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An Unexpected Apprentice
Jody Lynn Nye
Synopsis:

Halfling Tildi Summerbee has led a typical, unexciting life, tending the house for her brothers while they manage the family farm. Her days are boring, but happy...until a Thraik attack decimates her family.

In an effort to provide for Tildi, the town's leaders prepare an arranged marriage and take control of her farm's assets. After all, a female halfling is incapable of handling such matters on her own.

Tildi sees things differently.


In order to escape her arranged marriage and overcome the prejudices against the "weaker" sex, she decides to pass herself off as a man. Assuming the guise of her brother Teldo, Tildi disappears into the night. She plans to accept Teldo's position as an apprentice to a great wizard.

But she soon finds that the rest of the world isn't very welcoming to halflings. And that she is surrounded by fantastic dangers.

Dangers that are more than a match for a wizard's apprentice.



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Publication Date:
Age Level: 8 - 12
Genre: Adventure
Revenge of the Homecoming Queen
Synopsis: Read all three books of the Aspen Brooks Trilogy!

Revenge of the Homecoming Queen, Book #1
Twisted Sisters, Book #2
Spring Breakup, Book #3

Revenge of the Homecoming Queen, Book One~

I, the flawless Aspen Brooks, was born to be Homecoming Queen. I’ve prepped for it like some kids do the SAT. So can someone please tell me why the crown was given to my evil nemesis?
As if that wasn’t bad enough, somebody seems out to get me. Locker vandalism, a slashed tire, and horrendous lipstick graffiti are just a few of the ways someone is trying to get under my blemish-free skin. (And I’m not even going to mention how the biggest geek in school kissed me, and I didn’t hate it.)
But things start getting serious when girls begin disappearing. I can’t be worrying about tiaras or crushing on a geek when the detective on the case is completely clueless. I have to save the day, all while looking fabulous.

****Reviews for Revenge of the Homecoming Queen****

“Meg Cabot better watch her back because Stephanie Hale is giving her a run for her money.”
~Book Divas

“They didn’t write teen books like this when I was in high school- and it’s a darned shame.”
~ FreshFiction.com

“Hale’s narration is strong with laugh-out-loud funny one-liners.”
~The Ya Ya Ya’s
Publication Date:
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Series
All-in
Pete Hautman
Synopsis: "You know how they say you can't climb out of a hole till you hit bottom?"

"Yeah?"

"I'm trying to find the bottom."

At seventeen, Denn Doyle isn't old enough to gamble legally, but thanks to his talent for reading tells, he's made a fortune -- and along the way, he's upset some of the most notorious Texas holdem players in Las Vegas, including Artie Kingston, who had already lost his nightclub to Denn. But now Denn's luck has run out and he's just about broke. His only chance is a million-dollar, winner-take-all tournament at Artie's new casino, but Denn can't play unless he comes up with the $10,000 entry fee. Denn's future all comes down to one hand of poker.

National Book Award-winning author Pete Hautman introduced Denn Doyle in No Limit, of which School Library Journal said, "Fast paced and powerfully delivered...as taut and suspenseful as a high-stakes game." Here he deals another hand of love, luck, and greed in the high-stakes world of poker.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
Beautiful Stranger
Zoey Dean
Synopsis: Anna decides to take an end-of-summer getaway-to get away from her drama-filled LA life. So she packs her Louis Vuitton, grabs her close friend Sam, and heads to the Big Apple. Between trips to the Met and shopping at Bendel's, the girls are living the A-List life on Anna's home turf. But their trip isn't exactly a vacation. Sam is here to spy on Eduardo and decode his recent strange behavior. Will what she discovers send her hopping on the next private jet back to Beverly Hills? And who is the beautiful stranger who appears on Anna's Upper East Side doorstep? Anna begins to wonder whether she wants to head back west again-especially since Ben seems to have moved on . . . with someone who isn't a stranger at all. When it comes to the A-List, there's drama coast to coast.
Publication Date:
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
How To Build A House
Dana Reinhardt
Synopsis: HARPER’S DAD IS getting a divorce from her beloved stepmother, Jane. Even worse, Harper has lost her stepsister, Tess; the divorce divides them. Harper decides to escape by joining a volunteer program to build a house for a family in Tennessee who lost their home in a tornado. Not that she knows a thing about construction.

Soon she’s living in a funky motel and working long days in blazing heat with a group of kids from all over the country. At the site, she works alongside Teddy, the son of the family for whom they are building the house. Their partnership turns into a summer romance, complete with power tools. Learning to trust and love Teddy isn’t easy for Harper, but it’s the first step toward finding her way back home.


From the Hardcover edition.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fiction
The Gorgon's Gaze
Julia Golding
Synopsis: Connie Lionheart's calculating great-aunt and uncle try to take her away from the tantalizing reach of the Society for the Protection of Mythical Creatures. What they don't realize (or do they?) is that Connie is the Society's most important member--she is the only universal companion able to bond with all mythical creatures. Connie's great gift also puts her in great danger, as the evil shape-shifter Kullervo needs her power to destroy the Society once and for all. But how can Connie help anyone, even herself, when she hasn't learned how to use her gift yet? In this second book of the Companions Quartet, Connie and her friends team together again to protect the fragile bonds between humans, creatures, and the world we must share.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 8 - 12
Genre: Adventure
Tigerheart
Peter David
Synopsis: For all readers who have ever lent an enthusiastic ear to a wonderfully well told tale, or tumbled gladly into pages that could transport them anywhere, now comes novelist Peter David’s enchanting new work of fantasy. Action-packed and suspenseful, heart-tugging and wise, it weaves a spell both hauntingly familiar and utterly irresistible for those who have ever surrendered themselves to flights of fancy, and have whispered in their hearts, “I believe.”

Paul Dear is a good and clever boy, doted on by a father who fills his son’s head with tall tales, thrilling legends, and talk of fairy-folk, and by a mother who indulges these fantastic stories and tempers them with common sense. But Paul is special in ways that even his adoring parents could never have imagined. For by day, in London’s Kensington Gardens, he walks and talks with the pixies and sprites and other magical creatures that dwell among the living–but are unseen by most. And at night in his room, a boy much like himself, yet not, beckons to Paul from the mirror to come adventuring. It’s a happy life for Paul, made all the more so by the birth of his baby sister.

But everything changes when tragedy strikes, and Paul concludes that there’s only one course of action he can take to dispel the darkness and make things right again. And like countless heroes before him, he knows that he must risk everything to save the day.

Thus begins a quest that will lead Paul down the city’s bustling streets, to a curio shop where a magical ally awaits him, and launches him into the starry skies, bound for a realm where anything is possible. Far from home, he will run with fierce Indian warriors, cross swords with fearsome pirates, befriend a magnificent white tiger, and soar beside an extraordinary, ageless boy who reigns in a boundless world of imagination.

Brimming with the sly humor and breathless excitement of a traditional Victorian bedtime story, deftly embroidered with its own unique wisdom and wonder, Tigerheart is a hymn to childhood’s happiness and heartbreak, a meditation on the love, courage, sacrifice, and faith that shape us and define our lives, and a splendidly rendered modern fable–for readers of any age–that brilliantly proves itself a worthy brother to the timeless classic that serve as its inspiration.


From the Hardcover edition.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy
The Last Block In Harlem
Christopher Herz
Synopsis: A young couple seeking a fresh start moves into a fourth floor walk-up in Sugar Hill, Harlem--where kids still run through fire hydrants and music blares from stereos plugged into lampposts. When the husband notices trash marring the streets, he jumps on what he believes to be his cause. However, his clean-up efforts bring media coverage that sets off a rash of evictions and ushers in an influx of new and affluent tenants.

The choices they make cannot change the past and the secrets that haunt the young lovers. What exists beneath the surface can't be held down for long. On the last block in Harlem, accomplishment and love will clash, but which force is strong enough to win?
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Historical Fiction
Will Allen and the Great Monster Detective
Jeffrey Friedman, Jason Edwards
Synopsis: For young and/or reluctant readers who love Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, and Chase Cooper, this frighteningly funny mix of Ghostbusters and Monsters Inc. is the perfect blend of humor, horror, mystery, and suspense.
Will Allen may be one of the smallest boys at Ashford Middle School, but he is also one of the smartest. But cleverness alone isn't enough to help him when monsters infest his room!
Together with his friend Jeannine Fitsimmons, Will searches fruitlessly for help, until a strange business card appears, instructing them how to summon Bigelow Hawkins, the Great Monster Detective. But even with Bigelow's help, along with the use of his very special monster-fighting instruments, the RevealeR and the MonsterScope, can Will learn how to conquer his monsters and reveal the secret of the dreaded HIDDEN BEAST before it's too late?
Publication Date:
Age Level: 8 - 12
Genre: Series
The Worst-Case Scenario Handbook
Joshua Piven, David Borgenicht
Synopsis: The worst of the worst, all in one place!

This deluxe desk reference includes the most popular scenarios from all 11 Worst-Case Scenario handbooks. Avoid the perils of:

• Mountain lions
• Blind dates
• Avalanches
• Teenage driving lessons
• Runaway golf carts
• Christmas turkeys on fire

A remedy for every crisis the worst-case experts have anticipated is now only a click away. Boasting more than 500 pages, this sturdy hardbound addition to the Worst-Case Scenario library could stop a bullet--just one more way to be prepared for the worst!
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Nonfiction
Of Quills and Kings
Joel Reeves
Synopsis: Jonathan Quintain is a naïve young man reluctant to assume leadership after the Baron abandons the castle with his mistress and most of the staff. When a spell cast by the inept advisor and castle mage, Gamitof Pym, goes awry, the castle is turned upside down—freeing an underestimated hedgehog prisoner and displacing the magical Orb.

Pox, the youngest of a line of inept and arrogant deities, sets out on a mission to recover it. However, Pox’s seemingly easy task becomes botched when Walpole, the so-called Sacred Hedgehog of Yurle, steals the Orb and begins his mission for world domination.

Following a battle for the now-ruined castle, Jonathan learns that the demonic hedgehog has captured the realm’s child-king. With nothing left at home to satisfy a young man’s appetite for adventure, he and his friends set off into the desolate land of Yurle to save their king and hopefully recover the stolen Orb.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy
Taken by Storm
Angela Morrison
Synopsis: Publisher’s Weekly STARRED Review – “Michael awakens a passion in Leesie that she doesn’t know she possesses in this moving novel.”
Amazon Best Sellers Top 100 Teen Death & Dying Books
“Passion, pace . . . and a perfect finish.” – Boston Globe-Horn Book Winner, Tim Wynne-Jones (Blink and Caution)
Read now FREE with Kindle Unlimited!
Sexy, scuba diver Michael Walden cuts school and hitches along on his parents half-priced hurricane season scuba trip to escape witnessing a creepy jock paw at his ex. Breaking up wasn’t Michael’s idea.
 
When the scuba diving turns tragic, the only thing left back in Phoenix is a house too full of memories and the girl who broke his heart, so he washes up at his Gram’s house in “Teacup,” Washington. He’s trapped in his dead dad’s old bedroom, fighting the hurricane every time his eyes close.
 
Michael surfaces in BYU-bound, good girl, Leesie Hunt’s physics class, mesmerized by her shining, sun-bleached, blonde hair.  

Leesie, nicknamed “The Mormon Ice Queen,” pours her soul into dreams and poems in her “Most Private Chapbook.” Her lonely heart yearns to make Michael’s whole again. He needs her in a way no one ever has before.
 
When she peeks out from behind her physics book to find Michael’s eyes drowning in hers, Leesie’s own hurricane season begins. Michael sweeps her into deep water where the passion they share threatens to destroy everything Leesie ever wanted to be.

“The world spins, the stars shift,
And I can’t see anything except his smoky
Gray eyes gazing into mine. 
You scare me, whispers
from my mouth across his. 
Good, he breathes into me.
I need you to save me.”

Leesie knows her faith can rescue Michael, but as her love for him grows deeper and their relationship more stormy, Leesie isn’t sure who is doing the saving anymore.  
Readers who love tearjerkers like John Green’s popular teen romance, The Fault in our Stars and Nicholas Sparks’s books will be swept away by award-winning novelist, Angela Morrison’s breathtaking YA contemporary romance series of tragedy, love, and redemption written in a unique collage of poetry, dive log entries, and chat transcripts.

Michael and Leesie’s story continues in Unbroken Connection and Cayman Summer.
 
Reviews
"One of the most breathtaking and romantic-to-the-point-you-cry books I've ever read." -The Reader

"An amazing story written with a clear, refreshing, creative voice." - Jack Weyland, LDS young adult legend (Charly)

"There are moments of yearning and transcendence that took my breath away." - Susan Fletcher (Alphabet of Dreams)

“Showcases characters’ fervent hopes and desperate needs heading for inevitable collision in its pages.” – Uma Krishnaswami, Children’s Literature

"Morrison's distinctive mix of poetry and modern dialogue bring the subjects of peer pressure, religion, and grief to the forefront in an accessible and dramatic way." - Deseret News 

Categories: Teen and Young Adult Novel; Young Adult Contemporary Romance; Popular Teen Romance Series; Scuba Diving Fiction; Tearjerkers in Kindle Store; YA/Teen Literature and Fiction - Difficult Discussions- Death and Dying; LDS Young Adult; LDS Author; Mormon Fiction
Publication Date:
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Fiction
George Washington
James A. Crutchfield
Synopsis:

Between 1753, when he was commissioned as a major of Virginia militia, and 1775, when the Second Continental Congress named him Commander-in-Chief of all colonial military forces, George Washington rose from anonymity as a minor landowner and surveyor to become America's first national hero.
With little military training he led the thirteen fledgling colonies through six years of grueling war against formidable British forces, steered the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, and served two terms as the first president of the United States. His accomplishments were so stunning and he was so revered that by the end of the war some of his generals urged him to install himself as king, an idea he looked upon with "abhorrence," calling the very thought "painful." Nor would he consider standing for a third term as president.
In this revealing book, James Crutchfield writes of Washington as an enigmatic man-"No more elusive personality exists in history" as an eminent Harvard historian observed. His outward commonness concealed a quick, analytic mind, capable of learning from mistakes, gauging his successes not on winning battles but on the effect his decisions would have on the future of his country.
"Washington remains an American hero, in every definition of the word," Crutchfield says. "He was a man who rose above the political uncertainty of the infant United States to chart its destiny for two centuries into the future."



At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Publication Date:
Age Level: 8 - 12
Genre: Biography
The New Mars
John L. Manning Jr.
Synopsis: The story starts out with an introduction of investors investing into a project of turning Mars into a vacation spot with a retirement community. The workers of this project are looking for more to do during their off hours besides eat and sleep. Some of these workers build pod racers out of old rovers and other discarded mechanics to race around the terrain of Mars.


These workers have formed teams to race each other and the Mars Dome wants to join in with the fun. The Mars Dome was the first three story dome that has grown into three Domes. The third dome is being constructed as this book begins. The third dome of the now Mars Domes is a Hotel Dome for vacationers. This dome is built faster than they expected, so the extra workers from the Hotel Dome project join the Tent project.


A separate tent has been started for the retirees with a big mall at the other end of a street from the entrance of this tent with condominiums on each side. This Mall has a gym and spa for the retirees to get there exercise with a food court and restaurants this mall even has all of the stores that you would expect in a shopping mall. But on the second floor of this mall, is a hospital with rooms for the retirees that need full time care. Because of the less gravity of Mars, these retirees are active at the park and sports facilities.


The Pod races grow and a team from the Mars Domes join the teams of racers from the Tent project. The racers from the Mars Domes want to have spectators for these races, so they construct six one room domes with stands inside around the race cores. These teams of racers from the Tent project are made up of Builders, Technician, and Freelance workers. The Team from the Mars Domes have the advantage from scientists and newer materials, so there is a bit of complaining.


As the construction of the Tents goes on and the races get bigger, one of the managers get the idea of building a sports tent. The idea sports facility is a hit with the investors to build a vacation spot that is full of activates. This sports tent in cases a small creator with a racetrack around the inner crust of this creator there is room for an active retiree community in this creator and much more. There is even a stadium in this Tent B and a gaming center with all kinds of games.


A small group of vacationers that want to be one of the first gusts on Mars show up and they explore the three tents and just love the Pod races. After they go there are some extreme sports stars invited to brake in the park, and they bring their family to join in with the fun. The story ends with the now called "The New Mars Project" with all three tents ready for hundreds of guests.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 8 - 12
Genre: Science Fiction
Living With Ghosts
Kari Sperring
Synopsis: The dazzling debut from a brilliant new fantasy talent.

This highly original, darkly atmospheric fantasy novel immerses readers in a world where ghosts and other malevolent spirits seek entry into mortal realms—invisible to all but those who are not entirely human themselves. Drawn into the ancient city of Merafi, yet barred from entering by an ancient pact sealed in blood, these hungry haunts await their opportunity to break through the magical border and wreak havoc on the city’s innocent denizens.

And as a priestess and prince weave a sorcerous plot to shatter the pact and bring ruin on Merafi, only a failed assassin-priest who is now a courtesan, a noble lord married into the ruling family of Merafi, an officer of the city guard, a woman warrior who was the former lover of a now-dead lord, and the ghost of that lord himself stand between Merafi and the tidal wave of magic that may soon bring ruin flooding down upon the city.
Publication Date:
Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Fantasy
The Snog Log
Michael Coleman
Synopsis: .Forget readathons and swimathons, Robbie and his mates have invented a new challenge of their own for the coming term: a snogathon! Robbie's #1 target is Mel Bradshaw, but she's going to be a tough nut to crack. Mel's got a target of her own - new poetry teacher Dave Carmichael.

It proves to be a term in which the characters learn a lot about love and emotions and poetry and snogging - but especially about themselves.

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"A story remarkable for its insights into young teenage behaviour and an understanding of the female as well as the male sense of worth ... Conflicting feelings about school, learning, family relationships, love, real affection, loyalty, crushes and sexual exploitation are portrayed with a sympathetic humour while the outrageous Snogathon is full of funny incidents ... A very entertaining and positive novel - School Librarian, UK

"It made me laugh and mid-way into the book I was totally hooked! You must read until the end as it has a strong conclusion." - Cool-reads

"The best book I have read this year. It has a good beginning, a great middle and an even better end."; "A really enjoyable read, full of laughs and suspense"; "It was great to hear about life, school and girls from a boys' perspective ... I thought it was written by a teenager!" - all from Lancashire Awards Supplement

"The dialogue was golden" - teen reviewer for the US print edition

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The Snog Log was originally published in print form in the UK by Orchard Books and in the US by Marshall Cavendish.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 8 - 12
Genre: Fantasy

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