F. Lahaye, Jerry B. Jenkins

The Destroyer Is Unleashed

by Tim F. Lahaye, Jerry B. Jenkins

by E. E. Knight

by Brian Keene

by E. E. Knight

by Dean Koontz

by Octavia E. Butler

by Kurt Vonnegut

by L. Ron Hubbard

A Novel of the Change

by S. M. Stirling

by Nevil Shute

by Robert A. Heinlein

by Jack McDevitt

by Orson Scott Card

by Philip K. Dick

by Jim Crace

by Gordon R. Dickson

by Bob Reiss

by Steven Boyett

The End of Days

by Tim F. Lahaye, Jerry B. Jenkins