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From the ashes of empire rises a new war. Orinon sits uneasily upon the throne of Dalmere, while his elder brother Hormoth, betrayed, presumed dead, burns with unquenchable rage. But Urian Greyvenhoff, the man they both sought to destroy, still lives. Leading thousands of refugees across the deadly Western Wastes where they find more than stone and safety. Three kings; one collision course. Kingdoms Forged delivers pulse-pounding arena battles, tender moments of found family, forbidden alliances, political scheming, and the terrifying cost of power. Will Urian’s sanctuary endure the storm?

Sir Dashing Junior was only knighted because they couldn't knight his father twice. Now he's determined to prove he's worthy of his new title. With an aspiring ranger, an awkward friar, and a book-loving orc, DJ will venture across the territory of Uh to reach the Amulet of the Goddess, proving...

To Have or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Fromm's thesis is that two modes of existence struggle for the spirit of humankind: the having mode, which concentrates on material possessions, power, and aggression, and is the basis of the universal evils of greed, envy, and violence; and the being mode, which is based on love, the pleasure of sharing, and in productive activity.

The work comprises Villehardouin's "Conquest of Constantinople", which recounts the controversial Fourth Crusade, which descended into an attack on the Eastern Christians of Byzantium. In "Life of Saint Louis", Joinville draws on his friendship with King Louis IX of France to describe the campaigns in the Holy Land.

Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological Imagination took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the social, personal, and historical dimensions of our lives. The sociological imagination Mills calls for is a sociological vision, a way of looking at the world that can see links between the apparently private problems of the individual and important social issues. 

A cosmic disaster has struck the territory of Uh. A portal to the Darkworld has opened. With the portal open, the Demon King Oh—the god of destruction and chaos—will extend an empire of supermarkets that will make the territory an industrious wasteland full of slaves. DJ is the only one who...

King Jason has ruled for four years and Nezmyth has been at peace. But now, war is on the kingdom's doorstep. To the west, King Nartikis of Unbuntye has raised an insurmountable army of monsters called the Ash, and with them, he's determined to overrun Nezmyth and take it for his own. King Jason...

Faust is a tragic play in two parts that reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant but disillusioned scholar who makes a deal with the devil. it is widely considered to be Goethe's masterpiece and the greatest work of German literature. The novel Elective Affinities is the story of Eduard and Charlotte, an aristocratic couple enjoying an idyllic but rather dull life on their rural estate. They invite the Captain, Eduard's childhood friend, and Ottilie, the orphaned niece of Charlotte, to live with them, with tragic results.

In the ashes of the Golden Empire, three brothers will forge a new world or destroy it? When the cataclysm known as the Event obliterates the capital of Tamera, the kingdom’s survivors must carve survival from the ruins. At the ancestral estate of Dalmere, Orinon Sielrand reunites with his brutal younger brother Hormoth and their oath-brother Urian. But as the Sielrandian Empire rises, old wounds reopen and ambitions clash. The first book in an epic story of brotherhood, betrayal, and empire-building in a broken world where victory demands sacrifice... and power always exacts its price.

Basil Elton is a lighthouse keeper prone to fantasies - especially one recurring fantasy of a man in white robes on a white ship that only appears on a full moon. During this fantasy, Elton goes with the man on his ship, following an azure bird. Despite the man’s warnings that no man has ever returned from one of these realms, Elton asks that he take him to legendary land of hope. Their journey takes them to the end of the world, and instead of toppling over the side and dying, Elton wakes up on the rocks of his lighthouse next to the first shipwreck in his time as lightkeeper.

In the grand tradition of Robert E. Howard (Conan the Barbarian) and C. L. Moore (Jirel of Joiry), genre giant Poul Anderson (The Broken Sword, Tau Zero) spins a tale in Witch of the Demon Seas set in an antediluvian realm of swords and sorcery. Corun the Corsair is a liberator of the enslaved, an avenger of his fallen race, and a veritable giant of a warrior—but he has just been captured by a great sea empire, ruled in all but name by the crafty warlock Shorzon. In the dank prisons of this thassalocracy, Corun meets the sorcerer's daughter, the alluring Chryseis.

Science Fiction and Fantasy stories of STRANGEST ilk. Other Tales: Volume VI contains five bizarre and incredible tales of science fiction and fantasy, including a rare tale by George MacDonald (mentor and precursor to J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis), the complete text of Poul Anderson's sword & sorcery novella Witch of the Demon Seas, and an original afrofuturist fable by Antoinette Van Sluytman, creator of DEEPSEEKER from VIZ Media. Volume VI contains stories by: Jack Vance, Antoinette Van Sluytman, George MacDonald, Leslie Perri, Poul Anderson.

Randolph Carter begins the story telling the harrowing tale to those who found him stumbling through the swamp. Carter and his friend, the occultist Harley Warren, went to investigate the location of a supposed portal to the underworld - near Big Cypress Swamp in Florida. Upon discovery of a tomb with stairs going deep into the earth, Warren decides to descend them. Only after waiting for what seems an eternity does Carter call down into the tomb, only to be returned with a voice that does not belong to Warren telling him that his friend was dead.

A cat hits a spaceship viewport. In hard vacuum. Completely calm. Mouthing: "You missed the turnoff." It gets worse from there. Cargo hauler Jarik Venn just wanted to deliver freeze-dried rations and avoid toll stations. Instead, he rescued a reality-warping cat from the vacuum of space, became wanted in nine sectors, and accidentally destroyed a government starship with a weaponized hairball. The cat's name is Brentley. He's a pathological liar, an escaped familiar, and possibly the most wanted being in three sectors. He's also Jarik's new passenger. Whether Jarik likes it or not.

Distinguished author of Mortal Questions and The View from Nowhere sets forth the central problems of philosophical inquiry for the beginning student. Arguing that the best way to learn about philosophy is to think about its questions directly, Thomas Nagel considers possible solutions to nine problems - knowledge of the world beyond our minds, knowledge of other minds, the mind-body problem, free will, the basis of morality, right and wrong, the nature of death, the meaning of life, and the meaning of words.  

Other Tales: Volume V contains eight bizarre and incredible tales of science fiction and fantasy, including stories by eminent genre writers Fritz Leiber (author of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser) and Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holmes) and an original Dungeons & Dragons-esque yarn by author and narrator Adriel Brandt.

It’s another blustery summer in Windermere. Remote, fanatical, and superstitious, the holy city is held tight in the vice-like grip of a centuries-long vampire panic. The local Archbishop, Cyril, has devoted his life to snuffing out this sacrilegious source of Windermere’s woes. Not content with spitting in the face of death, the vampires too bewitch the living. Blood that is euphoric and addictive in equal measure flows like liquor down the throats of the bold and the foolish. With every addict, the vampires’ hold over the city tightens.

Science Fiction and Fantasy stories of STRANGEST ilk. Other Tales: Volume IV contains seven bizarre and incredible tales of science fiction and fantasy, including rare comedies from Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury, three mysterious and moving yarns from prominent women of genre fiction, and an original science fiction tale by author E.S. Raye, writer of Gas Giant Gambit: A Tall Tale from Beyond the Cygnus Rift.

Science Fiction and Fantasy stories of STRANGEST ilk. Other Tales: Volume II contains seven bizarre and incredible tales of science fiction and fantasy, including a rare tale of the supernatural by George Eliot, a legendary yarn by the grandfather of modern fantasy, Lord Dunsany, and an original tale by science fiction author J.D. Sanderson, author of After the Syzygy.

The Kingdom of Nezmyth suffers under the weight of a tyrannical, decades-long rule. But 17-year-old Jason, who has no aspirations for power, has been Foreordained by the Sacred Dragon to replace the king. Jason must take courage, learn what it means to be king, and survive, or what's left of...