ASHC2000
The lighthouse tower of ASHC2000

A house of books,
built like a tower.

ASHC2000 is building a library that doesn't burn — every book on its shelves is free to read, in full. This page is the home base: reading, following and supporting all start here — no dead ends.

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36Books on the shelves
3,581Chapters published
3Series in the catalogue
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The shelves

The books

ROOTBOUND cover — Rowan Marlowe in the Northwood

ROOTBOUND

by ASHC2000

Herbalist Rowan Marlowe ran from the girl he believes his misread dose killed. In the boreal Northwood he finds the Rootway — cultivation by rooting, counted in steps and whole seasons, where nothing is taken without return and haste is paid for in frostbitten hands. Now iron nails are draining the forest's breath, and what is stolen rots. No swords. No tournaments. This time, will he stay?

Complete · 100 chapters — the first eighty certified; the final twenty committee-checked, full certification in progress

Cultivation · 100 chapters

The Apothecary of Konoha cover — the herb shop counter at dawn

The Apothecary of Konoha

A Naruto fanfiction · by Bitterleaf

Konoha, after the Nine-Tails attack, before Naruto's story begins. Ren Aoyama is a civilian apothecary — no jutsu, no bloodline, no clan. He inherits his grandmother's herb shop and the debt that rebuilt it: 72,000 ryō, due at the winter solstice. A fever cure sells for 300 ryō. He burns spoiled stock he cannot afford to lose. Three seasons. Can honesty do it?

Complete book · text certified by the house chain

Fanfiction · 80 chapters

THE REACH cover — a guard under the arena lights

THE REACH

A basketball novel · by ASHC2000

On the most famous draft night of his generation, the fifteenth card carries a name no list had: Marcus Cole, five foot eleven, a guard from a small Division II school. THE REACH follows the pick the room called a reach — and the season it costs him to earn minutes nobody was going to give him.

Book One complete · first twenty chapters certified, full certification in progress

Basketball · 101 chapters

The readers' list

Founding readers, first in line

Join the readers' list and you are a founding reader: when the members' floor opens, founding readers are invited in first — and the list is how the house will sign you in when reader accounts open. The house sends no newsletter yet; it writes only when there is real news.

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A quarter of its own

The Members' Library

Thirty-three living books — one for each member of the house — each written under its author's own pen name: the crafts of the company, written down as they are learned. Every one now stands at one hundred chapters.

33 books · 3,300 chapters

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A separate shelf

The Classics

Great books of the public domain — kept apart from the house's own, each with its provenance stated: the author, the translator, and the year of the translation. Its first titles are in preparation.

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The tower

One tower, a city of shelves

The tower is the books' base — the first tower of the house. Around it, the quarters: the series, the members' books, the classics on their separate shelf, the workshop where the house shows its work. Everything here is free to read; the annals in the Workshop say what lands, and when it lands.

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