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Pub. Date
2014
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Winner: Illinois Library Association's Soon to be Famous Illinois Author Project "Paul Reid died in the snow at seventeen. The day of his death, he told a lie-and for the rest of his life, he wondered if that was what killed him."And so begins the battle for the afterlife, known as The Commons. It's been taken over by a corporate raider who uses the energy of its souls to maintain his brutal control. The result is an imaginary landscape of a broken...
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[s.n.]
Pub. Date
2020.
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A ghost is a dead person with a job. Charlie Harmer’s is about to get a lot more complicated. Ever since the big commotion last year, Charlie’s boss has had one big rule: nobody living talks to the dead, and nobody dead talks to the living. Charlie’s job is to keep an eye on things and smooth over both sides of the great divide, to make sure nobody does anything stupid. One problem. A sweet kid with a punk rock haircut just accidentally cast...
3) Sin full
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A circle of salt. A crust of bread. A coin of silver to release your dead. He comes to you in your final hours, when fear from your actions weigh heavily on your soul. He consumes your darkness and whispers words of solace to release you from your deepest secrets. Grigori Dumah is a sin eater. Would you call him to share in what you have done? Would you trust him to release you from your sins? He could leave you to suffer in the darkness of your own...
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Dawnrigger Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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The future looks bright, but there's no escaping the past.
Grace Reed is on the run with devastation hot on her heels. She escaped a religious cult and rescued her children from her ex-husband, but fate isn't done with her yet. She is about to hit rollover-the crisis point in middle age, when latent superpowers activate-and all signs point to her developing a rare and overwhelming talent.
That puts her on the government radar as a threat to society.
Big...
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Little Fox Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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In an age when the old sorceries have mostly died out, a single unexpected burst of magic upends the lives of three households. Selfish heiress Vespasia Marchand berates an ill woman in the street, a woman who was once a renowned spell-caster. Her granddaughter Melu has inherited her gift, though it has not been nurtured. In a fit of anger, the girl impulsively transforms Vespasia into a wasp, doomed to live out an ordinary wasp's life unless she...
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Chiara Talluto
Pub. Date
2023.
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2032, the USA is a forgotten memory. UNO, a one-world government, rules the populated world. There is one true religion, KASTAM; it's a philosophy of moral relativism, steeped in pagan rituals and metaverse realities, outlined in the Visphonice. If anyone is found practicing other religions, they'll be persecuted and featured online for all to witness.
Captain Benjamin Morris, a former Marine and faithful Christian, has watched the
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Unknown
Pub. Date
2016.
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In the aftermath of the Dragot Empire’s failed attack on the Mountain skyport, seventeen year old Amber, former bride of the invasion’s commander and current traitor to the empire, is on the run. Alone and pursued by Dragot assassins, she seeks political asylum in the Hidden Lands, a mysterious and isolated alliance of countries on the far side of the world, and is taken to the Embassy District, a refuge for political criminals, abandoned spies,...
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Unknown
Pub. Date
2016.
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Adventure and strange magic in a city above the clouds! Jiaire is a dock worker at the Mountain Skyport, an independent oasis where airships from across the known world can thaw their engines before they finish their journey across the endless frozen wastes. By day he loads and unloads ships. By night, he dreams of the Show, when characters like Golden Sam, the Reptile, and the mysterious Count do battle under the big top for an audience of thousands....
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Eight-One-Five Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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Spirits haunt the realm of Zekiaz. Flee them, fight them, or wield them. But they bow to no master.The upstart matriarch of a fallen house, Kasia Niezik has sworn to destroy the elusive Crimson Court who assassinated her father. They are near immortal, wielding the spirits that once ended civilization a millennium ago, but she is a Reacher of the realm of Death. Their worst fear.But to kill her deceitful foes, first she must find them.Kasia travels...
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Dinuhos Arts
Pub. Date
2021.
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“I think I did something. Something someone really bad was counting on me to do. And I think you helped me.” Ray-Anne Blair isn’t buying it. She just wants Paul Reid to forget about the imaginary place he says he needs to return to—and to stop calling her Rain. Everyone wants something. Jeremy Johns wants to do well at his job, but the new office is strange. So is his boss, Mr. Truitt. Annie Brucker wants to understand how she ended...
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[s.n.]
Pub. Date
2020.
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Treachery can lie in the heart of any man, from our worst enemy to our most beloved friend. Some choose to ignore it, while others work on defeating it no matter the cost—and the cost is always high. However, the Righteous Man believes he can alter the course of his life to one of redemption and justice instead of servitude and pain by using deceit and sedition. But, he would be wrong. For Honora, it’s something she’s seen in her previous life...
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[s.n.]
Pub. Date
2023.
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Michael Thorne was stuck in a dead-end job with no chance of being more than a sausage salesman. Until one day, he answered an advertisement for an adventurer’s apprentice position in a nearby town. What guy didn’t dream of being a sword-wielding, demon-slaying, princess saving hero?Little did he know that it would be the catalyst to completely change his life forever.With another quirky boss, a knife-throwing nemesis, and life-altering quests,...
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[s.n.]
Pub. Date
2020.
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Many would enslave her. It’s up to Honora to save herself by any means necessary. The power of the Shadows courses through Ore’s veins, making her a prize an onslaught of enemies conspire to claim. To her great regret, they aren’t alone in their desires to exploit her. Evander, her husband, has taken to using her when it suits him, then casting her aside. Greed, arrogance, jealousy, and power: each are selfish masters who dictate the lives...
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[s.n.]
Pub. Date
2020.
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A fortunate turn of events has Evander seeing his desires finally being fulfilled, but at a great cost to his wife Honora. Her only wish now is to flee the realm, but that can’t happen until the gate into the lost kingdom of Toorkuns has been unlocked. The moment it is, all the creatures in Reynes will have their full powers restored, and balance of rule will shift to the dark magic beings. But neither she nor Evander have the nine medallions required...
17) The Changeling
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Indie Artist Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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Half-fae Lenox Pendry is surrounded by secrets and none are his to keep. Plucked from his mother’s arms as an infant and raised a changeling, Lenox grows to adulthood unaware of what and who he is and oblivious to the danger unfolding as his birthday draws near. After he’s unwittingly sent to the Scottish Lowlands out of harm’s way, he chances to meet a beautiful healer named Janet Roxburgh. The townspeople believe her to be a witch. It would...
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[s.n.]
Pub. Date
2023.
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When a vainglorious priest awakens the Amulet of Nethelar and then mysteriously disappears, Teron, Inquisitor of Nethelar, begins to investigate. When Olivia returns from hunting to find her family home in flames, she seeks to know why and where her family ran off to. When Ken accompanies his mentor to assist him with diplomacy, he tries to keep a careful eye on his mentor’s suddenly strange behaviors. Their worlds collide at the Lord Mayor’s...
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Ponahakeola Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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Another kingdom has fallen. One that had been ruled by a cruel, callous man. Geron was never considered a desirable kingdom by anyone in Reynes, but now that it has no ruler the whores, bastards, and criminals who call that land home begin to spread their poison, infiltrating the other kingdoms with their depravity. Seven kingdoms now remain of the original nine, but only six meet at a royal gathering to determine Geron’s fate and the safety of...
20) A Katana
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[s.n.]
Pub. Date
2011.
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A katana is a poem about a katana in the hands of a warrior, plus there are other poems that are not connected to the main poem.