An entrancing new series starring a funny, impulsive, and sometimes self-congratulatory young woman who discovers she has psychic abilities—and then must decide whether she will use her skills for good or...not.Teddy Cannon isn't your typical twenty-something woman. She's resourceful. She's bright. She's scrappy. She can also read people with uncanny precision. What she doesn't realize: she's actually psychic. When a series of bad decisions leads Teddy to a run-in with the police, a mysterious stranger intervenes. He invites her to apply to the School for Psychics, a facility hidden off the coast of San Francisco where students are trained like Delta Force operatives: it's competitive, cutthroat, and highly secretive. They'll learn telepathy, telekinesis, investigative skills, and SWAT tactics. And if students survive their training, they go on to serve at the highest levels of government, using their skills to protect America, and the world. In class,... Views: 22
Stephen Baxter established himself as a major British sci-fi author with tales of exotic, far-future technology. More recently, in Voyage , Titan and now Moonseed , he shows his love for the hardware of the real world’s space programme. (Comparisons with Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff have been frequent.) Moonseed is a spectacular disaster novel whose threat to Earth comes from a long-forgotten Moon rock sample carrying strange silver dust that seems to be alien nanotechnology — molecule-sized machines. Accidentally spilt in Edinburgh, this ‘Moonseed’ quietly devours stone and processes it into more Moonseed. Geology becomes high drama: when ancient mountains turn to dust, the lid is taken off seething magma below. Volcanoes return to Scotland, and Krakatoa-like eruptions spread Moonseed around the world. A desperate, improvised US/Russian space mission heads for the Moon to probe the secret of how our satellite has survived uneaten. Baxter convincingly shows how travel costs could be cut, with a hair-raising descent on a shoestring lunar lander that makes Apollo’s look like a luxury craft. The climax brings literally world-shaking revelations and upheavals. Moonseed is a ripping interplanetary yarn. Views: 22
One thing I've learned from my best friend Annabelle's crazy love life is...that I never want one...no matter what.Seventeen year old, Swim team member for life, Jenna Sabini has only one thing on her mind and it's swimming. There was no time for silly boys and their mind games, not when her family was struggling to make the mortgage payments on their house, and especially not when she had to compete against the entire country for an athletic scholarship to Florida State University.As one of the stars on the Royal Heights High School Baseball team, Tom Colleto was used to having every girl swoon at the sight of him, but the moment he locked eyes with the feisty star swimmer, he's reminded that there was at least one girl in school who was immune to his charms.Is Jenna going to let her guard down and focus on something else besides swimming? Or will the stress of getting that scholarship be too much, holding her back from...experiencing love for the first time?Warning Contains... Views: 22
The second in the enthralling new mini-series of novellas from the #1 bestselling authors of the House of Night, Lenobia's Vow tells the gripping story behind the House of Night's enigmatic riding instructor — and one of Zoey's closest allies against evil. Views: 22
Lucy Kincaid swore she'd never go back to Undraland, but with her mother's promise of possibly finding Linus buried there, Lucy knows she has no choice. She'll stop at nothing to unearth her brother, even if Jens thinks she's lost her mind.Without a second thought, Lucy barrels through Undraland with her Merry Band of Thieves – plus Tucker. Though she knows she can't trust his reckless antics, she comes to terms with the fact that she has no choice but to work with the man who abducted her. It's Undraland as she's never seen it before, and this time Lucy won't leave until the land that abandoned her family gives her back her brother. Views: 22
It's not easy being a rebel. So many new skills to assimilate. Never mind strategic planning, weapons expertise and the like - there's bicycle-stealing, oil-stain removal and boat steering to be mastered first. And quickly. It's the time of the Civil Uprisings and two young women set out to make a difference. Their only problem? They don't know where they are. Or where they're going. Or what to do when they get there. Other than that. . . Fans of St Mary's will enjoy this glimpse into the past of some of their favourite characters. Views: 22
The final book in the Crimson Empire trilogy, a game-changing fantasy epic featuring an unforgettable warrior.Former warrior queen and now pariah, Cold Zosia wakes in the ashes of a burning city. Her vengeance has brought her to this - her heroic reputation in tatters, her allies scattered far and wide, and her world on the cusp of ruin.General Ji-Hyeon has vanished into the legendary First Dark, leaving her lover Sullen alone to carry out the grim commands of a dead goddess. The barbarian Maroto is held captive by a demonic army hell-bent on the extermination of the Crimson Empire, and only his protégé Purna believes he can be saved.Zosia must rally her comrades and old enemies one last time, for what will prove the greatest battle of her many legends...if anyone lives to tell it.FIVE HEROES. NO HOPE. A WAR AGAINST DEVILS.The Crimson Empire Trilogy:A Crown for Cold SilverA Blade of Black... Views: 22
