Suppose every event in history had at least two causes and led to and from a separate universe in space and time. There would be an infinity of alternate worlds. Imagine a world in which every word Shakespeare was literally true. A world in whi...
The last request that Maria Dane's mother had made was that she should travel to Corsica to meet the aunt she had never seen. There she met her aunt and was enchanted with the island. Maria had often wondered why her mother had never spoken of th...
A newly translated collection of stories. His desire to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free of them gives Babel a duality of vision, which infuses his work with a powerful energy, from the earliest tales....
When Sara Everette met the fascinating Armand Romont whom she considered to be responsible for the death of her friend, she decided that she hated him and would make him pay for his actions. But she was to find that hatred can be akin to love... ...
Murder, lust, shame, hypocrisy, and suicide are at the center of The Guiltless, Hermann Broch's novel about the disintegration of European society in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Broch's characters -- an apathetic man who can bar...
Dowry of Fear Ripples of fright washed over the face in the mirror. Who was she? Who did he want her to be? Perdita Morrow…or Isobel Farr? Perdita knew of her astonishing resemblance to the mysterious missing Isobel, but only now, hours aft...
"Nina! Come away!" I pleaded. "Come down before the waves pull us into the seas!" But she did not obey. She turned her wet face up to mine. "Andre," she cried against the din of the waves and wind. "Andre, do you truly lov...
Lesley's marriage to Guy Longden had had to be postponed when she was needed to nurse her grandmother. Now she had flown out to join her fiance in Australia, only to learn that her baby niece Jane needed her help. Lesley promised to go, but G...
Fasten your seatbelt to experience the spectacle and solitude of flying high in the Andes in this novel from the author of The Little Prince.No writer has equaled Saint-Exupéry in describing the perilous and poetic experience of flying, in submissio...
"First published in the 1950s, this modern masterpiece is Lawrence Durrell's translation and adaptation of Emmanuel Royidis's classic ""Papissa Joanna""--the story of history's only female pope. The story's source is a ninth-century legend: a girl di...
The objective is to give the newcomer to archaeology a feeling for the subject through both popular writings about prehistory and carefully selected technical articles written by professional archaeologists for their colleagues....
FROZEN ASSETS Ethan Fortune was a simple salesman--knowledgeable and civilized...a sophisticated traveler between many worlds. But he had certainly never thought of himself as a hero. Skua September, on the other hand, never thought of himself ...
A haunting story of love and mystery in Victorian England. In the late nineteenth century in the lush atmosphere of the English countryside at Saxelby Mill, the seafaring Captain Adam Westerdale had brought his frail bride and where a few years la...
Helen had never wanted to marry Nick Vakotis. She could never understand why he, a fabulously wealthy Greek ship-owner, should want to marry her -- but he did. On their wedding day he told her, "Remember always that you're mine. Should ano...
Elizabeth was brokenhearted when she discovered that her fiance Dan was in love with her best friend Karen, and as there was nothing she could do but accept the situation as gracefully as possible, she broke off the engagement. Then family circums...
The nice of Professor Harmon, the brilliant scientist who reincarnated Dracula, is kidnapped in Jamaica by voodoo priests who demand a crippling ransom, a daunting challenge for Dracula to resolve or she will die in agony....
It was on the invitation of the elderly Marquesa de Mendao that Malcolm Trevellyan and his young wife Rachel were staying at the imposing quinta in Portugal. But Rachel was far from happy there. Malcolm was being embarrassingly rude and demanding ...
A Jamaican girl, Bita Plant, who was adopted and sent to be educated in England by white missionary benefactors, returns to her native village of Banana Bottom and finds her black heritage at war with her newly acquired culture....
As bombs pound Malta to dust, Father Salvatore--a simple priest, or kappillan, serving the poor--finds himself caught in the drama of World War Two. In the fragile safety of catacombs revealed by the explosions, he tends to the flood of homeless, sta...
Three lovely women were keys to Tarl Cabot's career on Gor, Earth's orbital counterpart. They were: Talena, daughter of Gor's greatest ruler and once Tarl's queen. Elizabeth Cardwell, who had been Tarl's comrade in two of his greatest exploit...
Yonnondio follows the heartbreaking path of the Holbrook family in the late 1920s and the Great Depression as they move from the coal mines of Wyoming to a tenant farm in western Nebraska, ending up finally on the kill floors of the slaughterhouses a...
Another nightmarish tale from the author of Breakdown. When the blizzard hit and the avalanche that followed cut them off, the 75 hardy residents of a small resort village in the Sierra Nevadas quietly prepared for a Christmas in isolation. But three...
From the New York Times bestselling author of Reading Like a Writer and A Changed Man, an early novel about a theater troupe in 17th century Italy, republished to coincide with the opening of a Broadway musical inspired by the book
The Glori...
THE LION MEN OF MONGO is the first of a series inspired by the world famous comic strip FLASH GORDON, read daily and Sunday by millions of fans throughout the world. After crash landing on the planet Mongo, Flash, Dale, and the eminent scientist, ...
HER GLITTERING BLACK EYES WERE FIXED ON IRENE. “I WARN YOU NOT TO INTERFERE. YOU WILL LIVE TO REGRET IT!” In the isolated manor house, the Stewart family are gathered like vultures at the bedside of its dying mistress. Irene has come to catalo...
The classic short story collection of Southern life by the Pulitzer Prize"winning author of The Optimist’s Daughter.These eight stories reveal the singular imaginative power of one of America's most admired writers. Set in the region of the Old N...
The conditions that went with her inheritance demanded that Cilla should travel to the Seychelles. It was the holiday of a lifetime that all girls dream about. But one thing spoiled the island paradise -- the presence of the arrogant and argumentat...
A savage warrior schooled in the art of conquest...The noble princess he could never tame...A stirring tale of passions unleashed and love unchained from the incomparable storyteller Kathleen E. Woodiwiss Like a swift and bitter wind, Wulfgar, "th...