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When his brother kicks him out of his house, Avery Beauregard Montgomery, who is unemployed and basically homeless, decides to…
stay at his sister's apartment where he discovers exactly what he wants - his sister's roommate, Belle. 2012.
Every dragon slayer owes the Oil Watch a period of service, and young Owen was no exception. What made him…
different was that he did not enlist alone. His two closest friends stood with him shoulder to shoulder. Steeled by success and hope, the three were confident in their plan. But the arc of history is long and hardened by dragon fire. Try as they might, Owen and his friends could not twist it to their will. Not all the way. Not all together. Sequel to “The Story of Owen”. For junior and senior high readers. 2015.
Chris Meadows is a successful Miami architect who's leaving a meeting with an ex-girlfriend when he sees a car strike…
his ex, killing her. But the nightmare is only just beginning. As a witness to the crime, Chris knows the car's passengers - thugs linked to Miami's deadliest drug lords - are sure to come after him next. But what can he do if the police refuse to give him protection? 2012.
Meg eloped to escape her reverend father's iron rule. Now widowed, she's desperate to return to her sisters. When Major…
Brandon is left unconscious on the Bordeaux docks, Meg grabs her chance--posing as his wife, she boards a ship to England. Meg might have saved his life, but does she have to be so bossy--or downright irresistible? Years of killing weighing heavily on his soul, Ross has nothing to offer as a husband, but he can make Meg his housekeeper--with access to the master's bedroom! 2012.
Set during the 1920s, this novel finds Susan Duff, the young songbird from Doig's "Dancing at the Rascal Fair", now…
a middle-aged singing coach living in Helena. When her old flame Wes Williamson asks her to mentor his black chauffeur, Monty, she agrees. But racial tensions erupt when Susan's private lessons with Monty attract the attention of the KKK. 2011.
For lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people around the world, Pride is both protest and celebration. It's about embracing diversity.…
It's about fighting for freedom and equality. It's about history, and it's about the future. It's about all of us. Grades 4-7. 2016.
Detectives Ray Tate and Djuna Brown are back from a vacation in Paris -- fraudulently funded by a stolen State…
Police credit card. While waiting to find out if they're going to be fired or jailed, the couple is assigned to the Green Squad, a dead-end job shuffling paper and counting contraband money. But while interrogating a money smuggler, Tate and Brown uncover a massive currency stash they hope will keep them out of jail. Their target is drug trafficker Laszlo Markowitz, who has millions in cocaine profits to be laundered and shipped into Canada. As Tate and Brown try to penetrate the Markowitz organization, they uncover an underworld choking on its own profits, and find a homicidal madman who has devised the perfect blend of criminality and anarchy. Sequel to "Picasso blues". 2013.
Aspiring event planner Melissa Anderson falls for the handsome, successful, Marcus Peeples. But there's a catch - he's divorced -…
and Melissa struggles to reconcile this with her spiritual beliefs. Sequel to "If memory serves", followed by "Goodness and mercy". 2010.
When young Gavir's sister is brutally killed, he escapes from slavery and sets out to explore the world and his…
own psychic abilities. Sequel to "Voices". 2008 Nebula Award winner. Junior High. 2007.
Political talk-show host and author denounces politicians, Hollywood, public schools, the media, and judges for degrading traditional values. Discusses the…
war in Iraq, immigration, terrorism, and pornography and calls on Americans to reconnect to their heritage. 2007.
Dennis McCormack shares anecdotes and poems about his life, beginning with the Halifax School for the Blind in 1953, where…
for the next thirteen years he would study in an environment where teachers and students did not allow anyone to blame failure on their visual difficulties. He describes founding the Atlantic Braille Press and marrying his soul mate, and provides insight into how faith, love, and determination helped him find his way from the darkest days to the light. c2010.
Mark Reynolds is an up-and-coming minister in an affluent Houston church and Amanda is the girl of his dreams. The…
outlook for his future is extremely bright until Amanda tells him that she is pregnant. The newlyweds are tormented with one tragedy after another. But hope lies in a quiet town in the Texas panhandle. 2005.
Psychotherapist and writer Ione was raised jointly by her mother, grandmother, and grandaunt, strong, successful women who lived, for the…
most part, unencumbered by men. Discovery of her great-grandmother’s diary gave Ione an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses passed through the female side of her family, a pattern she illustrates in the women’s life stories. 2005.
Von Igelfeld is the world's leading scholar on Portuguese irregular verbs, having written a majestic, nearly 1,200-page book on the…
subject. As one review says, "There is nothing more to be said on this subject. Nothing." But in other matters, von Igelfeld is not nearly so skilled. Whether haplessly playing tennis against an equally dreadful opponent, or committing his friends to swordfighting duels without their knowledge, von Igelfeld is somewhat naive in the ways of the world. Yet that does not stop him from having a go at life, and the results are always humorous. Followed by "The finer points of sausage dogs". 2004.
When "Preacher," the last gunfighter, catches wind that a lady from his past has been murdered in St. Louis, he…
is enraged. It's time to leave the wilderness and head to the big city to exact some revenge. 2004.
Texas. Della Ward has been widowed for ten years when lawman James Cameron arrives to explain to her how her…
husband died in the Civil War. Once they meet, James - who has carried Della’s picture for a decade - knows the truth may destroy them both. 2003.
An awards ceremony for valour is disrupted by terrorists, masquerading as policemen. As a result, the reluctant hero John Deal…
gets kidnapped -- along with the First Lady of the United States. 1998.
Vermont, 1899. Robbie Hewitt, a minister’s son, gives up being a Christian six months before the turn of the century…
because he wants to pack a lot of living in before that "Dread Day." But mostly Robbie winds up causing trouble for his father and friends. Grades 5-8. 2001.