Books with author Joe Baker

Lucas is a young, naive college student on a journey to find an answer to the question: “Why won’t others accept me?” While he recognizes that he comes from an amazing family with an affluent lifestyle, his life is empty as he continually struggles to connect with his peers, especially women. Freshman year is a huge disappointment for Lucas. His frustration mounts due to a lifelong infatuation with a family friend, who sees him as nothing more than platonic. Lucas comes home for the summer deciding to alter his path. He bonds with his therapist and takes on a job at a local scrapyard; that is where he meets Jason. Jason is a forty-year-old ex-marine-sniper, who fought in Desert Storm. Tall, broad, tattooed, and cheeky grinned, Jason is the antithesis of Lucas. Surprisingly, through their various adventures together, they begin to discover that they may not be so different from one another. Lucas’s family is uncomfortable with this new friendship and the therapist has his suspicions. Lucas puts all his faith in Jason but realizes that he may not be the person he thought he was. There is a secret Jason is hiding.

Paperback. Pub Date :2014-01-01 Pages: 448 Language: English Publisher:. HarperCollins Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice below stairs - the story of romance. intrigue. and drama among the servants of the Bennet household A Richard & Judy Book Club pick. If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats. Sarah thought. she would be more careful not to tramp through muddy fields. It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House. and Sarahs hands are chapped and raw. Domestic life below stairs. ruled with a tender heart and an iron will by Mrs Hill the housekeeper. is about to be disturbed by the arrival of a new footman. bearing secrets and the scent of the sea.

TRUST. That's what the voice inside my head kept repeating when I woke up between the infamous lion statues of the New York Public Library, with no idea how I got there and no memory of the last year of my life. The only person I ever trusted was my mother, who lied about everything. I want to trust myself, despite my missing memories. But hearing a voice inside my head obviously isn't a good thing, especially since it knows things I don't… like how to speak Ancient Sumerian, the fact that yellow-eyed people aren't actually people, and that my mother's Egyptian ankh necklace was the key to unlocking the truth she hid from me: I'm the last in a long lineage of powerful women whose secrets date back to the ancient Library of Alexandria. Before she disappeared my mother trained me to be an academic centurion. But it doesn't take a genius to figure out that it's a terrible idea to accept protection offers from shape-shifting, Were-assassins that despise you, or that you shouldn't take advice from a mysterious, hot guy with a habit of disappearing right before he tells you exactly what you need to know. You also don't have to read a lot to know that when a supernatural stairway appears behind your closet door you should immediately run the other way. Now, I'm fighting like hell to stay alive while searching for both my missing mother and the truth, desperate to find something or someone I can trust.

The servants take center stage in this irresistibly imagined below-stairs answer to Pride and Prejudice. While Elizabeth Bennet and her sisters fuss over balls and husbands, Sarah, their orphaned housemaid, is beginning to chafe against her situation in life. And when a mysterious footman arrives at Longbourn, the orderly realm of the servants' hall threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably, upended. Jo Baker reveals lives mentioned only fleetingly in Jane Austen's classic novel that has captivated the hearts of readers around the world for generations, daring to take us beyond the drawing rooms of Regency England into a vivid, fascinating, fully realized new world.

Trust is a young adult, mythological, urban fantasy thrill ride about the darkly fantastical, supernatural Museion that has secretly protected humanity's greatest treasures for millennia, and Anna, the sixteen-year-old New York girl who is the unknowing Heir to it all. Everything begins with TRUST. ""Jodi Baker's TRUST is Must-Read YA."" -USAToday ""America's answer to Harry Potter: Jodi Baker's TRUST."" -The Arriviste