Set in the darkest days of the Great Depression, Paper Moon is the story of what happens when Addie's mother is killed in a car crash, leaving her daughter in the questionable hands of Long Boy, a con-man who may or may not be her biological father. ...
”Sex-filled, escapist, utterly unpretentious.” " New York TimesJackie Collins beckons you to experience the hottest, wildest domain of pleasure-seekers in 1969 London in The Stud, where the desires and dalliances of the wife of a billionaire fi...
SHE BRAVED SCANDAL AND A WRECKED ROMANCE TO GUARD ANOTHER'S SECRET "I'M GOING TO HAVE FUN!' Donna announced, her defiant words blurred by the bourbon she was downing. "That's why I quit my job. I'm going to live a little!" Jackie looked at her ...
A proud Apache brave struggles to preserve his heritage and his land against the encroachments of white civilization, only to find his son becoming part of it in this classic novel of the American Indian and his fate...
A proud Apache brave struggles to preserve his heritage and his land against the encroachments of white civilization, only to find his son becoming part of it in this classic novel of the American Indian and his fate...
EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY… LIZ WALKER LONGS TO ADOPT the scruffy stray she finds on her doorstep one day. But she can't take her home -- her aunt Alice is allergic to dogs. With the help of her brother, Bruce, Liz manages to find the perfect home...
Discovering Analees Williamsburg, a fifteen-year-old runaway slave in 1810, August King faces a moral dilemma in which he must decide between turning the girl in for a reward or risking his life to help her. Reprint. Movie tie-in....
When Tim Burnet-Wilde callously broke her young sister's heart, Andrea decided to pay him back in his own coin; so she got a job as his secretary, intending to make him fall for her and then leave him flat. But what if Tim didn't react as expected?...
Voyage to love...and danger! Lisa Halliday is a strawberry blonde and an expert archeologist -- the perfect bait to catch a thief who's stolen priceless ancient Egyptian jewelry from the London Museum. The suspect is touring the Mediterranean ...
One of the great literary curios of the 20th century, Save Me the Waltz is the first and only novel by the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. During the years when her husband was working on "Tender is the Night" - which many critics consider his masterpie...
Boysie Oakes, ex anguished agent, ex defective private eye, and greying horrifically at the temples, is facing the wilderness of middle-age supported only by the Welfare State.
At long last Boysie Oakes has reached seedy maturity - and he plan...
Henry Graham Greene, OM, CH, (2 October 1904 - 3 April 1991) was an English writer, playwright and literary critic.[3] His works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world. Greene was noted for his ability to combine seriou...
In this delightfully funny retelling of the classic story, the emperor hires two tailors to make him a new set of elegant and magical clothes - clothes that foolish people will think are invisible! When the emperor parades through town in his fine ne...
In seventeenth-century England, a terrible accident forces orphaned Philip Marsham to flee London in fear for his life. Bred to the sea, he signs on with the Rose of Devon, a dark frigate bound for the quiet shores of Newfoundland. Philip's bold spir...
First published in 1915, Knulp was Hesse's most popular book in the years before Demian. This is the first edition in English.Knulp is an amiable vagabond who wanders from town to town, staying with friends who feed and shelter him. Consistently refu...
As Edward IV lay on his deathbed, he had no knowledge of the dark conspiracy which was to surround his son, and his brother Richard after his death. He decreed that Richard should act as protector to the young Edward, but his wish was honored for jus...
A different kind of range war erupts between cowboys and ranchers in The Day the Cowboys Quit from seven-time Spur Award-winning author Elmer Kelton. The time is 1883, the place is the Texas Panhandle. Cowboys refuse to be stigmatized as drinkers and...
'MY PARENTS ARE OF A CERTAIN TYPE OF PERSON...ABOUT WHOM YOU CULD SAY THAT...THEY'RE SAFER IN JAIL.' SHOCKED AT THE ONSET OF PUBERTY AND THE CATASTROPHE SHE BELIEVES IT BROUGHT ON HER PARENTS, BARBARA HAS SINCE BEEN A MOST DUTIFUL DAUGHTER. BOUND IN ...
Castle in the Trees -- the very name of it filled Stephanie with excited anticipation. The reality -- the fairytale castle home in Portugal of the aristocratic Maroc family -- was even more fascinating than she had imagined. It was mysterious, fabulo...
David Bosworth and Penelope Lorrimer seem to have everything against them. He is a penniless undergraduate at Oxford with a head full of dreams; she is the daughter of a well-to-do Edinburgh family who have great ambitions for her. Nevertheless their...
Catriona had enjoyed her course in Edinburgh and especially her dates with Robin. Now she was ready to begin a new life and Robin seemed likely to be part of it. What a time, then, to meet Andrew again--the man she'd been trying for three years t...
In the English village of Fairacre, the retired schoolteachers Dolly Clare and Emily Davis enjoyed a remarkable friendship, as this moving volume reveals. Childhood playmates in Beech Green, they would remain close throughout their long lives, eventu...
A realistic and emotional look at a woman battling mental illness and societal pressures written by iconic American writer Sylvia Plath.“It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath’s voice in The Bell Jar that make thi...
When every last one of the Ohippi hydro-electric power plants are destroyed by flood, Rhys Jardin is one of many who loses everything. But somehow Jardin's longtime partner, finance magnate Solly Spaeth, manages to come out of it wealthier than b...
A historical novel set in Bluegrass Kentucky and Boston just before the Civil War. Hacey Miller, son of a conservative shopkeeper, falls under the influence of Cassius M. Clay, becomes an emancipationist and returns to Kentucky to help establish Bere...
TOMORROW WILL BE BETTER... This thought was what kept Margy Shannon going--it virtually kept her alive, through her unhappy love for and marriage to Frankie Malone. Margy and Frankie loved each other very deeply yet he could never be to her the...
A darkly hilarious, wildly erotic satire of Hollywood King B., the world's most admired filmmakerwinner of a string of Oscars and awards from Cannes to Venicetakes on a new project: the most expensive, star-studded, high-quality, X-rated film ...
A famous writer travels to the remote, windswept islands of Scotland's Outer Hebrides looking for peace of mind and a chance to dispel his inner demons. On the way, a car accident throws him together with the raven-haired doctor Kathleen McNeil. ...
Cinderella herself did not have her life more completely changed than Maggie, when she was whisked by a "fairy godmother" out of an orphanage and off to South West Africa to spend a long holiday in a fairy-tale castle. There was a Prince Charming ...
It was to help out Jarvis that Jan posed as his girl friend, her sister Felicity, and accepted his uncle Ludovic Fairlie's invitation to Barracuda Isle on the Great Barrier Reef. Jan had no particular misgivings about her action, because it was obvio...
Four friends, Two couples, One year that will change their lives. Liz and Sean, both beautiful and popular, are madly in love and completely misunderstood by their parents. Their best friends, Maggie and Dennis, are shy and awkward, but willing...
First published in 1971 and now available for a younger generation with a new introduction by the author, Living Well Is the Best Revenge is Calvin Tomkins' now-classic account of the lives of Gerald and Sara Murphy, two American expatriates who form...