Capturing in verse the ageless spirit of Zen, these 150 poems reflect the insight of famed masters from the ninth century to the nineteenth. The translators, in collaboration with Zen Master Taigan Takayama, have furnished illuminating commentary on ...
Perri Greenwood had come here to Coorain, in the Dead Heart of Australia's Outback, to work. She was here with her uncle's anthropological team to study the customs and legends of the aborigines -- not to teeter on the brink of disaster with ...
A Wind in the Door is a fantastic adventure story involving Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe, the chief characters of A Wrinkle in Time. The seed from which the story grows is the rather ordinary situation of Charles W...
Intrigues of the darkest design abound when a beautiful heiress loses her memory, her inhibitions, and her heart. The Beauty And The Rogue Nothing seemed more unpleasant to lovely, dark-haired Miss Araminta Surtaine than a coach journey with he...
When Judi Langham's selfish stepsister Hannah, an up-and-coming film actress; needed a professional name, she hadn't hesitated to appropriate Judi's. Judi couldn't care less -- she had far more pressing problems on her mind; principal...
Master storyteller Arthur Hailey’s #1 New York Times bestseller is a turbocharged thriller about America’s automobile industry, from the bottom up Ford. Chrysler. General Motors. They were the Big Three, accused by critics ...
The Odyssey House story is more than just history and statistics, and this book is much more than a simple description of the origins and development of the country's most successful program for curing drug addiction. Dr. Judianne Densen-Gerber, Ody...
Pyramid Books, later printing of 1962 Pyramid paperback original. Collects ten previously published science fiction stories. Introductions by Anthony Boucher and Frederik Pohl and these STORIES: The Masters (1954); The Specter General (1952); Wolfie ...
VANISHED His name was Roy Sands, and he had everything to look forward to. He was getting out of the service and coming home to marry his beautiful fiancée. He had his debts paid, money in the bank, and a happy new life ahead of him. Then Roy Sands...
This is the first edition of this story collection, published by Scribners. Stories included: Caught in the Organ Draft (1972); {Now + n, Now - n} (1972); Some Notes on the Pre-Dynastic Epoch (1973); In the Group (1973); Caliban (1971); Many Mansions...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...
First edition. Attemped murder and suicide stock the three day meeting of Thomas Jefferson enthusiasts at the University of Virginia. Small spot on front pastedown. xii, 241 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo.....
First Love Patricia Ingram, seventeen, is in love for the first time in her life. She couldn’t resist the appeal of tall, rugged Dick Keating who was the smoothest boy in her class. Dick was a challenge to Pat, for his way of life was totally...
Trillions were hard, bright, tiny things which suddenly arrived - millions and millions and millions of them - one windy day in a village called Harbourtown.No one could explain them, much less why they had suddenly arrived. Were they a blessing, as ...
Billie Tommie, a ten-year-old Seminole Indian, lives with his family in a chickee on a mangrove island in the Florida Everglades. Billie is the first in his family to attend school. Now he walks in two worlds--the traditonal world of his ancestors an...
Posed for Death…. Laurie’s fiancé hated the apartment she’d chosen for them to live in when they got married. Steve couldn’t be specific, but something about the old Victorian building really bothered him. But Laurie loved their futu...
It is post-Nixon America. The country is blighted with race riots, student protests, and the effects of a dirty war with Costa Rica.
Ruthlessly ambitious President Luckinbill is certainly no stranger to controversial Constitutional amendments,...
First U.S. edition. Superintendent Roger West of Scotland Yard rescues the Sarum Magna Carta after a band of international art thieves steal it from the Salisbury Catherdral. 191 pages. boards, dust jacket.. 8vo.....
Jennie's idyllic life with her father on the Adriatic island of Zelen was disturbed by the arrival of Glyn Harney. She found herself unable to stop thinking about him. But was his own interest in herself sincere-or that of an unscrupulous opportuni...
Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally p...
From being the prim daughter of the Manse, within a few days Kirsty found herself amazingly on the other side of the world, in the Australian Outback, as the wife "in name only' of Andrew Fraser. It was going to be difficult enough to adj...
The Planet Arcadia has six moons, describing erratic orbits. But once every fifty-two years, the Moons of Arcadia come together in a constellation that creates havoc on the surface--raging tides, storms, and worse. And meanwhile the Moons grown close...
"Wanted, good-looking young man to per-form simple task. Few hours only. Generous remuneration." When Ricky had blandly jilted her in order to make a more advantageous marriage and had then had the nerve to invite her to the wedding, Tara ...
Toni Stewart had left her job and a go-nowhere romance to join her brother on Mandargi, the cattle station which he managed. She hadn't met the owner, Damon Nyland, but had heard enough about him to determine that she at least wasn't going...
Peter, Michael and Emma are strangers, each despatched by their parents for a week's holiday with the Myers in their cottage at the foot of a Welsh mountain. Coincidence? Or has the strange neighbour, Mrs White, somehow lured them to enact an awesome...
Eager to clear her step-brother of a murder charge, Linda Earle comes to a snow-covered ski resort in the Northeast, where she finds herself in a unique world of icy weather and fiery passions. In this new novel of romantic suspense Phyllis A. Whitne...
This novel is a moving evocation of a time and place -- an Appalachian boyhood in the 1940s. The book describes the coming of age of Speer Whitfield, raised by a zany spinster aunt and a family of memorable characters: a sister who is slowly dying,...
"Men were deceivers," Imogen told herself bitterly when Raymond let her down. She was never going to let it happen again. Her resolve might have weakened when she met Christian Wainwright and knew she could easily fall in love with him, b...
Handsome Prince Rudolph Krisler’s request for help in finding his family’s long-lost heirlooms launch Jean and Louise Dana on a thrilling mystery while on vacation in Europe. First, the young investigators’ search is hampered by a mysterious...
When a waiter at an Indian restaurant is crucified, and when a customer of that restaurant happens to be the infamous Simon Templar, it spells trouble for one of the more unusual import-export businesses that you’ve ever heard of.
Les...
Emma wakes up one morning to an apocalyptic world. The cozy existence she shares with her grandmother, an eccentric retired actress known to all as Madam, has been shattered: there's no post, no telephone, no radio - and an American warship sits in t...
“The rare work of fiction that has changed real life . . . If you don’t yet know Molly Bolt -- or Rita Mae Brown, who created her -- I urge you to read and thank them both.” -- Gloria Steinem Winner of the Lambda Literary Pioneer Award |...
Lorena encountered the domineering Mario Marescu in Sardinia -- and from the first he made it clear that he disapproved of her way of life. How dared he presume to judge her? Lorena had never met such an exasperating, arrogant male. Yet why did it...
Freya had joined this cruise to Portugal and North Africa to convalesce from a bad bout of 'flu -- but it was hardly going to help the recovery process when the first man she met -- the Captain himself -- turned out to be Derek Leighton, whom she...
Charlie, the young grandson of a prominent rancher, had been taken hostage by a band of vicious Cheyennes after they hadslaughtered his parents. The search party forced Charlie to act as their scout but Charlie had other ideas....
HE RODE ALONE Con Vallian knew the best way to stay out of trouble was to mind his own business. Then he stopped for a cup of coffee at a stranger's campfire and found himself guiding a family of greenhorns across the prairie-fighting a pack of ru...
An unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture,class, identity, and the meaning of freedomPrisons, the first volume of The Beulah Quintet -- Mary Lee Settle's unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture...
1973, Doubleday. Hardcover title, 158 pages. Very unusual title, in which George McGovern, back in 1972, surprised Richard Nixon and became President. This title tells who the new President appointed to the top 12 Cabinet posts and why. Also, we have...
Martin Fallon was on the run. From the police who wanted him for murder. And from the terrorist organization that wanted him for refusing to murder anymore. He had come to his last hope of escape. A Greek called Kristou. Kristou said, "There is a ...
While devoting her energy to rehabilitating a mistreated gelding in the aftermath of her broken engagement, Jill discovers that fancy pedigrees are not essential to the success of either people or horses....
Selected for inclusion in the Best of the Best: Books for Great Kids and Teens list by the Chicago Public Library.
“Once there was an orphan boy named Pepino who lived in the mountain town of Assisi. His home was a stable and he shared it w...
Ariosto's immortal classic in a new English translation. An epic fantasy of the age of chivalry, thronged with sorcerers and hippogriffs, ladies and their knights, magic rings, wondrous swords, magnificent horses, and more plots than you can shake a ...
"WE'RE GOING TO EMIGRATE" The words dropped into Lesley's mind innocently...and exploded like a bomb. Emigrating meant leaving home forever. She couldn't believe it. But her father had made up his mind. "WE'RE GOING WHERE WE CAN LIVE ON AN EDGE...WI...
Alex had always been fascinated by Australia and went out there from England to get a job as a nurse. There she met the autocratic boss of a logging camp, Grant Mitchell, who told her, "There's no padding around in this job, Miss Leighton...
In this memoir, the author probes two traumatic decades; the 1950's and 1960;s. From the public myths that gradually disintegrated, to the heroes who retired and left no successors, and finally the accelerating loss of innocence. 266 pages....
Burt Wulff has gone beyond fear, beyond love, even beyond hate. He's simply beyond giving the slightest damn whether he lives or dies, so long as he can kill the killers - thousands of them, all over American and all over the world. He is the lone wo...
The classic mystery novella The Lamp of God is paired with eight short stories in this collection featuring “the prince of American detective fiction” (Kirkus Reviews). Is it possible for a man to lift himself off the ground by his shoe...
The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film starring Robert Redford) now in a new edition Introduction by Kevin BakerThe Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the first -- and some would say still the best -- no...
When their coach becomes ill and their baseball team starts falling apart, several of the Blazers begin receiving coaching tips from an anonymous phone caller. What can a team do when all of its members know they are getting absolutely no coaching...
Dangerous Shores For Elizabeth Cranston it all started when she discovered that the little fishing village of Mourie in the Scottish Highlands was not the peaceful refuge she had expected. A search for sunken treasure off Mourie’s beautiful shor...
The breathtaking romance of Cordelia and Jonathan-The governess and the master of Moorhaven-begins the stormy saga that spans three generations at Moorhaven, the great stone house built on land stolen from the sea. The strange mystery haunting the ho...
Christina thought the long university vacation would be an excellent time to visit her brother and sister-in-law in southern Portugal. But she soon realized that she was unwelcome and she was thankful when she was offered a job by the local lord of t...
Stated first printing. A VG+ copy in a near fine dust jacket. Soiling to the edges of the book's upper page block. Small bumps to its lower corners. The dust jacket has rubs to its spine tips and corners. Dust soiling to the rear panel....
FIGHTIN' IRISH Crispin Mayo was a stranger to the law of the gun. He had come West from Ireland to seek his fortune-one man with nothing but his fists to protect him. Was he tough enough to tangle with a cut-throat band of renegades? It was none o...
Twelve-year-old Jose Maldonado used to dream of becoming a fine artist. But this son of a poor Mexican farmer now focuses on survival, not art. After Jose’s mother died, his father left to work in the United States, leaving Jose on his own in Mexic...
“Lovesey’s best yet.” -- H.R.F. Keating, The TimesBrighton, 1882: Albert Moscrop spends his holiday peering at beachgoers through a telescope, piecing together disarmingly trivial observations into a compelling drama for his own a...
On his arrival at one of his recently inherited estates, the Fourth Viscount Northover is surprised to learn that a family from Louisiana have made themselves at home there. In his library he meetes Miss Lydia Leyland, who engagingly confides that s...
Front endpaper map of Haiti at the time of Toussant L'Ouverture. 351 pages. Reading copy only. The rfep has been carelessly removed, cracking the rear hinge. Ex-library, spine slightly cocked. The jacket is somewhat wrinkled under the clear wraps, bu...
In London a 13-year-old boy, abandoned as a baby, has a chance to help the struggling Globe theater and look for clues to his identity....
A hit man tries to make a clean break from his murderous career in this chilling novel from an award-winning author. He has no police record, not even a traffic ticket. But he’s killed twenty-seven people during his career as a professional...
"Place your hand on a woman's heart and she's yours instantly," said the arrogant Greek Julius Spiridon, who was certainly devastating enough to know what he was talking about. But Gale Davis was not just any woman, she had been h...
Josephine, a Haitian child, walks the dusty road to market each week with her mother, who makes and sells brooms to support them. One day, Josephine bumps into an old peddler with toy animals woven from straw dangling from his huge brimmed hat. He gi...
A mythological masterpiece about dedication and the disintegration of romantic affection In this magnificent epic poem, John Gardner renders his interpretation of the ancient story of Jason and Medeia. Confined in the palace of King ...
He despised her but wanted her as a wife Jake Howard and his wife, Helen, were outwardly a perfect couple with a perfect marriage. Jake was immensely attractive, rich and successful. Helen was beautiful, intelligent and wellbred. But Jake had c...
It was a surprise to Naomi when she found herself in charge of a young niece and a large house in a charming Dorsetshire village, and without much money to keep either of them. She was grateful for the willing help and advice of the villagers, but...
Many English girls go to Majorca for their holiday in the secret hope of meeting romance. Hazel Brown went there and found a husband. But she was not so romantically lucky as she appeared to be -- for Hazel's was a husband with a difference . ...
Kim Lyttleton's flighty young foster-sister was about to ruin her life by running off with a married man, and her family were worried to death about it. It was the practical Kim who decided that something drastic would have to be done -- and s...