As chief field agent for K section, Sam had long ago narrowed the circle of those he trusted almost to the vanishing point. He had become accustomed to a solitary life spent grappling with danger and the unknown. Some people figured danger was like a...
K-Gr 2 This very slight story has a baby's wish come true. Tired of lying powerless in her crib, the frustrated baby chooses one of those magic nights when the moon is out and the tide is full to make her escape. Her toy lion becomes enormous and fie...
Returning with her protegee to her native Bahia, talkative and generously wealthy Tieta, who has been the madam of a splendid brothel, enlists the help of a big political connection to halt the building of a polluting factory...
A lecherous Oxford don, rapidly approaching sixty and horrified at the dwindling resources of his normally hyperactive libido, seeks professional advice and tours the modern Inferno of self-awareness and sexuality...
RIVERRUN IT SURVIVED THE RAVAGES OF WAR NOW IT FACED THE FURIES OF REVENGE To Cassandra Bowsmith, the kidnapped Yankee beauty, the lavish plantation stood for everything she had loved and lost... Once, its master had saved her life, and pos...
Once upon a past. . . .Millie had been a ghost for 800 years. But now, restored by the magic of Xanth, she was again a maddeningly desirable woman. She could have had any man she wanted . . . except the one she did want, Jonathan the zombie. To grant...
"I will marry the first man who asks!" Sara made her reckless statement in a moment of hurt and pique after being jilted by Cliff Iden. And for better or worse, the man listening asked her. Rede Forrest had said her desire to "show&...
The Assassin: Phoenix, code name for the best professional killer on the earth - a murderer as cold as the bullet that would stop the heart of the world. The Conspirators: Shadowy figures in the highest circles of Mideastern power, out to sabotage t...
Miles was like a desert mirage! Working in Egypt, Lorna met the fascinating Miles Faversham, who rescued her from the burning sands. Despite her hardened cynicism, Lorna fell in love with him. She thought that Miles loved her, too. But she knew...
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • John Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction exploring themes of purpose and the meaning of existence. "[Barth] ran riot over literary rules and...
Journeying to far-off worlds, the crew members of the Enterprise meet men who can live forever, other men who die at the old age of twenty-nine, a machine with the power to raise the dead, and a woman capable of toppling empires with her tears...
ONE MAN CLAIMED HER HAND Otto Maren, the eloquent man of God, whose skillful tongue seduced young Anne McLennan into marriage, and lured her from her Caribbean plantation home to the untamed Texas frontier. ONE MAN POSSESSED HER BODY Brant...
From a “master storyteller of frontier history,†the saga of a rancher who goes undercover to chase horse thieves and discovers his true destiny (Elmer Kelton, award winning author of The Good Old Boys).Texas rancher Ben Langham hired Luke S...
Drug dealing is a dangerous business, and being the head of a drug ring isimpossibly dangerous. Red Dog, a secretive one-dealer drug ring, operates on the West Coast, where he is nothing but a shadow. Red Dog is at his best when it comes to surviving...
This 1913 novel, set in the mythical kingdom of Poictesme, concerns an outlaw named Perion who falls in love with Lady Melicent, the sister of a prominent count. When Perion is captured by the heathen warlord Domnei, Melicent sets out to win hi...
PAUL ABBOTT The brilliant surgeon who had narrowly escaped being killed for a crime he hadn't committed. Suddenly he found himself in love with a beautiful quadroon woman - she had defied her master to be with him .... MICAELA Sensuous and loving, ...
They were enemies right from the start Lee's encounter with Haydn Scott, before she knew who he was, was a stormy one. Later she was horrified to discover that the arrogant stranger was a friend of her brother, Jon. Jon was delighted to hav...
A WAR WITHOUT RULES When a U.S. agent notifies his boss that something is brewing in Central America, Nick Carter is sent down to investigate, but not before his contact is stopped dead by a quick blast from a lethal can of aerosol. Nick lands ...
The Saint is on holiday in Naples when a brawl interrupts his lunch; a tweedy English tourist has casually addressed an Italian as Dino Cartelli - provoking the paunchy individual so named to set his hulking henchman on the bewildered Briton. The ...
There was a star Gate in Azeroth marked by alien fires that Morgaine must seal. But Morgaine and Vanye have brought devastation to the peaceful land. For the hordes of Shiuan were on their heels, determined to conquer a new land for themselves and to...
WHEN DANGER LOOMS, MONGO STANDS TALL An angelic little girl lay writhing in hellish agony...a rock superstar was pumping damnation into his veins...a master magician was under a curse more powerful than he...and Mongo himself was assailed by every...
In straitlaced Victorian England, seventeen-year-old Gracey Neville had flouted convention, leaving her husband-to-be high and dry at the altar. But when a gypsy warned of a sinister trap awaiting her, even free-spirited Gracey had to shudder. All...
SUICIDE MISSION!At great cost to American lives, the U.S. Marines succeeded in establishing a beachhead. In comes Sergeant James Hawk-a tough, young veteran of several suicidal missions-who's assigned to protect a Dutch plantation on an isolated part...
THEY CROSSED OCEANS AND CONTINENTS AND LOVED WITH A PASSION AS SPIRITED, BEAUTIFUL AND BOLD AS THE NEW AUSTRALIAN FRONTIER THEY FOUND... Susannah King was the daughter of the English governor of the Australian colony. Nicolas Baudin was a French exp...
AMID THE AWESOME TEMPLES IN EGYPT'S VALLEY OF THE KINGS A FABULOUS TREASURE IS WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED, A TREASURE WORTH DYING - OR KILLING - FOR. It was the magic and mystery of an empire long past that beautiful Erica Baron came to explore. Inn...
The Duke of Westhampton had a wife in the country -- and a mistress in town. This suited the Duke of Westhampton, but his young wife, whom he'd wed and tucked away on his estate with scarcely a second glance was not pleased. So, being as audaci...
Maggie Caine and her family leave New York to visit the Caine family home, an old farmhouse in Ohio, which her husband has just inherited from a distant aunt. The house, ten miles away from the nearest neighbor, was once owned by a Civil War general ...
"Is it really me you want?" Jessica asked. She tried to pull away from Brodie. It was suddenly very necessary to think clearly. Jessica's meeting with Brodie Hayes after so many years was accidental, yet devastating. The Brodi...
Rich, beautiful, elegant, she traveled on a whim from one glamorous Swiss resort to another. She was a widow, and everywhere she went an ominous retinue of bodyguards--and a hearse--followed. In the sultry sunlight of exotic Lake Como, Paul Hesse ...
Polly's heart was not really broken. It had been hurt, though, by her broken romance in England. Thorn Clemance's offer of a job as companion to the lovely Serena Clemance took Polly to the lush Australian valley where the Clemance br...
In a disturbing vision of the future, Daniel Weinreb leaves behind the repression and censorship of the Midwest to pursue a career in New York, despite the famine and poverty of the overpopulated East Coast...
Everyone in the quiet little town of Woodsdale was getting letters, from the mayor's wife to the parish priest. Someone was out to destroy the peace of mind of his - or her - friends and neighbours. But who was responsible? Whoever it was, the writer...
The amazing story of William of Orange and Mary Stuart who must fight for their right to rule and to love. When William of Orange assumes rule of the Untied Dutch Provinces, he takes Mary Stuart, heir to the English throne, as his queen. Political u...
Killed during a senseless holdup, kindhearted Ellerbee finds himself on a whirlwind tour of a distressingly familiar theme park Heaven and inner-city Hell, where he learns the truth about God's love and wrath. Reprint. NYT. ...
Kate Flemming has always been the insignificant middle sister. That is until Ross Barrow the most popular boy in school asked her out. KATE’S AN IN-BETWEEN GIRL… Not as sweet as her big sister, not as cute as the little one, Kate Fleming f...
THE ORIENTAL BROTHERHOOD OF BLOOD It was the biggest secret crime clan in the West -- with a hatchet as a symbol and a tradition of terror. They'd been smuggling contraband cargo from China into Oregon -- human cargo forbidden to enter. Now...
Kate was not going to be fooled twice Kate had fallen in love with her boss, only to have him ignore their engagement and make an opportune marriage to someone else. Never again, vowed Kate, would she get involved with a boss. When financier Ni...
From an Edgar award winner, this thriller about a physicist forced to make an A-bomb is “a splendid account of the excesses of science and bureaucracy†(The New York Times). An American physicist working in Hamburg, Jim Hawkins is on his w...
Born in Russia, Duvid Karlinsky comes to America in the hold of an immigrant ship at the turn of the 20th century and fights his way to the top as the first great Jewish-American painter. No ivory tower artist, he portrays the harsh life of New York'...
On a mission to gain Indian support for the English cause, Jeff Wyatt is captured by the dreaded Seneca tribe. Jeff quickly learns Indian ways, and through his cunning and courage his status gradually changed from slave to warrior. But Jeff does n...
FROM THE HIDEOUS JAWS OF DEATH TO THE LUSTFUL EMBRACE OF A KING Angel Dawson was a flame-haired beauty sprung from the squalor of the teeming London slums. The streets were her school, whore-masters and thieves were her teachers, and when she was ...
The Earl of Benbrook had schooled Angel Dawson well. The street accents were gone from her speech when he presented her as a gracious lady at the court of the King. And Angel had taught Nicholas, too, the lessons of love. They had earned her an even ...
Life, Death, and Justice. Dan Lassiter was a dedicated physician struggling between his duty as a doctor and the corruption that threatened to destroy his career. As an expert witness in an explosive malpractice suit, Lassiter was confronted with a b...
Stephen Goodwin's second novel is an emblematic tale of a sophisticated couple going back to the land. The restlessness that compels Anna and Steadman to move from the city to a small mountain farm in Virginia Is brought into high relief by the cycle...
The village had been called Town Central, where people learned to live with androids, and androids learned to live like humans. It had been an experiment to bolster a dying population, and it might have worked, given the chance. But there was the ...
That Maddening Marquis! The enchanting Miss Narcissa Bentham was quite confident she was more than a match for any man. She had outfoxed her miserly grandfather when he sought to turn her straitened circumstances into a straitjacket of servitude to...
In the grand style of "Someone in Killing The Great Chefs of Europe", this mystery-unlike anything Agatha Christie would dare to write-blends thrilling suspense and sophisticated erotica with low comedy and haute cuisine. (Imagine Alfred Hitchcock an...
The acclaimed author of A Good Day to Die and Warlock has written a screenplay to be directed by Edward Zwick, starring Anthony Hopkins, Brad Pitt, and Aidan Quinn, and scheduled for release October 7th from Tristar pictures. -- confirmed Jim Ha...
The lovely Lotta Chilton was fine company at dinner -- as delightful a lady as one could wish to have for a walk in the garden, and sufficiently charming and clever to have secured a position as companion to the Dowager Duchess of Karr. But she was e...
Robin and Kitty are both pawns in a game played long ago by their fathers--a gambling aristocrat who finally lost more than he could afford, and a wealthy social-climbing commoner who offered the other an ideal way to discharge his losses. Now that t...
The mysterious Cavalier Lord Leon Treviscoe holds headstrong Roundhead heiress Cassandra Scarrier captive in his castle, Kestle Mount. At first Cassey hates him, but her feelings change to overwhelming passion. She becomes involved in espionage for t...
Remember the original Time Machine and the Time Traveller's astonishing account of his journey to the far future when humanity had divided into two races -- the worker-bestial Morlocks and the elfin-sheep Eloi? Remember also that the Time Traveller w...
The 22nd Century. Dr. Charles Forbin is Earth's most powerful man. As mediator between Colossus, the Super Computer, and the rest of humanity, Forbin holds the key to Earth's fate. When Colossus, an awe-inspiring technological creation, suddenly beca...
From Mistress To Slave Ravishing Lucetta Grayton was raised as a child of privilege on the lush Caribbean plantation of Melrose. But with the tragic death of her aristocratic father and adoring mother, all rights of birth were stripped from her. ...
“The author is very close to the truth. The book has sufficient fact to make some people sit up.†-- Richard Deacon, author of A History of the British Secret Service.*Kim Philby, the spy who betrayed a generation, has plotted his own death in ...
They played the conventional games of love -- but where hearts or empires at stake? Was Alicia the innocent she seemed, delighting in her first London Season? How he hoped she was! Was Rob the dashing young blade he appeared to be as he escort...
Another excellent collection of SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight's always-excellent stories--five novellas in this case, generally circling around the great unsolved problem of politics: how to keep the bastards from grinding you down.Rule Golden--what ...
Somewhere in the heart of the Sargasso Sea, according to legend, there lies a calm body of water where all the wrecked ships of history find their way. Peter Sutherland, a youngish college professor weathering his first divorce, takes a Caribbean cru...
Laura should have realized earlier .... Why had it never entered her head? Her grandfather and Dan Harland planning her marriage--to Dan Harland! All her moments of suspicion gelled into the ghastly realization. It was their answer to everythin...
Appearances can be deceiving.... "I wouldn't go out with a sailor like you," Ella had said primly. "I hate slumming!" It sounded snobbish, but she had to discourage him somehow. The "sailor" proved to be Bertrand Sco...
An ancient promise is redeemed, a dream rides up on a bay horse, a boy becomes something finer than a man. The young scribe of Tornor is taken by the chearis, the dancing warriors, to the warmlands where he learns what it means to be a witch. Compl...
The Planet Was Dying Once Tal-Lith was a luxuriant world of millions. Now it was a chill, arid wasteland, with its remaining inhabitants clustered on a great ice mountain. And in a few, short solar cycles its sun would blaze into a deadly super-no...
Jim Sundance could be a deadly enemy, but he was also a lifelong friend. Simon Tolliver found this out when the halfbreed showed up to help him save his ranch from land-grabber Greeley Nash.Nash had an outlaw army at his disposal, led by an ex-cavalr...
The domination of galaxies - that was the prize. And Earthmen and Uelsons contended for it. Bloodily. Across light-years. Arana was a small, insignificant planet, its only claim to fame its desirable position as a refueling point. But on Arana, a new...
Showcasing the evocative artwork created by John Moll for this special edition, James A. Michener’s The Watermen is a unique tribute to the adventurous seafarers of the Chesapeake Bay. Excerpted from the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author’s classic ...
Would they compete for the same man? Suzanne and her stepmother, Celeste, had never been close. But after her husband died, Celeste persuaded her stepdaughter to help her snare a rich husband. Suzanne, although disapproving of Celeste's in...
"Be still, my lady, if you love your life!" The voice hissed harshly out of the pitch-blackness. Then a hand, firm and powerful, closed over Katharine's mouth, cutting off her screams. The terrified girl realized that she had fallen...
How could she resist the opportunity of a lifetime? Aunt Meg, an old family friend, had invited her to explore the Nile and Upper Egypt, a chance Trudy Faraday would have welcomed at another time. This time she planned to go alone. But once again her...
Spanning forty years, the second book in John Nichols's New Mexico trilogy, The Magic Journey, tells the tale of how relentless progress transformed a rural backwater into a boomtown.Boom times came to the forgotten little southwestern town of Chamis...
It's been twenty years since the quixotic and worldsweary, Louis Wu discovered the Ringworld. Now he and SpeakerTo-Animals are going tack, captives of the Hindmost, a' deposed puppeteer leader. With Louis' help, the Hindmost intends to regain his ...
She was plunged into a web of lies "You're not the first one he's loved--and you wont be the last!" Elise was warned when she married Count Julien de Montjour. Hungry for tenderness, she determined nothing would come between them. But then the ...
IT IS THE TWENTY-SECOND CENTURY. A vast, complex bureaucracy rules. The rich live in comfort-able enclaves or deep-space colonies. They barricade them-selves in the burnt-out shells of the dead Earthly cities. Lord of one such Jungle is dander Sna...
Nineteen-year-old Marty Claridge starts west with her adventurous, boyish husband, Clem, seeking to claim land and hoping for good fortune. But when the venture turns suddenly to tragedy, Marty is left alone with her great loss. And coupled with her ...
The quickening love between Meggotta de Burgh and Richard de Clare, members of the aristocracy ruling feudal England, is severely tested when Henry III turns against Meggotta's father, his former adviser...
"And what if I don't agree to marry you?" Slade answered her question coolly. "Your brother loses his backer -- and faces bankruptcy. You have ten minutes to think it over." "Oh," Rosalind cried furiously. "I kno...
When it came to getting the two of us in trouble, Soup was a regular genius....Soup was my best pal. His real and righteous name was Luther Wesley Vinson, but nobody called him Luther. He didn't like it. I called him Luther just once, which promoted ...
While the Ellison girls were out paying calls and drinking tea like the proper Victorian ladies their papa wanted them to be, a maid in their own household was strangled to death. Other women had met similar fates. Then quiet, young Inspector Pitt...
Ray Midge's wife, Norma, has run away with her creep of a first husband. She also ran away with Midge's credit cards and his Ford Torino -- in place of which she left her lover's 1963 Buick Special, a compact car with 14,000 miles on it and a quarter...
Polly Phelps was falling passionately and hopelessly in love. She couldn't put Armand Duvall out of her mind -the dark curly hair that framed his rugged face, those blue eyes, so frightening in their intensity. What was happening to her? Passion ...
Hilary Fletcher is the clever son of a humble vicar. When his father takes up the living at Lasterby in Yorkshire, Hilary finds himself equally ill-at-ease in both the grand drawing rooms of the manor house and the earthy kitchen of his farmer uncle....
This is a gripping look at Britain's great train robbery. One night in August, 1963, robbers stopped a freight/mail train north of London and grabbed a then-record 2.6 million British pounds - worth over $40 million pounds ($60 million dollars) at th...
Astride her hosre, galloping across the Scottish moor. Sailing the high seas bound unwillingly for the colonies. Strapped to the mast, riding out the hurricane's fury. Rescuing the children as the ship is dashed against the reef. Leading bewilder...
A GLITTERING CENTURY WAS ABOUT TO END...AND SO WAS KATHLEEN'S INNOCENCE! Until she saw the mysterious papers, beautiful eighteen-year-old Kathleen believed she had always lived at the orphanage -- had always been alone in her empty world. Now she d...
Jennifer gasped in amazement... For standing in the corridor of the train, not two paces away, was Richard--the one man shed come to detest! "What ... what are you doing here?" she stammered. "I'm here to save you from yourself, you brainles...
Paulette was awakened by her own screams "It's only a nightmare;" she told herself, shaking with unfathomable terror. "A recurring nightmare:" She slipped into her robe and stepped out onto the balcony. The soft Majorcan night enveloped her, an...
The English dove would be the bait Sicily, the home of her forefathers--and the home of the vendetta! Rosalba Rossi had no idea how vengefully the two were entwined. Then Silvatore Diavolo presented himself. The hatred between their families ha...
As the Flames of the Inquisition Scourged the Land, They Dared to Seize a Forbidden Love, to Pursue a Forbidden Dream. A FIERY PASSION THAT RISKED DAMNATION Proud as her aristocratic upbringing, bold as the ancient gypsy blood that ran in her v...
En route to San Francisco by jet, the Pope is taken hostage by the Palestinian Black September organization as world leaders quickly convene to consider the terrorists' demands: the complete withdrawal of Israel from the Left Bank...
Forty years after the posthumous award of the Victoria Cross to his father at Dunkirk, Turner learns that his father died of a shotgun wound in the back and undertakes an increasingly perilous investigation...
"Hoping to make her adored Papa proud of her and make her white classmates notice her ""Magic Mind"" and not her black skin, Lena vows to win the Bible-quoting contest. Winning does not bring Lena what she expected. Instead of honor, violence and dea...
Initials on inside front cover page and inside front page. Spine has a very slight crease and back cover has a corner crease. Some edge wear and top edge has a price. No other marks and intact. Great copy! Ships very quickly and packaged careful...
Local history. Brown cloth covers nice, corners and spine ends bumped. Dust jacket rubbed and sunned, moderate edge wear with small chips, one larger tear on the front flap fold. Interior clean and tight....
Her revenge would taste so sweet... The bottom dropped out of Corinne s world with the sudden death of Isabelle, her beautiful sister. Then, among Isabelle's belongings, she discovered a letter implicating Raymond Cernay in the tragedy. Corin...
A herd of cattle had been stolen, the cowboys who tended them massacred. A story was going around that Comanches were responsible—three dead braves found in the vicinity of the massacre were said to be part of the war party.But Jim Sundance kne...
February 1944, and Air Commodore Davies has just received one of Churchill's most feared ACTION THIS DAY directives. The Germans are shipping out a dangerous consignment of heavy water; once in Germany it will be processed in a bomb-proof installatio...
FROM SEPARATE WORLDS.... RANGER FARSTAR: Explorer, mercenary...and a star-roving trader. His quest for planets for profit drives him to the farthest reaches of space on the most dangerous and challenging adventures imaginable. DAWNBOY: High-spiri...
Damaris felt a strong sense of foreboding as she trudged through the dark misty moor toward Wath Riding where her sister Leah lived. It was over a year since Leah defied her parents and eloped with the handsome and domineering Seth Paslew. Now, for s...
"I'll find some way to get through to him!" Lisa resented having been bodily thrown off his estate, without even a chance to speak to the arrogant Yusuf ben Dacra. After all, her cause was important. She and her group were outraged ...
Pocket Books, 1979. 2nd printing. This 1958 novel is an expansion of the story, "To Marry Medusa" (Galaxy, August 1958). The plot concerns an extraterrestrial hive mind named Medusa, which has assimilated many worlds and life forms and now targets Ea...