Space pilot Kyra fears that sleeping with her partner is a bad idea. She’s right. When a wedding takes her to planet Dezra, she’s soon pursued by a sexy alien male. Someone should have told her not to drink the local aphrodisiac. It creates an internal inferno that has her panting for sex. Luckily, there’s that sexy alien to ease her sensual ache. Unluckily, there’s also her former partner, who broke her heart. But he wants her back, at all costs. Even if he has to share her with another male first. Note: To read Jana and Qay’s story, check out Alien Best Man. Views: 22
" Golden Kite Award winner, 1989 Booklist, Editor's Choice School Library Journal, Best Books of 1988 Publisher's Weekly, Best Books of 1988 Twelve-year-old Amanda Perritt is pitched head-first into adult responsibilities when she has to quit school to care for her newborn brother and invalid mother. She gets an excape, she thinks, when she's offered a trip to stay with her grandmother and her sophisticated Aunt Laura in Memphis. But during the visit, she discovers unexpected parallels between her mother's childhood and her own and comes to understand her own individuality as well as what it means to be part of a family. Views: 22
18+ Accept fate, or it destroys you... Michael Nights hides his true nature. His first love, Amanda, convinced him he was a monster when she left. Gwen Fate takes one look at Mike and is captivated. She wants to know all his secrets. Amanda deLuna has changed, but was it for the better? She can offer Mike what he always wanted. Mike will have to choose, the life he wished for? Or his fate? Views: 22
In the Stars Wars galaxy, evil is on the move as the Galactic Alliance and Jedi order battle forces seen and unseen, from rampant internal treachery to the nightmare of all-out war. With each victory against the Corellian rebels, Jacen Solo becomes more admired, more powerful, and more certain of achieving galactic peace. But that peace may come with a price. Despite strained relationships caused by opposing sympathies in the war, Han and Leia Solo and Luke and Mara Skywalker remain united by one frightening suspicion: Someone insidious is manipulating this war, and if he or she isn't stopped, all efforts at reconciliation may be for naught. And as sinister visions lead Luke to believe that the source of the evil is none other than Lumiya, Dark Lady of the Sith, the greatest peril revolves around Jacen himself. . . .Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen... Views: 22
Five years have passed since Skiouros left Istanbul with his brother’s remains and a nebulous goal to make the usurper Cem pay for Lykaion’s death. Skiouros is older and wiser, and has come to understand the price that vengeance exacts from its wielders. Saved from the French authorities by Dragi, the Romani crewman of a Turkish galley, he and his friend Parmenio are bound once more for the east. Views: 22
The Tales of the Heike is one of the most influential works in Japanese literature and culture, remaining even today a crucial source for fiction, drama, and popular media. Originally written in the mid-thirteenth century, it features a cast of vivid characters and chronicles the epic Genpei war, a civil conflict that marked the end of the power of the Heike and changed the course of Japanese history. The Tales of the Heike focuses on the lives of both the samurai warriors who fought for two powerful twelfth-century Japanese clans-the Heike (Taira) and the Genji (Minamoto)-and the women with whom they were intimately connected. The Tales of the Heike provides a dramatic window onto the emerging world of the medieval samurai and recounts in absorbing detail the chaos of the battlefield, the intrigue of the imperial court, and the gradual loss of a courtly tradition. The book is also highly religious and Buddhist in its orientation, taking up such issues... Views: 22
The Meadows heiress had been kidnapped 25 years ago. Vanished by moonlight, and CEO Nicolas Galloway was the last to see her. So when reporter Valerie Zea arrived at the Moongate mansion to dig up new dirt, Nick was there to watch her every move. And his smoldering eyes didn't miss much--especially her uncanny resemblance to the missing girl.... Now someone was stopping at nothing to ensure the real story remained buried--and that meant ending Valerie's probing questions. But the biggest question of all was the tall, dark Mr. Galloway himself. Could Valerie get him to open up before the opportunity to expose the truth disappeared? Views: 22
In the town of Eden in northwestern England stands the exclusive boarding school known as Archangel Academy. Ancient and imposing, it's a place filled with secrets. Just like its students. . .For Michael Howard, being plucked from his Nebraska hometown and sent thousands of miles away is as close as he's ever come to a miracle. In Weeping Water, he felt trapped, alone. At Archangel Academy, Michael belongs. And in Ciaran, Penry, and especially Ciaran's enigmatic half-brother Ronan, Michael finds friendship deeper than he's ever known.But Michael's only beginning to understand what makes the Academy so special. Ronan is a vampire—part of a hybrid clan who are outcasts even among other vampires. Within the Academy's confines exists a ruthless world of deadly rivalries and shifting alliances, of clandestine love and forbidden temptations. And soon Michael will confront the destiny that brought him here—and a danger more powerful than he can imagine. .... Views: 22
