Amanda Armitage is almost as much a captive of her family's international investigations agency as the women she discovers in an old cracker shack in the Florida outback. While attempting to rescue these victims of trafficking, the girl known as Mandy Mouse metamorphoses into a dynamic, independent woman who might even be able to rekindle a romance with the husband she hasn't seen in five years. Views: 28
The gripping story of life on the inside and the outside of one of Britain's toughest prisons.
Donna Brunos worships her husband and is devastated when he is
jailed for armed robbery. Georgio swears he s been set up and persuades
Donna to help him escape.
Implementing the jump takes Donna into a twilight world she never
believed existed - a world of brutal sex and casual violence. Finally,
she is confronted by a series of shattering revelations that threaten
not only everything she believes in but also, ultimately, her own
life... Views: 28
A novel about an ambitious Long Island girl filled with "pitch-perfect observations about adolescence, the suburbs, [and] the 1960s" (Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion). It is 1966, and fourteen-year-old Maude longs to escape Levittown. When she obtains a scholarship to a prestigious prep school, her parents do not approve. The Pughs are not a private school type of family. Having abandoned their Greenwich Village past, they now live in a house where the walls are painted black to better showcase the paintings of Maude's self-absorbed father. Maude is eager to enter the world of the Bay Farm School and its socially privileged students. She befriends a girl who lives on a nearby estate, entranced by her elegant lifestyle and envious of her mother's easy affection. Yet her new friend is embarrassed by her wealth—and intrigued by the Pughs' bohemian lifestyle. Maude has tried to carefully construct a new life... Views: 28
We hope you've been good—but not too good—because Santa's got a naughty bundle of goodies for you from some of Harlequin's hottest authors. The stories in this bundle are guaranteed to heat up your holidays with sizzling sensuality, unyielding obsession and aching desire...all culminating in the fulfillment and joy of a satisfying romantic ending. With a story for each of the twelve days of Christmas at one very low price, you can easily afford to buy one for yourself and fill your holidays with the incomparable pleasure of exceptional romance only Harlequin can deliver.Bundle includes: Luv U Madly by Alison Kent, Deliver Me by Karen Anders, Signed, Sealed, Seduced by Jeanie London, Wrapped and Ready by Julie Kenner, A Sicilian Marriage by Michelle Reid, The Italian's Blackmailed Bride by Jane Porter, The Sultan's Seduction by Susan Stephens, Stroke of Midnight by Julie Kistler, Impulsive by Jamie Denton,... Views: 28
In the days of medieval knights, Irisa Mansfield is looking for something else in her life besides her impending marriage to a knight she despises. In her runaway quest, she meets Sir Ware Kilburn, a dragon rider and a champion against the man they both hate. In a battle to the death, can Ware defeat evil or will he lose his life and the love of a damsel in distress? Views: 28
Alexander McCall Smith, best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, has turned his hand to humour. The delightful result is a creation of comic genius. For in the unnaturally tall form of Professor Doctor Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, we are invited to meet a memorable character whose sublime insouciance is a blend of the cultivated pomposity of Frasier Crane and of Inspecteur Clouseau’s hapless gaucherie. Von Igelfeld inhabits the rarefied world of the Institute of Romance Philology at Regensburg, a world he shares with his equally tall and equally ridiculous colleagues, Professors Florianus Prinzel and Detlev Amadeus Unterholzer. Their unlikely adventures are described in three deliciously funny instalments: Portuguese Irregular Verbs, The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs and At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances. Views: 28
Colby Agency's Patrick O'Brien knew only two things for sure: Sande Williams was a complete mystery and a woman in serious trouble. She was also gorgeous, but he wasn't about to put that in his internal report.She'd woken up in a morgue--with toe tag and all! How could that happen, and why didn't she know who she was or where she'd come from? One by one the people associated with her were turning up dead. Was she an unwilling participant in an identity scheme or an accomplice? It was just the kind of case the Colby Agency took on--and just the kind of woman who could worm her way into Patrick's closed-off heart. But would he be next in line for termination...? Views: 28
A riveting new historical adventure in the "I Witness" series, from Newbery Medal winner, Avi. Views: 28
A new series from Sally Morgan (bestselling author of My Place) and her children, full of imagination, mischief and adventure -- the perfect mix for boys aged 7 to 9. Curly gets in trouble enough already, but when the monster in the cupboard turns out to be a mischievous little creature called a Fent, Curly is about to find out where the trouble really starts! Adults can't see the Fent, so when the Fent tickles Curly in the car until he shrieks, and farts in the classroom, and eats Curly's dad's new invention, there's no one to blame but Curly. So unfair! But there's worse to come. Curly lives next door to the school bully -- and Billy can see the Fent too. Billy wants the Fent for himself. Can Curly save the Fent from Billy and get him home to his family? Views: 28
Now living in New York, ex-cop Frank Clemons investigates a brutal slashing The sleek high-rises of Park Avenue make Frank Clemons uneasy. The former Atlanta homicide detective came to New York after a sickening murder case soured him on the South, but despite the glitz of his new surroundings and the beauty of the woman he shares them with, the city makes his skin crawl. Now a private eye, he is only at ease in the city's darker corners, among the whores, gamblers, and pimps who call Eighth Avenue home. That affinity for the isolated is what draws him to Hannah Karlsberg, an elderly seamstress who deserved a better death than she got. Hannah's employer asks Clemons to find the victim's next of kin, so the police can release the body for burial. As he learns about the dead woman's past, which stretches back to the Lower East Side of the 1930s, Clemons becomes obsessed with unearthing the decades-old secret that led to her death. Views: 28
