"Fifty-year-old William Whittlestaff becomes guardian to Mary Lawrie, the orphaned and penniless daughter of an old friend, and gradually finds himself falling in love with her. But Mary has already given her heart to the young John Gordon who has gone to seek his fortune in the Kimberley diamond fields. Gordon's sudden return after a three years' absence, on the very day of Whittlestaff's proposal, precipitates a crisis at the center of the story....

The five-year-old girl was found murdered, her pink nightgown twisted around her throat. The beautiful woman who came to the funeral to throw a single rose on the coffin was the kind of beautiful that homicide detective J.P. Beaumont couldn't resist. But lurking in the dark corners of this bizarre case was not just a demented mind obsessed with murder, but secrets so deadly, so close to Beaumont's own life, that even a street tough cop could die guessing...

A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of words and numbers provides a cure for his boredom.

A stunning, full-color illustrated edition of the classic novel about the magical nanny who has delighted children and adults the world over. Experience the fantastical adventures of the magical nanny who inspired the classic film, stage show, and young imaginations the world over in a whole new way. This illustrated gift edition features silver foil on the cover and beautiful artwork by J?lia Sard? that re-imagines Mary's London in rich, full color....

Slim surprises Miss Viola at Christmas.

Set in 1660s London and in the early twenty-first century, this interwoven tale juxtaposes the worlds of of two women of remarkable intellect, Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi just before the plague hits the city, and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history who has been summoned by a former student to view a cache of seventeenth-century Jewish documents and determine the...

When an industrial accident unleashes an airborne toxic event, a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the white noise engulfing the Gladneys, radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings, pulsing with life, yet suggesting something ominous.

A Catholic cop tracks an IRA master bomber amidst the sectarian violence of the conflict in Northern Ireland The early 1980s. Belfast. Sean Duffy, a conflicted Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary), is recruited by MI5 to hunt down Cormac McCann, an IRA master bomber who has made a daring escape from the notorious Maze Prison. In the course of his investigations Sean discovers a woman who may hold the key to Cormac's whereabouts;...

A journey into the minds and souls of two very different men, one of them in search of the truth, while the other may have already found it.