A.P. Taber

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Author

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Beyond The Blue - Chapter 4 (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/1458817742-beyond-the-blue-chapter-4?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_reading&wp_uname=APTaber Marina Andros and Leo Kassian thrive amidst breathtaking innovation and harmony in a city of towering spires and dazzling technology. Yet, hidden within their perfect world are enigmatic anomalies-glitches that hint at deeper secrets. Driven by curiosity and a desire for truth, Marina and Leo embark on a journey that takes them from their utopian city to the gritty underground of Mole City. Along the way, they meet intriguing individuals like the pragmatic miner Jux Mandel and the insightful mechanic Riat Loren, who help them navigate the mysteries that lie beneath the surface. Copyright © 2024 by A.P. Taber

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Beyond The Blue - Chapter 3 (on Wattpad) 

Marina Andros and Leo Kassian thrive amidst breathtaking innovation and harmony in a city of towering spires and dazzling technology. Yet, hidden within their perfect world are enigmatic anomalies-glitches that hint at deeper secrets. Driven by curiosity and a desire for truth, Marina and Leo embark on a journey that takes them from their utopian city to the gritty underground of Mole City. Along the way, they meet intriguing individuals like the pragmatic miner Jux Mandel and the insightful mechanic Riat Loren, who help them navigate the mysteries that lie beneath the surface. Copyright © 2024 by A.P. Taber

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🎉 Cover Reveal & Preorder Announcement: Ryser Academy Book 1: The Chimera Project!

Greetings, Space Travelers! The countdown to August 2023 has officially begun, and the excitement here in my corner of the galaxy is reaching supernova levels! Today, I’m ecstatic to share with you something truly cosmic – the cover reveal for Ryser Academy Book 1: The Chimera Project! 🚀 Isn’t it dazzling? I must say, it perfectly captures the essence of Neo Lyra Murphy and the adventurous…

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Upgrade by Blake Crouch

Upgrade by Blake Crouch

When the SWAT team gives the all-clear and Logan Ramsay steps into the basement, he has no idea that everything’s about to change. Then there’s the hiss of aerosol. The explosion. The shrapnel punctures his hazmat gear. Logan wakes up to find himself in a hospital bed, attended by doctors in their own hazmat suits, his wife and daughter looking on from behind the glass. The doctors say he’s been…

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Before the coffee gets cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Before the coffee gets cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. Before the coffee gets cold is the story of a café in Tokyo that has one special chair that allows people to time travel. The process is a bit of a mystery, but one that has…

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Empire of The Vampire by Jay Kristoff

Empire of The Vampire by Jay Kristoff

It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise. For nearly three decades, vampires have waged war against humanity; building their eternal empire even as they tear down our own. Now, only a few tiny sparks of light endure in a sea of darkness. Gabriel de León is a silversaint: a member of a holy brotherhood dedicated to defending the realm and church from the creatures of the night.…

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Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies by Misha Popp

Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies by Misha Popp

Daisy Ellery’s pies have a secret ingredient: The magical ability to avenge women done wrong by men…The first time Daisy Ellery killed a man with a pie, it was an accident. Now, it’s her calling. Daisy bakes sweet vengeance into her pastries, which she and her dog Zoe deliver to the men who’ve done dirty deeds to the town’s women. But if she can’t solve the one crime that’s not of her own baking,…

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Tender Is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica, Sarah Moses (translator)

Tender Is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica, Sarah Moses (translator)

His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments,…

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One Night on the Island by Josie Silver

One Night on the Island by Josie Silver

Spending her thirtieth birthday alone is the last thing that dating columnist Cleo wanted, but she is going on a self-coupling quasi-sabbatical–at the insistence of her boss–in the name of re-energizing herself and adding a new perspective to her column. The remote Irish island she’s booked is a far cry from London, but at least it’s a chance to hunker down in a luxury cabin and indulge in some…

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The Couple On Maple Drive by Sam Carrington

The Couple On Maple Drive by Sam Carrington

Have you heard about the couple on Maple Drive? Isla barely leaves the house after her brutal mugging. Her boyfriend Zach moved in with her after the attack. To look after her, but something else has happened now. Right on their doorstep. I don’t want to say that someone’s out to get her… I just hope they find out the truth before it’s too late. The Couple On Maple Drive follows the story of…

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Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles #1) by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles #1) by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

Life-long friends, they went their separate ways. Now they are together again, though each holds secrets from the others in his heart. They speak of a world shadowed with rumors of war. They speak of tales with strange monsters, creatures of myth, creatures of legend. They do not speak of their secrets. Not then. Not until a chanced encounter with a beautiful, sorrowful woman who bears a magical…

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A Head Full Of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

A Head Full Of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia.To her parents’ despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie’s descent into madness. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism;…

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The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling

The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling

Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations, and decided that the most secure path forward is this: a husband, in a marriage of convenience, who will allow her to remain independent and occupied with meaningful work. Her first choice, the dashing but reclusive doctor Augustine Lawrence, agrees to her proposal with only one condition: that she must never visit Lindridge Hall,…

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Stay With Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

Stay With Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and Yejide have always agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage–after consulting fertility doctors and healers, trying strange teas and unlikely cures–Yejide is still not pregnant. She assumes she still has time–until her family arrives…

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Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more…

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Murder By Page One by Olivia Matthews

Murder By Page One by Olivia Matthews

Marvey, a librarian, has moved from Brooklyn to a quirky small town in Georgia. When she’s not at the library organizing events for readers, she’s handcrafting book-themed jewelry and looking after her cranky cat. At times, her new life in the South still feels strange…and that’s before the discovery of the dead body in the bookstore. After one of her friends becomes a suspect, Marvey sets out to…

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The Nesting by C. J. Cooke

The Nesting by C. J. Cooke

Architect Tom Faraday is determined to finish the high-concept, environmentally friendly home he’s building in Norway – in the same place where he lost his wife, Aurelia, to suicide. It was their dream house, and he wants to honor her with it. Lexi Ellis takes a job as his nanny and immediately falls in love with his two young daughters, especially Gaia. But something feels off in the isolated…

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