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Breaking Colossus

by Matt Wright

An epic space opera/fantasy based on Homer's Odyssey, and the first in a new series called "Stars Reach." Imagine if the Odyssey were told from Telemachus' point of view—set in space. The story follows Roth, the son of an infamous war hero, Grey Soleis. When Grey suddenly goes MIA, Roth and his mother, Alora, must struggle against forces that would erase their identities and tear their family apart. Breaking Colossus is ab... more

Saabrina: Tanglewood

by Seth Cohen

Can a break in reality shatter Saabrina and Bob’s world? Saabrina and Bob return from a successful mission (except for creating a small rip in spacetime) to face a cascade of problems that engulfs the worlds they protect and even Bob’s daughter, Rebecca. Will memory, love, and loss help them save their family, friends, and universe? Four years after the events of Saabrina, A Novel, Saabrina: Tanglewood, the second book of the Saabrina series, continues the story of Saabrina, a small sentient ... more

A Beard Tangled in Dreams: The True Story of Rip Van Winkle

by Steve Wiley

Neil Gaiman meets Sigmund Freud in this imaginative retelling of the first American fairytale, Rip Van Winkle. The original Rip Van Winkle was a modest sixty-four pages. Quite short for a tale spanning twenty years. Why so short? None of those pages accounted for all the years that languorous legend spent asleep. There has never been a single published word of what Rip dreamt all those years, until now. Those wildest of dreams follow Rip from the furthest reaches of his mysterious past, throu... more

Saabrina

by Seth Cohen

A snappy, sentient spacecraft who wants to be more than talking transportation sporting a wicked cool arsenal. A funny, middle-aged dad wondering what’s the next chapter in his life. And his daughter, now in college, starting her own journey. An entertaining and funny space opera that will keep you wanting to see what’s next. In Saabrina, book one of the Saabrina series, Saabrina, a small sentient spacecraft called a Saab, gets a new partner, Bob Foxen, and maybe a start to s... more

The Ivory Queen

by Deborah Jarvis

After making her way to the southern part of Keyralisthmus, Deirdre is preparing to cross the desert in hopes of finding the lost shaper clans and learning the secret to calling on the aid of the elusive dragons. Once across the desert, the centaur shaman, K'ha Vrenil, has promised to guide them through the jungle beyond the mountains. Setting off with the shaman; the white wolf, Nersh; the thief, Jack Parns; his partner in crime, Rontil Moullard; and the transformed prince, Benjamin, Deirdre fi... more

Lost & Found

by Alex Andre

In a world shattered by loss of technology, survivors live off the scraps of the fallen civilization.

Ambitious young scavenger Yun-mi is thrilled that her mentor is finally taking her trading. Events take a horrific turn when his murder leads to her being sold to slavers. Driven by her ferocious determination, Yun-mi fights against her abductor. Survival depends on aligning herself with powerful allies, yet whom can she trust in the fractured society?<... more

The War for Ascension: A Crisis Reborn

by Dominician Gennari

In a world where sacred energies exist . . .

A young Torian is the civilisation’s last hope.

In the lands of Númaria those who harnessed the sacred energies of the Hydroverse were feared and hunted by darker forces. After painful dreams of a fallen king, young Areus begins to harness the sacred energies.

Why have these powers unleashed the forces of evil?

Journeying across perilous lands, he must find a girl who shares a devastating secret with him. Guided... more

Hummingbird

by Helen Harper

There are three absolutes in Mairi Wallace’s world:

1. The Mages rule every city in Scotland with terrible, violent authority.
2. It is not physically possible for any woman to wield magic.
3. Mairi does not have a voice.

She is about to learn that none of these things have to be true.

From twisted wynds and tartan shops to a dangerous daemon and malevolent ravens, the future of a tattered nation might lie with one solitary woman.

Quarantine Fever

by Tyler Grant

Quarantine Fever is a 30,000 word supernatural occult horror story that deals with a spreading evil amidst the global pandemic Covid-19 Corona Virus. Commander Eve Halsey is performing a routine repair aboard The Odyssey space craft when she spots a strange red glow affecting the western Unites States and southern Canada. After alerting NASA, she is ordered to report back any news of the phenomenon spreading. Jack Staley is a psychiatrist working from home due to the nation-wide shutdown. Whil... more

Caring for Your Clown Book One: Aliens are Real

by Oleander Blume

Oliver Tarsul is a mostly average 14-year-old kid; aside from being the unwilling roommate to an interdimensional space clown his step-father solicited to rebuild a portal designed by his recently deceased mother. Things are more than a little complicated. Regardless, dealing with a gelatinous slime monster in the shape of a clown girl named Dindet, while also trying to stay under the radar as the only trans kid in school, proves to be significantly harder than he imagined. But the fallout... more

The Secret of Four Notch

by Tracy Sabin

Mom and dad decided to move us from our home in California to middle-of-nowhere Washington state. Goodbye forever, best friends!

Exploring our sopping wet new neighborhood, our weird “sort of” new friend, my sister and I discovered Four Notch. Was the legend true that it could take us back in time? I know it sounds crazy but we figured it out. Went back to the time of the sawmills. Very strange and pretty exciting until we got found out and had to cut and run back home.... more

The Alas League

by Christian-Eric Falardeau

The Alas League is an entertaining humorous series made up of episodes ranging from 80 to 140 pages each. Brief “interlude” short stories are inserted between instalments, adding increasingly funny new angles to the new Worlds they live in.

Episode 1: Purgatory
In the small village of Verminus lives Mayor Monica Boisse, her son Peter, Father Ferdinand Paradise, the owner of the only bar Sylvia Thomac, the garbage man Mario Sax, the police officer M... more

The Last House on Earth

by Robert B Marcus Jr

What should you do if you find out your next-door neighbor is an alien? Richard Johnson, a college student, just spent his last dime on food, lost his wealthy girlfriend, and had his bike stolen. To add to his misery, he returns to his apartment where he runs into his strange neighbor. Convinced this bizarre man is more than he seems, Richard and his land lady's bulldog, Khan, sneak into his apartment where they find a timegate to the future. Along with his set theory teacher and her br... more

Pike's Progress

by John J Spearman

The follow up to Pike's Passage, a Finalist in the 2021 BookLife Prize, and the third in the Sandy Pike series, Sandy rejoins the Alliance Navy as they look to recover planetary systems lost after their surrender to the Hegemony of United Worlds and the subsequent civil war in the hegemony. Alison Lynch recovers from her traumatic experience at the hands of the Graz Syndicate and finds herself in the middle of the hunt for an escaped psychopath.

Claire vs The Flying Saucers

by Charles Dunn

Claire's life on the farm didn't change much when the Martians conquered Earth, But when they kidnapped her favorite cow, the Martians went too far. Nothing will stop Claire from getting her pet back. She tries the police, the Mayor, even the Dairy Council, but they're powerless. Begging and threatening the Martians are no good. Battering rams, flame throwers, dynamite... Not for sale to the average 3rd Grader. Brokenhearted, he vows to make the Martians as miserable as she is. Claire leaves the... more

The Sacred Band : Union

by James MacTavish

A new empire is dawning in the United States of America as the sun sets on Britain. Lady Morgan Worthington - Morgan le Fay - begins the rise of a great nation through the Palladium, the birth of empires. Her six faithful White Dragon Knights seek to build on its success, but the ever-resilient Red Dragon, led by the bloodline of Sir Galahad and operating within the 'Secret Six', mobilise once more with the power of Excalibur to break the bloodshed. The wielder of the fabled King's Blade, the li... more

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