Tag: 2014

Weird Tales of Horror by David J. West

Weird Tales of Horror by David J. West

21 Tales and Poems of Weird Horror—spanning centuries and continents, but always disturbingly close. What stirs from yonder gloomy crypt? What really happened during the Cold War’s Space Race? Can a king’s spirit be trapped in a violin? A lost chapter of Hemingway’s Paris years relates to what strange creature of the night? How do you kill a Tengu Lord? What horror did U.S. service […]

June 18, 2014 / 0 Comments
Elemental Hunger by Elana Johnson

Elemental Hunger by Elana Johnson

Sixteen-year-old Gabriella Kilpatrick can shoot fire from her hands, which would be great if she didn’t get blamed for a blazing inferno that kills 17 schoolmates. When Gabby is commanded to Manifest her Element, everyone knows what she is: a genetic abnormality. Not to mention guilty. So she does two logical things to survive. 1. She runs. 2. She hacks off her hair to assume […]

June 18, 2014 / 0 Comments
Falling for Rayne by Shannon Guymon

Falling for Rayne by Shannon Guymon

Garrett Murphy is used to rejection. As a child, he was rejected by his mother and as a man he was rejected by Jane Kendall. Going without love has turned Garrett into a man who doesn’t trust in a woman’s heart. So when he meets Rayne Nyman, she’s too good to be true. She’s beautiful, talented and sweet. She also happens to be a world […]

June 17, 2014 / 1 Comment
Rebel Princess by Janice Sperry

Rebel Princess by Janice Sperry

Meet the upside-down fairy-tale princess! (This damsel is NOT in distress!) Raven Perilous is like any other middle school girl—if middle school girls are usually evil princesses. The daughter of a gentle princess and evil sorcerer, Raven spends most of her time being as wicked as possible to avoid being stuck in a tower. So when Prince Charming shows up at her school. Raven knows […]

June 17, 2014 / 0 Comments
The Thieves of Summer by Linda Sillitoe

The Thieves of Summer by Linda Sillitoe

Historical Crime/Suspense. 200 pages. Print, e-Book, Audio. Set in Salt Lake City at the height of the Great Depression, Linda Sillitoe’s last novel opens with three little girls, eleven-year-old triplets, skipping in front of their house at 1300 South, across from Liberty Park. They giggle lightly as they chant: Prin-cess Al-ice in Liberty Park Munch-es ba-nan-as ’til way after dark. Princess Alice is an elephant […]

June 16, 2014 / 0 Comments
Torn Canvas by Donna K. Weaver

Torn Canvas by Donna K. Weaver

Modern-day pirates took more than Jori Virtanen’s friends; they stole his face. Not only does the twenty-four-year-old former model have to confront months of reconstructive surgery, he discovers his previous life was as superficial as his looks. Jori struggles to make a new life for himself as an artist while evading the press. They expect a hero, but he knows the truth. His beauty masks […]

June 16, 2014 / 1 Comment
Drift by M.K. Hutchins

Drift by M.K. Hutchins

Tenjat lives on the shores of Hell, an ocean filled with ravenous naga monsters. His island, a massive Turtle, is slowed by the people living on its back. Tenjat is poor as poor gets: poor enough, even, to condescend to the shame of marriage, so his children can help support him one day. But Tenjat has a plan to avoid this fate. He will join […]

June 16, 2014 / 1 Comment
The Eye of Tanub by M.E. Cunningham

The Eye of Tanub by M.E. Cunningham

Young Adult Fantasy/Adventure. 280 pages. Print, e-Book. Everyone thinks she’s crazy. And maybe she is. But Lauren Marriott knows her journey into Terratir happened. It was real, and she’s writing it all down in frightening detail. She has no patience for her brother Zach and his passion for stupid computer games until she finds a mysterious pendant in his room, pulsating with magical power. Lauren […]

June 14, 2014 / 0 Comments
Sleep of Death by Aprilynne Pike

Sleep of Death by Aprilynne Pike

Oracles can see the future, but are sworn to never interfere. Charlotte Westing learned this lesson the hard way–but after a series of murders in her small town, she’s beginning to wonder if she learned too well. Are there some futures Charlotte has a responsibility to change? When a new girl with strange powers shows up at school on the same day Charlotte has a […]

June 13, 2014 / 0 Comments
Earth Awakens by Orson Scott Card & Aaron Johnston

Earth Awakens by Orson Scott Card & Aaron Johnston

A thin web of ships in both asteroid belts; a few stations; a corporate settlement on Luna. No one had seen any sign of other space-faring races; everyone expected that First Contact, if it came, would happen in the future, in the empty reaches between the stars. Then a young navigator on a distant mining ship saw something moving too fast, heading directly for our […]

June 13, 2014 / 1 Comment