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Guardian Cats and the Lost Books of Alexandria-Excerpt

by Rahma

In the wrong hands, some books can be dangerous—and some libraries can be positively deadly. Until now, Marco has been perfectly happy as a small town library cat and newly appointed Guardian of an ancient...

Not a Lot of People Know That

by David Hailwood and FJ Riley

Not a Lot of People Know That is a book of facts. Not a lot of people know these facts. David Hailwood and FJ Riley know them. Not a lof of people know who David Hailwood and FJ Riley are, but with facts as...

Herland

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction)....

The Right People

by Adam Rakunas

Imagine what high school would have been like if dealing drugs had been legal when licensed, mobile social networking had been ubiquitous and the in-crowd had more leverage than most political parties… what...

Stoneweaver

by Gareth Lewis

In a flooded world only small peaks dot the seas, with civilization confined to waterborne cities. Society is ruled by tyrannous bosses, enforcing their will with an army of thugs and Stoneweavers, those able...

Disposable

by Gareth Lewis

A rant about the transitory nature of modern technology.

Microsoft : The Story Behind How It Came About

by MBRO95

A Brief Look At The Microsoft Computer Corporation From 1975 Up To Early 2010.

The Virtual Dead

by E.R. Mason

(Sequel to ‘The Empty Door’) People have found a new way inside the computer. Some never return. Because of their special abilities, Cassiopia Cassell, the TEL 100D robot, and Scott Markman are drawn into...

The Empty Door

by E.R. Mason

Cassiopia Cassell’s high IQ had always been too much for the men she’d dated. Fortunately, her career in robotics had allowed a comfortable immunity from most contemporary demands for social grace. But now...

Falco Invictus: Morningstar Rising

by Rodney C. Johnson

The Morningstars, fashioned by genetic engineering to rule over the Earth, an elite few have become the vanguard of humanity itself after they have been driven out into a cold, harsh universe by mankind's former...

Conversion Book Three: 'Til Death

Conversion #3

by S.C. Stephens

**PREVIEW COPY ONLY - WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON FOR PURCHASE AT VARIOUS ONLINE RETAILERS. DOWNLOAD SAMPLE FOR DETAILS. ** Emma was content with her life. She didn’t want anything to change. Two kids, an amazing...

TURNED (Book #1 in the Vampire Journals) (Chapter One)

by Morgan Rice

In TURNED (Book #1 of the Vampire Journals series), eighteen year old Caitlin Paine finds herself uprooted from her nice suburb and forced to attend a dangerous New York City high school when her Mom moves again....

The Finding

by Nicky Charles

She discovered a dark secret, witnessed a murder and fled into the night fearing for her life. Three years later, Cassie is still hiding from her past, haunted by a dream lover and fighting to control a terrifying...

The Reality Plague

by Doug Welch

The year is 2071. Society has barely survived a pandemic, a major biological catastrophe that decimated the human population. People cannot touch and make love to each other for fear of a plague that threatens...

Obnoxious librarian from hades

by Dennie Heye

Satire from a librarian in a large bureaucracy, trying to survive boring meetings, clueless managers, reorganisations, offshored helpdesks and l-users (library users). New - updated version contains 8 months...

The Riddle of the Frozen Flame

by Thomas W. Hanshew

Vast gold robberies--a murder of which a nobleman stands accused, with jealousy for the motive--these apparently unrelated mysteries give scope for Cleek's most ingenious solutions.

The Riddle of the Night

by Thomas W. Hanshew

A man mysteriously murdered at night, the figures 2x4 x 1x2 scrawled on his shirt front, a broken shoe-polish label beside him. Cleek solved it. Can you?

Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces

by Thomas W. Hanshew

An ex-cracksman turned Scotland Yard detective, Cleek's slim and faultlessly dressed form is topped by an india-rubber-like face, of which he has remarkable control. With the power to distort and transform his...

With a Little Help

by Cory Doctorow

With a Little Help is my first serious experiment in self-publishing. I’ve published many novels, short story collections, books of essays and so on with publishers, and it’s all been very good and satisfying...

A shrewdness of Apes

by Garry Grierson

What would you do with rational thought in a world ruled by instinct? What do you do when you realise you are the first creature to become self-aware?