Julie Halpern and Len Vlahos expertly tackle this quirky and poignant romance Girl on the Ferris Wheel that explores what first love really means—and how it sometimes hurts like hell.Tenth graders Eliana and Dmitri could not be more different. He's an outgoing, self-confident drummer in a punk band called Unexpected Turbulence. Eliana is introspective and thoughtful, and a movie buff who is living with depression.Dmitri quite literally falls for Eliana when he sees her in gym class and slams into a classmate. The pair then navigate the ins and outs of first love. Exciting, scary, unexpected, and so much more difficult than they ever imagined. They say opposites attract, but they soon realize that there is so much they just don't understand about each other. It begs the question: How long can first love possibly last when you're so different?

Feed the death mark on my soul.When starving French musician Victoire meets mysterious Tristan one night in an abandoned building, she finds the door to a hidden magical world.Soon he introduces her to the realms, where disguise is the norm, and nothing is what it seems. Here, humans are mere pets, and something ancient is lurking in the deep moonlit woods.It's all good fuel for Victoire's songwriting, but she is getting some weird phone calls. Why would anyone in the realms want her dead? And what made her stumble into Tristan across the worlds?If you like contemporary Fae stories, fairytales, excruciatingly slow burn romance, magical mysteries, and rock 'n' roll music, the Stag Heart Pendulum series will take you for a spin from the stage to the land of dark spells, and back.

[ OVERTAKEN ONLINE. The world's first FPS VR-MMORPG with 100% immersion. Reminiscent of classics like Doom and Dead Space, but with RPG-elements that enable players to level up and develop skills – and sprinkled with a pinch of magic. ] With the unexpected release of the Daemonorg Colossus, Dex and his team face the biggest challenge yet as they tackle the seemingly impossible task of figuring out how to defeat a demon so huge it dwarfs even skyscrapers. With the army’s main operating base transformed into burning, smoking ruins, only one thing is clear: The Colossus must be stopped. Now. Before it destroys every Godmadrigan community on the planet. In the process, Dex grows as a soldier and Cyber-Mage, acquiring weapons and skills making him powerful beyond his wildest dreams. Beware! This story contains: - Blood and guts - Foul language! - Notifications / pop-ups / inventory management - No harem

The Island - where everyone knows everyone, and secrets are impossible to keep... 'Be careful, you don't know them as well as you think. Remember - anyone can kill.'Juliet has returned to the Isle of Wight from years abroad to visit her sick father and to be reunited with her three sisters – Cassie, a professional musician who seems to have lost her way in life, Mira, who is profoundly deaf, is married to the local vicar but their relationship is falling apart, and Rosalind, glamorous and charming but now deeply unhappy and secretive about her life. As Juliet's father lies dying, he issues her with a warning. There is a killer on the loose, and they may be closer than she can ever imagine. He anxiously tells Juliet that he confided a family secret in son-in-law Rhys, and now regrets ever saying a word.Days later, as the clock strikes one in the morning, a man comes out of Rhys's church, walks along the path and is run down by a car driven...

The remarkable true story of a modern-day Robin Hood: a British college student who started robbing banks as the financial crisis unfolded.“Completely fascinating . . . [The Unusual Suspect] reads like a deep psychological thriller, but it’s real. Is truth stranger than fiction? You bet.”—Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen Jackley was a young British college student when the global financial crisis began in 2007. Overwhelmed by the growing indifference toward economic equality, he became obsessed with the idea of taking on the role of Robin Hood. With no prior experience, he resolved to become a bank robber. He would steal from the rich and give to the poor. Against all likelihood, his plan actually worked. Jackley used disguises, elaborate escape routes, and fake guns to successfully hold up a string of banks, making away with thousands of pounds. He attempted ten robberies in...

In 1964, during the Far Eastern war euphemistically called 'Confrontation,' British Royal Marine Lieutenant Charles Kirton makes a most extraordinary discovery amid the dense mangrove swamps bordering a river in Borneo. From this highly-charged opening sequence, the story flashes back a century to 1867, revealing the truth behind this strange event, when young Henry Kirton, Second Officer of the auxiliary steamship River Tay, is dumped ashore in Singapore, badly injured by a fall from the rigging of his ship.