Jan Matthis is slightly unsettled by the fanatical dedication of fellow teen actor Philip Devereaux to his role as Dracula, but when a teacher is found dying, drained of blood, her uneasiness is transformed into terror...
Paris-based private investigator Pete Sawyer is hired to find out what happened to a girl who was kidnapped ten years before. When Pete starts digging, he finds more than expected -- including a Neo Nazi movement!...
WAS HE A HERO OR THE DEVIL HIMSELF? Young Emily Felcher had left New Orleans to seek her grandmother in Galveston. What she found along the way, however, was trouble with a capital T. Trusting the wrong people, Emily found herself in the clutches of...
Honolulu, 1893. Her beloved Hawaii! Ketti Foster knew going home would be the best remedy for a broken heart. Her peace of mind was short-lived, however, when she met the mysterious John Stillman. Planter John Stillman was captivated by the proud...
SHADOWED BY HER TORTURED PAST, DAWN HAS A BRIGHT NEW LIFE OF GLIMMERING HOPES ... Dawn can hardly believe she's a student at one of New York City's best music schools. Now her most precious wish, to become a singer, can come true. But Dawn still d...
In 1962 the poet, musician, and performer Maya Angelou claimed another piece of her identity by moving to Ghana, joining a community of "Revolutionist Returnees" inspired by the promise of pan-Africanism. All God's Children Need Walking Shoes is her ...
SUPERCHARGED FIGHTING MACHINE! Tom Swift's latest invention may revolutionize sports technology. His ingenious computer-controlled exoskeleton pumps and primes every muscle to the max. And now it has transformed Tom's friend Rick Cantwell into a con...
In international bestselling author Campbell Armstrong’s thrilling, sophisticated tale of espionage, an assassin’s vengeance triggers the exposure of a lethal conspiracy at the heart of the US government The director of the CIA lies unconscious ...
Quarterly dividends Stephanie's marriage to Dominic Rayburn is pure business -- a deal to keep her brother out of jail and fulfill the conditions of Dominic's inheritance. Here, business and pleasure don't mix. Her husband, however, is...
When Hugh O'Connor's plan to obtain a drug dealer's confession by falsifying evidence backfires, Hugh's partner, Jim Brent, must decide which is most important, loyalty to a friend, duty to the law, or his moral obligation to protect the public...
Romance naturally emanates from Venice, a city of passion and eroticism. This was the case for Mara, a Nebraskan writer who emigrated from the United States fourteen years ago. One of her newly published novels brings passion to her, when the son ...
AN OFFICER AND AN IDIOT Guido and Nunzio may not be the brightest bodyguards in the world--but they certainly are faithful. When Skeeve "the Great" asks them to join the army of Possiltum, the two thugs volunteer without question ... Except: Wh...
Her Savage, Sensual Rebel... Once Rafe Martinez had held her naked under a midsummer moon and pledged his love, yet when he left her without warning, something inside Jeannie Crane died -- but her son, their son, had lived. When Rafe learned the tru...
There was a dark side to St. Louis dentist Dr. Glennon Engleman--a twisted secret life of sexual perversion and murder. This electrifying true-crime story chronicles the two decades of brutal executions that occurred while the doctor was in!....
FAIR EXCHANGE Young and beautiful Lady Rosamund Hunter had known the tenderness of love in her all-too-brief marriage to a much older, kind and gentle husband. Yet she had never been touched by the fires of the heart. The handsome dashing Earl...
THE FINAL SCORE He was all man: hard, unyielding, overpowering in his masculinity. As a professional athlete, Vincent DeMille had been called a master of two games: basketball and women. Now that he'd retired from pro ball and gone back to col...
After America emerges victorious in a bloodless World War III, a cuckolded CIA agent is charged with turning a bankrupt Soviet city into a thriving metropolis to show Americans there is some value in their newfound possession...
In ten sharply drawn tales, Madison Smartt Bell expands his masterly, inventive, and deftly textured fictional landscape to portray a collection of America's dispossessed characters. "Barking Man is a humane and mature book, the work of an important ...
The Sacred Night continues the remarkable story Tahar Ben Jelloun began in The Sand Child. Mohammed Ahmed, a Moroccan girl raised as a boy in order to circumvent Islamic inheritance laws regarding female children, remains deeply conflicted about her ...
Straight from the cutting edge of today's science and the logs of mariner legend comes an immense horror--a creature that rises up from the well of an ocean gone mad with an insatiable hunger and an endless lust to kill. And when the beast strikes...
Come to Sunset Island, the exciting first book in the new series about Emma, Samantha, and Carrie-away from home for the first time in the ultimate summer job!I definitely made the right decision-working here as a summer nanny. I'm away from my messe...
SUSPICIOUS HEART Miss Phyllida Dearne prided herself on her composure. But the murder of her lovely, selfish sister -- and in a London opera box -- was enough to overset the most level-headed of ladies. For once, she was relieved to lean on a man...
Michael Berenstain and others make learning fun with fascinating facts and rollicking illustrations that are sure to nurture a lifetime love of learning in young children. Illustrated examples of how to spell the names of common animals like cat, dog...
THEY'LL DARE ANYTHIING--AND RISK EVERYTHING--TO MAKE IT ALL COME TRUE. WHICH ONE WILL PAY THE HIGHEST PRICE? Erica Born to poor immigrants, the willowy beauty finds love beyond her most romantic dreams with a handsome Boston blue-blood --only ...
With her plain-Jane clothes and horn-rimmed glasses, anthropologist Moriah Mallory was no match for her stunning sisters. But spending her summer vacation in their shadow was tradition. Surely the dashing captain of their Caribbean charter cruise wou...
BACHELOR FATHER When it came to bringing lives into the world, Dr. Steven Barthelemaus had bales of experience--but only with horses! And when attractive attorney Jennifer Lewis's baby decided it was time to make her debut--right in the middle of...
Horrible Humes (i.e. Humans)is the fourth book in the Runesword series Written by Stephen Billias. It continues to detail the further adventures of our four Outcasts; Bith a young human sorceress, Caltus a young human warrior, Hathor the vegetarian t...
Valerie Taylor has been missing since she was a sexy seventeen, more than two years ago. Inspector Morse is sure she's dead. But if she is, who forged the letter to her parents saying "I am alright so don't worry"? Never has a woman provided Morse wi...
Daughter of one of Hollywood's legendary directors, Julie Bullard is fast making her mark as one of the film industry's hottest young women directors. Filming on location in the Louisiana bayou, her latest project is a high-budget film that will make...
A MIND OF HER OWN Free-spirited young Brie Morgan wanted no part of marriage to anyone -- certainly not to "Demon" Drake, the Earl of Malvern, a man she had never even set eyes on. Since her grandfather refused to break the pledge he'd m...
Long out of print, the science fiction masterpiece by Hugo Award winning writer James Blish
Originally published as four volumes nearly fifty years ago, Cities in Flight brings together the famed "Okie novels" of science fiction master James ...
While working for founding father Gouverneur Morris, a painter-historian falls in love with Morris' young wife, who later flees her native Virginia under the shadow of accusations of her involvement in two murders...
A bump, a push, a word—what really started the silly fight in the schoolyard? Read along and find out how this ruckus started and how it finally ends!FROM AMERICA’S MOST TRUSTED NAME IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION More than seventy years of...
In the bestselling Red Phoenix, Lam Bond showed, in a world of explosive uncertainty, what a new Korean War would be like. Now, in VORTEX, he takes his storytelling powers one astonishing step further in an epic novel set in one of the most emotional...
PASSION'S FLOWER Anna Rose St. Cyr was more woman than most men could handle. The tempestuous southern belle had a mind of her own but it didn't take her long to realize she'd met her match in handsome Morgan York. Anna had hired the mysterious wande...
A primatologist flees her broken marriage for a job in war-torn Africa in the renowned author’s “brilliant . . . stunningly magical” novel (Washington Post Book World).William Boyd’s classic Brazzaville Beach has been...
Boyle brings his acclaimed trilogy--which includes Only the Dead Know Brooklyn and Post-Mortem Effects--to a pyrotechnic finish. Detective Frank DeSales launches a city-wide manhunt for the murderer of a black mayoral candidate, bringing him face-to-...
It is a time of magic, 140 B.C., generations after the conquests of Alexander the Great. The empire he carved across a continent still stands as tribute. Its kingdoms thrive, governed by the descendants of Alexander: men, like himself, larger-than-li...
In "Range Jester," three men ride into Loomis Valley one winter evening and by morning, only two will get out alive; and in "Black Thunder," two friends' love for pretty Kate Malone turns them into bitter enemies...
Can Cruella be stopped? Pongo and Perdita are overjoyed when their fifteen spotted puppies are born. But then wicked Cruella De Vil arrives. She wants to make the puppies into a fur coat! When she can't buy them, she has the Baduns kidnap them. So...
AT SIX O'CLOCK. . . the door slammed shut, trapping boutique owner Caroline Bradley and short-order cook Charlie Donohue in a fur vault. At seven . . . their relationship sank to an all-time low, as Caroline blamed Charlie, and Charlie trie...
THE GEMINI MAN The Gemini man is full of surprises, so just when you think you've figured out this mysterious male, he'll tease, tempt and tantalize you with yet another side of his persuasive personality. Ladies, stay on your toes! ONE GEMINI MA...
With this novel, Booker Prize-winning author Anita Brookner confirms her reputation as an unparalleled observer of social nuance and deeply felt longings. Brief Lives chronicles an unlikely friendship: that between the flamboyant, monstrously egocent...
Dr. Drabble's latest invention allows P.J. and Chelsea to breathe underwater and talk to fish. It is great fun until they bump into a tricky fish named Murgatroyd. The kids find out that it's better to be truthful than lie....
"A very devious, dangerous man." That was how Kate described Aidan Crawford. She had been looking forward to ruining him, had thought of little else than the prospect of revenge. When the opportunity came, however, she found herself up ...
A fast, funny crime thriller featuring “the best fictional cop duo around” (People). FBI Special Agents Cuthbert Gibbons and Mike Tozzi get into hot water when the turncoat mobster they were assigned to protect is found murdered -- and Toz...
SOUTHERN COMFORT All Jake Turner wanted was a place to lay his weary head. Then he took a room at the boardinghouse of sweet Georgia seamstress Callie Barnwell and got more than he'd bargained for! Her brother took a potshot at him, her dog gave b...
This is a collection of short stories that includes "Vargas Llosa for President", as well as stories from Steiner Novella, Graham Swift, T. Coraghessan Boyle's "Sitting on Top of the World" and Sergio Ramirez's "The Rise and Fall of the Sandinistas"....
The Maestro is a beautifully paced story that begins with the childhood of a very talented American-born classical guitarist, Gianni, who through tragic reversals comes to be raised by his grandmother first in Italy and then in Germany. Dealing with...
REBELS IN A PROPER OREGON TOWN, THEY COULD NOT ESCAPE THE YEARNINGS OF THEIR HEARTS Beautiful, headstrong Kelsey Garrett is determined to make a new start in Portland under an assumed name. But everything changes when she runs into Jesse Danner, the...
A PHANTOM STRANGER... Captain Rafe Santadar rose from the sea like a magnificent mythic beast. Famous for his cunning and bravery, the virile captain was the sole survivor of a shipwreck. Now washed upon England's rocky coast, he was alone...in a...
A PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT... That's how Emily Clements described the roller-coaster ride she'd been on since press secretary Nathan Burke rescued her from a crushing mob of overeager reporters. Emily was crying on Nathan's broad should...
He appointed himself her guardian angel Sure, Aaron Conrad was playing God, but what were best friends for? Someone had to snap Libby Ducleaux out of her depression, and Aaron knew just how to do it. Step one was to entice Libby back home. Sinc...
Posted to New York City as a lowly "locks and safes" man for British Intelligence, Derek Smailes could at least derive satisfaction from his growing intimacy with the lovely Clea Lynch. But when he is instructed to engineer the defection of a Sov...
In 1995, a Russian aircraft carrier is destroyed by a mysterious creature that just as mysteriously disappears thereafter. Three hundred years later, Counsellor Deanna Troi awakens in her quarters from a nightmare in which she senses the voices of th...
Lia Maudsley was considered too independent by half, for she had failed in her duty to capture a rich gentleman and put her impoverished family to rights. But Lia had grown accustomed to tending her numerous siblings as well as an eccentric mother. I...
WHO WAS SHE? Who was the woman who stood at Paul Sullivan's side, stunning those who'd driven his only love to an untimely death? Was she the lovely heiress he'd worshiped--or the waitress who was her double? At times, Paul saw Oriel--sublime, ...
Mass combat system for ICE's Rolemaster system. With War Law a GM can make numerous detailed decisions for every aspect of battles that can have anywhere from 2 to 1000's of participants. However, War Law also includes a very specific, simplified ver...
FIND THE MAGIC! He was only a "beginner" shaman, but Sam Verner had to find a cure to ward off the curse on his sister. Only something of great magic would do the trick. It was this quest that took him to a mystical citadel in Australia, where, wi...
Asa Canyon couldn't believe he was handcuffed to the bed in a half-empty apartment-and a lady locksmith had been called to release him! Bristling with barely controlled fury, the Dirty Harry of Cobb County struggled to get free, then silenced a shock...
"Once again Australian author Clarke blends humor with warmth, conjuring up an assortment of peculiar adults--muddled, well-meaning folk--who ring true in surprising, subtle ways." --Booklist
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PRISONER OF PASSION Annie Calhoun thought her luck had just run out. Raised by the most notorious gang of outlaws in Texas, she served as their lookout -- and she'd just been caught by a lawman who looked all too familiar. It had been a few year...
KC and Peter ape crazy about each other-- until Peter accuses KC of getting too cozy with her gorgeous tutor. Will a desperate Lauren really move out of the dorm and into a sleazy off-campus apartment to save money? Kimberly lands a big dance s...
A fourth collection of stories by the award-winning author....
The selected historical myths discussed and analyzed in Myth America can best be understood as a series of false beliefs about America's past. They are false beliefs, however, that have been accepted as true and acted upon as real, and in that acting...
THE STREETS OF MIAMI ARE HOT WITH SLEAZE AND SINAnd nobody knows those streets better than homicide detective Christopher Blaze. Or so he thought...As an undercover cop, it was his job to bust the creatures of the night, not become one of them. But s...
SURPRISED BYA KISS Determined to find the father she had never known, spirited New York beauty Elizabeth Forrester crossed the wide frontier and made her way to San Francisco. But she arrived at the lavish Nob Hill mansion only to discover that she ...
Awakening after a stagecoach accident with amnesia, Caroline fights to regain her past as a woman appears, claiming to be her sister-in-law, and says that Caroline is April Ainsworth, the heiress of the Earl of Hannaford...
A group of fearless cowboys drives a herd of longhorns through a lawless land, overcoming bad weather, the merciless sun, and tough hombres to complete their job, only to find that the banker is unwilling to pay them...
Left in the care of her strange uncle Jake--the proprietor of a tourist attraction called "Dungeon of Horrors"--seventeen-year-old Darcy Thomas experiences a very real horror when she is stalked by a vampire...
A HOLY CRUSADE AGAINST THE WORLDS OF THE REGIMENT! The White Regiment had driven back the soldiers of the Karghanik empire, but the Kalif was certain that he could succeed in bringing the true faith of the Prophet of Kargh to the Confederation -- ...
Attempting to make some easy money, Buckskin Lee Morgan escorts a wealthy rancher's wife and daughter to their new Colorado home only to encounter vengeful Indians, dead bodies, and temptation at the hand of these buxom beauties. Reissue....
Out of work and out of luck, barnstorming air-race pilot Clifford Secord finds himself running from gangster mercenaries, federal agents, and Nazi assassins when he comes into possession of the Cirrus X-3 rocketpack...
She'd left in anger Now the whole town was abuzz -- Charlotte Kincaid had returned home to Evening Star plantation. And only Luke Duval, Charlie's first love, was not pleased to see her. Charlie didn't care. She was determined to ma...
Some of the best-loved stories in the world. Originating in Persia, India and Arabia, they were the daily entertainment of the common people. In this edition they are retold especially for children. this collection includes the voyages of Sindbad the...
"I'm a woman, not a little girl!" Caitlin was fed up with people who couldn't see past her youthful appearance to the competent, self-reliant woman she really was. Reyn Picard's attitude particularly annoyed her. He called h...
Rumors of the fearsome Epicene-- a monster that will release the deadly Last Humans and destroy the universe--are spreading throughout the world of Lostwithal. It's up to Jack, the King's Tramp, to catch the Mage of Four and prevent the Epicene from ...
When the magical Castle Perilous goes haywire, guests find themselves venturing into bizarre other worlds that could bring the castle crumbling down. Castle Perilous is a magic castle full of mystery and adventure, but sometimes even magic castles ca...
A lady known for her icy demeanor is secretly a highwayman who steals from the rich, but when she accidentally holds up her new neighbor she finds her heart in peril. By day she was Lady Jewel deVree, The Dark Goddess, famed for her breathtaking b...
From a savage uprising in revolution-swept India to the Imperial grandeur of aristocratic England, from the strife-torn shores of post-Civil War America to the mysterious, sensual Far East, here is a captivating, unforgettable saga of a man and a wom...
The private lives of three women in a 1950s California university town change tragically and irrevocably when they enroll in a modern dance class, where their self-expression moves them toward an emotional precipice...
Can Cruella be stopped? Pongo and Perdita are overjoyed when their fifteen spotted puppies are born. But then wicked Cruella De Vil arrives. She wants to make the puppies into a fur coat! When she can't buy them, she has the Baduns kidnap them. So...
Minnie and Daisy, who always do everything together, learn to enjoy activities apart from each other when Minnie goes on the school trip to the planetarium while Daisy stays home to spend some time with her grandmother...
Invited by prominent historian Andrew Donnell to participate in a reenactment of the Civil War's Battle of Shiloh, Frank and Joe Hardy--one dressed in Confederate gray, the other in Union blue--are horrified when a real bullet cuts down their famous ...
A startling discovery "causes Irene to pack up her entourage and repair to Monaco. Here she dons clever disguises, takes up with sailors, advises the Crown Prince, ...and takes a most amusing tea with Sarah Bernhardt. `Independence; Irene says, `does...
U.S. MARINES. PILOTS. NAVY SEALS. THE ULTIMATE MILITARY POWER PLAY. In a stunning act of provocation, the North Korean Navy has captured a U.S. intelligence ship in international waters. Now they've begun to execute the crew, one by one, daring Wa...
SHE FOUND HER DESTINY IN A WILD DANGEROUS LAND If her father was determined to move his stagecoach business to California, Jessie Henderson was determined to get there, too. But his infuriating new partner, Tonio Maquire, wouldn't take a fragile f...
The action takes place in Cape Town in the politically turbulent spring of 1985, over one day from sunrise to nightfall. The interwoven parts are the lives of a group of young coloured people, explored in their own flash-backs, throughout the momentu...
NIGHT MARAUDER... NIGHT LOVER... NIGHT RIDER He rode out of the darkness astride a coal-black stallion, appearing from nowhere like a phantom in the night. To the lords and ladies he robbed, he was an unprincipled highwayman, a common thief who ...
Peter befriends the outcast inventor "Horrible Houghton" Furlong and shares the secret of an antigravity matter that enables him to perform amazing stunts and eventually arouse the suspicions of a greedy villain...
When the old woman died, she left her grandchild Nancy with the extraordinary gift of magic. Nancy can read people's minds, know their thoughts, and make them do what she wants. Will she use her gift for good, or satisfy her own selfish desire?Lois D...
She thought all lords were like the heroes in romantic novels. Alison Larkin thought the most romantic thing in the world would be to have a lord falling at her feet and pledging eternal love. With the arrival of her recently widowed and wealthy aunt...
After fifteen years, they had come back to Bartlett College, three roommates about to rediscover their friendship -- and open their hearts to love. They'd been the kind of couple everyone thought would last forever -- but they hadn't. Now Keeley w...
As the Civil War rages on, Texas gunslinger Captain "Dusty" Fog defends a Yankee wrongly court-martialed for cowardice, during which he learns about a secret weapon that the Union army plans to use on his troops...
THE REAL THING Years ago, social worker Jessie Taylor had loved, lost....and given up her baby for adoption. Now it was her job to make sure ALL kids got a break, even while risking the wrath of sexy new police captain Ben Adamanti. Jessi found h...
Fighting alongside the Polish Resistance in 1944, a British officer uncovers a mysterious Nazi military execution that, fourteen years later, disrupts his life and sends him scrambling around the globe...
A World Apart Lena Taber had learned a hard lesson amid the poverty and squalor of New York's teeming Lower East Side--not to want what she could never have. And Gilbert Brigham, the glittering young society doctor who had opened his country cotta...
ALL GROWN UP How on earth had Dallas Shelby, law-abiding C.P.A. and congressman's daughter, landed in a fiasco like this? First, her nightmarish blind date had resulted in a public brawl, and now she was held responsible -- by none other than ...
Jessie and Ki square off against a cunning river bandit in the one hundred and seventh Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the...
Jessie and Ki battle bloodthirsty renegades in an all-out range war in the one hundred and sixth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and...
16th CENTURY MEXICO A LAND OF SEETHIGN REBELLION, STORMY INTRIGUE AND SAVAGE DESIRE Forced to flee her dangerous Spanish homeland, sheltered Elena de la Rosa was not prepared for the sights that greeted her when she and her family arrived in pri...
A VAMPIRE'S GOT TO DO WHAT A VAMPIRE'S GOT TO DO Even the dead have to work for a living. This time, a priceless heirloom bracelet's been stolen from the wealthy Sebastian Pierce. And guess who's been hired to find it? I'll give you a hint: Me. Pier...
This man was trouble! As a teenager, Suzanna Schaefer had been secretly attracted to Chase Clements, the town hellion. But he'd been taboo. Definitely off-limits. Now, as an adult, Suzanna was back home, determined to build a stable life for herself...
This first novel is set in the vineyards of central France, where a young Yorkshire girl finds herself having married into the French aristocracy. When she decides to rebuild the vineyards which are in decay she comes up against the hostility of her ...
No! Was what Alicia Dumont should have said to Jace Bartholomew. He wanted her to decorate the Bartholomew Building by day and to share his bed by night. But Jace was not the kind of man Alicia wanted--he wasn't interested in a permanent relations...
Michael Thompson -- the only living witness to the attacks of the walking dead who have been leaving a trail of corpses throughout Manhattan -- and his psychoanalyst, Kate Reeling, attempt to persuade Lt. Frank Caldwell to look to the spirit world fo...
After fifteen years, they had come back to Bartlett College, three roommates about to rediscover their friendship -- and open their hearts to love. When an injured cat brought Bess Hilliard to veterinarian Will Shedd's door, he hated to let her go...
Hired to transport killer K.C. Caswell, Deputy Custis Long arrives to find that Caswell has flown the coop, and he must follow a trail of his victims along the New Mexico railroad line and into the gun barrel of a former partner...
HOME, SWEET HOME... Harry and Ariadne Conroy were happy to return from an African photo safari to their tastefully redone Georgian home in one of Dublin's most fashionable districts. Then, while unpacking. Ariadne discovered a dead, unclothed stra...
Excited about spending a weekend at Walkaway Hill--an eerie house that reportedly holds a hidden treasure--James, Amanda, and Obie soon experience fear when they are snowed in, along with Walkaway Hill's notorious phantom...
It is a party invitation to kill for: a dazzling black-tie gala in honor of Princess Diana and Prince Charles's visit to America, and from New York to Hollywood the society columns sizzle with the details fo the grand affair. The guest list is a who'...
Author Marcus Sullivan had become an instant father to a sad-eyed little boy he didn't know what to do with. Luckily, the bubbly, blond screenwriter Marcus was forced to work with had a way with kids as well as words. Suddenly, little Nathan was smil...
Just fall in love, Nicola! As if it were that easy -- and in any case Nicola Shea doubted that it would solve all her problems. Her love life to date had been one big series of disasters. And she didn't need any distractions. Nicola was spe...
In The Boats On The River, a busy river flows through a great city, carrying boats on their daily journeys. There are little boats and big boats, ferryboats, tugboats, a riverboat, an ocean liner, and many more....
Book 2 of the Gods of Ireland Series. The continuing story of the people of Nemed... they have survived war and plague on a cursed search for a safe land to inhabit. Then they were led to a remote island where the battered clan is accepted...
...A novel of a fracturing family in 1960 Montana, “full of prose that makes the reader shiver,” by the New York Times-bestselling author of Rock Springs (Chicago Sun-Times). When Joe Brinson was sixteen, his father moved the family to Great ...
"Vividly rendered…haunting…[Paula Fox] writes with silken ease and a sensitivity to nuance." -- NewsdayIn 1941, twenty-three-year-old Helen Bynum leaves home for the first time and sets out from rural New York to find her Aunt Lulu, an aging act...
She toasted life and drank to love until the wine turned bitter, and she had to begin once again... From the Kansas heartland to Manhattan's gilded towers, here is the triumphant saga of a woman torn between new love, old attachments and a family in...
In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon -- when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassen...
James Bond has been partnered with an Israeli Mossad agent, Pete Natkowitz, and assigned to work with the KGB to infiltrate a terrorist group. The group, The Scales of Justice, are demanding the trial of a suspected Nazi war criminal and each day of ...
SHE TRIED TO BE A LADY When her Montana cousin wrote that his three grown sons could use a lady's influence, headstrong Genevieve Heller left Boston on the next train. Pretending to be a prim and proper Massachusetts miss, the strawberry-blond beaut...
From Holden Caulfield to Moses Herzog, our best literature has been narrated by malcontents. To this lineage add Peter Jernigan, who views the world with ferocious intelligence, grim rapture, and a chainsaw wit that he turns, with disastrous conseque...
It is a time of fire. A small band of pioneers struggle valiantly to keep their ancestors' dreams alive in an unforgiving, drought-stricken land. Driven by the promise of an awesome vision, a heroic young dreamer and a fearless woman warrior unite to...
This beautifully crafted novel from the English novelist introduces a young woman and a family whose destiny seems inextricably tied with hers. The photo in Margaret's hand only hints at the bittersweet memories forever sealed in her heart, and Don c...
Kate Jasper, Marin County, California's own, organically grown, amateur sleuth is back in this second mystery in the series. ("Kate is quick and clever and fun to read about."--SUE FEDER'S MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR.) The good news in THE LAST RESORT is th...
Why had Rafael Alejandro come back? In the five years since their marriage ended, Sarah had devoted herself to her beloved twins. She'd never expected Rafael to walk back into her life, nor had she realized he'd been unaware of the twin...
Catherine Sayler is one successful San Francisco gumshoe--until her biggest client goes broke. Enter bank exec Daniel Martin with an offer she can't refuse. Martin fears First Central is about to be robbed from the inside out because of its flawed...
Sex, for example That's what people wanted to hear about on talk shows, and Justin Benedict was all for giving the viewers what they wanted. But Kelly Ferris had built to the Know into Boston's favorite talk show by featuring serious di...
"Why are you afraid of me?" Angela just couldn't answer him. The last thing she wanted was to fall in love with Kent Ferguson. Having been hurt in the past, she was determined to stay away from all men--especially predatory types li...
The London season is in full fling at the end of the 1920s, but the Honorable Phryne Fisher -- she of the green-grey eyes, diamant garters and outfits that should not be sprung suddenly on those of nervous dispositions -- is rapidly tiring of the ted...
Seventeen-year-old Denny’s life becomes complicated when she falls in love with her dad’s new roping partner. Matters get even more complicated when her father has a crippling accident and her long-absent mother rejoins the family to care for him...
The Schanbergs, a tight-knit Jewish clan, split off from the rest of the family and head for another life under a different name in the suburbs of New York City. Spanning 30 years, and moving from Manhattan to Harvard to a farm in upstate New York, t...
The latest espionage novel from the author of CLASH OF LOYALTIES and LIMITED OPTIONS. Ex-Conservative Foreign Secretary Viscount Peter Mourne is found hanged. His widow, Carmela, refuses to accept that her husband committed suicide - had he been mu...
Free-lance producer Charlie Kavanaugh follows the beautiful and ambitious Julia Cornwall to Israel to produce her interview with the Israeli foreign minister, who, Charlie discovers, is facing an assassination threat...
In this brilliant and profound study the distinguished American anthropologist Marvin Harris shows how the endless varieties of cultural behavior -- often so puzzling at first glance -- can be explained as adaptations to particular ecological conditi...
Sometimes the only thing that keeps a man going is the promise of spring... or the love of a good woman. From the moment Gavin Blake set eyes on Rachel, he knew she would never make a frontier wife. Beautiful and refined, she was accustomed to th...
Two loves -- as different as day and night. Beautiful young heiress Elinor Fielding was an orphan and afraid when she came to Mordyn Castle on the wild and windswept Cornish Coast. But the warm welcome of her father's old friend, Sir Robert Grenville...
A collection of thirteen stories in honor of Agatha Christie's one hundredth birthday features tales set between the two world wars and penned by leading members of the British Crime Writers Association. Reprint....
"Danger and trouble -- a stormy petrel." That's what Blake Hanley claimed he recognized about Corrie when he rescued her from the sea. After that pronouncement, how could she tell him what she did for a living? A world-famous yachts...