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The Witch’s Wings And Other Terrifying Tales

Alicia wants to become the newest member of the Midnight Society, a group of kids who share scary tales around the campfire.  Most are not welcoming her with open arms.  Read more...

Posted by on February 15, 2024

The Area 51 Files

12-year-old orphan Sky Patel-Baum has lived with her grandmother as far back as she can remember. When her grandmother moves to a retirement home, Sky and her pet hedgehog Spike Read more...

Posted by on September 7, 2023

Long Distance

Vega has begrudgingly moved to a new city and she needs to make friends.  Her parents are sure that summer camp is the solution.  Vega disagrees.  This camp also seems Read more...

Posted by on September 1, 2023

The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza

This book is just the perfect mix of fun, ridiculous, and adorable.  There is a cat who has been bioengineered to to be a hero, a toe-nail clipping robot looking Read more...

Posted by on January 26, 2023

Redline

In the anime movie Redline, a giant whale monster that is biologically fused with a space army general fights an enormous glowing uncontrollable biological weapon named Funky Boy. That’s not Read more...

Posted by on July 13, 2021

Invincible Vol 1: Family Matters

Invincible follows teenage hero Mark Grayson as he develops his powers at the age of seventeen. Son of the Viltrumite (but human-passing) superhero Omni-man and unpowered human woman, Deborah, Mark Read more...

Posted by on July 8, 2021

Starsight

Spensa’s people are under threat of annihilation. Imprisoned on a remote planet, they’ve been guarded by a race they call the Krell. In the past, the Krell would only raid Read more...

Posted by on May 15, 2020

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Skyward

Humanity lives underground on an alien world, under threat of annihilation by a race called the Krell, who they know nothing about. Spensa is a seventeen year old girl with Read more...

Posted by on August 20, 2019

Last Pick

In the not so distant past (3 years ago), aliens invaded Earth and took as many 16 to 65-year-olds as they could collect, so long as they seemed useful. The Read more...

Posted by on February 27, 2019

A Quiet Place

The concept of an angry invading alien force has always been a terrifying concept, I mean hello, War of the Worlds? But an angry invading alien force that kills everything Read more...

Posted by on July 12, 2018

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Dystopias and grimdark grittiness got you down? The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is the cozy-yet-farflung, hopeful antidote to gloomy (science) fiction. Rosemary Harper is the latest addition Read more...

Posted by on May 15, 2017

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