Blood of the Fae

Blood of the Fae
Author: Tom Mohan
Publisher: BHC Press/Open Window
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2018-11-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1947727990

Liza McCarthy has never known the love she so desperately craves. The illegitimate child of a broken marriage, the identity of her father and her heritage are a well-kept secret. When she receives a call from a mysterious woman claiming her life is in danger, she manages to flee just before two men break into her home. She soon finds herself in the tiny midwestern town of Halden’s Mill. There she is taken in by the Finns, a mysterious family who claim to guard the entrance to the fabled land of the faerie. Liza is slowly drawn into a world of monsters, dark magic and a host of peculiar townsfolk. Now she must rethink everything she’s ever known and seek her destiny before two worlds collide with a force that could mean the end of the human race.

Decision and Dissent

Decision and Dissent
Author: David Brianza
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 1007
Release: 2012-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1475957513

Meet Alyssa Dashiell-attractive, gifted young attorney, relishing the wellearned reward of a few moments to herself behind the wheel of a founding partner's Bugatti Veyron, the world's fastest car. Powerless to resist taking the once-in-a-lifetime experience to its extreme, she gains the attention of Police Officer Connor Daeman-an encounter that proves life-changing for both in ways neither could imagine. A fast-flowing chain of events rapidly unfolds; enthralling, hold-yourbreath occurrences that lead inexorably to what will be called the trial of the century-a powerful courtroom drama, as provocative as it is divisive, that pits two of the world's finest lawyers against each other in a contest that puts everything on the line, with the potential to abolish centuries of hard-earned rights for millions. It is a trial, controversial, incendiary, and tainted with madness, that sets the stage to blow the lid off the naïve belief that there are some things that just can't happen in America. Suspenseful, alarming, and destined for controversy, Decision and Dissent is to be counted among those rare novels that require courage on the part of the reader; virtually every page will affect the reader like no story he or she has ever read before. Explosive action, humour, and provocative points of view expressed by characters who leap to life will hold the reader spellbound to the very last page.

Alone With The Bad Boy

Alone With The Bad Boy
Author: Suzana Thompson
Publisher: SHADOWSWEPT PUBLISHING LLC
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2021-04-27
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1735885398

Alone overnight at the store with the school bad boy. That's not what I planned on when I hid in the bathroom until well after closing. I thought I was by myself, which was why I started trying on clothes outside the dressing room. I wasn't expecting to be caught in my underwear by anyone. Least of all by the intimidating guy everyone warned me was dangerous. If that isn't bad enough, he is also my secret crush.

Inside...The Mind of A Man!

Inside...The Mind of A Man!
Author: Stacey Green
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2013-06-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1304165396

From a teen running the streets learning about life on his own, to a successful adult with an established career, Jay learned many of life's lessons the hard way. Fear of failure has always forced him to keep love at bay. Loving many but never falling 'in' love with any.

Reunited with Her Italian Billionaire

Reunited with Her Italian Billionaire
Author: Nina Singh
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2018-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488089450

It started with a marriage for their baby… Now Marco’s back—to claim his wife for real! Brianna’s marriage to Italian tycoon Marco Dirici was for the sake of their unexpected baby. But Brianna needs the one thing she’s realized Marco can never give her—love. Fleeing to New York with her young son, Brianna tries to forget the magic of her husband’s touch. Until Marco arrives on her doorstep, determined to reclaim his family!

The Ex Who Conned a Psychic

The Ex Who Conned a Psychic
Author: Sally Berneathy
Publisher: Sally Berneathy
Total Pages:
Release: 2014-05-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1939551161

Amanda is still haunted by her ex-husband, Charley…literally haunted. He’s stuck between this life and the next, unable to move on, unable to get more than a couple of hundred feet away from Amanda and unwilling to go even that far. She’d like to take a shower without worrying about him peeking, to have a phone conversation without him listening and commenting, to have a date with the hot Detective Jake Daggett. Jake has asked, but a threesome with Charley doesn’t sound like fun. Her new friend Teresa, a professional psychic and medium, may be able to help. However, before she moves Charley on to the next life, she needs his help in contacting her own dead husband to find out who murdered him. His ghost isn’t talking, and if they can’t find his killer, Teresa could go to prison. Amanda would lose not only a friend but also the possibility of getting rid of Charley. The facilities for spiritual progression in prison are limited. While Amanda is trying to help Teresa find her husband’s murderer, a man from Charley’s past shows up with a document signed by Charley giving him possession of Amanda’s motorcycle shop and apartment. Surely Ronald Collins doesn’t really believe he can get away with that, but after he shoots Amanda’s live oak tree and burns her truck, she realizes the man is serious…and psychotic. Amanda just wanted to get rid of her ghost. Now she has a killer, a crazy man, and two ghosts in her life.

Hurry Please I Want to Know

Hurry Please I Want to Know
Author: Paul Griner
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2015-04-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1941411010

An otherworldly short story collection that shines “a glaring light on the complexities of human personality and family relationships” (Kirkus Reviews). “Paul Griner is a daredevil storyteller. . . . Anyone who cares about the short story—or just loves good writing—should make a beeline for this remarkable collection.” —Tom Perotta, author of The Leftovers The stories in Hurry Please I Want to Know invite urgent curiosity as Paul Griner spins between quotidian worlds infused with the foreign and the familiar. A man brings his mother back from the dead, only to find her most irritating quirk magnified. A low-ranking soldier is forced to milk a cow within enemy range. A cartoonist’s daughter waits each morning to see how her father’s mood dictates how he will draw her face. Grieving siblings wait to inherit one of their father’s physical features after his death . . . Griner’s endings shift between the shocking and quiet. The result is a meditation on capturing the intangible, and the human fascination with realms that are not our own. Hurry Please I Want to Know gives us the sensation of falling into someone else’s world and an immediate future spent sorting out its thrilling peculiarities. “Griner approaches everyday tragedies by building elaborate machines and shaky structures in the hope of creating a facsimile of life that might somehow become real . . . A pleasure.” —The New York Times “Griner overlays tales of family, artistry, and parent-child relationships with elements of the surreal, in order to create, in the words of one character, ‘an undercurrent of mournfulness’.” —Publishers Weekly “The writing is careful, precise, shocking—stylistically brilliant.” —Bobbie Ann Mason, author of The Girl in the Blue Beret

The Five Wounds: A Novel

The Five Wounds: A Novel
Author: Kirstin Valdez Quade
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0393242846

Winner of the 2021 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2022 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award Finalist for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction • Finalist for the 2022 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel • Finalist for the 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize • Finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction One of NPR's Best Books of the Year • A Publishers Weekly and Library Journal Best Book of the Year in Fiction • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fictional Family of the Year • A Booklist Top Ten Book-Group Book of the Year • A Goodreads Choice Awards Best Debut Novel Nominee From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel about a New Mexican family’s extraordinary year of love and sacrifice. "Masterly…Quade has created a world bristling with compassion and humanity. The characters and the challenges they face are wholly realized and moving; their journeys span a wide spectrum of emotion and it is impossible not to root for [them]." —Alexandra Chang, New York Times Book Review It’s Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans for personal redemption. With weeks to go until her due date, tough, ebullient Angel has fled her mother’s house, setting her life on a startling new path. Vivid, tender, funny, and beautifully rendered, The Five Wounds spans the baby’s first year as five generations of the Padilla family converge: Amadeo’s mother, Yolanda, reeling from a recent discovery; Angel’s mother, Marissa, whom Angel isn’t speaking to; and disapproving Tíve, Yolanda’s uncle and keeper of the family’s history. Each brings expectations that Amadeo, who often solves his problems with a beer in his hand, doesn’t think he can live up to. The Five Wounds is a miraculous debut novel from a writer whose stories have been hailed as “legitimate masterpieces” (New York Times). Kirstin Valdez Quade conjures characters that will linger long after the final page, bringing to life their struggles to parent children they may not be equipped to save.

Trial by Fire

Trial by Fire
Author: Aryanna Munro
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2023-08-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

About the Book As a member of the Machiavellians, a race of beings with supernatural powers and unnaturally long lifespans, Brianna Maddox has to overcome her fear of leadership, her pride, and her stubbornness in order to lead the Machiavellian people to victory against a foe who has haunted their kind for millennia. Along the way, she must learn to teach and guide six young recruits as well as make a decision that will change her life. Trial by Fire is a tale filled with conflict, action, drama, love, comradery, suspense, magic, monsters, dragons, and so much more. About the Author Aryanna Munro is a transwoman from a small town with the hopes of bringing joy to others through her stories. She’s dreamed of being a published author since she was twenty. But it’s not always about writing for her. When she’s not glued to her computer, she likes to get out and to practice swordplay, archery, and marksmanship. She loves to practice with throwing knives and hatchets. On days when outside is not an option, she is usually playing computer games with her brother or playing on her Xbox. Aryanna loves MMORPGs, RPGs, shooters, puzzle games, and some horror games. She has a special interest in music and wanted to start her own band and be a singer, but before that dream ever formed, she used to play violin and was pretty good at it. She loves rock, metal, pop, some rap, alt rock, hard rock, punk, dubstep, chillstep, lofi, chillhop, and classical.

Seasons

Seasons
Author: Deanna Lynette
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2011
Genre:
ISBN: 1452023476

Who said growing up in a Christian family would be drama free? Apparently you've never met the Spencer family. Kennede, Summer, Brandi and Brianna are close cousins' dealing with numerous issues from rape to infidelity to abuse; and that's just the beginning. Kennede Johnson: the oldest and the first of the foursome to get married at the age of eighteen, along with having her first child a year later. But soon after Kennede turned 22 her seemingly "perfect life" was destroyed and she was newly divorced. Although her ex has moved on, she can't deny her feelings for him. Summer Parker: the naive one that also has very low self-esteem. Because of her poor self-image, Summer has been in an abusive relationship for six years; while everyone including her childhood friend tries to help her escape the dangerous hands of her violent boyfriend. Brandi and Brianna Wright are twin sisters that come from a broken dysfunctional home. Brandi is the outgoing and more open twin who was once a stripper that now helps her longtime drug dealing boyfriend raise his 4 year old son. But the pain from her days of stripping has now come back to haunt her as an adult. Finally there's Brianna who is the quiet and creative twin that keeps dating all the wrong men, that's until she meets Dr. Hamilton. Shortly after their first meeting, she falls deep in love with the "good doctor" despite the fact that he's almost 20 years her senior and married. When Brianna decides to break things off, she soon discovers she is pregnant and is now forced to make a critical decision. How will this group of young women deal with the changes that come along with each passing Season?