When an eighteen-year-old inherits three small islands off the English coast, she discovers they are a source of intrigue....
LISETTE AND RAY - The poet and the TV star. The soft sweet Frenchwoman and her English protector, both forever in love. GABY - The eldest daughter, the muscian. Jealous and raging. DANA - The son, the writer. Successful at his craft, always s...
Ace Books, mass market paperback. One of three or four printings issued between 1978 and 1981 with the same Michael Whelan cover art. Variant title of "Let the Spaceman Beware!" (1963). Science fiction adventure novel. "The color, smell,, taste of an...
Stella Raye is the girl with everything: ravishing beauty, remarkable talent, a host of sophisticated admirers, and the coveted lead in Galaxy Studio's spectacular new motion picture, The Golden Glory. But suddenly, the girl with everything h...
"Aren't you going to kiss me good night?" Clare blurted out the words awkwardly. His first reaction of surprise was not entirely flattering. Clare's lifelong ambition was to write a romantic novel -- but how could she when she h...
Destiny was his mistress...And legend was his inheritance. One man stands as a giant among the men of Sicily, despite a conspiracy of silence and secrecy-Alessandro Salvatore. This is his turbulent and passionate story...an extraordinary man who h...
This is the extraordinary story of the De Leone Family - the Royal House of Lions - and their generations-old, unrelenting struggle against the Mafia in Sicily. A proud, landowning dynasty, the De Leones are respected and feared for their determined...
Sweet, innocent Mercy had always believed the stars foretold the future. Even the name of the ship on which she was sailing to America appeared to be a fortuitous omen, for the Capricorn was swiftly carrying her to her bridegroom's waiting arms. But...
From the killing fields of World War II to a Chinese POW camp during the Korean War, this mesmerizing novel is a tribute to the legacy of the Greatest Generation Separated from his fellow American soldiers, Benny Beer walks alone on a frozen plain in...
With these tales, the author pays homage to the lives of King Arthur, the Round Table knights and their ladies, while introducing inspired new twists to the stories of old. Thomas Berger has previously written "Little Big Man", "Killing Time" and "Ch...
The message from Jessica Frost's father came like a bolt of lightning. Jessica had been raised by her mother to hate this man who had deserted them long ago. Now her mother was dead, and Jessica's father claimed her as his child. It was no...
John Thorne lives a good life in Washington, DC, with a girlfriend he adores and a stable job at the White House. But when an old family friend, Major General Burckhardt, gives him an attachĆ© case with a file inside labeled āthe Asterisk Project,ā...
She e felt alone, and unloved, in her tower room at Castle Raven. Too nervous, her stepmother and doctor agree to bear the strain of Victorian society. Too much in the shade of her fashionable half-sister to be sought after. Yet Katherine found jo...
ACTION, ROMANCE, ADVENTURE! A thundering tide of excitement races through this fiery saga of the Old South - a story of sprawling plantations and foxfire swampland, of horse-racing pageantry and violent murder, and of characters whose deepest emot...
In 1914, three eleven-year-old girls buried a box in a thicket on the coast of England, shortly before World War I sent their lives on divergent paths. Nearly fifty years later, a series of mysteriously-worded classified ads brings the women reluctan...
She was a living doll who got all wound up -- in murder! An offbeat novel about some very strange happenings, by an acclaimed mystery and science fiction author (and the creator of Ferdinand Feghoot)....
As England enters the turbulent machine age, an ambitious young man turns his extraordinary vision of the future into reality. From his brutal childhood enslavement in the mills of northern England, to the restless years at Keble Manor, this is the e...
High time she found herself a husband! Raised in an orphanage, Sally's need for a home and family had always been uppermost in her mind. Now she felt she should delay no longer. She had three possible candidates for a husband -- childhood f...
Future Tense anticipates every question that a lover of cinematic science fiction could want to ask. Technical mastery and special effects, the differences between written science fiction and filmed science fiction, history and lore of the genre - ar...
The heroes in this extraordinary epic are the Irish labourers and Chinese coolies; the villains, the avaricious bankers and the corrupt politicians. Before the undertaking was complete, more than 155 million acres of land had been given away to railw...
"Today considered a landmark of twentieth-century intellectual history, I and Thou is also one of the most important books of Western theology. In it, Martin Buber, heavily influenced by the writings of Frederich Nietzsche, united the proto-Existenti...
Sheila Burnford, the author of The Incredible Journey, offers the spellbinding tale of a small dog caught up in the Second World War, and of the extraordinary life-transforming attachments he forms with the people he encounters in the course of a ...
As thrilling as any novel, as taut and exciting as any adventure story, Peter Hathaway Capstick''s Death in the Long Grass takes us deep into the heart of darkness to view Africa through the eyes of one of the most renowned professional hunters.
The white man had burned their land, raped their women, and slaughtered their children.Ā Ā He had made them a nation of slaves, and those he could not enslave, he promised to destroy.Ā Ā The Apache had one hope: vengeance.
Out of the s...
Paperback, Copyright 1978 Cherokees Carter Corporation, Laurel Book, First Laurel printing -April 1983. 314 pages. Formerly published Cry Geronimo!. "Compelling...can surely stand comparison with the best novels of Indian life that we have-with Fr...
A WOMAN IN A MAN'S WORLD Her handsome, laughing cousin Adam gave young Delie Gordon her first taste of love -- its soaring happiness, its heartbreaking pain. Virile, self-confident riverboat captain Brenton Edwards showed Delie her weakness...
John Grimes tackles the slave trade on a lost world with some very feline like inhabitants....
The Immortal He called himself Hamikar and he told his followers that he had never been born and would never die. He didn't need to sleep, to eat, and to drink. And his followers, most of them rich, believed him without question. it was when one of H...
Lady Bligh is the epitome of high society with her sparkling charm, fiery hair, and entourage of gypsies, earls, and murderers. Of course she has Jael the Gypsy by her side who is famed for her tarot card readings, but even she can't predict what...
The story of Wolf of Foix, who idealistically seeks a better world, this describes the knights and troubadors and courts of love in the lushness of Southern France culminating with the thirteenth century siege of Carcassone. Highly readable and worth...
The tenth earl of Berham did not know what to do. An attractive thirty-two-year-old bachelor, he was appointed guardian of one Freddie Armstrong, the eighteen-year-old grandson of his late father's dear friend. That was bad enough. Then he dis...
In 'Striper', this well-known editor, author and conservationist presents both a moving personal story and detailed natural history--reminiscent of William W. Warner's Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Beautiful Swimmers'--of the striped bass whose strength an...
Fall in love with Jilly Cooper, one of Britain's most popular authors, in this fabulously frothy rom-com. Fans of Jojo Moyes, Marian Keyes, Dolly Alderton and Jane Fallon will love this witty and whimsical read - the perfect dose of laugh-out-loud es...
When Imogen dashes off to the Riviera with luscious tennis pro Nicky Beresford, she is hopelessly plain and ecstatically in love. But even her total rapture can't buffer her from the shocking sight of topless tanners and other free spirits in erotic ...
Even as Janna pleaded with Rian for mercy, she realized it was futile. Rian hadn't forgotten anything that had passed between them seven years earlier. Not forgotten -- and not forgiven. Why had he come back? What did he intend? Rian laughe...
The Prince of Barbares, or the scourge of India? Dr. Palfrey and Z5 are up against an Indian mystic who is said to possess the ability to transmit images straight into the minds of his victims. They can take the form of depicting either a glorious pi...
If only all it took to deal with problems was a special snack.... Cassie Stephens is dealing with a lot: Sheās got asthma. Sheās running for freshperson class president. World War III is being waged daily in her home, beginning at the breakfast t...
GIRL -- Lovely young copper-haired Rolande Henry was forced onto the stage at an early age to survive in a cruel world of designing men. INTO BOY -- She was cunningly trained to act out the role of a missing lad who stood to inherit the most fabu...
After seven goblins try to steal it, the Rainbow is careful never again to touch the earth. Since its original publication in 1978, the fantastic colors, amazing detail, and sweeping scope of The Rainbow Goblins have irresistibly invited tens of thou...
Maude Sage: Dynamic, proud new owner of Outlaw Farm. She knew everything about horses-and was ready to prove it in the dazzling world of Kentucky's blue-blood society. Dancv Clutterbuck: A compulsive gambler, a risk. Maude believed in him and made th...
What was the strange impetus that drove a group of four widely different humans to embark on a fear-filled journey across a forbidden sea to a legendary land? This was Earth still, but the Earth of a future terribly changed after a planet-searing dis...
Tamsyn fought down the surge of emotion Grant Chapman was rich, powerful and dangerous. They said he took his pleasures where he pleased. Tamsyn felt almost as if she were destined to hate this man. But why did he affect her so deeply? Right fr...
He was a "love 'em and leave 'em" man Janey Bowden could never cope with man like Theo Carrington--a man who had captured hearts and cast them aside at his pleasure. And Janey was the kind of selfless, untouched young girl Theo had...
Sally knew she'd never trust again! Painful memories of a shattered dream haunted her. It was still so hard to believe -- betrayal by her fiance and her best friend! Pride told her that she must get away somewhere, somehow, to recover. And ...
GUNBLAZING BEAUTY The Texas border was the Confederacy's last hope of winning the war. And that made it the bloodiest battleground. Smuggling fifteen grand across to mercenaries would take every disguise the legendary Rebel Spy could master, every...
Someone's about to rip off a sleepy little Louisiana town! Chuck's gang of truckers are geared for looting. When Tom masterminds a false hurricane alert...When sheriff Boshardt orders an evacuation of the town...When Chuck moves in to strip the town ...
Captain Kirk encounters Klingons and nocturnal creatures known as Strangers and the sun god himself in a journey of incredible suspense... Inside the hollow shell of a strange, remote planet Kirk and the Enterprise crew discover a planet within a ...
Vere focused on the man at the desk. Their glances locked in a kind of declaration of war. Gavin Ingham was just like the Emperor Nero -- thumbs up or thumbs down, according to his whim. Vere suddenly loathed this man with a reckless fury. "...
HOLMES AMONG THE UNDEAD... A mysterious schooner runs aground in an English harbor. Its cargo, fifty boxes of earth; its only living passenger, a black dog. The captain's lifeless body is lashed to the wheel--completely drained of blood. Soon, a r...
Mansion of Madness. When handsome Paul Acton asked her to marry him, it was the happiest day in Samantha Walton's life. Yet Samantha couldn't know that her love for Paul would soon lead her along a mazelike road of evil deceit to Finisterre -- the p...
Vanessa Hartland had found no virtue in poverty, so, shortly after her father's death she and her sister Helen made their way to Brighton, where Vanessa was determined to find a rich husband for herself and a kind one for gentle Helen. Stopping at th...
Amelia is a sentimental novel written by Henry Fielding. Amelia follows the life of Amelia and Captain William Booth after they are married. It contains many allusions to classical literature and focuses on the theme of marriage and feminine intellig...
Fourteenth century Italy was ruled by the law of the church...a law none dared question. No one but Corcordia.. -- Beautiful, daring, rebellious Concordia miraculously escapes from the lifeless prison of a convent and discovers a world of freedom a...
Freeman had been stationed in Cairo during the second World War as a war correspondent. During a routine assignment he stumbled upon Sophia, an exotic Russian beauty. Suspicious of her loyalties, British Intelligence ordered him to keep her in sight ...
In September 1957 the South is mesmerized by events in Little Rock, Arkansas, whose governor has called out the National Guard as part of his attempt to halt the integration of Central High School. And in Memphis, two white men and a white woman are ...
A failed commando raid leads to a global hunt for the last remaining Nazi war criminals Six Israeli commandos land on a lakeshore in Austria, hunting for something that has been hidden underwater for over thirty years. The lake holds many secrets le...
They marked time by the moon and counted nights, not days. They measured their history in "ages" of 30 years, passing on all knowledge and lore by recitation. A mysterious and passionate people, the Celts in first-century Britain fought and loved wit...
"Some things can never be forgotten." At Brett's words, Jinny remembered only too well the love she'd always felt for this devastating man. She was crushed to realize he was thinking of something else entirely -- his rejection by L...
A girl and her twin brothers discover their special powers in the first of a fantasy series by the Newbery Medal–winning author of M.C. Higgins, the Great. For Justice and her identical twin brothers Levi and Thomas, the summer begins like...
Colonel Edouard Rappaport of the Hungarian Intelligence Service is assigned to kill Dr. Robert Winter, a celebrated and charismatic shaper of American and foreign policy, the apparent architect of detente, and a double agent himself...
Andrew Farquharson, a young Scot travelling abroad, in the course of his adventures is given a unique seed that will grow into a forest of giant trees once grown by an almost extinct Red Indian tribe. He finds, after some searching, that the place th...
Unceasingly Shawn Starbuck had searched for his brother - a legacy at stake for them both - asking on numberiess trails, in sun-baked towns, at desolate huts and sprawling ranches...now it seemed, at last, his searching would end. Only it wasn't that...
They were all drawn to Dr. Nick Janus - the plastic surgeon genius who promised them all everything they wanted - at a price they were desperate enough to pay. Skin Deep - a novel the reveals the truth behind the beautiful people....
THE BEAUFORTS OF OAKHURST MANOR - A DYNASTY WHOSE FATE WAS INTERTWINED WITH AN AMERICA FIGHTING FOR HER LIFE ON LAND AND ON SEA A proud mansion in Boston, where a southern blueblood and a northern heiress came together to plant the seeds of a dyna...
The history of the nursing profession is detailed in this text, covering the major individuals and events that have shaped this profession. A historical background is provided to illustrate the expanded role and growing autonomy of professional nursi...
An orphan, he was raised in Hitler's death-camps. An artist, he made it to New York's wild art scene. A gypsy. he planned the perfect revenge for the man who saved him once - and damned him forever. This is his blood-dark story of a vengeance and lov...
On the surface, Louise seemed the most perfect of Victorian young ladies--a beautiful, talented, charming creature, the apple of her physician father's eye, and a seemingly untouchable ideal to the young suitors who flocked around her. Only Louise...
In places where fear dwells and blood runs cold, sinister forces and unspeakable things are working the NIGHT SHIFT From the depths of darkness where hideous rats defend their empire, to dizzying heights where a beautiful girl hangs by a hair abov...
From out of the bonds of slavery there arose a warrior . . . a warrior feared across all lands, a warrior whose blade was stained with the blood of thousands - man and beast - who smiled as she killed, with hair as gold as summer sun, eyes as blue as...
From out of the bonds of slavery there arose a warrior . . . a warrior feared across all lands, a warrior whose blade was stained with the blood of thousands - man and beast - who smiled as she killed, with hair as gold as summer sun, eyes as blue as...
WHEN YOU'RE NEITHER A GIRL NOR A WOMAN... Maggie and Caroline are both seniors in high school and suddenly everything that seemed simple has become complicated. Thinking about sex, wondering about college, planning for careers -- there are so many c...
ROUGH ROAD TO MANHOOD Folks tried to tell him that his father had killed himself, but Kearney McRaven knew better. His pa was no quitter. Then the boy discovered that just before the bullet had found him, the elder McRaven had had a remarkable run...
The Bought Beauty Young Kate Farringdon was the firl-for-sale on the auction block in an English market town, when she first saw Daniel Warwyck. According to popular law, Kate went to the highest bidder-and Warwyck, England's most brilliant prizefig...
Oriel Mellstock--wealthy, beautiful and a widow--could have any man she wanted. But she couldn't forget Devil Haggard, whose apparent rejection had once sent her across the world into the arms of a millionaire. Coming back to the Yorkshire dal...
'There is another way,' Argon said. And Leonie felt that anything was better than his intention of disinheriting her cousin, Paul, in her favor. For twenty years her mother's Greek family had ignored Leonie's existence. Then sudden...
What the desert claims, it keeps Was the saying true, Marie wondered. On the moonlit sands of a desert oasis, they were utterly alone. "Why have you brought me here?" Marie's voice was husky with alarm. Did this arrogant stranger wa...
"We both know who you really are." Jake's voice was harsh. "So stop the charade about amnesia, Lyn. I don't want to hear any more of your lies." The girl's eyes darkened with hurt and weariness. What did he mean? He ...
Spring Rennerton was a mining engineer, working at a diamond mine in South Africa - and very competent she was at her job, too; but of course she came up against a lot of opposition and prejudice on account of her sex, and the latest critic in a long...
One of Marvel Comics most recognizable and best-loved superheroes, Spider-Man appears in three comic books with a monthly circulation of over one million, is syndicated in over 500 newspapers, with a readership of over 100 million, and is soon to be ...
I saw her, hanging in the sky like a flake of the moon. A woman, her face masked by a black shireen, her body by a black shift, but her white arms spread, and her white, white, bone-white hair blowing all around her like a flame composed of smoke. Re...
An ex-astronaut investigates a string of potential murders in this novel by the Kafka Prizeā"winning author of Solaris. Vacation is supposed to be relaxing. But while traveling in Naples, several American tourists die in a most macabre and unusual w...