When a jewelry store is robbed, fifth-grader Jennifer Jansen knows she has to act fast. Nicknamed "The Camera" because of her photographic memory, Cam takes special care to remember what each person looks like as they leave the store. The police are ...
"Go back to the city where you belong! " Paige was hurt by Kelly's harsh words. She might be city bred, but she was beginning to love this rugged Australian outback. Kelly Sinclair had rescued her when she lost all her possessions i...
She was American and beautiful. He was English and engaged to another and this would seem the end of it -- except... -- the beguiling tale of a charming young American girl who becomes the "guest" of a wealthy English family. Because Engla...
For his world and ours are the same ... but his lies in the future and seems destined to parallel the history of our own. Where is humanity? What legacy has true mankind left to its manlike descendants that they must relive our past? For Aldair has b...
Saleh, the son of a village idealist, endures the petty cruelties of local bureaucrats until long-buried resentments finally erupt, dividing the village society and forcing Saleh into a desperate flight across the desert...
RACHEL SAXON She was too beautiful to remain a governess. But now her lovely face, ginger hair, and green eyes like a frosted sea had trapped her in the unwelcome embrace of her employer. She resisted and suddenly found herself an outlaw--running fr...
The native drums throbbed in a sensuous, rhythmic chant, lulling Carol Baxter. She had come to Peru to work as a public-health nurse-and to escape the very memory of love. But here, on the banks of the mighty Amazon River, she worked side by side wit...
The power, the passion, the heart of America lives in...CREEK MARY'S BLOOD
Creek Mary - whose beauty fired the hearts of both the white man and the Indian, whose pride inflamed the souls of a great people!...
The scheme would be of mutual benefit When Jason Kent literally crashed into Virginia's life, he turned her whole world upside down. In return for a large sum of money, he asked her to pose as his mistress so that his wife would divorce him. ...
SWEPT FROM INNOCENCE INTO A WHIRLWIND OF TREACHERY, CAPTIVITY, AND ROMANCE... Beautiful, headstrong Nicole Ashford was yet untouched by passion, but destined for adventure -- and pleasure -- beyond anything a woman of her time had ever known. ...
Kelly knew she was the one responsible Against her better judgment, for her fiance's sake, Kelly bribed George Anderson to guide their party up the mountain. When George was injured, Kelly was prepared to help out with money. But Nicholas ...
Telepath Richard Jordan resents his psychic abilities, since they have brought him nothing but trouble, until First Contact with an alien species awakens him to the full potential of his faster-than-light communication abilities. Reprint....
Newly independent readers will love this classic football story, now illustrated in full color! Mike's telepathic dog Harry is able to tell him what the other football team plans to do on the field, but Mike wonders--is it cheating? Can he win the ga...
Though she was well past her first season, she was still simply Fanny to all who knew and loved her. To her contemporaries, she was a dignified spinster -- plain, perhaps, but oh-so-elegant with a bearing and style all her own. Fanny had no intent...
Should he marry a stranger for money? The lawyer spoke persuasively to Alan. "By marrying this girl, you'll not only be doing a good deed, you'll be helping yourself. You'll be well paid, of course.... " Alan hesitated at the macabre propositio...
TO ONE MAN SHE HAD PLEDGED HER TROTH -- TO ANOTHER SHE HAD SURRENDERED HER HEART... MARSALI HAD LOVED RORY MACLEOD with all the innocent fervor of her being. Their betrothal had been the culmination of her dreams. But the bitter political strugg...
Before there was Black Company, there was the Dread Empire, an omnibus collection the first three Dread Empire novels: A Shadow of All Night's Falling, October's Baby and All Darkness Met. For the first time in eBook format, the A Cruel Wind collecti...
Emma was a woman, not an immature girl At eighteen Emma Price had run away from Nicholas Voss when he asked her to marry him. She felt she could not fulfill his expectations. Now, five years later, to her amazement, Nicholas was about to take o...
For Barbara Wilcox, the Paris Trip was turning into a total disaster. First she had lost out to handsome Smug Hank Goddard at the Krakov emerald auction. Then her hotel room had been robbed, leaving Babs stranded in Paris with no money or passport an...
In the spring of 1976, the film-maker, Francis Ford Coppola, and his family left California for the Philippines, where the film Apocalypse Now was to be filmed. In this book Coppola's wife records the events of a period which stretched from months in...
Her new life was not proving easier Not until fate appeared in the person of Clay Dayman did Sheena find courage to leave a man who wouldn't defy social conventions to marry her. And since her father had left her a small landholding on part...
Vienna -- 1912 The most glittering capital of Europe, where an aging Emperor ruled an empire riddled with intrigue and violence, while his court pursued an endless round of public pageantry and private pleasures. This was the city of grandeur a...
Aug 1974 DAW mass market paperback, #UJ1526. 3rd printing. Gordon R. Dickson (Dorsai!). The Star Road is a collection of science fiction stories by Gordon R. Dickson. It was first published by Doubleday in 1973. The stories originally appeared in the...
Was she only a diversion? Superstar Bourne Kerwood was a famous singer and composer, and Lorena an unsophisticated university student. Despite herself, Lorena knew she was succumbing to his undeniable charm. But what could he see in her -- othe...
While the Brotherhood for Southern Freedom is determined to restore the south to its prewar glory, beautiful Belle Boyd works desperately undercover to prevent the group from starting a war and achieving its ends. Reprint....
SHE WAS TORN BETWEEN DUTY AND DESIRE. It was a marriage of heaven and hell, a king's decree that tore the glorious Lady Madrigal, daughter of the Earl of Tarbella, from her rightful fiance and thrust her into the arms of Roderick, Baron of Halconb...
ONCE THEY CALLED IT COLTER'S HELL... Now it was Yellowstone, the first national pleasure preserve. But between it and civilization lay a savage land of needle-thin canyon trails, scalding geysers and Indian arrows. Longarm was shepherding Washi...
Aaron has never left alone before. He is mute, and depends on his mother for everything. But tomorrow Aaron will be twelve years old, old enough to stay home by himself while his mother goes to town. Everything will be fine, as long as he stays close...
#1 New York Times bestselling author Frederick Forsyth delivers a frighteningly possible novel of international terrorism and impending war… As the Russian people face starvation, the Politburo is faced with a hard choice: negotiate with America fo...
Freddy Agaard, son of a college professor, has projected himself into a story of Gustav, a sixteenth-century Scandinavian king, and Lars-Goren, a brave knight who, like Freddy, is a giant and suffers from his physical condition...
When her mother remarried, Caroline decided to join Francis, a distant cousin, and his wife at their home in York. She looked forward to the visit, for she greatly admired Francis and in fact had a schoolgirl crush on him for years. But upon her arri...
Carla couldn't make up her mind When Carla Francis inherited Hepburn's Quay, a house in Scotland, she planned to turn it into a small hotel. She was counting on Tom Laxey's support as a business partner. Tom, however, had another kind ...
The life of beautiful Eva Heilig--socialist, visionary, and orator--is intertwined with the lives of three generations of Chains, a rough, intrepid family of Brooklyn hoodlums, bootleggers, and ultimately, millionaire businessmen...
A WOMAN STRIPPED OF EVERYTHING BUT DARING AND DESIRE Beautiful young Margaret Millbrook seemed to have no chance in a Victorian world that had no pity. Her innocence had been taken from her in a monstrously cruel seduction. Her inheritance had b...
The vociferous West was asking for war, and these four hundred tough men knew just how the request could be granted! D0 YOU remember what you did in Independence, Jennison? Do you remember, Anthony? And you, Jim Lane-yes, Senator James Lane. You're n...
Sweeping from England's Devon coast to London, Cambridge, and finally America, this new volume in the Eden family saga is surely the best yet. John Murrey Eden is the dominating force in the lives of the five Eden women. Lady Mary Eden, John's co...
The vividly authentic, richly detailed novel of roman, intrigue, and revolution recreates the last days of the Russian aristocracy and give startling answers to questions that have haunted the West since the summer of 1918, when the world was told th...
"ONE CAN ONLY BE SORRY FOR HER THAT HER MOTHER DID NOT LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO TEACH HER THE THINGS A LADY SHOULD KNOW. INDEED SHE'S BEAUTIFUL, BUT OBVIOUSLY SHE KNOWS NOTHING OF GAY REPARTEE, THE NEWEST FASHION, THE LATEST DANCE." Kathleen had alway...
The Transit of Venus is considered Shirley Hazzard's most brilliant novel. It tells the story of two orphan sisters, Caroline and Grace Bell, as they leave Australia to start a new life in post-war England. What happens to these young women--seductio...
Spending the summer with her grandparents in Brooklyn has been so much fun, Jeremy should be elated when she learns she will be starting school there. But her parents' decision to extend their stay in Europe comes as a terrible blow. Jeremy has a ...
A world lapsing into imbecilitytrue horror!New York TimesYOU ARE DR. JAMES HEALEY AND LAST WEEK YOU WERE A GENIUSThat was before the DNA experiments. Before the accident you said could never happenSince then you have felt your mind decaying a little ...
Though THE DAY THE CALL CAME reads like fantasy, it is far from being that, and just how horrifyingly real it all is becomes clear as the story develops. When the call came, Harry Bale, the nervous eccentric hero, was ready for it. He receives his si...
HOTLINE FROM TOMORROW When Murdoch was summoned to his grandfather's isolated Scottish castle; he had no idea of the old man's latest discovery--nor where it would lead him. Sir Charles, a genius in far-out physics, had found a flaw in the law of ...
A Ridge Parkman WesternBen Halpert was a Mississippi hill farmer before the war killed his pa and took Ben as fodder for the Confederate war machine. Tough enough to survive, Ben was smart enough to escape the profiteering Confederate commander who h...
"Now I've got the jewels and the girl." Gary and Val both spun and saw their former chauffeur standing in the doorway, a gun in his hand. Leveling the weapon at Gary, the thief took Val roughly by the arm and pulled her toward him. "One step ou...
1980: America elects Gus York to the Presidency and makes him the target of The Zero Factor The Zero Factor: To the Cuban expatriates it was coincidental to their plan--a plan for political murder of global consequence and a vengeance plot with a...
Saranne Albright was hardly the girl to get involved with Paul Hodge. She was shy, quiet, a good student, and the daughter of Bronwyn Sterling Albright, one of the leading lights in the women's rights movement, and Sidney Albright, a prominent local ...
You are about to learn what blind terror really means. Your name is Max Ellis - and you are in deep, dark trouble. The CIA wants something of you - just for a loan, they say. Your sight. But the other side wants even more - for keeps. Your eyes....
AN OLD WORLD DIES; A NEW AGE DAWNS After roving through space for centuries, a starship unburdens its cargo of human embryos on a harsh new world. They quickly grow to maturity in the ship's artificial womb. A lifetime of Earth memories is program...
Three representative profiles of farmers across the nation--a Massachusetts dairy farmer, an Iowa farmer devoted to raising corn and hogs, and a Califor agribusiness--document the plight of America's small farmers and their vanishing way of life....
One awful moment shattered her life Basslea was a haven, and Marina was totally content there. She had her music and her innocent childlike fantasies. Nothing seemed capable of changing her world--until Gideon Firth arrived. He was everything s...
Lisa's former life was behind her now Lisa was not exactly happy working in Evan Wright's advertising agency. Competent herself, she found it unpleasant covering for Jon, Evan's inept brother-in-law. Then Steve Crawford, a demanding...
The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel’s transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy. A Penguin Classics Marvel C...
Set in a Wild African ParadiseTwo men...one woman..and a dream... The land was their promise, their power, their destiny. Annow Natal was a country in agony. From the deep oceans of grass to towering purple mountains, colonist and warrior clashed...
The classic bestseller from a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist that tells the compelling true story of one man's fight for the right to legal counsel for every defendent. A history of the landmark case of Clarence Earl Gideon's fight f...
BUSINESS PARTNERS... By starting a farm in Maine, Prudence Schuyler hoped to forget the tragedy that had broken her faith in all rich and attractive young men. But her new neighbor turned out to be just such a man--sporting, debonair and immensely we...
Miss Harriet Bannestock had suffered the most dreaded of fates for a young woman on the marriage market--she had not been taken. She had, however, secretly developed an affection for Julian Wickstead, someone she felt was far above her reach. Harr...
Impish young Delilah wasn't at all prepared to live at the home of her cousin, the fierce but attractive duke. Her red hair and freckles were clues to make her mischievous ways that seemed to make her unacceptable to society. One of her most outrageo...
One murder...long ago...was not enough Marco's eyes shone with fierce intensity "I told Haskell we were engaged, " he drawled. "You told him what?" Denise cried. Furious, she wanted to slap the sneer off his handsome face. She had no inte...
It was no place for a woman alone The year was 1862. New Zealand was an untamed country through which Abigail had been warned not to travel unescorted. But she felt she had no choice. Her only surviving parent, her beloved father, had set out m...
She hadn't expected a memorable summer Julie had come to the Canadian summer resort to forget about her father's tragic suicide. Adam Price, her fiance, would handle the business details. All she had to do was relax. But how could anyon...
All of Mexico City was pointing, whispering, accusing. Miguel Castenada was missing. His beautiful young American wife might soon become a wealthy widow. 'How convenient,' they said. Laurel tried not to listen, but the cold, unforgiving eyes ...
When Buzz, a thoroughbred bay colt from the Snowy River homestead is lured into the wild by the beautiful and independent filly Yarrawa, the Reid children are heartbroken. They head out into the previously unexplored country of the Snowy Mountains...
FROM THE COURTS OF FRANCE TO AMERICA'S SAVAGE WEST... They came to claim a priceless legacy. But the silver mine that brought Austin and Danielle Fleming across an ocean led brother and sister into an untamed land where neither his money nor her be...
A WEB OF LOVE AND LIES . Pampered and sheltered from the world by her wealthy, indulgent father, Victoria Lattimer was shattered by his untimely death. She was taken into the sumptuous home of her cousin Nicholas and his beautiful, fragile wife, Eli...
She was determined to hide her identity Claire de Montebourg was running, running from a terrible truth she did not want to believe. But when her car slithered dangerously across a country road during the storm, a flat tire threatened to ruin all ...
Attempting to save his girl friend from a Gorean slave trap, Jason Marshall found himself kidnapped to that legendary counter-Earth planet. And as such found himself the first "civilized" Earth male to become enslaved in the ruthless chains of Gorean...
A Fight For Survival Sarah Bishop used to cook and clean for her father and brother on their farm. She thought she'd do that all her life, until the Revolutionary War came to their village and changed everything for Sarah, forever. Now she's a ...
PASSION'S PLUNDER He had saved her life. She owed him everything. But Gweneth Valois swore she would rather be savaged by pirates than rescued by Captain Raoul Bertrand, the man who had killed her brother, captured her sister, and expected Gwene...
TWO WOMEN SHARED HIS LOVE, AND BOTH SHARED DANGEROUS LIES. In their glittering world of pomp and privilege, every woman knew her place. Every woman except...AMANDA...the wickedly ravishing Lady Whitwell, who savored forbidden ecstasy with a man sh...
The Last Day! This is it...the end of Mack Bolan's long second mile into hell...the day to end all days of the Executioner's one man war against the Mafia. If you were there in the beginning or at any point along the way, then you will certainly w...
Jenna fought the hot rush that left her heart brimming with love every time she thought of Simon. What would a fantastically handsome young doctor want with plain Jenna Wilson, a girl burdened with family troubles, family ties? There was the beaut...
Political convictions separate Ram from Zenia, his aunt, when he is still a boy in the Bronx of the 1920s, but the two are reunited fifty-six years later in Jerusalem where they are caught in a terrorist attack...
"If we don't find a man who makes your heart pound and your blood quicken..." Linnet blushed at Lady Templeton's words. But yes, she must have love--passion--or she'd be better off raising horses and growing into an eccentric old ...
It was all wrong! Jennifer's heart sank as she watched her beautiful schemes go awry. Here she was in Bath, the most fashionable spa in all England, a city of sparkling waters, of promenades and picnics, and endless, radiant balls. But for Jennife...
Claire regarded him as an uncouth savage No one as poised and elegant as Claire Foxdale could be expected to put up with Rolf Ramsey! Like one of his adventurous ancestors, Rolf was a man of the Canadian wilderness. When circumstances demanded ...
After a period of forced exile and solitary wandering brought about by his radical views on religion and politics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau returned to Paris in 1770. Here, in the last two years of his life, he wrote his final work, the Reveries. In thi...
1979 Locus Poll Award, Best Single Author Collection (Place: 10). 13 classic stories. Includes: Allamagoosa (1955 Hugo winner); Dear Devil, nominated, 1950 Retro Hugo; Mana; Jay Score; Homo Saps; Metamorphosite; Hobbyist; Late Night Final; Fast Falls...
Explosions of evil. A beautiful woman is suddenly turned into an agent of hideous destruction. A high-powered executive becomes a childlike slave of perverse emotion. A lovely female psychiatrist mouths words of madness dictated by an unknown master....
Henry Wilt is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts & Technology and the fantasies he now confronts are ...
This is an early book on BIGFOOT, the American Yeti. It is FICTIONALIZED but based on those early sightings and when CALIFORNIANS called it "Bigfoot." Other states have other names for these things? In TX, it is called "The Wild Man" from early East ...
A shapeshifting beast struggles to find its place among humanity in this classic science fiction adventure, a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novel. No one, not even the beast itself, knows where it came from or what it is. Witnesses’ descri...
She'd have to share her house with him! Autumn McBride had been delighted when an elderly lady she hardly knew left her a house in Louisiana. Later she discovered the conditions attached to Hattie Robichaux's legacy. Autumn could not d...
Romantic involvement was definitely out So Georgina welcomed the platonic friendship she shared with Desmond Warner. He didn't distract her from her job. But when Georgina's new boss, Tallis York, became convinced she was Desmond's ...
She'd fight every inch of the way! Bethany's life on a Greek island had been carefree and loving until her stepfather, Pavlos, died. Now his stern cousin, Nikolas, was determined that Bethany act like a traditional Greek lady. Not if B...
Young, impetuous Charlotte Morrow was embarking on a new life in Venice, the City of Lovers. Newly orphaned, yet filled with more excitement than grief, she had barely arrived in the cosmopolitan city when Holger von Wolfram, the dashing Austrian cap...
William Morrison III, a reporter for his uncle's New York City paper, goes to the newly built resort town of Niagara Falls in the early nineteenth century, comes to love the town and its people, and falls under the spell cast by the Falls...
Everyone wants to lay hands on Captain Gringo in Nicaragua! In this revolution-wracked land where the man with guns is king and those who grovel before him conspire behind his back, no one can be trusted. But ruler and rebel alike want the guns Capta...
Original title: Dark Heritage. From the very beginning of her employment as the governess at Tarrington Chase, lovely, young Perdita Frayne was warned to have absolutely nothing to do with Jason Hawkesworth. To disobey this order would mean instan...
To Felicia, the man who had rescued her was an enigma--frightening and fascinating, a pirate and yet a gentleman. They called him Valentine, and he was a dangerous buccaneer. He was also a fugitive who seemed to flirt with death. But death passed ...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author comes "an almost flawless story of love" (Los Angeles Times).In this modern classic, Morgan Gower works at Cullen's hardware store in north Baltimore. ...
WE HAVE PARTS TO PLAY, YOU AND I YOU MAY LOATHE MY EVERY FIBRE, BUT WE MUST APPEAR TO BE DEEPLY IN LOVE Once, Leone believed that her marriage to the handsome Christopher, Lord Aynsworth, would be her every dream come true. But the shivers of anti...
The Winter colonists have ruled Tiamat for 150 years, slaughtering the gentle sea mers in trade for off-world wealth. But soon the gate to the galactic Hegemony will close, Tiamat will be isolated, and the 150-year reign of the Summer primitives will...
Was Kirsty's dream destined to fail? All Kirsty wanted was to get her younger sister away from London and live a new life in their new home, Briar Cottage. But someone in the village wanted to drive them away--for surely all the mishaps tha...
The Italian Job meets Ocean’s Eleven in “the kookiest . . . craziest” crime caper ever written by crime fiction Grandmaster Donald Westlake (New York Times). Four teams of international thieves race through Paris to steal a king’s ran...
The three-time Edgar Awardâ€"winning Grand Master of Mystery serves up a dangerous case of mistaken identity in “the best spy comedy I have ever read” (The New York Times). J. Eugene Raxford is not what anyone would call a debonair man of ...
The past would not let her love again Anna Lindsay left Johannesburg for Durban, hoping to forget her one-sided love affair. Never again would she make a fool of herself over a man. Her disillusionment made her reject the advances of handsome S...
Which of the two was the more impossible? Renata felt she had no choice but to accept the position as tutor. Her father's debt must be paid. But faced with a rebellious teenage charge who had already "been through "several other tutors...
Shelley's father made her life unbearable When Shelley's domineering father, Charles, sent her to Avala on business, she thought he had finally acknowledged her independence. Then handsome island entrepreneur Vargen Gilev pointed out th...
The final novel of the famous Claudine series, this book is filled with the luminous insights that mark Colette's later work. Retreat from Love tells of sexuality and love in a variety of forms. Translated and with an Introduction by Margaret Croslan...
When, in Michigan's Crooked Tree State Forest, bears suddenly attack man with gruesome ferocity, the Ottawa Indians begin speaking of a malevolent intelligence controlling the bears and Axel Michelson tries to save his life and his Indian wife's soul...
Love was forbidden in her chosen life Iris Ardath, abandoned in infancy, had spent all her life behind the convent walls of St. Clare's. She fully expected that she would take the veil and spend her years safe in the quiet cloisters. But M...
A P.G. Wodehouse collection
Money makes the world go round for Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge -- and when there isn't enough of it, the world just has to spin a bit faster.
Ever on the lookout for a quick buck, a solid gold fortune,...
Pope John Paul II's three-act verse play portrays three couples at a local jeweler's shop: one happily planning their marriage, one long-married and unhappy, and children of the two couples, about to marry but full of doubts...
In 200 sections, a team of leading horticulturalists span every aspect - aesthetic and practical - of gardening outdoors. The book covers garden design, building garden features, choosing garden plants, and growing your own food....
Our addiction to money is a national malaise, more prevalent than heroin or cigarette addiction. Not only does this addiction impoverish our lives, but it has brought us to the national economic crisis we face today. This book shows how to kick wealt...