Some Kind of Perfect

Some Kind of Perfect
Author: Krista Ritchie
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 817
Release: 2024-03-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593639669

The TikTok sensation Addicted Series concludes with Some Kind of Perfect, now in a print edition with special bonus material! Falling in love was just the beginning. Lily and Lo are childhood best friends and soul mates. Ryke and Daisy are wild risk-takers and flirty adventurers. Connor and Rose are genius rivals and intellectual teammates. After ten years of laughter. Of heartache. And love. They’re all back one final time.

Wild Magic

Wild Magic
Author: Tamora Pierce
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2009-12-08
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1439115176

Discover a land of enchantment, legend, and adventure in this first book of the Immortals series, featuring an updated cover for longtime fans and fresh converts alike, and including an all-new afterword from Tamora Pierce. Thirteen-year-old Daine has always had a special connection with animals, but only when she’s forced to leave home does she realize it’s more than a knack—it’s magic. With this wild magic, not only can Daine speak to animals, but she can also make them obey her. Daine takes a job handling horses for the Queen’s Riders, where she meets the master mage Numair and becomes his student. Under Numair’s guidance, Daine explores the scope of her magic. But she encounters other beings, too, who are not so gentle. These terrifying creatures, called Immortals, have been imprisoned in the Divine Realms for the past four hundred years—but now someone has broken the barrier. And it’s up to Daine and her friends to defend their world from an Immortal attack.

Sassy

Sassy
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 898
Release: 1994
Genre: Beauty, Personal
ISBN:

The Dancer Within

The Dancer Within
Author: Rose Eichenbaum
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2013-12-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0819574880

The Dancer Within is a collection of photographic portraits and short essays based on confessional interviews with forty dancers and entertainers, many of them world-famous. Well-known on the concert stage, on Broadway, in Hollywood musicals, and on television, the personalities featured in this book speak with extraordinary candor about all stages of the dancer's life—from their first dance class to their signature performances and their days of reflection on the artist's life. The Dancer Within reveals how these artists triumphed, but also how they overcame adversity, including self-doubt, injuries, and aging. Most of all, this book is about the courage, commitment, love, and passion of these performers in their quest for artistic excellence. The reader will quickly realize that "the dancer within" is a metaphor of the human spirit.

Harm

Harm
Author: Hugh Fraser
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2021-04-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504070240

A London-based female assassin runs into trouble on a mission in 1970s Mexico in this action-packed debut crime thriller. Acapulco 1974: Rina Walker is on assignment. Just another quick, clean kill. When she wakes to discover her employer’s severed head on her bedside table, and a man with an AK 47 coming through the door of her hotel room, she must use all her skills to neutralise her attacker and escape. Notting Hill 1956: Fifteen-year-old Rina is scavenging and stealing to support her siblings and her alcoholic mother. When a local gangster attacks her younger sister, Rina wreaks revenge. Innocence betrayed, Rina faces the brutality of the post-war London underworld—a world that teaches her the skill to kill . . . Praise for Harm “Hugh Fraser’s Harm is the perfect combination of action, mystery and intrigue. It also features some superbly constructed characters, who develop over the course of the story—which is a rarity in mystery novels.” —Benjamin Maio Mackay, actor “Go and buy it quick. It is very filmic and very taut.... This book will do you HARM because you won’t want to do anything else but sit down and get to the next bit fast. Fabulous.” —Celia Imrie, actress, Bridget Jones’ Diary, Calendar Girls, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

The Rina Walker Series Books One to Four

The Rina Walker Series Books One to Four
Author: Hugh Fraser
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 1140
Release: 2021-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504073444

Four novels in the edgy series about a female contract killer in 1960s London. Harm In Acapulco, Rina Walker is on assignment. Just another quick, clean kill—until she wakes to find a severed head in her hotel room and a man with an AK-47 charging through the door, in this action-packed series debut that takes us into the traumatic childhood in postwar London that made Rina what she is today . . . Threat London 1961. Rina is hired by a Soho vice king to investigate the disappearance of girls from his clubs, and discovers they’re being supplied to a member of the aristocracy for the gratification of his macabre tastes. Her efforts to save the innocent from slaughter become increasingly perilous as she grapples with layers of depravity, corruption, and betrayal . . . Malice London 1964. As gang warfare breaks out, Rina struggles to survive amid the battles and betrayals of a gruesome cast of racketeers and gangsters. Her considerable skills as an assassin are her only hope of survival. But it’s not just her own life at stake . . . Stealth London 1967. A working girl is brutally murdered, and when Rina Walker takes out the killer she attracts the attention of a sinister line-up of gangland enforcers with a great deal to prove. But the stakes get even bigger when British intelligence forces her into the deadly arena of the Cold War . . . Praise for the series: “The perfect combination of action, mystery and intrigue.” —Benjamin Maio Mackay, actor and podcaster

Sidewinders & Sassy Skirts

Sidewinders & Sassy Skirts
Author: Ron Neff Ph.D
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2020-10-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1663209596

Steve climbed highline poles tending powerlines out on the prairies of Travis County. With his casual bravery, deep voice and that deliberate gait to his long stride, the county lineman was the ideal that other “sidewinders” looked up to. In fact, some of his friends wanted to bring back Western movies, with Steevo starring as the lead in “The Last Shootist.” Steve thought that movie talk was just “pie in the sky.” Besides, his Uncle Max had more serious plans. Max was leaving his insurance company to Steve. Built from scratch by his own efforts, that company was Max’s legacy. Unfortunately, there were other relatives who didn’t respect his wishes. Could Max’s company be saved? Sally was the star barmaid at The Rockin Wheel. Steve didn’t know where he stood with Sally. She was sweet to him one day, and nothing but sass the next. Of course, being Steevo, he had other female attention. Soon he would be caught in a love triangle between himself, Jodie Rose and Marla. Jodie Rose had been his main squeeze for years and Marla was now the executive secretary for Max’s insurance company. Something had to give. Despite Steve’s doubts, his friends had formed Silver Spurs Productions. Thanks to Christy, a talented marketing expert, they would sell thousands of shares of stock. Gunther, a widely published novelist and another member of their circle, was writing a screen play. Would Steevo soon be gracing the big screen in the role of “Dead Eye Luke?”

A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty

A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty
Author: Joshilyn Jackson
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2012-01-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0446576069

A Grown Up Kind of Pretty is a powerful saga of three generations of women, plagued by hardships and torn by a devastating secret, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of family. Fifteen-year-old Mosey Slocumb -- spirited, sassy, and on the cusp of womanhood -- is shaken when a small grave is unearthed in the backyard, and determined to figure out why it's there. Liza, her stroke-ravaged mother, is haunted by choices she made as a teenager. But it is Jenny, Mosey's strong and big-hearted grandmother, whose maternal love braids together the strands of the women's shared past -- and who will stop at nothing to defend their future.

An Echo in the Wild

An Echo in the Wild
Author: Anaomi Rigaud
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2020-04-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1532099118

Echo is a wild Yukon wolf with big dreams. He hopes to some day be the most heroic alpha of the land, fulfilling his family legacy. When a violent attack wipes out most of his pack, he is forced to leave his turf. Terrified and alone, he and his two siblings flee. Their great adventure begins as they meet new friends, fight great dangers, and brace themselves for the experience of a lifetime. Echo is determined to keep his remaining family safe and take them to the paradise called Plateau Dale. However, in order to save the animals of Northwest Canada, Echo must take on the Swamp Bones Pack and their bloodthirsty osprey allies. Echo is not yet the alpha he wants to be. Will he be able to take on his enemies and build a pack all his own?

The Prom Date (The Dating Games Book #4)

The Prom Date (The Dating Games Book #4)
Author: Melody Carlson
Publisher: Revell
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2015-07-14
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1441223274

The girls of the Dating Games club have learned a lot this year--about boys, dating, friendship, and themselves. Now the school year is wrapping up, and the biggest date of all looms on the horizon: prom. With this new challenge comes a lot of extra pressure and expectations. Everyone wants the perfect dress, the perfect date, the perfect dance. But what happens when things don't go according to plan? Teen readers have found friends in these vibrant characters and will be thrilled to accompany them to the prom.