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The Heron and the Hawk: An Accord Four Centuries Late

The Heron and the Hawk: An Accord Four Centuries Late

By Jon Buckle

For four hundred years, the kingdoms of Avenmere and Castrelin have bled each other dry over a war whose origin no living soul remembers. When a schol...

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The Drifting Compass of Khaleen

The Drifting Compass of Khaleen

By Jon Buckle

For seven generations, your family has guided caravans across the Sirocco Wastes using a memorized route etched into bloodline memory. But the stars n...

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Adventure
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The Long Ride to Coffin Creek

The Long Ride to Coffin Creek

By Jon Buckle

Doctor Eliza Hatcher carries the only known cure for the bloodfever ravaging the mining camp at Coffin Creek. Between her and those dying miners lie s...

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Western
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The Forgotten Formula

The Forgotten Formula

By Jon Buckle

Dr. Maya has worked on a special science formula for thirty years. One day, she finds an old paper in the library that shows someone else made the sam...

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Mystery
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The Queen Who Hid in the Castle

The Queen Who Hid in the Castle

By Jon Buckle

Queen Elara hears whispers that someone in her castle wants her gone. She pretends to be sick and lets everyone think she has died. Then, dressed as a...

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Historical
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The Salt and the Sickness

The Salt and the Sickness

By Jon Buckle

Aboard the trading ship Maribel, young surgeon's mate Tom watches sailors fall ill one by one. The captain says it's just bad luck and bad water. But ...

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Horror
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The Lighthouse Everyone Dreams

The Lighthouse Everyone Dreams

By Jon Buckle

Dr. Maya studies people who can control their dreams. She finds something strange: ten of her dreamers all dream of the same red lighthouse on the sam...

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Mystery
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The Calculus of Cogsworth's Last Card

The Calculus of Cogsworth's Last Card

By Jon Buckle

London, 1887. Ezra Pell, a junior clerk at the Whitfield Analytical Bureau, spends his days oiling brass cams and patching torn punch-cards. When a pe...

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Steampunk
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The Whispered Books of Hollow Hill

The Whispered Books of Hollow Hill

By Jon Buckle

In a world where owning books is forbidden, a secret library lives deep beneath the city. There, brave keepers learn stories by heart and whisper them...

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Dystopian
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The Vinemont Cipher

The Vinemont Cipher

By Jon Buckle

Twenty-three years ago, the Cold War ended. Twenty-three years ago, Margaret Vinemont became a librarian in suburban Connecticut. This morning, the ph...

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Spy
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The Spoon That Never Lied

The Spoon That Never Lied

By Jon Buckle

Mira tastes every meal before the young Queen eats. For one whole moon, no poison has appeared. Not one. Mira begins to wonder: is someone hiding the ...

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Historical
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The Eyes That Saw Tomorrow

The Eyes That Saw Tomorrow

By Jon Buckle

Elara is a blind seer who can only see what will happen, never what is. She walks a world she has never truly seen, guided by visions of tomorrow. Whe...

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Mythology
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The Job With No Name

The Job With No Name

By Jon Buckle

In a quiet city where every baby is given a job by a big computer, a girl named Mira opens her envelope and finds a word nobody has ever seen. No one ...

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Dystopian
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The Long Silence of Ares Colony

The Long Silence of Ares Colony

By Jon Buckle

When seventeen-year-old archivist Mira cracks open the colony's encrypted communication logs, she uncovers a devastating truth: Earth stopped sending ...

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Survival
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The Pretend War

The Pretend War

By Jon Buckle

A young soldier named Pip thinks the big war is just a game. But one day, Pip finds out something very sad and very real. Now Pip must choose what to ...

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Dystopian
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Princess Mira and the Stolen Stars

Princess Mira and the Stolen Stars

By Evan Prael

When dark magic swallows the kingdom's stars and plunges Aurelia into endless night, everyone expects Princess Mira to wait in her tower for a hero. I...

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Adventure
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Bumblebee Protocol: The Intern Who Knew Too Little

Bumblebee Protocol: The Intern Who Knew Too Little

By Evan Prael

Your first day at the Bureau of Quietly Important Things was supposed to be filing paperwork and finding the break room. Instead, you keep tripping ov...

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Spy
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The Self-Erasing Card

The Self-Erasing Card

By Jon Buckle

In a foggy city of brass gears and hissing steam, young repair clerk Tilly Brassbright discovers a punch-card program that predicts the exact moment i...

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Steampunk
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The Last Transmission from Vostok-9

The Last Transmission from Vostok-9

By Jon Buckle

You are Dr. Mara Solberg, the sole overwintering researcher at Vostok-9, a remote polar station perched on the edge of a glacier. When the supply plan...

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Survival
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The Cartographer of Cedar Hollow

The Cartographer of Cedar Hollow

By Evan Prael

You are Wren, a young wilderness guide leading expeditions through the untouched valleys of Cedar Hollow. When a charming client named Sasha hires you...

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The Day Captain Vanguard Fell

The Day Captain Vanguard Fell

By Evan Prael

On the morning a massive sky-fortress appears over Beacon City, Captain Vanguard—the world's mightiest hero—wakes up to find their powers gone. No...

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