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Call of the Mild

When Lily Raff McCaulou traded in an indie film production career in New York for a reporting job in central Oregon, she never imagined that she'd find herself picking up a gun and learning to hunt. She'd been raised as a gun-fearing environmentalist and an animal lover, and though a meat-eater, she'd always abided by the principle that harming animals is wrong. But Raff McCaulou's perspective shifted when she began spending weekends fly-fishing and weekdays interviewing hunters for her articles, realizing that many of them were more thoughtful about animals and the environment than she was. So she embarked upon the project of learning to hunt from square one. From attending a Hunter Safety course designed for children to field dressing an elk and serving it for dinner, she explores the sport of hunting and all it entails, and tackles the big questions surrounding one of the most misunderstood American practices and pastimes. Not just a personal memoir, this book also...
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Truly Madly Deeply

Truly Madly Deeply is a fascinating, roller-coaster tale of teenage love. The book depicts the emotion in its rawest, most confusing form—just the way you'd have experienced it the first time you fell in love with someone. A pompous Rahul is head over heels in love with Seema. After a whirlwind of innocent encounters, their teenage romance blossoms yet both of them never confess their love to each other. A series of misunderstandings and ego clashes cause them to drift apart.
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The Legend of Corinair

Product DescriptionEpisode 3A captain coming into his own…A handful of refugees stranded on board…A possible traitor in their midst…A voyage into the territory of the very enemy that pursues them…Sometimes legends become realities in unexpected ways.It seems that fate has the crew of the Aurora firmly in its clutches.“The Legend of Corinair” is a 72,000 word novel, and is the 3rd episode in The Frontiers Saga.
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Altered Images

Everything is not as it seems during those balmy summer days at one of Oxford's most prestigious colleges. On the hunt for an art forger, wealthy and sophisticated Lorcan Greene is bedazzled by talented student Frederica Delacroix...but what is the secret she is hiding from him? Reeve Morgan is everything Annis Whittington isn't looking for in a man. He's rich, arrogant and spoilt. The trouble is, he's also the sexiest and most attractive man Annis has ever laid eyes on! Two men + two women = life, secrets, lies...and love!
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Into Death's Arms

Macyn Reece has a secret, she isn’t quite human. For years, Macyn and her father have managed to walk a fine line between being AoD (supernatural Vampire hunters) and human. Then Dayton Tameron leader of the Vampire race and super hottie exposes his species on national television. Macyn inadvertently exposes herself trying to flee the panic his announcement causes. Suddenly every monster in San Francisco knows just what she is; needless to say, the Vampires are out for blood. Into Death’s Arms is a completed 80,458 word, work of paranormal romance.
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The Lost Life

′This beautiful and poetically attentive novel retrieves a warm, beating heart from Eliot′s haunted, stark, magnificent work of art′ AUSTRALIAN LITERARY REVIEW They may never have a life together, but they will have their moment. They will have this much. England, September 1934 Two young lovers, Catherine and Daniel, have trespassed into the rose garden of Burnt Norton, an abandoned house in the English countryside. Hearing the sound of footsteps, they hide, and then witness the poet T.S. (′Tom′) Eliot and his close friend Emily enter the garden and bury a mysterious tin in the earth.Tom and Emily knew each other in America in their youth; now in their forties, they have come together again. But Tom is married, and his wife has no intention of letting him go. What is it that binds Tom and Emily together? What happens when the muse steps out of the shadows?In the enclosed world of an English village...
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Oracle

Owen has a crush on Kamryn. Kamryn has a crush on Owen's brother Kyle. Owen knows extreme action is necessary to make sure Kamryn does not end up dating his brother, a jerk who manipulates every situation to get what he wants. So what does Owen do? He manipulates the situation. With the help of his friend Hannah, Owen sets up a blog called The Oracle that gives out relationship advice to local teens. Everything seems to be going great. Hannah and Owen are having fun, and Kamryn seems to be following The Oracle's advice and taking an interest in Owen. Owen thinks he's got it made, but he soon discovers that fraudulent tactics have their consequences.
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Secret Agent X – The Complete Series Volume 1 (Annotated)

For 41 issues from 1934 to 1939, Secret Agent "X" battled the forces of evil in the pages of his own pulp magazine. Now, for the first time... the complete pulp series is being reprinted in nine deluxe omnibus editions! The text has been reset and all the original interior illustrations have been remastered. This first volume contains the first four stories, all by Paul Chadwick: "The Torture Trust," "The Spectral Strangler," "The Death-Torch Terror" and "Ambassador of Doom." This is the Secret Agent "X" reprint series to own!
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The Berenstain Bears and the Double Dare

Too-Tall Grizzly and his gang dare Brother to steal a watermelon from Farmer Ben's patch, and when the gang runs away, Brother is caught. Fortunately, Farmer Ben is a good neighbor, and offers Brother advice about standing up for what is right.  
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A Fate Totally Worse Than Death

Welcome to Cliffside High, the school of your nightmares. It's run by the Huns, a ruthless clique of rich students—and, as poor Charity Chase discovers, messing with them can be murder. From the Newbery Award-winning author, Paul Fleischman.
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