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I love to read! I also have a teenage son who consumes a gallon of milk every other day, and a growing daughter who needs new clothes and shoes on the regular.

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If your library doesn’t loan ebooks or audiobooks, you may be able to get a library card at a larger library system for a modest fee. Here is a website that lists libraries with non-resident borrowing priveleges.

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Featured Fantasy: Body at the Crossroads (A Viking Witch Cozy Mystery) by Cate Martin

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Featured Fantasy: Body at the Crossroads (A Viking Witch Cozy Mystery) by Cate Martin

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When her mother dies after a long illness, Ingrid Torfa must sell the family home to cover the medical bills.

Her career as a book illustrator not yet exactly launched, Ingrid faces two options: live in her battered old Volkswagen, or go back to her mother’s small town in northern Minnesota. The small town that still haunts her dreams more than a decade since she last visited it.

Or rather, not the town but the grandmother. All of the drawings she fills notebooks with witches and the trolls that do their bidding? Not as whimsical in her nightmares as she sketches them in the bright light of day.

If not for her beloved cat Mjolner, living in the Volkswagen just might tempt her. But the cat wants four walls and a door, so north she goes.

And finds trouble in the form of a dead body before she even finds her grandmother’s little town. How much can a town of stoic fishermen possibly be hiding? As Ingrid is about to find out, quite a lot.

Featured Sci-fi: The Oracle (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

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Featured Sci-fi: The Oracle (First Contact) by Peter Cawdron

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Karl Meier is a private in the German Army. He’s been sent to occupied Greece on a secret mission in late 1944 as the Wehrmacht is withdrawing from the country. Karl has been assigned to support Professor Johannes Schmidt in the excavation of the ruins at Delphi, searching for a wunderwaffe—a wonder weapon that could help Germany win the Second World War. Deep within a cave, he finds a golden orb. On touching it, Karl connects with an alien intelligence that has sat dormant on Earth for thousands of years—the Oracle.

“The German soldier has not learned to retreat. He stands, and when necessary, he dies where he stands.” — Adolf Hitler.

FIRST CONTACT is a series of stand-alone novels that explore humanity’s first interaction with extraterrestrial life. This series is similar to BLACK MIRROR or THE TWILIGHT ZONE in that it is based on a common theme rather than common characters. This allows these books to be read in any order. Technically, they’re all first as they all deal with how we might initially respond to contact with aliens, exploring the social, political, religious, and scientific aspects of First Contact.

Featured Fantasy: Magician Apprentice (Riftwar Saga Book 1) by Raymond E. Feist

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Featured Fantasy: Magician Apprentice (Riftwar Saga Book 1) by Raymond E. Feist

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A worthy pupil . . . A dangerous quest

To the forest on the shore of the Kingdom of the Isles, the orphan Pug came to study with the master magician Kulgan. But though his courage won him a place at court and the heart of a lovely Princess, he was ill at ease with the normal ways of wizardry.

Yet Pug’s strange sort of magic would one day change forever the fates of two worlds. For dark beings from another world had opened a rift in the fabric of spacetime to being again the age-old battle between the forces of Order and Chaos.

Praise for Magician: Apprentice

“Totally gripping . . . A fantasy of epic scope, fast-moving action and vivid imagination.”—The Washington Post Book World

“Most exciting . . . A very worthy and absorbing addition to the fantasy field.”—Andre Norton

“The best new fantasty in years . . . has a chance of putting its aughor firmly on the trone next to Tolkien—and keeping him there.”—The Dragon Magazine

Featured Fantasy: Murder Above the Fold (Mag and Clara Balefire Mysteries Book 1) by ReGina Welling & Erin Lynn

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Featured Fantasy: Murder Above the Fold (Mag and Clara Balefire Mysteries Book 1) by ReGina Welling & Erin Lynn

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New town, fresh start… and one very dead welcome wagon.

Mag and Clara Balefire thought moving to Harmony, Maine would mean quiet mornings, fewer magical mishaps, and maybe—just maybe—time to actually run their antique and apothecary shop, Balms and Bygones, without supernatural drama.

They were spectacularly wrong.

When a dead body turns up among the vintage furniture, the local police shrug it off as a tragic accident. But the Balefire sisters didn’t become two of the strongest witches in their bloodline by ignoring their instincts. Something about this death reeks of murder, and it’s not just their enhanced magical senses talking.

Determined to uncover the truth, Mag and Clara dive into Harmony’s deceptively placid waters—only to discover that their picturesque new home harbors secrets darker than a moonless night. Between dodging the machinations of power-hungry coven leader Hagatha Crow and trying to keep their magical abilities under wraps, the sisters must solve their first Harmony mystery before the killer decides to permanently close their shop.

Welcome to small-town life, witch style. The body count is already climbing.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Finally, witches who feel like real people! Mag and Clara’s banter had me cracking up even during the murder scenes. Can’t wait for the next one!”

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Perfect blend of magic and mystery without being too cutesy. These sisters know how to handle both spells and suspects—loved every page!”

Featured Fantasy: Urban Magick & Folklore Series by C. Gockel

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Featured Fantasy: Urban Magick & Folklore Series by C. Gockel

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Once upon a future-time, in a city of steel, concrete, and Magick, a wicked queen trapped a mighty warrior with a curse …

In the tiny village of Somer, far from the city, Cherie knows nothing of the evil spell. Her home is a safe, Magickal place. The Fae travel freely along its roads, Magickal humans and animals are welcome, and everyone is hidden from the Queen’s sight by Jack Frost, the local ghost, who blurs the Queen’s mirror with snow and ice.

But when Jack’s spell begins to crack, the Queen’s eyes fall on Somer. Nothing will keep her from abducting all of Somer’s Magickals, not even a war with the Fae.

To avert a war, save her village–and herself–Cherie strikes a perilous bargain. Aided only by Jack and her own small Magick, she’ll set off on a quest … If she fails, she’ll lose more than her life.

The first two books are retellings of Snow White Rose Red with Urban Magick, plenty of folklore, and a Princess Charming. Perfect for fans of Naomi Novik’s Uprooted and Spinning Silver. Books 3 through 5 are a retelling of Grendel & Beowulf.

Featured Sci-fi: Freedom Fleet Books 1 – 3 by Daniel Arenson

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Featured Sci-fi: Freedom Fleet Books 1 - 3 by Daniel Arenson

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What if WWII were fought in space?

From the USA Today bestselling author of Starship Freedom comes Freedom Fleet, a series of military science fiction and alternate history. This box set contains the first three novels.

In 1944, a secret Nazi experiment split the universe in two. In our universe, we won. Hitler died. Freedom prevailed. But in a parallel universe, the Nazis discovered the atom bomb first… and conquered the world. The light of freedom perished, and the Nazi shadow spread across Earth, the solar system, and the stars.

In 2207, a portal opens between our two universes. One universe of freedom. One of tyranny. And through this portal flies the Weltraumwaffe, the space fleet of the Third Reich.

James King was enjoying his retirement. He once commanded the Freedom Fleet, an armada of starships tasked with defending Earth. In his fifty years of service, Admiral King fought many battles. But he never faced anything like this.

He is old. Tired. Battle-worn. But he must don the uniform again. He must lead the Freedom Fleet once more. Or the shadows of our past will swallow us all.

WWII rages again. This time in space. The Freedom Fleet will face off against the Weltraumwaffe. Freedom or tyranny—only one can win.