You thought you understood the Zoo? I'm here to tell you it's so much more than anyone ever thought!

The life expectancy of visitors to The Zoo isn’t very high. If you survive, you might just be set for life.

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HE WAS NOT PREPARED.

Born from the fertile imagination of bestselling author Michael Anderle

Fountain of Youth, or Valley of Death?

While eating his supper of microwave popcorn, PhD student-genius Salinger Jacobs is grabbed from his apartment in California, stuck on a C-130 military plane and sent to the Sahara Desert to witness the reality of the ZOO for himself.

With the life expectancy of untrained scientists working inside the ZOO measured in hours, he has a lot to learn.

Fast.

First order of business?

How do you shoot a gun, and just HOW MUCH is that plant worth?

The government needs the best of the best military and scientific minds working out how to pull the secrets from the ZOO, while keeping the deadly fauna and flora in check.

There is one major problem, Salinger doesn't even have a PhD.

If he can stay alive long enough, he might be able to afford something besides packaged microwave popcorn to eat.

THAT IS A BIG IF.

This Boxed Set includes all ten books in the BIRTH OF HEAVY METAL Series

1. He Was Not Prepared
2. She is His Witness
3. Backstabbing Little Assets
4. Blood of My Enemies
5. Get Out of Our Way
6. It All Falls Down
7. Justice Come Due
8. All's Fair in War
9. More Time to Kill
10. Contain or Die

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NOTE: There may or may not be gratuitous sex in this book. Or it might actually play into a later book with funny talk about men vs. women's abilities and capabilities. There is ABSOLUTELY cursing in this book. LOTS of upset cursing, cursing out of anger, fear, and other emotional issues related to carnivorous alien flora or fauna-eating humans who don’t say ‘darn.’ LOTS of gratuitous cursing just because the author finds it funny, too. There is death and sadness...and more death. In fact, it’s a blender of blood out in the ZOO. Man vs. alien nature seems to justify ugly results. Plus, people have emotional hang-ups. Expect to smile, laugh, cry, and perhaps have a spate of jealousy or two. Further, there might be explicit sex, thank-you sex, and you're welcome sex. Finally, there is no Coke in the ZOO. That is probably the worst and most offensive trait in these stories. This is Michael Todd, and I approve of the shenanigans pulled in ZOO stories.

In the wake of an apocalyptic EMP strike, 17-year-old archery prodigy Lydia is thrown into a brutal journey across a transformed America. Alone after her father's tragic demise, Lydia teams up with George, a battle-scarred retired soldier. Together, they brave deadly gangs and harsh wilderness to reach Lydia's besieged family farm. As she steps into a deadly showdown in her hometown, Lydia's courage and resilience shine through. Delve into this pulse-pounding survival saga of courage, kinship, and the indomitable human spirit against an unforgiving post-apocalyptic world.

The Minimum Wage Sidekick returns in an all-new adventure!

Eighteen-year-old Alex Fry (Beams) thinks he's seen it all in his year and a half as a part-time sidekick. That's why he's surprised when the police call him and his boss to investigate the gruesome slaughter of a local crime gang. Nineteen of Golden City's most wanted killed in one night by one man.

The culprit: A supervillain knight known as Slasher seeking to conquer Golden City in the name of his mysterious king. Slasher is willing to kill anyone who stands in the way of his conquest of the city and Beams and Rubberman are at the top of his hit list.

Now Beams must use all of his cunning, strength, and powers to defeat Slasher and save Golden City. Yet when Beams' own failing powers threaten to kill him, defeating Slasher may be the least of his troubles.

Don’t dump the cargo - I paid for it fair and square with money I stole! 

And so begins the saga of Jack Marber, former Special Assault Marine and his alien band of traders as they cross the galaxy doing the only job that doesn’t leave them homeless.  

“I need eyes and ears in every system that would benefit the Federation. One way to do that is for the Free Traders of this universe to work for me…”  Nathan Lowell

Nathan has a mission and is willing to pay handsomely for Jack’s time. If only Jack will represent the Federation that kicked him out of the service for what was Jack’s fault. 

He’s not sure they should trust him, although he likes it.

His two-legged Yollin partner is trying to learn the English side of the Galactic Common language, but that doesn’t always work out so well.  

Adina is a member who Nathan wants on the team. No one is sure of her, not even Adina. 

A storm is rising and the misfits of the Fortitude have no choice but to fight it.  

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If cursing is a problem, then this might not be for you.

Are the Gods selfish or just determined?

In the City of Chessman Bishop, where mortals and gods intermingle, the answer differs from who you ask. Kai Meng, an otherworldly being inhabiting a human host, sees the world through a different lens than Pammy, a member of a rival alien sect. Neither of them would share the same perspective as the formidable Marian Snow, whose loyalty lies with her own deity. And then there's Holly Barnes, a woman of atheistic origins who views these beings not as pious soldiers, but as eerie metaphysical monsters.

The City of Chessman Bishop is a place where the gods' influence is undeniable, and their followers are unwavering in their devotion. When Holly unwittingly becomes the focal point of a cosmic struggle, the Worshipers of Neiphrolyn set their sights on her, intent on drawing her into their intricate web of espionage. Yet the local Followers of Etznoelle also take an interest in Holly, with plans that could alter the very fabric of reality.

In a world where divine forces clash and mortal lives hang in the balance, Holly must navigate the treacherous waters of a galactic domination game. Will she emerge unscathed, or will she become a pawn in the hands of beings whose motivations are as mysterious as the cosmos itself?

A ship from Earth is coming, but it's not what they expect
Patrick and Susan have enjoyed a relatively peaceful life on the colony of Tau Ceti 2, twelve light years from Earth. However, everything changes when the starship Asimov arrives.

Asimov is unlike any other ship that has graced the Tau Ceti colony in the past, and when it announces a new project—a groundbreaking device called a "Link," designed to facilitate faster-than-light communication between the colony and Earth, eliminating the isolating twelve-year message delay—Susan volunteers to assist.

Susan discovers that the library ship, designed to house all of Earth's knowledge, was programmed to keep much of its knowledge from the colonists—information that could help grow the colony.

Forbidden knowledge and hidden truths become a problem. The forbidden knowledge, once revealed, is the key to growing the colony, but the hidden truths threaten that growth.

Many among the colonists are suspicious of Earth’s intentions. More immediately, is the other colony settlement—the Ellis Research Station two hundred miles from Grissom—supporting Earth’s plans?

Can they uncover Earth's endgame amid Asimov's vast archives, or will they become pawns in a battle that forever alters the colony’s future?
The first novel in the Library Ship Saga, a fascinating voyage into the future.

Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man.

Jack discovered something far greater and gave it to a child.

Mykl now reigns as king of the gene pool, with a teddy bear by his side.

World superpowers engage in their own reckless game to ensure global domination. But playing with fire risks the extinction of everyone.

For humanity to survive, there's only one choice... and one outcome... The Prometheus Effect.
 

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“The pages brim with tenderness and an appreciation for what we had and who we were. I could not have loved it more."—Ann Patchett

“One of the most moving and intelligent time travel novels I have ever read. Nostalgic, wise, funny, and filled with love."—Gabrielle Zevin

“The kind of book that will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you call the people you love. Exceptional."—Emily Henry

What if you could take a vacation to your past?

        With her celebrated humor, insight, and heart, beloved New York Times bestseller Emma Straub offers her own twist on traditional time travel tropes and a different kind of love story.

On the eve of her fortieth birthday, Alice’s life isn’t terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn’t exactly the one she expected. She’s happy with her apartment, her romantic status, and her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But her father is ailing, and it feels to her as if something is missing. When she wakes up the next morning, she finds herself back in 1996, reliving her sixteenth birthday. But it isn’t just her adolescent body that shocks her, or seeing her high school crush—it’s her dad, the vital, charming, forty-something version of her father with whom she is reunited. Now armed with a new perspective on her own life and his, some past events take on new meaning. Is there anything that she would change if she could?

From the ashes of a dying world, a god will rise.

As an out of shape nerd, Gabriel Rivera had more pressing issues than outlandish things like godhood: Evacuating the city, joining the military, and protecting his family. Simple right?

Everything changed when the PAC invaded.

When the grim fate of his world is revealed, Gabriel joins the Reclaimer Project to save his family. A lowly F ranker, he’s weaker than even the worst recruits. Good thing he’s too stubborn for his own good.

Through blood and sweat Gabriel aims to grow stronger and rise above the rest.

Deadly traps lurk around every corner, mysterious factions move in the shadows, and dormant powers within him manifest in wild and dangerous ways.

Battered, bruised, and beaten, Gabriel refuses to stay down. For only in the fires of The Crucible are legends forged.

In Robert A. Heinlein’s controversial Hugo Award-winning bestseller, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the Universe—and into battle against mankind’s most alarming enemy...

Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up—and definitely not the infantry. But now that he’s in the thick of it, trying to get through combat training harder than anything he could have imagined, he knows everyone in his unit is one bad move away from buying the farm in the interstellar war the Terran Federation is waging against the Arachnids.

Because everyone in the Mobile Infantry fights. And if the training doesn’t kill you, the Bugs are more than ready to finish the job...

“A classic…If you want a great military adventure, this one is for you.”—All SciFi

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Two sisters.

Asha is the Queen of the Fey, genetically engineered immortal humans who feed on human souls to survive. But she's running from her people. When she is found by her enemy, one of the Hunters of the Fey, she expects to die. Yet he's oddly intrigued by her, and Asha finds herself falling in love with him, hoping she can find safety and the home she's been seeking. Then she's kidnapped, and everything changes.

Fallon is a Hunter. She's looking for her long-lost sister, using an addictive drug to search through the stream of time. Her addiction leaves her dangerously exposed to her enemies but, consumed by her search, she doesn't care...until her fellow Hunters start dying from a mysterious illness. She is torn between duty and desire, and must find an answer before they all die. What Fallon doesn't know is that Asha might just be the key to saving them all, if only she can find her.

And time is running out.

PLEASE NOTE that this book contains explicit language, explicit sex, and graphic violence. It isn't suitable for those under 18.

A B.R.A.G.Medallion Honoree

Leviticus Radix is a gifted computational engineer whose perceptions are unique and powerful. He’s part of a team of graduate students who have developed a new technology that garners the unwanted attention of mysterious opposing factions. To make matters worse, Leviticus is manifesting abilities that haven’t been seen for over 1700 years. One ancient order wants to enslave him, the other says he’s the chosen one who will save the world from a prophesied flood. This is all news to him, but it’s starting to look like it’s not a coincidence.

As Leviticus learns more about his abilities, it becomes apparent that he will play a pivotal role in the coming cataclysm. His future and the lives of his friends are forever altered as they discover the world is a very different place than they thought. The group will have to set aside personal conflicts and work together in an attempt to prevent the end of everything they hold dear. The decisions they make could lead the world to safety, or hasten its doom.

“A well-crafted story set in a high-tech antediluvian era. A compelling, multilayered tale of good vs. Evil.”

Rivka Anoa has a gift and a galactic mandate.

She's a lawyer accused of a murder she did commit. She stands ready to accept her fate, even though her victim was a murderer. A second chance appears. Become more than a lawyer. Be one who judges and punishes the guilty.

Could she look herself in the mirror after meting out justice? She's about to find out. Rivka heads to space to be the Judge, Jury, & Executioner. Criminals have nowhere to go.

You Have Been Judged...

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Judge, Jury, & Executioner is a stand-alone series in the Kurtherian Gambit Universe. No previous books need to be read. Just lock in your seat-belt, grab your favorite drink and be ready for your socks to be blown off.

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*** This book contains cursing. Perhapshumorous cursing, but cursing nevertheless. If this offends you, perhaps this book isn't for you.

WHY CAN'T THEY JUST LEAVE CHRISTMAS ALONE?

Kris Kringle left behind his mercenary life to atone and accepted the responsibility to deliver presents to the children each year.

The children will smile on Christmas morning at all costs. Even if Kris has to die to try to make it happen.

Someone has set a trap for Kris Kringle. The problem is, Kris is willing to go anywhere to get those gifts to the children.

Including to his dark place.

This time, even Kris is surprised by who helps him.

Be careful, world. You don’t want to piss off Saint Nick.

NOTE! This story is not gentle. There is cursing, killing, and decapitation involved to save the season. Kris Kringle is not your normal Santa Claus. Not appropriate for younger children. Don’t read this to them.

Included in this boxed set:

1. Christmas Kringle: Silent Night
2. Christmas Kringle: Coming to Town
3. Christmas Kringle: Winter Wonderland

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“Because this time it took a bit more violence to make Christmas happen. All heartstrings plucked.” - Michael Anderle

As Yasmine, Axel, Jack and Ming find themselves fully engrossed in a globe-trotting adventure, simultaneously, in a charming, quaint town nestled within North Carolina's embrace, another tale begins to unfurl — one that entwines with the impending events.

In the realm of contemporary assassins, Tokuro Kawakami, a skilled operative schooled in the time-honored ways of the ninjas sets out on a vengeful quest to uncover the perpetrators behind his brother's untimely demise.

Along his journey, he stumbles upon an intricate plot that stretches across the globe, driven by a singular purpose: obtaining extraterrestrial technology. His brother had dedicated himself to safeguarding a band of individuals who had fortuitously stumbled upon a battered old spacecraft and an alien artificial intelligence with goals of its own. Now facing imminent peril, they need his aid in their struggle for survival.

Noemi never wanted to be a rebel leader...
…but like any spacer, she rarely gets what she wants.

It’s hard enough being the only female cargo foreman on Aikkan Station. Sure, Noemi can pilot a mech with the best of them, and her team is made up of the finest mech pilots she could find. But when their boss runs afoul of the most ambitious Council Prince in the system, the repercussions are deadly—and they land squarely on Noemi’s shoulders.

Accused of murder and in possession of an impenetrable secret, Noemi and her team are suddenly rebels on the run. Trapped on a stolen freighter and surrounded by the enemy fleet, their only hope is to plan a daring rescue right into the heart of enemy territory: the planet Aquitania. With only their mechs as weapons, they must stage a daring rescue. If they fail, they’re as good as dead. If they succeed, they could alter the balance of power throughout the system… and maybe even the entire Empire.

A rebel leader, her unlikely team, and a handful of modified cargo mechs are all that stand between freedom… or certain death.

End Days, books one through four in a single package!

A father and his son. A country apart. A blue ribbon crosses the sky, and the world starts to unravel. So begins the adventure as Buck and Garth struggle to find safety as they search for each other. They decide not to go it alone, picking up stragglers and friends alike on their way to the site of the apocalypse, to the heart of Armageddon. End Days is what readers are calling a heart-pounding emotional roller coaster. Join us today in the fight for survival within a changing world. The first four books. Right here. Right now.

End Days 1: Blue Apocalypse - No one knows what is happening, but everyone is trying to find out. Buck is running his big rig from the west coast. Garth is trapped in New York City with his high school friend.

With Marine training and an eighteen-wheeler, Buck heads east. With no training and no communication with his father, Garth fights just to escape New York City.

The Hadron collider in CERN. Its twin south of Denver. The Australian outback. What do these places have in common? Those who might be able to fix things are trying to figure it out while Buck doesn’t care. He is on a mission to find his son.

Is time the enemy of humanity?

End Days 2: Broken Arrow – A father and his son, a country apart. Time swirls and strange is a new normal. Believe it all. Trust none of it.

Buck is driving for his life. Garth, too.

Nowhere is safe as the dangers mount.

Must get moving. Unless staying is better.

Does anyone know the best choice?

Make it up as you go because no one has gone through this before.

The world becomes more and more hostile, but Buck and Garth aren’t going to take it lying down.

End Days 3: Broad America - A father and his son, a country apart. Time swirls and strange is a new normal. Believe it all. Trust nothing.

Buck is finally making headway on his journey east. Until he runs into something bigger than all of them.

Garth is spinning his wheels. He has a companion who is a great deal of work, but she’s also a huge help when he needs it most. Together they try to dig themselves out of a deep hole.

The skies are angry and the time waves are increasing. Nowhere is safe.

Except one place and that’s not very safe, either.

The stakes increase with the struggles as the players are trying to stay alive long enough to figure it out.

End Days 4: Begin Again - A father and his son, a country apart. Desperate times make for desperate people. Buck and Garth try to retain their humanity as they fight for their lives. How many others can they help? Should they even try?

No one knows what’s going on except a handful of people and even they aren’t sure what happened, but most importantly, how do they stop it? The survivors are rushing to Colorado in an epic race.

Time is working against them in more ways than one. End Days is what readers are calling a heart-pounding emotional roller coaster. Join us today in the fight for survival within a changing world.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pierce Brown’s relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card.

“Ender, Katniss, and now Darrow.”—Scott Sigler

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, BUZZFEED, AND SHELF AWARENESS

“I live for the dream that my children will be born free,” she says. “That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.”
“I live for you,” I say sadly.
Eo kisses my cheek. “Then you must live for more.”
 
Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children.

But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and lush wilds spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.

Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity’s overlords struggle for power.  He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society’s ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies . . . even if it means he has to become one of them to do so.

BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Pierce Brown's Golden Son.

“[A] spectacular adventure . . . one heart-pounding ride . . . Pierce Brown’s dizzyingly good debut novel evokes The Hunger Games, Lord of the Flies, and Ender’s Game. . . . [Red Rising] has everything it needs to become meteoric.”—Entertainment Weekly

“[A] top-notch debut novel . . . Red Rising ascends above a crowded dystopian field.”—USA Today

“Red Rising is a sophisticated vision. . . . Brown will find a devoted audience.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch

“A story of vengeance, warfare and the quest for power . . . reminiscent of The Hunger Games and Game of Thrones.”—Kirkus Reviews

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film—and awakens one woman’s hidden powers.

“No one punctures the skin of reality to reveal the lurking, sinister magic beneath better than Silvia Moreno-Garcia.”—Kiersten White, author of Hide

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Tordotcom, Polygon, CrimeReads, BookPage, Book Riot

Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of the boys’ club running the film industry in ’90s Mexico City. And she’s all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she’s been in love with him since childhood.

Then Tristán discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their lives—even if his tale of a Nazi occultist imbuing magic into highly volatile silver nitrate stock sounds like sheer fantasy. The magic film was never finished, which is why, Urueta swears, his career vanished overnight. He is cursed.

Now the director wants Montserrat and Tristán to help him shoot the missing scene and lift the curse . . . but Montserrat soon notices a dark presence following her, and Tristán begins seeing the ghost of his ex-girlfriend.

As they work together to unravel the mystery of the film and the obscure occultist who once roamed their city, Montserrat and Tristán may find that sorcerers and magic are not only the stuff of movies.

Being possessed has its advantages…

Annabelle Mulledy survived a Voodoo attack on her family as a child—but it left her possessed by the spirit of a nearly 200 year-old-girl. This girl, however, came with strange abilities bestowed upon her in the after life. When Kalfu, an evil Loa, discovers Annabelle he hopes to use her abilities to his advantage—to escape the spiritual realm and take a corporeal form. When Ogoun, the Loa of War, intervenes he recruits Annabelle to join him as a student at the Voodoo Academy. Will Annabelle master the arts, and fend off Kalfu’s spiritual assaults? Or, is she ultimately a puppet in a battle between Voodoo demigods?

Voodoo Academy is the first book in the Gates of Eden: The Voodoo Legacy series. Theophilus Monroe’s Annabelle Mulledy is a snarky badass heroine with attitude. Monroe draws on the legend and myth of Voodoo lore in a way that neither caricatures the arts as “demonic” nor glosses over the dark side of the Voodoo tradition. With dark magic, dragons, vampires, and a slow burn academy romance the Gates of Eden: The Voodoo Legacy series has something for everybody.

If you enjoy magic academy fantasy books and occult urban fantasy, especially books with a dark twist, then you will love Theophilus Monroe’s Voodoo Academy. Fans of authors like Michael Anderle, Shayne Silvers, G.K. DeRosa, or Ramy Vance will love this compelling coming of age urban fantasy. Pick up your copy today!