Skip Wayburn, an itinerant artist working his way through the byworld subculture, teams up with Dr. Yvonne Canter in order to communicate with the alien ship that has been orbiting the Earth for three years. Reprint....
When Mr. and Mrs. Whittaker decide to take a seaside holiday, Georgie decides to come along. But when they arrive at the vaction cottage, they realize they are not alone. In this book we meet The Noisy Ghost who is noisy indeed and we see how Georgie...
Introducing a new and very different Carter Brown character: LARRY BAKER And amateur sleuth in business for laughs. His occupation: TV gag writer. His inclination: beautiful women. His misfortune: to be caught up in a mystifying situation called...
When Sara arrived to work at the hospital at Kwaheri in Tanzania, she found that Matt Halifax believed she had come only because of a family maneuver and that he doubted her abilities. She would show him what it meant to have a nurse on his sisal est...
It was a night for possums when Rae learnt three weeks before her marriage that Ralph was only marrying her to get hold of her station of Tarmaroo. "Three weeks more, Peg," she overheard him say, "and we'll be shot of this rundown dum...
The eagerly awaited reissue of the second novel in R. F. Delderfield's classic God Is an Englishman seriesTheirs Was the Kingdom is a stirring saga of England in the late 19th century, as the Industrial Revolution takes hold, forever changing the lan...
The brood of youngsters in Nat McMorran's charge at Dulloora Station in the Outback were nice, but a handful, and he was thankful when Jonty Ashburne came along to help out -- which meant that he could now think about marrying his fiancee Isobel,...
Virginia and Alice Madden are 'odd women', growing old alone in Victorian England with no prospect of finding love. Forced into poverty by the sudden death of their father, they lead lives of quiet desperation in a genteel boarding house in London. ...
When Gail's father announced that he had bought an "away-from-it-all" holiday home on a tiny island in the Hebrides, she wasn't at all keen -- until a rude letter from a certain A. C. Black, stating that they wouldn't be welcome, ...
The little Cafe Mimosa, in Marjorca, seemed like heaven to Lynne Holmes and her sister Eve, who had settled in Marjorca to run it. At least, it seemed so until Steve Ryland arrived on the scene, announcing his plans to build a super modern hotel w...
A rose for virtue is a stunning re-creation of one of history's great romantic heroines, Hortense de Beauharnais, stepdaughter of Napoleon Bonaparte. This moving tale of human frailty traces the fateful moments which brought Hortense to the thron...
Portrait of a Jew by Albert Memmi (translated from the French by Elisabeth Abbott; 99,000 words)In this memoir and extended meditation on Jewish identity and anti-Semitic stereotypes written in France in the early 1960s, A...
The Russell family -- Lisa and her father and brother -- had been caretakers at Earlswood for so long that they regarded the house and estate as their own. But now the owner, old Mr. Ellingham, was coming home to inspect his property. What difference...
Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally p...
Sara Seymour was a career girl, a London sparrow, never happy unless she was near the bright lights. And then, under the terms of an eccentric will, she found herself obliged to live for three months in an old mill miles from anywhere, in the hear...
It was through an unlucky accident that young Romy Ellyn had been caught in a compromising situation with Don Delgado de Avarado y Valcazar - who thereupon insisted that to save her reputation and his, she must agree to become his fiancee, and whiske...
The author, an archaeologist who spent eight years among the Pueblo tribes of New Mexico, provides in fictional form an invaluable reconstruction of prehistoric Indian culture of the Southwest. Introduction by Stefan Jovanovich....