 | Skye Object 3270a
Publication Date: February 12, 2011In an isolated star system far from any other human outposts, a space-faring "lifeboat" was discovered by a scientist from the city of Silk. Inside the lifeboat was a two-year-old girl in frozen sleep. She had no name and no history. The people of Silk believed her to be the only survivor of a star-faring great ship attacked in the void and destroyed by the automated warships of the alien Chenzeme. They rescued and revived the child, and named her "Skye."But the people of Silk face dangers of their own. Their city is in space, built around the column of a s...
 |  | God's Snake
Release Date: December 29, 1998In a world charged with the enchantments of fable, the reader will experience here a passionate revelation of love and cruelty as portrayed through the inventive interaction of people and animals, as seen through the eyes of a young girl and set against the background of a Greece wounded by war. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Night Sky
Publication Date: June 13, 2012After losing Sarah, the friend he’s loved, to some other guy, Jameson meets Sky. Her Native American roots, fluid movements, and need for brutal honesty become addictive fast. This is good. Jameson needs distraction – his dad leaves for another woman, his mom’s walking around like a zombie, and Sarah’s new boyfriend can’t keep his hands off of her. As he spends time with Sky and learns about her village, her totems, and her friends with drums - she's way more than distraction. Jameson's falling for her fast. But Sky’s n...
|  | A Hero For Our Time
Publication Date: June 21, 2010Jamie Tarnowski, a sweet bright kid returns to Amherst, the town of his birth, to attend college.Here's what it's like at an elite school encountering its egos, structures, and plans for the future.He finds himself caught between two worlds, one overseen by his father, a professor, that represents the true meaning of a liberal arts education, the other guided by fitting in to the professional world of lawyers, doctors and bankers.In a class taught by his mentor about Hamlet, Jamie is informed that certain people can 'see ghosts.'Jamie, a maverick, intends to ge...
|  | Dear Diary, 15: Revival
Publication Date: November 12, 2009Revival is the third book in the Dear Diary, 15 Series. Revival is jam packed with all of the drama that you've become accustomed to with the Dear Diary, 15 Series.LeeAnnaand her friends have seen a lot of heartache in the previous books and the drama isn't over yet! LeeAnna's best friend has just lost her baby. Can LeeAnna see her friend through her grief?Plus there is new love on the horizon for LeeAnna but it's not Andy.Will LeeAnna be able to keep her friend even though she haschosen another over him? Also in this edition, tragedy strikes Kendra, Lisa's...
|  | Her Father's Daughter
Publication Date: June 6, 2008HER FATHER'S DAUGHTER (1921) by Gene Stratton Porter is the story of Linda Strong, the titular heroine, a determined and opinionated young woman growing up in California in the 1920s.What could have been a typically charming and heartfelt story of personal discovery, loves and relationships by the beloved naturalist author is unfortunately marred by the strongly pronounced racist and anti-immigrant mindset of the heroine and several other characters. It must be pointed out that the racial prejudice portrayed here is typical of its time and must be viewed in a ...
|  | Second World
Publication Date: September 20, 2011Clare, the youngest in her dysfunctional family, cannot connect with her explosive father, her emotionally stunted mother, or her bossy big sister. She separates herself from them and discovers that she is a supernatural link. Along with her grandfather’s ghost and Horus, the talking dog, she connects to the spirit realm, filled with supernatural creatures both good and grim, that lies within her world. Relying on the support of friends new and old, Clare journeys toward understanding the unnatural rules that govern both worlds and her destiny. When...
|  | Preacher's Kids: Secrets & Salvation
Publication Date: April 19, 2009Mia Griffin's dark humor and quirky looks don't fit the mold of most PK's. Knowing the twisted and sometimes alarming secrets of church members generates more enemies than friends. But, as long as her free thinking best friend is by her side, Mia can laugh her way through anything. Mia's young faith will be tested when she suffers the greatest betrayal imaginable. As she begins to ask hard questions you will be astounded by the answers and perhaps learn something about the tests that God brings us through. ...
|  | In Last Night's Clothes
Publication Date: July 14, 2012Set in the fictional Los Angeles suburb of Villa Valle, In Last Night's Clothes, chronicles the misguided adventures of Colin Prescott. Presented as a charming, witty, anti-hero, Colin narrates in the form of letters to a mysteriously unnamed friend. The story takes several dark and exciting turns as he depicts navigating through his first two years in college, battling heavy family and relationship issues, and struggling to understand himself; all while having to maintain his presence as apart of the town's trend-obsessed social scene. ...
|  | Truth Be Told
Publication Date: July 7, 2012Caught in the midst of an emotional and an unexpected break up, a move from home and a start of a new life at university, Jack Beckett isn't having a fun time. The love of his school years, Lisa Linton, confessed that she has been cheating on him over the past few months.Now, in a new life, she's left Jack for him and left Jack tortured by her lies. Determined to move on but apprehensive of the realities, he and his fellow reclusive friends decide, purely for a laugh, to attend a speed dating event. An opportunity for him to prove to himself and to Lisa that he'...
|  | Apples: A Novel
Publication Date: June 10, 2008Apples, an unassuming debut novel plucked from the imagination of a remarkable new twenty-one-year-old talent, and published to rave reviews in London, is a surprising, affecting, ingeniously crafted little coming-of age novel that has critics calling Richard Milward the voice of the MySpace generation.As a distraction from sleazy male admirers, spiteful classmates, and her mother’s progressing cancer, Eve’s adolescent eyes are opened to a multicolored life of fumbling one-night stands, drug-fuelled clubs, endless varieties of candy-flavored cheap b...
|  | The Kitchen Table
Publication Date: May 3, 2011Father O'Malley pulled up a chair and sat close to Anna. As he pressed his lips together, Anna's heart started to race. Something was wrong, very wrong. The next few minutes would be with her the rest of her life, and she recalled every word of what Father O'Malley said as though she were having a terrible dream. 'There's been a plane crash.' From that moment, Anna's Abbott's life is changed forever as she learns the devastating truth that her parents have been killed in a plane crash. In other parts of the state of South Carolina, Michael Bennett and Ragan Carte...
|  | Student
Publication Date: December 6, 2011It’s the second semester of her senior year in college, and before she is thrown into the uncertain abyss of the real world, Jaye is desperately trying to cram in every delirious moment of university life.Her days are spent forging closer bonds with friends, watching grisly horror movies in her Film Theory class, applying to graduate school, and considering calling off the safe and secure long-distance romance she has been a part of for perhaps far too long. Her nights are spent forming attractions to fraternity boys and guitarists in local bar bands....
|  | Loving Emily
Publication Date: November 17, 2011This book has been reissued, with the content unchanged, under the new title Any Other Night. Please go there to place an order. ...
|  | The Body's Perfect: A Novel in Stories
Publication Date: July 17, 2012"Meet Irv, Dorna, Junior, Jackie and Angelo, the Miller family of Petaluma circa 1956 and in the two decades that follow. Who better to introduce you than Chris Riebli who has known them all his life, who is intimately familiar with their work and their dreams, their desires, fears and regrets. Here are twelve unsentimental tales told with loving attention and perfect pitch. These Millers of Petaluma belong to Chris Riebli in the way that Winesburg, Ohio belongs to Sherwood Anderson, or as the Salinas Valley belongs to John Steinbeck." Daniel Coshnear, author o...
|  | The Farm
Publication Date: February 7, 2011Sue, Ethan and Anna arrive in Oregon to find Sue's organic farming community devasted. Most barely made it through the winter. Sue's farm is overgrown and it's doubtful that she will be able to plant this spring. No one has cash to buy equipment or plant their crops. Livestock is selling below cost. Many are auctioning off their farms and moving away. Ethan has cash that he earned in Alaska and it might be enough to purchase some equipment and supplies. Their only hope is to construct a farm market where they can all sell directly to the public. The entire c...
|  | The Chester Chronicles
Publication Date: February 1, 2010Chester "Chet" Patterson, the protagonist-narrator of Kermit Moyer's first novel,is an Army brat who grows up in the 1950s and comes of age in the 1960s. He has a high-strung knockout of a mother who may be drinking her way into alcoholism, an Army-officer father he both resents and admires, and a younger sister whose high-school popularity he can only envy. Moving every two or three years, Chester is a perennial new kid as well as a bookishand movie-besotted romantic who at the age of thirteen falls in love, he thinks, with his own first cousin, Frenchi...
|  | Concrete Rose
Publication Date: February 23, 2012An epic entrenched within fundamentals of forgiveness and redemption, follows the tragic and tumultuous life of Diedra Brown. Raised in 1990’s Detroit, by an alcoholic, neglectful mother and soon-to-be absentee father, Diedra endures an onslaught of unimaginable trials that eventually compel her to flee home at sixteen. Mentally and emotionally scarred by her childhood, Diedra dredges through life semi-present and filled with resentment. Harboring hurt inflicted on her by those of her unfortunate childhood, Diedra’s current relationships are g...
|  | The Room on the Roof (Puffin Classics)
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|  | Spencer's Pond
Publication Date: August 29, 2011SPENCER'S POND is the story of Jules, a smart-mouthed teenager from Manhattan who discovers her sexuality one summer at a rural pond. Launching into a relationship with a neighboring boy, Jules is caught in a downward spiral which explodes in an unpredictable act of violence. Even as her world is shattered, Jules finds strength in the unlikely family of eccentrics who love her. In the wry, wise-cracking voice of adolescence, Jules describes her mother, Judith, a libidinous hack writer with a mysterious past, her mother's boyfriend, Shiva, a manic-depressive s...
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