Dawn can't wait for this trip to California. Besides all the sun and fun, it's Dawn's first visit since her brother, Jeff, moved back to live with their dad. California is better than Dawn ever remembered it. The beaches are beautiful, Disneyland ...
THE MEN OF THE FIRST AIR CAV They were the cowboys of the sky -- the U.S. helicopter gunship soldiers who believed in what they fought for and laid their lives on the line. BROWN WATER HELL! When a Mobile Riverine Force patrol boat is savagely ...
Clint Adams has his eye on the loveliest example of womanhood in town. But in Takersville, New Mexico, nothing is free for the asking. What Charlie Taker don't own, ain't worth having. Now the Gunsmith's got to out-shoot Charlie Taker in a gentlemanl...
THE FACE OF AN ANGEL, A DEVIL'S HEART! A baby-faced murderer is leaving a trail of corpses across the Montana Territory. A killing machine in boots, Ned Larson has already sent one unlucky lawman to an early grave. And Longarm is next on this bloo...
An outlaw's thirst for blue blood has the Lone Star duo a hoofbeat ahead of death in the eightieth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, a...
INNOCENT SEDUCTION When prim, proper Esther Miles took over the Benton House Orphanage, she thought she'd be healing the most innocent casualties of the recent war. But the bruised and broken body of a roguish drifter dumped on her doorstep reduce...
SHE WANTED HIS LOVE From the moment the arrogant Englishman had arrived at her ranch with a very pregnant woman in tow, he had made Laureli Cade's blood boil. Not denying his desertion of his wife and baby, the handsome rogue had taken Laureli in hi...
She's What Every Woman Wants To Be. And What Every Man Wants. To countless millions of adoring fans, she needs no introduction. The name alone--Lara Layton--evokes a dazzling portrait: her hair a platinum halo framing sky-blue eyes, glossy, inviti...
Awakened by strange and primitive mating music emanating from the apartment below, Brooke Livingstone suddenly believes all the tall tales she's heard about her neighbor, Dr. Archimedes Xavier "Meade" O'Malley. Only one electric meeting with him conf...
UNCIVILIZED AS A SAVAGE Impulsive, spirited Jessie Clare had been looking for adventure when she journeyed to Cimarron, New Mexico. But the spunky schoolmarm got a lot more than she bargained for when marauding Apaches captured her--and would releas...
TOO AROUSED TO RESIST When her scheming, jealous stepmother-to-be forced Amethyst Durango to enter a convent, the headstrong heiress swore she'd experience life to the fullest before being shut away. And when her violet eyes gazed upon the hands...
SHE WED WITH RELUCTANCE Rosalind Dunstan's father had always been high-handed, but buying her a husband was the last straw. Though Geoffrey Chilton had quite managed to steal her spinsterish heart, Rosalind sensibly reminded herself of the peril...
DEFIANT BRIDE From the first time Jasmine's eyes met those of Lord Jamie Cameron in a smoky British inn, theirs was the wrong kind of attraction -- not gentle, slow, and easy, but hot, hard, and all-consuming. The illegitimate daughter of an a...
KISSING COUSINS Elizabeth Hepplewhite didn't mind when she heard people call her a spinster - at 27 years old, she didn't expect to find the perfect mate. So when she left Virginia for the rugged terrain of New Mexico, Elizabeth didn't...
Major Mischief Miss Onyx Hamilton was on the verge of making what everyone agreed was a perfect marriage. The overwhelmingly respectable Andrew Littletree was so taken by her virtue and beauty that he was willing to overlook the scandal clouding h...
PRICELESS LESSONS Violet-eyed Treasure Barrett had a passion for learning. Everyone in the village of Culpepper knew the best way to solve a problem was to ask Treasure-she was a thinker. So when the late squire's son demanded that the impoverishe...
When Andrea Trask sets eyes on her new earth-studies professor, she knows he's perfect, the man of her dreams -- literally. In fact, Andrea has to pinch herself to make sure she's not dreaming. Handsome Paul Hellka and her fantasy are one and the sam...
TO AUSTRALIA THEY CAME Convicts, banished from England, were sent to serve out their sentences in the primitive and unforgiving headlands on Botany Bay. It was here in Sydney Town that they and their offspring braved famine and treachery to build ...
They fought beneath the scorching sun -- and loved in the glow of the summer moon! MONEY WAS SUPERIOR TO MARRIAGE After a poor, ragged girlhood with he gypsy kinfolk, Krissoula Ballardo knew that all she wanted from life was her share of riches...
HE NEVER PLAYED FAIR Born into a proud and wealthy Southern family, Ty knew how to win in games of both love and power. And when he lost, someone else always had to pay. SHE NEVER LOOKED BACK From a tragic childhood, golden-haired Talia rose to ...
IN THE SENSUOUS WORLD OF LONG-AGO NEW ORLEANS, DREAMS WERE PROMISED, AND PASSION GREW HOT ON THE STREET KNOWN AS THE SCARLET THREAD And it was here, in this exotic city, that the dark-haired Creole beauty Desiree La Fleur came to reform her "Siste...
Danger, death and love awaited her on the stormy Island of Lost Rubies Did he really love her--or did he possess her soul? Eileen had not been back to her island home since childhood, when her baby sister vanished in a storm, her grief-battered...
They shared a passion they could never deny! HE TOOK HER BY SURPRISE Meg Britton grew up on the railroads, working proudly at her father's side. Nothing was going to stop them from setting the rails clear to Silver Creek, Texas -- certainly...
SOULS FOR SLAUGHTER Suspicions about the existence of a nationwide Satanic "mafia," which deals in drugs, pornography and contract killings, are growing. The atrocities committed by psychopaths and serial killers are being linked to these devil wo...
A NEW BREED OF SUPER-WARRIOR WAGING THE WAR OF THE FUTURE -- WITH SURVIVAL AS THE ONLY PRIZE! The Zone -- a strip of Western Europe where armies have faced each other and fought their wars for centuries past. It has become the devil's playground f...
Now that her life with Brian was over, she would have a home of her own. She could begin again. But something was waiting for Sarah in her new house, waiting to welcome her, to make her feel at home. Something was waiting for Sarah in the night with ...
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For centuries two meg-powers from the future have been waging war for control of timelines of history. Alan Norlund, a WWII airman vet, is promised a lifesaving cure for his granddaughter, if he will undertake a mission 50 years back in time to t...
Experts in space-age military technology, mercenary commander John Christian Falkenberg and Lysander, Prince of Sparta, must work together to ensure that Sparta's colony world survives the dissolution of the alliance between America and Russia. Reiss...
One Thing At A Time Somehow, Conrad Stargard, faithful Roman Catholic and stalwart Socialist of the Peoples Republic of Poland, 20th Century, had been marooned in Poland, A.D. 1231. Somehow, Conrad found himself under investigation by the Inqui...
ON WINGS OF SILVER -- To the Walkers, Delan was a monstrosity, big and clumsy with odd growths sticking out of its back. Miserable among these, the only people it has ever known, Delan is willing enough to go with the Walker Teksan to his Lowla...
The Kingdom of Celydonn has been at peace for fifty years, since the great wizard Glastyn conquered the Wild Magic and drove its monsters underground. The rule of King Cynwas is virtuous, the crops have been plentiful, and the people have relaxed in ...
THE CALL TO ARMS-- had come at last. The treachery of the Thraks on the planet Bythia had resulted in the death of Jack Storm's commanding officer, and in the loss of many a fledgling Knight. Now, the Emperor of the Triad Throne had handed Jack c...
SKY FUGITIVE JET-JOCK WILL BUCKO HAD WON HIS FAC WINGS THE HARD WAY-GOING AGAINST PUNKERS AND MUTANTS IN THE NO-MAN'S-LAND OF THE CALIFORNIA DESERT. BUT WHEN HIS OLD BUDDY, GUNNERY SERGEANT BLACK PUGH, GOT BUSTED AND FACED THE HANGMAN'S NOOSE, BUC...
REBEL WITH A CAUSE Vanessa Monarch, aristocratic proprietress of the elegant Southern restaurant, The Butterfly, had drifted into a passionless engagement to a conservative banker. But memories of romantic rebel Seth Kimble still haunted her. Year...
LOVE CHILD Lauren Magee was back in Arkansas to finally reveal the secret she'd kept for four long years. It was time to face her past, and important for her son to know his father -- even if Lauren would be happy never to see Morgan Sinclair ...
PASSIONATE PERSUASION Victoria Malone fancied herself a great adventuress and student of life, but being kidnapped was too much excitement for even Victoria! Especially when her arrogant kidnapper thought she was part of Red Duke's outlaw gang...
Some sailors have a girl in every port At sea, merchant marine officer Christopher Weaver had everything under control, but on land it was anything but smooth sailing. He had a dilapidated houseboat, an errant son, an invalid mother and a crazy ne...
Life was primitive ... . . . in Amador Springs, California. Linda Conway and her sister slept in a lean-to, bathed in a stream and panned for nuggets of gold in the icy water. Their enemies were cougars, claim jumpers and time. It wasn't the life ...
Once her face had been her fortune... But Caro Nicholson could not rely on her beauty anymore. A brutal attack in Central Park had put an end to her lucrative modeling career, and now, frightened, she only wanted to get away from the cruel city. S...
Nicole Fortune insisted that the baby she held was Drake Austin's child and demanded money from the world-famous photographer She expected rage, denial, even threats, but instead he laughed...and stirred feelings she had no business having for a ...
For Natalia Indrisi, the nightmare began when she woke from unconsciousness. She couldn't remember her accident, nor the man claiming to be her fiance. Worst of all, she couldn't remember the baby whose arrival was only a few months away. To Matt ...
Tess -- Unforgettable...and as elusive as moonlight on water, Tess Calloway was afraid to risk, and afraid not to. She was torn by desire for a man who was both sinner and saint. Seth -- He was born unwanted on the wrong side of the tracks, but, insp...
Kevin came into her life, and her world changed When Kevin Sauder came into Lisa Emery's quiet world on the wooded shores of a Michigan lake, he was looking for sanctuary. But the young conservation officer and her little family, consisting of...
From the moment he'd seen Suzanne Frazier, entrepreneur James Southerland knew the intriguing redhead would be his. He was determined to discover why she was so elusive about her past and secretive about her present. When it came to Suzanne, James de...
She wanted an exclusive Penny Thurston had a nose for news, and Joe Jackson was IT. An interview with him would be her ticket out of Palookaville, into the Big Time. Unfortunately, when it came to reporters the reclusive cartoonist had no sense of...
Dangerous Terrain Faye Poincare was city-bred. Army scout Joe Harrison was a tracker. She despised his easy superiority. He didn't trust her. They came from different worlds, but contempt wasn't all they felt toward each other. For she was an ...
If books could kill... Plagiarism was an ugly word. And Tony Nichols kept repeating it. Could Claire Kennedy's reclusive bestselling author have stolen her latest mystery novel from one of Tony's students? Was Claire's reputation, and the future o...
Who was rescuing who here? Working in remote Harmony Creek was not a plum volunteer assignment as far as efficiency expert Gwyn Frederick was concerned. Especially when the doctor she intended to organize had actually requested a nurse. Never mind...
A TEMPORARY MARRIAGE Her fiance had postponed their wedding again -- this time indefinitely -- and Gail Lawson vowed to marry the first man she bumped into. While making a dramatic exit, she promptly slammed into the suspicious, darkly handsome st...
IT WAS NO VACATION Lucy Hammond's boyfriend had his nerve! Instead of joining her in Cozumel as planned, he'd sent his buddy, hockey pro Jeff Zanicek, in his place. Jeff was just supposed to entertain Lucy until Roy arrived. But then a ...
PRISONER OF DESIRE Caroline Winwood had come to the island of San Germaine to find her father. But she'd barely arrived before she was whisked off by the military police, threatened, then just as suddenly "rescued" by dark, mysterious ...
SAVAGE GENTLEMAN Smuggled aboard a ship bound for the rebellious colonies, the beautiful English Keely Bartholomew was ill-prepared for life in America, much less for the uncivilized half-breed captain who was to be her husband. How could she marr...
THE MISTAKEN MISMATCH Beautiful Lady Belinda Devereaux and handsome Lord Gerald Courtenay were passionately in love when they were married. Unfortunately they were not in love with each other. Belinda's heart belonged to Lord Anthony Furneaux, wheth...
Sasha McCleod was trouble -- and Marc Renaud knew it! The studio had overruled him, insisting he direct her in the masquerade of a lifetime -- she was to double for the star who'd fled his comeback film before it was finished. But when Sasha lear...
A MOST PERILOUS POSITION Beautiful Vanessa Tarleton realized the risk of accepting a position in the household of Nicholas Leighton, Earl of Stone. She knew very well his lurid reputation. But Vanessa's father had gambled away her family fortun...
COULD THEY REWRITE HISTORY? Sarah Crewes was at it again, creating chaos with her archival diggings. First she discovered that Ramsey Falls was celebrating its tricentennial one year too early. Now she was about to unearth an even more startling h...
MAN OF THE MONTH MR. MARCH Name: Tanner Kind of Man: A proud, elusive loner who, like the Great Snowy Owl he rescued, prized his freedom above all else. His Undoing: A woman named Charly. Carson Tanner lived his life closer to the edge th...
A COVERT AFFAIR Computer programmer Jessie Ames knew what to expect from her life -- until the day she was asked to sell defense secrets to the Russians. Then her safe, comfortable world was turned upside down, her house burglarized and her daught...
THE FOOTBALL WORLD WAS STUNNED! So was child psychologist and former Homecoming Queen Hillary James when she was named acting owner of the San Francisco Schooners. After all, she'd only seen one pro game in her entire life--she didn't know a half-...
Bronwynn Prescott Pierson had certainly made a mess of things! She'd left a disloyal groom at the altar, driven to Vermont, and now stood, near-tears, on the steps of a ramshackled Victorian house in her satin wedding gown. When a gorgeous, all-Ameri...
She planned to come out on top As Kyle Stockbridge's executive assistant, Rebecca Wade already knew him quite intimately. She knew that the man was indomitable--and certainly not used to being outdone by a woman. So when she inherited the land he ...
A bold beauty gambles on rousing a handsome lord's passion -- in order to win his heart FAINT HEART NEVER WON FAIR LORD Miss Eliza Merriman knew how difficult it would be to capture Julian Dyland. For Julian was the handsomest lord in England, ...
TWENTY-FOUR CARAT PROMISE From the top of his handsome head to the tips of his expensive shoes, Bryce Stephenson exuded wealth and class. And from the moment the smooth-talking attorney strode into The Toy Chest and accused her of swindling his gr...
Judith McNaught has written her most tender, most tempestuous romance yet... the story of Jennifer Merrick a feisty Scottish beauty, and the fierce English warrior she defies -- and desires. Abducted from her convent school, headstrong Jennifer does ...
Her high school reunion thrust Sadie McClure back in time, but the rock-solid foundations of her youth now seemed made of shifting sands. Her beloved fiance was long since buried, her closest girlfriend had a growing brood, and their fourth buddy, Re...
When painter Finn O'Casey discovered Liberty Shaw dusting the shelves of his favorite old bookstore, he impulsively sneaked a kiss in the stacks! With her laugh like wind chimes and the biggest brown eyes he'd ever seen, Liberty Shaw was a potent fan...
When a handsome stranger forced his way into Millie Gordon's car and claimed shed crashed his stakeout, she believed there was danger-but not from the crooks! It wasn't panic but passion that filled her when Detective Dan Murdock pulled her into h...
THE INCONSTANT MOON Astride her white steed, she had ridden just beyond his grasp. Even after she declared her love for him, he still had to win her. Once Cam had likened the ancient myth to his own relationship with Casie, though he'd never gott...
Raine Bennett quickened her steps. Someone was following her, cloaked by the fog of a London night -- and she was terrified! Threatened by one stranger, she ran straight into the arms of another -- but strangely felt no threat from him. Michael Carr ...
DOUBLE IDENTITY Getting herself a job as a rodeo clown was the only way Hope Crenshaw could raise enough money to save her ranch. But not one rodeo owner in Montana would risk hiring a young widowed mother--it was just too dangerous. Still, life o...
When Cody Johnson first caught sight of structural engineer Abra Wilson, he thought of endless possibilities. She had style and confidence--and was distracting as hell. She'd called his design an impractical piece of fancy, but then, he'd always pref...
She gave him her trust -- then he stole her heart! LAW-ABIDING LADY Abra Beaumont could spot a thief a mile away. After all, her father was once one of the best. But he'd been on the right side of the law for years now, and she wasn't abo...
Her feelings for him were far from innocent Making children happy was one of Sasha Peters's goals in life, and telling them stories through her handmade dolls was her special talent. However, it didn't pay the bills. So when a toy corporation offe...
The untamed passion of the West was no match for the desire that burned within them. A Wild Love Struggles To Be Born For Megan Riley, the wagon train bound for Oregon seemed the only chance to leave the past behind, but the innocent beauty was...
STORMY SEAS Geraldine Hastings's life had been smooth sailing until her parents' untimely deaths. Since then she'd struggled to keep her head and the family-owned boat building company above water, but now the firm was sinking. Only a man from ...
RETURN TO SENDER Ellie Waring couldn't believe her eyes! After she and law student Patrick Barron had parted company, she'd been brokenhearted. Now Patrick was standing on her doorstep, insisting she return some love letters he'd written to her. E...
"I will always love you, Thomas Fraser. That is my curse!" Jane Maxwell can remember no time when Thomas Fraser was not at her side. Their wild childhood pranks through Edinburgh's cobbled streets scandalized the city, and when Jane grows to radi...
When Meredith Collins piloted the attractive, impatient stranger to a glittering Lake Tahoe casino, she never gambled on returning as his fiancee! Though enigmatic Jeremy Winchester assured her their "engagement" was purely a business matter, the he...
THE INCOMPARABLE LADY MELORA Titled, wealthy, beautiful, Lady Melora Worth had every qualification necessary to nab herself a good parti. For what prospective bridegroom could fail to appreciate her golden curls and pouting lips, to say nothing of...
WAGER OF LOVE Southern charmer Veronique Delacroix had a reputation in New Orleans as being unconventional. Self-reliant and independent, she thought life was a gamble and men were a challenge. But when she took her boss, Brandon Rhodes, up on his...
EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY... . Whoever said that blondes have more fun? Erika Lange had spent years trying to prove that there was an intelligent person behind her stunning face and fabulous silver-blond hair. So when her picture appeared in an ...
Andy O'Riley was dead . . . Suddenly, tragically, violently . . . and no one knew why. His partner, private investigator Melanie Cardenas, was desperate for answers. His estranged son, Patrick, was out for revenge. Their qualifications were excell...
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY When bed-and-breakfast inn owner Lilly Neilson was told that an extra-special surprise was in store for her, she wasn't expecting it in the form of no-nonsense businessman Greg Bradford. Fun and sun-loving Lilly had found a ca...
A tiny moan escaped Teresa 's lips as she heard him whisper, "Cara mia." And she let his mouth cover hers in a kiss so fierce, it demanded more.... With her wild raven hair and sensuous Mediterranean beauty, Teresa Verdi had little trouble catchin...
BEING AN OUTCAST SUITED SUMMER FINE Folks in Beasley Creek routinely gave Summer Ashlin wide berth. The healing powers she'd inherited had benefited many over the years, yet fear and distrust were still her closest neighbors. But when Clay Patt...
Becoming rich and famous hadn't erased the pain and poverty of Angel's past--or dimmed the memory of the girl who'd enflamed and betrayed him. Outwardly, he'd returned to his hometown to build a minority center, but inside he knew he'd come back for ...
Career woman Sabrina Ames considered herself the soul of pragmatism--and thus the world's worst match for whimsical, enchanting Kenneth "Casey" Casswell. The sexy toy inventor created dreams for kids. . . and dreamed of having kids of his own. How co...
In the dimness of the early morning I could see field after neighborhood field as I let my gaze wander around me. First there was ours I supposed I would always think of the farm as ours Grandpa's, Uncle Charlie's and mine, though in truth it really ...
The definitive study of John Wayne Gacy -- from his abusive childhood to the murders of thirty-three boys -- based on four years of investigative reporting. John Wayne Gacy, the “Killer Clown,” was a suburban Chicago businessman sentenced ...
Alfonso "Puffy" Pachoulo is an L.A. juiceman, a guy who'll lend you a bone ($1000) or more. But he gets it back -soon- with interest. And Billy Ray, a would-be actor and compulsive gambler, is having trouble making his payments. So is Allen Nadeau, a...
Writer-turned-sleuth Paula Glenning stops for lunch at the Burdens', finds them at war with each other, and soon becomes an unwilling player in their game of emotional blackmail that ends in murder. Reprint....
THEY COULDN'T BUY NESS OR BREAK HIM...SO THEY TRIED TO KILL HIM.Cleveland's a solid union town, but organized crime has put the squeeze on labor with an extortion ring that doesn't stop at murder. Everyone's on the take--everyone except Eliot Ness, w...
Even before the terrible events of the spring of the year '74 Miss Unwin had regretted, frequently and sometimes bitterly, her decision to accept the post of governess to Mr. Richard Partington's two motherless girls.
When Harriet Unwin relu...
The racing trimaran Street Express is anchored in a gale off the coast of southern Ireland. Jimmy Dixon, widower, single father and timber yard owner, and his long-time friend Ed Boniface are championship sailors. Tragedy strikes when the third crew ...
Murder in the Walls is the story of a murdered prostitute and a cop determined to find the killer. Flora Hobbs owned one of New Mexico's oldest Spanish-style houses, and shared it with a bevy of beautiful working girls. When one of them turned up dea...
For the Russians, it was the espionage coup of the century... An espionage operation has gone horribly wrong ... Soviet agents take a bold gamble and seize an American ship. Now the USS Gettysburg sits at a dock in Cam Ranh Bay. A computerized,...
When Kate Borrow takes a teacher's job in a Pennine village, she is unaware that she's accepting a date with destiny. Lovely Kate could hear a girl's haunting voice singing in the darkness that first eerie night she arrived in Kinning, the English vi...
Recounts the story of the Boleyn family, detailing the experiences of Mary and Anne and their relationships with Henry VIII, their brilliant but ill-fated brother George, and their children, one of whom would rule England...
HOW THE DEVIL COULD A FELLOW MAKE LOVE TO A GIRL WHO GIGGLED WHEN HE TRIED TO KISS HER?! Fiona Bradford was more amused than offended by handsome Roland Fairleigh Mathieson's passionate ardour. He was acting, she suspected--a talent that seemed to...
It's that rarity of rarities--a white boarder with a baby at New York City hospital who is still up for adoption. And Margaret, smitten with him, immediately sets wheels turning to become his foster mother. Her elderly cronies on upper roadway feel t...
"Look to Washington. Look to Moscow. Zebra One. Zebra Two." These cryptic words, whispered on a dark Moscow street, lead one-time CIA "golden boy" David McAllister on a desperate quest for the truth. Hunted by KGB and CIA alike, McAllister must decip...
Gen. Douglas MacArthur enlists the help of a discreet private detective in “one of the sprightliest of the [Toby Peters] series” (Time). It’s September 1942, and Gen. Douglas MacArthur believes he’s got what it takes to...
A dastardly gang of rogues is sneaking around Balaclava county, snatching priceless antique Praxiteles Lumpkin weathervanes. Before they disappear entirely, Helen Shandy decides to photograph several of them for the Balaclava Historical Society files...
When Cleveland private investigator Gil Disbro agrees to help the adoptive parents of a young woman who is dying track down her biological mother, he comes face to face with murder, betrayal, long-buried scandal, and personal danger...
#3 in the Saxon mystery series. Hotshot producer Mark Evering can’t understand why his daughter has run off with a shady lawyer twice her age when her father has given her everything—including a Betty Ford detox for her high-school grad...
Combining glamour and ruthlessness, Natalie and Wallace Nevsky were both respected and feared throughout the sophisticated, dangerous world of the fur trade. Having just launched their latest and most spectacular range of stunning furs to an ecstatic...
Jack Paine, is battling alcoholism after a troubled youth, and his current case makes the struggle harder. Calling for an envelope as instructed by a phone call from a client, Morris Grumbach, Paine finds Grumbach dead, an apparent suicide. He has le...
A SHOCKING TECHNO-MILITARY THRILLER THAT ONLY CRAIG THOMAS COULD WRITE -- THIS SWEEPING EPIC OF NONSTOP SUSPENSE WILL TAKE YOU FROM THE TOP HEADQUARTERS OF LONDON AND MOSCOW TO THE INFERNOS OF EAST BERLIN AND NEPAL ... An East German defector dies...
LAW AND DISORDER Tweedmore & Slyde. We're talking the hottest corporate law firm in Silicon Valley. We're talking sharp-as-nails lawyers in steel-and-glass offices turning multimillion- dollar deals like wheatcakes on a griddle. It looks like T & S...
Derek Stone didn't want to be on an oil rig off the coast of Tunisia, watching his bride die in a terrorist attack. He didn't want to be two hundred feet deep in the Mediterranean, out of oxygen and with two divers intent on killing him waiting above...
Beloved, bumbling Detective Dirk Gently returns in this standalone novel from Douglas Adams, the legendary author of one of the most beloved science fiction novels of all time, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.When a check-in desk at London’s...
A trip to glamorous Hollywood brings more than poolside parties, sunny beaches, and Disneyland to adventurous twins Chris and Susan Pratt. When a movie studio executive asks for their help in finding out what’s troubling his actress daughter,...
What was wrong with Kyle Grey? Elizabeth had met the handsome lifeguard at Pine Valley Music Camp. But there was something stragne about Kyle. How could Elizabeth help him and still give her best to her piano studies?....
Morgan Farraday, an administrator from Earth, becomes involved in the destiny of the planet Jaspre when her daughter Dee meets the charismatic Anders Ahlwen, whose followers receive psychic powers and a transcendent spiritual reality from the artific...
Fourteen-year-old Gilly, already going through a difficult time, must deal with her parent's separation, her father's new girlfriend, an exotic, show-stealing new neighbor named Victory, and the difficult issue of allegiances to friends...
Second in the acclaimed Squire Quartet—from the author of “Supertoys Last All Summer Long,” the basis for the movie A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. Winner of two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and named a Grand Master by the S...
Douglas Bauer's profound and exquisitely written first novel quickly established him as one of America's best new writers when it was first published in 1989. Now back in print, this darkly poetic novel is imbued with the same tough and tender unders...
"Living in a house where a murder had taken place did give a certain social cachet..." Intrepid detective Mrs Pargeter, sixty something (and a little bit more), has risked almost everything with a daring move to the well-to-do housing estate of Sm...
A novel about the 50-year friendship of two dissimilar German refugees brought over to England as children from Nazi Germany. Their friendship becomes a funny yet touching model for the ways in which human beings come to terms with the tragedy of liv...
Scott Reardon--code clerk, bassoonist, and murderer--betrays U.S. intelligence to play his own hand in espionage, pitting Soviet, American, and British forces against him, and doomed Abwehr double agent Colonel Paul Sturm alone can stop him...
When murder interrupts a major golf tournament, Inspector Angus Straun--policeman, best-selling author, and golfer--looks into the matter and finds bizarre behavior at the Royal West Wessex Golf Club and a murderer willing to do in the Inspector...
Fleeing France and her diplomat husband to escape the Nazis, Catherine de Rochefauld travels to Turkey where she hopes to resume her mission, but her attraction to American banker Thomas Drake may end in disaster...
Jaya Singh is the intelligent, beautiful, and compassionate daughter of the Maharajah and Maharani of Balmer. Raised in the thousand-year-old tradition of purdah, a strict regime of seclusion, silence, and submission, Jaya is ill-prepared to assume t...
This World War II thriller by anonymous authors, concentrates on two stories, one in Wannsee, near Berlin where documents are held that would destroy the careers of key figures in the British Governement and the other in America where FBI chief J.Edg...
From Algonquin, the original publisher...In this engaging novel, Terry Pringle chronicles the ups and downs, the joys and ordeals of two people who discover that, in Lori's words, "weddings don't involve any real commitment because most of the time t...
Tells the story of Hazel Sapper, a girl growing up in England's industrial Midlands, who is more accustomed to threats and fear than security. Curious and sensitive Hazel, could not be more out of place amid the domestic violence and anti-intellectua...
Clio Marsh is enjoying a friendly dinner with a few neighbors when one of them, David, is shot in the back by an unknown intruder. The group had been celebrating David's upcoming competition in the dangerous sport of horse-eventing, in which he had...
In Pat Barker's" The Man Who Wasn't There," twelve-year-old Colin knows little about his father except that he must have fought in the war. His mother, totally absorbed by the nightclub where she works, says nothing about him, and Colin turns to film...
In 1954 William Burroughs settled in Tangiers, finding a sanctuary of sorts in its shadowy streets, blind alleys, and lowlife decadence. It was this city that served as a catalyst for Burroughs as a writer, the backdrop for one of the most radical tr...
A tale of the badgers of Cilgwyn who are faced with a choice of staying in the valley they have inhabited for a generations or embarking on a journey that will bring them either freedom or extinction. We meet the badgers, learn of their relationships...
This is a fast-paced thriller full of violence, intrigue and passion. It draws a portrait of modern South Africa and centres round the figure of the imprisoned leader of the People's Congress, Nelson Kumalo. The author has also written The Wilby Cons...
Rachel, a freelance writer, struggles to come to terms with life after the death of her husband. She tries to lose herself in casual affairs and plans for the future, but returns to the past in an attempt to make sense of the present. From the author...
As the first Soviet-American space mission is about to be launched, the crew prepares to make aeronautic history, but one person aboard is a spy with terrorist ties who could steer the shuttle toward tragedy...
It was 1953. A time of innocence. A time when the world seemed full of possibilities. And all the rules were about to change. Michael was a streetwise Brooklyn boy heading south to join the Navy and become a man. But he was about to learn more abo...
Colonel Anthony "Muddy" Waters has a mission: to mold a company of poorly trained rogues and misfits into heroes. His assignment is one that no other officer in the United States Air Force would touch. But Waters has a fabled stubbornness and dedicat...
Nightmares mingle with reality in the story of a man whose animal instincts lead him to an affair carried out at the zoo and his bestial subconscious, which can no longer tolerate the safe cage of suburbia...
Patrick Doyle, a Glasgow schoolteacher drowning in despair, can no longer control his students or his life and retreats into the world of corrugated cardboard pipes--a musical sanctuary of his own invention...
An entrancing, otherworldly collection of short stories from one of Europe's most accomplished 20th century writers, new to Penguin Modern Classics A counter-prophet attempts the impossible to prove his power; a girl sees the hideous fate of her sist...
Street-smart and straightforward police chief Cuddy Mangum and his refined homicide detective Justin Savile V are determined to keep their town’s cultural, political and racial divisions stable…even peaceful. But when a young black activist is mu...
This story, winner of the Betty Trask Prize, sheds new light on the mutual passion of the British and Italians and on the often misguided attempts to understand each other as the hero's diary spins tales of adventures - drunken, sporting and amorous ...
In her ravishing and moving second novel, the bestselling author of In the Cut tells the story of Mamie Clarke, who sets out to lose herself in New York City.Having only previously known the fragile, magical world of her childhood on the lush Hawaiia...
Fifteenth-century painter Jan Van Eyck becomes a pawn in the hands of nefarious plotters in the court of Philip, Duke of Burgundy, but nonetheless manages to create a great masterwork, the Ghent altarpiece...
With a new afterword by Jeff Gomez Originally published during the literary “Brat Pack” phenomenon of the 1980s, this new edition of Lisa Pliscou’s acclaimed first novel -- written when she was 24 -- roars through ten riotous days in the hilari...
Sandy Washington was a pretty normal guy. He was a good friend, sensitive and caring. He respected his elders and obeyed his teachers. He loved basketball, old movies, and writing poetry. And he worshiped the photograph of his long-dead mother. The o...
Hedric, the greatest builder of medieval times, recounts his complex and unusual life under the secret junta ruling England, and describes his heresy and his ill-fated love for his father and for master mason Henry de Reyns...
AFTER YEARS OF OBSERVING US, ABDUCTING US, AND EXPERIMENTING UPON US, THEY HAVE FINALLY MADE THEIR FIRST MISTAKE... As the sun sets on a lonely Connecticut farmhouse the shadows come, gliding through windows, sliding up walls, enveloping Sarah Gil...
Young Jason Melman inherits command of his father's sealing ship, but a blizzard steers the vessel on a strange course guarded by the ethereal, possibly imaginary Mirabelle, and Jason faces enemies at every turn...
Refugees in their own land, the Okies, epitomized in Steinbeck's classic The Grapes of Wrath , also receive sympathetic treatment in this sprawling first novel. Forced off their Midwestern farm by the Depression, the Robertson family migrates to the ...
When a London-base American intelligence agent is tragically set up, Sir Joseph Sainsbury is hired to investigate the sensational death of the Tory Minister of Defense and discovers alarming truths about Britain's national security network and its li...