Caroline Gray

A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators and policymakers at both national and local levels.

Pounds. Everybody assumes that Julie knows where the money is and her life turns into a nightmare as the pressure to find the missing fortune increases. Twenty-one-year-old Julie Allen is the novel's heroine and naif, educated in a Swiss boarding school, motherless , and entirely ignorant of her father's other life as the kingpin of the Association--until she's called home to London to identify his body at the morgue. He's been murdered by his underworld cohorts because he's had his hand in the till--to the tune of 20 million. Too many people turn up to help Julie, including Major Roberts (or Uncle Bob)--who claims to be an old friend of her father's--and young Teddy Longman, an American student who happened upon Papa Allen's body while walking on the moors. Both try to ensnare her with kisses, but she falls for Teddy, and marries him just as she begins to learn the truth about her father.

The second part of a trilogy set in 17th-century England and France, during the time of the Thirty Years War and, later, the English Civil War. Having fought on both sides in the Thirty Years War, and seen enough catastrophe to last a man a lifetime, Helier L'Eree sought only to hang up his sword and settle down to a life of domesticity in his native island of Guernsey with his beautiful German wife, hopefully beyond the reach of witches and vampires - and witch-hunters. But it was not to be. He is called out of retirement by Cardinal Richelieu to save the life of Henrietta Maria, Queen of England, and sister to the king of France.

Rebellious heiress, courageous pioneer, passionate lover - in a lush, Pacific paradise, Alexandra's legend was born. Alexandra Wantage marries Clarkson Hale, an American photographer, and moves to Malaya, where she tries to turn a failing rubber plantation into a financial empire.

A story about a poor young, orphaned girl who arrives in New York to an unknown future. She was not prepared for the rough and tumble life as a hotel maid! Love, hate, great poverty and great wealth along with Mafia underworld.

She is the owner's representative. On the spot. Therefore, she is responsible for solving problem. Twenty years old and the joint heir to the successful Caribee Shipping line, Helen Edge has just boarded the Caribee Express, bound from Darwin to Singapore with a cargo of rice and sugar. Helen immediately takes to sea life, striking up a friendship with the ship's young captain, Dennis Moore, and for once managing to break free of past unhappy memories. Then chaos strikes when the ship is hijacked by Indonesian revolutionaries. Joanna Grain, with the rest of the crew and the passengers, is now a prisoner on her own ship, far from home and from any British intervention. But Helen's mother, the notorious Joanna, owner of the shipping line, four times married, ex-princess, millionairess and convicted murderess, is not about to give up her only daughter without a fight -- and fighting is what she is best at....

The first of a trilogy set in 17th-century England and France, during the time of the Thirty Years War and, later, the English Civil War. Returning to his home on Guernsey--from which he had been sent away as a child after his mother was burned as a witch--Helier L'Eree abducts Marguerite, daughter of the man responsible for his mother's death, and flees to France where he enters the service of Cardinal Richelieu.

Full of adventure and romance, passion and terror, this story is as sparkling and spirited as its herione, Victoria Lang. Based on a true story, it is the gripping tale of a young widow of a missionary who pits her wits against the elements of Africa, and her fellow men, in order to save her companions from certain death.

The final part of the "Devil" trilogy, in which the veteran swordsman Helier L'Eree has accompanied the future King Charles II to Scotland in an attempt to claim his inheritance. But Helier also has a quest of his own - to seek out and destroy the witch who murdered his family.

'1943. Alison Bennett was just 16 when she met the rough and ready prospector from Brazil. He boasted of how he had discovered the legendary El Dorado, a source of enough gold to make him the wealthiest man in the world. Three years later Pat Grange had achieved his aim, was the richest man in the world - and claimed the girl who'd won his heart. But Alison's innocent loving turns to loathing as she begins to unearth the dreadful secrets of Pat's past. She longs to escape her gilded cage, but escape is impossible - until her husband is mysteriously murdered in their impregnable fortress in the middle of the Mexican desert. From naive girl to boss woman, Alison has to conquer her new world, coming face to face with her enemies and her own desires, for not all the gold in the world can buy her true love - or her life.

Readers of The New York Times know David Sanger as one of the most trusted correspondents in Washington, one to whom presidents, secretaries of state, and foreign leaders talk with unusual candor. Now, with a historian's sweep and an insider's eye for telling detail, Sanger delivers an urgent intelligence briefing on the world America faces. In a riveting narrative, The Inheritance describes the huge costs of distraction and lost opportunities at home and abroad as Iraq soaked up manpower, money, and intelligence capabilities. The 2008 market collapse further undermined American leadership, leaving the new president with a set of challenges unparalleled since Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the Oval Office.Sanger takes readers into the White House Situation Room to reveal how Washington penetrated Tehran's nuclear secrets, leading President Bush, in his last year, to secretly step up covert actions in a desperate effort to delay an Iranian bomb. Meanwhile, his intelligence chiefs made repeated secret missions to Pakistan as they tried to stem a growing insurgency and cope with an ally who was also aiding the enemy--while receiving billions in American military aid. Now the new president faces critical choices: Is it better to learn to live with a nuclear Iran or risk overt or covert confrontation? Is it worth sending U.S. forces deep into Pakistani territory at the risk of undermining an unstable Pakistani government sitting on a nuclear arsenal? It is a race against time and against a new effort by Islamic extremists--never before disclosed--to quietly infiltrate Pakistan's nuclear weapons program. "Bush wrote a lot of checks," one senior intelligence official told Sanger, "that the next president is going to have to cash."The Inheritance takes readers to Afghanistan, where Bush never delivered on his promises for a Marshall Plan to rebuild the country, paving the way for the Taliban's return. It examines the chilling calculus of North Korea's Kim Jong-Il, who built actual weapons of mass destruction in the same months that the Bush administration pursued phantoms in Iraq, then sold his nuclear technology in the Middle East in an operation the American intelligence apparatus missed. And it explores how China became one of the real winners of the Iraq war, using the past eight years to expand its influence in Asia, and lock up oil supplies in Africa while Washington was bogged down in the Middle East. Yet Sanger, a former foreign correspondent in Asia, sees enormous potential for the next administration to forge a partnership with Beijing on energy and the environment. At once a secret history of our foreign policy misadventures and a lucid explanation of the opportunities they create, The Inheritance is vital reading for anyone trying to understand the extraordinary challenges that lie ahead.From the Hardcover edition.

Detroit psychologist Alan Canty maintained a second identity as "Dr. Al Miller," an alleged physician who was drawn to the Motor City's lower depths. He began an affair with 19-year-old prostitute Dawn Spens and got to know her ex-convict pimp, John Fry; both of them were heavy drug users. The analyst lavished great amounts of money on Spens, well over a hundred-thousand dollars, all but bankrupting himself; his wife, also a psychologist, had no inkling of his double life or of his burgeoning debts. Finally, when Dr. Miller tried to break off the relationship, the pimp killed him.

British actress Amanda Brent, beautiful and naive, certainly encounters bad luck sailing her yacht off the Guernsey Islands. First, authorities charge her with the apparent murder of her wealthy husband when he falls overboard after trying to kill her; then, a year later, she stands accused of murdering her second husband when the yacht is wrecked during a return visit.

Honor Williamson grasps at her one chance for happiness when she is offered a home at a sugar plantation on the Saint Vincent island, even though lies and deception are necessary to attain her new life.