Annika Alone

Annika Alone
Author: Sharon Graham
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2022-02-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1663229937

It is 1865 in New York City as fourteen-year-old Annika Svensson inks her mamma’s death date into the family Bible. As she looks around her sparsely furnished live-in maid quarters and contemplates her future, her employer’s husband, Walter Brown, creeps into her room under the cover of darkness and rapes her. When Annika realizes she is pregnant, she is seemingly left without options until she writes to her mamma’s cousin, Noak, and his wife, Kjerstin, for help. After she confronts Brown and resigns, Noak arrives to accompany Annika by train and steamboat to Stillwater, Minnesota, where they are met by Noak’s neighbor, Oscar. When Annika reveals she is with child, Noak and Kjerstin urge her to consider marriage. After Annika rejects Oscar’s attempts to woo her and he leaves town, she gives birth to a son. But when a letter brings news of Brown’s death and his wife’s invitation for her to return, Annika embarks on a journey of self-discovery that leads her to God and ultimately into the arms of the one who unconditionally loves her. Annika Alone is the historical tale of a teen servant’s determined quest to escape her dark past in New York City and carve out a new beginning in Minnesota.

My Name Is Elizabeth!

My Name Is Elizabeth!
Author: Annika Dunklee
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2011-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1554535603

Kids will relate to Elizabeth's fervent wish to be called by her proper name.

Hidden Among the Stars

Hidden Among the Stars
Author: Melanie Dobson
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2018
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1496417321

From the award-winning author of "Catching the Wind" comes another gripping time-slip novel about hidden treasure, a castle, and ordinary people who resisted evil in their own extraordinary way.

Daughters of the Colder Ocean

Daughters of the Colder Ocean
Author: Sheri Murphy
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2022-05-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1649794703

Written as a sequel to In the Service of the King, Daughters of The Colder Ocean continues the adventures of The Sea King and his magical lineage of The Tuatha De Danann, a powerful and magical race of healers who settled in Ireland, then suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. Torn between two forces; to save the oceans or to save humanity, the Sea King must join forces with either Annika Temple or the queen of the Rusalki. Annika Temple found herself numb with shock after the police showed up at her door to inform her of the plane that crashed into the ocean on its way to Russia, leaving no survivors. Losing her entire family, she found herself alone on the family farm, struggling to function until she found herself pulled into a life of mystery and intrigue, and that she was chosen to help save the entire human race from annihilation. Learning to find her strength and courage, she is confronted by Queen Dannika, queen of the Rusalki, who has devised a plan to stop humans from polluting the oceans. Queen Dannika’s plan consisted of annihilating all humans due to seeing many of her Rusalki become terribly ill from the pollution in the oceans, and finding thousands of sharks suffering horrific and painful deaths after their fins were removed. Although, on opposing sides, both Queen Dannika's mission to save the ocean and all sea life, and Annika's mission to save all of humanity needed help from The Sea King and his family of healers, whose underwater kingdom is also threatened with the ravages of pollution.

Red Wolf

Red Wolf
Author: Liza Marklund
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2010-10-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307358461

In the middle of the freezing winter, a journalist is murdered in the northern Swedish town of Lulea. Crime reporter Annika Bengtzon suspects that the killing is linked to an attack against an air base in the late sixties. Against the explicit orders of her boss, Annika continues her investigation of the death, which is soon followed by a series of shocking murders. Annika quickly finds herself drawn into a spiral of terrorism and violence centered around a small communist group called The Beasts. Meanwhile, her marriage starts to slide, and in the end she is not only determined to find out the truth, but also forced to question her own husband's honesty.

House of Fate

House of Fate
Author: Barbara Ann Wright
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2017-08-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1626397791

Judit has one duty: to guard the chosen one, he who will unite two warring, star-spanning houses in marriage. Simple, if she wasn’t already in love with the bride-to-be. As far as anyone knows, Annika has been raised to be the perfect bride and future matriarch. Secretly, she’s an assassin ordered to usurp the chosen one’s mind and kill anyone who gets in her way. When the political landscape shifts, murders and abductions threaten to tear the galaxy apart. Judit and Annika race to uncover the source of the strife. It must be someone powerful and bold enough to risk throwing whole star systems into ruin, someone who could change destinies and bring two lovers together, if they survive.

Riveted

Riveted
Author: Meljean Brook
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2012-09-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101611359

The New York Times bestselling author of The Iron Duke and Heart of Steel returns to the Iron Seas with a riveting new adventure of steampunk and passionate romance… A century after a devastating volcanic eruption forced Iceland’s inhabitants to abandon its shores, the island became shrouded in secrecy. Five years ago, Annika unwittingly endangered that secret, but her sister Källa took the blame and was exiled. Now Annika serves on the airship Phatéon, flying from port to port in search of her sister and longing to return home. But that home is threatened when expedition leader David Kentewess comes aboard. Determined to solve the mystery of his own origin, David will stop at nothing to expose Annika’s secrets. But when disaster strikes, leaving David and Annika stranded on a glacier and pursued by a madman, their very survival depends on keeping the heat rising between them—and generating lots of steam…

Ruin and Rising

Ruin and Rising
Author: Leigh Bardugo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2015-08-18
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250063167

The Grishaverse will be coming to Netflix soon with Shadow and Bone, an original series Enter the Grishaverse with Book Three of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom. Soldier. Summoner. Saint.The nation's fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army. The Darkling rules from his shadow throne while a weakened Alina Starkov recovers from their battle under the dubious protection of the zealots who worship her as a Saint. Now her hopes lie with the magic of a long-vanished ancient creature and the chance that an outlaw prince still survives. As her allies and enemies race toward war, only Alina stands between her country and a rising tide of darkness that could destroy the world. To win this fight, she must seize a legend's power--but claiming the firebird may be her ruin. A New York Times Bestselling Series A USA Today Bestseller This title has Common Core connections. Praise for the Grishaverse "A master of fantasy." --The Huffington Post "Utterly, extremely bewitching." --The Guardian "The best magic universe since Harry Potter." --Bustle "This is what fantasy is for." --The New York Times Book Review " A] world that feels real enough to have its own passport stamp." --NPR "The darker it gets for the good guys, the better." --Entertainment Weekly "Sultry, sweeping and picturesque. . . . Impossible to put down." --USA Today "There's a level of emotional and historical sophistication within Bardugo's original epic fantasy that sets it apart." --Vanity Fair "Unlike anything I've ever read." --Veronica Roth, bestselling author of Divergent "Bardugo crafts a first-rate adventure, a poignant romance, and an intriguing mystery " --Rick Riordan, bestselling author of the Percy Jackson series "This is a great choice for teenage fans of George R.R. Martin and J.R.R. Tolkien." --RT Book Reviews Read all the books in the Grishaverse The Shadow and Bone Trilogy (previously published as The Grisha Trilogy) Shadow and Bone Siege and Storm Ruin and Rising The Six of Crows Duology Six of Crows Crooked Kingdom King of Scars The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

Pirate’s Protector

Pirate’s Protector
Author: Lisa Kessler
Publisher: Entangled: Amara
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2022-06-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1649373589

After two centuries as an immortal pirate, Duke Proctor figures he’s experienced pretty much everything. Which is exactly when he finds himself held at gunpoint...by a mermaid. But the exquisitely lush blonde—whose eyes are deeper than the sea—is here for a reason. Someone has stolen from her and she’s certain Duke is behind it. Annika Mare knows for a fact that the Sea Dog’s crew has her comb. In the wrong hands, it places Annika under the control of whoever wields it. But the comb has been taken—and working with this unbelievably sexy human pirate to recover it poses an entirely different kind of threat. Now these two immortals must find the thief, and fast. But there are other forces at work, bigger than Duke or Annika could possibly know. And a powerful artifact in the hands of evil isn’t nearly as dangerous as the sizzlingly-hot attraction that could engulf them both... Each book in the Sentinels of Savannah series is STANDALONE: * Magnolia Mystic * Pirate's Passion * Pirate's Pleasure * Pirate's Persuasion * Pirate's Promise * Pirate’s Paradox * Pirate’s Protector * The Captain’s Curse

Now Starring Vivien Leigh Reid

Now Starring Vivien Leigh Reid
Author: Yvonne Collins
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2006-01-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780312338398

Vivien decides to spend a summer with her mother and gets a part in a soap-opera.