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In an alternate present the minds of teen offenders are uploaded into computers for rehabilitation—a form of virtual wilderness therapy. Zach is a homo cognoscens, one of the new humans who can navigate the Fulgrid. Though still a high school student, he is indentured to the Fulgur Corporation as a counsellor. Laura is a homo sapiens. Their story is part . . .
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After her mother died in a car accident, Sue Daysdale never expected to stumble upon the family secret—that the mild-mannered soccer mom who taught her how to dance, sing, and properly dress a wound was the Skull, one of the most legendary (and terrifying) super-heroes alive. Now, saddled with an unpaid mortgage, a drug-addicted guardian, and a basement full of . . .
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Nolan Cooper has a big secret. He invented and built an airplane, and he’s going to test fly it himself . . . if he can cut fourth period! Solo Flight is the story of a boy and his clashes with the authorities when he chooses an unusual path in life. . . .
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Seth Morrigan is kind of a loner. He has his herb garden, his alchemy, his experiments and tinctures. These are enough. Until he is beaten up by bullies. Until Caitlyn Wilson takes an interest in him. Until cracks begin to show in the perfection of time and space. . . .
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And the only one who knows the true story is a teenaged Mexican streetpunk who deals dope, smuggles wetbacks, and breeds gamecocks in Tijuana. And he wishes he didn’t know. Fatherless boys often have the fantasy of a Dream Dad showing up; rich, powerful and ready to pluck them out of squalor and insecurity into the lap of luxury. . . .
“The House of Sever” is a light-hearted historical romance novel, following the journey of Rhema de Frees, a tomboy baroness living in fictional 19th century Gallia. Though Rhema would like nothing better than to remain happily obscure with her family and her childhood crush, Jonathan, circumstances beyond her control thrust her into the world of society, politics, revolution, and love. . . .
Evonalé has never cared for tales of loathsome tyrants, seduced maids, and prophesied saviors. In the world of Aleyi, prophecies always come true. Evonalé herself is supposed to somehow free her grandmother’s enslaved queendom. But she’s merely a child, and her father is the powerful fire mage who subjugates the realm. Evonalé has therefore fled home, her two half-siblings, . . .
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Stories with a nice dose of the unusual: A demon who rebels against Lucifer; a girl whose family adopts a robot; childhood friends who reunite on board a space elevator. Science fiction and fantasy, with occasional dips-of-the-toe into other genres. The main blog also includes drawings and comments on writing. . . .
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Morgan Silver lives in the City of Night, but she is terrified of the dark. Sandy Banks lives in the City of Light, but her skin burns too easily in the sunshine. The two teenagers live in a city like no city in our world; a city divided, where magic is the controlling force and Sorcerers clash with Witches for . . .
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In an alternate present the minds of teen offenders are uploaded into computers for rehabilitation—a form of virtual wilderness therapy. Zach is a homo cognoscens, one of the new humans who can navigate the Fulgrid. Though still a high school student, he is indentured to the Fulgur Corporation as a counsellor. Laura is a homo sapiens. Their story is part . . .
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Set in a world where high school meets high treason, Mind + Body sees protagonist and narrator Chris Baker under fire from rogue elements inside the Marine Corps, the FBI, and a handful of paid killers as he attempts to uncover a conspiracy that seems to envelop his entire life. Chris leads an entirely normal life until his father, . . .
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A novella about Ty, Furball, Bourbon, and their friends in Java, Missouri, and their very busy week before Thanksgiving. Bourbon risks losing his boyfriend over a bad choice at a party, Ty struggles against the tide of rumors at school, and Furball’s friends try to pull him out of his own potentially destructive slump. . . .
Sequel to Island Peoples Hadassah was worried about this new husband her father had betrothed her to, the Prince Royal. What would he be like? She had heard all sorts of strange things about him, his father, his friends, and his plans. And Ishvi, on the other hand, was angry. His foolish uncle had gone and joined in . . .
"Listen, sugar, some things never change. Once a nigger lover, always a nigger lover. Only now they call them augers."
I have put off writing this review for the longest time. I finished Corvus at the tail end of 2009, and then had a few conversations with Lee, its author, not [more . . .]
No Fowarding Address tells us the story of Edward, a spoiled rich kid who finds himself suddenly immersed in a culture totally foreign to his own. In the first 36 chapters, we see how we copes with the dislocation and the language barrier and grows to adopt the mores of his adopted folk. The writing is clean and accessible, [more . . .]