WereWoman

      Piers Anthony
     WereWoman

In this delectable fantasy romp, a shape-shifting private detective with sexual identity issues hunts a serial killer preying on the Supernatural community Who but the indomitable Piers Anthony could write a hard-boiled detective-novel-fantasy-comic thriller featuring demons, succubi, zombies, ghosts, serial murder, gender bending, and a healthy dose of good, clean sex? Anthony’s remarkable imagination has taken glorious flight once again with WereWoman—and no one does it quite like Piers Anthony! The classy dame who walks into fledgling private eye Philemon’s office is like Venus in motion and is most definitely a Witch. But dealing with Supernaturals—or “Supes” for short—is Phil’s beat, since he himself is a shape-changing Were. And this sexy sorceress is offering him the “friendship of her thighs” to investigate a murder, so how can he possibly refuse? But the Warlock slaying in question turns out to be only the first in a series of homicides, because someone—or something—is picking off Supes like insects. Soon the search begins leading the brand-new dick into places outside the mundane realm—into a Demon amusement park, through the doors of an Incubus-Succuba dating service, and into some very sticky situations where he’ll need to undergo a supernatural sex change just to stay alive.

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    Across the Great Barrier

      Patricia C. Wrede
     Across the Great Barrier

From New York Times #1 bestselling author Patricia C. Wrede, the second in the series of magic on the western frontier. Eff is riding west, away from the safety of the frontier city she's always known.... Eff could be a powerful magician if she wanted to. Except she's not sure she wants that kind of responsibility. Everyone keeps waiting for her to do something amazing--or to fail in a spectacular way. Worse, her twin brother, Lan, a powerful double seventh son, is jealous of all the attention she's been getting. Even as Eff protests that she's just an ordinary girl, she's asked to travel past the Barrier Spell with one of the new professors at her father's school. The land west of the Barrier is full of dangers, both magical and wild. Eff will need to use all her strength--magical and otherwise--to come safely back home. With wit, magic, and a touch of good pioneer sense, Patricia C. Wrede once again weaves a fantastic tale of the very wild west.

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    The Lady in White Book 1

      Red Morris
     The Lady in White Book 1

Raven is a normal girl who wakes to find herself in another world. Surrounded by magic she is told that her arrival was foretold two hundred years ago, and that her arrival would bring magic back to a land that was dying without it.This short story addresses the flight and hopes of a family facing great changes. Live safely and die free.

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    Quest: book 3

      Yufeng Zhuang
     Quest: book 3

This is the third book of Quest. Hope you like it and keep reading it.This action adventure/ speculative fiction story revolves around a time in the future where cars are long since gone and the society, in a way, has devolved. This is a time when bounty hunters, pirates, gypsies, corrupt priests, computer hackers, mafia crime lords and top military special ops inhabit the essentially lawless world.Essa, a ruthless bounty hunter uses her wits and reputation to ensure her rank as #1. Atticus, her loyal and silent side kick follows her around ensuring she stays alive during her self-inflicted chaos. After having claimed her metaphorical throne for so long, Essa seems content with her life until a unsuspected person decides to drop by.

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    Last of the Amazons Last of the Amazons Last of the Amazons

      Steven Pressfield
     Last of the Amazons Last of the Amazons Last of the Amazons

The author of the international bestsellers "Gates of Fire" and "Tides of War" delivers his most gripping and imaginative novel of the ancient world-a stunning epic oflove and war that breathes life into the grand myth of the ferocious female warrior culture of the Amazons. Steven Pressfield has gained a passionate worldwide following for his magnificent novels ofancient Greece, "Gates of Fire" and "Tides of War." In "Last of the Amazons," Pressfield has surpassed himself, re-creating a vanished world in a brilliant novel thatwill delight his loyal readers and bring legions more to his singular and powerful restoration of the past. In the time before Homer, the legendary Theseus, King of Athens (an actual historicalfigure), set sail on a journey that brought him into the land of "tal Kyrte," the "free people," a nation of proud female warriors whom the Greeks called "Amazons."The Amazons, bound to each other as lovers as well as fighters, distrusted the Greeks, with their boastful talk of "civilization." So when the great war queen Antiope fell in love with Theseus and fledwith the Greeks, the mighty Amazon nation rose up in rage. "Last of the Amazons" is not merely a masterful tale of war and revenge. Pressfield has created a cast of extraordinarilyvivid characters, from the unforgettable Selene, whose surrender to the Greeks does nothing to tame her; to her lover, Damon, an Athenian warrior who grows to cherish the wild Amazon ways; to the narrator, Bones, a younggirl from a noble family who was nursed by Selene from birth and secretly taught the Amazon way; to the great Theseus, the tragic king; and to Antiope, the noble queen who betrayed "tal Kyrte" for the loveof Theseus. With astounding immediacy and extraordinary attention to military detail, Pressfield transports readers into the heat and terror of war. Equally impressive is his creation of the Amazonnation, its people, its rituals and myths, its greatness and savagery. "Last of the Amazons" is thrilling on every page, an epic tale of the clash between wildness and civilization, patriotism and love, man and woman. "From the Hardcover edition."

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    Fallen Eden

      Nicole Williams
     Fallen Eden

If happily ever after were a place, twenty-year-old Bryn Dawson would be on the farthest planet from it. Reduced to stolen glances and secret meetings as they await a Betrothal the Council is bent on stalling, William and Bryn have to settle for happily right now, but with a man like William Hayward at her side, Bryn’s hardly settling. The day John Townsend sends an army of Immortal mercenaries intent on destroying everyone Bryn loves, she must make the decision generations of star-crossed lovers before her have—live alone or die together. William’s made his decision, Bryn’s the one fate’s waiting on. But fate will only wait so long until it makes the decision for her. Other books in the EDEN Trilogy: ETERNAL EDEN (released March 2011): Kindle young adult best-seller UNITED EDEN, the third and final installment coming in November 2011

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    The Enchanted Typewriter

      John Kendrick Bangs
     The Enchanted Typewriter

The Enchanted Type-Writer is a collection of short stories by the American author John Kendrick Bangs, written in 1899 in the style that has become known as Bangsian fantasy. Bangs attributes many of the stories to the late (and invisible) James Boswell, who has become an editor for a newspaper in Hades, and who communicates with the author by means of an old typewriter. The fantasy stories in this book are part of the author's Hades series, named for the stories' setting.

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    Opening Acts

      SFnovelists
     Opening Acts

SFNovelists.com proudly offers you twenty-five first chapters from forthcoming and currently available novels across the spectrum of science fiction and fantasy.Twenty-five First Chapters from Twenty-five WritersEvery reader knows that the trouble is not finding something to read, but finding something you want to read. Sometimes, it’s something familiar, something known. Sometimes it’s something new, something unexpected.SF Novelists proudly offers you twenty-five teasers, twenty-five first chapters across the spectrum of science fiction and fantasy. Twenty-five tastes, to tempt your appetite for adventure… to lure you into unknown worlds…And give you something new to read.Featuring:7th Sigma by Steven GouldBone Shop by T.A. PrattBones of Faerie by Janni Lee SimnerThe Brahms Deception by Louise MarleyCarousel Tides by Sharon LeeThe Cloud Road by Martha WellsDangerous Water by Juliet E. McKennaThe Dread Hammer by Trey ShielsFlesh and Fire by Laura Anne GilmanFright Court by Mindy KlaskyThe Heretic by Joseph NassiseHouse of the Star by Caitlin BrennanIndigo Springs by A.M. DellamonicaJade Tiger by Jenn ReeseKat, Incorrigible by Stephanie BurgisMedium Dead by Chris DolleyMidnight at Spanish Gardens by Alma AlexanderPlay Dead by John LevittShade by Jeri Smith-ReadyThe Snow Queen’s Shadow by Jim C. HinesSpellcast by Barbara AshfordThe Spirit Lens by Carol BergTruthSeeker by C.E. MurphyUp Against It by M.J. LockeWith Fate Conspire by Marie Brennan

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    The Fall - (A Young Adult Dystopian Novel)

      David Dawson
     The Fall - (A Young Adult Dystopian Novel)

Our future is bleak. Warring gods have destroyed the earth. Humanity lives fearful they could die at any moment. Ben Casper lives with his family in an old shopping mall, and he's about to find out there is a way to live without fear when he becomes embroiled in a quest to kill the gods...In a post apocalyptic world ravaged by the gods Ben Casper lives in a crumbling shopping mall called The Glass Palace with his family. He's just come back from a rites of passage into the brutal outside world that officially makes him an adult. Now he must get married and be trained to take over from his father as Mayor. Except he sees things differently now; he falls in love and makes a friend in a member of the Felum, a vicious human/cat hybrid tribe. He doesn't want responsibility. Only he might have it thrust upon him when he becomes embroiled in a conspiracy to kill the gods; a plot that could lead everyone he loves into mortal danger...This is the first volume of The God Slayers Trilogy.

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