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 ...
BURIED ALIVE! The Hardys have come to Lake Tahoe to investigate the kidnapping of movie star Richard Chase. The disappearance is the latest in a series of suspicious incidents that have plagued the filming of Chase's latest flick, Horror Hotel. The b...
THE CORPSE WENT BY BUS “The Goff Place mystery” remained unsolved, the body of the murdered pawnbroker never found. On the night of the killing, a bus had parked on the narrow cul-de-sac. Witnesses saw two elderly passengers dozing. Later a gh...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Apache Tears--that was the name of the gemlike stones beautiful young Catriona Frazer mounted in the exquisite jewelry she fashioned. She went to the Indian reservation, leaving behind the secure world of her established life, to learn from the famou...
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...
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 ...
Once lovers, could they still be best of friends? The idea of sharing a house in California's Topanga Canyon enticed Kelly Mitchell. On her meager salary as a physical education teacher, she found that communal living offered a high quality li...
Can beautiful, outspoken young Holly English help a young man with a physical handicap overcome doubts about God and find a true and lasting love? Holly English is an aspiring young Christian writer who takes a job at Reed’s Candy Shoppe. Almost...
The first time their lips met, Kate Lonigan knew Mike Fleming was the man for her. It wasn't just his authoritative demeanor and incisive moves as temporary troubleshooter in her insurance office. There was something about his warm green eyes and wit...
Bryan Stewart made his living diving beneath the sea. The underwater world held no terrors for him, but the world of emotion was another story altogether. Laurel Rand's job was to film a documentary on Bryan's latest expedition, but she soon fell ...
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...
When Molly Knight reads her birthday card from Duncan Grover at her Sweet Sixteen party, she knows that he's the boy for her. But then Duncan's best friend, Matt, asks her to Landon High's senior prom-the kind of formal dress-up prom she's always dre...
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...
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...
Two sisters -- the beautiful and alluring Marilyn, and her smart and savvy sister, Roy -- move to Beverly Hills with their mother after the death of their father, so that they can attend the posh public school Beverly Hills High. Though they live in ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
AN ACCIDENT OF LOVE Summer theater was an exciting new experience for actress Robyn Flannery, but when she was framed in a hit-and-run accident, it seemed like the end of her dreams. David Christopher, a handsome veterinarian and father of the ...
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 ...
For anyone else it would have been a dream come true. Cal Bishop was the designer of the decade. His estate was too luxurious to be real. Being singled out to model his luscious new line of sportswear then being miraculously swept into his arms -- wh...
"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...
CHARMED LIVES... She was April Juneau. One day spent watching the parade of light and shadow, the glory of the Spanish bullring, would change her life forever. He was Alejandro Cervantes, a matador, a man who wore the suit of lights and danced ...
Fresh from her first success in Nashville, Gem Reasoner -- heiress to an oilman's fortune -- looked like a waif singing for her supper in a small-town club miles from nowhere. When the going got rough, it was Roan Christiansen who came to her ...
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...
Money...she needed it more than love, more than anything he had to offer. Sloan Tallet was tired of struggling, of doing it all on her own. When Westley Adams -- retired all-American quarterback -- arrived on her doorstep, she decided to marry hi...
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...
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...
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 ...
Are you happy? Are you married? Are you tired of life in the fast lane? The answers were "yes," "no," and "maybe." As her postcards implied, Devon O'Neal, star reporter, had done well in New York. She wasn't sure ...
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...
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 ...
"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...
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. ...
SHE KNEW WHAT IT WAS TO BE A WOMAN DESIRED... Alexander Cortlandt was a compelling man -- a startling combination of English aristocracy and a wilder Asian origin. As a political speechwriter, Caylie Quinn had corresponded with the brilliant ec...
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...
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...
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...
Freelance book designer Kate Elliot had submerged her creativity and sacrificed her independence once -- and once was enough. Now she automatically steers away from any potentially domineering male... no matter how original or intriguing his approac...
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...
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-...
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 ...
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...
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...
Attraction, longing, desire--but not love... that couldn't be what she felt for the beautiful young man who held her so passionately in his arms.... The unmerry widow, Jennifer Morris had devoted her every waking moment to running the Morris tea p...
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 ...
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...
Could Lacy Barnett love the man who had almost destroyed her father? That question burned into the beautiful young painter's heart when she learned the truth about Ward Blaine. Ward was handsome and charming, but he was not the friendly ranch hand sh...
Nature always wins as true love claims its untamed possession... "A superwoman of the eighties" is an apt description of Evelyn Scott. Quickly climbing the corporate ladder for a New York City oil firm, Evelyn is thrown a curve when her bo...
A tornado brought them together in a storm cellar, where the unleashed forces of nature rivaled the tempest outside! But Maggie Sims and Mark Wilding were anything but perfectly matched. He was a tall, irresistibly handsome playboy who was used to ge...
SECOND TIME LUCKY Widowed and disillusioned, Faye Maddox was determined not to fall into the marriage trap again. Now that she had a good job and a nice home, did she really need a man to betray her again? When she met Scott Trent, her firm res...
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...
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 ...
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 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...
To Thendara House came the Terran Magda in exchange for the Free Amazon Jaelle, who had become the wife of an Earthman and had entered the Terran enclave. The cross-currents of two cultures, one male-dominated, one egalitarian, combined with the h...
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,...
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 ...
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...
To my mind, Michael Hague is THE best children's book illustrator of our time. His detailed and evocative images will become the classic pictorial references for the great works of children's literature he has turned his eye toward....
When Alec's fiancee is killed in a tragic accident, he flees west with the Black. Dazed and heartsick, Alec wanders in the desert until a Native American boy rescues him from near death and recounts a startling prophecy. According to legend, a rider ...
The now-classic, utterly unique voice of Ann Beattie is so dry it throws off sparks, her eye endowed with the emotional equivalent of X-ray vision. Her characters are young men and women discovering what it means to be a grown-up in a country that pr...
The Songs of Earth series beings with “a daring, often dazzling storytelling feat—and absolutely not to be missed” (Kirkus Reviews). It is the year 143,624 Cyclic, and Earth possesses only a past. The immortal Alan-Blue-Cloud, remem...
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...
Weary of his battles with the bureaucracy, with the bottle, and with his profession, an unemployed Soviet journalist reviews his file of clippings and recalls the real people and events now reduced to bland, officially approved lines...
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...
A classic novel of Vietnam and its aftermath from Philip Caputo, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir A Rumor of War is widely considered among the best ever written about the experience of war.
At thirty-three, Nick DelCorso is an award-winnin...
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....
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. ...
Dirk, premier photographer of women, knows beauty when he chances upon it....
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...
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...
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...
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...
The second novel by Don DeLillo, author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The SilenceAt Logos College in West Texas, huge young men, vacuum-packed into shoulder pads and shiny helmets, play football with intense passion. During a...
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....
Edwin Muir wrote of Ivy Compton-Burnett in the Observer: ''Her literary abilities have been abundantly acknowledged by the majority of her literary contemporaries. Her intense individuality has removed her from the possibility of rivalry... She ta...
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...
Inside the Kremlin, the Chairman is dying. Those who vie to replace him struggle in the shadows. Andropov is the leading contender, but the insane, brilliant Boris Gamov is preparing to make a move of his own -- if he wins out, the U.S. and Soviet Un...
Anna’s role in her family of gospel singers is an important one—far away from the stageEvery member of the Glory family is blessed with abundant musical talent. Everyone, that is, except for Anna. She can’t sing or play an instrumen...
First published in 1963, A God and his Gifts was the last of Ivy Compton-Burnett's novels to be published in her lifetime and is considered by many to be one of her best. Set in the claustrophobic world of Edwardian upper-class family life, it is...
From the magnificent mansions of POrt London to the fabulous facadesof Park Avenue and the French Riviera-- Here are the private secrets and the public pleasures of the East Coast's power-elite whose blood fortunes and family connections are born of ...
From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence, a novel that “reflects our era’s nightmares and hallucinations with all appropriate lurid, tawdry shades” (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)Bucky Wunderlick, rock sta...
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...
A radical thinker, one of the rare modern heretics, said Mary McCarthy of Ivy Compton-Burnett, in whose austere, savage, and bitingly funny novels anything can happen and no one will ever escape. The long, endlessly surprising conversational duels at...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A grand tale of intrigue in nineteenth-century China, where imperial rule is crumbling as the Opium Wars and Taiping Rebellion rage, from the author of Manchu. Loyalty is put to cruel test in Shanghai, where Jewish merchant Saul Haleevie and his long...
A stunning and understated debut novel of seduction and infidelity about a woman who, devastated by the death of her son, takes an increasing interest in the personal affairs of her widowed daughter-in-law. Following the devastating death ...
The hilarious underground bestseller about one woman’s pursuit of carnal pleasure -- and the philosophy that gets in the way.
When Renee Feuer goes to college, one of the first lessons she tries to learn is how to liberate herself from the ...
Two World War I survivors--the one living in the village church carefully planning the restoration of its medieval paintings, the other, camping in a nearby field, in search of a lost grave--meet in the summer of 1920...
Awesome for the authenticity of its vernacular style and the incandescence of its lyricism, One Day of Life depicts a typical day in the life of a peasant family caught up in the terror and corruption of civil war in El Salvador.
5:30 A.M. in ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...