Book III of The Exorcist. A young boy is found dead by the side of a river, horribly crucified. Detective Bill Kinderman is baffled by the brutality but is more shaken by the mutilation that links this case to the 'Gemini' killings of the late 60s. Three days later, Kinderman is recording another death at Georgetown General Hospital - this one as bizarre as any he's ever encountered. He begins to piece together a solution to the new killings and the unsolved earlier deaths. The 'Gemini' killer is believed to be dead, shot down in a hail of bullets on the Golden Gate Bridge - or is he? Cover art by John Holmes.
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Legion: William Peter Blatty
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Book I of the Guenevere series. Last in a line of proud queens elected to rule the fertile lands of the West, true owner of the legendary Round Table, guardian of the Great Goddess herself...a woman whose story has never been told - until now. Across the many kingdoms and islands of ancient Britain, Arthur begins his quest to become High King. But even as Arthur battles to reclaim his birthright in the Middle Kingdom, Guenevere - daughter of Queen Maire Macha and King Leodegrance - will soon take the throne in the Summer Country, after the sudden and tragic death of her mother. From the mystical centre of Goddess worship in the West, she will survey the heroic deeds of the new High King - and them summon him to her side... -
The Age of Innocence: Newland Archer, smug and self-assured, is engaged to the lovely May Welland. Enter May's cousin, the exotic and Bohemian Ellen Olenska, and all of Archer's life-long beliefs and values are thrown into a tailspin.
Summer: The passionate tale of Charity Royalle, which takes place in an impoverished, barren New England village. Regarded as very shocking in 1916 and was Wharton's favourite book.
Madame de Treymes: John Durham, a hopelessly-in-love and idealistic American, becomes entangled in the rigid and formidable code of the French aristocracy. Madame de Treymes, sister-in-law of his beloved Fanny de Malrive, appears to hold the key to the divorce that will give Fanny her freedom.
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The Gods Awaken: Allan Cole
$60.00Book III of The Timura Trilogy. The victorious Safar Timura has been rescued from certain death but desperate to avert the volcanic explosion which he has now seen twice in a prophetic vision, he must now journey to faraway Hadin and a last confrontation with his old enemy. With him are his adopted half-demon son Palimak, the warrior woman Leiria and his magical horse Khysmet and as they set out by airship it seems their quest will be a lucky one. But Iraj Proteus, the foe he believes he has vanquished, has left surprises behind him...
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In Fort Meade, Maryland,Operation Doomsday is activated. Vietnam veteran Robert Bellamy of U.S. Naval Intelligence, a disillusioned man recovering from a broken marriage, is dispatched on a top secret mission. A weather balloon carrying sensitive military information has crashed in Sweden. Although the contents have been rescued, Bellamy must locate the ten witnesses to the incident so that they can be sworn to secrecy. However, as he conducts his search, Bellamy begins to suspect that he is also being hunted and by an unknown lethal force - and that what he was told about the balloon is only a part of an almost unbelievable happening.
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A lavishly illustrated volume of the ancient and magical places of the world. There's lost realms, fabled and fabulous treasures, strange relics; holy mountains and centres of pilgrimage; strange phenomena, folkjlore, fiction and fairy tales; extraordinary formations and bizarre scenery. There really is something for everyone in this book. -
Alicia II: Robert Thurston
$15.00In the not so distant future the world hasn't changed that much - men and women still laugh, fall in love and sip wine - but some will live forever as retreads, old souls surgically implanted into the empty bodies of the young. Voss Geraghty is a retread, a retiring government researcher rewarded with a new body. In this new life he wants fun, sex and adventure - what he finds is disappointment. His 'shell' was donated by a young man who was not eager to die - the shell is damaged, Voss is impotent so he must settle for adventure this time out. In his unusual choice, Voss becomes a troubleshooter for the Space Service and an inadvertent hero. When he returns, the government, controlled by retreads, capitalises on his fame to support the immortality programme against an underground rebellion determined to overthrow the regime of death for the young so that the old may live eternally. The rebellion movement has the technology to cure Voss of his impotence in return for his help in destroying the retread centres. Still he hesitates - until he meets Alicia and falls in love. He will die in the destruction of the retread centres - but he wants to experience love as well. Cover art by Norm Walker.
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Set in the United States of the future, Dr. Joshua Christian's work as a clinical psychologist presents him with a bitter tableau of people spiritually impoverished by too much change: political, climatic, idealogical. His deep compassion and personal magnetism have created a devout following among his patients, but living and working in the backwater of a Connecticut town, he yearns to reach out and help on a larger scale. Dr Judith Carriol, a brilliant senior official from the Department of the Environment is as ambitious and career-oriented as she is Machiavellian. She recognises in Joshua the personification of her desire to influence history. Together the embark on a crusade to regenerate the country's morale by radically changing its peoples' outlook. Judith engineers the plot, Joshua must execute it and on a tour of the winter-devastated country, he turns the tour into a pilgrimage that touches and renews the despairing hearts of the people.
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Two short stories: Little Brown House: The senator's wife - a life of receptions, dinners, social occasions and connections - can feel herself ever more distanced from her successful husband with every passing day. When she sees a little brown house for sale, she impulsively and secretly buys it and gives it to Annie, a homeless lady, who transforms it into a home of laughter, good food and a haven for mothers and children. Her kind act reveals a secret - about the senator. The Youngest Officer: Bruce, or 'Duny' as he likes to call himself, is only a little boy when his young mother dies. His father, a regimental officer, is heartbroken and the regimental wives take little Duny to their hearts. But when the regiment is shipped out, Duny must go and live with Great Aunt Lydia - a very different life. But he always remembers that his duty is to the regiment - and his endearing loyalty reveals a dark family secret.
