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George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for better or for worse. In desperation, he consults a psychotherapist who promises to help him -- but who, it soon becomes clear, has his own plans for George and his dreams. The Lathe of Heaven is a dark vision and a warning -- a fable of power uncontrolled and uncontrollable. It is a truly prescient and startling view... (more)

Before They Were Left Behind: Book 1

The Rising

Antichrist Is Born

by Tim F. Lahaye

The Rising begins a new Left Behind series that will give you a glimpse into the lives of your favorite characters before the Rapture. Have you ever wondered what life was like before the Rapture for Rayford, Irene, and Chloe Steele, Bruce Barnes, Buck Williams, and Tsion Ben Judah? Plus, see why Viv Ivins plays such a pivotal role in Nicolae Carpathia's life. What were the events surrounding Nicolae's sudden... (more)

Y: The Last Man: Book 9

Motherland

by Brian K. Vaughan

Featured in The New York Times and on National Public Radio, Y: THE LAST MAN is the gripping saga of Yorick Brown, an unemployed and unmotivated slacker who discovers he is the only male left in the world after a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome. Accompanied by his mischievous monkey, Ampersand, and the mysterious Agent 355, Yorick embarks on a transcontinental... (more)

Emergence

by David Palmer

The Walking Dead Vol. 4: The Heart's Desire

The Walking Dead: Book 4

The Walking Dead Vol. 4: The Heart's Desire

by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn

Life in the prison starts to get interesting for Rick Grimes and the rest of our survivors. Relationships heat up, fizzle out, and change entirely almost overnight. By the end of this volume, relationships between key characters are radically changed, setting the stage for future events in TheWalking Dead.

The Penultimate Truth

by Philip K. Dick

What if you discovered that everything you knew about the world was a lie? That’s the question at the heart of Philip K. Dick’s futuristic novel about political oppression, the show business of politics and the sinister potential of the military industrial complex. This wry, paranoid thriller imagines a future in which the earth has been ravaged, and cities are burnt-out wastelands too dangerous for human life.... (more)

Monster Island: A Zombie Novel

by David Wellington

It's one month after a global disaster. The most "developed" nations of the world have fallen to the shambling zombie masses. Only a few pockets of humanity survive — in places rife with high-powered weaponry, such as Somalia. In New York City, the dead walk the streets, driven by an insatiable hunger for all things living. One amongst them is different; though he shares their appetites he has retained his... (more)

Gears of War: Book 2

Jacinto's Remant

by Karen Traviss

Based on the blockbuster Xbox game, this is the stunning story of the men and women who stood between a planet and total destruction–and now have to face the consequences of their actions. After a brutal fifteen-year war for survival, the Coalition of Ordered Governments is forced to destroy mankind’s last city in a final bid to stop the Locust Horde. As the survivors flee Jacinto, they must contend with the last... (more)

MalevilRobert Merle

Malevil

by Robert Merle

Fiction, Science Fiction, Post Nuclear War, Adventure

Winter Duty: A Novel of the Vampire Earth

Winter Duty: A Novel of the Vampire Earth

by E. E. Knight

Major David Valentine and his fugitive battalion are the remnants of an expeditionary force shattered in its long retreat from disaster in the Appalachians. Between a raging blizzard, bands of headhunters, and the need to recover wounded soldiers lost during the retreat, Valentine is in for the toughest winter of his life. And Valentine is losing allies fast. Some of the clans in the region have declared... (more)

The Hunger Games: Book 2

Catching Fire

by Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire is the second book in Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games Trilogy. It is the sequel to the 2008 bestseller The Hunger Games, continuing the story of Katniss Everdeen and the fictional futuristic nation of Panem. It was released September 1, 2009, with an initial print of 250,000 copies.

Terminator Salvation: The Official Prequel Novelization

Terminator Salvation: The Official Prequel Novelization

by Timothy Zahn

In Terminator: Salvation, the highly anticipated new installment of the Terminator movie franchise, set in post-apocalyptic 2018, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. From The Ashes, written by Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn, is the official prequel novel to the high-octane new movie, revealing the full story leading... (more)

Wastelands

Stories of the Apocalypse

by John Joseph Adams

Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon - these are our guides through the Wastelands... From the Book of Revelations to The Road Warrior; from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. Gathering together the best post-apocalyptic literature of the last... (more)

Without Warning

by John Birmingham

In Kuwait, American forces are stacked up, locked and loaded for the invasion of Iraq. In Paris, a covert agent, a woman who inhabits a twilight of lies and death, is close to cracking a terrorist cell. And just north of the equator, a forty-foot wood-hulled sailboat, manned by a drug runner, a pirate, and two gun-slinging beauties, is witness to the unspeakable. In one instant, all around the world, for... (more)

The Walking Dead Volume 4 HC

by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn

The hardcover features another 12 issues of the hit series along with the covers for the issues all in one oversized hardcover volume. Perfect for long-time fans, new readers, and anyone interested in reading a zombie movie on paper that never ends.

Time Storm

The Wild's CallJeri Smith-Ready

The Wild's Call

by Jeri Smith-Ready

It is seven years after the collapse of modern civilization, and the world is entering a new Dark Age. Can best friends Elysia and Darien trust the animal spirits that are beckoning them to escape into the wilderness and create a new way of life? And will they give in to the mutual passion they've always denied? Don't miss this thrilling prequel story set in the same world as Jeri Smith-Ready's Aspect of Crow... (more)

The Walking Dead Book 1 (Walking Dead)

by Robert Kirkman

This hardcover features the first 12 issues of the hit series along with the covers for the issues in one oversized hardcover volume. Perfect for long time fans, new readers and anyone needing a slightly heavy object with which to fend off the walking dead.

Y: The Last Man: Book 7

Paper Dolls

by Brian K. Vaughan

The saga of Yorick Brown, the last man on Earth, continues in PAPER DOLLS, writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra's award-winning VERTIGO series. In addition to catching up on the adventures of Yorick's monkey Ampersand (whose body holds the key to stopping the male-killing plague) and telling the origin of Agent 355, PAPER DOLLS chronicles Yorick and 355's search for Yorick's fiancee Beth in Australia -- a... (more)

Footfall

by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle

"NOBODY DOES IT BETTER THAN NIVEN AND POURNELLE. I LOVED IT!" --Tom Clancy They first appear as a series of dots on astronomical plates, heading from Saturn directly toward Earth. Since the ringed planet carries no life, scientists deduce the mysterious ship to be a visitor from another star. The world's frantic efforts to signal the aliens go unanswered. The first contact is hostile: the invaders blast a... (more)

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Top Books

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Antichrist Is Born

by Tim F. Lahaye

by Brian K. Vaughan

by David Palmer

by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn

by Philip K. Dick

by David Wellington

by Karen Traviss

by Robert Merle

by E. E. Knight

by Suzanne Collins

by Timothy Zahn

Stories of the Apocalypse

by John Joseph Adams

by John Birmingham

by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn

by Jeri Smith-Ready

by Robert Kirkman

by Brian K. Vaughan

by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle