by admin | Apr 10, 2025 | Contemporary Romance |
EZRAPartying, dudes, and hockey. What more could a gay NHL player want?If it weren’t for Anton Hayes, my life would be perfect.Not that he affects my life in any way. At all. That would imply I care what the winger from Philly thinks of me.Which I don’t.Not even a one-night stand with him can thaw his misplaced animosity toward me.He says I’m the one with the ego, but he can talk. He rivals me for most egotistical puck boy in the league.I hate him as much as he hates me. Even if I crave a repeat.ANTONWhen it comes to hockey, I’m all about the game.I’ve worked for years to be one of the best in the league, and l’ve done it without splashing my orientation all over the tabloids.My hockey image is one I’ve carefully cultivated, and after one night with Ezra Palaszczuk, I risk it all.He’s cocky, obnoxious, and has an ego bigger than Massachusetts. And okay, maybe he’s the sexiest man I’ve ever known.We’ll never get along. Not when we sleep together. Not even when my possessive streak awakens.That doesn’t stop us from falling into bed together over and over again.
by admin | Apr 10, 2025 | Fantasy |
Author Ana Ellickson’s The Vanishing Station is a lyrical and bold YA debut about an underground magic system in San Francisco—and the lengths one girl is willing to go to protect the ones she loves. Eighteen-year-old Filipino American Ruby Santos has been unmoored since her mother’s death. She can’t apply to art school like she’s always dreamed, and she and her father have had to move into the basement of their home and rent out the top floor while they work to pay back her mother’s hospital bills. Then Ruby finds out her father has been living a secret life as a delivery person for a magical underworld—he “jumps” train lines to help deliver packages for a powerful family. Recently, he’s fallen behind on deliveries (and deeper into alcoholism), and if his debts aren’t satisfied, they’re going to take her mother’s house. In an effort to protect her father and save all that remains of her mother, Ruby volunteers to take over her dad’s station and start jumping train lines. But this is no ordinary job. Ruby soon realizes that the trains are much more than doors to romance and adventure: they’re also doors to trafficking illicit goods and fierce rivalries. As she becomes more entangled with the magical underworld and the mysterious boy who’s helped her to learn magic, she realizes too late that she may be in over her head. Can she free her father and save her mother’s house? Or has she only managed to get herself pulled into the dangerous web her father was trapped in?
by admin | Apr 10, 2025 | General Nonfiction |
Entertainment reporter Marcellas Reynolds’s“coffee-table book is the first-ever collection of works devoted to celebrating black models. Fashion devotees will find glorious images of supers such as Iman, Tyra Banks, Naomi Campbell, Joan Smalls, and Adwoa Aboah alongside interviews and personal essays.” —Vogue Filled with revealing essays, interviews, and stunning photographs, Supreme Models pays tribute to black models past and present: from the first to be featured in catalogs and on magazine covers, like Iman, Donyale Luna, and Beverly Johnson, to the supermodels who reigned in the nineties—Tyra Banks, Naomi Campbell, and Veronica Webb. The book also observes the newest generation of models—Adut Akech, Jourdan Dunn, and Joan Smalls—who are shaking up the fashion industry by speaking out about racial prejudice while becoming social media sensations. Written by celebrity fashion stylist and journalist Marcellas Reynolds, Supreme Models features more than 70 women from the last 75 years. Reynolds writes, “I hope that everyone who reads this book learns something about the models included within—and more about the business of fashion and modeling. But what I want most is for Supreme Models to be a source for the little boys, or girls, who like my childhood self, need to see themselves represented in a positive light.” The book, filled with gorgeous photographs of the women, details their most memorable campaigns, covers, editorials, and runway shows. Black models have been influencing fashion and pop culture for decades, reshaping beauty standards and boundaries. Supreme Models is a celebration of their monumental impact.
by admin | Apr 10, 2025 | Fantasy |
All three books in ‘The Blood Witch Saga’, a series of fantasy novels by Natalie J. Case, now in one volume!Thanátou: Thána Archer, a skeptical mid-level manager at a manufacturing company, is forced to confront her disbelief in magic when she discovers she is a Blood Witch, hunted by those seeking to kill her. With the help of a mysterious man and a magical box, Thána sets out to find the mother who abandoned her and unravel the truth about her past. But to do so, she must sacrifice her freedom and come to terms with her newfound powers.Mörderin: Thána and her mother Alaina embark on a mission to reunite their family, traveling to a war-torn world where Daria is a prisoner of the invading army. With limited magical abilities, Thána joins forces with Daria’s husband and friends to plan a daring rescue mission, breaking into a prison camp and relying on newfound allies. Despite the dangers, Thána is determined to save her family, even if it means pushing her magical skills to the limit.Hêalic: Thána, Xen, and Daria are trapped in a world where witches are executed, a deadly plague is rampant, and a Jack the Ripper-like serial killer is on the loose. Struggling with withdrawal from a magical substance, Thána’s powers are depleted and she’s hunted by the killer. To make matters worse, Katyk is missing and Thána’s every move is dangerous. With time running out, Thána must find a way back to the portal before she becomes the killer’s next victim.
by admin | Apr 10, 2025 | Science Fiction |
In a dark future on a polluted Earth, an ambitious venture to the stars rises. But saboteurs want to ensure it never gets off the ground…Laslo Dundee yearns to start over. Stuck with the rest of North America in a giant underground city, the hardworking sector constable accepts the job of security chief for a colonization project in exchange for his family being included. But his new role turns deadly when terrorists set off a bomb in the hangar, killing most of the interstellar craft’s crew.Tasked with protecting the surviving captain and first officer, Dundee races to uncover the identities of those responsible. But when the clues lead to the high halls of power, the down-to-earth policeman finds himself accused of the crime and forced to go on the run.In seeking a better life, has Dundee signed his own death warrant?Ashes of Insurrection is the gritty first novel in The Odyssey Saga science fiction series. If you like page-turning action, determined heroes, and undercurrents of forbidden romance, then you’ll love D. Michael Withrow’s suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse.Buy Ashes of Insurrection to blaze a trail today!
