One Wild Ride

"Elle Ward, daughter of Hollywood's hottest director, has sworn off actors for life. She knows their games and she refuses to play them. That is until the day she collides with one of LA's most promising actors. Kas Cowen isn't looking for love until it literally runs him down. One look at Elle and he's hooked. He crasher into her life and flips it upside down. Now he has to convince Elle he's more than just a pretty face."--Back cover.

Swindle meets Ferris Bueller's Day Off in this action-filled comedy! No parents. No rules. No curfew. Things are about to get dangerous... The grownups are out-of-town, and for Charley Decker that means one thing: a last epic weekend with her older brother Greg before he leaves for college. Bring on the burgers, milkshakes, and movie marathons! So when Greg ditches Charley for a date night downtown, she’s kind of crushed. Worse, he gets their mom's boyfriend’s super-expensive, super-rare Mustang towed and needs Charley’s help to get it back. What's an unsupervised seventh grader to do? Grab her best friends, sneak into the city, pull off the ultimate car heist, and then make Greg pay, of course! Only now the Mustang has a new feature in the trunk: a stowaway named Mitch who’s guarding a world-changing secret. And a pair of seriously big, seriously scary dudes are after him. What follows is an all-night race around the clock as Charley and her friends try to dodge the twin terrors, save Mitch, fix a sibling squabble...and get the Mustang home before morning!

A biography of the professional skateboarder, Tony Hawk, focusing on his inventive moves, competitions, fatherhood, and business enterprises.

Walter "Dake" Dockery and Billy Bates sense a unique chemistry on the day they first meet in the lobby of Global Sports Network's headquarters. Pivotal career crossroads bring them to GSN's door, ready to challenge the likes of ESPN by unconventional means-creating a talk show playing directly to sports fans in the 55-and-older audience segment.However, Barrett Simpson, the hotshot program manager assigned to oversee the fledgling Dake and Bates Show, finds little value in the neophyte co-hosts' approach. Barrett firmly believes the only fans who matter are those who follow the latest trends and social media influencers. He throws blame directly on Dake and Billy when their initial shows go disastrously off the rails.Back in the control booth, veteran technician Wes Johnson sees through the clutter. His hand-crafted audience-engagement app shows that Dake and Billy have indeed connected with their target demographic. Wes makes his case to GSN executive Davis Gladstone, who eventually agrees to give the anchors control of their own content for a make-or-break series of broadcasts.With key contributions from whip-smart Wendy Weir, Davis's recently promoted assistant, and two gifted and dedicated young interns, the Dake and Bates team sets off in its own direction. Not long after, the show begins to build a buzz based on throwback connections and startling proficiency at sports wagering.Dake and Billy can only shake their heads in amazement as they rub elbows with legendary sports heroes from yesteryear. Remote broadcasts at the NBA All-Star Game in Chicago and the MGM Grand in Las Vegas boost their credibility and bring all the action to a head in what could only be described as?ONE WILD RIDE.

Loving Quinn is one wild ride Fuse never saw coming. Quinn I’m used to fighting off advances from men who only want one thing. When I meet Fuse, I assume he’s just like the others and only interested in the chase. But the gruff biker is full of surprises, and pretty soon I’m falling for him. Fuse My heart’s been on lockdown for most of my life. With Quinn, all of that changes. Hell yeah, she’s gorgeous. Though it’s her confidence and the way she handles herself that really catches my attention. I vow to do whatever it takes to make her happy… but what if that means I have to let her go? The men of the Lonestar Riders MC might be wild and rough around the edges, but their hearts will be tamed when they meet the curvy girl of their dreams. Each book features one couple, is a complete story, and can be read alone.

Mary McCoy wanted more than a break from her high pressure job. She wanted to find a hot motorcycle man like the one on the poster in her office. Part of her break from work was finding him. Little did she know that when she took a temp job as a bartender at Pat’s Irish Pub he’d walk in the door and take her breath away. Marcus Tyree had left his soul on the war-torn battlefields of the Middle East. Still plagued by nightmares, he takes a job with his friend Grey Holden’s Omega Team agency, searching for drug dealers in the pub, a most unlikely place. And focused on the bartender, a most unlikely person. The moment he slides into a stool at the bar, the sparks between them are so vivid they could light up Baltimore’s waterfront. And the motorcycle ride he takes her on is front and center in her erotic dreams. For both of them, this is supposed to be just one wild ride, but life has other plans for them. Until his assignment shatters her belief in him and their happy ending seems to be sliding into a black hole.

"Kaylee Rose Burton, kindergarten teacher, has never been a believer in fantasies. Living in L.A. her entire life, she knows the glitz and glam of Hollywood is just an illustion. That is until she stumbled head first into the arms of Hollywood's most eligible bachelor."--Back cover.

Using twenty-one drawings from the work of Gustave Dor-, the most successful illustrator of the 19th century, Walter Moers has created a wondrous and utterly delightful tale. In a world between legend and dream, in a time between childhood and adulthood, A Wild Ride Through the Night describes the exhilarating and comic adventures of 12-year-old Gustave, a boy who aspires one day to be a great artist. But before he can achieve this, Gustave must first tackle Mysterious Giants and a Siamese Twins Tornado; he also finds himself encountering the Greatest Monster of All, freeing a maiden from the claws of a dragon, riding through a forest full of ghosts, navigating a Galactic Gully and meeting a dream princess, a talking horse, scantily-clad Amazons and even his own self. Having made a wager with death for nothing less than his life and his soul, he must travel from the earth to the moon and back in a single night.