Joseph J. Christiano takes readers back to the moon with the release of the Author¿s Edition of his best-selling novel, MOON DUST. The luxury starliner Sovereign of the Stars makes an unscheduled and unannounced landing at Armstrong Base, mankind¿s first permanent facility on the moon. Armstrong¿s commander, Colonel Michael Hansen, boards the vessel and discovers the mummified remains of the passengers and crew. A single comatose survivor is found. A team from earth arrives to begin an investigation. They are led by Lindsay Dwyer, a bureaucrat who far outranks Hansen, and who becomes the de facto commander of Armstrong. Things begin to go wrong soon after their arrival. Several of Armstrong¿s personnel are found dead, their corpses mummified. Hansen orders and evacuation of the facility only to discover the base has been locked down from Earth. Facing a terror of unknown origin and a mutinous executive officer, Hansen must find a way to keep his people alive long enough for them to discover how to defeat their enemy¿an enemy that reduces its victims to moon dust.

Moon Dust

Literature & Fiction

Christiano, Joseph J.

Genre Fiction

Tell-Tale Publishing Group, LLC

The American journey of three generations locks the neophyte company president, Burton Blake, in a vicious struggle with corporate intrigue, financial greed, and social corruption. Born to a taxi dancer at the beginning of the Second World War, Burton's father, Elias Blake, never knows his natural father, who is killed in the South Pacific. He is raised by his mother and stepfather from her second marriage who makes his fortune during the post war real estate boom of the 50's. Their untimely death by his business partner leaves the boy Elias in the guardianship of his mother's best friend and her marine vet husband who introduces him to the macho culture of guns and hunting. Elias's youth is influenced by the adult world's drive for personal material gain. Over the next decades, he expands his parents' original real estate empire into the diversified multi-divisional, multi-national corporation that he leaves to his son, Burton. Upon his forced return from traveling and working with oppressed third world people, Burton learns increasingly more about the true nature of his deceased father as he undertakes the challenges of leading the company in a new direction.

Burton Blake

Tucker, Robert

Terrifying, yet filled with crazy comedic moments, Doorway to Hell will take you into the sewers of San Francisco, to Alcatraz and finally, into another dimension.

Doorway to Hell

Post, Janet

No one knew about the doorbell until the news story of the boys' mysterious disappearance.If certain people couldn't own the doorbell or if it rejected them, they wanted to destroy it and the boys behind it, calling it a hoax.?Ivor and Inge Borg have been tracking Astrid Sims, who has escaped from the ancient Norse myth as Skuld, the weaver of the future, fate and destiny of humankind. She's the norn of the future. Urd of the past and Verdandi of the present. Ivor and Borg need her return so they can continue to spin the threads of life and decide the fate of all human beings. Skuld was reborn and escaped into a new childhood existence. She emerged as a teenager in the 1950s and later as a wife and mother in an American heartland town.The Borgs recruit disappointed miracle seekers. When they threaten the boys to force Astrid's / Skuld's return, much to the anguish of their parents, their sons have to disappear. Accused of being a witch and a demon, Astrid spirits the boys into the future. They don't find what they expect and they don't like what they find.

The Gotten

Teen & Young Adult

Tucker, Rob

Vrykolakas

Boyd, Shawn

Manifestation

When local school parapro Sasha James rescues a child from a mysterious assailant, she unknowingly marks herself as the next target. To survive this supernatural foe, she will need to search deeper than the physical, pray for power beyond the natural, and fight like there's no tomorrow.

Pets for Legion

Brink, Shawn David

Cathleen O'Brien is targeted for death by a megalomaniac, with unlimited resources and Dark Magic. Mason Mirage collects the head of magic users in bizarre hunts and kidnaps the beautiful Witch of Appalachia to become the centerpiece of his horrific collection. Cathleen is imprisoned in a vast mountain retreat patrolled by Undead Guards. Reaching out to her husband, Jason Tate, Cathleen sets her rescue in motion. Teaming with the powerful Historian, Jason sets out to locate his wife before Mirage can take her head.?Cathleen devises a way to free herself and three other magic users, only to find themselves betrayed and fighting for their lives in a new kind of prison, the Labyrinth of Lies. Jason and the Historian unwittingly become pawns in the sick games Mirage and his henchman, Byron Bledsworth, play so successfully in the maze.Unravelling the hidden agenda behind the cruel hunts, Cathleen and the others eventually travel into the Third Realm where the real threat has put down deep roots near the Sacred Grove. It will be here they must battle the Demi-God Gorgon for the Mother's powers and the key to Her four Realms.

Hunting the Witch

Romance

Quarto, Francesca

Paranormal

Book III begins on Gliese where Shayna, Mai Li and Cain Hollyroad have taken over the leadership of the new colony. Shayna is worried because they've heard nothing from Declan and Logan. She decides to contact Earth using the equipment Eddie set up before he left. Unfortunately, when she succeeds and contacts someone she's never heard of with the New LA Vagrants, she gets bad news. War has broken out in New LA and the Vagrant she's contacted, a mole person named Reek running a small, solar-powered computer hacked into the Company's com systems, he tells her most of the Vagrants are gone, hiding and shipped off to mining worlds. Reek doesn't know Logan or Declan or any of the group from Gliese, and tells her the Vagrant space ship was destroyed. When she uses the equipment to piggyback off the Company's Interstellar communication waves, they are alerted and come to find the colony.\nRazor Tsang and his father are at the Gliese spaceport. They have an interview with the CEO. Razor's father is the head of the Tong that has been the one sanctioned smuggling operation affiliated with the Company for decades. But the CEO, an alien who is a member of the ancestor race, laughs in their faces, denies them a new contract and give them twenty-four hours to clear off Gliese. Unfortunately for Razor's father Big Lou Tsang, a group from the Smugglers guild meets him at his ship and kills him. Razor escapes and runs for the hills. He meets up with Shayna and her group and tells them what happened.\nCain Hollyroad leads colony members out of their valley and into the badlands of Gliese where there is no water and little hope of survival. Some of the colony gets caught by the Company and sent to the mines. Shayna, Cain, Razor, Mai Li, her daughter escape and begin a terrible trek into badlands searching for water. When all appears lost, Cain finds some caverns in a canyon which lead to an underground chamber with a spring. They need to get to a spaceport. Shayna is so worried about Logan, he concerns drive them away from their temporary shelter in the cavern and onward. They find the newest mining settlement. It has a rudimentary spaceport and a gigantic interstellar ship on the ground. It's the ship they stole off the moon. Raj thinks he might be able to fly it. He has Helga. Knock reluctantly surrendered her control cube to him when he fell for Fenfang.\nOn Earth, Logan, Knock, Eddie and Fenfang are trying to fight their way, with the aid of the remaining Vagrants on Earth, to the Denver Spaceport where they hope to steal a ship to the moon where they can grab an interstellar ship and get home to Gliese. Logan is devastated by his father's death. To find him and then lose him so suddenly was a huge blow.\nThe remaining population of Vagrants is wily and motivated to escape Earth. When they can't contact Shayna, Logan becomes frantic. He lost his father and needs to know Shayna is safe and sound. Hounded by the Company and its new leader, a Company drone, frantic Logan, turns its eyes to smaller target, the spaceport in New Salt Lake City.\nWhen Logan tries to contact Shayna again, he is stunned to discover she is traveling back to Earth on the Far Horizon. With the Company after them, the Guild discovers they are hiding close to their secret spaceport and moves in. Logan and his group hunker down and pray Cain, Shayna and Raj will arrive in time to save them.

Descendants (The Vagrant Chronicles)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Thompson, Gabe

Science Fiction

Review\nThe Discontent of Mary Wenger is a work of historical fiction that follows Mary Wenger's pursuit of happiness in becoming a middle-class housewife and mother. Born in 1922 in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town, Mary is living at the cusp of post-war social changes that will affect her status and opportunities as a female.\nWhether her efforts lie in feminist ideas or traditional women's roles, Mary is constantly thwarted and disappointed in her objectives and their incarnation under a shifting social structure.\nHer discontent, in turn, affects her family as she strives to reinvent her dreams only to find that her legacy of longing passes equal vision and frustration to the next generation.\nThe origins of that restless spirit lie in her childhood, and are presented in the opening lines of the novel: "Since I was a young girl, I have always believed that death is stalking me. It lurks and hovers in the dark recesses of my mind like a virus waiting to strike and destroy when I least expect it."\nMary believes she knows what is best, not only for herself, but for those around her. She finds out otherwise as she navigates new territory to find all of her dreams being put to the test of time.\nThe Discontent of Mary Wenger is a work of historical fiction, but it's also a thought-provoking psychological profile of a daughter of immigrants who forges her own new paths in life.\nRobert Tucker is especially adept at employing the first person to capture Mary's background, perspective, philosophy about life, and the tumultuous undercurrents of feminism and tradition that buffet her evolution and her family's structure.\nHe also is particularly astute in how he captures Mary's ideals and reactions to the cultural and social norms of her life: "Other than an occasional hug from my Dad, I had never been held so closely by a man...The romantic waves of the music washing over us made me wonder if I were falling in love."\nTucker brings to life the social milieu Mary traverses, blending historical references with personal observations to bring Mary's entire world to life; not just her emotional forays into it.\nAs she raises her family and "makes every effort to support and be involved," Mary continues to evolve in response to her childhood lessons, her adult convictions, and the social winds of change that buffet them all.\nThe result is a fictional memoir based on facts that brings to life one woman's ongoing evolution as America changes.\nThe Discontent of Mary Wenger's vivid recollections of the past make it a winning choice for not just historical novel readers, but women's fiction and literature audiences. Groups interested in how women absorb social changes which contrast and sometimes collide with their upbringing and moral compass will find it gives much fodder for discussion and debate. 
(Diane Donovan, Sr. Reviewer, Midwest Book Review)\nThe Discontent of Mary Wenger, Paper Dolls, Book 1 by Robert Tucker is a mellow and thoroughly engaging story that narrates with humor and affection the life of Mary Wenger and the changing American scene of the early 1900s. Tucker gives the reader a vivid glimpse of the day-to-day life of the protagonist, Mary, as she tells of her life and of those around her.\nThe narrative begins when Mary experiences the loss of her baby sister and then quickly delves into the background of her very conservative parents. The guilt her parents felt over the loss of the baby was the impetus that brought them to become Jehovah's Witnesses. But, unfortunately, their adherence to this religion alienated them from their neighbors, who were predominantly Catholic and Lutheran. She tells of how difficult her mother's life was as a child and the mistreatment she endured and finally escaped by running away.\nMary's parents were very protective of her and her brother, John, and discouraged them from having relations with the opposite sex. After discovering a wet spot on John's sheets, they even began to check his bed

The Discontent of Mary Wenger

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