"Space is deep, Man is small and Time is his relentless enemy.... " How far is too far? Alan Corday is about to find out. Corday is shanghaied aboard a craft bound for the stars. . . on a journey at the speed of light, the world he leaves behind fast vanishing into the past. And nothing in the dark, forbidding reaches of space can prepare him for the astounding discovery he will make upon his return from the stars." """This is indeed golden SF from the Golden Age. " Publishers Weekly Starred Review"

Long before Captain Jack Sparrow raised hell with the Pirates of the Caribbean, Tom Bristol sailed to hell and back Under the Black Ensign. That s where the real adventure begins.

Bristol s had plenty of bad luck in his life. Press-ganged into serving aboard a British vessel, he s felt the cruel captain s lash on his back. Then, freed from his servitude by pirates, his good fortune immediately takes a bad turn . . . as the pirates accuse him of murder and leave him to die on a deserted island. Now all he has left are a few drops of water, a gun, and...

American Sailor Kurt Reid is a hothead and a hard case--a man who hits first and asks questions later. As scrappy and rough around the edges as Jimmy Cagney, it's no wonder that when the ship's captain turns up dead, it's Reid who takes the rap.

Falsely accused and under the gun, Reid jumps ship and vanishes into Shanghai --only to get caught in a web of intrigue, betrayal, and murder. In a world where nothing is what it seems and everything is for sale, he's soon out of his depth, drawn into a spy game in which the winner takes all . . . and the loser takes a knife to the back.

Will...

L. Ron Hubbard goes beneath all these "solutions" to provide the basic knowledge of what actually constitutes understanding. What can you do with this knowledge? By knowing what understanding really is, you have the tools to handle life itself. This means that you have the tools to increase your understanding of just about anything - including the people you know and come into contact with. This knowledge will enable you to help others who are experiencing the travails caused by misunderstandings, differing viewpoints, broken relationships and other ills that make man's life a string of...

For thousands of years Man has searched, pondered and speculated about the true 'meaning of life'. But, in Scientology, that search has culminated - for the secret has been discovered. Based on precision Axioms (self-evident truths), these are the answers - answers that work. This book helps you learn and discover these principles for yourself.

When it comes to big dreams and schemes, young Chuck Lambert would give Walter Mitty a run for his money. In fact, Chuck s biggest dream of all is really out of this world. Because he s got his eyes on a prize in the sky. Chuck wants to buy a planet of his own. . . .
Madman Murphy, the King of Planetary Realtors, is more than happy to oblige. He s got a whole galaxy of planets for sale. All Chuck needs is money . . . and a lot of it. Eleven years later, saving every penny he can scrape up, Chuck s dream comes true. He takes possession and takes off for Planet 19453X. . . .
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Bob Sherman has a strength of character and purpose that would make Spencer Tracy proud. But signing on to the crew of the yacht Bonito, he ll need every ounce of his strength and courage to overcome the forces arrayed against him in Sea Fangs.
He ll take on the forces of nature a hurricane smashing into the boat off the Venezuelan coast. He ll stand up to the forces of ignorance Bonito s incompetent captain. He ll defy the forces of corruption the boat s owner, who stripped him of his land years ago. And he ll fight the forces of evil a ruthless band of pirates who take all aboard,...

In the movie The Big Sleep, Bogart as Philip Marlowe follows a trail of decadence and murder on the dark side of L.A. But even the seamy underside of the city of angels pales in comparison to the freak show found by undercover U.S. narcotics agent Bob Clark . . . in The Carnival of Death.
Clark s investigation begins with cocaine and leads to cold-blooded murder the discovery of one, and then another, headless corpse. Who is behind the slaughter? Are the killings tied to the drug traffic? Or is a deeper, darker, and even more sinister conspiracy unfolding in the carnival?
There are...

In the Arizona territory, every mountain hides a fortune and every man fends for himself.
Tim Beckdolt, rangy and self-reliant, is as American as the frontier itself. But after spending eight treacherous months digging $175,000 in gold out of Desperation Peak all he has left is desperation. Two sadistic strangers have taken his gold, and now they want to take his life. He s on the run the target of a Devil s Manhunt.
In a time and a place where the only law is the law of survival, Beckdolt will have to live by his wits or die by the bullet.
In 1932, Hubbard led a mining crew on...

Before Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark were even a gleam in Spielberg s eye, one intrepid pilot flew out of the sky in search of treasure . . . only to find a bit of hell on earth.
Captain Gordon lives like he flies by the seat of his pants, taking on any job and all comers. Now he s bound for the forbidding mountains along the shores of the Arabian Sea, transporting a team of anthropologists on the trail of Alexander the Great. But ancient history is about to come to dangerous life with the discovery of a long-buried map a map leading to high adventure, untold treasure, and cold-blooded...