by Anna Fienberg (2002)
In Australia, sixteen-year-old Callisto, a budding astronomer who is named after one of Jupiter's moons, discovers she is pregnant and, while trying to make some difficult decisions, uncovers a powerful family secret.
Bonnie S. Calhoun
"Selah must battle the forces of nature and those in the Mountain who are calling for her blood, but the ultimate betrayal of her own body may soon make her quest impossible as it becomes apparent that what has made her new could also drive her to a life of madness"--
Lian Hearn
The story of a boy who is suddenly plucked from his life in a remote and peaceful village to find himself a pawn in a political scheme filled with treacherous warlords, rivalry and the intensity of first love.
A.R.R.R. Roberts
In the grand tradition of the parody bestseller Bored of the Rings, this uproarious literary spoof follows the Tolkienesque adventures of Bingo "Sac" Grabbings, a rather unremarkable Soddit of Upper Middle Earth. He ventures forth (despite very sore and swollen feet indeed!) alongside Gandef the Coughing Wizard and a band of psoriasis-scratching, who-knows-what's-in-the-pipe-puffing dwarves, as they set out to relieve the haughty dragon Smug of his ill-gotten gold. With the recent blockbuster box office success of the Lord of the Rings films, the time is ripe for someone to poke a bit of good-natured fun at the phenomenon that is The Hobbit, and this hilarious parody succeeds brilliantly. Written by an acknowledged expert on all things Tolkien, it both salutes and skewers the classic novel, reinventing the tale of a courageous little being whose amazing persistence--and more than a bit of Soddit luck--belies his diminutive stature.
Stephen Leigh
Containing three novels in one volume, this exciting book follows the Hoorka - a guild of assassins with a single law: if the victim can survive until dawn, he or she may go free, as they deal with some unpleasant consequences of their own ethics.