Maddy looks forward to a kitten now her best friend has gone away; but little Biscuit struggles when faced with the big mean tom cats next door. What can Maddy do to help her? From best-selling author Holly Webb. Views: 32
Plus sized beauty Monica Jordan can't believe her luck in landing handsome billionaire Gabe Stark. Ever since meeting on a blind date, her life has been turned upside down. Gabe wants nothing more than to worship her beautiful curvy body, and her lonely existence seems like a thing of the past. When she attends a charity ball as Gabe's date, she's forced to confront her old insecurities and fears of rejection again. She hears rumors about Gabe's past and catches him in a compromising position. But is everything as it seems? Monica must make a choice between following her heart or running away.EXCERPT:Monica left the bathroom, intent on finding Gabe. It was time to put all their cards on the table. She wanted to believe him when he told her she was beautiful and important to him, but he wasn’t acting like that tonight. He had practically ignored her all evening, and if those two were to be believed, made a beeline for his ex once she was out of sight.As she entered the ballroom, her eyes were immediately arrested by the sight of Gabe dancing with a tall brunette in a strapless black gown. Monica just knew it was Carla. The woman’s arms were wrapped around his neck. They seemed to be having an intense conversation judging by the expressions on their faces. Monica’s eyes weren’t the only ones trained on the sight. It seemed everyone in the ballroom was riveted by the scene before them. Nearby, she heard a woman speculating about Gabe and Carla’s reconciliation. Monica shot them a dirty look, but they looked at her with pity.Before the dance ended, Carla led Gabe away from the ballroom towards the balcony. Monica crossed the room and followed them outside. The sight of Gabe in the arms of that woman, and Monica had to admit grudgingly that she was beautiful, unleashed a torrent of emotions in her. It seemed like confirmation of the rumors. She was boiling with anger and humiliation. When she stepped outside, she was surprised to find the balcony empty. Monica looked around, her eyes finally adjusting to the darkness outside. She heard voices coming from the garden path just below the balcony and scrambled down the stairs towards the sound of voices. She could hear Gabe’s deep baritone, but couldn’t make out exactly what he was saying.Monica continued to follow the sound of their voices when it suddenly went quiet. The sight that met her froze her in place and knocked the breath out of her. Views: 32
The second book in the New York Times bestselling series about the hilarious adventures of a cheeky, loveable hero.Hank Zipzer has been given the worst school report of his life. There are several things that he fears will happen to him because of this report: one, his sister and her pet lizard will laugh at him, two, he will be stuck at school for ever, and, three, the school bully will call him stupid. Hank needs to hide that school report now. And where better than the meat grinder at his mum's cafe, The Crunchy Pickle... What could possibly go wrong?! Views: 32
A Christmas DateA sensual and sweet contemporary Christmas love story of approximately 9,200 wordsWhen tall aloof business executive Lucas Hart and small voluptuous florist Angelina Makepeace are thrown together on a surprise blind date by their crazy matchmaking friends, they are both equally horrified. They have absolutely nothing in common.But when wintry weather and circumstances beyond their control repeatedly place them in each other's path during the holiday season, they begin to realize that their friends might not be quite so crazy after all. Views: 32
Earth basked in the glow of a new interstellar age, saved from enslavement to the insectoid biofabs by the dramatic arrival of the Kronarin fleet. Laden with honors and riches, John Harrison, hero of the Biofab War, can finally live the good life--or can he? Unknown to the Alliance, renegade biofabs escaped to an alternate universe where under their brilliant Tactics Master they're breeding back to strength, readying a counter-strike against the people of both universes. Catapulted into a twisted image of his world, Harrison must find the biofabs' nest and take it out before a new generation hatches. It won't be easy--the biofabs have found deadly allies. And in this version of Earth, Harrison's a rebel on the run from the Fourth Reich. (2010 revision of 1986 Tor Books edition. 56,000 words.) The Battle for Terra Two is one of four novels that begins with a covert alien attempt to control Earth, ending with the battered forces of Galactic humanity battling impossible odds as an AI armada sweeps into our galaxy for its long-overdue reckoning with humanity. (AIs--Artificial Intelligences--cyborgs evolved over vast time from simpler machines to complex beings driven by the simple need to kill us all.) All the books follow the crew of the Kronarin Fleet dreadnought Implacable and their Terran allies from the discovery of biofabs on Earth through ever-growing confrontations and diabolical alien machinations to the final battle. The plot line is akin to a nesting doll, each crisis spawning an even deadlier one. The blaster fire never stops--save for the occasional soothing cup of t'ata from Implacable's dodgy beveragers. (Implacable's a resurrected Imperial warship that sometimes chaffs at having been awakened and pressed into the service of such rude hands. It preferred its Imperial masters.) To be bested along the way are space pirates, Terra Two's last proconsul, mindslavers, various machine intelligences, a vile alternate Earth, the undying hand of the dead Kronarin Empire, a ubiquitous insectoid-blonde and of course, biofabs. All stirred into a rich bouillabaisse of an adventure that takes the reader on a far flung quest into the fantastic, but where in the end the old verities of honesty, valor and fellowship trump all.From The Battle for Terra Two:"I have a theory about the Empire," said Bill as the decks flashed by. "More whimsy than theory. It never died. It's out there somewhere, manipulating us, the Kronarins, the Scotar, those killer machines--God only knows what else. All for some esoteric and rotten end. It's cold, malevolent, immortal and hopelessly mad. Evil." This was worse, John thought, stumbling over a helmet. Something out of Goya, the young dead tormented faces staring sightlessly, throats ripped out, necks broken, holes you could put your fist through. And everywhere the stench of burnt flesh and clouds of flies come to feast.Review"A modern descendant of the Doc Smith Lensman series. Space opera in the Grand Ol' Tradition."--Other Realms "Devotes of militaristic SF should enjoy [Berry's] books." --Kliatt "Kick-butt military science fiction." --Amazon reader review From the AuthorBiofab: biological fabrication. Biofab is a term growing in vogue with those who strive to engineer synthetic life. (Never thought I'd write that as fact.) I may be the progenitor of the term, having coined it in 1980 for The Biofab War, but I'm not militant about it. There's a collective unconscious of science fiction archetypes that slips quietly from generation to generation, Jules Verne to E.E. "Doc" Smith, Smith to Heinlein, Heinlein and Smith to many others. We read, we forget and yet we don't: biofab. My former student, the much-loved Christopher Blair of Venice, Florida, to whom this book is dedicated, died last year. He was 20. A tall thin blond kid with an infectious grin, an unruly shock of hair and an other-worldly affect, he'd read all my books, memorizing them in startling detail. He toted Terra Two around more than the other titles. (Though rumor has it he had two copies, one for reading and one for stashing.) A lad out of time, Chris would have been happy on Implacable, a Fleet commando, M11A blaster strapped low, the battle klaxon banging away as he rushed for the assault boats and another desperate fight. Upshield, upship, Chris. Godspeed. Views: 32
In an ancient divided realm, where a king lay dying and ruthless militiamen and mercenaries form an alliance as they march toward the realm's seat of power, a small band of warriors must defend the throne against an enemy that seeks to sweep terror across the lands; an enemy who wields an ancient and powerful dark sorcery. Amidst an inevitable war and the impending collapse of a kingdom, a young boy emerges, and he cannot speak, hear, or see, but he possesses a rare gift that may shift the balance of power. Views: 32
The Santina Crown... Royalty has never been so scandalous!Heiress Angelina Carpenter traded in diamonds for denim--and the freedom to make her own choices--when she fled from her arranged marriage to Sheikh Taj Ahmad. Now working as a nanny for the royal family of Santina, Angelina can't help but risk a glimpse at the glamorous life she left behind during a lavish party...and runs straight into Taj! And this time, the ruthless sheikh has no intention of letting his runaway bride get away...A prequel novella to The Santina Crown series. Views: 32
