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Alison Liv Isner''s second adventure starts as a long-awaited reunion with her friends. Swept away to Egypt, she embarks on another expedition her mom never completed. This time she''s tasked with recovering the Pharaoh Zicobus''s sacred headdress. But the Geese are hot on her trail. If they find it first, they''ll have the ability to see the future and it would bring devastating consequences. Ali and her animal companions have to navigate the booby traps set to keep people out of a great pyramid. Adventurous Ali: The All Seeing Eye brings Ali to great challenges where she discovers more about her mother and has to use what she has learned in her first adventure to help get through the pyramid''s tomb without any dire circumstances. Join Ali and her friends as they escape peril to safely secure Pharaoh Zicobus''s headdress. 

Alison Liv Isner''s third adventure whisks her away to Transylvania, and this expedition comes with a price. Not only is the castle inhabited by beet-eating vampires, but the Geese have also increased in numbers and boldness. Her bravery is tested. Once reunited with her friends, she quickly learns the value of readiness, and once again, her mom''s journal proves itself invaluable. With a fortress full of deadly obstacles, Ali and her friends must survive torch-lit dungeons and animated knights wielding medieval weapons in order to retrieve the Nobil Fel pocket watch from a vampire named Gaspare. If it falls into the wrong hands, the world will be thrust into eternal darkness. Follow Ali as she learns more about her mom, and her friendships grow stronger.

The Yetis are sick! Alison Liv Isner''s latest adventure couldn''t come at a better time. It''s nearly Christmas, and she''s missing her mom more than ever. She''s been studying her mom''s journal just like Chicaletta-such a wise monkey-told her to, so she''d be prepared. Although, as Ali finishes the book, she realizes not all expeditions are fully mapped out and there''s a lot left to chance. 

In her past three adventures, she''s already encountered countless booby traps, giant ruby-eyed tarantulas, mummy crocodiles, vegetarian vampires, and of course, The Geese, with her five talking animal friends. Saving the world from complete devastation has been rewarding, but gaining confidence and learning more about her mom has been her favorite part. Has all her training been enough to face the Yetis and other mythical creatures that await her in Mount Everest? 

Join Ali, Chicaletta, Figgy, Bait, Glenda, and Tristan as they trek through an icy mountain in Nepal, laden with challenging obstacles, bigger tasks, and touching connections as they fight to save the Yetis. 

Matt Voorhees awakes surrounded by a pile of VHS tapes in his cryopod, on the outskirts of an abandoned summer camp, along with eight other seventeen-year-olds. A scientist, who was tasked to watch over them while they were cryogenically frozen is dead. They have no idea where they are, or more importantly, where the rest of the frozen people are. When they were put into cryosleep, they were with their five thousand closest friends and families-but now they''re all alone. Their personalities clash while they try to formulate a plan. Some want to live it up, while others want to find their parents and the others. Left with only the tapes as a touchstone to the past, Matt is forced to survive the new world filled with intense floods and frigid blizzards.

Camp New Beginnings wasn''t the safe haven they were expecting. 

After Alison Liv Isner is sucked into an old globe that sat on her father''s desk, she wakes beside a campfire in a lush jungle, surrounded by five talking animals. She quickly realizes these are the same friends her mom wrote about in her expedition journal. Now, at only eleven-years-old, she has the opportunity to complete her deceased mother''s unfinished expedition in the Temple of the Monkey God.  

With her new found friends, a monkey, a fat rat, a bat, a burro with a piranha in a mason jar tied around his neck, Ali decides to face the treacherous booby traps inside of the temple and save the monkey idol from an evil group called The Geese. 

As she learns more about her deceased mom through her adventure journal, Ali and her friends realize the book is the key to lead them through the tunnels of the dreaded Temple of the Monkey God. If not, their lives are at stake and Ali will be trapped in the expedition realm forever. 

Being a lumberjack isn''t easy-especially when your brother is trying to kill you. For Annalise, Younish Camp-the only home she''s ever known-has turned into a factioned nightmare. Her brother, Paul, had always been a little off, but now things have spiraled. With the oppression of the scrawn and breeders at an all-time high, and the pure lumberjacks now severing limbs in favor of mechanical appendages, camp has become extremely dangerous. Who wants to live with a bunch of men with saws for arms anyway?

Annalise has two choices: conform to the lumberchief''s will or escape. But Annalise has a secret. One that could cost her life. Using spontaneity and her reckless resolve, she tries to formulate a plan with her good friend Marshall. But as it takes form, she wonders if it will be enough to safely escape. Not only will she have to figure out how to get to a camp over a hundred miles away, but she also has the threat of the dreaded keringer-a relentless beast that roams and hunts in the timber. No one has ever survived an encounter with a keringer. One false move in her plan and Annalise will not only die, but also bring down her good friend and anyone else who follows.

The weight of the world is on her shoulders.

But that''s just another day in lumberjacking, right?

On a planet where the very ground you walk on is electrified, the soil charger race rules, and the humans are dying off. Tage is neither since he is half human, half soil charger-a freak of nature. His only chance for redemption lies in the mission the human elders tasked him with as a boy. Tage has spent his life undercover in the capital city of Currentgrad. By day, he trains to be a soil charger knight-elite warriors who can harness the electricity in the earth into their own bodies. By night, he prepares for his ultimate task: to assassinate the tyrannical Overlord. His only comfort in these dangerous times is Capacity, the only girl he has ever loved, and his small group of loyal friends.

For the humans, the planet has become nearly unlivable. They''ve built a fortress on top of a rubber sea and have done their best to survive. They''ve only managed to escape total extinction due to their special skill set that the Overlord needs. Knowing the only way to end the oppression is by taking out the Overlord, they''re forced to plan an assassination. 

Tage''s world is turned upside down, leaving him banished from Currentgrad and left for dead. His friends are scattered and Capacity is missing. Tage burns for revenge, and in killing the Overlord, he''ll save the humans and get the vengeance he''s craving. At age sixteen, he finally realizes the benefits of being both soil charger and human. His power is unlike anything anyone has ever seen. Can Tage harness the power hiding in his blood? He just hopes it''s enough to take on an entire army with his friends and save the humans.

What if your next meal, drink of water, or lumber for your house was dependent on the success of someone else''s gaming skills? For Bastian, Callum, and Odette and everyone else in the concrete city of 55178, it is. 

The more skilled the gamer is, the more commodities your town receives. Unfortunately, in twenty-four hours, tools will rust, water becomes tainted, and food turns rancid. Every day is a fight for resources, becoming captive to the arcade games. With his best friend on the precipice of Leveling Up, Bastian somehow knows there''s something more to life than this. With a conspiratorial idea worming its way into the fabric of their daily lives, Bastian decides he needs answers. And those answers lurk below. Under the Elevators.

An impulsive move thrusts Bastian into a dangerous ride on one of these Elevators. A journey that uncovers the dark secret that lies at the end of the elevator ride, into a new world. 

Faced with a terrifying reality, Bastian must find a way to save the townsfolk of 55178 and stop the madness that has trapped him and his people for decades.  

Camp New Beginnings isn''t the safe place Matt Voorhees thought it was. An intense flood stole the life of one of the nine survivors. And now all that remain from their cryocolumn are eight seventeen-year-olds and a troubled man named Darin, who Matt doesn''t trust. They still don''t know where the cryovault is and are no closer to finding it, due to a monstrous snowstorm forcing them to stay put. But they know they''re running out of time. Dr. Westbrook is dead, and there is no one tending to the over five thousand pods of cryogenically frozen people-the last of the human race.

Continued erratic weather halts them at every turn, and the body count is adding up. In their race to find their families and save the population, they uncover more things that are out of place, and the mystery deepens. Matt begins to question if he can even save himself-let alone the rest of the world.

Welcome to Camp New Beginnings-where the weather is just as dysfunctional as its residents.

2023 Next Generation Indie Book Finalist for Young Adult Fiction

Did you know that you can buy a Russian nuclear submarine or a decommissioned WWII tank in the back of a comic book? Neither do Nate and Corey until they find vintage, obscure comic books in Nate''s late grandmother''s attic. Little do they know that the cheap cardboard subs and water pistol plasma guns that they purchase for a few nickels will come to life.

Instead of spending their summer at the pool or riding bikes, they fly around in hover cars, bounce around in space shoes, and test their incredible strength with a Hercules bracelet. But when it comes down to who actually owns and controls the novelties . . . well, that''s a different story.

With a power struggle and popularity on the line, Nate and Corey''s once rock-solid friendship is severed and their friends are forced to pick sides. A war is waged with cardboard tanks and milk jug flame throwers. Innocent fun turns an abandoned factory into a war zone. The consequences of the novelty war has unintended consequences -one that could be permanent.

2023 Next Generation Indie Book Finalist for Science Fiction

We have all heard it many times in our lives. Get off your phone! You spend too much time on your phone! But for Will Hadding and his family and friends, being on their phone is the only way to survive. Will''s extraordinarily mediocre life is just fine with him. But for his parents who work so hard to give him and his sister more, life couldn''t get better once they win the Purquility Lottery.

Winning the coveted prize means a promise of a disease-free and charmed life in a brand-new home inside a perfectly manicured, planned city. But it also means leaving everything and everyone from your old life behind. After the cleansing process, his family is whisked away in a luxurious limousine to start their new life. But for Will, none of this sits right with him.

Will''s suspicions intensify when his mother falls gravely ill-and seemingly no one is helping her. Desperate to find answers, Will goes on a mission to find out who the officers of the homeowners association really are. During his search, he crosses paths with a missing "dead" girl, Andy. Along with her two friends, they help Will uncover the truth about Purquility.

With only hours to formulate an exit plan, will he find a way to take down the HOA? Or will he succumb to something much worse?

Getting knocked unconscious in a tomb at the local cemetery wasn''t exactly how Calvin expected a game of truth or dare to go. Worse, all but one of his friends ditched him. But that''s the least of Calvin''s worries. He can''t sleep, his hair is falling out, and according to his best friend, Jaylen, he stinks of something awful. And now a mysterious stranger named Belmont has offered to help Calvin deal with his new condition and try to live a normal life-a normal life as a zombie!

Soon, fake hair, monthly embalming, wearing industrial strength deodorizer, and a steady diet of brains make up Calvin''s regular routine. He''s just starting to fit back into the norms of society when things take a turn for the worse, and Calvin wakes up one night covered in someone else''s blood. As his memories piece back together, he realizes something evil has taken control of his zombie body, and the murders start piling up. Calvin must race against time to put a stop to the sinister force bending his will and using him as a weapon, before he kills again.

For the first time since Alison Liv Isner started her adventures, she''s not eager for the next one. After conquering her previous expeditions in Honduras, Egypt, Transylvania, and Nepal, she fears there aren''t many left in her mom''s journal. And while she loves the adventures, she loves being with her friends even more. She''s already lost her mom-losing her last connection to her mom would be devastating!

While Ali and her friends have been training and working hard to perfect their adventuring skills, so have the Geese. With each expedition the Geese have become more brazen and aggressive.  Ali and her friends must recover the Harmony Hourglass before the Geese can pillage, plunder, and loot it and all the innocent people of Port Cartagena de Indias.

With the stakes at an all-time high and the pressure mounting, Ali knows she must succeed-but will this be her last adventure? 

The six remaining refugees from Vault B-35 risk everything as they leave the controlled environment of the air lock and venture out into the real apocalypse, gas masks the only thing standing between them and the toxic air. 

Determined to find his parents and the rest of the thousands of people cryogenically frozen in the vault, Matt Voorhees leads Catherine, Justin, Stacy, Cody, and Darin across dangerous terrain, where comets and earth collide, unpredictable lightning storms light up the world, and balls of hail-fire slam into everything in their path.

Matt and Catherine grow closer, and excitement builds within the group as they find shelter, supplies, and a map that will lead them directly to the vault.

Tragedy strikes the small group once again as they head into the home stretch.

Who will make it to Vault B-35? And will there be any survivors there to greet those who do?