Tony Bertauski
21) 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...
22) 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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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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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...
25) 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
29) The Making
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The Soldier wakes on the battlefield.
He's a pawn in a larger conflict with no memory of where he was before coming online. His exoskeletal armor forces him into combat. Only when he engages free will does he break out of auto mode. And things get weird.
Hunted by the cleaners, he transports to other worlds. It's not till he's captured does he understand what he really is. And how to truly escape.
This is an introduction to the The Socket Greeny...
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Snowmen are real...Life hasn't been kind to Oliver Toye.As if juvenile diabetes isn't enough, he's forced to live with his tyrannical grandmother in a snow-bound house. He spends his days doing chores and the nights listening to the forest rumble.But when he discovers the first leather-bound journal, the family secrets begin to surface. The mystery of his great-grandfather's voyage to the North Pole is revealed. That's when the snowman appears.Magical...
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The 9th standalone novel in the Claus Universe.One Christmas morning, a mystery gift appeared under trees around the world. It was the exact same gift, inscribed with the maker's initials in tiny letters: BT and Company. It was months before anyone knew exactly what the gift did.Avery Tannenbaum's brother was one of the lucky few to receive one. It was on her birthday when the mysterious gifts came to life. A contest was announced. It was also on...
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A year has passed since the Paladin Nation was exposed to the public. Their mission is still to protect humanity from whatever may threaten them. Previously, it was the human duplications, but now that they've been extinguished their biggest challenge is dealing with the complications of public image. Socket Greeny, now 17 years old, has been a Paladin cadet for the past year and is nearing the final test. But that's the least of his problems. He's...
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La trilogía completa de Socket Greeny (Descubrimiento, Entrenamiento y Leyenda) sigue la historia de un adolescente de pelo blanco que descubre que forma parte de una raza humana más evolucionada, su entrenamiento para comprenderse a sí mismo, y la legendaria conclusión de su auténtica naturaleza. DESCUBRIMIENTO. Desde que murió el padre de Socket Greeny, para su madre el trabajo siempre ha sido lo primero. Y cuando esta le cuenta los entresijos...
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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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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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DeadPixel Publications
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"Six teenage girls wake with no memories. One of them is in a brick mansion, her blonde hair as shiny as her shoes. The others are in a cabin, their names tagged to the inside of their pants. Their heads, shaved. Slashes mark the cabin wall like someone has been counting. Hundreds of them. There's wilderness all around and one dead adult. The girls discover her body rotting somewhere in the trees. As the weeks pass, they band together to survive the...
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DeadPixel Publications
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2019
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A synthetic stem cell called a biomite can replace any cell in your body. They are infallible. As our percentages of biomites rise, we become stronger, we become smarter and prettier. We become better.
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DeadPixel Publications
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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...
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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...