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The Blacksmith's Son

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Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Light Novels, Vol. 1

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Facing the perils of the Dungeon underground maze alone, Bell Cranel dreams of playing hero to damsels in distress, instead of searching for fame and fortune, but after one misguided adventure, he discovers anything can happen in the labyrinth.

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The Sleeping Dragon

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Dungeon Crawler Carl

Matt Dinniman · 464 pages

**The apocalypse will be televised!** A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible. In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth—from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds—collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground. The buildings and all

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Infinite Regress

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Survival Quest

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Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-, Vol. 1

Tappei Nagatsuki · 248 pages

Subaru Natsuki was just trying to get to the convenience store but wound up summoned to another world. He encounters the usual things--life-threatening situations, silver haired beauties, cat fairies--you know, normal stuff. All that would be bad enough, but he's also gained the most inconvenient magical ability of all--time travel, but he's got to die to use it. How do you repay someone who saved

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Overlord, Vol. 1: The Undead King

Kugane Maruyama · 262 pages

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Demon World Boba Shop: Vol. 5

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All the Skills - Level Up

Honour Rae · 138 pages

Vier Jahre sind vergangen. Arthur lebt nicht mehr in Armut und Elend. Mittlerweile hält er mehrere Karten in seinem Herzdeck und steigt stetig in den Leveln nach oben. Doch er muss sie geheim halten - als Junge aus dem Grenzland dürfte er keine besitzen, erst recht keine Legendäre. Als er erfährt, dass sein verhasster Onkel wertvolle Karten verkaufen will, kann er nicht widerstehen: Er schiedet ei

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AlterWorld

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Holes

Louis Sachar · 240 pages

Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day, digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green

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Dungeon Crawler's Guild

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Half a King

Joe Abercrombie · 361 pages

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Sword of the Bright Lady

M.C. Planck

"Christopher Sinclair goes out for a walk on a mild Arizona evening and never comes back. He stumbles into a freezing winter under an impossible night sky, where magic is real -- but bought at a terrible price. A misplaced act of decency lands him in a brawl with an arrogant nobleman and puts him under a death sentence. In desperation he agrees to be drafted into an eternal war, serving as a pries

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Viridian Gate Online: Cataclysm

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