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A man using a social media app that reaches across dimensions to talk to himself in different timelines, discovers some of his problems are universal...and some are not...At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

When the elitist institution of Ozymandias Academy and its headmaster, Vamon Kinctuarin, can''t find a solution to the city''s worsening drought, two self-taught magicians, Noah and his partner Manny, take it upon themselves to find a solution to the crisis in "D.I.Y.", John Wiswell''s Tor.com Original short storyPeople ask how Noah could possibly turn down the Ozymandias Academy. All they know about him is the headlines, and they think he’s ungrateful. What you don’t get is that attending Ozymandias was Noah’s dream. Noah wanted it worse than anyone. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Prosperity City’s corrupt mayor never guessed his greatest opponent would be a fire-breathing dragon and her unconventional platform...At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

**Winner: Nebula Award for Best Novel****Winner: Locus Award for Best First Novel****Shortlisted for: Hugo Award for Best Novel**''Stealthily funny, slyly smart, and remarkably touching'' VERONICA ROTH, bestselling author of WHEN AMONG CROWSShesheshen has made a fatal mistake for a monster: she''s fallen in love.Shesheshen is a shapeshifter - one who is perfectly content to stay as an amorphous lump in her swamp unless impolite monster hunters invade intent on murdering her. Then, she meets warm-hearted Homily, who mistakes Shesheshen for a human like her.But just as Shesheshen is about to confess her true identity, Homily reveals she''s hunting the shapeshifting monster that supposedly cursed her family. Shesheshen didn''t curse anyone, but to give them both a chance at happiness, she must figure out why Homily''s family thinks she did - while surviving her toxic in-laws long enough to build a life with the woman she loves.A glorious, funny, occasionally slightly violent love story which asks us to examine - and re-examine - the meaning of legacy, family and love.Readers love Someone You Can Build A Nest In''I adored everything about it'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reader review''Charmingly gruesome and unique'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reader review''This book is going to live rent free in my head for a long time'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reader review''A brilliant, monstrous tale'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reader review''One of the finest novels I''ve read'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reader review

God. Hero. Idol. Monster. Murderer. The story of Hercules is one of the most famous ever told. But what if it''s wrong? Locus and Nebula Award-winning author John Wiswell brings his gentle, human storytelling to the most infamous of stories and discovers the heart inside us all.Furious with Zeus for once again siring a child with a mortal woman, Hera finds herself redirecting all her fury at the baby himself, Heracles, an innocent named in her honour. As Heracles grows into a man - an unfathomably strong, loving man - he thanks Hera for all the blessings he feels she''s seen fit to bestow upon him.In a moment of misdirected rage, however, Hera sends a fury to kill Heracles'' family. Heracles sets out on an epic quest to discover the name of the god who set their murders in motion. Desperate to keep him busy until she can come up with a solution, Hera sets Heracles a series of tests, as impossible as they are deadly: the Nemean lion, the hydra, the Stymphalian birds, the Aegean stables . . .But Heracles'' innate kindness, along with his determination to discover the identity of the god who cost him everything he loves, carries him through each task. As his legend grows, so does Hera''s desperation.A novel of friendship, of found family, of kindness and of legend, this is the story of Hercules as it has never been told before.

In this heartfelt and humorous fantasy, a dragon whose three heads bear rather . . . different personalities finds family in the most unexpected of places.