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The Cape: An Epic Superhero Fantasy Adventure Series - Overdrive (A Dark Spores Novel Book 5)
The Cape: Overdrive
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Superheroes Wage War Once AgainWhen the world is thrown into a panic from the imminent threat of a gigantic asteroid worth a Quintilian dollars, superhero The Capes are asked to protect the planet from certain doom. But it's not just the destructive force of the impact that everyone fears; it's greed. Multiple nations gather to collect on the bounty for the precious meteorite while evil Super-Normals with superpowers threaten to salvage the precious stone for their own deeds. Even the position of military power hangs in the balance as the most poorest of countries will catapult to the top of the totem pole with just an ounce of the spoil. Only caped heroes like Paladin, Thief and Blurr can save the day, utilizing every bit of their superpowers - shifting into Overdrive - as the fate of the entire galaxy ultimately hinges on the emergence of a new villain from deep space.Praise for The Cape:"An Epic Superhero Series!" - Literary Titan"A wonderful Superhero Adventure Series!" - LitPick

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Paths to the Stars: Twenty-Two Fantastical Tales of Imagination
Paths to the Stars
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From Edward Willett, Aurora Award-winning author of Marseguro, The Cityborn, and Worldshaper (DAW Books), among many others, comes twenty-two tales of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, drawn from a long career of telling fantastic tales. A young musician dreams of playing his songs among the stars...A Broadway performer on the lam is forced to direct aliens in The Sound of Music...Strange vegetables with dangerous properties crop up in small-town Saskatchewan...A man with a dark secret gets his comeuppance on a windy night on the prairie...An elderly caretaker on the Moon preserves the memory of the millions who died on Earth's darkest day...A woman and a bat-like alien must overcome their own prejudices to prevent an interstellar war... From the far future and the farthest reaches of space to the Canadian prairie, from our world to worlds that have never existed to world's that might some day, rich realms of imagination and the fascinating characters and creatures that populate them await within these stories, some previously published, some seeing print for the first time. Time to go exploring...

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A Secret in the Forest (The FeyTerrah Series)
A Secret in the Forest - FeyTerrah Series Book 2
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Despite Dreamer’s earlier warning, an antagonistic Victor sets out to discover Lily’s secret and gains dangerous information. Dreamer keeps quiet, as he begins experiencing a transformation that will give him extraordinary abilities. Just as the Kingmans are discovering other fey and fey allies in their community, Lily and Dreamer disappear, and the evidence points to Victor. The Kingmans cannot call on local authorities for help without revealing their family’s secret. Dreamer takes drastic steps to demonstrate to Victor what a war between their worlds would mean. Lily makes a painful decision about her wedding.

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A Bridge in the Forest (The FeyTerrah Series)
A Bridge in the Forest - FeyTerrah Series Book 1
When impish college freshman Lily Kingman finds a secret gateway to the fairy world, her seemingly unremarkable life changes virtually overnight. In less than a week, she encounters life-threatening dangers and magical beings, discovers a family secret, and learns she is prisoner to a spell. Oh, one more thing. The fairy king commands her to lead a group of elves and fairies back to her world to bring back his missing daughter. Burdened with the knowledge that could endanger the fairy world and faced with a painful choice, Lily must accept the truth of who she is and embrace her new diplomatic role or face heartbreaking consequences.

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Jonathan's Locket
Jonathan's Locket
Orphaned Jonathan Palmer is a fifteen year old stowaway aboard the doomed ship The Convert which was part of the fleet that crashed into the reef on Grand Cayman in 1794. This famous shipwreck was known as the Wreck of the Ten Sails. Jonathan was not lucky enough to survive the wreck along with eight other seamen. Problem was, no one ever knew he was even on board.Two centuries later strange sightings have been reported of ghost ships, screams and eerie lights off the east end of Grand Cayman. Brandon Wallace, a troubled teen seems to acquire a strange affliction and begins to have bizarre encounters from the sea where he befriends a mystical sea turtle who holds the secrets to the mysterious sightings as he plunges into the world of the paranormal . Here he is compelled to embark on a dangerous journey, risking his life to uncover the dark secret of Jonathan’s death. This task proves to be even more dangerous when one of Brandon’s closest friends has other plans for him. This book won a Silver Award from Reader’s Favorite for Young Adult Mystery and is a finalist for the Wind Dancer Film Contest.

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Reprogram Your Subconscious Mind for Business Success
Reprogram Your Subconscious Mind for Business Success
No matter what is going on in your business right now - whether you're trying to improve the results of your existing business, are starting a new business, or are struggling to take the leap from full-time employment to earning a living from doing what you love - the results you're experiencing are coming from references in your subconscious. Changing the subconscious references that are providing the "proof" for the problems and challenges you're experiencing currently will result in automatic, natural changes - without forcing anything or making yourself be who you're not.Whatever efforts you apply to your business is like cutting the branches off a weed. It will just grow again. You need to go to the root - pull that out, and replace it with a plant you want in your garden - that creates real, and lasting change.This book will give you the details on how your subconscious is programmed, how it is controlling every aspect of your life, and how to change it. Follow the step-by-step instructions to make the changes that will result in the kind of business success you choose!

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A Once-Dead Genius in the Kennel of Master Morticue Ambergrand: From deathbed to pethood & beyond in Earth's distant future
A Once-Dead Genius in the Kennel of Master Morticue Ambergrand
What happens when you die, but the universe isn’t done with you? You might end up as the pet of a giant worm-a-pede alien and…if you survive your evolved descendants and rogue aliens of 1 million A.D…discover you have more in common with intelligent worms than you ever thought possible. Yes, all this might happen if you are Rudy Albert Goldstein—the discoverer of the Biomic Network Algorithm—who thought his time had come. He had done his part to make the world a better place. Now he deserved—even looked forward to—a peaceful and mercifully succinct death. But the universe had other plans…

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Genesis II

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We of the Between: A YA Mermaid Science Fiction Fantasy Book
We of the Between
Oceans have risen. Two worlds have collided. The fate of both worlds now lies in the hands of one mermaid.A mermaid tale with apocalyptic themes and new age powers. A must-read for the modern fantasy reader.Rilla dreams of escaping her world and ascending to explore the forbidden world above the sea and learn of the strange creatures that walk there. Trin senses the echoed thoughts of Rilla coming from below the wild and stormy sea. When two strangers arrive from the sea, Trin and Rilla's fates become intertwined. With the tide of time against them, Rilla must reveal a long-kept secret and share knowledge which could hold the key to the salvation of both worlds.

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If I Die Before I Wake: Not all Tales Have the Ever-after You Might Expect
If I Die Before I Wake
‘An edgy fairy-tale set in the 21st century. A fantastical and fun read.’–Yvonne Mes, Author and Vice President of Book Links QLDNow I lay me down to sleep,Vreni is fifteen years old and cursed. When the curse takes hold she can sleep for a month, a year, a decade, so far she has slept and woken for a century.I pray the lord my soul to keep.Vreni and her family are guarded and kept safe from their enemies, the evil Alchemists, by the Wise Sisters who have protected them with their magic throughout the centuries.If I die before I wake,Vreni must face dangers, both dreamt and very real, to help the Wise Sisters remove the curse and wake the sleepers.I pray the lord my soul to take.Will the sleepers die before they wake?

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