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Under the Dome (Paperback)

$19.99
ISBN-13: 9781439149034
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Published: Gallery Books, 9/2010

READ THE BOOK, THEN WATCH THE MOVIE!

With Under the Dome, Stephen King brings to life another gripping thriller novel for which he is so well known. The town of Chester Mills, Maine, has been surrounded by an impenetrable dome, immune to cars, bullets, and even cruise missiles. As the world outside of the dome prays for the inhabitant’s survival, the ones inside battle to keep the peace, as power struggles in the local government and the town’s biggest secret slowly begin to wear at the town’s moral fiber. As soon as the dome lands, you won’t want to put this book down.

- Nick

NOS4A2 (Hardcover)

$28.99
ISBN-13: 9780062200570
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Published: William Morrow, 4/2013

 

In NOS4A2 (Nosferatu in translation), Joe Hill brings a bone-chilling horror story filled with elements that may surprise you. Christmas, life-sucking vehicles, flavored sevoflurane, and serial killers all make an appearance. Although these elements may not seem to fit the untrained eye, Hill brings them all together to make a novel that will cause one to sleep with the lights on. As horror stories go, NOS4A2 is like nothing you’ve ever read, and this unfamiliarity will surely make the journey to Christmasland even more frightening.
- Nick

Homeland (Hardcover)

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ISBN-13: 9780765333698
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Published: Tor Teen, 2/2013

In this sequel to Little Brother, Marcus Yallow’s past has caught up to him. His hacking prestige has given him a celebrity status and a job for a politician who promises reform in a collapsing California. But all this could be lost when Marcus is given a thumb drive with enough government dirt to take down all the agencies that tortured him all those years ago. Now he must make the choice of his life: keep his job and the family and friends he loves safe, or risk it all and attempt to take down a government that has taken advantage of so many people. Homeland is another great shock-and-awe novel from Cory Doctorow that always seems a little too real to be fiction.

- Nick

Zone One (Hardcover)

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ISBN-13: 9780385528078
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Published: Doubleday, 10/2011
After the Last Night, everyone had his own story to tell. As the plague recedes, mankind begins to rebuild in the place where dreams were once made, New York City. Now called Zone One, this city is slowly being cleansed of its plagued residents and cleared for habitation by its uninfected liberators. For three days, the reader is taken between Mark Spitz’s personal odyssey of survival through the first months of the plague, and his present tale, as he learns how others survived. Colson Whitehead’s Zone One is a zombie book in every aspect, but with a smooth, intellectual language that opens up the world that the author creates in a way that makes you feel like you’re the one running for your life.
-  Nick

BZRK (Hardcover)

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ISBN-13: 9781606843123
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Published: EgmontUSA, 2/2012
There are only two choices in the war for the nano. You can fight and have a slight chance of victory, or you can not fight and slowly slip into madness. The battlefield is the human brain, and the cost of losing this battle could mean the end of the world as you know it. With fast pace action, a storyline filled with insanity and conspiracy, and a love story of two opposites brought together by this war, Michael Grant’s BZRK is something to experience.
- Nick

$26.00
ISBN-13: 9780812992793
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Published: Random House, 1/2012
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson is a masterfully written novel in which a man alone means nothing, but the story that follows him means everything. Pak Jun Do, the son of an orphan master, must survive in North Korea, where Kim Jong-Il still reigns, a place where the slightest doubt in the greatness of this nation will lead to your disappearance. To survive, Jun Do must evolve from the humble part of the machine that is the Republic of North Korea into an individual who will create his own fate and write a story that will have any reader cheering.
- Nick

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ISBN-13: 9780316093521
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Published: Orbit, 3/2012
Have you ever had that feeling that you’ve done everything you could possibly do? Emperor Mollusk knows just how you feel; he has destroyed and conquered planets, invented every kind of death ray and doomsday device imaginable, and is the former Warlord of Earth. With retirement in full swing and the contentment of exploring the reaches of science, the Emperor can look for other ways to satisfy his constant need for challenge. But, when an Atlantese assassin team comes knocking on his door, the Emperor finds out that retirement won’t be as peaceful as he thought.
-  Nick

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ISBN-13: 9780399255007
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Published: Philomel, 4/2011
John Flanagan paints a medieval portrait of castles and chivalry in this New York Times best-selling series. In the tenth and final installment of the series, Flanagan brings us to the empire of Nihon-Ja, an oriental empire, where a rigid class system and a kind Emperor reign. But all is not well in the empire, as an uprising of Nihon-Jan elite move to eradicate the commoner-loving Emperor from power. The Rangers and their companions must once again fight to keep the rightful ruler on his throne. In The Emperor of Nihon-Ja, Flanagan tells a tale that really caps off this great series with an amazing ending.
- Nick

The Deep Zone (Hardcover)

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ISBN-13: 9780345530615
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Published: Ballantine Books, 4/2012
As a terrible disease rips through the United States Army and its medical personnel, a team of highly trained scientists head into Cueva de Luz, a super cave where moonmilk, an extremophile that lives in the depths of this cave and the only possible hope for curing this disease, is said to be held. As time passes, the journey for the five scientists becomes increasingly difficult; sheer cliffs and flooded tunnels block their path. Stopping this disease becomes much less of a clear cut reality, as mystery and suspicion envelope both the mission team and how the disease really came to be. If you like fast-paced thrillers, then The Deep Zone by James M. Tabor should be on your reading list.
-- Nick