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  Woodsy

  Michael Tolkien

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  Woodsies can take on any human shape, and have appeared in larger and finer forms than we can ever hope to have, though mostly they just need well-disguised bodies strong enough to care for plants that like wood-filtered light. They are mainly practical, wise, and helpful, but all families have misfits and trouble-makers and sometimes young woodsies like Leaf-lag won't grow up and have to learn the hard way. This rebellious, 'ne'er-dowell' woodsy only half listens to his lessons and training, and after idling his way through summer is frightened to face a season of work to make up for this during the warm and secure underground winter festivities. He decides to go his own way, but the cold and hunger are too much for him, so he takes refuge in a dolls' house inside the playroom of a large house. The two young children, whose noise and size at first terrify the visitor, are delighted with his presence, a secret close-kept from adults. But because he has not paid full attention to his training, every trick he plays to show off cannot be reversed, and this gets his friends into more and more trouble. He becomes disruptive, selfish, isolated and cowers away in fear of being trapped.   After many adventures, including a night in a mouse trap, he has to make for the closed doors of the winter palace, beg for admittance and face up to the discipline of his teachers. Born in Birmingham in 1943, Michael Tolkien grew up in rural South Oxfordshire and North Yorkshire. He studied classics and English at St Andrews and Oxford. Settled in Rutland since 1968, he worked as a secondary school teacher until early retirement in 1994. His verse has been published in two booklets and five full collections, which have been widely and favourably reviewed. He recently adapted and developed two tales by Florence Bone, a forgotten children's writer. He presented his versions in narrative verse as "Wish" and "Rainbow".

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  Beyond Gehenna - Book 1: Tour of...

  Scott Leddy

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  A thriller that's got some humor—until it doesn't. Then it becomes your worst nightmare. 
  Elgin Thomas thought Vietnam would be his escape. Running from a troubled past and horrific nightmares that won't let him sleep, this unlikely hero finds himself deep in the heart of Vietnam's central highland district. 
  Thrust into a corrupt society consumed by chaos and injustice, Elgin discovers that war extracts a price steeper than he ever imagined. The combat is brutal. The choices are impossible. And the nightmares? They're just getting started. 
  During a clandestine mission in Cambodia's deadly killing fields, Elgin comes face-to-face with the dreaded Khmer Rouge. Confronted by his own mortality he faces an impossible choice: abandon his mission and flee, or stay and fight a battle he cannot win. 
  When Elgin is fatally wounded, a bad situation spirals into the unthinkable. What happens next defies explanation—a psychological thriller that transcends the boundaries between life and death, sanity and madness. This YA fantasy fiction with horror elements plunges readers into a bone-chilling depiction of war's realities and a horrifying glimpse into the afterlife, haunting you long after the final page. 
  Beyond Gehenna: Tour of Duty is the explosive first volume of a two-part series—a thriller in 2026 that grabs you from the opening line and doesn't let go. Part war story, part supernatural mystery, this rollercoaster ride barrels toward a surprise ending you won't see coming. 
  Perfect readers who devour psychological thriller books that blur the line between the living and the damned. 
  Fair warning: Not your typical war story, this is what happens when a soldier's battle doesn't end at death—it only gets darker.

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  Shadows of Betrayal (The Shadow...

  Brenda K. Davies

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  As Cole plunges into war against the rebellion in the Gloaming, his enemies aren’t the only things to fear on the battlefield.  
  The Shadow Realms hold more monstrous secrets than Cole or Lexi ever knew, and some of them are about to break free. When allies become enemies and betrayals unfold, Lexi and Cole will learn who they can trust and who wants them dead. 
  And through it all a new threat will rise… from someone they trust. 
  Return to the Shadow Realms. A world where vampires feast, lycans love deeply, dark fae seduce, witches cast their spells, dragons rule the skies... and treachery lurks around every corner.

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  Alpha’s Unhinged Mate - English

  Jessica Hall

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  You know how parents always talk about the wild child, the bad influence. The sort of person no one wants their kids hanging out with. Well growing up that was me. They called me unhinged and they weren’t wrong. My life was altered by a monster. My wolf altered permanently, uncontrollable, and reckless not only destroying and sending my wolf insane but also me. My father is the Alpha of The Black Moon Pack and I am the only heir to take over the pack.  
  I never wanted to be Alpha, but not because I am weak, not because I’m not Alpha Material. No none of those things, but because I wasn’t normal. When I was 6 years old my pack came under attack by hunters. They tested my sisters mutated genes on me forcing me to shift at just 6 years old, most werewolves shift once they hit puberty. Not me though, what Kade had done to me, not only Altered my wolf and me but destroyed any chance of me ever being able to control my wolf. 
   She is crazed and untamed and I have no control once she is let loose. My father and sister tried for years to help me reign control over her. But she was completely unhinged and now a danger to everyone. The older I got, the stronger she got. I feared my wolf and what she was capable of, she was literally the thing of nightmares. 
  We still aren’t sure what the full effects of the mutated gene will have on me, one thing we know is. When I turned of age, I didn’t find a mate, so I don’t think I actually have one. How could I when my wolf wasn’t just forced but had all bonds to the human part severed. So how is it even possible to bond with another when she can't even bond with her human counterpart. I am glad though, I couldn’t destroy someone like that, no one wants a broken mate. No one wants an unhinged Alpha.

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  Aziel

  Eve Langlais

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  It took an angel to make me believe in love. 
   
   
   
  As a woman of science, I am an unabashed, agnostic atheist—until I meet my first angel. Aziel, with big, beautiful wings, claims he's here to stop humanity from being annihilated. Sounds impressive, but I have questions. 
   
   
   
  Full of arrogance and demands, he wants access to my life's work while blaming me for the coming apocalypse. It seems my innocuous signal seeking life beyond our galaxy succeeded. Someone heard my invitation, and now the world is in grave danger. 
   
   
   
  At least according to Aziel. 
   
   
   
  As I get to know him, I find myself reevaluating everything I thought I knew. More surprising than my sudden belief in religion, though, is my irrational love for an overbearing angel. 
   
   
   
  But will he defy Heaven's orders to save me? 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  The Triumphs of A Taxidermist

  H. G. Wells

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  The Triumphs of a Taxidermist is a darkly humorous and satirical short story by H. G. Wells that follows the peculiar life and ambitions of Hapworth Gibbins, a devoted taxidermist with grand aspirations of scientific recognition. Isolated in his small shop filled with stuffed animals, Gibbins dreams of presenting a groundbreaking paper at the prestigious Linnean Society—a goal that becomes increasingly obsessive. As he struggles with self-doubt, societal indifference, and his own deteriorating mental state, his passion for taxidermy blurs the line between art, science, and madness. With biting irony and psychological depth, Wells critiques the rigid structures of Victorian science and the alienation of the eccentric individual in a dismissive world. This story is a lesser-known but compelling example of Wells’ ability to blend realism with surrealism and social commentary.

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