When America's cows go on strike, a gang of interstellar cheeses land on EarthThe nation's cattle have gotten too smart for their own good. Tired of letting humans steal their milk, American cows have gone on strike. This is great news for every kid who hates drinking his milk, but trouble for anybody who likes cheese. Funny Boy—a joke-telling superhero who was sent to Earth from the planet Crouton—is mourning the cheese shortage when five giant cheeses fall on Wisconsin, squashing an unlucky farmer named George Gouda. That alone would be weird enough, but the cheeses also talk.The cheeses are aliens from the faraway planet Chattanooga, and they have come to stop the cheese shortage. The country's woe is ended, but something about the aliens' story stinks worse than month-old Muenster. It will take Funny Boy and his galactic sense of humor to curdle these curds before America starts to spoil.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dan Gutman... Views: 8
They came on a mission of mercy, but now they’re in a fight for their lives.High schooler Will Peterson and three friends journeyed to Central America to help rebuild a school. In a poor, secluded mountain village, they won the hearts of the local people with their energy and kindness.But in one sudden moment, everything went horribly wrong. A revolution swept the country. Now, guns and terror are everywhere—and Americans are being targeted as the first to die.Will and his friends have got to get out fast. But streets full of killers . . . hills patrolled by armies . . . and a jungle rife with danger stand between them and the border. Their one hope of escape lies with a veteran warrior who has lost his faith and may betray them at any moment. Their one dream is to reach freedom and safety and home.If they can just survive.“Fast-paced with multiple threats, genuine tension and lots of machine guns.” —Kirkus Reviews Views: 8
Caitlyn Murphy is having another boring day in her failing small-town New England coffee shop until broken-hearted Michael Fitzgerald, an unrequited love from her past, walks in and sweeps her away in a whirlwind romance that could be the real thing… But Michael’s ex-fiancée, Margaret, shows up at her door, pregnant with Michael’s baby. Now Michael has to choose between his Happily Ever After and his moral obligation. And Caitlyn has to learn how to stay sane in a small town with the man she loves and the woman who’s having his baby.About the AuthorAudrey Dacey is a Romance novelist, English teacher, wife, and mother. She lives in Prescott, AZ with her husband, her son, and one-and-a-half chihuahuas. When she’s not writing, teaching, wifing, or mothering, she is probably reading Pride and Prejudice again or watching Eureka. Views: 8
Niklas Okkenon, a professor of electrical engineering at a small university in Finland, travels to Cancun, Mexico, to deliver a paper on new breakthroughs in wireless communications. His life has been spiraling downward with a recent divorce and fights with this teenager daughter. Niklas needs this conference and the acceptance of his paper to give credibility to both himself and his university. A series of events collide when dolphins keep Niklas awake at night with their splashing, and they soon enter his dreams. The request they make of him will change his life – if he agrees. Dolphin Dreams is a novella that asks the question we might ask ourselves when we see dolphins in captivity: "What are the dolphins thinking?" Views: 8
Secrets surround Spirit Lake... Their forbidden love is one of them. Danger collides with the peaceful beauty in Laurel Hasting's woodland hideaway when the man who jilted her fifteen years ago suddenly reappears--on the run from a killer. Cole Wescott--bullet lodged in his leg--stumbles off the train near her cabin on Spirit Lake in northern Wisconsin. He claims the evidence against the killer is stashed in her backyard--across the lake at the abandoned Victorian mansion his family once used as a summer home. The same ramshackle danger zone she wants the county to raze. Now, Cole's living in it A wildlife rescuer, Laurel would rather fix the paw of a snarling wolf than risk helping this man who always lived on the edge of life. As a teenager she fell in love with him while racing cars on the old logging roads, and skinny-dipping in the ponds in the flowering meadows. But then he left. Without a word. His broken promise of love brought heartache and tragedy. She has no intention of scratching old wounds. Her life is now one of healing... But Cole needs justice. His brother Mike is dead, killed in an explosion made to look like a boating accident offf the Florida Keys. The prime suspect? Their boss in an ocean salvage business. What had Mike uncovered about him that was so heinous? Can Laurel risk helping Cole set a trap for the killer? And risk revealing her own secrets? Can she risk a rekindled love, knowing he might die and thus leave her yet again? What is the secret that made him turn from her fifteen years ago and never look back? Views: 8
They call them the "rat-catchers." They're the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which an economically destitute Earth has dispatched on a mission to re-establish contact with its far-flung, long-lost space colonies. Alex Alexander, ship's biologist, must help solve the mysteries of human and alien ecosystems that he encounters light-years from home. The planet Floria initially appears to be one of the few Earth colonies that's actually prospered since its initial settlement. But underneath the surface of the society, the "Planners" keep a strict, repressive rule over the Florians, while the police are apparently attempting to assert their own authority. But is either group actually what they seem? Daedalus Mission, Book One. Views: 8
