When beautiful Scarlett O'Hara learns that Ashley Wilkes, the man she loves, is going to marry another woman, her broken heart seems far worse than the tragedies of the Civil War. However, one man knows her secret, and he wants her for himself.
An eleven-year-old has discovered a secret that not even an adult should know. A US State Senator is dead, and Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden. The FBI want him to tell them where it is, at whatever cost to Mark and his family. The killer wants him silenced forever. Reggie Love has been practising law for less than five years. Only she can save Mark from these twin threats. Together they must take on the might of the State and the wiles of a cold-blooded killer.
Jonathan Harker's visit to mysterious Count Dracula's eerie castle in Transylvania is just the start of a insidious plan to send vampires to England.
Jeffrey Archer is at his captivating best in this, his first novel, an intricate tale of deceit, dishonor, and sweet revenge. What can an Oxford don, a respected society physician, a chic French art dealer, and a charming English lord have in common? Very little, except they've all been swindled out of every cent they had by Harvey Metcalfe, the man who wrote the book on international stock fraud. They haven't a prayer of ever seeing their money again. Or have they?
Entranced by the perfection of his recently painted portrait, the youthful Dorian Gray expresses a wish that the figure on the canvas could age and change in his place. When his wish comes true, the portrait becomes his hideous secret as he follows a downward trajectory of decadence and cruelty that leaves its traces only in the portrait's degraded image.
"Four short stories of murder and mystery, in which Edgar Allan Poe wrote about terrible people who lead strange lives."--Amazon.com
"The people on this island don't even like archaeologists," the woman on the ferry says. You only want to study the 4,500 year-old Irish megalithic stones, but very soon strange things begin to happen to you. Can you solve the mystery in time?
"Thirty people join an Italian evening class. All have their own reasons. Connie needs to escape from an unhappy home life ; Lou has criminal intentions. Aidan and Signora have organized the classes. All their lives are changed forever." - back cover.
At 6'6 and 240lbs, Forrest Gump is difficult to ignore. This satire follows him from the football dynasties of Bear Bryant to Vietnam, and from encounters with Presidents Johnson and Nixon to pow-wows with Chairman Mao. It also takes in Harvard University, a Hollywood set, and a NASA mission.
