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Bittner, Rosanne Shameless
Kensington Publishing Corpor February 1, 199 0-8217-4056-3 Paperback used; very good
Shameless ANNOTATION A scorching Southwestern love story by the author of Comanche Sunset. First Lieutenant Clay Youngblood didn't need a Mexian outlaw--especially a beautiful one like Nina Juarez--to stir his sympathies and sidetrack his mission. But regardless of the risks, Clay knew that he must help Nina--for her gentleness filled his heart with more love than he ever thought was possible.
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Black, Millenia The Great Pretender
Infinity Publishing September, 2002 0-7414-1278-0 Trade Size Pap used: excellent
THE GREAT PRETENDER...an electrifying tale of how one man tries to untangle his life, setting a full-fledged arena of wife against husband, lover agai nst lover, friend against friend, and family against family.
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Blackstock, Terri Emerald Windows
Zondervan October 1, 2001 0-310-22807-7 Trade Size Pap used; good
The second Christian novel this year (Linda Dorrell's True Believers is the other) to focus on the renovation of a church and, in particular, the fema le protagonist's design of its stained glass windows, this story features a lovestruck pair of artists who are supposed to be offbeat and tortured, bu t in fact are ill-defined and bland. Brooke, a 20-something stained glass a rtist who, amid scandal, left her hometown immediately after her high schoo l graduation, comes back to do a job and face the gossips who drove her awa y. Unfortunately for readers, the scandal a misinterpreted hug between stud ent and teacher has no teeth, and it strains credulity to think that any to wn, even the caricaturish Hayden, Mo., could make so much of so little. Als o problematic is that the former teacher, who is only six years Brooke's se nior, is motivated to convert her to Christianity mostly because he wants t o marry her, but would never marry an unbeliever. Stereotypes abound, inclu ding a wealthy, almost mechanically mean-spirited villainess and an Italian family complete with a dead grandfather whose clich‚d proverbs are remembe red in over-the-top dialect ("You put-a care and-a love into everything you do, Nicky, and that's-a quality"). Blackstock generates enough interest in these characters and their predicaments to keep the pages turning, but the novel's predictable conclusion is telegraphed from the first page. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Promising art student Brooke Martin fled Hayden, MO, the day after graduation when a prominent matron spreads ugly rumors about her and her young teacher, Nic
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Blair, Leona A World of Difference
Bantam August 1, 1990 0-553-28435-5 Paperback used: very good
Blair follows her bestselling Privilege with a clever portrait of the wealt hy Brandon family, headed by Rhys, a charming, supremely selfish industrial ist with a yen for ripe women and rotten politics. "A deliciously satisfyin g family saga set in New York, London and France during the early decades o f the 20th century
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Blair, Leona Fascination
Bantam June 1, 1998 0-553-57229-6 Paperback used; very good
Did the Victorians think about anything but sex? Well, occasionally food an d money, if we are to believe the portrait of the year 1900 as painted by B lair (Privilege). Her witty transatlantic drawing-room comedy digresses to the bedroom on any excuse. This is no mere sex romp, however. The tale of t hree strong-willed American women who fall for craggily handsome financier Steven James on a steamship crossing to London, Fascination intelligently p arses the differences between love and lust and the conflicts between duty and happiness. Porcelain-beautiful 18-year-old Cynthia Cunningham craves St ephen's touch, but she is under her father's orders, and the rules of the d ay, to swap her virginity and fortune for a high-profile British marriage. Her self-assured aunt, the sublime Miranda Cunningham, has an affair with S tephen and knows he's The One, but if she follows her heart, her entire fam ily will be ruined. Charming suffragist Kitt McAllister, who does battle on behalf of a raped stewardess and other vulnerable working women, wants Ste phen in spite of herself, until she suspects that he, not Paul Cunningham, is the father of the child Miranda is carrying. The male characters never c ome alive as the women do, but with the exception of the egregious Hobart C unningham, the real estate baron who is Cynthia's father, the men, too, are shown as victims of soul-stifling conventions and repressive mores. Blair' s one weakness is relying on long menus and other lists to create period at mosphere, rather than well-crafted description. From Library Journal Blair (This Side of the Angels, Bantam, 1993) has a winner in this tale of thr
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Blair, Leona The Side of the Angels
Bantam October 1, 1993 0-553-56130-8 Paperback used: very good
With a joyous rebel whoop, bestselling author Blair ( A World of Difference ) unleashes an outstanding cast of feisty, memorable and believably flawed women. Kate Ballard, a brilliant child peppered with New England grit, is appalled when her highly sexed mother, Sydney, runs off with her own first cousin, Royal Benedict. Kate and her fusty, academic father are snubbed by the powerful southern Benedict clan until granddame Polly swoops down to me et her estranged daughter's child. So begins a lifelong struggle between tw o exquisitely matched, opinionated women. Like all of those whom Kate loves , from her insecure movie-idol husband , Win , to her scheming best friend Rebecca, Polly tries to steer Kate in directions she is loathe to go.
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Blake, Baker, Gentry, Henke, Rice Secrets of the Heart
Topaz December 1, 199 0-451-40552-8 Paperback used; excellent
Secrets of the Heart The incredibly popular Topaz Man Presents series continues with five more short stories by his favorite authors. The collection features "Besieged Heart" by Jennifer Blake, Georgina Gentry's "Gambler's Delight, " "Falling in Love" from Shirl Henke, Madeline Baker's "Masquerade, " and "Keeping the Fire Hot" by Patricia Rice.
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Blake, Hatcher, Wiggs A Purrfect Romance
HarperCollins Publishers September 1, 19 0-06-108385-2 Paperback used; good
In Out of the Dark, Jennifer Blake tells the story of Anne-Marie Decoulet a nd Lucien Roquelaire. Anne-Marie, after years of wearing mourning for the m embers of her family, is attending a country cotillion when Lucien appears. Lucien was once the stuff of her girlish fantasies, but he has become noth ing more than a cold-blooded killer in her eyes. Lucien has no idea Anne-Ma rie even exists until the hostess forces them to dance together. Once the d ance is over, they go their separate ways, to Anne-Marie's relief. However, during dinner, an unexpected feline guest targets Anne-Marie as the means to get his supper, and with Lucien's help, Anne-Marie manages to keep the o ther guests from killing the magnificent, black swamp cat. Lucien then deci des to further his acquaintance with Anne-Marie, and when he pays her a vis it the day after the cotillion, he is in for a magnificent, black surprise. Robin Lee Hatcher continues the thread with her story A Wish and a Prayer. When spinster Felicity Blessing makes a heartfelt wish for someone to keep her company, a small, white kitten appears on her doorstep. Not quite what she had in mind, but Felicity takes the kitten in, feeds her, names her An gel, and tries to convince herself that her life is fulfilling and that she is happy. And she almost believes the little lectures she gives herself, u ntil Prescott Jones and his partner want to buy Felicity's house to open th eir cannery. But Felicity is unable to sell her house for any reason but lo ve. This is when Angel Emaline decides to step in and answer Felicity's sil ent prayer for someone to love. Using all of her feline cunning, Angel Emal
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Blake, James Carlos Red Grass River: A Legend
Avon Books November 1, 199 0-380-97493-2 1st Edition Hardcover used; both book/jacket very good
Evoking the primal extravagance of the vanished South Florida wilderness, L .A. Times Book Prize-winner Blake (In the Rogue Blood) offers up a spellbin ding tale of an outlaw, the scion of a family gang, and his exploits in the first quarter of the century, narrated by an old man who knew the hero fro m an admiring distance. In 1911, delivering whiskey for his bootlegger fath er, 18-year-old John Ashley kills a drunken Indian in self-defense and is f orced to become a fugitive, partly because of a romantic rivalry with the s heriff's son. After he flees to Texas, boredom, more than necessity, prods Ashley to rob a bank, and he returns to Florida flush with cash.
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Blake, Jennifer Arrow to the Heart(hardcover)
Ballantine Books June 8, 1993 0-449-90824-0 Hardcover hardcover w/dustjacket; good
Blake ( Wildest Dreams ) is at her best in this historical romance, a fine piece of unashamed escapism set in antebellum Louisiana. Katrine Castlereag h is dutiful wife to the mysteriously incapacitated Giles, whose mad desire for an heir leads to a dastardly scheme to mate her with the victor of his yearly medieval-style tournament. True-hearted Rowan de Blanc comes to the tourney for reasons of his own: believing Katrine to be responsible for hi s half-brother's death, he wants to learn more about her. Although attracte d to each other, the pair refuse to fulfill Giles's plan--so he imprisons t hem, naked, in a tower on the grounds of his estate. They decide to cheat G iles by becoming lovers but avoiding pregnancy, thanks to Rowan's training in Arabian techniques of "self-control." True love and sensuality are awake ned, only to be threatened by a fire in the tower. Blake's language is as l ush and sensual as her protagonists' affair, although there are too many po rcelain-edged teeth and coral-rose nipples, and the sex is so prodigious an d frequent that it begins to bore. However, the intriguing combination of p assion and intellect in both Katrine and Rowan gives some edge to a story s atisfyingly capped by several neat plot twists.
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Blake, Jennifer Clay
Mira July 1, 2001 1-55166-819-X Mass Market Pa used: very good
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Blake, Jennifer Garden Of Scandal
Mira April 1, 1997 1-55166-281-7 Paperback used: good
Laurel Bancroft has lived for years as a recluse, isolating herself from a town that has branded her a murderer. But now, convinced people have finall y forgotten, she is ready to resume her life.
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Blake, Jennifer Kane (Louisiana Gentlemen Series.)
Mira February 1, 199 1-55166-429-1 Paperback used: good
In the first book of Blake's new series set in the small fictional town of Turn-Coupe, La., lawyer Kane Benedict has taken on Berry Associations, an u nethical funeral service company bent on forcing small funeral homes out of business by price gouging. When Kane's grandfather, owner of Compton's Fun eral Home, decides to fight back, Berry sends his "cousin" Regina to dig up dirt on the Benedicts. Regina only agreed to help because she feels she ow es Berry for his generosity years before, but by the time she finds her spi ne, Berry's holding her young son hostage. Unfortunately, a dependent, male -dominated heroine, a dearth of romantic chemistry and a fatuous courtroom scene in the final pages, are millstones that weigh this entry down.
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Blake, Jennifer Love and Smoke(hardcover)
Fawcett May 6, 1989 0-449-90430-X Hardcover hardcover w/dustjacket; good
STATED FIRST EDITION Prolific romance novelist Blake ( Perfume of Paradise ) makes her hardcover debut in a tale that brims with improbable melodrama, howling inanities, a nd laughable villains and temptresses. Wealthy New Orleans widow Riva Staul et loathes politician Edison Gallant--and with good reason. Years ago, the despicable playboy killed a civil-rights worker, was the cause of Riva's si ster's death from a self-administered abortion and, later, committed bigamy by marrying Riva, whom he soon deserted. After Riva gave birth to Edison's baby, Erin, another of her sisters raised the child. Lonely and penniless, Riva began dancing in a bar frequented by affluent businessman Cosmo Staul et, whom she married. As the socially prominent Mrs. Staulet, Riva meets Ed ison and threatens to expose his vile past unless he prevents his son from dating Erin, who doesn't suspect her true parentage. Outstanding in a cast of absurd characters is Edison himself, particularly in his sexual assault of Riva in a hospital supply closet. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. Product Description Riva Staulet's cool beauty belies the passions roiling within her. Now, she has everything she has ever wanted. But it hasn't always been that way. Many years before, there was a charming, handsome man who tried to take everything from her. Now he has his eye on the governor's mansion and Riva has not forgotten his cruelty.... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Blake, Jennifer Luke
Mira February 1, 199 1-55166-490-9 Paperback used: very good
In the second installment of her Turn-Coupe, La., series (after Kane), Blak e introduces her newest heroine, famed romance author April Halstead. April 's life is threatened when she decides to use one of Luke Benedict's ancest ors in her latest book. Although Luke's family would prefer that April "not stir up something that could rear up and bite them," Luke feels obligated to protect her, presumably because the pair had once been high school sweet hearts. When April ends up on the wrong end of some nasty phone calls, a dr ive-by shooting and a boat explosion, Luke whisks her off in his luxurious pontoon boat where the inevitable love affair begins. Their idyllic respite is short-lived when they are discovered; soon, April is forced to draw upo n her own resources to save herself.
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Blake, Jennifer Midnight Waltz
Ivy Books November 28, 19 0-449-14659-6 Paperback used; good
This 1984 romance novel finds protagonist Amalie Peschier, mistress of a Lo uisiana plantation, questioning her relationship with her husband.
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Blake, Jennifer Roan (Louisiana Gentlemen Series.)
Mira July 1, 2000 1-55166-630-8 Mass Market Pa used: very good
The third installment in Blake's lighthearted Louisiana Gentleman series (a fter Kane and Luke) introduces small-town Sheriff Roan Benedict. The sherif f is chasing down a speeding van whose occupants have robbed the local groc ery store when one of the van's occupants leaps out and rolls down a hill. Roan shoots and hits the person in the shoulder; an old-fashioned Southern gentleman, he is distressed to find that he's shot a woman, so he tenderly administers first aid while waiting for the ambulance. Tory insists that sh e was kidnapped and doesn't know the names of the two men with her, but Roa n is skeptical. After the two men try to get into the hospital where she is staying, Roan takes Tory to his house to continue her recuperation. Slowly , her story unfolds: she's trying to outrun her ex-fianc and her stepfather , both of whom want access to her fortune. Roan, while fighting his attract ion to Tory, still isn't convinced she's being truthful, though he starts t o believe her when the nasty former boyfriend shows up.
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Blake, Jennifer Royal Passion
Fawcett August 31, 1991 0-449-14790-8 Paperback used; very good
Mara Delacroix, a beautiful Louisiana belle,is blackmailed into seducing Ro deric, the gypsy prince of Ruthenia. Eventually she will be called on to be tray him in some unnamed way. She pretends to fall in love with Roderic aft er stumbling into a gypsy camp where Roderic is staying. He in turn falls f or her and takes her to Paris, where he installs her as his mistress. Toget her they entertain such luminaries as George Sand, Alexandre Dumas and Hono re Balzac. By the time the blackmailer arrives to tellMara how to betray th e prince, however, she has fallen deeply in love with him, making for a str ong ending to a fantastic plot.
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Blake, Jennifer Shameless
Ivy Books June 29, 1997 0-449-15002-X Paperback used: good
Strong-willed, beautiful Camilla Greenley Hutton is trying to get her life in order, anticipating divorce from her ne'er-do-well husband, Keith, who l eft her for a teenager. Now, however, Keith has become alarmingly physical in his efforts to resume their marriage. Then there's her renewed but unwan ted attraction to old flame Reid Sayers, back in their shrinking Louisiana town to take over his late father's lumber mill. Sensitive, CIA-trained Rei d, convinced he's too dangerous for love, has long harbored a deep attracti on of his own and sets himself up as Cammie's protector. He becomes her no- strings lover, longing for but terrified of a closer role. When word gets o ut that European interests may buy the mill, possibly damaging the environm ent but surely saving the town, the two clash on the issue. Butting heads b y day and pressing bodies at night, they find their passion drawing them cl oser even as their suspicions tear them apart. A person who discovers that Cammie may actually own the mill goes missing, a major player turns up dead and escalating doubt threatens the couple's unexpressed love.
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Blake, Jennifer Shameless : A Novel
Ballantine Books May 10, 1994 0-449-90618-3 Hardcover; w/j used; both book/jacket very good
Strong-willed, beautiful Camilla Greenley Hutton is trying to get her life in order, anticipating divorce from her ne'er-do-well husband, Keith, who l eft her for a teenager. Now, however, Keith has become alarmingly physical in his efforts to resume their marriage. Then there's her renewed but unwan ted attraction to old flame Reid Sayers, back in their shrinking Louisiana town to take over his late father's lumber mill. Sensitive, CIA-trained Rei d, convinced he's too dangerous for love, has long harbored a deep attracti on of his own and sets himself up as Cammie's protector. He becomes her no- strings lover, longing for but terrified of a closer role. When word gets o ut that European interests may buy the mill, possibly damaging the environm ent but surely saving the town, the two clash on the issue. Butting heads b y day and pressing bodies at night, they find their passion drawing them cl oser even as their suspicions tear them apart. A person who discovers that Cammie may actually own the mill goes missing, a major player turns up dead and escalating doubt threatens the couple's unexpressed love. But as Cammi e observes, "The heart wasn't logical, of course, or particularly bright. . . .
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Blake, Jennifer Wade
Mira September 1, 20 1-55166-898-X Mass Market Pa used: very good
Though nearly a year has passed since the World Trade Center attack, reader s may be unprepared for Wade, the final entry in Jennifer Blake's Louisiana Gentlemen series (Clay, etc.). Since she was 14, American Chloe Madison ha s lived in Hazaristan, a fictional "mirror" country, under the rule of her hateful stepbrother, Ahmad. Despite her less than desirable circumstances-C hloe, like all the women, must wear a burqa, has no rights and may be beate n if she so much as speaks too loudly-she refuses to flee with Wade Benedic t, an old family friend sent to rescue her. Inevitably, she has a change of heart, but in a particularly outrageous plot twist, Ahmad follows them to the U.S. and declares a personal jihad against the whole Benedict clan. Eve r game for a challenge, the Benedicts rally together in an over-the-top, pa triotic conclusion that will give readers cause to cheer.
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