Small-Minded Giants

Small-Minded Giants

Oisin McGann

Oisin McGann

Beyond the huge domed roof of Ash Harbour, a city built inside a hollowed-out mountain, deadly storms and Arctic temperatures have stripped the Earth bare. Resources are limited and access to power is all-important. Sinister bodies reign supreme, undercover operations are rife and every move is monitored by the Clockworkers and Dark-Day Fatalists. When sixteen-year-old Sol Wheat's father goes missing and is accused of murder, Sol sets out to find out why, and in doing so uncovers the harsh reality behind Ash Harbour.
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The Second Time Around

The Second Time Around

Marie Ferrarella

Romance / Contemporary / Fiction

By the way, did you know you're pregnant? Eight tiny words, but strung together in one sentence...they are destined to destroy life as Laurel Mitchell knows it. For after twenty-five years of wedlock and three grown children, starting over with the diaper-and-formula scene is...inconceivable. Apparently not. Now her sweetly snoozing marriage is frantically adjusting to a most unexpected wake-up call. And to the new man in her life--her husband, Jason. Recently devoted to working long hours and planning the perfect road trip, he's suddenly become impossibly sexy, affectionate and overprotective.
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The Heart of Revenge

The Heart of Revenge

Richie Drenz

Richie Drenz

The Jamaican Fifty Shades of Gray is its nickname.Leelia Lexings, given up by her mother at 14, and now at 19 marrying to the wealthy Qwan Douglas for his money, in order to save her brother who's dying from a heart problem. She battles with outrageous offers from her husband and her father-in-law to save her brother's life. How far is worthwhile to go? How far would you go if offered these?
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Twenty Chickens for a Saddle

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle

Robyn Scott

Robyn Scott

When Robyn Scott was six years old her parents abruptly exchanged the tranquil pastures of New Zealand for a converted cowshed in the wilds of Botswana. Once there, Robyn and her siblings, mostly left to amuse themselves, grew up collecting snakes, canoeing with crocodiles and breaking in horses in the veld. In the shadow of one of Africa’s worst AIDS crises, this moving, enchanting memoir is an extraordinary portrait of an unforgettable childhood.
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Reserved for the Cat

Reserved for the Cat

Mercedes Lackey

Fantasy / Science Fiction / Music

Based loosely on the tale of Puss in Boots, Reserved for the Cat takes place in 1910 in an alternate London. A young dancer, penniless and desperate, is sure she is going mad when a cat begins talking to her mind-to-mind. But her feline guide, actually an Elemental Earth Spirit, helps her to impersonate a famous Russian ballerina and achieve the success she’s been dreaming of. Unfortunately she also attracts the attention of another Elemental Spirit—a far more threatening one—and the young dancer must once again turn to her mysteriously powerful four-legged furry friend.
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His for the Taking

His for the Taking

Julie Cohen

Julie Cohen

His mistress--for one night?When New York cabdriver Zoe Drake finds a dark, brooding man on her doorestep, she doesn't know what to think--does he want something, or has Christmas come early this year?Nick Giroux is looking for his long-lost father--not a newfound woman! But as she helps him in his search, there's something about him that makes Zoe let down her ice-cool defenses. The simmering attraction is too much, and for one night only, she's his for the taking... But after a night like that, can Nick ever let her go?
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The Dreams of Max & Ronnie

The Dreams of Max & Ronnie

Niall Griffiths

Niall Griffiths

Iraq-bound young squaddie Ronnie takes something dodgy and falls asleep for three nights in a filthy hovel where he has the strangest of dreams. He watches the tattoed tribes of modern Britain assemble to speak with a grinning man playing war games. Arthurian legend merges with its twenty-first century counterpart in a biting commentary on leadership, individualism and the divisions in British society. Meanwhile Cardiff gangsta Max is fed up with life in his favourite nightclub, Rome, and chases a vision of the perfect woman in far flung parts of his country.
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