Lovelady Road

Jordan, C. Robin

Itoh Press

Janine Larson is a quiet, responsible kid.  But her ditsy friends keep her out past her curfew, and her parents are angry she hasn't found a summer job.  They think she spends too much time hanging with her friends and her boyfriend, Dan.  Her father arranges for her to spend a month as an au pair girl for Dr. Cargill and his wife; they take their two kids to an island summer vacation home, and Janine goes along.  Janine slowly wins the trust of the little boy. She can't get close to his spoiled, snooty sister.  But she has bigger problems to worry about, with the rude, unpleasant parents - and the fact that there is something not quite right about the way Dr. Cargill arranges adoptions for "orphan" children.  Once the Cargills suspect that Janine knows too much about what is going on, Janine finds that her employers have changed from difficult to deadly . . .

Au Pair Girl

Judy Klass

While volunteering at a Mexican boarding school with her church youth group, Liz Nichols finds herself in the middle of a crisis when a tsunami turns the town to ruins. At just seventeen, she is unprepared for the load with which she is burdened: It falls to Liz to search for the twin boys who disappeared before the tsunami hit. She is also tasked with keeping the boarding school director from spiraling into emotional despair. Her naïve foster brother, two years her senior, is rendered helpless in the desperate situation and depends on her to pull him through. In the midst of it all, she discovers that a creature straight out of prehistory, with the muscled, leathery physique of a crocodile and the chaotically serrated jaws of a shark, has been left onshore by the tsunami. In the end, Liz finds herself stressed to the maximum, abused by nature and by tragic circumstance, face to face with a creature unlike any she has ever seen.

Drowned City

Literature & Fiction

Boeringa, Joshua D.

Genre Fiction

KRYSTAL'S MOM has set the ultimate goal for an overweight, middle aged woman.  Since becoming widowed she has packed on the pounds and now with the wedding of her only daughter just months away she has vowed to join a gym as a means to become a lean, healthy, vibrant mother of the bride.    Setting out to pick the perfect workout facility proves eventful to say the least beginning with a less than welcoming encounter with a fist shaking desk clerk at the local gym.  Little does the rude desk clerk know but this gym is about to change forever now that Krystal's mom has joined the membership ranks!  Handing over her worn and tattered credit card to pay for a two year membership Krystal's mom embarks on her new adventure into gym life.    For someone who's only form of exercise is pushing a grocery cart through the dairy aisle, taking a walk on a programmable treadmill provides Krystal's mom with the first of many lessons to follow on the inner workings of a fitness facility.  Walls do not bend and neither do snippy anorexic desk clerks - Lesson number 1!

Lessons from the Gym

Brenda Fasching

Humor & Satire

In this spoof of the well known novel, Atlas Shrugged, enjoy the competition between manly capitalists and effeminate do-gooders, between the proud producers and the puny parasites, between decisive Dagger and her brother, yoga Jimbo, between the great Hank Reason and the mediocre Otis Blank. In this world of either A or B, there are no contradictions, and there are no gray areas.

Atlas Shagged

Morris, Stephanie

The Church Choir Murders

Walker, Jack K.

Stick Figure

Kehlmeier, Carol

Popular cheerleader, Jamie Edwards' world is turned upside down when she suddenly develops a crush on bad girl, P. J. Thomas.  Jamie and P. J. have gone to the same school since grade school but, because they ran in different circles, Jamie had never really paid much attention to P. J.  She only knew that P. J. had been in a lot of trouble over the past few years and run with a rough crowd. After seeing P. J. at McDonald's, thoughts of P. J. fill Jamie's mind and she realizes she is developing a crush on this girl.   Some of the other people in Jamie's life are not happy about the budding friendship between Jamie and P. J., including Jamie's ex-boyfriend, Todd; the leader of her cheerleading squad, Diane; and Jamie's mother.   The two girls have to deal with the fallout with friends and family finding out about their relationship. Jamie's mother is determined to keep the two girls apart. P. J. is determined not to lose Jamie. In the end, an unexpected champion comes to Jamie and P. J.'s aid and helps the two girls be together, hopefully forever.

Suddenly

Tudor, M. E.

<p>What if you could Write things alive? Maybe you would Write yourself millions of dollars, or a pet dragon, or even an entire world. But what happens when the bad guy can too? Pren was supposed to be a perfect world - where grass is blue and skies are purple, where fathers are wood-whittlers and the birds sing Mozart. But if perfection is in the eye of the beholder, then June can point out some major flaws - to her, Pren is just too boring. There, June is considered a freak because she's normal. Normal, that is, until an extraordinary series of events leads her to realize that when she Writes, things come alive. Desperate to escape the normality of Pren, June runs away to the chaotic world that she has Written - called Earth. She ends up in modern-day New York City, a hubbub of lights and the smell of roasted peanuts. Life gets more complicated when June is introduced to a Council of Writers, where each Writer is responsible for his or her own fantastical Written world. And things get downright thorny when one Writer, Victor, pursues the single goal of reWriting his past - a power reserved to the Master Writer, who happens to be his mother. As he threatens to destroy the fragile balance of the chain of Written worlds, it is up to June and her newly-found partner, a Writer of sorts himself, to find a compromise - if there is any - between new friends and new enemies.</p>

The Writer

Li, Emily Sun

Death Unmasked

<p>A reincarnated evil is stalking the women of Houston. With each murder, the madman quotes an excerpt from the Oscar Wilde poem, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol." Selected verses from 'The Ballad' are also interwoven throughout the story. A huge smokestack belching smoke and a ragged flea market double-breasted wool coat and an old antique picture frame with the Warrior's Creed, bring the distant past back to haunt Houston Homicide Detective, Sean Jamison. With those catalysts, Jamison knows who he was in a past life - Emil - and that he lost the only woman he could ever love in Emil's time. Searching for his reincarnated mate becomes Jamison's raison d'être as he and fellow detectives scour Houston for a brutal serial killer. When Jamison finds his mate she doesn't recognize him, nor can she recall a past life as his wife. His efforts to reclaim her are derailed when he discovers the same fiend who took her from him in the past is stalking her again. The memory of timeless love drives Jamison's dogged search for a serial killer determined to finish what he started decades earlier. Each clue brings Jamison closer to unmasking his old nemesis. Tenacious police work, lessons learned in the past, and intuition may be the only weapons he has in preventing history from repeating itself.</p>

Sulik, Rick

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