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Wuthering Heights And Emma


C.M. Harbin
    Includes: Wuthering Heights and Emma

PWNED: A Gamers Novel


Matt Vancil - 2014
     Reid is having a rough week. He's not sleeping well. He's just been saddled with an impossible project at work. And his girlfriend has disconnected her phone and left him for Fartherall Online. When Reid dives into the massively multiplayer pwn-or-be-pwned world of Fartherall Online, he's only got one quest in mind: to find and win back the love of his life. After all, it's just a game-how hard can it be? Written by Matt Vancil, creator of the Gamers movies, PWNED is the lost chapter of the Gamers movie franchise produced by Dead Gentlemen Productions and Zombie Orpheus Entertainment (The Gamers, The Gamers: Dorkness Rising, and The Gamers: Hands of Fate).

Prodigy of Thunder (Chronicles of Anna Atticus Stone Book 1)


Sever Bronny - 2021
    

The Wolf King's Lair 1: A Dungeon Core LitRPG Harem tale


Devan Drake - 2021
    

Arrival


Kenneth Arant - 2019
    In this new world, the hero is a once-in-a-hundred-year prodigy, a master Arcanist, and is blessed by the god of magic himself. Renowned for his battle prowess, he has an empire under his control and access to the most powerful Arcana Spirits the world has ever seen. Sounds great, right? Well, there's just one problem... Our hero isn't the hero. Our hero is the bad guy with a tragic ending. Can our hero, armed with only his knowledge of anime and the body of twelve-year-old Aren Ulvani, turn his life around? Or will the events of the anime come to pass regardless of what he does? From Kenneth Arant, bestselling author of All-Knowing Novice (Clanless Cultivator) and A Snake's Life, comes a brand new adventure that takes every anime trope and flips them on their head! Publisher's Note: I' m the Bad Guy!? Arrival is a rereleased work, originally published under the same title by the author, Kenneth Arant. This version, published by Shadow Alley Press, has been copy-edited, but no other substantial changes have been made to the story

Pratchett 8 Book Set: Night Watch / Truth / Carpe Jugulum / Color of Magic / Fifth Elephant / Light Fantastic / Equal Rites / Thief of Time


Terry Pratchett - 2003
    Pratchett Fiction Collection Eight-Book Set For a limited time get eight books in Terry Pratchett`s Discworld series in one easy-to-order package, including Pratchett's 28th installment in the series, Night Watch.

Alien Infection


Darrell Bain - 2005
    Afraid of being thrown into an isolation chamber, Michael goes home, but quickly falls violently ill. By the time he recovers and returns to work scary things are happening. Everyone who has come into contact with that patient is being systematically killed. On the run, he accidentally infects a woman living in the shadows of the underworld. She becomes ill as well, but survives. Then they begin feeling younger-and younger. Why would the government want to suppress something like this? After barely escaping federal gunmen, the two of them set out to discover what kind of infection they are harboring even though it might mean the end of their freedom.

Dark Cultivation: A Dark Fantasy LitRPG


Avery Stevenson - 2019
     Elliot is transported to Eden because he's their last hope: A man filled with a power not seen in centuries. He has the rare ability to learn talents from all talent trees, not just one. Only he's not the man everyone thinks he is. Downtrodden his entire life, he's been harboring dark desires deep inside him for years. And now he's finally been given the opportunity to live them. Instead of a hero's journey, Elliot is about to embark on the ultimate villain's journey. Dark Cultivation is a work of fiction exploring what happens when a dark character takes power, not endorsing it. There's sex, violence, gore and profanity. Don't read if you trigger easily.

Saltwater's Weep: Avalar Explored 02


Deacon Frost - 2021
    Traveling to Saltwater's Weep is a dangerous journey. A powerful coterie of adventurers led by the Warlord rules the city. Their dark fingers extend throughout and nothing is as it seems.Taking his time to plan his attack, Jace seeks to gain control of new allies and servants before he sets out on his Quest. Join him as he takes new lovers, fulfills new temptations and gains in immortal power. Watch villains creep from the sidelines with agendas of their own. Can a fledgling Incubus survive in a dangerous world when might makes right?Contains Explicit Content that is meant for 18+ readers, may not be suitable for everyone.

Welcome to Ludus


Blaise Corvin - 2016
    Their kidnapper, the vain, self-styled god Dolos refuses to send them back unless they can accomplish an impossible task. Oddly, Dolos doesn’t seem to care if they succeed or not.Luckily, Henry and Jason studied Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) on Earth. Unfortunately, a Japanese American EMT and a geeky IT programmer don’t have many other useful skills on a sword and sorcery world like Ludus.Stranded in the middle of nowhere on an alien world, the friends have no real direction and only a few possessions including magic-granting orbs from an apathetic god. Undaunted, the two begin their insane adventure to return home, but basic survival and eventually paying rent will have to take priority.

Shattered Lands


Darren Pillsbury - 2017
     Welcome to the Shattered Lands, the first truly immersive video game where you see, hear, touch, taste, and feel the game. In this online fantasy world of dragons, elves, wizards, and magic, two best friends enter at the same time and take very different paths. Daniel desperately wants to break free of his ‘nice-guy’ life in the real world… until his choices end in tragedy. Eric wants unlimited power by any means necessary. Assassin or summoner of demons, it makes no different. Join them on their quest – both inside the game and out – as they navigate the violence, the triumphs, the treachery, and the danger… Of the Shattered Lands. Shattered Lands is the first book in a LitRPG series.

The William Kent Krueger Collection #4: Vermilion Drift, Northwest Angle, and Trickster's Point


William Kent Krueger - 2015
    Five are connected to a series of old unsolved disappearances. But the sixth is fresh. What’s worse, two of the victims—including the most recent—were killed with Cork’s gun. As Cork searches for answers, he must dig into his own past and that of his father, a well-respected man who harbored a ghastly truth. Northwest Angle: Amid the wreckage of a violent storm, Cork O’Connor and his daughter Jenny discover a body. Nearby, a baby boy lies hungry and dehydrated but still very much alive. Powerful forces in pursuit of the child follow them to the isolated Northwest Angle, where it’s impossible to tell who is friend or foe. Trickster’s Point: Cork O’Connor sits deep in the wilderness with his good friend Jubal Little—favored to become Minnesota’s first Native American elected governor—who is slowly dying with an arrow through his heart. But this is no hunting accident. The arrow is one of Cork’s. As he works to clear his name and track the killer who set him up, only Cork knows that his complex, passionate, ambitious friend was also capable of murder.

Hearts in Atlantis/Misery (Debenhams Slipcase Ed.)


Stephen King - 2001
    

Phantasmal Party


Trey Myr - 2019
    Without a patron of his own, Eduard has to take on an almost crippling disadvantage in the form of a useless Skill before he will be allowed into the Labyrinth to search for her. Once inside, however, Eduard stumbles upon a secret that even the Five Families that control all access to the Labyrinth don't know. A secret that might just let him turn his Impediment into the advantage he needs to take on the House of Adam and find out what happened to his sister. This novel contains unconventional relationships/harem, LitRPG elements and several truly atrocious puns.

So You've Decided to Become a Necromancer, Book 1 (So You've Decided to Become a Necromaner)


Naosu N.R. - 2018
     And Earth is under siege, slowly being pushed back by strange wielders of this power from another world in a gate that had just appeared that resists gunpowder and technology. But what if the current magic system on this world is a diehard system of really slow painstaking growth without levels, dependent on monster stat injection power ups that are bone grindingly hard to get where this world is weak against other world’s monsters? And what if the invaders from the other world are stronger than humans are? Problem two, in conjunction with above; ‘what if the monsters know that Earth’s magic system is way weaker than theirs, and they see how rich and full of life Earth is ripe for the taking?’ It will depend on if a wide variety of supernaturals including paladins, necromancers, enhanced humans, heroics, white mages, red mages, black mages, adventurers, and other dungeoners to band together to keep humanity from becoming monster fodder.This book has a ‘mature’ label and features some adult scenes and vivid descriptions of combat and gore. This material is for an adult audience only. All characters in this story are above 18 years of age or older, and are purely fictional.