In a village on the distant colony of Kiruna, the outcast Aino has worked hard to created a life for herself. The fragile status quo is upset when the offworlder Petr arrives and insists on becoming a part of her life. But he has no idea what it will cost him, and has cost Aino, to belong to the people who sing with inhuman voices, in Sing by Karin Tidbeck."Characters from science fiction, fantasy, and folklore rebel against being colonized, observed, categorized. They speak for themselves, refusing when others (especially colonizers) want to speak for them. Perhaps one of the strongest examples of this is Karen Tidbeck's 'Sing.'"—LocusAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Views: 48
In the third novel in the “entertaining” (Library Journal) Gin & Tonic mystery series, the stakes are raised when Ginny Mallard and Teddy Tonica stumble on an underground dog fighting ring with bloody consequences.Even though she’s unlicensed as an investigator, the infamously nosy Ginny Mallard has begun to make a name for herself as an unofficial champion of the tongue-tied. When a mysterious stranger comes to her with landlord trouble, she convinces her bartender friend Teddy Tonica to help her once more. Soon, they realize they might have got themselves tied up in an underground dogfighting ring. With the help of Ginny’s pet shar-pei puppy and Tonica’s tabby cat, they have to figure out what’s going on before someone else gets hurt. Will twelve legs really be better than four? Views: 48
The second book in the That Healing Touch series. With seven months left to go in her Trauma Fellowship, Dr. Garrett Trivoli is finding many things in her life uncertain. When she attempts to enlist hospital funding to create a lone survivor support group, Garrett is offered a counter proposal by the hospital Board of Directors: she and ER nurse Danni Bossard, her roommate and friend, will become the hospital's Trauma Flight Team. As the two women grow closer together, they are torn between friendship, love, and duty. Will their mission be compromised by emerging realizations, or will their good intentions drive them further away from the truth and each other? As each woman searches for her own set of answers, their lives-and their jobs-are up in the air. Views: 48
A tender story about the power of love in the face of loss Nine-year-old Claudine doesn't want to leave her much-loved home in France to go live in America, not without her parents. But she knows about the shortages, about the yellow stars Jews must wear, and about Adolf Hitler. And she knows that there are some things she needs to do even when she doesn't want to. It's wartime, and there is much that is different now. There are more things that Claudine will lose to this terrible war. But not everything that is lost must be lost forever. Here is a moving story about lost and found lives, and the healing power of love. Views: 48
Stavros Denakis is furious when Tessa Marlowe turns up without warning. Weary and cynical through his experience with women, Stavros suspects the wife he hardly knows is a gold digger--surely she's here to claim her share of the Denakis millions. But Tessa is a temptation that he can't resist....Bedded by her gorgeous Greek husband, Tessa realizes she has fallen in love with him, and longs for their marriage to become real. Only, Stavros, though he may be passionate in private, remains cold in public, and is determined they stay wedded only in name.... Views: 48
The New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling collection of short stories chronicling the adventures of Simon Lewis as he trains to become a Shadowhunter is now available in print for the first time with ten brand-new comic illustrations!Simon Lewis has been a human and a vampire, and now he is becoming a Shadowhunter. The events of City of Heavenly Fire left him stripped of his memories, and Simon isn't sure who he is anymore. So when the Shadowhunter Academy reopens, Simon throws himself into this new world of demon-hunting, determined to find himself again. Whomever this new Simon might be. But the Academy is a Shadowhunter institution, which means it has some problems. Like the fact that non-Shadowhunter students have to live in the basement. At least Simon's trained in weaponry—even if it's only from hours of playing D&D. Join Simon on his journey to become a Shadowhunter, and learn about the Academy's illustrious history... Views: 48
When his latest mission turns into a bloodbath, ATF officer JT Hawk realizes he's been set up by someone at the top. Wounded and on the run, he has no choice but to take beautiful Abby Wells hostage. After all, she's in danger, too. And if the only way to keep the fiercely independent communications expert safe is to cuff her and bring her along for the ride, he'll do it. With pleasure, even. Only, given their close contact, it's not long before Hawk's thinking about a totally different kind of pleasure.... Views: 48
Lieutenant Tia Vargas, once the brightest Cadet of West Point, wanted to be a soldier since the terrorists killed her older brother in the attack of September eleven. She trained with a number of special elite forces and earned her rank in combat. When she learns that an enemy from space, the Anaz-voohri, now threaten the planet, her world is turned upside down. Her first assignment with a secret special unit of unlikely recruits shakes the very foundations of her military beliefs. She can't make a soldier of the expert assigned to her unit, Zack Duncan, who has serious issues with authority figures. She fiercely hates what he represents, so why is she attracted to him? Much worse, if the incredible stories he tells are true, Tia is in a world of trouble, and her deadly secret could imperil the future of the whole planet... Views: 48
The Midwest is alive today with ghost stories. It always has been: spectral lost souls sorrowing forsaken down dimly lit Victorian corridors, portals flickering unseen between worlds, irridescent fog creeping eerily through the lacy darkness of crumbling Illinois cemeteries. But where does one begin? We could start with Rockford located in Nothern Illinois, in a place which was first called Midway by a Connecticut land speculator named Germanicus Kent, although rumour has it that Mrs. Kent, (the former Miss Arabella Amiss) first suggested the boundaries lay halfway between Chicago and Galena, IL. A place teeming with assorted scoundrels, and saints, the eccentric and the tragic, the melancholy, and jolly, reflected through the changing beliefs in religion, politics and inherent superstition. Ghost stories from Galena, Belvidere, Freeport, Capron, Rockford, and farm villages in Northern Illinois. Views: 48
When love knocked on Marie's door, she had a hard time denying her heart what it wanted. Especially after she'd found her black keys.Now Marie finally realizes that home is not where she was born, or where she'd lived all of her life. Home is where her Love is.It's time for her to follow her heart.With longing heavy in her mind and soul, Marie goes back to the kingdom, ignoring all of the bad thoughts and refusing to let them control her actions. She will go after what everything in her desires: Mazen.Because when it comes to love, the past is only old memories, and the present is when we make new ones. Views: 48
