Lamar Public Library

Dr. John Stapleton, embittered by the deaths of his wife and daughters in a plane crash and the loss of his ophthalmology practice to AmeriCare, retrains for a career in forensic pathology where he uncovers a plot by the health care giant to kill off its more costly subscribers.

The Nash family is close-knit. Tom is a popular teacher and the proud father of two well-adjusted teens: Eli, a hockey star and girl magnet, and Deenie, a diligent student. But the Nashes' seeming stability is thrown into chaos when Deenie's best friend is struck by a terrifying, unexplained seizure in class. Panic spreads through the family, the school, and the community when no cause can be discovered for the mysterious illness. Soon more girls...

Jessie and her gang of zombies have a wonderful life in "Hicksville", Indiana. But now new beings are in the woods; they aren't human nor are they zombies. But a new disease has come that makes the undead more alive and the living to exist on the brink of death.

Sunday school teacher Rachel Lynde, Felix, and Sara find themselves quarantined with the old curmudgeon, Alexander Abraham.

The world as we know it has changed forever. The reason is Coldbrook. The facility lay deep in Appalachian Mountains, a secret laboratory called Coldbrook. Its scientists had achieved the impossible: a gateway to a new world. Theirs was to be the greatest discovery in the history of mankind, but they had no idea what they were unleashing.

"Jenna's parents had finally given in, and there she was, at a New York club with her best friends, watching the legendary band Avenue A, carrying her demo in hopes of slipping it to the guitarist, Jake Kincade. Then, from the stage, Jake catches her eye, and smiles. It's the best night of her life. It's the last night of her life. Minutes later, Jake's in the alley getting some fresh air, and the girl from the dance floor comes stumbling out, sick...