The newest romance in the charming Kilts and Quilts series from Patience Griffin, author of Meet Me in Scotland.Christmas in the small village of Gandiegow brings holiday cheer—and a chance for love between two strangers... When her father is injured in an accident, Edinburgh engineer Pippa McDonnell comes home to Gandiegow to take over the family business, the North Sea Valve Company. Now she's working overtime trying to fix NSV's finances and find the cash to get her father proper medical care. One possibility is to accept a partnership with MTech, an American firm desperate to get their hands on her da's innovative valve design. He was against bringing in outsiders, but Pippa is desperate enough to at least listen to MTech's charming representative Max McKinley. As Christmas approaches and with the help of Gandiegow's meddling quilters, Pippa and Max slowly find themselves attracted to each...

The Earth is dying, and our hopes are pinned on Ubastis, an untamed paradise at the edge of colonized space. But such an influx of people threatens the planet's unstudied ecosystem — a tenuous research colony must complete its analysis, lest humanity abandon one planet only to die on another.The Ubasti colonists barely get by on their own. To acquire the tools they need, they are relegated to selling whatever they can to outside investors. For xenobiologist Vashti Loren, this means bringing Offworlders on safari to hunt the specimens she and her fellow biologists so desperately need to study.Haunted by the violent death of her husband, the heroic and celebrated Lasse Undset, Vashti must balance the needs of Ubastis against the swelling crush of settlers. Vashti struggles in her role as one of the few colonists licensed to carry deadly weapons, just as she struggles with her history of using them. And when she discovers a genetically engineered soldier smuggled...

1918 dawns desolate over the fields of Flanders. Decimated by the worst war the world has ever seen, neither British nor German troops can break the deadlock of the trenches. After four years of murderous stalemate, peace seems buried for ever. But finally, one by one, the guns fall silent...By the Green of the Spring relives the last terrible months of the Great War and the uneasy, exhausted peace which followed it. From the North-West Frontier to the war in France and the civil war in Ireland, John Masters follows the fortunes of four Kent families—the Cates, the Rownlands, the Strattons and the Gorses—through the cataclysm that ended the golden Edwardian dream for ever.By the Green of the Spring, first published in 1981, is the third, self-contained volume of the Loss of Eden trilogy, a magnificent conclusion to an enthralling epic of war and peace by a major contemporary novelist.

From one of Canada's brightest new literary stars -- a startling and beautiful novel about abandonment, poverty, and violence, as well as loyalty, love, and hope, as seen through the eyes of a young homeless boy. It is 1993 and Bombay is on the verge of being torn apart by racial violence. Ten-year-old Chamdi has rarely ventured outside his orphanage, and entertains an idyllic fantasy of what the city is like beyond its garden walls -- a paradise he calls Kahunsha, "the city of no sadness." But when he runs away to search for his long-lost father, he finds himself thrust into the chaos of the streets, alone, possessing only the blood-stained cloth he was left in as a baby. There Chamdi meets Sumdi and Guddi, brother and sister who beg in order to provide for their sick mother, and the three become fast friends.Fueled only by a desire to find his father and the dream that Bombay will someday become Kahunsha, Chamdi struggles for survival on its brutal streets....

Susie's in a dead-end relationship. If only she'd never got into it in the first place. But it's too late now. - Or is it?

Misty Summer is very satisfied with her life. The theme park she and her son Frankie bought and renovated has been open for several months now. She has bought and moved in to her new home. The other building is undergoing renovations for its change in to a hotel. Her romance with Chief of Police Marlowe Campion was going slow, just how she wanted it to. And nobody’s been murdered lately. As December approaches the park readies for its family friendly Christmas celebration. In addition, there is a reporter coming to interview her for a national news program. This was great. The park was getting to be known in more than just their general area. The only problem as she saw it was that she was a bundle of nerves. She has not been in front of a camera for over 20 years. She wasn’t sure how she was going to do. But with her son Frankie by her side, she could do anything. They were a great team. The reporter who comes to interview Misty is from a sensational tabloid show. His specialty is reducing people to tears. During the interview the reporter starts to ask Misty some strange questions. He tries to get her to admit to wrong doing. In fact, he even accuses her doing something so disgusting that under different circumstances it would be illegal. Misty cuts off the interview and sends him packing. When the interview airs. Misty is embarrassed and outraged by it. She asks the reporter to come back down so she can talk to him. This time she records the interview as he admits that she never said what she did. The next day she is out on her first date with Marlowe. The date is interrupted by the discovery of the reporter’s dead body. Misty and Frankie are both suspects in the killing. They know they didn’t do it. But proving it is a whole other issue. They must investigate and find the real killer before they are arrested for it. Or before one of them becomes the next victim.**

Love Sex in the City? You’ll adore the Dixie Virgins! Sweet, sassy and funny, this 7-book series follows 7 women who met at a summer camp for girls and remained friends through the years. Now in their 20s, they’ve set out to snare a man while staying true to the rule they made that long-ago summer: If the boys from Camp Geronimo come over, don’t let them near your Virginia. Book one- Belinda.