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Featured Sci-fi: Phule’s Company Book 1 by Robert Asprin

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Featured Sci-fi: Phule's Company Book 1 by Robert Asprin

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From a New York Times bestseller “a . . . winning story about a commander who builds a company of misfits . . . into a disciplined military outfit” (Publishers Weekly).
 
After being court-martialed by the Space Legion for ordering the strafing of a treaty-signing ceremony, multimillionaire Willard Phule receives his punishment: He must command the misfit Omega Company on Haskin’s Planet, a mining settlement on the edge of settled space. At his duty station, he leverages his personal money and a knack for managing people to get the company to come together as a unit. Phule convinces the governor to leave the contract for an honorary duty up for competition between the Space Legionnaires and the Regular Army. The Army sends some of their most elite troops to take part in the competition, but Phule’s company operates with their own unique tactics . . .

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Featured Fantasy: The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

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Featured Fantasy: The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

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I loved this dark fantasy. There’s friendship, and love, and fae being twisty.

A girl makes a secret sacrifice to the faerie king in this lush New York Times bestselling fantasy by author Holly Black. Set in the same world as The Cruel Prince!

In the woods is a glass coffin. It rests on the ground, and in it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives….

Hazel and her brother, Ben, live in Fairfold, where humans and the Folk exist side by side. Since they were children, Hazel and Ben have been telling each other stories about the boy in the glass coffin, that he is a prince and they are valiant knights, pretending their prince would be different from the other faeries, the ones who made cruel bargains, lurked in the shadows of trees, and doomed tourists. But as Hazel grows up, she puts aside those stories. Hazel knows the horned boy will never wake.

Until one day, he does….

As the world turns upside down, Hazel has to become the knight she once pretended to be.

The Darkest Part of the Forest is bestselling author Holly Black’s triumphant return to the opulent, enchanting faerie tales that launched her YA career.

Featured Sci-fi: Primordial World Books 1 – 11 by Baileigh Higgins

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Featured Sci-fi: Primordial World Books 1 - 11 by Baileigh Higgins

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Discover A Savage Prehistoric World Lost To Time

Born 75 million years ago, Ridley has never known anything beyond the primeval wilderness and its primordial beasts. Fierce and headstrong, she’s no stranger to adversity and loves the thrill of the chase. When she learns about an extreme endurance race, she jumps at the chance to compete in the most dangerous competition in history.

A thrilling adventure awaits as Ridley and her loyal wolf companion, Loki, set off in pursuit of the ultimate prize. The competition is fierce, with cutthroat competitors, savage predators, and rugged terrain standing in their way. But Ridley is determined to prove herself and come out on top, no matter the cost.

Join Ridley and Loki as they face challenges and danger at every turn, pushing their limits and testing their survival skills. Will they be able to outwit, outsmart, and outlast the competition?

This heart-pumping tale of adventure and perseverance includes the entire Primordial World series and will keep you on the edge of your seat until the end. The first series in the Primordial Universe, Primordial Earth, can be enjoyed separately as part of its own collection.

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Featured Fantasy: The Baby Dragon Bookshop (The Baby Dragon Series) by A. T. Quereshi

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Featured Fantasy: The Baby Dragon Bookshop (The Baby Dragon Series) by A. T. Quereshi

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A standalone cozy romance filled with books, baby dragons, and happily ever after guaranteed!

Emmy has an enemy, and his name is Luke. The good news? She rarely sees him. The bad news? When she does, she (and her pet dragons) are reminded just how handsome he is.

Besides, Emmy is too busy focusing on her dragon-fuelled business to have time for love. But when both she and Luke approach the same local investor for funding, she’s suddenly unable to avoid him. The kookie investor insists they must compete for the cash by working at the local failing baby dragon bookshop to prove their magical business knowledge.

Determined to win the funding, Emmy dives into the task. But making a very flammable bookshop fit for baby dragons is no small feat, and it seems these rivals may need to join forces. Could Luke and Emmy’s fiery animosity spark something more between them?

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Featured Sci-fi: Time Enough For Love by Robert A. Heinlein

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Featured Sci-fi: Time Enough For Love by Robert A. Heinlein

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The capstone and crowning achievement of  the Future History series, from the New York Times bestselling Grand Master of Science Fiction…

Time Enough for Love follows Lazarus Long through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Heinlein’s longest and most ambitious work, it is the story of a man so in love with Life that he refused to stop living it; and so in love with Time that he became his own ancestor.

Featured Sci-fi: Ironhold Station (USS Hamiltron Book 1) by Mark Wayne McGinnis

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Featured Sci-fi: Ironhold Station (USS Hamiltron Book 1) by Mark Wayne McGinnis

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The surprise attack within the Auriga Star System was worse than brutal, it was heinous—leaving the US-Navy’s 3rd Fleet decimated. Thousands of crew are reported dead, including the ship’s Captain.

Reluctantly, the young XO, Galvin Quintos, will be taking command of the fleet’s crippled dreadnaught, the USS Hamilton, while doing his best to bring fleet survivors back to Earth.

Going from bad to worse, a murderer is running loose onboard the ship. Add to that fuel levels are critically low, and the Grish are back and in fast pursuit—ready to finish what they’d started. Only by sheer luck, along with a good measure of cagey smarts, will Quintos be able to rise to the challenge.