Monster Wars

Having discovered the monstrous secret of his origins, Archie Dent is no longer certain that he is worthy to be a member of the League of Seven. But with new enemies to face, he realizes that he may not have the luxury of questioning his destiny. Wielding the Dragon Lantern, the maniacal Philomena Moffett has turned her back on the Septemberist Society, creating her own Shadow League and unleashing a monster army on the American continent.

“J.R. Ward is a powerhouse in the genre and never disappoints!”--Rebecca Yarros, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author "Absolutely unputdownable!"--Jennifer Armentrout, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Crown of War and Shadow is a brand new, sweeping, slow-burn romantasy from #1 New York...

World War Z: The Complete Edition (Movie Tie-in Edition): An Oral History of the Zombie War is a new version of Max Brooks' episodic zombie novel. The abridged versions of the original stories are now joined with new, unabridged recordings of the episodes that were not included in the...

New research has uncovered deeply buried military secrets—both the Allied and Axis special operations during WWII included monsters. Did the Soviets use a dragon to win the Battle of Kursk? Did a vampire fight for the Canadians in Holland? Did the US drop the second atomic bomb on a kaiju? This collection takes real events from World War II and injects them with fantastical creatures that mirror the “unreality” of war itself. Each story—and two poems—feature mythical, mystical, and otherwise unexplainable beings that change the course of history.

I was engineered in the freezing labs of Siberia to be a weapon against the dark. I never expected to be sold to the king of monsters. Elian Vance is a Venator. Genetically altered, trained to feel nothing, and lethal to the vampires that plague Neo-London. He is a tool of war—until he’s captured, stripped of his armor, and thrown onto an alien auction block. The highest bidder is a nightmare carved from obsidian scales and ancient heat. Warlord Vorakh. He is eight feet of terrifying, primal power, the last king of a dying star-faring race. The Vrail are facing extinction, silenced by a...

A “meticulously researched and comprehensive” (Financial Times) history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa’s Congo At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of western Europe. It borders nine other nations, and since 1996 it has been racked by a brutal war in which...

In June of 1941, at the height of World War II, something ancient and terrifying surfaced in the Pacific... On the verge of abandoning his life in Los Angeles, brash arms dealer William Curtis is given the chance for the biggest score of his career. What he has to do is simple: deliver arms smuggled out of Germany to the British aboard a passenger liner, the SS Britannia. But when a German Raider destroys the vessel, Will must fight for his life on the open ocean. And the elements are not his only worry. Those that survived in lifeboats are silently and inexplicably disappearing every night...

It was a glorious day. Farts had signed a peace treaty with the Burps. The celebration included fart bubbles and confartti flying from the gassiest hills on Fartville. Trumpets blasted out of butts. Farts shook hands with Burps. Everybody was happy until a new invader came flying from the sky. They were snotty, gooey, slimy Boogers that would stop at nothing until they controlled Gas Mountain. Whoever controls the fart gasses, controls it all.

The first book in acclaimed epic fantasy author John Gwynne's Faithful and Fallen series, Malice is a tale of blind greed, ambition, and betrayal set in a world where ancient monsters are reawakening -- and a war to end all wars is about to begin. The world is broken. . .and it can never be made...

Someone has changed the environment from survival to hardcore. Now if you get destroyed, you can't respawn. Noah and Violet must find a way to get the world back to survival while fighting off another griefer war staged by the evil Daniel and his band of Rainbow Griefers. There's no room for error in this battle against time. With Creepers lurking in the dark and teleporting Endermen appearing out of nowhere, the duo have a lot more on their hands than only Griefers.

The war between different alien groups lasted for over 2,300 years. But Keith Robinson didn't know anything about that. He assumed that the job he had applied for was to work on an Arctic research ship. He thought that he would be assembling parts for upgraded sonar buoys. He thought wrong. The AI on the derelict spaceship was open to lying if that could finally get the ship repaired. Hiring a repair technician from the primitive planet Earth was a crazy plan. And even crazier, it worked. After salvaging an alien ship, Keith now finds himself the ship's owner. But something is deadly wrong ...

Dare has successfully saved his loved ones from the clutches of Malin Meadowbrook, reuniting his family in the safety of Independent Territory. Now, after long planning and preparation, he and his forces are ready to mount their most audacious strike against the Shalin Grand Consortium yet. Not at the shady businesses and criminal organizations it controls, as they have previously, but at the very heart of its power: Its financial might. If they succeed they'll bring Malin and his shadow empire toppling down, vulnerable enough that victory might finally be within reach. But in doing so they...

He Survived the Siege. He Wanted Peace. He Got War. In this explosive sequel to The Siege at Simeon Heights ©, Carter Mitchell—father, plumber, and reluctant Bigfoot hunter—believes the nightmare is behind him. With summer winding down and a wedding on the horizon, Carter is focused on Alexandra, his family, and the future they’re building together. But in Simeon Heights, peace never lasts. And, as Carter will learn, destiny rarely calls at a moment of our choosing. A favor rendered at Curet Gorge leads to a string of violent encounters—one of which changes everything. And what ...

If you love farts, boogers, burps, and pimples, then you do not want to miss the Monster Fart Wars and the battle to control Gas Mountain. Mayor Donald Fart gets invaded by the Boogers in part one, and his team of Farts is fighting off the Boogers by calling in the extra farty - Monster Farts! A non-stop and can't stop laughing middle-school book that will make feel just - gross! If you love grossness, don't miss this one.

She Was Sent to the Mines as Tribute. The Beast Who Claimed Her Was Supposed to Break Her. Instead, he might burn the empire down to protect her. The red storms of Jupiter never stop raging. Neither does the Dominion. On the mining moon of Kharos, human women are sent below the surface as “Tribute”—forced into crushing gravity, backbreaking labor, and worse. Survival means obedience. Silence. Endurance. When Mara Vance is claimed by the most feared Overseer in the mines, she expects brutality. Rhaegor is massive. Horned. Scarred. A monster whispered about in the dark. They call him ...

He stole my innocence—right after he dressed me in white and made me vow to be his for all of eternity. Now I’m cut off from my family. Subjected to my husband’s warped rules and laws. At the mercy of a tyrant who leers at me with green heated eyes until I beg him for things I shouldn’t. Every day, I promise myself I’ll grow stronger and resist the urge to appease him.

For fans of Ruby Dixon comes a steamy monster romance from S. E. Wendel, following a museum worker who gets the shock of a lifetime when one of the (very attractive) gargoyle statues in an exhibit comes to life and claims her as his mate... A gargoyle warrior unprepared for the modern world…...

A holy tiefling woman. A pirate queen. A tide that won’t stay buried. In a drowned world ruled by sacred law and saltwater power, Liora Kynthos was trained to sing the songs that keep monsters sleeping and cities afloat. But when her voice unleashes something far older—and far more dangerous—she finds herself cast out by the very temple that raised her. Rescued by a ship that shouldn’t exist, and a captain who sees past her shame to the weapon she might become, Liora is thrust into a sea of gods, traitors, and whispered prophecies. To survive, she must navigate forbidden magic, ...

Soraya Madani was supposed to negotiate peace with the Valorian fleet. Instead, she became a prisoner of war. Vorath is the Supreme Commander—a massive, horned warrior whose word is law and whose enemies are legends told to frighten children. He's led a hundred conquests without mercy. But when a defiant human female spits in his face and refuses to kneel, something in him cracks. She's small. Fragile. Completely at his mercy. And his entire body is screaming that she belongs to him. Now, Soraya is trapped on an alien warship with a warlord who watches her like she's the most valuable ...

The media of the 1950s and 1960s promoted an idealized version of American life sustained by the nuclear family and bolstered by a booming consumer economy. The seemingly wholesome and simple lifestyles portrayed on television screens, however, belied a torrent of social, economic, and political struggles occurring at the time. By the late 1950s, television writers were increasingly constrained to distract audiences from confronting counternarratives to the Dream.