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  • Anne Mather

    She was no longer a schoolgirl. These past few weeks had made her a woman. But what point was there in remaining at Paradiablo? Declan despised her for revealing her immature feelings so openly; Clare no doubt found the whole affair unutterably amusi...



  • Betty Neels

    AN OFFER SHE COULDN'T REFUSE... A nursing job in Holland was the only way Lavinia Hawkins could ensure a home and security for herself and her young sister, Peta. Yet within weeks of arriving she was married to the devastatingly handsome Profe...



  • Janet Dailey

    Jenny had naively succumbed to one man's charms--and had been bitterly disillusioned. Then, seeking refuge with her sister, Sheila, in Wyoming's ski country, she ran from one disastrous situation to another! Determined to protect her siste...



  • Janet Dailey

    "You've taken the world on your shoulders." Zachary's voice was a soft, caressing whisper that was oddly soothing and hypnotic. "You've made Chris your sole responsibility and refuse help from everyone. Haven't you ever wa...



  • Sara Craven

    Lissa Fairfax wasn't quite sure whether she wanted to marry the attractive Frenchman, Paul de Gue. So she gladly accepted his invitation to visit the family chateau and meet his relatives. Unfortunately this also involved meeting the austere ...



  • Margaret Way

    Frances returned to her grandfather's plantation in the north of Queensland with only the hazy recollections of childhood to guide her future actions. Should she marry her cousin Dario and ensue that the name and fortunes of the Donovans survi...



  • Margaret Way

    "I want you to go away, Catherine." She would go away because Coyne Macmillan asked her to; she would have the grand adventure, round off her education. But Catherine Fitzgerald was sure, as she had never before been sure of anything, that...



  • Anne Hampson

    When attractive Don Ramon Eduardo de Cabrera y Molina told Lauren, at her own engagement party, that she didn't really love Roger Burden, she was furious. To make it even worse, Don Ramon insisted he was the right man for her. "It's de...



  • Violet Winspear

    "Toni," he said, "I can't just let you go out into the world, so that you can give your hungry little heart to the next rotter who comes along. Nor can I take you eternally sailing as my cabin boy. I can only make you my wife...."...



  • Violet Winspear

    Was this she had longed for? Mrs. Amy du Mont was a rich, vulgar social climber. No wonder quiet, well-bred Altar Garret resented being trapped in her employ. It was through Mrs. du Mont's efforts that they met the imposing Spanish grandee,...



  • Kay Thorpe

    Ruth was in Algiers, alone in the world and very young, when she met Andre Dubois. His answer to the problem was to marry her out of hand, with the assurance that their marriage would remain a brother-and-sister arrangement for the time being. Tha...



  • Lilian Peake

    Old Mrs. Dunlopp thought it was, a splendid idea to leave her large house and a lot of money to her great-nephew Grant Gard and her young friend Beverley Redmund -- on condition that within six months they got married. There was one snag: the two ...



  • Mary Burchell

    A story of girl who was dismissed as a nobody and compared to her exceptionally pretty cousins. Nicola had grown accustomed to being compared to her exceptionally pretty cousins and dismissed as a nobody. It would, of course, be nice to be noticed...



  • Rachel Lindsay

    When Erica went to work in Venice she had never dreamed that she would end up by falling in love with the attractive, immensely rich Conte Filippo Rosetti. And Filippo's close friend Claudia Medina, it soon appeared, was going to see to it tha...



  • Rachel Lindsay

    To do a friend a favour -- and also because it suited her at the time to get away from home-- Anthea offered to take over temporarily the friend's new job, as housekeeper to the high-powered tycoon Mark Allen. But Mr. Allen, it seemed, preferred ...



  • Robert Ludlum

    “Don’t ever begin a [Robert] Ludlum novel if you have to go to work the next day.” -- Chicago Sun-Times War hero and infamous ladies’ man General MacKenzie Hawkins is a living legend. His life story has even been sold to Hollywood. But n...



  • Flora Kidd

    Not every girl would want to bury herself nowadays in a quiet, uneventful Scottish Highland glen, working on her father’s sheep farm, but Jan Reid loved it, and wouldn’t want to spend her life in any other way. Until the arrival of a stranger in ...



  • Margaret Rome

    Serena was almost desperate when she answered an advertisement that offered "lifelong security" to the successful applicant. It was a move that was to take her to far-off Chile, to a husband she had never met --and to what else? Hero: E...



  • Margaret Rome

    Elise had been loyal and loving for years; it was going to be hard to break the habit now. "You don't owe me a thing!" she assured Jacques. "But I can see now all these years my mind has been occupied only with thoughts of you. It ...



  • Mary Wibberley

    Emma was thrilled with her inheritance of a cottage in the Shetland Islands, and would have loved every minute of her stay there, if it hadn't been for her next-door neighbour, Greg Halcro. For Greg was a man who got what he wanted -- and he w...



  • Elizabeth Ashton

    Rosalie had kept her identity secret She'd been wooed for her prospects before. Now she was suspicious of any man who took an interest in her. But Don Rafael's interest in her was revenge. He knew her as a hotel waitress, sister of the ...



  • Matt Christopher

    Kevin O'Toole, playing in a tennis tournament, meets a talking pigeon who turns out to be his great uncle and gives him tennis tips....



  • Ben Bova

    THEY WERE STARCROSSED -- IN LOVE AND OUTER SPACE "The Starcrossed" It was the perfect 21st century program, with the perfect cast of characters: he, the virile, fearless sky-hero--she, an exquisite, otherworldly maid. On camera, they would brav...



  • John Jakes

    The glittering saga of our America -- and the people who made her great. With the end of the colonies' fight for independence begins a new and even more glorious battle to build a new nation. It is an epoch ripe with the passion that only a country...



  • Joyce Dingwell

    Lucy Brown was delighted when a kindly lady arranged a job for her in a hospital-cum-children's home in Australia, and could hardly wait to get to Sydney and start her fascinating new job. But she arrived to find herself rather less than welco...



  • Joyce Dingwell

    "See me when you grow up." In the patronizing way adults often use, Clem made this comment to Silver when she was little more than a child. Now she was a woman and had returned to the place where she had spent her childhood. Would Clem...



  • Andre Norton

    Vivid, disturbing, strangely coherent dreams haunted Ramsay Kimball's nights--dreams that hypnotically drove him to wreck his car . . . only to awaken in the alien world of his nightmares--a very real world, now, where he was Prince Kaskar of Ulad, t...



  • Andre Norton

    A young heir is drawn into a labyrinth of deception, death, and magical destiny in this bold adventure in the bestselling Witch World series.   Kethan is heir to the throne of Car Do Prawn in the realm of Arvon—but there is li...



  • Ann Maxwell

    ESCAPE FROM EARTH They were the new breed of humans. Scientists called them paranormals. Enemies called them parans. And nowhere on Earth was safe for them when the brutal program of paran extermination began. Far from Earth they founded their ...



  • John Updike

    An antic riff on Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter, in which a latter-day Arthur Dimmesdale is sent west from his Midwestern parish in sexual disgrace -- from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed...



  • Elizabeth Hunter (1)

    Celia Sterling had led a sheltered life on her grandfather's farm in Kenya. Her peace was shattered by the arrival of Julian Fairburn, who presented her grandfather with the tusks of a rogue elephant. She thought the ivory was a bride price and f...



  • Elizabeth Hunter (1)

    It was only for the sake of her young half-sister Rosita, that Rachel had written for help and advice to Rosita's relatives in Spain. But the last thing she had expected was that Rosita's masterful cousin, Jeronimo Parades Lucot, should tu...



  • Katrina Britt

    The imposing Spaniard, Don Rambn de Biver y Aldenez, had once been an important and romantic figure in Venetia's young life. Years later, in his own country, they met again. Now all his thoughts were for his tragic young fiancee, and it was unlike...



  • Lucy Gillen

    Tarin had always dreamed of going back to Deepwater, where she had been happy as a child. Perhaps she had dreamed of once more meeting tier childhood hero, Darrel Bruce. Now she was going back, but as Darrel's secretary -- did that necessari...



  • Jane Aiken Hodge

    "WHAT ARE YOU, YANKEE OR ENGLISHWOMAN? DAMN, THAT'S A RUM TOUCH TO HAVE AN ENEMY FOR A-DAUGHTER!' But Henrietta was no one's enemy. She came to London from Boston in search of her father-- a father thought lost to her until she discovered her aunt...



  • Jean S. MacLeod

    Ruth had to go to Antigua to search for her missing sister, and a lot was going to depend on a man called Logan Carse. Logan, she was told, "Could be a gentleman or a pirate". If he turned out to be a pirate, which seemed likely, how could...



  • Joseph Wambaugh

    “Each wears his cynicism like a bulletproof jockstrap -- each has his horror story, his bad dream, his nightshriek. He is afraid of his friends -- he is afraid of himself.” -- New York TimesPartners in the Los Angeles Police Department, they’re...



  • Dorothy Gilman

    When Sister John and Sister Hyacinthe set out to explore the huge old house left to The Abbey by a mysterious benefactor, they had no inkling of the bizarre adventures that awaited them. From the moment they set foot on the property, their world b...



  • Simon Brett

    Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women . . . and solving crimes! A binge-worthy cozy mystery series from the original king of British cozy crime, internationally best-selling, award-winning author Simon Brett, OBE. For fan...



  • Norah Lofts

    Sir Godfrey Tallboys was a knight-errant, famous for his success at tourneys, but far from wealthy. In an attempt to make his fortune he left his wife Sybilla and travelled to Spain to fight a minor crusade against the Moors. But treachery lurked in...



  • Evelyn Anthony

    A wife and mother becomes the target of terrorists in this mesmerizing thriller that sweeps from Iran to England to the South of France Eileen Field, the unhappy, neglected wife of the chairman of the world’s most powerful oil conglomerate, arr...



  • Margaret Malcolm

    Andy had married Richard Maddox as a matter of expediency, but it did not take her long to fall in love with him. When tragedy struck Richard, Andy hoped that at last he would turn to her; but something -- or someone -- else started to threaten th...



  • Sue Peters

    Because she felt partly responsible for the accident which had injured Ryan St. John, Jan offered her help in looking after his young nephew. It would not be long before the domineering Ryan was fit again and she could return to her job in London as ...



  • Roumelia Lane

    Sarah had thought she was making a short business trip to Portugal, but instead she found herself there indefinitely -- spying on the oil boss, Bryce Taylor. Could she regard the whole thing as just a job to be done -- or would personal feelings g...



  • Gerald Seymour

    Harry had served his country well. Now, he was going home. To Belfast--and the center of a violent and bloody conflict. His assignment this time, a deadly game of cat-and-mouse in a terrorist underground. A shadowy world where hunter and hunted meet ...



  • Ray Bradbury

    Ray Bradbury's moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author's most deeply personal work, a semi-autobiographical recollection of a magic...



  • Ray Bradbury

    Ray Bradbury is a painter who uses words rather than brushes--for he created lasting visual images that, once observed, are impossible to forget. Sinister mushrooms growing in a dank cellar. A family's first glimpse at Martians. A wonderful white van...



  • Gloria Bevan

    The autocratic Mark Hillyer refused to believe that Angela's job as shearers' cook on his New Zealand sheep station was just a holiday post and that she had no matrimonial designs on his young brother. If only she could ignore him! But Mar...



  • Clare Darcy

    A SCANDALOUSLY UNCONVENTIONAL MIND OF HER OWN Bewitching young Lady Pamela Frayne had but one fault--a fault grave enough to make her the talk of glittering London society. This exasperatingly headstrong beauty refused to heed the best advice or a...



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