Laforgue felt his body tremble. What can be keeping them? Has the Commandant refused? Why has he not sent for me? Is this God's punishment for my lie about my hearing? Father Laforgue, an idealistic Jesuit, embarks on a desparate mission to relieve an isolated priest in danger of his life in the wilds of seventeenth-century New France. Black Robe is a tautly suspenseful tale of physical and spiritual adventure, and a meditation on good and evil in the human heart. With an introduction by Colm Tóibín.

Contains the stories in Dago Red, first published in 1940, together with seven new stories, including "A Nun No More" and "My Father’s God."

Dead on time—the last train to Lantana Flats pulled slowly in.Dead on the tracks—one old-timer, a prospector.Barely alive to his predicament—the depot manager. With the railroad closing, he was out of a job and the Nevada desert wasn't exactly blooming with opportunities.Alert as ever—Adam Steele, just ridden in on the train.While up in the bare hills, a woman waited. Who might be able to show Steele a good and timely stash of gold. And, sure as hell, would introduce him to a whole hurricane of flying lead.

Red-haired Jamie, once a young Scottish prince, is now Jami al-Kafir (the infidel), bodyguard for a wealthy jewel merchant in the great walled city of ’Ayla in the Land of the Prophet. But a simple errand for his master sets Jami on a perilous road filled with treachery, death and dark magics. For a Persian sorcerer has tricked him into stealing away the exquisite creature called the White Flower — an enchanted woman no man can resist. And the one who desires her above all others is a powerful desert sheik — a man against whom Jami has sworn a terrible vengeance. Beyond the Dar al-Harb • [Jamie the Red] • novella On Messenger Mountain • (1964) • novella Things Which Are Caesar’s • (1972) • novella

Rainey had flown to Hawaii for some much-needed R and R. Instead, he landed right in the middle of a Beirut-type blowout. A terrorist group had sent an ambulance packed with high explosives hurtling into a children's hospital. Their aim: Hawaiian independence. The result: hundreds of dead and maimed children.The local police told Rainey to find the butchers or face the charges himself.So Rainey went to work.

World-famous duck-tective Miss Mallard unravels a dangerous smuggling operation in this engaging Aladdin QUIX mystery.Miss Mallard runs into danger when she unwittingly uncovers a smuggling operation while on a bicycle trip across Holland.

The Empress of the Eight Worlds has been assassinated. Prince Harivarman, exiled on the Templar Radiant, suspects that he will be the next victim. Help is scarce: Anne Blenheim, the fortress' clear-eyed, fair Commander, is favorably disposed toward the Prince, but her first responsibility is to the Templar High Command. And Chen Shizuoka, a Templar recruit sympathetic to Harivarman's cause, is being stalked by planetary security forces. When Prince Harivarman discovers an operable Berserker–one of the asteroid-sized, spacefaring war machines that once destroyed their makers and all other life in their path–his first instinct is to turn it in. But then he finds an ancient code that will either allow him to control the dreaded machine or lead him–and everyone else on the Templar Radiant–to certain death.

The seven gods of Order had ruled unchallenged for centuries, served by the adepts of the Circle in their bleak northern castle on the Star Peninsula. But for Tarod-the most enigmatic and formidable sorcerer in Circle's ranks-a darker affinity had begun to call. Threatening his beliefs, even his sanity, it rose unbidden from beyond time; an ancient and deadly adversary that could plunge the world into madness and chaos-and whose power might rival that of the gods themselves. And though Tarod's mind and heart were pledged to Order, his soul was another matter...

Now, at last, we see where E.T. comes from -- who he really is and what his own distant world is like. Return with him to the Green Planet, whose inhabitants are the supreme masters of all growing things in the galaxy. Wander through their immense enchanted gardens, to which E.T. has returned, with Gertie's geranium, a fondness for junk food, and an all-consuming love for the earthling Elliott and his family. But things on Earth have changed since E.T. left. Elliott has begun to notice the opposite sex, and his cherished memories of E.T. are losing ground to thoughts of a girl in his class who wears a rhinestone ponytail clip. More important, he seems to have forgotten E.T.'s teachings of gentleness and peace. "He is about to become the most terrible thing of all," observes E.T. from three million light years away. "He is about to become -- Man."

Includes the classic anthologies originally published as * The Celestial Omnibus and * The Eternal Moment, as well as three important stories published after Forster's death: "Dr. Woolacott," "The Life to Come," and "The Other Boat."

Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time.

An urgent message brings Sophie Stephanou back to the Athens home of her estranged husband, Jason. All the turbulent emotions and suspicions that caused her to flee from him two years before come tumbling back, destroying her hard-won contentment. But Jason seems different now. Has he really changed? Can they recapture the love they once shared, or is it only moon madness? Contemporary Romance by Freda Vasilopoulos writing as Freda Vasilos; originally published by Silhouette Desire

Niobe takes on the duties of one of the three fates, Clotho, spinner of the thread of life, in order to avenge her dead lover. She finds, however, that she has only begun a duel with a devil.

A collection of fourteen classic animal stories featuring "Monkey Business, "Ukridge's Dog College," "Open House," and others from the comic master.Fans already familiar with Wodehouse the Connoisseur of Country Houses or Wodehouse the Golfing Enthusiast have a real and unexpected treat in store for them in this remarkable anthology, which highlights a previously overlooked Wodehouse—the Keen Animal Observer, a Wodehouse worthy of a special place of honor. Since the collection contains some of his very best stories, it will also serve as a delightful introduction to his complete oeuvre as well as to his natural history.

Ray Bradbury, the undisputed Dean of American storytelling, dips his accomplished pen into the cryptic inkwell of noir and creates a stylish and slightly fantastical tale of mayhem and murder set among the shadows and the murky canals of Venice, California, in the early 1950s. Toiling away amid the looming palm trees and decaying bungalows, a struggling young writer (who bears a resemblance to the author) spins fantastic stories from his fertile imagination upon his clacking typewriter. Trying not to miss his girlfriend (away studying in Mexico), the nameless writer steadily crafts his literary effort--until strange things begin happening around him. Starting with a series of peculiar phone calls, the writer then finds clumps of seaweed on his doorstep. But as the incidents escalate, his friends fall victim to a series of mysterious "accidents"--some of them fatal. Aided by Elmo Crumley, a savvy, street-smart detective, and a reclusive actress of yesteryear with an intense hunger for life, the wordsmith sets out to find the connection between the bizarre events, and in doing so, uncovers the truth about his own creative abilities.