LARRY NIVEN'S KNOWN SPACE IS AFLAME WITH WAR! Once upon a time, in the very earliest days of interplanetary exploration, an unarmed human vessel was set upon by a warship from the planet Kzin -- home of the fiercest warriors in Known Space. This w...
The author of The Vanderbilt Era examines sixteen famous friendships, from Boswell and Johnson to Hawthorne and Melville.This delightful series of short essays explores friendship in its various forms -- from true intimacy to professional detente bet...
In ancient Argos, fabled city by the sea, Conan of Cimmeria discovers that behind a facade of law, the intrigues of trading houses can be no less deadly than the wars he had left behind. Even a merchant prince can dabble with sorcery, and the sch...
From the World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Bards of Bone Plain.The Wayfolk are a dark-haired, wandering people who shun doors and walls. Corleu is Wayfolk, albeit with hair the color of the moon. But when his companions and his own true love ...
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...
The way Marcus Didius Falco sees it, no one can claim the monopoly on sleaze and corruption in the Eternal City because the competition is so keen. Most recently a Palace spy for the Emperor Vespasian, Falco is now in private service, trying to preve...
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...
After Julia Smith interviews for a secretarial position at the Medewich Cathedral, she visits the chapel for a moment's contemplation, but instead finds the severed head of a controversial visiting priest...
Planning officer Arnold Landon begins to research a book about his hobby, medieval architecture, but when the writer of the book is murdered, Landon is suspended from his job, and must clear his name before the real killer finds him...
Detective Inspector Benjamin Jurnet is reunited with his true love, Miriam, but their romantic tryst outside the quaint English village of Lanthrop is rudely interrupted when they find a corpse in a sand dune...
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...
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....
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 ...
The Borg--half organic being and half machine, they are the most feared race in the known galaxy. In their relentless quest for technological perfection, they have destroyed entire star systems, enslaved countless peoples, and, in a single brutal att...
For nearly a hundred years, the planet Chrellkan IV has enjoyed a peaceful relationship with the colony on the third planet of its star system. However, relations between the two worlds take a deadly turn as rebel colonists take over Chrellkan III an...
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...
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...
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 ...
The moment Bert and Nan, Freddie and Flossie arrive at the old Wilson house, they have a feeling their vacation in Beachcliff Bay is going to be unusual. And they're right! Before the day is over, they're wrapped up in a mystery. Why does a mirror br...
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...
When a stray black cat begins to follow Sophie around, she must convince her parents to let her keep him, and in the process, she learns a valuable lesson about making and keeping new friends. Reprint....
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 ...
In Gerstein's latest, a grandson's comment that ``dogs and cats are nice but it seems all we do is wait on them!'' launches Grandfather on a rollicking yarn about the way of the world back when it was ruled by cats and dogs. They were very lazy, he s...
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...
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....
While delivering his eggs on Easter morning, Peter Cottontail loses the most important egg. Includes a new Easter version of "Itiskit, Itaskit," music, a description of Easter and spring symbols, and suggestions for dyeing eggs and finding eggs hidde...
The author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel pens “the happiest, saddest, funniest, most perceptive truth about growing up since The Catcher in the Rye” (Over 21). Laura and Claire Jenkins were born just a few years apart, b...
When Adrian and Paula and their parents get in their van to set out for A Fun Weekend, there is so much to do on the way that their plan changes--and comes to an even more enjoyable conclusion. Full-color illustrations....
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...
Graham Chapman reveals what it was like to be part of the revolutionary and zany Monty Python teamRequired reading for Monty Python fans, this true and false memoir is Graham Chapman's own hilarious account of his life as a Python and as a homosexual...
A Christmas classic returns to Little Golden Books, with beautiful new artwork by a beloved Golden Books illustrator! The Nutcracker is back in print as a Little Golden Book, with all-new illustrations by Sheilah Beckett, who started illustratin...
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...
Freelance photographer David Corman sees a chance to sell a story when a woman leaps to her death in New York's Hell's Kitchen, but as he investigates her life he inadvertently reveals shocking personal truths...
"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...
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...
When his father, his secretary, and even the thief who stole his car die under grisly circumstances, advertising executive Harry Buckingham comes under investigation and must go undercover to clear his name. Reprint....
Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and Locus Awards, finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award, and named one of io9.com's "Top 10 Debut Science Fiction Novels That Took the World By Storm." With a new afterword by Maryse Meijer, author o...
Where life begins, terror lurks... In the eyes of her envious peers, Marissa has it all: a superb professional reputation, a flourishing pediatrics practice, even a fairytale marriage with the man of her dreams - Robert Buchanan, an entrepreneur invo...
A story that traces the bonds between four generations of resourceful Southern women through stories passed from one generation to another. A Cure for Dreams, a richly woven story that traces the bonds between four generations of Southern women throu...
A mysterious young drifter becomes a catalyst in the story of three women--a proud matriarch and her two daughters-in-law--and a solitary art forger-turned-dealer as they struggle to cope with their flawed relationships...
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...
Only one human being could have gotten Kiowa Smith to quit his drifting ways -- Paddy Burke, the tomcatting hombre who offered to partner him on a new ranch outside the town of Galilee, Kansas. But Paddy lies dead at the hands of Sheriff Ben Clark, f...
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...
They owed their souls to the Company Store--Not if they could help it, they didn't! When Sam and Jake answered the call of American Nicoji and volunteered for off-planet agricultural jobs they thought they were turning in their dead-end lives on E...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
Jessie and Ki will make sure the railroad goes through -- even if they have to lay their lives on the line in the one hundred and first Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting...
Jessie and Ki hunt down a stolen ruby -- and a pack of thieves and killers in the one hundred and second Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's front...
THEY MADE HIM AN ORPHAN. BUT HE MADE HIMSELF A MAN... The Brett clan had killed his family in a night of brutality and bloodshed that was little more than a blur in Paul Torridon's memory. Then they had adopted him for their own -- the spoils...
THE JUDGE TOUGH-AS-NAILS FEDERAL JUDGE CLAYTON TORN IS MORE THAN A JUDGE. SOMETIMES HE HAS TO BE THE JURY... AND THE EXECUTIONER. WAR CLOUDS Dakota is a powder keg with a short fuse. The Cheyenne are painting for war, the army is shining steel a...
IMPASSIONED CRUSADER Enraged over the pitiful plight of local miners, feisty flame-haired Carrie O'Leary decides to take action. Gun in hand, she bursts into the offices of the Crested Butte Courier and kidnaps editor Matt Worthington, the handsome ...
HER BEAUTY WAS THE BAIT... Esmeralda MacClure knew that using her fiery beauty as a weapon was heartless. But her cousin's betrayal had stolen her family estate and now, forced to work as a seamstress, she has no choice if she wants to reclaim her...
One man had the power to destroy her career -- and discover her hidden passion....
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......
THE CHASE FOR LOVE To compete against twenty other women for a marriage proposal from that devilishly handsome bachelor, the Earl of Fairbright? The very idea was insane! But Andrea Grantham is coerced into entering the silly contest -- and, aft...
A SINGULAR SENSATION Miss Elizabeth Carstairs, in the ordinary way of things, was a level-headed young lady, not given to flights of romantic foolishness. But when Mr. Frederick Ashfield arrived at Halliford Castle, after two years on the Continent,...
SHE HAD NOT MATURED TO SEVEN-AND-TWENTY WITHOUT LEARNING THAT ROMANCE WAS A FLEETING THING.... If only she had not developed a tendre for William Haversly -- her fierce enemy since the duel in which he shot her brother. To make matters worse, Fion...
The Arrogant Tyrant with a Wicked Grin... Jack Blackledge was sexy, tough, and hard to handle - and Colleen Brady knew she'd have her hands full working as assistant to the difficult columnist! She'd come all the way to Buffalo to escape her overp...
Daniel Aragon knew trouble when he saw it, and Harmony Russell was more than he could handle. The auburn-haired beauty was a temptation from the moment he spotted her on the San Francisco pier ... a temptation, and a torment. For her uncle was one of...
SHE'D ENSLAVE HIM WITH HER PASSION With her youth, beauty, and sizable dowry, Charleston-bred Kellie McBride had her share of ardent suitors eager to wed and bed her, but the headstrong miss was bewitched by the daring exploits of The Falcon -- ...
HE STORMED HER CASTLE Lady Ailee of Coldwell was not afraid -- merely outraged -- when the band of marauding knights laid siege to her castle. Donning chain mail armor and mounting a mighty destrier, she saw that her people were sheltered within the...
A LADY WITH A PAST For six years, Diana Farington Verney had buried herself in the country, far from the gossip surrounding her ill-fated, marriage and her late husband's demise. Indeed, London was be last place the lovely widow wanted to be, bu...
TIME HEALS WOUNDED HEARTS? PERHAPS WHEN PIGS FLY! The gossip mongers had a field day when the newly betrothed Lady Harriet caught her fiance, Rawdon Melford, kissing another woman -- at their own engagement party! Eight years later, Harriet nev...
HE HAD BETRAYED HER Lady Eden Parrish stared in shock at the bare-chested, blue-eyed rogue who stood so proudly on the Bridgetown auction block-- he was none other than her husband, the despicable Roark St. Clair! Eden had been sent to Barbados in d...
The selfless love Tessa felt for her grandmother was a natural, ingrained thing; her pride in her family tradition an unquestioned duty, an essential part of being a Jasmyn. Why, then, as she grew up, did she occasionally yearn to be free of Barmote ...
CAUGHT BY FATE Cassandra Taggart was tired of obeying orders. Though her late husband's will required her to hire a man to run her Georgia plantation, the beautiful young widow was determined to manage things herself. To satisfy the lawyers, she i...
The sweeping conclusion to the Coltrane Saga PASSION, REVOLUTION, AND LOVE TRIUMPHANT All Russia was being consumed in the terrible flames of war as the centuries-old Czarist dynasty crumbled. A prisoner in the midst of chaos and destruction, ...
Lady of Mystery To the ton, Honora Dillon was a person beyond the pale, soiling her hand with ink to pander to popular taste. To the haughty Countess of Alverstone, Honora was an adventuress, trying to snare the Countess's son. To Miranda, H...
England, 1816. A child bride, Lady Sara Winchester had grown into a winsome beauty, joyfully anticipating the day when her husband, Lord Nathanial Clayton, Marquess of St. James, would return to claim her at last. Charmingly innocent, she dismissed t...
As she struggles to piece her life together after enduring a divorce and the death of her child, Janet begins to think she is going mad when she dreams of children in a nursery fire and then sees shadowy figures in the house next door...
SHE FOUGHT HIS ADVANCES... Lovely Breda Vivien was livid! The law threatened that unless she married, she might lose her beloved Cornwall estate. The proud, raven-haired Breda refused to barter herself to a man -- not even the rugged Richard Delacey...
MASTER OF PASSION Sand storms and scorpions would not stop Eudora Morrel from crossing the Sahara to find her father, though stories she'd heard of the Reguibat -- a fierce tribe of marauding outlaws -- were enough to send shivers up her spine. ...
SHE VOWED ETERNAL VENGEANCE Her lush beauty hidden by a disguise, eighteen-year-old Emily Burnham came to the rough-and-tumble mining town of Cripple Creek determined to catch the murderous scoundrel who'd shot her father. Then devastatingly han...
From the moment she laid eyes on him, Rue thought Hawke Masters the most insufferable man she'd ever met. Proud, arrogant, overbearing, he made it insultingly clear that although her grandfather's shotgun had forced him to wed Rue, nothing would make...
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......
DREAMS OF LOVE... For lovely Jennifer Avery, stationed with her career officer husband and two young daughters in Naples, marriage is no longer the joyous, fulfilling union it once was. Torn by her changing feelings for the man she married too you...
WILDERNESS OF DESIRE Fleeing the grinding poverty of her Scottish homeland lovely Keira MacKenzie had no choice but to indenture herself in return for passage to the New World. Never did she imagine that her bond would be sold to the highest bidde...
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...
She vowed never to forgive him but she could not forget him She wanted a taste of adventure. But rebellious Alexandra Penbrooke stepped into a world of danger … and found herself tangled in the steely arms of Christian Page. A man who’s seeming ...
His lessons in loving made her burn for his touch! SHE WAS WILLING TO LEARN High spirited Glynna O'Rourke was delighted when a distant relative invited her to spend a year in London, but now the Virginia beauty stamped her shapely foot in outra...
AN ARROGANT STRANGER HELD HER FUTURE IN HIS HANDS... Cara Fairchild's beloved father left her penniless on his death, willing their estate to the Earl of Ellsworth, a man she'd never met. The imperious Earl sent curt orders for Cara to live with h...
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...
While the sun set on the British Empire, they discovered that desire can be as unquenchable as a desert wind... The exquisitely beautiful daughter of an English missionary, Annalise Devon had a simple life-- until her dying father passed her desti...
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...
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...
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......
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...
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...
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......
Stunning, sensual, and stubborn, Maggie Charleson was about to learn the rules of... Ambition--wanting her talent, not her wealthy father's ownership of New York's mighty football franchise, to make her a top journalist. Power--being blackmailed by...
In 1981 a new hero like no other burst upon the scene. Over the next ten years and three films we grew to know and love the legend that is Indiana Jones: bold adventurer, swashbuckling explorer, he lives forever in our imaginations, unraveling the...