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Meet Macon Leary--a travel writer who hates both travel and strangeness. Grounded by loneliness, comfort, and a somewhat odd domestic life, Macon is about to embark on a surprising new adventure, arriving in the form of a fuzzy-haired dog obedience trainer who promises to turn his life around. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Through Jean M. Auel's magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear. A natural disaster leaves the young girl wandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous...

Naval aviator Jake Grafton's once innocent love of flying has given way to guilt and frustation--and an urgent need to give meaning to the deaths he feels responisble for in Vietnam.

Single mom Dori Robertson is suddenly under pressure to find a new father for her eleven-year-old son. And he's already chosen the guy-former pro-football player Gavin Parker. As it turns out, Gavin's daughter wants her dad to marry again, too. When the kids join forces, Gavin suggests he and Dori start dating, just to satisfy the kids. Dori figures it's safe enough...until he kisses her!

The sequel to "Texas rich", this is the second of four sagas that deal with the passionate and scandalous activities of the wealthy Coleman dynasty. Maggie, the daughter of Moss and Billie Coleman, has invited all the passionate family, plus several hundred guests, to a July 4th barbecue to celebrate the new sense of family pride she's determined to forge. But whether its ambition, jealousy, rivalry, or passion, each Coleman has a drama of his or...

The saga of the Hazards of Pennsylvania and the Mains of South Carolina continues into the turbelent decade following the Civil War. And as the growing country struggles to unite vengeful victor and plundered loser, the survivors of the two families try to keep the faith Continues the saga of two American families, the Mains of South Carolina and the Hazards of Pennsylvania, in the aftermath of the Civil War.

She woke up in a hospital room, barely able to remember her own name. She didn't know what terrible accident brought her there--or the four shadowy strangers who hovered in the darkened corridors. Yet step by step, she unlocked the mysteries of her past--returning to a single night of violence waged by four young men. Susan Thorton awakens in a hospital, after a near-fatal car crash, to see four men lurking outside her door--men who exactly resemble...

A beautiful young girl appears out of nowhere. A teenager with no past, no family--no memories. Carol and Paul were drawn to her. She was the child they'd never had. Most mothers would die for such a darling little angel. And that's what frightened Carol most of all...

A year ago, archaeologist Leslie MacIntyre barely survived the explosion that took the life of her fianc,̌ Matt Connolly. In the long months since, sh's slowly come to terms not only with her loss but with her unsettling new ability to communicate with ghosts, a dubious 'gift' received in the wake of her own brush with death. Now she's returned to Manhattan's historic Hastings House, site of the explosion, to conquer her fears and investigate a newly...

For Amelia Coleman Assante, the last surviving child of a legendary tycoon, it is a time of transition. As her family's kingdom faces challenges on the horizon, she starts a fateful journey that recalls a troubled past controlled by a father's iron will. After years alone, Cary Assante swept into her life, wiping away the shadows of tragedy with a young man's fierce passion. Together they built a billion-dollar dream. But now her husband's success...