[Ulverscroft large print series. fiction]

A captain who finds a toll gate unattended and solves the mystery of the disappearance of the gate keeper and wins the heroine with the help of an robber.

Once again, I am awed by Morris West's narrative skill. Book such as this and Leon Uris' "Topaz" surely set the stage for the modern legal thrillers we're all familiar with. Here, while probing matters of the law and of morals, West draws characters full of pathos and love and honor. This book never builds to the excitement of "The Tower of Babel" or "Salamander," nor to the spiritual intrigue of "The Shoes of the Fisherman" or "The Clowns of God," but it poignantly captures the drama and schisms in a Tuscan family. The story opens with a beautiful young lady's arrival in a small Italian town. She promptly goes to the door of the mayor and shoots him in cold blood. From there, her guilt and her defense serve as the fulcrum upon which the major characters balance. The defense attorney and his wife have their own private battles to deal with. The psychiatrist called upon by the defense is in a struggle for his own sense of purpose and for love with a mature young woman. And, overshadowing them all, the attorney's father-in-law wields control in his own twisted quest for connection. The ceaseless dysfunction plays its final hand in the closing pages. Sure, West's characters tend to be verbose and wise beyond credibility, yet they are painted against such vivid backgrounds and given such concrete motivations that I can't help but lose myself in their stories. West, as always, has probing questions--and occasional answers--regarding ethics and spirituality in a modern age. Though I might not always agree with his suppositions, I always admire the courage and imagination he draws upon to highlight our troubled times.

strong textWhen the news went out that Sylvester Rayne, the elegant, impeccable Duke of Salford, was seeking a wife, all England was aflutter! Lord Sylvester is a polished bachelor who has stringent requirements for his future wife -- she must be well-born, intelligent, elegant and attractive. And of course she must be able to present herself well in high society. But when he is encouraged to consider Phoebe Marlow as a bride, Sylvester is taken aback by the coltish woman who seems to resent him... The first time Sylvester met Phoebe, he found her dull and insipid. Phoebe, was a hoydenish country miss with literary aspirations. And when she was snubbed by the Duke, and she thought he was insufferably arrogant. In fact, she deemed him the most arrogant rake she'd ever met. In secret, she'd fashioned the villain and a knave in her romance novel unmistakably after Sylvester! Phoebe meets none of Duke's criteria for a fiancee. But when Phoebe ran away, she got his attention and fancy. Intrigued Sylvester decides that if Petruchio could tame Katherine, he had no doubt he could tame Phoebe. And when a series of unforeseen events leads them to be stranded together in a lonely country inn, they are both forced to reassess their hastily formed opinions, and they begin to discover a new-found liking and respect for each other, and they find striking up an unusual friendship. Phoebe discovers that the duke isn't the villian she first thought. And Sylvester stumbles upon something he never dared hope for... But what Sylvester doesn't know is that Phoebe has just published a novel - a novel in which all London will recognize him. But how could she guess her book would be a scandalous success? Or that the man she had cast as a villain would become the heartbreaking hero of her dreams?

This is a precursor of Shannon's Way , detailing the struggles of the orphaned Robert Shannon to obtain education with the ultimate aim of becoming a medical researcher. A little long for a rather slight plot

Story of Robert Shannon's experiences as a medical research worker and his love affair with a girl of different religious faith.

The story of an American-Chinese family separated by the communist revolution in China, as they struggle to overcome difficulties and the prejudices a family of mixed blood must face. The half-Chinese husband remains behind in China, while the mother and teenage son go back to the mother's original home state of Vermont. The anxious wife awaits word from her husband, as the young mixed-race son falls in love with an American girl. The mother breaks up this particular romance.

Children's cycling story. The Tour de France.

A classic novel of ruthless revenge set in the steel jungle of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico – and on the sea bed below it. Now reissued in a new cover style.A sunken DC-3 lying on the Caribbean floor. Its cargo: ten million, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in gold ingots, emeralds and uncut diamonds guarded by the remains of two men, one woman and a very small boy. The fortune was there for the taking, and ready to grab it were a blue-blooded oilman with his own offshore rig, a gangster so cold and independent that even the Mafia couldn't do business with him and a psychopathic hired assassin. Against them stood one man, and those were his people, those skeletons in their watery coffin. His name was Talbot, and he would bury his dead – but only after he had avenged their murders.

Hungarian countess and international intrigue in Lisbon.

About the undeclared and ever-waging war of our time, the war for men's minds, and the action takes place in Switzerland.

An excellent book about 3 daughters deciding to move back to China during the time of Chairman Mao. The mother is an incredible portrait of Old China adapting to new ways. A must read for Buck fans!

A doctor with a permissive lifestyle has a cushy job until his past life and his conscience catch up with him.

Nora Tamsin was fascinated by the ruthless Charles Herrick, but she discovered that he deserved his name "The Lynx". His love for her was overwhelming and frightening. By the time she realized that his plan for her was part of his obsessive desire for revenge, it seemed too late to escape.

Artist Jennifer Silver has traveled to the picturesque, secluded Valley of the Storms in the French Pyrenees to meet with her young cousin Gillian, who is about to enter the Convent of Our Lady of the Storms. She had come to the convent--a brooding cluster of ancient buildings nestled deep in the wild upper reaches of the Pyrenees--to discover that the young woman has died in a dreadful car accident. Or did she?