Trapped in stasis for twenty years in the bark of the oldest tree in the ancient forest of Walensor, Dart is finally released by the trees, given three magic gifts, and sent on a mission to save his world...
WITH A PAST HE'D LIKE TO FORGET AND A DANGEROUS NEW CASE THAT WON'T LET HIM Two Cuban marielitos--followers of the voodoo-like santeria cult--are accused of a vicious massacre in a downtown jewelry store, and Cuban-born Charlie Morell is appointed...
With a dangerously late spring monsoon, Superintendent Bamsan Kiet fears the worst--failed crops, mob rule in the streets, and a bloody insurrection--but instead encounters disaster in the form of Prince Pakse's illegitimate playboy son and a beautif...
Marianne Clark was "family friendly." Her temp agency was designed to meet the needs of her working parent employees, and her personal life was centered on her son, who was just the wrong age to want a man in his mother's life. So when sh...
Lauren’s life was perfect - until the day someone targeted her child.
Until she got pregnant, Lauren Caylor and her husband worked side by side in the high-pressure offices of one of Los Angeles’ most prestigious law firms. They...
THEY'D ALWAYS BE THE BEST OF FRIENDS When it came to things that made summer special, Block Island was right up there with sea breezes and honeysuckle. And, for Shelley Ballard, so was Kip Stroud. When Shelley and Kip were seven they tramped th...
Ace Books, 1991. Mass market paperback original. Anthology of 9 stories set on Mars, that were first published in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine. Authors include Allen Steele, Ian McDonald, Kim Stanley Robinson and others....
Patriotism or practical joke? Harrison, NH -- Ninth-grade student Philip Malloy was suspended from school for singing along to The Star-Spangled Banner in his homeroom, causing what his teacher, Margaret Narwin, called "a disturbance." But was he st...
Though Lexi Leighton is thrilled at Todd's new position as quarterback, she wonders if Peggy's and Chad's problems will ever end. Now that Peggy finally looks like she can pull her life together, Chad seems to be falling apart. Chad h...
Lexi's boyfriend, Todd Winston, has had everything going for him quarterback of the high-school football team, handsome, a great personality, and smart. Then comes a serious injury in a football game that leaves his whole future in uncertainty. Much...
Needing a wife in order to collect his inheritance, Lord Evan Salebrook, the dashing young Marquis of Chamford, offers to marry lovely, impoverished Claudia Fairborough for one year, a marriage of convenience that should solve both their problems...
TRAPPED! Clementina Hythe fled her family to avoid a distasteful marriage to her gentle but half-witted cousin. She disguised herself as a London urchin, but Jake, Lord Sothern, uncovered her deception in short order. When she ran away again t...
WILDFIRE A remorseless bounty hunter, an impenitent outlaw, and a renegade Apache boy -- they made strange traveling companions for a prim, Boston-bred spinster like Matilda Thornton. But before the stagecoach could rattle its dusty way through t...
PASSION FLOWER Fleur. That was her middle name. The name she told the man to whom she sold herself out of desperate want. But her full name was Isabella Fleur Bradshaw, gently born and brutally expelled from her sheltered life. His name was Adam ...
"Rich in imagery and the detail of small-town life and haunting in its portrayal of ordinary men and women struggling to understand loss. Under Mr. Banks's restrained craftsmanship, what begins as the story of senseless tragedy is transformed into an...
Sophia Marone was no stranger to dreams. Ever since she was a little girl, she yearned for beautiful things, for the life of a great lady. She did not intend to waste her future toiling in the silk mills of Paterson. And when her vibrant beauty and i...
LOVE WITH A VENGEANCE Although Tara's marriage to Rand McCain had been filled with turbulence, the union had produced one glimmer of sunshine: an adorable, perfect child named Mindi. But when Mindi was still a baby, tragic circumstances had torn T...
John Locke, who is hired by Grenadier Guardsman Eric Wainwright to protect his “niece'' Amy from a Corsican she spurned, former Resistance hero/current Mediterranean mobster Vittore Orsini. As they dodge bullets, knives, kicks, and ambushes in Prov...
It is 3 a.m. in The City, and in a dark corner of The Bar, two lovers collide in the beginnings of a passionate and violent affair. Boy: nineteen, beautiful, ready for anyone to take him home, and 'O': the Older Man, cynical, unpredictable, and at th...
FIND QUENT YERBY . . . Tracking down an elusive ex-cop like Quent Yerby wasn't easy, but Beck Kendrick needed his permission to adopt the little boy in her care. Unfortunately, the search led the sophisticated child psychologist to a gym filled wi...
Picked on at school by bullies, thirteen-year-old Michael confronts his fears during a trip to Colorado to see his father, who works as a whitewater rafting guide and whom Michael has not seen in eight years....
Detective Nick Hannibal and history professor Molly Rafferty investigate a series of murders at Marvell University's Center for Participatory Politics, a New England think-tank swarming with influence peddlers...
Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovation ranks with Beckett and Kafka, his outrageously cantankerous voice recalls Dostoevsky, but his gift for lacerating, lyrical, provocative prose is inco...
SWEET SKULDUGGERY Chloe, Lady Stanforth, has run Delamere Hall since her husband's untimely demise last year. She loves the seaside manor, but mysterious doings have made her eager to depart. Enter Justin Delamere, her late husband's hands...
Her past came back to haunt her ... Once, Bree Gregory and Michael Tallent had been friends -- and all too briefly, lovers. They'd shared a past, but weren't able to share a future. Now, eight years later, Michael turned up in the small Co...
""A wonderful story!" -Los Angeles Times "Mars a movie set, and astronauts for extras. Bisson strikes again. This is one trip you don't want to miss." -Lucius Shepard "Bisson makes Mars mysterious and exciting again. Funn"...
A FRUSTRATING LORD Ruanna Moreton's troubles were just beginning the day she fled to London to escape a dreadful arranged marriage. Reduced to scraping a living in the slums, the beautiful Ruanna luckily fell into the graces of a matronly cousin...
The police can't prove that socialite Richard Thurman arranged the rape, torture and murder of his beautiful, pregnant wife. The dead woman's brother thinks Matthew Scudder can. During his ongoing battle with the bottle, ex-cop ex-boozer Scudder left...
A HIGH-BORN BEAUTY DETERMINED TO RECLAIM HER HERITAGE... For seventeen idyllic years, lovely, strong-willed Katherine Radcliffe had led a charmed existence on her family's estate in Yorkshire. Suddenly, in one night of shattering tragedy, her be...
It all begins with motorcycles: four vintage Harley-Davidsons, carefully hidden away in the barn of Doe's newly purchased farm. A hard-core cycle enthusiast, Doc finds it hard to believe that the owners would have abandoned such carefully customized ...
SPELLS CAST AND SWORDS DRAWN As the forces of evil reach out to conquer new realms, claiming the lives and treasures of unprotected innocents, there are always a valiant few ready to oppose these masters of darkness and destruction. Bold women war...
Renee hopes that things will work out with her new job at the popular pizza hang-out, but she exaggerates the image she wants to create of herself and gains a bad reputation in a small town hungry for gossip...
Written when apparently just a student by well-known AI guru Selmer Bringsjord, this book is a bit of a cult classic for its prescience (it predicted the coup against Gorbachev) and its treatment of nuclear missile defense logic. What would happen if...
MR. SEPTEMBER Man: Wolf Conroe-half-breed Apache, best man at the wedding. Mission: Getting to the church on time-never mind the reception! Thwarted by: Falling into the clutches of dangerous criminals! True Nemesis: Beautiful bridesma...
The season will glow with warmth and good feeling for families lucky enough to spend the holidays with these two expert party planners. Imaginative party ideas include a White Christmas extravaganza, a Tree-Trimming party, two great Hanukkah parties,...
Make this Halloween a safe, spooky, and happy one with these bewitching ideas
From carving a not-so-traditional pumpkin to dressing a miniature mermaid, here are hundreds ways to scare up the best Halloween ever. You'll find plans for nin...
HE WASN'T LEAVING WITHOUT HER. Danielle Dicker was angrier than a trapped polecat the day dark-haired, dark-eyed Adam Hollister rode onto her Ozark farm. Claiming that some old mountain man needed her help, Adam threw her into his horse's sa...
Silence was not always golden Deaf since childhood, Danielle Landen had always felt isolated from those she loved. She blamed her deafness for the failure of her marriage and for her teenage daughter's increasing resentment. But finally, thanks...
SWORDS AND GLORY! A thousand years before the birth of Vlad Taltos, the Dragaeran Empire is a hotbed of intrigue, sorcery, intrigue, swashbuckling adventure, and intrigue. For those who would be heroes, it is a delightful time to be alive--and an ...
The tables were turned When overworked, out-of-shape executive Sam Sarnoff arrived at Couchiching Spa in Orillia, Ontario, for a brief respite from his hectic business, he was shocked to find that the beautiful resident dietitian was someone he ha...
THE SADDLE CLUB GIRLS MUST RIDE FOR THEIR LIVES! Carole, Stevie, and Lisa are thrilled when they get a call from their friend Kate from The Bar None Ranch. Kate has an offer for them: Would the girls like to go on a pack trip in the mountains? The...
At seventeen, Dru gets involved with the latest high school stunt -- leaping between deadly cliffs into the ocean far below. Things get out of hand as manipulative relationships and resulting jealousies cause more students to risk their lives. “Itâ...
The Perfect Gentleman with a Wild Streak... Christopher Quincy Maitland was charming, handsome, a golden boy who could always be counted on to do the right thing--until the delectably brazen seductress Paisley Vandermeir tempted him to go looking ...
Brilliant scientist Dr Habegger gives humanity the stars with his new drive system and finally interstellar exploration begins as spaceships head out into the cosmos. Our hero Rance Collier is there at the beginning and goes along for the ride. Amon...
AN IMPETUOUS MISS Miss Stacia Ashcroft was gleeful when she arrived in London with a brand new inheritance. At twenty-two, she felt much too old for the marriage mart. So she took on the guise of a rich widow -- a pose that would surely allow her BU...
As a vicious murderer makes his way to Chicago, leaving a trail of mutilated and cannibalized corpses in his wake, Abraham Stroud is the only investigator willing to face the possibility that the killer is a werewolf...
Cameron’s collection of witty and insightful stories reveals individuals seeking love, stability, and acceptance The characters in Far-Flung, Peter Cameron’s second story collection, face a familiar dilemma: They aspire to happiness but are ...
Ashleigh’s dreams are in tatters. . . Ashleigh Griffen is thrilled when the owner of the horse farm where she lives puts her favorite horse, Wonder, into training as a Thoroughbred racer. Ashleigh has spent the past year turning the sickly filly...
Ever since its publication in 1941, The Mind of the South has been recognized as a path-breaking work of scholarship and as a literary achievement of enormous eloquence and insight in its own right. From its investigation of the Southern class system...
DOCTOR'S ORDERS Fresh air, farmland, fishing... Kansas was a dream come true for Dr. Michael Wakefield. The Manhattan pediatrician was positive the tranquil life-style -- and avoiding all contact with children -- would cure his case of profess...
These thirteen tales are populated by an assortment of fictional as well as real characters, all of them vividly sketched and true-to-life: the botanist Linnaeus, the composer Offenbach, the poet Hart Crane, the visionary horror writer H. P. Lovecraf...
When Sarah Holmes announces she wants a divorce, her daughter and a girlfriend run away from home, Sarah and her lover fly to California to find them, and as they wait for the girls, along with Sarah's sister, all of them must come to terms with the ...
TANGLED TRAILS OF TERROR The forest wilderness lay somewhere north of Kiev in the spirit-haunted land of ancient Russia. There Eveshka, the former destructive ghost -- a rusalka restored to life -- had dwelt in peace for three years with her husb...
This autobiographical story tells of ten-year-old Sookan and her family's suffering and humiliation in Korea, first under Japanese rule and after the Russians invade, and of a harrowing escape to South Korea....
On-court hostility threatens Mel’s place on the team. Mel Jensen is new to the Titans basketball team, but he knows he could be a vital part of the starting lineup -- if only two other players would give him a chance to show his stuff. But Caski...
AS GOOD AS GOLD Everything Clint Daniels touched turned to gold -- except where his teenage daughter was concerned. The successful businessman felt like a failure when it came to being a father figure. His daughter wouldn't behave, and they ba...
When the wife of playboy publishing magnate Tony Marvell drowns her sorrows forever in wine and a bottle of pills, an inquest concludes that the death was a tragic accident, but Tony's friends suspect murder...
Only five more days till Christmas! As each day goes by, Everett is more excited. He loves listening to the carolers, watching snow fall from this fourteenth-floor window, and decorating the Christmas tree. But most of all, he can't wait to open his ...
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A companion to the best-selling Anna Banana: 101 Jump-Rope Rhymes, here is a collection of nearly forty fingerplays and action rhymes that have been chanted, sung, and enjoyed for generations. Children and their parents can join the eentsy, weent...
Sneaking into the majestic house on Park Row last night and unlocking the door for the well-dressed stranger had been exciting. Still, Roger knows that what he did for Circus was wrong, especially when he learns from the newspaper that one of the inh...
Owney Hazman is the American dream. He's a money-making hot-dog salesman with a beutiful wife and rich father-in-law. But Owney has a prblem: his mother left when he was nine and he's still trying to find her.
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BLOOD-SOAKED BLADES had been taking their toll among the luscious lovelies in Garrett's home city of TunFaire. And though Garrett could be as civic-minded as the next guy--unless the next guy was Captain Block of the Watch--the private eye wasn't su...
The Department of Old Age Pensions is not noted for drama. Nor for scandal, corruption or even the odd leak to the tabloids. Not until Algernon Endlesham, its high-flying Minister, is brutally bludgeoned to death. Willow King, Assistant Secretary (...
Eight years have passed since Andy Barclay's doll, Chucky, had terrorized his young life, and when the toy company brings the Good Guy doll back to the shelves, Chucky gets a second chance to play mass murderer...
They made beautiful music together -- but was that enough?. Madeline Chambers's only escape from a lonely childhood had been her music -- particularly the songs by composer Elias Shepherd. They spoke to her in magical, haunting tones that touc...
Two treasured literary classics depicting life in the Revolutionary War era, "A Little Maid of Province Town" and "A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony," follow the adventures of eight-year-old Anne Nelson...
In a send-up of Margaret Mitchell's famous work, Starlight O'Hara--a pampered Scarsdale debutante with numerous Ivy League beaux--divides her love between the self-effacing Hashley Wilkes and daring financial impresario Brett Butler...
LUCKY IN LOVE Although her fans eagerly awaited her next best-selling novel, author Pippa Weldon was suffering from a nasty case of writer's block. The only cure was a trip; a journey to a new place usually changed her perspective and brought her ...
Cab Jones has never met her grandmother or been to the town where she lives. But when Cab's mother and new stepfather take off to Europe for the summer, Cab and her older brother find themselves stuck in Washco, Pennsylvania. The streets are dirty an...
An anthology of previously published stories starring King Babar and his family and friends includes "Babar and the Ghost," "Meet Babar and his Family," "Babar the Magician," "Babar Visits Another Planet," and "Babar's Little Girl"...
IN A LAND DIVIDED BY TREACHERY AND ENDLESS WARRING, THEY SHARED A PASSION THAT KNEW NO BOUNDS When King William's knight, Fulk de Jobourg, is sent to reclaim the lands of a hanged traitor, he is also commanded to take the man's unwilling daughter ...
A SPY TO THE END The hero of SPYHOOK and SPYLINE returns for a final bow in Len Deighton's thrilling new novel, SPY SINKER. British agent Bernard Samson's family and career are about to be betrayed and crushed by his wife--lovely, brilliant Fiona ...
AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE...AND A RUNAWAY HEART Sybilla's guardian had the marriage all planned out for her--but Sybilla had plans of her own. Hungry for freedom and adventure, she set off for London, a young lady on her own...but disguised as a boy t...
Conceived in the backseat of a car on the day that Buddy Holly died, Oliver Vale turns on the TV one day to find Buddy Holly on every channel, and soon he is on the run from a pursuing mob of religious fanatics. Reprint....
"A clever blend of family conflict, superstition, and exciting sports action. Adolescent readers will empathize with the mind games Joe plays as he struggles for...independence; teachers will delight in the literary references...and librarians will p...
WHAT ARE DREAMS MADE OF? Hairdresser Emma Lindt was mortified. The plumber who'd turned up at the crack of dawn, catching her looking like a refugee from fright night, was none other than Eric Jameson, high school heartthrob, the boy most like...
ONE WOMAN'S DREAM... Lacey Garrett was raised to fight for what she believed in, and to never surrender. When she inherited her father's sprawling Texas ranch, the Reina, she was determined to run it on her own -- despite the many men who wa...
This diary will add to youngsters enjoyment of books by providing a place to keep a record of favorite books. With quotations from literature about the pleasures of reading, and with pencil sketches of the early drawings for Beauty and the Beast, thi...
A PASSION AS FIERCE AS THE LAND THAT CLAIMED THEM Black-eyed Damian de la Sola was like no mane Katherine Maxwell had ever known. Fierce and seductive, the aristocratic Spaniard unleashed a passion the Boston beauty knew she must resist. De la ...
HE NEEDED HER SECRETS American captain Jonathan Knox relentlessly sailed the seas in search of the British ship that held his brother captive. He hadn't meant to waste time taking prisoners from his latest conquest, but when he learned -- the lo...
Minnesota reporter Alison Carver finds herself in the Land of Veil, where beautiful streams run with poisoned water and glorious fields mask hideous decay. Here women are treated with great homage-and great disdain; here children are loved-except for...
LIKE A JEWEL, SHE WAS POLISHED, REFINED, PERFECT. Fiercely independent, daughter of a proud Virginia family, exquisite Jenna Riordan had set out fearlessly for the West. But now, in the harsh deserts of New Mexico, on the dreaded Comanche plains, he...
Venturing to the surface of the sea to wage war for the Keeps--the domed undersea worlds where human colonists live on Venus--Ensign Brainard and his mercenary naval troops are about to face their greatest foe. Reprint....
DON'T TOUCH... Photographer Walker Manley's cranky disposition kept the world at bay -- until he fell hard for Riley McCormick. He knew he didn't deserve her wholesome, loving spirit, so he told himself to just do his job and keep his ...
Two ace fighter pilots-one American, one Iranian-equally matched in skill and machinery. Sworn enemies destined to meet in nose-to-nose combat in the wartorn skies above the Persian Gulf-Where one must triumph...and one must die. Mike Dunn-a U.S. Nav...
Returning from a trip abroad to find the bodies of voodoo practitioners buried alive in her Brooklyn apartment, Haitian-born artist Angelina Hammel asks streetwise cop Reuben Abrams for help....
Presents three fairy tales about princesses: Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella. Author's notes present historical background on these tales, which occur in many countries. Profusely illustrated with the works of more than twenty-five illust...
Bath was dull as dishwater -- though the Summerhayes ladies were finding it otherwise.... Young Celestine hoped her stepmother, Demeter, would approve her betrothal to the nephew of the notorious rake, Lord Amesbury. In the meanwhile, Demeter, wi...
Ki's behind bars -- and Jessie's gunning for justice in the one hundred and ninth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the mart...
He'd abandoned her once! An idyllic love affair in Vernazza, Italy, changed Suzanne Lane's life -- she found herself pregnant and alone. She married another man, and they raised a family. But she never forgot that one heavenly time -- or f...
PASSIONATE REBEL Supplying the British soldiers with faulty footwear was Maggie Myer's small but satisfying way of helping her fellow Patriots fight for independence. But when the beautiful bootmaker was caught stealing enemy supplies by Redcoat...
As a government-backed expedition makes its way west--sent to America's Indian reservations to extol the virtues of U.S. citizenship--photographs of the poor conditions on the reservations, the work of someone in the expedition, make their way into D...
MEN! Single mom J. T. Mayne was at wits' end. Her preteen son was moping around with a perpetual pout and more freckles than friends--until Shad McClellan showed up on their doorstep. The man was definitely too handsome for his own good, but he wa...
Mothers give birth in the borning room. The dying take their departure there. Outside the Lott family’s Ohio farmhouse, the Civil War rages, slavery falls, and the world marvels at the wonder of electricity. Inside, within the walls of the borning ...
To escape her tragic past, beautiful Lara Grant fled to the majestic splendor of Alaska. The vast wilderness offered her the solace she so desperately craved -- until one stormy night, an injured bear cub forced her to allow sexy ranger Cole MacInnes...
In 1939, with war just declared, a group of privileged people board the most luxurious airliner ever built the Pan American Clipper, bound for New York: an English aristocrat, a German scientist, a murderer under escort, a young wife escaping her hus...
The Dark and Dangerous Private Eye... Sam Nichols was a tornado of sexual virility, a smoldering tough guy with baby-blue eyes who called Bev Brewster's bluff! She'd tailed him to a seedy bar and evaded his questions by pretending she worked...
Frederick Forsyth, master of the international thriller, takes us deeper than ever into the secret corridors of power to tell the riveting story of a modern spymaster fighting to save his career. His name is Sam McCready and for years he has been the...
Eleven-year-old Clay Garrity is on his own. His father lost his job and left the family. Now Clay's mother has disappeared from their welfare hotel. Clay is homeless and out on the streets of New York City. In the park he meets two homeless men, B...
Penelope Milne, a novelist, uses hats in a succession of shapes, styles, and colors, both to reveal and disguise herself as she works on a novel that becomes the fictional testament to her life of coincidence, dishonesty, and love...
Nobody could exactly call the defendants nice boys. For starters, they had brutally and repeatedly gang-raped a young woman picked up in a bar. You didn't even want to think of what else they had done in their lives. But had they committed murder ...
Elizabeth Gage, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller A Glimpse of Stocking takes us behind the gilded screen of international business, where power and passion merge...where a beautiful, gifted woman and a merciless magnate clash, unlea...
My stars and garters, beginning readers can celebrate! Now the three Mrs. Gaddy books--Mrs. Gaddy and the Fast-Growing Vine, Mrs. Gaddy and the Ghost, and The Crow and Mrs. Gaddy--are gathered here in one side-splitting volume....
It's difficult to understand the intent or the appeal of these simple--perhaps overly so--small-sized books. The endpapers, with their alternating depictions of night and day seen through four-paned windows, are delightful, but they bear no relation ...
"I have read Death of the Fox," writes O. B. Hardison, Director of The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C., "and feel that I have probably participated at the inception of a major literary event. The novel is a brilliant and unique work. ...
Persona non grata in England and Hong Kong, antiques expert Lovejoy escapes to America, where he must rely on the help of a destitute hooker and a streetwise eight year old to stay one step ahead of the law. Reprint....