The last great battle of the Hellgates has been won and Flux and Anchor are at peace -- for now. But someone has found the key to the magic of Flux. IF they succeed in harnessing this fearsome power, the delicate balance could be destroyed. W...
A beautiful, dangerous world of subtle radiation, its people still human...by most standards. A place where genetics may determine your present, but skill and luck will determine your future. A planet where there is enough love...and hate...for ev...
YOU are the Doctor's only assistant as you face an entire race of mutant warlike beings in INVASION OF THE ORMAZOIDS. It is the twenty-fifth century. The Doctor has set your coordinates for the rim worlds -- a turbulent, primitive, and strange r...
The Lunar Observatory on earth is picking up a very strange and unidentifiable signal from the direction of Cygnus. When the meaning of this signal is finally understood, it clearly spells disaster for earth. An immense object is rushing towards the ...
The year was 1897 Khyber Pass echoed with the sounds of war. Soldiers from Britain, India, and Afghanistan were immersed in a bloody conflict. Enter the Time Commandos. Their mission: To foil a plot that has set timelines on a collision course. On...
Jed Lacey is a 21st-century cop who plays by the rules. His rules. Maybe there are worse things than having him come after you, but they aren't survivable either. The United States of Lacey's day has imposed law and order with cameras that scan...
Bethkahn is an astral body. Long ago, she and a team of explorers landed on a small moon to repair their starship. The explorers flew to a nearby planet and never returned. Now their descendants have arrived on the small moon where Bethkahn has been ...
He was a survivor - a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war. But when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker, his life changes forever. As he journeys from one isolated commun...
Armed for Justice. Trained to Kill. They Were the Planet's Only Hope. . . . The Amonites: Innocent colonists eager to escape their impoverished homeworld and begin a new life on the unspoiled planet Vishnu. Colonists' zeal and spacers' greed have led...
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME ... It was a pretty good life for a spellsinger from L.A. He'd battled demons, fought deadly Plated Folk, even met a socialist dragon and survived. Now Jon-Tom was quite happy to settle into domestic bliss with the fiery...
The detectives of the tough precinct called "Siberia" match wits with a ruthless cop killer while trying to cope with a baby-kidnapping and selling racket and a heartless mugger preying on the elderly...
At the onset of World War II, a cocky D.A. concocts a scheme to build his name by setting two cohorts, ex-football star Lew Cassidy and gangster Max Baumann, against each other, exciting a war of wits, hearts, and bullets...
A British diplomat, looking natty in a green hat, walks into the brooding hills above Lake Como anddisappears. The police investigate but can uncover no clues or evidence. This is a job for British Intelligence.in the person of none other t...
G.K. Chesterton was an English writer often referred to as "the prince of paradox." Chesterton wrote on a variety of different subjects including mystery fiction, religion, and literary critiques. Chesterton is best known for creating the...
While spending the summer in the house where her aunt is housekeeper in the early days of World War I, fourteen-year-old Frances becomes involved in the house's violent past when she is visited by the long-dead twin of the owner's sinister son....
When Police Chief Alden Chase and lovely Professor Glad Gold probe the fiery death of the eccentric Adah Storm, they uncover a coven of coed witches, a professor with a Lovecraft obsession, a sexy archaeologist, and dark secrets from the past...
Arriving in New York from the island of Antiqua, Police Sergeant Robin Hope investigates the death of his brother-in-law, a petty jewel thief, and uncovers a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II that involves the most expensive colt in the world...
After five people are murdered in Laurel Canyon, and his partner, Dan, is also killed, Mike Gallagher, acting head of homicide, Hollywood Division, discovers that someone very close to him may be involved...
Traces the consequences of a strange murder that brings together a tough kid from New England, a young lawyer who risks everything to defend a friend he knows is guilty, and a cynical judge who is a virtual stranger in his own home...
Crammed full of sex, drugs and Hollywood. This book is a bright evocation of La-La-Land. Welcome Mr. Reed. Come back soon. Hartford CourantJames Reed is an ex-Scotland Yard detective who became the bodyguard, then lover, then husband, then ex-husband...
SHE DISAPPEARED IN NAPLES. HE'D GO TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH TO GET HER BACK. Private investigator Frank De Nardo has walked the meanest city streets, but this case is plunging him into a nightmare--into the savage, shocking heart of the internatio...
Aging Mafia Don Salvatore Padronelli is furious when fanatical Islamic terrorists capture his beloved daughter and grandson on a trip to Egypt. Fed up with ineffective diplomatic measures and a lack of governmental action, the Don and his loyal hench...
Death was her strongest opponent... Dana Sloan dismissed the threatening letters as the work of a prankster. After three years as Denver's mayor, she had come to view harassment as an expected but unpleasant aspect of her life as a public figure. ...
Susan had been infatuated with everything Scottish for as long as she could remember. When she arrived in Scotland to work on an archaeological dig, she thought it was a dream come true. But now the dream was rapidly becoming a nightmare. She had ...
A KILLER LURKS In her quaint vintage clothing boutique in picturesque Georgetown, Karen Nevitt's laces and white linens seem so innocent. Her aunt's aged friends have even ransacked their attics to help the novice entrepreneur launch her business....
WERE THEY DEALING WITH A DEMONIC CULT OR A DEVILISHLY CLEVER KILLER? GUINEVERE JONES - Being a good neighbor was easy when the window across the way framed a handsome young handsome young artist. But when she became witness to sudden violence in ...
A deadly game of cat and mouse ... U.S. Customs agent Diana Mackenzie was sent to London to investigate Peter Foxe. But her real target was his stepbrother, Lord Matthew Raleton, who was suspected of masterminding the smuggling of U.S. high-tech e...
FLUSH OF ANGER Too proud to live off the charity of relations any longer, Katherine Amory was determined after her great uncle's death to find a position as governess. But she had not counted on the peremptory intervention of the Earl of Tarri...
THE IMPERILED IMPOSTOR Well-bred but impoverished Miss Bonnie Gordon let herself be persuaded by the Earl of Sedgewick to pose as his niece. Thus the earl could put a damper on the leechlike greed of prospective heirs to his vast estate and the po...
INTO THE LION'S DEN Miss Victoria Dawkins was in a most perilous position. Cast out of respectable society by a scurrilous slur on her good name, alone and penniless in the London lower depths, this proud but all too vulnerable young lady coul...
With Each London Season, and Enchanting Romance Moves into the Fashionable Town House at Number 67 Clarges Street. And there below the Stairs the Staff Has a Special Mission -- to Arrange a Match...to Hatch a Scheme...to Bring Love Home to A HOUSE...
Sassy Winthrop has just turned twenty-one. But instead of being a time of fun, parties, and courting, it has been a time of loss, grief, and transitions. With the death of her beloved father, a kindly country vicar, Sassy is left not only without imm...
A WOMAN'S WEAPON Wagging tongues of society declared that there was no woman, married or single, that the notorious Max Talgarth could not conquer with his arrogant good looks and devastating charm. It was common knowledge as well that there was ...
"I WILL HAVE ANSWERS, MRS. ROWLEY, SO PRAY DO NOT THINK THAT YOU CAN FOB ME OFF!" When Lord Welham spoke thus to the diminutive widow of his beloved cousin Robin, he little knew the tales that that young lady could tell. He determined that Anne sh...
He had as many tales as tuppence, so how could she believe in his love? CONSTANCE ALWAYS KNEW AUNT RACHEL'S PINCHPENNY WAYS WOULD LAND THEM IN THE SUDS! And indeed they did. For Lord Aiglon, the owner of their home, paid a surprise visit a...
Because she was born lame and has only a small dowry, Quintilla Davenant's family is determined to match her with a widower, but Quintilla falls in love with a stranger, who turns out to be Lord Eysley...
Smitten . . . Now that Dee Patterson's lost several pounds, she's started on an exciting self-improvement plan. She's feeling really great about her slender new looks when she meets adorable Marc Harrison, a soccer player who recently broke up with ...
It's a gray November for Detective Luis Mendoza, and it's not getting any brighter The weather in L.A. hasn't been living up to its sunny reputation--the murder of an unwanted newborn and the assault of a twelve-year-old girl don't make things pre...
Few would mourn the apparent suicide of Martin IJsbreker, banker for the Society for Help Abroad--a clever front for an international vice ring, led by none other than the commissaris's boyhood rival, Fernandus Willem. If the commissaris could prove ...
THE CORPSE LAY IN THE DRY HEAT OF THE HOUSTON MORNING SUN, INSIDE THE GATES OF A CRUMBLING MANSION. A SPIKE HAD BEEN DRIVEN INTO THE SKULL... For Detective Stuart Haydon, it was the sign of Los Tecos, a Latin-American death squad sworn to politica...
When the famous journalist and private investigator witnesses a murder at the Nairobi airport, he and his new wife begin a routine search for clues and find themselves assisting an expedition for a lost Roman city...
'The godfather of Australian crime fiction.' Lady Catherine presides over the declining fortunes of the Chatterton estate, which is lacking a suitable heir. When she hears of a grandson she never knew, Cliff Hardy takes the job, reluctantly, of findi...
Mongo and his brother Garth are changed forever, as is their view of the world, because they possess a secret that must never be told. Here the epic adventure continues as the brothers become fugitives and outcasts struggling to solve the puzzle of a...
FATAL PHOTOS Police superintendent Percy Trethowan found London's Soho as colorful and full of life as ever--except for the four corpses in a seedy photography studio. Shot doing a layout for Bodies, a soft-porn "health and fitness" magazine, the ...
When blond, vibrant young Stella Reeve is found drowned under a treacherous footbridge in the tiny village of Wynford. The evidence suggests accident, but Inspector Rudd is not convinced. The girl was returning from a platonic visit to a village n...
Gideon's Night is inhabited by thugs, murderers, and maniacs as a rule. But on this particular evening, an unusually virulent pair of psychopaths is leaving behind a grisly trail of pain, grief, and blood. First, there's the "baby snatcher" - kidnapp...
MR. KETTLE WOULD NEVER BE IN SHAPE... The members of the aerobics class at the exclusive SimpSon's SuperSpa were all gyrating breathlessly around the floor in the interest of cardiovascular improvement. All except Mr. Kettle, whose cardiovascular ...
Attorney Matthew Hope takes on the case of beautiful heiress Sarah Whitaker, who is fighting court-ordered and family-supported commitment as a paranoid schizophrenic, and enters into a world of delusion and murder...
THE HOSPITAL'S SEXIEST NURSE WAS DEAD. WHICH LOVER HAD FINISHED HER OFF? Jackie Baumer was a dedicated nurse. She was also a young and beautiful woman with an insatiable sexual appetite. There were few on the staff of Chicago's Austin Flint Medical C...
Can Cam use her photographic memory to crack the case? A mystery has popped up and Cam is on the case! When a customer at Binky's Department Store realizes that his shopping bag -- containing a brand-new corn popper -- has been stolen, Cam and Eric...
Miss Hildegarde Withers takes a vacation trip on the S.S. American Diplomat, but she is soon put to work solving the disappearance of a young heiress and the systematic murders of her table companions...
CAPTIVE OF PASSION Lovely, young, and poverty-stricken, Amanda Prescott was forced to support herself and her invalid mother any way she could. Cast into prison for stealing, she was horrified to learn that she would be transported to the American...
CURRENT OF DESIRE When the curvaceous shipowner Brittannia Denning first boarded the Airlee, all she expected was a quick survey of her just-bought vessel. Then she met dashing Captain Dain Barclay... and the young heiress had eyes only for him. H...
IRISH ROGUE From the moment she arrived in Ireland, Marguerite LeFleur heard the stories of the living legend that was Sheridan O'Roarke. The name of the notorious outlaw was on everyone's lips -- and once Marguerite met him she knew why. His green ...
ONLY THE PASSION OF HIS LOVE COULD TAME HER WILD HEART TAMED BY LOVE It was for Caitlin's own safety that the queen commanded Trey Cameron to capture the renegade beauty who was plundering Spanish ships in the Caribbean. He was then charged...
DEEP IN AMERICA'S MOST GLORIOUS WILDERNESS, THE DARKNESS WAS SEDUCTION, THE DAWN BLAZING DESIRE ... MARCY. A child of the mountains, as beautiful as the land she once loved, she yearned for a new life and the new love that would make all her dream...
Lady Elspeth was the most beautiful woman Thomas had ever seen. Tormented by desire, he despaired of ever possessing her, for she was a noblewoman, as well as being the sister of his sworn enemy, Sir Stephen Ufford. Then there was Lady Margery, Si...
In the brutal back alleys of Cindad Real, two yound pickpockets steal a precious moment of love...so intense, so abondoned, their hearts areforever bound. Cruelly torn from each other's arms, they are swept apart by the tides of war. Francho, the ...
Defiant Was Her Pride, Bold Was Her Love, Violent Was Her Passion! Too sensuous and wild for a proper Southern belle, Laurel Ashland had been sent to a Catholic girl's school in Galveston to be tamed into a lady. But the North's invasion of that s...
A love no woman could forget - not its pleasure... its passion...or its price... Angele - No woman in New Orleans was more beautiful - or wild. She cared only for her land and her freedom...until a handsome Frenchman came to claim her body and he...
His Passion Sparked Her Soul. His Touch Inflamed Her Desire. Aimee de Chartres -- Young, spirited and resourceful, the golden-haired beauty was forced into womanhood by the violent passions of the French Revolution -- and the smoldering desires of...
IN THIS GAME OF CHANCE, SHE RISKED EVERYTHING FOR LOVE At a tender age, young Alexis Ashmore was torn from her lush Virginia plantation home to live in the untamed new territory of Idaho, where her father sought his fortune. It was there that h...
ACRIPPINA…she enslaved men. She murdered two husbands and married her uncle to make her son emperor -- and then seduced him to have him in her power. NERO…her son. Corrupted in childhood, bisexual, insanely vain, cruel. He dreamed of being the...
A LOVE FOR ALL TIME Once she had given her heart completely--to have love crushed by the power of tremendous wealth. With fierce pride and determination, she turned her course and made her pact with destiny... From a life of poverty in a small Fre...
SHE TRIED TO ESCAPE HIM Kidnapped when she was a child, 18-year-old Rana Michaels couldn't imagine any life other than her carefree existence among the Sioux. Then the white man Travis Kincade appeared in her camp, and the flame haired beauty's peac...
SHE NEEDED TO HAVE HIM Jet-haired Eugenia Leahy was sensuous and slender with an iron will that intimidated even the most powerful of men. Then a handsome stranger rescued her after a bad fall and the steel-hearted beauty suddenly felt soft and vuln...
NEW ORLEANS,1941 Two decades had passed since a sweeping oil boom turned dreams into glittering luxury and built the city's most prosperous families, Now, dark clouds of approaching war settled on the horizon. The days of burgeoning wealth--and inn...
His lips moved sensuously over her silken curves and her traitorous body came alive. 'Always believe in love,' he counseled. Provocatively beautiful in the latest Elizabethan fashion of turquoise and gold, Jessica walked, trembling, to the stone al...
She had the pride of Nantucket in her spirit and the passion for one man in her blood. ONE MAN. ONE WOMAN. A LEGACY OF COURAGE. Bleak yet beautiful, severe yet serene, wide cobbled streets filled with brawny seamen and Yankee merchants, ninetee...
A romantic walk in the woods near Thaler Academy is transformed into a nightmare as Jennifer and Lee find themselves stalked by a deadly, evil, alien terror when they stumble into the dark secrets of the posh boarding school...
The town of Maywell is peaceful until Amanda Walker, a successful young artist, comes to illustrate Constance Collier's next book, her Uncle George completes the first stage of his experiment with life, and Brother Simon Pierce is moved to murderous ...
Something deadly is stalking the corridors of the King's Cross train, preying on the passengers. It once attacked commuter Mark Davies and threw him from the train. Ex-policeman Les Chadderton is obsessed with the murders and suicides on the East Coa...
Evil creatures, terror, and murder haunt the hallowed halls of posh Thale Academy, an exclusive Connecticut boarding school, and scholarship student Jennifer Field and her boyfriend, Lee, find themselves targets of the nightmare...
Suddenly, a family physician can heal any illness with a simple touchAfter a dozen years of practicing medicine as a family physician, Dr. Alan Bulmer discovers one day that he can cure any illness with the mere touch of his hand. At first his scient...
Just like Bonnie and Clyde, Cord and Chi are free spirits -- and accomplished bank robbers.This time they’re on the run-in two different directions. One of Cord’s old-time lawbreaking buddies needs a favor -- and for Cord it’s a chance to settl...
Clint Adams heads into Colorado to investigate self-proclaimed healer Gerald Wellfall -- a shady minister who allegedly saved a Senator's life. It's up to the Gunsmith to find out what's really going on -- and why the minister had reason to butter up...
HIS GUN IS HOT AND READY FOR ACTION! The town of Deadwood needs some fast gunslinging action when Jake O'Toole's gang starts murdering for gold. But it takes the kidnapping of pretty Nancy Venable's pa to start Gunn's ball rolling -- although he ne...
WAGONS WEST Railroads and stockyards brought brawny bareheaded men to Chicago from the western prairies and the northern forests. Here waited the commerce that built empires, the painted women who lured farm boys, the gunman and the cardsharp who se...
When young Jack Kennedy's little sister gets tired of playing, Jack suggests a a sail. Within moments Jack is steering the small chip toward Osterville to say hello to Captain Manley. Under darkening clouds the two children head back home -- but they...
When Lassiter promises to protect his dead friend's son, he never thinks the young rancher will run into such a passel of trouble. Yet before he knows it, there's an all-out range war led by a pack of hired sharpshooters trying to steal the kid's lan...
A Comanche uprising plunges Jessie and Ki into a raging storm of blood and bullets!A peace treaty is just a piece of paper as far as the white men and Comanches are concerned. Promises have been broken, and ruthless profiteers are selling Indian land...
Already renowned for his work in horror and “splatterpunk,” Joe R. Lansdale (the Hap and Leonard series, Cold in July, Bubba Ho-Tep) helped cement the Weird Western genre as we know it with THE MAGIC WAGON and several other titles beginning in th...
While tracking one of the government's most-wanted train robbers, Spur McCoy, with the help of a buxom widow who is thirsty for revenge, must go up against a crooked sheriff who vows to protect the criminals. Original....
A RIVER OF BLOOD DIVIDED THE BRADY AND DANCER FAMILIES...No sooner does Slocum ride into the dusty town of Ledville than trouble finds him. Deadly trouble. A bitter feud has left both Brady and Dancer kin planted deep in Texas soil. It doesn't take l...
When Alleda McGuire woke up she found herself in a dark and ominous room, with her hands strapped to the bed. What terrified her most, though, was her loss of memory. She had no notion of who she was or why she was being held captive. When handso...
This stirring manifesto shows how to discover everything you need to succeed -- where you least expect it. So begins one of the most famous speeches of the twentieth century, a talk that educator and minister Russell H. Conwell delivered before liter...
THE ROSICRUCIAN MYTH IS RETOLD IN THIS EXTRAORDINARY COMIC NOVEL,WHICH DRAWWS ITS INSPIRATION FROM THE OCCULT EPIGRAMS OF MICHAEL MAIER THE 17TH CENTURY ALCHEMIST AND CHIEF APOLGIST FOR THE ROSICRUCIAN MOVEMENT. FOSTER'S ICONOCLASTIC ACCOUNT OF HIS Y...
Separated from his family during the boat trip from Russia to America, a young immigrant mouse arrives in New York City aboard a bottle and shares adventures with fellow immigrants from many different countries....
Originally published in 1986, Paul Reidinger's first novel concerns three friends in their twenties -- he, she and he -- who find themselves caught up in a design for living that breathes the spirit of the 1980s.
David and Katherine meet as un...
An international calendar of holidays offers descriptions of a holiday or celebration for every day of the year, in a book that encompasses the holidays of the major world religions, scores of countries, and the birthdays of famous people...
This spy-fi thriller has more threads than the old Coates & Clark sample box. It opens in Arizona with a murder and a successful coverup; leaps to the interior of the Kremlin, where KGB and GRU operatives gossip about their work while forcing 18-year...
Even in death, Cassidy is larger than life. Charles Parnell Cassidy is a powerful politician. He's a backroom fixer: generous, but also greedy and cunning. Martin Gregory is his disenchanted protégé who, having married Cassidy's daughter an...
Nobody said New York City was easy, but for Tolley Holtz, it’s home Tolley Holtz would rather be exploring the city with his friends, talking about the Yankees, and discussing what President Roosevelt is going to do about the Depression than watchi...
Need a baby-sitter? Save time! Call: The Baby-Sitters Club and reach four experienced baby-sitters. Kristy Thomas, President Claudia Kishi, Vice-President Mary Anne Spier, Secretary Stacey McGill, Treasurer Kristy, Claudia, Mary Anne, and Stacey h...
Out of his experiences working on a chain gang, Donn Pearce created Cool Hand Luke, war hero turned "pretty evil feller," whose refusal to "git his mind right" becomes part of his fellow convicts' mythology of survival....
After he engages gay designer Adam Green, Marc Street, head of a garment house in New York, is catapulted to fashion stardom, until Adam's dissolution, his own love affair, and his connections to the underworld threaten his company...
When his son is arrested as a cocaine dealer, New York investment counselor Walter Farr enters into a clandestine operation with the Drug Enforcement Agency, to win his son a lighter sentence by laundering millions in drug money as part of a huge sti...
In the late sixties, a young hippy from Long Island sent to Buenos Aires as an exchange student, finds his drinking and sexual escapades turn into dangerous political adventures, as an era of terror descends on Argentina...
Lyric and tender one moment, cruel and dizzying the next, this literary tour de force neither celebrates perversity nor laments it, rather it projects it as part of man''s impossible quest for a true self. In 49 brief, highly cinematic chapters, we m...
Unholy secrets scar the past of a Catholic girls school that represented a social and financial coming of age during the early twentieth-century, and alter the lives of the people caught in its orbit, including Louise Maguire, the determined nun who ...
Fat City is a vivid novel of allegiance and defeat, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes. Stockton, California is the setting: the Lido Gym, the Hotel Coma, Main Street lunchrooms and d...
A former member of the Organization in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Sian Pius McAnally flees his political and family commitments, escaping to the Republic until, retrieved by the Organization for a key mission, he is captured by the police...
Eleven-year-old Walter can’t believe his eyes when he sees the eviction notice from Ralph, the rotten nephew of his old friend, General Britt. It isn’t so bad for Walter and his mother, who also lives there -- she would have no trouble finding an...
Abandoned by their mother after their father's death, five children live with their unloving grandparents, endure back-breaking chores, and nourish each other with dreams of the day their mother will reclaim them...
This novel about the pain and pleasures of being female revolves around six women living in Heartbreak Hotel--an aging cheerleader, an ex-nun, an unhappy comic, a bitter cop, and a woman with beautiful legs--tour guides on mandatory rest leave from t...
From the height of success and celebrity through the pit of addiction and alcoholism, to an almost mystical vision of the near future, a longstanding rock legend recreates the whirlwind life of a rock musician...
The Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author brings “clarity, intelligence and grace” to the tale of building a home in this New York Times Bestseller (The New York Times Book Review). It’s 1983 and Jonathan and Judith Souweine are ready to ...