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He Who Fights with Monsters 6: A LitRPG Adventure by Shirtaloon, Travis Deverell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsExperience an isekai culture clash as a laid-back Australian finds himself in a very serious world. See him gain suspiciously evil powers through a unique progression system combining cultivation and traditional LitRPG elements. Enjoy a weak-to-strong story with a main character who earns his power without overshadowing everyone around him, with plenty of loot, adventurers, gods and magic...Categorized as:
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Salt & the Sisters by A.L. Knorr
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOnly she can lift the spell. But the key to its destruction could mean her death...Determined to end the dreaded mermaid mating cycle between land and sea, Targa and Mira scour rare fragments of mosaic art from deep in the ocean for clues. On the hunt for the ancient spell's source, all signs point to the ruins of Atlantis... -
Wizard by Trade by Jim Butcher
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFantasy: For Harry Dresden, the only wizard listed in the Chicago phone book, when it rains, it pours. In fact, it pours toads, always a sign something bad is about to happen, But Harry takes such omens in stride, given that his rattletrap VW Bug needs constant upkeep, and his 30 pound guard cat wants regular meals... -
System Escape by Tom Larcombe
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMarc and his party have finished their zeppelin and taken it out to try to discover other Safe Zones. Their intent is to set up trade routes between all the different Safe Zones in order to give them a better chance to survive.The second Safe Zone they discover with the zeppelin is nearly as large as Any Port. It even has its own ring of outlier Safe Zones, or a partial ring at least... -
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Salt & the Sovereign by A.L. Knorr
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDeep in the ocean, a rivalry rages. Can one siren’s song turn the tides of hatred?After witnessing senseless murder, Bel vows to end her mother’s tyrannical reign. But as a young mermaid, she has no choice but to spend time on dry land before she can qualify for the crown... -
Dragon's Justice 9 by Bruce Sentar
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen the FBI prepares to head down to Brazil, Zach gets tapped to join them. Things aren’t going to plan though.Geists are being created and weaponized around Philly and even drawing the attention of the military.To solve it, Zach needs to go down to El Dorado and convince them that he’s not like the dragons that came before him and that they need to help him solve Aphrodite’s grand plan... -
The Inheritance by Ilona Andrews
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWe are at war. The interdimensional invasion brought us unimaginable suffering, but it also awoke talents slumbering deep within us, a means to repel and destroy our enemy. Every day new gates open, leading to breaches filled with monsters and valuable resources. If you are a Talent, your country needs you. The world needs you. Be the hero you were born to be. Adaline is a Talent...Categorized as:
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Saving Supervillains 2 by Bruce Sentar
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMiles has enough power to take down even a titan, but is that enough to prepare him for what’s coming?His new job as the deputy director is at odds with his desire to start using his powers to make a greater difference. He has to balance his secret while going above and beyond his role at the Bureau of Superheroes...Categorized as:
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Saving Supervillains 4 by Bruce Sentar
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMiles is at New Haven, hoping to figure out more about Monster Fruit and Daeva. But he finds more than he expected, a community and a sense of peace as he stops hiding his powers. Meanwhile, Stella flourishes and continues to rope more girls in to make Miles smile brighter.Things aren’t all pleasant...Categorized as:
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Chosen by Vanessa Nelson
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDemons on the loose. Ritual murders. An ancient vampire breathing down her neck.Some days Max just doesn't know where to start. The problems facing her city are piling up, and there seems no end or solution in sight.Max's job used to be dealing with supernatural creatures... -
Glass King by Annabel Chase
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI didn’t ask to be part of a prophecy and I certainly didn’t ask to be held captive by zealots. They may call me a savior, but they treat me like a sacrifice they’re waiting to make to the gods. Not much of a sacrifice given what they think of me.My only saving grace is that I don’t have to face the dangers alone. This time I have an ally in the form of a knight from Britannia City—London Hayes...Categorized as:
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Kacy Chronicles Boxed Set: The Revelations of Oriceran by A.L. Knorr, Martha Carr
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis box set includes all four books in The Kacy Chronicles, a Prophesies of Oriceran Series full of portal-travel, magic, dragons, action, adventure and romance. Born to a wealthy Virginian family, privileged Jordan's got her life all planned out. Get her PhD, find the perfect Virginia man to marry, pop out a few more Kacy’s and make her State Senator father proud...Categorized as:
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Rebellion by Dave Willmarth
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe one year Stabilization period has ended, and the aliens are colonizing earth! Allistor and his people have prepared as well as possible, and now they'll find out if it was enough. In this third book of the Shadow Sun series, Earth's survivors continue to fight for their lives, and to reclaim as much of the earth as they can for the human race...Categorized as:
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L'Œil d'Otolep by Pierre Bottero
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDe retour à Gwendalavir, Ewilan découvre qu'une méduse aux tentacules mortels tente d'envahir l'Imagination. Alors qu'un mal sourd infecte son organisme, elle se joint à l'expédition qui part vers Valingaï afin de ramener Illian, un jeune garçon aux pouvoirs incroyables, dans sa famille. Après avoir combattu de terribles ennemis, la troupe parvient aux confins de l'Empire devant l'oeil d'Otolep...Categorized as:
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Siege Tactics by Drew Hayes
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsPutting the Grand Quest behind them, the party rides onward in search of answers... -
L'île du destin by Pierre Bottero
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLes Sentinelles libérées, Ewilan et Salim rejoignent la Citadelle des Frontaliers avec leurs compagnons. Là, Ewilan découvre la retraite du légendaire Merwyn, le plus grand des dessinateurs. Il leur conseille de regagner l'autre monde et de convaincre Mathieu, le frère d'Ewilan, de les suivre en Gwendalavir...Categorized as:
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Creepy Hollow 9 by Rachel Morgan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe fae world's biggest secret has been revealed ...Having escaped an Unseelie prince and a world of shadows, Emerson and Calla are now hunted by the Guild of Guardians. On the run, constantly trying to remain one step ahead, they must figure out how to find and rescue everyone the Guild has taken from them... -
The Revived by A.M. Sohma
Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsKit is back. And she’s still stuck playing her ridiculous elf dancer character. After leading a group out of the full submersion video game, Chronicles of Retha, Kit knew she couldn’t leave the remaining players to suffer their fate alone. So she returned to the game with the goal to get everyone out. Solus Miles has always preferred solo playing, but Kit’s return changes everything... -
Telekinetic by Laurence E. Dahners
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“Telekinetic” is the first of a series of stories featuring the Hyllis family, who tend to inherit telekinetic “talents.” The story is set after a plague induced apocalypse. The resulting collapse of civilization has reduced mankind back to iron and horsepower.Tarc Hyllis’s mother (and his grandfather before her) could “feel” things with their talent... -
Of Blood and Bone by Nora Roberts
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of the epic Year One returns with a new tale of terror and magic in a brand new world.They look like an everyday family living an ordinary life. But beyond the edges of this peaceful farm, unimaginable forces of light and dark have been unleashed...Categorized as:
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Wicked Hunt by Megan Montero
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTo take him down, I’d use all of my power…I know exactly who Dario Malback is. I know everything about him. I know all of his dirty secrets and his evil deeds. He is more of a monster than my father ever was...because Dario just likes it.He needs to go down for what he did. He needs to pay for his crimes and I’ve dreamt of this day for a long time... -
Noble's Honor by Glynn Stewart
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsVassal of the Queen of the Fae Noble of the Wild Hunt Child of the Horned King. Bait. Jason Kilkenny has learned his full heritage and the nature of the bloodline that runs in his veins. One quarter mortal, he is also the child of a Power, the Horned King of the Wild Hunt of the Fae. But his father is dead, murdered in a fae civil war that ended before Jason was born... -
Les Frontières de glace by Pierre Bottero, Jean-Louis Thouard
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRevenue à Gwendalavir, Ewilan est confrontée à de nouveaux dangers et à des choix difficiles pour libérer ses amis...Categorized as:
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The Foul Mouth and the Headless Hunny by Richard Raley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMy name is King Henry Price. Yes, really. Still here. Still alive. Still running my Artificer shop. Got me a girlfriend now. Got a decent life for maybe the first time during my stay on this messed up little planet we call Earth. Better Earth than one of the other Realms I suppose . . . but that was last time around, wasn't it? This time around . . . well, got me kidnapped again...Categorized as:
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The Foul Mouth and the Troubled Boomworm by Richard Raley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMy name is King Henry Price. Yes, really. I never been one for love. Don't think I've said the word but a handful of times and was probably lying when it crossed my lips anyway. Or said it cuz that's what you're SUPPOSED to say. Not one for love, also not a SUPPOSED TO SAY kind of guy either. Say what's on my mind, no matter the consequences, no matter how much trouble it usually gets me into...Categorized as:
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Vigil's Justice by James A. Hunter
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMagic weapons. Deadly monsters. Epic quests. All just another day in the life of a Vigil.Boyd Knight found his calling when he joined the Marines and qualified for the elite Force Recon. He’d found a tribe and a family, so when a hand grenade landed near his team, he jumped on it without thought or regret...Categorized as:
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The Land: Swarm by Aleron Kong
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsAleron Kong's #1 Best Selling LitRPG Saga continues in "The Land: Swarm" The enemies of the Mist Village are moving, the storm clouds are gathering, what are Richter and Sion to do??? Crush the game, that's what! More of everything you love in LitRPG: Powerful items, epic battles, awesome quests and in depth world building! What happened to Elora? Where is the swarm? Did the rock giant make...Categorized as:
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Full Blood by Donna Augustine
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne monster wants my soul. One man wants my magic. Me? I want to be left alone to live my life out like a dull, one of the lucky people who were born devoid of magic. But that won’t happen because being born a Wyrd Blood gives me two choices in life: ruler or slave. I’d rather die than be a slave and I’m not cut out to rule. Instead I’ve been hiding out in the Valley...Categorized as:
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Destiny by P.T. Michelle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen destiny is on the line, will love be enough to light the way? In order to save Ethan, Nara gets pulled deeper into his dark world, where everything she thought she knew about Ethan and herself turns on its head... -
Drafted by Renée Jaggér, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJulie Meadows is down on her luck when she receives an e-mail drafting her into the Official Para-Military Agency.She didn’t expect “para” to mean paranormal. Her partner is an Aether Elf prince, her boss is a Were…something, and the IT department is staffed by literal trolls... -
Dungeon Deposed 3 by William D. Arand
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsRyker only had one goal in his life right now: Turn a certain adventuring guild into a flaming wreck while dancing merrily through the smoldering ruins. All for the chance to get back at a handful of people. It didn’t work out that way though. At all... -
One Good Dragon Deserves Another by Rachel Aaron
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsAfter barely escaping the machinations of his terrifying mother, two all knowing seers, and countless bloodthirsty siblings, the last thing Julius wants to see is another dragon...Categorized as:
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The Midwest Whisperer: The Revelations of Oriceran by Flint Maxwell, Martha Carr
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen the dragon whispers, who will listen? The lakeside town of Ashbourne is under siege. Inside, the manic worshippers of the legendary Rogue Dragons—the Dragon Tongue—plan to offer the town's citizens up as sacrifice. And one of these people happens to be an unlucky Gnome named Gelbus Cogspark, whom Maria thinks she needs to complete her quest... -
The Midwest War: The Revelations of Oriceran by Flint Maxwell, Martha Carr
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe inevitable has finally come: War. The Arachnids, controlled by the magically insane Widow, make their move for the Jewel of Deception, knowing the Jewel, combined with the music box, can save the lost villagers of Dominion from the world in between. Or, it can release the mad king Arazon and his followers... -
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Mom’s The Word by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMagical medieval artifacts are on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. They are the perfect target for magical thieves.Look out Lucy Heron. It’s not the usual menace looking to steal a strange magical crown.Good thing Lucy and the Silver Griffins are on the case.Meanwhile, the Underfoot Brigade are on a case of their own. Monsters are in the underground tunnels. Time to find out why...Categorized as:
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Rogue Mom by Martha Carr, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHas anyone noticed Los Angeles is going to the monsters?The City of Angels is under attack and the Silver Griffins are calling all agents.What monster is making the rounds and threatening to expose magic?Mr. No has returned and is invading dreams. The sinister Dwarf has figured out how to sap away magicals’ dreams and aspirations...Categorized as:
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Dungeon Deposed 2 by William D. Arand
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsRyker only had one goal in his life right now: Turn a certain adventuring guild into a flaming wreck while dancing merrily through the smoldering ruins. All for the chance to get back at a handful of people. It didn’t work out that way though. At all... -
The Foul Mouth and the Cat Killing Coyotes by Richard Raley
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKing Henry Price, honored and learned graduate of the Institution of Elements, has settled back into his normal life, running his Artificer shop, creating new designs, selling old ones, and ignoring the occasional explosion when testing goes haywire. He's been minding his own business..Categorized as:
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Firecracker by A.L. Knorr
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn love with one twin, bonded by fire to the other. Welcome to Arcturus Academy.98% of fire magi who attempt the agonizing forbidden ritual known as The Burning don’t survive. Those who do… level up in ways undreamt of by the Unburned.I survived.Now I've got other problems... -
Ice Crypt by Tiana Warner
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMeela has just returned from the Massacre—the annual attempt to wipe out the mermaids threatening her people’s survival. After forming an unlikely connection with Lysi, a mermaid she was trained to kill, Meela is determined to stop the war between humans and merpeople for good. She knows of a legendary weapon that could bring peace if she uses it against King Adaro, ruler of the Pacific Ocean...Categorized as:
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Orphan Witch by Judith Berens, Martha Carr
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSometimes the real monsters are those within your own family. Sometimes it takes an outsider like Raine to come to your rescue. Raine Campbell has survived her first semester at the School of Necessary Magic, but only just. Time to throw herself into her studies and get a better grasp on magic. No more close calls with spells.. -
Hero by Dan Sugralinov
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA lazy and wussy ex-gamer, Phil becomes one of the few humans who receive a mysterious alien piece of wetware which allows them to see the world through an augmented-reality interface very similar to those used in a MMORPG game. Guided by its stats and messages, Phil begins to level up, gradually transforming himself and his life...Categorized as:
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Desire by P.T. Michelle
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings**Grab DESIRE while it's on SALE for just $2.99. You'll also get a signed digital copy ONLY during release week, April 1-8! **Now that Nara and Ethan are working together to uncover the Corvus' secrets, they're confident nothing can stop them... -
Lucid by P.T. Michelle
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOnce Nara combines her prophetic ability with Ethan’s power to outsmart Fate at his own deadly cat-and-mouse game, she’s more determined than ever to help Ethan learn the meaning behind the raven sword tattoo that suddenly appeared on his back after their confrontation with Fate... -
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Demon World Boba Shop: Vol. 2 by R.C. Joshua, Potomac Stories
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBoba’s on the menu. So far, the Demon World has shown Arthur nothing but love. Now? It’s time for him to reciprocate.Arthur’s finally finding his place in the demon world. ****He has his own tea shop in a city that accepts him and a family that he’s beginning to call his own. But when Milo’s father sends word that he’s returned from his latest expedition, Arthur is faced with an impossible choice... -
La nef du crépuscule by Robin Hobb
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIl y a longtemps, le roi Sagesse a subi le siège implacable de pirates venus de la mer. Tout le reste ayant échoué, il a résolu de passer l'hiver à chercher un peuple légendaire: celui des Anciens. À l'heure où Vérité arme sa flotte, les Six-Duchés sont plus que jamais menacés par les assauts des Pirates rouges... -
The Rise of Magicks by Nora Roberts
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsNora Roberts, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Year One and Of Blood and Bone concludes her stunning new trilogy praised as "A match for end-of-the-world classics like Stephen King's The Stand" with The Rise of Magicks.After the sickness known as the Doom destroyed civilization, magick has become commonplace, and Fallon Swift has spent her young years learning its ways...Categorized as:
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The Citadel by Alexey Osadchuk
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIf you’re a warrior seeking glorious feats, we need you! The walls of the Maragar Citadel are always in need of heroes!Or are you a wizard in search of forgotten lore? One visit to our Ancient Library will reveal you many a great mystery!Or are you an online player craving excitement? Then you’d better hurry! The Maragar Citadel is rife with adventure - choose one to your liking!Performing deeds...Categorized as:
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The Midwest Wanderer: The Revelations of Oriceran by Flint Maxwell, Martha Carr
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe magic returned. Now the epic quest begins… Maria Apple defeated the Arachnids, but there's a village of people still trapped in the world in between. The key, Maria knows, is the music box her grandfather Ignatius gave her. The only one who can unlock its power? Maria. Problem is, she doesn't know how. But a Gnome named Gelbus Cogspark does... -
The Scrolls of Gideon by Sonya Bateman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's NOT safe to go back in the water... After a promise gone horribly wrong, Gideon Black has sworn off doing favors for people. But when the mysterious Lady Tethys offers him a house -- a home of his own for the first time in his life -- in exchange for retrieving an artifact, he agrees...
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