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A man with a faded, well-worn notebook open in his lap. A woman experiencing a morning ritual she doesn't understand. Until he begins to read to her. An achingly tender story about the enduring power of love. A man with a faded, well-worn notebook open in his lap. A woman experiencing a morning ritual she doesn't understand. Until he begins to read to her. The Notebook is an achingly tender story about the enduring power of love, a story of miracles that will stay with you forever. Set amid the austere beauty of coastal North Carolina in 1946, The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner returned home from World War II. Noah, thirty-one, is restoring a plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no other. Unable to find her, yet unwilling to forget the summer they spent together, Noah is content to live with only memories...until she unexpectedly returns to his town to see him once again. Allie Nelson, twenty-nine, is now engaged to another man, but realizes that the original passion she felt for Noah has not dimmed with the passage of time. Still, the obstacles that once ended their previous relationship remain, and the gulf between their worlds is too vast to ignore. With her impending marriage only weeks away, Allie is forced to confront her hopes and dreams for the future, a future that only she can shape. Like a puzzle within a puzzle, the story of Noah and Allie is just the beginning. As it unfolds, their tale miraculously becomes something different, with much higher stakes. The result is a deeply moving portrait of love itself, the tender moments and the fundamental changes that affect us all. Shining with a beauty that is rarely found in current literature, The Notebook establishes Nicholas Sparks as a classic storyteller with a unique insight into the only emotion that really matters. "I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough." And so begins one of the most poignant and compelling love stories you will ever read...The Notebook

New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance presents another extraordinary adventure featuring hard-bitten homicide detective J.P. Beaumont, in the series that earned Jance the American Mystery Award.

I'll never see things your way!" Leigh raged. Arrogant, imperious, Derek Mallory--famed English rock star--watched her with mock surprise. Had he summoned her to his palatial estate on Star Island to offer her the chance to prove her own talent... or merely to punish her? She was his best friend's widow. He would never admit the truth... or stop blaming her for Richard's death. Like a cobra, his magnetic eyes hypnotized. Leigh was lulled by his sleek, fluid grace only to be struck by his swift venomous attack. As the hurricane ravaged the Florida coast, she was his prisoner, trapped in a storm of emotions. She ached for him... hated him. What did she want--savage surrender... or her own bittersweet revenge?

A young girl from the wrong side of the tracks secretly adores the son of the richest man in town who is also her mother's lover. After her family is run out of town, she turns her life around. She later returns to her home town, but in an area outside of he town so that no one can tell her what to do. The boy, now a man, who she has adored all of her life tries to get her to leave town again, but ends up falling in love with her and protects her from those who still don't want her there.

SHE WAS A LADY DOCTOR...HE WAS A DESPERATE OUTLAW. ONLY HER HEALING TOUCH COULD IGNITE HIS HEART'S HIDDEN PASSION. Annie Parker came to Silver Mesa, Arizona, because it was the only place she'd found where folks thought a woman doctor was better than no doctor at all. Her lonely life became harder still on the winter night Rafe McCay broke into her office with a bullet in his side and a bounty hunter on his back. With a gun aimed at her heart, he led her deep into the Arizona mountains, and into a world of danger and passion, for Annie discovered in Rafe not only a wounded man, but a soul betrayed...and Rafe, healed by her skill and the magic in her hands, awakened in Annie a woman's tender longing and desire. Pursued by dangerous secrets of the past, they are swept into a thrilling odyssey of the heart - a bold, exhilarating journey that rekindles Rafe's lost hope and transforms Annie's healing gift into a deep, enduring love.

An All-American Smile, and Blue Eyes a Girl Could Drown In... Writer Jake Gannon couldn't believe it - his brand-new Porsche had overheated in the middle of nowhere, and now he was being towed by a brunette named Dixie! He'd driven South in search of the missing Devon Stafford, the exquisite blond actress whose life story he wanted to write. Instead, he was living in a seaside cottage owned by Dixie La Fontaine, a feisty, warmhearted woman who rescued strays and was all delicious curves. Dixie admired Jake's tanned body and perfect smile, but she suspected his ideal woman ate salad and did aerobics all day - how could he be attracted to a lady who'd rather stretch out in the sun than jog on the beach? Jake felt like a cad for lying to Dixie about why he'd come to her town, but he wanted the woman he'd learned to love to share her secrets. Dixie adored this tender man who'd convinced her it was sweet passion, not impossible perfection, he yearned for. But could she trust him to love her for who she was, to write her a fairy-tale ending?

Dark, dangerous Jordan Kyle lived life on his own terms, setting his own rules and playing for high stakes. He'd moved through this world alone, and was satisfied to have it that way—until he encountered Alyssa Chandler.By day Alyssa was a cool, controlled mathematical whiz, sorting through facts and figures. By night it was a different story. At night she became a creature of beauty and passion who was more than a match for Jordan. But were Jordan's seductive caresses enough for Alyssa to take a chance on a future together?Only time would tell…

Every novel in this collection is your passport to a romantic tour of the United States through time-honored favorites by America's First Lady of romance fiction. Each is set in a different state, researched by Janet and her husband, Bill. For the Daileys it was an odyssey of discovery. For you, it's the journey of a lifetime. Let your tour of desire begin with this story set in Utah.

They are all wrong for each other...Jessica Harrington knows what she doesn't want for Christmas--to be roped in to her parents' matchmaking scheme. Ever since she and Weston Chamberlain were children, their fathers hoped they would marry and merge their families' fortunes. One problem--Jessica and Wes can't tolerate one another! But love can make everything right...Wes, who arrives in Aspen for the families' shared ski vacation, has grown up...in delicious ways. And beautiful Jessica is nothing like the awkward teen Wes remembers. The breathtaking setting fuels a sizzling attraction that surprises them both. But living on opposite coasts is only one of many obstacles ahead. Can romance last once they've left their winter wonderland behind?

Born a village girl, Kerensa Carlee had only her beauty and wit to live by. From the moment she saw it, Kerensa determined to become mistress of St Larnston Abbas, home of the aristocratic St Larnston family for many generations. When Mellyora Martin befriended her, she seized her chance.

It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny--the only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents...Eve--the orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother's wealthy family to be raised by nuns. Eve and Benny--they knew the sins and secrets behind every villager's lace curtains...except their own. It widened at Dublin, at the university where Benny and Eve met beautiful Nan Mahlon and Jack Foley, a doctor's handsome son. But heartbreak and betrayal would bring the worlds of Knockglen and Dublin into explosive collision. Long-hidden lies would emerge to test the meaning of love and the strength of ties held within the fragile gold bands of a...Circle Of Friends. From the Paperback edition.

They were both outcasts by a harsh decree — and on the brink of a shared destiny of passion! With her father murdered, her home burned, lovely Alyx Blackelt fled to the woods — and sanctuary in the camp of Raine Montgomery, a nobleman outlawed by the king’s edict. There she hid her beauty in the guise of a boy, and her sorrow in her work as Montgomery’s squire. But how long could such loveliness as hers be hidden? How long could such a gallant man’s desires be blind? And how soon — even as a blood feud raged between the Montgomerys and the Chatworths, as angry swords clattered in the name of family honor — one woman’s love would make all the difference…one woman’s love would inflame a hero’s passion, touch a king’s pity, and raise a song of praise in every English heart.

A love triangle involving 17-year-old misfit Arnie Cunningham, his new girlfriend and a haunted 1958 Plymouth Fury. Dubbed Christine by her previous owner, Arnie's first car is jealous, possessive and deadly.

Newly widowed after a shockingly brief marriage to an elderly British lord, Jocelyn Fleming, 22, still aches with the pain of unexplored desire. And now her restless heart is leading her far from the protective bosom of polite London society to the perilous beauty of the American West . . . and to 22 year old Colt Thunder. Breathlessly exciting but dangerously unpredictable, Colt is a loner whose Cheyenne blood burns hotter than the blistering Arizona sun. Jocelyn's wealth and title mean nothing to this stranger whose passion rules his actions and his heart. But neither the wild desert stallion nor the untouched English rose can deny their irresistible attraction. . .or prevent the firestorm of emotion that erupts when their vastly different worlds collide. Note: yes, this is the book with a sex on a horse scene

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...

N THE SAVAGE NEW MEXICO TERRITORY, LOVE COULD REDEEM... OR DESTROY Victoria Waverly was a noble daughter of the war-ruined South, sold in marriage to a ruthless Western rancher. Only honor and pride could help her endure her painful role as wife in name alone. Yet honor. could not quench Victoria's forbidden desire for the hired gunman Jake Roper. His narrow gaze was hard as ice, but the tender emotions he could not hide promised to unveil to Victoria the glorious mysteries of love. Jake cursed his burning need for the graceful lady, for he wanted nothing to stand in the way of his drive to reclaim his ranch--Sarratt's Kingdom--the empire that was his legacy and obsession. But ancient wrongs and blazing passions would bind together the proud, aristocratic beauty and the lean, powerful cowboy. In a bloody Western land war they would fight for Jake's rich birthright... and seize at last the love that was their hope, their dream, their destiny!

In a class by itself. Unputdownable' Sunday TimesOne of the most celebrated thrillers ever written, The Day of the Jackal is the electrifying story of an anonymous Englishman who in, the spring of 1963, was hired by Colonel Marc Rodin, Operations Chief of the O. A. S., to assassinate General de Gaulle. The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world's most heavily guarded man. One man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. And as the minutes count down to the final act of execution, it seems that there is no power on earth that can stop the Jackal.

Shawndee Sibley longed for satin ribbons, fancy dresses, and a man who would take her away from her miserable life in Silver Creek. But the only men she ever encountered were the drunks who frequented her mother's tavern. And even then, Shawndee's mother made her disguise herself as a boy for her own protection. To make matters worse, the townsfolk were now acccusing Mrs. Sibley of witchcraft. Before Shawndee could warn her mother, though, strong arms had wrapped around her and carried her off into the woods. Shadow Hawk bitterly resented the Sibleys for corrupting his warriors with their whiskey. Capturing their "son" was a surefire way to force them to listen to him. But he quickly became the captive--of Shawndee's shy smile, iron will, and her shimmering golden hair. As the two paddled down the moonlit Genesee River, Shadow Hawk found himself divided between his surrendered heart and his Savage Honor.

As a viscount's daughter, vivacious Coralee Whitmore is perfectly placed to write about London's elite in the outspoken ladies' gazette, Heart to Heart. But beneath her fashionable exterior beats the heart of a serious journalist.So when her sister's death is dismissed as suicide, Corrie vows to uncover the truth, suspecting the notorious Earl of Tremaine was Laurel's lover and the father of her illegitimate child. Corrie infiltrates Castle Tremaine posing as a wide-eyed country relation whose charming figure--and reduced circumstances--make her irresistible to the confirmed scoundrel. But Corrie finds the earl is not all he seems...nor is she immune to his charms, however much she despises his caddish ways.Far from a society column, Corrie's life soon reads more like one of Mr. Dickens's serials. But the danger of her ruse is hardly fictional: someone is bent on ensuring Corrie's questions go unanswered--and unasked.