Books Published in October 1986

New Books List: 478 titles

  • Love Bug

    Kat Adams

    THE MATCHMAKERS Operation Love Bug started the moment thirteen-year-old J. T. Landers skidded through Kelley's garden, slaughtered her snapdragons and lived to tell the tale. He joined forces with Kelley's daughter Leigh in finding Kelley a husba...

  • Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Corn Popper

    David A. Adler

    Can Cam use her photographic memory to crack the case? A mystery has popped up and Cam is on the case! When a customer at Binky's Department Store realizes that his shopping bag -- containing a brand-new corn popper -- has been stolen, Cam and Eric...

  • Fourth Floor Twins and the Silver Ghost Express

    David A. Adler

  • We Are Holding the President Hostage

    Warren Adler

    Aging Mafia Don Salvatore Padronelli is furious when fanatical Islamic terrorists capture his beloved daughter and grandson on a trip to Egypt. Fed up with ineffective diplomatic measures and a lack of governmental action, the Don and his loyal hench...

  • A Hat Like That

    Susan Aiello

  • Crimson Deception

    Therese Alderton

    FLUSH OF ANGER Too proud to live off the charity of relations any longer, Katherine Amory was determined after her great uncle's death to find a position as governess. But she had not counted on the peremptory intervention of the Earl of Tarri...

  • Canary

    Nathan Aldyne

    A gay bar’s business is getting killed -- along with its clientele -- in the final novel of this beloved mystery series set in early-eighties Boston. Daniel Valentine is Boston’s most fabulous gay bartender. Clarisse Lovelace is his straight -- y...

  • Once a Stranger

    Megan Alexander

    Time hadn't erased her feelings. Holly Jones was finally happy. Seven years had passed since her divorce, and she was quite content to be working at her pottery in Oaxaca, Mexico... until her former husband, renowned filmmaker Christopher Brooke, arr...

  • To the Resurrection Station

    Eleanor Arnason

    To the Resurrection Station, Arnason?s second novel (written in the 1970s), was first published in 1986. On a planet far from our Earth, it begins a Gothic tale: a moldering mansion full of secrets, a creaking retainer, a disturbing master of the hou...

  • Bordertown

    Mark Alan Arnold

  • I Am Fifteen--& I Don't Want to Die

    Christine Arnothy

  • Time to Trust

    Rosemary Badger

    His hurt seemed so raw "My son and I have learned to expect nothing, absolutely nothing from your sex, Miss Chalmers," Gerard Hunter told Kate -- and after she had just saved his son from nearly drowning. Kate wasn't about to let on...

  • Seeing Stars

    Fran Baker

    It was his laugh that had stolen her heart, Dovie Brown realized immediately -- that husky chuckle as he released the beautiful rainbow trout. But before she could meet the mystery fisherman, she slipped into the river -- and the next thing she knew...

  • Rebound

    Ian Barclay

    It's a mission-dollar job for Richard Dartley, the world's most select assassin-for-hire, the man with many aliases and a thousand ways to kill. For him, the fatal hit should be a simple matter of clear planning and clean execution. But amid the shif...

  • The Centurys Daughter

    Pat Barker

  • Bodies

    Robert Barnard

    FATAL PHOTOS Police superintendent Percy Trethowan found London's Soho as colorful and full of life as ever--except for the four corpses in a seedy photography studio. Shot doing a layout for Bodies, a soft-porn "health and fitness" magazine, the ...

  • Cat Magic

    Jonathan Barry

    The town of Maywell is peaceful until Amanda Walker, a successful young artist, comes to illustrate Constance Collier's next book, her Uncle George completes the first stage of his experiment with life, and Brother Simon Pierce is moved to murderous ...

  • Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories

    Steven Bauer

  • Waiting for the End of the World

    Madison Smartt Bell

    A photographer descends into New York City’s chaotic and brutal underground in this sweeping story of the Big Apple at its seediest It’s 1982, and Clarence Dmitri Larkin is working as a photographer at Bellevue hospital in Manhattan. The job off...

  • Deathman, Do Not Follow Me

    Jay Bennett

  • Open Channels

    Rebecca Bond

    What happens when all your dreams come true? Amelia Jenkins had just been clobbered by life's little ironies. She had waited years for the phone call from New York asking her to interview for the perfect job. And when had the telephone rung? Right...

  • Bedside Manners

    Barbara Boswell

    Dr. Case Flynn, hospital heartthrob, was finally on the run -- and Dr. Sharla Shakarian was just the woman to catch him! Renowned for sweet-talking nurses into his arms, Case found his fail-safe Irish charm didn't work with the lovely but forewarned...

  • Nothing in Common

    Barbara Bottner

  • Dangerous Encounter

    Alyce Bowen

    Jennifer Woods was prepared to despise him on sight and thought she had the upper hand. Until Sean Kennedy made a fool of her, letting her believe he was someone else, capturing her interest before he told her the truth. She could never trust him now...

  • The Year before Last

    Kay Boyle

  • My Next Bride

    Kay Boyle

  • Designs

    James Brady

    After he engages gay designer Adam Green, Marc Street, head of a garment house in New York, is catapulted to fashion stardom, until Adam's dissolution, his own love affair, and his connections to the underworld threaten his company...

  • Smugglers Trail

    Max Brand

    In jail for counterfeiting, Jack Ripley thinks his trail has ended. But U.S. Marshall Tom Dallas offers him his freedom--for a price.

    In a desperate try for justice, Dallas arranges Ripley's escape, hoping that Ripley can succeed where others hav...

  • The Girl

    Robbie Branscum

    Abandoned by their mother after their father's death, five children live with their unloving grandparents, endure back-breaking chores, and nourish each other with dreams of the day their mother will reclaim them...

  • The Witch's Christmas

    Norman Bridwell

  • Super Word Find Fun

    Pat Brigandi

  • Infidelities

    Freda Bright

    TODAY ANNIE HAD EVERYTHING... Their marriage had always been special...because Annie and Seth Peterson were special. A medical researcher, Seth was the corporate golden boy for whom the Nobel Prize was no longer an impossible dream. And Annie's exqui...

  • The Postman

    David Brin

    He was a survivor - a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war. But when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker, his life changes forever. As he journeys from one isolated commun...

  • California Generation

    Jacqueline Briskin

  • Reluctant Dreamer

    Dixie Browning

    IRRESISTIBLE FORCE If he didn't want to talk business, then Portia McNamara had no time for Cale Randolph. From the moment he startled her behind her Cape May gift shop he dogged her every move. So what if he had a deep, husky voice and Clint Eastw...

  • To Touch the Stars

    Pamela Browning

    In Peaceable Kingdom, Georgia, people were walking on air Julie Andrassy watched in distress as her relatives succumbed to the family madness, taking to the sky, as their feet remembered how to master the thin wire. Most triumphant was Stephen Mar...

  • Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Folk Tales

    Ashley Bryan

  • Blood Storm

    Jack Buchanan

  • Heartbreak Hotel

    Gabrielle Burton

    This novel about the pain and pleasures of being female revolves around six women living in Heartbreak Hotel--an aging cheerleader, an ex-nun, an unhappy comic, a bitter cop, and a woman with beautiful legs--tour guides on mandatory rest leave from t...

  • True Stories

    David Byrne

  • Branded

    Gina Caimi

    THE TRUTH WILL OUT Baltimore Examiner reporter Ross Baxter made a career of exposing people like Sherri Starr -- or Sharon Farrell, as she now called herself. He'd been watching her from his cabin behind the main house -- the house she'd dared move ...

  • The Earl's Invention

    Diana Campbell

    THE IMPERILED IMPOSTOR Well-bred but impoverished Miss Bonnie Gordon let herself be persuaded by the Earl of Sedgewick to pose as his niece. Thus the earl could put a damper on the leechlike greed of prospective heirs to his vast estate and the po...

  • Love Medicine

    Suzanne Carey

    CORNSILK WOMAN Young Diana Bailey couldn't help but notice Rafe Marquez, with his Navaho cheekbones and aristocratic Spanish features. Then she had to leave for medical school. The whole town knew how her father felt about Indians .but no one in ...

  • Stolen Flower

    Philip Carlo

    SHE DISAPPEARED IN NAPLES. HE'D GO TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH TO GET HER BACK. Private investigator Frank De Nardo has walked the meanest city streets, but this case is plunging him into a nightmare--into the savage, shocking heart of the internatio...

  • Louanne Pig and the Witch Lady

    Nancy Carlson

  • Spooky and the Wizard's Bats

    Natalie Savage Carlson

  • Conan the Raider

    Leonard Carpenter
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  • Witch-Cat

    Joan Carris

  • Paris

    Christina Carroll

  • Slaughter Day

    Nick Carter

  • Mouse's Christmas

    Michelle Cartlidge

  • Seeing Is Believing

    Barbara Case

    Her daughters would never believe it! What happened when an impetuous actor insisted on doing his own TV stunts? He wound up flat on his back, tended to by a writer who specialized in love scenes. Not that Vicky Van Allen, forty-two and widowed...

  • My Sister Celia

    Judith Caseley

  • Herbert Binns & the Flying Tricycle

    Caroline Castle

  • The Sinister Touch

    Jayne Castle

    WERE THEY DEALING WITH A DEMONIC CULT OR A DEVILISHLY CLEVER KILLER? GUINEVERE JONES - Being a good neighbor was easy when the window across the way framed a handsome young handsome young artist. But when she became witness to sudden violence in ...

  • Quack! Said the Billy-Goat

    Charles Causley

  • The Faithful

    Arthur Cavanaugh

    Unholy secrets scar the past of a Catholic girls school that represented a social and financial coming of age during the early twentieth-century, and alter the lives of the people caught in its orbit, including Louise Maguire, the determined nun who ...

  • Children of Flux & Anchor

    Jack L. Chalker

    The last great battle of the Hellgates has been won and Flux and Anchor are at peace -- for now. But someone has found the key to the magic of Flux. IF they succeed in harnessing this fearsome power, the delicate balance could be destroyed. W...

  • Shades of Dark

    Aidan Chambers

    In this collection of eight original ghost stories, which features works by Helen Cresswell, John Gordon, Jan Mark, and several others, readers will encounter ghosts who dispense justice, pursue revenge, wreak havoc, and render comfort...

  • When Hearts Collide

    Ginger Chambers

    Was it possible to be haunted by the living? Rachel Anderson had worked for years at the Aspenridge Hotel without encountering a hint of the supernatural. But ever since the arrival of Jared Donnelly and his three great aunts, Rachel's nerves ...

  • Academy of Terror

    Steven Charles

    A romantic walk in the woods near Thaler Academy is transformed into a nightmare as Jennifer and Lee find themselves stalked by a deadly, evil, alien terror when they stumble into the dark secrets of the posh boarding school...

  • Nightmare Session

    Steven Charles

    Evil creatures, terror, and murder haunt the hallowed halls of posh Thale Academy, an exclusive Connecticut boarding school, and scholarship student Jennifer Field and her boyfriend, Lee, find themselves targets of the nightmare...

  • Jingle Bells

    Normand Chartier

  • Two Songs This Archangel Sings

    George C. Chesbro

    Mongo and his brother Garth are changed forever, as is their view of the world, because they possess a secret that must never be told. Here the epic adventure continues as the brothers become fugitives and outcasts struggling to solve the puzzle of a...

  • Plain Jane

    Marion Chesney

    With Each London Season, and Enchanting Romance Moves into the Fashionable Town House at Number 67 Clarges Street. And there below the Stairs the Staff Has a Special Mission -- to Arrange a Match...to Hatch a Scheme...to Bring Love Home to A HOUSE...

  • The Exquisite Corpse

    Alfred Chester

    Lyric and tender one moment, cruel and dizzying the next, this literary tour de force neither celebrates perversity nor laments it, rather it projects it as part of man''s impossible quest for a true self. In 49 brief, highly cinematic chapters, we m...

  • The Man Who Knew Too Much

    G.K. Chesterton

    G.K. Chesterton was an English writer often referred to as "the prince of paradox."  Chesterton wrote on a variety of different subjects including mystery fiction, religion, and literary critiques.  Chesterton is best known for creating the...

  • The Woman Who Knew Too Much

    Dana Clarins

  • The Mystery Lady

    Anna Clarke

  • Plague of Pyramids

    Brian Class

  • Prey

    C. Terry Cline

    "Tell Bo Taylor I'm coming." That was only the first threat the voice on the phone made after reciting a chilling poem of hate. -- But Bo Taylor was dead. The respected sheriff of Thomas County had been mourned by everyone in the Georgia town w...

  • Worth Winning

    C. Terry Cline

  • Robert and Dawn Marie Forever

    Miriam Cohen

  • Odd Man Out

    Sharron Cohen

    Her hand in marriage was worth a fortune! Because of his illegitimacy, Jason had always felt odd man out in the wealthy Doming family. Finally, ten years ago, he'd left Boston to carve his own destiny, leaving young Andrea heartbroken. Now ...

  • This Is the Place for Me

    Joanna Cole

  • The Man in the Green Hat

    Manning Coles

    A British diplomat, looking natty in a green hat, walks into the brooding hills above Lake Como and
    disappears. The police investigate but can uncover no clues or evidence. This is a job for British Intelligence.
    in the person of none other t...

  • Prizzi's Family

    Richard Condon

    In this prequel to Prizzi’s Honor, the mafia hitman finds himself in more trouble than even he can handle -- “earthy, quirky, fast-moving entertainment” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Charley Partanna sits in his office, quietly rigging an e...

  • Strictly for Laughs

    Ellen Conford

  • The Long Night of Francisco

    Humberto Constantini

  • A Passion for Glory

    Theresa Conway

    His Passion Sparked Her Soul. His Touch Inflamed Her Desire. Aimee de Chartres -- Young, spirited and resourceful, the golden-haired beauty was forced into womanhood by the violent passions of the French Revolution -- and the smoldering desires of...

  • Acres of Diamonds

    R.H. Conwell

    This stirring manifesto shows how to discover everything you need to succeed -- where you least expect it. So begins one of the most famous speeches of the twentieth century, a talk that educator and minister Russell H. Conwell delivered before liter...

  • Worlds Apart

    Linda A. Cooney

  • Flight of the Intruder

    Stephen Coonts

    The A-6 Intruder pilots--an elite cadre of Navy fliers, rowdy on shore, restless on ship, hunters in the Vietnam skies. Jake "Cool Hand" Grafton is one of the best: a quiet man strapped into the cockpit of a million-dollar killing machine, slamming t...

  • Outcast

    Louise Cooper

    The Outcast waits in a Castle outside of Time, his soul imprisoned in an ancient jewel. Spawn of Darkness, Adept of Chaos, he dreams of vengeance on the Lords of Light. Cast on his shores by sorcerous winds, a woman comes who will set him free to...

  • Sweethearts

    M.E. Cooper

    Smitten . . . Now that Dee Patterson's lost several pounds, she's started on an exciting self-improvement plan. She's feeling really great about her slender new looks when she meets adorable Marc Harrison, a soccer player who recently broke up with ...

  • Out of This World

    Lori Copeland

    He was the hunk next door. She knew she should keep her distance, especially after spending two years with the wrong man! Besides, Zack Tremayne probably thought Toni Cameron was crazy anyway. So far he'd caught her talking to herself, seeing "things...

  • A Matter of Metalaw

    Lee Correy

  • The Marvelous Boy

    Peter Corris

    'The godfather of Australian crime fiction.' Lady Catherine presides over the declining fortunes of the Chatterton estate, which is lacking a suitable heir. When she hears of a grandson she never knew, Cliff Hardy takes the job, reluctantly, of findi...

  • Serendipity

    Stephen Cosgrove

  • The Price of Loving

    Edith Courtney

  • A Tapestry of Time

    Richard Cowper

    The first coming was the Man:The second was Fire to burn Him;The third was water to drown the Fire;The fourth is the Bird of Dawning.Twenty years have passed since the martyrdom of the Boy-piper at York, twenty years in which his legacy, the movement...

  • Undercover

    Jasmine Cresswell

    A deadly game of cat and mouse ... U.S. Customs agent Diana Mackenzie was sent to London to investigate Peter Foxe. But her real target was his stepbrother, Lord Matthew Raleton, who was suspected of masterminding the smuggling of U.S. high-tech e...

  • Flying

    Donald Crews

  • Catch the Wind

    Caitlin Cross

    It was Terminator's last chance to do what he'd been bred for. It was owner Walter Charyn's last chance at the big win. And it was trainer Allegra Brannigan's last chance at the life she so desperately wanted. Then Scott Charyn came back to Oklaho...

  • White Angel

    E.B. Cross

    The men she recruited to run her Amazon empire of drugs and death called her the White Angel. The ultrasecret U.S. agency known as the Committee called her the most dangerous woman in the world. The blonde had skin of peaches and cream, cornflower bl...

  • Final Payment

    Evelyn A. Crowe

    SHE TRADED HER DREAM FOR HIS When Brandon DeSalva agreed to marry her, JoBeth Huntley got the man she'd always wanted--but at what price? Brandon had never said he loved her; he just wanted her share of U.S.A. Oil so he could take control of th...

  • Strangers in Blood

    David Cudlip

  • What Niall Saw

    Brian Cullen

    Niall Bruce, a seven-year-old Irish schoolboy, relates, in diary form, the experience of his family--the squabbles and the hardships--as they anxiously await within the confines of their claustrophobic shelter for the all-clear signal after a nuclear...

  • Sunshine and Shadow

    Sharon Curtis; Tom Curtis

    COULD THEIR EXPLOSIVE LOVE BRIDGE THE CHASM BETWEEN TWO IMPOSSIBLY DIFFERENT WORLDS? He thought there were no surprises left in the world...but the sudden appearance of young Amish widow Susan Peachey was astonishing -- and just the shock cynical...

  • Mickey Takes a Bow

    Doug Cushman

    Because his clumsiness and fear of heights makes it impossible for him to be a trapeze artist like the rest of his famous family, Mickey is unhappy until his circus friends show him that he has a unique talent of his own....

  • The Walkaway Clause

    John Dalmas

    Barney Boru, an assassin for the Galactic Confederacy, is sent to kill the King of Lokar, but when he decides not to complete the mission he learns that another killer has been sent to insure no failure...

  • Twice in a Lifetime

    Pat Dalton

    Kelly and Line. Theirs was a whirlwind passion--immediate, intense, forever. But brief intimacy ended with shattering finality when Line left on a simple errand--and never returned... Now, four years later, Kelly Nyles is afraid to love handsome C...

  • Just Like Archie

    Niki Daly

  • Thank You Henrietta

    Niki Daly

  • Look at Me

    Niki Daly

  • Sorcerers!

    Jack Dann

    Tales of magic, illusion, mages, and dark wizards by such talents as Ursula K. LeGuin, Jack Vance, Theodore Sturgeon, Joe Haldeman, and others highlight a collection of fourteen stories about the world of sorcery...

  • Not for Any Price

    Suzannah Davis

    When she tackled him on the crowded Hot Springs, Arkansas, street, she thought she'd caught a thief. Instead, she'd tumbled a handsome winemaker who intoxicated her at first touch. But Rolfe Hart was a stuffed shirt. To see Milly Carter barreling rec...

  • The Quiet Enemy

    Cecil Dawkins

    In seven stories set in the rural South and West, Cecil Dawkins displays her remarkable talent for getting beneath the surface of ordinary lives and revealing their foibles and idiosyncrasies. An old deaf woman is kidnapped by a stranger she takes to...

  • Peckham's Marbles

    Peter De Vries

  • Windmaster's Bane

    Tom Deitz

    RIDDLE, RING, AND QUEST In Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, tales are told of strange lights, of mysterious roads...of wondrous folk from enchanted realms. All these are hidden from mortal men, and those who have the gift to look on them are both ble...

  • Burning Nights

    Edith Delatush

    He was rugged, macho, her brother's friend -- and their companion on a backpacking trip into the Rockies. Jody Clarence thought she could do without the kind of challenge Rolf Morhan offered -- until his touch unleashed a flood of emotions under ...

  • Love Story Black

    William Demby

    Professor Edwards, a free-lance writer and Black Studies teacher at a New York college, is assigned to interview Mona Pariss, an aging ex-showgirl famed in the 1920s, and enters a magical world of mysticism, humor, and sex...

  • Secrets of Stonehenge

    Milo Dennison

  • Werebeasts of Hel

    Asa Drake

    Bloodsong #3 Bloodsong faces the greatest enemy she has ever known -- her own son, Lokith, the demon of Helheim. Once destroyed by his mother, now Lokith is back with a vengeance, allied with the Death Goddess hel and supported by a vast army of h...

  • Lacey and His Friends

    David Drake

    Jed Lacey is a 21st-century cop who plays by the rules. His rules. Maybe there are worse things than having him come after you, but they aren't survivable either. The United States of Lacey's day has imposed law and order with cameras that scan...

  • Lucy Makes It Big

    Sue Dreamer

  • Hell on Earth

    D.B. Drumm

    ON A ONE-WAY ROAD TO HELL HE VOWED TO GIVE THE DEVIL HIS DUE! Nearly thirty years after Doomsday, Traveler figured he’d seen it all. Until a long-lost comrade, with his dying breath, swore that Hell had finally come to earth. What better name for ...

  • Traveling in Family

    Carlos Drummond

  • To Love and to Dream

    Elizabeth Nell Dubus

    NEW ORLEANS,1941 Two decades had passed since a sweeping oil boom turned dreams into glittering luxury and built the city's most prosperous families, Now, dark clouds of approaching war settled on the horizon. The days of burgeoning wealth--and inn...

  • To Make the Bitter Sweet

    Patricia Dunaway

  • Candidate for Murder

    Fran Earley

    Death was her strongest opponent... Dana Sloan dismissed the threatening letters as the work of a prankster. After three years as Denver's mayor, she had come to view harassment as an expected but unpleasant aspect of her life as a public figure. ...

  • The Black Magician

    G.C. Edmondson

  • Creature Comforts

    Adrienne Edwards

    City lover Amanda MacGee is determined to sell the lakeside guest house she inherited from her estranged father. But her plans go awry when self-proclaimed artist, poet, and lover extraordinaire Richard O'Brien blithely moves in -- and refuses to...

  • The Borzoi Control

    Scott Ellis

    This spy-fi thriller has more threads than the old Coates & Clark sample box. It opens in Arizona with a murder and a successful coverup; leaps to the interior of the Kremlin, where KGB and GRU operatives gossip about their work while forcing 18-year...

  • Lone Star and the Indian Rebellion

    Wesley Ellis

    A Comanche uprising plunges Jessie and Ki into a raging storm of blood and bullets!A peace treaty is just a piece of paper as far as the white men and Comanches are concerned. Promises have been broken, and ruthless profiteers are selling Indian land...

  • High Command

    Anton Emmerton

  • A Dangerous Sentiment

    Lynn Erickson

    SHE KNEW TOO MUCH FOR HER OWN GOOD Daphne Farway's fiance, a Secret Service agent, was dead, and she was sure his demise had been no accident. But what did a dyed-in-the-wool New Englander, a writer of cookbooks, know about the Secret Service? ...

  • A Colorful Adventure of the Bee Who Left Home One Monday Morning and What He Found Along the Way

    Lisa Campbell Ernst

  • Seek Out and Destroy

    Alan Evans

    Commander David Cochrane Smith is about to embark on his most perilous adventure yet.November, 1917: The Imperial German Navy has sent Kapitan Erwin Voss to command the mighty new battle cruiser Salzburg in the Adriatic. Smith is ordered by the Admir...

  • Longarm and the Runaway Thieves

    Tabor Evans

  • Troubles

    J.G. Farrell

    Winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize A darkly hilarious “tour-de-force” about the Irish war for independence, set at a crumbling hotel on the western coast of Ireland -- a place where madness and brutality have begun to reign (Guardian) 1919: Af...

  • Sorraya in a Coma

    Esmail Fassih

  • An Ideal Match

    Sandra Field

    "Don't fall in love with me, Jenny." Graham Tyson's warning came far too late. In the small university town in Nova Scotia, where she had come to teach music, Jenny Sprague immediately lost her heart to the widowed professor and hi...

  • Missouri Madam

    Dirk Fletcher

    While tracking one of the government's most-wanted train robbers, Spur McCoy, with the help of a buxom widow who is thirsty for revenge, must go up against a crooked sheriff who vows to protect the criminals. Original....

  • Until Summer's End

    Valerie Flourney

  • The Time of the Transference

    Alan Dean Foster

    THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME ... It was a pretty good life for a spellsinger from L.A. He'd battled demons, fought deadly Plated Folk, even met a socialist dragon and survived. Now Jon-Tom was quite happy to settle into domestic bliss with the fiery...

  • The Adventures of Christian Rosy Cross

    David Foster

    THE ROSICRUCIAN MYTH IS RETOLD IN THIS EXTRAORDINARY COMIC NOVEL,WHICH DRAWWS ITS INSPIRATION FROM THE OCCULT EPIGRAMS OF MICHAEL MAIER THE 17TH CENTURY ALCHEMIST AND CHIEF APOLGIST FOR THE ROSICRUCIAN MOVEMENT. FOSTER'S ICONOCLASTIC ACCOUNT OF HIS Y...

  • The Nurses

    Richard Frede

  • Dirty White

    Brian Freemantle

    When his son is arrested as a cocaine dealer, New York investment counselor Walter Farr enters into a clandestine operation with the Drug Enforcement Agency, to win his son a lighter sentence by laundering millions in drug money as part of a huge sti...

  • John F. Kennedy: America's Youngest President

    Lucy Post Frisbee

    When young Jack Kennedy's little sister gets tired of playing, Jack suggests a a sail. Within moments Jack is steering the small chip toward Osterville to say hello to Captain Manley. Under darkening clouds the two children head back home -- but they...

  • Reasons to Stay

    Margaret Froehlich

  • Rotten Ralph's Trick or Treat!

    Jack Gantos

  • The Spookiest Day

    David Gantz

  • General Butterfingers

    John Reynolds Gardiner

    Eleven-year-old Walter can’t believe his eyes when he sees the eviction notice from Ralph, the rotten nephew of his old friend, General Britt. It isn’t so bad for Walter and his mother, who also lives there -- she would have no trouble finding an...

  • Fat City

    Leonard Gardner

    Fat City is a vivid novel of allegiance and defeat, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes. Stockton, California is the setting: the Lido Gym, the Hotel Coma, Main Street lunchrooms and d...

  • Postcards from Surfers

    Helen Garner

  • Counter Attack

    Frank Garrett

  • Mission Revenge

    Frank Garrett

  • Legend Of Hiawatha

    Carol Gaskin

    The reader journeys back in time more than four hundred years to the time of the founding of the powerful Iroquois nation as the great leader Hiawatha struggles to unite the five warring Iroquois tribes...

  • The Marriage Bed

    Catherine George

    She'd felt sure his love was real. Harriet Neil couldn't believe her luck. First, the secretary was unexpectedly sent on an all-expense paid holiday to Portugal by her boss. Then, on her first day at the luxurious Hotel Miramar on the Alg...

  • Sir Cedric Rides Again

    Roy Gerrard

  • Sweetie Baby Cookie Honey

    Freddie Gershon

  • One Thing for Sure

    David Gifaldi

    A free-spirited young girl named Amy helps twelve-year-old Dylan launch a profitable sideline to supplement his income from two part-time jobs and stand up to the bullies who taunt him about his imprisoned father...

  • Happy Birthday, Ronald Morgan!

    Patricia Reilly Giff

  • Aiki

    John Gilbert

  • Little Virtues

    Natalia Ginzburg

    Eleven essays typify the author's brusque, practical style and draw on her female experiences as they reflect on life after the war and assert that family warmth will provide the courage needed to face the closing century...

  • Class Dismissed Two

    Mel Glenn

  • Tempered by Fire

    Emma Goldrick

    Faith and Hope led them into each other's arms Becky Latimore's little sisters, Faith and Hope, thought it was high time she got married. Doctor or not, she was already twenty-seven years old! So they "checked out" Jake Meadows,...

  • Forest Fever

    Victoria Gordon

    Mixing business and pleasure was not part of the deal Riley's independence came naturally. As a logging contractor, doing a man's job in a man's world had taught her to fend for herself. Even so, unfortunately, she was not a woman of i...

  • Shadows Nine

    Charles L. Grant

  • October Blood

    Francine Du Plessix Gray

    The saga of three generations of women and their high-fashion magazine centers on Paula Fitzsimmons, through whose eyes is seen the startling world of her mother, her husband, her daughter, and her lover...

  • Robin Hill

    Carol Greene

    After several major disappointments, Robin Hill, a young girl with an overactive imagination, fancies her family's landlord as the villain who is spoiling her fun and lands in real danger when she acts on that hypothesis...

  • Headliners

    Yvonne Greene

  • The Lassiter Luck

    Loren Zane Grey

    When Lassiter promises to protect his dead friend's son, he never thinks the young rancher will run into such a passel of trouble. Yet before he knows it, there's an all-out range war led by a pack of hired sharpshooters trying to steal the kid's lan...

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