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  You Need a Bigger Sword - A...

  Natalie Grey

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  Enter the world of Metamorphosis Online, a fully immersive video game where players compete for spots in the Global Top 10—ranks that actually pay you to play the game.
  
  Gracie doesn't play the game to make money...at first.
  
  Broke, single, and working a crappy job as a blackjack dealer, Gracie's just blowing off steam and having fun.
  
  Can playing a new type of immersive game help her overcome real-life issues, or will it cause more problems?
  
  Before she knows it, Gracie has intervened in a generations-long war between the kobolds and the fae and started a ragtag guild, and her weird math abilities make themselves known in a way that most could not have imagined.
  
  Can she deal with being pitted against the game developers?
  
  For the first time Gracie can remember, she has something worth fighting for.

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  The Crossroads

  L. Ron Hubbard

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  Farmer Eben Smith is fed up with big government paying him to bury his crops while folks starve in the streets. He's loading up his fruits and vegetables, and heading for the city. But before he can trade in his turnips, he'll have to deal with something bigger — a break in the space/time continuum — as he plunges into strange new worlds, wreaking havoc in all of them.

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  Anything You Say Can and Will Be...

  Laurie Lynn Drummond

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  This riveting debut collection of short fiction about women cops comes from the author's real–life experience as a Baton Rouge police officer. In an entirely fresh and unique voice, these stories reveal the humanity, compassion, humour, tragedy and redemption hidden behind the "blue wall." Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You centres on the lives of five female police officers. Each woman's story–like each call in a police officer's day–varies in its unique drama, but all the tales illuminate the tenuous line between life and death, violence and control, despair and salvation. Because the stories come from the author's own experience, they open a curtain on the truth behind the job–how officers are trained to deal with the smell of death, how violence clings to a crime scene long after the crime is committed, how the police determine when to engage in or diffuse violence, why some people make it from the academy to the force and some don't, and all the friendships, romances, and dramas that happen along the way. It illuminates not only how officers feel while they are in uniform, holding their guns, but also what they feel after they go home and put those guns aside.

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  Green Light to Paradise

  J. R. Dwornik

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  What do you call a group of super-powered people trying to save the world? 
  Not heroes, that’s for sure... 
   
  It’s been over 20 years since mysterious impact points opened up, bringing forth frightening creatures and infecting certain people with strange and terrible powers. Fortunately, normal people can rest easy thanks to Sentinel—a private security force equipped to handle threats both monstrous and human. 
   
  There’s just one problem: Kali, the daughter of Sentinel president Gregory Zakorra, is infected. Her ability has brought her nothing but bad luck and she has spent her life trying to hide it. 
   
  Then, a chance mistake pits her against the company she was set to inherit. Sentinel is up to something way off the business plan, but no one would move against humanity’s saviour. Looks like it’s up to Kali to become the villain the city needs. 
   
  What could go wrong?

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  The Rostical Quest - The...

  Michael Rogers

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  Written as a script for a video game, a manga and RPG-inspired story, this stand-alone tale follows Ashton Lighten, a 20-year-old Psychology Honours student, who is transported to a world of elemental manipulators. The years following the events of The Rostical Users and The Rostical Guild series have resulted in many changes in this alternate dimension. 
  Ashton, armed with the memories of his parents, faces off against the nefarious magical clones, Rondria, Nostias and Abios, who seek to unleash a dangerous and powerful being upon the world. Immediately finding himself on a strange new continent, he must rely on new allies to save the world – and find his way back to all he knows. 
  Vunillo has been a slave for his entire life and only now understands the injustice done to him. With Ashton by his side, he must learn to master both his unique powers and his own identity beyond societal expectations. 
  Dhiya lives to serve her people, until Dhisha, her best friend, sends her away with an unusual order. She joins the quest with Ashton and Vunillo, seeking their help to try to find her reason to live. 
  Grieving from the events of a dark past, Zenobia thirsts both for revenge and the cold comfort of alcohol. A chance encounter in a catacomb and an alliance of necessity, forces her into a grudging respect for our heroes. Can she learn to trust again, learn to heal from her deep wounds? 
  The Rostical Quest explores how these four unlikely friends come together to save the world and as a family. Please follow their adventure and help them see it through to the end!

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  Ray Cummings: The Flame Breathers

  Raymond King Cummings

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  Did the planet Vulcan exist? It supposedly orbited our sun on the opposite side from the Earth but it was only theoretical speculation. One expedition had mysteriously disappeared, and now another was following in its path—searching for the truth about this planet's existence. Was there really an unknown menace that stalked Vulcan's shadowed gorges? I can tell you now that there was indeed something terrifying and very dangerous. This was first published in Planet Stories March 1943.

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