Author: Carol Raj
Publisher: Pelican Ventures Book Group
ISBN: 1522303138
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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High school sophomore Charlotte Masterson isn't smart enough to be a nerd, isn't musical enough to be a band geek, or pretty enough to be popular. But when the handsome quarterback unexpectedly asks her out, she becomes part of the in crowd. It's every girl's dream come true. Too bad she still has to depend on good old Rodney, teachers' pet, for rides. Too bad her mother is so unreasonably strict—A ten PM curfew? Just because she lied? It's not fair. But maybe there's more to other people than Charlotte realizes. And maybe she doesn't even know everything about herself. When Charlotte Masterson gets a life, life gets interesting.
Author: Robert Denton
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1452596239
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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The first story, Ice Dragon Rising, explains how three young men sacrificed their own lives to create the Ice Dragon to save their world from a terrible War Lord. Broken for two thousand years, the next episode begins in 2012. The Reluctant Hero tells of Henry Barton-Jones, now ready but reluctant to take up the fight. Almost blinded by a rainstorm lashing deserted streets, he collides with Charlotte Masterson. She is wandering forlorn and desperate to free herself from Ricardo Bettencourt, a notorious and psychopathic but brilliant villain and drug baron. Henry connects with his old CIA partner, and together they fight Ricardos global blackmail scheme as it begins to go wrong with threatening and catastrophic consequences. In Tango Dragon and the Asteroid, Henry finds an innocent tango school in Toulouse is a cover for a private combat-training school. Ricardo still wants to kill Charlotte but then changes his mind. In a psychopathic mind game, Ricardo deviously binds Henry and Charlotte into another grotesque but daring blackmail scheme to bleed $380 billion from the worlds governments and walk away scot free.
Author: Keith McNair
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483619508
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357
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Friendship, love, jealousy, betrayal and vengeance are all a part of the human spirit. Each of these emotions on their own can thrive within the heart and soul toward the greater good, or fuel within each of us our deepest and darkest desires resulting in devastating consequences. Travis Eastman, Mariam Eastman, Dexter Mason and Detective Rheece Coleman will all experience these feelings which will touch their lives in ways previously unknown. What each may learn about themselves as a result of their experiences may brighten the positive light that glows within or serve to destroy their sense of justice and morality. When all is burnt away there is nothing left behind except... ...Carbon Residue.
Author: Calle J. Brookes
Publisher: Lost River Lit Publishing, L.L.C.
ISBN: 1948328364
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 111
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THE FUTURE IS A DARK, DARK PLACE NOW. Gavin Strong isn’t sure of who he is anymore. Or what he wants from his future now. Medically discharged from the army after he was the sole survivor of a plane crash on the way to a training mission, he faces a future full of uncertainty. But he knows one thing—he isn’t going to lose touch with the only family he has left. He just has to find them first. His older sister Glenna and her daughters aren’t in Finley Creek, Texas where he expects to find them. But there is a beautiful woman standing on Glenna’s porch, who has the answers. SHE SEES THE HURT IN HIS EYES. She knows what to do with broken down houses and cluttered yards, but house flipper Audrey Donovan doesn’t know how to help the broken-down man standing in front of her now. There is so much hurt in Gavin’s beautiful eyes—Audrey knows she has to do what she can to help him heal. Audrey does the craziest thing in her life, and offers Gavin a ride to Masterson, Wyoming. Where his sister and hers are waiting. Hopefully, along the way she can convince him that the future doesn’t have to be so dark and overwhelming, after all. But Gavin has some convincing of his own to do along the way. And it all involves Audrey going with Gavin now…
Author: Mireille Pavane
Publisher: Mireille Pavane
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Lucia and Charley are the products of Old New York’s ruling elite. Prestige. Wealth. Tradition. Scandal. No one is immune. Not Charley, reckless, blithe courtier of trouble, heiress to the Montrose fortune, who has been conspicuously absent for over a year without a word of truth or explanation. Nor Lucia, as docile a daughter as any parent could wish for, carrying secrets of her own, slowly awakening to a yearning for things beyond obeisance to the established order, as deeply ingrained as Old New York’s fascination for, and fear of, scandal. Sailing into the summer of 1929, on the eve of the Black Tuesday Wall Street Crash and a world on the brink of change, Charley and Lucia must keep their wits sharp about them in the pleasure capitals of the Continent and on the Nile to steer their futures away from peril. There are men and temptations to resist, intrigues and mysteries to untangle, secrets to hide, lies to weave, and jewel thieves to outsmart while, back home in New York and on the Exchange, the world rumbles and thunders ominously by. More hangs in the balance than the frivolities of the Jazz Age, the glitzy parties in London and the lures of Paris, automobile races, leisurely flirtations on the French Riviera, opulent Egyptian nights, and the catching of a brilliant matrimonial prize. This Grand Tour could prove to be the making of two young women, a prelude to freedom and independence, to saving and building an empire... Or perhaps merely an invitation to rebellion, scandal and unmitigated disaster. Running away or running towards? Tick-tock. This volume contains all three books in the Voyage Out series: Voyage Out, The Grand Tour, The Stroke of Midnight.
Author: Mireille Pavane
Publisher: Mireille Pavane
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Lucia and Charley are the products of Old New York’s ruling elite. Prestige. Wealth. Tradition. Scandal. No one is immune. Not Charley, reckless, blithe courtier of trouble, heiress to the Montrose fortune, who has been conspicuously absent for over a year without a word of truth or explanation. Nor Lucia, as docile a daughter as any parent could wish for, carrying secrets of her own, slowly awakening to a yearning for things beyond obeisance to the established order, as deeply ingrained as Old New York’s fascination for, and fear of, scandal. Sailing into the summer of 1929, on the eve of the Black Tuesday Wall Street Crash and a world on the brink of change, Charley and Lucia must keep their wits sharp about them in the pleasure capitals of the Continent and on the Nile to steer their futures away from peril. There are men and temptations to resist, intrigues and mysteries to untangle, secrets to hide, lies to weave, and jewel thieves to outsmart while, back home in New York and on the Exchange, the world rumbles and thunders ominously by. More hangs in the balance than the frivolities of the Jazz Age, the glitzy parties in London and the lures of Paris, automobile races, leisurely flirtations on the French Riviera, opulent Egyptian nights, and the catching of a brilliant matrimonial prize. This Grand Tour could prove to be the making of two young women, a prelude to freedom and independence, to saving and building an empire... Or perhaps merely an invitation to rebellion, scandal and unmitigated disaster. Running away or running towards? Tick-tock. This is Part One of the three part Voyage Out series.
Author: Calle J. Brookes
Publisher: Lost River Lit Publishing, L.L.C.
ISBN: 1940937574
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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SOMETIMES A GIRL JUST DOES SOMETHING... TOTALLY STUPID. Then she has to deal with the consequences. That was exactly where Rory Price found herself after one night with her co-worker, Detective Charlie Fields. They hadn’t exactly liked each other for ten years now. But Rory had been weak. And Charlie’s arms had felt so strong… That night was her second greatest mistake. Especially when Charlie told her “thanks but no thanks” the next morning. Rory will just put that one night with Charlie behind her. After she confessed her sins to her friends—including the grown daughter Charlie barely acknowledged existed. She would be ok. Even if she was having a harder time forgetting Charlie than she liked. Especially when she learns of the two permanent little reminders of that night who will tie her to that man forever... LOSS HAS MADE HIM THE MAN HE IS NOW. Charlie had loved and lost a child before, and the grief had damned near destroyed him. He isn’t certain he wants to be a father again at almost fifty. But does he have any other choice? These are his babies, too… Not to mention, he has some serious repair work to do with his older daughter. The daughter who wants him to stay as far away from Rory and the babies as possible. HE'S ALWAYS WANTED HER. Charlie has had a thing for Rory Price for ten years. He’s not about to lose his chance with her now. And he’s not about to miss out on the babies, either. He’s not going anywhere. But how does he convince the woman he wants that he wants her, and not just the babies they’ve made between them? Getting her to trust him is going to be one of the hardest things he's ever done. Charlie’s got his work cut out for him now…
Author: Catherine Egan
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0593306406
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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Men in Black meets middle school! A school project takes an alien turn when three kids uncover a secret society whose aim is to keep sneaks--mischievous interdimensional sprites--from slipping into our universe! When Ben Harp sees his teacher's watch crawling across the hallway, he thinks he must be dreaming. But no, he’s just seen his first Sneak—an interdimensional mischief-maker that can borrow the form of any ordinary object. He figured this school year would be bad—his best friend moved away, the class bully is circling, and he’s stuck doing a group project with two similarly friendless girls, Charlotte and Akemi. Still, he wasn’t expecting aliens! And he certainly wasn’t expecting that the woman he and Charlotte and Akemi are assigned to interview for their “living local history” project would be a Sneak expert. Or that she’d foist an old book on them to keep safe . . . and then disappear. Now Ben, Charlotte, and Akemi are trying to understand a book that seems to contain a coded map while being pursued by violent clothes hangers, fire-spitting squirrels, and more. The Sneaks want that book! And they want something else, too: to pull a vastly more dangerous creature into the world with them. Can three misfit kids decode the book in time to stop an alien takeover? And if they do, will they get extra credit on their group project?
Author: Calle J. Brookes
Publisher: Lost River Lit Publishing, L.L.C.
ISBN: 194093740X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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◆◆◆◆◆ TAMING THE BEAST? —NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. ◆◆◆◆◆ Not when the beast is Major Crimes Detective Jake MacNamara. Sparks fly between them every time they meet. Shelby Jacobson doesn't have time to deal with him. Especially now. He is just getting in Shelby's way as she finally fights to keep a promise made long ago. ◆◆◆ HE LIVES FOR THE JOB. ◆◆◆ The TSP and being a cop is so deeply entrenched in his soul Jake doesn't know where the Texas State Police ends and he begins. But… he has always wanted Shelby. And sometimes the woman who had inherited millions just gets too close. Tempts him too much. That makes him a bit… surly… where the sweetly shy lady is concerned. He knows he's an ass to her, but it's the only real defense he has against her. Jake is made for work boots and cotton T-shirts—not donning tuxedos and attending charity benefits with a woman like her. He'll just keep his distance so he doesn't do anything stupid. ◆◆◆ BUT... ◆◆◆ Shelby has a secret so dark and dangerous people will kill to keep it hidden. Now she's found herself entangled in the biggest case of Jake's career—with only one man who can protect her. Only...Jake and the TSP might not be enough to keep her safe. If Jake fails, Shelby will pay the price. And Jake will lose the one woman he has ever loved forever. ★★★★★ Stand Next to Me takes place one year after the events of the Finley Creek: Disaster trilogy, and is a complete, stand-alone romantic suspense novel. ★★★★★
Author: Anne Marsh
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0369724496
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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A yacht is close quarters for these enemies to lovers. Will past secrets make them cut and run? Find out in the latest from New York Times bestselling author Anne Marsh! Could the partnership that should save his reputation cause the scandal of her lifetime? To save his inheritance, Declan Masterson needs to fix his playboy image—fast! Partnering with plain, respectable Charlotte Palsgrave for a charity yacht race is a genius first step, no matter how much she initially dislikes him. Charlotte is from an established family without a hint of scandal. Or so he thinks… At first, they can barely speak to one another, let alone sail a boat together. And then he has the nerve to suggest she needs a makeover! But when the two become shipwrecked, they may discover just how much opposites can attract… From Harlequin Desire: A luxurious world of bold encounters and sizzling chemistry.
