title: Believe: Book One: The Tales of The Realm
author:  Erin K. Germain 
description: Growing up the oldest, and only girl, in a family of three, I have lost myself in books for as long as I could remember. Favorites have been read and re-read until they fell apart, copies replaced, and the whole thing repeated. Since the time I realized that books don't spontaneously appear, but someone sits down to write the stories, I have been fascinated with the process. If anything, my own attempts have only made me appreciate what the storytellers of my childhood and teen years have accomplished.
zlib_text: TO BE AN ACE
  Book Two of the Science and
  Sorcery Series
  © 2020 by Ryan Tang
  
  Table of Contents
  Copyright Page
  To Be An Ace
  BOOK 1: THE GHOSTS IN THE COURTYARD
  BOOK 2: THE BROKEN HANDS
  BOOK 3: THE TWO PRINCESSES
  Credits
  
  BOOK 1: THE GHOSTS IN THE
  COURTYARD
  AN ACE.
  She had to become Plenty's ace.
  Alex the librarian took one last look at the walls of books surrounding her
  as she stepped toward the cockpit. The damage Stock and his goddess of
  Ignorance had inflicted on the Spire's books could never be reversed. For
  the sake of his demented ambitions, Stock had desecrated hundreds of years
  of invaluable knowledge.
  When Alex first summoned her Paragon, the machine had purified hundreds
  of books to create a blade that sliced effortlessly through the monstrous
  goddess. But the librarian had failed to duplicate the process despite her
  best efforts. When she summoned her Paragon now, the sword was just a
  physical blade.
  But there were still countless surviving stories, many of which they hadn't
  