Eve had lost both the man she was to have married, and her brilliant career, and life for her seemed to be over. Max Linden was determined to shake her out of her apathy -- but just as she began to realize that she had fallen in love again, she le...
Mencken the poet . Mencken the yearling reporter ... Mencken the short-story writer ... Mencken the author of that astringent, abortive book The American. These are largely unknown Menckens, hidden in his younger years and covered with with the inevi...
Martina was perfectly happy in Venice, looking after the lovable little Marco Vortolini -- if only that annoying man, Dominic Burnett di Ravenelli, would mind his own business and stop telling her the boy really needed a -- male -- tutor. But alth...
Mary loved music, and was thrilled to be working as secretary to a famous impressario -- but it was another matter when she found herself becoming involved with one of his client the celebrated singer Nicholas Brenner. She told herself firmly that...
In the early summer of 1792, young David Treloar left his native England for Paris -- and landed in the middle of one of history's most intense dramas, the infamous Reign of Terror. There he fell in love with quiet, darkly beautiful Charlotte Lamotte...
"What we are looking for--aside from the stolen plutonium, Mrs. Pollifax -- is evil in its purest form." Mrs. Pollifax was leading a very full life: Garden Club, karate, environment, yoga--and a little spying now and then. This time the myste...
“A big, rich, satisfying, old-fashioned hunk of a book . . . part comedy, part tragedy, and thoroughly satisfying.” -- Chicago Tribune Book World A Texas family as big and brash as their home state, the Renshaws are united by thei...
Widower Adam Verver is a wealthy American who has emigrated with his attractive daughter, Maggie, for the sole purpose of luxuriating in the brilliant shine of gilded society. Then Maggie falls in love and weds a charming Italian prince named Amerigo...
On September 23, 1926, and Austrian experimental biologist named Dr. Paul Kammerer blew his brains out on a footpath in the Austrian mountains. His suicide was the climax of a great evolutionary controversy which his experiments had aroused. The b...
As the summer begins, Kate Brown -- attractive, intelligent, forty five, happily enough married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children -- has no reason to expect anything will change. But when the summer ends, the woman she was ...
Collection of letters and diaries that mirror the changing moods and emotions of a woman's early life, and that range from a schoolgirl's delight in a European junket to a college student's tremulous love for one of the great heroes of the age, Anne ...
Six years ago Julie's world had turned upside down; she had married Michael Pemberton and left England--and Robert. Now Michael was dead, and Julie and her small daughter, Emma, had come home again--only to learn that Michael had appointed Rob...
ANOTHER CURE? Because of bureaucratic red tape, political pressure and legalistic loopholes, there are many criminals the police are unable to arrest. Out of frustration, they have formed a small, secret army. This clandestine police force, with the...
The Valley of His Passion Park is a Biblical fantasyland in the desert near Los Angeles. Among its features are a daily Passion Play and modern replicas of Sodom and Gomorrah. But one morning its creators find an unplanned addition to their newly c...
He needed her as a nurse, not a woman Benedict van Manfeld was one of the surliest, most unfriendly men Cassandra had ever met. But when she learned he was a brilliant Dutch surgeon who had severely damaged his sight in an accident, her attitude c...
Phoebe Brook hadn't planned to take a nursing job in Holland, still less under false pretenses. But when her sister Sybil decided to get married instead of going to work for Dr. Lucius van Someren, Sybil persuaded Phoebe to take her place. Wi...
Trapped in a dark night of superstition and terror The Island's Curse "Governess Wanted," the ad said, and pretty Christy Randolph was glad to escape her unhappy past by taking the job on the remote island off the Maine coast. But n...
One of Irwin Shaw’s most unforgettable heroes battles to resurrect his declining career against a tough cast of women, whiskey, and old memories Jesse Crain was made for Cannes. A middle-aged filmmaker who dazzled audiences during Hollywood&rsq...
THE HOUSE WAS A HEARTBREAKER Or was it BIANCA who drove Anne and Jack to divorce after only ten months of marriage? Anne was sure one or the other was somehow responsible for destroying their romance when they returned to sell their home. SUDDE...
New York City: from 1937 to the 1970s, the NYPD owned the streets, and the Irish owned the NYPD. Officers ruled their beat, fighting crime the way they wanted, and bending the law to take what they could. There was only one rule: look after your o...
Everything was going wrong for Alison. Her job was in jeopardy, and she was going to have to sell her beloved family home to a stranger. As if that wasn't enough, Niall MacBain had come home; Niall, her arch-enemy, whom she had not seen for ni...
Kansas was a bloody preview of the Civil War. Jared, left man of the family, joins with a Shawnee and a Black to smuggle escaped slaves north on the underground railroad in Freedom Trail.Winner of Western Writers of America Best Western Juvenile of 1...
This richly evocative novel-in-letters tells the story of two Persian noblemen who have left their country -- the modern Iran -- to journey to Europe in search in wisdom. As they travel, they write home to wives and eunuchs in the harem and to friend...