Packing Mrs. Phipps
by Anne Seale, Alyson Publications
Butchy, charismatic Jo Jacuzzo has just lost her job as a nurse’s assistant, when a friend offers her good money to pack up his mother in Florida so she can move back to New York. Jo gets as far as Georgia when her truck breaks down and, while it is being repaired, agrees to help drive an RV to Arizona with a beautiful, mysterious woman she just met.
Charity, the beautiful, mysterious woman with RV, is full of contradictions. An heiress, she drives an RV cross country. Her brother has been kidnapped by the mafia and is being held for ransom to pay off gambling debts - or maybe it’s all a ruse, and he just [More]
Zandru’s Forge
by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Deborah J. Ross, DAW
Here is Book Two of the Clingfire Trilogy, which began with The Fall of Neskaya. All you really need to know is that it’s a Darkover novel. I read the first book years ago, and didn’t need it to understand the action in this one at all.
This is the story of Carolin Hastur and Varzil Ridenow, who trained to use their laran (psychic) power at the Tower of Arilinn, and became fast friends and allies. Carolin was the heir of the [More]
To Save a World
by Marion Zimmer Bradley, DAW
This is a Darkover omnibus containing the novels The World Wreckers and The Planet Savers, as well as the short story The Waterfall.
The Planet Savers was the very first Darkover story and was published originally in 1958. The Trailmen, one of the native sentient races of the planet Darkover, have a childhood disease known as “Trailmen’s fever”. A pandemic sweeps across Darkover every forty-eight years, bringing mild discomfort for the Trailmen but a high mortality rate to the humans. [More]
The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need
by Andrew Tobias, Harcourt
Andrew Tobias, the gay financial genius, has updated his best selling investment guide for the current century. Concise, witty, and understandable, Tobias gives practical advise on making investments in order to gain the lifestyle and results you want.
To paraphrase Tobias, he not only tells you how to play each kind of investment game, he also tells you whether you should be playing at all. What may be most important, [More]
