A playwright vacationing in Jamaica becomes dangerously obsessed with deep-sea diving
Ron Grant is one of the finest playwrights of his generation, second only to Tennessee Williams in pure genius. But success does not mean he feels like a man. On vacation in Jamaica with his mistress, an ice queen who considers him her personal trophy, his thoughts are back in New York City, with a beautiful young girl he met a few days before he left town. As the stress bears down on him, the brilliant playwright goes nearly to pieces before he finds his salvation under water.
On his first deep-sea dive, Grant falls in love with the haunting beauty of the reef. He returns as soon as he can, staying longer and swimming deeper until all his problems seep away. But a man can’t breathe underwater forever—and his obsession will drive him to take increasing risks that will change his life forever.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of James Jones including rare photos from the author’s estate. Views: 568
Opar...the Atlantean colony in the heart of Tarzan's Africa.
Opar...in the words of Edgar Rice Burroughs, a hidden city of "gold and silver, ivory and apes, and peacocks."
Opar...is the starting point of this fabulous novel of twelve thousand years past, when Africa had in inland sea and a high civilization bloomed along its forgotten shores, when lost empires flew their time-vanished banners, and deeds of daring were commonplace. Views: 568
This grand style chronicle takes us at a breathtaking pace through a world of war and intrigue - cynical, bloody and ruthless. With the unscrupulous instigator Feng Fong. His goal: world conquest. Starting with the terrible war in which he completely overwhelms the Soviet Union.And in between, suddenly, the heart-touching story of the girl Po swen and the young man Mu-chun, abused and disillusioned in the midst of dehumanized Chao. The puny resistance of two little people who, unwittingly, sound the death knell for the great Feng Fong.Feng Fong — a science fiction figure? A future fantasy? Or is he, already working in China under a different name and different circumstances than the author Bernard Newman envisioned?Translated fron the Dutch Edition Vuur
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publication details and title page etc from the same source. Views: 568
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-256) Views: 568
Ever since his dad got rich from an invention and his family moved to a wealthy neighborhood on Long Island, Tony Miglione’s life has been turned upside down. For starters, there’s his new friend, Joel, who shoplifts. Then there’s Joel’s sixteen-year-old sister, Lisa, who gets undressed every night without pulling down her shades. And there’s Grandma, who won’t come down from her bedroom. On top of all that, Tony has a whole bunch of new questions about growing up. . . .
Why couldn’t things have stayed the same? Views: 568
A mind bending voyage into the reaches of the imagination. Winner of The Hugo & Nebula awards.
In Praise of His Spirits Noble & Otherwise by Roger Zelazny
Where the Stray Dreams Go contains 3 unfinished stories: The/One/Word/People, Moth on the Moon & Snake in the Mind
The Sky Is Burning/If Aug ’58
My Brother Paulie/Satellite Dec ’58
The Time of the Eye/The Saint Detective Magazine May ’59
Life Hutch [Kyben]/If Apr ’56
Battle Without Banners/Taboo, New Classics House, 1964
Back to the Drawing Boards/Fantastic Universe Aug ’58
A Friend to Man/Fantastic Universe Oct ’59
We Mourn for Anyone [Mourners for Hire]/Fantastic May ’57
The Voice in the Garden/Lighthouse Jun ’67
Soldier [Soldier from Tomorrow]/Fantastic Universe Oct ’57
Soldier [tv script]/American Broadcasting Corporation Sep ’64 Views: 568
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of "woman," and a groundbreaking exploration of inequality and otherness. This long-awaited new edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation. Vital and groundbreaking, Beauvoir's pioneering and impressive text remains as pertinent today as it was sixty years ago, and will continue to provoke and inspire generations of men and women to come. Views: 567
ARMED FOR DEATH
Gil Hamilton was more than an operative for ARM - the elite global police force. He was an essential. His intuition was peerless; his psychic powers were devastating. And his raw courage took him into the depths of inner and outer space where others feared to tread! But Gil Hamilton had enemies. Many enemies. Some were organleggers - those murderous dealers of illicit transplants. Others were just ordinary killers. Around any corner, Gil could probably find someone waiting to kill him. In order to stay alive - and operating - he always had to be armed for death!
THREE THRILLING NOVELETTES IN THE FAMED KNOWN SPACE SERIES BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF RINGWORLD
Contents:
· Death by Ecstasy [“The Organleggers”] · na Galaxy Jan ’69
· The Defenseless Dead · nv Ten Tomorrows, ed. Roger Elwood, Fawcett, 1973
· ARM · na Epoch, ed. Roger Elwood & Robert Silverberg, Berkley, 1975
· Afterword: The Last Word About SF! Detectives · aw Views: 567
Anthology containing:Something New by P. G. WodehouseLeave it to Psmith by UnknownBlandings Castle and Elsewhere by P. G. WodehouseSummer Lightning by P G WodehouseHeavy Weather by P. G. WodehouseLord Emsworth and Others by P G WodehouseUncle Fred in the Springtime by P.G. WodehouseFull Moon by P. G. WodehouseNothing Serious by P.G. WodehousePigs Have Wings by P G WodehouseService with a Smile by P.G. WodehouseGalahad at Blandings by P. G. WodehousePlum Pie by P. G. WodehouseA Pelican at Blandings by P.G. WodehouseSunset at Blandings by P.G. WodehouseThe Swoop: How Clarence Saved England by P G Wodehouse Views: 567
Over six Tuesday evenings a group gathers at Miss Marple's house to ponder unsolved crimes. The company is inclined to forget their elderly hostess as they become mesmerized by the sinister tales they tell one another. But it is always Miss Marple's quiet genius that names the criminal or the means of the misdeed. As indeed is true in subsequent gatherings at the country home of Colonel and Mrs. Bantry, where another set of terrible wrongs is related by the assembled guests—and righted, by Miss Marple. Views: 566
In a house in London a woman starts a new life, trying to put tragedy behind her. Then a pretty blonde child runs into view, bringing with her an inexplicable suggestion of evil.
Once Julia Lofting had a husband and a daughter. But everything has changed since she bolted from her marriage, in flight from the unbearable truth of her daughter's death. For Julia, there is no escape. Another child awaits, another mother suffers, and a circle of the damned gathers around her. The haunting has begun . . . Views: 566
#10) ‘He was about six feet tall, slim and fit. The eyes in the lean , slightly tanned face were a very clear grey-blue and as they observed the men they were cold and watchful. His good looks had a dangerous, almost cruel quality that had frightened me. But now I knew he could smile, I thought his face exciting, in a way no face had ever excited me before …’ Vivienne Michel is in trouble. Trying to escape her tangled past, she has run away to the American backwoods, winding up at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court. A far cry from the privileged world she was born to, the motel is also the destination of two hardened killers—the perverse Sol Horror and the deadly Sluggsy Morant. When a coolly charismatic Englishman turns up, Viv, in terrible danger, is not just hopeful, but fascinated. Because he is James Bond, 007; the man she hopes will save her, the spy she hopes will love her … Views: 566
The Wake of the Gertrud Lüth
(The Luck of the Lonely Sea - US).
THE SKIPPER, he knew the China Sea, Hong Kong, Formosa, the whole smuggler’s route along the Yangtze, as few men did. But his ship was a freighter that had weathered too many typhoons.
Suddenly he faced a challenge more dramatic than any in his adventurous career – tonight the storm-racked sea and enemy gunfire to save the lives of two desperate people … Views: 565
