Tsamaase, Tlotlo
Summary: This genre-bending Africanfuturist horror novel blends The Handmaid's Tale with Get Out in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman's right to her own body. Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless marriage to a policeman who uses a microchip to monitor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Erewhon, an imprint of Kensington Publishing Corp. 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TSABarnes, S. A.
Summary: While part of a small space exploration crew on an abandoned planet, a psychologist confronts a gruesome murder and twisted secrets as she races to prevent history from repeating itself in the form of space-borne madness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEFelker-Martin, Gretchen
Summary: "Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they'll never face the same fate. Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: other people aren't safe. After a brutal accident entwines the three of them, this found family of survivors must navigate murderous TERFs, a sociopathic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FELCottingham, Kayla
Summary: This summer is going to get gory. Two years ago, a small percentage of the population underwent a transformation known as the Hollowing. Those affected were only able to survive by consuming human flesh. The people who went without quickly became feral, turning on their friends and family. Luckily, scientists were able to create a synthetic version of human meat that would satisfy their hunger....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: PA FIC COTDevlin, Malcolm
Summary: "In a world reeling from an unusual plague, monsters lurk in the streets while terrified survivors arm themselves and roam the countryside in packs. Or perhaps something very different is happening. When a disease affects how reality is perceived, it's hard to be certain of anything. Spence is one of the "cured" living at the Ironside rehabilitation facility. Haunted by guilt, he refuses to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2022
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Summary: When a new information channel that enables the transmission of unprecedented volumes of data is developed, the bandwidth's users begin having strange experiences that lead to the realization that it might be a pathway to the spirit realm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEAKing, Stephen
Summary: In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent; and while they sleep they go to another place. The men of our world are abandoned, left to their increasingly primal devices. One...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: The year is 2061, and the planet is dying. The human race is headed to Mars. When Dr. Sophie Winston and her team train for the flight, they come back to an abandoned earth. No humans and no water.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Moving to her father's home in California after a decade at her mother's isolated ranch, a teen who has been taught to fear technology reunites with friends and family members before experiencing nightmares about a dark-web video game that poses life-threatening dangers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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Summary: 9-year-old Mellie Gore rescues Bert the cat from behind the YummCo Foods factory, and Mellie soon wonders if the mystery surrounding Bert's behavior is connected to the powerful YummCo Foods company or could he truly be a zombie?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LARDarke, J. A.
Summary: Eighth-grader Emily Lemon wakes up and discovers that none of the gadgets around her house are working properly, and the computers at her middle school seem to have a mind of their own--but when the scoreboard in the gym displays the words "the revolution has begun, down with humanity" she realizes that humanity has lost control and civilization as we know it is in serious trouble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, A Capstone Imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DARCollins, A. L. (Ai Lynn)
Summary: Fifth-grader Yin is really excited about her class trip to the International Space Station Three and the station museum's newest exhibit, the Star Cabbage, an alien plant discovered floating in space and considered harmless; but the station is on lockdown, the crew is not in evidence, and something large and growling is stalking the halls--but Yin is determined to investigate and find out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED COLGrant, Michael
Summary: The Perdido Beach dome is down, but the horrors within have spread. The alien virus-infested rock that created the FAYZ is creating monsters. Into the chaos comes a villain with the power to control anyone with just the sound of his voice. Dillon Poe wanted to be a comedian once, but everyone made fun of him. Now he's sending thousands to their deaths. The only people who stand in his way are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRAGrey, Melissa
Summary: "Ten years ago, disaster struck the remote town of Indigo Falls. A horrific event drove the residents underground, into shelters that keep them safe from the danger on the surface. No one speaks about what happened that fateful day, but even the youngest still remember the fear and, most of all, the searing pain when sunlight touched their skin. Now, a handful of families inhabit this bunker...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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Summary: Three years ago, the melting of arctic permafrost released a pathogen of unknown origin into the atmosphere, causing a small percentage of people to undergo a transformation that became known as the Hollowing. Those impacted slowly became intolerant to normal food and were only able to gain sustenance by consuming the flesh of other human beings. Those who went without flesh quickly became...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Fire, an imprint of Sourcebooks 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COTBowman, Erin
Summary: After receiving a distress call from a drill team on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is sent into deep space to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission. When they arrive, they find the planet littered with the remains of the project--including its members' dead bodies. As they try to piece together what could have possibly decimated an entire project, they discover that some things are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BOWGrant, Mira
Summary: "FEEDBACK is a full-length Newsflesh novel which overlaps the events of Feed and covers the Presidential campaign from the perspective of reporters covering the Democrats side of the story. There are two sides to every story ... The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we unleashed something horrifying and unstoppable. The infection spread leaving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAGrant, Mira.
Summary: "THE SECOND BOOK IN MIRA GRANT'S TERRIFYING PARASITOLOGY SERIES. THE ENEMY IS INSIDE US. The SymboGen designed tapeworms were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the majority of the world's population began attacking their hosts turning them into a ravenous horde. Now those who do not appear to be afflicted are being gathered for quarantine as panic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAScalzi, John
Summary: "Fifteen years from now, a new virus sweeps the globe. 95% of those afflicted experience nothing worse than fever and headaches. Four percent suffer acute meningitis, creating the largest medical crisis in history. And one percent find themselves "locked in"--fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. One per cent doesn't seem like a lot. But in the United States, that's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Scalzi 2014Summary: The apocalypse is upon us, and every man, woman and child had to answer a simple question of themselves: "What do we do now?" For a group of neighbors in the Chicago suburbs of Northern Indiana, it is "work together or die"...and figure out how to live on top of oil storage tanks to keep the zombies at bay. For the Biological Emergency Response Teams in New York City, it is "how long can we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2016
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Ringo 2016Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: "Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach. It's a quiet life, until a local eccentric known as Spooky Ed shows up on their doorstep. Ed entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange and dangerous object--something he calls 'the key to everything'--and tells Jeffy that he must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KOORingo, John
Summary: In the conclusion to the Black Tide Rising series, the Wolf Squadron, its leader Steve Smith and what's left of the U.S. Navy band together to retake the mainland from the infected, while Smith's teenage daughters hold the key to the rebirth of civilization on a devastated planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RINKing, Stephen
Summary: In the middle of the night, in a house in suburban Minneapolis, intruders murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. Other kids with special talents -- telekinesis and telepathy -- are also here. Some, like Luke, are in Front Half, while others graduated to Back Half. In this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thordike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KINMaberry, Jonathan.
Summary: Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are back in a chilling collection of all-new tales of dark secrets, alien agendas, terrifying monsters, and murderous madmen.Edited by New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry, The Truth Is out There features original stories by bestselling authors Rachel Caine, David Wolverton, Hank Philippi Ryan, Kelley Armstrong, Kami Garcia, Greg Cox, and many others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016