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Santa Camp

by Michael Strobl

Santa Camp is a whimsical fantasy telling the story of how Santa Claus is planning to retire and is looking to find his replacement. In Part I, the story begins when impish young Nate loses a tooth on Christmas Eve. In the middle of the night, Nate discovers Santa and the Tooth Fairy together in Nate’s living room where Nate learns some shocking news about the two visitors. Among other things, Santa reveals that he’s planning to retire and asks Nate to come to a week-long Santa Camp to compe... more

The Visitors: Version 2

by Andrew Cahill-Lloyd

Two time-travelling aliens, Bjorn and Zorn, witness the destruction of the Earth in 2052. They believe the Earth has been destroyed by religious zealots. Their investigation reveals one of their own is behind it. The intended goal was to hide the Earth from the universe. With Tasmania up for grabs, the chess game begins. They travel in time to collect a little band of misfits, to help them save humanity from its religious wars. The laid back Ptoni the Pteranodon, the ladylike Florence the Jerse... more

Searching in the Pages

by Ashley Tropea

“Remember this wherever you go,” he said to me. “You are no one special to me. You are simply another enemy of Captain Caspian Rogers...Should our paths cross in the future, allow me to offer you this single piece of advice. Run.” Elizabeth Burrough had no way of knowing what awaited her when she was sucked into her favorite book, set in a fictional 18th century England among fearsome pirates and even more fearsome nobility. Not the danger that awaited her around every corner, or the allies s... more

Tap and Die

by Lancelot Schaubert

A cowboy separated from his wife visits an ambassador's gala above an active volcano. Magical terrorists attack. Separated from his clothes and family, he must wield a lightning wand against an invading army in hopes to set the fantastic world's diplomats free. Will he make it out clothed, reunited, and unsinged?

Ungeheuer

by Scott A. Johnson

“Oh my God… There’s so many of them…” A grieving man and his son go camping, unaware that a group of amateur cavers have discovered a hidden cavern, and released a horror they couldn’t have imagined. What started as a weekend of healing turns to a fight for survival in the deep woods of the Texas hill country as an ancient terror hunts and seeks to sate a hunger that can only be fed with blood. Only three words, carved into a cave wall, give any clue as t... more

Goddess from the Lost Planet: A Sci-Fi Adventure of Gods and Aliens (From Heaven To Earth They Came Book 1)

by Neal Roberts

When the ancient gods threaten to return to Earth, can a brilliant academician opposing their return keep a step ahead of their wrath? New York, 2034. Professor David Schubert remains a man adrift two years after the death of his beloved wife until, one day, his interest is piqued by the sudden disappearance of a mosque from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, an event that threatens to bring the world to the brink of destruction. But David, based upon special knowledge provided by a friend who’s ... more

Super Doople

by KA Cummins

You’ve heard the legend of Humpty Dumpty, but do you know the legend of Super Doople? He’s faster than a chicken. He flies higher than an ostrich. No fall can break his shell! And he was once Little Doople, a small and fragile egg like all the other dooples, until his bad habit of not listening caught up to him.

Engaging text with expressive illustrations, Super Doople is a lighthearted tale about resilience and learning to listen. This funny picture book for age... more

The Green Wizard

by Joel Riojas

Brownie Kickfinger believed that he was meant for nothing. He certainly felt like nothing. His father was a criminal, most of his family wanted nothing to do with him, and his grandfather, the one man he thought he could look up to, had disappeared. Brownie left home and ended up in the land of Devansh, a land of beauty and mystique, of magic and wonder, of strife and challenge, searching either for a purpose or a place to disappear. On his journey, he encounters Lata, a curious woman in the woo... more

Ground

by Robert Cameron

In an England shattered almost beyond repair by the Great Catastrophe and the war that followed, Mark Norman is brought up in one of a few fertile Grounds, Grounds surrounded by land that is, at best, liable to cause sterility and, at worst, to be lethal to all who venture into it. His doubts about the truth of what he is taught increase and when duty calls him to sterile service in the Domain, ruled by a sterile but near-immortal nobility, he flees to the Outland, the land where rebels have mai... more

Age of Resolve

by Ilene Grydsuk

It’s been one hundred years since the Correction, the great reset that erased the misguided ideology and spurious intentions of an ancient civilization seemingly bent on destroying itself. The Biodome’s universal moral compass is under attack. Known as the existential virus (EV), she is not to be trifled with. She is judge, jury, and—when need be—executioner. The only cure for EV is an end to the Age of Resolve and a return to ancient times. Seventeen-year-old Everett Steele has just transiti... more

The Thicket

by Ann Eames

After weeks of not being able to see for smoke; there was a wall of thick vines which reached to the sky; people started to call it ‘The Thicket’. They were as thick as tree trunks, they grew and entwined just like creepers. Beyond the thicket lay a forest, mountains and very unusual animals and creatures. There lived a people who belonged to the same tribe; who were very special and very loyal and devoted to each other. Two children called Hali and Aaron who found their way into the forest, a f... more

Darkness Below

by Barbara Cottrell

Nightmares. Disappearances. Suicide. Fall semester is always a challenging time at Miskatonic University. All Ellen Logan wants to do is pass her classes while holding down a bad job at a New Age bookstore. But when a former roommate jumps to her death from the university clocktower and another friend vanishes, leaving her with a mysterious book, she embarks on her own investigation. With the help of renowned professor Andrew Carter, she uncovers evidence of a murderous cult, a terrifying cr... more

Identity Crisis

by Clayton Pulsipher

“Fate turns the wheels of time and drives us all—and I cannot help but feel it has more in store for you.”

Jag is human—but all he knows is that he’s different from everyone else on Rixxon Prime. And when a group of offworlders show up and cause trouble, he and his brother, Sixxis, get swept up in a seemingly unstoppable series of events that propels them into a galactic conflict far beyond the confines of their primitive planet.

Aided by the... more

The Female Breeders

by Melanie Bokstad Horev

In the near-future dystopian society of EVE, women control the world. Young brilliant scientist Neen Salvek of Clan Triverser is assigned to screen imprisoned males of the Dome, to assess their mental and emotional fitness before breeding season. Her task is crucial in order to protect the breeding women, and continue the development of their genetic enhancements. As she embarks on her mission she finds more than she bargained for – a system of brutal mutilation and slavery that condemns any ... more

Cul-de-sac

by Nick Perilli

The Oughtside has slipped in through the cracks in the world and judgment has come for Habre Circle. Some boy rips himself out of sleep paralysis to find his dead-end street overtaken by the Oughtside, a limbo where the dead are remade as clay bones, shadow and porcelain. An opaque mass of a human figure meets the boy at his front door, offering him employment as judge and jury of his neighbors’ banal lives. He accepts this unpaid call to adventure seemingly plucked from the video games... more

The Brothers Thanatos

by Joshua Gamon

After the ritualistic murder of Max’s younger brother, Charlie, the grieving warlock tethers the man’s soul to his own to keep it from eternal damnation. He knows the only one who can change that fate is the great Celestial Beast, Lucifer, but finding the devil is not easy. As Max’s search plunges him into an insidious world of horrors and fabled societies, he finds a lost girl who might hold the key to all his troubles, not realizing she will bring him far greater troubles than he can imagine. ... more

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