Love isn't on her agenda… Olympia Lincoln is so relieved when her new assistant shows up, she sets him to work immediately. What she doesn't realize is that he is none other than Primo Rinucci, her new Italian boss! But he has other ideas! Primo can't resist playing along with the harmless deception. After all, this way he can get really close to the beautiful and attractive Olympia. But Olympia has been betrayed before, so when she discovers the truth will she ever be able to trust him again? Views: 35
A year ago, the Earth survived an attack by a race of aliens bent on their destruction called the Alva. Haven remembers watching news reports about it with her family and being glad that she lived far enough away from where the aliens had landed that it didn’t affect her very much. She’s never met an alien, never seen one aside from on TV, and she’s fine with that. She likes her normal, routine life just fine, thanks very much.Kallel is a young warrior from the Hakkan tribe on planet Horu, a tribe that owes their continued survival to the Randoran. When the threat of the Alva proves to still be a problem for Earth, he volunteers to go to Earth and see what’s going on.Remembering the story about how a Randoran champion had taken a human and used her to help defeat the Alva, Kallel chooses a human for himself. Haven. Only Haven doesn’t want to be chosen, doesn’t know anything about aliens, and doesn’t even seem to like him to begin with. Kallel’s going to learn that history doesn’t always repeat itself and that sometimes there’s more than one way to be a hero. Views: 35
Dan Callahan's daughter was supposed to take care of her fourth grade class's pet mice over the Christmas vacation—or so she claimed. Melissa Logan, the little girl's teacher, wondered why she had gotten close with the handsome single dad, only to have him back off unexpectedly. But when the mice went missing, the truth about everything came out, and the search for the elusive creatures led not only to unexpected secrets from the past but also to the answers that two lonely people had been seeking without even knowing it.NAUGHTY OR MICE is a heartwarming Christmas novelette from award-winning author Livia J. Washburn. Funny, poignant, and romantic, it's a charming "tail" you won't soon forget. Views: 35
"Simply adorable . . you might just fall in love with Here to Stay."—USAToday.com's Happy Ever After blogKate Walker used to believe in true love and happily ever after. While her own love life may have left her brokenhearted, it hasn't kept her from churning out made-for-TV romance movie screenplays...until a major career slump and a longing to do something meaningful send her running back to her hometown of Maple Valley. Permanently sidelined by an injury, former NFL quarterback Colton Greene is temporarily hiding out in a friend's hometown to avoid the media and the reminders of all he's lost. Maple Valley seems like the perfect place to learn how to adjust to normal life. The only trouble is he's never really done normal before.While Kate plays things safe and Colton is all about big risks and grand gestures, they both get what it's like to desperately need direction in life. An unexpected... Views: 35
A young orphaned girl in modern-day China discovers the meaning of family in this inspiring story told in verse, in the tradition of Inside Out and Back Again and Sold.Kara never met her birth mother. Abandoned as an infant, she was taken in by an American woman living in China. Now eleven, Kara spends most of her time in their apartment, wondering why she and Mama cannot leave the city of Tianjin and go live with Daddy in Montana. Mama tells Kara to be content with what she has…but what if Kara secretly wants more? Told in lyrical, moving verse, Red Butterfly is the story of a girl learning to trust her own voice, discovering that love and family are limitless, and finding the wings she needs to reach new heights. Views: 35
In a sensual, emotionally charged novel of love and loss, a tender affair gives two daring storm chasers the strength to overcome shattered dreams and the courage to build a future together. Drew McGovern is living for two. Her fiancé, Colby, used to savor the feeling of a powerful gale, the rain pelting his face as the sky grew dark--until a shocking tragedy struck him down. Drew's still grieving his death a year later when she bumps into some of his old storm chasing buddies. For reasons she can't explain, she volunteers for the next tornado. But when she reconnects with Colby's best friend, Aiden O'Neal, Drew gets a breath of fresh air that stirs the ashes of her broken heart. Aiden doesn't trust himself around Drew. He's wanted this girl for a long time--long enough to remember the stab of jealousy he felt the first time he saw her in Colby's arms, long enough to remember the tears that fell as they buried the man they each still miss. Now he's... Views: 35
[Book Two of The Dray Prescot series] Slave of the colossus builders or scourge of the Inland Sea? Both roles awaited Dray Prescot on his return to Kregen. Torn between two contending forces, the Star Lords and the Savanti, Prescot himself wanted only to find his beloved, the Princess Delia of the Blue Mountains. But the powers that had drawn him across interstellar space to the world that orbited the red and green suns in the Constellation Scorpio had set him a task, the nature of which even he could not fully comprehend... Views: 35
The inimitable Alan Bennett selects and comments upon six favorite poets and the pleasures of their worksIn this candid, thoroughly engaging book, Alan Bennett creates a unique anthology of works by six well-loved poets. Freely admitting his own youthful bafflement with poetry, Bennett reassures us that the poets and poems in this volume are not only accessible but also highly enjoyable. He then proceeds to prove irresistibly that this is so.Bennett selects more than seventy poems by Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, John Betjeman, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, and Philip Larkin. He peppers his discussion of these writers and their verse with anecdotes, shrewd appraisal, and telling biographical detail: Hardy lyrically recalls his first wife, Emma, in his poetry, although he treated her shabbily in real life. The fabled Auden was a formidable and off-putting figure at the lectern. Larkin, hoping to subvert snooping biographers, ordered personal papers shredded upon his... Views: 35
