Girls at War and Other Stories reveals the essence of life in Nigeria and traces twenty years in the literary career of one of the twentieth century''s most acclaimed writers.
In this collection of stories, which display an astonishing range o...
Diana Morton had gone to Cyprus to escape. Her life with Ralph had ended tragically and with bitterness, and it was hard to believe she could ever be interested in a man again. But soon she was to become involved with more than one man -- with George...
From the author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Handmaid’s Tale -- now an Emmy Award-winning Hulu original series -- and Alias Grace, now a Netflix original series.Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacing is the sto...
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 1973. fair+ paperback, large diagonal cut at top corner of front wraps and first page, remainder mark, otherwise clean and unmarked, AU504592. First Thus. Paperback. Fair....
CAPTIVE ON THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLANTATION IN THE SOUTH. A Mississippi riverboat explodes en route to New Orleans. A victim of the tragedy, Jana Stewart is suddenly alone, without family, friends or possessions. Jana contacts Claude Duncan, a distan...
It was when her half-brother died that Sara Blake returned to England after three years -- and found that Blake's Store was at the mercy of a man called Brent Maxwell. Sara was not the type easily to knuckle under. She would fight him to her utmo...
Rising out of the jungles of Bangalla, shrouded by mists and superstitions, is the volcano known as THE VEILED LADY. What is the mystery of THE VEILED LADY? What secrets does she hide from the world? Precious treasure? Unimaginable danger? Many have ...
COLD He trusted silver. It was all he could rely on. Except himself. And the Comstock Lode was one of the richest silver strikes the world had ever seen. So Edge was there. So was the Tabor gang -- sadistic killers led by a renegade Quaker. The volu...
To Isabella de Savigny, an aristocratic refugee from the French Reign of Terror, her cousin's magnificent English country estate promised sanctuary. But Nethergate became a prison to the high-spirited young woman. For its mistress, the cold-blooded a...
Vanessa was in the Caribbean for three months -- to work as secretary to the writer Alex Rossiter, not to have a romance with him, she assured everyone firmly. She might have felt more romantically inclined towards Alex's brother Max -- but Max had...
Justina was in a dilemma. As she listened to his words, she realized her plan had backfired. "But we're not strangers, are we?" he questioned grimly. "We're husband and wife and somehow I don't find your explanations very r...
Few authors have achieved such renown as World Fantasy Life Achievement honoree and Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Andre Norton. With the love of readers and the praise of critics, Norton’s books have sold millions of copies wo...
"And you mean to tell me," Murray Denning growled, "that you still intend to marry him -- a man as cowardly, as craven as that." He paused. "Then you deserve everything you're asking for --every single miserable moment!" ...
Take a white witch named Aurelia Hepburn who can cast spells, raise storms, summon demons, predict the future, and read minds; add a scientist working in ultra-sonics and a band of very determined black magicians who want to learn his secret inventio...
Winner of the 1974 National Book Award"The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II." - The New Republic“A screaming comes across the sky. . .” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin fal...
A lynch mob threatens to take over a small New England town after a shocking murder Homicide has never had a place in Shinn Corners. This backwater New England hamlet has seen three unlawful deaths in its 250-year history: infanticide in 1739, a poli...
A case of treason ‘which would make Burgess, MacLean and Philby appear like schoolboys sneaking to teacher’, a violent but extremely patriotic Soho gangster with an unhealthy interest in the workings of Heathrow airport and a notorious ca...
Four years after the Chmielnicki massacres of the seventeenth century, Jacob, a slave and cowherd in a Polish village high in the mountains, falls in love with Wanda, his master''s daughter. Even after he is ransomed, he finds he can''t live with...
Someone had described Angus MacAllan as "John Knox, Calvin and Queen Victoria rolled into one" -- and that was pretty much the impression he made on Maggie Campbell when she first met him. Later on she changed her mind about Angus -- b...
A classic and heartbreaking tale of one man’s fight to protect nature, and a treasured way of life, against the forces of greed.In a corner of the Big Cypress Swamp, to the north of the Florida Everglades, lives Charlie Jumper, and eighty-six-year-...
Terry was determined to prove her grandmother innocent of murder, but someone in the old house was just as determined to stop her from digging into the past! The Secret In The Tower Terry Brown waited until everyone was out of the house to sear...
Jacqueline Susann follows her incredible successes Valley of the Dolls and The Love Machine with a story so touching, and so exciting in its twists of character relationships, that it will not only captivate her millions of devoted readers but will w...
Joe Berman is a 59-year-old immigrant plumber facing the loss of his wife. The months that follow, as he fights his way to a new idea of life, death, and God, are part of his human season. But he also reflects on the years behind him....
Norman Moonbloom is a loser, a drop-out who can't even make it as a deadbeat. His brother, a slumlord, hires him to collect rent in the buildings he owns in Manhattan. Making his rounds from apartment to apartment, Moonbloom confronts a wildly varied...
Six revolutionary essays exploring the relationship between spiritual experience and ordinary life -- and the need for them to coexist within each of us.
With essays on “cosmic consciousness” (including Alan Watts’ account of his own v...
Suddenly it seemed to young and pretty high school teacher Deborah Howard that there was no safety anywhere. Only days before, her life appeared secure. Now every moment was filled with indecision and terror. The discovery of a plot to steal secre...
It was eight years now since Fiona had broken her engagement to Rowan and married Neil instead -- not for love but out of despair and bitter disillusionment in Rowan. Now she was a widow and had returned to Inveray, her love for Rowan quite dead....
Black and white illustrations throughout. A full-color pull-out of the work appears at the end of the book. Bibliography. Index. The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (1789) is a work in oils by the French artist Jacques-Louis David. It ...