The Terran exploration vessel Streaker has crashed on the uncharted water world of Kithrup, bearing one of the most important discoveries in galactic history. Above, in space, armadas of alien races clash in a titanic struggle to claim her. Below, a ...
It was a week before the Lhari ship went into warp-drive, and all that time young Bart Steele had stayed in his cabin. He was so bored with his own company that the Mentorian medic was a welcome sight when he came to prepare him for cold-sleep. The M...
Traces the development over milennia of a civilization of an unusual alien species, whose sense of humor, resourceful adaptibility, and metalworking skills are the strengths and the hope of their society...
Remember Charles Bronson stalking the streets of New York blowing holes in muggers in Death Wish? Remember Glenn Ford standing off the vicious juvenile delinquents in Blackboard Jungle? Well, it is more than fifty years and two different worlds from ...
The Green Odyssey' is an uproarious, hell-bent adventure story, combining fantasy, imagination and science, with a liberal dash of humor. It is in the best tradition of adventure science fiction, a swashbuckling tale of a resourceful spaceman who is,...
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 ...
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...
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...
The classic New York Times–bestselling tale of suspense and intrigue that takes readers behind the scenes of the secretive billion-dollar diamond business From a centuries-old building on a narrow street in the heart of London, a firm known as...
Inspector Coghill investigates the murder of Karen Whitfield, an enterprising woman who indulged the sexual fantasies of her gentleman callers, videotaped them, and developed a lucrative blackmail sideline...
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...
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. ...
Mystery Writers of America Presents: An innocent game turns tragic Drafted into telling fortunes at a fund-raising carnival, Angela Dawn prepares herself by studying a book on palmistry, never dreaming that lives will be changed by her predictio...
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....
A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man--set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s.
The Village Voice called A Gathering of Old Men “the best-written novel ...
Twelve-year-old Caroline's discovery of a forgotten painting in the family barn leads to her father's restoration of the portrait of Sprite, a filly in the Racehorse Hall of Fame, and a revelation about the previous owners of their old house....
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...
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...
The death of Harry Maxim, who fell from a fifth-floor apartment, leads Charles Russell into an investigation of an international heroin ring and a parliament member's attempt to avenge his narcotics-addicted son...
When the Druidic ruins at Stonehenge disappear, dotty mystery writer Lettie Winterbottom takes on the extraordinary case, which combines political intrigue, modern-day Druidic ritual, and engineering wizardry...
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...
Lacey Fosburgh, an American Journalist, author and academic best known for her bestselling book, Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder (1977) was born in 1942 and died in 1993. She was born in Manhattan, New York, to the journalist Hugh ...
SHE WAS THROWN INTO THE ARMS OF A STRANGER AT SEA--AND ANOTHER ONE ON LAND It was on a storm-tossed Atlantic crossing that young American Abigail Dawson found herself clinging for more than life to Charles Lydiard, the handsome Englishman supposed...
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...
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...
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...
Love’s Messenger… Blair Morley…his very name made beautiful Abby Trent shake with anger. She had fallen under Blair’s spell years ago, while he was working for her uncle. But instead of treating her like an attractive child. Abby had hoped...
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...
A newscaster’s son disappears, and Amos Walker dives into the depths of Detroit to rescue the boy
On screen, Sandy Broderick is everything a newscaster is supposed to be. He has a deep voice, a 10,000-watt smile, and the God-given abi...
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...
The second book in the Hank the Cowdog series opens with Hank defending the ranch against the attack of a Silver Monster Bird. Later he is stricken with the dreaded disease, Eye-Crosserosis, and unless he can find a cure for this dangerous condition,...
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
For too long the city has suffered in the hands of crime and corruption: By fraud and forgery, by bootlegging and bribery, the syndicate has tightened its iron grip on the lives of decent citizens. But now the Senate Subcommittee is in town and a sho...
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 ...
Her family tricked her into a betrothal with an evil old man. There was nothing to do but run... The first tiling Callista did was disguise herself as a boy, which was not easy with her long raven tresses and voluptuous body. But she managed to ge...
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...
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 ...
They boldly grasp for life beyond society's narrow confines: Flanders Wilde: A woman who casts off the restraints of Victorian propriety to shock her male colleagues and love a desperate fugitive with a price on his head. Lachlan McKenzie: A ma...
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...
THE GRIFFINS HAD MONEY. POWER AND POSITION. ALL THEY CRAVED WAS LOVE... Anthony Griffin dreamed of going to sea. He got more than he bargained for... Ceci was a beautiful Acadian outcast whom Antony loved more than life itself... Sophia def...
FLESH AND BLOOD, FIRE AND ICE, CLOSE AS SISTERS, DISTANT AS STRANGERS With her hot temper and unconventional opinions, Elizabeth yearned for adventure in the vast expanse of the West, daring to go beyond marriage for the passions her husband couldn'...
"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 ...
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...
"WHO ARE YOU?" TI ASKED. "YOUR SERVANT," HE REPLIED. "I DON'T THINK SO." For three long years, Ti Bennett had followed her father's orders. She'd run the ranch and cared for her two sisters. Then she received ...
UNDONE BY FATE With her dear father dead, Amber Forrest was alone in a foreign land, at the mercy of a cruel, domineering stepbrother who vowed he would bend her to his will and make her his bride. PURSUED BY DESIRE But Amber was a prize all me...
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...
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...
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,...
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 ...
Matthew was mesmerized by the gorgeous golden creature in the aqua lagoon. The flimsy cloth accentuated her luscious curves while her long dark hair seductively surrounded her. To taste her honey lips would be heaven. To hold her in his arms would be...
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 ...
WAS SHE A MATCH FOR LOVE? Ever since Sydney Armytage was a small girl, her ruling concern was her younger sister Meriel's happiness. Meriel was left motherless at birth, and Sydney watched over her anxiously as Meriel grew up to be ravishingly...
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...
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 ...
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...
SHE WAS A HEADSTRONG BEAUTY CAUGHT IN THE FLOOD TIDES OF PASSION AND WAR. Tempestuous, amber-eyed heiress to the magnificent Roselynde dynasty, Sybelle knew that her time had come to choose a husband. But she was ruler of her own lands and would b...
THEY DARED TO SURVIVE The Maimons -- They had come to Palestine to claim a new life, an ancient dream in the golden-hued land of their fathers. And their children would reap a harvest as sweet as the scent of orange blossoms, as savage as the blo...
FLAME OF PASSION As far as headstrong, honey-haired Mandy Cooper was concerned, the Yankees weren't welcome on her land, in her home and certainly never in her bed. But that was before she encountered Major Buck Delaney. Enchanted by the fires of ...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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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...
SOMEONE'S PLAYING TAX COLLECTOR AND MAKING OFF WITH A MINT! A Federal agent is missing and U.S. Marshal Long is the one sent to bring him home. But a hired killer is lurking in the shadows, just aching to put a bullet in Longarm's back. Could it b...
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...
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...
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...
With no idea of what awaits her, Philippa Lyle returns to her hometown, the quiet English village of Montoak. Anticipating nothing more than an uneventful visit with her mother and some childhood friends, she discovers that all Montoak is in a state...
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...