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Vivienne has poured so many hours into the massively popular VRMMO The Seven Cataclysms that she has more of a life inside the game than out. It's a fitting irony, then, when one day she wakes in the body of her maxed-out demon-mage 'Vivisari'—and finds that now, the game really is her life. But the world of Seven Cataclysms isn't what she remembers. A hundred years have passed since the game's concluding events, and Vivisari is a hero of myth thought long dead.

Don't miss this gripping, emotional prequel to the hit Netflix series, Stranger Things! The never-before-told backstory of the beloved Dig Dug maven, Max Mayfield, written by New York Times bestselling author Brenna Yovanoff. This must-read novel, based on the hit Netflix series, Stranger Things...

ROLL FOR INITIATIVE! Geo Margilus is adjusting pretty well to his new life as lord of a castle in a fantasy world--or so he thinks until negotiations with the dwarves go awry, landing him in hot water. To make matters worse, someone's spreading rumors of him being secretly in league with the...

A hardworking salaryman by day immerses himself on weekends in the pen-and-paper roleplaying game Dungeons & Braves, where he plays his favorite character: a max level wizard. When his real life abruptly ends, he is given a second chance as Geo Margilus, his magic user from the game. The powers, wealth, and enchanted loot that he gathered across endless hours of imaginary adventures are now made real. The catch? He's transported to the world of Sedia, a fantasy realm where evil abounds, and ravenous daemons threaten mankind.

In The Abyssal Gate, young Max, a blacksmith’s son and aspiring hero, stumbles upon an ancient dungeon hidden in the foothills outside his village. Eager for adventure but unprepared for the depths of darkness awaiting him, Max descends, encountering monsters, undead warriors, and powerful curses sealed within stone walls. His only companion is Grubble, a green-scaled creature with a knack for distractions and an unexpectedly loyal heart.

Max Fredericks can time travel. He doesn't know exactly how it works-just that it does. When it happens again, Max finds himself on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain in 1965 East Berlin. Still queasy from the shock of travel, he witnesses an abduction. The victim is a girl Max later comes to know only as Elsa, and the perpetrators are the Stasi-"the sword and shield of the state" in communist East Germany.

The labyrinth wasn’t built to be conquered—it was built to consume. Max, a determined 16-year-old adventurer, enters the Labyrinth of Echoes to find his missing sister, but he quickly discovers the dungeon’s deadly traps and relentless monsters. Deep within its cursed halls, he encounters Eryon, a Minotaur bound to the labyrinth for centuries, a victim of a cruel curse that has turned him into its unwilling guardian. Forced to work together, Max and Eryon battle the labyrinth’s horrors, including shadowy collectors, relentless wardens, and even reflections of their darkest fears.

In Max and the Forest Dungeon, sixteen-year-old Max discovers an ancient pit hidden in the forest while out hunting. Drawn by curiosity, he descends into an enchanted dungeon brimming with forest creatures and treacherous magic. Each level of the dungeon presents a new danger, from living vines and poisonous mushrooms to spectral wolves and shadow beasts. As he ventures deeper, Max realizes that the dungeon itself is alive, testing him with challenges that push him to his limits.

When young Max, son of a humble blacksmith, steps into the dungeon that looms over his village, he expects danger—but nothing can prepare him for the horrors within. Each level is a new test of endurance and bravery, bringing him face-to-face with ancient traps, deadly creatures, and cursed souls that cling to the darkness. Equipped with his father’s basic sword and shield, Max navigates the dungeon’s shadowy depths, discovering enchanted artifacts and gaining glimpses into its twisted history.

Max, the determined teenage son of a blacksmith, dreams of becoming a hero, but he never expected his journey would begin with a curse. When an ancient spell falls upon his father, Max ventures into the Dungeon of Gloom to find the only cure—a mythical Chalice of Shadows. Deep within the dungeon’s depths, he encounters Shades, a small but cunning creature born of the shadows. Despite their differences, Max and Shades forge a unique friendship, each encounter strengthening their bond as they face down creatures, traps, and the very darkness that sustains the curse.

Max, the teenage son of a humble blacksmith, has always dreamed of adventure. But his world turns upside down when a mysterious dungeon appears near his village, sealing him inside with only a cryptic riddle for escape. As he delves deeper into its treacherous levels, Max discovers fragmented memories of his mother—memories that reveal a shocking truth: she’s alive and tied to a secret mission to protect their world from the demon realm.

Weeks after watching her principal try to chew up her school teacher, and minutes after she'd just lost her family, 12-year-old Aurora Bonsall begins her odyssey of escape with Max Random in his hand-built go-kart across a ruined map of abandoned studio back lots, wrecked shopping malls, encounters with the not-quite dead in hospitals and the not-quite tame when they meet a feral cat. All while realizing that surviving humans can be far more dangerous than the Nano-Z's taking over the world.

Max se stěhuje s rodinou do Hawkinsu a netuší, co všechno se tím spustí. Audiokniha pro všechny, kteří ujíždějí na kultovním seriálu Stranger Things! Dvanáctiletá Maxine Mayfieldová to nemá jednoduché. Rodiče se rozvedli a ona byla svěřena do péče mamince Susan, která se znovu provdala za divného týpka Neila Hargrovea. Bylo sice príma, že tím získala cool bratra Billyho, ale ze slunné Kalifornie se odstěhovali do sychravého Hawkinsu, kde to zas tak cool není a do toho rodinná pohoda taky ve finále není taková, jak to vypadá.

Teen psychics Jack, Chris, Maya, and Sabine are locked up and sedated by a powerful political establishment. Now fugitives from justice, they discover a world commanded by a shadowy figure with extrasensory powers like theirs - a mind that's infected the highest echelons of power. Under constant threat from this dark force, they risk everything they've fought for - including their love for each other - to root out the relentless evil and protect the world once again.

Life is hard for "bad boy" Jack Ellis. He's just minding his own business one day when government agents start chasing him. Soon a deadly terrorist also has him in his sights.

For decades, Hudich, the leader of an evil army, had been held prisoner in a world called Pekel. Before releasing him last summer to save Max's friend Cindy, Max's grandfather neutralized Hudich's magical powers with the aid of an advanced high-tech collar. Unfortunately, Hudich's escape allowed him to relay a centuries-old secret to his followers that helps them find a powerful weapon. With the aid of this new weapon, an ancient magical gateway, the enemy kidnaps Max's mother.

Come with twelve year old Sam, as he journeys from loss to transformation and learns what it really means to grow up. A life-changing event forces Sam to follow a stranger hundreds of miles to an unfamiliar but magical place. Will Sam choose to stay with a new family, or will his killer instincts lead to his fatal downfall?

Elmar Gunsch erzählt Wilhelm Buschs Geschichte von Max und Moritz in sieben Streichen. Dazu gibt es noch: Hans Huckebein, Das Pustrohr, Die beiden Enten und der Frosch, Der hohle Zahn, Der Wurstdieb und viele weitere Geschichten.

Sixteen-year-old Max, the son of a blacksmith, has always dreamed of heroism. Armed with little more than determination, he descends into a procedurally-generated dungeon of traps, monsters, and ancient magic. Along the way, he discovers two relics of immense power: a medallion tied to the Keepers who sealed the dungeon’s darkest secrets, and Whisperfang, a cursed dagger with a mind of its own. As Max ventures deeper, the dungeon’s secrets begin to unravel. A fractured Nexus Orb guards the path to a long-forgotten gate, said to imprison a power capable of reshaping the world.

Max, a sixteen-year-old rogue, enters a mysterious dungeon, determined to prove his courage. But after his first victory against a skeletal guardian, he drinks from a shimmering chalice he believes to be blessed. In reality, the chalice is cursed, binding him to the dungeon and filling him with dark energy. The curse’s whispers haunt him, compelling him to descend through the dungeon’s ten deadly levels, where he must face creatures of nightmare, deadly traps, and echoes of lost adventurers who fell to the dungeon’s lure.