by Katy Manck | Dec 29, 2011 | Science Fiction
When the prince brings his android for repair, Cinder wonders if he suspects that she’s a cyborg. She’s the best mechanic in New Beijing, but must avoid public notice so she can keep her job. Otherwise, her stepmother Adri will sell her to doctors testing plague cures...
by Katy Manck | Dec 28, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Luchi Ann must leave the prison where she was born. As her American mother died, she told the blond teenager to “go home”, leaving scraps of information. Questions about her father always sent Mama into bleak depression – Mama, who was so glad to be relocated to this...
by Katy Manck | Dec 22, 2011 | Chick Lit
Hannah is a ballet dancer, not a ballerina – not the star…yet. Moving to New York at age 14, she’s danced with the Manhattan Ballet Company for 5 years, doing homework between performances, stretching tired muscles and massaging her bunions after twice-daily...
by Katy Manck | Dec 21, 2011 | Historical Fiction
Moritz knows he’s lucky to work at the printers – Berlin in 1918 is a place of hunger and desperation. Older brother Hans is now fighting on the Western Front, leaving the 16-year-old as head of their household; Father died at Verdun in the early days of this Great...
by Katy Manck | Dec 14, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Well, that’s that. Thrown out of dad’s house because she wants to play guitar for a year before going to college, Jasmine has to find a job and somewhere to live – now. When her old car dies in front of a repair shop, she hopes that’s a good sign; an encounter with a...
