From Publishers WeeklyIn this sequel to Anna All Year Round, set just before WWI, nine-year-old Anna is happy to spend a week at her aunt and uncle's farm in Anna on the Farm by Mary Downing Hahn, illus. by Diane de Groat. All runs smoothly until she meets Theodore, who calls her a "stuck-up city slicker" and spurs her to prove that she's just as clever and brave as he is. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.From BooklistGr. 3-5. In this sequel to Anna All Year Round (1999), nine-year-old Anna travels to spend a week in the country with Aunt Aggie and Uncle George. She is ecstatic (since all her Baltimore friends have left on vacations) until she discovers that her aunt and uncle have taken in a young orphan named Theodore. The rivalry between the children results in a series of pranks, but eventually the children become good friends. Unlike the earlier, more episodic title, the action here is better focused and the characters more fleshed out. Particularly interesting is the contrast between Anna's mother (a rigid woman with definite Old World ideas about ladylike behavior) and Aunt Aggie, who allows Anna to wear overalls for play and encourages her to have fun. The details in the setting (early-twentieth-century Baltimore, Washington, and rural Prince Georges County) add to the richness of the text, as do the illustrations by Diane de Groat. A good choice for easy-chapter-book readers, especially those who have met Anna before. Kay WeismanCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Views: 50
‘Hello, My Name is Sonia Clemton, I am a supernaturally powered girl with special powers, trying to live an ordinary life as a doctor surgeon.” That ordinary human life of hers is shattered to pieces when she meets this deadly gorgeous Vampire Prince, Jake Hearten. But however unknown to her, by allowing Jake into her life, she is making it turn into a deadly life, full of danger everywhere... Views: 50
All Dr. Sloan Copeland needed was someone to watch her kids. What she found was the man of her dreams…After a nasty divorce and a thousand mile move, Dr. Sloan Copeland and her twin daughters are finally getting the hang of their new life in Los Angeles. When their live-in nanny bails with no warning, Sloan is left scrambling to find a competent caretaker to wrangle her smart, sensitive girls. Nothing less will do.Enter Rafe Whitcomb. He's all of those things, not to mention good-natured and one heck of a whiz in the kitchen. He's also tall, and handsome, and bearded, and ripped, and tatted, wrist to neck.It doesn't take long for the Copelands to invite Rafe into their home. Just as quickly, both Sloan and Rafe find themselves succumbing to a heady mutual attraction, neither of them wants to deny. With every minute they spend under the same roof, this working mom can't help but wonder if Rafe can handle all her... Views: 50
When her one last hope to save her storm-damaged library is found bludgeoned to death, bookmobile-driving librarian Cleo Watkins has no choice but to search for justice. Librarian Cleo Watkins is desperate to save her library. While it's under renovations, she's transformed a school bus into a mini bookmobile called Words on Wheels. The townspeople of Catalpa Springs, Georgia are quite enamored with it, but Mayor Jebson Day has decided to pull the plug on the library. His grand plans for the world's largest fishing pier dry up the library funding faster than the glue on a broken binding. Out of options, Cleo turns to the town moneybags, Buford Krandall, who's no Georgia peach but has always been a loyal supporter of the library. After dropping off a set of curious books about murder, she decides to return with her gentleman friend Henry Lafayette to question him. Except the next day, Buford is found bludgeoned to death in his library, with no more wisdom to... Views: 50
The human race is under siege—with shapeshifters, vampires, and half-blood werewolves freely prowling the streets of the world’s cities …and Full Bloods about to descend en masse from out of the dark wilderness. The police and the military are helpless, and only the Skinners can forestall the tactical nuke strikes the Army has planned as a last resort. Skinners, partners, lovers, Paige Strobel and Cole Warnecki know Armageddon is at hand, and seek a union with the mysterious European blood hunters, the Gypsy Amriany, as a final, desperate means to preventing the monster apocalypse. But power-mad traitors from the ranks of their own kind could doom humanity’s valiant efforts to survive. And the only possible outcome at the end of the ultimate war is total extinction. But for whom …or what? Views: 50
Violet Relend is called the Ghost of Canaan Island because of her white hair and eerie eyes.Though they mock her, Violet helps the citizens of Canaan with her family's dwindling fortune. When she purchases a prosthetic for Arie Mendoza, a wounded soldier fresh from war, he insists on paying her back.Wanting only to be left alone, Violet gives Arie a list of twelve impossible tasks. As she reluctantly gets to know him, the grip her fears and anxieties have on her loosens—until a developer threatens to have her crumbling, cliff-side house condemned. Violet will need more than Arie's help to save her home. The entire town will have to rally around their Ghost.If Violet doesn't move fast enough, the walls of her carefully constructed life will fall in around her and drag her into the ocean's depths.*This book is recommended for mature readers due to some sexual content and language. All books in the Canaan Island series can be read as a stand-alone novel.* Views: 50
This is "Babylon Five" spin-off fiction, using the characters and situations of the television show, written on an amateur basis by a fan of the show. However, the sheer quality of the plotting and the writing set this work apart from the usual run of "fan fiction" and clearly establish Gareth Williams as a major storytelling talent. Unlike the well-known "Star Trek" mirror universe, which in part provided the inspiration, the characters are not evil caricatures clad in black leather and brandishing whips, but themselves – changed in various ways by ten years of conflict and hardship never experienced by the originals, but still the same people, with the same hopes, aspirations and dreams. And this is no crossover story, with the heroic originals from the fortunate "real" universe materialising from nowhere to turn their counterparts back to the paths of righteousness. These are characters working out their own destinies. That which they are, they are. One equal temper of heroic hearts... strong in will, to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Views: 50
