After her father took his life thanks to the stock market crash, Jasmine Woods was forced to become a jazz musician at some night club to survive. She loved the work, but she sure didn't like the men to follow her home thinking she was some kind of flapper floozy. While getting away from it all at her friends' farm, the last thing she expected to find out in the field was a strange, floating device. Next thing she knew, she was right in the middle of one of her science fiction novels, faced with a real live alien who was taking her to another world. By the time Krai Narn woke up after a nasty concussion, his ship had already returned to deep space. Finding out they had a sentient on board, he knew he couldn't simply put her back again since quite a few years had already gone by on her world. His only choice was to bring her home. However, since being in close quarters was no chore, the two of them soon found a most pleasurable way to pass the time together while Krai waited for the ship's computer to learn Jazz's language so he could tell her what was going on. The Klibdow welcomed Jasmine with open arms, and learned that she, and other women of her world, may just be the key to saving their own. Could another mission to Uglata Three be written in the stars?

Abducted from Earth over a year ago, Lauren spent most of that time getting accustomed to her new life as one of the "animals" in an alien zoo. When she's sold by the zookeeper, her life takes a turn she wasn't expecting. She has no idea where she'll end up till she's brought to a sanctuary owned by a tall blue hunk of an alien called Riv. Riv's life is quiet and peaceful in a place as far away from civilization as he can manage. So when an annoying chatterbox of a human ends up on his doorstep, he's less than pleased. The human disrupts his life and his solitude and he can't wait to get rid of her. He's not interested in helping her, and he's definitely not interested in love. Except...she's managed to wheedle her way in and suddenly those barriers around his heart don't seem so strong anymore. He has two options: Let her go. Or let her in. Riv's Sanctuary is a full-length standalone sci-fi romance featuring a loveable heroine and a hot, grumpy, and possessive hero who would do anything to protect the one who shows him how to love. If you like sexy aliens, adventure, and steamy romance, check out Riv's Sanctuary. This standalone book contains: - Steamy scenes - HEA - No cheating - No cliffhangers

Read this brand new lesfic sci-fi romance by USA Today bestselling authors Arizona Tape and Skye MacKinnon! No space adventure is complete without a cat Abby prefers animals to people, which comes in handy since she's a vet working long hours at a cat rescue. She can't say no to a critter in need, so when she's offered a quick and well-paid job to look after a pregnant leopard, she accepts it. Problem is, she didn't read the small print... Sahra has travelled to Earth to find a healer who can help with the animals back on Kyven. But how do you persuade a human to leave their planet without revealing that you’re an alien? It's time to twist the truth a little and abduct an unsuspecting vet. Throughout the journey, their ability to work together is tested. When a storm and a dangerous beast threatens their lives, can they make it out together? An out-of-this-world f/f alien romance with a cat-loving human woman and a determined alien female willing to travel to the other side of the galaxy to get what she wants. Part of the Aliens and Animals series. This is a standalone lesbian love story with a guaranteed happily ever after. Keywords: lesbian romance, lesfic, sapphic romance, alien abduction romance, women loving women, science fiction romance, scifi romance, feel good romance, ff romance, standalone, happy end, ebooks to read and download.

Illustrations and minimal text follow two mice as they set off on an adventure that includes a shipwreck, kidnapping by a bird of prey, a narrow escape, and a moonlit stroll home.

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

As the bombs rain down on the city, Belfast's first ever female zookeeper must fight to save the baby elephant in her charge in this gripping, uplifting tale based on a true story. 1941. With the men away fighting, animal-lover Hettie Quin is made Belfast Zoo's first ever female zookeeper. She is put in charge of Violet, a three-year-old Indian elephant, and they soon form a special bond. With Violet at her side, Hettie can almost escape the grim reality of her life: the father who has abandoned her family; the sister who recently died; the war that's raging hundreds of miles away. But the devastation of war is closer than she thought. When the bombs begin to rain down on the city, Hettie must gather all her courage to protect those she loves the most. Can she save Violet - and get through unscathed herself? Based on a true story, The Zookeeper of Belfast is a gripping and uplifting tribute to what one woman's courage and tenacity can achieve in the most dire of circumstances - perfect for fans of Heather Morris, Natasha Lester, Kate Furnivall, Mandy Robotham and Fiona Valpy. Praise for THE ZOOKEEPER OF BELFAST: 'Walsh delivers a turbulent portrait of life in a divided city . . . A unique perspective of a country at war and the lengths people will go for those they love.' - Kirkus Reviews 'Sensitively rendered and finely drawn, this remarkable story, based on true events, is both uplifting and heartbreaking.' - Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train 'Walsh has written a novel of deep affection and knife-edge suspense. A brilliant debut.' - Margot Livesey, author of The Boy in The Field 'An elephant, a young zookeeper, the city of Belfast, bombings, and an IRA member are the improbable characters in this captivating and intimately felt novel that tells the story of a young woman's uncommon devotion and courage under fire.' - Lily Tuck, author of Sisters 'A zoo in wartime Belfast and a young woman's fierce love for the elephant in her care come vividly to life in this beautiful, beguiling, and atmospheric debut novel.' - Dominic Smith, author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos ·Cinematic in scope and brimming with emotion, this is a soaring work of historical imagination.' - Karen Olsson, author of All the Houses

My new patient is odd...because he says he's from another planet. And can shift into a dragon.Oh, on top of that, he's a prince.But maybe I'm crazy, too.Because after getting to know him, I wouldn't mind becoming his princess. Jennifer is a nurse that runs a free clinic on Vaxivia. She has no time for dating and fights for the health and well-being of her Vaxivian people. That is, until one day when she encounters a strange patient in her clinic.Prince Zaruv just started his exile along with his three younger brothers, which was a common tradition in a new king's reign. They were supposed to get to Dragselis, but were attacked and their ship and crew went crashing toward Vaxivia.They got scattered throughout the land during the crash. Zaruv was injured while landing, but luckily he was found by the local children and brought to the free clinic.He needs to hide the fact that he's an alien dragon shifter from Jennifer, the beautiful human nurse taking care of him, for fear that she may not help knowing what he is. But he needs her help as he has no one else to turn to. He can't help but start to feel attraction towards her.Will Jennifer still help him after finding out he is an alien? What will happen to them when the locals find out that he's not from this planet? Will they end up together or will fate and the rest of the Vaxivian society have other plans for them?Zaruv is the first book in the new Aliens of Dragselis series. This is a science fiction romance story that has a workaholic human female nurse and the dominant alien dragon shifter who shows her love. Each book in this page-turning alien dragon shifter, science fiction series has no cliffhanger, and a guaranteed happy ending!

A true story--as powerful as "Schindler's List"--in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas A gallery attendant at the Hermitage. A young jazz buff in Tokyo. A crooked British lawyer in Hong Kong. A disc jockey in Manhattan. A physicist in Ireland. An elderly woman running a tea shack in rural China. A cult-controlled terrorist in Okinawa. A musician in London. A transmigrating spirit in Mongolia. What is the common thread of coincidence or destiny that connects the lives of these nine souls in nine far-flung countries, stretching across the globe from east to west? What pattern do their linked fates form through time and space? A writer of pyrotechnic virtuosity and profound compassion, a mind to which nothing human is alien, David Mitchell spins genres, cultures, and ideas like gossamer threads around and through these nine linked stories. Many forces bind these lives, but at root all involve the same universal longing for connection and transcendence, an axis of commonality that leads in two directions—to creation and to destruction. In the end, as lives converge with a fearful symmetry, Ghostwritten comes full circle, to a point at which a familiar idea—that whether the planet is vast or small is merely a matter of perspective—strikes home with the force of a new revelation. It marks the debut of a writer of astonishing gifts.

From the author of 'person' and 'the ice cream man and other stories.' Follow our narrator as he attempts to make it to the end of a journey most magical. Get ready to laugh and have nice times!