The National Book Award-winning novel -- and contemporary classic -- that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor “[A] shrewd and lyrical portrayal of many of the realities of black life . . . Miss Naylor bravely risks sentiment...
This classic book on Victorian hypocrisy reveals the other side of Victoria's Britain, and what really went on behind the lace curtains and aspidistras. Ronald Pearsall exposes, with thorough documentation, the bald facts of sex-life (approved and il...
An analysis of the costly problem of vandalism in America discusses the young offenders, the juvenile justice system, the causes of vandalism, and what communities and individuals can do to prevent such criminal acts...
Valerie's little sister, Jenny is a nuisance and tries her patience. When Valerie's new boyfriend takes up Jenny's cause, Valerie realizes he finds her impatience a turn-off and knows she had better do something about it if she wants to keep him....
THEY WERE BORN IN LUXURY. THEY WILL DIE IN TERROR. The Day They Are Married Is The Day Evil Begins The Bromes. One of America's first families. So powerful that its towering patriarch, Old Tom, can make his eldest son Bill president of th...
Her family life shattered by her parents' divorce when she was nine, the author provides insight into the harrowing ordeal that divorce is for children and shows how, with great courage and sensitivity, the effects can be overcome...
"You're just a client, Mr. Reid." Stevie Henderson made the statement bluntly, adding, "You're not my keeper." Not even for the sake of her cherished career would she put up with his blatant interference. James Reid, how...
Her love would never be returned In Spain on business, Jessica had agreed to do her cousin a favor, but she never imagined it would result in her working with the aristocratic Sebastian Calvadores. From the moment they met he was callous and ar...
They brought out the worst in each other! When the death of her fiance sent Meredith home to work for her father's law firm, she never expected to be met with hostility from her new boss, Joss Hamblyn. They fought incessantly, and yet she w...
Serendipity books have warmed the hearts of young and old for over two decades. Each beloved tale teaches youngsters how to deal with the challenges of their world, providing them with positive solutions to difficult problems. Join the whimsical char...
The year is 1327. The place is a wealthy abbey. And the crimes committed here are beyond the wildest imaginings. It will be the task of English Brother William of Baskerville to decipher secret symbols and dig into the eerie labyrinth of abbey life t...
Emerald’s story is a true Irish saga filled with struggle and passion. Born at the turn of the century, Emerald O’Hearn was orphaned at five in Belfast’s slums. Almost a victim of her guardian, she runs away and is taken in by nuns. She finds h...
Authors: Leo P. Kelley Publisher: Signet Keywords: strip, cherokee, cimarron Pages: 190 Published: 1983-06-07 Language: English Category: Westerns, Genre Fiction, Literature & Fiction, ISBN-10: 0451123441 ISBN-13: 9780451123442...
Swarms of carnivorous flies terrorize a small New Mexico town and the scientist responsible for the insects' creation must find a way to stop them before the Air Force is allowed to take more drastic measures...
Little Gabby, a Furry Eyeful, just loves to talk. However, her constant babbling is driving the other Furry Eyefuls crazy. Sad and lonely, she meets a special friend who teaches her to listen with her heart.
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SHE WAS HIS GOLDEN BRIDE With her hair the color of pirate's treasure, Anna Smith was a beauty beyond price, though all she brought as dowry to Brett Danforth was a pair of silver candlesticks "stolen" from the Bermuda estate that should have been...
"VENGEANCE FOR OUR LOST BLOOD. HAWKS MUST DIE." Nobody could remember how long the feud between the Hawks and the Torreys had been raging. Each family had filled a cemetery with loved ones, and one hundred gravestones marked the bloody battle. At ...
In a land ravaged by war, a family torn by hate, they dared to hope -- and love. Their passion was born in treachery, yet their love would forever endure... Reared in an aristocratic Boston family after her mother died, Cordelia Leyland dreamed...
His savage, lying kisses made her bum with anger -- and passion. Andrea Malone knew that Lyon Ratliff thought she'd do anything to win a cable-ill interview with his famous father, a reclusive war hero who'd suddenly agreed to her request. She sho...
Passion was their refuge against the storm HER SAVAGE BEAUTY CHALLENGED HIS PROUD HEART Fawn had dim memories of the white man's ways. Raised among the Indians, her fair loveliness made her a prize for the Chief--until she fled into the Col...
The pleasant little American city of Middletown is the first target in an atomic war - but instead of blowing Middletown to smithereens, the super-hydrogen bomb blows it right off the map - to somewhere else! First there is the new thin coldness of t...
A quest that takes Kane into forbidden wastelands, and tests his killer skills against the most brutal forces ever summoned against a single man. Kane faces death duels in strange swamps, assassins' attacks, the heart-freezing terror of the werewolf ...
Their world was threatened -- torn asunder from within by the primitive warring of bloodthirsty nomadic tribes; now threatened from without by mysterious strangers. But Jalav, Amazon war leader of the savage Hosta clan, lay dying on a cold battlefiel...
For centuries the slobs that inhabit the Earth have been rocketing their refuse into the galaxy, carelessly littering the cosmos with wrappers and peelings and bottles and cans. But now the universe is about to get even. An immense comet of garbage h...
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Beautiful, talented Patrice Edwards vowed not to make the mistake her mother had. Never would she sacrifice her dazzling future as leader of a modern-dance company for love. Then Jeffrey Northrop entered her life. Handsome, wealthy, strong and sensit...
Egypt -- exotic land of shifting sands and ancient empires. But to beautiful, independent Noble Sherrow, Egypt also meant a new territory to conquer for her travel agency. With the help of the darkly handsome, enigmatic Director of Tourism, Talat Faz...
Clover Reed's way of life had little in common with Keith Sheridan's. She loved the glitter of her journalistic career in San Francisco; he loved the clear skies and rugged hills of the California gold country. Only when death stretched out his ha...
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HE WAS THE LIGHT IN A WORLD OF SHADOW. Courtney thought she had come to terms with the blindness that was slowly stealing over her. Then Joshua stole into her life. Joshua, with his amber eyes that shone through the darkness. Joshua, whose daughte...
SWEET RECKONING Divorced and edging toward a second marriage, Chalis Kenyon escaped New York's high-powered art establishment to take refuge back home at Quarter Moon Pond. But not even the isolated cabin in North Carolina's woods could...
LOVE WAS NOT PART OF THE BARGAIN It was a case of mistaken identity when the dashing Nicholas Stafford took Miss Juliet Brandon to be a lady of the evening. But Juliet was not in a position to enlighten him, since she was down to her last farthing...
PASSIONATE GHOST Magpie Ames had never known her beautiful, free-spirited grandmother, Florida novelist a legacy that would forever alter Magpie's life: a package of ten-year-old letters, an enigmatic portrait and a clandestine liaison that connec...
NO LONGER A STARRY-EYED CHILD... For years Sharon Powell had idolized Ridge Halliday, the arrogant rancher whose western Colorado spread adjoined her family's. Ridge had always indulged her wide-eyed adoration, yet Sharon realized that he saw ...
The Conus -- one of the loveliest shells in Pacific waters... but it harbors a creature with the deadliest sting. Taylor Winfield likened Rachel Davidson to that contradictory, impenetrable shell. But her spoiled, shrewdly calculated facade crumble...
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The stranger who walks into Reva Jonathan's cheese emporium epitomizes her fantasy of the ideal lover. But Drake McQuaid is very real -- and every inch a powerfully attractive man... For years Reva has placed her son Brian's needs before h...
From the moment they collided on a busy Boston street Monica Grant knew that Michael Shaw was a cop -- and a man -- unlike any she'd ever met before. A pickpocket brought them together, and soon nothing could tear them apart -- not even Michael...
Carol Durand found it hard to reconcile her feelings as a woman with her role as therapist to sculptor Simon Forties' young daughter. Simon's hands could turn inanimate clay into sculptures of stunning eroticism, and his touch was no less potent o...
For her, he was the most dangerously desirable man in the world... From the moment talk-show host Melissa Merrill began taping the interview with German wine expert Karl Hauptmann, she could feel the seductive magnetism of the man. Their whirlwi...
It was a time of stirring patriotism and simmering rage, of courageous determination and a desperate pursuit of freedom. Golden-haired Emily Campbell longed to share in the excitement and intrigue of forging a nation. Yet she was also waiting for som...
THEY COULD HAVE BEEN PERFECT TOGETHER... Dr. Mark Temple, distinguished psychiatrist. Jennifer Caroline, known as J.C., dedicated social worker. An ideal couple one would think -- at least on the surface. But Mark had suffered a tragic accident...
SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS HAPPENING TO HER From the start, some part of Laurel knew she and Morgan Hamilton didn't belong together. They fell into love with dizzying speed, but he was out of her league--an absurdly charming jet-setter who u...
A NEW LEASE ON LIFE For two years Linda Kendall believed her own life ended the day her husband and children were killed in a car crash. Only reluctantly did she set aside her grief to become nanny to the Conde Duarte de Dominga's three cha...
One night of love changed her forever Three years ago Talia Montague's heart had been shattered: Alex had jilted her almost with a wave of his hand, unknowing and uncaring about the consequences of his actions. Slowly, painfully, Talia had...
When Jiggs O'Malley awakened in a strange hotel room, all she saw were laughing eyes of a devilish stranger...all she heard were his teasing taunts about their "night together"...and all she remembered was -- nothing! That was just the b...
IN A WORLD THAT GAVE HER NOTHING, SHE TOOK EVERYTHING SHE COULD... She was Therese Lachman -- bastard child, courtesan, spy...brilliant, cunning, and beautiful beyond measure... She was born into squalid poverty yet grew to become the wealthies...
PRIME-TIME LOVE On the outside Faith Daniels seemed the epitome of her aunt's straightlaced upbringing--she kept her life as crime novelist Fanny Duvall carefully under wraps. Then an unexpected award at the Mystery Writers' Banquet sent her strai...
Marcy Hanson's sultry voice and stunning good looks had skyrocketed her to fame and fortune, but happiness eluded her. If only she could forget the fire in Dirk Baxter's devastating brown eyes. If only the years would erase the pain of their doomed r...
She breezed into the Bahamas as lightly as a silver-blond cloud in a clear blue sky. Looking as harmless as a hummingbird, hiding behind a facade of featherbrained chatter, she was determined to rest, to let no one -- nothing -- would ruffle her sl...
TOUCH OF GREATNESS... touch of healing. Two years had passed since the death of Torey's husband. Two years, and she was ready to love again, as Andrea Scarpi intended to prove to her. In a temple surrounded by the endless sweep of Sicilian se...
DARK SIDE OF THE DREAM When Tonio Cruz walked back into Erica's life, ten years fell away. She was once again the teenage girl who had given him her love, body and soul, and received betrayal in return. But she had received something else a...
PLAYERS IN A TOUCH-AND-GO GAME Shelley Banning was an enterprising accountant determined to acquire aid for one of her financially ailing clients. Her first task was to secure a loan from Joel Cassidy, ruler of a successful video-game empire. But Jo...
HER DIGNITY CLASHED WITH HIS RIGID PRINCIPLES Helen's world turned nightmarish when Luis San Roque arrived, bearing news of her brother's fraud. For her brother's debt to Luis was enormous, and as a proud man who believed uncompromisin...
DANGER, MAN AT WORK! He was hardly the handyman she'd expected. Marcus Stafford, moonlighting geophysicist and son of one of her boarders, was a devastating giant who swept Lindsey Delaney off her sensible feet. A widow with two young daughter...
"I want you," she sighed. "I want you now!" But did she? Here on Windy Hill, surrounded by wildflowers, it all seemed so right. But was it? Was she longing for the Dan Sommers she had known in college--the mountain-climbing young man addicted to craz...
ALL OR NOTHING Even though she was engaged to be married, Linda Gray knew that something was missing. Then she met notorious heartbreaker Jason Campbell and soon fell under his spell. But when Jason tricked her into posing as his wife on a bus...
Five years ago Davina Fabian made the biggest mistake of her life--she abandoned her love for Alexander Stratton to become her father's business manager. Now, haunted by memories of cherished moments with Alex, she returns to Santa Fe in the hope of ...
A virtuous young beauty dictates the most maddening marriage terms to her ardent and aristocratic mate THE PERFECT WIFE -- IN EVERY WAY BUT ONE When Elspeth Parkstone wed the handsome and wealthy Viscount Greywell, she fully lived up to her par...
Like a swirl of brilliant colors was their canvas of passion... Vanessa VanderPoel hated the month of December. A chromist for a New York atelier she had to spend the holiday season finishing color separations on artists' lithographs. But then, Va...
What was she doing on a raft hurtling down the Colorado River? Sleeping bags and camping gear were as foreign to her as equipment for flying to the moon! Certainly churning white water and Grand Canyon wilderness were a world apart from life in a ...
Blaise Hamilton made her feel like the most desirable woman on earth, no matter if years had passed since her heart had quickened with desire. Inflamed by his warm caresses, Pat soared to heights she'd never imagined, opening herself to emotions she...
She could soothe a jungle tiger, but not his untamed heart .... Lions and tigers were a part of Samantha Collins's life-style. As a trainer living in Hollywood, California, Samantha was used to working with exotic animals in lush locales. Her love...
THEY FLED FROM RUMOR AND SCANDAL. The disastrous consequences of Katherine Gwyn's engagement gave New York society in 1903 much to talk about. Dee Higgins, her life-long friend, plans a trip for them both that will give Kat a respite from the ...
Beautiful and independently wealthy, her towering social position assured, Margaret Anthony could have bought a yacht or a palace with the stroke of her pen. But to her free-spirited business partner Chip Thorn, she was little more than a spoiled bra...
"We're all products of our pasts, " he said Having to work for a living was new to Nicole, but when her parents' deaths left her with practically nothing, she was grateful to find a job working for Drew Benedict. But her new bos...
THEIR SONGS AND THEIR PASSION WOULD ELECTRIFY A WAITING WORLD. RAVEN WILLIAMS was a singer who had an overwhelming need to love and be loved, and whose voice had catapulted her to fame. BRANDON CARSTAIRS was a musician in whom the charming Iri...
Lindsay Dunne had traded one career for another without leaving the dance behind. Then she met architect Seth Bannion, an intensely private man who loved his haven on the Connecticut coast. He loved the private Lindsay but feared that her need to ...
With one look he held her hostage heart... Drew McKenna was on the run. With the threat of her ex-husband returning to their hometown, Drew was glad to have an excuse to flee to Germany to visit with old friends. When she left Los Alamos, New Mexi...
Their dislike was instant and mutual From the moment she arrived in Athens, Jenni had been blamed by the arrogant Perikles Drimakos for her sister's irresponsible behavior. "Don't challenge me," he told her when she defied his chauvinistic pron...
Lance Sullivan had a talent for attracting women and for opening successful restaurants. But not a talent for love. Engaged to Haley's best friend, Julia, he also had Haley's heart. Yet, he had married Julia. And now that, too, was over. Lance wa...
For Jennifer Howard there had been one trouble too many. Running into Everett Black, the childhood sweetheart against whom she had measured all other men, was the final straw. The dam broke and all the old emotions came flooding back. Before their...
SHE WAS HIS GOLDEN BRIDE With her hair the color of pirate's treasure, Anna Smith was a beauty beyond price, though all she brought as dowry to Brett Danforth was a pair of silver candlesticks "stolen" from the Bermuda estate that should have been...
Maris's body betrayed her, and she found her righteous anger transformed into passionate longing... With her husband's sudden death, Maris Verney was left to carry on their latest scientific project alone. Turning to marine biologist Owen Wyatt fo...
A LOVE FOR ALL TIME. In a moment that defined time and place, Christopher Dunlap, a Regency Earl, and Jessica Lund, a twertieth-century woman, found themselves living in the same world. And in that enchanted place their hearts became one foreve...
VENGEANCE AND LOVE For generations Hedley Hall had belonged to Ivory Meldrum Anderson's family--until a Kendrake robbed her grandfather of his heritage. As the last of the Meldrums, Ivory vowed to use any weapon she could to settle the score. W...
Would she be swept away by city life, city love? Raising a child alone in Manhattan wasn't easy for Betsy Miller. But after her divorce she wanted to start fresh and stake her claim in the Big Apple. Her night-time job as a secretary in a law offi...
LOVE TRAP Lovely model Brandy Logan was determined to gain custody of her sister's son Eric--even if it meant finding a husband overnight. Her desperate scheme worked, and suddenly she was married to playboy Shaw Janus. But being duped wasn't Sha...
Exotic Leilani Richards only lost once in the game of love. Betrayed by her athletic fiance who left her for a less competitive woman, Lani buried her pain beneath a drive to succeed which soon won her an executive position with a prestigious ad agen...
BITTER YESTERDAY, SWEET TOMORROW As food editor for Going Places magazine, Darcy Roberts had often sampled and reviewed exotic dishes in foreign countries. Then, one hot, sunny afternoon in Greece, Andreas Gregory joined her for lunch and changed h...
Past and present flowed together at the meeting of Brynne Hunter and Ross Fleming, true descendant of the Lord of the Isles. In their loving came the fufiliment of an ancient Scottish love--a love that had known no happy ending. As Brynne and Ross...
WYNN CARSON was the new president of Carson Trucking, and her driving ambition was to prove herself to all the men who thought she couldn't succeed. But there was one man who thought she could run Carson's . . . and more. DONATO "DUKE" BELLINI w...
TO LURE AWAY THE CHIEF'S MISTRESS, RAIDER JOINS THE REBELS. Busting out of Ogallalla with the whole town in hot pursuit wasn't easy. But neither Doc nor Raider is prepared for what lies ahead in the windy prairies of the Northwest, where Indians a...
No matter that Echo Sackett was young, and a woman, and had never been far from the valley. She was still a Sackett--sharp and smart and a better hunter than most of the men she knew. Like her bold ancestors, Echo couldn't ignore a challenge. A sure ...
FLIGHT INTO DANGER! Gambler, rogue, and con-artiste, Lando Calrissian was born with a well-developed taste for the good life. More comfortable at the dealer's end of a fast shuffle than at the rear end of a blaster, Lando always had his sensors scan...
THE PRINCESS AND THE SORCERERS Ce'Nedra, Imperial Princess of Tolnedra, was confused. Everyone knew that the tales of the Orb that protected the West from the evil God Torak were just silly legends. But here she was, forced to join a serious an...
The return of the Shamus award-winning crime novel by the author of the box office smash Road To Perdition. The first volume in the Nathaniel Heller 'Frank Nitti Trilogy' featuring the real-life mobster played in Road To Perdition by Stanley Tucci. N...
In a desolate part of Brooklyn, a retired history professor plots mass murderThe withered old man speaks into a tape recorder. This is not a confession, he explains, but a presentation. He is Charles Witter Kirwan, a former academic who has lived his...
Fifteen-year old Fanny and her step-sister are drawn into mysterious occurences around their home in Scotland which seem to be connected to the unexplained disappearance of a young man in 1914....
One of Kaminsky's best thrillers, this is a chilling novel of suspense--the story of a woman stalked by a man she knows only by his slow, sinister voice over the telephone. The night her parents were murdered in their sleep, ten-year-old Jeannie awok...
There is nothing that calls back the past so vividly as an old and familiar smell. I knew then what had turned my thoughts to Mr Fred tonight. I am over eighty now, but that aroma would still take me back. When Inspector Brunt tore the door open in f...
Security analyst Brock Potter unwillingly probes into the events surrounding the stabbing death, in prison, of a convicted spy and finds himself deeply enmeshed in a perilous web of international industrial espionage...
Cayla Hayward, the brilliant, beautiful founder of a biogenetics laboratory and bearer of a spider-shaped birthmark on her temple, battles fanaticism, hysteria, and her own fears, as she confronts claims about a suspect ancestor and her mother's unna...
“[John] Saul has the instincts of a natural storyteller.” -- PeopleSomething is happening to the children of Eastbury, Massachusetts. Something that causes healthy babies to turn cold in their cribs. Something that strikes at the heart of every p...
In the Night Church, on the altar of the true church, no one will see the rape, no one will hear the screams of ecstasy ? no one except the devil's disciples?She is young, incredibly desirable, the virgin bride. He is young, incredibly brilliant, th...
JOURNEY OF RAPTURE Stunning, alluring Melanie took pleasure in her husband's daring and success as a wealthy shipping magnate. But the endless torturous nights as a lonely seaman's wife devastated the amber-eyed beauty -- until she and Simon...
BELOVED OF THE GODS. BELOVED OF MEN. Her deep gray eyes, silky raven hair, magnificent body, and astonishing beauty rival the qualities of her legendary ancestor Cleopatra, and indeed, at her birth, her stars proclaim she will be lucky--and very a...
THE HUNTER AND THE HUNTED... Honor Knight had to convince Judd Raven to let her go. Her life depended on it! But he refused to believe that the two men who had hired him to find her were anything but what they claimed to be: her father and brother...
Drawn by desire timeless as dreams...Destined by a secret enduring as love SO LONG AS LOVE SHALL LIVE IN A WOMAN'S HEART She was the last to inherit the secret. It had been passed through generations from mother to daughter since the dawn of wo...
High-altitude horror A terrorist organization coiled within the crannies of the Colorado Rockies was creating venomous drugs that cause mind surrender, then death. The entire United States is in peril of becoming a terminal rest home. Mack Bola...
A world in flames Carnage is unleashed on a horrifying scale throughout the United States, triggered by an international troika of terror. The President calls for dirty war. Mack Bolan blasts into action with his paramilitary strike squads, Pho...
WAS FARGO RIDING SMACK INTO A SCALP-RAISING MASSACRE? With four wagon trains of settlers slaughtered already, Skye Fargo had to be plumb crazy to take on the job of leading lovely Amber Holloway's group right into blood-drenched Cheyenne country. ...
Will absence make the heart grow fonder...Or will it be a case of "Out of sight, out of mind"? Pamela Grey worries that her boyfriend Bobby will forget all about her when she leaves for her new boarding school, hundreds of miles from home. On one han...
For sixteen years, Ellen has played second fiddle to her beautiful, talented sister, Paula, the skating star. But Ellen has her own interests and goals, so Paula's glory has never bothered her - until now. And it's all because of Gene. Gene is Pau...
When the star of a Hungarian dance troupe meets by chance in London the lover she lost in the Hungarian uprising of 1956, the couple must decide between their now comfortable, separate lives or their difficult, dangerous love...
Despite denials by survivors of the southwestern desert, Coronado mounts an ill-fated expedition to find the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola--El Dorado--accompanied by Andres Dorantes, a man dedicated to God...
Shock follows surprise when mystery writer George Bagby discovers that rival gangland leaders are behind the brutal murder of an acquaintance and that Bagby himself has something--unknown to him--that the mob is after...
Journalist Sarah Makepeace moves from New York's counter-cultural weekly, "The Evil Eye" to the daily, "The Newspaper," and is immediately embroiled in office politics, a new love affair, and a story that may be too hot to handle...
Genie on the loose! Stanley Lambchop has found a real magic lamp with a genie inside The genie tells Stanley he can wish for anything in the world: fame, a magical pet, superpowers -- you name it. When Stanley's family finds out about the genie...
Set on a small Ohio farm, this “moving, unusual, and accomplished” multigenerational family saga is a “Norman Rockwell painting gone bad” as it explores grief, motherhood, and coming-of-age in Middle America (Margaret Atwood). Joan Chase...
What kind of drama could happen in a small-town Iowa bus station? If you’re a guy like Mallory, it’s the kind that involves sidestepping trouble between a pretty, frightened blonde and a pretty frightening, two-fisted, one-eyed goon. With...
FRANCE'S MOST RUTHLESS ASSASSIN FAILED TO KILL CAPTAIN RICHARD SHARPE ON THE FIRST TRY. WILL HE GET A SECOND CHANCE? Colonel Levroux is killing Britain's most valuable spies, and it's up to Richard Sharpe to stop him. Thrust into the unfamiliar wo...
A long-time favorite of instructors who desire a four-skills approach in a briefer book, ¿Qué tal? combines a broad variety of materials and activities, exceptionally clear grammar presentations, and consistent organization. Its popular four-part c...
Virginia Freer has had it with her sort-of-ex-husband’s taste for drama. Yes, Marcus Avery was a dear old duffer who lived in Virginia’s town. Yes, Lillian Pace, Felix Freer’s neighbor in London, was a sweet old bird. Yes, it’...
Sticky, sultry Palmetto had seen its share of hurricanes and evil. But it was an ill wind that blew through the Gulf-coast Florida town in the summer of '52. Diana Landis, well-known in every barroom, and more than a few bedrooms in town, was fou...
"""One of the greatest creative writing teachers we''ve ever had."" —Frederick Busch
On Becoming a Novelist contains the wisdom accumulated during John Gardner''s distinguished twenty-year career as a fiction writer and creative writing...
A series of police killings in a quiet Southern California suburb threatens to upset the entire nation and brings together the commander of a homicide unit, a dedicated investigator, a crime lab supervisor, and a forensic scientist. Reprint....
ALL ROADS LEAD TO LITTLEBOURNE A spinster whose passion was bird-watching, a dotty peer who pinched pennies, and a baffling murder made the tiny village of Littlebourne a most extraordinary place. And a severed finger made a ghastly clue in a kill...
Once, long ago, a robot factory-ship flew too near a star unexpectedly gone nova. After suffering extensive damage, it continued blindly for millennia.
A million years passed...
Then, in the twenty-first century, a colony ship destined ...
It was a time for America and her heroes: men like Michael and Andrew O'Connor, rival brothers fresh out of Annapolis, men who left all they knew and loved to seek glory in a world at war. Mike beneath the ocean aboard the USS Tigerfish, Andrew i...
Juliet yearns for the 'ebb and flow of life lived avidly', for the pace and challenge of city living. The conflict between her love of husband and children and her own passionate need for expression is intensified by her move from small town ...
A LADY PIRATE. No ordinary love could hold Anne Bonny. She roamed the seas as free as any man...and loved more passionately than any woman. From the exquisite salons of colonial Charles Town to teeming, torrid Jamaica's shores, she fought for p...
This observant and insightful novel reveals, in rich and poignant detail, the interior lives of three generations of people in their quest for love and beauty Louise, not content with her husband's gentle affection, strives to reclaim her youth in ti...
A diverse group of people--Allan Prieston, eminent author Reeves Lockhart, and a family of exiled Russian aristocrats--are bound together in a drama shaped by the tensions of the present and the ambiguities of the past...
It is night in Singapore. Down dark twisting alleyways, past the opium dens and oracles' shops, drifting through ebony bars a,d along solken breezes, moves a mysterious female figure. Utterly irresistible, utterly evanescent, she appears to a man, ...
There was something besides beauty that set ravishing Irene Lindsay apart from all other women. Her emerald eyes twinkled with the promise of never-ending excitement. The ruby highlights of her thick rich hair beckoned for a man's impassioned touch. ...
In 1066 Saxon England became an enemy-occupied territory, subject to the cruel and greedy tyranny of the Norman conquerors. MADSELIN, young wife of an aging Saxon lord, found herself in the space of a few short days bereft of her husband, land, ti...
When Henry Tibbett receives an anonymous crossword puzzle in the mail, he assumes it is just a prank. But when, bored with a slow summer, he begins to fill in the empty squares, he realizes he may have something deadly on his hands. The answers are t...
Fourteen-year-old Sharelle's decision to keep and care for her baby while continuing her high-school education leads to difficulties, made worse by her careless and irresponsible mother, and to another courageous decision....
Lynne Sharon Schwartz's critically beloved novel about family, tragedy, and philosophy. The field is all around us. It's our needs and our wants. This is what George tells Lydia. A disturbance, however, is something that keeps us from grasping and...
For generations, the Cantrells have lived in Hoot Owl Holler. When Jennifer, a city cousin, comes to do some taping for an Oral History class, she hears stories of moon shine, superstition, murder, love, and the hundred-year witch's curse that still...
FROM THE EMERALD FIELDS OF DRUMGILLAN MANOR TO THE TEEMING SHANTIES OF NEW YORK... Tom Dalton arrived in America to claim his share of glittering promise ... to bury a past rooted in poverty, shame, and the seething turbulence of Ireland ... to ...
A chilling tale that interweaves the post-Watergate world of American politics and the way in which our past indiscretions inevitably catch up with us.Isabel Acre's journey through life has taken her from the Australian outback via the beds and alley...
Ginny falls for Hal the first time she sees him. Their dates are lots of fun. But their joking is a substitute for for real talk. Ginny doesn't really know how Hal feels about her. Maybe if she reaches out to him, gets involved in his interests, H...
John Wilding, fleeing London and the disgrace of financial ruin, leads his wife and daughters to the land of opportunity--New South Wales. Victoria Wilding: The vibrant and rebellious elder daughter who casts aside her fears to embrace a dangerous...
As John Mannering's wife paints a portrait of a celebrated beauty, Lady Deirdre Vandemeyer, she begins to doubt the authenticity of her subject. Then she is stabbed and Mannering (aka 'The Baron') goes undercover as a personal assistant to try and ge...
From Hugo Awardâ€"winning author Philip K. Dick, A Maze of Death is a sci-fi murder mystery set on a mysterious planet where colonists experience unexplained shifts in reality and perception.Delmak-O is a dangerous planet. Though there are only fourt...
Caught in the cruel savagery of Nazi Germany, the Hanover clan is stunned to find their empire crumbling as Hitler confiscates the ammunitions factory and commits the wife of the imprisoned owner to a fate worse than death -- serving the insatiable s...
National bestselling author Patricia MacDonald spins a tale of nerve-shattering suspense that leads readers down the dark, winding roads of a picture-perfect suburban town. WHAT DID HE SEE? WHAT DOES HE KNOW? Eleven years ago, Anna Lange's life was...
When Clint Adams is hired to help take care of a band of rustlers, it looks like it should be a piece of cake. Not only is rancher Alfred Jarrad paying a nice salary, but his daughter Sylvia is offering a special bonus of her own. But the Gunsmit...
This sprawling historical novel follows the fortunes of four enterprising, courageous Jewish women on New York's Lower East Side. Hannah Levy masterminds her family's escape, despite her radical husband's objections, from czarist Russia after the Kis...
Out for a walk one day, Fuzzle is separated from his family. Alone for the first time in his life, he must find his own food and a place to sleep. If only he could get some help from the other animals in the forest.... When he tries to make friends,...