Bøger udgivet af Gemma

Lucy Brick, a college student, starts noticing delivery drivers on motorbikes zooming all over Manhattan. They look alike and act weird. They use chopsticks to "charge" themselves. They even ignore traffic warnings. Some of Lucy's friends have joined the drivers. They invite Lucy to sign up, too. Her friends tell her it's the best time in their lives. Being a dliv gives them lots of energy. Better, it makes them more popular than their wildest dreams. It's very tempting!But Lucy begins to wonder what has really happened to these drivers. How can they have such abilities? Could joining them be fun-or dangerous? Lucy is going to find out.Velocity is the first in the series The Activ8r Adventures, where AI enhancements to human beings give them amazing powers...but at what cost?

Tami is back! And she's involved in another mystery. A professional temporary employee, she lands a job guarding a quirky collection in the Museum of Oddities. Soon Tami discovers that precious objects are disappearing from the museum. Who is the thief? Tami is determined to find the culprit.When a troubled old woman falls to her death, Tami's curiosity unmasks more than theft. Zelda, the mechanical fortune teller, turns up a card that leads Tami into the secret pasts of two people...and murder!The Museum of Oddities is the second book featuring the intrepid Tami Tripper and her bike Ruby. Join Tami on her latest adventure where her curiosity and knack for finding trouble make her the Two-Wheeled Detective.Beware of an old memory!

The Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is bigger than the island of Manhattan. More than seventy million people pass through DFW each year. In Newcomers, five new people arrive at the airport. But they are not starting a vacation or traveling. They come to work. These young people emigrated from Bangladesh, China, Ghana, and Mexico. Some drive buses. Others sell coffee, books, and clothes. And some rub your aching neck and feet in day spas. Travelers pass by them without a second look. Yet their lives are challenging and complex. These employees become friends as they struggle to learn a new culture and understand a very confusing world of work.

Tami is a free spirit. She is a professional temporary employee. No full-time job is going to tie her down. She loves meeting new people, learning new skills, and studying human nature. Her mother said she was nosy, but curiosity is central to Tami's life. She loves peanut butter sandwiches and apples, any kind of music, and the wind through her hair as she zooms around on her trusty redbicycle, Ruby. Her beloved mother gave Tami her first two-wheeler. She has ridden a red bike ever since. Late one night, Tami rides home from work. She and Ruby suddenly hit a huge pothole on the darkened road. The bicycle flies into the hedges. The damage? A lump on the head, a bloody knee, and a broken wheel! Tami is skeptical when a young man appears out of the dark to help her. But she has no way of knowing this is just the beginning of a mystery in the big house rising behind her. Her mishap drops her in the middle of a wealthy, unhappy, ambitious family...and a murder! Tami is on the case. The first of a series, The Two-Wheeled Detective introduces us to a watchful, curious, and tenacious young accidental detective!

Ava was born with wings. No one called them that until she was two years old. She hides her wings under a special device her father made for her. She never takes off her backpack at school. No one knows her secret, not even her best friend Theo, who was born with two different-colored eyes. The doctor told Ava that she can choose to have the wings removed when she turns sixteen.The big day arrives, and she can't decide what to do. Without her wings, Ava thinks she can be like everybody else. But is that what she really wants? When Ava makes a new friend at school, she begins to see things--and herself--in new ways. Lucy offers her friendship and exquisite drawings of wings. Lucy makes Ava think.The Other asks us to consider what it means to be different and what it means to accept the unique parts of ourselves.

A woman in trouble turns to ice cream, and just might find love in its pursuit. Emelda is 46 years old. Her husband, Charlie, has just left her for a 23-year-old dancer. Her five difficult sons worship their father and blame Emelda for his departure. On top of everything else, she has to struggle with a new job at the local supermarket. For comfort she turns to her only true friend ? ice-cream. But lately there's a handsome man driving the ice-cream van. Could romance be about to blossom? Part of successful Open Door series, originally designed to help adult literacy in Ireland. Original stories from best-selling authors and important new voices, never published in the States before now.