Enter the Rebirth (Enter the... Book 3)
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Toy Wars
Flung to a remote world, a semi-sentient group of robotic mining factories arrive with their programming hashed. They can only create animated toys instead of normal mining and fighting machines. One of these factories, pushed to the edge of extinction by the fratricidal conflict, attempts a desperate gamble. Infusing one of its toys with the power of sentience begins the quest of a 2-meter-tall purple teddy bear and his pink polka-dotted elephant companion. They must cross an alien world to find and enlist the aid of mortal enemies to end the genocide before Toy Wars claims their family—all while asking the immortal question, “Why am I?”
Toy Reservations
Isp, toyanity’s religious zealot, returns at the head of a massive new Army of the Humans. He openly announces his intent to replace President Quixote’s government with a theocracy. With most of his toys modified to peacetime purposes, Don Quixote must make a horrific decision for the very soul of his people.
Novels by Bruce Graw from TANSTAAFL Press
The Faerie of Central Park
The last of her kind in New York City, Tillianita tends the land and beasts as best she can, reluctantly obeying her departed father's warning to avoid humans at all costs. A freak accident casts her out of the relative safety of Central Park. Lost and alone with a broken wing, she wonders if she'll ever see her home again.
On his own for the first time in his life, college freshman Dave Thompson isn't sure he'll ever fit in. When he stumbles upon an extremely realistic fairy doll, he thinks perhaps it might make a good present for a future date until he discovers that it's not a doll at all. His find turns not only his life upside down but also expands his narrow view of the world.
Lady Hornet
Elizabeth Fontaine is a lonely, ordinary young woman in a world where superheroes struggle daily against evil. To fill the empty void within her soul, she becomes a hero fangirl, following every super’s event, subscribing to multiple fanzines, and never missing the daily superhero talk shows . . . until one day, fate grants her the opportunity to leave behind her boring, dreary life and become what she’s always dreamed of . . . a superheroine!
Elizabeth learns the hard way the meaning of the phrase, “Caveat Emptor!”—let the buyer beware!
Demon Holiday
Torval, Demon Third Class, Layer Four Hundred Twelve of the Eighth Circle of Hell, has been in the business of chastising sinners longer than he can remember. Delivering punishment is the only job he’s ever known—the only job he’s ever wanted. After Torval witnesses something unexpected, his demonic Overseer demands that he take time off to resolve this personal crisis. And so, Torval, the demon, finds himself sent on vacation . . . to Earth, the proving ground of souls!
Demon Ascendant
Torval, Demon Third Class, Layer Four Hundred Twelve of the Eighth Circle of Hell, on vacation to Earth has managed to find another demon, dated a woman, and inadvertently explored some of the sins of humankind: greed, gluttony, and lust. Through all this, his biggest struggle involves deciding if he wants his holiday to end or to continue forever.
Novels by Stephanie Weippert from TANSTAAFL Press
Sweet Secrets
At seven, Michael gets into trouble no more than any other boy his age, but he does have a sweet tooth. When the mailman brings a package from a candy company, he has to sneak just one. As he eats the chocolate, his home, stepfather, and everything he knows melts around him and disappears. Suddenly, he is in a dreamlike world. He is taken as an orphan, tested, and before he knows it, he’s a student in the premier magic school on the planet. His fellow students can make cookies that fly and chocolate turtles that actually walk. Michael is told he has more power than any of them.
Brad, Michael’s stepdad, had been charged with watching his stepson for the first time. When the boy disappears before his eyes, Brad panics. Within hours he is on an adventure tracking his son alongside his neighbor, an enigmatic chef and former graduate of the magic school. Always one step behind his son, Brad soon finds that Michael is being used as a pawn between the two most powerful chefs on the crazy planet. Worse, he has to get Michael home before his mother finds out he’s gone or there is going to be hell to pay.
Road to Chaos
Robert Thompson is a vain, egotistical actor bent on making his mark on Hollywood. On his way to an important audition that may make his career, another car crashes into his. The other car is totaled but his land yacht is barely dented. The other driver, in a fit of lunacy, insists that they get in his car and drive away before the chaos mathamagic police find them. Robert scoffs. Magic is for rubes and what in this crazy man’s delusions does chaos or math have to do with it?
Robert clings to his beliefs until he finds out that the other driver is his long-lost cousin, the magic police tries to kill them both, and his cousin Eric teleports them to Tibet. Robert finds himself bounced around the globe on a mixed attempt to both evade the brutal mathamagic goon squad and clear Eric’s name, all the while hoping that he can return to salvage his real life of movies.