Young adult novel of witches

Elizabeth Laird, a highly acclaimed children's author, has written a young adult novel of witches in Scotland.

Everyone knows the devil is real. Everyone knows that witches exist. Everyone knows that saying the wrong thing can get you hanged . . . When fourteen-year-old Maggie's grandmother is accused of witchcraft, Maggie has to run for her life. But Scotland is in the grip of terror and Maggie runs straight into danger, falling into the hands of the English. Defying the king can be deadly, but falling in line is unthinkable. Maggie must learn to stand up for herself if she is to survive.

The Witching Hour, a lengthy novel (432 pages), is available for only $4.92.

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Sci-Fi short stories for less than a buck

Science fiction in small bites, A Brief Interval is written by Bill Clem.

In this collection of eighteen short stories, the author takes readers on a journey that stretches the imagination to its limit. . . .

A hard-nosed publishing executive gets more than she bargained for after searching for the writer of a mysterious manuscript . . . a trip to the hospital turns out to be a horrifying revelation for one drunk driver . . . an old house hides a long-lost secret of incredible evil . . . and a chronically-ill child is miraculously healed by a couple of unearthly visitors.

Today A Brief Interval is available for only $.99.

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Vampires, witches, and more

When Alicia Anderson, a no-nonsense computer operator encounters a vampire among the machinery, she must resolve the difference between what her logical mind tells her and what she is actually experiencing.

Unbeknown to her, fledgling witch Matricaria has begun to receive psychic messages - vivid dreams and tarot card readings - that point to a terrible fate for someone nearby. She and her coven attempt to decipher the symbols, hoping to prevent a tragedy. Soon the lives of these very different women join forces against the unknown.

Written by Morven Westfield, Darksome Thirst is available for $4.98.

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Sillouette Nocturne selling cheap

If you love paranormal romance, here's a bargain.

Bren Korbinian is unique: the last of the raven-kind. He long ago accepted there was no future--no wife or children--for him. But when he sees the petite blonde woman entering the only other cabin on "his" mountain, something stirs inside him.

Miranda Lynch speaks with ghosts, helping those in need of solace. The last thing she expects is to meet a man who speaks to something deep inside her, filling her dreams with erotic promise.

But discovery and joy are touched with danger--there is an organization that wants the world free of "freaks" like Bren and Miranda. They will stop at nothing to ensure that Korbinian is the last of his kind.

Last of the Ravens is available today for only $2.56.

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SuperCheap Free! The Last Drop

SuperCheap Free! The Last Drop sci-fi by L. Ron Hubbard.

Description:
A humorous tale about a New York bartender who receives mysteriously special potions from Borneo which can make people grow or shrink depending on which one they drink. When our hero uses the potion to deal with some unfriendly mobsters, the results are comic and riotously unpredictable-including an unexpected run-in with a dogfish.

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SuperCheap Free! The Dangerous Dimension

SuperCheap Free! The Dangerous Dimension, a sci-fi thriller by L. Ron Hubbard.

Description:
Dr. Henry Mudge undergoes a striking personality change when he discovers a mathematical formula "Equation C" that defines a mysterious negative dimension. He is instantly transported to any location in the solar system by merely thinking of it--even when he doesn't want to.

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PNR fans - Heart of the Witch

There is a monster on the loose, a serial killer murdering young women near Oklahoma City. On each corpse he writes his name in blood: THE TIN MAN But while the villain claims to be heartless, he's not beyond making a mistake. This time he left his prey alive, and ex-homicide detective Nick Lassiter plans to use her to crack the case wide open.

Yet, Ravyn Skyler is nothing like he expects. She remembers little of the crime, and for a victim, she has a deep reserve of quiet strength. In her eyes he sees both helpless waif and merciless vigilante, and in her kiss he tastes both passion and power. With a tale of a tin man, it only seems fair that there's a witch. And this witch guards a secret that threatens not only their lives, but their souls.

Alicia Dean has created an edgy tale with lost souls, vengeful enemies, and a magical journey in Heart of the Witch , which is available today for $2.56.

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SuperCheap Free! Four short stories to pre-order

SuperCheap Free! Tor.Com, a division of Macmillan, is offering the four awards finalist in their short stories competition free for pre-order. These have been available for several days, but did not have a description. Here are the descriptions and links.

Overtime by Charles Stross: Introduced to readers in the novels The Atrocity Archive and The Jennifer Morgue, the Laundry is a secret British government agency charged with preventing dark interdimensional entities from destroying the human race. Now, in Overtime, the Laundry is on a skeleton staff for Christmas - leaving one bureaucrat to be all that stands between the world and annihilation by the Thing That Comes Down Chimneys. Written especially for Tor.com's holiday season, Charles Stross's novelette is a finalist for the 2010 Hugo Award.

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First Flight by Mary Robinette Kowal: The past is another country, in Mary Robinette Kowal's Tor.com tale of time travel and aviation history. First Flight is a finalist for the 2010 Locus Award.

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A Memory of Wind by Rachel Swirsky: The heroes are eager to sail to Troy for war, but the wind is still. To fill their sails and set out, they must sacrifice Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia--and how does a human girl become the wind? The starkness and psychological insight of Rachel Swirsky?s Tor.com story earned it a place among the finalists for the 2010 Nebula Award.

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Eros, Philia, Agape by Rachel Swirsky: Originally published on Tor.com, Rachel Swirsky's contemporary tale of love in all its forms--and of one robot's quest to know it, and himself, on his own terms--is a finalist for the 2010 Hugo Award and the 2010 Locus Award.

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Deja vu all over again - caught in a time loop

Ever read a book description and think, "Huh?" That's exactly how I felt about this book description. If you are a fantasy or sci-fi fan, this may make perfect sense. Near as I can tell, it is a "Groundhog Day" kind of experience.

Here's a short synopsis of the book:
Every day seems perfect to Kitty, but what she doesn't know is that a villain has looped her reality - and only the Wire Crossers and the handsome time-anomaly specialist Q can save her.

Irreversible, written by Liz Maverick, is available today for only $3.34.

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Debut novel by Erica Wagner

Raised by her father, Janet is shocked when she learns that she has inherited a house from her mother, long thought dead. The key in hand, Janet travels north to an old stone cottage at the sea's edge.

Tom hides away in an old stone cottage at the sea's edge, waiting. He was raised by his mother, traveling from one place to another, his only stability the stories she told him-stories of shape-shifters, danger, impossible love....

When Janet arrives, she is surprised to find Tom and to find herself mysteriously drawn to him. In Erica Wagner's "haunting debut novel", lives and stories become so interwoven that, in the end, all distinctions are lost. Reading group guide included.

Seizure is available today for only $2.88.

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Two cheap books in Christine Feehan's Dark series

Christine Feehan is one of the most-beloved authors of fantasy romance. She has written a many-volumed series known as the Dark series. The seventeenth and eighteenth books in the series are available for cheap prices for the Kindle now.

Book seventeen, Dark Celebration, is the book in which the blood-drinking, mind-reading, shape-shifting Carpathian clan and their human friends gather for Christmas. (Not a typical Christmas for my family!) The guests hunt vampires, confront a dark mage and, most importantly, face the extinction of their species due to a mysteriously low birth rate and high infant mortality.

Dark Celebration is available for Kindle for only $4.63.

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Book eighteen, Dark Possession, is the story of vampire Manolito De La Cruz who has caught the scent of his destined lifemate in MaryAnn Delaney, an all-too-human female who'd never surrender herself to an aggressive and brutish Carpathian male. But maybe MaryAnn doesn't have a choice.

Dark Possession is cheap today for only $2.60.

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Two cheap novels for PNR (Paranormal Romance) fans

Written by Trish Lamoree, Painting the Roses Red and Never Smile at a Crocodile are the first two of the four-novel PSI Consulting Mystery series. Reviewers have given her books high praise. One reviewer said Painting the Roses Red was the "best ESP romance ever." Others called it riveting and engaging. Never Smile at a Crocodile reviewers say the book has humor, mystery, romance, and magic.

Painting the Roses Red is available for only $2.39:

Tiara wakes all alone to strange psychic powers, bloody visions, and no memory. As she seeks to find herself, she is taunted by a phantom seducer in her mind. It would seem that he is leading her on a merry adventure to find her identity, but is he the lover whose touch she craves or a madman intent on destroying her mind? He sends her pristine white roses, but their purity is tainted with the dripping of bright red blood upon their petals.

Follow Tiara into the rabbit hole as she chases her dreams from a truck stop in California to the underside of Las Vegas. This deep, dark fantasy tumbles Tiara through her first love at a high school reunion, a mystical Indian ritual, the dark underbelly of a Las Vegas bondage club, and a secret psychic society hidden in the cellars of the casinos. From a Renaissance festival to a Mexican cruise to the fantasies of her own mind come to life in vivid detail on this wild ride.

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Never Smile at a Crocodile is only $2.39:

Rianna was having the luckiest day of her life.- Oh, it started out as good luck.- She opened a portal.- She got a great guy.- She made the earth move and the heavens open with rain.- It was a pretty good day, but just as she gets her miracle guy home, she's got trouble.

Dead Body Trouble! Who'd want to put a dead body on her couch? And why'd they have to pick today?

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Sci-Fi going cheap

Not my cup of tea, but if you love sci-fi and fantasy, this book is for you. The book has received high reviews.

Flesh and Spirit is the first book in a duo introduces Valen of Navronne, a pure-blood scion of diviners and magical cartographers. Valen hates his heritage.

He was a rebellious youth, running away, living as a rogue. He eventually was wounded, left with nothing but a magic atlas, and in a monastery, where he was offered sanctuary.

That's where the story becomes very interesting and the action starts. I could tell you what happens, but let's just say that lots of people want the maps.

Flesh and Spirit, written by Carol Berg, is available today for only $2.38.

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SuperCheap Free today!

SuperCheap Free today! Soul Catcher by Leigh Bridger.

Product Description:

From the gothic eccentricity of Asheville, North Carolina, to the terrifying recesses of the Appalachian wilderness, from modern demonology to ancient Cherokee mythology, Soul Catcher follows the tormented journey of folk artist Livia Belane, who has been stalked through many lives by a sadistic and vengeful demon.- Livia and her loved ones, including her frontier-era soulmate and husband, Ian, a Soul Hunter, have never beaten the demon before.- Now, in this life, it's found them again.

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SuperCheap Free today! From Christian publisher Tyndale House: The Shadow and the Night by Chris Walley.

Product Description:

In the first book in the epic Lamb among the Stars series, author Chris Walley weaves the worlds of science and the spirit, technology and supernatural into something unique in science fiction. Twelve thousand years into the future, the human race has spread across the galaxy to hundreds of terraformed worlds. The effects of the Fall have been diminished by the Great Intervention, and peace and contentment reign under the gentle rule of the Assembly. But suddenly, almost imperceptibly, things begin to change. On the remotest planet of Farholme, Forester Merral D’Avanos hears one simple . . . lie. Slowly a handful of men and women begin to realize that evil has returned and must be fought. What will this mean for a people to whom war and evil are ancient history? Thus begins the epic that has been described as “If C. S. Lewis and Tolkien had written Star Wars.”

The Shadow and Night was previously published in two volumes: The Shadow at Evening and The Power of the Night.

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Something for the Sci-Fi fans

The Sunrise Lands is a book in the Change Saga, occurring a generation after A Meeting at Corvalis. Rudi Mackenzie, Juniper's son, has a mission to cross post–Change North America and find out what is going on around the mysterious island of Nantucket.

This entails crossing the Rockies, a literally howling wilderness, and New Deseret, semicivilized thanks to its Mormon roots. The people across the states have reverted to primitive survival and existence.

Avoiding the formerly urbanized Death Zones, now reduced largely to ruins, skeletons, and savage remnants of de-civilized humanity, Rudi and his companions find the sadly misnamed Valley of Paradise and its bloodthirsty leader, self-dubbed the Scourge of God.

Today you can purchase the novel The Sunrise Lands by S.M. Stirling for only $3.85.

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Dark paranormal romance

Christine Feehan is one of the most popular paranormal romance writers in America. Dark Possession is Feehan's 18th steamy and dreamy Carpathian novel.

I have not read any of Feehan's novels, but this one promises plenty of adventure as the hero wakes to a living nightmare. He is bonded with a life mate he doesn't know. As the two look for a way to save him from his enemies in the shadow world, they uncover threats not just to the hero, but to his entire race.

Oh, and did I mention this all takes place in a Brazilian rain forest and features vampires, werewolves and other dark elements?

If you dare, Dark Possession is available today for $2.89.

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Now boarding all passengers with tickets for Outer Space

Time has moved forward to the 23rd century and the Academy (equivalent to NASA) is facing massive cuts to the space program. Some things just don't change with time.

Jack McDevitt's book features power struggles within the business community and government bureaus; aliens known as "moonriders"; dangers threatening earthbound humans; and plenty of fantasy for sci-fi lovers.

Today you can purchase Odyssey for only $2.07. That's a cheap ticket to ride on an intergalactic mission. Buy fast before more budget cuts drive the price out of sight.

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When you want a shorter story - cheaper than a Jefferson

This little gem is a cache of 12 short stories of mystery, suspense, and fantasy. Chock full of famous folks, there's a Sookie Stackhouse tale, a resurrected Humphrey Bogart, and Santa Claus.

The authors include Simon Green, Charlaine Harris, Laurie King, Sharon Shinn, Carole Nelson Douglas, and John Straley. The anthology, Unusual Suspects , is available for Kindle today for only $1.82.

Price reduction! As of April 26, $1.57.

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Two in one - historical paranormal romances cheap!

Spring is here and the thoughts of young men are turning to love. Some of us enjoy a good romance and think about love year-round. Today's cheap read is of the romantic nature.

Amanda McCabe has set One Touch of Magic and A Loving Spirit during the Regency period. Ghosts, spirits, aristocracy, romance - these stories have it all. The book, Spirited Brides, is available now for $3.32.

One reviewer noted that these stories overflow with ghosts as well as romance and fun.

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Suspense, time travel, revenge - it's in this book

If you want to read an intense book, then this is the one for you. Kate Mosse weaves great detail of France during the Medieval period into the story of a young woman who in 1891 is seeking to uncover a mystery left by her uncle. A modern day woman is in France tracing her ancestry when the two paths cross.

If you love this genre of book, grab Sepulchre for only $3.32 today. If this genre of books give you the willies (like me), that's okay, too. Different strokes for different folks.

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