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Tom and the Normeend: The slavers come.


Stephen Matthews - 2018
    The Cave was surviving but Twar had flashbacks to another time when a Cave had died during a bad winter. Tom’s Hearth did all they could to help. Then the Normeend came. They killed, enslaved and then destroyed what they did not steal. Twar took the Spear holders north to find his Hearth and the remaining members of his Cave, leaving Tom holding the fort. Tom, with little more than his Hearth for help, went about finding the Normeend and bringing back all that remained of Willow Cave.

City On Fire: Five LAPD Thrillers


Dallas Barnes - 2020
    He silently hopes his life choices aren’t a reflection of what he sees wrong in others.Detective Bobbi Marshal is an attractive woman whose beauty turns heads. Ironically, she and her partner comprise the LAPD Wilshire Division sex team. Bobbi, mature, sophisticated, capable and compassionate, finds herself working and competing in a man’s world.Detective Sergeant Stryker and Detective West are a “Salt & Pepper” team, one white, one Black. Besides race, there’s one crucial difference between the men…at End of Watch, Stryker drives out of the ghetto into a White community where he lives. West has a much shorter drive, his home is in the ghetto.Now, it’s just a matter of time and cunning …and who makes the first fatal mistake. City on Fire includes: City of Passion, Badge of Honor, Deadly Justice, See the Woman and Yesterday Is Dead.

Firefighter Dragon's Forbidden Mate: A Dragon Shifter Romance (Firefighter Dragons of the Secret Islands)


Alicia Banks - 2021
    

Awakened


D.L. Harrison - 2019
    She was heavily malnourished, atrophied to the point she couldn’t walk, and the only survivor of a massacre. She also doesn’t remember a thing about her past.After months of sweat and hard work, she was out on her own. She was able to walk again and independent, and working to regain a life, although the lack of a past haunted her in her dreams and nightmares. Then everything changed one night as she was attacked in an alley. No one was more surprised than Lily, when she wound up being the stronger predator.Join Lily, as she learns of the existence of the supernatural world, and she tries to uncover the truth of her past. Where vampires, shifters, witches and warlocks are nothing like the legends or Hollywood fictions, and she’s stranger than all of them. Author’s note: This is the first book in an urban fantasy trilogy. There will be no major cliffhangers, but there will be several plot threads left unresolved until the final book.

Mistaken For An Escort: A Forbidden Romance (Forbidden Fantasies Book 24)


S.E. Law - 2021
    

Tangled Web (VTwin Valkyries MC, #0.5)


Crimson Syn - 2021
    AVAAva Bristow has been running away her whole life.Away from rules and restrictions.Away from the abuse that marred her life so long ago.A nomad at heart,She has nothing and no one but herself to fall back on.It isn't until a motorcycle accident lands her in a New York City hospital, and far away from her small town in Iowa, that she finally gets a wake-up call.Life has a way of presenting opportunities in the most unexpected ways,and in her path lies a choice that may change her life forever,and three loves who may offer her exactly what her heart needs to heal.An MC Reverse Harem Romance that serves as an introduction to my VTwin Valkyries MC

Fall into Love (Wyoming Fever Book 3)


Elizabeth Lennox - 2021
    

The Unmarried Mother


Sheila Tofield - 2013
    As a young woman, her worst childhood fears were confirmed when her fiance broke off their engagement without an explanation. Heartbroken and vulnerable, Sheila was easy prey to the worst type of man - a man who turned his back on her when she told him she was carrying his child. In Fifties Britain, an unmarried, pregnant girl received,not sympathy but censure and contempt. Shunned by most of her family, Sheila ended up in a Church of England home for unmarried mothers, with no apparent alternative than to give up her child for adoption. But when she held her newborn daughter in her arms for the first time, Sheila knew she had to do the unthinkable: bring up her baby on her own in a society that would condemn her for it. Sheila Tofield is a proud grandmother living in Chichester and The Unmarried Mother is her first book. Her touching story was picked up by Penguin when she entered the hugely successful life story competition with Saga Magazine.

The Vanishing (Triquetra Series Book 2)


L.C. Kincaide - 2019
     She must have been important because the mysterious client spared no expense to get her there to investigate the disappearance, making the gig too good to resist. Had Lindy known the victim’s identity, and her own financial reality were not so grim, she would have turned him down in an instant. Instead, she travels to a remote island with a man she’d rather avoid, and where the residents keep their secrets close. One of them knows the truth, and she must find it before it finds her.

Wicked Songbook: A New Musical - Piano/Vocal Selections (Melody in the Piano Part)


Stephen Schwartz - 2004
    Nominated for a whopping 10 Tony Awards in 2005, Wicked is an undeniable Broadway smash! A prequel to the all-American classic The Wizard of Oz , this new musical is a character study of Elphaba and Glinda, school roommates who grow up to become the Wicked Witch and the Good Witch, respectively. This songbook, in standard piano/vocal format with the melody in the piano part, feature a color photos from the production, a note from composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz, and these fantastic tunes: As Long as You're Mine * Dancing Through Life * Defying Gravity * For Good * I Couldn't Be Happier * I'm Not That Girl * No Good Deed * No One Mourns the Wicked * One Short Day * Popular * What Is This Feeling? * The Wizard and I * Wonderful.

Alternative Kilns Firing Techniques: Raku * Saggar * Pit * Barrel


James C. Watkins - 2004
    Authors James Watkins and Paul Wandless, along with a group of distinguished artisans, demonstrate in detail how to build low-cost, low-tech, yet high-quality kilns. The plans range from an easy, affordable, and versatile Raku Kiln to a unique wood-fueled Downdraft Stovepipe Barrel one. These clever devices make it possible to produce rich surface effects from alternative reduction firing techniques. In addition to showing the basic procedures for using each kiln, easy-to-follow directions for many fast-fire methods unfold in color photographs: You’ll see how to achieve terra sigillata surfaces with direct chemical application, and how to do traditional crackle-glaze raku and smoke finishes.

Call of the Wolf


J.P. Nelson - 2014
    Later, the builders of Xibalba called it, Xn’Csero, meaning the 3rd World. But the youth who calls himself Timber Wolf doesn’t care. Born into slavery, the human and elf half-breed was taken from his momma’s side and sold into hazardous labor. Over the years he learned to hate, but there was something more; something, some kind of power from his lost, forgotten elvin ancestry was growing inside. But why? Did it have anything to do with the strange weather patterns, awakening volcanoes, tidal waves and part of a continent falling into the sea? Magic was a dying practice, his mother was last of the Elvin Tell-Singers, there were no more Druids, and Kn’Yang, the youth’s great-great-grandfather had been last of the Gahjurahnge Warriors … or was he? The word was, religious leaders around the known world were moving toward the Kohntia Mountains in belief an upcoming stellar phenomenon would transform one individual into godhood. But in the overall scheme of things, why should the youth care? Besides, what difference can one person make? Follow Timber Wolf’s path in a world of chaos, tyranny, oppression by the sword and a worldwide Quest for Conquest by those seeking divine ascension … a world desperately in need of heroes. Call of the Wolf is the 1st novel in The Kohrinju Tai Saga. Weaving a story driven by character development, captivating visuals, fast moving action and intricate paradox against a background of richly detailed history and culture, J P Nelson has created an innovative new look at elves, leprechauns, dragons and magic with all new creatures, intelligent species and more …

Tula Station


David Toscana - 1995
    When his totaled car is recovered, his friend's wife finds piles of papers inside. She determines that her husband is not dead, but rather has run off with his lover. She asks David Toscana to sift through the papers and make sense of her husband's disappearance -- the result is Tula Station. The novel is three stories in one: the story of an orphan destined to live a Quixotic life in search of adventure; the life of a man who will forever be in love with the fantasy of a woman; and the almost true story of the once prosperous town of Tula, whose mountain location make it inaccessible to both trains and modernity in spite of the hopeful construction of Tula Station. Intelligent and subtle, Tula Station is a striking mix of old and new.

Riding His Longboard (Billionaires Down Under, #3)


Sienna Blake - 2021
    

Sexy SEALs: A Steamy Holiday Romance (Loved By Three Book 5)


Sarwah Creed - 2021