Bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz (aka Amanda Quick) has delighted millions with her own contemporary romances and her historical love stories. Now as Jayne Castle, she brings us Amaryllis Lark: a beautiful psychic detective on St. Helen's, an Earth colony recently cut off from the mother planet. Lucas Trent, the rugged head of Lodestar Exploration, isn't keen on the prim and proper type and Amaryllis is excruciatingly proper. But a hunch leads the pair to a wild murder investigation and a red-hot love affair inevitably follows. The affair surprises them both Amaryllis is shocked and Lucas is delighted. But can extraterrestrial evil keep them apart?
This novel by ground-breaking sleep researcher Jouvet (The Paradox of Sleep) is written as a series of discovered journal entries and letters by fictional 18th-century French scientist Hugues la Scève: wealthy, intensely curious and obsessed with tinkering. Painstakingly documenting seven years of his own dreams and applying novel methods of classification and analysis, la Scève attempts to pioneer the science of dreaming. He follows this work by collecting empirical evidence to support his theories, spending years observing sleeping rabbits, toads, Siamese twins and postcoital couples.
It had all begun with the theft of the Orb that had so long protected the West from the evil God Torak. Before that, Garion had been a simple farm boy. Afterward, he discovered that his aunt was really the Sorceress Polgara and his grandfather was Belgarath, the Eternal Man. Then, on the long quest to recover the Orb, Garion found to his dismay that he, too, was a sorcerer.
Beaumont, M. de - Beauty and the Beast. (level 1)Beaumont
A merchant becomes poor once he lost his ship. Apart form his lovely daughter Beauty, all of his sons and daughters only request more on him. One day he takes a rose from the garden of a castle for Beauty’s present. But this causes the Beast, the owner of the castle, becoming angry. The merchant is imprisoned until Beauty comes to stay with the Beast. Through series of adventures, Beauty and the Beast have changed both their lives…
The third installment of Dodd's Victorian-set Governess Brides series (Rules of Surrender, Rules of Engagement) sputters off to a slow start as a jilted husband and his runaway bride rehash old grudges. Hannah Setterington, head of the Distinguished Academy of Governesses, is lured to Lord Raeburn's Lancashire castle with promises of a position on the lord's staff only to find that Raeburn is really Dougald Pippard, the commoner she married when she was only 18 years old.
