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My ebooks* and audiobooks are available through Everand (formerly Scribd). My ebooks are available through KoboPlus (You don’t need a Kobo device, the Kobo app is free for your phone, tablet, and PC.)

Everand and KoboPlus are subscriptions services, much like Kindle Unlimited. Both services have 30 day FREE Trials (conceivably, if you read fast, you can read all* my books FREE.) Learn more about KoboPlus and Everand. 

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Find Your My eBooks and Audiobooks at Your Local Library with Overdrive/Libby, CloudLibrary, Hoopla, and More

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.

I support my book habit by frequenting my local library. Maybe you do, too. All my books are currently available to libraries through Overdrive/Libby (the most popular app), CloudLibrary, BorrowBox, Hoopla, and more. If your local library loans out ebooks, but doesn’t have mine, they’ll have a way to request it.

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.

Find Libraries that Offer Libby/Overdrive

*Everand isn’t featuring Magic After Midnight at this time.

Featured Fantasy: The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa

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Featured Fantasy: The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa

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AN INDIE NEXT PICK!

From the #1 bestselling author in Japan comes a celebration of books, cats, and the people who love them, infused with the heartwarming spirit of The Guest Cat and The Travelling Cat Chronicles.

Bookish high school student Rintaro Natsuki is about to close the secondhand bookstore he inherited from his beloved bookworm grandfather. Then, a talking cat appears with an unusual request. The feline asks for—or rather, demands—the teenager’s help in saving books with him. The world is full of lonely books left unread and unloved, and the cat and Rintaro must liberate them from their neglectful owners.

Their mission sends this odd couple on an amazing journey, where they enter different mazes to set books free. Through their travels, the cat and Rintaro meet a man who leaves his books to perish on a bookshelf, an unwitting book torturer who cuts the pages of books into snippets to help people speed read, and a publishing drone who only wants to create bestsellers. Their adventures culminate in one final, unforgettable challenge—the last maze that awaits leads Rintaro down a realm only the bravest dare enter . . .

An enthralling tale of books, first love, fantasy, and an unusual friendship with a talking cat, The Cat Who Saved Books is a story for those for whom books are so much more than words on paper.

Translated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai.

“Cats, books, young love, and adventure: catnip for a variety of readers!” –Kirkus

Featured Fantasy: Mending Magic by W.J. May

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Featured Fantasy: Mending Magic by W.J. May

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Your curse is your biggest strength.

I just didn’t know it yet.

Jamie Hunt’s the high school quarterback in his senior year. He’s popular, smart, got the prettiest girl in the school chasing him. Everything couldn’t be more perfect.

But a single mistake changes everything. His new “ability” puts him in the middle of a war he doesn’t want to be a part of, protecting a girl he barely knows and running from the one thing he loves—his family.

Never give up. Never give in.

Featured Sci-fi: Ad Astra (Adventures of the Starship Satori Book 1) by Kevin McLaughlin

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Featured Sci-fi: Ad Astra (Adventures of the Starship Satori Book 1) by Kevin McLaughlin

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Exploring space was Dan Wynn’s dream, but after years of work won him a berth on the first mission to Mars, a tragic accident left him too injured for NASA’s space program.

Second chances don’t come along every day, so when an old friend offered him one, he grabbed on with both hands. Little did Dan know that simple offer was anything but! John has a secret other people will kill to learn. His discovery will change humanity’s fate forever.

Soon Dan finds himself on the moon, piloting humanity’s first starship while fighting his way through one peril after another.

The risks are vast – but given one last chance at his dream, Dan could choose no other path.

Read the exciting first novel in the bestselling Starship Satori series today, now in a special 10th anniversary edition with bonus content!

Featured Sci-fi: Destroyer (Destroyer Trilogy Book 1) by Brian G Turner

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Featured Sci-fi: Destroyer (Destroyer Trilogy Book 1) by Brian G Turner

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Hugh Howey’s SPSFC semi-finalist: “A solid piece of space opera. The confines of a spaceship made for a tense setting, and the strong characterisation and well-handled plot twists made this a winner for our judges.”

Jaigar expected to wake up after thirty years to start building a new world in another star system. Instead, he finds himself one of a handful of survivors on an abandoned colony ship.

With no food or water, and only emergency power, his first challenge is to keep everyone alive. The next is to try and solve the mystery of their situation, by figuring out what happened to the original crew and other colonists.

But Jaigar will find survival more difficult than he expects, especially when each of the other survivors has a secret that could help him – or kill him.

Featured Sci-fi: Alien Horizons (Books 1 – 9) by Jasper T. Scott

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Featured Sci-fi: Alien Horizons (Books 1 - 9) by Jasper T. Scott

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FROM MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR JASPER T. SCOTT…
Comes a collection of nine bestselling novels spanning alien invasions, twisted mysteries, space exploration, high-octane space battles, alien abductions, and sprawling space operas. This collection has it all! For a limited time get all nine books for one low price.

Excelsior
A MISSION TO ANOTHER WORLD COULD BE OUR ONLY HOPE…
The Alliance is sending Captain Alexander de Leon to explore an Earth-type planet, code-named Wonderland. The resulting power struggle will determine the fate of the entire human race.

First Encounter
The Forerunners set out from Earth to colonize neighboring star systems…
And to search for intelligent life…
After a 90-year journey to reach Trappist-1, the crew of Forerunner One encountered not only a habitable world, but alien life already inhabiting it and dark secrets lurking beneath the surface.

Arrival
They have arrived.
Chris Randall just lost his job. That night, while picking up his wife from work, flaming debris rain across the valley, and a dark mass sails out of the clouds, headed straight for LA.
It’s not a Union starship, because they can’t defy gravity like that.
Whatever it is, it’s not from Earth…

Nightstalkers
Everything changed the day that they arrived…
Adam and Kimberly Hall are enjoying a quiet suburban life when an emergency message flashes up on their phones—meteor impact imminent, seek immediate shelter. The shock wave rages through South Austin like a hurricane, and then horrific creatures come crawling out of the impact craters.

Dark Space
HUMANITY IS DEFEATED
Ten years ago the Sythians invaded the galaxy with one goal: to wipe out the human race. The survivors are hiding in the last human sector of the galaxy: Dark Space—once a place of exile for criminals, now the last refuge of mankind.

Planet B
2069: EARTH IS DYING AND SOCIETY IS ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE
We are out of time to save the planet; all that’s left is to watch the world burn. But in our final hour a habitable planet inexplicably appears in close proximity to Earth.
The race to reach it is heating up political tensions, and mysteries abound. How did Planet B get here and why now?

Broken Worlds
They went to sleep on Earth, but where did they wake up?
Darius goes into cryo with his daughter to save her life, but the dark, freezing vault where they wake up is nothing like the luxurious Florida hospital he remembers. Everything about this place is alien. Little does he know how alien it really is….

Into the Unknown
Liam Price and his family are traveling on the Starlit Dream to the exotic world of Aquaria in the Kepler star system. Soon after the voyage starts, they learn that they’ve somehow jumped to the wrong star system. Then the ship plunges into darkness, and they realize that something is on board, hunting the passengers…

The Bounty Hunter
Cade Korbin was a member of the Coalition’s elite special forces until he was scapegoated and dishonorably discharged.
Now he hunts the galaxy’s worst lowlifes for a fee, and the only orders he takes are his own. But when his past catches up with him, Cade is forced to fight for more than just credits.
This time, he’s in it for revenge.

Featured Sci-fi: The Time Traders (The Time Traders Series Book 1) by Andre Norton

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Featured Sci-fi: The Time Traders (The Time Traders Series Book 1) by Andre Norton

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The first novel in the SFWA Grand Master’s classic series, in which wars are no longer fought on land, in the air, or on the sea—but throughout time and space itself . . .

“Andre Norton is a superb storyteller whose skill draws the reader completely into a fantastic other world of transposed time.” — Chicago Tribune

The never-ending tension between Russia and the United States has been escalated by a stunning new variable: time travel. While the Americans can roughly utilize the technology, the Russians have learned the secret of space travel—and that makes the US vulnerable. What they need is someone expendable to send through time to obtain the same secret.

Ross Murdock doesn’t consider himself expendable. He’s just a smart guy who made some bad choices that led him to a life of crime. But when he’s given a choice between medical “rehabilitation” and joining the mysterious Operation Retrograde, he decides to go along with the military option and hope for a chance to get away.

And he is going to get away—farther away than he ever imagined . . .

“One of the finest writers in the field of science fiction.” — The New York Times

“One of the all-time masters.” —Peter Straub