Three strangers.Two plots.One champion.In the crater of a volcanic island, musical magic and enchanted swordplay rule society. Every seven years a champion from each caste climbs the tournament ladder for a chance at a new life. This year three apparent strangers—a sabotaged craftsman trying to save his mentally disabled father, a legendary duelist resisting the machinations of her master, and a janitor fighting an empathy-sapping magical talent—are desperate to reach...

Becoming a Thane—an elite rebel spy trained to deceive, manipulate and kill—was Timothy's life. He was driven. Obsessed. Fanatical. Then, in a moment, he lost everything.Now Timothy fights for survival and revenge in the Huctan death rings. When his recklessness and skill take him all the way to the Huctan capitol, he finds himself enmeshed in a deadly game of lies and deception. While his brother leads a last desperate rebellion in Botan, Timothy must rub shoulders with the Huctan...

Timothy is awkward, angry, and itching to fight. When he is kidnapped and conscripted into a secret army--and when a girl with a strange set of skills sets him free--he throws himself into the rebel cause. Igniting years of pent-up frustration into an obsessive drive to fight, spy, and deceive better than anyone else, he loses himself in the Band. But a bigger game is afoot, an old enemy is on the hunt, and everything Timothy has come to live for is at stake.

Geo Margilus is adjusting pretty well to his new life as lord of a castle in a fantasy world--or so he thinks until negotiations with the dwarves go awry, landing him in hot water. To make matters worse, someone's spreading rumors of him being secretly in league with the daemons! And is that yet another damsel in distress for him to rescue?! The adventure never stops in the second volume of this classic tabletop-RPG-inspired tale!

24 Award-Winning Authors and IllustratorsAccompanied by Orson Scott Card, Brandon Sanderson, Jody Lynn Nye, Jerry Pournelle, Ciruelo and Echo Chernik and Edited by David FarlandYour search for something new and different in sci-fi and fantasy ends here.Presenting this year’s collection of fresh voices, fabulous worlds, and fantastic new characters.Each year, the Writers and Illustrators of t...

General Daynja Édo is a legend: head of the celebrated Boorhian Empire’s military and possessor of a mask of untold power. She has raised her Shadow Army of seven assassins from childhood. But mounting disillusionment over a life of brutality, a petulant emperor, and prodding from The Artful Djinni force her to defy orders for the first time in her thirty year career. When the empire decides they no longer need Édo if they can get the mask, she must face the monsters of her own making and ...

The Eleterria, powerful twin orbs with the power to change the past. Oscar and Tinasha have one, but the other has vanished. Even alone, the mysterious artifact can change the course of history, and there are many who will stop at nothing to obtain it. With danger erupting from all around as their wedding approaches, will the king and witch be able to protect the orb from falling into the wrong hands? The pair’s nameless story of love and adventure comes to a climactic end!

The second book in the brilliant Knights of the Borrowed Dark trilogy, perfect for fans of Skulduggery Pleasant.Life is returning to normal for Denizen Hardwick. Well, the new normal, where he has to battle monsters in quiet Dublin bookshops and constantly struggle to contain the new powers he has been given by Mercy, the daughter of the Endless King. But Denizen may need those powers sooner than he thinks - not only are the Tenebrous stirring again but the Order of the Borrowed Da...

General Ashavi Kaur was the world's most ruthless mercenary commander… and now she is dead.Left behind is a magical clone created by Ashavi: identical to her in every way, meant to replace her in the event of her demise. Except the clone has different ideas. She means to forge her own path, write her own script—but the dead general's enemies are numberless; they'll stop at nothing to ensure she's gone for good.The clone—the new Ashavi Kaur—must marshal every resource to sur...

Young Reza Gard thought the Kreelans had taken everything from him, but they were just getting started.When the Kreelan galactic empire invaded his homeworld and the mysterious warrior priestess Tesh-Dar killed his parents, seven year-old orphan Reza Gard was cast into the Confederation's orphanage system.Winding up on the breadbasket world of Hallmark where children were used for slave labor, Reza discovered that the Kreelans weren't his only enemy. The ab...

Master the art of battling in MinecraftDon your armour, pick up your sword and charge headfirst into the Minecraft Combat Handbook – the only book you need to take your game to the next level.Read how to craft the deadliest weapons and enchant them with mystical powers, discover the vicious mobs that you’ll go toe-to-toe with, and learn crafty strategies that will help you best your friends in PVP.With so much to explore, there’s sure to be something for ‘cr...

One man—the Lone Emancipator—is programmed to bring down the slave trade from within in the first novel in the classic science fiction trilogy.Ruiz Aw is an Art League enforcer sent to investigate the disappearance of several slaves from the planet Pharaoh prior to their being "harvested". They are the property of the Art League and their property has been stolen. Ruiz is an ex-slave now working for the League, doing its corporate slave trading dirty work. Pharoah i...