Someone is killing women in the high-priced canyons around Los Angeles. Someone who strikes ruthlessly, randomly, leaving his red badge of rage on his victims’ bodies…For Jack and Marjorie Krenner and their two small children, life in t...
Hauntingly romantic, unforgettably moving, here is THE LAST WALTZ--a novel that will sweep you into a magnificent world where wealth and tradition cannot hold back the dizzying heights of passion--or escape the shattering depths of scandal and betray...
HE WAS COMING BACK TO TOWN. Kate Langford had never really forgotten him. Eight years ago, when she had been an impetuous girl of seventeen, Chase Jamison had ignited the passion in her soul. Then he had left her father's company under mysterious ...
Gold was what lured them to San Francisco, and gold is what motivated their lives and loves. Miners dug it. Bankers stacked it, and the glittering bordellos of the day made what they could of it from the eager, hot-blooded men who flocked to sample t...
HE SET HER HEART ON FIRE Susan Holt had followed fire fighter Greg Landon all over town for an exclusive story. Amid the danger and excitement of frightening fires she had watched him save lives, care for the sick and console the homeless. Greg w...
AS THE RICH GOT RICHER, THE REST GOT MURDERED.... A passionate environmentalist. Corey Benbow was heading hone after an angry encounter with her wealthy in-laws when her car went over a bluff into Sitka Bay. The Benbows were about to double-cross ...
Stories deal with a neighbor's suspicions of murder, a winning lottery ticket in a dead man's suit, a time-bomb, a murderer caught for a killing he did not do, and a misunderstanding that results in death...
When Maitland is called upon to defend a young man on a theft charge he stumbles on a coincidence that promises to be a decisive factore in a successful defence. But Maitland is walking into a trap. His old enemy, Detective Chief Superintendent Brigg...
"Have yourself a fling!" She never dreamed she'd take that advice seriously, but the man who pursued her down the deserted beach at South Padre was huge, handsome--and arrogant. She'd used the gentle art of self-defense to fling him over her petit...
By all rights they should never have met -- shy and lovely Susan Morgan, and Ricardo Montoya, baseball's hottest superstar. But a winter storm brought them together and in the glow of firelight, they discovered a magical passion. It should have ended...
On a dark night in March 1945, Task Force Baum dashed through a break in the German Army lines created by troops of the U.S. Third Army and embarked on one of the most dramatic and dangerous rescue missions of World War II. Their target, the Allied P...
The Word KAHAWA is Swahili for Coffee, In English it means... Adventure novels don't have to be rigorously written in order to be enjoyable. But when Donald E. Westlake brings his considerable talents to bear on the form, it is astonishing how...
WHERE LOVE IS WAITING With her beloved father dead, Sarina Paige traveled alone to exotic Shanghai, not knowing fate was sending her into the storm of a rich American's lust. But even as Janson Carlyle's kisses awakened Sarina's passions, his demand...
Fearing love, she was afraid to count the roses. The residents of Bayou Lafourche yearned for love--not least among them Adrien Merril. He wanted someone to fill his days with laughter, his nights with passion, his house with children. He wanted a...
First published in 1979, a picture book which follows a small boy who learns to dress himself by experimenting with a variety of clothes, even if he does manage to put them on all the wrong places before finally succeeding. Illustrated in colour by Y...
In Lisbon to attend a memorial service for his younger sister and her fellow students killed in a plane crash, seventeen-year-old Paul shares his introspection with her as he ponders the weaknesses of his parents and the meaning of life....
Young cowpoke J.B. Watts, beaten, jailed, and almost hanged for murder after he finds a lost cache of gold, joins forces with Shine Crandall, niece of the man he allegedly killed, to unravel the mystery of the town of El Rey...
THEY WENT HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD to find each other again. Once Halette Alexander and Kale Vaughn had been married, lovers who had sworn never to part. But some promises seemed made to be broken. An angry misunderstanding had shattered their...
A highly praised novel from the author of Gemini--now in a new paperback editionAn international bestseller and winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary award, The Ogre is a masterful tale of innocence, perversion, and obsessio...
Captain Gringo in a gunman’s graveyard in Guatamala!The curvaceous blonde twins named Flora and Dora need a troubleshooter to “shoot some trouble.” Gringo’s their man -- in more ways that one -- only now these two luscious lovelies have got h...
It was her heritage... The raw passions of the untamed territory, the glory that was yet to be -- and Solitaire, the proud plantation whose uncertain future she held in her beautiful young hands.... From the dazzling ballrooms of Creole society...
After completing a tour of duty (thirty-five missions) in B-17s, Bert Stiles transferred to a fighter squadron. Just four months later he was killed in action on an escort mission to Hanover, Germany, on November 26, 1944. Stiles’ book was written ...
ONCE THEY HAD BEEN LOVERS... . Brenna Hyatt had fallen for Luke Townsend with all the passion of first love. He was older, worldly, but he responded with a passion of his own. Then Luke spent fifteen months in a Guatemalan prison. The world--an...
Devon's ordeal was only just beginning When her father suddenly announced he had enough money to pay for the expensive operation that would end her years as a cripple, Devon was overjoyed. The joy turned to horror when he confessed he had e...
Graduate student Shane McBride went to the small Georgia island in search of archeological artifacts, but instead found herself overwhelmed by the beautiful primitive paradise and the enigmatic magnetism of its owner, Dirk Holland. Dirk invaded Shane...
THREATENED PARADISE Art connoisseur Robyn Stuart had arranged her life fastidiously and precisely. So when she traveled to Fiji to lure portraitist Philip Holt back to civilization, she wasn't prepared for the disturbing call of his primitive para...
Sometimes destiny follows no rules... Winnifred Gardner, maid of honor at her best friend's wedding, never dreamed she'd be tempted by handsome, teasing Joseph Duggan, the best man. Her own wedding was only three months away! The attraction wa...
HE HAD BOUGHT HER, HE WOULD USE HER -- BUT HE SWORE HE'D NEVER LOVE HER... Flames of desire exploded in Sabrina's veins the moment she laid eyes on her new master, Clay Storm. She had an urgent need to -go to him, feel his manly strength, ...
A comprehensive exposition of the workings of the brain incorporates extensive, up-to-date research on the brain's anatomy, growth, physiology, and functions and discusses consciousness, the senses, and the effects of damage and aging...
It had all started with a phone call, an urgent message that sent Nicole Barrett racing off to save her kid sister. Suddenly Nicole was trapped in a plot to protect her sister from the wrath of one of San Francisco's wealthiest businessmen, Flint Loc...
Charismatic and deeply spiritual Jamie Waters pursues a destiny compelling her to struggle against complacency and leading her to a decision to be ordained as a priest in defiance of the canons of the Episcopal Church...
Friends can come in funny shapes. At first Joshua thought Mrs. Goodwin looked like a tank. Joshua can't believe he's in third grade again. "I'm moving to East Africa next week," he mumbles after Tommy Wilhelm's friends finish creaming him on the p...
Judge Laura Remington's father had gone to jail for pirating Dallas Jones' country-western songs. By rights she and Dallas should have been enemies; yet when they met, nothing seemed to-matter except the magnetic energy neither could deny. There w...
HER LORDLY NEW HUSBAND COULD ISSUE ANY COMMANDS HER WISHED -- BUT GETTING HIS SPIRITED BRIDE TO OBEY WAS ANOTHER MATTER ENTIRELY A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER As daughter to the Duke of Malmsbury, Ciecely knew her duty. She had to obey her father's co...
HE WAS THE ONE MAN SHE COULDN'T IGNORE Hunter V Pierce, investigative reporter extraordinaire for KMKX-TV in Kansas City, wasn't who he was pretending to be. And Cary Blame had selected him as the best engineer her personnel firm could find for Om...
In the next dimension there is a world very much like ours, and on this world is an island nation much like our own Japan. In Naipon, however, the myths and dreams of the Japanese people are clothed in reality -- sorcerers make magicks great and smal...
Tomoe turns to religion to escape her past, but destiny is not through with her yet The young girl crashes through the underbrush, desperate to escape the cackling soldiers at her back. After catching her in a tryst with a local farm boy, they intend...
This immensely powerful novel follows four generations of the Bindel family as they fight for survival in a hostile world. From imperial Russia in 1825 they head towards Western Europe, returning finally to modern Russia, where the persecution of the...
SCANDAL IN THE ROYAL DRAGOONS...INDENTURED SLAVERY IN THE BRAVE NEW WORLD...DANGER AND DESIRE ON THE WAR-TORN FRONTIER... A legendary swordsman and lover, born to a life of chance and adventure, Lt. Jared Hale of the Royal Dragoons could never hav...
From the internationally bestselling author of the Mars Trilogy and New York 2140 Before Kim Stanley Robinson terraformed Mars, he wrote three science fiction novels set in Orange County, California, where he grew up. These alternate futures -- one a...
From the Phoney War of 1939 to the Battle of Britain in 1940, the pilots of Hornet Squadron learn their lessons the hard way. Hi-jinks are all very well on the ground, but once in a Hurricane's cockpit, the best killers keep their wits close. Newly p...
LUCK OF THE IRISH Fired from yet another job, Cassidy St. John hardly expected the solution to her difficulties to come looming out of the fog on Fisherman's Wharf. However, the darkly handsome Colin Sullivan seemed the answer to any maiden's pray...
Bank robberies are common in the Idaho territory. But when the Wido bank is robbed, and a deputy is found dead with a strange puncture wound, that is unusual. For once, Clint Adams vows not to get involved as he moves on with his traveling gunsmith s...
From the waning glory of the Old South... The plantation house, the lands, the golden traditions of Ashley Barony made it the pride of Charleston. But its fortunes fell violently, irrevocably, on Margaret Garden Tradd's scandalous wedding day. ...
All alone in her parents' magnificent Colorado hideaway -- a princess in her ice palace snowed in on Christmas Eve -- designer Robin Lemery awoke to the shock of a naked stranger asleep by her fireplace -- a man covered only by her magnificent patchw...
Travel reporter Kelly Millburn never seemed to get the exciting assignments. Instead she was covering yet another dull package tour. But one member of her group didn't fit the tourist profile. From the first, Bill Clayton surprised her. He looked mor...
Most of the kids in the Roughing It program seem to have a lot more experience and confidence that Katie Carlisle. She wonders if she'll be able to keep up as they learn survival skills for three weeks in the Adirondack wilderness. But Lisa, who beco...
The author sets his latest Nameless Detective mystery in San Francisco's Japantown, where the sleuth tries to trace the source of Mrs. Haruko Gage's lavish but anonymous gifts and discovers a grisly ritual murder in the Nippon Mafia...
Interviews with survivors of cancer and analysis of their clinical backgrounds disclose five key factors of healing--early detection, sound medical treatment, loving support, a strong sense of self, and a powerful will to live...
HE WAS TOO PERFECT TO BE TRUE. It was supposed to be a working vacation for archaeologist Marnie Chandler. But even on the ancient, sun-drenched isle of Crete, she never expected to make a find as magnificent as Ross Landry. Greek gods paled in co...
The end of the road for Todd and Elizabeth? One of the strictest rules in the Wakefield house is "No motorcycles." Ever since their cousin was killed in a crash, Elizabeth and Jessica have been forbidden to go near them. So when Elizabeth's boy...
IT WAS DIFFICULT FOR THE PIRATE TO PLAY THE GENTLEMAN But that was precisely what Laurent Lavasseur chose to do. Facing him stood the ebony-haired beauty, her lips still burning from his kisses, who had waited for months for his return from the s...
When a literary agent is murdered, every bodice-ripping author is a suspect The nation’s most famous romance authors are often so over-the-top that they could star in their own work. Catty, eccentric, and vain, they live to make each other miser...
Breece D'J Pancake cut short a promising career when he took his own life at the age twenty-six. Published posthumously, this is a collection of stories that depict the world of Pancake's native rural West Virginia....
PRISONER OF LOVE Ten years ago Keri Thomas left Louisiana and Reid Beausan to begin again in Houston. Ironically, none of Reid's oil millions could have bought the satisfaction she now enjoyed as proprietor of a growing gourmet business. She had n...
Sparkling Rapture Golden-haired Amanda was as wild and beautiful as the Texas countryside where she was born. And though she was courted by every rancher in the country, none could win her heart. She wanted a real man, an independent man, a man wh...
Secrecy has become a way of survival After her husband's death, Jenna landed a prestigious job with a newspaper opposed to working mothers. So she fiercely guarded the secret of her son's existence by becoming a loner. But attractive new photo...
THE ROAR OF THE SEA FILLED THE NIGHT, THE WATER SLAPPING AGAINST THE SOMBER CLIFF. Moira Walsh's father lay dying in the upstairs room of their small cottage in Brittany. With his last breath he begged his daughter to marry Michael Sutton, th...
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTKem Nunn’s “surf noir” classic is a thrilling plunge into the seedy underbelly of a Southern California beach town -- the inspiration for the film Point Break.People go to Huntington Beach in search of the endless pa...
INTRODUCING THE NEWEST WONDER OF THE UNIVERSE In any list of ten great science-fiction writers, four names are always at or near the top: Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein--and Larry Niven. famed for his breadth of vision and the ...
WARRIOR, LEADER, LOVER, CONQUEROR... HAAKON OUT OF A VIOLENT AGE, when longships and broadswords rule the earth, comes the mightiest Viking warrior of them all -- Haakon the Dark. A lusty, death-defying adventurer chosen by the gods as their aven...
When tragedy made Sarah Blackstone president of her family's corporation, she had put her personal life on hold. But, promising herself one last adventurous fling before her thirtieth birthday, she bicycled up the Hudson to visit the farm that had b...
TWO WOMEN AND A MAN--STRUGGLING WITH EACH OTHER FOR SUCCESS AND LOVE Laura Fitzgerald, a young screenwriter, returns from New York to Hollywood with a burning ambition to make it on her own in the cutthroat TV industry. She can't help being the...
She found more than she'd bargained for! Rowan was thrilled to learn she had a twin sister, Regan, living somewhere on New Zealand's South Island. She was even happier when Jordan Hewitt offered to take her to meet her twin, even if she...
Out of the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory the raw mining town of Deadwood exploded. During the bustling summer of 1876 a brave and colorful troupe of theatrical performers arrives by stage to cash in on the boomtown wealth. Suddenly, they are sw...
Time hadn't changed her feelings for Dane There had always been a peculiarly bitter hatred between Jenny and her stepbrother, Dane Sutherland. She'd so much resented his influence with her father she had run away from home. Now, five ye...
Most women would have jumped at the chance to interview Nick Rutledge, the reigning romantic hero of the silver screen. But Shane McCallister considered the assignment a demotion from her usual serious features -- and she resented having to profile ...
Growing up in a small upper Midwestern town in the late 1930s, young Tommy MacAllister is scarcely aware of the Depression, much less the rumblings of war in Europe. For his parents and their set, life seems to revolve around dinners and dancing at t...
Jim Rainey’s latest assignment was his toughest to date. A wealthy magazine publisher was paying him a cool hundred thousand dollars to rescue Charles Goldman, a journalist who’d been captured in Afghanistan while reporting on the secret ...
Basikasingo It was a name of mystery, of secrecy and of vengeance - the one clue linking a circle of death and duplicity that stretched across the globe... A savage super thriller from a story teller to rival Robert Ludlum....
Bronwyn Laker had always followed other peoples rules -- her rich, powerful fathers ... her handsome, selfish husband's. But since the death of her young daughter she had lived alone in a cottage by the sea, determined to rule her own life, to develo...
In a world of two suns, Ben, who is a boy during Red Sun and a chipmunk during Blue Sun, falls into the clutches of the Animal Singer, an evil man who changes people and animals into shapes to suit his own purposes....
Three short novels show Golding at his subtle, ironic, mysterious best. The Scorpion God depicts a challenge to primal authority as the god-ruler of an ancient civilization lingers near death. Clonk Clonk is a graphic account of a crippled youth's tr...
Helena Wydmark strode confidently through busy days, reveling in the freedom to pursue her career and raise her daughter. But Barrett Shaw--bold, witty, and persistent--could make any woman forget the practicalities of life, the lessons of the past.....
Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from marrying by the petty tyrant Don Rodrigo, who desires Lucia for himself. Forced to flee, they are then...
Choice! The key is Choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and self-pity. But, hold on! If this is true then why have so many among us ...
Journalist Megan Fielding had to research corruption in the construction industry without letting people know what she was doing. And, like any good reporter, she had to keep personal feelings out of it. That became impossible once she met Michael...
The tense tale of a deadly terrorist plot set in Holland, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.AMSTERDAM AIRPORT HAS DISAPPEAREDBLACKMAILThe mass of water in its place is the work of the FFF " an Irish terrorist group who want to force ...
Death is what life is all about! It’s hot in the jungle. And with the Rat Bastards, what’s hot becomes sheer hell. Prison can slow them down. Women can make them happy. But it’s killing that keeps them going. In the jungle, every shadow, every ...
They were the Condés of Charleson, Rebel Aristocrats in an Embattled Land Noëlle Condé Nicholson--the matriarch, she saw her family divided as her beloved country went to war... William Condé Nicholson--first-born son, his father's politica...
HARD LESSONS Sarah Bennett had learned that the price of her success as a fashion designer was a life full of empty spaces. But these were unexpectedly filled with a young girl's trust when she took in Ginny de Courcey, a ten-year-old runaway. ...
The destinies of three families--the Brackens, Finches, and Pollards--intertwine to shape the history of the exotic and violent island of Trinidad and the fortunes of the great plantation estate, Golden Hill...
The fifth volume of the author's "Canopus in Argos" series focuses on the madness and false promise of words, rhetoric-induced delusion, as suffered by a young Canopean official in the small Volyen Empire...
A look at the changes wrought by the sexual revolution of the past two decades examines the revolution's philosophical and social underpinnings and focuses on the spiritual dimensions of sex and the possibilities of love, transformation, and creativi...
Their love was born in the glow of twilight dawn. Amanda Edwards felt compelled to return to the place she had been born. She hoped that by visiting the small California town of her birth she would find the reasons for her terrible nightmares and ...
All the magic and mystery of fabled India is woven into these marvel tales of seven strange nights. For that vast land which many have conquered and none have subdued is the home of ten thousand gods and a hundred thousand demons -- and the teeming r...
“I am stunned by I, Giorghos. I was completely carried away by the beauty of the thought, the vigor of the writing and the absolute truth of the whole. I read far into the night until I had finished it and then lay awake thinking about it. I ha...
A detailed account of the life and career of the writer who transformed detective fiction into an acceptable literary genre considers Hammett's Hollywood years, his alliance with Lillian Hellman, and his radical politics...
By just closing her eyes she gave life to her fantasy lover. Patricia Dayton was one of the top models in the business. Always in demand, she had a talent for conveying a certain kind of sensuality in the way her smile caressed the camera. Only Pa...
She couldn't steal another woman's man Judith wasn't the type to lose her head over a man, especially not a man who was engaged to an old friend. But Luke Doulton was irresistible. He was a financial genius who wasn't afraid to ...
Twelve years after a disastrous first marriage ended, Jessica Madison still wasn't ready to face love again. Shed established an exclusive dress shop, raised a beautiful teenage daughter, achieved -- at last -- a hard-won independence she wasn't abou...
Once Cade Thornton had been a man with everything: a wife, three fine sons and an adored daughter. Tragedy had stolen them all, except for his daughter, Deby. He had been left afraid to love again, and Deby had become a frightened, sullen child. ...
These stories represent Louis L'Amour at his best--stirring adventure tales of the ageless Old West, as tough and gritty as the men who tamed it. Each story is personally selected, with an introduction and special historical notes, by the author. ...
An actress infiltrates the Soviet Union to avenge the death of an ancestor When the Russian Revolution came to Saint Petersburg, Princess Irina went into hiding. A stunningly beautiful ballerina, she knew she had to escape the Bolsheviks -- or else d...
When would she ever be free of this man? Two years had passed since Craig Clifton had let Samantha walk out of his life. As far as she was concerned, their marriage was over. But Craig was determined to resurrect their marriage--or at least mak...
He was a living, breathing masterpiece Alex forfeited a long-overdue vacation in order to restore neglected paintings in a decaying castle in Venice. Her boss had first cajoled and finally bribed Alex, speaking of along-lost masterpiece that she m...
"This is an expected follow-up of The Movie Maker and Miami Golden Boy, namely lots of sex and lots of action and all of it roughage dealing with Bay Island (near Miami) where 12 millionaries have their estancias: The Veners with their Picassos; v...
Double stakes in a deadly game… Ferncrest Manor is beautiful, elegant…and terrifying. Regan Riley expected -- and needed -- the peace and quiet of a small Southern town when she moved there; peace and quiet in which to piece together the shatt...
Smoothly, remorselessly, inhumanly, the controlled flow of people continued. As each of the great planetary shells approached population maximum, the surplus of mass of humanity was transported out: Mars shell, Asteroid, Jupiter. Inexorably they fill...
THERE WAS NO EASY ANSWER Eden Sonnier was making her mark. As an interior designer, she was on the brink of success. Then she met Nicolas Devereaux. Suddenly Eden was full of doubts. Nick had a way of making her examine her goals. Was success e...
When Princess Rubinoff hired Sabrina Courtney to deliver very special birthday wishes to her husband's best friend, she never warned her that Alex Ben Rashid had a powerful weakness for red-haired ladies...an omission that made their first meeting a ...
A prominent space scientist examines recent discoveries and hypotheses concerning the origins and early existence of the universe and concerning past and future evolutionary triumphs and life in the cosmos...
One man's towering pride and insatiable passion shadowed two women's lives. Beautiful Englishwoman Lucia Allingham came to turbulent 19th-century Spain to discover and claim her birthright as daughter to her noble Spanish mother, Mercedes ...
FROM THE DARK SIDE OF DOUBT Ten years before, Andrea Monroe had loved politician Jefferson Harmon, then watched helplessly as their relationship was destroyed by her brother's lies. Time had brought Jefferson renown and Andrea a career as a te...
The warm, witty, and wonderfully entertaining novel of love and marriage, parents and children, struggle and success and...everything! Meet Nicholas and Jane. He is stunningly handsome. She is wonderfully funny. He is a famous movie star. She beco...
IT WASN'T ENOUGH THAT SHE LOVED HIM When Timothy Flanagan came to her rescue in a pub in south Boston, Anne Clarendon couldn't believe her luck. She was even more surprised when she discovered this man with the twinkling green eyes and coppery ha...
In the shadow of the Indians' awesome Spirit Mountain a time of terrible warfare was about to erupt between the white California gold seekers and the defiant Shasta tribe. Into this magnificent yet troubled wilderness came three people whose lives wo...
Asked to speak at a conference on the topic of riot control, Inspector Kenworthy of Scotland Yard grows utterly perplexed when an obscure government agency is linked to a crime involving a gang of football hooligans. Reprint....
One last mission, a disastrous result, an impossible escape...Last in the RAF Trilogy, this story charts the final days of service of world-class British fighter pilot Dicken Quinney, in his most dangerous adventure yet. It is the summer of 1939, and...
The officers of the Manhattan Banking Corporation and their families, friends, and employees walk a dangerous tightrope when a billion-dollar loan is made to the corrupt West African Republic of Maraka...
Evicted from the New Hampshire shack he proudly called home, Ollie Jordan--ignorant, ingenious, angry, bedevilled, and doomed--pursues his independence, though bound to an idiot son he both dotes on and despises...