Flap: This is a book that spans six hundred years. It begins with the marriage, in about 1300, of fifteen year old Melisande, a girl of southern France to Sir Hugh de Hervey, six years older than herself and an English knight and landowner. With her ...
A bitterly comic novel of middle-aged angst and middle-class American life in the 1960s, by the acclaimed author of Little Big Man It is the late sixties in suburbia, and Carlo Reinhart’s life is a mess. He’s fat, broke, middle aged, and unemploy...
Her fictitious lives have to be read to be believed, yet as they happen they seem perfectly plausible, almost terrifyingly inevitable. The girl is quite beautiful, tall, with a kind of Garbo-like way of walking and moving and wearing her clothes. She...
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"Amboseli, Kilaguni, Manyara, Serengeti -the places on the itinerary meant nothing to seventeen-year-old Kim Kimberly when she started out on safari in East Africa. Before she was to leave, however, the strange names would haunt her like the beat...
Short stories from the science fiction master -- including the tale that inspired 2001: A Space Odyssey. These stories present a brilliant showcase of Arthur C. Clarke’s many-layered approach to the moral dilemmas of scientific advancem...
An uncannily prophetic novel of early space exploration from the legendary “colossus of science fiction” and creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey (The New Yorker). The world’s first lunar spacecraft is about to launch. The ship, Prometheus, ...
The Blue Ruby is stolen! All the witches and wizards in town rush for protection to Dorrie's house to consult her mother, the Big Witch. While they are busy making powerful magic in the secret tower, Dorrie is accidentally "glued out" of ...
Len Deighton -- one of the masters of twentieth-century espionage fiction -- combines his expertise as both historian and novelist in Bomber, the classic World War II novel that relates, in devastating detail, the twenty-four-hour story of an all...
The residents of a South London street face World War II together in this novel from the New York Times"bestselling author of The Dreaming Suburb.
Years ago, the Great War tore apart the lives of the families living on Manor Park...
The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, ...
Scotland Yard detective James Pibble travels to a remote Scottish island to free an old man from a dangerous cult of self-proclaimed saints and saviors in this mystery by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson Ninety-two-year-old Sir Francis Francis ...
Historical fiction set just prior to and during the Revolutionary War about the life of the belle of Philadelphia who became Mrs. Benedict Arnold....
Dust jacket notes:"Few writers have the ability to emblazon and project an authentic past the way John Ehle has done, and few have his narrative skill. In this new novel he has presented the American Civil War in such a way that it shows the shape of...
Christopher Gordon, aged sixteen, is the second son of Major Gordon of Watchhill plantation in colonial Virginia. Kit’s older brother Charles is already in London, reading law and indulging is penchant for gambling. A letter from him hints at troub...
When Ruth's fiance died, she vowed never to fall in love again but remain true to Steve's memory, and this decision she stuck to even when she met Alec Hilton. She felt she was deceiving Alec - but wasn't it herself she was really deceiving?...
Robin had gone to West Norman to spend a quiet holiday with her brother and sister-in- law -- but it looked as though it would be anything but quiet, with an ex-boyfriend turning up to make a nuisance of him self -- and that annoying Doctor Toby Evan...
There is absolutely nothing in Glyneath that could be worth leaving civilization for, except the scenery," someone told Nurse Helen when she arrived in the little Welsh village to work. But soon Helen found it impossible to agree -- and it wa...
Starusch, a 40-year-old teacher of German and history, undergoes protracted dental treatment in an office where TV is used to distract the patients. Under local anesthesia, the patient projects onto the screen his past and present with the fluidity a...
The feud between the two families of Malvern and Lingard was long standing and bitter, but it looked like coming to an end when Sara Malvern became engaged to Alex Lingard. Ralph had tricked Sara into marrying him. She was determined to pay him ba...
A classic novel from the master of science fiction, Frank Herbert's Whipping Star. “Herbert is one of the most thought-provoking writers of our time; by focusing on ‘alien' culture, he makes us examine what the true definition of ‘human' is....
Exotic Bangkok was the setting for love Virginia had long carried a torch. for Brent but he had eyes only for her sophisticated sister, Anna. When Brent was blinded in an accident and Anna jilted him, Virginia couldn't resist the chance to ...
Della Lane and Venetia were the best of friends, and Della was the nicest of girls, but she was so attractive that unfortunately she always managed to outshine Venetia. When the pair of them went to Africa to work for several months they were sure...
Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s The Sound of the Mountain is a beautiful rendering of the predicament of old age — the gradual, reluctant narrowing of a human life, along with the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate its clos...
HUNTED MAN Galloway was thinking of Flagan. Back in those mountains somewhere he was fighting to keep alive... if he was alive. Without weapons, in a rugged country where the only humans he found were apt to be enemies, his chances of survival dep...
Ijon Tichy, Lem's Candide of the Cosmos, encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space that serve to satirize science, the rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride. Line drawings by the Author. Translated by Michael Kandel. A...
MS. JULIE Julie Bryce was beautiful and independent. She didn't know exactly what she wanted in a man, but he mustn't be rich, powerful or handsome. Investigating a jewel theft that had clouded her family's good name, Julie was drawn into a world ...
One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming w...
Moving On anticipates McMurtry’s Terms of Endearment and explores the emotional journey of a young woman against a sprawling metropolis in 1970s Texas. Larry McMurtry’s Moving On, his epic first novel in the acclaimed Houston series, has long bee...
Early American writer Herman Melville is best known for his great American novel "Moby Dick." However, Melville was also a prolific and honest short story writer. His stories play with irony, twisting the fates of his protagonists and making ...
Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison powerfully examines our obsession with beauty and conformity -- and asks questions about race, class, and gender with her characteristic subtly and grace. In Morrison’s bestselling first novel, Pecola Breedlove ...
"Believe me, Jody, this is no joke." Adam's dark eyes held hers, and for the first time in her life she felt afraid. Really afraid. Her aunt and uncle, Detective Morgan, the magistrate and the people who had to bear the brunt of her escapades had ...
It was when Nurse Harriet's Dutch friend Sieske invited Harriet home that Harriet caught up with a dream from her past - the man she had always imagined herself marrying. But alas, she was not the only girl to have this dream where this particula...
Joe doesn’t plan to stow away on the ocean liner. And horrible Harriet, who helped him hide, isn’t his idea of a friend…not until strange things begin to happen on the ship. The mysterious bearded stranger disappears…was he thrown overboard? ...
Love, determination, and courage abound on a picturesque Georgia island as the St. Simon's Trilogy continues. In her second novel, the author of The Beloved Invader takes you once again to St. Simons, the enchanting Georgia sea island that was the se...
Rowan Delaney, everyone said, was the incarnation of his highwayman ancestor, the Black Delaney--and Nicola could well believe it, when she was whisked off to live with the turbulent Delarcy family in their castle in Ireland!...
The national best-seller that launched the author's career introduces his most famous creation, Edward X. Delaney, hero of the Deadly Sin novels, in a tale of mystery, murder, and intrigue behind closed doors. Reissue....
For a year the glamorous Sylvie had been corresponding with Adam Soames, and the personality revealed in the letters had so intrigued him that now he was coming home to visit her. But the letters had actually been written by Sylvie's younger, ...
Sarah had all kinds of names for the guardian she hadn't seen for years--the G.I. (Guardian of Innocence), The Myth, Poor Fish -- just as she had all kinds of ingenious plans to get rid of him when he came. She wanted no interference in her young...
Simeon Krug has a vision--and the vast wealth necessary to turn dream into reality. What he wishes is to communicate with the stars, to answer signals from deep space. The colossal tower he's constructing for this purpose soars above the Arctic tundr...
One day John asks his friend Dennis, "What are we gonna do when we grow up?"
The two boys walk through Harlem, Manhattan's UPTOWN, and try to decide. In their uptown world, they see junkies, cops, Brothers, karate experts, and hippies, and the...
WHO WAS MERLIN? Was the famed magician of Camelot and King Arthur's court really a sinister, all-powerful being from another world? Was he truly a Prince of Darkness? Or was he a man with the passions of other mortals? A man with unique intelligen...
In 1968, Magnum photographer Dennis Stock took a 5-week road trip along the California highways, documenting the height of the counterculture hippie scene. These black and white photos were compiled to create California Trip, originally published in ...
From the enigmatic author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, comes The Carreta, the second volume in B. Traven's epic multi-volume "Jungle Novel" series.An astonishing portrait of Mexican life in the early twentieth century, the story follows a you...
Two friends return home from the Korean War to find their world -- and themselves -- irrevocably altered in this novel hailed by Kurt Vonnegut as “gruesomely accurate and enchanting” and “wildly sexy” Willard “Sonny” Burns and Tom “Gunn...
Driven by the futility of life in the South, a black tenant farmer deserts his wife and son to go North, only to return to Georgia years later where he gains a third chance to free himself from spiritual and social bondage...
One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather and are going on a bicycl...
Originally published in 1955 by noted children’s author Hazel Wilson, this book, set in the 1820s, tells the story of young Brad Porter who, when his father’s return from Boston to collect Brad’s mother and sisters is delayed due to sickness, i...
Had Ricki O'Neill been impulsive, allowing her wandering Irish spirit to take her to Spain alone? Why, too, should Don Arturo de Cazalet be looking for a physicotherapist at just that time? Don Arturo had engaged young Ricki to look after his cri...