When a wealthy man first meets his mail-order bride in 1907, he realizes this statuesque beauty is anything but a "simple missionary's daughter." But he doesn't know of her devious plan to leave Wisconsin as a rich widow. Nor does she...
Fiction
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Auteur:Goolrick, RobertSommaire: - Auteur:Johnson, VarianSommaire:
Sarcastic and bold, Maxine Phillips receives what she thinks is the shock of her life when she learns the father she thought was dead for 18 years is very much alive and living in Oklahoma. When she drives from her home in South...
- Auteur:Bradley, AlanSommaire:
Flavia had asked the old Gypsy woman to tell her fortune, but never expected to stumble across the poor soul, bludgeoned in the wee hours in her own caravan. Was this an act of retribution by those convinced that the soothsayer had...
- Auteur:Dallas, SandraSommaire:
It is 1864 and Eliza Spooner's husband Will has joined the Kansas volunteers to fight the Conferedates, leaving her with their two children and in charge of their home and land. Eliza is confident that he will return home, and she helps...
- Auteur:Miller, Linda Lael, McKenna, LindsaySommaire:
State secrets: Secret Service agent David Goddard never expected to spend his Christmas surveilling the president's cousin but now he wonders is it her secrets that fascinate him, or Holly herself?
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Auteur:Baker, E. D.Sommaire:While Princess Millie and her dragon fiance prepare for their wedding, the entire royal family of Greater Greensward teams up to find Millie's baby brother, who has been kidnapped and turned into a frog.
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Auteur:Reynolds, MarilynnSommaire:Frank likes everyone in the Grant Street rooming house where he lives with his mother, but old Mrs. Kazinski up in the attic is his special friend. She will be eighty years old on Sunday. Frank needs to find her the best birthday...
- Auteur:Irving, JohnSommaire:
When he was eleven years old, Owen Meany hit a foul ball that struck and killed the mother of his best pal, Johnny Wheelwright, the story's narrator. Thereafter, Owen believes himself to be an instrument of God. What happens to the...
- Auteur:Snelling, LauraineSommaire:
Desiring a home, Cassie's promised herself to a rancher already living on the land she inherited, but is her heart leading her toward another?
- Auteur:Follett, KenSommaire:
Mack McAsh burns with the desire to escape his life of slavery in Scottish coal mines, while Lizzie Hallim is desperate to shed a life of sheltered subjugation to her spineless husband. United in America, their only chance for freedom...
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Auteur:Asprin, RobertSommaire:Captain Willard Phule has whipped his band of troops into shape and they are no longer the laughingstock of the Legion. Now his company is deployed to help an underdeveloped planet. What better way to utilize their major area of...
- Auteur:Hill, ErnestSommaire:
One morning, Felicia is startled to see police at the house of her long-ago lover, Luther. When she learns that Luther's wife and young son have been murdered in their home, she refuses to accept the police's contention that the man she...
- Auteur:Foster, LoriSommaire:
Bounty hunter Spencer Lark finally has the bait he needs to expose a dangerous smuggling ring--the beautiful Arizona Storm. Haunted by her past, Arizona welcomes the opportunity to settle the score. As their attraction for one another...
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Auteur:Gilmour, DavidSommaire:A father leaves his six-year old son alone for fifteen minutes, and when he returns the child is gone and three lives are changed forever. Rejected by his wife, fired from his job, and shadowed by a policeman who thinks he is hiding his...
- Auteur:Tyler, AnneSommaire:
A lovable loser tries to get his life in order. He is Barnaby Gaitlin, 30, the black sheep of a rich Baltimore family, ex-juvenile delinquent who specialized in housebreaking for kicks. He works for Rent-a-Back, moving furniture for old...
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Auteur:Folarin, TopeSommaire:A stunning debut novel, from Rhodes Scholar and winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, Tope Folarin about a Nigerian family living in Utah and their uncomfortable assimilation to American life. Living in small-town Utah has...
- Auteur:Soper, S. I.Sommaire:
When Federal Marshal Buck Fyffe was charged with taking the outlaw Luther Gibbs to Yuma Territorial Prison, he wasn't expecting any problems. But it doesn't take long for Gibbs's gang to find them and Fyffe is overtaken...
- Auteur:Hunter, TravisSommaire:
Beloved teacher Dallas Dupree just can't get over the death of his wife. To fill the void, he spends most of his time with his daughter Aja. But the new woman in Dalls' life is hiding a nasty secret that could cost him his career,...
- Auteur:Brown, Rita MaeSommaire:
When Baxter the wirehaired dachshund and his owner Mags leave New York for Nevada, they find themselves embroiled in a real head scratcher. First, the local water-pumping station is sabotaged. Then, a murdered man's bones--dating back...
- Auteur:Lee, MirandaSommaire:
When theatrical entrepreneur Nicolas Dupre receives a request to return to Rocky Creek Australia, the past he thought he'd left behind comes rushing back, including his first love Serena, who has a secret that may change his life.
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