A generation after the bombs wiped out Los Angeles (along with most of the rest of the world) survivors have trickled back to set up life in the ruins. Times are hard. People take whatever solace they can--from each other, from new drugs, from perver...
Years ago, Lt. Uhura befriended a diplomat from Eeiauo, the land of graceful, cat-like beings. The two women exchanged forbidden songs and promised never to reveal their secret. Now the Enterprise is orbiting Eeiauo in a desperate race to save the...
A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, ...
“The best novel concerning the American pop music culture of the sixties I’ve ever read.” -- Stephen King From #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin comes the ultimate novel of revolution, rock ’n’ roll, and apocal...
Pyanfar Chanur thought she had seen the last of Tully, the lone human who had so disrupted the peace of Meetpoint Station and gained the Chanur clan the enmity of half a dozen races as well as their own. But in this striking sequel to the Hugo-nomina...
"From the dark pit of our own barbaric souls the tyrants are summoned. Brutal masters of our own monstrous making, they will hammer the universe into submission, until their merciless domination extends beyond the rim of space, and whole galaxies qua...
“Every bit as appealing as the Riverworld saga,” this brilliant high-concept dystopian novel features an overpopulated Earth under strict government control (Booklist). Only by being watched may you become free. It’s 3414 AD, the r...
Manjanungo was one of the most feared bandits in the galaxy. With the aid of a fellow pirate, he captured the Starqueen, the second largest luxury liner in space and trie to convince his aristocratic and nymphomaniacal cousin, Lady Seeava to join him...
THE TIME OF DANGER IS AT HAND Mervyn, wizard and Fluxlord, leader of the Nine Who Guard, faces the ultimate threat of the opposing Seven Who Wait: the opening of the Hellgates to World. Closed more than two thousand years ago, they are portals to ...
War on Gor is a rousing and fearful affair--and when the armada of Cos landed and began its sweeping arch against the mighty city of Ar, Tarl Cabot was swept up in their drive. Outcast from Port Kar, rejected by the Priest Kings, Tarl fought now for ...
College students, human and nonhuman, raised together on the same planet, search for the origins of civilization in the Galaxy and find old magic and a vast, implacable conspiracy. Can they forge bonds of friendship and understanding among themselves...
In the aftermath of interplanetary war, a disfigured loner is given a chance at a new life -- but at a steep cost, in this novel from “a superb storyteller” (The New York Times). Disfigured in the wars that destroyed his planet, Nik Kolherne live...
From the Hugo Award-winner comes a collection of six of her finest short works--"Psiren," "The Peddler's Apprentice," "Phoenix in the Ashes," "The Storm King," "Mother and Child," and "Voices from the Dust"...
The Guardian of Earth's call for the ultimate warrior transports Charley Judge three million years into the future and places him against the evil sorcerer Shu-Gwelth in the final battle between good and evil...
Dray Prescot is an Earthman, seaman and soldier, brought across four hundred light years to a planet of Antares. The Star Lords, a race advanced beyond our ken, needed him on that world called Kregen.Now, having at last returned to his home empire, t...
After stumbling onto a crime, and, subsequently, recovering from a severe knock on the head, Detective Superintendent George Rogers discovers the crime's motive and a body--all the while romancing a blind woman named Phaedra Haggar...
Playing detective is fun until it leads to murder! When Sidney Scott Webster is arrested for shoplifting at the local mall, she is humiliated and scared. It seems like all teenagers are guilty until proven innocent. But Josh Rivington knows Sidney...
Espionage thriller. Stepan Oovin, once chief of foreign intelligence for the KGB, now prisoner in a camp at the northernmost tip of Russia. Povin is a traitor: Early in his career he was converted by the Russian Christians he had been sent to persecu...
Among the American bishops vying for the position of the assassinated Cardinal Archbishop of New York is a Russian spy whose true identity is obscured by his long-standing reputation in the ecclesiastic superstructure...
More than an app! You make the decisions! YOU ARE THE HERO OF YOUR OWN SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURE! Can you infiltrate the starship of the world's most dangerous villains? Or survive the dangers of an aquatic frontier? You work for the Interplanetary S...
Paulie "The Printer" LaMonica once cut off a finger to get out of a bind. Now he's got agents Carr and Kelly of the Treasury Department chasing him to Ensenada, Mexico, home of some of America's worst citizens. Carr and Kelly have lost Paulie once--a...
It was like a scene from an old romantic movie... Ferris Byrd didn't know what to expect when she first met Patrick Blackheart. Aside from reading that he was one of San Francisco's most eligible bachelors, she really didn't know too much about hi...
SOMETHING EVEIL WAS BECKONING. AND SHE HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO ANSWER ITS SINISTER CALL. Laurel York has dreamed of this reunion with her father, the famous writer Clifton York, for years. And when she follows him down to the exotic Florida Keys, bot...
"Come into my parlor," said the spider to the fly Honor Mayfield didn't know it yet, but she was about to walk into a trap. She thought that her chance meeting with Conn Landry was a fortunate stroke of luck, but actually Conn had planned to lure ...
HAUNTED PARADISE Lalaine Majors was the only one who could find her way through the dense wilderness of the Okefenokee Swamp to Floyd's Island. Here she might find the evidence to clear her father, who was the scapegoat for an international hi...
Under the searing African sun they fought as fiercely as they loved... She was Lisa Collins, beautiful and willful, a spoiled rich girl recovering from a tragic marriage, now in Africa as a journalist. He was Sam Eastman, a hardened soldier of for...
The delightful tale of two cousins by marriage -- who did not know how marriageable they were! "HE IS NOT...ROMANTICAL." Miss Jane Ash ran her fingers through her lovely brown ringlets, and pondered her situation. She had come to the co...
When Lady Sara Rowdon’s domineering parents forbade her to marry the impoverished man she loved, they had no idea he would one day return with a title and a fortune. She was not even allowed to explain why she rejected him. Four years later, Sar...
DISHONOR'S DAUGHTER Emily Wyndham heartily hoped never to follow in her mother's straying footsteps, for Emily's mother had followed a path of love that made her the scandal of society--and her death left Emily not only penniless but branded with ...
A SPIRITED YOUNG LADY TEACHES AN ARROGANT LORD THAT A WIFE IS NOT A TOY THE MADDENING MARQUESS Gavin Remington Colporter, the Marquess of Hawkstone, known to intimates simply as Hawk, had swept Lady Mollie Hazeldell off her pedestal as belle of...
AN ENTERPRISING YOUNG LADY Molly Trevor's father had made a fortune and lost his good name by becoming a Midas-like moneylender rather than remaining a penniless aristocrat. When Molly inherited both the glitter of his gold and the shadow ...
Rolissa was not sure which she could trust less -- her fiance or her heart. "Whom And When I marry Must Be My Own Decision." Lady Rolissa Amberly firmlystated her case in front of her entire family, despite the fact that marriage by arrangement w...
They were perfectly unsuited for each other in every way. Except one... Untangling Love's Skein Ada Surringham would not have denied--if she could have kept her mind on the question long enough--that she was more than somewhat muddleheaded. ...
THEY AGREED TO DISAGREE Lovely, quick-tempered Althea Rackham and the handsome, haughty Lord Soames agreed on just one thing: they were not meant for each other. This proud pair were engaged but a few days before their clash of wits and wills s...
Wild River of Love Returning to the scenic grandeur of Idaho's steep river canyons made lovely Danielle Livingtone's eyes flood with tears. Not only was her stepfather selling White Water Lodge, her childhood home on the raging rapids of Snake Riv...
Philippa Ilalsey is determined that her next "knight in shining armor" will shine where it counts: on the inside. While blond, sun-bronzed, sword-brandishing Geoffrey Reardon could be a medieval knight reincarnated, the dashing professor is harboring...
A murderer is stalking the streets of St. Louis and the only connection between his victims are the nightlines, special phone lines used by the phone company to test equipment. At night, lonely people use them to make contact with each other: to talk...
As sole heir to his beloved grand-daddy's fortune, noble and naive Lance Tyner wants to use the money for the good of mankind. But some not-so-good specimens of the species--including Lance's conniving father, sleazy brother, and spoiled sister--have...
Something made Melissa Nadisky flee her husband and their daughter. The note she left behind paints a picture of a woman haunted by a private hell. Now private eye Thomas Black is asked to find Melissa--before she's consumed by her secret, terrifying...
Arthur Hopcraft, a molecular biologist who has effected a radical development in the cure of cancer, suddenly vanishes. Enter George Masters, senior detective, Scotland Yard and chief of Operation Hosepipe. The breakthrough must not become public kno...
Detective Chief Superintendent George Masters of Scotland Yard, and his assistant, Bill Green, investigate a series of eleven murders, only to witness the twelfth, the killing of a local singer during a performance of Handel...
Murder after midnight... Lt. Frank Hastings of the San Francisco Police Department is draggedf rom his warm bed to the palatial residence of a powerful local attorney. Murder is an ugly thing for even a cop to wake up to, and it's worse when the vict...
Originally published in 1958 and now available for the first time in paperback, this classic of modern military history tells the exciting true story of the fall of St. L", the first major objective of the invading American armies in Normandy in June...
This ISBN is for Number 1 only - 5 stories in 1 book - Robert Parker's Promised Land; Jim Thompson's The Ripoff; Raymond Chandler's Backfire; George V Higgins; A Case of Chivas Regal; Arthur Lyons's Trouble of Paradise...
1985, original trade paperback edition (note: this is number 3 in a series of books under the same title), Harcourt Brace, San Diego, CA. 227 pages. This particular collection presents modern mystery, detective and suspense writers. They include: Don...
THE KIND OF CASE THAT TEARS YOUR HEART OUT... Two-year-old Ricky Foster spent a bright October afternoon in the park with his babysitter, Lorna. But the young woman never returned home to the Fosters' apartment. Neither did Ricky. A twisted min...
A sheltered southern woman's gradually consuming, ultimately fatal attraction to her stepson and the long-dormant needs and emotions resurrected by that attraction are revealed through her daughter's eyes and memories...
The ruggedness of the Western Frontier. The romance of the California Theater. Alyssa Deane had been forced by her vain and selfish actress mother to masquerade as a boy on the wagon trip west. But it was not until she became aware of Matt, a...
THE LAST THING MELANIE RECALLED was the dinner she had shared with her beloved Captain Worth Randolph. But when she awoke from her drugged sleep, their ship had been captured -- and the magnificent auburn-haired beauty lay helplessly bound hand a...
A WOMAN'S PASSION Her fragile beauty was as dazzling as the western landscape. Her eyes mirrored the brilliant blue of the cloudless sky; her hair shone with the gold of the sun and the silver of the moon. From miner to gold rush milliono ire, the...
SEDUCED BY HIS HONEYED WORDS, BETRAYED BY HIS BURNING KISSES, SHE ABANDONED HER HEART'S DESIRE. THE REBEL HEART As wild and beautiful as the Irish countryside where she grew up, young Dera Brennan knew from the first that Quint Flannery was t...
Clara Melton lived, loved and fought in a man's world with a woman's cunning, a warrior's courage, and a fiery spirit that would become known throughout the land. But the noblewoman who set forth to carve a fur-trading empire in American's savage wil...
A SPLENDID RAGS-TO-RICHES STORY Vanessa Kenyon arrived in New York in 1847. She was orphaned, destitute, and utterly alone. She never would bare dreamed of the future that awaited her: a future teeming with all the joy and pain, laughter and te...
HE ENRAPTURED HER HEART, THEN BETRAYED HER TRUST Beautiful, headstrong Adria Sommerfield embarked from Savannah on a secret mission for the Confederacy, realizing that her journey would be fraught with peril. But she had no way of knowing that she...
Here is the story of two families in Whitby Falls, a slate-quarrying town in Vermont. One family, the Whitbys, is wealthy and powerful. The other, the Villettes, is dirt poor. But despite the fact that they hate each other -- and because of the lusty...
Behind her was the home she could never return to. Ahead was the shining promise of America...and love. There were times she wished she'd never come to America. Pretty, spirited Kathleen O'Connor arrives in Boston on a "coffin" ship from Irelan...
ONE UNFORGETTABLE WOMAN, TWO POWERFUL MEN, IN A TUMULTUOUS TIME THAT PROBED THE DEEPEST PLACES OF THE HEART From a sheltered French convent to the splendor of Paris in the twenties, Lily Bruisson blossomed into a special woman -- beautiful, innoc...
When she saw the dangerous glitter in the Roman soldier's eyes, Wynne knew she was lost, yet she could not forget that she was a Celt and he an enemy of her people. But as Valerian's amber eyes caressed each soft, sensuous curve of her body, Wynne fo...
For Carol and Dan Ross, love knows no bounds. Romantic, impetuous, mercurial, Carol is devoted to her strong, steadfast husband. Dan keeps her anchored in reality--except when they're both soaring on the wings of ecstatic lovemaking. Then Carol in...
IN VIRGINIA CITY, IN A CHEAP SALOON, CAMERON FOUND THE ONE MAN WHOSE MEMORY LIVED IN HER HEART The gentle beauty had left the convent where she had been raised to meet, at last, the father she had never known. But his sudden death thrust her in...
A Passionate Woman In A Dazzling American Era! the 1890s .... America's most unforgettable era ... the end of a gilded century ... the war-ravaged South is struggling to be reborn .. suffragettes are clamoring for freedom and the vote .. wealth a...
Handsome Matthew Colby knew he'd died and gone to heaven when he found a warm, gorgeous woman by his side. The last thing he remembered was the tempestuous waters of the Florida Straits closing over his head. But as the satin-skinned dream sighed and...
SHE COULDN'T SAY N ...to the glowing passion that flickered in the handsome Indian's eyes. He had just saved her from certain death in the raging river, and there was only one way the chestnut-haired innocent could show her thanks. Though she had ne...
"KISS ME AT DUSK" ... raven-haired Marianna whispered against Alexander Donovan's bare muscled chest. Even though he was so arrogant and overbearing, whenever she found herself in the tight circle of his arms, the spirited beauty kept saying things ...
IN SCOTLAND'S HIGHLANDS, THE BEAUTIFUL CATHERINE IS PRISONER OF A BITTER ENEMY--HER HUSBAND! Clan swords ran red with the blood feuds of powerful lairds when Devon Macgowan claimed the bride of his childhood. Catherine Craig hated the man she ...
When a man's passion explodes into violence, only a woman's desire can turn it to love. THEY DIDN'T MEAN TO FALL IN LOVE Sharisse Hammond had no intention of giving herself to some rancher who had sent for a mail-order bride! She had gone West ...
They first met in the opening year of medical school amid the idealism and ferment of the 1960s. Sondra, whose wealth could not fill the void of doubt within her. Ruth, determined to prove herself to her critical physician father. Mickey, who had to ...
NEVER BEFORE HAD A WOMAN CAPTURED HIM BODY AND SOUL! NEVER WOULD SHE SURRENDER TO A MAN WHO BOUGHT HER LOVE! Under the dark, dangerous eyes of Clayton Westmoreland, the Duke of Claymore, Whitney Stone grew from a saucy hoyden into a ravishingly se...
Romantic Venice conceals a shocking passion, a forbidden love -- in the saga of a daughter's legacy. DREAMS OF THE NIGHT Captive of a forbidden passion for the one man she must never love, Caroline Andrieux escapes into the powerful arms of a...
SMOLDERING FIRES OF DESIRE A sudden act of violence forced Meg to flee from her home in Cross Creek and seek refuge in a secluded cabin high in the mountains, protected by two ranchers she barely knew. The ruggedly handsome Jed Turner was cool ...
India in 1857 and Savannah, Georgia, in 1889 are linked by two strange coincidences--a pale, beautiful, and sensually magnetic woman named August is present, and young children fall prey to a mysterious fever...
THE WORLD'S GREATEST DETECTIVE AND THE KING OF MAGIC TEAM UP TO SOLVE "THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY" When Harry Houdini is framed and jailed for espionage and Sherlock Holmes vows to clear his name, the two join forces to confound the crooks who are o...
War has ripped Martin Hasford's nation apart, and, like many men, he is torn between his devotion to his family and his sense of duty. Leaving his wife and children behind to run the family farm near Elkhorn Tavern, Hasford embarks on a path from whi...
Frustrated by his love for another man's wife and his desire to solve the lingering mystery surrounding his father's accidental death, Brook Hartman mounts an investigation and lays a trap that ironically deepens the tragedy...
There are more ways to get into trouble than ways to get out on the San Francisco waterfront. It's no wonder then that Clint Adams reluctantly agrees to keep a mysterious appointment at the Black Pearl Saloon. There, the Gunsmith finds two old fr...
Heller's friend is looking forward to a million dollars, his prize quarter horse is the overwhelming favorite to win the Liquid Gold Futurity. But someone has other ideas, sinister ideas, and that's where Heller comes in. He agrees to protect the hor...
They call it Paradise but it's more like Hell for the women held captive in this small Oklahoma town. The Harlow gang has discovered that females are worth their weight in gold-when you sell them to brothels and women-starved mining towns.Clint Adams...
BOLT WAS A WANTED MAN… WANTED BY HIS FAMILY THE LAW -- AND BY A WHOLE LOT OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN!Jared Bolt heads for Deadwood, South Dakota to set up his next bordello, only to find his competition riding on the very same stage. Bolt's never met a mad...
Jessie and Ki join a traveling circus -- headed for a deadly showdown!The cartel has a bold new idea: take control of New Mexico Territory by financing a rebellion and smuggling arms under the tents of a traveling circus from Amarillo. To stop them, ...
WAGONS WEST An unquenchable thirst for adventure and the promise of easy riches brought them to the muddy waters of the mighty Missouri River. Its majestic steamboats offered a new way West for pioneers and traders, gamblers and thieves, proper youn...
She’s six foot six and all woman: a South Seas princess with smooth brown skin and a teasing, tantalizing tongue. Gringo agrees to take her cash -- and other favors -- to handle a death-defying job. His mission: to free her island people now toilin...
THE DALTON BOYS ARE CRAZY. Crazy enough to cold-bloodedly shoot down anyone who stands between them and their bank heist riches. Crazy enough to terrorize the Texas territory for years and get away with it. Even crazy enough to go after Slocum. ...
On a remote cattle ranch in a peaceful Wyoming valley, in the hushed villages of beleaguered Indian tribes, among the government troops advancing through the bitter winter landscape, the time of the Snowblind Moon heralds the beginning of an apocalyp...
LAND SOAKED IN BLOOD Railroaded off their land, the folks of Owl Creek wanted to see justice done and Skye Fargo was the man they turned to. Offering him a pretty penny to take on land baron Dorrance Lansing and his crooked town officials, Fargo ...
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Relationships of friend with friend, father with daughter, black with white, and young with old provide the basis of nine stories which explore the feelings and reactions of people in various situations...
Sunny Deauville's duties as proprietor of the best brothel in Alaska and her lusty, guilt-free life are counterbalanced by her obsession with finding her father, lost years before in the backcountry wilds...
The evocative story of a man without a country, Arch of Triumph is a World War II"era classic from the author of All Quiet on the Western Front. It is 1939. Despite a law banning him from performing surgery, Ravic -- a German doctor and refu...
When one of its agents disappears while investigating rumors about the location of Noah's Ark, a U.S. government agency called "the firm" sends Vietnam veteran Jeff Rivers to look for missing archaeologist Bruce Hansman and for Hansman's daughter Eve...
As a fable proves nothing. There is an unbelief which grows out of ignorance, as well as a scepticism which is born of intelligence. The people nearest to the past are not always those who are best informed concerning the past. For a thousand years ...
It was the one baby-sitting job Laurel should never have taken. Laurel arrives at Hoop Lake expecting her summer to be as boring as usual. She's surprised when she finds new people at the lake - a young sculptor named Ivan, and his baby daughter, ...
Recounts the story of Maria Caduff, the immigrant cook known as Typhoid Mary, a woman infected with the deadly, contagious disease but herself immune to it, who carried the bacillus throughout elite New York homes and hotels...
was the land god gave to Anraham and his israelite descendants in Arabia? according to recent linguistic and geographical research, the kingdom of Solomon and david, and the site of the first temple, lie not in Palestine at all but in a fertile coas...
Never get mixed up with your roommate's boyfriend. The girls of Canby Hall find that rules were made to be broken, when Shelley starts dating Randy behind Dana's back. Of course, Dana's busy schedule was the reason that Shelley and Ran...
Three women find themselves brought together by their powerful attachment to a charming drifter with a passion for freedom this debut novel by Annie Greene.In the shabby and terrible town of Hooks Crossing, Maryland, three women are connected through...
Hector Chisholm, a captured freighter captain, takes part in an escape from a prison hospital in occupied France, but is suspected of being a Nazi collaborator when some of his fellow escapees are murdered...
Just as he strikes it rich with his pseudonymous romance novels, poet and professor of literature Arnold Simon finds his double life falling apart, with his agent vanished, a fellow author murdered, and the model hired to pose as the author missing...
The disillusionment of post-World War II Japan is reflected in the bitter conflict between ten-year-old Saya's parents as they face the abandonment of empty traditions and adapt to the overthrow of established values...
Tonomori, master of war, united in consuming passion with the Countess Diana, travels with her contingent to the Ottoman Empire, unaware that his beloved Diana carries his child. In Constantinople, the Sultan is gripped by the fear of a civil war tha...
From their covert hideaway, the Force answers a summons from Fillmore IN to solve a string of mutilation murders that the cops can't handle. But the killings are only part of the small town's strong lure...
Sojourning in Greece to reconsider her troubled marriage, forty-two-year-old Connie Nolan has a tempestuous love affair with Alki, a Greek seaman, leaves him because he is married, and plans to return to America when she discovers a lump in her breas...
After returning to Emerald City and finding it in ruins, Dorothy and her friends Tik Tok and Billima, try to find a way to restore the city by searching out the Nome King and getting back the things he stole....
Walter Fozbek wakes up to find himself the only boy in a universe where dinosaurs rule and humans are extinct, and his desperate attempts to get home are complicated by a black hole, an egotistical computer, and a mad scientist....
Winner of the National Book Award for First Fiction: “Beguiling stories . . . about an uncommonly fascinating part of the hemisphere” (Time). Easy in the Islands is a “stunning” collection of stories by one of contemporar...
Shattered by their experiences in Vietnam, two friends, Neuman and Morgan, attempt to come to terms with themselves, their relationship with each other, and their feelings about the war and struggle to put their lives back together...
Hardcover: 45 pages Publisher: Western Pub. Co/Golden Press (1985) Language: English ISBN-10: 0307155943 ISBN-13: 978-0307155948 Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8.9 x 0.4 inches Shipping Weight: 7.2 pounds...
In the Germany of the 1930s, anti-Nazi physician Richard Stammler cures Karl Erich Mueller, a young man psychologically unable to speak since his father's tragic death, and watches in horror as Mueller uses his newfound voice to support the Nazis...