Robyn hadn't seen nearly enough over the years of her brother Johnny, so she was doubly excited when he invited her to go and help him run his guesthouse -- in Fiji! But she arrived in the Pacific to discover that it wasn't only Johnny who was run...
A month's holiday in Bali, all expenses paid! Leni could hardly believe her luck, and lost no time in settling down to enjoy the island paradise. But the original Paradise had its serpent, and so did Bali, in the person of the disapproving Kemp S...
Chief Inspector Roger West opened his front door to find his Superintendent, Abbott, standing before him. "I think you know why I've called," said Abbott, as he drew a folded piece of paper from his overcoat. It was an official search warrant. Fac...
Doctor, watch out! As Dore stood by, he saw the Doctor backing slowly into the corner where he would meet his fate. Initially defending himself with a torch, the Doctor searched frantically for a new method of defense. The crimson mass is lunging for...
A young artist pursues a search for knowledge through the treatment of homosexuality and the collapse of morality in middle class France....
Stated First Edition. A VG+ copy in a VG+ dust jacket. The book has a bump at the upper front corner. Soiling to the edges of its upper page block. The dust jacket is rubbed at its corners and has mild dust soiling to the rear panel....
A young man searches for his missing father on Christmas Eve in this sequel to Spencer’s Mountain, the novel that inspired The Waltons. It’s the night before Christmas, but Clay Spencer has failed to return home. Leaving his worried family...
LAZARUS LONG 1916-4272 The capstone and crowning achievement of Heinlein's famous Future History, TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE follows Lazarus Long through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Heinlein's longest and most ambitious work, ...
It is 1916. Bartholomew Bandy, fourth-year medical student, decides that it is time to join the War. The prim young Canadian expects that he will have few problems remaining clean and virtuous. But he is aware that his bland, horse-like face drives p...
"Dan Jenkins is a comic genius." -- Don Imus Made into a hilarious and timeless film starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, and Jill Clayburgh, and recently named number seven on Sports Illustrated's Top 100 Sports Books of All Time, Semi-Tough ...
When Noni Crawford invited Janet Marsh to be her guest at the swank skiing resort of Snow Valley, Janet joyfully accepted. Skiing was Janet's passion, and Noni was one of her favorite people, though Janet had not seen her wealthy former college r...
Penelope Jones had had very good reasons for accepting the job on the island to Torvaig off the West Coast of Scotland, but her employer, Tearlach Gunn, didn't believe any of them. He gave her just four weeks in which to prove herself or get ...
When a computer transported Richard Blade to Dimension X, he found himself in Mortal danger. Dimension X was a land in peril. The aristocratic Caths, besieged by the Mongs, a cruel and mindless people, were constantly engulfed in wars and violence. R...
James Card loses his reputation as a bodyguard when his client, a Lloyd's underwriter, is shot right under his nose. So he begins research into the dead man's background. The author has written several bestselling thrillers including "The Wrong Side ...
Here is a rich and serious novel of the violent West. Full of the authentic sounds and colors of Wyoming cattle country in the late nineteenth century, it tells the true story of a long-vanished time -- the era of the cowhands and the bloody Johnson ...
Contains the Novella Leaf Storm: 'SUDDENLY, AS IF A WHIRLWIND HAD SET DOWN ROOTS IN THE CENTRE OF THE TOWN, THE BANANA COMPANY ARRIVED, PURSUED BY THE LEAF STORM' As a blizzard of warehouses and amusement parlours and slums descends on the small town...
There had been two men so far in Madeline's life--her late husband, Joe, and her boss, Adrian. Both had been kind and uncomplicated, wanting only to cherish and look after her. But now another man had surged into her life--Nicholas Vitale. Han...
Tiring of the company of junkies and burn-outs, Thomas Skelton goes home to Key West to take up a more wholesome life. But things fester in America's utter South. And Skelton's plans to become a skiff guide in the shining blue subtropical waters plac...
Carol Hollywell, a Scarlett O'Hara of the 1950s, sets Washington, D.C., on its ear. Willie Morris's cleverly executed novel (loosely based on a real-life figure) paints a devastatingly accurate portrait, not only of a power-hungry woman, but also of ...
Floyd Warner, eighty-two, has driven from California to his childhood home in Nebraska in his antique Maxwell coupe. There he confronts the smoldering remains of this late sister's house and the realization that he is now completely alone. As though ...
Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is...
Juliet was delighted to get the job at Majors boutique, and full of ideas and enthusiasm about it -- but she found herself continually in conflict with the man in charge, the chairman's son, Drew Major. She wanted to keep the job but was it wo...
School for Assassins! The hot and arid island of Sicily is infamous as the birthplace of the Mafia. From this Mediterranean spawning ground the deadly forces of evil and corruption have spread to all points of the globe. In the U.S. the Mafia's in...
When a rock ’n’ roll disc jockey is murdered at a live event, a reporter is out to find the killer in this mystery from the author of A Room to Die In. From 3:00 to 4:00 every afternoon, Tutter “Tut” King reigns supreme. The dreamy disc jocke...
A mutilated body found at a rock festival.In spite of dire predictions, the rock festival in Kingsmarkham seemed to be going off without a hitch, until the hideously disfigured body is discovered in a nearby quarry. And soon Wexford is investigating ...
Signet, 1973. Mass market paperback, one of several printings. Collects nine stories: "Something Wild Is Loose" (1971); "To See the Invisible Man" (1963); "Ishmael in Love" (1970); "How It Was When the Past Went Away" (1969); "To the Dark Star" (1968...
This is an engrossing novel of both suspense and idea. Its central character is a successful Hollywood scriptwriter at work in Italy and France on the filming of the first script he ever has fully believed in. It takes place on the Amalfi Coast and i...
The comic national bestseller of love and loss set amid the sexual revolution of the 1970s When Phil Potter decides to divorce his wife, Jessica, after a few difficult years, he imagines he’s in for a wild jaunt through the sexually liberated 1970s...
This important, definitive report on the state of the human environment has been commissioned by the Stockholm Conference Secretariat and is intended to provide a conceptual framework for the proceedings of the United Nations Conference on the Hum...
The Hindus say, "No medicine avails against the temptations of the moon", as Claire, who had fallen in love with Peter Mottram by moonlight, knew only too well. But Peter saw her as nothing but a useful Girl Friday. Why should he think 'of her as ...
Rea Glyn went to the coast for a quiet visit with no thought of marriage in her mind, but soon she found herself married to a man she had never met before and pledged to play her part in a fantastic game of "let's pretend." Burke bent ...
Herman Wouk’s sweeping epic of World War II, which begins with The Winds of War and continues in War and Remembrance, stands as the crowning achievement of one of America’s most celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the war, Wouk’s...