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What do Americans truly want in a novel? What would it look like if their preferences and aversions materialized in book form? In People's Choice Literature, Tom Comitta has taken up this challenge, writing two groundbreaking novels based on a nationwide poll about literary taste―one featuring...

I'm pretty sure there's rules about an elementary teacher hooking up with a student's parent, but what if I didn't know that's who he was? See, I've spent the last few months getting hot and heavy with this guy on the app MonsterSmash, but we haven't exchanged names. This made our parent-teacher conference a little...awkward.

König Norman regiert das Reich von Daxaria. Eigentlich! Da ist nämlich der neue Koch, der bei Hofe mehr und mehr Einfluss gewinnt. Zwischen dampfenden Kesseln, höfischen Intrigen und wachsender Gefahr, die vom Nachbarreich ausgeht, entfaltet sich eine Geschichte voller Magie, Eigenwillen, Abenteuer und Leidenschaft. Als Finlay Ashowan seine Stelle als königlicher Koch antritt, ahnt niemand, dass er mehr ist als ein begnadeter Küchenmeister: Er ist ein Haushexer – ein Hüter alter, schützender Magie.

Meet Richard: ‘[Immortal]’ banana slug, emotional terrorist, dungeon life coach…Then there’s Cole. He just wants to survive. Richard has goals. Neither of them is optimistic. In a world split between [Mundanes] and [Adventurers], Cole rolled the worst specialization imaginable: [Self Criticism]. One drunken mistake later, he’s conscripted into the Adventurer's Guild. First stop? A deadly [Trial Dungeon] with a sarcastic slug, a mysterious goth, and two best friends who are absolutely not qualified for this. Richard is a ‘foot-long’ telepathic jerk with a gift for emotional damage.

Rejoin Never in this short story as he fights to take back Tsolde's inn from the clutches of a greedy nobleman. After returning from Kiymako, Never discovers that Tsolde's inn, the Young Stag, is now owned by Lord Taginus - a wastrel and a cad. Yet the man hides a troubling secret, and when Never stumbles upon it he quickly finds a far darker adversary than he first imagined.

This novel has a librarian in it. Also, it has some monsters. Hilariously twisted and darkly magical, The Librarian and The Monsters of the Apocalypse serves up post-apocalyptic adventure that delivers supernatural thrills with a side of demonic family drama. Perfect for anyone who likes their end times with a mix of action and humor.

Ich heiße Michael Kaiser und in mir arbeiten Nanomaschinen. Aber das wusstet ihr bereits. Das unerwartete Auftauchen meiner übermächtigen Urgroßmutter zwingt mich, meine Pläne zu ändern. Denn ein Wort von ihr würde genügen, um meine geliebte Familie ins Verderben zu stürzen. Alle fürchten sie aufgrund ihrer Stärke.

A captivating volume of over forty short stories full of love, hope, and fear, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lady of Hay. Barbara Erskine is a born storyteller. The tales in 'Encounters' illustrate her extraordinary talent for capturing the spirit of a place and drawing us into the...

Willkommen in Starry Hollow, wo Zauber dazu da sind, gebrochen zu werden. Ember Rose, die aus New Jersey hierher gezogen ist, findet sich mitten im Geschehen wieder, als ein Wanderzirkus in Starry Hollow Halt macht. Sie folgt Florians Rat, geselliger zu sein, und wird Mitglied der ›Power Puffs‹–einer Gruppe von Müttern aus der Mittelschule, die noch nie einen Backwettbewerb verpasst haben. Ember ist nur eine Mitläuferin in ihrem Streben nach dem Sieg–bis die Freundin ihres sexy Vampir-Chefs einem konkurrierenden Team beitritt.

Chloe Mayfield has found herself in some tight spots before, but a full-on war? That’s new territory for her. Branded a terrorist and enemy of the United Fairy Commonwealth, she’s under fire from every direction, and there is no shortage of people eager to take advantage of the chaos, including a murderer who stalks the streets of Boston. It’s up to Chloe to restore order to her city, and if she can’t do it soon, then she’ll have no choice but to offer up her unconditional surrender. But how can you negotiate a cease fire with a nation that doesn’t actually exist?

The time has come to pay Sawyer back for all of his support and hard work. For taking a chance on Sean when no one else would. For getting Sean the needed supplies for the war back when no one else was able to. Sawyer has always been in Sean's court and has gone above and beyond more than once. And let's not even mention the help he's provided to Mihalis and Troy!

Our story begins with the programmer, Allosaurus Triplicate, who inadvertently creates the Realm of the Unwritten—a dimension populated by unfinished and deleted text fragments that achieve sentience, including the letter V. This symbolic dimension soon descends into turmoil through the creation of Antinomy, a paradoxical entity that seeks to monetize and control all expression, leading to a global linguistic crisis where meaning and grammar collapse.

After falling from the sky, Fieran is sent home to heal. But healing his body is only a minor battle compared to healing his friendship with Merrik and pursuing his relationship with Pip. Pip travels to Aldon to work at the AMPC and solve a tricky mechanical problem. But inventing mechanics is nothing compared to meeting more of Fieran's family. Can she embrace this new step? Whether at home or at the front, the war threatens those Fieran and Pip love. With his squadron at his back and Pip at his side, Fieran fights as he has never fought before to protect the Alliance.

They say you can never go home. They don't tell you that it's because the people you left behind split time itself into a million glittering shards, trying to figure out where you went. In the final book of the Monster Girlfriend trilogy, Sian and Trillin return to where it all began. . . . kind of.

Few cities are as beautiful as Westbara, so it's a pity that Styk, Corminar, and Lore aren't just there to see the sights. Rather, they're on a mission to take down a celebrated Player called the Councilman. But they'll soon discover they aren't alone in targeting this allegedly esteemed member of the Council . . .

Recent graduate Mathias Mandrake's life takes a turn when an unexpected inheritance of a distant relative's manor falls right into his lap. However, this home across the country comes with a condition: Mat cannot live there alone. Good thing his best friend Frankie is ready to leave behind his lackluster trail of midnight trysts for a more suburban life. Eager to hone in his dilf-hunting skills, his bags are packed and ready to go before Mat can finish signing the paperwork.

Life has been crazy, so it shouldn't be surprising that I've been taken by a mythological creature and marked as a potential piece of an apocalyptic prophecy. Except I'm done being a victim. Dangerous claws or not, I won't cower to the scary beast who says I'm his fated mate.

A Whitlow is missing, and the quest to find her takes Tula and her sisters to a dangerous and magical island off the coast of Savannah. She'll need to survive an unearthly hoard, a disappearing sun, spirits gone mad, alligators, and maybe the scariest of all, a group of drunken thespians. In the search for her cousin, Tula will begin to scratch the surface of a mystery that could destroy the thing she holds most dear—her own birthright as a Whitlow. What she's learned could open up access to a power she never believed was possible.

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The 10 Questions is a clever, heartfelt, and ironic journey into the great unknown — a guide for those who wonder what might come next, but prefer to ask with a smile.