by Linda Markowiak (1977)
He'll do anything to get his daughter back Nathan Perry has a perfect motive for marriage. He's going to lose his daughter for the second time unless he can persuade Libby Jamieson, the woman who's planning to adopt motherless little Sara, to marry him. Nate hasn't seen his daughter since she was placed in a witness protection program with her mother, Nate's ex-wife, eight years ago. More than anything, he wants his child back. But his daughter loves Libby and Nate's beginning to understand the little girl's feelings. In fact, his real motive for marrying Libby is beginning to change .
Rhoda Lerman
In the summer of 1918, thirty-three-year-old Eleanor Roosevelt discovers a packet of love letters in her husband's chiffonier at her rented Washington home. Franklin is touring the recent battlefields of Europe and the children are staying at Hyde Park. How Eleanor changes over the course of the summer will become legendary, as she knows what she is but not what she can become.
Jung Young Moon
"A tragicomic odyssey told through free association from South Korea's most enigmatic contemporary authors scrubs the depths of the human psyche to achieve a higher level of consciousness equal to Zen meditation. The story opens when our sleepless narrator thwarts a would-be thief outside his moonlit window, then delves into his subconscious imagination to explore a variety of geographical and mental locations--real, unreal, surreal--to explore the very nature of reality...."--Cover, p.[4]
Barbara Cartland
Chandra Wardell, daughter of a world-renowned Sanskrit scholar, learns that her father has been commissioned to journey to Nepal to search for an ancient manuscript. Chandra is thrilled--till she discovers that the invitation, extended by staunch woman-hater Lord Frome, does not include her. When Chandra's father suffers a mild heart attack, Chandra, who knows every aspect of her father's work, decided to take his place! She endures the difficult mountain journey... proves her scholarly proficiency... and ultimately falls in love! Chandra heard Lord Frome's footsteps and the light came nearer as he moved down the dark passageway. He put first the candlem then the pistol back on the table and without warning, pulled her roughly against him. his lips came down on hers and helf her captive. Suddenly Chandra felt a wild rapture that was inexpressible, rising up through her body from her breast into her lips. "This is love, she thought, "love as I always knew it would be... Yet how? Lord Frome despised her. "I have hated women for so long," he whispered, "that I did not know how different you were, how very, very different, my precious one. I have been fighting frantically against admitting it... even to myself... but I have loved you for a long time!"
Vera and Bill Cleaver
Eleven-year old Ellen is sent to live with Mrs. McGruder. Her active imagination and friendship with Ira, a solitary but harmless old man, leads to his blurting out to Ellen the story of his brutal parents and what he did to them.