Dragon Chica

Dragon Chica
Author: May-lee Chai
Publisher: Gemma
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2011
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1934848484

Nea, a Chinese Cambodian teenager, has survived the Khmer Rouge only to land in poverty in Texas. Her small family struggles to get by when a miracle occurs. Wealthy and mysterious, Auntie and Uncle write to say they are alive and well, running a Chinese restaurant in Nebraska. As Nea helps pack Hefty bags with meager belongings for a journey into the American Midwest, little does she know their miracle has a dark side. Soon family secrets, small town resentments, lies born of wartime and a forbidden love threaten to tear them apart forever. In the tradition of Holden Caulfield and Scout Finch, Nea must fight to save her family...and herself.

The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Kidnapped

The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Kidnapped
Author: Yxta Maya Murray
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2010-01-07
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1101196548

Kiki and Mish are best friends, but what Kiki doesn?t know is that Michelle Pena was born a gang princess. ?Princess P? grew up destined to inherit leadership of the Snakes: a future filled with crime and fear. Michelle, on the other hand, is a nationally ranked athlete and academic superstar. This is her new life, and she?s finally put her past?and her childhood love for Silver?to rest. Then Silver helps kidnap both girls, and Michelle has to figure out how to free them both?and reconnect with a future that might now be beyond her reach.

The Dragon's Christmas Gift

The Dragon's Christmas Gift
Author: C.D. Gorri
Publisher: C.D. Gorri
Total Pages: 94
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

After 500 years of servitude, these sexy Dragon males must find and woo their modern mates. Read the Falk Clan Tales today and discover five Dragon Shifter brothers and their journey to true love. His heart is frozen. Can she change his mind about love? Alexsander Falk is content to let his heart grow as cold as the ice he breathes in Dragon form. When his newlywed brother calls him home to Castle-sit during the holiday season, he reluctantly agrees. Unaware that he’s to host a Christmas party for the local teen outreach program. Noelle Gifford is the new owner-operator of Present Tastes. She’s been contracted to cater the party at the newly remodeled home on Beach Drive, aptly named Castle Falk. She is determined to be bright and cheerful for her client! But what’s a girl to do with a Sexy Scrooge who refuses to listen to any of her ideas? Each story is a fast paced, insta-love happy ever after tale with a touch of humor and a pinch of sass. Keywords: dragon shifter romance book, dragon romance novel, dragon shifters romance ebook, urban fantasy, fantasy romance, HEA paranormal romance, shifter brothers romance, curvy girl best friends romance ebook, paranormal fiction series, strong heroine, curvy girl romance novel, shifter mates, fated mates, instalove romance short, sexy shifter book, sexy paranormal romance book, steamy paranormal romance novel, steamy shifter mates, strangers to lovers, instant attraction, heat level, claiming bite, fated mates novella, soul mates, destined mates, pack fated mates series, shifter mates ebook series, paranormal romance series, dragon and human fated mate series complete, curvy heroine romance, curvy girl reads, bbw romance, alpha dragon hero, dragon shifters, fish out of water trope, instant love, romantic comedy, PNR romcom, romcom series

Alien Dragon's Bride

Alien Dragon's Bride
Author: J.S. Wilder
Publisher: Rowan Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2022-09-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1386120901

Down on her luck and her dad's hospital bills mounting, Megan needs money fast and with jobs hard to find, she joins a surrogate program. What’s the worst that could happen? Levx never wanted to come to earth during the evacuation of his planet. But their species are headed for extinction if they don’t find mates among the humans. Three of his brothers have found females including producing offspring. Now their father has issued a command that all princes not bound must find a lover and reproduce. Fine. He’ll buy a woman to carry his child and then wipe his hands of this whole human mess. Megan finds herself falling for Levx but she never planned on surrendering anything more than her womb. But can she take a risk once she learns the truth of what he is?

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Author: Stieg Larsson
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2008-09-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307272117

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The thrilling first book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series featuring Lisbeth Salander: “Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman movie with the grisly pyrotechnics of a serial-killer thriller, then add an angry punk heroine and a down-on-his-luck investigative journalist, and you have the ingredients of Stieg Larsson’s first novel” (The New York Times). • Also known as the Millennium series Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption. Look for the latest book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, The Girl in the Eagle's Talons!

Taming the Dragon

Taming the Dragon
Author: Vivienne Savage
Publisher: Payne & Taylor
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2015-09-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

When Marceline Vargas agrees to join her friend Chloe for an island vacation in Mexico, she's ready for fun in the sun and an escape from her hectic career. After crossing paths with the resort's owner, she discovers the billionaire dragon shifter is a charismatic enigma -- sexist but kind-hearted, intimidating and generous. Can his chauvinistic patterns be tamed? Marcy intends to find out. Paranormal Romance, Dragon-Shifter, Alpha Male, Billionaire, Strong Female Lead, Fated Mates

Memoirs of a Dragon Hunter

Memoirs of a Dragon Hunter
Author: Katie MacAlister
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2018-08-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1538761076

From the New York Times bestselling author known for her "zany humor and spicy romance" (Publishers Weekly) comes an action-packed paranormal about a dragon hunter and the dangerous bad boy who steals her heart. Dragon Hunter Wanted: Sword supplied. No experience necessary. One moment, I was a normal (if somewhat germaphobic) math teacher getting ready for summer vacation. Then my sister died in a pile of black ash, leaving me with a sword... and her destiny as dragon hunter. It turns out there's a whole other world out there filled with demons, dragons, and spirits. Now my job is to protect mortals - and I haven't got a clue what I'm doing. Then there's tattooed hotness Ian Iskander. Part dragon hunter and part demon, Ian's got some seriously creepy business associates and keeps trying to steal my sword. So why do we keep getting lost in hungry, crazy-hot kisses? Ian is the only person who can help me figure out who - and what - I am. But trusting a half-demon is dangerous... because when you play with dragon fire, someone always gets burned.

Dragonkeeper

Dragonkeeper
Author: Carole Wilkinson
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2011-05-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0330543105

'The most captivating children’s book I’ve seen so far this year,' Amanda Craig, The Times Ping is a slave in a little-used royal palace on the edge of the Emperor’s kingdom. Her tyrannic master is a cruel drunk who neglects his duties as Imperial Dragonkeeper and under his watch the Emperor’s dragons have dwindled from a magnificent dozen to a miserable two. When one dragon dies, only the ancient and wise Long Danzi remains. His fate seems sealed – until Ping comes to his rescue in a moment of startling bravery that reveals her destiny as a Dragonkeeper. Pursued by the Emperor’s forces and an evil dragon hunter, Ping, Danzi, and a rat called Hua, set off on a remarkable journey across the kingdom. Bound for the Ocean, they carry a mesmerising, beautiful dragon stone that must be protected at any cost. Surviving dangers of all kinds – a shape-shifting necromancer, and a ritual sacrifice among them – the trio finally arrive at Ocean, Danzi’s final place of rest. But as her dragon-friend leaves Ping forever, the dragon stone reveals its spectacular secret...

Tiger Girl

Tiger Girl
Author: May-lee Chai
Publisher: Gemma
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2013-10-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1936846462

Nightmares of war flood the waking memories of Nea Chhim, a 19-year-old survivor of the Cambodian Killing Fields. In this sequel to the acclaimed Dragon Chica, Nea, a struggling college student, decides she must confront the past. Without telling Ma, she hops on a cross-country bus in Nebraska to seek out her biological father in Southern California. Nea comes face to face with a man wounded by survivor’s guilt who refuses to acknowledge the family’s secrets. It is up to Nea to find the truth. Tiger Girl weaves together Cambodian folklore and its painful past with contemporary American life to create an unforgettable novel about love, war, and acceptance.