Heath Miller
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[2022]
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"In this powerful novel about the cost of ambition and success, a legendary athlete attempts a comeback at an age when the world considers her past her prime-from the New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising. Carolina Soto is undeniably fierce. She is determined to be the best professional tennis player the world has ever seen. And by the time she retires from the game in 1989 at the age of thirty-one, she is just that: the best. She has...
2) Radiance
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"Severin Unck's father is a famous director of Gothic romances in an alternate 1986 in which talking movies are still a daring innovation due to the patent-hoarding Edison family. Rebelling against her father's films of passion, intrigue, and spirits from beyond, Severin starts making documentaries, traveling through space and investigating the levitator cults of Neptune and the lawless saloons of Mars. For this is not our solar system, but one drawn...
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"Avery is an exceptional child. Everything he does is precise, from the way he washes his face in the morning, to the way he completes his homework - without complaint, without fuss, without prompt. Zib is also an exceptional child, because all children are, in their own way. But where everything Avery does and is can be measured, nothing Zib does can possibly be predicted, except for the fact that she can always be relied upon to be unpredictable....
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A young man unwillingly saddled with a Werewolf System attempts to live his life . . . without killing too many people . . .
Not long ago, Gary was just another punk teenager living in a ramshackle house in a ramshackle town. To survive, he worked as a gofer for a brutal street gang-until a simple job went bad, and he ended up paired with a Werewolf System that enhanced his strength, stamina, and attitude.
But as Gary quickly learned, this gift could...
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From the creator of My Vampire System comes the action-packed story of a young man struggling to survive-until he learns to unleash the animal within . . .
Gary doesn't have all that much going for him. He's a teenage boy who lives in a Tier-3 town that's barely hanging on, and his family's just a rung above dirt poor. Which is why he's taken the very dangerous step of becoming an errand boy for the savage Underdogs gang. He doesn't like what they...
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The action-packed series continues as a young man unwillingly saddled with a Werewolf System attempts to live his life-without killing too many people . . .
Not long ago, Gary was just another punk teenager living in a ramshackle house in a bad part of a ramshackle town. To survive, he worked as a gofer for a brutal street gang-until a simple job went bad, and he ended up paired with a Werewolf System that enhanced his strength, stamina, and attitude.
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A teen lycanthrope learns that being a leader means much more than just being a killer as the action-packed LitRPG fantasy series continues . . .
Living with an advanced Werewolf System hasn't always been easy for Gary Dem. But it sure comes in handy. Without it, he would never have been able to take on-and literally devour-a lethal Altered and live to tell about it.
With his new rank and abilities, Gary and his gang, the Howlers, are primed to...
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Power is returning to the world after millennia, ancient constructs are stirring back to life, and one man is doing his best to ignore all that noise.
Fischer has everything he needs in life: blossoming friendships, a menagerie of cute animal companions, a waterfront property with easy access to fishing, and enough coffee to take out a small elephant or a really big dog.
Unfortunately, Fischer can't catch a break. Cosmic forces? Still throwing curveballs....
9) Heretical Fishing: A Cozy Guide to Annoying the Cults, Outsmarting the Fish, and Alienating Oneself
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A world abandoned by the gods, mystifying cosmic forces, unimaginable power for those willing to ascend, and a hero who would rather . . . go fishing???
When summoned to a fantastical world and granted powers by a broken System, most freshly minted protagonists would strap on their big-boy boots and get ready for their stats to start climbing. But Fischer isn'tlike most MCs. In fact, he doesn't want to be a hero at all.
Fame? Fortune? Power? He had...
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In his late twenties, Andre Watson left everything behind and traveled the world for seven months. When he finally came home, his friends and coworkers had a million questions. How did he save up so much money? How did he decide where to go? How did he stay safe, especially when he couldn't speak the language?
So he decided to write a book.
A Weekend or the World answers all the most common questions about traveling-and many that aren't so common-from...
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Since stumbling from their world into the Up and Under, Avery and Zib have walked the improbable road across forests, seas and skies, finding friends in the unlikeliest of places and enemies great in number, as they make their way toward the Impossible City in the hope of finding their way home.
But the final part of their journey is filled with danger and demise. Not everyone will make it through unscathed. Not everyone will make it through alive.
The...
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The path from retail middle management to inter-dimensional wizard adventurer wasn't easy.
But Jason Asano is settling into his new life. Now, a contest draws young elites to the city of Greenstone to compete for a grand prize. Jason must gather a band of companions if he is to stand a chance against the best the world has to offer.
While the young adventurers are caught up in competition, the city leaders deal with revelations of betrayal as a...
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For all that Jason's new life is amazing, he is about to learn that all his new power, wealth and influence comes at a price.
Riding high on success, he and his team are looking to the future, preparing themselves for the challenges to come. Nothing, however, could prepare him for the lessons his enemies have to teach. When magic is involved, the stakes can be even greater than life and death.
While Jason's personal enemies make plans, the greater...
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Jason wakes up in a mysterious world of magic and monsters.
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...
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A GLIMPSE BEHIND THE FACADE OF SUCCESS
In The Illusion of Invincibility, Paul Williams and Andreas Krebs take a no-punches-held look at the stories we tell ourselves about business success. The rags-to-riches tale is tempting, but we don't have to search far to see that most organizations rise for a time, only to experience a dramatic fall from grace. Just look at some of the companies that used to be household names: Nokia, AOL, Pan Am, Woolworth...
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The second collection from the author of Kissing Carrion.
As two-time Bram Stoker Award winner Paula Guran said in Horror Garage, "Nobody in a Gemma Files story puts a hand on a doorknob and opens the door they shouldn't-these folks are already in the other side." The inhabitants of the stories in The Worm in Every Heart include gods and madmen, arsonists and ancient vampires, monsters and mothers who don't know how to love. No matter where they...
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The first issue in the second century of Weird Tales features a new “Hellboy” story by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden. Editor Jonathan Maberry has built a collection of cosmic horror that will destabilize your worldview.
"The Eyrie" by Jonathan Maberry
"The City in the Sea: A Hellboy Story" by Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola
"When the Stars Are Right: The Weird Tales Origins of Cosmic Horror" by Nicholas Diak
"A Ghost Story for Christmas"...
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A fresh post-apocalyptic anthology: the end of the world seen through the salvage and ruins, featuring Emily St. John Mandel, Carmen Maria Machado, and more
This anthology of post-apocalyptic fiction asks: What would you save from the fire? In the moments when it all comes crashing down, what will we value the most, and how will we save it?
Out of the Ruins features stories from China Miéville, Emily St. John Mandel, Clive Barker, Carmen Maria...
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Books on Tape
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2022
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Unabridged
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An epic adventure about a female athlete perhaps past her prime, brought back to the tennis court for one last grand slam” (Elle), from the author of Malibu Rising, Daisy Jones & The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“A heart-filled novel about an iconic and persevering father and daughter.”—Time
“Gorgeous. The kind of...
“A heart-filled novel about an iconic and persevering father and daughter.”—Time
“Gorgeous. The kind of...
