Twenty of the finest short stories published during the past year are collected in this edition of the award-winning literary series, which features the best in short fiction from magazines and journals across the country....
A reunion between a daughter and her father turns sour when an army of revived Nazi werewolves is turned loose on the streets, and the father sees a face from his World War II past that has not aged in forty years...
Pete Sawyer is a private eye of a different kind. The son of a World War II American pilot and a brave French resistance fighter, he grew up on both sides of the Atlantic -- though he prefers his sun-dappled villa on the Riviera to most other places....
Promoted in the army to the Intelligence Corps, and later through the ranks of MI6, Eddie Hoggart is one tough customer. His current task is to debrief a defector named Yakunin. But he must first prove that he himself is not a mole....
NO MAN WOULD EVER POSSESS HER... Dirt-poor and fiercely ambitious, beautiful Southern-born Audrey Stoane was determined to make her fortune in New York and she'd use anything and anyone to realize her goal. But when her daring ploy backfired, she la...
A collection of stories about a frightening world inhabited by people dehumanized by the daily threat of nuclear war and postwar survivors deformed by its results.“Amis's introduction to these five stories is a beautifully judged piece of polemic; ...
A group of characters are watched over by an elderly godmother figure. Beth takes up with Bohemian Marco by whom she has a baby and Marco's mother then becomes a central figure in the novel. All the characters finally come under the roof of Juliet th...
Respectability was expected of her That's why schoolteacher Kelsey Cameron took great pains to keep secret the fact that she wrote detective novels -- under the name of Joe Rocco. So she was stunned and nervous when Bart Malone wrote Joe Ro...
HAD HER HUSBAND LED A SECRET LIFE FULL OF DANGER AND SPIES...? Though a widow of only four months, Lady Cornelia Devenish vowed to carry on the grand tradition of her husband's magnificent estate. But the sudden appearance of Edwin Sorrels, an...
Headhunters, sorcerers, pirates and Indian princes thrive in this action-packed, poetic tale of a young outcast in Borneo. Born in 1609, son of a native woman and a Dutch sea captain he never knew, Jaki Gefjon grows up in the jungle as a sorcerer's a...
BLAZING DEATH FROM SPACE Emerging from the nuclear holocaust of World War III come the Guardians--Americas last line of defense against world domination by the Federated States of Europe. TheVre a handpicked unit of four men trained to handle any ...
Cedar River High has just taken on a new practice teacher who's envied and talked about by the entire school.
Mr. Cartwright, a weightlifter and football player in college, is everybody's idol perfect muscles, handsome, and he knows it.
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Liontamer Lake Emerson falls for the beautiful waif hanging around the circus grounds, but is shocked to discover that Clover Sinclair is the daughter of his most hated enemy, a man he has been hunting for years...
MOLLY -- A beautiful bride-to-be, she fell hopelessly in love with another man. A man she could never marry.... CAREY -- A world-class horseman and film director, he lived a glittering jet-set life that Molly could never be a part of. Aga...
HOME ON THE RANGE Sexy rancher Brock Jacoby never thought he'd fall for a rich, pampered socialite like Jamaica McKenzie, but that was what he'd done. From the moment he'd first seen his neighbour's granddaughter, Brock knew he was lost. And while...
Time travel to London, 1810 TIME MEANT NOTHING WHEN SHE WAS IN HIS ARMS... 1990 -- The vacation in London was exactly what Andrea Wells needed. Restless with her life back in Minneapolis, disillusioned with her fiancé, she found herself drawn...
Battling for survival in the primitive colonial outpost of Jamestown, Virginia, a recent widow finds solace in the bed of her late husband's best friend while suffering--with the other colonists--starvation, cruel winters, and a possible Indian massa...
RAPTURE IN THE ROCKIES Sage MacKenzie had been alone in the mountains too long when he came upon the gorgeous woman who claimed she'd lost her memory. Even though she gazed at him through innocent violet eyes, he convinced himself that no decent l...
BURNING WITH DESIRE Sent away from her beloved sun-drenched island of St. Dominique for a proper convent education in Paris, Angelique Gilbert was a girl on the verge of womanhood -- ripe for adventure and for love. So when the legendary Captain Wes...
A Spanish explorer sets his horse free in the New World. Alone, she wanders into the lives of Wolf Cub and his father, forming a mystical bond that changes the ways of their Native American tribe forever. This story about friendship and trust is told...
MR. MARCH Man: Rand Marshall Motto: Commitment? What's that? Secret Identity: Brick Lawson, writer of bestselling action thrillers. Greatest Challenge: Jamie Saraceni, irresistible librarian--definitely the marrying kind. Sexy spitfire Ja...
Keith Stoner lay frozen in an alien spacecraft for fifteen long years; during that time he came to be something more than just an astronaut, just a man. Stoner became partly alien hismelf--merged with an alien intelligence embodied in the nanotechnol...
FROM THE FOUNDING OF NESKAYA TOWER... to the origins of the Free Amazons... to a Terran innocently enmeshed in a Darkovan conspiracy of betrayal and murder, here are exciting new excursions into the six ages of Darkover. Join Marion Zimmer Bradl...
After putting aside her plan to become the first feminist theologian in favor of marriage, Ellen Elliot finds herself adrift in a mundane world of household concerns and escapes through an imaginary affair with a physicist...
When the most hated man in the horse-racing world is murdered, amateur sleuth Jerry Brogan returns to track down the killer, but the odds steepen as files implicating Brogan in the crime are found....
FROM AMERICA’S MOST TRUSTED NAME IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION Every book in the Bank Street Ready-to-Read series is targeted at the individual abilities of children ages four to eight. The three interconnecting levels of the series are structur...
MOON BOY tells of a child’s encounter with a very special nighttime visitor. Lyrical text and delicate artwork blend magically to create a bedtime story with as much sparkle as a full moon.FROM AMERICA’S MOST TRUSTED NAME IN EARLY CHILDHO...
Ethan Ryland knew it was mad to invite his brother's widow to stay at his island home. But beautiful Celeste was alone and suddenly too fragile to be on her own--hardly the wanton seducer his brother had accused her of being. Instead, to Ethan's chag...
RUDE, UNCIVILIZID RANCHER Energetic Michelle DeLeroy couldn't believe her father had promised her to Judd McCord, a rich cattlebreeder from the uncivilized Texas wasteland. They were so mismatched that the furious Louisiana siren pretended to be...
"WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL DOES SOMETHING LIKE THIS -- EATS THE SKIN OFF A MAN AND LEAVES THE MEAT?” Cavern City, Kentucky, is a nice place to take the kids in the summer. The caves are cool and only a little bit spooky, and the primitive drawings and...
They say that cats have nine lives It was Familiar's most recent life that worried her. Since she'd found the cat in the university parking lot, Professor Eleanor Duncan had been assaulted, interrogated by the CIA, her apartment invaded by a craz...
Here is that rarest and most satisfying of books: a grown-up love story. Harry and Catherine have been falling in and out of love for many years. She is divorced, determinedly raising two sons, and running a small gallery in upstate New York. He is a...
The long interbreeding between Earth and the Oankali aliens is nearly complete--and suddenly endangered--by a child. But it's not a boy or a girl. XENOGENESIS: The birth of something new--and foreign. Jodahs is a human-ooloi, the Oankali thi...
He'd done it to her again! Tess Maxwell had yet to forgive Asher Ames for usurping her position as editor of the college newspaper. And now, just she was about to win the plum job as a Kansas City entertainment reporter, who should appear but Ashe...
Private eye Whistler is back at Gentry's Coffee Shop talking about dreams when he spots Faye, the love of his life, who ditched him years before for a seductive hillbilly weirdo named Inch Younger. Younger's out on parole now, after serving fifteen y...
Texas oilman Shane Bartlett had come to Matchmakers to find a wife, and proprietress Cassie Averil was going to see that he got one. But for her scientific, step-by-step formula to work he had to give up his antiquated notions about love and passions...
An eagle swoops down and picks up an infant from his yard in eastern Kentucky. The mother is frantic as she watches the eagle fly off towards its nest. The neighbors, police, national guard, and state troopers all work to recover the child. Necco Tuf...
Nineteenth century Philadelphia, a growing, bustling city, is the setting for this story of three generations of strong, indomitable women. As a girl, Emily Armstrong quarreled bitterly with her mother, Amanda, over her choice of husband; she forsook...
Vadim Vinnick, powerful head of the Romanian intelligence service, lies on his deathbed, prepared to exchange critical information about Soviet operations in return for revenge for his parents' brutal murders during World War II...
HE WAS MORE THAN SHE'D HOPED FOR Christian Townsend was rich, handsome, self-assured and smart, and museum employee Sonya Douglas didn't know how she was going to manage him. Her first attempt was at spin control -- but instead of being...
An offer of a quarter of a million pounds for a day's work, attracts mercenary Philip Baxter, but leads him to distrust his new employers, who plan on stealing gold bullion from a riverfront warehouse...
While investigating the death of a friend in a small village in the Hudson River Valley, Mongo must unexpectedly duel with an old enemy as well as a right-wing conspiracy....
A thriller set mainly in Nepal and Tibet in 1970. Walter Melville is an American anthropologist who is persuaded by a freelance intelligence fixer to take part in a scheme to smuggle a defecting Chinese general out of Tibet and back to Taiwan with th...
The Phuili and their rivals, the humans, discover the technological relics of a long-vanished race, a discovery that could help the two races take the first steps toward mutual alliance, but could also lead them to death at the hands of the Silvers...
IT LIVED IN A DREAM The mists and fogs of the Rockies, the shifting play of light and shadow--the imagination could easily conjure apparitions from the enchanted air that swirled around The Stanley Hotel. But it wasn't a whimsical flight of fa...
Now in ebook for the first time, the first book of Clayton's classic trilogy, Shadith's Quest Spacenapped when she stumbled on a kidnapping in progress, Shadith -- captive for centuries in the alien artifact known as the Diadem, now on...
HEADMASTER HAROLD MEDBURN WAS DEAD, AND NOBODY IN THE VILLAGE REGRETTED IT. Appropriately, it was on the evening of the village Halloween party that Medburn's body, dressed in academic cap and gown, was found swinging from the school's rusty netba...
A GENTLY BRED HELLION With hair as dark as sin and a face and a body that were pure heaven, Jennifer Baxter was a woman who knew her own mind and did as she pleased...until she ran off into dangerous territory south of the border. Suddenly she was t...
A first novel in which Max Lakeman, a suburban Walter Mitty, begins to be troubled by a mysterious and beautiful apparition, and finds her advances increasingly difficult to resist....
He was called White Buffalo, he would be the greatest medicine man the People had ever known. The spirit of the ancient gods beat in him like a savage drum -- a mystical power as old as the land, as primeval as primitive man himself. But even as he...
New temptations and new dangers threaten the peaceful lives of the EIk.dog People. The wise old medicine man, White Fox, and his impressionable young son, Red Horse, have agreed to guide Captain LeFever of Port de Chastaigne to Santa Fe, in his ques...
Omara's people shun all belief in the power of gods and magic, and the Deliverers, led by Simon Wargallow, pledge to put to death all heretics. When Korbillian flees his magical land of Ternannoc in the midst of a catastrophic destruction, he takes r...
Matthew Harris, a bored and dissatisfied London hospital orderly, thinks he can do as well as the doctors he observes. Suddenly he has a chance to try. Just before Dr. Simon Hennessey died in a motorcycle accident, he had applied for an emergency-r...
LIKE FATHER, LIKE DAUGHTER? Kelly Smith had always planned to follow in her father's footsteps on the horse-racing circuit, but now it seemed those footsteps led to betrayal. Could she prove her father had been innocent of the charges against h...
Bestselling mystery writer Shae Malone had returned to the sleepy town where he'd spent much of his childhood to finish his new novel, but instead of peace and quiet, he found his home invaded by a menagerie of zoo animals temporarily living next doo...
Renee Amos was a dreamer, dedicated to righting wrongs and championing under-dogs. But she never dreamed that there were others like her on alien worlds, also fighting for justice. Then two alien Arbiters, on their way to a distant planet to negotiat...
Daisy Brewster's extended prenuptial vacation in Europe has lasting repercussions when the resourceful young American's brief but tumultuous foray into British journalism alienates a powerful editor and threatens her husbands's career...
Hired by the U.S. Army to track a band of renegade Chiricahua Apaches across the Arizona territory, Buckskin Lee Morgan finds his mission complicated by an encounter with a hot-blooded young Indian woman. Reissue....
As a lawyer Price could help her But Price Domenico was just the kind of complication she didn't really want. All her life, Elizabeth had been told she was stupid and now she was quietly, determinedly proving everyone wrong. But she'd b...
Arriving in the town of Bancroft with beautiful Lucy McCoy, Long Rider finds out that Ezra Bancroft is tricking Chief Antelope out of Ottawa land with a bunch of empty promises, and he vows revenge on the greedy landowner...
When a stranger asking questions in the resort of Port Monto, Pennsylvania, about a thirty-five-year-old drowning is murdered, vacationer Chase Defoe investigates, finding that most Port Monto denizens have reasons for not discussing that drowning...
A stranger in a small town offers its residents nights of unsurpassable ecstasy in exchange for their souls, and soon Reverend Warren MacDonald and young Emily Knox stand alone against the ravenous living dead. A small sleepy country town in south...
Hana Demet'z The House on Prague Street, published in 1980 was a classic novel of the Eastern European experience in the early days of Nazi aggression; Chaim Potok called it "a lovely, poignant jewel." Now, exactly ten years later, comes The Journey...
Charlie is nobody's dog, now. Charlie can't find his way back across the mountain to his people. The blizzard has cut him off. He is lost. But Charlie is brave, and smart. He escapes from a wolf. He survives a bear attack. He digs his way out f...
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT Even though haughty Elizabeth Lancaster wasn't his type of woman, there was something about her that fascinated Major Alexander Knox. He wanted to caress her smooth skin, to entwine himself in her willowy limbs, to los...
Josh Campbell might not have been the man of her dreams, but he fit Heather Sinclair's fantasies just fine! When the brawny Yank, who looked as if he could wield a sword as powerfully as any clansman, stopped on a deserted road to give her a ride...
Young wizards Nita and Kit face their most terrifying challenge yet: Nita's bratty little sister, Dairine. Not only is Dairine far too smart for a ten-year-old, she also has recently become a wizard, and worse yet, a wizard with almost limitless powe...
Here is the slim, stunning debut novel from the acclaimed author of Geek Love. Attic follows a young woman named Kay who has joined a cult-like organization that sells magazine subscriptions in small towns. When Kay tries to cash a customer’s bad c...
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With daring realism and stunning imagination, the author of Geek Love, Katherine Dunn, takes us on a journey into the mind of a feisty, adventurous adolescent named Jean ""Dutch"" Gillis. Dutch goes ""trucking"" from Portland, Oregon, to Los Ange...
THE REBEL OR THE RAKE? Lovely young Annemarie Marshall wanted nothing to do with marriage--especially to Lord Anthony Blakewell, the most notorious rake in London. But she could see no way to disobey her father's command to wed the lordly liberti...
THE WIZARD, THE WOLF, AND THE WAR Once a lonely apprentice, Teleri is now the Queen's own sorceress--and betrothed to the realm's finest knight, Ceilyn mac Cuel. But beneath the seeming peace and happiness of the Kingdom of Celydonn, malevolent he...
IT'S TRUE, LOVE CAN'T BE BOUGHT, BUT A BIT OF MONEY ISN'T TOO HATEFUL.... Lord Hanford of Laceby possessed an ancient lineage and even more ancient debts. He was, quite bluntly, for sale. Susannah Potter was in the market. She had rece...
The hired gunmen came to Mahon’s place to take him away and kill him. But instead of Mahon they found a black-dressed Texas boy with a fast gun, and left him for dead, taking his horse. They had made their first big mistake. In the town of Esco...
A Taste of Heaven... When beautiful Katie Lee Holden lost everything, masterful Bruce Cabot came to her rescue. But Katie Lee was determined to forge her destiny alone--and light up the stage of glittering turn-of-the-century Seattle. No one would...
I, VAMPIRE I've always had a weak spot for strange ladies. One very beautiful girl had even warned me that she was--get this--a vampire. But did I listen? No. Well, before you know it, I'm being chased by an ugly thug with a gun, and a bulle...
Fire Chief and acting sheriff Mac Fontana is used to trouble in the sleepy Seattle suburb of Staircase, Washington. But this time the heat is really on. All over town, firemen have been dying at an alarming rate--victims of an insidious maniac intent...
In 1887, when her missionary parents have gone to China without her, snobbish twelve-year-old Julia is sent to a farm in upstate New York where she breaks a leg, and while it mends, she learns to love and accept her country cousins and heal her anger...
Three classics in cowboy literature--"The Rounders," "The Great Wedding," and "The Orange County Cowboys"--star Dusty Jones and Wrangler Lewis, two bronco busters with a thirst for loot, liquor, and ladies...
It begins with a bad headache, a sore throat, and a terrible thirst. Then comes a state of frenzy. Victims attack others, tearing at their flesh with bared teeth. Finally, within a few days, an agonizing death. Rabies expert Dr. Martin Farrow reco...
'How I loathe that kind of novel which is about a lot of sisters'; so proclaims Deirdre at the beginning of The Brontës Went to Woolworths, one of three sisters.London, 1931. As growing up looms large in the lives of the Carne sisters, Deird...
In an attempt to win back his wayward wife, a distraught husband follows his spouse into the nihilistic Southern California underground, where he encounters a dreamlike cast of characters, including bodybuilders, paraphiliacs, and drug dealers. Re...
It is December 1681, and the words of Mr. Baggot, the tithingman, terrify young William. William is living a strange double life. By day he is a printer’s apprentice living in a white man’s house. By night, he is Weetasket of the Narraganset trib...
IN THE SEDUCTIVE ARENA OF WASHINGTON POLITICS, A DEDICATED CONGRESSWOMAN DISCOVERS AMBITION IS A NARROW PATH SHE MUST WALK ALONE... A devoted wife and mother, Laura Devlin cherishes her family - a commitment that's becoming increasingly hard to b...
BLOOD INHERITANCE Mike O’ Sullivan could hardly believe his luck. An unexpected land bequest brought the young college instructor and his lover Mary a chance to see Ireland’s mystic emerald shore to escape from the disturbing shadows of the pa...
Sixteen-year-old Gussie becomes increasingly desperate in trying to cope with his alcoholic mother's increasing mental instability and his father's determination to take care of her without outside help...
Parisian beauty Alycia Boucher gives up her independent life when she sets up house in America with a charming army captain, but, three children later, an illicit affair with a social agitator nudges awake her dormant joie de vivre...
Some are born wicked. Some achieve wickedness. And some have wickedness thrust upon them... Noel Cardiff is trying his worst, but he just doesn't have the knack for iniquity. He's hoping to impress Lysi, the succulent succubus who, in the guise of a...
THERE'S A SPECIAL PLACE IN THE HEART WHERE DREAMS CAN COME TRUE.... When Emily unexpectedly inherits an old farmhouse in the Berkshires her life is suddenly flooded with new possibilities. Rejuvenated by her newfound independence, she begins to ov...
IN A GALAXY ON THE BRINK OF CIVIL WAR the Brotherhood seeks to keep the peace through diplomacy, subterfuge, and control of both technological advances and the carefully gathered knowledge of countless worlds. But now Speaker Archon, formerly a priv...
In the distant future, the world has been transformed by the domination of reptilians called dragons. Now, man is an endangered species. But resistance is growing, and the rebels have a desperate plan--seizing the dragons' time transport and followin...
FLASH... FLASH... FLASH...A lighthouse signals from the rocky shore, guiding ships away from danger. Once sailors watched for giant bonfires that were set high on hills. Now, most lighthouses are fully automated. In Beacons of Light: Lighthouses, ...
'Woman will be the death of me,' mutters Kingdom Swann, peering up at the nude woman hung by her wrists from a pillar. An impressive old man with a wonderful wealth of beard, he appears the very picture of Victorian respectability. Yet behind the wal...
Jonas Pickett, lawyer and commissioner of oaths is nearing retirement, but still has lots of energy. However, he leaves the pressure of a London practice behind to set up a new modest office in a quiet seaside resort. He soon finds that he is overw...
Imprisoned for her participation in a violent protest demonstration, upper-middle-class C.P.A. Meave Barclay is released from her captivity into a bizarre and dangerous circle of acquaintances, among them her prison pal Rene...
As the helicopter hovered above her, Kathy M'Gonigle gazed with wonder at her heroic rescuer, but stormy-eyed Gabe Fowler was furious at how close she'd come to drowning in the sudden flood -- and shocked at the joy he felt at touching her ag...
Bren is fearful of having the girl of his dreams meet his family of witches, but after a school production of Macbeth which is attended by his family who cause startling effects, he realizes a meeting has already taken place....
He had her number... To private investigator Mac Harris, the icy elegance and aloof mystery of his new tax accountant added up to a romantic challenge. She intrigued him. But he soon discovered detective work was an easier task than getting close t...
A CHILD ONCE LOST...IS FOUND Laura Bryant had finally found her five-year-old son, Matthew. But she'd never expected to discover him in the care of his darkly handsome father. Without a word, Gareth Ryder had walked out on her, leaving her hea...
On 23 March 1986, Surfair flight 617 travelling from LA to San Francisco crashes, leaving only 18 of the 120 passengers alive. The crash has unimaginable consequences for both survivors and bereaved, as hitherto unguessed-at emotions and secrets, lov...
A selection of both vintage and new mummy stories, from Sharyn McCrumb's tale of a mummy who lives in an army surplus store to Edgar Allan Poe's chilling story of reanimation, samples the best of this genre...
WOMAN OF MYSTERY To Mick Larson, his next-door neighbor Kat Bryant was the perfect woman: smart, attractive, passionate. From the moment she'd stormed across his yard and into his life, he'd only had eyes for the auburn-haired beauty. Kat was a wo...
WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? Being tricked into going to a male strip joint was one thing, but being kissed passionately by a masked man called Zorro -- and liking it -- was another! Sarah Wingate knew it made much more sense to be attracted to a man ...
A frozen planet. An enslaved people. An elite commando squad controls the destiny of a solar system . . .The immortal space saga of the STAR COMMANDOS continues. In the fifth volume of this compelling and endearing adventure series, the STAR COMMANDO...
When an elderly man agrees to let twelve-year-old Hummer train his Arabian horse for a competitive trail ride, it is the one bright spot in her difficult life living with a mentally ill mother and a father who won't recognize the problem...
TEMPERATURE RISING After one broken engagement, Bridget O'Connor had sworn off parties, blind dates and crushes on cute TV cops. In fact, she wanted nothing to do with men of any description! But then she met Matthew Branigan, and he more than liv...
Wire service stringer Jimmy Angel reluctantly travels to Venezuela for an assignment and finds himself sheltering street urchins, lying to protect an irresponsible boss, and aiding a band of urban guerrillas...
A young sailor's love for a mermaid is preserved in the ring she fashions for him from a strand of her hair, but he finds himself in a dire dilemma when he remembers he has promised a lock of his sweetheart's hair to a mysterious old woman...
THE MASTER WIZARD Ever since he first learned he had the power of magic, Sun Wolf and his beloved Starhawk had been searching for a master wizard to teach him the full skills needed for its use. But true wizards were rare since the time of the evi...
Eleven-year-old Nelson Malone experiences all kinds of amazing adventures--from flying a plane, to coping with invisibility, to becoming the parent of a baby pterodactyl--in a collection of six stories...
GAMBLE ON LOVE Miss Rosalind Carberry defied all warnings when she accepted Lord Philip Southvale's proposal. Her father distrusted the breathtakingly handsome, fabulously wealthy Englishman. Rumors ran riot about his persisting passion for hi...
Floating in My Mother's Palm is the compelling and mystical story of Hanna Malter, a young girl growing up in 1950's Burgdorf, the small German town Ursula Hegi so brilliantly brought to life in her bestselling novel Stones from the River.Hanna's cou...
A collection of 16 poignant stories about the rogue stresses that threaten the stability of modern women, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom presents tales that are witty, absurd, and beautiful, about coming together, making do, and learning to live ...
Writing in a new and different mode, John Hersey, who has enriched us with such memorable novels as A Bell for Adanoand The Wall, now gives us his first collection of short stories. A superb and witty storyteller, he invents a variety of vo...
She was ecstatic and afraid Being chosen by world-famous dance director Harlem Barensky to be his set designer was like a dream come true for Tiffany. Talented but inexperienced and a little clumsy, she was sure she wouldn't be able to matc...
Anne’s new husband, Chandler seems to have everything he’s handsome, wealthy, a tender lover. And he shares Anne’s obsession with medieval history. As “lord” of the Order of the Arrow, an elite group of powerful and mysterious friends he h...
‘An hilarious account of Arthur’s attempts to earn enough money to buy a T-shirt and cap, assisted by his sister Violet. Simple business concepts are ingeniously woven into the story. This marvelous book will capture the interest of eager learner...
CAPTIVE ENCHANTMENT With skin of creamy satin and hair of ebon silk, Skyraven was the pride of her Arapaho tribe. But the voluptuous maiden had not yet met the warrior who could stir her blood...until the day she came upon the golden-haired man in t...
Having escaped from the eastern European concentration camp where he has spent most of his life, a twelve-year-old boy struggles to cope with an entirely strange world as he flees northward to freedom in Denmark. “[North to Freedom] is, to my mind,...
HER FATHER'S DREAM... ...had been to establish a refuge for troubled teenage boys. And now Keely Lockwood was determined to carry on his work and restore Black Horse Island to its former glory. But she had only one month to do it -- and she neede...
The interweaving of words and pictures within a rebus framework turns this delightful retelling of THE THREE BILLY GOATS GRUFF into a visual puzzle, adding a playful new twist to an old favorite.FROM AMERICA’S MOST TRUSTED NAME IN EARLY CHILDHO...
He'd been her first and only love, but when a tragic accident left John Mitchell in a coma a week before their wedding day, Kelly Russell was devastated. When the doctors told her he'd never come out of it, she refused to believe them... until the ye...
“A fine addition to units on dinosaurs and also an outstanding poetry collection.”Booklist “The noted anthologist has once again collected poems that combine quality with an unerring feel for the interests of his young reader...
After the death of his idolized older brother, twelve-year-old Isaac's relationship with his horse dealer father grows even worse as he sees his father's obsession with hatred poison their family's life...
A story of love and community, written by the hand of Zora Neale Hurston, one of the 20th century’s greatest authors, and a woman who truly understands her characters’ motivations. This modern classic edition of Jonah's Gourd Vine features an upd...
Zora Neale Hurston brings us Black America’s folklore as only she can, putting the oral history on the written page with grace and understanding. This new edition of Mules and Men features a new cover and a P.S. section which includes insights, int...
“Strikingly dramatic, yet simple and unrestrained . . . an unusual and intensely interesting book richly packed with strange information.” -- New York Times Book ReviewBased on Zora Neale Hurston’s personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica, whe...
Lano Branka's run of good luck appears to be running out when a union boss turns up dead and Branka makes the mistake of crossing a bookie who just happens to be a member of the mob, in a thriller set against the backdrop of high-stakes gambling in A...
Miss Abigail Patience Danforth's determination to become the world's first female sleuth before the dawn of the twentieth century leads to a cross-Atlantic quest for a stolen royal ruby and her first case...
Six-year-old Bobby Dickerson was excited. Even though the old house was spooky and smelled bad, it was his first real home, and he had his very own dog. He just wished his mother would quit imagining all those monsters and corpses. She was silly. ...
Eli Pike, a free-lance photojournalist in a time when the media are strictly government controlled, travels to the hostile planet Scorpio, where he becomes involved in the struggle for a missing invention that could change time itself...
Peace in the kingdom of Elundium is shattered when the corrupt Chancellors gather their forces, prepared to attack the rule of King Holbian, and the messenger Thane must cross enemy territory to save his people...
Rugged Steven Merrick deemed society darling JoAnna Stowe a frivolous, if desirable, bit of feminine fluff. Grudgingly he knew he should rescind his public challenge to be partners on a grueling ten-day motorcycle race. Then again, the thought of bea...
With their father away, who will solve the mystery? In the darkness of a November night, Kate O'Connell awakens to the murmur of voices coming from below her room in the Windy Hill farmhouse. Sneaking down the stairs, she learns that Papa Nord...