Books Published in March 1983

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — MARCH 1983

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New Books List: 341 titles

  • Yesterday's Promise

    Karen Young

    TOMORROW'S PASSION Julie Dunaway was glad that her job at a Boston engineering firm left her no time for love. But when a dynamic new consultant turned out to be her estranged husband, Alex Brandt, Julie knew she was trapped. Dark and magnetic,...

  • Short Story: Fifty Masterpieces

    Ellen C. Wynn

  • Spring Fires

    Cynthia Wright

    SHE WAS MEANT FOR LOVE. BUT LISETTE WAS FIERCELY INDEPENDENT -- UNTIL SHE MET NICHOLAI BEAUVISAGE ... Many men pursued her but Lisette Hahn, devastated at an early age by a callous married man, found them easy to resist. Yet on the night of he...

  • Daughter of Witches

    Patricia C. Wrede

    COME ...enter the city of Drinn, if you dare. The entering is easy during Festival time; no guard will stop you, no priest will question you as you shuffle through the gates among the crowds, hiding the glow of forbidden magic beneath your brown pil...

  • Run Before the Wind

    Stuart Woods

    Will Lee ran from a life of Southern wealth and privilege to spend a peaceful summer on the coast of Ireland. But there is no peace in this beautiful, troubled land. Restless and dissatisfied, Will dreams of shipbuilding and sailing on crystal-blue ...

  • A Gentle Whisper

    Eleanor Woods

    Like oil and water, they'd never make a proper mix, yet Lee knew she'd met her match. Wealthy and powerful Jake Rhome had been willing to give her anything--but her freedom--so she'd left him to take a job as a geologist with an oil company in the...

  • Danny

    Suzette Winter

  • The Wine-Dark Sea

    Ellie Winslow

    "I wouldn't go to bed with you if you were the last man in Greece...' From the start of the Greek tour, Lydia had disliked Nick Aristou's arrogant ways. Neither his darkly handsome looks nor the fact he was buying the tourist cruise business she w...

  • The Voyageurs

    Lee Davis Willoughby

    BRAVE MEN, WHITE WATER, DARK DEEDS Fort Jamison, 1841: To this farthest outpost of civilization on the Saskatchewan River came young red-headed Allan MacInnes, in search of a long-lost mystery girl. To survive, he was forced to learn the art and...

  • The Tapestry Warriors

    Cherry Wilder

  • The Escape Orbit

    James White

  • No Room in His Life

    Nicola West

    "It's an offer you can't refuse." Kinnan Macrae's suggestion that she set sail aboard his yacht left Alix speechless. But stranded as she was in Yugoslavia with no money, no identification and no way of making herself understoo...

  • Watchdogs

    John Weisman

  • Max: The Dog That Refused to Die

    Kyra Petrovskaya Wayne

  • The Delta Star

    Joseph Wambaugh

    L.A. Wambaugh-style. A world of cops on the rocks with a twist of murder. A cheap hooker named Missy Moonbeam takes a fatal dive from the roof of a sleazy hotel. But what’s a Caltech phone number doing in her trick book? And how does that connect t...

  • Greek Idyll

    Jade Walters

    A PRICE TO PAY Rosalie Darrien had agreed to take charge of Louis Alexander's villa on Mykonos, one of the most romantic Greek islands. But the handsome, charming, very wealthy Mr. Alexander didn't know that she was there to exact a toll. She woul...

  • The Taint

    Patricia Wallace

    He was a salty old sailor, weather-beaten superstitious and in desperate need of money. So he sold three pints of his pure red blood -- and the horror began... The brutally mutilated bodies of a honeymooning couple are found at a campsite. A highl...

  • Their Evil Ways

    John William Wainwright

  • The Fallen and the Free

    Robert Vaughan

  • Lyonesse

    Jack Vance

    FAR AGO AND LONG AWAY.. Now lost forever beneath the rolling Atlantic, the Elder Isles were once lands of fairy shees and troll forests, of crones wise in lore and knights steeled in valor. In these isles lived a princess possessed of a wistful...

  • Renaissance

    A.E. Van Vogt

  • Rainy Day Max

    Hanne Turk

  • Anatomy of a Murder

    Robert Traver

    First published by St. Martin's in 1958, Robert Traver's Anatomy of a Murder immediately became the number-one bestseller in America, and was subsequently turned into the now classic Otto Preminger film of the same name, starring Jimmy Stewart and Du...

  • Fables for Our Time

    James Thurber

    James Thurber has been called "one of our great American institutions' (Stanley Walker), "a magnificent satirist (Boston Transcript), and "a Joyce in false-face" (New York Times). The New York Herald Tribune submits that he is "as blithe as Benchley....

  • Blazing Star

    Marcella Thum

    The convent had not prepared her for the ways of the world. Now, the man of her dreams would turn her world into a living hell...Handsome and ruthless, his cruelty would force any woman into submission. And Star was no exception...His mixed blood and...

  • Looking Glass Love

    Carolyn Thornton

    A kiss from a stranger, given at her own request, was Chrissa's first step in learning what love was all about. Isaac Fielding was a man worth loving, but his past was as unhappy as Chrissa's own, and to win his heart seemed hopeless. Like the flo...

  • Slaughter in Sinaloa

    Ramsay Thorne

    Captain Gringo dodges death in revolution-torn Mazatlán! First he gets double-crossed by a beautiful black-hearted blonde. Then he’s cold-cocked by an American officer obsessed with bringing “The Renegade” to the U.S. for hanging. If that isnâ...

  • Man on Fast Track 2

    Michael Thompson

  • Selected Poems

    D.M. Thomas

  • Fire Force

    Jack H. Teed

  • Footnote to Murder

    Laurie A. Taylor

  • Brazen Ecstasy

    Janelle Taylor

    SEARING PASSION BOUND THEM TOGETHER -- JEALOUS FATE TORE THEM APART! For four years, green-eyed Alisha Williams had been Princess Shalee, the cherished wife of the Oglala chief Gray Eagle. Still their love was stronger than the surging white water...

  • The House of the Lions

    L. T. Stuart

  • Workin' for Peanuts

    Todd Strasser

  • Closest Place to Heaven

    Lynsey Stevens

    He's got experience written all over him." Shann had warned Kezia, and he was right. For as long as she could remember, Shann was the only man she'd wanted - then she met the enchanting Bligh Devereaux. This stranger aroused an un...

  • The Splendored Sky

    Jeanne Stephens

    THE SPLENDORED SKY still spread its vast canopy above the Montana plains where Amber Rowland had grown up. Back again to run the family ranch, her heart yearned for the man she had loved and left, darkly compelling Austin Kane. As a girl she ha...

  • Royal Charlie

    Robert Steelman

  • Christinas Fantasy

    Blakely St. James

  • Native Intelligence

    Raymond Sokolov

  • Sumitra's Story

    Rukshana Smith

  • The Nagasaki Vector

    L. Neil Smith

    THE GOD THAT FAILED To his bosses at the Ochskahrt Memorial Academy he was Captain Bernard M. Gruenblum, Temporal Division--just another time traveler. But to the aliens from Yamaguchi he was, literally, God. So, if Bernie was going to medieval Ja...

  • Prelude to Love

    Joan Smith

    "WOMEN ARE BORN WITH A KNACK FOR DECEPTION. HOW ELSE COULD THEY EVER GET HUSBANDS TO MARRY THEM?" Deception is the key to Vanessa Bradford's secret mission. Entrusted with a letter of utmost importance to England's security--even survival--Vaness...

  • Twisted Room, the

    Janet Patton Smith

    Could Lisa really die -- twenty years before she’s even born? Marie Worthington has been alone for so long. Someone betrayed Marie and no one listens to her pleas for help -- no one except Lisa Emery, the new girl in town. Lisa wants to help Mar...

  • Reverend Randollph and the Unholy Bible

    Charles Merrill Smith

  • Heart of the River

    Carolyn Slaughter

  • The Tempering

    Gloria Skurzynski

  • Diana's Desire

    Lytton Sinclair

  • The Venice Train

    Georges Simenon

  • Flowers of Desire

    Francine Shore

    "I won't be used by you, Dane Vestry!" Linet Emmonds knew she was a professional, a top TV reporter who'd never failed to get a story. And she wasn't about to ruin her record now, especially not over her latest assignment, self-made business tycoo...

  • Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail

    Louise Shivers

  • Return to Yesterday

    June Lund Shiplett

    PASSION WAS HER POWER, PERIL WAS ITS PRICE Stacey Gordon had escaped the terrors of her odyssey through the Western wilderness. She was back safe in her husband's arms, surrounded by all the comforts of modern civilization. But Stacey could not...

  • The Hard Way Home

    Irwin Shaw

  • The Stalking Horse

    Jon Sharpe

    EVERYONE WAS DYING TO FIND THE BANKER Foxville, in Colorado Territory, was littered with bodies: searchers who tried to find the missing banker, Hugh Caldwell -- and killers who tried to keep his secret. The town didn't cotton to a nosy stranger...

  • Sweet Dreams on Sesame Street

    Sesame Street

  • Secret Lies

    Sarah Sargent

  • The Golden Space

    Pamela Sargent

    THE GOLDEN SPACE In a world rising out of chaos, geneticist Merripen Allen has urged the beautiful Josepha to be inseminated with genetically crafted sperm -- to become one of the mothers of a better, more rational kind of humanity. In this spellbi...

  • Famous All over Town

    Danny Santiago

    The scene is Los Angeles -- but not the LA of sun-drenched beaches or glamorous Hollywood. This is the Los Angeles of the Chicano barrio, where everything in life is stacked against the teenaged hero, Chato Medina, his beleaguered, disintegrating fam...

  • Riding to Greylock

    Stephen Sandy

  • Witches' Sabbath

    Maurice Sachs

  • The First Book of Swords

    Fred Saberhagen

    Thousands of years after a war so terrible that it changed the very laws of nature, gods and giants once again stalk the earth and play their games with human lives......

  • Miss Maggie

    Cynthia Rylant

  • Apocalypse U.S.A.!

    Joseph Rosenberger

  • Zoo Animals

    Michele Chopin Roosevelt

  • Subversive Genealogy

    Michael Paul Rogin

    In this major reconsideration of Herman Melville’s life and work, Michael Paul Rogin shows that Melville’s novels are connected both to the important issues of his time and to the exploits of his patrician and politically prominent family -- whic...

  • Scarlet Poppies

    Janet Louise Roberts

    SHE WAS LIKE THE SCARLET POPPIES ... PROUD ... PASSIONATE ... TRUE ... Beautiful designer Iris Patakos had fulfilled her dream of a career in the fashion capital of the world. But a wealthy, powerful stranger was to sweep her from New York City to...

  • Bandit Gold

    J.R. Roberts

    At her father's request, Clint Adams signs on to escort beautiful Linda Mather to meet her fiance. But the Gunsmith quickly discovers that there's a lot more to worry about than hostile Apaches and Mexican bandidos between Brownsville and Yuma. First...

  • The Chinese Gunmen

    J.R. Roberts

    Black Wind, Arizona is torn apart with prejudice and hatred, fueled by the greed of a ruthless town boss and his hired gunslicks. A nearby colony of Chinese immigrants, the hapless victims of violence, turn to Clint Adams for help. A lovely Oriental ...

  • Taken by Storm

    Kay Robbins

    None of Casey Mallory's scientific training prepared her for Storm Carmichael. A troubleshooter hired to investigate a laboratory accident, Storm made trouble for Casey the moment he walked in the door. From that instant, he wants her. But Ca...

  • Out of Canaan

    Keith A. Rice

    Seventy-two years after the events, Samuel Burley seeks to determine his grandfather's true paternity and his great-grandmother's reasons for deserting and then returning to her Kentucky-farmer husband...

  • Table for Five

    Ron Renauld

  • I'm on My Way Running: Women Speak on Coming of Age

    Lyn Reese

  • Path of the Storm

    Douglas Reeman

    Hong Kong, 1960s: A US submarine-chaser and her captain become entangled with Vietnamese forces on the desolate island group of Payenhau....

  • Kings Treasure

    Mark Ramsay

  • Underneath I'm Different

    Ellen Rabinowich

  • Double, Double

    Ellery Queen

    Ellery Queen pais a visit to Wrightsville, a small New England town he had known from boyhood holidays. His nostalgia for the place was awakened and shaken when he recieved anonymously some cuttings from the Wrightsville Record, a comparison of whi...

  • A Cast of Stars

    Alan Prior

  • The Sinister Airfield

    Alison Prince

  • Kiowa Fires

    Donald Clayton Porter

  • The Candleberry Tree

    Pamela Pope

    Minella owed Sam more than she could ever pay He'd saved her life, and for that Minella Farmer was grateful. But that didn't make her blind to his faults. Sam Stafford was detestable. He used women for his own pleasure. He had a dark se...

  • Out of My League

    George Plimpton

  • To Die in Beverly Hills

    Gerald Petievich

    Treasury Agents Charlie Carr and Jack Kelly, investigating a counterfeiting ring, are tipped off by Det Travis Bailey of the LA police a cool, ruthless cop with some strange tastes in sex and women who warns them of a plot to murder their prime witne...

  • Samantha

    Clarice Peters

    IF ONLY SHE HAD LOOKED INTO HER HEART, SHE WOULD HAVE SEEN THE TRUTH... Lovely Samantha Curtis considered herself on the shelf as far as marriage was concerned. But she was interested in finding a husband for her beautiful younger sister, Miranda....

  • Author from Savage Ppl

    Bette Pesetsky

  • Vulture's Vengeance

    Don Pendleton

    Flying into the face of terror! Mack Bolan knew it was now or never-never land as he reached for the ejection-seat handle. He rocketed into the night above the exploding fighter jet... and directly into the path of his pursuer's lead-spitting plan...

  • No Such Things

    Bill Peet

  • This Family of Women

    Richard Peck

  • Cast a Long Shadow

    Mary Emily Pearce

  • Defiance

    Oliver Payne

    1765. The terrible French and Indian War is over but underneath the fragile peace a new violence simmers. Near Fort Detroit a marauding outlaw band threatens to destroy the flourishing trading company of Owen and Ella Sutherland and their Indian alli...

  • William Morris

    Linda Parry

  • The Widening Gyre

    Robert B. Parker

    The adoring wife of Senate candidate Meade Alexander had a smile as sweet as candy and dotted her i's with little hearts. A blond beauty, she was the perfect mate for an ambitious politician, but she had a little problem with sex and drugs--a problem...

  • Nighthawk

    F.M. Parker

    Russ was just a boy one day and a killer and outlaw the next. Instead of tending his father's cattle and saving to build a ranch of his own, he was fleeing into the desert. It wasn't the path he had chosen. When he killed those two lawmen, he thought...

  • Ala Ka Zot!

    Brant Parker

  • Friends and Lovers

    Diana Palmer

    FROM FRIENDS TO LOVERS They'd been close for years, but suddenly Madeline hungered for John in a new way. When they finally touched, passion set their souls on fire... but their friendship turned to ashes. Now Madeline feared she was no more ...

  • When Love Remains

    Victoria Pade

    When the loss of her family's fortune made it necessary for Hallie Wyatt to marry a stranger, she still clung to the dream that someday she would be wed to Adam Burgess, the man she had always loved. But when her new husband Michael Redmond, returned...

  • Underground Kingdom

    Edward Packard

    DANGER AND ADVENTURE AWAIT YOU IN THE UNDERGROUND KINGDOM! You are exploring the Underground Kingdom, a fantastic and strange world in the center of the earth. As you stand inside the largest cavern you've ever seen, you are amazed at the dazzling...

  • Magic Obsession

    Sara Orwig

    THEY WERE LOCKED IN A BATTLE OF WILLS The unyielding Thorn Catlin was determined to force Sabrina to leave Brazil. She was set on staying--for purely professional reasons. Unforeseen events shook her resolve. Marooned with him in the exotic and...

  • Scapegoat

    Paul Oram

  • Pal Joey

    John O'Hara

    For its 75th anniversary and Frank Sinatra’s centennial: the Jazz Age masterpiece that inspired the iconic Sinatra film and the hit Broadway musical, and featuring the musical’s libretto and lyrics   On the seedy side of Chicago nightlife in...

  • Dust in the Wind

    Richard O'Brien

  • Kajira of Gor

    John Norman

    Kajira means slave-girl in Gorean. But when Tiffany Collins was kidnapped from Earth and brought to that orbital counter-world, she found herself on the throne of a mighty city as its "queen:' Power seemingly was hers, and she did not realize that he...

  • M.V.sexton Speaking

    Suzanne Newton

  • The Chessboard Queen

    Sharan Newman


    In Guinevere, Sharan Newman told us the story of that lovely and legendary woman's childhood up until her wedding night. Guinevere is now the beautiful young wife and queen of King Arthur, a position much-coveted by all women of Camelot. But noth...

  • The Stolen Jew

    Jay Neugeboren

    This story is about Nathan Malkin who returns to New York from a premature retirement in Israel. He bears a heavy baggage of memory - his parents' marriage, the deaths of his wife and son, and his relationship with his brother. Central to his schemes...

  • Dancing Season

    Carla Neggers

    COULD SHE LOVE A MAN WHO EXPECTED HER TO BE THERE ... OR A MAN WHO'D BE THERE FOR HER? For a year, the man in Leah Bradstreet's life had been Jakob Anderson, the celebrated dancer. But romance had to wait for the moments they could find between Ja...

  • Shadows from the Past

    Richard Neely

  • Death of a Dutchman

    Magdalen Nabb

    “The richest mystery here, however, is Florence itself, whose intricate politics and class structure Nabb parses with precision and wit."  -- Washington Post Book WorldSummoned by an aged woman to investigate mysterious noises in the vaca...

  • Greatest of All

    John Mosedale

  • Fantasy Girl

    Carole Mortimer

    " I always get what I want." Adam Thornton's words struck fear into Natalie's heart. For the survival of her modeling agency depended on keeping him and his company happy. Her own sister--Thornton's Cosmetics' Dream Girl--h...

  • Embers of the Sun

    Raye Morgan

    UNFORGETTABLE WORDS "I'm going to win you, Charla, no matter what I have to do!" Artist Charla Evans traveled to Japan to study raku pottery--and to escape an unhappy love. She thought there could never be another ... until tycoon Stephen Conners ...

  • Nicole Around World

    Michel Morgan

  • Crystal Dreams

    Diana Morgan

    They met when her car skidded on ice. She was a cultivated Bostonian, striving toward a Ph.D., he a rough-and-tumble hockey pro, a few goals from the Stanley Cup. Worlds apart, but in one unforgettable moment of passion Mariette and Bull found a priv...

  • Here Lies Gloria Mundy

    Gladys Mitchell

    It deals with witchcraft (three witches - Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley, the Chaucerian Aunt Eglantine, and the mysterious Gloria Mundy, half her hair red, the other half black, her ancestor burnt as a witch). Gloria Mundy arrives unannounced at th...

  • The Peenemunde Raid

    Martin Middlebrook

    The author of The First Day on the Somme recounts Operation Hydra, the British bombing on a Nazi army research center during World War II. On the night of August 17-18, 1943, RAF Bomber Command attacked a remote research establishment on the German B...

  • Oxford Girls

    Barbara Mercer

  • A Woman of Boston

    Alicia Meadowes

  • Targets

    Donald E. McQuinn

    Passed over for promotion to lieutenant colonel, Major Charles Taylor enters a world of undercover espionage that takes him to the bars, brothels, and dives of Saigon as an operative of the Marine Corps Phoenix program...

  • In Suspect Terrain

    John McPhee

    From the outwash plains of Brooklyn to Indiana's drifted diamonds and gold, John McPhee's In Suspect Terrain is a narrative of the earth, told in four sections of equal length, each in a different way reflecting the three others-- a biography; a set ...

  • The Quest of the Riddlemaster

    Patricia A. McKillip

  • Legacy of Love

    Tate McKenna

    Was she doomed to endure a marriage she had never wanted to a man she hardly knew? Morgana Cassity had no choice -- not this time -- not if she meant to keep the little that was hers. Her portion of the vast Cassity empire was the run-down Rocking...

  • Captive of Fate

    Lindsay McKenna

    Alanna went to Costa Rica to meet Colonel Matt Breckenridge with all the wrong motives. She had been sent to expose him, but in the end she exposed only her own heart, her own vulnerability where he was concerned. She fell in love with the arrogan...

  • Worth Avenue

    John McIlvain

    Thirty years of life in high society at the exclusive resort of Palm Beach are viewed through the eyes of Christine Davenport, a young widow who must decide between true happiness and illusions of desire and wealth...

  • Fisher's Hornpipe

    Todd McEwen

  • The Natural Man

    Ed McClanahan

    In Needmore, Kentucky, in the late 1940s, bookish high school senior Harry Eastep is appointed mentor to Monk McHorning, the hulking hope of the high school basketball team, in a comic novel about the pains of youth and the possibilities of integrity...

  • Beauty and the Beast

    Ed McBain

    When beautiful Michelle Harper is found brutally murdered and her husband is charged with the crime, lawyer Matthew Hope becomes involved in the case, which leads him into the tawdry world of Gulf Coast "social clubs." Reprint....

  • Ice

    Ed McBain

    The path to the truth is as slippery as ice--in a city whose heart is just as cold. The cops of this precinct know that anyone can be a victim. Anyone can be a perp. And killers keep killing until you put them on... Once she'd been a dancer. Now s...

  • No Enemy but Time

    Evelyn Wilde Mayerson

  • Red Sun Girl

    Jean Marzollo

  • Triangle

    Sondra Marshak

    KIRK'S SOUL ... SPOCK'S LIFE A dark plan has been unleashed in the galaxy, a design so vast, only a collective--and ruthless--mind like the Totality could have conceived it. Now, CaptairT Kirk must battle the seductive force of the Totality's will...

  • Deborah's Legacy

    Stephen Marlowe

    Deborah was young and innocent; Benton was worldly and experienced. Hers was a quiet fire; his was and inferno or rage and revenge. But as the world rumbled with the thunder of battle, they were struck by the lightning of passion. A moment's attra...

  • Video Wars

    Stephen Manes

    From the author of The Obnoxious Jerks, a tale of hardcore gamers who try to keep their town from banning arcades . . .

    It's 1983, long before the heyday of personal computers and home consoles, so the only serious videogames are the wildly po...

  • Brand of Diamonds

    Ann Major

    Lannie was no longer the woman who had wanted Brandon for what he was worth, not for the man he was. This time she saw beneath the glitter and longed to build a life with him. This time, she vowed, when he gave her diamonds they would not he the p...

  • Ancient Evenings

    Norman Mailer

    Norman Mailer’s dazzlingly rich, deeply evocative novel of ancient Egypt breathes life into the figures of a lost era: the eighteenth-dynasty Pharaoh Rameses and his wife, Queen Nefertiti; Menenhetet, their creature, lover, and victim; and the gods...

  • Seven Kisses in a Row

    Patricia MacLachlan

    It's not fair, Emma thinks, for her parents to go away (for five whole days) and leave her with an aunt and uncle she hardly knows. What if they don't like children? But Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Eliot like Emma and her brother, Zachary, just fine. They ...

  • Flight of the Shadow

    George MacDonald

    An eerie and mysterious gothic romance steeped in family secrets and deception from the Victorian-era author of The Portent and Lilith.   MacDonald’s second realistic novel written in the first person by a fictional female narrator, The Flight...

  • The Conduct of Major Maxim

    Gavin Lyall

    The battle-scarred Major Harry Maxim, Intelligence aide at Number 10 Downing Street, must find what links a deserting corporal, East German politics, a double killing in West Germany, a South London fight club, and a widowed Yorkshire piano teacher...

  • The False Inspector Dew

    Peter Lovesey

    Alma Webster's passionate love affair with dentist Walter Baranov leads to the murder of his wife, the couple's journey to the United States, and a shipboard murder that Walter is asked to investigate...

  • The Death of Iron Horse

    Warren T. Longtree

  • The Canvas Falcons

    Stephen Longstreet

    A history of the men and machines who fought the pioneer aerial combats of World War I, which includes first-hand reports from pilots and looks at the famous aces, such as Baron Richthofen and Mick Mannock....

  • The Jackson Hole Trouble

    Jake Logan

    ALL SLOCUM CARED ABOUT WAS A PRETTY WOMAN IN HIS BED at night and a job to bring the money in. If "Colonel Smith" wanted him to kidnap President Chester A. Arthur, that was all right by him -- especially when Smith was paying him fifty thousand dolla...

  • Book of Pigericks

    Arnold Lobel

  • The Baron's Woman

    Catherine Linden

    In a snowy castle high in the Austrian Alps, she found a passion that set her heart on fire. An Icy Wonderland of Love & Intrigue The first time she saw Baron Erich von Rothmann, young Marisa Hall fairly trembled with the strange new sensations...

  • Shadow of the Mountain

    Pamela Lind

    LOVE'S LEGACY Shelley Grant had vowed to run her small mining company alone, but Deke Jordan had rights that were not to be ignored. How could she feel that her land was her own so long as this rugged man could lay equal claim? And how could she f...

  • Here Today, Dead Tomorrow

    Elliot Lewis

  • Splendor and Misery

    Faye Levine

  • The Silly Kid Jokebook

    Caroline Levine

  • Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire

    Doris Lessing

    From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the fifth and final instalment in the visionary novel cycle 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. 'The Sentimental Agents ...' is set in the declining Volyen Empire as the empires of Sirius and Sh...

  • Stowaway

    Constance Leonard

    On what has to be a perfect cruise, sailing around the Bahamas in convoy with Pete Sturtevant and his important charter passengers, Tracy James discovers something even worse than a rat aboard the Kitten Too: Tessa, a small, terrified human stowaway,...

  • Dance of the Hag

    Stephen Leigh

    The Assassins' Code On the bloodsoaked feudal world of Neweden, the Hoorka assassins' guild has survived by adherence to a strict code of honor. Lethal killers, shadowy black-robed agents of destruction, they are pledged to give Fate a chance to ...

  • Nightmare Lake

    Carl Laymon

  • I Am Adopted

    Susan Lapsley

  • Moment of Madness

    Patricia Lake

    "You're blinded by adolescent dreams! " The memory of Jase's humiliating rejection still cut Lexa to the quick. True, as a teenager she had worshiped her handsome stepbrother with the idolatry usually reserved for rock stars. Bu...

  • Trail of the Unicorn

    Cathryn Ladame

    SHE FOLLOWED HER DREAMS... During her first year out of college Lesley had enjoyed working in public relations for her Uncle Graham Chadwick, the director of the Unicorn society Institute. Now she felt that it was time for her to go out and work i...

  • The Lonesome Gods

    Louis L'Amour

    Here is the fascinating story of Johannes Verne, a young man left to die by his vengeful grandfather, rescued by outlaws and raised in part by the Indians of the desert. Strengthened by the love of two women--Miss Nesselrode, whose mysterious past fi...

  • Woof Woof

    Steven Kroll

  • Phantoms

    Dean Koontz

    CLOSER... They found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred fifty were dead, 350 missing. But the terror had only begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, Califor...

  • The Year of Living Dangerously

    C.J. Koch

  • Love on Any Terms

    Nell Kincaid

    Anger. Fear. Fury. She had been prepared to feel anything but her own answering desire as he took her in his arms offering everything--everything she had ever wanted.... Jennifer Preston studied him with care. Joe Brennan, creative maverick of th...

  • Assault With Intent

    William X. Kienzle

    SEND A PRIEST TO HEAVEN Four rather clumsy assassins stalk the seminaries of Detroit. Only luck has so far stopped them from killing a priest. But time runs short, and murder lies within their vicious grasp. Who's behind this quartet of killers...

  • Shadow of Death

    William X. Kienzle

    "Another Kienzle top seller. Excellent in style and story. Original and timely." -- Lucy Freeman, Mystery Writers of AmericaFrom William X. Kienzle, author of the classic mystery, The Rosary Murders.A bizarre plot to destroy the papacy seems to be t...

  • Who Is Felix the Great

    Ronald Kidd

  • The Ardent Protector

    Amanda Kent

    Headstrong and sharp-tongued, Lady Rosanna Wythe felt equal to the challenge posed by the Earl of Leighton. A notorious rake, he had proclaimed himself guardian of her and her twin sisters and whisked them off to London. But Rosanna resolved to have ...

  • Orchard Cat

    Steven Kellogg

  • Gunner Cade

    Cyril Judd

    Tor / Pinnacle, 1983. Mass market paperback. First published as a serial in Astounding Magazine in 1952, then published in book form the same year. "Cyril Judd" is a pseudonym of C. M. Kornbluth and Judith Merril. "Gunner Cade is a minor classic if ...

  • Libertine Lady

    Janet Joyce

    BETROTHED TO A STRANGER Four years ago, Christina Bristol was wrenched from her home in England by a man who claimed her as his daughter. Benjamin Bristol demanded that she obey his dictates or else her beloved grandparents would feel the full for...

  • Winter Lady

    Janet Joyce

    SPELLBOUND When Raine Morgan awakened, she found that the man who had saved her life when she lost her way skiing in Minnesota's desolate northern hills was none other than America's heartthrob, Devlin Paige, singer, composer...and every w...

  • In the Arms of a Stranger

    Deborah Joyce

    "Know your enemy," the handsome stranger warns, but, as a storm rages outside, trapping them together, Laurel neglects the threat to the lighthouse that shelters them. She forgets her routines and responsibilities, drawn to this man whose thr...

  • Desire's Captive

    Penny Jordan

    Her worst fears had come true Being kidnapped by political terrorists was the realization of Saffron Wykeham's worst nightmares. And to be taken to an isolated primitive farmhouse and subjected to the volatile dangerous temperaments of her cap...

  • The Devil's Heart

    William W. Johnstone

    It was in the summer of 1958 that the horror surfaced in the town of Whitfield, erupting like a festering boil, spewing its corruption on everyone near it. Those who survived the terror remember it as the summer of The Digging -- the time when the ho...

  • Black Wedding

    Priscilla Jenkins

  • Where My Love Lies Dreaming

    Amanda Jean Jarrett

    Plundered of his birthright, a young Southerner fights for a new life and a sensuous girl pledged to the memory of his lost brother. MEN AND WOMEN OF A RAVISHED LAND--DREAMING OF AN OLD LOVE AND A NEW LIFE Stripped of rank and fortune, Thaddeus...

  • The Melting Heart

    Claudia Jameson

    It wasn't that the job was difficult! It was April's employer who baffled her -- Comte Emile Jacquot de Nimes, popular novelist, one-time acclaimed artist, at present a recluse. His wounded soul broke her heart, and somehow she must sho...

  • Death Ride

    William M. James

  • Affair of Honor

    Stephanie James

    A QUESTION OF HONOR Icy silver eyes held her captive until Ryder Sterne decided that his lovely prisoner wasn't a trespasser after all. But the electric encounter between the daredevil writer and beautiful philosophy professor Brenna Llewellyn...

  • The Emerald Land

    Livia James

    Lovely red-haired Siobhan Carey's family was murdered before her eyes... It all started in Ireland, when Siobhan, not knowing the power of her own passions, nearly surrendered to the stable boy. Her father caught them and his beating of the boy br...

  • Cosmic Carnage

    Symon Jade

  • Royal Flush

    Margaret Irwin

    This is not an historical novel in the ordinary sense. It is something new: the life of an actual royal family, whose story is so rich and varied that it falls naturally into the form of a modern novel.

    The heroine is Princess Henrietta of ...

  • Little Red Riding Hood

    Trina Schart Hyman

    A Caldecott Honor Book A Golden Kite Award -- Picture Book A stunning edition of the classic fairy tale, reimagined and illustrated by a Caldecott medalist. Traveling alone, deep in the woods, Elisabeth suspects her basket of treats isn’t the only ...

  • Murder at the Academy Awards

    Joe Hyams

  • You'll Soon Grow into Them, Titch

    Pat Hutchins

    When little Titch outgrows his clothes, he receives hand-me-downs from his brother and sister that are too big. "You'll soon grow into them," they say. But Mother decrees that Titch needs some brand-new clothes. Soon it is his turn to say to someo...

  • The Day They Stole the Queen Mary

    Terence Hughes

    Aboard the "Queen Mary," carrying Winston Churchill to a meeting with Roosevelt and one thousand Nazi prisoners bound for American camps, a fanatic German agent executes a plan to kidnap Churchill and change the course of the war...

  • A Silent Wonder

    Samantha Hughes

    She was burned by moonlight, scorched by the searing kisses of the devastating actor she'd been hired to direct. And now Penny Phillips had to work with him -- Joel Sanborne -- the volatile star of the soap opera Dream of Life. There was dange...

  • Eppie

    Margo Howard

  • The Law and Lynchburg

    Ray Hogan

  • The Last Enemy

    Richard Hillary

    This is the true story of Second World War fighter pilot, Richard Hillary. After being shot down in September 1940, Hillary spent several months in hospital, undergoing numerous operations; a member of Archibald McIndoe's 'Guinea Pig Club'. Originall...

  • The Bright Blue Sky

    Max Hennessy

    One day in 1914, a young man took to the air, and a legend was born...Dicken Quinney never forgot that first flight in a fragile contraption of sealing-wax and string, the start of a lifelong obsession with flying.He was to spend the next four years ...

  • Paradise

    Dan Henderson

  • Angry Mountain

    Larry Healey

    Ordered by his father to work for Harry and Vita Dane, volcano experts who are monitoring Mount Dominica's anticipated eruption, arrogant, sixteen-year-old Doug Morley confronts danger from a variety of sources...

  • A Surfeit of Suitors

    Barbara Hazard

    TORN BETWEEN GOOD SENSE--AND HER SENSES At the age of twenty-five, Lady Georgina Spalding was too old to play the girlish fool in love--yet too young not to respond to the shocking but undeniably arousing advances of the handsome visitor from Virg...

  • An Act of Love // Innocent Victim

    Brooke Hastings

    The act of mistaken anger that led Luke Griffin to "kidnap" Randy Dunne soon gave way to a cresting wave of passion that swept them both into a fiery embrace from which there was no turning back. Yet before the game could be played out and their f...

  • Dealer of Death

    Dane Hartman

  • Wild Rhapsody

    Shirley Hart

    Tall, lean, and powerful, he towered over her -- Ross Leyton, the man who had put an end to all her childish, innocent dreams.... The Thousand islands -- was it a thousand years ago, or only ten? She had been seventeen that summer, a girl who beli...

  • Passion's Child

    Fiona Harrowe

    She was willful, wanton, and very beautiful... What can you expect, people said. She was her mother's daughter. Sweeping from 19th-century New Orleans to glamorous San Francisco to the California gold fields and Virginia during the Civil war, here is...

  • Proud Man

    R.E. Harrington

  • Woman up the Corporate Ladder

    Angela Harper

  • Bibles, Bullets and Brides

    J.D. Hardin

  • The Tennis Handsome

    Barry Hannah

  • Noble Descents

    Gerald Hanley

  • The Quirinal Hill Affair

    Barbara Hambly

  • The Walls of Air

    Barbara Hambly

    The City of Illusions Three thousand years before, the monstrous Dark had sprung from loathsome underground lairs to destroy most of humanity. Now they were again ravening and ruining in their blood-hunger. Only a few thousand people had managed t...