The history of the nursing profession is detailed in this text, covering the major individuals and events that have shaped this profession. A historical background is provided to illustrate the expanded role and growing autonomy of professional nursi...
A WOMAN IN A MAN'S WORLD Her handsome, laughing cousin Adam gave young Delie Gordon her first taste of love -- its soaring happiness, its heartbreaking pain. Virile, self-confident riverboat captain Brenton Edwards showed Delie her weakness...
Ambush, a word that had great import to any troop of cavalry in the U.S. Army on patrol during the Apache Wars of the mid to late 1800's. This small post (Fort Gamble, New Mexico Territory) is sending out a small scout patrol, moving across "heat-sco...
Amelia is a sentimental novel written by Henry Fielding. Amelia follows the life of Amelia and Captain William Booth after they are married. It contains many allusions to classical literature and focuses on the theme of marriage and feminine intellig...
Destiny was his mistress...And legend was his inheritance. One man stands as a giant among the men of Sicily, despite a conspiracy of silence and secrecy-Alessandro Salvatore. This is his turbulent and passionate story...an extraordinary man who h...
With these tales, the author pays homage to the lives of King Arthur, the Round Table knights and their ladies, while introducing inspired new twists to the stories of old. Thomas Berger has previously written "Little Big Man", "Killing Time" and "Ch...
John Thorne lives a good life in Washington, DC, with a girlfriend he adores and a stable job at the White House. But when an old family friend, Major General Burckhardt, gives him an attaché case with a file inside labeled “the Asterisk Project,â...
Beautiful Sophie Davis was all too aware of the Stewart strain in her blood, the Stewart curse hanging over her head. But now she believed she had escaped all that amid the gorgeous splendor and dazzling society of Edwardian London - until she discov...
"When I have finished with you, sweet icy girl," Stefan said grimly, "Damoskinos will have the anguish of knowing that you have endured the ultimate at my hands!" Alice Sheldon was trapped on a lonely island in the Aegean, kidnapp...
Sheila Burnford, the author of The Incredible Journey, offers the spellbinding tale of a small dog caught up in the Second World War, and of the extraordinary life-transforming attachments he forms with the people he encounters in the course of a ...
Only The Daring - The American, a man made reckless by love of an East German woman, spearheads a perilous conspiracy beneath the Berlin Wall. - The Artist, a famous painter grown old and uninspired, faces death to give his art life again. - The Brot...
Carolyn Haywood's stories about her irrepressible character Betsy have never been out of print, and now, thanks to dynamic new covers, the Betsy books will find their way onto the bookshelves of modern young readers--and into the hearts of a whole ne...
The thoughtful, patient, and wise Father Dowling and Captain Keegan, his friend and associate, play their dangerous parts in a perilous game involving kidnapping for extortion, blackmailing for terror, and murder for revenge...
As the gladiator Vulpus the Fox, idol of the blood-hungry crowds, celebrates another victory in the arena, he remembers the beginning of his brutal career, when the Emperor Titus summoned him to be his personal champion. And he remembers how, one by ...
Sheldon's sweeping saga of greed and betrayal, sabotage and danger, and the ties that can kill... Roffe and Sons is a family firm, an international empire filled with desperate, cash-hungry family members. At its head was one of the wealthiest men...
Maude Sage: Dynamic, proud new owner of Outlaw Farm. She knew everything about horses-and was ready to prove it in the dazzling world of Kentucky's blue-blood society. Dancv Clutterbuck: A compulsive gambler, a risk. Maude believed in him and made th...
This magnificent fantasy of the last days of King Arthur, his faithful magician and his animal teachers, completes the tragedy and romance of THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING....
Philippa wondered if it were really possible for a heart to break. A few hours ago she would not have believed she could hear Lucas's words and yet wish them unsaid. Now there were too many things that made everything Lucas said impossible. To...
Spring Rennerton was a mining engineer, working at a diamond mine in South Africa - and very competent she was at her job, too; but of course she came up against a lot of opposition and prejudice on account of her sex, and the latest critic in a long...
He should have been impossible to love-- He was overbearing and insufferable! Yet, when Brittania met Professor Luitingh van Thien who came to her hospital as a visiting consultant surgeon, she promptly fell in love with him! So, when the pr...
A provocative coming-of-age chronicle of the Women’s Liberation Movement, as seen through the eyes of a young woman who flees midwestern suburban life to find her true self in 1950s New York City Eighteen-year-old Zane IndiAnna feels trapped by...
JEMMA EALING--the daughter of a rich Northern capitalist. Feeling the wanderlust of youth, she fell in love with David Sevendor, a handsome and wealthy Georgian. Suddenly Jemma was drawn into a world where she would become a pawn in other women's amb...
Oriel Mellstock--wealthy, beautiful and a widow--could have any man she wanted. But she couldn't forget Devil Haggard, whose apparent rejection had once sent her across the world into the arms of a millionaire. Coming back to the Yorkshire dal...
This is the searing saga of Elizabeth Darle, a poor but determined young beauty, whose dreams and desires are shattered when her childhood sweetheart deserts her for his dreams of power and wealth. Vowing to rise above the poverty and squalor of her...
DRAGON'S END still spun its magic power over hen though it had been years since Charlotte had been back to the estate she'd inherited upon her parents' death. Known as "The Ice Maiden" because she turned down every proposal, Charlotte shocked London ...
Orphaned siblings create a macabre secret world for themselves in this “irresistibly readable†novel by the New York Times-bestselling author (The New York Review of Books). This “powerful and disconcerting†novel by the Booker Prize-w...
A captivating novel inspired by the life of Belgian composer Cesar Franck and his relationship with his beautiful young student Augusta Holmes. Was his magnificently sensual Piano Quintet inspired by their relationship? 277 pages....
An ex-astronaut investigates a string of potential murders in this novel by the Kafka Prizeâ€"winning author of Solaris. Vacation is supposed to be relaxing. But while traveling in Naples, several American tourists die in a most macabre and unusual w...
The Raj seems to be teetering on the brink of disaster, with invasion threatened from the north and a rebellious southern princeling plotting insurrection in a distant province. The skills of Captain James Ogilvie and his regiment are urgently requir...
Kemper had the answer; Reuter had the problem. Kemper had figured it all out by the twenty-second century; he was a man of temporal science. The past did not exist. The past upon which the present was based had no credence unless it could be recons...
Earth, like the rest of the Known Worlds, has fallen to the Shing. Scattered here and there, small groups of humans live in a state of semi-barbarism. They have lost the skills, science and knowledge that had been Earth's in the golden age of the Lea...
Fourteenth century Italy was ruled by the law of the church...a law none dared question. No one but Corcordia.. -- Beautiful, daring, rebellious Concordia miraculously escapes from the lifeless prison of a convent and discovers a world of freedom a...
She had never met a more disturbing man Troy's visit to Corsica was inspired partly by desire to see a place she'd heard about since childhood, and partly to complete her grandfather's book about Corsican wildlife. It had been an im...
Paperback, Copyright 1978 Cherokees Carter Corporation, Laurel Book, First Laurel printing -April 1983. 314 pages. Formerly published Cry Geronimo!. "Compelling...can surely stand comparison with the best novels of Indian life that we have-with Fr...
From his earliest years Helver Trebourne, son of the Duke and Duchess of Saymore, had set tongues wagging in the sleepy town of Tisbury, and often with good reason. Only Edgitha Durden, his spirited next-door neighbor, enjoyed Helver's confidence and...
To dangerous to love.... Who dared to love Elena Lopez? Who was willing to risk reputation and wealth to win the Spanish dancer who was the scandal of Europe? Kings, princes, great composers and writers... the famous and wealthy men of the 19th cent...
ORNAMENT OF EVIL The black pearl necklace - young, beautiful, enigmatic India Stuart-Bryce gazed at it with mingled awe and foreboding. This fabulous treasure was her sole legacy from the aristocratic father whose death had shattered her sheltere...
The Daughters of the Southwind have become Daughters of the Wild Country The three beautiful McCleod sisters made it West to San Francisco and into the arms of men who love them--but not into "happily ever after" lives. Tamsen, off to Russian-A...
It is a calm, untroubled day in 1868. The beloved Queen Victoria is traveling by train to Ayrshire, to unveil yet another memorial to her late husband Albert. Yet certain unseemly activities on this otherwise placed day--the cutting of telegraph-wire...
As thrilling as any novel, as taut and exciting as any adventure story, Peter Hathaway Capstick''s Death in the Long Grass takes us deep into the heart of darkness to view Africa through the eyes of one of the most renowned professional hunters.
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They were the creatures of the night -- unspeakable horrors, fanged, clawed, flesh-rending beasts, waiting like a silent promise of destruction in the depths beneath the city. And grisly terror explodes for five unsuspecting people trapped in the ...
The ship of the title is an over-age U.S. destroyer in the far Pacific. Its crew ranges from the most upright and spotless of officers to the lowest and most brutish of stokers. By the time you finish the chronicle of deep, and its encounters with th...
What the desert claims, it keeps Was the saying true, Marie wondered. On the moonlit sands of a desert oasis, they were utterly alone. "Why have you brought me here?" Marie's voice was husky with alarm. Did this arrogant stranger wa...
Inge Dorenwald and Lieselotte Vessely have been best friends for most of their thirteen years. They share secrets, fears, hopes and even the same birthday. It never mattered that Inge was Jewish and that Lieselotte was the daughter of a Nazi SS offic...
"We both know who you really are." Jake's voice was harsh. "So stop the charade about amnesia, Lyn. I don't want to hear any more of your lies." The girl's eyes darkened with hurt and weariness. What did he mean? He ...
Tamsyn fought down the surge of emotion Grant Chapman was rich, powerful and dangerous. They said he took his pleasures where he pleased. Tamsyn felt almost as if she were destined to hate this man. But why did he affect her so deeply? Right fr...
From the killing fields of World War II to a Chinese POW camp during the Korean War, this mesmerizing novel is a tribute to the legacy of the Greatest Generation Separated from his fellow American soldiers, Benny Beer walks alone on a frozen plain in...
Lady Bligh is the epitome of high society with her sparkling charm, fiery hair, and entourage of gypsies, earls, and murderers. Of course she has Jael the Gypsy by her side who is famed for her tarot card readings, but even she can't predict what...
They marked time by the moon and counted nights, not days. They measured their history in "ages" of 30 years, passing on all knowledge and lore by recitation. A mysterious and passionate people, the Celts in first-century Britain fought and loved wit...
Her heart soared on wings of rapture... and terror! BLINDED BY LOVE To Aptra Coleman, exquisite actress, the invitation to perform at the magnificent Abbotswood estate seemed heavensent. And the man of the manor, David Hilyard, desired her, ...
One of the great modern works of the imagination, this book tells of the trader van. Rijn and the adventurer Falkayne; it rounds and completes the future history of the Polesotechnic League that spans four thousand years of Earth's interstellar empir...
An orphan, he was raised in Hitler's death-camps. An artist, he made it to New York's wild art scene. A gypsy. he planned the perfect revenge for the man who saved him once - and damned him forever. This is his blood-dark story of a vengeance and lov...
Bankrupt! Emily Upham's father is ruined, finished, all his money gone. One night, he disappears, vowing never to return until he can pay his debts. Banished! Distraught, Emily's mother sends her daughter from their home in Boston to a small count...
High time she found herself a husband! Raised in an orphanage, Sally's need for a home and family had always been uppermost in her mind. Now she felt she should delay no longer. She had three possible candidates for a husband -- childhood f...
Six years ago, barrister-detective Anthony Maitland found himself in a dangerous encounter with the leader of a diamond smuggling organization that operated out of Northdean. Now he is called back to Northdean on another case involving diamonds: this...
SOME WOMEN ARE BORN TO LOVE -- OTHERS HAVE TO BE TAUGHT! Paula Grayson controlled a publishing empire. At twenty-eight she was a beautiful, powerful woman, too powerful for most of the men she knew--until Gregory Scott entered her life. Paula h...
The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris's masterly telling of the British Empire from the accession of Queen Victoria to the death of Winston Churchill. It is a towering achievement: informative, accessible, entertaining and written with all her usu...
Dust jacket notes: 'All across the country - in department stores and boutiques, at fashion shows, in magazines, and in the daily papers - American fashion designers are influencing our lives. People like Bill Blass, Calvin Klein, Diane Von Furstenbe...
On December 23, 1944, twenty-five German prisoners of war broke out of an Arizona prison camp not far from the Mexican border by crawling along a 178-foot tunnel. By Christmas day, they were looking for ways to reach Mexico and Axis sympathizers who ...
Someone's about to rip off a sleepy little Louisiana town! Chuck's gang of truckers are geared for looting. When Tom masterminds a false hurricane alert...When sheriff Boshardt orders an evacuation of the town...When Chuck moves in to strip the town ...
FROM THE TURBULANT DRAMA OF THE CIVIL WAR TO A GLOWING LOVE IN A GILDED AGE... She was born on the wrong side of town in a community where birth meant everything. But she was born beautiful and determined. It wasn't long before the people of Lan...
An ideal agrarian community run by women and ruled by love and harmony. A city-state that mirrored history's most famous utopian vision. a society aglow with the wit and style that only Regency England had briefly achieved. All were real, all were fl...
Sally knew she'd never trust again! Painful memories of a shattered dream haunted her. It was still so hard to believe -- betrayal by her fiance and her best friend! Pride told her that she must get away somewhere, somehow, to recover. And ...
From out of the bonds of slavery there arose a warrior . . . a warrior feared across all lands, a warrior whose blade was stained with the blood of thousands - man and beast - who smiled as she killed, with hair as gold as summer sun, eyes as blue as...
Future Tense anticipates every question that a lover of cinematic science fiction could want to ask. Technical mastery and special effects, the differences between written science fiction and filmed science fiction, history and lore of the genre - ar...
For Jill and Bob Spender and their three children, the charming Tudor farmhouse had seemed a godsend, an incredible bargain, almost a gift from its owner - a kindly man who merely wanted someone to protect the family homestead, to make Gad's Hall com...
Unable to match firepower with the competition Sonny, a coiffed millionaire; Baby Doll, a 300-pound Jesus freak; and Studs, a ruthless lesbian Giveadamn devises a shrewd scheme. His secret weapon: the Golden Fleece, a fantastical machine that defies ...
"To call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby-Dick a novel about whales." So wrote the New York Times of Tim O'Brien's now classic novel of Vietnam. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, Going After Cacciato captures the p...
Vere focused on the man at the desk. Their glances locked in a kind of declaration of war. Gavin Ingham was just like the Emperor Nero -- thumbs up or thumbs down, according to his whim. Vere suddenly loathed this man with a reckless fury. "...
Richard Yates, who died in 1992, is today ranked by many readers, scholars, and critics alongside such titans of modern American fiction as Updike, Roth, Irving, Vonnegut, and Mailer.In this work, he offers a spare and autumnal novel about a New Engl...
The last and 3rd volume of the My Friend Flicka series; a racehorse mare is lost from a train and joins the Thunderhead band; Ken McLaughlin meets her attractive female owner and they work together to recover the mare and experience a growing fondnes...
The fifth book in this sixteen-book series, Halfhyde faces a dilemma of command and career, for he alone dares to take to England news of a plot to assassinate the Queen....
The heroes in this extraordinary epic are the Irish labourers and Chinese coolies; the villains, the avaricious bankers and the corrupt politicians. Before the undertaking was complete, more than 155 million acres of land had been given away to railw...
"Some things can never be forgotten." At Brett's words, Jinny remembered only too well the love she'd always felt for this devastating man. She was crushed to realize he was thinking of something else entirely -- his rejection by L...
He was a master spy who refused to die. Charlie Muffin -- ex-British operative from the old school -- has been very comfortably out in the cold. Now he must come in -- to face the final grueling test of a lifetime. It begins with a chilling encount...
The story of Wolf of Foix, who idealistically seeks a better world, this describes the knights and troubadors and courts of love in the lushness of Southern France culminating with the thirteenth century siege of Carcassone. Highly readable and worth...
Crime Makes Strange Partnerships And none stranger than that between Sherlock Holmes and Count Dracula. Holmes confronts a pair of impossible problems: a ring of criminal masterminds threatening to loose thousands of plague-infested rats into t...
HOUSE OF ETERNAL PASSION--PARIS, 1744 It was the nightmare home of occult rites of ravishment, where beauty was made to serve evil, and the jaws of horror closed over innocence. It was the decadent playground of an aristocratic society riddled ...