Multiple Worlds

People paid me to make their characters legendary. Then the game turned real — and trapped them inside. I’m a booster — a carry. You pay me, I grind your character to the cap while you live your ordinary life. Launch night of the expansion, I deliver one last rush order. At zero, my rig goes dark. Fine. I needed cigarettes anyway. Except the hallway is gone. My one-room apartment is a concrete cube in black grass under two moons. No logout. No support. Just a welcome panel for a classification no player has ever had: [Service Provider] The System rebuilt my account into a unique class...

Rosamunde Pilcher's The Shell Seekers is "a huge warm saga...A deeply satisfying story written with love and confidence" (Maeve Binchy in The New York Times Book Review). The Shell Seekers was adapted twice to film (1989 and 2006). An instant bestseller when it was first published, The Shell...

Wildly original, funny and moving, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August is an extraordinary story of a life lived again and again from World Fantasy Award-winning author Claire North. Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes...

Become a certified EMT & master hands-on medical skills with this seasoned study guide for aspiring healthcare professionals. Are you a student or healthcare worker who wants to earn their EMT certification and kickstart a deeply gratifying career? Are you feeling stressed out or overwhelmed by demanding questions, advanced topics, or lack of study time? Do you need a clear, comprehensive, & accessible guide that bridges the gap between theoretical knowledge and hands-on skills? Then this book is for you. Packed with essential study resources for effortlessly passing your EMT exam, this ...

Multiple Sclerosis: A New Era is a practical, experience-based guide for adults living with Multiple Sclerosis. Spoken with clarity and honesty, it addresses the realities of MS fatigue, invisible symptoms, emotional shifts, work challenges, and the unpredictability of chronic illness—without sugarcoating or false reassurance.

A page-turning adventure about parallel universes and the monsters they hide, in this extraordinary feat from the imagination behind the bestselling Children of Time. "Full of sparkling, speculative invention." —Stephen Baxter, co-author of The Long Earth They thought we were safe. They were...

Natalie (Nat) was a child in an adult's body with her grandfather's implanted memories. Alone on an alien planet, she learned to survive and thrive. She fought slavery locally, then planet-wide, then across the Milky Way. When she learned to travel to other dimensions - associations between species became blurred and battles became horrific. Now - throw in near-immortality and extra-galactic threats and you have an interesting story. Carole, (from Uplift) is stranded in a remote area of the Milky Way and has to fight her way back to Earth. She learns to love travel and trade as she trains ...

Daniel Mercer has disappeared. His car is beside a frozen lake, his phone and wallet still inside. There is blood in the trunk. Then his wife, Evelyn, receives a photograph. Daniel is standing with four women. Evelyn recognizes one of them: herself. On the back, someone has written six words: YOU WERE NEVER HIS ONLY WIFE. For seventeen years, Evelyn believed she knew the man she married. Now the police want to know what happened to him, and a stranger seems determined to make her question everything he told her. Who sent the photograph? Who are the other women? And how much did Daniel hide ...

“A spectacularly good read...feminism in the tradition of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex or Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own: richly complex, densely psychological, dazzlingly nuanced.” —Slate From the internationally bestselling author of The Summer Without Men comes “an...

Dan’s divorce turns out to be the best thing that’s ever happened to him. Otherwise, he wouldn’t find himself on an adventurous cross-country road trip, not to mention meeting three gorgeous women who worship him and vie for his attention. Dan is willing to give everything he has in order to settle for an idyllic life with the naughty brunette, the voluptuous redhead, and the sassy blonde virgin. But he must give up his six-figure job first and also deal with a jerk who thinks he owns the women. Is Dan up for the challenge? This bundle contains Books 1 to 3 of the series. It's full of...

2026 Audie Awards winner for Best Science Fiction! "The three narrators' performances are so exquisitely skilled that this audiobook is irresistible...Ray Porter fully embraces the gruff, no-nonsense investigator, who's skeptical about therapy and time travel. Marin Ireland, as the therapist...

A merchant and a prince trapped in the crumbling realm of jinn must figure out how to save one world to return to their own in the second book in the Sandsea Trilogy, perfect for fans of The City of Brass and The Bone Shard Daughter. ★ "Once again Abdullah deftly conjures magic." ―Library...

Seren’s heart is the ultimate target… and everyone’s taking aim. Princess Seren Firethorn has sworn to bring down her traitorous aunt—the infamous Moire Thorn, once a Countess of the Unseelie Court, now a fugitive weaving chaos across the realms. But when Moire forges a deadly alliance with the Elves, turning their enchanted arrows against humankind, Seren’s mission becomes more than justice… it becomes a race to stop a war. Hunting Moire isn’t easy. She’s cunning. Untouchable. Always one step ahead. And the deeper Seren chases her, the more the world begins to unravel. ...

Look for Pam Jenoff’s new novel, The Society of Forgotten Wives, a sweeping novel of missing husbands and buried secrets. The New York Times bestseller! "An intriguing mystery and a captivating heroine make The Lost Girls of Paris a read to savor!" —Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling...

The system owes me a fortune. This morning, somebody started skimming from it. I’m Dane. The booster the game migrated as staff. My apartment came with me. So did four of my former clients: Simone, Jessa, Cora, Vivian. One concrete cube, four women, zero drama. Nineteen days in, we’ve earned a lazy morning. We get exactly one. Then my scheduled settlement lands nineteen percent short. Docked. The deduction is authorized — filed by another service provider. Another one. Like me. Worse: my payment windows are watched. Trackers on the roads. Ambush crews at the bridges. Professionals who...

What if the search for truth didn’t require choosing sides? What if the wisdom of the world’s religions—Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and beyond—wasn’t a competition, but a conversation? Spirituality doesn’t have to be exclusive. It can be expansive, embracing multiple perspectives without contradiction. Religions have shaped civilizations, guided morals, and answered humanity’s biggest questions for centuries. But beneath the doctrines and rituals, there are shared ideas—universal principles of compassion, purpose, and understanding. This book isn’t ...

An emotionally powerful debut with a magical twist, set between WWII France and present-day Appalachia, about generations of women in a family, their secret healing abilities, and the mysterious consequences they must contend with when they use their skills on someone they love “A profound...

Learn to master high-yield concepts in ophthalmic medicine and neurology with Dr. Martinelli’s Vision & Neurology Casebook: Real-World Insights for Primary Eye Care & Family Medicine. This indispensable guide helps bridge the gaps between primary eye care, general medicine, and neurology, offering a treasure trove of real-world case studies that enhance clinical thinking and patient care. Understanding the intricate connections between ophthalmic and general medicine is crucial. Dr. Martinelli, a dual-trained optometrist and medical doctor, brings decades of experience to this ...

Voted Book Hippo's Best Paranormal Romance of 2014, the Godhunter Series continues! Is the Godhunter becoming a god? Vervain Lavine finally has a moment to relax. She's defeated Aphrodite, reclaiming the magic that the goddess stole from humans. Now the Godhunter holds the powers of Love, Sex, War, and Victory inside her but she's not really sure if that makes her a goddess. She is fairly certain that she's still mortal, but her new immortal boyfriend, Thor, doesn't seem to be worried about it. What he is worried about is Vervain's bond to a werewolf Prince, and the fact that said Prince is...

A hundred years before Emily, the world was in chaos. The Empire is in ruins. Old certainties are collapsing everywhere. The provinces are becoming kingdoms, the magical aristocracy is trying to redefine its place in the new world disorder, the commoners are being ground under, and bold or...