A Fawcett Crest book

An intensely disturbing description of the selection and training of an early Einsatzgruppe (Hitler Death Squad). Although the later death squads had different missions, this fictional pilot one was used to destroy Hitler's personal enemies, and those of the group leader. The narrative is through a excerpts from private letters and diaries, so-called historical records and statements, as well as in-the-moment action.

The third novel in the Lucky Starr series, six juvenile science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov that originally appeared under the pseudonym Paul French. Shortly after returning from the Asteroid Belt, David "Lucky" Starr learns that his Science Academy roommate Lou Evans had been sent to investigate trouble on Venus, but the Council of Science office on Venus has requested that he be recalled and investigated for corruption. As Starr and John "Bigman" Jones are shuttled to Venus, their pilots suffer an episode of paralysis, and Starr is required to keep their craft from smashing itself against the surface of the Venusian ocean. Afterwards, the pilots have no memory of the event. Upon reaching the Venusian city of Aphrodite, Starr and Bigman meet Dr. Mel Morriss, head of the Council of Science on Venus, who explains that Venusian scientists are perfecting strains of yeast that can be processed into luxury foods for export; whereas for six months there has been a growing series of incidents of bizarre behavior among the human colonists, often followed by amnesia. Morriss believes they are being telepathically controlled by an unknown enemy.

Marooned Off Vesta Nightfall The C-Chute The Martian Way The Deep The Fun They Had - juvenile The Last Question The Dead Past The Dying Night Anniversary The Billiard Ball Mirror Image

A study of the men who came to power during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and of their leadership of America during the sixties.

The Fires of Spring (1949) is Michener's second book and first novel. His first book was Tales of the South Pacific published in 1947. It won the Pulitzer Prize and was the basis for Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1949 musical, South Pacific. The Fires of Spring is partially autobiographical. The book begins in a poorhouse and follows young orphan David Harper as he searches for meaning and romance in pre-World War II Pennsylvania. The beginning of the story has no fixed dates (as far as I can see) but it follows Harper through his life up to the time of World War II

"A novel about class, race, and the horrific, glassy sparkle of urban life, Them chronicles the lives of the Wendalls, a family on the steep edge of poverty in the windy, riotous Detroit slums. Loretta, beautiful and dreamy and full of regret by age sixteen, and her two children, Maureen and Jules, make up Oates' vision of the American family - broken, marginal, and romantically proud. The novel's title refers to those Americans who inhabit the outskirts of society - men and women, mothers and children - whose lives many authors in the 1960s had left unexamined."--BOOK JACKET.

When a young English woman, a half-Jewish Catholic convert, insists upon crossing over from Israel into Jordan, she sets off a series of bizarre situations.

"The Source" chronicles the history of the middle east from early geologic time to the twentieth century. This spellbinding narrative brings to life the story of this part of the world as only Michener can.

Banished to a desert retreat for recalcitrant clerics, the reverend but randy Thomas Marshfield preens his fantasies. This book, written as occupational therapy, is his confession and his testament.

A black youth in a small town in Kansas finds himself the only witness to a murder.

It began when he met Antonia. Richard Curwen fell in love—wildly, passionately—and the lovely Antonia returned his love. But Richard and Antonia were penniless. And too spoiled and selfish to live as ordinary mortals. They wanted the best. The very best. And so Richard married Eloise, Antonia’s frail but wealthy cousin. The resemblance between Eloise and Antonia was astonishing. In fact, most people couldn’t tell them apart. Which was exactly what Richard was counting on.

KATHARINE WAS TOO BEAUTIFUL.... After all she had been educated to earn her living only as a governess. And being exceptionally beautiful was certainly no asset for such a position. So when Katharine's uncle and his fashionable young wife invited her into their home she was overjoyed. But the sweet and innocent Katharine found herself living a life very different from the one she had expected. Katharine suddenly found she had fallen into the hands of adventurers. Was she clever enough to meet their dangerous challenge?

Poems and illustrations depict the sights and sounds of the circus.

Lovely Dorothea Stratton's life had always been sheltered and serene. Then her brother gambled away the entire family fortune, and she knew things would never be the same again. She assumed that she would remain quietly at Gallows Farm, never being able to marry now that her dowry was in the hands of that detestable card shark, Kelvin Rainham. Then one day a wounded stranger was brought to the farm. He called himself Anthony Forrest and Dorothea promptly began to fall in love with him. She had no way of knowing that he was really Kelvin Rainham. How long would it be before Dorothea found out that this handsome stranger was the scoundrel responsible for her family's shame and ruin....

Boldly trading the stuffy drawing rooms of fashionable Boston for the darkly majestic wilderness of the rugged north country, Brandy Claybourne comes to Maine in the years following the Civil War, an idealistic young teacher in search of a new life. Here she meets Grey King, head of a vast shipping empire and arrogant master of King's Inland, a man marked by dark rumors and haunted by a tragic past. At his request, Brandy comes to Grey's magnificent mansion hoping to end his daughter's troubled silence--a silence that began the night her mother, a legendary southern beauty, died in a mysterious stable fire. But even as she fights to win the child's trust, and to unlock the truth about the past, Brandy finds herself irresistibly drawn to the strong and seductive Grey King, a man she begins to suspect is capable of anything--including murder.

"Selected cartoons from "Ha, ha, Herman," Charlie Brown, v.1."

It was almost as if time had not touched the village of Cornwall Coombe. The quiet, peaceful place was straight out of a bygone era, with well-cared-for Colonial houses, a white-steepled church fronting a broad Common. Ned and Beth Constantine chanced upon the hamlet and immediately fell in love with it. This was exactly the haven they dream of. Or so they thought. For Ned and his family, Cornwall Coombe was to become a place of ultimate horror.

"...Here is a whole complex of commercial operations that result in funerals whose expense, display and mumbo jumbo are unrelated to any Christian or Jewish tradition and virtually unheard of in any other country today. And there is precise information on what is being done to lower the cost and raise the dignity of burial in the United States."

Since his first glimpse of it in 1932, Mr. Michener has returned to Spain many times, often for long visits, and his extensive travel and deep study there have given him abundantly the knowledge and insight on which to base this monumental book that he has for so long wanted to write.

IT SEEMED FAR LESS DIFFICULT TO NAB A SPY THAN TO CAPTURE THE HEART OF AN ELUSIVE GENTLEMAN. In translating from German what she believed to be a sordid love letter, Miss Cathy Lyman uncovered top secret information on Napoleon. With little but gothic novels to add excitement to her somewhat tedious life, she plunged into the world of high espionage with eager anticipation--especially since the devilishly handsome Lord Costain led the way. His lordship had no choice but to tell the inquisitive Miss Lyman that he suspected there was a traitor among them. She insisted on joining in the intrigue, deception, and danger though it became hard to ignore her own suspicion that Lord Costain's intentions might not be altogether honorable....

The life of a beautiful, ambitious Englishwoman becomes intertwined with the fate of an American banking family.

Examines such varied aspects of sports in America as organized children's competitions, collegiate athletic programs, sports financing, government involvement, and the role of the media in professional sports.

HAD HER INNOCENT MASQUERADE COME TO THIS--A PROPOSAL OF MISTRESS-SHIP? Convinced that Lucy Percy was a mere fortune hunter throwing her cap at his twit of a nephew, Tony Carlton, Lord Avedon was trying to buy her off--with his own charms! The whole charade had begun when Lucy fell in love with a man who merely cherished her fortune. Posing as a widow of modest means to avoid other money-hungry scoundrels, she left the tattlebaskets of London for the gentry of Kent. And though she didn't encourage Tony Carlton's puppy love, she had half a mind to marry him just to teach Adrian Avedon a lesson! And surely her pounding heart and weak knees were the product of her outrage at Avedon's schemes to be rid of her, not anything as unspeakable as love...?

After being laid off from his college teaching position, the author traversed the United States on lesser roads, shown in blue on old road maps.