# authors

name:
Kelley Armstrong| John Ajvide Lindqvist| Laird Barron| Gary A. Braunbeck| Dana Cameron| Scott Smith| Michael Koryta| Sherrilyn Kenyon| Chairlaine Harris| Tim Lebbon| Dan Chaon| Lynda Barry| Leigh Parry| John Langan| Joe McKinney| Robert Shearman| Lucy A. Snyder| Brian Keene| Rio Youers

sort:
Kelley Armstrong, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Laird Barron, Gary A. Braunbeck, Dana Cameron, Scott Smith, Michael Koryta, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Chairlaine Harris, Tim Lebbon, Dan Chaon, Lynda Barry, Leigh Parry, John Langan, Joe McKinney, Robert Shearman, Lucy A. Snyder, Brian Keene, Rio Youers


sort: v04, the Strongest Scourge Plunge Into the World of Magic
name:
the Strongest Scourge Plunge Into the World of Magic v04 (Digital-Compilation) (Uncensored) (Oak) (f)


sort: v05, the Strongest Scourge Plunge Into the World of Magic
name:
the Strongest Scourge Plunge Into the World of Magic v05 (Digital-Compilation) (Uncensored) (Oak) (f)


sort: v02, the Strongest Scourge Plunge Into the World of Magic
name:
the Strongest Scourge Plunge Into the World of Magic v02 (Digital-Compilation) (Uncensored) (Oak) (f)


sort: v01, the Strongest Scourge Plunge Into the World of Magic
name:
the Strongest Scourge Plunge Into the World of Magic v01 (Digital-Compilation) (Uncensored) (Oak) (f)


sort: v06, the Strongest Scourge Plunge Into the World of Magic
name:
the Strongest Scourge Plunge Into the World of Magic v06 (Digital-Compilation) (Uncensored) (Oak) (f)


sort: v03, the Strongest Scourge Plunge Into the World of Magic
name:
the Strongest Scourge Plunge Into the World of Magic v03 (Digital-Compilation) (Uncensored) (Oak) (f)


# books

title: Urban Enemies
sort: Urban Enemies
timestamp: 2025-12-03 04:58:39.498739+00:00
pubdate: 0101-01-01 00:00:00+00:00
path: Jim Butcher/Urban Enemies (37)
uuid: 1b9686c2-ec45-4e35-9567-82589e9f229d
last_modified: 2025-12-03 04:58:39.649019+00:00
author_sort:
Butcher, Jim & Hearne, Kevin & McGuire, Seanan & Armstrong, Kelley & Maberry, Jonathan & Somers, Jeff & Nassise, Joseph & Finn, Domino & Hunter, Faith & Kittredge, Caitlin & Merz, Jon F. & Francis, Diana Pharaoh & Saintcrow, Lilith & Savile, Steven & Schaefer, Craig & Vaughn, Carrie & Witt, Sam


title: Seize the Night
sort: Seize the Night
timestamp: 2025-12-03 04:58:42.570922+00:00
pubdate: 0101-01-01 00:00:00+00:00
path: Christopher Golden/Seize the Night (70)
uuid: d0a922ce-5662-4818-af88-5736058a8b62
last_modified: 2025-12-03 04:58:42.666885+00:00
author_sort:
Golden, Christopher & Kelley Armstrong, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Laird Barron, Gary A. Braunbeck, Dana Cameron, Scott Smith, Michael Koryta, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Chairlaine Harris, Tim Lebbon, Dan Chaon, Lynda Barry, Leigh Parry, John Langan, Joe McKinney, Robert Shearman, Lucy A. Snyder, Brian Keene, Rio Youers & Wellington, David


title: Six Scary Stories
sort: Six Scary Stories
timestamp: 2025-12-03 04:58:54.909560+00:00
pubdate: 2016-08-25 05:00:00+00:00
path: Stephen King/Six Scary Stories (123)
uuid: a6599404-3783-4b51-909b-4c49b8cd0d60
last_modified: 2025-12-03 04:58:55.013506+00:00
author_sort:
King, Stephen & Harper, Elodie & Saragosa, Manuela & Davies, Paul Bassett & Button, Michael & Johnstone, Stuart & Hudson, Neil


timestamp: 2025-12-03 04:59:57.860412+00:00
pubdate: 2020-02-25 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Omori, Fujino
path: Omori, Fujino/Dungeon Sword Oratoria LN 11 (Is It (467)
uuid: 1f3a8c10-85fa-4976-b4f4-8d305a5fd2cb
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:13:11.459536+00:00
title:
Dungeon Sword Oratoria LN 11 (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side: Sword Oratoria)

sort:
Dungeon Sword Oratoria LN 11 (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side: Sword Oratoria)


timestamp: 2025-12-03 04:59:58.011816+00:00
pubdate: 2021-09-02 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: KAZUKI, MIYA
path: Miya Kazuki/Ascendance of a Bookworm_ Part 4 Fo (468)
uuid: 52dae728-5c30-4cdc-ab6e-a9dd1941d95e
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:13:06.043804+00:00
title:
Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 4 Founder of the Royal Academy’s So-Called Library Committee Volume 2

sort:
Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 4 Founder of the Royal Academy’s So-Called Library Committee Volume 2


timestamp: 2025-12-03 04:59:58.926612+00:00
pubdate: 2024-05-15 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: SAGAZAKI, SHIGERU
path: Shigeru Sagazaki/From Old Country Bumpkin to Master (474)
uuid: 433bb093-b2b3-49bf-b46d-c257f90d523e
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:13:08.030090+00:00
title:
From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman: My Hotshot Disciples Are All Grown Up Now, and They Won’t Leave Me Alone Volume 3

sort:
From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman: My Hotshot Disciples Are All Grown Up Now, and They Won’t Leave Me Alone Volume 3


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:00:01.523352+00:00
pubdate: 2021-12-22 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: KAZUKI, MIYA
path: Miya Kazuki/Ascendance of a Bookworm_ Part 4 Fo (491)
uuid: a64fd0a7-6615-4ade-b30d-37af12d6b703
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:13:08.758577+00:00
title:
Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 4 Founder of the Royal Academy’s So-Called Library Committee Volume 4

sort:
Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 4 Founder of the Royal Academy’s So-Called Library Committee Volume 4


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:00:04.919456+00:00
pubdate: 2022-07-20 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Akatsuki, Natsume and Mishima, Kurone & Mishima, Kurone
path: Natsume Akatsuki/Konosuba_ God's Blessing on This Wo (512)
uuid: b50789d2-4a6b-45bf-8729-d556c3a897e1
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:13:14.666004+00:00
title:
Konosuba: God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World!, Vol. 17: God’s Blessing on These Wonderful Adventurers!

sort:
Konosuba: God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World!, Vol. 17: God’s Blessing on These Wonderful Adventurers!


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:00:06.748997+00:00
pubdate: 2021-10-27 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: KAZUKI, MIYA
path: Miya Kazuki/Ascendance of a Bookworm_ Part 4 Fo (525)
uuid: c980d0ca-a5c2-499b-b1ec-c79a9a8c2c04
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:13:11.812827+00:00
title:
Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 4 Founder of the Royal Academy’s So-Called Library Committee Volume 3

sort:
Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 4 Founder of the Royal Academy’s So-Called Library Committee Volume 3


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:00:09.811708+00:00
pubdate: 2023-11-22 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: SAGAZAKI, SHIGERU
path: Shigeru Sagazaki/From Old Country Bumpkin to Master (544)
uuid: 76ec228b-10fe-4b83-970f-aadbb5bd488d
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:13:05.256011+00:00
title:
From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman: My Hotshot Disciples Are All Grown Up Now, and They Won’t Leave Me Alone Volume 1

sort:
From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman: My Hotshot Disciples Are All Grown Up Now, and They Won’t Leave Me Alone Volume 1


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:00:12.503622+00:00
pubdate: 2022-02-16 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: KAZUKI, MIYA
path: Miya Kazuki/Ascendance of a Bookworm_ Part 4 Fo (563)
uuid: f982d0ac-55e9-420f-aae2-4dda9f25242f
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:13:13.949271+00:00
title:
Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 4 Founder of the Royal Academy’s So-Called Library Committee Volume 5

sort:
Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 4 Founder of the Royal Academy’s So-Called Library Committee Volume 5


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:00:15.586174+00:00
pubdate: 2022-10-05 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: KAZUKI, MIYA
path: Miya Kazuki/Ascendance of a Bookworm_ Part 4 Fo (581)
uuid: 827200a6-4e62-4fab-842d-a27152895e78
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:13:09.597097+00:00
title:
Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 4 Founder of the Royal Academy’s So-Called Library Committee Volume 9

sort:
Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 4 Founder of the Royal Academy’s So-Called Library Committee Volume 9


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:00:20.850299+00:00
pubdate: 2020-01-21 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Ainana, Hiro
path: Hiro Ainana/Death March to the Parallel World R (616)
uuid: 675132e0-1924-4984-bcf2-e235accc09b3
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:13:23.018080+00:00
title:
Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody, Vol. 10 (light novel) (Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody (light novel))

sort:
Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody, Vol. 10 (light novel) (Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody (light novel))


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:00:23.324091+00:00
pubdate: 0101-01-01 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Tsukishima, Syuichi & Mokyu
path: Syuichi Tsukishima/I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Yea (632)
uuid: 6675bd8e-e660-4663-af65-3717f32b494f
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:14:22.486064+00:00
title:
I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year Button and Came Out on Top, Vol. 4: The Unbeatable Reject Swordsman

sort:
I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year Button and Came Out on Top, Vol. 4: The Unbeatable Reject Swordsman


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:00:28.979305+00:00
pubdate: 2022-06-15 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: KAZUKI, MIYA
path: Miya Kazuki/Ascendance of a Bookworm_ Part 4 Fo (665)
uuid: eae215d9-35da-4b39-9fe4-b1502927cf78
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:13:17.648723+00:00
title:
Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 4 Founder of the Royal Academy’s So-Called Library Committee Volume 7

sort:
Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 4 Founder of the Royal Academy’s So-Called Library Committee Volume 7


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:00:34.401967+00:00
pubdate: 2022-01-15 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Kobato, Kosuzu
path: Kosuzu Kobato/I'd Rather Have a Cat than a Harem! (696)
uuid: b6e65e67-8204-400a-bb0c-f3136c684077
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:13:29.314993+00:00
title:
I’d Rather Have a Cat than a Harem! Reincarnated into the World of an Otome Game as a Cat-loving Villainess Volume 1

sort:
I’d Rather Have a Cat than a Harem! Reincarnated into the World of an Otome Game as a Cat-loving Villainess Volume 1


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:00:40.321618+00:00
pubdate: 2023-11-09 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: SHISUI, MEIKYOU
path: Meikyou Shisui/Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon_ (733)
uuid: af8a691a-7a8f-461a-a74d-7e68ffc26734
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:13:51.525316+00:00
title:
Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members and the World Volume 5

sort:
Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members and the World Volume 5


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:00:41.775585+00:00
pubdate: 2024-05-13 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: SHISUI, MEIKYOU
path: Meikyou Shisui/Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon_ (741)
uuid: 17fad912-9112-4dba-be50-359f613fb7b5
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:13:26.160104+00:00
title:
Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members and the World Volume 7

sort:
Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members and the World Volume 7


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:00:42.056971+00:00
pubdate: 2023-12-29 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: SKYFARM
path: SkyFarm/8th Loop for the Win! With Seven Li (743)
uuid: 9b9f55f1-239d-41ba-a8d0-3697c765f726
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:13:46.616074+00:00
title:
8th Loop for the Win! With Seven Lives’ Worth of XP and the Third Princess’s Appraisal Skill, My Behemoth and I Are Unstoppable! Volume 2

sort:
8th Loop for the Win! With Seven Lives’ Worth of XP and the Third Princess’s Appraisal Skill, My Behemoth and I Are Unstoppable! Volume 2


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:00:56.099079+00:00
pubdate: 2022-08-10 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: KAZUKI, MIYA
path: Miya Kazuki/Ascendance of a Bookworm_ Part 4 Fo (793)
uuid: 333e3821-5255-4ae4-a81e-cb569d6c9fc3
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:13:46.283882+00:00
title:
Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 4 Founder of the Royal Academy’s So-Called Library Committee Volume 8

sort:
Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 4 Founder of the Royal Academy’s So-Called Library Committee Volume 8


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:00:57.252714+00:00
pubdate: 2022-04-18 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: KAZUKI, MIYA
path: Miya Kazuki/Ascendance of a Bookworm_ Part 4 Fo (801)
uuid: fefe3c26-6ec2-43ad-9d5b-a2eb748561f3
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:13:18.817664+00:00
title:
Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 4 Founder of the Royal Academy’s So-Called Library Committee Volume 6

sort:
Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 4 Founder of the Royal Academy’s So-Called Library Committee Volume 6


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:01:02.646186+00:00
pubdate: 2024-02-28 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: SAGAZAKI, SHIGERU
path: Shigeru Sagazaki/From Old Country Bumpkin to Master (834)
uuid: 9979ce04-fe69-4636-a1d9-6bb6f9db5369
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:13:11.397823+00:00
title:
From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman: My Hotshot Disciples Are All Grown Up Now, and They Won’t Leave Me Alone Volume 2

sort:
From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman: My Hotshot Disciples Are All Grown Up Now, and They Won’t Leave Me Alone Volume 2


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:01:05.087641+00:00
pubdate: 2021-06-29 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: KAZUKI, MIYA
path: Miya Kazuki/Ascendance of a Bookworm_ Part 4 Fo (851)
uuid: 253a0925-bca3-41b2-ac1b-e553633a5f90
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:13:18.253084+00:00
title:
Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 4 Founder of the Royal Academy’s So-Called Library Committee Volume 1

sort:
Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 4 Founder of the Royal Academy’s So-Called Library Committee Volume 1


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:01:06.960605+00:00
pubdate: 2023-10-04 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: SKYFARM
path: SkyFarm/8th Loop for the Win! With Seven Li (863)
uuid: 381f022c-f8a7-419b-891e-22ea27df8f0f
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:13:36.039308+00:00
title:
8th Loop for the Win! With Seven Lives’ Worth of XP and the Third Princess’s Appraisal Skill, My Behemoth and I Are Unstoppable! Volume 1

sort:
8th Loop for the Win! With Seven Lives’ Worth of XP and the Third Princess’s Appraisal Skill, My Behemoth and I Are Unstoppable! Volume 1


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:01:15.195476+00:00
pubdate: 2022-10-20 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: SHISUI, MEIKYOU
path: Meikyou Shisui/Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon_ (915)
uuid: e75aebc2-2d49-47b8-81a9-e9d08e25ce39
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:13:26.218840+00:00
title:
Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members and the World Volume 1

sort:
Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members and the World Volume 1


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:01:32.721418+00:00
pubdate: 2024-02-19 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: SHISUI, MEIKYOU
path: Meikyou Shisui/Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon_ (1030)
uuid: a635656e-4ccc-4c81-bb42-ebf5fe255873
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:13:43.711412+00:00
title:
Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members and the World Volume 6

sort:
Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members and the World Volume 6


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:01:32.863287+00:00
pubdate: 2023-02-16 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: SHISUI, MEIKYOU
path: Meikyou Shisui/Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon_ (1031)
uuid: 2557ad71-8c0a-4bab-9bec-ca18753f9027
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:13:58.651555+00:00
title:
Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members and the World Volume 2

sort:
Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members and the World Volume 2


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:01:40.486380+00:00
pubdate: 0101-01-01 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Tsukishima, Syuichi & Mokyu
path: Syuichi Tsukishima/I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Yea (1083)
uuid: dddb0074-545a-428d-a5f9-d5bb2482cf71
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:13:23.138665+00:00
title:
I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year Button and Came Out on Top, Vol. 5: The Unbeatable Reject Swordsman

sort:
I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year Button and Came Out on Top, Vol. 5: The Unbeatable Reject Swordsman


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:01:50.167703+00:00
pubdate: 0101-01-01 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Tsukishima, Syuchi & Mokyu
path: Syuchi Tsukishima/I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Yea (1149)
uuid: 30bc3d98-0707-4738-9b18-837f359dc396
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:14:17.220001+00:00
title:
I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year Button and Came Out on Top, Vol. 1: The Unbeatable Reject Swordsman

sort:
I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year Button and Came Out on Top, Vol. 1: The Unbeatable Reject Swordsman


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:02:17.695546+00:00
pubdate: 0101-01-01 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Tsukishima, Syuichi & Mokyu
path: Syuichi Tsukishima/I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Yea (1289)
uuid: 1180d573-c4ce-4515-b62a-6b34e434ff44
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:14:21.963499+00:00
title:
I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year Button and Came Out on Top, Vol. 2: The Unbeatable Reject Swordsman

sort:
I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year Button and Came Out on Top, Vol. 2: The Unbeatable Reject Swordsman


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:02:30.336826+00:00
pubdate: 2020-09-28 23:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Sazane, Kei
path: Sazane, Kei/Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a N (1368)
uuid: fcc236cd-713f-4035-b410-41c8dbbadca0
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:14:29.376341+00:00
title:
Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World, Vol. 4 (light novel) (The War Ends the World / Raises the World (light novel))

sort:
Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World, Vol. 4 (light novel) (The War Ends the World / Raises the World (light novel))


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:02:31.288962+00:00
pubdate: 2019-10-15 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Nonohara, Usata
path: Usata Nonohara/The Alchemist Who Survived Now Drea (1374)
uuid: 5341e864-de80-4f5f-ae8d-52ab9227e266
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:14:29.163803+00:00
title:
The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life, Vol. 1 (light novel) (The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life (light novel))

sort:
The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life, Vol. 1 (light novel) (The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life (light novel))


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:02:34.442100+00:00
pubdate: 2025-01-27 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: SHINTEN-SHINCHI
path: Shinten-Shinchi/The Reincarnator and the Goblin Mai (1394)
uuid: 6db099f4-be3a-4909-bb37-0dae8b466e7c
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:14:38.418666+00:00
title:
The Reincarnator and the Goblin Maiden’s Happily Ever After: Using a Past Life to Keep a Joyful Wife Volume 2

sort:
Reincarnator and the Goblin Maiden’s Happily Ever After: Using a Past Life to Keep a Joyful Wife Volume 2, The


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:02:38.069414+00:00
pubdate: 2023-05-04 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: YUJI, YUJI
path: Yuji Yuji/The 100th Time's the Charm_ She Was (1414)
uuid: 3ce341ee-a112-48d8-a78a-a45cf0a49745
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:14:56.512591+00:00
title:
The 100th Time's the Charm: She Was Executed 99 Times, So How Did She Unlock “Super Love” Mode?! Volume 1

sort:
100th Time's the Charm: She Was Executed 99 Times, So How Did She Unlock “Super Love” Mode?! Volume 1, The


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:02:40.177653+00:00
pubdate: 2021-09-12 23:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Sakurai, Yu
path: Yu Sakurai/Since I Was Abandoned After Reincar (1428)
uuid: 559303d3-c466-45f1-8f20-c4601a4831eb
last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:14:53.018783+00:00
title:
Since I Was Abandoned After Reincarnating, I Will Cook With My Fluffy Friends: The Figurehead Queen Is Strongest At Her Own Pace Volume 2

sort:
Since I Was Abandoned After Reincarnating, I Will Cook With My Fluffy Friends: The Figurehead Queen Is Strongest At Her Own Pace Volume 2


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:02:40.948140+00:00
pubdate: 0101-01-01 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Fujitaka, Tsuyoshi
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My Magical Career at Court: Living the Dream After My Nightmare Boss Fired Me from the Mages’ Guild! Volume 3


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Since I Was Abandoned After Reincarnating, I Will Cook With My Fluffy Friends: The Figurehead Queen Is Strongest At Her Own Pace Volume 5

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Since I Was Abandoned After Reincarnating, I Will Cook With My Fluffy Friends: The Figurehead Queen Is Strongest At Her Own Pace Volume 5


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Reincarnator and the Goblin Maiden’s Happily Ever After: Using a Past Life to Keep a Joyful Wife Volume 1, The


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:03:02.371437+00:00
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I’d Rather Have a Cat than a Harem! Reincarnated into the World of an Otome Game as a Cat-loving Villainess Volume 2

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I’d Rather Have a Cat than a Harem! Reincarnated into the World of an Otome Game as a Cat-loving Villainess Volume 2


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Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members and the World Volume 3

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Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members and the World Volume 3


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I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year Button and Came Out on Top, Vol. 7: The Unbeatable Reject Swordsman

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I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year Button and Came Out on Top, Vol. 7: The Unbeatable Reject Swordsman


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Since I Was Abandoned After Reincarnating, I Will Cook With My Fluffy Friends: The Figurehead Queen Is Strongest At Her Own Pace Volume 3

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Since I Was Abandoned After Reincarnating, I Will Cook With My Fluffy Friends: The Figurehead Queen Is Strongest At Her Own Pace Volume 3


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100th Time's the Charm: She Was Executed 99 Times, So How Did She Unlock “Super Love” Mode?! Volume 2, The


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Since I Was Abandoned After Reincarnating, I Will Cook With My Fluffy Friends: The Figurehead Queen Is Strongest At Her Own Pace Volume 6

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Since I Was Abandoned After Reincarnating, I Will Cook With My Fluffy Friends: The Figurehead Queen Is Strongest At Her Own Pace Volume 6


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Since I Was Abandoned After Reincarnating, I Will Cook With My Fluffy Friends: The Figurehead Queen Is Strongest At Her Own Pace Volume 4

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Since I Was Abandoned After Reincarnating, I Will Cook With My Fluffy Friends: The Figurehead Queen Is Strongest At Her Own Pace Volume 4


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The Invisible Wallflower Marries an Upstart Aristocrat After Getting Dumped for Her Sister! Volume 2

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My Magical Career at Court: Living the Dream After My Nightmare Boss Fired Me from the Mages’ Guild! Volume 4


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The Oblivious Saint Can't Contain Her Power: Forget My Sister! Turns Out I Was the Real Saint All Along! Volume 1

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Oblivious Saint Can't Contain Her Power: Forget My Sister! Turns Out I Was the Real Saint All Along! Volume 1, The


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The Poison King: Now that I’ve Gained Ultimate Power, the Bewitching Beauties in My Harem Can’t Get Enough of Me Volume 1

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Poison King: Now that I’ve Gained Ultimate Power, the Bewitching Beauties in My Harem Can’t Get Enough of Me Volume 1, The


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I Abandoned My Engagement Because My Sister is a Tragic Heroine, but Somehow I Became Entangled with a Righteous Prince Vol. 2

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I Abandoned My Engagement Because My Sister is a Tragic Heroine, but Somehow I Became Entangled with a Righteous Prince Vol. 2


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The Invincible Summoner Who Crawled Up from Level 1: Wrecking Reincarnators with My Hidden Dungeon Volume 1

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Invincible Summoner Who Crawled Up from Level 1: Wrecking Reincarnators with My Hidden Dungeon Volume 1, The


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I Abandoned My Engagement Because My Sister is a Tragic Heroine, but Somehow I Became Entangled with a Righteous Prince Vol. 1

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I Abandoned My Engagement Because My Sister is a Tragic Heroine, but Somehow I Became Entangled with a Righteous Prince Vol. 1


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Fake It to Break It! I Faked Amnesia to Break Off My Engagement and Now He's All Lovey-Dovey?! Volume 2 [Complete]

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Fake It to Break It! I Faked Amnesia to Break Off My Engagement and Now He's All Lovey-Dovey?! Volume 2 [Complete]


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Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord: Production Magic Turns a Nameless Village into the Strongest Fortified City Vol. 2

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Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord: Production Magic Turns a Nameless Village into the Strongest Fortified City Vol. 2


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Disciple of the Lich: Or How I Was Cursed by the Gods and Dropped Into the Abyss! (Light Novel) Vol. 1

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Disciple of the Lich: Or How I Was Cursed by the Gods and Dropped Into the Abyss! (Light Novel) Vol. 1


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:04:58.331205+00:00
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The Haunted Bookstore - Gateway to a Parallel Universe Vol. 1 - The Spirit Daughter and the Exorcist Son

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Haunted Bookstore - Gateway to a Parallel Universe Vol. 1 - The Spirit Daughter and the Exorcist Son, The


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I Only Have Six Months to Live, So I’m Gonna Break the Curse with Light Magic or Die Trying: Volume 2

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I Only Have Six Months to Live, So I’m Gonna Break the Curse with Light Magic or Die Trying: Volume 2


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My Big Sister Lives in a Fantasy World - Volume 05 - The Strongest Little Brother’s Commonplace Encounters with the Bizarre

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My Big Sister Lives in a Fantasy World - Volume 05 - The Strongest Little Brother’s Commonplace Encounters with the Bizarre


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Misora, Riku & Won & Daughety, Benjamin & Haffen, Adam & Imber, Brandon & Engmann, Simon & Vetter, Victoria & Corp., SB Creative


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From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman: My Hotshot Disciples Are All Grown Up Now, and They Won’t Leave Me Alone Volume 5

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From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman: My Hotshot Disciples Are All Grown Up Now, and They Won’t Leave Me Alone Volume 5


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I Only Have Six Months to Live, So I’m Gonna Break the Curse with Light Magic or Die Trying: Volume 3

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I Only Have Six Months to Live, So I’m Gonna Break the Curse with Light Magic or Die Trying: Volume 3


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:05:21.080365+00:00
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Knock Yourself Out! The Goddess Beat the Final Boss in the Tutorial, So Now I’m Free to Do Whatever: Volume 1

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Knock Yourself Out! The Goddess Beat the Final Boss in the Tutorial, So Now I’m Free to Do Whatever: Volume 1


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The Invincible Summoner Who Crawled Up from Level 1: Wrecking Reincarnators with My Hidden Dungeon Volume 2

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My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Volume 12

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My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Volume 12


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Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord: Production Magic Turns a Nameless Village into the Strongest Fortified City Vol. 4

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Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord: Production Magic Turns a Nameless Village into the Strongest Fortified City Vol. 4


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The Exiled Noble Rises as the Holy King: Befriending Fluffy Beasts and a Holy Maiden with My Ultimate Cheat Skill! Volume 1

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Exiled Noble Rises as the Holy King: Befriending Fluffy Beasts and a Holy Maiden with My Ultimate Cheat Skill! Volume 1, The


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:05:56.677867+00:00
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Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World, Vol. 5 (light novel) (The War Ends the World / Raises the World (light novel))

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Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World, Vol. 5 (light novel) (The War Ends the World / Raises the World (light novel))


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Fake It to Break It! I Faked Amnesia to Break Off My Engagement and Now He’s All Lovey-Dovey?! Volume 1

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Fake It to Break It! I Faked Amnesia to Break Off My Engagement and Now He’s All Lovey-Dovey?! Volume 1


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:06:07.061321+00:00
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The Poison King: Now that I’ve Gained Ultimate Power, the Bewitching Beauties in My Harem Can’t Get Enough of Me Volume 3

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Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members and the World Volume 8

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Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members and the World Volume 8


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:06:26.486069+00:00
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The Greatest Magician’s Ultimate Quest: I Woke from a 300 Year Slumber to a World of Disappointment Volume 1

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Greatest Magician’s Ultimate Quest: I Woke from a 300 Year Slumber to a World of Disappointment Volume 1, The


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I Only Have Six Months to Live, So I’m Gonna Break the Curse with Light Magic or Die Trying: Volume 1

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I Only Have Six Months to Live, So I’m Gonna Break the Curse with Light Magic or Die Trying: Volume 1


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:06:29.866241+00:00
pubdate: 2023-10-21 23:00:00+00:00
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title:
Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord: Production Magic Turns a Nameless Village into the Strongest Fortified City Vol. 1

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Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord: Production Magic Turns a Nameless Village into the Strongest Fortified City Vol. 1


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:06:36.980397+00:00
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:16:45.414130+00:00
title:
WATARU!!! The Hot-Blooded Fighting Teen & His Epic Adventures After Stopping a Truck with His Bare Hands!! Volume 2

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WATARU!!! The Hot-Blooded Fighting Teen & His Epic Adventures After Stopping a Truck with His Bare Hands!! Volume 2


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:06:43.419558+00:00
pubdate: 2024-08-28 23:00:00+00:00
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title:
Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord: Production Magic Turns a Nameless Village into the Strongest Fortified City Vol. 3

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Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord: Production Magic Turns a Nameless Village into the Strongest Fortified City Vol. 3


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:06:53.049791+00:00
pubdate: 2024-09-17 00:00:00+00:00
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title:
Apparently, Disillusioned Adventurers Will Save the World, Vol. 5: The Magic Mirror in a City of Carnage

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Apparently, Disillusioned Adventurers Will Save the World, Vol. 5: The Magic Mirror in a City of Carnage


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:06:53.361118+00:00
pubdate: 2024-11-04 00:00:00+00:00
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title:
From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman: My Hotshot Disciples Are All Grown Up Now, and They Won’t Leave Me Alone Volume 4

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From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman: My Hotshot Disciples Are All Grown Up Now, and They Won’t Leave Me Alone Volume 4


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:06:56.482123+00:00
pubdate: 2023-03-31 07:00:00+00:00
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title:
Return from Death: I Kicked the Bucket and Now I’m Back at Square One With a Girlfriend Who Doesn’t Remember Me Volume 2

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Return from Death: I Kicked the Bucket and Now I’m Back at Square One With a Girlfriend Who Doesn’t Remember Me Volume 2


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:07:04.560798+00:00
pubdate: 2021-05-14 23:00:00+00:00
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:15:07.943792+00:00
title:
Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything With Low-Level Spells (Light Novel) Vol. 2

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Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything With Low-Level Spells (Light Novel) Vol. 2


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:07:10.990093+00:00
pubdate: 2020-09-21 00:00:00+00:00
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My Instant Death Ability is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Volume 1

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My Instant Death Ability is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Volume 1


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:07:13.182316+00:00
pubdate: 2024-04-22 00:00:00+00:00
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:16:53.110134+00:00
title:
Jeanette the Genius: Defying My Evil Stepmother by Starting a Business with My Ride-or-Die Fiancé! Volume 2

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Jeanette the Genius: Defying My Evil Stepmother by Starting a Business with My Ride-or-Die Fiancé! Volume 2


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:07:25.710228+00:00
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title:
The Poison King: Now that I’ve Gained Ultimate Power, the Bewitching Beauties in My Harem Can’t Get Enough of Me Volume 2

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Poison King: Now that I’ve Gained Ultimate Power, the Bewitching Beauties in My Harem Can’t Get Enough of Me Volume 2, The


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:07:32.148651+00:00
pubdate: 2020-04-25 23:00:00+00:00
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Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers, Vol. 1 (light novel) (Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers (Light Novel))

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Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers, Vol. 1 (light novel) (Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers (Light Novel))


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:07:35.143674+00:00
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My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Volume 6

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My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Volume 6


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:07:39.709936+00:00
pubdate: 2020-07-20 23:00:00+00:00
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Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side: Sword Oratoria, Vol. 12 (light novel) (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side: Sword Oratoria (light novel))

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Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side: Sword Oratoria, Vol. 12 (light novel) (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side: Sword Oratoria (light novel))


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:07:49.469203+00:00
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The Vexations of a Shut-In Vampire Princess, Vol. 5 (light novel) (The Vexations of a Shut-In Vampire Princess (light novel))

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Vexations of a Shut-In Vampire Princess, Vol. 5 (light novel) (The Vexations of a Shut-In Vampire Princess (light novel)), The


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:07:58.928128+00:00
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Jeanette the Genius: Defying My Evil Stepmother by Starting a Business with My Ride-or-Die Fiancé! Volume 3

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Jeanette the Genius: Defying My Evil Stepmother by Starting a Business with My Ride-or-Die Fiancé! Volume 3


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:08:02.457800+00:00
pubdate: 2020-12-29 00:00:00+00:00
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The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat, Vol. 1 (light novel) (The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat (light novel))

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World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat, Vol. 1 (light novel) (The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat (light novel)), The


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:08:04.027832+00:00
pubdate: 2020-11-25 00:00:00+00:00
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title:
My Instant Death Ability is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Volume 2

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My Instant Death Ability is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Volume 2


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:08:09.327019+00:00
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I’m Giving the Disgraced Noble Lady I Rescued a Crash Course in Naughtiness: I’ll Spoil Her with Delicacies and Style to Make Her the Happiest Woman in the World! Volume 1

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I’m Giving the Disgraced Noble Lady I Rescued a Crash Course in Naughtiness: I’ll Spoil Her with Delicacies and Style to Make Her the Happiest Woman in the World! Volume 1


title: Kingdom Hearts II: The Novel, Vol. 2
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timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:08:12.441165+00:00
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Kanemaki, Tomoco/Nomura, Tetsuya/Nojima, Kazushige and Amano, Shiro & Nomura, Tetsuya & Nojima, Kazushige & Amano, Shiro


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:08:15.576907+00:00
pubdate: 2022-03-16 00:00:00+00:00
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title:
My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Volume 9

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My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Volume 9


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:08:19.353650+00:00
pubdate: 2021-11-03 00:00:00+00:00
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title:
My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Volume 7

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My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Volume 7


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:08:23.697775+00:00
pubdate: 2022-01-12 00:00:00+00:00
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title:
My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Volume 8

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My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Volume 8


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:08:27.312856+00:00
pubdate: 2023-02-20 00:00:00+00:00
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title:
My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Volume 13

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My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Volume 13


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:08:39.106742+00:00
pubdate: 0101-01-01 00:00:00+00:00
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My Big Sister Lives in a Fantasy World - Volume 04 - The Melancholy of the High School Girl Light Novel Author

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My Big Sister Lives in a Fantasy World - Volume 04 - The Melancholy of the High School Girl Light Novel Author


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:08:39.561964+00:00
pubdate: 2023-12-15 00:00:00+00:00
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title:
My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Volume 14

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My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Volume 14


title: Kingdom Hearts III: New Seven Hearts, Vol. 2
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timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:08:42.573070+00:00
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Kanemaki, Tomoco/Nomura, Tetsuya/Oka, Masaru and Amano, Shiro & Nomura, Tetsuya & Oka, Masaru & Amano, Shiro


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:08:42.891228+00:00
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The Invisible Wallflower Marries an Upstart Aristocrat After Getting Dumped for Her Sister! Volume 1

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Invisible Wallflower Marries an Upstart Aristocrat After Getting Dumped for Her Sister! Volume 1, The


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:08:46.575643+00:00
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title:
My Instant Death Ability is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Volume 4

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My Instant Death Ability is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Volume 4


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:08:51.075025+00:00
pubdate: 2024-10-16 00:00:00+00:00
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title:
The Invincible Summoner Who Crawled Up from Level 1: Wrecking Reincarnators with My Hidden Dungeon Volume 3

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Invincible Summoner Who Crawled Up from Level 1: Wrecking Reincarnators with My Hidden Dungeon Volume 3, The


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:08:52.447750+00:00
pubdate: 2024-08-16 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Haruki Kuou and konomi
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Liar, Liar, Vol. 4: The Lying Transfer Student Is Bossed Around by the Delusional Middle School Genius

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Liar, Liar, Vol. 4: The Lying Transfer Student Is Bossed Around by the Delusional Middle School Genius


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:09:00.409376+00:00
pubdate: 2021-01-25 00:00:00+00:00
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title:
My Instant Death Ability is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Volume 3

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My Instant Death Ability is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Volume 3


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:09:03.993397+00:00
pubdate: 2022-07-22 00:00:00+00:00
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:17:58.487708+00:00
title:
My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Volume 11

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My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Volume 11


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:09:04.259510+00:00
pubdate: 0101-01-01 00:00:00+00:00
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I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year Button and Came Out on Top, Vol. 3: The Unbeatable Reject Swordsman

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I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year Button and Came Out on Top, Vol. 3: The Unbeatable Reject Swordsman


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:09:07.263630+00:00
pubdate: 2022-05-18 00:00:00+00:00
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title:
My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Volume 10

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My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Volume 10


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:09:11.019345+00:00
pubdate: 0101-01-01 00:00:00+00:00
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title:
I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year Button and Came Out on Top, Vol. 8: The Unbeatable Reject Swordsman

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I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year Button and Came Out on Top, Vol. 8: The Unbeatable Reject Swordsman


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:09:11.339910+00:00
pubdate: 2023-11-16 00:00:00+00:00
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:18:01.716100+00:00
title:
Jeanette the Genius: Defying My Evil Stepmother by Starting a Business with My Ride-or-Die Fiancé! Volume 1

sort:
Jeanette the Genius: Defying My Evil Stepmother by Starting a Business with My Ride-or-Die Fiancé! Volume 1


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:09:11.654201+00:00
pubdate: 2020-06-22 23:00:00+00:00
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Woof Woof Story: I Told You to Turn Me Into a Pampered Pooch, Not Fenrir!, Vol. 4 (light novel) (Woof Woof Story (light novel))

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Woof Woof Story: I Told You to Turn Me Into a Pampered Pooch, Not Fenrir!, Vol. 4 (light novel) (Woof Woof Story (light novel))


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:09:22.189317+00:00
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Seriously Seeking Sister! Ultimate Vampire Princess Just Wants Little Sister; Plenty of Service Will Be Provided!

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Seriously Seeking Sister! Ultimate Vampire Princess Just Wants Little Sister; Plenty of Service Will Be Provided!


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:09:23.576269+00:00
pubdate: 2020-01-28 00:00:00+00:00
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Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers, Vol. 6 (light novel) (Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers (Light Novel))

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Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers, Vol. 6 (light novel) (Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers (Light Novel))


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:09:26.760505+00:00
pubdate: 2021-10-09 23:00:00+00:00
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title:
Return from Death: I Kicked the Bucket and Now I’m Back at Square One With a Boyfriend Who Doesn’t Remember Me Volume 1

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Return from Death: I Kicked the Bucket and Now I’m Back at Square One With a Boyfriend Who Doesn’t Remember Me Volume 1


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:09:31.999523+00:00
pubdate: 0101-01-01 00:00:00+00:00
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:09:32.091189+00:00
title:
My Big Sister Lives in a Fantasy World - Volume 03 - Humanity’s Extinction Happens During Summer Vacation

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My Big Sister Lives in a Fantasy World - Volume 03 - Humanity’s Extinction Happens During Summer Vacation


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:09:42.187908+00:00
pubdate: 2023-11-14 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: FUKADA, SAMETAROU
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title:
I’m Giving the Disgraced Noble Lady I Rescued a Crash Course in Naughtiness: I’ll Spoil Her with Delicacies and Style to Make Her the Happiest Woman in the World! Volume 2

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I’m Giving the Disgraced Noble Lady I Rescued a Crash Course in Naughtiness: I’ll Spoil Her with Delicacies and Style to Make Her the Happiest Woman in the World! Volume 2


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:09:43.690057+00:00
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title:
I’m Giving the Disgraced Noble Lady I Rescued a Crash Course in Naughtiness: I’ll Spoil Her with Delicacies and Style to Make Her the Happiest Woman in the World! Volume 3

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I’m Giving the Disgraced Noble Lady I Rescued a Crash Course in Naughtiness: I’ll Spoil Her with Delicacies and Style to Make Her the Happiest Woman in the World! Volume 3


title: The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time, Vol. 6: The Broken and Abandoned
timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:09:52.185536+00:00
pubdate: 2023-09-19 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Kizuka, Nero / Sinsora
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Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time, Vol. 6: The Broken and Abandoned, The


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:09:57.328490+00:00
pubdate: 2023-08-04 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: SHISUI, MEIKYOU
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title:
Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members and the World Volume 4

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Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge on My Former Party Members and the World Volume 4


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:10:02.437719+00:00
pubdate: 0101-01-01 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Tsukishima, Syuichi & Mokyu
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:18:12.942339+00:00
title:
I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year Button and Came Out on Top, Vol. 9: The Unbeatable Reject Swordsman

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I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year Button and Came Out on Top, Vol. 9: The Unbeatable Reject Swordsman


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:10:21.870977+00:00
pubdate: 2023-11-22 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: KANKITSU, YUSURA
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:14:41.902316+00:00
title:
Reincarnated Mage with Inferior Eyes: Breezing through the Future as an Oppressed Ex-Hero Volume 4.5

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Reincarnated Mage with Inferior Eyes: Breezing through the Future as an Oppressed Ex-Hero Volume 4.5


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:10:25.537119+00:00
pubdate: 2023-12-25 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: HAZUKI, SHUSUI
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:14:32.016516+00:00
title:
My Magical Career at Court: Living the Dream After My Nightmare Boss Fired Me from the Mages’ Guild! Volume 2

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My Magical Career at Court: Living the Dream After My Nightmare Boss Fired Me from the Mages’ Guild! Volume 2


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:10:40.827674+00:00
pubdate: 2023-09-21 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: HAZUKI, SHUSUI
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:14:30.082173+00:00
title:
My Magical Career at Court: Living the Dream After My Nightmare Boss Fired Me from the Mages’ Guild! Volume 1

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My Magical Career at Court: Living the Dream After My Nightmare Boss Fired Me from the Mages’ Guild! Volume 1


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:10:49.931059+00:00
pubdate: 0101-01-01 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Rokusyou & Usuasagi
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:18:17.338632+00:00
title:
The Ephemeral Scenes of Setsuna’s Journey, Vol. 3: The Bonds of the Dragon and the Kingdom in Crisis

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Ephemeral Scenes of Setsuna’s Journey, Vol. 3: The Bonds of the Dragon and the Kingdom in Crisis, The


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:10:50.553969+00:00
pubdate: 2020-01-28 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Yamagata, Ishio
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:18:17.167579+00:00
title:
Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers, Vol. 4 (light novel) (Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers (Light Novel))

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Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers, Vol. 4 (light novel) (Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers (Light Novel))


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:10:52.529462+00:00
pubdate: 0101-01-01 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Fujitaka, Tsuyoshi
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:10:52.622434+00:00
title:
My Big Sister Lives in a Fantasy World - Volume 02 - The Half-Baked Vampire vs. The Strongest Little Sister!

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My Big Sister Lives in a Fantasy World - Volume 02 - The Half-Baked Vampire vs. The Strongest Little Sister!


title: The Ancient Magus' Bride: The Golden Yarn (Light Novel) 1 (The Ancient Magus’ Bride (Light Novel))
sort: Ancient Magus' Bride: The Golden Yarn (Light Novel) 1 (The Ancient Magus’ Bride (Light Novel)), The
timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:10:54.327639+00:00
pubdate: 2019-02-03 00:00:00+00:00
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author_sort:
Yamazaki, Kore & Sanda, Makoto & Aotsuki, Kairi & Sakurai, Hikaru & Satou, Sakura & Fujisaku, Jun'ichi & Miwa, Kiyomune & Godai, Yuu


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:10:58.153670+00:00
pubdate: 0101-01-01 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Naturu, Takasugi
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:18:16.042009+00:00
title:
Marriage, Divorce, and Beyond: The White Mage and Black Knight's Romance Reignited Volume 1 [Complete]

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Marriage, Divorce, and Beyond: The White Mage and Black Knight's Romance Reignited Volume 1 [Complete]


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:11:10.210658+00:00
pubdate: 2020-09-13 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: SIMOTTI
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:17:30.580324+00:00
title:
WATARU!!! The Hot-Blooded Fighting Teen & His Epic Adventures After Stopping a Truck with His Bare Hands!!

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WATARU!!! The Hot-Blooded Fighting Teen & His Epic Adventures After Stopping a Truck with His Bare Hands!!


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:11:20.385078+00:00
pubdate: 2021-04-15 07:00:00+00:00
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:14:51.143322+00:00
title:
Since I Was Abandoned After Reincarnating, I Will Cook With My Fluffy Friends: The Figurehead Queen Is Strongest At Her Own Pace Volume 1

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Since I Was Abandoned After Reincarnating, I Will Cook With My Fluffy Friends: The Figurehead Queen Is Strongest At Her Own Pace Volume 1


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:11:24.361489+00:00
pubdate: 2024-10-30 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: ALMOND
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:15:26.126389+00:00
title:
The Oblivious Saint Can't Contain Her Power: Forget My Sister! Turns Out I Was the Real Saint All Along! Volume 4

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Oblivious Saint Can't Contain Her Power: Forget My Sister! Turns Out I Was the Real Saint All Along! Volume 4, The


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:11:28.202805+00:00
pubdate: 2020-07-03 23:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Yamagata, Ishio
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title:
Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers, Vol. 5 (light novel) (Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers (Light Novel))

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Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers, Vol. 5 (light novel) (Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers (Light Novel))


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:11:33.580030+00:00
pubdate: 2021-06-02 00:00:00+00:00
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title:
My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Volume 5

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My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! Volume 5


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:11:36.614389+00:00
pubdate: 2024-09-19 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: HAZUKI, SHUSUI
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:14:58.276379+00:00
title:
My Magical Career at Court: Living the Dream After My Nightmare Boss Fired Me from the Mages’ Guild! Volume 5

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My Magical Career at Court: Living the Dream After My Nightmare Boss Fired Me from the Mages’ Guild! Volume 5


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:11:36.982526+00:00
pubdate: 0101-01-01 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Fujitaka, Tsuyoshi
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:11:37.075802+00:00
title:
My Big Sister Lives in a Fantasy World - Volume 06 - Humanity's Extinction Actually Happens This Time With the Evil God's Revival

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My Big Sister Lives in a Fantasy World - Volume 06 - Humanity's Extinction Actually Happens This Time With the Evil God's Revival


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:11:48.325890+00:00
pubdate: 2021-08-30 23:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Toba, Toru
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:18:36.156500+00:00
title:
The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt (Hey, How About Treason?), Vol. 7 (light novel) (The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation ... (Hey, How About Treason?) (light novel))

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Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt (Hey, How About Treason?), Vol. 7 (light novel) (The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation ... (Hey, How About Treason?) (light novel)), The


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:11:51.759205+00:00
pubdate: 2020-04-25 23:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Yamagata, Ishio
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title:
Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers, Vol. 2 (light novel) (Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers (Light Novel))

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Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers, Vol. 2 (light novel) (Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers (Light Novel))


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:11:57.520470+00:00
pubdate: 2021-10-27 00:00:00+00:00
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:17:30.195166+00:00
title:
The Greatest Demon Lord Is Reborn as a Typical Nobody Side Story: The Wonderful Life of a Typical Nobody, Vol. 6.5

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Greatest Demon Lord Is Reborn as a Typical Nobody Side Story: The Wonderful Life of a Typical Nobody, Vol. 6.5, The


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:12:21.886067+00:00
pubdate: 2020-02-11 00:00:00+00:00
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title:
The Greatest Demon Lord Is Reborn as a Typical Nobody, Vol. 2 (light novel) (The Greatest Demon Lord Is Reborn as a Typical Nobody (light novel))

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Greatest Demon Lord Is Reborn as a Typical Nobody, Vol. 2 (light novel) (The Greatest Demon Lord Is Reborn as a Typical Nobody (light novel)), The


title: The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time, Vol. 5: The Selfish Village Girl
timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:12:26.067825+00:00
pubdate: 2023-04-19 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Kizuka, Nero / Sinsora
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Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time, Vol. 5: The Selfish Village Girl, The


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:12:27.764523+00:00
pubdate: 0101-01-01 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Tsukishima, Syuichi & Mokyu
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:14:49.565158+00:00
title:
I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year Button and Came Out on Top, Vol. 6: The Unbeatable Reject Swordsman

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I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year Button and Came Out on Top, Vol. 6: The Unbeatable Reject Swordsman


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:12:28.531857+00:00
pubdate: 2023-11-10 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: FUKUYAMA, MATSUE
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title:
The Greatest Magician’s Ultimate Quest: I Woke from a 300 Year Slumber to a World of Disappointment Volume 2

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Greatest Magician’s Ultimate Quest: I Woke from a 300 Year Slumber to a World of Disappointment Volume 2, The


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:12:32.233391+00:00
pubdate: 2024-08-20 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Nero Kizuka & Sinsora
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:18:53.906909+00:00
title:
The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time, Vol. 7: The Righteous and the Wretched

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Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time, Vol. 7: The Righteous and the Wretched, The


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:12:35.820327+00:00
pubdate: 2022-12-14 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Kizuka, Nero / Sinsora
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:18:54.162238+00:00
title:
The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time, Vol. 4: The Merchant, Mired in Greed

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Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time, Vol. 4: The Merchant, Mired in Greed, The


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:12:35.986503+00:00
pubdate: 2022-06-23 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Kizuka, Nero / Sinsora
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:18:53.474918+00:00
title:
The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time, Vol. 3: The Spellcaster of Deceased Dreams

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Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time, Vol. 3: The Spellcaster of Deceased Dreams, The


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:14:36.756175+00:00
pubdate: 2023-07-19 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Miku
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:14:37.591207+00:00
title:
The Fruit of Evolution: Before I knew it, my life had it made! - Volume 05: Before I knew it, my life had it made!

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Fruit of Evolution: Before I knew it, my life had it made! - Volume 05: Before I knew it, my life had it made!, The


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:14:39.997923+00:00
pubdate: 2023-11-24 00:00:00+00:00
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:14:40.101850+00:00
title:
The Fruit of Evolution: Before I knew it, my life had it made! - Volume 07: Before I knew it, my life had it made!

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Fruit of Evolution: Before I knew it, my life had it made! - Volume 07: Before I knew it, my life had it made!, The


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:15:30.630555+00:00
pubdate: 2023-11-24 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Miku
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title:
The Fruit of Evolution: Before I knew it, my life had it made! - Volume 08: Before I knew it, my life had it made!

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Fruit of Evolution: Before I knew it, my life had it made! - Volume 08: Before I knew it, my life had it made!, The


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:15:31.165118+00:00
pubdate: 2023-11-24 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Miku
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:15:31.262857+00:00
title:
The Fruit of Evolution: Before I knew it, my life had it made! - Volume 09: Before I knew it, my life had it made!

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Fruit of Evolution: Before I knew it, my life had it made! - Volume 09: Before I knew it, my life had it made!, The


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:15:35.160918+00:00
pubdate: 2023-07-19 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Miku
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:15:35.330172+00:00
title:
The Fruit of Evolution: Before I knew it, my life had it made! - Volume 06: Before I knew it, my life had it made!

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Fruit of Evolution: Before I knew it, my life had it made! - Volume 06: Before I knew it, my life had it made!, The


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:15:36.071322+00:00
pubdate: 2024-01-09 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Tsukasa, Yokotsuka
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last_modified: 2025-12-03 05:15:36.193895+00:00
title:
Another World Survival: Min-maxing My Support and Summoning Magic - Volume 07: Min-maxing My Support and Summoning Magic

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Another World Survival: Min-maxing My Support and Summoning Magic - Volume 07: Min-maxing My Support and Summoning Magic


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:15:37.305874+00:00
pubdate: 2024-10-22 00:00:00+00:00
author_sort: Miku
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title:
The Fruit of Evolution: Before I knew it, my life had it made! - Volume 10: Before I knew it, my life had it made!

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timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:15:52.283766+00:00
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Another World Survival: Min-maxing My Support and Summoning Magic - Volume 09: Min-maxing My Support and Summoning Magic

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Another World Survival: Min-maxing My Support and Summoning Magic - Volume 09: Min-maxing My Support and Summoning Magic


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:15:55.140330+00:00
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Another World Survival: Min-maxing My Support and Summoning Magic - Volume 08: Min-maxing My Support and Summoning Magic

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Another World Survival: Min-maxing My Support and Summoning Magic - Volume 08: Min-maxing My Support and Summoning Magic


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:15:57.268026+00:00
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Another World Survival: Min-maxing My Support and Summoning Magic - Volume 06: Min-maxing My Support and Summoning Magic

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Another World Survival: Min-maxing My Support and Summoning Magic - Volume 06: Min-maxing My Support and Summoning Magic


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:16:12.150871+00:00
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Another World Survival: Min-maxing My Support and Summoning Magic - Volume 05: Min-maxing My Support and Summoning Magic

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Another World Survival: Min-maxing My Support and Summoning Magic - Volume 05: Min-maxing My Support and Summoning Magic


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:16:15.350975+00:00
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My Big Sister Lives in a Fantasy World: The Strongest Little Brother’s Commonplace Encounters with the Bizarre?!

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My Big Sister Lives in a Fantasy World: The Strongest Little Brother’s Commonplace Encounters with the Bizarre?!


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:16:26.270299+00:00
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The Fruit of Evolution: Before I knew it, my life had it made! - Volume 01: Before I knew it, my life had it made!

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timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:17:06.404959+00:00
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Observation Records of My Fiancée: The Misadventures of a Self-Proclaimed Villainess - Volume 01: The Misadventures of a Self-Proclaimed Villainess

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Observation Records of My Fiancée: The Misadventures of a Self-Proclaimed Villainess - Volume 01: The Misadventures of a Self-Proclaimed Villainess


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:17:09.780911+00:00
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Sentenced to Be a Hero, Vol. 1: The Prison Records of Penal Hero Unit 9004: The Prison Records of Penal Hero Unit 9004

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Sentenced to Be a Hero, Vol. 1: The Prison Records of Penal Hero Unit 9004: The Prison Records of Penal Hero Unit 9004


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:17:33.418142+00:00
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Online!, Vol. 2: The Haunted School and the Knight’s Riddle: Online!, Vol. 2: The Haunted School and the Knight’s Riddle

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Online!, Vol. 2: The Haunted School and the Knight’s Riddle: Online!, Vol. 2: The Haunted School and the Knight’s Riddle


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Online!, Vol. 3: The Reaper King and the Avian Monstrosity: The Haunted School and the Knightâ€™s Riddle

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Online!, Vol. 3: The Reaper King and the Avian Monstrosity: The Haunted School and the Knightâ€™s Riddle


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:17:48.830572+00:00
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Looks Are All You Need, Vol. 1: Shiika’s Crescendo: How Higher Education Can Benefit from Shared Solutions and Save Itself

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Looks Are All You Need, Vol. 1: Shiika’s Crescendo: How Higher Education Can Benefit from Shared Solutions and Save Itself


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:17:49.735278+00:00
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The Ephemeral Scenes of Setsuna’s Journey, Vol. 4: The Former 68th Hero and His Peculiar Quests: The former 68th hero and his peculiar quests

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My Big Sister Lives in a Fantasy World: Humanity's Extinction Actually Happens This Time With the Evil God's Revival?!

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My Big Sister Lives in a Fantasy World: Humanity's Extinction Actually Happens This Time With the Evil God's Revival?!


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:19:18.307049+00:00
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Banished from the Hero's Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside v09 (2024) (Digital) (1r0n)

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timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:19:19.967326+00:00
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timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:19:20.208078+00:00
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timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:19:56.107679+00:00
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I Only Have Six Months to Live, So Im Gonna Break the Curse with Light Magic or Die Trying v02 (2025) (Digital) (Ushi)

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I Only Have Six Months to Live, So Im Gonna Break the Curse with Light Magic or Die Trying v02 (2025) (Digital) (Ushi)


timestamp: 2025-12-03 05:20:50.106689+00:00
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Discover the vibrant tastes of Asia with over 70 authentic and creative recipes for cooking with noodles.


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<p>Dan Toombs (aka The Curry Guy) has perfected the art of replicating British Indian Restaurant (BIR) cooking after travelling around the UK, sampling dishes, learning the curry house kitchen secrets and refining those recipes at home. In other words, Dan makes homemade curries that taste just like a takeaway from your favourite local but in less time and for less money. Dan has learnt through the comments left on his blog and social media feeds that people are terribly let down when they make a chicken korma or a prawn bhuna from other cookbooks and it taste nothing like the dish they experience when they visit a curry house...but they thank him for getting it right.


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<b>The official and authoritative guide to the starfighters and vehicles of the <i>Star Wars</i> galaxy – now updated to include 30 pages of new content.</b><br>What's the difference between a B-wing and an X-wing starfighter? How many legs does an AT-OT walker have? And just how fast can the <i>Millennium Falcon</i> fly?<br>This latest edition covers over 230 vehicles from <i>Star Wars</i> movies and TV series, including <i>The Rise of Skywalker</i>, <i>The Mandalorian</i>, <i>Ahsoka</i>, and more! From enormous Sith Star Destroyers to Kylo Ren's TIE whisper to Din Djarin's shiny N-1 starfighter, learn all about your favorite modes of transportation from a galaxy far, far away.<br><b>Discover 230+ incredible <i>Star Wars</i> vehicles and starfighters:</b><li><b>Authoritative and fully authorized:</b> Compiled and written by <i>Star Wars</i> experts, with incredible images and detailed fact files for each vehicle</li><li><b>Comprehensively updated:</b> This edition builds on the...


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<b>More than 100 hilarious and ridiculous things that you should never, ever do in real life.</b><BR>We all know that we should never fight a tiger or become a mafia boss, but that doesn't mean it isn't funny and fascinating to learn about. <i>Forbidden Knowledge</i> offers a collection of the most ridiculous things that you should never attempt in real life&#8212;but will make you laugh none the less. You'll learn everything from how to take over a cult to swimming with piranhas to how to build an atomic bomb or escape from prison.<BR> <BR><i>Forbidden Knowledge </i>invites you to embrace the absurd with pranks that are sure to make you laugh. With over 100 extremely bad ideas that you should never do, this entertaining and light-hearted book makes each hilarious scenario so much fun to imagine.


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Nadie sabía cómo había empezado todo, exactamente. El mundo se había desestabilizado mucho antes de que ningún científico hubiese podido dar alguna explicación. Ningún programa de televisión aguantó el tiempo suficiente como para teorizar sobre el problema. Al principio podías verlo en la televisión. Hablaban sobre ello - muy poco al principio, pero luego cada vez más; en la televisión basura de la noche, en los programas nocturnos líderes de audiencia, hasta que ya no se hablaba de otra cosa y la noticia del año lo inundaba todo.


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El campamento de Carranque vive momentos dulces. Tras haber sobrevivido el ataque del Padre Isidro y sus enloquecedoras huestes de caminantes, los supervivientes se entregan a ensoñaciones y esperanzas de futuro propiciadas por los descubrimientos del doctor Rodríguez. Juan Aranda, su líder, decide utilizar su nueva condición para explorar la ciudad en busca de otras personas que continúen todavía con vida. Sin embargo, han pasado ya tres meses desde que se iniciara la pandemia zombi que asoló el planeta y sobrevivir es cada día más duro. Su periplo personal, no exento de vicisitudes, le aleja de Carranque, donde mientras tanto inciden nefastos designios que amenazan con convertirlo en una ciudad de muertos: una necrópolis.


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Tras sobrevivir a la devastadora pandemia que ha asolado el mundo y con la esperanza de ahondar en el misterio del Necrosum, el pequeño grupo de supervivientes de Carranque llega finalmente a la Alhambra de Granada, donde el aparato militar ha instalado uno de los últimos bastiones de resistencia de la Humanidad. Sin embargo, una vez allí descubrirán que las cosas no son cómo les habían prometido y los protagonistas deberán afrontar una realidad aún peor que todo lo que habían conocido hasta entonces. El autor se sirve de los muertos vivientes para describir situaciones de extrema dureza y dramatismo, explorando la complejidad del ser humano cuando se encuentra cara a cara con el terror en un mundo manifiestamente hostil, y lanzando al lector, en definitiva, a una montaña rusa de sensaciones que desemboca en la conclusión final.


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<b>Mercy Thompson has been hailed as "a heroine who continues to grow and yet always remains true to herself."* Now she's back, and she'll soon discover that when the fae stalk the human world, it's the children who suffer...</b><br> <br> Tensions between the fae and humans are coming to a head. And when coyote shapeshifter Mercy and her Alpha werewolf mate, Adam, are called upon to stop a rampaging troll, they find themselves with something that could be used to make the fae back down and forestall out-and-out war: a human child stolen long ago by the fae.<br> <br> Defying the most powerful werewolf in the country, the humans, and the fae, Mercy, Adam, and their pack choose to protect the boy no matter what the cost. But who will protect them from a boy who is fire touched?<br> <br> *<i>Library Journal</i><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>


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<i>A Red Rose Chain </i>is the ninth installment in Seanan McGuire's urban fantasy October 'Toby' Daye series.


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<p><I>Come one, come all! The Carniepunk Midway promises you every thrill and chill a traveling carnival can provide. But fear not! Urban fantasy's biggest stars are here to guide you through this strange and dangerous world. . . .</i><br /><br />RACHEL CAINE's vampires aren't child's play, as a naïve teen discovers when her heart leads her far, far astray in "The Cold Girl." With "Parlor Tricks," JENNIFER ESTEP pits Gin Blanco, the Elemental Assassin, against the Wheel of Death and some dangerously creepy clowns. SEANAN McGUIRE narrates a poignant, ethereal tale of a mysterious carnival that returns to a dangerous town after twenty years in "Daughter of the Midway, the Mermaid, and the Open, Lonely Sea." KEVIN HEARNE's Iron Druid and his wisecracking Irish wolfhound discover in "The Demon Barker of Wheat Street" that the impossibly wholesome sounding Kansas Wheat Festival is actually not a healthy place to hang out. With an eerie, unpredictable twist, ROB THURMAN reveals the fate o...


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<p>Toby thought she understood her own past; she thought she knew the score.<br> <br>She was wrong.<br> <br>It's time to learn the truth.


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Villains have all the fun&#8212;everyone knows that&#8212;and this anthology takes you on a wild ride through the dark side! The top villains from sixteen urban fantasy series get their own stories&#8212;including the baddies of <i>New York Times </i>bestselling authors Kelley Armstrong, Jim Butcher, Kevin Hearne, and Seanan McGuire.<BR>For every hero trying to save the world, there's a villain trying to tear it all down.<BR> <BR> In this can't-miss anthology edited by Joseph Nassise (The Templar Chronicles), you get to plot world domination with the best of the evildoers we love to hate! This outstanding collection brings you stories told from the villain's point of view, imparting a fresh and unique take on the evil masterminds, wicked witches, and infernal personalities that skulk in the pages of today's most popular series.<BR> <BR> The full anthology features stories by Jim Butcher (the Dresden Files), Kelley Armstrong (the Cainsville and Otherworld series), Seanan McGuire...


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<div><p><em>Cryptid, noun:<br>1. Any creature whose existence has been suggested but not proven scientifically. Term officially coined by cryptozoologist John E. Wall in 1983.<br>2. That thing that's getting ready to eat your head.<br>3. See also: "monster."</em><br></p><p>The Price family has spent generations studying the monsters of the world, working to protect them from humanity--and humanity from them. Enter Verity Price. Despite being trained from birth as a cryptozoologist, she'd rather dance a tango than tangle with a demon, and when her work with the cryptid community took her to Manhattan, she thought she would finally be free to pursue competition-level dance in earnest. It didn't quite work out that way...<br></p><p>But now, with the snake cult that was killing virgins all over Manhattan finally taken care of, Verity is ready to settle down for some serious ballroom dancing—until her on-again, off-again, semi-boyfriend Dominic De Luca, a member of the monster-hunting Covenant of St. George, informs her that the Covenant is on their way to assess the city's readiness for a cryptid purge. With everything and everyone she loves on the line, there's no way Verity can take that lying down.<br></p><p>Alliances will be tested, allies will be questioned, lives will be lost, and the talking mice in Verity's apartment will immortalize everything as holy writ--assuming there's anyone left standing when all is said and done. It's a midnight blue-light special, and the sale of the day is on betrayal, deceit...and carnage.</p><h3>Review</h3><p>“The only thing more fun than an <em>October Daye</em> book is an <em>InCryptid </em>book. Swift narrative, charm, great world-building . . . all the McGuire trademarks.”</p><p>(Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author )<br></p><p>"Seanan McGuire's DISCOUNT ARMAGEDDON is an urban fantasy triple threat - smart and sexy and funny. The Aeslin mice alone are worth the price of the book, so consider a cast of truly ORIGINAL characters, a plot where weird never overwhelms logic, and some serious kickass world-building as a bonus."</p><p>(Tanya Huff, bestselling author of THE WILD WAYS )<br></p><p>"McGuire kicks off a new series with a smart-mouthed, engaging heroine and a city full of fantastical creatures. This may seem like familiar ground to McGuire fans, but she makes New York her own, twisting the city and its residents into curious shapes that will leave you wanting more. Verity’s voice is strong and sure as McGuire hints at a deeper history, one that future volumes will hopefully explore.”</p><p>(RT Book Reviews )<br></p><p>"Verity is a winning protagonist, and her snarky but loving observations on her world of bogeyman strip club owners, Japanese demon badger bartenders, and dragon princess waitresses make for a delightful read."</p><p>(Publishers Weekly )<br></p><p>"<em>Discount Armageddon</em> is an exceptionally well-written tale with a unique premise, fantastic character work, and a plot that just pulls you along until you finish. This is one for the urban fantasy enthusiasts out there—as well as for anyone who wants something different from most anything else on shelves today. Easily one of my favorite books of 2012."</p><p>(Ranting Dragon ) </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Seanan McGuire is a California-based author with a strong penchant for travel, and can regularly be found just about anyplace capable of supporting human life (as well as a few places that probably aren't). Early exposure to a vast number of books left her with a lifelong affection for the written word, and led, perhaps inevitably, to her writing books of her own, starting somewhere around the age of eleven. The October Daye novels are her first published fantasy series. The <em>InCryptid </em>novels are her second urban fantasy series for DAW.</p></div>


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</p><div class="more-link-wrap opened"></div><section class="overview"><p><b>The second book in the Ghost Roads 
series returns to the highways of America, where hitchhiking ghost Rose 
Marshall continues her battle with her killer–the immortal Bobby Cross.</b><br><br><i>Once and twice and thrice around,</i><br> <i>Put your heart into the ground.</i><br> <i>Four and five and six tears shed,</i><br> <i>Give your love unto the dead.</i><br> <i>Seven shadows on the wall,</i><br> <i>Eight have come to watch your fall:</i><br> <i>One’s for the gargoyle, one’s for the grave,</i><br> <i>And the last is for the one you’ll never save.</i><br> <i> </i><br>For
 Rose Marshall, death has long since become the only life she really 
knows.  She’s been sweet sixteen for more than sixty years, hitchhiking 
her way along the highways and byways of America, sometimes seen as an 
avenging angel, sometimes seen as a killer in her own right, but always 
Rose, the Phantom Prom Date, the Girl in the Green Silk Gown.<br><br>The
 man who killed her is still out there, thanks to a crossroads bargain 
that won’t let him die, and he’s looking for the one who got away.  When
 Bobby Cross comes back into the picture, there’s going to be hell to 
pay—possibly literally.<br><br>Rose has worked for decades to make a 
place for herself in the twilight.  Can she defend it, when Bobby Cross 
comes to take her down?  Can she find a way to navigate the worlds of 
the living and the dead, and make it home before her hitchhiker’s luck 
runs out?<br>                 <br>There’s only one way to know for sure.<br>  <br> <i>Nine will let you count the cost:</i><br> <i>All you had and all you lost.</i><br> <i>Ten is more than time can tell,</i><br> <i>Cut the cord and ring the bell.</i><br> <i>Count eleven, twelve, and then,</i><br> <i>Thirteen takes you home again.</i><br> <i>One’s for the shadow, one’s for the tree,</i><br> <i>And the last is for the blessing of Persephone.</i></p>  </section>
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    Praise for <i>Sparrow Hill Road</i>:<br><br> “Hitchhiking ghosts, 
the unquiet dead, the gods of the old American roads—McGuire enters the 
company of Lindskold and Gaiman with this book, creating a <b>wistful, funny, fascinating new mythology</b> of diners, corn fields, and proms in this all-in-one-sitting read!” —Tamora Pierce<br><br> “Seanan McGuire doesn’t write stories, she gifts us with Myth—<b>new Myths for a layered America </b>that guide us off the twilight roads and lend us a pretty little dead girl to show us the way home.” —Tanya Huff<br><br> “McGuire is a writer to be reckoned with, landing stone-cold emotional blows in quick succession while simultaneously <b>stringing laugh-out-loud moments alongside lush descriptions</b>, knife-sharp badinage and quickfire action sequences.” —Strange Horizons<br><br> “McGuire applies a hard-boiled mentality and <b>a keen appreciation for mythology</b> to a blend of politics, magic, and romance.” —<i>Publishers Weekly </i>  </p>
<div class="more-link-wrap opened"></div></div><p><br><br></p><h2 class="slot-header subtitle">About the Author</h2><p>
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                                <p></p><p><b>Seanan McGuire</b> lives 
and works in Washington State, where she shares her somewhat 
idiosyncratic home with her collection of books, creepy dolls, and 
enormous blue cats.  When not writing–which is fairly rare–she enjoys 
travel, and can regularly be found any place where there are cornfields,
 haunted houses, or frogs.  A Campbell, Hugo, and Nebula Award-winning 
author, Seanan’s first book (<i>Rosemary and Rue</i>, the beginning of 
the October Daye series) was released in 2009, with more than twenty 
books across various series following since.  Seanan doesn’t sleep 
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EDITORIAL REVIEW:

**Now comes the second in the series-from a dynamic new fantasy talent! ** 



 Toby Daye-a half-human, half-fae changeling-has been an outsider from birth. After getting burned by both sides of her heritage, Toby has denied the fae world, retreating to a "normal" life. Unfortunately for her, the Faerie world had other ideas... 



 Now her liege, the Duke of the Shadowed Hills, has asked Toby to go to the Country of Tamed Lightening to make sure all is well with his niece, Countess January O'Leary. It seems like a simple enough assignment-until Toby discovers that someone has begun murdering people close to January, and that if the killer isn't stopped, January may be the next victim.


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Verity Price is back on the West Coast and getting back into the swing of the family business: cryptozoology. She's rescuing cryptids from bad situations, protecting them from monster-hunters, and generally risking life and limb for the greater good, with her ex-Covenant partner/husband, Dominic, by her side. Her ballroom dance career is behind her...or so she thinks. <br>When Verity gets the call from the producers of <i>Dance or Die</i>, the reality show she almost won several years before, she finds the lure of a comeback impossible to resist, and she and Dominic are off to L.A. for one last shot at the big time.<br> <br>Of course, nothing is that simple. When two of her fellow contestants turn up dead, Verity will need every ally she can find&#8212;and a couple she wasn't looking for&#8212;in order to navigate the complicated steps of both the tango and a murder investigation without blowing her cover. It doesn't help that her official family backup is her grandmother, Alice...


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<b>The third book in <i>New York Times</i>-bestselling Seanan McGuire's witty urban fantasy InCryptid series about a family of cryptozoologists who act as a buffer between humans and the magical creatures living in secret around us.<br></b><br>"The only thing more fun than an October Daye book is an InCryptid book." &#8212;<b>Charlaine Harris</b>, #1 <i>New York Times</i>-bestselling author of Sookie Stackhouse series<br><b>Cryptid, noun:</b> Any creature whose existence has not yet been proven by science. See also "monster."<br><b>Cryptozoologist, noun:</b> Any person who thinks hunting for cryptids is a good idea. See also "idiot."<br>What do gorgons, basilisks, and frogs with feathers all have in common? They're all considered mythological by modern science, and some people are working very hard to keep them that way. <br>Alexander Price is a member of a cryptozoological lineage that spans generations, and it's his job to act as a buffer between the human and cryptid...


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<p><b>A stand-alone fantasy tale from Seanan McGuire's Alex-award winning Wayward Children series, which began in the </b><b>Alex Award-winning, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus finalist, Tiptree Honor List </b><b><i>Every Heart a Doorway</i></b><br><i></i><br><i>Beneath the Sugar Sky</i>, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children in a standalone contemporary fantasy for fans of all ages. At this magical boarding school, children who have experienced fantasy adventures are reintroduced to the "real" world.</p><p>When Rini lands with a literal splash in the pond behind Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children, the last thing she expects to find is that her mother, Sumi, died years before Rini was even conceived. But Rini can't let Reality get in the way of her quest &#8211; not when she has an entire world to save! (Much more common than one would suppose.)</p><p>If she can't find a way to restore her mother, Rini will have more...


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<div><p><strong>Seanan McGuire returns to her popular Wayward Children series with <em>Down Among the Sticks and Bones -</em> a truly standalone story suitable for adult and young adult readers of urban fantasy, and the follow-up to the Alex Award-winning, Nebula-nominated *Every Heart a Doorway</strong>* </p> <p>Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children. </p> <p>This is the story of what happened first... </p> <p>Jacqueline was her mother's perfect daughter - polite and quiet, always dressed as a princess. If her mother was sometimes a little strict, it's because crafting the perfect daughter takes discipline. </p> <p>Jillian was her father's perfect daughter - adventurous, thrill-seeking, and a bit of a tom-boy. He really would have preferred a son, but you work with what you've got. </p> <p>They were five when they learned that grown-ups can't be trusted. </p> <p>They were twelve when they walked down the impossible staircase and discovered that the pretense of love can never be enough to prepare you a life filled with magic in a land filled with mad scientists and death and <em>choices</em>. </p> <p>At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.</p></div>


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A collection of new and previously published Newsflesh novellas from New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant.


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<div><div><font face="Segoe UI, sans-serif" size="2"><b>A Newflesh novella from the New York Times bestselling author that brought you Feed, Mira Grant.</b></font></div><div><font face="Segoe UI, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Segoe UI, sans-serif" size="2">Shaun and Georgia Mason got out. That's the story people tell, anyway. They told the truth and they lived happily ever after, somewhere in the wilds of Canada. But running away is complicated, and when circumstances face them to return to what they left behind, they'll have to face the consequences of their own actions . . . and the actions of others.</font></div></div>


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<p><b>A Newsflesh novella from the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author that brought you <i>Feed</i>, Mira Grant.</b><p><br><p>Stacy and Michael Mason are among the most famous heroes of the zombie apocalypse. Stacy, however, has fallen into a deep depression after having to shoot their infected son. In the aftermath of the pandemic, they start publicly documenting the recovery effort, which Michael hopes will take Stacy's mind off of her trauma and help her recover.<p><br><p>As they film the rescue of an enclave of orphans and report on the orphanages that have sprung up to care for traumatized, parent-less children, they begin to consider the last, greatest step of recovery: adoption.<p><br><p><b><i>More from Mira Grant</i></b><p><b><i><br></i></b><p><i>Into the Drowning Deep</i><p><b><i><br></i></b><p><b>Newsflesh Short Fiction</b><p><i>Apocalypse Scenario #683: The Box</i><p><i>Countdown</i><p><i>San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats</i><p><i>How...


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<p><b>A new beginning for Mira Grant's <i>New York Times</i> bestselling NEWSFLESH series! </b><p> <i>There are two sides to every story... </i></br> We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we unleashed something horrifying and unstoppable. The infection spread leaving those afflicted with a single uncontrollable impulse: FEED.</br> Now, twenty years after the Rising, a team of scrappy underdog reporters relentlessly pursue the facts while competing against the brother and sister blog superstars, the Masons.</br> Surrounded by the infected, and facing more insidious forces working in the shadows, they must hit the presidential campaign trail and uncover dangerous truths. Or die trying. </br> <b>FEEDBACK is a full-length Newsflesh novel that overlaps the events of the acclaimed first novel in the series, <i>Feed, </i>and offers a new entry point to this thrilling and treacherous world....


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<p class="description">When her sister Patty died, Jenna blamed herself. When Jenna died, she blamed herself for that, too. Unfortunately Jenna died too soon. Living or dead, every soul is promised a certain amount of time, and when Jenna passed she found a heavy debt of time in her record. Unwilling to simply steal that time from the living, Jenna earns every day she leeches with volunteer work at a suicide prevention hotline.But something has come for the ghosts of New York, something beyond reason, beyond death, beyond hope; something that can bind ghosts to mirrors and make them do its bidding. Only Jenna stands in its way.Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day is a new standalone urban fantasy novella from New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.</p>


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From <I>New York Times </I>bestselling author Seanan McGuire, a haunting urban fantasy short story in the <I>Carniepunk</I> anthology&#8212;for fans of all things circus, supernatural, and mysterious&#8230;<BR>It&#8217;s been seventeen years since the last time Ada&#8217;s carnival passed through her father&#8217;s hometown in Alabama&#8212;and no one is expecting the reception she gets.


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Dr. Jennifer Webb has invented proprietary virtual reality technology that purports to heal psychological wounds by running clients through scenarios straight out of horror movies and nightmares.


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A blockbuster anthology of original, blood-curdling vampire fiction from <i>New York Times</i> bestselling and award-winning authors, including Charlaine Harris, whose novels were adapted into HBO&#8217;s hit show <i>True Blood</i>, and Scott Smith, publishing his first work since <i>The Ruins</i>.<BR>Before being transformed into romantic heroes and soft, emotional antiheroes, vampires were figures of overwhelming terror. Now, from some of the biggest names in horror and dark fiction, comes this stellar collection of short stories that make vampires frightening once again. Edited by <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Christopher Golden and featuring all-new stories from such contributors as Charlaine Harris, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Scott Smith, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Michael Kortya, Kelley Armstrong, Brian Keene, David Wellington, Seanan McGuire, and Tim Lebbon, <i>Seize the Night</i> is old-school vampire fiction at its finest.


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<b><i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Mira Grant, author of the renowned Newsflesh series, returns with a novel that takes us to a new world of ancient mysteries and mythological dangers come to life. </b><br> <br><p><i>The ocean is home to many myths, </i><p><i><br></i><p><i>But some are deadly...</i><p><br><p>Seven years ago the <i>Atargatis</i> set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a mockumentary bringing to life ancient sea creatures of legend. It was lost at sea with all hands. Some have called it a hoax; others have called it a tragedy. <p><br><p>Now a new crew has been assembled. But this time they're not out to entertain. Some seek to validate their life's work. Some seek the greatest hunt of all. Some seek the truth. But for the ambitious young scientist Victoria Stewart this is a voyage to uncover the fate of the sister she lost. <p><br><p>Whatever the truth may be, it will only be found below the waves. <p><br><p><i>But the secrets of the deep come...


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<div><p style="font-family: 'MS Shell Dlg 2';">When the Imagine Network commissioned a documentary on mermaids, to be filmed from the cruise ship Atargatis, they expected what they had always received before: an assortment of eyewitness reports that proved nothing, some footage that proved even less, and the kind of ratings that only came from peddling imaginary creatures to the masses.</p><p style="font-family: 'MS Shell Dlg 2';">They didn't expect actual mermaids.  They certainly didn't expect those mermaids to have teeth.</p><p class="description">This is the story of the Atargatis, lost at sea with all hands.  Some have called it a hoax; others have called it a maritime tragedy.  Whatever the truth may be, it will only be found below the bathypelagic zone in the Mariana Trench…and the depths are very good at keeping secrets.</p></div>


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The final novel in a high-concept near-future science fiction trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant.


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The second novel in a high-concept near-future science fiction trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant, now in trade paperback.


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<b><i>New York Times</i>-bestselling October Daye series &bull; Hugo Award-winning author Seanan McGuire &bull; "Top of my urban-paranormal series list!" &#8212;Felicia Day</b><br><b>Includes a brand-new map and original bonus novella!</b><br>Politics have never been October "Toby" Daye's strong suit. When she traveled to the Kingdom of Silences to prevent them from going to war with her home, the Kingdom of the Mists, she wasn't expecting to return with a cure for elf-shot and a whole new set of political headaches. <br>Now the events she unwittingly set in motion could change the balance of modern Faerie forever, and she has been ordered to appear before a historic convocation of monarchs, hosted by Queen Windermere in the Mists and overseen by the High King and Queen themselves. <br>Naturally, things have barely gotten underway when the first dead body shows up. As the only changeling in attendance, Toby is already the target of suspicion and hostility. Now she needs to find a...


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ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963, THREE SHOTSRANG OUT IN DALLAS, PRESIDENTKENNEDY DIED, AND THE WORLD CHANGED.WHAT IF YOU COULD CHANGE IT BACK? In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen Kingwho has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writertakes readers on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it. It begins with Jake Epping, a thirty-five-year-old English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching GED classes. He asks his students to write about an event that changed their lives, and one essay blows him awaya gruesome, harrowing story about the night more than fifty years ago when Harry Dunning's father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a sledgehammer. Reading the essay is a watershed moment for Jake, his lifelike Harry's, like America's in 1963turning on a dime. Not much later his friend Al, who owns the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to the past, a particular day in 1958. And Al enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsessionto prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake's new life as George Amberson, in a different world of Ike and JFK and Elvis, of big American cars and sock hops and cigarette smoke everywhere. From the dank little city of Derry, Maine (where there's Dunning business to conduct), to the warmhearted small town of Jodie, Texas, where Jake falls dangerously in love, every turn is leading eventually, of course, to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and to Dallas, where the past becomes heart-stoppingly suspenseful, and where history might not be history anymore. Time-travel has never been so believable. Or so terrifying.


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<b>Twentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen King</b><BR>ONE OF <i>TIME</i> MAGAZINE'S TOP 100 NONFICTION BOOKS OF ALL TIME<BR> <BR>Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this special edition of Stephen King's critically lauded, million-copy bestseller shares the experiences, habits, and convictions that have shaped him and his work.<BR> <BR> "Long live the King" hailed <i>Entertainment Weekly</i> upon publication of Stephen King's <i>On Writing</i>. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King's advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal accident in 1999&#8212;and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery....


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<div><p>With the heart of Stand By Me and the genius horror of Christine, Mile 81 is Stephen King unleashing his imagination as he drives past one of those road signs...   </p>
<p>At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded up rest stop on a highway in Maine. It's a place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It's the place where Pete Simmons goes when his older brother, who's supposed to be looking out for him, heads off to the gravel pit to play "paratroopers over the side." Pete, armed only with the magnifying glass he got for his tenth birthday, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the boarded up burger shack and drinks enough to pass out.   </p>
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<p>Doug Clayton, an insurance man from Bangor, is driving his Prius to a conference in Portland. On the backseat are his briefcase and suitcase and in the passenger bucket is a King James Bible, what Doug calls "the ultimate insurance manual," but it isn't going to save Doug when he decides to be the Good Samaritan and help the guy in the broken down wagon. He pulls up behind it, puts on his four-ways, and then notices that the wagon has no plates.   </p>
<p>Ten minutes later, Julianne Vernon, pulling a horse trailer, spots the Prius and the wagon, and pulls over. Julianne finds Doug Clayton's cracked cell phone near the wagon door — and gets too close herself. By the time Pete Simmons wakes up from his vodka nap, there are a half a dozen cars at the Mile 81 rest stop. Two kids — Rachel and Blake Lussier — and one horse named Deedee are the only living left. Unless you maybe count the wagon.   </p>
<p>**</p><h3>Amazon.com Review</h3>
<p>Stephen King has said it himself: the short story is ailing in America. But with a new story that is part coming-of-age, part paranormal tale, he has helped give the form a boost--and us a reminder of how skillfully he works in a small space. In King’s worlds, peril and disaster often hide in the most ordinary things and places, and in <em>Mile 81</em> , danger lurks at an abandoned rest stop in the author's standard Maine setting. With expert pacing, King allows a short but life-changing journey to unfold for his young protagonist, and the most pedestrian details of the rest stop take on eerie significance with each quickly-turned page: a cut-up chain-link fence surrounding the place, a hollowed-out Burger King left fallow, a door of a filthy car hanging silently “open like an invitation.” Fans will recognize nods to <em>Christine</em> and <em>From a Buick 8</em> , but the destructive force in <em>Mile 81</em> is even more savage, the horror more faceless and primal. And as one would expect, it’s not just a scary story--it reads, in ways, as parable, his characters at once archetypal and uniquely crafted. Although set in present day, <em>Mile 81</em> feels timeless---it's a story about good people encountering the terror of the unknowable, and about the courage that innocents must summon in the face of it, when there is no one left to protect them. -- <em>Simone Gorrindo</em></p>
<h3>About the Author</h3>
<p>Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes  <em>The Institute</em> , <em>Elevation,</em> <em>The Outsider</em> ,  <em>Sleeping Beauties</em>  (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy, <em>End of Watch</em> ,  <em>Finders Keepers</em> , and  <em>Mr. Mercedes</em>  (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and an AT&amp;T Audience Network original television series). His novel  <em>11/22/63</em>  was named a top ten book of 2011 by  <em>The New York Times Book Review</em>  and won the  <em>Los Angeles Times</em>  Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works  <em>The Dark Tower</em>  and  <em>It</em>  are the basis for major motion pictures, with  <em>It</em> now the highest grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. </p></div>


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<p><strong>#1 bestselling author Stephen King returns with a brand-new novel about the secrets we keep buried and the cost of unearthing them.</strong><br><br><strong>SOMETIMES GROWING UP</strong><br><strong>MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS</strong><br> <br>The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine – as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave. <br> <br><em>LATER</em> is Stephen King at his finest, a terrifying and touching story of innocence lost and the trials that test our sense of right and wrong. With echoes of King’s classic novel <em>It</em>, <em>LATER </em>is a powerful, haunting, unforgettable exploration of what it takes to stand up to evil in all the faces it wears.</p>
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<p>"There’s classic King here for fans... a thrilling whodunit." - Associated Press<br><br>“King’s writing in LATER is as clean, direct and evocative as it’s ever been…the crime-driven plot is propulsive [and] some of the lines just take your breath away…you’re in the hands of a master storyteller.” - <em>Washington Post</em><br><br>"Crave chills and thrills but don’t have time for a King epic? This will do the job before bedtime. Not that you’ll sleep."  --Kirkus<br><br>"Gory and unnerving, this twisty chiller has sufficient sins and revelations to keep readers pursuing the action to its breathless conclusion. King fans are in for a treat." -Publishers Weekly <br><br>"An entertaining and breezy read, with the stellar storytelling that has justly made King a literary legend." - AARP Magazine<br> <br>"King’s tics and tricks are all in bloom: folksy dialogue, cockeyed worldview, rising tension, pure evil, etc. " - Philadelphia Inquirer<br><br>"A satisfying tale about facing demons—both those we can see and those that lurk in the darkness." - Foreword Reviews <br><br>‘A powerful testament to [King’s] storytelling prowess’ - Bookbub<br><br>‘Sharply developed characters, steady incorporation of supernatural elements, and building suspense, make for [a] great read’ - Borg.com </p>
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<p><strong>Stephen King </strong>has written dozens of bestselling books including <em>The Shining, The Stand</em>, and<em> The Green Mile</em>. Film adaptations of his work include "<em>Misery</em>" and "<em>Stand By Me</em>". In 2003, King received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2007 he was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. </p></div>


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<div><p>Stephen King -- who has written more than fifty books, dozens of number one <em>New York Times</em> bestsellers, and many unforgettable movies -- delivers an astonishing collection of short stories, his first since <em>Everything's Eventual</em> six years ago. As guest editor of the bestselling <em>Best American Short Stories 2007</em>, King spent over a year reading hundreds of stories. His renewed passion for the form is evident on every page of <em>Just After Sunset</em>. The stories in this collection have appeared in <em>The New Yorker</em>, <em>Playboy</em>, <em>McSweeney's</em>, <em>The Paris Review</em>, <em>Esquire</em>, and other publications. </p><p>Who but Stephen King would turn a Port-O-San into a slimy birth canal, or a roadside honky-tonk into a place for endless love? A book salesman with a grievance might pick up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. Or an exercise routine on a stationary bicycle, begun to reduce bad cholesterol, might take its rider on a captivating -- and then terrifying -- journey. Set on a remote key in Florida, "The Gingerbread Girl" is a riveting tale featuring a young woman as vulnerable -- and resourceful -- as Audrey Hepburn's character in <em>Wait Until Dark</em>. In "Ayana," a blind girl works a miracle with a kiss and the touch of her hand. For King, the line between the living and the dead is often blurry, and the seams that hold our reality intact might tear apart at any moment. In one of the longer stories here, "N.," which recently broke new ground when it was adapted as a graphic digital entertainment, a psychiatric patient's irrational thinking might create an apocalyptic threat in the Maine countryside...or keep the world from falling victim to it. </p><p><em>Just After Sunset</em> -- call it dusk, call it twilight, it's a time when human intercourse takes on an unnatural cast, when nothing is quite as it appears, when the imagination begins to reach for shadows as they dissipate to darkness and living daylight can be scared right out of you. It's the perfect time for Stephen King. </p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Starred Review. In the introduction to his first collection of short fiction since <em>Everything's Eventual</em> (2002), King credits editing <em>Best American Short Stories</em> (2007) with reigniting his interest in the short form and inducing some of this volume's contents. Most of these 13 tales show him at the top of his game, molding the themes and set pieces of horror and suspense fiction into richly nuanced blends of fantasy and psychological realism. The Things They Left Behind, a powerful study of survivor guilt, is one of several supernatural disaster stories that evoke the horrors of 9/11. Like the crime thrillers The Gingerbread Girl and A Very Tight Place, both of which feature protagonists struggling with apparently insuperable threats to life, it is laced with moving ruminations on mortality that King attributes to his own well-publicized near-death experience. Even the smattering of genre-oriented works shows King trying out provocative new vehicles for his trademark thrills, notably N., a creepy character study of an obsessive-compulsive that subtly blossoms into a tale of cosmic terror in the tradition of Arthur Machen and H.P. Lovecraft. Culled almost entirely from leading mainstream periodicals, these stories are a testament to the literary merits of the well-told macabre tale. <em>(Nov.)</em> <br>Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>From School Library Journal</h3><p>In King's latest collection of short stories (following 2002's <em>Everything's Eventual</em>), he presents 14 tales that range from the philosophically themed, to one in which the author gleefully admits to playing with the gross-out factor ("A Very Tight Place"), to "The Cat from Hell," which makes its hardcover debut some 30 years after its original publication as part of a contest in <em>Cavalier</em>, one of the gentleman's magazines that put food on the table in King's early years as a writer. In his introduction, King cites his recent stint as guest editor for the 2007 edition of <em>Best American Short Stories</em> as an impetus to return to the form in his own writing. Several of the works included here were written following that experience. Finally, as King has done previously in his collections, at the end of the volume he provides the reader with brief insights into the inspirations for each tale. Recommended for all popular fiction collections. [See Prepub Alert, <em>LJ</em> 7/08.]—Nancy McNicol, Hamden P.L., CT <br>Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p></div>


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<div><p>A STUNNING  NEW NOVEL FROM ONE OF THE BEST-SELLING AUTHORS OF ALL TIME!  </p>
<p>The #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!  </p>
<p>Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.  </p>
<p><em>"I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts. That combo made Hard Case Crime the perfect venue for this book, which is one of my favorites. I also loved the paperbacks I grew up with as a kid, and for that reason, we’re going to hold off on e-publishing this one for the time being. Joyland will be coming out in paperback, and folks who want to read it will have to buy the actual book."</em>  – <strong>Stephen King</strong>
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<p><strong>An Amazon Best Book of the Month, June 2013:</strong> What a smart, sweet, spooky, sexy gem of a story. In this one-off for the Hard Case Crime publishing imprint, King has found yet another outlet and format (print only, a zippy 280 pages) to suit his considerable talents. All are on full display here in the story of Devon Jones--"a twenty-one-year-old virgin with literary aspirations … and a broken heart"--who spends the summer of 1973 at Joyland amusement park in North Carolina. Devon makes new pals, proves himself to the hard-core carny workers, saves a girl’s life, befriends a dying boy (who has a secret gift), and falls for the boy’s protective, beautiful mother. The first half of the story is sweet and nostalgic, with modest hints of menace to come. (Think: “The Body,” King’s novella that became the film Stand By Me.) Devon learns to “sell fun” and “wear the fur” (carny-speak for dressing as Howie the Happy Hound, the park mascot), but he also learns about the woman who had been killed in the Funhouse, whose ghost still haunts Joyland. King has fun with the carny lingo--most of it researched and real, some of it invented. (The Ferris wheel, for example, is the chump-hoister.) The second half gets spookier, spinning into a full-on murder mystery--but also a love story, and a coming-of-age-story, with some supernatural fun woven in. More than a trifecta, this is King at his narrative and nostalgic best. A single-session tale to savor some summer afternoon. And then try not to keep thinking back on it. <em>-- Neal Thompson</em></p>
<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3>
<p>Michael Kelly begins his rendition of King's engaging short novel sounding pleasantly satisfied, if wistful, with just a twinge of regret—precisely the mood of Devin Jones, the book's protagonist. Now in his 60s, Devin recalls the details of how he spent 1973, working as a Happy Helper at Joyland, a slightly seedy North Carolina amusement park where, several years before his arrival, a young girl was murdered on a ride called Horror House. Kelly follows King's lead in fashioning a proper voice for each and every character, creating a delightfully unpretentious and winning listening experience. With this performance, it seems as if Kelly is himself responding to the advice given to new carnival employees by the sweetly paternal Joyland director, Bradley Easterbrook: Remember, the old man tells them, you're here to sell fun. A Hard Case paperback. (June) </p></div>


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<div><p>This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.  </p>
<p>And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides -- or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abigail -- and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man.  </p>
<p>In 1978 Stephen King published <em>The Stand</em> , the novel that is now considered to be one of his finest works. But as it was first published, <em>The Stand</em> was incomplete, since more than 150,000 words had been cut from the original manuscript.  </p>
<p>Now Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil has been restored to its entirety. <em>The Stand</em> : <em>The Complete And Uncut Edition</em> includes more than five hundred pages of material previously deleted, along with new material that King added as he reworked the manuscript for a new generation. It gives us new characters and endows familiar ones with new depths. It has a new beginning and a new ending. What emerges is a gripping work with the scope and moral comlexity of a true epic.  </p>
<p>For hundreds of thousands of fans who read <em>The Stand</em> in its original version and wanted more, this new edition is Stephen King's gift. And those who are reading <em>The Stand</em> for the first time will discover a triumphant and eerily plausible work of the imagination that takes on the issues that will determine our survival.  </p>
<p><em>From the Hardcover edition.</em>
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<p>In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of <em>The Stand</em> in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it.
<em>The Stand</em> is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil.
"I <em>love</em> to burn things up," King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I guess.... <em>The Stand</em> was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on <em>The Stand</em> came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke."
There is much to admire in <em>The Stand</em> : the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book. <em>--Fiona Webster</em></p>
<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3>
<p>In its 1978 incarnation, The Stand was a healthy, hefty 823-pager. Now, King and Doubleday are republishing The Stand in the gigantic version in which, according to King, it was originally written. Not true . The same excellent tale of the walking dude, the chemical warfare weapon called superflu and the confrontation between its survivors has been updated to 1990, so references to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Reagan years, Roger Rabbit and AIDS are unnecessarily forced into the mouths of King's late-'70s characters. That said, the extra 400 or so pages of subplots, character development, conversation, interior dialogue, spiritual soul-searching, blood, bone and gristle make King's best novel better still. A new beginning adds verisimilitude to an already frighteningly believable story, while a new ending opens up possibilities for a sequel. Sheer size makes an Everest of the whole deal. BOMC selection, QPB main selection. <br>
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<b>Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine</b><BR> <BR><b>The latest from legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting, extraordinarily eerie, and moving story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together&#8212;a timely, upbeat tale about finding common ground despite deep-rooted differences. </b><BR>Although Scott Carey doesn't look any different, he's been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs the same in his clothes and out of them, no matter how heavy they are. Scott doesn't want to be poked and prodded. He mostly just wants someone else to know, and he trusts Doctor Bob Ellis.<BR> <BR>In the small town of Castle Rock, the setting of many of King's most iconic stories, Scott is engaged in a low grade&#8212;but escalating&#8212;battle with the lesbians next door whose dog regularly drops his business on Scott's lawn. One of the women is friendly; the other, cold as ice. Both are trying to launch a...


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<p><strong>Before </strong><span style="font-weight: 600; font-style: italic">Doctor Sleep, </span><strong>there was </strong><span style="font-weight: 600; font-style: italic">The Shining, </span><strong>a classic of modern American horror from the undisputed master, Stephen King. </strong><br><br><br>Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote . . . and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old.</p>
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<p>“A master storyteller.” —<em>Los Angeles Times</em><br><br>“Scary! . . . Serves up horrors at a brisk, unflagging pace.” —<em>The New York Times</em><br><br>“This chilling novel will haunt you, and make your blood run cold and your heart race with fear.” —<em>Nashville Banner</em><br> <br>“Guaranteed to frighten you into fits. . . . with a climax that is literally explosive.” —<em>Cosmopolitan</em><br><br>“The most wonderfully gruesome man on the planet.” —<em>USA Today</em><br><em> </em><br>“An undisputed master of suspense and terror.” —<em>The Washington Post</em><br><em> </em><br>“[King] probably knows more about scary goings-on in confined, isolated places than anybody since Edgar Allan Poe.” —<em>Entertainment Weekly</em><br><em> </em><br>“He’s the author who can always make the improbable so scary you’ll feel compelled to check the locks on the front door.” —<em>The Boston Globe</em><br><em> </em><br>“Peerless imagination.” —<em>The Observer</em> (London)  </p>
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<p>Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are <em>11/22/63</em>; <em>Full Dark, No Stars</em>;<em> Under the Dome</em>; <em>Just After Sunset;</em> <em>Duma Key</em>;<em> Lisey’s Story</em>; <em>Cell</em>; and the concluding novels in<em> </em>the Dark Tower saga: <em>Wolves of the Calla</em>,<em> Song of Susannah</em>,<em> </em>and <em>The Dark Tower.</em> His acclaimed nonfiction book, <em>On Writing</em>, is also a bestseller. He was the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2007, he received the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He lives in Maine with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.<br> <br>www.stephenking.com </p></div>


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<div><p>Inspired by Richard Matheson's classic "Duel," "Throttle," by Joe Hill and Stephen King, is a duel of a different kind, pitting a faceless trucker against a tribe of motorcycle outlaws in the simmering Nevada desert. Their battle is fought out on twenty miles of the most lonely road in the country, a place where the only thing worse than not knowing what you're up against, is slowing down . . .</p><h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>"They rode west from the slaughter, through the painted desert, and did not stop until they were a hundred miles away." So begins <em>Throttle</em>'s terrifying odyssey down desolate Route 6, a long stretch of road in Nevada's empty desert. Vince, his son Race, and his pack of bikers, The Tribe, are on the run, but it's not long before the group is chased by something far more frightening and relentless than the memory of their own crimes. In <em>Throttle</em>, Stephen King and his son, novelist Joe Hill, have paired up to write a suspenseful novella in homage to Richard Matheson's famous "Duel," a story which also features a mysterious driver with deadly road rage. In both works, the driver is faceless, a senseless source of terror that feels almost machine-like, inhuman: King and Hill reveal only his arm hanging out of his window, "a cigarette smoldering between two fingers." Throughout, the story is enlivened with vivid illustrations, and the prose is quieter and more lyrical than we've come to expect from King, full of visual detail: the desert cliffs "striped in chalky shades of yellow and red," the "tires churning up a fog of dust that turned the blue sky white." It seems Hill may have had a strong hand in the prose, but a father-son team is definitely behind this: amid its horror, the real heart of <em>Throttle</em> is the complex, thorny relationship between Vince and his son. Nothing is black and white in this horror story. The reader will no doubt root for The Tribe in <em>Throttle</em>'s battle, but as the curtain closes, everyone has blood on their hands. --<em>Simone Gorrindo</em></p><h3>From AudioFile</h3></div>


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<div><p>Roland, The Last Gunslinger, moves ever closer to The Dark Tower of his dreams-and nightmares-as he crosses a desert of damnation in a macabre world that is a twisted image of our own...<br></p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>King's third volume on Roland the gunfighter's search for the Dark Tower offers charming bits of whimsy, some splendidly tense moments and one rip-roaring horror scene. At times, however, it is pretentious and the direction of the sprawling plot uncertain. Roland has two companions on his quest for the tower at the portal of all the worldsp. 53 : Susannah Dean and Eddie Dean, who entered his world from New York City of 1963 and 1987, respectively. When the three track down the den of a 70-foot-tall cyborg bear, they are pointed down a path leading to the Tower. But Roland is slowly going mad, a fact that seems linked to his past experiences with Jake Chambers, a boy who died twicestet ital in the first book of the series. Jake reappears here, displaying great resilience in crossing over from 1977 New York City to join Roland &amp; Co. (As Susannah notes, "This time-travel business is some confusing shit.") They press on, plumbing the depths of a children's book that tells a profound and ancient tale. Unfortunately, the questers don't reach the Tower; in fact, they're caught in a cliff-hanger ending--King says, he'll write volume four if we want it. Illustrations not seen by PW. 1.5 million first printing; $400,000 ad/promo; BOMC and QPB selections. <br>Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p><h3>From School Library Journal</h3><p>YA-- The third installment in the offbeat fantasy saga involving the enigmatic Roland (the last gunfighter) and his quest for the Dark Tower. While the story (inspired by Robert Browning's narrative poem ``Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'') is entertaining, what really makes it outstanding are King's unique, multifaceted characters. This is Stephen King at his best.<br>Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p></div>


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<B><b>From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new collection of twelve short stories, many never-before-published, and some of his best EVER.</b></B><BR><i>"You like it darker? Fine, so do I,"</i> writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life&#8212;both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King writes to feel "the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind," and in <i>You Like It Darker</i>, readers will feel that exhilaration too, again and again.<BR> <BR>"Two Talented Bastids" explores the long-hidden secret of how the eponymous gentlemen got their skills. In "Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream," a brief and...


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<div><p>As a family prepares to be "Jaunted" to <a href="/wiki/Mars">Mars</a>, the 
father entertains his two children by recounting the curious tale of the 
discovery and history of this crude form of teleportation. He explains how the 
scientist who serendipitously discovered it quickly learned that it had a 
disturbing, inexplicable effect on the mice he "sent through"--eventually 
concluding that they could only survive the "Jaunt effect" while unconscious. 
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first human to be Jaunted awake, a condemned murderer offered a full pardon for 
agreeing to the experiment. The man "came through" and immediately suffered a 
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<b>From #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since <i>It&#8212;</i>publishing just as the second part of <i>It</i>, the movie, lands in theaters.</b><BR>In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents&#8212;telekinesis and telepathy&#8212;who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, "like the roach motel," Kalisha says. "You check in, but you don't check out."<BR> <BR>In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs....


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<div><p><strong>Six Scary Stories</strong><br>
        selected and introduction by Stephen King</p><p>Featuring full color cover artwork by Vincent Chong<br>
      </p><p><strong>About the Book:</strong><br>
      Number one bestselling writer Stephen King introduces and presents
 six gripping and chilling stories in this captivating anthology!</p><p>Stephen King discovered these stories when he judged a 
competition run by Hodder &amp; Stoughton and the Guardian to celebrate 
publication of his own collection <em>The Bazaar of Bad Dreams.</em> He 
was so impressed with the entries that he recommended they be published 
together in one book, which Cemetery Dance Publications and Hodder &amp;
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are:</p><p>WILD SWIMMING by Elodie Harper<br>
        EAU-DE-ERIC by Manuela Saragosa<br>
        THE SPOTS by Paul Bassett Davies<br>
        THE UNPICKING by Michael Button<br>
        LA MORT DE L'AMANT by Stuart Johnstone<br>
      THE BEAR TRAP by Neil Hudson</p><p>
      
      
      
      
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<p class="description">"My Pretty Pony first appeard in 1988 as a deluxe, limited edition in the Artists and Writers Series of fine press books published by the Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. This trade edition reproduces the original lithographs printed by Derriere L'Etoile Studios, New York, silk screens printed by Pinwheel, New York, and Century Schoolbook typography set by hand by A. Colish, Mount Vernon, New York. Photograph of collaapsed horse courtesy of New York Times Pictures"--Colophon.</p>


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<div><h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>Stephen King's second book, <em>'Salem's Lot</em> (1975)--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil. </p><p>Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, <em>'Salem's Lot</em> is great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. As King said in 1983, "In <em>'Salem's Lot</em>, the thing that really scared me was not vampires, but the town in the daytime, the town that was empty, knowing that there were things in closets, that there were people tucked under beds, under the concrete pilings of all those trailers. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... During that time I was thinking about secrets, things that have been hidden and were being dragged out into the light." Sounds quite a bit like the idea behind his 1998 novel of a Maine hamlet haunted by unsightly secrets, <em>Bag of Bones</em>. <em>--Fiona Webster</em></p><h3>Review</h3><p><em>Grand Rapids Press</em> Spine-tingling fiction at its best.<br></p><p><em>Chattanooga Times</em> A novel of chilling, unspeakable evil.<br></p><p><em>Kirkus Reviews</em> A super exorcism...tremendous. </p></div>


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<div><p class="description">Once Upon a Time, There Was Terror...  </p><p class="description">The Eyes of the Dragon  A tale of archetypal heroes and sweeping adventures, of dragons and princes and evil wizards, here is epic fantasy as only Stephen King could envision it. </p><p class="description">A kingdom is in turmoil as the old King Roland dies and its worthy successor, Prince Peter must do battle to claim what is rightfully his. Plotting against him is the evil Flagg and his pawn, young Prince Thomas. Yet with every plan there are holes—like Thomas’s terrible secret. And the determined Prince Peter, who is planning a daring escape from his imprisonment...  </p><p class="description">Stephen King has taken the classic fairy tale and transformed it into a masterpiece of fiction for the ages.</p></div>


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There's something about a crippled, black, schizophrenic, civil rights activist-turned-gunslinger whose body has been hijacked by a white, pregnant demon from a parallel world that keeps a seven-volume story bracingly strong as it veers toward its Armageddon-like conclusion. When Susannah Dean is transported via a magic door on the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis (the scene of much of The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla) to New York City in the summer of 1999, the "demon-mother" who possesses her, Mia, has only one thing on her mind. She must give birth to her "chap" at a predetermined location in Manhattan's East 60s, as instructed by the henchmen-or "Low Men"-of the evil Crimson King. Pressed for time, Father Callahan, preteen Jake and talking pet "billy-bumbler" Oy follow Susannah and Mia's trail in an effort to prevent an act that would quicken the destruction of the Dark Tower and, in turn, of all worlds. Meanwhile, gunslingers Roland and Eddie travel to 1977 Maine in search of bookstore owner Calvin Tower, who is being hunted down by mobster Enrico Balazar and his gang, who first appeared in Eddie's version of New York in The Drawing of the Three Avid readers of the series will either be completely enthralled or extremely irritated when, in a gutsy move, the author weaves his own character into this unpredictable saga, but either way there's no denying the ingenuity with which King paints a candid picture of himself. The sixth installment of this magnum opus stops short with the biggest cliffhanger of King's career, but readers at the edge of their seats need only wait a few short months (Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower) to find out how-and if-King's fictional universe will come to an end. 10 full-color illus. not seen by PW.
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Stephen KingThe Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah with 10 full-color illustrations by Darrel AndersonThe next-to-last novel in Stephen King's seven-volume magnum opus, Song of Susannah is at once a book of revelation, a fascinating key to the unfolding mystery of the Dark Tower, and a fast-paced story of double-barreled suspense.To give birth to her "chap," demon-mother Mia has usurped the body of Susannah Dean and used the power of Black Thirteen to transport to New York City in the summer of 1999. The city is strange to Susannah...and terrifying to the "daughter of none," who shares her body and mind.Saving the Tower depends not only on rescuing Susannah but also on securing the vacant lot Calvin Tower owns before he loses it to the Sombra Corporation. Enlisting the aid of Manni senders, the remaining katet climbs to the Doorway Cave...and discovers that magic has its own mind. It falls to the boy, the billy-bumbler, and the fallen priest to find Susannah-Mia, who, in a struggle to cope -- with each other and with an alien environment -- "go todash" to Castle Discordia on the border of End-World. In that forsaken place, Mia reveals her origins, her purpose, and her fierce desire to mother whatever creature the two of them have carried to term.Eddie and Roland, meanwhile, tumble into western Maine in the summer of 1977, a world that should be idyllic but isn't. For one thing, it is real, and the bullets are flying. For another, it is inhabited by the author of a novel called 'Salem's Lot, a writer who turns out to be as shocked by them as they are by him.These are the simple vectors of a story rich in complexity and conflict. Its dual climaxes, one at the entrance to a deadly dining establishment and the other appended to the pages of a writer's journal, will leave readers gasping for the saga's final volume (which, Dear Reader, follows soon, say thank ya).


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Set in the 1930s at the Cold Mountain Penitentiary's death-row facility, *The Green Mile* is the riveting and tragic story of John Coffey, a giant, preternaturally gentle inmate condemned to death for the rape and murder of twin nine-year-old girls. It is a story narrated years later by Paul Edgecomb, the ward superintendent compelled to help every prisoner spend his last days peacefully and every man walk the green mile to execution with his humanity intact. 

 Edgecomb has sent seventy-eight inmates to their date with "old sparky," but he's never encountered one like Coffey -- a man who wants to die, yet has the power to heal. And in this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecomb discovers the terrible truth about Coffey's gift, a truth that challenges his most cherished beliefs -- and ours. 

 Originally published in 1996 in six self-contained monthly installments, *The Green Mile* is an astonishingly rich and complex novel that delivers over and over again. Each individual volume became a huge success when first published, and all six were on the *New York Times* bestseller list simultaneously. Three years later, when Frank Darabont made *The Green Mile* into an award-winning movie starring Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan, the book returned to the bestseller list -- and stayed there for months.  

 And now -- with a new introduction by King's foreign agent Ralph Vicinanza, as well as the author's own foreword -- we have the first hardcover edition of this magnificent novel in which "King surpasses our expectations, leaves us spellbound and hungry for the next twist of plot" *(The Boston Globe).* 

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<div><p>WHERE WERE YOU ON OCTOBER 1ST AT 3:03 P.M.? </p><p>Graphic artist Clay Riddell was in the heart of Boston on that brilliant autumn afternoon when hell was unleashed before his eyes. Without warning, carnage and chaos reigned. Ordinary people fell victim to the basest, most animalistic destruction. </p><p>And the apocalypse began with the ring of a cell phone.... </p><h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>Witness Stephen King's triumphant, blood-spattered return to the genre that made him famous. <em>Cell</em>, the king of horror's homage to zombie films (the book is dedicated in part to George A. Romero) is his goriest, most horrific novel in years, not to mention the most intensely paced. Casting aside his love of elaborate character and town histories and penchant for delayed gratification, King yanks readers off their feet within the first few pages; dragging them into the fray and offering no chance catch their breath until the very last page. </p><p>In <em>Cell</em> King taps into readers fears of technological warfare and terrorism. Mobile phones deliver the apocalypse to millions of unsuspecting humans by wiping their brains of any humanity, leaving only aggressive and destructive impulses behind. Those without cell phones, like illustrator Clayton Riddell and his small band of "normies," must fight for survival, and their journey to find Clayton's estranged wife and young son rockets the book toward resolution. </p><p>Fans that have followed King from the beginning will recognize and appreciate <em>Cell</em> as a departure--King's writing has not been so pure of heart and free of hang-ups in years (wrapping up his phenomenal <em>Dark Tower</em> series and receiving a medal from the National Book Foundation doesn't hurt either). "Retirement" clearly suits King, and lucky for us, having nothing left to prove frees him up to write frenzied, juiced-up horror-thrillers like <em>Cell</em>. <em>--Daphne Durham</em></p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p><em>Starred Review.</em> It's probably a good idea not to use your cell phone while you listen to Scott's beautifully understated reading of terrormeister King's latest take on technology run amok: you might just toss it down the nearest storm drain. The excellent film actor (who catches the power of his late father George C. Scott's voice but smooths off the rough edges) adds an important element—quiet believability—to King's bloody, occasionally over-the-top story of a short but lethal electronic signal that seriously damages everyone in the world using a cell phone at that moment. The Pulse, as it comes to be known, turns idle chatterers into weirdly rewired killing machines. Scott makes the lead character—a comic book artist from Maine (where else?) named Clayton Riddell, who is in Boston with his phone off and in his pocket—a touching and surprisingly tough survivor, much like the nonpods in <em>Invasion of the Body Snatchers</em>. He also resists the temptation to make the "phoners" (those affected by the Pulse) sound unusually strange or dangerous—until their real motives become obvious. <em>Simultaneous release with the Scribner hardcover (Reviews, Jan. 2). (Jan.)</em> <br>Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p></div>


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<div><p>Since his first novel was published in 1974, Stephen King has stretched the boundaries of the storyteller as a writer who constantly redefines his readers' experience by working in various genres and formats . Whether in an epic horror novel, like THE STAND, a serial-novel like THE GREEN MILE, or a novella like SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, King is able to deliver a reading experience like no one else can. As quickly as a spider spins its web, King reminds us why he's the master of the novella - a format which, up until now that is, one might have thought is fast disappearing.</p><h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>Since his first novel was published in 1974, Stephen King has stretched the boundaries of the storyteller as a writer who constantly redefines his readers' experience by working in various genres and formats . Whether in an epic horror novel, like THE STAND, a serial-novel like THE GREEN MILE, or a novella like SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, King is able to deliver a reading experience like no one else can. As quickly as a spider spins its web, King reminds us why he's the master of the novella - a format which, up until now that is, one might have thought is fast disappearing. </p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Wesley Smith buys an Amazon Kindle to keep his mind off his recent nasty breakup, but he finds that his version is no ordinary e-reading device. Smith's Kindle has a special Ur option, which reveals the future and all the works his favorite authors have written in parallel dimensions. However, when the Ur delivers news of terrible events on the way, Smith must decide if he should interfere in fate. While King can certainly spin a good story, the Amazon Kindle focus (the story was written exclusively for and can only be read on an Amazon Kindle) keeps this one feeling like an advertising gimmick. While listeners can easily follow Holter Graham's narration, his style and projection aren't particularly impressive. He is consistent with his characterizations, but his light nasal voice lacks energy and momentum, and given that King's voice is quite similar to Graham's and King can narrate just as well, it seems unnecessary to have enlisted Graham, whose performance adds little additional flare. <em>(Feb.)</em> <br>Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p></div>


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In this #1 national bestseller, "master storyteller" (<i>Houston Chronicle</i>) Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, tells the tale of the contestants of a grueling walking competition where there can only be one winner&#8212;the one that survives.<BR>In the near future, when America has become a police state, one hundred boys are selected to enter an annual contest where the winner will be awarded whatever he wants for the rest of his life. Among them is sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty, and he knows the rules&#8212;keep a steady walking pace of four miles per hour without stopping. Three warnings and you're out&#8212;permanently.<BR> <BR>A "psychologically dark tale with commentary on society, teenage life, and cultural entertainment, <i>The Long Walk</i> is still poignant decades after its original publication" (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>). This edition features an introduction by Stephen King on "The Importance of Being Bachman."


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<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>October "Toby" Daye is settling into her new role as Countess of Goldengreen. She's actually dating again, and she's taken on Quentin as her squire. So, of course, it's time for things to take a turn for the worse. </p><p>Someone has kidnapped the sons of the regent of the Undersea Duchy of Saltmist. To prevent a war between land and sea, Toby must find the missing boys and prove the Queen of the Mists was not behind their abduction. Toby's search will take her from the streets of San Francisco to the lands beneath the waves, and her deadline is firm: she must find the boys in three days' time, or all of the Mists will pay the price. But someone is determined to stop her-and whoever it is isn't playing by Oberon's Laws... </p></div>


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<div><p>Although it is difficult to believe, the Sixties are not fictional:</p><p>THEY ACTUALLY HAPPENED.</p><p>No matter the format, Stephen King's work is spellbinding because the author himself is spellbound. The first hugely popular writer of the TV generation, King published his first novel, <em>Carrie,</em> in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam. Images from that war -- and protests against it -- had flooded America's living rooms for nearly ten years. In <em>Hearts in Altantis,</em> King mesmerizes readers with fiction deeply rooted in the Sixties, and explores -- through four defining decades -- the haunting legacy of the Vietmnam War. </p><p>As the characters in <em>Hearts in Atlantis</em> are tested in every way, King probes and unlocks the secrets of his generation for us all. Full of danger, full of suspense, and most of all full of <em>heart,</em> Stephen King's new book will take some readers to a place they have never been able to leave completely.</p><h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>With his idiosyncratic blend of patrician airs and boyish charm, narrator William Hurt provides a wonderful complement to this wildly imaginative collection of short stories by author Stephen King. Hurt carefully weaves the disparate elements into a cohesive whole, embracing the subtle complexities of each character; one moment a wizened sadness leaks into his voice as a haunted old man, pursued by demons, asks his 11-year-old lookout, "You know everyone on this street, on this block of this street anyway? And you'd know strangers? Sojourners? Faces of those unknown?" Then, in a profound yet almost imperceptible switch, he exposes the boy's naive enthusiasm, "I think so." Right about here your neck hairs will stand at attention. Hurt's peculiar vocal style is in perfect pitch to King's dark, surreal vision of growing up amid the monsters of post-Vietnam America. (Running time: 21 hours, 16 cassettes) <em>--George Laney</em></p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>This collection of five thematically linked short stories dwells on the legacy of the 1960s. They share a collective moodiness, a feeling of depressed hangover coming after youth has been lost and the nation has suffered troubled times. Read aloud, this pungent atmosphere is especially strong. A-list actor Hurt stylishly performs the lengthy opener, "Low Men in Yellow Coats," in which 11-year-old Bobby Garfield falls under the spell of an older man his mother has taken in as a boarder (a father figure who introduces him first to literatureALord of the FliesAthen to supernatural phenomena). Hurt skillfully evokes pathos from the story's fine detailing: its sense of small-town place and Bobby's child's-eye-view of the evil characters around him. King reads the title story, "Hearts in Atlantis," about Maine college students who mindlessly play cards instead of studying while the Vietnam War rages in the background. The author's modest, reedy voice rings with autobiographical truthAas the protagonist is a young would-be writer, na?ve to the ways of the world. Taken together, at 21 hours' listening, however, King's shining moments too often give way to fatigue: the stories are repetitious, full of plot rehashings and meaningless asides. Also available on CD. Simultaneous release with the Scribner hardcover. (Sept.) <br>Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p></div>


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<div>This is the single novella "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption : 
hope springs eternal". It should not be combined with the book DIFFERENT
 SEASONS, which contains three other stories for the other seasons of 
the year in addition to this story, nor should it be combined with film 
adaptations or their shooting scripts.<div><br></div><div>-----------------------------------------<br><div><br></div><div>In 1947, Andy Dufresne, an established banker, is wrongly imprisoned at 
Shawshank prison in Maine for the murder of his wife and her secret 
lover. Andy faces many hardships within the prison walls, but manages to
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<div><p><em>Riding the Bullet</em> is "a ghost story in the grand manner" from the bestselling author of <em>Bag of Bones, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon,</em> and <em>The Green Mile</em> -- a short story about a young man who hitches a ride with a driver from the other side.</p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>E-publishing takes a giant step with the release of this grandly entertaining ghost story. Not only is it the first original e-publication by a megaselling author, but it may be the most accomplished work ever to appear only in cyberspace--and it's available through an unprecedented number of vendors and platforms. The story is vintage King. Narrator Alan Parker, 21, learns that his beloved mother has had a stroke and hitchhikes through rural Maine to see her. On the way he's picked up first by a horrid old man, then by someone far more awful: a dead young man who offers him a terrible choice. The simple, potent prose skims along spurred by high suspense. The atmospherics roil like a classic nightmare: a moonlit graveyard, howling wind, rising mist; but King spins them with a wicked modern touch--the dead man drives a Mustang, and as the corpse pulls on a cigarette, Alan sees "little trickles of smoke escape from the stitched incision on his neck." When Alan makes his choice, the story deepens as King taps horror fiction's particular ability to illuminate the terror of the human condition. Anyone concerned about King's writing abilities after his near-fatal accident can relax. This genuinely chilling, haunting tale finds his talent--and the state of e-publishing--in the pink. <br>Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p><h3>From Library Journal</h3><p>Riding the Bullet was originally published in March 2000 exclusively as an e-book and has now found its way to print and audio. It's a classic King ghost story/urban legend about a college student who hitchhikes across Maine to visit his hospitalized mother and gets more than he bargains for during his rides. Film and theater actor Josh Hamilton provides an excellent reading, with a promising command of pace and characterization. However, for many libraries, the economics of buying an audio version of a single, extremely short story may be questionable. Recommended with that reservation only.<br><em>Kristen L. Smith, Loras Coll. Lib., Dubuque, IA </em><br>Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p></div>


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EDITORIAL REVIEW:

***THE MAN IN THE BLACK SUIT* FOUR UNABRIDGED DARK TALES FROM **

 **STEPHEN KING**

 *The Man in the Black Suit*

 Read by John Cullum 

 ***"...the face of the man in the black suit grows  ever clearer, ever closer, and I remember every word he said. I don't want to think of him, but I can't help it, and sometimes at night my old heart beats so hard and so fast I think it will tear itself right clear of my chest." *** 

 A haunting recollection  of a mysterious boyhood event, *The Man in Black Suit* read by John Cullum leads off this masterful collection from Stephen King. 

 Other dark tales include: *All That You Love Will Be Carried Away* read by Peter Gerety, in which a man checks into a Lincoln, Nebraska Motel 6 to find the meaning in his life; *That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French* read by Becky Ann Baker presents the ultimate case of déejàa vu; and *The Death of Jack Hamilton* read by Arliss Howard -- a blistering tale of Depression-era outlaws on the run. 

 Whether writing about encounters with the dead, the near dead, or about the mundane dreads of life, Stephen King's *The Man In The Black Suit: Four Dark Tales* is intense, eerie  and instantly compelling.


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Written by Richard Bachman. In quiet Placerville, Maine, a slightly twisted boy named Charles Decker holds the 24 other students of his algebra class at gunpoint after shooting 2 teachers. Abused by his father as a child, he describes the important parts of his life, and in the process, lets a lot of the students he holds hostage tell the rest of the class their "Dirty Secrets". Things almost come to an early end when Charles is shot by a sniper, but the bullet hits a padlock he had placed in his pocket earlier. As things progress, the students become more and more responsive to their captor, all except Ted Jones. The students get their own back, and play one last nasty trick on another student before being released unharmed. But Charles is out of luck... This was initially titled "Getting it On" (After Deckers favourite saying) but was later renamed Rage, and released under Bachman's name. It has not been reprinted in the last few years as Stephen King thought it too violent, and similar to many killings in some American Schools. This is a pity as it is an excellent insight into the mind of someone that it walking the thin edge of sanity.


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Stephen King's unparalleled imagination is in full force in this collection of four unabridged short stories originally found in the classic, *Nightmares & Dreamscapes*. An all-star cast of readers bring to life these timeless stories from the darkest places.

One man's pursuit of world peace turns deadly in *The End of the Whole Mess*. Stephen King puts his spin on the familiar duo of Holmes and Watson in *The Doctor's Case*. In *The Moving Finger*, menace arrives poking out of the drain of a bathroom sink. And a young, pregnant widow takes on a zombie attack inHome Delivery.

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<b>Stephen King's unforgettable novella&#8212;first included in his 1990, award-winning collection <i>Four Past Midnight</i> and made into a highly acclaimed miniseries&#8212;about a terrifying plane ride into a most unfriendly sky.</b><BR>On a cross-country, redeye flight from Los Angeles to Boston, ten passengers awaken in Bangor, Maine, to find that the crew and most of their fellow passengers have disappeared. The airport shows no signs of life. Yet they hear "radio static" in the distance. Craig Toomey, an irritable investment banker on the verge of a breakdown, believes it is "The Langoliers," monsters he was afraid of as a child who attack those who waste time. It's mystery author Bob Jenkins who first theorizes that they have flown through a time rip. Bob declares they have entered a place that forbids time travelers to observe or interfere with past events. It turns out that Craig is right, in a way. Two creatures, followed by hundreds more, emerge from the forest and...


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<div><p>In a storytelling tour de force, Stephen King explores an uncharted corner of the Dark Tower universe— and the early days of the gunslinger Roland—with the twice-told tale of a murderous shape-shifter, a “skin-man” who inspires fear and wonder, fantasies and bedtime stories, and one boy’s savagely real nightmares.</p><h3>Review</h3><p>'Classic King, fine characters, compellingly written in a gripping, well-honed plot' -- Daily Express on THE DARK TOWER 'Superbly energetic, it's King at his best.' -- Mail on Sunday on WIZARD AND GLASS </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller as well as the Best Hardcover Book Award from the International Thriller Writers Association. He is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. </p></div>


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<p class="description">A brilliant scientist, obsessed with perfecting a revolutionary virtual reality software program, enlists the aid of a slow-witted gardener, only to encounter a shadowy group seeking to turn the "lawnmower man" into the ultimate weapon.</p>


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<div><p>King’s first collection of short stories showcases the darkest depths of
 his brilliant imagination. Here we see mutated rats gone bad 
(“Graveyard Shift”); a cataclysmic virus that threatens humanity (“Night
 Surf,” the basis for <i>The Stand</i>); a possessed, evil lawnmower 
(“The Lawnmower Man”); unsettling children from the heartland (“Children
 of the Corn”); a smoker who will try anything to stop (“Quitters, 
Inc.”); a reclusive alcoholic who begins a gruesome transformation 
(“Gray Matter”); and many more shadows and visions that will haunt you 
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<p>“A master storyteller.” —<em>Los Angeles Times</em>  </p>
<p>“Eerie. . . . Ought to chill the cockles of many a heart.” —<em>Chicago Tribune</em>  </p>
<p>“A master. . . . [King] will catch you in his web and reach you at an elemental level where there is no defense.” —<em>The Cincinnati Enquirer</em>  </p>
<p>“Stephen King has built a literary genre of putting ordinary people in the most terrifying situations. . . . he’s the author who can always make the improbable so scary you'll feel compelled to check the locks on the front door.” —<em>The Boston Globe</em><br>
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<p>'An incredibly gifted writer, whose writing, like Truman Capote's, is so fluid that you often forget that you're reading' -- Guardian 'A writer of excellence...King is one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel...brilliantly done' -- The Sunday Times 'Splendid entertainment...Stephen King is one of those natural storytellers...getting hooked is easy' -- Frances Fyfield, Express </p></div>


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<div><p>A wonderful new store has opened in the little town of Castle Rock, Maine. Whatever your heart's secret desire, it's for sale. And even though every item has a nerve-shattering price, the owner is always ready to make bargains...<br></p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>With the "Last Castle Rock Story" King bids a magnificent farewell to the fictional Maine town where much of his previous work has been set. Of grand proportion, the novel ranks with King's best, in both plot and characterization. A new store, Needful Things, opens in town, and its proprietor, Leland Gaunt, offers seemingly unbeatable (read: Faustian) bargains to Castle Rock's troubled citizens. Among them are Polly Chalmers, lonely seamstress whose arthritis is only one of the physical and psychic pains she must bear; Brian Rusk, the 11-year-old boy whose mother is not precisely attentive; and Alan Pangborn, the new sheriff whose wife and son have recently died. These are only three of the half-dozen or so brilliantly drawn people met in the novel's one-month time span. As the dreams of each strikingly memorable character, major and minor, inexorably turn to nightmare, individuals and soon the community are overwhelmed, while the precise nature of Gaunt's evil thrillingly stays just out of focus. King, like Leland Gaunt, knows just what his customers want. 1.5 million first printing; BOMC main selection. <br>Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p><h3>From Kirkus Reviews</h3><p>The old horrormaster in top form, this time with a demonic dealer in magic and spells selling his wares to the folks of Castle Rock, scene of several King novels including The Dead Zone, Cujo--and how many others? King locates his hokey Our Town in Maine, but as ever it's really Consumerville, USA, with everyone's life festooned with brand names. The cast is huge and largely grotesque, since King--wearing a tremendous cat's-smile--means to close the book on Castle Rock and blow it off the map in one of his best climaxes since Salem's Lot. Editing here is supreme. King braids perhaps a dozen storylines--with hardly a drop of blood spilled for the first 250 or so pages--into ever briefer takes that climax in a hurtling, storm-ripped holocaust whose symphonic energies fill the novel's last third. Perhaps only five characters stand out: Leland Gaunt, a gentlemanly stranger who opens the Needful Things curiosity shop; his first customer, Brian Rusk, 11, who sells his soul for a rare Sandy Koufax baseball card; practical Polly Chalmers, who runs the You Sew `n' Sew shop, welcomes Gaunt with a devil's-food cake, and buys an amulet to relieve her arthritis; her lover, Sheriff Alan Pangborn, who buys nothing but is haunted by the driving deaths of his wife and son; and Ace Merrill, coke dealer in a bind, who becomes Gaunt's handydevil and gets to drive Gaunt's Tucker, a car that's faster than radar and uses no gas. As he has for hundreds of years, Gaunt sells citizens whatever pricks and satisfies their inmost desires. But the price dehumanizes them, and soon all the townsfolk vent their barest aggressions on each other with cleaver, knife, and gun: Gaunt even opens a sideline of automatic weapons. By novel's end, the whole town is on a hysterical, psychotic mass rampage that floods morgue and hospital with the delimbed and obliterated. Then comes the big bang. Mmmmmmmmmmmm! Leland King's glee, or Steven Gaunt's, or rather--well, the author's--as he rubs his palms over his let's-blow-'em-away superclimax is wonderfully catching. (Book-of-the-Month Main Selection for Fall) -- <em>Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.</em></p></div>


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<b>Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine</b><BR> <BR>Stephen King teams up with long-time friend and award-winning author Richard Chizmar for the first time in this original, chilling novella that revisits the mysterious town of Castle Rock.<BR>There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974, twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong&#8212;if time-rusted&#8212;iron bolts and zig-zag up the precarious cliffside.<BR> <BR>Then one day when Gwendy gets to the top of Castle View, after catching her breath and hearing the shouts of kids on the playground below, a stranger calls to her. There on a bench in the shade sits a man in black jeans, a black coat, and a white shirt unbuttoned at the top. On his head is a small, neat black hat. The time will come when Gwendy has nightmares about that hat...<BR> <BR>The little town of Castle Rock,...


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<div><p>The state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in Shed B out back of the barracks ever since 1979, when Troopers Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox answered a call from a gas station just down the road and came back with an abandoned Buick Roadmaster. Curt Wilcox knew old cars, and he knew immediately that this one was...wrong, just <em>wrong.</em> A few hours later, when Rafferty vanished, Wilcox and his fellow troopers knew the car was worse than dangerous -- and that it would be better if John Q. Public never found out about it. </p><p>Curt's avid curiosity taking the lead, they investigated as best they could, as much as they dared. Over the years the troop absorbed the mystery as part of the background to their work, the Buick 8 sitting out there like a still life painting that breathes -- inhaling a little bit of this world, exhaling a little bit of whatever world it came from. </p><p>In the fall of 2001, a few months after Curt Wilcox is killed in a gruesome auto accident, his 18-year-old boy Ned starts coming by the barracks, mowing the lawn, washing windows, shoveling snow. Sandy Dearborn, Sergeant Commanding, knows it's the boy's way of holding onto his father, and Ned is allowed to become part of the Troop D family. One day he looks in the window of Shed B and discovers the family secret. Like his father, Ned wants answers, and the secret begins to stir, not only in the minds and hearts of the veteran troopers who surround him, but in Shed B as well.... </p><p><em>From a Buick 8</em> is a novel about our fascination with deadly things, about our insistence on answers when there are none, about terror and courage in the face of the unknowable.</p><h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>Stephen King, an evil car, and a teenage boy coming to terms with the fragility and randomness of life.... Wait, haven't we read this before? Diehard King fans, worry not. Aside from the titular car playing a main role in the story, <em>From a Buick 8</em> could not be less like King's 1983 masterpiece, <em>Christine</em>. If anything, this story resembles King's serial novel <em>The Green Mile</em>, with reminiscing police characters flashing back on bizarre events that took place decades earlier. </p><p>The book's intriguing plot revolves around the troopers of Pennsylvania State Patrol Troop D, who come into possession of what at first appears to be a vintage automobile. Closer inspection and experimentation conducted by the troopers reveal that this car's doors (and trunk) sometimes open to another dimension populated by gross-out creatures straight out of ... well, a Stephen King novel. As the plot progresses, the veteran troopers' tales of these visits from interdimensional nasties, and the occasional "lightquakes" put on by the car, are passed on to the son of a fallen comrade whose fascination with the car bordered on dangerous obsession.</p><p>Unlike earlier King works, there is no active threat here; no monster is stalking the heroes of the story, unless you count the characters' own curiosity. In past books, King has terrorized readers with vampires, werewolves, a killer clown, ghosts, and aliens, but this time around, the bogeyman is a more passive, cerebral threat, and one for which they don't make a ready-to-wear Halloween costume--man's fascination with and fear of the unknown. While some readers may find this tale less exciting than the horror master's earlier works, <em>From a Buick 8</em> is a wonderful example of how much King's plotting skills and literary finesse have matured over his long career. And, most of all, it's a darn creepy book. <em>--Benjamin Reese</em></p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>King, we learn in an author's note, hashed out the plot of this gripper while driving from western Pennsylvania to New York. The first draft took two months to write. That's quick work, and it's reflected in the book's simplicity of plot and theme; unlike King's chewy last novel, Dreamcatcher, this one goes down like a shot of moonshine, hot and clean, much like Cujo, say, or Gerald's Game. In 1979, an odd man drives what at first glance looks like a 1954 mint-quality Buick Roadmaster up to a service station in rural Pennsylvania, then vanishes, leaving behind the car. The state police of Troop D deposit the vehicle in a shed near their barracks, where, up to the present, it remains a secret from all but cop colleagues for the car isn't exactly a car; it may be alive, and it certainly serves as a doorway between our world and... what? Another dimension? Another galaxy? The troopers never find out, despite their amateurish scientific investigations of it and of the weird beings that occasionally emerge from the vehicle's trunk: freaky fish, creepy flowers and more. Moreover, the "car" is dangerous: the day it appears, a state trooper disappears, and experiments over the years with cockroaches, etc., indicate that just as the car can spew things out, it will ingest them. While the book's relative brevity and simplicity does lend comparison to earlier King, and King has relied on a nasty car before (Christine), the author's stylistic maturity manifests in his sophisticated handling of the round robin of narrators (both first and third-person), the sharp portrayal of police ways and mores and the novel's compelling subthemes (loyalty, generational bondings) and primary theme: that life is filled with Buick 8s, phenomena that blindside us and that we can never understand. 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<b>Rediscover the classic masterpiece by <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author Stephen King, illustrated by legendary comic book artist Bernie Wrightson.</b><BR><i>Terror began in January&#8212;by the light of the full moon...</i><BR> <BR> The first scream came from the snowbound railwayman who felt the werewolf's fangs ripping at his throat. The next month there was a scream of ecstatic agony from the woman attacked in her cozy bedroom. Now scenes of unbelievable horror unfold each time the full moon shines on the isolated Maine town of Tarker's Mills. No one knows who will be attacked next. But one thing is sure&#8212;when the full moon rises, a paralyzing fear sweeps through the town. For snarls that sound like human words can be heard whining through the wind. And all around are the footprints of a monster whose hunger cannot be sated....


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<div><p>"I love old-school baseball,and I also love the way people who've spent a lifetime in the game talk about the game. I tried to combine those things in a story of suspense. People have asked me for years when I was going to write a baseball story. Ask no more; this is it." -- Stephen King<br></p><p>Even the most diehard baseball fans don't know the true story of William "Blockade Billy" Blakely.<br></p><p>He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first -- and only -- player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game's history.<br></p><p>Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional baseball, and with good reason. Blockade Billy had a secret darker than any pill or injection that might cause a scandal in sports today. His secret was much, much worse...and only Stephen King, the most gifted storyteller of our age, can reveal the truth to the world, once and for all.<br></p><p>This Kindle edition features both the cover illustration by Glen Orbik and the interior artwork of Alex McVey from the limited hardcover edition published by Cemetery Dance Publications.<br></p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>A quirky baseball player with a past shrouded in secrecy is the tragic hero of this macabre tale from the dark side of the all-American sport. In the voice of George "Granny" Grantham, retired third-base coach of the New Jersey Titans, King (Under the Dome) recalls the spring of 1957, when Billy Blakely, a catcher called up from their Titans' Iowa farm system, helped to boost the team out of the basement and add some excitement to the national pastime. Billy hits with such power and guards the plate with such determination (hence his eponymous nickname) that teammates are willing to forgive such eccentricities as his frequently addressing himself in the third person, or bloodying runners who collide with him. Of course, these kinks are clues to a shocking pathology that King coaxes out in a narrative steeped so perfectly in the argot of the game and the behavior of its players and fans that readers will willingly suspend their disbelief. As King's fiction goes, this suspenseful short is a deftly executed suicide squeeze, with sharp spikes hoisted high and aimed at the jugular on the slide home. </p><h3>From Booklist</h3><p>Now and again, between his best-selling horror novels, King likes to try his hand at different genres, usually in shorter formats published by small presses. He did it in 2005 with a pulp yarn called The Colorado Kid from Hard Case Crime, and now he does it again with a baseball novella from Cemetery Dance. The story of Blockade Billy, whose brief career in the big leagues was banished from the record books, is part realistic fiction and part fable, evoking Mark Harris’ baseball novels, the work of W. P. Kinsella, and George Plimpton’s The Curious Case of Sid Finch (1987). In the mid-1950s, the fictional New Jersey Titans came out of spring training with no catchers, forcing the team to bring up an unheralded rookie from the minors. Naive country boy William Blakeley quickly establishes himself as the real deal—hitting a ton and blocking home plate with a ferocity that earns him the nickname Blockade Billy. But what is that curious Band-Aid he sometimes wears on his finger, and why do players seem to get hurt whenever he wears it? King nails the baseball argot perfectly, and he sprinkles in enough references to real-life 1950s players to have baby-boomer fans reaching for their old ball cards. The tale is narrated by the Titans’ former third-base coach, who is the second coming of the cranky but good-hearted manager in Bull Durham. For fans of fifties baseball and of baseball fiction and film, this deft pastiche makes a great way to celebrate a new season. --Bill Ott </p></div>


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<p>When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a mysterious stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its seven colored buttons promised death and destruction.</p> <p>Years later, the button box entered Gwendy's life again. A successful novelist and a rising political star, she was once again forced to deal with the temptation that box represented.</p> <p>Now, evil forces seek to possess the button box and it is up to Senator Gwendy Peterson to keep it from them. At all costs. But where can you hide something from such powerful entities?</p> <p>In Gwendy's Final Task, "horror giants" (Publishers Weekly) Stephen King and Richard Chizmar take us on a journey from Castle Rock to another famous cursed Maine city to the MF-1 space station, where Gwendy must execute a secret mission to save the world. And, maybe, all worlds.</p>


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<p>Now back in print: the graphic novel adaptation of Stephen King’s <em>Creepshow</em>, based on the 1982 horror anthology and cult classic film directed by George Romero (<em>Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead</em>)—and featuring stunning illustrations by the legendary Bernie Wrightson and cover art by the acclaimed Jack Kamen! A harrowing and darkly humorous tribute to the controversial and influential horror comics of the 1950s, <em>Creepshow </em>presents five sinister stories from the #1 <em>New York Times </em>bestselling author—“Father’s Day,” “The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill,” “Something to Tide You Over,” “The Crate,” and “They’re Creeping Up on You”…unforgettable tales of terror to haunt your days and nights!</p>
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<p>Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes The Bill Hodges Trilogy—<em>Mr. Mercedes </em>(an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel), <em>Finders Keepers</em>, and <em>End of Watch</em>; the short story collection <em>The Bazaar of Bad Dreams</em>; <em>Revival</em>; <em>Doctor Sleep</em>; and <em>Under the Dome</em>. His novel <em>11/22/63</em> was named a top ten book of 2011 by <em>The</em><em> New York Times</em> <em>Book Review </em>and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic series, The Dark Tower, is the basis for a major motion picture from Sony. He is the recipient of the 2014 National Medal of Arts and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. </p></div>


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<div><p>Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry (site of the classics <em>It</em> and <em>Insomnia),</em> four boys stood together and did a brave thing. Certainly a good thing, perhaps even a great thing. Something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand. </p><p>Twenty-five years later, the boys are now men with separate lives and separate troubles. But the ties endure. Each hunting season the foursome reunite in the woods of Maine. This year, a stranger stumbles into their camp, disoriented, mumbling something about lights in the sky. His incoherent ravings prove to be dis-turbingly prescient. Before long, these men will be plunged into a horrifying struggle with a creature from another world. Their only chance of survival is locked in their shared past -- and in the Dreamcatcher. </p><p>Stephen King's first full-length novel since <em>Bag of Bones</em> is, more than anything, a story of how men remember, and how they find their courage. Not since <em>The Stand</em> has King crafted a story of such astonishing range -- and never before has he contended so frankly with the heart of darkness.</p><h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>Stephen King fans, rejoice! The bodysnatching-aliens tale <em>Dreamcatcher</em> is his first book in years that slakes our hunger for horror the way he used to. A throwback to <em>It</em>, <em>The Stand</em>, and <em>The Tommyknockers</em>, <em>Dreamcatcher</em> is also an interesting new wrinkle in his fiction.</p><p>Four boyhood pals in Derry, Maine, get together for a pilgrimage to their favorite deep-woods cabin, Hole in the Wall. The four have been telepathically linked since childhood, thanks to a searing experience involving a Down syndrome neighbor--a human dreamcatcher. They've all got midlife crises: clownish Beav has love problems; the intellectual shrink, Henry, is slowly succumbing to the siren song of suicide; Pete is losing a war with beer; Jonesy has had weird premonitions ever since he got hit by a car.</p><p>Then comes worse trouble: an old man named McCarthy (a nod to the star of the 1956 film <em>Invasion of the Body Snatchers</em>) turns up at Hole in the Wall. His body is erupting with space aliens resembling furry moray eels: their mouths open to reveal nests of hatpin-like teeth. Poor Pete tries to remove one that just bit his ankle: "Blood flew in splattery fans as Pete tried to shake it off, stippling the snow and the sawdusty tarp and the dead woman's parka. Droplets flew into the fire and hissed like fat in a hot skillet."</p><p>For all its nicely described mayhem, <em>Dreamcatcher</em> is mostly a psychological drama. Typically, body snatchers turn humans into zombies, but these aliens must share their host's mind, fighting for control. Jonesy is especially vulnerable to invasion, thanks to his hospital bed near-death transformation, but he's also great at messing with the alien's head. While his invading alien, Mr. Gray, is distracted by puppeteering Jonesy's body as he's driving an Arctic Cat through a Maine snowstorm, Jonesy constructs a mental warehouse along the lines of <em>The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci</em>. Jonesy physically feels as if he's inside a warehouse, locked behind a door with the alien rattling the doorknob and trying to trick him into letting him in. It's creepy from the alien's view, too. As he infiltrates Jonesy, experiencing sugar buzz, endorphins, and emotions for the first time, Jonesy's influence is seeping into the alien: "A terrible thought occurred to Mr. Gray: what if it was <em>his</em> concepts that had no meaning?"</p><p>King renders the mental fight marvelously, and telepathy is a handy way to make cutting back and forth between the campers' various alien battlefronts crisp and cinematic. The physical naturalism of the Maine setting is matched by the psychological realism of the interior struggle. Deftly, King incorporates the real-life mental horrors of his own near-fatal accident and dramatizes the way drugs tug at your consciousness. Like the Tommyknockers, the aliens are partly symbols of King's (vanquished) cocaine and alcohol addiction. Mainly, though, they're just plain scary. <em>Dreamcatcher</em> is a comeback and an infusion of rich new blood into King's body of work. <em>--Tim Appelo</em></p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>If you're ready to commit virtually a whole day of your life to this unabridged version of King's latest blockbuster, this is what you'll get: some of King's best storytelling, beautifully read by DeMunn, an actor of great skill and subtlety who knows that less is more especially when it comes to this book's ample blood, horror and ferocious little aliens. DeMunn quickly and expertly creates four very distinctive characters to fit the quartet of Maine men boyhood chums who gather for their annual deer hunt as their lives seem to crumble around them. One of them, the history professor Jonesy, is recovering from a serious accident an event on which King dwells heavily but which DeMunn downplays as best he can. The Maine accents are perfect: working-class for the Beaver, who does menial work; a slight overtone of aspiration for Pete, the car salesman; slightly more polish for Jonesy, teaching in Boston; and a definite aura of erudition for Henry the psychologist. Even the aliens are distinguishably different testimony to the skills of both writer and reader. Simultaneously released with Simon &amp; Schuster hardcover (Forecasts, Feb. 12). </p><p>Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.</p></div>


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The most famous, widely acclaimed and popular of all SF novels. The Duke of Atreides has been manoeuvred by his arch-enemy, Baron Harkonnen, into administering the desert planet of Dune. Although it is almost completely without water, Dune is a planet of fabulous wealth, for it is the only source of a drug prized throughout the Galactic Empire. The Duke and his son, Paul, are expecting treachery, and it duly comes - but from a shockingly unexpected place.
Then Paul succeeds his father, and he becomes a catalyst for the native people of Dune, whose knowledge of the ecology of the planet gives them vast power. They have been waiting for a leader like Paul Atreides, a leader who can harness that force . . .
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<p>Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's <i>Navigators of Dune</i> is the climactic finale of the Great Schools of Dune trilogy, set 10,000 years before Frank Herbert's classic <i>Dune</i>.</p><p>The story line tells the origins of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood and its breeding program, the human-computer Mentats, and the Navigators (the Spacing Guild), as well as a crucial battle for the future of the human race, in which reason faces off against fanaticism. These events have far-reaching consequences that will set the stage for<i>Dune</i>, millennia later.</p>


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Three previously uncollected stories set in the Dune universe by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, includes the all-new tale “Wedding Silk,” a story of young Paul Atreides, as well as “Sea Child” and “Treasure in the Sand.” Bonus material includes “Dune: Blood and Water” and “Dune: Fremen Justice.”


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Fearful of losing his precarious hold on the Golden Lion Throne, Shaddam IV, Emperor of a Million Worlds, has devised a radical scheme to develop an alternative to melange, the addictive spice that binds the Imperium together and that can be found only on the desert world of Dune. 
In subterranean labs on the machine planet Ix, cruel Tleilaxu overlords use slaves and prisoners as part of a horrific plan to manufacture a synthetic form of melange known as amal. If amal can supplant the spice from Dune, it will give Shaddam what he seeks: absolute power.


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<p><p><b>Everyone knows Frank Herbert's Dune.</b><br><br>This amazing and complex epic, combining politics, religion, human evolution, and ecology, has captured the imagination of generations of readers. One of the most popular science fiction novels ever written, it has become a worldwide phenomenon, winning awards, selling millions of copies around the world. In the prophetic year of 1984, <i>Dune</i> was made into a motion picture directed by David Lynch, and it has recently been produced as a three-part miniseries on the Sci-Fi Channel. Though he is best remembered for <i>Dune</i>, Frank Herbert was the author of more than twenty books at the time of his tragic death in 1986, including such classic novels as <i>The Green Brain, The Santaroga Barrier, The White Plague</i> and <i>Dosadi Experiment</i>.<br><br>Brian Herbert, Frank Herbert's eldest son, tells the provocative story of his father's extraordinary life in this honest and loving chronicle. He has also brought to light...


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<div><p>His eyes were open now, watching the path of the tiny flame. <em>If you continue your path, little spark, you will cause great harm.<strong>I must burn! I must live!</strong>There are places where your glow and heat are welcome. Find them, do not destroy the dwellings or take the lives of my people!</em>For a second, he seemed to wink out of existence but then blazed back with renewed vigor.Thrall knew what he had to do. He lifted his hand. <em>Forgive me, Brother Flame. But I must protect my people from the harm you would cause them. I have requested, I have begged, now I warn.</em>The spark seemed to spasm, and yet he continued on his lethal course.Thrall, grim-faced, clenched his hand hard. The spark flared defiantly, then dwindled, finally settling down to nothing more than the faintest of glowing embers. For now, he would no longer do anyone harm.The threat had ended, but Thrall was reeling. This was not the way of the shaman with the elements. It was a relationship of mutual respect, not of threats and control and, in the end, destruction. Oh, the Spirit of Fire could never be extinguished. It was far greater than anything any shaman, or even group of shaman, could ever attempt to do to him. He was eternal, as all the spirits of the elements were. But this part of him, this elemental manifestation, had been defiant, uncooperative. And he had not been alone. He was part of a disturbing trend of elements that were sullen and rebellious rather than cooperative. And in the end, Thrall had had to completely dominate him. Other shaman were now calling rain to soak the city in case there was another aberrant spark that persisted in its course of devastation.Thrall stood in the rain, letting it soak him, pour off his massive green shoulders, and drip down his arms. What in the name of the ancestors was happening?<em>New York Times </em>bestselling and award-winning author Christie Golden has written thirty-five novels and several short stories in the fields of science fiction, fantasy and horror. Among her many projects are over a dozen Star Trek novels and several original fantasy novels. An avid player of World of Warcraft, she has written two manga short stories and several novels in that world (<em>Lord of the Clans</em>, <em>Rise of the Horde</em>, <em>Arthas: Rise of the Lich King</em>, and <em>The Shattering: Prelude to Cataclysm</em>) with more in the works. She has also written the StarCraft Dark Templar Trilogy, <em>Firstborn</em>, <em>Shadow Hunters</em>, and <em>Twilight</em>. Forthcoming is <em>Devils’ Due</em>, a StarCraft II novel focusing on the unlikely friendship between Jim Raynor and Tychus Findlay. Golden is also currently writing three books in the major nine-book Star Wars series Fate of the Jedi, in collaboration with Aaron Allston and Troy Denning. Her first two books in that series, <em>Omen </em>and <em>Allies</em>, are on shelves now. Golden currently lives in Colorado. She welcomes visitors to her website, www.christiegolden.com.<em>*Thrall, wise shaman and the warchief of the Horde, has sensed a disturbing change . . . Long ago, Azeroth’s destructive native elementals raged across the world until the benevolent titans imprisoned them within the Elemental Plane. Despite the titans’ intervention, many elementals have ended up back on Azeroth. Over the ages, shaman like Thrall have communed with these spirits and, through patience and dedication, learned to soothe roaring infernos, bring rain to sun-scorched lands, and otherwise temper the elementals’ ruinous influence on the world of Azeroth.Now Thrall has discovered that the elementals no longer heed the shaman’s call. The link shared with these spirits has grown thin and frayed, as if Azeroth itself were under great duress. While Thrall seeks answers to what ails the confused elements, he also wrestles with the orcs’ precarious future as his people face dwindling supplies and growing hostility with their night elf neighbors.Meanwhile, King Varian Wrynn of Stormwind is considering violent action in response to mounting tensions between the Alliance and the Horde, a hard-line approach that threatens to alienate those closest to him, including his son, Anduin. The conflicted young prince has set out to find his own path, but in doing so, he risks becoming entangled in political instability that is setting the world on edge.The fate of Azeroth’s great races is shrouded in a fog of uncertainty, and the erratic behavior of the elemental spirits, troubling though it is, may only be the first ominous warning sign of the cataclysm to come.</em></p><h3><em>About the Author</em></h3><p><em><em>New York Times</em> bestselling and award-winning author CHRISTIE GOLDEN has written more than thirty-five novels and several short stories in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Among her many projects are over a dozen <em>Star Trek</em> novels and several original fantasy novels. An avid player of <em>World of Warcraft</em>, she has written two manga short stories and several novels in that world (<em>Lord of the Clans, Rise of the Horde, Arthas: Rise of the Lich King</em>, and <em>The Shattering: Prelude to Cataclysm</em>), with more in the works. She has also written the <em>StarCraft Dark Templar Saga: Firstborn, Shadow Hunters</em>, and <em>Twilight</em>, as well as the most recent hardcover, <em>Devils' Due</em>. </em></p><p><em>Golden is also the writer of three books in the major nine-book <em>Star Wars</em> series <em>Fate of the Jedi</em> (in collaboration with Aaron Allston and Troy Denning). Her first two books in that series—<em>Omens</em> and <em>Allies</em>—are available now. Golden lives in Colorado. She welcomes visitors to her website: www.christiegolden.com. </em></p></div>


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<div><p>When the world of Azeroth was young, the god-like titans brought order to it by reshaping its lands and seas. Throughout their great work, they followed a magnificent design for what they envisioned Azeroth would become. Although the titans departed Azeroth long ago, that design endures to this day. It is known as the Emerald Dream, a lush and savagely primal version of the World of Warcraft.</p><p>Many are the mysteries surrounding the Emerald Dream and its reclusive guardians, the green dragonflight. In times past, druids have entered the Dream to monitor the ebb and flow of life on Azeroth in their never-ending quest to maintain the delicate balance of nature.</p><p>However, not all dreams are pleasant ones. Recently the Emerald Nightmare, an area of corruption within the Emerald Dream, began growing in size, transforming the Dream into a realm of unimaginable horror. Green dragons have been unexpectedly caught  up in the Nightmare, emerging from it with shattered minds and twisted bodies. Druids who have entered the darkening Dream lately have found it difficult—sometimes even impossible—to escape.</p><p>Nor are these the Nightmare’s only victims: more and more people are being affected. Even Malfurion Stormrage, first and foremost of the druids on Azeroth, may have fallen victim to this growing threat. As uncontrollable nightmares spread across the world, a desperate quest begins to find and free the archdruid.</p><p>Soon nature’s enemies will learn the true meaning of the name Stormrage.</p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Richard A. Knaak is the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of some three dozen novels, including the <em>The Sin War</em> trilogy for <em>Diablo</em> and the <em>Legend of Huma</em> for <em>Dragonlance</em>. He has penned the <em>War of the Ancients</em> trilogy, <em>Day of the Dragon</em> and its upcoming followup, <em>Night of the Dragon</em>. His other works include his own <em>Dragonrealm</em> series, the <em>Minotaur Wars</em> for <em>Dragonlance</em>, the <em>Aquilonia</em> trilogy of the Age of Conan, and the <em>Sunwell Trilogy</em> -- the first Warcraft manga. In addition, his novels and short stories have been published worldwide in such diverse places as China, Iceland, the Czech Republic, and Brazil.  </p></div>


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<div><p>Though the young Warchief Thrall ended the demon curse that had plagued his people for generations, the orcs still wrestle with the sins of their bloody past. As the rampaging <em>Horde</em>, they waged a number of devastating wars against their perennial enemy -- the Alliance. Yet the rage and bloodlust that drove the orcs to destroy everything in their path nearly consumed them as well. </p><p>Long ago, on the idyllic world of Draenor, the noble orc clans lived in relative peace with their enigmatic neighbors, the draenei. But the nefarious agents of the Burning Legion had other plans for both of the unsuspecting races. The demon-lord Kil'jaeden set in motion a dark chain of events that would succeed not only in eradicating the draenei, but forging the orc clans into an single, unstoppable juggernaut of hatred and destruction.</p><h3>About the Author</h3><p><em>New York Times</em> bestselling and award-winning author <strong>Christie Golden</strong> has written more than thirty novels and several short stories in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Visit her website at: ChristieGolden.com. </p><h3>Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.</h3><p><strong>One</strong></p><p><em>My name is Thrall. The word means "slave" in the human tongue, and the story behind the naming is a long one, best left for another time. By the grace of the spirits and the blood of heroes before me that runs in my veins, I have become Warchief of my people, the orcs, and the leader of a group of races known as the Horde. How this came to be, too, is another tale. The one I wish to set to parchment now, before those who lived it pass to dwell with the honorable ancestors, is the story of my father and those who believed in him; and of those who betrayed him and indeed, all our people. </em></p><ul><li><p>What might have become of us had these events not unfolded, not even the wise shaman Drek'Thar can say. The paths of Fate are many and varied, and no sane being should ever venture down the deceptively pleasant one of "if only." What happened, happened; my people must shoulder both the shame and the glories of our choices. *</p></li><li><p>This is the tale not of the Horde as it exists today, a loose organization of orc, tauren, forsaken, troll, and blood elf, but of the rise of the very first Horde. Its birth, like that of any infant, was marked by blood and pain, and its harsh cries for life meant death to its enemies. *</p></li><li><p>For such a grim and violent tale, it begins peacefully enough, amid the rolling hills and valleys of a verdant land called Draenor. . . .*</p></li></ul><p>The heart-beat rhythm of the drums lulled the younger orcs to sleep, but Durotan of the Frostwolf clan was wide awake. He lay with the others on the hard-packed dirt floor of the sleeping tent. A generous padding of straw and a thick clefthoof pelt protected him from the chill of the bone-cold earth. Even so, he felt the vibrations of the drumming travel up through the earth and into his body, as his ears were caressed by the ancient sound. How he longed to go out and join them! </p><p>Durotan would have another summer before he would be able to participate in the <em>Om'riggor</em>, the rite of adulthood. Until that much-anticipated event, he would have to accept being shunted off with the children into this large group tent, while the adults sat around the fire and talked of things that were doubtless mysterious and significant. </p><p>He sighed and shifted on the pelt. It was not fair. </p><p>The orcs did not fight among themselves, but neither were they particularly sociable. Each clan kept to itself, with its own traditions, styles and manner of dress, stories, and shaman. There were even variations of dialect that differed so much that some orcs could not understand one another unless they spoke the common tongue. They almost seemed as different to one another as the other sentient race who shared the bounty of the field, forest, and streams, the blue-skinned, mysterious draenei. Only twice a year, spring and autumn, did all the orc clans come together as they were doing now, to honor that time when day and night were the same length. </p><p>The festival had officially started last night at moonrise, though orcs had been gathering at this spot for several days now. The Kosh'harg celebration had been held on this sacred spot in the land the orcs called Nagrand, "Land of Winds," which lay in the benevolent shadow of the "Mountain of Spirits," Oshu'gun, for as long as anyone could remember. While ritual challenges and combat were not unusual during the festival, true anger or violence had never erupted here. When tempers flared, as they sometimes did when so many were gathered together, the shaman encouraged the parties involved to work it out peaceably, or else they were to leave the holy area. </p><p>The land in this place was lush and fertile and calming. Durotan sometimes wondered if the land was tranquil because of the willingness of the orcs to bring peace to it, or if the orcs were peaceful because the land was so serene. He often wondered such things, and kept them to himself, for he heard no one else voicing such odd ideas. </p><p>Durotan sighed quietly, his thoughts racing, his heart thumping in answering rhythm to the voice of the drums outside. Last night had been wonderful, stirring Durotan's soul. When the Pale Lady cleared the dark line of trees, in Her waning phase but still bright enough to cast a powerful light that was reflected on the blankets of white snow, a cheer had gone up from the throat of every one of the thousands of orcs assembled -- wise elders, warriors in their prime, even children held in their mother's strong arms. The wolves, both companions and mounts to the orcs, had joined in with exultant howls. The sound shivered along Durotan's veins as the drumming did now, a deep, primal cry of salutation to the white orb who commanded the night skies. Durotan had glanced around to behold a sea of powerful beings raising their brown hands, silvered in the light, to the Pale Lady, all with one focus. If any ogre had been foolish enough to attack, it would have fallen in a matter of heartbeats beneath the weapons of this vast sea of single-minded warriors. </p><p>Then had come feasting. Dozens of beasts had been slain earlier in the season, before the winter had set in, and dried and smoked in preparation for the event. Bonfires had been kindled, their warm light merging with the fey, white glow of the Lady, and the drumming had begun and had not stopped since. </p><p>He, like all the other children -- lying on his clefthoof pelt, Durotan sniffed dismissively at the term -- had been permitted to stay up until he had eaten his fill and the shaman had departed. The shaman of every clan left, once the opening feast had been consumed, to climb Oshu'gun, which stood careful watch over their festivities, enter its caverns, and be advised by the spirits and their ancestors. </p><p>Oshu'gun was impressive even from a distance. Unlike other mountains, which were irregular and rough in their shape, Oshu'gun erupted from the ground with the precision and sharp point of a spearhead. It looked like a giant crystal set into the earth, so clean were its lines and so brightly did it glisten in the sun- and moonlight. Some legends told that it had fallen from the sky hundreds of years ago, and it was so unusual that Durotan thought those tales might be right. </p><p>Interesting though Oshu'gun might be, Durotan always thought it a bit unfair that the shaman had to stay there for the entire Kosh'harg festival. The poor shaman, he thought, missed all the fun. But then again, he suspected, so did the children. </p><p>During the day, there were hunts and game playing and retelling of the heroics of the ancestors. Each clan had its own stories, and so in addition to the familiar tales Durotan had heard as a youngling, there were new and exciting adventures to listen to. </p><p>Entertaining as these were, and as much as Durotan enjoyed them, he burned to know what the adults discussed after the children were drowsing in the sleeping tent, after their bellies were stretched full of good food and pipes had been smoked and various brews had been shared. </p><p>He could stand it no longer. Quietly, Durotan sat up, his ears straining for any sounds to indicate that anyone else was awake. He heard nothing, and after a long minute, he got to his feet and began to move slowly toward the entrance. </p><p>It was a long, slow progression in the darkened tent. Sleeping children of all ages and sizes were sprawled everywhere in the tent, and one wrong move could awaken them. His heart racing with excitement at his daring, Durotan stepped carefully between the only faintly glimpsed shapes, placing each large foot with the delicacy of the long-legged marsh birds. </p><p>It seemed to take an eternity before Durotan finally reached the flap. He stood, trying to calm his breathing, reached out -- </p><p>And touched a large, smooth-skinned body standing right beside him. He jerked his hand back with a surprised hiss. </p><p>"What are you doing?" Durotan whispered. </p><p>"What are <em>you</em> doing?" the other orc shot back. Abruptly Durotan grinned at how foolish they sounded. </p><p>"Same thing you are," Durotan replied, his voice still soft. All about them, the others slept on. "We can either keep talking about it or do it." </p><p>Durotan could tell by the size of the faint shape in front of him that the orc was a large male, probably close to his own age. He couldn't place the scent or the voice, so it wasn't one of the Frostwolf clan. It was a daring thought -- not only to do something so forbidden as to leave the sleeping tent without permission, but to do so in the company of an orc not of his own clan. </p><p>The other orc hesitated, the same thoughts no doubt running through his head. "Very well," he said at last. "Let's do it." </p><p>Durotan reached out again in the darkness, his fingers brushing the hide of the flap and curling around its edge. The two orc youths pulled back the flap and stepped out into the frosty night. </p><p>Durotan turned to look at his companion. The other orc was brawnier than he, and stood a bit taller. Durotan was the largest of his age in his clan, and unused to others being taller than he. It was a bit disquieting. His ally in mischief turned to look at him, and Durotan felt himself being assessed. The other nodded, apparently satisfied with what he saw. </p><p>They did not risk words. Durotan pointed to a large tree close to the tent, and silently the two headed for it. For a moment that was probably not as long as it felt, they were in the open, exposed to any adult who chose that instant to turn his head and see them, but they were not spotted. Durotan felt as exposed as if he were in bright sunlight, so powerful was the moon's glow reflected off the crystalline snow. And surely the sound of the snow squeaking beneath their feet was as loud as the bellow of an enraged ogre. At last they reached the tree and sank down behind it. Durotan's breath misted as he finally exhaled. The other orc turned to him and grinned. </p><p>"I am Orgrim, line of Telkar Doomhammer, of the Blackrock clan," the youth said in a proud whisper. </p><p>Durotan was impressed. 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<div><p>Grim Batol: its dark legacy stretches back into the mists of Azeroth's past. But most know it as the site of a terrible tragedy -- where the vile orcs corrupted the hatchlings of the noble Dragonqueen, Alexstrasza, and used them as weapons of war. Though a band of heroes, led by the enigmatic mage, Krasus, defeated the orcs and freed the captive dragons, the cursed mountain stands as another ravaged landmark within the... </p><p><strong>WORLD OF WARCRAFT</strong></p><p>But now Krasus -- known to some as the red dragon Korialstrasz -- senses the malice of Grim Batol rising once more to threaten those he holds dear. Determined this time to confront this evil by himself, he is unaware of the quests that will draw others to Grim Batol and reveal the monstrous truth that could not only herald their deaths, but usher in a terrible new age of darkness and destruction.</p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Richard A. Knaak is the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of some three dozen novels, including the <em>The Sin War</em> trilogy for <em>Diablo</em> and the <em>Legend of Huma</em> for <em>Dragonlance</em>. He has penned the <em>War of the Ancients</em> trilogy, <em>Day of the Dragon</em> and its upcoming followup, <em>Night of the Dragon</em>. His other works include his own <em>Dragonrealm</em> series, the <em>Minotaur Wars</em> for <em>Dragonlance</em>, the <em>Aquilonia</em> trilogy of the Age of Conan, and the <em>Sunwell Trilogy</em> -- the first Warcraft manga. In addition, his novels and short stories have been published worldwide in such diverse places as China, Iceland, the Czech Republic, and Brazil.  </p></div>


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<div><p>The book World of Warcraft fans have been clamoring for—the true story behind one of the Warcraft universe’s most terrifying villains, Arthas the Lich King. Author Christie Golden does for Arthas what she once did for the Orc Lord Thrall in the bestselling Warcraft: Lord of the Clans, in another epic exploration of one of the key characters from the eleven-million subscriber massively multiplayer online role-playing game.</p><h3>Review</h3><p>"Of all the Warcraft manga, comic books, and novels I have read, <em>Arthas</em> has the most solid, balanced writing and best realized characters....There's much to love about this book....When it ended, I could feel the pangs in my heart as if I was one of the participants." -- WowInsider.com<br></p><p>"This book is an overdosed cocktail of lore and continuity that will numb your senses....I can only say one thing about this. I (beep) love this book!!!" -- Blizzplanet.com </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p><em>New York Times</em> bestselling and award-winning author <strong>Christie Golden</strong> has written more than thirty novels and several short stories in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Visit her website at: ChristieGolden.com. </p></div>


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<div><p>After killing the corrupt Warchief Blackhand, Orgrim Doomhammer was quick to seize control over the Orcish Horde. Now he is determined to conquer the rest of Azeroth so that his people will once again have a home of their own in the... </p><p>WORLD OF WARCRAFT </p><p>Anduin Lothar, former Champion of Stormwind, has left his shattered homeland behind and led his people across the Great Sea to the shores of Lordaeron. There, with the aid of the noble King Terenas, he forges a mighty Alliance with the other human nations. But even that may not be enough to stop the Horde's merciless onslaught. </p><p>Elves, dwarves, and trolls enter the fray as the two emerging factions vie for dominance. Will the valiant Alliance prevail, or will the Horde's tide of darkness consume the last vestiges of freedom on Azeroth?</p><h3>Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.</h3><p>CHAPTER ONE </p><p>Despite himself, Lothar was impressed. </p><p>Stormwind had been a towering, imposing city, filled with spires and terraces, carved from strong stone to resist the wind but polished to a mirror sheen. But in its own way Capital City was equally lovely. </p><p>Not that Capital City was the same as Stormwind. It was not as tall, for one. But what it lacked in height it made up for in elegance. It sat on a rise above the north shore of Lordamere Lake, gleaming all in white and silver. It did not glitter as Stormwind had, but it glowed somehow, as if the sun were rising from its graceful buildings instead of beating down upon them. It seemed serene, peaceful, almost holy. </p><p>"It is a mighty place," Khadgar agreed beside him, "though I prefer a little more warmth." He glanced behind them, toward the lake's southern shore, where a second city rose. Its outlines were similar to those of Capital City, but this mirror image seemed more exotic, its walls and spires suffused in violet and other warm hues. "That is Dalaran," he explained. "Home of the Kirin Tor and its wizards. My home, before I was sent to Medivh." </p><p>"Perhaps there will be time for you to return, at least briefly," Lothar suggested. "But for now we must concentrate on Capital City." He studied the gleaming city again. "Let us hope they are as noble in their thoughts as they are in their dwellings." He kicked his horse into a canter, and rode down out of the majestic Silverpine Forest, Varian and the mage right behind him and the other men trailing them in their carts. </p><p>Two hours later they reached the main gates. Guards stood by the entrance, though the double gates were wide open and large enough for two or even three wagons to pass abreast. The guards had clearly seen them long before they reached the gates, and the one who stepped forward wore a crimson cloak over his polished breastplate and had gold traceries in his armor and helmet. His manner was polite, even respectful, but Lothar could not help noticing how the man stopped only a few feet away, well within sword range. He forced himself to relax and ignore the laxity. This was not Stormwind. These people were not seasoned warriors, hardened by constant battle. They had never had to fight for their lives. Yet. </p><p>"Enter freely and be welcome," the guard captain stated, bowing. "Marcus Redpath warned us of your arrival, and your plight. You will find the king in his throneroom." </p><p>"Our thanks," Khadgar replied with a nod. "Come, Lothar," he added, nudging his horse with his heels. "I know the way." </p><p>They rode on through the city, navigating its broad streets easily. Khadgar did indeed seem to know the way, and never slowed to ask directions or puzzle over a turn until they had reached the palace itself. There they surrendered their horses to some of their companions, leaving them to mind the steeds. Lothar and Prince Varian were already striding up the palace's wide steps and Khadgar quickly joined them. </p><p>They stepped through the palace's outer doors and into a wide courtyard, almost an outdoor hall. Viewing boxes lined the sides, and though empty now Lothar was sure they filled with people during celebrations. At the far end another short flight of steps led up to a second set of doors, and these opened onto the throneroom itself. </p><p>It was an imposing chamber, its arched ceiling so high overhead its edges were lost in shadow. The room was round, with arches and columns everywhere. Golden sunlight streamed down from a stained-glass panel set in the ceiling's center, illuminating the intricate pattern in the floor: a series of nested circles, each one different, with a triangle at their middle overlapping the innermost ring, and the golden seal of Lordaeron within that. It had several high balconies and Lothar guessed these were for nobles but also appreciated their strategic value. A few guards with bows could easily strike anywhere in the room from those vantage points. </p><p>Just beyond the pattern stood a wide circular dais, its concentric steps rising up toward a massive throne. The throne itself looked carved from glittering stone, all sharp edges and planes and angles. A man sat there, tall and broad, his blond hair only lightly touched with gray, his armor gleaming, the crown upon his head shaped more like a spiked helmet than a coronet. This was a proper king, Lothar knew at once, a king like his Llane who did not hesitate to fight for his people. His hopes rose at the thought. </p><p>There were people here, townsfolk and laborers and even peasants, gathered facing the dais from a respectful distance. Many carried items, scraps of parchment, even food, but they parted before Lothar and Khadgar, falling away from the pair without a sound. </p><p>"Yes?" the man on the throne called out as they approached. "Who are you and what do you wish of me? Ah." Even from here Lothar could see the king's strangely colored eyes, blue and green swirled together -- they were sharp and clear, and his hopes rose still further. Here was a man who saw well and clearly. </p><p>"Your Majesty," Lothar replied, his deep voice carrying easily across the large room. He stopped several paces from the dais and bowed. "I am Anduin Lothar, a Knight of Stormwind. This is my companion, Khadgar of Dalaran." He heard several murmurs from the crowd now behind them. "And this" -- he turned so that the king could see Varian, who had been standing behind him, unnerved by the crowd and the strange trappings -- "is Prince Varian Wrynn, heir to the throne of Storm-wind." The murmurs turned to gasps as people realized the youth was visiting royalty, but Lothar ignored them, concentrating only on the king. "We must speak with you, your Majesty. It is a matter of great urgency and major import." </p><p>"Of course." Terenas was already rising from his throne and approaching them. "Leave us, please," he asked the rest of the crowd, though it was an order despite its polite wording. The people obeyed quickly, and soon only a handful of nobles and guards remained. The men who had accompanied Lothar faded back to the sides as well, leaving only Lothar, Khadgar, and Varian when Terenas closed the distance between them. </p><p>"Your Majesty," Terenas greeted Varian, bowing to him as to an equal. </p><p>"Your Majesty," Varian replied, his training overcoming his shock. </p><p>"We were grieved to hear of your father's death," Terenas continued gently. "King Llane was a good man and we counted him as a friend and an ally. Know that we shall do all in our power to restore you to your throne." </p><p>"I thank you," Varian said, though his lower lip trembled slightly. </p><p>"Now come and sit, and tell me what has happened," Terenas instructed, gesturing to the dais steps. He sat on the top one himself and motioned for Varian to sit beside him. "I have seen Stormwind myself, and admired its strength and beauty. What could destroy such a city?" </p><p>"The Horde," Khadgar said, speaking for the first time since they had entered the throneroom. Terenas turned toward him, and Lothar was close enough to see the king's eyes narrow slightly. "The Horde did this." </p><p>"And what is this Horde?" Terenas demanded, turning first to Varian and then to Lothar. </p><p>"It is an army, more than an army," Lothar replied. "It is a multitude, more than can be counted, enough to cover the land from shore to shore." </p><p>"And who commands this legion of men?" Terenas asked. </p><p>"Not men," Lothar corrected. "Orcs." At the king's puzzlement Lothar explained. "A new race, one not native to this world. They are as tall as we are, and more powerfully built, with green skin and glowing red eyes. And great tusks from their lower lips." A noble snorted somewhere, and Lothar turned, glaring. "You doubt me?" he shouted, turning toward each of the balconies in turn, looking for the one who had laughed. "You think I lie?" He struck his armor with his fist, near one of the more prominent dents. "This was made by an orc warhammer!" He struck another spot. "And this by an orc war axe!" He pointed to a gash along one forearm. "And this came from a tusk, when one jumped me and was too close for our blades to strike one another! These foul creatures have destroyed my land, my home, my people! If you doubt me come down here and say so to my face! I will show you what sort of man I am, and what happens to those who accuse me of falsehood!" </p><p>"Enough!" Terenas's shout silenced any possible reply, anger plain in his own voice, but when he turned to Lothar the warrior could see that this king's anger was not directed at him. "Enough," the king said again, more softly. "None here doubt your word, Champion," he assured Lothar, a stern look around daring any of his nobles to disagree. "I know of your honor and your loyalty. I will take you at your word, though such creatures sound strange to us." He turned and nodded at Khadgar. "And with one of the wizards of Dalaran beside you as a witness, we cannot discount what you say, nor the notion of races never seen here before." </p><p>"I thank you, King Terenas," Lothar replied formally, reining his anger back in. He was not sure what to do next. Fortunately, Terenas was. </p><p>"I will summon my neighboring kings," he announced. "These events concern us all." He turned back toward Varian. "Your Majesty, I offer you my home and my protection for as long as you shall need it," he stated, loud enough for all to hear. "When you are ready, know that Lordaeron will assist you in reclaiming your kingdom." </p><p>Lothar nodded. "Your Majesty, you are most generous," he said on Varian's behalf, "and I can think of no safer and finer place for my prince to reach his maturity than here in Capital City. Know, however, that we did not come here merely for sanctuary. We came to warn you." He stood tall, his voice rumbling across the room, his eyes not leaving Lordaeron's king. "For know this -- the Horde will not stop at Stormwind. They mean to claim the entire world, and they have the might and the numbers to make their dream a reality. Nor do they lack magical might. Once they have finished with my homeland -- " His voice grew deeper and rougher and he fo... </p></div>


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<div><p>Many months have passed since the cataclysmic Battle of Mount Hyjal, where the demonic Burning Legion was banished from Azeroth forever. But now, a mysterious energy rift within the mountains of Kalimdor propels three former warriors into the distant past -- a time long before orcs, humans or even high elves roamed the land. A time when the Dark Titan Sargeras, and his demon pawns persuaded Queen Azshara and her Highborne to cleanse Azeroth of its lesser races. A time when the Dragon Aspects were at the height of their power -- unaware that one of their own would soon usher in an age of darkness that would engulf the world of...War Craft®. </p><p>In the first chapter of this epic trilogy, the outcome of the historic War of the Ancients is forever altered by the arrival of three time-lost heroes: Krasus, the dragon mage whose great power and memories of the ancient conflict have inexplicably diminished; the human wizard Rhonin, whose thoughts are divided between his family and the seductive source of his now-growing power; and Broxigar, a weathered orc veteran who seeks a glorious death in combat. But unless these unlikely allies can convince the demigod, Cenarius, and the untrusting night elves of their queen's treachery, the burning Legion's gateway into Azeroth will open anew. And this time -- the struggles of the past may well spill over into the future...</p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Richard A. Knaak is the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of some three dozen novels, including the <em>The Sin War</em> trilogy for <em>Diablo</em> and the <em>Legend of Huma</em> for <em>Dragonlance</em>. He has penned the <em>War of the Ancients</em> trilogy, <em>Day of the Dragon</em> and its upcoming followup, <em>Night of the Dragon</em>. His other works include his own <em>Dragonrealm</em> series, the <em>Minotaur Wars</em> for <em>Dragonlance</em>, the <em>Aquilonia</em> trilogy of the Age of Conan, and the <em>Sunwell Trilogy</em> -- the first Warcraft manga. In addition, his novels and short stories have been published worldwide in such diverse places as China, Iceland, the Czech Republic, and Brazil.  </p><h3>Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.</h3><p>The tall, forbidding palace perched atop the very edge of the mountainous cliff, overlooking so precariously the vast, black body of water below that it appeared almost ready to plummet into the latter's dark depths. When first the vast, walled edifice had been constructed, using magic that melded both stone and forest into a single, cohesive form, it had been a wonder to touch the heart of any who saw it. Its towers were trees strengthened by rock, with jutting spires and high, open windows. The walls were volcanic stone raised up, then bound tightly by draping vines and giant roots. The main palace at the center had originally been created by the mystical binding of more than a hundred giant, ancient trees. Bent in together, they had formed the skeleton of the rounded center, over which the stone and vines had been set. </p><p>A wonder to touch the hearts of all when first it had been built, now it touched the fears of some. An unsettling aura enshrouded it, one heightened this stormy night. The few who peered at the ancient edifice now quickly averted their gaze. </p><p>Those who looked instead to the waters below it found no peace, either. The ebony lake was now in violent, unnatural turmoil. Churning waves as high as the palace rose and fell in the distance, crashing with a roar. Lightning played over its vast body, lightning gold, crimson, or the green of decay. Thunder rumbled like a thousand dragons and those who lived around its shores huddled close, uncertain as to what sort of storm might be unleashed. </p><p>On the walls surrounding the palace, ominous guards in forest-green armor and wielding lances and swords glared warily about. They watched not only beyond the walls for foolish trespassers, but on occasion surreptitiously glanced within...particularly at the main tower, where they sensed unpredictable energies at play. </p><p>And in that high tower, in a stone chamber sealed from the sight of those outside, tall, narrow figures in iridescent robes of turquoise, embroidered with stylized, silver images of nature, bent over a six-sided pattern written into the floor. At the center of the pattern, symbols in a language archaic even to the wielders flared with lives of their own. </p><p>Glittering, silver eyes with no pupils stared out from under the hoods as the night elves muttered the spell. Their dark, violet skin grew covered in sweat as the magic within the pattern amplified. All but one looked weary, ready to succumb to exhaustion. That one, overseeing the casting, watched the process not with silver orbs like the rest, but rather false black ones with streaks of ruby running horizontal along the centers. But despite the false eyes, he noted every detail, every inflection by the others. His long, narrow face, narrow even for an elf, wore an expression of hunger and anticipation as he silently drove them on. </p><p>One other watched all of this, drinking in every word and gesture. Seated on a luxurious chair of ivory and leather, her rich, silver hair framing her perfect features and the silken gown -- as golden as her eyes -- doing the same for her exquisite form, she was every inch the vision of a queen. She leaned back against the chair, sipping wine from a golden goblet. Her jeweled bracelets tinkled as her hand moved and the ruby in the tiara she wore glistened in the light of the sorcerous energies the others had summoned. </p><p>Now and then her gaze shifted ever so slightly to study the dark-eyed figure, her full lips pursing in something approaching suspicion. Yet, when once he suddenly glanced her way, as if sensing her observation, all suspicion vanished, replaced by a languid smile. </p><blockquote><p>The chanting continued.</p><p>The black lake churned madly. </p></blockquote><p>There had been a war and it had ended. </p><p>So, Krasus knew, history would eventually record what had happened. Almost lost in that recording would be the countless personal lives destroyed, the lands ravaged, and the near-destruction of the entire mortal world. </p><p><em>Even the memories of dragons are fleeting under such circumstances,</em> the pale, gray-robed figure conceded to himself. He understood that very well, for although to most eyes he resembled a lanky, almost elven figure with hawklike features, silvering hair, and three long scars traveling down his right cheek, he was much more than that. To most, he was known as a wizard, but to a select few he was called <em>Korialstrasz</em> -- a name only a dragon would wear. </p><p>Krasus had been born a dragon, a majestic red one, the youngest of the great Alexstrasza's consorts. She, the Aspect of Life, was his dearest companion...yet once again he dragged himself away from her to study the plights and futures of the short-lived races. </p><p>In the hidden, rock-hewn abode he had chosen for his new sanctum, Krasus looked over the world of Azeroth. The gleaming emerald crystal enabled him to see whatever land, whatever individual, he desired. </p><p>And everywhere that the dragon mage looked, he saw devastation. </p><p>It seemed as if it had only been a few years ago when the grotesque, green-skinned behemoths called orcs, who had invaded the world from beyond, were defeated. With their remaining numbers kept in encampments, Krasus had believed the world ready for peace. Yet, that peace had been short-lived. The Alliance -- the human-led coalition that had been the forefront of the resistance -- had immediately begun to crumble, its members vying for power over one another. Part of that had been the fault of dragons -- or the <em>one</em> dragon, Deathwing -- but much had simply been the greed and desire of humans, dwarves, and elves. </p><p>Yet, even that would have passed with little concern if not for the coming of the Burning Legion. </p><p>Today, Krasus surveyed distant Kalimdor, located on the far side of the sea. Even now, areas of it resembled a land after a terrible volcanic eruption. No life, no semblance of civilization, remained in those areas. It had not been any natural force, however, that had rent the land so. The Burning Legion had left <em>nothing</em> in its wake but death. </p><p>The fiery demons had come from a place beyond reality. Magic was what they sought, magic they devoured. Attacking in conjunction with their monstrous pawns, the Undead Scourge, they had thought to lay waste to the world. Yet, they had not counted on the most unlikely alliance of all... </p><p>The orcs, once also their puppets, had turned on them. They had joined the humans, elves, dwarves, and dragons to decimate the demonic warriors and ghoulish beasts and push the remnants back into the hellish beyond. Thousands had perished, but the alternative... </p><p>The dragon mage snorted. In truth, there had been <em>no</em> alternative. </p><p>Krasus waved long, tapering fingers over the orb, summoning a vision of the orcs. The view blurred momentarily, then revealed a mountainous, rocky area further inland. A harsh land, but one still full of life and capable of supporting the new colonists. </p><p>Already, several stone structures had risen in the main settlement, where the Warchief and one of the heroes of the war, Thrall, ruled. The high, rounded edifice that served as his quarters was crude by the standards of any other race, but orcs had a propensity toward basics. Extravagance to an orc was having a permanent place to live at all. They had been nomads or prisoners for so long that the concept of "home" had been all but lost. </p><p>Several of the massive, greenish figures tilled a field. Watching the tusked, brutish-looking workers, Krasus marveled at the concept of orc farmers. Thrall, however, was a highly unusual orc and he had readily grasped the ideas that would return stability to his people. </p><p>Stability was something the entire world needed badly. With another wave of his hand, the dragon mage dismissed Kalimdor, summoning now a much closer location -- the once proud capital of his favored Dalaran. Ruled by the wizards of the Kirin Tor, the prime wielders of magic, it had been at the forefront of the Alliance's battle against the Burning Legion in Lordaeron and one of the first and most prized targets of the demons in turn. </p><p>Dalaran lay half in ruins. The once-proud spires had been all but shattered. The great libraries burned. Countless generations of knowledge had been lost...and with them countless lives. Even the council had suffered badly. Several of those Krasus had counted as friends or at least respected colleagues had been slain. The leadership was in disarray and he knew that he would have to step in to lend a hand. Dalaran needed to speak with one voice, if only to keep what remained of the splintered Alliance intact. </p><p>Yet, despite the turmoil and tribulations still ahead, the dragon did have hope. The problems of the world were surmountable ones. No more fear of orcs, no more fear of demons. Azeroth would struggle, but in the end, Krasus not only thought it would survive, he fully believed it would thrive. </p><p>He dismissed the emerald crystal and rose. The Dragon Queen, his beloved Alexstrasza, would be awaiting him. She suspected his desire to return to help the mortal world and, of all dragons, she most understood. He would transform to his true self, bid her farewell -- for a time -- and depart before regrets held him back. </p><p>His sanctum he had chosen not only for its seclusion, but also for its massiveness. Stepping from the smaller chamber, Krasus entered a toothy cavern whose heights readily matched the now lost towers of Dalaran. An army could have bivouacked in the cavern and not filled it. </p><p>Just the right size for a dragon. </p><p>Krasus stretched his arms...and as he did, his tapering fingers lengthened further, becoming taloned. His back arched and from near the shoulders erupted twin growths that quickly transformed into fledgling wings. His long features stretched, turning reptilian. </p><p>Throughout all these lesser changes, Krasus's form expanded. He became four, five, even ten times the size of a man and continued to grow. Any semblance to a human or elf quickly faded. </p><p>From wizard, Krasus became Korialstrasz, dragon. </p><p>But -- in the very midst of the transformation -- a desperate voice suddenly filled his head. </p><p>... </p></div>


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<div><p>The hour of wrath draws near... </p><p>The valiant night elves have been shattered by the loss of their beloved general. The black dragon, Neltharion, has claimed the Demon Soul and scattered the mighty dragonflights to the winds. Above all, the demonlord, Archimonde, has led the Burning Legion to the very brink of victory over Kalimdor. As the land and its denizens reel from this unstoppable evil, a terror beyond all reckoning draws ever nearer from the Well of Eternity's depths... </p><p><strong><em>WARCRAFT</em></strong></p><p>In the final, apocalyptic chapter of this epic trilogy, the dragon-mage Krasus and the young druid Malfurion must risk everything to save Azeroth from utter destruction. Banding together the dwarves, tauren and furbolg races, the heroes hope to spark an alliance to stand against the might of the Burning Legion. For if the Demon Soul should fall into the Legion's hands, all hope for the world will be lost. This then, is the hour...where past and future collide! </p><p><em>THE SUNDERING</em></p><p><strong>An original trilogy of magic, warfare, and heroism based on the bestselling, award-winning electronic game series from Blizzard Entertainment.</strong></p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Richard A. Knaak is the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of some three dozen novels, including the <em>The Sin War</em> trilogy for <em>Diablo</em> and the <em>Legend of Huma</em> for <em>Dragonlance</em>. He has penned the <em>War of the Ancients</em> trilogy, <em>Day of the Dragon</em> and its upcoming followup, <em>Night of the Dragon</em>. His other works include his own <em>Dragonrealm</em> series, the <em>Minotaur Wars</em> for <em>Dragonlance</em>, the <em>Aquilonia</em> trilogy of the Age of Conan, and the <em>Sunwell Trilogy</em> -- the first Warcraft manga. In addition, his novels and short stories have been published worldwide in such diverse places as China, Iceland, the Czech Republic, and Brazil.  </p><h3>Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.</h3><p><strong>Chapter One</strong></p><p>They could smell the stench in the distance and it was difficult to say which was strongest, the acrid smoke rising from the burning landscape or the incessant, almost sweet odor of the slowly-decaying dead lying sprawled by the hundreds across it. </p><p>The night elves had managed to stem the latest assault by the Burning Legion, but had lost more ground again. Lord Desdel Stareye proclaimed it a retrenching maneuver enabling the host to better gauge the Legion's weaknesses, but among Malfurion Stormrage and his friends, the truth was known. Stareye was an aristocrat with no true concept of strategy and he surrounded himself with the like. </p><p>With the assassination of Lord Ravencrest, there had been no one willing to stand up to the slim, influential noble. Other than Ravencrest, few night elves truly had experience in warfare and with the dead commander the last of his line, his House could present no one to take his place. Stareye clearly had ambitions, but his ineptitude would see those ambitions crushed along with his people if something did not happen. </p><p>But Malfurion's thoughts were not simply concerned with the precarious future of the host. Another, overriding matter ever caused him to look in the direction of distant Zin-Azshari, once the glittering capital of the night elves' realm. Even as the dim hint of light to the east presaged the cloud-enshrouded day, he went over and over again his failures. </p><p>Went over and over again the loss of the two that mattered most to him -- fair Tyrande and his twin brother, Illidan. </p><p>Night elves aged very slowly, but the young Malfurion looked much older than his few decades. He still stood as tall as any of his people -- roughly seven feet -- and had their slim build and dark purple complexions. However, his slanted, silver eyes -- eyes without pupils -- had a maturity and bitterness cast in them that most night elves lacked even under such diversity. Malfurion's features were also more lupine than most, matching only his brother's. </p><p>More startling was his mane of hair, shoulder-length and of a unique, dark green -- not the midnight blue even his twin had. People were always eyeing the hair just as they had once always eyed the plain garments to which his tastes turned. As a student of the druidic arts, Malfurion did not wear the garish, flamboyant robes and outfits considered normal clothing by his race. Instead, he preferred a simple, cloth tunic, plain leather jerkin and pants, and knee-high boots, also of leather. The extravagant garb worn by his people had been a telling sign of their jaded lives, their innate arrogance -- something against his nature. Of course, now, though, most night elves save Lord Stareye and his ilk wandered as ragged refugees in muddied, blood-soaked clothes. More to the point, instead of looking down their noses at the peculiar young scholar, they now eyed the green-haired druid with desperate hope, aware that most of them lived because of his actions. </p><p>But what were those actions leading him toward? Not success, so far. Worse, and certainly more disconcerting, Malfurion had discovered that his delving into the natural powers of the living world had begun a physical change. </p><p>He rubbed his upper head, where one of the two tiny nubs lay hidden under his hair. They had sprouted but a few days ago, yet had already doubled in size. The two tiny horns chilled Malfurion, for they reminded him much too much of the beginning of a satyr's. That, in turn, reminded him too much of Xavius, the queen's counselor who had come back from the dead and, before Malfurion had finally dealt with him, sent Tyrande into the clutches of the Burning Legion's masters. </p><p>"You've got to stop thinking about her," someone coming up behind him urged. </p><p>Malfurion glanced without surprise at his companion, although most others in the host would have stared even harder at the newcomer than they did the druid. There was no creature in all Kalimdor like Rhonin. </p><p>The hooded figure draped in dark blue robes, under which could be seen similarly-colored shirt and pants, stood more than a head shorter than Malfurion even despite boots. But it was neither his height nor his garments that raised eyes and comments. Rather, it was the fiery, shoulder-length hair spilling out from the hood, the rounder, very pale features -- especially the nose that bent slightly to one side -- that so unsettled other night elves. The eyes were even more startling, for they were a bright emerald green with utterly black pupils. </p><p>Despite his comparative shortness, Rhonin was built stronger than Malfurion. He looked very capable of handling himself in combat -- which he had -- an unusual ability for one who had proven himself quite versed in the magical arts. Rhonin called himself a "human," a race of which no one had heard. Yet, if the crimson-tressed traveler was an example, Malfurion wished that the host had a thousand more just like him. Whereas his own people's sorcery, so dependent upon the Well of Eternity, now often failed, Rhonin wielded his own power as if the offspring of a demigod. </p><p>"How can I stop? How do I dare?" Malfurion demanded, suddenly growing angry at one he knew did not deserve such malice. "Tyrande has been their prisoner for too long and I've failed over and over again to even see within the palace's walls!" </p><p>In the past, Malfurion had used the training he had received from his mentor -- the demigod, Cenarius -- to walk a realm called the Emerald Dream. The Emerald Dream was a place where the world looked as it would have had there been neither civilization or even animal life. Through it, one's dream form could quickly reach locations all across the world. It had enabled him to pass through the magical barriers surrounding Queen Azshara's citadel and spy upon her Highborne and the commanders of the Burning Legion. He had used it to disrupt the plans of Xavius, the queen's counselor, and, after a harrowing imprisonment, temporarily destroy the portal and the tower containing it. </p><p>Now, however, the great demon, Archimonde, had strengthened those barriers, cutting off even the Emerald Dream. Malfurion had continued to try to pierce the barriers, but he might as well have been physically battering himself against a real wall. </p><p>It did not help that, in addition to awareness that Tyrande was within, the druid also suspected that Illidan might be. </p><p>"Elune will watch over her," Rhonin replied steadfastly. "She seems very much a favorite of the Mother Moon." </p><p>Malfurion could not argue with that reasoning. But a short time ago, Tyrande had been a young novice in the service of the lunar goddess. Yet, the coming of the Legion seemed to have precipitated in her a transformation as great as in him, if not more so. Her powers had grown strong and, to her immense surprise, when the high priestess had been mortally wounded in battle, she had chosen Tyrande as her successor over many much more experienced and high-ranking sisters. Regrettably, that newfound status had ultimately led to her kidnapping by a transformed Xavius and his satyrs. Xavius had finally paid the price for his actions, but that had not saved Tyrande. </p><p>"Can even Elune stand up to the darkness of Sargeras?" </p><p>Rhonin's thick brow arched. "Talk like that won't help any, Malfurion," He glanced behind himself. "...and I'd especially appreciate it if you'd not speak so around our new friends." </p><p>For a moment, the druid forgot his misery as the shadowed forms rose up from the direction the wizard had come. Immediately it was clear that they were of more than one race, for some dwarfed the night elf in both height and girth while others came up short even to Rhonin. Yet all who strode up to where the pair stood moved with determination and a sense of strength that Malfurion had to admit his own people had just begun to find. </p><p>A musky scent wafted past his nose and he immediately tensed. A furred figure clad in loincloth and wielding a massive spear paused to gaze down at the night elf. The giant's breath came in heavy snorts which caused the ring through his nose to jingle slightly. His muzzle was more than a foot long and at the skull met two deeply-entrenched, black eyes that burned with determination. Above the harsh, wrinkled brow, a pair of treacherous-looking horns thrust ahead of the muzzle. </p><p>A tauren... </p><p>"This is -- " Rhonin began. </p><p>"Know that Huln Highmountain stands before you, night elf," rumbled the shaggy, bull-headed creature. "Huln of the eagle spear!" He raised the weapon, displaying the sharp, curved end forged to resemble the raptor's beak. From the lower end of the metal head to the bottom tip of the shaft, a tightly-bound skin had been wrapped, upon it markings in the language of Huln's people. Malfurion knew just enough about the tauren to understand that here was marked the history of the weapon, from its forging through the epic feats of its owners. "Huln, who speaks for all the tribes gathered." </p><p>The bull nodded his head brusquely, accenting his words with his gestures. His coat had more than two dozen braids in it, most of them dangling from under his jaw. Each was recognition of a kill in battle. </p><p>The squat but muscular figure below the tauren's right arm snorted. Vaguely, he looked like some kin of Rhonin's, at least in features. However, there any resemblance ended. His build made it seem as if some powerful force -- perhaps either the tauren or the ursine brute behind him -- had taken a war hammer and pounded the heavily-bearded figure flat. </p><p>More astounding, he was made of stone, not flesh. </p><p>His rough-hewn skin appeared to be a gray granite, his squinting eyes glittering diamonds. The beard was actually an intricate series of mineral growths that even made it look as if the figure was graying with age. </p><p>The dwarf -- for that was as Malfurion knew his kind -- reached into one of his many belt pouches and removed a clay pipe and tinder box. As he lit the pipe, the fire briefly outlined the grizzled face, especially the huge, round nose. Whether or not the "gray" in the beard marked advanced age, he showed no infirmi... </p></div>


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<div><p>In the mist-shrouded haze of the past, long before the beginning of recorded time, there stood the world of Azeroth. Every kind of magical being strode the countryside among the tribes of man, and all was at peace -- until the arrival of the demons and horrors of the Burning Legion and their baneful Lord Sargeras, dark god of chaotic magic. Now Dragons, Dwarves, Elves, Goblins, Humans, and Orcs all vie for supremacy across the scattered kingdoms -- part of a grand, malevolent scheme that will determine the fate of the world of </p><p><strong>The Guardians of Tirisfal:</strong> a line of champions imbued with godlike powers, each one through the ages charged with fighting a lonely secret war against the Burning Legion. Medivh was fated from birth to become the greatest and most powerful of this noble order. But from the beginning a darkness tainted his soul, corrupting his innocence and turning to evil the powers that should have fought for good. Torn by two destinies, Medivh's struggle against the malice within him became one with the fate of Azeroth itself...and changed the world forever. </p><hr><p><strong>THE LAST GUARDIAN</strong></p><p>An original tale of magic, warfare, and heroism based on the bestselling, award-winning electronic game from Blizzard Entertainment.</p><h3>Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.</h3><p><strong>Prologue: The Lonely Tower</strong></p><p>The larger of the two moons had risen first this evening, and now hung pregnant and silver-white against a clear, star-dappled sky. Beneath the lambent moon the peaks of the Redridge Mountains strained for the sky. In the daylight the sun picked out hues of magenta and rust among the great granite peaks, but in the moonlight they were reduced to tall, proud ghosts. To the west lay the Forest of Elwynn, its heavy canopy of greatoaks and satinwoods running from the foothills to the sea. To the east, the bleak swamp of the Black Morass spread out, a land of marshes and low hills, bayous and backwaters, failed settlements and lurking danger. A shadow passed briefly across the moon, a raven-sized shadow, bearing for a hole in the heart of the mountain. </p><p>Here a chunk had been pulled from the fastness of the Redridge Range, leaving behind a circular vale. Once it might have been the site of some primeval celestial impact or the memory of an earth-shaking explosion, but the aeons had worn the bowl-shaped crater into a series of steep-edged, rounded hillocks which were now cradled by the steeped mountains surrounding them. None of the ancient trees of Elwynn could reach its altitude, and the interior of the ringed hills was barren save for weeds and tangled vines. </p><p>At the center of the ringed hills lay a bare tor, as bald as the pate of a Kul Tiras merchant lord. Indeed the very way the hillock rose steeply, than gentled to a near-level slope at its apex, was similar in shape to a human skull. Many had noted it over the years, though only a few had been sufficiently brave, or powerful, or tactless to mention it to the property's owner. </p><p>At the flattened peak of the tor rose an ancient tower, a thick, massive protrusion of white stone and dark mortar, a man-made eruption that shot effortlessly into the sky, scaling higher than the surrounding hills, lit like a beacon by the moonlight. There was a low wall at the base of the tower surrounding a bailey, and within those walls the tumbledown remains of a stable and a smithy, but the tower itself dominated all within the ringed hills. </p><p>Once this place was called Karazhan. Once it was home of the last of the mysterious and secretive Guardians of Tirisfal. Once it was a living place. Now it was simply abandoned and timelost. </p><p>There was silence upon the tower but not a stillness. In the night's embrace quiet shapes flitted from window to window, and phantoms danced along the balconies and parapets. Less than ghosts, but more than memories, these were nothing less than pieces of the past that had become unstuck from the flow of time. These shadows of the past had been pried loose by the madness of the tower's owner, and were now condemned to play out their histories again and again, in the silence of the abandoned tower. Condemned to play but denied of any audience to appreciate them. </p><p>Then in the silence, there was the soft scrape of a booted foot against stone, then another. A flash of movement beneath the lambent moon, a shadow against the white stone, a flutter of a tattered, red-hued cloak in the cool night air. A figure walked along the topmost parapet, on the crenellated uppermost spire that years before had served as an observatory. </p><p>The parapet door into the observatory screeched open on ancient hinges, then stopped, frozen by rust and the passage of time. The cloaked figure paused a moment, then placed a finger on the hinge, and muttered a few choice words. The door swung open silently, the hinges made as if new. The trespasser allowed himself a smile. </p><p>The observatory was empty now, what tools that remained smashed and abandoned. The trespassing figure, almost as silent as a ghost himself, picked up a crushed astrolabe, its scale twisted in some now-forgotten rage. Now it is merely a heavy piece of gold, inert and useless in his hands. </p><p>There was other movement in the observatory, and the trespasser looked up. Now a ghostly figure stood nearby, near one of the many windows. The ghost/non-ghost was an broad-shouldered man, hair and beard once dark but now going to a premature gray at the edges. The figure was one of the shards of the past, unglued and now repeating its task, regardless of whether it had observers or not. For the moment, the dark-haired man held the astrolabe, the unbroken twin to the one in the trespasser's hands, and fiddled with a small knob along one side. A moment, a check, and a twitch of the knob. His dark brows furrowed over ghostly green eyes. A second moment, another check, and another twitch. Finally, the tall, imposing figure sighed deeply and placed the astrolabe on a table that was no longer there, and vanished. </p><p>The trespasser nodded. Such hauntings were common even in the days when Karazhan was inhabited, though now, stripped of the control (and the madness) of their master, they had become more brazen. Yet these shards of the past belonged here, while he did not. He was the interloper, not they. </p><p>The trespasser crossed the room to its staircase leading down, while behind him the older man flickered back into the view and repeated his action, sighting his astrolabe on a planet that had long since moved to other parts of the sky. </p><p>The trespasser moved down through the tower, crossing levels to reach other stairs and other hallways. No door was shut to him, even those locked and bolted, or sealed by rust and age. A few words, a touch, a gesture and the fetters flew loose, the rust dissolved into ruddy piles, the hinges restored. In one or two places ancient wards still glowed, potent despite their age. He paused before them for a moment, considering, reflecting, searching his memory for the correct counter-sign. He spoke the correct word, made the correct motion with his hands, shattered the weak magic that remained, and passed on. </p><p>As he moved through the tower, the phantoms of the past grew more agitated and more active. Now with a potential audience, it seemed that these pieces of the past wished to play themselves out, if only to be made free of this place. Any sound they once possessed had long-since eroded away, leaving only their images moving through the halls. </p><p>The interloper passed an ancient butler in dark livery, the frail old man shuffling slowly down the empty hallway, carrying a silver tray and wearing a set of horse-blinders. The interloper passed through the library, where a green-fleshed young woman stood with her back to him, pouring over an ancient tome. He passed through a banquet hall, at one end a group of musicians playing soundlessly, dancers twirling in a gavotte. At the other end a great city burned, its flames beating ineffectively against the stone walls and rotting tapestries. The trespasser moved through the silent flames, but his face grew drawn and tense as he witnessed once more the mighty city of Stormwind burn around him. </p><p>In one room three young men sat around a table and told now-unknown lies. Metal mugs were scattered on the table's surface as well as beneath it. The trespasser stood watching this image for a long time, until a phantom taverness brought another round. Then he shook his head and pressed on. </p><p>He reached nearly the ground level, and stepped out on a low balcony that hung precariously to the wall, like a wasps' nest over the main entrance. There, in the wide space before the tower, between the main entrance and a now-collapsed stables across the bailey, stood a single ghostly image, lonely and separated. It did not move like the others, but rather stood there, waiting, tentative. A piece of the past that had not been released. A piece that was waiting for him. </p><p>The immobile image was of a young man with a skunk stripe of white running through his dark, untidy head of hair. The straggling fragments of a beard, newly grown, clung to his face. A battered rucksack lay at the youth's feet, and he held a red-sealed letter with a deathlike grip. </p><p>This was well and truly no ghost, the trespasser knew, though the owner of this image may yet be dead, fallen in combat beneath a foreign sun. This was a memory, a shard of the past, trapped like an insect in amber, waiting for its release. Waiting for his arrival. </p><p>The trespasser sat on the stonework ledge of the balcony and looked out, beyond the bailey, beyond the hillock, and beyond the ringed hills. There was silence in the moonlight, as the mountains themselves seemed to be holding their breath, waiting for him. </p><p>The trespasser lifted a hand and intoned a series of chanted words. Softly came the rhymes and rhythms the first time, then louder, and finally louder still, shattering the calm. In the distance wolves picked up his chant and cast it back in howling counterpoint. </p><p>And the image of the ghostly youth, its feet seemingly trapped in mud, took a deep breath, hoisted his rucksack of secrets to his shoulder, and slogged his way toward the main entrance of Medivh's Tower. </p><p>Copyright © 2002 by Blizzard Entertainment. All rights reserved. Warcraft and Blizzard Entertainment are trademarks or registered trademarks of Blizzard Entertainment in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.</p></div>


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<div><p><strong>THE BURNING LEGION HAS COME.</strong></p><p>Led by the mighty Archimonde, scores of demonic soldiers now march across the lands of Kalimdor, leaving a trail of death and devastation in their wake. At the heart of the fiery invasion stands the mystic Well of Eternity -- once the source of the night elves' arcane power. But now the Well's energies have been defiled and twisted, for Queen Azshara and her Highborne will stop at nothing to commune with their newfound god: the fiery Lord of the Burning Legion...<em>Sargeras.</em></p><p>The night elf defenders, led by the young druid, Malfurion Stormrage, and the wizard, Krasus, fight a desperate battle to hold back the Legion's terrible onslaught. Though only embers of hope remain, an ancient power has risen to aid the world in its darkest hour. The dragons -- led by the powerful Aspect, <em>Neltharion</em> -- have forged a weapon of incalculable power: the Dragon Soul, an artifact capable of driving the Legion from the world forever. But its use may cost far more than any could have foreseen. </p><p>The second novel in an original trilogy of magic, warfare, and heroism based on the bestselling, award-winning electronic game series from Blizzard Entertainment.</p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Richard A. Knaak is the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of some three dozen novels, including the <em>The Sin War</em> trilogy for <em>Diablo</em> and the <em>Legend of Huma</em> for <em>Dragonlance</em>. He has penned the <em>War of the Ancients</em> trilogy, <em>Day of the Dragon</em> and its upcoming followup, <em>Night of the Dragon</em>. His other works include his own <em>Dragonrealm</em> series, the <em>Minotaur Wars</em> for <em>Dragonlance</em>, the <em>Aquilonia</em> trilogy of the Age of Conan, and the <em>Sunwell Trilogy</em> -- the first Warcraft manga. In addition, his novels and short stories have been published worldwide in such diverse places as China, Iceland, the Czech Republic, and Brazil.  </p><h3>Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.</h3><p><strong>Chapter One</strong></p><p>The voices whispered in his head as he moved through the huge cavern. Where once they were but an occasional occurrence, now they never ceased. Even in his sleep, he could not escape their presence...not that he wanted to do so anymore. The huge black dragon had heard them for so long that they were now a part of him, indistinguishable from his own twisted thoughts. </p><p><em>The night elves will destroy the world... </em></p><ul><li><p>The Well is out of control... *</p></li><li><p>No one can be trusted...they want your secrets, your power... *</p></li><li><p>Malygos would take what is yours... *</p></li><li><p>Alexstrasza seeks dominion over you... *</p></li><li><p>They are no better than the demons... *</p></li><li><p>They must be dealt with like the demons...*</p></li></ul><p>Over and over, the voices repeated such dire things, warning him of duplicity, betrayal. He could trust no one but himself. The others were tainted by the lesser races. They would see his decision as a danger, not the only hope for the world. </p><p>The dragon unleashed a puff of noxious smoke as he snorted at such treachery from those who had once been his comrades. Though he had the power to save everything, he had to be careful; if they discovered the truth too soon, it would mean calamity. </p><p><em>They must not know its secret until it is beyond their altering, he decided. It cannot be presented until the spell must be cast. I will not let them destroy my work!</em></p><p>Huge claws scraped fresh the rock floor of the cavern as the scaly behemoth entered his sanctum. As massive as the dragon was, the rounded cavern dwarfed him. A molten river flowed through the center. Massive crystal formations glittered in the walls. Huge stalactites hung like swords of doom from above, while stalagmites grew from the ground so sharp that they looked as if they waited for someone to be impaled upon them. </p><p>And, in fact, such was the case with one. </p><p>Teeth bared, the great black dragon peered down at the puny figure struggling to free himself despite the stony spike thrusting up through his heaving chest. The remains of a tattered, black and bloodred robe and fragments of ornate, golden armor hung around his oddly-shaped torso. High, goatlike horns thrust from his skull and the crimson visage resembled most to the dragon a long skull with a wide, fanged maw. The eyes were pits of darkness that immediately tried to suck the behemoth in, but they were no match for the will of the creature's captor. </p><p>In addition to being impaled, the horned figure was bound by thick, iron chains to the cavern floor. The chains had been set especially tight, pinning the demon to the stalagmite and keeping his limbs spread downward. </p><p>Constantly the captive's mouth moved as if he furiously shouted something, yet no sound emerged. That did not keep him from trying, however, especially when he saw the dark leviathan approach. </p><p>The dragon mulled over his prisoner for a moment, then blinked. </p><p>Immediately the cavern chamber filled with the venom-laced, rasping voice of the creature. " -- is Sargeras! Your blood will flow! Your skin he will wear for a cloak! Your flesh will feed his hounds! Your soul he will keep in a vial, ever to torment at his pleasure! He -- " </p><p>Blinking again, the dragon silenced once more his captive. Even still, the demonic figure continued mouthing threats and obscenities until, finally, the dark behemoth opened his huge jaws and exhaled, enveloping the prisoner in a searing plume of steam that left the latter shaking in renewed agony. </p><p>"You will learn respect. You are in the presence of my glorious self, I, Neltharion," the dragon rumbled. "I am the Earth Warder. You will treat me with the reverence which I deserve." </p><p>The demon's long, reptilian tail slapped at the rocks below. The mouth opened in what was obviously more silent blasphemies. </p><p>Neltharion shook his crested head. He had expected better from the Eredar. The warlocks were supposed to be among the commanders of the Burning Legion, demons not only skilled at casting spells but well-versed in battle tactics. The dragon had assumed that he would hear far more intelligent conversation from such a creature, but the Eredar might as well have been one of the brutish Infernals, the flaming, skull-headed behemoths who acted like fearsome battering rams or airborne missiles. The one he had tested before capturing the Eredar had only the wit of a rock, if even that much. </p><p>But then, Neltharion had not sent his flight out to pluck the demons from their rampaging horde for conversation. No, the captives had another purpose, a grand one that they, unfortunately, could never come to appreciate. </p><p>And the Eredar was the last, the most significant. His innate magical abilities made him the key to fulfilling the first part of the Earth Warder's quest. </p><p><em>It is time...</em>the voices whispered. <em>It is time...</em></p><p>"Yes..." Neltharion answered absently. "Time..." </p><p>The dragon raised one huge paw palm up and concentrated. Immediately a golden aura flared to life in his palm, growing so brilliant that even the captive demon paused in his tirades to stare at what Neltharion had summoned to him. </p><p>The tiny disk was as golden as the aura that had presaged its coming, but otherwise it was an astoundingly simple-looking piece. It would not have even quite filled the hand of a much smaller creature -- say a Night Elf, for instance. The disk resembled a large, featureless gold coin with rounded edges and a gleaming, untarnished shell. Its very unassuming appearance was all by Neltharion's design. If the talisman was to perform its task properly, it had to seem entirely innocent, harmless. </p><p>He held it toward the warlock, letting the Eredar see what awaited him. The demon, however, appeared quite unimpressed. He stared from the disk to the dragon, mockery filling his eyes. </p><p>Neltharion noted the reaction. It pleased him that the Eredar did not recognize the strength of the disk. That meant that others would also fail to realize the truth...until it was too late. </p><p>At the Earth Warder's silent command, the object rose gently from his palm. It floated above the paw for a moment, then drifted over to the captive. </p><p>For the first time, a hint of uncertainty colored the warlock's monstrous visage. As the disk descended, he renewed his futile struggles. </p><p>The golden talisman alighted on the demon's forehead. A brief flash of crimson light bathed the Eredar's face -- and then the disk sealed itself to his flesh. </p><p><em>Speak them...</em>urged the voices as one. <em>Say the words...seal the act...</em></p><p>From the savage, lipless maw of the dragon erupted words from a language whose origins lay not in the mortal world. Each one was tinged with an evil that made even the demon quiver. To the Earth Warder, though, they were the most wondrous sounds he had ever heard, perfect musical notes...the language of gods. </p><p>As Neltharion spoke them, the disk began to glow again. Its radiance filled the vast chamber, growing brighter and brighter with each syllable. </p><p>The light suddenly flared. </p><p>The Eredar warlock stretched his mouth as wide as it would go in a noiseless cry. His horrific eyes rained tears of blood and his tail slashed madly against the rocks. He tore at his bonds with such fervor that he scraped away the flesh from his wrists and ankles. But still the demon could not escape. </p><p>Then the Eredar's skin started to decay. It crumbled from his still-twisting body, his still-shrieking countenance. The demon's flesh became as if a thousand years dead, dropping from him in dry, ashy bits. </p><p>The eyes sank in. The tail shriveled. The warlock swiftly reduced to a cage of bone surrounding rapidly-putrefying entrails. Yet throughout the macabre ordeal, he continued to scream, for Neltharion and the disk had not so far permitted him the comfort of death. </p><p>But at last, even the bone gave way, collapsing inward and fragmenting. The jaw fell loose and the ribs rolled away with a clatter. With terrible efficiency, the power unleashed by the disk absorbed the demon's remains from the bottom up. The trail of dry dust spread fast from the feet to the legs to the torso until only the skull was left. </p><p>And only then did the Eredar grow still. </p><p>The sinister light ceased. The chains once holding the demon dangled empty. </p><p>Like a doting father reaching for a cherished offspring, the black dragon used two claws to gently lift the talisman from the skull. As Neltharion did this, the skull, too, turned to ash. The gray powder scattered over the ground. </p><p>He stared with admiration at what he had wrought. Neltharion could not even sense the extraordinary forces now residing in the disk, but he knew that they were there -- and when the time came, they would be his to command. </p><p>No sooner had he thought this than another presence touched his mind. The voices subsided abruptly, as if they feared discovery by this intruder. The Earth Warder himself immediately smothered his own desires. </p><p>Neltharion knew the touch well. Once he had believed it to come from a friend. Now the dark leviathan understood that he could trust her no more than he could the rest. </p><p><em>Neltharion...I must speak with you... </em></p><ul><li>What is your wish, dear Alexstrasza?* The Earth Warder could imagine her. A sleek, fire-colored dragon even slightly more imposing than himself. As he was the physical Aspect of the world's innate strength, so was she the Aspect of the Life that flourished in, on, and above it. </li></ul><p><em>There are dangerous forces again playing around the palace of the night elves' queen...we must come to some decision and soon... </em></p><ul><li><p>Fear not,<em> Neltharion replied soothingly. </em>What must be done will be done... *</p></li><li><p>I pray it will be so...how soon can you make the journey to the Chamber?*</p></li></ul><p>The Earth Warder imagined that other place in his mind, a mammoth cavern that made his own seem but the burrowing of a single worm. The Chamber of the Aspects, as the lesser dragons respectfully called it, was also perfectly round and smooth, as if at some point in the past -- before even the coming of the dragons -- someone had set some great sphere into motion, completely shaving away the r... </p></div>


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<div><p>In the mist-shrouded haze of the past, the world of Azeroth teemed with wondrous creatures of every kind. Mysterious Elves and hardy Dwarves walked among tribes of Man in relative peace and harmony -- until the arrival of the demonic army known as the Burning Legion shattered the world's tranquility forever. Now Orcs, Dragons, Goblins, and Trolls all vie for supremacy over the scattered, warring kingdoms -- part of a grand, malevolent scheme that will determine the fate of the world of </p><p><strong>WARCRAFT</strong></p><p>Slave. Gladiator. Shaman. Warchief. The enigmatic Orc known as Thrall has been all of these. Raised from infancy by cruel human masters who sought to mold him into their perfect pawn, Thrall was driven by both the savagery in his heart and the cunning of his upbringing to pursue a destiny he was only beginning to understand -- to break his bondage and rediscover the ancient traditions of his people. Now the tumultuous tale of his life's journey -- a saga of honor, hatred, and hope -- can at last be told....</p><h3>About the Author</h3><p><em>New York Times</em> bestselling and award-winning author <strong>Christie Golden</strong> has written more than thirty novels and several short stories in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Visit her website at: ChristieGolden.com. </p><h3>Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.</h3><p><strong>Chapter One</strong></p><p>Even the beasts were cold on a night such as this, mused Durotan. Absently he reached out to his wolf companion and scratched Sharptooth behind one of his white ears. The animal crooned appreciatively and snuggled closer. Wolf and orc chief stared together at the silent fall of white snow, framed by the rough oval that was the entrance to Durotan's cave. </p><p>Once, Durotan, chieftain of the Frostwolf clan, had known the kiss of balmier climes. Had swung his ax in the sunlight, narrowing small eyes against the gleam of sunshine on metal and against the spattering of red human blood. Once, he had felt a kinship with all of his people, not just those of his clan. Side by side they had stood, a green tide of death flooding over the hillsides to engulf the humans. They had feasted at the fires together, laughed their deep, booming laughs, told the stories of blood and conquest while their children drowsed by the dying embers, their little minds filled with images of slaughter. </p><p>But now the handful of orcs that comprised the Frostwolf clan shivered alone in their exile in the frigid Alterac Mountains of this alien world. Their only friends here were the huge white wolves. They were so different from the mammoth black wolves that Durotan's people had once ridden, but a wolf was a wolf, no matter the color of its fur, and determined patience combined with Drek'Thar's powers had won the beasts over to them. Now orc and wolf hunted together and kept one another warm during the interminable, snowy nights. </p><p>A soft, snuffling sound from the heart of the cave caused Durotan to turn. His harsh face, lined and held in perpetual tautness from years of worry and anger, softened at the noise. His little son, as yet unnamed until the ordained Naming Day of this cycle, had cried out as he was being fed. </p><p>Leaving Sharptooth to continue watching the snowfall, Durotan rose and lumbered back to the cave's inner chamber. Draka had bared a breast for the child to suckle upon, and had just removed the infant from his task. So that was why the child had whimpered. As Durotan watched, Draka extended a forefinger. With a black nail honed to razor sharpness, she pricked deep into the nipple before returning the infant's small head to her breast. Not a flicker of pain crossed her beautiful, strong-jawed face. Now, as the child fed, he would drink not only nourishing mother's milk, but his mother's blood as well. Such was appropriate food for a budding young warrior, the son of Durotan, the future chieftain of the Frostwolves. </p><p>His heart swelled with love for his mate, a warrior his equal in courage and cunning, and the lovely, perfect son they had borne. </p><p>It was then that the knowledge of what he had to do sank over him, like a blanket settling over his shoulders. He sat down and sighed deeply. </p><p>Draka glanced up at him, her brown eyes narrowing. She knew him all too well. He did not want to tell her of his sudden decision, although he knew in his heart it was the right one. But he must. </p><p>"We have a child now," Durotan said, his deep voice booming from his broad chest. </p><p>"Yes," replied Draka, pride in her voice. "A fine, strong son, who will lead the Frostwolf clan after his father dies nobly in battle. Many years from now," she added. </p><p>"I have a responsibility for his future," Durotan continued. </p><p>Draka's attention was now on him fully. He thought her exquisitely beautiful at this moment, and tried to brand the image of her in his mind. The firelight played against her green skin, casting her powerful muscles into sharp relief and making her tusks gleam. She did not interrupt, merely waited for him to continue. </p><p>"Had I not spoken against Gul'dan, our son would have more playmates with which to grow up," Durotan continued. "Had I not spoken against Gul'dan, we would have continued to be valued members of the Horde." </p><p>Draka hissed, opening her massive jaws and baring her fangs in displeasure at her mate. "You would not have been the mate I joined with," she boomed. The infant, startled, jerked his head away from the nourishing breast to look up at his mother's face. White milk and red blood dripped down his already jutting chin. "Durotan of the Frostwolf clan would not sit by and meekly let our people be led to their deaths like the sheep the humans tend. With what you had learned, you had to speak out, my mate. You could have done no less and still be the chieftain you are." </p><p>Durotan nodded at the truth of her words. "To know that Gul'dan had no love for our people, that it was nothing more than a way for him to increase his power...." </p><p>He fell silent, recalling the shock and horror -- and rage -- that had engulfed him when he had learned of the Shadow Council and Gul'dan's duplicity. He had tried to convince the others of the danger facing them all. They had been used, like pawns, to destroy the Draenei, a race that Durotan was beginning to think had not required extinction after all. And again, shuttled through the Dark Portal onto an unsuspecting world -- not the orcs' decision, no, but that of the Shadow Council. All for Gul'dan, all for Gul'dan's personal power. How many orcs had fallen, fighting for something so empty? </p><p>He searched for the words to express his decision to his mate. "I spoke, and we were exiled. All who followed me were. It is a great dishonor." </p><p>"Only Gul'dan's dishonor," said Draka fiercely. The infant had gotten over his temporary fright and was again nursing. "Your people are alive, and free, Durotan. It is a harsh place, but we have found the frost wolves to be our companions. We have plenty of fresh meat, even in the depths of winter. We have kept the old ways alive, as much as we can, and the stories around the fire are part of our children's heritage." </p><p>"They deserve more," said Durotan. He gestured with a sharp-nailed finger at his suckling son. "He deserves more. Our still-deluded brothers deserve more. And I will give it to them." </p><p>He rose and straightened to his full imposing height. His huge shadow fell over the forms of his wife and child. Her crestfallen expression told him that Draka knew what he was going to say before he spoke, but the words needed utterance. It was what made them solid, real...made them an oath not to be broken. </p><p>"There were some who heeded me, though they still doubted. I will return and find those few chieftains. I will convince them of the truth of my story, and they will rally their people. We shall no longer be slaves of Gul'dan, easily lost and not thought of when we die in battles that serve only him. This I swear, I, Durotan, chieftain of the Frostwolf clan!" </p><p>He threw back his head, opened his toothy mouth almost impossibly wide, rolled his eyes back, and uttered a loud, deep, furious cry. The baby began to squall and even Draka flinched. It was the Oath Cry, and he knew that despite the deep snow that often deadened sound, everyone in his clan would hear it this night. In moments, they would cluster around his cave, demanding to know the content of the Oath Cry, and making cries of their own. </p><p>"You shall not go alone, my mate," said Draka, her soft voice a sharp contrast to the ear-splitting sound of Durotan's Oath Cry. "We shall come with you." </p><p>"I forbid it." </p><p>And with a suddenness that startled even Durotan, who ought to have known better, Draka sprang to her feet. The crying baby tumbled from her lap as she clenched her fists and raised them, shaking them violently. A heartbeat later Durotan blinked as pain shot through him and blood dripped down his face. She had bounded the length of the cave and slashed his cheek with her nails. </p><p>"I am Draka, daughter of Kelkar, son of Rhakish. No one forbids me to follow my mate, not even Durotan himself! I come with you, I stand by you, I shall die if need be. Pagh!" She spat at him. </p><p>As he wiped the mixture of spittle and blood from his face, his heart swelled with love for this female. He had been right to choose her as his mate, to be the mother of his sons. Was there ever a more fortunate male in all of orc history? He did not think so.</p><p>Despite the fact that, if word reached Gul'dan, Orgrim Doomhammer and his clan would be exiled, the great Warchief made Durotan and his family welcome in his field camp. The wolf, however, he eyed with suspicion. The wolf eyed him back in the same manner. The rough tent that served Doomhammer for shelter was emptied of lesser orcs, and Durotan, Draka, and their yet-unnamed child were ushered in. </p><p>The night was a bit cool to Doomhammer, and he watched with wry amusement as his honored guests divested themselves of most of their clothing and muttered about the heat. Frostwolves, he mused, must be unused to such "warm weather." </p><p>Outside, his personal guards kept watch. With the flap that served as a door still open, Doomhammer watched them huddle around the fire, extending enormous green hands to the dancing flames. The night was dark, save for the small lights of the stars. Durotan had picked a good night for his clandestine visit. It was unlikely that the small party of male, female, and child had been spotted and identified for who they really were. </p><p>"I regret that I place you and your clan in jeopardy," were the first words Durotan spoke. </p><p>Doomhammer waved the comment aside. "If Death is to come for us, it will find us behaving with honor." He invited them to sit and with his own hands handed his old friend the dripping haunch of a fresh kill. It was still warm. Durotan nodded his acceptance, bit into the juicy flesh, and tore off a huge chunk. Draka did likewise, and then extended her bloody fingers to her baby. The child eagerly sucked the sweet liquid. </p><p>"A fine, strong boy," said Doomhammer. </p><p>Durotan nodded. 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<div><p>The aging orc shaman Ner'zhul has seized control of the Horde and reopened the Dark Portal. His brutal warriors once again encroach upon Azeroth, laying siege to the newly constructed stronghold of Nethergarde Keep. There, the archmage Khadgar and the Alliance commander, Turalyon, lead humanity and its elven and dwarven allies in fighting this new invasion. </p><p>Even so, disturbing questions arise. Khadgar learns of orcish incursions farther abroad: small groups of orcs who seem to pursue a goal other than simple conquest. Worse yet, black dragons have been sighted as well, and they appear to be aiding the orcs. To counter Ner'zhul's dark schemes, the Alliance must now invade the orcs' ruined homeworld of Draenor. Can Khadgar and his companions stop the nefarious shaman in time to stave off the destruction of two worlds?</p><h3>Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.</h3><p><strong> PROLOGUE </strong></p><p>Throw down!" </p><p>"Shut up!" </p><p>"Throw <em>down</em>, damn you!" </p><p>"Fine!" Gratar growled, half-rising, his powerful shoulder muscles bunching. One arm whipped forward and down, fist descending in a blur -- and his fingers opened, the small bone cubes spilling from them to clatter upon the ground. </p><p>"Hah!" Brodog laughed, tusks jutting up as his lips pulled back in a grin. "Only one!" </p><p>"Damn!" Gratar sank back down onto his stone, sulking as he watched Brodog again gather the cubes and shake them vigorously. He didn't know why he kept throwing against Brodog -- the other orc practically always won. It was almost unnatural. </p><p><em>Unnatural</em>. A word that had nearly stopped having any meaning for Gratar. He glanced up at the stark red sky that filled the horizon, the sun a burning globe of the same shade. The world had not always been thus. Gratar was old enough to remember blue skies, a warm yellow sun, and thick green fields and valleys. He'd swum in deep, cool lakes and rivers, blissfully ignorant of how precious a thing water would one day become. One of the most basic needs of life, uncontaminated water was now brought in in casks and stingily parceled out. </p><p>Rising, Gratar kicked idly at the ground before him, watching the red dust puff upward, parching his mouth, and he reached for the waterskin and drank sparingly. The dust covered his skin, dulling the green hue, lightening his black hair. Red everywhere, as if the world had been drenched in blood. </p><p>Unnatural. </p><p>But the most unnatural thing of all was the reason he and Brodog were stationed here, whiling away the dusk-clogged day with idle games of chance. Gratar looked past Brodog at the towering archway just beyond them and the shimmering curtain of energy that filled it. The Dark Portal. Gratar knew that the strange mystic doorway led to another world, though he had not passed through it himself -- none of his clan had. But he had watched as proud Horde warriors had entered the portal to win glory over the humans and their allies. Since then, a few orcs had returned to report the Horde's progress. But lately there had been nothing. No word, no scouts; nothing. </p><p>Gratar frowned, ignoring the clattering sound of Brodog's tossing of the bones. Something about the portal seemed...different. Gratar stepped closer to the towering gateway, the hairs along his arms and chest tingling as he approached. </p><p>"Gratar? It's your turn. What are you doing?" </p><p>Gratar ignored Brodog. Squinting, he stared at the rippling veil of energy. What was going on beyond it, on that strange other world? </p><p>As he watched the curtain's undulating shimmer grew and became more translucent, allowing Gratar to see through it as if through murky water. He squinted his eyes, peered intently -- and gasped, staggering back. </p><p>Playing out before his eyes, as if he were watching a ritual enactment, was a fierce and violent battle. </p><p>"What?" Brodog was beside him in an instant, the game forgotten, and then he was gaping as well. They both stared for a second before Gratar regained his wits. </p><p>"Go!" he shouted at Brodog. "Tell them what's happening!" </p><p>"Right -- the commander." Brodog's eyes were still glued to the scene before them. </p><p>"No," Gratar replied sharply. He had a gut feeling that what was about to happen would be more than his commander was prepared to handle. But one orc he knew might be. "Ner'zhul. Get Ner'zhul -- he'll know what to do!" </p><p>Brodog nodded and took off at a run, though not without glancing back a few times. Gratar heard him leave, but still his gaze was riveted to the battle that was so violent but so oddly veiled. He could see orcs, some of whom he thought he recognized, but they were fighting strange figures, shorter and more narrowly built but more heavily armored. The strangers -- they were called "humans," Gratar remembered -- were quick and as numerous as gnats, swarming over the beleaguered orcs and overpowering them one by one. How could his people be suffering such a defeat? Where was Doomhammer? Gratar saw no sign of the massive, powerful warchief. What had happened on that other world? </p><p>He was still watching, sickly enraptured, when he heard the sound of approaching feet. He tore his gaze away to see that Brodog had returned with two others. One was a massive figure, larger by far than any orc and much stronger, with pale milky skin and heavy features. An ogre, and a mage, by the cunning Gratar saw glinting in his small, piggy eyes. More important than this towering figure was the orc who accompanied him, pushing his way forward right up to the portal itself. </p><p>Though his hair was gray and his face heavily lined, Ner'zhul, chieftain of the Shadowmoon clan and once the most skilled shaman the orcs had ever known, was still powerfully built and his brown eyes were as sharp as ever. He stared at the portal and the vaguely glimpsed disaster unfolding behind its </p><p>shimmer. </p><p>"A battle, then," Ner'zhul said as if to himself. </p><p><em>And one the Horde is losing</em>, Gratar thought. </p><p>"How long has -- " Ner'zhul began. Suddenly the space framed by the Dark Portal shifted, its energies swirling violently. A hand thrust from the curtain as if it were rising from water, gleams of light and shadow clinging to green skin as it breached the barrier. A head followed, then the torso, and then the orc was through. His war axe was still in his hand but his eyes were wild as he stumbled, then caught himself, racing past Ner'zhul and the others without even looking. </p><p>Behind him came another orc, then another and another and another, until there was a flood of them, all racing to pass through the portal as fast as their feet would carry them. And not just orcs -- Gratar saw several ogres emerge, and a group of smaller, slighter figures with heavy hooded cloaks bridged the gap as well. One warrior caught Gratar's attention. Too tall and bulky to be a full orc, his features brutish enough to have some ogre blood in him, this one did not run with the air of panic the others did, but with purpose, as if he was running to something rather than from it. At his heels loped a massive jet-black wolf. </p><p>An orc shoved past this warrior as they stepped from the portal, snarling at the obstruction. "Out of the way, half-breed!" the orc snapped, but the warrior merely shook his head, refusing to be baited at such a time. The wolf, however, snarled at the orc before the warrior silenced it with a sharp hand gesture. The wolf fell silent, utterly obedient, and the warrior dropped a huge hand on the black head with affection. </p><p>"What has happened here?" Ner'zhul demanded loudly. "You!" The shaman pointed toward one of the unfamiliar creatures. "What manner of orc are you? Why cover your face so? Come here!" </p><p>The figure paused, then suddenly shrugged and stepped closer to Ner'zhul. "As you wish," he said in a cold voice that had a slightly mocking tone to it. Despite the heat of the land's baked, lifeless soil, Gratar shivered. </p><p>A mailed hand slid the hood back, and Gratar could not help crying out in horror. Perhaps the being's features had once been fine and regular, but no longer. The skin was a pale grayish green, and had burst open at the juncture where ear met jaw. A thin trickle of ooze glimmered. Swollen, cracked, purple lips drew back in a smile as the eyes glowed with malevolent humor and a fierce intelligence. </p><p>The thing was obviously dead. </p><p>Even Ner'zhul shrank back, though he rallied quickly. "Who -- what are you?" Ner'zhul demanded in a voice that shook only a little. "And what do you want here?" </p><p>"Don't you recognize me? I am Teron Gorefiend," the figure replied, chuckling at the shaman's obvious discomfiture. </p><p>"Impossible! He is dead and gone, slaughtered by Doomhammer along with the rest of the Shadow Council!" </p><p>"Dead I am indeed," the creature agreed, "but not gone. Your old apprentice Gul'dan found a way to bring us back, and into these rotting carcasses." He shrugged, and Gratar could hear the lifeless flesh creak in slight protest. "It suffices." </p><p>"Gul'dan?" The old shaman seemed more shocked by that revelation than by the sight of the walking corpse in front of him. "Your master still lives? Then you should return to him. You forsook me and the shaman tradition to follow his lead and become a warlock when you lived, abomination. Serve him now that you are dead." </p><p>But Gorefiend was shaking his head. "Gul'dan is dead. And good riddance. He betrayed us, halving the Horde at a crucial moment and forcing Doomhammer to pursue him instead of conquering a human city. That treachery cost us the war." </p><p>"We...have <em>lost</em>?" Ner'zhul stammered. "But...how is that possible? The Horde covered the very plains, and Doomhammer would not go down without a fight!" </p><p>"Oh, he fought," Gorefiend agreed. "Yet all his might was not enough. He killed the humans' leader but was overpowered in turn." </p><p>Ner'zhul seemed stunned, turning to look at the panting, bloodied orcs and ogres who had rushed through the gates moments earlier. He took a deep breath and straightened, turning to the ogre who had accompanied him. "Dentarg -- summon the other chieftains. Tell them to gather here at once, bringing only weapons and armor. We -- " </p><p>The wave washed out of the portal with no warning, a massive energy burst that slammed all of them to the ground. Gratar gasped for breath, the wind knocked out of him. He stumbled to his feet, only to be greeted by a second explosion, more violent than the first. This time hunks of stone had been snatched up by the energy that powered the portal and came flying past them, chips and slabs and slivers and sheets. The curtain wavered, becoming opaque. </p><p>"No!" Ner'zhul raced toward the portal. He was still several feet away when the shimmering curtain of light flickered, contracted, froze -- and then exploded. Stones and dust erupted from the archway. Ner'zhul was tossed into the air like an old bone, and struck the earth hard. 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Can I Beat Up My Problems Again?!

After dying in a traffic accident, I reincarnated in an otome game world as the villainess Alexandra. Now, I’m engaged to Crown Prince Embert, who absolutely showers me with love and affection. But things take a weird turn when I fall under a curse and turn into a fennec fox while exploring a neighboring kingdom’s famous dungeon! What the heck?! While I struggle to survive in this furry form, Embert continues smothering me with even more affection. Then things get even crazier when I learn about a plot to assassinate the neighboring kingdom’s first prince! Are you kidding me?!


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The tutorial is over, it’s time for the secretary to put down her pen and pick up her bow!

With Elias recovering from the Moon Goddess’s powers, it’s up to Aki to overcome her powers to save him, their relationship, and the entire Port City under siege by monsters. And if Elias doesn’t get his head in the game soon, Leo just might swoop in and save the day instead!


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The Most Relaxing & Enviable Slow Life!

Margaret has been enjoying a fulfilling countryside life since she was summoned to a fantasy world as a Spirit Caller. An urgent letter requesting her presence in the capital shakes up her peaceful days making jam with her friends. It seems some issues have cropped up with the book she was writing about Japanese folktales. She makes haste to the capital, but runs into all sorts of trouble involving the Magic Academy and the Spirit! But even when things are chaotic, one should never forget to stop and enjoy good food. Margaret will enjoy life to its fullest at her own pace no matter what!


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<p>Lina has lost her magic! In an attempt to restore it, she travels to a village where Ruby Eye Shabragnidu, the demon lord, is said to live. There, a mysterious priest sells Lina a magic talisman...but will it be enough to restore power to our favorite flat-chested sorceress? Let's hope soâ€"next up, the group must venture to Mane, where Zelgadiss has but one wish: to get his body back! With magical beasts, the Sword of Light, and one of the biggest and baddest demons, this flavor-filled volume of Slayers is one delicious dish!</p>


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When Respect Transforms into Love!

Using her courage and business savvy as weapons, Bertine earns more for the Federation than the reparations owed in her role discovering and marketing the country’s specialty products. The scarlet fabric, fruit jams and marmalades, spices, boats, and even a hotel… She shapes her ideas into reality one after another, ever expanding her businesses. The way she lives her life inspires and moves Cecilio deeply. But the general isn’t the only one affected as Bertine’s influence inadvertently spreads to the Empire’s second prince and even his uncle. All of which leads to political upheaval in the Kingdom of San Luenne, which scorned Bertine’s very existence. Thus the adventurous tale of a young lady who awakened to her potential in a new land reaches its rousing conclusion!


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<p>After receiving the message, "Come to Vezendi, or someone will die," Lina and the gang set off for Vezendi. And it's no easy trip--everywhere they go, a trap is awaiting them. Who could be behind the chaos? It's Lina's old "friend" Zuuma, who will stop at nothing to enact his revenge on Lina and Gourry. When the group finally decides to finish off Zuuma once and for all, will their efforts be enough? The manga that sparked the anime-manga phenomenon comes to a rousing finale!</p>


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<div><p><em>Basis for the anime-manga phenomenon </em>Lord of the Rings epic fantasy as seen through a wacky Otaku lens <em>Slayers has entertained fans in the U.S. for more than 10 years </em>Part of TOKYOPOP's exciting new novel line </p><p>The whole world is after our favorite small-chested sorceress, Lina Inverse, when she learns that a bounty has been put on her head! The real surprise comes when she discovers that it was none other than Rezo, the Red Priest, who placed the price on her head! Lina, Gourry and Zelgadis battle it out with the Red Priest that they thought they had defeated two months earlier. Is this Rezo the real deal?</p></div>


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Magical Cooking VS. A Spoiled Princess!

Mell and the Second Expeditionary Squadron are ordered to accompany Henrietta, the seventh-born princess, on her journey to a nearby country. While expeditionary squadrons are rarely assigned to escort missions, this request came straight from the king himself! But this princess is none other than the culprit who originally abandoned Amelia, the griffin, on a southern island. The Second Expeditionary Squadron take to their mission with mixed emotions in their hearts. Liselotte, the lover of mythical beasts, appears particularly enraged…


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Would you pay in blood to have access to the witch’s knowledge?

Rumors about Yuuri Watoh being a witch who feeds upon the misfortune of others have kept customers away from her Eastern Medicine Shop as long as she can remember—until he showed up.

Intrigued by the rumors, Count Ernest Travis Selden, close attendant to the Hylant king and a notorious eccentric, seeks the Hinomoto witch’s specialized knowledge to solve a royal incident. But borrowing the witch’s aid comes at a steep price—one that can’t be paid in gold or jewels.

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Cats Are Better Than Harems!

I’ve been reincarnated into the world of an otome game, and… What? My mom did, too? Even my dad and my older brother?

Meet Amy, the daughter of the Earl of Northland. Her entire family has been reincarnated as the aristocratic Northland family. In an attempt to amicably remove herself as a candidate for the Third Prince’s fiancée (which would certainly cement her position as the game’s villainess), Amy has taken drastic measures—eating tons of food and just enjoying life (at her mother’s suggestion).

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Eat Or Die!

The first prince of the kingdom of Farune, Mars, is only twelve years old, yet he lives in fear of assassination. In order to avoid the deadly poison in nearly all of his meals, he slips out of the castle into the nearby monster-infested forest, where, battling monsters and his own hunger, he has to hunt for his meals in order to stave off starvation. Then, one night, as he’s searching for his next bite of monster meat, a red-haired woman shouldering a greatsword appears before him and says to him, “You have promise. Become my apprentice.” How is he supposed to tell her that this must be some sort of mistake? But there’s a secret that only she knows, and that he’s stumbled upon: eating monsters makes you stronger! With her training and his newfound power, Mars will finally overcome all those pesky assassination attempts. However, that doesn’t end things; no, it’s only the beginning of a nationwide—even continent-spanning—series of wars and plots with him right in the middle!


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Dragon Family & Human Politics!

With the attack on Mount Kugus taken care of, Lushera and Kaphal take a step forward as mother and daughter. Right after they do, Kaphal’s father makes an appearance and puts Lushera to the test to determine if she is truly worthy of joining the bottom ranks of the dragon race! Before the test begins, Lushera saves a golden-haired girl named Monica from an attacking golem, unaware that Monica is an unwanted child of Setrayu. Unable to abandon Monica, Lushera finds herself dragged into a plot that will shake the very foundations of Setrayu. Here starts the second installment of the story following an interspecies mother and daughter caught in a tangled web of cause and effect!


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Undercover Love Uncovered!

Cesia has been ordered to go undercover to investigate the suspicious princess of a neighboring country, Juliette. Disguised as the princess’s maid, she has to carry out all sorts of unreasonable requests while simultaneously dealing with the pain of knowing that Juliette is Marcus’s fiancée. As she shuts away her love for Marcus and performs her duties, one day, she falls for Juliette’s trap and is almost driven out of the kingdom. Nobody believes her, and she goes into hiding—until, that is, Marcus appears.

She wants him to protect her, but she also wants to be strong enough to help him. More than anything, she wants to be with him on equal terms. But in the end, will she be able to crawl her way up from being a fugitive from the law all the way to Marcus’s side?


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“We demanded reparations, not a bride.”

Pressed into marrying a general of the enemy nation, she would find only her future husband’s rejection and a cold reception in her new homeland…

As the daughter of a powerful marquess in a small, prosperous nation, Bertine was raised with all the privileges and expectations befitting her station. Yet not long before her wedding day, the king orders her to marry Cecilio instead, a representative of the nation victorious against her own. For she was part of the war reparations. Resigned to her fate, despair in her heart, she crosses the ocean, bound for her new home.

But all that awaited her was Cecilio’s absence and his servants’ humiliating treatment of her. “I can’t rely on my parents or my status. So I shall gain the strength to survive here through my own efforts.” Alone and armed only with her resolve, Bertine flees the estate and begins to carve a path that will allow her to live in enemy territory…

A young lady possessed of a hidden talent for business. A general known as “The Battle-Crazed Savage.” And their love story, predicated by a misunderstanding and a negotiation starts here!


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Oh, crud, I just realized that I’ve been reincarnated into my favorite manga as the first boss defeated by the heroine at the start of the story!

Worst yet, it turns out my fiancé is the strongest of the Four Grand Magi and the very villain who slanders my character as a disgrace on her deathbed! I’m outta here!

This is the story of the weakest manga villainess who seeks out the slow life instead of the villain life.


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This is a true story of love for the internet generation - the international bestseller that sold over a million copies. This wonderfully unique book from Japan derives from a series of postings over a three-month period to a particularly computer-geeky thread of 2 Channel, the world's largest anonymous Message Board. The events all took place in Tokyo. One day a shy otaku computer geek mentioned on the message forum how he had met a girl on a subway train. As things developed he continued to post updates to the message board. He gained the nickname 'Train Man'. With each update from bashful Train Man, his fellow correspondents throw in own colourful speculations, boyish encouragements, tongue-in-cheek warnings, and fabulously inventive ascii text drawings. Train Man tries to take on board their comments as events unfold. Eventually he finds love with the girl, Hermes, and reveals to her the entire history of the thread. The true identity of Train Man remains a closely guarded secret.


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The Way Of The Dragon Is The Way To Become Strong!

XXXX, a man used and abused for general tasks by his adventuring party, finds himself on the verge of death in dragon territory in the Kugus Mountains after a party member stabs him in the back. Literally. Next time he opens his eyes, he’s in the nest of a red dragon named Kaphal whose egg was destroyed in a natural disaster. Having lost both his memories and his name, he turns instead into a young girl named Lushera. And apparently Kaphal plans to raise Lushera as her own daughter…? This is the story of the odd fate binding one dragon and one human, the story of an unconventional mother and daughter.


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A New Abode In The Woods—Legendary Hero Included!

Mell is setting out on a new chapter of her life by moving into a renovated house with Zara, Charlotte, and their furry friends. Meanwhile, the Second Expeditionary Squadron is as busy as ever. There’s no shortage of activity between Sly’s birthday party for Garr, a (real) bandit eradication, and even the arrival of a legendary hero. But what will happen now that they’ve been tasked with protecting a black griffin?!


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High Society Is Rough For Assassins!

Enter Lady Selena, the former assassin who assumed it’d be easy to step into the role of pampered mademoiselle, but who finds herself aggravated by how differently she views things compared to her flower-brained mother and her scheming, deceitful (yet utterly ineffective) stepsister. She navigates tea parties filled with ladies attempting to assert their dominance, attends an academy thick with ulterior motives, and dodges harassment flung at her with an icy glare and fierce counters, but it’s that stone-cold heart of hers that leaves her isolated and alone.

One day, she learns her stepsister has become engaged to the second prince, a fact that forces her to run away from home. She doesn’t get far before bumping into someone, however, and that someone just happens to be the first prince.

Come watch as the cold-blooded former assassin who’s never known love dives fearlessly into noble society!


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Everyone Knows Humans Get Transported to Other Worlds, But Now Dogs Do Too?!

Takumi is a wage slave who works overtime all the time. Only his little Maltese, Leo, can brighten his day. One day, however, he wakes up to find himself deep in an unknown forest. At his side is his pampered pup…who’s now a giant mythical wolf! With his silver fenrir companion and his mysterious new “Herb Cultivation” power, he’ll finally have the laid-back life he’s always dreamed of!

Join Takumi and his giant fluffy hound in a carefree romp through this otherworld fantasy tale!


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<p>It's not about the destination...</p>
<p>A runaway princess, a zombie nation, a divine cat, and lots and lots of bread. These are just a few of the many highlights that color the travels of our young witch. Each place she visits is a new story waiting to be told, rife with encounters that are anything but typical and rarely ending the way anyone expects. Such is the magic of wandering, you see. You never know quite where you'll end up. A tale can take a turn at any moment and become something else entirely...</p></div>


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<p>Guided by Xelloss, an agent of the Greater Beast Zelas Metalium, Lina Inverse and her crew make their way to the heart of Dilse Kingdom--a country with many hidden mysteries--including the Claire Bible. While it seems fate has deemed that Xelloss take Lina to those manuscripts, she's not sure what his real plan is...but she really wants that Claire Bible, so she'll do whatever it takes!</p>


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The 10th novel in the Haruhi Suzumiya series, a Japanese series that has become an international phenomenon.


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Do You Have What It Takes To Slay A God?

The story begins on Kamiki Island off the coast of Hiroshima Prefecture. Yaeka Kamiki, the only high school student on the island, is a shrine maiden of Kamiki Shirahige Shrine. She serves the god Itsukigami, a deity who drifted to the shores of Kamiki Island from across the sea long ago. However, when freelance monk Ryouji Karino takes a fishing trip to the island on the day of the equinox, a colossal wave suddenly takes him captive and washes him away. As a government-appointed onmyoji, Misato Miyazawa steps up to find his missing friend—and senses the most peculiar, overwhelming presence coming from the sea itself…


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Magic Lessons, Gourmet Food, & Artificial Slime?!

Despite a lifetime of being told she had no magical energy, Mell has come to learn that she actually possesses great magic powers of her own! Unnerved by the revelation, Mell decides to take up the study of magic. But what will she do when her prospective teacher turns out to be someone she has a serious history with?! Between retrieving an artificial slime from a factory and a knight-organized charity bazaar, Mell and the Second Expeditionary Squadron are as busy as ever!


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<p>Osamu Dazai is one of the most famous&#8212;and infamous&#8212;writers of 20th-century Japan. A Shameful Life (Ningen shikkaku) is his final published work and has become a bestselling classic for its depiction of the tortured struggle of a young man to survive in a world that he cannot comprehend. Paralleling the life and death of Dazai himself, the delicate weaving of fact and fiction remorselessly documents via journals the life of Yozo, a university student who spends his time in increasing isolation and debauchery. His doomed love affairs, suicide attempts, and constant fear of revealing his true self haunt the pages of the book and reveal a slow descent into madness. This dark tale nevertheless conveys something authentic about the human heart and its inability to find its true bearing.</p>


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<div><p><strong>The poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas.</strong></p><p>Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's <em>No Longer Human</em> narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a "clown" to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness.</p></div>


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<p>The year is 2030. Advances in robotics and cyberbrain technology have transformed the world into a miraculous place where almost anything is possible - even the melding of humans and machines. In this not-too-distant future, the crimes of flesh and metal are investigated by Section 9, an elite counterterrorist squad headed by Chief Aramaki and his cyborg sidekick, Major Motoko Kusanagi. When dead bodies, drained of blood and with two bite marks on their necks, start turning up on the streets of Tokyo, it isn't long before the entire city is in a panic. As Major Kusanagi and the other members of Section 9 investigate the killings they begin to wonder - is the killer a real vampire or something much worse? In a dark world of murder, where cyberbrain hacks and treacherous conspiracies reach to the furthest heights of government, Section 9 is all that stands between the people and anarchy.</p></div>


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<p>Usato gets his ﬁrst taste of battle after surviving the hellish training of the rescue team! Making the most of his newfound abilites, Usato aids the injured and heals the wounded, but danger lies just around the corner for his friends, Suzune and Kazuki! The two heroes ﬁnd themselves face to face with the Demon Lord army's black knight, a foe equipped with a terrifying, ominous suit of dark armor that's seemingly impenetrable to any and all attacks. When their efforts amount to nothing, Suzune and Kazuki are left with their backs against the wall—the black knight's blade getting ever closer. To save his friends, Usato will have to make healing magic his weapon and use it the "wrong" way to topple this ostensibly invincible foe.


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<p>FROM JAPAN’S MASTER OF HORROR, HIDEYUKI KIKUCHI, COMES A TERRIFYING, ACTION-PACKED VAMPIRE THRILLER. </p>
<p>Japan, 1880. Seventeen-year-old Daigo possesses a wicked talent for the sword. Though many have come to challenge him, none has triumphed. But one moonless night, a stranger arrives in Daigo’s quiet village, bearing the key to a mystery that haunts Daigo’s family–a tale too incredible to be believed, the proof too compelling to be doubted. </p>
<p>Count Dracula cannot change who he is, or what he craves, or how many souls he must steal to slake his undying thirst. An entire country is about to fall prey to the count’s bloodlust–and no one’s at greater risk than those closest to Daigo, especially the beautiful, love-struck Chizuru. Only Daigo can save his community from this demon of the night. But Daigo has never faced a more formidable opponent. He’s never confronted a vampire’s speed, a vampire’s strength, and, perhaps most dangerous of all, a vampire’s seduction. . . .</p></div>


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<p>Usato, an ordinary high schooler, happens to run into two fellow students after school one rainy day. Suddenly, all three of them are engulfed in a magic circle and transported to a fantasy world. There's just one tiny problem—Usato is simply dragged along by accident! On top of that, Usato learns that he is capable of using healing magic—an incredibly rare affinity in this new world. Now Usato must spend his days with the rescue team thugs, struggling through their hellish training regimen—learning the wrong way to use healing magic. Get ready for an eccentric otherworld fantasy filled with comedy and combat!


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A Dog And Her Human’s Otherworldly Adventures!

After helping the Libert’s store in Ractos sell his herbs, Takumi and Leo visit an orphanage run by the duke’s family. But what they find is an institution full of sick children. Takumi quickly gets to work using his cultivation Gift to heal them, with surprising consequences.

“Please, sir, teach me about medicine!”

Takumi is confronted with his first apprentice-hopeful as an apothecary!


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“I’ll never love you.”

Unused to humans, Abigail panics when her new husband declares that he’ll never love her on the first night of their political marriage. Does that mean she’s not allowed to eat?!

A new twist on the food-based romance tale, starring an earl’s daughter who was the Monster King in her previous life! After years of neglect by her old family, Abigail will charm her sincere military husband and his household one bite at a time and find her happy ending!


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Love Comes In Many Disguises!

Cesia, a mere servant, is attending the Royal Academy in place of the lazy, pampered daughter of the viscount she works for, all for a massive monetary reward upon her successful graduation that would allow her to live the rest of her life without any worries. She spends her days avoiding the feeble bullying of the ladies of the Academy while being worked to the bone at the viscount’s mansion—until just before graduation, when she gets tricked and her pay completely vanishes! Furious, she vows to get even, no matter what it takes, when out of nowhere, the second prince shows up and offers to help her? A spunky heroine with determined resistance as her motto and a mischievous prince who puts his life on the line for his country meet in this love story where anything could happen!


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Meeting New Fluffy Friends Abroad!

Nefertima has been appointed as an envoy to the Linus Empire to assist in their endeavor to replicate Project Shiana. While there, she has one exciting experience after another: being introduced to high society, attending social gatherings with the daughters of the nobility, meeting new playmates her own age, and making friends with a whole host of new holy beasts. It’s a strange new environment, and she’s constantly busy, but her energetic personality and passionate love for animals will carry her through! In addition to the usual dragons, kobolds, sirens, and slimes (oh my!), this time, nine-tailed foxes and blue pegasi are also joining the party?! It’s an all-star lineup of cuddly critters!


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Even The Slow Life Gets Busy!

Takumi and Leo are just starting to get used to life in their new world, when Claire’s father, Duke Eckenhart, pays a surprise visit to the Libert family’s country estate!

“Allow me to teach you the way of the sword!”

In a world rife with monsters, a little self-defense can go a long way. And so, Takumi takes up sword lessons—from the duke himself!


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<p class="description">In this book, Lina Inverse doesn't like to brag but she's a genius sorceress, invincible warrior and a legend in her own lunchtime. She's a strikingly gorgeous woman who would give most supermodels a run for their money. Don't hate her because she's beautiful - Lina's also in need of cold hard cash. When she stumbles upon some loot stashed away by a group of bandits, she figures they won't mind sharing. But when the booty's owners go ballistic (it seems she took a bit more than her share of the spoils), a secret hidden in the treasure holds the key to the ensuing hilarity in this fantasy novel.</p>


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A Slow Life Where There’s Always Someone To Welcome You Home!

Together, Takumi and Leo were successful in warding off the Orc attack on the village of Lange. A fake merchant they find there finally tells them what they need to know—the Yugard store in Ractos is selling diluted medicine to people. Takumi and company are outraged at the dark truths that come to light.

“All preparations have been made, milady.”

“We’re finally ready to take on the Yugard store now.”

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Delectable survival cooking from the down-on-her-luck elf!

Despite being born as a Fore Elf—one of the “beautiful creatures that inhabit the forest”—young Mell Risurisu suffers from poverty, a total lack of skills, and no magic powers whatsoever at her disposal. Determined to save her beloved little sisters from a life of hardship, Mell decides to join Enoch—the royal order of knights. Upon being assigned as a field medic to the Second Expeditionary Squadron, which boasts only four members to its name, she’s shocked to discover…

Bread as hard as stone and rubbery jerky made of mystery meat?!

This simply won’t do! Medic Risurisu’s knowledge as a child of the forest is her greatest weapon in the battle for delicious food on the go!


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<p>Without warning, Phiblizo appears and attacks Chaos Dragon Gaav. He kidnaps Gourry by using the Sword of Light and taunts Lina to join them in Sairaag, a city that is now a barren wasteland with only a single Flagoon since the demon's resurrection. But Lina doesn't have time to think about the consequences--she has to settle things with the Hellmaster once and for all!</p>


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Nahoko Uehashi's <i>The Beast Player</i> is an epic YA fantasy about a girl with a special power to communicate with magical beasts and the warring kingdom only she can save.


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First Comes Work, Then A Magical Marriage!

Seren successfully ended her engagement to Prince Helios and passed the High Mage exam. Now she’s working with Frosty Archmage Viol. Together, they decide to inform her parents of their intention to get married! However, Seren’s father is in the midst of a work crisis, so now hardly seems the time. The only option to speed things along is for Seren and Viol to try and solve the duke’s issue themselves! Good thing Seren’s now a bona fide High Mage! A sweet love fantasy starring our hardworking not-so-drab princess and her incredibly fluffy beau!


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<p>Summoned to another world to serve as the Spear Hero, Motoyasu Kitamura is a pitiful young man who eventually finds himself only able to love filolials. But after being fatally injured in battle, Motoyasu wakes up yet again in the exact circumstances of when he was first summoned. It turns out that his spear possesses an ability known as Time Reversal! With his stats unaffected by the reset, Motoyasu decides to fight once more. His motivation: to once again see the smile of Filo, the filolial that he loves more than any other! Could this be considered the start of a new game in god mode?! The long-awaited otherworldly redemption fantasy begins!


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There Are Many Candidates, But There Can Only Be One Queen!

After marrying Glenreed, the Silver Wolf King famous for his hatred of women, and becoming a figurehead queen, Laetitia spends her carefree days in the royal villa surrounded by wolves, griffins, and Gardener Cats. But the humans in her life just won’t leave her be! What troubles will she run into next when she’s invited to meet with yet another candidate for queen, this time from the East Palace? Join this evil noblewoman once again in her fun days filled with cooking, fluffy companions, and a life of leisure!


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<p>While out on their mission delivering letters warning allied nations of the Demon Lord's army, Usato and his companions save a young girl named Nea from zombies. Unbeknownst to them, however, is that it's all part of Nea's scheme to capture Usato! Born of a necromancer and a vampire, Nea uses her powers to take control of Usato's companion Aruku, forcing him to fight for her. Usato manages to free him with a technique he dubs "the healing throw," but that's not all Nea has up her sleeve. She resurrects an ancient monster, once sealed away by a hero of the past. Usato finds himself facing an enemy stronger than any he has ever known, and when Nea gets pulled into the battle, she does something that nobody sees coming! This volume also includes a peek into Captain Rose's past, offering insight into how it all began!


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Enjoying Winter Surrounded By Warm, Fluffy Friends Back Home!

Laetitia has been enjoying a life of leisure surrounded by all sorts of fluffy friends since she became King Glenreed’s figurehead queen, but her peaceful days are shaken when she receives an invitation from her homeland of Elltoria. She’s asked to attend not only an Elltorian ceremony, but the wedding of her ex-fiancé, Prince Fritz… With King Glenreed at her side, she sets off for home to see her brothers and tie up all the loose ends she’d left behind her!


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A bicycle crashes into me one night, and the next thing I know, I’m a baby?!

Getting reincarnated in another world populated by humans, demi-humans, and mythical beasts is certainly not the turn I thought my life was going to take. I especially didn’t expect to be carried off by a wolf and given into the care of a one-armed former knight! Now I’m trying to repay him by rebuilding the family inn and healing his arm with alchemy. But the more time passes, the more it becomes clear to me that I’m not actually human…


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Delicious Food & Good Times In Another World!

Margaret was summoned to a fantasy world as a special being known as a Spirit Caller, but without any pressing duties to attend to, she’s been living the ideal relaxed life in the countryside. Change comes when she learns how to communicate and receives a surprise visit from the royal family bearing startling news about Spirit Callers! She isn’t worried though, because every problem can be solved with good food. It’s time to start another satisfying and fulfilling day the slow way!


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<p class="description">Yukari Morita is a high school girl on a quest to find her missing father. While searching for him in the Solomon Islands, she receives the offer of a lifetime--she'll get the help she needs to find her father, and all she need do in return is become the world's youngest, lightest astronaut. Yukari and her half sister Matsuri, also petite, are the perfect crew for the Solomon Space Association's launches, or will be once they complete their rigorous and sometimes dangerous training.</p>


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If It’s For My Sister, I’d Even Become The Villainess

Would you become the villainess to save your beloved baby sister? That was the deal promised to Mio Satou by Shizuki Sakurazaka, heiress of the Sakurazaka Group, one of the most powerful conglomerates that dominate modern day Japan. The terms? Take her place in life. Survive three years at an elite academy where the progeny of tycoons and moguls roam, and in return, Shizuki will cure Mio’s terminally ill sister. But in a revelation that turns Mio’s world upside down, Shizuki reveals that their reality is based on an otome game from her previous life, with herself as the game’s original antagonist—an antagonist whose downfall was essential in guiding the world to its happy ending. Now, as former “commoner” Mio steps into the labyrinth of high society, can she successfully navigate her way to her predetermined demise and her sister’s rescue, or does more than just doom await her at the end of this journey?


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Juggling Cats and Romance

Amy Northland has been making the most of her time at school as a fourteen-year-old noblewoman. But as her school year plays out, she suddenly finds that her relationships with her friends—and with Edward—are changing little by little.

As she juggles living with her cat Tigger and helping local veterinarians heal sick and wounded animals, Amy becomes even more determined to be true to herself, no matter the cost. But all bets are off when all the otome game characters finally come together at the triennial tournament!


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Proposals and Mysteries!

When a fellow tailor goes missing from the slums, Rock elicits Count Ebel’s help to find him, but what they discover along the way are dangers involving the Werewolf Brotherhood and crazy relatives that threaten to tear them apart. Can the new couple solve the mystery and return to happier days?


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<p>It seems our little band of adventurers just can't catch a break. Employed as guards, Lina and Gourry accompany Sylpheel to Saillune City. Unfortunately, the royal family feud is downright deadly. Can they help Prince Philionel survive assassination attempts and keep their own heads on straight? When you've got the deadliest hunters, dark sorcerers, bug-like monsters and other grotesque creatures on your tail, it's going to take a little sorceress with some major magical power and a swordsman with phenomenal abilities and a lot of luck to save the day.</p>


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Will the villainess hanged in her previous life marry the knight who once swore his allegiance to her?

A little over a month has passed since Grey’s condemnation, and thanks to King Rizel’s leadership, life in Dirésias is slowly returning to normal. Yet one day, Albert comes to Mary with a shocking proposal.

“Will you marry me?”

Despite being happy, Mary can’t make up her mind—not until she comes to terms with her past. Meanwhile, Queen Tia remains missing, but her sinister plans creep ever closer to upsetting the peace Mary craves!


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<p>On her sixteenth birthday, Viscountess Mille-Feuille Forêt Noire, a member of a long-lived race called dragonkin, remembers her previous life as the murdered fiancée of Dragon Duke Vacherin. She immediately vows never to get involved with him again and aspires to live a peaceful life by hiding what she knows, but after a twist of fate or two...she soon winds up the Dragon Duke’s personal attendant!</p>
<p>Past intrigue now begins to yield problems in the present. Who killed Mille-Feuille in her last life? How can she improve the lives of fellow dragonkin women? Is she in love with the Dragon Duke, or are her feelings just lingering attachment from their old romance? And how will this all affect her new relationship with her former fiancé? History may or may not repeat itself in this romantic fantasy!</p>


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There’s Such A Thing As Good-Looking Goblins?!

After receiving the ability to be adored by all creatures other than humans and being reborn in another world, Nefertima has set out with her father the Prime Minister on a survey of his territory. Along the way, she somehow ends up becoming the goblins’ leader?! Once she learns that the monsters have been driven out of their homes, she comes up with a scheme that she’ll draw the people around her into one by one…


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Now An Anime!

In addition to her goblin friends, Nefertima has now succeeded in drawing the kobolds into Project Shiana! Accompanied by her older brother Ralfreed and Crown Prince Wilhelt, she next travels to Zigg Village, where an unusual number of monster sightings have been reported recently. The trio visits the beach where all of the sightings were said to take place, but when they finally encounter the monster in question, each of them sees something different?!


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Game Master VS. Player

Takuto suffered a crushing blow at the hands of the Saints and Slurping Witch Erakino when they marched into his territory, stole Sludge Witch Atou from him, and proceeded to pierce his heart and engulf him in hell fire. That should’ve been the end for Mynoghra, but their Commander survived the night’s events unscathed and is out for vengeance. He’s headed to Saint Soalina’s newly founded empire to get back Atou and go toe-to-toe with a TRPG’s Game Master! It’s time for the King of Ruin, prophesied as the Apocalypse-bringer, to bring the world to its knees!

Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate! A tactical fantasy world is waiting for heroes like you! Join Eternal Nations today!


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Animals, a husband who understands her, a new encounter… Olivia has just taken her first step out of her small world into one that steadily expands.

Olivia is a woman who embraced loneliness because of her ability to hear the inner voices of humans and animals, and Arthur is a former mercenary who’s spent his life staring death in the eye. These two wounded newlyweds join each other at the dinner table, drawing close as the seasons pass. Olivia, having just begun to open her heart to humans, finds the medicinal skills she learned from her grandmother blossoming, allowing her to help all sorts, from parrots to hares, foxes to cats, and many, many people. With the addition of a bubbly new companion, Soup Forest is filled with warmth even during the winter, while the scars from Olivia’s past also become fuel for her growth as she continues to lend an ear to those voices asking for help.


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Turning Point

Turning sixteen in Wisty Air has been interesting with the Sugula looming ever higher in the sky, threatening our world’s very existence. Still, life goes on as I purify monsters, come up with new alchemy recipes, and enjoy seeing my family when I can. Unfortunately, those ordinary days come to a sudden halt when I’m abducted by Edesa Kura! What awaits me in the country of mechanized soldiers?!


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The Romantic Finale For The Blue Rose Princess & Her Adviser!

After the eventful visit to Erdal, Princess Alicia finally confesses her feelings to Clovis. The two savor a short-lived period of bliss—but memories from Alicia’s previous life suddenly plague her, etching the fear of losing Clovis deep in her heart. Resolved to prevent his death, Alicia hatches a plan, only for it to create a rift between the new couple...?! How will Alicia’s revolutionary reprise end for her, Clovis, and everyone they’ve worked with throughout the years?


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When the alien Mimics invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor called a Jacket and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to be reborn each morning to fight and die again and again. On his 158th iteration, he gets a message from a mysterious ally--the female soldier known as the Full Metal Bitch. Is she the key to Keiji's escape or his final death?
Now a major motion picture starring Tom Cruise!


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Baby Dragons, Large Rabbits, & Holy Beasts!

Neema and her entourage have returned to the royal city from Zigg village and Shinki’s been accepted as a member of the family. Despite its rocky start, Project Shiana is finally starting to take shape, with the carpenters’ guild and the innkeepers’ guild both agreeing to participate, and the Magical Research Center lending a hand as well. With her family all busy working on Project Shiana, Neema ends up being left on her own more than she’d like, but she’s keeping herself busy—starting with a trip to the royal palace to see the baby dragons at the dragon stables! Cuddle time never seems to end when you live in a fluffy paradise!


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I Reincarnated As The Evil God Of My Favorite Civilization.

Takuto Ira succumbed to illness at a young age and ended up reincarnating in a world that resembles the fantasy turn-based strategy game Eternal Nations. Not only did he reincarnate into his favorite game, but as the god who commands the evil civilization Mynoghra. With Mynoghra’s beautiful hero unit, Sludge Witch Atou by his side, not even legendarily difficult race traits will stand in the way of restarting their civilization!

“Lord Takuto…won’t you start over with me?”

Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate! A tactical fantasy world is waiting for heroes like you! Join Eternal Nations today!


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Tsundere Romance During A Grand Adventure!

After protecting Astria Kingdom from monsters, Chloe and Julius have been living peacefully with their dragon Helios on the land they received as a reward for their heroic deeds. With Chloe wanting to remove the Slave Brand from Julius, and Julius wanting to find a mate for Helios, they head off together to the Sacred Kingdom of Rasheed. What adventures will this trio have in the kingdom that actively researches dragons and the Otherworld? The second adventure-filled volume about an alchemist of (self-proclaimed) rare beauty and a handsome yet sharp-tongued former general is here!


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The Ultimate Weapon For Any Queen Candidate: Good Food and Fluffy Friends!

Laetitia has successfully returned to a life of leisure after befriending the queen candidates over their shared love of baking and cute animals, but it’s not long before she’s roped into even more unwanted trouble! Will this evil noblewoman ever be able to sit back and enjoy her time just cooking and playing with wolves, griffins, and Gardener Cats?


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<p>Back to the beginning all over again. Can our heroes finally create a better future? Armed with the ability to turn back time, Motoyasu Kitamura has reset the time loop again and again as he gropes around blindly for a way to meet his beloved Filo. Along the way, the waves of destruction hit Melromarc, and history repeats itself. The Bow Hero, Itsuki, is tricked by the king into a duel with Naofumi! Motoyasu declares, "Well, there isn't any problem with me fighting Itsuki as Father's representative, is there, now?" In a world that keeps getting reset, will the effects of changing roles finally become clear? The much anticipated third installment of this otherworldly fantasy adventure begins now!


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A Tsundere Love Story!

Chloe is an alchemist of (self-proclaimed) rare beauty. She used to be the esteemed daughter of a duke, but three years ago her engagement was suddenly annulled and she was stripped of her title and privileges! With nowhere else to go, she became an alchemist’s apprentice until she was rich enough to have her own alchemy shop in the royal capital! Now a penny-pincher, Chloe goes out of her way to purchase Julius, the former general of an enemy kingdom dubbed the Black Prince for his cruel nature and cold-heartedness! She purchased him to be her bodyguard so she can more efficiently gather materials for alchemy, but his personality is just awful! And yet, Chloe finds herself slowly drawn to Julius despite his incessant teasing...

What kind of love will bloom between this gorgeous alchemist and her snarky, tsundere general?!


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Saving The World Isn’t Easy

With the Sugula defeated, the world has regained its future and blue sky. However, that’s not to say all the world’s problems are solved. I’m now seventeen years old and the power of Stella, which my body has grown used to over the years, is starting to have a negative effect on those around me. But just as I’m stumped by this predicament, someone appears before me… And it’s none other than Air himself?! Now I’m going to train under Air to learn how to control the Stella’s power!


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Love At First Mushroom

As a result of the divine spirits’ protection, Agnes has an unusual and often embarrassing power: whenever she experiences strong emotions, she makes mushrooms sprout on people! One day, her royal fiancé, who claims to have dragon’s blood, breaks off his engagement to Agnes claiming to have found his true soulmate. Her reputation tarnished, Agnes vows to return to commoner life, when she’s unexpectedly summoned to a ball by her ex-fiancé’s cousin, a prince who is far from horrified by her mushrooming him.

“This is fate! I promise you, it’s no spore-of-the-moment decision! My morels are not questionable! You and I would make the mushiest couple imaginable! Would you marry me?”

Agnes has a lot to deal with: her personal “flaws”, an endless onslaught of mushrooms, and the attentions of a prince with a serious fungal fetish. Can Agnes get through this and face up to her true self, or will it all prove just a little too mush?


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<div><p>Demon City Shinjuku, home to monsters and magicians alike. The warlock Gento Roran has broken his fifteen-year slumber and seeks dominion over the city. Now resurrected from his accursed sarcophagus, he is accompanied by the Hyota, the “small superman.”

</p><p>A secret seal has proclaimed that “Those who control Demon City will control the world.” And so the stage is set for a fateful battle between Gento and Setsura Aki.

</p><p>Meanwhile, Doctor Mephisto, the Demon Physician, is treating a curious new patient, a girl named Mayumi. Any man who has sex with her dies soon afterwards. This deadly cause and effect appears to be nothing more than coincidence at first. But only at first.

</p><p>Assassination squads possessed of the most unusual ways of dealing death come after Setsura. One after the next, he’s caught up in the fight of his life! What is this secret seal? And how is it connected to Mayumi?

</p><p>Hideyuki Kikuchi has again unleashed his creative powers in a thrilling and hair-raising tale of the supernatural. The first volume of Maohden!</p></div>


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More Than A Figurehead!

Since agreeing to marry King Glenreed and becoming a figurehead queen for political purposes, Laetitia has spent her easygoing days in the royal villa surrounded by fluffy friends—wolves, griffins, and Gardener Cats. She even had a chance to recently visit home and tie up loose ends there. However, Glenreed suddenly starts acting strange, despite all the obstacles he and Laetitia have overcome to grow closer to each other… Will this become the push that finally has Laetitia become more than just a figurehead queen to the Silver Wolf King? And what secrets has her brother been keeping from her? Find out in the climactic sixth installment!


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Still Too Strong in Another World!

Sakurako longs to fall in love. Unfortunately, her super-strength scares everybody off! If only she were normal… But then she would have died long ago. Her continued survival jeopardizes time and space, so God sends Sakurako and her lovelorn best friend Kazuya to another world.

Um, a place where she can be a delicate damsel and finally get a boyfriend? Yes, please!

Will Sakurako make it as a weakling in a world of magic and monsters? Can Kazuya compete with the handsome hero in their party of adventurers? And what’s this about a Demon King who’s due to show up to destroy the world any day now?


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The Secret Lives Of Fluffy Friends Unveiled?!

Laetitia has been spending her carefree days as a figurehead queen cooking with the other queen candidates and enjoying ample snuggle time with her fluffy friends at her royal villa, but change is afoot now that she knows Lord Aroo’s real identity. Just as her relationship with King Glenreed is slowly starting to change, a prince from another kingdom begins to show an interest in her and trouble arises in I-Liena’s life… What changes will unveiling the royal family’s greatest secret bring to this evil noblewoman’s leisurely life filled with cooking and fluffy friends?


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The Second-rate Villainess Has Become A First-rate Tsundere!

Despite Mio’s best efforts to be heinous and despicable, she just can’t seem to erode the unwavering trust of her peers, who consistently see through her facade to the sincere intentions beneath. At this rate, her sister’s life hangs precariously in the balance. But it’s early days yet in her three-year-long villainistic venture. As the school year unfolds, the school sports day offers Mio a prime opportunity to finally shatter her friends’ trust: a devious plan with her new accomplices, Sayaka and Asuka. Will she succeed in becoming universally despised, or will her plans once again unravel in a most unexpected and heartwarming way?


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Mariage Blanc Becomes A Love Marriage!

Iris is the daughter of a marquess who was married off to nouveau riche, Baron Lucas, to become his aristocratic etiquette guidebook. Their relationship started as a mariage blanc, but the two find themselves slowly drawn to each other. However, one day, Iris discovers that there’s someone lurking in the shadows, maliciously trying to ruin her family, House Karelia. The perfect opportunity to convict the mastermind of his crimes is at her younger sister’s engagement party! Will Iris and Lucas successfully capture the criminal and grab ahold of their happiness?!


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Who Are My Kind?

Since my stepsister, Nakona Ril, has joined the family, I’ve finally settled into a happy life of cooking and potion brewing at the family inn. But the shadow of war looms ahead, with the fate of the world and my own destiny fast approaching. Monsters are coming, bandits seek to steal my potions, and countries set their sights upon the rumor of a talented alchemist. Why won’t they all just leave me alone?!


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The Truth About Mushrooms!

Agnes has never thought much of herself or her troublesome ability to commune with divine spirits, which has plagued her life with randomly sprouting mushrooms. But now that Prince Claude has assured her of his love and acceptance, she’s started to regain some of the confidence and self-esteem that she lost during her long, painful engagement to her ex-fiancé.

But Claude isn’t just a prince—he’s a man who carries Dragon’s Blood in his veins, and as his Dragonmate Agnes has to come to terms with what that means for their relationship. Before she gets much of a chance though, a new mystery begins to unfold—a number of discrepancies come up regarding the tragic carriage accident that sent Agnes’ parents to their deaths.

The two lovers head off to the spring where Agnes’ parents first met, searching for answers, but find their efforts stymied when Agnes is kidnapped and spirited away to the neighboring country of Orielle! Trapped in a foreign land, Agnes is forced to confront the truth behind her divine power, even as she comes face-to-face with the country’s royal family.

And when Prince Claude realizes Agnes has been taken from him, he just might develop a new power of his own…


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Vanquishing Demons & Sweet Romance!

Chloe and Julius were dragged into the holy war of the Sacred Kingdom of Rasheed where they confronted the demon Samael, the Serpent of Death. The demon manipulated King Shesif by promising to impart his wisdom on how to create a world without old age and death. Chloe and Julius must face this demon to protect Rasheed and ensure he won’t steal any more of what’s precious to them!

The second arc of the (self-proclaimed) beautiful alchemist and the (extremely handsome) tsundere former general’s adventures in Rasheed finally concludes! After the battle, Chloe and Julius will enjoy a sweet and heartwarming moment together, too!


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Don’t Awaken The Stone Of Daybreak

Fort Deshmel stands as a bastion against the monsters, and as the new Holy Woman, I’m purifying them in droves while living alongside various Mythical Beasts who are there to guard me against humans and monsters alike. It’s been a joy tending to the fields outside the fortress and creating new alchemy concoctions during my time here, but it seems our peaceful days are numbered as the truth of the Stone of Daybreak and my lineage comes to light! Not to mention…there are new romantic developments in Dad and Nakona’s lives?!


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What Awaits Her In Another World Is Delicious Food And A Relaxing Life Surrounded By Spirits!

Margaret’s life is cut short when she gets into a fatal accident at her workplace, except instead of the afterlife, she finds herself in another world! She’s rescued from the brink of death by an elderly retired noblewoman who lets Margaret live at her mansion. What awaits her there is a stark contrast to her previous life: relaxed and laid-back countryside living! Sure, there’s the whole fact that she was summoned to this world as a special being known as a Spirit Caller, but she couldn’t care less as long as she gets to eat delicious food! She’s going to get a fresh start taking life slow in this new world filled with magic and spirits!


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<p>A collection of three short tales inspired by the popular anime series follows the efforts of elite counter-terrorist heads Chief Aramaki and Major Motoko Kusanagi and includes the stories, "Double Targets," "First Love, Last Love," and "Revenge of the Cold Machines." Original.</p></div>


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Mushrooms Are The Key To True Love!

Agnes is an unusual young woman with peach-blossom hair and the fairy-given ability to make mushrooms sprout willy-nilly. Fortunately, she’s now in a relationship with a handsome dragon prince who’s absolutely obsessed with her mushrooms! Unfortunately, Agnes is still trying to get over the trauma of her last relationship, and it’ll take a lot of spoiling from Claude to help her! This is the story of how, through a series of unlikely events, Agnes has found her mushroom-loving prince charming, and, through much sprouting and harvesting of mushrooms, she finds out how to truly love and be loved!


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<p>My name is Baekhap Lee. I was just an ordinary designer of children's clothing, until one day I woke up as the main villainess of the fairy tale I was reading. It seems like I’ve died from overwork and reincarnated as Abigail, the stepmother of Snow White. But who cares about that? Right now, I’m sitting next to my lovely daughter, Blanche Friedrikin. As always, she’s looking at me with her scared puppy eyes. It can’t be helped since Abigail was known to have a ferocious appearance. Her smile alone would make anyone cry, not forgetting to mention that Abigail tried to poison her stepdaughter out of jealousy.</p>
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<p>‘Even so, I want to hug her! I want to dress her up! Ahhh! She’s so cute! It should be a crime for my daughter to be this cute!’</p>
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<p>Even though I want to shower her with affection, my husband continues to look at me with suspicion. How can I overcome his interference and get closer to Blanche?</p></div>


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<b>A volume of all-new, character-driven stories expanding on the world of the hit video game <i>Final Fantasy XV</i>. This deluxe, hardcover edition includes full-color inserts featuring concept art and exclusive content.</b><br>To oppose the gods or yield to fate? <br>That is the question confronting each of the characters in <i>The Dawn of the Future</i>. Ardyn, having saved countless lives from the Starscourge, means to become the Founder King of Lucis and instead is cast into tragic exile. On the day the Empire falls, as the imperial capital collapses around them, Commodore Aranea is entrusted with the life of a singular young girl. The Oracle Lunafreya, upon awakening from the slumber of death, discovers that her body has undergone an extraordinary transformation. And after gazing upon the eternal, Noctis, the True King, finally comes to terms with his destiny. Herein lie the stories of the dawning of a new world in <i>Final Fantasy XV</i>.


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<p>"I've been kidnapped by a bad person. Bring a change of clothes and your  homework and come save me!" Duped by this seemingly earnest summons  from Tohko, Konoha finds himself forced to spend his summer break at the  Himekura villa, writing snacks for his greedy club president. But the  shadow of a tragedy from eighty years past threatens to destroy their  otherwise peaceful summer! What is the "secret" that stirs the Book  Girl's imagination?


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<p>In the darkness stands a girl draped in pure white. Don’t let her innocent appearance fool you; her hands grip a glistening scythe. Momo is the dark messenger of death tasked with releasing humans from their mortal bonds and delivering their souls to the great beyond. First encounters with Momo always end in farewells. </p></div>


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<p>While Konoha is aware that he will soon be losing his book-eating club  president when she ventures off to college, a new relationship blossoms  between him and the once standoffish Kotobuki. The two even manage to  spend New Year's Day together! However, the dawn of the new year also  ushers in the return of a familiar face - a girl whose every line Konoha  has memorized and one the heartbroken boy thought he would never see  again. Just as she reenters his life, though, Konoha feels the ties he  has established with the people around him begin to sever... Can a simple  book girl shed some much-needed insight on the situation before it's too  late?


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Man’s Best Friend Through Romance & Adventure!

Takumi is still trying to wrap his head around Anrinnelesse’s sudden proposal when Claire finally makes up her mind to visit his room.

“Ever since the day you rescued me in the forest, I…”

Their relationship is taking the next step under Leo’s watchful eye?! And what’s this about a new fluffy addition to the family? Find out in volume 5 of this slow life adventure in another world with man’s best friend!


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<p>In her attempts to stop Diva's plan of turning all of mankind into Chiropterans, Saya makes her way to the United States. Despite her forced rest, the time for action draws near. Meanwhile, Diva, carrying Riku's children, makes preparations for the birth of the queens of the next generation! With the fate of humanity resting with the two queens, who will rise and who will fall in the final showdown?! And what of the "promise" Saya made with Haji?</p></div>


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Locked in the back of a minivan headed for who knows where, Azusa Saito realizes she has been kidnapped. Just when she thinks there’s no hope for escape, she is rescued by a man with glowing red eyes. Or is she? Her supposed rescuer forces her to live in a town of vampires. There she learns the story of her kidnapper, a red-eyed vampire charged with the bothersome role of guarding her from enemy covens and from escaping. He is the dreaded Akaoni, the only vampire all other vampires tremble in fear of. Oddly, he doesn’t scare her though.

What will happen between a powerful, ostracized vampire who never drank blood and a girl who is hunted for her blood? Will love blossom between them when enemies abound within and without the coven? Find out in this thrilling shoujo light novel series!


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<div><p>There’s a girl at their school who is always ill. She routinely arrives late, leaves early, or doesn’t show up at all, and skips gym as a matter of course. She’s pretty, and the boys take to whispering that she’s a cloistered princess. As the self-described worst loser in her class soon finds out, they just don’t know what a monster she is.  </p>
<p>So begins a tale of mysterious maladies that are supernatural in origin yet deeply revealing of the human psyche, a set of case files as given to unexpected feeling as it is to irreverent humor. So begins the legendary novel that kicked off the MONOGATARI series, whose anime adaptations have enjoyed international popularity and critical acclaim.  </p>
<p>This first of three parts introduces Senjogahara and Hachikuji, and fans of the blockbuster prequel KIZUMONOGATARI will be delighted to meet their favorite crazies again: the weirdly reliable narrator Araragi, class president among class presidents Hanekawa, shady problem-solver Oshino, and a certain pale, blonde former vampire.</p>
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