Max is back on Earth, but it’s not the Earth he remembers.His friends are in trouble, humanity is in critical danger, and he’s broke. Again.Now he needs to meet up with his friends, some of whom are very powerful and well known now. Getting an audience with someone important, when one is a brand new Returner, is going to be a challenge.He’ll have to join the system, get tested, pull some strings, and break some rules to accomplish his goals....

Max was murdered, but now he is mostly over it. Living on Earth as a recent college graduate, he can still perfectly recall his past life on Albion, a sword and sorcery world. He'd been hailed as the "Hero of the World" after crawling his way up from poverty, eventually enjoying great fame and luxury.But on mana-starved Earth, he's just a guy. His parents need his help, and finding a new job would be more trouble than it's worth. However, when Earth is suddenly attacked, changing t...

For centuries the Drehhu have ruled every continent, brutally enslaving the human inhabitants. Now after endless wars the human empires of Ophion, Velesa, and Modjal have pushed the inhuman enemy back to their heartland and unite in a final, massive assault.The victors will rule from The Basilisk ThroneAlastor Nevelon and his son Crespin set sail against the Drehhu, and they have their own secret weapons. Yet Alastor is forced to send his daughter Chrysanthe to the capitol ...

After deactivating Parallax and restoring access to Earth, Deadeye and the Redshift Runners have become the most infamous pirates in the Orion Spur.Yet the old order has its hands full with Dying Suns, a political movement calling for a return to Earth—while leaving the barren, "dying" worlds they were forced to colonize. Miners, farmers, and other settlers petition the Runners to fly them to humanity’s birthplace.This upsets corporations and nobles who profited from such e...

In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young men on their way to a country dance. This haunting image, capturing the last moments ofinnocence on the brink of World War I, provides the central focus of Powers’s brilliant and compelling novel. As the fate of the three farmers is chronicled, two contemporary stories unfold. The youngnarrator becomes obsessed with the photo, while Peter Mays, a computer writer in Boston, discovers he...

'Tell her I am called Fuer Grissa Ost Drauka – The Bringer of Death – and I am coming for her'The insatiable hunger of Golden Goddess...The irresistible power of a Witch's Oath...A fracture in the world of life...An opening in the world of death...To confront an apocalyptic nightmare, Richard Rahl must step...INTO DARKNESS.Into Darkness is the fifth episode – a blockbusting 688 pages – in Terry Goodkind's irresistibly intense new serial no...

Richard knew that there would be no help coming. It was all up to him to stop the threat or Kahlan would die.They all would die.Nine companions – Richard, Kahlan, the witch woman Shale and six Mord-Sith, Rikka, Vale, Cassia, Nyda, Berdine and Vika – are hunting a warlock in the waterlogged depths of the People's Palace. It will take all their skills to close on their quarry, but do any of them understand the true power of a Witch's Oath?Witch's Oath is the fourth epi...

Welcome to the Wanderlands.A vast machine made for reasons unknown, the Wanderlands was broken long ago. First went the sky, splintering and cracking, and then very slowly, the whole machine—the whole world—began to go dark.Meet the Failures.Following the summons of a strange dream, a scattering of adventurers, degenerates, and children find themselves drawn toward the same place: the vast underground Keep. They will discover there that they have been called for a pur...

In this “excellent fantasy debut, with engaging world-building and a good mix between action and character” (Brandon Sanderson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stormlight Archive series), a story of secrets, rebellion, and murder are shattering the Hollows, where magic costs memory to use, and only the son of the kingdom’s despised traitor holds the truth.Michael is branded a traitor as a child because of the m...

“Deadly serious in ambition, wildly entertaining in execution, Ways and Means is a remarkably accomplished debut.”—Anthony Marra, New York Times bestselling author of Mercury Pictures Presents and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena“A work of enormous wit, humor, and passion that captures life in turbo capitalist America with compassion and grace.”—Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author of Our Country Friends and Super Sad True Love StoryA searing debut novel abo...

In 2203 anyone can become the ruler of the solar system. There are no elections, no interviews, no prerequisites whatsoever—it all comes down to the random turns of a giant wheel. But when a new Quizmaster takes over, the old one still keeps some rights, namely the right to hire an unending stream of assassins to attempt to kill the new leader.In the wake of the most recent change in leadership, employees of the former ruler scurry to find an assassin who can get past telepathic gu...

The mission: make Mars inhabitable for humans with a thermonuclear reawakening. But for the adventurous remnants of the Space Consortium of America, the biggest threat isn't from the erupting rage of the Red Planet. It's from a treacherous blue marble called Earth . . . ROGUE PLANET You'd think Captain Ry Devans was a hero when he jumpstarted the cores of Mars, giving the previously dormant planet a fresh start at harboring life. But he's also the host of a life-saving alien microbe, and t...