Joan: 2841 books

Amy Talbot enjoys doing watercolors of plants, but when her brother discovers a body in the water meadow she is dismayed. There are several strangers around Chilton Abbas, and Mr. Renshaw with his bamboozling tales of India, seems a rather suspect one. His interest in Amy (with her large dowry) also...

When Sir Reginald Prance sets up an art studio on Ironmonger Lane, and a man dies, the Berkeley Brigade has an interest in finding out what happened. Lord and Lady Luten, along with Coffen Pattle and butler Black, uncover a nefarious plot to steal Roman ruins. Even Mrs. Ballard takes a job at Mademoiselle...

An old flame rekindles in this fan-favorite tale from New York Times bestselling author Joan Johnston… Wealthy aristocrat Bella Benedict has one last wish: to see her five estranged children happily married. But one of her sons, Max Benedict, has no interest in long-term commitment. Instead,...

When first published, readers young and old eagerly devoured the tale of a street-hardened survivor named Cat, a half-human, half-alien orphan telepath. Named an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, Cat's story has been continued by Hugo-award winning and international best-selling author Joan D. Vinge...

Book two of Joan D. Vinge's beloved Snow Queen cycle of classic science fiction, back in print! When BZ Gundhalinu’s irresponsible older brothers go missing in World’s End, a badlands rumored to drive people mad, he begrudgingly goes after them. The further in he travels, the stranger things...

Do you sometimes wish that your pet could speak or that you really knew what your pet was thinking? What if your pet wrote a tell-all book about your lives together? The Buffy Book is exactly thata true story told by Buffy, a Bichon Frise. In this brutally honest collaboration of Buffys journal entries,...

Die Lady - Isabeau von Anjou - ist ein Falke, frei zu fliegen am Tag, und eine Frau nur bei Nacht. Ihr Geliebter - der Ritter Etienne von Navarre - durchstreift die Nacht als Wolf und ist bei Tag ein Mann. Sie sind dazu verflucht, einander nur für einen flüchtigen Augenblick in der Dämmerung zu...

With exuberance and joie de vivre, author Joan Hough Harrington explores the twists and turns in the hearts and minds of women in this unique compilation of her writing. By turns romantic, sad, amusing, and philosophical in tone, Harringtons work considers a wide range of topics, including...

From New York Times bestselling author Joan Johnston comes a story about how even the most unlikely of men can be a diamond in the rough. Candy Baylor is determined to learn how to train horses and nothing—not even the bullheaded, ruggedly handsome Garth Whitelaw—is going to stop her. When...

Award-winning novelist Joan Thomas blends fact and fiction, passion and science in this stunning novel set in 19th-century Lyme Regis, England — the seaside town that is the setting of both The French Lieutenant's Woman and Jane Austen's Persuasion. More than 40 years before the publication...

Chloe Barwick manages the rundown family estate while her brother Edward plays poet. Her neighbors Lord Carnforth and his daughter Emily seem to be struggling, too, until a wealthy nephew, Jack Gamble, comes home from India. Chloe is suspicious of Jack lending money to her brother, and of Jacks engagement...

**The vivid and absorbing story of a man whose unwavering pursuit of success leaves him searching for the true meaning of life ** Raised in rural Arkansas during the Great Depression, Frank “Son” Wynn leaves home at age fourteen to seek his fortune. Handsome, charismatic, and headstrong,...

Gwen Stone's life takes an abrupt nosedive when Edgar, her husband of twenty years, decides he isn't suited to marriage and leaves her for freedom and the cliché of a shiny new red convertible. But Edgar's own life takes a considerably worse nosedive when he and his new car are mowed down at a level...

When Anastasia Raven agrees to keep Paddy, her cousin's Irish Setter, for the summer, she didn't understand the mischievous nature of a large puppy. Ana has become a volunteer with Family Friends, and she meets Corliss Leonard and his granddaughters, Star and Sunny, whose mother disappeared seven...