Roger Duvoisin

On a snowy night in February, at the improbable point in Lower Manhattan where Waverly Place intersects Waverly Place, a photographer named Leo meets Veronica for the first time. Starkly beautiful, mysterious, aloof, she leads him into a world where illusion blends seamlessly with reality--a luminously transformed city where powerful underground streams crisscross beneath the streets, a city of dragonpoints and Tibetan mysticism where real time is magically altered. Ten years have passed since Veronica's father, the famous magician Albin White, disappeared while performing a dangerous feat of time travel before a packed theater audience. White's disappearance was no accident: he was sabotaged by his apprentice Starwood, who interfered at a critical moment and sent him hurtling into the past, free to explore other eras but with no means of returning to the present.Until Veronica finds Leo...From the Trade Paperback edition.

SHE WAS AS SULTRY AND HOT AS THE EXOTIC HAWAIIAN ISLANDS SHE LOVED Captain Morgan Tucker saw Jasmine dancing one night and assumed she was a tiger in bed. So he had her abducted and brought to his ship. Too late he discovered he had seduced a virgin. When Jasmine thought she was pregnant, her father forced Captain Tucker to marry her. Though they were united in passion, Jasmine believed Morgan did not really care for her. Morgan thought the beautiful creature in his bed incapable of real love. Set in the mid 1800s against the struggles of the Hawaiian people to free themselves of foreign rule, here is a passionate tale of two lovers who must learn to express what is in their hearts.

Santa Claus decides that he wants to see the sring flowers and Easter time, so he orders a mail-order suit and travels incognito, but the children recognize his beard, nose and twinkle.

A crocodile befriended by the barnyard animals tries to prove to the farmer's wife that he can be her friend too.

AS DIFFERENT AS NIGHT AND DAY... Wealthy Cara Herrington met blue-collar New York cop Mark Sabatini when she was attacked in Central Park. In that very first moment, she knew there was something special about this man. So what if she had money? Mark filled a place in her heart that had been empty for a long time. She could tell that he was going to become a very important part of her life. Someone else seemed to have other ideas, though. Once Cara had been afraid for Mark because of his job. Now both of them were afraid for her. It was beginning to look as if she might not live to experience happily ever after.

When a family buys a new house, each member has a different idea of what color to paint it.

A brief survey of foreign individuals and groups that explored or settled parts of America. Includes Leif Ericson, Columbus, John Cabot, Henry Hudson, and the Pilgrims.

A raccoon tricks Petunia into walking in the forest with him, in hopes of a goose dinner, but his plans are foiled and they end up as true friends.

Both animals and people bathe, eat, greet visitors, play, and sleep, but they may have very different ways of doing each.

Petunia, a goose, discovers a huge, exciting world outside the relm of her farm home, but is happy to return to the farm and her friends.

Relates how Veronica the hippopotamus was brought to America, locked up in a partially constructed building, and was at last taken to live in the country.

A duck and a drake are lonely by themselves, so the duck lays ten eggs, sits on them for a month, and becomes the mother of ten baby ducklings.

A man who lives at the edge of the forest buys himself all the proper hunting equipment, and is very happy walking through the forest and aiming his gun, but never shooting.

The primary colors boast of their own importance until they realize how much they depend on each other.