Books Published in October 1986

New Books List: 478 titles

  • Early Sorrow

    Charlotte Zolotow

  • Sins of War

    John Zodrow

    Based on an astonishing, true story.

    It's WWII, 1942, and the U.S. is losing the war. The New York docks are working at a frantic pace to send supplies overseas, but German subs seem to know when every convoy goes out--and where to destroy the...

  • Rumpelstiltskin

    Paul Zelinsky

    Richly hued oil paintings complement a story simply and gracefully told."Children...love the story for its mystery, and its familiarity. Adults will find that, like most classic fairy tales, this one rewards periodic rethinking." --New York Times Boo...

  • Oriental Tales

    Marguerite Yourcenar

    This collection includes: How Wand-fo was Saved, Marko's Smile, The Milk of Death, The Last Love of Princess Genji, The Man Who Loved the Nereids, Our Lady of the Swallows, Aphrodissia; the Widow, Kali Beheaded, The End of Marko Kraljevic, The Sad...

  • A Rich Wife

    Barbara Wyden

  • The Nargun and the Stars

    Patricia Wrightson

  • The Summer of Mrs. Macgregor

    Betty Ren Wright

    A girl learns that glamour isn’t always what it seems: “Well written with humor, strong characterization, and a convincing plot” (School Library Journal). Twelve-year-old Caroline feels torn. She grieves over her sister who has a severe heart p...

  • Not at Eight, Darling

    Sherryl Woods

    DON'T TOUCH THAT DIAL Barrie MacDonald gave everyone involved with the TV sitcom she produced consistently high ratings--except executive Michael Compton. Charmingly persuasive, Michael was clearly interested in Barrie, but he also wanted to resch...

  • Three Sisters

    Audrey Wood

  • The Magic Wings

    Diane Wolkstein

  • The Story of the Nativity

    Elizabeth Winthrop

  • Private Eyes

    Julia Winfield

  • Sun-Kissed Hearts

    Kit Windham

    Virile, dashing Gib Maclaren. In five years Beth has not forgotten him. She'll never forgive him. Now he's sailed back into her life, reviving her zest for adventure, reawakening forbidden dreams... recalling memories of the tragedy that shattered he...

  • The Touch

    F. Paul Wilson

    Suddenly, a family physician can heal any illness with a simple touchAfter a dozen years of practicing medicine as a family physician, Dr. Alan Bulmer discovers one day that he can cure any illness with the mere touch of his hand. At first his scient...

  • Boris and the Monsters

    Elaine MacMann Willoughby

  • Sassy

    Claudette Williams

    Sassy Winthrop has just turned twenty-one. But instead of being a time of fun, parties, and courting, it has been a time of loss, grief, and transitions. With the death of her beloved father, a kindly country vicar, Sassy is left not only without imm...

  • The Lynchers

    John Wideman

  • Magnificent Lover

    Karen Whittenburg

    They met in a country-and-western singles bar. But Meg O'Brien was determined to avoid the temptation Jesse MacAllister's deep dark eyes presented. After all, how could she trust a man she'd met in such a place? Especially a man persistent, romantic,...

  • This One Night

    Yvonne Whittal

    She had ignored his warnings. . . . Sherry had known there was no possibility of commitment with Rollo van Cleef. Yet she'd abandoned her principles to spend one precious night with this one man, who from the moment they'd met, she felt sh...

  • Malinsay Massacre

    Dennis Wheatley

  • Class

    Joanna Wharton

  • Rapture's Slave

    Becky Lee Weyrich

    ACRIPPINA…she enslaved men. She murdered two husbands and married her uncle to make her son emperor -- and then seduced him to have him in her power. NERO…her son. Corrupted in childhood, bisexual, insanely vain, cruel. He dreamed of being the...

  • Beyond Ransom

    Sophie Weston

    Her trip had unexpected results Agronomist Julia Lennox, partner in a high-tech company, was in a small South American country to sell them a badly needed canal system. Her kidnapping by revolutionaries intent on deposing the president was a shock...

  • Cassidy

    Morris West

    Even in death, Cassidy is larger than life. Charles Parnell Cassidy is a powerful politician. He's a backroom fixer: generous, but also greedy and cunning. Martin Gregory is his disenchanted protégé who, having married Cassidy's daughter an...

  • Dash Of Pepper

    Katrina West

  • Moments of Glory

    Jennifer West

    She was breathtaking--his lone, beautiful survivor, Maggie Rand. With eyes and hair the color of obsidian, she was a restless soul, ever reaching for an elusive moment of glory. Any normal, sane, well-adjusted man wouldn't have gotten himself invo...

  • Tiger in His Lair

    Sally Wentworth

    No man would ever have a hold on her again! Romily's heart was sealed. She'd discovered that the man she loved, and who she thought loved her, was married. Hurt and humiliated, she left London for a job as cook at her brother's soon-to...

  • Murder Gets a Degree

    Theodora Wender

    When Police Chief Alden Chase and lovely Professor Glad Gold probe the fiery death of the eccentric Adah Storm, they uncover a coven of coed witches, a professor with a Lovecraft obsession, a sexy archaeologist, and dark secrets from the past...

  • Telephone Time: A First Book of Telephone Do's and Don'ts

    Ellen Weiss

  • Red Earth, White Earth

    Will Weaver

    Having fled his family's farm at eighteen with a promise never to return, Guy Pehrsson is drawn back into his past when he receives his grandfather's ominous letter, "Trouble here. Come home when you can." He returns to discover a place both wholly f...

  • The Frog Prince

    Mary Lewis Wang

  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm: A Musical Pop-Up Book

    John Wallner

  • Private Scores

    Anne Tolstoi Wallach

  • Rules of the Knife Fight

    Walter Walker

    Traces the consequences of a strange murder that brings together a tough kid from New England, a young lawyer who risks everything to defend a friend he knows is guilty, and a cynical judge who is a virtual stranger in his own home...

  • Air Force Wives

    Ruth Walker

    Chronicles the lives and loves of four women, the daughters of officers stationed at Hickam Field, who marry members of the Air Force--bitter Tai; sheltered, rebellious Bobby Jo; Shelly, the general's daughter who marries an enlisted man; and ambitio...

  • Year's Best Horror Stories 14

    Karl Edward Wagner

  • Little Dracula's First Bite

    Martin Waddell

  • Close to Home

    Oralee Wachter

  • Bernard

    Bernard Waber

  • Stories About Rosie

    Cynthia Voigt

  • Chasing the Comet

    Dona Vaughn

  • The Book of Holidays Around the World

    Alice Van Straalen

    An international calendar of holidays offers descriptions of a holiday or celebration for every day of the year, in a book that encompasses the holidays of the major world religions, scores of countries, and the birthdays of famous people...

  • Hard Rain

    Janwillem Van De Wetering

    Few would mourn the apparent suicide of Martin IJsbreker, banker for the Society for Help Abroad--a clever front for an international vice ring, led by none other than the commissaris's boyhood rival, Fernandus Willem. If the commissaris could prove ...

  • My Darling Pretender

    Linda Vail

    Maggie Johnson loved a challenge. Robert Langley's office was certainly that. It would take weeks to sort out the mess--exactly what the irresistibly handsome, brilliantly eccentric inventor intended. Getting close to Maggie was the challenge he'd ri...

  • El Yanqui

    Douglas Unger

    In the late sixties, a young hippy from Long Island sent to Buenos Aires as an exchange student, finds his drinking and sexual escapades turn into dangerous political adventures, as an era of terror descends on Argentina...

  • Las Vegas Match

    Barbara Turner

    THE BIG GAMBLE Drama teacher Jenna Daniels was determined to rescue her kid sister from Kirby Carmichael, wealthy international playboy. Putting her acting ability to the test, she decided to beat him at his own game. Dressed in an elegant cock...

  • The Tryst

    Lynda Trent

    His lips moved sensuously over her silken curves and her traitorous body came alive. 'Always believe in love,' he counseled. Provocatively beautiful in the latest Elizabethan fashion of turquoise and gold, Jessica walked, trembling, to the stone al...

  • Horse's Neck

    Pete Townshend

    From the height of success and celebrity through the pit of addiction and alcoholism, to an almost mystical vision of the near future, a longstanding rock legend recreates the whirlwind life of a rock musician...

  • Rainbow Drive

    Roderick Thorp

    After five people are murdered in Laurel Canyon, and his partner, Dan, is also killed, Mike Gallagher, acting head of homicide, Hollywood Division, discovers that someone very close to him may be involved...

  • The Dark Stream

    June Thomson

    When blond, vibrant young Stella Reeve is found drowned under a treacherous footbridge in the tiny village of Wynford. The evidence suggests accident, but Inspector Rudd is not convinced. The girl was returning from a platonic visit to a village n...

  • Chumash

    Gary Thompson

  • Waltz With a Stranger

    Martha Lou Thomas

    Because she was born lame and has only a small dowry, Quintilla Davenant's family is determined to match her with a widower, but Quintilla falls in love with a stranger, who turns out to be Lord Eysley...

  • Heaven Can Wait

    Dianne Thomas

    Though busy with two kids, an ugly dog, and the worst girls' softball team, coach Kelly O'Brien can't ignore "love 'em and leave 'em" Brandon Wilder, the coaching assistant who's hot to score--with her! Her kids hero-worship him. His kisses make the ...

  • Love of Money

    L.A. Taylor

  • Sweet Savage Heart

    Janelle Taylor

    SHE TRIED TO ESCAPE HIM Kidnapped when she was a child, 18-year-old Rana Michaels couldn't imagine any life other than her carefree existence among the Sioux. Then the white man Travis Kincade appeared in her camp, and the flame haired beauty's peac...

  • Murder at the Superbowl

    Fran Tarkenton

  • Thin Ice

    Marc Talbert

    Ten-year-old Martin feels as though he's skating on thin ice in all his relationships, but things really get bad when his teacher begins dating his divorced mother. After his father leaves the family, fifth-grader Martin can't imagine life getting an...

  • Ask Me No Questions

    Lisa Swazey

    ALL THE WRONG MOVES Kirk Matheson was a smooth operator. All the girls at Ocean Way High thought he was the greatest. He could date any girl he chose -- until Logan O’Hara showed up. She was gorgeous. She was cool. She was unapproachable. Most o...

  • Indiana Jones and the Dragon of Vengeance

    R.L. Stine

    In this multi-plot adventure, readers brave hungry tigers, vicious thugs, and a violent secret society called The Golden Lotus when they travel through China with Indiana Jones to locate an ancient jade dragon with diamond eyes....

  • The Three Investigators In The Case of the House of Horrors

    Megan Stine

  • Sarah, the Dragon Lady

    Martha Bennett Stiles

    The summer between third and fourth grade brings many new things for Sarah, including the separation of her parents, a move from New York City to Kentucky with her mother, and a new and important friendship....

  • Leave Yesterday Behind

    Lynsey Stevens

    Could Leith ever forgive her? When Carolyn Allerton, secretary in a Brisbane construction company, met her new boss, she was shocked and felt faint. If he recognized her, Leith McCabe could shatter the quiet life she led with her teenage son. I...

  • The Haunted Season

    Jeanne Stephens

    ACCIDENT OR ATTEMPTED MURDER? Claire Weston had no memory of the month before her car was forced off the road, but she couldn't think of a reason why anyone would have wanted to kill her. Nathan Kellogg could, and he followed her to Jerusalem b...

  • The Shadows of Fieldcrest Manor

    Casey Stephens

    When Alleda McGuire woke up she found herself in a dark and ominous room, with her hands strapped to the bed. What terrified her most, though, was her loss of memory. She had no notion of who she was or why she was being held captive. When handso...

  • Her Majesty's Wizard

    Christopher Stasheff

    WANTED: A SUPERWIZARD! Matt didn't know the scrap of parchment was a trap. So he read the nines--and found himself on a world where reciting verses worked magic. His first effort got him locked in a dungeon by the evil sorcerer Malingo. Trying for...

  • Parrots And Monkeys

    Beverly Sommers

    All Jenny had ever really wanted was to be an ordinary teenager in a small-town high school enjoying her blossoming romance with a regular American guy. Yet every year, because her mother was a free-lance travel writer, Jenny spent her vacations trav...

  • Reason to Believe

    Beverly Sommers

    SHE HELPED HIM ESCAPE, then disappeared. He was a student activist in Mexico, she an American on vacation. Their meeting was improbable, and they separated when she returned to her comfortable home and he went on to be his country's conscience. ...

  • The Wardove

    L. Neil Smith

  • Strange Capers

    Joan Smith

    He had as many tales as tuppence, so how could she believe in his love? CONSTANCE ALWAYS KNEW AUNT RACHEL'S PINCHPENNY WAYS WOULD LAND THEM IN THE SUDS! And indeed they did. For Lord Aiglon, the owner of their home, paid a surprise visit a...

  • Voice of the Visitor

    Larry Slonaker

  • Under the Mistletoe

    Tracy Sinclair
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    The Blake family Christmas party was based on goodwill and trust. Did that trust extend to the handsome stranger who'd mysteriously appeared on Christy's snow-covered front porch? Swept up in the spirit of the season, Christy soon found that she'd gi...

  • Until I Return

    Laura Simon

    She had the pride of Nantucket in her spirit and the passion for one man in her blood. ONE MAN. ONE WOMAN. A LEGACY OF COURAGE. Bleak yet beautiful, severe yet serene, wide cobbled streets filled with brawny seamen and Yankee merchants, ninetee...

  • Silver Star

    Stirling Silliphant

  • Warrior Women of Weymouth

    Barbara Siegel

  • Moonsinger's Friends; An Anthology in Honor of Andre Norton

    Susan Shwartz

  • Momotaro the Peach Boy

    Linda Shute

  • The Strange and Exciting Adventures of Jeremiah Hush

    Uri Shulevitz

    Quiet, serious Jeremiah Hush, a monkey who lives alone, becomes involved in adventures at the Shake'n'Roll Dancin Hole, during a search for a missing umbrella, and while attending a county fair, and though he makes new friends, he learns to appreciat...

  • Winds of a Secret Desire

    Deborah Sherwood

    Grasse--an exquisite world of flowers! Veronica Stephens had come to France to sell her legacy--a small cottage--to her neighbors, the famous St. Pierre perfumers. How could she have known that the devastating stranger who swept her into his arms in ...

  • Gold Shaft

    Jory Sherman

    HIS GUN IS HOT AND READY FOR ACTION! The town of Deadwood needs some fast gunslinging action when Jake O'Toole's gang starts murdering for gold. But it takes the kidnapping of pretty Nancy Venable's pa to start Gunn's ball rolling -- although he ne...

  • A Missing Plane

    Susan Sheehan

  • Slaughter Express

    Jon Sharpe

  • Get Rich Mitch

    Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

  • Next

    Nick Sharman

    THE MARK OF CAIN A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IS HIDEOUSLY VIOLATED. A BRILLIANT MAN IS SAVAGELY BEHEADED. AN INNOCENT CHILD IS SENT TO A SCREAMING DEATH. The spirit of brilliant and twisted TV director Frank Cain is free of his bedbound body and growing ...

  • Blood Count

    Dell Shannon

    It's a gray November for Detective Luis Mendoza, and it's not getting any brighter The weather in L.A. hasn't been living up to its sunny reputation--the murder of an unwanted newborn and the assault of a twelve-year-old girl don't make things pre...

  • Field of Blood

    Gerald Seymour

    A former member of the Organization in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Sian Pius McAnally flees his political and family commitments, escaping to the Republic until, retrieved by the Organization for a key mission, he is captured by the police...

  • The Kiss of Kin

    Mary Lee Settle

  • A First Look at Owls, Eagles, and Other Hunters of the Sky

    Millicent Selsam

  • A Rat's Tale

    Tor Seidler

    Although young Montague Mad-Rat lives in--or rather, under--New York City, he know very few rats besides his mother, who makes hats, his father, who builds mud castles, and his globe-trotting Aunt Elizabeth. But Montague's life takes an abrupt tur...

  • Dark of the Moon

    Maura Seger

    DOUBLE IDENTITY... Loren Wells was not simply a computer engineer. She was also a US Customs agent on the track of smugglers who were selling American technology to the highest bidder. Her undercover job took her to Scott Electronics and introduce...

  • Starbright

    Maura Seger
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    Mollie Williams returned to the small Vermont town that her family had founded. Looking for the peace and serenity of the holiday season. Instead, she found the turmoil that went with Padraic Delaney, her ex-husband, who was waiting for her with open...

  • A Talent for Loving

    Celia Scott

    She must have been mad to work for him When Polly accepted the job as assistant to Toronto photographer Flint McGregor, the chance of seeing more of his best friend, movie star Dexter Grant, was part of the reason. Her own life until now had be...

  • Halloween Surprises

    Ann Schweninger

  • There Is a Carrot in My Ear and Other Noodle Tales

    Alvin Schwartz

    Meet the silliest family in the world!

    Grandpa Brown tries to hatch a baby horse.Mr. Brown shouts at his underwear. And Jane Brown grows a carrot in her ear (she planted a radish). Here are six stories to make you giggle and laugh.

    ...

  • A Risky Game

    Stephen Schwandt

    A teacher draws Julie, a student, into joining him in staging a psychodrama for an unknowing senior English class, purportedly to study the students' reactions; but events become painful, frightening, and complicated, and Julie questions the choices ...

  • Efan the Great

    Roni Schotter

  • Flash Fry, Private Eye

    Tim Schoch

  • Mystery Cat and the Monkey Business

    Susan Saunders

  • Savage Stronghold

    Craig Sargent

  • Snowball

    Jimmy Sangster

    Crammed full of sex, drugs and Hollywood. This book is a bright evocation of La-La-Land. Welcome Mr. Reed. Come back soon. Hartford CourantJames Reed is an ex-Scotland Yard detective who became the bodyguard, then lover, then husband, then ex-husband...

  • The Mother Goose Book

    Daniel San Souci

  • Woundhealer's Story

    Fred Saberhagen

    Once the gods forged twelve Swords of Power, but they forged too well: The Swords could kill the gods themselves. Now, the gods gone, the Swords are scattered across the land and Mark, Prince Consort of Tasavalta, must find Woundhealer, the Swor o...

  • Moonbranches

    Anne Rundle

    While spending the summer in the house where her aunt is housekeeper in the early days of World War I, fourteen-year-old Frances becomes involved in the house's violent past when she is visited by the long-dead twin of the owner's sinister son....

  • Fixing to Stay

    Marilynne Rudick

    This place was either purgatory... Or heaven on earth. Laura Barclay just didn't know about Prairie, Illinois. While she tried valiantly to drag the local hardware store into the twentieth century, her laid-back boss kept jamming the wheels of pr...

  • Miracle at Bellevue

    Theodore I. Rubin

    Both paranoid schizophrenics, Harry Byrd--believing himself Jesus--who enters Bellevue voluntarily to heal the sick at heart, and Mary, the bag lady, begin their mad ministry of healing to the consternation of the psychiatric staff...

  • Dominion

    Jack Rowe

    Set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century history, this novel depicts the du Pont clan's bitter rivalries, clandestine loves, and brutal struggles for control of the powerful du Pont munitions empire...

  • Cord

    Owen Rountree

    Just like Bonnie and Clyde, Cord and Chi are free spirits -- and accomplished bank robbers.This time they’re on the run-in two different directions. One of Cord’s old-time lawbreaking buddies needs a favor -- and for Cord it’s a chance to settl...

  • Foxy Fables

    Tony Ross

  • Magic in the Night

    JoAnn Ross

    He eroded her defenses Carly Ashton knew better than to think Patrick Ryan was a white knight. True, he was helping to put Capitol Airlines back on its feet. But he was also attempting to sweep Carly off hers... She soon found herself intensel...

  • Illinois!

    Dana Fuller Ross

    WAGONS WEST Railroads and stockyards brought brawny bareheaded men to Chicago from the western prairies and the northern forests. Here waited the commerce that built empires, the painted women who lured farm boys, the gunman and the cardsharp who se...

  • Christmas, 1940

    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • Fat Woman

    Leon Rooke

  • The Name Is Hart

    Frank Roderus

  • The Gollywhopper Egg

    Anne Rockwell

  • Henry Reed's Think Tank

    Keith Robertson

  • Home for Christmas

    Nora Roberts
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    After years of world travel, prizewinning reporter Jason Law was back in Quiet Valley, New Hampshire, with the most difficult assignment he'd ever faced: winning back Faith Kirkpatrick, the woman he'd loved then left ten years before. Jason had found...

  • Northwest Passage

    Kenneth Roberts

    This classic novel follows the career of Major Rogers, whose incredible exploits during the French and Indian Wars are told through Langdon Towne, an artist and Harvard student who flees trouble to join the army....

  • The Deadly Healer

    J.R. Roberts

    Clint Adams heads into Colorado to investigate self-proclaimed healer Gerald Wellfall -- a shady minister who allegedly saved a Senator's life. It's up to the Gunsmith to find out what's really going on -- and why the minister had reason to butter up...

  • The Shoemakes: God's Helpers

    Elsie Rives

  • Laurel's Love

    Eugenia Riley

    Defiant Was Her Pride, Bold Was Her Love, Violent Was Her Passion! Too sensuous and wild for a proper Southern belle, Laurel Ashland had been sent to a Catholic girl's school in Galveston to be tamed into a lady. But the North's invasion of that s...

  • Ben and the Bear

    Chris Riddell

  • Blood, Bread, and Poetry

    Adrienne Rich

  • Sweet Dreams, Sweet Princes

    Mack Reynolds

  • Best Man

    Paul Reidinger

    Originally published in 1986, Paul Reidinger's first novel concerns three friends in their twenties -- he, she and he -- who find themselves caught up in a design for living that breathes the spirit of the 1980s.

    David and Katherine meet as un...

  • Forever Wild

    Louisa Rawlings

    DEEP IN AMERICA'S MOST GLORIOUS WILDERNESS, THE DARKNESS WAS SEDUCTION, THE DAWN BLAZING DESIRE ... MARCY. A child of the mountains, as beautiful as the land she once loved, she yearned for a new life and the new love that would make all her dream...

  • Desire's Storm

    Lindsay Randall

    CURRENT OF DESIRE When the curvaceous shipowner Brittannia Denning first boarded the Airlee, all she expected was a quick survey of her just-bought vessel. Then she met dashing Captain Dain Barclay... and the young heiress had eyes only for him. H...

  • Best Friends Forever

    Janet Quin-Harkin

    She was totally unprepared for the great surge of jealousy that seized her. Don't be so childish, she tried to tell herself. All that was over and finished long ago. it's not as if you've been mooning over Craig for the past few months. You have Jake...

  • Write Every Day

    Janet Quin-Harkin

    Kim is the misfit in her family. Her brother, her sister, her parents -- they’re all athletic and outgoing, but Kim thinks she doesn’t measure up at all. So every summer she dreads the trip to the camp her family runs in the mountains, where s...

  • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

    Howard Pyle

    The beloved adventures of Robin Hood come vividly to life in this wonderful illustrated version by Howard Pyle. Deep in Sherwood Forest, the legendary Robin Hood -- the brave, good-humored outlaw the whole world loves -- proves himself the best in En...

  • Timesearch

    George W. Proctor

  • Here Be Monsters

    Anthony Price

    It was the fortieth anniversary of the D-Day invasion, and the Normandy coast was the site of numerous ceremonies commemorating the occasion. Major Edward Parker attended some, then moved away from the crowds, looking for something. Or someone. H...

  • Heart's Journey

    Anne Powers

    Lady Elspeth was the most beautiful woman Thomas had ever seen. Tormented by desire, he despaired of ever possessing her, for she was a noblewoman, as well as being the sister of his sworn enemy, Sir Stephen Ufford. Then there was Lady Margery, Si...

  • Crazy Moon Zoo

    Dan Potter

  • The Intimate Memoir of Dame Jenny Everleigh

    Pocket Books

  • Frankenbagel Monster

    Daniel Pinkwater

  • Secrets of Autumn

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    It was just too tempting to make architect Graham Kimble her final research subject for her dissertation, Autumn Stanton decided when she agreed to fill in as his secretary. Determined to prove that women controlled men's reactions by how they chose...

  • No Body

    Nancy Pickard

    Bright and beautiful Jenny Cain, director of the Port Frederick Civic Foundation, was dying of curiosity. A hapless visitor had slipped in the mud at the town's historic cemetery--and fallen right into an empty grave! When Jenny discovered that al...

  • My Silent War

    Kim Philby

    In the annals of espionage, one name towers above all others: that of H.A.R. “Kim” Philby, the ringleader of the legendary Cambridge spies. A member of the British establishment, Philby joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1940, rose to the ...

  • Cop Killer

    Tom Philbin

    The detectives of the tough precinct called "Siberia" match wits with a ruthless cop killer while trying to cope with a baby-kidnapping and selling racket and a heartless mugger preying on the elderly...

  • The Tom Little's Great Halloween Scare

    John Peterson

    New Book. Purchased from long time Charlotte bookstore(all new books) liquidation sale. While at the sale, I noticed many of the books were being pulled out of old boxes at the back of the store. Many of the books had obviously been in shop for many ...

  • The Legend in Green Velvet

    Elizabeth Peters

    Susan had been infatuated with everything Scottish for as long as she could remember. When she arrived in Scotland to work on an archaeological dig, she thought it was a dream come true. But now the dream was rapidly becoming a nightmare. She had ...

  • Blood and Thunder

    Don Pendleton

    SPECTER OF A DIRTY WAR Vietnam, the conflict that spawned heroes and rogues, still haunts America. Years after the war, a renegade CIA adviser from Nam reopens an opium pipeline he had started in Southeast Asia, using the profits to supply arms...

  • Cool Hand Luke

    Donn Pearce

    Out of his experiences working on a chain gang, Donn Pearce created Cool Hand Luke, war hero turned "pretty evil feller," whose refusal to "git his mind right" becomes part of his fellow convicts' mythology of survival....

  • The Late, Great Dick Hart

    Bernal C. Payne

  • Mystery in the Moonlight

    Lynn Patrick

    Caitlin the Explorer! She'd grown up a tomboy, but it was high time to put all that behind her. Her Caribbean vacation was meant to be a major step toward discovering real romance. But when she walked down the moonlit beach, little did she dream that...

  • New Jessica

    Francine Pascal

    Time for a change... Jessica Wakefield is sick and tired of being an identical twin. Her parents make jokes about it, and recently people at school have been mistaking her for her sister, Elizabeth. So Jessica's determined to make sure no one mixes ...

  • Taking Sides

    Francine Pascal

    A matchmaking duel... Jeffrey French has been at Sweet Valley High for only one week, and already he's made quite an impression--especially with the girls. Enid Rollins has a crush on the rugged junior, but just as she's about to claim Jeffrey for...

  • Tender Promises

    Francine Pascal

    On a trip to her boyfriend's family ranch in Montana, Caitlin finds her relationship with Jed Michaels threatened by his ruthless former girlfriend and by the prospects of the two of them being separated by college...

  • The Puzzle of the Silver Persian

    Stuart Palmer

    Miss Hildegarde Withers takes a vacation trip on the S.S. American Diplomat, but she is soon put to work solving the disappearance of a young heiress and the systematic murders of her table companions...

  • The Horseman

    Lauran Paine

  • Sugarcane Island

    Edward Packard

  • Star Streak: Stories of Space

    Betty M. Owen

  • Gummi Bears Merry Beary Xmas

    Mary Oliver

  • Raven's Wing

    Joyce Carol Oates

    A collection of sixteen stories explores the mysteries and varieties of American experience and includes "Golden Gloves," the story of a would-be champion boxer whose career and marriage fall tragically short of his expectations...

  • Just One Look

    Jude O'Neill

    Video Date #1 Outside: An attractive and amusing escort. He wears an Italian suit, drives a German car, drinks French wine. Inside: Self-absorbed with his rapidly rising career and self-sufficient life-style. Commitment is a word he use...

  • Advent of Dying

    Carol Anne O'Marie

    A CHURCH SECRETARY RECEIVES THE WAGES OF SIN.. Timid little Suzanne Barnes was the perfect ecclesiastical secretary: efficient, discreet, self-effacing. So it came as a shock when Suzanne invited Sisters Mary Helen, Eileen and Anne to Ghirardelli ...

  • When Rocks Dance

    Elizabeth Nunez-Harrell

    In a tropical paradise where the greatest prize is land and the ultimate law is voodoo, Marina, daughter of a native Trinidadian and an English planter, is the sole source of hope for thwarting a malicious crime...

  • Rocket to Limbo

    Alan E. Nourse

    The crew of the starship Ganymede were afraid their chief was losing his mind.Commander Walter Fox had explored and opened up more colony-worlds than any other man alive - yet it was rumored that he still believed there were other intelligent beings ...

  • The Owl Scatterer

    Howard Norman

  • Lord of Doom

    Douglas Niles

  • Dead Straight

    Andrew Nielson

  • Love's Sorcery

    Virginia Nielsen

    A love no woman could forget - not its pleasure... its passion...or its price... Angele - No woman in New Orleans was more beautiful - or wild. She cared only for her land and her freedom...until a handsome Frenchman came to claim her body and he...

  • The House of Arden

    Edith Nesbit / E. Nesbit

    With the Arden family castle in ruins and the family treasure lost for generations, Edred Arden is graced with the chance of a lifetime just prior to his tenth birthday. When he inherits the title of Lord he discovers that if he can find the lost fam...

  • Listen to Me

    Barbara J. Neasi

  • Unexpected Pleasures

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  • Doctor Who: The Companions

    John Nathan-Turner

  • Behold the Man

    N. Richard Nash

  • Ring of Claddagh

    Annabel Murray

    How could she live with a man she had just met! "Claddagh Hall is left jointly to you and young Fergus, on the condition that you both live here." The words of Noelle's late father's will surprised her. She didn't expect an inh...

  • Sue Me

    Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time....

  • Once Upon a Time

    Multiple Authors

  • Beyond the Grave

    Marcia Muller

    The bestselling author of The McCone Files teams up with the creator of the "Nameless Detective" for a collaborative mystery that bridges the San Franciscos of 1894 and 1986. Muller and Pronzini masterfully parallel the investigations of turn-of-the-...

  • Character Parts

    John Clifford Mortimer

  • Velvet Promise

    Carole Mortimer

    "I'd rather not discuss your ex-husband!" Jordan St James had never concealed his contempt for Willow. He believed that she'd trapped his wealthy cousin into marriage--and then walked out on him. So when Willow Stewart returned ...

  • Collected Stories, 1948-1986

    Wright Morris

  • Sally's Calendar Book; With Stickers

    Gloria Gill Morrell

  • Endless Obsession

    Hayton Monteith

    Every fiber of Domino O'Dare's body was on red alert. Eight months after their stormy parting, Zane Hardesty's molten sexuality still set the blood pounding in her veins. She'd forced herself to believe that their explosive relationship was over. But...

  • Jupiter Theft

    Donald Moffitt

    The Lunar Observatory on earth is picking up a very strange and unidentifiable signal from the direction of Cygnus. When the meaning of this signal is finally understood, it clearly spells disaster for earth. An immense object is rushing towards the ...

  • With All Your Heart

    Sara Mitchell

    Luke is longing for peace and purposes: Leya is searching for the will of God. In God's providence, they find each other. Cattleya McLendon -- raised by her missionary mother, Leya is as tender and gentle as the orchid, but with a strength of faith...

  • Assignment Burma

    Lee O. Miller

  • Lady of the West

    Jennifer Mikels

    GUNFIGHTER WANTED Why would a Hollywood heartthrob answer her ad for an acting job at Tumbleweed Village--an authentic 1880s Arizona town? Owner Tory Kenyon had no idea. But Josh Bannion made it clear that he wanted to forget his Tinsel Town past...

  • Shattered Silk

    Barbara Michaels

    A KILLER LURKS In her quaint vintage clothing boutique in picturesque Georgetown, Karen Nevitt's laces and white linens seem so innocent. Her aunt's aged friends have even ransacked their attics to help the novice entrepreneur launch her business....

  • Emerald Ecstasy

    Emma Merritt

    IRISH ROGUE From the moment she arrived in Ireland, Marguerite LeFleur heard the stories of the living legend that was Sheridan O'Roarke. The name of the notorious outlaw was on everyone's lips -- and once Marguerite met him she knew why. His green ...

  • The Bunjee Venture

    Stan McMurtry

  • The Ugly Little Duck

    Patricia C. McKissack / Pat McKissack

  • The Moon and the Face

    Patricia A. McKillip

  • Heart of the Eagle

    Lindsay McKenna

    Jim Tremain watched the magnificent bird soar through the air and land on Dahlia Kincaid's gloved arm. The eagle was, stunning, but Dahlia was the most breathtaking woman he'd ever seen. Would this beautiful ornithologist allow him to headquarter hi...

  • To Skin a Cat

    Thomas McGuane

    A collection of thirteen stories of great range, verve, and humor from the highly acclaimed author of Cloudbursts and Ninety-two in the Shade Thomas McGuane's first short story collection  is "a cornucopia of McGuane's grace, humor, gust...

  • The Seventeenth Swap

    Eloise McGraw

    Having no money, a thirteen-year-old begins a series of swaps to get the child he babysits for a pair of cowboy boots in this sweet novel from the author of Tangled Webb....

  • Fletch, Too

    Gregory McDonald

    When the famous journalist and private investigator witnesses a murder at the Nairobi airport, he and his new wife begin a routine search for clues and find themselves assisting an expedition for a lost Roman city...

  • Love's Full Circle

    Lurlene McDaniel

    Julie Kreel has almost everything -- a plum of a job, caring friends, a supportive church family, a handsome colleague who wants to be more than a friend. But her bitter past with Paul Shannon rises often to mar her prospects for future happiness. An...

  • Walking After Midnight

    Maureen Mccoy

    Having left her drunken husband, wrecked her 1957 Chevy, and spent time in an alcoholic-rehab center, wise-cracking, world-weary Lottie Jay embarks on a shining new career as a country-and-western songwriter...

  • Snow White and Rose Red

    Ed McBain

    Attorney Matthew Hope takes on the case of beautiful heiress Sarah Whitaker, who is fighting court-ordered and family-supported commitment as a paranoid schizophrenic, and enters into a world of delusion and murder...

  • Cave Under the City

    Harry Mazer

    Nobody said New York City was easy, but for Tolley Holtz, it’s home Tolley Holtz would rather be exploring the city with his friends, talking about the Yankees, and discussing what President Roosevelt is going to do about the Depression than watchi...

  • Kiss Me Once

    Thomas Maxwell

    At the onset of World War II, a cocky D.A. concocts a scheme to build his name by setting two cohorts, ex-football star Lew Cassidy and gangster Max Baumann, against each other, exciting a war of wits, hearts, and bullets...

  • Caress and Conquer

    Connie Mason

    CAPTIVE OF PASSION Lovely, young, and poverty-stricken, Amanda Prescott was forced to support herself and her invalid mother any way she could. Cast into prison for stealing, she was horrified to learn that she would be transported to the American...

  • A Game of Deceit

    Sandra Marton

    She would soon regret her role as impostor "You've got to use a little creativity when you go after someone who's determined to fade into the woodwork. Megan told her assignment editor. And she certainly demonstrated creativity in w...

  • Invasion of the Ormazoids

    Philip Martin

    YOU are the Doctor's only assistant as you face an entire race of mutant warlike beings in INVASION OF THE ORMAZOIDS. It is the twenty-fifth century. The Doctor has set your coordinates for the rim worlds -- a turbulent, primitive, and strange r...

  • Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls

    Ann M. Martin

    Need a baby-sitter? Save time! Call: The Baby-Sitters Club and reach four experienced baby-sitters. Kristy Thomas, President Claudia Kishi, Vice-President Mary Anne Spier, Secretary Stacey McGill, Treasurer Kristy, Claudia, Mary Anne, and Stacey h...

  • Handle with Care

    Andrea Marshall

    Jamie is tired of her steady boyfriend Eric’s bossy ways. He doesn’t seem to like anything she does and that includes her new job at the Pampered Pet store which takes up a lot of her time. He’s even jealous of her handsome co-worker a coll...

  • Sweet Temptation

    Diana Mars

    Who would have thought a horde of jumping frogs' could crack astronaut Luna Flyer's cool demeanor? Biologist Fletcher Tierney is most intrigued. Cajoling, flirting, lie charms her into revealing more of her sensual, fun-loving side. With the help oil...