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Going Rogue by Drew Hayes
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsAdventuring is a costly affair, and while the tolls are often paid in blood, gold can drain away just as quickly. The party’s trek out of Solium and across the lands of Alcatham has left them with only a handful of gold between them. Fortunately, they have drawn near Camnarael, Alcatham’s capital, where all manner of quests--and rewards--await. But all is not as expected in the capital... -
![Enchanted Forest Chronicles: Talking to Dragons, Patricia Wrede, Calling on Dragons, Dealing With Dragons by Books LLC]()
Enchanted Forest Chronicles: Talking to Dragons, Patricia Wrede, Calling on Dragons, Dealing With Dragons by Books LLC
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsChapters: Talking to Dragons, Patricia Wrede, Calling on Dragons, Dealing With Dragons. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge... -
![Hell for the Holidays by D.M. Guay]()
Hell for the Holidays by D.M. Guay
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe tree is trimmed. The mistletoe is hung. The eggnog is spiked. It’s time to celebrate the merriest, most heart-warming Christmas ever! Or not? No. Definitely, absolutely not. This Christmas won’t be cheerful. It’ll be more like Ash vs Evil Dead meets National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Because the Wallace family’s annual Christmas Eve party is about to skid off the rails... -
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Orconomics by J. Zachary Pike
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsBrimming with swords, sorcery, and wit, Orconomics: A Satire introduces Arth, a world much like our own but with more magic and fewer vowels. For the licensed wizards and warriors of Arth, slaying and looting the forces of evil is just a job. The Heroes' Guild has turned adventuring into a career, selling the rights to monsters’ hoards of treasure as investment opportunities... -
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![Konosuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!, Vol. 9 (light novel) (Konosuba by Natsume Akatsuki]()
Konosuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!, Vol. 9 (light novel) (Konosuba by Natsume Akatsuki
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Demon Lord's forces are headed to Axel Town. And among them is a user of.. -
![Angel Trouble by D.M. Guay]()
Angel Trouble by D.M. Guay
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne loser, one talking cockroach, and one karate-chopping bombshell stand between YOU and certain death. Or not. No, definitely not, because the grim reaper's lost his job. He's been stripped of his scythe and banned from reaping. The angel of death has officially fallen, and he's crash-landed at 24/7 Demon Mart... -
![Son of a Liche by J. Zachary Pike]()
Son of a Liche by J. Zachary Pike
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA doubly disgraced Dwarven hero. A band of accident-prone adventurers. Giving redemption a second shot may have been a grave mistake... Still bruised and heartbroken from their last calamitous quest, Gorm Ingerson and his band of washed-up heroes try to make amends for the Orcs they accidentally betrayed. But justice is put on hold when an old foe marches to the city gates... -
![Who's a Good Boy? by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor]()
Who's a Good Boy? by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFrom the authors of the New York Times bestselling novels It Devours! and Welcome to Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the same name, comes a collection of episodes from Season Four of their hit podcast, featuring an introduction by the authors, a foreword by Jonny Sun, behind-the-scenes commentary, and original illustrations... -
![Critters from the Poo Lagoon : A 24/7 Demon Mart Creature Feature (24/7 Demon Mart Stories Book 2) by D.M. Guay]()
Critters from the Poo Lagoon : A 24/7 Demon Mart Creature Feature (24/7 Demon Mart Stories Book 2) by D.M. Guay
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne loser, one talking cockroach, and one karate-chopping bombshell stand between YOU and the creatures who just crawled out of the toilet at Jennifer Wallace's charity luau. Wait, what? Back up.It's Friday night, and the Wallace family is hosting a charity pool party at Caroline Ford Vanderbilt's super snooty Country Club... -
![Maskerade: The Play by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett]()
Maskerade: The Play by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsA play based on terry pratchett's novel maskerade.All is not well in Ankh-Morpork Opera House. A ghost stalks the corridors, leaving strange letters for the management and killing people. Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, two Lancre witches, investigate. This is an adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel, "Maskerade"... -
![Here Be Dragons by David P. Macpherson]()
Here Be Dragons by David P. Macpherson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA mid-life crisis, a castle gardener, an unfaithful steed, a dastardly hero, a merciless king, and a dragon that needs saving. With heroes this bad who needs villains... When Orus graduated from the Cromalot School for Heroes he was ready for a life of glory and adventure... -
![Snowflake by Heide Goody, Iain Grant]()
Snowflake by Heide Goody, Iain Grant
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLori Belkin has always been a carefree soul, a millennial snowflake... -
![Terry Pratchett: The BBC Radio Drama Collection by Terry Pratchett, Martin Jarvis]()
Terry Pratchett: The BBC Radio Drama Collection by Terry Pratchett, Martin Jarvis
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSomewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different… Collected together for the first time are seven full-cast BBC Radio dramatisations of Terry Pratchett’s novels, with star-studded casts including Martin Jarvis, Sheila Hancock, Anton Lesser, Philip Jackson,... -
![Troll Bridge by Terry Pratchett, LeVar Burton]()
Troll Bridge by Terry Pratchett, LeVar Burton
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPart of a short story tribute anthology to Tolkien, found in After the King: Stories In Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien, it was also reprinted in My Favorite Fantasy Story, in The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories, in The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy and was finally released as free online fiction... -
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![Hit or Myth by Robert Lynn Asprin]()
Hit or Myth by Robert Lynn Asprin
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe apprentice Skeeve is just getting used to his duties as Court Magician of Possiltum. Then King Roderick decides to take a powder, leaving Skeeve in his place to marry his homicidal fiancee and face the Mob's fairy godfather-who makes him an offer he can't refuse... -
![Myth-Fortunes by Robert Lynn Asprin, Jody Lynn Nye]()
Myth-Fortunes by Robert Lynn Asprin, Jody Lynn Nye
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsImmortality -- it sounded like a great idea! Aahz falls for the offer of a piece of the rock, literally, when he invests in a scheme to build pyramids. He is so enthusiastic about the concept that he ropes in everyone else he knows to invest -- in tombs lower down than his, of course... -
![অদ্ভুতুড়ে by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay]()
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![A Halloween Public Service Announcement from Monster Hunter International by Larry Correia]()
A Halloween Public Service Announcement from Monster Hunter International by Larry Correia
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFree MHI short story.Several years ago a film crew from the television news program PrimeLine was given unprecedented access to the staff of Monster Hunter International, a secretive company headquartered in Cazador, Alabama. Chief PrimeLine reporter, Leslie Bing, after learning of the existence of monsters was committed to educating the public about their dangers. Mr... -
![Castle for Rent by John DeChancie]()
Castle for Rent by John DeChancie
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOnce upon a time, the king of a mysterious castle found himself out of place. The odd thing was that the time was the future and the place was New York City! Castle Perilous had been a universe unto itself until it started living up to its name. Now it is a gateway to thousands of universes, each increasingly bizarre and more bewildering... -
![A Fate Worse Than Dragons by John Moore]()
A Fate Worse Than Dragons by John Moore
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn an attempt to win the hand of Princess Gloria in marriage, Sir Terry slays a dragon-only to discover he's killed the dragon in a neighboring kingdom and inadvertently earned the devotion of the wrong princess. And everyone knows that getting stuck with the wrong girl is truly a fate worse than dragons... -
![The Limpet Syndrome by Tony Moyle]()
The Limpet Syndrome by Tony Moyle
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat happens to us when we die? What if the religious and scientific beliefs are wrong. Perhaps there's some truth in both view points...or none at all. Imagine there was a politician whose only ambition was to corrupt and manipulate the very people who elected him, without them even knowing it. This was Byron T Casey’s ambition... -
![Myth-Chief by Robert Lynn Asprin, Jody Lynn Nye]()
Myth-Chief by Robert Lynn Asprin, Jody Lynn Nye
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsSkeeve has decided, at long last, to come out of his self-imposed retirement and get back into the problem-solving biz. He confidently expected walk in and take his rightful place as the head of M.Y.T.H., Inc. He didn't expect to have to face off against Aahz for the job... -
![Hell Inc. by Dick Wybrow]()
Hell Inc. by Dick Wybrow
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.Last week, out-of-work deejay Raz Frewer lived a simple life. However, there was something wrong, very wrong.So, to fix it, he made a wager with the Devil.To be clear... this was a bad idea... -
![Escape From Samsara by Nicky Blue]()
Escape From Samsara by Nicky Blue
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe thinks he’s a deadly ninja. He's not. He’s Barry Harris and he still lives with his mum. Barry's been patient, but after twenty-seven years of trimming hedges for people he hates, he's had enough. All he wants to do is to find his missing father and to discover his inner ninja. But life’s not done with throwing him curveballs. A fatal mistake catapults Barry into the adventure of a lifetime... -
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![Differently Morphous by Yahtzee Croshaw]()
Differently Morphous by Yahtzee Croshaw
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsA magical serial killer is on the loose, and gelatinous, otherworldly creatures are infesting the English countryside. Which is making life for the Ministry of Occultism difficult, because magic is supposed to be their best kept secret... -
![In Your Dreams by Tom Holt]()
In Your Dreams by Tom Holt
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'A definite must for all fans of comic fantasy' - ENIGMA'Wacky humour bubbles through the polished narrative ... Holt doesn't skimp on the flashes of brilliance' - SFXEver been offered a promotion that seems too good to be true? You know - the sort they'd be insane to be offering to someone like you... -
![Castle Perilous by John DeChancie]()
Castle Perilous by John DeChancie
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsImagine life in an ironically magical world where 144,000 doors separate fiction from reality. A place that can hypnotize even the most grounded philosophy major and deliver a fantastical rhyme to his reason. A place where a best buddy resembles a shaggy carpet, and adventures surpass a boy's dreams? welcome to Castle Perilous... -
![Bad Prince Charlie by John Moore]()
Bad Prince Charlie by John Moore
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWe set our scene in Damask: A kingdom that couldn't get ransacked if it tried...But now tha the king is dead, that's exactly what his brothers have in mind. All they need is a bad king to take his place. The population will rebel, the neighboring kingdom will be "invited" to restore order, and they'll be in business. . .Bad Prince Charlie will do... -
![The Unhandsome Prince by John Moore]()
The Unhandsome Prince by John Moore
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the back cover:And they lived happily never after...Caroline's plan to live happily ever after has hit a snag. She's spent months mapping the swamp, building tadpole nets, and kissing every wriggling frog she could get her hands on, and one has finally turned into a prince. Unfortunately, Prince Hal is not, as promised in the fairy tales, particularly handsome... -
![Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson: The Complete Stories by George Alec Effinger]()
Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson: The Complete Stories by George Alec Effinger
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContents:Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson (1982)Maureen Birnbaum at the Earth's Core (1986)Maureen Birnbaum on the Art of War (1987)Maureen Birnbaum after Dark (1989)Maureen Birnbaum Goes Shopynge (1991)Maureen Birnbaum and the Saint Graal (1993)Maureen Birnbaum at the Looming Awfulness (1993)Maureen Birnbaum's Lunar Adventure... -
![Bride of the Castle by John DeChancie]()
Bride of the Castle by John DeChancie
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the latest outrageous adventure in the bestselling Castle series, a wedding is planned at Castle Perilous. But the happy groom would rather face a hoard of barbarians than his wedding guests. Getting his wish, he's now fighting the battle of his life. What could be worse? Only the fury of a scorned bride... -
![The Part About the Dragon is (Mostly) True by Sean Gibson]()
The Part About the Dragon is (Mostly) True by Sean Gibson
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSure, you think you know the story of the fearsome red dragon, Dragonia. How it terrorized the village of Skendrick until a brave band of heroes answered the noble villagers' call for aid. How nothing could stop those courageous souls from facing down the dragon. How they emerged victorious and laden with treasure... -
![Heroics for Beginners by John Moore]()
Heroics for Beginners by John Moore
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsPrince Kevin Timberline must retrieve Ancient Artifact Model Seven from the clutches of the evil Lord Voltmeter--He Who Must Be Named--before said evil Lord unleashes his Diabolical Plan. Luckily, Kevin wields a secret weapon that will cause the forces of Darkness to tremble: "The Handbook of Practical Heroics... -
![The Fandom of the Operator by Robert Rankin]()
The Fandom of the Operator by Robert Rankin
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratings'To call Rankin irreverent doesn't begin to describe just how good he is at playing with the rules' MIRRORGary Cheese is twenty-two years of age and works for British Telecom as an operator. Gary's hobbies include watching TV, walking his dog Princey, going down the pub with his mates, and attempting to re-animate the dead. He hasn't been having too much success with the latter so far... -
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![Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin]()
Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMark Helprin’s legions of devoted readers cherish his timeless novels and short stories, which are uplifting in their conviction of the goodness and resilience of the human spirit... -
![Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry for Your...Brains by Ryan Mecum]()
Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry for Your...Brains by Ryan Mecum
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn your hands is a poetry journal written by an undead poet, recounting his firsthand experience during the zombie plague. Little is known about the author before he turned into a zombie, but thanks to his continued writings in this journal - even after his death - you can accompany him from infection to demise... -
![The Zombies of Lake Woebegotten by Harrison Geillor]()
The Zombies of Lake Woebegotten by Harrison Geillor
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe town of Lake Woebegotten, Minnesota, is a small town, filled with ordinary (yet above average) people, leading ordinary lives.Ordinary, that is, until the dead start coming back to life, with the intent to feast upon the living. Now this small town of above average citizens must overcome their petty rivalries and hidden secrets, in order to survive an onslaught of the dead... -
![Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Sausages by Tom Holt]()
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Sausages by Tom Holt
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPolly is a real estate solicitor. She is also losing her mind. Someone keeps drinking her coffee. And talking to her clients. And doing her job. And when she goes to the dry cleaner's to pick up her dress for the party, it's not there. Not the dress -- the dry cleaner's.And then there are the chickens who think they are people... -
![Death by Cliché by Bob Defendi]()
Death by Cliché by Bob Defendi
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook One: Gamers of the Lost Arc Formerly published as just "Death by Cliché" To Sartre, Hell was other people. To the game designer, Hell is the game. Damico writes games for a living. When called in to rescue a local roleplaying game demo, Damico is shot in the head by a loony fan. He awakens in a game. A game full of hackneyed tropes and clichéd plots... -
![Revenge of the Fluffy Bunnies by Craig Shaw Gardner]()
Revenge of the Fluffy Bunnies by Craig Shaw Gardner
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA terrible change has come to the Cineverse. In all its many movie worlds, bad guys win, good guys perish, and boy doesn't even get girl. Only Captain Crusader (until recently plain old Roger Gordon) can put things right-but the Captain has problems of his own... -
![Bride of the Slime Monster by Craig Shaw Gardner]()
Bride of the Slime Monster by Craig Shaw Gardner
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat is the Cineverse coming to? Second in the B-movie-based trilogy. With Roger stranded without a Captain Crusader Decoder Ring, Dr... -
![The Woad to Wuin by Peter David]()
The Woad to Wuin by Peter David
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe return of Sir Apropos of Nothing!"This sequel to the wildly successful Sir Apropos of Nothing starts off with a bawdy send-up of Lord of the Rings, but quickly segues into its own territory with the appearance of a mysterious Visionary at Apropos's bar, Bugger Hall... -
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Sir Apropos of Nothing by Peter David
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThey were dark and stormy knights...and when they had their way with a helpless tavern wench one terrible evening, they had no idea that the result of that twilight brutality was going to come after them years later looking to settle the score...The result's unlikely name is Apropos: A rogue, a rascal, a scoundrel, a cheat...and those are his good points... -
![Tong Lashing by Peter David]()
Tong Lashing by Peter David
Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt's hard to find a lesser man than Apropos: a con man, a knave, a scalawag...and those are his finer points. This time, Apropos winds up a stranger in a strange land called "Chinpan," populated by those who speak a different language and live by a code of honor, neither of which Apropos can comprehend... -
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![The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground by Ludvig Holberg]()
The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground by Ludvig Holberg
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFantastic adventures at the center of the earth await a penniless Norwegian student after he plunges into a bottomless hole in a cave. Niels Klim discovers worlds within our own—exotic civilizations and fabulous creatures scattered across the underside of the earth's crust and, at the earth's center, a small, inhabited planet orbiting around a miniature sun... -
![Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim by W. Bill Czolgosz]()
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim by W. Bill Czolgosz
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFree at last! Free at last! This ain't your grandfather's Huckleberry Finn. It's nineteenth century America and a mutant strain of tuberculosis is bringing its victims back from the dead. Sometimes they come back docile, and other times vicious. The vicious ones are sent back to Hell, but the docile ones are put to work as servants and laborers... -
![Joe Vampire by Steven Luna]()
Joe Vampire by Steven Luna
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHey, folks. I'm Joe, and I'm a vampire - not by choice, mind you, but by accident...a fate-twisting, fang-creating, blood lust-inducing misunderstanding. It started with a group date, a case of mistaken identity and far too many sake bombers, and ended with a ridiculous set of circumstances that I just can't seem to wrap my head around. Maybe you can tell: I'm not real happy about it... -
![Once Upon a More Enlightened Time: More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner]()
Once Upon a More Enlightened Time: More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAnother enlightened collection from the bestselling author of Politically Correct Bedtime Stories. Garner continues his mission to liberate our classic fairy tales from archaic, sexist, ageist, classist, lookist, and environmentally unsound prejudices with a new collection of humorous tales for readers of evolved consciousness. 13 line drawings... -
![The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo by Adam Roberts]()
The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo by Adam Roberts
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLizbreath Salamander is young and beautiful. Her scales have an iridescent sheen, her wings arch proudly, her breath has a tang of sulfur. And on her back a tattoo of a mythical creature: a girl. But when Lizbreath is drawn into a dark conspiracy she will have to rely on more than her beauty and her vicious claws the size of sabres ...A dragon has disappeared, one of a secretive clan... -
![The Zillionaire Vampire Cowboy's Secret Werewolf Babies by Juniper Bell, Meg Benjamin]()
The Zillionaire Vampire Cowboy's Secret Werewolf Babies by Juniper Bell, Meg Benjamin
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTheirs was a love that nature never intended. Bigger than Texas. Hotter than Hades. Weirder than...a lot of other things you might have read about up until now.Self-made zillionaire Rock Fangsworthy is your typical Texas cowboy. Well, sort of. Typical in that the only thing this lethally sexy lady-charmer with the hair trigger temper loves more than his horse is his ranch, The Double Fang...
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