Second of Joan Wolf's trilogy of pre-historic peoples, The Horsemasters pits Ronan, exiled from his Red Deer tribe, against the invaders who have harnessed horses to their will in order to conquer other tribes. Together with his love, Nel, Ronan assembles a group of renegades to meet the challenge. Can Nel's magical talents with animals help her and the Kindred stem the advancing tide that threatens? Pre-historic Adventure/Romance by Joan Wolf; originally published by Onyx Views: 74
Seventeen-year-old Francie Nelson is charming, saucy, and spoiled. Her father thinks it would be a good idea for her to see how other people live—in this case, the other people are the English. So she packs up and, with heels dragging the whole way, travels to what looks, at first, like the land of gloom. Her British fog lifts when she meets some boys. If only she didn't feel so dumb and dumpy in Fairfields' school uniform! But, like her English hosts, she keeps a stiff upper lip. It's all she can do to control that lip when a school chum named Jennifer refers to her as a "Yank." With the help of a friend she meets on a cruise, Francie adjusts in a tough boarding school where she faces prejudice, anxiety, and loneliness. She begins to experience more and more ups, until at last, she realizes she has grown emotionally, and has transformed herself. Views: 74
Eric's legs may be skinny, but can they move! For one week of the year after his win at the athletics carnival, he's a hero; but for the other fifty one, he's a loser. People at Pendle Hill High drift into his life - and they drift out again. Well, it must be his fault, right? There must be something wrong with him: take the place he lives, or his family, or the way he looks. Eric's just the guy they call 'Spaghetti legs' and he wants to be different. Special. He wants to make a name for himself. Views: 73
A SAINT. A protector from evil. One who without fear will lead you safely through darkness. LOS SANTOS. Cold and ruthless. A CARTEL who cares only for revenge and glory. My name is Nina Cross, and I’m the Los Santos’s newest prey. Determined to prove my partners innocence and avenge his violent death, I stumbled naively into the spider’s web. Tangled with lies and hunted for truth I was shadowed with each step I took. That was until one man, relentless in his touch and his desire threatened to bring me to my knees in ways I both craved and feared. Jair Ruiz. Powerful, brooding and confident and not at all who he seems. He has me in his sights and has every intention of toying with his newest target while fighting to keep us both alive. When the FBI turns it back on you and Los Santos cartel have already dug your grave, who is there left to trust? Only one man. A saviour. But if I look my saint in the eye and all I see is the devil…do I run? “I’m not entirely good. I’m not entirely bad. But I’m enough of a little of each to ruin you.” Views: 73
In a world connected to computers and machines, Dr. Michele Stewart finds herself drowning in a life that no longer holds meaning. When she enters a monastery, her family and friends are sure that she has become a nun to run away from her life, but she feels more alive than she has in years. Soon the outside world intrudes, forcing her to confront demons she thought she had left behind. Views: 73
As both the 1980s and the cold war draw to a close, there is no shortage of new enemies lining up to challenge the West. Prominent among them are the cocaine cartels of Colombia, criminal organisations as powerful as armies, whose malign reach stretches from the coca fields of Bolivia to the streets of London and New York.Needing help in the training of its elite Anti-Narcotics Unit, the Columbian Government turns to Britain and to the legendary Special Air Service – the SAS!Two veterans are dispatched to Bogotá. When one of them is kidnapped and held for ransom by the cartels, the only hope of securing his release seems to lie with the rest of the regiment back in England.Getting into Columbia will be hard enough. Getting out more perilous still, as the men of the SAS face dangers in every corner of a violent land, from the streets of Bogotá, through the high mountains of the Andes, and on down into the Amazon rain forests. Soldier D SAS: The Columbian Cocaine War... Views: 73
Steph Bodeen delivers yet another heart-pounding YA thriller in the Tomb, where Kiva and Seth must fight to save what remains of human civilization even as they fight their feelings for each other. Nothing is as it seems. These are the first words Kiva's best friend Seth says, after three years of silence. Kiva thought she was growing up in ancient Alexandria. That's what she and all her classmates had been led to believe by their parents. It turns out she was living in virtual reality, in a sleep chamber in deep space, and three years ago, Seth woke up. Now it's her turn to join him. Together, Kiva and Seth must take an escape shuttle to search for the engine part their home ship needs to keep running. But it's been a long time since the Krakatoa has communicated with any of the other three ships harboring human civilization. Kiva and Seth are not sure what they'll find if and when they finally make contact. Danger,... Views: 73
"This oracular first novel, which unfurls like gossamer [has] characters of a depth seldom found in a debut."—The New YorkerIn Diana Abu-Jaber's "impressive, entertaining" (Chicago Tribune) first novel, a small, poor-white community in upstate New York becomes home to the transplanted Jordanian family of Matussem Ramoud: his grown daughters, Jemorah and Melvina; his sister Fatima; and her husband, Zaeed. The widower Matuseem loves American jazz, kitschy lawn ornaments, and, of course, his daughters. Fatima is obsessed with seeing her nieces married—Jemorah is nearly thirty! Supernurse Melvina is firmly committed to her work, but Jemorah is ambivalent about her identity and role. Is she Arab? Is she American? Should she marry and, if so, whom? Winner of the Oregon Book Award and finalist for the National PEN/Hemingway Award, Arabian Jazz is "a joy to read.... You will be tempted to read passages out loud. And you should" (Boston Globe).... Views: 72
From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Brendan Kiely, a stunning new novel that explores the insidious nature of tradition at a prestigious boarding school.Prestigious. Powerful. Privileged. This is Fullbrook Academy, an elite prep school where history looms in the leafy branches over its brick walkways. But some traditions upheld in its hallowed halls are profoundly dangerous. Jules Devereux just wants to keep her head down, avoid distractions, and get into the right college, so she can leave Fullbrook and its old-boy social codes behind. She wants freedom, but ex-boyfriends and ex-best friends are determined to keep her in place. Jamie Baxter feels like an imposter at Fullbrook, but the hockey scholarship that got him in has given him a chance to escape his past and fulfill the dreams of his parents and coaches, whose mantra rings in his ears: Don't disappoint us. When Jamie and Jules meet, they recognize in each other... Views: 72
Is she the one piece of the puzzle that has been missing? Can she breathe new life into him? Unfortunately, past differences, heartache and loss have taught him that good things never last. Just when life is going in the right direction, everything always seems to come crashing down, spinning out of control and leaving him with one thought: Will I ever Catch My Breath? Views: 72
