Vague Memory of Evil When the police found Christine at the side of the highway, she was almost dead. When she finally regained consciousness, she couldn't remember her own name, her husband, or the people who lived with them. But one of these...
There’s no such thing as a colt with wings—is there?When Charles arrives at his Uncle Coot’s Texas ranch from back East, he’s sure that books have taught him everything he needs to know about horses. He wants to prove he&rsquo...
Trapped! It was two days before Christmas in the sleepy little town of Joberg in upstate New York. When the back door of a delivery truck slams shut on Whitey, a snowy white Persian cat, and Ginger, a high-spirited young dog, a hair-raising adventure...
The measure of a mans power to help his brother is the measure of the love in the heart of him and of the faith he has that at last the good will win. With this love that seeks not its own and this faith that grips the heart of things, he goes out to...
The Dag Hammarskjold takes off from Woomera, Australia for the new human settlement on Mars. Planet Earth is being eaten away by uncontrollable pollution, starvation and disease. Its life expectancy is nil. This is the last spaceship, its passeng...
Janita Shelton always seemed to be helping others. The people she advised during the day in the library, the patients she tended evenings in the hospital, her widowed mother and her orphaned niece, all vied for her attention. Life seemed to be pas...
Lucie Durrant went to the Canary Islands on a working holiday looking for new ideas for the jewelry that she designed. Her call on the attractive Joel Barron was of a purely business nature, but later, as she came to know him better, she began to ...
in the beloved classic God Is an Englishman saga “A heroic finale to the author’s cavalcade of middle-class life.” -- W. B. Hill, Best SellersSweeping Adam Swann and three generations of his family into the tide of events that followed Queen Vi...
The story of an upper-middle-class unwed mother in 1960s London, from a novelist who is often as meticulous as Jane Austen and as deadly as Evelyn Waugh (Los Angeles Times). In a newly swinging London, Rosamund Stacey indulges in a premarital sexual ...
The classic companion to the most essential science fiction anthology ever published. 46 original stories edited with introductions by Harlan Ellison. Featuring: John Heidenry • Ross Rocklynne • Ursula K. Le Guin • Andrew J. Offutt • Gene Wol...
John Gardner's most poignant novel of improbable love.At the heart of John Gardner's Nickel Mountain is an uncommon love story: when at 42, the obese, anxious and gentle Henry Soames marries seventeen-year-old Callie Wells -- who is pregnant w...
Against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars and the glitter of the court of Naples, this captivating novel unfolds the story of Helen Telfair, a young English woman in search of herself. Helen, intelligent, witty, rebellious, had sworn never to marry...
Cameron, a tall, testy, whisky-drinking, nationalist-minded, Scottish physicist, may not have been an astronomer, but he knew the off things in the sky when he saw them. From an Australian mountaintop where he was advising on the location of a radiot...
When her sister died, Charity was determined to take care of her baby son -- but the child's uncle, the masterful Greek Loukos Papandreous, was equally determined that the baby was going to remain in Greece -- with him. How could Charity cope ...
When Gina's fiancee, Oliver died just before their wedding, she was naturally heartbroken. But were the bulldozing tactics of Oliver's brother Will necessarily the best way of helping her to face life again? Hero: Army Captain William "...
In Life-Show John Lahr and Jonathan Price take the metaphor of the theater and use it to probe deeply and provocatively into the dramatic details of contemporary culture. Their book is a radical new approach to understanding the stage through history...
Patrick had warned her: "If you marry me there's no going back. If you decide you don't like Venezuela, I doubt if I could ever bear to let you go. Our marriage is a contract, and our commitment to that marriage can be based on nothing le...
WANTED--A SENSIBLE COMPETENT WIFE! When distinguished surgeon Gerard van Doorninck asked Staff Nurse Deborah Culpepper to marry him, his reasons were practical, not romantic. As she had been secretly in love with Gerard for some time, Deborah acce...
What started as a dream come true has turned into a horrible nightmare. At first it seems like an adventure in a movie. Glamorous relatives pull Karen out of boarding school and whisk her away to their mansion in England. But soon she realizes th...
She had fled heartbreak once. Could she be sure her new love was true love...? The Changing Face Of Love Lovely blonde nurse Irene Hunt considered herself lucky to be working in such a fascinating field as plastic surgery. And her growing roman...
1857, Cawnpore: With savage mutineers laying relentless siege to its very gates, the British garrison at Cawnpore, in the north of pre-partitioned India, holds on with little more than will. A ragged band of exhausted soldiers defending some 400 frig...
When Eve's flighty young sister got engaged to an unknown Spaniard over in the Canary Islands, Eve thought she ought to go there herself and investigate the matter, and find out what this Juan Perestrello was like. She found, for a start, that he...
These twenty-three humorous stories and essays and more than one hundred illustrations find James Thurber in absolutely top form. The book concludes with a sampling of articles Thurber wrote for the New Yorker’s “The Talk of the Town,” demonstr...
foul against bonnie! Though Sunbonnet (known as "Bonnie "to her young trainer Julie Jefferson) was favored to win the coveted prize in the famed Bridal Stakes, there was a long stretch duel and a photo finish, with a claim of foul against Bonnie. ...
Respectable wife, unmarried mother, divorcee, femme fatale - these are roles that society demands from Scarlet, Jocelyn, Helen, Susan and Audrey. But things do not slot neatly into pigeon holes, and as the women negotiate around the events in their l...