A brand new tale in the Animal Stories series from best-selling author Holly Webb, this story is about the true meaning of friendship – and how there's the perfect pup out there for everyone! Bella instantly falls in love with her scruffy puppy Sid when she sees him at the animal shelter. She gets her family to agree that he's the perfect pet for them and she cannot wait to bring him home! But one person is not too impressed with Sid – Bella's friend Megan, who is getting her own pedigree pup. Megan is pretty snooty about Bella's beloved mongrel pet, and she begins to wonder if she's that good a friend after all. Bella decides to enter Sid into a dog show, so she can prove for once and for all that all dogs are brilliant, no matter where they come from! The Scruffy Puppy is the 27th book in Holly Webb's Animal Stories series, a must for animal loving girls and boys aged six to eight years. Views: 34
Everyone knows her as Sienna Flower. Her curves and long lashes tease and taunt from her very own billboard where the desert meets the Las Vegas Strip. She’s the hottest stripper in town, known for her sultry and indecent moves coupled with her virginal eyes. She’s a heady and unique combination, and a mystery to all who come to see her. Sienna captivates crowds nightly at the Electric Tunnel, leaving them wanting to know more about the sensual enigma. But no one ever sees beyond the heavily guarded stripper onstage. She is Sienna Flower 24/7. No one other than her closest friend and boss, Asher Peterson, who helped turn a young and frightened girl into who Sienna is today. Together they created the sexual illusion known as Sienna Flower. They will go to any lengths to protect her image, which is why Sienna is convinced she must remain unattached and alone. Like everyone else in Vegas, Sienna is hiding something and playing a role. A good girl in her former life, she was raised to be obedient and accepting of her fate, but there are some circumstances no one should be expected to accept. She escaped to a world light years away from the one she was subjected to…the Electric Tunnel. Now she can never be anything other than Sienna Flower. Not only would she be hurt, but everyone around her would suffer the consequences. That is, until she meets private detective Carson Graham, the dark and mysterious ex-FBI agent who watches her dance every weekend. With his dark hair and chocolate-brown eyes, Carson begins to heat Sienna’s heart and body, melting away the layers and secrets. Sienna doesn’t want to get attached to Carson, but when another man surfaces and starts hunting her down, bringing out the scars of her old life, she can’t help but seek comfort in Carson’s protection. With everyone trading on the secrets of her past, Sienna finds herself caught in an awful web of lies. Her ultimate fear is hurting her friends at the Tunnel, but she doesn’t know who to trust. Namely, Carson. Is he good? Or bad? Does she have the luxury of finding out? Views: 34
Beyond the Door, the first in the Time Out of Time duet from Maureen Doyle McQuerry, weaves a compelling coming-of-age story with fantasy and mythology. With his love of learning and the game of Scrabble, Timothy James feels like the only person who understands him is his older sister, Sarah, and he's fairly certain nothing interesting will ever happen to him. But one night, while his parents and sister are away, the door opens, and mythical creatures appear in his own living room! Soon, a mystery of unparalleled proportions begins to unfold, revealing an age-old battle of Light against Dark, and Timothy must embark on a quest to prevent the Dark from controlling the future and changing the past. But he can't complete the quest alone. Timothy has to team up with his sister and the school bully, Jessica, to face an ancient evil, and in the process, this unlikely trio discover they are each more than meets the eye. Views: 34
Andrea is an innocent young woman, inexperienced in love and untouched by a man. When she goes to a shifter club in search of a sexy man to enjoy for the night, she meets the insatiable packmaster, Nolan, who loves enjoying women during the full moon. Will Andrea take Nolan's offer to give her a night of relentless pleasure? And will she get much more than she expected -- the strength and protection of a unique and powerful man? Views: 34
It's a bitter cold January in Rosedale, Tennessee. Mae December finds yet another body, this one on the banks of the Little Harpeth River. Another murder for her boyfriend, Sheriff Ben Bradley, to investigate. Mae's broken wrist makes helping with the case difficult, but that's okay, because evidence points clearly to the owner of a nearby puppy mill. Book 3 of the Mae December mystery series. Views: 34
The craftiest, oldest, and crankiest detectives in crime fiction today, Arthur Bryant and John May, return in a wildly inventive, utterly peculiar case, rich in strange characters and steeped in London's darkest legends. Karen Marie Moning describes it as "Grumpy Old Men does CSI with a twist of Dickens! Bryant and May are hilarious. I love this series." A teenager sees a dead man rise from his grave-and moments later is killed in a sudden hit-and-run accident. Seven ravens housed in the impenetrable fortress that is the Tower of London vanish without a trace-and legend has it that when the ravens leave, the city will fall. Bryant and May must figure out how these two inexplicable, seemingly unrelated mysteries fit together as they begin an investigation that finds them confronting a group of latter-day body snatchers and exploring the corridors of an eerie funeral parlour, all to unearth the truth behind the gruesome legend of Bleeding Heart Yard. As more graves are desecrated and the Grim Reaper claims victim after victim, Bryant soon realises that this case is more complex than even he had imagined, and that everyone is hiding something. As they find themselves drawn into a complex and dangerous web of body snatchers and secret societies, and their worst fears seem to haunt their very steps, will Bryant and May manage to escape with their lives? Story Locale: London CHRISTOPHER FOWLER is the acclaimed author of eight novels in the Peculiar Crimes Unit series, including The Victoria Vanishes, Bryant & May on the Loose, and Bryant & May off the Rails. He has been nominated by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association for the Dilys Winn Award, given to the book that booksellers most enjoyed selling. The Victoria Vanishes was also nominated for best novel by the British Fantasy Society and won Crimefest's Last Laugh award for funniest mystery novel. Fowler lives and writes in London, where he is at work on his next Peculiar Crimes Unit mystery. Author Residence: London, England Praise for Christopher Fowler's ingenious novels featuring the Peculiar Crimes Unit "A brilliant series."-*The Denver Post* "The Invisible Code has immense charm, but its plotting will satisfy serious mystery fans…. Best of all are the two main characters, particularly Bryant, whose fine British stodginess is matched perfectly by the agility of his crime-solving mind."-*The New York Times* "Spiced with a little screwball-comedy dialogue and a touch of the occult."-*The Washington Post, on The Memory of Blood* "Fowler, like his crime-solvers, is deadpan, sly, and always unexpectedly inventive."*-Entertainment Weekly "May and Bryant make a stellar team."*-The Wall Street Journal "Grumpy Old Men does CSI with a twist of Dickens! Bryant and May are hilarious. I love this series."-Karen Marie Moning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the MacKayla Lane novels "[A] trademark mix of whimsical humor and macabre thrills."-Publishers Weekly (starred review) "[Christopher] Fowler reinvents and reinvigorates the traditional police procedural."-The Boston Globe Views: 34
Cate is looking forward to Killer Game—a school tradition of thrilling prank 'killings'. But what happens when the Game becomes real and it seems that she's the next target? Views: 34
Arranged as a mother’s survival guide to her daughter, For Tamara is a touching and inventive long poem about surviving and thriving from the author of The Work of Days.It seems simple: a long letter, from a mother to a daughter, relaying the information needed to survive on this earth. But as Sarah Lang’s second book, For Tamara, unfolds, it becomes a roughly-hewn, genre-bending, post-apocalyptic survival guide. The world with which we are familiar has ended, and in its wake are the countless dead and survivors who are little more than scavengers. The poem’s unforgettable narrator, mother to a young girl named Tamara, has decided to leave her daughter with a document that will not only express her love for her, but that will also teach her how to live. The result is a hauntingly complex artifact and monologue, heartbreakingly consistent yet wildly unexpected, a story of survival and hope that, through the force of its profound form, brings its ideas, insights, and characters blindingly to life. Against this bleak setting, we fear for Tamara's future as we ponder our own. What results is a work of unflinching tenacity and tenderness. This is a poem of abiding power. Views: 34
Trusting an AngelMissy JaneEven angels need to be loved...As the owner of a string of successful nightclubs all over the world, Zerach can have any woman--except for his assistant Isadora O’Donnell. First off, Isadora isn’t a one-night-stand kind of girl, and second, her dominating godparents don’t approve of him. There’s also the fact that he is an archangel with a mission to protect humans from demons, something Isadora can never find out about. Isadora secretly longs for Zerach’s attention but her scarred body and his playboy ways keep her from acting on her feelings. With her only family on the brink of bankruptcy, shes determined to help them, even if it means trying to forget Zerach and marrying the womanizing Jake, a man shell never love. Zerach tries to keep Isadora at arm’s length, but when a demon starts stalking her, Zerach will stop at nothing to protect the woman he loves. But protecting her could cost him his wings. Views: 34
When Great-Uncle Horace brings back lost and homeless animals from his travels around the globe, it falls to Zoe, and her mum the zoo vet, to settle them into their new home. She's good at this, because she can understand what they say and talk to them, too. But that's a secret! In the fourth book in the series, a sad little seal pup arrives at the zoo. But how can Zoe welcome him to the zoo if it might be closing down. Views: 34
