Tusk Smith was as hit man. He depended on his cool head to keep him out of trouble. He set up his quarry, made his kill, and left as quietly as possible. He didn't feel grief and he didn't feel guilt. But then his best friend was murdered and he lost...
Boomerang--an untouched pastoral planet: on the surface it seems a perfect candidate for human colonization. But first a Colcom survey team must make contact with the Sades-=the humanoid-looking natives of Boomerang--and determine whether they are an...
The lives of beautiful, ambitious Arabella Sperling and handsome revolutionary Harry Cornish, friends since childhood, take different directions amidst the tumult and upheaval of London in seventeenth-century Restoration England...
A revolutionary new look at the benefits of disciplining children with love offers practical and fun systems of rewards and fines and advice on topics ranging from compassionate spanking to straightforward talks about sex...
LADY TAFFETA WAS EVERYTHING AN HEIRESS COULD HOPE TO BE -- AND MORE! She was as high-spirited as her own Arabian gelding; as beautiful as the assembled jewels and lush lace that adorned Almack's at the height of her very first, very successful s...
Marnie couldn't escape from herself The Scottish island was remote enough--just the place to recover from her fiance's betrayal and her sister's tragic death. The only trouble was that the neighbors wanted to be neighborly. Marnie f...
Carefully revised in modern English, this modern classic includes Bunyan's original Scripture references plus hundreds of additional references, chapter end-notes to help clarify scriptural and historical references, and an index of words, meanings, ...
MARRIAGE FOR PROPRIETY Jilted and brokenhearted, Megan Jordan believed she would never trust another man, until she met Dr. Alex Dominic. A widower with two sons, Alex's sensuality and the vulnerability of the Dominic children attract Megan. Re...
Passion concealed a cold-hearted scheme Edith Bailly, a shrewd businesswoman, and her beautiful niece, Valerie, happily accepted a wealthy client's invitation. As guests at his magnificent country home, their stay promised to be delightful. But Ed...
LOUISIANA LADY The proudest of all riverboats, a symbol of Southern beauty and grace. Now in the midst of a tempestuous race to the Delta, her crew of lovers and heroes play out their own raging drama of love and destiny… KATE DUVALL, the ca...
Original title: The Avenhurst Inheritance. THREE BEAUTIFUL WOMEN THREE EXQUISITE PASSIONS THREE HEARTS BEATING WITH LOVE--FOR THE SAME MAN Handsome, passionate Jocelyn Rivers had fallen deeply in love with Celia Croyde , the neighborhood be...
She was committed to the crazy scheme Toni Bradbury pretended to be Sean's fiancée--not because she loved him, but to fool one particular person: Rafe Stewart, Sean's domineering stepbrother. Rafe deserved to be put down by a woman. He...
A financial wizard and a deeply cultured Arab minister manipulate world oil prices to the point where the market has a 100,000,000-share day and international economics and politics are faced with fundamental change...
A journey back to California and her father's bedside prompts the noted writer to recall her California childhood and her studies and career in the East and to examine the customs and mores of California...
As the two largest, most powerfully equipped naval fleets in history move slowly toward each other near Islas Piedras?an American missile site in the Indian Ocean that threatens Russia's grip on the Middle East?two men stand in the darkened control r...
Hershel and Lena Bregman, a young Jewish couple in Nazi-occupied Poland, desperately plot to smuggle their young son to safety outside the town ghetto before the Nazis begin their deportation of ghetto Jews...
It was as well his interest lay elsewhere Kirstie's feeling was illogical. A proud half-Spaniard, she couldn't hide the fact that she despised Miguel Montanes for purchasing her old family estate. Kirstie's grandfather hinted it wou...
David Storey is a writer who genuinely extends the territory of drama (Guardian)The Changing Room: It's about exactly what it is: Storey offers us, with an unforced tenderness, the shifting moods of everyday experience...the scene is busy, pu...
Had she sold her freedom forever? Perry had married Nash Devereux years ago for expediency. He required a wife and she needed the money he was offering. She hadn't seen him since. Now she wanted to wed Trevor Coleman and that meant she had ...
She was strictly a one-man woman Gemma was stunned when she learned she'd been chosen as secretary-companion to a wealthy Kentucky horsewoman. For her crucial job interview with the woman's neighbor, Shade Lambert, had been a disaster. ...
Ace mass market paperback, 1981. This is the third of four novels Eklund wrote in the "Tedric" series, based on a character conceived by Smith. The other novels are "Lord Tedric" (1978); "Space Pirates" (1979); and "Alien Realms" (1980)....
1982 Locus Poll Award, Best Single Author Collection (Place: 15). Collects 14 stories with introduction and afterwords by the author, including: The Man Who Stole the Moon, The Deimos Plague, Forefather Figure, Moment of Inertia (McAndrew series), Th...
She was a beautiful British hostage to the rebel Scottish crown...so soft to touch, so dangerous to hold... SHE WOULD SAVE THE LIVES AND FORTUNES OF HER VILLAGE... Swept from her home as hostage, beautiful chestnut-haired Christin Winchelsea wa...
Louise felt confused by the struggle Why was Roland Winterhaven so determined to spoil her chance to establish herself as a portrait painter? Each time Lady Amber Winterhaven commissioned Louise to paint her children, Roland quickly countermanded ...
VAGABOND DESTINY... Well-bred, innocent Mary Cabot. Her future amid the cream of Boston society, as the pampered fiancee of banker Harry Ames, seems assured until her brother Frank vanishes--along with a suitcase full of the bank's money. Mary's des...
Never again would she dance on stage Birdie's career as a ballerina was over, ruined by a fluke accident. Reeling from the shock, she let sympathetic friends lure her to the island of Menorca for a rest. It was there that Birdie met the Con...
The Acclaimed Trilogy That Has Been Called a Must-Read for Fans of Downton AbbeyA generation has been lost on the Western Front. The dead have been buried, a harsh peace forged, and the howl of shells replaced by the wail of saxophones as the Jazz Ag...
The desert offered a challenge -- and terror Amber and her companion, Ian, eagerly set out to explore an ancient fort deep in the Sahara. But their adventure abruptly ended when a bullet whined past their jeep. Seconds later a volley of shots fi...
A dynasty of women triumphs in the fiercely male-dominated world of high fashion amid the ruins of war. A daughter honors her mother s ultimate sacrifice by becoming a ruthless businesswoman who will stop at nothing to raise high her family s name...
Recounts the harrowing rescue mission--Operation Blue Fire--led by the author, a mercenary arms dealer, and six special forces agents, of a wealthy, internationally important Jewish family from Khomeini's revolutionary tribunal...
Al Gonfio was the king of soaps - the cigar-chomping, wisecracking writer of the daytime drama call Search For Happiness. And he just had a brainstorm: Sister Prudence - a nun fighting to save her convent from Burger King. To play the part he found...
Will Julie's crazy jealousy destroy the love she waited so long to find... Julie has had a crush on Dan ever since sophomore year. Now that Pam, Dan's old girlfriend, has moved away, Julie finally has him all to herself. And he is worth the wait. Da...
Meg, self-centered, genteel social butterfly, finally marries, only to discover that she cannot tolerate her husband's lifestyle and values. Blinded by her passionate ego, she flees back to the security of her father's home. Nursing the wounds of a...
SHE WAS LOVER AND LADY - PASSION'S PLAYTHING AND SWEET SEDUCTRESS... Lucilla Lockwood, the innocent young scion of a noble family, yearning for the touch of a man to fire her blood. Abducted from her father's manor, only her indomitable will woul...
Originally published in 1979, Vida is Marge Piercy’s classic bookend to the ’60s. Vida is full of the pleasures and pains, the experiments, disasters, and victories of an extraordinary band of people. At the center of the novel stands Vida Asch. ...
It's 1893 in the town of Gold Mountain and the Snoqualmie Valley of Washington state -- several years after the events of "Gold Mountain." Into this now peaceful community comes young Merrie Cowen, ready to give birth, while searching for the husband...
She wouldn't bend to his proud demands From the moment Selena literally bumped into brilliant film director Max Heger, she was drawn into a dangerous courtship--one she desperately tried to escape. She wanted no part of Max's glittering, a...
ROBIN KNEW IT WAS WRONG TO LOVE HIM Robin Hamilton's archaeological job on a Mexican hacienda promised to be an exciting venture. But she soon found herself drawn into the midst of a dark devastating turmoil. She should never have let herse...
SOMEONE MURDERED HARLOWE THROMBEY. ONLY YOU CAN FIND OUT WHO DID IT. Millionaire Marlowe Thrombey hired you to find out who was out to get him. But before you even got started, someone laced his bedtime brandy with arsenic. Now you have a murder cas...
A tale of crossed lovers and mistaken identities set in contemporary Manhattan pairs an actress who makes commercials and a struggling novelist, who are both over thirty and both still hoping to make it big...
This final volume in John Nichols's acclaimed New Mexico trilogy, (“Gentle, funny, transcendent.” -- New York Times Book Review).Like its predecessors, The Nirvana Blues is a lusty, visionary novel that blends comedy and tragedy, reality and fan...
Love wasn't part of their bargain Renting their house was the only way Euphemia could salvage her family's muddled finances. If only the tenant had been someone she liked--anyone but Dr. Tane van Diederijk, that disturbingly abrupt man ......
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Eileen Hughes is young, hauntingly beautiful and very naive. Befriended by her wealthy employers, Bernard and Mona McAuley, she leaves Ulster for the first time in her life to spend a holiday with them in London. But all is not well with the McAuleys...
THE SEARCH FOR HIS "DREAM HOUSE" ENDED IN THEIR LOVE. Carly Andrews disapproved of the wealthy people who spent their summers in Bar Harbor as they waited for the fall social season to begin but Adam Noble was different. Raised in the community...
RELUCTANT ROMANCE The chattering and giggling in a ballroom full of hopeful young debutantes had sent Lord Alexander hurrying for covers He had promised his father, the Duke of Carlyle that he would marry, but the fun-loving young lord was finding...
Of course the ravishing Crystal Mirabeau of Mirabeau Plantation was meant for nobility, luxury and a carefree life. That was why she married the Marquis de Vega while she was in Paris. If she returned to Mirabeau with a rich husband, she would lighte...
THE UNIVERSE HAS LESS THAN A CENTURY LEFT... UNLESS SPOCK CAN CHANGE HISTORY! The Enterprise is summoned to transport a dangerous criminal from Starbase prison to a rehabilitation center: brilliant physicist, Dr. Georges Mordreaux, accused of promisi...
He'd be her friend but never her lover Caroline's job as governess at a Mexican hacienda was more demanding than she'd dreamed possible. Her employer, Esteban, was an evil and vulgar man, and he wanted her. She turned for help to L...
She had returned to a house of strangers. Seventeen year's ago Angela's mother had fled Casa Amati -- her husband's ancestral estate in Lombardy -- taking her small daughter to safety in California. Now Angela had returned in answer to a call for hel...
BOLT MUST CHOOSE ONE--HIS LIFE OR HIS LADY!BOLT WAS A WANTED MAN... WANTED BY HIS FAMILY, THE LAW--AND BY A WHOLE LOT OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN! When Jared Bolt discovered that three bounty hunters were after him, he knew he was headed for trouble. Accused ...
An Adult Western POKER AND WOMEN WERE HIS FAVORITE PASTIMES -- HIS CALLING CARD WAS DEATH! BOLT WAS A WANTED MAN… WANTED BY HIS FAMILY, THE LAW -- AND BY A WHOLE LOT OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN! At eighteen, Jared Bolt, the reverend’s innocent son, was ra...
They said he was in league with the Devil! Richenda shivered at the thought. Lord Devenish, a commander in the enemy Royalist army, was known for his cruelty and senseless plundering, his looting and burning of all that lay in his path. And now...
DIVORCED, DISHONORED--AND OUT FOR REVENGE! When Jessabelle ran off after a fight with her tempestuous husband, the Earl of Pennymount, she had not expected to be kidnapped by a highwayman. Nor had she foreseen that Lord Pennymount's displeasure, a...
A KILLER OF MANY PERSONALITIES Martin Karpp was Alan Hobson, a compulsive thief. He was Willy Bennet, a flagrant homosexual. He was Jay Jefferson, a fanatic right-winger. He was Paul Liggett who hid his true nature behind a mask of mystery. Martin Ka...
The Valley was primed to explode into hell. And by the end of his first day there, Slocum had been threatened, shot, and clubbed into unconsciousness. He owed his life to the beautiful settler's daughter who found him, bound his wounds, and offered h...
Dissatisfied with her job as secretary at a large newspaper, Arlyn Crane solves a murder she accidently uncovered, uses her success to be promoted to a reporter, but learns it will still be difficult to fulfill her ambitions...
She taunted him, defied him, and forced him to reckless desire. Corinne Barrows's flashing emerald eyes bid men fulfill her any desire. She was the scandalous darling of Boston's gilded age. SWORN TO REVENGE Now she had sailed half round the...
THE BESTSELLING NOVEL THAT BROKE THROUGH THE SILENCE ABOUT ANOREXIA NERVOSA At first, no one knows that something is fatally wrong with fifteen-year-old Kessa -- not her parents, teachers, friends, or family doctor. No one knows Kessa avoids eatin...
Her assignment was glamorous but tough The man Robyn was sent to work with was the disreputable playboy author, Bradley Dexter--a man whose scandalous life-style and cynical attitude she despised. However, Robyn wasn't easily deterred. She ...
The relief party arrived at the frontier settlement of Schenectady too late. All they found were smoldering ruins and the hideously butchered corpses of men and women. The French and Indian raiders had left only one living being behind -- a squalling...
The land of the upper Missouri was a wilderness… A land where men fought to the death for a stack of beaver pelts. Where river men and mountain men hacked their way to unbelievable wealth. Where Indians lurked, ever ready to attack at the first ...
The earth gone mad... Always, beneath the calm surface of our planet, colossal forces are building up, and from time to time must find release; minor geological events such as the San Francisco earthquake, and the eruptions of Krakatoa and Mt. St. H...
ROSALEEN... She was the spirited daughter of a courageous woman who fled with her family from the Irish famine to the hope of America. Rosaleen never forgot the stormy past -- the past in which she huddled with her family on a Boston pier in that wi...
Led by a beautiful woman, the conspirators infiltrated the highest levels of the West German government. And they claimed the Fuehrer lived again... American reporter Jim Banning is swept up in a maelstrom of treachery, corruption and lust as he purs...
“I guess what it comes down to is I’ll have to choose. Guy -or Stacy and the other kids. Them or Guy. I can’t have them both.”Abby’s summer on Castle Island is a lot of fun at first. She’s popular with the kids. They invite her to parties...
It was too much the dream come true. Felicia Hollingsworth, ski champion and Olympic hopeful, fell deeply in love with her instructor, Grant Mitchell, married him... and lived happily ever after. Until the divorce, and the devastating choice that dro...
When Nancy is told that a large inheritance from a Greek tycoon, meant for her friend Helen Nicholas, was stolen, she knows it’s up to her to find the culprit. But after following clues in the form of a poisonous snake in a basket of apples and a s...
A monograph of Golden Age detective fiction from H.R.F. Keating, doyen of classic detective writers.
Murder Must Appetize is an affectionate return to the halcyon days of the detective story when Hercule Poirot and Lord Peter Wimsey were y...
In the Nahella Valley of Appalachia, a rumor is whispered about a man named Eli Pettit and the small fortune in stolen money he supposedly hid on his farm before disappearing, leaving a wife, daughter and sister-in-law to tend the land and guard the ...
ON TO ADVENTURE... Nicola had great hopes for her Australian holiday, and even the fact that her friends couldn't meet her plane didn't dampen her spirits. In fact, her adventure started right away when a handsome stranger offered to drive...
i>The American Cowboy spans three generations of cowboys in the American West, from the young trail boss of the very first cattle drive from Texas north to the railroads, to his grandson, born after the open range had been fenced in. Discover the dan...
ADOPTED AS A CHILD, PHILIPPA PALFREY HAD THE BEST OF EVERYTHING. But, at eighteen, she wanted more. She wanted to know the identity of her real parents. Having always fantasized herself the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat and a parlour maid, s...
A warrior forced to battle the evil that thwarts his destiny, Brak must combat sorcery and plagues as he journeys south to Khurdisan. Before reaching this paradise city, he must hack his way through the obstacle after obstacle as he passes through un...
This is the story of the battle that inspired Sir Winston Churchill's moving tribute, "Never was so much owed by so many to so few," a story that takes you back into that time when the skies first became war's deadliest battleground . . . when outnum...
PART OF THE PAST ENTERS THE PRESENT ... AND STAYS!In long-forgotten archives behind the Iron Curtain, parapsychologist Dr. Ray Thompson and his wife unearth a harrowing 400-year-old diary...Back in New York, they excitedly sift through the secrets co...
The time is 1780 and the bloody War of Independence has ended, but the peace terms are still a matter of passionate debate. To the young lovers parted by the throes of war, the separation is not only one of miles but also of attitudes and heritage. M...
"You have stripped this child of her good name and must replace it with your own. I insist that you marry her!" High-spirited, hot-tempered Stacy Prescott had sworn she would never wed an elderly stranger. Now, her escape with young Lauri...
Paris. The Flea Club. Denizens of the night gather to indulge their tastes. Older, wealthy American women and screechy men compete for the favors of handsome young gigolos. A prostitute plies her trade at the bar. Bored expatriates mark time over dri...
AT LAST SHE WAS HOME! After graduation, Clementine Masters returned to Glenmeadows Farm in Kentucky where the death of the farm's owner evoked a unique legacy. An unknown relative inherits everything after a year; however, Glenmeadows can ...
He was the living embodiment of Donna Marshall's romantic fantasy ... the most eligible, elusive bachelor in fun-loving Rio: Scott Carlton, head of Carlton Chemicals, her boss, richer--and handsomer--than anyone had a right to be. And now Scott h...
From the moment Judith laid eyes on her uncle's friend, Lord Harrow, she knew he was trouble. Things were already bad enough since she had involved herself in her uncle's sticky marriage arrangements She certainly did not need Lord Harrow's caustic a...
Welcome to Starburst … a quiet seaside resort where the people of the future escape into the past, and where only four things are certain … 1. Four people are dead. 2. You are next. 3. The murderer isn't human. 4. Night is falling....
She was determined to stick it out... A legacy had brought Dinah to Australia, and at first she regarded the chance of a job in a television news department as a bonus -- and a challenge. But when she found herself continually clashing with her...
Who was the more innocent? The children whose lives were threatened at the great and isolated mansion of Freer's Cove? Or the newcomer who had trustingly accepted a seemingly privileged post with the wealthy Freer clan? What begins as the perfect...
“So flawlessly written that every one of its events seems chillingly, ominously possible.” -- Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book ReviewA startling, imaginative novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureA violent war for equality has ...
Wayne Corrigan is a professional Dreamer. He creates nighttime entertainment to thrill the minds of the sleeping public. But when one of his colleagues goes crazy and tries to commit suicide, he threatens to take the entire audience along for the rid...
Theophile Gautier's masterpiece "Mademoiselle de Maupin" might be better known for its lengthy preface than the actual novel itself. It is there in which the author discusses art for art's sake, arguing that "everything useful is ...
At the end of the Cold War, a brutal murder in a Moscow alley forces two rival agents together in a mission to catch a serial killer - before it’s too late.
Moscow is a bad place for an American to walk alone, particularly a woman as ...
1941 BRITAIN'S LAST HOPE FOR SURVIVAL A vast shipment of gold to buy desperately needed arms -- a shipment carried on a commandeered American whaling ship on a secret voyage across the Atlantic. From Germany, the most advanced killer submarine in t...
The scent of his skin rushed at her. His hands tightened on the nape of her neck, pressing her forward. Then his lips were hungrily on hers. Was it a dream? Luz Rivas loved her job at the studio. She loved her life in the barrio. She had no illusions...
"There's a nasty term for women like you--and for what you do to a man." Eden recoiled. He hadn't believed her! He thought everything they had said about her back home was true! And here they were, "temporarily" married for the sake of an experime...