GILLIAN BLAKE-- A WOMAN who was a dazzling success in a man's world as a bold and brilliant architect. A WOMAN who in her personal life kept carefully clear of intimate contact with other people. A WOMAN who sought physical fulfillment with...
Full-color pictures accompany original stories and poems involving familiar, everyday subjects, including a teddy bear, playing in the snow, a day at the beach, and a forlorn little Christmas-tree star...
HURRICANE! The wild wind keens. The thundering rain descends. Flame lights the sky. And within the ramshackle plantation house, another hurricane rages as Tom, his eyes alight with possessive love for his twin sister Liz, his soul dark with ...
He had risked his life to save hers! Cass Dakers had rescued Rachel from drowning off the coast of Corfu. He had taken her into his home, and suggested that they get married so that she would have someone to protect her from her pursuers. Rachel w...
"The Fantasy Worlds of Peter Beagle"; Viking Press(Garden City; 1978); BCE; 1st ed/1st prnt (code 01 R, pg 335); HB,VGG; Not ex-lib, NOT remainder; HB-tan boards w/purple letters +unicorn, sturdy binding, corners slightly bumped; DJ-bright, colorful ...
"IS GOD REALLY TO BE THANKED FOR PUTTING ARNAUD IN YOUR PATH? YOU MIGHT BE RULING OVER AN EMPIRE!" Proud and passionate Catherine is helpless before her love for the haughty Arnaud de Montsalvy. Now it seems she has lost him forever to the wanto...
After a plane crash in the tropical rain forest of Northern Australia, it was the task of air hostess Peg MacPhee and Dr. Bill Ransome to deliver the only other surviving passenger of a baby. The shared experience forged a link between Peg and Bill w...
The tragedy at Tall Trees had touched Lynne Martin's life deeply. Once established in New York, she never dreamed events would draw her back, that she would find herself companion to troubled young Philip and secretary to his father, Jeffrey Hobart, ...
MAROONED ON THE WELL WORLD For eleven bitter years, Mavra Chang had been a prisoner on the Well World the master-world where hundreds of impossible races existed, each in its own strange environment. Her once-human companions had been mutated into a...
Jethro Stanton: handsome as a young god, virile as a stallion, driven by honor outside the law, and pressed into service with the King's bravest and most brutal regiment. Henri Chanteur: a dazzling French Napoleonic officer, as superbly skilled in lo...
Music was her life -- until she met Gareth As a violinist, Anna Pearson couldn't afford to ignore the advice of world-famous conductor Gareth Howell Evans. As a woman, she couldn't afford not to. Because Gareth thought that her musical ...
When Pearl Harbor was bombed, young George Kelly decided to join the Navy. Or rather, it was decided for him -- it was either that or go to jail for a minor offense. Kelly dreamed of becoming a flyer, but was posted instead aboard the ancient destroy...
"Name your price: I won't quibble." Jenny's smile was bitter at Mark's words. Mark had broken their engagement two years before, when he believed that she was an opportunist, and Malcolm's mistress. The fact that Malcolm had left the hotel to her ...
Trevennon had a dark and tragic history. As a child, Morwenna had listened to her mother's stories of Trevennon, her old home. Morwenna had pictured a castle full of the magic of love, standing high on the cliffs of Cornwall. So when trag...
The lady was not for sale Selena Merrick anticipated having a pleasant vacation in New Orleans. She was even lighthearted enough to joke with a group of conventioneers who mistakenly thought she was a lady of the night. Chance Barkley, however,...
A NOVEL OF PASSION AND TERRO DEVIL’S END is the story of three families. The prominent RYLANDERS, torn apart by adultery and jealousy. The ST. CLARES, an aristocratic line decaying after generations of incest and revenge. And the CORDENS, a lower-c...
Ace, 1978, paperback. This is the first of four books in the "Lord Tedric" series written by Eklund, based on an outline by Smith. The other novels in the series are "Space Pirates" (1979); "Black Knight of the Iron Sphere" (1979); and "Alien Realm...
She had run straight into more trouble! Trying to escape from the unwelcome advances of an ardent suitor, Selina Roxley had become hopelessly lost near the foot of the Himalayas. Fortunately she was soon found by the masterful Luke van Meer. He...
"Here is a comprehensive anthology of vampire stories, all dating from the most creative period in the development of the Vampire Count and the Fatal Woman as figures in European fantasy literature--between Lord Byron and Bram Stoker. Many of the sto...
SHE STOOD ALONE Young, tall, tender, when Matthew Stoner came upon her in the blackness of the wilderness night. He helped her find her gentle, little brother. "Where we're going, nothing's gentle but the breeze," he warned her. Sarah Douglass bel...
You have to hold this book sideways to read it so there you already look a bit Mad to begin with. In the 1950s America was a very conservative place so when Mad hit the newsstands of anytown USA it was like the cultural equivelant of an A-bomb going ...
A young woman returns to her father's ancestral home determined to end the feud that has split her family. While there, however, she meets a man she is certain tried to kill her in Austria ten days earlier. When Rose received an invitation from th...
Did Nixon order Watergate? Who is the mysterious "Deep Throat"? Did the CIA help bring down the Nixon administration? What is the real story about Colson? What were the burglars looking for? What was on the 18 minutes of missing tape -and who erased ...
ONE MAN, Edmond Beau Clair, took beautiful young Lily Ledoux's innocence on a wedding night she would never forget, try as she might... ONE MAN, Joe Beau Clair, ruthless and handsome, won Lily's heart in a night of love that taught her h...
Searching for her family, a lovely young woman is pursued by the specter of madness and murder... THE CURSE OF MADRINA Young, beautiful Kerry Carillo is searching for the truth about her mother's secret past, hoping to discover the father she h...
UK CORONET Edition: Homeless and facing penury, Kate Warrender and her mother are forced to take refuge with saturnine Lord Hawth, the 'wicked earl' of local rumour. As Luddite riots and French invasion threaten England, Kate needs all her wit ...
She had escaped, never to return! Disguised in boy's livery, young Beth Howard had fled from her cruel guardians in order to avoid marriage to a man she'd never met. But she was shortly to discover that the perils that lay ahead were fat worse...
THE BEAUTY Swept from her homeland by the bitter wars of Napoleon, she blossomed into young womanhood on the lush plantations of old Louisiana. A notorious pirate's single, searing kiss taught her the meaning of her name -- Desiree! THE BUCCA...
# 82554-2. Kemal's masterpiece, its principal character being Ince Memed, "The Hawk", courageous protector of downtrodden peasants, fugitive scourge of corrupt oppressors - translated by Edouard Roditi. 376 pages....
Don't close your eyes... He's watching you. He knows what you're doing. He knows what you're thinking. He's coming after you. Don't close your eyes... He has a knife. The steel blade is dripping with blood. He clutches it in his hand and rais...
In those days the Earth was not a sphere and the demons dwelled in vast magical caverns beneath its surface. Wondrous cities dotted the land and strange peoples and fabulous beasts prowled the deserts and jungles of the world. Supreme among those...
They were fighting for fame, fortune and love Hired as a publicist for the Duval salon, Alix Smith was caught up in the rivalry between aging couturier Henri Duval and his son, Paul, a brilliant new designer. Alix was strangely disturbed when t...
Everybody said that Katie's only chance for survival in wicked London was to become a rich man's mistress. For what respectable man would marry the penniless daughter of a nobleman notorious for his bad debts? And hadn't the handsome Lord...
Things were awkward, mused Lady Marianne Carstairs, deuced awkward. She was grateful for the unexpected inheritance, of course, but she might have wished that the late Earl of Melford's choice of trustee had been someone other than the handsome a...
He was not a man she could ignore Laurie had taken an almost instant dislike to Rolf Audley. Not only had he shattered her peaceful existence by crashing his car on the grounds of her mother's small hotel, but he had been rude and entirely too fam...
She possesses the courage and beauty of her wild Cossack ancestors. Now Katrina is on a vengeance quest against the marauders who destroyed her village and sole her priceless snow-white horses in the name of the mad czar. Nor will she rest until she ...
On an Alaskan cruise, a beautiful young woman steers a treacherous course between heartbreak and happiness... The Captain Of Her Heart... When lovely Randy Halvorsen agreed to crew on a charter run of her grandfather's boat, she didn't ...
Winner of the Booker Prize -- a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a playwright as he composes his memoirs Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans...
R. K. Narayan (1906 -- 2001) witnessed nearly a century of change in his native India and captured it in fiction of uncommon warmth and vibrancy. In The Dark Room, Narayan’s portrait of aggrieved domesticity, the docile and obedient Savitri, l...
She'd never seen a man so angry! Nurse Lucy Prendergast had not made a good impression. Falling asleep during a consultant's lecture was hardly the best way to attract the great man's attention! So she set out to correct the bad imp...
The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. The philosopher who announced the death of God in The Gay Science (1882) and wen...
You are invited to a ball given by Lord Semichastny at his estate on Delbalso. Be prepared for: The Great Trog Chase, a marvel of bureaucratic befuddlement compounded by the appearance of an imposter rivaling Torve himself for Troggish charm, tho...
He was the man of her dreams! Fortunately Olivia was not deterred by her first dramatic encounter with the man at the lonely Yorkshire farmhouse. She had returned to nurse him--and stayed to, marry him. She was amazed, later, to learn that her ...
She was rich, beautiful, and alone...again. Tragedy had haunted her life, from the assassination of her first husband to the death of the fabulously wealthy tycoon she later married. Alone again - and still the most sought-after woman in the world ...
MILK RUN That's what they told Ronny Bronston this job would be. "Just like a vacation," his boss had said. All he and the giant Dorn Horsten would have to do is visit the planet Einstein and see if there was any reason not to admit them to United...
Volume Two of Stanley Schmidt''s Classic Tale of the Planet in Peril—back in print at last! Earth herself has escaped the doomed Milky Way—but who will survive a journey that could be as deadly as the radiation blast that will wipe out...
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth is a history play by William Shakespeare, based on the life of Henry VIII of England....
They called her "Angel" when she rode bareback into the midst of battle to find her lover. They called her "Mistress Daunt" when she lived with Geoffrey in Oxford, though she wore no ring on her finger. Wherever she traveled men...
Mining adventure story for Western fans. An old timer has been successful and is able to give his daughter all he hoped, when his success is threatened by sabotage. He brings in a young adventurer to help put through a certain tunnel project, which w...
First published in 1967, Death Kit--Susan Sontag's second novel--is a classic of modern fiction. Blending realism and dream, it offers a passionate exploration of the recesses of the American conscience....
The Die Is Cast The Poconos were beautiful in the summer -- lush greenery, peace and quiet, far away from The Big Apple’s sweltering heat and hustling crowds. Marilyn Ambers couldn’t have been happier. She was starting a new phase in her theat...
"My cousin will never marry you," Stefano said. "The Vincella have always been practical, and the present generation is no exception. Marco will choose the best of both worlds: a wealthy wife and a beautiful mistress." His mocking ...
First edition, uncorrected advance proof. Publisher's pink label pasted to the front wrapper. Sheet with information about resetting of some poems in the published edition stapled to the inside front wrapper. Publisher's information sheet stapled to ...
From the day he moved to Blackheath and built the two eccentric mansions, Charles Mortimer had a run of bad luck. Decades later, in the 1890s, his ancestors in the mansions suffer the same unlucky fate. Roger Vandervent dies suddenly, followed by mat...
Seventeen-year-old Ching Wing, whose family owns the only Chinese restaurant in their small Minnesota town, wants desperately to become wholly American and to go to the university and thinks marriage may be the way to achieve liberation...
Spirited, beautiful Jocelyn Egmontfelt little better than a slave when she learned that her brother had sold her in marriage to the aging depraved Sir Rolf Caradoc. Loathsome and more than twice her age, Sir Rolf was the only person who could save th...
A novel that charts the violent events in an imaginary African nation, as told by the colonel and leader of the country -- from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series."What a ric...
The trouble with Utopia is people. And this will remain true even in days to come, even in the Alastor Cluster of thirty thousand inhabited planets, whose sole protector of law was the mysterious person known as the Connatic. On the planet Wyst, N...
Deirdre had loved him since she was six years old. Now young Lord St. Clair was a soldier home from the wars with a scandalous tragedy trailing at his heels. She had to know if he was truly the man she once had loved, or the callous rake and murde...
She was the quintessential Rich Girl. Men fell in love with her easily. She fell out of love as easily. Until Philippe. And a fierce passion no other man could tame and time could never extinguish. ...
Ethan Ring was on the run with a half-million dollar price on his head -- for Ethan was the amazing fusion of an ordinary man and the most incredible computer ever devised -- and the man had decided to run with his other half to Khorram Kabir's fanta...
In stark, gaunt prose, it chronicles the years of Bran the Blessed -- he who was so vast a man that no house could hold him nor ship bear his bulk -- and of the tale of his beloved sister Branwen, his brother Manawyddan, and of his half-brothers Niss...
THE POWER Michael Hietala had it, and spread it like blood-stained shadow over quiet Adam’s Cove. He left signs everywhere: the miraculous return of the lost fishing fleet…the sudden, shocking resurrection…the chain of silent, baffling death...
As a newly minted graduate of space school, Paul lands space station duty and is given the tricky and dangerous assignment of salvaging defunct satellites. But there's more up there than anyone bargained for......
It should have been a dream come true But Joanne Webster's marriage to the eminent Dr. Daniel Grant was to be for mutual convenience. "Love doesn't enter into our agreement," he had informed her coolly. "It is a fabricated e...
On Yom Kippur eve in 1965, Elie Wiesel found himself in Russia, “in a synagogue crowded with people. The air was stifling. The cantor was chanting . . . Suddenly a mad thought crossed my mind: Something is about to happen; any moment no...
His saga spans four decades - years in which a terrified Jewish peasant boy learned the art of murder-for-survival in the war torn firlds of Brest-Litovsky. Years in which the bootleg industry ruled the country with rotgut and blod. Years in which ...