Val Fleury -- Vale of Flowers -- in the West Indies Island of Santa Rita was an idyllic home for Penny Foster. Its bliss was marred for Penny, however, when she learned that her stepsister Gloria was descending on the island. It was not only that...
When Paul Freemantle dropped her to get engaged to another girl, Margaret Masters entered into a "pretence" engagement to Giles Ormby to save face. But then Paul's fiancee jilted him. Just where did that leave Margaret now? Hero: P...
He had no right to interfere! Drina had saved a long time for her cruise on the 'Andromeda.' And it would have been perfect if Scott Carlyon hadn't been aboard, with his low opinion of women, and Englishwomen in particular. When his grandfather offer...
Miranda was in the unhappy position of being married to one man while loving another. But Sim was such a kind and affectionate husband that the marriage might yet have work out had Jeff not come back into their lives again. Hero: Simon "Si...
Spine is uncreased with some rubbing, former owner's name is written on inside page, covers have a bit of edgewear, a couple of dog ears on the back, otherwise pages are bright, tight, clean and unmarked....
Simoni knew she would just never get on with Kent Travers. True, he was a pilot and so in a position of authority over her -- but did he have to be quite so tyrannical, so unreasonable? And as luck would have it, efficient as Simoni was for most of t...
Exciting adventures come to the two lively young Dana sisters when they undertake to solve a mystery at Starburst School, where they are students. It all starts when Professor Crandall receives an anonymous note warning him not to remove the valua...
Rabbi David Small is back. The man who can see the third side of any question. This time he's on a private exodus to Israel to soothe his soul. He just wants to soak up the local scene, sit in the park, talk to the kids, go to the synagogue or (here...
For wealthy vacationers, luxurious Cypress Lodge meant a joyful holiday in the sun. But for lovely Pamela Warren, who came to work there, the glamorous Florida resort meant an escape from a difficult, dangerous decision. Pamela was fleeing New Yor...
Samantha was twenty one before she learned that her mother was not, as she had always been told, dead, but very much alive and a famous and glamorous actress. So she was whisked off to London and a new and very different life, with a hard, selfish mo...
A scintillating novel of fate, accidents, and moral dilemmasSet in the time of the Vietnam War, this story concerns the plight of a young American, happily installed in a perfect job in England, engaged to a wonderful girl, who is suddenly drafted to...
When Sheriff Pete Handy and his half Indian son are bringing in a prisoner, they find a badly wounded Indian in chains on display in the window of the hardware store. Set in the West in 1872....
Publisher: Viking
Date of Publication: 1972
Binding: hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Viking Press , NY , 1972 First edition 246 page hardcover in dust jacket. A near fine copy with light dust soiling to...
"The Talisman" is a novel by Sir Walter Scott. It was published in 1825 as the second of his "Tales of the Crusaders", the first being "The Betrothed". "The Talisman" takes place at the end of the Third Crusade, mostly in the camp of the Crusaders in...
First published in 1962, this is the biography of American journalist, novelist and screenwriter Adela Rogers St. Johns’ father, Earl Rogers, a renowned Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer in the early 20th century.St. Johns draws on a succession o...
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Marco Vassi was possibly the greatest erotic writer of his generation. His first publisher at Olympia Press, Maurice Girodius, compares his talent of prose to Henry Miller's writing. His sexual explorations and literary talent are the foundations of ...
All her life Johanna Coleman had been used to getting her own way where men were concerned, and now that she had decided she wanted to go on this exciting expedition among the lagoons of northern Australia's Timor Sea she didn't anticipate mu...
Sue had loved Barry, but he had married her best friend. Now they were both dead, leaving two small children, who obviously needed love and care -- and who better to look after them than Sue? But what about this grim uncle of theirs?...
Twenty and two. Those are the numbers turning in the mind of William "Bumper" Morgan: twenty years on the job, two days before he "pulls the pin" and walks away from it forever. But on the gritty streets of L.A., people look at Bumper like some kind ...