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Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas, and then they were erased from history. Wake tells the story of Dr. Rebecca Hall, a historian, granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery. The accepted history of slave revolts has always said that enslaved women were not involved, but Rebecca decides to look deeper.

Build a tribe. Kill monsters. Bed beautiful women. Become a master. After passing through a portal, test pilot Jack Hawthorne finds himself in the mysterious land of Agraria. It has everything in abundance–beautiful women, plentiful resources, and more than a few things that want to kill him. Now Jack must build his own tribe from the ground up if he wants to have a chance at surviving–and begin working towards the creation of his very own empire.

Master Jack Hawthorne is hot off the trail of his latest conquest—the dark-elves are defeated, he has five lands under his control, and a pile of gold big enough to shake a stick at. But as Jack's power grows, so too does the threat of war. Mysterious forces to the east are ready to meet him head on, and the wilds are hiding dangerous secrets that could threaten the lives of not only Jack but his entire tribe.

Kieran is here for revenge. He's here to kill the most powerful man in Magical San Francisco—his father. He'll destroy anything in his way. And I've managed to catch his eye. I live in the shadows for a reason, split between the worlds of the magical and the mundane. I'm a punching bag for both societies, but with the magic of Hades, it's the only way to stay alive. To stay free. If the powers that be knew what I was, they'd slap me in a cage and make me their weapon.

Winter has come to Agraria, and while Jack Hawthorne and his tribe are staying warm and well-fed, danger is lurking on the horizon. A peaceful neighbouring tribe of dwarves has been overrun, and its survivors have come to Jack for help. The perpetrators of the attack? None other than Silas Garrison and his evil tribe of dark-elves. But Jack has a plan—acquiring a legendary treasure that may help him win the battle against his toughest foe yet. Deadly challenges stand between him and the treasure, ones that will push Jack and his companions' abilities to their limits.

With a new alliance established with the sun-elves, Jack turns his attention to improving his tribe’s perimeter defences and commanding the new ship they have acquired. But after a run-in with a beautiful stowaway, Jack ends up crossing paths with a vicious gang of mercenaries in search of the very woman he is protecting. And with the help of new companions, the Arakin Tribe begins freeing slaves, but not without coming face-to-face with their most psychopathic foe yet…

This brilliant collection of France’s foremost nineteenth-century novelist and playwright delivers four of his most fascinating works - stories of love, rivalry, horror and adventure - all brought to life by a stellar cast included Stephen Fry and Alex Kingston. A huge influence on many of the most famous writers from Proust to Kerouac to Dickens, Balzac delivers beautifully observed and complex characters with an unsurpassed attention to the details of society at the time, making him an exemplary of realism in European literature.

Rand is now employed by SA, but they remain unaware of his true strength. Simultaneously, the world's Monsters are growing more powerful, and he's on the brink of discovering unsettling knowledge. This compels him to reconsider his abilities. Fortunately, he doesn't have to deal with the Ulliam Fruit, except for the remnants still scattered around. Rand hopes these remnants are rare or non-existent. During his tenure at SA, he learns that not all Superheroes are bad people; although, the majority are.

Get betrayed by your bounty hunting guild and barely escape with your life. Team up with a deadly smoking-hot foxgirl, an eager-to-please catgirl maid, and a pyro-dwarven blacksmith. Hunt down wanted criminals that your old guild were too lazy to go after. Get paid fat stacks of gold as a reward. Get revenge on the ex-colleagues who tried to have you killed. Warning: Bounty Hunting: For Gold and Revenge features undefined relationships/harem, explicit sexuality, lots of bad language, and brutal violence. If that doesn’t sound like your kind of thing, steer clear.

Twelve little oddities - an assortment of the bizarre, unexpected, charming, unsettling, and downright peculiar. Into darkness or light, there are many ways to escape.

Initially banned in France by King Louis, Molière's celebrated social satire Tartuffe exposes false piety and hypocrisy in the Catholic Church. When a pious fraud worms his way into a wealthy family and manipulates the patriarch into giving up his fortune, it’s up to his family to expose the truth before they end up in the poorhouse!

In 1353, Giovanni ​Boccaccio wrote The Decameron: one hundred nested tales told by a group of young men and women passing the time at a villa outside Florence while waiting out the gruesome Black Death, a plague that killed more than 25 million people. Some of the stories are silly, some are bawdy, some are like fables. In March 2020, the editors of The New York Times Magazine worked to create a collection of stories written just as the pandemic first swept the globe.

Lancelot, an orphaned kangaroo adopted by a farmer and his wife, is the constant figure across these stories. He is also disabled, after losing one of his arms in an accident. His quest is to discover his kangarooness and find love and acceptance among his fellow creatures.Lancelot is a little Joey whose mother has died. He is adopted by Bill and Emmy, the farmer and his wife, and he doesn’t even know that he is a kangaroo.

Randold, better known as Rand, was no ordinary individual. Despite his best efforts, he possessed an extraordinary secret—he was a Super. Well, technically speaking, he belonged to that exceptional group, but he concealed his true nature from the world. For Rand possessed a remarkable ability to manipulate all forms of energy, even the Superpowers of others, a power that, if discovered, would undoubtedly land him in dire trouble with the government. The consequences ranged from imprisonment to something far worse.

Since half-vampire Cat Crawfield and her undead lover Bones met six years ago, they've fought against the rogue undead, battled a vengeful Master vampire, and pledged their devotion with a blood bond. Now it's time for a vacation. But their hopes for a perfect Paris holiday are dashed when Cat awakes one night in terror. She's having visions of a vampire named Gregor who's more powerful than Bones and has ties to her past that even Cat herself didn't know about.

This book is a heart-stopping journey told in first person, which describes unusual courage and uncanny luck. It is the true story of a young teenager who lost everyone and everything during the Holocaust. He fought to live on in spite of ghettos, fatal line-ups, enslavement in work camps and years of survival as a partisan in Polish forests.