Books Published in March 1983

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — MARCH 1983

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New Books List: 341 titles

  • Out of My League

    George Plimpton

  • A Thousand Clowns

    Herb Gardner

  • Lion

    William Du Bois

  • Miss Maggie

    Cynthia Rylant

  • Red Sun Girl

    Jean Marzollo

  • Marigold Monster

    Michael Delaney / M.C. Delaney

  • Woof Woof

    Steven Kroll

  • Swamp Monsters

    Mary Blount Christian

  • Orchard Cat

    Steven Kellogg

  • The Silly Kid Jokebook

    Caroline Levine

  • Sumitra's Story

    Rukshana Smith

  • 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....

  • No Such Things

    Bill Peet

  • Native Intelligence

    Raymond Sokolov

  • Vanishing Acts

    Linda Crawford

  • 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 ...

  • William Morris

    Linda Parry

  • 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...

  • Olga Takes Charge

    Michael Bond

  • The Tales of Olga da Polga

    Michael Bond

    Olga da Polga has left the pet shop to start a new life with her owners. Her home is now a large and airy hutch and it''s not long before she meets Noel the cat, Fangio the hedgehog, and Graham the tortoise. Her garden companions soon discover that O...

  • Olga Meets Her Match

    Michael Bond

    Olga da Polga goes visiting and meets Boris, a Russian guinea-pig. Olga and Boris become firm friends and Olga is surprised to discover that Boris can tell even taller tales than she can! Soon the time comes for her to return to her own garden, but...

  • The Hard Way Home

    Irwin Shaw

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • White Gold Wielder

    Stephen R. Donaldson

    "...I WANT YOU TO GO BACK TO THE LAND. TO REVELSTONE. AND STOP THE CLAVE. PUT OUT THE BANEFIRE. IF YOU DO THAT, SUNBANE'LL SLOW DOWN. MAYBE IT'LL EVEN RECEDE. THAT'LL GIVE US TIME TO LOOK FOR A BETTER ANSWER." Thomas Covenant was shocked by Linden...

  • Moment of the Rose

    Maryhelen Clague

    When spirited, beautiful Eleanor MacClaren first met Douglas Brennon, she was only sixteen years old. Worse, she was the daughter of a British Major and Brennon was an American soldier in the colonial army. Their passion for each other was honeycombe...

  • Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes

    Roald Dahl

    Dahl's satirical reworkings of six classic fairy tales reveal the true stories of "Cinderella," "Jack and the Beanstalk," "Goldilocks," "Snow White," "Little Red Riding Hood," and "The Three Little Pigs"...

  • 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....

  • Water World

    William Appel

  • Ala Ka Zot!

    Brant Parker

  • A.MACLEAN HOSTAGE TOWR

    John Denis

  • Ernie's Little Lie

    Dan Elliott

  • Sweet Dreams on Sesame Street

    Sesame Street

  • Riding to Greylock

    Stephen Sandy

  • King Kong

    Judith Conaway

  • And Blow Your House Down

    Emma Goldrick

    She couldn't hide her feelings for him Because of the peculiar terms of an eccentric old lady's will, Sara Susan Anderson was being virtually forced to live for six months in John Englewood's house. "I'm not your judge,"...

  • 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...

  • Who Is Felix the Great

    Ronald Kidd

  • The Ice Raid

    Richard Cox

  • 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...

  • Fires of Scorpio

    Alan Burt Akers

    Triple trouble always dogged Dray Prescot, especially when he thought he had things under control. This time, involved with setting things right on the continent of Pandahem, the Star Lords yank him away from his friends, and dump him, weaponless, at...

  • Death Ride

    William M. James

  • Candles and Caviar

    Nancy Bacon

  • Beautiful Dreamer

    Cynthia Blair

  • Once a Lover

    Diana Anthony

    He had never seen the woman he loved. He did not know she carried his child. Lainie's artistic talent was the toast of New York. But she would have traded all her success for the golden beauty of her sister. Then she met Jean Paul, the sports superst...

  • Winter's Love Song

    Karen A. Bale

    WOMAN OF WAR Aeneva stood as tall as a man and shot as straight as a brave. The stunning Cheyenne woman was only fifteen summers old but she was fearless in battle and certain in love. With a heart of stone she could kill a vicious foe; and with ...

  • Knave of Hearts

    Philippa Carr

    Charlotte d'Aubigne Lottie came to her father's home in France a girl -- but with a woman's beauty and desires. Lonely for her beloved English countryside, estranged from the boy she had always adored, she was soon to be swept away by the glitter...

  • Love Chase

    Theresa Conway

    NO ONE COULD MAKE HIM GIVE UP HIS FREEDOM. Brianne O'Neill had fallen in love instantly with the mysterious Pierce Nolan. His indifferent response to her overtures only strengthened her resolve to humble this proud man. He had never been faith...

  • Silken Rapture

    Cassie Edwards

    Young, sultry Glenda knew nothing of love -- and even less of handsome Read deBaulieu. But when the untouched beauty met his bold, flashing gaze and saw his virile, masculine form, she didn't care that he would be leaving soon. She wanted him, an...

  • The Sydney Circle

    Alice Ekert-Rotholz

    Architect Alexander Rigby, his British wife, his best friend, and his mistress become entangled in a web of passion, ambition, and murder set against the background of the Australian Outback and urban Sydney...

  • Tender Taming

    Heather Graham

    A fine beginning! It was pitch-dark, raining snakes and alligators, and she was totally lost -- stumbling blindly through the treacherous Everglades! PR Director Whitney Latham had been confident she could pave the way for a modem housing developm...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Nightmare Lake

    Carl Laymon

  • Cosmic Carnage

    Symon Jade

  • The Varkaus Conspiracy

    John Dalmas

    Who was he, this Johnny McKennah? When the government found out who he was and what he planned they knew he had to be stopped. But, even if you're willing to pay any price, how do you stop an invasion of supermen?...

  • Twilight World

    Poul Anderson

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • This Bittersweet Love

    Barbara Andrews

    In the space of one nippy November afternoon she'd lost her coveted spinning wheel -- utterly outbid at auction -- and now she was losing her heart -- utterly undone by a stranger's charm. Sara Gilman bristled at the danger. Growing up as ...

  • Relentless Desire // Shadows of Yesterday

    Sandra Brown

    Alone, afraid, beautiful Leigh Bransom was about to deliver her child beside a deserted Texas highway. Gratefully she accepted the help of a handsome, dirt-streaked stranger...and in the excitement of the moment a special feeling sparked between them...

  • Her Ladyship's Companion

    Joanna Bourne / Joanna Watkins Bourne

    Cornwall, 1818 LOVE AND PERIL ON THE CLIFFS OF CORNWALL Beautiful Melissa Rivenwood was leaving Mrs. Brody's Seminary for the Daughters of Gentlemen for a new life. But when she accepted the position as companion to the formidable Lady Doro...

  • An Affair to Remember

    Barbara Cameron

    Affairs. They were her specialty. Catered affairs. Most particularly weddings. Among her clients Diana Leighton numbered many good friends, not to mention her own very-much-married mother: No one knew more about tying beautiful matrimonial knots t...

  • Lyon's Pride

    Mary Shura Craig

    They were the family Lyon. Strong. Sure. Gifted. Cursed... They sailed from embattled England to America's shores, aristocratic exiles in the land of the common man. But not even an ocean could heal the breach of a house divided against itself, a ...

  • Scenes from the Heart

    Marie Charles

    In the beginning they lived on love and dreams. Then success divided them...jealousy tore them further apart...distrust led to the final break. Adam left -- and Bridgette told herself she didn't miss him. Later, the head of Bounty Studios insi...

  • Separate Cabins

    Janet Dailey

    A WEEK... OR FOREVER? Rachel MacKinley's thriving furniture business had been her whole world until, during a vacation cruise to the Mexican Riviera, she was forced to share a cabin with handsome, dark-eyed Gardner MacKinley. Gard was convince...

  • To Touch a Dream

    Christina Crockett

    DRAWN BY LONGING, DRIVEN APART BY DOUBT Dark and compelling Ben Andress was a temptation Natalie had not anticipated when she chose to work as a charter captain in the Florida Keys. Had he not been such an enigma -- passionate yet coldly secret...

  • Proud Surrender

    Casey Douglas

    THEIR LOVE WAS CHAINED BYA LEGACY OF BITTERNESS Veterinarian Kit Shannon was struggling to build her dream: a game reserve on the African land she'd inherited. But opposing her was Devin Michaels, as bold and rugged as magnificent Mount Kenya. ...

  • Fast Courting

    Billie Douglass

    Journalist Nia Phillips' assignment to interview the five most eligible bachelors on the East Coast introduced her to Daniel Strahan, head coach of a top Boston basketball team. Daniel had no desire to be interviewed -- and then no intention of ...

  • Flight of Fancy

    Laura Eden

    IT WAS AN OFFER SHE COULDN'T REFUSE. Lisa Ashton wanted only two things in life: her independence and to become a commercial pilot. There was no room for a man especially not devastatingly handsome Serge Devereaux, a notorious womanizer...a ma...

  • Dear Doubter

    Jeanette Ernest

    Golf pro Jason Gerard's playboy reputation hadn't prevented Chesten Malone from agreeing to paint his portrait, but she was on her guard. She told herself that his gentle teasing was a con man's pitch, that the passion in his dark eyes was not for he...

  • Endless Passion

    Carol Finch

    GOLDEN-EYED ENCHANTRESS With sparkling amber eyes and long, lustrous, midnight-black hair, Brianna Talbert was the most sought after beauty in Bristol. The sensuous temptress found all her suitors boring and longed for the blazing fires of rapture...

  • A Business Affair

    Glenna Finley

    Love’s Choice When her sister Janet's wedding plans suddenly changed, lovely Paige Kendall agreed to go to Oregon and run Janet's secretarial business for a few weeks. But she had her work cut out for her with client Alan Bayne, who hire...

  • If Ever You Need Me

    Paula Fulford

    STAR-MAKER, HEARTBREAKER When Julia Somers stepped off the stage in triumph, producer Roy Allison came from the backstage shadows to offer her the chance of a lifetime -- a demanding but star-making part in his next movie. Roy's kisses were a...

  • Spring Fever

    Simone Hadary

    That spring, Robbie burst into her life like a fever in the blood--one day nothing, the next, a yearning unlike anything Cathy had experienced in the ten years since her divorce. At 35, mother of four, she'd given up her romantic dreams. It took Robb...

  • Serenade for a Lost Love

    Jocelyn Haley

    SHE NEVER WANTED TO SEE HIM AGAIN.... Diana hadn't seen Rhys Morgan in ten years--not since their tumultuous three-day affair. What erupted between them so long ago had been impossible to resist. Before he even spoke to her she knew she wanted...

  • Sunset in Paradise

    Carole Halston

    THEY WERE WORLDS APART. Fran Bright led a charmed life. She lived year-round in her aunt's house in the heavenly resort of Key West, playing music on the pier for tourists, swimming, sunning, laughing with her friends. But her carefree days seemed...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Miss Bede Is Staying

    Anna Gilbert

    Florence, a lovely, kind hearted young lady who gives up her position as teacher to the poor children of her town to marry a well-to-do young gentleman and move up in the world to a house he has inherited. Far from anyone they know, Florence tries he...

  • The Quirinal Hill Affair

    Barbara Hambly

  • Murder at the Academy Awards

    Joe Hyams

  • 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...

  • Shadows from the Past

    Richard Neely

  • Reverend Randollph and the Unholy Bible

    Charles Merrill Smith

  • 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...

  • Their Evil Ways

    John William Wainwright

  • 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...

  • Voice of the Heart

    Barbara Taylor Bradford

    With her stunning beauty, brilliant talent, and almost magical allure, the irresistible Katherine Tempest has the world at her feet. Her rise from unknown actress to Hollywood legend is one marked by dazzling performances and a carefully concealed, y...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Other Child

    Joanne Fluke

    A HUNDRED YEARS AGO... A small boy huddled in the dark. His mother had promised she would never leave him...not in this awful house...not in this terrible town. But she was dead. Gone. And he was alone. Trapped. With no one to answer his desperate c...

  • 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...

  • The Tapestry Warriors

    Cherry Wilder

  • New Guys Around the Block

    Rosa Guy

    Harlem teenager Imamu Jones, repainting his mother's apartment, hoping to help her overcome her alcoholism, is troubled as he begins to suspect one of his friends may be guilty of a series of burglaries and other crimes....

  • Goodbye Goliath

    Elliott Chaze

  • The Amazing Adventure of Dan the Pawn

    Simon Garrow

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Stonewalkers

    Vivien Alcock

    Poppy Brown has such a tendency to make up stories that only her loyal friend Emma believes the amazing news Poppy tells her: One of the statues on the estate where her mother works has been struck by lightning and has come to life! Belladonna, as Po...

  • Tales of the Gold Monkey Storybook

    Judy Alexander

  • The Winds of Change and Other Stories

    Isaac Asimov

    Asimov at his best! A 21-story salute featuring:
    * A levitating professor
    * Alien traders bringing something to sell
    * A black hole hurtling toward Earth
    * The universe being created
    * And many other matters of great import!...

  • The Washington Square Ensemble

    Madison Smartt Bell

    New York City's Washington Square is the cruising ground of small-town drug dealer Johnny B. Goode, his main man, Holy Mother, his Black Muslim enforcer, a Puerto Rican voodooist, and the storytelling Porco Miserio...

  • The Avenging Angel

    Rex Burns

    Homicide Detective Gabe Wager is faced with a murder that leads him from Denver to southwest Colorado and into the tangled and secretive relationships of polygamist cults. This novel was the basis of the Charles Bronson movie, "Messenger of Death."...

  • The Copperdust Hills

    Richard Clarke

  • Don't Mention the Moon

    Richard Cohen

  • The Ladies of Beverly Hills

    Sharleen Cooper Cohen

    Four women are linked by a passion for the same man, Belson McKintridge, a legendary screen idol and notorious womanizer. McKintridge risks everything for one desperate, international scam, setting forces in motion that will change the ladies' exotic...

  • War Comes to Willy Freeman

    James Lincoln Collier

    Willy Freeman’s life changes forever when she witnesses her father’s death at the hands of the Redcoats and returns home to find that the British have taken her mother as a prisoner to New York City. Willy, disguised as a boy, begins her long sea...

  • We Love Glenda So Much

    Julio Cortazar

    In settings ranging from the Buenos Aires subway to a luxurious Martinique resort, stories by an Argentinian master blend unsettling suspense, intellectual play, clever fantasy, and intense emotional conflict...

  • Dancing Bear

    James Crumley

    Detective Milodragovitch spends too much time boozing until he gets caught up in a case involving two-bit criminals and an old lady on the run....

  • The Unbeheaded King

    L. Sprague de Camp

  • Terrible Things Could Happen

    Ned Delaney

  • A Cure for Living

    Colin Douglas

  • The Angkor Massacre

    Loup Durand

    A Frenchman whose family has lived in Cambodia for eight generations stands, in 1969, at the center of a complex, international cast of characters, all of whom are drawn into the maelstrom of a country on the brink of revolution...

  • Heartburn

    Nora Ephron

    Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes. For in this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of ...

  • Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

    Richard Farina

    Fariña evokes the Sixties as precisely, wittily, and poignantly as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the Jazz Age. The hero, Gnossus Pappadopoulis, weaves his way through the psychedelic landscape, encountering -- among other things -- mescaline, women, ...

  • The Easter Bunny That Overslept

    Priscilla Friedrich

  • Mr. Wink and His Shadow, Ned

    Dick Gackenbach

  • Git Along, Old Scudder

    Stephen Gammell

  • Follow Me!

    Mordicai Gerstein

  • Requiem for a Spy

    Alberto Giovannetti

  • The First Time I Saw Jenny Hall

    Eric Goodman

  • Them That Glitter and Them That Don't

    Bette Greene

  • This Year in Jerusalem

    Joel Gross

    Jerusalem, 1947.  A tortured city, torn between Arab and Jew, seething with ancient antagonisms, awaiting only the withdrawal of British forces before bursting into all-out war.

    A tale of heroic adventure, and a deeply moving story by the aut...

  • Just Relations

    Rodney Hall

    Once a wild gold mining town, Whitey's Fall is now a small, brooding community of close and distant relations. One by one, the young are leaving for the alluring uncertainties of the world beyond. The old stay on, steadfast in their pride and sense o...

  • The Tennis Handsome

    Barry Hannah

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Black Wedding

    Priscilla Jenkins

  • I Am Adopted

    Susan Lapsley

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • No Enemy but Time

    Evelyn Wilde Mayerson

  • 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...

  • Fisher's Hornpipe

    Todd McEwen

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • This Family of Women

    Richard Peck

  • Author from Savage Ppl

    Bette Pesetsky

  • The Sinister Airfield

    Alison Prince

  • A Cast of Stars

    Alan Prior

  • Underneath I'm Different

    Ellen Rabinowich

  • 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...

  • Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail

    Louise Shivers

  • Workin' for Peanuts

    Todd Strasser

  • Footnote to Murder

    Laurie A. Taylor

  • Selected Poems

    D.M. Thomas

  • Watchdogs

    John Weisman

  • The Tunnel to Yesterday

    Jerome Beatty

    PAST OR PRESENT? When Sam Churchill went to Plymouth, Massachusetts, to work for the summer, he had no idea he'd been summoned to help solve the centuries-old mystery of the dreaded Tinkerton Curse. Working with the reknowned archaeologist Potter B....

  • Death in Willow Pattern

    W.J. Burley

  • Hide and Go Die

    Nick Carter

  • The Case of the Sliding Pool

    E.V. Cunningham

    A rare California deluge unearths a hidden body - and a decades-old crime

    Rain has spoiled Masao Masuto''s vacation. For six days the storm has trapped the Zen Buddhist detective and his family inside their Los Angeles cottage. By the morni...