In Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love, Andrew Shaffer explored the romantic failures of some of the great minds in history. Now, in Literary Rogues, he turns his unflinching eye and wit to explore our love-hate relationship with literature's most contrarian, drunken, vulgar, and just plain rude bad boys (and girls) in this very… Continue reading Book Ten of 2013: LITERARY ROGUES by Andrew Shaffer
A witty, honest, and hugely entertaining story for anyone who loves books, or has a difficult mother. And, let's face it, that's practically everybody . . . On paper, Arabella Hicks seems more than qualified to teach her fiction class on the Upper West Side: she's a writer herself; she's passionate about books; she's even named… Continue reading Book Seven of 2013: THE FICTION CLASS by Susan Breen
Haruhi holds the fate of the universe in her hands . . . lucky for you she doesn't know it. Meet Haruhi - a cute, determined girl, starting high school in a city where nothing exciting happens and absolutely no one understands her. Meet Kyon - the sarcastic guy who sits behind Haruhi in homeroom and the… Continue reading Book Three of 2013: THE MELANCHOLY OF HARUHI SUZUMIYA by Nagaru Tanigawa
Hopelessly crossed in love, a boy of half-fairy parentage leaves his mundane Victorian-English village on a quest for a fallen star in the magical realm. The star proves to be an attractive woman with a hot temper, who plunges with our hero into adventures featuring witches, the lion and the unicorn, plotting elf-lords, ships… Continue reading Book Two of 2013: STARDUST by Neil Gaiman
Kate Winters has won immortality. But if she wants a life with Henry in the Underworld, she'll have to fight for it.Becoming immortal wasn't supposed to be the easy part. Though Kate is about to be crowned Queen of the Underworld, she's as isolated as ever. And despite her growing love for Henry, ruler of… Continue reading Book One of 2013: GODDESS INTERRUPTED by Aimee Carter
War with their archrival, the evil Ansara clan, is unavoidable. For Mercy Raintree, a war means she must assume her position as guardian of the Sanctuary--the sacred Raintree home place deep in the Smoky Mountains. But doing so threatens to disclose her most prized secret--one Mercy has kept to herself for six years. As… Continue reading Book Twenty-five of 2012: SANCTUARY by Beverly Barton
A lost friend, a new love, and a town full of secrets... One night in the town of Hell, Ariel's best friend goes missing. Those around her believe Jenna ran away, but when Ariel is tormented by nightmares and paranormal activity, she realizes Jenna's disappearance was part of a bigger mystery. Ariel's obsession with haunted… Continue reading Book Twenty-two of 2012: GRAVITY by Abigail Boyd
Lord Adam Calthorpe had been rash in his promise to look out for a fellow soldier's sister who was killed at waterloo. Miss Katherine Payne was a golden eyed shrew who took genuine delight in flouting Adam's authority at every turn. One of my favorite books of all time is PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by… Continue reading Book Twenty-One of 2012: LORD CALTHORPE’S PROMISE by Sylvia Andrew
At the core of New Orleans lie the otherworldly vampires and shape-shifters that hide in plain sight among mankind. As one of the Keepers, an elite group possessing superior skill and strength, Fiona MacDonald's duty is to maintain peace in a place where one vampire's bite could ignite war. When Detective Jagger DeFarge, a vampire,… Continue reading Book Twenty of 2012: THE KEEPERS by Heather Graham
Set in Victorian England, Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor in London, is summoned to Crythin Gifford to attend the funeral of Mrs. Alice Drablow, and to sort through her papers before returning to London. It is here that Kipps first sees the woman in black and begins to gain an impression of the mystery surrounding… Continue reading Book Nineteen of 2012: THE WOMAN IN BLACK by Susan Hill
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