of love & life Three novels selected and condensed by Reader’s Digest Standoff by Sandra Brown Some reporters have all the luck. During the first vacation she’s taken in years, TV journalist Tiel McCoy walks into a Texan convenience store and finds herself in a situation that could become the biggest story of her career….
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Paperback Book Streetwise George and his big, child-like friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day they’ll find a place of their own and live the American…
Dorothy The Romantic Story of Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall by Joy Childs A story of intrigue, divided loyalties – and love – set amid the wild, but beautiful Derbyshire Peak District in Tudor times. Dorothy Vernon’s name has become synonymous with her elopement from the ancestral home which she later inherited. It was above…
An Illusion of Maya by Phil Escott A huge old carp uncaught and unseen for decades. But now Jay and Carl had seen it, was the strength of their friendship about to be tested to its limit? Jack’s Wisdom was old, centuries old, and he knew that Jay was so close to enlightenment; was he…
In “Golden Lion“, readers are transported to the year 1670, where the Golden Bough sails boldly from Ethiopia to Zanzibar. Captain Hal Courtney, a seasoned navigator, scans the horizon with a wary eye, sensing danger lurking in the waves. His instincts prove correct as he faces the threat of his nemesis, the Buzzard, who is…
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien is the thrilling conclusion to the epic saga that has captured the hearts of readers for generations. As the armies of the Dark Lord gather strength, the fate of Middle-earth hangs in the balance. Men, Dwarves, Elves, and Ents unite to confront…
Simply mad about the girl… In spring a young man’s fancy will turn to love and the Honourable Phillip Petrie is no exception. Daisy’s chum is totally smitten with Miss Gloria Arbuckle, daughter of a millionaire Yank. But before the enthusiastic suitor can pop the question, his beloved is abducted by kidnappers. As a distraught…
YOU CAN TELL A LIAR BY HIS EYES Special Agent Catherine Dance reads people the way other investigators read crime scenes. But she’s never seen eyes like Daniel Pell’s. YOU CAN CATCH A KILLER BY HIS SMILE In 1999, Daniel Pell murdered an entire family. Only one little girl survived, asleep in her bed and…
Movie director Thomas Lyon came to Newmarket to rake the ashes of an old Jockey Club scandal for a new Hollywood film. Too late, he found himself listening to a blacksmith’s dying confession. Found himself watching as the past came violently back to life Capturing the shockwaves over one woman’s macabre death nearly 30 years…
Clinging tightly to the penny in her palm, Flora’s fortune is about to change… Flora is forever grateful for the day the Stewart family rescued her from her life of poverty on London’s streets. Adopted as one of their own, she shed her rags and was finally given a place to call home. When a…