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Brought to you by Penguin. America Chavez must gather a team of heroes to make their final stand against Doctor Doom, and uncover what led him down this deadly path. What If....the Watcher saved the Multiverse? Victor von Doom has scoured across time, space, and countless dimensions and yet has...

With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite...

The ratings and views are off the chart. The fans just can't get enough. The dungeon gets more dangerous each day. But in a grinder designed to chew up and spit out crawlers by the millions, Carl and Princess Donut need to work harder than ever just to survive. They call it the Over City. A sprawling, once-thriving metropolis devastated by a mysterious calamity. But these streets are far from abandoned. An undead circus trawls the ruins. Murdered prostitutes rain from the sky. An ancient spell is finally ready to reveal its dark purpose.

A "dreamlike and compelling” tour de force (Chicago Tribune)—an astonishingly imaginative detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets from Japan’s forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II. Now with a new introduction by the...

The ninth floor. Nine armies, each led by rich and powerful aliens from across the galaxy. Each team has one objective: to capture and hold the castle at the very center of the battlefield. Strategy, alliances, pitched battles, and, of course, betrayal ... It all makes for great fun and even greater television. After all, none of these powerful aliens really die when they’re playing war. Except this time. This time, winner takes all. Those who fall, stay in the ground.

As chaos and mass panic spread outside the dungeon in the wake of Faction Wars, Carl and Donut find themselves on the tenth floor, where they’re forced to compete in a surprisingly normal set of tasks. Well, normal for the dungeon. Races. Get from point A to point B, and don’t come in last. After each race, they pick an upgrade for their vehicle and the track gets more challenging. It all seems a little too normal, a little too simple.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes “an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and a deceptively simple old man. Now with a new introduction by the...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 1Q84 and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle comes a relentlessly inventive novel that dives deep into the very nature of consciousness. “Fantastical, mysterious, and funny . . . a fantasy world that might have been penned by Franz Kafka.”—The...

A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible. In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth - from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds - collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground. The buildings and all the people inside have all been atomized and transformed into the dungeon: an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A REAL SIMPLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the author of Norwegian Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World comes a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable...

Finalist for the 2023 AUDIE AWARDS for Audio Drama and Fantasy A brand-new full-cast audio production of Good Omens, the internationally beloved novel and collaboration by bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Starring Michael Sheen as Aziraphale, David Tennant as Crowley and...

The battle for the fate of the world has begun—but beneath the surface, another war is brewing—in the third installment of this epic fantasy adventure. Ethan Graham's had it with anxiety, doubt, and mercy clouding his judgment as he takes his crusade to the cowering people of Argwyll. Not to...

Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and not long after entering Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz's most promising young citizens. But Elphaba's Oz is no utopia. The Wizard's secret police are everywhere.

An ex-assistant must face vengeful witches, devilish romance, impending doom, and unemployment in the third book of this deliciously dark fantasy series. After bringing down history's most dangerous coven, Clark Crane is newly infamous, heartbroken, and desperately trying not to become the next...

Gaia’s Cradle continues the Fénix family saga that began with The Aether’s Call. Ayana Fénix-Morgan’s calm, structured world begins to fracture when a mysterious client draws her into an ancient conflict between modern life and elemental duty. As she wrestles with a pregnancy that magnifies her connection to the Earth, Ayana must confront buried truths, inherited power, and the quiet cost of balance. A story of legacy, identity, and renewal, Gaia’s Cradle blends contemporary British realism with lyrical, earthbound magic.

Paignton and the Robot is the story of a young girl, Karen, who is befriended by a magical toy Gorilla called Paignton, who she bought with her birthday money on a visit to Paignton Zoo. A journalist after a big story to kick start her career happens to view some CCTV footage of a toy gorilla who mysteriously disappears and reappears. Will Karen be able to protect Paignton from being discovered?

My name is Eddie Drood, and the Powers That Be have taken everything... Eddie Drood has lost everyone important to him. His parents mysteriously disappeared and no one else in his family seems to care. His beloved uncle, the last family member he could trust, has just passed away. And now his...

Bienvenue dans notre salon de thé "La Traversée de Charon'. Le thé y est chaud, les scones bien frais et les morts, juste de passage. Wallace Price n'est pas ce que l'on peut appeler " un personnage sympathique " ... loin de là même. Vous ne pleurerez sûrement pas en apprenant qu'il vient...

Linus Baker mène une vie tranquille et solitaire. À 40 ans, il vit dans une petite maison avec un chat caractériel et ses vieux disques. En tant qu'agent du Ministère de la Jeunesse Magique, il doit s'assurer du bien-être des enfants dans les orphelinats supervisés par le gouvernement...

Evangeline Windemere knows love. Despite her wealthy mother’s objections, it’s her rebellious boyfriend, Slater, who’s always been there for her. But Evangeline is struggling with a mysterious illness. Hovering between life and death, her only hope is in the compellingly handsome, silver-eyed Dr. Sebastian Blithe. He knows what’s best for Evangeline.