Download or read book Dangerous Hardboiled Magicians written by Mel Gilden and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cowabunga, schweetheart! A book in the manner of Surfing Samurai Robots! In a Los Angeles that is something like ours--but in which magic has become an integral part of society--P.I. Turner Cronyn doesn't know why he's being threatened by a supernatural being. Does it have anything to do with the fact that zombies looking like him are turning up all over town? And who killed Misty Morning, the beautiful mage he was supposed to be protecting? But on the bright side, a beautiful woman named Astraea Scales seems determined to help with his investigations. There's just one little problem: is she really a Greek goddess related to the Three Fates--or does she just look like one? This is just one of the life-and-death questions that Cronyn must answer to avoid being made a zombie himself. Great fantasy and mystery adventure--the first in a series.
Download or read book The Jabberwock Came Whiffling written by Mel Gilden and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twas brillig--and Albert is vacationing with his family in The Valley of Enchantment in Redwoods National Park in California when something goes very, VERY wrong. Albert suddenly finds himself without cell phone service, and is forced to deal with slithy toves, mome raths, borogoves, and a pretty girl named Alice. The only way that Albert can ever return home, he's told, is by slaying the Jabberwock, the monster featured in Lewis Carroll's classic poem, "Jabberwocky"; and then getting into the cave of a snark, which is, unfortunately, a boojum. Wonderland was never so much fun--or so dangerous! This modern-day sequel to Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books is a middle-grade novel for kids--and for adults who can still remember when they were kids. Great fantasy adventure!
Download or read book The Return of Captain Conquer written by Mel Gilden and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2012-07-23 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the house with two front doors, Watson Congruent's father sells souvenirs from the long-canceled TV show, The Adventures of Captain Conquer, and is also trying to build an actual "motivator," the device that powered the Captain's huge spaceship. And then one day Watson comes home from school to find both his house and father--vanished! With the help of some eccentric Captain Conquer fans, including the man with forty pounds of brains in his nose, Watson sets out to find his father--and not so incidentally, to save the world from an alien invasion. A great science fiction adventure for young adults--of all ages!
Download or read book The Sea Was Wet as Wet Could Be written by Mel Gilden and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a Los Angeles that is something like ours--but in which magic has become an integral part of society--P.I. Turner Cronyn and a beautiful woman named Astraea Scales investigate the theft of Big Al (the Triton)'s conch shell horn, which not only plays beautiful music at the Triton Club, but also has magical properties that could inundate greater L.A. And the villain appears to be the last of the surviving race of Sirens (of Circe fame), who still wants revenge on the Greek hero Jason! Great fantasy and mystery adventure--and a sequel to DANGEROUS HARDBOILED MAGICIANS.
Download or read book The Accidental Time Cadet written by Mel Gilden and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It should be a routine mission for Space Academy Cadets Raymond Hunt and Longwood Jan. Fly their System Guard scout ship to an asteroid called the Nugget, pick up Doctor Eignbergen and his newest invention from his isolated lab, and ferry him back to Earth-what could go wrong? When Doctor Eignbergen shows Hunt and Jan what he and his assistant have been working on for the past ten years, they can hardly believe it: a time machine! Along with rescued space prospector Bernadette Garley, Hunt and Jan accidentally trigger the machine and end up on Earth in 1955, where they must stop Garley from changing history and destroying the System Guard before it even begins!
Download or read book The Planetoid of Amazement written by Mel Gilden and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rodney Congruent (son of Watson Congruent of "The Return of Captain Conquer" fame) fears he will never have the sort of adventures his parents had. Then he receives an envelope full of transporting glitter, and ends up on an alien spaceship. The aliens, Grubber and Drum, say that they're searching for new exhibits for The Planetoid of Amazement, although Rodney is skeptical of their motives. Then he's kidnapped by Mara and Grits, two more creatures who are willing to do just about anything to get Rodney to tell them the location of the Legendary Treasure Planet (which he knows nothing about). The new aliens are members of the Slignathi, the most evil race in the galaxy. Will Grubber and Drum help Rodney save the Earth--or will they turn out to be Slignathi themselves! A fun-filled science fiction adventure!
Download or read book Dangerous Hardboiled Magicians written by Mel Gilden and published by . This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cowabunga, schweetheart! A book in the manner of Surfing Samurai Robots! In a Los Angeles that is something like ours--but in which magic has become an integral part of society--P.I. Turner Cronyn doesn't know why he's being threatened by a supernatural being. Does it have anything to do with the fact that zombies looking like him are turning up all over town? And who killed Misty Morning, the beautiful mage he was supposed to be protecting? But on the bright side, a beautiful woman named Astraea Scales seems determined to help with his investigations. There's just one little problem: is she really a Greek goddess related to the Three Fates--or does she just look like one? This is just one of the life-and-death questions that Cronyn must answer to avoid being made a zombie himself. Great fantasy and mystery adventure--the first in a series.
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Download or read book Magicians Impossible written by Brad Abraham and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Potter meets James Bond in this story of a twenty-something slacker who discovers that he is descended from a line of magical spies and is thrust into the middle of a secret and epic battle. “Magicians Impossible is a mind-bending page-turner! A brilliant and unique mash-up of spells, myth and mayhem, once it got its claws in me I couldn't put it down. Like a veteran stage magician, Brad Abraham has created a hip thriller that turns convention on its ear with misdirection and mayhem. A must read for enthusiasts of edgy and extreme fiction.” —Don Coscarelli, director of John Dies At The End Twenty-something bartender Jason Bishop’s world is shattered when his estranged father commits suicide, but the greater shock comes when he learns his father was a secret agent in the employ of the Invisible Hand; an ancient society of spies wielding magic in a centuries-spanning war. Now the Golden Dawn—the shadowy cabal of witches and warlocks responsible for Daniel Bishop’s murder, and the death of Jason’s mother years before—have Jason in their sights. His survival will depend on mastering his own dormant magic abilities; provided he makes it through the training. From New York, to Paris, to worlds between worlds, Jason's journey through the realm of magic will be fraught with peril. But with enemies and allies on both sides of this war, whom can he trust? The Invisible Hand, who’ve been more of a family than his own family ever was? The Golden Dawn, who may know the secrets behind his mysterious lineage? For Jason Bishop, only one thing is for certain; the magic he has slowly been mastering is telling him not to trust anybody.
Download or read book Hardboiled written by J.A. Cipriano and published by DDCO Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-24 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lillim Callina takes a case from a local police detective, she finds herself trapped in the Greek Underworld alongside Thes, the captain of her high school football team. To get back home, she'll have to fight her way through Tartarus, cross a river of fire, ascend the stairs into Hades, and battle Spartacus himself. It's a good thing Thes is a werewolf because, otherwise, she'd be screwed.
Download or read book A Hard Boiled Half Dozen the Red Daley Stories written by Daniel Rowe and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Red Daley. He's a two-fisted ex-cop who traded his badge for a reporter's notebook but never lost his sense of justice. These are some of his stories.
Download or read book Tanya Grotter And The Magic Double Bass written by Дмитрий Емец and published by Litres. This book was released on 2016-04-16 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The black sorceress Plague-del-Cake, whose name they dread even to utter aloud, climbing to power, destroys the brilliant magicians one by one. Among her victims is the remarkable white magician Leopold Grotter. His daughter Tanya, by some unknown means, manages to avoid death, but on the tip of her nose, a mysterious birthmark remains for life... Plague-del-Cake mysteriously disappears, and Tanya Grotter turns out to be abandoned to the family of businessman Durnev, her distant relative... She lives with this extremely unpleasant family until the age of ten, and then finds herself in the unique world of the Tibidox School of Magic...
Download or read book The Cursed Apps written by TW Allen and published by Indignant Media. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's the lifetime value of a dead customer? In a desperate bid to prevent being ousted from his own company, a startup founder accidentally draws the attention of necromancers looking to protect their secrets. Occult attention spills over from the founder to his shady investor, whose entire portfolio becomes infested as a food delivery app delivers vampires, a dating app transmigrates souls and social media influencer's video game creates literal zombie followers. Are the apps cursed or is something even worse in play? It's tale of death and revenge set against a sardonic landscape of tech startups and venture capital as Mister Lewis tries to prevent metaphysically weaponized greed from burning down the world. The Hardboiled Magic series is the Slow Horses of the Supernatural Thriller world. A snarkier entry in the world of The Dresden Files, Rivers of London, Laundry Files, Sandman Slim, Charlie Parker and Hellblazer.
Download or read book Student Loans Paid in Blood written by TW Allen and published by Indignant Media. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mad god owed him money! Mister Lewis has a business card that reads “Physics Consultant,” but that’s something of an in-joke. What he really consults on are things that defy the laws of physics, go bump in the night and dine on the souls of the living. Taking a political client on a referral, Mister Lewis discovers that not every Asgardian is as deceased as the legends would have you believe. A discovery that leaves him with a dead client and an unpaid bill. The trail to collect that debts winds through a scheme to trade blood sacrifices for student loan payments, industrial espionage from beyond the grave, employee age limits, rent control worth killing for and politicians who do not exist as the last Asgardian tries to re-establish his religion. It's a sarcasm-drenched escapade to settle up accounts across an absurdist landscape of ghosts, warlocks, gods and Human Resources. The Hardboiled Magic series is the Slow Horses of the Supernatural Thriller world. A snarkier entry in the territories of The Dresden Files, Rivers of London, Laundry Files, Sandman Slim, Charlie Parker and Hellblazer.
Download or read book The Irregular at Magic High School Vol 15 light novel written by Tsutomu Sato and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only a scant few weeks remain before the Thesis Competition, which becomes the perfect excuse for Tatsuya and Miyuki to scour Kyoto for the fugitive Gongjin Zhou. Together with Minoru Kudou, a Kyoto local, they comb the ancient city’s streets in what appears to be a fruitless search. Even though the clock is ticking, all their leads seem to go nowhere—until Tatsuya gets word that Mayumi’s bodyguard has turned up dead by the Katsura River. With new clues and new allies kicking the manhunt into high gear, the party quickly closes in on their quarry’s hideout, unaware of what lies in wait for them once they finally catch up...
Download or read book The Dragon Who Dabbled in Crypto written by TW Allen and published by Indignant Media. This book was released on 2024-08-05 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An attempt to blow the whistle on a cryptocurrency scam drew a response: a botched assassination attempt by supernatural means. Management brought in a consultant to “fix” the problem, but a trail of scorch marks from incinerated bodies leads into a web of demonic financial crimes, purloined precious metals and eSports game fixing. What is the secret of the “Schatzhorde des Drachen” coin and will it lead Mister Lewis into the lair of… The Dragon Who Dabbled in Crypto? It's a sarcasm-drenched escapade to settle up accounts across an absurdist landscape of ghosts, warlocks, gods and Human Resources. The Hardboiled Magic series is the Slow Horses of the Supernatural Thriller world. A snarkier entry in the territories of The Dresden Files, Rivers of London, Laundry Files, Sandman Slim, Charlie Parker and Hellblazer.
Download or read book Mairelon the Magician written by Patricia Wrede and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kim doesn't hesitate when a stranger offers her a small fortune to break into the travelling magician's wagon in search of a silver bowl. Kim isn't above a bit of breaking-and-entering. Having grown up a waif in the dirty streets of London-disguised as a boy!-has schooled her in one hard lesson: steal from them before they steal from you. But there is something odd about this magician. He isn't like the other hucksters and swindlers that Kim is used to. When he catches her in the act, Kim thinks she's done for--until he suggests she become his apprentice. Kim wonders how tough it could be faking a bit of hocus pocus. But Mairelon isn't an act. His magic is real. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
