Blaze Union and the Puddin’ Head Schools
After book bans and seahorse protests, a disillusioned teacher visits the Puddin’ Head Island Schools to cure a severe case of absurdity neurosis. He meets fourteen-year-old Blaze Union, a phenomenal guitar and football (soccer) player, who seeks revenge against the Sweeties to fulfill her dream of becoming the education boss of the nation’s schools.
Do You Believe in Monsters?
From the author of The Death Wizard Chronicles comes a new adventure suitable for teens and adults. Do You Believe in Monsters? is book 2 of Dark Circles, a teen fantasy adventure trilogy for readers 13 and older. This is a great coming of age series. — When Charlie Magus enters a fantastical world hidden deep in the forest, his life is turned upside down. The timid 13-year-old transforms into a powerful wizard wielding formidable magic. In the real world, life goes on as usual. But in the fantasy world, a war is brewing that will dwarf all others. Charlie’s newfound powers stand between victory and defeat. But in which world does he truly belong?
Finding Eden: A Perilous Quest For a Safe Migrant Homeland
The MV Militobi, a German rescue ship, teeming with 600 Arab, African, and South Asian migrants, patrols the Mediterranean Sea and learns that all European ports refuse entry to asylum-seekers. Captain Anna Kruger has a decision to make: return immediately to the nearest port to place passengers in a detention camp for deportation or head to an uncharted island she found on an old map as a temporary solution.
Frog of Arcadia
Thomas is an aquarium toad of unknown parentage. He doesn’t know his past and the prospects for his future are dim. While he’s read extensively about faraway lands, Thomas has never ventured beyond the glass walls of home. But when happenstance leaves a door open into a brave new world, Thomas hopes he’ll finally discover where he belongs. As the story unfolds, this humble but educated toad finds himself in the middle of a civil feud between rival frog clans and a lost kingdom yet to be restored. Thomas wrestles with the tension of being a toad of two worlds, and learns that pride can overtake anyone, and that even victory can defeat the victor. Frog of Arcadia is an enchanting moral epic filled with cowardice and chivalry, pride and majesty, boorishness and heroism. But a divine order holds it all together and, at last, we all reap what we sow.
Lost Helix
Stuck on an asteroid mining facility, DJ dreams of writing music. His dad is a corporate hacker and his best friend Paul prepares to escape to become a settler in a planet-wide land rush, but neither interests DJ. When his dad goes missing, DJ finds a file containing evidence of a secret war of industrial sabotage, a file encrypted by his dad using DJ’s song Lost Helix. Caught in a crossfire of lies, DJ must find his father and the mother he never knew. When the mining company sends Agent Coreman after DJ and his guitar, DJ and Paul escape the facility and make a run for civilization. Will DJ discover the truth before Coreman catches him?
Me & Jay
One hot summer day, two thirteen-year olds decide to cool off by finding Blue Pool a dangerous, off-limits area. They discover adventures and trouble they hadn’t bargain for as they foolishly hop a freight train, accidentally start a grass fire and get chased through a cave by two men desperate to keep the kids from telling what the’ve discovered.
Neanderthal Gita
A halfling boy and his Neanderthal uncle are the only survivors from their strange, prehistoric culture. Now they are struggling to survive in modern society, with often violent, sometimes humorous, and always exciting results. Follow their exploits from the steppes of Siberia to exotic Kashmir, India, amid the clash of armies, religions, and criminal gangs. The half-Neanderthal boy matures into dangerous adulthood relying on his Neanderthal strengths and on the warrior philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita. Mystery, mayhem, and romance abound in one of the most extraordinary stories you will ever read. In Neanderthal Gita by Michael Baldwin, is a novel of high adventure, in which you will experience what it was like to live as a Neanderthal hunter—a hunter of both wild animals and men.
Oasis
Beauregard Campbell is an Earther. Maia Hilliard is a Terran. In the year 2557, Beauregard “Beau” Campbell is an Earther – born and raised on an Earth that has long been depleted of natural resources. In the Terran Republic, “Earthers” are second-class citizens – suitable only for the dirtiest, most dangerous jobs. Beau, a veteran of the Terran Republic’s Pacification Force and desperate to make a better life for himself, volunteers for the Colonial Development Corps – the organization tasked with providing grueling, low-paying manual labor for emerging colonies. Drawn by the promise of someday earning “Terran” status, Beau leaves Earth on the starship Goliath, bound for the new colony of Sanctuary II. In stark contrast to Beau’s challenging life, Maia Hilliard is a child of privilege. Born a “Terran,” the upper class in human society, her parents are high-ranking members of the Terran Republic government.
Shadow Horses of the Rocky Mountains
The book, Shadow Horses of the Rocky Mountains, tells a story about love, family and friendship. Set in the Canadian Cowboy Country, nature sets the tone. Freedom requires courage, trusting in your strength and believing in the magic of love between untamed hearts.
Spoliation
Captain Jonas Stryker narrowly escapes jail due to a corrupt system and is hired by a dying man nominally to collect asteroids for their minerals. However, he soon finds he must stop a shadowy corporate group called The Board, who employ space piracy, terrorism, and even weaponised asteroids to overthrow the Federation government. Set in Lagrange points, space stations, the Moon and outback Australia, it is a fast-moving story with some speculative future technology. If you were interested in the NASA attempt to alter the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos, you might be interested in a story of greed, corruption and honour, together with the science of asteroids.
The Bitmores
Bridget, following the most crushing period of her life, was beginning to live again. She had hope that the future would be less painful or at least less shameful. Her whole world had collapsed and she felt paralyzed. She had lost friends and lovers and felt useless. She thought that if she could get away, start anew, she could make it all right again.
The Bushido Way: a Sam Phillips Mystery
M. Anthony Phillips presents the debut of his hot new Private Detective series. Vietnam veteran Sam Phillips follows in the footsteps of his father in the world of private investigations. It’s the end of the Vietnam War in 1976 during the Fall of Saigon and a battle-worn Sam has just taken over his father’s company after his death. With his office above a seedy bar off Hollywood and Vine, Sam and his new assistant Constance Turner go weeks before they land their first case. With the help of his troubled friend Armstrong Jones—fresh out of prison for nearly killing two men, they are paid by an old friend Michelle Yamada of protecting her little brother Ken, a Yakuza gang member being hunted by a rival gang, the Yokohama Black Rebels who killed their father—a crime boss.
The Fall of Partha
War breaks out on Muiria between the kingdoms of Partha and Zeiglon. The wood elves send Prince Aedith and a delegation to the Emperor Zachary, but the mission fails and the emperor, armed with the evil Staff of Adois, pushes forward in a full-scale attack. The Young wizard, Celedant and his bonded dragon, Azimuth set out on a mission to unite the dwarvan clans against the growing threat as the first small step in a grander plan.
The Prince of Tabor
Young Nathaniel Aarmon is a prince who didn’t know he was a prince, raised in backwater tavern by a brother who wasn’t really his brother, who learns he is the heir to a kingdom he didn’t know existed. This epic adventure follows Nathaniel and his friends on a rollercoaster ride, escaping a coming war and assassins to regain his throne.
The Private Misadventures of Nell Nobody
The year is 1793, and France has declared war on Britain. Escaping a desperate situation, Eleanor Buccleuch (‘Nell’), a young Englishwoman, dons waistcoat and breeches. Calling herself ‘Ned Buckley’, she enlists in the British army, where she hopes no one will think to look for her. Traumatised and grieving her infant son, she disappears amongst the soldiers of the 69th Regiment of Foot, sent to the Mediterranean where the British hope to take the island of Corsica from the French. After the successful occupation of St Fiorenzo, Ned’s superiors assign him to work with a zealous naval captain by the name of Horatio Nelson, who is spearheading the campaign against Bastia. Ned is to be his ‘liaison’ to the army, which Ned is fairly sure means ‘dispatch runner.’ Recognising Ned’s uncertainty, Nelson makes a point of bolstering his confidence. Ned has one close friend in the army, another rifleman named Jack Mackay. Ned and Jack share a tent with the four other men in their six-man mess, and late one night during the siege of Bastia, an incident occurs that sets off Ned’s post-trauma response, threatening his stability and his disguise.
The Second
A former special ops soldier, Baden McCloud, is still adapting to civilian life when he happens upon a mysterious young woman running from an unknown adversary. His carefree life and independence from others crumbles as he empathizes with her plight and decides to offer his protection. Baden is soon caught up in her troubles, and together they must fight against those who seek to destroy them both.
The Truth Now
An adventure tale of an ex-convict who discovers a reason and a purpose at the heart of his troubled past. Released from the correctional facility after 19 years, Sid Green searches the street and the voices in his head for an answer to the questions that pursue him like a jail warden of the soul. Did he do it? Did he kill Meg, the love of his life, the perfect girl, his high school lover and partner in crime? Who is Sid Green, really? To find out, Sid follows the clues to where the faces of the people he loves match the stories he hears from the wind. Follow Sid Green’s unlikely salvation in the year after his release from jail, as he pursues freedom and escapes justice in the Merrimack River Valley and northern New England.
Tiger and the Robot: She lives in the cloud and travels in a phone (Bay Mysteries Book 10)
Chandler Gray is a sailor and app developer that has created Saga. A virtual AI detective that lives on his phone. The duo embark on an unlikely adventure together across the globe after Gina Lee, a wealthy and glamorous yacht owner, is kidnapped during the famous Swiftsure boat race.
Along with a group of friends, the two must work together to track down the missing woman. Their journey leads them far and wide; from piracy in the Aleutians to being attacked in the backwoods of Vancouver Island.
Chan will stop at nothing to find the truth and is often at odds with Saga’s hilariously sassy attitude. Despite their differences, the duo make an effective team as they drive, sail, and fly along the Northwest Coast.
Vestiges
When anthropology professor Oneida Graham is summoned home to Hopewell, her estranged and dying grandmother entangles her in a Michigan Relic mystery, which is possibly why someone murdered her grandfather Graham fifty years ago. Before the woman dies, Gran dubs Neida The Awaited One and pleads that she fulfill the prophecy and return the relic before it’s too late. Neida pairs up with archaeologist Lance Graham, a long-separated cousin of sorts, connected through her grandmother’s marriage. When the duo discovers pertinent clues in Hopewell’s library and Gran’s old journals, the pair embarks on a frantic hunt to find the treasure and the person responsible for their grandfather’s demise. But they are running out of time. The diabolical forces at play just might beat them to the target and destroy the treasured secrets for good. Will Neida learn in time the key to her pragmatic heart and what she desperately needs? Will she and Lance uncover the vestiges of the past and understand just what they mean to the rest of the world? Only her last unthinkable discovery will tell the ultimate tale.
Walls
A small community in northern Los Angeles awakens to find themselves surrounded by a mysterious and dangerous barrier of falling light. Led by a fierce and charismatic Hispanic-American policewoman, they experience many challenges in surviving the Walls themselves and the people trapped within. The first in a three-part series, Walls begins their saga.
Where Destiny Decides
From each and every transgression or misdeed, ramifications arise that are beyond our control. The kings of Avalaria have left behind a world that is dying. From the elves in the south to the dragons in the north, all the races of the world are in peril. King Drustan condemns the elves, accusing them of stealing the substance that brings life to their world… magic. Declaring war against them, he arranges a marriage between his brother, Prince Alaric, and a wealthy countess to fortify his forces and fill Avalaria’s coffers. Unbeknownst to Alaric, the iniquities of his forefathers are set to change the trajectory of his life forever. As he uncovers a prophecy and a message from beyond the grave, a monumental truth buried in the past is exposed to him. The revelation of his destiny thrusts Alaric into a harrowing series of trials that abruptly forces him from his home. His destiny pits him against his deluded brother as he races against a fearsome darkness and time itself to unite the world and restore it to its former glory. Alaric’s ventures and tribulations echo the compelling questions that have distressed humanity to the core since the inception of time itself. Can goodness, love, and light ever hope to conquer evil? Does truth genuinely free us? Is our destiny truly our own?