Vortex on Vertu Prime by Andrew J. Harvey
The last thing Tania needs is someone else telling her what to do. Her mother does enough of that already! But during a school trip to the museum, she somehow finds herself gaining a bossy, alien teddy bear called Edward, who decides to adopt her.
When Tania, Edward, and her friends Mark and Windracer join Tania's mom on Vertu Station, they are put up in a 5-star hotel on part of the planet's sole remaining arcology; a massive, pyramid-shaped, self-contained city. But after Archaeologists accidentally activate an alien temporal warp generator, Tania, Mark, Windracer, and Edward are thrown backward through time. With Edward's power reserves dangerously low, it is up to the three friends to reach the generator and turn it off-before it destroys the planet. An exciting sequel to Crisis at Calista Station, Vortex on Vertu Prime invites readers to join Tania, Mark, and Windracer in a new adventure with new friends. AVAILABLE in paperback and ebook from Amazon.com , Barnes & Noble, and other great booksellers everywhere! |
Crisis at Calista Station by Andrew J. Harvey
Tania is tired of not having any friends because every time her mother changes her job they have to move. But this time Mom had really gone too far, dragging Tania away with her to a temporary posting as senior security officer on Calista Station. Things start to look up when Tania meets Mark and his friends Windracer and Shr’un. Shr’un’s father is a technician for Malachi Mining, the same company where Tania’s mom works.
But all is not well. Someone is stealing star-stones and smuggling them from the Station. When Shr’un’s father disappears, it appears he may have been involved, but then things go from bad to worse – Tania’s mom disappears as well! Now it is up to Tania, Mark, Windracer, and Shr’un, with a little help from Shr’un’s highly illegal AI, to solve the mystery and rescue the missing parents. An exciting sequel to The Trouble on Teral, Crisis at Calista Station invites readers to join Mark and Windracer in a new adventure with new friends. AVAILABLE in paperback and ebook from Amazon.com , Barnes & Noble, and from other great booksellers everywhere! |
Trouble on Teral by Andrew J. Harvey
Perhaps coming to visit his mom on Teral Four without her permission had not been one of Mark’s brightest ideas. But after she cancelled his visit to her archaeological dig, he had felt he had no choice. Now he wasn’t so sure.
When his dad, a Colonel in the UN Peacekeepers, found out, he was going to go ballistic. Unfortunately for Mark, the Llarst, violent aliens who already fought one war with Earth, have taken his mother and the other archaeologists hostage. And if the Llarst find what they’re looking for, all of Earth will be in danger. With just the assistance of Windracer, a young saurian on her first vision quest, and her elephant- sized groundhog, Mark must rescue his mother and her friends, stop the Llarst, and face his dad. Piece of Cake. AVAILABLE in paperback and ebook from Amazon.com , Barnes & Noble, and other great booksellers everywhere! |
Cold Fire by Sharayah Kells
“The stone for his life. It’s your choice.”
When the king of Iverastra is taken for ransom at the hands of the great wizard Melorvine, self-proclaimed ruler of all Khandren, his subjects are forced to give up the very artifact he has fought to protect: the Togan Eye stone. Daerem is a man of few friends, fewer words, and many secrets. But he is also the sworn protector of His Majesty and fiercely loyal. With his lord’s life suddenly hanging in the balance, he sets off in pursuit of the two men sent out to make the ransom exchange. Daerem must work with his two unwanted companions to uncover the truth behind the wizard’s actions and quickly. But trust is stretched to the breaking point. Daerem is not the only one in his party with a shadowed past. Can they really hope to upset the wizard’s schemes, a plan that has been simmering longer than anyone realized? Or will their own secrets destroy each other first? This first book of the epic fantasy series, The Banished Isle Quartet, is available from amazon.com and other great booksellers everywhere. |
The Journal of Ezekiel Walker by John Zelenski
In the fall of 1945, just after World War II, Ezekiel Walker has returned home on a furlough from his Civilian Public Service Unit. As Ezekiel tries to adjust to life at the farm, strange and unexplainable events begin to occur at the homestead.
When a stranger suddenly arrives with promises to rebuild the small town of Walker’s Vale, a portal to the supernatural is opened and lives will never be the same. With seemingly no one at his side, Ezekiel is forced to become the man he doubts he can become and to finally understand his part in the war between the angelic and the demonic. Find out how it all began in the thrilling prequel to Walker's Vale. The Journal of Ezekiel Walker is AVAILABLE in paperback and ebook on Amazon.com , Barnes & Noble, and from other great booksellers everywhere! |
WALKER'S VALE by John Zelenski
James Cooper moved his family to Walker’s Vale, Pennsylvania, in search of the ideal life. What he got was the just opposite. As this small town’s eerie history is revealed and repeated, it’s clear the devil is in the details-and he’s waiting for the Cooper’s young daughter. When the FBI come knocking at his door, James quickly realizes that his ideal life may come with a steeper price than he thought. This story of faith, deception, and horror will captivate readers as one man fights for his family’s safety and embarks on a journey toward redemption in this suspenseful supernatural thriller.
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NOT FAR FROM THE PEACH TREE by Sabrina Falk
Anxiety has become the only thing Abigail Hartley can count on. Jobless, dreamless, loveless and stuck living with her parents—this isn’t the 22 she had in mind.
But when tragic news rattles the Hartley household and years of secrecy begin to surface, Abigail can no longer hide behind her fears. She joins forces with her sarcastic, pre-teen sister and heads to the only place that might have the answers she’s looking for. One month in Georgia is all it takes to change everything Abigail knows about, well, everything. AVAILABLE in paperback and ebook on Amazon.com , Barnes & Noble, and from other great booksellers everywhere! |
PINE GAP by Brooks Rexroat
In the southeastern Kentucky town of Pine Gap, coal is the economy, faith is the community, and comings and goings are few and far between. This is home for Jamie Eskill and her family. Her father's life is in the mines, her mother has seldom been more than an hour from town, and her sister has twins that need her constant care.
Jamie may want more from life than Pine Gap can offer, but leaving is complicated. When she gets her ticket out, she's not sure whether to use it--until a disaster changes everything. AVAILABLE in paperback and ebook on Amazon.com , Barnes & Noble, and from other great booksellers everywhere! |
RHYMES WITH FOOL by Jim Courter
As a former investigative journalist, Milwaukee private eye Barry Pool is more adept at crafting sentences than at handling a gun. So when he’s asked to find the missing son of a prominent U.S. Senate candidate, he isn’t sure he wants to face the serious danger the job might entail, even though it would pay him more money than he has made since switching careers. He takes the job, accepting the risk for the sake of the money. But after uncovering a murderous neo-Nazi conspiracy and being drawn into a volatile mix of urban racial tension and high-stakes politics, he wonders if he’ll live to spend it.
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LABOR DAY By Joseph Farley
In the future, humans enriched with cockroach DNA dominate the planet. The enhanced scurry to and from impoverished homes. The rich get richer. The poor get poorer. Unions are outlawed.
Tom Fried works for a giant cockroach at a firm that specializes in items for upscale insectoid clientele. He works hard to get by, while a small elite, made up mostly of bugs, lives it up. Tom doesn’t complain. It would just make things worse. Conversations are monitored, and he doesn’t want to draw the attention of the dreaded National Harmony Bureau. Unsettling news from his daughter, however, forces Tom to re-evaluate his accepted reality. From the rantings of an old man about the return of unions, to clandestine meetings with shadowed strangers, events begin to convince Tom that his complacent existence is no longer possible as he and his family are drawn into a struggle that has the potential to change everything. Labor Day is now available from amazon.com, Barnes&Noble, and great booksellers everywhere! |
RIDE TO DAYLIGHT by Alyssa Thiessen
Two long years. No electronic technology. No end in sight.
Robyn Kinley is in the fight of her life. Trapped in a crumbling, powerless city, she does what she can to survive and keep her little sister safe. After all, no one gets out of River Ridge. The violent gangs that run the streets make sure of that. When a split-second decision forces Robyn into an alliance with the volatile Nate Cooper, one wrong move is all it takes to endanger everything they care about. With faith in short supply and no time to lose, they'll race the dawn together towards the only way out. "Alyssa Thiessen elevates her post-apocalyptic YA novel with thrilling pacing and crisp prose. Involving and exciting, Ride to Daylight is a book that brings the conceptual freshness of bikes in a broken world and makes it work on its own narrative terms." - Manitoba Book Awards Jury Citation Ride to Daylight is available in Paperback and ebook on Amazon.com and other great booksellers everywhere. |
INFUSION by Alyssa Thiessen
Rachel is ordinary. Average. Utterly unremarkable... until her best friend shoots her on her 16th birthday and a stranger brings her from death's doorstep with an infusion of his own DNA.
Then everything gets weird. She heals impossibly fast. She senses the thoughts of others. She sees places and horrifying creatures that couldn't possibly exist, and her new friend Tyler is convinced she's destined to save the world from their invasion. Can she trust him? Can she trust herself? How's she supposed to stop inter-dimensional invaders when she can barely deal with high school? Ready or not, here they come. Available now in paperback and ebook on Amazon.com and other great booksellers! |
DRAGONFLY By Alyssa Thiessen
Eighteen-year-old Joshua Miller is great at being invisible, despite the four, large, insect-like wings protruding from his back and his knack for high-rise robberies. He can remember almost nothing of his life before Nik found him and taught him his trade. Now he’s alone, and he likes it that way.
When Joshua unexpectedly meets Lexi on a job, his simple, uncomplicated existence shifts. Although he intends to remain uninvolved, something about her captivates him and he begins to let her in. As he navigates the strange nuances of a relationship with a girl as desperate to be different as he is to be ordinary, he becomes increasingly aware that he is not who he wants to be for her. Confronted by the past he’d forgotten and a family he didn’t know existed, Joshua must decide for himself where he belongs and who holds the key to his future. Dragonfly is now available in both paperback and e-book through Amazon.com and other great booksellers! |
A HOSER'S GUIDE TO CANADIAN HISTORY By Kirt Purdy
The great thing about being Canadian is simply this: we don’t take ourselves too seriously, which works out pretty well because no one else on the planet takes us seriously, either.
“A Hoser’s Guide to Canadian History” is your ticket to those “Canadian” things you may have missed during your water-cooler discussions, online chats, or seventeen-hour wait in the local emergency room. Canada has an exciting past, full of events that have brought us to where we are now. Like all countries, we have some things we’d like to forget, but most of those unpleasant moments happened because we had morons in Parliament, something that doesn’t happen anymore. Canadians have no need to apologize for being nice, honest, and caring people. So, please enjoy this book, and if you don’t, well, I’m sorry. A Hoser's Guide to Canadian History is now available from amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and great booksellers everywhere! |
FOR AS LONG AS ZEBRAS ARE STRIPED Written by Julia Schettler & Ilustrated by Sarah Neville
Manitoba author Julia Schettler sensitively explores the topics of fostering and adoption in this picture book. Illustrated in beautiful watercolour by Winnipeg artist Sarah Neville, For As Long As Zebras are Striped tells the story of the Gallopers, a close-knit zebras family, and their foster colt Zac. Readers of all ages are invited to journey with the characters as they navigate the challenges and discover the joys of becoming a forever family. This book is the second collaboration between Schettler and Neville. Their first book, Fur is Only Fur Deep, offers a look at international adoption. It was the recipient of the McNally Robinson Books for Young People Award in 2016 and was nominated in the Best Children’s Illustrator category. For As Long As Zebras Are Striped is available from Amazon.ca, McNally Robinson Booksellers, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and other great booksellers everywhere. |
FUR IS ONLY FUR DEEP Written by Julia Schettler & Ilustrated by Sarah Neville
The Award winning Fur Is Only Fur Deep tells the story of Jai Jai, a curious little panda cub who lives at the Beary Nice Orphanage. He dreams of having a superhero father and a furever family. Will his dreams come true? Come along with Jai Jai as he discovers that fur is only fur deep. With its clear focus on international adoption, inclusion, and seeing past differences, this beautifully illustrated children's book is perfect for both the home and the classroom. Fur Is Only Fur Deep is the Recipient of the 2016 McNally Robinson Books for Young People Award in the Younger Category. Fur Is Only Fur Deep is available from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and many other great booksellers! |
BIGGER THAN THE STORM By Cristina Plett
Jethro loves playing outside, but when his sunny day turns into a storm, he faces his biggest fear. With the guidance of his mom, Jethro realizes that in all of life's storms, he has a mighty God who walks with him through it all.
A sweet story about fear and faith by Manitoba author Cristina Plett. Available now from amazon.ca and great booksellers everywhere. |