The Hidden World
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| Author | Paul Crilley |
| ISBN | 1633882020 |
THE END OF THE UNIVERSE IS ONLY A HOP, SKIP, AND SLIGHT STUMBLE-THROUGH-A-WORMHOLE AWAY
Harry Priest just wants to make sure his ex-wife doesn’t take away his visitation rights, and his dead-end job cleaning up crime scenes for the past ten years isn’t doing him any favors.
But...
| Author | Nicholas Stuart Gray |
| ISBN | 0441303803 |
Some time back, wicked machinations in the world of night resulted in the prince and heir-apparent being abandoned in our world. Named Muffler, and raised by simple goat herders, Muffler seems all set to lead a perfectly normal and peaceful life- except that he has the power to talk to animals. This leads...
| Author | William Sleator |
| ISBN | 0810992132 |
Sleator is at his sci-fi best with this quantum thriller, now available in paperback
In this gothic, sci-fi thriller from a master storyteller, Susan and her wheelchair-bound brother, Gary, discover a mysterious maze in the vast gardens of their isolated home. Planted by a scientist uncle...
| Author | Tim Pratt |
| ISBN | 0553383388 |
In this debut novel, acclaimed short-story author Tim Pratt delivers an exciting heroine with a hidden talent–and a secret duty. Witty and suspenseful, here is a contemporary love song to the West that was won and the myths that shape us….
As night manager of Santa Cruz’s quirkiest coffeehouse,...
| Author | Amanda Hemingway |
| ISBN | 0345460790 |
A desperate mother spirits away her infant son, seemingly drawn (chased, perhaps?) to the small English village of Thornyhill. She ends up on the doorstep of old Bartlemy, a curious man who has lived on the forested land for as long as anyone can remember–and who comes to believe that the child is destined...
-- A historical novel that realistically depicts life in 17th-century Quebec from the point of view of a French teenagerThe year is 1672. Eighteen-year-old Jeanne Chatel, the heroine of the story, has just been chosen as a "king's daughter", one of the hundreds of young women sent to the wilderness...
When the witch Baba Yaga walks her house into the backyard, eleven-year-old Summer enters into a bargain for her heart’s desire. Her search will take her to the strange, surreal world of Orcus, where birds talk, women change their shape, and frogs sometimes grow on trees. But underneath the whimsy...
Lauren Dane discovers a doorway to another reality in Cat Creek, North Carolina -- and she crosses over, driven by a strange compulsion she can neither resist nor comprehend. Molly McColl is brought there against her will -- kidnapped from her trailer and carried into a realm that traps her, terrifies...
| Author | Laura Anne Gilman |
| ISBN | 0373803559 |
"He has been taken. And you are his only chance."
That wasn't something Jan expected to hear--especially from strangers who'd just rescued her from some mysterious and ferocious creatures. And she really hadn't expected her rescuers to be shape-shifters....
Now it turns out her...
| Author | Louise Cusack |
| ISBN | 0731810597 |
DESTINY OF THE LIGHT is the first novel of my “Shadow Through Time” fantasy trilogy published by Simon & Schuster Australia. It contains elements of romance, magic and horror, taking a woman from our world into the earthworld of Ennae; a sepia world joined to ours by the Sacred Pool. Talis, her...
(Book 1 of 4) NO ONE IS GOING TO BELIEVE ME.
But I know I did it. I was there. If she's real--and I know she is--I just have to prove it. Go there again and this time bring something back. Like a strand of her hair or a piece of her fingernail.
SOMETHING WITH HER DNA ON IT. TO PROVE THAT SHE IS ME.
High...
| Author | Natania Barron |
| ISBN | 1936460092 |
Maddie's voice pulled me into this one right away. She's an ordinary ex-grad student in mourning for a missing lover, with far too many mundane responsibilities, but Barron gives her a thoughtful perspective on the world I found instantly engaging. She starts in our world, quickly tumbles into another...
| Author | Christopher G. Nuttall |
There is magic in the world, hiding in plain sight. If you search for it, you will find it, or it will find you. Welcome to the magical world.
Having lived all her life in Edinburgh, the last thing 25-year old Dizzy expected was to see a man with a real (if tiny) dragon on his shoulder. Following him,...
| Author | Ray Wood |
| ISBN | 1466886277 |
In every crime scene every one of me was looking at, he lay face-down on the floor with two bullets in his back.
this is a neat little futuristic sci-fi noir story in which crimes can be solved by accessing any number of possible timelines by a detective with a heisen implant stuck in their brain....
| Author | O.R. Melling |
| ISBN | 0862782856 |
I originally read this book back before I was a teenager, though I can't remember exactly when it was. What I do remember is it was this story that started a absolute love of reading. I was fortunate enough to have a wonderful aunt who always bought me books, and always bought me GREAT books. This was one of...
| Author | Tim O'Rourke |
| ISBN | 1480027235 |
When Zachary Black discovers a door set between two giant cliffs, he realises he has never seen anything so peculiar. Unable to resist the doorway, Zach opens it to find that he is looking into Endra.
Have you ever had someone say to you that they have seen your double? Well, that is your 'reflection'...
| Author | Nancy Holder |
| ISBN | 0743426983 |
Destined to FailHolly Cathers and her twin cousins, Amanda and Nicole, are college students who are also the last descendants of the medieval witches of the House of Cahors. Forming a new coven, they ally themselves with the forces of light and set out to end the vendetta that has ruled -- and ruined --...
