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Here's how to use your holiday shopping to support cooperatives.

We’re delighted to see that Book View Café got a shoutout in Yes Magazine!

Book View Cafe: This cooperative publisher’s membership is made up of authors. They publish a wide variety of genres, including science fiction, alternative history, fantasy, romance, children’s books, humor, and young adult. Oh, and did I mention Ursula K. Le Guin is a member of this co-op? Because if I didn’t: Ursula K. Le Guin is a member of this co-op.

Which reminds me to remind you that we have our December sale going on - and all our books are DRM-free, which means you can read them on any device you (or the gift-recipient of your choice) choose!

But only until December 31st....

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Paradise

by Chaz Brenchley $4.99 (Novel) ISBN 

A miracle may cure cancer in one teenage boy, but can it cure a community…?

They call it Paradise: an inner-city danger zone, starved of resources and starved of hope. Run-down housing, run-down lives.

Then comes a miracle. Literally a miracle, a dying boy made well, healed by the touch of a charismatic young man. And that’s only the beginning.  Richard brings light into the darkest places; his inspiration and leadership breathe new life into a sick community.

But where there are powers of light, there are also powers of darkness. What starts as a revolution soon becomes a war. A war fought for the heart and soul of Paradise…

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Originally published by Hodder and Stoughton (1994)

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Remscela

The Sequel to Tain by Gregory Frost $5.99 (Novel)

When the Druid Cathbad gave Cu Chulainn a choice of great deeds or long life, the demigod warrior chose great deeds–which, as the defender of all Ulster–he performed without hesitation. But now, the invasion by Queen Maeve and her armies is long over, and the consequences of the choice he made are about to descend upon Cu Chulainn.

Cu Chulainn was only a teenaged boy when he defeated the combined armies of Queen Maeve. Now, with nothing to fight, Ulster’s warrior seems cursed–by a child he never knew he had; by the Sidhe sorceress Fand; by the goddess queen of Connacht herself, who has never forgiven him for his triumph; and by the three dark and evil sisters called The Morrigu. Long ago, the Druid Cathbad once gave him the choice of reknown for his great deeds or a long life. Cu Chulainn chose the former, and now it seems that the consequences of that choice have come due.

“[A] stark and bloody epic…a classic of heroic fantasy with which all lovers of the genre should be familiar. Thanks to Gregory Frost, one can now enjoy the story in crisp, modern prose. Highly recommended to all readers of epic fantasy and to those interested in Celtic myth!” —Fantasy Review

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Originally published by Ace Fantasy Books (1988)

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War Among the Crocodiles

Book 3 of The Shadow Wars by Leah Cutter $5.99 (Novel)  A BVC Original

As a modern wizard, Yvette knows many things: how to imprint her name on the very stones of her land to protect it, how to hear secrets from winds great and small, and how to bake the perfect souffle (she is French, after all).

However, Yvette doesn’t know how to stop the soul eaters–a group of corrupted human magicians who steal knowledge from her mind as easily as she picks daisies from a field.

When the soul eaters also attack the clans, the ancient families of shape shifters hidden among the humans, a war erupts in the shadows.

Can Yvette stop the soul eaters from destroying not only the clans, but her fellow magicians as well? Particularly when the clans have never trusted her kind, and wage their own internal wars?

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The Shadow Wars Series: Book One: The Raven and the Dancing Tiger Book Two: The Guardian Hound

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Code of Conduct

Book 1 of The Jani Kilian Chronicles

by Kristine Smith $4.99 (Novel) 

Captain Jani Kilian’s life should have ended in front of a firing squad.

Instead, she evaded battlefield justice by dying in a transport crash. End of story, according to official Commonwealth Service records.

But doctors repaired her in secret, using the most advanced Service Medical technologies available, or so they assured her.

In the last days of the idomeni civil war, she escaped their homeworld of Shera, and spent the next 18 years on the run.

But someone like Jani leaves a trail no matter how hard they try to hide it, and she soon learns the Service hunt for her never ended. When Interior Minister Evan van Reuter, her former lover, tracks her down and begs her help in finding his wife’s killer, she has no choice but to agree.

The search takes her to the Commonwealth capital of Chicago, a hotbed of political intrigue as dangerous as any warzone. As the danger mounts, so do Jani’s struggles. Her rebuilt body is breaking down, and memories long suppressed are flooding back. Of one horrible night 18 years ago, and the gut-wrenching decision that changed her life forever.

“Smith’s tightly plotted SF thriller debut is an ace–sure to appeal to readers who appreciate well-drawn characters and sophisticated milieus… Smith balances a taut mystery with vivid characters and a complex, ever-evolving plot–a feat more experienced authors don’t always achieve.” —Publisher’s Weekly

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Originally published by Avon Eos (1999)

Buy the print edition from Amazon.com (USA)

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THE WORK OF HUNTERS

Sylvan Investigations #3 by Laura Anne Gilman $3.50 (Novella)  A BVC Original

Danny Hendrickson – ex-cop turned PI – and his partner Ellen could be any low-rent private investigators trying to make a difference, and a living, in New York City.

Except Danny’s father was a faun, and Ellen is a storm-seer. Which means that they bridge the line between human and fatae, between Talent and Null — and specialize in helping people who fall into the dangers between…

In The Work of Hunters, Ellen’s most recent vision strikes a memory for Danny — a memory that quickly turns deadly. Soon, they are racing the clock not only to stop a new killing, but to find justice for the long-dead.

“Gilman breaks your heart in the best way possible as she revisits the Cosa Nostradamus world, with charming half-faun Danny taking the lead…”               — C.E. Murphy, bestselling author of Shaman Rises

To celebrate the release of SI #3, we’ve dropped the prices on the first two!

MILES TO GO

PROMISES TO KEEP

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TAIN

by Gregory Frost $5.99 

“Here are the blood-drenched roots of the long, sad history of Ireland told by a man who knows every heartbreak, betrayal, and stony foot of ground. Gregory Frost is a modern master of fantasy. This volume is an extraordinary journey to the living heart of Myth—violent and visionary, elegiac and horrific, dreamlike, beautiful, and shocking by turns. If I were you, I’d buy it.” —Michael Swanwick

“Modern fantasy writers build on the folk epics and fairy tales of ancient times. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings reflects the Oxford professor’s mastery of Anglo-Saxon lore and legend, Evangeline Walton’s The Song of Rhiannon retells portions of the Mabinogion, and T.H. White’sThe Once and Future King re-imagines the adventures of Arthur and his knights. In Táin Gregory Frost creates a novel out of the great Irish epic Tain Bo Cualinge, the story of the famous Celtic champion Cu Chulainn. Here, once again, we hear of Deirdre of the Sorrows, encounter Ireland’s fairy-folk the Sidhe, and ride into battle with fierce half-gods and doomed warriors. Not only fantasy fans but also readers of historical fiction will want to look out for this Celtic saga.” —Michael Dirda, Book World, The Washington Post

“Great high fantasy from the author of Lyrec.” —Xignals

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Wild Card Run

by Sara Stamey

My uneasiness had blossomed into a case of screaming nerves, understandable considering the data I’d just seen. I rose and paced the control room, lights flashing across me from the rod, tremor roaring through me.

And it was getting late. I had to get back to the house. I paused to eye David’s paraphernalia one more time and crouched to touch my fingers lightly to the buttons, wishing I could program some charm of safekeeping for him. I shook my head and poked a restless finger through the scattered components, my hand closing absently around the handle of a metal probe. I stood, fingering its sharp point, feeling the wooden handle fit comfortably into my palm.

I toyed with the tool, feeling its satisfying heft, as I climbed the stairs. “Hey, David, maybe we’d better try again tomorrow. We don’t want to be caught out in—”

I emerged from the dim shaft into the blaze of sunshine. “David?” I blinked as nervousness swelled into a swamping wave of urgency, assaulting my senses with the heat, the bright, swimming dust, and a low growl coming from somewhere. A flush of timbra tingled through my nerves to answer it.

Something dropped with a sound of metal against metal. “Sheba? Hey, Ruth . . . ?” David stumbled against the tool chest, his voice trembling on the edge of fear.

I blinked again and focused on his thin body sketched against the bright gleam of wheat, his outstretched arm shaking.

“Hey, Sheba! What’s got into you? Easy, girl!” His voice cracked.

The escalation of the timbra state was rushing through me now, images etched in separate lightning flashes of clarity. The downrushing gleam of a sail arm. The knobbed metal foot of the tower leg. Hot blue sky behind wheat stalks subsiding from violent shaking. A cloud of dust swirling. An angrily switching, tufted tail.

The big cat crouched a few paces from David, tail twitching aggressively, legs rippling tensed muscle, a low growl swelling into unmistakable threat.

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Here’s a shout out to the small book blogs. To the book blogs that have only just started. To the book blogs that mostly run on reblogs. To the book blogs that aren’t always able to create (“good”) original content. To the book blogs whose content is not 100% bookish. To the book blogs that get little notes for great content. To the book blogs that haven’t read as much as the more “popular” book blogs have. To the book blogs that aren’t always able to get along with the hype. To the book blogs that feel like they won’t make a difference. To book blogs that feel like they will never be part of the “popular” blogs. To the book blogs that feel insignificant for any reason whatsoever. No matter how many followers you have, no matter how much original content you post, no matter how many books you read, or what genre you like. When you post about books, you’re a book blog, and you’re very important, no matter how small. Some people have thousands of followers, but they started with nothing too. You are by no means insignificant if you’ve only got 100 followers and 20 notes on some great pics. You make a difference. You’re unique, and amazing, and important. We care about you, and you’re as much a part of the Booklr Community as any other blog. This has been a PSA.

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Wild Card Run

Book 1 of Cybers Wild Card by Sara Stamey $4.99 (Novel) 

KurtisP385XL47Ruth: Game Changer. Prodigal daughter. Spy.

The Cyber entities control a peaceful but static galaxy–until they detect unsanctioned developments on the low-tech planet Poindros. They force rebellious Ruth Kurtis to leave the bright lights of Casino to return to her fundamentalist Poindran homeworld as their secret agent to investigate possible Changers. For reluctant Agent Kurtis, the Cybers’ threat of the memory-erasing Steps of Healing would be less dangerous than facing the repression and simmering angers she escaped as a teenager. But Ruth won’t run from this fight.

The Cybers have calculated all the odds. Except they’ve just unleashed a wild card.

“Stamey puts feeling into this story of the prodigal daughter.” — Publishers Weekly

“Will I pick up Sara Stamey’s second novel? Better believe it!” — Ed Bryant, Twilight Zone

Best First Novels list — Locus Magazine

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Originally published by Berkley Publishing Corporation (1987)

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Rendezvous

by Elinor Groves $4.99 (Novel)  A BVC Original

Where Immortals Come to Play...

Annie Bloom runs the newest branch of Rendezvous, an exclusive luxury resort for the immortal fey, and arranges a gala soiree to celebrate its anniversary. Just as a committee from the Board of Directors arrives to evaluate her work, she is surprised by a marriage proposal from her very mortal lover, Sean, who maintains the elegant gardens at Rendezvous.

Juggling the soiree, the committee, a flying horse that wants to eat her garden, several hundred pixies, and an old nemesis, she doesn't have time for proposals. Then another fey, newly arrived, takes a disturbing interest in Sean. Annie is distraught: should she let Sean go now for his own good, or risk breaking both their hearts later on when he grows old and she remains eternally young?

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The Reckoners

by Doranna Durgin $5.99 (Novel) 

The Reckoners: A powerful ghostbuster raised by a spirit, her brilliantly eccentric backup team, a cat who isn't a cat at all...and a fiercely driven bounty hunter from a different dimension who brings them together when worlds collide.

Skilled ghosthunter Lisa "Garrie" McGarrity

not only sees dead people, she wrangles them into submission. But her beloved ghostly mentor moved on years ago, and the Southwest has gone quiet under Garrie's hand. Garrie and her team have grown restless and...well, face it. Maybe willing to take a risk or two.

So when the relentlessly mysterious and fiercely driven Trevarr

(and his not-cat!) shows up asking for help, Garrie is inclined to listen. And when he describes big trouble at the San Jose Winchester Mystery House, she's inclined to go with him, even if it splits her team along the way.

But she doesn't expect a mansion crammed with spirits

on the brink of madness, and she doesn't expect to face off against the powerful and unfamiliar energies of semi-ethereal beings from another dimension. She definitely doesn't expect the fabric of her own world to unravel around her--with no one but her to stop it.

And truly, she has no idea how deep Trevarr's secrets run.

“The Reckoners is certain to carry readers along at a break-neck pace that is nonetheless savored along the way.” –Jennifer Roberson, author of the Karavans series.

“Delightful beginning to a new series that’s funny and lively with a memorable cast of characters.” —Fresh Fiction

“Overall, the central mystery is complex, the action plentiful, and the developing relationship between the protagonists satisfying….  It is an exceptional read.” –Romance Junkies

“THE RECKONERS is...an original and fresh take on the spiritual world and is intense from page one. I enjoyed the interaction between the main characters and the sexual tension between Trevarr and Garrie is extreme. I look forward to more in this series from Ms. Durgin.” –The Romance Reader’s Connection

“Durgin takes the reader on a wild ride with plenty of twists and turns. –Mel Jacobs at SFRevu

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Pearls of Fire, Dreams of Steel

by Deborah J. Ross $4.99 (Collection)  A BVC Original

A short fantasy potpourri of dragons and toads, horses and thieves, mothers and daughters, and lovers and villains, with an occasional salamander.

A magical pearl turns a young girl into warrior without pity… A dragon bound to an amulet of amber seeks the aid of a forest wizard… A bitter, crippled fairy plots revenge on her captors… A vampire stalks back alleys, seeking to turn the tables on those who prey on women…

The hapless apprentice to a sorceress gets her wish fulfilled… The Arabian Nights meets Hamlet, with a feminine twist. Deborah J. Ross brings you a potpourri of dragons and toads, horses and thieves, mothers and daughters, and lovers and villains, with an occasional salamander.

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Hi, I’m Laura Anne Gilman, writer of dark-edged fantasy (and some outright horror), freelance editor, wine nerd, cat-herder, amateur traveler, and...

Okay guys, today’s the day to do it.  My Reddit/f AMA is now officially (unless I screwed up the opening steps) LIVE.  Go on, do your best.  Rock the forum so hard they think  AC/DC’s in town.

I’m ready for you….  (maybe)

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BVC member Laura Anne Gilman is having an AMA today!

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ENIGMA

Confederated Star Systems #2 by C.F. Bentley $4.99 (Novel) 

A spiritual journey with a literary twist, in a space opera landscape

Aboard the space station First Contact Cafe, General Jake Devlin and High Priestess of Harmony Sissy confront the mystery of an odd stowaway, a mystical refugee, and clues to the origin and genetic breakdown of enemies and allies alike. But their time is limited as the station seems determined to break orbit and plunge them all into the local sun.

Political backstabbing and interplanetary intrigue continue to thwart star-crossed lovers Sissy and Jake... Traumatized by an assassination attempt, fragile high priestess Sissy is trying to restore the covenant of the goddess also called Harmony, while special liaison and military chief of staff Jake must protect his love, push the diplomatic agenda along and deal with a possible serial killer, a deranged CSS spymaster and some mysterious aliens. Somewhat surprisingly, Bentley manages to tie up the soap opera’s biggest loose ends by the book’s close. —Publishers Weekly

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Originally published by DAW Books (2009)

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“No book comes out of nowhere.  In fact, no book comes out of only one direction.  There’s the trigger, the push that takes a story from faint germ to realized idea, of course.  And the faint idea grows out of anywhere from three to three hundred background points, gathered over a period of time an stored in our brain’s back room until needed.But often, there’s something more.  Something that sets up shop long before we even start to subconsciously gather material…..”

In which I talk about realizing the source of WHY I wrote SILVER ON THE ROAD, and how we are touched by the books of the past…