Books with author Amanda Alexander

Santa’s world is really full of surprises when you’re not paying attention. If you thought Santa was just another jolly fellow with a white beard and a red suit you better think again. Alexander has once again given Santa’s world a new twist or two as he explores the dusty corners of a universe that don’t quite line up with your reality. Santa is really in charge of a very large conglomerate, elves can be enterprising little fellows and deer have a mind of their own. If you’re going to read a Christmas story out of left field you might as well buy the book and read ten of them!

Lia hates life in the hospital fighting cancer. She is miserable, and her mom is always sad. But when a blood clot went to Lia’s lungs, she is transported to Lai’Mai, a magical realm desperately battling for survival against an Evil Empress. Lia is as surprised as anyone when she learns she is a Shadow Princess and the only one who can defeat the Empress.Follow Lia as she joins forces with Asheron the unicorn, Tenkin the friendly spider, and Dranof the bird-man to save Lai’Mai… and perhaps… herself…

Thea returns to the Wandless Academy only to discover her friends are as out of sorts as she is. It’s only when she discovers that she is an elemental mage—a mage so rare that only four other wizards in history had similar talents—that the pieces start falling in place. Now Thea is called on by the Federal Bureau of Magic to unlock a mysterious white cube that may hold the secrets of more than just one elemental mage. However, the Alphiri are naturally curious and are looking to steal an elemental mage from the pages of history that could upset the balance between humans and Alphiri. The great Nichola Tesla, a quad-elemental mage, has somehow survived death itself and both the Alphiri and the Federal Bureau of Magic are searching for him. But can Thea bring her friends together one more time to save Nichola Tesla from being made a slave to the scheming Alphiri?

What do you get when ordinary e-mail spam becomes infused with magic? Spellspam—and it's not supposed to exist. As far as Thea and her friends know, computers are meant to be inert vehicles for storing magic spells, not magical processors themselves. But all that seems to have changed as students at Wandless Academy find themselves the victim of practical jokes—with magical consequences—simply by opening an e-mail. Now the spellspams are getting worse, and it's possible there's someone behind them who is not just bent on stirring up trouble but has a much scarier and more wide-reaching agenda. Until now, Thea has been the only person she's ever met who can reach through the computer using magic. But someone else is out there, and even her friends can't help her track down the source of the spellspam before it gets much, much worse. This sequel to Worldweavers: Gift of the Unmage ups the ante on a fantasy world that is rich and nuanced, like our own, but with a core of wildly original magic.

Logicide! Heretic! Everyone knows cats can't talk. Everyone except Niclas, a halfwit slum boy who's just landed a new job as a talking cat's man servant.But this is Laburnum and the age of Rationalism. Here, the Academy's Inquisition takes illogical happenings very seriously. Locking people up, throwing away keys, that sort of thing.And it's not just the Crimson Men Niclas and his new master have to worry about. A man with no name has come to the capital in search of the Black Science - They call him Witchhunter.