I grew up listening to stories, which taught me about right and wrong, and also fostered my love of storytelling. Who hasn’t been told stories as a child? We all have connections to the stories we carry from our childhood to adulthood. We all have a story to tell... Vol. I: Trilogy of the Special Ones, is essentially three shorts about three super female heroes. The protagonist in each story triumphs over three life-changing scenarios from a child, an adolescent, and finally as a young successful woman. In each scenario, she is faced with major decisions and must act under pressure to make the right decisions. This is a book about self-discovery. This is not the answer to peer pressure but it can raise awareness. It is a moral story and a literature lesson about “curiosity kills the cat” but the cat has nine lives; this is the gist of what happens to young adults who face perils while traveling in dangerous territory. I think the best stories come from the heart and real-life situations. I rely on my experiences to tell my stories. While sitting at my grandfather’s feet, he was of native heritage and was the master storyteller who taught me about my cultural folklore. My voice narrates these stories that connect the moral dilemmas young women experience with daily peer pressures as they reach adulthood to maturity. My trio of short stories centers on three primary characters---Bellania, Bobby Jean, and Amanda. They are all beautiful, curious, vulnerable, and fierce because they are the special ones protected with inner gifts. These are stories about making the right choices with a flair for the supernatural, mythological, and guardian angel themes. It crosses all ages, cultures, and genres based on folklore with a modern twist. I love the notion of unveiling the many masks we wear especially when the risks in life become greater. The character arc in each plot progressively builds under pressure and gradually reveals the true nature of each young woman as the special ones with special powers. It is spiced with a touch of magic realism from rural folklore, oral traditions, and superstitions.

Return to the Dragonlance universe with this classic story about the rise of Krynn’s eleven nations Silvanos Goldeneye, the august founder of the united eleven nation known as Silvanesti, lies buried in a crystal tomb. Now, the leadership of the clans and households falls to his son, Sithel, who is himself the father of rival twins Sithas and Kith-Kanan. Both brothers represent different emerging factions among the Silvanesti: While Sithas allies himself closely with the court and encourages the elves to withdraw from contact with other races, Kith and his Wildrunners forge connections and trade goods with the humans of Ergoth. When Sithel is assassinated—and Kith is vaguely implicated—the tensions between the two brothers escalate to dangerous heights. As the world of Krynn watches, a new elven nation rises from the strife . . .

The Andromeda Strain meets The Stand in this startling and stunning thriller that brings to life a unique vision of the apocalypse and plays brilliantly with vampire mythology, revealing what becomes of human society when a top-secret government experiment spins wildly out of control. At an army research station in Colorado, an experiment is being conducted by the U.S. Government: twelve men are exposed to a virus meant to weaponize the human form by super-charging the immune system. But when the experiment goes terribly wrong, terror is unleashed. Amy, a young girl abandoned by her mother and set to be the thirteenth test subject, is rescued by Brad Wolgast, the FBI agent who has been tasked with handing her over, and together they escape to the mountains of Oregon. As civilization crumbles around them, Brad and Amy struggle to keep each other alive, clinging to hope and unable to comprehend the nightmare that approaches with great speed and no mercy. . .

The long-awaited historical saga of the rivalrous dwarven clans of Krynn and the birth of the legendary Thorbardin—told here for the very first time An old dwarven chieftain, Colin Stonetooth, leads a tribe of Hylar in a migration across Ansalon, pursuing a vision of a new home. Hordes of dangerous outsiders, fleeing the Dragon Wars, sweep across the countryside. Evil magic, strange knights, and precocious kender abound, endandering Stonetooth and his followers during their journey. In the Kharolis Mountains, in Kal Thax, the Hylar come upon squabbling dwarven clans and knit them into the new nation of Thorbardin. But a Theiwar assassin precipitates a civil war, a curse is fulfilled—and a child is born destined to become the Father of Kings.

Under the leadership of the heroic Kith-Kanan, a new and mighty elven kingdom rises in the wake of the Kinslayer War Kith-Kanan, the leader of the renegade elven society called Qualinesti, has fought long and hard to eradicate slavery in the elven lands and to achieve a harmonious society where all can live freely and equally. When he learns that a secret slave trade is underway in his own city, he sends his warrior daughter, Verhanna, to lead a battalion against the slavers. As the fight for freedom continues and Verhanna sends word of her findings, Kith-Kanan forgets his many great deeds and is haunted only by his failures. The unfathomable behavior of his son and heir—and the ever-present factions between the elven people—forces Kith-Kanan to deeply question the society he has worked so hard to create.

The first book in an exciting Dragonlance trilogy that explores the many secrets of sorcery in the world of Krynn It will soon be the Night of the Eye, a rare time when all three moons align in high sanction over the lands of Krynn. On the eve of Guerrand DiThon's political marriage to a rival family, the young noble is visited by a strange, powerful mage who knows more about him than he does himself. Seduced by promises of wizardly might, Guerrand slips away beneath the triple moons and journeys for the Tower of Wayreth. No one thinks he will survive the deadly trek to the tower, but he does. It's only then that Guerrand realizes that he has made many enemies in his journey. One of these foes would not only see Guerrand dead, but the three orders of sorcery destroyed with him.

From Garth Stein, the author of the #1 bestseller The Art of Racing in the Rain, and Matthew Southworth, the co-creator of Stumptown come a raucously funny and fast-moving series of graphic novels. James Tucker is the most successful Genetically Modified Human Organism ever created. Half-man, half-goat, Tuck's story unfurls like an action-packed fever dream spanning the Pacific Northwest, from a homeless encampment to a secret sanctuary in the woods where elites perform ritual goat sacrifices. The Cloven Book One features a special full-color four page fold-out spread.