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Laura M. Browne-Lambert is a queer, chronically ill writer who envisions a world where our art helps up build the world in which we want to live. She writes science fiction and fantasy that centers LGBTQ and disabled characters. Browne-Lambert is also the creator of Underground Bookshelf, a platform dedicated to celebrating diversity in literature. Readers and writers are welcome to visit https://www.underground-bookshelf.com/ to read or submit short stories and poems, participate in monthly writing contests, find resources for diverse reading, read author Q&As and more.

A coming-of-age story set in a small village on the edge of the wood, this novella tells the story of self-acceptance, found family, and the power within.

Like every other girl in her village, Kyla has been taught to ward off curses with the right concoction of herbs, but when the curse of a new plague falls upon the Village, the Aunts fail to purge the illness from ailing citizens. After an accident leaves Kyla struggling to adapt to a new disability, she becomes the target of a witch-hunt. In order to survive, she will have to consider what it means to be a witch.

This is the first book released by Laura M. Browne-Lambert.

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Category: Teen & Young Adult

Long ago, Medj, creator of the universe, imprisoned the angry spirits of his most volatile creations within the boundaries of the Craven Traverse, a dangerous stretch of land, water, and sky guarded by the inhabitants of the planet, Medjem.

In Airphibious, Captain Genessa Starling and the crew of the airphibious vessel, the Comeuppance, must cross the Craven Traverse to deliver supplies to the villages who live at its doorway.

Airphibious is Book One of The Starling Chronicles, a series of "pocket-sized" novelettes. This book is available in paperback, large-print, and ebook formats. Please note that the hardcover edition has large-print text.

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Category: Teen & Young Adult; Gay & Lesbian

A geologist by trade, Shayna had agreed to join the scientific colony tasked with terraforming Mars in the hopes of offering a better life to her family who continue to suffer the aftermath of war and famine on Earth.

She did not foresee getting left behind when the rest of the colony fled a surprise attack. Nor did she foresee needing to survive repeated encounters with an unknown Martian species. In order to survive, she must try to understand the creatures she encounters, and she must consider the question: Who is studying who?

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Category: Teen & Young Adult