Julie was in Provence to visit her French grandfather and perhaps heal the breach between them -- but instead she had managed to fall in love with the elusive Armand Beausset. But what would come of that? As Armand's rejected girl friend said:...
The body of an elderly Chinese importer of rare jade lies on the carpet of a quietly expensive house in Pasadena, California. In a rough semicircle around his head rest four pieces of jade; protruding from the heart is a fifth-the Ya-Chang ritual kni...
He was a wonder of scientific perfection-- but it was lonely as hell at the top. All the resources of NASA, the Pentagon, and Government Money put the pieces of Lt. Col. Steve Austin's shattered body back together again. He came out of it more perfec...
When Joseph Armagh first saw America in the early 1850s, he was a twelve-year-old Irish immigrant -- a penniless orphan cast upon a hostile shore to make a home for himself. Years later, in his palatial estate, he looked back on his long, rich li...
ON THE DUNES OF DOOM It was a fabulous house of glass, strangely modern with the big beams that gave it the appearance of a child's building block. An innocent plaything on the beach. But from the moment pretty, red-haired Ivy McCall saw it, she w...
Discover Myth"There's no one quite like Joseph Campbell. He knows the vast sweep of man's panoramic past as few men have ever known it." --The Village VoiceJoseph Campbell famously compared mythology to a kangaroo pouch for the human mind and spirit:...
Harry Benson suffers from violent seizures. So violent that he requires a police guard when entering a Los Angeles hospital for treatment. Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, is convinced he can cure Benson...
For the first time Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are available in the United States in quality paperback editions.Fifth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, The Ringed Castle leaps from Mary Tudor's England to the barbaric Russia of Ivan the Terrible. F...
When April returned to Kinley after seven years she was soon involved with two men -- Nick Lawton whom she had always hero-worshipped and Donald Jordan who had always loved her. Did this mean that the triangle was going to get sorted out once and ...
In this new mystery, the Dana girlsā adventures take them to Portugal. Senor Sarmento, father of the girlsā friend Isabel, has enlisted the help of the two young detectives in solving the series of baffling thefts from his Lisbon warehouse. Wi...
Judy had gone to work on Mark Palmer's farm while she tried to make up her mind whether or not to continue her engagement to Bruce Clarkson. Misjudging Bruce and breaking her engagement was upsetting enough; meeting Mark only added to Judy'...
When Molly was hurt in an accident and was unable to go back to nursing for several months, she took a job as secretary to a group of doctors as a stopgap. It soon became much more than that! Hero: Dr./Doctor John Maitland Heroine: Nurse Molly Wa...
Andre Norton's marvelous novels of the Witch World, so distant that the very laws of space and time differ from those that govern our cosmic sector, have been compared by critics to the work of J. R. R. Tolkien of LORD OF THE RINGS fame, and equally ...
Alan's mocking words hit hard, underlining the complete disaster their evening had been. Lorraine had never felt so lonely and so miserable. She wanted to hurt Alan as he had hurt her. "Why don't you leave me alone," she said harsh...
Firefight! Fight fire with fire! The heat is on as Mack Bolan's one-man crime crusade against the Mafia moves west. The sunny Golden Gate city finds out what the Executioner is all about when he explodes into their midst, hot on the trail of th...
For vibrant, lovely Jean Suttman, the fellowship to study in Rome was the culmination of all her dreams-until she undertook an innocent expedition to the ancient subterranean Temple of Mithra. From the moment she stepped into the pagan darkness an...
Ellery Queen is persuaded to accompany an old friend and sculptor to his ancestral home when the latter arrives at Ellery''s house covered in blood and unable to remember anything from the past few weeks. Once there, tensions erupt and foul play r...
Sasha Davis, smart and pretty, was once an all-American teenage beauty queen. Full of potential, she was the only student at her midwestern high school to attend college on the East Coast. But soon her promise begins to falter. After starting graduat...
Douglas Sirk is one of the unsung heroes of American cinema. From 1942 to 1958 he directed some 30 lush melodramas starring the likes of Rock Hudson and Lana Turner. Sirk's films are many-layered, the style transcending the melodrama and transforming...
When Haidee Brown masqueraded as a girl named Suzanne Desmond, who was apparently her double, it was with the best and kindest of intentions, to bring comfort to a dying woman. But Haidee found herself involved in the unknown Suzanne's life in a ...
A London artist tries to adjust to her new life on a Scottish farm and, in painting everything around her, turns up some buried secrets and a long-hidden scandal....
A heartbreaking story of victory, defeat, and of a spiritual search in a profane world, this is the story of Night Bear and his people. It is the tale of the land they cherish and the lives they hold sacred, lived until the enemy can no longer be sto...
Bursting with life and bawdy humour, National Serviceman Brigg is now a Regular Army sergeant defending the Empire in the beds and bars of Hong Kong.Peace-time diversions include sensual fireworks with a pair of delicious Chinese twins and a tender, ...
With wondrous observations and bittersweet humor, the beloved best-selling, Pulitzer Prizeā"winning author tells the story of an unsuspecting young woman who becomes the North star that helps a stumbling, dysfunctional family find its foot...
The village of this story is located in Colombia. Although small, it has a wide reputation, for it is a leper colony. Whether ill or not, its inhabitants carry a stigma. To it comes Claudio, a healthy teen-age boy selected by his family to accompany ...
The Book of Van Vogt containing interstellar classics never before anthologized, such as Lost:Fifty Suns and The Barbarian, and all-new Van Vogt stories such as The Sound of Wild Laughter, The Timed Clock, and others never seen in print before....
"What the hell is it?" Dortmunder said. "It's a trailer," Kelp said. "What they call a mobile home. Didn't you ever see that kind of thing before?" "But what the hell is it?" "It's the bank," Kelp said. The bank has a tough safe, seven guards, ...
Dave Merrow was determined to save the Marcombe Youth Centre. from the property developers, and Jo, because she adored Dave, was prepared to do anything to help him -- even to the extent of stowing away in the car of Sir Sheridan Leroy, the eminent Q...