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Ember Skye is a fed up teenage Coal Elf with a big ashy chip on her shoulder. Having been torn away from a carefree life and forced into a world of dirt and darkness has started to get the best of her. And being the only girl-elf working as a coal miner at the North Pole doesn't help much either! Then there's Sturd: a power-hungry, twisted elf with a checkered past and a serious grudge against Ember. Slowly but surely, his maniacal tendencies ...

By Way of the Rose opens in the fall of 1839. The Cherokee are being moved from the Carolinas to Oklahoma Indian Territory. The DuVals get entangled in a saga of love, hate and bitter hostilities when they befriend a battered Cherokee woman who leaves them with an unexpected gift.

Maggie Poinsett, hard-nosed photographer for National Geographic magazine doesn't look or act like a "Sweet Magnolia"-the name her mother gave her at birth, nor does she believe in ghosts. But while on vacation with her parents at Golden Apple Farm, a bed-and-breakfast in the mountains of western North Carolina, she meets the ghost of Thomas MacKinlay, Civil War soldier shot for the crime of desertion. She's obsessed with saving Thomas and wh...

As Earth becomes an interstellar species, the ramifications hit home -- literally. Alien Cresperians scattered all over Earth, enemy Snappers seeking to expand their interstellar empire in any way they can. And Sergeant Edward "Bang" Bangler finds himself in the midst of two of the biggest battles he's ever been in -- a battle for his heart, and a battle for his home.

Brilliant scientist and government operative Dr. Reagan "Ray" Brady should be dead. Instead, Ray has the perfect life, working for an ultra-secret division of DHS, watching for invasion by extraterrestrials and time travelers. This team includes his wife, Samantha Brady. The team's "mascot" is their one-year-old daughter, Abigail. When a mysterious man shows up, leaving several dead, Ray's team confronts him in NYC, where the man leaps fro...

In the mid-21st century, the human race stopped aging. Those who know why aren't talking, and the few who are brave enough to ask questions tend to disappear. To an elite few, The Change means long life and health, but to the increasing masses, it means starvation, desperation, and violence.Four centuries after The Change, Grace Harper, a blacklisted P.I., sets off on a mission to find the man responsible for it all and solicit his help to und...

Against the exotic backdrop of Istanbul and San Juan, Alana is a young woman torn between a vampire she cannot resist, loyalties to old friends and a confusing new life. Despite these complications, endowed with her new preternatural powers, she sets out to hunt the truth regarding her mother's tragic death... "Mysterious, intriguing and somewhat unsettling at times, this novel is a must for all vampire reading fans. A rich, twisting plot...

What happens when a parakeet named Ruby gets an unexpected mind-meld with Marcella Hollister's quarrelsome mother, Thelma? After Thelma is kidnapped from her hospital bed, Marcella must find her -- somewhere in the tall pines of the six-million-acre Adirondack Park. With the help of her Native American husband Quinn and bizarre "tips" from Ruby, Marcella butts heads with quirky bird psychic Earl Tiramisu, much to the chagrin of the FBI, who wa...

Corre el año 1761. En la misión de Guevavi, Sonora, el padre Ygnacio Pfefferkorn S. J., se enferma de paludismo y es sanado por Yevjo, un poderoso curandero indígena pima, asistido por Patricia O'Meara, una atractiva joven, mitad pima y mitad irlandesa. Se culpa a los indígenas de un espeluznante asesinato. El padre Ygnacio, queriendo proteger a sus conversos y poniendo su vida en peligro, persigue al verdadero asesino, mientras Yevjo permanec...

Father Ignaz Pfefferkorn, ex-S.J., released in January, 1778, and destitute after ten years of Spanish imprisonment, begs his way across France to his home in the Rhineland. He arrives in Unkel-on-the Rhine to find factional strife and ultimately murder in his hoped-for paradise. He is recruited to solve the crime, aided by unlikely helpers: a wealthy Cologne socialite and a head smuggler. He succeeds, only to find himself caught in the cross-...

Gus LeGarde's life essentially ended four years ago, when his beloved wife, Elsbeth, leapt from the Letchworth Gorge cliffs. These days, the music professor plays endless Chopin etudes on his antique piano and lavishes love on his family and dog--but nothing buries the pain or answers his burning questions. What made her jump? Why didn't she say goodbye? And how will he be able to live without her? Trouble comes to Gus and his daughter, ...

A World War II era novel about love, betrayal, honor and loss, Divided focuses on a small Austrian town in the tension-filled days between the German retreat and the Russian occupation. A small unit of American intelligence agents try to root out the remaining Nazi sympathizers and prepare the town and themselves for the changes peace will bring. "...Divided is the first novel recommended by The Reserve Officer--with no holds barred as to its ...

Just before the American President is scheduled to appear in Sam Moore's hometown of East Goodland, Sam's retirement plans are pushed back when his daughter, Beth, goes missing. In his search for Beth, Sam is guided by an unusual talisman-a small green marble-that reveals a perplexing link between Beth and her mysterious roommate, Zafina Azziz. Who is the real Zafina? Med student, loving friend, Egyptian royal-or a keeper of deadly secrets? Is...

Monasterio de Nuestra Señora de La Caridad, en Ciudad Rodrigo, España, entre los años 1775 y 1776. El padre Ygnacio Pfefferkorn, misionero de Sonora, en el noreste de Nueva España, queda atrapado en las redes de la expulsión de los jesuitas, en 1767. Tras haber sobrevivido ocho años en prisión, es confinado en el monasterio de La Caridad, donde el abad le pide esclarecer dos asesinatos. Arriesgando su propia vida, como prisionero sin protecció...

Sonora, 1766-67. El padre Ygnacio Pfefferkorn es llamado para investigar, en la misión de Ures, el asesinato de un capitán del ejército, cuya muerte se le atribuye al misionero del lugar. En la investigación intervienen una hermosa viuda, el descubrimiento de un comercio ilícito por parte de un alto funcionario jesuita, la captura de Ygnacio y su inminente muerte por tortura a mano de los apaches. El crimen queda esclarecido durante la expulsi...

For centuries, there have been rumors about a lowly caste of supernatural beings known as the Terrae Angeli. Armed with the power to control Earth, Fire, Wind and Water, these warriors and their apprentices clandestinely serve as guardians for humans in danger. Forced to become mortal, ex-teen angel Griffin has been banished from the Terrae Angeli. Struggling to adjust, he enrolls in the heaven-and-hell known as high school. In spite of his f...

Seth Bauman has issues. His Mom split ten years ago, right after his birth, and guardian Uncle Troy won't discuss the past. Seth's only friend is Mexican immigrant Elena, whom he must walk home from school through Silverlake's gang-ravaged streets. When Elena is abducted by local gang 'the Mayans, ' Seth has no choice but to follow the Boatman of the L.A. River into the sprawling network of sewers and metro tunnels concealing Mayan headquarter...

Based on true events, this bold novel involves some of the world's oldest, most emotional and controversial issues. At the core of each matter is man's predisposition to control and take ownership of the human spirit for the sake of profit and personal gain. Such control and manipulation over the will of others is the most horrendous equity of evil. "EQUITY of EVIL is a shocking indictment of the pernicious role of greed in the medical world. ...

Steel and sorcery clash as the Harhn incursion sweeps through the Hugue. Mankind faces its greatest peril without the Order Knights of legend to defend them. Crusading deep in the frontier, the Order is unaware of the savage beasts threatening their homeland as the Hugue realms muster their armies for war. Between a cunning Harhn sorcerer, and an alliance forged with the decadent Darkfey, the horde threatens to extinguish the domains of men...

A young girl comes of age as the first of a new species of human, a near-god, and is forced into the role of a reluctant Second Coming of Christ. The outside world explodes with violent reaction and her inner world implodes with personal betrayals. Eva Connard is the first of the Nova sapiens species. Novas can manipulate both psychic and physical energies. On the cusp of developing supernatural skills, she is aided by Joshua O'Donnell, her...