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1) Bird box
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Bird Box novels volume 1
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In Bird Box, brilliantly imaginative debut author Josh Malerman captures an apocalyptic near-future world, where a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choice and they will die. And something is following them -- but is it man, animal, or monster? Within these tracks, Malerman, a professional musician, discusses his love of horror and invokes an ethereal and atmospheric experience in an homage...
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"In a world on the brink of the next Great Dying, no amount of training can prepare us for what is to come...A young heir will raise the most powerful phantom in all of Baiseen. A dangerous High Savant will do anything to control the nine realms. A mysterious and deadly Mar race will steal children into the sea. And a handsome guide with far too many secrets will make me fall in love. My name is Ash. A lowly scribe meant to observe and record. And...
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Publishers Weekly Top 10 Best of the YearIn her new collection, Story Prize finalist Maureen F. McHugh delves into the dark heart of contemporary life and life five minutes from now and how easy it is to mix up one with the other. Her stories are post-bird flu, in the middle of medical trials, wondering if our computers are smarter than us, wondering when our jobs are going to be outsourced overseas, wondering if we are who we say we are, and not...
4) 14
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Padlocked doors. Strange light fixtures. Mutant cockroaches. There are some odd things about Nate's new apartment. Every room in this old brownstone has a mystery. Mysteries that stretch back over a hundred years. Some of them are in plain sight. Some are behind locked doors. And all together these mysteries could mean the end of Nate and his friends. Or the end of everything...
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Today there is unprecedented interest in the end times. Scientists admit that a meteor almost hit the earth. Citizens are concerned for their safety and our future. In this fast-paced, page-turning novel, The End of the Age portrays the real possibility that a world-wide catastrophe will trigger prophetic events predicted in Revelation that bring the world to the edge of the end times.
7) In the flood
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"Trapped and separated by an apocalyptic rainfall, Mike and Clara, devoted husband and wife, have sworn to find their way back to one another. But they quickly discover that the rain--and their predicament--is not what it seems"--
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The zombie apocalypse, Greg Garrett shows us, has become an archetypal narrative for the contemporary world, in part because zombies can stand in for any of a variety of global threats, from terrorism to Ebola, from economic uncertainty to ecological destruction. But this zombie narrative also brings us emotional and spiritual comfort. These apocalyptic stories, in which the world has been turned upside down and protagonists face the prospect of an...
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"A psychedelic fairytale for the modern age. A Greater Monster is the mind-bending second novel by the author of the acclaimed Death by Zamboni. This darkly poetic tale takes you on a trip into a radically twisted alternate reality that reflects civilization like a funhouse a mirror. Along the way, you'll encounter sphinxes, gods, living skeletons, witches, and quite possibly the strangest circus ever imagined"--Back cover.
11) Żywego ducha
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Polish
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Zagłada cicha jak kot? Potop bez opadów? Terrorystyczny atak z nieba? Globalne wyludnienie? Apokalipsa rozgrywa się w języku. Świat kończy się, bo milknie. Dalekie głuche pożary. Nie ma do kogo gęby otworzyć. Przed aniołem śmierci, który przeszedł przez Warszawę, uchodzi jedynie pisarz -- odludek. Można powiedzieć trafił żywy duch na swego. Po kolejnych próbach nawiązania kontaktu z kimkolwiek i gdziekolwiek nie może się dłużej...
12) Spawn: [Vol. 1]
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Al Simmons was an elite government soldier, until he was killed in battle and then resurrected from the ashes of his own grave, reborn as a disfigured creature from the depths of Hell. With no memory or knowledge of his former identity, Spawn becomes a protector for the weak, the poor and the downtrodden.
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Spawn origins volume 1
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Government agent Al Simmons is resurrected from the depths of hell and returns to earth as a warrior guarding the people of New York City while attempting to learn about his own past and battling creatures such as Malebolgia and the Violator.
17) El libro de Enoc
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Español
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"Enoc, séptimo patriarca después de Adán, "arrebatado por Dios y llevado al cielo", se distingue por varios rasgos: su vida es más corta, pero alcanza una cifra perfecta: el número de días de un año solar. Fue una gran figura de la tradición judía, que le atribuye varios libros apócrifos. Profecía y cosmogonía, comunicadas en bellas imágenes se alían en este libro absolutamente simbólico, lleno de visiones apocalípticas, que reafirman...
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Korean edition of [The Line Between: A Thriller] by Tosca Lee. In this frighteningly believable thriller from New York Times best-selling author Tosca Lee, an extinct disease re-emerges from the melting Alaskan permafrost to cause madness in its victims. Korean edition translated by Jo Yeong Hak.
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Ukrainian
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"Yaksho mozhna postiyno prokydatysya v riznykh mistsyakh i v rizni chasy, chomu b odnoho razu ne prokynutysya inshoyu lyudynoyu? Same takoyi istyny pevnoho dnya dokholyt' bezimennyy heroy tsiyeyi istoriyi. Dosyapy bazhanoho, vnesty novyy zmist u perepovnenu bezsonnyam real'nist' yomu dopomahaye buntivnyk na imʼya Tayler D'orlen. Toy pryvodyt' heroya u mistse, shcho zvet'sya biytsivs'kym klubom. I pershe pravylo klubu -- nikoly nikomu ne hovoryty...
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