Book De*ion Let number-one New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts flyyou into Lunacy, Alaska, and into a colorful, compelling new novelabout two lonely souls who find love - and redemtion... Lunacy was Nate Burke's last chance. As a Baltimore cop, he'dwatched his partner die on the street - and the guilt still hauntshim. With nowhere else to go, he accepts the job as chief of policein this tiny, remote Alaskan town, where the peace provides a balmfor his shattered soul - and an unexpected affair with pilot MegGalloway warms his nights... But other things in Lunacy are heating up. Nate suspects thekiller in an unsolved murder still walks the snowy streets. Hisinvestigation will unearth the secrets and suspicions that lurkbeneath the placid surface, as well as bring out the big-citysurvival instincts that made him a cop in the first place. And hisdiscovery will threaten the new life - and the new love - that hehas finally found for herself. "Roberts is among the best popul
Colonel Utah Blaine, held captive by the Army of theRevolution, broke out of jail and headed north from Mexico withnothing but the clothes on his back. Then he found new troublestruggling at the end of a noose-and stepped in just in time tosave the life of a Texas rancher. The would-be executioners werethe rancher's own men, looking to steal his land. Now Utah has aunique proposition: Have the wealthy Texan play dead, introducehimself as the spread's new foreman, and take care of the outlawsone by one. The wage to fight another man's war? A hundred a monthplus expenses. The cost of falling in love while he earns thatwage? It wasn't exactly part of the original agreement, but Utahwill soon find out-unless the bad guys get to him first.
Lawman, manhunter, peacemaker--it takes a hard breed of man tosurvive as a Texas Ranger, but Chick Bowdrie stands head andshoulder above the rest. The rough trails are his home, from theBig Thicket to the Pecos to the border. He's dried by the desertsun and wind, scarred and toughened by uncounted gun battles, andwhen you look into his black eyes it's like looking down thebarrels of two .44s with their hammers drawn back. He rides in thename of justice, but he lives by his own law--Bowdrie's Law. And ifyou're thinking about walking on the wrong side of Bowdrie Law,you'd better start running. Fast.
When telepathic cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse sees anaked man on the side of the road, she doesn't just drive on by.Turns out the poor thing hasn't a clue who-or what-he is, butSookie knows. It's the vampire Eric Northman-but now he's a kinder,gentler Eric. And a very frightened Eric, because it soon becomesobvious that whoever took his memory now wants his life.
He was a tough enforcer for a New York gang. But when youngTom Shanaghy made one too many enemies, he skipped town on afast-moving freight. He landed in a small Kansas town that had bigdreams, no name, and the need for an honest lawman. Tom figuredthat a knuckle-and-skull man from Five Points would be perfect forthe job. He didn't know that a high-stakes cattle drive was headedhis way and that leading it was a vindictive rancher bent onsettling an old score, even if he had to destroy the town to do it.Tom had himself stuck in the middle of the feud before sunset onhis first day in town. All he could do was hope that his years onthe Bowery had left him with the smarts he needed to keep himselfalive.
WThen an infected bolt of cloth carries plagae from London toan isolated mountain viilage, a housemaid named Anna' Frith emergesas an unlikely heroine and healer. ThroUgh Anna s eyes we followthe story" of the plague vear, I666, as her fellow viliagers makean extraordinan choice: convinced by a visionary young, ministerthey elect to quarantine themselves within the village boundariesto arrest the spread of the disease. But as death reaches intoevery household.faith flays. When villagers turn from prayers tomurderous witch-hunting, Anna must confront the deaths of family,,the disintegration of her community, and the lure of illicit love.As she struggles to survive, a year of plague becomes instead arumsmirabilis, a year of wonders."
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Tell Sackett had been lured into the Apache's mountainstronghold by the icy beauty of his brother's wife. Hedidn't go alone. John J. Battles, Spanish Murphy and thehalf-breed Tampico rode beside him. Each was driven byhis past to test his speed and cunning against an enemy who couldsmell a white man a mile away-and then shoot his eyes out at a deadgallop. It was a contest few men could enter-and fewerstill could hope to win.
Brown(Chains of Command)shamelessly promotes himself and his previous works in his eighth aeronautical techno-thriller.Thus,this unwieldy tale of domestic terrorism includes forces and characters (notably maverick Coast Guard Rear Admiral Ian Hardcastle) from prior books,as well as gratuitious self-references ("They had gotten that idea from a techno-thriller novel published a few years back...called ammerheads ";or,"This is not some Dale Brown novel,this is real-life").Supervillain Henri Cazaux,rich beyond measure from drug- and gun-running,has vowed revenge upon the U.S.government for abuse he suffered at the hands of Air Force security police when,as a youth,he was caught dealing hashish to American troops.He begins by bombing major civilian airports;the government,which must predict his next targets and outwit him,eventually has to employ military forces over the skies of our largest cities.Although Brown raises some provocative issues,such as the problem of interagency rivalries and the appropriateness o
娇生惯养的家猫在四处寻找故事， 勇敢的流浪猫把故事变成了美味。一个现代寓言故事， 告诉你创造世界的秘密。娇生惯养的小猫喵小爪探向黑夜，想为自己闻一个故事。狡猾的狐狸答应给她讲故事，却在心里盘算着如何享用这送上门来的美味。小爪向狐狸一步步走近，越来越近，越来越近……突然——她还没明白怎么回事，一切就这么结束了。…………流浪猫大脾气毛毛带着她的三个饥饿的猫宝宝一路寻觅。但茫茫夜色中没有任何东西可以拿来充饥。毛毛开始在屋顶引吭高歌，她准备给孩子们讲一个故事。没想到，那竟然是一个可以“吃”的故事。一个现代寓言故事，告诉你创造世界的秘密。
After falling in love with handsome Rook Galloway, Lady ArianeBurke-Marchand finds herself pitted against Rook when their homeplanets go to war, but she is unable to overcome her feelingsdespite the newfound conflict.
A collection of tales of the frontier features the story ofBud Miles, who must bury his father to become a man, Tell Sackett'stransport of dangerous freight across the country, and LaurieBonnet, a mail-order bride. Reissue.
After the massacre Hardy and Betty Sue were left with only ahorse and a knife with which to face the long battle against thewilderness. A seven-year-old boy and a three-year-old girl,stranded on the limitless prairie. They were up against starvation,marauding Indians, savage outlaws, and wild animals. They weremighty stubborn, but the odds were against them-- and their luckwas about to run out.
Filled with action, adventure, mystery, and historical detail,the Sackett saga is an unforgettable achievement by one ofAmerica's greatest storytellers. In Jubal Sackett, the secondgeneration of this great American family pursues a destiny in thewilderness of a sprawling new land. Kindred spirits on a restlessquest... Jubal Sackett's urge to explore drove him westward, andwhen a Natchez priest asks him to undertake a nearly impossiblequest, Sackett ventures into the endless grassy plains the Indianscall the Far Seeing Lands. He seeks a Natchez exploration party andits leader, Itchakomi. It is she who will rule her people whentheir aging chief dies, but first she must vanquish her rival, thearrogant warrior Kapata. Sackett's quest will bring him danger froman implacable enemy ... and show him a life -- and a woman -- worthdying for.
His love was wild... his soul untamed... his touch forbidden....From acclaimed author Susan Krinard comes the second novel in amagnificent trilogy of a powerful clan whose sensual legacy iscloaked in secrecy-and a beautiful woman kidnapped by an outlawwhose forbidden embrace could reveal her true identity.... Once aWolf In the unspoiled expanses of the American West, Toma sAlejandro Randall was called El Lobo, the desperado and sworn enemyof powerful financier Cole MacLean. Few humans knew his trueidentity: heir to a wolf bloodline that made him as much an exoticbeast as a devastatingly attractive man. It was Toma s's plan tolure Cole MacLean's elegant fiance e, Lady Rowena Forster, from herNew York mansion to the wild frontier. There he planned to seducethe golden-haired beauty as revenge for the destruction of hisfamily at MacLean's hands. But once she was in his possession, ElLobo found himself unable to resist the call of his own untamedpassion-a passion that would claim the beauty for his own. As forLad
"The Lonesome Gods" is Louis L'Amour's biggest and mostimportant historical novel to date, a sweeping adventure of theCalifornia frontier. Here is the fascinating story of JohannesVerne, a young man left to die by his vengeful grandfather, rescuedby outlaws and raised in part by the Indians of the desert.Strengthened by the love of two women--Miss Nesselrode, whosemysterious past fires her ambitions for the future and Meghan, awillful young beauty--Verne grows to become a rugged adventurer, aman strong enough to embrace the awesome power of the Palm Springsdesert, and bold enough to stake a claim in the bustling world ofopportunity that was early-day Los Angeles.
The open West was a land where wanderers could find themselves ahome--a home to fight for, to be changed by, sometimes to die for.Jed Ashbury was one such journeyman, taking on the identity of adead man. Allen Ring was another: he'd won his plot of land in acard game only to find he had to win again with a gun. From ahas-been boxer to a ranch hand taking on his bosses' troubles, thecharacters in these classic Louis L'Amour short stories are allandquot; riding for the brandandquot; -staying loyal to whatmatters, staking the West with their courage and their blood.
In To the Far Blue Mountains," " Louis L'Amour weaves theunforgettable tale of a man who, after returning to his homeland,discovers that finding his way back to America may be impossible.Barnabas Sackett was leaving England to find his fortune in the NewWorld. But as he settled his affairs, he learned that a Royalwarrant had been sworn out against him, and that men were searchingfor him in every port. At issue were some rare gold coins Sackettsold to finance his trip to the Americas--coins believed to be partof a great treasure lost by King John years before. Believing thatSackett possesses the rest of the treasure, the Queen will stop atnothing to find him. If caught, not only will his dream of a lifein American be lost, he will be tortured and put to death on thegallows.
Utah Blaine Held captive south of the border, Colonel UtahBlaine escaped with nothing but the clothes on his back. Then hefound new trouble by saving the life of a Texas rancher. Thewould-be executioners were the rancher's own men, looking to stealhis land. Now Utah has a unique proposition: Have the wealthy Texanplay dead, introduce himself as the spread's new foreman, and takecare of the outlaws one by one. The wage to fight another man'swar? Generous. The cost of falling in love while earning that wage?Utah will soon find out--unless the bad guys get him first. SilverCanyon "You're not wanted in Hattan's Point," Matt Brennan was toldmoments after arriving in town. "There's trouble here and men arepicking sides." But Matt wasn't going anywhere until he found outwhat the dispute was about--and got to know Moira Maclaren. Sheconsidered him nothing more than a drifting ranch hand, and hewanted to prove her wrong. To do it, he'd have to solve the mysteryof the growing violence--a mystery that could make
Shalako He was a white man as cunning as any Indian, a lonerwho trusted in nothing but his weapon and his horse. But thenShalako came across a European hunting party, and a brave andbeautiful woman, stranded and defenseless in the SonoranDesert--the Apaches' killing ground. Shalako knew he had to stayand help them survive. For somewhere out there a deadly Apachewarrior had the worst kind of death in mind for them all. CatlowBen Cowan and Bijah Catlow had been friends since they were boys.By the time they became men, Catlow was an outlaw and Cowan a U.S.marshal. So when his old friend rode to Mexico to pull the biggestrobbery of his career, it became Ben's job to hunt him down. Butsouth of the border, Ben meets beautiful Rosita Calderon, whosepresence complicates an already dangerous situation. And soon Benrealizes that the price of getting Catlow home may be more thanhe's willing to pay.
Francis Joseph Cassavant is eighteen. He has just returned home from the Second World War, and he has no face. He does have a gun and a mission: to murder his childhood hero. Francis lost most of his face when he fell on a grenade in France. He received the Silver Star for bravery, but was it really an act of heroism? Now, having survived, he is looking for a man he once admired and respected, a man adored by many people, a man who also received a Silver Star for bravery. A man who destroyed Francis's life.
Eine Hippie-Kommune muss Kalifornien verlassen und beschlie?t,sich in Alaska anzusiedeln. Zwei Welten prallen aufeinander, neueFreundschaften und Feindschaften entstehen.
