Fall in love with this classic romance from fan favorite author Margaret Daley. Even the humid weather of Magnolia Blossom can't melt the tension that flares between Rachel Peters and Michael Hunter. High school sweethearts ten years ago, now they're face-to-face again, and there are a myriad of unanswered questions. Rachel is only back temporarily, to get to know her younger sister and brother again before she takes them away with her. But raising her siblings isn't as easy as she thought it would be, and as she watches Michael tenderly caring for his own son, she knows she needs help. So he agrees to teach her—about family, and about the small- town life she'd forgotten. But she learns much more—about how she might just decide to stay and make a family—that includes Michael.Originally published in 2003

Thirteen-year-old Ben works at Blackwater Logging Camp as cook's helper to his Pa. Long days of flipping pancakes and peeling potatoes with his ornery Pa make Ben long to be out in the woods with the lumberjacks. Felling logs, sawing trees, driving a team through the snowy woods . . . that's what Ben wants to be doing.But the long cold winter in a camp filled with outlandish characters teaches Ben a lot about himself. Especially when an orphan boy called Nevers arrives in camp. When Nevers signs on to work with Pa, Ben makes a friend and a rival, too.From the Hardcover edition.

They said he was a rock star. They said he was an oil baron or an arms dealer. In truth nobody knew much about the enigmatic stranger who had moved into the Hall. When Holly Colcroft gets the call to go and help out she finds the Hall in chaos, and a man emotionally scarred by his past. Might Holly be the woman to save him, or is this a passion too dangerous? Explicit erotic romance.

Brother detectives Frank and Joe find themselves on the basketball court and in the midst of a dangerous team initiation scheme in this thrilling Hardy Boys adventure.Joe and Frank are taken aback when Principal Gerther announces that they need more extracurriculars on their school transcript, and he's signed them up for the basketball team. They think it's odd because they both stink at basketball! But the Hardys soon find out that their principal isn't acting out of concern for their college applications; he wants them to solve a dangerous mystery on the team. It turns out that a band of masked players are kidnapping new team members and then beating them up, blackmailing them, and threatening them—all in an effort to boost performance. Can the boys step up to the line and stop the shadiness?

EMT Anne Lundstrom is running from her past. But it's about to catch up. She thought she'd escaped it when she moved out of the city and into the quiet town of Deep Haven. She certainly never expected to get roped into helping Noah Standing Bear run his summer camp for inner-city kids. Yet Noah has a charisma she can't ignore, and romance is in the air. But when the very danger she was trying to escape threatens her peaceful haven—and her life—Anne must find the courage to face her fears and embrace the one man who can help her understand her past.**

A newsroom has nothing to hide . . . or does it?A killer has everything to lose . . . but is it worth it?A woman has no one to trust . . . so will she be next?Botulism, anthrax, small pox, plague: as medical producer for television's highly-rated morning news program, "Key to America," Annabelle Murphy makes her living explaining horrific conditions to the nation. So when a KEY News colleague dies with symptoms terrifyingly similar to those of the latest scourge, she knows the panic spreading through the corridors of the Broadcast Center is justified. As one death follows another, Annabelle's co-workers look to her for assurance but she finds it hard to give comfort. To her, the circumstances of the infections begin to suggest that they may be diabolical murders. And when the authorities lock down the Broadcast Center with the identity of the killer still unknown, no one can be sure who to trust, and neither the victims nor the murderer can escape... ...

A classic novella about crime, lust, murder, and money.

The finest stories and nonfiction writings by a Native American author and activist Zitkala-Sa wrestled with the conflicting influences of American Indian and white culture throughout her life. Raised on a Sioux reservation, she was educated at boarding schools that enforced assimilation and was witness to major events in white-Indian relations in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Tapping her troubled personal history, Zitkala-Sa created stories that illuminate the tragedy and complexity of the American Indian experience. In evocative prose laced with political savvy, she forces new thinking about the perceptions, assumptions, and customs of both Sioux and white cultures and raises issues of assimilation, identity, and race relations that remain compelling today. Introduction and Notes by Cathy N. Davidson and Ada Norris

Now, this is what I call space opera: huge ships exchanging any number of ravening beams of destruction, implacable alien menaces, doomsday weapons, plucky heroines and heroes fighting desperate odds. Oh, yeah, this is the big time! All of the familiar elements of Reynolds’ fiction are here, from the miraculous but corrupted and decaying technology to the once-glittering but now rather rusty civilizations and the damaged individuals hoping for some sort of redemption. Not to mention the various clades of humanity still managing to survive, despite themselves. Redemption Ark is set in the same universe as Revelation Space and Chasm City but roughly half a century after. Thanks to reefersleep, time dilation and nanotechnology, many of the characters from these two books are still alive and well. Certainly the Inhibitors — lupine machine intelligences that seem to have patrolled our galaxy since it was young — are very much ‘alive’ and well. So well, in fact, that they’re beginning to turn their glacial attention upon the human race with a view to wiping us out, as they’ve wiped out all other intelligent life for millions of years. The Conjoiners, arguably the best (and certainly the most technologically advanced) aspect of humanity, are now split over what to do about the Inhibitor menace. Having secured their own existence by easily defeating the other main human faction in a pointless war, they’re now making contingency plans to secure an even longer term future. But the old warrior Clavain (whom some may remember from an earlier Reynolds story, ‘Great Wall of Mars’, in Spectrum SF 1 ) is suspicious of the motives of Skade, the head of this project. Why is there so much secrecy smothering the new Conjoiner technological initiatives? Why, after a century’s moratorium, has star-drive manufacture now been restarted? And what is the Conjoiner Closed Council so terrified of? (I’m not giving too much away when I say that it might be the Inhibitors). Meanwhile, on the planet Resurgam — Reynolds books always have more than one seemingly-distinct thread in them — where conclusive proof of the existence of the Inhibitors was first discovered (in Revelation Space ), Ilia Volyova and Ana Khouri, late of the lighthugger ‘Nostalgia for Infinity’, have forced to change their own plans by the arrival of the first wave of Inhibitors in the system. Fortunately, the Inhibitors seem to be ignoring the regressive human colony — or are they just thinking bigger…? Redemption Ark is a great work of sf. We know Reynolds can write intelligent stories and build depressingly believable future societies, but now he seems to be getting the hang of writing realistic characters too. Clavain, in particular, is a likeable, intelligent and complex figure, but his opponent, Skade, is not simply a two-dimensional foil either. Both of them are striving towards the same long-term goal — it is mainly their methods that differ. Skade’s drive towards her goals, semi-exposed later in the book, eventually reveal her to be as much a victim as anyone. Similarly, the reasoning behind the Inhibitor mission — rather oddly, given that every character who encounters them speaks of their Lovecraftian evil — is shown to be morally rather more complex than, say, E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith would have allowed with his fearsome villains. As with all of Reynolds’ books, this is a long one. However, it doesn’t ever drag or feel padded out; rather it is exactly the right length. The ending leaves you sated but ready for the next installment. The end of Redemption Ark is only the end of the first skirmish in the war against the Inhibitors. I have the feeling that the best is very much yet to come…