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Pumping Your Muse [MultiFormat]
by Donna Sundblad
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Drive your imagination through a series of world-building drills with Pumping Your Muse. Each chapter extracts elements from the real world and uses them to construct a believable fictional realm while giving birth to naturally emerging characters. This innovative process takes fresh scenes, turns them upside down and propels fresh ideas into new un-chartered territories where thought processes depart from the path of the obvious. Following the examples in this book, writer's newly conceived sce... more info>> (Published: 2005)
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Return to UKOO [MultiFormat]
by Don Hurst
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Return to UKOO is an engaging fantasy/satire. Is life itself a Wizard Tae illusion? Return to UKOO has some fun with the answer as 40-year-old homicide detective Dale Hern is drawn into an alternate world to discover who and what he really is. Can he survive the stink of Poo Pool; Pet dragon Burney; a duck riding race of three-foot-tall Migolites; Running out of bullets? Hold your breath and expect to smile as imagination and humor meet in the magic of fantasy. (Published: 2004)
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Second Time Around [MultiFormat]
by Linda M. Faulkner
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What do you do when the dead body you stumble across turns out to belong to your father, the father you thought abandoned you in infancy? That's what Timmie Campbell asks herself. Turns out her mother has been lying for years: about her father's abandonment, about him not contacting them, about a lot of things. Unfortunately, Timmie can't dwell on her mother's dishonesty because she has to deal with the stalker who's monitoring her every move outside her mountain home in western Montana and the ... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Shanghaied Heart [MultiFormat]
by Chuck Lyons
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Rachael, at fifteen, needs a good husband--in the worst possible way. Catholic and the lone Black teenager living on the fringes of a 1960s Pacific Northwest farming community, she is pregnant from a violent rape. As her only hope to protect her father, her unborn child, and herself from the rapist's retaliatory death threats, she maneuvers an unwilling fellow student into a shotgun marriage to disguise the source of her pregnancy. But marriage to a White boy during this era highlighted by the U... more info>>
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Sister Warrior [World of Altiva Series Book 4] [MultiFormat]
by Teel James Glenn
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Welcome to the sensual, savage and fantastic world of Altiva. It is a world of crystal-smiths and warp wizards, first visited in the novel Death at Dragonthroat where Ku'zn, blue furred warrior woman of the Z'n, gained her freedom from slavery. Now she begins a journey to free her brother, who along with her had been sold into contract bondage to save her tribe. She visits the strange, plague-wracked city of Orania only to encounter bigotry and deception in her search for him. It is a quest that... more info>>
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Steel Town [MultiFormat]
by John P. Matsis
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Two boys, the best of friends, come to age in the steamy jungle of a distant land, a place as foreign as a distant planet. The enemy more determined than believed, is more than willing to sacrifice his life. In the arena of war, the will to survive is tested in a chess match of life and death, where disfigurement becomes a reality--during a firestorm of battle a face becomes a half a face, a "pretty boy" is no longer the vision of a Greek god. Boyhood dreams are put to task and the bonds of frie... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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Switcheroo [MultiFormat]
by Herbert Holeman
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Fired without warning from his analyst job in San Francisco, Nick Oliver retreats to the solitude of the coastal redwoods. While pondering his future at a cozy cafe, a stranger approaches and introduces herself. Erin Archer insists that Nick, or that place where he worked, is involved in the death of her father. Although Nick has never met Erin's father, he reluctantly makes queries at his former place of employment, which pulls Nick and Erin into a non-stop adventure involving fraudulent stock ... more info>> (Published: 2007) EPPIE Award Finalist
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Tales of a Warrior Priest [World of Altiva Series Book 2] [MultiFormat]
by Teel James Glenn
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Return to the world of Altiva, first visited in the novel Death at Dragonthroat, a world of crystal magic and cruel combat where young Lord Erique Shoutte becomes a master swordsman and a devoted priest of the Kova religion. Follow his adventures in a series of linked short stories as he quests for love, knowledge and martial perfection and fights serpents, dictators, demons and deadly damsels along the way. These tales that range from the heroic, to the mysterious to swashbuckling adventure. In... more info>> (Published: 2006)
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The Aztec Eagle [MultiFormat]
by Catherine Wells
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A young Mexican boy dreams of escaping his life of poverty and joining the interstellar Peacekeeper Pilot Corps. He longs to serve with his hero El Capitán in the war against rebels on distant Alpha. With fierce determination he polishes the skills he needs to succeed: math, science, and an extraordinary psionic gift. His extrasensory perception makes him an ideal candidate for a neural implant bonding pilot and plane. But it can't spare him treachery and betrayal as he struggles to attain his g... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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The Boy and the Warrior [MultiFormat]
by Julia Macdonell
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The Brazilian slave boy, Bento, follows his cruel master into the mountains and witnesses his supernatural disappearance. Alone, he finds his way home. To his surprise his master's widow frees her slaves to become sharecroppers, and Bento helps build a cooperative farm. Two years later, he meets the ancient black King Zumbi in a vision. The warrior invites him to travel back in time to his 17th century kingdom. Hardship and adventure prepare Bento for life in past time where he lives among the a... more info>>
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The Bratwurst Kidnapping [MultiFormat]
by David Hayes
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Karl Von Steppeon's young wife, Liesel, has gone missing. Not certain if she ran away or was snatched, Karl keeps it out of the media and decides to hire the Connute Agency made up of two French Canadian PI's, Roofy Contu and Pec LaNute. If not for their remarkable reputation for bagging the bad guys, they could be mistaken as the second coming of Laurel and Hardy. Weaving through the tapestry of intrigue, attempted murders, and a double cross, Roofy and Pec come across some very colorful indivi... more info>>
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The Daemonhold Curse [World of Altiva Series Book 3] [MultiFormat]
by Teel James Glenn
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Erique Shoutte, warrior priest of the Kova, five years earlier failed to save Lady Caution Daemon from a horrible death. Now her younger sister, Fidelity, has come to him for protection from the same sinister threat. This ancient curse warns that each female of the line will die, drained of blood, before the morning of her twenty-first birthday. No Daemon female has survived in three hundred years. Now, the cycle has begun again with the deaths of three that always precede the murder of a Daemon... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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The Lucifer Syndrome [MultiFormat]
by David Conway
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A madman known as the Samaritan embarks on a homicidal crusade, unleashing a reign of terror that exposes a decadent underworld of vice and depravity lurking beneath the surface of metropolitan London. Investigating the crimes with the help of Dr. Cassandra Stark, a brilliant and enigmatic psychiatrist, Inspector James Verlaine uncovers a labyrinthine network steeped in perversion and political corruption?and a sinister conspiracy dedicated to an extreme totalitarian agenda. Drawing closer to th... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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The Magic & the Mundane: A Guide to the Writer's Journey [MultiFormat]
by P. June Diehl
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Tap into your own creative process and unique voice! Learn how to combine the magical art of writing with the mundane daily work of learning the craft. Journey with Esumera, muse extraordinaire, and her feline companion, Mystique, as they inspire you to explore the magic of writing and elevate the mundane. Internalize what you learn from examples and writing exercises to inspire and motivate your creativity. Included as a bonus is a Writer's Book of Days, which includes over 350 unique and inspi... more info>> (Published: 2005)
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The Vision Quest Factor [MultiFormat]
by Teel James Glenn
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James Morningeagle is one of four human children kidnapped by the alien Mensorsa to be raised on their world for the purpose of controlling mankind's destiny. Returned to the Earth with the given name of Christopher Monitor, he encounters a government telepath named Satan from whom he learns what it is to be human while fighting sinister forces of a drug cartel that know the secret of the monitors. Phillip Simon killed a man in a fit of jealously and is condemned to die. The Mensorsa offer him a... more info>>
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Windwalker [MultiFormat]
by Donna Sundblad
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Hundreds of years ago, the Stygian race welcomed disease-riddled Jonnick to their shores despite prophetic warnings. Concealed powers of darkness disembark with the refugees. Subsequent generations of conflict draw lines of division between the two cultures unaware that the spirit of the Mage lives within the queen. Paranoia and fear prompt the issuance of royal decrees designed to thwart the coming of the Stygian savior--the Arich. Midwives ordered to report the birth of any child born on a moo... more info>> (Published: 2006)
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Word Castles: A Book of Poetry [Adobe Acrobat (PDF)]
by Tom Spencer
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Prepare yourself for a gourmet feast with this collection of poetry. The rich tapestry will spark your imagination and challenge you with thought-provoking themes. Spencer offers you poetry that is at times humorous, often poignant and haunting, always unforgettable, honest, compelling, evocative and inspirational. When Spencer puts pen to paper, you feel his intensity as he expresses his thoughts, tells his story in poetic form, and gives you his profound insights into life itself. Tom Spencer'... more info>>
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