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Star Runaway: Rebel Rising (Starship Rogue Book 1)

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Star Runaway: Rebel Rising (Starship Rogue Book 1)
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  An epic ride through far future worlds...

Teen stowaway. Ship battles. Treachery.

Carnival musician Kip Rees gets mixed up in a caper over his head…A mysterious figure has offered him riches to deliver a package to a faraway world.

Yet powerful people would as soon see Kip and his new friends dead than fulfill his mission. Can he stay alive long enough to unlock the mystery of why he was chosen?

From the grimy holds of space freighters to the majestic Temple of the Moon, Kip goes from young dreamer to hardened defender.

Flame of Eros: A Dark Epic Sword and Sorcery Adventure (Swords and Skulls Book 1)

Flame of Eros: A Dark Epic Sword and Sorcery Adventure (Swords and Skulls Book 1)
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“Dragons and kings, wizards and rings, who needs them?”

So says sword-for-hire Vetravincus as he prowls the market looking for coin to pay for his next meal. Little does he know the trouble to come getting mixed up with an upstart apprentice and a gambling rogue.

The apprentice wants revenge on the Mages who stripped him of his powers. The gambler is out for spoils should they succeed in disrupting the Order of Mages and securing the fabled Flame of Eros.

But such simple missions are things of fantasy. The gods have something else planned…

From the mesmeric love traps of a sorceress to the clutches of the Ravenclaw outlaws, Vetra and his friends must save their skins and prevent their homeland from falling to a sorceress’s tyrannical rule…

Young Thongor

Young Thongor
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Lin Carter's greatest creation, the barbarian swordsman Thongor of Lemuria, returns in his first new book in more than 40 years! "Young Thongor" collects Carter's short stories about Thongor's earliest adventures. Drawing on Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian and Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars, Lin Carter has created an enduring new character sure to please all who treasure sword & sorcery in the classic vein.

Collects Carter’s short stories about Thongor’s earliest adventures

for the original thongor serie go here

The Godblade

The Godblade
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  Find out in The Godblade.

The warrior-smith Rænon, after witnessing the return of Brakur the Insane God, has returned to his homeland in Aelbrond. Now he must seek the tomb of the dead god Farick for the remains he needs to pyre-forge The Godblade, the only sword that can kill Brakur and stand against the nefarious cult of Arhai. Will the armies sworn to the cult sweep through the lands of Arginor or can Rænon bring the forces of Aelbrond together to stop them? Will cold steel prevail over sorcery and the dark gods?

Arminius, Bane of Eagles (War on Rome Book 1)

Arminius, Bane of Eagles (War on Rome Book 1)
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Swords clash with ancient sorcery in this first volume of ADRIAN COLE’S epic alternative world trilogy.

Set in an alternative Romano-Celtic Europe, ARMINIUS, BANE OF EAGLES opens with the murder of young Claudius, 14 year old brother of Germanicus, during the last years of the reign of Augustus Caesar, ruler of the vast Roman Empire.

In this world, Arminius, the Germanic tribal leader and destroyer of three entire Roman legions in the Teutoburger forest, and Germanicus, ambitious Roman conqueror and potential heir to the Empire, avoid assassination attempts and set out on a course that will eventually see them clash in a war that will shake the foundations of their world.

Their battles and campaigns are brought vividly to life as history twists and turns down ever darker passageways, where sorcery and elemental forces collide with the Roman war machine, and the conspiracies of the Via Tenebrarum, a secret cult dedicated to the elder gods of Old Night and whose web enmeshes a world, weave a corrupt future for humanity.

For The Emperor (Ciaphas Cain Book 1) warhammer 40k

For the Emperor
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Commissar Ciaphas Cain, hero of the Imperium, respected by his peers and an inspiration to his men, is simply looking for an easy life and to serve his time as Commissar without getting killed. But fate has a habit of throwing him into the deadliest situations. Original.

New to warhammer 40K universe? go there for a recommended reading order

Unusually humorous take on the warhammer 40k universe starring Cain a cowardly commissar who’s actions keeps getting him ever more dangerous duty assignments

Omnibus version :

book one, book two, book three

Also a shorts series anthology here   

 

 

The Space Wolf Omnibus (Space Wolves Book 1) warhammer 40k

The Space Wolf Omnibus (Space Wolves Book 1) warhammer 40k
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New to warhammer 40K universe? go there for a recommended reading order

The howling fury of the Space Wolves is about to be unleashed! On the grim death world of Fenris, the sparse population faces a daily battle for survival against lethal monsters and rival tribes. But Fenris is also home to the mighty Space Wolves Chapter of Space Marines, the Emperor’s elite warriors in a universe full of aliens, heretics and mutants. The adventures of Ragnar begin when he is revived from a savage death in battle and inducted into the ranks of the Space Wolves. But can the ferocious Ragnar conquer the beast within and fulfil his destiny on the battlefields of the 41st millennium?

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Every hero starts somewhere, and this is the origin story of Ragnar Blackmane. He’s the youngest warrior ever to become a Wolf Lord, but how did he come to join the Space Wolves in the first place? Find out here.

 

Blackhearts The Omnibus (Warhammer Chronicles)

Blackhearts: The Omnibus
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Classic collection of stories from the Warhammer Fantasy universe. Under threat of death for their crimes, Reiner Hetzau and his fellow prisoners are given a choice: they can either be executed or work for the very people that have imprisoned them.

Forced to carry out the most desperate and suicidal secret missions, all for the good of the Empire, the Blackhearts encounter Chaos cultists, ratmen, dark elves, rogue army commanders and more. Time and again they are pitted against impossible odds and survive – yet what they most desire they cannot have: their freedom.

Wizard’s First Rule (Sword of Truth serie)Terry Goodkind

Wizard's First Rule
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Basis for the television series Legend of the Seeker, launching in Fall 2008 Millions of readers the world over have been held spellbound by this valiant tale vividly told. Now, enter Terry Goodkind's world, the world of the Sword of Truth. In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, a mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell, appears in Richard Cypher's forest sanctuary seeking help ... and more. His world, his very beliefs, are shattered when…