It's 2014 and Amy Daughters is a forty-six-year old stay-at-home mom living in Dayton, Ohio. She returns to her hometown of Houston over the Thanksgiving holiday to discuss her parents' estate—and finds herself hurled back in time. Suddenly, it's 1978, and she is forced to spend thirty-six hours in her childhood home with her nuclear family, including her ten-year old self. Over the next day and a half she reconsiders every feeling she's ever had, discusses current events with dead people, gets overserved at a party with her parent's friends, and is treated to lunch at the Bonanza Sirloin Pit. Besides noticing that everyone is smoking cigarettes, she's still jealous of her sister, and there is a serious lack of tampons in the house, Amy also begins to appreciate that memories are malleable, wholly dependent on who is doing the remembering. In viewing her parents as peers and her siblings as detached children, she redefines her difficult relationships with her family members... Views: 138
A sparkling series of dance, drama, dreams and friendship from best-selling author Holly Webb. Lily has never felt like she deserves to be at The Shine School for the Performing Arts. She's sure she only got a place because of her famous actress mum. Then she finds out about an exciting new TV adaptation of her favourite book, Little Women, and everything clicks – this is her chance to prove herself! Will she be able to convince everyone else that this is the perfect part for her? Ideal for young fans of BALLET SHOES, and the OLIVIA and L'ETOILE SCHOOL FOR STARS series to read on their own. Views: 138
Firefly Junction meets Port Danby as Lola and Lacey take a trip to the Cider Ridge Inn in Double Trouble.Sunni Taylor is finally going to meet Lola Button, the quirky antique dealer who sold her some rather unusual old photos of Cider Ridge Inn. When Lola arrives with her best friend, Lacey Pinkerton, Sunni and Lacey find they have a lot in common.When Sunni's friend, Raine, is invited to attend a Wiccan ceremony celebrating the Autumnal Equinox, the four women decide it would be fun and find themselves traipsing through the forest to attend the Mabon Apple Harvest Rite. Amidst the incense and incantations, a shocking discovery is made. A dead body. Sunni and her new sleuthing partner, Lacey, immediately jump into action. The two women are ready to pool their skills and find the killer.Book 6 of the Firefly Junction Cozy Mystery series. Views: 138
Would you fly into the arms of your lover from a short flight of stairs? You would need to have belief and trust in their love that they would catch you.Isabella, 32, is alone after a short, trauma-filled marriage. She is still finding her way in life. She lacks a sense of belonging. She is Isabella. Can she let her walls down and become Izzy?Tim is a troubled young man barely coping after the death of his beloved father, a crisis of confidence regarding his career and the break-up of a long-term relationship. Can he become her lover and her partner in life?Isabella and Tim find each other. Following the twists and turns of their romantic journey, there is a constant hope they can find themselves individually and come together in belief and trust of each other. Views: 138
“Have you ever wondered why, out of all the mortals the universe could have picked for this task, it picked you?”
After stealing Hades’s Helm of Darkness and narrowly escaping the Underworld, Andy and Zoey are ready to embark on the second quest they must complete before they’re prepared to lead a war on the gods—that is, traveling to Poseidon’s undersea palace and stealing the Sea God’s legendary Trident.
Having no idea how to get there, the teens and their friends travel to the lair of the all-knowing Fates and ask for a clue, soon discovering the only person who can help them is a Titan named Prometheus who’s been imprisoned by Zeus. The problem? He won’t help unless the group manages to free him of his seemingly unbreakable chains.
Andy and Zoey will have to find a way to free Prometheus as they battle enemy demigods and nightmarish creatures of myth—all while they begin to discover the secrets of their past. Views: 138
Sexy professor Sawyer Hudson needs me to be his date for a charity dinner. I accept because I need his help too.It's when he asks me to be his fake girlfriend that things get too real. Who knew he rode a motorcycle, talked dirty, and was hiding all those muscles under his suits? Who knew it was the quiet ones you had to watch out for?I've clearly been dating the wrong guys but how can I trust him when every guy I've ever dated cheated on me?I'd never date anyone like her. Stella Lewis is too outgoing, too impulsive, and too loud. She's the life of the party and I can't talk to women. She's a journalist searching for her next story and I need to avoid drama until I'm granted tenure.That was until my boss told me to socialize more if I wanted a promotion.I need a date who can teach me how to schmooze the higher-ups and she's the perfect choice.I'll fake date her until I get tenure. After that—all bets are off. Views: 138
Readers of Adam Silvera (They Both Die at the End) and Elizabeth Acevedo (The Poet X) will pull out the tissues for this tender, quirky story of one seventeen-year-old boy's journey through first love and first heartbreak, guided by his personal hero, Oscar Wilde.Words have always been more than enough for Ken Z, but when he meets Ran at the mall food court, everything changes. Beautiful, mysterious Ran opens the door to a number of firsts for Ken: first kiss, first love. But as quickly as he enters Ken's life, Ran disappears, and Ken Z is left wondering: Why love at all, if this is where it leads?Letting it end there would be tragic. So, with the help of his best friends, the comfort of his haikus and lists, and even strange, surreal appearances by his hero, Oscar Wilde, Ken will find that love is worth more than the price of heartbreak."An unabashed love letter to Oscar Wilde, Cole Porter, and the arts' ability to give voice to human emotion."... Views: 138
