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Title: Chimera |
| Author: Lois Carroll | |
| Genre: paranormal romantic suspense | |
| ISBN: 1-59414-457-5 | |
Carolyn battles ghosts in her inherited haunted house to achieve a dream
while mounting evidence points to the man she loves trying to steal it
from her.
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Title: When Roses Bloom |
| Author: Lois Schwartz | |
| Genre: Sweet Romance | |
| ISBN: 0-8034-9722-9 | |
About My Book: When Michelle, the financial manager of her family s large
tree farm, burns her wedding dress on the front lawn, she s done with men
and thinks they're all after her money. It takes a man who's down and out
after selling everything but his truck to pay his late wife's medical bills,
to show her some men aren't interested in her for her money and can be
trusted.
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Title: A Sweet Deceit |
| Author: Lois Schwartz | |
| Genre: Sweet romance | |
| ISBN: 0-8034-9805-5 | |
Ali operates a promotions business and bids for the contract for a grand
opening of a bakery. Her new neighbor is Jase, owner of the chain, but
he doesn't let on who he is. They date and he's pleased her interest is
in him and not his money. He's sure the deception can t hurt. When she
discovers he's lied about who he is, she's devastated.
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Title: Sweetie's Diamonds |
| Author: Raymond Benson | |
| Genre: Thriller | |
| ISBN: 1-59414-455-9 | |
Diane Boston lives with her Marfan syndrome-afflicted 13-year-old son in
a suburb of Chicago and teaches social studies at the high school, with the
students even voting her Teacher of the Year. But she has some dark secrets.
Her ex-husband Greg always suspected that Diane kept things from him, but
he has no idea just how right he is. When Diane's son, David, finds a box
of unmarked videotapes and watches one of them out of curiosity, he discovers
that it's a hardcore adult movie from the late 1970s. The star, Lucy Luv,
was an actress that mysteriously disappeared in 1980. Some suspected she'd
been murdered. David recognizes the actress as his mother. Then, somehow,
the news of Diane's involvement in the adult film business hits the streets
and causes chaos at her school and at home. It also attracts the attention
of the West Coast porn czar who has ties with organized crime. Apparently
when Lucy Luv disappeared, she took a cache of stolen diamonds with her.
This is the catalyst for a non-stop roller-coaster ride of suspense and mystery
that involves the dark side of the adult film industry, the mob, kidnapping,
and murder.
Author Raymond Benson penned nine James Bond 007 novels between 1996-2002 and has written other thrillers, including FACE BLIND and EVIL HOURS, as well as the best-selling TOM CLANCY'S SPLINTER CELL and TOM CLANCY'S SPLINTER CELL--OPERATION BARRACUDA (using the pseudonym "David Michaels).
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Title: Heir Today... |
| Author: J.J. & Bette Golden Lamb | |
| Genre: Mystery | |
| ISBN: 1-59414-356-0 | |
How far would you go to retrieve a quarter-million-dollar inheritance?
For investigative journalists Paige & Max Alper, the paper chase starts when
they reject an heir-tracer's proposal to split the money 50-50.
They drop everything to hopscotch from San Francisco to San Diego to New York to Hong Kong in their search.
Along the way they're threatened, trapped, stripped naked, and set afire before they find the prize...and a whole lot more.
For the Alpers, a simple treasure hunt turns into an international adventure of intrigue, death, and revenge.
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Title: Autumn Desire |
| Author: Sharon Noble | |
| Genre: Romance | |
| ISBN: 1-59414-486-9 | |
When a sudden heart attack claims the life of Paula's husband, a popular
teacher and researcher, she is left rudderless. Grasping for a sense of
purpose, she returns to college where she finds herself face to face with
the man she holds responsible for her loss. How could she know her life
had been unfulfilled and that her journey to selfhood would fire an undeniable
passion for her husband's enigmatic rival?
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Title: The Flock |
| Author: James Robert Smith | |
| Genre: Thriller | |
| ISBN: 978-1594143773 | |
SALUTATIONS USA is the ideal town built by Berg Brothers, the studio that
produced family films for generations of families. Constructed on a parcel
of the decommissioned site of what was the Edmunds Bombing Range, it is the
great Studio's intention to create a place that is what America once was,
with room to expand.
But the land beyond Salutations is wilderness--450, 000 acres protected from development because of its former military status. Other forces struggle against the company for control of those acres. Vance Holcomb, billionaire ecologist wishes to construct a research center, saving the rare habitats. Winston Grisham, retired Marine colonel, wants all parties away, capitalist exploiters and meddlesome tree-huggers alike; he and his militia wish to be left alone. Ron Riggs, Fish & Wildlife officer wants to know what is lurking at the edges of Salutations. And the lawyers slug it out in the Florida courts.
Unknown to most, this backcountry
is home to the last population of a creature believed extinct: Titanis walleri,
a predatory ground bird of saurian form. The creatures, possessed of near-human
intelligence, have hidden since the first Native Americans came from the
north. With humans on the doorstep, knocking to come in, the Flock does not
wish to be disturbed.
THE FLOCK is the story of the conflicts between developers and protectors,
between warriors and thinkers, between Mankind and a creature not unlike
the theropod predators they so resemble in body and spirit; an adventure
and suspense novel of epic proportion.
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Title: Death of an Obnoxious Tourist |
| Author: Maria Hudgins | |
| Genre: Traditional Mystery | |
| ISBN: 1594144672 | |
No one on the tour of Italy liked Meg Bauer but when she is murdered in her
Florence hotel room with her sister's new knife everyone on the tour was
elsewhere. The carabinieri think it was the gypsy who had stolen her sister's
room card earlier.
There's a good reason why it couldn't have been the gypsy and Dotsy Lamb, history professor from Virginia, figures it out with a little help from her friend Lettie, a punk/Goth teenager and a digital camera.
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Title: Tabor's Trinket |
| Author: Janet Lane | |
| Genre: Historical Romance | |
| ISBN: 1-59414-542-3 | |
A Gypsy who loathes travel.
A penniless nobleman who reads romances on the sly.
A child king destined for failure.
It's 1435 and nothing is as it seems when Richard, Baron Tabor, meets the stunning Gypsy, Sharai. Left destitute after his castle is attacked, Tabor seeks revenge and recovery of his properties. A former slave, Sharai seeks wealth and security. Their passions bring them together, but their ambitions plunge them into a life-and-death struggle that demands a painful choice between duty and love.
It's set in a unique period in history when Gypsies were actually welcomed, their travels even financed by the nobility in the countries where they traveled. Dubbed the Gypsy social honeymoon period, it lasted for just a few decades as the Gypsies ventured into Western Europe. Growing mistrust, a waning interest in pilgrimages and increasing incidents of thievery and culture clashes combined to end the honeymoon. The incidents in Tabor s Trinket occur as the honeymoon begins to sour.
FOUR STARS FROM ROMANTIC TIMES: "This adventurous and chivalrous story succeeds on many levels. Two loyal, hard-working and resourceful characters bring this medieval tale to life. The harsh conditions of life and survival provide a dramatic foil for the deepening emotions of Tabor and Sharai. This is an emotionally satisfying tale." ... reviewer Sarah Wethern
FROM HARRIET KLAUSNER: "Sharai refreshes the tale with her courage and fortitude as she comes to the aid of her beloved several times keeping him safe from a backstabbing rival. The exciting story line focuses on an era filled with betrayals."
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Title: Hounds of Ardagh |
| Author: Laura J. Underwood | |
| Genre: Fantasy | |
| ISBN: 978-1594143762 | |
"Laura J. Underwood is certainly one of the major fantasy writers today
. . ."
- Marion Zimmer Bradley, author of Mists of Avalon
Ginny Ni Cooley never desired more than the simple life she had. Living in Tamhasg Wood, she used her magic to occasionally assist the folk of Conorscroft while putting up with the machinations of the ghost of her former mentor, Manus MacGreeley. But her peace is shattered one night with the arrival of a lad fleeing a pack of red-gold hounds led by a hound-shaped demon known as Nidubh.
So much for peace and solitude. By rescuing Fafne MacArdagh, Ginny becomes wrapped in the fabric of an intrigue involving a family feud, a traitorous son and a bloodmage named Edain who is determined to keep her soul. It was she who cast the spell on Fafne's family and household, and transformed the MacArdaghs into hounds.
Ginny gives Fafne her word to take him to Caer Keltora so they can report the matter to the Council of Mageborn. But Edain is determined to keep her secret and her soul intact, and moves to thwart Ginny at every turn. For Ginny Ni Cooley, who has faced many bogies, dealing with a demon, a bloodmage and the Dark Lord of Annwn, will be no easy task. But she will do what she must to undo Edain's spells. If not, Manus' soul will become part of the Arawn's Cauldron of Doom. Ginny will become a feast for a demon, and poor Fafne will join the Hounds of Ardagh for all eternity.
From Library Journal, September 15, 2006 "The author of Ard Magister and Dragon's Tongue has crafted a fantasy steeped in Irish folklore and myth and peopled with likable, resourceful characters. Suitable for most fantasy and YA collections."
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Title: Destroying Angels |
| Author: Gail Lukasik | |
| Genre: Mystery | |
| ISBN: 1-59414-360-9 | |
In DESTROYING ANGELS, Leigh Girard, who is the book's journalist sleuth,
is looking to get her life back in order after breast cancer turns her world
upside down. She flees Chicago, her troubled marriage and her college teaching
career, and moves to Egg Harbor, WI, a resort community on the Door County
peninsula, where she hopes to heal from her mastectomy. She lands a job as
a reporter for the local newspaper, and her first assignment is an obituary
of a well-known carpenter and amateur naturalist. He appears to have died
from cirrhosis of the liver. The day after the naturalist's death, the local
librarian commits suicide. And Leigh is also assigned her obit. As she works
on the two stories, she sees connections between the two deaths and suspects
that one or both of these people may have been murdered. But the police don't
think there's been any foul play. So Leigh launches her own investigation,
which eventually leads to a confrontation with the murderer that threatens
Leigh's life.
DESTROYING ANGELS is the first book in a four-part series.
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Title: Season of the Burning Souls |
| Author: Ken Hodgson | |
| Genre: Historical mystery | |
| ISBN: 1-59414-482-6 | |
In the strangely hot and dry summer of 1943, residents of Silver City, New
Mexico have begun to burn up...literally. Cases of spontaneous human combustion
start striking such diverse denizens as a cave dwelling prophet, a banjo
player in a traveling medicine show, along with a 101-year-old nun.
Kinky Friedman, author of TEN LITTLE NEW YORKERS, says, "it is simply one of the best books I've read in years."
The LIBRARY JOURNAL says, "don't
miss this book!"
This novel is written by an author of numerous westerns, mysteries and thrillers.
It is fast-paced with lots of offbeat characters.
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Title: Death and the Family Tree |
| Author: Linda Berry | |
| Genre: Mystery | |
| ISBN: 978-1-59414-526-1 | |
This title, due out in May, is the fifth of my Trudy Roundtree
mysteries. Trudy is the first (and so far only) female police officer in
the small south-Georgia town of Ogeechee. Her cousin, Henry Huckabee, the
Chief of Police, hired her because their grandmother and his mother ganged
up on him and threatened to quit making banana pudding for him if he didn't.
In this novel, Hen and Trudy investigate the death of the town's oldest ex-mayor, which occurred during Ogeechee's Bicentennial celebration and the ex-mayor's family reunion. Who'd want to kill an old man, and why? The answers, of course, lie within the tangled branches of the family tree.
If you like humor with your crimes, you might like Trudy. I say these novels are soft-boiled and mixed with grits.
Earlier books in the series (Death and the Icebox; Death and the Walking Stick) will be out in paperback from Worldwide within the year.
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Title: A Final Judgment |
| Author: Michael A. Black | |
| Genre: Mystery | |
| ISBN: 978-1-59414-426-4 | |
Lawyers . . . Chicago-based Private Detective Ron Shade has a cop's inherent
distrust of them, even though it's been years since he was relieved of his
badge. Still, when his old friend, Rick Walters, who happens to be a member
of the bar, needs help doing the legwork for a wrongful death lawsuit, Shade
reluctantly agrees. Then he finds out they'll be going up against the preeminent
attorney in Cook County, Mason Gilbert, and his famous detective associate,
Big John Flood. Both men are local legends and Shade feels like a novice
stepping into the ring for a title shot. To make matters worse, the trial
is in only three weeks and there's a lot of work to do. The first PI that
Rick Walters hired committed suicide midway through the preparation. Or did
he? Little inconsistencies start to pop up as Shade begins his investigation,
and pretty soon he's hot on the trail of something very elusive in a case
like this: The truth. Then an opportunity he's been dreaming of suddenly
materializes: a shot at the world heavyweight kickboxing championship. Finding
himself up against seemingly unbeatable opponents, Shade feels like he's
been swept up in a maelstrom as he tries to cover all the bases. But this
time Shade finds out that the final judgment just might be death.
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Title: Fevreblau |
| Author: Kenneth Mark Hoover | |
| Genre: Science fiction | |
| ISBN: 1-59414-361-7 | |
"Fevreblau" explores a future from the viewpoint of ordinary people
trapped in extraordinary circumstances.
Nikolai Sholokhov has arrived in Moscow for what is euphamistically called "Privilege," after spending eighteen months on the Moon calibrating an array for the Star Whipser Project -- an ultra-secret program that has detected radio signals around a distant star in the constellation Hercules.
Once in Moscow Nikolai meets an adroit thief, Turi Tur, and befriends a young woman, Galina, who is fleeing one of the Union Houses after a citywide riot. Nikolai soon discovers he is alone at the epicenter of a sweeping revolution that will not only change the basic social dynamics of Humanity, but the culture of an enire world.
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Title: Chocolate Magic |
| Author: Karen Sandler | |
| Genre: Romantic Comedy | |
| ISBN: 978-1410402424 | |
Kat Roth and Mark Denham have plenty in common -- they're CEOs of rival Seattle-area
candy companies, they're both in feverish pursuit of number one status
in the nation and they were both once married . . . to each other. Their
brief venture into matrimony, an explosive mix of hot passion and all-out
war, has made Kat and Mark wary of love and leery of the sparks between
them. Push comes to shove when they finally give in to the heat between
them. After several days of back-to-back lovemaking bouts, Kat convinces
herself she's found the perfect solution to the seemingly bottomless pit
of lust she feels for her ex - a passionate sex-only affair, avoiding all
the messy complications of love. Then the night of the chocolate tasting,
Kat experiences the ultimate betrayal . . . the two of them are locked
up in her office by close friends who refuse to let them out until they
resolve their differences. In a firefight of love and passion, Kat finally
confesses her fears of failing at love. Mark admits his own fear that he
doesn't know what real love is. They both realize that their verbal fireworks
really drives them closer together. They agree to remarry, joining together
physically and fiscally, in chocolate and in love.
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Title: Why Casey Had to Die |
| Author: L. C. Hayden | |
| Genre: Mystery | |
| ISBN: 1-59414-493-1 | |
Retired Detective Harry Bronson thought he had solved his first case, but
now twenty years later, new evidence surfaces and Bronson is forced to start
a journey filled with terror--one that places not only him in mortal danger,
but also his beloved wife, Carol. Bronson, in order to save Carol, must race
against time to solve a series of geocache puzzles. If he fails, Carol dies.
But before he can do this, he must figure out WHY CASEY HAD TO DIE.
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Title: Leadville Lady |
| Author: Leslee Breene | |
| Genre: Western Historical Romance | |
| ISBN: 1-59414-546-6 | |
In 1880, Sky Saunders leaves her embezzler husband and travels to Leadville,
Colorado. When Sky accepts a position with room and board as a bookkeeper
at a local gambling house, Marshal Cody Cassidy is concerned with her living
and working there. He believes it is no place for a lady! He is also concerned
that she co-owns a silver mine as someone is killing off claimants to steal
their mines. Their relationship makes for a fun western romance, complicated
by a devious villain.
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Title: A Family Of Strangers |
| Author: Sanchona | |
| Genre: Historical Saga | |
| ISBN: 1594145431 | |
This novel took me 30 years to research and write. I expect it to entertain
as well as inform readers as they go back into history, to a time when Australia
is founded from humble beginnings as a penal colony.
My novel opens in 1793, and Kate O'Neal is shipped out to Botany Bay to serve her 7-year sentence for castrating her employer's son who had raped and brutalised her. She has to survive a year-long voyage from England and then face a harsh life in a penal colony teeming with men, where convict women are treated as commodity.
Determined to survive, Kate chooses to become Lt Kendrick's convict mistress, and when he loses her in a game of cards, Capt Spencer's "honeypot".
Life is not easy for Kate who is vulnerable at 15 years old. As a convict in a strange new land so far from home, she is virtually at everyone's mercy. The core of her support comes from a group of friends, her "family of strangers". Together, they battle the odds to forge new lives for themselves.
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Title: Sight Unseen |
| Author: Suzanne Barr | |
| Genre: suspense | |
| ISBN: 1594143005 | |
After young Richard's mother dies, he overhears wealthy family friends, Ashton
and Iris Burke, saying that they could not take him into their home. He is
later adopted by the Johnson's, but hates the working class life that he
endures throughout childhood. After serving in the military, Richard goes
to college where he studies architecture, the same profession as Ashton Burke.
Richard worms his way back into the Burkes' life when their architectural
firm, Burke and Burke, is most vulnerable after a faulty cement accident.
Ashton Burke is thrilled when he hires Richard Johnson because not only did
he bring a Pentagon contract with him, but he seems the perfect man for his
daughter, Susan. Ashton arranges for them to meet. Everything seems to fall
into place for Susan and Richard as they fall in love and marry.
However, the family's world gets turned upside down when Susan and Richard's infant daughter, Ashley Rose, is kidnapped. They race against time--and the kidnapper--to recover their precious child . . . but what happens is more chilling than ever imagined . . .
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