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Twelve ancient cultures were chosen millennia ago to represent humanity in Endgame, a global game that will decide the fate of humankind. And now it's starting. A Player from each culture has been trained for this moment and must play to save their bloodline-and determine Earth's fate.

In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption, populations flee to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this rescue work when Sally is contacted by her long-lost father, who wants her to accompany him on a voyage across the Long Mars.

War has come to Long Earth. Joshua, now married and a father, is summoned by Lobsang. It seems that he alone can confront the perfect storm of crises that threatens to plunge all of the Long Earth into a war unlike any that has been waged before.

Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. After eleven unsuccessful expeditions to survey the area--most of which ended in death--the twelfth expedition is set to go. Area X delivers the unexpected, but it's the surprises that come with the team that change everything.

As he stands on the auction block, the ragged, starving boy, Thorby, is purchased by the crippled beggar Baslim, who leads him into adventures on the starship Sisu.

Everything changed on the day. The day the windows shattered. The day the power stopped. The day Dol's family dropped dead. The day Earth lost a war it didn't know it was fighting.

In a futuristic urban wasteland, evil Overlords have decreed that no human shall live a day past their fourteenth birthday. On that Sad Birthday, the children of the Dorms are taken to the Meat Factory, where they will be made into creatures whose sole purpose is to kill. The mysterious Shade, once a man but now more like the machines he fights, recruits the few teenagers who escape into a secret resistance force.

To get into the Master's good graces, the Destructo brothers have trapped Gwar in order to interrogate them to find the key to destroying Cardinal Syn once and for all. Will Sawborg and Bozo Destructo get the answers they need? Can Gwar escape their clutches? Will Cardinal Syn destroy them all? And what really happened when Gwar were banished to earth? With art by some of the greatest comic creators this side of Flab Quarv 7, hand-picked by Gwar themselves, including Matt Maguire, Liana Kangas, Lukasz Kowalczuk, Matt Lejeune, Katie Longua, Jeff Martin, Kelly Williams and Josh Jensen.

In this fantastic and fantastical debut, C.J. Lavigne concocts a wondrous realm overlaying a city that brims with civic workers and pigeons. Led by her synesthesia, Verity Richards discovers a hidden world inside an old Ottawa theatre. Within the timeworn walls live people who should not exist—people whose very survival is threatened by science, technology, and natural law. Verity must submerge herself in this impossible reality to help save the last traces of their broken community. Her guides: a magician, his shadow-dog, a dying angel, and a knife-edged woman who is more than half ghost.

For fans of Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and P.G. Wodehouse. Where do you go after you die? Detroit. Something's rotten in the afterlife. At least that's how it seems to Rhinnick Feynman, the one man who perceives that someone in the afterlife is tugging at history's threads and retroactively unraveling the past. Doing his best to navigate a netherworld in which history won't stop changing for the worse, Rhinnick sets off on a quest to put things right.