Book Lists
17/11/2019
“Lathan was falling, not fast or slow. It was almost like gliding.
Comfortably gliding toward a bright light. Specks of white were racing by him,
or he was racing past them. He couldn't quite tell. Some lights even seemed to
be circling his body. Although they zipped by quickly, the journey took a long
time. Some lights pulsed and seemed to pace him. He wasn't sure what to make of
that. All he felt was peace, acceptance of where he was, and where he was
going.
The bright light didn't change in size, until it did. It seemed so distant
for so long, never changing. Then it grew and grew. The light was getting
larger rather quickly now. It was tinted gold, like yellow flames on the
outside of an orb. Right when he passed through the light, those same golden
flames licked at him and warmed his whole body. Before it was like traveling
through a dark tunnel that was speckled with pinpricks of light, now everything
was twilight and open.”
Finally free from his isolated past, Lathan Greywind is living a stable life
with his wife and newborn daughter as a taiko drum coach at UC Davis. Events
outside of his control force him to take action. Faltering against the
mundane and the supernatural, he is thrust into a reality he doesn't
understand. A reality filled with sentient life and power that has a will
of its own. Lathan must learn to harness his newfound abilities before he can
return home to his family. If he can only figure out how!
07/11/2019
It's 1488, and eleven-year-old Anne of Brittany is thrust into a desperate situation when she becomes ruler of her duchy. Besieged on all sides, she eventually agrees to marry Charles VIII, King of France, to save Brittany from plunder.
A fiery relationship as they unexpectedly fall in love. Yet Charles cannot shake the bad habits he brings to their marriage, and Anne cannot pull him out of his darkest depths of struggle.
Together, they usher the Italian Renaissance into France, building a glorious court at their royal residence in Amboise. But year after year, they fail to accomplish their most important aim: to secure the future of their kingdom.
As they pursue their shared dream, will an unexpected twist of fate change the fortunes of Anne and Charles, two of fifteenth-century Europe's most star-crossed rulers?
Anne & Charles is Book One of the Anne of Brittany Series, the gripping tale of a larger than life queen. Next in the series is Anne and Louis, general fiction winner of the Publishers Weekly 2018 BookLife Prize.
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05/11/2019
04/11/2019
In How the Blue-Tongued Skink Got His Blue Tongue,
children will learn about The Garden story with a “Know What's What Tree,”
about how Dinky got his blue tongue, and other facts about skinks, real animals
native to Australia. Most importantly, kids will see Dinky face a bully and
stand up for himself, becoming a reptilian hero. This story of good confronting
evil will inspire curiosity about foundational stories, about nature, and about
what it means to be a good person.
31/10/2019
It's August, 1940. Hitler's triumphant Third Reich has crushed all Europe—except Britain. As Hitler launches a massive aerial assault, only the heavily outnumbered British RAF and the iron will of Winston Churchill can stop him. The fate of Western civilization teeters in the balance. Johnnie Shaux, a Spitfire fighter pilot, knows that the average life expectancy of a pilot is a mere five hours of operational flying time. Sooner or later his luck will run out. Yet he must constantly summon up the fortitude to fly into conditions in which death is all but inevitable and continue to do so until the inevitable occurs…Meanwhile, Eleanor Rand, a WAAF staff officer in RAF headquarters, is struggling to find her role in a man's world and to make a contribution to the battle. She studies the control room maps that track the ebb and flow of conflict, the aerial thrust and parry, and begins to see the glimmerings of a radical strategic breakthrough…Breaking Point is based on the actual events of six days in the historic Battle of Britain. The story alternates between Johnnie, face to face with the implacable enemy; and Eleanor, in 11 Group headquarters, using ‘zero-sum' game theory to evolve a strategic model of the battle....
24/10/2019
13/10/2019
Have you ever loved someone so much it took your breath away?
A captivating, unforgettable love story, Olive Dunn restores glory to the romance genre with this intense and provocative novel.
Controlling Shelly Fagan is a riveting romance novel that will guide readers through a tantalizing journey of a young woman whose life has been dominated by secrets and deceit. She trusted her parents only to discover years later they lied.
A first love, an endless love. Shelly Fagan at seventeen loved Chris Johnson with every ounce of her being. Forced away from him and everything she knew and loved, she was hidden in a convent, pregnant and alone. Now, at age thirty-six and married to another man, a life-changing event takes Shelly back to the same small Indiana town where it all began.
This novel will take you back to 1967—a year of music, sex, freedom, laughter, love, and Vietnam.
Controlling Shelly Fagan is a gripping emotional story that will stay with you. You grow up, but you never forget. You can't forget.
...05/10/2019
Detective Florentin Mysteries are designed for readers who enjoy clean murder mysteries with elements of romance, set in the 1980s.
01/10/2019
What would you do if you were being stalked and no one took you seriously?
A recently handicapped young married woman, who by her own resourcefulness and the wonders of the Internet, overcomes her struggle against the unwanted sexual advances of a dangerous retiree with a buried criminal past.
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