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The fifteen stories and three screenplays that make up Volumes Two and Three of the Emmy® Award–winning Netflix Original series Love, Death + Robots. Featuring bestselling authors and screenwriters from all over the globe, curated by filmmakers Tim Miller and David Fincher, and Supervising Director Jennifer Yuh Nelson.

Mara was once a vampire—spy, assassin, weapon—shaped by Earth’s secret supernatural wars. But when a dying spell rips her from her world and casts her into Greymantle—a land of dragons, guilds, and brutal magic—everything begins to change. Her powers are fading. Her body is turning human. And something ancient is waking within her blood. In a world where vampires are outcasts and mages rule through arcane guilds, Mara must master forbidden magic just to survive.

Liam Bell has lived through the end once already. Restarting at the dawn of the AI Apocalypse, he's racing toward Ascension—the only power that can give him control over Earth's System, create safe havens for humanity, and bar the invading races poised to descend and bring about extinction. But enemy Champions hunt him, determined to end humanity's last chance before it begins. To survive, Liam must reach his next milestone, the Class upgrade at Level 90, even as his draconic bloodline claws at his humanity and threatens to consume who he is.

Mara shed her fangs. Now she has to earn her place. Once a vampire, now living under a new mortal identity, Arie, an unaffiliated mage, she wants nothing more than a future worth living. But in a city built on power and reputation, leaving the past behind isn’t so easy. To join the Spellsword Guild, she must atone for stealing their secrets by accepting a mission no one else can complete. But the trail leads far from the city and deep into the domain of something far older, and far more dangerous.

Some doors should never be opened. When Rose Black’s sister goes missing, she once again calls upon Jake Crowley for help, but the two get more than they bargained for. The search takes them on a twisting journey, where danger lies at every turn. From ancient pyramids to lost cities, deadly cultists and conspirators lie in wait as Jake and Rose navigate depths few have dared on a pulse-pounding search for the Anubis Key!

Short novels may well be the perfect length for science-fiction stories. They are movie-length tales that resonate with moxie while fully exploring characters, new worlds, and ideas. The stories in this unabridged audio collection are the best-of-the-best short science-fiction novels published in 2010 by current and emerging masters of this form.

Marine biologist Sam Aston is hired to explore a series of subterranean caverns deep beneath the Antarctic. Somewhere within this lost world of magnificent caverns and underground seas lies a source of limitless clean energy, but something guards this treasure. As enemies bent on obtaining this world-changing resource for themselves close in from above, Aston and his team plunge further into the depths and discover they are not the first to come this way...and they are not alone.  

Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules is a collection of short stories, some classic, others impending, selected and introduced by David Sedaris.

In a world still reeling from the AI Apocalypse, Liam Bell's second chance has just taken a deadly turn. By exposing his time travel, he's inadvertently forced the System to grant every champion the same advantage he once held—cutting humanity's countdown to extinction from decades to mere months. Now, ruthless invaders from across the multiverse zero in on Liam, determined to end his second chance before he can rewrite Earth's fate.

In a world where the AI Apocalypse has transformed life into a brutal game of survival, humanity's last hope lies in turning back the clock. Liam Bell, a seasoned warrior at the end of his rope, is given a second chance. With a unique class that may give him the edge he needs, he is determined to rewrite history and save the remnants of humanity.

Continue the journey as Daniel Fox, a simple IT guy, gets pulled into the dark underworld of Earth's magical secrets when an ancient artifact injects him with the original vampire's blood and forces him to survive at all costs. Given abilities and gifts beyond those of modern vampires, he must hide his capabilities if he wants to survive. Vampires will want to kill him for the powerful blood in his veins. Worse, the Mages would consider his abilities "blood magic," the greatest crime of all, the punishment for which would leave him begging for a quick death.

Now an Earl and thrust into the middle of kingdom politics, Nate must support his king while avoiding assassins and winning the tournament that will vindicate all his hard work. At the same time, he will need to solve the mystery of how he was brought to Greymantle and find a way to stop the Blood God's attacks once and for all.

Having returned to Earth from Greymantle's past with the skills needed to save his friends, he is confronted by unexpected discoveries that make him question everything he thought he knew about the world he was born on. When he returns to Greymantle with an unexpected passenger, he will need to overcome guild rivalries and infiltrate the enemy organization to put all the pieces into place to save his friends and his love.

Needing to learn the skills and abilities necessary to save his friends, Nate travels back through time to the Great Empire. He hopes to find trainers to make him capable of defeating the Blood Mages and their minions. However, arriving in a primitive era ruled by evil Bane elves, his luck has run out, and nothing is like he expected. Now trapped in the past, can he survive and get what he requires to escape? He just might save far more than himself and his friends if he can.

After surviving and defeating a plot to plunge the continent into war, Nate loves his new life. He has been awarded a knighthood and a position in the Royal Guard, where he has made good friends, as close as family. Unfortunately, he is torn by the need to get back home to save his sister from the consequences of his mysterious disappearance. Given a chance to petition the most powerful mage in the kingdom for help, he may soon have to decide between magic and the sword, thanks to guild politics, or face dire consequences.

College student Nate Keller is transported to another world where he becomes the target of deadly zealots who serve powerful malevolent gods. He will need to overcome his fears, make allies, and learn new skills to stop a plot that could plunge an entire world into war.

Redimir El Tiempo es una obra colectiva que reúne las reflexiones de algunos de los más destacados autores cristianos de la historia: Charles Spurgeon , David Martyn Lloyd-Jones , Richard Baxter , Octavius Winslow , Jonathan Edwards , Archibald A. Hodge y Jeremiah Burroughs . Este libro aborda el tema crucial del tiempo, presentándolo como un regalo solemne y sin precio que debe ser redimido con sabiduría y propósito.

When on old friend calls for help, Sam Aston returns to the home town he tried to leave behind. It soon becomes apparent there is something loose in the rainforest, and everybody wants a piece of it. Aston and adventure television show host, Jo Slater, find themselves in a race against local criminal elements, environmental extremists, and mysterious mercenaries to find the creature before it kills again.

Polly Moretti and David Baxter have distilled years of research (and a few heartbreaks of their own!) to bring you the ultimate how-to process for getting over a breakup. No nonsense, no unrealistic ideas - breakups are never easy, but this book will teach you genuine, heartfelt ways to deal with the confusion, pain, loss, and anger. Topics covered include dealing with the initial shock and first few days, fast and proven methods to deal with the pain, dealing with being single again, how to realistically move on in life, and so much more!

A quiet English village harbors a dark secret.Trying to escape his past, veteran Jake Crowley takes a teaching position in the village of Market Scarston. But his slow rehabilitation is interrupted when a group of students are apparently attacked by Black Shuck, the legendary demon dog, and Crowley attracts the attention of a secret society dating back to the days of the Roman Empire.