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The Golden Gate STEM Fair
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Song of Nighttide
Song of Nighttide Megan O'Russell
Nighttide has come and with it demons who prowl the darkened streets, killing those who stray from safety.
Prace makes her living singing for coins, carrying every copper home to support the other abandoned children who have become her family. Her plans for simple survival shatter as the city calls upon her for salvation. Will the demons of Nighttide allow Prace to live until the First Dawn?
After Nighttide ends, dive further into Prace’s world with sheet music from the story—available for free download. See back of book for details.
Prace makes her living singing for coins, carrying every copper home to support the other abandoned children who have become her family. Her plans for simple survival shatter as the city calls upon her for salvation. Will the demons of Nighttide allow Prace to live until the First Dawn?
After Nighttide ends, dive further into Prace’s world with sheet music from the story—available for free download. See back of book for details.
The next Huge Howey! The world this author has created leaves you spellbound and wondering the fate of Nola, a teenage classmate in a world lived inside a glass. I love the description of details given, and the obvious set up for mind-blowing suspense. I can't wait to read more by this author.
Daughters of the Past: A Historical Fiction A...
Find Me Begins, A Prequel
Find Me Begins, A Prequel Francesca Riley
Some dreams begin as a nightmare
Skye Sebastian lives like a ghost in her own life, unseen by her brooding father, separated from her best friend, and far from the ocean she loves and fears - the ocean that destroyed her family's happiness. But something is drawing close to Skye, and her world is about to be shattered in the best way.
Trying to avoid the pain that love can bring is her intention. But sometimes embracing the thing you fear most is where you find true happiness.
Join Skye as she begins to be drawn back to the place where she lost so much, and is about to find so much more.
This story is a short prequel to the novel Find Me, book one of Immersed, where her story unfolds.
Skye Sebastian lives like a ghost in her own life, unseen by her brooding father, separated from her best friend, and far from the ocean she loves and fears - the ocean that destroyed her family's happiness. But something is drawing close to Skye, and her world is about to be shattered in the best way.
Trying to avoid the pain that love can bring is her intention. But sometimes embracing the thing you fear most is where you find true happiness.
Join Skye as she begins to be drawn back to the place where she lost so much, and is about to find so much more.
This story is a short prequel to the novel Find Me, book one of Immersed, where her story unfolds.
Hidden: A Crossroads Tale
Pigeon (The Ornis Experiment Book 1)
Pigeon (The Ornis Experiment Book 1) Olga Werby
Pigeon is eleven, homeless, and now an orphan. Alone and scared, he seeks to find a new family. But the past he barely remembers comes back to haunt him, endangering his newly-found friends, the Kikkert Family. Fortunately, the Kikkerts want to adopt Pigeon even if he is wanted by strange para-military DNA warriors. As they race through San Francisco to save each other, the true nature of Pigeon's birth is revealed as well as the secret identity of Madam Toad—the matriarch of the Kikkert Family.
What does is mean to be human? What does it take to be a family? Pigeon is willing to risk his life to learn and to love.
What does is mean to be human? What does it take to be a family? Pigeon is willing to risk his life to learn and to love.
Not Alone
Not Alone E Darkwood
When the world is a dull shade. When your truest companion is your own shadow. When the only one around is the person in the mirror; someone you don't know.
What does it mean, to be alone?
What does it mean, to be alone?
What does it mean to be alone? E Darkwood book will make you think.
A terrifying future no matter who - or what - you are.
Misanthrope Beechworth & The Dustwaste Wellsp...
The Unleashed Creation
Code of Rainbow: Soaring Flame and the Dragon...
Code of Rainbow: Soaring Flame and the Dragon-transcending Magimal Weiqi Wang
This is the first book of a teen fantasy book series that nurtures the bloom of MAGIC in the soil of SCIENCE - something rarely attempted. The transition from magic to science will be bit by bit, so the early books do read like a "mainstream" magic fantasy.
Soarame has a pair of special eyes. He can see magic elements in this world, which are supposed to be invisible. This enviable gift of his could reveal the truth of the world, but it also puts him in danger.
Many animals in this world possess magic power, so they are called “magimals” - dragons as examples. Soarame fortunately got a baby magimal as his best friend, but they got into troubles together - troubles that were a lot bigger than dragons.
Could they survive?
Soarame has a pair of special eyes. He can see magic elements in this world, which are supposed to be invisible. This enviable gift of his could reveal the truth of the world, but it also puts him in danger.
Many animals in this world possess magic power, so they are called “magimals” - dragons as examples. Soarame fortunately got a baby magimal as his best friend, but they got into troubles together - troubles that were a lot bigger than dragons.
Could they survive?
beautiful cover :)
Looking forward to reading this!
I love the idea of a magimal! I want one too!
Sounds awesome!
This book sells itself with two simple words. MAGIC ANIMALS
Becoming Animals
Becoming Animals Olga Werby
Humans have always wanted to know what goes on inside the minds of other animals. But what if humans could become animals? Toby’s father leads a team of neuroscientists directly connecting the brains of humans with those of animals. And Toby is a prodigy at throwing her mind into the animal subjects in his lab—she’s the best there is.
But Toby suffers from cystic fibrosis and she’s not likely to live into adulthood. Could a radical plan to embed her consciousness into an animal allow Toby to survive? And what does it mean to live without a human body?
Can Toby and her father solve the problem of fully merging two beings before she takes her last breath? Will the government succeed in stopping their efforts before they are done? It’s a race against death and into the minds of animals.
But Toby suffers from cystic fibrosis and she’s not likely to live into adulthood. Could a radical plan to embed her consciousness into an animal allow Toby to survive? And what does it mean to live without a human body?
Can Toby and her father solve the problem of fully merging two beings before she takes her last breath? Will the government succeed in stopping their efforts before they are done? It’s a race against death and into the minds of animals.
80AD - The Jewel of Asgard (Book 1)
Sink: Old Man's Tale
Sink: Old Man's Tale Perrin Briar
A sinkhole is a natural phenomenon. It can happen anywhere, anytime. It drinks lakes dry, consumes jungles, and even demolishes entire mountains. You may have seen one in your street. But these things aren't lost. They've simply been moved. Things are forgotten on the surface all the time. Beneath the crust, they're always remembered.
It's just another day for unscrupulous developer Graham Turner when he breaks into an old man's home to steal his property deeds. But when he's sucked through a sinkhole into a forgotten world deep beneath the earth's surface, Graham and the old man must rely on each other if they are to survive and escape this dangerous new world and return to the surface.
Sink. A forgotten world. A lost world. But not for long.
It's just another day for unscrupulous developer Graham Turner when he breaks into an old man's home to steal his property deeds. But when he's sucked through a sinkhole into a forgotten world deep beneath the earth's surface, Graham and the old man must rely on each other if they are to survive and escape this dangerous new world and return to the surface.
Sink. A forgotten world. A lost world. But not for long.
Invisible Me
Invisible Me Debbi Mack
SOLO MEDALIST WINNER IN THE YOUNG ADULT CATEGORY OF THE 2015 NEW APPLE BOOK AWARDS!
FINALIST IN THE 2016 IPNE BOOK AWARDS
Military brat and albino, 13-year old Portia Maddox, has bounced from school to school, always an outsider. So when Denise Laughton, the most popular girl in her class, asks for her help in exchange for an invite to Denise’s big birthday party, Portia jumps at the chance to go. But there’s a catch: Portia must spy on Randy, Denise’s boyfriend, to find out whether he’s cheating on her.
Portia’s spying unearths a tangled web of duplicity, hidden agendas and family secrets. When Portia’s budding friendship with social outcast Judy and her budding feelings for Randy interfere with her plans to endear herself to Denise, Portia must decide who her real friends are.
FINALIST IN THE 2016 IPNE BOOK AWARDS
Military brat and albino, 13-year old Portia Maddox, has bounced from school to school, always an outsider. So when Denise Laughton, the most popular girl in her class, asks for her help in exchange for an invite to Denise’s big birthday party, Portia jumps at the chance to go. But there’s a catch: Portia must spy on Randy, Denise’s boyfriend, to find out whether he’s cheating on her.
Portia’s spying unearths a tangled web of duplicity, hidden agendas and family secrets. When Portia’s budding friendship with social outcast Judy and her budding feelings for Randy interfere with her plans to endear herself to Denise, Portia must decide who her real friends are.
Lizard Girl & Ghost: The Chronicles of DaDA I...
Lizard Girl & Ghost: The Chronicles of DaDA Immortals Olga Werby
A child lies dying. To save her, to preserve some of her identity, memories need to be retrieved from her avatar—Lizard Girl. Jude’s dad is using a cyber reality game to recover some of his sick girl’s memories in an attempt to restore brain function. The avatar’s personality patterns help patch the holes in Jude’s brain ravaged by the disease.
But what becomes of a virtual mind left to roam in cyberspace after its host falls sick? The Far Cinct is a cyber city forbidden to school kids and average citizens. The Far Cinct is where rogue entities go to hide and to innovate and to die. It’s where illegal cyber enhancements and compulsions are sold to those who have the money and the connections to find them. But that’s cyberspace for you—nothing is ever what it appears to be on the surface.
But what becomes of a virtual mind left to roam in cyberspace after its host falls sick? The Far Cinct is a cyber city forbidden to school kids and average citizens. The Far Cinct is where rogue entities go to hide and to innovate and to die. It’s where illegal cyber enhancements and compulsions are sold to those who have the money and the connections to find them. But that’s cyberspace for you—nothing is ever what it appears to be on the surface.
The Freya Snow Pup Trilogy: Books 1-3
The Freya Snow Pup Trilogy: Books 1-3 L.C. Mawson
Follow Freya Snow during her first three years as a demon hunter as she deals with being hunted, failing exams, faerie curses, trying to get an autism diagnosis, balancing her magic with girlfriends and boyfriends, and trying to figure out exactly how she fits into the dangerous world of magic. The collection includes the first three Freya Snow novels (Hunt, White, and Wings) as well as the Short Story Collection and Family, the first short story following Freya’s sister Alice.
Unleash
Unleash Lauren Harris
Magic Mafia. Sorcerer Police. A girl on the run from both.
Helena Martin doesn't know who she hates more, the sorcerers who fired the magic-laced bullet or the gang-lord master who used her mother as a shield. It's not the price she expected for escaping magical slavery, nor is the unstable power now pulsing in her veins.
Caught between her former master's hunters and the Guild Sorcerers determined to kill them, she finds a safe haven at a dog rescue willing to take in a different kind of stray. But Helena's newly-unleashed power is a beacon for her enemies. And they're threatening the first place she's ever thought of as home.
Helena Martin doesn't know who she hates more, the sorcerers who fired the magic-laced bullet or the gang-lord master who used her mother as a shield. It's not the price she expected for escaping magical slavery, nor is the unstable power now pulsing in her veins.
Caught between her former master's hunters and the Guild Sorcerers determined to kill them, she finds a safe haven at a dog rescue willing to take in a different kind of stray. But Helena's newly-unleashed power is a beacon for her enemies. And they're threatening the first place she's ever thought of as home.
This is a totally fun read. I highly recommend it to anyone that likes magic and urban fantasy stories. I can't wait for book 2 in the series!
Check out this book--it's a great urban fantasy read!
The Society of Imaginary Friends (Book 1 of T...
The Society of Imaginary Friends (Book 1 of The Conjurors Series) Kristen Pham
Belief is a powerful magic.
Valerie Diaz has a power that she can't contain, and it's killing her. Bounced between foster homes and the streets, she only has time to concentrate on staying alive. But a visit from the imaginary friend of her childhood opens a world of possibilities, including a new life half a universe away on a planet that is bursting with magic.
Valerie Diaz has a power that she can't contain, and it's killing her. Bounced between foster homes and the streets, she only has time to concentrate on staying alive. But a visit from the imaginary friend of her childhood opens a world of possibilities, including a new life half a universe away on a planet that is bursting with magic.
A Brush with Vampires (The Vampire Hunters of...
Colored Rink (Book 1 of The G.A.M.E.Z. Duolog...
Colored Rink (Book 1 of The G.A.M.E.Z. Duology) E Darkwood
G's: Where beauty in death, is a requirement.
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With a name like G.A.M.E.Z. everyone thought it was a joke. But it was a joke that worked; they tuned in, and it became the biggest competition on the planet thanks largely to its deadly punchline.
Mayla and Denton are two young zan who dream of competing in the G.A.M.E.Z. despite the risk. Even though the chances of winning are practically nonexistent, sometimes all that's left is to try.
One chance.
One dream.
One bickering team.
It’s all or nothing when you enter the G.A.M.E.Z.
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With a name like G.A.M.E.Z. everyone thought it was a joke. But it was a joke that worked; they tuned in, and it became the biggest competition on the planet thanks largely to its deadly punchline.
Mayla and Denton are two young zan who dream of competing in the G.A.M.E.Z. despite the risk. Even though the chances of winning are practically nonexistent, sometimes all that's left is to try.
One chance.
One dream.
One bickering team.
It’s all or nothing when you enter the G.A.M.E.Z.
What does it mean to be alone? E Darkwood book will make you think.
A terrifying future no matter who - or what - you are.
All's Well That Ends
All's Well That Ends Tina Jones Williams
Is it possible to outrun your problems, or will they be waiting to be unpacked in the new town? Sara hoped her problems had been left behind in Chicago.
In 1943, a married, twenty-three-year old Colored woman traveled on a segregated train from Chicago to Berkeley with an infant and her other two children under the age of four. At the end of the journey she was to reunite with her husband who had traveled ahead to find work and temporary lodgings. What could possibly go wrong? What could possibly go right?
In 1943, a married, twenty-three-year old Colored woman traveled on a segregated train from Chicago to Berkeley with an infant and her other two children under the age of four. At the end of the journey she was to reunite with her husband who had traveled ahead to find work and temporary lodgings. What could possibly go wrong? What could possibly go right?
Your story All's Well That Ends looks like my kind of read! The blurb is intriguing. I wish you the best with your giveaway!😊
Fascinating story ideas. A good cover and a part of history that should not be broken. There is so much of our past that must never be forgotten.