Catching Lucy

Lucy Not my circus, but they are my monkeys. Being the kid of one of the world's greatest rock bands is not all it's cracked up to be. I'm famous, but not on my own merits, so why do I have to suffer for it? I have no real life, no privacy...and friends? How the heck do you make friends that aren't looking for a meal ticket? Oh, yeah... You don't. It wasn't always like this, though. I didn't always feel so... Alone. Once upon a time, I had a best friend who helped me deal with this life that we belong to, someone who understood I am not just a product of Demon's Wings. Harris OtherWorld... A fitting name for the guys that make up the world who raised me. Growing up as the son of a Rock Legend isn't all sunshine and rainbows. I don't connect with many, but then there was Lucy. She was and always will be the only girl to ever know the real me. She was my best friend, my voice of reason, and my sanity. She was...mine... It's been years since I've seen her, and I miss her so damn bad. I want my best friend in my life again. I want what time has taken away. I want... Lucy.

From USA Today's bestselling author Terri Anne Browning's The Rocker... comes a New Adult novella series, The Lucy & Harris Novella Series. LucySo yeah, my dad is a rock star; he's the drummer for Demon's Wings. Big whoop. Honestly, the fame that comes with having a famous dad is not all that you think it might be. It sucks. You have no privacy. Oh yeah, and don't let me forget about the lunatics that want to do who knows what to you just to get famous. When I leave the house every morning I feel like my life isn't my own. Between the paparazzi, the fans, my bodyguard, and everything else I feel like I'm part of the freak show in the circus most days. It wasn't always like this, though. I didn't always feel like this. Once upon a time I had a best friend who helped me deal with this life that we both belonged to. HarrisSo yeah, my dad is a rock star; he's the drummer for OtherWorld. And Lucy was and always will be the only girl to ever know the real me. She was my best friend, my voice of reason. My sanity. Maybe she outgrew me. But I will never outgrow her. It's been years since I've seen her, and I miss her so damn bad. All I want is a chance to get back what we've lost, to have my best friend in my life again. I wasn't counting on how grown up my friend might have gotten, how beautiful she is now. The more time I spend with this new Lucy, I have to wonder if I really want that old friendship back...or if I want much, much more.

From a blurry eyed, awkward gymnastics failure to a courageous space traveller, 11-year-old Lucy weaves through the chaos created when a portal opens up in her suburban laundry! How was she to know that her mother, a great astronomer, was powering the portal with her bedtime space stories!? Each adventure through the portal to the waiting Hubble Telescope, builds on Lucy’s strength and imagination, while she desperately tries to convince her mother of her Super Powers. Can she prove it, or does the adult brain swiftly swallow up the magic?

While backpacking through Florence, Italy, during the summer before she heads off to college, Lucy Sommersworth finds herself falling in love with the culture, the architecture, the food...and Jesse Palladino, a handsome street musician. After a whirlwind romance, Lucy returns home, determined to move on from her "vacation flirtation." But just because summer is over doesn't mean Lucy and Jesse have to be, does it? In this stunning novel, April Lindner perfectly captures the highs and lows of a summer love that might just be meant to last beyond the season.

Lucy Mathers was once the golden girl of Simcock & Bright. Four years later, she’s a stay at home mum with two adorable children, has swapped her Louboutins for rabbit slippers and spends her day making crustless sandwiches and colour co-ordinated lunches instead of signing up high profile clients. When her husband is suddenly made redundant, there is panic in the Mathers’ household. With a mortgage the size of the national debt and a credit card balance that’s in danger of toppling, Lucy reluctantly decides she must return to work. So she digs out her old power suits from the back of the wardrobe and leaves Will to become a house husband. But sitting in Lucy’s old office is Grant Cassidy, suave, handsome and ruthless and with no intention of letting Lucy walk back into the number one job. At home, despite his breezy declaration that swapping boardroom battles for toddler groups would be a doddle, Will’s belief that parental issues could be solved with forward planning and a spreadsheet soon falls by the wayside. With both Will and Lucy struggling to adapt, could their previously happy marriage be developing some cracks? Reviews ... "This is definitely deserving of more than five stars. The book is fantastic and should be a must-read for everyone"@Littlemissbook6" "The engaging storylines and insightful writing were riotously comical and cleverly penned"@Honolulubelle "Lucy Mathers Goes Back to Work is the witty wonder I had hoped it would be and so much more'"@stacyisreading "Butterfield’s pacey, page-turner captures perfectly the emotional turmoil and the practical difficulties many women face marrying work and families"@SueF_Writer "This is a wonderful lighthearted, and very well written, romantic comedy novel, full of such real characters and scenarios" @emsibzz

Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price. It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He's been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined - every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favor or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute . . . and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes.

Important American periodical dating back to 1850.

Professional ballroom dance couple Patrick O’Leary and Anita Goodman have been through enough. Newly engaged but wanting to avoid family drama, they travel to England to compete in the prestigious Blackstone Dancesport Championships. But as soon as they arrive, the cracks in this glittering façade begin to show. A missing celebrity judge, rumors of a Blackstone ghost, a creepy manor house straight out of a Victorian horror novel, not to mention their student’s attraction to their dubious butler’s nephew. It’s almost not a mystery why Anita can’t set a wedding date. When the missing judge is found dead, their Gothic nightmare has just begun. With the help of their armchair sleuth student, Patrick and Anita will realize not everything is exactly as it seems in this seaside town. They must figure out what’s going on behind the curtains or this will be their last dance.