Who needed a man who oozed sensuality?To her annoyance Sheridan Weaver found out she did. Richard St. Charles, with his free and easy life-style, didn't fit into her routine . . . damn his beautiful black eyes.But wouldn't you know he'd come in handy as an amateur sleuth. And Sheridan couldn't resist acting the cocky private investigator herself, on the trail of her father and a bumbling crook. Inevitably, once she threw caution away, Richard proved to be the ideal partner... . Views: 69
Read this classic romance by USA Today bestselling author Carole Mortimer, now available for the first time in e-book! Playing the millionaire's mistress Hot-shot London investor Reed Hunter needs his secretary, Darcy Faversham, to pose as his mistress during a business trip to America. Someone is sabotaging his US business deals and Reed needs Darcy to divert attention from the real reason for his visit... Darcy finds the chance to get closer to Reed too tempting to deny. However Darcy can't pretend to be in love with Reed...not when she suspects she already is! Originally published in 1986 Views: 68
A much-loved classic romance by New York Times bestselling Harlequin Presents author Penny Jordan, now available for the first time in e-book! He was the man of her dreams! The same dark hair, the same mocking eyes; it was as if the Regency rake of the portrait, the seducer of Jenna's dream, had come to life. Jenna, believing the last of the Deverils to be dead, was determined to buy the great old Yorkshire Hall—to claim it for her daughter, Lucy, and put to rest some of the memories of Lucy's birth. Jenna had no way of knowing that a direct descendant of the black sheep Deveril even existed—or that James Allingham and his own powerful yearnings would disrupt her plans entirely. Originally published in 1986 Views: 67
From the moment his mother tries unsuccessfully to coax him into saying "Philadelphia," Jeremy Zorn's life is framed by his unwieldy attempts at articulation. Through family rituals with his word-obsessed parents and sister, failed first love, an ill-fated run for class president, as the only Jewish boy on an otherwise all-black basketball team, all of the passages of Jeremy's life are marked in some way by his stutter and his wildly off-the-mark attempts at a cure. It is only when he enters college and learns his strong-willed mother is dying that he realizes all languages, when used as hiding places for the heart, are dead ones.From Publishers WeeklyThe story of a boy who stutters, at war with, yet entranced by, language, Shields's ( Heroes ) second novel is a bitingly funny cry from the heart and a mordant paean to the power of words. "Sometimes my childhood seems . . . an endless series of . . . overwrought attempts to get beyond a voice that bothered me," reflects Jeremy Zorn, victim of a speech defect that becomes his life's animating principle. Snared by sibilants, reduced to social helplessness, like a modern-day Demosthenes he resolves to use language to "rearrange the world." His handicap comes to seem emblematic of obstacles to communication in general, and helpful in dramatizing them: "I thought it was my duty to insert into every conversation the image of its own absurdity," Jeremy contends, and his coming-of-age requires a comprehensive survey of the available means of verbal rebellion. They include ghetto slang; sign language; singing in the school chorus; debating; and Latin (which "existed only on the page. . . . was always silent"). However, Jeremy's fitting, final choice of existential weapon is fiction. Shields flexes substantial intellectual muscle, yet powerfully sympathetic portraits of Jeremy, his family and their friends also account for the novel's vitality; all and sundry invite effervescently sarcastic comment from the stutterer. The frustration bred by his "neurasthenic self-consciousness" commands Jeremy to let off steam of a high order of hilarity, while driving him to search for his place in the world with uncommon, compelling ferocity. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library JournalFrom Billy Budd to Billy Bibbitt, characters tormented by stuttering and thus prevented from expressing their most passionate feelings have played a central role in American literature. But Jeremy Zorn is the first such character to narrate his own story. For Zorn, stuttering is a barrier that must--at all costs--be breached or circumvented. But his is much more than the story of a young man's struggles to overcome a frailty of nature. It is finally an insightful examination of the struggles of children and parents to articulate their love for one another. The result is as touching and funny a rendering of adolescence as The Catcher in the Rye . Those recently emerged from adolescence will readily see its truth; the well read will delight at Shields's ability with narrative. But Dead Languages speaks to everyone who has ever struggled to articulate an emotion and failed to find the words.- Frank Pisano, Pennsylvania State Univ., University ParkCopyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. Views: 67
Faith, hope--and charity!Nothing exciting ever happened to Charity. Her job as a hospital secretary was hectic but routine. Even the man everyone expected her to marry was safe, reliable and dull. There surely had to be more to life.So, when professor Jake Wyllie-Lyon offered her the chance to work for him, Charity didn't hesitate to accept.The job was everything she had dreamed of--and so was Jake! But there Charity's problems really began.... Views: 66
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It was a brutal, vicious crime -- sixteen years old. A helpless old woman battered to death with an axe. Harry Painter hung for it, and Chief Inspector Wexford is certain they executed the right man. But Reverend Archery has doubts . . . because his son wants to marry the murderer's beautiful, brilliant daughter. He begins unravelling the past, only to discover that murder breeds murder -- and often conceals even deeper secrets . . . Views: 66
The eerie old house gives Jim and Arthur the creeps - a really horrible witch must live there! But somehow they can't keep away, even when a mysterious white face appears at the window. Views: 66
Fed up with the changes being made in the Wizard's Guild, Kedigern, a master magician, resigns and decides to search for a suitable wife Views: 66
When a rare coin vanishes, an appraiser tries to clear her name—and exposes one family’s lethal secretsAppraising rare coins for Grandby & Sons, a venerable Madison Avenue auction house, is a dream come true for Mary Lou Bateson. She even gets a chance to inspect the Havistock Collection of priceless coins, which includes the Demaretion, a rare, ancient Greek silver piece. But when the Demaretion disappears just after her assessment, the young numismatist becomes the number-one suspect.Placed on indefinite leave, Bateson enlists the help of a New York Police Department cop and an insurance detective to go behind the closed doors of one of New York’s most powerful and untouchable families. The Havistocks are keeping some dangerous secrets, including a kleptomaniac daughter, a sex-addicted daughter-in-law, and a sleazy nest of adultery, pornography, and damning secrets someone is willing to kill to keep.From Publishers WeeklySanders's legion of fans will be disappointed by this caper/suspense tale that is clearly a lesser effort by the bestselling novelist. Six-foot-two and every inch of her honest, Mary Lou "Dunk" Bateson is a coin appraiser at a New York auction house. She is forced to become an amateur detective when a prized Greek coin disappears from a collection that has been transferred to her company for auction. First treated as a prime suspect, Dunk determines to clear her name by ferreting out the real thief. In the process, she finds two interesting suitors in the cop and the insurance investigator who are assigned to the case, as well as encountering the bizarre family of Archibald Havistock, owner of the purloined coin. As she meets the Havistock household, Dunk uncovers scandal and perversity in the family closet, providing her with plenty of suspects. More lighthearted than Sanders's lurid crime novels, this is nonetheless far from a compelling spellbinder. Literary Guild selection; first serial to Cosmopolitan. (June 5pLYING IN STATECopyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. Views: 65
A new BATTLESTAR GALACTICA adventure!
"DIE, CHAMELEON!"
A mutiny is raging on board the fleet ship Eureka. A group of terrorists, intent on abandoning the Galactica caravan, have hijacked the ship—holding Apollo, Croft and Chameleon hostage.
And while Starbuck attempts a most deadly rescue mission, the villainous Crutch toys with Chameleon's life—and the devastating truth about Chameleon's past is revealed! Views: 65
