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...
★Mandy Pajeck had a tough childhood. Now 28,she feelsresponsible for the accident that took her younger brother's sight.But his complete reliance on her care is making them bothmiserable.When she meets handsome Zach Harrigan and his mini guidehorse,she thinks she's found the ticket to her brother'shappiness-and maybe her own
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...
When Samantha Harrigan attends the local rodeo, she doesn'texpect to wind up in jail. But that's what happens when she triesto stop a drunkard from abusing his horse. Tucker Coulter, ahandsome local veterinarian, comes to her defense, and both of themare arrested. The charges are dropped, but Sam's troubles have onlystarted...
Filled with action, adventure, mystery, and historical detail,the Sackett series is a remarkable contribution by one of America'sgreatest storytellers. The Sky-liners Flagan and Galloway Sacketthad made a deal to escort Judith Costello, the granddaughter of awealthy Irish horse trader, to her father's home in Colorado.Flagan saw nothing but trouble in the pretty, fiery young woman,but they needed the horses. Unfortunately, Flagan was right, forJudith had fallen for James Black Fetchen, a charismatic gunmanwhose courtship hid the darkest of intentions. Flagan and Gallowaycould only guess why Judith was so important to Fetchen and whatawaited them at her father's ranch. One thing Flagan knew for sure:the tough and spirited woman had won his heart. But could he trusther with his life? Galloway Trouble was following Flagan Sackettwith a vengeance. Captured and tortured by a band of Apaches, hehad escaped into the rugged San Juan country, where he would try tostay alive until his brother, Galloway, could fi
"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the gloves herself. Big Benwas striking as she stepped out into the street. It was eleveno'clock and the unused hour was fresh as if issued to children on abeach." -from "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street" The landmark modernnovel Mrs. Dalloway creates a portrait of a single day in the lifeof Clarissa Dalloway as she orchestrates the last-minute details ofa grand party. But before Virginia Woolf wrote this masterwork, sheexplored in a series of fascinating stories a similar revelry inthe mental and physical excitement of a party. Wonderfullycaptivating, the seven stories in Mrs. Dalloway's Party create adynamic and delightful portrait of what Woolf called "partyconsciousness." As parallel expressions of the themes of Mrs.Dalloway, these stories provide a valuable window into Woolf'swriting mind and a further testament to her extraordinarygenius.
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
Second in the breathtaking Irish trilogy from the #1 New YorkTimes bestselling author. Nora Roberts returns to Ireland in thistale of a talented musician and the beautiful tomboy who's beensecretly in love with him for years.
A REVEALING AND DRAMATIC LOOK AT THE INSIDE OF THE AMERICAN SPACE PROGRAM FROM ONE OF ITS PIONEERS. This is the astronaut story never before told--about the fear, love, and sacrifice demanded of the few men who dared to reach beyond the heavens for the biggest prize of all: the Moon.
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.
