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Captivate
Carrie Jones
Children's Books / Young Adult / Nonfiction
He smiles. It's a wicked smile. Kind but not kind. Handsome but dangerous. Feral almost. I can see why Nick nearly killed him, Nick...
I ask again, "Why were you in the road?"
"I was waiting for you."
Zara and her friends thought they'd solved the pixie problem. And they did - sort of. The pixie's are all locked away, deep in the woods. But the king's needs grow stronger each day that he is in captivity, while his control over his people weakens. And it's enough to draw a new king into town. Astley claims he is different. He claims there are pixies who can live peacefully with humans, that it doesn't have to be all violence and nastiness all the time. Zara wants to believe him...until Astley also claims that she is fated to be his queen.
There is no way Zara would ever turn pixie. And she's got good friends who will make sure of that. Besides, she and Nick are so in love they're practically inseparable. But when they very thing Zara wants to protect most is exactly what's at risk, she is forced to make choices she never imagined...
The Dead-Tossed Waves
Carrie Ryan
Young Adult / Children's / Fantasy
Gabry lives a quiet life. As safe a life as is possible in a town trapped between a forest and the ocean, in a world teeming with the dead, who constantly hunger for those still living. She's content on her side of the Barrier, happy to let her friends dream of the Dark City up the coast while she watches from the top of her lighthouse. But there are threats the Barrier cannot hold back. Threats like the secrets Gabry's mother thought she left behind when she escaped from the Sisterhood and the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Like the cult of religious zealots who worship the dead. Like the stranger from the forest who seems to know Gabry. And suddenly, everything is changing. One reckless moment, and half of Gabry's generation is dead, the other half imprisoned. Now Gabry only knows one thing: she must face the forest of her mother's past in order to save herself and the one she loves.
The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Carrie Ryan
Young Adult / Children's / Fantasy
In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. But, slowly, Mary’s truths are failing her. She’s learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and the Guardians and their power, and about the Unconsecrated and their relentlessness. When the fence is breached and her world is thrown into chaos, she must choose between her village and her future—between the one she loves and the one who loves her. And she must face the truth about the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Could there be life outside a world surrounded in so much death?
Book Details: Format: Hardcover Publication Date: 3/10/2009 Pages: 320 Reading Level: Age 14 and Up
Iron Tide Rising
Carrie Ryan
Young Adult / Children's / Fantasy
Intrepid travelers Fin and Marrill have shared countless thrilling and treacherous adventures on the magical waters of the Pirate Stream. But neither could have expected that their final adventure would force them to team up with their oldest enemy: the evil wizard Serth! With the fate of the Stream and all their friends hanging in the balance, can they challenge the most frightening power they’ve ever come up against?
That Game We Played During the War
Carrie Vaughn
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers / Romance
The people of Gaant are telepaths. The people of Enith are not. The two countries have been at war for decades, but now peace has fallen, and Calla of Enith seeks to renew an unlikely friendship with Gaantish officer Valk over an even more unlikely game of chess, in Carrie Vaughn's novella That Game We Played During The War.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Daughter of Deep Silence
Carrie Ryan
Young Adult / Children's / Fantasy
I’m the daughter of murdered parents.
I’m the friend of a dead girl.
I’m the lover of my enemy.
And I will have my revenge.
In the wake of the devastating destruction of the luxury yacht Persephone, just three souls remain to tell its story—and two of them are lying. Only Frances Mace knows the terrifying truth, and she’ll stop at nothing to avenge the murders of everyone she held dear. Even if it means taking down the boy she loves and possibly losing herself in the process.
Sharp and incisive, Daughter of Deep Silence by bestselling author Carrie Ryan is a deliciously smart revenge thriller that examines perceptions of identity, love, and the lengths to which one girl is willing to go when she thinks she has nothing to lose.
Endure
Carrie Jones
Children's Books / Young Adult / Nonfiction
It’s all-out war (and no-holds-barred romance) in the climactic conclusion to Carrie Jones’s bestselling series.
Zara is at the center of an impending apocalypse. True, she’s successfully rescued Nick from Valhalla, but it simply isn’t enough. Evil pixies are ravaging Bedford, and they need much more than one great warrior; they need an army. Zara isn’t sure what her role is anymore. She’s not just fighting for her friends; she’s also a pixie queen. And to align her team of pixies with the humans she loves will be one of her greatest battles yet. Especially since she can’t even reconcile her growing feelings for her pixie king . . .
Unexpected turns, surprising revelations, and one utterly satisfying romantic finale make Endure a thrilling end to this series of bestsellers.
Need
Carrie Jones
Children's Books / Young Adult / Nonfiction
Pain shoots through my head. Fireworks. Explosions. All inside my brain. The white world goes dark and I know what's about to happen.
Zara White suspects there's a freaky guy semi-stalking her. She's also obsessed with phobias. And it's true, she hasn't exactly been herself since her stepfather died. But exiling her to shivery Maine to live with her grandmother? That seems a bit extreme. The move is supposed to help her stay sane...but Zara's pretty sure her mom just can't deal with her right now.
She couldn't be more wrong. Turns out the semi-stalker is not a figment of Zara's overactive imagination. In fact, he's still following her, leaving behind an eerie trail of gold dust. There's something not right - not human - in this sleepy Maine town, and all signs point to Zara.
In this creepy, compelling breakout novel, Carrie Jones delivers romance, suspense, and a creature you never thought you'd have to fear.
Kitty's Greatest Hits
Carrie Vaughn
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers / Romance
The first-ever story collection from the New York Times bestselling author, including two all-new works!
Kitty Norville, star of a New York Times bestselling series, is everybody’s favorite werewolf DJ and out-of-the-closet supernatural creature. Over the course of eight books she’s fought evil vampires, were-creatures, and some serious black magic. She’s done it all with a sharp wit and the help of a memorable cast of werewolf hunters, psychics, and if-notgood- then-neutral vampires by her side. Kitty’s Greatest Hits not only gives readers some of Kitty’s further adventures, it offers longtime fans a window into the origins of some of their favorite characters.
In “Conquistador de la Noche,” we learn the origin story of Denver’s Master vampire, Rick; with “Wild Ride,” we find out how Kitty’s friend T.J. became a werewolf; and in “Life is the Teacher,” we revisit Emma, the human-turned-unwilling-vampire who serves the aloof vampire Master of Washington, D.C.
This entertaining collection includes two brand-new works: “You’re On the Air,” about one of Kitty’s callers after he hangs up the phone; and the eagerly awaited “Long Time Waiting,” the novella that finally reveals just what happened to Cormac in prison, something every Kitty fan wants to know.
Contents:
Il Est Ne
A Princess of Spain
Conquistador de la Noche
The Book of Daniel
The Temptation of Robin Green
Looking After Family
God's Creatures
Wild Ride
Winnowing the Herd
Kitty and the Mosh Pit of the Damned
Kitty's Zombie New Year
Life is the Teacher
You're on the Air
Long Time Waiting
Where Would You Be Now?
Carrie Vaughn
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers / Romance
A Tor.com Original
The world as they know it is ending, a new world is taking its place. Among the doctors and nurses of a clinic-turned-fortress, Kath is coming of age in this new world, and helping define it. But that doesn't make letting go of the old any easier.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Paranormal Bromance
Carrie Vaughn
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers / Romance
Sam has been a vampire for 15 years, and now he's having a midlife crisis. That is, if he were still human, he'd be turning 40 and having a midlife crisis. He's just met exactly the kind of woman he's always wanted -- but these days, all he really wants is blood. Maybe he could work through it, but his vampire roommates just don't understand. Wasn't unlife supposed to get easier?
This novella is set in the world of Carrie Vaughn's bestselling Kitty Norville series.
Bougainvillea
Carrie Ryan
Young Adult / Children's / Fantasy
In the wake of the zombie apocalypse, the island of Curacao becomes one of the few remaining pockets of safety. Iza's father rules the island with a cruel and militant fist, showing little mercy to those who come begging at his docks. Iza chafes under his absolute control, refusing to believe that ruthlessness is the only path to survival. But when zombies breach their compound one night and rebels take her hostage, Iza must decide for herself what it truly takes to survive in a world filled with death and betrayal.
Set in the zombie world of The Forest of Hands and Teeth, Bougainvillea is the story of growing up between two worlds: the living and the dead, the rulers and the ruled, the privileged and the cast off.
PLEASE NOTE: this is a short story, not a full novel. It was originally published in the Zombies vs. Unicorns anthology and is included in the collection, The Dead and Empty World (also available).
Kitty Goes to Washington
Carrie Vaughn
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers / Romance
Celebrity werewolf and late-night radio host Kitty Norville prefers to be heard and not seen. So when she's invited to testify at a Senate hearing on behalf of supernaturals, and her face gets plastered on national TV, she inherits a new set of friends, and enemies, including the vampire mistress of the city; an über-hot Brazilian were-jaguar; and a Bible-thumping senator who wants to expose Kitty as a monster. Kitty quickly learns that in this city of dirty politicians and backstabbing pundits, everyone's itching for a fight.
Carrie
Stephen King
Horror / Mystery / Literature & Fiction
A modern classic, Carrie introduced a distinctive new voice in American fiction — Stephen King. The story of misunderstood high school girl Carrie White, her extraordinary telekinetic powers, and her violent rampage of revenge, remains one of the most barrier-breaking and shocking novels of all time. Make a date with terror and live the nightmare that is. . . Carrie
All That She Can See
Carrie Hope Fletcher
Fiction / Nonfiction / Romance
*Feelings are part of life - feelings are life. If you take away what people feel, you take away anything meaningful. Wanting to diminish the evil in this world is a good cause, one I have fought for the majority of my life, but not like this . . . *
Cherry has a hidden talent. She can see things other people can't and she decided a long time ago to use this skill to help others. As far as the rest of the town is concerned she's simply the kind-hearted young woman who runs the local bakery, but in private she uses her gift to add something special to her cakes so that after just one mouthful the townspeople start to feel better about their lives. They don't know why they're drawn to Cherry's bakery - they just know that they're safe there and that's how Cherry likes it. She can help them in secret and no one will ever need to know the truth behind her gift.
And then Chase arrives in town and threatens to undo all the good Cherry has done. Because it turns out she's not the only one who can see what she sees . . .
A story of love, food and a little bit of magic, All That She Can See is an enchanting and beautiful novel that's guaranteed to be the most magical story you'll read all year.
Kitty and the Silver Bullet
Carrie Vaughn
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers / Romance
Kitty's radio show is as popular as ever and she has a boyfriend who actually seems to understand her. Can she finally settle down to a normal life? Not if this is just the calm before the storm. When her mother falls ill, Kitty rushes back to Denver--and right back to the abusive pack of werewolves she escaped a year ago. To make matters worse, a war is brewing between the city's two oldest vampires, threatening the whole supernatural community. Though she wants to stay neutral, Kitty is again drawn into a world of politics and violence. To protect her family, her lover, and herself, she'll have to choose sides. And maybe become what she hates--a killer.
Entice
Carrie Jones
Children's Books / Young Adult / Nonfiction
Zara and Nick are soul mates, meant to be together for ever. But that's not quite how things have worked out. For starters, Nick has gone. He has been taken to the mythical place for warriors known as Valhalla. Zara and her friends might be able to get him back, it's just not going to be easy. Meanwhile a group of evil pixies is devastating Bedford, with more teens going missing every day. An all-out war seems imminent, and the good guys need all the warriors they can find. But even if Zara and her friends do discover the route to Valhalla, there's that other small problem: Zara's been pixie kissed. When she finds Nick, will he even want to go with her? Especially since she hasn't turned into just any pixie... She's Astley's queen.
The Wild Dead
Carrie Vaughn
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers / Romance
Mysteries and murder abound in the sequel to the Philip K. Dick Award–winning *Bannerless*
A century after environmental and economic collapse, the people of the Coast Road have rebuilt their own sort of civilization, striving not to make the mistakes their ancestors did. They strictly ration and manage resources, including the ability to have children. Enid of Haven is an investigator, who with her new partner, Teeg, is called on to mediate a dispute over an old building in a far-flung settlement at the edge of Coast Road territory. The investigators’ decision seems straightforward — and then the body of a young woman turns up in the nearby marshland. Almost more shocking than that, she’s not from the Coast Road, but from one of the outsider camps belonging to the nomads and wild folk who live outside the Coast Road communities. Now one of them is dead, and Enid wants to find out who killed her, even as Teeg argues that the murder isn’t their problem. In a dystopian future of isolated communities, can our moral sense survive the worst hard times?
Flying
Carrie Jones
Children's Books / Young Adult / Nonfiction
New York Times bestselling author Carrie Jones introduces sassy alien-hunting cheerleader Mana in Flying, the launch of a sparkling new YA Science Fiction series.
People have always treated seventeen-year-old Mana as someone in need of protection. She's used to being coddled, being an only child, but it's hard to imagine anything could ever happen in her small-town, normal life. As her mother's babying gets more stifling than ever, she's looking forward to cheering at the big game and getting out of the house for a while.
But that night, Mana's life goes haywire.
First, the hot guy she's been crushing on at school randomly flips out and starts spitting acid during the game. Then they get into a knockdown, drag-out fight in the locker room, during which Mana finds herself leaping around like a kangaroo on steroids. As a flyer on the cheerleading squad, she's always been a good jumper, but this is a bit much. By the time she gets home and finds her house trashed and an alien in the garage, Mana starts to wonder if her mother had her reasons for being overprotective.
It turns out, Mana's frumpy, timid mom is actually an alien hunter, and now she's missing--taking a piece of technology with her that everyone wants their hands on, both human and alien. Now her supposed partner, a guy that Mana has never met or heard of (and who seems way too young and way too arrogant to be hunting aliens), has shown up, ordering Mana to come with him. Now, on her own for the first time, Mana will have to find a way to save her mother--and maybe the world--and hope she's up to the challenge.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
What Once We Feared
Carrie Ryan
Young Adult / Children's / Fantasy
When the zombie apocalypse hits and the dead begin to rise, Jonah and his friends are on a class field trip downtown. Panicked, they make a split-second decision to seek shelter in the Overlook, an apartment complex built like a fortress on the edge of town. But as they begin to face the realities of what it will take to survive, they realize that while making the decision of where to run was easy, living out the consequences of that decision may be impossible. From Carrie Ryan, the New York Times bestselling author of the Forest of Hands and Teeth books, What Once We Feared is an original digital short story about facing a world that is forever changed and in which survival means more than merely escaping the undead.
Kitty Goes to War
Carrie Vaughn
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers / Romance
Kitty Norville, Alpha werewolf and host of The Midnight Hour, a radio call-in show, is contacted by a friend at the NIH's Center for the Study of Paranatural Biology. Three Army soldiers recently returned from the war in Afghanistan are being held at Ft. Carson in Colorado Springs. They're killer werewolves and post traumatic stress has left them unable to control their shape-shifting and unable to interact with people. Kitty agrees to see them, hoping to help by bringing them into her pack.
Meanwhile, Kitty gets sued for libel by CEO Harold Franklin after featuring Speedy Mart — his nationwide chain of 24-hour convenience stores with a reputation for attracting supernatural unpleasantness — on her show.
Very bad weather is on the horizon.
Shadows of the Lost Sun
Carrie Ryan
Young Adult / Children's / Fantasy
**Magical worlds and incredible creatures fill the pages of this action-packed adventure in the Map to Everywhere series!
Fearless adventurers Marrill and Fin have just barely stopped the Iron Tide and the evil wizard Serth from destroying the Pirate Stream. Now they're on a mission to find Fin's missing mother, but before they can blink, Fin's people have found him--and they're not as friendly as he'd hoped. In fact, they're after a powerful wish orb that could resurrect the debilitating Iron Tide and end the world as we know it. Without their captain Coll and wizard friend Ardent to guide them, are Marrill and Fin brave enough to take on the magic (and evil) of the Pirate Stream on their own? Find out in this exhilarating third book that raises the stakes to new heights!
Flotsam & Jetsam
Carrie Ryan
Young Adult / Children's / Fantasy
New York Times bestselling author Carrie Ryan returns to the terrifying world of the Forest of Hands and Teeth with the short story, "Flotsam & Jetsam." When the zombie outbreak erupts on their ship during their senior cruise, two friends escape in a life raft only to find themselves adrift in an endless ocean with no rescue in sight. What’s worse: one of them is infected.
Note: this 5,000 word short story was originally published in the anthology The Living Dead 2 edited by John Joseph Adams.
Kitty and the Midnight Hour
Carrie Vaughn
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers / Romance
Kitty Norville is a midnight-shift DJ for a Denver radio station?and a werewolf in the closet. Her new late-night advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged is a raging success, but it?s Kitty who can use some help. With one sexy werewolf-hunter and a few homicidal undead on her tail, Kitty may have bitten off more than she can chew?
Kitty Takes a Holiday
Carrie Vaughn
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers / Romance
After getting caught turning wolf on national television, Kitty retreats to a mountain cabin to recover and write her memoirs. But this is Kitty, so trouble is never far behind, and instead of Walden Pond, she gets Evil Dead. When werewolf hunter Cormac shows up with an injured Ben O'Farrell, Kitty's lawyer, slung over his shoulder, and a wolf-like creature with glowing red eyes starts sniffing around the cabin, Kitty wonders if any of them will get out of these woods alive...
Kitty Steals the Show
Carrie Vaughn
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers / Romance
Kitty Norville has been tapped as the keynote speaker for the First International Conference on Paranatural Studies, taking place in London. The conference brings together scientists, activists, protestors, and supernatural beings from all over the world - and Kitty is right in the middle of it. Master vampires from dozens of cities have also gathered in London for a conference of their own, and Kitty gets a glimpse into the power struggle among vampires that has been going on for centuries. But the conference has also attracted some old enemies, who have set their sights on Kitty and her friends. All the world's a stage, and Kitty's just stepped into the spotlight.
Bannerless
Carrie Vaughn
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers / Romance
A mysterious murder in a dystopian future leads a novice investigator to question what she’s learned about the foundation of her population-controlled society.
Decades after economic and environmental collapse destroys much of civilization in the United States, the Coast Road region isn’t just surviving but thriving by some accounts, building something new on the ruins of what came before. A culture of population control has developed in which people, organized into households, must earn the children they bear by proving they can take care of them and are awarded symbolic banners to demonstrate this privilege. In the meantime, birth control is mandatory.
Enid of Haven is an Investigator, called on to mediate disputes and examine transgressions against the community. She’s young for the job and hasn't yet handled a serious case. Now, though, a suspicious death requires her attention. The victim was an outcast, but might someone have taken dislike a step further and murdered him?
In a world defined by the disasters that happened a century before, the past is always present. But this investigation may reveal the cracks in Enid’s world and make her question what she really stands for.
Girl, Hero
Carrie Jones
Children's Books / Young Adult / Nonfiction
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NEED AND CAPTIVATE After landing a lead role in the high school musical, freshman Liliana Faltin is hoping for some stability and happiness in her life. But her mom's live-in boyfriend has a thing for booze, touching, and telling dark family secrets. And the other people in her world aren't exactly role-model material, either. Her unreliable father cries a lot, wears blue tights, and drives a little beige car. Her backstabbing best friend cares more about being popular than being real. And her older, married sister is showing up with big purple bruises on her face. Then there's Paolo, who's cute and nice and makes Lily want to recite romantic movie lines. To deal, Lily writes letters to John Wayne. Sure, he's a dead movie cowboy, but at least the Duke knew about doing the right thing, about being a hero. Now, Lily just needs to figure out how to be a hero herself. Praise for Tips on Having a Gay (ex) Boyfriend and Love (and other uses for duct tape): "Provocative . . . The author's poetic prose ably captures her heroine's emotional upheavals."--Publishers Weekly ..".honest, earthy, and appealing." --KLIATT "An emotional story that's true at heart." --Kirkus
Tips on Having a Gay (Ex) Boyfriend
Carrie Jones
Children's Books / Young Adult / Nonfiction
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NEED AND CAPTIVATE
Winner of the 2008 Maine Literary Award! Dylan is Belle's true love-maybe even her soulmate. Until one day when Dylan drops the ultimate bomb; he's gay. Where, Belle wonders, does that leave her? And how will the rest of their small town deal with an openly gay Homecoming King? This beautifully written debut explores what happens when you are suddenly forced to see someone in a new light, and what that can teach you about yourself.
"Provocative . . . The author's poetic prose ably captures her heroine's emotional upheavals." -Publishers Weekly "It's good to have [Carrie Jones'] talent in the field." -KLIATT "Jones offers an atypical perspective of the coming-out story by legitimizing the love that is not lost, but changed, when young people grow up and apart." -School Library Journal "From the first sentence of Carrie Jones' novel I could tell that here was a bright new writer who was going to set the world of young adult letters aflame." -Kathi Appelt, award-winning poet and author
Divide and Conquer
Carrie Ryan
Young Adult / Children's / Fantasy
Scholastic's next multi-platform mega-event begins here!
Dak, Sera, and Riq might be in over their heads when they attempt to stop a Viking invasion!
Hundreds of ships carrying thousands of warriors are laying siege to medieval Paris. The Parisians are holding their own, but the stalemate can only last so long. And that's bad news -- especially since Dak has been captured, forced to work alongside the Vikings while Sera and Riq defend Paris from within. No matter which side wins, the kids lose!
City of Thirst
Carrie Ryan
Young Adult / Children's / Fantasy
New York Times bestselling author Carrie Ryan and John Parke Davis transport readers back to the boundless world of the Pirate Stream in this engaging and exhilarating sequel to the highly acclaimed The Map to Everywhere that is equal parts adventure, humor, and heart!
When the magical waters of the Pirate Stream begin flooding Marrill's world, the only way to stop the destruction is to return to the Stream and find the source of the mysterious Iron Tide. Reunited with her best friend Fin--who has been forgotten all over again--Marrill, her disbelieving babysitter, and the Enterprising Kraken crew must make the treacherous trek to the towering, sliding, impossible world of Monerva and uncover the secrets of its long-lost wish machine. Only there can Fin wish to finally be remembered. Only there can Marrill wish to save her world and all the people she loves. But to get everything they've ever wanted, Marrill and Fin may have to give up on the most important thing they already have: each other.
Dreams of the Golden Age
Carrie Vaughn
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers / Romance
Like every teen, Anna has secrets. Unlike every teen, Anna has a telepath for a father and Commerce City's most powerful businessperson for a mother. She’s also the granddaughter of the city’s two most famous superheroes, the former leaders of the legendary Olympiad, and the company car drops her off at the gate of her exclusive high school every morning. Privacy is one luxury she doesn’t have.
Hiding her burgeoning superpowers from her parents is hard enough; how’s she supposed to keep them from finding out that her friends have powers, too? Or that she and the others are meeting late at night, honing their skills and dreaming of becoming Commerce City’s next great team of masked vigilantes?
Like every mother, Celia worries about her daughter. Unlike every mother, Celia has the means to send Anna to the best schools and keep a close watch on her, every second of every day. At least Celia doesn’t have to worry about Anna becoming a target for every gang with masks and an agenda, like Celia was at Anna’s age.
As far as Celia knows, Anna isn't anything other than a normal teen. Still, just in case, Celia has secretly awarded scholarships at Anna’s private high school to the descendants of the city’s other superpowered humans. Maybe, just maybe, these teens could one day fill the gap left by the dissolution of The Olympiad....
Kitty Raises Hell
Carrie Vaughn
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers / Romance
Sometimes what happens in Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas.
Kitty and Ben flee The City That Never Sleeps, thinking they were finished with the dangers there, but the sadistic cult of lycanthropes and their vampire priestess have laid a curse on Kitty in revenge for her disrupting their rituals. Starting at the next full moon, danger and destruction the form of fire strikes Kitty and the pack of werewolves she's sworn to protect.
She enlists the help of a group of TV paranormal investigators - one of whom has real psychic abilities - to help her get to the bottom of the curse that's been laid on her. Rick, the Master vampire of Denver, believes a deeper plot lies behind the curse, and he and Kitty argue about whether or not to accept the help of a professional demon hunter - and vampire - named Roman, who arrives a little too conveniently in the nick of time.
Unable to rely on Rick, and unwilling to accept Roman's offer of help for a price, Kitty and her band of allies, including Vegas magician Odysseus Grant and Kitty's own radio audience, mount a trap for the supernatural being behind the curse, a destructive force summoned by the vengeful cult, a supernatural being that none of them ever thought to face.
Inked Devotion
Carrie Ann Ryan
Romance / Young Adult / Contemporary
Montgomery Ink: Fort Collins Book 3 The Montgomery Ink saga from NYT Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan continues with a road trip romance between two friends running from their past. Brenna Garrett watched her best friend fall in love with another woman all the while keeping his darkest secrets from her. Now she'll have to figure out who she is without him while not letting the rest of the Montgomerys see her break. When her family forces her on a road trip, she finds herself bringing Benjamin Montgomery with her. The problem? He's her best friend's twin, so there's no escaping that familiar face. Benjamin didn't want to leave his family in a lurch, but Brenna isn't the only one who needs a break. Only a drunken mistake leads to a night of passion with unintended consequences. When it turns out they can't walk away, they'll have to make a choice: remain just friends or start something new and possibly risk everything. Including...
Carrie and the Great Storm: A Galveston Hurricane Survival Story
Nikki Shannon Smith
In early September 1900, twelve-year-old Carrie of Galveston is looking forward to spending Saturday night at her friend house, until her parents are invited to a very important party. Carrie is forced to stay home and take care of her little brother, but a boring chore turns into a nightmare when the storm surge from the Great Hurricane hits and their house is swept off its foundation. Carrie must think quickly and not panic if she is going to keep herself and her brother alive.
Malignant Assumptions
Carrie Rubin
"an exciting and...satisfying read"—Kirkus Reviews"fantastic novel"—Readers' Favorite"You can always be a helper."Liza Larkin, a socially aberrant pathology resident, relies on these words of her late father to guide her through a world she doesn't feel a part of. If not for his training over the years and her psychiatrist's ongoing care, she might be in jail—or worse. So when her colleague, Megan, worries something awful has happened to her aunt, Liza does what she has learned to do. She helps. She drives Megan to Boston to look for the woman. It doesn't take long. Megan's aunt lies dead in her condo, in what is soon ruled a freakish accident. But Liza doesn't buy it. She suspects foul play, and with a formal police investigation now off the table, she'll hunt for the murderer herself, even if it means coloring outside moral lines yet again.Because justice...
Time Stoppers
Carrie Jones
Children's Books / Young Adult / Nonfiction
Annie Nobody thought she was, well, nobody, living in a nowhere town where nothing goes her way. Day 1 at her newest foster home proves to be dreadful, too... and things get even worse when she's chased by something big and scary that definitely wants to eat her.
Luckily for Annie, not everything is what it seems, and she gets swept up-literally-by a sassy dwarf on a hovercraft snowmobile and taken to Aurora, a hidden, magical town on the coast of Maine. There, she finds a new best friend in Jamie Hephastion Alexander--who thought he was a normal kid (but just might be a troll)-and Annie discovers that she's not exactly who she thought she was, either. She's a Time Stopper, meant to protect the enchanted.
Together, Annie and Jamie discover a whole new world of magic, power, and an incredible cast of creatures and characters. But where there's great power, there are also those who want to misuse it, and Aurora is under siege. It's up to the kids to protect their new home, even if it means diving headfirst into magical danger.
The Wild Lord (London Scandals Book 1)
Part #1 of "London Scandals" series by Carrie Lomax
Given Up For Dead'Rescued' after fifteen years in Amazon, Edward Northcote returns to a homeland he barely remembers. Edward wants nothing to do with his new role as the heir to an earldom. Worse, the brother Edward displaced wants him declared mentally unfit--and tries to have him confined in an asylum. Only one person is willing to try help him…A Challenge She Can't ResistHarper Forsythe’s experience working with the insane at a private asylum make her the ideal person to help Edward come to terms with his new reality. Yet she has never had to fight a growing and wholly inappropriate attraction to a patient, until she meets Edward. But when her employer terminates her services, Harper must make her way to London in search of the family her mother left behind…a search that brings her back to her most unforgettable patient, Edward.A Love That Won't Give Up When their deepening relationship puts Edward's hard-won progress at risk, Edward and Harper devise a plan to prove their love to the world. But will their partnership survive when its spectacular success brings unintended consequences?
Furry Friends - Boris To The Rescue - Book 1
Carrie Q. Contrary
This is an ideal first short chapter book for girls and boys aged from 5 to 9. It is funny and shows that the good guys win in the end. Your child will love this story.This is an ideal first short chapter book for girls and boys aged from 5 to 9. It is funny and shows that the good guys win in the end. Your child will love this story. Bobby has a special friend. Don't tell anyone, but it is a monster! His name is Boris and he is red and furry with two golden horns. Boris helps Bobby when he has bad dreams. In Book 1, Boris goes to school with Bobby. He doesn't like the way Jack the Bully treats his friend Bobby. Jack doesn't know that Boris is setting him up for embarrassment. Look out for more books in this hilarious series.
Mending Mayhem
Carrie Pulkinen
So much for taming the savage demon. Mayhem is the most difficult, infuriating man I have ever laid eyes on. So why is it that all I can think about is laying...ahem...myself on him? My sister thinks he and I are fated mates. I think she's taken one too many hits with a basilisk's tail. Me, fated to a demon prince? Not a chance. Not that it matters, especially with the impending beasties of doom invasion on our horizon. Then there's Discord, the final piece of the puzzle that could save everyone's lives. We can't summon him without some mystical amulet he lost in Salem four centuries ago. Because that should be easy to find, right? Sheesh. Hecate, have mercy. We'll need it.
Kitty's Big Trouble
Carrie Vaughn
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers / Romance
Kitty Norville is back and in more trouble than ever. Her recent run-in with werewolves traumatized by the horrors of war has made her start wondering how long the US government might have been covertly using werewolves in combat. Have any famous names in our own history might have actually been supernatural? She's got suspicions about William Tecumseh Sherman. Then an interview with the right vampire puts her on the trail of Wyatt Earp, vampire hunter.
But her investigations lead her to a clue about enigmatic vampire Roman and the mysterious Long Game played by vampires through the millennia. That, plus a call for help from a powerful vampire ally in San Francisco, suddenly puts Kitty and her friends on the supernatural chessboard, pieces in dangerously active play. And Kitty Norville is never content to be a pawn. . . .
Carrie Soto Is Back
Taylor Jenkins Reid
“An epic adventure about a female athlete perhaps past her prime, brought back to the tennis court for one last grand slam” (Elle), from the New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising, Daisy Jones & The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo“Gorgeous. The kind of sharp, smart, potent book you have to set aside every few pages just to catch your breath. I’ll take a piece of Carrie Soto forward with me in life and be a little better for it.”—Emily Henry, author of Book Lovers and Beach ReadCarrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. But by the time she retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Grand Slam titles. And if you ask Carrie, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father, Javier, as her coach....
Longtime Crush
Carrie Ann Ryan
Romance / Young Adult / Contemporary
When my best friend and I fell for the same guy in middle school, I stepped back. I'd always expected to dance at their wedding. Not sit in the back pew of her funeral. I left town for my own reasons, but now that I'm back, it's clear Sebastian Montgomery isn't the same man I left. He's hard. Broken. And a single father to an adorable little girl. When it turns out he's my new neighbor, I can't stay away. But I know I'm playing with fire and the heat between us burns enough to scorch. I thought I was over my crush. But now it might crush me.
Breathless With Her
Carrie Ann Ryan
Romance / Young Adult / Contemporary
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Carrie Ann Ryan comes a sexy new contemporary series. Devin Carr likes his life. He likes his job, his family, the outlook for his future. Then he meets her. Erin. As soon as he sees her, drunk and wearing a sequined dress as her world crashes down around her and she fights to put on a brave face, he knows what he's been missing. Her. When Erin Taborn finds her high school sweetheart and husband banging the former head cheerleader of their graduating class at their high school reunion, she tells herself she'll be fine. She just needs to figure out what fine means. There's only one problem. Devin. She didn't plan on him. And for someone who thinks they have all their plans in place, that's a problem. One she'll have to find an answer to if this whole friends-with-benefits thing is going to work. If not, she'll fail just like with everything else.
Shouldn't Have You
Carrie Ann Ryan
Romance / Young Adult / Contemporary
I've been many things in my life: daughter, friend, student, lover, wife...and now, widow. Getting past those labels and finding who I could be without them was the hardest thing I've ever done. Then I became friends with Brendon Connolly. Every time I look at him, I see a past, I see a present, and I'm afraid if I look too hard, I'll see a future. —- I've known Harmony Wynham since before she got married. Before she lost everything. I didn't know that one day she wouldn't be just my friend but the woman I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. Only I don't think that can happen. Not when every time she looks at me, she sees what she lost, and I can only see what I can't overcome. I love her, even though I shouldn't. Somehow, we need to find a balance. Because if we don't, walking away will be the hardest thing I've ever done—even if it's the only thing I should do.
Skywatchers
Carrie Arcos
From National Book Award Finalist Carrie Arcos comes a thrilling, genre-bending mystery about the history of the Cold War and the UFO phenomenon. Perfect for fans of In the Woods by Tana French and Netflix's Stranger Things.California, 1952. It's the early years of the Cold War, and the threat of invasion from the Communist-controlled Soviet Union has people in a panic. President Truman has put out a call to civilians to act as radar—and Teddy, John, Caroline, Eleanor, Bunny, Frank, and Oscar eagerly answer. The teens are members of their high school's "Operation Skywatch" club in an effort to protect the country from attack. Across the country, people of all ages are looking to the sky. But they're not prepared for the strange green light they see when on duty, which looks like nothing they've been trained to look out for. And when the mysterious object lands in the forest, Teddy, John, Caroline, and Bunny go in to...
If Only in My Dreams
Carrie Aarons
Romance / Sports / Contemporary
'Tis the season to … be freshly divorced at twenty-six and moving back into your parents' house?
Because that’s my reality this Christmas. As if it isn’t bad enough that my entire hometown is buzzing with the news of my failed marriage, who is the first person I bump into at the grocery store? The guy who treated me like his personal booty call in high school just happens to be looking at spices while I’m trying to pick up cinnamon for my mother.
And get this; Porter Kelly, the broody, mysterious recluse who exposed his own secrets to the world by writing a book about his family years ago, is the one who acts like I wronged him. His rude remarks on aisle nine are the final straw as my exhausted unhappiness breaks, and I’m officially calling off the most wonderful time of the year.
Too bad it’s literally impossible for the woman whose parents own a railroad that specializes in Christmas train rides to ignore the holiday season. Because I’m back under their roof, it’s mandatory to work in the middle of the red and green merriment, Santa himself, and wait for it …
Porter serenading us with the greatest festive hits of all time. That’s right, apparently my teenage heartthrob turned nemesis not only works for my parents, but can strum a guitar like he’s trying to get every soccer mom on board pregnant. As we’re forced to spend more time together than ever, his past baggage and my marital rejection make their way to the surface, bonding us in ways neither of us knew possible.
I thought I was heartbroken about my ex-husband wanting to end our marriage, but that pain is nothing compared to what Porter could inflict. He seems like a changed man, one on the precipice of a new chapter, which is exactly where I find myself. Would it be crazy to think we could turn the page together?
Returning home was the only option I had. But as I come dangerously close to counting on the first man who broke my heart, I wonder if all of my future dreams are too good to be true.
Love Inspired May 2021--Box Set 1 of 2
Carrie Lighte
Romance / Christian / Fiction
Love Inspired brings you three new titles! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. This box set includes: HIDING HER AMISH SECRET (An Amish of New Hope novel)By Carrie LighteArleta Bontrager's convinced no Amish man will marry her after she got a tattoo while on rumspringa, so she needs money to get it removed. But taking a job caring for Noah Lehman's sick grandmother means risking losing her heart to a man who has his own secrets. Can they trust each other with the truth? A PLAN FOR HER FUTURE (A Calhoun Cowboys novel)By Lois RicherRaising his orphaned granddaughter alone seems impossible to Jack Prinz, but he has the perfect solution—a marriage of convenience with his childhood friend. But even as Grace Partridge falls for little Lizzie, convincing her to marry without love might not be...
Dress Coded
Carrie Firestone
In this debut middle-grade girl-power friendship story, an eighth grader starts a podcast to protest the unfair dress code enforcement at her middle school and sparks a rebellion.Molly Frost is FED UP... Because Olivia was yelled at for wearing a tank top. Because Liza got dress coded and Molly didn't, even though they were wearing the exact same outfit. Because when Jessica was pulled over by the principal and missed a math quiz, her teacher gave her an F. Because it's impossible to find shorts that are longer than her fingertips. Because girls' bodies are not a distraction. Because middle school is hard enough.And so Molly starts a podcast where girls can tell their stories, and before long, her small rebellion swells into a revolution. Because now the girls are standing up for what's right, and they're not backing down.
Victoria Sees It
Carrie Jenkins
A queer psychological thriller from a beguiling, fresh new voice.Victoria is unraveling. Her best friend is missing, and she's the only one who seems to care: there are clues all over Cambridge, but Deb is nowhere to be found—and the harder Victoria looks, the less she sees.Victoria is raised in a crumbling house in England by her working class aunt and uncle, visiting her mother at a psychiatric institution on the weekends, until her academic brilliance gains her entrance to Cambridge. There, free of her well-meaning aunt and abusive uncle, she meets her first true friend, Deb, a spacey artistocrat. Victoria and Deb create their own tiny bubble within Cambridge's strict class system, until one day, Deb goes missing. Victoria begins to unravel, until she meets an unlikely ally—a police officer named Julie with whom she begins a romantic relationship based on a search for Deb. They travel the countryside, visiting sites of suicides, murders, and accidents. But...
Justine
Carrie Lomax
One night to seek the truth...When a beautiful widow bursts into his study one cold winter evening, The Honorable Darius de Lucey doesn't know what to make of her demand that he escort her to a notorious masquerade ball. He's intrigued enough to help with her secret murder investigation. If he has to accompany the widow to prove a woman's innocence, so be it. Belladonna may be ruthless, but she isn't a killer - and Justine doesn't need to know why he's so sure that Bella isn't a murderess. Mrs. Justine Erskine was prepared to endure Mr. de Lucey's touch in service to her greater goals, but she's astonished at how he awakens her long-denied desire. She's willing to risk her sterling reputation to prove who killed her father-in-law. Will the unlikely allies find proof of Bella's crime, or will they learn truths that could ruin them both? This is a steamy historical romance with forced proximity, an unlikely enemies-to-lovers...
Low Midnight
Carrie Vaughn
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers / Romance
Cormac, the Kitty Norville series' most popular supporting character, stars in his first solo adventure.
Carrie Vaughn's Low Midnight spins out of the series on the wave of popularity surrounding Kitty's most popular supporting character, Cormac Bennett, a two-minded assassin of the paranormal who specializes in killing lycanthropes. In his first solo adventure, Cormac, struggling with a foreign consciousness trapped inside him, investigates a century-old crime in a Colorado mining town which could be the key to translating a mysterious coded diary…a tome with secrets that could shatter Kitty's world and all who inhabit it. With a framing sequence that features Kitty Norville herself, Low Midnight not only pushes the Kitty saga forward, but also illuminates Cormac's past and lays the groundwork for Kitty's future.
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A Dazzle of Zebras
Carrie Muller
Tracy Andrews is decidedly not looking forward to senior year. Senior year leads to graduation, which leads to her three best friends scattering to different colleges, which leads to widespread calamity, probably, and quite possibly total societal collapse. She can't understand why everyone else seems so eager for everything to change. But the more stubbornly Tracy tries to keep things as they are, the more changes this year throws at her. Her schedule full of language classes gets slashed by budget cuts. Her friends invite a stranger into their group. And the adorable boy she'd prefer to keep at a safe distance keeps smiling shyly at her in a way that gives her the uncomfortable sensation that her head is full of soup. She's not ready. For any of this. But senior year is ticking down, and if Tracy doesn't find some way to accept the inevitable, she'll miss this final year with the people she cares about the most.
From Shadow and Silence
Carrie Ann Ryan
Romance / Young Adult / Contemporary
The unforgettable conclusion to the epic fantasy Elements of Five series from NYT Bestselling author Carrie Ann Ryan. The end of the centuries-long war is almost here, and the fate of the realm rests on one girl's shoulders. The Gray has gathered his forces—and has Lyric in his clutches. The enemy's plan to control the kingdoms has been revealed, but traitors from both sides might alter the course of fate. Lyric must return to Easton and the others before all is lost. Battle lines must be forged, and surprising alliances cast. The prophecy has never altered, and life comes at an ultimate price. Not all who fight will survive, but in the end, it will come down to the choice of a Priestess and her soul. Book 1: From Breath and Ruin Book 2: From Flame and Ash Book 3: From Spirit and Binding Book 4: From Shadow and Silence
Beyond the Flame
Carrie Collins
The last thing Kristen Carleo expected when she left work was for the building to explode. That is, until she found out her no good brother claimed she owned the building and now owes over a half million dollars to people he'd swindled. With only a few months to raise the money, Kristen is doing all she can to stay out of jail and hide from the people after her. Wasting time on men isn't on her schedule. Wondering why he can't catch the eye of Kristen, Martino Mancini finally gets his chance when he's called in for a rescue of a delicate nature. He's puzzled though because the closer they seem to get, the further away she pulls. Blaze knows she's hiding something, but he doesn't know what. All he wants is to help her, all she wants is to protect those she loves. Sparks fly, flames rage, can their relationship stand the heat?
The First Rule of Climate Club
Carrie Firestone
An eighth grader starts a podcast on climate activism and rallies her friends to create lasting change in their local community and beyond, in this companion to Dress Coded.When Mary Kate Murphy joins a special science pilot program focused on climate change, the class opens her eyes to lots of things she never noticed before about her small suburban town: Kids waste tons of food at school without a second thought. Parents leave their cars running in the pick-up lane all the time. People buy lots of clothes they don’t really need. Some of her friends who live in the city and are bused to her school don’t always feel included. And the mayor isn’t willing to listen to new ideas for fixing it all. Mary Kate and her friends have big plans to bring lasting change to their community and beyond. And now is the time for the young people to lead and the leaders to follow—or get out of the way.
Fragments of Fear
Carrie Stuart Parks
"A rollercoaster ride with a lovable protagonist and a suspenseful, twisty." —Colleen CobleStolen art. A New Mexico archaeological dig. An abandoned dog. And a secret that's worth killing for.Evelyn McTavish's world came crashing down with the suicide of her fiancé. As she struggles to put her life back together and make a living from her art, she receives a call that her dog is about to be destroyed at the pound. Except she doesn't own a dog. The shelter is adamant that the microchip embedded in the canine with her name and address makes it hers.Evelyn recognizes the dog as one owned by archaeologist John Coyote because she was commissioned to draw the two of them. The simple solution is to return the dog to his owner—but she arrives only to discover John's murdered body.As Evelyn herself becomes a target, she crosses paths with undercover FBI agent Sawyer Price. The more he gets to know her, the more personally...
Sinew and Steel and What They Told
Carrie Vaughn
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers / Romance
Pilot Graff has been keeping a big secret from his closest friends, the captain and crew of a pirate-hunting starship. He expected to die before they ever discovered what he really is. But he's not dead, and now he has to explain.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Suspense and Sensibility Or, First Impressions Revisited: A Mr. & Mrs. Darcy Mystery
Carrie Bebris
Fresh from the curious and unsettling matter of Caroline Bingley (as related in Pride and Prescience), Mr. and Mrs. Darcy have every intention of enjoying their still newlywed status at Pemberly until they are confronted with another mysterious situation, ... one ofSuspense and SensibilityElizabeth Darcy and her beloved husband Fitzwilliam are taking on the responsibility of finding a suitable suitor for Elizabeth's younger sister Kitty, thereby assuring her a proper place in society.The angels smile on the young and a perfect match is found, and wedding plans are soon under way. Suddenly a change in personality occurs in Kitty's soon to be model husband-a change so striking as to jeopardize not just the Darcys' social standing, but their lives as well.A mysterious mirror, an insidious reprobate from the past, and matters far beyond the social circles around Pemberly all come into play in a dangerous puzzle, where the consequences may be the exchange of a soul for a soul.Once again the Darcys take center stage as the Regency era's answer to The Thin Man's Nick and Nora, searching for truth between tea times, amid the social whirl of Jane Austen's England.From Publishers WeeklyJane Austen fans who regret the author wrote only six full-length novels have reason to rejoice: Bebris's second Mr. and Mrs. Darcy mystery is even better than her strong debut, Pride and Prescience (2004).In the spring of 1813, Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy agree to sponsor Elizabeth's sister Kitty for a season in London along with Darcy's 17-year-old sister, Georgiana. In the course of their social rounds, Kitty meets Harry Dashwood - a younger cousin of the Sense and Sensibility Dashwoods - and the courtship begins. Mr. Darcy makes inquiries into Harry's character, fortune and expectations, but no sooner does he receive favorable answers than the suitor begins to behave most strangely. Harry gives a friend the "cut direct" outside Boodle's Club, and there are rumors of gambling and worse excesses. It's up to Darcy and Elizabeth to discover the cause of these aberrations, and, if at all possible, see Kitty happily established. The author smoothly combines characters from Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility while remaining true to Austen's originals. A few elements of the paranormal help illuminate the mores of the period. Regency romance readers will also be delighted. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review"Thoroughly 'light and bright and sparkling'," in the best Austen tradition with a dollop of murder and mayhem to leaven the whole. A delight." --Stephanie Barron, author of the Jane Austen Mystery series on Pride and Prescience "Well crafted ...Bebris works her own brand of Austen magic, whetting the reader's appetite for a sequel...Taking a lighter approach than Stephanie Barron's sleuthing Jane Austen series this one should appeal as much to Regency readers as to Austenites." -- Publishers Weekly on Pride and Prescience "Charming" --Booklist on Pride and Prescience "Mannered prose, Regency backdrops, moody country houses, and delightful characterization place this new series high on the to-buy list." --Library Journal on Pride and Prescience
Beyond Dreams
Carrie Collins
Kayla Ryan has her life all planned out with pure precision. She lives an average life, works several jobs, and has a long term plan to make her dreams come true. Wanting to speed things up, she gets a roommate. Unfortunately, the roommates arrives with a suitcase full of trouble. After accidentally filming a crime, Kayla is trouble's new target. Using her skills as a theatre dresser, she assumes a disguise and starts running. The problem is, no matter where she goes, they always find her. A car accident leads to her rescue by gorgeous military men who both want to help and protect her. One in particular catches her eye, but she has a few problems to work out before she can consider relationships and romance. Namely, staying alive. Tristan Walsh wasn't looking for romance, he stays too busy running Phantom Inc., a secret military organization called in for difficult jobs. He was truly beginning to feel settled in his new town, when on his way home from work a short, loud...
From Breath and Ruin
Carrie Ann Ryan
Romance / Young Adult / Contemporary
In her YA debut, New York Times bestselling author Carrie Ann Ryan dives into a world with magic and sacrifice with the Elements of Five. Five hundred years ago, the Maison Realm was shattered, divided into warring kingdoms of elemental Wielders with fate and truth shadowed and uncertain. Now, factions of both the light and dark venture into the human realm in search of the prophesied Spirit Priestess who is said to Wield the Elements of Five to bring the two fractured kingdoms together. Lyric has no idea that there's a realm outside the human one she lives in. When fate and circumstances are pulled from her hands after an accident, she finds out that nothing is as it seems. War is raging around her, and when Lyric realizes that they are searching for her, she must rely on those she once trusted as she trains: a boy who isn't who she thought, and a new realm of warriors who have come to protect her. For the darkness is coming, and the Queen of...
Michigan vs. the Boys
Carrie S. Allen
Hockey meets the #MeToo movement in this powerful debut novel.Michigan Manning lives for hockey, and this is her year to shine. That is, until she gets some crushing news: budget cuts will keep the girls' hockey team off the ice this year.If she wants colleges to notice her, Michigan has to find a way to play. Luckily, there's still one team left in town ...The boys' team isn't exactly welcoming, but Michigan's prepared to prove herself. She plays some of the best hockey of her life, in fact, all while putting up with changing in the broom closet, constant trash talk and "harmless" pranks that always seem to target her.But once hazing crosses the line into assault, Michigan must weigh the consequences of speaking up — even if it means putting her future on the line.
Lost In Him
Carrie Elks
He's a single dad. She's the nanny he shouldn't want...Chris Vaughn doesn't want to be seen as Hollywood's sexiest bad boy anymore.He wants to make the movie he's dreamed of ever since he was a child.And the pretty beach town of Angel Sands is the perfect place to do it.There's one small problem. He needs a nanny for his six-year-old daughter. And fast.Enter Chelsea Kennedy.She's the perfect caregiver on paper. And more than easy on the eye.It's a shame she left her last job under a dark cloud and she won't tell him why.Taking a punt on her is a risk. She's trouble with a capital 'T'.But it's not as though either of them is going to do something stupid.Like spend long evenings falling for each other. Or long nights together tangled between his sheets.Somebody's going to get hurt. Maybe everybody will. But he just can't help himself...
Steel
Carrie Vaughn
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers / Romance
It was a slender length of rusted steel, tapered to a point at one end and jagged at the other, as if it had broken. A thousand people would step over it and think it trash, but not her.
This was the tip of a rapier.
Sixteen-year-old Jill has fought in dozens of fencing tournaments, but she has never held a sharpened blade. When she finds a corroded sword piece on a Caribbean beach, she is instantly intrigued and pockets it as her own personal treasure.
The broken tip holds secrets, though, and it transports Jill through time to the deck of a pirate ship. Stranded in the past and surrounded by strangers, she is forced to sign on as crew. But a pirate's life is bloody and brief, and as Jill learns about the dark magic that brought her there, she forms a desperate scheme to get home—one that risks everything in a duel to the death with a villainous pirate captain.
Time travel, swordplay, and romance combine in an original high-seas adventure from New York Times bestseller Carrie Vaughn.
Sweet Little Lies
Carrie Elks
'Some books need more than 5 stars and this is one of those books.''I absolutely loved this story.''A superb storyline that grabs you right from the start.' Sweet Little Lies is a beautiful and emotional story of first love, second chances and warm summer nights.• • • • •He was the boy from the wrong side of the tracks. She was everybody's princess. Ten years later, he's back in town and this time he has something to prove.Aiden Black never thought he'd return to the small beach town he grew up in. But as the new director of a luxury resort, he's determined to make it a success. What he doesn't expect is to run into an old flame, the girl that got away.Single mom, Brooke Newton, cares about two things. Taking care of her son and helping out at the local animal shelter. Until she's sent on a mission to save an endangered dog, and comes face to face with the only man...
The Thing About Growing Up in Jokertown
Carrie Vaughn
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers / Romance
The Wild Cards universe has been thrilling readers for over 25 years. In Carrie Vaughn’s “The Thing about Growing Up in Jokertown,” a group of teenage jokers yearn to explore outside the confines of their strange little neighborhood and get a real taste of the Big Apple.
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Horse Girl
Carrie Seim
Gallop into the world of horse girls! This hilariously voiced middle-grade novel is The Clique meets Black Beauty for the horse girl crew. Humanizing, heart-warming, and wildly funny, Horse Girl redefines what it means to be a young girl who loves horses.Seventh-grader Wills is head-over-hoof for horses, and she is beyond excited when she gets the chance to start training at the prestigious Oakwood Riding Academy. But Amara, the Queen of the #HorseGirls, and her posse aren't going to let the certifiably dork-tagious Wills trot her way into their riding club so easily. Between learning the reins of horse riding, dealing with her Air Force pilot mom being stationed thousands of miles from home, and keeping it together in front of (gasp!) Horse Boys, Wills will learn that becoming a part of #HorseGirlWorld isn't easy. But with her horse, Clyde, at her side, it will sure be fun!Complete with comedic, original hoof notes to acquaint the less...
The Bone Hunger
Carrie Rubin
Three and a half years after a bizarre incident nearly derailed his life, Benjamin Oris is back on track as a second-year orthopedic surgery resident. With a son he adores, a circle of supportive family and friends, and a great shot at winning the Conley Research Grant, his future looks bright. But when the severed limbs of his former patients start turning up in Philadelphia parks, everything he's worked for threatens to collapse. Covered in bite marks and bearing recent surgical implants, the hacked-off limbs heighten the anxiety among his already traumatized coworkers, many of whom survived a plane crash in Alaska the month before. Could someone they know be a killer? With the help of his CDC friend Laurette and her forensic-psychiatrist colleague, Ben must once again bury his skepticism and risk his career to uncover the monstrous force behind the gruesome murders. Before someone close to him becomes the next victim....
Inked Kingdom
Carrie Ann Ryan
Romance / Young Adult / Contemporary
I fell for Sarina the moment I saw her. When the Kingdom tore her from me, I promised revenge. My claim was forfeit the moment she ran, but now I will follow. I will find her. I will earn her. And I will burn the world if they dare touch her. Again.
Enemy Heir
Carrie Ann Ryan
A bad boy prince meets his match in this epic Tattered Royals stand-alone romance. I know men like him.Powerful. Arrogant. Trouble. The world is his playground.The playboy prince, the tabloid favorite, and the bane of my existence.And unfortunately, he's the only one who might be able to help me uncover the truth.We're all but shackled together as he works to help me find my stalker before another attackI don't want to trust him. I don't want to want him.But letting Breck Waterford in might be the only thing to save us both.I've never met a woman like her.My secrets are mine to keep, but she has a habit of finding the truth.Sparrow Bridges can't discover who I am under the crown.She's everything I told myself I couldn't have.I push her away every chance I can...only every time I look at her, I fall harder.When danger comes, I can't stand the idea of losing her before I have a chance to...
Exploded View
Carrie Tiffany
A dangerous man moves in with a mother and her two adolescent children. The man runs an unlicensed mechanic's workshop at the back of their property. The girl resists the man with silence, and finally with sabotage. She fights him at the place where she believes his heart lives—in the engine of the car. Set at the close of the 1970s and traversing thousands of kilometres of inland roads, Exploded View is a revelatory interrogation of Australian girlhood. Must a girl always be a part—how can she become a whole?
Married Off by the Duke
Carrie Lomax
Having grown up as the ward of powerful men, Miss Emma Willis is resigned to being unwanted—particularly by her loathsome current guardian, Lord Maximus Aloyisius Tremaine, the Duke of Ardennes. When he abruptly orders her to find a husband, she's prepared to fight him tooth and nail—just as she's done ever since the unfortunate day when they first met. Max has always delighted in riling up his prickly ward, but one unexpected kiss forces him to realize that the only candidate he'll consider for her husband is himself. With only two weeks to convince her of their true connection, Max must now work to win the one thing he never anticipated wanting: Emma's love.This steamy Victorian guardian/ward enemies-to-lovers novella first appeared in the anthology titled I Like Big Dukes and I Cannot Lie. It has been republished with minor changes. Download your copy today!
Zombie Apocalypse Running Club
Carrie Mac
When twins Eira and Soren escape from their survivalist home into a world overcome by zombies, there's only one way to stay alive: run!Eira and Soren are queer twins living with their survivalist parents when a plague starts spreading that turns people into zombie-like monsters. They disagree with their parents about a lot, but they can't deny that their way of life keeps them safe while much of the world perishes—for now. When it becomes clear that their safety won't last, the twins decide to strike out on their own.They don't get far before encountering the one remaining person in the closest town: their friend Racer, a gold medal-winning Special Olympics champion. Racer is appalled at the twins’ slow speed and tells them that their survivalist skills aren't worth anything if they can't outrun the monsters. He sets them on a training regimen that comes in handy when they embark on the bigger journey ahead of them.On their trek they find friends, enemies,...
All the Days After
Carrie Thorne
"Just promise me one thing... Don't sleep with my brother."No problem, right? Accountant extraordinaire, Sophie Jones has worked hard to be normal, and is only looking to settle in at her fantastic new job in her new, serene hometown of Foothills, Washington. Trouble is the last thing she wants, thanks to her vile, money-grubbing aunt.Home from the Navy, former SEAL Asher Sutherland is not the guy he used to be... although, he doesn't have a clue who he is now. The one thing Asher knows for sure is that he wants Sophie.Big problem. Asher has carelessly broken the hearts of his sister's friends on too many occasions. Neither is willing to hurt Pippa, especially as she's gone a little bridezilla in the days leading up to her wedding to her high school sweetheart. But, resisting the attraction may prove to be more challenging that either can withstand.Settle in with a soothing cup of coffee and watch the sunrise in this satisfying, steamy...
Swipe Right to Bite
Carrie Pulkinen
???????????????????????? ???? ???????????????????? ???????? ???????????????? ????????????????... Succubus Katrina is fasting for her freedom. If she can ignore her demonic urges long enough, Satan will eventually forget about her, and she'll be free. Just because she isn't getting it on doesn't mean she can't help the supes of New Orleans do the pants-off dance-off. Introducing Swipe Right to Bite, the best and only hook-up app for the supernatural. Business booms from day one, and the horizontal tango becomes the most popular dance in the Big Easy. Until Gabe, the insufferable incubus, shows up and ruins everything. There isn't enough room in this town for two fornicating fiends, and Katrina is determined to send this guy packing, no matter how hot a fire he lights in her nether regions. But Gabe has a few tricks up his sleeve, and he won't make it easy on her. The question is, how hard will she make it on him? ???????? ???????????? ???????????????? ???????????????????? ???????????????????????????????? ????????????...
The Shakespeare Sisters--The Complete Box Set
Carrie Elks
Four sisters. Four stories. Four ways to find love...This four book box set contains the complete collection of the Shakespeare Sisters Stories.Summer's LeaseDown-at-luck writer, Cesca, meets her Hollywood nemesis in the form of movie-star Sam at a secluded villa in the Italian Lakes.A Winter's TaleWhen Kitty accepts a holiday job as a nanny in the snowy mountains of West Virginia she doesn't expect to fall for her boss's sexy-and-grumpy-as-hell brother, Adam.Absent in the SpringSuccesful businessman, Lachlan, inherits a Scottish castle. But the only one who can help him claim it is his impossibly gorgeous lawyer, Lucy.By Virtue FallHandsome photographer, and single father, Ryan moves in next door to soon-to-be divorced Juliet. Can she ignore the attraction between them?
Falling With You
Carrie Ann Ryan
Romance / Young Adult / Contemporary
NYT bestselling author Carrie Ann Ryan concludes a brand new series where second chances don't come often, and overcoming an unexpected loss means breaking everything you knew. The day I lost my best friend was the day I realized that I'd been living in the past. I've tried to find a way to heal, to mend that break. Somehow, I came through it partially whole. But I know I couldn't have done that without Aiden Connolly. The problem is, he once loved my best friend. And now she's gone, and I refuse to be in that shadow, or worse, a replacement for someone we both loved. ~~ I left them all behind. My brother. My family. My best friend. And her. Only Sienna Knight doesn't realize what she means to me. But before I can make sure she knows, I need to figure out exactly what that is.