So far I am really liking Boise, Idaho. There are the nicest people here and my host has introduced me one one of the most fantastic foods. Steak fingers. Just like fish sticks, but with steak. It’s really gonna be hard to leave here.
Stray (Touchstone)
Andrea K. Höst
Genre: Science Fiction | Teen & Young Adult
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Part 1 of the Touchstone trilogy.
On her last day of high school, Cassandra Devlin walked out of exams and into a forest. Surrounded by the wrong sort of trees, and animals never featured in any nature documentary, Cass is only sure of one thing: alone, she will be lucky to survive.
The sprawl of abandoned blockish buildings Cass discovers offers her only more puzzles. Where are the people? What is the intoxicating mist which drifts off the buildings in the moonlight? And why does she feel like she’s being watched?
Increasingly unnerved, Cass is overjoyed at the arrival of the formidable Setari. Whisked to a world as technologically advanced as the first was primitive, where nanotech computers are grown inside people’s skulls, and few have any interest in venturing outside the enormous whitestone cities, Cass finds herself processed as a ‘stray’, a refugee displaced by the gates torn between worlds. Struggling with an unfamiliar language and culture, she must adapt to virtual classrooms, friends who can teleport, and the ingrained attitude that strays are backward and slow.
Can Cass ever find her way home? And after the people of her new world discover her unexpected value, will they be willing to let her leave?
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Before She Dies (Slaughter Creek)
Rita Herron
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Romance
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She thought this small town nestled in the Tennessee mountains was the perfect place to raise a family…until she found out what was happening to the children in Slaughter Creek…
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Counting the Wounds
Lyn Coffin
Genre: Literary Fiction | Contemporary Fiction
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Praise for Lyn Coffin’s Writing: “Lyn Coffin… respects the contours of reality and gives us, in a most unusual form, a story about illusion and self-deception.”–Joyce Carol Oates, about Coffin’s story “Falling Off the Scaffold”, published in The Best American Short Stories 1979
In her short story “Counting the Wounds”, Coffin again wrestles with the topics of reality and illusion, truth and facade. It is the seventh day of the rest of Susan’s life — a life in which an unexpected tragedy has called everything into question.
Counting the Wounds is a story told obliquely – its style mirroring Susan’s experience as she is faced with a brutal reality: What Susan wants she has lost; what she says she no longer wants, becomes all she has left. The story circles, never looking directly at the event that has overturned Susan’s world until the end when Susan must accept that the only way past grief is to move directly through it.
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Finding Stones (Tales From A 20 Year Old Witch)
Tiffany Luv Wright
Genre: Contemporary Fiction | Horror | Teen & Young Adult
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20 year old Jaxx had everything a girl could dream of, until she meets her lifes mission in the mines of New Mexico, beginning a descent in to a world of witchcraft, ancient demon enemies, and Immortal lives, realizing that growing up means coming to terms with the eternal battle between good and evil, and the line blurring at every turn. It introduces new enemies and fictional characters, as well as a strong and independent young heroine.
Jaxx had moved around her entire life, until settling in Silver City, NM., where she meets the best friends she cannot imagine her life without. She enters in to a world of witchcraft handed down in her family for centuries, and learns that sometimes you have to hold on to those friendships in the physical and spiritual world in order to continue the journey.
Gut-wrenching losses, eternal battles between good and evil, and finally able to let go of the material world, Jaxx slides in to an Underworld where witches, spirits, Immortals, Lusts, and other demonic creatures rule. She loses some of the people closest to her, and gains new relationships that are furious with love and purpose.
The evil lurking right around the corner is bad enough, but when she realizes how fine the line is between good and evil, it threatens to consume all of the love she has known. She draws her power from earthly stones, and each person has a power connected to the elemental stones destined to them. As her battle pushes on, she realizes that she has only tapped the surface of what exists in our world.
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Chadwick Yates and the Cannibal Shrine (The Adventures of Chadwick Yates)
Brad Williams
Genre: Children’s eBooks
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The Adventures of Chadwick Yates
With safari adventure and steampunk charm, “The Adventures of Chadwick Yates” brings fantasy out of the middle ages and into an industrial era.Express rifles and minotaurs collide as an ambassador and his secretary go on an expedition of the Black Continent of Tanzia, where strange sentient races and wicked sentinels of dark majik fight for territory.The pair must adapt to the curious cultures and fantastic customs of Gremlins, Faeries, Anurans, and others to make allies, and they must fight off the pets that a long-begone sorcerer left behind:cannibals, scarecrows, minotaurs, and gargoyles of living stone.Written as Sherlock Holmes-like short stories and in the same style as Victorian adventure classics, it’s steampunk with a 100% realistic twist –every gadget and gun did exist or could exist with the period’s technology.
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