Books Published in November 1984

New Books List: 324 titles

  • Horizon's Gift

    Betty Jackson

    He took her for an old maid schoolteacher! Near-sighted, slim as a reed, Olivia Waring had made Horizon House, her nursery school, the center of her life, her pride and joy. And been content until an angry little girl and boy invaded her heart. Jake ...

  • Passion Flower

    Diana Palmer

    LOVE BRAND As a successful New York interior designer, Jennifer King led a hectic, fast-paced life. So when a sudden illness cost her her job, she jumped at the chance of a working vacation at a Texas ranch. But life with Everett Culhane, the ...

  • Great Rip Off

    Lavinia Harris

  • Silent Leges

    Jerry Pournelle
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    From the fearless fighting men of inter-galactic space to the Spartan few who held the pass at Thermopylae. From the hardy starship troopers of futuristic mercenary frays to those last Roman centurions, holding back the barbaric hordes. From those ce...

  • Lone Star and the Riverboat Gamblers

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki discover the cartel's new game -- piracy on the Mississippi!Mississippi creoles and Indians are up in arms. This time, the cartel has gone too far by arming a native insurrection, hijacking riverboats, and using passengers as slaves. &#...

  • The Lawless Heart

    Kathryn Atwood

    By day she was a paragon of virtue. By night, a seductive enchantress As Irenee Carleton, she was a modest, eminently respectable lady of London society. As Lady Ardis, she was the mysterious, bewitching queen of London's decadent demimonde, des...

  • Kiss Me Once Again

    Claudia Bishop (1)

    Felicity Kierston had never been so shamelessly coerced. One moment she was evicting a handsome party crasher. Next she found herself dancing with him till dawn... sharing a picnic on the Thames... waking up to his tender ministrations. Had she been ...

  • Dating Games

    Elissa Curry

    Finnegan T. Gallagher III is more preposterous than his name -- a computer whiz who runs a successful dating service and does top-secret work for the Pentagon; an accomplished magician who pulls flowers from nowhere; and the sexiest, most intriguing ...

  • For Love or Money

    Dana Daniels

    Electronics company president Katherine Hastings likes to call the shots. So when her father's will stipulates that she must marry and produce an heir, she boldly invites her charismatic business rival, Brad Donovan, to dinner and offers him a propos...

  • The Hunted Heart

    Barbara Doyle

    Gail Spencer was one of the few women who dared to compete in the big hunting tournament. The stakes of $50,000 were high, but the wild Catskill Mountains could be dangerous. And from the moment Gail saw her strongest competitor, Bob Tucker, she knew...

  • Vintage Moments

    Sharon Francis

    With utmost reluctance Leah Anderson, expert antique-car restorer, agrees to don a flowered hat and Edwardian gown and drive Jared Morgan's ancient Packard to New Orleans on a publicity tour. But as long as their approach to cars remains firmly o...

  • Goodbye Again

    Carolyn Fireside

    Miranda Lawson, a talented young actress, pursues her dreams of fame and fortune, following in the footsteps of her famous mother, now deceased, and her mentor, Sir Anthony Gainsborough, her mother's former lover...

  • Wild Hearts

    Paula Fairman

    Camilla DuBois faced a cruel dilemma. The dark and splendid beauty had to sacrifice her honor and her childhood home in Louisiana to the cruel lust of an old enemy, or set out alone in search of her father in the vast, savage Texas territory -- where...

  • Private Lessons

    Katherine Granger

    Professor Andrew Everest's quiet strength, distinguished gallantry and dashing good looks draw Carrie like a flower to sunlight. Her uninhibited spirit and celebration of life fire Andrew's passion. Though their marriage shocks their friends ...

  • Cupid's Confederates

    Jeanne Grant

    Bett and Zach work hard to preserve their private paradise -- a 200-acre farm rich with clover and violets, lush blossoms, the scent of honey, the hum of bees. Together they delight in the fruits of their labor...and in each other. Bett is Zach's...

  • Masquerade

    Susanna Howe

    IN A WORLD OF LAVISH DISGUISE SHE HARBORED A SECRET LOVE... Clare Cailin, ebony-haired orphan, longed to enter the privileged world of Philadelphia society -- the world to which handsome, devil-may-care Devin Maitland had been born. His burning to...

  • Ann of Cambray

    Mary Lide

    "The Lady Ann sits beside me, her tapestry untouched in her lap. The only sounds that disturb us are the cooing of the doves in their cote above the main castle gate and the distant surges of the sea:" So writes Urien. Bard to the Celts, as he record...

  • Slightly Scandalous

    Jan Mathews

    Each night at Chicago's famed Club Arnaud, Rebecca Bates moves provocatively to the music's throbbing beat, teasing and tempting, promising much but revealing little. Afterward, she's once again shy Rebecca, sole support of her young son and teenaged...

  • The Dancers' Land

    Elisabeth Kidd

    When Catherine's eyes first met those of handsome British officer Colin Grayson, she discovered a passion decreed by Kismet, as endless as all time, as powerful as the winds and tides. But as quickly as their love was found, Colin mysteriously di...

  • Ecstasy's Fancy

    Wanda Owen

    LOVE 'S FIRE Ravishing young Fancy was filled with anticipation when she arrived in the bustling city of Natchez. But from the moment she met the coolly arrogant Nicholas Dubose, his piercing green eyes and flashing white smile haunted her dreams. S...

  • Impassioned Pretender

    Betsy Osborne

    Attorney Kira Lacey has heard plenty--all of it bad--about the ruthless venture capitalist whose daring new building projects arc casting elderly Pennsylvanians from their homes. So she's delighted to help unemployed steelworker Michael Vranesevich s...

  • Pride and Promises

    Adrienne Scott

    SHE WAS A RAVISHING BEAUTY, A WEALTHY HEIRESS, THE TOAST OF LONDON -- AND UNHAPPILY IN LOVE Lady Sara had mysteriously appeared after her father's death, much to her family's surprise. At seventeen, her life became a dazzling blur of forma...

  • Home Fires

    Lee Williams

    For Cindy and Trevor Brooks, marriage means sharing midnight kisses, champagne bubble baths, a six year history, two inquisitive children, and a love whose strength continually catches them by surprise. Life is rich and rewarding... yet something's m...

  • Twilight

    Leigh Nichols

  • Mind Guest

    Sharon Green

  • Conjure Wife

    Fritz Leiber

    Professor Norman Saylor considered magic nothing more than superstition. Then he learned that his own wife was a practicing sorceress. But he still refuses to accept the truth...that in the secret occult warfare that governs our lives, magic is a ...

  • Space Search

    Mack Reynolds

  • The Game Beyond

    Melissa Scott

    A star-flung empire the prize -- in a deadly war of successionThe Silvertree Empress is dead, the last of her line. The heir named in her will is an impossibility, her favorite, Keira Renault, member of a family deposed and disgraced generations befo...

  • The Second Kingdom

    Jack Lovejoy

  • Myth-Ing Persons

    Robert Asprin

    Skeeve is in a real pickle this time. His partner Aahz has disappeared and it looks like foul play. Finding Aahz ouSht to be a snap for a talented magician like Skeeve, especially with a sassy apprentice and a dumb but brawny bodyguard along for the ...

  • Them Bones

    Howard Waldrop

    Living in the post-holocaust society of the twenty-first century, Madison Yazoo Leake journeys back through time to prevent World War III, which devastated Earth, and finds himself in a bizarre, unexpected world...

  • Pillar of Night

    Robert E. Vardeman

  • Scapescope

    John E. Stith

    First published in 1984 by Ace Books, Scapescope is John E. Stith's first novel.

    Aided by a device that provides glimpses of the future, Mike Cavantalo, a loyal government employee, learns that soon he will be on the list of known political c...

  • Past Times

    Poul Anderson

    Saunders got up and ran, crouching low, weaving back and forth. A shot wailed past his ear. He spun around, the pistol in his hand, and snapped a return shot. There were men in black uniforms coming out of the jet. He fired again and felt a savage jo...

  • The Moment of the Magician

    Alan Dean Foster

    In his continuing quest to find his way back to his own world, Jon-Tom the spellsinger must face off against a magician with sinister intentions Far to the south of the peaceful Bellwoods, where Jon-Tom the spellsinger continues trying to master t...

  • Fire Sword

    Adrienne Martine-Barnes

  • Dinosaur Planet Survivors

    Anne McCaffrey

    HIDE 'N SLEEP Kai and Varian spent forty years in coldsleep, hiding from the mutineers who had taken over the planet Ireta. But when they woke, the mutineers were still around--and had sired two generations of ornery descendants! Worse yet, sp...

  • Emergence

    David R. Palmer

    Emergence is a science fiction novel by American writer David R. Palmer. It first appeared as a novella published in Analog Science Fiction in 1981; the same magazine also published Part II, "Seeking", in 1983. The completed novel then was published ...

  • Starman

    Alan Dean Foster

  • The Shadow Man

    Clare Barroll

    “DON’T COME LOOKING FOR MURDER.” The stark warning of the unsigned telegram chilled reporter Jennifer Ames despite the hot Hawaiian sun. For she had come looking for murder -- to investigate a famous unsolved crime, one that began with the s...

  • More Than Yesterday

    Angela Alexie

    IT WAS A RISK WORTH TAKING Child psychologist Lezlie Garrett had made it a point never to become emotionally involved with her patients. But when she saw the pain in Merri Bradinton's eyes, Lezlie knew instinctively that sharing the secret of ...

  • The Other Half of Love

    Jacqueline Ashley

    She had quite forgotten about the other half of love With his California good looks and his fascination with physical fitness, Patrick Phipps was a decided affront to Murph's sensibilities. Patrick was the kind of man who was so concerned with...

  • Passion's Gamble

    Linda Benjamin

    SHE BET HER INNOCENCE Jade-eyed Jessica was too shocked to protest when the riverboat cardsharp offered her as the stakes in a poker game. But after she met the smoldering glance of his opponent Luke Garrett, the fiery beauty hoped that the dark-hai...

  • Passionate Ultimatum

    Emma Bennett

    Melissa Phillips had no time to brood on her bad luck in love. Day's Work, her mother's foundering temporary-employment agency, needed Iverson Gerrick's endorsement. Salvaging his account was going to take all her ingenuity. Impossible to please, he'...

  • Circumstantial Evidence

    Annette Broadrick

    PLAYING HOUSE WAS MORE THAN A GAME... Ashley Allison was a hardworking, dedicated attorney who knew just what she wanted -- and it wasn't a husband. She was very sure of that, until she stepped into an elevator one night and a bonze-skinned, blue...

  • Little by Little

    Georgia Bockoven

    SHE DIDN'T WANT TO SAY GOODBYE The former weather girl no longer brought disaster to the job. She was an incisive reporter now - and an exciting woman. When NASA spokesman Mike Webster tried to get close to Caroline Travers, she backed off. He...

  • Color Love Blue

    Diana Blayne

    Walking on Fifth Avenue, savoring her success as an artist, Mann Shannon's head was in the clouds. When she careened into Nick Scarpelli, she knew at once he wasn't the perfect stranger. What had changed her mind--blackmail? His irresistible virility...

  • A Wilder Enchantment

    Gina Caimi

    THE ART OF LOVING Danielle would never fall for an artist. After her famous father had abandoned her and her mother, she had concluded that creativity and irresponsibility went hand in hand. Then she inherited her father's home on the wild Big...

  • To Remember Love

    Jo Calloway

    Lovely Lisa Van Norman grew up blond, beautiful, and brainy. Her goal: the presidency of the Bank of St. Augustine. John Jackson's big new account might have helped pave the way, but she'd blown it. How could she be expected to see the boy she'd 'mar...

  • Only the Best

    Lori Copeland

    A blizzard blew her into his life, but from the very first it wasn't snow but sparks that began to fly. Stranded in the tiny Wyoming town, Rana Alcott swore she'd rather die than accept help from a man like Gunner Montay. But what choice did she have...

  • This Thing Called Love

    Marion Smith Collins

    She was an expert on love Psychologist Samantha Hyatt thought she had all the answers when it came to romance. After all, she'd written a book on the subject, hadn't she? And love at first sight was not to be trusted! But her theories f...

  • Undercover Affair

    Helen Conrad (1)

    The man was definitely shoplifting! Furious that no security guard had spotted him, Shelley Pride captured him in a citizen's arrest. But the devastating smile of the thief weakened her grip... and her determination, especially when she discovered ...

  • Wild Passions

    Gena Dalton

    He was a pragmatist, and she was a dreamer. Davis Turnbo controlled the finances of the Southwest Zoo and Animal Preserve, and he refused to let Tracey Johnston purchase breeding stock, an action he considered impractical. Tracey fought him in fro...

  • Someday Soon

    Kathleen Eagle

    Amanda Caron told herself that she would finish her article on the rodeo and head home to her blue-blooded Boston family. But Amanda hadn't counted on falling under the spell of rodeo cowboy Sean Brannigan. In his quest to be the year's ...

  • A Pocketful of Dreams

    Lyn Ducoty

    Was history repeating itself? Jonathan Sheldon was an absolute hunk! Zan Adams knew that the moment they'd met. He was also warm, teasing and loving, but he stirred up painful memories of the past. Zan didn't think she could face such heartbrea...

  • The Dream Never Dies

    Jacqueline Diamond

    Despite the years, the heartache, the dream never dies Consultant Jill Brandon walked into the offices of the Buena Park newspaper and received two rude shocks. One was Kent Lawrence, the paper's managing editor. As Jill tried to revamp the da...

  • The Frozen Heart

    Jane Donnelly

    Would he still want revenge? Because of something Pattie had written about Duncan Keld for the gossip columns, a beautiful model suffered the most publicized and painful rejection London had ever witnessed. And Pattie's boss received a very bl...

  • Love Came Courting

    Marianna Essex

    Shivers of desire shook Gretchen Amsdell when Bret Taggart took her hand. Six years before, he had left her. Now the president of powerful Milburn Industries, Bret wanted her back-- to head the company's marketing division. He offered her a fantastic...

  • Crystal Angel

    Olivia Ferrell

    MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE Lara Hastings' kindness to Jason, the orphaned nephew of a notorious tycoon, only enraged "Uncle" Grey Barratt. Clearly, Grey suspected Lara, a beautiful elementary-school teacher, of using Jason to gain his fav...

  • No Time for Tears

    Cynthia Freeman

    Chavala Landau - a girl who survived abrupt tragedy to become prematurely the matriarch of her family, triumphing over all the heartbreak that turn-of-the-century Russia could perpetrate, making her way to Palestine with a pioneering people, then on ...

  • Satin Embraces

    Julia Grice

    Don't worry, I've seen women before, this is nothing new, Riordan said. Your arms, your legs...you've dozens of tiny burns from sparks. Alisa moaned and attempted to cover herself, but it was as if she were caught in a spell, hypnotized. Riordan ...

  • Mountain Skies

    Sally Garrett

    SHE WAS A WOMAN NOW But to D.A. McCormack, Mary Russell would always be little Mary from the Rocking R ranch--even when she was the one who helped him put back the pieces of his life after his disastrous firs~ marriage to the worldly Sarah. Mar...

  • This Savage Heart

    Patricia Hagan

    Though it broke her heart, Julie vowed to forget Derek Arnhardt, the bold captain who had fired her very soul but left their love in ashes. PASSIONS REKINDLED: But the wagon train west was led by the one man who would not let Julie forget the past...

  • On Any Terms

    Shirley Hart

    I have no memories of Nick Falcon, she told herself. But it wasn't true. Alexis Adams would never forget the tough city kid her father had all but adopted, the boy who'd turned his back on her seven long summers ago. And now Nick was back, no...

  • Captain Black

    Elizabeth Hewitt

    MISS CATELYN FITZSIMON HAD NO FEAR OF GENTLEMEN... With her beauty, birth, wit and wealth, Miss Catelyn Fitzsimon proved more than a match for the most gallant and greedy gentlemen of London society. First she toyed with them, then she spurned th...

  • A Prize Catch

    Anna Hudson

    She was a librarian hired as a summer fishing guide by the Lake of the Ozarks resort. Cally Rogers was an icy, emerald-eyed blonde who refused to be baited by her devastating boss. Her sister had paid the price for a reckless affair, Cally vowed it w...

  • Champagne Promises

    Meg Hudson

    WITH HIM CAME THE SPARKLE IN LIFE Diana Ashley had been told that the house next to hers in the picturesque New England fishing town was empty. It came as a shock that she did indeed have a neighbor--Dr. Jaime Medeiros. Jaime had been her surge...

  • Secret Fires

    Kristin James

    HIDDEN FIRES, HIDDEN DREAMS... Stephanie Tyler had overcome the grief of her widowhood with the help of Neil Moran, her late husband's best friend. Neil and Ty had played hard together on the football field, and even harder off it. Once Ty met Ste...

  • An Affair of Interest

    Kathryn Kent

    Samantha Roderick was certain she had ended up with the wrong man, in the wrong place, at the wrong time. A single parent, she was unexpectedly spending her vacation as a counselor at her son's summer camp. And so was handsome Neal Sorenson--Samantha...

  • Love Not the Enemy

    Sara Jennings

    Could love bridge the chasm a hundred years of hatred had carved? She'd left Spruce Hollow a wild young girl. Now, ten years later, she'd come home a woman. Dr. Carly Hanlon could have gone anywhere, but the mountains were in her blood; the miners we...

  • Ghost of a Chance

    Jayne Ann Krentz

    Once, he'd almost been her lover Asking a favor of Julian Aries wouldn't be easy, Anne Silver knew. Months earlier they'd parted on no uncertain terms. Now she fervently needed the handsome ex-agent's help to trap some fake psychic investigators. ...

  • Forget Me Not

    Elizabeth Lowell

    COLD. Ice raining down. Darkness and wind . . . The nightmare woke Alana each night with a shock of absolute terror that did not diminish with waking. Those six lost days on Broken Mountain that she could not recall were tearing her apart. ...

  • Love in Good Measure

    Amanda Lee (1)

    TOO MANY COOKS It began with a war of words when Wade Prescott, America's playboy chef, publicly declared male superiority in the kitchen. Enraged, California restaurant owner Erin Quinn vowed to beat him at his own game. The opportunity arrived ...

  • Thanksgiving Prayer

    Debbie Macomber



    Before Claudia Masters even meets Seth Lessinger, she leaves him a message from the Psalms: "May the Lord give you the desire of your heart." She knows there's something different about this man. Something special. And meeting him only confir...

  • On September Hill

    Leigh Michaels

    His proposal was far from flattering Under the circumstances, Carey had no alternative but to accept Brandon Scott's marriage proposal. Otherwise, her younger sister would find herself out of a job and facing criminal charges. Brandon arrogantl...

  • Lord of Dishonor

    Edith Layton

    A most virtuous young lady finds herself in an unthinkable alliance with England's most libertine lord ODDS AGAINST HONOR Lovely Amanda Amberly was a young lady of unsullied virtue--against all odds. For her bewitching mother, the Countess...

  • Willow

    Linda Lael Miller

    WILLOW WAS A TINY, GOLDEN-HAIRED BEAUTY -- TORN BETWEEN THE BROTHER SHE ADORED AND THE HUSBAND SHE LOVED. Montana was a wide-open, lawless land when the golden-haired Willow married Gideon -- a railroad magnate turned U.S. Marshal. Their union was...

  • One Bright Morning

    Sharon McCaffree

    She'd written herself into a corner Finding the perfect ending to a romantic serial was proving difficult for journalist Mandy LeClaire. But then, in true hero fashion, sexy David Rawl came to the rescue. A genius in electronics, he was also the u...

  • The Golden Rose

    Betsy McCarty

    A DREAM COME TRUE Since her childhood rhea Hunt had been determined to visit the beautiful Greek island of Melinas. But never had she anticipated playing the goddess Diana to darkly exciting Nicholas Palmer. Thea lingered over each detail of th...

  • A Gentle Diplomacy

    Melinda McKenzie

    Paris--the City of Light, where the promise of love whispers in the air.... Yet for shy Theo Stafford, Paris meant the seclusion of the American Embassy where she hid herself--and the painful stutter she'd suffered since childhood-- decoding secret d...

  • Forbidden Melody

    Suzanne Michelle

    SHE HAD IT ALL FIGURED OUT. . . . Madeline Mark would devote herself to a career conducting the classical music she loved and steer clear of romantic involvements that threatened the inner calm she needed. Then popular composer Gus Noble disturbed...

  • Sea of Dreams

    Angel Milan

    Even after the death of her husband, Nerissa hadn't taken off her wedding ring. But when she met David, there was something about this man, with his incredible strength and tender eyes, that made her believe in him. Nerissa's husband had treated h...

  • Maggie's Miscellany

    Kasey Michaels

    A WORLD APART Maggie Kendall was playing a clown at a birthday party when she first met James Wyatt. To meet the man of your dreams while wearing greasepaint is hardly an auspicious beginning. But for Maggie and James, it was a very appropriate on...

  • Vortex

    Helen Mittermeyer

    She'd vanished into the raging waters of the Caribbean -- suddenly, shockingly lost to the man who loved her but wouldn't make her his wife. When Reesa Hawke was pulled from the sea, she had lost all memory of her former life. A new identity, a new...

  • Dare to Dream

    Modean Moon

    After all that had happened, she didn't dare to dream D. J. Simms had never feared a man so much. Undaunted by D.J.'s chilly facade and intimidating reputation as one of Tulsa's best lawyers, Nick Saunders had uncovered the woman who never spoke o...

  • The Spanish Marriage

    Madeleine Robins

    "You saved my life, Miss Cannowen. I will be pleased to take you to England with me." To Dorothea Cannowen, these are the words that could save her life. An 18-year-old orphan, she is in the difficult position of being a penniless, unenthu...

  • The Midnight Special

    Sara Orwig

    Her students looked like little angels, and Maggie Linden was thrilled to be tutoring the four nephews of renowned journalist Nick Brannon. Her enthusiasm was just slightly dimmed when she learned her new charges had already sent fourteen teachers p...

  • A Tangle of Rainbows

    Laurie Paige

    WHERE IS THE END OF THE RAINBOW`? Sandy's song was one of love and loss, haunted by memory--a song she had composed for Rod, the husband she had loved and left, convinced he no longer cared. Then she brought their son to visit his grandfather a...

  • Dangerous Company

    Laura Parker

    For reasons of her own, Georgiana Manchester wanted as little known about herself as possible. She thought her disguise--a young wife spending, autumn at the secluded Connecticut shore while her husband's work kept him away--was perfect. But nothi...

  • Sweet Surrender

    Norah Parker

    It happened in an instant -- a chance meeting, a melting glance, a tender touch, and tawny eyed Sarah Rutledge was in love. Dashing, daring Bryce Hammond had mesmerized the innocent young girl and she was lost in a maze of magical new emotions. She k...

  • Forbidden Dreams

    Jolene Prewit-Parker

    Ashton couldn't explain the odd feeling of having been in the little town before...she had no recollection of it. A geologist, she had come to North Carolina to research a rare mineral, but everyone reacted very strangely...as if they somehow kne...

  • Rules of the Game

    Nora Roberts

    BROOKE GORDON was wary of her new assignment. Directing commercials was a fine art, and she was more than good at it, but working with an athlete . . .? PARKS JONES was a novice in front of the camera but a master of the game of baseball. At the g...

  • When Love Isn't Enough

    Kathleen Gilles Seidel

    Can passion survive when love isn't enough? They were one of Washington, D.C.'s stellar couples. Janet Hunt was rapidly gaining recognition as the creative writer at a small advertising agency. Wiley, like his father, was making his name a...

  • Opposites Attract

    Nora Roberts

    OPPOSITES ATTRACT... But it can be a volatile mix. Asher Wolfe and Ty Starbuck were tennis superstars-- incendiary Ty all fire and flash, Asher the ice princess with devastating control. Three years before, the combination had resulted in a passio...

  • The Passionate and the Proud

    Vanessa Royall

    A WILLFUL BEAUTY AND A RECKLESS ADVENTURER, THEY WERE DRAWN TOGETHER BY A DARING DRAM OF LAND AND A BOLD DESTINY OF LOVE... BEYOND THE MAJESTIC ROCKIES LAY THE PROMISE OF LAND, THE PROMISE OF LOVE. Beautiful Emmalee Alder was escaping a Cincinn...

  • Casanova's Master

    Anne Silverlock

    All pink and palest blond, Pandora preened in the sunlight. Delicate as a fairy-tale princess, she was the essence of femininity. Too soon all that innocent beauty would be ravaged by the pawings of the infamous rake Casanova. But Megan Yardley had p...

  • Child of My Heart

    Erin Ross

    FROM FATHER TO SON Steve Hagen had come to claim his son. The knowledge sent Brina's senses reeling. She had left him five years before and moved to California, pregnant and devastated, sure that her love had been betrayed. He had come for his ...

  • Queen's Defense

    Marianne Shock

    Everything about Reeve Laughlin was a challenge -- and China Payne seized the gauntlet he offered with both hands. Her nutty mother's scheme had thrown them together; they had to keep her from putting out a contract on her fifth husband -- who happe...

  • Betray Not My Passion

    Sylvie F. Sommerfield

    THE WILDNESS OF HER BEAUTY MATCHED THE FURY OF HIS DESIRE! HER LIPS SPOKE OF LOVE But that wasn't enough for the strong domineering sea captain. Reeve had heard - and been hurt - by those words before, but never from an exquisite sensuous i...

  • Summer Fling

    Natalie Stone

    He was charming, disarming, a man of many talents and a million contradictions--in short, irresistible. Yet resist she must. Reckless once, she'd learned her lesson hard. Only prudence and forethought had made Margo Bourke's life all she'd wanted it ...

  • Promises to Keep

    Carolyn Thornton

    Candace had always relentlessly pursued her one consuming dream--to play concert piano on the great stages of Europe. But when the opportunity for a vacation arose, she suddenly found herself in a remote cabin in the wilds of northern California. ...

  • Prime Specimen

    Diana Stuart

    SSSSSSSSSS ... Desire had wrapped itself around Brett Archer's heart from the first moment she saw Pierce Graham standing in front of the Pacific Rattler's cage at the San Diego Zoo. Snakes were her profession, but one look at Pierce's golden eyes...

  • Rainbow Ribbon

    Pamela Thompson

    She was determined to discover the answer despite the odds Becky Sherman's life changed with one phone call. Early one Sunday morning Becky's father called frantically with news of a disastrous fish kill at the family-owned trout farm. Becky tried...

  • Amber Persuasion

    Linda Vail

    Thirteen months ago they'd parted. Now Amy Tanner was back in Colorado Springs, seeing Clay for the first time, on fire for the husband she'd tried to escape. Too soon she fell into his embrace, moved into his home, fighting his domination--and her o...

  • Edge of Venus

    Jennifer West

    DIFFICULT DECISION .. . Jennifer Winters was in trouble at KZAM- TV: She had to come up with a big story or lose her job. Hot on the trail of advice columnist Darla Hart, she met Michael Casari instead. He seemed to be intimately connected to t...

  • Ever a Song

    Karen Whittenburg

    After rive years of New York's fast paced glamour and glitter, Autumn Tremayne was ready to come home. And even more than the familiar shores of the Chesapeake Bay, home meant Cade O'Connor, who'd once been her business partner and always been her be...

  • Fire and Desire

    Claudette Williams

    His touch ignited flames of desire deep within her... BURNING LOVE From the drawing rooms of Regency London to the wild ranches of exotic Argentina In a luminous gown of white and silver, Lady Jessica Stafford bows to society at the season's...

  • Portrait of a Love

    Joan Wolf

    "I swore I would never get involved with a man again.... " Gifted artist Isabel McCarthy vowed to keep every moment spent with Leo Sinclair strictly business. Painting a portrait of this popular young senator could give her reputation a tremendous bo...

  • Carson's Conspiracy

    Michael Innes

    Businessman Carl Carson decides to make a dash for South America to escape the economic slump, leaving his home and his barmy wife. But he has a problem - if his company were seen to be drawing in its horns, it wouldn''t last a week. His solution ...

  • Murder on Mike

    H. Paul Jeffers

  • Sleeping Beauty

    Ross MacDonald

    AN OFFSHORE OIL SLICK ... A $100,000 RANSOM NOTE ... AND A LETHAL DOSE OF NEMBUTAL ... ...

  • On Account of Murder

    Elizabeth Powers

  • Coda

    Tom Topor

    When private detective Kevin Fitzgerald is hired by the widow of concert pianist and Auschwitz victim Max Weill--because, she claims, she has seen her husband six times since coming to New York--he is introduced to New York's network of Auschwitz sur...

  • The Clan of the Cave Bear

    Jean M. Auel

    Here is a novel of awesome beauty and power. A moving saga about people, relationships and the boundaries of love. Through Jean Auel's magnificent storytelling, we are taken back to the dawn of mankind and swept up in the wonderful world of a very sp...

  • The Nhu Ky Sting

    Eric Helm

  • Brisingamen

    Diana L. Paxson

    Imagine that a shy graduate student has discovered the legendary necklace Brisingamen -- whose wearer bears the powers of the goddess Freyja, mistress of love and war... Imagine that Freyja's enemy, Loki, has come to San Francisco to steal it back,...

  • Mr. Apology

    Campbell Black

    All around himself, Harrison sees New York City sinking into chaos. Graffiti, robbery, murder, and rape fill the news -- crimes committed by desperate people who saw no other option than to hurt someone. As a human being, Harrison is sickened by it. ...

  • Silver Wings, Santiago Blue

    Janet Dailey

    The exhilarating story of the first WASPS, the Woman Airforce Service Pilots, who risked their lives, their ambitions and their dreams to help the war effort during World War II. Determined to win their wings in a man's world, four young women are un...

  • Illusions of Love

    Cynthia Freeman

    Romantic fiction: They had parted years before in despair and anger, lovers sacrificed to a star-crossed destiny. Now she was back in his life--threatening his marriage, his family, his heritage. Sweeping from lavish San Francisco mansions to the d...

  • Maggie

    Jennie Tremaine

    Maggie Macleod was weary of life with a soul sickness that ate into every fiber of her being. In a mad way, it did not seem strange to her that she should be on the way to High Court to stand trial for the murder of her husband. Her marriage seemed t...

  • The Dorothy Parker Murder Case

    George Baxt

  • Cronus

    William L. Deandrea

  • Cloud Nine

    James M. Cain

    When a pregnant sixteen-year-old blonde tells Graham Kirby that his brother is the father, Kirby finds himself caught up not only in the girl's problem, but also in a murder committed and in one about to happen...

  • Cousin Once Removed

    Gerald Hammond

  • The Hobbema Prospect

    John Buxton Hilton

    Anne Cossey has a recurring dream of an avenue that reminds her of Hobbema's painting of The Avenue at Middelharnis. Beyond that she knows nothing of the place, except that it terrifies her. There is a great deal in her past that she cannot remember....

  • Georgina and Georgette

    Malcolm Hutton

  • Sion Crossing

    Anthony Price

    By the CWA Gold Dagger award-winning author of Other Paths to GloryWhat does the chairman of the new Atlantic Defence Committee have to do with the American Civil War? And why was a top CIA trouble-shooter needed as a middleman? And why was that midd...

  • Therapy for Murder

    Laura Munder

  • Full Contact

    Robert J. Randisi

    Boxer-turned-private-eye Miles Jacoby tangles with karate experts and porno filmmakers in a fast-paced novel of New York crime. 

    Said Loren D. Estleman: "Stripped for speed and fueled by his best dialogue yet, . . . Full Contact ra...

  • Briarpatch

    Ross Thomas

    “America's best storyteller.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewFrom Edgar Award-winning author Ross Thomas comes Briarpatch, a thrilling mystery of one man’s personal mission to find justice for his family. Now the basis for the USA Network te...

  • A Likely Story

    Donald E. Westlake

  • Come Love a Stranger

    Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

    Lierin -- With no name and no memory, she awakens from a nightmare of madness into the lives of two strangers. One she desires, one she fears -- but both have claimed her heart. To handsome plantation owner Ashton Wingate, she is "Lierin" -- the cher...

  • Savage Innocence

    Cassie Edwards

    Bestselling author Cassie Edwards creates thrilling tales of men and women caught up in the excitement of pioneer America. Now she brings to life the Indian villages and rugged wilderness of the north in a love story sweeping in grandeur and brimming...

  • Empire of the Sun

    J.G. Ballard

    The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg’s film, tells of a young boy’s struggle to survive World War II in China.Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater th...

  • Sunrise

    Rosie Thomas

    HER FATHER... HER LOVER... HER SON... THEIR LIVES WERE UTTERLY TANGLED.... Angharad Owain and Harry Cotton knew a rare happiness in each others arms. She was poor and innocent--a Welsh girl who had always obeyed her family. He was wealthy and wo...

  • Dear Sister

    Francine Pascal

    A senseless tragedy... Sweet Valley is stunned by the news: Beautiful young Elizabeth Wakefield lies in a coma, on the brink of death after a horrible motorcycle accident. Elizabeth's boyfriend Todd is consumed by guilt; he was driving and escaped...

  • The Awakening

    Jerry Ahern

    No human being could possibly escape death when the earth's atmosphere explodes into a blazing wave of global fire. But John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist, and survival expert would not be denied another chance a...

  • Who Loves Sam Grant?

    Delores Beckman

  • Double Vision

    Linsey Abrams

    The lives and secrets of two suburban families -- the Warners and the Todds -- intertwine to form a labyrinthine web of misconception and misunderstanding....

  • Almost Innocent

    Sheila Bosworth

    Sheila Bosworth’s enthralling debut novel is a vibrant, heartrending story of love and loss set in “the City That Care Forgot”   Constance Alexander and Rand Calvert fall in love on Mardi Gras night. She is eighteen years old, the beautifu...

  • Love and War

    John Jakes

    #1 New York Times bestselling author John Jakes presents part two of the epic North and South Trilogy—the Civil War saga that inspired the classic television miniseries North and South—with over five million copies sold!...

  • Close Her Eyes

    Dorothy Simpson

    LOST WEEKEND Fifteen-year-old Charity Pritchard's conservative, fanatically religious family forbids her to date, wear makeup or jeans, or travel anywhere alone. So it is a great shock when Charity does go somewhere alone -- and stays missing fo...

  • The Dolphin Shore

    Phyllida Barstow

  • Prince of Peace

    James Carroll

    New York Times Bestseller: A priest struggles against the Vietnam War -- and his own passions -- in “a classic page-turner” (Chicago Tribune).   Vietnam was bitterly contested not only on the battlefields of Southeast Asia but on the America...

  • Lives of the Poets

    E.L. Doctorow

    Innocence is lost to unforgettable experience in these brilliant stories by E. L. Doctorow, as full of mystery and meaning as any of the longer works by this American master. In “The Writer in the Family,” a young man learns the difference betwee...

  • The Other Side of the Fire

    Alice Thomas Ellis

  • The Envy of the Stranger

    Caroline Graham

    Roz Gilmour is a happy woman with two children, a loving husband, a successful career as a local radio presenter and a comfortable home in North London. Sometimes she can't believe just how fortunate she is. But a woman who has everything has everyth...

  • Jerusalem Inn

    Martha Grimes

    A white Christmas couldn't make Newcastle any less dreary for Scotland Yard's Superintendent Richard jury-until he met a beautiful woman in a snow-covered graveyard. Sensual, warm, and a bit mysterious, she could have put some life into his sagging h...

  • End Run

    Ian Harding

    The Third Reich has finally crumbled, but Captain Corrigan and his Assault Troop have been assigned another mission - one of Montgomery's own devising. They will face opposition from the victorious Red Army, from German regular soldiers and - worst ...

  • The Sundog

    Jeffrey Harrison

    In the wilds of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Robert Corvus Strang is crawling through the woods. A beautiful Costa Rican woman is dancing in a string bikini, and a dissipated writer is trying to stay on his feet....All three have retreated to this ...

  • Whisper My Name

    Ernest Hebert

    The institution of town meeting, the beauty of the landscape, and the enduring qualities of the architecture all give the New England town the power to shape the identity of its inhabitants—in a good way. This premise is put on trial—and ...

  • For All Good Men

    J.P. Hessayon

  • The Bush Soldiers

    John Hooker

    With the Japanese holding the western coastal cities of Australia, Geoffrey Sawtell, an Australian officer, with a few raw recruits and two Englishmen ill-suited to the task, must figure out how to sabotage the Japanese and save the outback for Austr...

  • Miss Peabody's Inheritance

    Elizabeth Jolley

    A lonely, middle-aged Englishwoman, bound to her bedridden mother and her clerical job, becomes enthralled by her correspondence with Australian novelist Diana Hopewell and by the novel that Diana is writing in her letters...

  • The Talisman

    Stephen King; Peter Straub

    The TALISMAN is the story of a young and couarageous boy searching for the talisman, the one thing that will save his dying mother. His quest takes him into the menacing Territories where violence, surprise and the titanic struggle between good and ...

  • Thinner

    Stephen King

    Billy Halleck, good husband, loving father, is both beneficiary and victim of the American Good Life: he has an expensive home, a nice family, and a rewarding career as a lawyer...but he is also fifty pounds overweight and, as his doctor keeps remind...

  • Lovers

    Norma Klein

  • Collected Stories

    Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    Collected here are twenty-six of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most brilliant and enchanting short stories, presented in the chronological order of their publication in Spanish from three volumes: Eyes of a Blue Dog,Big Mama's Funeral, and The Incredib...

  • A Mermaid's Tale

    Fiona Moodie

  • Gryphon's Eyrie

    Andre Norton; A.C. Crispin

    THE HERIATGE OF THE GRYPHON WILL CHOOSE ITS OWN.----THE TIME OF CHOICE IS NOW. The urge within him is overwhelming, and Kerovan -- he of the cloven hooves and amber eyes -- is driven toward the mountains--toward the dark. With him goes the Lady Jo...

  • Stall Buddies

    Penny Pollock

    Bud purchases Scarlet, a high-strung filly, to train as a trotter and introduces her to a new friend, a little goat named Merabel, to calm her down so he can prepare her for a big race at the Meadowlands...

  • The Sicilian

    Mario Puzo

    After Mario Puzo wrote his internationally acclaimed The Godfather, he has often been imitated but never equaled. Puzo's classic novel, The Sicilian, stands as a cornerstone of his work -- a lushly romantic, unforgettable tale of bloodshed, justice, ...

  • Doctor Rose

    Elvi Rhodes

    Perfect for fans of Kitty Neale, Rosie Goodwin and Dilly Court, this is timely novel of one woman's quest to establish herself in a man's world by multi-million copy seller Elvi Rhodes. Perfect to settle down with!READERS ARE LOVING DOCTOR ROSE!"What...

  • Jitterbug Perfume

    Tom Robbins

    Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until nine o'clock tonight (Paris time). It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor wit...

  • Rude Tales and Glorious

    Nicholas Seare

    Rude Tales and Glorious: A Retelling of the Arthurian Tales Preface by Nicholas Seare, Professor Emeritus, The Other Cottage, Bettws-y-Coed, Caenarvonshire, 1967; an Apologia by Davydd ap Seare (Nicholas Seare), Clerke. Line drawings by Willia...

  • Swallow

    D.M. Thomas

  • One Thing Leading to Another

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

  • Scandal

    A.N. Wilson

    The protagonists in a sex scandal that reaches to the heights of the British government are boorish Derek Blore, a rising British politician, Bernadette, a lovable prostitute, and Blore's saintly but indiscrete wife...

  • The Karma Corps

    Neal Barrett Jr.

  • The Moonflower Vine

    Jetta Carleton

    A timeless American classic rediscovered an unforgettable saga of a heartland family. On a farm in western Missouri during the first half of the twentieth century, Matthew and Callie Soames create a life for themselves and raise four headstrong dau...

  • The Mayan Connection

    Nick Carter

  • The Curse of the Bronze Lamp

    Carter Dickson

    THE MYSTERIOUS [MIDDLE] EAST was where lovely Lady Helen had just returned from. In defiance of the most dire predictions, she carried back to Severn Hall a gift from the Egyptian government: and ancient bronze lamp. It had come from a tomb that H...

  • The Man from Texas

    J.T. Edson

    After their first nine months on the recently opened Comanche range, the ranch-owners banded together to organize a great round-up. John Chisum, the Cattle King, planned to gain control by making sure that one of his men was picked as the roundup cap...

  • Arms of Kali

    Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    DEATH WAS IN THE AIR All over America the airline travelers were dying, ' seduced by lovely young women and strangled by silken scarves in savage hands. The security of the nation hung over an open grave -- and Remo Williams, the Destroyer, and hi...

  • More Than This

    Thelma Olshaker

    Brandy Cole, a full partner in a prestigious Wall Street law firm, enjoys the power and assurance of her successful position until a letter from a sixteen-year-old girl stirs haunting secrets from Brandy's past...

  • Night of the Gila

    J.R. Roberts

    The Texas Rangers are after a bandido who is as deadly and dangerous as his namesake, the dreaded gila monster. Gila has been raiding Texas ranches, rustling, raping and murdering. The Gunsmith is recruited to track him south of the border where the ...

  • Cugel's Saga

    Jack Vance

    Vance sees himself in the tradition of popular fantasy writers, but his classic writing style is also comparagle to Homer’s Odyssey, and Cervante's Don Quixote. Though the Cugel tales may lack the scope and pathos of the greatest adventure yarn...

  • Language of Love

    Rosemary Vernon

    Robin Mackin's thrilled when she finds out that she's been chosen for her high school's exchange program to Switzerland - until she hears that Henry Bouchet, her archrival from French class, is going too. Henry is infuriating - he's always trying ...

  • The Tomb

    F. Paul Wilson

    The Tomb kicks off the Repairman Jack series that Stephen King calls "one of the best all-out adventure stories I've read in years."Much to the chagrin of his girlfriend, Gia, Repairman Jack doesn't deal with appliances. He fixes situations -- situat...

  • Mr. Bedford and the Muses

    Gail Godwin

  • Sonya

    Dora Landey; Elinor Klein

    The sweeping saga of the triumphant love of Sonya Poliakovna, heiress to the grandeur of Imperial Russia, her passionate husband, revolutionary Count Gregory Tolchin, and their daughter, Delphi, who defies convention and her heritage to achieve her a...

  • The Colter Conspiracy

    Ken Crowder

  • Cimarron and the War Women

    Leo P. Kelley

  • Bethany's Sin

    Robert R. McCammon

    Bookseller: biblioboy US (US) Bookseller Inventory #: 90238 Title: Bethany's Sin Author: Robert R. McCammon Format/binding:Paperback Book condition: Used - Fine Quantity available: 1 Edition: 1st edition Binding: Paperback ISBN 10:0380477122 ISBN 13:...

  • The Night Boat

    Robert R. McCammon

    The Night Boat, Robert McCammon's third published novel, first appeared as a paperback original in 1980. Following on the heels of Baal and Bethany's Sin, it offered further proof that a writer of great narrative power and limitless potential--a writ...

  • Civil War Secret Agent

    Steve Perry

    When you read this Choose Your Own Adventure-type book, you'll get more than an adventure. More than 10 years later, I still remember most of the storyline. But most importantly, this book introduces you to one of the many unsung Civil War heroes: Ha...

  • Kiowa Kill

    Jon Sharpe

  • Canaris File

    Walter Winward

  • The Courtesans

    Hillary Auteur

  • Armageddon in Prime Time

    George Bailey

    analysis of the psychological media war in which both superpowers battle for the hearts and minds of the people of the world, he reveals the strategy by which America's arms-and-space race has impoverished Russia to the point of worldwide impotence....

  • Tapestry of Death

    Dorothy M. Bowick

    The French scientist had found the secret of youth and beauty, and women flocked to his clinic to share it. But beneath that secret was another - of horror and death. Lovely Diana Marshall learns that the unsettling M. Panter's miracles of rejuvena...

  • Holiday of Love

    Nicole Carr

  • Justice League of America

    Robert Loren Fleming

  • Success

    Lion Fuechtwanger

  • World of Hurt

    Bo Hathaway

    A gripping account of the Vietnam War, as seen through the eyes of two Green Berets looking for action, records the disintegration of their friendship, their minds, and their bodies as their tour of duty progresses...

  • Time Piper

    Delia Huddy

  • Exhumations

    C. Isherwood

  • A Winner's Smile

    M.L. Kennedy

    CHOOSE YOUR OWN ENDING! A fabulous modeling career or the perfect boy to love? YOU DECIDE BY PICKING ONE OF TWO POSSIBLE ENDINGS! For Brenda, it's love at first sight when she looks into Bill's gorgeous dark eyes. Brenda has sacrificed everything for...

  • Strike Force Ten

    Heinz Konsalik

  • Colombian Gold

    Jaime Manrique