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Hunter No More
G.D. Tinnams
Synopsis: -ATTENTION-

The Hunter Class Spacecraft designated 'The Amberjack' disappeared during a routine mission to Seek, Locate and Destroy the enemy Machine Mind contingent known as ‘The Ochre’.

Conclusion: It was either destroyed by the Ochre or went rogue for reasons unknown. If sighted, approach with extreme caution.

On the planet Borealis, a violent revolution forces Samantha Marriot and her parents to flee their home for the relative safety of ‘The Rainbow Islands’. Once there, Sam discovers a secret her father has been keeping from her all her life, a secret that will change everything. Meanwhile, The Machine Mind Hierarchy of Earth dispatches a ship to rid themselves of the planet’s troublesome human population.

The only hope of a defence lies with a damaged binary Hunter unit that has long since abandoned both its programming and weaponry. In order for the unit to succeed it must call upon the aid of an ancient enemy, and prove, once and for all, it is a Hunter no more.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Science Fiction
Calvin the Cookie Maker
Caroline Akervik, Nina Marie Rothfuss
Synopsis: It’s December in Wisconsin and not quite Christmas, which means it’s already cold and snowy and all Calvin Greene can think about is Christmas. After watching a cooking show on TV, he is inspired to make a glittery Christmas Cookie Book that he tries to share with his parents, but they’re too busy to pay attention. Adding to Calvin’s holiday blues, two of the best players on his hockey team want him to play with them in the Pond Hockey Tournament, but his best friend Perry, who’s not a very good hockey player, wants Calvin to play with him, too. What should Calvin do? A snow storm is coming, so who knows if the Pond Hockey will even happen? Life is crazy and Christmas is around the corner! Will Calvin and his family and friends have time to take a breath and enjoy the holiday season?
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Age Level: 8 - 12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Robinson Crusoe 2244
E.J. Robinson
Synopsis: This thrilling sci-fi twist on the Daniel Defoe classic has been remastered and re-edited since its original publication!

Two centuries after mankind drove itself to the brink of extinction, a new civilization rises from the ashes of what was once Great Britain. But when deadly strife breaks out among their ranks, the teenage son of one prominent family finds himself fleeing in the dead of night only to wind up shipwrecked on the forbidden continent of America. Armed with only his wit and the most unexpected of allies, the teenager struggles to survive in a wasteland filled with unspeakable horrors and in the end must uncover the one secret that can save his own people or spell doom for mankind forever.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
Euphemia Fan: Spy Girl
Cassandra Neyenesch
Synopsis: It was spying that got me into this pickle…

Euphemia Fan, the only Chinese-American teenage girl in Brackybogue, Long Island, has a knack for spying on her neighbors. No empty house is unexamined, and no resident is ignored. Her eyes are sharp and her wits are keen. But when she sees her great uncle Jiu Jiu murder a man in cold blood, she must put her skills to the ultimate test.

How could Jiu Jiu, her elderly uncle who barely speaks English, commit murder? Is he leading a double life? Who is he working for? When her father goes missing and the police prove to be useless, Euphemia must use her spy skills to uncover the truth. With the help of a swoon-worthy co-spy named Tyler and her older sister, Lillian, Euphemia embarks on the adventure of her life. But can she save her family before it’s too late?
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Blue Sky
Brian Kindall
Synopsis: Blue Sky can climb like an ibex. She was raised in the highest peaks of the Alps by the herd and named for the color of her eyes. They say her father was a fallen alpinist and her mother his beautiful dying dream… and so, as you may guess, she’s somewhat magical – strong and sure-footed on the peaks, and natural as an ibex in this harsh environment of wind, rock, and ice. Until one day when she rescues a young alpinist from a stormy peak. The boy looks like her, and he tells her of the world of mysteries beyond the crags. Sky longs to follow him. Can a girl raised by ibex in the mountains ever join the world of humans? Blue Sky must first fulfill her promise to the ibex and find the courage to leave everything she’s ever known.
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Age Level: 8 - 12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Avoidables 1-3
Rachel Medhurst
Synopsis: Avoidables have defects ranging from looks to unexplained gifts. Some of us are half breeds. Dragons and animals were known to have bred with the human race thousands of years ago. We all live in cities, usually divided in two. The Perfects live on the Upper Side, while the Avoidables inhabit the Lower Side. We've been consumed by hate for a race that rejects us so heartlessly. We've become dangerous. All we want is the Perfects to love and respect us.

Follow Hope, Purple and Jason on their individual journeys.

Hope uncovers a great secret about herself when she meets Jason, a Perfect that brings out the best in her.

Purple tries to rescue a kidnaped Hope, but soon realises that she's in better company than they knew. When he meets Alia, he's determined not to follow his best friends footsteps in love.

Jason needs to prove himself. Avoidables view him as the Perfect mummy's boy, but he will find a way to show Hope that he is perfect for her.

'This is a bundled serial.'
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
Curious (3 novels in 1)
D L Richardson
Synopsis: In the hauntingly beautiful and dramatic, The Bird With The Broken Wing, Rachael is a guardian angel who finds herself trapped in Purgatory with Ben, a young soldier she was assigned to watch over.

In the action-packed spy adventure, Resident Spy, Ethan James, Jake Inala, and Florida Bowman are three teenagers who are plunged into the world of spooks and terrorism when they receive the organs of a deceased CIA agent.

In the poignant teen story, Little Red Gem, Ruby Parker sets out on a bitter sweet, fool hardy mission to find out how much the boy she loves loved her back.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Paranormal
An Absence of Light
Meradeth Houston
Synopsis: ~Editor's Pick~

Leah’s always seen the shadow creatures. She thought she was immune to their evil—until now.

She’s walked into a massacre, stolen a BMW, and is running from the law for a crime she didn’t commit. Nineteen-year-old Leah’s life just went from mildly abnormal to totally crazy at lightning speed. But no one will believe that the shadow creatures are framing her for the murder, because she’s the only one that can see them. At least that’s what she thought.

When Leah stumbles across a group who share her ability, she discovers they have something she doesn’t: a way to fight back. When the group offers to teach her how to kill the shadow creatures, Leah jumps at the chance. But something is brewing with the creatures. They’re tracking down the hunters like there’s no tomorrow. Leah suspects that maybe there won’t be, and it’s up to her to make sure tomorrow comes. Because she’ll do anything to stop the shadows, including risking her life—and the life of the one she loves—to keep the world from being lost to darkness forever.
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Paranormal
Surrender the Sky
Meradeth Houston
Synopsis: Young Adult Paranormal

Gabby lives by two unbreakable rules: don’t expose her kind, the Sary, and don’t fall in love—too bad some rules are made to be broken.

When Gabby’s most difficult charge accidently shoots her in front of a class full of students, the event exposes her carefully hidden identity. She shifts from looking like a normal teen to her secret Sary form, revealing her wings and the existence of her kind—immortals who try to keep people from committing suicide. Her incident attracts the attention of the next leader of the Sary, Jassen, who offers her an impossible bargain: she can keep her wings if she makes amends with those who know the truth. Things get more complicated when a rebel Sary, intent on exposing them to the world, starts interfering with Gabby’s work. And there’s no denying her attraction to Jassen, who is torn between his duties and his heart. With threats at every turn and her immortality on the line, Gabby has to find a way to save the Sary or surrender the sky forever.
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Paranormal
Colors Like Memories
Meradeth Houston
Synopsis: Julia is a Sary, the soul of a child who died before taking her first breath. Without this 'breath of life,' she and others like her must help those on the verge of suicide. It's a job Julia enjoyed, until the accident that claimed her boyfriend’s life—an accident she knows was her fault. If living with the guilt weren't enough, she's now assigned to help a girl dealing with the loss of her mother, something Julia is not exactly the best role model for. If she can't figure out a way to help her, Julia will lose her position in the Sary, something she swore to her boyfriend would never happen.
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Paranormal
The Chemistry of Fate
Meradeth Houston
Synopsis: “They are everywhere, can be anyone, and are always the last person you’d expect.” When Tom stumbles across his grandfather’s journal, he’s convinced the old man was crazier than he thought. The book contains references to beings called the Sary, immortals who are assigned to save humans on the verge of suicide. They certainly aren’t allowed to fall in love with mortals. Which the journal claims Tom’s grandfather did, resulting in his expulsion from the Sary. As strange as the journal seems, Tom can’t get the stories out of his head; especially when he finds the photo of his grandfather’s wings.

Tom’s only distraction is Ari, the girl he studies with for their chemistry class.

Ari has one goal when she arrives in town: see how much Tom knows about the Sary and neutralize the situation. This isn’t a normal job, but protecting the secrecy of the Sary is vital. If Tom is a threat to exposing the Sary to the public, fate has a way of taking care of the situation, usually ending with the mortal’s death. While Ari spends time with Tom, he becomes more than just an assignment, but how far can a relationship go when she can’t tell him who she really is? When she finds out just how much Tom actually knows about the Sary, Ari is forced to choose between her wings, and her heart.

THE CHEMISTRY OF FATE is a companion to COLORS LIKE MEMORIES and is set before the latter takes place.
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Paranormal
Health Benefits Of Plant Based-Diet
Synopsis: The book "Health Benefits of Plant-Based Diet", describes how Eating a diet based on whole, plant-based food, can reduces your risk of a broad spectrum of diseases, such as heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and cancer. This book demonstrates what we should eat and why we should eat plant-based diet? Why does a whole-food, plant-based diet provide optimal nutrition? It also includes some easy to cook Plant-Based Diet recipes.
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Age Level: Any Age
Genre: Nonfiction
Gluten Free Everything
Sharon Marshall
Synopsis: This book is for anyone and everyone that wants to know more about living a gluten free lifestyle. It is for those that are not very familiar with gluten and what the advantages are of cutting out of their daily diet. Gluten affects our bodies in different ways and this book is designed to give you the knowledge to make an informed decision next time you are at the grocery store picking up items for dinner.

This is for the reader that wants to make better choices but, isn’t sure where to begin a healthy journey. Let that healthy journey begin with this book and the learning of how eating gluten free can help your well being.
Publication Date:
Age Level: Any Age
Genre: Nonfiction
ECHO's Revenge: The Other Side: Part 1
Synopsis: Book 2, Part 1 in the ECHO's Revenge series

Luca Esposito, creator of the bestselling online video game, ECHO’S Revenge, can’t wait to release the next and most ambitious version of his game monster—a real, artificially intelligent, 35-foot-tall extreme predator designed to engage gamers in a new gaming arena.

But unknown to Luca and his AI developer, Prentice Petty, ECHO-7 has changed the rules of the game even before its release. As the monster completes its final testing cycle, something goes horribly wrong. The super-intelligent predator, clad in impenetrable armor and possessing the power to shape-shift, has a plan of its own.

Can Luca and Prentice solve the ultimate nightmare of a self-motivated, artificially intelligent game boss on a rampage?

Echo’s Revenge: The Other Side delivers non-stop, adrenaline-pumping action and a question for the future: What happens when you lose control of an artificially intelligent game predator—in the real world?

"For all you gamers out there—not to mention all readers who enjoy horror, sci-fi, or just want an amazing story that will keep you on the edge of your seat—this is THE series to choose." -- Amy Lignor, Author of The Angel Chronicles
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Short Story
The Author or The Characters' Short Living Story
Synopsis: 1st place
Pacific Book Awards 
"Best Philosophy"

Follow the Timeless Mystical adventure of six Charactersas they Alchemically face the Darkest perils of the Human psycheand Search for the Truth . . ....TheCharactersShortLivingStory.com
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
STORM FALL
Tracy Banghart
Synopsis: In the action-packed sequel to Rebel Wing, Aris battles for life and love . . . and not everyone will survive.

Aris Haan gave up everything to join the Atalantan Military: her family, her boyfriend, even her identity. In the end, though, it didn’t matter that she was a war hero. When the all-male Military discovered that she was actually a woman, she was sent home and erased from history.

Now she has a chance to go back to the battlefield—as herself. But as hard as it was to be a soldier in disguise, it’s even more difficult now. The men in her unit undermine her at every turn. The Safaran army has spies everywhere, perhaps even on Aris’s stationpoint. And she’s falling for her mysterious superior officer, Milek. But their relationship is forbidden, just stolen moments between training sessions and missions. There’s no room for love in war.

Then Aris discovers that Safara’s leaders have set their sights on her, Atalanta’s hero. And she must find them before they find her . . .
Publication Date:
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Science Fiction

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