Bryn is back for her senior year at the Institute for Excellence, also known as shape-shifting dragon school. She isn't sure which is scarier, the life-force sucking dragons stalking campus or the fact that she's officially betrothed to Jaxon, a guy who will never love her. Not that she could ever love him, either... That's just ridiculous.Senior year should be fun. Her parents are alive, she's finally fitting in, and she's learning how to be a Medic. But what's with Jaxon giving her strange looks? He runs hot and cold, and he doesn't even have the excuse of being a hybrid fire-and-ice-breathing dragon like her. One minute they're having a great time and the next, she wants to blast a fireball at his head. The marriage contract of doom looms over them—unless this match not made in heaven kindles a flame...The Going Down in Flames series is best enjoyed in orderReading Order:Book #1- Going Down in FlamesBook #2- Bridges BurnedBook #3- Trial by... Views: 28
When Danny is transformed into a new species of vampire, he has only one place to turn: his ex, Kieran. Danny broke Kier's heart when he ran screaming from Kier's bloody secret, but they might get a second chance...if they can keep Danny alive. Views: 28
Dark forces are on the rise in this sweeping sequel to The Black Witch by critically acclaimed author Laurie Forest.Elloren Gardner and her friends were only seeking to right a few wrongs when they rescued a Selkie and freed a military dragon. The last thing they expected was to be thrust into a realm-wide underground resistance against Gardnerian conquest.While the Resistance struggles to fight back against the harsh rulings of the Mage Council, more and more Gardnerian soldiers descend upon the University...led by none other than Lukas Grey, now commander of the nearby military base. Though Elloren tries to keep him at arm's length, Lukas is determined to tie himself to her, still convinced that she is the heir to the power of the Black Witch, a legacy of magic that will decide the future of all Erthia. As his own magic calls out to her, seeking to awaken a dark force within, Elloren finds it more and more difficult to believe... Views: 28
"This book is for anyone who has ever felt 'less than' or on the outside. That is to say, this is a book for everyone." —Elana K. Arnold, author of A Boy Called BatClaire Ladd knows that this summer is going to be special. She and her two best friends, Ronan and Brianna, are turning twelve. She is leaving camp behind and gets to do what she wants all day. She feels everything starting to change. But things don't always change for the better.With Brianna's cousin Eden visiting for the summer, Claire feels like a third wheel. Even though she is only a year older, Eden seems so much more sophisticated and glamorous . . . and when she is around, she takes up everyone's attention, including Brianna's.But that doesn't explain why things have felt awkward with Brianna ever since she moved to a fancy new house, or why Ronan, who lives in the trailer next to Claire's, has started acting moody anytime anyone mentions his... Views: 28
Ryunosuke Akutagawa was one of Japan's great writers - author of the stories 'Rashomon' and 'In a Bamboo Grove', most famously - who lived through Japan's turbulent Taisho period of 1912 to 1926, including the devastating 1923 Earthquake, only to take his own life at the age of just thirty-five in 1927.These are the stories of Patient X in one of our iron castles. He will tell his tales to anyone with the ears and the time to listen -Inspired and informed by Akutagawa's stories, essays and letters, David Peace has fashioned a most extraordinary novel of tales. An intense, passionate, haunting paean to one writer, it also thrillingly explores the act and obsession of writing itself, and the role of the artist, both in public and private life, in times which darkly mirror our own. Views: 28
