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  • Anne Hampson

    The only way Daros Latimer could save Toni Freeman from the ancient Cretan law of vendetta was to marry her. As Daros was charming and rich, Toni might well have done worse for herself -- except that she didn't care about him any more than he did...



  • Lilian Peake

    Lynne Hewlett was young and eager and full of advanced theories where her job was concerned. Christopher York not only disagreed with her along the way, but was in a position to put a stop to her. So when she began to fall in love with him she ju...



  • Joyce Dingwell

    Bitterly hurt at being deprived of her two beloved little nieces, Catriona Quentin had vowed never again to let her feelings get involved in love for anyone else. But it was difficult not to get emotionally involved with the orphans at Camp Unive...



  • John Updike

    In this sequel to Rabbit, Run, John Updike resumes the spiritual quest of his anxious Everyman, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom. Ten years have passed; the impulsive former athlete has become a paunchy thirty-six-year-old conservative, and Eisenhower’s...



  • Lucy Gillen

    Rowan was loving every minute of her job in Ireland as companion to dear Mrs. Laura O'Neil -- every minute, that is, that she was not in the company of Michael Doran, the local lord of the manor, who was far too fond of exercising his feudal righ...



  • Isobel Chace

    It all happened when Ruth Arnold intercepted a letter from Mario Verdecchio to the sister Pearl, inviting Pearl -- presumably with ulterior motives to visit him in Sicily and Ruth decided to teach him a lesson and go herself and instead. But it wa...



  • Alistair MacLean

    The classic tale of adventure and death on a mysterious Arctic island, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.A converted fishing trawler, Morning Rose carries a movie-making crew across the Barents Sea to isolated Bear Island, well above t...



  • P.G. Wodehouse

    A Bertie and Jeeves classic, featuring the Junior Ganymede, a Market Snodsbury election, and the Observer crossword puzzle. Jeeves, who has saved Bertie Wooster so often in the past, may finally prove to be the unwitting cause of this young master's ...



  • Rebecca Caine

    Kalinda was Christie Irvine's dream come true -- almost! She'd inherited her uncle's Pacific Island home and business -- but she'd inherited problems as well. She could learn about shells and coral and island living -- but what could ...



  • Robertson Davies

    The first book in Robertson Davies's acclaimed The Deptford Trilogy, with a new foreword by Kelly LinkRamsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Vi...



  • Donald J. Sobol

    A tiny submarine that flies through the  air...A half-dollar worth five thousand  dollars...Some tipsy  birds...A world that fits in the palm of your  hand...And a case that turns out to be a  real ca...



  • Jan Andersen

    There was a tragic mystery surrounding Richard Kendall, and Jess, as a budding reporter, had been sent out to Spain, where he was living, to get to the bottom of it -- keeping her identity a secret. But could she bring herself to do the job, knowi...



  • E.M. Forster

    An astonishingly frank and deeply autobiographical account of homosexual relationships in an era when love between men was not only stigmatised, but also illegal, E.M. Forster''s Maurice is edited by P.N. Furbank with an introduction by David Leavitt...




  • Norman Mailer

    Published at the height of the McCarthy era, Norman Mailer’s audacious novel of socialism is at once an elegy and an indictment, a sinuous moral thriller and an intellectual slugfest. Wounded during World War II, Mike Lovett is an amnesiac, and muc...


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