When Bluford Steele and the traveling acting troupe he has joined arrive in the dangerous town of West Riddle, the evil tyrant of the town forces them to perform and then steals their money, and Bluford must play the role of a lifetime as a ruthless ...
The third novel from acclaimed, award-winning Alexander Theroux is a darkly realistic tale of adultery set in contemporary New England. Christian Ford is a man who is betrayed in an adulterous affair, only to discover that he himself betrayed a woman...
Jazz O'Leary's learned life's lessons the hard way. A tender-hearted tomboy with a knockout smile, she's willing to sacrifice practically anything for the troubled teens she's taken under her wing. But Jazz can't handle the grace and good manners of ...
THE AWESOME THREESOME Together-forever friends -- that's how everyone had always thought of them, and how they'd thought of themselves. Until now. Jennie: The powerful center of the trio, Jennie strives for perfection. But her quest to be the bes...
Anastasia Krupnik has exactly one week to work on her school assignment called "My Chosen Career." Determined to be a bookstore owner, she must first develop poise and self-confidence. So Anastasia takes the plunge and spends her life savings on a mo...
Altos, Hell's only Unfallen Angel, tours the nether regions and observes as Genghis Khan teaches a military historian a lesson, Marilyn Monroe kisses the Devil, Stalin rewrites the Bible, and Napoleon's lover ponders an offer to enter Heaven...
Meet Anna Delaney, a smart, loving woman whose life is shattered when her car skids on some unexpected ice-the last remnants of winter-and her nine-year-old son Kevin is killed. Reeling from this loss and bruised by the effects of a now-defunct marri...
Trouble strikes a group of tourists in Italy: “Reginald Hill delivers literate, complex, and immensely satisfying thrillers” (Orlando Sentinel). Sarah and Michael Masson are on holiday in Italy, and their tour is making its way to Venice -...
IT WAS A NO-STRINGS ARRANGEMENT Juliet Cavanaugh was a pragmatic lawyer with a no-nonsense approach to life. She'd seen too many broken hearts and homes in divorce court to ever consider marriage. But she wanted to experience motherhood. So sh...
When three paintings are stolen from her private collection, Agnes Trevillion hires detective Carver Bascombe to investigate her art curator, Jordan Kooby, but the case takes a lethal turn when Kooby turns up dead...
THEY WERE LOCKED TOGETHER IN THE PASSIONATE EMBRACE OF INTRIGUE, SCANDAL, AND DESTINY... Handsome Lord Blacklaw rescued her from the horrors of Bridewell prison -- then made her his pawn in a dangerous game of intrigue and espionage. She became...
LAWLESS LOVE With her beautiful face profiled against the hot Missouri sky, Wynne Elliot was every inch a southern lady, but that didn't make the rifle in her hands any less deadly. She had sworn vengeance on the handsome scoundrel who'd taken ...
Emma Martinero wasn't looking for romance Love was a closed chapter in her life now that the husband she had adored was dead. That didn't mean, however, that she couldn't pick up the pieces and make a new life for herself. Her trip ...
Bah Koo leaves his forest home, where the other animals laughed at him for being different, and goes to live with a human family where he discovers he possesses a magical gift that can help all humans...
“A romance and an adventure, a rumination on royalty and religion in 18th-century Portugal and a bitterly ironic comment on the uses of power.” -- The New York Times Portugal, 1711. The Portuguese king promises the greedy prelates of the Church ...
Angela Newman stormed into the camp office breathing fire, ready to do battle with the heartless counselor who'd made her beloved niece Liz cry. But David Ortega wasn't the dragon she expected to face. Instead, she was swept up by a dashing knight wh...
THE FIRST MAN ON THE MOON WAS A CIVILIAN But those who have gone on to explore our newest boundary have almost all been military personnel. Space is truly the final frontier, and with the explorers and settlers will come the forces that will prese...
He's an ex-circus performer turned hard-nosed New York private eye -- with a Ph.D. in criminology and a black belt to boot. He's also a dwarf -- which creates some problems even as it gives him special insight into the slings and arrows that pierce t...
Only a jealous lover? Betty Gelibrand was young, exceptionally beautiful, and the proud winner of a contest that guaranteed her a part in a movie. It was a small part, to be sure, but every great actress had to start somewhere small...or so she told ...
Fifth-grader Andy Moller will do anything to win the Roger B. Sudermann essay contest so that he can win fifty dollars and get his picture in the local newspaper. His cousin and rival, Jack, feels exactly the same way. But how can Andy be inventive a...
THE GIFT AND THE CURSE Orb had a rare gift--the magic which manifested whenever she sang or played her harp. No one could resist her music. But greater magic than Orb's lay in the Llano, the mystic music that controlled all things. The quest for t...
Saxon Evanshaw had buried his past -- until his sickly father and greedy stepmother dragged him back to his North Carolina home. There he was greeted by sinfully beautiful Gale Chandler, his stepbrother's widow, who held the entire estate in he...
Illus. in full color. Big Bird wants a bedtime story about himself, and he gets one: all about what happens one day when an enormous egg appears on Sesame Street. Big Bird doesn't see what the egg has to do with him and soon falls asleep--but young l...
An Inspector West mystery. Janet West finds an envelope containing the message "This is only the beginning!" under her front door. And her husband, Inspector Roger West of Scotland Yard, is in the hospital, the victim of an unknown acid thrower. ...
Hoping to earn the money necessary to break free of his wife, and start a new life with his beloved Lara, Boris devises a profitable smuggling scheme, not realizing that his wife and her brutal lover are plotting his demise...
Lovely Dessie Heavener, a small-town girl and a talented singer, rises to the heights of the jazz age musical world only to be seduced, betrayed, and driven to the depths of despair by three different men...
In a race against time, Geoffrey Kane strives to untangle the unfathomable truth behind a vicious network of hitmen and thieves called Excalibur, who use the money from jewel heists to buy blackmarket plutonium--the key ingredient in a homemade atomi...
Susanna Randall thought she knew everything there was to know about Edward Sutton the Earl of Langham, when she wed him. First, he was marrying for the fortune that her wealthy father pledged to him. Secondly, his devotion long had been claimed by th...
DANGEROUS PASSION From the moment Briar Rose sets eyes on Lord Gareth Hawke's magnificent Saxon face -- his golden hair gleaming in the sunlight -- she is captivated. She has found her knight -- a loving partner to one day be lord of Briarwood, he...
CONTENTSCHAPTER Page I. PRELUDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 II. INTERLUDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23_PART ONE_ III. OLD MR. WELLES AND YOUNG MR. MARSH. 29 IV. TABLE TALK. . . . . . ...
Follows the construction of a prison for illegal aliens and subversives in the high desert of Oregon by a multinational corporation and the arrival of the first inmates, whose presence intimidates Lafleur, the foreman...
Ten brilliant, high-resolution stories from the man who invented the term cyberspace: From the chip-enhanced couriers of Johnny Mnemonic to the street-tech melancholy of Burning Chrome, Gibson's characters and their intensely realized worlds become i...
Christmas is in the air as teen-age twins Chris and Susan Pratt head to their grandparents’ house in a charming, snow-covered village in Vermont. But the girls do more than engage the entire town in a festive holiday celebration. With their usual c...
Illus. in full color. Chris, the biggest and funniest of all the second graders, decides not to go to a swim party because of his fear of deep water. Chris's father patiently helps him conquer his fear and win a prize for diving....
THE BRASS RING Elizabeth couldn't take it anymore. The carnival in Venice was crowded with nothing but foolish partygoers. She'd much rather be completing her historical research in Scotland, but her aunt had insisted on her taking a break. Elizab...
IT'S FUNNY WHAT A MAN DOES WHEN HE'S TOLD HE'S DYING... Andrew Broom has everything: a thriving law practice in Wyler, Indiana, a beautiful and sophisticated wife and more money than he thought he had a right to. He's also in the middle of one of ...
Left to their own devices, freedom-seeking Megan Wayne and responsible Reid Spencer had trouble enough with their improbable attraction. But at the mercy of Reid's rebellious daughters, their burgeoning passion seemed destined for destruction. Me...
ASSIGNMENT: KISS AND NEVER TELL Jennifer Heath's a knockout...in looks and karate moves. Now she's shopping the most expensive Paris boutiques and doing a little favor for the CIA. But her little assignment turns into big trouble when she goes to...
Children who cuddled up with Chorao's The Baby's Story Book and The Baby's Lap Book can graduate to the fairy tales collected in this volume. In addition to ``Jack and the Beanstalk,'' ``Hansel and Gretel,'' ``The Pied Piper'' and ``The Ugly Duckling...
In third century B.C. Ch'in, as that alien world is depicted in this extraordinary feat of scholarship and imaginative representation, modes of behavior were exotic, at least from a modern vantage point. A malicious courtier induces the susceptible p...
She was not offering anything but money! Catherine loved Coral Strand, but if a multimillion dollar company wanted to develop her deserted strip of beach, who was she to stand in the way? St. Hilaire would benefit from the potential employment ...
RACEWAY TO THE STARS Imagine Clypsis, an entire solar system designed as the most awesome racetrack in the history of the sport. Imagine personality-implanted robots, whose knowledge and influence can make or break a racer's career, and fusion-...
A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE TRAPPED IN AN ALIEN WORLD! You are Paul Nelson. Once a CIA mercenary, you took your orders from Rick Galloway. Then an operation went bad. Outnumbered. Outgunned. You faced certain death, until the alien spaceship appeared. But ...
By the author of Antonia Saw the Oryx First comes a book of characters who, for their own personal reasons, come to Africa and find not the exotic retreat they imagined but a country where reality shines even more harshly....
Before avenging a friend's death, the youthful Conan must battle undead warriors and Men With No Eyes--two formidable factions seeking the Source of Light, a talisman that can make Neg the Malefic unconquerable or destroy him forever...
This episodic first novel centers around an area in Mississippi where a plantation named Alibamo supposedly once stood. It consists of nearly unrelated short stories about various historical, semimythical, and fantastic personages who inhabited, inva...
A battle-scarred Vietnam vet has been living alone deep in the woods, but when a group of weekend campers enter the area his fragile grasp on reality breaks and he believes he’s back in the jungle…surrounded by an enemy he needs to kill....
Drake Maijstral, a dispossessed aristocrat and master thief, is commissioned to steal the invaluable jeweled box that has become the focus of the power struggle between the Khosali alien conquerors and the successfully rebellious Humans...
Though the greats of Hollywood may fade, their secrets live on foreverFedora is dead, and movies will never be the same. A star since the early days of Hollywood, she survived the business for an unprecedented four decades before retiring to Crete. A...
A BEAUTIFUL, DEFIANT YANKEE Cassandra Caldwell joins her father in London only to lose him under mysterious circumstances. A suicide note satisfies Scotland Yard, but not headstrong Cassie. Determined to see justice done, she accepts the more than g...
The central volume in Ivan Doig's acclaimed Montana trilogy, Dancing at the Rascal Fair is an authentic saga of the American experience at the turn of this century and a passionate, portrayal of the immigrants who dared to try new lives in the impos...
NIKKI AND ROMAN. DETECTIVE AND REPORTER. IF THEY DON'T KILL EACH OTHER, THEY MIGHT SOLVE A FEW MURDERS. The 7 Deadly Sins have never been so - Deadly! Or so much fun! Meet Nikki Holden - she may know 140 characters but social media is not her ...
Traces the evolution of the horror story by presenting an anthology of works from the past and from current writers, with contributions from Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, Harlan Ellison, Charles L. Grant, and Clive Barker...
In the 7th millennium, humans have spread throughout the galaxy and govern most of the inhabited planets. Leonardo, Our Humble Hero and purple-blooded Bjornn of the planet Benitarus II, is sent as an expert appraiser to the Claiborne Art Gallery o...
BEAUTIFUL AVENGER Seraphim Carver narrowed her golden eyes as she considered the final details of her plan. She'd managed to stow away aboard the Lawrence and persuade Commodore Perry to let her stay and serve as a nurse... now she had to find a way...
A Magnificent Epic of the Frontier -- And a Man Torn Between His Heritage and His Heart The civilized world called him Caleb Sax, but among the proud Cheyenne he was known as Blue Hawk, the warrior destined to conquer new lands in his search for...
A man’s corpse is discovered in a London warehouse, bundled into five shopping bags. Our nameless narrator from the Unexplained Deaths division of the Met is put on the case. As he probes a world of horror in South London, a terrible secret from hi...
Sixteen-year-old John Proud discovers his family's dark secret in 1854 an ancestral namesake confessed to being a demon. Now John finds himself battling his ancestor who is trying to use John for an evil purpose. Mounting suspense plus the sure draw ...
In The Discovery of Slowness, German novelist Sten Nadolny recounts the life of the nineteenth-century British explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847). The reader follows Franklin's development from awkward schoolboy and ridiculed teenager t...
For much of her life, Allie has been confined to a mental hospital. One day, she is taken to the house of Dr. Chill, who wants her to develop the powers that have always made people fear her. There she finds others with special talents. When one of t...
In a decaying Tuscan villa, Rennie, a self-absorbed academic, completes his dissertation, and Louise contemplates the ruin of their marriage, until Louise's life ripens with new and unconventional possibilities...
A Gentleman with a certain spark... that was who Stephanie Endicott wanted for a husband, but he was not to be found in Philadelphia. And expedition to London, it was hoped by her indomitable mother, would produce a suitable match -- with an earl, a ...
PRISONER OF LOVE... Sara was a wildlife photographer determined to brave the desolate cliffs of Farraway Island to capture the golden eagles on film. Instead, Sara was captured by Rorke Calvin, a man as fierce and untamed as the eagles Sara was s...
Daniel knew he was loyal to England and the King. Until something happened that changed his life forever. This "vivid and compelling story of the American Revolution" is set in Salem in 1774, when people were either Tories or Whigs and the growing v...
The adventures of Lex Parlane, a self-made Glasgow millionaire, bookmaker, and gambler, are set against the colorful world of steeplechase horse racing, in a tale that culminates at the Cheltenham National Hunt Festival...
In words and pictures, the popular "New Yorker" cartoonist and short story author parodys the classic Sam Spade-type, hard-boiled detective novel in this story of hard-drinking private detective Eddy Deco...
BESET AND ENAMOURED... The heath was cloaked in a mist so lush that Lady Rosaline could not find her way. Not could the beautiful countess divine the face of the gallant stranger whose waiting arms saved her from the starless, rainswept night. No...
Lonely and unhappy after her sister Charlotte goes away to boarding school, Emma discovers that she and Bobby Tumpkins, a fat, awkward classmate, are being propelled backward in time while they sleep....
A bold, provocative "pioneering novel" (Los Angeles Times) about family, womanhood, and growing upSet on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Enchantment is narrated by Hannah Lehmann, the wry survivor of a troubled childhood. Hannah's perceptions of her Ort...
SPACE...THE FINAL FRONTIER. THESE ARE THE ALL-NEW VOYAGES OF THE U.S.S. ENTERPRISE! Gene Roddenberry, the man who created the original STAR TREK television series, now brings the magic of STAR TREK to a brand-new, even more exciting future--a futu...
Years Ago . . . the children toiled in the dank slate mines of Cowmgilla, hostages to their mad overseer . . . helpless victims in his evil satanic rites. Now . . . on the outskirts of the charming Welsh village, something stirs deep in the...
The mystery lady stood on the observation deck of the Eiffel Tower in trench coat and dark glasses, and Bart Callister was fascinated. He wanted her, wanted to know her secrets, to slip inside her enigmatic heart. Arri Smith knew she was no siren who...
At first Lydia Cunningham seems just a nice, neat, self-contained widow in reduced circumstances, who has problems with her children... Her daughter Thelma, recently divorced, has just paid a rare visit - bringing along a young man she met on the...
In exile from her home world, Tivia, a warrior princess, disguises herself as a man and joins a group of space pirates who intend to destroy Bhodi Li, the man she loves, and the rest of the Photon Guardians...
THIS HEART FOR HIRE Samantha was good . . . very good. Well, maybe pretty good was a better description of Samantha English's detective skills. She certainly couldn't take much pride in having landed in jail after she broke into the wrong hotel ro...
"In the frontier town of Hideyhole, feisty Shirley resists her parents' attempts to marry her off--especially since the only bachelor left is dull Elmer Twaddle."--Publishers Weekly. Full-color illustrations....
“Fast, characterful, intricate, surprising . . . Sohmer knows his way around television, politics, Washington and suspense fiction.” -- Los Angeles Times Book Review It begins with an assassination. A Nicarag...
With a murderous rapist roaming Long Island's prestigious Pequod College, suspicion falls on Bernie Lefkowitz, a campus playboy, and his recently jilted lover, Felicity Norman, a voluptuous art historian...
Tony Adams was a brilliant prosecutor who'd stricken the word commitment from the record. It killed romance and never lasted. His summation: keep relationships shallow and avoid divorce court. Attorney Sheila North fell hard for charming, cynical ...
VIVIDLY BLENDING THE MYTHS OF GODS WITH THE PASSIONS OF MEN AND WOMEN, MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY BRINGS US A SWEEPING, FASCINATING STORY . . . KASSANDRA: Trojan priestess of Apollo, torn between her beloved Sun Lord and the ancient worship of the Eart...
Atta Olivia Clemens had received St. Germain's darkest gift -- would his love save her from the True Death?...
Fare to Freedom. After she killed in self-defense, alluring Fancy Broussard had no choice but flee Clarence, Missouri. Desperate to get out fast, she had sneaked aboard a private railcar, plotting to distract its owner with her womanly charms...just ...
Cassie Gordon was off her rocker.... Dave Spencer thought he had heard wrong, but Cassie had said she wanted him to help her catch Brad, his close buddy! Maybe she had spent too much time in the hot kitchen with her catering business? But Cassie t...
COURTLY LOVE, FOREVER LOVE Simon of Winslade had just one thing in mind when he claimed sweet Ysabeau's yielding lips: seduction. Too long she had tempted him with the melting innocence of her soft, dark eyes; too long she had held herself aloof, ...
After Charles Despard's death, his estranged English daughter, Kate, and his French stepdaughter, Dominique, are pitted against each other in a contest for profit and ultimate control of the Despard international auction empire...
On New Zealand's Manawatu Plains in the 1860s a young woman, part-Danish, part-French Huguenot, part-settler, lives in anguish. What are these strange stirring memories of another Fredrique, born in France in the 17th century, who fled the religious ...
A look back at the major events of the 1960s, told by the voices of both the famous and those they affected, which, as a result, creates a powerful focus on the human dimension of that turbulent decade....
Sex was just a game to him, and he knew all the moves If Denver's star quarterback, Tony Hart, was the "stuff of heroes," Erin Cassidy had yet to be convinced. He'd just caused her to lose a major stained glass commission, and now ...
Come. Step through an ancient arch in the Scottish highlands--and into a world beyond all earthly possibilities ... Where fearsome creatures abound and witches rule supreme. Where a sparkling jewel carries a strange and awesome power. Where ...
WANTED WOMAN Nothing ever happened in Saratoga, California, until the day Kaylie West went to the jewelers and found herself in the middle of a robbery. Just one witness could identify the crooks, and she it. Still, Kaylie was sure she didn't need...
FRINGE BENEFITS The position was only temporary--Joshua Carrington needed someone to design the windows of his Milwaukee department store, and Marlo Fletcher needed a job to help take a load off her bank balance. The situation was perfect for both...
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Few plays have explored the byways of the human heart as poignantly and poetically as Tennessee Williams'' The Glass Menagerie. In this touching audio, we meet the embattled Wingfield family: Amanda—faded southern belle, abandoned wife, dom...
Pelagia Harper, aka Valentine Lovelace, published her memoirs of her time in Draco, Texas and became an established writer -- at least in her own mind. But when her father dies and her stepmother steals her royalties, she finds herself destitute. Als...
Available again in paperback, Golden Days is a major novel from one of the most provocative voices on the American literary scene. Linking the recent past with an imagined future, Carolyn See captures life in Los Angeles in the 70s and 80s. This marv...
Here, brought splendidly to life, is the golden age of India. And here an epic story of love and vengeance unfolds, sweeping from battlefields thundering with majestic fighting elephants to the erotic hidden world of the harem... A blood rivalry ...
The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Inventions . . . Emiliano Nowell was a world-class genetic engineer. He was also a wealthy and idealistic man with the time and money necessary to follow his dreams. In secret laboratories far from Earth he used...
Beautiful Erica Stone left Regency England for Vienna with a husband she barely knew. But she found her husband mysteriously murdered and herself alone in a city of romance, where women were playthings and words of love were lies. Owen Kingsley, t...
The Americans believe that the North Vietnamese are using a new kind of guidance system for their SA-2 missiles. U.S. fighter aircraft are unable to detect surface-to-air launches on their radar equipment. If this discovery is true, then the air w...
What happens when four guys confront the enormity of being thirty? If it’s Sandy Stern, he worries about the fact that he’s a down-and-out artist about to lose both his apartment and his girl. If it’s Joel Harlowe, a materialistic drug dealer, ...
Had she cut herself off from life--and love? Vanessa Davies considered herself a very responsible person. Hadn't she put aside her own musical ambitions to care for her younger brother after their parents' death? Hadn't she established...
It was simply sultry Caroline Cooper was hot. And after dealing with other people's crises all day, she was frustrated. But throwing open her window to catch the night breeze did little to solve her problems. Directly across the courtyard sat ...
She was holding out for a hero Settling down was not for Summer Reed. Party by night, work by day and let tomorrow take care of itself--that was her motto. But when Derek Anderson, her roommate's globe-trotting brother, crashed into her life, Summ...
A Southerner odyssey revolving around Gramps, a hypochondriacal professor, a rock star, redneck Southerners, Korean veterans, and Jack, an old cafe owner whose friendship with Homer, the narrator, anchors the story...
A tidal wave of desire flooded through her at the touch of his lips. She clung to him as he pressed her back onto the pillows, his powerful body following hers... When beautiful, dark-haired Vanessa MacIan met Edward Romney, Earl of Linton, she to...
When the bosses of Chicago's Democratic Party Machine send precinct captain Jimmy Flannery underground to inspect the city's sewers, the idea is to teach him to keep his nose out of other people's business. But Flannery figures what goes on in his wa...
For the disparate group of young Catholic comprising Our Lady Of Sorrows (Soho) Parish Society of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Friday night discussions held under the guidance of Father Bob Powers offer an opportunity to mix with others of their own kind....
Dilithium. In crystalline form, the most valuable mineral in the galaxy. It powers the Federation's starships... and the Klingon Empire's battlecruisers. Now on a small,out-of-the-way planet named Direidi, the greatest fortune in dilithium crystals e...
At dusk, murder rode with the bright-jacketed huntsmen through woods and fields. Among them was young and pretty Sue Poore, involved with an attractive man whose wife had been mysteriously murdered. Already under suspicion, Sue Poore was ripe for mur...
The Image is a collection of twenty-two entertaining stories that range in time from the old days in Warsaw to recent years in America. The title story is haunted by a unique love that falls like a shadow between a newly married couple.
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