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  First Things Last - Stories of...

  Daniel J. Thompson

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  A sentient cloud whose arrogance leads to its own demise. A rich uncle who discovers a possible solution to climate change, but is not who he appears to be. A phantom killer who uses other people (and their cars) to commit murder. Balloons that predict the future. Paranormal investigators at the beach. Wolfmen who hunt bears for sport. A Cinderella story at a retirement home. Celebrities forced to make movies for eternity in a simulated world. A girlfriend who believes we reside in the mind of God.  
  Part noir, part humour and part horror (often all three). First Things Last is a book you might have to read twice to find your way out of.

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  The Terror

  ARTHUR MACHEN

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  It is 1915, the war wages in mainland europe... but death also stalks the lanes and farms of a lonely england. A death that nobody can explain, that the papers are not allowed to speak of. Who or what is responsible for these mysterious killings? Are they the result of human agency, or something more sinister?Just what is the truth behind... The Terror!Written by Arthur Machen in 1917, narrated by Michael Ward.

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  Rend

  Brian Parker

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  The nation’s capital has fallen to the zombies in the series that started with Gnash, “a mashup of Stephen King, Tom Clancy, and just a dash of Dan Brown” (Larry Duane, host of Not Ready for Radio). 
   
  Six years ago, the president made the difficult decision to abandon Washington to the undead—and The Wall was built to keep them trapped inside. Now, a new presidential election revives the hopes of the nation as one candidate promises to retrieve the Declaration of Independence and Constitution from behind The Wall. 
   
  Retired CIA operative Asher Hawke, AKA the Kestrel, agrees to lead a team to recover the national treasures. But when they insert behind The Wall, they discover that organized crime families have been stealing priceless artwork and cash—as well as disposing of bodies . . . 
   
  Praise for the thrillers of Brian Parker 
   
  “Gnash is an action-packed read that’s as scary a nest of black widow spiders taking up residence in your bedroom.” —The Bookie Monster 
   
  “Parker did a wonderful job of creating a seedy Noir future setting which invokes Blade Runner without copying it.” —C.T. Phipps, author of the Supervillainy Saga 
   
  “These characters are so well rounded and perfect in their imperfection it feels incredibly real as you read it.” —J.B. Havens, author of the Steel Corps series 
   
  “With A Path of Ashes, Brian Parker has taken a major step toward becoming a leader in Post-Apocalyptic fiction.” —W.J. Lundy, author of the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot series

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  The Cement Garden

  Ian McEwan

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  Orphaned siblings create a macabre secret world for themselves in this “irresistibly readable” novel by the New York Times-bestselling author (The New York Review of Books).   This “powerful and disconcerting” novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Children Act and Atonement (The Daily Telegraph) tells the story of a dying family who live in a dying part of the city. A father of four children decides, in an effort to make his garden easier to control, to pave it over. In the process, he has a heart attack and dies, leaving the cement garden unfinished and the children to the care of their mother.   Soon after, the mother too dies and the children, fearful of being separated by social services, decide to cover up their parents’ deaths: they bury their mother in the cement garden. The story is told from the point of view of Jack, one of the sons, who is entering adolescence with all of its attendant curiosity and appetites. Julie, the eldest, is almost a grown woman. Sue is rather bookish and observes all that goes on around her. And Tom is the youngest and the baby of the lot. The children seem to manage in this perverse setting rather well—until Julie brings home a boyfriend who threatens their secret by asking too many questions.   “[A] beautiful but disturbing novel.”—The AV Club   “McEwan’s evocative detail and perfect British prose lend a genteel decorum to the death and decay that surround the family.”—The New Yorker

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  The King of Clayfield

  Shane Gregory

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  “One of the best survivalist horror stories I’ve read in quite a while . . . This is a tale that is well worth reading.” —Jeff Jellets, Territorial Disaster Coordinator for The Salvation Army 
   
  On a cold February day in the small town of Clayfield, Kentucky, an unsuspecting and unprepared museum director finds himself in the middle of hell on Earth. A pandemic is spreading around the globe, and it’s turning most of the residents of Clayfield into murderous zombies. Having no safe haven to which he can flee, the director decides to stick it out near his hometown and wait for the government to send help. 
   
  But the disease and those infected are not his only concerns. He must also contend with armed gangs, strife within his group, his own lack of skills . . . and his conscience. 
   
  There are tough decisions to be made if he is to survive. But if he is smart—and a little lucky—he can do more than survive. He can live like a king. 
   
  “Very enjoyable.” —Horror News

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  Hybrid - A Thriller

  James Marshall Smith

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  Dieter Harmon stared in shock at the sight of the hiker's corpse, the head hanging only by a tangled ribbon of flesh. But what horrified him were claw marks on the victim's chest. Something has gone terribly wrong with the government's plan to return wolves to Yellowstone.As Dieter seeks answers, he is drawn into an escalating battle with Jack Corey, the chief park ranger. This is Corey's dream project. Wolves have been missing from the primitive beauty of Yellowstone for decades—it is past time to bring them back. For Jack Corey, this bitter fight is personal. And to his advantage, he knows well that in the remote back country tragic "accidents" happen.That is where Dieter Harmon sets out to track a gruesome hybrid wolf that shouldn't even exist. But he soon finds that two predators are stalking him. They are very different in nature, but equally deadly.

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