[ONC 2023 and Wattys 2024 winner!] Drug dealer Nathan just can't be bothered to care about some of the stranger things in his life. Like the spellbook he found, complete with working magic and all. Okay, fine, maybe he tried one spell, and maybe that ended with his curtains on fire. Lesson learned: leave forces you d...
After bursting onto the fantasy scene with his acclaimed debut novel, Elantris, and following up with his blockbuster Mistborn trilogy, Brandon Sanderson proves again that he is today’s leading master of what Tolkien called “secondary creation,” the invention of whole worlds, complete with magics and myths all their o...
After a deadly virus nicknamed "Rattlebox" (so named because of the horrible sounds its victims make as they die) brings civilization to its knees, Luke Hodges and his little brother Sean try to survive in the dangerous wasteland of the country they used to call home. Those who haven't succumbed to Rattlebox yet are r...
Zombies and werewolves and witches, oh my! Dorothy is a normal teenage girl. She goes to school, hangs out and resists the advances of the boys in her year. And she lives with her aunt after the death of her parents. A trip to a mall is brought to an abrupt halt when a freak storm hits. Dorothy is transported to anot...
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The Central book of the Fox Universe/Earth-F. Alice the Immortal and The Eagle Ascends - set in the present day of Earth-f (based on the public domain comic book universe Fox Features, which was active 1939-1950's). Stories taking place from 1939 to present day. Alice just wants to be left alone to enjoy her immortal...
Seti, a humble civil servant at the Office of Information, is selected for an important mission to retrieve a cluster of 'fallen stars' with very special, and very secret, properties. But why has he -- ambitionless and without influence as he is -- been chosen? And just who wants these particular stars at all costs...
Welcome, stowaway of time, A home away from your world, old, Come, see our beautiful people, No more sullen, or than you, cold. We aren't unlike you, son, No different to yours, are our mania, Ditch the mask and we are but one, And welcome home, this is Perplexia.
Good and evil is not black and white ... The Academy is a school consisting of the characters of every story ever told. Heroes and villains take classes and teach together in harmony. But not everything is as it seems. A dark murderer lurks in the halls of this enchanted Academy, threatening the lives of students and...
In a world where all the gods of myth and legend are real, 8 year old Suzy Miller's having some trouble finding the deity that'll answer her prayers. When she finally discovers her god, it's not what she expected.
There’s something deadly creeping in the woods outside of the small, sleepy town of Willows. Something with eight legs, sharp fangs and a connection to a local man who died years ago. It needs to feed, and new-to-town Craig is about to find himself on the menu. From Amy Lukavics, author of DAUGHTERS UNTO DEVILS, comes...
You lose the ability to dissociate the world wide web from the world of flesh and blood. You're lost in theories of multi-universes, of infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters, of flat earths and fake landings and all-seeing eyes and all that good stuff. Your world becomes a web browser, with open tab upon open tab...
A trunk box for the stories I tell my kids when they are not in the mood to listen to any of the standard fairy tales or moral science stuff and want some that we all can giggle together about.
Corttann is a land where having magic could get you killed. Before the King and Queen were overthrown, perils like the Witchfinders and the knights of Corttann threatened the safety of the country. Siblings Lizzy, Kitty, Brent, and Jake are forced on their own after the deaths of their parents. Barmaid Milah Bramson w...
