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One foggy morning, a mysterious object drops from the sky and sends Frog’s world tumblin

Child genius and budding inventor Frances is in trouble. Her dreams of scientific glory were dashed when her first big experiment nearly destroyed her whole town. So when a prestigious society invites her to their symposium, Frances sees it as a chance to redeem herself. On the way there, her train is hijacked, and she and her friend Luca flee into the Black Forest. Seeking shelter with a group of orphans, Frances learns the rules of the woods: Never travel alone. Never make a sound. Because something hunts in the shadows, something with glowing eyes and sharp teeth.

In book one, you were introduced to the Ó Murchú fairy children and some of their forest friends. Here, in book two, we dive deeper into their lives and become acquainted with some new forest friends, including a love-sick mouse, a duckling who is terrified of rain and the introduction of the king and queen. All fairy books include audio of the author reading the text. Also includes three songs and many extras.

This is the story of Flicker, a pyromaniac whose only escape from the emptiness and oppression of life in a post-apocalyptic world is to set fire to luxury automobiles. Armed with a hammer and jerry can, he wages a one-man war against the Overclass, partisans of the failing regime struggling to hold the reins since The Breakdown decades earlier. He can’t remember his family, and his friends have disappeared without a trace. His only companion is fire, that mesmerising force of glorious destruction.

This is book 2 in the Leopard's Bane series. The end of book 1 (The Poisoned Garden) saw the hero, Peglar, tricked by his half-brother and sister, disowned by his family and exiled from his home city. At this time he has nothing, and the story continues with him protected by Yalka, a poor girl who befriended him in book 1. However, there's a price on his head and he can't stay with her. He leaves to escape his pursuers and to work out how he can return, clear his name and reclaim his inheritance.

Unrest filled the political parties of the United States. Christine knew it trickled down to the American people but being twenty-one and in her first year of college, she longed to graduate and begin her life. But her world, her country, was about to change all of that. Disease and uprising spread as quickly as the wildfires that were set. As dissention rose, she was forced to defend herself and powers she never knew she had emerged. Christine quickly realized her old life was dying and in its place; a new life. If she didn’t prepare properly, she would never live to see it.

A new twist on dystopian sci-fi fantasy! 17-year-old Willow Danner holds on tight the one thing the Dominion Government can’t control: her imagination and hope for freedom. She replays the stories her parents have told her when America was free and your life was your own. Her mother and father have been planning on escaping to their hidden faction and are ready to implement the strategy.

I met my cousin Salvatore for the first time a few years ago in Sicily while visiting his mother, my cousin, Maria. After that, we kept in touch by email and social media. One day he texted me a video of an Andrea Bocelli concert that he attended. I told him I had seen Andrea in NYC at Radio City Music Hall with my friend Franceen and hoped to see him again one day. A week later, I received another text message from Salvatore with a blurry photo. I replied saying that I couldn't see the photo and asked what it was.

One fateful day changes everything for Christianna Habersham, daughter of a wealthy jewelry guilder. After an attack leaves her unconscious and injured at the side of the road, an exiled gypsy man finds and cares for her, then leaves her in her provincial Boreal town on his quest to find his place in the world.

When two new stable boys show up at Hawthorn Castle, everyone knows they aren’t who they say, but laundry mistress Valerie has no idea their secrets will change her entire life. The deity TrueGod, though, has planned this crossing of paths for many years, and before all is revealed, Valerie and her friend Harmony will lose everything they always knew, travel dangerous paths, and try to find life in a new world filled with danger.

Taken from his home in his youth, Nikolai is now a guard protecting the royal mistresses in the Most Glorious Land of Long. When invaders from his homeland kidnap the girls—and everyone else in the summer palace—he begins a journey to get help for those missing and find the truth behind the invasion.

Once I knew where my ancestors came from, I had to know more. I met many people, traveled to Europe and finally walked the streets that my grandparents did. What an adventure!

When a royal conspiracy topples the noble House Falco, Sofia must take up the burden of her father's mantle and assume guardianship of his Greatmask. Yet the sentient bone mask, powerful enough to Compel those around her, will not speak, and Sofia, the first female Protector in a hundred years, is left defenceless.

Power. The ambitious thirst for it. In a realm where wizards rule, those able to claim a throne are granted the power of a god. How can one defeat a god? A clever thief, a determined acrobat, and a troubled dwarf are joined by an old storyteller as they attempt the impossible: Assassinate a wizard lord. Their slim hope relies on an enchanted amulet, the Eye of Obscurance. These unwitting pawns are embroiled in a contest of wizards. The stakes: The fate of the world.

Stabbed. Burned by a dragon. Abandoned for the windrocs to pick over. The traitor Ra’aba tried to silence Hualiama forever. But he reckoned without the strength of a dragonet’s paw and the courage of a girl who refused to die. Only an extraordinary friendship will save Hualiama’s beloved kingdom of Fra’anior and restore the King to the Onyx Throne. Flicker, the valiant dragonet. Hualiama, a foundling, adopted into the royal family. The power of a friendship which paid the ultimate price. This is the tale of Hualiama Dragonfriend and a love which became legend.

A story of the Russian Revolution. Tsarist Russia, 1904: a time of war, shortages, and uprisings. Anna enrols at university and is befriended by twins, Rosa and Boris, who draw her into the revolutionary movement. As Anna finds new purpose to her life and falls in love, the violent campaign against the Tsar escalates. On 9 January 1905, a workers' protest is massacred by Tsarist soldiers, with tragic results. Now Anna must continue the revolutionary struggle, knowing that to do so will mean sacrificing everything she holds dear.

Requiem, Changing Times by R J Parker

"If you love fantasy, adventure, magic, and dramatic battle scenes you will love this novel by M.A. McComas." -Goodreads.com Review The continent of Transcendence is fractured and segregated. It's races--long ago chased from their own world by humans--keep to themselves and live in isolation from each other. But for the first time in æons the future is beginning to brighten and hope for the continent's unification blossoms.

People together in close quarters - fraternization naturally follows. A military VR trainer, wanting to keep her relationship with a fellow scientist hidden, must pass a security inspection in her lab by the vicious Atlas Crusade that has swept to power.

Bensin, a teenage slave and martial artist, is desperate to see his little sister freed. But only victory in the Krillonian Empire's most prestigious tournament will allow him to secretly arrange for Ellie's escape. Dangerous people are closing in on her, however, and Bensin is running out of time. With his one hope fading quickly away, how can Bensin save Ellie from a life of slavery and abuse?

Blaze through the sky in the Realm of the Great Comet of 1811 in my "Fantastical" short story where fantasy melts with historical. Meet Bodnar, Laila, and all the Tinks in the Realm of the Great Comet of 1811 in my “Fantastical” short story where fantasy melts with historical.

When chivalry and folly collide, can true love be far behind? The last thing Lady Cordelia Rutledge expected to find during her family visit to Guernsey Island was a husband. But when an innocent tour of the island finds her stranded, unchaperoned, with her charming guide, an arranged marriage seems imminent as the only way to satisfy her family and salvage her reputation. So much for her tour of the continent…