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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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....
#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...
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...
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....
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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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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?...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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....
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...
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...
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 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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 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...
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...
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! ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
This widely acclaimed bestseller spans two countries and two generations, following a group of Chinese women who meet to play mah jong, invest money and tell the secret stories of their lives. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club....
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...