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Star Cat: Infinity Claws: A Space Opera Fantasy by Andrew Mackay

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About Star Cat: Infinity Claws: A Space Opera Fantasy by Andrew Mackay:

Enter your cat. Win the contest. Save the universe.

Five-year-old Jamie Anderson has something to prove. He knows his cat, Jelly, is one in a million and has what it takes to win.

In 2117, the search is on for the first feline in space.

Welcome to the Star Cat Project.

Fur will fly.

Millions of cats across the globe will compete to be the first. They will demonstrate their agility, prowess, obedience and combat skills.

The winner will join USARIC’s Space Opera Beta team of mercenaries and scientists on a mission to Saturn to decode a distress call and rescue their sister ship.

An adventure filled with unexpected thrills and adventure.

If Jelly wins, she’ll soon learn that in space no one can hear you purr…

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Black Girl Magic by S L H

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Roxy Linden is a teen witch in a house filled with superheroes. Join her as she grows in her powers and searches for her true identity.

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Pendulum Heroes

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Melvin Morrow has become a barbarian warrior maiden. Will he be able to escape this new, dangerous world and the chainmail bikini he foolishly chose as his armor or will he and his friends be stuck living their lives as their game avatars?

Melvin’s a black teenage boy not used to being ogled or the real world consequences of wearing a steel bikini. But the real world has shifted… him, his friends Jason and Rich, and his big brother Mike are stuck in character, in a place where danger doesn’t lurk because it prefers to boldly stride out in the open.

Mages import game players like Melvin via the Rift Pendulum. The reason: the work’s suicidal and pendulum heroes are insanely powerful. Usually. Melvin and his friends can be, too, if they’re in the right emotional state to trigger into character. Melvin’s a one-man, uh, one warrior maiden army when he’s angry but anger’s hard to find with all that mortal danger striding around everywhere.

It couldn’t get worse. Melvin’s best friend Jason isn’t even human and, thanks to this dangerous world and its axe-wielding inhabitants, quickly becomes not even an archer. His other friend Rich is 15 going on 50 now that he’s in an old mage’s body complete with untameable gray beard. Melvin’s brother Mike looks like a chupacabra and he’s really pissed about that.

The road back home’s at the end of a suicidal quest. Melvin better find something to rage about… because being genre-savvy only gets you so far.

Pendulum Heroes, James Beamon’s debut novel, is an adrenaline fueled adventure for anyone who’s spent a little too much time on the character creation screen instead of playing the game, those of us who have thought just how godmode we’d be with mage power, but mostly it’s for all of us who have wondered who the heck installs a portal to another world in a wardrobe. Check out what happens when The Wizard of Oz meets The Goonies at the crash site of a derailed RPG!

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Winter Trials (Northern Witch #1)

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About Winter Trials (Northern Witch #1):

With Midwinter just around the corner, Mark’s Nanna decides that it is time he learnt more about his family heritage. Learning witchcraft shouldn’t be too difficult, right?

Balancing school, magic, and the distractions of the gorgeous new guy, should make this a very interesting winter.

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A Girl and her Elephant by Zoey Gong

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All of the elephants wept as one of their own lay dying in childbirth. But Kanita, the daughter of the royal elephant trainer, refused to give up. With her own hands, she helped bring the baby elephant, Safi, into the world, beginning a lifelong friendship between a girl and her elephant.

But many of the villagers worried about the curse of the white elephant with the red birthmark across her face.

Raised in the mountains of northern Siam, Kanita’s idyllic life is shattered when she is ordered to marry a much older man and leave her beloved yet cursed elephant behind. But Kanita’s stubborn nature refuses to bow to her parents’ wishes.

Kanita and Safi flee their village with the goal of redeeming Safi from her cursed reputation and cementing their bond, vowing to never be separated.

But the jungle is more dangerous than Kanita or Safi could have imagined.

From new author Zoey Gong, follow Kanita and Safi through the jungles of ancient Siam in a story of friendship, hope, and redemption.

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Chastity’s Belt by Dave Belisle

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How now! Blank page! For rampant rage, I write, you read These words I cage.Shakespearean writer’s chops ever-chopping, Belisle plays whack-a-mole with the hormones-a-hopping down a high school hallway near you. It’s a coming of age tale for bottled emotions that always seem to be just past their expiry date. Perhaps Shakespeare … re DB … should elaborate: Who be this sage, Who comes of age To stumbled youth As though they wage The longest war On longer shore Where hope is none To face the horror. How to escape This reddest tape That holdeth back Their back with cape?More to the point … 16-year-old Jane Chatterton bites off more than she bargained for in her bid to be more than just another girl at Ottawa’s Assumption Immaculata. Her weapons of choice? Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost” … and a chastity belt. The boys in grade 10 English Lit never knew what hit them.

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Watcher – Book One of the Watcher Series by AJ Eversley

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About Watcher – Book One of the Watcher Series by AJ Eversley:

In a dystopian future overtaken by Bots & Carbons, Sawyer is a Watcher. She holds the key to saving them all…if she’s willing to risk losing everything.”I knew I was not alone. They would never leave until every last one of us was gone.”Sawyer Russo has sworn to protect humanity, and as a Watcher she’s done just that. But the Bots and Carbons that took her city are evolving, and they start picking the Watchers off one by one. One last rescue mission will change everything. When someone betrays them, the line between friend and foe is no longer easily drawn. Sawyer made a vow, and she will fulfill it, even if it means ending the person who deceived them, no matter who it might be.It all comes down to one choice…Who can she save?And who does she have to let go?

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We of the Between by Martii Maclean

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The world is changed. The seas have warmed and risen to flood the land. Trin is part of a team that defies the dangers of the ferocious seas to help heal the oceans. But now, each time she touches the water, Trin can feel what the creatures that below the surface feel, and she knows what they know. Rilla has lived deep in the ocean all her life. Will she challenge her father’s rulings and leave the world of the Abrax to help heal the ocean? When these two strangers meet, their lives will change forever and their fates will be intertwined in the place between two worlds.

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The Blood Lives (In The Blood Book 1) by Lee Isserow

About The Blood Lives (In The Blood Book 1) by Lee Isserow:

Blood will be spilt – but this blood bites back!

Ben Graham dreams of monsters.
But soon he’ll discover that not only are there real monsters out there… He’s uniquely qualified to destroy them.

Because Ben’s blood isn’t like everyone else’s.It’s alive.And it has a ravenous hunger that can’t be sated…

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Money to Burn by Michael HH Warren

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US billionaire Charleston Kingsley recently wed the young former Miss South Africa beauty queen Perusha Naicker and they plan to live happily after… or so they think. When $500 million is moved out of Kingsley’s bank account, twice in short succession, everyone is under suspicion including his new wife.

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Peddling wares to the goldfields by Michael Mardel

About Peddling wares to the goldfields by Michael Mardel:

Come with Patrick on an adventure to the goldfields, north of Melbourne, Australia, with his Dad as they peddle their wares to the miners. Will bushrangers stop them on their way in their horse and cart? What happens when his Dad leaves him with the wagon while he finds them something to eat?
This book describes the life of diggers in Australia. Quite an imaginative feat, as this history unfolds through the eyes of a young boy when his father exposes him to the diggers. These accounts show not only the writer’s in-depth knowledge of history but his literary prowess as well. It is a befitting read for school children of all ages. (review)

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Code 47 to BREV Force – Cracko by F. Barish-Stern

About Code 47 to BREV Force – Cracko by F. Barish-Stern:

Super heroes come to life and transport us to a fantasy world where costumed characters have abilities far beyond most humans and good plays out against evil. This diversion from our own reality, usually shows up in comic books and films, but now these heroes come to life on the pages of Code 47 to BREV Force Trilogy.

All the action of a graphic novel, with the characters coming to life through words and actions
All the fascination of super-heroes vs.super villains
All the suspense of twists and turns that only can play out in a Trilogy

All this mixed up with holograms, cloning, computer viruses, sentient beings and even romance

HERE’S A Teaser About the 1st. Book – CRACKO

The sleepy college town of Island Falls, was never the same after the Kane family arrived, and what followed them there, would change their lives, forever.

Twins, Brad and Evie Kane, are college students struggling to live up to the expectations of their world-famous scientist parents, when suddenly, CONTROLLER crashes into their world.

No one knows how CONTROLLER, a computer virus became a sentient being, or how it creates holograms and human helpers, but students like Brad’s best friend, Jonathan are becoming mindless followers.

In this first book of the BREV Force Trilogy, Code 47 to BREV Force – CRACKO, Evie and Brad see what’s happening to their friends, but no one is taking the threat seriously, including their parents.

The twins take matters into their own hands and sneak into their parent’s lab to develop an antidote to CONTROLLER’S mind altering. Their experiment doesn’t work, but a lab accident causes side effects of its own when some of their mixture gets into a used petri dish. What bubbles up is the key to the past and the creation of The BREV Force!

The BREV Force prepare to go up against CONTROLLER and are surprised by the pros, cons and responsibility their new roles demand, as well as the changes in their personal lives, that shows being a super hero, with or without a costume isn’t always easy.

CONTROLLER’S influence becomes wide spread and Island Falls is the stage for a showdown between good and evil. Choosing sides isn’t as simple as it seems. Family relationships are challenged, friendships are tested, and what started out as a computer virus is building an army to take over the world.

During these times when super heroes fill our lives and fantasy trumps reality, our heroes, The BREV Force, are putting it all in the lines of The Code 47 to BREV Force Trilogy, with one goal — Stop CONTROLLER and Save OUR World!

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Manhattan Girls by JD Fitzgerald

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WELCOME TO HAMILTON ACADEMY, THE FINEST OF THE FINEST OF PREP SCHOOLS FROM ALL AROUND, WHERE OPULENCE DWELLS AND SECRETS ABOUND.

Fifteen-year-old Gwen Stevenson gets a chance of a lifetime. Escaping from the depths of small-town boredom, she finally sets her sights of embellishing the wonders of New York City.
While entering the halls of the prestigious Hamilton Academy, she meets reserved bookworm Kyle, Aspiring filmmaker Vera, Valley girl Shawnie, and gets an unexpected reunion from her two childhood friends, Maxine, a southern belle who plans take over the popularity food chain, and Mona, a reclusive rebel who has dreams of becoming a rock star.
Gwen soon realizes that she is no friend of honor society president Bianca Walworth, who doesn’t appreciate her longtime boyfriend, Chace, making flirty eyes with Gwen.
Having a new life in the big apple has never been so complicated but in the end…
Will there ever be solace in the city?

Manhattan Girls tells the coming of age story amongst a group of unlikely friends going through the journey of life beyond the Upper East Side.

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Menagerie by Kristy Tate

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Everyone talks to animals. Some do it every day, although very few stop to listen for a reply.Lizbet Wood does, and this is just one of the things that set her apart. She really doesn’t understand how different she is until violence shatters her solitary existence.While Lizbet seeks to understand why mother sought refuge on a deserted island in the Pacific Northwest, she comes face to face with the dangers her mother tried but failed to escape. When her mother is gravely injured, Lizbet is forced from the island and thrust into a world even more complex and threatening than she could have ever imagined. A world where the animals have no say…or do they?Declan’s life is on trajectory mode. He’s a star on East End High’s basketball team. He’s months away from graduation and has plans to attend Duke University. And Nicole has just invited him to her party…But the moment Declan meets Lizbet, his life is thrown into turmoil. She’s unlike anyone he’s ever met and the creatures she introduces him to will change not only his plans for the future, but everything he believes about life, science, and the animals surrounding him.If you like breathtaking action, mystery, schnauzers, and a hint of romance, then you’ll love this edge-of-your-seat story by USA Today bestselling author, Kristy Tate.Buy Menagerie today and learn what your pets would really like to tell you.

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The Moonbeam Rider

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Occupation began when the first mothership appeared in the sky. Now they are taking over, one continent at a time. Collaborators, human traitors, are plentiful. Welcome to the resistance. Noa Ash, a lonely teenage girl making entries into her personal journal, takes us on an astounding adventure. After she is orphaned during an alien attack, Noa is sent to live with a stern grandmother she has never known on Shadow – a once sunny beach that was warped into a hellish place of fog and darkness by a meteorite shower. There Noa finds an old surfboard and begins riding the beach’s cruel waves. As she learns to surf, Noa goes through a transformation of body and soul that turns her from a helpless nobody into a true heroine. But fate has an even stranger destiny in mind for Noa when she discovers an underwater cavern where an archaic robot lay rusting. Only the robot is not a robot. It is a vessel. To resurrect it – the only weapon on Earth Noa believes can stop the alien occupation – she will have to transfer her life force – her soul – into the battered metal hull to pilot it. Aiding Noa in her mission is a strange boy from another time. A boy who Noa finds herself inexplicably drawn to. The Diary of Anne Frank meets War of the Worlds.

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YA Fantasy 5 Book Collection

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Web Of Light – When Queen Eanndra calls the leaders of the Territories and their heirs to Star Mountain for a Conclave, none of them knows just what to expect. Each of the heirs looks forward to the Conclave in different ways. Seva hopes to discover the identity of her father. Roth worries about having to interact with non-humans. Valdor simply wants to be invisible. Iza seeks to visit the ancient home of her people. And Ganamere, the prince and future king, prepares himself for his mother’s attempts at matchmaking. None of them expects to have their lives changed forever or to find themselves caught up in the repercussions of a war that ended two hundred years ago.

Elfblood – Charlie is an elfblood, descended of a conquered people brought to the brink of extinction in the aftermath of a long war. Being able to pass for human gives Charlie an advantage over most of his kind. Growing up in an orphanage is hard enough without having to live with that stigma. When soldiers come and haul the kids off to a prison work camp, Charlie finds himself no longer able to hide the truth of what he is. If that isn’t bad enough, the magic buried inside him is growing stronger and more out of control.

Shadow Of The Dragon – Micayta’s world has long been gripped in the thrall of an endless winter that grows worse with the passing of time. Life is a constant struggle. Then catastrophe strikes the small town in which she lives, thrusting Micayta and her brother Pytaki alone into the snow-laden countryside. To keep herself and her brother alive will take all the strength that she has.

Discovering The Spirit – Have you ever noticed how life can shift all of sudden? You’re going along thinking everything is great and then WHAM, you get hit by a bus. Well, maybe not a literal bus, but you get what I mean, right? I’m talking about that moment in time when everything changes and life as you know it comes to a crashing halt. My name is Abigail Freeman and for me, that moment came on my sixteenth birthday. It wasn’t anything so dramatic as getting hit by a bus. In fact, it was so subtle, I didn’t even recognize it for what it was when it happened. Not until later could I look back and say, yeah, that was the moment my life changed forever.

Firebrand – Carlan Andrassis is a Firebrand, one who can create and control fire, as well as a Lord of the second most powerful House in the Ten Kingdoms. He is also a young man with a dark secret that makes him afraid to use his power. But as a terrible plot plays out around him, he must learn to conquer that fear, or be destroyed by it.

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Don’t Let Me Go by Jamila Mikhail

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On top of battling the normal teenage angst that everyone goes through, Joanie is also reeling from her parents’ bitter divorce and having to cope with her mother’s new boyfriend and father’s new family. Alone in a new town and without friends, she turns to passing the time by indulging in her longtime hobby of making toy models of soldiers and is both amazed and shocked when one of them comes to life.

Despite her millions of unanswered questions and having to make sense of new mysteries every day Joanie comes to find a loyal and trustworthy companion in Adler, a lieutenant in the Wehrmacht and a member of the German Resistance during World War II who must also find a way to handle living in modern times on top of being invisible to most of the population.

The two of them will have to fight several battles on many fronts in both the physical world and unseen realms as they both try to comprehend Adler’s new existence and piece Joanie’s broken life back together.

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Call of Kythshire (Keepers of the Wellsprings Book 1) by Missy Sheldrake

About Call of Kythshire (Keepers of the Wellsprings Book 1) by Missy Sheldrake:

An epic fantasy, artfully written and illustrated by the author to appeal to a broad audience “…an enchanting read from start to finish” “[Sheldrake’s] voicing and vision is brilliant.”16 year-old Azi has grown up in the guild hall of His Majesty’s Elite in the peaceful kingdom of Cerion, training hard and dreaming of the day she will finally become a squire and ride out with her parents, both knights, on the King’s Quest. Her dream comes true when she earns the right in her sixteenth year, but her name is left off the quest declaration and her parents and their guild ride off without her. When tragedy befalls the Elite on their quest, Azi must band with her best friend Rian, a Mage Apprentice, to discover the source of a mysterious curse. They’re joined by an unlikely companion: a colorful fairy named Flit. The fairy clams she is from Kythshire, a mysterious and legendary land of Fae closed off from the outside and cloaked in secrets.Together, the group seeks to unravel a Sorcerous plot which threatens both the existence of Kythshire, and the peace the kingdom of Cerion holds dear. Call of Kythshire is a tale of love and friendship, the value of family, and the fight between light and dark. It is a journey of failure and redemption. It is a clean read, free of sex and gratuitous violence, with a strong female lead.

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Frack off: Trouble in the High Country and the Kimberley (young adult) by Michael Mardel

About Frack off: Trouble in the High Country and the Kimberley (young adult) by Michael Mardel:

FRACKING DOWN UNDER – WHAT YOU MAY NOT KNOWYou need to read this book because:•It will tell you about fracking and lock-the-gate against coal seam gas•You will meet alternative lifestyles – lesbian and trans•There is a mystery as well as civil disobedience•You will travel to Broome in the WA tropics.Order today

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Don’t Let Me Go By Jamila Mikhail

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August 1st – Release Day

On top of battling the normal teenage angst that everyone goes through, Joanie is also reeling from her parents’ bitter divorce and having to cope with her mother’s new boyfriend and father’s new family. Alone in a new town and without friends, she turns to passing the time by indulging in her longtime hobby of making toy models of soldiers and is both amazed and shocked when one of them comes to life.

Despite her millions of unanswered questions and having to make sense of new mysteries every day Joanie comes to find a loyal and trustworthy companion in Adler, a lieutenant in the Wehrmacht and a member of the German Resistance during World War II who must also find a way to handle living in modern times on top of being invisible to most of the population.

The two of them will have to fight several battles on many fronts in both the physical world and unseen realms as they both try to comprehend Adler’s new existence and piece Joanie’s broken life back together.

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