Lily is discovered by a big-name director when she's auditioning for a role in a toothpaste commercial. He wants her for his new movie, which is great except for the fact that it's shooting in Los Angeles and Lily lives in Vancouver. With the help of her Chinese grandmother, she convinces her parents to let her go to LA with her agent as a chaperone. But when she gets there, she finds out that if she wants to be more than the flavor of the week, she's going to have to pay a price that may be way too high. Views: 36
On a spring day, 1.8 billion children disappear from the face of the earth and natural disasters rock the globe. Of those who remain, 90 percent a ravaged with a plague that turns them into mindless, murderous beings. Views: 36
Maddy Frank has always lived in Jermyn Street. But now her mum and dad are making her move far away to some place called Plenty. How will Maddy survive without everything and everyone she knows? What about her mysterious new classmate, Grace Wek, who was born in a refugee camp? Could Grace understand how Maddy feels?Plenty is a poignant coming-of-age novel by Australian author Ananda Braxton-Smith. This junior fiction book is a realistic story of the friendship between two young girls and focuses on themes of homelessness, difference and acceptance. For more of Ananda's work read her literary fantasy series for young adults, Secrets of Carrick: Merrow, Tantony and Ghostheart. Views: 36
When Rocket gets cut from his AAA bantam hockey team, he needs to re-evaluate his priorities.Bryan Rockwood (aka "Rocket") is faced with the unthinkable: being cut from the Huskies — the AAA hockey team he has played on for three years. With no other teams interested in him, Bryan reluctantly joins a AA team, the Blues, at his best friend Maddy's insistence.Things only get worse when Rocket sees that the Blues don't take hockey seriously. Facing the Huskies in the round robin will give Rocket the chance to prove his skills, but in order to keep his hockey dreams (and his friends) Rocket will have to realize that while hockey is his passion, it is not his entire life. Views: 36
Sometimes the heat is all you crave.Angel Dean knows from experience, James Pyro DeMarco ruins lives—because he ruined hers. Her older sister Ashley was brutally murdered because of Pyro and Angel has never forgiven him. Angel just wants a clean start but someone wants Pyro dead and they’re going to use Angel to get it done. Forced to earn his trust and then betray him, Angel must do whatever she can to deliver Pyro or else someone else she loves dearly is going to die. Pyro doesn’t believe in redemption or second chances but when Angel shows up on his doorstep in desperate need of help, he feels obligated to do what he can because of what’d went down all those years ago. But the best of intentions never seem to work out in Pyro’s world and soon enough he’s fighting an attraction that defies reason—and will most certainly end badly for them both if he’s not careful. Can love survive the heat of betrayal or will everything go up in flames? Views: 36
A Colorado beauty abandoned at the altar. A rugged bounty hunter haunted by his past. In this dramatic historical novel by best-selling author Robin Lee Hatcher, two wounded hearts join forces in a pursuit across the Old West. Views: 36
