Books Published in May 1984

New Books List: 340 titles

  • Suspicion and Seduction

    Shirley Hart

    She'd escaped her manager, fled the grueling demands of a highly successful acting career, and embarked on an idyllic vacation. Nothing appealed to Gabriella Ford more than a lazy week alone with her father on the Dixie Lee. But even as she prepa...

  • The True Sea

    F.W. Belland

    Set in the Florida Keys in the years from 1909 till 1925, "The True Sea" tells the story of a boy growing into manhood against the drama of the construction of the Overseas Railroad. Henry Flagler's railroad, which ultimately linked Key West to the r...

  • Mapp and Lucia

    E.F. Benson

    A brilliant and subtle comedy on the social rivalries of a small village between the wars. Lucia is probably the greatest creation of E. F. Benson, a social climbing socialite from the small village of Riseholme. A beautifully written and sharply obs...

  • Trouble for Lucia

    E.F. Benson

    The final instalment in the wonderful Lucia series. Lucia must yet again lie, trick and deceive to maintain social position as the queen of Tilling. Lucia is probably the greatest creation of E. F. Benson, a social climbing socialite from the small v...

  • The Roaring River Mystery

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • The Memoirs of Alcheringia

    Wayland Drew

  • The Texians

    Zach Wyatt

  • Longarm and the Steer Swindlers

    Tabor Evans

    SOMEONE'S DUPING THE U.S. GOVERNMENT! A ring of outlaws is swapping Grade-A cattle for diseased runts. But who is responsible, and just who is the Real McCoy? Somebody better find some answers, pronto, or the cattle industry could be completely wi...

  • Lone Star and the Apache Revenge

    Wesley Ellis

    WITH HIS MIND SET ON VENGEANCE ... James "Two Wolves" Campbell had only one thing in mind: to kill the man who had poisoned his people and used the Apaches to spread terror in the West. In him, Ki met his match in battle, and Jessie found some of t...

  • Surrender in Moonlight

    Jennifer Blake

    HE WAS LIKE A FIRE IN HER BLOOD. SHE WAS LIKE A FEVER IN HIS SOUL. From the moment they met and made love in a strange, deserted house, Lorna Forrester, a twenty-year-old New Orleans beauty, and Roman Cazenave, a daring blockade runner, were obses...

  • Love Thy Neighbor

    Frances Davies

    As vice-president of Chicago's exclusive Hallard's department store, Nell Carlton has an unerring eye for style. It's love she has difficulty recognizing... Until S. F. Shea, her apartment-house neighbor, storms across her foyer and into her life....

  • The Golden Savage

    Anne Carsley

    When Lia is kidnapped by Paon, the handsome Lord Commander of Crete's navy, she finds herself falling in love with him against her will Captured...by love When Paon, Lord Commander of Crete's navy kidnapped her, Lia vowed no man would tame her...

  • Touched by Lightning

    Helen Carter

    After her tragic first romance, quiet, elegant Joanna Greer vowed never again to give herself to a man unless he was trustworthy, committed, and interested in marriage. But when rugged, charismatic Cliff Duquesne swept into her life, her good intenti...

  • Night Flame

    Sarah Crewe

    There's steel in Sharon Dysart, forged by a childhood on the wrong side of the tracks. When she returns to Pennsylvania's Otawnee Valley, it's not as the daughter of a mill worker, but as an expert consultant to SomerSteel's heir, the...

  • Homecoming

    Ann Cristy

    After her terrifying ordeal in the Middle East, Cassa Welles is coming home. A tall, dark beauty, she has a fervent love for the country whose freedoms she has been denied -- and a heart-stopping ache to feel Dan's arms around her once again. He ...

  • Lady With a Past

    Elissa Curry

    Theater veteran Elizabeth Bradford is mortified when she finds herself accidentally trapped inside a stage prop -- with a virile stranger! Soon, however, her embarrassment is replaced by a sensual awareness she's thought long dead...by a throbbin...

  • Kiss Me Cait

    Elissa Curry

    Caitlin and John Matthews shared something special -- a crackling quick wit and heady, sensual chemistry. But when Cait's cousin needed her in Belfast, and the State Department called John to the world's hot trouble spots, they parted...thoug...

  • Bittersweet Afternoons

    Fiona Harrowe

  • Private Screenings

    Lori Herter

    She was a true peach. Former Miss Georgia, first runner-up in the Miss America Pageant, Dale Chastain had parlayed her looks, talent, and brains into an education and the job of her dreams--movie reviewer for WNBS-TV Chicago. And he was Sloane Avery,...

  • Rapture's Embrace

    Valerie Giscard

    LOVE'S INNOCENT FLAME When her jealous aunt sold her to the lecherous Charles Langford, lovely Katherine Cameron knew she had to escape her cruel fate. But she had no idea her savior would be a tall, handsome American captain and that his powerfu...

  • Land of Gold

    Mary Ann Hammond

    JULIE LEIGHTON GAZED THROUGH TEAR-FILLED EYES AT MATTHEW THORN. Usually, the cynical Thorn was anything but a comfort to Julie. But now she needed his strength even though she would not admit that she needed him. Her only desire was to see that...

  • A Treasure to Share

    Cally Hughes

    For five years Adelina Kildaire has been happily married to ruinously gorgeous Samuel Grady. But when Addy's helper, Mis Pru, finds a man and moves to Tahiti, she leaves Addy to cope with her design business alone. Now, two children, a pregnant model...

  • Lady Raine

    Carol Jerina

    "I THINK YOU'RE UP TO YOUR ARISTOCRATIC LITTLE NECK IN SOMETHING SHADY. " Captain Quentin Slade struck a most unusual bargain with a lady who called herself "Mrs. Cavanaugh." The terms were generous and his instructions were...

  • Wildstar

    Linda Ladd

    INNOCENT TEMPTRESS She fought fiercely and screamed in terror as the tall blond stranger stepped from the shadows, swept her into his arms, and carried her into the night. She was Starfire, a silvery-haired beauty raised by the Cheyenne. She ha...

  • A Gentle Feuding

    Johanna Lindsey

    Clan hatred fired their blood...yet in their hearts burned the wild and tender flames of desire HE WOULD NEVER LET HER GO-- AND SHE WOULD NEVER SACRIFICE HER INNOCENCE TO SHAME... In trembling fear, she dared to refuse him, though her gentle b...

  • Spellbound

    Kate Nevins

    Biologist Miranda Dunn feels at home among microscopes and test tubes, the conversation and company of other scientists. Then famous poet Brian O'Bannon charms his way into her life with clever words and a blithe spirit. As rugged as the Killarney co...

  • Possessions

    Judith Michael

    When Katherine Fraser's husband vanishes, she discovers that he has hidden his past from her...and when his wealthy family finds her and sweeps her into a world of power and luxury, the fearful, dependent wife is gradually transformed into a vibrant,...

  • Bittersweet Bondage

    Sonya T. Pelton

    Tied to Passion It was in Morocco, the land of sultry winds and tropical scents, where ravishing Rosette Forrest would forget the man who had broken her heart. And forget she did, when she found herself in the tantalizing embrace of mysterious, m...

  • Moonlight Rhapsody

    Kay Robbins

    Genius often walks alone, but brilliant, brooding Randall St. James never had. The consummate concert pianist was always surrounded by his professional entourage, his fans, his own brand of glitter. All of it hid the man behind the legend from Lacy H...

  • Court of Sighs

    Lavonne Sims

    COURT OF SPLENDOR She trembled as the litter-bearers carried her through the massive portals of the House of Chang. Her beauty lustrous in silk and jewels, she was the treasured bride of the dynasty's eldest son. Bound by tradition to a coward she...

  • Forbidden Flame

    Luanne Walden

    There was no denying that beautiful chestnut-haired Erin hated every damn Yankee. Yet there was no denying that she was more attracted to Major Kellen Sinclair than any other man she had ever known. She was confused by her feelings, unprepared for th...

  • Tides of Ecstasy

    Luanne Walden

    It was the day Meghan's engagement was to be announced, and she had never been so happy before in her life. All her dreams were coming true...she was soon to become the bride of Lord Thomas Beauchamp. And then Derek Chandler entered her life, shat...

  • The Hills of Homicide

    Louis L'Amour

    For the first time in book form, here is a collection of Louis L'Amour detective stories--vivid tales as memorable and exciting as his beloved frontier fiction. Each story is personally selected, with an introduction, by the author. In the dark a...

  • The Day of the Dissonance

    Alan Dean Foster

    Clothahump, the wizard, is dying. All that can save him are rare medicinal powers to be found across the Glittergeist Ocean, past distant Snarken, Jon-Tom, the Spellsinger, sets out on the most perilous pilgrimage of his still-young career, armed wit...

  • Who Needs Enemies?

    Alan Dean Foster

  • Chosen of Mida

    Sharon Green

  • Star Anchored, Star Angered

    Suzette Haden Elgin

  • The Monitors

    Keith Laumer

  • The Chromosomal Code

    Lawrence Watt-Evans

    A sudden ice age has driven Earth's population into the tropics, except for a few die-hards eking out a tenuous existence scavenging the snow-covered ruins of civilization. One such straggler is John Starkman, making his home in the frozen wastes of ...

  • The Old Gods Waken

    Manly Wade Wellman

    The first Silver John novel

    Strange evil things areterrorizing Luke and Creed Forshay who live at the foot of Wolter Mountain inthe southern Appalachians, a sacred place for Indians and their predecessors.Two old-world Druids, disguised as E...

  • The Revenants

    Sheri S. Tepper

    They seek to answer riddles that have no answer; They are bound on a quest that has no end. Thewson of the Lion Courts. Leona, Queen of the Beasts. Medlo, outlawed Prince. Jasmine the Dancer. Terascouros the Singer. And young Jaer, whose like has ...

  • Orion

    Ben Bova

    John O'Ryan is not a god . . . not exactly. He is an eternal warrior destined to combat the Dark Lord through all time for dominion of the Earth. Follow him, servant of a great race, as he battles his enemy down the halls of time, from the caves of o...

  • The House Between the Worlds

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    WORLD WALKER OR'TWEENMAN Fenton was only a 'tweenman, without body or shadow; his body lay back in the laboratory where Dr. Garnock was experimenting with a new drug. Yet Fenton was in the fairy world of the Alfar, helplessly watching the Faerie Q...

  • Crystal Blue Desire

    Monica Barrie

    KATLAIN MORGAN After a career in advertising left her heart and her confidence shaken, Kat returned to Florida and her life as a charter captain. But she was far from being the captain of her own destiny. BAYLISS GRANGER He knew more about Kat's...

  • Inlet of the Heart

    Bea Alexander

    SHELTER FROM THE STORM Tucked away on a peaceful inlet along the Atlantic coast, the little town of Marietta had always been Terry Durant's home. Now one man was planning to destroy it all. Nick Sterling's bulldozers were ready to flatten the town...

  • The Noble Imposter

    Mollie Ashton

    VERITY COX WAS YOUNG -- BUT NOT FOOLISH Verity knew very well that her father's wealth made her the target of every fortune hunter when she bravely left the comforting protection of her family's country estate for her first season in Londo...

  • Fascination

    Jackie Black

    She'd been warned. Star quarterback Jack Thayer pulled no punches. His philosophy was strictly "love 'em and leave 'em," and Colby Dalton, he insisted, was just not "his type." But from the first moment they met, Colby ...

  • Greek Island Magic

    Gloria Bevan

    Her faith in him was badly shaken Adam seemed to mean it when he said, "You could try believing in me for a change." But Liz had believed in him. Out of greed, he'd tried to charm her into selling the Greek villa she'd inherited...

  • Heartbeats

    Jo Calloway

    Who was she--Florence Nightingale on a shiny black motorcycle? An angel of mercy in a crash helmet? No, Holly Hamilton was simply the nurse-practitioner from the county home health care system en route to an urgent call. Holly had taken to Alabam...

  • Journey to Quiet Waters

    Dixie Browning

    ROUGEMONT WAS HER CHILDHOOD HOME. Lovely auburn-haired Ivy de Coursey knew that even the sale of her beautiful family estate, Rougemont, could not take away the happy memories the house held for her. But Ivy had not taken into account the unset...

  • Horizons

    Kate Bowe

    SIMON WASN'T THE NINE TO FIVE KIND Years had passed since Kit Adams's last encounter with Simon Blake -- enough time to erase the memory and the disillusionment of a few enchanted days in San Diego. Kit's cherished photojournalism a...

  • Love, Bid Me Welcome

    Joanna Brandon

    "It's a small world," he murmured, coming up behind her, leaning over and taking her mouth in a hungry kiss. Astonished, Samantha Jordan found herself gazing at Drew Kingston, the man she'd hoped never to see again. So he was Houghan Freight's "si...

  • Against All Odds

    Eileen Bryan

    Lea McKenna, private eye, had nailed Las Vegas casino czar Tony Cappa in divorce court with evidence she now believed to be as false as his venomous ex-wife. It was too late to make amends, but it was a perfect opportunity to salve her conscience whe...

  • Enchanted Encore

    Rosalyn Carroll

    "Heaven help me from a man like him..." Costume designer Vicky Owens had no defenses against the roguish Irish eyes and commanding presence of director Patrick Wallingford. She couldn't resist his fiery embrace years ago in London. She couldn't r...

  • Love Match

    Rianna Craig

    Stubborn and proud, she didn't see they were a love match Houston was Chelsea Norquist's home and advertising was her field. She knew nothing about boats, and intended to spend only a few days in Biloxi, signing the papers formalizing the sale of ...

  • Beloved Pirate

    Ann Cockcroft

    LOVE WITHOUT RHYME OR REASON Jared Tanner was as intoxicating as champagne. And try though she might to abstain, Laura found herself drunk with desire for him. She knew that the famous author had earned his reputation as an unscrupulous lover and ...

  • Table for Two

    Josephine Charlton

    WAS SHE TO BID FAREWELLTO "BON VOYAGE"? For years Hadley Bainbridge had enjoyed her role as celebrated restaurant critic for "Bon Voyage." But now her boss was threatening to take it all away if she didn't play according to his romantic rules. ...

  • Lady Be Bad

    Elaine Raco Chase

    THE LADY WAS DETERMINED TO GET HER MAN She was the Face of the Century -- exclusive model for Kingman Cosmetics. Marlayna O'Brian's world was golden. Then the invitation arrived. Noah Drake was getting married. Noah Drake, the man who'...

  • Out of Control

    Lori Copeland

    Despite all her attempts to avoid another heartbreaker like Quinn Daniets Erin Holmes was drawn to Price Seaver with a destructive, consuming passion. How could she have expected to meet Quinn's double while baby-sitting her best friend's five-year-o...

  • The Reformed Rake

    Elizabeth Chater

    "YOU ARE BOTH TOO TEMPTING BY FAR FOR OUR JADED CITY TASTES. GO AWAY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THERE ARE TOO MANY SERPENTS LURKING IN THE BEAU MONDE." Ever since Lord Philip Sandron had married Miss Thalia Temple (called Tally by her intimates) his fri...

  • A Mountain to Stand Strong

    Peggy Darty

    It was like scaling a mountain--this business of being a woman in the world of television. And like a mountain climber, Casey Green knew she could get hurt. Casey's ascent to the top was almost dizzying--from neophyte reporter at Channel 6 to man-...

  • Reach the Splendor

    Judith Duncan

    HE LOVED HER TOO MUCH TO MARRY HER For Dr. Robin Mitchell, marriage was the ultimate expression of love. For Dr. Paul Wilcox, it signaled the beginning of the end. He had seen too many disastrous marriages -- his parents' included. Neverthe...

  • Sky Riders

    Erika Fabian

    HE LOVED THE CHALLENGE OF A DANGEROUS WOMAN Kirk Russell had courted death many times, flying close to wildfire as an Alaskan bush pilot. Tracy also knew the unnerving captain of her company's most recent and treacherous operation had loved ...

  • Wind Whispers

    Barbara Faith

    WRITTEN ON THE WIND... In the ancient Yucatan the God of the Wind had once watched as two lovers ran headlong into tragedy. Would that story be enacted once again? Joanna Morrow and Carlos Quintana met to work on a mural celebrating Mexico's past...

  • A Public Affair

    Eleanor Frost

    Never trust a politician. That's what Barbara Danbury told herself when she first became involved with Morgan Newman. But the handsome Chicagoan, a dynamic, rising political star, was like no other man Barbara had ever met. And she believed him when...

  • Hours to Cherish

    Heather Graham

    The Bahamians called her Cat emerald-eyed empress of her own island, Tiger Cay. Since the accident that had left her a despairing widow, ravishing Catherine Miller had become a match for any man who sailed the sea. Until the devastating stranger appe...

  • To See the Daisies...First

    Billie Green

    One moment Ben Garrison felt that his life was headed nowhere; then a woman wearing only an oversized trenchcoat, who had no idea who she was or where she belonged, changed everything! Ben named her Sunny for the open, loving way she faced the world...

  • Sweet Passion's Pain

    Karen Harper

    The daughter of a disgraced earl, she matched wits with a prince. It is the fourteenth century, the height of the Medieval Age, and at the court of King Edward III of England, chivalry is loudly praised while treachery runs rampant. When the lovely a...

  • Days to Remember

    Donna Grundman

    He loved her from the first moment he saw her diving nude into the moonlight river - Mattie, his brother's wife. In the seven years Morgan Henderson had been gone, some things had changed, but not his brother Allen's obsessive jealousy and ruthless a...

  • Something Lost, Something Gained

    Carole Halston

    Megan was convinced she could have it all: a husband, children, and an exciting writing career. But that was before her marriage to photographer Case Ballantine shattered along with her hopes. Now, two years later, the husband she still longed fo...

  • For Ever and a Day

    Rosalie Henaghan

    Their love belonged to another time After four years, Stephanie was almost certain she'd buried any love she'd once felt for Dare Nayton. He'd been quick to think the worst of her then, and just as quick to cancel their marriage plans....

  • Something Different

    Kay Hooper

    Take one irrepressible mystery writer named Gypsy, add a slightly smashed VW called Daisy, a piratical cat named Corsair, toss them into the path of a cool architect with a glint in his eyes -- and stir up more romantic excitement than one sleepy se...

  • Taking a Chance

    Anna Hudson

    He gazed deep into her eyes with delight -- just as she'd hoped he would. For Dr. Charles Franklin, optometrist, a dream had come true. Beautiful Johanna Jenkins had returned to St. Louis and walked boldly back into his life. He'd been her...

  • Dream of Yesterday

    Nancy John

    When Kirstie Kaye first met Adam Prescott he held her passionately in his arms until she couldn't help but love him -- then thrust her away when he learned how young she was. When they met again Kirstie was old enough to love, but Adam was to...

  • Morning Star

    Kristin James

    CATHLEEN RICHARDS She had grown up a part of the Nashville music scene, but the fame and fortune her father had earned had dwindled with the years. Now she was on the verge of fame and a fortune of her own, discovering her own talents and the secret...

  • No Red Roses

    Iris Johansen

    When singer Rex Brody took Tamara Ledford in his arms, he knew suddenly that the lady he'd been singing to all along was no longer just a hopeful fantasy. But could he convince her that his feelings were as sincere as the powerful desire that swept ...

  • Friend of the Heart

    Dianne King

    Loving him wouldn't be easy From the moment Sarah Montgomery gazed into Bryce Benedict's hazel eyes she was smitten. What did it matter that he was her client? Or that she was already dating the most eligible bachelor in San Francisco? Her heart w...

  • Uneasy Alliance

    Jayne Ann Krentz

    He had a definite eye for beauty Meeting Torr Latime was the last thing Abby Lyndon expected from her Japanese flower-arranging class. He was dynamic, good-looking, sexy - and he created much better floral arrangements than she did! He was also th...

  • Behind Closed Doors

    Diana Morgan

    OPPOSITES ATTRACT .., After Emily Moreau was fired she decided that the computer which had replaced her needed to be taught manners. So she created a new program--ESMERELDA--and its old-fashioned etiquette wreaked havoc with the company. Free-s...

  • End of Illusion

    Amanda Lee (1)

    Two's company, three's a crowd, and four...? What, Kate Davenport asked herself, was four? She was a widow with a ten-year-old son who needed a man's influence. Morgan Chandler was divorced and had a teen-aged daughter who was in need of a woman's ha...

  • Undercover Dreamer

    Debbie Macomber

    When Meggie O'Halloran landed a job in Portland, she felt that her prayers had been answered. A new career and a new home were just the thing to set her on her feet again. But her new neighbor Quinn Donnelly, was another story altogether. He was an u...

  • Untamed Desire

    Margie Michaels

    Torn between loyalty and love... Mark Holland was the most dangerously exciting man Asante James had ever met. From the moment they touched, his lean hard body filled her with desire, and all of her cried out for the ultimate embrace. But he wa...

  • The Fires Within

    Aimee Martel

    WHERE THERE'S SMOKE ... It was hard to make a good impression when everyone wished you weren't a woman, but firefighter Isabel Dailey was determined to try. It didn't help matters that her superior officer, Lieutenant Mark Grady, had the most beau...

  • A Better Fate

    Prudence Martin

    They were committed to their careers and to each other: For the first two years of their marriage their jobs had kept them three hundred miles apart Together now, Nicole and Randell Clarke cohosted St Louis's most popular daytime IV show. At home and...

  • Winter Masquerade

    Kathleen Maxwell

    HER SECRET THRUST HER INTO A DANGEROUS GAME OF DESIRE Lovely Kimberly Barrow was enthralled by the glorious winter splendor of William and Mary's court and the two devastatingly attractive men vying for her attentions. No one suspected that Kimber...

  • Wilderness Passion

    Lindsay McKenna

    LOVE'S NATURAL LAW Biologist Libby Stapleton was ready for anything when she met her unwilling partner on a government environmental study - anything, that is, except forest manager Dan Wagner, whose animal grace and disturbing honesty filled her ...

  • Love and Old Lace

    Nicole Monet

    YOUNG AT HEART Virginia Carson had played the fool once, and that was enough. No more romance, she had decided -- just a sensible and chaste dedication to her grandmother. But Marge, her grandmother, had other ideas--and they came in the dangerou...

  • Love Is a Fairy Tale

    Zelma Orr

    She had always believed love was a fairy tale Ami Whitelake had surrendered her dreams long ago--or perhaps she'd never really harbored any. Ami took satisfaction in hard work, pleasure in the wonder of nature and love where she found it--rescuing...

  • Flight of Fancy

    Maggie Osborne

    Luke Bannister could go elsewhere with his infuriating charm and his knock-'em-dead good looks. Samantha Adams was not ripe for love. She was determined to make Adams Air Freight a success, and Bannister Air Freight was her competition. But after mir...

  • South of the Sun

    Laurie Paige

    PASSIONATE ADVENTURE For Jordie Sloan it was the dream of a lifetime--to join an expedition to the South Pole led by Jarl Ericson, the brilliant, arrogant, and impossibly attractive geophysicist. But being the only woman in an icy, desolate wi...

  • Yankee Bride

    Jane Peart

    Rose Meredith Montrose Out of the North she came -- beautiful, cultured, well-educated -- to become the bride of Malcolm Montrose, a wealthy southern planter. It was another world Rose Meredith found at Montclair, the magnificent Montrose plan...

  • That Old Feeling

    Fayrene Preston

    When she heard the waves crashing against the rugged Baja coast, Lisa Saxon felt their power echo within her heart. And when she turned to find Christopher, her ex-husband, standing just yards away, her pulse quickened in frustration and desire. Sh...

  • Wish on a Star

    Katherine Ransom

    When Vanessa came to Maine to escape being Jack Hamilton's beautiful, rich daughter, she lied about her identity to Rory McGee, the guide she talked into taking her on a canoe trip into the wilderness. From the moment she was alone with him, she was ...

  • Firebird

    Margaret Ripy

    Jared St. Vincent, the dashing tycoon, had asked her to marry him on the condition that she give up her career and follow him to the Amazon. And when Lindsey Phillips, prima ballerina with the Metropolitan Ballet Company, said no, that she could not ...

  • Tide's End

    Erin Ross

    DEEP SEA DIVER From the moment she met Kirk Roberts, Holly Bishop experienced a feeling foreign to her--vulnerability. As a chemical engineer as well as the only woman aboard an offshore California oil rig, she couldn't afford that. Though she ha...

  • Outcasts from Eden

    Katherine Sargent

  • A Red Bird in Winter

    Lucy Snow

    HE WAS THE ONE WHO HAD TO CHANGE Her shallow urban existence for life in the Ozarks -- journalist Alexis Smythe's gutsy trade. If the mountain people accepted her. Especially John Webber. Through her days with him, Alexis learned to live more s...

  • Sweet Memories

    LaVyrle Spencer

    SWEET MEMORIES... of tender breathless passion, of a bond betrayed by lack of trust, of a love too long denied.... Like a haunting melody that recalls a special moment, Sweet Memories will stir your senses and touch your heart. It is the poignant ...

  • Blue Ridge Autumn

    Natalie Stone

    He'd stolen the peace and quiet she so desperately craved, shattered the wild solitude of her Blue Ridge Mountain home. Life for Dr. Kate Harrington would never be the same after Craig Rimer barged into the Hickory Ridge Animal Clinic, then into her ...

  • Male Order Bride

    Carolyn Thornton

    The postman had to ring only once for Lacey Adams. Each day was an adventure when Rafe Chancellor besieged .her with a barrage of whimsical messages just to convince her to date him. Lacey was intrigued by her mystery man, but how could the real Rafe...

  • Valley of Fire

    Janelle Taylor

    Would their love be consumed in the valley of fire? The woman lying unconscious in the Nevada desert was Kathy Alexander, romance writer. The man who rescued her, who at first identified himself as Lance Reynolds, was really Steven Winngate, owner...

  • Mingled Hearts

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    Sharing an apartment was only the beginning Faced with financial pressures, Stephanie Collier was forced to share her oceanfront apartment. But she soon realized that living with Lloyd Barclay wouldn't be easy. They had opposite views on almost ever...

  • The Pink Beds

    Anne Thurston

    Newly awakened, her love blossomed Carolyn Ennis had worked hard after her husband's tragic death--too hard. tier X-ray technician's job paid the mortgage on the house Carolyn shared with her son, Pete, in lianksville, north Carolina, but financia...

  • That Tender Feeling

    Dorothy Vernon

    SOMETHING STRANGE WAS COOKING... . Ros Seymour was a topnotch chef and the cookbooks she authored were among the best in the field. But starting from the moment she met Cliff Heath, her normal skills began to elude her. Cliff was as dark and br...

  • Cry for the Moon

    Pamela Wallace

    IT WAS A FIGHT NO ONE COULD WIN. . . Revel Tyson was determined to save the airline that bore her family name. Connor Winfield was just as determined that her planes would fly as part of his fleet. What neither one was ready for was the passi...

  • To Last a Lifetime

    Patricia White

    Beautiful, flame-haired Benny Melody was born to hardship and adversity. Handsome Beal Addison gave her his dream of building a timber dynasty. She loved him as a child, loved and wanted him as she grew into womanhood, but she never dreamed he would ...

  • Beguiled by a Stranger

    Eleanor Woods

    With that diabolical glint in his eye and his swashbuckling corporate style, in another age Rhys Warner would have plundered booty and hearts with equal panache. By any measure, the founder of Lodestar Inc., was impossible to resist. Megan Colby, ...

  • A Separate Happiness

    Brittany Young

    FAST, DANGEROUS LOVE Brianna Kendall was a smart, talented reporter, and too beautiful for her own good. Caesare De Alvarado was playing a dangerous and deadly game to help his people. When they met, the course of their lives was forever altered...

  • Slate

    Nathan Aldyne

    Boston’s hottest new gay bar is making a killing in this mystery first published in 1984 that’s “screamingly funny in the gayest way!” (The New York Times). Daniel Valentine is a gay bartender. Clarisse Lovelace is his straight pal. From Bost...

  • A Flash of Green

    John D. MacDonald

    James Wing was only trying to help his friend's widow. At least that's what he told himself after he warned Kat Hubble that the beautiful bay that she and her neighbours had struggled to save was now going to be sold to developers. He knew he shouldn...

  • In Character

    John Clifford Mortimer

    The author's interviews in "The Sunday Times" command an enthusiastic following. Using his powers of cross-examination, and his playwright's ear for detail, he talks to such diverse personalities as Graham Greene, Mick Jagger, Enoch Powell and David ...

  • Fourth Side of the Triangle

    Ellery Queen

    A fashion designer’s murder draws legendary sleuth Ellery Queen into a New York society family’s tangled web of secrets. Ever since New York was Nieuw Amsterdam, the McKells have been building their fortune. Combining Scottish thrift with America...

  • Strike Three, You're Dead

    Richard Rosen / R.D. Rosen

    All season long, the Providence Jewels had taken a beating on the diamond. Now they had to contend with a killer in the clubhouse. Somebody had benched relief pitcher Rudy Furth permanently...and left his corpse in a whirlpool of whispers about mob c...

  • Treasure by Degrees

    David Williams

    Merchant banker and part-time detective Mark Treasure begins to sort through clues after the widow of the founder of the Funny Farms Foundation is discovered slaughtered on a university campus during a dedication ceremony...

  • Conan the Magnificent

    Robert Jordan
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    Amid the savage crags of the Kezankian Mountains, Conan is stalked by the sultry huntress Jondra, sought by the lovely thief Tamira, caught between the Army of Zamora and Brythunian warriors seeking revenge. The mighty Cimmerian must battle hordes of...

  • Sword and Sorceress

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    The author of the marvelous Darkover novels and of the bestselling Arthurian novel THE MISTS OF AVALON, has assembled this corona of heroic fantasy wherein women of courage and wizardry challenge the evils and dreads of an ensorcelled world. Here ...

  • Midsummer Morning

    Helen Ashfield

  • Deep Six

    Clive Cussler

    A TRAIL OF VICIOUS MURDERS... A MAZE OF STOLEN CARGOES... A PLOT AS COLD AND RUTHLESS AS THE SEA! A deadly tide of poison flows into ocean waters. A ghost ship drifts across the empty northern Pacific. A luxury Soviet liner blazes into a funeral p...

  • Mr. Surie

    O.K. Joshee

  • Emily Dickinson Is Dead

    Jane Langton

    The Belle of Amherst is losing her fans one by one.... The guests at the Emily Dickinson Memorial symposium are all passionately devoted to the poet Professor Peter Wiggins is eager to revitalize her image (and his own career) by exposing a verb c...

  • Murder at Mt. Fuji

    Shizuko Natsuki

    In their luxurious country villa, the Wealthy Wada family have gathered to celebrate New Year. Chiyo, the family favorite has invited American friend and tutor, Jane Prescott to join them. Chiyo bursts into the living room claiming to have stabbed he...

  • The Devil's Novice

    Ellis Peters

    Outside the pale of the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, in September of the year of our Lord 1140, a priestly emissary for King Stephen has been reported missing. But inside the pole, what troubles Brother Cadfael is a proud, secretive nineteen-...

  • Ace of Diamonds

    Mark Schorr

    The second Red Diamond private eye novel sees the detective, actually a delusional New York cab driver, solving a mystery in Las Vegas. Red thinks he's a 1940s private investigator, and is willing to take on organized crime in his quest for his lady ...

  • Cul-De-Sac

    John William Wainwright

  • Bleeding Hearts

    Teri White

    Two mismatched cops search Los Angeles for a pair of bloodthirsty killers On the night he escapes the asylum, Tom does not take his medication. He slips out of bed soon after lights out, pockets a knife, and goes looking for a guard. At knifepoint, h...

  • Brotherhood of the Rose

    David Morrell

    "Riveting...Crackling...It really moves."
    WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
    They were orphans, Chris and Saul--raised in a Philadelphia school for boys, bonded by friendship, and devoted to a mysterious man called Eliot. He visited them and brought th...

  • Angel

    Carola Dunn

    HEIRESS IN DISGUISE Lady Evangelina was lovely, the daughter of a marquis, and the reigning beauty of the London season. Of course she was deluged with marriage offers...but how could she ever be sure that her suitors were sincere? Determined ...

  • Full Circle

    Danielle Steel

    The 1960s. Kennedy. Martin Luther King. Civil rights. Vietnam. Tana Roberts comes of age in this turbulent decade, and begins a journey that will lead her from hew York to the South during the heat of racial unrest. A thoroughly modern young woman, s...

  • Possessions

    Judith Michael

    When Katherine Fraser's husband vanishes, she discovers that he has hidden his past from her...and when his wealthy family finds her and sweeps her into a world of power and luxury, the fearful, dependent wife is gradually transformed into a vibrant,...

  • Cambodia Clash

    Don Pendleton

    Bloody flight to freedom! America has known all along of the POWs' existence in a Cambodian camp. But Washington refuses to acknowledge the documented proof. The League of Families--a group desperate to see the prisoners freed, and sick of bein...

  • Heartbreaker

    Francine Pascal

    Catch a wave... The surf's up in Sweet Valley, and gorgeous Jessica Wakefield is making a big splash with Bill Chase, the hottest surfer in town. But after she tricks him into falling madly in love with her, she ignores him completely. To compl...

  • Danger on Ice

    Carolyn Keene

    In Austria to watch a mutual friend participate in an ice skating competition, the Hardy brothers and Nancy Drew find themselves involved in a dangerous international adventure when their friend is kidnapped after winning a gold medal. The reader's c...

  • The Mysterious Image

    Carolyn Keene

    WHEN A FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER IS ACCUSED OF THEFT, NANCY DETECTS A FRAME-UP Dallas Curry, a successful advertising photographer, has been accused of stealing ideas from his rivals. At the same time, Clare Grant, Curry's former client and an actress ...

  • Secret Cargo

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy Drew and the Hardy brothers run into danger when they try to prevent the sabotage of an anti-pollution campaign. The reader controls the outcome of the story by choosing different ways of advancing the plot....

  • The Feathered Serpent

    Carolyn Keene

  • Secret of the Knight's Sword

    Carolyn Keene

    In England to discover the secret of the Silver Knight in Bromley Hall, Carson Drew and his daughter Nancy encounter Frank and Joe Hardy in their hotel and the four proceed to unravel the mystery. The reader's choices determine the direction of the i...

  • Norah's Ark

    Ann Cartwright

  • Cheap Shot

    Jay Cronley

  • The Killing Doll

    Ruth Rendell

    In a shabby London suburb, sixteen-year-old Pup Yearman dabbles in magic. But for Pup's older sister Dolly, the magic is more than dabbling. Deformed by a facial birthmark, Dolly desperately wants to be cured, and her obsession with Pup's magic sends...

  • Blood Song

    Hank Searls

    “The sleep-spoiling thriller of the year.”

    -- San Diego Union

    In an astonishing, moving thriller about family bonds that reach across time, the author of Overboard and Sounding brings all his skill to a re-creation of one of history’s m...

  • Nightcap

    J.C.S. Smith

  • Skytrap

    John Smith

  • Norby's Other Secret

    Janet Asimov

  • Cruise of a Death Time

    Marian Babson

    CROSS THE OCEAN BLUE. IF YOU CAN GET THERE ALIVE. Welcome to the Empress Josephine and a transoceanic experience of good food, lavish entertainment, fun, and surprises--lots of surprises. The first comes when a key officer fails to make the saili...

  • Concrete

    Thomas Bernhard

    Instead of the book he’s meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this dark and grotesquely funny account of small woes writ large, of profound horrors detailed and rehearsed to the point of distraction. We learn of Rudolph’s si...

  • Budding Prospects

    T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle

    An “irresistible” (Los Angeles Times) novel about the adventures of three men growing marijuana in Northern CaliforniaAll Felix Nasmyth and friends have to do is harvest a crop of Cannabis Sativa and half a million tax-free dollars will be t...

  • The Jonah Man

    Henry Carlisle

    A chronicle based on the events that inspired Moby Dick recounts the experiences of Captain Pollard and the crew of the whaling ship Essex, who, after being cast adrift by a destructive whale, sacrifice a crewman to survive and face s...

  • Notes from a Child of Paradise

    Alfred Corn

  • Ceremony of Innocence

    S.F.X. Dean

  • Killed on the Ice

    William L. Deandrea

    Matt Cobb deals with love and murder on the rinkIn the last installment of the popular Matt Cobb series, the TV network’s expert troubleshooter, faces a literal case of cold-blooded murder. At two in the morning, he stands in a Manhattan ice ri...

  • First Hit of the Season

    Jane Dentinger

    From the author of Murder on Cue and Dead Pan comes another great murder mystery starring Jocelyn O'Roarke, actress/singer/sleuth. This time a caustic critic has been murdered and O'Roarke must discern whom among his many detractors was angry enough ...

  • Man Around the House

    Rhonda Dixon

  • A Falcon for the Hawks

    Clive Egleton

  • The Hey Hey Man

    Sid Fleischman

  • The Day We Bombed Utah

    John G. Fuller

  • Good King Harry

    Denise Giardina

    Set against the sweeping backdrop of medieval England, Good King Harry brilliantly brings to life one of the most fascinating, conflicted monarchs in history: Henry V. Evoking the sights and sounds of fifteenth-century London, acclaimed author Denise...

  • Terror in the Sunlight

    Jean Hager

    Chilton, a small southwestern town, seemed far too peaceful to be the scene of a triple murder. Yet it had been, and after a year, the peace was beginning to return though the murders remained unsolved. Gwen Potter, the pretty high school English ...

  • The Last Starfighter Storybook

    Lynn Haney

  • Foreign Bodies

    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

    A woman obsessed with her desire for the love of a homosexual man rebounds between the glittering world of artists, dealers, and collectors and her own staunchly middle-class milieu in a search for "ordinary human happiness"...

  • Sunflower Forest

    Torey L. Hayden

    Bestselling author Torey Hayden's new novel poignantly tells of a daughter's attempt to grow up in the shadow of her mother's haunted past. Warm, melancholy and evocatively rendered this book captures the essence of a family touched by sadness. A ha...

  • Sweeney Astray

    Seamus Heaney

    Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibne. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at the Battle of Moira. Heaney's translation n...

  • Dreams of Sleep

    Josephine Humphreys

    Alice Reese knows that the cheerful sounds of her family eating breakfast mask a ten--year marriage falling apart. As Alice and her husband, Will, struggle to understand--and perhaps recapture--the feelings that drew them together in the first place...

  • Megan's Book of Divorce

    Erica Jong

  • Agatha

    Edna Mae Manley

    When she returns to London after years in the country to rescue her young sister from an improper liaison, Agatha Winslow finds herself surrounded by admirers despite her lameness and the fact she had been jilted...

  • K.wayfaring in Avenged

    James Mccourt

  • Family Fortunes

    Anne Melville

    Volume Four of the dramatic saga of the Lorimer Family From the general strike to the Second World War the Lorimer spirit struggles to survive... On the peaceful Thameside estate of Blaize, Alexa (Lorimer) Glanville shares the long years of her wi...

  • The Forever Street

    Frederic Morton

    Berek, a young penniless Jew of eighteen is struggling to make a home of Turk Place, a desolate street that, in 1873 Vienna, was little more than a Gypsy encampment. But Berek believes fiercely in his own power to forge miracles. Taking the caretaker...

  • Love and Death in a Hot Country

    Shiva Naipaul

  • The Hour

    Ron Nessen

    Faced with declining ratings, anchorman Mitch Crawford and the reporters on a prime-time television investigative news program manipulate the facts in a story on a company that makes contact lens solution, charging that the product causes blindness...

  • Hope Diamond Refuses

    Iris Owens

  • A Little Bit Married

    Gail Parent

    DAVID'S WIFE. JULIE'S MOTHER. IS RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME -- FOR THE SUMMER. After eighteen years of married sex. Marjorie Weissman's come down with a craving for passion -- the hot, teen-aged kind, with her hunky acting coach. After saving so many ...

  • Coldiron

    F.M. Parker

    HE WAS HAIR-TRIGGERED FOR TROUBLE IN A LAND WHERE YOU LIVED OR DIED BY YOUR GUNS JUDGE AND EXECUTIONER - HARD MAN IN A HARD LAND In a trackless territory where a man had to be as hard as cold-forged steel to survive, Luke Coldiron was harder than a...

  • House of Cards

    Felice Picano

  • Heechee Rendezvous

    Frederik Pohl

    Once the galaxy was ruled by the Heechee benevolent a lens with almost godlike powers. But five hundred thousand years ago, they encountered an even more powerful race, and to prevent their own destruction, the Heechee fled to the relative safety of ...

  • The Sniper

    Willo Davis Roberts

  • An Evening of Brahms

    Richard Sennett

  • Good Company

    Frances Shields

    Popular mystery writer Edgar Horatio Savage, accompanied by his eccentric Uncle Baldwin, meets up with an assortment of zany fellow travelers, including the beautiful Amy Appleton, en route to a writer's conference in Canada...

  • The Jumpmaster

    Howard R. Simpson

    Inspector Roger Bastide of the Marseille police follows a trail that leads through Marseille's murky underground of organized crime to locate a shipment of gold missing since World War II and to unmask the killer of a British Intelligence officer...

  • The Holdout

    Robert Steelman

    From Wikipedia: The Western is a genre of various arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the...

  • Lady Fortune

    Janet Templeton

  • Demon

    John Varley

    The epic conclusion to Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author John Varley's Gaean Trilogy...Gaea, the world and goddess, has gone insane. She has trapped humans in her mind. She has transformed her love of old movies into monstrous realities. She is Ma...

  • The Glitter Dome

    Joseph Wambaugh

    A grim look at the ugly underbelly of life as a Hollywood copy

    It’s the wildest bar in Chinatown, run by a proprietor named Wing who will steal your bar change every chance he gets. On payday the groupies mingle there with off-duty LAPD ...

  • Darling Corey's Dead

    Martha G. Webb

    A female police detective joins forces with a postal inspector to investigate the murders of some prostitutes in a small Texas town, and to uncover the individual responsible for a series of postal robberies...

  • A Love Affair

    Gertrude V. Whitney

  • Lady Washington

    Dorothy Clarke Wilson

  • Lightsource

    Bari Wood

  • Wild Berries

    Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  • When the Heart Remembers

    Eva Zumwalt

  • Sound of Gunfire

    Frank Bonham

    The miners were blasting the haylands into mud, the ranchers were ready to blast the miners out and the Snake warriors were waiting on the ridgetops with blood-hungry lanches. All that stood between the Oregon Territory and a three way war was F Comp...

  • The Black Company

    Glen Cook

    Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hardbitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead. Until t...

  • Flight of the Dragonfly

    Robert L. Forward

    MISSION TO A DOUBLE PLANET. Powered by a revolutionary, laser-driven lightsail, the first manned interstellar probe would reach the bizarre double planet that circled Barnard's Star in a mere twenty years. The world's finest scientists had fought des...

  • Woman of Three Worlds

    Jeanne Foster

    A courageous young woman heads west in search of a new home in this stirring saga from a Spur Awardâ€"winning author. The Civil War robbed Brittany Laird of her family, her home, and her past. She has no choice but to set out for Fort Bowie in the Ar...

  • The Calico Countess

    Barbara Hazard

    THE INDEPENDENT YOUNG LADY AND THE INSUFFERABLE EARL When Miss Lorna Jarrett met Peter Truesdale, the Earl of Norwell, they detested each other at first sight. The Earl was certain he had never met a young lady so unbending in manner and so sh...

  • Red Jack's Daughter

    Edith Layton

    An unsophisticated young miss dazzles three eligible bachelors with her beauty -- and her fortune HER HEART WAS DIVIDED IN THREE Jessica Eastwood’s country sweetheart, Tom Preston, wanted her to be the free and independent spirit that her ga...

  • Close Associates

    Catherine Linden

    BUSINESS BEFORE PLEASURE Elena Perry promised herself that no man would ever dominate her life as Brian Mortimer had when he deserted her for a more advantageous match. She was proud of her new-found independence, proud of her career in real estat...

  • Wakefield's Passion

    Catherine Linden

    Discovery and Desire The soft sand dunes and tiny fishing villages of Cape Cod were so different from London that Monica immediately fell in love with her new home. Her new job at Wakefield and Wyatt Antiques was another matter entirely. Here e...

  • Wages of Sin

    Tom Lord

    Ash Tallman and his partner Vivian Valentine, Pinkerton agents, try to find out who has been stirring up a deadly Texas feud...

  • The Ragged Edge

    Giles A. Lutz

    A fight with the conductor of a train and a run-in with a pretty redhead unexpectedly change the lives of two brothers looking to start a new life in South Dakota....

  • Strangers by Day

    Vicki Malone

  • The Vision Is Fulfilled

    Kay L. McDonald

    SHE CHALLENGED AMERICA'S WILD FRONTIER TO KEEP HER DREAM OF LOVE Marlette Chestnut longed to be in her husband's arms, hoping the tragic past was forever behind them, their future a glorious new life in untamed Oregon Territory. Fate had separated...