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Dawn is Magic: A Vampire Romance (Hearts of Dagon Book 4)

His Kiss Can Save the World... They broke up more than a hundred years ago, but these vampires are ready for a second-chance romance. Armando is a vampire elder, the leader of the Braden clan nestled on the Oregon-California border. Life is good, his troubles are over, friends and lovers abound, but there’s always thoughts of the one who got away... Ursula is the Vampire Queen of Dagon. Feuding, bloodthirsty vampire clans conspire against her and each other, threatening her throne. Even worse, someone’s conspiring with magic-using extraterrestrials to rip Earth apart. Keeping order is a full-time job. Who has time for romance? Not her! Everything comes to a head for these two star-crossed lovers in the vampire city of Nyx, a magical realm beyond the mortal world. Fate throws them together for one last, epic journey where they must confront their past, battle their opponents, and save Earth itself. Dawn is Magic is a standalone novel of paranormal vampire romance with a happy ending, the fourth and final book in a series following the lives and loves of the Braden family. If macho vampire princes and tough-as-nails vampire queens are your thing, give it a bite...
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Two Sketches of Disjointed Happiness

"One can either do this or do that ... do it or not do it - you will regret both." Søren KierkegaardA bench looking out onto the harbour on the French-Spanish border; a cash-strapped existence strolling the sunbaked streets and promenades of Seville, or the cold embrace of the daily grind back in hometown USA; Granville, cut adrift in Europe, has a choice to make.His solution is not to.It is a life here, or a life there. As some semblance of one emerges, another grows across the Atlantic, until these two lives Granville never had both collapse around him.This daring and experimental novel addresses the existential dilemma of location; how the regret of a choice not made overpowers the satisfaction of one taken; an antithesis on taking decisions, yet a manifesto on living them.
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The Sha'lee Resurrection

The Sha’lee are a spacefaring race who have been exploring the galaxy for millennia. One of their starships lands on a wild planet, where the dominant life-forms are both gigantic and ferocious. Sha’lee ethics prevent them from slaughtering the wildlife to enable them to settle the planet, so the ship’s captain decides to catalogue all the species around their landing site before moving on. Almost everyone on the ship is engaged in fieldwork when a huge meteor makes landfall. Only twenty Sha’lee in the ship survive the disaster, but the ship is entombed by mud in the tsunami which follows. The survivors enter cryogenic sleep to await rescue, but rescue never arrives...
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The Hotel Tito

The most powerful autobiographical novel written about the Yugoslav wars. A timely and deeply accessible book that speaks to what it is like to be displaced by war.Hotel Tito is an award-winning autobiographical novel of the Serbo-Croatian War. Author Ivana Bodrožić was born in the Croatian town of Vukovar, just across the Danube from Serbia. In the fall of 1991, Vukovar was besieged by the Yugoslav People's Army for eighty-seven days. When the army broke the siege, people came up out of the basements where they'd been sheltering from bombardment; women and children were allowed out of the besieged city, but the army bused 400 men from the hospital to a farm on the outskirts where soldiers and Serbian paramilitaries massacred them. Bodrožić's father was among those taken and murdered. In Hotel Tito, after fleeing the war zone their town has become, the mother and two children are housed along with other displaced persons at a...
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The Rancher's Baby

She's having her best friend's baby... Only from New York Times bestselling author Maisey Yates!When a torrid, possibly dangerous scandal comes to Royal, Texas, Selena Jacobs is nearly caught in the middle. Until her best friend Knox McCoy ensures her safety—by moving in! Selena has loved Knox for years, but she's never had the courage to tell him. Now the sparks she's tried to smother burn out of control...and leave her pregnant. But with the pain in his past, will Knox finally take a chance on love...with her?
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Marge in Charge

Actress and comedian Isla Fisher's hilarious debut introduces Marge, your kids' favorite new zany babysitter—perfect for fans of Amelia Bedelia and Mrs. Piggle Wiggle. Features charming illustrations!Siblings Jemima and Jake Button don't know what to make of their new babysitter, Marge: She's not tall enough to ride a rollercoaster and, when she first arrives, she's dressed like a grandma and looks very serious. But as soon as Mommy and Dad are gone, mischievous Marge lets down her rainbow hair and the adventures begin.Jemima and Jake aren't supposed to shoot apple juice out of water guns, eat pancakes off the ceiling, or throw impromptu concerts during music class—but with Marge here, everything's gone topsy-turvy! Can they have this much fun and still finish everything on Mommy's list before their parents come home to discover what's been going on?In these three madcap stories, it's obvious that everything's way more fun when...
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