Pursued by Ghastly Horror! The severe shock of her parents' brutal deaths had plunged Helen into a world of psychiatrists and treatment at the Villa de Valle clinic. Now free to return to their shadowy old mansion, the scene of the gruesome mu...
Would their father take the job? Eavesdropping as the offer was made, Clare and Richard were at first sure he would not. His long illness made it necessary that he find a job less tiring than the one he had in the city. But, to be an accountant for a...
A Practical and Creative Approach to Science Fiction in the Classroom including Essay, Bibliography, Categories, Projects&Ideas and In-depth analyses and discussion of 15 Classic science Fiction titles....
Collection of 9 stories with an introduction by the author. Contents: Stories by Poul Anderson (except as noted): Wings of Victory; The Long Remembering; Peek! I See You!; Murphy's Hall, by Karen Anderson and Poul Anderson; The Pirate; Goat Song (Win...
Newly arrived on Planet Anderson Two just before Christmas, Jonathan is warned about the dangerous native inhabitants but an accidental meeting with one of the natives convinces him that they are friendly and peaceful....
Fighting for reason and right against the Devil and his disciples. Thirteen naked figures writhed in the pale, wan moonlight. A coven in the heart of Manhattan, practicing the rites of the devil. Sister Sorrow, the Bride of Lucifer, led them. Her hyp...
Is eternal life a blessing or a curse? That is what young Winnie Foster must decide when she discovers a spring on her family's property whose waters grant immortality. Members of the Tuck family, having drunk from the spring, tell Winnie of their ex...
When a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he ...
When a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he ...
New York Timesâ€"bestselling author Stephen Becker’s “breathlessly exciting†(Cosmopolitan) post-WWII adventure about an ex-marine on the run for his life.That summer they hanged a fat man at the Western gate as a warning and example to all. &...
A classic fantasy/mystery from critically acclaimed novelist John BellairsLewis thought the amulet would bring him good luck--instead, it brought nothing but evil.Lewis is sure that Grandpa Barnavelt's 1859 lucky coin is really a magic talisman in di...
MARIANNE The bold and fiery temptress who counts among her lovers a Prince of Italy and the great Napoleon himself! MARIANNE ...whose life is a sweeping canvas of tragedy and romance, love and despair. We meet her once again as she is rescue...
Eleven-year-old Gilbert, self-styled private eye, takes on his toughest case when he finds a duck in the elevator of his housing project. In this easy-to-read mystery, "the solution is credible, the plot is fresh, the style casual and natural."--Bull...
Sweeping through the Small Magellanic Cloud, leaving a trail of ravished worlds and destroyed civilization, is the Udef -- the Unidentified Death Force. The best scientific minds of two galaxies can make nothing of it. The Udef is invisible. No scien...
When lovely Cary Lorrimer found herself stranded in France with neither a job nor money, she could only accept the fortune that fate bestowed upon her.. And fortune was a man named Adrian Veriard, handsome, wealthy, and ready to offer Cary the positi...
Two strangers, by chance, are brought together for a moment out of time. Both in the midst of acute personal crises, they draw the strength from this brief encounter to reconstruct their shattered lives. The woman is Rose Menusier, attractive midthir...
THE GYPSIES CALLED HER BLOOD EMERALD But even her name was lost when she was brutally driven from their camp. The red-headed beauty suffered a complete loss of memory. Only sinister hints reached her about her past. Despite the violent opposi...
A wide-ranging series of essays on military leaders, ancient and modern, whose actions and personalities provide insights into the interplay of time, circumstance, and individual character and ability that makes for success or failure. The authors co...
THEY WERE STARCROSSED -- IN LOVE AND OUTER SPACE "The Starcrossed" It was the perfect 21st century program, with the perfect cast of characters: he, the virile, fearless sky-hero--she, an exquisite, otherworldly maid. On camera, they would brav...
Marjorie Bowen (pseudonym of Mrs Gabrielle Margaret Campbell) (1 November 1885 - 23 December 1952) was a British author who wrote historical romances, supernatural horror stories, popular history and biography.Her total output numbers over 150 volume...
Ray Bradbury's moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author's most deeply personal work, a semi-autobiographical recollection of a magic...
Ray Bradbury is a painter who uses words rather than brushes--for he created lasting visual images that, once observed, are impossible to forget. Sinister mushrooms growing in a dank cellar. A family's first glimpse at Martians. A wonderful white van...
At twelve I was a man, at twenty-one I was a gunfighter... I didn't know that the people in town thought of me as a gunman, since it was my job to protect Chandler's store and the only way I knew how many men I'd killed, and that most of those men ha...
The imposing Spaniard, Don Rambn de Biver y Aldenez, had once been an important and romantic figure in Venetia's young life. Years later, in his own country, they met again. Now all his thoughts were for his tragic young fiancee, and it was unlike...
Professional diver, Theo W. Brown discusses his history and research about sharks that began in 1980 when he witnessed the mauling of a young friend by a Whaler Shark. Prompted by this attack, he began the search for an effective shark repellent. Thi...
A story of girl who was dismissed as a nobody and compared to her exceptionally pretty cousins. Nicola had grown accustomed to being compared to her exceptionally pretty cousins and dismissed as a nobody. It would, of course, be nice to be noticed...
Vitorina's escort from Lisbon to London wore a cloak of respectability which convinced the child's father and aunts, but even before the ten-year-old girl had made her disconcerting discovery of his theft from the rich, private chapel of her home, sh...
The magnificent, sensuous Empress of Atlantis expected the foreign ambassadors. She even knew their mission. If she would wed their Emperor, Atlantis would be protected from invasion. She loathed the man, but had to reckon with his enormous power. ...
After 1912, when the great cattle empires began to crumble, hundreds of seasoned cowboys found themselves jobless. A handful of discarded horsemen, however, stumbled upon an entirely new frontier-Hollywood. In a rare insider’s view, Diana Serra ...
In the eyes of mid-twentieth-century white America, ?Aiiieeeee!? was the one-dimensional cry from Asian Americans, their singular expression of all emotions?it signified and perpetuated the idea of Asian Americans as inscrutable, foreign, self-hat...
Kevin O'Toole, playing in a tennis tournament, meets a talking pigeon who turns out to be his great uncle and gives him tennis tips....
Stranded on an alien planet, light years from home, wandering from blistering heat to searing cold, Nils Kruger was not a happy man. So when he met another being—even though it wasn''t human—things seemed to be looking up. The alien mi...
Zebra Books, 2nd printing 1977. First novel in the "Dream Lords" series, which also includes "Lord of Nightmares" (1975) and "Bane of Nightmares" (1976). Cole is a British author of Lovecraftian fantasy, sword & sorcery and other works, many aimed at...
Romantic suspense set in Ireland. Holly was given a chance at an elegant way of life after the gift from her father, but it had also marked her for death. It was sheer accident that Holly had been given the chance to become part of the elegant way...
ull of irresistible romance and laugh-out-loud moments, this is perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes, Marian Keyes, Dolly Alderton and Jane Fallon.-----------------------------------If Emily hadn't gone to Annie Richmond's party, she would never have met t...
The Long March was an extraordinary feat of human endurance. Lin-Wai, a young doctor newly recruited into the Red Army, is caught up in the breakout of the followersof Mao and their ensuing flight. The marchers struggle on through pain and suffering,...
Lissa Fairfax wasn't quite sure whether she wanted to marry the attractive Frenchman, Paul de Gue. So she gladly accepted his invitation to visit the family chateau and meet his relatives. Unfortunately this also involved meeting the austere ...
Jenny had naively succumbed to one man's charms--and had been bitterly disillusioned. Then, seeking refuge with her sister, Sheila, in Wyoming's ski country, she ran from one disastrous situation to another! Determined to protect her siste...
"You've taken the world on your shoulders." Zachary's voice was a soft, caressing whisper that was oddly soothing and hypnotic. "You've made Chris your sole responsibility and refuse help from everyone. Haven't you ever wa...
Rianna accompanied her brother to Sicily to join an underwater expedition in the hope of finding something of interest for a travel article she intended to write. But the uncompromising Holford Sinclair, leader of the expedition, made it clear tha...
A SCANDALOUSLY UNCONVENTIONAL MIND OF HER OWN Bewitching young Lady Pamela Frayne had but one fault--a fault grave enough to make her the talk of glittering London society. This exasperatingly headstrong beauty refused to heed the best advice or a...
The cult classic allegory of a man’s search for enlightenment and self-knowledge by the French poet and literary critic.In Mount Analogue, Rene Daumal introduces readers to an anonymous protagonist much like himself: a young author who travels in t...
Given that the suns of Draco stretch almost sixteen light years from end to end, it stands to reason that the cost of transportation is the most important factor of the 32nd century. And since Illyrion is the element most needed for space travel, Lor...
Beautiful Sylvia Kaye and another young woman had been seen hitching a ride not long before Sylvia's bludgeoned body is found outside a pub in Woodstock, near Oxford. Morse is sure the other hitchhiker can tell him much of what he needs to know. But ...
Lucy Brown was delighted when a kindly lady arranged a job for her in a hospital-cum-children's home in Australia, and could hardly wait to get to Sydney and start her fascinating new job. But she arrived to find herself rather less than welco...
"See me when you grow up." In the patronizing way adults often use, Clem made this comment to Silver when she was little more than a child. Now she was a woman and had returned to the place where she had spent her childhood. Would Clem...
A novel of ideas, action, mystery, of human aspiration and self-destruction, set in Avignon. The moments of happiness experienced by the diplomat Piers de Nogaret, his sister Sylvie, and Bruce, the earnest English doctor, are fleeting in the face of ...
Good, Old-fashioned Science Fiction adventure at its best! An alien stranded in the north woods gives Rudolf and Flaherty a strain of bacteria which produces aluminum, allowing them to challenge the business establishment by becoming the world's l...
The beguiling tale of a penniless orphan who becomes a countess.... Lucinda Kendricks did not know who she was. After the stagecoach accident she had become a victim of amnesia. Suddenly she was the new countess of Glenbrooke. And Dareth Farringdon...
In the summer of his twenty-first year Brandon Rhodes came to Kingstree Island, a four-hour boat ride from the mainland and a tiny world unto itself. He found an easygoing, friendly people, a land where he could escape the memory of his mother's deat...
The most honored anthology of fantastic fiction ever published featuring the works of such luminaries as: Isaac Asimov * Robert Silverberg * Philip Jos, Farmer * Robert Bloch * Philip K. Dick * Larry Niven * Fritz Leiber * Poul Anderson * Damon Knigh...
The Reluctant Heiress When Sir Miles Heywood's eccentric will was read, his granddaughter Sara became not only the mistress of a great house, but the target of her greedy relatives' devious designs. After a lifetime of service to her grandfathe...
In The Ruins of Love… When Amanda Stewart boarded the plane for Mexico City, her only desire was to pick up Chris Jarrow’s new manuscript and take the next flight back to the shelter of her New York office. For Amanda was only too painfully aw...
PASSION AND INTRIGUE IN COLONIAL NORTH CAROLINA Anthony Dawson had broken hearts all over England. In North Carolina he found the one woman he wanted -- but she wouldn't return his love. George Burrington was North Carolina's most contr...
A great masterpiece by William Gaddis, with a new introduction by Rick Moody.
Winner of the 1976 National Book Award, J R is a biting satire about the many ways in which capitalism twists the American spirit into something more dangerous, ye...
Susanna Farebrother is eagerly awaiting her gala coming-out ball and the arrival of her Admiral father, who is due back from the sea. The headstrong lovely eighteen-year-old has also fallen in love with a dashing army captain. But it is her neighbo...
Tabitha Sackroyd, adopted daughter of a wealthy English family, had agreed to marry stuffy and arrogant Arnold Jarrett. Everyone assumed she should be very grateful. She was, after all, illegitimate. The secret of her past lay buried in shadows. Then...
Tarin had always dreamed of going back to Deepwater, where she had been happy as a child. Perhaps she had dreamed of once more meeting tier childhood hero, Darrel Bruce. Now she was going back, but as Darrel's secretary -- did that necessarily m...
When Sister John and Sister Hyacinthe set out to explore the huge old house left to The Abbey by a mysterious benefactor, they had no inkling of the bizarre adventures that awaited them. From the moment they set foot on the property, their world b...
Three short novels about space, happiness, and immortality. Science fiction hungers to see the infinite, from the infinitesimally small to the edges of the universe, and from the beginning of things to their final end. In three powerful short novels ...
Fate seemed to have smashed all young Leslie Jordan's dreams. Her father's illness had forced her to move to the Colorado Rockies, leaving behind her plans for college and for marriage to her childhood sweetheart. But once Leslie arrived a...
When attractive Don Ramon Eduardo de Cabrera y Molina told Lauren, at her own engagement party, that she didn't really love Roger Burden, she was furious. To make it even worse, Don Ramon insisted he was the right man for her. "It's de...
In the near future, there will only be corporations, comfort, conformity and Rollerball. In the very near future, they will produce a war every week during prime time and televise it to the rest of the world. They will call it Rollerball. Within the ...
HAD THE TERRORS OF THE PAST RETURNED TO HAUNT HER? It started as a simple deception, a change of name, a quick phone call, and lovely, twice-orphaned Chris Raines Conley was on her way to the old Hunicutt mansion, where her adoptive father had los...
The early career of Don Prudhomme is captured in this spine-tingling account of the 1973 Nationals at Indianapolis Raceway Park. Master writer Hal Higdon spent the race weekend shadowing Prudhomme during a race that was the turning point in The Snake...
On a remote jungle island, a scientist toys with cryogenics and brain transplants Horseshoe Island lies just a few miles off the coast of Baja California, Mexicoimpossibly far from the laws of the United States. Here, a doctor named Hobbes has bu...
Judy Somers had well and truly burned her boats when she went out to Morocco to marry Glenwell Grant, against the wishes of her family. Where was she to turn when she realized that another woman was threatening her marriage? Hero: Heroine: Jud...
Trouble begins small. Always try to talk your way out of the small trouble and thereby avoid losing the final, large argument. As he entered the fort, Cuchillo steeled himself for the abuse and verbal outrages that he would be automatically subjected...
The Taking of AT1: Before AT1 had ground down the slipway unchristened - rightly, said seamen, for it would be a ship with no soul - it had been dubbed 'Zombie'. That sinister name would stick and prove its accuracy. AT1 was a robot-ship, a ship with...
Two children struggle to survive alone in the Adirondack mountains in this riveting story for “adventure lovers of all agesâ€(Columbus Dispatch).“What I want to tell you is about Timothy and me, about that time in 1921, when we were lost for thr...
Not every girl would want to bury herself nowadays in a quiet, uneventful Scottish Highland glen, working on her father’s sheep farm, but Jan Reid loved it, and wouldn’t want to spend her life in any other way. Until the arrival of a stranger in ...
Young and beautiful Augusta Merrihew fled England and the strange evil that seemed to haunt her. In the new world of America she hoped to find the happiness and safety that so long had eluded her. When she met handsome and dashing Joshua Phenwick,...
Young Margaret O'Plaggerty had been in love with Daniel Phenwick since she was a little girl. Even when he was given up for lost in the Revolutionary War, her devotion did not waver, and his return to the great mansion of Phenwick House to claim her ...
Startlingly lovely Rachel Phenwick knew that somehow she was not like other girls. It was not only that she was a Phenwick, heiress to the Phenwick wealth, and to the Phenwick curse. But as she passed the borderline between childhood and young womanh...
UNEARTHLY BEAUTY AND UNHOLY POWER Spellbound, Susannah Phenwick stared at the fabulous sapphire known as the Raja Eye. Stolen from a sacred Indian temple of the occult, transported over the seas by a man who had died cursing the day he had seen it...
Why did Leonardo da Vinci lavish three years on painting the second wife of an unimportant merchant when all the nobles of Europe were begging for a portrait by his hand? In E. L. Konigsburg's intriguing novel, the answer lies with the complex relati...
Rosamond Lehmann’s first novel, now a classic of British literature, tells a luminous story of friendship, discovery, and forbidden love This debut novel, set in the early 1900s, tells the story of Judith Earle, a solitary only child growing up in...
An account of the trials and tribulations, optimism and pride experienced and sustained by the author's family in their crisis-ridden, one-year venture operating an independent bus company in 1940s Kansas...
When Erica went to work in Venice she had never dreamed that she would end up by falling in love with the attractive, immensely rich Conte Filippo Rosetti. And Filippo's close friend Claudia Medina, it soon appeared, was going to see to it tha...
"A big book, rich in themes, rich in diversity, rich in fidelity to the thoroughly American grain from which it was hewn. Â The people in it speak an earthy tongue. . . . At their best they are a tribute to Ernest Lockridge's ability to c...
Sir Godfrey Tallboys was a knight-errant, famous for his success at tourneys, but far from wealthy. In an attempt to make his fortune he left his wife Sybilla and travelled to Spain to fight a minor crusade against the Moors. But treachery lurked in...
“Don’t ever begin a [Robert] Ludlum novel if you have to go to work the next day.†-- Chicago Sun-Times War hero and infamous ladies’ man General MacKenzie Hawkins is a living legend. His life story has even been sold to Hollywood. But n...
Ruth had to go to Antigua to search for her missing sister, and a lot was going to depend on a man called Logan Carse. Logan, she was told, "Could be a gentleman or a pirate". If he turned out to be a pirate, which seemed likely, how could she man...
Andy had married Richard Maddox as a matter of expediency, but it did not take her long to fall in love with him. When tragedy struck Richard, Andy hoped that at last he would turn to her; but something -- or someone -- else started to threaten th...
The famous sex therapists offer advice, supplemented by five group discussions, on how mutual commitment, responsibility, and trust, can sustain and intensify a couple's sexual attraction and satisfaction...
She was no longer a schoolgirl. These past few weeks had made her a woman. But what point was there in remaining at Paradiablo? Declan despised her for revealing her immature feelings so openly; Clare no doubt found the whole affair unutterably amusi...
ESCAPE FROM EARTH They were the new breed of humans. Scientists called them paranormals. Enemies called them parans. And nowhere on Earth was safe for them when the brutal program of paran extermination began. Far from Earth they founded their ...
Michelle used the legacy she had received to travel out to South Africa and see her brother and his wife who had settled on a farm there. She certainly wasn't expecting to find romance! But when she came up against Lyle Cunningham she realized tha...
Barbara Fisher just wants to be ordinary. She certainly doesn't want to be called a nut. But what's going on? Every time she tries to do something interesting, like sign up for tennis class or take over her brother's paper route, it turns out to be f...
One hell of a good suspense story . . . Mills's book is a spellbinder, ironic in its implications, explosively dramatic in its narrative. — The New York TimesThe youngest detective on the New York City police force, Bo Lockley is eager to ...
In the South Bronx--or El Bronx, as it's known to the people who live there--anything can happen. A migrant from Puerto Rico can become somebody on the mainland, pursue the American Dream--and maybe even make it come true. Harsh, happy, scary, sad, a...
On a weekend visit to Carmel, California, sober and respectable Anthony Maloney has an extraordinary dream which is to change the pattern of his entire life. He dreams that outside his hotel window, on a previously empty parking-lot, an open-air mark...
HINDU UNTO OTHERS Maharaji Gupta Mahesh Dor -- chubby teenaged guru and video game whiz -- has been collecting an odd assortment of nubile western nymphets and brainwashed Baptist ministers to help bring his divine message of love to the world. Bu...
--Los Angeles A pacific global airways jumbojet carrying 187 passengers and 14 crew members was highjacked at one thirty PM (PST) today. It had just taken off from Los Angeles International Airport for Honolulu. The highjacker has threatened to shoot...
AN OFFER SHE COULDN'T REFUSE... A nursing job in Holland was the only way Lavinia Hawkins could ensure a home and security for herself and her young sister, Peta. Yet within weeks of arriving she was married to the devastatingly handsome Profe...
Legal thought in this country has always focused on the rules rather than on the persons affected by the rules. Persons and Masks of the Law restores the balance by taking a person-centered view of the law. The author shows how even great jurists hav...
Vivid, disturbing, strangely coherent dreams haunted Ramsay Kimball's nights--dreams that hypnotically drove him to wreck his car . . . only to awaken in the alien world of his nightmares--a very real world, now, where he was Prince Kaskar of Ulad, t...
A young heir is drawn into a labyrinth of deception, death, and magical destiny in this bold adventure in the bestselling Witch World series. Kethan is heir to the throne of Car Do Prawn in the realm of Arvon—but there is little he has ...