Books Published in April 1985

New Books List: 393 titles

  • Yum Yum Slot Book

    Janet Ahlberg

  • You Know What Is Right

    Jim Heynen

  • The Yielding Art

    Joan Smith

    SWEET PROTECTOR Jasmine Forsythe had the perfect combination--large blue eyes, silky blond hair, the face of an angel, and the strongest snap kick in the Tiger's Eye Academy of the Martial Arts. No one would suspect that Dr. Nick Konover's beauti...

  • Yedo

    Lynn Guest

  • Worlds Apart

    Kristin James

    NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET For Jessica Todd life meant the pressures of too much work and too little sleep. One day her body told her it was time for a vacation, but she never doubted that she would soon return to her high-powered world. Kyle M...

  • Women's Rites

    Beverly Byrne

    In the Boston suburb of Revere in the 1960’s, they are high school “Best Friends. “ “Barbie Korman, beautiful, insecure, and Jewish, becomes a model after graduation. Maria Trapetti, intense, brilliant, and molded by her Italian Catholic heri...

  • Woman Wanted

    Joanna McClelland Glass

    Woman Wanted is the story of a Boston Irish lass who moves to New Haven to housekeep for a widowed Yale professor and his troubled son.

    "A spunky tale recounted with high good humor," -- Publishers Weekly.

    "A steadily amusing muddle of collisi...

  • The Witch and Other Stories

    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

    Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - IT was approaching nightfall. The sexton, Savely Gykin, was lying in his huge bed in t...

  • Wishing Star

    Alysse Lemery

    Alexa wasn't invincible--she just wanted to be Could one person renovate a rambling old house, manage a Wisconsin tree farm and raise a two-year-old daughter? For Trevor Stevens, the answer was simple: an ordinary person couldn't, but Alexa Santin...

  • Winterspring

    Sandy Dengler

    In the Great North Woods She Set Out on an Improbable Quest for Love... Linnet Mcleod -- Deep in her innermost being was a father-shaped void, formed by the man who had abandoned her as an infant. She must find him, if only to find herself... Sim...

  • Winter in July

    Essie Summers

    Hers was a small secret mission Juliana's father had been born and raised on the alpine sheep station of Thor's Hill, but he had left it under mysterious circumstances and never returned to New Zealand. Now, as private-duty nurse at Tho...

  • Wings of Flame

    Nancy Springer

    Swords and sorcery fill this fantasy about an outcast girl who teams up with a prince to break a supernatural curse that could destroy their warring kingdoms  In the kingdom of Vashti, a shuntali is an outcast -- an unperson. One day, a young wa...

  • The Wilderness of Mirrors

    Donald Seaman

    To discover the identity of a Soviet spy who has penetrated the secret service, Guy Hammond and the "Disciples" are summoned and trace the mole's identity through the depths of the Soviet intelligence system, the Wilderness of Mirrors...

  • The Wildcliffe Bird

    Constance Heaven

    The bohemian existance of Juliet and her father in 19th century Paris is abruptly ended one tragic night by a wrecklessly driven carriage. Juliet, left penniless, seeks refuge with her aunt and uncle and receives an offer of employment from Sybil Cha...

  • The Wild Rose

    Ruth Alana Smith

    SHE GAVE HIM HER LOVE--HE NEEDED HER TRUST Senator Seth Hill and his wife, Marnie, had been arguing when the shot was heard. Seth Hill lay dead, and Marnie was accused of murder. Ian Dunn was the only defense attorney brave enough--or foolish e...

  • The Wild Ones

    A. Bertram Chandler

    They called the robomaid "Clockwork Kitty" until she informed them of her right name. She was a triumph of Japan's far-future robotics industry and she was a present to John Grimes as he set out aboard Sister Sue for a voyage to the planet called New...

  • Wild Nights!

    Joyce Carol Oates

    Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Samuel Clemens ("Mark Twain"), Henry James, Ernest Hemingway--Joyce Carol Oates evokes each of these American literary icons in her newest work of prose fiction, poignantly and audaciously reinventing the climactic e...

  • Widows II

    Lynda La Plante

    A novel which formed the basis of a Thames Television series. Four women hold up an armed security wagon and make their escape to Rio, leaving the bulk of the cash hidden in London. They are free and ready to start a new life, but the shadow of a man...

  • White Rose

    Glen Cook

    She is the last hope of good in the war against the evil sorceress known as the Lady. From a secret base on the Plains of Fear, where even the Lady hesitates to go, the Black Company, once in service to the Lady, now fights to bring victory to the Wh...

  • Whispers in the Wind

    Patricia Pellicane

    IN THE WAR-RAVAGED COLONIES, A BEAUTIFUL REBEL SPY FELL DANGEROUSLY IN LOVE--WITH A TORY! Young Merry Gates, a fierce supporter of the colonists, led her rebels in nightly raids against the hated redcoats. Cunningly, she disguised herself as a ser...

  • Where's My Easter Egg?

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Where Love May Lead

    Eleanor Woods

    All her life shed been groomed to be the perfect military wife. Submissive. Compliant. Always at someone's beck and call. Now widowed, Abby Dunbar was determined to be independent. No one would ever control her again! The new job was the perfect b...

  • What's Inside: The Alphabet Book

    Satoshi Kitamura

  • What I Know About Boys

    McClure Jones

    Because she always had the answers, the girls from the dorm came to Greta for advice and support in matters of the heart. She knew everything about boys, she told them: how to attract them , how to evaluate them , which ones to date. Hadn’t she ...

  • The Wellspring

    Pamela Thompson

    The choice wasn't fair: either way she could lose The town of White Rock was dying. Standing between life and death was Brent Archer, city manager of neighboring Joplin. If Brent didn't find the cause of White Rock's malfunctioning water line, bui...

  • Wedding Treasure

    David Williams

  • Warrior Caste

    James Albany

    Following Hitler's directives, a crack SS unit moves into St. Felice, France, to capture and English fugitive, while Lieutenant Deacon and Sergeant Campbell desperately attempt to deliver the fugitive from the German gauntlet of death...

  • The Wanton

    Rosemary Rogers

    They call her wanton, a woman of wild and independent spirit. But Trista Windham knows her heart -- and nothing can shatter her dreams. For love, in need, she surrenders her innocence beneath a radiant sky -- and binds her soul forever to Blaze D...

  • Waltz Across Texas

    Max Crawford

  • Walking Wounded

    Stephen J. Thorpe

    Sherwood O'Neal and his friend Art Johnson - back from the dead-end of Vietnam and in retreat from the human race - settle in the South Dakota Badlands to heal the wounds of war. Then tragedy shatters their isolation. Sherwood's four-year-old nephew ...

  • The Visitors Who Came to Stay

    Annalena McAfee

  • The Viper Squad

    J.B. Hadley

    Mike Campbell, a Special Forces veteran, organizes a squadron of mercenaries to travel to El Salvador and rescue a wealthy American businessman's daughter....

  • A Very Touchy Subject

    Todd Strasser

  • Vegas Vengeance

    Carl Ramm

    Hawker partners with a madam to save a world-class Vegas brothel James Hawker finds her in the Yellow Pages, listed under “P” -- for prostitution. This is Las Vegas, after all, where the world’s oldest profession is just another business. Vegas...

  • Valor in the Sky

    Lawrence Cortesi

  • Union Dues

    John Sayles

    The setting is Boston, Fall of 1969. Radical groups plot revolution, runaway kids prowl the streets, cops are at their wits end, and work is hard to get, even for hookers. Hobie McNutt, a 17-year-old runaway from West Virginia drifts into a commun...

  • Uninvited Ghosts

    Penelope Lively

  • An Unforgotten Love

    Jacqueline Marten

    FATE HAD ABANDONED HER--UNTIL SHE FOUND THE PROMISE OF AN UNEXPECTED LOVE! Discarded by her ambitious mother, Victoria Page was raised by her devoted nurse in Cornwall. But even years later, she could not forget the hurt of her mother's betray...

  • Two Separate Lives

    Tate McKenna

    Escape! For Lisle Wheaton, Grand Manan Island in Canada meant a week of splendid solitude far from the demands of the Dallas press and publicity hounds, far from her children who wanted her to put work aside and play the perfect grandmother. Lisle ha...

  • The Two Dude Defense

    Walter Walker

    Presents private detective Hector Gronig's investigation of the double murder of Reverend Jonathan Franklin, spiritual leader of San Francisco's Revelation Temple, and Ferrell Dumont, an ex-con with a large gambling debt...

  • Two Crimes

    Jorge Ibarguengoitia

  • Two Bunnykins Out to Tea

    Philippa Pearce

  • Trouble With Thirteen

    Betty Miles

  • Triumph

    Oliver Payne

  • Trinity Child

    William Prochnau

    In the midst of a Third World War nuclear holocaust, a U.S. president battles his successor to preserve humanity, Russia is in turmoil, and a B-52 carrying nuclear warheads and an ill-assorted crew heads toward the U.S.S.R...

  • Trap

    Tabitha King

  • Toyland

    Mark Smith

  • Tough Eddie

    Elizabeth Winthrop

  • A Touch of Scandal

    Leslie Davis

    PASSION'S SECRETS Boston socialite Piper McLean found her life shattered by the scandal surrounding her wealthy husband's fatal accident ... for that tragic crash also claimed the life of a mysterious woman: his mistress. Devastated and al...

  • Top of the Moon

    Rena McKay

    Lacy Purcell was delighted with her new parcel of land in the mountains of Oregon. It was her own little spot to cherish and nurture, complete with a view of towering trees, bubbling brook and glimmering moon. Ward Falconer was a friendly enough ne...

  • Too Hot to Hoot

    Marvin Terban

  • Tomorrow the Glory

    Shannon Drake

    THE WOMAN She is Kendall Moore -- a spirited southern belle as proud as she is beautiful, driven by a cruel marriage-bed betrayal to risk her life in a dangerous gamble for freedom... THE MAN He is Brent McClain -- the Confederate agent who ...

  • Tog the Ribber Granny's Tales

    Paul Coltman

  • To Bear Any Burden

    Al Santoli

  • A Time of Fine Weather

    Jack S. Scott

  • The Tiger in the Tiger Pit

    Janette Turner Hospital

    In this powerfully dramatic saga, a mother works to reunite her children with their ailing tyrannical father and with each other. Her son is a psychiatrist, one daughter is tragically schizophrenic, the other a free-spirited concert violinist whose y...

  • The Thrill of the Grass

    W.P. Kinsella

    From the author of Shoeless Joe -- the basis for the film Field of Dreams -- come baseball stories that capture the magic and wonder of the game.   No one can write about baseball with the same brilliant combination of mysticism and realism as W...

  • The Thrill of the Grass

    Thomas Kinsella

  • Three Women

    Brenda Clarke

  • This Song Is for You

    Sandy Miller

  • This Real Night

    Rebecca West

    Acknowledged as Rebecca West''s fictional masterpiece, The Fountain Overflows introduces the crisis-ridden Aubrey family. This Real Night continues their remarkable story. It is the early 1900s. With the disappearance of Piers, her feckless and ga...

  • The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction

    Ellen Datlow

  • The Third Fury

    Russell Rhodes

    WHILE A POWERFUL SATELLITE ORBITS THE EARTH, A DEADLY CONTEST IS UNDER WAY THE PLAN A secret operation conceived by a former US president to render all US-made weapons ineffective. THE PURPOSE To prevent American weapons in the Middle East f...

  • Texas Temptress

    Jean Haught

    NAKED FURY When honey-haired Jennifer Stewart awoke beside a half-dressed stranger, she bolted from bed and grabbed a gun. But as she sighted his heart in the rifle's crosshairs, the sensuous beauty couldn't help but notice his wide, powerfu...

  • Testament of Casper Schultz

    Jack Higgins

  • Temporary Wife

    Samantha Holder

    WEDDED TO AN EARL Paige's emerald eyes danced merrily when she imagined how the ton would receive that bit of news. For though a lovely lady of quality, Paige was hardly a la mode. Everyone knew she had turned down the offers of three Seasons ...

  • Tears of the Renegade

    Linda Howard

    BLACK SHEEP'S RETURN... The world stopped for Susan Blackstone when she looked across the crowded room and saw the stranger, and then her heart stopped when she learned his name. He was Cord Blackstone, the family black sheep, and her own cousin b...

  • Tale of

    Sandy Miller

  • The Sword of Winter

    Marta Randall

  • The Supercharged Infield

    Matt Christopher

    Something strange is happening to the Hawks' infield.... Third baseman Penny Farrell is amazed by the sudden change in her teammates on the Hawks softball team. First Shari, and now Karen, have suddenly turned into super athletes -- just what her ...

  • Summer Harvest

    Madge Swindells

    In a harsh new land of dreams and desires, she risked all to gain everything. Power. Respect Fabulous wealth--and a proud dynasty to inherit it Everything. . . except what she wanted most... It was 1938. Her name was Anna van Achtenberg, and she w...

  • Stud Service

    John D. Revere

  • The Stranger Prince

    Margaret Irwin

  • Storm Rider

    Rhondi Vilott

    The reader, the son of an elvin father and human mother, must brave the challenges of the evil elf Thornstabber to rule his father's kingdom after his disappearance, in a multiple-plot fantasy adventure...

  • Stolen Thunder

    Natalie Bishop

    As assistant to the head of Victory Pictures, Jillian Welles was used to sticky situations. But Australian superstar Tristan Kincaid spelled trouble. His demands were as famous around Hollywood as his arrogant, sensual face. With one tragic marria...

  • Stitch in Time

    John Gould

    The author offers his trenchant observations on the inhabitants of his Maine seacoast village in essays built around such questions as why a town of eight hundred inhabitants should have two churches and the advantages of giving a child a calf to rai...

  • Stay Away from Simon!

    Carol Carrick

  • Starring First Grade

    Miriam Cohen

    Paul plays the part Jim wanted in the First Grade's production of The Three Billy Goats Gruff. On the night of the play Paul is struck with stage fright and with some discreet prompting Jim saves the play! The engaging group of multiracial children a...

  • The Star of Lancaster

    Jean Plaidy

    HE CRAVED A CROWN--BUT HOW LITTLE HE KNEW OF THE CARES OF A KING As bold, lusty Henry of Bolingbroke, he roused England's nobility to triumphant rebellion against the weak and unwise King Richard II, who lost first his throne and finally his life ...

  • Stanley Elkin's Magic

    Stanley Elkin

  • Special Trade

    Sally Wittman

  • Solomon Moon

    Bill Darrid

  • A Solitary Secret

    Patricia Hermes

  • A Soldier's Legacy

    Heinrich Boll

  • The Snow Gods

    Herbert Burkholz

    Anton Prinz betrays his brother and journeys to America, and the two branches of the family--Austrian Prinzes and American Princes--compete through three generations to rule the world's ski business and ski slopes...

  • Smoketree

    Jennifer Roberson

    Scarred by an automobile accident that killed her actor fiance and ended her own modeling career, Kelly retreats to Smoketree, a dude ranch, where she encounters Harper, head wrangler and part owner of the ranch, and a sinister plot by unscrupulous l...

  • Small World

    David Lodge

    Veteran rivals for an exclusive academic chair (recently endowed with $100,000 a year) do scholarly battle with each other in what the Washington Post Book World called a "delectable comedy of bad manners . . . infused with a rare creative exuberance...

  • Slocum's Stampede

    Jake Logan

  • Sky Gypsy

    Natalie Stone

    Since when could a pair of sky-blue eyes distract Carly West from her kite shop? Ever since she'd first seen him strolling down the beach. It began as a simple business proposition. She'd use her kites to help him teach his students the principles...

  • Siren Song

    Leslie Stone

    She had known success before - on the screen where her dazzling image captivated millions, and through her family's fabulous wealth. She is Lorraine Floderus, new to the cutthroat corporate world, a woman daring to brave the scorn of her associates,...

  • Siren Song

    Leigh Roberts

    The man was a challenge! Promoting Joshua Blackmun wouldn't be easy--PR agent Eleanor Martinson realized that the moment they met. The reclusive rock singer was against any form of publicity for his new album. She had to convince him otherwise. ...

  • A Sinless Season

    Damon Galgut

    Scott Berry, Raoul Dean, and Joseph Hamilton, three teenage runaways and vandals sent to Bleda Reformatory, come face to face with violence when one of the three is murdered and the surviving two seek the killer...

  • Singularity

    William Sleator

    It started as a two-week vacation, and turned into a terrifying journey out of time. Barry and Harry Krasner are identical twins, but that's where the resemblance stops. Barry's more athletic, more aggressive -- and he's the one who suggests that th...

  • The Silver Crown

    Joel Rosenberg

    MAGICS DEADLY EDGE The stronghold called Home was prospering, and Karl's dream of bringing freedom to everyone in this land peopled by wizards and warriors, lord and slaves, dwarfs and elves and dragons was at last coming true. B1tt by attacking s...

  • Silent Partner

    Judith Greber

    Tired of the constant moves, upheavals, and readjustments, Molly Michael, the wife of a corporate executive, issues an ultimatum--no more moves--a resolution that strains her marriage to the breaking point...

  • Shai's Destiny

    Daniel Walther

    "Arise, Wind of Darkness! Come to me, Wind of Night! Come to me shadow and fire, poison, cold, bile and blood!" And the nightwind answered, for he was the fighting arm of the Great Serpent, the guardian of hateful tradition. His army stirred, marc...

  • September Winds

    Donna McDowell

    SOME SCARS DON'T SHOW... . Jordan Tyler Sinclair knew that she had to deal with the hurt of the past. Her best-selling novel, A Private War, had been a way of venting her feelings without revealing her own identity. But one man saw through the...

  • The Secret Moose

    Jean Rogers

  • Season of Enchantment

    Emily Elliott

    Debbie Cheong, Chinese translator for the U.S. government, was determined to help her best friend escape Vietnam and join her American fiance. As a reporter, Debbie had already tangled with the notorious mercenary Ben Sako-- and didn't care to do it ...

  • Sayonara, Sweet Amaryllis

    James Melville

    A clash of cultures, specifically, the Japanese taste of fugu fish and the Western delight in madrigal singing, lies at the heart of the unorthodox crime confounding Inspector Otani, whose investigation points to the guilt of one of his own aides...

  • Saratoga Headhunter

    Stephen Dobyns

    The decapitation of a former jockey hiding out in his house is just the beginning of Charlie Bradshaw's troubles. An old man dies in a fire, murder finds a stable owner, Charlie's Volkswagen is blown to bits. And while tracking down the vicious kille...

  • Sarah's Child

    Linda Howard

    Sarah Harper had loved Rome Matthews silently for years. She had seen him marry her best friend, then lose his wife and sons in a tragic accident. When, years later, he turned to her for comfort and made her his wife, she felt that her world was at l...

  • Sarah, Plain and Tall

    Patricia MacLachlan

    "Did Mama sing every day?" Caleb asks his sister Anna. "Every-single-day," she answers. "Papa sang, too." Their mother died the day after Caleb was born. Their house on the prairie is quiet now, and Papa doesn't sing anymore. Then Papa puts an ...

  • Rocky Mountain Vamp

    Dirk Fletcher

    After nursing Kathleen, a woman he found raped, shot, and left for dead by a brutal gang of outlaws, back to health with his special brand of healing, Spur McCoy helps her exact revenge on the outlaws who victimized her, while trying to bring a group...

  • The Rivard House

    Edwin Lambirth

    From the floorboards to the rafters, the house reeked of Death. Josh Chronicle was a special breed of freelance investigator. He thrived on walking a tightrope between life and death. When a series of brutal murders took place in the abandoned Rivard...

  • Rites of Passion

    Jacqueline Topaz

    Anthropologist Kristoffer Schmidt leads a life of exotic adventure -- the kind Corky Corcoran can only dream about in her suburban domestic chaos. Finding little glamour in writing "Household Hints" for the local paper, she seeks to broaden her horiz...

  • Riddle of the Griffon

    Susan Lawson; Laura Hickman
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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  • Return to Elysium

    Joan Grant

    The sixth of Joan Grant's "Far Memory" novels, Return to Elysium is set in the second century BC among the islands of Ancient Greece as well as in Rome before its rise to imperial power. Lucina of Greece was orphaned at a young age and brought up by ...

  • The Return of the Gypsy

    Philippa Carr

    EVERY WOMAN FOUND HIM IRRESISTIBLE. BUT ONLY ONE COULD WIN HIS HEART... He was Romany Jake, darkly handsome, mysterious, and very much the gentleman, even in his gypsy camp. To the pretty impressionable Jessica Frenshaw, he was so much more glam...

  • The Retreat

    Aharon Appelfeld

    The year is 1937. On a remote hilltop some distance from Vienna stands a hotel called The Retreat. Founded by a man who is determined to cleanse himself and his guests of all "Jewish traits," it is a resort of assimilation, with daily activities that...

  • Report from the Besieged City and Other Poems

    Zbigniew Herbert

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is an English writer (a doctor by training) of Irish origin, the author of numerous adventure, historical, journalistic, fantastic and humorous works. The creator of the classic characters of detective, science fiction and hist...

  • The Renewable Virgin

    Barbara Paul

    When a television writer is murdered, three women join forces to find his killer After years churning out schlock for television, Rudy Benedict is afraid his job will kill him if he doesn’t leave Hollywood soon. He’s wrong. He’ll make it all th...

  • Renaissance Summer

    Clare Richards

    FANTASY AFFAIR Accustomed to the bureaucratic life of a grants administrator, Pamela Stewart jumped at the chance to be part of a real Renaissance festival. And when a dashing, raven- haired swordsman named Robyn O'Dare took her in his arms, she w...

  • Reluctant Lover

    Deirdre Mardon

    Did they meet by chance--or was it fate? For Astrid Rasmussen, meeting Derek McKenna was a fluke. She was entertaining a client for the Chicago-based department store where she worked and saw Derek across the room. The attraction she felt was imme...

  • The Red Rocket # 11

    Seth McEvoy

  • Red Rocket

    Seth McEvoy

    More than an app! You make the decisions! YOU ARE THE HERO OF YOUR OWN SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURE! Can you get past Orbyn, the rebel robot leader? Or discover the secret of Spy Center? You work for the Interplanetary Spy Center, a far-reaching organiz...

  • Real Robots

    Grace MacCarone

  • The Rawhiders

    Ray Hogan

  • Quincannon

    Bill Pronzini

    Investigating a huge counterfeiting operation working out of Silver City, Idaho, a thriving cattle and mining town, treasury agent John Quincannon poses as an alcoholic patent medicine salesman to follow a trail of deceit, betrayal, and murder. Repri...

  • Questions of Love

    Rosemary Vernon

    When Sammi Edwards is chosen to represent her school on the television quiz show "The Brain Game", it's a dream come true, Sammi's always wanted to be on TV. And if she can win "The Brain Game" she'll have enough money for the new car she wants. S...

  • A Question of Upbringing

    Anthony Powell

    Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally p...

  • Queenie

    Michael Korda

    The award-winning author of Charmed Lives brings readers into the seductive and beguiling story of how being wrongfully accused of a crime led to a life of stardom in London for Dawn Avalon.Facing accusations for a crime she did not commit, Dawn Aval...

  • Purple Climbing Days

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    What's worse than a blue Monday? For Richard "Beast" Best, it's a purple Monday spent climbing a fat brown rope with fat brown knots. Beast wishes he could climb up that rope like Emily Arrow and Matthew Jackson. Just looking at it hanging down fr...

  • Promise Me Rainbows

    Joan Lancaster

    Nora Flynn collects strays--but never the likes of affable hunk Alec Knowles. Nevertheless, she reluctantly helps him out one rainy night, invites him to her animal-adoption party ... and abandons herself to his glorious seduction! Preoccupied wit...

  • Principles of American Nuclear Chemistry

    Thomas McMahon

    What was life like for the scientists working at Los Alamos? Thomas McMahon imagines this life through the wide eyes of young Tim MacLaurin, the thirteen-year-old son of an MIT physicist who, inspired by a young woman named Maryann, worked on the pro...

  • The Prick of Noon

    Peter De Vries

  • Point of Honor

    David Gethin

  • Playtime Surprises: An Antique Moving Picture Book

    Ernest Nister

  • Playing Murder

    Sandra Scoppettone

  • Pieces of Eight

    Sydney J. Harris

  • Picnic for Bunnykins

    Philippa Pearce

  • Picasso Linoleum Cuts: The Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kramer Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

    L.Donald McVinney

  • A Permanent Arrangement

    Laurel Evans

    ABBY HAD TO BE CRAZY to accept Max Grant's offer to run his highly disorganized country inn. But then she found herself looking into his penetrating blue gaze, extricating herself from the claws of his cat, and mindlessly agreeing to whatever he sai...

  • Perfect Combination

    Sandra Kitt

    Dale took everything seriously--especially love! Dale Christensen was a visionary, pioneering medical advances that would someday restore happy, normal childhoods to sick and injured children. When Dale decided to take her first break from work, i...

  • People of Illusion

    Geoffrey Holiday

  • The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories

    Penguin Books

  • The Pearl

    Helme Heine

    Beaver's excitement at finding a mussel that doubtless contains a pearl is tempered by the realization that such a treasure could stir the greed of his friends, causing a chain of environmentally disastrous events....

  • Pat a cake pat a Cake

    William Stobbs

  • Passion's Price

    Barbara Harrison

    Katie Gallagher was a survivor Raised in the stifling poverty of New York's Hell's Kitchen, the golden-haired beauty quickly learned the value of money, the power of wealth, and the secrets of passion. Someday, she would have it all. And as the...

  • Passage at Arms

    Glen Cook

    The ongoing war between Humanity and the Ulat is a battle of attrition that humanity is unfortunately losing. However, humans have the advantage of trans-hyperdrive technology, which allows their climber fleet, under very narrow and strenuous conditi...

  • Pandora's Genes

    Kathryn Lance

  • Outsmarted

    Cassandra Bishop

    TOO SMART FOR HIS OWN GOOD .. . That was Will Hawkins, cowboy cum actor cum adman, and Theodora "Ted" Prescott intended to take him down a peg. Who did this hotshot cowpuncher think he was, trespassing on her turf as chief copywriter just because...

  • Out of the Shadows

    Janet Joyce

    THE SHADOW KNOWS When mild-mannered reporter Michael Hamilton created fictional hard-driving, hard-boiled detective Mack Dawson, he didn't know how hard it was going to be on him. When Mack's fictional adventures came too close to fact for...

  • Oriental Hotel

    Janet Tanner

    Set in the Far East during the Second World War, this novel, an epic love story, follows the wealthy who seek their forbidden pleasures in the sanctuary of the grand hotels and on the perilous, embattled high seas...

  • Open Hands

    Rebecca Flanders

    Cameron knew he could never hold her for long... Jo Ella was like a hummingbird that brought shimmering beauty into his world for a moment then vanished. Over the years, their paths had crossed and recrossed, and though Cam understood Jo Ella's re...

  • Only You

    Janet Emerson

  • The Only Daughter

    Jessica Anderson

  • One-Man Army

    John Cutter

    Jack Sullivan learns that a murderous mastermind named Legion has hired a small army of street thugs to terorize, vandalize and force innocent tenants out of their apartments to created a dope and prostitution headquarters. The Specialist jumps at th...

  • One Special Year

    Norah A. Perez

  • One Last Mirror

    Andres Harvey

  • One in a Million

    Lee Williams

    Suzannah Raines isn't rich, but she loves joyriding through Beverly Hills in a sparkling Rolls Royce--until the brakes fail, that is, and she coasts into the shabby yard of poster-perfect handsome, mysteriously reticent, obviously unemployed Craig Jo...

  • Once a Mutt

    Warren Murphy

    A withdrawn widow of a once-famous animal activist comes forward with a $2 million claim, saying her furry-friendly husband has been dead for eight years. With an ocean-themed investment drying up his coffers, Trace sets out to find out if she's b...

  • An Old Scandal

    Caroline Brooks

    The Lady and the Thief Lady Leonora Ware knew the name of Lord Umberto all too well. Not only was this dashing blue blood a legendary rake even among the most scandalous circles of society, he was also the man who had slain young Leonora's husba...

  • NYPD 2025

    Hal Stryker

  • Nowhere

    Thomas Berger

    Russell Wren is shanghaied into service by an organization alternately called "the Bunch, the Troop, the Pack, the Gang," who bombed his office and sent him off to Saint Sebastian, a small country tucked among the borders of Austria, Germany and Czec...

  • Not So Wild a Dream

    Francine Rivers

    California Tempest Raised high in the magnificent Sierras, lovely Tempest McClaren learned early how to survive alone in the world. Proud, fiery, innocent, she had everything to learn about the savage passions of civilization. Three strong men...

  • North to Thule

    John Frye

  • No Perfect Season

    Sandi Shane

    A SEASON FOR SURPRISES .. . Mistaken impressions were only the first barrier to love for Season Ashford and Gard Kincannon. Season's ex-husband thought he had hired Gard to keep an eye on Season, but he couldn't have been more wrong. Gard's only r...

  • No Last Song

    Ann Charlton

    She had made the wrong impression from the start Briony couldn't blame Sydney-tycoon Stanford Barron for being surprised when she began working as his aunt's gardener. After all, the last time he'd seen her she'd been the lead guit...

  • No Deadly Drug

    John D. MacDonald

    Indicted by the state of New Jersey for the murder of retired Colonel William Farber. Dr Carl Coppolino had been having an affair with Farber's wife, Marjorie.Did he kill Marjorie's husband and his own wife so he could marry Marjorie? If he did, he m...

  • Nightmare Planet

    Stephen Mooser

    As scout trainees, young readers must choose between two dangerous missions--destroy a strange crystal planet that is burning up other worlds, or rescue a planet trapped in suspended animation by Sorcus the Vile...

  • New Adventures of Conan

    Robert Jordan

  • Never Look Back

    Ridley Pearson

    A Soviet agent has entered the United States -- carrying a terrifying weapon -- in this Cold War thriller by the #1 New York Times"bestselling author . . .   Agent Andy Clayton has been inactive for eighteen months, kept under tight surveillan...

  • Near World

    Carl Dennis

  • The Nantucket Diet Murders

    Virginia Rich

    THE MAIN COURSE WAS MURDER Warm memories and good food greeted Mrs. Potter's return to her beloved Nantucket, but so did a chilling surprise. Her old friends had a stunning new look: dangerously thin and dressed to kill! Was something sinister ...

  • The Mystery of Ura Senke

    Shannon Gilligan

    When a valuable tea bowl is stolen from Ura Senke, the Japanese tea ceremony school, the reader sets out to recover the missing treasure, encountering the vicious Yakuza, kidnappers, and other deadly perils....

  • The Mystery of the Pirate Ghost

    Geoffrey Hayes

  • The Mystery of the Hidden Trap

    Dale Bick Carlson

  • The Mystery of the Ancient Maya

    Carolyn Meyer

  • The Mysterious Cure, and Other Stories of Pshrinks Anonymous

    J.O. Jeppson

    This first collection of Jeppson's Pshrinks Anonymous stories features the reports of Manhattan psychiatrists, shared at a monthly professional meeting, about their patients' encounters with aliens, sentient computers, and time warps...

  • My Lady Innkeeper

    Barbara Metzger

    IF A RAKE COULDN'T MAKE A GIRL'S HEART BEAT FASTER, HE WAS NO GOOD AT HIS JOB! A tempting package of wealth, lineage and beauty, Miss Lyndell Markham had managed to avoid every roguish expert with rakish ways. Men, she decided, were toads, especia...

  • Mountain Lamb

    Bill Hotchkiss

    Mountain Lamb, the most beautiful Indian woman of the Wind River Range, defies her tribe when she falls for Joe Meek, the Bear Killer, a mountain man and trapper, but their love is threatened by growing violence between the Indians and the white sett...

  • More Precious Than Gold

    Patricia Phillips

    From London's fashionable drawing rooms to the wild Scottish highlands... Tempestuous Catrin Blair had pledged her hand to one man...but that was before she lost her heart to the daring Scottish rebel, David Stewart. Drawn by love, driven by desire,...

  • More Precious Than Gold

    Cindy Victor

    Interior designer Laura Daniels had endured six long agonizing months alone in the elegant Beverly Hills home she once shared with her husband. Then, suddenly, one night he came back to her--a lean, hard-muscled stranger who devoured her with brazen ...

  • Moonlight on Snow

    Virginia Nielsen

    WHAT SHE DIDN'T NEED WAS A "RELATIONSHIP" Diane Armstrong would never forget the terror of having to land a small aircraft after her husband suffered a fatal heart attack at the controls. Nor would she forget her wanton reactions to the kindness o...

  • Monterey

    Jack Lynch

  • The Monadic Universe

    George Zebrowski

  • The Model's Handbook

    Yvonne Greene

  • Mitzi and the Elephants

    Barbara Williams

  • Mistress of the Night

    Valerie Vayle

    WHO WAS SHE, A LORD'S FINE LADY OR A BOLD HIGHWAYMAN'S LOVE? OR SOCIETY'S DARLING OR... DARING, REBELLIOUS, SHE LONGED TO BE A LADY EVEN AS SHE ACHED FOR A DANGEROUS LOVE . Born in an English bawdy house, schooled in the cunning an...

  • Miss Silver's Past

    Josef Skvorecky

    Legends of wolf-men exist in the beliefs of almost all peoples and cultures. The terror of werewolves reached a climax in the late Middle Ages when Kramer's Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches) linked the creatures to religious heresy, Satanism, a...

  • Miss Armstead Wears Black Gloves

    Marian Devon

    OH, BOTHER! HER FIANCE WAS RETURNED FROM THE DEAD! Of course, he wasn't her real fiance. Miss Frances Armstead had only concocted the spurious engagement as a sop to her uncle, who was insisting that she marry that impossible wag Albert. Fortunate...

  • Midsummer Madness

    Phyllis Taylor Pianka

    Would no one listen to her cry for help? When several people suffering from a rare illness were brought into the northern California hospital where Janina Scott worked, she became alarmed. As patient coordinator, Janina had witnessed outbreaks of ...

  • The Middleman

    Mark Smith

  • Mickelsson's Ghost

    John E. Gardner

    The critically acclaimed final masterwork of John Gardner: an American novel haunted with macabre and cerebral elements.

    The final novel by John Gardner, Mickelsson's Ghosts, originally published in 1982 just months before his untimely death in...

  • Mayhem at Mission Bay

    Ramsay Thorne

    Captain Gringo - caught in a deathtrap on the Mosquito Coast!On the run from the law, Captain Gringo seeks refuge in soggy, snake-infested Nicaragua. But while still in port, the Renegade is trapped in the crossfire of an explosive civil war: The reb...

  • Mayfair Rebel

    Beverley Hughesdon

  • Mattie Silks

    Matt Braun

  • Match Wits With the Harvard Mba's

    Tom Fischgrund

  • Maracaibo

    Stirling Silliphant

    An oil rig fire on Lake Maracaibo brings together four very different people--troubleshooter Vic Scott, acclaimed writer Laura Kingsley, the wealthy and cultured Pietro Orlando, and streetwise Ellen, married to Vic and determined to gain a piece of P...

  • Many Brave Hearts

    Donald Douglass

  • The Maiden's Bequest

    George MacDonald

    MacDonald's genius as a storyteller is seen once again in this moving, inspiring story of Alec Forbes and his friend Annie.

    Orphaned as a child, Annie's special friendship with Alec is a source of strength and security which sees them both thro...

  • Maiden of Greenwold

    Rhondi Vilott

  • Maggie, Too

    Joan Lowery Nixon

    A defensive twelve-year-old comes to understand her father, a busy Hollywood director planning to remarry, after she is exiled for the summer to the everyday life of her grandmother's house in Houston....

  • Made in Heaven

    Lily Devoe

  • Mad Masquerade

    Barbara Hazard

    THE UNHEAVENLY HONEYMOON John Haverfield, the Marquess of Vare, was in no hurry to take a wife--and certainly not one like the tomboyish, outrageously independent, thoroughly intractable young Lady Laura Lockridge. For her part, Laura wanted n...

  • Mad Book of Revenge

    Stan Hart

  • M & M and the Big Bag

    Pat Ross