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CLOSER THAN BROTHERS paints a vivid picture of how fate and circumstance forge human ties only death can separate. It is a sweeping epic of life as men and women really knew it in that austere time of western settlemnet.

Begun five years after he entered the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, The Sign of Jonas is an extraordinary view of Merton's life in a Trappist monastery, and it serves also as a spiritual log recording the deep meaning and increasing sureness he felt in his vocation: the growth of a mind that finds in its contracted physical world new intellectual and spiritual dimensions.

Nineteen essays concerned with the relationship of science and religion. As a believing scientist, Teilhard wrestled with the problem of presenting to the believer a scientific picture that would enlarge his religious vision and to the scientist a statement of religious ideas that would integrate with his understanding of reality. Foreword by N. M. Wildiers, Index. Translated by Rene Hague.A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

An important Christian philosopher contends that if human energy is channeled in the right direction, "upward and outward, " spiritual energy as a motor force in the universe will outdistance technological advance. Index. Translated by Rene Hague. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Derek McKellier has never been a man of direction. With his laid-back and sometimes daring attitude, he roams through the vastness of space, isolating himself from others. Although Derek constantly cheats death by tormenting a group of spacefaring pirates, he does whatever it takes to stay alive. A loner way of life is all he's known, until a wayward incident aquaints him to the captain and senior officers of a very statutory starship. Their i...

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MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON (1835-1915) was one of the most prolific and popular authors of her day. She was responsible for no less than 80 novels, 9 plays, and dozens (perhaps hundreds) of short stories and articles, many of which were published pseudonymously in cheap and sensational magazine. Today Mary Elizabeth Braddon is remembered among fans of weird fiction for her classic horror and ghost stories, the most famous of which are collecte...

Move over J. D. Salinger, there's a new kid on the block! Myers' hero is better and more believable than Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye. Teenage romance, betrayal and tragedy. A classic corning of age in the 1950s.

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Nyles Hawkspurr, former SAS officer living in New Zealand. In July, 1989, he learns that Major Alain Mafart, convicted for the bombing of the

After being abandoned and abused when he was young, Wayne grew-up and appointed himself judge over the whole world. He's hungry for flesh, and thirsty for blood.

The continuing chronicles of the Second Neoluzian War. In The Oath of the Necromancer, the tide of war rises against the good races of Neoluzia by the marauding armies of the Orcs from the north. The Orcs are led by Arkan Spiritstrike, a powerful Orc wizard who drives his forces to fulfill an Orc destiny designed over one thousand years ago. After the Veiled Institution restores Darius, David Parr is given the opportunity to return home to Ear...

Six decades in the lives of five women who grew up in poverty duriing the Depression years. Although they never attain wealth and fame, their lives are enriched because they learned to laugh instead of cry, to make lemonade when life handed them sour lemons.

Apart from war and conflict, another major hazard facing the soldier is court martial. That of colonel Destry Corrigan, US army in Germany for murder and desertion was no exception

The Red Planet is a harsh, often hostile frontier world on the edge of civilization where only the toughest, roughest and, more often than not, the meanest are able to carve some sort of life out of the barren wastes. MarsColony is a rough-and-tumble, no-holds-barred collection of small cities, enviro-domed mansions and mining towns where people play by their own set of rules. Murders, rapes, smuggling, theft and all forms of immoral behavior ...

The Reverend Samuel Adams is totally involved in serving the needs of his parish in the rapidly developing town of Afton on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay but over-worked he is forced by his Bishop to take an assistant. She turns out to be a bright, attractive young woman who brings with her a turbulent emotional life. When one of those who has caused her conflicts and who has recently been released from prison, comes back into her life, she...

Henry Rains left North Carolina about 1780, for what became Tennessee, with his mother, Mary Ingram, and his stepfather Captain Thomas Lee. Henry Rains settled on what was then Indian land in the Yellow Creek Valley before 1790. Henry Rains

Then, without warning, he felt something hard against his back. Suddenly, a light flashed on and Corey saw the gleam of a knife. A hand caught him in an iron grip and spun him around. I mustn't panic, he thought. Terrified, he wrenched free, then turned to head for the back of the cave. Later he was surrounded by complete darkness. He was all alone." 'When the Leaves Fall' is a story about recovery. Seventeen year old Corey, controlled by peer...