Five years ago, Laura Townsend's life was nearly destroyedwhen a head injury impaired her ability to use language and forcedher to abandon a brilliant career. Her vivacious spirit intact, shehas found a great new job at an animal clinic-and a handsome newboss who fills her heart with longing. Now he's moving heaven andearth to convince her they belong together, but since she can'tfulfill all of his needs, shouldn't she love him enough to walkaway?
The year is 1889, and Rachel Hollister hasn't set foot outsideher house in five years. Ever since a savage attack left her familydead, she's cordoned herself off from the outside world, afraid tolet anyone into her home-or into her heart. But now trouble hasappeared on her doorstep-and suddenly she has no choice but to leta handsome rancher enter her well-guarded existence.
Lieutenant Commanders Matthew Reddy of USS Walker has found anunlikely ally in Commodore Jenks of the New Britain Imperial Navy.Now they are searching for a traitor who abducted nurse SandraTicker and young Princess Rebecca of the New British Empire. It issoon obvious that the New Britain Company is attempting tooverthrow the throne. And Reddy must navigate through a tempest ofpolitics, deception, and betrayal if he is ever going to save thehostages and live to fight another day...
The fifth novel in Asimov's popular Foundation series openswith second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if hewas right to choose a collective mind as the best possible futurefor humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nationsand planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know thepast and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to whichhave been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encounteredalong the way become arguing points in a book-long colloquy aboutman's fate, conducted by Trevize and traveling companion Bliss, whois part of the first world/mind, Gaia.
There are few authors who can weave nail-biting thrills,edge-of-your-seat drama, and romantic suspense as masterfully asJulie Garwood. Now she ratchets up the tension with "Murder List,"in which evil is on the hunt- and proves to be methodicallyorganized and chillingly successful. When Chicago detective AlecBuchanan is offered a prime position with the FBI, it is theperfect opportunity to leave the Windy City and follow in hisbrothers' footsteps to the top echelons of law enforcement. Butfirst he must complete one last assignment (and one that he is nottoo happy about): acting as a glorified bodyguard to hotel heiressRegan Hamilton Madison. The gorgeous exec has become entangled insome potentially deadly business. Someone has e-mailed her agraphic crime-scene photo-and the victim is no stranger. Regansuspects that the trouble started when she agreed to help ajournalist friend expose a shady self-help guru who preys onlonely, vulnerable women. In fact, the smooth-as-an-oil-slick Dr.Lawrence Shields may
A plucky street boy who smokes, gambles, and speaksungrammatically, Dick is also honest and hardworking. Aquintessential novel of adventure, romance, and coming-of-age, itis also an exhilarating tale of one boy's metamorphosis from dirtystreet urchin to gentleman.
Arriving in the New World, Europeans were awestruck by acontinent awash with birds. Today tens of millions of Americansbirders have made a once eccentric hobby into something somainstream it's (almost) cool. Scott Weidensaul traces the colorfulevolution of American birding: from the frontier ornithologists whocollected eggs between border skirmishes to the society matrons whoorganized the first effective conservation movement; from theluminaries with checkered pasts, such as convicted blackmailerAlexander Wilson and the endlessly self-mythologizing John JamesAudubon, to the awkward schoolteacher Roger Tory Peterson, whose "AField Guide to the Birds" prompted the explosive growth of modernbirding. Spirited and compulsively readable, "Of a Feather"celebrates the passions and achievements of birders throughoutAmericcan history.
In the stillness of a golden September afternoon, deep in thewilderness of the Rockies, a solitary craftsman, Grady Adams, andhis magnificent Irish wolfhound, Merlin, step from shadow intolight...and into an encounter with mystery. That night, a pair ofsingular animals will watch Grady's isolated home, waiting to maketheir approach. A few miles away, Camillia Rivers, a local veterinarian, beginsto unravel the threads of a puzzle that will bring to her door allthe forces of a government in peril. At a nearby farm, long-estranged identical twins come togetherto begin a descent into darkness...In Las Vegas, a specialist inchaos theory probes the boundaries of the unknowable...On a Seattlegolf course, two men make matter-of-fact arrangements formurder...Along a highway by the sea, a vagrant scarred by the pastbegins a trek toward his destiny. In a novel that is at once wholly of our time and timeless,fearless and funny, Dean Koontz takes readers into the momentbetween one turn of the world and the next, acros
All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire's richestcitizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the lastdays of summer. The world's largest navy lies peacefully at anchorin Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the seasideresorts of Baiae, Herculaneum, and Pompeii. But the carefreelifestyle and gorgeous weather belie an impending cataclysm, andonly one man is worried. The young engineer Marcus Attilius Primushas just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueductthat brings fresh water to a quarter of a million people in ninetowns around the Bay of Naples. His predecessor has disappeared.Springs are failing for the and#64257;rst time in generations. Andnow there is a crisis on the Augusta's sixty-mile mainline--somewhere to the north of Pompeii, on the slopes of MountVesuvius. Attilius--decent, practical, and incorruptible--promisesPliny, the famous scholar who commands the navy, that he can repairthe aqueduct before the reservoir runs dry. His plan is to travelto
A magician's daughter has inherited her father's talents-andhis penchant for jewel thievery. Then she meets an escape artistwho captures her heart and has secrets that could shatter herillusions...
Book De*ion Remember when flying was glamorous and sexy, even fun? Whenairline food was gourmet, everyone dressed up for a flight, andstewardesses catered to our every need-at least in ourimaginations? This classic memoir by two audaciously outspokenyoung ladies, who lived and loved the free-spirited stewardesslife, jets you back to those golden days of air travel-from thecaptain who's as subtle as a 747 when he's on the make to thepassenger who mistakes the overhead luggage rack for an upperberth; from the names of celebrities who were a pleasure to serve(and some surprising notables on the "bad guy" list) to the originsof some naughty stereotypes-Spaniards "are" the best lovers, actorsthe most foul-mouthed. This huge bestseller, a First Class jet-agejournal, offers a hilarious gold mine of outrageous anecdotes fromthe high-flying and amorous lives of those busty, lusty,adventuresome young women of the swinging '60s known as"stews." About Author Trudy Baker and Rachel Jones were name
The #1 New York Times betseller #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts takesreaders deep into the rugged Black Hills of South Dakota, where theshadows keep secrets, hunters stalk the land, and a childhoodfriendship matures into an adult passion.
Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah but longs to bring the unknown driver to justice. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews, Jonah's second-grade teacher. A young woman recovering from a difficult divorce, Sarah moved to New Bern hoping to start over. Tentatively, Miles and Sarah reach out to each other...soon they are falling in love. But what neither realizes is that they are also bound together by a shocking secret, one that will force them to reexamine everything they believe in-including their love.
Inside the world of television talk shows, an ambitious youngwoman is fighting to find her place in the spotlight. But darksecrets hide behind its brightest stars...
Together in one extraordinary boxed set- "Naked in Death,""Glory in Death," and "Immortal in Death"-the first three In Deathnovels featuring New York Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas. Naked inDeath Eve Dallas is a New York police lieutenant using herinstincts to hunt for a ruthless killer. Breaking every rule, Evegets involved with Roarke, an Irish billionaire-and a suspect inEve's murder investigation. But passion and seduction have rulesall their own. Glory in Death Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas has noproblem finding connections between two violent crimes. Bothvictims were beautiful and highly successful women whose intimaterelations with men of great power and wealth provide Eve with along list of suspects-including her own lover, Roarke. Immortal inDeath A top model is dead, the victim of a brutal murder. PoliceLieutenant Eve Dallas puts her professional life on the line totake the case when suspicion falls on her best friend, the otherwoman in a fatal love triangle. And beneath the facade of glamour,Ev
In the latest installment of the universally beloved,bestselling series, Mma Ramotswe discovers the biggest miracles inlife are often the smallest. Under the endless skies of Botswana,there is always something Mma Ramotswe can do to help someone andhere she finds herself assisting a woman looking for her family.The problem is the woman doesn't know her real name or whether anyof her family members are still alive. Meanwhile, Mma Makutsi isthe recipient of a beautiful new bed that causes more than a fewsleepless nights. And, at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, Mr. J.L.B.Matekoni has come under the influence of a doctor promising amiracle cure for his daughter's medical condition, which MmaRamotswe finds hard to accept. Nonetheless, Precious Ramotswehandles these things in her usual compassionate and good-naturedway, while always finding time for a cup of red bush tea.www.alexandermccallsmith.com
" Roberts] is at her best here" ("Publishers Weekly," starredreview) in the first book in her enchanting trilogy set in Ardmore,Ireland.
Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed historyteacher. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent acertain video. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. But duringthe night, when he is awakened by noises in his apartment, he goesinto the living room to find that the VCR is replaying the video.He watches in astonishment as a man who looks exactly like him-or,more specifically, exactly like he did five years before,mustachioed and fuller in the face-appears on the screen. He sleepsbadly. Against his better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursuehis double. As he roots out the man's identity, what begins as awhimsical story becomes a "wonderfully twisted meditation onidentity and individuality" (The Boston Globe). Saramago displayshis remarkable talent in this haunting tale of appearance versusreality.
