New York Times Bestseller: A "monumental" saga of four ordinary American women from the author of The Blackboard Jungle ( The New York Times Book Review).Amanda, a small-town minister's daughter with hopes for a musical career, and Gillian, a hot-tempered aspiring actress from the Bronx, met at college. A decade later, one is happily married to an ambitious lawyer while the other is entangled in a passionate but troubled ...

New York Times Bestseller: A passionate, "no-holds-barred" story of an illicit suburban love affair from the acclaimed author of The Blackboard Jungle ( The New York Times).Larry Cole has everything a man could want. He loves his wife, Eve, and is devoted to their two small sons. His career as an architect is both creatively satisfying and financially rewarding. His house in suburban Pinecrest Manor is attractiv...

A glamorous ski resort becomes the setting for unspeakable evil in this "chilling, fascinating novel" by the New York Times–bestselling author of Last Summer ( Los Angeles Times).Sandy, David, and Peter met as bored teenagers vacationing with their parents on a small resort island. The horrific crime they committed five years ago bound them together forever, cursing their friendship in blood and setting them on a path toward nihilism and d...

Three teenagers turn an idyllic summer vacation into a violent nightmare in this "compelling and unforgettable" novel by the bestselling author of The Blackboard Jungle ( Harper's).Bored, restless, privileged teenagers Sandy, David, and Peter meet while vacationing with their families on remote Greensward Island. The two boys, both sixteen, are immediately entranced by Sandy's beauty and frank sexuality.Over the course of the summer, the tr...

Black Cat Weekly #102 has quite an eclectic lineup. We have modern mystery tales by Joseph S. Walker and Marc Lecard (thanks to Acquiring Editors Michael Bracken and Barb Goffman. A parody of Harlan Ellison’s work from Larry Tritten. Noir from Bruno Fischer. A story featuring traditional British detective Sexton Blake from Hal Meredith. Classic sci-fi by Lester del Rey. And let’s not forget our solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles.We also have more than a few stories...

An amnesiac hunts for his lost life in every corner of New York City in this "brilliant" novel from the bestselling author of The Blackboard Jungle ( Chicago Tribune).Sunrise in Central Park. A man wakes up on a park bench with no idea who he is or how he got there. The only clues to his identity are the gold ring engraved "From G.V." he wears on his right hand and the black address book with a single phone number he finds in his jacket pocket. Lac...

Lizzie Borden, America's most celebrated murderer, comes to vivid life in this riveting and chilling book by acclaimed author Evan Hunter as the portrait of a notorious woman unfolds with shocking clarity.Lizzie Borden took an axAnd gave her mother forty whacks.When she saw what she had doneShe gave her father f orty-one.In recreating the events of that fat...

The "shocking" and "suspense-packed" bestseller about one teacher's stand against student violence, and the basis for the Academy Award–nominated film ( The New York Times Book Review).After serving his country in World War II, Richard Dadier decides to become an English teacher—and for the sin of wanting to make a difference, he's hired at North Manual Trades High School. A tough vocational school in the East Bronx, Manual Trades is home to angry, unruly t...

From the author who wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's THE BIRDSFor the first time Evan Hunter and Ed McBain, two extraordinary and diverse talents, fuse to form a brilliant and powerful novel of two halves'That it works so superbly is a tribute to the skills of this great storyteller' NEW YORK TIMESBenjamin Thorpe is married, a father, a successful Los Angeles architect - and a man obsessed. Alone in New York City on busin...

A family as raw and unyielding as the soil of the Virginia farm they left behind, they pursued their dream, journeying west across the American continent. In a boundless land of unimaginable dangers, they discovered their own will for survival -- and forged a triumph of the human spirit.

They expected silence, red sand, and the slow danger of an alien world. Instead, they are greeted by marching bands, waving banners, and a smiling crowd that already knows their names. The welcome is warm, organized, and deeply unsettling. Every answer arrives too quickly. Every correction is brushed aside. The more they insist they’ve come from Earth, the more certain their hosts become that they’re wrong.What begins as confusion hardens into something far worse. Their faces match...

Aliens and Nothing But Aliens 3 - Sixteen Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1940s, 50s and 60sStrange Eden by Philip K. DickFrom Outer Space by Robert ZacksPlanet of the Angry Giants by Robert SilverbergThe Guest Rites by Robert SilverbergThe Star Mouse by Fredric BrownAnd Then—The Silence by Ray BradburyDuel on Syrtis by Poul AndersonEarthmen Bearing Gifts by Fredric BrownWelcome Martians by Eva...