The Price of Pleasure

The Price of Pleasure

Kresley Cole

Paranormal Romance / Young Adult / Contemporary

**Kresley Cole returns with a breathtaking romantic saga of love, honor, and passion unbound—as a man of duty faces his greatest trial, and a young castaway discovers her greatest desire...** A man noted for his courage and integrity, Captain Grant Sutherland journeys to Oceania to find Victoria Dearbourne, an English girl lost at sea a decade before. He's given her ailing grandfather his word—as a gentleman—to find and protect her. But one look at a grown Victoria, and Grant has never felt less like one. Tori relishes freedom, untamed passion, and spontaneity above stifling order. Even more so when a proud, cold British captain arrives to rescue her, though she has no wish to be. As Grant tries to convince her to leave her island home, she begins to see in him a man hungering for more. A man who once laughed. A man who desires her but won't take what she offers.
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Crabbo and Clever Crabbo

Crabbo and Clever Crabbo

Wendy Nichols

Wendy Nichols

Crabbo:Ten-year-old Mark would rather be at home with his computer than holidaying at the beach. He certainly wouldn't admit he'd be pretty lonely doing that either. But everything changes when he meets Crabbo, a talking crab. Together they take on the camping ground bullies and turn his holiday into the best Mark's ever had.Clever Crabbo:Mark, Ellie and Crabbo, the talking crab, are on holiday at the beach where the Cripps are very unhappy. Fred and his mean gang are stealing from their milk bar, endangering their ability to stay in business. Can clever Crabbo come up with a plan to trap the bullies or will the Cripps be forced to close their shop?
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The Loner 24

The Loner 24

Sheldon B. Cole

Sheldon B. Cole

They said a king's ransom in gold was waiting to be found in Dog Valley. But none of the folks who went searching for it were ever seen again ...One of the missing fortune-hunters was a girl named Jane Berne, and when her elderly uncle rode into that desolate area to discover what had become of her, his trail crossed with that of Blake Durant, the man they called the Loner. Before they could team up and solve the mystery together, they ran into a religious fanatic named Gideon Sawyer and his four addle-brained sons ... and pretty soon after that found themselves sentenced to hang for what Sawyer considered to be their 'sins'.Suddenly the answer to the mystery of Dog Valley and the fate of the missing treasure-seekers became all too clear.And whether he liked it or not, the only way for Durant to survive and get revenge for the dead was to kill every last Sawyer in the valley ...
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Betty Zane

Betty Zane

Zane Grey

Literature & Fiction / Westerns

Inspired by the life and adventures of his own great-great grandmother, Betty Zane was Zane Grey\'s first novel and launched his career as a master writer of rousing frontier and Western adventures. Betty Zane is the story of the events culminating in the last battle of the American Revolution, when two hundred Redcoats from British-controlled Detroit along with four hundred Shawnee Indian attacked the small, wood-palisaded Ford Henry on the western frontier. The heroine of the battle--a young, spunky, and beautiful frontier girl--was Betty Zane
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Night of Blood

Night of Blood

Richard A. Knaak

Richard A. Knaak

Product DescriptionThe War of Souls has come to Krynn and touched every land, every race. In the minotaur empire, a terrible coup, the Night of Blood, elevates General Hotak to power—an unprecedented break with honorable minotaur tradition. With the aid of his ruthless mate, the High Priestess Nephera, and her growing Cult of the Dead, Hotak's loyalists lay waste to the old ways and plan the rebirth and expansion of the empire.But Hotak has not managed to slay all of his enemies. Far away, in a grim slave colony, an obscure survivor of the ruling clan rises up to plot rebellion.The Minotaur Wars are about to begin.
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The Sworn Sword

The Sworn Sword

George R. R. Martin

Fantasy / Science Fiction / Horror

The sequel to The Hedge Knight tells the story of the adventures of Ser Duncan and his squire one year after their initial meeting at the tournament in Ashford. After traveling the land in search of the puppeteer girl Tanselle, Dunk and Egg find themselves in the charge of Ser Eustace, an aged knight who has accepted Dunk as his sworn sword. But Ser Eustace has another knight in his service who is nothing but trouble, and he will make Dunk's life far more difficult when he rashly attacks a peasant and causes grief to a local noble, the Lady Rohanne Webber. But the Lady Rohanne has problems of her own - and she knows the truth about Ser Eustace and the side he took in the battle of Redgrass Field.
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Cravings

Cravings

Laurell K. Hamilton

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Horror / Romance

Four favorite authors present their favorite characters in all-new tales of bloodlust, appetites that must be sated again and again, and the passion that feeds them. **"Beyond the Ardeur" (An Anita Blake tale) By Laurell K. Hamilton** Anita is attending a friend's wedding when Nathaniel, her pomme de sang, makes known in no uncertain terms that he wants to take the relationship to the next level. Anita's subsequent actions take her to a place she has hitherto carefully avoided. ****This short story is a condensed version of Incubus Dreams, book 12 in the Anita Blake series!* **"Dead Girls Don't Dance," by MaryJanice Davidson** Vampire Andrea Mercer is literally dug up by an old crush, Daniel Harris, and during a trip to Minnesota to see the vampire queen, her desire for him reignites. **"Originally Human" by Eileen Wilks** Succubus Molly Brown discovers a gorgeous, naked man in the woods and decides to help him recover his memory. **"Burning Moon" by Rebecca York** All werewolf Grant Marshall wants to do is rip out the throat of the man who killed his wife–then swim out into the Atlantic Ocean and never come back. He tracks his wife’s killer to a small New Jersey seaside town, where he meets Antonia, a blind tarot card reader--the woman with the power to change his fate.
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So B. It

So B. It

Sarah Weeks

Children's Books / Young Adult

Now a major motion picture starring Alfre Woodard, Jessica Collins, John Heard, Jacinda Barrett, Cloris Leachman, and Talitha Bateman—in theaters October 2017! From acclaimed author Sarah Weeks comes a touching coming-of-age story about a young girl who goes on a cross-country journey to discover the truth about her parents, which the New York Times called "a remarkable novel." Perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead's When You Reach Me and Ali Benjamin's The Thing About Jellyfish. She doesn't know when her birthday is or who her father is. In fact, everything about Heidi and her mentally disabled mother's past is a mystery. When a strange word in her mother's vocabulary begins to haunt her, Heidi sets out on a cross-country journey in search of the secrets of her past. Far away from home, pieces of her puzzling history come together. But it isn't until she learns to accept not knowing that Heidi truly arrives.
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Soul Tracker

Soul Tracker

Bill Myers

Young Adult / Humor / Mystery & Thrillers

What if you could visit heaven and hell, traveling when and wherever you wish . . . without ever dying? What if your teenage daughter, the joy of your life, had died a tragic death and you discovered a way to visit her? What if there were people and beings, on both sides of the grave, who want to stop your return? These are the questions facing novelist David Kauffman. As a single parent he is devastated when his young daughter meets an untimely death. Desperate to contact her, he meets Gita Patekar, a beautiful and committed Christian with a scarred and shame-ridden past. She works for “Life After Life”—an organization dedicated to tracking and recording the experiences of the soul once it leaves the body. Despite Gita’s warnings that God is opposed to contacting the dead, David uses the organization’s computer to try to find his daughter. In the process they discover Gita’s organization has some very deep and dark secrets. A suspense-filled...
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Protecting Virginia

Protecting Virginia

Kate Bridges

Kate Bridges

When Virginia is jilted at the altar, her former fiancé's brother Zack, a rugged Mountie, proposes a marriage of convenience. For Mountie Inspector Zack Bullock, marrying his brother's cast-off bride would fulfill his family obligations. Zack could marry Dr. Virginia Waters and not get emotionally involved. Their marriage would have other benefits. He could continue his risky work as a detective, and she could blossom in her role as a new doctor. However, the awkward girl that Zack recalls has grown into a stunning, desirable woman and he finds himself emotionally entangled. Virginia survived the shame of a first botched wedding. Now she has to survive the humiliation of knowing that Zack is marrying her only because of his sense of duty. But when dangerous criminals put her safety in jeopardy, Zack wonders if the marriage will ever happen. He does everything he can to guard Virginia, and protect himself from his growing...
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The Wilding

The Wilding

C. S. Friedman

Science Fiction & Fantasy

The tribal Braxaná-created to become the ultimate warriors. The Azeans-raised to master the power of the mind. Two civilizations fighting an endless war over a long-forgotten cause. Now, after a century and a half, the legacy of their greatest military leaders threatens to tear apart both empires.
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The Abandoned Room

The Abandoned Room

Wadsworth Camp

Mystery

Bobby Blackburn can remember the first part of the evening when his grandfather was murdered. The problem is, he cannot remember what happened the rest of the night, or how he ended up in the neighborhood of his grandfather\'s house the next morning.
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Indelible

Indelible

Karin Slaughter

Mystery & Thrillers / Fiction / Thriller

An officer is shot point-blank in the Grant County police station and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver is wounded, setting off a terrifying hostage situation with medical examiner Sara Linton at the center. Working outside the station, Lena Adams, newly reinstated to the force, and Frank Wallace, Jeffrey's second in command, must try to piece together who the shooter is and how to rescue their friends before Jeffrey dies. For the sins of the past have caught up with Sara and Jeffrey -- with a vengeance ...
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01- Half a Wizard

01- Half a Wizard

Stefon Mears

Stefon Mears

In a world where elves build on the bones of lost civilizations, Cavan Oltblood carves out a path to adventure. Not quite a warrior and not quite a wizard, this king's bastard rides with Ehren the smiling priest, and Amra, the deadliest swordswoman alive. Killers burst through the door at the worst time. So much for Cavan's bath, much less his date. Someone wants Cavan dead. Someone willing to kill everyone Cavan loves, to steal something Cavan doesn't know he has. Half a Wizard, a novel of high fantasy adventure, full of magic and action where the decisions of one person can affect the fate of kingdoms. From Stefon Mears, author of With a Broken Sword and Twice Against the Dragon.
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