Books Published in May 2005

• May-2005
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Return to the shop on Blossom Street. Please join me at A Good Yarn! It's a wonderful little knitting shop in downtown Seattle -- a place of welcome and warmth, of fiends old and new. Come and discover how knitting a pair of socks can change you...

• May-2005
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"New York Times" bestselling author unlocks surprises at every turn in this captivating novel of a woman caught between two men--her deceitful fiance and her surprising next-door neighbor, who helps her free herself for a real and lasting love. Lucy...

• May-2005
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"DON'T KILL HER. SHE'S NO GOOD TO US DEAD." These words haunt Jane MacGuire. She thought she'd escaped a random kidnapping, but she's about to learn that the truth is far more terrifying.... Now Jane is running for her life. Her adoptive parents, ...

• May-2005
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HE WAS HEARTACHE WAITING TO HAPPEN Pretending to be Jared Westmoreland's fiancee wasn't high on Dana Rollins's list of priorities. But she owed him a favor, and Jared's persuasive charm and sinful masculinity -- not to mention his sizzling kisses ...

• Jun-2005
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Dear Avon, Thank you, thank you, for bringing back the men I love in your wonderful anthology Where's My Hero? But it's simply not enough! The pages of my favorite romance novels are still packed with breathtaking gentlemen who, though they played...

• May-2005
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He bought her for cash -- his payback is passion! Xander Pascalis can buy anything...including a wife! At millions of dollars, Helen is lavishly expensive. But Xander thinks he knows a good deal when he sees one.... However, when Helen refuse...

• May-2005
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A killer has come out of hiding in this haunting novel by New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards. Pawleys Island hides a dark history of a shocking cold case: the murder of a local girl and the strange disappearance of her two friends. Th...

• May-2005
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Only one woman can help arrogant Rico Crisanti's injured sister: his estranged wife, Anastasia. In public: Rico demands that Stasia be the perfect wife -- loyal, doting and faithful! In private: She will be a slave to his passionate demands...

• Jun-2005
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Can First Love Strike Twice? Jo D'Angelo's sisters thought they had the perfect prescription for mending her shattered heart: a relaxing stay at Rose Cottage, their grandmother's idyllic home. But for Jo, Rose Cottage was a painful reminder of her...

• May-2005
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Meet three people with a little something special whose love lives are about to turn wild, crazy, sensual, and oh-so-hot. Blame it on the moon? Sure. But who's complaining, anyway... It's all because of that stupid blue moon. That's what Stan Tuc...

• May-2005
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Marriage -- for possession...or passion? Luciano Peretti may still be the handsome and hot-blooded man she fell for six years ago, but now Skye wants nothing to do with him! She can't forget Luc's rejection of her then, or how she refuse...

• Jun-2005
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A group of teens find freedom under the cover of night only to have it threatened by sinister incidents in this first book in the Fear Street Nights series from master of horror R.L. Stine.When you can’t sleep, there’s always Nights.It starts wit...

• May-2005
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COWBOY SHERIFF IN COMMAND Despite his previously unblemished reputation, for years, cowboy sheriff Cash McCall had been the prime suspect in his fiancee's disappearance and presumed murder. So when a woman claiming to be her showed up in his office,...

• May-2005
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He walked away from the job three years ago. But Harry Bosch cannot resist the call to join the elite Open/Unsolved Unit. His mission: solve murders whose investigations were flawed, stalled, or abandoned to L.A.'s tides of crime. With some people op...

• May-2005
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America's Secret Strike Force...They Get The Job Done! Take No Prisoners Today, when bomb-throwing madmen rule nations and crime cartels strangle the globe, justice demands extreme measures. For twenty years, ex-CIA agent John Barrone fought his ...

• May-2005
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Summer Abrams nearly died trying to save her father from a warehouse fire that, in the end, took his life. Consumed by guilt, she never set foot back in the town where her world fell apart. But now, twelve years later, another fire has ripped through...

• May-2005
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Nothing sets tongues wagging like a scandalous dalliance. . . In the salons of the ton, no tidbit is more delicious than a rumor of amour--the more outrageous the better. Rakes and rogues, ladies of high station and low morals, are choice fodder f...

• May-2005
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All the Greek tycoon wants is...his child. After a whirlwind marriage to Greek billionaire Angolos Constantine, Georgie was pregnant -- and was sure Angolos would be delighted. Instead, he told her to "go away and never come back." So that...

• May-2005
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Meet three people with a little something special whose love lives are about to turn wild, crazy, sensual, and oh-so-hot. Blame it on the moon? Sure. But who's complaining, anyway... Ivy Kendall dreads the full moon. For generations, women in her...

• May-2005
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LIKE FATHER LIKE DAUGHTER That's what businessman Alex Trahern thinks about Isabel Harrison. If the prestigious headhunter thinks she can steal his top employee, just like her father stole his dad's ideas, she's dead wrong. Alex is always a man with...

• May-2005
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Sold to the Spaniard! Lia turned her back on her aristocratic family. But now she needs their help to save her little daughter. Their response? Sell her off to the highest bidder! Damian Marquez prizes Lia's blue blood -- he was stripped of...

• May-2005
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Marine Black-Ops helicopter pilot Kathy Trayhern wanted one thing from the Garcia Drug Cartel... REVENGE Garcia had kidnapped and tortured her family. Now she would do the same to his -- and wipe out his whole illegal jungle operation as well....

• May-2005
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The first body is of a young woman, found on a Minneapolis riverbank, her throat cut, her body scourged and put on display. Whoever did this, Lucas Davenport knows, is pushed by brain chemistry. There is something wrong with him. This isn't a bad lov...

• May-2005
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THE STRANGER WITH HER HUSBAND'S FACE... Caroline Winters, the first woman elected president, knew her term wouldn't be easy. Then, months into her office, her husband tragically died in a plane crash -- and she began receiving bone-chilling phone ca...

• May-2005
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A good friend and fellow game warden has killed himself, and Joe Pickett's been chosen to temporarily run his district. But Jackson, Wyoming, is a far cry from Joe's hometown of Saddlestring--and it doesn't help that now Joe feels compelled to invest...

• May-2005
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When nurse April Asbury arrives in Fertile, Missouri, she's looking forward to life in this picturesque town. But while Fertile might seem as pristine as April's starched white uniforms, it's anything but. Soon the spunky blonde is fighting her attra...

• Jun-2005
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Dear Avon, Thank you, thank you, for bringing back the men I love in your wonderful anthology Where's My Hero? But it's simply not enough! The pages of my favorite romance novels are still packed with breathtaking gentlemen who, though they played...

• May-2005
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Bill Wile is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life. But that is about to change. One evening, after his usual eight-hour bartending shift, he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car. If you don't take t...

• May-2005
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Small-town cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse had more than her share of experience with the supernatural--but now it's really hitting close to home. When Sookie sees her brother Jason's eyes start to change, she knows he's about to turn into a were...

• May-2005
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THE JOB WAS A KILLER. Living paycheck to paycheck in Paris, American book translator Chloe Underwood would give anything for some excitement and passion -- even a little danger. So when she's offered a lucrative weekend gig translating at a busine...

• May-2005
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HOME WAS THE MOST DANGEROUS TERRITORY OF ALL FOR THIS MARINE... Brian Reilly was a man on edge. It had been two long weeks since he and his brothers had made a "no sex for ninety days" bet before Tina Coretti Reilly turned up on his doorstep. And ...

• May-2005
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Pamela is a mystery Alexei is determined to solve ... Prince Alexei of Avalonia is a master at the art of seduction, but when a mysterious young woman he meets at a masked ball spends the night in his bed, he finds he is touched in ways he cannot ...

• Jun-2005
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THERE'S A PLACE IN OUR HEARTS RESERVED FOR MIRACLES.... On the first day of summer, Mara Jameson went out to water her garden�"and was never seen again. Years after her disappearance, no one could forget the expectant mother whose glowing smile h...

• May-2005
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Troy Turner and Rand Duchay were barely teenagers when they murdered a younger child. While Troy died violently behind bars, the hulking, slow-witted Rand managed to survive his stretch. Now, at age twenty-one, he's emerged a haunted, rootless ma...

• May-2005
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SHE WANTED HIM... Rumor had it that Lori Lee Billingworth's son was the result of a one-night stand. Little did attorney Tucker Bravo know that he was the man involved. For Lori Lee and her twin sister had traded places on prom night, and nobody -- ...

• May-2005
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THIS IS YOUR MISSION AND YOU MUST ACCEPT IT... PR specialist Cassie Cooper loves the adrenaline rush of a well-planned party. And the masquerade ball at the museum is her best yet. But one minute she's chatting with a mummy, and the next a legendary...

• May-2005
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During a crowded service at a cathedral in Germany, ed intruders in monks' robes unleash a nightmare of blood and destruction. But the killers have not come for gold; they seek a more valuable prize: the bones of the Magi who once paid homage to a ne...

• May-2005
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Nothing sets tongues wagging like a scandalous dalliance. . . In the salons of the ton, no tidbit is more delicious than a rumor of amour--the more outrageous the better. Rakes and rogues, ladies of high station and low morals, are choice fodder f...

• May-2005
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The Lost City of the Desert Kiron had achieved more than he had ever dreamed possible. On the back of his dragon, Avatre, he had crossed the vast desert and reached Alta, the kingdom of his birth. Once there, he had been accepted into the Jousters...

• May-2005
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With If You Dare, Cole introduces a thrilling new romance trilogy featuring fierce Scottish brothers with dangerous lives, dark desires, and a deadly curse. Can he exact revenge? High in the Pyrenees, a band of mercenaries led by Courtland MacCarri...

• May-2005
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Holly Bishop is the proverbial, small-town good girl. She always follows the rules, thinks of others first, and she never, ever makes mistakes. Until she marries the man she thought was her Prince Charming, who confesses on their honeymoon that he's ...

• May-2005
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Showered with diamonds: Many women have enjoyed the numerous benefits of being Sheikh Kalen Nuri's mistress. Draped in exquisite lingerie: Not one of them has managed to keep him interested for very long. Whisked around the world: Kalen ha...

• May-2005
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CLAUDIA BISHOP AND DEAN JAMES invite you to dine in. There's murder on the menu... Main Course: Sixteen short stories Side Dishes: Sixteen all -- new recipes and author interviews Sink your teeth into these delicacies from today's masters of ...

• May-2005
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In Mary Kay Andrews's bestselling third novel, a no-good lowdown, lying, cheating varmint of an ex-fiance gets the comeuppance he so richly deserves. This is a dishy and outrageous story that Mary Kay's readers will love. The night before her we...

• May-2005
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Who is Geronimo Stilton? That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing tales of adventure. Here in New Mouse City, the capital of Mouse Island, my books are all bestsellers! My stories are full of fun -- tastier than Swiss cheese and t...

• May-2005
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When carefree rake Ewan McLean inherits an earldom, his plans for his new fortune are entirely in keeping with his lifestyle: to expand his collection of erotic art and expensive mistresses. That is, until he becomes acquainted with his most intrigui...

• Jun-2005
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In this thrilling new novel from the author of Industrial Magic, a rebellious--and formally deceased--witch must cross into the darkest dimensions to stop a killer from destroying everything she loves...for all time. Former supernatural superpower...

• May-2005
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"You are nothing but a gypsy!" So the haughty Lord Lonsdale accused Dante at the reading of his grandfather's will. To the astonishment of the ton, the late marquis had disinherited the petulant lord, leaving his vast estate to the dar...

• May-2005
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HE KNEW HER EVERY FANTASY... Charlotte Ashton had never belonged anywhere -- until she met worldly Alexandre Dupree. The winemaker was consulting at her family's vineyard, and soon shy Charlotte was completely under his spell. He seemed to know al...

• Jun-2005
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Dear Avon, Thank you, thank you, for bringing back the men I love in your wonderful anthology Where's My Hero? But it's simply not enough! The pages of my favorite romance novels are still packed with breathtaking gentlemen who, though the...