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Gilbert the Goblin is positive he can work harder than any elf, and so, in his best elf disguise, he infiltrates Santa's workshop to prove it.

Looking for the thief in his garden, Membrillo the elf finds a shiny black top hat out of which jumps Santiago, a magic rabbit, and the two decide to produce a magic act together, providing Membrillo never grabs Santiago by the ears.

After learning that the Elves, led by his former best friend, are planning an attack using mythical monsters, Greg and his Dwarven friends find themselves in danger and Greg is relying on his bloodthirsty talking axe to help prevent a war.

It's almost Christmas, but the nights in Tinseltown are anything but silent. In this hardboiled parody of The Maltese Falcon, Ruprecht, a twelve-year-old krampus and wannabe detective, gets more than he bargained for when he takes the case of a terrified elf. Finding himself at the top of the Tinseltown Police Department's naughty list, Ruprecht is joined by his best friend, a ghost named Marley, to explore the underbelly of this festive but gritty...

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text introduce Santa's special team of Ninja Elves, who sometimes recruit human children to help in the important work of secretly doing good deeds.

After her dreams of opening a restaurant are foiled when her partner borrows money from a loan shark, chef Lailu becomes the target of the king's assassin and the terrifying elf mafia, forcing her to seek the help of Greg, her rival in the restaurant business. "A thirteen-year-old master chef has a lot to prove as she tries to run a five-star restaurant, cook the perfect dragon cuisine, repay a greedy loan shark, and outsmart the Elven mafia in this...

When half-elf, half-troll Little Fur learns that servants of the troll king aim to destroy her beloved trees, she embarks on an ambitious and dangerous journey into the human world in hopes of saving not only the wilderness she calls home, but the very earth spirit itself.

"Christmas has come, and with it a sparkling white winterfrost over the countryside. But twelve-year-old Bettina's parents have been called away unexpectedly, leaving her in charge of the house, the farm, and baby Pia. In all the confusion, Bettina's family neglects to set out the traditional bowl of Christmas rice pudding for the tiny nisse who are rumored to look after the family and their livestock. No one besides her grandfather ever believed...

"Three thousand years ago, humans were hunted by powerful races with wild magic until the treaty was formed. Now, for centuries, the elves have taken young women from Luella's village to be their Human Queen. To be chosen is seen as a mark of death by the townsfolk. A mark nineteen-year-old Luella is grateful to have escaped as a girl. Instead, she's dedicated her life to studying herbology and becoming the town's only healer. That is, until the Elf...

This action-packed fantasy novel about two siblings and the fractured world they inherit when they are adopted by a grieving queen is the stunning sequel to The Silver Gate. Wynn and Elric may now be safe, but adjusting to life in the Between is not without complications. Their adoptive mother, the benevolent Fairy Queen, is haunted by the memory of her child who was kidnapped long agoand she wont risk letting the same thing happen to Wynn and Elric....