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Featured Fantasy: Redwall by Brian Jacques

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Featured Fantasy: Redwall by Brian Jacques

$2.99 as of December 10, 2025 (RECOMMENDED!)
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One of TIME Magazine’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time

The book that inspired a legend—the first novel in the beloved, bestselling Redwall saga.

Welcome to Mossflower Wood, where the gentle mice have gathered to celebrate a year of peace and abundance. All is well…until a sinister shadow falls across the ancient stone abbey of Redwall. It is rumored that Cluny is coming—Cluny, the terrible one-eyed rat and his savage horde—Cluny, who has vowed to conquer Redwall Abbey! The only hope for the besieged mice lies in the lost sword of the legendary Martin the Warrior. And so begins the epic quest of a bumbling young apprentice—a courageous mouse who would rise up, fight back…and become a legend himself.

Perfect for fans of T. A. Barron’s Merlin saga, John Flanagan’s Ranger’s Apprentice series, and J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings series.

“The medieval world of Redwall Abbey—where gallant mouse warriors triumph over evil invaders—has truly become the stuff of legend.”
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Featured Fantasy: Legacy of Dragons the Complete Series by Sean Fletcher

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Featured Fantasy: Legacy of Dragons the Complete Series by Sean Fletcher

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She’s hunted for what she is. He hunts those who would hurt them.

When Astrid is attacked by a creep calling himself a Slayer, it seems like a cruel prank the universe is pulling on her already crappy life.

Then Kaden, the most infuriating, stunning boy she’s ever met, arrives and tells her she’s a dragon-kin like him—part dragon, part human.

Then Astrid actually shifts into a dragon.

Wonderful.

It’s not wonderful to Kaden, who should be busy hunting down the Slayers, a group as vicious as his methods and as dark as his past. He doesn’t have time to chaperone a girl with newly awakened dragon powers, one who’s too stubborn to stay safe.

Yet as the Slayer threat grows, Astrid and Kaden will have to work together to control a magic unlike any their world has ever seen, and stop a rising darkness from destroying everything they know.

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Featured Fantasy: Wolf Rampant Trilogy (Book 1 Wolf’s Pack) by Aimee Easterling

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Featured Fantasy: Wolf Rampant Trilogy (Book 1 Wolf's Pack) by Aimee Easterling

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The complete Wolf Rampant Trilogy: An outcast shifter builds a life around running away from her wolf, until an irresistible alpha makes hiding impossible.

Terra Wilder has spent years smothering her inner wolf, pretending she’s human so she can slip through the cracks.

Then Wolfie Young walks into her life—an untamed bloodling alpha whose very presence shreds the careful control she’s fought so hard to maintain.

Soon, Terra and Wolfie are thrust into a maelstrom of warring packs, deadly secrets, and outcasts who become found family. Together, they must choose between the lives they were born into…and the future they could claim side by side.

Perfect for fans of Patricia Briggs, this complete trilogy blends slow-burn romance with pulse-pounding urban fantasy. Includes Shiftless, Pack Princess, and Alpha Ascendant.

Featured Sci-fantasy: Christmas Presence (A Claus Universe Prequel) by Tony Pertauski

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WORLDS ARE WAITING TO BE OPENED.

Van Holloway wanted one thing: survive a Christmas party without looking like a total disaster. Instead, he got dragged into a virtual game that came with glasses that weren’t glasses and rules that weren’t rules.

Oops.

Turns out there’s a world inside the glasses. A place of clockwork toys, abandoned workshops, and secrets nobody ever meant to unwrap. Van and Charli (yes, the crush, yes, awkward) stumble out of the game with more than they bargained for. And something… stumbles out after them.

Now reality’s misfiring like cheap Christmas lights. Something really wants back what they accidentally took from the game.

From droids in Santa suits to gingerbread rebels with attitude, Van and Charli are stuck in a war between belief and machinery, myth and madness. To make it home alive, they’ll have to trust each other, cling to what’s real, and take on the one enemy stronger than magic itself: doubt.

Christmas Presence: The Prequel launches the Claus Universe with sci-fi sparkle, fantasy mayhem, and enough heart to melt the North Pole. Perfect for fans of Stranger Things, The Santa Clause, and Ready Player One.

Featured Fantasy: Mist Riders Books 1 – 3 by Stella Fitzsimons

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The Mist Riders Series Box Set (Books 1-3): An Urban Fantasy

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WANTED: One Lunar Witch, preferably naïve.

This collection includes the first three novels in the thrilling Urban Fantasy series MIST RIDERS.

Being born a witch has always been just a detail from my past, you know, like summer camp, or the time Timmy ate a bug, but now, thanks to one very pushy Immortal, a handful of mutant shifters, a psycho named Chaos and a nice guy (I think) named Emmet, my magic’s become a real pain in my ass.

San Diego was a totally chill choice for college, until this whole moon-cycle madness was thrown in my lap (more like shoved in my face) and now I’m bumbling with basic spells, crash studying to go from zero to fierce in a matter of days.

Only problem with this test is that it’s graded pass/fail where failure is death.

I wouldn’t wish magic on anyone. It attracts all the wrong entities, the kind you can’t run from, the kind who always find you, the kind who know your dark secrets even before you do.

Featured Fantasy: Federal Bureau of Magic Books 1 – 7 by Annabel Chase

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Featured Fantasy: Federal Bureau of Magic Books 1 - 7 by Annabel Chase

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“Laugh out loud funny, witty, snarky and clever. Best read this year.”

Grab the first half of the complete Federal Bureau of Magic series in one handy omnibus and join the fun.

Welcome to Chipping Cheddar, where supernaturals are hidden in plain sight…

Annoying but loving family? Check.
Picturesque small town with a hot police chief? Check.
A rescue hellhound, a black cat with attitude, and a pet python that thinks he’s a puppy? Triple check.

My story has all the hallmarks of a sweet and cozy supernatural tale, but there’s a twist— I am evil.
Well, I’m supposed to be evil thanks to both nature and nurture, but I fight it with every fiber of my being. I just want to live a normal life. I even joined the FBI instead of the Federal Bureau of Magic, until my powers reared their ugly head and the agency sent me packing back to my hometown to fight magical crimes instead. Now I’m back in Chipping Cheddar, living with my evil family, with a new job and all my old baggage.

Oh, and there’s a dead body, which was definitely not an accident. So there you have it.
Welcome to my world.