Joanna Scott

• Dec-1980
• / Contemporary Romance
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MARRIAGE TO A STRANGER Laura had been half in love with David from the moment they met, but her opinion of his employer, D. Jonathan Lattimer, was far from complimentary. Then one morning she awoke to find herself married--to David Jonathan Lat...

• Mar-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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SHE COULD NEVER ABANDON HER FAMILY Cindy Templeton expected to inherit a company after her father's death. Instead, to gain her legacy, she had to marry the one man she hated: Boyd Hamilton, a businessman to whom control, of companies and of women...

• Nov-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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SHE WAS A LADY IN DISGUISE. Tired of fighting off passes from boss after boss, Samantha Lorrimer took on a new look for her new job. When Cory Talbott, the Wizard of Wall Street, hired her, he thought he had taken on a staid, middle-aged spinst...

• 1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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A perfect passion, but a less than perfect marriage -- that was the heritage Amanda Taylor and Clay McCord shared. Five years passed before they met again, and once more they felt the fire of their passion burn out of control, a conflagration to engu...

• Jun-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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"Don't I know you?" It was the oldest line in the book, but when Lucas McKay said it to Karin, it held the ring of truth and the promise of tomorrow. The lonely rich girl she had once been faded away when she was in his arms. Alive and unafraid,...

• Aug-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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ACE OF HEARTS .. . One night of love made her his forever, bound by memory--and a child. Linda Brown tried to escape, to become a singer and raise her son alone. But recording tycoon Jason Reynolds tracked her down and swept her into his life as h...

• Nov-1982
• / Contemporary Romance
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SHE WASN'T LOOKING FOR LOVE... Interior designer Timi Johnston had never met a man like Don Ricardo, her arrogant, steely-eyed employer on the Baja building project. Suddenly she was living and working in the exotic splendor of his family's seasi...

• Dec-1983
• / Contemporary Romance
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They had once made a promise to belong only to each other, but he was Marc Fremont of the Louisiana Fremonts, and she was only Megan Mahlar, of the nowhere-in-particular Mahlors, and the promise made with the hot impetuosity of youth was destined to ...

• Aug-1984
• / Contemporary Romance
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There was to be no mixing of business with pleasure. Grant Brawley, company president, had said so. Then Grant met his newest employee, corporate attorney Kate Howard, and suddenly he knew that rules were only made to be broken. There was just ...

• Mar-1985
• / Contemporary Romance
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DECEPTIONS OF THE HEART Meli Fancher acted on impulse when she rescued Jud Thompson. If she had thought, she never would have aided the handsome stranger, who swam away from a hail of bullets and into her island paradise. But is was Meli's hear...

• Mar-1988
• / General Fiction
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After the death of his wife, an old man attacks his idiot son then flees to the woods. There he joins up with a fifteen-year-old pot-smoking streetwalker and together they travel to the wife's birthplace, where the man's rage gives way to reflection ...

• Jul-1990
• / General Fiction
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A fictional recreation of the life of Expressionist painter Egon Schiele captures the artist's obsessive imagination and unconventional lifestyle in an evocative portrait set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century Vienna...

• Feb-1994
• / General Fiction
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"A greatly gifted and highly original artist...Various Antidotes is purely and simply wonderful."--The New York Times Book ReviewThe miraculous, transformative stories of Joanna Scott's Various Antidotes range across the world of history and science,...

• Feb-1996
• / Horror
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The Manikin is not a mannequin, but the curious estate of Henry Craxton, Sr. in a rural western New York State. Dubbed the "Henry Ford of Natural History," by 1917 Craxton has become America's preeminent taxidermist. Into this magic box of a world-fi...

• Jun-1996
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-2000
• / General Fiction
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The world of "make believe" into which we are drawn in this remarkable novel -- hailed for both its lyrical prose and its profound dramatic and emotional intensity -- is the world of four-year-old Bo, cast adrift in a sea of strangers as he becomes t...

• Oct-2002
• / Suspense
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A vividly imagined novel from award-winning Joanna Scott. In the mid-1950s, an American family travels to an island off the coast of Italy to make a fortune in gemstones....

• Feb-2003
• / General Fiction
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Joanna Scott's provocative second novel chronicles the life of the" Charles Beauchamp," a slave ship, and its fourteen-year-old captain's apprentice, Tom. The son of the ship's owner, Tom must navigate the volatile waters of the boat's crew: a wrathf...

• Nov-2005
• / General Fiction
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Caught in a perilous divide between life and death, Mrs. Rundel is both a woman struggling to catch her breath, and the child she was 60 years earlier who struggled to survive the violence of the liberation of Italy and experienced the everlasting in...

• Dec-2006
• / General Fiction
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Joanna Scott's unparalleled gift for storytelling has inspired hyperbole from critics and her devoted fanbase, which includes some of the most preeminent writers of our time. But not since Various Antidotes, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, has...

• May-2009
• / Historical
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On a summer day in 1946 Sally Werner, the precocious young daughter of hardscrabble Pennsylvania farmers, secretly accepts her cousin's invitation to ride his new motorcycle. Like so much of what follows in Sally's life, it's an impulsive decision wi...

• Jan-2010
• / General Fiction
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Charlie and the Children is a novel about an American soldier who goes to war, fathers a son, and abandons him. He is taken captive by the Viet Cong and held in a cave in a tunnel underground. Sick, starving, and alone, he grdually loses his grip on ...

• Sep-2014
• / Literary
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A gripping novel about a seemingly charmed marriage and a mysterious disappearance at sea In 1905, a tourist agent and amateur antiques collector named Armand de Potter mysteriously disappeared off the coast of Greece. His body is never recovered ...

• Jul-2017
• / Literary
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New York in the late 1950s. A city, and a world, on the cusp of change... Maggie Gleason is looking toward the future. Part of a midcentury wave of young women seeking new lives in New York City, Maggie works for legendary Port Authority public re...

• Apr-2021
• / General Fiction
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From a Pulitzer Prize finalist comes a masterful collection of stories about the timeless universal struggle to connect. Joanna Scott, the critically acclaimed author of ten novels and two collections, turns back to the craft of the short story, w...