Speaking Volumes: 953 books

The Museum of Mexican Arts in Santa Barbara has the usual problemschronic budget deficits and wealthy patrons who like to meddle. When Isabel Cunningham, descendant of one of the oldest Spanish land-grant families, donates a garish Tree of Life, the museum's greedy director accepts at once. Frank De...

In the first part of 'Seven Citadels', Prince Kerish, pampered favorite son of the Emperor of Galkis, and his half-brother Forollkin, are sent to find seven sorcerers who each hold the key to a gate. Legend says that that the seven gates imprison a Savior, who alone can save the embattled Galkian...

In the second part of 'Seven Citadels', Prince Kerish and his soldier half-brother, Forollkin, continue their search for the keys to the Savior's prison. The ugly and irritating Gidjabolgo has his own reasons for joining the voyage through perilous swamps to the mountains where an immortal sorceress...

SURVIVE Live Well and Live Wisely Volume 3 Edited by Sharon Ahern Just as winter has its dangers, so does spring. As you plan your vacation journeys, consider some precautions. Planes get you to your destination quickly but prevent you from carrying protection you might...

Claire Anderson, recently successful screen writer/novelist living in Toronto, witnesses a strange sight. A nude man walks down her pre-dawn street and then vanishes. While still struggling with the reality of what she has seen Claire's agent hands her a good reason to get out of town. She...

In four absorbing volumes, Valerie Anand has traced the Whitmead family from before the time of the Magna Carta through the Restoration to the early 1700s. Now, with The Cherished Wives, Anand turns to a more modern heroine in Lucy-Anne Whitmead, a late eighteenth-century bride. Lucy-Anne's...

Author of Circuit of Heaven and End of Days Some dream the unimaginable. Others dare to live it… When love begins to border on objection. Marion Mead is researching her new novel when the wealthy and mysterious Raymond Lord invites her to his restored plantation in rural Virginia....

Intimate Lies Her Son's Story F. Scott Fitzgerald, the brilliant author of The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night, was a man haunted by failure to live up to his own early successes. In 1937, desperate for money, nearly broken in spirit, he headed west for work as a Hollywood screenwriter...

WHEN TRACKER COMES LOOKING FOR A MAN, NO KID BETTER GET IN THE WAY Tracker rode in just looking for a man and 20,000 stolen dollars. He didn't count on much trouble... except from women. Until he ran into Pat Garrett wearing a brand new sheriffs badge and gunning to kill his ex—best friend—Billy...

THE WARLORD OF A REMOTE MOUNTAIN KINGDOM HAS A DIRTY LITTLE SECRET—A NUCLEAR DEVICE THAT WILL BRING CHINESE, SOVIET AND AMERICAN LEADERS TO THEIR KNEES—AND TURN THE WORLD INTO A LIFELESS DESERT... Led by a maverick flyer named Ryder Long who believes all rules are made to be broken, a handful...

Bannister "is as good at creating suspense as she is at creating characters."—San Jose Mercury News When the publisher of the Skipley Chronicle hired Primrose Holland as his newspaper's advice colum­nist, it was either the best decision he ever made—or the worst. For Rosie, a...

When their businessman father dies suddenly, leaving his affairs in disarray and his family in dire financial straits, it seems that sisters Charlotte and Victoria have little choice but to accept the support offered by their stuffy, authoritarian Uncle Edward. But their mother has other ideas and,...

When Ivon de Clairpont lies down for the night by the blacksmith's fire at Gildenford, sleep does not come easily. The great Norman knight knows himself to be an unwelcome visitor in England, for he is a member of the large party traveling with Alfred Atheling, an exiled son of the deposed English...

Isabel of Northfield should be content. Her lot in life is a decent one: Her parents, though villeins, work a fair living from the land of their Norfolk lord, and her modest dowry is enough to earn her husband a holding of his own. But the flames of dissatisfaction burn within her, fanned by...