Books Published in June 2005

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Three women meet at a crossroads in their lives, each searching for new ways to grow-and find in each other the courage to take chances and embrace the future. Roz is a woman of independent means who thought love was behind her, but when romance ...

• Jun-2005
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Freddy Funkhouser comes up with an idea to bolster business for his family's fast-food health restaurant, Burger Castle, and finally defeat Pookesville's biggest bully, Adam Spanker. When Freddy's fun invention goes awry, the results are five very fu...

• Jun-2005
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In 1985, a time capsule was buried under the front lawn of a small-town county courthouse, to be reopened in 2085. But just twenty years later, in the dead of night, the capsule is dug up and its contents stolen. That same night, one of the contribut...

• Jun-2005
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Married in haste... for a his passionate pleasure! Antonio Rocha saw Sophie Cunningham as a tramp -- she was raising his orphaned baby niece in a trailer! However, Antonio didn't appreciate that though she might not be a lady, Sophie had pl...

• Jul-2005
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Susan Mallery makes her home in Southern California where the eccentricities of a writer are actually considered normal -- what a relief! Carly Spencer, former perfect wife, was changing her agenda... Because Plan A -- be a stay-at-home mother ...

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"Hired to tutor four orphaned girls at remote, ramshackle Aldwick Castle, Miss Concordia Glade is pleased to find her pupils both eager and bright. Indeed, they are bright enough to have noticed some oddities about their situation. Provided for by an...

• Jul-2005
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It is New Year's Eve when the storm of the century hits northern California. In a quiet neighborhood in San Francisco, amid the chaos of fallen trees and damaged homes, the lives of three strangers are about to collide. For Quinn Thompson, what happe...

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New York Times bestselling author Janet Dailey journeys to the Lone Star state and the Cee Bar Ranch, where the Calders face a new threat to their land and way of life. Quint Echohawk is a lawman, not a rancher, but he’s a Calder through and thr...

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The only boyfriend Gayle Hayes has is the battery-operated kind. But when she returns to her small Montana hometown, rodeo bad boy Tristan McCullough gives her a whole new lesson in power surge......

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When news came that there was trouble back in Texas...Holt McKettrick left a mail-order bride and his family on the spot! And he never looked back. He just prayed he'd be in time to save the man who had raised him as a son and keep his best friend...

• Jun-2005
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Pretty, but penniless, Helen Frayne vows to do anything to keep her ancestral home, but she doesn't realize just how far she'll have to go.... Arrogant Frenchman and millionaire property magnate Marc Delaroche wants Helen as he's never...

• Jun-2005
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Carrying a naked woman up a mountain in a driving storm -- now there's a way for a man to start the day. But for Jamie, the unconscious redhead in his arms is an intruder, one who could bring him harm. He has his reasons for hiding out in this mo...

• Jun-2005
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Not much can go wrong when you're traveling first-class with your fabulously wealthy boyfriend -- until you find his wife's body in your hotel suite. Convinced she's next on Nick Noble's hit list, Jennifer Chaise takes off down the Vegas Strip arm...

• Jul-2005
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MEET OUR HERO... Gareth St. Clair is in a bind. His father, who detests him, is determined to beggar the St. Clair estates and ruin his inheritance. Gareth's sole bequest is an old family diary, which may or may not contain the secrets of his past ....

• Jun-2005
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AN UNEXPECTED OPPORTUNITY LEADS TO... Adrienne Dealey has spent the past six years working for hotels in exotic resort towns. This summer she has decided to make Nantucket home. Left flat broke by her ex-boyfriend, she is desperate to earn some fast...

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LAND, MONEY, WOMEN AND CATTLE. ALL PART AND PARCEL OF BIG SKY BUSINESS. The McCalls had been sworn enemies of the VanHorns for generations. And nothing had changed.... Until now. As the black sheep of the family, Brandon McCall had zero to lose by ...

• Jun-2005
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They've already started coming across. The drug dealers and the petty criminals. The terrorists and the parasites. For one man on the West Texas border, the time to stand against them is now. John Howard Stark, a Vietnam vet whose family has worked t...

• Jun-2005
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Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. And sure enoug...

• Jun-2005
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James Scott warned his investigator ex-wife Ella to be more careful. Now he finds the irate woman nearly naked and handcuffed to the towel rack in his Mexican vacation condo. He should release her. Then again......

• Jun-2005
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Two brothers. One a top FBI agent. The other a brilliant, twisted criminal. An undying hatred between them. Now, a perfect crime. And the ultimate challenge: Stop me if you can... Agent Pendergast has become one of crime fiction...

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Everybody always wants Tabby Payton's beautiful sister. But not sexy English spy Calder Maxwell. He wants Tabby, body and soul, and he's willing to take the seduction to new levels to prove it......

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Welcome to the Kathryn McFarland National Foundation. Since its inception, the foundation has assisted approximately 17,000 families in locating missing children... This is Maggie McFarland's life's work. Yet each time she helps another family loc...

• Jun-2005
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What happens when you nearly kill a man -- and then fall in love with him? The car accident was Hannah Price's fault -- a few seconds of inattention that changed Gabe Holbrook's life forever, destroying everything he'd been or ever wanted to be. ...

• Jun-2005
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SECRET BODYGUARD After helping the police track a serial killer brutalizing her sleepy Louisiana town, Darby Shepard made headlines that put her life on the line. Now, the only man she could trust to keep her safe was the enigmatic, inexplicably fam...

• Jun-2005
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The New York Times bestselling Western from Robert B. ParkerEverett Hitch and Virgil Cole are lawmen and friends who share the brutal hardships of an emerging West. But the courage that has defined them is challenged by a man without conscience or re...

• Jun-2005
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Revenge...Italian style! A money-grabbing beauty, that's all she was -- and Jake D'Amato was determined to make Charlotte Summerville pay. His plan was simple: he'd take revenge in his bed! Actually, Charlie's intentions were p...

• Jun-2005
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Douglass Esmeralda Sullivan has just discovered that all men are gutter rats, all except for her six half-Irish, half-Mexican brothers, and sometimes she's not so sure about them. She's sitting in the middle of a dusty road on a hot Texas day, fuming...

• Jun-2005
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As a young girl in the Mississippi Valley, Diana Turner dreamed of marrying her first love, a Choctaw Indian boy named Silver Feather, whose family was enslaved by her stepfather. But her innocent hope were shattered when Silver Feather's`' parents w...

• Jun-2005
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ONE REILLY DOWN, TWO TO GO... Connor Reilly had laughed at his brother for being the first triplet to lose the "no sex for ninety days" bet. Though there were two long, tempting months ahead for him, Connor was determined to go the distance. Becau...

• Jun-2005
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On the windswept coast of Nova Scotia, two friends and their young daughters have found refuge in the rugged community of Cape Hawk. Lily Malone and nine-year-old Rose are making a new home with a man who will do whatever it takes to protect them. Ma...

• Jun-2005
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RIDDING THE WORLD OF EVIL...ONE ALIEN AT A TIME. In a time and place hot too far away, Mia Snow is an alien huntress for the New Chicago Police Department, and she's the perfect girl for the job. Tough and sexy, she's earned each of her scars batt...

• Jun-2005
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BRENDA'S -- not VICTORIA'S -- SECRET The fixation began on New Year's Day: Silky, expensive slips from New York and Italy. Camisoles and thongs from Beverly Hills. Before, Brenda Scott would have blushed to be caught dead in them. Now, she'd ditch...

• Jun-2005
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When danger took root, her courage grew strong...and Rachel Emmons fled her violent marriage, seeking a safe haven. Her brave escape led her to the saving embrace of Ben Mitchell, the man who rescued her from the depths of the ocean and made her dete...

• Jun-2005
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In Linwood Barclay's debut, paranoid Zack Walker transplanted his city-savvy wife and teenagers to the peaceful burbs--where nervous fathers rest easy. Well, not quite. Now, another suspense-filled adventure, the Walkers have moved back e and Zack ca...

• Jun-2005
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Rick Riordan, triple-crown winner of mystery's most prestigious awards -- the Edgar, the Anthony, and the Shamus -- returns with a hotter-than-Texas-chili Tres Navarre crime drama. This time Navarre reopens a cold case to catch a killer getting away ...

• Jun-2005
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DEAR MORTAL READER: I have sworn upon the River Styx that the events in this book are purely fictional. There is no such twelve-year-old boy as Perseus "Percy" Jackson. The Greek gods are nothing more than old myths. They certainly never have child...

• Jun-2005
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When prosecutor Vicki Allegretti arrives at a rowhouse to meet a confidential informant, she finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time -- and is almost shot to death. She barely escapes with her life, but cannot save the two others gunned do...

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Welcome, dear reader, to the world of Hetar. A land of Forest Lords, of Shadow Princes and Coastal Kings. A place that is both civilized and savage. Where the social classes know their place, but where anyone can, under the right conditions, advance ...

• Jul-2005
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Since the death of his wife, Dr. Adam Wright had his hands full practicing medicine and trying to raise his willful eleven-year-old daughter alone. What Adam needed was some divine intervention. And when Clare Randall appeared on their doorstep, he k...

• Jun-2005
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As her relationship with Dr. Jack Stapleton begins to unravel, Dr. Laurie Montgomery starts investigating the inexplicable deaths of young, healthy people after successful routine surgery. She discovers that the deaths might be intentional--the work ...

• Jun-2005
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Who is Geronimo Stilton? That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing adventure stories. Here in New Mouse City, the capital of Mouse Island, my books are all bestsellers! My stories are funny, fa-mouse-ly funny. They are whisker-lick...

• Jul-2005
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To: Pilar, Anne, Rachel From: Meg Re: I'm getting MARRIED! You all know that I didn't ever plan to get married again, but I just found out that my son has a twin brother who was accidentally adopted separately. So Jared Kierney and I are getting...

• Jun-2005
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He has every reason to hate her... Millionaire Italian Ettore Severini was ready to marry -- until he learned that Sophie Lang's innocent sensuality disguised a petty thief! No reason to trust her... When Ettore saw Sophie again, she was liv...

• Jun-2005
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When Barbara Zook's husband David is killed unexpectedly on their tenth wedding anniversary, she doesn't know how she will be able to go on. Not only has she lost the love of her life, but she is also pregnant with their fourth child. How can Barbara...

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Welcome to 44 Scotland Street, home to some of Edinburgh's most colorful characters. There's Pat, a twenty-year-old who has recently moved into a flat with Bruce, an athletic young man with a keen awareness of his own appearance. Their neighbor, Dome...

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Joanna had been head over heels in love with her convenient fiance, Gustavo Ferrara, when he fell in love with -- and married -- someone else! Now, twelve years on, Gustavo Ferrara, now single, is thrown into turmoil at seeing Joanna again. He'...

• Jun-2005
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At the Spanish aristocrat's command... Zoe Chapman can't stand arrogant men! She and Rico Cortes are destined to clash -- though she can't deny that he's the ultimate Latin lover. But Rico thinks Zoe's only being nice to gai...

• Jul-2005
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Two of a kind ... Fiery Fiona MacElder will not marry a man she does not love. Her laird will just have to find another way to merge two powerful Highland clans. Luckily, her identical twin sister shares her outrage. So when the bold warrior Tarr ...

• Jun-2005
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SUDDENLY CINDERELLA Maid Lara Hunter knew a one-night stand with a stranger was uncharacteristic of her. Her mysterious lover seemed like an ancient prince, sensual and primitive, come to take her away from her humdrum life. Away from the memories...

• Jun-2005
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A doctor in need... Dr. Darcy Rochester is horrified when "doctor" Ally Westruther sets up her massage business next door. He has a low opinion of massage. Darcy doesn't think she's qualified in anything more complicated than basket weaving, and h...