Books Published in August 1986

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — AUGUST 1986

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New Books List: 367 titles

  • Out of Sight, Out of Mind

    Chester Aaron

    Erin and Sean, fourteen-year-old twins whose combined psychic abilities can force a guided missile off target, fight to reach an international ESP conference before government secret agents can capture them...

  • Choices

    Jane Worth Abbott

    SHE WAS AT YET ANOTHER TURNING POINT... It wasn't exactly a midlife crisis, but falling in love with a younger man at the age of thirty-seven was the last thing Sara Fletcher had ever expected. Especially when the object of her affections was turn...

  • Alice Whipple For President

    Laurie Adams

  • The Memories of Milo Morai

    Robert Adams

    As peace ends hostilities between the Kindred clans, Milo Morai, the Undying High Lord of the Horseclans, and a select band of hunters set out to explore unknown territory and find themselves caught up in an ancient legacy of violence that threatens ...

  • Dido and Pa

    Joan Aiken

    Readers who have followed Dido Twite's escapades in Black Hearts in Battersea and Nightbirds on Nantucket will welcome her return in another wild adventure. Dido Twite is finally back home in London and reunited with her old friend Simon, now the ...

  • Tale of a One-Way Street and Other Stories

    Joan Aiken

    We are taken to peculiar lands where all the magical things that only seem to happen in dreams really do happen. We meet strange creatures by going the wrong way up a one-way street. We learn about what a peculiar muddle your presents can get into wh...

  • The Pull of the Earth

    Alfred Alcorn

  • Serendipity Samantha

    Jo Ann Algermissen

    FLASH OF GENIUS It was brilliant! One look at her cluttered shop, one ride in her temperamental car, one gourmet dinner of peanut butter and jelly, and one long visit to her "when's the wedding?" parents would send Jack Martin running!...

  • Emerald Storm

    Rosalyn Alsobrook

    PASSIONATE TORRENT When defiant Patricia Morgan first gazed into Cole Gifford's striking blue eyes, raw desire raged in her blood. His lean physique made her want to trace his rippling muscles; his powerful arms made her want to drown in a whirlpool...

  • The Ring

    Piers Anthony

    After a youth spent trapped in space exile, Jeff Font returned to Earth to seek vengeance against the planetary mogul who had framed and destroyed Jeff's family. Jeff's plans backfired: he was captured, drugged, rammed through a computerized court sy...

  • The Rabbi of Casino Boulevard

    Allan Appel

    When Rabbi Arthur Bloom of Gardena, California falls in love with a Japanese woman, the many compulsive gamblers in his congregation notice a direct correlation between the rabbi's indiscretions and their own windfalls at the nearby casinos...

  • Heart of the Order

    Tony Ardizzone

    A novel of passion and obsession, Heart of the Order is the story of Danny ("Kiss of the Wolf") Bacigalupo, a baseball player from the alleys of Chicago's North Side, whose life and career are shaped by a tragic childhood accident. Danny knows about ...

  • Group Sex

    Ann Arensberg

    Frances Girard is no longer interested in her mundane job and increasingly boring life, and she sees Paul Treat, and eccentric young threatrical director, as an irresistible chance to leave it all behind...

  • Man and Wife

    Judith Arnold

    Colin Grey was in need of a wife That was fine with Mickie Oliver, young entrepreneur and budding corporate giant, for she earned her living in Manhattan as a professional wife. For a fee, Mickie and Company cleaned, shopped and ran errands -- all...

  • The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov

    Isaac Asimov

    This mystery collection presents many selections never before collected in book form and numerous selections chosen by the author himself from his famous "Black Widower" and "Union Club" series, as well as a wide variety of other stories...

  • Blood Ties

    Robert Asprin; Lynn Abbey

    KEEP ONE HAND ON YOUR MONEY AND THE OTHER ON YOUR SWORD! Welcome to SANCTUARY, a city of outlaws and adventurers in a world of war and wizardry, peopled with colorful characters created by today's top fantasy adventure talents, including: ROBIN...

  • Flight of Fancy

    Jane Atkin

    She'd landed a man on the run! Now Cydney Knight knew why David Bradley looked so familiar. She'd seen his face on a Wanted poster -- in the post office! Foolishly she tried to capture him to collect the reward -- only to end up harboring a w...

  • War Zone

    Richard Austin

    BLOOD IN THE STREETS The Guardians emerged from the ashes of World War III. Armed to the hilt, they were ready to bring the United States back to its feet. The President was still alive. And now, the time had come for the U.S. government to reesta...

  • Red Holocaust

    James Axler

    When all is lost, there's always the future. But the future in a world shrouded in the radioactive red dust clouds of a generation-old global nuclear war depends on finding hidden caches of food, weapons and technology--the legacy of a preholocaust s...

  • Garden of Evil

    Bob Baker

  • Sun Dancer's Legacy

    Karen A. Bale

    SAD ENDINGS Much time has passed since Aeneva and Trenton Hawkins were wed--and much tragedy has hit their small family. Believing that both of their sons, Roberto and Nathan, were killed on a trip to San Francisco, they try to mend their broken hea...

  • Fires of Destiny

    Linda Barlow

    She felt his pulsing warmth, his essence, his strong primal energy -- and her soul yearned for him to shower her with ecstasy... He wanted her desperately -- Alexandra could feel it with every sweet, slow, deepening kiss. That was why Roger Trevor...

  • Emerald Love, Sapphire Dreams

    Monica Barrie

    When Megan Teal agreed to hire and supervise a diver to search for a sunken galleon, she never expected a reunion with Pres Wyman, the "nerd" who'd become an Adonis. Alone on the Cervantes, the pulsing rhythm of the Caribbean rocked their hearts--...

  • Country Tales

    H.E. Bates

  • When We Touch

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    CODE NAME: BEAUTY After three years away from the agency, three years since josh was murdered, three years since she'd channeled her pain into world-class photography, the FBI wanted Blair Browning back to catch the mercenary responsible for her h...

  • Wee Color Wee Sing for Christ

    Pamela Conn Beall

  • Peat Moss and Ivy and the Birthday Present

    Michael Berenstain

  • Alamo House

    Sarah Bird

    Women without men. Men without brains.... IN THE WAR BETWEEN THE SEXES, THEY WERE IN THE FRONT LINES.... Alamo House stood out among the Greek-columned mansions of Austin's frat row like a bald spot on a mink. Besieged by the raunchy frat ra...

  • The Unicorn Gambit

    David Bischoff

    Fine Fine Fine Fine Fine Fine Paperback Fine ALMOST NEW CONDITION, NEARLY PERFECT FOR IT? S AGE! INCREDIBLE SINCE IT WAS PUBLISHED SO MANY YEARS BACK. THIS IS A TREMENDOUS FIND, A GREAT BOOK IN THIS NEAR PERFECT CONDITION, THAT WAS PUBLISHED YEARS AG...

  • Silver Thaw

    Natalie Bishop

    Three years earlier Blane Landers suffered the agony of watching the woman he loved endure indignity after indignity at the hands of her husband. Then, dead drunk, Neil Evans drove into a ravine, leaving Mallory alone, broke, but with acres of Oregon...

  • The Pumpkin Principle

    Cynthia Blair

    Susan and Christine Pratt are particularly fond of autumn-the air is crisp, pumpkins are everywhere, and best of all there's Halloween! Chris is determined to make this Halloween dance extra special-after all, it is her senior year. There's a new guy...

  • Prisoner of Desire

    Jennifer Blake

    AS MARDI GRAS FLARED IN THE GLITTERING STREETS OF NEW ORLEANS, ECSTASY BLAZED IN A SMALL, STARK ROOM.... To prevent the duel she was sure would kill her sister's fiance, Anya Hamilton took as her prisoner the magnificently handsome Ravel Duralde. ...

  • Sweet Slow Death

    Lawrence Block

  • The Long Road Home

    Georgia Bockoven

    CRISIS BROUGHT HIM HOME AT LAST A yellowed newspaper clipping had turned Craig Templeton's life upside down. He had thought his destiny lay on a ranch in Oklahoma, but he was actually a Kentucky blueblood, scion of a prominent family that had give...

  • Man for Hire

    Parris Afton Bonds

    HE WAS A DESERT CHIEFTAN but he looked to the West for his women. Khalid Rajhi had risen above his primitive upbringing to become a man of the world, irresistible to women. Alyx came to him with a proposition that was also a plea. Her daughter ha...

  • Weather

    George Bonsall

  • Star Peace: Assured Survival

    Ben Bova

    THE "STAR WARS" DEFENSE: THE SUREST ROAD TO PEACE The technology that fostered global nuclear terror can also provide a world freed from nuclear war....

  • Forever Friends

    Candy Dawson Boyd

  • Lythande

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    LYTHANDE WAS PLEDGED BY SWORD AND SPELL TO FOREVER FIGHT THE FORCES OF CHAOS... A Pilgrim Adept of the Blue Star, Lythande had mastered all the true magics of the world. But the power of an Adept was always bound to a Secret, and whoever discovere...

  • The Border Bandit

    Max Brand

    WANTED! Oliver Tay THE BORDER BANDIT WANTED: DEAD -- by a ruthless slave-owning Mexican silver tycoon. DEAD -- by a brave but fooli8sh commander of a U.S. Army garrison. DEAD -- by a great Comanche was chief. But WANTED: ALIVE -- b...

  • Suspicion and Desire

    Joanna Brandon

    "This is who and what I am," Alida declared defiantly. Her mysterious disappearances had made Logan suspect she had another lover. He'd been prepared for the worst. But the raven-haired beauty who stood before him in fringed buckskin took him complet...

  • The Cat Who Saw Red

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    Something is amiss at Maus Haus. Not just the mystery of an unsolved "suicide" which hangs over the old mansion, but something ominous in the present-day residence. When Qwilleran moves in to work on his new gastronomical assignment, strange things b...

  • Promises in the Night

    Barbara Bretton

    Love in the eighties -- was it possible? Larkin Walker had always thought that the challenge lay in finding it. Her many tasks as director of The Learning Center on Long Island had always given her little time to eat, let alone socialize. Then Dr....

  • Fidelio

    Rodger Bridwell

  • Steeldust

    J.P.S. Brown

    After his parents' ranch is sold by the bank, Bill Shane decides to begin his own operation using as collateral the deed to twenty sections of land that banker Richard Claire thinks was part of Bill Shane, Sr.'s holdings...

  • Tongues of Flame

    Mary Ward Brown

    These beautifully crafted stories depict the changing relationships between black and white southerners, the impact of the civil rights movement, and the emergence of the New South.Mary Ward Brown is a storyteller in the tradition of such powerful 20...

  • 22 Indigo Place

    Sandra Brown

    Once James Paden had been the high-school bad boy --too dangerous to flirt with, but too gorgeous to ignore? Now Laura Nolan faced him as a woman, about to lose the home that had been a symbol of the good life in her small town to a man whose desir...

  • Time Out

    Amanda Brownfield

    After a difficult semester at Hastings College, mousy, insecure Leslie Schaefer is delighted when an unexpected friendship develops with glamorous Rachel, until the fickle Denny Stuart threatens to come between them...

  • The Warrior's Apprentice

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    Discharged from the Barrarayan academy after flunking the physical, a discouraged Miles Vorkosigan takes possession of a jumpship and becomes the leader of a mercenary force that expands to a fleet of treasonous proportions. ...

  • The Five Million Dollar Prince

    Michael Butterworth

    Together, London tour guide Horace Bunbury and con man Thomas O'Leary scheme to pull off a heist involving the sale of the Albert Memorial to a rich Texan for five million dollars, until hired hit men outmatch the devious duo...

  • Destiny's Daughter

    Elaine Camp

    LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER? Banner O'Bryan hoped not. Why would she want to be like a woman who had deserted her husband and child for another man? Then Banner met Yuri Zaarbo, and her own long-repressed emotions began to surface. Suddenly she und...

  • Only a Woman

    Bethany Campbell

    He ignored her, humiliated her -- what next? Reporter Scotty Morgan never dreamed her first sports assignment could be such a nightmare. Jed Quinn, the all-American basketball star turned coach refused to be interviewed by a woman. He'd com...

  • Bylines

    Joyce Carlow

    Jo Gregory is a war orphan, one of countless victims of the 20th Centurys first genocide, the massacre of the Armenians. Jo is found in an orphanage by a war correspondent, who tells her story. As a result, she finds relatives among the Armenian comm...

  • Devine War

    Dennis R. Caro

  • Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year 15

    Terry Carr

  • Terror Times Two

    Nick Carter

    Boris Vandrostov. The very name inspired terror. He is the KGB's top assassin, as well as their field expert in chemical interrogation. If a man knew something the KGB wanted to know, Vandrostov could get it out of him. For ten years, Carter had c...

  • The Chilling Deception

    Jayne Castle

    COLD VENGEANCE GUINEVERE JONES - Besides being brainy, brave, and beautiful, she had an uncanny way with people. From the moment she found the gold gun in the mauve-and-black marble executive washroom, she knew Mr. Vandyke was in serious trouble. ...

  • Listen to Your Heart

    Marian Caudell

  • Game of Fox & Lion

    Robert R. Chase

    John Lei Chiang, Centauran councilor and head of a vast, multiplanetary corporation, seeks the aid of Paul Niccolo Renard, last of the MultiNeural Capacitants, to preserve his company, but Renard has his own reason for helping Chiang...

  • The Fiancee and Other Stories

    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

    Twelve stories deal with a young woman who decides to break with her smug fiance, a suicide inquest, a woman who murders her husband, a greedy merchant, a declining family of landowners, and a tactless host...

  • The Flame Bearers

    Kim Chernin

    Influenced by her grandmother, a young woman named Rae grows up as a member of an ancient goddess-worshipping sect and is chosen to carry their most secret beliefs into a world of family and social rivalry...

  • Red Storm Rising

    Tom Clancy

    A chillingly authentic vision of modern war, Red Storm Rising is as powerful as it is ambitious. Using the latest advancements in military technology the world's superpowers battle on land, sea and air for ultimate global control. It is a story you w...

  • Miss Holland's Betrothal

    Norma Lee Clark

    Miss Isabelle Holland was the envy of London society. This spirited young lady had come out to nowhere to claim the attention of the devastatingly handsome Marquess of Sutterton, who could have any woman he wanted as his bride -- and had chosen Isabe...

  • Sugar Blue

    Vera Cleaver

  • Heartless

    Stephen Cohen

    When he discovers his best friend shot to death, Eddie Margolis knows that he has to track down the killer, or no one will--the police don't care about junkies--and he enters the urban inferno of East Village junkie hangouts and Chinatown...

  • Heartless

    Stephen Paul Cohen

    When he discovers his best friend shot to death, Eddie Margolis knows that he has to track down the killer, or no one will--the police don't care about junkies--and he enters the urban inferno of East Village junkie hangouts and Chinatown...

  • Hunter's Moon

    Brenda Cole

    For most of her young life, Katie had been helping her father run the Moring Kennels where he bearded and groomed dogs. The work was hard and demanding, but Katie didn't mind it, especially when Adam suddenly showed up with a starved stray and stayed...

  • Doctor Change

    Joanna Cole

  • Hard Choices

    B.D. Colen

    Surveys recent medical advances in neonatology, artificial organ transplants, and the treatment of the terminally ill; offers selected case studies; and discusses the medical, legal, and moral ramifications of such advances...

  • The Juniper Tree

    Barbara Comyns

    A modern reimagining of a classic fairy tale by one of most bewitching, idiosyncratic British writers of the twentieth century.Bella Winter has hit a low. Homeless and jobless, she is the mother of a toddler by a man whose name she didn’t quite cat...

  • Diamond in the Rough

    Helen Conrad (1)

    The best was yet to come Marlo Santee's entire career in advertising was riding on one man -- California James. She needed just the right model to clinch her latest ad campaign, and Cal was perfect. She had to have him. But simply working w...

  • Missing Persons

    David Cook

    Hetty's success in tracing the long-lost son of a friend gives her a taste for detection and she sets up as a private detective. Among her adventures she saves the life of a little girl trapped in machinery and brings back to life her friend Edith, a...

  • The Pipe Carriers

    John Byrne Cooke

    Time is running out for Sioux chief Sun Horse's people. While the U.S. Army rides to force them out of Wyoming onto the barren Dakota reservation, he must interpret the vision given to his tribe: a power is coming-- a power for: good or evil -- that ...

  • No Secrets

    Linda A. Cooney

  • Robin in the Apple

    Jeffrey Cooper

  • Picture Perfect

    M.E. Cooper

    Dazzled... When Diana Einerson arrives in Rose Hill from Montana, John Marquette sweeps her off her feet with gifts and charm. But John's attention quickly turns possessive, and Diana begins to realize she's making a mistake. Then dashing Jeremy ...

  • Vacationland

    Christopher Corbett

    Chick Devine, bringer of good cheer, prognosticator, pundit, and promoter, and his band of merrymakers provide entertainment for the citizens of Maine with such diversions as Homarus Americanus, the scourge of Eggemoggin Reach, also known as Ernie th...

  • Seeds of War

    Robert Cornett

  • Target: Daimler-Benz

    Lawrence Cortesi

  • Forever Begins Tomorrow

    Bruce Coville

    Can the gang save the world before it’s too late? When it comes down to adults versus kids, who’s going to believe the kids—even if they are geniuses? That’s the problem the A.I. Gang faces when they find themselves ...

  • Period of Confinement

    Moira Crone

  • The Call of Home

    Melinda Cross

    Underneath, she was a woman in need of love Jessie'd had to make herself strong to cope with family obligations. But now she was free to pursue her wildlife painting. She headed back to her childhood haunt, to the cabin on her father's ...

  • The Reality Matrix

    John Dalmas

    SOMETHING VERY REAL IS THREATENING TO TERMINATE OUR PLANET. SOMETHING FROM OUTSIDE... Bill Van Wyk knows only that something is seriously wrong; statistical analysis proves it. Olaf Sigurdsson knows the approximate destruct time, but not what to d...

  • The Queen of Hearts

    Megan Daniel

    ONCE WAS QUITE ENOUGH Mallorie French, Countess of Haye, had been married once--and that once was more than adequate for her. After the death of her charming but faithless young husband, she was determined to enjoy all the single bliss that her ti...

  • Blind Date

    Emma Darcy

    "Men should be kept barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen." There, Peggy grinned mischievously, no man would "warm up" to an answer like that. Especially not Adam Gale, the sexiest celebrity in the country - bound to be a chauvinis...

  • Talking Heads

    Jerome Davis

  • Island Encounter

    Ann De Gale

  • Happy Birthdays

    Etienne Delessert

  • The Temptress

    Jude Deveraux

    With the blazing spirit of a true Montgomery, heiress Christiana Montgomery Mathison bravely defies the two men who abduct her. Forced into the primitive rain forests of the Washington Territory, she is swept into a thrilling adventure. Amid schemes ...

  • The Mountains of Channadran

    Susan Dexter

    Revised May 2012 to improve formatting and add map of Calandra.Survival isn't everything. Tristan and Elisena are mortal, and Nimir can simply wait for them to age, to die--and then overwhelm a defenseless Calandra. Much as they dread it, they must...

  • The Man the Worlds Rejected

    Gordon R. Dickson

  • Death in the Quadrangle

    Ellis Dillon

  • No Earthly Notion

    Susan Dodd

  • Char's Webb

    Kathleen Downes

    Keith Webb froze in astonishment as management consultant Charlotte Smith introduced herself. It was impossible that a figment of his imagination -- a woman he'd invented to discourage a young girl's crush on him -- could be so delectably alive, so ...

  • Robinsheugh

    Eileen Dunlop

    Robinsheugh stands in the Scottish Border Country, a region where the line between the past and the present seems curiously indefinite. Elizabeth Martin is sent there to spend a summer with an aunt who seems more concerned with Robinsheugh's eigh...

  • Niccolo Rising

    Dorothy Dunnett

    With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolo series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid m...

  • The House on Moon Lake

    Francesca Duranti

    Fabrizio Garrone is an impoverished but aristocratic translator who has been living a life of quiet desperation in Milan. He feels underappreciated and tormented by a persistent sense of having been cheated by life. But when he reads about a lost Vie...

  • Passion's Fire

    Cassie Edwards

    DEFIANT BEAUTY With her budding beauty ana southern charm, Samantha Johnston was able to wrap many a young suitor around her finger. So when her father unexpectedly announced that he had arranged for her to marry a wealthy middle-aged neighbor, Sama...

  • Earth Invaded

    Nathan Elliott

  • The Liberators

    Nathan Elliott

  • Lone Star and the Land Barons

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki are marked for murder in a ruthless power grab!They may be British lords and bankers, but a cloak of respectability can't disguise their treacherous plot. The power-hungry businessmen are scheming to buy up all the land rights of the Wy...

  • Motor City Blue

    Loren D. Estleman

    "If I see my name in tomorrow's paper yours will be in the next edition. Bordered in black."

    Marla Bernstein is a pretty, dark-haired teenager? who also happens to be the ward of Ben Morningstar-a semi-retired mobster who prefers to keep family bu...

  • The Masters Darkness

    Dennis Etchison

  • Longarm and the Crooked Railman

    Tabor Evans

  • Phaid the Gambler

    Mick Farren

    Phaid plays a deadly game of survival in a future, violent, post-holocaust Earth in which the human race has mutated into three distinct life forms and the planet is threatened by telepathic dogs and cats, reactionary androids, and savage climatic ch...

  • Wildwood

    John Farris

    Whitman Bowers has come to survey what was once the Langford estate, but is quickly drawn into the web of fear that surrounds the mountain. His old Army buddy Arn seem insane; claiming that the gloomy, thickly forested slopes of Wildwood conceal twis...

  • Long Road Home

    Jean Faure

    It's dangerous to consort with strangers, but truck driver Erin Taliferro can't afford to refuse brawny Luke Reardon's offer of help. She'll warily share his fancy rig for the chance to repay her debts and leave the hard life behind. But Luke's myste...

  • No-No the Little Seal: A Story for Very Young Children That Tells about Sexual Abuse

    Judith Feldman

  • Satin Surrender

    Carol Finch

    UNKNOWN DECEPTION Young and beautiful, Erica Bennet refused to obey her father's wishes and spend the rest of her life in an arranged marriage to the lecherous Sabin Keary. She had no knowledge of physical love, but she knew there was a man somewher...

  • High Stakes

    John Fischer

  • The Prince of Whales

    R.L. Fisher

    Young Toby's uncontrollable dream music filled the Arctic night sea with sound that brought great danger to all the whales in Toby's pod. His powerful and thundering music was sure to attract the human hunters with their killing ships and hideous exp...

  • The Myth and the Magic

    Christine Flynn

    "THERE'S A UNICORN IN MY GARDEN." Stephanie had every intention of spending her summer soaking up the Southern California sun. But then the contractor building her new pool unearthed a mysterious fossilized skeleton, and Stephanie'...

  • High Art

    Ruben Fonseca

    Set in Rio, this novel looks at the underbelly of Brazilian urban society in which a lawyer, working on the murder case of two prostitutes, finds the case widening as details of sadism, cocaine smuggling, and multiple murders come to light...

  • Heart of the Wolf

    Regan Forest

    The secret had lasted nearly four hundred years... Leigh Galandale and her brother had come from America to the mist-shrouded Scottish village of Invergles for a gathering of the Clan MacDenin, to which they belonged. Shortly before Leigh's...

  • Rhapsody

    Michael French

  • A Greenwich Killing Time

    Kinky Friedman

    America's most outrageous singer-songwriter turns gumshoe detective in this wild, witty and wisecracking debut novel. It's a hardboiled journey into the dark heart of the city - as hilarious and entertaining as Kinky himself. The place is New York Ci...

  • Burnt Water

    Carlos Fuentes

    In Burnt Water by Carlos Fuentes, the rich and the poor, the noble and the brutish, and street kids and aesthetes find themselves portrayed in twelve short stories examining the life of Mexico City....

  • Change of Skin

    Carlos Fuentes

    First published in 1968, Carlos Fuentes's controversial novel A Change of Skin tells the story of four persons who drive from Mexico City to Veracruz one Palm Sunday. The Driver of the car is Franz, an ex-Nazi, and with him is his young Mexican love...

  • One Morning

    Canna Funakoshi

  • Power of Persuasion

    G. Ray Funkhouser

  • Wives and Lovers

    T.A. Gabriel

  • Until Now

    Sally Garrett

    SHE CALLED HERSELF AN UNCLAIMED TREASURE Old maid schoolteacher. That's how Kathryn Keith figured folks referred to her. And they were right. At thirty-five, she'd long since traded her girlish dreams for the constant affections of her pup...

  • Grey Wolf, Grey Sea

    Elizabeth Blanchard Gasaway

  • The Folly of Loving

    Catherine George

    His proposal reeked of guilt -- and pity Victoria fell in love with Gavin Creed when she was a teenager and he was an aspiring actor who thought she was some sort of Lolita. It took her years to recover from his ruthless -- but very effective -...

  • Past Caring

    Robert Goddard

    At a lush villa on the sun-soaked island of Madeira, Martin Radford is given a second chance. His life ruined by scandal, Martin holds in his hands the leather-bound journal of another ruined man, former British cabinet minister Edwin Strafford. What...

  • Girl of Forty

    Herbert Gold

  • Toby's Toe

    Jane Goodsell

  • Six Feet of the Country

    Nadine Gordimer

  • Tales from The Wind in the Willows

    Margaret Gordon

  • The Physician

    Noah Gordon

    In the 11th century, Rob Cole left poor, disease-ridden London to make his way across the land, hustling, juggling, peddling cures to the sick -- and discovering the mystical ways of healing. It was on his travels that he found his own very real gift...

  • Heart for Sale

    Eileen Goudge

  • The Maverick and the Lady

    Heather Graham

    Like a hero out of the Old West, he rode out of nowhere to save her from losing everything she owned. But from the moment Kane Montgomery swept into her life, Martine Galway was lost. In his arms she felt wild abandon, even as she wondered about this...

  • Horrors

    Charles L. Grant

  • The Warrior Challenged

    Sharon Green

  • Discovered!

    Yvonne Greene

    A makeover session at the local shopping mall has unexpected results for Kelly Blake when she is discovered by the prestigious Flash! modeling agency, but a demanding new career may compromise her education and romance...

  • Rising Star

    Yvonne Greene

  • Lilian's Story

    Kate Grenville

    Shielded from emotional and physical abuse by layers of fat, Lilian struggles to escape a suffocating existence in the home of her tyrannical Victorian father and her elegant but ineffectual mother. Madness, cruelty and sexuality permeate the family&...

  • Georgia Music

    Helen V. Griffith

    A young girl finds a way to make her sick grandfather laugh again by bringing back the Georgia music they had shared the summer before. Luminous watercolors.—Kirkus Reviews. A sensitive portrayal of the vital connection between young and old....

  • Unhallowed Ground

    Paul Guernsey

    The swamp that adjoins a small-backwoods Connecticut community retains an aura of evil and becomes the focus of seventeen-year-old Danny Moreno's search for his father and brother, who disappeared separately several years earlier...

  • The End of Summer Time

    Alec Gunn

  • Matched Pair

    Carole Halston

    Their eyes met across the crowded blackjack table. He was the sophisticated; worldly man of her dreams, and she was the stunning, self-assured blonde of his fantasy. No one suspected rakishly handsome Nick Denton was a C.P.A. wearing his partner'...

  • Sweet Pretender

    Violet Hamilton

    A PATRIOT'S HONOR As the belle of Philadelphia, spirited Sarah Ravensham had no fondness for the hateful British. But as a patriotic American, it was her duty to convey a certain document safely into the hands of Britain's prime minister -...

  • Surrender to a Stranger

    Dallas Hamlin

    Brenna McKennon was desperate when she jumped from a window and escaped -- on her wedding day! And it was sheer, luck that Adam Chaney spotted her before she vanished beneath the waves forever. Brenna had always been sheltered -- by her father, her f...

  • Murder on the Rails

    J.D. Hardin

  • The Dance Master

    Norma Harris

  • The Broken Worlds

    Raymond Harris

  • Mayhem and Magic

    Nicole Hart

  • Whispers from the Past

    Mary Haskell

    Californian Vicki Addison is finally ready to claim her ancestral New England home. But foxy Mark Rogers has bought it out from under her! Worse, the unscrupulous developer plans to sully the building's feminine grace with macho innovations. Though i...

  • Celebrating Children's Books

    Betsy Hearne

  • Adam's Task

    Vicki Hearne

    Explores the idea of communication between people and animals--from the sophisticated experiments of Washoe to common household pets--and suggests a relationship between understanding animal consciousness and expanding human consciousness...

  • Millie Cooper, 3B

    Charlotte Herman

  • Tender Betrayer

    Terri Herrington

    "It's not over, not by a long shot. I want you back!" he shouted, eyes blazing. The arrogance of the man! If Clint Jessup thought she'd run into his arms, he had some surprises coming. Eight months ago they were to have been married. He'd vanished...

  • Song of the Rose

    Johanna Hill

    Betrothed to the arrogant Lord Francois, Nicolette Duprey was plunged into blissful confusion upon meeting Davide, a mysterious knight-errant en route to the Crusades. In countenance he could have been Francois' twin, yet his heart was as gentle as h...

  • Family Secrets

    Burt Hirschfeld

  • A Bid for Independence

    Karla Hocker

    She didn't give a fiddle for the frippery of London! It was the piano she loved... Cherry Sinclair's parents had given their lovely daughter one year to fulfill her dream to become a successful concert pianist. If she failed, there was onl...

  • Compton Connection

    Leslie Holden

    They met amid the glamour of the country music scene and the drama of a hotly-contested political race. Cat, a beautiful but spoiled attorney, wanted to save his career; Drew, the righteous and sometimes melancholy candidate, wanted to save her soul....

  • Footprints Up My Back

    Kristi D. Holl

  • Invisible Lissa

    Natalie Honeycutt

  • The Technocrats

    Forest W. Horton Jr.

  • Duncton Wood

    William Horwood

      The epic first novel in the allegorical fantasy series about the romance and adventures of a community of moles is “a breathtaking achievement” (The Washington Post).   The moles of Duncton Wood live in the shadow of Mandrake, a cruel...

  • Almost Forever

    Linda Howard

    Claire Westerbrook couldn't believe it. She had met a man like no other, a man who might very well be the man. He was sexy, witty, charming - and a total imposter. He was Max Conroy, and he had a job to do. His first interest wasn't in Claire; it ...

  • The Perfect Match

    Anna Hudson

    He'd tried everything to gain her attention. When Rhett Bucannan began stripping on his hotel room balcony, Goldie Sullivan took notice. Suddenly her drive to do business at the Dress-for-Success seminar disappeared in a blaze of passion. In a wh...

  • Hot-Handed Heathen

    E.J. Hunter

  • The Golden World

    Evan Innes

  • Creepy-crawly Stories

    Barbara Ireson

  • Appointment with F.E.A.R.

    Steve Jackson

  • Read-It-Yourself Storybook: A Collection of Seven Easy-to-Read Stories

    Leland B. Jacobs

  • After the Reunion

    Rona Jaffe

    Emily, Chris, Daphne, and Annabel. They left college with their hearts full of radiant hope, their heads full of impossible dreams. They married "perfect" men, expected to have "perfect" children, found exciting jobs and glamorous careers. Yet heartb...

  • The Figure in the Carpet and Other Stories

    Henry James

    The stories in this collection were written mostly between 1888 and 1897, a time when Henry James’s writing was concerned with the art of fiction and the position of the artist in society. The motif and title story, ‘The Figure in the Carpet’, ...

  • Everlasting

    Iris Johansen

    Kira Rubinoff and Zack Damon had never met-but when their paths finally crossed, the Tamrovian princess and the powerful industrialist sensed they were not strangers. Desperate to enlist Zack's help in freeing a beloved friend from imprisonment, Kira...

  • By Love Betrayed

    Ada John

    Reporter Lainie Wilson never stoops to deceit for a scoop--until she's forced to write an expose on reclusive millionaire Paul Reynard. Under false pretenses she hires herself out as a companion to "Americanize" his cloistered teenage daughter, then ...

  • The Imperiled Heiress

    Janice Kay Johnson

    She expected her luck to change--not to end ... Despite her newfound wealth, Miss Emma Denton had to admit that luck wasn't on her side. The team of horses that nearly trampled her to death had probably been frightened out of control. And perhaps ...

  • Russian Spring

    Dennis Jones

    The KGB is counteracting the Soviet government with military force. Moscow is under the KGB's control, and a nuclear missile base has been seized. A full-scale Russian civil war has begun......

  • Stolen Passion

    Alexis Hill Jordan

    He was Washington's most eligible bachelor -- exciting, handsome, and oh, so sexy. And it was clear that Ryan Lowell wanted Jennifer McNeil. When Jennifer came to appraise his fabulous estate, Ryan swept her off her feet with a lost weekend at hi...

  • Ellen Bray

    Jane Julian

  • Meant to Be

    Janice Kaiser

    SHE WAS A TRAVELER PASSING THROUGH HIS WORLD Diana Hillyer's life in Washington was fulfilling and safe -- and worlds apart from Honduras. But that's where she found herself when her dearest friend asked Diana's help in rescuing a t...

  • Beaver to Fox

    Derek Kartun

  • Mrs. Craggs: Crimes Cleaned Up

    H.R.F. Keating

  • Happy to Be Here

    Garrison Keillor

    “Keillor’s best stuff is clean (in the sense that lines are clean), down to earth, exquisitely good-hearted, highly ludicrous, and as labored as nitrous oxide…. This book will either leave you dumbfounded or happy—almost deser...

  • Pecos Bill

    Steven Kellogg

    "The anecdotes associated with Texas's fabled cowboy hero burst from the pages in rapid succession, Kellogg's robust illustrations enlarging and enriching the energetic text."--School Library Journal. "A read-aloud treat....One of Kellogg's best."--B...

  • Demon Box

    Ken Kesey

  • Passionate Choice

    Flora Kidd

    The passion had been as real as the heartache After nine glorious months of sailing the Caribbean and being romanced by Kit Barlow, he'd walked straight into the arms of another woman! But three and a half years had passed since Stella had ...

  • By Order of the President

    Michael Kilian

    When an assassin targets the president, an outsider finds evidence of an even deeper conspiracy in this thriller from the author of The Valkyrie Project. The gunman crouches in his crawl space, dreaming of revenge. The United States has turned his ho...

  • Bennington Stitch

    Sheila Solomon Klass

  • Love Undercover

    Sandra Kleinschmit

    DYNAMIC DUO Brittany Daniels wanted a big story--a scoop that would prove her investigative reporting skills and make her invaluable to the L.A. Examiner. But the only way she had a chance to get the inside dirt on a local mobster was to tag along...

  • The White Pipes

    Nancy Kress

  • Santa's Crash-Bang Christmas

    Steven Kroll

  • Danny's Birthday

    Edith Kunhardt

  • The Quest for Saint Camber

    Katherine Kurtz

    THE IMPOSSIBLE SAINT Time after time, the legendary Camber--one-time Saint of the half-magic race of Deryni--had intervened in the affairs of young Kelson, King of Gwynedd. Yet Camber was known to have died two hundred years before! Now Kelson ...

  • The Dancing Men

    Duncan Kyle

    Evidence mounts that the grandfather of presidential hopeful John Leyden carried a terrible and deadly secret to his grave, a secret that now threatens to ruin Leyden, his political party, and his country...

  • The Rider of the Ruby Hills

    Louis L'Amour

    A WORD FROM LOUIS L'AMOUR "Almost four decades ago, when my fiction was being published exclusively in `pulp' western magazines, I wrote a number of novel-length stories, known back then as `magazine novels'. In creating them, I lived with my char...

  • The Trail to Crazy Man

    Louis L'Amour

    A WORD FROM LOUIS L'AMOUR "Almost forty years ago, when my fiction was being published exclusively in 'pulp' western magazines, I wrote several novel-length stories, which my editors called 'magazine novels.' In creating them, I became so involve...

  • 1988

    Richard Lamm

    Hired to produce the media campaign for the presidential bid of former Texas governor Stephen Wendell, media strategist Jerry Bloom discovers a conspiracy to sieze control of the presidency--by any means, including murder...

  • A Question of Honor

    Ana Leigh

    A COMPELLING STORY OF UNQUENCHABLE PASSION She was running toward a forbidden marriage; he was destined for the dangers of war. But when lovely Raven Kirkland met fellow passenger Matthew Elliot aboard the ship that was carrying them from England ...

  • On the Winds of Love

    Lori Leigh

    Not Even Royal Treachery Could Destroy Love's Perfect Destiny LOVE'S PASSIONATE ALLIANCE He was the most magnificent man she'd ever seen -- tall, dark, powerful, his muscular physique honed to perfection. and he was to become her h...

  • Lodestar Project

    John Leslie

  • Zelerod's Doom

    Jacqueline Lichtenberg

  • Slocum and the Silver Ranch Fight

    Jake Logan

    TROUBLE HAD A WAY OF FINDING SLOCUM. When he returned a lost calf to the Lazy K ranch, Slocum expected nothing more than a simple thank you. But the tail, beautiful Rachel Anderson offered him a job on the ranch---and drew him into a bloody war again...