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...
Many good men would die, or survive forever scarred, in the fight for Hill 875Ty is the grunt. The point man for his platoon with the uncanny instincts to see, hear, and smell out the hidden enemy. Jason is the favored one. The football hero picked f...
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...
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 ...
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,...
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...
Jim Qwilleran packs up his old kit bag and his two Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, for a sun-and-fun summer at his log cabin in Moose County. Their vacation starts off ominously with the disappearance of a handyman hired to patch up Qwilleran's cabin...
When George persuades Nancy and Bess to volunteer for incumbent Councilman Tim Terry’s political campaign, Nancy finds herself in the middle of a web of lies, blackmail, and deceit. Will she expose the culprit before the campaign is destroyed?...
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...
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Celebrity ghostwriter Stewart ""Hoagy"" Hoag is off to London to dig up the secrets of reclusive bad-boy superstar Tristam ''T. S.'' Scarr, formerly of the legendary British rock group Us. T.S. is ready to reveal all, in a book destined to become...
"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 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...
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....
The relationship between pastor and parishioner is the essence of pastoral counseling--a simple truth with profound implications. Dr. Richard Dayringer explores these implications in The Heart of Pastoral Counseling: Healing Through Relationship, Rev...
Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite guarder, believes he is God's instrument; he is. This is John Irving's most comic novel; yet Owen Meany is Mr. Irving's most heartbreaking character....
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...
Sharks were her game, not scoundrels! Marine biologist Jinx Beaumont had the sinking feeling her given name foretold the voyage ahead of her. She was jinxed, all right--stuck with Race Morgan, a merciless buccaneer of a captain. Studying shark ...
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...
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'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...
Suddenly everything seemed to go wrong When she lost her fiance to another woman, Helena gave up her job where they both worked. So she was glad to be offered a temporary position. However, delivering two children to their grandfather in Greece...
For years, Margo Corman has lived in fear of losing her husband Hank before the doctors at Downtown Medical Center could find a new heart for him. At last her prayers are answered; a donor is found. The operation is a success, but now Margo must face...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
A deal's a deal, even if it hurts When English nurse Emily Grenfell struck a bargain with surgeon Sebastian van Tecqx, she never dreamed of what lay ahead. Sebastian promised to operate on her ailing father--if Emily traveled to Holland to care fo...
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...
Their first meeting was a disaster Mirry knew it wouldn't be easy to make Jay Elphick feel at home when he came at last to inherit Wenlow Hall -- but she was prepared to try. It was unfortunate that they got off on the wrong foot. Then, to...
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...
In this love story set in North Carolina and Tennessee, Wesley Beaver plans to abandon his thirty-year marriage to Rosacohe Mustian, but his decision forces them to confront questions of faith, commitment, and will, love and good heartedness...
He wasn't what she expected.. Cressida was filled with misgivings when she met her new employer, Sir Piers Aylward. She was prepared for a bespectacled, aged aristocrat -- not this frosty, withdrawn, though decidedly handsome, young man. We...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
It was a marvelous opportunity And Sandie grabbed it. Only afterward did she realize she'd been a little naive. When noted pianist and composer Crispin Sinclair offered her free tuition at his Irish home, she had no idea how closely she res...
It was a pretty scary situation Trapped in the Rockies on top of Mount Hazard in a December blizzard wasn't the usual ending to a fashion photo session. It was no time for Marnie to find out that one of her models didn't have her insuli...
She'd been taught never to trust anyone Wealthy socialite Cathy Durrant had grown up in a family where the ability to dominate was regarded as an art. Eventually her acquired ruthlessness had led to a failed marriage and wreaked havoc with inn...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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-...
"Mr. Mescal, will you marry me?" They were the hardest words Cleo had ever said. It was out of desperation, not love, that she proposed to her dynamic boss, Jude Mescal. Cleo could see no other way out of her predicament or to safeguard...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Where Amelia finds herself in danger of losing her beloved Cary to a younger woman...When Sawyer finds success running Coleman Aviation in Tokyo while her heart remains behind in Texas...When Riley; torn between Eastern traditions and Western love, w...
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...
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...
Love gone wrong... Jessica Wakefield doesn't know how she'll survive a long weekend without her steady boyfriend. A. J. Morgan. But when she meets Christopher, a mysterious, good-looking boy, her lonely weekend turns into one of the most romantic tim...
HARRIET BLUSHED AT THE MEMORY... Of how it had felt to have that dreadful man touch her. How he had at first thought she was a boy! Rick Dawson, a vacationing American who'd just arrived at the airport in London, climbed into Harriet's ...
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...
Allison was desperate to prove herself. For reasons nobody could understand, Alison gave up her position with a legal firm and signed on as a courier at a campsite in the Dordogne region of France. She reasoned a change of scene would take her mind o...
He could ruin her whole career Jillv Marshall was stunned just thinking about it. She would never have told Jean-Luc de Sauvignet about her injury if she'd known his doctorate was not in medicine. Now she feared everything she'd worked ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
A fantasy role-playing game has unexpected results when the mythical, magical world created by David, Tyrone, Scott, and Melanie comes to life and its inhabitants refuse to vanish with the end of the game...
BY POWER CURSED -- She was Crystal, the one true child of the seven goddesses, created by them and raised to become the nemesis of Kraydak, who for countless centuries tormented the world with his evil sorcery. Now Kradak was dead, and Crystal's pu...
When someone begins buying real estate in the abandoned section of Nightside City on the planet Epimetheus, Carlisle Hsing decides to investigate the possibility of a secret plan to save the doomed city...
Gifted fifth grader Alvin Webster, accustomed to always being the best, the first, and the one with the most right answers, has some adjustments to make when he finds out he is getting a new baby brother at the same time he tries to tutor a less gift...
Arden is proud to be the jockey for Glory--an abused thoroughbred filly who recovered at the girl's grandparents' farm for sick and abandoned animals, but snobby Tiffany may ruin Arden's chance to shine...
The bad news? Courtney Clay and the Bunheads are in the gang's winter dance class. The good news? World famous ballerina Alexandra Petrovna is coming to dance at the Deerfield Academy. There will be a dance competition to see which student she will s...
Fourteen-year-old Leah's loyalty and devotion to her emotionally troubled friend, Tamara, brings into focus some of her conflicting feelings about her mother's imminent remarriage and her own growing attachment to a young Mexican American, the nephew...
Dark, unnerving and wickedly funny, Patrick McGrath's acclaimed short stories deal in the bizarre, the erotic and the unexpected. A failed writer meets an ageing gin-queen who claims he was once visited by an angel; a little girl finds a delirious, d...
Set against the turbulent, apocalyptic world of medieval Europe, this richly textured novel follows the odyssey of Anne and Niklas Valens, orphaned by the murder of their parents and raised by their uncle, a clockmaker, who teaches Anne the secrets o...
Introduces in text and labeled illustrations the characteristic features and uses of a variety of cars and trucks. The interiors of the vehicles and their engines are revealed by lifting the appropriate flaps....
As the saga of the Kelly children continues, Mike Kelly is adopted by a German immigrant farm family living in Missouri. Although they are kind to him, they are mainly interested in having cheap labor....
It's six months since Combined Action Platoon T-9 was established in Hou Bun village. Six months of nearly-nightly battles between the Marines and Popular Forces of CAP Tango Niner and Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army units. The VC and NVA almost ...
A mother circus elephant tries to get her baby to eat like the circus people do, but things do not go as well as she hoped....
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...
From back cover - "Contrarywise HIS NAME MEANS MISCHIEF... Rimble, the Trickster, is a merry god - dancing through streets as a gust of leaves, hobbling along canals as an old hag, roaming through gardens as a wiry dog. And where Rimble travels, tr...
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 ...
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...
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...
Playing in the backyard, a young girl, pretending to be Drac, the Warrior Queen of Tirnol Two, unites with a young boy, pretending to be the Gremlin, to save the White Wizard's planet from the Terrible Tongued Dragon....
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...
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...
Tracy Berberian hopes this will be the summer that her talents as a country-western musician are discovered and gets a gig with her boyfriend, Fury, but tension causes the couple to part, and a movie director moves in on Tracy...
In this novel by the author of The Golden Calves set in 1930s high society, a young man recounts the people in his life and what he’s learned from them.This superb gallery of portraits gathers its wit and resonance from the discerning eye of the ce...
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...
Damaris Crocker, a young girl living in smuggling country, whose dearest wish is for a flame-colored taffeta petticoat, works with her friend Peter and Genty Small the Wise Woman to save the life of a wounded young man brought to them by the smuggler...
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...
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 ...
When Matthew and Daniel, two fast friends despite their deep differences, fall for the same woman, they embark on a battle of adventure and deception that leads them from blue-blooded New England to Nazi-infested South America. Reprint....
Grover feels like a failure because he can't think of the perfect present to give his mother on Mother's Day. What he doesn't realize is that he's already given her the best present: himself! ...
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...
In control of the powerful firm of Gold Aviation, the Gold family faces the challenges and trails of the postwar years....
Ever since David Bernstein changed his name to Ali Baba, his life hasn't been the same! Who but Ali Baba could solve the mystery behind his suspicious neighbor in Apartment 7G? Or have a cup of hot chocolate with the real Santa Claus and turn a bori...
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...
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A COMMERCIAL STEPS OUT OF YOUR TV SET AND INTO YOUR LIFE? The ads on TV said the basketball shoes were New! IMPROVED! Amazing! NEAT! Arnold Schlemp just had to have them. He had to. That was all there was to it. But by the end...