The Burglar Traded Ted Williams

For nearly a year Bernie Rhodenbarr has gone straight...well of a fashion. But Bernie has a new landlord for his Greenwich Village bookstore - Bernie Stoppelagard - not a nice man, who wants to increase his rent by 10,000 dollars...a month! Desperate times call for desperate measures. So Bernie is back to work burgling an apartment of a couple on a European tour of untraceable cash. There is only one problem - the naked man in the bathroom - and the fact that he is deceased.

The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian

In his latest caper, Bernie must come up with a priceless Mondrian as ransom for his friend's kidnapped cat--and finds himself entangled in a web of murder, deception, and unexpected passion....

I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement

I Am a Man!: Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement- the civil rights movement was first and foremost a struggle for racial equality, but questions of gender lay deeply embedded within this struggle.

Now And Forever

Starred Review. This slim volume eloquently displays two sides of the venerated Bradbury (The Martian Chronicles) with two highly contrasting tales of the fantastic. Somewhere a Band Is Playing, the quieter piece, explores journalist James Cardiff's unexpected attraction to the rural town of Summerton, Ariz.

Starship: Mercenary

The date is 1968 of the Galactic Era, almost three thousand years from now. The Republic, created by the human race but not yet dominated by it, is in the midst of an all-out war with the Teroni Federation. Captain Wilson Cole, a man with a reputation for exceeding orders but getting results, found himself the victim of a media feeding frenzy, a political scapegoat despite years of dedicated military service. Faced with a court martial, he was rescued by the loyal crew of his ship, the Theodore Roosevelt. Branded mutineers, the Teddy R. has quit the Republic, never to return.