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Penderleigh Castle is the home of the Robertsons, who have just been dealt a terrible blow. Their new master, already an English duke, has just been named the Scottish Earl of Penderleigh. Ian Carmichael, Duke of Portmaine, is proud, aristocratic, handsome as the devil?s right hand, and kinder than any grousing Robertson has a right to expect. Brandy Robertson?the old earl?s granddaughter?takes one look at the duke and her heart goes ballistic. The...

The Gump phenomenon continues!
Forrest Gump is back!
The lovable man for all ages, who captured America's heart in the #1 bestselling novel Forrest Gump and in the blockbuster film, returns in the long-awaited sequel to the book hailed by Larry King as "the funniest novel I have ever read." A little older, and wiser in his own unique way, he is still running through the kaleidoscopic events of our times — and straight into...

A struggling lawyer jumps at an offer by a prestigious law firm to defend one of two crooks on trial, only to discover the firm has marked his client as the fall guy. Set in Philadelphia, the novel looks at the dirty tricks of the legal profession.

Annie Laird is Juror 224. A sculptor with a career going nowhere. A single mother struggling to raise a son. A good citizen who has been summoned to what looks like a routine tour of civic duty. But the trial she is called to serve on is no ordinary trial. It is a mob trial, whose outcome has been meticulously orchestrated by a man of insidious power and deadly precision. A man who lives by the teachings of Lao Tsu...whose magnetism is irresistible...whose...

As the Civil War looms, it threatens to tear apart not only the nation but also families, heritage, and even love itself. Diane Parmelee, the beautiful daughter of a Union officer, finally has the chance to marry the love of her life, the handsome, Harvard-educated Lije Stuart. But, despite his love for Diane, Lije's allegiances lie with his plantation-owning Cherokee family and, in turn, the Confederacy. Further clouding Lije's heart, the war reignites...

In New York a murdered woman is identified as Kathleen Mallory by a label inside her jacket. At that the real Mallory, a computer-literate sergeant in the New York police department who once owned the jacket, fires up her desktop and goes to work.

A missing salami leads Mrs. Pollifax to a shocking discovery: a woman is hiding in her house. Even more unsettling is the revelation that ever since the young woman had a chance encounter with the heir to the throne of Ubangiba, she has been followed by deadly hitmen. What do these men want?

While holidaying in the Caribbean, researcher Phoebe Turlow is transported back to the 18th Century and meets Duncan Rourke, a pirate smuggling arms for the American revolutionaries. Together they live many adventures, following which both are transported to the present. By the author of Yankee Wife.

Unable to get the beautiful Linette Collins out of his mind, soldier of fortune Cain McClellan decides to leave his post in the jungle to persuade Linette to risk her heart again.