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  • C.S. Adler

    Distressed over her father's remarriage, Jodi finds her stepmother, Donna, who has a drinking problem, very different from her real mother but grows fond of Donna's troubled son, Scott, who shoplifts for fun...




  • Kerry Allyne

    She was frightened but not of Saxon! Debra desperately needed a job and gratefully accepted one from elderly Eleanor McAllister. She'd never worked on a cattle station before, but she would try anything! Handsome Saxon McAllister, however, ...



  • Poul Anderson

    The giant Norse warrior-king Harald Hardrede strives to forge a mighty empire by conquering the North in the second volume of the epic Last Viking Trilogy He is a savior to the hordes of loyal Norsemen who would gladly give their lives battling at hi...



  • Poul Anderson

    "...ZERO!" A ship seeding the stars collides with a star struggling to be born ... and a handful of scientists and lovers who are seeking immortality find that even survival is rare in the interstellar depths!...



  • Poul Anderson

    FLANDRY IS BACK THIS IS THE CULMINATION OF THE GREATEST ADVENTURE SERIES IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION WITH A STONE IN HEAVEN POUL ANDERSON HAS BROUGHT THE CAREER OF DOMINIC FLANDRY FULL CYCLE. FROM THE BEGINNING FLANDRY HAS PIECE BY PIECE...



  • Marianne Andrau

    "There isn't going to be a church wedding!" Allison could hardly believe her ears. Nicholas had gone to great lengths to persuade her to marry him. Now, after the civil ceremony, he was suddenly refusing to repeat his vows in church --...



  • Felicia Andrews

    THEY CROSSED THE CHURNING MISSISSIPPI -- TO THE HIGH PROMISE OF THE MOUNTAINS... A bold new life -- that's what Amanda and her gambling man, Guy Munroe, dreamed the Four Aces Ranch would bring. But here, deep in Wyoming Territory, dreams die y...



  • V.C. Andrews

    Flowers in the Attic was the mother's betrayal. Petals on the Wind is the daughters revenge. Chris, Cathy and Carrie have escaped their attic prison and set off with money scavenged from the Grandmother's mansion. Two teenagers and an eight-year-old...




  • Rita Balkey

    Desire drove them together Destiny forced them apart Had she not been the illegitimate daughter of King Ludwig Bavaria, Sieglinde might have escaped the ravaging young revolutionaries. As it was, they yearned to have their way with her -- their lu...




  • Bill Barich

    Bill Barich burst onto the literary scene more than twenty-five years ago with this remarkable account of racetrack life. Holed up in a cheap motel in Albany, California, only a few miles from Golden Gate Fields, he looked to the track to help him ma...



  • Robert Barnard

    From award-winning mystery writer Robert Barnard comes a classic British whodunit about a bestselling author who is murdered -- and his latest unpublished manuscript has gone missing.Sir Oliver Fairleigh-Stubbs, overweight and overbearing, collapses ...



  • Djuna Barnes

    A selection of work by the American writer Djuna Barnes. It consists of her novel "Nightwood", a collection of short stories entitled "Spillway", and a verse play, "The Antiphon", which she completed shortly before her death in 1982....



  • Elisabeth Barr

    Eleanor La Vanne, entrusted with the task of bringing Marie Antoinette's jewels to safe custody in England, was betrayed and killed before she left France. Luella March, escaping from a miserable life with a sadistic employer, became involved in ...



  • Maye Barrett

    She was a glittering court beauty...and he an American adventurer who saved her life and stole her kisses. But her loyalty belonged to Queen Mary and King James, and lady-in-waiting Constance Rawlings obeyed her monarchs' bidding and married the dash...




  • Gregory Benford

    1998. Earth is falling apart, on the brink of ecological disaster. But in England a tachyon scientist is attempting to contact the past, to somehow warn them of the misery and death their actions and experiments have visited upon a ravaged planet. ...



  • Michael Berlyn

    In the brave new world of angels and procurers, rentadeath prostitutes will let you sexually abuse them and even hack them to pieces for a fee. In anticipation of your own death, be sure to keep up payments on your life crystal. After you die, you...



  • Helen Bianchin

    Why couldn't he leave her alone? When Jamie Prentiss first met Logan in the Australian outback, she knew immediately he wasn't the sort of man for her. And handsome, arrogant Logan made it clear that he considered her a mere child. His...





  • Lise Blanchet

    Julia's hand flew to her mouth With all her will she stifled the scream rising in her throat. Surely it was impossible -- there in the courtyard was the ghost of Whitfield Hall! Julia had no idea how long she stood at her window, unable to ...



  • James Blish

    The Enterprise blazes new star trails to danger as Kirk, SPock and the rest encounter - an asylum planet where the mad rule - a universe with a total population of one - race warfare to the death whiteblack against blackwhite - paradise with a most u...




  • Marion Zimmer Bradley

    What forces would operate if there were two objects that were absolutely identical in form and substance? This problem has occupied both workers in magic and the scientists of physics and psychology. It is the pivot of Marion Zimmer Bradley's novel o...






  • Dixie Browning

    IT WAS A BATTLE FOR LOVE. Emily Fairchild had dreamed of a vacation like this: a whole summer spent in a romantic cottage on the water where she would be free to paint and cook and sing and live as joyously as her passionate nature demanded. Bu...




  • Kate Buchan

    Miss Helen Shaw of Boston, New England, is delighted to learn she has become an heiress. The inheritance of her grandfather's house in the Connecticut mountains, together with a half-share in his prosperous ironworks nearby, means he has finally ...




  • Leslie Caine

    INDIA--A TRIP OF A LIFETIME! When Beth Jackson learned of her buying trip to India her only concern was to purchase the precious gold wedding dress and ruby necklace for her employer. Yet before she realized it, Beth had fallen in love with Ind...



  • Taylor Caldwell

    This was the world of Jason Garrity. A man of passion and principle. A man who had pulled himself up from the slums and now had everything he thought he wanted. What he wanted was beautiful Patricia Mulligan, daughter of the town's wealthiest m...




  • Lin Carter




  • Peter Carter



  • Rosemary Carter

    Could she change his mind about women? Fraser Mallory was an accomplished geologist, handsome and virile. His attitude toward women was daunting. So in order to join his Kalahari expedition, Corey Latimer masqueraded as a male photographer. Her...



  • Patrick Cauvin

    Two total strangers who consider themselves ugly and unlovable meet when Philippe, a shy professional wrestler, is thrown out of the ring during a match and lands in Jacqueline's lap--breaking her leg...



  • Vera Chapman

    Long before mankind conquered the air, Blaedud the Birdman lived and loved in England. Prince Blaedud was Lord of the Tribes of Britain, but the sky was his domain. Each night he dreamed a great dream -- of a splendid Bird-Woman who swooped down ...



  • Suzy McKee Charnas

    The exciting series that showcased the best of the 70's now launches the 80's with superb science fiction-from the terrifying to the sublime! Featuring: UNICORN TAPESTRY Suzy McKee Charnas. A vampire who teaches anthropology seeks psychiatric help an...



  • Marion Chesney

    The petite Lady Margery Quennell at age twenty-three has graced the rows of wallflowers for many a Season. Except for Charles, the Marquess of Edgecombe, the only man who ever danced with her, Lady Margery has nothing to do with men; what's more,...




  • Bruce Clark



  • Kay Clifford

    His views on women were out of date Lorna despised Khalid's type -- men who saw women as either mistresses or chattels. She swore she'd be neither -- even for the great Khalid al Hashib himself! But she was inextricably involved in his ...






  • Al Cody



  • Don Coldsmith

    A young Spaniard dreamed of great cities of gold, but found instead a challenging life among the native people of America's Great Plains. Juan Garcia rode as an arrogant conquistador into the heart of an unexplored continent. One day, on a lone pa...



  • D.G. Compton

    The Penheniot Experimental Research Village was a top-secret community with an elaborate defence system to keep away prying eyes. Inside the walls men rushed ahead with practical experiments to develop a means of time travel, while outside the every...



  • Glen Cook

    AT EMPIRE'S END War is not all Hell. Mocker finds old friends in the halls of death, and Nepanthe new lovers in the fields of blood and bone. The war-child wields the sword of truth: the Star Rider's dread secret is at last revealed. And so it ends....




  • Juanita Coulson

    Ballantine Del Rey, paperback original novel. One of two printings (1980, 1984). This fantasy novel is a stand-alone sequel to "The Web of Wizardry" (1978). Together these books are the "Krantin" novels....



  • Helen Crampton

    The Bewildered Bride Miss Jennie Bemyss was in a position that any intelligent young lady would envy. The wealthy, worldly Marquis of Charrington proposed a marriage of convenience that would leave him free to pursue his pleasures, and leave Je...



  • Donna Crefeld

    The passionate saga of three generations of San Francisco women, who are bound by blood and a fierce determination to survive in a new frontier, in an untamed land. It is a heritage passed down from mother to daughter, beginning with... Juliette.....



  • Berrie Davis

    They had barely been married a month when Alex Bellmont announced that he was leaving, quitting his Oxford law studies, going home to sort out his thoughts. All he needed was a little time. But when Leona followed him to his family's opulent c...




  • Allen Drury

    The epic story of a Senator’s rise and fall.Mark Coffin of California was barely thirty years old when he won a startling upset victory in his race for a seat in the U.S. Senate. A bright, handsome, energetic idealist with the passion for decency i...



  • Gerald Durrell

    Gerald Durrell's Adventurous spirit and spontaneous gift for narrative and anecdote ensure his books a place among the best sellers. The Argentine pampas and the little-known Chaco territory of Paraguay provide the setting for The Drunken Forest. W...



  • J.T. Edson

    Post-Civil War Texas is a hell of a rough place. And for a man wearing a kilt, it is even rougher. Colin Farquharson insists on retaining his native Scottish dress but to do so unarmed on the Texas frontier could get him killed. At least it provides ...





  • Mircea Eliade

    Organizing data from cultures the world over, Mircea Eliade, one of the preeminent interpreters of world religion in the twentieth century, lays out the basic patterns of initiation: group puberty rites, entrance into secret cults, shamanic instructi...




  • Marnie Ellingson

    Torn between duty and high spirits, Phillipa knew her father would do anything to repair the family fortune--even marry her off to a gouty old gentleman. And it was like her to unburden herself freely to the handsome Lord Neville, just returned from ...



  • Tabor Evans

    IN THE GRASSLANDS OF NEVADA -- MORE THAN DREAMS COULD DIE... Murdering train robbers. They left a path of gold and a bloody range war in their dust. Duty called Longarm to settle the prairie feud -- while sheepherders and cattlemen boldly ride ...



  • Philip Jose Farmer

    Fifteen billion years from now, Earth is a dying planet its skies darkened by the ashes of burned-out galaxies, its molten core long cooled. But young Deyv of the Turtle Tribe knew nothing of his world's history or its fate. He lived only to track...



  • Philip Jose Farmer

    Reissued to follow the Syfy Channel film of Riverworld, this fourth book in the classic Riverworld series continues the adventures of Samuel Clemens and Sir Richard Francis Burton as they travel through Farmer's strange and wonderful Riverworld, a pl...




  • J.G. Farrell

    Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn't what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strike somewhere el...





  • Michael French

    Abingdon's is the most glamorous and successful department store in New York. A fantasy palace for the super-rich, the hyper-chic. Against this dazzling, erotic background a bitter power struggle is being played out. One woman and two men fight for t...




  • Dorothy Garlock

    When beautiful, brazen Cherish Riley ran away from the horrible Burgess family, she was literally fleeing for her life. Alone now, and frightened, she was lost in the vast western wilderness until she came upon the quiet, handsome woodsman, Sloan. ...



  • Jonathan Gash

    When you have the most valuable antique known to man, you naturally want the best person to authenticate it. That's why the Reverend Swan, proud possessor of the Holy Grail, called Lovejoy. But murder interrupts Lovejoy's professional mission and se...




  • Thomas Gifford

    Kim Blankenship was a beautiful widow with a murky past and a penchant for attracting men who, one by one, met a sudden deadly end. But to Paul Cavanaugh, a reporter with an obsession for the truth, she was much more, and a new and irresistible pass...



  • Michael Gilbert

    Written as a police procedural in the best traditions of the ‘Golden Age’ writers. Certainly one of Michael Gilberts finest in this particular sphere. A TV actress is murdered and it would seem that the alleged perpetrator has been framed. As the...



  • B.M. Gill

    Investigating the death of his young son during a school field trip, John Fleming realizes that something is amiss at the school but remains undecided whether it is innocent hazing or a cruel form of torture...



  • Ken Glantz

    Plagued by their pasts, three brothers--a thirty-five-year-old man of extremes recently abandoned by his wife, a thirty-seven-year-old bachelor lawyer, and a forty-year-old crossword-puzzle expert--live out their destinies and experience changes of h...






  • Denice Greenlea

    Her real name was Christabel Devlin but she called herself Miss Stone. Because behind the glasses, and the plain dowdy figure an incredible beauty lay hidden. It was this loveliness that had caused her many problems with the titled gentlemen for w...



  • Tania Grossinger; Andrew Neiderman

    It all starts as a typical July Fourth weekend at the Congress, the internationally famous Catskill resort hotel. Thousands of vacationers, their pockets filled with cash and their minds on easy sex, begin to arrive from the city. But while the singl...




  • James Hamilton




  • Michael Hardwick

    AT THE REQUEST OF HER ROYAL HIGHNESS, SHERLOCK HOLMES ... leaves his Baker Street apartments to meet with Queen Victoria ... steals on to--and off, again--the infamous French prison of Devil's Island ... and attends a seance to gather more informa...



  • Brooke Hastings

    HE WAS PLAYING TO WIN--AND SHE WAS PLAYING OUT OF HER LEAGUE! Nikki Warren had answered Michael Cragun's ad only as a joke. He couldn't have meant it to be taken seriously. After all, what woman would want to have a stranger's baby? But Michael...





  • Sandra Heath

    A beauty betrayed by love and forbidden passion in an England of ruthless aristocratic power. NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND--WHERE LOVE COULD BE A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH Jenny Bright. Accused of murdering the noblewoman she served. Locked into the...



  • Sandra Heath

    A bewitching beauty is torn between the ghost of an old love and the temptation of a new one. HOMECOMING Mally came to her girlhood castle home in Wales to discover what should become of her as a woman. With her was Sir Christopher Carlyon. ...



  • Lori Herter

    At twenty-six Lorelei Lawrence had achieved her dream. She had won the coveted seat of second violinist with the Chicago Philharmonic. But could she ever hope to win Peter Sutherland's approval -- and love? Her success, her transformation from a ...




  • Pamela Hill

    With its jumble of gray wings and towers and the river winding clear below, into its dark and brooding halls comes Honor Thwaite, bride of Richard Sawtrey. Now Honor is mistress of the manor -- a house of terrible secrets that would not remain unspok...



  • Anne Hillary

    One month. They had only a month to find husbands or husbands would be found for them! Julia and her sister Phoebe had Ben whisked from school into the last of the London season. Sir Giles and Lady Ffoulkes, their new guardians, had delivered the ult...





  • Tom Horn



  • Zach Hughes




  • Judith Victoria Jacklin

    Sister Stigmata, the loving nun who raised the Blues Brothers from their first days at the St. Helen of the Blessed Shroud orphanage recounts the highlights of their pre-celebrity life and the rise of the notorious duo...



  • Rona Jaffe

    Often regarded as her finest and most literary work, Mr. Right Is Dead is Rona Jaffe’s collection of short stories from 1965. Containing five stories and one novella, each story has the savvy and sharp tone that characterize the best of R...




  • Leigh Franklin James

    NOW FROM THE PRODUCER OF WAGONS WEST AND THE KENT FAMILY CHRONICLES... BOLD ADVENTURE AND PASSIONATE ROMANCE IN AN UNTAMED LAND-THE GREAT SOUTHWEST! THE HAWK. Wild and free, the sole survivor of a brutal massacre, John Cooper Baines lives by his w...



  • Tim Jeal

    “A superb biography, not to be missed either by armchair explorers or students of human nature…reveals the famed missionary and explorer as he really was.” -- Cleveland Plain DealerDavid Livingstone is revered as one of history’s greatest exp...





  • Maud B. Johnson

    She defied lawless men and raging seas--to find the man she would always love... PASSION PURE AND ETERNAL AS THE SEA For violet-eyed Marley, life began the moment the depraved pirate Blackbeard set her and Captain Bates Hagen adrift on the high...




  • Mal Karman

    'A fast-paced, keenly observed, savage indictment of deceit and betrayal through the corridors of Washington, with electrifying surprises right up to the last page " -"-Saul Zaentz, producer of 'The English Patient," 'Amadeus," and 'Unbearable Lightn...



  • Lee Karr

    Lori Martin thought she would spend a quiet summer housesitting for Dr. Philip Brandon, a wealthy Denver physician. Without warning, the young school teacher is plunged into a terrifying plot that stretches from Denver's glittering heights to the...




  • Carolyn Keene

    When Nancy and her friends ride deep into the Sawniegunk Forest in search of a flying saucer, they find themselves in the middle of more than one mystery. Wildcats, runaway horses, deadly snakes, and a disappearing Indian keep the sleuths tangled in ...



  • Flora Kidd

    Lyn felt she had to return to the island Lyn Brennan thought it safe to return to Morgan's Island. And after the scandal that had marred her reputation--as well as scarring her face--she felt she had nowhere else to escape to. It had been e...



  • Philip Kirk

    1980s Spy Thriller. Butler is an agent for the private Bancroft Institute. For many years, Butler, who has a first name but hates it and therefore doesn't use it ever so the reader never finds out what it is, worked as an agent for the CIA. On the on...



  • Fletcher Knebel

     “What would happen if the president of the U.S.A. went stark-raving mad?” Back by popular demand, The New York Times calls the 1965 bestselling political thriller by the author of Seven Days in May, “A little too plausible for comfort.”...



  • Will C. Knott

    First they shot his father, then they stole his land. Cole Randall aimed to get even! But it will take more than one angry man to fight the banks, the railroads, and the crooked lawmen who back them. So Cole Randall figured he needed an army, if that...





  • Charlotte Lamb

    Paul was a man, but acted like a boy Helen's husband, Paul was handsome, charming and a gracious companion until one got to know him. Helen's life with him was a long string of disappointments and heartaches. But she had married him, a...



  • Max Lamb



  • Dora Landey; Elinor Klein

    He directs your dreams, packages your president, picks your toothpaste, sells you the stars. He's the man beautiful women desire and successful men demand. He's Costigan--the man with the power of PR... and now someone has power over him....



  • Tania Langley

    LOVE, PASSION, AND DECEPTION Beautiful Madeleine Ardingley is shocked to learn that her beloved father is a liar and a cheat. The innocent, convent-educated girl is swept into the Parisian demi-monde and finds it not to her liking, though it appea...





  • Doris Lessing

    "I read the Children of Violence novels and began to understand how a person could write about the problems of the world in a compelling and beautiful way, and it seemed to me that was the most important thing I could ever do." --  Barbara King...



  • Richard Lewis

    Book in good condition. Pages have no rips, tears, markings or creases. Stored in a cool dry place. Comes from a smoke free/pet free home. RETURN POLICY--NO RETURNS ACCEPTED, please ask questions beforehand. I ship to the USA only!...






  • Emilie Loring

    The last of the six Lorraine girls unmarried, daring golden-haired Julie has been summoned to the coast of Maine, where her Aunt Martha has consulted the stars to find her a suitable match. Young Julie, who was determined to control her own life, ful...



  • Wendy Lozano

    Chastity - A wild and restless beauty, she fled the icy embrace of her Puritan husband for the one man, the one passion she could not live without. - Edmund Night - Part English nobleman, part Indian, he found in Chastity a love as pure and untamed a...







  • Magali

    A necklace stolen...a love betrayed Her heart began to beat wildly For a few terrifying moments the whole scene swam dizzily before Melissa's eyes. The man seated at the table across the street was Richard, her ex-fiance. And with him was Inez,...



  • Mel Marshall

    He was Texas Rough-And Texas Ready He'd begun as a cowpuncher, a loner who traveled the Texas plains from Red River to the Concho. But once he threw in with China Slim, he had a new name...and a new profession. Now he was Lobo Lannigan. And he was wh...





  • Laura Matthews

    She had determined to keep men at a distance. Now he had come too close for her comfort -- or his! Diana had wounded him! By accident, of course. Her dog had jostled her arm, and her arrow had gone astray; but, nonetheless, the Eighth Viscoun...



  • Helen May

    Sir Vincent was as fast as he was wily. And Cassandra was no match for a man who, despite his dissipated state, was as strong as an ox. As she struggled in his grip, revulsion in her eyes, he grated, "Do you truly think to treat me with disdain? ...



  • Mary McMullen

    Feeling that he has been taken for granted too long, a company newspaper writer compiles a list of complaints of deplorable practices perpetuated by the company, which everyone takes as a joke until someone attempts murder...



  • I.B. Melchior

    A manhunt in Death Valley which becomes a desperate race between U.S. officials and East German agents follows the crash landing of a test pilot who has lost his memory and whose plane was carrying a homing device for intercontinental missiles...



  • James R. Mellow

    Reproduces all the surviving photographs of Lincoln, arranging them in chronological order and augmenting them with passages from Lincoln's letters and speeches and selected writings of his contemporaries...




  • Fern Michaels

    Cathy Bissette thought she had left everything behind-the publishing job, the glamour of New York, the broken heart-for a quiet three-month vacation at home on the shores of North Carolina. But the moment Jared Parsons sailed the lavish Sea Gypsy in...



  • N. Scott Momaday

    The Way to Rainy Mountain recalls the journey of Tai-me, the sacred Sun Dance doll, and of Tai-me’s people in three unique voices: the legendary, the historical, and the contemporary. It is also the personal journey of N. Scott Momaday, who on a pi...



  • Arthur Moore



  • James Munro

    The best-selling thriller which introduced John Craig who, in 1964, was seriously tipped as the logical successor to James Bond following the death of Ian Fleming. Craig is a man hardened by war, as a decorated officer in the elite Special Boat Se...




  • Denise Noel

    "Don't move!" the intruder growled Kim choked back a wave of fear as she saw the gun in the man's hand. Her mind raced with questions--what was this stranger doing on their boat in the middle of the night? What could he be looking for? Then he ...




  • Nelson Nye

    Any man who had fought in the Chisum-Murphy feud was bound to have some enemies and Flick Farson was no exception. But if Flick was looking for a quiet place to hole up in, Tombstone was not the healthiest spot he could have chosen. Hidden in the Ari...



  • Nelson Nye

    When Horatio Gill rode his wagon into Quinn's Crossing, few could have forseen the load of trouble it carried. The product Gill brought to Quinn's Crossing had sparked many a range war. But his goal in life was to sell barbed wire and he didn't care ...




  • Julia O'Faolain

    'Entertaining and rich in comedy . . . gripping and moving.' William TrevorSister Judith Clancy is told that she must leave the protection of her convent and return to her family. So begins the unravelling of community ties which form this brilliant ...



  • Tess Oliver

    At last Sarah had the job she always wanted--head gardener for a country estate in northern California. And in Kight Ramsey, the owner, Sarah felt her dreams--and her desires--could be filled for life. But his presumptuous manner and his childhood...




  • Margaret Pargeter

    Sloan thought she was a cheap seductress! Stacy Weldon had been through a bad experience that had shaken her faith in men. What she didn't need right now was to contend with the antagonistic Sloan Maddison. She had agreed to help his mother...



  • C.C. Parx



  • Maxine Patrick

    She joined the cruise to find a setting for a romance novel - and found a real romance instead... Maura O'Neal would be crazy to pass up the cruise she and her great aunt had been planning just because the old woman injured her foot and Maura woul...



  • Charlotte Payne



  • Frederik Pohl

    Collection of classic stories by collaborators C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl. Introduction and Afterword by Pohl, plus these stories: Mars-Tube (1941); Trouble in Time (1940); Vacant World (1940); Best Friend (1941); Before the Universe (1940); N...



  • Ron Powers

    Powers' indignation at the intrusion of show-biz values into broadcast news runneth over in this shrill dissection of the corruption of electronic journalism. The villains of the piece are the "news consultants"--market researchers brought in to bols...




  • Nina Pykare

    Jennifer's heart quickened at the thought of the handsome, fair-haired Viscount Haverford. So many had called him a blackguard--and there were whispers that he was a spy--for Napoleon himself! She was only a governess, yet his warm gray eyes, his...









  • James Salter

    This novel exposes the obsession that draws climbers away from civilization to test themselves against the most intimidating and inaccessible mountains in the world.

    James Salter captures the adventure of Gary, a roofer of churches, who feels...



  • Samuel Agnew Schreiner

    Patriarch Cornelius Van Alen, his merchant son, disreputable George, and Sally, the country cousin who becomes one of Manhattan's grandest ladies conduct their affairs in parallel with their nation's and city's growth from the Revolution to the Civil...




  • George Scithers

    This collection of tales put together from Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine contains selections by such noted writers as Isaac Asimov, Roger Zelazny, and Poul Anderson who take readers on journeys to distant worlds...



  • Sidney Sheldon

    A worldwide bestseller first published in 1980, this novel tells the story of Jennifer Parker, a successful lawyer who is loved by two men, one a politician, the other, a mafia don....



  • Samuel Shellabarger

    A new edition of the mid-20th century popular classic of a Spanish nobleman who accompanies Cortez to conquer Mexico....




  • Clifford D. Simak

    A corporation promising immortality hides a sinister secret in this “extremely provocative” sci-fi novel (Judith Merril, author and editor).   Since the dawn of mankind, immortality has been the ultimate reward. But by the year 2148, it requ...



  • John Sladek



  • E.E. "Doc" Smith

    THE MARCH OF THE ARMY OF THE JUST What is happening on Purity - an obscure planet peopled only by religious introverts? Hitherto the hairshirt brigade have turned their backs on the rest of the Empire. But now, inspired by the aggressive zeal of sin...



  • Joan Smith

    AN ENCHANTING TALE OF LOVE AND SECRET ADVENTURE She was gentle born and very much a lady. In fact, so much a lady that no one in town had guessed she had become the cherished leader on a band of young smugglers. Smuggling was the main source...




  • Thorne Smith

    Thorne Smith's rapid-fire dialogue, brilliant sense of the absurd, and literary aplomb put him in the same category as the beloved P. G. Wodehouse. The Night Life of the Gods--the madcap story of a scientist who instigates a nocturnal spree with the ...



  • Thorne Smith

    The beloved characters--mortal and immortal--of Topper return in this uproarious romp through the south of France. One of Thorne Smith's best-loved comedies, it proves once again that he is the undisputed master of urbane wit and sophisticated repart...





  • Jeanne Sommers

    ROSE OF PASSION Teresa, the "White Rose", is a highborn beauty forced into marriage to the lustful Mexican general Santa Anna, stolen from her nuptial bed by a young officer spying for the Texans--and caught up in a love that would sweep her to t...



  • Caroline Stafford

    When pretty Elizabeth Winton arrives penniless at Ravensholme, the estate of her godmother, Charlotte Langdale, she does not dream she will be faced with a challenge more terrifying than poverty. She has, in fact, stumbled into a nest of horrors: ...