Setting off on a glamorous Mediterranean cruise as guest of the parents of a charming man who was determined to marry her, Rowan had not a care in the world. But the idyllic prospect was very soon to be shattered by a million-to-one coincidence which...
FROM HOLLYWOOD PARTIES TO FABULOUS PREMIERES, FROM BACK-ROOM DEALS TO BRUTAL BETRAYALS, SURVIVAL IS THE NAME OF THE GAME Laura Curtis -- incredible beauty, instant star. Abandoned as a child, she hungers for love, clings to her husband, and fights...
"Relentless terror." The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The classic, blockbuster thriller of man-eating terror that inspired the Steven Spielberg movie and made millions of beachgoers afraid to go into the water. Experience the thrill of helpless horror a...
On a luxury liner in mid-ocean, a gang of weird pirates suddenly appears--as if out of nowhere. They rob the ship's vaults and passengers--then disappear just as mysteriously as they had come. How? Piracy--to the Phantom--is like a red cape to a b...
Anne Carrington-Smythe was tired of being a rich socialite and wanted to do something useful -- so she got a job on a ranch she owned, under an assumed name. She arrived at the ranch to find that the manager had the lowest possible opinion of his ...
*NOTE: THIS IS A SOFTCOVER EDITION LARGE PRINT. Ex-library copy. Good to Very Good condition. Strong spine slightly cocked with slight crease. Clean bright cover has slight creasing and edge wear. Cover different than shown. Text is perfect. Same day...
A rhymed tale describing the antics of a capricious wind.The wind blew, and blew, and blew! It blew so hard, it took everything with it: Mr. White’s umbrella, Priscilla’s balloon, the twins’ scarves, even the wig on the judge’s head. But just...
The hugely powerful and pervasive presence of the Colossus supercomputer mechanically runs Earth and its myriad operations. Managed by its creator, Dr. Charles Forbin, it is incapable of lies and void of human emotion. It is not a robot and not human...
DOWN THE DARKENED HALL... The candle cast a dim halo of light which penetrated only a few feet of darkness; it flickered, creating eerie shadows which seemed to move. The person Patricia had encountered in the hallway had gone into her bedroom....
Miranda was delighted when her boss asked her to accompany him on a business cruise to the Caribbean, even though she knew the whole purpose of the trip was a large take-over bid and that there would be as much work as play. But when it came to sw...
It would be easy, Eve Hollister told Sophie. All she had to do was to go to Trinidad and pretend to be the granddaughter of the wealthy Brandt St. Vincente for four weeks and the money she needed would be hers. But when Sophie met the disturbin...
House of Nightmares In the sheer face of a cliff above the sea stood Crow Point House, an astonishing fantasy of glass and steel. There, in utter isolation from the world, lived old Joseph Chrysostomom and his five handsome yet strangely malevolen...
Was Roger Collier a good doctor or a bad doctor? Lissa Bartels was puzzled by the gossip about his frequent absences, his drinking and his indiscretions. Lissa has been impressed from the first by Roger's kindness - but soon she witnessed shameful in...
THE MEMORIES OF MIDNIGHT START HERE! In Paris ...Washington...and a fabulous villa in Greece, an innocent American girl becomes a bewildered, horror-stricken pawn in a game of vengeance and betrayal. She is Catherine Douglas, a woman caught in a web...
Included: "The Mindworm," by C.M. Kornbluth; "Psyclops," by Brian W. Aldiss; "Novice," by James H. Schmitz; "Liar ," by Isaac Asimov; "Something Wild Is Loose," by Robert Silverberg; "Riya's Foundling," by Algis Budrys; "Through Other Eyes," by R.A. ...
Miss Clutterbuck would like me to run the bar -- no, it can’t be that -- run the car, which has seen its best days but is still useful for shopping. Grace has told her I am patient and tactful, so (as she herself is neither the one nor the other) s...
An eminent biochemist discusses the importance of ascorbic acid in the human body and reviews scientific evidence concerning its importance in combatting specific physical and mental disorders. Glossary. Bibliogs...
Laura had heard so much about the little French village of St. Louis les Bigots from her Uncle John that she had always longed to visit it -- and now here she was at last. But what was the mystery surrounding Uncle John, and what had he done to ma...
A poignant, uplifting, heartbreaking love story from the beloved bestselling, Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author: "To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love" (PEOPLE).Thirty-eight-year-old Jeremy Pauling has never left home. He lives on the ...
Julian the Apostate was the nephew of Emperor Constantine the Great. Julian ascended to the throne in A.D. 361, at the age of twenty-nine, and was murdered four years later after an unsuccessful attempt to rebuke Christianity and restore the worship ...
A Ghostly Ally Lost on the highway in a driving rainstorm, pretty Joan Collins suddenly screamed aloud - a spectral white face was staring at her through the night air! She swerved her car, crashed, and lost consciousness. When she awoke, she was ...
Lovely surroundings and a kind and considerate employer -- Beth was delighted at the prospect of her new job in Derbyshire. But when she arrived at Benedict House she discovered that it was not the sympathetic Mrs. Thornburn who required her servi...