"I cannot imagine," said Charlotte, "why you should want so unwilling a bride. With your money and your title, surely you can buy one that is willing?"' His fingers closed more tightly on hers, crushing them before he released ...
Misunderstood words and mistaken hearts... When a Regency lass falls on lean times, marriage looms as the only solution. And so Honoria Newcombe pledges herself to blond and bashful Alexander Blackwood. Alexander might make a most attractive husban...
JUST AN ORDINARY MAN Arthur Johnson. A small, neat, quiet creature of regular habits. Yet Arthur had strange secrets. He found delicious pleasure in venting his rage on his "white lady," the plastic mannequin in the cellar. And, he "murdered" aga...
"The secret of the entire world is whispered here at Eden...." Since time out of memory, Eden Castle had ridden the storm-swept Devon cliffs like a ghostly figurehead On a ship of the damned. He was the last Lord of Eden Castle, Thomas Eden, a man ...
Azure-winged magpies are beautiful and rare. Disturbed by a pair of them on a Spanish hill-side near the Portuguese frontier, Colin Shedfield and his beautiful young mistress follow the flight of the birds across a valley and discover four men diggin...
Somehow Rhoda had persuaded her twin sister Joan to switch identities while she finished urgent business in New York. The whole idea was crazy, though, for Joan would have to convince handsome Ray Slater, Rhoda’s fiancé, and their friends down in ...
She was the illegitimate daughter of an English aristocrat and a young and gentle governess. She was lovely, intelligent, and had a quality that drew all men to her, ensnaring them fatally in a web of charm. Stubborn in her loyalties, passionate in h...
Menolly--Mistress of Fire Lizards, Apprentice of Harper Hall Menolly arrived in triumph at the Harper Hall, aboard a bronze dragon. She had run away from home and lived in a cave, outrun the dread Threadfall, impressed nine fire lizards and writte...
Young Kevin Cartwright is the prisoner of a pirate king. "I shall find a way to get free." "Free!" he shouted. "You are here, with us now. You can forget about your father and your sister, or anybody else you may have known. You belong to no nati...
A pregnant woman who regards motherhood as a responsible, moral choice prepares for her child's birth by remarking upon and examining her ambivalent feelings toward herself, her society, and her unborn child...
Spending the summer with her increasingly remote aunt Kay in a two-hundred-year-old Scottish manor house, apprehensive Elizabeth Martin finds herself crossing into the eighteenth century and living the days of another Elizabeth. Robinsheugh stands...
SURELY GWENDOLYN CHANT WAS DESTINED FOR GREAT THINGS. Her magic was strong. Strong enough to gain the respect of all the witches and warlocks on Coven Street. Strong enough to draw the attention of the awesome Chrestomanci. Strong enough to get Gwen...
Middle-aged San Francisco horror writer Franz Westen is rediscovering ordinary life following a long alcoholic binge. Then one day, peering at his apartment window from atop a nearby hill, he sees a pale brown thing lean out his windowâ,¦and wave...
It's 1944 in New York City. Alan Silverman doesn't want to give up his stickball game for anyone-especially not for crazy-acting Naomi Kirshenbaum. But when he hears about her horrifying experience during the war in France, Alan changes his mind. ...
As children growing up in the English countryside, Henry Marshalson and Cato Forbes were inseparable. But, as time went on, their lives took different paths. For Henry, whose older brother would inherit his father’s estate, the United States called...
This exquisite, resonant novel by PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter is a brilliant portrait of a marriage by a contemporary American master. It is the story of Nedra and Viri, whose favored life is centered around dinners, ingenious games with their c...
A few words from a small-time informer suddenly reopen the unsolved murder of a girl four years before, as well as the unrecovered three quarters of a million pounds, intermittently stolen -- two cases which are somehow tied together. Detective I...
Slave City of Antares Never before in his adventurous career under the double suns of Antares had Dray Prescot been in as desperate a situation as he found himself on his second entry into the city of Magdag. Magdag had been the scene of one of Pr...
Somehow Rhoda had persuaded her twin sister Joan to switch identities while she finished urgent business in New York. The whole idea was crazy, though, for Joan would have to convince handsome Ray Slater, Rhoda’s fiancé, and their friends down in ...
INNOCENCE HAD NO PLACE AT THE ABBEY Young Elizabeth Mason had never seen the Abbey before she arrived to take up her post at the great estate. But from her first troubling moments in this place that held so much glamour in the present, so much dra...
A haunting blend of romance, mystery and ancient myth. Meraud’s innocent green eyes had seen too much for her tender years -- debauchery, cruelty and too little love in a glittering world of French finery. Then, when her wanton mother was murde...
Exquisite young Raine was sent to stay with her grandmother at villa in the South of France to recover from a reckless infatuation for Clifford Culver, a handsome philander. It all seemed so perfect -- the excitement of Cannes, the glittering blue Me...
AMERICA DEFENSELESS? A congressional committee investigates abuses by America's spy network and winds up gutting our nation's intelligence system. Suddenly the Russians are having a field day; their special killer teams roam Europe at will. American...
This is the first full biography of Elisabeth Medora Leigh - Libby - the daughter from Byron's passionate love affair with his half-sister Augusta. The scandal of Libby's birth, which reverberated through 19th Century society, involved not only the w...
If she remained in the old Florida mansion she was marked for death! Lovely Jannine Austin sensed trouble the moment she passed between the elegant stuccoed walls of Spaniard’s Gift. Legend surrounded the sumptuous Florida mansion, built by a we...
The raging romance of an aristocratic beauty and the two strong-willed men who loved her THREE DESTINIES INTERTWINE .. THREE LIVES SWEPT UP IN THE FURY OF THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION ... COURT SANDERS ... Yankee adventurer, tawny lion of a man who...
The fatal poisoning had happened more than twenty years before... Now the best-loved man in Little Forks was dead, victim of a cruel and senseless automobile accident. "Could it be a case of belated justice?" the doctor wondered to his ...
A holy man in an unholy bindWilliam Kaspar was not your everday sinner. Quite the reverse.William had renounced the pleasures of the flesh. He had quelled his ambitions and appetites. He had donned the robes of a Buddhist monk to search for Nirvana i...
Here, in his own words, is the true story of America's wildest flying hero, of his extraordinary heroism, and of his greatest battle of all -- the fight to survive.
The World War II air war in the Pacific needed tough men like Colonel Pappy Bo...
1970 - June - 4th Edition - Avon - #N215 - Paperback - The Landlord - By Kristin Hunter - Movie Tie In Edition - United Artists - Stars: Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey - VG Condition - Rare Collectible...
Sometimes the sky held only clouds, but at other times it could get quite busy. It could be full of sailing ships or bands of mounted warriors or even single figures strolling carefully across the empty air. From the viewpoint of those below they wer...
Unlike Drew Mallory's Target: Manhattan in which the city is being held for a five-milliondollar ransom, the going price here is an even 130 billion--that's what a group of Indian activists are demanding as back rent on Manhattan compounded over 350 ...
Those Crazy Twins! When her best friend moves away, Dorrie is sure that life will never be the same. To add to her woes, two creepy boys become her new neighbors. Haskell and Conrad are identical twins, and Dorrie soon decides that they are her mort...
In Travelers, Jhabvala examines the unlikely convergence of four wanderers: Asha, an imperious Indian widow, Raymond, a curious Englishman, Lee, an American looking for her spiritual core, and Gopi, an impressionable young student. With a mixture of ...
This is a story of the future of violence and dissent, of Maturity Centers that once were called colleges, of a dedicated and idealistic nation's sleepy drift into an alien and terrifying political system. The time is 1983, The country is the United ...
NEXT STOP THE STARS is a collection of Robert Silverberg's early short fiction. It includes: Slaves of the Star-Giants, a strong, colorful action-adventure tale; Hopper, a time-paradox story; and The Songs of Summer, Blaze of Glory, and Warm Man, thr...
Jade was puzzled by Tory McGrath's completely hostile attitude. After all, today was the first time she'd ever met him. "You may consider it a joke or a game, Miss Pascoe," Tory said grimly, but I heard you at the hotel last night,...
There is a charming superstition in the little wine-growing town of St. Emilion -- if an unmarried girl drops two pins into the fountain and the pins form a cross, she will be married within the year. But it seemed the magic of the patron saint was n...
Priscilla was enraged that the lordly Nikolaos Palaeologus thought her sister Prunella was a nobody, unfit to marry his younger brother. And just because Prunella was an actress! Well, Priscilla was an actress, too. She would go to Greece and teac...
Alathea nourished a long-standing grudge against Captain Simon Dexter. She wasn't at all pleased at the prospect of being on his flight crew -- especially as he proceeded to find fault with everything she did. So it came as quite a shock when she...
Joanna loved her Canary Island home and valued her old friendship with Ramon, the handsome and imperious Marques de Orleron y Faustino. But she still hoped to revisit London, her birthplace. Yet she felt reluctant to leave, because the beautiful Cand...
When her uncle was reported missing in Kenya, Annot was persuaded by her mother to go there in search of him. Annot wasn't very enthusiastic about the idea. She would have been even less enthusiastic if she had realized that the overbearing James...
Keely refused to miss this marvelous chance to advance her career. She was determined to be included in the botanical expedition up the Amazon so that she could photograph the search for the mysterious Fire Flower. But there was one snag. Greg Sti...
Vicky had only herself to blame. Agreeing so hastily to the proposal by Conrad de Jungh for a marriage of convenience was, in retrospect, foolish. Yet, what else could she have done? Only when they reached her new home on the remote South African ...
Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a command--until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant, there to mount an expedition against the French-held isla...
Mighty Conan in a fight to the death against the most dangerous fiends of the Hyborian Age! Hunting the swift stag and the tusked boar in the gloomy forests of the Gunderland Marches, Conan loses his son Conn to Thoth- Amon and the supremely evil ...
Research Alpha sought the answer to the ultimate intelligence -- and also to certain problems of other intelligent beings sharing our galaxy. Research Alpha sought the reason for humanity's very existence in a vast and apparently hostile cosmos. ...
Jill's excited about entering her basset hound, Fletcher, in the big dog show, so she and her best friend, Gwen, go to the library to learn about training dogs.
But they're puzzled and surprised to find that many pictures are cut out of the sp...
Louis's Scottish uncle brings him the birthday gift of a tadpole, plucked right out of Loch Ness. But it soon becomes clear that this "tadpole" is not turning into an ordinary frog! It'll take a little help from friends and a lot of ingenuity to feed...
HAUNTED HOLIDAY Anne encounters spirits far more troubled than her own when she's sent off to a small seaside village, away from her parents' disintegrating marriage. A dead man scrawls desperate messages to her in the dust. A demonic dog digs up ...
At first, the little shop and its strange owner seemed mysterious and exciting to Hester and her rich friend, Isabel. Then Isabel buys a ring -- and becomes deathly ill. Hester buys a small, china statue -- and has horrible nightmares. Other peopl...
Nancy Ekholm Burkert (born February 16, 1933) is an American artist and illustrator. Her most celebrated work is the picture book Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1972), which was a New York Times Notable Book and a Caldecott Honor Book. Her early wo...
Based on a study of large Swiss and German cities but applicable to the United States, eight full-color, fold-out pictures portraying the same section of a city between 1953 and 1976 graphically detail the process of urban decay...
On a Saturday evening in 1950, a live, 90-minute variety program called YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS! premiered on NBC and instantly won acclaim from the critics and public alike. An inspired, witty and sophisticated mixture of comedy, satire and song and danc...
Originally printed in 1974. This is a New Edition rePrint by the Gardner Francis Fox Library LLC. This story is about Cherry Delight, a female agent of D.U.E. (Department of Unusual Events) is sent to Greece to investigate the sighting of an ex-Nazi ...
Trial by Terror: It was a psychological experiment to test the methods of treatment in plush private sanitariums, and young Daria Clarke was the perfect volunteer -- healthy, stable, outgoing. All she has to do at Walnut Ridge was follow orders, t...
Pat Frank's great novel of the end of the world and the day after.
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The day after the bomb dropped, the thousands of years of "progress" that had covered the treacheries and lusts of ordinary man with a thiin veneer o...
THEY WERE ENSLAVED IN A PLACE WHERE LUST KNEW NO BOUNDS - AND ONLY LOVE WAS FORBIDDEN... They were two white slaves thrown together in the darkness of the breeding hut. She, Alyx de Vere, a virginal, sixteen-year-old beauty carried off to nightmar...
Runaway... from the home of her rigidly Victorian grandparents, beautiful 18-year-old Kirstie flees to Glendraco Castle. ...Into Mystery that concerns her other grandfather who died under scandalous circumstances fifty years before. ...Into Romance w...
The roots of WINDHAVEN They were bold, willful pioneers, planters of the rich Alabama soil, from Lucien Bouchard, the patriarch who created Windhaven out of the strength of his dreams and the power of his soul, to his grandson, Mark, whose cruel s...
From the pleasures of her sheltered world in the bayous to the treacherous vastness of the great Southwest and beyond -- forever quenching her thirst for all the passion and adventure that life had to offer -- wildly beautiful Rachel Delys fled the m...
Orphaned as a young girl, Martha was taken into the care by her grandfather -- and soon more than earned his name for her: the "tempestuous petticoat". From their first meeting it was clear that life with her crotchety relative was not go...
'Please, my child, I haven't much time left. I want to die knowing whom I can trust.' Free-spirited, innocent young Lorna MacDougall shivered at the words. She was governess to Lady Margaret's grandchildren. Why would the wealthy ...
Tempestuous ... Voluptuous ... Passionate Robbed of her innocence, Elise Lesconflair becomes a woman of bold desires in a breathtaking romantic adventure that sweeps across continents. Caught in a web of twisted destinies, she journeys from the luxu...
A WOMAN ALONE When beautiful Elinor Winter arrived at the palatial Abbeygate -- home of the world-famous actor Dominic Desmond -- it didn't take her long to know and love the three children she was to tutor. At first, Dominic was not there ...
Dragonseeds-crouching like some menacing beast on the cliffs above the sea: that was how fortress home of her Tregellas kinsman's seemed to Ruth at first sight. And there was danger within its granite walls, despite the veneer of beauty. Did it come ...
Shrouded in fog, the great stone house seemed to rise out of the sea, mocking young Larissa Synclair. It offered scant comfort to the new bride, unsure of her handsome, aloof husband. Certainly his family was inhospitable -- contemptuous, cruel a...
London, 1746 'I wish,' Philadelphia Smith said wistfully, 'that something would happen to me.' Nothing ever happened to Philadelphia until she made that wish one fine autumn evening. Her dreams came true that very night when sh...
1890s. Seventeen years have passed and the Lanarkshire mining village of Blacklaw has weathered both depression and the driving ambition of its coalmaster. But at last, falling wages have driven the miners to desperate rebellion... During a violent p...
Closing her eyes, Gypsy breathed deeply several times, turned over three tarots, then bent them in intent examination. She raised her head, brows meeting portentously, and with significance, her look went straight inside my own. “There is a man,...
The ancient Scots city of Glasgow, so calm and peaceful on the surface, had become a night-time jungle of bestial horror and screaming terror for beautiful Ardith Ross. Only a short time ago, she had been the adored star of the London stage - until a...
Original title: I Met Murder on the Way. A novel of love, scandal/ and triple murder. The house was large and venerable - as was the family to which is belonged. There were many Pomeroys, they all bore the aristocratic stamp, and, although few ...
While testing the wings he had made to further his dream of winged flight, Omaha Jones makes new friends who involve him in dangerous situations. Also reedited as: Omaha Jones....
Pulitzer Prize nominee and author of The Feud, Thomas Berger displays his genre bending prowess once more in this mystery turned comedy, featuring unforgettable dialogue and an extremely fun cast of characters. “Berger’s style, which is one of th...
Bernie Rhodenbarr is a personable chap,- a good neighbor, a passable poker player. His chosen profession, however, might not sit well with some. Bernie is a burglar, a good one, effortlessly lifting valuables from the not-so-well-protected abodes of ...
An enthralling fictional account of Howard Carter’s famous search for the tomb of King Tut and the mystery behind the tragic death and disappearance of ancient Egypt’s child ruler In ancient times, a boy king occupied the throne in a troubled des...
Lieutenant Halfhyde is assigned to rescue a British merchant ship from the Russians. Once there, he faces a dilemma: obey the questionable orders of his superior officer or follow his own inclinations and take the consequences....
The “Able Criminal”, as defined by noted criminologist Frits Krom, strikes with no discernible pattern or method, and flies below the radar of crime syndicates and law enforcement agencies alike. He is virtually uncatchable -- but Krom is willing...
Disheartened at being a newcomer in New England, Becky seeks solace in studying the marsh where she encounters a number of suspicious people, one of whom may be responsible for the town's rash of fires....
Star of Evil Once Annette Engberg had been a great Hollywood star. Now she was an aging, strangely twisted woman living in the great and gloomy mansion of Godsend, perched high on a cliff on the California coast. Young and talented Sara Fedderson ...
Glen Runciter is dead. Or is everybody else? Someone died in an explosion orchestrated by Runciter's business competitors. And, indeed, it's the kingly Runciter whose funeral is scheduled in Des Moines. But in the meantime, his mourning employees are...
Louise Winter was quite aware that the large, pale gray envelope she held in her hands was more than just an invitation. It had been sent by a woman named Margaret Forest, who claimed to be the sister of Louise’s mother. Louise was always moved by ...
Ardeva Korrell, captain of a small interstellar trading ship, has fought prejudice, both because she's a woman and because she's an Eoan, a native of a world with an unpopular religion. Now she's fighting the god-like rulers of a backward planet to s...
His name was Prince. He was handsome, strong, brilliant, with a fiery irresistible magnetism. He was also black. And in bondage. Under the lash his proud spirit grew stronger -- his hatred grew. He worked in secret among his people until they became ...
A grisly murder has plunged Bollywood, the film capital of India, into chaos. Ghote gets so caught up with giving an Academy Award-winning performance as a sleuth that the curtain almost comes down on his own life....
First in “a crime trilogy so searing it will burn forever into your memory. McIlvanney is the original Scottish criminal mastermind” (Christopher Brookmyre, international bestselling author). The Laidlaw novels, a groundbreaking trilogy th...
The time is the 18th century, with the stormclouds of the American Revolution about to flood the land with violence. Wyndham Manor has been transported stone by stone to its New World by heirs who hope to escape the fearful fate of their predecessor...
Sally Stewart was going to be a star. The beautiful, headstrong young woman was willing to risk hardship and heartbreak to conquer show business. The only things standing in her way were the odds, and Frank Mills, her loving but conservative fianc? ...
An irresistible aristocrat meets an immovable young lady -- and shocks all Regency England. Love In Arms When Tony Quarnell, the notorious Marquis of Montreat, otherwise known as Lord Rakehell among London's dashing young bucks and ladies o...
One little candle was all that was left. A single flame to flicker over a dead body. Legend said it was Old Dandy's candle-the monument to love kindled by the ghost of the long-dead slave long ago. But that love changed. The light now cast a new eeri...
First edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate on end paper, pages are otherwise clean, crisp and unmarked. Binding is tight, Hinges strong. Dust Jacket shows light edge wear. Dust jacket protected in mylar sleeve....
His Uncle Robert’s death brought Richard Hilton two legacies -- his great slave plantations in Jamaica, and the hatred of his disinherited brother, Tony. The new master of Hillgate vowed to end its shameful history of slave oppression. Whipping wa...
The epic story of Prince Madoc, son of the ruler of North Wales, who after the death of his wife leaves behind the battles for power and prestige in his homeland and journeys into the unknown, sailing with a small group of companions across the Weste...
“It is impossible to walk away from this novel without being sharply reminded of the fact that Norman Mailer is a writer of extraordinary ability.” -- Chicago TribuneFeaturing a new foreword by Mailer scholar Maggie McKinleyPublished nearly twent...
A brain orbiting the earth in a capsule, its human body gone, its onetime body. A novel written from the point of view of the brain told in the 3rd person close up -- too close for comfort. A brain that has been surgically divorced and lifted out o...
The time is the bleak September of 1779. The place is frontier America. The story is fierce and dramatic, a saga of love, violence and war. The people are memorable: legendary Tom Spencer who stands six-feet-nine in his shoe pacs… Rough-and-ready S...
In this historical novel, Yaw M. Boateng tells the harrowing story of the Atlantic slave trade and the devastating effects it had on the Ashanti Empire.
'This, then, is the story of Seku and Jakpa. But it is also the story of Malaam Fu...
Vietnam! Dumme had been there and back but his war wasn't over. Not by a long shot. He had a mission. From the Bronx to California- with a box of worns, a runaway girl, and a vision, he was hell-bent on his own good old american Dream....
The 12th and final adventure in the legendary Hardman series It's doing the small, simple favors that gets Jim Hardman in the most trouble. A waitress he knows asks him to find her missing husband, a freelance bartender who never returned from a week...