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Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. A husband, father, grandfather--he is also secretly gay.

In 1915, Jean Dartemont heads off to the Great War, an eager conscript. Soon, however, the vaunted "war to end all wars" is just an unimaginable, unceasing slaughter.

When four crewmen die in an explosion launching the Mars Transit Vehicle, the US decides to kill the manned mission to Mars. Tycoon John Axelrod decides to fund the project himself ...

Thirteen-year-old Meg envies her older sister Molly's beauty and popularity. Things get even more complicated the day Molly is rushed to the hospital. That's the day Meg's life changes forever.

Glamorous reporter Crystal French blows into Lochdubh and is promptly given a speeding ticket by Constable Hamish Macbeth. She then rakes up old local scandals, outraging the entire village.

A bold English adventurer; an invincible Japanese warlord; a beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love--all brought together in an extraordinary saga of a time and a place afl

In the next century, the United States and Russia have joined forces to form the International Peacekeeping Force.

Master Sergeant Reed Beckham and his Delta Force Team, codenamed Ghost, are called in when a top secret Medical Corps research facility goes dark.

Master Sergeant Reed Beckham and Dr. Kate Lovato race to save humanity.

Martin Terrier is a hired killer who wants out of the game so he can settle down and marry his childhood sweetheart. After all, that's why he took up this profession.

All Francis Falbo has left is his childhood home, whose remaining rooms he rents to a cast of eccentric tenants.

Naples, 1932. At the high-class brothel in the center of town known as Paradiso, Viper, the most famous prostitute of all, is found dead after being suffocated with a pillow.

Inspector Montalbano is stumped when two bombs explode outside empty warehouses, one of which is connected to a big-time drug dealer.

At the dusk of the twenty-first century, the splintery metaconsciousness of the solar system sometimes spams Earth's networks with plans for disastrously disruptive technologies.

Left penniless after the death of her father, Amaryllis Duvane is forced to work as a servant in the home of her wealthy relations.