The Sapphire Princess Meets a Monster

The Sapphire Princess Meets a Monster

Jahnna N. Malcolm

Jahnna N. Malcolm

In the Jewel Kingdom, four girls rule: Roxanne is the Ruby Princess, Sabrina is the Sapphire Princess, Emily is the Emerald Princess, and Demetra is the Diamond Princess.Sabrina the Sapphire Princess rules the beautiful Blue Lake. Her palace floats on top of the water like a magical lily pad. But does something dangerous lurk beneath the peaceful lake? Sabrina is determined to keep her people safe — even if she has to come face-to-face with a monster!
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Doorway to Death

Doorway to Death

My "Doorway to Death" short story was originally submitted as an assignment in a Short Story Writing Class at Pima Jr. College in 1975. Since I saved it for the past 47 years, I've decided to self-publish it. I hope you enjoy reading it. It's been something I hoped for one day to share with you. (Chase)
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Jack Maggs

Jack Maggs

Peter Carey

Fiction

The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda returns to the nineteenth century in an utterly captivating mystery. The year is 1837 and a stranger is prowling London. He is Jack Maggs, an illegal returnee from the prison island of Australia. He has the demeanor of a savage and the skills of a hardened criminal, and he is risking his life on seeking vengeance and reconciliation.        Installing himself within the household of the genteel grocer Percy Buckle, Maggs soon attracts the attention of a cross section of London society. Saucy Mercy Larkin wants him for a mate. The writer Tobias Oates wants to possess his soul through hypnosis. But Maggs is obsessed with a plan of his own. And as all the various schemes converge, Maggs rises into the center, a dark looming figure, at once frightening, mysterious, and compelling. Not since Caleb Carr's The Alienist have the shadowy city streets of the nineteenth century lit up with such mystery and romance.
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We're Here

We're Here

Naomi Kanakia

Naomi Kanakia

The third volume in Neon Hemlock's yearly series celebrating the breadth and variety of queer speculative fiction across the genres of fantasy, science fiction, horror, and everywhere in between.
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Warp

Warp

Lev Grossman

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Mystery & Thrillers

The lost literary origin story of #1 bestseller Lev Grossman - including a new foreword about how and why he wrote his first novel: "It is the intense, concentrated, boiled-down essence of the unhappiest years of my life." Twenty-something Hollis Kessler languishes in a hopelessly magician-less world (with the exception of a fleet-footed nymph named Xanthe) not too far from where he graduated college. His friends do, too. They sleep late, read too much, drink too much, talk too much, and work and earn and do way too little. But Hollis does have an obsession: there's another world going on in his head, a world of excitement and danger and starships and romance, and it's telling him that it's time to stop dreaming and get serious. This re-publication of Lev Grossman's debut novel, Warp, shows the roots of his Magicians hero Quentin Coldwater in a book that is for anyone (and everyone) who has ever felt adrift in their own life.
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Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn

Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn

Robert Holdstock

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Several years ago, Christian Huxley's father, George, obsessively documented the strange phenomena emanating from Ryhope Wood at the edge of their property. He watched the ancient heroes emerge, shouting both incomprehensible warnings and unmistakable invitations. Recklessly, George followed them inot the mysterious sylvan shadows that changed him forever. Christian himself was not untouched by these living dreams. A childhood encounter with a phantom from another time draws him to the Wood as an adult. Deep in Ryhope, Christian uncovers the lie that permeates his worst nightmares. And like his father, he will be consumed with the mythagoes of Ryhope, especially a young Celtic warrior called Guiwenneth. She is the key to the mystery of the universe, an ancient heroine caught in a timeless tale of bravery and sacrifice. Now, together with a band of crusaders from a world long gone, Christian and Guiwenneth become part of the unfolding stories both remembered and forgotten. They meet sorcerers in battle and giants who can travel miles in one step. And they discover the meaning of the two gates, Ivory and Horn - one the lie, the other the truth.
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The Dark

The Dark

Andrew Neiderman

Horror / Fiction

A psychiatrist wife comes to believe her husband's latest patient is the devil. His influence over her husband and his other patients lead her to make very exciting and near fatal discoveries.
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Sins of the Fathers

Sins of the Fathers

Jane Jensen

Jane Jensen

Gabriel Knight, a horror novelist, is no stranger to the occult. The Voodoo Murders are spreading fear through his native New Orleans. His interest in them is more than professional—it brings back memories of a terrible nightmare that has haunted his sleep since he was a teen. His inexplicable attraction to a beautiful woman surrounded by voodoo lore and mystery leads him much too close to an ancient curse and its deadly threat. To escape its diabolical evil, Gabriel, in a race against time and vile magics, must find the key to his survival… a key hidden in a shocking family history.
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Timequake

Timequake

Kurt Vonnegut

Science Fiction

According to science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13th February 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to wind the clock back a decade to 1991, making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja-vu and a total loss of free will - not to mention the torture of reliving every nanosecond of one of the tawdiest and most hollow decades. With his trademark wicked wit, Vonnegut addresses memory, suicide, the Great Depression, the loss of American eloquence, and the obsolescent thrill of reading books.
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August if for Ace

August if for Ace

Kaci Rose

Kaci Rose

A scarred ex-military man, a curvy veterinarian, and a broken promise... Ace I came to Mustang Mountain carrying my scars and the address to a bar my estranged left me. For the first time in my life, I felt like I'd found a home. Until one night with a curvy blond turned my world upside down. But when she saw my Mustang Mountain Rider patch, she ran. Now she needs protection, and I'm the first to volunteer. Once we get past what's holding her back, I'll be ready to wage war against anyone who tries to tear us apart. Everly Spending a few weeks filling in at the local vet clinic was supposed to be an easy favor for my dad. I never expected to meet Ace or that one night with him would break the one promise my dad asked of me. Now it doesn't matter how much my heart is involved, he is completely off-limits. Despite that, the more I get to know him, the more I can't help but fall for the man beneath the scars, discovering...
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The White Company

The White Company

Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction / Crime / Thriller

A historical adventure set during the Hundred Years\' War. The story follows a young man as he leaves the shelter of an abbey in England and becomes involved with Edward, the Black Prince\'s campaign in Spain. Doyle later wrote a prequel, titled "Sir Nigel", concerning the early life of one of the heroes in this novel. “We go to France, and from thence I trust to Spain, in humble search of a field in which we may win advancement and perchance some small share of glory. For this purpose I would have you know that it is not my wont to let any occasion pass where it is in any way possible that honor may be gained. I would have you bear this in mind, and give great heed to it that you may bring me word of all cartels, challenges, wrongs, tyrannies, infamies, and wronging of damsels. Nor is any occasion too small to take note of, for I have known such trifles as the dropping of a gauntlet, or the flicking of a breadcrumb, when well and properly followed up, lead to a most noble spear-running.” - Sir Nigel, “The White Company”
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The Bear Comes Home

The Bear Comes Home

Rafi Zabor

Rafi Zabor

The story of a saxophone-playing bear. A former circus performer, the bear was acquired by its owner in a poker game. The bear can talk and the novel follows its career in a New York jazz club where it discusses music with other players and falls in love with a woman
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