Item category 1: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Turning 12 1/2 shouldn't be the most exciting birthday in the world. It's a half birthday after all. But Harper is thrilled because she is getting the biggest gift of all: her parent's approval to finally get social media accounts. Except when she goes to post her first photo, there is a filter s...

A mysterious accident in time causes twenty-first-century American democracy to collide head-on with the Thirty Years War in seventeenth-century Germany as Mike Stearn and a group of armed miners take on a gang of strangely attired invaders who are threatening peaceful Grantville, West Virginia. ...

Review: "Rome, 1635, and the members of Grantville's diplomatic team, headed by Sharon Nichols, are making scant headway now that it has become politically inexpedient for Pope Urban VIII to talk to them. Sharon doesn't mind, she has a wedding to plan. Frank Stone has moved to Rome and is attempt...

"A cosmic catastrophe, the Ring of Fire strands the West Virginia town of Grantville in the middle of Europe during the Thirty Years War. By 1636, it's impact is felt across two great oceans. The United States of Europe seeks out resources (oil, rubber and even aluminum) to help it wage war again...

It has taken almost five years for the United States of Europe to stabilize its position in 17th-century Europe. Now it turns its attention to the New World, where the English have ceded their colonial claims to France. There are vast lands and rich resources across the Atlantic for any nations p...

Europe, 1632. It is a time of upheaval and great change. But none so great as when an unexplained temporal and spatial phenomenon known as the Ring of Fire transports the blue collar town of Grantville, West Virginia, smack dab in the middle of the Thirty Years War. When the dust settles, it beco...

From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes an explosive work of speculative fiction about a radical leap forward in artificial intelligence that combines with America's violent partisan divide to create an existential threat to the country - and the world. The ...

Sequel to: 2001 : a space odyssey. For the second time in four million years, the Monolith awakes. The limitless power of an alien technology has decided what part humanity must play in the evolution of the galaxy, whether it wants to or not.

365 stories and rhymes to fill imaginations with adventure! Discover pirates, dragons, and wizards. You'll climb the giant beanstalk with Jack and fool the witch with Hansel and Gretel. Enjoy and action packed fairy tale, exciting story, or classic rhyme every day of the year.

365 stories and rhymes to fill imaginations with wonder! Discover mermaids, ballerinas, and princesses. You'll dance until midnight with Cinderella and fly across the sky with twinkly tooth fairies. Enjoy a magical fairy tale, exciting story, or classic rhyme every day of the year.

Heroes. Legends. Protectors! Ms. Marvel and Captain Marvel join forces to defeat a dangerous foe, Ant-Man and the Wasp help Avengers fight a giant bug army, Jane Foster wields Thor's hammer and more! Each action-packed story -- featuring Marvel's newest heroes and fan favourites -- can be read al...

Beloved characters from the Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series star in these new short stories, each set in a different one of the Nine Worlds from Norse mythology.

Beloved characters from the Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series star in these new short stories, each set in a different one of the Nine Worlds from Norse mythology.

Adventure fiction. Fantasy fiction. Abby is an eleven year-old Hopplescotch, the twin to the gate of the gateway that leads to Hopplescotch Realm. Muriel, a Hopplescotch witcherene, is the keeper of the gate and one of the most powerful witches in this world and the seven realms. Abby has been se...

Abby, her two friends Robin and Frankie, and the annoying Penny, are in their treehouse arguing about what to do for their special school project when a tornado appears out of nowhere, scoops up the treehouse, and transports them all to the land of Oz, where they are soon confronted by Wicked Wit...

Instead of the usual fairy tale, Abby finds herself in the middle of a book, Alice in Wonderland, with two of her friends, plus bossy Penny (who is definitely not a friend), and in order to get back to reality she must solve a curious riddle, find one of her friends who is missing, and somehow av...

“ABC Bunyip has a huge problem. His home in the Big Black Boogie Swamp is special. He needs to find a way to save it from Farmer Joe’s ghastly new plans. What will he do? Can Archie the dotty Dalmatian dog and Raymond the little black pig help him?”--Back cover.

On the day of the spirits festival, the old woman who lives in the forest appears in Abeni's village with a terrible message: You ignored my warnings. It's too late to run. They are coming. The old woman hasn't come to save them, only to collect one child as payment for her years of service and p...

Patience is not a virtue known to the Time Police. And Commander Hay is facing the longest day of her life... After their heroic efforts to safeguard the Acropolis and prevent the Paris Time-Stop, the Time Police have gone from zero to hero. Then one fateful mission to apprehend a minor criminal ...

Absolution opens decades before Area X forms, with a science expedition whose mysterious end suggests terrifying consequences for the future -- and marks the Forgotten Coast as a high-priority area of interest for Central, the shadowy government agency responsible for monitoring extraordinary thr...

Former soldier Liam Mulcahy's comfortable life in a futuristic, glistening Chicago is disrupted when the ugly shadows of his past rear their heads. The Great War has been over for years, and a brave new world forged. Technology has delivered the future promised at the turn of the century: automat...

For centuries, the people of Alera have relied on the power of the furies to protect them from outside invaders. But the gravest threat might be closer than they think. Tavi has escaped the Calderon Valley and the mysterious attack of the Marat on his homeland. But he is far from safe, as trying ...

In the city, strange things happen. People disappear, trees sprout overnight. But no one believes in magic. No, to believe in magic would be disloyal... The devious Lord Rump and his granddaughter, Duckling, need a disposable boy, and Pummel, a farm boy looking for work in the city, fits the bill...

Eleven-year-old Ace Wells's dream has finally come true: he is a new cadet in the B.E.S.T. (Biological Enhancement Systems Technology) Program. Until now, he's been living in the shadow of his superstar brother -- aka the fastest kid in the world. Ace wants to change the world with SuperSoar wing...

Rebellion is brewing in the Realms, and Ferd is on a mission to discover who is behind it all. So when Wherewithal receives word of an attack in the Realm of Jungle, Celeste finally has her chance for another adventure. But when they go to investigate, the portal plummets them not into a tropical...

The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes, a land of howling wind and infernal sand. In this barren home, siblings Conner, Rob, Palmer and Violet daily carve out a future. They live in the shadow of their father and oldest sister, Vic, two of the greatest sand div...

A hilariously spooky novelisation by US author, Calliope Glass, based on the new animated family film, The Addams Family. The Addams Family animated movie hits cinemas around the world from October 2019 and features an all-star cast including Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloe Grace Moretz, Fin...

Lilith Iyapo has given birth to what looks like a normal human boy named Akin. But Akin actually has five parents: a male and female human, a male and female Oankali, and a sexless Ooloi. The Oankali and Ooloi are part of an alien race that rescued humanity from a devastating nuclear war, but the...