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Sky in the Deep
Adrienne Young
Fantasy / Young Adult
A 2018 Most Anticipated Young Adult book that is part Wonder Woman, part Vikings—and all heart.OND ELDR. BREATHE FIRE.Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient, rivalry against the Riki clan. Her life is brutal but simple: fight and survive. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield—her brother, fighting with the enemy—the brother she watched die five years ago.Faced with her brother's betrayal, she must survive the winter in the mountains with the Riki, in a village where every neighbor is an enemy, every battle scar possibly one she delivered. But when the Riki village is raided by a ruthless clan thought to be a legend, Eelyn is even more desperate to get back to her beloved family.She is given no choice but to trust Fiske, her brother's friend, who sees her as a threat. They must do the impossible: unite the clans to fight...
Darkbeam Part I
Adrienne Woods
Fantasy / Young Adult / Romance
Everyone in Paegeia knows that only one Rubicon dragon lives at a time.
If more than one, they will destroy Paegeia and eventually the rest of the world as they crave that constant power for dominance.
Blake Leaf is this era's Rubicon, and is destined for great things if his darkness can be won.
Darkbeam Part 1 follows the story of the Rubicon and how he tries to keep his beast, the darkness, at bay.
PLEASE NOTE THIS ISN'T YA FANTASY AS THE DRAGONIAN SERIES. IT'S A DARK AND VERY TWISTED TYPE OF NOVEL. YOU ARE WARNED!!!!!
Poison
Adrienne Woods
Fantasy / Young Adult / Romance
Everyone dreams of being a princess, well everyone except eighteen-year-old Elena Watkins.
After learning about her lost heritage, Elena is forced to choose between learning to be the perfect ruler for Paegeia and her old life.
Not to mention that pesky dragon of hers who always seems to appear and disappear at just the right time. With her friends beside her, Elena must discover her own future as Paegeian royalty.
Who said being a princess was easy?
Venom
Adrienne Woods
Fantasy / Young Adult / Romance
Sixteen-year-old Elena Watkins is on her summer break in the magical realm of Paegeia where Dragons and Magic exist. A novelette that should be read with Thunderlight, The Dragonian series part two.
Fable
Adrienne Young
Fantasy / Young Adult
Filled with all of the action, emotion, and lyrical writing that brought readers to Sky in the Deep, New York Times bestselling author Adrienne Young returns with Fable, the first book in this new captivating duology.Welcome to a world made dangerous by the sea and by those who wish to profit from it. Where a young girl must find her place and her family while trying to survive in a world built for men.As the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home seventeen-year-old Fable has ever known. It's been four years since the night she watched her mother drown during an unforgiving storm. The next day her father abandoned her on a legendary island filled with thieves and little food. To survive she must keep to herself, learn to trust no one and rely on the unique skills her mother taught her. The only thing that keeps her going is the goal of getting off the island, finding her father and demanding...
Saint--A Novel
Adrienne Young
Fantasy / Young Adult
New York Times bestselling author Adrienne Young returns to the world of The Narrows with Saint, a captivating prequel to Fable and Namesake.As a boy, Elias learned the hard way what happens when you don't heed the old tales.Nine years after his lack of superstition got his father killed, he's grown into a young man of piety, with a deep reverence for the hallowed sea and her fickle favor. As stories of the fisherman's son who has managed to escape the most deadly of storms spreads from port to port, his devotion to the myths and creeds has given him the reputation of the luckiest bastard to sail the Narrows.Now, he's mere days away from getting everything his father ever dreamed for him: a ship of his own, a crew, and a license that names him as one of the first Narrows-born traders. But when a young dredger from the Unnamed Sea with more than one secret crosses his path, Elias' faith will be tested like never before. The greater...
Emergence
Adrienne Woods
Fantasy / Young Adult / Romance
Discovering her new lineage and that she might lose who she is, is not something Maxima Lane has signed up for. She's just started to get used to her independence when this insane claim changed her entire world. One where she is no longer a hybrid but a pure vampire. The lifestyle also comes with loads of responsibility and a new family, one that is demanding her presence at home. Max has never been more confused or out of place. She has so many questions that will probably never get answered, and she has no idea how to fit into her new role. Not to mention what this could mean for her and Gabriel's future. Gabriel should have known that the mystery around Maxima Lane could only have been the work of a strong witch to keep her true identity hidden. He has no clue of what his future holds with Max, but he knows it's one worth fighting for. The one thing he can rely on is the Ahmdahney , a very sacred bond he shares with Max, and will go...
Undercover Justice
Adrienne Giordano
Romance / Mystery & Thrillers
A Justice Team Novella Sin City isn't ready for Mitch Monroe... The cocky, irresistible Justice Team member is about to take Vegas by storm with his partner, sexy FBI sniper, Caroline Foster. They're on the hunt for the missing daughter of a US Senator who might be the victim of foul play. But is Mitch ready for Sin City? Caroline—the only woman Mitch has ever loved—must go undercover as a contestant taking the place of the senator's daughter on the hottest reality TV show of the year. While bachelor after bachelor throws himself at Caroline, Mitch must sit by and watch, knowing each and every one of them is a possible suspect. What happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas. Mitch has never been one to play by the rules or sit on the sidelines. Manipulating his way into a spot on the show, he becomes Caroline's dream mate, and the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur. But when the chips are down and Caroline's...
Starbeam
Adrienne Woods
Fantasy / Young Adult / Romance
He is royal, dashing, and would become known as the greatest king that ever lived. Elena Watkins' father, Albert Malone did not have things easy. His life is complicated, filled with prejudice, betrayal and intrigue. His father married his mother for all the wrong reasons and he rules the country with an iron fist. His overbearing mother means less to him than his childhood nanny. Just when he thinks things couldn't get any worse, he falls for a commoner at a fancy-dress ball.Catherine Squires, a commoner, growing up in the poorest of circumstances struggles to help her family. The King's obsession with killing off Chromatic dragons are leading the country into another war. A war that will change her world forever.The adventure of Catherine and Albert against the backdrop of the dragons' struggle for equality and justice is a fast paced page-turner.
Namesake
Adrienne Young
Fantasy / Young Adult
Filled with action, emotion, and lyrical writing, New York Times bestselling author Adrienne Young returns with the final book in the captivating Fable duology.Trader. Fighter. Survivor. With the Marigold ship free of her father, Fable and its crew were set to start over. That freedom is short-lived when she becomes a pawn in a notorious thug's scheme. In order to get to her intended destination she must help him to secure a partnership with Holland, a powerful gem trader who is more than she seems. As Fable descends deeper into a world of betrayal and deception she learns that her mother was keeping secrets, and those secrets are now putting the people Fable cares about in danger. If Fable is going to save them then she must risk everything, including the boy she loves and the home she has finally found.
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Prominence
Adrienne Woods
Fantasy / Young Adult / Romance
Maxima Lane's first month and a half at Beaumond Academy was not a smooth ride. Her stepsister bewitched her x-gene and her stepmother almost snuffed the life out of her. Not to mention this weird pull she has to her commanding officer. What is up with that?Still, the half vampire/half witch has to pull herself together as the next ten months do not look easy either.With the Run through the Moore in front of them, Max feels that she is ready. If things gets too rough, she can shift into a bird and fly away, but will she be able to leave her friends behind? What she wasn't prepared for was falling in love with a third year half djinn/half vampire, Ben Vogue. The guy oozes confidence and for some reason only has eyes for Max.Gabriel has to prepare the first years for the Run. Still, there are a lot of dangers around them. The Shadow is acting up again and more kids go missing. To make matters worse he still has the Ahmdahney, the primal bond, he can't ignore....
End of the World House
Adrienne Celt
Fiction / Comics
Groundhog Day meets Ling Ma's Severance in End of the World House, a thought-provoking comedic novel about two young women trying to save their friendship as the world collapses around them.Bertie and Kate have been best friends since high school. Bertie is a semi-failed cartoonist, working for a prominent Silicon Valley tech firm. Her job depresses her, but not as much as the fact that Kate has recently decided to move from San Francisco to Los Angeles. When Bertie's attempts to make Kate stay fail, she suggests the next-best thing: a trip to Paris that will hopefully distract the duo from their upcoming separation. The vacation is also a sort of last hurrah, coming during a ceasefire in a series of escalating world conflicts. One night in Paris, they meet a strange man in a bar who offers them a private tour of the Louvre. The women find themselves alone in the museum, where nothing is quite as it seems. Caught up in a day...
Forsaken
Adrienne Gordon
Fantasy / Young Adult / Science Fiction
Agilia is an assassin who has grown tired of the killing, and fears waking to face another hopeless day. She takes one final mission that is supposed to change the world, but an accident utterly changes her life. She wakes as Elaine, a prison counselor, and finds she is as much a prisoner as those she tries to counsel. She seeks answers, but finds love and peril in her desperate search for escape.Agilia is an assassin who has grown tired of the killing, and fears waking to face another hopeless day. She takes one final mission that is supposed to change the world, but an accident utterly changes her life. She wakes as Elaine, a prison counselor, and finds she is as much a prisoner as those she tries to counsel. Elaine is in the company of men who have committed heinous crimes, and is there to improve their emotional well-being. But as she gets to know those men, she discovers all is not what it seems. Are they merely murderers, or do they have a past rooted in some heroic struggle, where they were the vanquished in a long and bloody war? Does she really belong with them, or does the haunting figure in the mirror mean that she has another path to follow? Love stalks her in the dimly-lit prison corridors, and she engages in a dangerous affair with an inmate, but is he really what he appears to be? Who are the real prisoners, and who are those that can help her find out who she is, and why she is there? Elaine must tame the forsaken assassin within her if she is ever to find redemption, and save her entire world.Forsaken is the first book in the Agilia's Lament series, which concludes in The Borrowed Soul
Thunderlight
Adrienne Woods
Fantasy / Young Adult / Romance
Vibrant, scale swathed wings… Abilities that can be harnessed by a chosen few… Dragons…
All this may seem like old news, but for seventeen year-old Elena Watkins the world of Paegeia is not finished revealing all its secrets. During a summer break intended for relaxation, she discovers that her harrowing adventure to retrieve the King of Lion sword wasn’t the destiny foretold by the cryptic Viden, a dragon with the ability to see a person’s true fate. The words inked onto the page of the mysterious Book of Shadows remains black and Elena must return to Dragonia Academy to discover their true meaning.
Upon her return to the magnificent castle she has to face a challenge of a different kind, keeping her boyfriend Lucian McKenzie, the Prince of Tith and love of her life, away from the dangerous new student, Paul Sutton. As a Wyvern, Paul has made it his mission to claim Elena as his rider but he is proving to be more perilous than at first glance.
Everyone knew that Wyverns were bad news, and just as evil as the darkness that lurked inside Blake Leaf, the Rubicon forced to fight against his inner nature every day. But Elena can see a small light lurking in the darkness, a destiny still unfulfilled; to prove that Wyverns can be claimed.
Will Lucian’s dark secret about Wyverns and Elena’s need to prove their true nature cause their love to be torn apart? And which of Elena’s friends will be sacrificed this time if she is wrong?
Drift
Adrienne Young
Fantasy / Young Adult
After leaving the only family she's ever had on the Marigold, Willa has made a new start on a remote island carving out her own stake in the future of the Narrows. She's found an unexpected business partner in Koy and whether she likes it or not, they are suited in more ways than one. Together they plan to turn Jeval into the farthest reaching port before the waters of the Unnamed Sea. But when the Saltblood ships docking in their newly minted harbor start bringing unsettling news from Bastian that could mean trouble for the Narrows, Willa's determination to walk a path apart from her brother West will be tested. The more serious the situation gets, the more she's forced to rely on Koy, and she discovers that he's more than an opportunity to create her own destiny. He also just might be the safest harbor she's ever known.
Fade to Black
Adrienne Kress
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Children's, Young Adult / Steampunk
An all-new original novel from the twisted world of the hit horror video game, Bendy!Rose is excited to start her first real job at a television studio! When she arrives at the office in Manhattan, she is immediately thrown into the chaos and meets a charming man named Joey Drew. He likes her spirit and hires her as the personal assistant on his new animated Bendy television show.Rose is thrilled by the opportunity to work with Joey, and on top of that, her family is selected to be one of his "test families." Joey has some new technology that he is experimenting with, and it may have something to do with mysterious ink. He sends a pair of 3D glasses and a brand-new television to Rose's home, and her brother can't wait to try them out. But the glasses may just be a little too real . . .What happens when the line between imagination and reality starts to blur? And why does Rose keep seeing Bendy everywhere she goes?
Firebolt
Adrienne Woods
Fantasy / Young Adult / Romance
Dragons. Right. Teenage girls don’t believe in fairy tales, and sixteen-year old Elena Watkins was no different.
Until the night a fairy tale killed her father.
Now Elena’s in a new world, and a new school. The cutest guy around may be an evil dragon, a Prince wants Elena’s heart, and a long dead sorcerer may be waking up to kill her. Oh. And the only way Elena’s going to graduate is on the back of a dragon of her own.
Teenage girls don’t believe in fairy tales. Now it’s time for Elena to believe – in herself.
Moonbeam
Adrienne Woods
Fantasy / Young Adult / Romance
Moonbeam takes place 10 years after last novel, Starlight.
What if your 'what if' becomes an option. Would you change the past?
Dog Collar Crime
Adrienne Giordano
Romance / Mystery & Thrillers
"This mystery will sink its fangs into your funny bone and drag you along by a leash of laughter." — Denise Swanson, New York Times Bestselling Author Dog walking seemed like an innocent job... but the mob has its paws in everything. Lucie Rizzo, investment banker. Status: unemployed. It's a hard fall from grace for Lucie to move back in with her mother until she lands on her feet again. Everything she did before was to get as far away as possible from her mob-infested family. Still, Lucie's determined to make things work. She begins with a part-time gig walking dogs for wealthy clients, and it inspires her to start her own pet accessory line. Frankie Falcone, her smoking-hot ex, wants to start again as if they never stopped. He's no stranger to family ties with "the Family," either, but she's hardly one to throw stones. What does concern Lucie is the kidnappings. Well, petnappings. Someone local is abducting...
Incognito
Part #6 of "Lucie Rizzo Mystery" series by Adrienne Giordano
Romance / Mystery & Thrillers
Smoke Screen
Adrienne Giordano
Romance / Mystery & Thrillers
In the riveting, opposites-attract second installment of Steele Ridge: The Blackwells, a charming recovery agent questions his role in the family business until his next case lands him in the middle of a jewelry heist with an intoxicating museum manager as the prime suspect. Acquisitions manager Maddy Carmichael has an urgent problem. Someone has stolen priceless jewels from the Thompson Presidential Center, including pieces belonging to the Queen of England. The museum's reputation depends on retrieving the jewels before news of the theft leaks, so Maddy turns to Phin Blackwell, of Blackwell Asset Recovery Services. BARS is known for doing whatever it takes to satisfy their clients. When Maddy meets the model-handsome Phin, she wonders how far that policy goes. Phin jumps at the chance to land the Thompson case. Recovering the queen's jewels could cement BARS as one of the top agencies in the field. It's all business, until Phin realizes he...
Once Upon A Dragon Wish
Part #1 of "Once Upon a Dragon" series by Adrienne Woods
Fantasy / Young Adult / Romance
Communication the Cleveland Clinic Way
Adrienne Boissy
The proven strategy for driving patient satisfaction, physician engagement, and better clinical outcomes with improved doctor-patient communication—from the thought leaders at Cleveland Clinic Clinic This book outlines Cleveland Clinic's pioneering, nationally-recognized REDE to CommunicateSM program, which the legendary hospital system has used to become a world leader in relationship-centered communication. It reveals why the Clinic made effective communication a top strategic priority and how it successfully overcame obstacles to implementing it, including internal resistance from physicians, and adapted it for advanced care providers. This practical guide provides the information decision-makers need to design, develop, and implement communication skills training in their own institutions. Learn how to: Cultivate leadership and clinician support for your new patient experience strategy Highlight relationships as a...
Darkbeam V
Adrienne Woods
Fantasy / Young Adult / Romance
The last novel in The Rubicon's story.Blake and Elena need to kill the Saadedine but without the secret ingredient, one of them will die.Blake will give up his life for Elena as a dragon loves differently and will never make it without their rider.When his nightmare comes true, Blake knows just what his orbs are for and prepares himself to travel to the afterlife in order to kick a certain prince's ass, but it's not as easy to enter the afterlife as Blake originally thought and there is a catch.If Elena is in the afterlife, someone needs to give up theirs to send her back, and the Rubicon prepares himself to do anything in his power not to fail his princess.Will Elena and Blake have their forever after, or are the stakes stacked too high against them this time?
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The English Wife
Adrienne Chinn
Two women, a world apart. A secret waiting to be discovered... 'An emotive and engaging read' Rosanna Ley 'Rich, evocative and utterly immersive, this beautifully written book swept me away' Jenny Ashcroft 'Evocative, sensual and authentic' Jane Johnson VE Day 1945 As victory bells ring out across the country, war bride Ellie Burgess' happiness is overshadowed by grief. Her charismatic Canadian husband Thomas is still missing in action. Until a letter arrives explaining Thomas is back home in Newfoundland recovering from his injuries. Travelling to a distant country to live with a man she barely knows is the bravest thing Ellie has ever had to do. But nothing can prepare her for the harsh realities of her new home... September 11th 2001 Sophie Parry is on a plane to New York on the most tragic day in the city's history. While the world watches the news in horror, Sophie's flight is rerouted to a tiny town in Newfoundland and she is forced to seek refuge with her estranged aunt...
Later Poems Selected and New
Adrienne Rich
Poetry / Literature & Fiction / Gay & Lesbian
The final volume of poems assembled by America's most powerful and distinctive poetic voice.In Later Poems: Selected and New 1971–2012, the strong trajectory of the work of one of the most important artists of American letters is on display. This volume brings together a remarkable body of work. Included are Adrienne Rich's own selections from twelve volumes of published works, including the National Book Award–winning Diving Into the Wreck, An Atlas of the Difficult World, and her most recent volume, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve, along with ten powerful new poems, previously uncollected. Among these, "From Strata" is a kind of archaeology of the present day; "Itinerary" searches for an "indefinite future" in a menaced landscape; "For the Young Anarchists" offers a trope of skilled labor for political action; and the haunting voice of "Teethsucking Bird" reminds us of what we have been told to forget. This collection testifies to a...
Bendy
Adrienne Kress
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Children's, Young Adult / Steampunk
Bendy fans will delight in poring over the memoir of his ingenious creator, Joey Drew. From humble beginnings to his meteoric rise as the force behind his eponymous studio, Mr. Drew offers a behind the scenes peek at his many animation innovations, such as Sillivision, his "Rules to Animate By," and of course his unique approach to franchising-among the first of its time. This re-release even includes never before seen information omitted from the original manuscript, cobbled together from the Joey Drew Studios archive as well as Mr. Drew's personal estate. Don't miss this exclusive peek inside the rise-and fall-of one of the most groundbreaking animators in history!
![Beyond Green Fields | Book 3 | Lost & Found [A Post-Apocalyptic Anthology]](https://picture.readfrom.net/img/lecter-adrienne/beyond_green_fields_book_3_lost_and_found_a_post-apocalyptic_anthology.jpg "Beyond Green Fields | Book 3 | Lost & Found [A Post-Apocalyptic Anthology]")
Pride and Paranormal
Adrienne Blake
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single warlock in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a witch! As the only earning daughter in a large family of poor misfit witches, Izzy Bennet needs to focus on her career...not love. When a hot and mysterious warlock, Fitz Darcy, arrives in town, sparks fly––but they're the wrong kind of flame. The new man in town spends half his time bad-mouthing the Bennets, and the other half messing with her sister's love life. So why can't she get Fitz out of her mind? Even though her sister's boyfriend runs off leaving her heartbroken, and Izzy is sure it's all Fitz's doing, he still holds the favor of their small social circle. Surely, not everyone in town can be that delusional? But when her younger sister gets too free-handed with a love potion, she is forced to rely on Fitz's resources to save the foolish young witch from...
The Girl the Sea Gave Back
Adrienne Young
Fantasy / Young Adult
From Adrienne Young, New York Times bestselling author of Sky in the Deep, comes her new gut-wrenching epic The Girl the Sea Gave Back. For as long as she can remember, Tova has lived among the Svell, the people who found her washed ashore as a child and use her for her gift as a Truthtongue. Her own home and clan are long-faded memories, but the sacred symbols and staves inked over every inch of her skin mark her as one who can cast the rune stones and see into the future. She has found a fragile place among those who fear her, but when two clans to the east bury their age-old blood feud and join together as one, her world is dangerously close to collapse. For the first time in generations, the leaders of the Svell are divided. Should they maintain peace or go to war with the allied clans to protect their newfound power? And when their chieftain looks to Tova to cast the stones, she sets into motion a series of events that...
Necromancer Abbey
Adrienne Blake
The dead don't talk...and if they do, Cat Moreland isn't supposed to listen. Cat's inherited dark magic is getting stronger every day, as is her desire to embrace her true self. As she comes of age, the ghostly whispers she shouldn't hear grow louder along with her parent's fears. That's when fate brings Sylvia into her life, an understanding witch that knows Cat's true power—as a necromancer. Sylvia offers her a position at her magic shop in New York where, under the tutelage of a master necromancer, Cat can safely develop her skills. While in New York, Cat meets the handsome Henry Tilney, who becomes her mentor and friend. She harbors a secret love for him and is delighted when he invites her to his family's mysterious mansion, Northanger Abbey. The abbey exists in the heart of New York but remains hidden from the eyes of mortals. At the Abbey, Cat encounters Henry's sister and their disapproving...
Frostbite
Adrienne Woods
Fantasy / Young Adult / Romance
Losing Lucian McKenzie, the Prince of her heart and discovering her true identity has made Elena Watkins' life almost unbearable. However, new trials will test the 17 year-old's strength and push her to limits she didn’t think were possible.
Only a mysterious offer from Blake Leaf, the Rubicon and a dragon predestined for evil, reveals there may be a light at the end of Elena’s dark tunnel.
With the life she thought she knew crashing down around her, Elena will have to face a monumental decision about the fate of Paegeia. She can either make peace with Blake’s demands or try once again to unravel the Queen’s secrets that lie deep within her dragon, Tanya La Frey’s, heart.
The third heart pounding novel in The Dragonian Series by Adrienne Woods
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Carter
Adrienne Bell
Romance / Contemporary
After years of heading an elite Special Forces unit, nothing ever gets past Carter Macmillan. Not until the night reporter Ally Weaver gives him the slip while investigating the death of her confidential informant. Now the pair must work together to expose a deadly conspiracy before they become the next victims, but neither is prepared for the danger the other poses to their heart.After years of heading an elite Special Forces unit, nothing ever gets past Carter Macmillan…until the night slick-talking reporter, Ally Weaver, gives him the slip.Ally Weaver is used to following the story, but she’s never had a lead blow up on her before…literally. Now one of her confidential sources has been murdered, and she’s determined to find out why. But Ally can’t risk drawing anyone else into this violent mess…no matter how skilled--or gorgeous--he may be.But a girl can’t always get what she wants. And when the pair find themselves thrust into the crosshairs of a corrupt politician who would do anything to stay in power, they must work together to expose a deadly conspiracy before they become the next victims. But while both Ally and Carter are willing to put their lives on the line to discover the truth, neither is prepared for the danger the other poses to their heart.***Part romantic comedy, part thriller, and filled with plenty of intrigue, CARTER is the first novel in the Sinner Saints contemporary romance series.***
Maroons
adrienne maree brown
★ Praise for Maroons: "brown's sensational second contribution to AK Press's Black Dawn series.... Equally thrilling and thought-provoking, this will put readers in mind of speculative greats like Octavia Butler and Samuel R. Delaney." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) The search for hope and community in death and desolation. The pandemic of Syndrome H-8 continues to ravage the city of Detroit and everyone in Dune's life. In Maroons, she must learn what community and connection mean in the lonely wake of a fatal virus. Emerging from grief to follow the subtle path of small pleasures through an abandoned urban landscape, she begins finding other unlikely survivors with little in common but the will to live. This second installment of the Grievers trilogy is a tale of survival, of moving beyond seemingly insurmountable devastation toward, if not hope itself, then the...
The Bride Chooses a Highlander
Adrienne Basso
Romance
Scotland, 1335: Marriage between clans is a matter of property and power, rarely love. But the only daughter of Laird McKenna longs for passion—and finds it in a Highlander's arms . . . The unconventional Lady Katherine McKenna has been granted a rare privilege: the right to choose her own husband. It's a more difficult task than she expected. When at last she agrees to a betrothal, it quickly goes awry, leaving Katherine alone in the wilds . . . and rescued by Laird Lachlan MacTavish. She's captivated by the proud, brooding chief who shows her such tender care. But with their clans on the brink of war, the honorable Lachlan resists his attraction—until Katherine proclaims to her family that they will wed. Though stunned by her boldness, Lachlan is intrigued by Katherine's beauty and spirit, and the MacTavishes will benefit from an alliance with the powerful McKennas. But with family discord, treachery, and deceit in their midst, can...
In the Land of Men
Adrienne Miller
One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year: Vogue, Parade, Esquire, Bitch, and Maclean's A New York Times and Washington Post Book to Watch A fiercely personal memoir about coming of age in the male-dominated literary world of the nineties, becoming the first female literary editor of Esquire, and Miller's personal and working relationship with David Foster WallaceA naive and idealistic twenty-two-year-old from the Midwest, Adrienne Miller got her lucky break when she was hired as an editorial assistant at GQ magazine in the mid-nineties. Even if its sensibilities were manifestly mid-century—the martinis, powerful male egos, and unquestioned authority of kings—GQ still seemed the red-hot center of the literary world. It was there that Miller began learning how to survive in a man's world. Three years later, she forged...
A New Pair of Bloody Wings
Adrienne Gordon
Fantasy / Young Adult / Science Fiction
Anna is going through some changes. She tries to find out what's going on from her mother, but the chase has begun, and they both must run for their lives.Anna must leave all she's known, and become something new and different, if she is to survive. And yet, when peace is in sight, she must make the most terrible decision she could imagine.This story is part one of the Bloody Wings series.When a teenager is found dead by the roadside under strange circumstances Chief Jim Hawk has to find the killer. A man fulfills his dream about finding a lost city deep in the jungle, but what he finds will not only change him forever, but will also bring death to a small town. If you have read about "The highway of Tears", this novella might be for you.
The Wedding Trap
Adrienne Bell
Romance / Contemporary
Everyone is expecting Beth Bradley's successful boyfriend, Charlie, to be her date at her best friend's wedding, but there's a hitch. He isn't real. Alex Tanner needs a cover to finish his search for a traitor. When Beth tries to blackmail him into pretending to be Charlie, he thinks he's found the solution. But when the man Alex hunts comes after Beth, Alex has to choose between duty and love.Beth Bradley has a problem. Everyone is expecting her successful music executive boyfriend, Charlie, to be her date for her best friend’s wedding. There’s one hitch: Charlie doesn’t exist. Unless she can think of something fast, she’s headed for the most humiliating weekend of her life.Alex Tanner has a problem. The former Navy SEAL's search for a double agent lands him at the Kensington Hotel, and he needs a cover to finish the job. When the sexy maid of honor blackmails him into pretending to be her lover, he thinks he's been handed the solution.Except Beth has a way of stumbling into trouble, and when the man Alex is hunting starts targeting Beth, Alex has to decide between duty and the woman who has stolen his heart.
The Mermaid With Two Tails : Star of the Sea Novellas Book One
Adrienne Mione
All Maria wanted to do was get married and wait for the village to forget about her malformed tail...
When Maria and Andrea are kidnapped by pirates, the half-mermaid sisters must find a way to escape their captors and return home. But as their misadventure takes the sisters further and further from their small ocean village, they begin to question the things they've been told about the surface world and the humans who inhabit it.
The Mermaid with Two Tails is the first installment of the Star of the Sea novella series that follows Maria and Andrea, two half-mermaid sisters, and their adventures in the magical world of Remar.
Darkbeam Part IV
Adrienne Woods
Fantasy / Young Adult / Romance
The 4th part of The Rubicon's story. Blake Leaf is experiencing a lot of new feelings after the Dent, and because of his past, the princess of Paegeia isn't making it easy to trust him. Only time and breaking her layers will show her that he'd change. Their bond has to heal first in order to succeed freeing the people of Etan. He hopes that his secrets and past isn't going to come back and mess up his progress.
Innocence
Adrienne Woods
Fantasy / Young Adult / Romance
Welcome to Beaumont Academy! We're here to mold your supernatural abilities into the best they can be.Remember to submit your abilities test results, or we will deny your application. After Maxima Lane turns into a bat, her acceptance into Beaumont Academy was a given.It means freedom from her horrid stepmother and equally terrible stepsisters.However, her freedom isn't long lived as her stepmother claims she doesn't have the x-gene and if Max can't turn into a bat before the Magic Sector comes, she might get expelled from school. Gabriel Hendrix's life is simple. Capture the villains and don't fall for a witch.Until he meets Maxima Lane. She has an X-gene that allows her to turn into a bat. Meaning she can follow the falcon, and he can put a stop to the Shadowed—if only it was that simple.The girl comes with a lot of secrets, and it drives Gabriel insane. Why is her stepmother obsessed with her? Why is there...
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The Lost Letter from Morocco
Adrienne Chinn
A forbidden love affair. A long-buried secret. A journey that will change everything. Morocco, 1984. High in the Atlas Mountains, Hanane's love for Irishman Gus is forbidden. Forced to flee her home with the man she loves, Hanane is certain she's running towards her destiny. But she has made a decision that will haunt her family for years to come. London, 2009. When Addy discovers a mysterious letter in her late father's belongings, she journeys to Morocco in search of answers. But instead, she finds secrets – and is quickly pulled into a world that she doesn't understand. And when history starts to repeat itself, it seems her journey might just change the person she is forever... A heartbreaking story of impossible love and dark family secrets that readers of Dinah Jeffries and Tracy Rees will love. 'The Lost Letter from Morocco has great authenticity, immediacy and is an emotive and engaging read.' Rosanna Ley 'Rich, evocative and utterly immersive, this beautifully written book...
Keeper of the Queen's Jewels: a Novel of Jane Seymour
Adrienne Dillard
Historical Fiction / History / Fiction
Two women with opposing allegiances are bound together by desperate circumstances: one must birth a son to secure the throne. The other hides a dangerous secret that could cost them their lives.No longer the meek and mild, ineffectual queen of the history books, JANE SEYMOUR is reimagined as a woman on the precipice-one misplaced step away from oblivion.In the maid's dormitory, MARGERY HORSMAN struggles as she comes to terms with the fallout of her careless words, uttered recklessly in a fit of envy and greed, ending in the ruin and death of her first love. Surrounded, yet feeling alone and abandoned, Margery searches for her place in the world. When a young widower still grieving over the loss of his wife asks for her hand, Margery steps into a role she never imagined, that of mother to a half-orphaned boy.As religious rebellion threatens to tear the country in two, fortune's wheel turns, and formerly rising stars of the Tudor Court tumble. Amid the...
Sofi and the Bone Song
Adrienne Tooley
In this gorgeous, queer standalone fantasy, a young musician sets out to expose her rival for illegal use of magic only to discover the deception goes deeper than she could have imagined—perfect for fans of An Enchantment of Ravens!Music runs in Sofi's blood. Her father is a Musik, one of only five musicians in the country licensed to compose and perform original songs. In the kingdom of Aell, where winter is endless and magic is accessible to all, there are strict anti-magic laws ensuring music remains the last untouched art. Sofi has spent her entire life training to inherit her father's title. But on the day of the auditions, she is presented with unexpected competition in the form of Lara, a girl who has never before played the lute. Yet somehow, to Sofi's horror, Lara puts on a performance that thoroughly enchants the judges. Almost like magic. The same day Lara wins the title of Musik, Sofi's father dies, and a...
Little Monsters
Adrienne Brodeur
Autobiography / Memoir / Nonfiction
From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complicated families, and long-buried secrets—for fans of the New York Times bestsellers The Paper Palace and Ask Again, Yes.Ken and Abby Gardner lost their mother when they were small and they have been haunted by her absence ever since. Their father, Adam, a brilliant oceanographer, raised them mostly on his own in his remote home on Cape Cod, where the attachment between Ken and Abby deepened into something complicated—and as adults their relationship is strained. Now, years later, the siblings' lives are still deeply entwined. Ken is a successful businessman with political ambitions and a picture-perfect family and Abby is a talented visual artist who depends on her brother's goodwill, in part because he owns the studio where she lives and works. As the novel opens, Adam is approaching his seventieth birthday, staring down his...
Light
Adrienne Woods
Fantasy / Young Adult / Romance
Mr. Sandman, send me a dream, ta da da da…..
Seventeen year old Chastity Blake knows the Sandman is just a silly children’s story parents tell their children to get them to sleep. At least she thought it was, until the day a mysterious, light golden sand appeared in her hands during a high school prank that went horribly wrong. A sand that has the power to send anyone it touches into a deep, sound sleep.
Fearing she had lost her mind, Chastity soon discovers the shocking truth of her heritage – she is a Dream Caster. Chastity was never supposed to be raised on the Domain, or what humans call Earth and she is forced to return to her true birth place, Revera – the world of Dreams.
However, in Revera there is no balance between good, the Light Casters, and darkness, the Shadow Casters, and Chastity is caught square in the middle. She soon learns that there is no place for anyone containing both the light and the darkness within them, and the shocking truth that if anyone in Revera ever discovered her shadow self, Chastity would be thrown into the Oblivion – the world of Nightmares.
Dreams are always more than they seem, and this time Chastity is going to discover just how different they can be.
Every Bit a Rogue
Adrienne Basso
Romance
When a young lady sacrifices her reputation to save a viscount, it's the beginning of an extraordinary adventure in Adrienne Basso's captivating Regency tale . . . Jon Burwell, Viscount Kendall, knows what the gossips say about him. They claim he's been a dejected, half-mad recluse ever since he was jilted at the altar. The simple truth is that Jon has thrown all the passion he once had for his fiancée into his latest mechanical invention. But his single-minded existence has lately been shattered by repeated encounters with Miss Emma Ellingham, his neighbor's intriguing sister-in-law . . . Painting and sketching have been Emma's consolation since her own secret heartbreak. When she stumbles upon the viscount's workshop, his machine revives her artistic imagination. The gentleman himself is even more fascinating—and deeply seductive. When Jon is accused of a crime, Emma risks her good name for his sake. But though the threat of scandal compels...
Forbidden
Adrienne Woods
Fantasy / Young Adult / Romance
This is not The Little Red Riding Hood we grew up with.
Supernatural races—vampires, werewolves, witches, you name it—all exist.
Eighteen-year-old Rue Chaperon and her family belong to an elite hunting society, the S.H.A—Supernatural Hunting Association—and what the Chaperons hunt best are werewolves.
When a new hunting group convinces the Chaperons to team up with them and try a different approach to hunting the supernatural by taking out the Alpha, it sounded like a great idea. Taking out the Alpha meant they'd eradicate the entire race. Piece of cake, right?
But nothing is ever easy when you're a hunter.
A Little Red Riding Hood retelling with a spin that will make you believe not all fairytales were meant for children
Green Fields (Book 10): Uprising:
Part #10 of "Green Fields" series by Lecter, Adrienne
Horror / Zombies
Emergence
Adrienne Gordon
Fantasy / Young Adult / Science Fiction
Her life destroyed in the Second Apocalypse, Melissa sets out alone to become an Archsussa and save her family, but gains weight as a result of the need to remain awake continuously for training. Melissa struggles with self-esteem and acceptance as she journeys to make new friends and avenge the death of her father by defeating the Freilux.Her life destroyed in the Second Apocalypse, Melissa sets out alone to become an Archsussa and save her family, but gains weight as a result of the need to remain awake continuously for training. When she comes across Richard and his scientists, will Melissa find acceptance or rejection because she is an overweight Archsussa? Why does Richard's brother Vincent take a liking to her, and what dark power does he hide? And why does the young girl in the old photograph look so much like her – is it an evil reflection of herself? Melissa struggles with self-esteem and acceptance as she journeys to make new friends and avenge the death of her father by defeating the Freilux.
Shifted
Adrienne Woods
Fantasy / Young Adult / Romance
Pointy ears-check, third-eye induced headaches-check, fighting against a Dark Phoenix Griffin who wants to turn you into the Ultimate Weapon to kill the king... not happening. At Seventeen, Sophie Emerson discovers her identity as a Spirit fae at the prestigious Earwyn Academy of Concordia. It is an identity she welcomes. She can do without the skull-splitting headaches induced by learning to control her clairvoyant powers, though. She'll also love it if someone can tell her why she sees herself in a dream surrounded by nine children who are channeling their powers into her to become a monster that will destroy Concordia. When three kids disappear from the village, Sophie learns that the Dark Griffin abducted six other children two years ago. The dream shows her she is the last piece to become the Dark Griffin's Ultimate Weapon, and he will abduct her next. Sophie needs a plan when she wakes up in a cell with the nine...
Bloody Wings Part II: The Unending Storm
Adrienne Gordon
Fantasy / Young Adult / Science Fiction
Anna has lost her mother, father, and the home she grew up in, but at last she is making steps forward. Russell is interested, and eager in her, until the snow begins to fall.The elohim have arrived, those creatures with teeth, and with them is a young red boy with a very large knife. The time of the decimation is at hand, and no one, not even Anna, is guaranteed survival.Teresa D. Patterson, author of Project Queen, delivers a gritty, gripping tale of urban life with no sugarcoating.How far would you go to clean up your 'hood?Tired of constantly reading headlines about the violence being committed in his community, Xavier Brunswick decides to form Brothers Takin’ Over (BTO) with three of his childhood friends. BTO’s original intention is to help clean up the ‘hood, but large egos and clashing personalities causes them to lose focus of their main goal. In addition to dealing with BTO, Xavier ‘s problems at home continue to fester. He’s angry at his father who is “passing” for white and vows to never become like him. Just when he thinks things can get no worse, his dope-fiend brother, Woodrow, returns from the streets and throws the family into chaos. Having to deal with back-stabbing friends, an alcoholic father, and a crack-head brother is almost more than Xavier can bear. How much can he endure before he finally snaps?
Sense and Succubus
Adrienne Blake
"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a goblin I can really love." Jane Austen. A bit. Everything Elinor Dashwood held dear is lost when her father blows his fortune at the casino tables then dies from the shame of it. Her half-brother and his grasping goblin wife have always despised their dryad half-sisters. They lose no time at all in kicking them out of their house. Before they leave, Elinor meets Edward, a half-goblin who shares none of his sister's wickedness. His compassion wins Elinor over, and she soon falls in love. But her heart is broken when she learns Edward is secretly bonded to a sexy succubus and though her soul tells her he loves her, she knows he can never be hers. Their fortune seems to change when the family's invited to live in a small cottage in Maine. Elinor's heartbreak lingers but her younger sister Marianne has more luck and is wooed by a handsome...
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Six Angry Girls
Adrienne Kisner
Young Adult / Gay and Lesbian
Adrienne Kisner's Six Angry Girls is a story of mock trial, feminism, and the inherent power found in a pair of knitting needles. Raina Petree is crushing her senior year, until her boyfriend dumps her, the drama club (basically) dumps her, the college of her dreams slips away, and her arch-nemesis triumphs. Things aren't much better for Millie Goodwin. Her father treats her like a servant, and the all-boy Mock Trial team votes her out, even after she spent the last three years helping to build its success.But then, an advice columnist unexpectedly helps Raina find new purpose in a pair of knitting needles and a politically active local yarn store. This leads to an unlikely meeting in the girls' bathroom, where Raina inspires Millie to start a rival team. The two join together and recruit four other angry girls to not only take on Mock Trial, but to smash the patriarchy in the process.
The Great American Bachelor
Adrienne Staff
Romance / Category Romance / Loveswept
From Adrienne Staff and Sally Goldenbaum comes the story of a small-town girl who shows a high-powered bachelor that some things in life are more important than the perfect deal. Cathy Stephenson moves from rural Indiana to Florida seeking a new start in paradise. Shortly after she arrives, however, a car accident plunges Cathy into the ocean. Luckily a gorgeous, dark-haired stranger--who just so happens to be America's most eligible bachelor, according to Time magazine--saves her from a watery demise, kick-starting a romantic journey that changes Cathy's life forever. Michael Winters is an intense workaholic with no time for love and affection. Even after he plucks a beautiful damsel in distress from the ocean and onto his yacht, Michael has no intention of slowing down. He must make an important meeting in the Caribbean--whether the naive girl from the Midwest likes it or not. But when a sudden storm maroons the mismatched pair on a desert...
Salt and Ashes
Adrienne Drobnies
Out of dried tears and burnt matter comes fertile ground, new nourishment. A woman traveller walks up and down a mountain, back and forth through a quarter of Grenoble over the course of many months, experiencing anticipatory grief and later bereavement over the loss of a spouse. With little to anchor her, claim her, as she walks poems begin to seek her out. Poems of dislocation, cultural migration, rage, healing and transformation spring forth and set root – poems that transform the vocabulary of science, its language and concepts, into poems that encounter the natural world with an intensity and clarity that direct us to the core of our humanity and the tender parts of our being.These poems are crafted out of the language of dreams, mythologies, and inventions. Laced with subtle humour, irony and surprising turns, they return us to the place of origin seen anew. Like the egg and bitter herbs dipped in salt at the Seder Table, they remind us that beyond pain and...
Moonbreeze
Adrienne Woods
Fantasy / Young Adult / Romance
PLEASE NOTE: SENSITIVE CONTENT END OF PART TWO. Book's release date will be 20TH OF OCTOBER 2015.
The life or a star-studded royal has not been kind to eighteen-year-old Elena Watkins. With a Council breathing down her neck and a dragon that refuses to accept her as his rider, she must convince everyone that she is ready to rule Paegeia like her parents before her. But she has made a promise to her father, King Albert, that she will not go looking for him and free the people of Etan. Elena has promised to never truly fulfill her destiny.
However, situations out of her control will soon force her to confront herself and the evil that seeks to destroy her. Elena must look inside of herself to discover if she can defeat the approaching darkness, be accepted by the people of Paegeia, bring her dragon back to light and fulfill the destiny written in their stars.
Crescent Gorge
Adrienne Gordon
Fantasy / Young Adult / Science Fiction
The small college town of Crescent has been home to many sources of evil through the years, but none can compare to what is being cultivated now, what has grown in a small potted plant. It all centers around the boarding school of Alliance, and six teens who are trying to find their place in the world, who are willing to use anything, no matter the source, to help them get there.The small college town of Crescent has been home to many sources of evil through the years, but none can compare to what is being cultivated now, what has grown in a small potted plant. It all centers around the boarding school of Alliance, and six teens who are trying to find their place in the world, who are willing to use anything, no matter the source, to help them get there. Rachel may be the beacon of morality, Bill the epitome of friendship, but can either make the right choice when offered more than they could ever dream of? Could the weakest of them actually hold the key to their salvation?This is Part One of Crescent Gorge.
The Paris Sister
Adrienne Chinn
Three sisters separated by distance but bound by love The Fry sisters enter the Roaring Twenties forever changed by their experiences during the Great War. Now, as each of their lives unfold in different corners of the globe, they come to realise that the most important bond is that of family. Desperate to save the man she loves, Etta leaves behind the life she has made for herself in Capri and enters the decadent world of Parisian society with all its secrets and scandals. Celie's new life on the Canadian prairies brings mixed blessings – a daughter to adore, but a husband who isn't the man who holds her heart. In Egypt, Jessie's world is forever changed by a devastating loss. And back in London – where each of their adventures began – their mother Christina watches as the pieces of her carefully orchestrated existence begin to shatter...with implications for them all... Readers are loving The Paris Sister: 'It was wonderful to catch up with the Fry sisters again, after enjoying...
Technical
Adrienne Thompson
Romance / Women's Fiction / Religion & Spirituality
Technically, they just met.Technically, they shouldn't be in love.But who cares about technicalities?Drayveon Walker is touted as one of the most talented players in the history of the game, instrumental in the St. Louis Cyclones' two championship victories. Benevolent, focused, and driven, he has it all, lacking nothing he could ever want or need. When Stevie October crashes into his life, Drayveon sees in her something he never realized he desired.They've only just met, but the connection is strong and the feelings are real. Could their serendipitous love be kismet?
Buoyancy Control
Adrienne Gruber
Buoyancy Control, the latest collection of poems from Vancouverite Adrienne Gruber, explores themes of sexuality, sexual identity, and queerness, while confronting the feelings of loss and longing found in relationships, and the chance glimpse into a new life, while still recovering from a painfully failed connection.Metaphors of oceans, lakes, and other bodies of water, as well as the creatures that inhabit those spaces, swim and swirl their way through Gruber's languid poems, which are divided into two evocative sections. Though distinguished by their own prologue poems, both sections reveal details of the narrator's examination of life, but from two different perspectives: Section 1, Terra Firma, is an exploration of place, of what we consider solid and secure, and how solidity can betray us. In contrast, Section 2, A mari usque ad maria, brings the reader into themes of water and the fluidity of identity, particularly sexual identity and queerness.This is an honest,...
Living Quarters
Adrienne Su
Living Quarters uses both the structure of a domestic space and the rhythms of the seasons to seek, but not reliably find, order and consolation in life's seeming disorder. Relationships dissolve; deaths come too soon; the past vanishes; the earth that gives beautiful and nourishing foods swallows up the creatures for whom it provides. These poems struggle with that mix of affirmation and destruction, celebrating nature's generosity while trying to make peace with its cruelty.Thought-provoking poems reflect an intimate internal dialogue, addressing, among other ideas, Is it really safer at home, or are there perils within our closest relationships, in daily domestic ritual? And where is home, when people are constantly moving, marriages dissolving, new relationships beginning and ending? When is a house just a house, and when does it become a home? Cooking warms a house and gives it a feeling of home, but does there also need to be a surrounding, anchoring...
Wild Game
Adrienne Brodeur
Autobiography / Memoir / Nonfiction
A daughter's tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity.
Sweet & Bitter Magic
Adrienne Tooley
In this charming debut fantasy perfect for fans of Sorcery of Thorns and Girls of Paper and Fire, a witch cursed to never love meets a girl hiding her own dangerous magic, and the two strike a dangerous bargain to save their queendom.Tamsin is the most powerful witch of her generation. But after committing the worst magical sin, she's exiled by the ruling Coven and cursed with the inability to love. The only way she can get those feelings back—even for just a little while—is to steal love from others. Wren is a source—a rare kind of person who is made of magic, despite being unable to use it herself. Sources are required to train with the Coven as soon as they discover their abilities, but Wren—the only caretaker to her ailing father—has spent her life hiding her secret. When a magical plague ravages the queendom, Wren's father falls victim. To save him, Wren proposes a bargain: if Tamsin will help her catch...
Preference
Adrienne Woods
Fantasy / Young Adult / Romance
In her second year at Beaumond Academy, Max is still struggling to face the fact that her X-Gene has changed and that her boyfriend, Ben Vogue, is truly gone.She feels like she's drowning and has trouble connecting with animals. It all changes when her two Commanders try to help her connect, and she comes to know who they both truly are underneath the uniforms.When a mock-up mission breaks down the magic that her father placed on her as a child, Max is confronted with a lot more than who she is.Gabriel tries his best to hide the Ahmdahney from everyone close to him, especially Max, but needs to help her as she is drowning in sorrow.What he didn't bargain on was the mock-up mission turning into a real one. Almost losing Max makes him realize just how important she is to him. But what if it's too late?Will Max find a way to forgive Gabriel and finally give him a chance? And will Gabriel be honest with Max for once about who she truly is to...
Dreams Come to Life
Adrienne Kress
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Children's, Young Adult / Steampunk
Seventeen-year-old Buddy has spent most of his life trying to escape the Lower East Side slums of New York City. Working as a delivery boy to support his family, Buddy wants to become an artist, a dream he's sure will never be realized. But that all changes when a delivery job puts him face-to-face with Mister Joey Drew, the eccentric owner of an animation studio.Mister Drew takes Buddy under his wing as an apprentice, thrusting him into a world unlike anything Buddy has ever seen before. There's the colorful cast of the studio, from the cranky, yet driven composer Sammy Lawrence to Dot, the writing intern and Buddy's counterpart. Working for Mister Drew, Buddy starts to think that maybe it's really as simple as Mister Drew says: Dreams do come true. But not everything at the studio is as picture-perfect as it seems . . .Something is going bump in the night at Joey Drew Studios, something that leaves behind trails of thick, dark ink. While the studio frantically...
The Confusion of Laurel Graham
Adrienne Kisner
Young Adult / Gay and Lesbian
Seventeen-year-old Laurel Graham has a singular, all-consuming ambition in this life: become the most renown nature photographer and birder in the world. The first step to birding domination is to win the junior nature photographer contest run by prominent Fauna magazine. Winning runs in her blood—her beloved activist and nature-loving grandmother placed when she was a girl. One day Gran drags Laurel out on a birding expedition where the pair hear a mysterious call that even Gran can't identify. The pair vow to find out what it is together, but soon after, Gran is involved in a horrible car accident. Now that Gran is in a coma, so much of Laurel's world is rocked. Her gran's house is being sold, developers are coming in to destroy the nature sanctuary she treasures, and she still can't seem to identify the mystery bird. Laurel's confusion isn't just a group of warblers—it's about what means the most to her, and what she's willing to do to fight...
Plague
Adrienne Dellwo
What if you became what you despised?And the hate group you once called home planned a violent terror attack,And only you could stop them?Fledgling superhero Zeke Shepherd must overcome all his fears to save lives. And time is running out.