by Kristine Smith
$0.99 (Short Story) ISBN 978-1-61138-637-0
Before you sell your home, don’t forget to hire a housecleaner to remove all those nasty demonic presences.
Originally published in Misspelled, ed. Julie E. Czerneda. DAW (2008)
Book View Café’s 5th Anniversary Celebration
Edited by Pati Nagle and Deborah J. Ross
$5.99 (Anthology) ISBN 978-1-61138-337-9
Book View Café celebrates its fifth anniversary with an anthology of our favorite stories. From the fantasy and science fiction of our roots to steampunk, romance, historical and mainstream; from humor to life’s hardest challenges, across the spectrum from light to dark. Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin, Vonda N. McIntyre, David D. Levine, and many more.
As You Wish Series, Book 1
by Mindy Klasky
$0.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-333-1
(Previously released as How Not to Make a Wish.)
Stage manager Kira Franklin discovers a brass lamp in the back of a prop closet, complete with a gender-bending, wish-granting genie. Her first wish is easy – a job on a prestigious avant-garde production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
by Judith Tarr
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-026-2
A knight from across the sea, a beleaguered kingdom, a spirit of fire.
For close to a hundred years the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem has stood with its thin line of fortresses against the combined power of the world of Islam. Now the Sultan Saladin has declared war against the young Leper King.
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Avaryan Resplendent Volume I
by Judith Tarr
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-283-9
The war between the Golden Empire and the Empire of the Sun is over, the empires merged into one, and one emperor over them all: Estarion, heir to both royal houses. But Estarion will not accept half of his heritage, nor will the Golden Empire willingly accept him. The same forces that assassinated his father are arrayed against him, led by the last scion of an ancient imperial line‚ and he must stand against them and truly unite the empires, or see all the great work of his ancestors reduced to rubble.
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by Marie Brennan
$2.99 (Collection) ISBN 978-1-61138-702-5
A BVC Original
The past is prologue . . .
Kit Marlowe. Guy Fawkes. Ada Lovelace. Kings and sailors and sainted nuns populate these seven stories of historical fantasy by award-winning author Marie Brennan. They span the ages from the second century B.C.E. to the nineteenth century C.E., from ancient Persia to the London of the Onyx Court. Discover the secret histories, hear the stories that have never been told — until now.
by Judith Tarr
$3.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-075-0
From farmer’s son to Prince of the Church
Gerbert was a farmer’s son in an obscure town in France, but his gifts of mind and intellect were so remarkable that even in the feudal world of the tenth century, he could rise far above his station. Princes and prelates courted him; emperors called him friend and teacher. He brought the lost art of mathematics back into Europe; he was an astronomer, a musician, a builder of strange and wonderful devices. In the end he reached the pinnacle of the world, a seat so lofty and an authority so great that he answered only to God Himself.
by Mindy Klasky
$7.99 (Omnibus) ISBN 978-0-98545-701-3
This omnibus (“three-in-one”) edition includes the first three volumes of the series. The As You Wish Series shows what can go wrong when a magic lamp, a wish-granting genie, and backstage life in the theater all collide.
Book 3 of Reeves and Worcester Steampunk Mysteries
by Chris Dolley
$2.99 (Novella) ISBN 978-1-61138-391-1
HG Wells has a problem.
His Aunt Charlotte has borrowed his time machine and won’t give it back. Now she’s rewriting history!
Reggie Worcester, gentleman’s consulting detective, and his automaton valet, Reeves, are hired to retrieve the time machine and put the timeline back together.
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From the world of The Seven-Petaled Shield
by Deborah J. Ross
$1.99 (Collection) ISBN 978-1-61138-259-4
Across the Azkhantian steppe, warrior women ride to battle against foes both human and supernatural. From the world of The Seven-Petaled Shield come four fantasy tales, originally published in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword & Sorceress.
Everyday Disasters: Book 1
by Diana Pharaoh Francis
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-750-6
A BVC Original
Celebrating death never felt so good.
Beck Wyatt has always hated her mother–enough to kill her. As luck would have it, someone beats her to murdering Mommy Dearest and now Beck gets to plan the tackiest funeral the world has ever seen for the worst woman she’s ever known.
by Leah Cutter
$2.99 (Collection)
ISBN 978-1-61138-301-0
Travel to cold Seattle and see the world from the viewpoint of a private investigator who just happens to be a ghost, then go down to the creole fairy courts of Louisiana, learn the secrets of 9s and how the raven warriors take care of their own. Here are 13 tales of fantasy and wonder, sweet and savory, to fill you up just right.
Download a free sample story: “Hell By Any Other Name”
by Sherwood Smith
$3.00 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-053-8
With two bossy older sisters, Joe doesn’t like girls. Nan doesn’t have any friends.
Joe and Nan would never have spoken if they hadn’t both reached for the same odd little book on a shelf in their favorite part of the library, the adventure stories.
They agree to share it… and discover not just a story, but a promise that magic is real, and that someone from another world is needed to break a spell.
The Changespell Saga: A Prequel
by Doranna Durgin
$4.49 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-313-3
Before there was Dun Lady’s Jess…
Magic, betrayal, and a twice-cursed exile–only one man’s determination can untangle the deadly intrigue that binds them together.
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by Judith Berman
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-0-99582-401-0
Until Cloud is twelve years old, she is a neglected bear cub wandering the town ruled by King Rumble. Cloud’s unexpected transformation into a human girl, with no memory of what came before, enrages Rumble, and she is forced to flee from his malevolent wizard. Her only hope of survival is a terrifying quest to free the spirits of her dead brothers.
by Marissa Doyle
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-718-6
A BVC Original
The best-laid plans, even of princesses, can go awry…very, very awry.
Seventeen-year-old Saraid of Thekla is on her way to marry the ruler of far-off Mauburni. But she’s not sobbing into her silk-curtained litter at the thought of leaving home, because she has plans–and The Book. She’s studied this ancient treatise on the art of kingship for months to make herself the ideal queen for her adopted country.
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Tales Newly Twisted
Edited by Deborah J. Ross and Phyllis Irene Radford
$4.99 (Anthology) ISBN 978-1-61138-155-9
Not your grandmother’s fairy tales…
From the far-ranging imaginations of Book View Café authors comes this delirious collection of classic tales newly twisted into dark, dangerous, and occasionally hilarious re-tellings. From the golden isles of Greece to the frozen north, from fairytale castles to urban slums, join us on an unforgettable journey!
by Jill Zeller
$7.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-345-4
A drug made of living souls. Is immortality worth the cost?
A black market in souls; their essence, known secretly as Bijou, bestows the illusion of youth to those who can afford it. Annie Novak and her family have long sought to protect the dying and the newly dead from soul-theft, but a new and unimaginable threat has appeared; someone is stealing souls from those who are not yet dead, and the distilled infusion of Bijou Xtra provides long, long life.
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Book 1 of Blood of the Kindred series
by Pati Nagle
$5.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-648-6
The immortal aelven were forever divided when one clan began a forbidden practice: the drinking of blood.
Clan Darkshore was cast out of the aelven, named “alben,” and driven west of the mountains into exile, their protests–that they must drink blood or perish–ignored.
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The First Book of the Painter
by Sheila Gilluly
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-463-5
Aengus, a hard-bitten young thief with a gift for sand painting, expects a fine new life of adventuring when his drunken father sells him to Bruchan, a wandering storyteller.
But instead of illustrating his new master’s tales at fairs, Aengus finds himself embroiled in a desperate secret war. For Bruchan leads an embattled religious community which is fighting to keep alive their secret knowledge and ancient way of life. Threatening them are the fanatical Brotherhood of the Wolf, servants of the Wild Fire, who ruthlessly hunt all such heretics.
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by David D. Levine
$0.99 (Short Story) ISBN 978-1-61138-226-6
Tony Collina’s brother has just died in a steel factory accident. His friends urge him to take a stand against the factory owners, but it’s 1937 and Tony has a family to support. What he’s forgetting is that brotherhood changes everything, whether it’s the fraternal ties of the union or the undying bonds of blood.
“Brotherhood,” a short story that first appeared in the anthology Haunted Holidays, is also available as part of Space Magic, the award-winning collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by David D. Levine.
by Marissa Doyle
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-659-2
Whom the gods love…
After three soul-destroying years of teaching unenthusiastic middle-schoolers, Theodora Fairchild is thrilled to be a student again, pursuing her doctorate in Latin. She’s sure John Winthrop University will be the intellectual home she’s always longed for, the place where she’ll finally fit in. But her teaching days aren’t quite over: Theo starts giving “humanities” lessons to sweetly nerdy post-doc Grant Proctor–and loses her heart.
by Mindy Klasky
$0.99 (Novella) ISBN 978-0-98545-702-0
A Jane Madison/Fright Court Novella.
Jane Madison is searching for a job that will fulfill her, enabling her to combine her peerless librarian skills with her witchcraft. Sarah Anderson, clerk of court for the District of Columbia Night Court, is just beginning to figure out what she can do as a sphinx, an ancient protector of vampires.
by Nancy Jane Moore
$5.95 (Novella) ISBN 978-1-61138-041-5
All her life, Maggie Hines has dreamed of a city quite unlike Wichita Falls, Texas, where she lives. Her parents have always denied the city exists, but as she comes of age she finds her way there and discovers the truth about herself and her family.
Changeling is a coming of age story. And it’s not about faeries.
The Seattle Trolls Trilogy: Book One
by Leah Cutter
$4.99 ISBN 978-1-61138-438-3
A different kind of ugly duckling story
Christine works at her dream job in the archives at a university library, loses sleep most every night to reading, lives mostly in her dreams. But can’t find what she’s really looking for.
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The Changespell Saga Vol. II
by Doranna Durgin
$4.49 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-317-1
Dun Lady’s Jess–once a horse, now learning the ways of the human heart: love, betrayal, and deadly revenge.
Jess, once a horse called Dun Lady’s Jess, is still struggling to integrate her human and equine selves when the wizard Arlen discovers someone in Camolen is callously turning wild creatures into bewildered and maddened human slaves.
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The Changespell Saga Vol. III
by Doranna Durgin
$4.49 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-318-8
Dun Lady’s Jess–all horse, all woman, all heart…and the only one left who can save her disintegrating world from magic gone awry.
Arlen of Anfeald is dead–or so his friends believe, for Camolen’s Council of Wizards has been cut down in a treacherous ambush of twisted magic…and the only surviving witness is a palomino stallion named Ramble.
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Dun Lady’s Jess, Changespell, & Changespell Legacy
by Doranna Durgin
$8.99 (Collection) ISBN 978-1-61138-549-6
Dun Lady’s Jess: all woman, all heart…all horse.
When hikers Dayna and Eric find a naked and terrified young woman, they’re sure she’s the victim of foul play. But the truth is much more shocking: she isn’t human at all.
She’s Dun Lady’s Jess, a horse transformed into this new shape by the spell that brought her and her rider, to whom she is utterly devoted, into this world.
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by David D. Levine
$0.99 (Short Story) ISBN 978-1-61138-220-4
Existential angst is tough enough when you’re human. When you’re a purple giraffe in a comic strip, you know you’re being watched, and none of your friends believe you, it’s even harder. A Locus Recommended Reading selection, Charlie the Purple Giraffe Was Acting Strangely also appeared in Year’s Best Fantasy #5.
“Charlie the Purple Giraffe Was Acting Strangely” is also available as part of Space Magic, an award-winning collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by David D. Levine.
by David D. Levine
$0.99 (Short Story) ISBN 978-1-61138-223-5
Circle of Compassion by David D. Levine (short story) is the tale of a young priestess in an ancient China that never was, who must use a tiny magical charm to defeat a great army. It originally appeared in the anthology Gateways.
“Circle of Compassion” is also available as part of Space Magic, an award-winning collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by David D. Levine.
