Tag: 2012

Pingo and the Playground Bully by Brandon Mull

In first grade, Chad and his imaginary friend, Pingo, meet other kids and their imaginary friends: Gary protects the galaxy with Sparky the robot; Tiffany helps save the day with Awesome Girl; and Dustin can hide Mr. Bob in his pocket. One recess, after defeating a clan of lava monsters, Chad and his friends decide to have a contest to see which imaginary friend is […]

October 9, 2012 / 2 Comments

Psion Gamma by Jacob Gowans

Sammy, a fourteen-year-old fugitive, accidentally discovers he has the powers of a Psion. After months of instruction at Psion Beta headquarters, Sammy is selected to go on a stealth training mission. When the team is ambushed by the savage Thirteens, he is left for dead. Now, alone, he must survive in a hostile land.His search for help takes him deep into enemy territory and changes […]

October 8, 2012 / 0 Comments

Accidental Private Eye by Clair M. Poulson

Out of work. Out of money. Out of options. After a streak of bad luck, army veteran Dallas Rowen is due for a break, and he finds it in a single sentence uttered by a stranger: I need your help. Mistaken for a private investigator and desperate for cash, Dallas is enticed by the promise of a paycheck and apprehensively takes on the role of […]

October 8, 2012 / 0 Comments

Christmas in Bliss by Michele Ashman Bell

It’s Christmas Eve, and Nikki Michaels is on the last leg of her drive to celebrate the holidays at home. Though Christmas doesn’t quite hold the same magic it did when she was younger, Nikki’s idea of a merry Christmas is sharing in the festivities with her family in Salt Lake City—so when blizzard conditions force her off the snowpacked freeway in a middle-of-nowhere Idaho […]

October 6, 2012 / 0 Comments

The Rhyme’s Library by Kristie Tate

Crazy Aunt Charlotte is missing again. Blair Rhyme, Rose Arbor’s young librarian, doesn’t bother to check Charlotte’s regular haunts—the Veteran’s of Foreign Wars lodge, the Four H-Club, or the bins behind Milton’s Fish shop—because Charlotte is dead. Blair discovered her body amongst the boxes of what-nots and whatevers in the library’s basement. Unfortunately, when she returns to the library with the police Charlotte is missing. […]

October 6, 2012 / 0 Comments

Falling Apart by Bonnie R. Paulson

Days slip through Paul’s graying fingers. Humanity faces the end. His brother has the virus and is dying, too. Paul’s hopes ride on Heather’s genetic code. Her immunity leaves her unchanged and untouchable. What would she see in the zombie he was becoming anyway? Dominic’s army of infected grows, capturing the south and leaving little alive in its wake. While Paul and his friends work […]

October 6, 2012 / 0 Comments
A Timeless Romance: Winter Collection

A Timeless Romance: Winter Collection

Six sweet historical romance novellas, set in varying eras, yet all with one thing in common: Romance. The Road to Cavan Town by Sarah M. Eden, set in 1864 Ireland, combines Eden’s sense of humor with her signature sweet romance. Alice Wheatley walks each weekend into town, accompanied by Isaac Dancy. And while Alice finds herself falling in love with the gentleman, unfortunately he has […]

October 5, 2012 / 1 Comment

Curse of the Jaguar by Audrey Grant

The true test of a man is in his strength to endure and his ability to love. A dark and powerful force has been hiding in the dense jungles of Guatemala for the last several thousand years. Now that nearly uncontrollable force has become the new weapon of a ruthless man willing to destroy his own country in exchange for unprecedented power and wealth. Christian […]

October 5, 2012 / 0 Comments

Smart Move by Melanie Jacobson

The spark was undeniable the night Sandy Burke met the devastatingly handsome Jake. Conversation flowed easily, so after they parted, she waited eagerly for his call. It never came. A high-powered career woman at the ripe old age of twenty-seven, Sandy feels she has had her heart broken one too many times, and now the redheaded trendsetter is facing a major quarter-life crisis. After some […]

October 4, 2012 / 1 Comment

A Christmas Garland by Anne Perry

The year is 1857, soon after the violent Siege of Cawnpore, with India in the midst of rebellion. In the British garrison, a guard is killed and an Indian prisoner escapes, which leads to yet more British deaths. Cries for revenge are overwhelming. Despite no witnesses and no evidence against him, a luckless British medical orderly named John Tallis is arrested as an accomplice simply […]

October 3, 2012 / 0 Comments