Gnome

It's unsettling when your work lands on your neighbor's doorstep. When you're Tony Mandolin, the bay area's PI to the weird, it's more than a problem. When it's a family of Garden Gnomes who've lost their pet, expect catastrophe. And then a new case lands in Tony's lap that has ramifications that lead all the way to Washington DC and it involves a child slavery ring.

What kind of god would you be? Deep beneath the earth, Corey finds himself reborn as a God Core - a sentient crystal with unusual powers. His new worshippers? A colony of incompetent gnomes, scratching out an existence in their underground grotto. If that wasn’t bad enough, Corey soon realises that his gnome denizens are about to become extinct. They are threatened by groups of blundering adventurers and abducted by raiding kobolds to be sacrificed to their own dark god: an ancient, mysterious foe who does not take kindly to Corey’s arrival.

A whimsical tale about an inherited house with a garden full of gnomes. It presents a heartwarming mystery that includes a few giggles along the way. Great for all Ages.

Demons. Monsters. Witches. James Crowley’s sacred duty as a Black Badge is to hunt them down and send them packing, banish them from the mortal realm for good. He didn’t choose this life. No. He didn’t choose life at all. Shot dead in a gunfight many years ago, now he’s stuck in purgatory, serving the whims of the White Throne to avoid falling to Hell. Not quite undead, though not alive either, the best he can hope for is to work off his penance and fade away.

Robert "Suzuki" Fletcher's on a mission to save to one of his fellow Mundanes who was captured by the Dark One's forces. His teammate is being held in the heart of enemy territory...and his HUD gives him a horrible chance of surviving. It's time to level up. Soliciting the help of other more experienced MERCs, the team needs to gain the skills necessary to rescue Beth. Are they up to the task?

What is a gnome to do in a gaming world filled with fake news? Cosmo never wanted to do anything more than build fantastical machines and spin gears. But, when the Evil Queen puts him in charge of the city paper he finds himself having to spin the news just to stay alive. Pipopolis is a city awash in change, the local economy struggling as dungeon diving has given way to exploration of an open world. A city where the lawful and good can be real jerks, and the evil are just trying to pay the bills.

It takes only one halfling bomb, and Offi Numminen’s world is turned upside-down - or downside-up, really, since he lives in a hole in the ground. His goth cardigans and aggressive melancholy set him apart from the other gnomes, as does his decision to fight back against their halfling oppressors. Suddenly Offi is the leader of a band of lovable misfits and outcasts - from a gryphon who would literally kill for omelets to a young dwarf herbalist who is better with bees than with his cudgel to an assertive and cheerful teen witch with a beard as long as her book of curses.

When Sophie shows Zoey a special hidden room in her new house, Zoey thinks things can’t get any more exciting. But then Zoey hears something Sophie can’t … could it mean a new magical creature? Soon Zoey learns about a mysterious illness, but she just can’t seem to cure it. Will Zoey and Sassafras be able to help their new friends in time?

In a one horse open…sleighed The final pieces to the family business plan are falling into place. And Chloe’s mom has launched another hair-brained idea to open up a gnome museum back home. The feud between her mom and her loveable cocker spaniel over those quirky creatures had reached epic levels. While trying to keep the peace, Chloe was enjoying the joy of the season and looking forward to her boyfriend soon joining her to celebrate Christmas. Her match-making mother can think of no better setting to further her scheme than a romantic sleigh ride to seal the deal. But, the reindeer ...

In "The Magical Truths of Phoenix Rising," 16-year-old Caroline Casey enters into the mystical world of elves, gnomes, fairies, and other magical creatures. Although Caroline would prefer to enjoy an ordinary summer vacation like an ordinary teenager, she chooses to use her special gifts to help the elves, who are in a war against evil shapeshifters. The elves need to win the shapeshifter war in order to prevent the world from descending into chaos and darkness. After Caroline travels through a mystical gateway to Ireland, she meets a young man whom she finds both annoying and intriguing. ...

There are nine known realms, a world for each race, including dwarves, gnomes, and elves. In the middle rests Middang3ard. Each world knows the others. Each, except Earth. Humans long ago turned their backs on magic, throwing their stock into science and technology, their governments shielding the people from the reality of what was going on elsewhere. So be it. Humans were never very good at getting along with other races anyway. Then the Dark One appeared, threatening to overrun the nine worlds, starting with Middang3ard and ending with the humans' planet.

Sword and Sorcery bonanza! 900 pages of adventure. "Another great sword and sorcery novel by author Chris Turner. Lizard Men, giant snake, and a fast paced story that will leave you trying to catch your breath. Strong characters and monsters aplenty. A must read for fans of Robert E. Howard." - kindle reviewer ★★★★★ Saeth. A word barely kept lingering on the tongue of even the bravest warrior. The name of an age darkest to humankind. An age of sorcerers and far-flung magic. In the shadowy land of Darfala, refuge is scarce, terrors many. A cave carved into the side of the mountain ...

A light, cozy mystery series in a quaint Bavarian Christmas town with a fun loving, amateur female sleuth, her adorable rescue cocker spaniel, and enough garden gnomes to fill a museum. Book 1 - Deck the Santa Chloe Carson is excited for her long-awaited family reunion. But as they gather in a snow-clad village to plan their aging mother’s dream of opening a restaurant, the old lady’s habit of spreading garden gnomes around town leads to a panicked pilgrimage. And the mayhem continues when their visit to the nutcracker museum reveals Kris Kringle has come to an unmerry demise. With a ...

Over the past decade, Tony Mandolin, Fog City's top Private Eye has had his share of the weird and horrifying. If asked, he would say his life has been a stumble from one cliche to the next, but none of that prepared him for what was coming down the tracks. What does a world-weary PI do when his client is a centuries-old witch?

The last thing necromancer Damian Vesik expects to face is a clan of panicky garden gnomes. But his sister, Sam, gave her word to protect them, and breaking her word to the Fae would be disastrous. With help from Calbach, the iron-touched Fae, they seek what is stalking the garden gnomes. Reality proves far worse than they imagined, landing Damian and his friends on the wrong side of the Iron Queen's most-feared assassin.

The kobolds’ Core has been destroyed. The Grotto is safe once more, and the gnomes are finally beginning to regroup. But when a greater threat rises, their only hope of survival is to embark upon a monumental exodus, abandoning everything they’ve built and striking out across the surface in search of a new home. As the god of gnomes, Corey must place more faith than ever before in his denizens - and a few unexpected allies.

Everything has led them to this moment. Baetylus is poised to destroy the kingdom, with a horde of skex, a corrupt regime of city watch, and a soul devouring demand to become a god walking amongst mankind. For months now the companions have fought tooth and nail to return to Vanidriell with a power strong enough to thwart the great crystal's plans. How can they hope to win when at the last hour Elise has been imprisoned, Corbin faces the shadow stone's corruption, and Logan is on an impossible race to get to the capitol in time? Join us for this exciting next chapter of the Chronicles of ...

Some people just have all the luck. And then there are people like Lily Goode. Abandoned at a young age, Lily and her brother, Dante, have never had it easy. So when Lily learns she has inherited an old house her estranged mother left behind, she thinks it could be the opportunity to make a fresh start. But she quickly learns that things aren't exactly what they seem in Lucky Valley. The mysterious accidents and strange hallucinations have Lily wondering: Has her luck run out—or simply taken an otherworldly turn?

The day had started out well for Sergeant First Class Jay Aki: a little sparring with a friend, a terrorist threat to thwart, and then it all fell apart. While conducting a parachute entry into a theme park to stop a nuclear threat, SFC Aki found himself floating UP instead of falling DOWN. Thrust into a strange world full of goblins, orcs, elves and dwarves, he arrives in a city on fire, and quickly discovers that his teammates Heishi and Tiane are responsible for the fires, and that they have already left the city! Still unaccounted for is Chief Warrant Officer Adam Zatus, the tech ...

They wanted a peaceful vacation in a wintry location. But when Santa meets an untimely end, can these intrepid investigators save the season? Chloe Carson is excited for her long-awaited family reunion. But as they gather in a snow-clad village to plan their aging mother’s dream of opening a restaurant, the old lady’s habit of spreading garden gnomes around town leads to a panicked pilgrimage. And the mayhem continues when their visit to the nutcracker museum reveals Kris Kringle has come to an unmerry demise. With a ton of questions and no answers, Chloe and her cunning cocker spaniel ...