This time it all began with a search for a vanished Russian atomic scientist, Aleksei Kazeishvili. A perfect assignment for K section’s indefatigable undercover agent Sam Durell. The chances of coming out alive from this one were pretty slim. But t...
ONLY DEATH CAN KEEP YOU FROM THE FINISH LINE - IN THE ULTIMATE COMPETITION OF THE ALL-TOO-NEAR FUTURE.... Every year, on the first day of May, one hundred teenage boys meet for an event known throughout the country as "The Long Walk." Among this y...
She loved the man she had divorced Suzanne hadn't planned to meet her ex-husband, Raoul de Brecourt, in Hong Kong. She'd gone there for a holiday. But there was no escaping Raoul's overpowering presence. From the start their marriag...
Assigned to investigate the ganglandstyle murder of young Frank Corvino, Gabriel Wager, a tough Chicano police detective, probes into mob affairs even though Corvino had no apparent link with organized crime...
An exciting fantasy adventure in the tradition of Andre Norton and Marion Zimmer Bradley. The young man they called Hawk had always been a loner, seeking solace in the company of the hawks, eagles, and other birds that he could telepathically sense a...
The search no longer seemed important! It had seemed to be so simple - return to Devil's View, find the paper that Simon considered essential, and return to marry Simon. But Jana's first encounter with Clint Dubois, the present owner,...
Gary Connoway had heard rumors of a mysterious Cult of Death even before he arrived in San Mario, but nothing could have prepared him for the unspeakable evil that stalked him now. He had come to the primitive Caribbean island for rest and instead fo...
Asmodeus Mogart was not a bad fellow, as demons go. Having gotten in trouble back in the home office, he had been assigned to duty on Earth. There he toiled, doing the kinds of things demons do and turning into something of a drunk.
Then a rogue a...
One of the greatest love stories in American history is also one of the most controversial. Thomas Jefferson had a mistress for 38 years whom he loved and lived with until he died-the beautiful and elusive Sally Hemings. But it was not simply that Je...
Forced to marry a man she couldn't love, there was only one thing to do. Run. Because her father and brothers were mired in gambling debts, Emily Ventrable had no choice but to marry that horrid old man, Lord Keynes, whose money could solve the f...
They called themselves the Apollonians and they were dedicated to Art. They were also dedicated to whiskey and wild parties, and a life of total immorality. Into their circle came Eugenia, innocent and trusting... until her husband, the leader of ...
Mary wanted to catch the next flight home! Mary Allis reluctantly took her nephew, Paul, to meet his wealthy Spanish relatives. She had raised her dead sister's son, but now they claimed him as heir. Though welcomed by Paul's grandfathe...
Marty felt just like an alien! Solitaire, her Uncle Jim's home in France, was to have been a haven for Marty after years of unhappiness. Instead of the expected welcome, she was greeted by a hostile stranger. Luc Dumarais, the new owner of...
Destiny brings two lonely people together in this moving love story by A J Cronin, one of the master story-tellers of our time.
Dr Harvey Leith, brilliant research scientist, awakes from a drunken stupor to find himself aboard a liner bound fo...
Rome was not man enough for one woman Newspaper reporter, Lexie Templeton, didn't need to meet Rome Lockwood to know his type - a male chauvinist playboy with a different girl on his arm every night! Lexie's caustic comments to Shari S...
Les Danielsâ," The Black Castle is a tale of a battle between brothers. It takes place in Spain, in 1496, during The Inquisition. Perception is everything. One brother, Sebastian, is seen as evil because he is a vampire, while the other, Diego, ...
Charles Marceau, a nineteen-year-old French Resistance agent during World War II, is involved in D-Day, the liberation of Paris, and the invasion of Germany and is haunted by memories of Majo, his first love, who is now in a concentration camp...
"What the hell are you doing here?" He spoke softly, but his hostility was clear. Morag would have enjoyed returning to Wharuaroa, where she'd been happy as a teenager, except for meeting Thorpe Cunningham again. His words showed th...
""Nobody does what they did to Rancho Bravo and gets away with it. Not while I'm alive."Killraine had killed men before. He had been a captain in the Union Army. But he had never had a passion for killing. Then Jethro Lawrence and his"...
The King's Messenger - Lawrence Temple's Probation is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking an...
It is 1944 and weeks before D-Day. The Allies are disguising their invasion plans with a phoney armada of ships and planes. Their plan would be scuppered if an enemy agent found out... and then, Hitler's prize agent, “The Needle”, does just that....
Long ago, when the world had no moon. Atlantis and Mu ruled the earth, and a brilliant light shone in the heart of Bulinga, Princess of Grood. Beautiful and wild, Bulinga yearned to be free from her warlord father. One night, with the help of a group...
Greece and Turkey were arming for war That news spelled disaster for Caroline Manett. It meant that no civilians could leave the Greek island of Lemnos until the Cyprus crisis had been resolved. Now she had no way of escaping the unwelcome pres...
Josiah Burney, gentleman and rogue, jumps ship to escape serving in the English navy, and finds himself in the still uncivilized American colonies. Realizing he has been cheated out of an earldom, Josiah begins his search for those who can restore wh...
You don't have to know John Birks 'Dizzy' Gillespie's songs to feel his influence. The self-taught trumpet player rose from a poor but musically driven upbringing to become a jazz mastermind, founding the bebop movement and giving rise to Afro-Cuban ...
A lethally venomous snake is on the loose in New York City in this thriller by the New York Times"bestselling author of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. On a steamy night in Central Park, a sailor returning from South Africa gets mugged. ...
In the glittering world of Hollywood peopled with stars, hopefuls, and hasbeens, hungry and cunning producers, starlets, moguls, and whores are willing to sacrifice everything for an elusive place at the top...
Dr. Carrie Addison came to Point Hope to run its clinic, knowing that life in the tiny Alaskan village would mean demanding days and cold, empty nights. She expected to miss her fiance, Mark, off in Washington lobbying for ecology bills, while she pl...
His name was Mark Craig. O was a registered Double M. a middle man. Now Mark Craig was adrift in a terrifying time warp. He had become a nonperson in places that never existed. Constantly pursued by figments, tumbling in and out of time, Craig had no...
From the gorgeous mansions and sordid shacks of old San Francisco...to the beauty and decadence of Imperial China...to the tender enticements and savage violence of feudal Japan here is the scorching romantic saga of a beautiful woman and the only ma...
Should she settle for what she could get? Young and impressionable, Colette Moore had fallen in love with Luke Marlis on sight. Because she was plain and insignificant, he hadn't even noticed her. Then fate changed Colette's life drasti...
FLAMING INNOCENCE! Selena Hamilton lay in the London gutter, her velvet gown torn and muddy, her evil assailant routed by a dark-haired Texan. Gently the tall stranger took her in his arms, and carried her to his waiting ship. WANTON DESIRE! Fro...
The matriarch of a Long Island clan with a stubbornly suicidal son and a defiant, restless granddaughter, Esther has hired a Russian landscaper to watch over the family as well as the grounds of their secluded waterfront estate. But he has been wa...
On assignment to track down the killers of Judge Orson Brite, U.S. Marshall John Rye reconsiders his two prime suspects, one of whom is a beautiful woman, when all three of them walk straight into an ambush...
In THE DEATH OF ATTILA, the great Hun leader dominates the late Roman world; in his shadow a Hun warrior and a German princeling form a fragile comradeship. When Attila dies, the world around them crumbles, and the two men face terrible choices. ...
Candida had no wish to leave her publishing job in New York to play guardian angel to a spoiled -- and very frightened -- wealthy beauty who was, in fact, losing her money and her looks to alcohol. But Diana Egremont was used to having her own way...
"We want you to get the formula for us!" The voice was muffled, but Genevieve knew the man was deadly serious. Her husband had been kidnapped on the eve of their Italian honeymoon, and now she knew why. Millions of dollars were at stake. Desper...
How could such a love have died? Caroline asked herself the useless question. Her marriage to the distinguished lawyer, James Fox, had been nearly ideal. Now there was nothing between them but cold contempt. In her loneliness Caroline turned ...
As Germany stands on the edge of an abyss, Hitler plots one final madness.As the Russians and the Western Allies race towards Berlin, the Nazi hierarchy plots to escape the inevitable retribution facing them at the end of World War II.Kurt Wolff is a...
Bill Serviss is a ruthless, gun-fast ranger in a reckless chase after rustlers...his Colt spat justice in a fight against the toughest outlaws in the west. The most feared man in the town was Cleve Morley, proprietor of the SIlver Saddle Saloon. He r...
A hugely popular stage and screen success, this ingeniously constructed play offers a rare and skilful blending of two priceless theatrical ingredients - gasp-inducing thrills and spontaneous laughter. Unknown dramatist Clifford Anderson has sent his...
She had been a strange, elusive child who grew into an even stranger woman. Part peasant, part gypsy, JASSY had powers--extraordinary, mysterious powers. Powers she could not control but which affected the lives of all those who loved... or loat...
A plea for help from her sister Natasha brings Countess Alexandreya Romonova to St Petersburg - a city soon to be at the mercy of the new Czar, Peter the Mad. The old Czarina had died and now Russia was divided into two camps: those who supported the...
In this political thriller by the author of The Secret Lovers, Paul Christopher’s cousins tinker with an election while a reporter chases a lead. Originally published in 1979, The Better Angels is set close to the end of the twentieth century in a ...
As the plane neared Martinique, Heather Northcutt wondered why her cousin had sent for her. Heather was just a bookkeeper, a plain, ordinary English girl, even though the dark, sophisticated stranger on the plane stared at her as if he thought otherw...
Thea was a beauty and a spitfire. A first-rate mind, too. Better than most of the men she encountered. She might have gone on forever a spinster - content with her books - except that fate stepped in, in the shape of Georgina, a terrified young g...
YOU ARE THE HERO OF A FABULOUS DEEP SEA ADVENTURE You are an underwater explorer. In the deepest ocean, you have accidentally been shut out of your special underwater vessel! Luckily you have friends above you in a boat. But can they save you in time...
AN INNOCENT WOMAN-CHILD THRUST OUT ON FORTUNE'S WILDEST SEA... At 14, Beth Talbot was the mother of twins, her body violated and her daughters snatched away at birth. Ten years later, she was the beautiful, willful widow of a wealthy shipping m...
Her father planned the perfect match This time, Caroline Rayner wouldn't stand for it. She was tired of Matt Rayner's matchmaking attempts. Even without meeting him, she was sure Greg Fortnum, the arrogant businessman, wasn't her type...
She knew it was time to leave! Determined to break the stranglehold of a selfish stepmother and stepbrother, Becky left home. She'd begin nursing again; make a home for herself and Pooch and Bertie, the pets she'd brought with her. Then...
From bittersweet torment to the triumph of desire...Brigid saw Edmund only twice before that day when he took her as his unwilling bride, then bent her to his lust with the savagery of villainous delight. He had plans for their life together...plans ...
YOU ARE THE HERO OF YOUR OWN ADVENTURE You are lost in a strange, dimly lit cave. Gradually you can make out two passageways. One curves downward to the right; the other leads upward to the left. It occurs to you that the one leading down may go ...
"Pretend to be his fiancee! I couldn't!" Sandra was shocked at the suggestion. And yet penniless and out of work with no one to turn to, she finally, reluctantly, agreed to her cousin's crazy scheme. She and Stein had never been...
As the French and Indian War rages, sixteen-year-old Abbott Coe serves as a bondservant to trapper Skinner Benet, learning all the master woodsman has to teach and falling in love with the young Indian mother of Benet's child...
He had no right to criticize her Emma won the assignment of her dreams--modeling Princess Lisa's summer collection at a fabulous island estate near Malta. Everything was perfect--except for Paul Santana Demajo, the princess's cynical, d...
One of them was the murderer! Nicole was torn between two men: Guy, young and handsome, her romantic ideal; Andre, older and domineering, a man she was drawn, to despite his insensitivity -- and his ongoing affair with another woman. But this was n...
WAGONS WEST Autumn, 1837 Driving onward - against the worst of man and nature - a legendary caravan of men, women and children forge a new link in the wilderness trek from Independence, Missouri to the "Promised Land" beyond the Rockies. They are...
When they flew Casey into the hospital at Nha Trang, the medics were sure he'd die. That he didn't was only the first surprise. The second, bigger one, was that Casey had been fighting for two thousand years, ever since that day on Golgotha when h...
A PROPHECY OF PASSIONFrom New Orleans and Natchez, through rowdy gold-rush towns, to the treacherous Barbary Coast, they all tried to tame the wild spirit of the beautiful gypsy fortuneteller, Graciela. But no lover, however bold and strong, held her...
Perceptive critical and psychological analyses of a variety of nineteenth-and twentieth-century art highlight this thematic study of the ways in which artists express the predominant fears and anxieties of modern man...
When dealing with negativism or any other "hang-up", people searching for direction and purpose in life are often frustrated by the overwhelming amount of available advice. Instead of facing the real issues of life and becoming persons of deep simpli...
A Joan Kahn Harper Novel of Suspense. Detective Sgt. Alfred Stanley Rosher, a former inspector, has been busted in rank, his fat wife has left him, his fellow officers are avoiding him, his new diet of boiled eggs and beans is disgusting, and his hou...
A strange assortment of humans and otherworldly beings joins a young soldier of God on his perilous quest through an alternate, technology-free reality ruled by an all-powerful Evil In an alternate world where the Dark Ages never ended, “the Evil...
She gambled her life to prove her love The ad was intriguing, even mysterious... When Elisabeth accepted an assignment to impersonate a playgirl heiress, she anticipated a carefree summer in the country. But soon she discovered she was merely a...
American Dream or American Nightmare? Norman Spinrad describes The Star-Spangled Future:"America is something new under the sun. not so much a nation at all as a precog flash of the future of the species . . .I wrote believing that I was simply writi...
The Golem Master - Dan Frome knew more than any living man about the Golems -- self-programming robots designed to "man" the Jupiter probe. He was not surprised to be drafted to Dvornik Moon base, site of the Jupiter launch. Once he was there, the pi...
The alliance of the ruggedly handsome Earl of Torquay to the ravishing Lydia of Weldon seemed nothing less than a perfect match. They were wealthy young aristocrats-and Lydia was deeply in love with her headstrong Scottish husband. Never once did she...
Arthur is King! But while he is unchallenged on the battlfield, sinister powers plot to destroy him in his own Camelot. When the rose-gold witch Morgause, Arthur's half-sister, ensnares him into an incestuous liaison -- and bears his son, Mordred, to...
Stated first edition. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Reaminder spray to the edges of the bottom page block. Soiling to the edges of the upper page block. Slight spine lean. The dust jacket has rubs to its spine tips and corners. Small t...
WHAT WILL HAPPEN ON THIS EXCITING JOURNEY? YOU GET TO CHOOSE! You are floating high above the earth in a giant balloon. Below you is the Sahara Desert, with its endless, golden sands, hundreds of camels, and mud-walled villages. Suddenly you see...
Getting back to Earth from the planet Tschai involved either stealing a spaceship or having one built to order-for Tschai was home to several intelligent star-born races, and so they had spaceyards. But Adam Reith''s problem was not so simple.
...Saranne was surrounded by love -- surely some of it someday could be hers... A Love Child must be very careful to be seen as fleetingly , as possible--and never to be heard at all. For a love child is an embarrassment to her unwed mother, to her w...
There was only one way to reach Iola where an interstellar distress signal had originated. For Iola belonged to a small group of stars cut off from the rest of the galaxy by the close presence of an all-enveloping black hole. The only way to reach Io...
She rejoiced in her newfound freedom! It was Siana's first chance since the accident to prove that she could cope while her aunt and uncle were away. The encounter with the stranger on the beach, however, soon spoiled Siana's pleasure. ...
HE HAD WON HER IN A GAME OF CHANCE. NOW THE STUNNING SPITFIRE WAS HIS. OR WAS SHE? RADIANT - REBELLIOUS - RAVISHING Cassandra Farrington was the loveliest thing the young viscount Welford had seen in years. Breathtaking, absolutely breathtaki...