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Featured Sci-fi: Starter Villain by John Scalzi

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Featured Sci-fi: Starter Villain by John Scalzi

$1.99 as of November 17, 2024
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Now a New York Times bestseller!

Inheriting your uncle’s supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who’s running the place.

Charlie’s life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan.

Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie.

But becoming a supervillain isn’t all giant laser death rays and lava pits. Jake had enemies, and now they’re coming after Charlie. His uncle might have been a stand-up, old-fashioned kind of villain, but these are the real thing: rich, soulless predators backed by multinational corporations and venture capital.

It’s up to Charlie to win the war his uncle started against a league of supervillains. But with unionized dolphins, hyper-intelligent talking spy cats, and a terrifying henchperson at his side, going bad is starting to look pretty good.

In a dog-eat-dog world…be a cat.

At the Publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Featured Fantasy: Witching in a Winter Wonkyland by Jeannie Wycherley

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Featured Fantasy: Witching in a Winter Wonkyland by Jeannie Wycherley

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Coughs and sneezes spread diseases!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Unless you’re Alfhild Daemonne that is.

This year she’s been so looking forward to the Yule time festivities, but wouldn’t you know it, the wattle-and-daub walls of her ancient wonky inn are ringing to the sound, not of sleigh bells, but of sick ghosts. Who knew ghosts could catch the flu?

And let’s not forget there’s been a murder in Whittle Forest. Some of the locals are convinced there’s a demonic Beast on the loose, and naturally they’re pointing the finger at Alf and her guests.

Factor in a homeless reindeer, a grumpy faery who detests Christmas, along with Alf missing her beau, and there’s plenty here for lovers of Christmas murder novels with added humour.

Witching in a Winter Wonkyland is a standalone Christmas cozy mystery that complements the Wonky Inn series as a whole. You’ll love this crazy cast of witches, wizards, faeries, ghosts and pantomime villains. And not forgetting Mr Hoo of course.

This new Wonky Inn Christmas mystery is best served with a glass of your favourite tipple and a heart full of love.

Featured Sci-fi: End Days Omnibus Edition by E.E. Isherwood and Craig Martelle

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End Days, books one through four in a single package!

A father and his son. A country apart. A blue ribbon crosses the sky, and the world starts to unravel. So begins the adventure as Buck and Garth struggle to find safety as they search for each other. They decide not to go it alone, picking up stragglers and friends alike on their way to the site of the apocalypse, to the heart of Armageddon. End Days is what readers are calling a heart-pounding emotional roller coaster. Join us today in the fight for survival within a changing world. The first four books. Right here. Right now.

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Featured Sci-fi: The Cloud by Robert Rivenbark

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Featured Sci-fi: The Cloud by Robert Rivenbark

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In twenty-second century L.A. dominated by The Cloud, every imaginable pleasure is accessible—yet the entire world can vanish in a single upload.

That choice rests in one man’s hands.

Blaise, a brilliant but tormented VR programmer, is trying to forget his violent past as a special forces commando by throwing himself into creating VR fantasies. He finds himself tempted by his megalomaniac boss, who offers him wealth, power, and eternal life in exchange for coding a new VR series that will addict and eliminate billions of “unproductives.”

Caught between joining those who want to bring down the ruling Cloud regime in Hong Kong, or accepting the offer of personal immortality, Blaise finds himself flanked by two relentless women—a psychic hacker risking overwhelming personal odds to save humanity from annihilation, and the other using her extraordinary carnal wiles to accelerate the final triumph of The Cloud. Ultimately, Blaise must reembrace his violent warrior nature in a desperate bid to destroy it.

Featured Fantasy: Redwall by Brian Jacques

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Featured Fantasy: Redwall by Brian Jacques

$2.99 as of November 13, 2024 (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

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Featured Fantasy: Rise of the Black Dragon Series by Jada Fisher

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Featured Fantasy: Escape (Rise of the Black Dragon Book One) by Jada Fisher

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Magic has returned, and it will reshape the world, one way or another.

An epic dragon riding adventure from Jada Fisher, author of the popular Brindle Dragon series.

Blessed with a magic she doesn’t understand, Ukrah must find her way in a world that doesn’t always embrace her and her gifts. Accompanied by a talking bird and a strange young man who took her in, she must find the legendary dragon rider who saved the world from the Blight. Can Ukrah escape from those who would enslave her, or worse, and find the only person who can help her realize her destiny?

Escape is the first book in the Rise of the Black Dragon series which follows the story of a young girl blessed—and cursed—with a magic she doesn’t understand.

Download Escape and get started on your next epic adventure today!