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Pretty Deadly

by Kelsey Josund

Cinna would quite literally kill for the throne. She’s spent years forced to serve her wealthy cousins rather than attend society events alongside them, waiting for the chance to prove herself and exact revenge. When a ball is announced at the castle, promising to bring many powerful people to town, she seizes the opportunity to strike. She bets her best friend, a small-time thief and con-man, that she can land a greater score the night of the ball than he can. They embark on parallel heis... more

Thunder Peak

by Trae Stratton

Carved from the rugged Chiricahua Mountains, the intimidating spire, Thunder Peak, slashes the sky, haunting the southern reaches of the Arizona Territory. Staked in the darkest corner of Thunder Peak’s shadow lies the Tamm Ranch and Orchard, run by Civil War veteran Jonas Tamm. Jonas lives with his adopted daughter Casey and knows more about the mysterious history of the canyon they call home than anyone. When Casey rescues a hornless, juvenile unicorn from a bloodthirsty wolfpack, Jonas rea... more

Ghost Hunters: Spirit Fire

by Susan McCauley

Who—or what—is causing the fires in the French Quarter? A little girl? A long-dead prisoner? An evil presence calling to those beyond the grave? In this spooky, fast-paced adventure, twelve-year-old Alex and his two best friends must fight smoke, flames, and ghostly prisoners to stop whatever’s causing the blazes—before more lives are lost.

Borris the Cabbage-Corn Kid

by R.C.J. Dwane

Old-Man Sires needed help on his farm. Borris the Cabbage-Corn Kid needs a home. Together these two friends care for the farm. But when some troublesome weeds begin growing on the farm, Old-Man Sires fears he may know the cause. Borris the Cabbage-Corn Kid is a rhyming picture book following a lovable character made of magical vegetables.

Wicked Magic

by Margot de Klerk

Nathan’s been training as a vampire hunter since he could walk. Now he’s seventeen, and the final hurdle between him and graduation is his initiations. This is the worst possible time to be having doubts. But when trouble comes to town, those doubts could just be what saves Nathan’s life

Eternal

by Michael D. Apperley

Belief in good compels belief in evil, and evil is not just the absence of good. Evil is manifest. Created by God, evil has forged its own identity and is invested in a destiny of its own making. Unwittingly, evil is a lesson for mankind, our harshest teacher through the ages of our evolution. This is a small part of that long story. A good man is targeted for destruction. He survives and is viciously inducted into the hidden reality of shadow existence. Here he finds unexpected allies. Never k... more

Smar

by David T. Bennett

Something strange has again landed on Topside of the Planet Smar. The Great Council has hurriedly put a small team of “volunteers” together to seek out what it is and discover what it’s doing. Sergeant Ha’an, the reluctant leader and soul survivor of a previous expedition to encounter an object from the sky, leads his equally reluctant band of misfits on their perilous journey across Topside. On the way, they meet up with Nerak, a fearless explorer and scientist, and she joins them on their ques... more

A Sinister Gift

by Jacinthe Dessureault

When police social worker Elenora Bello becomes pregnant, her life takes a sharp turn for the bizarre when she starts having premonitions about a case assigned to her detective husband.

Retrieval

by Barry M. Goldsmith

It's 2038. Earth's climate can no longer sustain life and millions have already perished. Humanity's future lies in its past. A grotesque, militaristic, two-headed alien race with superhuman strength – the Janus – have partnered with humans to expand time travel technology. The result is Retrieval Base – an isolated fortress built on an icy, volcanic plug deep within Antarctica. Its purpose – send what's left of humanity back through time aboard giant temporal arks after erasing their memories a... more

The Ancient Manuscript of a Toxic Wizard Family

by Daisan Stirling

A magical professor with a god complex sends his favorite student into a young, alternative earth timeline. He instructs her to simply "build." With absolutely no preparation for such a task, Angela is burdened with the insurmountable stress of creating and maintaining an entire civilized world from scratch. Blessed with eternal life, wizard powers, and an ungodly dose of familial tension, she is forced to grapple with the long term moral ramifications of every decision she'll ever make.

Tipu Finds Magic

by Sue Doe

Condemned to a life of mediocrity, Tipu is bored of everything, even his friends. He thought there would be more going for him by the time he got to college, but it’s his senior year and there's still no sign of a life he wants. When he thinks things can't get any worse, he has a meltdown in the middle of the college café. One thing leads to another and he ends up going into a manhole with a 5 year old gnome. Tipu Finds Magic is a coming-of-age fantasy novel in which magic of the West meets ma... more

Open Season

by Domino Finn

The only thing worse than an assassin is a zombie assassin. That's what I find myself up against when a celebrity hypnotist turns up dead on Christmas. Except this killer is no ordinary zombie, and I should know. The name's Cisco Suarez, and besides being the Miami Police Department's resident supernatural consultant, I'm a practicing necromancer. With a series of murders threatening to reveal the existence of magic, anti-animist militias capture the public heart. The streets are rife with... more

The Ptolemy Project

by Kate St.Clair

Four teams. One test. No way out.

Wake up, report to the Tect, try to survive. Life on Carcer Station is a change from the daily struggle on Titan for four strangers Lyra, Zeke, Aquila and Pollux. Each day, they perform a task at the Tect, a unique building that can shift to accommodate any challenge it might have for them. Sometimes it’s a maze, or an obstacle course. But the biggest challenge is the one going on inside their heads — the fight for their own... more

HALF A LION

by Palle E.K. Oswald

It takes a village to raise a child.

In a land of brutal conquests, twisted histories and forbidden magic, the Lion tribe is in crisis. The chief has three heirs. The warrior, the worker, and the accursed. For one to ascend the lionchair, the others must be broken.

It takes the demons to make a man.

Sakhan fights captivity, shamans, and shapeshifters – all while caring for an ailing mother and vowing to... more

Gentleman's Club

by NT Herrgott

Luca Wexler has grown up in a world where superheroes are a staple of the nightly news. At seventeen years old, with eight years of hero training, a scrappy attitude, and a mountain of sass - he figures that's everything he needs to make it big as The Avalon Knight. (Behind his dad's back.) Even though his trainer keeps him on the streets of San Francisco to break up muggings or the occasional burglary, he somehow gets thrust into a supervillain crisis! (Okay, he might have accidentally-on-pu... more

Amaranth

by David M. Snow

For fans of Hugh Howey's Silo, and the TV series The Last of Us

An underwater ark.

An incurable disease.

Two passengers to save them all.

The Flood swept across the world over a century ago, sinking entire cities and the triumph of modern civilization. Aboard underwater arks, the survivors have been preparing to return to the Surface, under the benevolent eye of their Creator. But the ship's commander seems to ... more

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