Title: Brass Dragon Codex Author: R.D. Henham (Rebecca Shelley) Publisher: Mirrorstone Release Date: February 10, 2008 ISBN: 978-0786951086 Size: 256 pages; Trade hardcover Genre: Middle Grade Speculative Never start a conversation with a brass dragon–it might never end!In another volume of the companion series to A Practical Guide to Dragons, orphaned baby brass dragon Kyani ventures out into the desert to find something to eat, […]
Do you have the courage, the wits, and the skill to claim a dragon’s hoard? If so, apply within… The sign is small, tucked into the corner of Mr. Clutter’s bookshop window: “Adventurers Wanted. Apply Within.” No one but fifteen-year-old Alex Taylor even seems to notice it is there. And for Alex, who has wished for a change in his life, it is an irresistible […]
Title: Bright Blue Miracle Author: Becca Wilhite Publisher: Shadow Mountain Release Date: February 4, 2009 ISBN: 978-1606410318 Size: 176 pages, 5×8 softcover Genre: YA READ THE REVIEW Seventeen-year-old Leigh Mason is not sure she is ready to share her mom, her bedroom, and her little sisters with her new stepsister, Betsy. And she’s definitely not ready to share her best friend, who happens to be […]
Title: Night’s Pleasure Author: Amanda Ashley Publisher: Zebra Release Date: February 1, 2009 ISBN: 978-0821780626 Size: 384 pages, mass market paperback Genre: Speculative; Paranormal Romance Series: Night’s Kiss (v 1), Night’s Touch (v 2), Night’s Master (v 3) (Caution: May contain objectionable content) Savanah Gentry’s life was so much simpler when she was a reporter for the local newspaper. That was before her father’s sudden […]
A Recipe for Murder: 5 families living on Peregrine Circle, 1 flowered curtain tieback, 1 missing child, 1 body in the field. Mix with a long list of suspects and top with two very different detectives. Increase heat until only the truth remains. Cooking aficionado turned amateur detective Sadie Hoffmiller tries to solve the murder of Anne Lemmon, her beautiful young neighbor–a single mother who […]
Title: On the Road to JerichoAuthor: K.L. Morgan Publisher: TriQuest Publishing Release Date: January, 2009 ISBN: 978-583081341 Size: 378 pages, 6×9, trade paperback Genre: Historical Jethen has lost his faith. Raised a devout Samaritan, he was taken from Samaria in his teens when his father moved their family to King Herod’s Jericho. In the hustle and bustle of his family’s trade, their yearly pilgrimages and […]
Title: Princess of the Midnight Ball Author: Jessica Day George Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books Release Date: January 20, 2009 ISBN: 978-1599903224 Size: 288 pages, hardcover Genre: YA Fantasy Read review. A tale of twelve princesses doomed to dance until dawn… Galen is a young soldier returning from war; Rose is one of twelve princesses condemned to dance each night for the King Under Stone. […]
Sydney Morgan, a sixteen-year-old girl with a black belt in karate, thinks her world has fallen apart. A close friend offends her, her mother is diagnosed with cancer, and her father—who abandoned them years ago—comes back into her life. Just when Syd thinks this nightmare will never end, a time stone takes her to Captain Helaman and his stripling warriors of the Book of Mormon. […]
Title: High Country Author: Jennie Hansen Publisher: Covenant Release Date: January 5, 2009 ISBN: 978-1598115895 Size: 288 pages, 6×9, softcover Genre: Romance A terrible car accident left Laura fatherless, injured, and at a loss for many memories of her life before the accident. But when she and her cousin Bruce are going through their Aunt Alice’s papers after her death, Bruce finds a certificate that […]
Title: Princess of the Sword (Novel of the Nine Kingdoms, vol 3) Author: Lynn Kurland Publisher: Penguin Group Release Date: January 6, 2009 ISBN: 978-0425225684 Size: 368 pages, 5×8, softcover Genre: Fantasy Series: Star of the Morning (v1), The Mage’s Daughter (v2) Born out of “a fantasy world…too wonderful to miss” (Paranormal Romance) the Nine Kingdoms Trilogy now explodes in the fiercest battle yet as […]