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Alone Together

by Robert Hill

Would you survive? The world changes for thirteen-year-old Kyle Stryker in a blaze of unnatural light as every piece of technology stops working. With his family, friends, and neighbors, they struggle to understand and wait for a rescue that never comes. This is no ordinary blackout. Everything that uses electricity is dead, even cars! Hours turn into days and weeks. Neighbors and friends drift away in search of water and food. Should they stay or go? Each decision will mean the difference... more

The Secret of the Urns

by A.B. Carolan

Set in the same sci-fi universe as A. B. Carolan’s The Secret Lab, this new young-adult sci-fi mystery explores a Jupiter-sized planet’s satellite in a faraway solar system where human scientists are studying local flora and fauna but behaving badly until a teen who wants to study the satellite’s ETs comes along. She shows that cooperation is better than xenophobia. In the process, she discovers that the ETs’ beliefs go far beyond ancestor worship. Based on Steven M. Moore's short story "Marcel... more

Octavia

by Chris Selmys

Once upon a time there was a girl named Octavia and a boy named William. They were looking for roman ruins in the woods but they never found any because they were nowhere near Rome. What they did find was a sunken well. For over a year it was their secret place and they played there every day. They never showed it to anyone else. William told all of his secrets to Octavia near that well, and when they were told he would take a stone and they would each put it in their mouths. William said that n... more

Corruption

by Sarah Noffke

A new evil lurks in the darkness. After an explosion, the crew of a battlecruiser mysteriously disappears. Bailey and Lewis, complete strangers, find themselves suddenly onboard the damaged ship. Lewis hasn’t worked a case in years, not since the final one broke his spirit and his bank account. The last thing Bailey remembers is preparing to take down a fugitive on Onyx Station. Mysteries are harder to solve when there’s no evidence left behind. Bailey and Lewis don’t know how they got onbo... more

November in New Orleans: The Journey of Souls

by L C Russell

Wagering with a demon for your soul is one thing, but what do you do when that demon captures the soul of your mother? Sequel to November in Salem: The Bargain of Witches, November Atwood again confronts the demon Astaroth. He’s sent a “Dambala,” a giant snake, for her mother’s soul. November and her magical friends embark on a “soul journey,” through The Rings portal to the land of her lover, Thomas Parris. Here, a battle of wits and physical peril is waged to save the soul and prevent losing T... more

November in Salem: The Bargain of Witches

by L C Russell

In this paranormal fantasy romance, fourteen year-old November Atwood and her twin cousins discover an ancient box buried in the shadows of the old Danvers Asylum. This sets in motion the final elements of a blood bargain signed more than 300 years in the past when Salem was a sleepy village--and witchcraft was a hanging offense. First in a new fantasy romance series, this novel begins November's adventure as The Prediction--the one foretold to put an end to the evil Bargain of Witches, and whic... more

WORSE THAN WICKED

by Kathryn Jankowski

Absolute power. Absolutely bewitching. Desperate to free her mother from the Merfolk’s prison, sixteen-year-old Sofija agrees to bring back an ancient magic stolen from the sea. But after bruising encounters with scheming sprites, hostile Gypsies, and a coven of hedgewitches ready to erase her memories, Sofi can’t resist using her hard-won powers. Now the girl who loves fairy tales is devising enchantments as grim as any in her books and plotting to rule the Baltic Sea. Why pay ransom when... more

Rosco: Alien Wildlife Photographer

by Aaron Humphres

This book is about a purple alien photographer named Rosco and his robotic assistant Vincent. These two travel the universe photographing alien wildlife for Intergalactic Wildlife Magazine. This book Rosco and Vincent are traveling to planet Grangawa in search of aliens to capture on film. This book is his journal about that expedition.

The Descendant (The Diamond Sword Chronicles Book 1)

by M. M. Whan

A potentially tragic encounter with bandits motivates Eferath to want to follow in his warrior father's footsteps. But it won't be that easy. Eferath joins a prestigious military academy where every day he has to work himself to the bone just to be considered as an equal by his peers. To make matters worse, a slighted member of the royal family has set his sights on him because of the old rivalry the prince had with Eferath's father. But then the unthinkable happens. During Eferath's graduation ... more

The Witching Well

by S.D. Hintz

It's the end of the world… …as Murray Macabe knows it. The security of his home life has been ripped out from under him when his mother was brutally murdered. Rejected by his aunt, Murray only has one place left to go, and that's to live the rest of his life with a woman he barely knows. To Grandmother's House He Goes At first, life with his grandmother doesn't seem like it's going to be that bad, but Murray soon learns his grandmother harbors dark secrets. Double, Double Toil and T... more

Kate in the Land of Myths and Wonders

by JPH Tan

On Kate’s fiteenth birthday, she decides to take a weekend trip with her best friend, Gus, but a cataclysmic flood sweeps through the city streets and sends her tumbling into a world completely different from her own. In this land, lightning bolts act as magical staircases…mythical creatures come to life…and the exciting journey takes her from one mysterious realm to another. It is here that Kate will finally be forced to grow up and confront some hard truths about herself... more

Into Another Dimension

by Kass Harker

When ten year old Edward receives a drone for his birthday he is unaware of just how sophisticated what he thinks is a toy, his drone is. With his sister 11 year old Gemma the two along with the Drone, called Will are thrust into an adventure of a lifetime. Finding themselves in a completely different dimension, a world called Picturedurmia, a world of colour and energy, their humanness means they become heroes. Using their imagination to set scenes and being treated like adults they work togeth... more

Nightmare Detective: The Skeleton King

by Monk Inyang

Uko Hill is a twelve year old black boy in Newark suffering from the same nightmare every night - an army of terrifying skeletons breaking into his home and destroying everything. He's given up hope of ever having normal sleep until one night, in the middle of his nightmare, he meets Toni. She's part of a group called the Nightmare Detectives - a trained squad of middle schoolers that can jump into the nightmares of other kids and help stop them for good. Toni gives Uko the chance to become ... more

Fractured: Dereck Dillinger and the Shortcut to Oz

by Eddie McPherson

Join Dereck Dillinger on his fast-paced adventure into a land populated by fairy tale characters he has made fun of his whole life. As sand quickly slips through the hourglass, Dereck must follow maps, solve riddles and fight off giants and evil witches in order to escape this place and make it back home where Jessie, his sister, is screaming for his help

Lost Boys

by Riley Quinn

Sons of Stars

by Nia Rose

They say that stars are as countless as the stretch of time. When you look up at the vast stretch of onyx drenched skies and to the twinkling lights that shine ever gently down upon us, do you wonder if ... maybe ... somewhere, out there, there might be someone looking down at you just as you look at those noble stars? Meet Domenic Alderman, a pretty standard student and lover of occasionally lifting weights when he's not playing video games with his buddies or plowing through a quick burg... more

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