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  Accelerando

  by Charles Stross

  Expanding on his award-winning short story cycle from the pages of Asimov's Science Fiction, Charles Stross delivers the story fans and peers have been expecting with Accelerando, a novel destined to change the face of the genre.
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  The King of Elfland's Daughter

  by Lord Dunsany

  The poetic style and sweeping grandeur of The King of Elfland's Daughter has made it one of the most beloved fantasy novels of our time, a masterpiece that influenced some of the greatest contemporary fantasists. The heartbreaking story of a marriage between a mortal man and an elf princess is a masterful tapestry of the fairy tale following the "happily ever after."
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  The Vampire Diaries: The Return: Book 1

  Nightfall

  by L. J. Smith

  The first book in a new trilogy from L. J. Smith! The Return is a continuation of the original series The Vampire Diaries. Elena Gilbert is alive—again. When Elena sacrificed herself to save the two vampire brothers who love her—the handsome, brooding Stefan and the sleek and dangerous Damon—she was consigned to a fate beyond death. Until a powerful supernatural force pulled her back. Now Elena is not just ... (more)
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  The Morcyth Saga: Book 1

  The Unsuspecting Mage

  by Brian S. Pratt

  'Magic! Real Magic! Ever wanted to learn?' Little did James realize when he answered the ad in the paper that he would find himself in the middle of an adventure destined to test the limits of his intelligence and courage. Cast upon a world with little explanation as to how he came to be there or why, James, a high school senior, must learn quickly how to survive or die as had others before him. He... (more)
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  Luthiel's Song: Book 1

  Dreams of the Ringed Vale

  by Robert Marston Fanney

  First Summer's Eve has come and all elves celebrate as the black moon's shadow fades from the world. It is also Luthiel's fifteenth birthday. With it comes two extraordinary and dangerous surprises: a Wyrd Stone, its silvery heart a window into a world of dreams and nightmares, and a Blade Dancer, dreaded protector of the Faelands, who bears a dark message. Instead of celebration, Luthiel is given a terrible... (more)
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  Roo'd

  by Joshua Klein

  Roo'd is geek-addled cyberpunk fiction at its finest, about a teenage boy with two prosthetic legs and a band of misfit body-modders, shamanistic computer hackers, and pharmaceutically psychotic bioscientists. But it's also an exploration of someone coming to grips with what they truly love to do - and what it means to do it in a confusing world of shades of gray.
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  The Vorkosigan Saga: Book 4

  The Mountains of Mourning

  by Lois McMaster Bujold

  Twenty year old Ensign Miles Vorkosigan plays detective in a murder case, and tests the balance of power as a member of the Barrayaran nobility.
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  Ariana's Pride

  by Margaret Lake

  Ariana’s Pride is an historical romance set during the Wars of the Roses. The story commences shortly after the Battle of Barnet where Warwick The Kingmaker was killed and Edward IV has just taken his throne back from the mad king, Henry VI. This one decisive battle affected the lives and attitudes of Ariana and Jeremy. Ariana Devoe is the willful and arrogant daughter of Earl William. What happens when she... (more)
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  The Vampire Diaries

  The Vampire Diaries (Volumes 3-4)

  The Fury / Dark Reunion

  by L. J. Smith

  Elena: transformed, the golden girl has become what she once feared and desired. Stefan: tormented by losing Elena, he's determined to end his feud with Damon once and for all—whatever the cost. But slowly he begins to realize that his brother is not his only enemy. Damon: at last, he possesses Elena. But will his thirst for revenge against Stefan poison his triumph? Or can they come together to face one... (more)
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  Bred Of The Desert: A Horse And A Romance (1915)

  by Marcus Horton

  This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of... (more)
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  The Vampire Diaries: The Return: Book 2

  Shadow Souls

  by L. J. Smith

  On the run . . .Beginning where it was left off in the previous book,Elena Gilbert's love, the vampire Stefan Salvatore, has been captured and imprisoned by demonic spirits who are wreaking havoc in Fell's Church. While her friends Bonnie and Meredith explore the evil that has taken over their town, Elena goes in search of Stefan.In order to find him, she entrusts her life to Stefan's brother,... (more)
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  Well Played 1.0

  Video Games, Value and Meaning

  by Drew Davidson

  Video games can be "well played" in two senses. On the one hand, well played is to games as well read is to books. On the other hand, well played as in well done. This book is full of in-depth close readings of video games that parse out the various meanings to be found in the experience of playing a game. 22 contributors (developers, scholars, reviewers and bloggers) look at video games through both senses of... (more)
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  Luthiel's Song: Book 2

  The War of Mists

  by Robert Marston Fanney

  Angel or Witch? She chose to die in her sister’s place–and yet she lived. Luthiel, just 15 years old, made a brave peace with the dreaded Vyrl of the Vale of Mists. Now she must face an army sent to destroy them. With her companions–the werewolf Othalas, the dragon Melkion, the sorcerer Mithorden, a Vyrl named Ecthellien, and the elf Vaelros who would love her–Luthiel races back to the angry faelands to beg... (more)
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  Star Chosen: A Science Fiction Space Opera for the Whole Family

  by Joe Chiappetta

  Silly Daddy dares to write apocalyptic science fiction for the whole family! Deleting history was just the beginning. Blast off with STAR CHOSEN, a space opera of post-biblical proportions! After war, heartbreak, attacks to your faith, and the erasure of all history and culture, whose side will you fight on: the Proud... or the Chosen? Xeric Award winner and Ignatz Award nominee Joe Chiappetta crafts "Star... (more)
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  Rays and Nights

  Zombie Nights

  by Tom Lichtenberg

  Being a zombie, not so easy. That could have been Dave Connor's six word memoir. "At first he couldn't remember how he'd ended up in that shallow grave; he just knew it was hell to claw his way out, and that the taste of its dirt would remain in his mouth for the rest of his time on this earth"
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  Rays and Nights

  Death Ray Butterfly

  by Tom Lichtenberg

  Inspector Stanley Mole doesn't mind a hard case, but things have gotten out of hand. There's a killer who escapes to a parallel universe, a 20,000 year old murder, a witness to her own death, a toddler assassin, subatomic-particle sniffing butterflies, and much, much more. This time it's not just his reputation that's on the line. This time it's more than personal.
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  Blood Orbit

  by John Derderian

  Fred and Ted live a pretty quiet, peaceful life as independent shippers hauling cargo around the solar system. Coasting in space for months at a time, touching down at ports only occasionally to deliver or pick up cargo, they are safe even from the constant warfare on the planets below. That is, until Ted wakes up two days out from Jupiter to find Fred brutally murdered--his head bludgeoned into a bloody mess,... (more)
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  Crown Duel - 2002 publication.

  by Sherwood Smith