The Clique Summer Collection is a series of five 144-page novellas about the summer plans of the main characters in the Clique. Each book will be told from the point of view of a different girl in the Pretty Committee: Massie, Alicia, Dylan, Kristen, and Claire. Alicia takes on Mission Spalfa: Spanish Alpha! Back in Spain to visit her relatives, Alicia discovers that Spain's newest pop sensation Ignacio! is searching for a true Spanish beauty to star in his new hit-single video. She can't believe her luck! If Alicia is cast as a true Spanish beauty, Massie will never call her fake-Spanish again. The only trick: She'll have to beat her super-bonita cousins to win the coveted spot. Adios, bimbos! Views: 35
The filming for sure-to-be-blockbuster movie Pretty Young Assassins has wrapped, and teen movie star Kaitlin Burke returns to life on the set of primetime drama Family Affair. After ten seasons of filming the hit favorite TV show, Kaitlin would have thought that she could see any curveballs coming, but with a plotting new actress on set, all bets are off. The new diva, Alexis, makes even Skye seem like a puppy in comparison. Can Kaitlin keep her sane boyfriend, her insane job, and her composure in the face of this new star power? Combining the vicarious glamour of the New York Times bestselling A-List series with the innocence of The Princess Diaries, this commercial and appealing sequel offers another captivating glimpse behind the velvet ropes of stardom. Tantalizing new Hollywood secrets appear throughout. SUMMARY: The filming for sure-to-be-blockbuster movie Pretty Young Assassins has wrapped, and teen movie star Kaitlin Burke returns to life on the set of primetime drama Family Affair. After ten seasons of filming the hit favorite TV show, Kaitlin would have thought that she could see any curveballs coming, but with a plotting new actress on set, all bets are off. The new diva, Alexis, makes even Kaitlin's long-time nemesis Skye seem like a puppy in comparison. Can Kaitlin keep her sane boyfriend, her insane job, and her composure in the face of this new star power? Views: 35
Dedicated nurse Paige is having a hell of a week.First, she gets suspended from the hospital for working with the hybrids at Luna Lodge. She sees it as a medical professional simply doing her duty, but her superiors see a woman involved with a trouble-making group of genetically engineered super-soldiers.Her only hope of keeping her job is convincing her bosses she has nothing to do with the lodge anymore. Soon, her hope of staying out of the hybrids' world is crushed when a handsome rogue hybrid shows up half-dead on her doorstep.Hybrid Justus suffered as a prisoner of both the Horatius Group and Luna Lodge. Now on the run, he's determined to keep his freedom at all costs, but cut off from the familiar, he becomes desperate and confused. Freedom can be overwhelming to those who have never had it.When a chance encounter in the forest leaves Justus wounded, he's forced to flee until encountering a woman that calls on the most primal side of him: Paige.The two can't deny their... Views: 35
New Yorker Sadie Maddox is the toast of the classical-music world-and abit of a diva. But lately her CD sales are sagging, not to mention parts ofher anatomy. Maybe it's time for a change. So when her agent suggests aprofessorship at a small liberal-arts college, Sadie decides to give it a go.Besides, she needs the money.But the college is in rural Iowa. Sadie's colleagues are intimidated, herstudents aren't impressed, and she has to live far too close to farm animals.When Sadie meets Mac, a veterinarian, she assumes they have nothing incommon-he is, after all, a country-music fan-and she's counting the daysuntil she moves back to New York. Yet, when Sadie is forced to spend timewith Mac, she likes him. Her students really need her. And this quiet midwestcommunity begins to grow on her. But when the semester ends, Sadie packs up and decamps for the citythat never sleeps.and fi nds she can't either. Will she fi nd the courage andgrace she needs to embrace her Act Two?About the AuthorKimberly Stuart holds degrees from St. Olaf College and the University of Iowa. After teaching Spanish and English as a second language in Chicago, Minneapolis, Costa Rica, and eastern Iowa, she took a huge increase in pay to be a full-time mom. She makes her home in Des Moines, Iowa, with her husband and two young children. Views: 35
An unforgettable debut novel about the way we look at others, and the way we see ourselves. Meghan Ball is both the most visible and the most invisible person in school. Her massive size is impossible to ignore, yet people freely spill their secrets in front of her, perhaps because they think she isn?t listening. But she is. Now her attention has turned to a new girl: Aimee Zorn, with her stick-figure body and defiant attitude. Meghan is determined to befriend Aimee, and when she ultimately succeeds, the two join forces to take down their shared enemy. This provocative story explores the ways in which girls use food and their bodies to say what they cannot: I?m lonely. Views: 35
The daughter of a successful mystery writer and a P.I. with pizzazz, Regan Reilly is attending her class reunion at St. Polycarp's England, when the long-dead body of her former roommate turns up under the bushes. It's a case Regan would love to solve, but a prior commitment puts her on a transatlantic cruise. She shouldn't have fretted. The clues to the crime are following her on the Queen Guinevere. Here, on a ship awash with secret lovers, a fortune hunter, a jewel thief and an assassin, Regan is sailing home - and into the hands of a young girl's killer.
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Dorian Gray meets the medical thriller in bestseller Clem's latest scarefest when RN Paul Grant discovers peaceful Harbor View Rest Home holds a dark secret. His search for the truth will take him from the picturesque countryside of Cutting, Vermont, all the way to the deepest reaches of the Amazon jungle, and in the end he must confront the evil before he is consumed by it. Views: 35
What's an eleven-year-old boy to do when an ugly dog called Blacky appears on his bed and tells him he has been given the mission to rescue God? This is a 'fast and funny book' from CBCA-shortlisted author Barry Jonsberg. When Marcus is woken by a dog doing a poo on his bed, he is understandably upset. And Blacky (the dog) has other surprises in store. Soon Marcus and his disruptive friend Dylan are on a mission to rescue God - a sick pygmy bearded dragon - from the local pet shop. But time is running out...And then there is Rose who thrives on terrorising her little brother. She is the sister from hell, but revenge will be sweet. Or so Marcus thinks.'Funny, entertaining and meaningful. I would highly recommend it.' Cam, 12 Views: 35
Whitey O’Thraight, the Ship’s Armorer on the first interstellar vessel launched by his home planet Vespucci, finds himself stranded on a strange planet with just one other survivor. Captured by the local Baron, they are freed by a group of monks who are much more than they initially appear to be. Their new benefactors and friends have something special in mind for the two survivors, but going along with these plans might mean the destruction of Vespucci as they knew it. Another breath-taking adventure by the author of the award winning "Pallas" and "The Probability Broach." Views: 35
