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Exiled heir Re-Tamur and his wizard friend Sarmarkar take on the dark forces that are determined to conquer the great…
Empires along the Celedon Road. Sequel to "Range of Ghosts" Followed by “Steles of the Sky”. 2013.
Allison Taylor MacKenna's peaceful life is threatened by murky childhood memories and the murder of a stranger in the Caribbean.…
NYPD Detective Rocky Manzillo knows something terrible has emerged from the shadows. Can he stop a killer before it's too late for Allison and her family? Sequel to "Sleepwalker". 2013.
Army bureaucrat Alan Bookbinder is drafted by the Supernational Operations Corps after he develops magical powers. Stationed at FOB Frontier,…
Alan must survive by calling on the help of the notorious Oscar Britton. 2013.
Tasked to bring order to a chaotic world, Army officer Oscar Britton, a lieutenant attached to the military's Supernatural Operations…
Corps, becomes public enemy number one when he manifests a rare and prohibited magical power. 2012.
Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is lured into attending the Heritage Society's "Pirates and Plunder" soiree. But it's an…
antique diamond skull ring that gets plundered by someone who murders a history intern in the process. Theodosia knows she'll have to whet her investigative skills to find the killer among a raft of suspects. Sequel to "The teaberry strangler", followed by "The agony of the leaves". 2011.
When Smoke Jensen’s old friend Bobby Lee Cabot is sentenced to hang for train robbery, Smoke heads to Nevada to…
stop it. Soon they are on the run, with men from both sides of the law on their trail. 2011.
Eighth-grader Micah is psyched to have made the BC junior goalball team -- even though he gets the news while…
dealing with a flare-up of his degenerative eye condition. What he's not happy about is his parents' decision to get him a guide dog, and the possibility of losing his independence. When Liam, a new, first-rate player, joins the goalball team, Micah's frustration with his vision spills onto the court. He is rude to Liam and starts a fight with another teammate, Sebastian, after practice. It's only with the help of Cam, his Orientation and Mobility Specialist, that Micah starts to get a handle on his aggression and trust people enough to communicate how he feels. But with the team's big junior tournament quickly approaching, Micah has to reconcile his differences with Liam and Sebastian so as to become a real team player and help his team win the championship. Grades 5-8. 2015.
The thought of working with a hot-shot producer and her TV crew is about as appealing to Abby as sticking…
her hand in a bucket of leeches. But "Reality Check" is a program that claims to turn American dreams into the real thing, and Abby figures that if anyone deserves that kind of bonanza, it's Emma Lopez, who has been raising her three younger siblings since her mother disappeared. Abby is determined to help Emma realize her dream of a reunion - even when it becomes clear that someone out there doesn't believe in happy endings. 2008.
Paige Michaels seems to have the perfect family. But she's beginning to feel like her man is just using her…
- and he might have another woman. Maybe it's time to finally let go. If Paige hadn't played house back in college and gotten pregnant, she could have done better for herself. But that's the past - what's she gonna do now? 2007.
Shots ring out during a heavyweight title fight. In the ensuing mayhem someone steals five million bucks that used to…
belong to a casino owner. If Chainey tracks down the loot, there's a cool quarter million in it for her troubles. But it won't be easy. 2003.
Embarrassed by your brother? Estranged from your uncle? Then you might need some help from Almost Family Surrogate Agency. Cam…
Redden and his dad are rent-a-relatives, available for hire to anyone looking to upgrade. Cam’s job is all about being whoever other people want him to be. Then two new clients come along. Albertina is an old lady with a big mouth, a bigger wig and a serious mission. Raylene is a beautiful girl with a nose ring, a wonky eye and a painful secret. Now to get to the bottom of the tragic mysteries that fuel them both, Cam may finally have to be himself. For senior high readers. 2017.
Having survived the First World War in the trenches, Shorty Hatton started his aviation career in a near-fatal crash of…
an Avro 504K and ended it with another Avro aircraft, the Arrow. In the intervening years he was a military, bush, and test pilot, he taught fledgling aviators at Camp Borden, he was the first to fly new air mail routes in an open cockpit plane, and he tested newly-built Hawker Hurricanes before they joined the Battle of Britain. Some descriptions of sex. 2004.
Max Bass has let the world know that he wants an able bodied, full-bosomed woman to complete his life. One…
problem though: when he describes himself, he outright lies about nearly everything. So when Catherine O'Dowd, comes west from Boston as his mail-order-bride-to-be, Bass finds himself with an incensed, sharp-tongued vixen and big trouble on his hands. 2004.
Forty-seven short stories by the noted African American author originally written between 1919 and 1963. The tales, arranged in chronological…
order, include those previously uncollected, such as his first stories (written while in high school) and other early works published in African American journals. Some strong language. 1996. Uniform title: Short stories.