Hello, Therians!
It's that time of year again!! Time to spoil your loved ones, and I can't think of a better way to give them joy this festive season than with a great read that will transport them to another time and place. Whether it be a suspenseful thriller, or an exciting fantasy sci-fi adventure, books are a fantastic gift!
I'm excited to be a part of the JKSCommunications 2013 Holiday Hop, and today I have listed of just a few of the amazing books on offer. There's a little something for everyone, so browse through my list and grab a copy, or two, of these great reads!
1. Amalie Howard - Waterfell
Nerissa Marin hides among teens in her human form, waiting for the day she can claim her birthright-the undersea kingdom stolen from her the day her father was murdered. Blending in is her best weapon-until her father's betrayer confronts Nerissa and challenges her to a battle to the death on Nerissa’s upcoming birthday-the day she comes of age.
Amid danger and the heartbreak of her missing mother, falling for a human boy is the last thing Nerissa should do. But Lo Seavon breaches her defenses and somehow becomes the only person she can count on to help her desperate search for her mother, a prisoner of Nerissa’s mortal enemy. Is Lo the linchpin that might win Nerissa back her crown? Or will this mortal boy become the weakness that destroys her?
2. Amalie Howard - The Almost Girl
Seventeen-year-old Riven is as tough as they come. But coming from a world ravaged by a devastating android war, she has to be. There’s no room for softness, no room for emotion, no room for mistakes. A Legion General, she is the right hand of the young Prince of Neospes, a parallel universe to Earth. In Neospes, she has everything: rank, responsibility and respect. But when Prince Cale sends her away to find his long-lost brother, Caden, who has been spirited back to modern day Earth, Riven finds herself in uncharted territory.Thrown out of her comfort zone but with the mindset of a soldier, Riven has to learn how to be a girl in a realm that is the opposite of what she knows. Riven isn’t prepared for the beauty of a world that is unlike her own in so many ways. Nor is she prepared to feel something more than indifference for the very target she seeks. Caden is nothing like Cale, but he makes something in her come alive, igniting a spark deep down that goes against every cell in her body. For the first time in her life, Riven isn’t sure about her purpose, about her calling. Torn between duty and desire, she must decide whether Caden is simply a target or whether he is something more.
Faced with hideous reanimated Vector soldiers from her own world with agendas of their own, as well as an unexpected reunion with a sister who despises her, it is a race against time to bring Caden back to Neospes. But things aren’t always as they seem, and Riven will have to search for truth. Family betrayals and royal coups are only the tip of the iceberg. Will Riven be able to find the strength to defy her very nature? Or will she become the monstrous soldier she was designed to be?
3. Julie Tetel Andresen - The Time Slip Series
Durham
· Chicago · Paris
Cancer
researcher Alexandra Kaminski is on the verge of a scientific breakthrough
when she crosses paths with pharmaceutical representative, Val Dorsainville,
and the two are plunged into the mystery, passion, and tragedy of their
past lives in Paris of the 1800s. Can they solve the mystery and avert tragedy
this time around?
Read my REVIEW
St.
Louis · San Francisco · Bucharest · Hong Kong
Eloise
Popescu has one last entry to make in her screw-up-alog, and it's a doozy:
she
has just walked into the cross-fire of warring Chinese mafia families and into
the path of Hanes Reynolds whose career has just been ruined by those same
families. As Eloise and Hanes reluctantly unite forces to escape the clans, they
must learn to trust one another … or repeat the fatal mistakes they made the
last time they were together in 19th-century Hong Kong.
London
· Rio De Janeiro · Wilmington
Londoner
Theodor West can't quite believe how, much less explain why, the beautiful
and free-spirited American botanist, Jordan Charles, is bedeviling him and
his high-tech career. But it's clear that if he wants his career back and that
if she
wants to avert the destruction of the world's rubber forests, they must repair what
happened the last time they were together – one hundred years ago in London and Rio.
Read my REVIEW
4. Bill Gourgey - The Glide Trilogy
Captain
Magigate, a legendary inventor and recluse who is equal parts Albert Einstein and
Don Quixote, confronts his own shadowy destiny when two adventurous teens disrupt
the status quo of his covert lab on Isla de Tiempo Muerto. When the captain's nemesis,
the Prophet, who once had an iron grip over much of the world's commerce, escapes
her island prison taking one of the teens hostage, Captain Magigate must face not
only his long-time foe and erstwhile lover but also the ambiguous legacy of his
inventions. “Glide” is a dark and quixotic look at what happens when invention
reaches beyond its pale to compensate for the shortcomings of heart and soul.
In “Nu
Logic, Rise of the Neos,” accomplished virologist, Dr. Janot (whose specialty is crossover
pathogens), threatens the promising Glide era with his wildly popular augmented
reality gaming world – Neology. Only the genius inventor, Captain Magigate, can
stop him, but Magigate is lost in the past with his erstwhile lover and foe, the
Prophet. Teenage artist Maddy’s cryptic paintings hold the key to reaching the Captain,
but will she discover their secret in time to stop Dr. Janot, whose Connected Reality
vision threatens to transform the human experience forever?
5. Anne Marie - Letters To Ann: The Korean War 1950-1951
With North Korea rattling its saber again, "Letters to Ann" takes the reader back to the early years of the Korean War. Even in some of its darkest moments, Captain John F. Hughes finds and shares bits of humor about his daily military existence with his then four year-old daughter. It is a unique perspective of what so often is called "The Forgotten War."
8. Julie Tetel Andresen - Linguistics and Evolution: A Developmental Approach
Throughout
this analytical book the idea is developed that theories of language do not
transcend the language in which they are written, and ways are uncovered that are
peculiar to the American-language linguistic tradition.
Captain
Magigate, a legendary inventor and recluse who is equal parts Albert Einstein and
Don Quixote, confronts his own shadowy destiny when two adventurous teens disrupt
the status quo of his covert lab on Isla de Tiempo Muerto. When the captain's nemesis,
the Prophet, who once had an iron grip over much of the world's commerce, escapes
her island prison taking one of the teens hostage, Captain Magigate must face not
only his long-time foe and erstwhile lover but also the ambiguous legacy of his
inventions. “Glide” is a dark and quixotic look at what happens when invention
reaches beyond its pale to compensate for the shortcomings of heart and soul.
In “Nu
Logic, Rise of the Neos,” accomplished virologist, Dr. Janot (whose specialty is crossover
pathogens), threatens the promising Glide era with his wildly popular augmented
reality gaming world – Neology. Only the genius inventor, Captain Magigate, can
stop him, but Magigate is lost in the past with his erstwhile lover and foe, the
Prophet. Teenage artist Maddy’s cryptic paintings hold the key to reaching the Captain,
but will she discover their secret in time to stop Dr. Janot, whose Connected Reality
vision threatens to transform the human experience forever?5. Anne Marie - Letters To Ann: The Korean War 1950-1951
With North Korea rattling its saber again, "Letters to Ann" takes the reader back to the early years of the Korean War. Even in some of its darkest moments, Captain John F. Hughes finds and shares bits of humor about his daily military existence with his then four year-old daughter. It is a unique perspective of what so often is called "The Forgotten War."
6. Kathleen George - A Measure of Blood
A murder sends a child into foster care and drags a
detective into a feverish hunt for justice.
Nadal
watches for weeks before he first approaches the boy. No matter what Maggie
Brown says, he’s sure Matt is his son, and a boy should know his father. After
their first confrontation, Maggie should have run. She should have hidden her
child. But she underestimated the man who was once her lover. With
self-righteous determination, Nadal goes to her apartment. He demands to spend
time with the boy. When she refuses, he reaches for a knife.
By
the time homicide detective Richard Christie arrives on the scene, the killer
has vanished, and Matt is too scared to remember much more than his mother’s
fear. As Christie looks for the killer and Maggie’s friends fight to keep Matt
out of the hands of Child Services, Nadal watches the news and waits. A boy
should be with his father. He’s going to get his son.
Releases January 2014, pre-order through Amazon
7. Tilia Klebenov Jacobs - Wrong Place, Wrong Time
When Tsara Adelman leaves her husband and two young children for
a weekend to visit
her estranged uncle, she little dreams he is holding several
local children captive on his lavish estate. Mike Westbrook, father of one of the boys,
kidnaps her to trade her life for the children’s. Soon Tsara and Mike are fleeing through New
Hampshire’s mountain wilderness pursued by two rogue cops with murder on their minds.
8. Julie Tetel Andresen - Linguistics and Evolution: A Developmental Approach
Throughout
this analytical book the idea is developed that theories of language do not
transcend the language in which they are written, and ways are uncovered that are
peculiar to the American-language linguistic tradition.
Upcoming Work
• “Linguistics and Evolution. A Developmental Approach,” from
Cambridge University
Press
• “Languages of the World. An Introduction through Culture and
Cognition (working title), with Phillip M. Carter
from Wiley-Blackwell
