While attending her best friend Sashy's wedding, Flora Scurrison realizes that this monotonous, nine-to-five, cookie-cutter life is exactly what's in store for her. While it might be okay for Sashy, it's certainly not what she envisioned for herself when she was sixteen. So when her boyfriend proposes to her during the reception, Flora makes a wish to go back and do it all over again. The next morning she wakes up to find that she has been given the ultimate second chance—she's sixteen again. As Flora navigates school, first loves—new and old—and discovers what it really means to make adult choices, will she stay in her new body or try and find her way home? Views: 35
Songs of the Humpback WhaleFor years, Jane Jones has lived in the shadow of her husband, renowned San Diego oceanographer Oliver Jones. But during an escalating argument, Jane turns on him with an alarming volatility. In anger and fear, Jane leaves with their teenage daughter for a cross-country odyssey. Now Oliver, an expert at tracking humpback whales across vast oceans, will search for his wife across a continent - and find a new way to see the world, his family, and himself: through her eyes.Plain TruthThe discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn's mother, took the child's life. When Ellie Hathaway, a disillusioned big-city attorney, comes to Paradise, Pennsylvania, to defend Katie, two cultures collide - and for the first time, Ellie faces a system of justice very different from her own. Delving deep inside the world of those who live "plain," Ellie must find a way to reach Katie on her terms. And as she unravels a tangled murder case, Ellie also looks deep within - to confront her own fears and desires when a man from her past reenters her life. Salem FallsA handsome stranger comes to the sleepy New England town of Salem Falls in hopes of burying his past: Once a teacher at a girls' prep school, Jack St. Bride was destroyed when a student's crush sparked a powder keg of accusation. But amid the rustic calm of Salem Falls, a quartet of teenage girls harbor dark secrets - and they maliciously target Jack with a shattering allegation. Now, at the center of a modern-day witch hunt, Jack is forced once again to proclaim his innocence: to a town searching for answers, to a justice system where truth becomes a slippery concept written in shades of gray, and to the woman who has come to love him. Views: 35
A love story where losing may be the only way to win... With staggering student loans to repay, CC Carlson is determined to please her new employers. The first assignment as a real estate lawyer is easy: deliver an eviction notice and make it clear that it will be enforced. She delivers her notice and ultimatum and only then realizes that the nearly 70-year-old occupant is the inspiring creator of a series of books that had filled her childhood with stories of love and courage. Love and tragic secrets are part of every inch of her land, and Vivian Battle is prepared to live up to her name, as she always has. Her fiercely loyal tenants will also protect her. That includes the far-too attractive Penn, also a lawyer, who is only too happy to tell CC what she can do with her eviction notice. Views: 35
First loves never last . . . except when they do. When Amy Welsh returns to Goose Bay as a substitute teacher, she has no intention of seeing Quentin Macmillan, the man who once left her waiting in the rain clutching her suitcase and dreaming of becoming his wife. Seventeen years later, his teenage daughter shows up in Amy's class with plans to reunite her widowed father with the woman he has always loved. When the assignment is forgiveness and healing, will this young teacher pass the test? Views: 35
From one of Canada's finest historical novelists, an intricately woven story of revenge, deception, love and redemption set against the turbulent social upheavals of 1860s Russia.For Antonina, the wife of a wealthy Russian landowner, the world falls apart one cold spring afternoon when her husband takes her little boy, Misha, out riding. Set upon by kidnappers on horseback, the boy is stolen and the count wounded. Beautiful, musical and sheltered, Antonina is at first stunned and grief-stricken, then helpless as the count sickens and dies.Desperate, and surrounded by serfs and servants unsettled by the collapse of the old order, Antonina turns to Grisha, the estate steward, for help in getting her son back. He is a man of relentless competence and ambition, and she is drawn to his strength, unaware that he is both driven and crippled by secrets he hoped he'd left behind him in the land of his birth, Siberia. In her search for her lost boy, Antonina faces betrayals that are literally murderous, and finds strengths she had no idea she possessed as she wanders the crumbling halls of Angelkov, pitting her wits against people turned erratic and cruel. In the end, her fate, and the fate of her son, hangs on the way love can sometimes transform even the deepest of hatreds.ReviewPraise for The Lost Souls of Angelkov“As enchanting as a Tchaikovsky ballet, as heady as vodka, The Lost Souls of Angelkov explores the painful period in Russian history when the country struggled to free itself from the bounds of ignorance and feudalism. It opens with a mesmerizing scene—the only child of a Russian count is kidnapped. Holeman explores the forbidden liaisons, treachery, sexual longing and revenge of the unhappy people who inhabit this isolated estate in a novel as intriguing as a Russian nesting doll.” —Roberta Rich, author of The Midwife of VenicePraise for Linda Holeman“[Holeman’s] strength is a tremendous ability to create multiple plotlines and then weave them until they’re tied off in a satisfying knot.” —The Globe and Mail“Holeman is a master of dramatic tension and of seducing a reader’s attention.” —The Globe and MailAbout the AuthorLINDA HOLEMAN is the author of the international bestselling historical novels The Linnet Bird, The Moonlit Cage, In a Far Country and The Saffron Gate, as well as eight other works of fiction and short fiction. Her books have been translated into twelve languages. A world traveller, she grew up and was educated in Winnipeg, and was a teacher for ten years before she began to write. She now lives in Toronto. Views: 35
They call him Angel but every woman he meets sees the devil in his eyes.At the poker table or in the cesspools of the underground, no one dared be on the wrong side of the Ace Angel.Until he tangled with a haughty young Chinese woman as accustomed to ruling her world as he was his. Views: 35
Morgan is known as a rogue, but the truth is very different. He is working for Owain's cause, to restore the rightful Prince of Wales to the throne and drive the English from his country. But when he meets the woman he will love for the rest of his life, it is too late. He is married to a woman who has deceived and cheated him.Will Morgan ever be free to wed his true love - and will Owain gain his rightful throne? Views: 35
I AM BECOME DEATH, THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS ALLY WESTER struggles with her newfound powers in the white magic. But her power has drawn notice, and dark creatures desire to claim her for their own. ARRAN BELPHON has vowed to protect Ally Wester. And it will take everything he has to defend her - his strength, his heart, and even his life itself may be the price. MARUGON is the last of the Warlocks, the greatest wielder of black magic ever to walk under the sun. Now, at last, he possesses what he has long sought, and his true work can begin. And the TOWER OF ENDLESS WORLDS shall burn... Views: 35
Alyssa is 26 and doesn�t like the way all men mistreat her. She decides a change is
needed and applies to be a jillaroo on a cattle station named The Oasis, which is located in outback
Australia.
She meets a cowboy, Kent, who is a rodeo champion. They agree on a bet. Eventually both want out,
but
neither wants to be first.
Through a series of adventures that stretch from the city to a fast-flowing river in the outback where
Kent
must save Alyssa from drowning, love germinates in the middle of a storm.
In her heart, Alyssa is a woman who adores the city�s nightlife, but as the sun sets on each day, the
Australian outback becomes more enticing and the excitement of the city fades. Then she
inadvertently
saves The Oasis.
Love is growing between Alyssa and Kent, but then Brandt, Alyssa�s obsessive ex-boyfriend, tracks
her
down. Can Kent save her one last time? Views: 35
Book 32 in the bestselling House of Winslow series. Wealthy Rena Matthews feels called to take the gospel to the South Sea islanders. She gathers volunteers to go with her—all from the upper strata of society. When rough-looking Travis Winslow volunteers, Rena wants to refuse him, but her father insists she take him along. They set out in her father's yacht, but a storm drives them hundreds of miles off course and into a reef on a deserted island. Will they ever make it to the mission &supl;eld? Or will God bring the mission &supl;eld to them? Views: 35
Chloe Lilywhite struggles with all the normal problems of a typical seventeen-year-old high school student. Only, Chloe isn’t a normal teenage girl. She’s a Magical, part of a secret race of beings who influence the universe. More importantly, she’s a Creator, which means Fate mapped out her destiny long ago, from her college choice, to where she will live, to even her job. While her friends and relatives relish their future roles, Chloe resents the lack of say in her life, especially when she learns she’s to be guarded against a vengeful group of beings bent on wiping out her kind. Their number one target? Chloe, of course. That’s nothing compared to the boy trouble she’s gotten herself into. Because a guy she’s literally dreamed of and loved her entire life, one she never knew truly existed, shows up in her math class, and with him comes a twin brother she finds herself inexplicably drawn to. Chloe’s once unyielding path now has a lot more choices than she ever thought possible.About the AuthorHeather Lyons has been putting stories to paper since she was a little girl. Her first "published" book was a humorous retelling of The Princess and the Pauper. After detours in archaeology and teaching, she is now writing and living in Southern California with her husband and three sons. She like cupcakes, baseball, hockey, reading, and collecting far too many handbags. Views: 35
Another great title in the best-selling Go Girl series. Iris is so excited – she gets to spend the next four days playing her saxophone and making new friends! But Iris learns there is no sheet music you can follow when it comes to friendship. Views: 35
