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Brigor & Thandril: Skeleton Trouble

by Ian Blackthorne

A dwarf and a forest elf team up for a fantastic adventure, but soon come face to face with a horde of undead skeletons! Why do all of the skeletons have glowing green eyes? Why do the skeletons attack only a single house in the whole town? What other monsters are lurking in the shadows as the heroes make their way down the mountain? Brigor & Thandril aims to encourage children to read by introducing them to high fantasy. A concise, but complete, story full of action and mystery, Brigor & Thandr... more

The Book of Demons

by Kevin Moore

When Mr. Philips discovers a powerful, cursed painting whose magic he can use for personal gain, he will stop at nothing to acquire it…including murder. Before he can get his hands on it, the painting goes missing and its artist is found dead. Enraged, Mr. Philips vows to hunt it down. But someone else finds it first: Jack, a teenage mystic who understands the painting’s tremendous power and would do anything to keep Mr. Philips from harnessing it. Along with two unexpected allies—a non-verbal... more

Unknowing, I Sink

by Timothy G. Huguenin

Julian finds a summer job cleaning a mansion belonging to Mr V, an eccentric recluse obsessed with arcane knowledge. The man’s grotesque, swollen appearance, caused by an unknown condition that keeps him bedridden, initially disturbs Julian. And those creepy terra cotta statues lurking in the shadows don’t help to ease his nerves. But the rich old man wants to pay him more than he ever imagined.

While Julian struggles to understand his new employer’s discursive monolog... more

Breaking the Scroll

by Jane Vergara

Kino Amark dreams of flying in Akea, a place where all the Citizens have special abilities. But Kino can only dream because, in this place where everyone has special gifts, Kino is the only one without any! His determination, however, to fly using wings that are crafted from all sorts of leaves has all but resulted in one failure after another. So Kino is left with no choice but to endure the bullying he receives in school because of his unfortunate state. Little does Kino know that his herit... more

Born Under a Bad Sign

by Rachel Rawlings

Luck just isn't in the cards for Isobel Arden... A down on her luck witch, Isobel Arden reads the cards to earn a living & her clients all have one thing in common - they keep dying. One is a coincidence but two in as many days? It isn't long before the police come knocking and declare her the prime suspect. But there's more to these murders than meets the eye. Magic is the motive and Isobel's skills put a bullseye on her back for the real killer. If she wants to clear her name and stay a... more

Doctor Refurb

by Marty Essen

★ An unconventional, satirical, controversial, time travel comedy!

What if you could reach back in time to deport the world’s worst environmental villains to a depository planet before their greed condemns Earth to an ecological apocalypse? What if each time you did so, an alien instantly extracted a body part and replaced it with a refurbished one? Would you still do it?

With little choice but to cooperate, Dr. Stefan Westin (aka Doctor Refurb) and vet... more

A School without Classrooms

by Michelle Peck

A time-traveling teen stumbles into a strange future reality where there are schools without classrooms, courses without textbooks, and many exciting learning opportunities for both young and old. Explore an amazing school with our main character where students learn by doing, becoming assistant teachers for each course they complete, and everyone wants to learn! War, crime, and poverty have been eliminated, and society has evolved to new heights of harmony. This fascinating coming-of-age story... more

Grady Whill and the Templeton Codex. A Superhero High School Story

by Carole P. Roman

Templeton Academy- the superhero high school is finally open! The prestigious academy is recruiting the best of the best to enroll in its student body. The school is as mysterious as it is exclusive. Grady Whill thinks there is nothing special about him to make the grade. However, his best friend, Aarush Patel has been selected and thinks Grady has the right stuff. Even school bully, Elwood Bledsoe is attending. If Grady is fortunate enough to be picked, his guardian has forb... more

What Remains

by Alex Scully

Human beings comprise earth's only death cult. Unique in our intellectual capabilities, we regard our dead with love, fear, sorrow, and awe. From the earthly corpse to the cosmic soul, we seek to speak with the dead, engage with them, and keep some essential part of them with us. Most of all, we hope not for their finite decay, but for its opposite: that those we love will live on after death, and that we will, too. Since the beginning of recorded history, artists, spiritualists, philos... more

A Stranger at the Hearth (The Norse Saga of Sigurd Book 1)

by Katherine Buel

Epic in scope but deeply human, The Norse Saga of Sigurd is a gripping retelling sure to enthrall readers of Madeline Miller, Jennifer Saint, and Genevieve Gornichec.

A widowed queen, heavy with child, seeks refuge in a foreign kingdom, and there her son is born: Sigurd, last of the Volsung line. But what seems a destiny of glorious revenge will not be so simple. The weavers of fate have many threads to spin, some beautiful … and some deadly. How b... more

FitzDuncan's Fortune

by John J Spearman

The adventures of Casimir FitzDuncan continue. FitzDuncan takes on a new case, helping someone protect his inheritance. He then is asked by the king to accompany the new royal assassin on a dangerous mission to the southern continent. All does not go as planned and Caz is in danger of missing his wedding to the lovely Lucy, Lady Darling. Following the wedding, Caz is summoned to meet the king again and given a surprising new assignment.

THE DOXAN

by Michael A. Bolinger

With the aid of an ancient manuscript and his science teacher, a nerdy teen studies the science behind his quirky supernatural abilities and inadvertently catches the eye of the U.S. and Soviet governments who separately plot to either control him or kill him.

When the Stars Disappeared

by Henrijs Zandovskis

A man and an orphan girl walk the overgrown asphalts of America, sustained by love and always in light, for in the darkness voices dwell — voices that whisper dread in their ears and their hearts, mimicking the sounds of people that once were. Yet their voices twisted and unnatural. Most of mankind has vanished. To where, they do not know. Whoever remained, their minds withered. Empty nooses creak in the winds, for even the corpses have gone. The darkness takes all. After coming upon a str... more

The Magic Ring of Brodgar

by Katelyn Emilia Novak

Young and successful Megan McKenzie’s life is turned upside down when she goes to the north of Scotland to claim her inheritance of an ancestral castle. There, she meets her Scottish family—a powerful clan that plunges her into the history of the mystical traditions and beliefs of their land. Unexpectedly, Megan finds loyal friends and worst enemies and falls in love with a handsome and mysterious highlander, Derek. Uncertainty and doubt torment Megan as she struggles to choose between a quiet... more

Of Water and Dance

by Leslie Griffin

The forest is impenetrable. Mortals do not dare enter and the ancient Gods residing within cannot break free. In this stagnant, earthen prison they’ve waited, and one-by-one they’ve suffocated. But when a Leviathan is found slumbering deep inside a mountain and a Priestess’ destiny is fulfilled, her decision between four different fates ricochets through time and leaves a crack in the wall that separates the realms of mortals and Gods.

With this fissur... more

Hummingbird

by Holli Cox

Bridget’s mother disappeared ten years ago. Now, it’s Bridget’s turn. When a time traveling sailboat named Hummingbird kidnaps her, Bridget meets the one person who knows the truth of her mother’s disappearance – Captain Camille, a weaver of the Circle. To uncover her mother’s past, Bridget becomes Captain Camille’s unwilling apprentice and learns to weave the fabric of time and space. But there are two problems: One—Captain Camille lost her memory and has no desire to repair her shattere... more

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