In the last golden years of Egypt, a great love was born in the city of the dark gods. She was a princess, beautiful daughter of Pharaoh Akhenaten and Nefertiti and heir to the throne of Egypt. He was a lowly scribe of the royal court, who would defy...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We, the officers and crew of the USS Montana, warn the Russian Federation. Unless our families are released unharmed, we will launch a Trident missile.Deep in the Norwegian Sea, the nuclear submarine steams silently into its launch area and prepares ...
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. ...
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...
The international climate soars to a red-alert pitch when a mysterious death claims dozens of Chinese diplomats in Washington DC. The stability of the world is at stake. And everyone wants a cover-up - including the Chinese. The imminent arrival of t...
For five hundred years a mad computer scientist who called himself Satan ruled the nights of the planet Styx, each sundown unleashing hordes of cyborg creatures -- werewolves, vampires, dragons, and worse -- to terrorize what had once been the idylli...
THEY WERE A PERFECT MATCH-- FOR A FIGHT TO THE FINISH Saskia Van Hooten was a lovely young lady with the weight of her entire family's future on her slender young shoulders--and a stubborn spirit that refused to bow to adversity. Derek Rowbridge ...
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...
THEY WERE SISTERS, DAUGHTERS, AND OCCASIONAL RIVALS IN LOVE.... What could be more idyllic than three lovely ladies sitting on the lawn of a Regency estate on a cloudless summer day? Nothing, it would seem, could blemish this picturesque scene ...
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...
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...
Tiffany had hurt him! Though she was little more than a child, she had known Peter must face the truth. She had led him to the moonlit abbey ruins, to the lovers' tryst, so that he could see that his fiancee was untrue to him. Now, five years l...
Master novelist Drury probes the controversy and political machinations as America strives to land on Mars . . .A mission that may be torn apart by the nation’s turmoil . . .The Throne of Saturn shows the struggle of dedicated and courageous a...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
Fourteen might seem a little young for a full-time mothers helper, but Mary Shelburne wasnt worried. Prim and responsible Cinni was the best girl Mary interviewed. With two small children and another on the way, Mary needed help that summer at their ...
Her sudden wealth inspired treachery Ramona was surprised to learn after her uncle died that shed inherited a fortune. She would have to travel to Majorca to collect it, a prospect that excited her. Majorca was lovely and she hadn't seen her a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
TWO IS COMPANY -- FOUR IS A LOVE KNOT THAT NEEDS UNTANGLING! Spirited Miranda Brandywine knew that even though Charles Hartley was a poet and a dreamer, there was no reason for her father to stop the marriage. And gentle, lovely Emily Rockhall ...
A Hugo Award Finalist: Humanity struggles to understand a killing labyrinth discovered on the Moon in this science fiction adventure about death and rebirth Hugo and Nebula Award"winning author Robert Silverberg credits Rogue Moon with containing ...
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....
Detective Harry Bliss has one hell of a problem. She's Susan Meredith, she's gorgeous--and she's so deep into trouble she can't find her way out. First, someone attacks her outside her office. Then someone cuts her brake lines, drugs her, and ransack...
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, ...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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)....
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
"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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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