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New Books List: 146 titles

  • End Game in Paris

    Ian Adams

  • Daughter of Desire

    Angelica Aimes

    Kidnapped by lustful, rampaging Indians, shanghaied aboard a privateer's ship, sold as a strumpet to an avaricious innkeeper, convicted of practicing witchcraft .. there seemed to be no end to the misery and hardships that befell her after the death ...

  • Samantha

    Angelica Aimes

    Leaving her sheltered life in Boston to visit in the mysterious East, beautiful Samantha Shaw is introduced to the wonders of forbidden ecstasy by a man she will hate above all others, and love more than life itself -- Mallory Jones. Tormented by des...

  • Sweet Harvest

    Kerry Allyne

    Return to Maiyatta? It was unthinkable But a long bout with pneumonia had left Alix Whitman too weak to argue with her estranged husband, Kirby. Despite her objections she was being whisked off to recuperate at his plantation in North Queensland....

  • Riverwitch

    Felicia Andrews

    A BAREFOOT TEMPTRESS Raised to be the finest pilot on the Hudson, Amanda Franklin had lost her heart to a high-born beau who left her and her well-loved father to his cutthroat enemies. Now this raven-haired beauty would fight back -- and even the...

  • Secret Selves

    Judie Angell

  • Emily and Adam Book of Opposites

    Joan Walsh Anglund

  • Anno's Animals

    Mitsumasa Anno

  • Swan Song

    Violet Ashton

  • One Man's Inheritance

    John Attenborough

  • Burning Secrets

    Susannah Bates

  • Funky Winkerbean

    Tom Batiuk

  • The Fantasy Worlds of Peter S. Beagle

    Peter S. Beagle

    From rear cover notes: "The Last Unicorn: The marvelous quest of an immortal unicorn, assisted by a mediocre magician, for her lost fellows...Lila the Werewolf: The whimsical tale of a lovely young girl who plays the guitar, has a mother in the Bronx...

  • Helene

    Leonora Blythe

    HELENE Beautiful, fair-haired Helene Ambel was the hit of the London season, the epitome of a refined young heiress. But she preferred books, horses, and intellectual pursuits to the dances, parties, and simpering, overdressed, foolish men she cou...

  • Forever Formula

    Frank Bonham

  • Seven from the Stars

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Reidel had been caring for the animals on the colony ship before its destruction. He hadn't expected to find himself the leader of the survivors. While there were only seven of them, but they were a varied group, both in psi powers and in temperment....

  • Liquidator: Contract for a Killing

    R.L. Brent

  • Reap the Wild Harvest

    Elizabeth Bright

    HER SHIMMERING BEAUTY EVOKED AN UNTAMED--UNDYING--DESIRE. Flawless, young, raven-haired Glenna O'Reilly, savagely seized by the hungry, perverted Lord Winslow, military commander of Ireland, was helplessly swept into the merciless world of sensual...

  • Flowers for My Love

    Katrina Britt

    Davina wasn't free to marry anyone After the death of their parents, Davina Mawne was sole provider for her young sister and brother. It took long hours of hard work, but Davina was proud of her success in keeping her family together. She h...

  • Jericho 52

    Martin Caidin

  • The Whip Hand

    Victor Canning

    This fast-paced thriller opens with laconic private eye Rex Carver accepting an apparently straightfoward job of tracing a missing young German au pair. Never one to avoid trouble, Carver soon becomes entangled in a dangerous game of international ...

  • Journey to the Underground World

    Lin Carter

    The legends of a fabled land of the lost have floated for centuries around the bazaars of North Africa and the sand-surrounded oases of the vast Sahara. They tell of treasure caravans that have never returned, of weird monsters forgotten by time, of ...

  • Wingmen

    Ensan Case

    WINGMEN is back in print after a 30-year absence. First published in 1979 by Avon books, this World War II novel, with overtones of From Here to Eternity, was a precursor to the gay romance genre. Jack Hardigan's Hellcat fighter squadron blew the Jap...

  • Virgin and Tower

    Ann Chamberlin

  • The Romantic Widow

    Mollie Chappell

    LUCIA was remarkably beautiful and sweet natured. But she could not live with the spitefulness of her stepsister. When Gervase Leigh, a wealthy man of impeccable background, asked her to marry him, she accepted this means of escape -- in spite of her...

  • Megan

    Norma Lee Clark

    Megan Watkins was afraid everyone would think her a hopeless country girl when she arrived in London to be a companion to her beautiful cousin, Diane. And the vain Diane kicked up a bit of dust at the lovely, pink-complexioned Megan, whom she regarde...

  • Charisma

    Michael Coney

    WORLDS APART: Two tall trees lashed by an invisible hurricane on a calm summer day...a hauntingly beautiful girl who would eerily vanish, then reappear ... a mysterious research station in the hills .... They were all linked, John Maine knew and his ...

  • Tasmanian Tangle

    Jane Corrie

    Tanya had always loved Kade Player Tanya Hume had idolized her father's business manager, Kade Player. As a child she'd been rebuffed by his obvious disinterest. Now, on her return to the farm after her father's death, she hoped things...

  • Dangerous Engagement

    Caroline Courtney

    She has been taught more about horses than men. How could she judge the sincerly of suitor? ----------------------- UK Edition The Earl of Templecombe had dared to kiaa Miranda Melbury at their first meeting. Perhaps he had been provoked - she ...

  • An East Wind Coming

    Arthur Byron Cover

    IN THE GOLDEN CITY OF THE GODS, THE LEGENDS LIVE It was two million years in the future and they were immortal--Holmes, Watson, all the Great Ones. With nothing to master but limitless Time. But that was before the killing began, before the wo...

  • The Phantom Major

    Virginia Cowles

    A specially illustrated Bantam War Books paperback edition previously published as The Phantom Major. True story of David Sterling and fellow Brit commandos who operated as special ops behind German lines in Africa against Rommel's troops. Originated...

  • The Yankee and the Belle

    Catherine Creel

    UNCONQUERED SPIRIT Though her young life had been disrupted by the ravages of the War Between the States, fiery Katie O'Toole refused to let her spirit or her pride be crushed by the arrogant Yankee conquerors, even one as attractive as Brent Morg...

  • The Abducted Heiress

    Jasmine Cresswell

    ALL HER EFFORTS GONE TO WASTE For six long years, Georgiana, a young and lovely heiress, had kept up a grotesque and difficult masquerade. She had disguised her beauty and intelligence behind a mask of homeliness and stupidity. Her reason? ...

  • Bed of Grass

    Janet Dailey

    Her wild youth was a thing of the past Valerie Wentworth had paid dearly for the mistakes she'd made as a passionate girl. Turned out of her grandfather's house, she had raised Tadd, her son, all alone. Now, after seven years, she had r...

  • Han Solo's Revenge

    Brian Daley

    SLAVERS BY CHANCE There's always work for a space-faring freighter captain who doesn't ask awkward questions, and Han Solo quickly got a job that would pay him a cool 10,000 credits. It would also, he discovered as soon as he made planetfall to pi...

  • Veil of Treachery

    George Daniels

    THE WOMAN IN BLACK. Who was she and what strange power did she hold over lovely young actress Meg Lambert? From the moment Meg heard the strange voice calling in her mind her life began to change. Her promising career crumbled as scandal and danger t...

  • Man from Yesterday

    John S. Daniels

  • Vision Quest

    Terry Davis

    From acclaimed author Terry Davis comes the cult classic, Vision Quest, which was called “the truest novel about growing up since The Catcher in the Rye†by New York Times bestselling author John Irving.Louden Swain is a high school wrestler who ...

  • Mayday

    Nelson Demille; Thomas Block

    Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, a missile strikes the Trans Flight 52, a supersonic passenger jet bound for Japan. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying both nature and man, three survivors must achieve the impossible. Land the p...

  • Beloved Captive

    Catherine Dillon

    From safe, snug Victorian England -- to the savage, passionate Russia of the Tsars Beautiful, orphaned Hannah Sheridan could not dream of the destiny that awaited her when she set out to find her lost brother on the bloody battlefields of the Crim...

  • Walt Disney Productions Presents The Black Hole

    Walt Disney

  • Mystery of the Samurai Sword

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Shortly after his arrival in the United States, a Japanese business tycoon mysteriously disappears. Then a valuable samurai sword, said to have belonged to the missing tycoon's family for generations, is stolen from an auction gallery in New York. Da...

  • Night of the Werewolf

    Franklin W. Dixon

    THE HARDYS MEET THE MONSTER OF THE MOUNTAINS A snarling beast is sighted in Bayport, and the boys head into the Adirondacks to investigate a sinister, centuries-old legend. The legend is furry, fanged, and appears only by the light of the full moon. ...

  • Follow the Leader

    Linda DuBreuil

  • The Whipman Is Watching

    Thomas A. Dyer

    Thirteen-year-old Angie and her slightly older cousin Cultus must learn to face the problems brought on by their growing frustrations as they find themselves caught between the world of the Indian reservation and the white world outside....

  • Devil World

    Gordon Eklund

    VOYAGE TO HEARTLAND Heartland...a mysterious planet populated by a small but terrifying race of demonic beings. Heartland...where Captain Kirk falls in love with a beautiful, mysterious woman with a fatal secret. Heartland...where Kirk, Spoc...

  • Longarm in Leadville

    Tabor Evans

    THEY CALLED IT LEADVILLE -- BUT IT WAS FORGED OF SILVER AND BLOOD General Ulysses S. Grant and Longarm had mighty different reasons for calming to town. The hero hoped to peddle his memoirs. The marshal to guard him from the blast of a hired gun. ...

  • Enchanting Jenny

    Zabrina Faire

    Fate decreed that Jenny must become the Comtesse de la Garde, but even the power of Fate could not make her love the Comte... Jenny said "No!" But everyone else insisted that this was the right marriage for Jenny. The Comte was the scion of a nob...

  • Riverworld and Other Stories

    Philip Jose Farmer

    Riverworld. To millions of readers it is as familiar as Earth -- this awesome planet where all humanity that ever lived, all 36 billion of us, from Tom Mix to Joan of Arc, are simultaneously reincarnated along the banks of a million-mile-river... Th...

  • Tantrum

    Jules Feiffer

  • Pursuit

    Robert L. Fish

    To escape justice, a Secret Service colonel masquerades as a Jewish refugee The thousand-year Reich is crumbling, and the Red Army races toward Berlin. As the senior leadership of the Nazi party burns its files and flees the country, Colonel Helmu...

  • The Black Hole

    Alan Dean Foster

    The largest black hole ever encountered and the fiendish plan of a mad scientist threaten the lives of the explorer ship Palomino, returning to Earth from a mission in deep space...

  • Ufo's

    Raymond E. Fowler

  • Discotheque

    Steven S. Gaines

  • No Greater Love

    Patricia Gallagher

    A BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL WOMAN A YOUNG AND GLORIOUS NATION It was an age of soaring power, rampant corruption, extreme elegance, and Devon knew it all -- intimately. In the elite circles of Washington, where her husband was a trust-busting Senator, ...

  • The Owl Service

    Alan Garner

    THE VALLEY OF MYTH AND POWER... ...where magic made a woman out of flowers, where a doomed warrior won vengeance from beyond the grave, where the power of sorcery built and built and sought release. Then Alison found plates with owl patterns that v...

  • High Country Showdown

    Ray Gaulden

  • The Tulip Tree

    Mary Ann Gibbs

    Had her father not been so irresponsible, Allegra Lakesby would never have had to leave her ancestral home to become a governess at Fetherstone. But not even the drab servant's dress could hide the glow of Allegra's beauty and glistening g...

  • The Girl Who Knew it All

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    It looks like a lonely summer ahead for Tracy Matson. She's the only girl her age in the small town of High Flats. And Leroy Wilson, the only boy, thinks she's a know-it-all, even after Tracy tries to make friends by giving him a chocolate-icing-on-r...

  • The House on Twyford Street

    Constance Gluyas

    SHE LEARNED THE FACTS OF LIFE ONT HE STREETS SHE LEARNED THE DANGERS OF DESIRE IN ARISTOCRATIC SOCIETY Lovely, flame-haired Sarah Barry learned early both the power and peril of her beauty on the swarming streets of 17th-century London, where h...

  • Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy

    Rumer Godden

    ";Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy is about growth, choice, struggle, and the freedom of the soul that transcends the license of the body. It is about finding sin where we least expect it."; â,¬â€ Joan Chittister, from the introduction   This haunting ...

  • Looking-glass Factor

    Judith M. Goldberger

  • The Wild and the Wayward

    Georgia Granger

    JESSE AND FRANK JAMES, BILL HICKOCK, THE DOOLIN GANG, - AND A LOVELY MYSTERY WOMAN NAMED ROSE OF THE CIMARRON WHO RODE UNKNOWN THROUGH THE DAYS AND NIGHTS OF THE WILD AND THE WAYWARD This is the saga of the last days of the wild, wild West. It wa...

  • Raquela

    Ruth Gruber

    Raquela Prywes lived on the front lines of Israel's history. A ninth-generation Jerusalemite, she found her true calling as a hospital and battlefield nurse, delivering babies in the infamous Athlit detention camp, where Holocaust survivors were inte...

  • Bold Blades Flashing

    Lorinda Hagen

    BEAUTIFUL BUCCANEERS! Garnet Shaw was only sixteen, but she was a diminutive spitfire, as Happy Jack Muldoon, captain of the pirate ship Dancing Lady, quickly learned when he claimed her as his prize on a sea-going raid. Garnet found that a lif...

  • Larissa

    Lynn L. Hahn

  • The Heartbreak Triangle

    Nora Hampton

    Lucy Clifford had been quite unhappy living in the London home of her Aunt Fanny after her father died. So she gratefully accepted the invitation of her dear friend Melissa to live at Cumberley, the country home of the Penrose family. Lucy had alw...

  • The Montague Scandal

    Judith Harkness

    The mysterious, handsome, and mocking Mr. Peter Grey warned Roselind against wanting to wed Reginald Darnley, sought-after as Darnley might be. The enchanting lovely, heartbreakingly tragic Maude Quimby warned Roselind against putting herself in Darn...

  • Winter Kill

    William Harrison

  • The House of Kingsley Merrick

    Deborah Hill

    A man's passion clashes with a woman's pride in this enthralling American family saga. Kingsley Merrick-A vigorous, driven man who, sought to erase the shame of his family's disgrace, and who hungered to possess the one woman whose passion he would d...

  • Prisoners at the Kitchen Table

    Barbara Holland

  • Guns Frm Thundr Mt

    Clair Huffaker

    Western. Robbery, claim jumping, and murder---that's what Larimer ran into when he agreed, at gunpoint, to guide a party of desperadoes to Thunder Mountain. With only the lure of gold to hold them together, they reached their torturous goal. Then a v...

  • Honeybath's Haven

    Michael Innes

    When portrait-painter and occasional detective, Charles Honeybath, pays a visit to his old friend Edwin Lightfoot, there are a few surprises in store. Edwin''s irksome wife is packing her bags, while Edwin is indulging in an eccentric game of pret...

  • Conspiracy to Kill

    Claudette Jauniere

    "He's absolutely mad and he's robbing us blind!" Nadine didn't understand Lorrainds ominous warning about Alain, the man she loved. She couldn't believe Alain was insane--or that he was a thief. Was Lorraine lying for some reason of her own? An...

  • Moviola

    Garson kanin

    Moviola is a novel of film history ??? a fictional narrative connecting true stories of movie lore. Ben Farber, age 92, reminisces as he reluctantly considers an offer to sell his studio to a New York-based conglomerate.During negotiations, Farber r...

  • By George

    George S. Kaufman

  • The Triple Hoax

    Carolyn Keene

    When Nancy’s aunt’s friend is swindled out of a sizable sum of money, she invites Nancy, Bess, and George to New York to help figure out who is behind the theft. There, the girls see a performance of a magicians’ group who stun their audiences ...

  • Someone's in the Kitchen

    Hank Ketcham

  • French Postcards

    Norma Klein

  • Fever

    Charlotte Lamb

    Their worlds were light-years apart Sara Nichols was proud to be a painter Her landscapes were catching on, and though she wasn't making a fortune, she had enough to get by. Nick Rawdon, on the other hand, had more money than he bothered to...

  • Smiley's People

    John Le Carre

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Our Kind of Traitor; and The Night Manager, now a television series starring Tom Hiddleston. Tell Max that it concerns the Sandman…A very...

  • White Fire

    Jan MacLean

    Heath seemed to be two different men From their first meeting, Rana Liscombe knew that lumberman Heath Markland was like no other man. Kind and self-assured, he was at home in the Canadian wilderness or in the office. But Rana's mother saw ...

  • Night of the Storm

    Magali

    Love was the dream, death the reality They were trapped in the brooding mansion The storm raged around Cap Noir, making Inez a prisoner in the huge house. All links with the outside world were destroyed. Then a mysterious stranger, close to ...

  • Parlor Games

    Robert Marasco

    SYNOPSIS: "Maggie Newman, a beautiful, vivacious advertising executive, is working on the Playcraft account when she meets dashing Peter Drexler, head of the successful toy and game company. Theirs seems to be a match made in heaven. But things start...

  • Raw Passion

    Charles Martin

  • Hell or High Water

    Anne Mather

    "We can't sell it to someone like him!" Helen had to admit the sale of their estate was necessary. She and her mother could no longer afford to keep it up. But she couldn't agree with her mother that selling it to the popular wr...

  • Valley of the Hawk

    Margaret Mayo

    Damon had decided she was no good Corrie Maitland's trip to Ireland didn't go quite as planned. She'd set out to find her mother; instead she met Damon Courtney. Her first encounters with him were in the worst possible circumstances...

  • The Last Mission

    Harry Mazer

    In 1944, as World War II is  raging across Europe, fifteen-year-old Jack Raab  dreams of being a hero. Leaving New York City, his  family, and his boyhood behind, Jack uses a false  I.D. and lies his way into t...

  • Up in Seth's Room. a Love Story

    Norma Fox Mazer

  • Long Way to Texas

    Lee McElroy

  • The House in the Shadows

    Carolyn McKnight

    Orphaned Amanda Wallace journeys to the home of her only remaining relatives in the Hudson River Valley where she is put to work as a servant and meets Blaisdale Spain, a painter, and his wife, Platz, and wealthy friend, Micah Van Deusen. Orphaned...

  • The Divas

    Robert Merrill

  • The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate

    Nancy Mitford

    Few aristocratic English families of the twentieth century enjoyed the glamorous notoriety of the infamous Mitford sisters. Nancy Mitford's most famous novels, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, satirize British aristocracy in the twenti...

  • Felita

    Nicholasa Mohr

    "We're off to a better future." Felita's parents promise she will love the new neighborhood. Only Abuelita, her grandmother, understands how much Felita will miss her old block, and her best friend Gigi. But her new neighbors aren't nice at all. The...

  • The Wine of Life: And Other Essays on Societies, Energy and Living Things

    Harold J. Morowitz

    The Yale professor and acclaimed essayist examines Fijian fire-walking, the six-million-dollar man, shrews, great blue whales, bacteria and stockbrokers, recombinant DNA, jogging, and other inviting topics...

  • The Best American Short Stories 1979

    Multiple Authors

  • Winter Wedding

    Betty Neels

    Emily was the envy of the nursing staff She worked with the tall, handsome Professor Renier Jurres-Romeijn! Not that Emily considered her position enviable at all. She knew the great man's opinion of her--and she'd trade with the others an...

  • My Lady Scapegrace

    Lisabet Norcross

    A DUEL OF HEARTS How could a saucy young miss snare the heart of London's golden bachelor and gayest blade, dashing Viscount Charles? Innocently, as did Antoinette Fosjean, who won the much-coveted prize, and then lost it--when she challenged ...

  • Ghost Dance

    John Norman

    "There was little noticeable, little remarkable about Edward Chance, saving perhaps that he had once shot and killed a man....His craft, medicine, was more than a business with him, more than a professional skill. It was a way of healing his own hear...

  • The Captive

    Scott O'Dell

  • Country Club

    Russell O'Neil

  • Imperial Nights

    Olivia O'Neill

    "Forever Begins Tonight!" And with these whispered words begins a passionate romance across three continents ablaze with war and revolution. For Anastasia's soul is now bound with the chains of desire to Valerian, warrior of the Tsar's doomed empi...

  • Little Wolf and the Up

    Lilian Obligado

    Looking for a playmate, Little Wolf embarks on a quest that takes him up several flights of stairs to a rollicking party with Hilda Hippopotamus, Gertrude Giraffe, Toby Tiger, Lovestone Lion, and others...

  • Snowbound Heart

    Maxine Patrick

    Clare Thornton is stranded by a blizzard and finds her way to the nearest house which turns out to be the mountain home of movie star Logan Longcross. ssuming Clare is an adoring fan invading his privacy, Logan behaves rudely, and Clare determines to...

  • The Law in Cottonwood

    Lewis B. Patten

  • Bibblings

    Barbara Paul

    WAR WORLD Lodon-Kamaria, a planet in a perpetual state of war. No one in the Federation of United Worlds knew what the Lodonites and Kamarians were fighting about, nor, in the normal course of events, would anyone have cared. But this was a world ...

  • Dangerous Deception

    Lilian Peake

    "What's Brodie's, stays Brodie's" It was the family motto of the huge transport firm, and an apt one as far an Anona Willis was concerned. The Brodies gave nothing away -- not even compensation for the tragic accident that had ...

  • First a Dream

    Marie Pershing

    Lovely ash-blonde Roseanna Mitchell was penniless and desperate about the health of Casey, her young brother. Finding a maid's job on Dr. Matthew Clarke's lush Florida estate was the sheerest luck. But the rugged doctor soon had other plans f...

  • Black Tickets

    Jayne Anne Phillips

    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch: the reputation-making debut short story collection that paved the way for a new generation of writers. • â€œBrilliant … Phillips is a virtuoso.†-- The Chicago TribuneJayne Anne Phill...

  • The Lure

    Felice Picano

    Noel Cummings’s life is about to change irrevocably. After witnessing a brutal murder, Noel is recruited to assist the police by acting as the lure for a killer who has been targeting gay men. Undercover, Noel moves deeper and deeper into the dark ...

  • Devil Wives of Li Fong

    E. Hoffmann Price

    No man is happier than Li Fong -- until he discovers his lovely wives are really serpent-demons! Long and long ago, before the foreign devils came, old China was a land of ancient culture and strange magic. There, Li Fong, a student of apothecary, s...

  • Lagrange Five

    Mack Reynolds

    Rex Bader is a private investigator from earth who is called to Island Three at the LaGrange Point to solve the mystery of the missing professor and father of the entire LaGrange Point project. At the same time as the investigation, the cases of Wide...

  • Memories of Another Day

    Harold Robbins

    From the depths of the poverty-stricken West Virginia coal mines to the heights of power as one of the nation’s most prominent and feared labor organizers, “Big Dan” Huggins is a hero worthy of Harold Robbins’ attention. Re...

  • Stalked by Fear

    Liliane Robin

    The gunshot rang out from Frank's office Karen's breath caught as she saw Frank standing over a crumpled body, a smoking pistol in his hand. "Y-you've killed him!" she cried, backing away in horror. Panicking, she raced to the Fire Exit door, sudd...

  • Love

    Denise Robins

  • The Sealed Fountain

    Roberta Roleine

    "Beware! You will die in seven days!" Delphine was startled when her beloved father revealed the terrible prophecy he'd received in Lebanon. But he told the story with such humor that she was easily reassured. Scarcely a week later he was dead....

  • Cosmic Reality Kill

    Joseph Rosenberger

  • Hospice

    Parker Rossman

    A revolutionary approach to caring for the terminally ill patient that can make the end of life a meaningful time

    The hospice movement, taking its name from the medieval way stations for weary pilgrims, seeks to discover and provide new, hum...

  • God of Death

    Barry Sadler

    Casca Longinus. Cursed by Christ on Golgotha. Condemned to outlive the ages and wander the globe a constant soldier. Forever fighting, surviving, waiting for Him to return. Doomed by his fate, Casca walks alone. To the north, in the land of the Vi...

  • Story Catcher

    Marl Sardoz

  • The Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass

    Bruno Schulz

    This is the second and final work of Bruno Schulz, the acclaimed Polish writer killed by the Nazis during World War II. In the words of Isaac Bashevis Singer, "What he did in his short life was enough to make him one of the most remarkable writers wh...

  • Dilemma in Duet

    Margaret SeBastian

    SOPHIE & SARAH It was difficult to say who was the more beautiful and enchanting -- Sophie Sandringham or her sister Sarah. In fact, it was quite impossible. For Sophie and Sarah were as lovely a pair of identical twins as ever baffled their...

  • The Wonderful World of Robert Sheckley

    Robert Sheckley

  • Bats Out of Hell

    Guy N. Smith

    Professor Brian Newman is researching into a cure for meningitis. Unfortunately, as a by-product, he accidentally creates a lethal mutated version of the disease which is swiftly killing all the bats in his glass test cage. He knows that his expe...

  • Tristram Shandy

    Laurence Sterne

    The Penguin English Library Edition of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne'I am got, I know not how, into a cold unmetaphorical vein of infamous writing, and cannot take a plumb-lift out of it for my soul; so must be obliged to go on writing like a Du...

  • Gun Trap at Bright Water

    Dan J. Stevens

    Jim Benbow's brother, Larry, had stolen his girl and his inheritance, so when Jim found himself teamed up with two gunslingers all set to rob the bank in Bright Water, he didn't feel he owed anybody anything. But then old memories came back to bothe...

  • Bride of a Stranger

    Lucy Phillips Stewart

    They all agreed shed made a brilliant match. He was handsome, dashing, fabulously rich, the "catch" of London society. Adrianna, orphaned daughter of an impoverished peer, had only her flame-haired beauty as dowry. That seemed sufficient for the Earl...

  • The Passionate Summer

    Belle Thorne

    River Run. Jennifer Gaylord had lived there with her grandmother ever since she could remember. Jennie adored the beautiful old Savannah plantation and with Kevin Orlando threatening to buy them out, she was prepared to fight to her last breath to ke...

  • Alicia 2

    Robert Thurston

  • Iduna's Universe

    E.C. Tubb

    It was touch and go for Earl Dumarest when the slavers of the Matriarchy of Onorldi struck his work camp. Had he not captured the Matriarch herself during the fight, it might have spelled his doom when the slavers triumphed. Because even though th...

  • Man with 1000 Names

    A.E. Van Vogt

  • The Face

    Jack Vance

    There had been five cosmic villains on Kirth Gersen's vengeance list. There were now just two left. The Demon Prince named Lens Larque was the one who next crossed Gersen's path. As each of the five planet-slayers were different from one another, ...

  • Power Look

    Egon Von Furstenberg

  • The Butterfly and the Baron

    Margaret Way

    She would choose her own husband! When Renee Dalton's wealthy parents arranged her marriage to a man she despised, she had fled to her beloved Aunt Katie's home in Queensland. There she had hoped to escape and recover her shattered prid...

  • Candle in the Wind

    Sally Wentworth

    Every word of his might well be a lie Adrift in the Caribbean, wrecked against a reef, stranded alone on an island with someone who called himself Mike Scott--Samantha tried desperately to recall the events that had brought her to such an impasse....

  • The Hunters

    Burton Wetanson

    In a quiet Montana town, one dusty day is like another-until the boredom is shattered by a mysterious couple promising the answers to peoples dreams. The townspeople are more than willing to board a futuristic bus to Paradise. But the bus goes only a...

  • Danny Dunn and the Heat Ray

    Jay Williams

  • The Universe Next Door

    Robert Anton Wilson

    The world you think you know doesn't exist. Everything you thought was there isn't. Everything you thought you had done, you haven't. Your past is different, but your future is the same. Welcome to The Universe Next Door, created by Robert Anton Wils...

  • House of Mirror Images

    Daoma Winston

    In its darkened seclusion, whispers of fear haunt the floating mansion of Milleson Mooring. -- Cummen Milleson, young...defiant...in love...returns to the family web of decadence, greed and illusion. Trapped within its shadows he - and only he- can...

  • The Drakov Memoranda

    Jon Winters

  • Summer Moonshine

    P.G. Wodehouse

    Joe Vanringham hankers after Jane Abbott, who wants Adrian Peake, who is engaged to Joe's stepmother, a formidable, foreign princess, who is the only possible buyer for Sir Buckstone Abbott's hideous ancestral home in Berkshire. So who can win what?...

  • Ville-Marie

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