Book Week is always the best week of the year! But when Alice Toolie and Jimmy Cook get involved, it's set for disaster. From kooky costume ideas to accidental author visits, nothing is safe. It's no wonder they've been fired as Library Monitors! The only way they'll get their jobs back is by winning First Prize in the book parade. And that means working together. Can these two best frenemies leave their differences behind long enough to win the Battle of Book Week? Views: 117
Myra
I was born lucky.
I was born into a family of bikers that were closer than most normal families. My parents’ best friends had a boy two years before I was born. He became my best friend, my lover, and what I thought was my soul mate.
Then I found out I wasn’t lucky.
My entire family had been in on his lies.
They backed him.
They broke me.
Once I escaped that life, I found myself in the center of a different kind of motorcycle club. This one appeared to actually function as a family, but I knew all about how appearances could be decieving so when a beatiful man with a slightly battered soul offered a hand out to me, I wasn’t sure where accepting it would take me.
Rabbit
I stumbled into her life, half naked on the outside and half dead on the inside.
I made her regret being nice to me.
Then, I realized she wasn’t like the woman who had left me broken, and I vowed to make everything up to her. Then, I set out to convince her that I was just what she needed. Views: 117
When Detective Liz Boyle receives an urgent phone call from her lieutenant on her day off, she knows the news won't be good. She and her partner, Tom Goran, arrive at the new crime scene, which is in a cemetery located on the Cleveland/Cleveland Heights border, and discover that someone has brutally beaten a locally famous defense attorney to death.As the investigation takes them deeper into the city's—and the police department's—seedy underbelly, the case begins to throw the blue wall of silence into question. Liz has a strong desire to do the right thing, but she also must pick her way around the department bureaucracy to avoid being thought a rat, an accusation that could end her career.Liz's dance through the gritty city threatens to finish her and her crew, including Tom and Lieutenant Fishner. Once again, Detective Liz Boyle is plunged into a case that will test her personal and professional allegiances. Views: 117
In this insightful memoir, the New York Times bestselling author of Growing Up Amish tries to reconcile with his father, family, and heritage after leaving his faith behind.With his singular voice, Ira reveals his experience in BROKEN ROADS. Through difficult reunions, struggles confronted, and betrayals revisited, Ira explores burning questions of faith and identity shared by millions, whether Amish or not. Readers may recognize themselves along these paths with Ira, as he grapples with choices, faith, family, the past, and the future. Ira unapologetically, but compassionately, illuminates the inner world of the Amish community through his story of life after leaving, returning to his Amish father, and how they might mend the broken roads between them before it's too late. Views: 117
A knightly fairy tale of royalty and dragons, of midwives with secrets and dashing strangers in dark inns. Taking the original French legend as his starting point, The Story of Silence is a rich, multilayered new story for today's world – sure to delight fans of Uprooted and The Bear and the Nightingale. There was once, long ago, a foolish king who decreed that women should not, and would not, inherit. Thus when a girl-child was born to Lord Cador – Merlin-enchanted fighter of dragons and Earl of Cornwall – he secreted her away: to be raised a boy so that the family land and honour would remain intact. That child's name was Silence. Silence must find their own place in a medieval world that is determined to place the many restrictions of gender and class upon them. With dreams of knighthood and a lonely heart to answer, Silence sets out to define themselves. Soon their silence will be ended. What follows is a knightly fairy tale of royalty and dragons, of midwives with secrets and... Views: 117
Aiken and Mel never thought they would see each other again.Fate, and a brewing war with a vampire army, had other plans.After the love of his life walked away, powerful half-human, half-dragon Aiken French isn't about to risk his emotions on a woman ever again. It doesn't matter that his Drakon beast wholeheartedly disagrees, or that his powers of telekinesis are suffering as a result. He can't live through that kind of heartbreak again. But with a long-buried vampire stirring, he might not have a choice.Bounty hunter Mel Kane never wanted a preordained future—she will be in control of her life, not some Drakon beast who supposedly selects her mate for her. She had to leave, even if it just about killed her. But if she's going to decide her own future, she'll need to stay alive long enough to see it, which means trusting Aiken with her life, even though she couldn't trust him with her heart.With war on the horizon, Aiken and Mel must track down the rogue... Views: 117
When Floriana wakes up in a different timeline, she thinks she's dreaming.Turns out that ring she discovered in her dead mother's closet was some kind of a time travel device.When Clocksworth Academy sends her a letter, Anna – the woman who raised Floriana after her parents had died – insists that she goes.EVERYONE in the Academy seems to know that her parents were time travelers and members of The Order of the Black Rose – an ancient special time travelers unit, the rockstars of the Clocksworth Academy.Everyone also knows that her mother was lost in time while saving her best friend, Anna.How could Anna keep that secret from her?Floriana feels like she is a great disappointment and Eric, her mentor, seems to share the same opinion. Only Egon, one of the Academy's teachers and Eric's best friend, seems to believe that she's going to be as great as her parents were.Suddenly, tragedy strikes and now Floriana is asked to work against the clock to thwart some of Hitler's efforts to create a legion of superhuman zombie-soldiers that will wreak havoc on mankind in 1940.However, all Floriana cares about is learning this time travel stuff so she can find her mother.She has a bad feeling though that her mom doesn't want to be found. And she wants to know why.Only to find out that she shouldn't.* Clocksworth Academy is the first novel in The Order of the Black Rose time travel series.** This book is a revamped and massively revised new edition of two novels that were previously published as The Undead Must Die and The Withered Rose.This is the perfect read for the fans of Jodi Taylor, Jasper Fforde, Ben Aaronovitch, and Rysa Walker.* The Order of the Black Rose is a New Adult Time Travel series for readers of all ages. It's NOT a Reverse Harem. It's perfect for the fans of National Treasure and Timeless. Views: 117
