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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Presents a collection of time-travel adventures featuring many young science fiction writers exploring other dimensions and new realities, including Kim Antieau, John Kessel, Lewis Shiner, and Andrew Weiner...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
“[Leonard has] written so many first-rate crime stories that it would be fatuous to say Killshot is his best, but it probably is anyway.” -- NewsweekThe New York Times bestselling author the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette once called, “the Alexander t...
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...
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...
An unseen, evil hand was reaching out to crush Marty Frobel and his family, trying to drive them far from their native Queensland home. Their only hope is the-Power of Pinjarra.
The opal-rich area of Southwestern Queensland at the turn-of-the c...
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...
Collects Chesterton's mysteries featuring sleuths other than Father Brown, such as "The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse" with a Mr. Pond, but features as well one previously uncollected Father Brown story, "Father Brown and the Donnington Affair"...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
She hopes to escape her own psychic powers in the tranquil Virginia countryside. But she can't outrun the evil she forsees... "YOU MUST STAY. YOU KNOW YOU MUST. YOU'RE COMMITTED TO STOPPING WHATEVER HAS BEGUN. YOU'LL FIND THE MURDERER YOU SENSE....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...
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...
#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...
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...
The tabloids were full of it. Constance Thayer, after a night of clubbing, drinks, and drugs, had taken an automatic pistol from the collection of her industrialist husband Doyle Thayer Jr. and emptied it into his back, as he lay naked and unconsc...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Through a series of trying circumstances, Southern-bred Delaney Rollins and handsome, sensitive Anthony Callahan build a strong and loving relationship and despite a period of misunderstanding and separation, rekindle their timeless love...
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?....
Libby would learn some lessons about loving and growing, but she would also find happiness--and love--beyond her wildest dreams. Book 18 in the Elizabeth Gail Series, in which a foster child finds love, acceptance, and healing in a Christian family....
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,...
Collected in one volume, three counterculture classics that embody the spirit of the 1960s. Included here are three great works by the incomparable Richard Brautigan: Trout Fishing in America is by turns a hilarious, playful, and melanch...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
THE GREAT HOUSE STARED LIKE A SIGHTLESS GIANT, ITS YELLOW STONE BLACKENED AND CHARRED BY THE FIRE THAT BURNED OUT THE LACEYS AND WRECKED THE FAMILY. THIS WAS MY LEGACY. Heiress of Wideacre, the most infamous estate in 18th-century Sussex, Julia La...
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 ...
"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 Jane Banham’s father died, she was forced to leave the Norfolk village where she had grown up to live with an unknown uncle in London. But the twenty-year-old orphan’s spirits revived when her uncle introduced her to the leading lights of...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
FORBIDDEN COVENANT A sudden collision, a towering black stallion, an elegant German aristocrat--all of these exploded onto Caroline Hartmann senses as she travelled a treacherous mountain road. Merrick Von Hayden had come to Caroline's home in Penns...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
This is the first edition of BODY MORTGAGE from 1989. A 2018 revised edition is available in both Paperback and Kindle formats.A gritty thriller in a nightmare America where human parts are worth more than the whole....
Can you imagine a house called Ragged Edge - where giant fireballs appeared from nowhere to barbecue human flesh? Where a voluptuous teenage sex queen turned into a skeleton seductress? Where a phantom Porsche drove victims to death? Where Nazi conqu...
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 ...
IN DYER, MAINE, THE DEAD WON’T STAY BURIED! The people of Dyer liked their quant little farming community just the way it was. So they didn’t question the bizarre, unexplained disappearances that had begun to plague their town. No one talked...
This collection of ghost stories features works by Dean Koontz, Ramsey Campbell, Charles Grant, William Nolan, Charles de Lint, Thomas Tessier, Katherine Ptacek, and many other masters of horror genre...
D-DAY IS THREATENED. BUT ONE MAN COULD RIP THE HEART OUT OF THE NAZIS -- WITH HIS BARE CLAWS… He is Michael Gallatin, a master spy, lover -- and werewolf. Able to change shape with lightning speed, to kill silently or with savage, snarling fury,...
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...
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...
In the middle of a bronco uprising Bass Giles and his gang take over the town of Furnace Creek and ex-scout Clay Colbry, sent by the cavalry to reopen the Sierra Stage line, anticipates reckoning with his old enemy, Bass, in blood...
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...
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...
This is the story of Henry Plummer. He was a silken-voiced charmer, leader of the dread ''Road Agents'' an d sheriff of Virginia City who, wearing his badge of office, murdered, robbed and terrorized the whole, vast Montana Ter ritory. '...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...