Tarl Cabot had resumed his allegiance to the Priest-kings, the non-human but benevolent rulers of Earth's orbital twin planet, Gor. And accordingly Tarl knew that the battle for the possesion of the planet was under way-the Kurii, the beastlike invaders, had made their plan. There was a girl, once Judy Thornton of Earth, found in the wilderness of Gor. Captured, as such lovely strangers were on the ruthless world, she was to undergo the training that would make of her a slave girl of great value. But unknown to her captors was the fact that she was a tool of the Kurii, that she carried a programmed message that imperilled the future of Gor. It was for possession of her mind and body that Priest-Kings and Kur-monsters battled, while a planet went its way unsuspecting that its very fate was also locked within the slave collar that graced her neck.

Murder was breaking down the Hollywood star system--star by star. There is Dietrich, there is Garbo...and there is Anny Rood of the Great Swooping Eyes and the Bone Structure--who for twenty years had held in her lily white palm the collective heart of America's film-watcher's. Anny, who has been able to get away with anything for all of her beautiful life....But who has finally gone too far. Because not even a "legend" can get away with murder.--Norma Delaney had 'slipped and fallen while descending the stairs, thereby breaking her neck' was the way the papers put it. But young Nickie Rood couldn’t help suspecting his mother, the Hollywood successor of Greta Garbo. After all, she was adored by Norma’s husband, who would almost certainly give her the leading role in his next big picture. Things look blacker still when the blackmailers move in; but after a dazzling series of shocks and surprises, all is put to rights in this sprightly comedy-crime.

There were five dead men in the cabin of the boat, lying under six fathoms of Caribbean water. But the men had not been drowned: they had been shot through the head at close range. John Fletcher had gone down to photograph a sunken ship, but he took photographs of the boat and its cargo of dead men instead. Soon he is having trouble with the island police, some men from President Clayton Rodger's private army of thugs and two CIA agents. Now Fletcher wishes he had followed his first impulse and said nothing to anyone....

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Giles Steel Ahsad Adelman finds himself adrift in a tiny lifeboat with a group of human slaves and two alien crewmen. Only the aliens know how to pilot the vessel - and they have lost the will to live. This novel of disaster and survival comes from the author of "Planet of the Damned".

The Cyanide Cocktailwas a real cool touch—the hallmark of a contemptuous and lethal dilettante. One after another the victims fell: the shipping magnate, the stripper, the thieving punk. And there was the near-miss with the magnate’s beautiful daughter, an unforgivable error about to be corrected. Hawaii Five-O—special task force of highly trained police on the world’s most exotic deadly beat—1600 miles of Polynesian islands where the cop is the gambler, playing a killing game with a faceless adversary . . .

In THE DEATH OF ATTILA, the great Hun leader dominates the late Roman world; in his shadow a Hun warrior and a German princeling form a fragile comradeship. When Attila dies, the world around them crumbles, and the two men face terrible choices. Cecelia Holland has published non-fiction historical/biographic works, children's novels, a contemporary novel and a science fiction novel as well as a number of historical essays but she is best known for more than two dozen historical novels set in time periods ranging from from the middle of the first millennium CE up through parts of the early 20th century and from Egypt, through Russia, central Europe, Scandinavia, Great Britain and Ireland to the West Coast of the U.S. The hallmark of her style is a vivid recreation of time, place and character, all true to known facts...

Book DescriptionAfter the massacre, Hardy and Betty Sue were left with only a horse and a knife with which to face the long battle against the wilderness. Stranded on the limitless prairie, the children were up against starvation, Indians, and wild animals. They were both mighty stubborn--but the odds were against them.

A double wedding would be twice the funEverybody said that Loveday was good in a crisis. So when her old friend asked for help, Loveday was only too willing to lend a hand.Rimada was desperately in love and wanted to get married, but her guardian, the overbearing Baron Adam de Wolff van Ozinga, didn't approve of her choice. Loveday agreed to take charge of Rimada's illicit wedding plans. Adam was going to discover he wasn't a match for Loveday Pearce...or for true love!

The story takes place following a nuclear holocaust which wipes out every major city east of the Mississippi and leaves the survivors permanently infected with plague. To prevent the plague from spreading, the army sets up a cordon sanitaire along the Mississippi. The story follows one survivor, Russell Gary, as he attempts to get back across the river.