Piper: 1769 books

Three things matter: What you want. What you have. And the distance between them. L.A. is the capital of unfulfilled desire. After busting my ass for years in the City of Angels, I’m handed the flagship location of the hottest new fashion label in the country… If I can pass one test. Enter...

He’s a rock legend … she’s just a face in the crowd—but their secret past is about to be uncovered. Once, good girl Cara Carter rebelled in a wild Las Vegas night with teen idol Brady. Convinced that she could never be enough for him, she ran home to family responsibilities, covering...

Inspired by the world's supreme love poem, this account of loneliness and love, passion, joy, gratitude, illusion, despair, disagreement, quarrel, parting and concord expresses all the shades of feeling between a man and the mercurial woman he is mad about. In a style both lucid and lyric,...

Paula Kasper had dropped out of the Psychology program at the University of Texas in her junior year to open a hair salon south of Downtown Austin. An hour of hairdressing and scalp massages usually obliterated her clients’ inhibitions, and they unburdened themselves of their most intimate dilemmas. Sudsy-haired,...

Summary: Gala's boyfriend, Elan, is the kind of guy most folks wouldn't approve of. So the two of them need to sneak away every time they want to spend time together. But Elan is sweet, and strong, and loves spending time with Gala. More importantly, he's real enthusiastic about helping...

“Stay away from the water, the killing water that will shiver your bones and suck your breath.” At first adolescent Seagren wants to obey, but she is caught between the tug of the sea and the pull of the land. She is That Other Kind, different. And illegal. Why? She doesn't know. Seagren rebells...

Marilyn has a special job, a job she truly loves. She's a scientist, working in a top secret lab, handling exotic and rare biological (sometimes supernatural) entities. But that's not the part that makes her love it. Marilyn loves her job because she's responsible for collecting samples...

Professor Tina Soares has spent months trying to research a mysterious alien plant to little success. When word of mysterious activity calls her down to the lab late one night, she can't help but be excited. But the plant has a naughty mind and plans of its own that will change the course of science...

A biographical novel of the biblical King David. It follows the Bible very closely, but imagines the motivations the Bible only hints at.Few stories have had such an effect on the world. The lonely shepherd boy, singing his songs in the wilderness to his one intimate friend, God, said what no one before...

Her wings are smashed, her groombug gone. No dragon can live without a groombug, so Rumplewing must leave her clan and dieInstead, she reclaims life when she stumbles upon Balofur, a lone groombug, hideously scarred.No groombug can live without his dragon, so they join together. However...

A train--the Orphan world--glides across mountains. Destination? Nowhere. The illegally-born must live inside, for Admin wills it. But young Garland, Orphan musician, seeks a different destination. Freedom. To find it, he struggles against Admin's mind control. His only escape may lie with a mysterious woman who is led by a strange spirit to which he must connect. If he can figure out how.

Finnegan, a young fox, seeks a guru. He encounters guides and misguides who warn: Don’t cross the bear, the terror of the woods, and shun the crow with the evil foot. Not listening, Finnegan barges into adventures, ridiculous and dangerous. This story parodies social, political, and commercial manipulation while taking the reader on the archetypal search for one's purpose in life.

Wren is a shape shifter whose magic is flawed; every promise he makes takes unexpected turns. One failed promise caused his enslavement to barbarian royalty. The tale begins a thousand years later, when an emperor, who collects hostages to ensure the obedience of conquered kings, conquers the barbarian...

Skye, born of two conflicting natures, feels that any magic he may have inherited from his mother is cancelled by the dullness inherited from his father. So he steals a magical pearl from his only friend, a forest sprite. Above all else, Skye wants to return it, but it’s the only thing that protects...