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It's such a cute little bed & breakfast, out there next to the lighthouse on a tiny island in San Francisco Bay. A neat little Victorian house, tidy gardens, and a great view of the shoreline. Nice reviews on all the websites. What a great place to get away from it all! Cody Breen is looking for a quiet place to write. The software development team down the hall needs a place far from WiFi. It's ideal for everyone. But a storm is brewing, the power has been cut, and something is coming up out of the water...something hungry.

On a dark and stormy night in 1816, a teenage girl sat down and invented science fiction. Mary Shelley was no more than 18 years old when she wrote Frankenstein. From the moment of its publication 200 years ago, readers have been wondering, as Mary put it, “How I, then a young girl, came to think of, and to dilate upon, so very hideous an idea?” Outcasts takes readers behind the scenes, to reveal the surprisingly contemporary thoughts and feelings of Mary, an unmarried mother and the lover of radical poet Percy Shelley, their friend Lord Byron, and the other guests at the “most famous literary party in history”. What led the daughter of two of the most radical philosophers in England to turn her hand to horror?

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. Featuring original stories by bestselling authors Sarah Stegall, Rachel Caine, Hank Philippi Ryan, Kelley Armstrong, Kami Garcia, Greg Cox and many others. Edited by New York Times bestseller Jonathan Maberry (V-WARS).

Fans of TV's hottest cult show will find this compendium of facts and figures about The X-Files essential. Contains complete episode guide, photos, the story of the show's origin, interviews with X-Files creator Chris Carter and actors David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, plus a detailed look at the extraordinary special effects and a wealth of intriguing trivia.

The official guide to the third season of the X-Files, this must-have fan favorite includes detailed synopses, behind-the-scenes detail, and intriguing trivia.

One of the most popular and critically acclaimed TV shows in recent years, The X-Files, created by Chris Carter and starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, continues to break new ground in dramatic series television. I Want to Believe is the authoritative, fact-packed episode guide to the fourth season of this Emmy award-winning series no X-Phile can be without.

Sophia Abenezra arrives in the Arctic Circle searching for extreme forms of life -- and finds more than she expected. Her Inuit guide Nick Tonarak and his pet wolf guard an ancient family secret, one that will change her view of the world and the universe. Even as they are drawn to one another, an intruder from another world hunts them through the icy waste, seeking to end an ancient war.

When disaster traps the adults of LunaBase without air or power, only young Kaho and his friends are left to rescue them. Using the ancient Apollo 17 Moon Rover, the group races against the clock to Farside--and in doing so, makes a discovery that changes the future of the colony.

Private investigator Claire Turnbull meets the ghost of Old West lawman Wyatt Earp over a cooling corpse in San Francisco, and is dismayed to discover that only she can see or hear him. Reluctantly, she teams with the ghost to solve a murder mystery that threatens her own life: who killed a bigamous thief and stole a 150-year-old ship's log? Was it just another in a long string of cons, or is there really a hoard of gold hidden in San Francisco? The hunt takes Claire and Wyatt from the high rises of the modern city into a murky past buried under San Francisco.

The San Francisco police think Allison Farley drowned during the Alcatraz Triathlon. Her boyfriend doesn't agree, and hires private eye Claire Turnbull to find out what happened. What he doesn't know is that Claire has a secret partner, the ghost of Old West lawman Wyatt Earp. They dig into a case that gets more tangled with every new clue. The final answers may be hidden on Alcatraz, the infamous prison in San Francisco Bay.

It's hard for a good magician to find work when the rest of the world is abandoning magic for technology. One young mage has to find a way to bridge the worlds.