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...
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 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...
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’...
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...
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,...
Seeing her drenched to the skin on his doorstep, he took her for a scheming witch with a Halloween trick up her sleeve. Jessica Wren had been ready to make for any port in the storm, but within seconds she swore she'd rather drown with her car in...
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...
Bon gre, mal gre -- Whether we like it or not! Lucien's arrogant ancestral motto echoed in Charity "Cherry's" mind. Enmeshed in a glittering jet-set world and hotly pursued by the playboy duke, she trembled in angelic innocence. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
HIS RUTHLESS VENDETTA TAINTED THEIR LOVE Briana Ivensen didn't know why Drake Rutledge hated her family. But the wealthy young hotel owner had set out to ruin them--and he had succeeded. He proved a generous victor--he gave her a job allowed he...
Was there nothing Hester could do? Where could a hairdresser find twenty thousand pounds to provide medical treatment for her beloved foster mother? At wits' end, Hester traced her real mother and threatened to reveal her existence to Vilma...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
RESTORED TO LOVE When a slight injury forced Jacquelyn La Salle to return to her uncle's elegant but decaying estate outside New Orleans, she didn't plan to stay long -- not with Scott McCann nearby. Her passionate romance with Scott had been shatte...
Her safe little world fell with a crash Ever since her childhood sweetheart Luke Dillon had cruelly dropped her, Katherine had no interest in men. Her goal in life was to lead a quiet, orderly existence; she was content with her little house and h...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
If there's one thing Holly can't stand it's cold weather. And, it seems, the only other person in her whole town who feels the same way is Jamie. Jamie is the first boy Holly has ever really liked, but her friends accuse her of 'robbing the cradle...
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...
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...
A dying sister's wish made Morgan a prisoner! The television report said no one--including Morgan's sister and brother-in-law--had survived the plane crash. But in fact there had been one survivor, Morgan's baby nephew, and now Morgan ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
She was a Chickasaw Indian princess returning to Mississippi in search of her roots. Dr. Raven Jackson, psychologist, thought she'd left love behind to regain a piece of her past. But she hadn't reckoned on Marc Summers, the wealthy, influ...
She wouldn't let him ruin her future Tina Phillips was a superb dancer and knew it. But she couldn't understand why Max Fielding, the company director, had hired her. Max made it painfully clear he thought she was promiscuous and heartl...
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...
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...
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...
Juli is in love with a voice! Juliet has lots of friends who are boys, but no real boyfriend. Why can't she be like her younger sister? Even Barbara has a boyfriend. Then comes the first phone call. "Did my heart love till now?" asks a boy's vo...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
He'd made his fortune but he hadn't changed Eight years ago, Lucas Delgado had jilted Alina on the eve of their planned elopement. Desolate, she felt she had lost everything. Then her parents died, and the enormous debts they left threatened to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Swept into the waves in a coastal storm, Lisa Palmer begins an adventure of conflict and challenge that is resolved only when the courage of true love is realized. Lovely, innocent Lisa Palmer, a committed Christian, is determined to find fulfillmen...
"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...
Cindy Hetherington had a problem .. . His name was Zac Stone, and he was the dynamic new head of the advertising agency where she worked. When Zac began by giving her a stress interview for a job she thought she already had, Cindy stayed on to ...
THEY WERE WATCHING...AND WAITING At twelve, Maggie had been thrown out of more boarding schools than she cared to remember. "Impossible to handle," they said -- nasty, mean, disobedient, rebellious, thieving -- anything they could say to explain why...
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 ...
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...
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...
THE ROOTS OF EVIL. The house in Amityville does not lie empty. Its eternal resident is evil, an age-old horror that waits anxiously with an unspeakable hunger.... Now, three young couples are looking over the property, the house. With ignorant confid...
Selected by noted celebrities from the entertainment, literary, and political worlds, this collection of short stories includes works by such distinguished authors as Cheever, Fitzgerald, Updike, Oates, O'Connor, and Shaw...
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...
On a day trip to the seaside, Mom and Dad settle down in their deck chairs to snooze the day away, while for Shirley, itâ,"s a chance to set sail for uncharted seas. "Come away from the water, Shirley," caution her parents. But Shirley has alrea...
Mick McCreary is an oilman out of a job. His only possessions are a plane ticket to Singapore, a month's pay in Indonesian rupiahs and the luck of the Irish. When the mysterious Mr Rubensohn approaches him with the offer of a breathtaking salary ...
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...
A fanatical sect of heretical monks fired by an ancient religious hatred A ruthless syndicate of multinational corporations bent on world domination ... A page from an ancient manuscript which could tip the balance of world power towards whoever po...
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...
This is a rare copy of the 1982 "Butler" novel. Clean, crisp, tanned pages with no writing or marks and no loose pages. The cover has shelfwear and a spine crease, but is quite intact. An unusual book....
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...
IF ONLY A BOYFRIEND COULD BE A BEST FRIEND TOO! Melissa wishes it could be that way. Sure, guys are great to go out with, and she'd hate to be without a boyfriend -- but friendship and love seem to be two different things entirely. Just seeing wh...
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...
The vanished way of life of Eastern European Jews in the early part of the twentieth century is the subject of this extraordinary novel. All the strata of this complex society were populated by powerfully individual personalities, and the whole commu...
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...
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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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, ...
Vida, Vesta, Rocky and Ducks, Courlanders all, English gentry, And Jewish - an afterthought until its concealment by a beloved governess makes the question of identity assume towering proportions. Vida rebels and becomes Orthodox. Beautiful Vesta ...
They met first during the treacherous, turbulent times of the Wars of the Roses: for Yolande and Joscelyn, an unquenchable flame was kindled. They were inseparable until the cruel tides of war swept them apart. -- Yet the lovers were destined to me...
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...
Patty's sure she's the only 10-year-old in the world who can't ride a bike. This summer, when she visits her grandmother and aunt, she's sure their surprise is going to be a bike she can learn on. The kind all the other kids have. Butoh, no!...
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...
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 ...
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. ...
A new empire rises out of the enigmatic cosmic planet of Aerie, while in the shadows, Jason and Mish Kennerin's destroyed world leaves them with only their love and the uncertain future of this new planet. As Jason and Mish find their sphere of love ...
Hopelessly in love with the mysterious Lady Alice Hamilton, young Duncan Campbell experiences an eerie, supernatural portent--the sound of a ghostly horse--that brings to a swift climax this story of revenge and jealousy...
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....
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...
"""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...
Once An Eagle is the story of one special man, a soldier named Sam Damon, and his adversary over a lifetime, fellow officer Courtney Massengale. Damon is a professional who puts duty, honor, and the men he commands above self interest. Massengale,...
A rediscovered classic of Hungarian literature, this spellbinding collection vividly depicts the darkest impulses of the human psyche against the backdrop of Europe’s moral and social decline on the eve of World War IGéza Csáth (pen name of Josze...
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...
In the late 1960s, Harlan Ellison launched a weekly column for the Los Angeles Free Press, where he uncompromisingly discussed the effects of television on modern society. He assaulted everything from television sitcoms to corrupt politicians, talk s...