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Over 100,000 reads on Royal Road. 4.7 on Amazon from 99+ reviews. #1 New Release in Time Travel Fiction. Top 10 in Time Travel Sci-Fi. Towerbound is the Progression Fantasy LitRPG readers can’t stop binging. They left him for dead. Now he’s back—and he’s bringing the Tower down. Ren Varrow was never the hero type. A quiet alchemist with a talent for potions, he kept his head low while others chased glory. But when a top guild lured him into a lethal dungeon and stabbed him in the back, his story should’ve ended. Instead, it rewound.

Trouble is coming for Earth and for the people of Crownhill. The wolfmen were only the start. Trolls and ogres now roam these unfamiliar lands. And worst of all, other humans wait and plot against us. With no one else to lead them, the burden of protecting these people falls to me. But I am not alone. Bridget and Sakura loyally stand by my side. And now, at last, I am finally reunited with Myrina, my oldest friend. She hails from the world of the Amazonians, and her people have lived with the System for countless years. They know the answers to questions we haven't even thought to ask.

The first integration was just the start for Earth. As we grappled with the aftermath of the first integration, a new, more daunting phase began. The System had unveiled additional shards, each a victorious fragment of a broken civilization, survivors and conquerors just like us. These battle-hardened and desperate people are determined to win, and pose a threat unlike any we've faced so far. Meanwhile, the lifeline between Crownhill and Themyscira hangs in the balance. Elder Thalassa still holds a grudge against me, and without her mother, Cyra won't have the sway to keep her at bay.

In the sprawling city of Manchester, forensic investigator Isla Crowley is secretly a werewolf, hiding her dual nature while solving the city's most bizarre crimes. When a series of gruesome murders begin occurring during the full moon, Isla teams up with Elias Thorn, a brooding but charming historian with knowledge of ancient supernatural lore. As they delve deeper, they uncover a hidden war between rival werewolf packs vying for dominance, a deadly cult that seeks to eradicate all supernaturals, and a mysterious artifact tied to Isla's own past.

Maxine was made to do one thing: die. Except the minor non-player character in the world Riley is building makes her own impossible decision - veering wildly off course and exploring the boundaries of the map. When the curious Riley extracts her code for closer examination, an emotional relationship develops between them. Soon Riley has all new plans for her spontaneous AI, including bringing Max into the real world. But what if Max has real-world plans of her own?

When her company discovers a remarkable hidden message in the dreaming brains of her subjects, Dr. Amanda Meron unknowingly invites disaster unto her company. The clues seem to be pointing her to one of the remote places on the planet: The Amazon Rainforest. When Harvey "Ben" Bennett gets a hint that the nefarious organization he's been searching for has turned up in Brazil, he and his new girlfriend Juliette Richardson race to the jungle to discover what they're after—and hopefully stop them.

The members of S-Squad are looking for a break from their run of cold climate travails. So when a seemingly simple mission in Amazonia comes their way, they are looking forward to some welcome warmth.

When one thinks of the classic adventure-story authors of the pulp fiction era, H. Rider Haggard, Talbot Mundy, and Rafael Sabatini may come first to mind. But Arthur O. Friel's stellar contributions - particularly his stories featuring Lourenco and Pedro, two workers on a rubber-tree plantation in the Amazon Jungle. Their adventures in the Amazon's mysterious back-country certainly deserve honorable mention. Here are tales of peril and last-minute rescue, brutal savages and men of honor, snake-worshipping armies and half-ape Lost Races-and many more!

Copilots Msizi and Tariro are testing a newly constructed wormhole jump that presumably leads to unsettled habitable worlds. Then an explosion sends them off course, far from where they started and with little chance of ever making it back. Now they’re stranded on their new home for the diaspora. It’s called Malcolm X-b. But they’re beginning to wonder how many light-years from civilization they really are.

When a mysterious, horrifying plague descends upon their sacred island, turning proud Amazon warriors into violent, lust-driven cannibals, Thaleia leads her surviving sisters on a desperate voyage south, fleeing beyond the reach of the gods themselves. But their sanctuary—the frozen, lifeless wasteland at the very edge of the world—offers no peace, only endless ice and relentless daylight. As tensions rise among the weary warriors, Thaleia struggles to hold her tribe together, haunted by the whispers beneath the ice and the shadows of the past they've tried desperately to outrun.

Due brillanti ed innamoratissimi professori dell’Alma Mater fanno un’importante scoperta in Amazzonia. Ritenuta dapprima di esclusivo interesse scientifico, essa rivelerà in seguito inquietanti legami fra i destini degli indios e quelli dell’umanità intera.

References to Amazons date back to the time of Plato, who mentions trade between the Amazons and the island nation of Atlantis. In the Iliad, a reference is made to a battle that occurred between the Amazons, an ally of Troy, and a Greek contingent led by the Greek hero, Achilles. The battle ended with the death of the Amazon queen, and therein lies the beginning of my tale.

While continuing to buy mining assets from companies in Ecuador's Amazon jungle, the new Chinese owners were adding refined cocaine production to their mineral processing plants. Their surreptitious activity took business away from the local Los Choneros drug cartel, reduced the revenue for the Indigenous farmers and blocked the government's need to be involved. The purified and pre-cut cocaine was hidden in the copper and gold concentrate shipped to China for distribution to the West.

Neuguinea, 1885: Nach der ereignisreichen Reise sieht sich Familie Berger in Finschhafen einer fremden Kultur gegenüber. Sie müssen sich in der neuen Siedlung gegen die eiserne Hand der kolonialen Verwaltung behaupten, die zudem den Zorn der Einheimischen entfacht und somit die Existenz aller aufs Spiel setzt. Hedwig, die den Freigeist Max liebt, ist von ihm schwanger, aber wagt es nicht, sich ihm zu offenbaren. Ihre geschäftstüchtige jüngere Schwester Anna versucht eigene Wege zu gehen, doch die Liebe zu einem Einheimischen bringt nicht nur ihre geschäftlichen Träume ins Wanken.

Seit einem großen Streit ist Funkstille zwischen der eigensinnigen Jodie und Harry, dem Mann, der ihre Seele berührt hat wie kein anderer. Jodies YouTube-Kanal, auf dem sie über ungelöste Kriminalfälle berichtet, läuft unterdessen weiter und Jodie beginnt den rätselhaften Fall der jungen Samantha Feldman zu recherchieren. Vor Jahren ist sie spurlos verschwunden. War es Selbstmord? Nach einer leidenschaftlichen Versöhnung mit Harry kommt Bewegung in den Fall: Er kannte Samantha und war sogar mit ihr auf der gleichen Schule. Überdies war Samanthas einzige Freundin Chloe Harrys erste Liebe.

Joel Dunbar, the last branch of an Appalachian family tree, accepts a mysterious invitation from a billionaire plutocrat to attend a conservation expo in San Francisco. The rock star environmentalist has startling plans for the future and a caveat for Joel: Don’t ask too many questions, and don’t divulge any answers. But when Joel befriends a rebellious eco-friendly Arizona rancher, he’s roped into a new kind of war, with new kinds of casualties.

Take a journey on a giant raft with Joam Garral down 800 leagues on the Amazon. Garral, a Brazilian, lives on a thriving fazenda (plantation) in the Peruvian frontier with his loving family. But his daughter's imminent marriage to a Brazilian army surgeon compels him to return to his homeland to face the dark secrets of his past. Will his love and dedication to his family help him in his struggle to right injustice? Will a strange encoded message be deciphered in time to save him?

Sovereign Galashin Mathis, the leader of the Amazons, could do nothing but keep sending her sisters and brothers to battle, even when their enemies seemed to be infallible and invincible. Lord Scalemon's army of demons and monsters are relentless in their attacks, brutal in annihilating the Amazons, and ruthless in fulfilling their master's wishes. Sovereign Mathis' brave warriors have no time to spare to mourn their fallen comrades. They have no choice but to continue fighting against the onslaught of evil threatening to take over their land.

Ukraine, März 1944: Es ist tiefer Winter, als Adeline und Emil Martel mit ihren beiden kleinen Söhnen vor der Roten Armee fliehen müssen. Als Deutsche sind sie in ihrer Heimat nicht mehr sicher und es bleibt ihnen nichts Anderes übrig, als sich auf den beschwerlichen Weg gen Westen zu begeben. Der aber wird von den Nazis kontrolliert. Emil, der als Soldat Gräueltaten der SS miterlebte, muss weiter um die Sicherheit seiner Familie fürchten. Besonders, als Adeline einer Jüdin bei der Flucht hilft und sie alle in Gefahr bringt.

Too often have the Nadal Republic and the Amazon Nation seen each other on the battlefield. Now that King Bernal Koff has taken the throne he will use every weapon in his arsenal to destroy his enemy. In his way is Sovereign Galashin Mathis, and she will do everything she can to stop him. So now with their conflict looming time will tell if her kingdom will rise, or if King Bernal Koff's vast domain will ascend.