Books Published in May 2009

• May-2009
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The end of one thing is the beginning of another... KNITTING AND LIFE They're both about beginnings -- and endings. That's why Lydia Goetz, owner of A Good Yarn on Seattle's Blossom Street, offers a class called Knit to Quit. It's for people who ...

• May-2009
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It began with what seemed like an ordinary children's birthday party. Friends and family gathered to celebrate. There were balloons and cake, games and gifts. This party, however, was far from ordinary. It was held at Camp David, the presidential...

• May-2009
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Claimed: one heir, one bride Jacob "Sin" Sinclair's one night with prim Luccy ended with an unexpected twist: she left him in the early hours of the morning, without a word! Luccy was overawed by the sinful billionaire's luxury ...

• May-2009
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Heiress Engaged To Marry Playboy! Lexi Titan can just see the headlines. All of Titanville will be buzzing. Not that she has any other choice. Faced with exactly thirty days to come up with two million dollars, she is out of options. Marry Cruz Rodr...

• Jun-2009
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Who wants to marry my daughter? Skye Titan's wealthy father thinks he can still dictate his daughter's choice in men. Now widowed and a single mother, Skye isn't the yes-girl she once was. Especially since the love of her life is back in Texas aft...

• May-2009
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In her suspenseful new novel, New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick delves into the underworld of passion, geed and powers that lie beyond this realm. Victorian botanist Lucinda Bromley has a rare talent: the ability to detect almost any ty...

• May-2009
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He is to be wealthy, wellborn, and want her more than he wants any other woman. Those are the conditions that must be met by the man Cassandra Belmont will choose as her lover. Marriage is out of the question for the scandalous widow who must now bar...

• May-2009
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HOPE LIES IN THE PAST Like many college students struggling to get by, Lily Madison and Peter Kelly help pay for tuition by making donations to a local fertility clinic. One day they meet each other at the clinic and find they have more in common th...

• May-2009
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Bred by capricious parents for his innate leopard-shifting abilities, billionaire Jake Bannaconni has spent his life in an emotional vacuum -- especially after a tragic twist ,of fate left hi to raise his infant son alone. But when his path crosses t...

• May-2009
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WHAT BEGAN AS AN INNOCENT MISSION Emily Hudson is a renowned archaeologist who travels the world to save priceless artifacts from theft or destruction. Her best friend and partner, Joel Levy, is always at her side -- until one day, when her entire cr...

• May-2009
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Storm watch: love hath no fury! Sherri Griffin knows all about hot, stormy weather. The kind where all a girl wants to do is strip down to her La Perla lingerie. A successful radio producer, Sherri's had to weather all kinds of storms. But nothing c...

• May-2009
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Dumped by his glamorous Russian girlfriend during dinner at Elaine's, and running low on cash, Stone Barrington is having a bad week. So his luck seems to be improving when he's hired to locate the missing son of a very wealthy man--lucky because the...

• May-2009
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"I don't suppose you saved me a dance?" Tycoon Theron Anetakis had only one problem--and she just walked through his door. With his business takeover complete, he'd intended to arrange a marriage for himself to further secure his future. However.....

• May-2009
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At the Italian's command -- and under his control... Lindsay has turned down ruthless Sicilian Alessio Capelli once before, but he's determined she won't do it again--he will use her and discard her! Circumstance has provided him with ...

• May-2009
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When her last two plays are dismal failures and her relationship with her temperamental mentor falls apart, writer Bree O'Brien abandons Chicago and the regional theater where she hoped to make a name for herself to return home. Opening Flowers on Ma...

• Jun-2009
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Struggling in his role as a newly single father, former army medic Kevin O'Brien moves home to Chesapeake Shores. He wants a haven for himself and his toddler son, surrounded by the family he knows he can count on, and a future that's nothing like hi...

• May-2009
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THE LOVING HAND OF GOD IS AT WORK IN EVEN THE MOST UNSETTLING CIRCUMSTANCES.... In the seemingly ordinary Amish home of Grace Byler, secrets abound. Why does her mother weep and wander deep in the night? And why does her father refuse to admit som...

• May-2009
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WITH ONE CORBETT DOWN, FOUR HANDSOME BROTHERS REMAIN TO FULFILL THE MARRIAGE PACT Brave, courageous and single, Jud Corbett loves the life he leads outside his hometown of Whitehorse--so it'll be up to his brothers to meet the nice Montana cowgirls ...

• May-2009
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SIC WAYS FROM SUNDAY -- AND SEVEN WAYS TO DIE Cotton Pickens' parents had a cussed sense of humour, but there's nothing funny about the way the man can draw a gun. Now he's in the middle of a mining camp district slowly being crushed under the iron ...

• May-2009
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New York City. Two in the morning. A subway car heading uptown. Jack Reacher, plus five other passengers. Four are okay. The fifth isn't. And if you think Reacher isn't going to get involved ... then you don't know Jack. Susan Mark, the fifth pass...

• May-2009
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Francesca Forsyth is happy with mud on her boots, working the land. But when she inherits half of her grandfather's empire, Francesca must come out of her shell and become a high-flying businesswoman, professional and smart! Handsome Bryn Maca...

• Jun-2009
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No man can resist Jemma's sensuous allure . . . Except her own husband! Wedding bells celebrating the arranged marriage between the lovely Duchess of Beaumont and her staid, imperturbable duke had scarcely fallen silent when a shocking discovery s...

• May-2009
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Pendergast-the world's most enigmatic FBI Special Agent-returns to New York City to investigate a murderous cult. William Smithback, a New York Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attack...

• May-2009
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Under the Sicilian sun, Valentino's mistress tempts him like no other! Their relationship is scorching, its intensity unmatched, the desire indescribable. Only, love can never be mentioned.... But Faith, his stunning, intriguing American lo...

• May-2009
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FORTUNE'S RETURN Only a family crisis could bring Ross Fortune back home to Texas. But clearing his sister of a murder charge was the roving P.I.'s most important mission. Falling for the woman counseling his nephew was a complication he definitel...

• May-2009
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Former navy SEAL Micah Stone could spot danger a mile away. And the alluring bride who'd stowed away on the plane he'd been sent to repossess set off every red flag in the book. Caylee Warren claimed she had nothing to do with her "fiance's" murder. ...

• Jun-2009
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New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries delights and entertains with this novel of Regency manners and roguish passions -- fifth in her dazzling School for Heiresses series. The future of Charlotte Harris's finishing school is in jeopar...

• May-2009
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Danger stalks Lucas Davenport at work and all too close to home, in the superlative new thriller by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. For twenty years, John Sandford's novels have been beloved for their “ingenious plots, vivid characters...

• May-2009
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Young Spenser is tough. No doubt about it. After all, he's being raised by his father and uncles -- three of the toughest men in town. He knows how to fight, and he's had to prove it. But his father taught him something far more valuable: Sometimes t...

• May-2009
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Guns for hire Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch have one thing to do: locate Allie French, the woman who stole Virgil's heart and then just disappeared. But the dispirited prostitute they finally track down is no longer the innocent beauty Virgil fell in...

• May-2009
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Wedded for revenge, bedded for pleasure! Gabriella St. Clair is desperate: she and her family face financial ruin. One man can help her. But he's the very man who wants to see her beg.... Merciless tycoon Vinn Venadicci had a heart once. But after ...

• May-2009
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Catherine O'Shea is the oldest and most responsible of the three O'Shea sisters. She has just buried her mother, one of the last victims of the flu epidemic of 1918. Her father had been one of the first to succumb to the flu and her fiance was killed...

• May-2009
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Now, as the vampire warriors defend their race against their slayers, one male's loyalty to the Brotherhood will be tested-and his dangerous mixed blood revealed... Caldwell, New York, has long been the battleground for the vampires and their enem...

• May-2009
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DEADLY QUEST When a top lieutenant in a notorious ring of human traffickers agrees to turn state's evidence, Immigration and Customs Enforcement senior agent Sonia Knight believes she'll finally take down the illegal operation's devilish mastermi...

• May-2009
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Except for Sookie Stackhouse, folks in Bon Temps, Louisiana, knew little about vamps -- and nothing about Weres. Until now. The Weres and shifters have finally revealed their existence to the ordinary world, and the backlash may have claimed the life...

• Jun-2009
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Count Francesco da Luca doesn't like being made a fool of. When his bride fled the marriage bed, he vowed she'd pay the debt she owed him -- their wedding night! But Alicia Cross is no longer the trembling, naive innocent he married -- and...

• May-2009
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A PREDATOR LURKS IN THE RAIN-SOAKED STREETS OF SILVER FALLS Rachel is finally getting it right. After years of wandering, she's married the perfect man and settled into the ideal life. But as her sleepy little town turns into a killing ground, she re...

• May-2009
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CAN A WOUNDED BEAST . . . Reclusive Sir Alistair Munroe has hidden in his castle ever since returning from the Colonies, scarred inside and out. But when a mysterious beauty arrives at his door, the passions he's kept suppressed for years begin to a...

• May-2009
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It was whispered all through London Society that he was a murderer, that he'd spent his youth in an asylum and was not to be trusted -- especially with a lady. Any woman caught in his presence was immediately ruined. Yet Beth found herself inexor...

• Jun-2009
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Long ago, a witch proclaimed an eternal curse that every Corwin male who married for love would be destined to lose his woman and his fortune... When Mike Corwin awakens after some wild partying in Vegas $100,000 richer and married to Amber, the gor...

• May-2009
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She dreamed of A LOVE TO LAST FOREVER... Beth Gallatin has always wanted to settle down in one town, with one man, and raise a family. But with her father's roaming ways, she found solace in reading romances instead. The passing of her father, howev...

• May-2009
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Lilith awakens cold, naked and alone, knowing nothing--not even who she is--except that she has to run, run for her life...because someone is after her. When Ethan discovers the terrified woman hiding on his ranch, he knows immediately not only wh...

• May-2009
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All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of a victory are grim. Kronos’s army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan’s power only grows. While the ...

• May-2009
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Forced to wed... Hard-hearted magnate Dario Parisi will reclaim his stolen birthright -- even if it means forcing the granddaughter of his family's sworn enemy to marry him. ..and share his bed! Alissa Scott is certainly not the biddable wife Dario ...

• May-2009
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On paper, Vivienne Neal had a lifestyle most people would envy. Only she knows what a sham her marriage really was. So when her politician husband is killed in a hit-and-run accident, she moves to Florida and takes a job as a personal assistant to Di...

• May-2009
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What if all you have are the memories of a rake... ...and the scandalous red dress that nearly brought you to ruin? Reminders of the kisses he stole? Or his seductive, rakish smile as he charmed his way into your bed, stole your innocence and your...

• May-2009
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The Best Blind-Date Surprise Getting stood up on a blind date was the best thing that could happen to police officer Max Decker. No small talk. No personal questions. No lies. And no pretending he's ready to give his heart to anyone. Anyone like vul...

• Jun-2009
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Joseph Brooks suspects his mother of bringing a pretty young lady to town--as a mail-order bride. But Clara Woodrow is not that lady! Enchanted by her and determined to have no other, Joseph must use the magical last few days of spring to make Clara ...

• May-2009
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OLD FLAMES BURN THE HOTTEST Major Vince Deluca may have just accepted his most difficult recon mission ever -- keeping an eye on Shay Bassett. As a pilot in the air force's top secret test unit, Vince keeps a cool head at the controls. But ever si...