SISTERS UNDER THE SKIN Faith Eliot came from England to the South Carolina plantation of Havenhurst to find out the truth about the mysterious death of her twin sister, Fleur. But when she arrived, she could feel Fleur's spirit come alive -- within ...
Includes an introduction by Frederik Pohl, and new story notes by Smith. Stories include: Blind Time (1946); The Planet Mender (1952); The Catspaw (1948); Rat Race (1947); Meddler's Moon (1947); Meddler's Moon (radio script); In the Cards (1947); His...
The tale is set in precataclysmic North America, approximately 600 years after nuclear war, man-induced plagues, and worldwide seismic disturbances have thrown humanity into a brutal pre-industrial age. Much of California and the East Coast have sunk...
SHE HAD UNDERESTIMATED THE POWER OF PASSION When Dr. Michael Stratton chose Tracey for his arts scholarship she cried for joy. At last she could quit waitressing and write full-time. But she didn't trust the attractive doctor's motives. Mo...
She had been a God, lord of all forests and the creatures that dwell within, until a small and thoughtless act of cruelty brought heavenly justice upon her, sentencing her to the worst punishment of all: to become human....
Long ago, a proud white stallion roamed the plains of Texas. Cowboys said he was the greatest horse that ever lived. And Gretchen knew they were right....
FOUR AGAINST HORROR Secretly and in stealth, four puny humans set out to invade the heartland of Evil--the so-called Empty Lands, filled with every evil creature from the darkest of mankind's myths. Harcourt went reluctantly to rescue his long-lo...
They Never Should Have Met -- But They Did... When Jenny meets Rob Montana she's happier than she's been in a long time. Theirs is the kind of love she thought existed only in movies. It seems that Jenny and Rob can talk about and share everything...
"MAYBE YOU OUGHT TO GO OUT WITH OTHER GUYS," Joanne's friends all told her. But she couldn't. She had fallen for Tim . Tim with his blond hair and crooked smile, Tim who called her gorgeous. She knew that she had another year of school, while Tim wa...
Several years after being ranked the top female marathon swimmer, Dorey Thomas determines to swim the as yet uncrossed San Antonio Strait and turns for training to Sarge Olssen, who lost his only son to the strait...
WAGONS WEST Defying the icy dangers of majestic snow-capped mountains, they came to a rugged frontier town. They were enticed by promises of fabulous wealth, but their dreams were often shattered by fate and lawless violence. Some were brave, lust...
FIGHTING FANTASY is the brilliant series of adventure gamebooks in which YOU are the hero! Decide which monsters to fight, which paths to take, who to trust and when to run. Can you survive the clutches of the hideous Bloodbeast, or defeat a noxious ...
When A.E. van Vogt wove several of his classic stories of The Rull into a novel, he created a work of enduring popularity in the science fiction field. Now back in print for the first time in the 1990s, this Tor edition includes "The First Rull," a s...
There is a fear which Christie cannot escape. Can she save herself from the grip of a power beyond her control?...
Offbeat stories of women trying to transcend limitations imposed on them because of their sex and of men confused as a result focus on innocent depravity, absurd rituals, escapes from constraining lifestyles, and life's pleasures and fun...
Interrelated essays by the Nobel Laureate on his adopted home of California, which Lewis Hyde, writing in The Nation, called "remarkable, morally serious and thought-provoking essays, which strive to lay aside the barren categories by which we have u...
A woman juggles her exhilarating career, the love of a sexy, powerful man and her vicious stepfamily in this romance from the author of Bare Essence. As an underwater photographer capturing the international pearl trade, Clay Fitzgerald is no strange...
SHE FOUND THE MAGIC OF LOVE IN THE CITY OF MUSIC AND DREAMS.... A woman's place -- the parlor, not the concert stage! But radiant Diana Ballantyne, pianist extraordinaire, had one year -- a year before she would bow to her father's wishes, return ...
The Plaintiff, Universal Patents, Inc., was heartless.The judge, Rex "Spider" Speyer was merciless. Ellen Welles' case seemed hopeless.Unless her lawyer could locate the mad creator of FAUST - the robot-inventor who'd given Universal Patents its stra...
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings by Joel Chandler Harris is an iconic American tome that is renowned for its exploration of African-American folklore. The collection of oral narratives and folksongs, compiled by Harris in the late 19th century,...
When the famous British traitor Kim Philby contacts a U.S. Agent in Moscow claiming to have important information, the CIA is cautiously interested. Their counterintelligence director Ara Schott, normally a desk man, goes along to Yalta to talk to Ph...
This fourth novel about the popular Sossi family focuses on 13-year-old Karen and the bad luck she encounters when she ignores her schoolwork for cooking and babysitting. "Skilled in making everyday occurrences interesting, the author has written a p...
HOW COULD SHE RESIST THE POWER OF HIS KISS? Gemma Culver, as a woman and an artist, was moved by the sensuous beauty of Jordan di Mario's sculptures. She'd often fantasized about meeting the master of erotica, the man who could breathe sexual vita...
HOPEWELL SAGA The tangled destinies of the Hopewells and the Shawns are drawn to a startling and powerful climax...in this fourth and final volume of the HOPEWELL SAGA. Eben Hopewell - Bearing the guilt for the fate of a woman he never loved, c...
From the moment he appeared on the beach--tall, sun-bronzed, and impossibly handsome--Kenda knew that she wanted him, loved him.... Kenda had survived the tropical storm that killed her father and destroyed his research lab. Alone on one of Fiji's...
Laura tells an old woman of her wish that her parents were back together again, without realizing that she is speaking to a real witch....
An epic story of tough ambitious immigrants to CaliforniaAaron, Jan and Rose. In brash little Los Angeles, each battles the way toward the top-one bringing in gushers in the fledgling oil discoveries; one fighting for stardom in the raw new movie ind...
Through untold hardship and havoc, the bravehearted Heron clan strove to create a bold heritage from the barren land...wrestling their fortunes from the dark riches that lay deep beneath the earth, until they had established a powerful petroleum empi...
Three homeless and rootless Civil War veterans strike out for Texas where they start the Circle Three Bar, a sweeping cattle ranch that comes to dominate their lives and the lives of their descendants...
WEDDING OF CONVENIENCE Ravishing Sarah Bradford was all alone in Wildcat City. The rough boomtown was full of brawny unbridled men and the Yankee beauty needed one man's protection. In name only Sarah became Mrs. Adam MacShane. And only then did she ...
SHE WASN'T A WOMAN WHO ACCEPTED DEFEAT Jessamine knew Bensen Everhart was annoyed with her. Too bad! She hadn't meant to dig up family skeletons -- but she had to research her historical novel, and that included his pioneer ancestry. St...
TANGLED THREADS OF ROMANCE Beautiful young Callie Forbes could scarcely believe her good fortune when Owen Trenwyn hired her to help him catalog his precious art and antique collection. The job was a challenge, and her elderly employer treated Cal...
A fight for control of the world’s largest hotel chain turns vicious
Harry Rudd has put his past behind him. He has forgotten his impoverished roots, his carefree college days, and his life with Angela. Forgetting Angela has been the ...
On a business trip to England, a beautiful young woman becomes a player in a perilous game of love… A Heartfelt Confusion Lovely American Rosemary Lewis never imagined that a simple buying trip to England could make her life so complicated. B...
There have been a thousand tales of future Utopias and possible civilizations. They have been ruled by benevolent dictatorships and pure democracies, every form of government from extreme right to absolute left. Unique among these is the easy-going s...
She will let no man rule her. And so, from the ashes of deception and defiance, their love was born--proud and passionate and unrelenting......
AN INSURMOUNTABLE CHALLENGE Suzanne Collins had no idea what was in store for her when she left for Italy. Expecting a quiet visit with her father, she never dreamed she would end up falling in love with his business partner! But Jared Caine wa...
SHE WAS DESIRE'S WILLING CAPTIVE. Maxwell Ross had set into motion a plan to avenge his younger brother. But he was wreaking revenge on the wrong woman, as Gemma Coleridge was only too happy to tell him -- at first. But soon, too soon, her heart o...
SUMMER MAGIC ... For Alexa Jones this was to be a summer of rest and relaxation. But a vacation in Adam Carlyle's disturbing presence turned her world around. No more could she hold herself aloof from life, from men. Adam stormed her citadel, d...
Jenny wants to fall in love--preferrably with someone handsome and rich! Having Craig and his mother rent rooms in her house doesn't exactly fall into her carefully made plans. Though he is awkward and insecure, Craig still knows how to get on her ne...
Hating East Chicago, Indiana, and the stunted lives it fosters, high-school senior Daniel Price sees a way out in his love for newcomer Rachel Temerson and then learns that the older man living with her is, in fact, her lover...
SULTRY NIGHTS Deserted by her husband, newscaster Annie Carroll ran her life with clockwork precision. No one could penetrate her defenses--until Ellis, a New Orleans art collector. Suave, sophisticated, sure of himself--and his women --he drew he...
The advertisement, complete with box number, appeared in New York newspapers: "Will anyone having information about an infant abandoned in Manhattan twenty-eight years ago please communicate." -- Katherine Derwith had placed the advertisement. In ...
This National Book Award"winning novel of power, libido, and morality is “a powerful and profoundly disturbing book” (The New York Times). First published in 1968, Jerzy Kosinski’s classic vision of moral and sexual estrangement captur...
Could any man do more damage than Corey? Even his own brother didn't want to see Corey Tavener when he returned home. Dale Freeman learned he had callously shirked his responsibilities eight years earlier, leaving the Queensland Gulf for green...
When gray-eyed Nan Ross reported for her first day of work at the plush Beverly Hills office of Allied Artist Corporation, the last thing she expected to receive was a warning against her new boss. But Rhoda Meade, her co-worker at the prestigious pu...
A horrifying legacy is brought to life.
Gene Keiller, a young politician with a reputation to enforce finds his world shattered when he meets a beautiful woman at a party; a woman with a terrifying and secret past.
The Sphinx describe...
A thirteen-year-old orphan is baffled and upset when her long-time friend Jeremy comes to spend the summer on her uncle's horse ranch and seems to ignore her. Continues the story of "The Magic of Glits."...
An English village is shaken by murder in this police procedural from the “dependably pleasing” author of The Night She Died (The Boston Globe). Det. Inspector Luke Thanet may be the only happy cop in England. He has two healthy children, a wond...
“A suspenseful page-turner . . . jolts and entertains the reader.” -- Mary Higgins ClarkInside Boston Doctors Hospital, patients are dying. In the glare of the operating room, they survive the surgeon's knife. But in the dark, hollow silence of t...
THE PASSION OF CASABLANCA THE DECADENCE OF CABARET THE LOST INNOCENCE OF…SILVER ROSE Rennie Jablonski -- she came back to Berlin, into the gathering storm to rescue her father. She stayed because there was no turning back. She stayed to beco...
WITH SUMMER'S SWIFT PASSION, THEY MET AND LOVED... Beautiful fashion buyer Kathleen Haley was determined to resist Erik Gudjonsen, the magnetic blond photographer on assignment at the camp where she was a volunteer counselor. But soon she was ...
Collectible, over-sized pbk. in Good Condition overall. First Perigee printing, 1982. Cover good (see photos provided), spine tight /sturdy, pages clean /unmarked. Minor crease on cover. Page edges has small brown spots (not mildew) on edges. Ships U...
As England bowed to Elizabethan rule, a dazzling beauty challenged her destiny -- and an irresistible love WILLFUL, BEAUTIFUL LAUREL DEVON LOST EVERYTHING... After her father's death she fell upon the charity of the queen. Yet Laurel kept h...
RIDE THROUGH THE SHADOW OF DEATH Dal and Mac Traven left Texas young and idealistic. They came back from opposite sides of a living hell, a war that had torn a nation in two. They wanted only to reclaim their old lives, but one man held their futu...
Traveling with a new name and a new face, Wade Holden, the triggerman responsible for the fall of the notorious Simm Bell gang, rides far and wide, carving out the life of a feared and respected gunman. Reprint....
When reporter Liz Gold fled to Houston to escape her family and her wrecked marriage, she investigates the twenty-year-old murder of the mistress of a prominent businessman and uncovers the truth about the murder--and herself...
Ramon Santiago, a fourteen-year-old street kid and poet, records his thoughts in a notebook. He is skilled with words and skilled with his knife, when needed. Alone, he wants to join a street gang to be macho, but to prove himself, he must rob an eld...
RANGE WAR! Bill Hearndon had been away from Segundo for eight years -- years spent riding hard, pushing steers, earning the cash to come back and build a ranch of his own on the land he'd inherited from his father. Yet Hearndon had been gone just a ...
How long could their love last? She had been an impetuous teenager when she had defied her love for Slater MacBride to marry a Texas millionaire, and she regretted her mistake. After eleven years of marriage without love, Dawn Lord was returning ...
HER LEGACY WAS WINE FOR REMEMBRANCE.... The fields of Kia Ora were all that remained of Alex's turbulent past, and Lindsay was bound to honor her husband's memory by taking an active part in the New Zealand vineyard. The exotic splendor of Kia Ora...
A KNOWING YOUNG LADY Felicity Lyford harbored no illusions as to why both the debonaire Lord Harry Eastcott and the dashing Sir Anthony Woodhall might want her hand in wedlock. Their wealthy and eccentric old aunt, Lady Cora Meecham, had told them...
PRIMITIVE PASSION was what Sylviane felt when she first saw the powerful Indian warrior. Her heart raced with fear and her legs trembled in fright -- but she yearned to twine herself around him like a supple vine to a mighty oak. It didn't matter ...
Skye Anderson knew about love -- its pain and aching loss. As executive secretary at the Hayes Corporation, she had found safety in a cocoon of hard-working days and lonely nights. James Steele threw her into turmoil. Elegant and impossibly viril...
In 1613, with plans to open a trade route between Mexico and Japan, four Samurai and an ambitious Franciscan missionary embark on a journey that takes them to Mexico and Rome and back again to a Japan torn by strife...
Four families--American, French, and Vietnamese--find their destinies intertwined as they endure fifty years of political turmoil, revolution, and war, in a story that traces the fate of Saigon from 1925 to 1975...
An 18-year-old goes from a reformatory to a small town high school, joins the football team, and tries to put his life in order. High school senior Jack Delaney, new in town, joins the football team as running back and rapidly becomes the school h...
Created by the powerful Hasyisi, yet missing for centuries from its home world, the Lyre just hangs in a willow tree, waiting. Hasyih, the Heart of the Worlds, links contiguous dimensions, many worlds invisible to each other, yet accessible through d...
AUSTRALIA A new land, A new way of life The recently discovered continent was many things to many people: For Annie Hollister, a young and spirited beauty it meant a chance for her family to overcome its past and make a new start...until the u...
From the history of two generations touched by two great wars, comes a soaring epic of the human heart...of a girl born to a dying woman in the Great War's last dark hour, to live in England's most privileged splendor...of a young man who ran...
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Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left ...
EARTHSHAKING SLEUTHING Susan Sand and her best friend Marge Halloran are horseback riding on a tranquil autumn day. As they reach Raggedrock Ridge, boulders and rocks begin to tumble and splinter, and an earth tremor ensues, bolting Marge from her...
Sparks flew whenever fiery-haired actress Tara Collins and domineering producer Devlin Bradley came within shouting distance. Who would have guessed they'd been engaged once before... Then circumstances force Tara to make a pact with her torment...
Betrayed and driven... They were THE RENEGADES Under the tyranny of Cromwell's Puritan rule, the Irish fought vainly for their freedom. Caught in the struggle, Irish beauty Maggie O'Hara waged her own fierce war against marriage to a r...
Chaos and broken hearts littered the wake: of the dazzling Brendan, Duke of Tressilian. But Kristen Killian, beautiful widowed Countess of Killeaven vowed she would never succumb to his notorious charm--until a moonlit night bound them together in a ...
After six years her secret was public knowledge, and the one man she had tried to avoid finally knew the truth: Rennie Gilbert, famed children's book author, was Lee Chatham, the wife who had deserted him so long ago. Price Chatham reeled her bac...
BOLT WAS A WANTED MAN...WANTED BY HIS FAMILY THE LAW--AND BY A WHOLE LOTOF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN! On the trail to Fair Chance, Bolt gallops straight into the gunsights of Rawhide Kate. But before she can pull the trigger, Bolt lets her know he comes in pea...
A wicked witch catches a man taking rampion from her garden, forces him to give her his daughter, Rapunzel, and imprisons the girl in a high tower until she is rescued by a prince, in a version of a classic fairytale first published in 1982. An ALA N...
Recounts the complex, protracted, and bloody events of the settling of modern Palestine, during and just after World War I, with an ensemble of characters that includes such near-mythic, historical figures as Weizman, Ibn Saud, and T.E. Lawrence...
She thought she could never love again. She was just sixteen when she met Neil Banning. Innocent of love and its deception, she was shattered to learn how cruelly her heart could be broken. Eden Thackery, the most desirable young lady among New Yo...
Sara Dantan was her own woman, making her own way in the world, but Dr. Court Pride had plans to end all that. He planned to make her his woman, and the more she resisted, the more he enjoyed the fight. His kisses taunted her, his caresses torment...
Blackmail! Talia Haywood could hardly believe she was so desperate. But something about Kane Sebastian drove her to it: anything to get the information that only he could provide. She thought she knew his type: an arrogant industrial tycoon, the k...
Colonising a new planet requires much more than just settling on a newly discovered island of Old Earth. New planets were different in thousands of ways, different from Earth and from each other. Any of those differences could mean death and disaster...
Passions is a humorous look at the high-flying world of Parisian haute couture designers, foreign correspondents, political intrigue, and the demands of the big egos involved....
She had fallen for him at first sight When Laura learned she was to work for the handsome Gideon Maitland, she was overwhelmed. Since she was a very junior secretary, he would never otherwise have noticed her. But he had more than seen her. He ...
Warning: Black Death! The disappearance of a leading U.S. biochemist was handled routinely by the Department of Justice... until their agent on the case was found dead in Florida, his body ravaged by a plague bacillus. Enter Mack Bolan. The mur...
Darwin, the discoverer, did not mean to rock the world. He meant only to know the truth. But before he was done, Charles Darwin would shake the faith of centuries...would be reviled as a fiend, denounced as a madman - and finally hailed as a genius. ...
Dr. Langhof, nearly forty years after his medical experiments for the Waffen SS, lives on in seclusion in the Republic, remembering--with no forgiveness or atonement--his descent into darkness and degradation...
In a world that keeps dealing nothing but bad breaks, stayoing out of trouble isn't easy. For Tom Delos forming the Guardians was his last chance to prove to himself and to others that he could achieve something. From now on, helping kids like himsel...
When a Nymph rides a Night Mare, Ogre beware!Smash knew all about ogres. After all, despite his having a human mother, Smash was an ogre himself. Ogres were not only huge and horribly ugly, as Smash was; they were also so stupid they could hardly spe...
CHAUCER WAS HER FIRST LOVE. Professor Chelsie McBride was thoroughly acquainted with her subject: the sometimes humorous, sometimes bawdy Canterbury Tales that could make even her students blush. A respected professional in her field, she was no s...
The author's sixteen years of nursing experience have rendered up a straightforward account of back-breaking work, frustrating bureaucracies, hugh responsibilities with no authority, emotional conflicts, defeats, satisfactions, triumphs, and joys...
Avenging herself on her former lover and protege, Dr. Helen Roth unleashes the energy behind the dream process to psychologically manipulate Paul Stanislaus into committing increasingly violent crimes...
Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters...
My Lady of Cleves reveals the mesmerizing story of Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII's fourth wife, one of the rare women who matched wits successfully with the fiery king and lived to tell the tale. Written by world-renowned historical novelist Marg...
Here is another of Simon Bretts fascinating blends of crime and backstage drama. This time he provides what might be described as the biography of a playfrom the cradle to the grave. Murder Unprompted takes you from the author, to an unscrupulous pro...
MURDER IN WASHINGTON Donna dashed up the steps toward the huge statue of Abraham_Lincoln -- and stopped short Cradled in the giant stone arms was the body of a man.... Donna's and Abbey's trip to Washington, D.C. turns into a hunt for a derange...
SPAWNED IN THE DEPTHS OF THE CIRCUS MAXEMUS... The Gladiators found the starving slave-boy suckling a she-goat. Right then, they named him Lucanus -- Little Wolf -- and predicted that through all the wrenching bloodshed that was Rome... HE WOUL...
A monster stirs at the bottom of Loch Ness. For centureies it has lived in peace, rising to the surface, from time to time, to become a legend in the hills of Scotland. Now something has arrived to disturb it's tranquility - the violent, greedy thru...
A sweepstakes winning sweeps still-aspiring artist Matthew Morganstein into the upbeat world of high finance and tax shelters, but he longs for a return to the days of pre-monetary, idyllic, bohemian bliss with his Jewish-princess lover, Ariel...
Cynthia and Russ were powerful opponents on the tennis court and in every argument--but friends nonetheless. Then they went their separate ways. Reunited years later, both single once again, their comfortable companionship suddenly burst into a torri...
1962 edition, 5 book set includes Miss Bianca, The Rescuers, Miss Bianca in the Orient, Miss Bianca in the Salt Mines and The Turret. All inside a sturdy protective box. A Disney movie was made from The Rescuers story....
A backwoods doctor and fearless adventurer, Marcus Whitman was respected and admired by all who traveled the Oregon Trail. By cart and wagon, on horse and on foot, the settlers came in increasing numbers…welcomed to the rich, verdant valley where W...
In Mantissa (1982), a novelist awakes in the hospital with amnesia -- and comes to believe that a beautiful female doctor is, in fact, his muse....
The interstellar Bridge System was the greatest invention in the long history of cosmic humanity Spread through dozens of planets, men and their societies had drifted apart in isolation until the Bridge came to link together humanity's multifold worl...
In an isolated mountain clinic, doctors work frantically to treat the body of Daniel Forrester, the shattered victim of a plane crash. Desperately trying to save his life, they place him in the latest medical machine.Strange things happen to Forreste...
APPRENTICE IN LOVE He threw off sparks of anger like shards of sharp metal, yet Cara stood her ground. She had no notion of what she was supposed to do or how to do it, but now she meant to stay. Pulled this way and that by a baffling cast of char...
Something in his past worried him Yet Rafe Hendrix was obviously not a man to accept defeat, and Charis immediately knew he was the one who could rescue her young sister. Jane had been spirited away by a religious sect, and Charis feared for he...
The Maid of the North weaves together tales about a woman's right to freedom of will and choice. In this collection of mostly nineteenth-century folk and fairy tales, Ethel Johnston Phelps's heroines successfully portray women as being spirited, cour...
A courtly saga of love and triumph in the era of knights and kings, this is the powerful story of two young, proud women who share a common ancestry...shattered by the treachery and deceit of the men who would steal their lands. From the fief of Leau...
When nurse Fern Morgan met Jonathan Delafield, she knew she had found someone special. She and the handsome district attorney struck sparks off each other from the first, but it was not until an injury placed him under her care that they learned ...
LOVE HAS ITS REASONS. Cara Lang had been slumbering, waiting, though she hadn't known it until Sloan Montgomery stormed into her life and awakened the woman inside her. She shivered beneath his touch, gloried in his dazzling gaze and reveled in...
He was a handsome rogue who had already cost her a job...and heaven knows what else! But Cassandra Covington couldn't afford to think of the scandalous Lord Wolverham. She was alone and penniless. Now even the daring plan of a determined friend made ...
LAND IS MONEY IN THE GODFORSAKEN BADLANDS Interior is nothing but a two-bit town in the Dakota Territory -- a land where pistol-toting sharp-shooters make their own laws, and corrupt lawmen choose not to notice... But when two U.S. Land Office ...
ACROSS THE BORDER! Nightriders are raiding the ranches near the Starbuck spread, so Jessie and Ki set out to raid the raiders. Then their trails split ...Jessie's leads to a remote U.S. Army outpost and the arms of a cavalry officer, while Ki's lead...
A SUMMER PARADISE Even though the trip was business, Emma looked forward to seeing the romantic island of Hatteras. Meeting the dark, handsome Dan Slater had not been part of her plans. But the situation she walked into grew as sizzling as the ...
A strange urge drives Dr. Iris Ammons to leave her home and travel to a small California town, where she comes under the influence of a weird evil power. A modern epic of terror steeped in centuries of evil.
..."TURN, HELL-HOUND, TURN!" The fight. Leap, clash, sweep; hoarse, snarling voices. Macbeth is beaten backward, Macduff raises his claymore, and they plunge out of sight. A scream. A thud. Silence. Seyton carries his claidheamh-mor and on it, str...
The Inquestor Series was a classic science fiction series of the 1980s — and has now been reincarnated for the 21st century, with more adventures, more spectacle, and more extras. Tachyon bubbles, people bins and galactic empires — and pr...
A woman who encounters tragedy unexpectedly has two choices. She can spend her life mourning. . .or she she can learn to live again. The choice Lindsay Howard made after her young husband's accident would outrage some people and inspire others. ...
They were the young ones, the bright ones, the ones with the dreams. From the Nazi-prowled wastes of North Africa to the bloody corridors of Europe, they answered the call gladly. War. It was their duty, their job, their life. They marched off as boy...
A collection of short stories--including "Trying Out for the Race," "A Compassionate Leave," "Oh, Joseph, I'm So Tired," and "Saying Good-bye to Sally"--explores troubled human relationships and family life...
The party was an unqualified success! And the best part had been lithe, handsome Mark James who had tumbled into Netta’s life and was now doing flipflops in her singing heart. Would he juggle it as expertly as he did those oranges? She didn’t car...
MURDER AT EBB TIDE "Found drowned, my foot," said the pathologist two minutes after looking at the body. The unidentified young man pulled from the salt water near the fishing village of Edsway hadn't drowned after all. And he hadn't been a bather...
He was too near -- and not to be trusted Having Jonathan back in New Zealand was torture for Camilla. Five years had passed since she'd painfully broken their engagement, though she'd kept her knowledge of his dishonesty a secret. No ma...
The cars and horns. The colors combining. My lack of strength. Everything tried to keep me from getting home. But I made it. Finally the huge glass doors were in front of me. Through the glass I saw Harold. I pushed hard. Help me, I wanted to say. Bu...
In their senior year, outsiders Charlotte and Stephen find each other and acceptance into the school's inner circle, but at times Charlotte's remoteness and Stephen's friendship with Rolf drive them apart...
SHANGRI-LA Safely hidden in the far reaches of the lush Amazonian jungle lies a mythical paradise, peaceful and idyllic, isolated from civilization for over a century...until a band of vicious guerrillas invade the valley, greedily searching for dia...
I'M JERRY; IRMA'S A CAT Whiskers! In Connecticut things were never like this! Imagine me, mild mannered, philosophically inclined Cocker Spaniel that I am, staging burglaries and mad attacks and cheesing it (that's how Irma would put it; it means ...
AN INDEPENDENT WIFE... ...and determined to stay that way--that was Sallie Jerome Baines. Her husband Rhydon Baines had broken her heart and once, she had vowed, was enough. Then fate brought them together again, and the new Sallie fell for Rhy...
The first 14 pages of this book by Joanne Ryder, Paper Engineering by Ib Penick, Illustrated by Gerry Daly for Random House, contain excellent information about various kinds of rockets, satellites, people in space, the first men in space, astronauts...
HOW COULD SHE MARRY A STRANGER? Finally, Jill Carteret was going to Brazil. But she was not going to work in her uncle's company as she had planned. Instead, her uncle, now deceased, had arranged for Jill to marry his younger partner, Simon Todd. ...
Nell Trant knew Sir Charles Grayson kept several light-skirts. She had jilted him for that very reason -- at their betrothment ball no less. A shocking scandal! Later she regretted her haste -- though she admitted it to no one... Now she is beside...