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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.

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.

The top 10 list is populated. The sponsorship program is open. The difficulty is ramping up. The first three floors were nothing compared to what Carl and Donut now face. The Iron Tangle. An impossibly complicated subway system built out of the world's subterranean railway systems, all combined and then tied together into a knot. Up is down.

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...

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.

It’s not easy making the career jump from office-supplies-store middle manager to heroic interdimensional adventurer. At least, Jason tries to be heroic, but it's hard to be good when all your powers are evil. He’ll face off against cannibals, cultists, wizards, monsters...and that’s just on the first day. He’s going to need courage, he’s going to need wit, and he’s going to need some magic powers of his own. But first, he’s going to need pants.

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of the most revered voices in literature today gives us a story of love, friend­ship, and heartbreak for the ages. “Mesmerizing, immersive, hallucinogenic.”—Entertainment Weekly Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the...

Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, was an Irish writer known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo. His book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, comprises two parts, the first being the "Kwaidan Proper" and the second, "Insect-Studies", which consists of an essay each on ants, butterflies and mosquitos. According to the author, most of the folk tales and ghost stories in the first part were translated from old Japanese texts. The themes encompass resurrection, sacrifice, magic, and the realm of dreams.

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...

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...

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 "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...

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.

This is a tale of sorrow, a tale of survival, a tale of one man's search for meaning in his universe, and how that search, and the indomitable will that drove it, gave birth to a legend.

Six hours. That’s how long seven-year-old Sophie Lewin was missing. Found seventeen miles away on a desolate road, she has no memory of the incident, and the police have no leads. But one thing is certain: Sophie has not been the same since.

Based on Japanese literature and foldlore, Kwaidan contains 17 stories. The story of Loichi, the blind biwa player who was called to perform for the dead; of Muso, the journeying priest who encountered a man eating goblin; of the samurai who outwitted the ghost of a dead man. All these plus 14 other spooly tales are included in this collection.

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...

Explore. Dream. Discover. This was the answer Soren obtained after performing a strange ritual he found online. The ritual was meant to provide answers to questions no mortal could currently answer, but the answer it provided wasn't what he had hoped: "Uncover the truth for yourself."

His entire life, both as wolf and man, Kane has been a hunter. Now, he is the one being hunted. A merciless stranger has emerged from the shadows, vowing to track Kane down and destroy him. To erase the Wolfwere bloodline from existence—just as this mysterious predator did to Kane's pack. But Kane has something this relentless hunter does not: an ex-criminal who's found the first hints of true joy in her life, and Emelda will stop at nothing to kill the hunter before he can take that away.

After an eventful Spirit Week, Ryan Aglecard is ready for his next grand adventure. Lucky for him, classes are starting up again at New Riverside University. With a brand new courseload of thrilling magical subjects, he hopes to further develop his abilities as a Spirit Keeper and better understand the otherworldly nature of the peculiar spirits he has collected thus far. But the plot thickens when new allies reveal secrets concerning Ryan's very own family.

Cath Greenstone is running out of time. The Moon Ritual is nearing, and her potion refuses to come together, no matter how carefully she follows the steps. When a series of strange break-ins unsettles Wonder Falls, something supernatural seems to be interfering. With Bea days away from giving birth, Aunt Astrid weakened by troubling visions, and her telepathic black cat Treacle on high alert, Cath begins to suspect the disturbances are not random.

For those of you who are new: my name is Cicero James, and I’m immortal. Technically *The* Immortal, the latest in a long line of similar can’t-die unfortunates who drive something called The Eternal Cycle. I’m a sign the world’s ending. I’m supposed to save it, too, but I’m not the kind of guy you’d usually trust to do something like that. So. Odds aren’t *great* at the moment.

Viktoria has always been the fierce, loyal outsider among her magical allies—rebellious, sharp-tongued, and unshakably devoted. But when strange voices haunt her mind and her magic begins to spiral out of control, even she starts to question what really happened to her after the last battle.

A ring of corruption. A fated bond. New York Times and USA Today best-selling author L.P. Dover weaves gripping adventure with sizzling seduction in the dangerously hypnotic Bound by the Moon. Feelings she can’t deny. A bond impossible to ignore. Haunted by pain of the past, Kami Grayson seeks to make the world a better place by joining the FBI. She thought being invited to join a secret branch of the bureau, known as the Circle of Justice, was the opportunity she had been waiting for. Instead, she uncovers a corrupt ring of dangerous shifters that will kill to keep their dealings hidden.

Strange things are happening in Wonder Falls before Halloween. Jake and Blake investigate a death that involves black-eyed kids. The detectives want to believe it’s an urban legend until a couple of these creepy children try to enter the homes of Jake and Min, terrifying them both. Cath, Bea, and Aunt Astrid trace the source of these demon kids to a secluded mansion in town, where cruel creatures and mysterious events are festering.

Something sinister befalls Wonder Falls—again. Cath’s elderly neighbor Mrs. Kitt begins dressing like a streetwalker and behaving strangely. Mrs. Kitt dies in her own home after her heart literally explodes in her chest. As the Greenstone witches and their cats investigate another strange death, Cath’s policeman boyfriend, Tom, is shot on the job, but his accident might also be the result of dark sorcery . . .

My name is Rick Sweet, and I’m a professional disaster. I’m a divorced soda salesman living in a former Detroit crack den, spending my nights cleaning to keep the depression at bay and my days being bullied by my boss. I was just a guy trying to survive the Motor City and be a hero to my daughter—until I took a shortcut through the wrong alley and said "YES" to a voice in the dark.

Niles Freudenfur, the town’s fabulously wealthy—but fraudulent—psychic, is found dead in his own home. The police discover he has been killed—with strange stab wounds on his body and mud in his throat. Did Niles die from a spell gone wrong, or was he really killed by someone in town? Before the witches can find out, Aunt Astrid, Niles’s biggest competition in Wonder Falls, becomes the main murder suspect. But the Greenstone women and their magical cats have bigger things to fear than Aunt Astrid being behind bars.

Gold grows up knowing only a few things about herself: something lets her see ghosts and read her neighbors' secrets, and her mother seems to hate her. But when she strikes out on her own, she stumbles into a job at The Wheel, a literally underground lesbian bar where a coven gathers every Thursday and each entrance requires a painful sacrifice. It feels like the first place she's belonged.

Something wicked is feeding off the living in a secluded part of Wonder Falls. In the farmlands, the police find the body of a local named Archie Jones. People jump from “Suicide Bridge” fairly frequently, but the Greenstone witches think something is peculiar about Archie’s death. With no marks on his body and horse tranquilizer in his system, they suspect murder. When Cath, Bea, and Aunt Astrid visit the farm, however, they discover something more twisted and sinister than plain old human murderers . . .