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Milo needed a break from fighting giant monsters, insane wizards, and the constant gang warfare of Shadowport. The World Boss he'd accidentally woken up was dead. The annoying wizard who'd captured him was lost in the void along with his annoying little dragon, his airship stolen, and his library destroyed. That left him free to go exploring in the dark tunnels beneath the city. He'd thought that as a were-rat he was unique, but he's heard a rumor of a small town of ratkin living beneath the city and sets out to find it.

Alex has decided they must be stopped and takes steps to do just that. Meanwhile, Earth runs up against the Imperium again and they don't like what happens next.

Book 2 of this unique spin on LitRPG featuring an unusual MC you can't help but root for. Featuring plenty of humor, action, thievery, ninja abilities, a detailed world and System, science skills, magic tinkering, item invention, and more originality than you can shake a rat tail at!

Kadish escaped the Revenant Program, but not the Red Man. The Dead Man made it to Los Angeles, a city fallen into chaos after an EMP wrecked the entire West Coast. It’s easy to hide where the rule of law is a memory. Living off odd jobs in cartel country was manageable, where it not for the Red Man. While Kadish was free of direct orders through the brain spike called the Imperative, the Red Man lingered. The Red Man demands violence and Kadish has no choice but to feed malfunctioning program what it wants or risk losing all control.

In the violent aftermath of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, a photojournalist arrives to learn the fate of the Witch Doctors, a fabled Army occult warfare unit. Holly believes her father, reported missing in action, ran this mysterious outfit that sought to weaponize black magic to win the War on Terror.

Book three of this Fantasy LitRPG Series about a reincarnated necromancer growing in power and finding his way in a new world where the rules have changed vastly since he last "lived."

Hiding deep in the Sleer battle ring, Simon Brooks and Sara Rosenski are learning the ways of the Sleer and to trust each other. Each day brings a new discovery and more danger, while Ray Fairchild, COP of Hornet Squadron languishes on Earth, suspected of treason for abandoning them on the alien structure. Forced to choose between his career and his crew, Fairchild enables a rescue mission back to the Sleer structure while a maniacal Sleer commander moves to stop them. But Sleer reinforcements arrive and Earth’s defense is in disarray...and where are Brooks and Rosenski?

Another group has claimed the Wolf system and is willing to fight for it. Alex and Jay have to defend the system they migrated to while saving the other colonies from themselves.

Join Sylver as he embarks on the adventure of the unlifetime to shoo away the insane god empowered child that threatened to wreck everything Sylver had so painstakingly built up over the year. With the woman in white’s visit mere months away, Sylver would have to act fast, act hard, and he would need all the strength and corpses he could get.

The Marines called it Starvation Island. The Imperial Japanese Army called it the Island of Death. The battle for Guadalcanal, which began in August 1942 and took six months to complete, saw the 1st Marine Division effectively cut off and under constant siege with few supplies. Marked by hunger, disease, massed nighttime bayonet charges by the enemy, and constant shelling and bombing, the campaign proved a turning point in the war.

A disgraced ex-cop, framed by a crooked politician, abandoned by his family, he’s forced into the life of a bounty hunter just to survive. Tracking down a traitor who stole military grade weapons to sell on the black market, Masterson finds out things aren’t as simple as the wanted poster made them seem. Because Delia Beckett isn’t a traitor, simply a patsy, and the forces manipulating her may be the same ones responsible for Masterson’s fall from grace.

Being a warrior in a garden is pretty good, but being a necromancer is better. For obvious reasons Sylver preferred warzones to gardens, but aside from the guns, sunlight, and other oddities, there wasn't much to complain about. Not to mention he already had a new ally, a new class, a ton of levels, didn't make all that many enemies, and most importantly, at the end of this he was going to finally find Edmund.

Seventh-grader Viv never looks forward to picture day. It’s just another day where she wears a boring braid and no one notices her. (Her two best friends, Milo and Al, don’t count, of course.) But enough is enough. This year, she’s taking matters into her own hands. Literally. Viv grabs a pair of scissors, her phone for live-streaming, and, well, bye-bye braid. Suddenly Viv is an over-night influencer at Brinkley Middle School. Everyone wants her help planning their next big moment—from haircuts, to dance proposals, activist rallies and mathlete championships.

This book of interconnected stories depicts the chaotic life of a young boy on the run with his teenage mother. When Sarah reclaims Jeremiah from his foster parents, he finds himself catapulted into her world of motels and truck stops, exposed to the abusive, exploitative men she encounters. As he learns to survive in this harrowing environment, Jeremiah also learns to love his mother, even as she descends into drug-fueled madness.

After Grant Riven and his fellow Hallowed saved Dios from the Mute threat, Grant retired with more money that he could possibly spend. He never planned to go to war again...until he learned Cloud Nine Engineering was still mutating innocent people in hopes of creating more like him. Taking down a huge corporation that controls every lever of power in Dios seems impossible, yet with his allies determined to try, Grant has no choice but to do all he can to keep them safe...even if he believes they’ve lost the war before it starts.

The Book of Queer Prophets contains modern-day epistles from some of our most important thinkers, writers and activists: Jeanette Winterson tackles religious dogma, Amrou Al-Kadhi writes about trying to make it as a Muslim drag queen in London, John Bell writes about his decision to come out later in life, Tamsin Omond remembers getting married in the middle of a protest and Kate Bottley explains her journey to becoming an LGBT ally.

It has been five years since the Revelation, and Earth is now a member of the Intergalactic Confederation of Planets. Peace has broken out. Climate change has been reversed. Life expectancy has increased. Poverty has just about been wiped out. The Institute is up and running at the Embassy. Students from around the world have transferred, researchers from major universities are doing sabbaticals, and Confederation technology is being adapted for human use.

Eleven years after coming home from Iraq, Jim Cooper lives a quiet civilian life of wandering. When he hears his old squad leader has been captured by ISIS, while doing humanitarian work in an embattled Mosul, he reconnects with comrades from his old unit to reflect and mourn the execution they know is coming. Reminiscing deep into the night, an unlikely, wild plan to rescue Sergeant Ramos takes shape.

A century after the Break destroyed much of the world, the wealthy island nation of Dios stands alone as a paradise for those who remain...so long as they aren’t poor and homeless. For street orphan Grant Riven, life is a series of kicks to the face. Until exposure to a powerful mutating agent gives him super strength, passive-regeneration, and the ability to use powerful weapons.

A mysterious virus suddenly strikes down millions. Three days later, its victims awake with a single purpose: spread the Infection. As the world lurches toward the apocalypse, some of the infected continue to change, transforming into horrific monsters. In one American city, a small group struggles to survive. Together, they fight their way to a massive refugee camp where thousands have made a stand. There, what's left of the government will ask them to accept a mission that will determine the survival of them all.