In Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke's The Afternoon of a Writer, a writer, fearful of losing his abilities and hence his connection with the world, takes an afternoon walk and has several encounters that reaffirm his confidence......
THEY WERE AS DIFFERENT AS DAY AND NIGHT To emergency room doctor Jess Brannigan the world was black and white. Guidance counselor Carly Sullivan rejoiced in every brilliant hue that colored her experience. Thrown together on a New Orleans grand ju...
The summer's day in question is the 24 hours of one June 26, as endured by a police department in the north of England. This masterful police procedural is more convincing than those of Joseph Wambaugh--because the events of June 26 are all too terri...
Finally returned to print in a beautiful new trade paperback edition, American Appetites is classic Joyce Carol Oates -- a suspenseful thriller in which the happy facade of an affluent suburban couple crumbles under the weight of tragedy and scandal....
UNRELENTING DESIRE When Angelica Howe left the safety of the convent to track at the mission in Santa Barbara, she would never leave believed shed become a hostage in a Mexican banditos' camp. Now her only trope was that leer brother would pay...
"My favorite novel." -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie“A magical writer -- one of the greatest of the twentieth century.” -- Margaret Atwood “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” ...
In this first work of nonfiction, Milan Kundera offers a "practitioner's confession" on the art of the novel. "Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is," Kundrea writes. "I have tried...
January 1944. A convoy of Allied troops is steaming through the Atlantic, heading for Italy and a battle that could change the course of the war: Anzio. But in London’s War Office, top strategists are faced with dire news. Intelligence reports that...
Cornwall in the 1880s is the backdrop to the first volume of a trilogy which spans a century and tells the story of the wealthy daughter of a tin-mine owner and her friend, an impoverished miner's daughter. The other two volumes are Distinctions of C...
In 1966 Sir Walter Springfellow, head of Australian intelligence, vanished mysteriously and without a trace. As a young constable, Scobie Malone investigated the disappearance. Years later some bones are found up in the hills which are presumed to be...
Seaver, the former all-star pitcher for the Mets, Reds and other teams, and Resnicow, author of eight whodunits, including Edgar-nominee The Gold Solution , set their baseball mystery novel in the near future. Just before the first game of the World ...
Pam wasn’t perfect. Of this she was all too aware. For years she’d cherished the memory of her twin sister, Angela, who died at birth. In Pam’s mind Angela was all that Pam was not, slim, beautiful and poised, while Pam saw herself as heavy...
DAGENTYR was a blond barbarian, hundreds of miles from home, doing his best fighting for a strange country, learning a strange language, longing for his home village and the girl he left behind. He believed that the prophecy "beware the horse" referr...
It was a mistake. It just had to be Surely Howard would come to his senses and realize Holly was the one for him. When he did, she'd be waiting. Meanwhile, though, Holly Witchell was determined to make Howard Neston appreciate what he had l...
On one side are the mine-owners, men like Sterling Richardson, his weak corrupt brother Rickie, and Luke Proud, a newcomer to the saga. On the other are the Murphy brothers, miners and rabble-rousers, the Llewellyns and Jim O'Connor, the charismatic ...
In just a few hours the world of Michael Scott, a young, recently divorced teacher, will turn into days of fear and nights of unholy terror. Because someone has taken his 11 year old daughter Jill and now she is at the back school. unless scott can s...
"I'm not the man you married." But to Libby, her husband was the same, despite the accident that had left him blind. He was still the Vance Anson who'd created a successful mining empire in Kenya, still the loving husband whose kis...
For Merelene Durham it's been fifteen years of coping, of determination not to lose her purchase on this world: a world that has become almost unendurable since her rakish husband, Mayfield, fled after encephalitis turned their son Roland's mind into...
HER PRIDE WAS FORMIDABLE, HER LOVE UNDYING... HER SAGA, UNFORGETTABLE It was 1940. Nazi troops plundered the French country' But radiant, willful Michou Valette stood fearless in her father's great vineyards. Someday these lush lands of St. Emilio...
Seventeen tales revolving around the vampire legend explore diverse variations on the classic theme and include stories of a method actress who sucks emotion from co-stars, a nightmarish version of The Walrus and the Carpenter, and other chilling tal...
During the 1936 Berlin Olympics, American David Keegan and German Karl Linderhoff compete for a gold medal and for the love of scientist Miranda Wolff, while British agent David Tennyson races to stop Wolff's work--or kill her...
BLOOD THIRST follows the transformation of Angela Trenton as she becomes a vampire. Attacked and left to die, she is faced with uncertainty and fear as her body begins to change. She is aided by another vampire named Elijah, and he becomes her mentor...
Plot twists and suspenseful characters mark the story of a professional thief, a booster who is called upon by the mob to do a job that involves avenging a Chicago policeman's murder and breaking into the Sears Tower...
Struggling with his feelings of alienation and his fear of his strange powers, Amant, a young musician, discovers the extent of his great musical talents, the value of extrasensory skills, and his destiny...
Filling her father's role as resident gunsmith--and amateur sleuth--of Newton Lauder while her parents travel, Deborah Calder is summoned by Inspector Munroe to the Pentland Gun Club, where a steward's body has been found lying near a skeet trap...
NOT WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED The Lakeview Clinic for emotionally traumatized children was a very unusual place. Soldiers who knew better than to question the reason for being stationed out in the middle of nowhere kept watch nearby. Strange, unnatu...
MISS BENNINGTON'S BATTLE Miss Ariane Bennington had to suspect that Damien de Villars, the wealthy and worldly Marquess of Chatham, was merely using her in a game of intricate intrigue involving the elegant, dangerously attractive Comte de Triens....
LOVE'S PRIZE She was a young French woman living a quiet hell until her husband's family brutality forced her to strike back -- and flee before her crime was discovered... Assuming a new identity, she called herself Brittany and took wo...
PEACE HAD BROKEN OUT ALL OVER THE PLANET... Which made it tough, to be a mercenary captain. If his enemies would just leave him alone, Miles Naismith decided bitterly, the, Dendarii Free Mercenary Fleet would collapse all on its own. But Miles'...
Hours after the Port Frederick, Massachusetts, Civic Foundation got wind of an imminent, highly unusual bequest-a $4 million Kansas cattle ranch-director Jenny Cain hopped a flight heading west. She arrived at the hospital room of the Foundation's my...
Thrust into the dangerous intrigues of King Richard III's court, Marganna Tudor must prove her loyalty by spying for her cousin, Henry. Caught red handed she is spared a traitor's death and placed in the custody of darkly handsome Lord John Rathburn....
A young arctic wolf has a harrowing adventure trying to find his way back to the pack after being separated from them during a caribou hunt. Also includes a chapter with general information about wolves....
The Calling is the story of Blackford "Toad" Turlow, an ambitious, impressionable young man who aspires to be a writer. The voice in his head is that of Eldon Odom, a famous - sometimes infamous - novelist to whom Toad apprentices himself. In the beg...
“LADIES AND GENTLEMEN” The locals were ecstatic when the carnival pulled into Holland, Nebraska. They shrieked in delight on the lightning-fast rides. They gasped in shocked fascination at the chilling collection of freaks and human oddities...
Returning to the city of her youth for a retrospective of her art, controversial painter Elaine Risley is engulfed by vivid images of the past. Strongest of all is the figure of Cordelia, leader of the trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce ...
Jed Mason, popular but lacking romance in his life, joins Russ Stevens' volleyball team in hopes of drawing the attention of Russ's sister Leslie, who insists she and Jed are nothing more than friends....
AN EXCHANGE OF HEARTS Dark blonde hair, pale grey eyes and a slender figure graced Abigail Caldwell Ross with a china doll beauty, yet she was a woman of great strength. At twenty-five, Abby managed her late husband's cotton plantation efficiently...
The mystery of Chatterton is investigated by two Londoners, a young poet and an elderly female novelist, who find more riddles than answers from their search. At once hilarious, this entertaining comedy is a thoughtful exploration of the deepest issu...
As far as Paragrin and Cam, mortal rulers of the Melde Colony, are concerned, theirs is the only colony that exists on earth. They have no way of knowing that Jentessa, their Half-Divine Ruler, has a sister, Magramid, who is the Half-Divine Ruler of...
SWEET VENGEANCE Death was too good for the scarred marauder who'd slain Trinity Lee's mother. She would destroy Madison Brecker's railroad first -- drain his lifeblood drop by treacherous drop -- then move in for the kill. After years of bitter ...
Gee lee, gu lu, turn the cake. Add some oil, the better to bake. Gee lee, gu lu, now it's done. Give a piece to everyone. Children of all lands will welcome this enchanting collection of poems, lullabies, counting rhymes, and songs from the Chinese...
A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN'S RISE IN A WORLD OF MEN -- A SWEEPING SAGA OF PASSION AND POWER SHE VOWED TO BECOME MORE THAN AN ORNAMENT OF VICTORIAN SOCIETY As a child, beautiful, red-haired Mary Beecham was plucked out of poverty and placed in the la...
Young recruits culled from America's top military academies are sent by the Pentagon on a special mission to Hungary where--disguised as students--they must gain information on an important space project...
Though hardworking single mother Susan Casey sometimes dreamed of diamonds and furs, mainly she wanted a secure future for her children. She was certain she could awaken sleepy Old Mandeville and shower new prosperity on herself and her neighbors. ...
SHE HAD PARIS AT HER FEET -- AND A HANDSOME LORD ON HER TRAIL Ravishingly beautiful Countess Magda Janos was the toast of Paris and the center of a swarm of suitors. But who was this gorgeous creature? Two men knew the truth about her. Attracti...
PLAYING CUPID Steve Powers couldn't figure out what had gotten into him. He usually liked the quiet type, but he was completely smitten by Courtney Fairchild, who was impulsive, carefree and boisterous. When she cooked up a scheme to pair his fath...
Europe Held Hostage! In Paris, a German government official is shot and killed in the streets. In Frankfurt, an American general is kidnapped from a US army base. Both jobs are carried out by skilled professionals, experts in the field of internation...
Crippled by an accident and at the mercy of the cheating overseer of his ranch, Curt Ramsey appeals for help from his estranged brothers, who must run a gauntlet of Indians and outlaws to reach the ranch. Original."...
Marma was determined to steer clear of Steve Riley, the exciting reporter who had captured her heart when she had let her guard down. Marma Duncan know she should stay away from charismatic reporter Steve Riley. Steve, ever the pragmatist, can't acce...
There'd be no sentiment involved Their marriage would be a business deal only, according to Rik, but Jan couldn't help wondering. She had accepted the assignment as just another job--to track down Rik Steele and reconcile him and his fa...
Lauren Vandis was sent to the boondocks of Mississippi with one essential mission: She had to persuade Coyle Dancy not to sue her family. And if it means helping her ailing father, Lauren was willing to pour on the charm, thick as molasses, sweet as ...
"FIRST LOVE IS BEATING IN MY HEART... AND FOR A FOP!" With her blue-eyed beauty, charm, and youth -- not to mention a splendid dowry -- Ullainee Pollinger came to her first Season expecting to be able to pick and choose among London's bachelors. ...
BETWEEN TWO FIRES Beautiful young widow Katherine Mannering vowed that no man would ever possess her. Her brief but brutal forced marriage left her with profound distaste for what went by the name of love. But that was before she met Nichola...
Neville Folliot, a 19th century explorer, goes missing and his brother Clive sets out to find him. He stumbles across "The Dungeon", a place of strange atmospheric conditions, beings from distant galaxies and hidden pockets of time....
The countdown begins when welder Jack Hummel is abducted from his suburban Maryland home and whisked to the South Mountain MX missile site--a top-secret nuclear complex now taken over by paramilitary terrorists. All that stands between the Uzi-arm...
Inspector Faro's missing person search for Mabel Keller, whose unpleasant husband is Edinburgh's police surgeon, becomes a hunt for a missing body when Mrs. Keller's torn, bloodstained cloak turns up in a remote train station...
A tour group in Egypt visit an archaeological dig on an isolated island in the Aswan Dam. Before they leave two people have died. Tamara Hoyland, the heroine of other Jessica Mann novels, who is with the group to watch over one of them, decides to in...
First U.S. edition. Inspired by ROMEO AND JULIET, bookseller-detective, Mathew Coll plans a trip to Verona. He not only finds it a very dangerous place, but also a handwritten journal which sheds new light on the passionate love story. The plot invol...
Retired Detective Inspector Richard Patton and his wife Amelia return to the world of crime when Patton is asked by his wife's old college friend to investigate a burglary that leads to a murder and threatens Patton's loyalty to Amelia's friend...
DEATH'S BRIGHT ANGEL introduces two of the most compelling characters on the contemporary mystery scene: Detective Inspector John McLeish, a 6'4", ex-rugby playing Scot, and Francesca Wilson, sister of a rising pop star, civil servant, and divorcee, ...
"Don't play with fire, Amanda." Drew Sheldon's warning wasn't necessary. Amanda remembered all too well the dangerous attraction of her ex-fiance. She'd thought she'd never see Drew again after she broke their engage...
Philippa had fled St. Louis and the hated husband she'd been forced to wed. Now, armed with a new name, a new identity, and a new profession as a schoolmarm, the lissome blonde had come to Bluffsview, Nebraska the last place on earth he'd loo...
Planning officer Arnold Landon discovers a body in an abandoned church rumored to be the center for the revival of a medieval cult, but when a second murder flares community tensions, Landon suspects that modern evil lurks behind ancient supersition...
Barbara Avers has it all, a high-power attorney/politician husband, great kids, beautiful home - and a two pack a day cigarette habit. Suddenly, her best friend dies and Barbara honors their lifelong friendship by flinging away her last car...
Dirty Work is the story of two men, strangers -- one white, the other black. Both were born and raised in Mississippi. Both fought in Vietnam. Both were gravely wounded. Now, twenty-two years later, the two men lie in adjacent beds in a VA hospital.O...
The Doctor and Sarah arrive in London to find it deserted. The city has been evacuated as prehistoric monsters appear in the streets. While the Doctor works to discover who or what is bringing the dinosaurs to London, Sarah finds herself trapped on ...
Captain John Cunningham, a Falklands war veteran, begins civilian life as a trainer and breeder of gun dogs, which proves to be a ruthlessly competitive business--especially when a rival breeder is murdered and Cunningham is framed for the crime...
THEY ARE HUMANS--AND DRAGONS. HEROES--AND FRIENDS. MAGICAL--AND MIGHTY. AND SO ARE THEIR KIDS! NOW A LAND OF GODS NEEDS THEM ALL... Jarl Koenig thinks his children and witch-wife, Mirza, are safely vacationing on the wonderworld Realm. Until Faf, ...
The Stunning Conclusion to the Dragonstar Series!A STARSHIP OF DINOSAURS ... WITH A HUMAN CARGOThe 160-million-year-old, world-sized starship with its crew of sentient dinosaurs mystified humankind when it entered our solar system. Careers and even g...
Welcome to DreamthorpA sleepy little Pennsylvania resort town where city folks can get away from it all...A town where a woman who saw her best friend mutilated by a crazed sex killer can hide – and forget......until haunted relics of another ...
From the war-torn misery of firebombed Europe to the opulence of Manhattan society, this is the story of Roland Eagles, a street-wise boy, reckless gambler, and renowned financier, whose life is marked by tragedy and triumph...
From the author who brought Sally Hemings to vibrant life for millions of readers comes another controversial and fascinating historical figure -- Joseph Cinque. Here is the story of a black man desperate to return to his country, and a white man try...
It is the end of an age, and, for the Eden family, it is a time of reunions--both joyous and painful. For Frederick, it is to celebrate his new bride; for Geoffrey, to heal the scars of war. But for young, exotically beautiful Charlotte Eden, the...
MAMIE WAS LIVING A LIE Mamie was apprehensive about moving from London to the country. She felt shy about changing schools and making all new friends. Then she met Guy, and a whole new world opened up to her. Soon she found herself falling in love w...
When Millard C. Fillmore Elementary School must come up with a special float to be entered in a field day contest which the school's most famous graduate will judge, Chester's sister Eleanor saves the day....
What a mess everything was for Libby! The new English teacher hated her. And Joanne Tripper was never going to stop pestering her and trying to make trouble. On top of everything else, Jerry Grosbeck had to turn up! Book 9 in the Elizabeth Gail Serie...
Their love burned with a scorching flame. Passion on Demand Lovely Amanda Hamilton longed to be her own woman, but her stern and unyielding father had promised her hand to Randall Fiske. Amanda vowed never to give herself to this man she neithe...
When Kinsey Millhone first arrives in Floral Beach, California, it's hard for her to picture the idyllic coastal town as the setting of a brutal murder. Seventeen years ago, the body of Jean Timberlake--a troubled teen who had a reputation with the b...
SHE DARED TO BECOME ALL THAT A WOMAN YEARNS TO BE Jake Whitaker was the movie kingdom's most brilliant and powerful producer, until his life ended in a violent car accident. Now his lovely daughter Lindsey, with her tumbling auburn hair and natura...
When Rachel Sabin and Jeffrey Dean, owners of a Los Angeles art gallery and rare book shop, purchase a rare Stella print, they inadvertently become ensnarled in an international web of forgery and murder...
The "leper" of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, SSN 578 nuclear attack sub SKATE should have been reduced to scrap a decade earlier. But America is on the brink of impending disaster at Russian hands ... and the underwater deathtrap has one final mission to p...
One rainy spring night they'd shared both a miracle and a tragedy. Since then, Sam Bartholomew's sad blue eyes had haunted Dr. Merry Conrad's dreams, and she'd wondered if the handsome young widower had given his children another moth...
A friend’s disappearance sends Mike Shayne to the Caribbean Timothy Rourke made his name as a Miami crime reporter, but he never knew true evil until he came to the Caribbean. In a corrupt tropical country, where beatings and murders pass for ordin...
This tale of an awkward Israeli widower and his misadventures with women is an “extraordinary novel . . . a masterpiece” (Los Angeles Times). After seven long years of illness, Molkho’s wife passes, leaving him in mourning, ...
Now living in New York, ex-cop Frank Clemons investigates a brutal slashing The sleek high-rises of Park Avenue make Frank Clemons uneasy. The former Atlanta homicide detective came to New York after a sickening murder case soured him on the S...
Cassie Walters knew all about Bret Parker's image as a womanizing power broker, but when she replaced her sick employee as butler at one of Bret's glamorous parties, she was mesmerized by the dangerously appealing charmer -- and he was spellb...
He was not the answer to Olivia's problems Despondent over her father's death and low on funds, Olivia eagerly accepted the temporary job offered by interior designer Ross Courtenay. However, she'd have to share a roof with her disturb...
A sequence of three suicides with only one thing in common -- they had all been roommates of Liz Meacham. And Liz was the only person in Denver who was convinced that they had all been murdered. Was she being set up to be the next victim? Her only ho...
While The War Between the States consumed our nation in flames of bitter opposition... a single, fateful moment brought two strangers, two enemies, together on a northbound train ... Jillian Walsh, a beautiful Yankee widow, never expected to find...
Five boys who escaped from a government resettlement camp hide out in the post-nuclear desert, where they build dirt bikes, but when they ride into Traintown, they end up fighting for their own freedom and to restore law and order to the area...
They say that ghosts have unfinished business Footsteps sounded in the empty rooms. Her nephew heard voices in the night. And the resident ghost buster of Orange, California, wanted to televise a seance in her living room. If Cheri Louette admitte...
An American teacher goes to Germany to escape his failing marriage and drinking problem, finds himself the prime suspect in a muder, and becomes ensnarled with international intelligence forces and a beautiful, dangerous woman...
They were destined for passion -- and adventure! Troubled thoughts haunted Verity Ames when she considered the uncontrollable passion that bonded her to Jonas Quarrel. The world saw him as a Renaissance scholar. Few people knew about the first a...
Readers beware! Mischievous ghosts, ancient curses, and monstrous spirits inhabit these thirteen spine-tingling tales. Enter a world of fantasy where a blast of a whistle brings a boy from the past, where a ghostly awl perches night after night at th...
Goldilocks is vintage Coburn, the Coburn of Sweetheart, The Babysitter, and Love Nest. This is a story of a New England town where all the deals have been quietly cut, the cops have traded their souls to crime bosses, and the crime boss of crime boss...
Norah Mulcahaney is faced with two baffling cases which occurred on the same night. Hampered by media interest and thrust into the public eye, Mulcahaney must use her investigative skills to uncover the truth behind each crime....
19th century. Kirsty Barnes, an orphan indentured to a lecherous old farmer, escapes from his advances with the help of her childhood sweetheart, Craig Nelson. With little money and still strangers to each other, they travel to Glasgow. Marriage take...
This coming-of-age novel by young author James Kirkwood tells the tragic and charming story of Peter Kilburn: a young man facing accusations of murdering the headmaster of his New England prep school—the same man with a sexual fixation on P...
LITTLE HARRY WASN'T LIKE OTHER CHILDREN Harry never cared for reading or writing. He never showed any interest in baseball or TV. Harry lived for other things -- like the pleasing sound of living creatures screaming in agony. And the soothing ...
It was his last chance to find the answer. The last day of school had finally arrived, six months after the homecoming dance and the ruin of a princess, and nine months after the big party and the death of an angel. It is to be a busy day; there is t...
A Gravestone Made of Wheat is a poignant and lyrical story of land, love, and the American immigrant experience. Now an award-winning indie film distributed by 20th Century Fox. Available everywhere on DVD. http://www.sweetlandmovie.com/ Excerpted fr...
It's So hard to Kill Good Help These Days... With three kids to raise on her own, Jane Jeffry sometimes needs a hand with the housework. But many of her complaining neighbors believe that the "Happy Helper" cleaning lady they all share w...
Once a Gypsy... Anna Maria Jones had left her Gypsy roots behind, but not her passionate nature. Sheriff Thomas Banning was determined to stir up both. And despite Anna Maria's resistance, he succeeded where a lesser man would have failed. Not ...
Hallie Donovan was a gypsy angel, a rodeo queen with a heart as big as Texas, and no woman was more delectable--or lethal--to Josh Butler! He'd seen what havoc bewitching women could wreak in a man's life, but Hallie was danger worth courting... and ...
The sleepy town of Tule Bend came alive with terror after a drifter was found hanging. The constable knew his job was on the line if he didn't do something. When more swinging bodies appeared he knew he had to move fast because he was next on the han...
JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED .... Conservative Dr. Scott Hotter was a man with priorities. The first thing he wanted was to marry the "girl next door" and have the family he'd missed while growing up. The perfect wife would be fairly predictable--...
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS. . . Long after Steven Drake had left, he still haunted Lara Danvers's dreams. Now he was back, offering to buy part of the farm Lara had fought so hard to keep. She'd never forget how he'd seduced her as a teenager to get he...
Bold and beautiful, Storme O'Malley was a legend among America's privateers. Daring with her sword, defiant in her spirit, she was captain, she was captain of the Tempest, the most dreaded pirate ship on the sea. But no man had ever kissed her honeye...
RACE FOR THE RING OF THE GODSRomans have crossed the border into Germania and stolen Andvaranaut, the Ring of the Gods. Depending upon who possesses it and how it is used, it could allow Rome to conquer the world-or destroy the world altogether.Osric...
Henry V is a historic play written by William Shakespeare, first published in 1599. It is based on the life of King Henry V of England, and focuses on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War. The play...
FLIRT WITH THAT JACKDAW LORD MONSTUART? WHY, SHE'D RATHER COZE WITH A WEASEL! But Miss Sally Hermitage was hellbent on seeing her dear sister happily wed-even if it was to Monstuart's ward. No matter to her that the arrogant gentleman was ...
Tracy undergoes a drastic lifestyle change when her family moves from their New York City apartment to Grandmother Tilly's farm where she makes few friends until Anya, a foreign exchange student, arrives from the Soviet Union....