After losing a fight with a runaway truck, a karateka is transmigrated to another world, one full of swords and sorcery straight out of fantasy books. The goddess who sent him there offers him a superpowered cheat skill to assist him in his upcoming heroics⸺but naturally, he turns her down. After all, he already possesses the only technique he needs: karate! No matter what manner of otherworldly foe he may face, be they a minotaur, a gigantic steelclad knight, or a wicked sorcerer, none of...

After the karateka defeats the Orc Mafia’s summoner and his fearsome Ifrit, an assassin comes to claim his head: an elf warrior wielding a martial art known as High Elf Magic Jujutsu! And yet, it doesn’t seem like our hero’s would-be assassin is truly out for blood... Will the karate master survive and learn his foe’s true motivations? Or will he succumb to his nimble opponent’s joint locks and air blades in their clash of refined techniques?

The karateka lives by a seemingly simple maxim: “Don’t worry. Believe in karate.” But in a world of powerful magic and monsters, how far can karate really take you? Our hero’s faith in his martial art is put to its ultimate test in the face of Javid the Hexblade Hero, a planeswalker who’s eager to unleash his boundless magic upon the stratified society that never ceases to disappoint him. When Javid annihilates a monument to draw out the royalty, it seems like only the karateka might be ca...

Now an adventurer alongside Princess Wilma, the karate master takes on any fight his guild gives him, including an all-out brawl against a hundred goblins and their gigantic champion. Not everyone appreciates the work he does, though—after he handles a slew of arrests, the Orc Mafia marks him for death! Seeking to make an example out of the karate master, the Mafia take one of his fellow adventurers hostage and force him to duel a towering, flame-clad ifrit in a crowded stadium to save her...

Fame is fleeting. Love is forever.Millions watched as Toby Lyngstad got rejected by his teenage crush on British TV's most popular talent show, 'Make Me a Pop Star'.While Toby's heartbreak became a viral internet sensation that haunted him for years, his crush, Cole Kennedy, skyrocketed to global superstardom as part of the show's most successful boy band, The Go Tos.A decade later, Toby is the host of radio's 'Pop Review', and he's finally put Cole...

Don't hold the front page. Hold the guy who wrote it.In the cutthroat world of British political journalism, rivals Sunny Miller and Ludo Boche are about to discover that the biggest scoop of their careers might just be each other.Sunny, a working-class reporter at the trashy tabloid The Bulletin, dreams of writing hard-hitting stories that change the world. Ludo, a privileged musical theatre fanatic turned journalist at the prestigious Sentine...

A name destined to be forgotten. A cursed axe. An atrocity too great to be forgiven."Gritty, tense, and brutally tragic. High quality storytelling with great characters and a relentless plot." -- Mitchell Hogan, author of A Crucible of Souls and Aurealis Award winner.The legend begins...For more than a thousand years, the dwarves have hidden away from the world in their ravine city of Arx Gravis.Governed by ...

In a marvellous, thrilling re-creation of the world of Pride and Prejudice, P.D. James fuses the work of Jane Austen with her own great talent for writing crime fiction.The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome, healthy sons in the Pemberley nursery, Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane and her husband, Bingley, live within seventeen miles, the ordered and secure life of Pemberley seems unassailable, and Elizabeth's ha...

Murder is no laughing matterEx-professional baseball player Jake Longly adamantly refuses to work for his father, wanting no part of Ray's PI world. He prefers to hang out at his beachfront bar and chase bikinis along the sugary beaches of Gulf Shores, Alabama. But Ray can be persuasive, so Jake finds himself staking out the home of wealthy Barbara Plummer, a suspected adulteress. The mission seems simple enough—hang around, take a few pictures, sip a little bourbon...

Aristotle considered ethics to be a practical science, i.e., one mastered by doing rather than merely reasoning. Further, Aristotle believed that ethical knowledge is not certain knowledge (like metaphysics and epistemology) but is general knowledge. He wrote several treatises on ethics, including most notably, Nichomachean Ethics, in which he outlines what is commonly called virtue ethics.Aristotle taught that virtue has to do with the proper function of a thing. An eye is only a good eye...

Nothing is easy in The Big EasyPI Jake Longly and Nicole Jamison head to New Orleans at the behest of Nicole's uncle, movie producer Charles Balfour, when his megastar, A-list actor Kirk Ford, awakens in his hotel bed with the body of Kristi Guidry, a local college coed.Ford, in the Big Easy for a location shoot, remembers little of the evening and nothing of the murder. And, to make matters worse, Kristi is the niece of a local mafioso-type who will do whate...

Serial killer’s message to PI Jake Longly: Two of those seven murders I confessed to are not mine―but I won’t tell you which two.Jake Longly and Nicole Jamison are confronted with the most bizarre case yet. Serial killer Billy Wayne Baker now denies that two of his seven murders were actually his work. An anonymous benefactor, who believes Billy Wayne’s denials, has hired Longly Investigations to prove Billy Wayne right. Billy Wayne had confessed to all seven. Not ...