ISBN-10: 0395127009 ISBN-13: 978-0395127001 Includes writings from Frederick Douglas, Paul Laurence Dunbar, W. E. B. DuBois, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Melvin B. Tolson, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Bro...
Who was there when Jesus went to Calvary? Who was there as Jesus was crucified? Who was there when Jesus was placed in the tomb? R. Earl Allen describes some of the personalities surrounding Jesus - persons who were there as Jesus was arrested and tr...
"We seek the unattainable" was Raoul Leduc's family motto -- but it might more aptly have been Maryan's. For she was the one who was seeking in vain for the land which her father had always felt belonged to him, but in fact was R...
Pieces of broken pots are scattered over the desert hillsides of the Southwest. The Indians there treat them with respect Every piece of clay is a piece of someone's life, they say. And the children try to imagine those lives that took place i...
A young Sioux joins Crazy Horse at the Battle of Little Big Horn in this ‘well-written story peopled with convincing characters. Although overcast by tragedy, [this novel] abounds with warmth, humor, and details of [Native American] life.’ -- BL...
'Whoever finds the gold of the Guaqdalupes must die.' So ran the old Indian saying, but, whatever the danger, Arizona Slim wanted to solve the mystery of his own origins, and if he found the gold too, so much the better.....A novel which contains a ...
Cold in the Black Hills The big strike had hit the Dakota Territory and Sundance found himself hip-deep in the action. A money-hungry head of a band of buffalo hunters swore he would grab the lion's share of the loot. Before Sundance faced him in ...
Gerda needed the job at the Schloss Rosenburg in Austria -- but her employer, the stern Baron Max von Holzbauer, was another matter. How could she bear to be there, caring for the beautiful, tragic Helga von Daberg, in the knowledge that this was...
11 Harrowhouse: The London town house that headquartered The System, the international diamond cartel that totally controlled the world's market. 11 Harrowhouse: Whose impregnable subterranean vaults hold a treasure in precious stones beyond imaginin...
Gail Rostall was a young and ambitious singer, but all the same, when she got to know the famous composer Marc Bannister it was not with the idea of furthering her career; in fact, her feelings for him were far from professional ones ! But how cou...
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""The situation as far as I''m concerned,"" says the young narrator-hero of M/F, ""is an interesting one. In two days in a strange country I''ve acquired a mother in the form of a Welsh-speaking Bird Queen who scares me. I''ve spent some hours in...
Ace Books, 1972. Paperback, 2nd printing. Three "Arcot, Morey and Wade" stories. Introduction buy the author, and these stories: Piracy Preferred (1930); Solarite (1930); The Black Star Passes (1930)....
"I was born in the September of 1523, nine months after the monks had discovered the child in the crib on that Christmas morning. My birth was, my father used to say, another miracle: he was not young at the time being 40 years of age... My mothe...
Gladys Hasty Carroll was an American novelist active from the late 1920s into the 1980s. In her fiction and non-fiction, Carroll wrote about what she knew and people that she loved, especially those in the Southern Maine rural community of Dunnybrook...
After the apocalypse, society is divided into three endlessly warring factions. The Professors and Soldiers maintain what is left of civilization while the superstitious Barbarians constantly attack them. The Barbarians are in turn attacked by the de...
Everybody had warned Clare not to fall in love with Hugo Canning. Women meant nothing to him, they said, compared with his beloved lions. But Clare found it was one thing to listen to advice -- another thing altogether to follow it! Hero: Hugo...
When Camilla's brother and business partner married a Portuguese widow with a young child, she foresaw that there would be changes in her life, adjustments to be made. But the real problem turned out to be the child's lordly uncle, the arr...
Helen Hastings had hardly been married when her husband Michael went out to the Pacific on a diving expedition and died there. Curiosity about his death, and the feeling that she ought to help finish his work, made Helen go out there herself and...
Sylvester loved baseball, but he wasn't what you'd call a good hitter. He had already decided against joining the Redbirds when he met George Baruth. "I'm going to help you become one of the best players ever," the mysterious man promised. Before lon...
Linda Campbell, the woman who brought about Mitch Tobin's downfall, was back - and just as he was getting it together as a museum security guard in New York. Then Tobin discovers a body in the museum, and comes under pressure from hostile cops and a ...
DANCE OF DOOM. From the moment the troupe gathers in the remote mountain resort to rehearse their new ballet, the BALLAD OF LORRAINE, things go wrong. At the first practice a, a falling sandbag nearly crushes the prima ballerina, Nicolette Artaude...
MEET THE WARM AND WONDERFUL SMITH FAMILY! Chad, the father, is a hard-working detective on the police force of a suburban town in the Los Angeles area. Betty, his wife, is young, lively, smart, and very much concerned with the well-being of her...
LADY IN THE LIMELIGHT The dashing young bloods of London gasped at their first glimpse of Cecily on the stage. Who was this adorable creature? Could she be as innocent as she seemed? Or was she just another adventuress, using her ravishing looks a...
The election to the presidency in October 1970 of Salvador Allende, leader of the Socialist Party and candidate of the Popular Unity coalition, thrust Chile to the threshold of an unprecedented "revolution by constitutional methods." The Chilean Revo...
Working in Edinburgh during the Festival, thrilled by a whirlwind romance with the glamorous Lorenz Hemer, Lindy should have been perfectly happy. In fact she almost was, if only Lorenz were not so stupidly jealous of her ex-fiance Rob Blair. It w...
When Mrs. Prince told her about her three sons, Verity was reminded of the fairytale of the three princes -- a gracious prince, a charming prince, and a prince who was in-between. Verity soon realized where her heart lay -- but did her chosen pri...
Patricia Lang was very much up against it when she first met Richard Horton; her stepfather had lost all the family money and died in disgrace shortly afterwards, leaving Patricia alone, penniless, and untrained for any kind of work. Then Richard t...
On a leisurely afternoon walk one summer day Ella and her five-year-old daughter come upon an abandoned house with an eerie overgrown garden. For the attractive young housewife and her imaginative child, the old house conjures up fantasies of grand p...
With the same intellectual incisiveness and supple, stylish prose he brought to his classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison examines his antecedents and in so doing illuminates the literature, music, and culture of both black and white America....
When Tina Rutherford's brother Bruno was tragically killed, she decided to go to the Northumberland, where he had been working, to clear up his affairs and to meet his fiancee, Helen Copeland. But Tina found a far from warm welcome awaiting her from ...
Danger and love await her... The moment lovely Sue Strathern set eyes on the new caretaker at her uncle's Alaskan hunting lodge, she knew her heart was in danger -- Nick Dunbar was undoubtedly the most attractive man she had ever met. But Sue...
BEAUTIFUL AND EVIL Janet Grant was a lovely young woman, but she knew she could not compare with her ravishing sister-in-law, Eve. Men were toys in Eve's hands -- among them Janet's brother, who now was imprisoned in a mental asylum, accus...
A stunning tale of overcoming conflict and working together from the award-winning Michael Foreman
Caught in a battle between a bear and an eagle, Moose uses their sticks and stones to erect a splendid building which all the animals e...
In 1970 hippy philosopher-teacher Stephen Gaskin adjourned his open, weekly meetings (referred to as Monday night class) and left San Francisco on a speaking tour of the U.S. He was accompanied by 250 students in a caravan of 50 buses and assorted ca...
Story collection. Contents:All of Them Were Empty-; Oracle For a White Rabbit; Love Story in Three Acts; Yarst!; Battle Hum and the Boje; With a Finger in My I; How We Saved the Human Race; The Crystal Castle; In the Deadlands (nominated, 1973 Nebula...
This is the story of Tara Cochrane, who had been Hod's captain during World War II. Tara had returned from Europe to study medicine and start a practice, only to collapse with a severe nervous breakdown. Hod finds him in the hospital, scarcely recogn...
Melodie Neil knew just what she was doing, getting engaged to Jed Martin -- and she deeply resented that infuriating Keith Scott suggesting that her heart wasn't in it. Why couldn't Keith leave her alone and concentrate on his own fiancee,...
Samantha had had last-minute nerves about her marriage to Barney Foster -- so she ran away just before the wedding. But Barney simply followed her. How on earth was she going to say no to a man who refused to take no for an answer?...
From the very first moment she opened her front door, even the hallway had a darkness about it Meg never remembered before. Couldn’t it just be fatigue and the hectic, hurried week in London? The tricks of a tired -- too tired -- mind? But why shou...
"POWERFUL. . .GODWIN IS BRILLIANT. . .DEFTLY PLOTTED AND IMAGINED. . . It deepened my long-cherished belief about certain forms of art: that in exploring extremities of human behavior, in forcing us to wade through real or metaphorical blood, such ...
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Meet Corliss Mitchell who defied her father to passionately love a man he despised. Reese Sheridan who wanted Corliss and success but couldn't have both. Drew Fielding, the attractive family attorney who stood ready whenever Corliss needed him to off...
Tragedy had hit Teri Manders and her brother Jon at the same time, when Jon's wife ran away with Teri's fiance. So the unexpected offer to Jon of a farm in the Transvaal couldn't have come at a better moment. It would give Jon a chance to...
As different as possible in character from her identical twin, Alaine Marsland was persuaded to take Estelle's place on a cruise to the Greek islands. Away from the drudgery of her work, relaxing in the sun, enjoying the sightseeing, Alaine bloss...
Although she had spent all her life in Greece, young Serra Costalos was only half Greek -- and she couldn't endure the thought of the cold-blooded, arranged Greek marriage that was all that was in store for her. In fact, she had already run aw...
Ever since her family had been split up on her parents' death, the dream of Kerry's life had been to trace her to two young sisters -- and now at last she had managed to do it! Like herself, they had both been adopted -- but their circumstanc...
In 1919, the same year Demian was published, seven of these stories appeared as a book entitled Märchen--literally, Fairy Tales. For this first edition in English, we have followed the arrangement Hesse made for the final collected edition of his wo...
Eddie works for Jimmy Scalsi, supplying guns for bank jobs from gun-dealing Jackie. A cop named Foley is leaning on Eddie to finger Scalsi while Dillon, a full-time bartender and a part-time contract killer, is pretending to Eddie's friend. These a...
Hilary's trouble was too much honesty; the Conde Romualdo de Pacquero y Zaredopenas's was too much heart-shaking, arrogant charm -- as Hilary found to her cost when she became companion to his young niece Juanita. Hilary had tried to help ...
Set against the sunny background of gold-rush Australia and the dark one of Victorian England, THE SHADOW OF THE LYNX is the story of Nora Tamasin, a strong-willed young woman who nevertheless falls under the power of the strange man called Lynx--and...
To those who did not know him, he was merely a pleasant young fellow. But to others, especially to women, he was the Devil. Nicola did not know that their meeting was part of an evil design nor did she know that Tristan had plans for her, plans that ...
It certainly boosted her deflated ego! Mandy knew how lucky she was to be working as a secretary in Tunisia -- and it didn't exactly detract from the glamour to have the attractive Ramon al Hassan attracted to her. But even before Steve Her...
Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.Shy thought and grave wide eyes and hand...
A newscast announcing a reward to anyone who can locate a valuable silver dolphin involves Louise and Jean Dana in a baffling search. Judy Platt is desperately trying to find the silver dolphin mentioned in her dead brother’s will. But no one knows...
In the spring of 1797 Captain Richard Bolitho brought his ship, the 100-gun Euryalus, home to Falmouth. But soon the flagship was pressed into battle, part of a hastily formed squadron chosen to force the first British reentry into the Mediterranean,...
Romilly was pleased, but certainly not alarmed, when her great-aunt left her a house in Cairo. Why should Crighton Bey warn her to be careful of her possessions? Romilly soon found herself thinking of him more than was good for her -- but was he r...
A RESTLESS KIND OF LOVE Rinie rose from the shackles of an orphan's poverty to find yet another kind of despair in the home of the parents who grudgingly adopted her. But even as the pain welled up inside her and she longed for all she had been...
The ghostly spirit of Augusta Phenwick predicted that the future bride of handsome, virile Joshua Phenwick would be named Olivia - but now Joshua was forced to choose between three incredibly tempting women who bore that name. One was lovely, aristoc...
Corpses certainly are bad for business... as John Putnam Thatcher, senior vice-president of the Sloan Guaranty Trust, found out when he investigated the affairs of Slax Unlimited. Slax, a garment-manufacturing firm, had recently opened a Sloan-backe...
One of the most prolific and gifted writers in a very fast field. For science fiction is really where it's at these days. In fact, anyone not writing s.f. is clearly out-of-step. In this arena, Laumer is close to being one of the old-timers (no pun i...
Comprised of four long stories – ‘The Becker Wives’, ‘The Joy Ride’, ‘A Happy Death’ and ‘Magenta’ – this collection is one of Lavin’s most celebrated. Together, these stories capture ...
The haunting story of a young American girl whose flight from her own inner turmoil inadvertently leads her to the remote and primitive Greek island of Thanaxos. There, virtually isolated from civilization, she meets a man unlike any she has ever kno...
Dell Shannons novel Murder with Love, published in 1971 by William Morrow & Company, New York is a First Edition. Hardcover red with black lettering of title and author. In very good condition. No d/j...
Jean Little's classic celebrates its 40th anniversary with a new look for a new generation!Nine-year-old Anna has always been the clumsy one in the family -- somehow she can never do anything right. She bumps into tables, and she can't read the cha...
Suddenly, a jeroboam of champagne crashes down at the cast party bashing in the famous producer's head. Who planned this horrible spectacle? Was it his wife? Her lover, the leading man? The not-so-innocent ingenue? Inspector Alleyn goes backstage ...
Readers will delight in James Marshall's award-winning classic tales of George and Martha--two beloved, wise, and hilarious hippos Story Number One: Split Pea Soup Oh, no Martha made split pea soup again How can George tell Martha that he hates sp...
Quentin was the darling of Wall Street. He was also a dead ringer for N. G. Avoprom, the latest rock sensation. Quentin thought that rock was stone until he found himself swimming in a sea of ecstatic female fans, all pulsing to express their admirat...
Maps on endpapers, jacket art and several sketches by John Alan Maxwell. A combined and abridged edition of four separate historical stories set during the American Revolution, with a new introduction by the author. Includes: Three Harbors, Stars on ...
It had not taken Rebecca long to fall wildly in love with Piers St. Clair -- not much longer, in fact, than it had taken her to discover that he was married. So, all too swiftly, that idyll on a romantic Pacific island had had to come to an end. N...
She remembered Adam as an older brother So, when Maria wanted to getaway from home, who better togo and stay with while she decided what to do with her life? But she hadn't seen him for five years. The Adam she met in London now was a succe...
Sancha was thrilled with her assignment--to interview the famous author, the Conte Cesare Alberto Venturo di Malatesta. Entering his palazzo was like stepping back into the Renaissance, its poverty-stricken appearance at odds with his success. The...
It was to save her father from ruin that Stephanie had married Santino Ventura and gone to live with him in his castle in Sicily. Santino had made it clear that he had not married her because she wanted a real wife, but a companion for his small ...
In this world, no one can hide for two hours. Benny Rice has been hiding for twenty years.For billions of people, the Rebirth Institute holds the key to eternal life. But only a tiny minority - less than 1 percent - are selected for rebirth.Benny Ric...
In the follow-up to the gay romance bestseller The Lord Won't Mind , Peter and Charlie's marriage is put to the test when a young Frenchman enters their lives After a decade together in a steady, happy relationship, a trip to the sun-baked Mediter...
Sixth-grader Rufus Mayflower doesn't set out to become a millionaire. He just wants to save on toothpaste. Betting he can make a gallon of his own for the same price as one tube from the store, Rufus develops a step-by-step production plan with he...
She was sitting in a desert at dawn, but for the moment, she couldn't think why. -- Carefully now, not wanting to disturb her aching head more than necessary, she got to her feet, placing her weight on one tingling foot and then the other. She sear...
Sister Tabitha just could not damp down her feelings for the attractive Dutch surgeon, Marius van Beek, but what future could there be for her in that direction? He appreciated her as an efficient colleague - but she could hardly convince herself ...
Lesley had come to Trevendone Manor in Cornwall from far-off New South Wales. She had seen advertisements in Australian papers which suggested that there was an inheritance waiting for the twin brother and sister who made the journey with her. And...
Long an iconic figure for radicals, Huey Newton is now being discovered by those interested in the history of America’s social movements. This new release of a classic collection of his writings and speeches traces the development of Newton’s ...
NOW AVAILABLE ON KINDLE!The first of six sports-car racing stories about Woody Hartford, a young racing enthusiast, and his car--the Black Tiger.From the moment 17-year-old Woody Hartford laid eyes on the Black Tiger, he knew the car was specia...
When Tracy Johns spent a night with Brett Hardwick on the moors, it was due to force of circumstances and couldn't have been more innocent, but unfortunately the episode led to a lot of damaging gossip. So Tracey suggested to her friend Wayne...
"GET BOLAN!" As usual, these are the words awaiting our hero whenever there is a suspicion of his being in the vicinity. Because of his all-consuming mission -- to permanently eradicate the Mafia -- Mack Bolan fights a lonely war. His methods are u...
How can such a little Little be so much trouble? "Get moving, Skunk!" yelled Mr. Speck. Cousin Dinky pounded his hand with his fist. "It's no use," he said. "This skunk will never catch them." But when Skunk finally made it to the end of the trail,...
"Everybody stays home on the Fourth of July," said Lucy. "No," said Uncle Pete. "Everybody goes swimming on the Fourth of July. They go swimming and they have a picnic." And the Littles do, too! The Littles are planning a surprise party for a speci...
When Candy realized that John Ryland didn't care as much about her as she did for him, she was thankful for the chance to go to Rome and forget about him. But that wasn't easy, when no sooner had she arrived in Rome than she met John again...
Singapore, November, 1941 . . . They called it the "Gibraltar of the Far East" a British rock that could not be taken. But suddenly, in a lightning blow, Singapore may be defeated. Call it incompetence or call it false pride. It doesn't really matte...
World War One pilots were the knights of the sky, and the press and public idolised them as gallant young heroes. At just twenty-three, Major Stanley Woolley is the old man and commanding officer of Goshawk Squadron. He abhors any notion of chivalry ...
Sara's life had been a precarious one, touring the world with her grandfather, who lived on his wits to support them both. It was a way of life which was to have far-reaching consequences for Sara. Once it would have seemed preposterous that s...
A beautiful young woman risks her life to free the prisoner of the ancient castle. An orphan deserted by her mother when she was just a child, Nikki Ainsley learns quite suddenly that her true father is Robert Shane, a once-famous sculptor now liv...
Gina had never liked her stepsister, Merilee. But she could not afford to refuse the offer to come to San Francisco to care for Merilee's young son. So with an old and ill family retainer, she sets off for the luxurious Nob Hill mansion where her ...
"The Bearer Plot has all the hallmarks of superb originality, nearly unbearable tension, characterisation that conveys to the reader protagonists of flesh and blood, and the storyline (set against unhackneyed backgrounds that communicate that fact au...
The striking seventh novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, finds Beck facing one of the greatest challenges in his professional career. The gruesome murder of a police captain in his hospital room reveals the unsavor...
A STRANGE HAUNTING! Sherry Alston had never been told about her dead half-sister Miranda. So when Sherry came to visit her Aunt Judith, no one could explain the odd things that started to happen. Who was the elusive friend Sherry said she saw i...
A superb novel and Pulitzer Prize winner about the generation after the American pioneers, as seen through Susan Ward, a beautiful and gifted woman whose skill as an artist brings her fame and also marital conflict....
“I like Mureth,” declared Lady Shaw. “There’s something about Mureth.”“It does things to people,” Mamie agreed.Lady Shaw considered this. It sounded silly, but was it really silly. People said that Mamie Johnstone was a fool, and it was...
Gloria Montacute is in Venice, having temporarily removed herself from England following the death of her mother and inheriting a great collection of art treasures. The monetary value of these is of no consequence to her " she has previously worked...
Copyright 1972, Enriched Classics Edition published June 1972, paperback. A biography of Vincent Van Gogh, his struggles with poverty, his dependence on a devoted brother, his fierce dedication to a style dictated by an inner fire, his tragic emotion...