Maybe This Time by Jennifer Crusie

Andie Miller is ready to move on with her life. She wants to marry her fiancé and leave behind everything in her past, especially her ex-husband, North Archer. But when Andie tries to gain closure with him, he asks one final favor of her. A distant cousin has died and left North the guardian of two orphans who have driven away three nannies already, and things are getting worse. He needs someone to take care of the situation, and he knows Andie can...

Gateway by Frederik Pohl

Although it's been over a year now since I first challenged myself to start reading science fiction, I still find myself intimidated by the hard core stuff. To me, Gateway by Frederik Pohl falls into this category because it's written by a top scifi author and it has a cover featuring spaceships shooting at each other in outer space. That's heavy-duty scifi stuff.But when I recently found myself in possession of a copy of Gateway I thought it couldn't...

New Scifi & Fantasy Releases: Week of October 10

This is a good week for YA readers, with lots of new YA books coming out over the next few days. James Dashner's sequel to The Maze Runner is probably one of the most anticipated YA books of this week, along with Rick Riordan's The Lost Hero. Passion Play, a new fantasy from Tor, has been receiving a lot of attention, which might have to do with it's comparison to Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel’s Legacy books.One book that I thought looked like it could...