Marla Stanford returned to Quebec to face the man she'd loved once and rejected forever -- Brent Stevens. Now, still bitter, Brent exacts a cruel revenge. To save her family business, Marla must marry him. Mocking, proud, and utterly sure of h...
Born to the arena of the struggle between the superpowers, the stunning and deadly Medusa is a remarkably effective counterspy with a talent for infiltrating the private lives of her opponents to seduce and destroy them...
A warlike alien species is bent on destroying a pacifist alien species in this intergalactic adventure novel from the New York Times–bestselling author.
Viscous Circle is a story about a strange and inhuman race of beings and ...
In Her past lay the key to a nation's future. Florentyna Kane inherited a vast hotel empire from her father, but his greatest gift to her was a love of America. It was his passionate devotion to the land's ideals that allowed a penniless Polish immig...
A world at war - A generation in love - A glorious saga continues! Germany had dreamed a madman's dream. Storm clouds had gathered over the globe. And two pairs of lovers prayed that their private hopes would not be crushed in the clash of nation...
Collects a correspondence spanning fifty years, a period that included the New Deal, the Second World War, and the postwar years, between a famous mother--a publically admired activist who was a lonely, vulnerable women in private--and her only daugh...
A desperate man attempts to win a reality TV game where the only objective is to stay alive in this #1 national bestseller from Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman.It was the ultimate death game in a nightmare future America. The year is 2025 an...
Ian Ives was just ten, ragged and hungry, but his eyes blazed defiance as he stood before the English lord who had taken over his parents' Irish estate. This might be the end, the boy feared -- but, instead, it was a miraculous beginning. Sir Thomas...
"Subtitled ""a romance"", Sabbatical is the story of Susan Rachel Allan Seckler, a sharp young associate professor of early American literature - part Jewish, part Gypsy, and possibly descended from Edgar Allen Poe - and her husband Fenwick Scott Key...
"There are no photographs which can be denied. All photographs have the status of fact. What is to be examined is in what way photography can and cannot give meaning to facts." With these words, two of our most thoughtful and eloquent interrogators o...
Framed, years before, for a railroad robbery--after most of his family was killed--Dolf Morgette returns to Pinebluff Falls for a reunion with his children and for revived harrassment, ambushes, and schemes by his old enemy...
To survive the Texas frontier wars, a woman had to be strong, but Laurien Kane, who was kidnapped by her rogue of a father and his handsome young friend, Ricardo, had grown up in Boston and considered herself delicate and demure she swore she would n...
Marcia Brown retells an Indian fable from the Hitopadesa in this Caldecott Medal–winning tale of a mouse who becomes a tiger.When a small mouse’s life is threatened by large jungle predators, a kindly hermit uses magic to change him into ...
A strange flash of elemental recognition arced between them. The shock was staggering. Kendra Loring gasped as she met the full force of Case Garrett's night-dark gaze. Yet they had never met! And once she finished her business, she promised herse...
Casey Reynolds, the Boston-based Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, was burned out and looking for escape. Acapulco seemed the perfect getaway ...until she discovered that her Mexican hideout was already occupied by a brash stranger who believed in lea...
She found she was courting disaster! Sent to interview a reclusive millionaire, Cass Reynolds had to resort to trickery to meet him. The assignment was difficult, but the setting -- a South Pacific cruise ship -- was fabulous! But the web of de...
Serroi had been an outcast. She was a misborn of the windrunners, of small stature with pale olive skin and certain strangely heightened sensitivities. But now she was a meie--a woman warrior trained by an exclusive order. She had been with her shiel...
Thirty-three years-old and recently divorced, Rene Nr has begun a new life on her own, supporting herself as a music-hall artist. Maxime, a rich and idle bachelor, intrudes on her independent existence and offers his love and the comforts of marri...
The life and loves of Sabrina Kane. The unforgetable saga of one valiant woman's struggle to conquer the frontier. Pursued by two men, one her dead husband's kin and one a rugged frontiersman, Sabrina Kane, a spirited young widow, struggles to sur...
CAUGHT IN HER OWN TRAP! When Merlyn Somers flew to Hong Kong under false pretenses, she never dreamed that she would be met by darkly handsome Sullivan Ashe. Nor did she ever imagine that he would accompany her to Australia and to the Outback he l...
RUNAWAY LOVE Fleeing in confusion after tragedy ended her loveless "society" marriage, Kate Danbury sought refuge in a remote Wisconsin farmhouse -- and blissful escape in the arms of Blake Koehler. Their "arrangement" lasted an id...
Ned Westleigh was her cousin's fiance and entirely too maddening for words. From the moment they first met, sparks flew between Caroline Livingston and the arrogant earl. Without even knowing her, he assumed they were bound by conspiracy and i...
When Elizabeth's father told her she was to wed the village's lecherous, sin-intoxicated Vicar, she fled in the night to London. Since she was a very sheltered and innocent creature, she did not realize she had taken refuge in a brothel. Nor did she ...
One reckless night in London had changed D'Arcy Kincaid's life forever...one star-crossed night of passion with a man she had never been able to forget. Now, incredibly, five years later, Keele Petrakis strides back into her life. D'Arcy is assig...
A DIVORCEE'S DESIRE Four years after her divorce, Vanessa Cantrell owned an interior decorating firm, a European sports car, and an apartment in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Even though she filled her home and her life with expensive ...
In the depths of winter, with snow thick on the ground, Badger lies alone and injured. No one knows where he is, and the icy cold is tightening its grip every second.What will happen to Badger? And can the other animals of Farthing Wood survive the h...
Set within a labyrinth of international politics and crime on the Caribbean island of Santanna, this mystery chronicles Oxford don/detective Ambrose Usher's efforts to find the murderer of his friend, British Intelligence agent Tom Heywood...
In a remote convent school in Nova Scotia, an aging nun has a miraculous vision; a mute, injured man washes up on the nearby shore; and a group of girls is busily creating a reckless drama of excitements real and imagined. Here, amid the vows and rit...
Can a girl admit to being a brain? You better believe it! Laurie Anderson finds out that it is not only possible, but fun, to combine love with honors. CAN'T GIRLS HAVE BRAINS? And fun, too? Laurie Anderson was eager to make friends and ho...
A time to be herself For Maggie Adams' ballet class. it was a season of endings and beginnings. Some of the students would go on to apprenticeships with the company others to universities, and others would continue with their lessons. And wait. An...
Having solved the murder of his vibrant young fianc, e, Professor Neil Kelly is preparing to leave for a desperately needed sabbatical, with plans to bury himself in the work of John Donne. But Kelly's plans are cut short by a terrible attack on two ...
A onetime baseball catcher confronts the murder of a McCarthyist politician at Yankee Stadium.
In 1953 America, McCarthyism is everywhere. Congressman Rex Harwood Simmons is among the leaders who single-mindedly hunt down suspected Communis...
GAMBLE OF DESIRE Kendra Dant was unhappy with her singing career when she met Paul Kadar. Throwing caution to the wind, she went with him to Martinique, land of shadowed forests and scorching sands. And she learned that true happiness comes onl...
In the early years of the eleventh century, the young warlords of northern Europe, divided between pagans and followers of the White Christ, grappled endlessly for power. Many of them lost their heads in the process. Among those who didn't was an ung...
THEY WERE MARRIED IN NAME ONLY. To all appearances it was a grand affair-the marriage between Valentina Woodville and the Marquis of Stockdale. All London Society was present. But what was not known was that Valentina and Stockdale had made a p...
For over a century, the human colonists on the planet Gaia have prospered under the guidance of the M'threnni. But when David arrives in the capital Helixport and makes contact with the aliens, he begins to learn the terrifying truth about them. From...
WHEN THE FLOODGATES OF HELL OPEN WIDE... Bringing Little Billy Bates in should have been easy. But the pint-sized robber had a town prepared to defend him to the death and a woman who was more than any man could handle. Between the town and the...
From Nashville to the Big Apple, the singing sensation of Dave Winston and Ellen McKay streaked to fame, while Ellen resisted the wild magic in her blood calling her into Dave's beckoning arms. For Ellen had once been married to a handsome country st...
WHILE A CIVIL WAR BLAZED A LOVE WAS CONSUMED ... Exquisite green-eyed Savannah Spencer, her life imperiled in the ravaged South, was sent by her father to friends in Mexico. But hope of safe refuge dwindled with rebellion raging against the powerf...
In eleventh-century England, a passionate, purposeful Norman queen manipulates and is manipulated by events during this violent era and finds her ambitions fulfilled by the succession to the throne of her son, Edward the Confessor...
While attempting to fence the fortune in securities he has stolen from an underworld courier, John Fanning joins forces with the lascivious Delia Palmer and attempts to elude federal agents and Mafia gunmen...
Here are ten suspenseful, serpentine stories of betrayal, blackmail, murder, and revenge...all culminating in shocking twists of fate. Within these pages live a wealth of characters you will not soon forget...people whose lives become ...
Loving him only meant heartbreak Fiona Cameron was a keen ecologist and while holidaying in Scotland meant to assist in the conservation fight there. But her every opportunity was thwarted by Gordon Ross, an American photojournalist. Fiona disl...
IN SEDATE NEW BEDFORD MANSIONS...ON SLAVE SHIPS BATTLING TURBULENT SEAS...THEY PLAYED OUT A DANGEROUS GAME OF PLUNDER AND PASSION... Captain Nathaniel Larimore: The golden-haired Viking dared to sail a contraband human cargo to freedom and claim ...
John Gardner's sweeping portrait of the collision of opposing philosophical perspectives in 1960s America, centering on the appearance of a mysterious stranger in a small upstate New York town.
One summer day, a countercultural drifter know...
He had coldly broken a promise of marriage Randall Logan had callously used Rena Everett two years before, pretending a love he'd never felt. Rena had been crushed by his deceit -- and determined to erase any tender memories of the man who had...
The Carlyon family, founders of Murranji Station in the Australian Outback, realizes both the benefits and the harmful effects of the encroaching civilization they helped to establish in the wilderness...
Forty-two-year old M.D. Barney Kincaid, at the top of his profession and recently released from an empty marriage, finds erotic fulfillment with two disparate women until the shock of a seizure plunges him into an erotic odyssey...
A television political commentator analyzes media coverage of the 1980 presidential election and criticizes the presentation of the political process as a form of entertainment that ignored substantive issues and focused instead on insubstantial imag...
THE LADY VANISHES It begins with a mob-orchestrated hit-and-run "accident". Now a crusading D.A. hires San Francisco P.I. John Marshall Tanner to find the only reliable witness to the crime. A gorgeous ex-model named Teresa Blair has disappeared a...
A modern epic novel about the search for truth in a world gone mad. The founders of an international electronic conspiracy are positioning themselves to take over the world. And there's only one man who can stop them--a country bumpkin from West Virg...
The tangled Oregon wilderness darkened Abby’s days -- and haunted her fearful nights! “GO BACK TO SAN FRANCISCO”! It was the second time Abby had heard the warning to go home -- first from ruggedly handsome Jason Landry, and then from dar...
THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME! She was to live undercover in Palm Beach! Kelly Lindsay, New Orleans' youngest and prettiest TV reporter, could hardly believe that the glamorous assignment to develop an insider's view of the idle rich was hers. ...
HOW COULD HE EXPECT THIS OF HER? Judith Sommerville and Alexis Vasilis had once been engaged, but that had come to an end years before. When she took the position of nanny to his small nephew, they were brought together again. Alexis made no s...
CHINA DOLL The port waters of Canton gently rocked the gilded pleasure barges filled with the most beautiful of China's "mist maidens." But with her ebony cascade of hair and her dark sensuous eyes, none was as lovely as Jade Lotus --...
THE VERY FIRST THING DIANA HEARD ABOUT THE DUKE OF CLARE WAS THAT HE WAS A RAKE AND A WOMANIZER. Which is why she tried not to be attracted to him, even though he declared that his intentions were honorable. But when she saw him with the beauti...
THE OUTRAGEOUS MISS ALLEN When beautiful young American Amy van Allen arrived at the great English estate of Lord Jonathan Sherborne, she was met with white-hot fury rather than warm welcome. On her way Amy had dared spend the night at the mans...
"BUT THIS IS GROSSLY IMPROPER!" AURORA CRIED. "I know," replied Lord Kensington as he led her up the stairs to her bedroom. "But so many proprieties have been set aside in the last few hours, one more cannot possibly make any difference." Fearf...
She had been secretly in love with Max Trent for years. It was hopeless, of course, because Max was about to be married to Amy. So Kate tried to put it out of her mind -- until the day Max was falsely accused of a crime he didn't commit and wa...
Two modern computer wizards--Rita Spark, the powerful head of International Industries, and Berkowitz, a dropout and creator of an electronic pleasure palace--become opponents in the battle over the world's energy resources...
A young American engineer sent to China to inspect the unruly Yangtze River travels up through the river's gorges searching for dam sites. Pulled on a junk hauled by forty-odd trackers, he is carried, too, into the settled, ancient way of life of the...
Who would sever a tongue from a living mouth? Or kill a pathetic, homeless old man? Or terrify a young doctor into silence? The questions are piling up, and Doug McHarg can't stop asking them, even - especially - when he's warned off his inquiries by...
When an ancient religious text reveals that nuclear physics capable of creating a new species of man existed in Biblical times, the mystified scientists of Earth IVn realise that something - or somebody - has been tampering with history . . .It's up ...
He had taken an instant dislike to her No matter what Gina did or said, she seemed to annoy Alex Craig. Not that she much cared. She had come to Africa to see her father and attempt to get her life sorted out. She didn't need someone consta...
John Jerome's lively, learned inquiry into what makes athletes capable of moments of pure physical brilliance is a timeless classic, as pertinent and fascinating today as it was when published in 1980. Packed with wonderful anecdotes from the world o...
HEX OF DEATH A brutally murdered farmer, a missing lock of hair and a suspicion of witchcraft are all Sheriff Stauffer has to go on when he sets out to track down a killer obsessed with the occult. Stauffer undertakes the case with a healthy sk...
Slade’s Glacier is a tale of discovery and destruction, betrayal and revenge, set in the rugged “Great Land” of Alaska. Jack Slade and Sam Healey, flying partners during World War II, establish a bush pilot business in Alaska after the war. Whe...
SHE RAN TO MEXICO FROM A RUINED LOVE--BUT COULD SHE EVER REALLY ESCAPE? A silken beauty with sapphire eyes and auburn hair, Sarah Latimer fled the midwest-- and her hopeless love for a married man--for an exciting new life as part owner of the Cas...
The tale of a heroic cat who dared brave the monster of Hobbs’ Hole! On the still air from the distant fields came a horrible mixture of a roar and a scream with a snarl mixed in, and even at that distance it was so loud that everyone knew one t...
Before he gave us the “one of a kind classic” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir On Writing, Stephen King wrote a nonfiction masterpiece in Danse Macabre, “one of the best books on American popular culture” (Philadelphia Inquirer).From the auth...
The paradoxes set up between love and sex in contemporary American life are explored with subtle insight and brilliantly incisive humor in this culturally prescient novel.Domestic Arrangements is about a recognizable family facing a recognizable dile...
Moving successively between 1970 and today, this novel recounts the course of the love of two women for one man in a masterly evocation of the evanescence of love and the cyclical patterns of human lives...
He knew her only as "Sophie," the beautiful blue-stocking he had met at the Frost Fair bookstall on that icy, thrilling day. Lord North was determined to find the elusive miss and make her his own--for a while. But the impoverished Emma Sophie Rob...
LOVE OR MARRIAGE? When handsome artist Tiernan Sinclair proposed to her, Beth Weller should have been the happiest girl in the world. But though she had never stopped adoring him, and though she was grateful to Tiernan for taking care of her while...
Your father is alive... Those four words irrevocably changed Leonie Lincoln's whole conception of her past. She had to find him, talk to him--discover the hidden "whys" about herself. But however remote West Africa seemed in England...
He washer husband and he vowed to possess her till his dying day. Callie had returned to Chandler Matthews despite her desperate attempt to escape him. Now he claimed her body and soul. In exchange for the money to finance her stepfather's critical o...
TO SEE HIM DANCE WAS TO SEE LIVING FLAME No ballet dancer was more electrifying than Nikolai Sharmanov. And when producer Tiffany Furrow was assigned to film him in Moscow, she should have been overjoyed. Instead, she was shattered. Years earli...
Suddenly driven from his family's world of guarded affluence, young Dick Frazer is plunged into the secret underworld of revolutionary Cuba - a world of intrigue, cunning , and, finally, murder. An acclaimed novel of suspense from the author of "Napl...
Lisa Callaway hadn't heard from her husband Clint in a year. Hiding her hurt, she poured her private passion into a public fight against a local highway project. Then Clint returned... the handsome owner of the company constructing the new highway--a...
COULD SHE DENY HIM? When Helen Freeman books a room in a Paris hotel, she finds that a handsome stranger has prior claim to it. This virile, determined man threatens to take advantage of the situation. But Helen is wary - especially when she disco...
In the far future, it has become possible in advanced psychotherapy for a man to be given dreams as vivid as reality in which he may play any part he chooses. If that man were inclined to see his life as a struggle between good and evil, and if he we...
Welcome to the world of Simon Lynxx and to one of the great overlooked novels of the 1980s. Con-man, filmmaker (currently working on producing Jesus 2001, what he calls the religious equivalent of The Godfather), descendent of a wealthy and prestigio...
They are the envy of all London, the talk of the ton! As the lovely young widow Amelia Carrington and her escort Justin Farnham, Earl of Croyden, dine and dance through glittering Regency London, almost consumed by their desire for each other, Justin...
A LADY'S PLIGHT Lady Rhea Claire Dominick, fair and flawlessly beautiful daughter of a Duke, was stolen from her father's house -- and shipped to the Colonies as a slave. A CAPTAIN'S DARING Dante Leighton, who squandered a Marquis' inheritance in hi...
"7 "As in his first novel, In the Secret State, McCrum displays a talent for moody, atmospheric narration here but again lavishes that talent on a thin story--this time the familiar, didactic tale of a passive, apolitical man's radicalization. McCrum...
But she found she was marrying for love Joanna was very relieved that Duque Rafael de Santiago was able to help her out of the embarrassing mess she'd got herself into--but there were limits to her gratitude! She would not marry his younger...
During the Depression the ebullient American entrepreneur Charles Flanagan assembles 2,000 runners from all corners of the earth, to run from Los Angeles to New York for prize-money of $150,000. Flanagan’s Trans-America runners face 3,000 mi...
Deep in the woods, a cunning killer is hiding evidence of his most recent crime. But his work is interrupted by an unwelcome visitor...a little boy who has seen it all...and must be silenced... Pediatrician Lorrie Ryan has been looking forward to ...
Despite the secret of his birth, Marshall Macauley took life in giant strides and conquered a wild new land. MARGUERITE GOULD lost a fortune and disappeared, haunting Marshall with her beauty. VIOLETTE OUAN took Broadway by storm, but her p...
A young man in a tropical paradise dreams of an unknown woman on a mountain far away... -- And as he dreams, the young woman envisions him -- and the great danger moving ever closer to enfold them both... -- A force as strong as destiny and twice...
FACE-TO-FACE WITH THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN! Is the Abominable Snowman real, or just a legend? You and your friend Carlos are ready to risk your lives to find out. You will climb the highest mountains to bring back the world's first photographs of th...
This was the time for love to find a way For five years Shannon had lived for her stepfather and his three daughters. Now she was going to live for herself! She would enjoy life, shun attachments and run before the wind .... That's what she...
She was a policewoman with the LAPD, on vacation in Malibu. Work was far from the mind of silver-blond, violet-eyed Carlyn Thomas when she first met the dark, dashing Nick Sandini. She had never allowed a man the liberties he took for granted. One...
"Is that how it is? My arms last night, his today?" With a gasp Frayda jerked out of Pete's grasp. Is that what he thought? For years they had fished America's best trout streams together-- Frayda; her brother, John; and his best friend, Pete. And...
Her body had felt his caress before... Velvet balked at the thought; it frightened her. Jerard Daniels frightened her! He claimed to have known her--intimately--two years earlier, but her mind was a blank. Her husband's tragic death the day...
PRIVATE EYE SHARON MCCONE IS faced with a murder case too close for comfort--who would have wanted to kill Molly Antonio, the nicest lady in Sharon's building? The San Francisco neighborhood seems a pretty sleepy place for a murder; the most exoti...
OIL GLUT OR OIL GLUTTONS? It seems like a good idea at first--a bacterium developed to consume oil spills at sea. But when the bug mutates, threatening to convert all the petroleum in the world into wax, Western civilization is suddenly up for grabs...
Jan's self-confidence was gone; she was sure that no man could love a woman who wasn't perfect. But to Rod Landers she was everything a woman should be: intelligent, giving and warm enough to set the Alaskan nights aflame. Beneath the brillianc...
From the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of Monster and Fallen Angels
When Steve’s parents decide to adopt a foster child, it seems like a good idea. And when Steve decides to show the new kid how tough he is...
At seventeen, Beautiful Victoria Farraday's life should have been filled with love, laughter and joy. But it was December, 1864, when Sherman's troops were carving a path of destruction through the South and Farraday Plantation, Victoria's home, was ...
With over six million books in print worldwide, Robert Jordan is an international bestselling sensation. Yet even the most rabid Jordan fans don't know that the blockbuster talent behind The Path of Daggers is also one of the finest storytellers to t...
The Earth does not belong to man alone The Himalayas bury their secrets well. Two skulls unearthed in the cradle of the human race - the remote heights of Kashmir - throw evolutionary theory into chaos. But a far more disturbing secret lies hidden d...
It's strange enough when Susan Shaw disappears without a trace on a wintry March afternoon. It's stranger still when her uninformative note is found in the hallway of her apartment building, along with a black cat that no one has seen before. And it'...
‘A roistering war novel.’
Daily Telegraph
This is the third novel featuring the young naval officer, Guy Greville, met previously in The Lion’s Claw and The Unquiet Gods.
Now first lieutenant of Her Majesty’s second-class...
THERE WERE FORTUNES TO BE MADE--HEARTS TO BE WON--IN THE LUSTY PROMISE OF NEW ORLEANS When John McDonogh set sail from Baltimore in 1810, he carried with him the burden of guilt for his own brother's tragic death. But in Louisiana's teeming port c...
THE COST OF LOVING WAS MUCH TOO HIGH As an executive in New York's frantic advertising world, Sarah found it was lonely at the top. Funny, she'd never quite realized how true that saying was. Yet hard work had brought its own reward. Th...
Murder has always been easy for the Butcher's Boy-it's what he does best and what they pay him for. But after the successful assassination of a senator, he arrives in Las Vegas to collect his fee only to discover he has become a liability to his shad...
The Terrible Twos is a wickedly funny, sharp-edged fictional assault on all those sulky, spoiled naysayers needing instant gratification - Americans. Ishmael Reed''s sixth novel depicts a zany, bizarre, and all-too-believable future where mankind'...
Never again would she fully trust a man Briony had loved Jeremy, but she didn't fit into his ambitious future plans. His humiliating rejection left a scar she thought would never heal. She hoped a new job and hard work would leave no time f...
Tracking down the killer of his old partner, The Gunsmith rides to a crossroads town in New Mexico. He has to duck hot lead all the way to the saloon before he can enjoy a drink and the favors of the fanciest female this side of the Rio Grande. To ge...