What happens when you have to sell a property to a man whom, for some inexplicable reason, you do not like? Gay Denison found she had to bow to the inevitable, which meant that from now on Stephen Royle would be virtually living on her doorstep -- an...
"This is not a place for women, particularly for women who have no experience of the way of life here," Ross Andrews told Jo when she arrived with her sister at Nyala, in the middle of the African bush. But the two girls were not going to give in ...
The Compelling Story of One of the Most Intriguing and Enigmatic Women Who Ever Lived The bewitching Anne Boleyn comes to life in this charming, brilliant portrayal by acclaimed British novelist Margaret Campbell Barnes. The infamous love of Ki...
A novel of dystopian future in the tradition of SOYLENT GREEN and H.G. Wells' THE TIME MACHINE, with an introduction by Ken MacLeodTinker was a good citizen of the Hive - a model worker. But when he was allowed sexual activation he found Mu Ren who, ...
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"I'D RATHER DIE!" exclaimed Rosanna Pentallion at the suggestion by her dark, sensuous benefactor Dom Luiz that she live with him as his "ward." So saying, she fled her native Portugal to live on the Pentallion family estate in England. But she...
Gabriel Prosser's 1800 slave revolt allowed Bontemps to warn of the rebellion that would come of poverty and racial oppression. This metaphor of revolution is at the same time a highly pertinent representation of black masculinity that will reward st...
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Not long before the American Revolution, Judith Sheramy, a Puritan girl from New England, rode a flatboat down the Mississippi River with her family. On the river she met an adventurer, Philip Larne--cavalier and slave smuggler. The story of Judith...
"Every girl sets out on an unknown quest without knowing it until she meets the man of her heart," someone told Gaye -- but Gaye, spoiled and pampered by her father, was not particularly looking for any other man. Was she really so indepen...
Felicity had not liked Stephen Tarkman of the Tarkman Musical Foundation when she had once sat next to him at a dinner party. He had the air, she felt, of a man who wields power and enjoys the fact -- and she had rather made plain her dislike. Then s...
Helen had always been fond of her friend Sylvia, and she felt an enormous debt of gratitude towards Sylvia's mother -- so she had always felt obliged to keep a protective eye on her friend, so much less self-reliant than Helen and so apt to land ...
The Mostyn family were placid, undemanding, without curiosity or malice and totally unconcerned with the outside world. Only two of its members had ever broken free of its benevolent but tightly-held reins. The first was Madeleine, who returned to th...
The Potter’s house in haunted! The Potter is -- or -- was -- an eccentric old ceramics artist, famous for wearing a long white robe and going barefoot. A short time ago he mysteriously disappeared. Now his house is filled with bare footprints th...
Retired art teacher Miss Seeton steps in where Scotland Yard stumbles. Armed with only her sketch pad and umbrella, she is every inch an eccentric English spinster and at every turn the most lovable and unlikely master of detection....
A normal day in the life of those who live on the small, rocky island of Mykines in the Faroes Islands is demanding enough. However, nothing will ever compare to the unforgettable one that comes to the island one blustery fall day, especially for you...
An old woman in a nursing home speaks of a child buried behind the fireplace...When Tommy and Tuppence visited an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they thought nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada was a very difficult old la...
It was only when Guy Blanchard died that Verity discovered she was not really his daughter. Her real family, she learned, lived in Yorkshire, and she soon found herself on a jet from Geneva. Meeting her family for the first time at the age of twen...
She was on call to an ungrateful family and off-limits to love…until her Prince Charming"a handsome doctor"set her free. Her sister was too beautiful and too spoiled for her own good. Her mother dabbled in mysticism on Rita’s salary. ...
Superpowers play a deadly game of brinkmanship in this “unputdownable” Cold War thriller by the New York Times"bestselling author of Enemy at the Gates(Manchester Evening News). The Soviet Union delivers an ultimatum to the president of the Uni...
"Conan stood silently at the quarterdeck rail as the Wastrel veered into strange waters. With only the pole star to guide him, what might he encounter in that darkly glittering immensity? What fabulous isles and unknown peoples? Only his prey, the ev...
Interstate is the sprawling, spellbinding novel of the building of a highway and the gaping wound it opens, not only in the landscape itself, but in the life of a Florida town as it fights for its very existence....
A strange malady afflicts the children of McNair House in this British mystery featuring former Scotland Yard superintendent James Pibble, from CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson Recently given the sack by Scotland Yard, James Pibble arrives at M...
Rennie loved little orphaned Magda Sandasen, and was quite prepared to take her into her care for good -- but the child's uncle, who lived in the Australian Outback, had a prior claim and intended to stick to it. He also had the lowest opinion of...
In September 1965, Filipino and Mexican American farm workers went on strike against grape growers in and around Delano, California. More than a labor dispute, the strike became a movement for social justice that helped redefine Latino and American p...
Robert Bloch, Ben Bova, Algis Budrys, Avram Davidson, Samuel R. Delany, Joe L. Hensley, Keith Laumer, William Rotsler, Robert Sheckley, Robert Silverberg, Henry Slesar, Theodore Sturgeon, A. E. Van Vogt, Roger Zelazny, and Harlan Ellison, unassisted....
"What began with an apple must end with a horse." So said the oracle, but in between a lot of things happen: Three goddesses quarrel bitterly over a golden apple...the most beautiful woman in the world is stolen from her husband...and a war begins...
Plenty of English girls go to Spain for their holidays -- and many of them, like Venetia Hamilton, think nothing of going alone. But few holidays turn out as romantically as did Venetia's, when she went to stay at the family castle of Don Andr...
From the back cover: "I refuse to apologize for telling the truth about advertising, and if it offended some people, that's just too bad. If I had wanted to be loved by those people I would have joined the Peace Corps." Jerry Della Femina said that. ...
If only dreams could become reality! Meg was delighted. She'd landed a part in a film directed by her hero, the attractive Lewis Knight! But as Lewis himself said, "We're in the dream business, Meg, but we've got to shatter a few illusions in the...
When lovely, blond Julie Blake saved the life of young Rammie Wynant -- the frail, neglected son of millionaire Bram Wynant -- even the arrogant Dr. Ben Foreman had a few words of praise for her. Certainly Julie was a brilliant nurse. But she was ...
A parade of unforgettable characters emerge from the steam in this hilarious, supernatural bathhouse. There is Tandy, fresh from teaching art appreciation at the Police Academy; Meredith, whose last memory is buying a micro-miniskirt; Biberman, a kar...
the Classic Story of the Famous Seige of Masada...
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1971, mass market paperback reprint edition, Vintage Books, NY. 330 pages. Non-fiction title concerning religion and biography. Collection of essays which portray various Catholic voices, discussing, helping, and bringing outside voices to many probl...
It was too much to expect that Nurse Deb Conroy wouldn't become involved with her patient, Toby Wetheral. After all, both had come through a period of emotional upheaval and needed someone to lean on. But was marriage the answer? For although ...
When Andrew MacNeill married Gail he had made it clear that he did not want a wife but a mother for his children; he had not had the best of wives, and his experience of marriage had made him reluctant to trust, let alone love, any woman again. Ga...
Arranged marriages are accepted by girls of Cyprus -- but Hero Cavendish wasn't a Cypriot, and she could not face the thought of marriage with the man her guardian had chosen for her. Damian Stavros rescued her from her predicament-but only on ce...
Four young amateur archaeologists -- Jane Bryant and her brother Guy, Jane's fiancé Dr. Stuart Colson and his sister Pauline -- were all eager to go to Greece to work with the celebrated Dr. Nikolas Vallas on his exciting excavations at Myce...
When Joanne inherited a farm in the lovely Douro district of Portugal, it seemed the answer to a problem, as she now had five-year-old Glee to look after. The only fly in the ointment was that the farm was on the estate of Dom Manoel Alvares -- a...
Judy hadn't in the least wanted to marry Chris Voulis, but in the time-honored Cypriot way, the marriage had been arranged for her. "Start as you mean to go on," a more emancipated married friend had advised her -- and accordingly Judy ha...
It was five years now since Shani had married Andreas Manou -- but the marriage had been in name only and she had not seen him since the wedding day. And now Shani was planning to marry again -- and Andreas had chosen this moment to come back into he...
Melanie Rawson had been very young and inexperienced when she agreed to marry Leandros Angeli and it was inexperience that had made her take fright and break off the engagement. But all that was seven years ago and Leandros had faded into the past. O...
When Marianne Fleury, the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy Englishman, and Axel Brandson, who needed a wife to inherit the family fortune left to him by his father, were married, few doubted it was a marriage of convenience. Trapped in the isolate...
Centered squarely on the Negro-white conflict, both Dutchman and The Slave are literally shocking plays--in ideas, in language, in honest anger. They illuminate as with a flash of lightning a deadly serious problem--and they bring an eloquent and ...
The Dude He came from the East to buy cattle, to the untamed land where there was no law but a man's raw courage. He came to get his steers to the railroad, not to kill. He was a peaceable man, but when French Williams and the local outlaws mistoo...
The beloved author of A Wrinkle in Time takes an introspective look at her life and muses on creativity in this memoir, the first of her Crosswicks Journals. Every so often I need OUT. . . . My special place is a small brook in a green glad...
Who is Brigadier Pfellowes? To quote one of his listeners at the club, “He seemed to have served in every branch of Her Majesty’s forces at one time or another, including all known forms of Intelligence.” The Brigadier himself with admit only t...
THE STAR LORDS WANTED HIM DEAD... but Ban Tarleton was not yet ready to die. He had found the corpse of his friend Paul Danton among the rings of Saturn, flotsam among the litter of Space, and he yearned for revenge. The Star Lords controlled t...
Love Affair Young and beautiful Fiona Caswell knew David Hastings was a threat to her peace of mind the moment she met him. But she could not resist the brilliant young lawyer as he swept her into a passionate affair. Now he was asking Fiona to...
THIS IS A 350 PAGE BOOK BY A DISTINGUISHED AUTHOR ON THE AREA OF CENTRAL ASIA FROM WHICH INVASIONS INTO EUROPE AND THE NEAR EAST OCCURRED UNDER SELJUK, OTTOMAN AND MONGOL TRIBES AT VARIOUS TIMES IN HISTORY. THE BOOK HAS SEVERAL MAPS. THERE IS NO DUST...
THE FIRST BOOK OF FAFHRD AND THE GRAY MOUSER WHEREIN the two greatest heroes in the annals of fantasy meet for the first time. Here is the beginning of the legendary epic that has become a classic of fantasy adventure. At first, they seemed an...
When Michael, head of the Farr family and the trustee of its fortune, is told that his brother Guy, who is in South America, has left a motherless son behind him, he insists that the child's aunt, Sonia Carson, must bring the delicate boy to live at ...
As a mysterious fire rages through the hills above a privileged town in Southern California, Archer tracks a missing child who may be the pawn in a marital struggle or the victim of a bizarre kidnapping. What he uncovers amid the ashe...
Domine was surprised to find that far from being alone after the death of her guardian, Great Uncle Henry Farriday, she was con-signed to the unknown James Mannering --an attractive man who already had several equally attractive women vying for his a...
Morgana tried to wrench her wrist away from Luis. "Let me go!" she cried, trying desperately to control her tears. "I don't want to listen to you. What you intend to do with your life is not my concern!" But that wasn't rea...
Five years ago Raphael Madralena had left Laura Fleming, renouncing their passionate relationship, to return to Spain to marry the girl he had been betrothed to since childhood. Now, he was a widower and they were to meet again. It was inevitable tha...
It was to get away from a troublesome love affair that Victoria Monroe had taken on the job of governess to little Sophie von Reichstein in the Austrian alps -- but she arrived at the schloss to find another challenging situation awaiting her. The ch...
He wasn't the marrying kind "Me - I'm a loner," Dimitri said sardonically. "I want no little woman to warm my slippers on a winter's evening and cook me exotic eastern food!" Joanne was furious, as much with herself ...
From beyond the grave comes a startling message from one of the world's most renowned psychics, a message containing the answers to these questions and many more...What does happen after death? Where do you go? What is it like "over there?" What does...
Set in an unstable world where the British Empire rules over all, this genre-defying novel blends steampunk, alternative history, and time travel science fiction It is 1973, and the stately airships of the Great Powers hold benign sway over a ...
First U.S. edition. Appleton no.374 . Biography of Morison including his time at the Fleuron, the Penrose Annual, The Times, etc. Many illustrations. Covers rubbed with scratch on front cover. Lacks dust jacket. 184 pages. cloth.. 4to.....
At twenty, Eve Mannering was still a complete tomboy, uncaring about her appearance and wanting nothing (she said) but the free-a n d - easy life she led on her father's farm. Lance Calandra told her she ought to grow up and develop some self-con...
Staff Nurse Jane Kelsey went to work in a hospital in a tiny Balkan state--and, behind the Iron Curtain, found all the excitement and intrigue that might be expected! Hero: Dr. Jim Lowth Heroine: Nurse Jane Kelsey ...
When man's ambition expanded to fill the solar system, his technology expanded to take him as far as he wanted to go. Technology went on expanding. So did man's ambitions. But there was a danger only dimly suspected and only poorly comprehended when ...
Katy caboose doesn''t like her life at the back of the train. Stuck with clouds of billowing smoke from the engine and a bumpy, jolting ride, she longs for some peace and quiet. When her rusty bolts bust loose, Katy finally gets the life she wants in...
The nine-year-old son of financial speculator Louis Martinetti is being held for $300,000 ransom, and the Nameless Detective hires on to handle the drop. When the time comes, however, the money is hijacked and a man is murdered. The child and the kil...
For Ellery Queen, there is no puzzle that reason cannot solve. In his time, he has faced down killers, thugs, and thieves, protected only by the might of his brain-and the odd bit of timely intervention by his father, a burly New York police inspecto...
Old and worn from service, the frigate Terrapin carried the ghosts of men she'd made and broken. She was on patrol in the still waters of the China Sea when she came under surprise attack -- by guerrillas ferrying fuel to a deadly submarine hovering ...
Forced to choose a husband from among her many suitors, Catherine Galloway settles on Lord Simon Ravenswood, assuming he will soon tire of her and return to his many mistresses. Instead, he is attentive and kind, only traveling often to Napoleon's Fr...
"An Irishman should never be trusted." That had been drummed into Georgina all her life by her mother and her grandmother before her--and Georgina had never had any reason to doubt the truth of it. So what was she doing, getting engaged to...
From the Pulitzer Prize"winning author of American Pastoral comes a brilliantly indignant response to the phenomenon that was Richard M. Nixon. • “Disturbing, logical...and very funny.... In short, a masterpiece" -- The New York Times Book Rev...
The classic work that refutes the lies we tell ourselves about race, poverty and the poor.Here are three myths about poverty in America:" Minority children perform poorly in school because they are “culturally deprived.”" African-Americans ...
One of the founding mothers of mystery, Dorothy L. Sayers first introduced the popular character Lord Peter Wimsey in 1923 with the publication of Whose Body? Over the next twenty years, more novels and short stories about the aristocratic amateur sl...
An epic historical adventure of the Crusader Knights full of chivalry, battle and intrigueReynald of Chatillion, Prince Reynald to his friends, the Red Wolf of the Desert to the Saracens, is the most dangerous man in Palestine. His face tells a tale ...
In search of a mythical job in the West Country, Kerry found a real one helping the owner of Corydon Tower to restore the great house to its former glory. Stephen Margrave was recovering from an unhappy love affair and Kerry was more than willing to ...
Jennifer fled the drab monotony of post-war London. When she landed in Australia, it was like coming home. She loved it and when she met Carl, she had every reason to stay. But the two of them came from quite different worlds, and it is the story ...
When Viktor Palmgren, a powerful Swedish industrialist, is casually shot during an after-dinner speech, the police in the small coastal town of Malmo are at a loss as to how to catch a killer nobody could identify. Chief Inspector Martin Beck of the ...
The Elephant and the Bad Baby is the classic story from Elfrida Vipont and Raymond Briggs. The Elephant takes the Bad Baby for a ride and they go 'rumpeta, rumpeta, rumpeta down the road.' They help themselves to ice creams, pies, buns, crisps, biscu...
From the creator of Lyle the Crocodile comes an hilarious collection of stories, told in a comic-book style format. Each uproarious story deals with a different scenario of every day life that all children encounter at home, in school and at play....
GENTIAN It was as though her association with men brought only death: first with Giraud de Veaux, then Peron I'Mazalan, both of them husbands, one of them a father. Then Robert di Grandi, hanged drawn and quartered; and finally Gobin, who died be...
Gena Landon was a city girl, sophisticated and worldly; Cyrus Brandt was one of the biggest cattle barons in Western Australia. Perhaps it was the attraction of opposites, but from the first moment she set eyes on him Gena couldn't ignore Cy. ...
Once you step out of the plane there's no way back...French Resistance fighters uncover the position of a secret German store containing files and reports of vital information on the movement of troops. The details are passed to British Intelligence,...
Elvi wanted all of Rodari's love Elvina Lloyd knew why she'd married Rodari Fortunato: she loved him. She was not at all certain why he had made her his wife. Nevertheless, he had married her, a quiet little English nurse he scarcely kn...
Beautiful and brilliant Kate Fansler has returned to the Theban--her alma mater and New York's most exclusive girls' school -- to teach a seminar on Antigone. The bold and defiant words of Antigone have a surprising relevance for these sophisticated ...
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Date of Publication: 1971
Binding: hardcover
Edition: First Edition
Condition: Very Good/Good Plus
Description: 8vo Signed by Author 142 pages. Foxed pages edges, lightly soiled and worn du...
Kidnap, murder, slander and a legend unearthed.1483: King Edward IV dies, leaving two innocent young princes in line to the throne. But when scandal and conspiracy explodes around their claim, Richard of Gloucester is proclaimed king. Shortly after, ...
"There's not a soul in Killydudden who doesn't think the doctor's a lovely man," someone told Cerys when she arrived in Ireland, but Cerys had her doubts. So why did she suddenly find herself wishing to believe that the doctor ...
The true black voice of his generation, Donald Goines wrote novels that nailed the harsh realities of the urban experience deep into the psyche of today’s hip hop culture, influencing major artists from Jay-Z and 50 Cent to Nas and Ghostface Killah...
BLACK MAN'S TERROR IN A WHITE MAN'S BODY... . . . the violent, compelling story of a Falconhurst ex-slave who dares to pass as the white heir to a great Southern plantation. Against the savage backdrop of the South's infamous slave-breeding pla...
MURDER AND MEDICINE MADE STRANGE BEFELLOWS Two student nurses lay dead, the great hospital nursing school of Nightingale House was shadowed with terror, and a secret medical world of sex, shame and scandal was about to be exposed as Adam Dalgiesh ...
In this her fourth novel, Alison Macleod again examines a fact of history in a way that relates it to the world of today. With THE MUSCOVITE she takes us farther afield and shows us a little-known venture of English enterprise. During the 16th centur...
EVIL GNAWING AT THE HEART OF EMPIRE Was he an android? Or was he, as he thought, the rightful Emperor Inyanga, imprisoned on an alien planet and kept in mind lock while an android ruled in his place? Even after he met his double he could not be s...
A young black girl watches as her aunt’s multiple suitors disrupt her family’s privacy. The same girl, now on the cusp of adulthood, shares her family’s growing fears that her father has disappeared. Acclaimed author Ann Petry penned these an...
Being a painter's cat can be quite a trial, especially when your forgetful master paints you blue or too thin or even invisible....
It had taken four men to crash the rock concert and a few minutes to split the receipts and hit the crossroads. Parker headed northeast with a bulging suitcase and an itching for the broad who was waiting for him. That should have been an end. He fou...
A pair of murders leaves Hastings torn between following his orders and listening to his gut After nearly a decade as a San Francisco cop, Frank Hastings is becoming something of a stranger to kindness. He feels perfectly at home in the Draper hou...
Ex-cop turned #1 New York Times bestselling writer Joseph Wambaugh forged a new kind of literature with his great early police procedurals. Here in his classic debut novel, Wambaugh presents a stunning, raw, and unforgettable depiction of life behind...