WAS THE DEMONIC ENTITY WHO RULED THE ISLAND TRULY SATANIC, OR MERELY A MALEVOLENT ALIEN? On an isolated island, seven people with a desperate need for money play a game conceived by an intelligence of perfect evil. The rules are simple: each playe...
THE MIGHTY BARBARIAN AND A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN WARRIOR ON THE ROAD TO BLOODY CONQUEST! The cries of slaves fill the land of Stygia. A defeated people, they are held in woeful bondage by cruel taskmasters and the power of the evil reptile god Khemi. But ...
A WORLD WHERE FANTASY AND REALITY ARE ONE! On far TAROT dreams come true--and fanged nightmares stalk the land. Sent to pierce the dread curtain of the Animation that turns fantasy into hideous reality, the wanderer-monk Paul finds himself on a tr...
WHERE NIGHTMARES HAVE PEOPLE! On the planet TAROT nothing is real. Or everything. For the shimmering Animation curtain is moving across the worldscape like a storm of monsters, changing fantasy into hideous reality, trapping the wanderer-monk Paul...
A DOZEN MASTERPIECES OF MYSTERY, MURDER, AND UNEARTHLY DETECTION! Every month, the Black Widowers convene for° sumptuous food, fine wine, and a cosmically, baffling mystery. Attended by Henry, the all- knowing waiter, these gentle rogues ponder su...
From the author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Handmaid’s Tale -- now an Emmy Award-winning Hulu original series -- and Alias Grace, now a Netflix original series.Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, here are three people, e...
Here is a novel of awesome beauty and power. A moving saga about people, relationships and the boundaries of love. Through Jean Auel's magnificent storytelling, we are taken back to the dawn of mankind and swept up in the wonderful world of a very sp...
Eleven-year-old Harry's adventures, involving lies, attempted robbery, and the possibility of murder, begin when his parents go away for a few days and he is left in the care of the young Miss Trowbridge....
"We are on the verge," said Christian, "of becoming a gossip item. A very young widow and a stepson only a few years older living alone together under the same roof, we are bound to cause comment." This was the reason that Lady Ch...
Cassie had loved the Duke of Woodland as far back as she could remember. Now, in a desperate move to escape the greedy and vicious relatives bent on her destruction, she begged Edward to marry her. A marriage of convenience only. This way she would h...
She Broke an Ancient Tradition by Falling in Love Kanno Masayo, Miss One Thousand Spring Blossoms, is the loveliest and most glamorous geisha in all of Japan. Dick Seaton is a shy, handsome American whose business takes him to Japan to close a very...
It all starts with a birthday present Omri doesn't even want -- a small plastic Indian of no use to him at all. But when an old wooden cupboard and a special key bring the unusual toy to life, Omri's Indian becomes his most important secret: precious...
CHILD OF VENGEANCE...CHILD OF LOVE THEY WERE BOUND FOREVER TO A FORBIDDEN DESTINY... Fiery Charlotte Lancaster -- heiress to Silver Howe and a dazzling reflection of its English beauty and splendor -- was ready to sacrifice everything for the s...
Sooner or later Susan supposed she'd marry. The idea of falling in love had never occurred to her -- until she met the elegant and wealthy Lord John. Even then she did not think it possible that he would be interested in her, since he was paying ...
ENTER THE WORLD OF TRANSMUTATIONS -- MENTAL AND ELEMENTAL, ALCHEMICAL AND ACADEMIC NIGHT AND THE LOVES OF JOE DICOSTANZO by Samuel R. Delany When a young man living in an abandoned castle discovers he has strange and wonderful powers, he's delig...
Ranging in age from thirteen to twenty-one, the defiantly modern Moreau sisters--Claire, Bernadette, Pauline, and Celine--express radically different tastes and aptitudes and alternately challenge and revere their parents...
Murder provokes a hazardous escape from an unknown assailant through the two island of New Zealand, a strange land of danger, legends, romance and mystery. Marla Creighton's trip to New Zealand isn't what she expected. A chilling chain of "accidents"...
Bridie Chance has been brought up in luxury, but her world is shattered when she is told that for thirty years her much loved father has been a highly successful criminal -- and is now dead. With no home, no friends, and almost no money, Bridie finds...
Julie and Felipe were poles apart Julie had never reconciled herself to her parents' divorce, so her holiday in Majorca with her father and his new wife was filled with underlying sadness. Her sadness, Julie soon found, was nothing compared...
DEATH OF A PUNKLenny Hornblower used to drive a cab. Now he finds people for a fee--$100 a day plus expenses. When Lisa Perlont calls and asks him to find her son Blinky, it seems like an easy job. Blinky hangs out at an East Village punk club called...
Once the city of Carrig stood supreme on this planet that had been settled by space refugees in the distant, forgotten past. From every corner of this primitive lost world caravans came to trade - and to view the great King-Hunt, the gruesome test by...
Jeremy Dodge knew the Earth would face starvation if it were not for the new science of "aquaculture". With the world's population numbering many billions, only the extra food being cultivated on the bottom of the sea could feed everyone.But, like t...
Difficulties were meant to be overcome Little did Amanda realize the full meaning of Jerome Leydon's words, although she had taken the famous composer's advice and sought lessons from the gifted Dr. Lewis Elsworth. Lewis had been patiently...
December 7th, 1980. The United States Naval Carrier Nimitz is the finest warship in the world. She is carrying a nuclear payload that can level a continent. And a fleet of fighter jets that can deliver it. Her crew is a handpicked one -- like Captain...
All she had worked for was in jeopardy Christine knew she was on dangerous ground when she accepted a luncheon invitation from Natalie, her client's ex-fiancee. But the opportunity to learn what had happened on the day of the crime seemed irres...
Although she was no elegant beauty, Louisa Bardoff had a lively mind and a quiet charm that made her seem beautiful. Especially to young Lord Geffrey, who, misunderstanding Louisa's interest in another, resolved to put her out of his mind. When Lo...
ENTER THE WORLD OF TRANSMUTATIONS -- MENTAL AND ELEMENTAL, ALCHEMICAL AND ACADEMIC NIGHT AND THE LOVES OF JOE DICOSTANZO by Samuel R. Delany When a young man living in an abandoned castle discovers he has strange and wonderful powers, he's delig...
Not all evil hides in the dark.World War II veteran Jeff Blanchard got the call before he got the letter. His new daughter-in-law, Angie, has chilling news -- his son Mike suddenly disappeared from their motel in Mexico. Then, the letter arrives. Sen...
Edward Weyland is far from your average vampire: not only is he a respected anthropology professor but his condition is biological ââ,¬â€ť rather than supernatural. He lives discrete lifetimes bounded by decades of hibernation and steals blood from ...
Three more classic tales in which the Saint takes an office job with a twist, tackles the ultimate locked-room mystery and stumbles across a remote Welsh inn where a series of strange things are happening.…...
AN UNEXPECTED LEGACY With little to live on, spirited Jean Lindsay lived a rather dismal life with her nasty, drunken uncle. She was always the object of ridicule, that is, until news of her unexpected inheritance spread. Suddenly her worn dresses...
A girl's joy turned to a woman's sorrow In her very first moment of passion, Carissa had yielded to Cade Fernand. He was a famous singer, handsome -- and blind. Her love was a beautiful dream -- and a bad mistake. It took eight years fo...
Her beloved Mark had come back to her It didn't matter that he was now a cripple -- Yvette still loved him and intended to marry him. Then the mysterious Phillip Alban came into her life, and she found herself caught up in a whirlpool of su...
OUTLAW MARINE!The U.S. Army has invaded the Japanese-occupied Philippine Islands, and on their heels are the Marines. Right away, Sergeant James Hawk is assigned to a division recapturing the Philippines from the Japanese. But as an inter-service riv...
To hide his Nazi past, Koessler races against the efforts of a Jew and a Dutch businessman to get to the American B-25, now sunken in the Zuider Zee, that he piloted in 1945 in an attempt to transport a high-ranking Nazi official to Ireland...
No one could understand why Colin and Roy were best friends. Colin was so shy; Roy was so popular. Colin was nervous around girls; Roy was a ladies' man. Colin was fascinated by Roy - and Roy was fascinated by death. Then one day Roy asked his timid ...
The island was lost-dropped from sight and memory-for not less than four centuries. Once a cenobite shared his hermitage with the island's crawling things, but that was all briefly. A year, more, who knows? He died unrecorded. Lost like the island, h...
From the ashes of war...fueled by lust, greed, and passion, they rose to splendorous new heights.... Three generations of men and women...the masters and slaves whose sacrifice and savagery made Beulah Land the pride of the Old South...the sons an...
"World''s End (first published by William Morrow) is about love, corruption, and retribution in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina swept much of that world away. Nostalgically bittersweet, intricately plotted, it works on several levels -- as a fam...
Kirkus' ReviewBe prepared, if you tackle this historical crime novel of 18th-century Iceland, to take notes as you go along. It isn't only the Icelandic names that generate confusion--the Thorsteinssons and Thingvellirs and Vestmannaeyjars and Haflid...
From the Spanish sierras to the French Pyrenees, one desperate cause unites them.As the stromclouds gather in the passionate fight against the Fascists, a young Spanish countess and a trained american assassin join forces with the partisans in a desp...
The moonless night concealed violence Bettina went out onto her balcony to savor the cool night air under the starry Moroccan sky. She could hear waves breaking on the shore. But her breath caught as she glanced down the rugged cliff to the sea...
Felicity wanted his love -- not his money Felicity was eager to help Lydia Harfield regain the use of her paralyzed legs. Lydia's son, Garth, however, was the most arrogant, provocative man she'd ever met! Contrary to his suspicions, she...
VEGETABLES CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH! Old Agatha Treadway baked her own bread, canned her own vegetables---and died of botulism in her very own kitchen. Accident, says Dr. Druffitt. Murder, says neighbor Janet Wadman. And says it again when ...
ENTER THE WORLD OF TRANSMUTATIONS -- MENTAL AND ELEMENTAL, ALCHEMICAL AND ACADEMIC NIGHT AND THE LOVES OF JOE DICOSTANZO by Samuel R. Delany When a young man living in an abandoned castle discovers he has strange and wonderful powers, he's delig...
Mara had locked her feelings away Aloof, cold as ice - that was Mara Prentiss. And she felt she had every reason to be that way. Her father's infidelity had killed her mother. That's what love leads to, Mara thought. Mara hated her fat...
City sophisticate and country girl Jonni was both. She'd never really given up her love for country living--but now she was a fashion model in New York. Her fiance, Trevor, fitted in with her glamorous city life-style. Gabe Stockman, howeve...
THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE. That's what the townspeople had called Nancy Keith's father when they lynched him many years ago. Now the beautiful schoolteacher had returned to the town of Sycamore to seek vengeance for her father's death. She would prove ...
ENTER THE WORLD OF TRANSMUTATIONS -- MENTAL AND ELEMENTAL, ALCHEMICAL AND ACADEMIC NIGHT AND THE LOVES OF JOE DICOSTANZO by Samuel R. Delany When a young man living in an abandoned castle discovers he has strange and wonderful powers, he's delig...
WILD AND WILLFUL - that is how Dorinda seems compared to her sister, the oh-so-feminine younger daughter of the Earl of Tillbury. Yet Dorinda loves the color pink as much as she adores the "manly" sport of riding...so much so that when the Earl's car...
It was love at first sight between Clarice and Elias, but, alas. Clarice's cousin had seen Elias first! Clarice was demure, unassuming and bewildered by her coming-out... neither as self-assured nor as self-willed as her cousin Henrietta. But ...
Welcome to Gavagan's Bar - The Most Peculiar Drinking Establishment in the Universe - presided over by Mr. Aloysius P. Cohan, bartender. Harkin to the tales of such regular and not-so-regular customers as: * Councilman Maguire, who brought his own le...
ENTER THE WORLD OF TRANSMUTATIONS -- MENTAL AND ELEMENTAL, ALCHEMICAL AND ACADEMIC NIGHT AND THE LOVES OF JOE DICOSTANZO by Samuel R. Delany When a young man living in an abandoned castle discovers he has strange and wonderful powers, he's delig...
Originally published in Spanish in 1970, Watunna is the epic history and creation stories of the Makiritare, or Yekuana, people living along the northern bank of the Upper Orinoco River of Venezuela, a region of mountains and virgin f...
An idealistic Quaker ambulance driver stationed in Europe marries a young Dutch girl recently liberated from a Nazi concentration camp and returns with her to America, where they take up the cause of the American Indians...
He was acting like a jealous man But the moment the thought entered her head, Tanya dismissed it as utterly impossible. A person had to have feelings in order to be jealous, and Prince Nikolai hadn't earned the name Ice King for nothing. He see...
ENTER THE WORLD OF TRANSMUTATIONS -- MENTAL AND ELEMENTAL, ALCHEMICAL AND ACADEMIC NIGHT AND THE LOVES OF JOE DICOSTANZO by Samuel R. Delany When a young man living in an abandoned castle discovers he has strange and wonderful powers, he's delig...
Linda was young, beautiful - and the bait in a top-secret mission directed from Moscow. A captive of the Red Falcons, she was to be part of the strategy used to capture her grandfather, Martin Wagner, supposedly a retired Texas businessman. But acc...
CHURCHWARDEN MURDERED DURING SERVICE ... screamed the headlines. But Inspector Morse found there was more to it than the headlines. Two bodies more, for a start. After the second death, the case was closed. Everyone agreed the murderer had commit...
CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson is back: Now-retired Scotland Yard superintendent James Pibble isn’t about to go quietly into the night -- not when there’s a murder case or two (or three) to solve At Flycatchers, a well-to-do nursing home...
Who are the "Masters" of Everon? Masters of Everon, announces the brass plate on the door of the original Everon colonists' corporate headquarters. But somehow Everon resisted all their efforts; it was as if the planet itself fought against human ...
ENTER THE WORLD OF TRANSMUTATIONS -- MENTAL AND ELEMENTAL, ALCHEMICAL AND ACADEMIC NIGHT AND THE LOVES OF JOE DICOSTANZO by Samuel R. Delany When a young man living in an abandoned castle discovers he has strange and wonderful powers, he's delig...
All Jack Sanford meant to do was visit old haunts, see old friends, look up an old girlfriend for old times sake. But what started out as a nostalgic trip down Memory Lane turned into a dizzying plunge into terror, as Jack found himself the prime sus...
BOUND BY PASSION A world of unquenchable desire was unleashed when the dashing Rupert Torrington walked into her life. Harriet Deane would be swept from a cloistered life in Victoria's London to the exotic brilliance of the silk traders' C...
A tale of the north-easter and the salt-weathered characters of the Norfolk coast, or the fiercely loyal community of Marram, the home of Adam, Seth and Joshua lifeboat. Hilary Rudd had a penny box - a Delph replica of a lifeboatman's head. An act ...
This book moves from Scotland to Malaya - before British Raj and now - and then to war-torn Vietnam and Cambodia...Virginia meets Gareth casually in the Western Isles, with no inkling of the sacrifice he must make for her. Maybe Rat Fergusson steals...
END OF THE QUEST It had all begun with the theft of the Orb that had so long protected the West from the evil God Torah. Before that, Garion had been a simple farm boy. Afterward, he discovered that his aunt was really the Sorceress Polgara and hi...
Describes the secret activities of the Caretakers of Wonder, who perform such magical tasks as putting up new stars, keeping the night buttoned up against the cold, and mending old clouds, all while we sleep....
It was no fund of goodness in Sir Hugo and young Lord Devaney that prompted them to turn Marin's future into a game. They had found the lovely young runaway in dire straits--accused of theft and wantonness. Now they wager that Lord Devaney can ...
She bowed to men of wealth and power -- but defied a king for love! Tessa -- she played the great stages of Europe, celebrating her talent, her freedom, her love for Rene. Yet she would resist many men before she could be with the one she burned to p...
ENTER THE WORLD OF TRANSMUTATIONS -- MENTAL AND ELEMENTAL, ALCHEMICAL AND ACADEMIC NIGHT AND THE LOVES OF JOE DICOSTANZO by Samuel R. Delany When a young man living in an abandoned castle discovers he has strange and wonderful powers, he's delig...
SHE CRAVED ADVENTURE! Even if she had to shear her hair and wear boots and pants to get it. But Phemie didn't want to be a man. SHE WANTED TO BE ALL THE WOMAN SHE COULD BE... to awaken pure love in the heart of a jaded courtier, to lose h...
FROM MONTREAL TO MONTANA, HE RAN WITH A PACK OF WOLVES Canada Jack and his gang were killers. But the blueblooded outlaw had friends in high places -- the Mounties' hands were tied. It was left to U.S. Marshal Long to get their man. And a certa...
Her fiancee was tall, dark and handsome. A pity! When she wanted someone witty, kind and gentle Her cousin Stephen was just the right man for her, Bryony's mother insisted. A fine figure of a man--who pledged his undying love. But Bryony often thoug...
They were love's vanquished children! Sarah Finch: Prisoner, schoolteacher, seductress, she was a Texas lass driven to desire a dashing Mexican rebel leader...the coppery haired "gringa" who would be tested by the roughness of Pancho Villa's band,...
Writers of the past and present--from Thomas Love Peacock, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe to William Burroughs, Terry Southern, and Hunter Thompson--tell strange stories of people under the influence of various types of drugs...
The basis for the Academy Award-winning major motion picture starring Best Actor nominee Richard Dix and Best Actress nominee Irene Dunne.This vivid and sweeping tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush, from Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber, traces the stunn...
Originally published in 1958, Ice Palace is Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber's classic and mighty novel about the taming of a great northern wilderness -- Alaska.Czar Kennedy came to Alaska for money and power, Thor Storm for a dream. This is the st...
He is known to the Germans as 'Sphinx', to others as Alex Wolff, a European businessman. He arrives suddenly in Cairo from out of the desert, armed with a radio set, a lethal blade and a copy of Daphne du Maurier's REBECCA - a ruthless man with a bu...
LADY HATHAWAY MUST HAVE BEEN MAD TO INVITE BOTH OF THEM. THE GREATEST FOOL IN THE WORLD KNEW THAT ONE DID NOT ASK THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF AVONDALE TO THE SAME PARTY The Duchess of Avondale--Belle to her friends --was absolutely finished with her m...
Unsettling words from his dying father set twelve-year-old William on a mission to eighteenth-century London where, in the course of searching for his father's mysterious business partner John Diamond, he encounters an odd assortment of characters, s...
The story of William the Conqueror and his wife Matilda, the first queen of England. When beautiful and brilliant Lady Matilda, daughter of the wealthiest man in Christendom, marries William the Bastard Duke of Normandy, the repercussions of this str...
Meet Kate, a successful internist, who locks horns with her surgeon husband, Tyler, and his daughters - before she learns what she really wants. Jane and Leo Fahnestock - whose child presents a challenge to their already stormy marriage. Mark Kore...
THE PRETTY PREY Chloe Rothwell had reached the ripe age of twenty-four without being wed. Her father's demise, and her forced exile from the Regency London marriage mart, had seen to that. But now an unexpected legacy had made Chloe a catch wort...
ELIZABETH AND ALEXANDER ... A COUPLE MARKED BY DESTINY TO KNOW HARDSHIP AND TRAGEDY; DEPRIVATION AND SHAME; AND FINALLY, THE SPLENDOR OF A LASTING LOVE. From the lap of London luxury to the poverty-ridden streets of Calcutta to the elegant ballroo...
She was no longer Miss Deborah Jones Now they called her Laughing Flame. Gone was the naive English girl, with the white skin and bright red hair, a girl who knew nothing of life or love. In her place was a strong Navajo woman dressed in buck...
Cornelia Stewart had it all: heiress to a vast shipping fortune, member of San Francisco's aristocracy, a woman whose captivating beauty and manner caused heads to turn, eyebrows to raise. But she loved Avery Curran, a restless man who deserted her t...
New Book. Purchased from long time Charlotte bookstore(all new books) liquidation sale. While at the sale, I noticed many of the books were being pulled out of old boxes at the back of the store. Many of the books had obviously been in shop for many ...
Homeless, friendless, and pursued by the law for stabbing a lecherous nobleman in defense of her honor, lovely Katy Coswell was abducted aboard the pirate ship Hawk, where she was forced to share the bed of cruel and relentless James Bartlett, captai...
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Dell Publishing, 1980. Mass Market Paperback.
Scotch got them through the day. sex got them through the night and money got them out of every jam until the Marth's vineyard affair....
ENTER THE WORLD OF TRANSMUTATIONS -- MENTAL AND ELEMENTAL, ALCHEMICAL AND ACADEMIC NIGHT AND THE LOVES OF JOE DICOSTANZO by Samuel R. Delany When a young man living in an abandoned castle discovers he has strange and wonderful powers, he's delig...
She would be sold to the highest bidder There she stood in the center of a group of leering plantation owners, her once beautiful clothes in rags. Unjustly convicted of theft, Verity had been thrown into Newgate Prison, then shipped to Virginia to...
This classic novel and winner of the Pulitzer Prize tells the story of an Italian-American major in World War II who wins the love and admiration of the local townspeople when he searches for a replacement for the 700-year-old town bel...
In the backwoods of Kentucky, on the eve of the American Revolution, brothels thrived and men had their way with the local Indian beauties. Marna, untamed and innocent, was forced to disguise her charms to escape their unquenchable lust. But conceali...
Hard Cover; Very Good; Dust Jacket - Very Good; Doubleday & Co. First Edition / First printing. Hardcover, Very Good in Very Good DJ. Ex-library copy with typical markings and remnants of card pocket on FFEP...
MATELANDS LIVED DANGEROUSLY AND I WAS A MATELAND. I KNEW I WAS GOING TO ATTEMPT THIS OUTRAGEOUS MASQUERADE. I KNEW IT WAS WRONG, BUT I HAD TO DO IT. From the moment young Suewellyn caught her first glimpse of the Mateland family castle, she knew s...
The snow started falling around noon. Its clean white flakes blanketed Boston within hours. No one ever dreamed that under its cover the most hidden passions would surface. A new strangler was choking Boston. A chilling novel of men and women facing ...
The USS Mako was as fearless and bold as any submarine that ever prowled the blue Pacific. Her mission: seek out and destroy the hitherto invincible ships of the Japanese Imperial Navy-and revenge the earlier defeats of a long and dirty war....
This early work by Robert E. Howard was originally published in 1936 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Vultures of Whapeton' is one of Howard's short stories in the western genre. Robert Ervin Ho...
THEY WERE SIX GIRLS IN THE CLASS OF '63 -- AND NONE OF THEM EVER DREAMED OF REALITY They were the chosen girls of their college class, the brightest and most beautiful, and this is what happened to them since their graduation in the '60s, those da...