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It's always idyllic in the village until the landlord comes to call. Because the landlord is an Ogre. And Ogres rule the world, with their size and strength and appetites. It's always been that way. It's the natural order of the world. And they only eat people sometimes. But when the headman's son, Torquell, dares lift his hand against the landlord's son, he sets himself on a path to learn the terrible truth about the Ogres, and about the dark sciences that ensured their rule.

One mystery, one romance, and a flaming chicken. He kidnapped the wrong angel. In the heart of Singsong City, a former member of the Holy Order of the Swords of Truth is making a new life as the Music Master of the crumbling music hall, whether anyone appreciates her or not. But when an assassination attempt is followed by a kidnapping, she is drawn back into the politics and cloak and dagger she left behind. With the help of an unlikely ally, she must unravel the mysteries of her own past before they consume her future. Will she find funding for her music hall and her killer, or will the ...

A National Book Award finalist and instant fantasy classic about the power of community, generosity, books, and baked goods, from the author of the beloved Newbery Medal winner The Girl Who Drank the Moon. The town of Stone in the Glen used to be lovely, but it hasn’t been so in a very long...

Gabriel is good at killing, but rubbish at everything else. It doesn't help that he has a drinking problem and keeps hallucinating an ogre that wants to stick a seagull up his backside. Desperate for money, he takes a job to steal a toy pony and behead one of England's most dangerous gangsters. Now he's wounded, hunted across the country, and travelling with a fifteen-year-old runaway who seems intent on giving him a permanent headache.

Set in the world of the Newbery Honor-winning Ella Enchanted, this tale by beloved author Gail Carson Levine stars a clever heroine who is determined to defy expectations—and outwit a fairy’s curse. Evie is happiest when she is healing people, diagnosing symptoms and prescribing medications...

Lor has endured twelve long years of torment under the Aurora King's rule. Her only desire is to get free and pay him back for every moment of misery she's endured. When a surprise release finds her in the hands of the Sun King, Lor is thrust into the spotlight as she competes against nine other tributes for the role of queen. If she wins his heart, she'll earn her freedom and finally get her revenge. But Lor doesn't belong in the Sun Queen trials.

Norton Juster - the acclaimed author of such children’s classics as The Phantom Toll Booth and The Hello, Goodbye Window - tells the story of a really rotten ogre. Huge and ugly, the angry ogre is always hungry - and utterly merciless. As he greedily gobbles up the people in his path, he seems unstoppable. And then one day, the ogre takes a wrong turn and encounters a kind and friendly young lady who does her best to help him.

On the afternoon of July 13, 1977, having become the first climbers to reach the summit of the Ogre, Doug Scott and Chris Bonington began their long descent. In the minutes that followed, any feeling of success from their achievement would be overwhelmed by the start of a desperate fight for survival. And things would only get worse.  

“This book was seminal in my life. I wouldn’t be living the life I’m living if it didn’t find me.”—Matthew McConaughey Ten ancient scrolls reveal priceless wisdom for changing your life in this evergreen classic with more than five million copies in print. A timeless fable with...

A new trilogy by the author of many best-selling books in the Forgotten Realms series stars a young peasant who rescues a princess from a giant, only to find that her father is the real problem. Original.

Chain-smoking former U.S. Marine, Mantis, finds herself amid a demon-littered suburban hellscape. With the book of Revelation unfurling before her very eyes, she recruits a reformed prostitute, a bubbly dancer, and a hopelessly smitten DJ to try to stop the biblical apocalypse in its tracks...

"Even nonfantasy listeners will enjoy hanging out at the intersection of coffeehouse culture and Dungeons & Dragons, and hope that Baldree fails to shake his new writing habit." - The Seattle Times This program is read by the author. The much-beloved BookTok sensation, Travis Baldree's Legends &...

He was a child prodigy born with an irrepressible genius. When he graduated at the top of his class at a remarkably young age, the U.S. government quickly recruited him to run "Project Ogre". It's the most powerful information-gathering computer system ever constructed and it has fallen into the hands of a sociopath. How far will he go to enrich himself?

Valessa is in danger. Her town has been captured by Aventinian raiders, the women taken, and now she's on a ship destined for nowhere good. But when a terrifying, four-armed sea-ogre pirate boards the ships and demands compensation, Valessa's luck changes.

Urig an Ogre decides to get a wife, but he does not know where any other Ogres are so he believes a Human woman might make a good wife so, he goes hunting for one.

I was taken by the ogres. They burned down my village and brought me to this dungeon. But the dangerous creature, this giant minotaur, might be my only way to salvation. I'll have to hold onto his horns to enjoy this ride! Warning! Down and dirty monster erotic short with all the good stuff.

When a Hag, an orphan boy and a troll called Ulf get sent to rescue a princess from an ogre, they expect it to be a fairly standard magical mission. But the ogre is depressed and the princess doesn't want to be rescued. The Norns who rule their fates decide to take things in hand - will the Ogre...

She filed the wrong papers. Now she's filled with hellfire. I'm a bookkeeper. I was cataloguing my boss's basement, which is the least dangerous thing I have ever done in my life. Then I unrolled a rug with a circle woven into it, read the card tied to the corner out loud, and something came up out of the smoke. He's enormous and completely naked and entirely unbothered about it, with short dark horns curving back from his temples and molten gold burning where a person keeps their eyes. He came here to arrest whoever summoned him. His name is Lock. He's an enforcer of the ninth circle, and ...

At least I was out in the air again. The past few days had been underground in a prison cell. I had hardly eaten since my capture. If I won my fight, I would win my freedom. Those were the rules. I was naked and bare-handed. So was my opponent. That didn’t make it an especially fair fight. I was strong and just short of six feet tall. My opponent was at least six-nine, maybe seven feet. An Ogress. Her size and slightly mottled skin gave her away. She was naked and bare-handed, too. The story is related to The Guardian Maidens or Sturgil’s Mark. It isn’t a sequel, and it’s not ...

Finalist in the Best Middle Grade Audiobook category of the Audie Awards 2023 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER from the Newbery Medal winning author of THE GIRL WHO DRANK THE MOON Stone-in-the-Glen, once a lovely town, has fallen on hard times. Fires, floods, and other calamities have caused the...