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Fresh from a harrowing transatlantic crossing aboard the Mauritania and having recently earned a reputation as the best team of shipboard sleuths to sail the seven seas, George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield hardly set foot on land before embarking on another assignment. Temporarily...

In this superb novel—the longest Mr. Richter has written—Sayward, the eldest daughter of Worth and Jary Luckett, completes her mission and lives to see the transition of her family and her friends, American pioneers, from the ways of the wilderness to the ways of civilization. Here is the tumultuous...

Henry Free, they called him now, or Frey in the dialect; and they knew him well in all the Pennsylvania land his own Palatine fellow countrymen had settled. They had even sent him to represent them in the Congress at Washington. Captain Free, they said, when they thought how he had fought for the...

THE DRAGON WAKES UP! What do you do when the dragon wakes up? You don’t run for cover… you read this book cover to cover. Because this dragon is friendly! The book you hold tells a big story. A Chinese farmer breaks his shovel on the head of a fierce warrior. Experts then find an 8,000-man clay...

This is the story of an unloveable rogue named Peter Willems, and his lust for the daughter of an Indonesian chief.

Undercover agent Jake Pierson figures one romantic dinner will get never-been-kissed librarian Mary Walsh to tell him everything she knows about her late father's criminal activities. But the more Mary talks, the more Jake wants to shut her up with kisses. Because he's falling for his own too-trusting...

Ouvrage bilingue, nouvelle traduction ! "Un ancien capitaine au cabotage, Hagberd, attend pour «demain» le retour de son fils... Ayant eu vent, quelques années plus tôt, que celui-ci aurait été vu dans le petit port de Colebrook, il vient s'y installer, persuadé qu'il pourra...

SHELTER FROM THE STORM The leather-jacketed stranger was clearly as dangerous as any man Randi Cullen had ever set eyes on. But she couldn't abandon him—or the defenseless baby with him—to the rainswept Texas night… She offered them both a refuge on her isolated ranch. And when...

Sobre el telón de fondo del Londres de comienzos de siglo, una ciudad monstruosa e indiferente en la que el autor de «El corazón de las tinieblas» (L 5517) encuentra «espacio suficiente para localizar cualquier historia, hondura suficiente para cualquier pasión,...

El argumento de esta pequeña pieza, la cual tuvo tres títulos (El duelo, Los duelistas, o Un asunto de honor, este último a sugerencia de su amigo Ford Madox Ford), nos lleva a las campañas napoleónicas entre 1801-1815. Más que centrarse exhaustivamente en el desarrollo militar de la época, el autor conduce su cámara hacia dos jóvenes oficiales.

La posada de las dos brujas pone en funcionamiento una estrategia narrativa particular. La historia es narrada por un lector. Ese lector dice que, en una librería de usa­dos de Londres, encontró un manuscrito de mediados del siglo XIX, en una caja de libros Viejos y de poco va­lor,...