The act of mistaken anger that led Luke Griffin to "kidnap" Randy Dunne soon gave way to a cresting wave of passion that swept them both into a fiery embrace from which there was no turning back. Yet before the game could be played out and their f...
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....
A QUESTION OF HONOR Icy silver eyes held her captive until Ryder Sterne decided that his lovely prisoner wasn't a trespasser after all. But the electric encounter between the daredevil writer and beautiful philosophy professor Brenna Llewellyn...
Affairs. They were her specialty. Catered affairs. Most particularly weddings. Among her clients Diana Leighton numbered many good friends, not to mention her own very-much-married mother: No one knew more about tying beautiful matrimonial knots t...
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...
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...
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...
She couldn't hide her feelings for him Because of the peculiar terms of an eccentric old lady's will, Sara Susan Anderson was being virtually forced to live for six months in John Englewood's house. "I'm not your judge,"...
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...
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 ...
SEND A PRIEST TO HEAVEN Four rather clumsy assassins stalk the seminaries of Detroit. Only luck has so far stopped them from killing a priest. But time runs short, and murder lies within their vicious grasp. Who's behind this quartet of killers...
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."...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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 ...
Lannie was no longer the woman who had wanted Brandon for what he was worth, not for the man he was. This time she saw beneath the glitter and longed to build a life with him. This time, she vowed, when he gave her diamonds they would not he the p...
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...
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 ...
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...
Minella owed Sam more than she could ever pay He'd saved her life, and for that Minella Farmer was grateful. But that didn't make her blind to his faults. Sam Stafford was detestable. He used women for his own pleasure. He had a dark se...
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....
Alanna went to Costa Rica to meet Colonel Matt Breckenridge with all the wrong motives. She had been sent to expose him, but in the end she exposed only her own heart, her own vulnerability where he was concerned. She fell in love with the arrogan...
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...
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...
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 ...
He's got experience written all over him." Shann had warned Kezia, and he was right. For as long as she could remember, Shann was the only man she'd wanted - then she met the enchanting Bligh Devereaux. This stranger aroused an un...
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...
Details the terrifying course of events that occurs as, one by one, suddenly and inexplicably, happy, successful, and apparently normal people lose control...
They met when her car skidded on ice. She was a cultivated Bostonian, striving toward a Ph.D., he a rough-and-tumble hockey pro, a few goals from the Stanley Cup. Worlds apart, but in one unforgettable moment of passion Mariette and Bull found a priv...
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 ...
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....
COULD SHE LOVE A MAN WHO EXPECTED HER TO BE THERE ... OR A MAN WHO'D BE THERE FOR HER? For a year, the man in Leah Bradstreet's life had been Jakob Anderson, the celebrated dancer. But romance had to wait for the moments they could find between Ja...
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...
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...
Golf pro Jason Gerard's playboy reputation hadn't prevented Chesten Malone from agreeing to paint his portrait, but she was on her guard. She told herself that his gentle teasing was a con man's pitch, that the passion in his dark eyes was not for he...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
Her worst fears had come true Being kidnapped by political terrorists was the realization of Saffron Wykeham's worst nightmares. And to be taken to an isolated primitive farmhouse and subjected to the volatile dangerous temperaments of her cap...
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...
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...
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...
It was that transitional time of the world, when man first brought the clang of iron and the reek of smoke to the lands which before had echoed with inhuman voices. In that dawn of man and death of magic there yet remained one last untouched place --...
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...
UNFORGETTABLE WORDS "I'm going to win you, Charla, no matter what I have to do!" Artist Charla Evans traveled to Japan to study raku pottery--and to escape an unhappy love. She thought there could never be another ... until tycoon Stephen Conners ...
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...
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....
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...
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...
" I always get what I want." Adam Thornton's words struck fear into Natalie's heart. For the survival of her modeling agency depended on keeping him and his company happy. Her own sister--Thornton's Cosmetics' Dream Girl--h...
Journalist Nia Phillips' assignment to interview the five most eligible bachelors on the East Coast introduced her to Daniel Strahan, head coach of a top Boston basketball team. Daniel had no desire to be interviewed -- and then no intention of ...
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...
Thousands of years after a war so terrible that it changed the very laws of nature, gods and giants once again stalk the earth and play their games with human lives......
IT WAS AN OFFER SHE COULDN'T REFUSE. Lisa Ashton wanted only two things in life: her independence and to become a commercial pilot. There was no room for a man especially not devastatingly handsome Serge Devereaux, a notorious womanizer...a ma...
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...
"I won't be used by you, Dane Vestry!" Linet Emmonds knew she was a professional, a top TV reporter who'd never failed to get a story. And she wasn't about to ruin her record now, especially not over her latest assignment, self-made business tycoo...
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...
FROM FRIENDS TO LOVERS They'd been close for years, but suddenly Madeline hungered for John in a new way. When they finally touched, passion set their souls on fire... but their friendship turned to ashes. Now Madeline feared she was no more ...
Like oil and water, they'd never make a proper mix, yet Lee knew she'd met her match. Wealthy and powerful Jake Rhome had been willing to give her anything--but her freedom--so she'd left him to take a job as a geologist with an oil company in the...
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...
A PRICE TO PAY Rosalie Darrien had agreed to take charge of Louis Alexander's villa on Mykonos, one of the most romantic Greek islands. But the handsome, charming, very wealthy Mr. Alexander didn't know that she was there to exact a toll. She woul...
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 ...
Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes. For in this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of ...
The Fioras jewels are missing and Francesca Lisle, one of John Mannering’s (aka ‘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...
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...
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...
STAR-MAKER, HEARTBREAKER When Julia Somers stepped off the stage in triumph, producer Roy Allison came from the backstage shadows to offer her the chance of a lifetime -- a demanding but star-making part in his next movie. Roy's kisses were a...
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 ...
"Know your enemy," the handsome stranger warns, but, as a storm rages outside, trapping them together, Laurel neglects the threat to the lighthouse that shelters them. She forgets her routines and responsibilities, drawn to this man whose thr...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Four women are linked by a passion for the same man, Belson McKintridge, a legendary screen idol and notorious womanizer. McKintridge risks everything for one desperate, international scam, setting forces in motion that will change the ladies' exotic...
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...
Was she doomed to endure a marriage she had never wanted to a man she hardly knew? Morgana Cassity had no choice -- not this time -- not if she meant to keep the little that was hers. Her portion of the vast Cassity empire was the run-down Rocking...
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...
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 ...
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...
A kiss from a stranger, given at her own request, was Chrissa's first step in learning what love was all about. Isaac Fielding was a man worth loving, but his past was as unhappy as Chrissa's own, and to win his heart seemed hopeless. Like the flo...
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...
Anger. Fear. Fury. She had been prepared to feel anything but her own answering desire as he took her in his arms offering everything--everything she had ever wanted.... Jennifer Preston studied him with care. Joe Brennan, creative maverick of th...
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 ...
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...
THEY WERE LOCKED IN A BATTLE OF WILLS The unyielding Thorn Catlin was determined to force Sabrina to leave Brazil. She was set on staying--for purely professional reasons. Unforeseen events shook her resolve. Marooned with him in the exotic and...
She was willing to gamble everything After the callous way he'd disowned her mother, the last thing Rosanna Dunham wanted was to deal with her wealthy autocratic grandfather. But she was desperate for money -- money that meant saving her mothe...
It wasn't that the job was difficult! It was April's employer who baffled her -- Comte Emile Jacquot de Nimes, popular novelist, one-time acclaimed artist, at present a recluse. His wounded soul broke her heart, and somehow she must sho...
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...
"You're blinded by adolescent dreams! " The memory of Jase's humiliating rejection still cut Lexa to the quick. True, as a teenager she had worshiped her handsome stepbrother with the idolatry usually reserved for rock stars. Bu...
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...
THE GOD THAT FAILED To his bosses at the Ochskahrt Memorial Academy he was Captain Bernard M. Gruenblum, Temporal Division--just another time traveler. But to the aliens from Yamaguchi he was, literally, God. So, if Bernie was going to medieval Ja...
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...
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....
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...
"It's an offer you can't refuse." Kinnan Macrae's suggestion that she set sail aboard his yacht left Alix speechless. But stranded as she was in Yugoslavia with no money, no identification and no way of making herself understoo...
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...
He had never seen the woman he loved. He did not know she carried his child. Lainie's artistic talent was the toast of New York. But she would have traded all her success for the golden beauty of her sister. Then she met Jean Paul, the sports superst...
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...
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...