With her stunning beauty, brilliant talent, and almost magical allure, the irresistible Katherine Tempest has the world at her feet. Her rise from unknown actress to Hollywood legend is one marked by dazzling performances and a carefully concealed, y...
Will Lee ran from a life of Southern wealth and privilege to spend a peaceful summer on the coast of Ireland. But there is no peace in this beautiful, troubled land. Restless and dissatisfied, Will dreams of shipbuilding and sailing on crystal-blue ...
KIRK'S SOUL ... SPOCK'S LIFE A dark plan has been unleashed in the galaxy, a design so vast, only a collective--and ruthless--mind like the Totality could have conceived it. Now, CaptairT Kirk must battle the seductive force of the Totality's will...
The Assassins' Code On the bloodsoaked feudal world of Neweden, the Hoorka assassins' guild has survived by adherence to a strict code of honor. Lethal killers, shadowy black-robed agents of destruction, they are pledged to give Fate a chance to ...
COME ...enter the city of Drinn, if you dare. The entering is easy during Festival time; no guard will stop you, no priest will question you as you shuffle through the gates among the crowds, hiding the glow of forbidden magic beneath your brown pil...
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the fifth and final instalment in the visionary novel cycle 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. 'The Sentimental Agents ...' is set in the declining Volyen Empire as the empires of Sirius and Sh...
Triple trouble always dogged Dray Prescot, especially when he thought he had things under control. This time, involved with setting things right on the continent of Pandahem, the Star Lords yank him away from his friends, and dump him, weaponless, at...
THE GOLDEN SPACE In a world rising out of chaos, geneticist Merripen Allen has urged the beautiful Josepha to be inseminated with genetically crafted sperm -- to become one of the mothers of a better, more rational kind of humanity. In this spellbi...
Kajira means slave-girl in Gorean. But when Tiffany Collins was kidnapped from Earth and brought to that orbital counter-world, she found herself on the throne of a mighty city as its "queen:' Power seemingly was hers, and she did not realize that he...
FAR AGO AND LONG AWAY.. Now lost forever beneath the rolling Atlantic, the Elder Isles were once lands of fairy shees and troll forests, of crones wise in lore and knights steeled in valor. In these isles lived a princess possessed of a wistful...
Who was he, this Johnny McKennah? When the government found out who he was and what he planned they knew he had to be stopped. But, even if you're willing to pay any price, how do you stop an invasion of supermen?...
First published by St. Martin's in 1958, Robert Traver's Anatomy of a Murder immediately became the number-one bestseller in America, and was subsequently turned into the now classic Otto Preminger film of the same name, starring Jimmy Stewart and Du...
The battle-scarred Major Harry Maxim, Intelligence aide at Number 10 Downing Street, must find what links a deserting corporal, East German politics, a double killing in West Germany, a South London fight club, and a widowed Yorkshire piano teacher...
L.A. Wambaugh-style. A world of cops on the rocks with a twist of murder. A cheap hooker named Missy Moonbeam takes a fatal dive from the roof of a sleazy hotel. But what’s a Caltech phone number doing in her trick book? And how does that connect t...
Ellery Queen pais a visit to Wrightsville, a small New England town he had known from boyhood holidays. His nostalgia for the place was awakened and shaken when he recieved anonymously some cuttings from the Wrightsville Record, a comparison of whi...
Alma Webster's passionate love affair with dentist Walter Baranov leads to the murder of his wife, the couple's journey to the United States, and a shipboard murder that Walter is asked to investigate...
It deals with witchcraft (three witches - Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley, the Chaucerian Aunt Eglantine, and the mysterious Gloria Mundy, half her hair red, the other half black, her ancestor burnt as a witch). Gloria Mundy arrives unannounced at th...
Harlem teenager Imamu Jones, repainting his mother's apartment, hoping to help her overcome her alcoholism, is troubled as he begins to suspect one of his friends may be guilty of a series of burglaries and other crimes....
A HUNDRED YEARS AGO... A small boy huddled in the dark. His mother had promised she would never leave him...not in this awful house...not in this terrible town. But she was dead. Gone. And he was alone. Trapped. With no one to answer his desperate c...
Poppy Brown has such a tendency to make up stories that only her loyal friend Emma believes the amazing news Poppy tells her: One of the statues on the estate where her mother works has been struck by lightning and has come to life! Belladonna, as Po...
Treasury Agents Charlie Carr and Jack Kelly, investigating a counterfeiting ring, are tipped off by Det Travis Bailey of the LA police a cool, ruthless cop with some strange tastes in sex and women who warns them of a plot to murder their prime witne...
PAST OR PRESENT? When Sam Churchill went to Plymouth, Massachusetts, to work for the summer, he had no idea he'd been summoned to help solve the centuries-old mystery of the dreaded Tinkerton Curse. Working with the reknowned archaeologist Potter B....
SHE WAS LIKE THE SCARLET POPPIES ... PROUD ... PASSIONATE ... TRUE ... Beautiful designer Iris Patakos had fulfilled her dream of a career in the fashion capital of the world. But a wealthy, powerful stranger was to sweep her from New York City to...
Headstrong and sharp-tongued, Lady Rosanna Wythe felt equal to the challenge posed by the Earl of Leighton. A notorious rake, he had proclaimed himself guardian of her and her twin sisters and whisked them off to London. But Rosanna resolved to have ...
Cornwall, 1818 LOVE AND PERIL ON THE CLIFFS OF CORNWALL Beautiful Melissa Rivenwood was leaving Mrs. Brody's Seminary for the Daughters of Gentlemen for a new life. But when she accepted the position as companion to the formidable Lady Doro...
"WOMEN ARE BORN WITH A KNACK FOR DECEPTION. HOW ELSE COULD THEY EVER GET HUSBANDS TO MARRY THEM?" Deception is the key to Vanessa Bradford's secret mission. Entrusted with a letter of utmost importance to England's security--even survival--Vaness...
IF ONLY SHE HAD LOOKED INTO HER HEART, SHE WOULD HAVE SEEN THE TRUTH... Lovely Samantha Curtis considered herself on the shelf as far as marriage was concerned. But she was interested in finding a husband for her beautiful younger sister, Miranda....
TORN BETWEEN GOOD SENSE--AND HER SENSES At the age of twenty-five, Lady Georgina Spalding was too old to play the girlish fool in love--yet too young not to respond to the shocking but undeniably arousing advances of the handsome visitor from Virg...
Love’s Choice When her sister Janet's wedding plans suddenly changed, lovely Paige Kendall agreed to go to Oregon and run Janet's secretarial business for a few weeks. But she had her work cut out for her with client Alan Bayne, who hire...
Homicide Detective Gabe Wager is faced with a murder that leads him from Denver to southwest Colorado and into the tangled and secretive relationships of polygamist cults. This novel was the basis of the Charles Bronson movie, "Messenger of Death."...
When beautiful Michelle Harper is found brutally murdered and her husband is charged with the crime, lawyer Matthew Hope becomes involved in the case, which leads him into the tawdry world of Gulf Coast "social clubs." Reprint....
A rare California deluge unearths a hidden body - and a decades-old crime
Rain has spoiled Masao Masuto''s vacation. For six days the storm has trapped the Zen Buddhist detective and his family inside their Los Angeles cottage. By the morni...
PASSION WAS HER POWER, PERIL WAS ITS PRICE Stacey Gordon had escaped the terrors of her odyssey through the Western wilderness. She was back safe in her husband's arms, surrounded by all the comforts of modern civilization. But Stacey could not...
Detective Milodragovitch spends too much time boozing until he gets caught up in a case involving two-bit criminals and an old lady on the run....
The adoring wife of Senate candidate Meade Alexander had a smile as sweet as candy and dotted her i's with little hearts. A blond beauty, she was the perfect mate for an ambitious politician, but she had a little problem with sex and drugs--a problem...
“The richest mystery here, however, is Florence itself, whose intricate politics and class structure Nabb parses with precision and wit." -- Washington Post Book WorldSummoned by an aged woman to investigate mysterious noises in the vaca...
The author of The First Day on the Somme recounts Operation Hydra, the British bombing on a Nazi army research center during World War II. On the night of August 17-18, 1943, RAF Bomber Command attacked a remote research establishment on the German B...
From the outwash plains of Brooklyn to Indiana's drifted diamonds and gold, John McPhee's In Suspect Terrain is a narrative of the earth, told in four sections of equal length, each in a different way reflecting the three others-- a biography; a set ...
In a snowy castle high in the Austrian Alps, she found a passion that set her heart on fire. An Icy Wonderland of Love & Intrigue The first time she saw Baron Erich von Rothmann, young Marisa Hall fairly trembled with the strange new sensations...
The convent had not prepared her for the ways of the world. Now, the man of her dreams would turn her world into a living hell...Handsome and ruthless, his cruelty would force any woman into submission. And Star was no exception...His mixed blood and...
SEARING PASSION BOUND THEM TOGETHER -- JEALOUS FATE TORE THEM APART! For four years, green-eyed Alisha Williams had been Princess Shalee, the cherished wife of the Oglala chief Gray Eagle. Still their love was stronger than the surging white water...
Lovely red-haired Siobhan Carey's family was murdered before her eyes... It all started in Ireland, when Siobhan, not knowing the power of her own passions, nearly surrendered to the stable boy. Her father caught them and his beating of the boy br...
GOLDEN-EYED ENCHANTRESS With sparkling amber eyes and long, lustrous, midnight-black hair, Brianna Talbert was the most sought after beauty in Bristol. The sensuous temptress found all her suitors boring and longed for the blazing fires of rapture...
Here, set amid the raw magnificence and vast drama of Australia, is a saga t hat moves over seven unforgettable generations. It is the story of the dynasty founded by James Brown, who came from across the sea in chains and fought free to possess the ...
BELOVED ENEMY With the reckless abandon of first love, Christine Brookfield embraced the handsome ski instructor she met on an Austrian holiday that fateful winter of 1938. But he was German, and war was in the air, making lovers into enemies. Fo...
Charlotte d'Aubigne Lottie came to her father's home in France a girl -- but with a woman's beauty and desires. Lonely for her beloved English countryside, estranged from the boy she had always adored, she was soon to be swept away by the glitter...
BETROTHED TO A STRANGER Four years ago, Christina Bristol was wrenched from her home in England by a man who claimed her as his daughter. Benjamin Bristol demanded that she obey his dictates or else her beloved grandparents would feel the full for...
NO ONE COULD MAKE HIM GIVE UP HIS FREEDOM. Brianne O'Neill had fallen in love instantly with the mysterious Pierce Nolan. His indifferent response to her overtures only strengthened her resolve to humble this proud man. He had never been faith...
They were the family Lyon. Strong. Sure. Gifted. Cursed... They sailed from embattled England to America's shores, aristocratic exiles in the land of the common man. But not even an ocean could heal the breach of a house divided against itself, a ...
When spirited, beautiful Eleanor MacClaren first met Douglas Brennon, she was only sixteen years old. Worse, she was the daughter of a British Major and Brennon was an American soldier in the colonial army. Their passion for each other was honeycombe...
She was willful, wanton, and very beautiful... What can you expect, people said. She was her mother's daughter. Sweeping from 19th-century New Orleans to glamorous San Francisco to the California gold fields and Virginia during the Civil war, here is...
This is not an historical novel in the ordinary sense. It is something new: the life of an actual royal family, whose story is so rich and varied that it falls naturally into the form of a modern novel.
The heroine is Princess Henrietta of ...
Young, sultry Glenda knew nothing of love -- and even less of handsome Read deBaulieu. But when the untouched beauty met his bold, flashing gaze and saw his virile, masculine form, she didn't care that he would be leaving soon. She wanted him, an...
SHE WAS MEANT FOR LOVE. BUT LISETTE WAS FIERCELY INDEPENDENT -- UNTIL SHE MET NICHOLAI BEAUVISAGE ... Many men pursued her but Lisette Hahn, devastated at an early age by a callous married man, found them easy to resist. Yet on the night of he...
IN ENGLAND’S GENTLE COUNTRYSIDE GREW A DARK AND TENDER PASSION… Spirited, violet eyed, Fanny Bickler longed to live the wild carefree life of the gypsies. For it was proud, laughing Caleb Neyn who had captured her in innocence and first taught...
Very slight spine crease and edge wear. Tear on top front cover. Age color and a spot on back cover. Mark on top edge, rest of book has no marks and is very intact. Ships quickly and packaged carefully!...
When the loss of her family's fortune made it necessary for Hallie Wyatt to marry a stranger, she still clung to the dream that someday she would be wed to Adam Burgess, the man she had always loved. But when her new husband Michael Redmond, returned...
Plundered of his birthright, a young Southerner fights for a new life and a sensuous girl pledged to the memory of his lost brother. MEN AND WOMEN OF A RAVISHED LAND--DREAMING OF AN OLD LOVE AND A NEW LIFE Stripped of rank and fortune, Thaddeus...
WOMAN OF WAR Aeneva stood as tall as a man and shot as straight as a brave. The stunning Cheyenne woman was only fifteen summers old but she was fearless in battle and certain in love. With a heart of stone she could kill a vicious foe; and with ...
It was in the summer of 1958 that the horror surfaced in the town of Whitfield, erupting like a festering boil, spewing its corruption on everyone near it. Those who survived the terror remember it as the summer of The Digging -- the time when the ho...
CLOSER... They found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred fifty were dead, 350 missing. But the terror had only begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, Califor...
Could Lisa really die -- twenty years before she’s even born? Marie Worthington has been alone for so long. Someone betrayed Marie and no one listens to her pleas for help -- no one except Lisa Emery, the new girl in town. Lisa wants to help Mar...
The reader, as young Jaimie, must help a wizard regain his kingdom by recovering a magical staff from a band of goblins and skeletons. Game World: Dungeons and Dragons Endless Quest Book You Choose Your Paths To Adventure TSR The Game Wizards Numb...
At her father's request, Clint Adams signs on to escort beautiful Linda Mather to meet her fiance. But the Gunsmith quickly discovers that there's a lot more to worry about than hostile Apaches and Mexican bandidos between Brownsville and Yuma. First...
Black Wind, Arizona is torn apart with prejudice and hatred, fueled by the greed of a ruthless town boss and his hired gunslicks. A nearby colony of Chinese immigrants, the hapless victims of violence, turn to Clint Adams for help. A lovely Oriental ...
1765. The terrible French and Indian War is over but underneath the fragile peace a new violence simmers. Near Fort Detroit a marauding outlaw band threatens to destroy the flourishing trading company of Owen and Ella Sutherland and their Indian alli...
ALL SLOCUM CARED ABOUT WAS A PRETTY WOMAN IN HIS BED at night and a job to bring the money in. If "Colonel Smith" wanted him to kidnap President Chester A. Arthur, that was all right by him -- especially when Smith was paying him fifty thousand dolla...
Here is the fascinating story of Johannes Verne, a young man left to die by his vengeful grandfather, rescued by outlaws and raised in part by the Indians of the desert. Strengthened by the love of two women--Miss Nesselrode, whose mysterious past fi...
BAIT FOR A BACKSHOOTER... When two men are sent out to shoot a crazed killer stallion. a bushwhacker cuts down both of the hunters. That's trouble enough. but there's a cattle thief on the loose as well and, incredibly, the ranchers believe the ho...
Russ was just a boy one day and a killer and outlaw the next. Instead of tending his father's cattle and saving to build a ranch of his own, he was fleeing into the desert. It wasn't the path he had chosen. When he killed those two lawmen, he thought...
Captain Gringo dodges death in revolution-torn Mazatlán! First he gets double-crossed by a beautiful black-hearted blonde. Then he’s cold-cocked by an American officer obsessed with bringing “The Renegade” to the U.S. for hanging. If that isnâ...
EVERYONE WAS DYING TO FIND THE BANKER Foxville, in Colorado Territory, was littered with bodies: searchers who tried to find the missing banker, Hugh Caldwell -- and killers who tried to keep his secret. The town didn't cotton to a nosy stranger...
BRAVE MEN, WHITE WATER, DARK DEEDS Fort Jamison, 1841: To this farthest outpost of civilization on the Saskatchewan River came young red-headed Allan MacInnes, in search of a long-lost mystery girl. To survive, he was forced to learn the art and...
Florence, a lovely, kind hearted young lady who gives up her position as teacher to the poor children of her town to marry a well-to-do young gentleman and move up in the world to a house he has inherited. Far from anyone they know, Florence tries he...
Adventure and mystery find Adam and Noah when they become involved with a stolen boat, drug smugglers, a runaway horse, and a woman about to give birth on the top of a twenty-story building with a broken elevator....
The audience thought it was only an act -- a dirty-mouthed dummy spewing vile insults while the ventriloquist rolled her innocent baby blues. Nobody believed that Plato could be more than a rag, a stick, a hank of hair. But inside his little wooden b...
Norman Mailer’s dazzlingly rich, deeply evocative novel of ancient Egypt breathes life into the figures of a lost era: the eighteenth-dynasty Pharaoh Rameses and his wife, Queen Nefertiti; Menenhetet, their creature, lover, and victim; and the gods...
A Frenchman whose family has lived in Cambodia for eight generations stands, in 1969, at the center of a complex, international cast of characters, all of whom are drawn into the maelstrom of a country on the brink of revolution...
Ordered by his father to work for Harry and Vita Dane, volcano experts who are monitoring Mount Dominica's anticipated eruption, arrogant, sixteen-year-old Doug Morley confronts danger from a variety of sources...
Fariña evokes the Sixties as precisely, wittily, and poignantly as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the Jazz Age. The hero, Gnossus Pappadopoulis, weaves his way through the psychedelic landscape, encountering -- among other things -- mescaline, women, ...
When the boundary between the pagan past and the rational present becomes blurred, things can get unbelievably scary! Ties in with the John Schlesinger film starring Martin Sheen, Robert Loggia, and Helen Shaver. The most terrifying novel since Ros...
In an ancient kingdom, a boy and his hawk challenge the gods All his life, Tron has been destined to join the priests who rule his strange desert kingdom. When the old king grows sick, a ritual is called for to restore his health: the sacrifice of a ...
One day in 1914, a young man took to the air, and a legend was born...Dicken Quinney never forgot that first flight in a fragile contraption of sealing-wax and string, the start of a lifelong obsession with flying.He was to spend the next four years ...
A history of the men and machines who fought the pioneer aerial combats of World War I, which includes first-hand reports from pilots and looks at the famous aces, such as Baron Richthofen and Mick Mannock....
In January 1944, Baron Joachim von Niehauser enters the United States on a mission to collect critical data on the Manhattan Project's atom bomb, a mission imperilled at every step by FBI agent George Haven...
In Guinevere, Sharan Newman told us the story of that lovely and legendary woman's childhood up until her wedding night. Guinevere is now the beautiful young wife and queen of King Arthur, a position much-coveted by all women of Camelot. But noth...
Details the terrifying course of events that occurs as, one by one, suddenly and inexplicably, happy, successful, and apparently normal people lose control...
Aboard the "Queen Mary," carrying Winston Churchill to a meeting with Roosevelt and one thousand Nazi prisoners bound for American camps, a fanatic German agent executes a plan to kidnap Churchill and change the course of the war...
Deborah was young and innocent; Benton was worldly and experienced. Hers was a quiet fire; his was and inferno or rage and revenge. But as the world rumbled with the thunder of battle, they were struck by the lightning of passion. A moment's attra...
A challenging foray into the heart of sorcery creates a landscape full of terrors, mysterious forces, and insights, a landscape of the sorcerer's realm, of brilliant visions, lonely tasks, and human warmth and comradeship...
James Thurber has been called "one of our great American institutions' (Stanley Walker), "a magnificent satirist (Boston Transcript), and "a Joyce in false-face" (New York Times). The New York Herald Tribune submits that he is "as blithe as Benchley....
The scene is Los Angeles -- but not the LA of sun-drenched beaches or glamorous Hollywood. This is the Los Angeles of the Chicano barrio, where everything in life is stacked against the teenaged hero, Chato Medina, his beleaguered, disintegrating fam...
An eerie and mysterious gothic romance steeped in family secrets and deception from the Victorian-era author of The Portent and Lilith. MacDonald’s second realistic novel written in the first person by a fictional female narrator, The Flight...
Tor / Pinnacle, 1983. Mass market paperback. First published as a serial in Astounding Magazine in 1952, then published in book form the same year. "Cyril Judd" is a pseudonym of C. M. Kornbluth and Judith Merril. "Gunner Cade is a minor classic if ...
The Fioras jewels are missing and Francesca Lisle, one of John Mannering’s (aka â€The Baron’) neighbours, is mysteriously asked by her father to retrieve a leather holdall from underneath the floorboards and take it to him at Waterloo station. F...
Once a wild gold mining town, Whitey's Fall is now a small, brooding community of close and distant relations. One by one, the young are leaving for the alluring uncertainties of the world beyond. The old stay on, steadfast in their pride and sense o...
This is the true story of Second World War fighter pilot, Richard Hillary. After being shot down in September 1940, Hillary spent several months in hospital, undergoing numerous operations; a member of Archibald McIndoe's 'Guinea Pig Club'. Originall...
A Caldecott Honor Book A Golden Kite Award -- Picture Book A stunning edition of the classic fairy tale, reimagined and illustrated by a Caldecott medalist. Traveling alone, deep in the woods, Elisabeth suspects her basket of treats isn’t the only ...
Twelve stories observing modern American life and morals in the twentieth century, from the National Medal of Artsâ€"winning author of The Cat and the King.With this collection of short stories, Louis Auchincloss will delight his already devoted foll...
In Needmore, Kentucky, in the late 1940s, bookish high school senior Harry Eastep is appointed mentor to Monk McHorning, the hulking hope of the high school basketball team, in a comic novel about the pains of youth and the possibilities of integrity...
Olga da Polga goes visiting and meets Boris, a Russian guinea-pig. Olga and Boris become firm friends and Olga is surprised to discover that Boris can tell even taller tales than she can! Soon the time comes for her to return to her own garden, but...
Seventy-two years after the events, Samuel Burley seeks to determine his grandfather's true paternity and his great-grandmother's reasons for deserting and then returning to her Kentucky-farmer husband...
After the horror of Pearl Harbor, American forces in the Pacific had a long way to come back, relying on the submarines of the Silent service. Jack McCrary, sub commander led an attack on Japanese ships that held the Imperial Navy to a standstill. Bu...