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Katherine Mary O'Fallon was 16 when she went from Boston to a ranch in Canada. Soon she met Mike Flanningan of the Canadian Mounted Police and they went to live in the far north. Their story is a romance and they experience happiness, hardship, tragedy, and courage together.

The stranger who helped Georgina to smuggle goods from France also introduced her to high society in London and in doing so, foiled an attempt on the life of the Prince of Wales.

After the death of her fiance, all Lyn wanted was to get as far away from her old life as possible and the offer of a job as nanny seemed just what she was looking for. But she had not bargained for the child's uncle, Rick, a man you could not ignore...

Novella Wentworth is used to solitude, with her father away at war and her mother confined to her sick-bed. So she is surprised when a young gentleman, fleeing for his life, begs for sanctuary in their family house. Novella becomes deeply entrenched in this gentleman's business which leads her to a dangerous mission in London.

With a viewpoint that shifts as crisply as cards in the hands of a blackjack dealer, Carol Shields introduces us to two shell-shocked veterans of the wars of the heart. There's Fay, a folklorist whose passion for mermaids has kept her from focusing on any one man. And right across the street there's Tom, a popular radio talk-show host who has focused a little too intently, having married and divorced three times.

Esi decides to divorce after enduring yet another morning's marital rape. Though her friends and family remain baffled by her decision (after all, he doesn't beat her!), Esi holds fast. When she falls in love with a married man-wealthy, and able to arrange a polygamous marriage-the modern woman finds herself trapped in a new set of problems. Witty and compelling, Aidoo's novel, inaugurates a new realist style in African literature.

On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria – the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport – is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like a bridal train. As he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils, Delaura feels something shocking begin to occur. He has fallen in love – and it is not long until Sierva Maria joins him in his fevered misery.