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GARY JENNINGS’ APOCALYPSE 2012 by Robert Gleason and Junius Podrug — In ancient Mexico, the “End-Time Codex” — prophesizing the world’s end in 2012 — is entombed. A young Aztec-Mayan slave tells us its story. Gifted in math and astronomy, Coyotl rises to king’s counselor in Tula, a golden city of milk and honey ruled by the brilliant god-king, Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent of lore. Gathering artists, scientists and craftsmen, this legendary ruler builds a city that will awe humanity for one thousand years. But he also faces war, catastrophic drought, betrayal and the rise of an evil death-cult religion. Instituting the infamous “Blood Covenant,” its priests drag thousands of people a year atop temple-pyramids and rip their hearts beating from their chests. To stop them Quetzalcoatl must defy the flames of bloody civil war.
THE YEAR OF DISAPPEARANCES by Susan Hubbard — Ariella Montero is no stranger to the dark side of life. Half-human, half-vampire, she spent her first 13 years in exile from both societies. When her best friend was murdered, Ari ran away to begin a new life in Florida. But, one by one, the people and things she cares most about keep disappearing. And Ari may be next. She can hypnotize, she can read minds, and she can make herself invisible, but can she escape her stalkers? Ari’s special talents are severely tested as she moves on — from a vampire community in the Sunshine State to college in Georgia to the primeval maze of the Okefenokee Swamp. In contending with the politics of vampire and human cultures, Ari comes face-to-face with zombies that are infiltrating America, as well as demons and shadows that haunt us all.
DISMANTLED by Jennifer McMahon — Henry, Tess, Winnie and Suz banded together in college to form a group they called the Compassionate Dismantlers. Following the first rule of their manifesto — “To understand the nature of a thing, it must be taken apart” — these daring misfits spend the summer after graduation in a remote cabin in the Vermont woods committing acts of meaningful vandalism and plotting elaborate, often dangerous, pranks. But everything changes when one particularly twisted experiment ends in Suz’s death and the others decide to cover it up. Nearly a decade later, Henry and Tess are living just an hour’s drive from the old cabin. Each is desperate to move on, but their guilt isn’t ready to let them go. When a victim of their past pranks commits suicide, it sets off a chain of eerie events that threatens to engulf Henry, Tess and their inquisitive 9-year-old daughter, Emma.
FAR NORTH by Marcel Theroux — Out on the far northern border of a failed state, Makepeace — sheriff and perhaps the last citizen — patrols the city ruins, salvaging books but keeping the guns in good repair. Into this cold land comes shocking evidence that life might be flourishing elsewhere: a refugee from the vast emptiness of forest, whose existence inspires Makepeace to reconnect with human society and take to the road, armed with rough humor and an unlikely ration of optimism. What he finds is a world unraveling, stockaded villages enforcing an uncertain justice, and hidden work camps laboring to harness the little-understood technologies of a vanished civilization.
PANIC IN LEVEL 4: CANNIBALS, KILLER VIRUSES, AND OTHER JOURNEYS TO THE EDGE OF SCIENCE by Richard Preston — PANIC IN LEVEL 4 is a tour through the eerie universe of Preston, filled with incredible characters and mysteries that refuse to leave one’s mind. Here are dramatic true stories, including the phenomenon of “self-cannibals,” who suffer from a rare genetic condition that forces them to compulsively chew their own flesh; the search for the unknown host of Ebola virus, an organism hidden somewhere in African rain forests; and the brilliant Russian brothers — “one mathematician divided between two bodies” —who built a supercomputer in their apartment from mail-order parts in an attempt to find hidden order in the number pi.
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THE YEAR OF DISAPPEARANCES cover looks (purposely, one assumes) like the ads for TRUE BLOOD.