Ah, the tranquility of the English countryside. Where bizarre late-night phone calls shatter the silence. Eccentric neighbors turn heartrending private grieves into frightening public rituals. And an at-large sex murderer searches for fresh prey. ...
Winter. The lake has frozen over. The island is covered with snow. Everything is still and white. Everything except the people at the bottom of the lake. The dead people, with their bright blue eyes and their strange, translucent skin. They have b...
A new husband and a new home -- what more could a bride want? Unfortunately “home” is an isolated, ramshackle farmhouse near an encroaching forest. And each day her husband grows quieter and more introspective. Worse, Rachel cannot ignore the ...
What kinds of secrets do dolls keep? Amy is terrified. She hears scratching and scurrying noises coming from the dollhouse, and the dolls she was playing with are not where she left them. Dolls can't move by themselves, she tells herself. But ever...
Was it possible? Was she immune to his masculine charms? Every woman south of the Mason-Dixon line might be at his beck and call, but Shannon knew better. She'd met the seductive gaze of his sea-blue eyes with glacial indifference. Cayce Hamilton-...
When the future began...
The men had it. Yeager. Conrad. Grissom. Glenn. Heroes...the first Americans in space...battling the Russians for control of the heavens...putting their lives on the line. The women had it. While M...
Departing as Air chronicles the memories of Jessie, now old and widowed, as she nears the end of her life and looks back on her two marriages, her emotional breakdown and recovery, and her ultimate acceptance--and celebration--of life....
To hesitate on the edge of life or to plunge in and risk change - this is the dilemma explored in this novel, which is set in 1930s London and portrays the complex ebb and flow of relationships within the Standish family. The author was the Winner of...
Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity rules. But when he becomes besotted by the beautiful Fay...
Former Secretary of the Navy, Navy Cross recipient, and Marine officer James Webb lit the fires of controversy with this startling inside look at life at the U.S. Naval Academy when A Sense of Honor was first published in 1981. Some of his fellow Aca...
She was loyal to the crown. He was its most feared enemy. Their passion would break every rule... In the mighty battle for freedom, Love was their greatest weapon... Raised a loyalist on a luxurious Virginia plantation, golden haired Venita Flemin...
A political satire edged with fantasy, this book traces the life and rise to political power in an unnamed South American country of a witch doctor--"The Master"--a character modelled on Lopez Rega, Isabel Peron's Interior Minister...
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD “Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea,” writes John Updike in his Foreword to this collection of literary considerations. But...
AS FREE AS THE AIR . . . That was Mickie Kilpatrick, who reveled in her life as an Alaskan bush pilot--until Matt Greenslade bought her out. Suddenly she, who had always been as wild as the northern wind, had to answer to a man who seemed bent on...
HE WOVE A SILVER WEB AROUND HER .. . Silversmith Kellen Cartland had come to Taxco for two reasons: to consider her business partner's marriage proposal and to see silverwork that was unsurpassed anywhere. She hadn't come to fall in love--yet that...
Having broken all Ten Commandments -- with plenty of pleasure and no punishment -- the Renegade never expected to face a firing squad for a crime he hadn’t committed. But death at sunrise might be easier to endure than spending the night with a lus...
Assuming a new name for a summer job as a camp counselor in order to put his problems behind him, a college student finds that decision regrettably complicates his relationship with a girl who has a secret of her own....
He wears the guise of a Necromancer: the black cloak, the broadrimmed hat, the gauze mask painted with a death's head. But raising the dead is the least of his Talents. He is a wild card that threatens the True Game itself. Demon. Doyen. Dragon. a...
When golden-haired Alexandra first saw the dark-haired stranger, her fury knew no bounds. How dare he intrude on her privacy as she swam in her secret pool! The moment Captain Joshua Steele set eyes on the angry young woman, he saw only a delectable ...
This classic holiday book tells the story of a little Jewish girl at Christmastime. It is her wise grandfather who helps her understand the difference between sharing something because she believes in it, and helping friends celebrate something becau...
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUSTED? Layna adopted a facade on the glorious Greek cruise. She became a woman of poise and sophistication, a woman at home with a man like Caleb Danner. Caleb, however, knew more than he was telling, though by profession he was ...
Filled with cameo portraits of prominent sports legends of the early twentieth century, this novel brings to life the era in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox, accused of throwing the 1919 World Series, became known as the ""Black So...
AN ARTISTIC TOUCH Widowed after three years of marriage, Maureen McClelland was left with only her husband's stained-glass workshop, and the skills he had taught her. She was anxious for both the commission and the artistic challenge Ray Gord...
Susan Sontag occupies a special place in Modern American letters. She has become our most important critic, while her brilliant novels and short fiction are, at long last, getting the recognition they deserve. Sontag is above all a writer, which is o...
Seeking an escape from his unfaithful wife, mistress, and her greedy daughter, prosperous Joseph Shapiro journeys from America to Israel to find salvation and meaning in the traditional Jewish way of life...
Elizabeth Salisbury has little time for love. She's taken refuge from a broken engagement in the demanding job of editing tomorrow's bestsellers. Then she's assigned Dr. David Spinelli's first novel, a book in desperate need of her expertise. Unli...
"I DON'T WANT TO BE AN ACTRESS!" Lisa Brooks shouted at producer Logan Marshall. She hadn't been in Hollywood long, but already she hated that glittery world where everything--and everyone --was for sale. But Logan was cynical when it came to b...
Dark-haired historian Merilyn Pierce was investigating the past when she went to the old New England inn. But what she found was a very modern romantic dilemma in Morgan Drake, the captivating, domineering, yet mysteriously aloof real estate tycoon w...
DOUBLE -- OR NOTHING... When luscious Viola Hemming, with her tantalizing younger sister, hired Skye Fargo to find the gang that kidnapped Viola's husband, she promised hard cash, and the kind of bonus no man could resist. And then the Army enlisted...
The dreams of spiritual heroism Madeline Blumfeld had put aside when she married rabbi Aaron Stern resurface as jealousy when her husband takes as his assistant an independent, spiritually gifted young Israeli woman named Lynda Jacobs...
PERFECT PARTNERS IN A PERFECT LOVE . . . Solo St. Clair had built her life around dance to hide the pain of a wounded heart. Ben Savin was the man who had shattered her life and in the process nearly destroyed his own, as well. Neither time ...
After the Civil War, Nevada lured every brand of dreamer with the silver glitter of its Comstock Lode, the promise of new riches and adventure. -- Here, a gracious, polished hardworking Lady set up a house of pleasure unrivalled in opulence and pro...
"I'VE COME TEN THOUSAND MILES TO SAVE MY FAMILY'S SHIPS. NO MAN WILL STOP ME NOW." So Erin Conroy declared as the Yankee shipping heiress arrived in Japan to discover that Storm Davin, the proud Southern Aristocrat she had refused ...
A MYSTERY LOVE News photographer Angela Hastings knew that failing to track down reclusive Hollywood mogul Jarrod Cannon could cost her job. So when she accidentally met Cannon's handsome gardener, she knew she'd stumbled onto the perfect lead. ...
Possessed of astonishing beauty, steady self-possession, and a glorious style, Mary Skoning, the daughter of a dairy farmer, pursues a modeling career in Chicago, makes an unlikely marriage in Montana, and finds passion and troubles in a second marri...
HIGH-FLYING LOVER He was just another handsome pilot stealing her hard-earned job. Not even her journalism and public relations degrees from the Air Force Academy could secure Captain Ronda Voss's position as Chief Information Officer for the SAC ...
GHOST OF PASSION After three years she'd finally come face-to-face with the unknown brother-in-law she held responsible for her sister's death. Karen Prescott hated Jean-Paul Picard. Yet she had come to France as a hotel management professional, a...
Ruth Bannion had never met anyone like Russian emigre choreographer Nickolai Davidov. Ruth was open, giving, but Nickolai's background had left him reserved, even wary, and his pride would not let him reveal his need for her. Fear of rejection ke...
IT COULDN'T BE A WORSE TIME TO GET INVOLVED... Selina was proud to be a professional chef. But her dreams for success didn't stop there. She was determined to build a rewarding career, and nothing could stand in her way. Except Gilmarti...
Dodge City is as wild a town as they come. In fact, when Clint Adams comes riding in, things are pretty much out of control. Young Deputy Sheriff Bill Tilghman is trying his darndest, but it will take a pack of lawmen to tame this town. A frighte...
Carla Gelsey returns to her childhood home intent on restoring the Victorian mansion she always admired. But handsome Blake Mercer is equally determined - along with the town council - to tear it down. When Carla hires a group of carpenters to begin ...
Pronzini is a pro.?The New York Times His P.I. license reinstated, his old friend Eberhardt back on his feet, and things with his girlfriend Kerry patched up, Nameless is ready to roll again. On his first day back at work, he lands an assignment he w...
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Set in the years--785-790 A.D.--that marked the beginning of the decline of the Mayan civilization, this novel traces the dynamics of this rich society through the lives of a variety of Mayan craftsmen, warriors, rulers, priests, and commoners...
A soldier of fortune. His cat. His ex-lover. With a clean shot at 10 million. All they have to do is read the want ads. Blackmail the CIA. Shut down a major American city. And get away with it ... When Leroy "Chinese" Gordon breaks into a pr...
It's Halloween, 1914. Teenage psychic Blossom Culp sneaks into the house where the rest of her class is having a party-and that's when everything goes haywire. Suddenly Blossom is hurled into a time warp. Her psychic powers have found a way to send h...
BOONE ADAMS--He was so smart he wrote half the English papers for the freshman class, when he wasn't getting drunk at night and waking up hung over in the morning. To him life was full of promise . . . just the ones it didn't intend to keep. JENNI...
Captain Lance Edwards had sailed the seas and obtained women ever since he was a lad, and no woman had ever resisted his masculine magnetism -- no one but the luscious, jet-haired Elise. Passionately attracted to the strong-minded beauty, Lance str...
She meant to fire a warning shot, but instead Lily Dunbar's aim faltered and she grazed the hunter himself. She had ventured too far into the wilderness of Reece Wakefield's vast Chilean ranch, now an oncoming storm thrust her into his arms and he re...
Relive the Epic Drama that changed history! A young thief and his friends prey on the citizens of Jerusalem--and Golgotha where Jesus is the central figure but the other two who face death are mysterious....
Did she dare to love? Elena is stunned when her guardian tells her she is the daughter of the deceased king and must prepare to claim her rightful position as queen. But the story of her royal birth is disputed by the dashing nobleman, Don Armando, w...
Sam attempts to discover who is gassing the assembly-line workers at the parachute factory, the town's largest industry, and traces the culprit to the hotel his own family manages. Originally published as
As activist-actress Calla Stark prepares for her role in a controversial motion picture, she must cope with the waves of self-doubt and the anonymous phone calls and threats that counterpoint her fierce political independence...
Mark Van Holden was one of the most attractive men Joanna Sinclair had ever met. But the shy young widow was all too aware of his scandalous love affairs that had shocked society from New York to Newport. When Joanna became Mark Van Holden's bride, t...
Original title: Payment for the Piper. A magnificent saga of courage and ambition set in Scotland and New Zealand. Setting out for New Zealand in the 1840s to find her brother, Scots blacksmith's daughter Hannah Lindsay inherits her share of a ...
As an editorial cartoonist on a big St. Louis newspaper, Jennifer Aldrich made her living pointing up the follies and weaknesses of the nation's politicians. But all her scorn for politicians deserted her when she met Congressman Ben Trostel. Here wa...
This hardback book "The Human Body: WIth Three-Dimensional, Movable Illustrations Showing the Workings of the Human Body" is pre-owned and is in good condition. The cover has some wear mainly the edges. On the first page it has the name of the previo...
RECIPE FOR SUCCESS Katsy Spencer had thrown her heart, soul and savings into her Cabaret, a colorful restaurant that was quickly gaining prestige among Houston's gourmet food critics. She thought she'd heard it all ... until D.W. Gardner, an intri...
INNOCENCE GONE Wren van der Rhys - rescued from London's alleys when the magnificent couple, Sirena and Regan, take her into their hearts, she ripens into a creature as enchanting and wild as Sirena, as headstrong and fierce as Regan. SAVAGE ...
Any smart woman can learn to be a good homemaker. The real question is: Should the role take over her whole life? Dory Faraday, 31, is an executive on the rise at an ultra-sophisticated New York women's magazine. But she decides to give it all up ...
THE HAUNTING Turning a decrepit old mansion into a beautiful country inn isn't easy, but for Andrea Torgesen, the hard work is exactly what her younger brother, Jim, needs after a serious car accident. Or, so she thinks -- until Jim is haunted by un...
Prior to the publication of this beloved novel, nearly every gay novel and play seemed to end in suicide--or at least deep despair. Merrick was one of the first writers to insist that a gay relationship could in fact be a happy one. The Lord Won't Mi...
Him! It was him! Yesterday he'd terrified her, tracking her through Washington. Today he infuriated her, barging into her office to introduce himself -- Reid Mecena, the Arizona senator's son. The sophisticated East and the rugged West had met. C...
From the ocean's emerald depths, where whales and adapting humans live in harmony ... to the rigors of inter-dimensional travel, the universe is order, and laws; the universe is hierarchies, evolution and space... Now a young pilot with a new bionic...
Shotgun justice-- was that what Heath Tanner wanted? Had he kidnapped her and imprisoned her on his Montana ranch because he wanted to watch her suffer? Was it fair? Shelby Constantine had already paid for her "crime." Just a girl, could she have ...
First with tender love, then with a darker passion, he taught her the meaning of desire WAS HIS AN ARISTOCRAT'S GAME OR AN ARCH-DEMON'S GAMBIT? Reckless tomboy when she defied her father, gentle lady when she cared for the weak or helpless, you...
Los Alamos 1945: The first nuclear weapon is about to be tested--and the second is about to be stolen!! Finn is the O.S.S. Captain charged with safeguarding all the processed uranium there is in the entire world--just enough to make two bombs. Th...
"These stories will last," said Raymond Carver of Shiloh and Other Stories when it was first published, and almost two decades later this stunning fiction debut and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award has become a modern American classic. In Shiloh, Bo...
THE LOVERS THE SEAS COULD NOT SEPARATE - THE PRIDEONLY PASSION COULD CONQUER! Raven Barrancourt, jet-haired, tempestuous and as beautiful as the storm-lashed Cornwall coast she loved...driven to the ends of the earth to save her ancestral home. ...
Couldn't Pippa ever do something sensible...like fall in love? Love Revealed "Blast you, woman," he muttered through clenched teeth, "won't you ever see?" Almost viciously, he pulled her to him again, causing her spectacles to fall from her no...
A TOUCH OF FIRE Tall, honey-blond with gray-blue eyes, Jennifer Gardiner hardly fit the role of Publicity Director for the Philadelphia Freedom football team. A lawyer and a professional in a rough-and-tumble world of men, she'd learned to be ...
A DETERMINED YOUNG BEAUTY COURTED DANGER WHEN SHE DECIDED SHE WOULD BE MORE THAN AN ENGLISH LORD'S PERFECT WIFE SHE HAD EVERYTHING A WIFE COULD WANT. BUT SHE WANTED MORE. Courtney's marriage to Lord Nigel Davies should have made her the happies...
AN OLD CODGER, A TOMCAT, AND A KILLER The venerable Herbert Ungley wouldn't have been caught dead without his toupee. So when his landlady's cat dragged it into her kitchen, Betsy Lomax knew something was amiss. When she found old Ungley lying beh...
"I never want to see you again! " Try as she might, Emily couldn't escape from the handsome Ludovic for long. Then they were unexpectedly thrown together, fleeing across the rugged African landscape. Ludovic's mockery of her wea...
The Cond?s of Charleston were an 18th century Carolina family to rival the Ewings of Dallas for scandal, drama and daring. These headstrong French Huguenots were determined to forge a dynasty and create their own legends with passionate secrets and l...
Based on the historical thief who lived in Japan in the late 1600s or early 1700s, this is a story of Ishikawa, who steals to feed the poor and hungry. “Luenn’s version of a Japanese folktale hums with suspense. Hague’s soaring, beautiful paint...
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SLOCUM DIDN'T LIKE BEING TAKENFOR A U.S. MARSHAL -- or a rustler, either. It seemed like every time he turned around, someone was trying to shoot him for being one or the other. So he decides to take matters into his own hands -- first with the stunn...
Two Englishmen are travelling the dusty roads of 16th century India: Thomas Coryat, a physician and man of science, who comes to India to find a cure for his wife's leprosy in the famed medical library at Agra; and Brother Peter, known as Frog, who h...
Houston sprawls in the sun like a woman ready for the richest comer. Past the plush condos of expatriate Brazilian to the city’s rotting wharves, wealthy Police Detective Stuart Haydon cruises in his Jaguar -- hunting a killer. The homicides chi...
It began without warning... -- The babies stillborn, monstrously deformed...the adults dying, one by one. Then without reason it stopped. The beautiful New England town forgot. Once again healthy children skipped along its tree-lined streets. E...
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Captain Robert M. Falconi of the 5th Special Forces had his orders: the clandestine SOG needed an enforcement arm and Falconi was to put it together. Made up of the best jungle fighters if R.S. could muster, they were to take the war to Charlie - no ...
Once Lane Winters had been a girl with dreams of glory: She would sing and the world would listen. Ross Matthews was the man--the lover--she had left behind in her quest to make it on her own. The dream had come true. Her voice had indeed been ...
Unlucky thirteen! Jenna thought. It was two years since she'd met him, eleven months since he'd vanished. Their marriage had lasted exactly thirteen months. Together they'd been the music world's most beautiful -- and explosive -- couple. Since th...
Her face was her fortune. But when Kea Mason's light plane crashed outside L.A., her life shattered with it. Her husband was dead; her brief, unhappy marriage over; her future as a respected TV interviewer uncertain; her position in a world of wealth...
A leading daytime soap opera, "The Sinners", had jumped to the top of the ratings. But success meant serious trouble. Now catastrophes scripted for the characters were happening off-camera--to the cast! Casey Fredericks, exquisite private eye, had be...
Matrimony was simply not Elinor Bennett's affair. As landlady of a bustling coaching inn, lovely Nell did her best to conceal her feminine charms, while overseeing the family business in her brother's absence. Soon Elinor was so successful at innkeep...
In his powerful new novel, Elia Kazan takes up the life of the young Greek from Anatolia whose early years he chronicled in his first and highly acclaimed novel, America America, giving us the story of a man caught between two worlds and fighting to ...
Old Charlotte Aubrey has died. Yet something still lives at Aubrey House, glowing with a strange blue light, breathing in the dark, waiting... -- Is it waiting for Richard Creighton, the brilliant philosopher who longs to forget the terrible accide...
SHE WAS A FOOL TO FALL IN LOVE Fate played a cunning trick on tourist journalist Meg Brown. Because of a dizzying series of mishaps in romantic Venice, she found herself entangled with the most stunningly attractive man she'd ever met. Marco Monte...
They were three: Maq Ancor, the master assassin, Macician Cherry, space illusionist, Sine Anura, mistress of the erotic. Chosen for the great quest, the journey into the heart of mankind's greatest creation: Zeus. Zeus who made the new worlds for ...
Terrified of growing up and confronting her femininity and the prospect of independence, fifteen-year-old Willa, the sensitive daughter of an artistic, affluent Manhattan couple, embarks on a desperate course of self-starvation...
In a last-ditch stab at fortune and glory, middle-aged adventurer Bill Conan enters a 30,000-mile single-handed round-the-world race. This ultimate test of skill, strength, and endurance leads him across the treacherous Atlantic Ocean's vast expanse,...
Sarah embarks on a dangerous mission in Spain when she searches for her father, a famous exposâe writer, who has mysteriously disappeared from his hotel....
Jane Smith sneaked aboard Jake Dominic's yacht on a dare, never dreaming she'd collide with the bronze playboy-director in the flesh! But the muscled arms that captured her were inescapable--and suddenly Jane found herself agreeing to a month...
Playing the sport called love was all in the game... The difference between Bobbi Morrow and Blain Pearson was sizable -- in more ways than one. A star player for the Washington Bullets basketball team, Blain had known a lot of women, but was neve...
"I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU MINE, JESSIE. TOTALLY & COMPLETELY" Their strong wills clashed from the moment the small plane crash-landed in the desert. But only one could win: Lucas Kincaid, primitive male, who dared to claim Jessica Travers...
John Cooper Baines -- the Hawk -- now rides forth to battle his deadliest foe. Clad in buckskin, his long rifle at his side, he is the undefeated master of this wild, sprawling Texas land. But a white renegade has sworn allegiance to hell itself ...
THE ART OF LOVING... J.T. had expected to find new artists on her buying trip to Europe. She hadn't expected to lose her heart to the most difficult of them all. He was Jake Marshall, and despite his talent he had shut himself off from his nat...
When Kane Webster bought the Seattle bank he bought trouble. One embezzler had already been uncovered and there was certain to be an accomplice. The evidence seemed to point to Erin O'Toole, but evidence is sometimes circumstantial. Kane listened ...
Could she be jealous of her own teenage daughter, a budding blond beauty who had apparently enchanted a man more than twice her age? Ridiculous! Katherine Meadows thought she had good reason to mistrust the arrogant new neighbor her two children a...
Strictly business brings wealthy Heather Andrews to the isolated Pacific island where her devastatingly handsome ex-husband practices medicine. Years ago Ross chose to leave her glittering social world far behind; now she refuses his invitation to ex...
HE HAD BUILT A WALL TO DIVIDE THEM Hope Standish was stunned by the speed with which Ross Adair took control of her life -- and her heart. When an accident on an Indian reservation curtailed her painting trip through the Great Smokies, she was for...
Del Rey / Ballantine, 1978. Mass market paperback, 2nd of two printings. This is the third in a trilogy of novels; it follows Master of the Stars (1976) To Control the Stars (1977) This trilogy describes, over a period of aeons, a cluster of galac...
Mark Lomax, a radio engineer living in Geneva holds evidence to a World War II war crime---the sole evidence, except for that buried beneath the Arctic Ocean--evidence sought by Polish revolutionaries, the CIA, and the U.S.S.R...
Earth has become a library planet for thousands of years, a bastion of both useful and useless knowledge -- esoterica of all types, history, science, politics -- gathered by teams of “pack rats” who scour the galaxy for any scrap of information. ...
A new enemy, a savage battlefield, a devastating loss...Dicken Quinney proved himself as a brilliant and heroic pilot in World War One, saving the lives of his fellow RAF servicemen, and winning a slew of medals. It is now the near aftermath of the G...
Trudi was torn between two worlds Trudi Carr loved her exciting fashion career in Christchurch. And she was determined not even marriage would steal her away from it! But when Dan Johnson, a sensitive yet arrogant drifter, proposed on the roman...
One night in New York, a city under siege by snow, Peter Lake attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Though he thinks it is empty, the daughter of the house is home... Thus begins the affair between this Irish burglar and Bev...
Cathy Phillips never takes chances -- and she's not about to start now. When she returns to close up the New England lake house where tragedy shattered her golden existence, she intends to leave her memories ... and way of life... intact. The vita...
Sometimes mistakes are made in loving regret Cassandra Spencer was nervous. She had finally made the decision to go back to work after her husband, Quinn, died, but now, in the moment before she was to meet with Quinn's ex-partner, Casey had cold ...
In a Fury of Ungodly Hatred and Ungodly Love Fierce guardian of her ancestral heritage, reigning beauty at the rakish court of Charles II, Annunciata Morland's restless spirit refused to be confined by her illustrious station. With a will of iron,...
Miranda Heriot has grown up knowing nothing of the stage. In the miserable atmosphere of her grandmother's house, the topic is never, ever mentioned. Then, a secret trip to Stratford reveals to Miranda the excitement of the theater. Although she may ...
For doctoral candidate Rebecca Blakely, writing about the past was no longer enough. For thriller author Ryan Prescott, writing about the present was no longer possible. In the clear air of Maine they learned to see beyond their limitations. As th...