Flora: 300 books

Mourning the death of her beloved grandfather, Aline visits the library to which he donated a medieval Book of Hours. While gazing at the December illustration, she suddenly finds herself on a muddy road, buffeted by wind and snow, about to be run down by a troop of armored horsemen. When the leader...

Halys and Simon are betrothed, but when a riding accident seriously injures Halys, Simon’s father calls off the wedding. Furious at his father’s attitude the 18-year-old Simon departs for the Holy Land and the First Crusade. Ten years later, Simon returns. Halys’ Uncle Richard, her guardian...

Raised in a culture where all emotion is ruthlessly repressed, Merin finds she’s changing as she lives with the settlers led by Tarik and his wife, Narisa. Herne, from a brutal planet where murder is expected of everyone, fled his home to become a doctor, but he’s a gruff, unfriendly man.While...

Statistical methods in modern research increasingly entail developing, estimating and testing models for data. Rather than rigid methods of data analysis, the need today is for more flexible methods for *modelling *data. In this logical, easy-to-follow and exceptionally clear book, **David...

Schiller’s Don Carlos, written ten years before his great Wallenstein trilogy, testifies to the young playwright’s growing power. First performed in 1787, it stands at the culmination of Schiller’s formative development as a dramatist and is the first play written in his characteristic iambic...

On the day her husband, the Duke of Monteferro, was assassinated, Eleonora Farisi took her two little girls, Bianca and Rosalinda, and a few loyal friends and fled to a villa hidden near the Italian Alps. They lived in peaceful isolation until one snowy night when a strange young man appeared, clad...

Carol hated Christmas. Then the ghost of her late employer, Lady Augusta, appeared, insisting she must change her heartless ways or they would each be doomed to wander alone through eternity. Transported to the London of 1818, to a world of luxury and pleasure, Carol met Lord Nicholas Montfort...

India Baldwin, young widow and now a secretary in the Cheswick University History Department, must update her computer skills before her new boss arrives. Hank, boyfriend of Willie, India’s best friend since childhood, offers to help. But Hank has installed a secret program that, with just one slip...

The vision in Lady Mirielle’s crystal globe showed two men arriving at Wroxley Castle. She knew one was honest, but sensed the other was concealing his identity. The first, Hugh, quickly became a valued friend and teacher. Giles remained a tantalizing mystery, though Mirielle could not deny the...

Baghdad, AD 1138. When his teacher vanishes during a magical spell gone awry, Warrick appeals to the dying astronomer John of Cornwall for help in finding him. He’s promptly blackmailed into escorting John’s sharp-tongued daughter, Sophia, and a priceless crystal ball to Byzantium. Forced to flee...

King Henry I of England has decided to end an old feud by marrying Lord Dain of Penruan to the daughter of Penruan’s enemy, Gavin of Wroxley. Thinking his bride-by-proxy will be a mere child, Dain is startled to meet the lovely Emma. He’s rude to her and refuses to sleep with her. Emma decides...

On December 31, 1999, Gina is sent to make a last-minute repair to an old computer before the machine shuts down as the calendar turns to the year 2000. The next thing she knows, she’s falling through the air, watching mountains and forests go by and headed for a large stone building with a red...

Badly wounded in the war against space pirates, a depressed Admiral Halvo Gibal is returning to Capital, to a boring future confined to a desk job, when he’s captured by Perri of Regula. Halvo suspects there’s more behind the deed than Perri understands, and he’s fascinated by the red-haired,...

Everyone in isolated Ruthlen scorns Janina because she alone has no telepathic ability. Her grandmother, the High Priestess Tamat, protects her, but Tamat is growing old. When she’s gone, Sidra, the next High Priestess, will destroy the girl she envies.Then Reid, a lost explorer, arrives...