One horrible Mother-in-law, one lamp with a Genie in it, three wishes - what could go wrong. Henry knew it was too good to be true. It was!Henry sat silently in his recliner, trying hard to not listen to his mother-in-law's utterances to his wife. He needed a walk.Walking slowly along the beach his mind was preoccupied in his simmering anger, so he didn't see the object half-buried in the sand. He tripped. Looking back at whatever it was that had caused him to fall, he saw an old-looking lamp. It had a rounded midsection and bell-like base, and there was a small top covering an opening in the middle. The handle was curved, reminding him of the outline of an ear, and the spout was long and slender, protruding up and out like the neck of a swan. It looked just like the lamp in every movie about Aladdin that he'd ever seen. He absentmindedly rubbed at it with his sleeve. Suddenly, the lamp flew from his hands, smoke began to bellow out of the spout, and he stared in amazement as a large, seemingly naked, man appeared in the cloud. “Master, I am yours to command.” came the baritone voice, “What is your wish?”

Get ready to fight!It's Battle Month for the thirteen ancient ninja clans. A tournament where students represent their skill must prove themselves and their skills in the Ninjutsu Art. What happens when six new students have to compete and represent their own clan? Will the team known as Sector 7 be able to perform, or will the nerves of competition get the better of them?Get ready to fight, Sector 7!It's Battle Month for the thirteen shinobi clans spread across Shaaku Den. A tournament where students represent their skill must prove themselves and their skills in the Ninjutsu Art.The Kitsune Clan enters into the tournament, led by the second-in-command Akira Miyamoto, who grudgingly brings along Sector 7. Not only is Sector 7 one person short of a complete team, but five out of the six members are new students and ranked as fresh meat.Can the members of Sector 7 survive the tournament? Or will the nerves of competition and other shortcomings keep them from victory?

As a part-time PI and full-time grim reaper, Charley Davidson has asked a lot of questions throughout her life: Why can I see dead people? Who is the hot supernatural entity following me? How do I get gum out of my sister’s hair before she wakes up? But, “How do I trap not one malevolent god, but three?” was never among them. Until now. And since those gods are on earth to kill her daughter, she has little choice but to track them down, trap them, and cast them from this dimension. There’s just one problem. One of the three stole her heart a very long time ago. Can the Razer, a god of absolute death and destruction, change his omniscient spots, or will his allegiances lie with his brothers? Those are just a few of the questions Charley must answer, and quick. Add to that a homeless girl running for her life, an innocent man who’s been charged with murder, and a pendant made from god glass that has the entire supernatural world in an uproar, and Charley has her hands full. If she can manage to take care of the whole world-destroying-gods thing, we’re saved. If not, well…

When Stephen is forced to move back to the nowhere town where his father grew up, he’s already sure he’s not going to like it. Spencer, Michigan, is like a town straight out of a Hitchcock movie, with old-fashioned people who see things only in black-and-white. But things start looking up when Stephen meets the mysterious twins Cara and Devon. They’re total punks–hardly the kind of people Stephen’s dad wants him hanging out with–but they’re a breath of fresh air in this backward town. The only problem is, Cara and Devon don’t always get along, and as Stephen forms a friendship with the charismatic Devon and something more with the troubled Cara, he starts to feel like he’s getting caught in the middle of a conflict he doesn’t fully understand. And as Devon’s group of friends, who hang out in a cemetery they call The Playground, get up to increasingly reckless activities to pass the summer days, Stephen worries he may be in over his head. Stephen’s fears prove well-founded when he learns of Spencer’s dark past. It seems the poor factory town has a history of “bad times,” and many of the town’s oldest residents attribute the bad times to creatures right out of an urban legend. The legend goes that the only way the town will prosper again is if someone makes a sacrifice to these nightmarish creatures. And while Stephen isn’t one to believe in old stories, it seems Devon and his gang might put a lot of faith in them. Maybe even enough to kill for them. Now, Stephen has to decide what he believes, where his allegiances lie, and who will really be his friend in the end.

"Mr. Cruse, how high would you like to fly?" A smile soared across my face. "As high as I possibly can." Pilot-in-training Matt Cruse and Kate de Vries, expert on high-altitude life-forms, are invited aboard the Starclimber, a vessel that literally climbs its way into the cosmos. Before they even set foot aboard the ship, catastrophe strikes: Kate announces she is engaged—and not to Matt. Despite this bombshell, Matt and Kate embark on their journey into space, but soon the ship is surrounded by strange and unsettling life-forms, and the crew is forced to combat devastating mechanical failure. For Matt, Kate, and the entire crew of the Starclimber, what began as an exciting race to the stars has now turned into a battle to save their lives. Award-winning and bestselling author Kenneth Oppel brings us back to a rich world of flight and fantasy in this breathtaking new sequel to Airborn and Skybreaker.

October "Toby" Daye, changeling knight in the service of Duke Sylvester Torquill, finds the delicate balance of her life shattered when she learns that an old friend is in dire trouble. Lily, Lady of the Tea Gardens, has been struck down by a mysterious, seemingly impossible illness, leaving her fiefdom undefended. Struggling to find a way to save Lily and her subjects, Toby must confront her own past as an enemy she thought was gone forever raises her head once more: Oleander de Merelands, one of the two people responsible for her fourteen-year exile. Time is growing short and the stakes are getting higher, for the Queen of the Mists has her own agenda. With everything on the line, Toby will have to take the ultimate risk to save herself and the people she loves most—because if she can't find the missing pieces of the puzzle in time, Toby will be forced to make the one choice she never thought she'd have to face again... Late Eclipse is the fourth installment of the highly praised Toby Daye series.

The newly crowned King Arthur has yet to win the support of the people. Merlin must do something before the king is betrayed, or murdered, or--worst of all--gets married. So Merlin creates a trick: a sword magically placed into a slab of rock that only Arthur can withdraw. Then he lets it be known that whosoever removes the blade will rule all of England, and invites any man who would dare, to try to pull out the sword. But then someone else pulls the sword out first. . . .

'One of those complex and enormously inventive stories... based on some real, honest, practical ethical thinking. It is an idea book.' - Groff Conklin in Galaxy Science Fiction Asher Sutton has been lost in deepest space for twenty years. Suddenly arrives a warning from the future, that he will return- and that he must be killed. He is destined to write a book whose message may lead to the death of millions in centuries to come. For this reason Sutton is hounded by the sinister warring factions of the future who wish to influence or prevent the writing of this book he has not yet begun to write. Yet already a copy has been found in the burnt-out wreckage of a space-craft on Alderbaran XII.

Fight to win. Jessica McClain is on the hunt for her destiny. She arrives in Baltimore to find that her quest has reached a dead end and only a note remains. Forced to do as it says, or die, Jessica and her crew must head overseas. They arrive to discover Julian de Rossi, the Mediterranean Pack Alpha, is double dealing with a powerful goddess and Tally is still missing. With help from a divine source, they engage in an all out war—one that must end in a sacrifice. But is Jessica ready to pay the ultimate price?

The incomparable Ray Bradbury is in the driver's seat, off on twenty-one unforgettable excursions through fantasy, time and memory, and there are surprises waiting around every curve and behind each mile marker. The journey promises to be a memorable one.

A gloomy medium who hates ghosts, Rosalie Galloway, encounters the ghost of a handsome, dead rockstar, Blake White. Blake used to be the singer for the American punk rock band known as Erotic Corpses. When Blake realizes that someone can actually see him, he blackmails Rosalie into helping him to investigate his murder. He's on a mission to find his murderer and get his revenge.Rosalie Galloway is a gloomy girl who fully believes her life is cursed. She suffers from social anxiety, lives in the ghetto of LA alone in a small apartment with her five black cats, dreams of becoming a nurse so that she can help her father who is dying of cancer, and, oh yeah…she can see ghosts. Just when things seem like they couldn’t possibly get any worse, Rosalie encounters the ghost of a famous rockstar while reminiscing on Rodeo Drive; Blake White - the ex-lead singer of the popular, American punk rock band: Erotic Corpses.Rosalie doesn’t want to get herself mixed up with the arrogant ghost but Blake manages to blackmail the medium into helping him investigate the mystery of his murder so he can get his revenge. Blake pushes Rosalie to get hired by Wraythe Records, and has her pose as a stylist so that she can get as close as possible to the potential murder suspects. Anyone closest to Blake is under suspicion, including his ex-band mates: the stoic lead guitarist Devon Decayn, the cheerful bassist Joey Bones, and the playboy drummer Vincent Sangre. In order to uncover the truth, Rosalie will have to go on dates with Blake’s handsome band mates…even though she’s never even had a boyfriend before!Revenge…has never looked so hot.Author's note: Swearwords have been removed, and sexual content minimized. This is a good version of the book to get for a parent who wants to get their teen a present. I feel this version is more appropriate for my Teen readers. Enjoy!

When Steve Nakamura is dared to seduce a vampire in return for his birthday present, he thinks it will be easy. Scrub up, find a hot undead girl, kiss her, earn enough money for a new car stereo. Simple. Abe Browning, however, is surely undead and just as surely not a girl, but that’s the last thing Steve needs to worry about when it comes to hooking up with vampires…Welcome to Port Carmila, population 15, 725. Half that count isn’t even human, and that’s not including feral zombies, ghouls and ghosts, mostly because they don’t stand still long enough for counting. It’s a melting pot of the living, the immortal, and the dead … where death means you still have to pay the rent, the merfolk are experts in tax evasion, everybody hates the corny Dead Centre of Australia T-shirts sold at the tourist information centre, and the local police encourage you to carry a weapon at all times, regardless of legality. Sometimes the zombies aren’t your much-loved next-door neighbours…When Steve Nakamura is dared—after a long-standing Port Carmila tradition—to seduce a vampire in return for his birthday present, he thinks it will be easy. Scrub up, find a hot undead girl who won’t care that he’ll start shambling the moment he stops breathing, kiss her, earn enough money for a new car stereo. Simple, if he doesn’t mind losing a little blood in the process. The cute and anxious Abe Browning, however, is surely undead and just as surely not a girl, and, as it turns out, that’s the last thing Steve needs to worry about when it comes to hooking up with vampires…

Short story about a planet whose inhabitants simply can't get along with each other. Not a day goes by without a war or at least a fight. Sound familiar? Things go as planned until Eve gets hit by another planet called Adam.Hell is a war torn dump named Jupiter. Rex Pain has been sent into this hell on the wings of a burning entry ship to win, die or die trying. With everything going wrong and not a hope of reprieve in sight, Rex must lead a small team of hardened space soldiers through challenge after challenge with death only a laser round away. Can Rex overcome all that stands against him? Find out within.This is the first book in the Rex Pain Space Soldier Series. In the next book, Facing The Maiden (Rex Pain Space Soldier #2), Rex faces off with the forces of Mars in a battle that will begin his journey into a new war that is not his own.As this book is the first in this series, it is free for your enjoyment. Thank you for your support!

Former rock icon Orlando Frank battles an occult conspiracy to put his famous band back together in this rollicking supernatural adventure.When former rock icon Orlando Frank returns from tour, the last thing he expects to find in his refrigerator is a hideous, insectoid sensing device. As much as he might try to deny it, that’s the sort of thing that happens when you hail from a family of mystic crimebusters, and your previous, much more famous band dissolved during a ritual attempt to trigger the apocalypse. Judging from the creature’s configuration, his old bandmate is back to his old world-ending tricks, triggering a road trip of arcane reckoning.This free short story of guitar-fueled supernatural adventure comes to you from gaming legend Robin D. Laws, designer of such games as Feng Shui and The Esoterrorists, and writer of such novels as The Worldwound Gambit and The Rough and the Smooth.

Teanne’s decision to trust someone with her secret presents her with new allies, but also brings a greater burden as she learns the importance of the stone she carries. Jacobs revelation to the Queen of Aelia about the journey Chev and Teanne were asked to do, brings more questions about his Head Elder and a need to learn more about the truth behind why they were sent.A retelling of the classic Russian folk tale about the prince who must complete three challenges in order to bring the firebird back to the king. He has help along the way in the form of a white wolf. Even if he finds the firebird, will he be able to bring ot home?