There were sharp smashing blows — an infinity of pain.

A great invention — it enabled a man to think with perfect clarity, his thoughts unclouded by emotions. And did that make trouble!

The hook-shot kid was no longer part of the desperately battling quintet he had once sparkled to glory... but for one hurricane half, he had one more thing to give them — a downcourt miracle that could turn a five-star false alarm into—

The three of them were spawned in the same ugly slum — the Sink, where crime was commonplace, and all the sordid, brooding streets led to dead ends.

But these three were hard. They managed to get through the No Exit sign...

They asked him to fight again. There would be no second chance at the crown, but a friend needed help, and it might be a second chance for the woman he loved.

When he played with them, the Saints weren't a team. They were eight men and a catcher, looking for miracles to happen.

Maybe there should be more lives than one — he longed for the lives he couldn’t have.

The conference was over. Quinn, in the background, beamed. The three Texas money men looked at Molly in delighted wonder. This delicious blonde had the brain of an IBM machine.

It teas the strangest bedtime story ever told — told when all Earth’s children were asleep — in a night that held no dawn!

This was one secret his mother should never find out.

The auctioning of the five planets marked the end of one part of life, the beginning of a new, for Timothy Trench.

With true compassion and revealing honesty, one of today’s most gifted storytellers explores the world of a wife suddenly facing the future alone — the decisions that must be made when she is highly vulnerable, the attempt to be both mother and father, the frightening gamble of opening a business, and finally the healing hope of finding love again...

First love, with lightning swiftness, ended Mark’s boyhood. No longer could he walk in his father’s shadow; he was a man.

It’s a good class — the light-heavy. It’s seen fighters like Bob the Fitz, Tunney, Greb, Siki and Slapsey Maxie. But never before one like Junior Franklin.

That’s why these parents bribed their children to wait. It was a gamble, but it seemed the only way to stop them...

This was the big one he had to enter — the most important one of his life. It wasn’t to be held on a golf course, and just by entering he had to win.

After we had been married a year, I realized two things. One: There was no mystery left — she had become totally predictable. Two: I had passed up the opportunity to use my marriage to business advantage.

Alien ships landing on Earth could mean but one thing: invasion. But as men watched in fear, a strange thing happened.

Peter’s past was dead — strangled with tortured memories of faraway Calcutta — until a malignant ghost returned with a soul of unquenchable hate.

The whole town’s still talking about the day Kilty Morrow grew up...