Alejandra the Axolotl and the Big Mess
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- 3 heures de lecture
An axolotl and her friends help clean up their lake home near Mexico City.






An axolotl and her friends help clean up their lake home near Mexico City.
“What do you do with a secret that might get someone killed?”Tenny assumes it’s a joke when someone writes to her advice column on a matter of life and death. After serving as a nurse in the Great War, she doesn’t want more trouble. But when a local turns up dead on her neighbor’s southern Utah homestead, she feels responsible. The murderer is probably an the prospector looking for gold, a Wobbly hiding from the law, or the handsome but irritating barnstormer hanging around town. To clear her friend’s name, though, Tenny will have to look closer at the secrets all around her.
Eliza Prescott's father has a plan for her and her dragon magic. He wants to see her married to a titled gentleman who can advance their family fortunes. But Eliza has her own plan to show her father the folly of his ambitions: engage herself to the most obnoxious, dandified lord possible. Then, her father might free her to chart her own course. She just has to avoid the interference of her trustee, Captain Parry, who seems determined to ruin her social schemes, and ignore the water magic pulling her to the sea. But when she stumbles upon a deadly secret about dragons, it threatens to throw all her plans out of order and put her, her friends, and all of Britain in danger. Book Two of The Dragons of Mayfair
If Phoebe's magic doesn't behave, London will be a disaster.Phoebe Hart is one of the dragon-linked, those chosen by a young dragon as a companion, who get magic in return. Her family and country neighbors have never been happy about her abilities, so she hopes to find her place in London. But neither her dragon nor her magic behaves as she would wish, and London is full of pitfalls: runaway girls in need of saving, anti-magic Luddites threatening the dragon-linked, and the handsome-but-chilly Viscount Westing, who continually catches Phoebe off guard. Can she navigate London's cut-throat ballrooms and drawing-rooms to have a triumphant Season-and unmask a dangerous enemy in the process?
Based on a true love story from the British Civil War.Dorothy Osborne's family has sacrificed everything for King Charles of England, living in exile in France after the king's defeat by Parliament. Dorothy knows it is her duty to marry well and help her family, which means finding a wealthy suitor: Royalist, or maybe French, but never a Parliamentarian, and not someone of her own choosing.William Temple struggles to commit to his father's Parliamentarian cause, making his family wonder if he'll ever commit to anything. William wonders too, until he meets Dorothy Osborne. The connection between them is instant, but their families will go to any length to keep them apart. Can their love survive separation and the upheavals of the British Civil War?
Three children must outwit a band of outlaws in a treasure hunt in the Old West.
Ball Gowns. Calling Cards. Hell Hounds.Cassandra Weaver is hiding an infirmity from a society-and a family-that demands perfection.Henry Stewart is hiding from his former Faerie masters, trying to remember what it means to be human.Simple enough, except that their little town of Drixton conceals a secret as old as the church bells. The Queen of the Unseelie Fay is hunting a mortal soul there, and Cassandra and Henry stand in her way. They'll need allies to stop her, but whom can they trust? The shape-shifting Fay with his own plans? The social pariah wielding uncanny abilities? The mysterious American who carries silver bullets? The beautiful lady with a dark past? They must decide what-or who-they're willing to sacrifice to defeat the Unseelie Queen because if they fail, the dark magic of the Unseelie Fay will overpower both the mortal and Faerie worlds.Cruel Magic is an action-packed gaslamp fantasy set in a Victorian England rife with secrets, romance, and Faerie enchantments.
A Greek odyssey in 1920s UtahWhen Helen immigrates from Greece to Salt Lake City only to discover that her arranged marriage has fallen through, she struggles to find purpose in a country that doesn't seem to want her. Can fellow immigrant Demetrios convince her that the American Dream is worth fighting for?
Who was she now that George was gone?Liza was always proud to be George's sister, but George was killed fighting in Germany. Now, all of Liza's efforts are directed to helping America win the war and punishing the people who killed her brother. She's not sure she likes the angry person she's becoming, but she doesn't know who else she's supposed to be.Jack always saw Liza as his best friend's little sister, but now George is gone and Jack is home in Utah and missing an arm. He's not sure where he fits in the world or what waits for him after the war, but he's drawn to Liza.Can a tragedy help them understand their own hearts, and each other?
This collection of poetry and prose by award-winning Utah authors explores moments of change - large and small - and the chain reactions that result from them.