An exciting anthology of science fiction adventures on alien planets, edited by Brian W. Aldiss. The contents are: Introduction, Brian W. Aldiss; How Are They All on Deneb IV?, C. C. Shackleton; Mouth of Hell, David I. Masson; Brightside Crossin...
The ruins were a blazing inferno The fire spread alarmingly fast. Suddenly, Marianne realized that she and Geoffrey, the two heirs to the enormous Darringford estate, had been lured inside the old monastery. Then someone had deliberately set it af...
Originally published in Poland in 1948, and acclaimed as one of the finest postwar Polish novels, Ashes and Diamonds takes place in the spring of 1945, as the nation is in the throes of its transformation to People' Poland. Communists, socialists, an...
Penniless! Gwendeline, just 18 and totally unsuited to earn her own way in the world, was to be evicted from her country estate. Then the butler ushered in a tall, rather arrogant visitor. Lord Merryn. He had, it seemed, been a friend of her late ...
A novel about a powerful public intellectual -- and about what is true in the end -- by an acclaimed New York Timesâ€"bestselling author. Felix Leitner has been a celebrated lawyer and political commentator, an advisor to presidents, an author...
A community of Black faith healers witness an event that will change their lives forever in this "hard-nosed, wise, funny" novel (Los Angeles Times). One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsSet in a fictional city in t...
THE GARMENTS OF CAEAN are forbidden in the Ziode Cluster, their qualities little understood. So when Peder Forbath finds the legendary Frachonard suit on a wrecked Caeanic freighter, he immediately tries it on. To his delight he finds that the garmen...
Was it her exquisitely flawless milk-white skin, the cool blue of her fathomless eyes, or the silken strands of her flaxen hair that astonished the inhabitants of Cairo? No matter which, the arrival of the breathtakingly beautiful American girl, Alth...
The lore of the planet of the Bloody Sun, Darkover, with its human and semi-human peoples, its science of mental powers, its loves and hates, its feuds and favors--all have grown into one of the greater classics of the imagination, comparable only to...
A young widow, Laurel Warrick moves from Connecticut to accept a position as librarian at Sablecroft Hall, a private mansion in St. Petersburg, Florida, that harbors within its winding corridors and secret passageways a terrifying secret concerning L...
NOTHING SHE KNEW OF LOVE HAD PREPARED HER FOR THIS MAN Lovely Katherine Carew had grown up in the sheltered paradise of her great Victorian family estate of Penvarrion. Ever since she could remember, she had assumed she would wed handsome, gallan...
In this New York Times bestseller, a CIA agent is trapped in Budapest between KGB spies and Hungarian freedom fighters while trying to stop Sputnik. The students of Budapest rise up against the Soviets with the assurance that the West will help them ...
A protesting Laura Seton is packed off to France in an attempt to uncover an art fraud and avert a family scandal. En-route she runs into wealthy bachelor, Finch Falconer, the new owner of the Seton family home. Usually easy-going, Laura has already ...
IN A WICKEDLY WORLDLY AGE, SHE LOVED A MOST UNLIKELY LORD -- HER HUSBAND Bride to a stranger, the lovely Chelynne is swept into the intrigues of the sumptuous royal court. Quickly she comes to adore her dashing husband, the future Earl of Bryant.....
Simon Templar is the Saint—daring, dazzling, and just a little disreputable. On the side of the law, but standing outside it, he dispenses his own brand of justice one criminal at a time.
These three stories find the Saint flushing out...
"I CANNOT LEAVE THIS HOUSE. IT IS THE ONLY LINK I HAVE WITH THE FUTURE. I'M NOT LADY ELSINGHAM. I'M KATHY HENDRIX." She was young, lovely, and newly jilted. And to make matters worse, it had started to rain. She sought refuge in the doorway of a s...
"What a shame," they whispered. "Poor Margaret Terrell, so young, so beautiful. A widow with everything but money. What's to become of her now?" But Margaret was preoccupied by more than mere finance. Anabelle Herenford, runaway h...
"IF ONLY MEN WERE HONEST WHEN THEY PROPOSED TO ME!" HARRIET CRIED. "IF ONLY ONE OF THEM WOULD SAY 'MISS ASHLEY I ADORE YOUR FORTUNE. MAY I MARRY IT?'" Harriet Ashley found it galling that so many men who didn't care a j...
Beautiful raven-haired Adelia Dorsey shuddered at the words engraved over the mantel. She had come innocently to help Aunt Jewel finish her memoirs, but now her aunt was dead, and it was becoming clear that someone would kill to keep the secrets of O...
The hangman waited at journey's end Anstey Fraser, a proud and loyal young Scotswoman, had been charged with the murder of an English officer. Now she was being escorted to the Tower of London--and certain death. During the long journey south, ...
The Duke of Strathavon had the ladies of Bath all agog. But not Davinia Sinclair. He did not frighten her, even when he chased her from her perch in an apple tree on his estate. His newly acquired wealth did not impress her; for she did not seek ...
When the children arrived at the nursery, they were happy and carefree, like children everywhere. The drowsiness came later, then the fever and the terrible illness. Afterward they were different -- sullen, hostile, bitter. These were to be the in...
Across the Windswept Plains of the Modern West Comes a Great Love Story! Diana Somers had her own willful ways of getting what she wanted-and then flinging it aside. When a reckless marriage perished in her husband's jealous mania she came running...
She was extremely beautiful, rich beyond dreams, and had admirers by the dozens. But lovely Fiona Cartwright was cool to her many suitors--a quality which earned her the nickname "Snow Maiden." Lecherous Lord Morney had long lusted after F...
"Get your hands off me," she cried, pulling away Her flashlight beam played eerily across Patrick's strong features, making him look threatening as he loomed over her at the cliff's edge. "I demand to know what's going on, " he growled, his voi...
A MAGNIFICENT ODYSSEY THAT SPANS CENTURIES AND JOINS TWO LOVES THROUGH AN EGYPTIAN NECKLACE WITH STRANGE EROTIC POWER... HER PASSIONS WERE THOSE OF ANOTHER WOMAN... HER LOVE BELONGED TO ANOTHER MAN... Orphaned by her father, degraded by her gu...
At a California racetrack, an ex-cop is haunted by his mother's suicide The old wooden tower looms over the racetrack, an eyesore that is too famous to tear down. To Wes Harrison, it is more than an architectural curiosity; it is a bitter remin...
Large format book is designed for ease in reading recipes. Collection is international and each recipe includes what equipment to use for best results i.e. hibachi, grill, cookstone, etc. Ms. Eckhardt also designated which recipes are heart-healthy w...
Toni Jamieson took a deep breath. Here she was, surrounded by billionaires, plunged into dizzying rounds of international high life -- from sophisticated cocktail parties to sun-kissed days at ultra-luxurious country clubs. But the petite, pretty ...
PASSION'S FLOWERS... With her creamy skin and golden hair, young Rebecca Merideth was an exotic English bloom in the primitive world of Afganistan. She had crossed the ocean to meet her father, but not even he could protect her from this lawless lan...
In Loren D. Estleman's Stamping Ground, Deputy U.S. Marshall Page Murdock isn't happy when Judge Blackthorne decides to send him on an assignment to North Dakota. He passed through the territory once before and is not eager to return to a land of sud...
AT YOUNGER BEND, THE BADGE AND THE GUNSLICK RIDE TOGETHER... The notorious Belle Star is holed up with a nest of desperadoes. And it looks like some crooked marshals are in cahoots with her. For a price -- the law won't touch the robbers. Till...
BOLD JOURNEY Abducted aboard the Morning Star, heiress Kristen Chalmers has unwittingly been held hostage by the ruthless Captain Andrew Roberts, a man more concerned with breaking the sailing record from Boston to San Francisco than with his come...
Wherever the beautiful Louisa Boyd traveled, across the blue, ice cold eastern seas or the gold, sun fired western mountains, she could never truly leave the passions and madness born in the mists of her home -- the Louisiana bayous. Nor could she le...
A COMPELLING NOVEL ABOUT THE DEVASTATING POWER OF MARRIAGE AND THE UNEXPECTED POSSIBILITIES OF LOVE THE BLEEDING HEART Marilyn French struck a devastating chord with her first monumental bestseller. Now, she explores the relationship between one man...
Illus. in full color. "Straightforward information on cowboys, their gear, history, daily lives, and famous and infamous cowboys gains additional appeal from detailed drawings."--Booklist.  ...
AT ODDS WITH LOVE... Although lovely Susan Eaton privately longed for something more than neighborliness from young Lord Woodstone, she gave no hint of these yearnings. Indeed, people were wont to call her "that nice, sensible Miss Eaton,"...
PLANET OF PERILOUS PEACE Kirk, Spock, Scotty and the Enterprise crew face battle with the Klingons in a strange world ruled by a "human" who's been dead for 300 years! Soon the entire crew has fallen under the planets mysterious force--stripped of...
At high-pressure chemical plants in the United States and Germany, the race to process a new wonder chemical is on. The stakes are high -- and the competition is reckless, desperate and fierce. Trialine. Wonder drug. If synthesized, its possibili...
“Beneath the genial surface” of this “resonant” first novel about a dolphin trainer who struggles with the ethics of his job “allusive undercurrents tug” (The New York Times Book Review). A critically acclaimed debut novel first pu...
Lily Tennant came to Nevada to escape from civilization. She found herself in love with a violent, untamed Westerner. He owned the great Barrier ranch. The Barrier was rocked by the vicious assaults of land hungry Buffalo Galt. Lily decided that no m...
Broderick, a New York cop with a reputation for toughness, is stalked by a petty crook, falls in love with an uptown woman, momentarily enters the world of the rich, and learns that he is being double-crossed and manipulated by the city's power broke...
The Spear is a gripping supernatural thriller by the master of horror, James Herbert.A young Mossad agent is found dead and private detective Harry Steadman is asked to investigate. On the hunt for a sinister arms dealer, however, what he discovers i...
Attempting to spend a quiet family vacation at the shore at Green Harbor, Jerry Kennedy, the classiest sleazy-criminal lawyer in Boston, finds his peace disrupted by a midnight intruder with murder on his mind....
WINDS OF LOVE The Gunzburgs -- Imperial Russia's foremost Jewish family, a banking dynasty raised to the nobility, cocooned in a world of Faberge jewels and fabulous estates, united by blood and heritage, pulled asunder by clashing dreams. WINDS OF ...
She went from adored wife to adventuress, forsaking the ease of her Carolina plantation home. It was the one way Julie could save her hotblooded marriage to Antoine Rivere -- and thwart the dark schemes of her gypsy-like rival. From the ardent arms...
A NATION ADRIFT -- AND THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO GAVE IT HOPE It was the whip-end of an era -- when innocence died and money lust was enthroned. The new generation of Kents was locked in a feverish race for wealth -- even as Europe's millions poured acr...
Roget was a backward world, yet important to the Company as a Free Trade Port. It was up to Agent Tito Ren to keep that culture stable and the Port free of expensive strife - in spite of Rogetians like the "Imaiz," self-styled Wizard of the great cit...
Beautifully and evocatively rendered, this memoir endures as an example of post-war narrative at its finest.Jankele Kuperblum was just nine years old when he returned home and found his family gone. The night before, Germans had come to his town in r...
The animosity and rivalry between Warwycks and Radcliffes was as legendary as their wealth was immense. But when Nicolette Radcliffe discovered Tom Warwyck hiding in the conservatory of her home, the event kindled a love that would rock the stately m...
When her brutal ex-husband is released from prison, Donna, along with her daughter, goes on the run, and unwittingly heads straight towards Beast House, a place with a history of butchery and sadistic sexual enslavement where a creature of pure evil ...
JASON BOURNE. HE HAS NO PAST. AND HE MAY HAVE NO FUTURE. His memory is a blank. His bullet-ridden body was fished from the Mediterranean Sea. His face has been altered by plastic surgery. A frame of microfilm has been surgically implanted in his hip...
Vengeance and fear on a Caribbean isle Vivian was trapped in an empty life She wanted out -- out of a cruel, meaningless marriage. But minutes before she planned to leave, she was kidnapped. When she awoke on a tropical island, she was mysti...
When Evan, who left Raysburg, West Virginia, to go to college, and Alex, his high-school friend, meet again on the streets of Raysburg, they decide to travel south in Alex's old Cadillac telling stories along the way...
With a new introduction by Thomas MallonDubin's Lives (1979) is a compassionate and wry commedia, a book praised by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in The New York Times as Malamud's "best novel since The Assistant. Possibly, it is the best he has written ...
She was a chosen child, her adoptive parents said, and more dearly loved because of that. But her beautiful, stubborn Julia had an obsessive need to know the story that had been enacted on the other side of the hospital crib from wich they had taken ...
Leaving her sister's home in Minnesota, Holly Whittaker is dazzled by her job in the Bahamas, her new found independence, and the attentions of her boss's handsome, but disreputable son... Holly could hardly believe it -- her first real jo...
A collection of stories featuring Rumpole of the Bailey, including "Rumpole and the Younger Generation", "Rumpole and the Alternative Society", "Rumpole and the Honourable Member", "Rumpole and the Married Lady, "Rumpole and the Learned Friends" and ...
LULLED BY DESIRE Stuart seized her with mocking scorn, stealing her kisses. Lyle wooed her softly, a golden prince of love. Stuart and Lyle--the sons of Compton Hall--sworn enemies in all things, now were bitter rivals for Louisa's heart as well....
PANDORA’S LEGACY OF TERROR Pandora Andrews had been so young, so beautiful, so wickedly wanton, yet so strangely innocent. But now Pandora, with all her loveliness and lies, was gone, leaving only the haunting mystery of her death behind. Now...
THE FIERCE AND DOOMFUL SAGA OF THE MAN WHO WAS TWO MEN Healer. Killer. Jarik Blacksword is as schooled in the terrors of war as he is skilled in the wizardry of healing. One hand bears the magic blade that hungers for the very flesh the other hand...
â€A bright new star rises on the ocean waves.’
Sunday Telegraph
Lieutenant Guy Greville of HMS Dulcinea and the corvette’s diehard sailing captain, the Earl of Saxmundham, who cannot abide engines or engineers, were last met off Eas...
Rachel Wallace was a woman who wrote and spoke her mind. She made a lot of enemies -- enemies who threatened her life. Spenser was a tough guy with a macho code of honor, hired to protect a woman who thought that code was obsolete. Privately, ...
SOMETHING AS OLD AS TIME AND AS EVIL AS HELL WAS STALKING HER. When Laurie Carlton and her brother Douglas arrived at their aunt's home in answer to a cry for help, strange things began to happen. Eerie lights and weird music broke open the nig...
1944 -As the Natzi juggernaut prepares it's last desperate stand, a secret conclave meets in Occupied France. Present are the titans of German industry, the masterminds of the Brotherhood, and the sinister archietects of the postwar Reich. At their d...
WILD-HEARTED RAPTURE... Mistress of Hepburn Castle, as fiery as her flame-hued tresses, Janet was snatched from her bridegroom's arms and driven into the bed of her most dreaded foe -- Robert Gowrie. Raider, chieftain notorious lover, he claimed...
She was an actress, at home on the London stage, heiress to a fashionable town house on St. James's Square, and determined to remain her own woman. "No man will ever own me!" she declared. Then Miss Fancy Harper set out to conquer her one...
Lori Coleman thought her time for dreams had passed. When her fiancé was officially listed as dead in Vietnam, her last hopes died. Her talent for baking had earned her a coveted place on the kitchen staff of Chicago’s Hotel Teresa, and Lori close...
Ibiza was a nice place to visit.... Or so Chris Laval thought--especially after he met the intriguing Colette. Then his supposedly restful vacation on the little Spanish island turned into a nightmare, as he found himself enmeshed in the dangerous...
Lieutenant Luis Mendoza and the LAPD homicide division tackle some of their most shocking cases to date. Half a million dollars is stolen from a fashionable department store; a young divorcée is murdered by her ex-husband's lover; three flawless rob...
Mother and daughter -- a bloodline of passion and danger...The great American saga of pulsing romance that began with THE RAGING WINDS OF HEAVEN and REAP THE BITTER WINDS TWO WOMEN IN A TEMPEST Loedicia. Ravishingly beautiful, dangerously hot-b...
Even while she was growing up, she always looked like a woman. No awkward teen stage for the notorious Lady Barbara whose beauty was as unforgettable as her madcap adventures. Although dozens of eligible suitors pursued her, she cared for none of ...
"Dr. Hugo Enclave couldn't resist any case rated by the police as "unsolvable". That's why the Rockmore murder case appealed so strongly to his Sherlock Holmes instinct. With the aid of his resident "Dr. Watson", Enclave set out to unravel the tangle...
Cliffhaven--Magnificent new resort near Big Sur. Surrounded by redwoods. Guarded by oceanside cliffs. Protected from prying eyes. By reservation only. Cliffhaven--Founded by a man with very special interests, catering to a very special clientele. Mar...
The heartaches, the drugs and sex, and the desperate cravings for love and attention often hidden behind the glamorous facade of a Hollywood childhood are brought to light in profiles of the sons and daughters of showbusiness luminaries...
She was everything a beautiful woman should be. Spirited, intelligent, and innocent. She was also without a penny. When her engagement to an Italian nobleman fell through -- or, rather, was pushed through by his Uncle Aldo -- Selina figured all was ...
Earth lacked the secret of the interstellar space drive. So when it turned out that the galaxy was chock full of wealthy planets and haughty aliens who had the star drive, it made our native world a backward place indeed. Paddy Blackthorn was an a...
She was a woman who feared nothing Her mind told her to forget any ideas she harbored of covertly following her beloved Filippo on his dangerous mission... but her heart told her otherwise. And so Marietta concocted an ingenious and outrageous ...
FIRST PRINTING. 1975 Avon mass market paperback. Patrick White (The Twyborn Affair). Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a naive young woman. Although they have met only a few times, Vo...
AN ENCHANTING BEAUTY SHOCKS ALL OF REGENCY SOCIETY WHEN SHE WEDS A DASHING, ARISTOCRATIC RAKE -- IN NAME ONLY "WITH THIS RAGE I DO THEE WED..." Enchantingly beautiful Catherine Renwick had good cause to despise darkly handsome, insufferably arr...
More than 50,000 copies of this exhilarating collection of high-seas adventures are already in print. Not only does it showcase the fiction of such classic writers as Daniel Defoe, Jules Verne, and Jack London, but the entries also feature historic f...