He looked so like her hero, Charles the First, that it was easy to fall in love -- and into trouble. She shopped along the Ponte Vecchio. She spoke Italian and French with fluency and knew more English history than many a girl born and reared in ...
Sparks flew every time they met Ashley Beaumont had been bitterly disappointed when Kindyerra, the family sheep station, had been sold -- but that was nothing compared to her feelings when she discovered the identity of the new owner. Dane Carm...
There is us. There are the Others. And through the shimmering gates they left for us, there are stars beyond stars: universes to be discovered on a voyage more awesome, an adventure more incredible, than anything humankind has ever dared to dream be...
A gripping, inventive thriller about justice and retribution set in Paris thirty years after World War II Anna Martin is ready to put the past -- and her unsuccessful marriage -- behind her and start over with Nicholas Yurovsky. A titled aristocr...
THERE ARE NO "HUMAN" COLONISTS... With the discovery of Dimensional Transfer, mankind embarked on the greatest adventure in history: the colonization of the alternate worlds. It was an adventure humans as humans could not take part in, and from wh...
With his father and brother serving in the Confederate Army and the rest of his family murdered in a Comanche raid of their west Texas farm, 13-year-old Lewallen seeks to free himself and his younger sister from their Indian captivity....
With more than four million copies sold, Wifey is Judy Blume's hilarious, moving tale of a woman who trades in her conventional wifely duties for her wildest fantasies -- and learns a lot about life along the way.Sandy Pressman is a nice suburban wif...
Who was Robert? A baby’s cry on the telephone in the middle of the night. The shocking photograph of a boy in a dead man’s hand. The adolescent voice that said, “I miss you, Dad.” The menace that said, “I’m coming…” Adam and ...
Laura and Dan Courser are less than perfect, but deeply passionate couple with young children and lots of plans. Until Dan, displaying the boyish bravado that made Laura fall in love with him, takes the tiller of a boat he can't handle and causes ...
“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.” -- Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.” -- Leonard Cohen, songwriterLow-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After ...
Widow Bride Vital, young Caroline Aubrey was the recent widow of an unsavory old Virginia planter whom she'd been forced to marry. Now, she had returned to England to join her sister and establish her place in proper society. But the right ...
Roumayne's world had collapsed around her Unjustly accused of causing a popular singer's death, Roumayne Mallory was fired from her job, jilted by her fiance and damned by public opinion. She wanted only to escape, and Marcella Du Toit, he...
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A seminal collection from one of the true masters of the short story. Spanning the duration of Cheever’s long and distinguished career, these sixty-one stories chronicle and encapsulate the lives of...
Anxious to make friends in a new town, a young boy lies about his experience as goalie in order to get on the local soccer team....
France made her an Orphan, England made her and Outlaw, Love made her a Woman. Kate is the story of a proud and passionate woman, an actress by trade and a rebel by heart, who was thrown into exile by the turbulent storms of revolutionary France. Fo...
The lone survivor of a catastrophic mine explosion announces that the end of the world is at hand and begins a new cult that, sweeping the mining towns, gathers believers in anticipation of the Coming of the End of the World...
French and English -- they just don't mix! Her grandmother had instilled that misconception in Brianna's mind. So it was no wonder that the attempted reconciliation with her sister and French mother proved such a disaster. That was year...
The invading warriors appeared from nowhere -- an implacable horde that ravaged the lands of Krantin, slaying and taking their own death wounds in eerie silence. The outer islands had fallen, and soon the sorcery-driven soldiers would be striking at ...
Samantha's experience with men as the daughter of tycoon Reuben Gentry had been disillusioning. But she'd gone willingly to Chris Andrews's home miles from anywhere on an island in the St. Lawrence, expecting her father to join her the...
In the palm of her hand Angela Gambrell held THE MAGIC RING. It was a gift from across the seas from the parents she had not seen since their return to Italy ten years before she had been only eight. The ring was a symbol of the love her father...
Have you ever fantasized about leaving big-city life behind and making a beeline for a bucolic village? That's exactly what Alphonse Daudet did, and he documents the results of his decision in the series of fictionalized sketches collected in Letters...
This book covers Britain in the early eighteenth century. It provides an introduction that is both informative and imaginative, reliable and entertaining. To the tradition of travel writing Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience as a businessman...
A beautiful young orphan becomes and innocent pawn in a game of love......
FIRST AVON PRINTING. Oct. 1978 mass market paperback, Lawrence Dunning (Fallout!: A Novel). It begins in the American desert, where David Keller, an unassuming young physics student, is kidnapped the day after a deadly load of plutonium is hijacked. ...
TWILIGHT OF A GREAT EMPIRE. BIRTH OF A NEW NATION. From Niagara rails to Lake Champlain, the warriors of the mighty Iroquois ruled supreme. Not even the savagery of the French and Indian Wars could cool their fury or halt their power. But by 1770, ...
HE WAS THE COOL-HANDED MARSHAL WHO ALWAYS GOT HIS MAN -- AND HIS WOMAN. THEY CALLED HIM...LONGARM Longarm had a new mission. Ride to Crooked Lance. Pick up Cotton Younger, killer cousin of Jesse James, from the town jail. Bring him to trial. It w...
Legacy of Doom. One moment she was Bernadette Tyson, a beautiful eighteen-year-old orphan raised by the nuns of St. Brigid's Convent. The next moment handsome young lawyer Robert Douglas was telling her she might be Bernadette MacDonald, the grand...
Serious silliness for all ages. Artist Sandra Boynton is back and better than ever with completely redrawn versions of her multi-million selling board books. These whimsical and hilarious books, featuring nontraditional texts and her famous animal ch...
Barbara Layette -- beautiful daughter of rugged Dan Layette and his aristocratic first wife. Rejecting the conflicts of her dual heritage, determined to build a life of her own, she fled an opulent Nob Hill mansion for a turbulent Europe on the brink...
ARIEL From the night her drunken father gambled her away in his London townhouse, she was bought, sold and bartered by men who longed to take by force what she refused to give. Her dark young beauty and fiery spirit made them hunger for her smoulde...
Six short stories include: The Duck and the Goose, The Little Swineherd, The Rooster Who Could Not See Enough of Himself, Circles and Straight Lines, The Alligator Who Told The Truth, The Raccoon's Song....
Here, Jemima Shore, investigator and TV personality, arrives at Inverness Station for a Highland holiday. The sun is shining. Paradise, she thinks. But at that moment, she hears a voice: "All this way for a funeral."
So begins an adventure f...
An historical novel about Alves Reis. He pushed so many counterfeit escudo notes into Portugal during the 1920s that he almost crashed their economy. He was able to do this by using forged documents that enabled him to have other countries print th...
Inanna, the lovely enchantress whose powerful magic protected Rafe on his odyssey of perils. Driven by her searing passions, she dared to battle Enlil and the dread Fates for the soul of her mortal lover....
She quickly refused Paul's proposition! "I'd make it worth your while," he had promised. "You'd have a villa in the sun, a car and an ever increasing bank balance." Knowing she was far from indifferent to this devast...
In this, his first collection of short stories, Hardy sought to record the legends, superstitions, local customs, and lore of a Wessex that was rapidly passing out of memory. But these tales also portray the social and economic stresses of 1880s Dors...
It's 1643, and almost a year has passed since King Charles raised his standard at Nottingham and turned all England into a battlefield. For the orphaned boy Oliver Cutter the army of Parliament is now his home, and the struggle of his hero Oliver Cro...
A sweeping adventure set in the Arabian Desert, where the shadow of British colonialism threatens to destroy a father and son. Three years ago, nineteen-year-old David Thomas beat his father to death. Actually, David only punched the old man, but it ...
This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped ...
Kosinski’s classic, acclaimed as “an impressive novel . . . should confirm [his] position as one of our most significant writers” (Newsweek). A searing novel from a writer of international stature, The Devil Tree is a tale...
It was hard to resist Alex He smiled arrogantly at her. "You've wanted me ever since we began working together four years ago. Admit it, Deborah." She turned away abruptly. It was true. She loved Alex St. James, a music-industry ex...
First edition. An excellent study of this popular area of Japanese Art. This book chronicles the development of Ukiyo-e, examines the lives and techniques of its masters, and describes the illustrated books, erotic albums and paintings that belong to...
Samantha had it all figured out. A year to fulfill the wishes accompanying her godfather's legacy - then she'd happily return to her own life. That was the plan. Farrell's, however, a big London department store, was a fascinating...
The fires glowed menacingly in the blackness of the distant woods, and the drumming that came windborne to Val's ears brought an unmistakable message of imminent death. This time Val knew it would be her death, that at any moment whoever had l...
They not only came from different parts of the country. Their views belonged to different centuries! "Maybe that's why I've never found you real;" Jake said slowly. "Never met a lovely looking female yet who didn't do somet...
Suddenly Valerie's world was changed! Fate crossed Valerie's path with that of singing-star idol, Nicky Barratt, and for some strange reason he was reluctant to let her go out of his life. What set her apart from his other admiring fans...
Nothing bound her spirit -- but one man knew the whispered words to make her his. SUN-BLAZED BEACHES With languid tropic, breezes caressing her breathtakingly beautiful face, Bettina Verlaine stood before the mast, sailing westward to fulfill a...
Norah Lofts’s tales of royal Britain have stood the test of time.This international bestseller powerfully tells of the life of Katharine of Aragon, from her childhood in Spain to her reign and downfall in England as the first wife of Henry VII. A p...
"Even the gutter is too low for you!" Babette was stunned, overwhelmed with shame. His cruel insult drove home the appalling lengths to which this Mississippi gambler would go to mend his wounded pride. He would ruin her family... and hers...
BODIES ARE BAD FOR BUSINESS And Christmas was very big business at Balaclava Agricultural College where the campus ''Illumination" attracted hosts of joyful tourists. So when Professor Peter Shandy found a faculty wife sprawled dead on his living ...
Greengages Hotel was a sumptuous sanctuary for the super-rich. Until its most pampered hypochondriac took the cure. And then her life. Or did she? To find out, Scotland Yard sends Superintendent Alleyn to knock at the gilded gates where murder ...
Alex yearned for freedom! Brought up in a French convent, Alex had been sadly neglected by her archaeologist father. He died leaving her starved for affection, desperate to love and be loved - desperate enough to trick her father's friend, Ja...
A tragedy of good intentions gone hopelessly wrong, Wind from an Enemy Sky tells the story of the Little Elk People, a fictional Northwestern tribe. Through the eyes of Antoine, grandson of the tribal leader, we see the tribe attempt to overcome thei...
The first book from the legendary New Yorker writer John McPhee, tells about Bill Bradley when he was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen. When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were at the beginning of their careers. In A Sense of W...
The prospect was most terrifying! To shy, mousy Isabelle, hopelessly ignorant of city life, the idea of living in London with her wealthy uncle filled her with misgivings, and excitement. But her inability to cope with fashionable society became glar...
She was born in disgrace, raised in squalor, doomed to the rough existence of a peasant. -- ...until her beauty and her innocence draw her into a wildly exciting life of romance, glamour, and wealth, a world she isn't prepared for, a glittering nig...
Marked for execution by assassins who cut short the life of a prominent senator, a former Olympic skier who owns a tavern in Colorado's famous ski country begins a desperate downhill race against time and the elements...
It was the perfect solution for them Or so it had seemed to Petra. Left penniless, with a young brother to look after, she decided to look up a distant cousin in Canada and make their home with him. She had never met Neil Cameron, but she was s...
When Jonathan is tricked into accepting a lift home from two mysterious men in a van, it's the start of a terrifying event: a kidnapping. And if the ransom money doesn't arrive soon, he knows he'll be killed......
LOVE AND LOYALTY Fierce, proud, spoiling for a fight, and going wherever the fortunes of war called him, Kentigern MacNiall was a rebel and son of a rebel. With his family's deposition as chiefs of the clan O'Darrell, and himslef a hunted animal ...
“A page-flipping tale of power, brutality and glamour (Library Journal) from the bestselling author of The Godfather.
Played out in the underground worlds of high-stakes gambling, publishing, and the film industry, this epic thriller foll...
A tough-guy travel agent loses an heiress while on a drug-fueled vacation Reid Rance can’t take his eyes off May Gibson. It’s not her figure or her face that’s got him mesmerized though. It’s the emerald on her finger and the checkbook in her...
In her latest novel of ancient Greece, Mary Renault turns to the world of the poet-the bard who since the time of Homer had sung his verses from memory for the occasions of the court. This is the life of Simonides, who live in sixth-century Greece du...
THE CURSE WHICH KILLS Nineteen-year-old Barbara Ashe was summoned to the bedside of Gilbert Vanbrugh, the Duke of Kenton, to nurse him back to health. As the days passed, the Duke confided to her that he was doomed, the victim of an ancient famil...
"Marriage vows sealed in the family crypt" Caroline met the handsome Austrian nobleman in Vienna where she and her American employer were engaged in restoring lost art masterpieces to their rightful owners. Rudolf von Dornstein invited the two A...
SHE IS BOUND TO ONE MAN BY HOPE - TO ANOTHER BY LOVE Sara Glass. The captivating English rose. Her life as a married woman has just begun when her young husband, Eric, vanishes into the exotic and shimmering East... Leaving behind her safe wor...
When Laura Spelman learns that she will not get well, she looks on this last illness as a journey during which she must reckon up her life, give up the nonessential, and concentrate on what she calls "the real connections." The heart of the story is ...
THEIR LIVES WOULD NEVER BE THE SAME Colquitt and Walter Kennedy enjoyed a life of lazy weekends, gathering with the neighbors on their quiet, manicured street and sipping drinks on their patios. But when construction of a beautiful new home begins i...
A brilliantly original examination of the many aspects that make up a life -- from birth, up and over the hill, and into the wilderness of old ageA truly astonishing and original work of fiction, Wrinkles is the story of a life lived forty-...
SHE WAS A LOVE TOKEN How could the lovely Lady Jessica hope to be happy in the arms of a dissolute duke who had won her hand in a card game? How could she hold her own in the glittering, titled society of Regency London when only the luck of the d...
"You want Paradis for your collection!" Venture accused him, showing the bitterness she felt at her island home being desecrated with a holiday hotel. She had been prepared to hate the French hotel tycoon, and had pictured him as short,...
“The definitive African book of the twentieth century” (Moses Isegawa, from the Introduction) by the Nobel Prize"nominated Kenyan writerThe puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this fervent, h...
A charming new pocket edition of one of Tolkien’s major pieces of short fiction, and his only finished work dating from after publication of The Lord of the Rings.What began as a preface to The Golden Key by George MacDonald eventually grew into th...
The acknowledged masterpiece of the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter has never been out of print in this country since its first publication in 1927. Its story of a woman's life in fourteenth-century Norway ...
THE DOLMAN COMES The Beast unimaginable, bearing the final horror: annihilation. The time of Man has ended. But also comes the Sunset Warrior. The table for the awful feast is set, the ultimate battle about to begin......
Croyd brought peace to a warring world by means of his Comcord system. When a nation's discord quotient rose to the boiling point, Comcord would trigger the ultimate peace weapon called Z-sting. Z-sting would encapsulate the war-seeking nation, cutt...
For most of us, remembering the Holocaust requires effort; we listen to stories, watch films, read histories. But the people who came to be called “survivors” could not avoid their memories. Sol Nazerman, protagonist of Edward Lewis Wallant’s T...
No one could keep Kate down... Not the philandering Balfour heir who seduced her and left her to bear his son alone. Not the proper minister who thrust her from his home to walk the long road to Glasgow and the uncertain future. Not the mine owner wh...
Richard Ashley is a journalist who cares about the truth, and he''s about to break the greatest story of his career.
Italy''s ruling clique is rotten to the core. A scandal centred around Vittorio, Duke of Orgagna, points to a web of corrup...
THE HAUNTED CAVE was hidden in the garden of Aunt Persis’ Cape Town, South Africa home. For Lanny Dustin and Joel Monroe the cave -- rumored to be the den of a ghostly tiger -- held a special fascination. But Bernita Dustin felt any place Joel wen...
Her peace of mind was wholly shattered Olivia Logan had used an unexpected legacy from her aunt to set up a book and stationery store in the bushveld country of 'northern Transvaal -- something she'd long looked forward to. She was leav...
Beth resented this man's interference! She.had been elated to discover that she had a grandfather still living; naturally she wanted to meet him as soon as possible. Unfortunately, she happened to meet Ryan Drago first. A longtime friend of...
Twenty years after he and his family were deported from Sighet to Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel returned to his town in search of the watch -- a bar mitzvah gift -- he had buried in his backyard before they left....
A DANGEROUS, ROMANTIC ADVENTURE -- AND A DREAM OF INNOCENCE... Silken locks of flaxen gold, dark eyes flashing, Mandy was breathtaking in her young loveliness. But so far the only man she had ever loved was her twin brother, Ned. Now, suddenly,...
"You will stay and marry my brother." Julio Valdez spoke contemptuously. "Because of you, my brother, Ramon, is now a paralyzed cripple, with very little to live for. But he wants you, so he shall have you." Julio's hard, unyie...