In 1984 Prince Charles launched Operation Raleigh, which offered young people the opportunity to travel and work all over the world and undergo extremes of climate and harsh terrain. Since then 4000 venturers have taken up the challenge, and this boo...
She was a winner--against her will! After a marriage that wasn't particularly happy, Damaris Gordon had decided she could do without further romantic involvements. Raising her young daughter and living a quiet, well-ordered life was contentmen...
IT TAKES MORE THAN DEATH TO KILL AN EVIL MAN Her father is a hero, a legend, the man who changed the history of the galaxy. The Man Who Never Missed--a man she never met. The Confederation defeated, Emile Khadaji disappeared, and now she must find...
Artemis, a world named for a huntress goddess, colonised by a group of political idealists who over the centuries saw their dreams of equality shatter into a brutal matriarchy. After the events of The Monstrous Regiment, Corinna Trotgarden, her famil...
In an interactive fiction format, the reader is a member of an elite group of interstellar astronauts in the year 2100, aiding the Baakrans in their civil war and preparing for the invasion of the Cephids...
Teenage Meredith Robbins had experienced despair at the tragic loss of a special friend, then borne the anguish of having to give up their child. Now, years later, she painstakingly avoided emotional entanglements--until Garrett Quinn's warmth and si...
Is there any hope of rescue? The girls have been shipwrecked for nearly four months. They have made a temporary home on the island and have even begun to build a boat, to try to save themselves. So far, the girls have managed to avoid all the i...
When Anne Woodhouse's violent ex-husband, Cal McCann, escapes from a mental asylum, boards Flight 408, and takes control of the plane, Anne, the plane's co-pilot, must try to stop him. Reprint. NYT. AB. ...
Lawyer Seymour Lipp tries to help a teenage girl who was persuaded by her father to give her baby up for adoption -- and now wants to change her decision. Her father, Paul Morrissey, had arranged the adoption through a shady lawyer to a Vietnam vet a...
SHE WAS A RELUCTANT BRIDE Eleanor Chivenbam didn't put much past her vile brother, but even she bad not anticipated his greedy scheme to dupe a rich earl into mistaking her for a lightskirt! Her reputation in shreds, her future ruined, a defeat...
Her Battle with Fate Years spent cloistered in Normandy had done little to temper the spirited Amalie de Saint-Hillaire. While traveling to her father's chateau, she'd flirted shamelessly with handsome Jean-Marc Beaunoir, never dreaming the rogue ...
AND BABY MAKES THREE From the moment sexy journalist Connor McKay burst into her office, perky Courtney Carey knew she was headed for trouble. But the socially aware television programmer never dreamed she'd soon be masquerading as a wedded woman ...
He's back. Jenny’s last baby-sitting job nearly killed her--for real. But she's a survivor. She's getting over it. The crazy guy who was after her is gone. She's even got a new baby-sitting job. Then the phone rings. When she answers, she ...
Goscilo (Slavic studies, U. of Pittsburgh) has collected 19 stories by Russian women, written over the last 20 years. The work is a composite self-portrait of modern Russian womanhood. Dominant themes are the prevalence of the double-shift syndrome--...
Journalist Casey McConnell set out for Sicily to interview an outlaw turned folk hero. But upon her arrival, it was the old bandit's son who stole her heart. Darkly exotic Rico Butera was all male, and his touch proved sweeter than the Mediterranean ...
Romance -- or ruse? Joanna Bellamy was tickled pink to be chaperoning a bevy of nervous, excited mail-order brides to the small European country of Andorra. The appearance on shipboard of a sinister stranger was the society matron's first ink...
Hunting for a Hero Miss Carolyn Hardy adored novels of the most romantic sort--and longed for a man to equal their dashing heroes. With her beauty and charm, Carolyn had a swarm of suitors to search among. There was the wealthy Brandon Manningford...
Rayford Goodman hadn't died--like all once great, macho Hollywood detectives, he just faded away. His greatest moment of glory had been when, as a private eye to the stars, he made headlines by singlehandedly breaking the American Beauty Rose case, a...
FOR A WEALTHY CITY GIRL, IT WAS A COUNTRY WILD ENOUGH TO BREAK HER HEART--BUT BIG ENOUGH TO HOLD HER DREAMS. BITTERSWEET COUNTRY is an unforgettable story of love and survival. Gracelyn Heath, desperate to escape the stifling influence of her fam...
Black Rose Calling card of the infamous Romney Fox. Smuggler, scoundrel, probable traitor, and spy, he plundered the rich and gave to the poor. Men toasted him, women whispered his name like a prayer. Deserted and deceived, exquisite Tess Leighton, ...
Her name was Submit, but she vowed she never would. She was young and proper, and happily married to an elderly marquess. But only when she was suddenly widowed did Submit Channing-Downes encounter a true and burning desire -- in the dangerous em...
ARMS RACE TO THE FINISH LINE Normally Remo didn't care how his evil enemies were armed. The Destroyer could take on everything from brass knuckles to H-bombs. But now he faced a foe equipped with arms that even he couldn't overcome. For the man...
Eric Baldwin is the Federation's premier exologist, a specialist in all manner of alien life forms -- and one of Captain Picard's oldest, most trusted friends. But Baldwin's discoveries have made him enemies across the galaxy, and now he wants Picard...
On a rainy Southern night, Jade Sperry endured a young woman's worst nightmare at the hands of three local hell-raisers. Robbed of her youthful ideals and at the center of scandal and tragedy, Jade ran as far and fast as she could. But she never forg...
HER LIFE IS IN DANGER -- AND HER HEART AS WELL! It all seemed straight from a gothic novel: an unexpected inheritance, a haunted mansion, and now a strange series of accidents. As the new mistress of Bride's Leap, had Maggie Chambers now come in...
A blend of fantasy and history describes how a young maid in twelfth-century China is fascinated by the betrayal, cunning, and affairs of the wealthy family she serves, while the Yellow Emperor watches her through his magical bronze mirror. Reprint....
A DESPERATE MAN Cade Boudreau was desperate to regain custody of his son. So he kidnapped Emma 0'Riley, whose cold, unyielding prosecution had unjustly sent Cade to a lonely hell. He'd hated Emma for three long years. She'd taken everything from h...
NOTHING WOULD BE FINER... Richard Kemp came to Charleston, South Carolina with one thing in mind. He needed to discover the real magic of the city so that he could sell a new ad campaign to the local chamber of commerce. For Richard, the stakes we...
A GAME OF CAT...AND CAT? Movie star Jason Carter is on vacation in Peru. All he wants is a break, but what he finds is a lost civilization of extra-dimensional Incas bent on conquest of the entire world! Nor is Carter alone. His allies include ...
In Moscow, a Politburo member is brutally assassinated. Moments later, his killer self-detonates, leaving no more than a puddle on the frozen ground. But the worst is yet to come. What at first seems the act of a lone fanatic is only the opening salv...
Magic in the air... NOW YOU SEE HER, NOW YOU DON'T. Sole witness to a kidnapping, magician Elsabeth Grace was in deadly danger from the moment she stumbled into the case Detective Brigham Caldwell had been working on for years. Suddenly, i...
I'll get you, Celia. You kill me and I'll come back as your worst nightmare. I'll get you and I'll get your kids, too. I'll get you, Celia, I'll get you... -- No one heard the gunshots. Just as no one ever heard Celia's screams or those of her c...
TWO TELEKINETICS: ONE FIGHTS TO SAVE HUMANITY. THE OTHER WANTS TO DESTROY IT... Chuck Simon was looking forward to spending the holidays on the West Coast Until his psionic powers sensed someone more powerful than anyone he'd ever encountered be...
Libby Honeycutt was determined to keep the Lazy H ranch going -- even though the place was run down and mortgaged to the hilt and her ranchmen were quitting left and right. When things looked their bleakest, an arrogant drifter rode onto her land in ...
Hollywood, 1939...Anita Brooks and Price Garfield were all the rage, perfect partners on and off the dance floor -- until Price married an ambitious starlet and Anita fled to Broadway. Los Angeles, 1991... Anita's daughter, Gabrielle Brooks Lacroix, ...
A GROUP OF CHRISTIE BUFFS... In honor of Agatha Christie's one hundredth birthday, mystery book-store owner Annie Laurance Darling plans a week-long celebration of mystery, treasure hunts, title clues, and Christie trivia. Yet even as the champagne ...
Chromos is one of the true masterpieces of post-World War II fiction. Written in the 1940s but left unpublished until 1990, it anticipated the fictional inventiveness of the writers who were to come along - Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Sorrentino, and Gad...
She left her heart not her glass slipper Briony Spenser knew how Cinderella must have felt. When she returned to her fiance, Matthew--after meeting and falling in love with the enigmatic Paul Deverill--it was as if the clock had struck twelve and ...
OMEGA SUB One awesome American submarine remains afloat after the fires of the Apocalypse have destroyed civilization: the U.S.S. Liberator, sailing the oceans of a nuclear-ravaged world on the most dangerous mission of all…survival! On a gri...
"Whitewater -- I hate you!" And she hated this "fool ritual" that had sent her halfway around the world. But Piper Gordon had promised her grandmother that she'd return the centuries-old funeral necklace to Hawaii, as the ...
Tired of the violence of big-city crime, former narcotics agent Frank Carver trades the streets of Seattle for the penny-ante stuff of Oregon's Neskanie National Forest. Work is wonderfully, refreshingly dull for the forest's new law enforcement offi...
Canyon O'Grady returns to prevent a deranged U.S. Cavalry colonel from committing more atrocities south of the Rio Grande, but matters become complicated, and explosive, when a female spitfire and murderous banditos hunt O'Grady...
Imagine a world of gods and demons, where men are warriors, women are beautiful, life is a fantastic adventure, and the fate of kingdoms balances on the bloody blade of a fabulous hero: Conan of the iron thews, the blue-eyed barbarian giant who tower...
Determined to find the person who gunned down his friend, a CIA agent, on a street in Greece, FBI agent Bill Erlich discovers clues that lead him to a run-down English manor and the fugitive son of a World War II hero. Reprint....
She was caught in a web of dark secrets ""Beware. You are not safe here. You must leave now!"" Suddenly orphaned and alone, artist Margaret Morgan was relieved to find lodgings in the carriage house of Fountain Court, an opulent, rose-colored man...
A very pregnant anthropologist finds the diary of Columbus in the basement of the Dartmouth library and travels to the Bahamas with her lover and son to find what the diary refers to as "the greatest treasure of Europe." Reprint....
Jessica Wakefield can't understand why her twin sister, Elizabeth, is so friendly with Lois Waller. Lois is afraid of everybody and cries all the time, but Elizabeth thinks she's nice and wants to be her friend. She teaches Lois how to ride a bicycle...
Jane Simpson should have known better To offer help to a stranger -- especially one as unkempt and downright hostile as the mysterious Englishman she'd met while crossing the Aegean Sea -- had been particularly foolish. Sure enough, her goo...
The man was trespassing on her emotions! Women as independent and career-minded as Miranda didn't just bump into a total stranger and fall in love. Ridiculous. Impossible. Totally unthinkable. There must have been some other more logical expla...
No Going Back Nestled in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Coulter land had been in the family for generations. Jessica Cooper; pledged to marry a man she loathed; was bound by the code of the mountains to obey her father and keep the lan...
Shareen is raised by a kindly French couple while her mother, a female adventuress, leads an exotic life-style. Her mother dies as World War I approaches and Shareen is sent to relatives in England to whom scandal is not unknown....
TO SEEK THE STARS IS MANKIND'S DESTINY -- BUT ONLY ONE MAN KNOWS WHEN TO RETURN! For two thousand years, the starship Astron has searched the galaxy for alien lifeforms--without success. Now, just as the ship is falling apart, the only direction l...
Stranded on an exotic island It might sound romantic to some, but not to Fliss Naughton. Not when her only companion was the mysterious Brand Carradine. Brand was her captor and her legal guardian--not that she needed a guardian. And his opinio...
Hedda, a writer of angry feminist novels, has fled New York City to write in solitude in an old house on the coast of Maine. Her only interruptions come in unwelcome phone calls from her self-absorbed and many-times divorced sister Stella, describing...
She is a woman with no memory-with no past beyond the day they found her wandering, dazed and hysterical, when she was nineteen. Her only clue is an engraved disk on her charm bracelet: her name, "Manda". But something draws her to the fogbound coast...
A chilling novel of one man's struggle to overcome evil with good.
On Monday, October 19, nine-year-old Jennifer calls Wes Bryant's radio talk show, "Talk About Town," and changes his life forever. She can't tell him where she is; she can't tell h...
HOME SWEET HELL The seedy side of Pimlico Square has become a deathtrap for its elderly residents. An unsettling number of accidents--a fatal mugging, several deadly tumbles--has sent tenants fleeing in terror for safer parts of London. Not Sop...
Toby Frame, a professor at Harvard who just barely survived an ordeal on an Appalachian trail, despite the efforts of a mad mountain man to see him suffer, cannot escape his desire to seek vengeance on his tormentor...
IT'S CHRISTMAS, AND CONSTABLE HAMISH MACBETH IS ONE BIG BUNDLE OF MISERY. With a cold in his head and no place to go for the holidays, Hamish snaps up the invitation of gorgeous Jane Wetherby to spend Christmas at her Scottish island health farm -- ...
It begins with a nude body in a river, then a phone message: "Bobby, I need you" These two events change the direction of Barbara Holloway's life. Barbara had given up the law five years before, but she's still "death qualified;" still able to def...
Micah Dunn, New Orleans private eye, investigates a 40-year-old mystery when a one-legged skeleton with a bullet hole in the forehead is unearthed on an archaeological dig in Mississippi. Its identification leads Micah to determine the circumstances ...
Their masquerade was harmless until they fell in love NEITHER could disguise the love in their hearts Miss Violet Langford dearly loved her cousin who was plotting an elopement. Violet had only to agree to appear at Branleigh House disguised a...
DOOMED DESPERADO When circus trick rider Lark McKay found herself witnessing an Oklahoma hanging, she was startled to see a dark-eyed, squaw-jawed hunk of an outlaw brazenly wink at her from the gallows. But the real shock came when a frenzied shoot...
Cressida Cross was anything but disciplined Except when it came to her work as a wildlife photographer. Behind a camera she was utterly dedicated, meeting all her deadlines regardless of the job's difficulties. So it wasn't surprising that desp...
Lions and tigers and love… This summer, Darlene Sullivan has decided that she’s not going to worry about boys and dating. Instead, she’ll concentrate on her job in the animal nursery at the Glendale Zoo. There’s absolutely no room in her p...
Welcome to the North American continent after a series of catastrophes, including famine, plague and floods, have destroyed almost all of humanity. *** Descendants of the survivors (those who stayed) have created a tribal society in the depopulate...
In 1821, only the strong survived the frontier.... Though Nellie Cranford was young, hardly more than a girl herself, she was determined to forge her destiny with a new husband and his motherless children. The sacrifices would be many, whether it ...
On steamy Pryan. Realm of Fire, never-ending sunlight and plentiful rain have created a jungle so vast that humans and elves dwell high in the trees and only dwarves live anywhere near the ground. From the treetops the aristocratic elves sell weapons...
It had been the summer she'd turned sixteen that Duke Hutchison had roared into Caroline Adams's life on his motorcycle and stolen her heart forever. With his leather jacket and tight jeans, Duke had a reputation, but gentleness and passion were all ...
Full of intrigue and suspense, Every Picture Tells a Story is a compelling mystery of art theft and forgery set against the backdrop of Venice. Six months after being released from prison for forgery, London artist Martin Phipps is starting over. Whi...
"We had an agreement," Jake reminded Nash "We agreed that I wouldn't make a nuisance of myself, not that you would treat me like a leper." Jake McVey told everyone she was visiting Australia to study the country's farmin...
Once upon a time, a girl named Jenny Ames was murdered in a lonely house. No one knew where she had come from, or why she had died, or who killed her. Years later a man moved into the same house and discovered that nothing is more seductive than an u...
Cast out by his fellow lemmings because he is so different, David embarks on a journey to find out why he was born and how he can be accepted, meeting several creatures along the way who challenge or aid him...
In Lisa Passen's picture book Fat, Fat Rose Marie, a little girl must stand up to the class bully who keeps picking on her overweight friend....
Chase Defoe, a former naval intelligence officer, helps his childhood sweetheart investigate the mysterious death of her father, a retired general, who apparently killed himself after burning all the notes pertaining to his memoirs...
Amid the flames of royal revolt their hearts burned with a fierce, wild love... Raven-haired, emerald-eyed, no noblewoman in all Britain was more beautiful -- or more defiant -- than Elizabeth of Riveaux. She refused to accept any man after a disastr...
The Brooding, Enigmatic Stranger... He'd watched her run on the beach at sunrise, and she'd haunted his nights ever since. But not until he heard the entrancing music of her guitar on a moonlit beach did he realize how deeply she'd made him desire...
Their heritage brought them home . . . A LEGACY OF ADVENTURE, INTRIGUE--AND PASSIONTHE PRINCESS . . . AND THE HUNKTESS GALLATIN . . . A savvy and successful diamond broker, the part-Cherokee society girl was also a woman with a mysterious past, full ...
THE CANCER MAN The passionate, possessive Cancer man is slow to love and quick to hide his vulnerable side. It takes a special woman to brave his claws and get under his shell... . ONE CANCER MAN IN PARTICULAR Sexy Adam Gaines hadn't planned on ...
Didn't she hate great big, rough men, anyway? What Andrea Forsythe lacked in stature she made up for in determination and fortitude. But when she set off to Africa to find her missing brother, even she had trouble defending herself from the pe...
Had she mistaken kindness for something more? Hazel had to face the truth about Silas Jardine. He was only being friendly because she was Katie's mother. And Katie -- not Hazel -- was the once he cared about. But that didn't make it an...
Kimberly can't believe that her infuriating lab partner, Derek, is putting the moves on her. But the more she fights with him, the more she finds him irresistible. Soon it's not just their science experiments that are heating up. Winnie and Josh are...
When Winnie's absentee father shows up on campus Winnie is won over by his charm, but Josh suspects he's nothing but a con man. Is Winnie headed for a family reunion -- or a major heartbreak? Will Lauren and Dash's love survive another fierce battle...
Samantha preferred being enemies Samantha adored her brother, David, and wanted nothing to spoil his marriage to Lynda. So when his best friend, Doug, asked Sam what advice she'd give a bachelor who was head over heels in love with his best...
Skye Fargo figured he knew why Irish miners offered a pile of pay dirt to ride gun for their wagon train through the Rockies. A lot of men would do a lot of killing for its cargo: smooth whiskey and wanton women. But what Skye didn't know until too l...
SHE'S NEVER AGREE TO MARRIAGE! Ashley Sherwood, the tall, rugged owner of a California saloon, figured he could handle just about anything... until the terms of his grandfather's will forced him to travel to England to find a bride and he met the de...
Great tales of jewish occult and fantasy is an extraordinary collection of thirty one stories and novellas drawn from the greatest works of jewish literature. From horror to gentle fantasy, and from simple morals to subtle religious emotion, each mak...
Does love only happen in the movies? "Do your best for me, or I'll see you never work on a major picture again," he said threateningly. Jo felt trapped. Somehow he'd sensed her reluctance. She hadn't wanted to stunt for a te...
Scotland Yard’s director and a school headmaster team up to find a missing biological warfare expert in this classic, Cold Warâ€"era mystery thriller. At the height of the Cold War, one of Britain’s top-secret scientists is missing. Prof. Howard ...
SHE liked him entirely too much for her own good English Society was not best pleased with Miss Vivian Spalding or her outspoken American ways. Mr. Lucian Reed, "the supreme arbiter of fashion" was to become the initial object of Miss ...
WHEN DRAGONS PROWL -- Gil was just another college student when his father died and left him an incredible inheritance. Destined to be both the hero of Varay and the heir to its crown, Gil stepped through the magical doorway into his kingdom. There ...
HEIRESS TO PASSION...A beautiful virgin widow, aristocratic Lady Anne had reluctantly consented to a second unwanted marriage. But the ceremony was interrupted when a brawny, black-eyed intruder wearing a ragged kilt, moccasins and eagle feathers bur...
A Woman of Principle... A Man of Passion. An indentured servant from Virginia, Juliet White came to Scotland to find her niece, the child her sister had borne before she died. The search took her to the castle of Lachlan MacKenzie, duke of Ross, w...
“A masterfully delivered tale of an inconspicuous citizen who [finds] murder simple . . . The climax packs a brilliant wallop.†-- Chicago Tribune Relentlessly twisting and blackly funny, this noir novel by Edgar Award winner Fr...
It's Easter time, and a small-town musical production has sparked a storm of controversy. Fading star Wayne Larner considers his role a comeback opportunity. The locals consider it an outrage. Larner is a disreputable rake--addicted to fast cars and ...
His passion for the fair sex and English pubs aside, he had been known to solve a crime or two as a private investigator, profiting from the idiocies of this comic adventure called life. Now he's been hired to find a rebellious poor little rich girl ...
FREEDOM DOES NOT COME FREEIn today's society, individuals feel they have earned the right to sit in classrooms and learn, earned the right to vote and have a sense of entitlement. Without a Veteran, whether active duty or retired is someone who, at ...
MYSTERY AT PINE HOLLOW! Stevie, Carole, and Lisa are best friends and horse-crazy members of The Saddle Club. The three are looking forward to the combined-training event at Pine Hollow Stables, when all riders will compete in dressage, cross-coun...
Pursuing justice...and love Meredith Quinn had gone through pregnancy and childbirth alone. Evicted from her home, she'd been forced to live with her one-month-old daughter in her car. So suing her ex-lover for child support and working temporaril...
MOUNTAIN OF LOVE Tess McIver was desperate. She needed money to save her Big Bear Lodge -- and that was the only reason she agreed to teach Denver's most popular television host the fine art of wilderness survival. Jack Hunter was a hunk, all ...
When it comes to staying young, some people will pay any price… What if Ponce de Leon really did discover the fountain of youth? Mr. Leon is alive in the twentieth century and is the owner of a high-end cosmetics company. His handpicked salespeople...
MR. JULY The man: Niall Rankin, world-weary veteran of the secret war for freedom. The woman: Ann Severn, a widow struggling to make a life for herself and her troubled daughter. The place: Pinetree, California, a sun-baked cluster of houses on a ...
DENVER: CITY OF GOLD--CITY OF DREAMS In one magnificent family burned the vision that built a great American city. They were the Kirklands: David--the brave, big-hearted mountain dreamer who risked his life to stake a claim to a new life in the ru...
Her Swashbuckling Hero Lawyer... Brad Lavalier was the man to help Carolina Palmette protect her grandma's land from a swindler--but working closely with the devilishly sexy attorney wasn't going to be easy! She'd left her Louisiana hometown six y...
Khendra Phillips is at the height of her legal career when handsome, smooth-talking attorney Sean Michaels bursts onto the scene and threatens to capture not only her love but her career in the legal field as well. Khendra's heartbroken past reminds ...
Absolutely shocking! Richard d'Evreux could not believe the turmoil that his unexpected reappearance in Devon created - or the fact that it would ultimately lead to the tragedy involving his father. Eleanor went to Devon to marry her betrothed, Willi...
A beautiful American dancer, Lily found her life changed forever the day she married the dashing Irish baronet, Ian d'Arcy. Their union was a joyful and loving one until Lily discovered her husband's terrible secret, a secret that threatened to shatt...
When the governor decides to squelch the influence of the followers of Haben Jah, Nathan chooses to smuggle his grown children away, releasing them into the care of a trusted guide. Thus begins the journey to Amanah....
WEDDING BELLS A hasty marriage to redeem her reputation was bad enough, but Alessandra's punishment for an innocent moment in the park was not to end there. Only if she and her new husband Jeffrey Huntingsley managed to share sleeping quarters f...
BEDLAM AND BREAKFAST When the garishly grotesque clan of wealthy carpet-sweeper magnate Otto Broadie sweeps down upon Judith McMonigle's Hillside Manor Inn, it looks like there'll be a wild night of drinking, dining, and fortune-telling in the off...
From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation!It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Karen! Karen is going on a trip to her Granny's farm. There are all kinds of fun things to do ther...
A thirty-something junk-food maven and brash, brainy Berkeley cop, Jill Smith usually doesn't spend much time contemplating her navel. But she accepted an invitation to see the new guru in town. She was as shocked as the rest of the packed house wh...
"It does appear that the Great Gandalfo has suffered an irreversible mistake in an otherwise well-conducted act!" And in this case, appearances were not deceiving. The Great Gandolfo was run through with his own swords, and it didn't take a Sherlo...
MURDER DIVIDES A SMALL TOWN--AND ONE COP WALKS A FINE LINE.... The Kansas City vice squad has been hell for cop Johnny Branch. In sleepy Elk Rapids, he figures, the living will be easy. But his hopes are shattered when a rich local businessman ...
The damsel and the dragon slayer Dragons were the stuff of legends, and Prince Charming existed only in fairy tales. Despite her romantic inclinations, Professor Katherine Glenn knew that was reality. Until she came to visit Michael Reese in his c...
"IN MY EXPERIENCE, MEN MARRY EITHER BEAUTY OR MONEY, AND WHEREVER POSSIBLE, BOTH!" Lucy Tiversley believed her unruly red hair, freckles, outspoken nature, and lack of fortune removed her from the Marriage Mart. She thus decided her divers...
SHE FLED LONDON'S PERILOUS STREETS... Trembling, Dawn Leighton ran as fast as her lovely legs could carry her. Capture meant Newgate Prison, a hateful fate. They called her Lady Rogue. Orphaned at an early age, taken in by ruffians and thieves, she'...
In an ancient Italian olive grove, the curtain rises on...Murder! The late Piero Marini has been a successful, highly acclaimed composer, whose private life was a happily passionate muddle of wives, ex-wives, mistresses--and a single, cherished daugh...
DARK AND TURBULENT FIRES BURNED IN SPAIN, THE TERROR OF THE INQUISITION STILL GRIPPED THE LAND, NAPOLEON'S TROOPS RAMPAGED THROUGH THE PYRENEES ... AND THE LOVE OF A WOMAN AND A MAN WAS A PRECIOUS FLAME THAT COULD BLAZE OR BE SMOTHERED IN AN INSTANT ...
Urgent and timeless, Legacies brings us closer than we have ever been to penetrating the great conundrum of China m the twentieth century. It could only have been written by Bette Bao Lord -- born in China, raised in America, author of the bestsellin...
IF YOU LOVE SOMEONE .. . Ten years ago, Kyle Macintosh had forced Melinda Richardson to choose between the two things that mattered most: her treasured family home in Heron Valley--or him. Torn, she'd let Kyle go off to chase his dreams while she ...
WHEN SUMMER COMES AGAIN Shane Colter had left everything behind: his career as a Seattle cop, the memories of his late partner and, most of all, his guilty love for his partner's wife, Summer O'Neil. On a Florida beach, he lay in the sun and ref...
She felt like a mail-order bride! When Addie Rutherford began digging in her family's history, she was thrilled to discover a distant relative in Boston. Miriam Rutherford Mandeville was equally delighted with her new "niece" -- and de...
HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE Amanda Calhoun had always been the sensible one, forever struggling to keep her, well...eccentric family out of trouble. And the instant she laid eyes on architect Sloan O'Riley, she knew he was trouble. So this arrogant, insuf...
Cranston was preoccupied with his mistress when the man came out of the sea. The man was exhausted and almost naked and he was being chased. Cranston helped him, but subsequent events often made him wish that he hadn''t. For it messed up his love ...
Hospital Heartthrob Wisecracking trauma nurse Casey McDonough figures she has an interesting enough life. Her best friend still drops acid, her ex-husband is a cross-dressing psychiatrist, and her mother has turned the third floor of the family ho...
PG Wodehouse was born as Pelham Grenville Wodehouse on 15th October, 1881 in Guildford, south east England to distinguished parents who were visiting the UK from Hong Kong where his father was a judge. The Wodehouse family had aristocratic roots in ...
The Dangerously Sexy Cowboy... When Jesse Kincannon drove up in a low-slung black Porsche, Amanda Carter knew trouble had arrived! His father's will had left her half of the Flying K Ranch, and she'd been dreading the day she'd have to face the ren...
The nerd, the tattler, and the brain At first glance, they have nothing in common. But by a cruel trick of fate, these three grade-schoolers find themselves waiting to face the music outside the principal's office. Shy Earl's there because his ...
When Gwen's alcoholic father died, she was seventeen. Now as she nears thirty, her father still haunts her life. She falls in love with a man who is twenty years her senior and her sister's father-in-law....
Who is Really Inside Your Computer? Part computer virus, part experiment in artificial intelligence, ME-short for Multiple Entity-is the first self-replicating operating system with kernels for human-style memory, inspiration, and decision making. La...
A paperback edition of a reworking of the Dr Faustus theme, focusing on the mathematically gifted Gabriel Swan, who attempts to find a numerical solution to his quest for order and meaning in life. From the author of ATHENA and BOOK OF EVIDENCE....