Tony Bertauski
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Santa is not just about the presents. See something deeper in this mythological figure. A story that's meaningful. Find a cast of gritty, compassionate and courageous characters that make the journey to mythological fame despite their shortcomings and frailties. Pull away the veil of magic, reveal the difficulties of love and loss and struggle with life. Because Santa Claus is much more than presents. In the early 1800s, Nicholas, Jessica and Jon...
2) Halfskin
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Biomites are artificial stem cells that can replace any cell in your body. No more kidney failure, no severed spines or blood disease. No cancer. Pharmaceuticals become obsolete. With each dose of biomites, we become stronger, we become smarter and prettier. We become better. At what point are we no longer human? Nix Richards nearly died in a car accident when he was young. Biomites saved his life. Ten years later, he's not so lucky. The Halfskin...
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Drayton chronicles volume 1
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Drayton once believed he was a vampire. He doesn't know what he is. Or why he has lived for thousands of years. He takes not his victim's blood but the silky essence of their soul during their last breath. Often mistaken for the Angel of Death, his victims sometimes ask for forgiveness. Sometimes he delivers. After all, he is not without sin.
Drayton finds Andrew Drummond dying on the roadside. He absorbs the last of his life, but not before Andrew...
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Christmas is hot.When Kandi's dad gets a mysterious call, they fly to a tropical island where the buildings are enormous and the rooms empty. Despite the heat, his sunburned client wears a heavy cloak.Kandi meets a boy living all alone in one of the empty resorts. When he goes missing, she enlists the help of the technological wonders that haunt the island to find him. What she uncovers is a much deeper mystery that will affect more than just Christmas....
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If you liked Ready Player One and Ender's Game, strap in for Socket Greeny..."A brilliantly-written complexly-layered plot, set in a vivid, tangible future world." --IndieReaderI was a nobody.I had this funny name and white hair and really didn't care about anything. But then one day something happened. Change is like that. One day you're a nothing, the next you're saving everything. Not everybody.Everything.It's not that I didn't want to do what...
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Jacob Marley is dead. His business partner, Eb Scrooge, is left to run Avocado, Inc., an innovative technology business, all alone. An introverted shut-in locked away in a Colorado mansion, he changes the company's mission statement. Only his servant droids keep him company.Until the gifts arrive.Each Christmas, a messenger forces Eb to look at his life in hopes he will change. But change does not happen in a single night. And only Eb can make it...
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The evolution of a vampire.Drayton doesn't know what he is. Or why he has lived for thousands of years. He takes not his victim's blood but the silky essence of their soul during their last breath. Often mistaken for the Angel of Death, his victims sometimes ask for forgiveness. Sometimes he delivers. After all, he is not without sin.INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHORDid you ever think you'd write about vampires?Nope. Drayton came out of nowhere when I was...
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The Jack Frost you never knew…Sura is sixteen years old when she meets Mr. Frost.He's a strange man. Very short, very fat. And he likes his room cold. Some say inhumanly cold.Mr. Frost's love for Christmas is over-the-top and slightly psychotic. He's made billions of dollars off the holiday and, according to Mr. Frost, a holiday he invented. Rumor is he's an elven, but that's silly. Elven aren't real. And if they were, they wouldn't be in South...
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I write fiction. I make up stories.
This is not one of them.
This story is true. Some minor details have been altered and names changed, but the story itself is true. At some point, you won't believe it. Hell, I don't believe some of it and I was there. It's a story about crises. It's about resolution, about life prevailing. It's about adoption.
This is not a step-by-step guide on how to turn lemons into lemonade. I'm not an expert in crisis management...
10) Mediapiel
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¿En qué punto dejamos de ser humanos? Las biomitas son células madre artificiales que pueden reemplazar cualquier célula en tu cuerpo; no más fallas renales, columnas vertebrales rotas ni enfermedades de la sangre, no más cáncer. Los medicamentos se han vuelto obsoletos; con cada dosis de biomitas nos volvemos más fuertes, más listos y hast amejor parecidos. Nos volvemos mejores. ¿En qué punto dejamos de ser humanos? Nix Richards casi muere...
11) Claus Boxed
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The holiday stories you never heard...In the early 1800s, Nicholas Santa discovered an ancient race of elven.Short, fat and hairy, they have lived peacefully on the North Pole since the Ice Age but Nicholas is quickly swept into the colony's first and only fracture. The elven known as the Cold One has divided his people. His name is Jack. And Jack's tired of hiding. Why should they live in a shrinking ice cap when humans occupy the rest of the world?It's...
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If you liked Neuromancer and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, you'll love the MAZE…Sunny Grimm found her son with a strap around his head.An infamous symbol is embossed between his eyes, one that people only whisper about-the mark of awareness leaping. Where players launch into virtual realities. Where anything goes and investors make millions.Critics, however, refuse to call it a game.They argue that reality confusion will be the end of humanity....
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Tyler Ballard was in prison when his son created a dreamworld called Foreverland, a place so boundless and spellbinding that no one ever wanted to leave. Or did. Now his son is dead, his wife is comatose and Tyler is still imprisoned. But he planned it that way. The final piece of his vision falls into place when Alessandra Diosa investigates the crimes of Foreverland. Tyler will use her to create a new dimension of reality beyond anything his son...
14) Claus Boxed 3
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The Christmas adventures continue. The third volume of the holiday tales you never heard growing up...TOYLANDWhen Tin's family inherits an enormous rural estate, they discover the hidden treasures of Toyland. The eccentric mansion was built long ago by a toy magnate named Wallace Noel, a man made famous by his beloved Noel toys. Tin discovers an authentic-looking elf hat and knows what made his toys so special. GINGERMANAfter Chris is accepted into...
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When kids awake on an island, they're told there was an accident. Before they can go home, they will visit Foreverland, an alternate reality that will heal their minds.Reed dreams of a girl that tells him to resist Foreverland. He doesn't remember her name, but knows he once loved her. He'll have to endure great suffering and trust his dream. And trust he's not insane.Danny Boy, the new arrival, meets Reed's dream girl inside Foreverland. She's stuck...
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Worst Christmas ever.Christmas was about traditions. Currently, Zay and her mom had about five traditions, things like gingerbread cookies and tree decorating. Not going to work.Zay has to stay home. On Christmas. Alone.Mom said her boss felt real bad about the whole thing so he was sending a nanny. It just keeps getting worse. She's fourteen years old. She doesn't need a nanny. But then the nanny shows up. She's not really a she. Or a he.More of...
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If you liked Inception, The Maze Runner and Ready Player One, you'll love the mind-bending thriller Foreverland!The boys woke on a tropical island. The girls in the wilderness.They don't know where they are or how they got there. Or why. Remembering who they are is only the beginning of their escape.Reed will make great sacrifices to find his lost love and Danny Boy will refuse to let the old men win. Cyn will have to battle through madness. Self-discovery...
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The Paladin Nation is rebuilding. Socket Greeny is leading them into a new era of compassion and understanding. But when Pike returns, Socket discovers nothing is what he expected, that his life has been planned from the beginning. He is faced with ultimate betrayal. In the end, he won't be asked to save the world. It'll be the entire universe.INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHORWhen did you start writing?My first effort started with Socket Greeny. It was a...
19) Halfskin Boxed
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For fans of Bladerunner and Brave New World comes a new twist…Perfection has arrived.Synthetic stem cells mean no more organ failure, no more pharmaceuticals. No cancer. The human race is stronger, smarter and prettier. Is it better?Cali Richards is a nanobiometric engineer who has been her younger brother's guardian since their parents died. She's lost too many people in her life to lose another. When the government declares the Halfskin Laws will...
20) Claus Boxed 2
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The Christmas adventures continue. The second volume of the holiday tales you never heard growing up...HUMBUGEb Scrooge is left to run Avocado, Inc., an innovative technology business, all alone. An introverted shut-in locked away in a Colorado mansion, only his servant droids keep him company. Until the gifts arrive. HEAT MISERWhen Kandi's dad gets a mysterious call, they fly to a tropical island. Despite the heat, his sunburned client wears a heavy...