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I Once Was A Wizard

by Laura Pruett

Meet Gregory. He might be a wizard. Patrons at The Serpent's Stein Inn can't decide, but they're always up for a story. Gather round to hear a tale of wizardry, adventure, magic, and confusion!

Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back

by Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos

"Compelling scientific and emotional explorations that raise the question: What awaits us when we cross the line?"
—Kirkus Reviews

Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back is a prose-driven collection of stories themed around the astrophysical phenomenon of black holes and their unforgiving boundaries of “no return”—their event horizons. What arises is a tantalizing question for characters grappling with cosmic decisions in their... more

Jaxyl Warrior Princess

by Ruth C Mitchell

You will never know anyone as exciting as the great Jaxyl Warrior Princess who was born to save the Cosmos. She is daring, naughty and full of herself, but she is the heroine we have all been looking for. She makes no apologies for who she is, her choices might be questionable, but in the end she delivers. As one critic writes: This fast-paced feminist adventure romance is filled with riveting love scenes, strange languages, and triumphant battles. A captivating and engrossing novel.

Two Moons of Merth

by Ruth Mitchell

Featured at the LA Times Festival of Books 2024, the Two Moons of Merth has been compared to such renowned series as the Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. Martin, and the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. One reviewer calls it a "masterpiece of fantasy literature with its imaginative world building, compelling character and captivating storyline. Follow the royal Karda family as they meet their challenges with courage, and resilience, using their power to... more

Switchling

by S G Fessel

Beth, a bored 11-year-old, finds life in her English village dull but when she learns that her cat Gravel is a ‘switchling’, a creature that becomes human during the full moon, everything changes. Beth and Gravel are drawn into an adventure that uncovers an ancient village rivalry. On the one hand are the ‘Frends’ who protect switchlings and on the other, the ‘Servants of the Anointed’, established long ago by King Henry VIII to destroy them. Along the way Beth and Gravel discover treasures hidd... more

Naples Unmasked

by Franco Aversa

Among the lords of the criminal underground is Puozzolino, owner of the Good Friday, the greatest bordello in Christendom. Its customers can frolic in a recreation of ancient Rome, enjoy the pleasures of a real nymph in its gardens, or explore darker delights in the witches' cave. Despite his success, Puozzolino's life is plagued by strife. Entangled in the revenge murder of a nobleman, he provokes both Spain's harsh justice and the capo of a rival clan. Puozzolino is too blinded by a love in... more

Tab's Terrible Third Eye

by Isaac Thorne

Nine-year-old Tab is an artist harboring fears and anxieties that he soothes by drawing. After an encounter with an otherworldly creature, an angry bump afflicts his left temple. The wound burns and itches but will not heal. Worse, it summons ghosts.

Soon, Tab’s art portends real-life disasters like his father’s death. Tab becomes convinced his bump—his third eye—causes bad things.

Will Tab be able to control this power before it takes another life? Can he ... more

Journey to Forever

by MELVIN Schoenberg

"Journey To Forever "is an adventure about the voyage on the spaceship, SS Victoria, told by scribe, Aaron, one of the 37 cadets. The youthful gang are on a most impossible mission to find life on the second planet of the newly discovered Solamit star system. They have to travel over 140 years and 22 Light years to reach their destination. Life threatening events occur and they manage to survive each of these. Their saga includes many tales of love, death, music, telepathy and science.

The Extrapolated Man

by Doug Franklin

Commander Gray died when his experimental ship crashed on Mars, but a recording of his mind survived. After Maggie discovers the wreck a century later, she becomes the target of a psychopathic rival intent on stealing it, and a hive of weaponized lifeforms bent on erasing it. To survive she must unravel Gray's secret: his ship was capable of traveling faster-than-light, which makes it an incredibly valuable and terribly dangerous prize, for a starship is the ultimate weapon of mass destruction.

The Witchfinder's Sacrifice

by Rande Goodwin

A week has passed since Nate Watson defeated the evil warlock, Malleus Hodge, with the help of the witchfinder’s serpent, a magickal, snake-shaped bracelet, once owned by Hodge himself. Unable to remove the ancient bracelet from his arm, Nate still struggles to control the serpent’s immense powers. As hellish monsters and once-dead creatures arrive, accompanied by impossible displays of magick, it becomes clear that Hodge is back with a plan: to unleash a twenty-first century witch hysteria u... more

A Life of Morals and Murder

by Olive D Wilson

Quilla Thorne: a vengeful criminal prodigy with nothing in her heart has, until now, trifled with petty crimes. But when a swordsman offers her and her archer a chance to serve vengeance, she can’t refuse. Quilla never thought she would rescue anyone, much less a politician. Yet, if it would hurt Emperor Ghan, there’s no lengths she won’t go. But as she, an archer and a swordsman come closer to retrieving the prize, vengeance starts to drift from her mind. I can’t. Those words that sting her m... more

The Worlds of Origin

by Becheru D. Dan

Spanning 900,000 years, this epic tale traces the rise and fall of the Galactic Empire, from the enigmatic creation of the Origin Worlds to the cataclysmic Desolation. In a galaxy where interstellar travel is controlled by the Church and power is divided among vast empires, a single ship is sent on a mission shrouded in mystery. The crew must prevent a prophecy that foretells the end of all life in the Galaxy. But as they journey through the stars, it becomes clear that not everyone aboard is w... more

Danger in the Hills

by Liz Fahey; Uncle Jerry

Wild adventure, looming peril, and finding help in the least expected of places—get transported to the world of the NOLO—80 feet tall, 40 tons, and a whole lot of fur. But are they friend or foe?

"Danger in the Hills: A NOLO Story" is a tale that will THUMP… Thump, Thump right into your heart."

For the first time in print, the legend of the NOLO, a beloved favorite of children for over 50 years, is brought to life. With easy-to-read lang... more

A Story Unwritten

by Jennifer Sneed

An eleven-year-old Oklahoma oil baron’s daughter resists her family’s demands to become a fine young lady but when a fortune-hunting witch bewitches her father and turns her brothers into hawks, she must trade her voice to a fairy on the prairie and weave the counter curse before the Blue Moon rises or lose her family—and her voice—forever. A retelling of Andersen's fairy tale The Wild Swans set in Oklahoma in 1925.

Vessel

by Samantha Jo

Vessel is a dark, moody, earthbound fantasy that follows a ritual worker named Calen as she tries to escape from her violent bonded partner, Stokely, and discover what her powers are capable of once truly unleashed. It features themes of found family, strong female friendship, sapphic romance, adventure, and original magical lore, all set in a speculative future Appalachia.

Walking the Dusk

by Mike Robinson

“Hey.” With that one word, uttered in the dead of night, young Charlie's life veers down a dark and unbelievable road. Some thirty years later, Dr. Charles Barry teaches physics at a small California college. Only in dreams do those childhood events reach him: the strange presence in the house, the otherworldly visits and the shadow over his beloved older sister, Megan, whose troubled inward life he could only glimpse. That is, until his father dies, and Megan, now an artistic wanderer,... more

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