Gork, the Teenage Dragon

Author: Gabe Hudson
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375713417
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417

Book Description
A TODAY Show Summer Pick “Hilarious. . . . Gork is less Game of Thrones and more The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” —Rolling Stone Gork is the nerdiest dragon at WarWings Military Academy. He has a giant heart and tiny horns. His nickname is Weak Sauce. Today before his high school graduation, he must ask a female dragon to be his queen. The result is a rollicking quest for true love on the most madcap day ever known to a high school senior – dragon or otherwise. Along the way, Gork gets help from his best friend Fribby, a fierce female robot dragon who is brilliant, snarky, and totally obsessed with death; and Athenos II, his sentient spaceship who carries a shocking secret from his childhood. Ultimately, Gork will have to lock horns with his evil grandfather, Dr. Terrible. Can a quest for true love make a hero out of a dragon?

Eternal Nights - Book One

Author: Richard Spegal
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450220460
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325

Book Description
John and Danielle Wolf enjoy a strong, secure marriage. They love spending time together, love a good night out, watching movies, attending plays, and dining at exclusive restaurants. Strangely enough, they even play sports together: Mesmerize the Mortal, Race the Train, and even the new craze, Hunt the Werewolf. Just your typical vampire games Initiated into the vampire brotherhood more than 900 years ago, John and Danielle have survived due to their incredible ability to adapt and change. But even though theyve battled some of the worlds worst monsters, theyre about to go head-to-head with something much more dangerous: an endless stream of heavily armed religious fanatics who know their every weakness. Known as the Sword of God, the group was created by Pope Gregory IV in the seventh century for the sole purpose of defeating the physical manifestations of eviland that includes vampires. When the group discovers that Danielle and John are elder vampires and therefore incredibly powerful, they will stop at nothing, even if it means using their clan of werewolves, to destroy the husband-and-wife team. For John and Danielle, its been a great 900 years of wedded bliss. But are their marriageand their livesabout to come to an end?

The Amber Crown

Author: Jacey Bedford
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 0756417716
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 481

Book Description
In this new epic fantasy, three societal outcasts must work together to fulfill the orders of a dead king's ghost or risk their nation falling to a tyrant The king is dead, his queen is missing. On the amber coast, the usurper king is driving Zavonia to the brink of war. A dangerous magical power is rising up in Biela Miasto, and the only people who can set things right are a failed bodyguard, a Landstrider witch, and the assassin who set off the whole sorry chain of events. Valdas, Captain of the High Guard, has not only failed in his duty to protect the king, but he's been accused of the murder, and he's on the run. He's sworn to seek justice, but his king sets him another task from beyond the grave. Valdas doesn't believe in magic, which is unfortunate as it turns out. Mirza is the healer-witch of a Landstrider band, valued and feared in equal measure for her witchmark, her scolding tongue, and her ability to walk the spirit world. When she's given a task by Valdas' dead king, she believes that the journey she must take is one she can never return from. Lind is the clever assassin. Yes, someone paid him to kill the king, but who is to blame, the weapon or the power behind it? Lind must face his traumatic past if he's to have a future. Can these three discover the real villain, find the queen, and set the rightful king on the throne before the country is overcome?

The Agents of Change

Author: Amy Quinton
Publisher: Amy Quinton
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1242

Book Description
A Decades Old Mystery and Murderous Villains. Too Many Suspects and Too Many Surprises. Political Intrigue and Scorching Hot Romance… Grab your tissues and a fan and comfortably settle in with five tales of love, humor, and adventure in Regency, England… The Agents of Change are on a cross-country adventure to finally solve the mystery behind the death of the Duke of Stonebridge’s father, while uncovering the breadth of criminal acts at the hands of the Secret Society for the Purification of England, each agent discovers love, humbleness, romance, betrayal, and friendship along the way. The Agents of Change – The Complete Collection contains five previously published novels (four full length and one short story) making up the Agents of Change Series.

The Druid

Author: Jules Cory
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1805148796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 570

Book Description
Faulknar is losing the war against Lindvane, with Gallowgla and Hilman joining the fight against the kingdom. Villermir has gained mastery of the Empathy Crystal and is using it to corrupt and despoil the land. Monsters that the Dragonslayer and her dragon were created to destroy have returned to rampage across the Three Kingdoms. Having been exiled from Faulknar as a traitor, Tallen tries to hide from her responsibilities and recover from the betrayal of those she trusted. The events within the Three Kingdoms, however, will force her to return to those she rejected and the kingdom she turned her back on. As her powers grow, dark forces swirl around her to claim those powers for themselves with enemies from her past, as well as her Goddess, seeking to use her to realise their own ambitions. Tallen must learn to trust those who would help her and embrace her powers, knowing her greatest challenge may come from the darkness that lies within herself. The Druid brings Tallen’s story to a violent conclusion, forcing her to face her fears as she fights to protect those she loves.

Kick-Start

Author: Lorna Roth
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1800465750
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
Sand in the face of a single life. Which is more hazardous – a motorbike, half a ton of horseflesh or meeting a stranger?

The Assommoir

Author: Émile Zola
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019882856X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 481

Book Description
'in this life, even if you don't ask for much you still end up with bugger all!' In a run-down quarter of Paris, Gervaise Macquart struggles to earn a living and support her family. She earns a pittance washing other people's dirty clothes in the local washhouse, and dreams of having her own laundry. But in order to start her business she must incur debt, and her feckless husband cannot resist the lure of the Assommoir, the local bar that supplies all the working men with cheap spirits and absinthe. As her money troubles grow, so Gervaise's life begins to spiral out of control, and she is trapped in a vicious web of want and neglect. The Assommoir is a pivotal novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. In it he lays bare the terrible poverty of the Parisian underclass, living in overcrowded tenements, addicted to drink, a world of squalor, and casual violence. It contains some of Zola's most powerful and graphic writing, unforgettable portrayals of individuals and their environment, and the fine line between self-respect and ruin.

There's a prince in my fridge!

Author: Cesar Garcia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
Sarah awakens one night and discovers a curious red light coming from the kitchen. Tiptoeing toward the light, she finds a tiny little man inside the freezer... eating her chocolate ice cream! Sarah tries to catch him, but the little gnome manages to escape. And, without knowing how, Sarah is sucked into the freezer. So begins a children’s story full of fantasy and adventures in which Sarah discovers the magic world of Freezeland, helping Prince Coolius save the kingdom from the grip of the evil and foul-smelling Duke of Stinky Cheese. Welcome to the magic world inside your freezer!

In Leisler's Times

Author: Elbridge Streeter Brooks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description

Live for Eternity

Author: Johnathan Phillips Rogers
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059544749X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 472

Book Description
"Passions Have No Pity", from Live For Eternity. The Man. Paris Stone. A fearless, seductive, passionate musical genius who vows to create a new music, win eternal glory and redefine what it means to be American, at any cost. The Woman. Simone Duplaix. A proud, dashing, brilliant heiress of a 300-year-old secret tradition of American women, who vows to stop him because she loves him. Live For Eternity tells the epic human story of these two irresistible forces as they strive to outdo each other in love, passion, ambition and brilliance. Paris Stone is the founder and leader of the revolutionary musical octet Orpheus. For ten years they've worked to create a new music and now they are ready to seduce and conquer the world with this new sound. But months before Orpheus begins, Paris meets Simone, a moment that alters their destinies and everyone around them. When she hears about Orpheus' mission, Simone bets Paris she can stop his and Orpheus' inevitable success. Paris accepts her challenge and sets in motion events that might destroy them both. In their relentless quest to outdo each other, they trample upon accepted truths, uproot popular beliefs, and push themselves and everyone around them to the limit and beyond, all for passion, love, honor and victory. But how far will they go? How hard will they push? Sworn to eternal love but also sworn to outshine each other, will they risk everything they hold dear: their families, their love for each other, even their lives, all for victory and glory, all to Live For Eternity?