books: Boys

	Book: Don't Tell Lies, Jay! (Jay's world Book 2) by Kamon Therrien There is a new online game that Jay and his friend Broody are dying to play, but it's really violent so there's no way Jay's mum will let him buy this game. Boys try to find a way to play without having to buy the game. Jay told his mother a lie, when he goes home to Broody's house to try to download the game; he said he is going to help his friend with homework instead. Let's just hope that the [...]

	Book: Where the Boys Are by Hilary West 'Where the Boys are' is a fun novel that deals with some darker issues. Boys are being trained for rent boy activity and it is a hard-edged world that somehow contains many laughs along the way. Characters like Councillor Reece with his corset and Trevelyan Harris Spunner with his frequenting of park toilets are all in there somewhere. Adonises like Ariel and Hayden enjoy their position in trade [...]

	Book: Aftermath by Steven Paul Germane' Mom is missing, Dad is literally losing it the longer the two of them are apart, and my brothers aren't my brothers-or so it seems. Patrick is doing things that remind me of Phil and me. He is just a lost cause because of his luck with women. And me . . . I am torn between two brothers and don't want to choose between the two of them. They both give me something different, and they both love me. [...]

	Book: Australian short stories for boys (& girls) by Michael Mardel 10 short stories of 10 middle grade boys having an adventure. Some stories are historical, some are set in Australia. There's a mermaid romance in Girl in a Red Dress, a golden son from the Goldfields, a ball boy in Game, Set, Match, horse training in the Brumby, refugee children in a Long Way to Freedom, high seas and Lord Nelson in All at Sea, and a traveling man in Flames and Wells and Sacred [...]

	Book: Missunderstanding- My Thread by Vera Schneider & Bevin Smith In the male talent agency run by two women, Hana Fukuhara and Megumi Shimada, many strict rules have to be obeyed. Some of them are hard to follow. No relationships. No sexual activities. Not even self-stimulation. Kenta Yamamura is somehow always dragged into forbidden encounters with other boys. His inability to say no causes him a lot of troubles. He does want to be faithful because he has a [...]

	Book: Deception Peak (The Ian's Realm Saga Book 1) by Dianne Lynn Gardner "I grew up reading C.S. Lewis' Narnia books, Madeleine L'Engle's "Wrinkle in Time" series, and Anne McCaffrey's Pern books, and "Deception Peak" stands proudly alongside those classics." ~ Clay Gilbert Are there really such things as Magical Realms? On the other side of your computer screen? For teenager Ian Wilson, his normal life will never be the same. When a portal magically appears on his [...]

	Book: The Power and The Fury (Eden Chronicles) by James Erith "This book. This author. The entire series. Uber creativity and style!" Daisy, Archie, and Isabella stumble into an extraordinary quest. To find the source of life itself. The original Garden of Eden. But a primeval force stands in their way... ...and it seeks its revenge from events at the beginning of time. Now, the children of our present must conquer the evils of the past to protect our [...]

	Book: The String Horse by Michele Cytron Linde & James Linde Campbell A true story that invites readers to spend a year with James, a third grader who looks like he has the perfect life from the outside. But life just isn't going the way James planned. James is dealing with more stuff than your average 9-year-old. He has a big bad secret that makes him feel sick a lot of the time; he's sad that his mom whom he adores has to fly all over the world for her job, and [...]

	Book: Waiting for Rachel (Those Karlsson Boys) by Kimberly Rae Jordan Book 1 of the Christian romance series, Those Karlsson Boys, Waiting for Rachel introduces readers to the Karlsson family and their stories of family, faith & love. Damian Karlsson, the oldest of Those Karlsson Boys, has decided it's time to settle down and start a family. Rachel Perkins has captured his attention, but she won't even give him a chance to romance her. It seems to Damian she feels [...]

	Book: Lamb To The Slaughter - wolf on the prowl by Temba Magorimbo These are the life and times of an African family as the 80s move on. There is are a trioof boys who have a burning ambition to burn the midnight oil. Tapiwa Chakauya makes it to university which is the ultimate prize the family wants. Everyone else thought the Chakauya boys would end up looking into the mouths of misfiring diesel engines as their father does. He is the pacesetter for his family. [...]

	Book: Kissing Boys, Just For The Thrill by Jennifer Juan Kissing Boys, Just For The Thrill is the fourth major poetry collection, from Jennifer Juan. An exploration of female trouble. From romance to heartbreak, poverty to unrelenting joy, war, lust, racism, transmisogyny, and everywhere in between. We've all got problems, and Jennifer has a lot to say about many of them. Breaking down the expectations and stereotypes of what a woman's life can and [...]

	Book: I Wish I Were Engulfed in Flames - My Insane Life Raising Two Boys with Autism by Jeni Decker Jeni Decker is five-foot nothing and one hundred and [redacted] pounds a self described roly-poly, forty-something, Reubenesque bon-bon of a gal, often called cute but never sexy. She has two sons with autism on opposite ends of the spectrum (Jake and Jaxson), a husband who prefers hunting to household chores, an Australian Shepherd named Sugar, and an albino frog named Humbert Humbert. This is [...]

	Book: Granny's Magic Garden by Diane Griffith Fairies, Pixies and Many Other Fantasy Characters in the Garden Come to Life in - Enchanting New Children's Story - Four children discover a world of fantasy and wonder in - Granny's Magic Garden. George and Freddie share the same Daddy as Harvey and - Saffie so they are a special kind of family. They all love to - hear stories from their Granny about the mystical things - that go on in her [...]

	Book: The Dreamcatcher Adventures - Greedy Jack Wallace by Adam C. Veile He might not have the muscles, the mustache, or even the cool hat, but seventh-grader Blake Monroe has the heart of a cowboy. He just needs the chance to prove himself. So when the ghost of his rowdy Wild-West ancestor needs his help, Blake's ready to ride. They begin their search for a long-hidden ransom, a treasure that Gray, the ghost, is determined to find . . . only life's a little more [...]

	Book: Old Joe's Cave by Ben Westbrook The idea for this story came from my love of fishing when I was about the age of Shane and Jason--the two best friends you'll meet when you're introduced at the beginning of the story. I was around ten or eleven when a buddy of mine and I would ride our bicycles about two-and-half miles to go fishing on Sibley Lake. During the school year we made the trek every Saturday when weather permitted. [...]

	Book: Alligators Overhead by C. Lee McKenzie Alligators, witches and a spooky mansion aren't your average neighbors . . . not unless you live at the edge of the Ornofree swamp in the backwater town of Hadleyville. Pete Riley may only be eleven, but he's already up to his eyeballs in big trouble, and this time the town's bad boy, Pete, didn't cause it. This time the trouble arrived when a legendary hundred-year-old mansion materialized next [...]

	Book: Mystery at Ocean Drive by Jan Hurst-Nicholson MYSTERY AT OCEAN DRIVE a Hardy Boys style action adventure set in South Africa. When 17 yr old Jason Hunter sets out to discover the identity of the mystery girl at Ocean Drive he and his friends find themselves caught up in a risky intrigue. Jason is delivering newspapers on his motorbike when a Mercedes sweeps out of a driveway in front of him. He loses control of his scrambler and almost ends [...]

	Book: The Shark With No Teeth by Leslie Williams Tim is a kid who likes to fish. Drowning some bait is his idea of a good afternoon. Then he catches something he hadn't expected.... The shark with no teeth is a story for different ages. For children 0 to three years of age, it is about naming things, contrasts, and rewards for doing good. For kids 4 to 8 years, it's about stereotypes, as well as the concepts of mercy and kindness. It's about [...]

	Book: Avery McShane and the Silver Spurs by Greg Lyons Avery McShane and his friends Billy and Todd are the Machacas gang. They have their own tree house in the jungle, away from girls, parents and other nosy adults. Each week they set themselves a dare, and the latest dare is to grab some ripe bananas from scary Pablo Malo's banana plantation. When Pablo Malo catches the Machacas and sets his terrifying guard dogs after them, the friends have got [...]

	Book: Tall, Dark, and Bad by Charlotte Hughes A Contemporary Romance From NY Times Bestselling Author Charlotte Hughes Summer Pettigrew is in desperate need of a fiance, a temporary job, mind you . . . Bad Boy Cooper Garrett answers the call. He swaggers into Summer's High Society Life oozing testosterone. He's hardly what Summer expected, the man straddles a mean looking motorcycle, for Pete's sake! But Summer is stuck with him for the time [...]

	Book: Chasing Wren's Tale by J. A. Fales A steamy modern fairytale with humor and a twist: Stubborn, limber yoga instructor Wren Cavanaugh's once upon a time has been riddled with bad luck since her adoptive mother died ten years ago. Most recently, her worthless fiance drained her savings and ran off with a woman whose "nom de stripper" came straight from a can of soda. The only positives in her life are swearing off men, owning Wren's [...]

	Book: A Stairway To Danger (A Shakertown Adventure) by Ben Woodard An eyeless body. A menacing stranger. And a tangled mystery. It's the summer of 1923 and two cousins hunting for hidden gold stumble on an decayed body. Fourteen-year-old Tom Wallace is convinced the death was murder and drags his older cousin into a harrowing struggle against a shadowy group. Not even attempts on their lives can stop the boys from relentlessly pursuing the mystery. But when [...]

	Book: A Rage to Live - Surviving the Holocaust So Hitler Would Not Win by Victor Breitburg, Joseph G. Krygier The Holocaust of WWII affected many lives in many ways. This is the story of one man, his family and some friends. I started the idea with a play about a fictional character, who survives the Holocaust ands becomes a comedian in the Borscht Belt during the 1950's. After doing some research, I discovered some articles written by Victor and decided to write about a real person. I contacted him and [...]

	Book: Two Brothers - Heritage (The Ramtalan Trilogy Book 2) by Sofia Diana Gabel In the second book in the Ramtalan Trilogy, Argus Dachel, a far-from-ordinary half-alien teen, finds himself mixed up in the battle between a hostile faction of Invaders and the peaceful Ramtalans he's come to know as his friends. With his brother Tai held captive at the Citadel and disturbing news about his father, Argus has to come to grips with the truth about who he really is. Not only is the [...]

	Book: Three Black Boys - Tomorrow After Supper by Zangba Thomson Three Black Boys: Tomorrow After Supper is an urban-fiction novel by Zangba Thomson that is intense as it is pointed and dark. This vivid, savvy, and altogether street-smart debut marks a bold new voice in literary fiction. The setting is South-side Jamaica, a neighborhood in Queens, New York, and home to Babita Harris, an Indian immigrant plagued with the deadly black fever disease. With a [...]

	Book: Steps Into Darkness (A Shakertown Adventure) by Ben Woodard Explosions, sabotage, deadly warnings, and a dangerous red-haired man. Imagine The Hardy Boys meet Tom Sawyer. Add a layer of teen angst and excitement plus a mysterious group stirring up racial tensions. That's STEPS INTO DARKNESS, the second book in the Shakertown Adventure Series by Ben Woodard. Fourteen-year-old Tom Wallace again makes plans to escape the small town in the 1923 Kentucky [...]

	Book: Noah Zarc - Declaration by D. Robert Pease Can Noah Zarc keep peace across the solar system... even if it means starting a war? "Pease's strength as a storyteller lies in his ability to connect multiple time periods imaginatively, as well as Noah's excited, fast-paced narration." ~ Publishers Weekly As battles rage across the solar system, Noah Zarc must work to unite a rag-tag bunch of miners, farmers, and scientists who would rather [...]

	Book: A Handful of Blossoms by Lara Biyuts Written in form of a diary, which genre was so popular in the 18th century and which sounds so comprehensible in our time of blogging/webjournals, the novella may be called a love story. A story of a young bride and her weird marriage. Time: 1764, a year after the Seven Years War. Europe. "Shared, secret, celebrated, exploded, subtle--as an unrequited longing or mellowing through the years--at [...]

	Book: How to Achieve High Self-Esteem - Give yourself a chance by Reece Pocock Find the courage to love yourself. Achieve High Self-esteem. High self-esteem will lead to happiness and personal growth. Personal transformation will overcome the fear of failure self-doubt and low self-esteem. Take action and help your self-acceptance, self-responsibility, self-assertiveness, personal integrity, and consciously live purposely as you build your self-esteem. This book will help [...]

	Book: The Secret of the Sacred Scarab (The Chronicles of the Stone Book 1) by Fiona Ingram A quest filled with danger... Seven ancient Stones of Power... Two young heroes... This action packed Middle Grade/tween adventure tests the courage of cousins Adam and Justin Sinclair from the moment they arrive in Egypt. Can they survive a harrowing journey to discover the secret of the sacred scarab while being pursued across the desert by a deadly foe? The Secret of the Sacred Scarab is the [...]

	Book: Noah Zarc - Omnibus by D. Robert Pease Can Noah Zarc stop Earth from being destroyed... a second time? In a future where Earth has been wiped clean of all life, and humans have moved on to other worlds, Noah Zarc and his family embark on a quest through space and time, to rebuild a lost world and make amends for the horrific deeds of humanity's dark past. A Short Story Prequel + All 3 Books in One Special Edition: Prequel - Noah Zarc: [...]

	Book: Match Pointe - Bad Boys and Show Girls (Love and Play Series) by Amelie S. Duncan Match Pointe: A world of passion burns inside me, hidden from view by my delicate ballet movements. I will break free of my ballerina box, and I will have him - no matter what the cost. "Phenomenal! Loved every word! I absolutely fell in love with Tyler and Scarlet! "Their story is sexy and so very sweet and loving...I would definitely reread this book again and again." My whole life I've been [...]

	Book: Reckless (Benson's Boys Book 1) by Janet Elizabeth Henderson The new London office of Benson Security hasn't even opened its doors yet and already it's neck deep in its first case... Dimitri Raast and Megan Donaldson have a common enemy the head of an organisation that specialises in human trafficking and sexual slavery. They have similar motivation Dimitri's sister was taken by the organisation, and Megan's sister is threatened by it. They have the same [...]

	Book: Fear Is Louder Than Words - Her stalker taught her fear. Her suspicions taught her terror. by Linda S. Glaz Her stalker taught her fear. Her suspicions taught her terror. Rochelle Cassidy has the perfect life as a radio talk show host in the Detroit market, but her celebrity status doesn't stop an angry listener from wanting her ... dead. Ed McGrath's ideal life as a pro-hockey player doesn't include a damsel in distress until the night he discovers Rochelle being attacked in a deserted parking [...]

	Book: Infiltration (A Relative Invasion, Book 2) - Two boys, one family, a world at war by Rosalind Minett A WW2 novel to enthrall adults and older children. Billy is evacuated, and his nightmare cousin, Kenneth, comes too. Both will face dramas, unexpected meetings and opportunities for personal growth as the war goes on and on... "A delight to read" - Historical Novel Society ". . . the stark and simple times of wartime Britain superbly evoked with just the simplest of brush strokes . . .gets so [...]