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World champion rodeo star Austin McKettrick finally got bested by an angry bull. His career over, his love life a mess, the lone maverick has nowhere to go when the hospital releases him. Except back home to Blue River and the Silver Spur ranch. But his overachieving brothers won't allow this cowboy to brood in peace. They've even hired a nurse to speed his recovery. Paige Remington's bossy brand of TLC is driving him crazy. As is her beautiful face, sexy figure and silky black hair. Paige has lost count of how many times Austin has tried to fire her.

Surviving a vicious massacre, the Aboriginal boy, Mandawuy is the last of his tribe. He will face the ultimate choice - to join with the white man, or to rebel alongside the warriors who are waging a war against them, pitting their stone-age weapons against guns. When George Collinson meets Eloise at the Governor's Mansion in Sydney, it is love at first sight. But Eloise is married to Edward Cadwallader - George's nemesis and a man capable of great brutality, a man who will never let Eloise or their son leave him alive...

Nothing in her cultured East Coast upbringing prepared Elizabeth for a teaching position on the Canadian frontier. Yet, despite the constant hardships, she loves the children in her care. Determined to do the best job she can and fighting to survive the harsh land, Elizabeth is surprised to find her heart softening towards a certain member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Book 1 of the bestselling Canadian West series.

The devastating fire tore through the horse farm, destroying everything it touched. Picking through the wreckage, Dr. Kay Scarpetta uncovers human remains—the work of an audacious and wily killer who uses fire to mask his brutal murders. And when Scarpetta learns that her old nemesis, Carrie Grethen, has escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is somehow involved, the investigation becomes personal. Tragedy strikes close to home. And Scarpetta must match Grethen’s every move with one of her own to douse the inferno of evil that threatens everyone around her...

The love of Sam and Solange Walker began like a fairy tale but ended in tragedy. Their two youngest daughters Alexandra and Megan were adopted into happy homes, but Hilary, the oldest was not so lucky. This is the story of the three sisters and of the man who was determined to help them find one another again.

Just before committing suicide, a Mafia lawyer tells 11-year-old Mark Sway something that the police, the FBI and the Mafia want to know. With a one-dollar bill, Mark retains his own lawyer, feisty Reggie Love. Strong language and some violence. Bestseller 1993.

Suspicion and fear surround the disappearance of a movie star's daughter, and the race to claim the reward for finding her spirals into a deadly trail of voodoo in the French quarter of New Orleans. Policewoman Lorraine Page is on the case.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is about a young boy, Huck, in search of freedom and adventure. The shores of the Mississippi River.

A courageous mongoose thwarts the evil plans of Nag and Nagaina, two big black cobras who live in the garden.