Mari Turner's life is simple after college: return to the tiny family farm and look after the animals while working at a local bookstore. She’s a firm believer of magic in books and legend, but it doesn’t exist in her reality until a walking, talking fairy tale calls her a Piper’s child, and spirits her away to his ice palace. In a fit of unbridled courage – or stupidity, she’s not sure – she makes Jack Frost a challenge his pride can’t refuse: be human, with everything that comes with it. The prize is Mari’s eternity – she’ll either spend it without interacting with him again or she’ll live forever in the pixie world by his side and give up all she’s ever known. With Jack as a flesh and blood mortal, she digs deeper into his legend to get a better understanding of the man frozen in time, and discovers the darker side to the stories that shaped her childhood. From the Pied Piper who stole children instead of banishing rats and the rest of the winter pixies – including Jack’s sister, and their centuries-old feud – to her dead father’s legacy and her evolving relationship with Jack himself, Mari finds human life is much more interconnected with the pixie world than it once looked. But at the end of the winter there can only be one winner, and everything Mari knows and holds dear hinges on Jack Frost’s ability to be human – including understanding his own thawing heart.

Seventeen-year-old Lorelei “Lori” Blakely knows better than to wander the uninhabited Dead Zone—Dad would kill her if she did. But that doesn’t stop her from wandering into the city ruins just a train ride away. That night, she’s able to perform stunts she’d never be able to do—like jumping from her window in her apartment to the parking garage next door. Not only that, but she wanders into a part of the city she’d never go to. There, she runs into Gavin, the guy who knows the truth behind the Demon Research Center’s tactics, and who says she now has a demon’s soul inside her. Lori doesn’t know what to think—about the demon in her soul, about how Gavin’s opinion on her seems to bounce between good and bad. And then there’s the Demon Research Center, the place Dad wants to take her, where they’re supposed to “fix” her. But she knows one thing: no matter what, she won’t let the demon inside ruin her life.

In 1966, before they were international sensations, Margaret Atwood and Charles Pachter teamed up to create Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein — now a unique piece of cultural history. In a book that has only existed as an artist book of fifteen copies Charles Pachter set the poetry of Margaret Atwood to his beautiful and whimsical artwork. Produced originally on handmade paper made with materials found around his house, this is a rare work of art that should be read by anyone interested in the origins of these two great artists. This is exclusively available as an enhanced ebook for iPad and features an introduction by Margaret Atwood, a video interview with the artist, and audio of Margaret Atwood reading the poems.

Lai Mansen is an imp, or a genetically improved human, one of four owned by the genetic technician Felix Mansen. She has a standard appearance, a standard job, and a standard family...but something has always been a little off about her, a little different from the norm. While most imps are completely devoted to their work, she'd rather read old-fashioned books, write fairy tales, and play her keyboard than focus on her career. It's been ten years since she was created, and people are starting to worry about her. Then the Imps Liberation Group -- an anti-human organization hellbent on turning the order of imps and humans upside-down -- attacks a nearby settlement. Suddenly, Lai's quirkiness is the least of anyone's worries. As a volunteer army called the Uniters joins the fight to put the ILG back in their place, a bizarre mystery starts to unravel. It all comes down to one mysterious name: Pandora Amity, an alleged human/imp hybrid who disappeared long ago. The battle continues, and then Lai learns the truth about the ILG...and about herself. And now, no matter what she does, things will never be the same again...

Set among many layers of our universe, within it's realms, strife is carrying out. Lord Byron has robbed the warring Dark and Light Elves of their freedom. A renegade band of Rebel Elves, of mixed races, set out to Earth, to stay within the Second Realm, that long since shut out magic, including their very own. However, what happened the night they arrived remains a mystery to all, and their princess was lost from their hands. With no symbol of hope to rally their people, the rebels are in chaos. The only clue they have is that she is somewhere on Earth. Can they find her before it's too late? And what of the strange occurrences disrupting the Realm of Elementals, or Earth? A chain of events has unleashed, and nobody knows where it will end.

They were all painstakingly similar and yet so painfully different... Daze had never thought there was anything odd about her life. Living in a world where people were born by being pixelated in and died by being pixelated out; waking up and finding you were missing a limb, finding a new tattoo. This had always been normal to her. But following Daze's brother's death, a scientist by the name of Doctor Teng pixelates into her city and tells all the inhabitants the truth: they are clones and are being sent to work for their originals. In a novel about adventure, love, betrayal and fate follow Daze as she she strives to cope with the fact that, no matter how hard she tries, Daze and her people may always be the same.

Six teens are devoted to a game with one rule: If a player gets tagged, they must change their life within the next fifteen minutes. The better the player, the bigger the change. One might give their car away, or punch the school bully. Another might change identities or sacrifice their virginity. Anything to keep evolving, to avoid fitting into a label or caring about the junk they own. But their quest for enlightenment has taken a rotten final turn - one of the players has murdered the game's creator, the teen prophet (cult leader?) David Bloom. Our narrator is being framed for the crime; can he clear his name and discover which of his lifelong friends is the murderer before he takes the fall? [sic] is a gritty teen murder mystery that delves into the psychology of enlightenment among the criminally dysfunctional.

17-year-old Etta is broken. She's a slave, a coward, and a murderer. Kids come to her for help, then she watches as they're torn apart. There isn't anyone who can save her now. In DeMarcus, the weekly munera is all anyone can talk about. Bets are taken and slaves fight to the death, their trainers raking in their glory. All except Etta. A new girl, Matilda, is Etta's last chance to prove her worth as a trainer. When Matilda disappears, Etta realises she wants to find her. Matilda has a secret and Etta must find out what it is.

Alaya O’Connor is a piano prodigy. Arianna O’Connor is a soccer star. With their futures relying on the care they take to uphold their talents, these twins aren’t left with much else to do. But when the stress becomes too much, Arianna runs away from home, and thus starts the first domino in a horrible sequence of tragedies that leaves Alaya an orphan, and blind. Struggling to pick up the pieces of her life, Alaya is moved to live with her aunt. Only a new school, new life, and no foreseeable future lies ahead. The accident that left her in a world of darkness also manifested in her mind, and left her fearful of the one thing that always brought her solace: her piano. After meeting Aiden and his sister, Danielle, Alaya begins to see that there is more to life than the sense of sight. The secrets that cripple them are nearly as appalling as her own, and the more she learns about the siblings, the more she learns about herself. Meanwhile, Arianna has no idea the calamities that have befallen her sister. But when the truth is revealed, so are secrets that some would rather be kept away from prying eyes.