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Steve Alten


Born
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The United States
August 21, 1959

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Steve Alten grew up in Philadelphia, earning his Bachelors degree in Physical Education at Penn State University, a Masters Degree in Sports Medicine from the University of Delaware, and a Doctorate of Education at Temple University. Struggling to support his family of five, he decided to pen a novel he had been thinking about for years. Working late nights and on weekends, he eventually finished MEG; A Novel of Deep Terror. Steve sold his car to pay for editing fees. On September (Friday) the 13th, 1996, Steve lost his general manager’s job at a wholesale meat plant. Four days later his agent had a two-book, seven figure deal with Bantam Doubleday.

MEG would go on to become the book of the 1996 Frankfurt book fair, where it eventually sold
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Average rating: 3.78 · 75,361 ratings · 6,740 reviews · 62 distinct worksSimilar authors
Meg (MEG, #1)

3.77 avg rating — 25,320 ratings — published 1997 — 94 editions
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The Trench (MEG, #2)

3.88 avg rating — 8,892 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions
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The Loch

3.89 avg rating — 6,277 ratings — published 2005 — 19 editions
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Primal Waters (MEG, #3)

3.89 avg rating — 5,797 ratings — published 2004 — 23 editions
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Hell's Aquarium (MEG, #4)

3.99 avg rating — 5,297 ratings — published 2009 — 33 editions
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Domain (The Domain Trilogy,...

3.52 avg rating — 4,507 ratings — published 2001 — 85 editions
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Origins (MEG, #0.5)

3.82 avg rating — 3,054 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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Nightstalkers (MEG, #5)

3.91 avg rating — 2,668 ratings — published 2016 — 14 editions
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Generations (MEG, #6)

3.95 avg rating — 1,782 ratings — published 2018 — 12 editions
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Resurrection (The Domain Tr...

3.55 avg rating — 1,928 ratings — published 2004 — 66 editions
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“Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.”
Steve Alten, The Loch

“None of us have any control over the deck or the hand we've been dealt. What we do have is total responibility as to how we play the hand.”
Steve Alten, Domain

“For the record, I take no satisfaction in being right. For the record, I pray to God that I'm wrong.
I'm not wrong...”
Steve Alten, Domain

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Two Rivers Two Rivers by T. Greenwood by T. Greenwood
In Two Rivers, Vermont, Harper Montgomery is living a life overshadowed by grief and guilt. Since the death of his wife, Betsy, twelve years earlier, Harper has narrowed his world to working at the local railroad and raising his daughter, Shelly, the best way he knows how. Still wracked with sorrow over the loss of his life-long love and plagued by his role in a brutal, long-ago crime, he wants only to make amends for his past mistakes.
 
  6 votes 50.0%

A Burnable Book A Burnable Book (John Gower, #1) by Bruce Holsinger by Bruce Holsinger
In Chaucer’s London, betrayal, murder and intrigue swirl around the existence of a prophetic book that foretells the deaths of England’s kings. A Burnable Book is an irresistible thriller, reminiscent of classics like An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Name of the Rose and The Crimson Petal and the White.
 
  3 votes 25.0%

Imaginary Things Imaginary Things by Andrea Lochen by Andrea Lochen
Watching children play and invent whimsical games of fantasy is one of life's great joys. But what if you could actually see your child's imagination as it unfolded? And what would you do if your child's imagination suddenly became dark and threatening?
 
  1 vote 8.3%

Meg Meg (MEG, #1) by Steve Alten by Steve Alten

On a top-secret dive into the Pacific Ocean's deepest canyon, Jonas Taylor found himself face-to-face with the largest and most ferocious predator in the history of the animal kingdom. The sole survivor of the mission, Taylor is haunted by what he's sure he saw but still can't prove exists - Carcharodon megalodon, the massive mother of the great white shark. The average prehistoric Meg weighs in at twenty tons and could tear apart a Tyrannosaurus rex in seconds. Taylor spends years theorizing, lecturing, and writing about the possibility that Meg still feeds at the deepest levels of the sea. But it takes an old friend in need to get him to return to the water, and a hotshot female submarine pilot to dare him back into a high-tech miniature sub. Diving deeper than he ever has before, Taylor will face terror like he's never imagined. MEG is about to surface. When she does, nothing and no one is going to be safe, and Jonas must face his greatest fear once again.
 
  1 vote 8.3%

The People We Hate at the Wedding The People We Hate at the Wedding by Grant Ginder by Grant Ginder
Relationships are awful. They'll kill you, right up to the point where they start saving your life.

Paul and Alice’s half-sister Eloise is getting married! In London! There will be fancy hotels, dinners at “it” restaurants and a reception at a country estate complete with tea lights and embroidered cloth napkins.
They couldn’t hate it more.
 
  1 vote 8.3%

Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik by Lorna Landvik
The women of Freesia Court are convinced that there is nothing good coffee, delectable desserts, and a strong shoulder can’t fix. Laughter is the glue that holds them together—the foundation of a book group they call AHEB (Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons), an unofficial “club” that becomes much more. It becomes a lifeline. Holding on through forty eventful years, there’s Faith, a lonely mother of twins who harbors a terrible secret that has condemned her to living a lie; big, beautiful Audrey, the resident sex queen who knows that with good posture and an attitude you can get away with anything; Merit, the shy doctor’s wife with the face of an angel and the private hell of an abusive husband; Kari, a wise woman with a wonderful laugh who knows the greatest gifts appear after life’s fiercest storms; and finally, Slip, a tiny spitfire of a woman who isn’t afraid to look trouble straight in the eye.
 
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