WILL YOU DISCOVER THE SECRET OF THE PYRAMIDS? You are in Egypt to help your uncle Bruce with his scientific experiments. You are investigating a theory that the ancient pyramids possess strong mystical powers. You have just entered the Great Pyr...
DANGER AND ADVENTURE AWAIT YOU IN THE UNDERGROUND KINGDOM! You are exploring the Underground Kingdom, a fantastic and strange world in the center of the earth. As you stand inside the largest cavern you've ever seen, you are amazed at the dazzling...
Flying into the face of terror! Mack Bolan knew it was now or never-never land as he reached for the ejection-seat handle. He rocketed into the night above the exploding fighter jet... and directly into the path of his pursuer's lead-spitting plan...
SEND A PRIEST TO HEAVEN Four rather clumsy assassins stalk the seminaries of Detroit. Only luck has so far stopped them from killing a priest. But time runs short, and murder lies within their vicious grasp. Who's behind this quartet of killers...
"Another Kienzle top seller. Excellent in style and story. Original and timely." -- Lucy Freeman, Mystery Writers of AmericaFrom William X. Kienzle, author of the classic mystery, The Rosary Murders.A bizarre plot to destroy the papacy seems to be t...
The act of mistaken anger that led Luke Griffin to "kidnap" Randy Dunne soon gave way to a cresting wave of passion that swept them both into a fiery embrace from which there was no turning back. Yet before the game could be played out and their f...
A QUESTION OF HONOR Icy silver eyes held her captive until Ryder Sterne decided that his lovely prisoner wasn't a trespasser after all. But the electric encounter between the daredevil writer and beautiful philosophy professor Brenna Llewellyn...
Affairs. They were her specialty. Catered affairs. Most particularly weddings. Among her clients Diana Leighton numbered many good friends, not to mention her own very-much-married mother: No one knew more about tying beautiful matrimonial knots t...
She couldn't hide her feelings for him Because of the peculiar terms of an eccentric old lady's will, Sara Susan Anderson was being virtually forced to live for six months in John Englewood's house. "I'm not your judge,"...
Lannie was no longer the woman who had wanted Brandon for what he was worth, not for the man he was. This time she saw beneath the glitter and longed to build a life with him. This time, she vowed, when he gave her diamonds they would not he the p...
Minella owed Sam more than she could ever pay He'd saved her life, and for that Minella Farmer was grateful. But that didn't make her blind to his faults. Sam Stafford was detestable. He used women for his own pleasure. He had a dark se...
Alanna went to Costa Rica to meet Colonel Matt Breckenridge with all the wrong motives. She had been sent to expose him, but in the end she exposed only her own heart, her own vulnerability where he was concerned. She fell in love with the arrogan...
He's got experience written all over him." Shann had warned Kezia, and he was right. For as long as she could remember, Shann was the only man she'd wanted - then she met the enchanting Bligh Devereaux. This stranger aroused an un...
They met when her car skidded on ice. She was a cultivated Bostonian, striving toward a Ph.D., he a rough-and-tumble hockey pro, a few goals from the Stanley Cup. Worlds apart, but in one unforgettable moment of passion Mariette and Bull found a priv...
COULD SHE LOVE A MAN WHO EXPECTED HER TO BE THERE ... OR A MAN WHO'D BE THERE FOR HER? For a year, the man in Leah Bradstreet's life had been Jakob Anderson, the celebrated dancer. But romance had to wait for the moments they could find between Ja...
Golf pro Jason Gerard's playboy reputation hadn't prevented Chesten Malone from agreeing to paint his portrait, but she was on her guard. She told herself that his gentle teasing was a con man's pitch, that the passion in his dark eyes was not for he...
Her worst fears had come true Being kidnapped by political terrorists was the realization of Saffron Wykeham's worst nightmares. And to be taken to an isolated primitive farmhouse and subjected to the volatile dangerous temperaments of her cap...
UNFORGETTABLE WORDS "I'm going to win you, Charla, no matter what I have to do!" Artist Charla Evans traveled to Japan to study raku pottery--and to escape an unhappy love. She thought there could never be another ... until tycoon Stephen Conners ...
" I always get what I want." Adam Thornton's words struck fear into Natalie's heart. For the survival of her modeling agency depended on keeping him and his company happy. Her own sister--Thornton's Cosmetics' Dream Girl--h...
Journalist Nia Phillips' assignment to interview the five most eligible bachelors on the East Coast introduced her to Daniel Strahan, head coach of a top Boston basketball team. Daniel had no desire to be interviewed -- and then no intention of ...
IT WAS AN OFFER SHE COULDN'T REFUSE. Lisa Ashton wanted only two things in life: her independence and to become a commercial pilot. There was no room for a man especially not devastatingly handsome Serge Devereaux, a notorious womanizer...a ma...
"I won't be used by you, Dane Vestry!" Linet Emmonds knew she was a professional, a top TV reporter who'd never failed to get a story. And she wasn't about to ruin her record now, especially not over her latest assignment, self-made business tycoo...
FROM FRIENDS TO LOVERS They'd been close for years, but suddenly Madeline hungered for John in a new way. When they finally touched, passion set their souls on fire... but their friendship turned to ashes. Now Madeline feared she was no more ...
Like oil and water, they'd never make a proper mix, yet Lee knew she'd met her match. Wealthy and powerful Jake Rhome had been willing to give her anything--but her freedom--so she'd left him to take a job as a geologist with an oil company in the...
A PRICE TO PAY Rosalie Darrien had agreed to take charge of Louis Alexander's villa on Mykonos, one of the most romantic Greek islands. But the handsome, charming, very wealthy Mr. Alexander didn't know that she was there to exact a toll. She woul...
Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes. For in this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of ...
STAR-MAKER, HEARTBREAKER When Julia Somers stepped off the stage in triumph, producer Roy Allison came from the backstage shadows to offer her the chance of a lifetime -- a demanding but star-making part in his next movie. Roy's kisses were a...
"Know your enemy," the handsome stranger warns, but, as a storm rages outside, trapping them together, Laurel neglects the threat to the lighthouse that shelters them. She forgets her routines and responsibilities, drawn to this man whose thr...
Four women are linked by a passion for the same man, Belson McKintridge, a legendary screen idol and notorious womanizer. McKintridge risks everything for one desperate, international scam, setting forces in motion that will change the ladies' exotic...
Was she doomed to endure a marriage she had never wanted to a man she hardly knew? Morgana Cassity had no choice -- not this time -- not if she meant to keep the little that was hers. Her portion of the vast Cassity empire was the run-down Rocking...
A kiss from a stranger, given at her own request, was Chrissa's first step in learning what love was all about. Isaac Fielding was a man worth loving, but his past was as unhappy as Chrissa's own, and to win his heart seemed hopeless. Like the flo...
Anger. Fear. Fury. She had been prepared to feel anything but her own answering desire as he took her in his arms offering everything--everything she had ever wanted.... Jennifer Preston studied him with care. Joe Brennan, creative maverick of th...
THEY WERE LOCKED IN A BATTLE OF WILLS The unyielding Thorn Catlin was determined to force Sabrina to leave Brazil. She was set on staying--for purely professional reasons. Unforeseen events shook her resolve. Marooned with him in the exotic and...
She was willing to gamble everything After the callous way he'd disowned her mother, the last thing Rosanna Dunham wanted was to deal with her wealthy autocratic grandfather. But she was desperate for money -- money that meant saving her mothe...
It wasn't that the job was difficult! It was April's employer who baffled her -- Comte Emile Jacquot de Nimes, popular novelist, one-time acclaimed artist, at present a recluse. His wounded soul broke her heart, and somehow she must sho...
"You're blinded by adolescent dreams! " The memory of Jase's humiliating rejection still cut Lexa to the quick. True, as a teenager she had worshiped her handsome stepbrother with the idolatry usually reserved for rock stars. Bu...
"It's an offer you can't refuse." Kinnan Macrae's suggestion that she set sail aboard his yacht left Alix speechless. But stranded as she was in Yugoslavia with no money, no identification and no way of making herself understoo...
He had never seen the woman he loved. He did not know she carried his child. Lainie's artistic talent was the toast of New York. But she would have traded all her success for the golden beauty of her sister. Then she met Jean Paul, the sports superst...
THEIR LOVE WAS CHAINED BYA LEGACY OF BITTERNESS Veterinarian Kit Shannon was struggling to build her dream: a game reserve on the African land she'd inherited. But opposing her was Devin Michaels, as bold and rugged as magnificent Mount Kenya. ...
Alone, afraid, beautiful Leigh Bransom was about to deliver her child beside a deserted Texas highway. Gratefully she accepted the help of a handsome, dirt-streaked stranger...and in the excitement of the moment a special feeling sparked between them...
In the beginning they lived on love and dreams. Then success divided them...jealousy tore them further apart...distrust led to the final break. Adam left -- and Bridgette told herself she didn't miss him. Later, the head of Bounty Studios insi...
A WEEK... OR FOREVER? Rachel MacKinley's thriving furniture business had been her whole world until, during a vacation cruise to the Mexican Riviera, she was forced to share a cabin with handsome, dark-eyed Gardner MacKinley. Gard was convince...
SHE NEVER WANTED TO SEE HIM AGAIN.... Diana hadn't seen Rhys Morgan in ten years--not since their tumultuous three-day affair. What erupted between them so long ago had been impossible to resist. Before he even spoke to her she knew she wanted...
LOVE'S LEGACY Shelley Grant had vowed to run her small mining company alone, but Deke Jordan had rights that were not to be ignored. How could she feel that her land was her own so long as this rugged man could lay equal claim? And how could she f...
She was burned by moonlight, scorched by the searing kisses of the devastating actor she'd been hired to direct. And now Penny Phillips had to work with him -- Joel Sanborne -- the volatile star of the soap opera Dream of Life. There was dange...
THE SPLENDORED SKY still spread its vast canopy above the Montana plains where Amber Rowland had grown up. Back again to run the family ranch, her heart yearned for the man she had loved and left, darkly compelling Austin Kane. As a girl she ha...
That spring, Robbie burst into her life like a fever in the blood--one day nothing, the next, a yearning unlike anything Cathy had experienced in the ten years since her divorce. At 35, mother of four, she'd given up her romantic dreams. It took Robb...
THEY WERE WORLDS APART. Fran Bright led a charmed life. She lived year-round in her aunt's house in the heavenly resort of Key West, playing music on the pier for tourists, swimming, sunning, laughing with her friends. But her carefree days seemed...
Architect Alexander Rigby, his British wife, his best friend, and his mistress become entangled in a web of passion, ambition, and murder set against the background of the Australian Outback and urban Sydney...
None of Casey Mallory's scientific training prepared her for Storm Carmichael. A troubleshooter hired to investigate a laboratory accident, Storm made trouble for Casey the moment he walked in the door. From that instant, he wants her. But Ca...
A fine beginning! It was pitch-dark, raining snakes and alligators, and she was totally lost -- stumbling blindly through the treacherous Everglades! PR Director Whitney Latham had been confident she could pave the way for a modem housing developm...
In the space of one nippy November afternoon she'd lost her coveted spinning wheel -- utterly outbid at auction -- and now she was losing her heart -- utterly undone by a stranger's charm. Sara Gilman bristled at the danger. Growing up as ...
DRAWN BY LONGING, DRIVEN APART BY DOUBT Dark and compelling Ben Andress was a temptation Natalie had not anticipated when she chose to work as a charter captain in the Florida Keys. Had he not been such an enigma -- passionate yet coldly secret...
SHE FOLLOWED HER DREAMS... During her first year out of college Lesley had enjoyed working in public relations for her Uncle Graham Chadwick, the director of the Unicorn society Institute. Now she felt that it was time for her to go out and work i...
Could true love come twice in a lifetime? Barbara Ellis didn't think so, at least not until she met Kyle Waters. Tall and ruggedly handsome, Kyle's piercing green eyes told Barbara that he was a man who got what he wanted at any cost -- both ...
Tall, lean, and powerful, he towered over her -- Ross Leyton, the man who had put an end to all her childish, innocent dreams.... The Thousand islands -- was it a thousand years ago, or only ten? She had been seventeen that summer, a girl who beli...
"I wouldn't go to bed with you if you were the last man in Greece...' From the start of the Greek tour, Lydia had disliked Nick Aristou's arrogant ways. Neither his darkly handsome looks nor the fact he was buying the tourist cruise business she w...
SPELLBOUND When Raine Morgan awakened, she found that the man who had saved her life when she lost her way skiing in Minnesota's desolate northern hills was none other than America's heartthrob, Devlin Paige, singer, composer...and every w...
TOMORROW'S PASSION Julie Dunaway was glad that her job at a Boston engineering firm left her no time for love. But when a dynamic new consultant turned out to be her estranged husband, Alex Brandt, Julie knew she was trapped. Dark and magnetic,...
"...I WANT YOU TO GO BACK TO THE LAND. TO REVELSTONE. AND STOP THE CLAVE. PUT OUT THE BANEFIRE. IF YOU DO THAT, SUNBANE'LL SLOW DOWN. MAYBE IT'LL EVEN RECEDE. THAT'LL GIVE US TIME TO LOOK FOR A BETTER ANSWER." Thomas Covenant was shocked by Linden...
It was that transitional time of the world, when man first brought the clang of iron and the reek of smoke to the lands which before had echoed with inhuman voices. In that dawn of man and death of magic there yet remained one last untouched place --...
Thousands of years after a war so terrible that it changed the very laws of nature, gods and giants once again stalk the earth and play their games with human lives......
THE GOD THAT FAILED To his bosses at the Ochskahrt Memorial Academy he was Captain Bernard M. Gruenblum, Temporal Division--just another time traveler. But to the aliens from Yamaguchi he was, literally, God. So, if Bernie was going to medieval Ja...
The City of Illusions Three thousand years before, the monstrous Dark had sprung from loathsome underground lairs to destroy most of humanity. Now they were again ravening and ruining in their blood-hunger. Only a few thousand people had managed t...
Adventure and mystery find Adam and Noah when they become involved with a stolen boat, drug smugglers, a runaway horse, and a woman about to give birth on the top of a twenty-story building with a broken elevator....
The audience thought it was only an act -- a dirty-mouthed dummy spewing vile insults while the ventriloquist rolled her innocent baby blues. Nobody believed that Plato could be more than a rag, a stick, a hank of hair. But inside his little wooden b...
Norman Mailer’s dazzlingly rich, deeply evocative novel of ancient Egypt breathes life into the figures of a lost era: the eighteenth-dynasty Pharaoh Rameses and his wife, Queen Nefertiti; Menenhetet, their creature, lover, and victim; and the gods...
A Frenchman whose family has lived in Cambodia for eight generations stands, in 1969, at the center of a complex, international cast of characters, all of whom are drawn into the maelstrom of a country on the brink of revolution...
Ordered by his father to work for Harry and Vita Dane, volcano experts who are monitoring Mount Dominica's anticipated eruption, arrogant, sixteen-year-old Doug Morley confronts danger from a variety of sources...
Fariña evokes the Sixties as precisely, wittily, and poignantly as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the Jazz Age. The hero, Gnossus Pappadopoulis, weaves his way through the psychedelic landscape, encountering -- among other things -- mescaline, women, ...
When the boundary between the pagan past and the rational present becomes blurred, things can get unbelievably scary! Ties in with the John Schlesinger film starring Martin Sheen, Robert Loggia, and Helen Shaver. The most terrifying novel since Ros...
In an ancient kingdom, a boy and his hawk challenge the gods All his life, Tron has been destined to join the priests who rule his strange desert kingdom. When the old king grows sick, a ritual is called for to restore his health: the sacrifice of a ...
One day in 1914, a young man took to the air, and a legend was born...Dicken Quinney never forgot that first flight in a fragile contraption of sealing-wax and string, the start of a lifelong obsession with flying.He was to spend the next four years ...
A history of the men and machines who fought the pioneer aerial combats of World War I, which includes first-hand reports from pilots and looks at the famous aces, such as Baron Richthofen and Mick Mannock....
In January 1944, Baron Joachim von Niehauser enters the United States on a mission to collect critical data on the Manhattan Project's atom bomb, a mission imperilled at every step by FBI agent George Haven...
In Guinevere, Sharan Newman told us the story of that lovely and legendary woman's childhood up until her wedding night. Guinevere is now the beautiful young wife and queen of King Arthur, a position much-coveted by all women of Camelot. But noth...
Details the terrifying course of events that occurs as, one by one, suddenly and inexplicably, happy, successful, and apparently normal people lose control...
Aboard the "Queen Mary," carrying Winston Churchill to a meeting with Roosevelt and one thousand Nazi prisoners bound for American camps, a fanatic German agent executes a plan to kidnap Churchill and change the course of the war...
Deborah was young and innocent; Benton was worldly and experienced. Hers was a quiet fire; his was and inferno or rage and revenge. But as the world rumbled with the thunder of battle, they were struck by the lightning of passion. A moment's attra...
A challenging foray into the heart of sorcery creates a landscape full of terrors, mysterious forces, and insights, a landscape of the sorcerer's realm, of brilliant visions, lonely tasks, and human warmth and comradeship...
James Thurber has been called "one of our great American institutions' (Stanley Walker), "a magnificent satirist (Boston Transcript), and "a Joyce in false-face" (New York Times). The New York Herald Tribune submits that he is "as blithe as Benchley....
The scene is Los Angeles -- but not the LA of sun-drenched beaches or glamorous Hollywood. This is the Los Angeles of the Chicano barrio, where everything in life is stacked against the teenaged hero, Chato Medina, his beleaguered, disintegrating fam...
An eerie and mysterious gothic romance steeped in family secrets and deception from the Victorian-era author of The Portent and Lilith. MacDonald’s second realistic novel written in the first person by a fictional female narrator, The Flight...
Tor / Pinnacle, 1983. Mass market paperback. First published as a serial in Astounding Magazine in 1952, then published in book form the same year. "Cyril Judd" is a pseudonym of C. M. Kornbluth and Judith Merril. "Gunner Cade is a minor classic if ...
The Fioras jewels are missing and Francesca Lisle, one of John Mannering’s (aka ‘The Baron’) neighbours, is mysteriously asked by her father to retrieve a leather holdall from underneath the floorboards and take it to him at Waterloo station. F...
Once a wild gold mining town, Whitey's Fall is now a small, brooding community of close and distant relations. One by one, the young are leaving for the alluring uncertainties of the world beyond. The old stay on, steadfast in their pride and sense o...
This is the true story of Second World War fighter pilot, Richard Hillary. After being shot down in September 1940, Hillary spent several months in hospital, undergoing numerous operations; a member of Archibald McIndoe's 'Guinea Pig Club'. Originall...
A Caldecott Honor Book A Golden Kite Award -- Picture Book A stunning edition of the classic fairy tale, reimagined and illustrated by a Caldecott medalist. Traveling alone, deep in the woods, Elisabeth suspects her basket of treats isn’t the only ...
Twelve stories observing modern American life and morals in the twentieth century, from the National Medal of Artsâ€"winning author of The Cat and the King.With this collection of short stories, Louis Auchincloss will delight his already devoted foll...
In Needmore, Kentucky, in the late 1940s, bookish high school senior Harry Eastep is appointed mentor to Monk McHorning, the hulking hope of the high school basketball team, in a comic novel about the pains of youth and the possibilities of integrity...
Olga da Polga goes visiting and meets Boris, a Russian guinea-pig. Olga and Boris become firm friends and Olga is surprised to discover that Boris can tell even taller tales than she can! Soon the time comes for her to return to her own garden, but...
Seventy-two years after the events, Samuel Burley seeks to determine his grandfather's true paternity and his great-grandmother's reasons for deserting and then returning to her Kentucky-farmer husband...
After the horror of Pearl Harbor, American forces in the Pacific had a long way to come back, relying on the submarines of the Silent service. Jack McCrary, sub commander led an attack on Japanese ships that held the Imperial Navy to a standstill. Bu...
For its 75th anniversary and Frank Sinatra’s centennial: the Jazz Age masterpiece that inspired the iconic Sinatra film and the hit Broadway musical, and featuring the musical’s libretto and lyrics On the seedy side of Chicago nightlife in...
Hong Kong, 1960s: A US submarine-chaser and her captain become entangled with Vietnamese forces on the desolate island group of Payenhau....
Percy Mjipa, diplomat-adventurer, and Alicta Dycknan, interplanetary runaway, both aliens on the alien world of Krishna, are swept up in wildly treacherous and wildly funny-imperial intrigue. At stake: the fate of an entire planet... and their own...
Dahl's satirical reworkings of six classic fairy tales reveal the true stories of "Cinderella," "Jack and the Beanstalk," "Goldilocks," "Snow White," "Little Red Riding Hood," and "The Three Little Pigs"...
It's not fair, Emma thinks, for her parents to go away (for five whole days) and leave her with an aunt and uncle she hardly knows. What if they don't like children? But Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Eliot like Emma and her brother, Zachary, just fine. They ...
Suleiman the Magnificent returns victorious from Rhodes and moves to consolidate his position, but war calls him away again and his Circassian wife, Khurrem, must deal with the jealousy, gossip, and intrigue of the royal court...
This story is about Nathan Malkin who returns to New York from a premature retirement in Israel. He bears a heavy baggage of memory - his parents' marriage, the deaths of his wife and son, and his relationship with his brother. Central to his schemes...
On what has to be a perfect cruise, sailing around the Bahamas in convoy with Pete Sturtevant and his important charter passengers, Tracy James discovers something even worse than a rat aboard the Kitten Too: Tessa, a small, terrified human stowaway,...
In this major reconsideration of Herman Melville’s life and work, Michael Paul Rogin shows that Melville’s novels are connected both to the important issues of his time and to the exploits of his patrician and politically prominent family -- whic...
He was a salty old sailor, weather-beaten superstitious and in desperate need of money. So he sold three pints of his pure red blood -- and the horror began... The brutally mutilated bodies of a honeymooning couple are found at a campsite. A highl...
Olga da Polga has left the pet shop to start a new life with her owners. Her home is now a large and airy hutch and it''s not long before she meets Noel the cat, Fangio the hedgehog, and Graham the tortoise. Her garden companions soon discover that O...
Passed over for promotion to lieutenant colonel, Major Charles Taylor enters a world of undercover espionage that takes him to the bars, brothels, and dives of Saigon as an operative of the Marine Corps Phoenix program...