With a little luck and a pack of pugs, anything is paws-ible! When True Winter comes, it's time for the Great Northern Race! The best sled teams in the world must reach a mysterious man called the Snowfather. He will grant one wish to the winners. Young racers Sika and Shen want to win more than anything. But they don't have big sled dogs—all they have is sixty-six yappy, yippy puppy pugs. Can this unlikely team make their dreams come true? For early chapter book readers who are ready for something longer, the Not-So-Impossible Tales are packed with humor, action, and color illustrations on almost every page."A madcap, magical blend of fluff and other good stuff."—Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewFrom the Hardcover edition. Views: 17
Cindy Blythe is tired of running from her dangerous past. She longs for a safe haven, but if she gets too comfortable, she might lose everything. When she finds the perfect man on an online dating website, she packs up what’s left of her life and drives out to the Curvy Bear Ranch. No one will ever find her in the remote Montana wilderness. She won’t have to divulge anything about her awful past. But when she meets panty-melting Drew Grant, her guilty heart wants to reveal everything. How can she tell him the truth when he doesn’t even know her real name?When Drew finds out that a "helpful" relative has been posing as him on a dating website, he’s furious. He doesn’t need help finding a mate, especially since he doesn’t want one. He’s perfectly happy alone. But when Cindy arrives, his bear gets one look at her sexy, curvy figure and Drew knows he’s in trouble. She’s awakened the beast inside him and there’s only one way to calm him down. Unfortunately, he has no idea that the woman he secretly craves is hiding a terrible secret. Views: 17
The best way to keep your word is never to give it.Not long ago, in a chapel in Vegas, I swore to love Karissa for the rest of my days. But nobody's promised an infinite number of tomorrows. Nobody's promised forever. Sometimes, all we have left is today.Carpe Diem. Seize the day.It should've been over, we should've been happy, but people are making it hard for me to live in peace. I've got so much blood on my hands they'll never be clean, and somebody out there seems to want me to pay for it. Happily Ever After always comes at a cost, one any real man would be willing to pay. But that doesn't mean I'm just going to roll over and accept these consequences.Because when it comes to the woman I love? The life I've fought for?Nobody is safe. Views: 17
The voluptuous beauty is protecting the star swimmer, but who will protect her heart when he leaves her breathless? Waverly Stein is finally free from the human trafficker who once owned her, but the transition to spy recruit with the Society isn’t as easy as she thought it would be. She possesses the knowledge and skills she needs to succeed, but she’s having trouble handling her feelings for the sexy swimmer with more than medals on his mind. Knox Edwards gave up on love after having his heart broken. With his life in danger, he doesn’t expect to be assigned a siren come to life. He can’t resist her, and he’s even willing to give love another chance. Until being with Waverly starts to jeopardize everything he’s ever wanted in life, causing him to make decisions neither one of them may be able to come back from. Can she save him, while hurting from the pain he’s caused her out of fear, or will they both be dead in the water before it’s all over?** Views: 17
A story of struggle and hardship and one girl's battle for survival from the best-selling author of If You Were the Only Girl and Another Man's Child. Angela McCluskey comes to Birmingham from Ireland with her family as a young girl to escape the terrible poverty in her homeland. But the dream of a better life is dashed as bad fortune dogs the family. When Angela marries her childhood sweetheart, she has hopes of a brighter future, which are dashed when her husband is called up to fight in the Great War. Tragedy strikes and Angela is left to rear her frail daughter on her own, though the worst is yet to come when Angela suffers another terrible misfortune. Pregnant and destitute and already with one mouth to feed that she can ill afford, there is nowhere left to turn. What destiny awaits Angela and her unborn child? Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, will Angela forever be punished for the choices that she makes? Views: 17
The highly anticipated follow-up to Jeremy P. Bushnell's "wonderfully weird and entertaining" (Esquire) debut, The Weirdness Ollie Krueger's days as a punk kid practicing street magic are are mostly behind her. Now she's a butcher at Carnage, a high-end restaurant offering deconstructed takes on meat, and on the busiest nights of the week she and her partner, Guychardson, race to see who can produce more finished cuts. Ollie's the better butcher, but somehow Guychardson almost always wins. And Ollie thinks maybe it's because the mysterious knife he uses is magic. Before she knows it, Ollie's interest in the knife has thrown her square in the path of a dangerous ex-marine called "Pig" and his hired psychic, Maja, who are on the hunt for the knife too--who want it so badly, in fact, that they might kill for it. Now, magic is back in Ollie's life and she's being chased through New York City, with the fabric of space-time tattering... Views: 17
