Renaissance: 418 books

From Marcy Sheiner – the renowned editor of the Herotica series of women-centric erotic anthologies – comes this collection of deep, delightful stories on love, friendship, joy and pain. While the eleven stories in Love and Other Illusions generate heat and passion without being graphically...

MEET SHERLOCK HOLMES' ONLY SERIOUS RIVAL AT DETECTION! Meet Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, who The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection calls "the most cerebral of all detectives."  One of the great scientific detectives, a master logician, the Thinking Machine solves...

To survive in this world, you've got to come to an accommodation, a compromise - an arrangement. For sexual and emotional survival, you need a marriage. For economic survival, you need a job, a career, success. This is the stunning, unforgettable story of one man crashing out of his arrangement....

She Was Bound to Please! Jessica is a full-time college student surviving on scholarships with no time or money for anything else - except her erotic daydreams of a tall, dark, dominant stranger. Facing a penniless, jobless summer, Jessica is thrilled when one of her professors refers her...

Within the castle enchanted Beauty slept - while her rescuer dared peril and death with every step he drew nearer. As summer vacation starts, a college student, Linneus Vargas, takes a girl he is interested in to a small town to buy antiques. When he tries to seduce her, she gives him the brush....

It's not all fun and sun in the Greek islands. For Miranda Kalli, a young, idealistic archeologist working in a Manhattan gallery of ancient art and antiquities, the invitation to participate in an archeological dig in the Aegean is irresistible, truly a gift from the gods. But the...

Sad sack cop Joe Cullen's world is about to turn even sadder. Charged with investigating the brutal murder of glamour girl Dian Foxx, he tries to unravel a case that will implicate his colleagues and friends, where there are no bad guys, just a bunch of hapless people trying to do their best in life...

Master Sergeant Cesario Flores is a troubled man. A career non-com, he feels safe in his well-ordered life. So when his precious daughter Juana joins the tuned-in, dropped-out generation, Flores breaks into little pieces...with murder the result. THE ASSASSINS is set in the United States during the...

"Want to write erotica and GET PUBLISHED? Then do yourself a favor and buy this book!" -Marilyn Jaye Lewis, author, founder The Erotic Authors Association. No one knows more about writing and selling erotica, from inspiration to publication, than M. Christian. The author of over...

Two of Garrett's Best Novelettes! Code in the Head is a delightful science fiction puzzler such as only Randall Garrett can write, and not available from any other publisher. And as an added bonus, read his The Penal Cluster which suggests that tomorrow's technocracy will produce criminals considered too abominable to live on this Earth. But what exactly does abominable mean? And to who?

Dear Diary: "What a day oh God what a day. This morning the baby dinosaurs started hatching out in the oven… When I started this diary I thought I’d just be telling about stupid junk. I didn’t know I’d get married to someone like Jimmy or finally meet the guy I really wanted when Paul...

"Thrilling! The Logical Successor to Edgar Rice Burroughs!" raved Ray Palmer, editor of Amazing Stories, when the first John Bloodstone story appeared. If you like high-adventure on far worlds, tales of strong men and women pitted against dangers both human and alien, if you love...

“Think for a moment what paper means to people. How ubiquitous it is in everyday life….A material of paradoxes, it can be used and abused in a thousand ways and still be the same under its skin. It is the embodiment of man’s achievement, yet it is as transient and as flimsy as tissue…. In...

"1950s Pulp Alien Invasion Shocker Too Intense for Book Publication!" When The Usurpers first appeared in the magazine Imagination during the early 1950s Nebula and Hugo Award winner Robert Silverberg wrote that Geoff St. Reynard's work is "off the beaten track.  The concept...