First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human...

It was the silly season and a Monday at that, and Kinsey Millhone was bogged down in a preliminary report on a fire claim. Something was nagging at her, but she couldn't pin it. The last thing she needed in the morning mail was a letter from her bank recording an erroneous $5,000 deposit in her account. Kinsey had never believed in Santa Claus and she wasn't about to change her mind now. Resigning herself to a morning of frustration, she phoned the...

A Classic Love Story of a Fearless Lordand the Woman Who Tamed Him Darkly handsome and rich beyond imagining, the boldEnglish conqueror was called "the Black Lyon" for hislionlike ferocity. He had no match among enemies,or women . . . until he met Lyonene, the green-eyedbeauty whose fiery spirit equaled his own. Through a whirlwind romance andstormy marriage, she endured every perilto be by his side, until vicious lies andjealousy drove her into...

Former cop and lawyer Dismas Hardy must face liars and killers on both sides of the law as he tries to outrun a hardened killer, now paroled, who once threatened Dismas and a down-and-out lawyer who is now missing.

Three sisters whose mother had little time or feeling for them during their childhood, find answers, insights, and new truths, when she asks them to help her.

"With their daughters off to college, the time has come for three forever best friends to redefine themselves. Emily hardly knows her workaholic husband anymore. Kay is troubled and confused by her spouse's unfamiliar demands. And long-divorced Celeste sees her child endangered. As they navigate uncharted territory, the friends begin to reassess their dreams, desirs, and what it means-to each of them-to be a woman. But before they can bring about...

Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook have a lot in common. High-flying army career women, both are victims of sexual harassment from their superiors; both are forced to resign from the service. And now they're both dead. Their unmarked bodies are discovered in their own homes, naked, in baths filled with army-issue camouflage paint. Expert FBI psychological profilers start to hunt for a serial murderer, a smart guy with a score to settle,...

Leaving behind the hustle and bustle of the New York publishing world, Cathy Bissette sets up house on the shores of North Carolina but finds her refuge invaded by arrogant seaman Jared Parsons.

An American beauty stranded by a shattered promise on Australia's vast shores....After sailing to Australia only to find that the man who asked her to marry him has no intention of fulfilling his part of the bargain, Maggie Chamberlain vows to shape a new life for herself in Sydney. Then arrogant, wealthy Reeve McKenna captures Maggie's untried heart, thrilling her senses with the sweet, dark rush of desire. But Reeve cannot be hers alone, for he...

Kelly would get her story and prove herself to her editor, even if it meant using a bit of blackmail. She'd try anything to get dashing inventor-genius Nick O'Brien to take her along in his experimental balloon to Mexico. Nick let her go with him but didn't expect the sparks that would generate.