Sam Durell had been with K Section for more years than he cared to remember. As chief field agent he knew the world’s cities and jungles better than any man alive. And the fact that he was still alive was proof of his toughness. But this assignm...
The search for a missing sister leads Andrea into a house of horrors... First Look at Evil Her twin sister wrote Andrea from Rumania that she planned to get married. Anxious to see Helene and meet her future husband, Andrea started out for the ...
Orphaned at age twelve, Robin describes her struggle to accept the realities of her first year at the Children's Home....
Dr. Frigo is the nickname of Dr. Ernesto Castillo. His father either died or was assassinated and was a leading figure in the Democratic Socialist Party in St. Paul-les Alizes. With his death, leadership in the party would normally fall to Ernesto. ...
Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly-sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously. He sets the scene with infinite car...
Francesca Temple came to Italy to stay with her parents and to introduce them to her fiance Desmond. But fate decreed that her visit was to end in her marriage to another man -- the disturbing Angelo Vittorini. Could Francesca ever understand the ...
Had it been only a holiday romance? Lois, a receptionist at a hotel in Italy, was afraid the answer was yes. Her whirlwind courtship with the visiting Canadian businessman, Val Daventry, ended abruptly when he had to leave for Germany. True, he...
A legendary love letter to Los Angeles by the city's most charming daughter, complete with portraits of rock stars at Chateau Marmont, surfers in Santa Monica, prostitutes on sunset, and Eve's own beloved cat, Rosie. Journalist, party girl, book...
When a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he ...
'An honest and skillfully told love story' - New York Times
Lydia - shy, sheltered, beautiful and just nineteen - glides into Evensford one wintry day, stirring up feeling amongst the town's young men. But it is the young Mr Ri...
First published in 1973, The Book of Eve has become a classic. When Eva Carroll walks out on her husband of 40 years, it is an unplanned, completely spontaneous gesture. Yet Eva feels neither guilt nor remorse. Instead, she feels rejuvenated and blis...
A simple mission of mercy had involved lovely Caro Farrell with notorious Tony Gallant, a darkly handsome man of dubious background. To save her reputation, Caro consented to masquerade as Gallant's "betrothed" and to serve as governess to the two In...
Emmy's delicate small nephew was a great responsibility, and she had firmly decided to keep any ideas of love and marriage in the background for the next two years until the child's health improved. But when she made that vow she hadn'...
The man she loved had changed. Why? When Laurel traveled to Japan to marry Kirk Graham, a British diplomat, she was afraid he might have forgotten her. Their summer romance seemed so far away. As soon as she saw him again she knew she loved him...
Nineteen light years from Earth, on Sigma Draconis, an international space team stumbles upon the first evidence of another highly advanced civilization in the universe.Tragically, however, the Draconians are extinct and have been for a hundred thous...
Anthony Burgess draws on his love of music and history in this novel he called “elephantine fun” to write.A grand and affectionate tragicomic symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte that teases and reweaves Napoleon’s life into a pattern borrowed -- in ...
Madame Landini's memoirs promised to be sensational. Rodney, who had captured them for his publishing house, and Oliver, his literary agent friend who would handle the business side of the book, could congratulate themselves on a brilliant coup. B...
A toolbox full of expertise -- how to: unclog drains; repair pipes and wiring; build beds, shelves, coffee tables; paint; can; sew -- that even the four thumbed will be able to get a handle on. Cadwallader, who a couple of years ago wrote the delecta...
1974, mass market paperback reprint edition (of a work first published in 1967), Pinnacle Books, NY. 306 pages. The author is a fine novelist, specializing in books of aviation, nuclear warfare, and hydrospace. A US killer sub is up against Russia's ...
Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels -- a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory.“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, thei...
Against the backdrop of Elizabethan England is spun this engrossing story of the stormy loves and dangerous adventures of beautiful Catharine, called Cat. When fiery-tempered Cat meets arrogant, lusty Captain Jake Pennlyon, she is both attracted a...
The Unforgettable Season Sam Green doesn't just like baseball...he loves it. Especially the Brooklyn Dodgers and Jackie Robinson. There isn't a single Dodger stat Sam doesn't know, or game he can't recite, play by play, from memory. Baseball is hi...
The Revolution was tearing Tim's family apart. All his life, Tim Meeker has looked up to his brother Sam. Sam's smart and brave, and always knows the right thing to do. In fact, everyone in town had admired Sam Meeker. Until now. Now Sam is par...
Within these fourteen hilarious and insightful tales of urban life, you'll meet: # Raiford Phelps, an ornithologist who discovers new patterns of animal behavior when he meets Mary Leibnitz. # Benno Morna, a temporary bachelor, free to indulge in T...
"Is the outback life too tough for you?" Dev Deveraux's tone was deliberately taunting. "I guess namby-pamby little English girls don't belong in my country," he drawled. Rennie's eyes sparked with anger. She knew he...
Two weeks after she arrived in Australia from England, Pippa found herself in the middle of the outback on the sheep station of Jounima doing battle with Skye Bannerman. 'Skye's an ogre,' Bron Lightfoot had told Pippa, and after her initial encounter...
Live out your fantasies for $1,000 a day at Westworld - the ultimate resort! Murder, violence, wild sexual abandon, any human desire is fulfilled by totally computerized, humanoid robots programmed for your pleasure alone...Until a small computer cas...
The Glory of the Empire is the rich and absorbing history of an extraordinary empire, at one point a rival to Rome. Rulers such as Basil the Great of Onessa, who founded the Empire but whose treacherous ways made him a byword for infamy, and ...
Stacy needed time to adjust Stacy's world collapsed with the death of her father. She had to sort herself out; decide what she wanted to do with her life. The secluded cabin in a Texas valley seemed a perfect place to think. But when Stacy ...
"Don't you want to tell me how much you love and adore me and how you can hardly wait to marry me?" Coley asked mockingly.' "I was so looking forward to that part." Even though her own heart was breaking, she could still de...
When Averil went to Andalusia to straighten out legal tangles over her great-aunt's inheritance there, she was presented with further problems by Don Rodrigo, her wealthy neighbour, and Connall Brunner, a road engineer who was as tough as the earth w...
Rosamund was furious when, inspecting the villa which her employer had rented for his stay in Sicily, she found a strange man apparently in occupation there. Brent Stanton was no Adonis, she thought, and his hectoring, over-bearing manner added no...
Dark Bondage. Lovely, dark-haired Mavis longed for an opera career -- in vain, she thought. But then one night she dreamed of Ernestine Hillary, the fabled soprano whose life had ended tragically and mysteriously sixteen years before. When Mavis a...
Would she be a helpless victim of history's relentless repetition? In the secret compartment of an old desk, Aldis discovered her Aunt Evangeline's diary written long before. How curiously her aunt's story paralleled her own broken romance with a...
They had a helicopter, a hopped up police cruiser, a motorcycle and their wits. As a special undercover police team, the cases they were assigned were “the ones nobody wants, the bottom of the barrel, the tough ones.” This one was really tough...
Trying to get away from a "problem" man in London, Maggie took a job as receptionist in a luxury hotel in Jersey. But the first person she met was a man who was even more of a problem, a rebel who laughed at everything she thought important. Could...
For Sale: The Louisana Territory. While white men toyed with the future of nations in the gilded drawing rooms of Europe, black men fought a bloody and desperate battle for independence on a small Caribbean island... a struggle which held the key to ...
The Penetrator Mark Hardin flew to Japan for a vacation, but his visit touched off a chain reaction of terror. First a renowned atomic scientist was kidnapped; then a madman announced he had a stockpile of thermonuclear weapons for sale. Instead of r...
GREMLINS TAKE TO SPACE! These little dudes may be the stuff of legend, but they’re just as real as you and me. Far from the mythical, magical creatures of rumor, they are actually tiny aliens, marooned for centuries on this miserable mudball kno...
A free-lance writer, active in the area of Â"little magazine” writing and publishing, and a member of the teaching staff of the Experiment in Higher Education at Southern Illinois Univers...
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As head of a house-sitting service in Santa Fe, Leigh Sinclair believes in tight security for the premises she guards. Hurt in the past by those she loved, she believes in tight security for her heart too. But when handsome petro-geologist Carlos Wai...
The Russian Occupation Force are pulling out of England and the Resistance Movement calls once again on the services of David Seymour, alias Agent David Garnett, and his partner, the girl Dane. This time they place them squarely between the Hawks, wh...
A plague of human vampires -- a 300-year-old witch who, legend says, can only be freed from her chains and returned to youth and beauty by a PHANTOM kiss. Incredible in the twentieth century? Yet a tiny nation is terrorized by these ghastly bei...
In the lakeshore town of Ludington, the Fog Man went almost unnoticed. But to Kipper, visiting his Uncle Matt and cousin Larry, the shuffling figure in the brown coat and flowing beard was mysterious and more than a little eerie. Before Kipper has...
Katherine met Darius Tarrant at the Great Exhibition of 1851. He was handsome enough to sweep any girl off her feet, but sensitive, sensible Kate was taken completely off guard. Men usually preferred her cousin Arabella. But not Darius. After a whirl...
Against the dangerous intrigues of exotic Morocco, a beautiful girl becomes the captive of love... The Desert Whispered Romance… but lovely Krista was hardly prepared for “true” love when she arrived in Morocco with Ryan Talbot, her handsom...
The first of the seven days covered in this novel was (till evening) like any other weekday for Caleb Dawson-solid citizen, commuter, wry observer of life. In the morning his pretty wife drove him to work. At 6: 19 pm she was again at the station in ...
In the world of children''s literature, Louise Fitzhugh''sHarriet the SpyandThe Long Secretare widely recognized as epoch-making. They have been received by young readers, year after year, with excitement and love. Nobody''s Family is Going to Change...
This biography of Charles Edwardsen, Jr. (Etok), an Eskimo radical, is the story of the struggle to protect Alaska Native land rights and way of life in the face of the relentless onslaught of Western culture.
Etok is a contradiction in terms --...
The dramedy focuses on elderly Max Silverman, who is determined to reopen the Coney Island boardwalk hot dog stand he closed twenty-two years earlier for renovation, despite the fact he's recovering from a severe heart attack and it's the middle of F...
London is in terror. The streets are filled with dippers, macers and bullies of every description, all collecting "contributions for the Professor." But Holmes saw Professor Moriarty swept over a waterfall in Switzerland! Could it be that Europe's Ma...
There were treasures at Thirlbeck, home of the 18th Earl of Askew. Treasures beyond one's wildest dreams. Then lovely young antique dealer Joanna Roswell and her mentor pay a visit to Thirlbeck, and are confronted not only with rare splendors of the ...
Jarred loose from the ocean floor by a tremendous explosion, an island occupied by a young girl and her two companions floats out to sea under the command of two British sailors who believe that World War II is still in progress....
This is the first novel by William Gerhardie, first published in 1922, and it was made famous by H. G. Wells, who described it as 'true, devastating - a wonderful book'.Based on Gerhardie's own experiences as a member of the British Military Mission ...
BRUTAL Colonel George P. Haven. Probably the most despised man in the U.S. Army. Put him in a fort in the Badlands of Dakota -- American territory by law but Sioux land by right. Add the Ball gang -- as vicious a group of robbers and killers a...
HOT Trailing smoke and flames, a blazing wagon has rolled through a quiet, dusty town in the Dakotas. Two white women are tied to stakes within it, their bodies a mass of arrows. And Edge's wife, Beth is gone. Edge arrives too late to save her,...
The chance of a working holiday in Corfu was too good to miss. It would give Philippa time to sort out her relationship with Rick and offer her an opportunity to work with Drew Gilmore. No romantic complications, Philippa vowed. But she found her ...
The Newbery Honor-winning book from the author of Summer of My German Soldier
Philip Hall is the cutest, smartest boy in the sixth grade, and Beth Lambert loves him. The fact that he beats her in classwork, sports, and almost everything else d...
Early one morning the little train wakes up in his home town, Little Snoreing, and decides to go on an adventure. He chugs and puffs his way through villages, past castles and over bridges. But soon he gets tired, and the big city is a bit scary. The...
ETHEREAL VISIONS OF EVIL It began in a rush of romance and excitement for Betty, a beautiful young librarian. She met and married handsome Tommy Brynmaster, the wealthy owner of Brynmaster Oaks, and they came to the old family mansion to live. ...
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London Bureau sends Quiller to the Sahara desert on a mission to examine a crashed freighter and its mysterious cargo. The danger to Quiller comes not only from the cargo itself and from political cells trying to capture Quiller, but also from hi...
Well, Jill thought, it was no use crying over the past, she'd had her chance with the handsome Dean Lester and she'd muffed it. If only she'd known that the strange hostility and antagonism that grew up between them could change to lov...
Because Jane desired a little mastery in her husband she turned down the gentle and accommodating Scott Kingsley, and had never regretted it. Now, four years later, she had come to work in Barbados, and in this beautiful, romantic Caribbean setting h...
The number-one bestseller by the author of "Catch-22" is about greed, ambition, love, lust, hate and fear, marriage and adultery. It is about the life we all lead today--and you will never be able to look at that life in the same way again. "Brilli...
The hellish hive in Oregon The time: The 1970's, Police State, U.S.A. The all-powerful secret government agency wanted Dr. Hellstrom's Project 40. But it also knew that Hellstrom was dangerous. Any move to investigate his hidden farm must be ve...
Centering on Anna, the highest paid courtesan in the world, this "sensual book" (Chicago Sun-Times) roams wildly through stolen art, double and triple agents, Middle Eastern intrigue, ancient Chinese dildoes, and fortune cookies. Hill draws delicious...
Wondermakers 2 offers a view of science fiction's development over the past two decades. The twenty stories included here are representative of the work of writers who are shaping the science fiction of today and tomorrow. Perhaps in the shape of the...
Khuana is a San girl who is as fast and sure-footed as any boy in her tribe. More than anything, Khuana wants to hunt ostriches to provide food for her tribe and to be honored and accepted as a great hunter. But it is forbidden for San women to hunt....
In the autumn of 1971, Kathryn Hulme, her dearest friend Lou -- on whom her famous best seller, The Nun's Story, was based -- and their friend Juliet made a bone-shaking safari of twenty-five hundred miles in a Land Rover with an open hatch, photogra...
"Will you marry me?" Pericles asked her. And Morag, aware of his needs for his young twin son and daughter, agreed. Pride forbade her revealing the fact she'd fallen in love at first sight with this understanding and devastating man...
Caroline had always had a stormy relationship with Philip Klearchos, and when she went back to Cyprus all the old antagonism flared up between them again. Yet more than one person seemed to be hoping they would make a match of it. But why should ...
Over the centuries men have believed that a startling variety of objects and places, people and experiences, are possessed of a strange and overwhelming power. These rites and symbols, beliefs and tabus, which have seemed supernatural and invested wi...
For lovely young Alexandra Lawrence, it was a fearful journey from a peaceful English manor to the violent turmoil of 19th-century Japan. Summoned across the seas by a father whom she barely knew, Alexandra arrived to find him hideously murdered, and...
“KEEP THE STARS FREE” â€" That’s the motto of the Galactic Security Service. Using vast ships and the massive weight of Federation diplomacy, it sweeps the star-ways to hold inter-stellar conflict in check. Most of the time.The Federation fleet...
It is five hundred years in the future. Strange new worlds and alien races have evolved. The universe as we know it has become a densely populated community. Interplanetary travel is now a routine matter. - In this fascinating world of tomorrow the I...
Miss Jane Bird had been born rich. Her background would serve her well--now that poverty forced her to take a position as governess for spoiled and willful Arabella Mellowes. It surprised Jane that her charge was 17. Only seven years younger tha...
They're in the revenge business!Jess and Frank's father has stopped their allowances for four whole months! That means that Jess can't go anywhere or do anything with her friends. Worse yet, Frank owes money to Buster Knell, the bully. How can Jess a...
Set in a future New York City, this science fiction mystery involves a complicated manhunt through the bizarre and deadly streets of an urban nightmare. Victor Slaughter's assignment is to unravel the mystery behind the abduction of an important poli...
Insp. Ghote of the Bombay police has been relegated to antipickpocket patrol where he promptly gets himself into one of those fearful fixes which are equally the product of his faults and his virtues....
"Save Carlo . . . winking ruby . . . hurry!" This plea uttered by Gino, a mysterious violinist, just before he lapses into a coma, launch Jean and Louise Dana on their first exciting adventure in Europe. Is the mysterious "ruby" a gem...
The year is 1798. Napoleon's naval forces are amassing in the Mediterranean, preparing to annex Egypt, and it is there the newly promoted Commodore Richard Bolitho is sent with a small squadron of ships under his command. Alone in friendless waters, ...
Brooke's hasty marriage to the disturbingly attractive Owen Meredith was one of simple convenience on both sides. He wanted a companion for his motherless daughter, she needed to get to Venezuela urgently to get news of her missing father and sei...
"An intellectual heavyweight and a pure literary virtuoso, Milan Kundera takes some of Freud's most cherished complexes and irreverently whirls them about in acts of legerdemain that capture our darkest, deepest human passions. . . . The tales in Lau...