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The Chain Between Worlds by Johnathon Nicolaou
6 ratingsRunner up in the 2021 TCK Publishing Reader’s Choice Awards: Fantasy GenreAt the age of five Lincoln was abandoned inexplicably at an orphanage by his father with nothing but a promise to return and an old wrist chain...Categorized as:
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The Confusion, Part I by Neal Stephenson
12 ratingsIn this compelling adventure, Stephenson brings to life a cast of unforgettable characters in the late 1600s on the high seas. It is a time of breathtaking genius and discovery for men and women whose exploits define an age known as Baroque...Categorized as:
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Enemies by Robert J. Crane
18 ratingsFar from home, having failed in her quest to kill Old Man Winter, Sienna Nealon finds herself in the city of London, working with Omega, her oldest enemies...Categorized as:
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The Rise of the Red Shadow by Joseph R. Lallo
10 ratingsEvery story must begin somewhere. For the warrior who would come to be known as the fearsome Red Shadow, the story began in a forgotten glade deep in the land of Tressor. It was there that a pair of trackers, eager to retrieve a lost slave, instead found an orphaned malthrope... -
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Imagine a Day by Sarah L. Thomson
12 ratingsImagine a day when your swing swings you higher than the highest treetops. Imagine a day when you can ride your bike up a path of falling leaves into the very tree they are falling from. Imagine a day when you release a handful of blue balloons into a cloudy, gray sky to create a postcard-perfect day. Imagine a day when the ordinary becomes the extraordinary...a day when anything is possible...Categorized as:
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The Magic of the Lost Temple by Sudha Murty
14 ratingsCity girl Nooni is surprised at the pace of life in her grandparents' village in Karnataka. But she quickly gets used to the gentle routine there and involves herself in a flurry of activities, including papad making, organizing picnics and learning to ride a cycle, with her new-found friends. Things get exciting when Nooni stumbles upon an ancient fabled stepwell right in the middle of a forest...Categorized as:
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Newford Stories: Crow Girls by Charles de Lint
6 ratings“The Crow Girls and their kind, once seen, are impossible to forget. Wild, but curiously childlike; wise and yet playful; existing outside the confines of conventional morality, and yet bringing hope and clarity to everyone whose lives they touch.” —Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat, from her introduction to this book... -
Our Lady of the Harbour by Charles de Lint
6 ratingsReprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: 5th , 1992 and in Dreams Underfoot , 1993, which was collected in The Newford Stories ,... -
The Erevis Cale Trilogy by Paul S. Kemp
8 ratingsFrom the mean streets of Sembia ...Erevis Cale might just seem like just another loyal butler for just another wealthy family in the merchant realm of Sembia, but he has always been a whole lot more than that. When the world itself is threatened, Erevis Cale takes it personally, and takes the fight all the way to the Plane of Shadow... -
At the Lucky Hand: aka The Sixty-Nine Drawers by Goran Petrović
12 ratingsAt The Lucky Hand is an account of the different love stories that revolve around a very peculiar book: My Legacy, by Anastas Branica. At first glance, this is a book where there is no plot or characters, only descriptions...Categorized as:
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Sebastian and the Troll by Fredrik Backman
12 ratingsThis is a short story I wrote in December 2017. It’s about pain. It’s been translated by my friend Vanja Vinter and is published here on my blog for now because I’m not really sure where else to put it yet. If you read it and find something you like with it you’re welcome to donate whatever you think it’s worth to a charity of your choice...Categorized as:
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Call to Quarters by Honor Raconteur
6 ratingsSince the days of Merlin, there have been magicians that aid king and country. In modern times, they are known as the Gældorcræft Forces. They do everything that needs to be done, from disaster relief to keeping giant cities afloat – like Los Angeles. Investigating explosions at Air Force Research Labs are outside of the norm, but this explosion doesn’t follow the rules either... -
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Thru the Badger Hole by Taki Drake
6 ratingsDesolation and grief can leave you floating, unable to find a new shape to your existence. Who knew that it was possible to be shocked out of the morass of sorrow by a well-timed push?! Madrik was reeling from the loss of his family and unable to find his way into the new reality. Then something happened that sent him further than he ever thought to travel... -
Conash: Dead Son by T.C. Southwell
6 ratingsA humble goat herder’s son and kin of the wood cat, Conash bonds with his familiar when he is just six years old. The sickly boy teeters on the brink of death, so much so that he is given the Death Rites three times before he is ten years old.Against all odds, he grows up a happy, laughing child, the apple of his mother’s eye and his father’s most cherished son... -
God Touched by T.C. Southwell
6 ratingsWhen Blade is beaten almost to death, a broken-nosed whore saves him and nurses him back to health, starting a strange relationship that will endure all through Blade’s career and beyond. Lilu loves the assassin despite his cold heart and scathing tongue, and her love and aid earn his protection, even though he will never admit to helping her... -
Poppy Mayberry, The Monday by Jennie K. Brown
6 ratingsWhat if your teacher could read your mind just because she was born on a Thursday? Or the kid next to you in class could turn back the clock just because he was a Wednesday? In the quirky town of Nova, all of this is normal. Poppy Mayberry, an almost-11-year-old Monday, should be able to pass notes in class or brush her dog, Pickle, without lifting a finger...Categorized as:
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Sakthi by Vignesh SV
6 ratingsWar, coupled with impending doom, lurks in the distance as the trio of Kings get ready for the battle to save the world – Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma must race against time and fulfil the prophecy that calls for the six members of the Chosen Hexad to face the ominous threat, death, and destruction promised by the Greater Evil...Categorized as:
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Czerwona baśń by Wiktoria Korzeniewska
6 ratingsW pewnej wiosce był obyczaj. Obowiązywał w czasach, kiedy jeszcze słyszano w lesie klaskanie, w południe unikano wychodzenia w pole, a kobiety szeptały o wilku, który uśmiechał się jak człowiek. Każdego roku, pierwszego dnia lata, wieś wspólnie wybierała jedną dziewczynkę. Nie najładniejszą, nie najzdolniejszą. Wybór zawsze padał na najbrzydszą w wiosce. Taką, której nikt nie chciał...Categorized as:
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Imagine a Place by Sarah L. Thomson
8 ratingsIf you can imagine a place, you can go there. Imagine a place that makes you feel as free as a bird. Imagine a place where getting there is worth whatever it takes. Imagine a place that makes you feel like it's always been your destination. Imagine a place made out of pure imagination...Categorized as:
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Artificios by Jorge Luis Borges
10 ratingsBRAND NEW softcover (see our CORRECT cover image), free tracking number, clean text, solid binding, NO remainders NOT ex-library, smoke free; slight gentle shelfwear / storage-wear; WE SHIP FAST. Carefully packed and quickly sent... -
The Kite of Stars and Other Stories by Dean Francis Alfar
10 ratingsThis book collects sixteen wondrous stories of fantasy, science fiction, horror and things in between from the imagination of award-winning fictionist Dean Francis Alfar... -
School of Potential by W.J. May
6 ratingsUSA Today Bestselling author, W.J. May brings you a continuation of the international bestselling series, The Chronicles of Kerrigan! Come back and enjoy the famous characters, or step into the series right here...Categorized as:
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Большая Телега by Max Frei
6 ratingsЭта книга Макса Фрая связывает географию и астрономию, земное и небесное. 22 города — 22 новеллы, один герой-путник, путешествующий по Старому Свету запутанными сюжетными линиями и небесными орбитами. Книга Макса Фрая открывает читателю совершенно иную Европу, лишенную глянцевого блеска открыток и не описанную в путеводителях, где каждый город словно зачарован волшебством автора... -
The Journey of Joseph Winter: A Christmas Fairy Tale by John Anthony
6 ratingsA Christmas fairy tale for all ages! The Journey of Joseph Winter is a heartwarming holiday story in the tradition of It’s a Wonderful Life and A Miracle on 34th Street. Joseph Winter is a good and gentle man, but he carries with him the pain and regret of a childhood mistake. When a package mysteriously arrives on his doorstep, he is invited on a trek that defies logic... -
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The Assimilated Cuban's Guide to Quantum Santeria by Carlos Hernandez
10 ratingsA quirky collection of short sci-fi stories for fans of Kij Johnson and Kelly Link Assimilation is founded on surrender and being broken; this collection of short stories features people who have assimilated, but are actively trying to reclaim their lives. There is a concert pianist who defies death by uploading his soul into his piano... -
Mirror in the Mirror by Michael Ende
14 ratingsMirror in the Mirror: A Labyrinth is a collection of surreal short stories by Michael Ende originally published in 1984. All stories in the book have their own protagonists, but are related to each other by the use of literary leitmotivs. None of the stories has its own title... -
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Immortal Destiny by Aiden James
10 ratingsIn this third installment of The Judas Chronicles, William Barrow (AKA Judas Iscariot) is faced with recovering the silver coin he dreads above all others. Known as the "Singing Coin" among the ancients, this shekel was originally lost long ago...on the very night of Jesus Christ's arrest in Jerusalem...Categorized as:
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By Light We Knew Our Names by Anne Valente
8 ratingsFrom ghosts to pink dolphins to a fight club of young women who practice beneath the Alaskan aurora borealis, By Light We Knew Our Names examines the beauty and heartbreak of the world we live in. Across thirteen stories, this collection explores the thin border between magic and grief...Categorized as:
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A Diamond in My Heart by Lorena Angell
8 ratingsA Diamond in My Heart, book two in The Unaltered series, follows teen-aged Calli Courtnae as she learns how to control her new cosmic superpowers. She's afraid she's no match for some of the other people who are showing up with different paranormal powers, including a time-rewinding teen who apparently has some romantic fantasy about her going on in his head...Categorized as:
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Daisy Dreamer and the Totally True Imaginary Friend by Holly Anna
6 ratingsHi! I’m Daisy Dreamer and this story is all about how I met Posey, my totally true imaginary friend.Hi, I’m Daisy Dreamer. People call me the girl with her head in the clouds because I daydream some of the time…or maybe most the time. But isn’t that what makes life so…well, dreamy? Together with my best friends, Lily and Jasmine, we love to write stories, draw, and invent games... -
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Walking Words by Eduardo Galeano
10 ratingsIn Walking Words world-renowned author Eduardo Galeano draws on the folklore of rural and urban Latin America to discover and retell "the stories of ghouls and fools that Id like to write." These tales are beautifully illustrated by his collaborator, the Brazilian woodcut artist José Francisco Borges, and become testaments to the power of stories to make and remake and enchant the world... -
The Alchemist's Pursuit by Dave Duncan
8 ratingsHampered by arthritis, Nostradamus is in no mood for granting favors or running about looking for trouble. But when his apprentice Alfeo's mistress asks him to investigate the murder of her beloved courtesan mentor-and promises a fortune in payment-he comes around.It appears that someone is murdering the courtesans of Venice... -
The Obstinate Pen by Frank W. Dormer
8 ratingsThis is what Uncle Flood wants to write with his new pen: The following story is all true. But the pen does not write that sentence. Instead it writes: You have a big nose! Who knows what to do with a pen that has a will of its own?Not Uncle Flood.Not Officer Wonkle.But young Horace has an idea.. -
How to Move Spheres and Influence People by Marko Kloos
6 ratingsFor over 25 years, the Wild Cards universe has been entertaining readers with stories of superpowered people in an alternate history. In Marko Kloos's short story "How to Move Spheres and Influence People" an outcast learns how to fit in at her school and much more...T. K. hates a lot of things, but at the moment, it's how she becomes the #1 target during dodgeball at gym...Categorized as:
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Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing by Delia Sherman, Theodora Goss
6 ratingsNineteen writers dig into the imaginative spaces between conventional genres—realistic and fantastical, scholarly and poetic, personal and political—and bring up gems of new fiction: interstitial fiction.This is the literary mode of the new century, a reflection of the complex, ambiguous, and challenging world that we live in...Categorized as:
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Mr. Breakfast by Jonathan Carroll
6 ratingsGraham Patterson is a middling comedian whose career (and love life) has gone up in smoke. After buying a new car, he embarks on a cross country road trip to see his brother Joel, to try and figure what he should do with himself and his career. Midway, after his car breaks down, he enters a tattoo parlor, mesmerized by the unique beauty of the tattoo work on display...Categorized as:
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Дайте им умереть by Henry Lion Oldie, Генри Лайон Олди
5 ratingsШестое тысячелетие стояло на пороге. Вдруг в одночасье оружию сделалось больно и оно стало мстить за это людям, взрываясь у них в руках. Почему? Мажет быть, об этом знает ржавый меч, лежащий под стеклом в музее и помнящий те времена, когда на бескрайних Дурбанских равнинах темные силуэты всадников сшибались с оглушительным лязгом, криками и ржанием.Люди не сразу поняли, что случилось... -
Some Rain Must Fall: And Other Stories by Michel Faber
10 ratingsMichel Faber's short stories are markedly diverse-the voice of each is so distinct that the book reads like an anthology of different writers. But Faber's radically inventive style fastens all fifteen stories into a compelling collection deserving of the high praise it garnered in the United Kingdom. One surreal story, "Fish," projects a futuristic world populated with fish swimming in the air...Categorized as:
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Il Sesso di Venere by Luke Sutherland
8 ratingsIn a small flat in London, a young man is turning to gold. But before he dies, before his skin and eyes and tongue harden into a golden death mask, he wants to share the amazing story of his life. Born and raised on the barren Orkney Islands off the coast of Scotland, he endures a brutal childhood, devoid of tenderness... -
Black Cocktail by Jonathan Carroll
8 ratingsMore like a novella, this work follows Ingram York who has a friend, Michael Billa. Michael is the sort of friend whose funny tales and charm can pull you out of the lowest depths and make life good once more. Along comes Clinton Deix, a friend of Michael's, who tells Ingram that most of those stories are lies... -
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The Vampire's Executioner by Heather C. Myers, Isadora Brown
6 ratingsThis case, if not solved, could kill off royal vampire legacy. When Elizabeth Grant from the Nocturnal Defense Society is assigned to protect Nikolai Dragulia, she balks. Next in line to inherit the crown and rule over vampire society, he’s equal parts mysterious and brooding as he is arrogant prince... -
The Circus of the Earth and the Air by Brooke Stevens
6 ratingsA woman volunteers for a circus magic trick...and vanishes. When her husband sets out to discover what has happened, he is tortured, tempted, and analyzed and eventually sheds his identity and gains a new one-as a tightrope walker whose strength is his vulnerability. Photographs... -
The Ant King, and Other Stories by Benjamin Rosenbaum
6 ratingsUrbane without being arch, sweet without being maudlin, mysterious without being cryptic.-Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing A dazzling, postmodern debut collection of pulp and surreal fictions: a writer of alternate histories defends his patron's zeppelin against assassins and pirates; a woman transforms into hundreds of gumballs; an emancipated children's collective goes house hunting... -
Star Child by Leo Petracci
14 ratingsPowers are determined by geographic birth locations, and only the rich and powerful are permitted access to prized sites. SC is the first person born in space.The punishment for unauthorized births is death. Out of fear, SC keeps his strange abilities as his darkest secret...Categorized as:
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Unlocking the Air and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin
10 ratingsThis collection of mainstream stories, written from the early eighties to the mid-nineties, is a stunning example of the virtuosity of the legendary Ursula K. Le Guin. Diffusing the traditional boundaries of realism, magical realism, and surrealism, Le Guin finds the detail that reveals the strange in everyday life, or the unexpected depths of an ordinary person...Categorized as:
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Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy by Ekaterina Sedia, Forrest Aguirre
6 ratingsThis anthology of 21 original fantasy stories explores humanity’s most dynamic and forceful creation—the city. Featuring tales from fantasy heavyweights such as Hal Duncan, Catherynne M. Valente, Jay Lake, and Barth Anderson, the collection whisks readers from dizzying rooftop perches down to the underpasses, gutters, and the sinister secrets therein...
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