The Tempestuous Flame

The Tempestuous Flame

Carole Mortimer

Romance / Contemporary / Fiction

Read this classic romance by USA TODAY bestselling author Carole Mortimer, now available for the first time in e-book!Match made with the millionaire!Caroline Rayner is tired of her father's matchmaking attempts. Even without meeting him, she is sure arrogant businessman Greg Fortnum, with his rakish reputation, isn't her type! So escaping to their family cottage in Cumbria is the perfect hideaway until wealthy, sophisticated, and irresistibly attractive Andre Gregory shows up.But when Caroline figures out Andre's true identity, they realise they've both been tricked! Neither of them wanted to be set up, but after their time alone together, are they a match made in heaven?Originally published in 1979
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A Woman of Substance

A Woman of Substance

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Literature & Fiction / Historical Fiction

A celebration of an indomitable spirit, here is New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford's dazzling saga of a woman who dared to dream--and to triumph against all odds... In the brooding moors above a humble Yorkshire village stood Fairley Hall. There, Emma Harte, its oppressed but resourceful servant girl, acquired a shrewd determination. There, she honed her skills, discovered the meaning of treachery, learned to survive, to become a woman, and vowed to make her mark on the world. In the wake of tragedy she rose from poverty to magnificent wealth as the iron-willed force behind a thriving international enterprise. As one of the richest women in the world Emma Harte has almost everything she fought so hard to achieve--save for the dream of love, and for the passion of the one man she could never have. Through two marriages, two devastating wars, and generations of secrets, Emma's unparalleled success has come with a price. As greed, envy, and revenge consume those closest to her, the brilliant matriarch now finds herself poised to outwit her enemies, and to face the betrayals of the past with the same ingenious resolve that forged her empire.
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The Floating Outfit 54

The Floating Outfit 54

J. T. Edson

J. T. Edson

Ole Devil Hardin's O.D. Connected Ranch was watched over by an elite crew of top hands called the Floating Outfit. Most of them were veterans of the War Between the States. They were skilled with rifle, revolver and knife. Folks in West Texas knew better than to trifle with them. And the biggest man among them was the smallest, a range-toughened ex-Rebel cavalry officer called Dusty Fog.
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Riverworld and Other Stories

Riverworld and Other Stories

Philip José Farmer

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Three stories of a world shared by resurrected humans from all times and places—plus ten more tales by the Hugo Award–winning author of the World of Tiers series. On author Philip José Farmer’s Riverworld, humans from every era and culture have been simultaneously resurrected. Ancient Hebrews, medieval warriors, Spanish Inquisitors, and modern Americans intermingle in this strange new environment, but many still cling to old prejudices. Tom Mix, a silent-film star originally from early-twentieth-century Earth, is journeying among the vast population along the millions of miles of the River, in search of familiar faces from his own time. He’s been traveling the River for five years and believes people are starting to change. But when he’s entangled in a brutal clash between states, he discovers that some are slow to let go of the ideas that ruled them on Earth. This volume includes the novelette “Riverworld,” along with two additional Riverworld tales and ten other short stories, all strange, clever, and profound. Farmer’s explorations of the wonderful and bizarre—from a portrayal of Jesus and Satan as cowpokes to a reimagining of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan in the style of William Burroughs—plunge the reader into “one of the most imaginative worlds in science fiction” (Booklist). This ebook includes“Riverworld,” “J. C. on the Dude Ranch,” “The Volcano,” “The Henry Miller Dawn Patrol,” “The Problem of Sore Bridge—Among Others,” “Brass and Gold (or Horse and Zeppelin in Beverly Hills),” “The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod,” “The Voice of the Sonar in My Vermiform Appendix,” “Monolog,” “The Leaser of Two Evils,” “The Phantom of the Sewers,” “Up the Bright River,” “Crossing the Dark River,” and Philip JosFarmer’s article on the making of Riverworld, “The Source of the River.”
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Rider in the Rain (A Scott Siegel Classic Western)

Rider in the Rain (A Scott Siegel Classic Western)

Scott Siegel

Scott Siegel

Cort Lacey rode back to the valley he had left twelve long years before. Now he was famous—but for all the wrong reasons. There was a woman, too, a special one, and she expected him to do something about the range-hog who was crowding the settlers out of the valley. Haunted by his own reputation and the bloody victories that had built it, Cort realized he had one last chance to wipe the slate clean ... but to do it, he would have to stop the land-grabber and his army of gunfighters in their tracks ...and stop them for good.
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Nest of Vipers

Nest of Vipers

Gladys Mitchell

Gladys Mitchell

A young man who is superintendent of a public swimming pool is unexpectedly left a fortune and a huge, neglected house. Influenced by his ex-fiancee, who looks after his business arrangements, he allows the mansion to be turned into flats to let. When Miss Minnie is found dead in her bed, the murder is followed by the arrest of the young landlord and then another murder. Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley sets out to discover how many murderers there are and works tirelessly to solve these mysteries.
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Jay's Journal

Jay's Journal

Beatrice Sparks

Young Adult / Fiction / Classics

Jay was a sweet, bright high school student who cared about his grades and his friends. He had ambitions. He was happy. And he thought he could handle anything. He was wrong. When Jay falls in with a crowd that's dabbling in drugs and the occult, he finds himself in over his head and doing things he never thought possible. Fascinated by the dark arts and in love with a dangerous girl, Jay falls deeper and deeper into a life he no longer recognizes...and sees no way out.
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Daughters of Eve

Daughters of Eve

Lois Duncan

Mystery & Thrillers / Young Adult / Children's Books

The girls at Modesta High School feel like they're stuck in some anti-feminist time warp-they're faced with sexism at every turn, and they've had enough. Sponsored by their new art teacher, Ms. Stark, they band together to form the Daughters of Eve. It's more than a school club-it's a secret society, a sisterhood. At first, it seems like they are actually changing the way guys at school treat them. But Ms. Stark urges them to take more vindictive action, and it starts to feel more like revenge-brutal revenge. Blinded by their oath of loyalty, the Daughters of Eve become instruments of vengeance. Can one of them break the spell before real tragedy strikes?
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Sundance 20

Sundance 20

Peter McCurtin

Peter McCurtin

Down in Old Mexico for a hunting expedition, Jim Sundance ran into an old friend, down-and-out lawyer Jorge Calderon, who was engaged in a lonely battle to save a poor Indian tribe from slavery - the "forgotten ones" - Los Olvidados. The half-breed gunfighter joined the fight against a bloodthirsty Mexican army colonel and ruthless landowner Lucas Bannerman, the mind behind the slave ring. Sundance knew how desperate and dangerous it was to try to fight the enemies of his people.
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The Ultimate Enemy

The Ultimate Enemy

Fred Saberhagen

Fred Saberhagen

Long ago, in a distant part of the galaxy, two alien races met - and fought a war of mutual extinction. The sole legacy of that war was the weapon that ended it: the death machines, the BERSERKERS. Guided by self-aware computers more intelligent than any human, these world-sized battle craft carved a swath of death through the galaxy - until they arrived at the outskirts of the fledgling Empire of Man. These are the stories of the frail creatures who must meet this monstrous and implacable enemy - and who, by fighting it to a standstill, become the saviors of all living things. With help from wherever they can find it, including World War I fighters and stomatopods, earth descended humans face the ultimate enemy of all life. A Saberhagen classic book length collection of the nine Berserker stories: The Smile, Pressure, The Annihilation Of Angkor Apeiron, Inhuman Error, Some Events At The Templar Radiant, Starsong, Smasher, The Game, Wings Out Of Shadow.
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