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It's time for the annual Recipe Days bake-off in Lubbock, Texas. Soccer moms and grandmothers gather to show off their family recipes, learn new secrets for the perfect shortcake, and perhaps earn a chance to be on the famous cooking show, How Would You Cook It, Then? When the bake-off is crashed by a federation of pro wrestlers - including American Badass, Jersey Devil Jill, Tiny Giant, The Village Person, Jonah the Whale, the Hellbillies, and the fan favorite Xombie - all hell is set to break loose. Your heart beats faster as you anticipate who will come out on top in the ultimate showdown of the century: soccer moms or pro wrestlers. Anything can happen. An infected batch of donuts has transformed most of the wrestlers into mindless brain-eaters and the doors of the convention center have been chained shut, leaving the survivors locked inside, forced to fend for themselves against the hungry dead. Possessing the intensity of a shotgun to the face, Zombie Bake-Off is a stripped-down masterpiece of blood and doughnuts from celebrated author Stephen Graham Jones.
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Nobody knows the seedy underbelly of Las Vegas like Daniel Faust, a sorcerer for hire and ex-gangster who uses black magic and bullets to solve his clients' problems. When an old man comes seeking vengeance for his murdered granddaughter, what looks like a simple job quickly spirals out of control. Soon Daniel stands in the crossfire between a murderous porn director; a corrupt cop with a quick trigger finger; and his own former employer, a racket boss who isn't entirely human.
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Urban fantasy noir. Done right..
- By Cliff on 02-19-15
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- By: David Wellington
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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When vampire hunter Laura Caxton is locked up in a maximum-security prison, the cop-turned-con finds herself surrounded by countless murderers and death-row inmates with nothing to lose and plenty of time to kill. Caxton’s always been able to watch her own back—even when it’s against a cell-block wall.
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This LBGTQ hero is a must read or listen
- By DK R. on 03-26-22
By: David Wellington
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Company Town
- By: Madeline Ashby
- Narrated by: Cecelia Kim
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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They call it Company Town - a city-size oil rig off the coast of the Canadian Maritimes, now owned by one very wealthy, powerful, byzantine family: Lynch Ltd. Hwa is of the few people in her community (which constitutes the whole rig) to forgo bioengineered enhancements. As such, she's the last truly organic person left on the rig - making her doubly an outsider as well as a neglected daughter and bodyguard extraordinaire.
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Different
- By J.G. Brandt on 01-16-17
By: Madeline Ashby
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The Blood Guard
- Blood Guard, Book 1
- By: Carter Roy
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
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When thirteen-year-old Ronan Truelove’s seemingly ordinary mom snatches him from school, then sets off on a high speed car chase, Ronan is shocked. His quiet, nerdy dad has been kidnapped? And the kidnappers are after him, too? His mom, he quickly learns, is anything but ordinary. In fact, she’s a member of an ancient order of knights, the Blood Guard, a sword-wielding secret society sworn to protect the Pure — thirty-six noble souls whose safety is crucial if the world as we know it is to survive.
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Thrilling from start to finish
- By Amazon Customer on 09-28-17
By: Carter Roy
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Sister Mine
- By: Nalo Hopkinson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
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"We'd had to be cut free of our mother's womb. Abby and I were fused, you see. But here's the real kicker; Abby had the magic, I didn't." Now adults, Makeda and Abby still share their childhood home. The surgery to separate the two girls left Makeda with what feels like an even worse deformity: no mojo. The daughters of a celestial demigod and a human woman, Makeda and Abby were raised by their magical father. Today, Makeda has decided it's high time to move out and make her own life.
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Narrator saves this story
- By Denis A. on 03-21-14
By: Nalo Hopkinson
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Zombies: More Recent Dead
- By: Neil Gaiman, Carrie Vaughn, Caitlin R. Kiernan, and others
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt, Marguerite Gavin
- Length: 20 hrs and 14 mins
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The living dead are more alive than ever! Zombies have become more than an iconic monster for the 21st century: They are now a phenomenon constantly revealing as much about ourselves - and our fascination with death, resurrection, and survival - as our love for the supernatural or post-apocalyptic speculation. Our most imaginative literary minds have been devoured by these incredible creatures and produced exciting, insightful, and unflinching new works of zombie fiction.
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A well blended mix
- By The Lone Mopper on 07-30-15
By: Neil Gaiman, and others
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Monster Hunter International
- By: Larry Correia
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 24 hrs
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Five days after Owen Zastava Pitt pushed his insufferable boss out of a 14th story window, he woke up in the hospital with a scarred face, an unbelievable memory, and a job offer. It turns out that monsters are real. All the things from myth, legend, and B-movies are out there, waiting in the shadows. Some of them are evil, and some are just hungry. Monster Hunter International is the premier eradication company in the business. And now Owen is their newest recruit.
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Suprizingly entertaining
- By Konstantin on 02-17-12
By: Larry Correia
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Ghost Road Blues
- The Pine Deep Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Jonathan Maberry
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
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The cozy little town of Pine Deep buried the horrors of its past a long time ago. Thirty years have gone by since the darkness descended and the Black Harvest began, a time when a serial killer sheared a bloody swath through the quiet Pennsylvania village. The evil that once coursed through Pine Deep has been replaced by cheerful tourists getting ready to enjoy the country’s largest Halloween celebration in what is now called “The Spookiest Town in America.”
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Love Joe Ledger Series? Avoid This Trainwreck.
- By Kathleen on 10-21-13
By: Jonathan Maberry
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Under Wraps
- By: Hannah Jayne
- Narrated by: Jessica Almasy
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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Sick of wrongful-death lawsuits every time a full moon comes around? Call the Underworld Detection Agency. As a human immune to magic, Sophie Lawson can help everyone from banshee to zombie transition into normal, everyday San Francisco life. With a handsome werewolf as her UDA boss and a fashionista vampire for a roommate, Sophie knows everything there is to know about the undead, the unseen, and the uncanny. That is, until a rash of gruesome murders has demons and mortals running for cover, and Sophie finds herself playing sidekick to detective Parker Hayes.
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Annoying Narrator
- By Ocie Nelson on 07-23-14
By: Hannah Jayne
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Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick
- By: Joe Schreiber
- Narrated by: Steven Boyer
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
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New York Times best-selling author Joe Schreiber pens a funny, action-packed novel that is equal parts Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and La Femme Nikita. It’s prom night, and Perry is looking forward to playing a gig with his band in New York City. But when his mother makes him take their quiet and geeky Lithuanian exchange student to the dance, he finds himself on a reckless ride through Manhattan—in his dad’s red Jaguar—with a trained assassin.
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A teen novel for older teens (58 in this case)
- By Milo on 08-13-12
By: Joe Schreiber
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Allison Hewitt Is Trapped
- A Zombie Novel
- By: Madeleine Roux
- Narrated by: Piper Goodeve
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
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One woman's story as she blogs about - and fights back against - the zombie apocalypse.
Allison Hewitt and her five colleagues at the Brooks and Peabody Bookstore are trapped together when the zombie outbreak hits. Allison reaches out for help through her blog, writing on her laptop. It may also be her only chance to reach her mother. But as the reality of their situation sinks in, Allison's blog becomes a harrowing account of her edge-of-the-seat adventures.
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lots of potential but disappointing
- By Linda B on 04-29-11
By: Madeleine Roux
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Sad that it ended
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Sad that it ended
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He was born an outsider, like the rest of his family. Poor yet resilient, he lives in the shadows with his aunt Libby and uncle Darren, folk who stubbornly make their way in a society that does not understand or want them. They are mongrels, mixed blood, neither this nor that. The boy at the center of Mongrels must decide if he belongs on the road with his aunt and uncle or if he fits with the people on the other side of the tracks.
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breathes new life into werewolves in fiction
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Walking through his own house at night, a 15-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. Instead of the people who could be there, his mother or his brother, the figure reminds him of his long-gone father, who died mysteriously before his family left the reservation. When he follows it he discovers his house is bigger and deeper than he knew.
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It was a fire that could be seen for miles, a fire that split the community, a fire that turned families on each other, a fire that it's still hard to get a straight answer about. A quarter of a century ago, someone held a match to Greenwood, Texas's cotton. Stephen Graham Jones was 12 that year. What he remembers best, what's stuck with him all this time, is that nobody ever came forward to claim that destruction. And nobody was ever caught. Greenwood just leaned forward, pretending that the fire had never happened.
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How actual stories unfold
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When high school senior Charlotte agrees to babysit the Wilbanks twins, she plans to put the six-year-olds to bed early and spend a quiet night studying: the SATs are tomorrow, and checking the Native American/Alaskan Native box on all the forms doesn’t mean jack if you choke on test day. But tomorrow is also Halloween, and the twins are eager to show off their costumes—Ron is a nurse, in an old-fashioned white skirt-uniform, and Desi has an Authentic Squaw costume, complete with buckskin and feathered headdress. Excitement is in the air.
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Dark Across the Bay
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The house sits stoic and slightly askew off the coast of Raven's Head. Its off-kilter windows are both charming and disorienting, its walls of overstuffed bookshelves both comforting and claustrophobic. When Leo and Lark Parrish arrive at their vacation home with their parents, their mother's idea of a quintessential Maine getaway seems like both a blessing and a curse.
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terribly confusing ending
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The Last Final Girl
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In an average suburban town in Texas, homecoming princess Lindsay barely escaped death at the hands of a brutal, sadistic murderer in a Michael Jackson mask. Up on the cliff, she was rescued by a horse and bravely defeated the killer.
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interesting idea, poor execution
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Goddess of Filth
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One hot summer night, Lourdes, Fernanda, Ana, Perla, and Pauline hold a séance. Their tipsy laughter turns to terror when the flames burn straight through their prayer candles and Fernanda starts crawling toward her friends and chanting in Nahuatl, the language of their Aztec ancestors. Over the next few weeks, Fernanda starts acting strangely—smearing herself in black makeup, shredding her hands on rose thorns, sucking sin out of the mouths of the guilty. The local priest is convinced it's a demon, but Lourdes suspects it's something else—something far more ancient and powerful.
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Great
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Alma Katsu calls My Heart Is a Chainsaw “a homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre.” On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. But beneath is its beating heart: a biting critique of American colonialism, Indigenous displacement, and gentrification, and a heartbreaking portrait of a broken young girl who uses horror movies to cope with the horror of her own life.
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struggle with keeping up with the whole book
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Ghostwritten
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Four brand-new horror novellas all about books, stories, manuscripts—the written word has never had sharper teeth. In The Skin of Her Teeth, a cursed novel drives people to their deaths. A delivery job turns deadly in The Dark Brothers' Last Ride. In This Book Belongs to Olo, a lonely child has dangerous control over an usual pop-up book. A choose-your-own adventure game spirals into an uncanny reality in The Story. Full of creepy suspense, these collected novellas are perfect for fans of Paul Tremblay, Stephen King, and Joe Hill.
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Why do they always harm cats????
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The House at Phantom Park
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St Philomena's military hospital has been abandoned for over three years. Now Lilian Chesterfield, who works for one of the most successful building companies in England, is in charge of developing it into a luxury housing complex. But as soon as she and her colleagues start work in the Jacobean-style mansion, their dream turns into a nightmare. They hear screaming from wards full of empty beds. They hear doors slamming and find cutlery scattered over the kitchen floor. Then they see faces peering at them from the mullioned windows.
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Fabulous Paranormal Mystery
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After accepting a generous opportunity to start afresh, Leslie Wills, eagerly begins his journey to the Scottish Highlands of Elphin, a settled village that sits huddled amongst the mountains. The people are welcoming, and the scenery is breathtaking. But deep within its Highland paths, a location rests hidden from the public's eye. An atmospheric location that entices you to learn the truth of its troubled past. But once you bear witness to its sights and sounds, its presences will never allow you to forget.
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classic ghost story
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Dark Corner
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In Dark Corner, a Mississippi backwater harbors a growing evil. After David Hunter learns of his estranged father's death in a freak boating accident, he travels to the famed author's home in the quaint burg of Mason's Corner to discover the man he never knew, and something terrifying about himself.
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Heading to the top of the genre!
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What listeners say about Zombie Bake-Off
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- L Henry
- 01-03-20
Awesomely twisted zombie tale
This was such a fascinating twist upon the typical zombie tale. Just imagine a group of wrestlers in full on costume & character invading the arena earlier than expected where a womens home show is currently going on. The poor site manager is caught between the catty woman in charge of the show & the smarmy wrestling manager who has one of his men put chained locks on all the doors. Then the wrestlers find the room with the boxes of doughnuts meant for the cops working security for the wrestling match later that evening. The doughnuts that just happen to be kind of contaminated. What follows is a twisted zombie tale like none you've ever experienced before & it leaves you wanting more. This author has a truly unique writing style that creates stories that don't just grab your interest, but pulls you in & makes you think. Highly recommend. I'm super excited about his upcoming release that is coming out on my birthday in May called The Only Good Indians.
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- Jack C.
- 10-22-24
Happy I took a chance on this!
Starts a little slow but then it takes off like a rocket! It’s an odd mix of characters and that makes it even better. Definitely worth a listen and I think it would make a great Sci-Fi or Shudder movie. Give it a shot if you like zombie horror.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-18-22
How do you make zombies and Pro-wrestling boring?
Really struggled to finish this one. Just slow, poorly paced, uninteresting meh. I really thought pro-wrestling and zombies? This will be great, if not sci-fi channel fantastic, but no.
Just no.
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- JC
- 10-14-24
Delightful Campy Horror
While not the masterpiece-level of the Indian Lake Trilogy or The Only Good Indians, this is a fun one-off. Part Zombieland, part Poseidon Adventure, Zombie Bakeoff is more like a disaster story than a true horror, but very worthwhile, especially for Stephen Graham Jones completists.
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- A. Henry
- 07-10-18
Nice diversion with great characters
Jones explores the Zombie motif, comes up with his own twist on it, creates great characters, philosophizes, and tells an unpredictable story. Some days a zombie story is so much better than the real world.
Narrator nails the voice of wrestling, as well.
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- Jonathan J. Stake
- 05-12-22
Not his best
One can tell this is SGJ’s earlier work and he hasn’t yet, in this novel from 2013, fully developed yet. He’s still a good author, but not the great one he will become. He over-uses some of his descriptions and expressions here {one of his favorites being “the idea of (referring to where something used to or should be)” and “like (used in place of ‘seeming’ or ‘as though’ but weirdly not as a simile} . The overall plot and story line, though entertaining, is a bit juvenile and farcical. He also seems to wander off into some vaguely homophobic territory here. But overall it’s worth a listen. This is the fourth read of his I have listened to, and the earliest published of those. His later titles are much better.
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-24-21
Delightfully Absurd
Super fun premise and laugh out loud moments. Over the top characters, which is what you expect when you combine the worlds of professional wrestling, cooking conventions and zombies, right? Jones creates a tale that keeps you guessing! Sowers does a great job with the voices and was the perfect vocal choice to read this story; however, a little more care in the editing would have been much appreciated!
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- Rebecca Henson
- 07-03-23
Always fun!
Even though this is isn’t the brilliance that MHIAC and TOGI both are, still a fun slasher.
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- Amanda
- 07-17-24
My new favorite zombie novel!
I loved everything about this book and performance. It was campy and fun and gory as hell. I laughed out loud several times. The narrator was perfect for this. Over all great experience.
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- G.F.F.
- 09-28-20
I so wanted this to be a good listen.
I wanted this to be an entertaining listen with some zombie fun. I was sadly disappointed. The narration isn’t bad exactly, but it isn’t good enough to overcome the stunted editing which emphasizes every extra breath and skipped beat of the narrator rather than smoothing out the rough edges. The story itself staggers around with confused plot hooks and languishing dialogue runs that go nowhere and drive down the pacing of the story to a crawl. This is nowhere near the quality I expect from Stephen Graham Jones, but everyone can have a miss once in a while.
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