Lovely young Lynn Waring disliked her new boss even before he arrived, for he was coming to take the job that Lynn felt belonged to her hard-working brother-in-law, Tony Lambourn. Lynn gave Stephen Drake a cold welcome -- and the office atmosphere...
To Nan Bentham, a young American girl traveling in Europe, the job as companion to Lady Judith Trevelyan seemed ideal. But from the moment she accepted Lady Trevelyan's offer to accompany her to her childhood home, strange and alarming things beg...
Two years ago Annabel had met and fallen in love with the fascinating Pierre Devigne, only to discover that he was not the marrying kind. Now she came into contact with him again and found that his views on matrimony had changed. But the girl of h...
The UK author, John Brunner (1934-1995) wrote mostly of science fiction, though he published several thrillers, contemporary novels and volumes of poetry He began very early to submit science fiction stories to periodicals - several of these appeared...
A pivotal time in the career of John Grimes. A fateful journey in the vessel Discovery, bearing an uncanny kinship to the legendary vessel the Bounty. The big black mark on his service record....
1975, mass market paperback edition, Pocketbooks, NY, 174 pages. Very much in the tradition of John Masters and George MacDonald Fraser. Tells, in novel form, of the China Expedition of 1860. Details the exploits of an ordinary soldier, doing his bes...
Ten-year-old Rosemary thinks the word "Time" cut into a stone in her aunt's old herb garden should be spelled "Thyme" until she picks a sprig of the herb around it and discovers herself back in the eighteenth century....
Priscilla an instant dislike to the domineering Jason Wyatt, before she was even aware of how he threatened her happiness and that her family. Yet she found their constant battles bring a new excitement to her life. Could it be that Jason meant mor...
A thriller in the series that began with #1 New York Times bestseller, “one of the finest and most gripping political novels of our era”(The New York Times). The Advise and Consent series is a landmark of political fiction, displaying a de...
FORBIDDEN LEGACY As she drew nearer the great hall, Sarah fought back the fear and dark memories that had made her a stranger at its gates. Six years ago she had been a baronet's daughter, and this had been her home. Now, sixteen and fatherles...
Harlan Ellison, one of the Grand Masters of science fiction and a multiple Hugo-, Nebula-, and Edgar Award-winner, returns to his roots with the graphic novel Phoenix Without Ashes.
The year is 2785, and Devon, a farmer banished for challenging h...
Redoubtable charlady Ada Harris, accompanied by her friend Violet Butterfield, conducts her own mission to Moscow to search out Lisabeta, an Intourist guide loved by one of Mrs. Harris's London clients...
Beyond the bronze doors lies the secret world of big money - the schemes...the manipulators...the million dollar deals sweetened by sex...credit card frauds...Mafia torture...prison gang-rape - and a love story of rare tenderness and peril....
Hero needed a husband and though Benedict Carmichael would fit the bill admirably. Accordingly, she married him. But then her tidy plans for their future life together began to go awry and the problems started. Mills & Boon edition Hero ...
Aniela Jeffé explores the subjective world of inner experience. In so doing, she follows the path of the pioneering Swiss psychologist C.G. Jung, whose collaborator and friend she was through the final decades of his life. Frau Jaffé shows that any...
20,000 years from now, a space ship from the human colonies of the Lesser Magellanic Clouds accidentally falls into a time trap set up by two unimaginably powerful rival empires from millions of years in the future. The ship is thrown back 200 millio...
Sharon had had no ulterior motive when she took on the job of looking after Paul Sanderson's small daughter--but if he had any inkling who she was, he was certain to suspect her of one. For Sharon was a young, up-and-coming singer who was having ...
"Don't be deceived, Emma," Damon said violently. "I'm not letting you go because I feel sorry for you. I'm letting you go because I have no intention of losing my self-respect over a little cheat like you." It didn'...
For the first time since the break-up of their marriage, Julie began to have doubts. Should she have believed Jonas instead of Angela? But suppose Jonas was innocent? Even if he weren't, it was no use deceiving herself any longer. "I th...
It is debatable whether Florence Nightingale had ever met a young woman quite like Phemie Witherspoon. Perhaps in the unremarkable but self-possessed scrap of a girl from Glascow she recognized something of her own redoubtable spirit. At all events, ...
Was Eliza kidding herself that she might stand a chance with the professor? Sister Eliza Proudfoot took a job at the special clinic run by Professor Christian van Duyl. She found him a somewhat intimidating character -- large in build and large in...
When Ewan Pascall offered Gayle a job within his organization which carried greater responsibilities she took up the challenge, although she realized that her attempts were bound to result in failure. At least that would mean that she would never ...
Rosalinda Browne's life was a simple one - a secretarial job with a respected London firm, a plain furnished room, and an occasional evening alone at the opera or the symphony. Then a chance meeting brought her face to face with Richard Corrington-As...
Five men seize a London hospital. The genera tor is blown, & a demand for four million pounds is relayed to the authorities. But the unexpected prescence of a high-s ecurity patient plus bodyguards brings new dangers. '...
DAW Books, 1975. Mass market paperback original. 1st edition. Collection of stories, with introduction by the author. Includes: The Long Way Home (1961); Planeteer (1961); Volume PAA-PYX (1961); Seven Doors to Education (1961); Deep Space (1975); Pr...
Fleeing a carnivorous race of alien monsters, the entire surviving human population from five hundred years in the future escapes into the present in this thrilling science fiction adventure from one of the Golden Age greats Our human descendants fro...
"I do not carry passengers, Miss Palmer," Celik Demaril told her sternly. "You are a member of the crew as far as I am concerned--and will be expected to do your share of the work. You came of your own freewill!" He was right Linsi...
Imagine being so lucky! When Jan goes to spend the Christmas holidays with her grandparents in their chalet near the ski slopes in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains she discovers that her favorite movie star, Alanna Graham, is visiting next door! ...
Although Charlotte had led a sheltered life, she was sure that she could cope with anything that could be considered a problem. Until, in a French vineyard, she met Jared, the man whose dark attraction she had never forgotten. Charlotte's m...
Amber, the one real world, of which all others--including our Earth--are but Shadows... A traitor has revealed the royal family's greatest secret--the ability to manipulate Shadow and travel among all possible worlds--to forces that plot Amber's d...