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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 Fantasy: Can’t Teach an Old Demon New Tricks by Cara Lockwood

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Featured Fantasy: Can't Teach an Old Demon New Tricks by Cara Lockwood

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Cara Lockwood, USA TODAY–bestselling author, brings her trademark blend of intense romance and sharp comedy to this hilarious paranormal tale about what happens when you make a Texas girl good and mad.

Rachel Farnsworth doesn’t believe in the paranormal—she’s got enough trouble right in Dogwood County. Her family hardware store is being crushed by a Mega-Mart, and her toddler can turn birthday candles into a five-alarm blaze with a single breath. But when her marriage literally goes up in smoke, Rachel learns her husband Kevin isn’t just a deadbeat—he’s a demon. A sloth demon, which explains the lack of housework.

Unfortunately, Kevin is hiding a secret he’s kept for a millennium, and a fallen-angel bounty hunter named Sam is hot on his trail. Sam once lost everything for loving a mortal woman, and the spark between him and Rachel threatens to undo him all over again.

As dark forces gather in Dogwood County, Rachel must decide whether the celestial chemistry crackling between her and Sam is more than just magic—and whether it’s strong enough to save her son, her home, and maybe even her heart.

Featured Fantasy: The Witches of Mingus Mountain Books 1 – 3 by Christine Pope

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Featured Fantasy: The Witches of Mingus Mountain Books 1 - 3 by Christine Pope

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Three eras. Two rival witch clans. One love that defies time itself.

From Prohibition-era Arizona to the wild Old West and beyond, Devynn Rowe and Seth McAllister must fight curses, enemies, and destiny itself in this spellbinding paranormal time-travel romance trilogy.

STOLEN TIME

When the past steals her future, only one man can help her reclaim it.

Time-crossed witch Devynn Rowe lands in 1926 Arizona, hiding her identity from enemy clan member Seth McAllister, her rescuer. As forbidden attraction grows between them, family obligations, bootlegging schemes, and dangerous secrets threaten both their lives…and their impossible love.

BORROWED TIME

When the past becomes their prison, can love be their key to freedom?

Time-crossed witches Devynn and Seth find themselves trapped in 1884 Flagstaff. As they search for a way back to their own time while navigating their growing attraction, they must face both the dangers of the Old West…and a resurfaced enemy threatening to alter history.


KILLING TIME

When time itself becomes your enemy, who can you trust?

Stranded in 1947, witches Devynn Rowe and Seth McAllister are racing against time itself to save Seth’s kidnapped cousin and break a deadly family curse. But as Devynn’s unstable time-traveling powers threaten to trap them in the past and Seth is forced to ally with the enemies his clan has hated for generations, love and loyalty collide in a battle against dark magic, ancient grudges, and a sinister plot that could destroy them both.

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 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