DAEMEN -- a forgotten place at the very edge of the galaxy, a dying planet where people lived by luck alone. This was the number-one stop for Rheba, the Senyas fire dancer, and Kirtn, her Bre'n mentor, as they sought to fulfill their promise to re...
Mass paperback reprint of hardcover original. 15th place, 1983 Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology. Contents: Introduction, essay by Edward L. Ferman; Window, by Bob Leman (nominated, 1981 Nebula Award); The Fire When It Comes, by Parke Godwin (winner...
Intruder in the Waste The Waste was stirring and strange forms of the Dark, long quiet, began to wake as Kerovan--whose cloven hoofs marked his kinship with the Old Ones--journeyed into the Waste on a secret mission, leaving behind the girl he lov...
THE ASSASSIN There are many ways for a young man with quick wits and a quick sword to advance in the world. Vlad Taltos chose the route of the assassin. To his other qualifications he added two things: The first was a smattering of witchcraft-badl...
THE BEGINNING OF THE END GAME The Confederacy's grand scheme seemed to be working. They had substituted the mind of their best operator for the minds of four criminals--every one a top assassin -- and sent one to each of the four Warden worlds to ...
The Morphodite was a genetically constructed genius who had turned the tables on the police state that had created it. Settled down to a man's quiet life, he contemplated a lifetime of doing good in a liberated world...until a vengeance squad wiped o...
From the acclaimed author of VALIS, the world of an Episcopal bishop is shaken up by death and the discovery of ancient scrolls in Israel. The final book in Philip K. Dick’s VALIS trilogy, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer br...
Young investment banker Tim Ekaterin suddenly finds himself involved in the cutthroat world of thoroughbred racing--and discovers his unexceptional world of business blown to smithereens. When the multimillion-dollar loan he arranges to finance th...
Wartime in Perdido jolted the sleepy little Alabama town as new people entered the community. Outsiders would invade the comfort of the wealthy Caskeys and take their daughters. This, though, was part of the master plan of Elinor Caskey, who would...
New York City is in a turmoil because of a series of bizarre crimes. These killings are too close to home for detective Neil Romano of the NYPD. Could the psychic research and Chinese mysticism be true? What if they are?...
Colonel Charles Russell, lately Head of the Security Executive, returns to action when he learns of the probable nuclear acquisitions of a deposed South American dictator and his aide, who seeks revenge against those who killed his family in Hiroshim...
THE DANGER OF DESIRE From the moment beautiful and innocent Evangeline de Beauchamps entered the household of Richard Clarendon, Duke of Portsmouth, she felt herself falling under the spell of this man who had conquered so many women with his looks...
A CHARMING YOUNG BEAUTY AND TWO NOTORIOUS NOBLEMEN: ONE WHO BLITHELY STEALS HER LEGACY, THE OTHER HER HEART THE LORDLY ABDUCTION Beautiful young Sarah Lennox-Matthews was shocked to her core when Darcy Ashton, the dissolute Earl of Moreland, i...
A romantic wartime saga which tells of love and loss, divided families and shifting loyalties. On a bombing mission over Germany, David Turner's thoughts are with Sally Barnes in Liverpool. Deaf since childhood, Sally is young and vulnerable and D...
Cam "The Camera" Jansen, her friend Eric, and Aunt Molly are all having a fine time at the circus -- until Cam suspects something sneaky. In a flash, Cam and Eric are on the track, trying to catch some clever pickpockets. The thieves think they're...
Pursued by an enraged mob of mutants, you must flee across the frozen Parklands of the Ancients [Yellowstone] to find proof of your innocence. This campaign module contains Gamemaster notes, background information, maps, new creatures, new artifacts,...
Three hunters and their wives, friends since high school, journey to southeastern Utah for a special buffalo hunt and encounter tragedy, violence, a testing of values, and a breakup of old friendships...
CHILD BRIDE Amy Jean Lewis died in 1955. Through telepathic thought she told her husband that she would return...he should watch for her. Christopher Lewis begins a quest through the minds of psychics and throughout the country in search of the c...
With the opium wars raging all around her, Kathleen Bellamy waged a war of her own. -- Her spirit was unquenchable. Despite her missionary father and the cruel twist of fate that left her blind, she declared her love for Cheng Lo, loyal servant of ...
Mais father (a Richard supporter), living with his imperious mother, hard-working brother, and beloved sister in near-poverty. And, in the three-act tragedy that follows, Nicholas will eventually become the most trusted follower of ""Richard ...
There was nowhere to hide from their violent passion. "MARRIAGEABLE WOMEN WANTED: DECENT HUSBANDS GUARANTEED" Darcy Mayhew never dreamed that her plight would become so desperate that the advertisement for mail order brides would seem l...
...She felt suspended in time, steeped in peerless pleasure. She relished the sharp rise of her passion. She was lost in her sudden surge of desire. She heard the sounds of her own moaning as she arched her back. A final, lucid thought came to her. W...
Born illegitimately to an American mother and a Chinese father, Amalie Berenger has been raised from infancy by Parisians. -- During WWII, she is tricked into giving herself to a Nazi officer in order to protect her adoptive father, not knowing he ...
A BURNING SEA OF DESIRE AWAKENED THEIR ENDLESS LOVE! WILD RAPTURE and spine-tingling fear melted into a burning sea of desire the moment Captain Morgan Black took the luscious Kristen in his arms. Slowly his mouth claimed hers in a deep, lingering...
Could he conquer her divided heart? HE STOOD FOR EVERYTHING SHE DESPISED Alluring Verony Langford knew full well her fate. Now that her father was dead and his lands and title granted to the mysterious Curran d'Arcy, only her grace and beau...
Passion beyond reason, love beyond control... "I'm telling you, Maggie, I won't let you ride roughshod over me as you do other men. If we can't meet as equals then one of us will have to surrender. And it sure as hell won't be ...
THE LADY: Beth Ridgeway was a violet-eyed platinum beauty -- the kind of woman who made men burn with desire. Yet her husband Nathan didn't want her... THE ROGUE: Rafael Santana, the darkly handsome and arrogant son of a wealthy Texas family, had ...
Three generations -- they would know the splendors of Imperial Russia, the terror of exile, the Japanese occupation of China, the promise of America, and proof that sometimes a woman must love more than once to find true happiness. Winds Over M...
Christine is no lady, but 17-year-old Arnie Cunningham loves her enough to do anything to possess hell. Arnie's best friend Dennis distrusts her at first sight. Arnie's teen-queen girlfriend Leigh fears her the moment she senses her power. Arnie'...
The mightiest barbarian, intent on delivering stolen gems, must rescue a beautiful, trusting noblewoman in peril of her outwit bloodthirsty assassins sworn to belief in nothingness; and confront at last the degrading evil and incredible power of the ...
BOLT WAS A WANTED MAN... WANTED BY HIS FAMIIY, THE LAW -- AND BY A WHOLE LOT OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN!San Francisco should be big enough and rich enough to support another bawdy house--especially one being run by Jared Bolt. But getting girls to staff it s...
AN OLD SUPERSTITION COMES TO LIFE Werewolves in Kansas? The Hungarian immigrants on Starbuck land were convinced that the legendary creatures had followed them to America. But Jessie and Ki smell a rat -- and the cartel that murdered Jessie's fath...
WAGONS WEST Rugged pioneer trails led them across snowy mountain peaks to the grassy plains of big-sky country. Rich mines of fabulous gold lured dreamers and desperados to stake their claims in this lawless territory. There, brave ranchers fought...
EVERYONE WANTED SKYE FARGO'S HIDE After a beautiful young girl was kidnapped and killed by a coldblooded murderer, Skye Fargo swore a blood oath of vengeance. But the killer's trail led through Sioux Territory -- lair of the most dangerous, dead...
The 1942 Japanese invasion of two of the Aleutian Islands, the thousand-mile archipelago west of Alaska, represents the only time in modern history that American territory has been occupied by a foreign power. The ensuing fifteen-month campaign, memo...
KEY WEST The lush, tropical island simmering in never-ending summer. Home to the Trents, four generations of plantation royalty, consumed by a passion for wealth and power, cherishing their immortal name and their secret sins... ABIGAIL is the ma...
COULD LOVE PREVAIL IN A HOUSE THAT BROUGHT EVIL TO THREE GENERATIONS? WHAT DESTINY AWAITED LOVE IN A HOUSE CURSED BY FATE? The Old Priory had stood abandoned, shrouded in whisperings of doom, for as long as the townspeople could remember. Now i...
One man is mentally linked to an alien who is spearheading an invasion of Earth; a group of soldiers fight to win new space for Earth; and a small group of men fight against a machine that controls all life....
Spanish seminarian Julián Escobar, known to the Mayas as Lord Kukulcán and worshipped as a god, witnesses the fall of the Mayan and Incan civilizations with the coming of Cortés and Pizarro....
In this novel by A Wrinkle in Time author Madeleine L'Engle, Philippa is miserable at an all girls' boarding school in Switzerland . . . until she meets the mysterious Paul.Flip feels miserable when she first arrives at boarding school in Switzerland...
Join Arthur and celebrate the holidays with three favorite Arthur Adventures! In Arthur's Valentine, Arthur has a mysterious secret admirer. For Presidents' Day, Arthur delivers his winning essay to the President with a little help from his sister D....
They're friends to the end and Nell is definitely the living end! Schuyler Sweet is anything but. Ask anybody. Like Betty and Rowena -- they've been pals with Schuyler through more Maine-iac years than you can count. But even Betty and Rowena don't ...
The publication of 'Aurora Dawn' in 1947 immediately established Herman Wouk as a novelist of exceptional literary and historical significance. Today, Aurora Dawn's themes have grown still more relevant and, in the manner of all great fiction, its ch...
Amanda Caulden led a sheltered life on her father's California ranch -- until the day Hank Montgomery stormed into town. A hot-blooded union organizer with a taste for ladies and fine champagne, he sensed the fire that smoldered beneath her prim, vir...
It is summer... a heat wave... tense, uneasy days in the city. There are ominous signs of political turbulence in the dying years of the twentieth century. Welfare benefits are under attack, but women are fighting back, using unorthodox weapons. Lynn...
At the tender age of twelve, Bessie is exiled to Siberia because of her brothers' anti-czarist activities. At twenty-five, she loses her husband and baby girl to the ravages of civil war in revolutionary Russia. At forty, she faces down Nazi ho...
What happens when a weekend athlete - of average skill at best - joins the professional golf circuit? George Plimpton, who had earlier tried out for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (in Paper Lion) and got a chance to pitch to a team...
Nine short mysteries starring Hawkeye Collins and Amy Adams, two twelve-year-old sleuths who solve mysteries using Hawkeye's sketches of important clues. The reader is invited to solve the mystery before the solution is presented....
A rediscovered masterpiece: an unblinking view of the Holocaust through a child’s eyes Told from the perspective of a child slowly awakening to the atrocities surrounding him, Childhood is a searing story of the Holocaust that no reader will soon f...
The experiences of four-year-old Simon at the close of World War II, including his uncle's death and his father's return from a Japanese prison camp, are presented completely from Simon's point of view...
In spite of having all the advantages money can provide, high-school senior Jenny sees little point in life until she volunteers to play the piano for a senior citizens' band and receives the benefit of elderly wisdom....
An acclaimed critic examines the work and accomplishment of the writers of the Irish Literary Revival--Yeats, Joyce, Synge, Beckett, O'Casey, O'Brien, and others--and the causes, circumstances, and ramifications of that Revival...
When Hollywood's most celebrated director arrives to make a film in the primitive interior of southern Mexico, the project is complicated by relations among the people involved, including the director's wife and his mistress...
For the millions who have already ventured to Middle-earth, and for the countless others who have yet to embark on the journey"here is the one indispensable A-to-Z guide that brings Tolkien’s universe to life.
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Set in rural Ireland, John McGahern''s second novel is about adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted by both puritanical state religion and a strange, powerful and ambiguous relationship between son and wi...
Kane - indestructible swordsman, invincible sorcerer, immortal wanderer through strange worlds. Efrel, Empress of Pellin, seeks vengeance on the King of Thovnos and chooses Kane as her champion....
Old Mr Quenenden seems not to have an enemy in the world: having retired to a cottage in Berkshire, he leads an idyllic life breeding tropical plants. Which is why it comes as a complete shock when his body is discovered in his greenhouse - murdered....
A mischievous, gratuitous intrigue on the part of a defected English official in Moscow places his actress daughter in mortal danger and involves several KGB and MI5 officers, an impoverished British playboy, and a psychopathic Russian film director...
Rich Morgan, Washington bureau chief for a major national newspaper, flies south for Senator Hunt Anderson's funeral. In trying to draw together the strands of trust, love, and betrayal that had bound him to the Senator - and to the Senator's elegant...
Outraged by America's refusal to stop Hitler's Final Solution and blaming the nation for the death of his family in a Nazi concentration camp, Niccolo Levi sets out to assassinate President Franklin Roosevelt...
Wilderness Patrol fficer Pamela Tate, scouting in the mountains of Washington, sees and touches a ground squirrel in the dusty path, blood trickling from its mouth. Forty-eight hours later she lies dead at her campsite, covered in mysterious welts an...
This is the first book in the "Funnybones" series and introduces the skeletons - a big skeleton, a little skeleton and a dog skeleton. They live in a dark dark cellar of a dark dark house on a dark dark hill and so the word repetition continues throu...
Fourteen-year-old Tish continues her diary recording the trials and tribulations of the six months between January and June in 1901....
Follows the course of American history through one Connecticut family, tracing the lives of the descendants of John Collins and Virginia Taylor, who establish a home in the New England wilderness in 1636...
IN THE WINK OF AN EYE is a modern fable in the form of a novel. Or a romantic satire. Or a social burlesque. Or an ironic fantasy. Or all of the above. Whatever the label, it's a joy to read. This tale is about a revolution--a small, upstart, n...
There is a war being fought inside University Hospital -- between passion and reason, honor and ambition, life and death! Lars Magnussen has a thriving law practice, a house on the water, two cars in the garage, a beautiful wife, two nice kids. ...
Here are Lorraine Hansberry's last three plays--Les Blancs, The Drinking Gourd, and What Use Are Flowers?--representing the capstone of her achievement. Includes a new preface by Jewell Gresham Nemiroff and a revised introduction by Margaret B. Wilke...
A lonely art historian absorbed in her research seizes the opportunity to share in the joys and pleasures of the lives of a glittering couple, only to find her hopes of companionship and happiness shattered....
Before the movie, this is the novel that gave life to Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John, Hot Lips Houlihan, Frank Burns, Radar O'Reilly, and the rest of the gang that made the 4077th MASH like no other place in Korea or on earth. The doctors who worked in...
An exhilarating, brutal, comedic masterpiece -- an American classic that will “leave you so giddy you’ll go and kick sand in somebody’s face” (Houston Post) When My Search for Warren Harding, Robert Plunket’s glittering story of literary sl...
When the Bobbsey Twins set off to visit a famous museum in Washington, D.C., they find themselves on the trail of an intriguing mystery that begins with a laughing dinosaur! They pay little attention to it until Flossie makes a puzzling discovery tha...
1980 edition- Feels like an unread copy. Clean copy, no rips, tears, stray marks or writing in the book. Normal shelf and edge wear from handling. Light foxing (tanning) to pages. Satisfaction guaranteed!...
Inspired by the legends of the Dark Ages, The Phoenix and the Mirror is the story of the mighty Vergil-not quit the Vergil of our history books (the poet who penned The Aeneid), but the Vergil conjured by by the medieval imagination: hero, alchemist,...
Published in 1967, we return to Port William during the Second World War to revisit Jayber Crow, the barber, Uncle Stanley, the gravedigger, Jarrat and Burley, the sharecroppers, and Brother Preston, the preacher, as well as Mat Feltner, his wife Mar...
Some people see the world in just two colours - black and white. Philip Browne is an artist. To him the world is a mixing pot of different colours, each as fascinating as the other. A West Indian in London, Philip's life is punctuated by the daily hu...
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • Frank and April Wheeler are a bright, beautiful, talented couple in the 1950s whose perfect suburban life is about to crumble in this "moving and absorbing story” (The Atlantic Monthly) from one of the most acclaime...
Louie Banks has it made.He's got a starting spot on the football team, good friends, and a smart, beautiful girlfriend who loves him as much as he loves her.Early in the fall, he sees all his ideas of fair play go up in smoke; by spring, what he care...
A FATAL MISTAKE Tonight Janney Fraser is turning off the highway to drive home on the winding back roads, her mind filled with thoughts of leaving Holly Oaks, North Carolina…of finding help for Ross, her crippled stepson…of meeting a man to re...
Considered one of the greatest short story writers of her generation, Katherine Mansfield was a modernist writer from New Zealand. This collection includes thirty-five of her most popular stories. In this volume you will find the following stories: &...
Nina always thought that if just one person would love her perfectly and completely, she’d never be alone again Nina’s the first person in her family to leave home and go to college. Maybe that’s why she feels so isolated once she gets there, e...
Fourteen-year-old Enid Crowley can't stand her name. When she takes a summer job babysitting young Joshua W. Cameron IV, Enid decides it's time for a change: she calls herself Cynthia, and Joshua becomes Tom Terrific. Every day they're off to Boston'...
A suave high school drama coach is at the bottom of fourteen-year-old Debbie's withering relationships with her older sister, her best friend, and short, witty Murray, whose friendship had been very special to her....
The youngest, least-favored member of an Eastern European Jewish family, Tzili is considered an embarrassment by her parents and older siblings. Her schooling has been a failure, she is simple and meek, and she seems more at home with the animals in ...
Linda Sutcliffe finds her devotion to her smug husband fraying, discovers his infidelity, throws him out and--vacillating between forgiveness and revenge--moves toward personal change and satisfaction...
"I CAN GIVE YOU WHATEVER YOU ASK FOR ONLY FIFTY CENTS." The people of Coven Tree are no strangers to magic. In fact, the town's very name comes from a gnarled old tree where covens of witches used to gather. Even now, imps and fiends continue to a...
DAW Books paperback original (1983). Includes the stories: "They Come and Go" by Joel Hagen; "Cat Tale" by Vicki Ann Heydron; "Bedtime Story" by Anodea Judith; "Wrong Number" by James Ian Elliot; "The Bardic Revel" essay by Marion Zimmer Bradley; "Fr...
In the lands of the True Game, your lifelong identity will emerge as you play. Prince or Sorcerer, Armiger or Tragamor, Demon or Doyen... Which will it be?...
One long time ago, Pretty Pearl god child lived high on a mountaintop in Africa with all other gods. Curious about mankind and itching to show off her powers, she came down off the mountain with her brother, know-all best god John de Conquer, and ...
BOND IS BACK -- BETTER THAN EVER! SPECTRE IS BACK, TOO -- James Bond thought he had destroyed SPECTRE years ago. He was wrong. Now he is assigned to smash the most evil force on earth once and for all, with all his usual deadly skills and all his ...
Auric Goldfinger: cruel, clever, frustratingly careful. A cheat at canasta and a crook on a massive scale. The sort of man James Bond hates. So it's fortunate that Bond is the man charged by both the Bank of England and MI5 to discover what this, the...
Reid seemed to take over her life. Her ailing mother liked him yet beneath his great charm, Diana sensed Reid was a hard tough man whose success had not been easily acquired. By his own admission his motives were always based on self-interest. So...
What do you do when you discover your husband isn't what he seemed to be? Barbara Collins is a prosecuting attorney for the city of St Paul, Minnesota. At 33, she's been devoted to her work and has never had a serious relationsjip with a ...
MIXED MEDIA . . . Monica left the chill of Chicago for the heat of New Orleans and hey old career as a photographer for a new one as a journalist. Her prose could bring her prizes, but 1 greatest prize of all was one that only her heart could e...
WORKING FOR LOVE Anne Fairchild had made it a rule never to get involved with, the boss. So when the president of Manning Consultants asked her to be a live-in companion for his younger sister, she vowed to resist his magnetic charms. But livin...
In this fast, steamy novel by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer, residents of a seemingly picture perfect New England town struggle to hide their shocking secrets . . . until they can no longer. From his position behind the pulpit, Rever...
He was obstinate, rude, primitive-and the most dangerously attractive man Megan Jonas had ever met. rom their first explosive encounter rugged farmer Alan McDonald Had peeled away her sophisticated businesswoman's veneer, had penetrated her cool self...
She thought of him as her father's friend Matthew Wilder had been a brilliant medical researcher who had suddenly disappeared from Joanna's life. Her memory of him was vague. When they finally met again on a remote Florida key, he bore ...
Carrie Thorne was intrigued by Morgan King's paintings -- and even more fascinated by the artist himself. His turbulent past and reclusive present aroused her journalist's instincts, while his seductive appeal reawakened her long-dormant desi...
Beautiful Kali Havelock was all business. As VP of Interaction Automation, Inc., she was determined to outsmart the competition and corner the rights to the most advanced industrial robots...robots invented by the impossibly brilliant, outrageously h...
Set against the glitter of Manhattan society is "one of the most acute and serious novels on the theme of modern relationships in the last decade...Hobshouse has leapt into a rare class of novelist-as-social historian that was the metier of Jane Aust...
It had been so easy... easy to give in to his hungry kisses, his urgent passion, and her own desperate longing.... But the aftermath had been the most difficult experience of her young life. Kate Austin had fled the past, determined to deny the re...
Was he her salvation or her destruction? Dark, foreign and satanic-looking, Vittorio had appeared abruptly when Marina's life was at its lowest ebb, whisking her away from gloomy London to a Mediterranean paradise. He was like some demon lo...
"You? My new assistant? What sort of joke is this?" To Dr. Elyn Scott, it was no joke at all -- it was a cruel twist of fate. She had applied to the Khalifa Clinic in Egypt partly because of her ex-fiance's accusation that ambition had...
Haunted by her past. Sandy Carver worked to build a new life. One with no room for love. Carl Van Helmut saw something in Sandy that cried out to him. That left him longing to make her life -- and his -- complete. When the past came back to tor...
"Don't underrate yourself," Gavin said But Sophy's lifetime habit was hard to break. After all, if family and friends thought you were a dimwit, what chance did you have? Sophy had arrived at Gavin Tighe's home raging to con...
LOVE'S FIRES REKINDLED Fate had first united them eleven years before in a brief, explosive encounter. But lightning was about to strike twice as Chloe MacDaniel, now a geological consultant, and Ross Stephenson, real estate developer, found t...
They were forbidden to see each other... Patti's been hoping Tim will notice her, but it's purely accidental when she backs into his car in the school parking lot. Boy, is she embarrassed. But instead of being angry, Tim asks her for a date. It's th...
SHE WOULD BE RICH AND FAMOUS! When Michal Brent, a talented young jewelry designer, was offered a free trip to Sri Lanka, she could not believe her good fortune. Now she could buy unusual and beautiful stones, which she would set herself and sell ...
When the dashing stranger grabbed Thea Todd off the sunny Viennese street, she thought her life was in peril. Then she looked into his dark eyes, and she feared instead for her heart. Her abductor was famous T.V. producer Wolfgang Eckhert, and he had...
His was a terrible vengeance Alannah's thoughtlessness when she was sixteen had caused an accident with tragic consequences. Then, three years later, when she'd finally come to terms with the past, she was painfully reminded of her guilt. ...
HER MOTHER NEEDED HER Gwenivere Lacrosse had decided. So she took a vacation from her demanding New York job with prestigious Style Magazine to go home to Louisiana. Gwen was sure that her mother had been duped by the successful and unscrupulous au...
Was she only as alluring as her money? Fiona's position as chief executive officer of MacKay International Hotels was immensely satisfying. Her wealth and power drew many suitors, but their unwanted claims of love were pitifully transparent. O...
SHE COULDN'T RUN FROM LOVE. When Aidan Elliot's wedding plans dissolved into disappointment, she jumped at the chance to escape by accepting a position as secretary to famed author Guy Desailley on his tropical island retreat. It seemed p...
Deb was devastated when she heard the news... A move from a small town to a big city can certainly change a person's life, especially when you're sixteen and don't like the idea. Soon she found that there was more to it than just changing schools and...