Dead Man's HandNo one paid any mind to Jack McCall as he unloaded a .44 caliber slug into Wild Bill Hickok's brain at point-blank range. Deadwood's legendary gunslinging marshal was dead, holding a poker hand of aces and eights, a dead man's hand.The...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Natalie Travers had only just had her house in Brighten converted into flats, and installed five sets of tenants, when her younger brother Julian sent her an appeal for help. Newly deserted by his wife of one year, he was finding it impossible to cop...
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 ......
“Today,” My father announced, “I bought a farm in North Carolina. We’re leaving the city, Marnie. We’re going back to the land.” Back to the land? Leaving the city? Marnie Macdonald can’t believe her ears, her parents must be kidding. ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Good days and bad days are not coincidence. We all have them. If you have ever had the feeling that there was some sort of cycle operating within you, you are absolutely correct. There are cycles at work. Physical, mental, and emotional cycles. And t...
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...
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...
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At the South Carolina m...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...
There was no escape. She had wept and begged. She had fled to London and sought her grandmother's help. All to no avail! Miss Cherry Hilliard was Lady Varian now-imprisoned in a great country house, required to sit at dinner and watch her handsome...
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...
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...
"CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND? I AM BEING SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER!" Poor lovely Catherine Ebford. Being forced by her guardian into a marriage she did not want. And so Catherine, a stubborn young woman with a head full of romantic notions (with th...
At 16, country-fresh, penniless Ceci Gramont was wooed, then scorned by the darkly handsome Lord Armin Sherlay. Now at twenty-six, a wealthy, titled widow, she's heir to the famed Chadbourne Luck at cards. It lasts only as long as its possessor ...
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...
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 ...
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 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...
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...
"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...
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 ...
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...
It was time she faced the truth After her husband Perry's death, Raina believed Logan Thorne, his business partner, visited often because of her son, Danny. When Logan offered marriage, she didn't take him seriously. Why should he tie h...
Jarmila's extraordinary beautiful is becoming more bewitching by the day and her heart beginning to quicken with the vibrant passions of a woman, when Prague, her home, is suddenly overrun by revolutionary Czechs demanding independence from Austria's...
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 ...
Things aren't always what they seem...Inspector Ronald Dobbs of Scotland Yard thought the Mediterranean cruise would be a good rest from fighting crime. And the shipboard masquerade ball was a good way to relax and have fun. But the mask of one of th...
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...
THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE Vermithrax, the last of dragonkind, swooped down over the kingdom of Urland, let loose a torrent of flames, and reduced everything to smoldering ash. Then, finding the newly blackened wasteland much to its liking, it settle...
When Tito discovered a plot to sabotage Yugoslav autonomy, his only possible confidant was his oldest enemy -- Dusan Ankavic the dissident. And the only person Ankavic can turn to now that Tito is dead is Nick Carter. But when Ankavic meets with an "...
Why did he seem to dislike her so? Captain Valyev had been kindness itself when he stopped on the road to give assistance to Nadya, one of a vast crowd of refugees fleeing before Napoleon's advancing army. But the moment she told him her full name...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
Rosie Powell had been jilted by the only lover she had ever known. Now, visiting her brother Danny in Spain, the honey-haired painter from the Midwest found her heart at risk again. Juan de Arevalo, the world-famous flamenco guitarist and proud ar...
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...
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...
Everyone was on edge - who would be the next victim? Jeremy Locke accepted an unusual challenge when he agreed to do some sleuthing for a London-based theatrical group. Stage rehearsals for a new production had been seriously disrupted by a rash of b...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Given by her dying grandfather into the custody of the Marquis of Theale, known to London Society as "Devil" for his wicked ways. Beautiful young Maris was both attracted and repelled by her worldly guardian. The Marquis, on the other hand, found his...
The time is 1902. The setting; eastern Oregon. The action begins when Magic Child, a fifteen-year-old Indian girl of surprising sophistication and accomplishment, wanders into the wrong whorehouse looking for the right men -- the men who will kill t...
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. ...
"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...
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...
IT’S HARD TO BE AS SMART AS A RACCOON No one knew how old "Doc" Raccoon got so smart. After all, he didn't have a college diploma or even a library card. But whenever there was a problem at Catfish Bend, he was the animal everyone turned to. So...
TRAPPED! When Tamara "borrowed" company funds to help her invalid mother, she had every intention of replacing the money before anyone discovered the loss. Then the company was taken over by the ruthless entrepreneur Bickford Rutledge. ...
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...
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...
Chris and Cathy Made Such a Loving Home... for fourteen-year-old Jory -- so handsome, so gentle. And for Bart, who had such a dazzling imagination for a nine year old. Then the lights came on in the house next door. Soon the Old Lady in Black was t...
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...
Vicente was master of a lost art... Tania obeyed her father's last request: she contacted the Venetian glassmakers, the Massimos. And Benno Massimo whisked her away from an empty life in England, bringing her to the family villa -- as his fian...
Born of an impassioned and clandestine love between a Chinese princess and a handsome American captain, Le' Sing lost her mother at birth -- her father disappeared. Raised in a temple and trained in the art of love, when she finally came of age...
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 ...
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...
“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 ...
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...
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...
If Letty Montressor had not been quite so determined to escape from her family and marriage to the odious Mr Sludge, she would not have been found wandering the streets of London late at night with no other companion but her canary. Harry Tyne, th...
A MAN COULD GET KILLED ON THE LOOP... The Laredo Loop -- a notorious rustling network that spirited U.S. longhorns south of the border, fixed them up with phony "legal" papers, then shipped them back to Laredo for sale. When Longarm is enliste...
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)....
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Julia blushed to think of the shy young brides on their dower-strewn marriage beds. It was the time for weddings, for love. But not for Julia. She must leave -- leave India at once. She had found so much: the fulfillment of work, a sense of belong...
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...
MORE THAN SHE BARGAINED FOR! When her once wealthy father died leaving only bad debts, beautiful, jet-setting Ann Milan found work with the darkly handsome Julian Terrace, owner of the famous Terrace Inn. Soon Ann found herself falling desperatel...
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...
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...
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...
Pursued by the interplanetary police for a crime he did not commit, space traveller Tyg is forced down on the planet Storm, where he finds a revolution brewing among the Tadda against King Caiman, the planet's tyrannical ruler. He must prove his inn...
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...
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...
"One of the most gifted novelists of his generation” (TIME) gives us a metaphysical literary mystery that is as ambitious as it is intriguing, an investigation of a young woman's violent extinction that also traces her construction of a new and odd...
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...