2014 Reprint of 1937 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Vera Dorothea Stanley Alder was a portrait painter and mystic. She wrote several books and pamphlets on self-help and spiritua...
IT WAS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE Shannon Gallagher was about to become Mrs. Matthew Rossi. She and the handsome pharmacist had met when Matt had hired her to manage his new clinical lab. After months of hard work, the fledgling business was beginning to...
When David Byfield sees Isobel for the first time at a party, he decides that he has fallen in love with her. An attractive and successful layer, David is being groomed for a political career; his experience with love and intimacy, however, is limit...
Alix Hurst, Gemmie Downs and Catriona Ferguson; three young nurses come to Edinburgh to finish their training. After many misunderstandings, all three find love....
Olivia dreamed of a sun-filled love, a happy life. Then she entered Foxworth Hall... V.C. Andrews' thrilling new novel spins a tale of dreadful secrets and dark, forbidden passions -- of the time before Flowers in the Attic began. Long before terror...
WAR-AND HELL Mym was a dutiful son, but his father the Rajah interfered in his love life once too often. Rather than wed without love, he took up the Red Sword, symbol of office of the Incarnation of War. At first he thought his efforts could a...
The miracle planet discovered, Explored-and revealed!Welcome to the fantastic planet of Tarot! It is a land of horror and adventure, a nightmarish realm beyond the curtain of the Animation, where dragons, demons, and unholy lusts abound.It is into th...
For centuries, two nearly-immortal races--the Krotanya, followers of Light, and the Leishoranya, servants of Darkness--have been at war. Both races u se mental powers in addition to the sword and bow. lout because of their moral scruples--the Krotany...
KEEP ONE HAND ON YOUR MONEY AND THE OTHER ON YOUR SWORD! Welcome to SANCTUARY a city of outlaws and adventurers in a world of war and wizardry, peopled with colorful characters created by today's top fantasy adventure talents, including: LYNN A...
This novel about the Laffey family, set in turn-of-the-century Australia, is written by the author of "Well-Dressed Explorer", one of three of her novels which have won the Miles Franklin Award and "A Kindness Cup" which won the Australian Book of th...
VENGEANCE, BLOODY VENGEANCE! From the nuclear devastation of World War III rose the Guardians--guerrilla freedom fighters in a United States fallen prey to invading forces. They are the last reminder of what America once stood for--and the last ho...
THE GIFT OF LOVE As an only child, Madeline Beaumont had always dreamed of falling in love, marrying and having a family. But her dreams hadn't come true -- the last straw for her marriage had been the discovery that Madeline could never bear ...
It's the kind of case that has "NO!" written all over it. But Carlotta Carlyle--Boston's six-foot-one, redheaded, wisecracking, taxi-driving ex-cop--has a P.I. license getting moldy from disuse, so she takes on the search for a little old lady's miss...
Upon receiving a commission from a maverick oil tycoon to create an ad campaign for Wellamation Oil, Beaumont books magazine space and dreams up pleasurable ways of spending his fee--until the oil tycoon claims they've never met, and the magazines wa...
It is 1952, the dawn of the McCarthy era. The communist blacklist is circulating; careers and even lives hang on the decisions of the House UnAmerican Activities Commitee. In the midst of all the turmoil, suspicion, and fear is the irrepressible Tall...
WHEN A FOUL TEMPERED PROFESSOR IS FOUND DEAD, THE INVESTIGATION IS MORE THAN ACADEMIC When Professor Charles Carstairs was refused tenure at the university, he was delighted to accept the gift of an auto-repair shop from his Uncle Cosmo. The unpai...
In 1911 a posse chased an itinerant Shoshone family across 200 hundred miles of Nevada desert and slaughtered them. Shoshone Mike re-creates this final chapter in the Old West through the eyes of an anachronistic sheriff....
When Blanche, a nightclub singer, and Lucas, a student, meet accidentally on the beach, their mutual attraction--and dislike--hurtles them into a short-lived affair in which the two lost souls look to each other for deliverance...
Pushkin House is the major novel of one of the Soviet Union's most remarkable contemporary writers. Intensely psychological and concerned with its own relation to the rich past of Russian letters, Bitov's work makes him an heir to Nabokov and a gifte...
Rachel is Stephanie's best friend. Since the second grade they have shared all their secrets, good and bad. So when Alison moves in, Stephanie hopes that the three of them can be best friends because Stephanie really likes Alison. After all, they hav...
True, Celia Sommerville waited ten days before her wedding to tell her fiance she couldn't marry him. But she never anticipated the cold censure from their colleagues at the university -- which worsened considerably when George's body turned up in a ...
DAYS OF GLORY, NIGHTS OF LOVE Torn from her family's Yorkshire estate by the death of her father, heiress Joisse Radcliffe flees by night to sanctuary in a nearby abbey. Beset by robbers, she is rescued by a brave horseman who serves Richard,...
RITES OF POWER Darkover, world of legend, where ancient power has awakened humans to their own hidden talents, where the changed humans of this planet of the Bloody Sun must face the challenge of recontact with Terra, of the native chieri, and of ...
THE WESTERN WIND FANNED THE FIRES OF THEIR PASSION... The untamed grandeur of Three Hills Ranch and the wildness of Texas had conquered her heart. Born into a stiflng English aristocracy, Anne Edgecomb had inherited this vast cattle empire, and i...
PANCHO VILLA'S DEAD...BUT THE GRINGOS ARE STILL IN HOT PURSUIT Cheney Hazzard, private security agent of Brownsville, Texas, is the first to admit he has a weakness for female beauty. There's no other way to explain why on earth he's trying to tra...
In the deliciously erotic daydreams she wove for a lark, Elizabeth Manson Burke she'd her inhibitions and let dream lovers fulfill her deepest desires. In her real, everyday life, though, she hadn't been thoroughly, recklessly kissed since her husban...
Being fixed up with her landlady's brother was not Mary Pepper's idea of a good time. But when a horrible cold and a horrendous work schedule obliterated Christmas, Henry whisked her off for a late celebration on Hatteras Island, where they found the...
A YOUNG GIRL'S FLIRTATION Even though she'd been banished to a finishing school for two years for dallying with Slade Hunter, enchanting Glory Westbrook knew she still loved the irresistible Yankee. Then her father announced that his associate wou...
"Mongoose, R. I. P"., by William F. Buckley Jr. Mongoose, R. I. P. is set in 1963 in the middle of the cold war. Fidel Castro and John F. Kennedy plot against one another. Castro seeks revenge for his humiliation during the missile crisis, an...
Robbed of her daughter and her career, Emily Stanton, a beautiful 1920s actress, seeks vindication--a quest that leads her through the illicit world of New York speakeasies and ultimately to a courtroom trial for murder...
A penguin heads for the bathtub, anticipating the warm, wet, bubbly and wrinkle-inducing experience. The bathroom is occupied: a duck, cat, pig and elephant are there, commenting on the mysteries of water, which takes on many shapes. The point of thi...
Superman's 1980s adventures continue in this eighth collection of stories from writer/artist John Byrne and others. This latest volume includes the introduction of the super-hero tracking government agency known as Checkmate, as well as appearancesby...
A proper London solicitor meets a topsy-turvy widow... Into the ordered life of thirty-three-year-old Edward Netherford comes the Brockman family loud, brash and demanding the return of three Impressionist paintings which have been retained -- ill...
First print-published by Ace Books in 1988What if an Amazon queen had a love affair with Alexander the Great?What if their son had to defend his lands from the Mongol Horde?What if his sister was the priestess of a bull-cult on Crete?What if her son ...
“If you can read this one without getting a lump in your throat, turn yourself in to the nearest mortuary. Your heart has ceased to function. This book is about the innate hunger of the human heart to belong. To be part of a family unit whether or ...
Operation Firehawk. Staging area: America's capitol. Target: the world's most prestigious hostage. And now the job to bring back the President--alive--belongs to Cody's Army. Because nobody fights dirtier, or gets the job done better....
A PAST LIFE For Leigh Mason, one broken heart was enough. It had taken time and hard work to rebuilt shattered dreams of home and family, and now running her Knoxville gift shop was her life. She would steer clear of love. Charismatic Southern...
Lady Lucinda Esmond’s swine of a father was forever fleecing young bucks in London’s gaming halls -- until he met Captain Mark Chamfrey who, having been once cheated, would not be made a fool of again and promptly kidnapped ten-year-old Lucinda f...
With Each London Season, an enchanting Romance Moves into the Fashionable Townhouse at Number 67 Clarges Street. And There Below Stairs the Staff Has a Special Mission -- to Arrange a Match...to Hatch a Scheme...to Bring Love Home to A HOUSE FOR T...
Lauren Nelson was expecting Before Dr. Jordan Daniels charged onto the scene, Lauren had been expecting a baby. Now she was expecting trouble. Jordan claimed to be the father of her baby. Lauren, who'd never set eyes on the man, claimed he was cra...
The Contrary Miss Cranville: Miss Phillipa Cranville -- known to all as Pippa -- was surely the most obstinate, willful, maddeningly intractable young beauty ever to set the tongues of society to wagging. First she ran away from an eminently suit...
This New York Timesâ€"bestselling chapter in the Hugo Awardâ€"winning Space Odyssey series is “intriguing and satisfying . . . the all-round best Odyssey so far” (Kirkus Reviews). The third book in Clarke’s beloved Space O...
When a collection of pornographic videos whose "stars" are actually the victims of a murderer's depravity is found in a secluded Rocky Mountain cabin, newspaperman Gary Cotler races to protect his daughter from the killer...
Jamie Grenne, a handsome forty-year-old history professor, leaves his brilliant and beautiful wife for a red-haired graduate student with a trust-fund, but everything changes after Jamie learns that his wife is pregnant...
Portrait of a PI: Name - Cliff Hardy. Turf - The rowdy pubs and sleepy suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Greatest Strength - Helping friends in trouble. Worst Weakness - Helping friends in trouble. He's a sucker for a sob story, and one of his pals has a...
"Marry me, querida. Be my wife." Vasco da Carvalho's proposal came as a dream. Even in her wildest fantasies about the Brazilian rancher, Abigail Westmore hadn't dared to expect this! Until yesterday, this exotic male has been e...
An unassuming, quiet Post Office sorter is killed, and Inspector Roger 'Handsome' West, Scotland Yard's most down to earth and brilliant detective is called to investigate. What is the connection with a series of outrageous and bold daylight crimes t...
THE INSPECTOR LOOKED AT THE TWO BODIES… The woman lay in a crumbled heap by the far side of her bed, face showing. There was thick, coagulated blood on her breasts and her nightdress, and across one hand that lay limply on the carpet. Her husban...
THE PICTURE OF GUILT... Courtroom artist Brady Flynn hadn't meant to get mixed up with Judge Michael Snow, or with the danger shadowing his life. Then a speeding car nearly ran them both down, and Brady's sketch of the driver plunged her into a m...
RESCUED BY A RAKE When a muscular, handsome trader bought her freedom from her Blackfoot captors, Victorine's thanks knew no bounds. Surely he'd deliver her from these uncharted Rocky Mountains back to civilized Philadelphia. Then the blackguard anno...
Someone had maliciously deceived her .. . When Courtney Long woke up in a mental hospital, the doctors told her she had tried to commit suicide. Courtney knew that wasn't true, but how could she prove her sanity? After a daring escape from ...
A Sixteen-year-old Progidy uses his mentor's invention to go into the past to exorcise his unreturned love for a beautiful girl, and discovers a mystery involving another of the professor's inventions....
It's America's boot camp, 88 days of drills, inspections, rifle practices, war games, grueling physical exercise and a regimen that separates the men from the boys...
Boot is an insider's account, told by a former Marine and veteran journali...
When heiress Iris McCormick finds a devastatingly virile man tending the grounds of Dantley Hall, she assumes he's the gardener and boldly requests a crash course on English estate-landscaping. Ile thinks she's just another American on a budg...
Tory Satterly, a cub reporter for the second-rate "Miami Sun," fights her way into hard news while trying to attract star "Miami Post" reporter Russ Churchill's attention and when the two newspapers merge, Russ and Tory become rivals as well as lover...
Could she ever escape his hold on her? The first time she felt the powerful magnetism of the Arab, Ashley Cunningham ran from him, terrified of the bond of attraction between them. It was something she'd never before encountered. But Sheikh...
FAMILY TIES New York Daily reporter Julie Hayes could tell everybody's story -- except her own. But after a seemingly random act of violence shattered her life she knew it was time to put the pieces together. It began with an unknown name on her bir...
Teddy Sothern knew a lie when she heard one Hired to manage her father's senate race, Graham McKinsey purported to be a cynical political veteran, but no campaign manager Teddy knew had, his hair-trigger reflexes and rugged physique: No world-...
“Wedding bells are ringing for Angel’s mom—and Angel takes charge when she feels that her mother isn’t preparing properly. A funny story about a contemporary dilemma, in which ordinary events are wed to extraordinary twists....
Spirited Henrietta wishes she was the kind of doctor's wife who knew exactly how to deal with the daily upheavals of war. But then, everyone in her close-knit Devonshire village seems to find different ways to cope: there's the indomitable Lady B,...
"You need a wife, Brad -- And fast." When she made the suggestion, Gail Meredith never thought she'd be the one tying the knot! Gail was hardly Brad's type. Yet he insisted she was the most "convenient" candidate for the ...
Eddie is Jody's enemy and always trying to ruin things for him. There is going to be class pet show and Jody want's his old dog Bowser to win a prize. He knows he is not talented or original. But is he beautiful? On the day of the show Jody meets Edd...
Her name was Aria... a beautiful, arrogant princess from a small European kingdom. Stranded in a storm of intrigue near the Florida Keys, she is swept ashore and into the arms of dashing J.T. Montgomery, an officer of the American Navy. Disdainful a...
The twisted circumstances surrounding an unspeakable crime, an old man’s fortune, and a production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest come to light four decades on in this masterful tale of greed, deception, and murder by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter D...
It took old Mrs. Meeker $30,000 to realize she was being swindled by the private detective she had hired to trace the grandson of a former lover. Once the truth dawned on her, she was formidable in her quest for justice. As a fraud perpetrated throug...
In high school Brian had always thought Tucker a hero a little wild, great at football, always fun. Fifteen years later Brian is married, a supervisor at a chicken factory, and a daily lobster fisherman off the coast of Maine. Tucker, back from Vietn...
When a young unmarried mom finds her baby kidnapped, Roberts uncovers a dangerous illegal adoption ring run by one of Wichita’s notorious gang figures.Gaylord Dold is the author of fifteen works of fiction including the highly acclaimed private det...
In The Mirror of Her Dreams, the dazzling first volume of Mordant’s Need, New York Times bestselling author Stephen R. Donaldson introduced us to the richly imagined world of Mordant, where mirrors are magical portals into places of beauty and terr...
Shortly after his play becomes a hit in London, Franz Schultz learns that his partners are trying to cheat him, his wife, Priscilla, is suing for divorce, and his mistress' gangster husband is out for revenge despite a deblitating coronary...
He must have been mad to follow her here Just when all Lucy's dreams were about to come true, with her engagement to Sir Giles Lessing, Matt Lomas tracked her down. Well, Lucy vowed, if he was looking for the woman he'd known on Strona,...
The author of this impressive first novel not only successfully writes from a woman's point of view but also tells a thoroughly engrossing story about emotional upheaval in a middle-class family. Anne Fossicker is a successful magazine editor who has...
Rafferty. Tough. Clever. Cynical. An ex-cop, a deadly shot, a man who plays by his own rules. As comfortable in big-bucks Dallas as he is on the violent prairies five minutes out of town. Steady date: sexy antique dealer Hilda Gardner. Good buddy: Co...
DEATH DU JOUR Berkeley, California, has been transformed from hippie to yuppie, but it's still home to homicide detective Jill Smith. And even in the Bay Area, some elements of the human condition remain eternal ... like murder. Now the owner of a...
SWEET HEARTS AND SUMMER FOLLY "Exile!" Julia was despondent. Her disapproving father was sending her to the family castle on the Cornish coast, far from the man she loved. "Adventure!" her cousin Octavia rejoiced, when Julia invited her for a ...
A bullet from a Yankee sharpshooter's rifle blasts a Rebel captain out of hissaddle unleashing the most devastating weapon the Confederacy has--Dusty Fog.And it will cost the Yankees dearly . . ....
HIS EYES LOCKED WITH MINE, AND A PASSIONATE SIGNAL WEAVED BETWEEN US. I SHOULD LEAVE, I THOUGHT, BUT I WAS HELD FAST IN THE TERRIFYING GRIP OF HIS MAGNETISM. MY HEART WENT WILD... Beautiful heiress Caroline Burton came to a ravaged Charleston st...
HE WAS THE PRODIGAL SON RETURNING HOME When Nick Morales agreed to guide botanist Kelley McKinney to a remote Mexican village, he knew it would be a difficult journey. But the scorching desert, rattlesnakes and smugglers were nothing compared to t...
Quips more sour than amusing and implausible happenings weight Engleman's mystery, narrated by a New York private eye named Renzler. The time is 1972, after his divorce and subsequent alienation from his father-in-law, attorney Mike O'Leary, who now ...
Ordinary events evolve into an intricate interplay of power and passion, idealism and ambition, when a prominent senator and his wife, their two college-age children, the wife's parents, and two key administration officials and their wives gather for...
When she discovers that Brian Warner will be leading a bike trip, Casey Meadows spends the whole summer earning money and learning to ride so she can go--but a cheerleader and an injury threaten her plans. Changing gears… Casey Meadows has al...
Seventeen years after Waco Kingman's reported death, Ross Kingman, his son, tries to claim his father's ranch, but faces attacks by mysterious enemies who can't forget the past. ...
WHEN ANCIENT POWERS WAKE -- Serii, once the domain of all-powerful Sorcerer Kings, now dwelt in relative peace, the wizards who yet remained left with but a remnant of the Power that had once enslaved entire lands. In this kingdom where magic was h...
Beautiful Meg Beaumont left Victorian England to journey to the darkest heart of Africa to learn why her childhood friend Piers Damery was in danger of death. But Piers was no longer the boy she had known. He was a handsome, daring man who treated he...
During a long, lingering lunch at the Automobile Club de France, the elderly Comte de Branly tells a story to a friend, unnamed until the closing pages, who is in fact the first-person narrator of the novel. Branly's story is of a family named Heredi...
In a remote Scottish village, nine-year-old Wise Child is taken in by Juniper, a healer and sorceress. Then Wise Child’s mother, Maeve, a black witch, reappears. In choosing between Maeve and Juniper, Wise Child discovers the extent of her supernat...
BETWEEN TWO WORLDS Now that Erin was sixteen, everyone told her that it was time to give up her imaginary childhood companion and join the real world. But to Erin, he was as real as the many sketches she had done of him -- sketches that disturbed an...
The second volume in The Secret Generations Trilogy Set between the final months of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War, The Secret Houses continues the saga of two families, the Railtons in Britain and the Farthings in America, intertw...
In a reader-participation historical adventure, young readers join Marco Polo and travel to the court of Kublai Khan to find out why Polo's overland route to China became lost to Europeans for almost three centuries...
Sarah was a hunted woman Alone in Europe, on the trail of her missing husband, Sarah Fontaine had walked straight into a nest of spies, counterspies and cold-blooded assassins. They would stop at nothing to find the man she'd known as Geoffrey...
It's almost Thanksgiving, and Richard Best can't stop thinking about Ms. Rooney's Candy Corn contest. Whoever can guess the exact number of yellow-and-orange candies in the jar on Ms. Rooney's desk gets to keep them all. The only problem is Richard h...
December is a time for gift giving. This month everyone in Ms. Rooney's room has chosen a special person to be kind to. All the kids are happy with their secret friends except Emily Arrow. Because she was the last one to pick, Emily is stuck with fat...
It's the first day back to school after winter vacation, and Richard Best is off to a bad start. Who ever heard of a January without any snow? And as usual, he has already forgotten something--the ruler Ms. Rooney had told him to bring for dinosaur d...
Dawn Bosco freezes in horror as her cat Powder Puff jumps out of her arms and into a car. Before Dawn can stop it, the car drives away. Poor Powder Puff!
This is a job for Dawn, the Polka Dot Private Eye--and she's ready. The only clue...
M IS FOR MONSTER MONSTERS HAVE TAKEN OVER THE FIFTH GRADE!Danny Keegan wants his fifth grade class to be different and, well, exciting. But when he meets four new kids who give new meaning to the term weird he realizes he's in for more excitement tha...
In the majestic silence of Chartres cathedral, Devereaux -- code name November Man -- receives his assignment: help Czechoslovakia's cultural liaison cross over to the West. A hard enough job, even without the added complication of an act of God....
Life with Jake was fascinating! His energy, arrogance and talent made working with him an exciting experience. For years Jenny had managed to keep her growing feelings for him under control. Sometimes he looked at her as if he wanted her, but t...
When her gentle twin telephoned in terror and then disappeared, impulsive Erin Blaine raced to the rescue--and collided with Max Delany, the man her missing sister claimed to love. Sexy Max dubbed Erin a fool for rushing in where angels feared to ...
From Andrew M. Greeley, author of eight consecutive national bestsellers with more than 11 million copies in print, comes a riveting novel of romance and suspense in which a Chicago lawyer follows a deadly trail to find the mysterious woman he loves....
Leah French thought she knew Paul Gregory. They had worked together for years, and he had never been anything but coolly professional. Then the nightly dreams began, each matching her with Paul in an alarmingly sensuous way. The man she met in her...
LADY ON A PEDESTAL Home is where the heart is, and Liz Brady had finally returned to Ravensport, Wisconsin, to her roots--and to Clay Stewart, whom she'd loved for years. This time, she was determined to show him that she was no longer the innocen...
Something made her shy away from him... But what was it about this Vancouver businessman? She didn't know...or couldn't remember. When he kissed her for the first time, a warm and gentle kiss, Crysten's world turned upside down, and...
The young adventurer named Gord has stirred the imaginations of thousands of readers with his exploits. City of Hawks takes you to an early time; it is the action-filled tale of how Gord the waif grows into Gord the man. Unknown to him, the skinny bo...
Alexa Thorpe had always believed Tyler Duncan would make something of himself -- just as she'd believed twelve years was enough time to forgive and forget his bitter betrayal of their young love. Now Ty had come home to Alabama, and the young ...
While investigating a suicide, Dave Brandstetter discovers a dead reporter's final scoop. Journalist Adam Streeter covered some of the most dangerous stories of the last quarter century, ranging from Cambodia to Siberia and anywhere troubled in betwe...
The brutality of the AIDS epidemic and a nation's growing homophobia set the stage for a serial killer targeting gay men in Los Angeles -- and Dave Brandstetter finds himself in the killer's path. Dave Brandstetter's afternoon does not begin well: hi...
It wasn’t fair! Robin, the baby of her family, was now the only one left at home over the summer. Her brother and sister were away doing glamorous things. There was no one for her to hang out with but pesky Eustice, and he was acting superior as...
LOVE'S DANGEROUS DREAM From the moment that lovely young Lady Catherine Cahill set eyes on Lionel Eden, Viscount Benning, she knew that he was the only man she could ever love. What matter if this lord was society's most handsome, sought-after ...
It is 3000 BC. The cult of the Earth Goddess is controlled throughout the vast empire of Europe by the secretive and unscrupulous Red Order, the priesthood which manipulates all power for its own ends. The land that is now called England has been ann...
A STARNGER'S MERCY Juliana Roessler was alone, lost in a wilderness ravaged by a winter night's storm. She awoke in the arms of her savior, a handsome stranger named Sate Margruder. And there, in his backwoods cabin, the delicate lady and rugged tra...
Marked with the tainted sword of the evil Prince Mephtik, Jarral Gullen will die horribly unless both the blade and the prince are destroyed by the next full moon. With the help of his friends, Archer, Scythe and the Lady Mandragorina - a band of mag...
At twenty-eight, Anne Guilfoyle is happily established as a spinster and a bluestocking, delighting her London friends with witticisms and intelligent observations on the political goings-on of the day. But when she is suddenly bereft of her fortune,...
A GAMBLE FOR LOVE Leslie Fairfield came to Atlantic City to enjoy herself. Her fantasy started at Falcon's Flight -- the ideal playground for indulging her every wish. Everything was fine until the devastatingly handsome owner captured her int...
Drawn by destiny -- and duty to her country -- into a dangerous charade, Sarah Cavell trembled when she met the "husband" who'd been assigned to her for the mission. Rafferty Lewis looked tough and dangerous, a potent symbol of all the chances she'd ...
ECSTASY'S FREEDOM Dressed as a boy riding a peddler's wagon, stunning Joy Claret refused to think what would happen were she to get caught at what she was really ping: leading slaves to liberty on the Underground Railroad. Then blatantly mas...
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION They'd been lovers, but when newsman Hunter Kincaid uncovered a scandal at Phoenix Research, chemist Jill Benedict had taken the fall. She still couldn't believe Hunter had just been after a story. He couldn't be...
Kathleen Fields had to reach the clinic, but a Christmas blizzard left her stranded without hope for her life - or her unborn baby's. Then Derek Taliferro arrived with his doctor's skill, his caring heart. Together they brought Kathleen's child into ...
Being locked in a dark closet, tied back to back with a devastatingly handsome man during a bank robbery, had its high points, Maribeth Bradford admitted. And once the spunky sheriff's daughter did her best to foil the heist, she vowed to get to kno...
MacGonigal had suspected the worst when an old Vietnam buddy came by to see him; after all, living in the wilds of Arkansas, he wasn't the easiest man to find. Following Nam, MacGonigal had said goodbye to the Army, the government, and the world in ...
By Logan's standards, Karena led a wild life Karena Carlson and her son had settled in the remote wilderness of northern Minnesota. Their family pet was a gawky moose who ate everything in sight. Their cabin lacked a telephone, electric light, cen...
HE WAS LARGER THAN LIFE Chris Johnstone had heard Corporal Michael Quinn was a living legend in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Michael, however, had heard nothing about his new constable, for Chris's professional reputation was based on her un...
Eleven years ago, on a dusty Wyoming creek bank, Trent McCullough's lips claimed hers for one glorious, mind-spinning moment. But Ainsley Hughes was promised to another man and determined to leave the hard country life behind. Now a widow, Ain...
Written in dramatic yet simple language, this magnificently illustrated volume contains 20 extraordinary tales of India. Here are heroic legends of fearless warriors and mythical Hindu gods as well as traditional Hindu folktales. Full-color illustrat...
FROM THE PROUD TEXAS RANCH TO THE BALLROOMS OF NEW ORLEANS TO THE DECADENT COURT OF A MEXICAN EMPERORO, THEY PURSUED AN IRRESISTIBLE LOVE.... ANGELIQUE YANCY... as wild and reckless as the Texas plains that nurtured her, she struggled to submit t...
HE INHERITED A WATCHMAKER'S STORE - AND A WHOLE HEAP OF TROUBLE. But idle sometime-musician George has little talent for clockwork. And when a shadowy figure tries to steal an old device from the premises, George finds himself embroiled in a mystery ...
Brody Devlin had a notorious temper, a mesmerizing voice, and a presence so powerful he could hypnotize any audience into believing he was a king, a god, or the devil himself. But the man behind the jaded facade was what intrigued Sacha Lorion, made...
A thrilling story by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones -- with an introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin.London, 1939. Vivian Smith thinks she is being evacuated to the countryside, because of the war. But she is being kidnapped - out of her own ...
PROUD SLAVE Kathleen O'Connor refused to give in to despair. She'd proven how strong she could be--she'd survived weeks of terror in the dark hold of a pirate ship and had bravely faced the humiliation of the auction block. Now that she&...
She had come to take his inheritance Natasha Ames wasn't surprised that Jay Travers resented her presence on his family's Texas ranch. Not after she learned that his grandfather, who had met Natasha on a trip to England, had left her half ...
Aimed at the new writer, this book shows how perseverance, command of certain learnable techniques and determined practice can enable them to write successful thrillers. It covers choosing the initial theme of the story, the creation of the character...
Once in everyone’s life there comes the chance to speak up for truth. This happened to Brad in an unexpected way, through this friendship with K.C. K.C.was all that Brad admired. He was charismatic, smart, athletic. And most definitely on the ...
Thirteen-year-old Cassie Gray is delighted when she is accepted as a friend by Dana, the sophisticated, wealthy leader of the "in" crowd at Cedar Park Junior High, but she soon discovers the pain and betrayal of Dana's heedless, selfish lifestyle...
Summoned from Bombay to the tiny hill station of Ootacamund, home of the exclusive Ooty Club, Inspector Ghote must determine who murdered a club servant on the very billiard table where snooker was invented...