"If you could have been around a hundred and fifty years ago, and passed through the landscape as a beaver-trapping tough with Jim Bridger or Jedediah Smith, before coal barons, before soda ash and oi
"A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action."--Samurai Maximum.Under the guidance of such celebrated masters as Ed Parker and the immortal Bruce Lee, Joe Hyams vividly rec
Emma.??Beautiful, intelligent, radiantly talented, she lives in a star-studded world of wealth and privilege.??But she is about to discover that fame is no protection at all when someone wants you dea
The powerful wizard, Nevyn, vows to follow the woman he loves through each of her reincarnations but must confront his greatest enemy and the master of dark magic
A spaceship captain determined to gather a cupful of the sun. . .a nubile young witch who yearns to taste human love. . .an expedition that hunts dinosaurs across the fragile and dangerous chasm of ti
The short-stroy form continues to be a rich and fertile vein of literary expression. Collected in this remarkable volume are twenty renowned writers of the modern age who brilliantly mastered the dist
Examines the history of the nation from the perspective of women and knitting, tracing the changes in day-to-day life and in women's roles in society from colonial times to the present.
Townsfolk called him devil. For dark and enigmatic Julian, Earl of Ravenwood, was a man with a legendary temper and a first wife whose mysterious death would not be forgotten. Some said the beautiful
Here is Judith Krantz's greatest triumph--I'll Take Manhattan.??In the high-stakes world of magazine publishing, she weaves a dazzling tale of love and betrayal, and creates her most joyous character-
Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the s
Sharing how he reached his goals and profiling dozens of other inspired individuals who turned their dreams into reality, the author offers hope and guidelines on the science of success
Recounts the capture of Alicia, her mother, and brother by the Nazis, Alicia's escape and rescue of other Jews during the war, and her leadership of an underground escape route for Jews when she was s
"One day your sluggish company will taken to the sound of a beating drum and the sight of a competitor approaching at ramming speed. On deck will be a jut-jawed Barbarian....He will hardly blink as hi
Our Own Time retells the story of American labor by focusing on the politics of time and the movements for a shorter working day. It argues that the length of the working day has been the central issu
Book 2 of L. Frank Baum's immortal OZ series, in which young Tip runs away from his guardian, the witch Mombi, taking with him Jack Pumpkinhead and the wooden Saw-Horse, and flees to the Emerald City
A generation before Vietnam, the war for Korea raged. It was as rough and dirty a war as has ever been fought—a war small in history, but very large to the men who waged it. . . .In the Korean War, on
Stories by Hawthorne, Cather, Gaines, Faulkner and others are accompanied by brief critical essays and excerpts from the screenplays used in the public television productions
In Jubal Sackett, the second generation of Louis L’Amour’s great American family pursues a destiny in the wilderness of a sprawling new land. Jubal Sackett’s urge to explore drove him westward, and wh
To the forest on the shore of the Kingdom of the Isles, the orphan Pug came to study with the master magician Kulgan. But though his courage won him a place at court and the heart of a lovely Princess, he was ill at ease with the normal ways of wizardry. Yet Pug's strange sort of magic would one day change forever the fates of two worlds. For dark beings from another world had opened a rift in the fabric of spacetime to being again the age-old battle between the forces of Order and Chaos.
The former First Lady discusses her life, the Reagan administration, her shaky relationship with her children and key White House personnel, her husband’s involvement in the Iran-Contra affair, and he
RIDE ALONG INTO DANGER Traveling under an alias, the last thing gunman Clip Haynes wanted was attention. But Basin City needed a town-taming marshal, and a cold-blooded murderer was hiding behind Ha
Reluctant Spy They called her “Highness,” ravishing Lady Amanda Sterling, forced to spy on Lord Eric Cameron by the lord governor of Virginia and her evil, ambitious father! She’d detested Eric Came
Recent international interest in the painters of the Mexican mural movement, such as Rivera and Orozco, has brought Latin American art to a wider audience than ever before but has often failed to conf
Set in the artificial planetary system of Chalco-Doror, which is no more and no less than a vast cosmic machine, The Last Legends of Earth is a love story, a gripping saga of struggle against alien co
More than a century after its first publication, this small treasure is an uplifting guide to the true meaning of the Bible's message:We have all been endowed by our Creator with the strength and spir
The spellbinding epic adventure of a time when mankind took its first steps and the icy wilds claimed the earth.??Breathtaking, vivid, unforgettable--here is the third volume of the panoramic new seri
"Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem," says pioneering psychologist Nathaniel Branden, "and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every imp
Writing with all the passion of Love Story and power of The Class, Erich Segal sweeps us into the lives of the Harvard Medical School's class of 1962.??His stunning novel reveals the making of doctors
Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness,??sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and??celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In??this moving volume of poetry, we hear the??mult
Collected essays and talks from one of Britain’s great thinkers, ranging across political and cultural theoryRaymond Williams possessed unique authority as Britain’s foremost cultural theorist and pub
Herb Cohen believes the world is a giant negotiating table and, like it or not, you're a negotiator. Whether you're dealing with your spouse, boss, department store, bank manager, children, solicitor,
Adam Stark had found gold. In the confusion of the mesas and canyons near Rockinstraw Mountain, Stark, his wife, Consuelo, and his sister, Miriam, were quietly working a rich vein while keeping their
Joe Harbin hadn't killed a man for a fortune in gold just to sit in prison and let Rodelo collect it.? But when he and his men break out and head for the stash, they end up with a pair of unwelcome pa
Phil Hastings was a lucky man-he had money, a growing reputation as a screenwriter, a happy, loving family with three kids, and he'd just moved into the house of his dreams in rural of magic-and about
After her parents get divorced and she moves to a new town when her mom remarries, Sarah seeks solace in drinking until she finds herself increasingly dependent on alcohol and saddled with a problem s
Tyrel Sackett was born to trouble, but vowed to justice. After having to kill a man in Tennessee, he hit the trail west with his brother Orrin. Those were the years when decent men and women lived in
