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Featured Sci-fi: The Earthbust Saga by Craig A. Falconer

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Featured Sci-fi: The Earthbust Saga by Craig A. Falconer

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I wasn’t supposed to survive.

The station has been hit. Everyone around me is dead.

I have 11 hours of life support left and no way of contacting Earth.

I’m alone. I’m stranded. I’m desperate.

But I’m alive.

The more of the station I explore, the surer I get that this was no accident. Someone did this, and I don’t think they’re finished yet.

Making it home feels like an impossible task, but I’m not just fighting for my own life.

I have to protect my family — whatever it takes.

And as long as I’m breathing, this isn’t over.

Because whoever did this almost pulled it off… but they made one big mistake:

They left the wrong man standing…

Featured Fantasy: I Bring the Fire Series by C. Gockel

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Featured Fantasy: I Bring the Fire Series by C. Gockel

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Amy Lewis is on her way to her grandma’s house. She’s being chased by a very bad wolf.

Galaxies away Loki, Norse God of Mischief and Chaos, is waking up in a prison cell, strangely without a hangover, and with no idea what he’s done wrong—this time anyway. He does know Thor is hiding something, Odin is up to something wicked, and there seems to be something he’s forgotten…

Amy’s and Loki’s fates are about to collide. They’ll have to work together to defeat gods, elves, magic sniffing cats, and nosy neighbors. If Loki can remember what he’s forgotten, and Amy can convince him not to be too distracted by Earthly gadgets, Earthly pleasures, or three day benders, they just might pull it off…

I Bring the Fire is for anyone who suspects chaos and mischief makers might have their own redeeming qualities, and anyone who just wants a good fantasy romp through modern Earth, ancient Asgard, and beyond!

Featured Fantasy: The Elf Tangent by Lindsay Buroker

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Featured Fantasy: The Elf Tangent by Lindsay Buroker

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As a princess in the impoverished kingdom of Delantria, it’s Aldari’s job to look pretty, speak little, and marry a prince.

Studying mathematics and writing papers on economic theory in an effort to fix her people’s financial woes? Her father has forbidden it. With war on the horizon, they must focus on the immediate threat.

Reluctantly, Aldari agrees to marry a prince in a neighboring kingdom to secure an alliance her people desperately need. All is going to plan until the handsome elven mercenary captain hired to guard her marriage caravan turns into her kidnapper. His people are in trouble, and he believes she has the knowledge to help.

But with an invasion force approaching Delantria, Aldari’s own people need her. She must do everything in her power to escape the elves and make it to her wedding in time.

Never mind that her kidnapper is witty, clever, and offers her a challenge that intrigues her mind even as his easy smile intrigues her heart…

Aldari can’t let herself develop feelings for him. To fall in love and walk away from her wedding would mean the end of her kingdom and everyone she cares about.

Featured Fantasy: Don’t Call the Wolf by Aleksandra Ross

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“High-fantasy storytelling in the style of His Dark Materials or Lord of the Rings,” this Polish legend retelling is “truly thrilling” (Booklist).

A fierce young queen, neither human nor lynx, who fights to protect a forest humans have long abandoned.

An exhausted young soldier, last of his name, who searches for the brother who disappeared beneath those trees without a trace.

A Golden Dragon, fearsome and vengeful, whose wingbeats haunt their nightmares and their steps.

When these three paths cross at the fringes of a war between monsters and men, the shapeshifter queen and the reluctant hero strike a deal that may finally turn the tide against the rising hordes of darkness. Ren will help Lukasz find his brother . . . if Lukasz promises to slay the Dragon.

But promises are all too easily broken.

This Eastern European fantasy debut, inspired by the Polish fairy tale “The Glass Mountain,” will take you on a twisting journey full of creeping tension, simmering romance, and haunting folklore.

“Rich and meticulously developed. An immersive world rooted in Polish culture.” —Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

“Ross delivers a fierce, fully fleshed heroine and a richly textured fantasy with a kind heart.” —Publishers Weekly

“Immediately hooks the reader with its dark and twisted scenery. In a genre full of retellings, this book sets itself apart.” —School Library Journal

“Teeming with mystical creatures and lurking dangers. . . . A page-turner.” —Kirkus Reviews

Featured Sci-fi: The Devil and the Dark by R.M. Olson

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Featured Sci-fi: The Devil and the Dark by R.M. Olson

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In a world where faster-than-light travel creates vicious ghosts, and where the elegant society of the Level is in a constant struggle against the rough-and-tumble settlements in the Stacks, a promising young navel officer candidate stumbles across a dangerous secret. It will lead him across the system and into the company of a pirate captain who is much more dangerous than she appears—and eventually, into a vast war that will span planets and galaxies.

Welcome to the world of The Devil and the Dark.

Featured Sci-fi: War of the Second Interation by Thomas Watson

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Featured Sci-fi: War of the Second Interation by Thomas Watson

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An age of peaceful exploration has ended.

With the discovery of the Leyra’an, the centuries-old dream of meeting an intelligent, nonhuman species has finally come true. But that dream becomes a disturbing enigma when the Leyra’an prove to be more than just humanoid. They are like us to a degree that cannot be explained by chance alone. The search for an answer to this mystery will reveal a universe stranger and more dangerous than anyone could have imagined, and expose both Humanity and the Leyra’an to the threat of extinction.

For better or worse, that search has begun.