Bøger af Janine a Southard

UK EDITION. On a world where high school test scores determine your future, six students rebel. They'll outrun society as fast as their questionably-obtained spaceship will take them. Rhiannon doesn't technically cheat the Test. She's cleverer than the computers that administer it, and she uses that to her advantage. She emerges from Test Day with the most prestigious future career possible: Hive Queen. Gwyn & Victor are madly in love, but their Test results will tear them apart. Good thing Rhiannon is Gwyn's best friend. Rhiannon can fix this. Queens can do anything. Gavin is the wild card. Raised off-planet, he can't wait to leave again... and he's heard of an empty ship in orbit. The Ceridwen's Cauldron. Both Luciano and Alan fit in the system. They don't need to leave. Only their devotion to Rhiannon spurs them to join the Cauldron's crew. Spaceships. Blackmail. Anywhere but here.

Rhiannon and her Hive have mastered space travel. Sort of. At least, they're better at it. They've outsmarted kidnappers, survived severe oxygen deprivation, and heisted back their own ship engine from would-be thieves. Since joining up, they've traveled farther and farther away from their home planet. But out on Yin He Garden Station (in Chinese-owned territory), home catches up. When Alan's former research advisor makes an offer that'll let them return to Dyfed as respected members of society, Rhiannon knows she must accept. But home isn't exactly as she left it, and a hostile space fleet stands between her aging ship and her new/old life. Should she charge towards the fleet, or scurry back into international space as fast as her craft can go? Discover the Hive Queen Saga's thrilling conclusion!

What can your phone do for you? This is the story of a girl and her iPhone. No, that's not quite right. This is the story of a middle-aged statistician and her best friend. Though she didn't consider herself middle-aged. And the best friend was more of a roommate-with-whom-she'd-developed-a-friendship. And this description completely ignores the 6,000-year-old elf with whom the woman and her best friend enjoyed story gaming. So let's try this again. This is the story of a woman who wished to find love, but who would rather play story games than actively look for it. Especially in the wake of a horrid break-up six months before from a man who had never sent her a single gift. Until this Valentine's Day, when she received a brand new iPhone in a box with his name on it. Between story gaming and succumbing to the phone's insidious sleekness, she learns that friendship trumps romance. In Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story, award-winning author Janine A. Southard (a Seattle denizen) shows you how the geeks of Seattle live, provides a running and often-hilarious social commentary on today's world, and reminds you that, so long as you have friends, you are never alone.

A space station caper! Here's the sequel to the award-winning Queen & Commander. Is it really stealing when you take back what's yours? Exhausted and broke, Rhiannon's Hive limps into John Wayne Station on the Ceridwen's Cauldron. Safe at last, this stop-over is looking bright until the authorities steal their ship's engine. The only solution: steal it back! Between stage-handing a play (at the local brothel) and avoiding their law-enforcement roommate (a sentient robot), they grow into a real team. A real Dyfed-style Hive. The law enforcement robot, meanwhile, is busy detecting a series of thefts and murders. She's determined to use all her skills-programmed both before and after she clawed her way to sentience-to protect anyone else from getting hurt. Agents from a rival law enforcement group, however, bump into her investigation and create problems that she could really do without. She has a job to do, even if they're determined to get in her way. Hive & Heist has action, druidry, and a sentient robot. Oh, and some sheep.