Cord, the Mehiran empath, had left his native planet on a mission of vengeance-to catch the unknown being who had destroyed his family and threatened his whole world. But the universe is a big place, and a Mehiran's got to live, so Cord found it necessary to take on assignments and use his special talents for pay…

"A remarkable compression of time, memory, and sentiment -- rather as if Hemingway had been turned loose on Proust . . ." San Francisco Chronicle By the New York Times Bestselling author of "Almost Perfect" and "Careless Love," a brilliant novel tracing the tangled, heart-warming and heartbreaking relationships of a group of intelligent and attractive young women as they grow to maturity over the course of four explosive decades in American life -- from the forties to the eighties. Sharing tears and laughter . . . and, sometimes, men, the women learn what they can really count on -- themselves and each other. "These women, at the same time friends and enemies, touch each other's lives in ways no one else can -- not even lovers or husbands. . . Alice Adams must be one of her own superior women." United Press International

Re-read this classic romance by New York Times bestselling author Penny Jordan Jake was Stephanie's employer...her best friend...and he could have been so much more... But then a traumatic attack changed Stephanie's life forever, causing her to build impenetrable walls around herself. For two years, Jake has resisted the tension simmering fiercely between them. Now he's determined to help Stephanie confront and overcome her fears. Can Jack and Stephanie free the desire they've been holding back and finally cross the line separating friends from lovers? Originally published in 1984

"His chef-d'oeuvre. A bolt of lightning."--"Le Monde""An astonishingly rich, mythic new direction in modern French narrative."--Guy Davenport"Michon demonstrates the independence of voice that marks a true writer. . . . His supple prose, dappled with chiaroscuro effects, is used in straight forward chronicles. But his writing can at any time lift or lower into semi-hallucinatory effects that recall Arthur Rimbaud's assaults on conventional perception."--Roger Shattuck, "The New York Review of Books""The emotion, the forceful claims of the imagery, the painting of the starry night: Mr. Michon achieves what other writers wouldn't try, licensed as he is by keen regret and transfigured loss. More than other writers, Mr. Michon misses the poetry of the past, and in missing it he possesses it."--Benjamin Lytal, "The New York Sun"In "Lives Under Glass," recipient of the Prix France Culture, Pierre Michon paints portraits of eight inspiring individuals living in his native village of Creuse. In this evocative poetic narrative, the quest to breathe life into the stories of these individuals becomes an exploration of Michon's own voice and memory.Born in 1945 in the Creuse region of France, Pierre Michon attended university at Clermont-Ferrand and wrote his Master's thesis on Antonin Artaud. He has received the Grand Prix SGDL de literature (2004), the Prix Decembre (2002), the Prix Louis Guilloux (1997), and the Prix de la Ville de Paris (1996).Jody Gladding is a translator and poet. Her translations include Jean Giono's "The Serpent of Stars" (Archipelago Books), among others, and her "Stone Crop" appeared in the Yale Younger Poets Series. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award in poetry. Gladding has a collection of poetry forthcoming from Milkweed Editions.

Alabeth eloped with Robert Manvers, and never expected to be in London again. But her father persuaded her to chaperone her sister Jillian for a season. Jillian, who romanticized everything, seemed to fall in love with Sir Piers Castleton, who had encouraged Robert in the duel that killed him. And Count Adam Zaleski looked just like Robert, and played a secret game. Regency Romance by Sandra Heath; originally published by Signet

This collection, structured around a reprint of Vernor Vinge's enormously influential novella "True Names," includes several essays as well as other short fiction inspired by Vinge's revolutionary tale. Comment by the transcriber: This is as complete and accurate an etext of the 1984 edition of True Names as I can make. I agree with Project Gutenberg, regarding the superiority of hard formatted plain ASCII over other formats. Except that this work requires some italics, so I've used a bastard mix of plain text and HTML. If you want to read it as plain text, the HTML codes for italics are not too annoying; yet in HTML it will still preserve the original work's line formatting (minus right justification). Also included is the Afterword by Marvin Minsky, and .GIFs of all illustrations from the book. These are linked in at the correct places in the etext. One zip file contains the whole lot, for portability. Enjoy! The Rectifier, Feb 1998

There was no excuse for her response. The ruthless Andreas Nikolaides had lured Gemma to his remote villa in Crete with a single purpose in mind: to punish and humiliate her in revenge for her brother's seduction of a local girl. — He was a man Gemma had cause only to hate, a man who was using her as the instrument of a vengeance she could barely understand. And yet within hours she was falling into his arms, begging him to make love to her exactly as Andreas had so arrogantly promised she would.

Continuation of the BBC TV Series after Blakes death

A tie-in to the new television series, this book takes up the story after the aliens have been defeated, but one of their leaders, Diana, escapes and must be recaptured before she can organize a new invasion

The most violent Westerns in print. On Saturday, the fun-loving citizens of Prospect, Texas, slaughtered a band of harmless Indians, who were just passing through. On Sunday, they received the blessing of their preacher. And on Monday, the man called Edge rode into town--and before he could wash the acrid dust from his throat, the trigger-happy town was on his back.

Caroline Lexham has inherited a London mansion—for six months. If she can inhabit it and make a go, she'll get to keep it. But turning it into an exclusive hotel brings out the worst in her enemies. At every step they try to thwart her, from her odious cousin the Earl to Sir Henry Seymour's rumored soon-to-be bride, Lady Chaddington. And Sir Henry himself... Regency Romance by Sandra Heath; originally published by Signet

THERE WERE THREE WARNINGS: 1. DO NOT EXPOSE THEM TO LIGHT. 2. DO NOT GET THEM WET. 3. ABOVE ALL, NO MATTER HOW THEY CRY, NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY BEG, NEVER, NEVER FEED THEM AFTER MIDNIGHT. HE IGNORED THE WARNINGS...

Taking its inspiration from Jane Austen’s relationship with her niece, Letters to Alice follows eighteen-year-old Alice and her “Aunt Fay,” whose letters preach the value of great artWith the dire warning, “You must read, Alice, before it’s too late,” Fay Weldon, or “Aunt Fay,” implores her “niece” to immerse herself in the works of enduring authors. Alternating between passages from Jane Austen’s novels and accounts of her own career, Weldon reveals the connections between art and life, and charts Alice’s trajectory from unpublished writer to celebrated author, her success ultimately outstripping that of her famous “aunt.” Letters to Alice puts Austen’s works into a contemporary perspective as it explores the craft of writing fiction, the pitfalls of publishing too early, the conventions that stifle the creative impulse, and more. In paying tribute to Austen, Weldon opens an illuminating window onto reading, writing, and why literature matters.