Slave City of Antares Never before in his adventurous career under the double suns of Antares had Dray Prescot been in as desperate a situation as he found himself on his second entry into the city of Magdag. Magdag had been the scene of one of Pr...
London, 1746 'I wish,' Philadelphia Smith said wistfully, 'that something would happen to me.' Nothing ever happened to Philadelphia until she made that wish one fine autumn evening. Her dreams came true that very night when sh...
She met him on the most terrible day of her life, and in the shadows cast by violence, they made love. They shared a physical passion that was solace and tenderness, a priceless gift two shaken people gave each other in kindness. But was this love fo...
Jade was puzzled by Tory McGrath's completely hostile attitude. After all, today was the first time she'd ever met him. "You may consider it a joke or a game, Miss Pascoe," Tory said grimly, but I heard you at the hotel last night,...
BOOKER PRIZEâ€"WINNING AUTHORSet in a world in which the Reformation failed, this award-winning science fiction tale is “one of the best . . . alternate-worlds novels in existence” (Philip K. Dick). In Kingsley Amis’s virtuoso foray into...
A holy man in an unholy bindWilliam Kaspar was not your everday sinner. Quite the reverse.William had renounced the pleasures of the flesh. He had quelled his ambitions and appetites. He had donned the robes of a Buddhist monk to search for Nirvana i...
There is a charming superstition in the little wine-growing town of St. Emilion -- if an unmarried girl drops two pins into the fountain and the pins form a cross, she will be married within the year. But it seemed the magic of the patron saint was n...
Priscilla was enraged that the lordly Nikolaos Palaeologus thought her sister Prunella was a nobody, unfit to marry his younger brother. And just because Prunella was an actress! Well, Priscilla was an actress, too. She would go to Greece and teac...
Young Kevin Cartwright is the prisoner of a pirate king. "I shall find a way to get free." "Free!" he shouted. "You are here, with us now. You can forget about your father and your sister, or anybody else you may have known. You belong to no nati...
Alathea nourished a long-standing grudge against Captain Simon Dexter. She wasn't at all pleased at the prospect of being on his flight crew -- especially as he proceeded to find fault with everything she did. So it came as quite a shock when she...
While testing the wings he had made to further his dream of winged flight, Omaha Jones makes new friends who involve him in dangerous situations. Also reedited as: Omaha Jones....
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Pulitzer Prize nominee and author of The Feud, Thomas Berger displays his genre bending prowess once more in this mystery turned comedy, featuring unforgettable dialogue and an extremely fun cast of characters. “Berger’s style, which is one of t...
Her homecoming was bittersweet Shelley was grieved to return to her plantation home to find her beloved stepfather desperately ill, but delighted to see Mitch Ballantyne, his son, again. She had always adored Mitch, but so did a hundred other ...
"This is the third time she's run away...we'll have to keep the gate locked." You bump into a handsome stranger. He asks you out for a drink. One thing leads to another. Three weeks later you are married. He takes you to his house in the count...
Original title: I Met Murder on the Way. A novel of love, scandal/ and triple murder. The house was large and venerable - as was the family to which is belonged. There were many Pomeroys, they all bore the aristocratic stamp, and, although few ...
Bernie Rhodenbarr is a personable chap,- a good neighbor, a passable poker player. His chosen profession, however, might not sit well with some. Bernie is a burglar, a good one, effortlessly lifting valuables from the not-so-well-protected abodes of ...
In this historical novel, Yaw M. Boateng tells the harrowing story of the Atlantic slave trade and the devastating effects it had on the Ashanti Empire.
'This, then, is the story of Seku and Jakpa. But it is also the story of Malaam Fu...
Like new hardcover with very good DJ. THIS A FIRST EDITION ADVANCE REVIEW COPY AS INDICATED BY INCLUDED PUBLISHER'S NOTE CARD. Dust jacket shows very minor edge wear by upper spine, otherwise an unblemished copy. FORMER COLLECTOR'S COPY. Presented wi...
Here, in his own words, is the true story of America's wildest flying hero, of his extraordinary heroism, and of his greatest battle of all -- the fight to survive.
The World War II air war in the Pacific needed tough men like Colonel Pappy Bo...
Joanna loved her Canary Island home and valued her old friendship with Ramon, the handsome and imperious Marques de Orleron y Faustino. But she still hoped to revisit London, her birthplace. Yet she felt reluctant to leave, because the beautiful Cand...
Vietnam! Dumme had been there and back but his war wasn't over. Not by a long shot. He had a mission. From the Bronx to California- with a box of worns, a runaway girl, and a vision, he was hell-bent on his own good old american Dream....
When her uncle was reported missing in Kenya, Annot was persuaded by her mother to go there in search of him. Annot wasn't very enthusiastic about the idea. She would have been even less enthusiastic if she had realized that the overbearing James...
Originally printed in 1974. This is a New Edition rePrint by the Gardner Francis Fox Library LLC. This story is about Cherry Delight, a female agent of D.U.E. (Department of Unusual Events) is sent to Greece to investigate the sighting of an ex-Nazi ...
Meet Jana Blake, a different kind of private investigator. An ardent feminist who likes men, she works only for women in trouble. With her looks she could be a top model, but she could never stand the bs. Instead, she works the seamy side of NY, taki...
Those Crazy Twins! When her best friend moves away, Dorrie is sure that life will never be the same. To add to her woes, two creepy boys become her new neighbors. Haskell and Conrad are identical twins, and Dorrie soon decides that they are her mort...
Trial by Terror: It was a psychological experiment to test the methods of treatment in plush private sanitariums, and young Daria Clarke was the perfect volunteer -- healthy, stable, outgoing. All she has to do at Walnut Ridge was follow orders, t...
Somehow Rhoda had persuaded her twin sister Joan to switch identities while she finished urgent business in New York. The whole idea was crazy, though, for Joan would have to convince handsome Ray Slater, Rhoda’s fiancé, and their friends down in ...
Kerby Maxwell, his dog, Waldo, and his best friend, Fenton are off on another hair-raising adventure with their eccentric friend, Mrs. Graymalkin. Tey're searching for a mysterious cat whose nose glows red in the dark. This cat will lead them to a r...
It had all happened. The heavy gold band on her finger proved that she was now Mrs. Colter Langston. But even her name on his lips sounded strange, as if he were talking to someone else. "I don't particularly like myself," Colter wa...
"I cannot imagine," said Charlotte, "why you should want so unwilling a bride. With your money and your title, surely you can buy one that is willing?"' His fingers closed more tightly on hers, crushing them before he released ...
Star of Evil Once Annette Engberg had been a great Hollywood star. Now she was an aging, strangely twisted woman living in the great and gloomy mansion of Godsend, perched high on a cliff on the California coast. Young and talented Sara Fedderson ...
The fatal poisoning had happened more than twenty years before... Now the best-loved man in Little Forks was dead, victim of a cruel and senseless automobile accident. "Could it be a case of belated justice?" the doctor wondered to his ...
Mighty Conan in a fight to the death against the most dangerous fiends of the Hyborian Age! Hunting the swift stag and the tusked boar in the gloomy forests of the Gunderland Marches, Conan loses his son Conn to Thoth- Amon and the supremely evil ...
The roots of WINDHAVEN They were bold, willful pioneers, planters of the rich Alabama soil, from Lucien Bouchard, the patriarch who created Windhaven out of the strength of his dreams and the power of his soul, to his grandson, Mark, whose cruel s...
The 12th and final adventure in the legendary Hardman series It's doing the small, simple favors that gets Jim Hardman in the most trouble. A waitress he knows asks him to find her missing husband, a freelance bartender who never returned from a week...
Very clean black boards with red cloth spine, yellow lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or marks. 243 pgs. Clean dustjacket is unchipped, not price clipped, two ve...
Glen Runciter is dead. Or is everybody else? Someone died in an explosion orchestrated by Runciter's business competitors. And, indeed, it's the kingly Runciter whose funeral is scheduled in Des Moines. But in the meantime, his mourning employees are...
She longed for love But he doubted her Junia didn't answer Karl Kemble. How could she explain her woman's point of view to this man? She was pursuing Colin, she supposed, but six months apart was a long time. Oh, there had been letters...
Clo was prepared to hate him... Clo knew before she went to Hong Kong airport she would hate Harry Ferrier, the replacement for her beloved father at the college. And she did. She had, however, made a mistake and was embarrassed to find that th...
"Nothing has changed," Fiona said in desperation. "Jonathan is my son." Fiona had had five years to think about her youthful folly -- five years to remember Logan Sutherland's treatment of her. Now, a whim of fate had brought t...
It is the roaring Twenties, days of soaring fortunes and diamond dust for the greatest-baseball-team-ever 1927 New York Yankees - and days of Jim Crow and dusty anonymity for the barnstorming Black baseball clubs of America. Along comes Sister Timoth...
Spending the summer with her increasingly remote aunt Kay in a two-hundred-year-old Scottish manor house, apprehensive Elizabeth Martin finds herself crossing into the eighteenth century and living the days of another Elizabeth. Robinsheugh stands...
He signed on with the rough and ready crew building England's first railway. But his hands were too soft for hard labor. His speech and manners almost betrayed him. Underneath the coarse disguise was a gentleman whose name was legend throughout Europ...
A pregnant woman who regards motherhood as a responsible, moral choice prepares for her child's birth by remarking upon and examining her ambivalent feelings toward herself, her society, and her unborn child...
In the August heat they frolicked on the beaches, fetched sticks, played with the children. Then the summer dwellers left, abandoning them to the island's harsh winter. Ravenous hunger and violent rage have brought them together under a cunning, fero...
“An extraordinary real picture of human beings numbed by catastrophe but still driven by the unconquerable determination of living creatures to keep on being alive.” -- The New YorkerThe classic apocalyptic novel by Pat Frank, first published in...
Published in 1929, this classic social-science-fiction novel is a tale of the future in which we are now living: the angry rise of the Third World, supported by communism and desperately resisted by capi...
Orphaned as a young girl, Martha was taken into the care by her grandfather -- and soon more than earned his name for her: the "tempestuous petticoat". From their first meeting it was clear that life with her crotchety relative was not go...
He offered marriage; but she wanted love Beth couldn't really explain the compulsion to buy the house in Wales where her aunt's dream of happiness had ended in despair. But having used her inheritance from Aunt Ethel to purchase the place, she ...
Bibliographic information Title A scornful wonder: what's right with the Church Author Leslie Glenn Publisher D. McKay Co., 1977 ISBN 067950740X, 9780679507406 Length 235 pages Subjects Religion ? Christian Life ? General Christian life Church Religi...
No, everyone is dead. His mother worshipped him, but she died when he was scarcely eighteen, and his father before that. His mother is his adored memory. In all the mad scenes which he and his companions, I am afraid, have enacted in the Fontonka hou...
The fourteenth novel from Green, who is perhaps better known for "The Last Angry Man," "To Brooklyn With Love," and "The Lotus Eaters, features an unlikely hero -- Daniel D. Vormund, 80 years old, a retired professor, who stands between the creatures...
â€What are the possibilities of my strength? That is a thought I have never had before. What if some morning as the old woman stood at the head of the staircase she were suddenly to feel a weight thrusting against the back of her legs? What if she w...
Raine Hansford could blame no one but herself. It was true she'd been attracted to Darius Kallergis from the time he appeared at her engagement party -- but she never intended to give up her plan to marry her rich and titled fiance. When Da...
She would never love another man. Liane Goulden had loved Richard Wilding for six years, but he saw her only as his efficient, self-effacing secretary. So when he became engaged to another woman, Liane took a holiday at her cousin's in South A...
"He married money...settled his debts." Vicky overheard the words in anguish. It meant the end of everything -- her love for Richard and her marriage. Vicky knew that some sort of business deal had been transacted between her millionair...
"The secret of the entire world is whispered here at Eden...." Since time out of memory, Eden Castle had ridden the storm-swept Devon cliffs like a ghostly figurehead On a ship of the damned. He was the last Lord of Eden Castle, Thomas Eden, a man ...
SHE WAS POSSESSED BY HER NEED FOR THIS TOWERING STRANGER WHO WAS NOW HER HUSBAND. When Denise Chevillon, the fiery and willful Southern belle, found herself married against her will to a wealthy adventurer; Jason Moreland, she knew it was going to...
His name was Prince. He was handsome, strong, brilliant, with a fiery irresistible magnetism. He was also black. And in bondage. Under the lash his proud spirit grew stronger -- his hatred grew. He worked in secret among his people until they became ...
Cross of Iron, first published in English in 1956 as The Willing Flesh, is a classic, realistic novel of a German Army platoon trapped behind Russian lines on the Eastern Front in World War II. Author Willi Heinrich (1920-2005) served in the heavily ...
Catastrophe time as communities fall victim to mysterious illness. Bensonhurst, Kentucky (pop. 1242) is hit first: 1039 dead within 24 hours. Just when the team of specialists identifies the cause--rampant infections due to the collapse of immunity s...
Misunderstood words and mistaken hearts... When a Regency lass falls on lean times, marriage looms as the only solution. And so Honoria Newcombe pledges herself to blond and bashful Alexander Blackwood. Alexander might make a most attractive husban...
A Mexican plantation becomes a hacienda of horror in "The third wife". Beautiful young Barbara Sarget had come to Texas, to that teeming state of cattle, but she finds the terror under the sun. Terror under the sun. Beautiful young Barbara ...
An enthralling fictional account of Howard Carter’s famous search for the tomb of King Tut and the mystery behind the tragic death and disappearance of ancient Egypt’s child ruler In ancient times, a boy king occupied the throne in a troubled des...
1970 - June - 4th Edition - Avon - #N215 - Paperback - The Landlord - By Kristin Hunter - Movie Tie In Edition - United Artists - Stars: Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey - VG Condition - Rare Collectible...
In Travelers, Jhabvala examines the unlikely convergence of four wanderers: Asha, an imperious Indian widow, Raymond, a curious Englishman, Lee, an American looking for her spiritual core, and Gopi, an impressionable young student. With a mixture of ...
SURELY GWENDOLYN CHANT WAS DESTINED FOR GREAT THINGS. Her magic was strong. Strong enough to gain the respect of all the witches and warlocks on Coven Street. Strong enough to draw the attention of the awesome Chrestomanci. Strong enough to get Gwen...
Since the beginning of recorded time, mankind has been plagued by unknown forces and beings, baffled by archaeological phenomena, and haunted by the inexplicable accuracy - and inaccuracy - of prophecies and "visions."
In the classic "Ou...
Louis's Scottish uncle brings him the birthday gift of a tadpole, plucked right out of Loch Ness. But it soon becomes clear that this "tadpole" is not turning into an ordinary frog! It'll take a little help from friends and a lot of ingenuity to feed...
Sometimes the sky held only clouds, but at other times it could get quite busy. It could be full of sailing ships or bands of mounted warriors or even single figures strolling carefully across the empty air. From the viewpoint of those below they wer...
"I'm sorry for you, Nicola," Domenico said. "Leo is not the man for you. I warned you at the start, but you wouldn't listen. You're obstinate and willful." His words struck like icy pebbles and Nicola winced. How he mus...
Nancy Ekholm Burkert (born February 16, 1933) is an American artist and illustrator. Her most celebrated work is the picture book Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1972), which was a New York Times Notable Book and a Caldecott Honor Book. Her early wo...
1977 An Original Peacock Press/Bantam Book. Clean and unmarked. Fold out in place. Age tanning at edges, especially at top edge. Scuff at bottom front cover, possibly where label was removed. Some edge wear, no tears. Proceeds benefit Oro Valle...
Middle-aged San Francisco horror writer Franz Westen is rediscovering ordinary life following a long alcoholic binge. Then one day, peering at his apartment window from atop a nearby hill, he sees a pale brown thing lean out his windowââ,¬Â¦and wave...
It's 1944 in New York City. Alan Silverman doesn't want to give up his stickball game for anyone-especially not for crazy-acting Naomi Kirshenbaum. But when he hears about her horrifying experience during the war in France, Alan changes his mind. ...
Jill's excited about entering her basset hound, Fletcher, in the big dog show, so she and her best friend, Gwen, go to the library to learn about training dogs.
But they're puzzled and surprised to find that many pictures are cut out of the sp...
She was the illegitimate daughter of an English aristocrat and a young and gentle governess. She was lovely, intelligent, and had a quality that drew all men to her, ensnaring them fatally in a web of charm. Stubborn in her loyalties, passionate in h...
INNOCENCE HAD NO PLACE AT THE ABBEY Young Elizabeth Mason had never seen the Abbey before she arrived to take up her post at the great estate. But from her first troubling moments in this place that held so much glamour in the present, so much dra...
“It is impossible to walk away from this novel without being sharply reminded of the fact that Norman Mailer is a writer of extraordinary ability.” -- Chicago TribuneFeaturing a new foreword by Mailer scholar Maggie McKinleyPublished nearly twent...
A haunting blend of romance, mystery and ancient myth. Meraud’s innocent green eyes had seen too much for her tender years -- debauchery, cruelty and too little love in a glittering world of French finery. Then, when her wanton mother was murde...
CAPTAIN KIRK IS DEAD -- LONG LIVE CAPTAIN KIRK! Spock. Doctor McCoy and the other crewmen of the Starship Enterprise experience a stunning double-shock. The first, painful blow is Captain Kirk's tragic death. Then. Captain Kirk's miraculous rebirt...
The time is the bleak September of 1779. The place is frontier America. The story is fierce and dramatic, a saga of love, violence and war. The people are memorable: legendary Tom Spencer who stands six-feet-nine in his shoe pacs… Rough-and-ready S...
LOVE'S WILDEST PROMISE It seemed so distant and unreachable to the innocent, young Sarah Moody, lady's maid in a wealthy London home. Then suddenly the world turns upside down. Sarah is abducted and smuggled aboard a ship sailing for the Colonies...