An imaginary solution to the mystery of Agatha Christie's eleven-day disappearance in 1928 involves an unfaithful husband, his young mistress, and an observant journalist who may be able to forestall Agatha's clever schemes...
It seemed to Margo Hansen that her new life in the enchanting Hawaiian Islands had fallen miraculously into place. In less than a week, the vivacious, auburn-haired Midwesterner had attracted a circle of friends and admirers and landed the perfect jo...
A handsome, young, professional "gigolo" finds himself falling in love with one of his older "clients". At the same time, he finds himself accused of the horrific murder of another "client" and must re-think his choice of professions....
I ALWAYS HOPED THAT THE MAN I WOULD MARRY WOULD BE PASSIONATELY IN LOVE WITH ME--THE KIND WHO MIGHT FIGHTA DUEL FOR OR CARRY ME OFF IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT. I CAN'T IMAGINE VICTOR DOING ANYTHING THAT MIGHT CREASE HIS CLOTHES OR SPOIL THE LINE OF HIS...
A newly married young couple -- she is a flutist, he is a graduate student -- try to reconcile their differing backgrounds and attitudes. This leads to much merriment and a certain amount of sorrow. The book is set in New York City in the late sixtie...
Fifteen stories from 1972-78. Favorites: "Child Of All Ages"-P.J.Plauger.-Melissa is twelve years old. She claims to be twenty-four hundred years old. "A Thing Of Beauty"-Norman Spinrad.- America has been destroyed by an insurrection. Mr.Ito of Japan...
In Bisbee, Arizona, in 1917, striking miners approach a showdown with the largest posse ever assembled, and strike organizer Elizabeth Gurley Flynn is torn among the strikers, her strike leader ex-husband, and her new lover, a New York anarchist...
Season of Rage...Seeds of Desire! Hawaii in the 1880s was a land of troubled beauty seething with native rebellion, natural disasters, and the violent greed that followed the discovery of black pearls. And while danger raged through paradise, i...
Original title: Brumaire. Fabulously wealthy, daring Nicholas Minnett had known many beautiful women - but never one to match Lorna Fitzgerald. The moment he met her, he knew that to trust her was folly. But from the first taste of her flesh, there...
It looked like an ordinary bunny to Harold. But Harold was a dog by profession, so his judgement wasn't reliable -- as he was the first to admit. But Chester, Harold's good friend and house-mate, was a very well-read cat and he knew there was somethi...
In this novel the call-girls are the men and women of the international jet-set who, at the lift of a telephone, will fly from conference to congress to symposium to discuss subjects of world importance. This time the place is Switzerland and the sub...
Cassy didn't fit the role she was cast in Cassy dutifully traveled to the Bahamas at her uncle's request to persuade his errant daughter, Sylvia, to come home. Still, her mission might have been pleasant if only Sylvia hadn't told Justin Pride ...
Blake and Jennifer Carson's expedition to Five Finger Island started out simple enough. They just wanted to do some exploring...and some searching for clues to their father's strange disappearance. What they encountered was a wild, stormy, ap...
"""I believe Chamber Music will be a classic. It deserves to be."" —Alice Walker
Caroline Maclaren, the ninety-year-old widow of a famous American composer, reaches back into her memories to tell the story of their life together. I...
How could she ever enact such a role? Polly's editor thought it would be easy for her to get an interview with the elusive Boris Leander because she looked exactly like the wife he'd lost. But Polly was shocked by Boris's strange of...
HE THOUGHT LOVE COULD BE POSSESSED ... So, Adam Hartshorn purchased his 17-year-old bride for the price of a circus. He tried to tame the beautiful wild child with money, luxury, passion -- and unleashed a tigress who taught him a new meaning for...
Second in the epic quartet capturing life at the end of British rule in India, “an achievement of unusual dimensions and power” (The Observer (UK)).In The Day of the Scorpion, Scott draws us deeper in to his epic of India at the close of World Wa...
A NON-FICTION THRILLER BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE BOSTON STRANGLER”TWO YOUNG RADICALS ASSASSINATE A HIGH GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL. WERE THEY PATRIOTS OR MURDERERS?CAIRO, EGYPT: The car moved slowly through the baking heat and noise of the city and finally ...
Questions ... Why did John Crow think Hillary Brownell was a threat...? Why had he cut off all relationships in La Lomita and made it plain that he wanter no visitors to his house? By now Hillary knew of the small arsenal of guns he kept locked i...
Searing with lust and revenge... agony and sin... the shameful Dragonard legacy lives on... Only one woman can match the legendary lust of Richard Abdee, infamous English slave dealer. She is Kinga, Ashanti princess, one of the African wenches ...
PIEMUR--DREAMER OF FIRE LIZARDS, APPRENTICE OF DRUMS Once again Pern was in danger. The air trembled with rumors of deadly Threadfall. And, from within, there was another peril. The restless Oldtimers, who once battled the shimmering Thread, were...
When the Johnsons got another foster child, Toby Smart, strange things started happening in the family. Libby wondered if she truly belonged. Did the secret box, lurking in the back of her closet, hold all the answers?. ...
RUSH THAT SPEAKS Born into the community of Truthful Speakers one thousand years after the Storm, he was raised on stories of the old days -- a world filled with saints, a world in which all things were possible, a world which finally destroyed it...
“This romp through a rural English manor and its ritualistic mannerisms is a glittering entertainment, a grab-bag of allusions, images, and rhetorical gems that Burgess (an opulent king of the Queen’s English) profligately casts away like mere...
Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself to be the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. Science-fantasy wars, racism, corporate capitalism, drug addiction, and various medical and psychiatric horrors all...
SHE MUST HAVE BEEN A BEAUTIFUL CORPSE... She has rubies in her teeth, a crimson skirt, and not a shred of skin on her bones. She's burlesque queen Ruby Redd, missing these past thirty years, and Sarah Kelling has just discovered her sprawled grot...
Ever since she quit racing Formula cars, Veronica “Roni” Woodward, a young American beauty, has led a slow life. Tired of being bored, she travels to Europe after graduating college, hoping to find excitement and adventure. She finds it in droves...
There were two great loves in her life . . Louise's love for her beautiful home, Queen's Dower, was as solid and unchangeable as the house itself. But her love for her stepbrother, Daniel, had subtly evolved over the years. While she ha...
Lost Memories of Love. When the beautiful young woman was found wandering on the outskirts of Warwick, she couldn't remember anything about herself, not even her name. Three years later, she was blissfully celebrating her wedding -- the day she becam...
No Matter What Life Throws at Them, the Grace Sisters Always Have Each OtherThe four Grace sisters -- Liz, Sal, Tilly, and Addie -- love their quiet life in the country village of Chevis Green. To some, their insular world might seem dull, but the si...
When Jimmy's mother and father are murdered by their best friend for a radical new invention that educates children, Jimmy must escape and survive until he reaches adulthood. The last copy of the plans for the invention are stored in his brain, and t...
A woman made for love in a world of unchained lust. HER HEART BELONGED TO ONE MAN. HER BODY TO MANY. Glynda was an outcast of society, the bastard daughter of a lascivious lord -- and the object of desire of every man who laid eyes upon her. ...
DANGER AT STARS' END Han Solo was a trampfreighter captain, a smuggler and a free-lance law-bender when it suited him. Together with his Wookiee pal Chewbacca, he roamed the galaxy in the starship Millennium Falcon, --owing nothing to anyone -- hu...
A continuous text made up of extracts from Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal and a selection of her brother's poems. Dorothy Wordsworth kept her Journal 'because I shall give William pleasure by it'. In doing so, she never dreamt that she was giving futur...
KIDNAPPED BY A STRANGE GENTLEMAN, SHE WAS AN UNWILLING PRISONER UNTIL... Beautiful Russet Ingram was the toast of the London social set with many suitors clamoring for her attentions. But she had no intention of stealing anyone's beau. And she...
When he was eight and saw his parents slain and his wank destroyed by hawkers, something died and something changed in Orrikson larik. And he became, with that abrupt coming of age, the Man Who Was Two -- the morbrin-warrior, the machine-that-figh...
John Kingsford suits his home of Darlock House on Exmoor. He has retreated there following the tragic death of his wife and the loss of the easiest Parliamentary seat he could ever have wished for. Into his morose existence bursts Miss Grace Lindsay ...
Beautiful, willful eighteen year-old Antoinette Selway is sad and shocked when her father dies, but not as shocked as she is when she hears the terms of his will. Antoinette must marry arrogant Stephen Dodgson, a man she always despised, in order...
Janey had to find herself a new dream Janet' had had such high hopes. New Zealand meant a new life with their aunt for her and her young brother. Sadly, on arrival, she learned they'd be on their own. No wonder she jumped at the school ...
NEW HARD COVER FROM 1979! NEARLY FLAWLESS COPY! PAGES, BINDING, COVER AND DUST COVER ARE PERFECT! EX LIBRARY NEVER IN CIRCULATION, VERY MINIMAL LIBRARY MARKING! MYLAR PROTECTION OVER TERRIFIC DUST COVER! ALL ORDERS SHIP SAME DAY W/ TRACKING NUMBER! B...
“She commands her material so well that we are made to believe that her fiction -- her plot -- is no stranger than our lives.” --Ms. Magazine Listening to Billie is a brilliant portrait of a contemporary woman adventurously, decisive...
The beautiful, high-spirited Lady Sophia Drayton had planned a clever revenge against the Marquis of Damon. For had he not conspired to send her beloved brother into the battle of Waterloo that had sent him home a cripple? Now, Sophia faced Damon ...
Her scheme brought unexpected results! Lisa believed that Slade Blackwell was systematically embezzling her aunt's money. But she needed proof. Lisa figured out a way to get it. The only problem was that it involved wearing a disguise and a...
THEY LOVED TO THE FULL - AND FOUGHT TO THE DEATH Like his father before him, Andrew Maclaren was born to lead the 148th Foot. But his life changed forever when he found Maud Westburn raped and homeless in the horror of the Indian mutiny. Society d...
The fiftieth anniversary of a lost classic a deceptively sophisticated tale of sexual compulsion and one man's flight from love
Yasha Mazur is a Houdini-like performer whose skill has made him famous throughout eastern Poland. Half Jewish, h...
SOLD by her lover! Emma Hart stepped towards Charles Greville, her body yearning for his strong embrace. Charles, a dark figure among the oriental curios and erotic statues he collected, stared at her coldly. In a final, impassioned gesture to the...
Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion returns in the form of Michael Kane, a brilliant Earthman stranded on the treacherous deserts of Ancient Mars! In this sweeping, epic sword-and-planet adventure in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Kane and hi...
"An eminently readable comedy of modern war" (New York Times), Men at Arms is the first novel in Evelyn Waugh's brilliant Sword of Honor trilogy. Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. Hi...
DESTINY MADE HER A QUEEN -- AND PASSION, A REBELLIOUS SLAVE Breathtaking Monique, lovechild of a gypsy princess and a French marquis. Stolen at birth by her mother's clan, to be raised in the untamed pride of their forest camps. Born to rule,...
MOONDRAGON -- WHERE THE MARRIAGE OF EAST AND WEST GAVE BIRTH TO UNEARTHLY BEAUTY AND UNHOLY TERROR From the moment lovely, dark-haired Deirdre Fennora came to the manor of Moondragon on the wild coast of Ireland, she found herself in a bizarre and...
Lovely Lynden Downpatrick raged helplessly, her newfound woman's pride aching. For surely her newly wed husband Justin Melbrooke must believe her an accomplice in the infamous scheme that had made her his wife. Was he not the prize catch of Londo...
Winning a cruise to the South Pacific changes the life of thirty-eight-year-old Mary Farr Morgan who, accompanied by her niece, leaves behind the husband she has supported for fifteen years and, upon returning, must decide whether to stay married to ...
"Generally, my congregation was behind me, especially the young people, though some individual members accused me of spending time on crime that I ought to have spent calling on the aged or getting new members. A few said this was not a proper activi...
The "wise, amusing, and beautifully written" (Commonweal) second installment in Evelyn Waugh's masterful trilogy of World War Two novels. Fueled by idealism and eagerness to contribute to the war effort, Guy Crouchback becomes attached to a commando ...
On a run-down farm in 1935, over the July 4th weekend, two couples, their two little girls, and the headmistress of the girls' progressive school each face a crisis, revelation, or turning point through a network of understandings and misunderstandin...
Regan's every look made her tingle! Gwayne and her friends were looking forward to spending a month at Brad Keogh's cousin's sheep ranch. New to the Australian Outback, Gwayne was eager to take it all in. But when they arrived, it s...
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“Reads like dynamite. ...a rare and academically fascinating piece of work, apart from the fact that it moves well and entertainingly. It tackles something fundamental to the human spirit, and conscientiously does it...
What dreadful secret was he guarding? Isabella did not know nor even care to ask. She only knew that she passionately loved Jerome Hansford, a real man in a world of fops and dandies. For his part, Jerome was bitterly afraid he could never marr...
A GROSS BUSINESS Wesley Pruiss was just a misunderstood and misled publishing entrepreneur. The dirtier his little magazine got,the more money he made. There seemed to be no limit to the dirt or the money. His full-color monthly, called Gross. soo...
Gerry's pride was almost her downfall Gerry Barton, determined to earn a living for herself, her widowed sister and her twin baby nieces, had taken on an impossible task. Stubbornly, she refused to admit it. When she finally collapsed, her ...
Never in all her days had lovely Nan Harwood imagined herself living luxuriously in Hong Kong, working for the man of her dreams--half a world away from the man she planned to marry. It all happened so fast--much too soon to know the real person behi...
Spawned in Nazi Germany, it had surfaced after 30 years. A plot so brilliant, so horrifying, no government, no intelligence could stop it. The master plan was so ingeniously simple that it would not die. Hitler used it, hoping to destroy England. The...
" The kind of man every woman wants" That seemed to be the general opinion of the super-virile Rey Stark. Even Mistelle's stepmother agreed. Mistelle herself knew better. Rey Stark was a man who callously used any willing woman. After all, hadn...
A clamor of voices, a woman's screams... What was happening, Lucia wondered in fear, as hoofbeats thundered ever nearer. She ran to hide--but it was too late. A pair of powerful hands grasped her and lifted her onto the back of an enormous ...
Dr. Robert Shannon is a dedicated medical scientist who must learn to master his own temptations before he can vanquish human suffering. Sequel to The Green Years...
His love was only an illusion On her wedding day, Kate felt how miraculous was to truly love and beloved. As Hugo's wife, she knew the rest of her life would be blessed Then Kate overheard her husband's grim plan for their future togeth...
The amazing story of a child diagnosed with autism and his parents' creation of the Son-Rise Program to successfully heal him and assist other families in healing their special-needs child....
DOUBLE DELIGHT--AND DANGER... They were twins: Sophia, gentle and sensitive. Augusta, witty and high-spirited. And the many eligible young men who came to call were a testimony to their charms. Harry, the Duke of Carnmoor, was courting Sophi...
Gildrum came to Castle Spinweb as a wounded knight, to be succored by the Lady Delivev, a sorcerer with control over all magic related to spinning or weaving. Then, after a brief idyll of love, he vanished, leaving behind A WOMAN WAILING FOR A DEM...
"I went through hell to return to you!" Dina Chandler was overcome by guilt when she heard her husband's words. But she couldn't welcome him back with open arms. Blake Chandler had been missing in the South American jungle fo...
June Pritchard and her pet sparrow hawk, Zander, are both caught between following the rules and spreading their wings to fly June Pritchard spends every summer with her aunts, uncles, and cousins in the big Victorian house that belonged to her gran...
Tawny McShane Daughter of an itinerant medicine man, she was only fifteen when she realized that, if the price was right, her father would offer her bogus “faith-healing” services to the women-hungry men drifting in the wake of the Civil War… ...
After Skunk and Raccoon ask Fox to judge a storytelling contest in which the prize will be her lovely purple umbrella, Skunk tells of an absent-minded beaver, Raccoon describes a greedy rabbit, and Fox manages to keep her part of the bargain and her ...
DEATH IN THE DESERT! The Syrian Liberation Army, a fanatical group driven by "The Hawk," are expanding their activities -- if they succeed a tanker will explode in New York Harbor wasting a million lives! And that'll be just the beginning! Nic...
Here is TITAN: the alien that is, itself, a world. Here is TITAN: the heralded new novel by SF's most spectacular new talent, the Hugo and Nebula Award winner who has been compared by Isaac Asimov with the early Heinlein. Here is TITAN: the story o...
A WIFE WHO HAD TO SHARE HER HUSBAND Young Kate Hamilton fairly worshipped her handsome Mormon minister husband when she came from England to 19th-century Utah. But soon she learned what it meant to be only the first of the wives of a man who turned ...
BORN TO RULE The planet Ere's ancient prophecy had foretold the birth of Ramad, a child of Ynell, gifted with a psychic vision and born into special destiny: He will be hailed as a prophet and hunted like an animal; betrayed by blood relatives and...
A TOWN OF GHOSTLY MEMORIES. When an innocent man was lynched by the angry people of Arnetville, the local minister called down a devastating curse on his sinful parishioner's. And from that moment the town began slowly, frighteningly, mysteriousl...