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The critically acclaimed first-person shooter franchise Borderlands knows it’s ridiculous. It’s a badge of pride. These space-western games encourage you to shoot a lot of enemies and monsters, loot their corpses, and have a few chuckles while chasing down those bazillion guns. As Kaitlin Tremblay explores in Ain’t No Place for a Hero, the Borderlands video game series satirizes its own genre, exposing and addressing the ways first-person shooter video games have tended to exclude women, queer people, and people of colour, as well as contribute to a hostile playing environment.

After waking to a three-month gap in their memories, Graham, Wren, Tal, and Ming Li are ready to return to normal life. Before that can happen, they must confront unexpected challenges as they seek answers in a foreign land. With their homeland engulfed in darkness, they face an uncooperative king, a scorching desert, and a secret group of giants. Trouble emerges from every direction, including their relentless enemy, the Dark Cloud. As they uncover shocking truths and test their bonds of family and friendship, they must summon the power of the silver eclipse to save their world.

In Neon Arcadia City's neon-drenched underground, three remarkable women—Abby, Scarlet, and Aura—navigate the dangerous world of mercenary information trade as the Information Hub Network. This organization, a web of whispers and encrypted data, holds the key to the city's darkest desires and deepest secrets. However, their world is shattered when chaos disrupts their network, leaving their hub in ruins.

Cinn Spice is an expert in bad choices. Becoming a mortician to help her demanding relative should top them all. But she overachieves by participating in a dating show run by her former high school nemesis and falls for the unavailable jerk next door, all while a mysterious creep attempts to haunt her out of town.

Seattle, 1942. News of the war is interrupted by the kidnapping of young Max Ellis, heir to the wealthiest banking family on the west coast. When the boy’s parents comply with the ransom demands, the kidnapper is found dead and their son remains missing. For newlywed Vera Chandler, the story hits close to home—her husband Hugh is just six months into his job as the Ellis’s private pilot.

Wren, Graham, Ming Li, and Tal are four of the five chosen ones to enter the enchanted cave on the Island of Meegore. Their newfound magical access has left them vulnerable to power-hungry forces at a pivotal time–just as The Dark Cloud breaks the weather across the world. The only hope of fixing this lies in the ancient magic of the silver eclipse. With all of their responsibility, they still find time to be teenagers and enjoy the fun parts of life. Dating can be just as nerve racking as taking on an evil organization!

Nicole Tinsley stopped believing in the Tinsley prophecy when her high school sweetheart broke her heart by breaking a promise and forcing her to move to Georgia, alone. Six years and a whole lot of silence later, she runs into Andrew again at her sister's wedding and suddenly that spark in the air is back. And when he travels all the way to the Blue Ridge Mountains to win her back? Nicole can't fight what the universe is trying to tell her.

Shae Tinsley dreamed of owning her own Christmas Inn one day. A family tradition that extended all the way back to her great-great-grandparents. A tradition that included a healthy dose of Christmas Magic promising each Inn owner and their guests a happily ever after of their own. Caught up in wistful fantasies about a cozy place of her own where people could come to relax and forget all of their worries while getting caught up in Christmas spirit, Shae never imagined that her family's so-called prophecy would ever come knocking on her door.

Seeds of Farsil marks the last installment in The Chronicler’s Awakening series, though not a finale for the players involved. In a tale of love and loss, cosmic forces reach across time to bring Alishia and Lone’s reality to the brink of annihilation and press them to define what it means to achieve victory.

While struggling to understand her newfound powers as the Chronicler, an encounter with an unlikely adversary throws Alishia into the distant past of Throk'tar. She journeys across the hostile land alongside bickering brothers, hunting the one that brought her to this realm in hopes of finding a way home. Journey alongside a strong female lead between the realms and through the Trials of Throk'tar, the second book in The Chronicler's Awakening series. Find out if swords, spells, and intrigue can change the past's future.

Lone, prince of the archmages, doesn't realize how close his world is to its end until his aunt's failing sanity forces him to set aside his thirst for adventure and struggle to hold his nation together. Daemon and the undead rise against him while he unravels a centuries-old plot too late to stop. His failure means the death of his family and the entire realm.

Graham’s goal in life is to get a basketball scholarship and become a doctor so he can help people and be free of his controlling aunt. His plans are derailed when he finds himself transported to a strange and magical world. With the help of new friends, Graham must confront the problem the adults are afraid to act on. As Graham becomes involved in an ancient prophecy, he comes to suspect he might not be a stranger to Akkron after all.