Reality Jane Shannon Nering Set behind the scenes of America’s most popular guilty pleasure—reality TV—Reality Jane delivers a high-spirited, delicious tale of finding love and a career in Hollywood while juggling lipo envy, singlehood angst, and the resounding results of success. Reality Jane follows Jane Kaufman, a Canadian journalist who, because of a lucky connection,… Continue reading Reality Jane
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Queens of All the Earth
Queens of All the Earth Hannah Sternberg As her freshman classmates move into dorms at Cornell University, Olivia Somerset suffers a nervous breakdown. Big sister Miranda decides the sisters should fly off to Barcelona for some vacation therapy. When a mistake at their Barcelona hostel leaves the Somersets in a large co-ed dorm room, Olivia… Continue reading Queens of All the Earth
The Samaritan
The Samaritan Stephen Besecker After a youth marked by the death of his parents and a childhood spent with his shaman grandfather on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation, Kevin “Hatch” Easter has found a job he believes in—tracker for the CIA—and a wife, Karen, he cherishes. But his life is shattered on a hot August night… Continue reading The Samaritan
Mia the Magnificent
Mia the Magnificent Eileen Boggess Mia Fullerton has entered her freshman year at St. Hilary’s with a goal: to lose her nickname, “Mia the Meek,” and soar into a confident high school career. Unfortunately, her transformation is made harder by her English-teacher mom, bratty little brother, already popular nemesis, and new neighbor. Although she’s prepared… Continue reading Mia the Magnificent
The Atomic Weight of Secrets
The Atomic Weight of Secrets Or the Arrival of the Mysterious Men in Black Eden Unger Bowditch In 1903, five truly brilliant young inventors, the children of the world’s most important scientists, are taken from their lives and their parents by the mysterious men in black. They take twelve-year-old Jasper and six-year-old Lucy Modest from… Continue reading The Atomic Weight of Secrets
Purple Jesus
Purple Jesus Ron Cooper Purvis Driggers is a South Carolina Low Country loser. With little judgment and even less chance for a decent life beyond his parents’ house, home town, and whatever part-time work he can scrounge up, he’s sure he’s figured a way out: Rob an old man of the rumored millions hidden in… Continue reading Purple Jesus
As Dog is My Witness
As Dog is My Witness Jeffrey Cohen Another Aaron Tucker Mystery In this, the third Aaron Tucker mystery, Aaron, fresh from a trip to Hollywood to “take meetings” on his screenplay, finds himself dragged kicking and screaming once again into investigating a murder, this time of a man in a nearby town shot while walking… Continue reading As Dog is My Witness
Hank
The First Novel of the Gunpowder Trilogy The First Novel of the Gunpowder Trilogy Arch Montgomery Meet Hank Collins, an astute, gutsy, and funny 13-year-old who’s just finished the seventh grade at a public school in Baltimore’s affluent suburbs. But all is not trouble-free for Hank. He must contend with a troubled family, an alien… Continue reading Hank
Trembling in the Ivory Tower
Trembling in the Ivory Tower Excesses in the Pursuit of Truth and Tenure Kenneth Lasson She’s never known her mother. Her father seems to hate her. She has only one true friend, who’s a boy. A mediocre student and a social misfit, she’s downright miserable. This is the life of Taylor Dresden, a freshman in… Continue reading Trembling in the Ivory Tower
Mia the Meek
Mia the Meek Eileen Boggess Mia Fullerton has entered her freshman year at St. Hilary’s with a goal: to lose her nickname, “Mia the Meek,” and soar into a confident high school career. Unfortunately, her transformation is made harder by her English-teacher mom, bratty little brother, already popular nemesis, and new neighbor. Although she’s prepared… Continue reading Mia the Meek