There is only one weapon that could throw the British Task Force off the Falkland Islands: the Exocet. But Galtieri is running low on his nearly invincible weapon and British Intelligence also have a couple of secret weapons at their disposal, one of...
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...
Ravaged by a killer virus, the Romulans enter Canara, where the only antidote can be found. Desperate, they incite a victorious Enterprise attack on one of their vessels--but Kirk discovers their ruse. Meanwhile the central computer has fallen in ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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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....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
"P. G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century." -- Sebastian Faulks Bertram Wooster’s interminable banjolele playing has driven Jeeves, his otherwise steadfast gentleman's gentleman, to give notice. The foppish aristocrat can...
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...
Donna Rockford and her sister Abbey take off for the desolate hills of Colorado with their mountain climbing club! When the group realizes they're neat an abandoned town, Dead Man's Gulch, they decide to explore it, and spend the night in an old hote...
Her family was scandalized! In Regency London, a young lady of aristocratic birth did not work for a living. But Miss Jamaica de Bowen was too independent to worry about that! And, determined to save her family from ruin, she made a bargain with her ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
DIAMOND DILEMMA A winter ice-skating fete at the palatial estate of Jasper Gregory, the Diamonddwarf, evolves into a baffling, suspenseful mystery for Susan Sand and her friends. In pursuit of a curious clue, Susan find herself trapped in an antiq...
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...
BRANDED BY RAPTURE Excitement and apprehension flowed through Hannah's perfect body as the ship docked at the harbor. She was on the verge of a new life with an unseen husband -- she was a "mail order bride." What if the man she was to marry was ugl...
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...
In its ruby-red brilliance lay the mystery of her past--and the passion of her future. LEGACY OF PASSION Vienna, 1900. The enchanted city of waltzes. Where glittering spires rise high above the crystal blue waters of the Danube...where light ...
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...
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...
Holly Beckman and her family move into the dark years of World War II. Recently widowed, Holly has lost interest in her antique business with the outbreak of war, and her life is now overshadowed by fears for her son, an RAF fighter pilot. When Holly...
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...
CAPTIVE LADY Burnished gold and priceless gems adorned her skin, expensive silks and supple suedes swathed her curves - but there was nothing Moira valued more than her freedom. And when she was abducted by handsome Rhiannon, her father's most hated...
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 ...
A proud and violent family in a new land of dangerous passions. They plowed the land and sailed the seas, building the fortune that was to carry them to fame. But the descendants of Bennett Lyon could not escape the winds of war that buffeted thei...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
SHE CRAVED PASSION FROM HIS SAVAGE HEART! SECOND GENERATION Twenty years had passed since the embers of desire first sparked between the handsome Indian Gray Eagle and his alluring white beauty Alisha Williams. Now it was time for their son Bri...
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...
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...
“[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...
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...
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...
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. ...
"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 ...
A LAWMAN TURNED COLD-BLOODED KILLER... That's just what Longarm's one-time partner Gil Bright has become. Suddenly he's gotten meaner than an angry rattler -- and unsuspecting lawmen are his target. It's up to Federal Marshal Long to stop him, ...
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...
Julie Mahoney longed to escape the life of poverty and toil her family endured in the tiny shack outside Butte, Montana. Then one day the miracle happened. Her father's mining ventures paid off The Mahoneys were millionaires! Suddenly Julie's worl...
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 ...
STAGECOACH -- A powerful new series of adventures set in the West's most dramatic towns -- filled with the danger, history and romance of the bold men and women who conquered the frontier. When he led the westbound stage out of Kansas, Clay Reiner...
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...
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...
24 volumes. Books show some wear from normal use and storage. Creases on spines. Previous owner's name is written in pen on the first page of each book, otherwise they are clean and unmarked. Internet, 1J...
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...
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, itââ,¬â"˘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...
Seething passions and driving ambitions catapult the men and women of the deKuyper family to the forefront of New York City's nineteenth-century social aristocracy as leaders in America's railroad and shipping industries...
A behind-the-scenes view of the Vatican offers a revealing look at the lives of Paul VI, John Paul I, and John Paul II, the attempted assassination, the Vatican's financial dealings, and its undisclosed relationship with Solidarity...