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The Stone Doorway is an excellent piece of Young Adult Fantasy that addresses issues such as self-confidence and bullying as a young woman is whisked through a portal into the Vale. On the day that Tori McKenna's life became surprisingly unordinary, she had observed how painfully normal she had let her existence become. A thought she would later regret. It started off in its normal, simple fashion, eating breakfast in the kitchen alone whi...

Change comes in one way or another to the life of every man. However, when Alan Daele, a rut-stuck travel agent, finds himself whisked away to another world seconds after what's probably the last shower he'll take for a long while, he's about to find out that change just might be a tad overrated. Dragged into a world so bizarre, it's almost normal, having only his towel as his garb and a razor his weapon, he's forced on a Quest to - of cou...

The War of Unification ended centuries ago, but inside the head of Charlotte Gordon, the battle rages daily. Charlotte left home at age 12 in a desperate bid to escape horrifying abuse at the hands of her mother and her mother's "gentlemen." She has spent the decades since fighting merely to survive. The instability of abiding between institutions and the street has left Charlotte with poor coping skills at best, and every time she tries t...

Life. Death. It's all the same to Gardina Campbell, the mysterious Gray Etyrnal. When the immortal Ghost Hunter meets Matthias Logan as he abandons a war he can't stand, her existence changes for all time. Their Devotionmight be the only thing that can save their countries--if Gardina can keep them both alive long enough to see the end.

Take a step back in time to a bygone era: a time of white picket fences, and rotary phones when in husbands in their suits, ties, and button-down shirts come home after their long days at the office, step through their front doors with briefcases in their hands, and exclaim more than do they ask, "Where's my dinner?" Quaint as this scene may appear to some women, it was the kind of scene that chaffed forward-thinking heroine Rose-Lyne Feld...

Lydia's knuckles were bleached white in the moonlight. Her arms were already beginning to grow tired. She looked at the windowsill, which was mere inches above her tightly clenched fists , and knew that it was as out of reach as the sun. Her gaze traveled down the makeshift rope to where the base of the tower was lost in the rising fog. She swallowed and closed her eyes briefly. Then, with a whispered prayer, she forced her left hand open. ...

Jesus returns to Earth and again finds that those with good intentions have lost their way and become something dangerous. Joining with Magdalene, an ecological activist, he witnesses an extremist group's plot to destroy a maize plantation due to fears that it genetically modifies its plants, a revolt against a tourist development set to be built in a forest reserve, and an armed battle between two oppressed groups who have now turned on each ...

Long ago (as far back as 1978), there lived a kindly old grandmother who told her granddaughters about fairies. This did not take place in a whimsical fairytale realm in which grandmothers must keep a weather eye out for big, bad wolves and child-thieving water sprites. This was a real grandmother who lived in the Appalachian Mountains who was keen to instruct future generations how to make friends with the fairies. Included in the next genera...

There's something wrong with Miss Hunter." With these 6 words, a group of adorkable middle schoolers are unknowingly initiated into an ancient vampire-hunting guild. But first, they must solve the mystery of the horrible Miss Hunter: the substitute teacher who sleeps in class, trips students with her cane, smells funny, and might just possibly be an undead, blood-sucking creature of the night. Hunter the Horrible is filled with adventu...

Genocide. So marks the history of the Chronicle race. The populous Magi erased their more powerful cousins from the face of Lucksphere one thousand years ago, and any Chronicles discovered in the time since are murdered on sight. Tariah Chronis is a Chronicle. Her parents' love and a craft disguise by a sympathetic member of the Kin race got her past puberty. Getting to adulthood hinges on her control of her emotions. When those emotio...

Meet Peter and Mary Faust: misfit siblings sharing an attic apartment and giving every appearance of being typical 20-somethings, wishing to pay rent, make friends, and lead quiet lives. What makes these seemingly simple tasks somewhat less simple is that Peter and Mary are not technically alive. Somewhere in their semi-distant past, they, like Dr. Faust before them, traded their eternity in good standing with the Heavenly Highest to becom...

A Princess in Exile Neve Bianchi has always lived in the shadow of the big top. Haunted by her father's death, famed magician Giovanni "The Magnificent" Bianchi, she lives in the background, forgotten and alone. The vanity of the circus' new featured act, Bella Venezia, drags the entire company into decline. But magic is in the air. Neve makes a discovery that could change not only her fate, but the fortunes of everyone in Lang & Perra...

Nine years have passed on Lucksphere since the devastating battle that shattered millennia of beliefs, yet nothing has changed. Chronicles are still murdered on discovery for fear that the Black Mage Elite might find them first. As far as the Magi know, Morgan and Tariah Chronis are the only Chronicles to make it past puberty. They're note. The four Chronicle children that Morgan sent away for safety are now becoming adults. Kelsey Ren...

For too long, we have depended on humans for bread, but no more...Breadcrumbs for all!" With these words, a revolution is born as a group of ducks, tired of suffering the indignation of being treated as a second class species, become masters of their own fate. However, when would-be revolutionaries find themselves , not in a democracy but in an oligarchy, and the upper echelon of the science program holds to its traditions rather than inno...

Mallory is an eight-year-old with a lot on her mind. Her daddy is back from the army, but he got hurt, and neither Mallory nor Mommy know how bad, yet. To find out, Mommy has gone to see Daddy while Mallory goes to see Gramp on the family farm. Gramp doesn't look like much of a wizard to Mallory, but he loves his granddaughter madly, and as a veteran finder of magic and cheerer-upper from way back when Mallory's mommy was little, Gramp dec...

Hitherto trusted persons of authority have fallen prey to their lust for power and staged an elaborate series of attacks at strategic points throughout the galaxy. Having made a devilish pact with a race that has to this point in history hated them, it is the fiendish plot of those close to Emperor Starphoenix to undermine the government and overthrow the Starphoenix Dynasty at nigh any cost. With the emperor silenced in the wake of terror...