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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — MAY 1981

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New Books List: 229 titles


  • Randy Striker

    In a stunning move, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro has allowed thousands of his people to board boats and depart for America in what comes to be known as the Mariel Boatlift. But Castro is also exporting the worst criminals and undesirables of his socia...




  • R.A. Montgomery

    ARE YOU BRAVE ENOUGH TO TAKE THE MAGIC POTION AND TRAVEL BACK IN TIME? You are in Mexico. You've come to explore the ruins of the ancient and mysterious Mayan Indians, whose civilization disappeared 800 years ago. Many before you have tried to so...




  • Joseph Rosenberger

    A furtive investigation by US scientists reveals a string of nuclear devices buried deep below the ocean floor - coincidentally right in line with the area most susceptible to both earthquakes and volcanoes: The Rim of Fire! Only the Russians could h...





  • Laura Hardy

    SHE WANTED ALL HIS LOVE. Nicola's had never been a real marriage; Steve's real wife had been his job, and she only his mistress. He thrived on the dangerous life of a foreign correspondent until one day she gave him a choice: he could keep...



  • Jean Hager

    She was the veterinarian newly come to claim her job on the largest quarter-horse ranch in Texas. He was the boss who thought he had hired a man. Dr. Leigh Alexander expected trouble before she even met Shane Casey, but she never expected to be as...



  • Anne Mather

    The reunion was almost unbearable Ashley Gauthier could hardly believe she was actually seeing her son. Circumstances had forced her to give him up at birth seven years earlier to her deceased husband's wealthy Arab family. Now the unexpect...



  • Rosalie Henaghan

    Quitting her job wasn't good enough Frances was shattered when she learned the man she'd fallen for was already married. She broke off with him immediately -- then decided to get so far away there'd be no danger of running into him aga...



  • Zelda Popkin



  • Tess Oliver

    SHE TOOK A GAMBLE ON LOVE... . Leigh Mallory knew that Dow Madigan was a man to be reckoned with from the first moment he had strolled arrogantly into her California office. His East Coast reserve had angered her, but his gentle touch had opened h...



  • Roumelia Lane

    Grown-up hearts could be badly broken... Laraine was tired of being treated like a child--she was nineteen, with a woman's feelings! But how could she convince Neal Hansen of that? Neal claimed not to believe in love, yet Laraine sensed his...



  • Katherine Kent

    Away from the Hollywood madness, one man, one woman, one passion--might live forever! SHE WAS READY TO FORGET TINSELTOWN...ALL THE GLITTER, ALL THE DECEIT, AND EVERYONE! Beautiful Hollywood photographer Liz Holly had finally had enough--the gla...



  • Susan Cheever



  • Lynna Cooper

    A young career woman inherits an adventure on the high seas and a fortune in love Sea Mates When lovely young Amy Bancroft boarded the Sea Witch, she was still marveling over her new inheritance. Imagine, her own boat, and a cabin in Maine with...



  • Nora Roberts

    "COME TO AMERICA. YOUR HOME IS WITH ME NOW." Adelia Cunnane's uncle had written her. So Adelia had left Ireland to join him on what he had described as the finest horse farm in Maryland. Adelia agreed with her uncle about the farm. But what ...



  • Diane Masters Watson



  • Kerry Allyne

    The relationship was strictly platonic! Kylie was thoroughly enjoying her job as chauffeur/companion to the gentlemanly Grant Brandon -- until she met his nephew. Race Brandon frankly disapproved of his relative's "arrangement" wi...



  • Amii Lorin

    Wealthy and beautiful Samantha Denning was an independent woman who was determined to stay that way. But when her father died, his will included the shocking stipulation that she marry within five months or lose her inheritance. To solve her problem,...



  • Lynda Ward

    DRIVEN BY HER HEART'S BETRAYAL, SHE SOUGHT REVENGE AGAINST LOVE SHE KNEW THE PAIN OF LOVING WAS INEVITABLE Marriage had left Megan emotionally shattered-her faith in men destroyed as her husband, Erich, had destroyed himself. Now, years ...



  • Jane Peart

    Shocked by her broken engagement, Cameron Forrest blindly accepted Justin Bradford's offer to come to Gull's Glen and paint the portrait of the famous author's beautiful young bride. In the peace and privacy of the magnificent Big Sur ...



  • Helen Bianchin

    Money was Lee's top priority! When her sister, Alicia, decided to play matchmaker, Lee found herself trapped in an uncomfortable situation with the infuriating Marc Leone. He was attractive, she had to admit, but also the most cynical, egot...



  • Dorothy Cork

    FORBIDDEN LOVE Penniless, a burden to her relatives, Grace Lawson had rashly married a virtual stranger to escape an intolerable home situation. She looked forward to making a new life in the Australian Outback. Soon she learned that she had be...



  • Ida Hills

    Once upon a time, before she came to Israel, Karen Zanville had thought nothing could come between them. Margo Zingler was her best friend and near double. But “twinship†and “sisterhood†were on the line when Steve Jamison boldly stalked cla...



  • Lindsay Armstrong

    How could she bear to stay with him? Bobbie hadn't even really got over her parents' death and already she had to face losing Greentree Farm. When Rod Simpson offered not only to buy the farm but also to let her stay on, Bobbie wasn'...



  • Lilian Peake

    "I am cured, of both the illness and you." Randall West's words rang in Gillian Taylor's head. Their love affair had ended abruptly. Randall had been dying... and knowing this, Gillian hadn't been able to face him. So she had r...



  • Sally Wentworth

    No situation could be more ridiculous To be "hiding out" as a rich man's maid at Abbott's Arbory did not suit Pandora at all. She was thoroughly modern, enjoying her university friends and her fast motorcycle. And she thought that ...



  • Noel Barber

    It took a great love to defy society's disapproval. It took a great war to change society's rules. "They were golden days, when Singapore was as rich as its climate was steamy ... and I fell in love with the Chinese beauty of Julie Soong, and, ag...



  • Suzanne Simmons

    Nicki Swithin gazed out over the bejeweled city skyline. Once she had been happy to think of going home to a peaceful English village, to dream of being a quiet, dependable wife. With kisses of fire and a touch the ignited passions, she couldn't de...



  • Phyllis Halldorson

    INTO A NEW LIFE When she woke up after the accident, Anne knew that there had been a mistake. Her name wasn't Angela, and she certainly had never been married to Rory Hawthorne. But Angela and Rory were dead, and Anne could never go back to ...



  • Evelyn Kahn

    DAUGHTERS OF THE STORM... The great dust winds of the 30's blew across the plains, leaving three children abandoned - Three large-eyed, terrified sisters, ripped from their roots and each other's nurturing warmth were adopted by separate famil...



  • Jeanne Stephens

    SHE HAD NO TIME AND ONLY ONE CHOICE .... With her sister's death Carrie Franklin is faced with the awesome responsibility of raising her infant nephew, Mike. His father, a member of the wealthy Revell clan, earlier denied paternity. And only Carri...



  • Stephen R. Donaldson

    IT ALL BEGAN WITH THE CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT THE UNBELIEVER.... ...AND NOW THE STORY CONTINUES IN THE WOUNDED LAND 4000 years have passed since Covenant first freed the Land from the devastating grip of Lord Foul and his minions. The mon...



  • Alan Dean Foster

    Plaything of the Gods He was Perseus, son of Zeus and Danae, born in disgrace, exiled to perish at sea, fated to survive at heavenly caprice--until he met his love, defied the Gods and dared to fight them or die. She was Andromeda, enslaved by ...



  • Roderick MacLeish

    After having been unjustly confined to a mental hospital for seven years for throwing his mother's lover into a swimming pool, twenty-four-year-old sexually naive Sherborne Eppe embarks on travels through America accompanied by a Black hoodlum named ...



  • J.R.R. Tolkien

    This collection will entertain all who appreciate the art of masterful letter writing. The Letters of J.R.R Tolkien sheds much light on Tolkien's creative genius and grand design for the creation of a whole new world: Middle-earth. Featuring a radica...







  • Gram Jackson

    K-Gr 2 This very slight story has a baby's wish come true. Tired of lying powerless in her crib, the frustrated baby chooses one of those magic nights when the moon is out and the tide is full to make her escape. Her toy lion becomes enormous and fie...




  • Mordecai Richler

    The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is the novel that established Mordecai Richler as one of the world’s best comic writers. Growing up in the heart of Montreal’s Jewish ghetto, Duddy Kravitz is obsessed with his grandfather’s saying, “A man ...



  • Jonathan Fast

    Lovely and moody movie star Rebecca Weiss takes the place of her agent as a captive in the mysterious mansion of H. W. Beeze III and develops a deep compassion and intense physical attraction for her disfigured, tormented captor...



  • Mollie Rights

    Describes some of the animals that live in the soil, under leaves, bricks, or boards, and around the roots of plants and suggests ways the reader may study their characteristics and behavior more closely....



  • Serita Stevens

    The French court bowed to her innocent Beauty... Orphaned daughter of a Scottish nobleman and his temptuous wife, Morag Elliot, with her wavy auburn mane and flashing green eyes, enticed every man in the court of versailles. But her rebellious nature...





  • Kenneth Roberts

    This classic tale of shipwreck and survival is reprinted with essays that provide a historical perspective and trace the sources from which Kenneth Roberts (1885-1957) drew his tale. A native Mainer, Roberts, whose historical novels include North...






  • George Selden

    Chester Cricket--the famous cricket in Times Square--is homesick. When his friend Mario takes him to a sky show at the Planetarium, Chester realizes how much he misses seeing real stars at night.Happily, he finds his way out of the subway into Times ...




  • Og Mandino

    In front of eight million TV viewers, "The Greatest Mystery Writer in the World" bragged he could prove Christ was actually stolen from the tomb and never really rose from the dead . . . if he were given just one week back in ancient Jerusalem. ...



  • Morris West

    A beloved Pontiff prepares to make public his startling vision: Death and destruction will end the world--not in some far-off future, but at any moment! Terrified his pronouncement will spread panic, Vatican Cardinals imprison him in a monastery. ...





  • Marguerite Yourcenar

    Set in the Baltic provinces in the aftermath of World War I, Coup de Grace tells the story of an intimacy that grows between three young people hemmed in by civil war: Erick, a Prussian fighting with the White Russians against the Bolsheviks; Conr...



  • Lisa Zeidner

    Through an affair with Argyle, a convention-shattering vision, and a coffee-shop meeting with an unkempt woman in her seventies, Jennifer discovers her own fantastical--and legendary--ancestry and begins to take possession of her own destiny...



  • Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    When Cybil Ackerman crosses her eyes at Simon for the first time, he knows he's in love. The battle over Cybil begins when Simon's best friend, Tony, decides he is, too. And he'll stop at nothing to wreck Simon's chances of winning her! Tony tells...



  • William Wharton

    John Tremont, a middle-aged man with a family, is summoned to his mother's bedside after she has suffered a heart attack. When he arrives, he finds her shaken but surviving; it is his father, left alone, who is unable to cope, who begins to fail, to ...



  • William Golding

    The destinies of three mysterious lost children entwine in this James Tait Black Memorial Prize-winning fable by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies.A figure had condensed out of the shuddering backdrop of the glare.He is born ...



  • Carolyn Doty




  • Doris Piserchia

    It all began when someone tried to push Creed into the flesh pool to be ingested. The assassination failed, but Creed was never the same again. Because it launched the new cliff-dwellers of Creed's colony onto a new course of life - which could lead ...



  • Edward Keyes

    A drug dealer turned informant navigates New York’s underworld in a tale that “maintains tension†from an Edgar Award finalist (The New York Times Book Review). A twenty-nine-year-old Italian immigrant, Tony Farrell has all the trappings of suc...




  • Yuan-tsung Chen

    This extraordinary autobiographical story, compelling, candid, and deeply personal, plunges us into that tumultuous moment in China out of which the modern People’s Republic finally emerged. It is the first time a novelist has ever described that d...



  • Wendy Susans



  • Tom Braden

    The true story behind the classic TV show: A father’s delightful account of raising eight free-spirited children in 1970s America. Tom Braden had a colorful career: He parachuted into Nazi-occupied France, directed the CIA’s covert operations pro...



  • Mary Ellen Marks

    Mark's extended photo essay on the prostitution district of Bombay is one of the landmarks of color photojournalism. Small half-inch tear at base of spine. Slight scuffing and fading to cover. Interior and photographs are clean and unmarked....



  • Ellen Raskin

    From the Newbery Award-winning author of THE WESTING GAME, more clever riddles and wordplay, clues to be found, and mysteries to be solved!A Newbery Honor bookThe Amazing Dancing Figgs!While Mona hates all the attention her eccentric relatives bring ...





  • Mark Denning

    PAPERBACK ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION, Tower Books #51664, published 1981. First Edition, First Printing, so stated, no previous hardcover. Cover blurb: "For CIA Operative John Marshall, it began with glittering figurines, and ended with International Ter...





  • Pamela Allen

    K-Gr 2 This very slight story has a baby's wish come true. Tired of lying powerless in her crib, the frustrated baby chooses one of those magic nights when the moon is out and the tide is full to make her escape. Her toy lion becomes enormous and fie...






  • Tim Heald

    Some spine creasing and edge wear. Front cover has a spine edge crease and back cover has some top corner creasing. Light reader curl and age tanning. No mark and intact. Ships very quickly and packaged carefully!...




  • Ursula Hegi

    Brilliantly stretching literary conventions, Ursula Hegi, author of the best-selling Stones from the River, creates a funny and original novel within a novel to explore the doubts, decisions, and "might-have-beens" that mark not only the writing proc...





  • Albert Klainer

    It was born in Dachau to kill today...

    Doctor Thaddeus Reichmann leaned over the body lying in front of him and made the incision. The war was about to end, the final solution a failure. It was his duty to plant the seeds of the next holoca...



  • Jack M. Bickham

    Guidelines and standards for building and deploying robots and AI systemsare provided by ethical frameworks. These guidelines assist makesure that AI is developed and deployed in a way that benefits society as a whole, upholds basic human decencies l...




  • Nancy Greenwald



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  • Tim Jeal

    'A majestic Victorian tale... Wealthy lawyer Esmond, discarded illegitimate son of a peer, has pinched his way to the top of his profession, while his handsome, debt-ridden cavalry officer brother Clinton has inherited the title and the ancestral hom...



  • Gunter Grass

    A group of leading intellectuals from all parts of Germany gather in 1647 for the purpose of strengthening the last remaining bond within a divided nation-its language and literature-as the Thirty Years' War comes to an end. Afterword by Leonard Fors...





  • Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

    These chapter books introduce beginning readers to the detective mystery genre. Perfect for the Common Core, kids can problem-solve with Nate, using logical thinking to solve mysteries! A stegosaurus stamp belonging to Nate's friend Claude disap...




  • Barthe DeClements

    Your teacher is too strict, fractions are too hard, and the most disgusting girl in school has the seat next to yours... Nothing’s fair! Jenny knows one thing for sure -- Elsie Edwards is a fat thief who steals people's lunch money to buy candy....



  • Leonard St. Clair

    Moving through decades, from one exotic locale to another - Hollywood, New York, Paris, the Riviera - their paths converge. And when they do their obsessions are so strong, their passions so overwhelming, that they will do anything in their power to ...








  • Jessica Dare



  • Donald Barr

    One small planet battles the entire galactic empire. The war would bring them victory. The peace could bring their destruction....



  • T.A. Schock





  • Raymond Giles

    HER HAUNTING BEAUTY MASKED HER LONELINESS--AND THE FORBIDDEN DESIRE THAT SEETHED INSIDE HER.... This is the story of Miss Lucy Sabre, the prim and proper mistress of Sabrehill. By herself she tried to manage the once magnificent Sabrehill Plantation...





  • Marcel Proust

    Marcel Proust (1871-1922) spent the last fourteen years of his life writing A la recherche du temps perdu. It is an intimate epic, an excavation of the self, and a comedy of manners by turns and all at once. Proust is the twentieth century's Dante, p...



  • Robert Kimmel Smith

    Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com wher...




  • Isabel Colegate

    It is the autumn of 1913. Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his Oxfordshire estate for the biggest hunt of the season. An army of gamekeepers, beaters, and servants has rehearsed the intricate ageâ€"old ritual, the ge...






  • Edward Swift

    Miss Jessie Gatewood enters the steamy East Texas town of Splendora on the arm of a native son and, draped in Victorian finery and social graces, takes the town and its relentlessly eccentric residents by storm...



  • Pauline Reage

    The classic erotic novel, THE STORY OF O relates the love of a beautiful Parisian fashion photographer for Rene. As part of that intense love, she demands debasement and severe sexual and psychological tests. It is a unique work not to be missed....






  • Carey Roberts

    From Tom Lee to Robert E. Lee, who made the fateful decision to turn from the nation he loved to defend the state he loved more, the Lees of Virginia dominated both their local and our national landscape.
    ...




  • Renaud Camus




  • Suzette Haden Elgin

    Based on Ozark Mountain folklore, this fantasy recounts the adventures of the Brightwater family, who seek revenge when a guest's baby is kidnapped and encased in a life-support bubble hung from a churchyard tree...





  • Karl Hansen

    THE STRANGEST SOLDIERS AND REBELS CLASH ON THE MOST INCREDIBLE BATTLEFIELDThey were no longer human—they were hybrids, genetic/cyborg soldiers. They fought each other in savage battles through the ice forests of Saturn's moon. They held the co...




  • Les Wayne




  • Judie Angell

    After discovering that a plastic drinking mug bears a decal with a dangerously high lead content, twelve-year-old Alfred Caro manages to bring about a recall of the product and must deal with his father's advertising agency that promoted the mug...




  • Mary Ann Hoberman

    An exuberant collection of bouncy, rhythmic verses takes in hippos, armadillos, the folk from Backward Town, llamas without pajamas, and other topics...



  • Felice Picano

    A telling novel about gay life after Stonewall, Late in the Season is one of the finest novels in the long career of one of the founding members of the Violet Quill Club. Set on Fire Island in late September, this is the story of an unlikely pair of ...



  • Jessica Laurie

    Margaret could not avoid the intense stare of Elizabeth Ashcroft's portrait for the elegant bejeweled could have been her identical twin! When Margaret heard and saw impossible things, she feared that Elizabeth was trying to send her a dangerous...



  • Anne Maybury

    “Where is your husband, Mrs. Ardley…?†In a Georgian house isolated atop a cliff, Judith Ardley was alone, exposed to the disembodied shadows that fell across the patio, to cryptic messages that came for her absent husband, to a fear she had...



  • Michael William Scott

    Across the boundless seas sails the China Clipper. Its captain, Jonathan Rakehell, has promises to keep. To his family who have risked their reputation and fortune on his vision. To a beautiful Chinese woman who has dared to love him. To his own con...



  • Jon Sharpe

    THIRTEEN FOR THE ROAD When prim but perversely voluptuous schoolteacher Karen Fisher hired Skye Fargo to guide her wagon-train of students through the most violent territory in the West, she said they were innocent youngsters. It wasn't until they...





  • Lee Davis Willoughby

    THEY WERE THE FRONTIER HEALERS In the chaos that followed the Civil War, a turbulent tide of men and women surged across the Mississippi to escape the unspeakable horrors of a broken and humiliated South. Some chose to cast their lot in the sprawl...



  • Tabor Evans

    IT'S A WILD WEST SHOW -- AND IT'S GETTING WILDER BY THE SECOND... Colorado planned a gala reception for the copper-haired Princess Danica of Hungary. But a band of Slavic rebels had plans of their own for her Highness... To stop them cold, Long...






  • Benjamin Capps

    Exploring an intriguing, little-known passage of American history, Capps investigates the legends surrounding a courageous Indian woman who, defying the tradition of her people, became the undisputed leader of the Crow Nation...



  • Elizabeth Peters

    Amelia Peabody and Radcliffe Emerson, heroic survivors of Crocodile on the Sandbank, are called back to Egypt by Lady Baskerville to complete the excavation of a recently discovered tomb. The dig had been left unfinished by her newly dead--and possib...



  • Stuart M. Kaminsky

    A forties Hollywood PI does not forsake Gary Cooper: “Like all of Toby [Peters’s] adventures, High Midnight is high entertainment” (The Cincinnati Post).   When laconic leading man Gary Cooper needs a detective, he does the sma...



  • Geoffrey Household

    In this remarkable thriller, a British estate owner with psychic powers senses he’s being hunted on his own land by a bloodthirsty beast Alfgif Hollaston, a cultured English gentleman and painter, has returned to his childhood home in remote Somer...



  • Robert R. McCammon

    First published in 1981, They Thirst was Robert McCammon’s fourth novel, and it remains one of the major milestones of an ambitious, constantly evolving career. Like its predecessors -- Baal, Bethany’s Sin, and The Night Boat -- They Thirst made ...



  • Belinda Grey

    Her life changed almost overnight! All of Ellen's eighteen years had been spent in Cwm Bedd, a tiny village in Wales. She loved the countryside...but with her newfound womanhood, she yearned for something more. And then one day it happened....



  • Reagan O'Neal

    The war of 1812... From the shores of Tripoli to the burning of Washington, from the Louisiana Purchase to Aaron Burr's Empire of Mexico, to the War of 1812, Robert Fallon--bastard son of wealth--takes part in all the momentous events of his time. B...



  • Dorothy Dowdell

    "My God, he's beautiful," Garnett thought when she saw him. He was indeed a king. And would he, the great Edward Kingston, think that Garnett, the dirt-poor daughter of a small-town minister, was good enough for his eldest son? Garn...



  • Patricia Phillips

    IN AN AGE OF GILDED PLEASURES HER BEAUTY WAS AS DANGEROUS AS IT WAS DESIRED... Bawdy Restoration England was no place for a chestnut-haired beauty like Jenny Dunn. Raised in country innocence, but forced to flee to London, Jenny found protection...



  • Sandra Paretti

    The Lufthansa plane touched down on the darkened landing strip in Rome and Maria Canossa breathed a sigh of relief. She was home...away from Berlin and nine years of a disastrous marriage...back to the refuge of the beautiful city of her childhood. ...



  • Jane Sheridan

    Lady Amanda Heron, the reckless red-haired granddaughter of a scandalous Regency beauty, was too lively by quite a bit for her proper Victorian parents. But Lady Amanda was not to be denied-sequestered in a dark forest lodge, forced to marry a pennil...




  • Philippa Carr

    TWO SISTERS AS DIFFERENT AS NIGHT AND DAY. CARLOTTA -- willful, beautiful, and passionate, men could not resist her seductive charms. She sacrificed everything -- loyalty to country, duty to husband, and the respect of her family -- to live in Par...



  • Isobel Stewart

    There was something about him... But Rosemary, an English girl visiting the Highlands for the first time, knew only that he was different from any man she had ever met. He was Robert Hamish Macrae, Laird of Ardrachan and ardent supporter of the...



  • Anna James

    Caught on the winds of tempestuous desire in the United States of America secession war. SWEPT UP IN PASSION'S FURIOUS STORM Breathtaking Bethany Winfield, honey-haired Carolina beauty, sought haven -- only to be brutally violated; knew fie...



  • Patricia Matthews

    The magnificent saga of a woman swept up by passion and torn between two loves. The violent sea threw them together only to tear them apart yet again... Out of a band of violent men, shipwreckers all, came Marianna Harper--a girl so unkempt t...



  • William Stuart Long

    IN THE MIDST OF BLOODSHED AND REBELLION A NEW GENERATION STRUGGLED TO BE BORN... Through heartbreak and tragic loss they had fashioned a new life in the land of their exile. But even now they could not rest securely. The courage of beautiful Abigail...



  • Leigh Franklin James

    FROM THE PRODUCER OF THE WAGONS WEST SERIES -- THE MOVING SAGA THAT BEGAN WITH THE HAWK AND THE DOVE NOW BLAZES ACROSS THE GREAT SOUTHWEST John Cooper Baines - The Hawk - comes of age. Strong and bold, his restless spirit drives him to challenge t...



  • Margaret Campbell Barnes

    Amid the turbulence of the 14th century, when he was only eleven years old, Richard II was crowned King of England. He was never to know the carefree life other boys his age enjoyed. Instead, the early years of his reign were a constant battle agains...




  • Francine Prose

    "A marvelous, lovable novel."
    Joyce Maynard
    New York's Little Italy in the 1950s provides the setting for the extraordinary tale of the Santangelos. There is Joseph, a butcher who cheats at pinochle, only to find the deck stacked in unexpected ...




  • Donald J. Sobol

    Here's Angie Zane. She's 12 and ready for anything. She and her older sister, Kit, a police officer, live in Dadesville, Florida. Her good friend is Jess Ross. Here are the facts: a teen-age gang, the Wolfpack, has been breaking into empty houses....




  • Dorothy Simpson

    She was young, lovely--and quite dead. Her name was Julie Holmes and to the residents of quiet, treelined Gladstone Road where she had lived for only six weeks, she was quite unknown. But someone must have known her just a little...known her well en...



  • Bill Pronzini

    First edition. Pronzini's critically acclaimed "nameless Detective," collector of pulp magazines, attends the first annual Western Pulp Con in San Francisco and is soon involved in a locked room mystery. 216 pages. boards, dust jacket.. 8vo.....



  • Maxine O'Callaghan

    Janet Valek was on the run... And private investigator Delilah West had been hired to find her. Delilah spent a lot of time on the case. She learned more than she wanted to about Janet's abandoned futile life and the questionable company she kept. B...



  • Gail Clark

    Sir Malcolm Calveley's weakness for the gentler sex would land him in the suds, they said. No sooner had the dashing Malcolm returned from abroad than rumor had him romancing his own cousin's wife, the ravishing Lady Thea Davenham. At the sam...



  • Mary A. Garratt

    The stakes were high, and she was the ravishing pawn in a dangerous charade of love... "YOU WILL BE MY DUCHESS," DECLARED THE DOUR DUKE OF ASHERWOOD. "BUT NEVER MY WIFE!" No one was more stunned by her acceptance of his outrageous proposal tha...



  • Sheila Bishop

    The story of the downfall of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. The story of Essex's last five years of triumph and disaster greatly affected his much loved sister Penelope Rich. Forced into a legal marriage but bound by a youthful betrothal to the ...



  • Elizabeth Neff Walker

    "JUST WHAT IS IT YOU BELIEVE ABOUT ME, LORD LATTERIDGE?" For years, the red-haired, hazel-eyed beauty had been the favorite subject of gossips and rumor- mongers. But Marianne had held her head high and ignored, the sly glances, the leers, the nig...



  • Elizabeth Chater

    "PLEASE CALL ME TIGER." Chloe was masquerading as an untidy bundle of rags in the corner of the stable when Lord Randal Beresford found her. And to protect the "poor little dab of a female" from her wicked stepbrother, he dressed h...



  • Elinor Larkin

    He was a rakehell and a shameless bounder. Ursula Manning had been warned--by her brother, George, and by Richard, Viscount of Uxbridge, himself. To be associated with him, by name alone, was to risk being known as a light-skirt. But she would not...



  • Noel Vreeland Carter

    Sharp-tongued Charlotte Hungerford had a talent for taking the puff out of a man's pride...a talent that seemed sure to doom her to spinsterhood at twenty-six. Hadn't she hurled the crockery at Princess Sophia's tea party -- straight a...



  • Rachelle Edwards

    As the widow of a titled gentleman, the very beautiful Lady Caroline Kilgarron was pursued by fortune hunters and impetuous young men, and by aging rapes, too. One, the Earl of Farrowdale, was particularly insistent. And Caroline's unprecedented ...



  • Karen Blake

    THE CHIT WAS A GREAT BEAUTY -- LUSTROUS GOLDEN HAIR, EYES LIKE BLAZING EMERALDS, SKIN LIKE DRESDEN PORCELAIN. AND HE MISTOOK HER FOR A SERVING GIRL. The first time the Marquess kissed her was in the blacksmith's barn. He took Kate for just ano...



  • Veronica Howard

    Halcyon Glaybourne was a headstrong country girl in love with a dashing stranger. But she was promised in marriage to the son of the Marquis of Rexdale, a man she had never met! Duty-bound and desperately unhappy, Halcyon accompanied her godmother...



  • Sandra Heath

    WAS SHE AN ARISTOCRAT -- OR AN IMPOSTOR? It took but a few words from the lips of a dying woman to change beautiful young Janine Oldfield's life utterly. The woman was her mother, who declared that Janine was more than the daughter of the mo...



  • Dawn Lindsey

    YOUNG LOVE, THROWN AWAY, MAY NEVER BE FOUND AGAIN... Jessica Lansdowne, a handsome woman whose sprightly manner hid a well-kept secret, at six and twenty had adjusted quite nicely to a life of quiet unmarried propriety. Until dashing Max returned....



  • Joel Audrenn

    Her enchantment turned to suspicion ... and fear. As a new employee of a prestigious art gallery, Karen nervously accepted a difficult challenge. She was to bid on the priceless mask of Lugalki ... and to be alert to a possible forgery. But her spiri...



  • Nell Pierlain

    She was sickened by the ugly truth. Rumors abounded that two women had paid a steep price for loving handsome and talented playwright Adrien Reed. One woman was dead -- the other crippled. But Julia thought she was different. Certain that Adrien love...