Eleven essential classics in one volumeThis volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas published between 1929 and 1964, containing eleven great classics. No anthology better captures the birth of science fiction as a lit...
Because it all seems so improbable-so horribly impossible to me now, sitting here safe and sane in my own library-I hesitate to record an episode which already appears to me less horrible than grotesque. Yet, unless this story is written now, I know ...
Professor Clayton leads a double life. He is happily married, but there is another woman and also a teenage son who learns that the person he calls ‘uncle’ is actually his father. Now, Clayton is being blackmailed, but is determined not to give i...
A companion to the Caldecott Honor Book Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book
Jambo Means Hello introduces children to the Swahili alphabet with helpful pronunciation keys, while presenting East African culture and lifestyles t...
On April 15, 1960, a plane crashed in the untamed African jungle. The Survivor - a young girl! Raised by fierce cats, Luana grows up to be as savage as her jungle habitat. And now she watches the winding overgrown paths for hapless humans...
Once more Geoffrey Weston, modern couterpart of Sherlock Holmes, brings his intellect and wit to bear upon a complex dilemma. And once again he solves the unsolvable! A missing diamond collection. A confused sailor. A tape-marked church pew. A lump o...
Whitbread Literary Award-winning novelist Jennifer Johnston''s story of two young Irish men, whose defiant friendship spans class and, later, rank at the onset of World War I.
Born to an aristocratic family on an estate outside of Dublin, ...
Maxine Kumin's novel is onve of the first serious fictions to deal with the new possibiliti4es of man=woman relationships. It is about the genuine liberation of two people struggling honestly toward a mutually rewarding love. It is a refreshing and...
ETERNAL YOUTH...ETERNAL TORMENT! Barely out of her teens, winsome Danielle Devine was already an orphan and a widow. No man on earth, it seemed, could be to her what her loving father and handsome young husband had been. Was she doomed, then, to w...
Kate Warwick was abruptly brought back from Holiday to face bad news: her father's illness, and some unaccountable difficulties in the family business, a huge luxury store. Marcus Brent offered to help her pull through; but Kate, mistrustful a...
PIRATES AHEAD! Blade is stranded on a raft in the middle of the ocean when he spots several survivors of a ship-wreck. He takes them on board. Together, they weather a savage storm and kill a band of ferocious pirates who are in pursuit. Slowly...
Samantha had been in love with Greg since her early teens. When he realised that he felt the same, the one time teenage sweethearts decide to marry. They set the wedding date, but suddenly Greg postpones the wedding, becomes withdrawn, and mysterious...
AN EXQUISITE NOVEL OF A VANISHED AGE AND A WOMAN'S INMOST HEART The time is the golden Edwardian summer of 1910. In the English country town of Brightsea, a mysterious arrives, seeking to rent an isolated cottage. Barely in her thirties, still...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
Pretty Christie Evans knew that going to an exclusive California ski resort was a foolish extravagance. But she had promised her closest friend she would come, and besides, she wanted one last fling before starting a career as a working girl. Chri...
Was Richard III Framed? When attractive American Jacqueline Kirby is invited to an English country mansion for a weekend costume affair, she expects only one mystery. Since the hosts and guests are all fanatic devotees of King Richard III, they ho...
An old-fashioned panoramic story of two people who shared a lifetime overflowing with warmth and wisdom, people and events. It will make you believe in love again. "Magnificent." San Francisco Chronicle...
“Is that the Doctor?” Yes, it is. Why, she’s a woman!” Andrea Fields had heard those words many times. But until now she had never doubted herself as a doctor…or as a woman. Because now she knew that Luke Liddell wanted her. That he...
Snooping around town newcomer Mrs. Richardson's house, Paul and his friends discover a short wave radio, piles of notebooks, and foreign mail and assume that she is a spy, but their prying soon backfires....
A bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana, reissued in a strikingly designed trade paperback edition. Before Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray there was Jean Shepherd: a master monologist and writer who spun the materials of his all...
A young doctor struggles to maintain his ideals in the face of personal tragedy, medical quackery, and political intrigue. Ran Warren was an idealistic young surgeon. But he soon learned that not all his colleagues shared his idealism -- or his et...
Bill Taylor is a good ballplayer on Miller’s Laundry, a bad team. More than anything he wants his father to move the family back to California where he’d played on a good team. But then Tony Spain joins Miller’s Laundry and turns it around. Ton...
SHE WAS BEWITCHED BY THE HANDSOME, MYSTERIOUS STRANGER... As if under a spell, lovely, shy Tamara Lewis became infatuated with Andre Piedmont at first sight. In a daze of love she became the bride of a man she hardly knew and mistress of Stonehave...
Stapledon projects two separate futures for humanity, depending not on the outcome of World War II but on the failure or success of a future "Tibetan Renaissance" to influence the temper and ideology of the militaristic empires that threaten it....
Leonora ventured to the Isola de Marta and there met Jason Connor, the famous racing driver, blinded in a car crash, but still a tremendously attractive man. How could she help falling in love with such a man? But when Jason underwent the operati...
Here, in these powerful stories, Richard Wright takes readers into this landscape once again.
Each of the eight stories in Eight Men focuses on a black man at violent odds with a white world, reflecting Wright's views about racism in our societ...
Once upon a time in Colorado lived a man named Abednego Danner and his wife, Matilda. Abednego Danner was a professor of biology in a small college in the town of Indian Creek. He was a spindling wisp of a man, with a nature drawn well into itself by...
This collection of verse for children includes poems describing elves, changelings, wizards, ghosts, mermaids, incantations and curses. The editor has also included poems which seem to reflect the magic of the natural world and everyday life....
Roland Pagel was a dynamic man who always got what he wanted. And it appeared he wanted Clarissa -- which suited her very well. But the glamorous Simone was still very much on the scene. How dared Roland resent Clarissa's friendships with other me...
In this classic graphic novel: Tintin stumbles across a model ship at the Old Street Market. Only it isn't just any model ship-it's the Unicorn, carved by one of Haddock's ancestors, and it holds a clue to finding pirate treasure!...
"This new format, crafted specifically for younger readers, features the original Tintin graphic novel plus brand-new content. Go ""behind the scenes"" with the true story about people, places and antiquities that Herge drew from, filled with fun fac...
Jaine Dare was, to say the least of it, swamped by her spectacular relatives -- her aunt, a spoilt darling of the London stage, and her equally glamorous cousin Laraine. She was accustomed always to take back place to them and making herself useful i...