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Featured Holiday Fantasy: Jingle Spells a Hedgewick Novella by Christine Pope

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Sweet baby Jesus, someone’s stolen a lot of Christmas dough!

All is calm and bright as Globe, Arizona’s holiday celebrations approach. Selena Marx should have known it wouldn’t stay that way. The painted snowflakes on her shop window are barely dry when her best friend, Josie Woodrow, bursts in with news that the baby Jesus is missing from the crèche in front of St. Ignatius.

Selena has enough on her mind without having to use her psychic powers to suss out the culprit. Her boyfriend Calvin Standingbear’s parents are still on the snow-covered fence about accepting her, which throws a dimmer on the town’s highly anticipated Festival of Lights. And when Calvin springs a surprise on the solstice, Selena realizes she has some work to do to reconcile the two men in her life: Calvin, and her cursed cat, Archie. 

The last thing she needs is a spontaneous vision that indicates the baby Jesus theft was more than just a prank. And if someone doesn’t spill the beans soon, someone’s getting away with…well, not murder (this time), but a whole lot of dough — and we’re not talking cookies.

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Featured Fantasy: Olde Robin Hood by Kate Danley

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“Rich prose, intense action, historical and mythological depth, and captivating innovations.” -Kirkus Reviews

Exiled for an unjust crime and forced to use whatever means necessary to survive, a figure of hope emerges from Sherwood Forest. But what most people know about Robin Hood (the enemy of Prince John and nobleman loyal to King Richard) was an invention of a playwright nearly three hundred years after Robin Hood died. However, there are older stories about the real Robin Hood.

USA Today bestselling author Kate Danley weaves the original 13th century ballads, Robin Hood traditions passed down through ancient pagan rites, and historical evidence together into a noblebright epic. Enter a world of adventure and chivalry as you discover the man behind the myth, as you meet the Olde Robin Hood.

Featured Fantasy: Priest of Titan Complete Series by Paul Mouchet

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Featured Fantasy: Priest of Titan Complete Series by Paul Mouchet

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Titan called her. The Temple forged her. Gods will fear her.

Life for Kit was difficult, growing up a Nomad human in a Berrat village. At the tender age of eleven, she travelled to a distant kingdom, and joined the Fist of Titan, a temple that worships a foreign god.
The Temple priests trained her in the art of war. They taught her to deliver justice. They set her on the path to free their god, Titan.

But paths have a way of taking you in unexpected directions and help you to discover things about the world and yourself. They can show you that meddling in the affairs of gods can either save or destroy the world.

How can a teenage girl and her eclectic group of friends save the people and still prevent Ragnarok, the end of days?

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Featured Fantasy: Rune of Thorns (Enchanted Shadows Book 2) by Kelly N. Jane

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Rowena has discovered the price of vengeance.

Now she must set things right, but the weight of her loss has caught up to her. Only with Bram’s help can she gather enough strength to fight for those she loves. When events outside of their control force the two apart, it leaves Rowena to navigate a treacherous labyrinth alone.

Bram’s secret is exposed.

The governing druids have summoned him to explain his actions, and he’s forced to abandon the stubborn elven princess who has confused his heart. What he finds when he arrives in his homeland disrupts all he has believed. Forced to see his mission in a new light, he’ll have to make a choice that will risk everything.

Rowena and Bram must battle their innermost fears or endanger countless lives. But to save the realm, it may require a sacrifice of what each needs most . . . one another.

Dive into the second installment of Enchanted Shadows. Bold adventures mix with heart-pounding action, slow-burn romance, and fae magic.

Featured Science Fiction: Changing Fate (Ambassador 3) by Patty Jansen

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Featured Science Fiction: Changing Fate (Ambassador 3) by Patty Jansen

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Fifty thousand years ago, a meteorite hit the planet Asto, giving its Aghyrian inhabitants mere days of notice. Three ships escaped the Armageddon. Two went to the neighbouring planet. The third, a massive generation ship, refused to take on refugees, and then vanished without a trace.

It’s coming back.

Its initial burst of communication caused the outage of the Exchange, the FTL network for transport and communication, but since then the ship has been silent. It jumps about at random, using wormholes it generates with a drive the likes of which no one has seen before.

Meanwhile at the gamra assembly, people jostle to be in the best positions when it inevitably turns up in inhabited space. What the ship wants or whether there is anyone on board no one knows, but diplomat Cory Wilson knows one thing: when it turns up, he must avoid a conflict at all cost.

If only gamra presented a united viewpoint. If only Asto’s army wasn’t keen to get involved. If only the Aghyrians at gamra didn’t do what they do best: manipulate and play games with everyone. While the ship approaches, the delegates bicker, and the time for negotiating is fast running out.

Featured Science Fiction: Raising Hell (Ambassador 2) by Patty Jansen

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Featured Science Fiction: Raising Hell (Ambassador 2) by Patty Jansen

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The second-quickest way to get yourself killed when dealing with Coldi people of the planet Asto is to look a superior in the eye. The Coldi people possess an instinct that demands the formation of hierarchical networks in which every person has a prescribed place. These networks provide stability. They also place one person at the top.

Ezhya Palayi is that person.

After having been released by his previous employers, Cory Wilson not only depends on Ezhya Palayi for his income, but he has developed an unusually friendly relationship with this man whom people on Earth would call an absolute dictator, but whose reign is benign.

The third-quickest way to get yourself killed when dealing with Coldi people is when the leader you depended on for support is suddenly no longer there, as when he goes missing because the system society relies on for interstellar travel goes down.

In a highly-strung hierarchical society, it won’t be long before someone else tries to claim the top spot, someone less benign, someone aggressive who is likely to destabilise peace between Asto and other worlds.

But by far the quickest way to get yourself killed is, as a non-Coldi outsider, to visit Asto and try to interfere in their hierarchical system, to mess with instincts you don’t feel yourself, and people who are much stronger than you.

Oh, and did you know that the average daytime temperature is well over 50 degrees C?