Conan is ensnared by the charms of the wily and beautiful Karela, who is secretly the Red Hawk, fearless leader of a crew of brigands. She leads Conan to face the awesome challenge of the serpentinely evil necromancer Amanar.

Thomas Covenant and Linden Avery begin their search for the One Tree that is to be the salvation of the Land. Only he could find the answer and forge a new Staff of Law--but fate decreed that the journey was to be long, the quest arduous, and quite possibly a failure....

Three complete, previously-issued novels, each a thrilling tale of espionage from the bestselling author of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Considered the father of the spy thriller, bestselling author John le Carré brings the daring deeds and intricate details of international espionage to center stage. His leading man is George Smiley, sometime acting chief of the Circus (as le Carré's secret service is known): a troubled man of infinite compassion, yet a single-mindedly ruthless adversary. Through these three enormously successful novels (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, and Smiley's People), Smiley stalks his opposite number, code-named Karla, the Soviet case officer who has been masterminding the Circus' ruin. The stage is a Cold War landscape of moles and lamplighters, scalp-hunters and pavement artists, where men are turned, burned, or bought.

Jerzy Kosinski's best-selling novel Pinball, which he wrote for George Harrison, is a rock 'n' roll mystery centered on a superstar named Goddard who has, despite his success, managed to keep his identity a secret, even from his closest friends. But a beautiful young woman, obsessed with finding Goddard, stalks him relentlessly, driven by a secret goal that justifies all means. Ricocheting with humor and bursting with erotic intensity, Pinball is a game as intricate, unpredictable, suspenseful, and complex as life.

A morally complex and mature work from a modern master In this later novel by Graham Greene—featuring a new introduction—the author continues to explore moral and theological dilemmas through psychologically astute character studies and exciting drama on an international stage. The title character of Monsignor Quixote is a village priest, elevated to the rank of monsignor through a clerical error, who travels to Madrid accompanied by his best friend, Sancho, the Communist ex-mayor of the village, in Greene's lighthearted variation on Cervantes.

Set in the Ardennes Forest on Christmas Eve 1944, Sergeant Will Knott and five other GIs are ordered close to the German lines to establish an observation post in an abandoned chateau. Here they play at being soldiers in what seems to be complete isolation. That is, until the Germans begin revealing their whereabouts and leaving signs of their presence: a scarecrow, equipment the squad had dropped on a retreat from a reconnaissance mission and, strangest of all, a small fir tree hung with fruit, candles, and cardboard stars. Suddenly, Knott and the others must unravel these mysteries, learning as they do about themselves, about one another, and about the "enemy," until A Midnight Clear reaches its unexpected climax, one of the most shattering in the literature of war.

In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India, " Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An inspired travel narrative and family memoir by an exceptional writer.

His mentor dead, an archaeologist returns to the mysterious YucatánA novice archaeologist, Clay Holliman came to the Yucatán Peninsula in search of the secrets of the Maya. Taken in by the family of Doctor Leon, an expert on the local excavations, Clay discovered a world where the mysteries were not fully buried—where even the city was a jungle. Ten years later, his career is in a tailspin, Doctor Leon is dead, and the Yucatán is calling him home.Although he tells the man at customs that he has not come to dig, it will not be long before Holliman is lured back into the jungle. He goes to the infamous site at Chan Chen that has already claimed the reputations and lives of several brilliant archaeologists, and which Holliman must conquer if he is to unearth the truth about the jungle—and himself.

Avalon the Forbidden World was the only Terra-type planet ever to be discovered. But when the scattered remnants of Earth’s people sought to migrate there, superstition and politics blocked them.After two thousand years, the domed colonies of a hundred : barren worlds became convinced that Avalon was the one real enemy of their existence.Destroy that mystery planet was the cry!Jarn Tybalt, Warlord of the Drusus Colony, dared to make the first trip to Avalon in centuries. He found a world teeming with wonders and enigmas—mutants, monsters, medieval knights, science-working dwarves, and a lost city in the Far North where all the answers could be found!It’s high adventure in science fiction by the author of the Camelot trilogy.

s/t: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s Preface 21 Sections Appendices w/Comments by the author: What My Son Mark Wanted Me to Tell the Psychiatrists in Philadelphis, which was also the Afterword to a New Edition of his Book The Eden Express On Literature by Karel Capek, from Toward the Radical Center, Catbird Press, '90 What Bernard V. O'Hare Said about Our Friendship on My 60th Birthday From The Bomber's Baedeker, Guide to the Economic Importance of German Towns & Cities, '44 English Translation of the Latin Mass Promulgated by Pope St Pius V in 1570 by Decree of the Council of Trent Mass Promulgated by Me in 1985 Latin Version of My Mass by John F. Collins Unpublished Essay by Me, Written after Reading Galleys of an Anthology of 1st-rate Poems & Short Prose Pieces by Persons Who Were or Are in Institutions for the Mentally Ill My Reply to a Letter from the Dean of the Chapel at Transylvania University about a Speech I Gave There Also several photos & drawings

A murder threatens to force the police into a confrontation with New York's gypsy community. The cops are determined to pin the blame on a gypsy. But Roman Grey knows there is more to the case than the convenient closing of a crime file, and vows to bring the truly guilty to justice.When you are a gypsy who was raised by non-gypsies, you have an identity problem. When you are a gypsy, an antique dealer, and you've been entrusted with a very old highboy in which a dead body is discovered, you have a major problem. From the inside flap Sorcery, folklore, and black magic are at the dark heart of a grisly murder forcing a confrontation between Gypsies and police that neither side—nor the reader—will be able to forget. When a Gypsy dies in a two-car collision that scatters a woman's dismembered body on the George Washington Bridge, the dead Gypsy driver, Nanoosh, is the Police Department's prime murder suspect. But Roman Grey, Gypsy antique dealer and owner of the car, is outraged that the authorities are trying to pin yet another crime on the Gypsy community. Knowing that although his people have little respect for non-Gypsy laws they are not murderers, Roman begins his own investigation, realizing that there is more than a rational explanation behind the killing. Armed only with Gypsy intuition and his knowledge of sorcery, he sets out to meet an unknown and deadly foe in a spellbinding climax. Reviews "'Gypsy in Amber'" is an unusual book, and an awfully good one. It builds relentlessly to a concentration of evil, and is full of sharp observations.... 'Gypsy in Amber' is one of the year's best."—New York Times "A delightful digression from the mystery pattern.... Gypsy lore and customs are woven into the background, adding exotic embroidery to a good story."—Publishers Weekly "'Gypsy in Amber' by Martin Smith is a fascinating murder mystery with a gypsy background and easily proves itself one of the most engrossing and original whodunits of the year... a suspenseful and exciting climax to a most unusual story."—Chapel Hill (N.C.) Weekly "'Gypsy in Amber' is one of the better detective stories around this season.... The reader is left hoping that this will not be the only appearance of a new and very different detective."—Long Beach (Calif.) Independent Press-Telegram

It's almost Thanksgiving, and Richard Best can't stop thinking about Ms. Rooney's Candy Corn contest. Whoever can guess the exact number of yellow-and-orange candies in the jar on Ms. Roney's desk gets to keep them all. The only problem is Richard has to read a page in a library book for each guess. Smelly Matthew, who sits in front of him, knows they'll never win. "We're the worst readers in the class, " he says. But Richard won't give up. He can already taste those Candy Corns. And before he knows it, he has. Three fat juicy ones. What will Ms. Rooney do when she finds out? From the Trade Paperback edition.

From a New York Times–bestselling author, three novels of a modern-day medievalist beset by murder and magic—“A fabulously talented writer” (Charlaine Harris). As a student of medieval history, Gil Patterson is a woman familiar with dark stories. She knows the Crusades, the Black Death, and the other horrors of the Middle Ages all too well, but it is another kind of atrocity that has begun to haunt her dreams. She sees forces of evil assaulting a beleaguered kingdom, whose kind people are on the brink of annihilation, and awakes each morning in a cold sweat. In The Time of the Dark, Gil dismisses the dreams until a wizard appears in her apartment. He has crossed into her dimension, passing through the fraying fabric of the universe, to ask her help. For mankind to survive he must protect an infant prince, whom he plans to hide in Gil\'s world. She is about to get much closer to evil than she ever imagined. In The Walls of Air and The Armies of Daylight, Gil and Rudy know the world is no longer safe and there is nowhere to hide from the Dark. Since the Dark Ones returned, the world has been laid to waste. The land’s wizards have been slaughtered, its cities destroyed, and its people scattered in terror. Few have witnessed more of the destruction than Gil and Rudy, and both of them will need all their strength to survive this final challenge. Ingold, the master wizard, has devised a spell to hide the user from the deathly stare of the Dark, and he intends to use it to strike at their very heart. Finally, Gil, Rudy, and the rest of mankind’s survivors will take the offensive, bringing an end to this terrible war, for better or for worse.