Ian Young spent a summer as a medical student in a provincial maternity unit in Algeria. This book is taken from the diary he began on arrival, when he found himself the privileged witness of the insides not just of Kabyl women, but also some much-t...
For 78 days in the summer of 1990, Canadians were transfixed by the dramatic images of Mohawk warriors in an armed standoff with the Quebec police and the Canadian army. It was a crisis that paralyzed an entire province, gripped the nation's ima...
The unique joys and passions that surround St. Valentine's Day are captured in an extraordinary collection of all-new stories by five of the most beloved and highly acclaimed Regency authors. Fair ladies ... courtly gentlemen ... romantic intrigue......
A COWARD DIES A THOUSAND TIMES, BUT A BRAVE MAN'S DEATH IS REAL!That and Never Volunteer could have been Ryne Sangre's dual mottoes, but now that the Wholeth Empire is reaching out to annex the worlds of the Polar Cloud, it's time for all able-bodied...
Wrongly incarcerated for the murder of his family, a Texas man escapes to his hometown to kill the police chief, whom he suspects drove his wife to suicide, and finds Detective Mark Shigata in his place...
Lucy didn't trust Guy an inch The Comte de Chauvrais was the rudest and most insensitive man she had ever met. What had possessed her Aunt Wanda to accept an invitation to stay at his chateau? And why was he so interested in them? The whole...
Julian left the army and embarked on a career as an aspiring actor and sometime novelist, supporting himself as a bartender in a seedy pub frequented by other bohemians in London in the 1950s. It is through his job that Julian meets Anne and a friend...
The town of Atocha, New Mexico, is having trouble coping with technology. It is a place where the old values of family loyalty still hold sway, and where the Chief of Police can solve any crime because he knows everyone's secrets. But Atocha is about...
HE WAS AN INTIMATE STRANGER Oscar-winning director Sandy Baker wanted no partners on or off the set. But Victoria Moore couldn't help getting involved. Victoria's first and most autobiographical novel was being brought to the silver screen. Vic...
AMERICAN GIGOLO OR ABSENTMINDED PROFESSOR... At first, Jessica Day thought she had just imagined him. What was a tall, dark, handsome man in a tuxedo doing at the local college pub? But as she got to know him, Jessie realized that she could nev...
Jonathan felt the bullet slam into his chest, heard his lover's anguished scream. But then he'd plunged into a snowy darkness, and Cathy had disappeared, leaving him for dead. Now, eleven years later, an embittered, tormented Jonathan had finally ...
WHAT GUILTY SECRETS LAY COVERED IN BLOOD AND BULLETS?
This was no ordinary cattle drive through Sheriff Santiago Toole's Miles City in the Montana Territory. Three cowboys in the outfit had already stopped bullets, and the boss man Hermes Brag...
SOME PEOPLE WILL DO ANYTHING FOR MONEY Mavis St. Paul had been a rich man's mistress. Now she was a corpse. And every cop in New York City was hunting for the two-bit punk accused of putting a knife in her. But the punk was innocent. He'd been ...
While vacationing with his family in Nicaragua, Rachmaninoff of the Beverly Hills police department becomes embroiled in a scheme to restore the Sandinistas to power. Masterminded by activist professor Cory Heard, the plan calls for digging up $1 bil...
When Olamaiileoti Monroe takes her seventy-five-year-old father, Finau, on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, both are caught up in a search for understanding of each other and the ties that bind them. Their story unfolds on an international stage--in Sa...
Years ago, the sacred Book of Kyrie prophesied that a champion would lead the Three Kingdoms in battle against the demonic sorcerer Taws and his barbarian Horde--sent by the wrathful war-god Ashar to tear the kingdoms apart. When the young prince ...
Alain du Gard seemed to have everything Once Alex had joked about what it would take to get her to the altar--an Yves Saint Laurent wedding gown, an exotic sports car, a honeymoon in St. Lucia. Now she knew that money didn't matter to her--...
When Juan Montanares, the cocaine kingpin who bribed him years before, suddenly dies, free-lance gumshoe Lenny Schwartz finally feels he can breathe more easily, until Montanares's right-hand man assumes control of the cartel. Reprint....
It is a bloody game as old as nations and politics. And it has always been played with the lives of the most loyal and brave. Colonel "Wild Bill" Fogarty has been a dedicated soldier for most of his adult life---an able warrior who was bloodied but ...
Champagne and caviar--she had it all .. . Health, a challenging, successful career, her own comfortable home, holidays abroad, designer clothes, lots of friends. But Rosie Middleton didn't have a man. Rosie had lost her heart once--with dis...
In 1890 the Russian author Chekhov undertook an historic journey across Siberia to the convict island of Sakhalin. A hundred years later, in an isolated artist's retreat, a Soviet film unit prepares to commemorate his journey by using a technique th...
NANOWARE TIME The aliens came from Beta Hydri, bearing gifts for Earth: microscopic machines called "nanoware." Injected into the human bloodstream, they would open powerful realms of inner space. But even the aliens admitted there were demons in tha...
One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now that they have a home with their grandfather, they've turned thei...
One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather and are helping to save a...
One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather and are going to visit his ...
One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather and they've gone on a vac...
"Ye have been here before, child. Ye cannot deny it" As an infant, she was left in a basket on the steps of a simple cottage in the South of Wales. Now, the kindly couple who raised her have died; Gwynneth Morys is an orphan again, totally alone i...
Facing the gallows for defending his honor-by killing the captain of the guard-the mighty Conan jumps feet first into a rescue attempt of one of his fellow prisoners. When Conan learns his rescuers are the daring Rebels of the White Rose, he joins th...
Mankind's best friends - and the future's greatest heroes... The team: They are the best freelance space scouts in the galaxy; genetically altered dogs with enhanced senses and the gift of speech; they are Beowulf, Grendel, Mama-san, Anso...
_____________________________POWERTwo clever, stylish and ambitious women are fighting for control of a multi-million cosmetics empire. MYSTERYWhat is the secret that lies behind its charming, ruthless creator, Julian Morell? And why, when he dies, d...
The "annual" Saint Patrick's Day party hosted by Tim and Jamie Malone in their small northern New Mexico community is their first in many years. But it also marks their last as they prepare to move to the Midwest. For Albuquerque attorney Neil Hamel,...
COIN OF THE REALM Videssos was beset by enemies abroad and had fallen into decadence at home. But on his first night in' the imperial capital, The Empire's health mattered less to Krispos than finding a dry place to sleep. Driven by crushing ta...
In sixteenth-century London, someone is killing the law students of Temple Bar, and Constable Matthew Stock is called in to investigate, along with his wife Joan, who pursues a nontraditional avenue of inquiry...
There is much that is entertaining in Elizabethan England, colorful and merrie for both Good Queen Bess and her people. But here are matters savage and murderous, too, and it is County Constable Matthew Stock, a humble clothier by trade, and his prac...
When a little bear neglects to drink the soup the other bears use to prepare for their winter sleep, she finds herself virtually alone, enjoying the solitary adventure until the wolves howl and she longs to join her slumbering family...
TRUEBIRTH -- Born in the laboratory, these genetically engineered soldiers train to be the ultimate warriors. They are the elite pilots of the Clan's fearsome BattleMech war machines. FREEBIRTH --Born of the natural union of parents, these too are...
A CLASH OF EMPIRES In 2786, the elite Star League Army fled the Inner Sphere, abandoning the senseless bloodshed ordered by the Successor Lords. Now, almost three hundred years later the Clans, heirs of the Star League Army, turn their eyes-back upo...
Two decades have passed since Caroline Webb's five-year-old daughter Hayley was kidnapped and murdered. Now Caroline has a new husband, a new life, and a new daughter, Melinda. But the demons of her past refuse to stay buried... Bouquets of black ...
Piri Thomas describes the passionate, painful search to validate his manhood. He has done it all in Harlem's mean streets and gone on from machismo to manhood, acquiring during the journey an understanding of man."-The NationFrom the Trade Paperback ...
CAPTIVE OF DECEPTION AND DESIRE Betrayed by a treacherous French "ally" dashing Sir Connor of Glenshiel boldly seized the high-born Lady Laurien d'Amboise from the steps of Notre Dame on her wedding day. The reluctant betrothed of his deceitful en...
Single mom Susan Miller knew there wasn't a man breathing she could trust--least of all, new neighbor David Hunter, Wyoming's most notorious bachelor. True, his playboy smile brightened dishwater-dull days, and he had risked life and limb for her chi...
First the rituals, then the blood, then He shall come into His power and rule in the name of Lucifer. And woe to any servant who does not bend her knee in homage.... A killer is working the streets of New York City, snuffing out the most innocent ...
Reissued with an introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a stunning and disquieting novel of heroism and cowardiceA masterful novel that was a huge bestseller in Europe, The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman is a testament to the power of literature. Now wi...
In 1742, colonial American seafarer Admiral Edward Mainwaring is called on to defend the Royal British Navy against French and Spanish fleets at Toulon Harbor, a difficult test of his strategic acumen and swashbuckling skills...
Fifteen-year-old Hannah sets out from her Jewish shtetl in Poland, beginning a journey that will see her find and marry her childhood sweetheart and establish a European empire of stylish beauty salons...
TRUE LOVE NEVER DIES Though Katharine Lafferty was engaged to be married, her heart was still in mourning. Katharine had been nineteen and a college coed. Danny McCandless had been twenty-four and a well-dressed, coolheaded criminal. And his ef...
“I made my family disappear!” Kevin McCallister's day has definitely gotten off to a bad start. His family accidentally forgot him when they went to Paris for the holidays. At first, he thought it was his fault--after all, he did make that wis...
Different Worlds Dawn Avery: Biologist. Her work--her life--was the rain forests of Central America. Michael Garrett: Corporate analyst. His business -- his roots--were solidly in Western Canada. Then it happened. One hot, steamy night in ...
WELCOME TO FEAR STREET Don't listen to the stories they tell you about Fear Street. Wouldn't you rather explore it yourself... and see if its dark terrors and unexplained mysteries are true? You're not afraid, are you? Snowbound! "Red" Porter wa...
Will the Real Ira Please Stand Up? Imagine what it would be like to have a double! A double could go to school while you stay home. A double could clean your room while you're outside playing. It all started when Ira Fishman won a camera from a...
The Princess and the Pharaoh She was the privileged daughter of a king, envied for her delectable beauty. He was the all-powerful ruler of Egypt, worshipped as a god by his people. And when Shanda, unwilling, was sent by her father as a gift t...
Centuries of passionate wisdom and ardent devotion are bound into this one collectible gift volume. Readers will savor the impassioned love letters of emperors, artists, poets, and politicians--Napoleon, Beethoven, Emily Dickenson, Benjamin Franklin,...
There's a place in every heart for forgiving.... SARAH She came to Deadwood, a rough and tumble western town, with an ambitious dream of starting a newspaper. But her journey had another purpose--to find her sister and mend the family tie that ...
Crash course in love... If there's one boy at Maplesville High that Darby Haynes can't stand, it's Bruce Edwards. Darby first met him when his car plowed into hers at a busy intersection. She's been running into him - literally - ever since. It...
At the posh Lake Forest mansion where Reverend Randollph and his colleagues form an interdenominational panal on miracles, "miraculous" paranormal murders are occuring, and the minister-sleuth must find an earthly explanation--fast...
HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS Abbey Baird was coming home--to the small town she'd vowed to escape forever, and to face the man she'd once adored. Ten years had passed since she'd left behind the shadow of her past--and Travis Matthews--to make somet...
HE BOUGHT A BRIDE Wealthy Louisiana planter Dominic Kane was in a bind: according to his father's will, he had to find a wife within six months--or forfeit his inheritance and his plantation, Riverwood. When he caw the beautiful bondservant on the d...
GOING ONCE, GOING TWICE... The truth was, Jan Folger had never really given Junior Busby a second thought--even though he'd lived next door to her for about a million years. But her charity group was holding a bachelor auction. They needed one mor...
They were three very different women, each searching for happiness in the ever changing world of the nineteenth century. -- Bethany Newton - a victim of injustice, she was sentenced to an Australian prison and forced to leave her baby daughter in E...
Three abandoned orphans, one missing heiress ... When elderly communications magnate Owen Byrnside learned that twenty-six years earlier his only son had fathered a daughter, he yearned to locate his heir. It wouldn't be easy: the night the girl's...
Preston Scott was only twelve years old when his father killed his mother. He never saw it coming. Despite his parents’ constant fighting, Preston always thought they were perfect together. He never dreamed his father would be capable of murder. Th...
Following a bloody train holdup that left one man dead and resulted in the theft of a cargo of gold, Cam Holgate is determined to retrieve the booty and win the reward that could save his failing ranch, but the only witness to the crime, greedy Tina ...
While his girlfriend travels to Berlin to testify against the most dangerous TekLords, ex-cop Jake Cardigan is called to Brazil to speak to a witness and discovers that he has been tricked into leaving his lover's side. Reprint....
Two Could Play at the Marriage Game Lovely Lady Sybilla Calverton refused to show her rage when she spied her husband, the devastatingly attractive Earl of Ramsbury, in the arms of the notorious Lady Fanny Mandeville. Instead Sybilla chose to show...
It was a scandalous affair Prim and proper Kate Hightower did everything by the book. Yet she'd run away from her wedding rehearsal, leaving her fiance practically standing at the altar. New Orleans was the ideal place to soothe her shattered nerv...
"Are you afraid?" Making friends isn't easy, Allan realizes, especially when you're the new kid in town. Since moving to Ocean View, Allan has spent most of his time alone, out at Silver Lake, watching the geese and the beautiful, graceful white d...
From the Nobel Prize-winning author: “A capacious, funny, threatening novel” of wandering souls and political upheaval in 1930s Portugal (The New York Times Book Review). The year is 1936, and the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is establis...
They were an unlikely pair Dr. Sergei Karol was no mere mortal. He was microsurgeon, the specialist who saved Polly Mechler's brother from a disabling injury. But Polly wasn't intimidated by the great Dr. Karol. She had her own claim to fame. She ...
Iron & Silk, Mark Salzman's bestselling account of his adventures as an English teacher and martial arts student in China, introduced a writer of enormous charm and keen insight into the cultural chasm between East and West. Now Salzman returns t...
Fans of Rosamunde Pilcher, Maeve Binchy and Fiona Valpy will love this incredibly poignant and emotionally resonant novel of friendship and fate from multi-million copy seller and Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Sallis. WHAT READERS ARE SAYING!...
Midwestern teen Crosby Rawson fights to be middle-class while coping with a father who keeps getting fired, a mother who smokes too much and isn't accepted by the "ladies" of town and a strange brother who constantly watches television...
Why did the guy eat two dead skunks for breakfast? Because live ones squeal when you stick the fork in. Gary W. Boone knows he was born to be a stand-up comedian. It's the rest of the kids in his class who think he’s just a goon. Then the Floyd...
In the last decade, black women writers have come into their own. The voices of Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison & Alice Walker resonate throughout the world. Since the first slaves were taken from Africa to American in 1619, black women have been telling...
A pioneering spirit marked the hardy mountaineers of North Carolina, but an ugly violence ravaged this land of laurels and hills. A dread disease was killing rich and poor alike, and cruel blame fell on the proud Cherokee, the last great Indian tribe...
Lying Beauty... Adam Gase had risked his inheritance to rebuild a crumbling sugar plantation, but his dream was shattered after he was thrown into a Louisiana prison for crimes he did not commit. Now he was free, bent on revenge -- and he would start...
After complaining that her life is uninteresting, Rachel finds herself transported to a place where periodic storms occur which affect the inhabitants in strange ways and cause pigs to float in the air...
WAYLAID BY PASSION Golden-haired heiress Arielle Duplantier had no time for romantic dalliance! She had made a solemn vow: to find the man who killed her twin brother and stole her beloved plantation, farce the villain to pay for his crimes, and the...
IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT The calls came like clockwork -- a cold, hate-filled voice telling late-night radio announcer Cilla O'Roarke that she was going to die. The never-ending threats had finally made her a believer. She was desperate -- desp...
Clint Adams has finally met his match...at least when it comes to poker. Playing against cardsharp O.G. Phipps. the Gunsmith is folding faster than a union tent in a tornado. It isn't much consolation when Phipps raises the ante and has Clint bunk up...
Six women have bought the old Beckett place near Little Creek, Wyoming. Rancher Tom Kennedy figures he can easily chase 'em off and add their land to his own spread -- but that's before he learns the gals have got the Gunsmith on their side! Even ...
A SHADOW... The bold intruder crept through the silent mansion, determined to claim the fortune that was rightfully his. But Julian Chase was undone, his daring scheme thwarted by a bewitching silver-blond beauty with eyes that sparkled like preciou...
When his old friend Werewolf phones him with a desperate call for help, streetwise chancer Angel has no choice but to respond - and finds himself plunged into another hair-raising adventure! This time he is well out of his comfort zone, travelling fi...
Casey Clinton was in a bind. Custody courts didn't favor single fathers, and he seemed perilously close to losing his beloved nephew. What he needed was a wife. And since his childhood buddy Joanna Vail had always stood by his side through thick and ...
Their love was the greatest peril of all... Belle Varens... Beneath her silk gowns and frilly corsets beat the steely heart of a spy. Sinclair Carrington... A master of deception, he possessed dark secrets of his own. In the stormy days of the French...
The unique joys and passions that surround St. Valentine's Day are captured in an extraordinary collection of all-new stories by five of the most beloved and highly acclaimed Regency authors. Fair ladies ... courtly gentlemen ... romantic intrigue......
Love Passionate Promise Alyson Hampton was a scorned love child...until a vast legacy made her the fabulously wealthy Lady Hampton, pursued by the most rapacious fortune hunters in the realm. This exquisite innocent was in desperate need of rescue...
A MATTER OF TRUST From the minute she walked into her office, Stephanie Robinson knew it was going to be a long day. An irate client was waiting with a check for twenty-five thousand dollars--a check that had bounced. A quick search of the compute...
A lifetime ago, Vietnam vet and Chicago cab driver Cooper MacLeish shared a night of passion with beautiful Vivian Horstmann. And now she's dead - just another police statistic in a violent, heartless town. Though the cops call Vivian's long, cold fa...
SCIENCE IS A SERIOUS MATTER ... BUT SO IS LOVE! Wishing to pursue his scientific studies undisturbed, Lord Justin Darvey kept his life simple--and the hiring of charming Elizabeth Hanley as a companion to his elderly aunt seemed just the thing. El...
A PRESIDENTIAL DYNASTY. AN ARAB TERRORIST ATTACK. DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE. Mario Puzo envisioned it all in his eerily prescient 1991 novel, The Fourth K. President Francis Xavier Kennedy is elected to office, in large part, thanks to the legacy of hi...
The sole surviving member of Detective Peter Brichter's wife's family is murdered soon after arriving for the Brichter's Christmas party at her former home, Tretower, where the remaining guests reveal some unpalatable secrets about Tretower's past...
The "nameless" San Francisco detective and his partner Eberhardt are trying to prove that their client Thomas Lujack did not mow down his business partner with his car. Although he suspects his client's guilt early on, the 58-year-old gumshoe spends ...
Here is a masterful collection of 41 of the genre's finest--and most chilling--tales, It is an indispensable volume of horror and the beyond, compiled by three of the field's top contributors and authorities and introduced by the current undisputed m...
George Plimpton is best known for taking to the arenas of professional sports and surviving to write about his experience--with grace, urbanity, and considerable good humor. But such classics as Paper Lion and The Bogey Man are only the most visible ...
From Dav Pilkey, creator of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dog Man and Captain Underpants series, comes Dragon, the heartwarming hero adored by Dav's youngest readers!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early reader line...
This book features the word children are most likely to encounter during their first year of school. The book in the series include some of the best loved characters around. as well as retelling of favorite nursery tales....
Trouble in Trash City... Major Nick Little and a band of soldiers from Trash City come across a scary scene in the town dump -- a tiny person's camp has been attacked! And inside the tent are two tiny babies Major Nick has never seen before. ...
The last camel is dead, and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, her dashing husband, Emerson, and precocious son, Ramses, are in dire straits on the sun-scorched desert sands. Months before, back in cool, green England, Viscount Blacktower.had approached th...
MAN'S EXPLORATION OF PSYCHIC ABILITY-AND THE SEARCH FOR THE PERFECT WEAPON-HAVE PRODUCED A NIGHTMARE BEYOND BELIEF... DEATHSCAPE Chuck Simon's unique mind powers are strong enough to conquer an ordinary man. But now, biochemical dumping at a weapon...
UNFINISHED BUSINESS There's vermin on the streets of Chicago, and Mack Bolan is sent in as exterminator. He's got the right equipment... a .44 Magnum Desert Eagle and a lifelong vendetta against men like Hector Gurrola. The drug lord rules an e...
She is called Cridilla--the youngest daughter of Leir Blatonikos, the mighty Celtic warlord who conquered three kingdoms. Beautiful, loyal and warrior-trained, she grows to womanhood in a magnificent, barbaric land--and learns lost secrets of the God...
"Geoffrey Patterson has created a highly original fable of the story behind 'Henri Rousseau's' famous painting, 'The Sleeping Gypsy'. "One day a gypsy sets out on a long journey to visit his parents in a village far away. Each day he walks with the...
Who's the new girl at Sweet Valley High? Looks can be deceiving………… Jessica can’t believe it! Her idol, rock star Jamie Peters, has moved to Sweet Valley. If only she could meet him, her career as a 'star' would really take off! Peek...
A Gambler in Love... Katie Reynolds had loved Bill Logan ever since they were kids, but he'd never considered her anything more than his best buddy, his partner in crime. So when he came home to Cape May and invited her to dinner, she wondered if ...
"What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill. You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep..." Raymond Chandler wrote those immortal words on the final page of his first Marlowe t...
MR. JANUARY Man: Gene Nelson Description: Lean, rugged rancher and head honcho of the sprawling Triple N spread--until he made a shocking discovery. Reputation: Love 'em and leave 'em a man whose heart was made of ice... until mysterious All...
Buried Treasures Archaeologist Kitt Tucker had spent her life studying the past, but she'd never been able to make sense of her own. And now she had to, because Garth Culhane, the husband who'd walked out on her so many years before, was back in ...
THE THREADS THAT LEAD TO MURDER The beautiful handmade quilt Faith Sibley Fairchild buys at an estate auction promises to liven up her deathly dull vacation on Maine's Sanpere Island. THE OLD MAID'S PUZZLE Lovingly constructed by wealthy, deceas...
It had all turned out to be so strange, so ironic. Angela Peterson's family had moved west because her mother had not been well and the doctor said the cooler, clear air of the region might be easier on her lungs. Her father sold the farm and loaded ...
Manhattan's pleasant Upper East Side has always been safe from the city's drug wars-until a crackpot with an. AK-47 fires on a crowd at an open-air flea market, killing a teenage mother and her infant. The shocked neighborhood looks to Lt. Norah Mulc...