Kathryn Kramer

Kidnapped from Ireland on her wedding day, Deidre finds herself unexpectedly falling in love with her Viking captor, Wolfram the Bold

Flame from the Sea

When a twist of fate sends well-born Dawn Leighton and her brother into the streets of London to fend for themselves, Dawn quickly falls in with a den of thieves, where she learns the tricks of their trade, all the while dreaming of returning to her noble

Lady Rogue

Lady Rowena has nothing but scorn for Kendrick de Baron, a once-great knight hoping to reclaim his former glory under the treacherous rule of Prince John. For Rowena's dedication to injustice runs deep. By night, dressed as a lad, she prowls the countryside, helping Robin Hood perform his deeds of daring. However, she soon discovers that de Baron is not the enemy she despises.

Lady Outlaw

Alicia, a beautiful young Gypsy falls in love with Rafael, a Spanish noble-man, in the shadow of the Inquisition

Under Gypsy Skies

A deadly game of intrigue--passion, murder, betrayal and a deceit unveiled.Scotland, 1565: A turbulent era, a rugged land, and a heartfelt passion that withstood the test of time.....Married against her will to a brutal highlander, beautiful lady-in-waiting Kylynn Gowrie felt her heart come alive when she encountered dashing Roarke MacKinnon. He swept into the court of Mary, Queen of Scots, to reclaim his family's land, but Roarke's tenderness claimed Kylynn's heart. She yearned to be possessed by her forbidden English suitor.But Elizabeth I of England schemed against Kylynn's beloved queen, and fate made Roarke her enemy. Could their passionate love conquer the deceptions of a ruthless and bloody war?"A whirlwind of intrigue, murder, deception, and passion...." ROMANTIC TIMES

Desire's Deception

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Eugenia Riley

Cassie Edwards

Shirl Henke

A collection of four romantic Valentine tales introduces a frontier woman in love with an Indian, a mail-order bride from Missouri, and a Victorian woman who is trying to live up to her husband's first wife. Original.

An Old-Fashioned Valentine

A sharply fresh vision of our time conveyed through the experiences of a boy filled with classic yearnings for family wholeness and national honesty, on a quest to uncover his elders' secrets. Beginning with a mysterious, unlocatable war and concluding with a battle on the New Jersey Turnpike, this is a "mad fairy tale that unexpectedly turns out to be true" by "such an engaging storyteller that we willingly submit, believing the impossible." (The New York Times Book Review) A "combination of inspired tenderness and brilliant technique... it reads as if it were written by a very witty angel." (The Boston Herald)

A Handbook for Visitors from Outer Space

Todays Global Flneuse offers a fresh analysis of the flneuse on the 21st-century global stage, drawn from the perspectives of art history, mobility studies, sociology, and urban geography. The essays and artwork in this volume offer histories of Eurocentric 19th-century flnerie that still resonate in 21st-century transnational terms. This special issue also reveals the decisive impact of the flneuses practices beyond the strictly urban, extending into rural environs via the mega- and ex-urban, thus contributing to the continuing debate regarding the ever-narrowing urban/rural divide.

Wagadu Volume 7: Today's Global Flâneuse

The author, who grew up as a faculty child on the campus of St. John's College, the school best known for offering a Great Books curriculum (those deemed by the sages of the ages to be the seminal works of western culture), here looks back on an upbringing steeped in its assumptions. In the tradition of educational chronicles that runs the gamut from St. Augustine's Confessions to Alice Kaplan's French Lessons, Missing History is a kind of revisionist intellectual autobiography. Instead of tracing her progress from a state of sin to a state of grace, the author revisits her school years to figure out how she was indoctrinated into thinking that she should embark upon this classic journey. An idiosyncratic and affectionate book, Missing History is part educational memoir, part meditation upon how our assumptions as to what it means to know form and deform our experience.

The Covert Education of a Child of the Great Books

Missing History

Yankee Reeve Walker and Allegra, daughter of a wealthy Southern plantation owner, play out their passion against the conflicts and turbulence of the Civil War

Destiny and Desire

Returning from Venice only to discover that his estates have been confiscated and turned over to his sworn enemies, the Renfreds, English aristocrat Stephen Valentine is drawn to his betrayer's daughter, Madrigal Renfred

Desire's Masquerade

Raised aboard a buccaneer's ship, Quintana Teach, the lovely daughter of the notorious pirate Blackbeard, is drawn to Jared Cameron, a rugged sea captain taken prisoner by her father's crew. Original.

Pirate Bride

Banished from Queen Elizabeth's court for a murder he did not commit, Nicholas Leighton joins the subculture of the London theater, where a dalliance with a heartless beauty convinces him that he will never love again--until he meets Alandra. Original.

Midsummer Night's Desire

Tomboyish Samantha Claybourne is determined to carry on her grandfather's work and find the gold hidden at the bottom of the Claybourne mine until the arrival of Alexander Nicholson causes a romantic cave-in for the spirited beauty

Siren Song

Despite her hatred for the Romans, Wynne is unable to resist falling in love with Valerian, a handsome Roman soldier

Love's Blazing Ecstasy

The daughter of notorious highwayman "Gentleman Jim," Devondra agrees to become the mistress of aristocrat Quentin Wakefield to save her father from the hangman, but Quentin's betrayal forces her into a new life as a thief. Original.

Notorious

A literary detective story in which the expatriate writer Henry James's clandestine visits to a water spa in Vermont are discovered one summer by the hotel's current owners, a biographer and hose trainer. Their debate whether to reveal their discovery to others begins to unravel the secrets of their own marriage, kept since they met as teenagers at a cathedral school where Greta mysteriously suffered from the stigmata. A spacious novel about the feel of America its hydrophobia and fear of immersion, an ambitious and richly imagined tale of romantic intrigue by a gifted stylist. (Publishers Weekly)

Kathryn Kramer

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