Speaking Volumes: 953 books

Each time the "Great God Malone" stepped into the operating room, the world anticipated another miraculous breakthrough in heart surgery. Only two things remained to crown his enormous success: the arrival at the prestigious Malone Heart Institute of a test candidate for his revolutionary...

Like many young women in fifteenth- century England, Susannah Whitmead is sent away from home to be educated. Born of yeomen, Susannah's mother wants her only daughter to be raised a lady. But Susannah, who finds life at Hurleigh House to be horribly regulated, longs for home. One of her few comforts...

Melanie Purvis knows when she marries Indian doctor Avtar Singh that she must give up a way of life she has always loved. Raised in the west of England, she is deeply attached to the countryside and to her grandfather and the family home. But she loves Avtar, and she is willing to become a part of...

WEST of SUNSET is the compelling saga of three families who come to England to start a new life and their struggle to accept—and be accepted by—an alien culture. Mohan Lal Bhatia and his wife Leela arrive first, Hindus who mean to bring Indian fabrics to the English but soon find...

Wanted for bank robbery, kidnap, and murder: the Gunsmith! Some low-down snake's stolen Clint Adams' identity—copied his walk and practiced his quick hand with a gun. And the villainous impostor looks a damn sight like Clint. He wants to tear down the Gunsmith's reputation for honesty...

INTO THE DYING SUN Young Johnny Stagg's father had given him one piece of wisdom to live by—when you find yourself outnumbered, outgunned, or out of luck, head into the setting sun. Safety's always over the horizon. But Johnny's father was dead. Murdered in cold blood. Johnny has taken...

Owen Felver was on his way from the Wolf River country to the Laramie Range, hoping to earn summer wages, when he stopped off in Cameron, Wyoming. As a fellow who enjoyed his pleasures, he had a beer in the saloon, but then he got sidetracked sticking up for a girl. Her name turned out to be Jenny...

Wyatt Earp was a young buffalo hunter when he and The Gunsmith teamed up for card-playing in Caldwell, Kansas. And there they met another youngster named Bartholomew "Bat" Masterson, who showed great promise as a gunslick.And that was just the start of hard times for the trio. The town of...

Everybody knows that on April 3,1882, Jesse James was shot and killed by Robert Ford. Or was he? What if Jesse somehow cheated the assassin's bullet and survived to tell his remarkable tale to Missouri's other famous son, Mark Twain? Max McCoy, an award-winning novelist and investigative reporter,...

A new thriller in the tradition of Pronzini's Snowbound, "a shivery, spine- tingling it-could-happen suspense story... a real rouser." —Publishers Weekly The rich and powerful Jackman family had always had an obsession with successful gamesmanship—whether in the parlor, the...

IN SEARCH OF A GUNSLINGING OUTLAW, HE FINDS A WONTON WOMAN WHO SENDS HIM OFF HOT-ON HIS ENEMY’S TRAIL! BLAZING BACKLASH After getting a gold claim on Grasshopper Creek, Gunn heads toward Bannock City to stake out his claim. There, he finds plenty of gold, girls and a ruthless, gunslingin'...

"Highly literate and entirely engrossing. One of the year's best literary thrillers."—The Washington Post It's twenty years since police detective Alan McAlpine has set foot in Patrickhill Station—and more than twenty years since he fell forever in love with the mute, faceless...

A HEADLONG RIOT OF HILARIOUS SCIENCE FICTION SATIRE MEET SOME INSUFFERABLY WONDERFUL CHARACTERS, from the mad, gay, heady world of the "arts" GASPARD DE LA NUIT—human journeyman writer. He has problems with his rampant lover, Heloise Ibsen (assigned to him by his pub­lisher)....

GREATER TEXAS No more U.S.A. Just the giant,hormone-fed Texans and thedwarf slaves they call "Mexes." VS, SCULLY CHRISTOPHER CROCKETT LA CRUZ Actor, Orator, Lady's Man,a free-fall phenomenon,a 97-pound weakling from the Sack circling the Moon.Just the man to stir up the Mexes. THIS MEANS WAR!!