Best Selling Books by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Nadie le dijo a la teniente Kitty McCulley que eso era lo que tenía que hacer una enfermera. Nadie le dijo que a Vietnam no iba a curar pacientes, sino a contemplar, impotente, su dolor. Que no estaba allí para aliviar el sufrimiento ajeno, sino para convertirse en objeto del desprecio de sus congéneres, y de su lujuria. Que no salvaría las vidas de las víctimas, sino que los propios médicos la abofetearían con su indiferencia. Nadie se lo dijo. Aunque no habría cambiado nada. Cuando uno de sus pacientes, un hombre santo venerado por los vietnamitas, le entrega a Kitty un amuleto con unos supuestos poderes inexplicables, su mundo cambia para siempre.

The Egyptian queen Cleopatra was one of the most beautiful and powerful women in history. Now her secrets can be anyone''s--for a price. To track down Cleopatra''s DNA, forensic anthropologist Leda Hubbard heads to the ancient city of Alexandria. But she is not alone.

What you see (at first) is not what you get in this collection of nine previously published tales of shape shifting and transformation. An Alaskan student of wildlife biology finds it difficult to write convincingly about what she knows. A proud and beautiful princess loses her popularity when cursed (in a way probably familiar to many readers) by a wicked enchanter. A lonely Cajun fiddler has a close encounter with his royal but scaly ancestor. In the secret story of the railroad that transformed the American West, Chinese and Irish workers compete to complete the job with a little help from supernatural friends. A lowly jeweler creates a wondrous bauble for the sultan''s favorite, but his reward, an exalted royal elephant, eats him out of house and home until he unlocks her secret. An Irish nurse discovers the identity of the lone fiddler who plays at the bedside of a critically ill patient. A middle-aged woman, suddenly invisible, improves her love and social life during Mardi Gras. And a predatory bill collector meets his match in a story so dark that the author even changed her name. In these shifty stories, you''ll be wondering who happens next!

Book Three of the Songs from the Seashell Archives Sleeping Beauty had it easy. Her curse only made her take a nap when she turned 16. As if it wasn''t bad enough already that because of her frost giant heritage from her father the king''s side of the family she was 6 feet tall when she was only 12 years old, poor Princess Bronwyn (the Bold) of Argonia was cursed at birth to tell nothing but lies. With her father away at war and her mother heavily pregnant, Bronwyn is even more in the way than usual, so she gets packed off to Wormroost, her aunt''s place in the glaciers, and en route she meets her musician/magician cousin Carole, a not-so-brave gypsy lad, and a princess-turned-swan. The lot of them encounter monsters, sorcerers, sea serpents, mercenary mages and sirens-many of whom are related to them. Without quite intending to, they embark on a quest to end the war, heal a battle-ravaged land, end a ban on magic and lift Bronwyn''s Bane. L. Sprague de Camp said, "I found BRONWYN''S BANE delightful reading. I wish I had her fertility of imagination in thinking up amusing twists, turns and business of plot."

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The award-winning author of the acclaimed "Godmother" novels introduces a new Godmother--a Native American woman, known simply as "Grandma", who will weave a web of unforgettable magic and change the life of one young woman forever.

The dragons are revolting and the magic is gone. Being queen is complicated.

Progress has transformed Queenston, capital city of Argonia. Once the land of witches, wizards, fairies, and other magical people and animals, since the Great War, the country has changed. Queenston, particularly, is now the city of contraptions and conveyances, including a modern international railroad. In the Great War Argonia''s dragons allied with the armies to push back an invasion. For their assistance, the beasts shared what food remained as the country rebuilt itself. But with the war won, the allies came to "recover" the war-torn country, bringing with them new ideas and inventions, most of which only needed a supply of iron and a reliable source of heat for their boilers. The dragons were again recruited, tamed, altered and virtually enslaved to power Progress. Verity Brown is a modern girl. The magic of her witchy foremothers has become, if not actually illegal, highly unfashionable. The only magic that matters to Verity is her own curse, forcing her to know and tell the truth regardless of convenience. On Verity''s 16th birthday, a hot-air balloon crash kills her father. The balloon''s dragon and wrangler rescue Verity, but are blamed and sentenced to be put to death. Her honorable quest to save them and find her father''s murderer takes her straight into the den of the wild and ferocious Dragon Vitia.

Spam the cat thought he''d seen a lot of the world in his nine months of life. After all, he was the foremost vampire hunter of Port Deception, WA. (SPAM VS THE VAMPIRE)! This was his first Christmas, however, and from what he''d heard on TV, on Christmas all was supposed to be calm, all was supposed to be bright. The deer and Renfrew the raccoon had other ideas however. In an attempt to keep Renfrew, aka "The UPS Bandit" from ruining a lot of Christmases, Spam begins a task that leads to his being the sole protection of a new mother and child, and a less-than-warm-and-fuzzy reunion with his feral father. Altogether, his first Christmas eve is a less than Silent Night. The proceeds of this book from whatever source will be donated to the Humane Society of Jefferson County for the benefit of the animal shelter.

Book Two of Songs from the Seashell Archives In Song of Sorcery, Book 1 of Songs from the Seashell Archives, hearthwitch Maggie Brown met minstrel Colin Songsmith and a unicorn named Moonshine while saving both her sister and the kingdom. All in a quest''s work for a girl who can magically do anything she can convince her power is housework. To reward Maggie, the king makes her a princess, and therefore a good catch for the local noble bachelors. Only problem is, she doesn''t want to get married. She wants to be with Moonshine, whose Unicorn Creed, as he understands it, forbids him to consort with anyone except a chaste maiden. It''s rather a touchy situation, and so Princess Maggie abandons her crown and with Moonshine, she and Colin set out to see if they can find a loophole in Moonshine''s creed. Of course, in the process they have to try to save the land of Argonia again, this time from a were-man, a revolutionary nymph, a town''s worth of zombies, an ice worm and an evil wizard. "Gentle humor, deft plotting and a fine light-handed prose style, all combine to make THE UNICORN CREED a pure delight." -New York Daily News

Acorna a retrouvé son monde et sa race, mais regrette ses amis humains qui l''avaient recueillie et accompagnée dans d''incroyables aventures. Qui, à son âge, peut se vanter d''avoir sauvé une planète et repoussé une invasion galactique ? Menacée par les insectoïdes Khleevi, elle embarque alors à bord d''un vaisseau bricolé par un ferrailleur des étoiles. Le capitaine Becker est mal embouché et doté d''un humour dévastateur. Son chat Road Kill, ex-chat sacré d''une religion lointaine, règne sur ce groupe d''humanoïdes squattant son vaisseau. Ken l''androïde, ex-garde du corps d''une folle, a des muscles synthétiques très utiles et se débranche régulièrement pour économiser ses batteries. Il y a aussi Aarl, le seul compatriote d''Acorna ressorti vivant des mandibules des Khleevi : sa corne a été arrachée, ses pouvoirs télépathiques réduits à néant. Acorna le trouve charmant et veut l''aider à retrouver ses parents perdus dans l''espace. Répondant à un appel de détresse, Acorna et ses amis découvrent une planète où les plantes sont douées de conscience et où des signes inquiétants confirment leurs craintes. Leur galaxie est de nouveau en danger...

Using lawyers as their weapons, a cabal of devils attempts to wipe out folk music--one of the few tools humans can effectively use against the demons

A ragtag band of folksingers in possession of an enchanted banjo enters the land Great Britain, where the banjo stirs up the ghost of Sir Walter Scott, who is intent on saving the last of the folk songs

During a trip to the Yukon in the midst of the Gold Rush to visit her late father''s ex-mistress, Valentine Lovelace encounters Vasily Vladovitch Bledinoff, a suave vampire