A powerful coming-of-age story about a girl whose encounters with loss, broken friendships, and newfound faith leave her forever changed, from Printz Honor winner and Morris Award Finalist Jessie Ann FoleyWhen Wendy Boychuck's father, a Chicago cop, was escorted from their property in handcuffs, she knew her life would never be the same. Her father gets a years-long jail sentence, her family falls on hard times, and the whispers around their neighborhood are impossible to ignore. If that wasn't bad enough, she gets jumped walking home from a party one night. Wendy quickly realizes that in order to survive her father's reputation, she'll have to make one for herself. Then Wendy meets Kenzie Quintana—a foul-mouthed, Catholic uniform-skirt-hiking alpha—and she knows immediately that she's found her savior. Kenzie can provide Wendy with the kind of armor a girl needs when she's trying to outrun her father's past. Add... Views: 442
Barret Turgard is in a desperate battle to keep his broken panther steady. All he needs to coast through life, and stick with his routine—work, eat, sleep, and protect his crew. Anything extra could send his inner animal into a tailspin he can’t escape. And when a female flight shifter trespasses in Red Havoc territory, she threatens to do just that. Eden is feisty and beautiful, but she sees too much, and Barret is finding it harder and harder to hide his darkness from her and his crew. His control over his animal is slipping with every secret she pulls from him. She doesn’t know it yet…but she’s messing with a monster.
Eden Brown is in the Appalachian Mountains to help a friend, but the reclusive panther shifters there don’t allow trespassers. Barret is dangerous, and it’s clear he’s hunting her, so why isn’t she afraid of him? She isn’t made for a mate, but the closer she gets to him, she more she thinks he could be the one who changes her destiny. That is…until he finds out who she really is. Barret thinks he’s the monster, but Eden knows the truth. It’s her inner flight shifter that could bring chaos to the mountains, and war to the Red Havoc Crew.
Content Warning: Explicit love scenes, naughty language, and piles of sexy shifter secrets. Intended for mature audiences. Views: 442
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, JOE HILL! A collection of four chilling novels, ingeniously wrought gems of terror from the brilliantly imaginative, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman, Joe Hill. "One of America's finest horror writers" (Time magazine), Joe Hill has been hailed among legendary talents such as Peter Straub, Neil Gaiman, and Jonathan Latham. In Strange Weather, this "compelling chronicler of human nature's continual war between good and evil," (Providence Journal-Bulletin) who "pushes genre conventions to new extremes" (New York Times Book Review) deftly expose the darkness that lies just beneath the surface of everyday life. "Snapshot" is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by "The Phoenician," a tattooed thug who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories, snap by snap. A young man takes to the skies to experience his first parachute jump. . . and winds up a castaway on an impossibly solid cloud, a Prospero's island of roiling vapor that seems animated by a mind of its own in "Aloft." On a seemingly ordinary day in Boulder, Colorado, the clouds open up in a downpour of nails--splinters of bright crystal that shred the skin of anyone not safely under cover. "Rain" explores this escalating apocalyptic event, as the deluge of nails spreads out across the country and around the world. In "Loaded," a mall security guard in a coastal Florida town courageously stops a mass shooting and becomes a hero to the modern gun rights movement. But under the glare of the spotlights, his story begins to unravel, taking his sanity with it. When an out-of-control summer blaze approaches the town, he will reach for the gun again and embark on one last day of reckoning. Masterfully exploring classic literary themes through the prism of the supernatural, Strange Weather is a stellar collection from an artist who is "quite simply the best horror writer of our generation" (Michael Kortya). Views: 442
Winner, Kiriyama Prize 2004Winner, Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2004 Winner, Best History Book, Queensland Premier's Literary Awards 2004Dancing with Strangers is Inga Clendinnen's seminal account of the moment in January 1788 when the First Fleet arrived in Sydney Harbour and a thousand British men and women, some of them convicts and some of them free, encountered the Australians living there. 'These people mixed with ours,' wrote a British observer after landfall, 'and all hands danced together.' What followed would shape relations between the peoples for the next two centuries.Inga Clendinnen was born in Geelong in 1934. Her early books and scholarly articles on the Aztecs and Maya of Mexico earned her a reputation as one of the world's finest historians. Reading the Holocaust, Tiger's Eye and Dancing with Strangers have been critically acclaimed and won a number... Views: 442
He's having a hard time managing on his own... so how did asking his neighbor for a favor get so complicated?Being unexpectedly tasked with caring for his adorable ten-month-old niece is more than Detective Joel Wolfsley can handle. He's on sick leave with one leg in a cast after a drug dealer mowed him down with a car. But Joel's a sucker for his sister—all four of his sisters—and the munchkin's mom needs his help. Thing is, Joel needs help, too. Isn't that what next door neighbors are for?One look at the tough-talking "Big Bad Wolf" cradling a baby in his arms and kennel owner Willa Darling knows he's all bark, no bite. Joel might need assistance chasing after his niece, but he's completely capable otherwise, and a family man at heart. Which means that in spite of the tension that simmers between them while caring for the infant, Willa will have to let him go.How can she do anything else when he's not the family man she'd thought? Views: 442
You know what's bad for business in a boutique hotel? A body in the bed. One that doesn't have enough air left in her lungs to become a satisfied repeat customer. Since the hotel owner is one of Eva Fairchild's public relations and marketing clients, creatively constructed spin and press statements are inevitable in her near future. But in her heart-of-hearts she has an even greater burden to bear.Because Eva knew that body—when it was still breathing. In fact, the victim had confided in her. Perhaps—if she'd been paying closer attention—Eva could've done something to prevent this tragedy.As if one distressed family weren't enough, Eva's semi-estranged father decides now would be a good time to visit. Talk about culture shock. He'll be on his own amid the eccentric (in the best way possible, of course) residents of Marten's Marina while Eva and her boyfriend, Detective Vaughn Malloy, chase down the growing web of tangled connections between... Views: 442
A dystopian action adventure short story set in the 22nd century after cataclysmic event have devastated the earth and the earth’s population. Fortinbras and his two friends fight to stop gangs and Betrayers from taking over their town. Views: 442
Don't mess this up. After a tragic accident leaves him the legal guardian of his young nephew, Dane Baylor finds himself with his hands full juggling parenthood with running his family’s cattle ranch. Desperate not to betray the trust his brother put in him, he reaches out for help. Never put down roots. It’s the hard, fast rule that has kept Ren Maddock and her teenage sister one step ahead of a childhood they’d rather forget. It’s always been an easy one to follow…until Ren replies to a job ad for a homemaker.For the first time in years, Ren feels like she could believe in happily ever after at the Baylor Ranch with a cowboy who makes her heart sing. But when her past comes knocking, threatening her new family and her new life, she’ll have to make the choice to run again or stand and fight for everything she holds dear.This book is a part of the Hearts of Three Rivers: The Baylors series. Each... Views: 442
Continue this cowboy romance series by award-winning and USA Today bestselling author Liz Isaacson! The next book is HER FAITHFUL COWBOY, which features the oldest Buttars brother, Sam, and his second chance cowboy romance with a woman who wasn't ready to date the first time he asked her out... For fans of Yellowstone, without any of the explicit content! If you've read the Horseshoe Home Ranch series by Liz Isaacson, the Steeple Ridge Romance series is connected to it! Read today! He's strong and steady - a real prince of a cowboy. She's lost a child and so unsure of herself, including whether she's ready for another relationship. Can Sam and Bonnie make their fairy tale cowboy romance come to happily-ever-after? Sam Buttars has spent the last decade making sure he and his brothers stay together. They've moved from farm to ranch back to a farm after the unexpected and tragic death of their parents. They've been at Steeple Ridge for a while... Views: 442
The relationship between a daring young chamois hunter from the remote Bernese Oberland and a prosperous miller’s daughter living in the comfortable French-speaking Swiss canton of Vaud plays out a complex of themes, such as the instinctive life versus rational civilization and the role of early experience in shaping personal destiny, in this dark and affecting Hans Christian Andersen adult novella.
In the terrifying Ice Virgin and her eerie minions, with their implacable hatred of mankind, we get a glimpse of the fairy tale Andersen. But The Ice Virgin, the most disturbing, ambitious, and searching of all of Andersen’s narratives, is also a thoroughly absorbing story of the real world. Andersen here is writing about a world he saw as something of a paradigm of the human condition, and this lies behind the story’s multilayered complexity.
This splendid new translation by Paul Binding and his erudite and comprehensive afterword together make a compelling case for just why The Ice Virgin deserves to be placed in the first rank of world literature. Views: 441
