Books Published in October 1986

New Books List: 478 titles

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • The Great Valentine's Day Balloon Race

    Adrienne Adams

  • The Pigs' Wedding

    Helme Heine

  • Foxy Fables

    Tony Ross

  • The Best American Short Stories 1986

    Raymond Carver

  • The Best American Essays 1986

    Elizabeth Hardwick

  • Three Sisters

    Audrey Wood

  • The Painter and the Wild Swans

    Claude Clement

    Teiji, a world-renowned Japanese painter, sees a flock of wild swans and embarks on a perilous search that takes him to a deserted hut, an ice-filled lake, and a wise old fisherman as he attempts to capture the swans in a painting...

  • A Package for Miss Marsh

    Elfie Donnelly

  • 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...

  • Notes Of An Anatomist

    F. Gonzalez-Crussi

    In the solitude of his study, Gonzalez-Crussi, a practicing pathologist, ponders the meaning of the lives laid bare in his laboratory. Winner of the Society of Midland Authors Award, this wonderfully crafted collection on medical subjects is witty, u...

  • Louhi, Witch of North Farm

    Toni de Gerez

  • Bernard

    Bernard Waber

  • American Tail Storybk

    Emily Perl Kingsley

    Separated from his family during the boat trip from Russia to America, a young immigrant mouse arrives in New York City aboard a bottle and shares adventures with fellow immigrants from many different countries....

  • Once Upon a Time

    Multiple Authors

  • Henry Reed's Think Tank

    Keith Robertson

  • 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

  • Frankenbagel Monster

    Daniel Pinkwater

  • Flying

    Donald Crews

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Captains

    W.E.B. Griffin

    It was more than an incident. It was a deadly assault across the 38th parallel. It was the Korean War. In the fear and frenzy of battle, those who had served with heroism before were called again by America to man the trenches and sandbag bunkers. Fr...

  • The Berets

    W.E.B. Griffin

    They were the chosen ones--and the ones who chose to be the best. Never before had the United States given so select a group of fighting men such punishing preparation. Now they were heading for their ultimate test of skill and nerve and sacrifice, i...

  • Let It Snow

    Debbie Macomber
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    Snowbound after a blizzard delayed their flight home for the holidays, Shelly soon found that meeting Slade Garner changed the course of her life. With a smile Slade was able to make her heart soar -- and she hoped the trip would never end....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Story of the Nativity

    Elizabeth Winthrop

  • Jingle Bells

    Normand Chartier

  • Gummi Bears Merry Beary Xmas

    Mary Oliver

  • Secrets of the Ninja

    Ashida Kim

    BACK IN PRINT!! BIGGER AND BADDER THAN EVER! Ashida Kim is one of a handful of men in the world who have learned the true art of Ninjitsu, the Silent Way of stealth and assassination in feudal Japan. Initial attempts to bring these secrets to the pub...

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

    John Wallner

  • Steamboat in a Cornfield

    John Hartford

  • The Godwin Sideboard

    John Malcolm

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • It's Not Fair

    Deborah Hautzig

  • 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...

  • Populuxe

    Thomas Hine

  • 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 ...

  • Doctor Who: The Companions

    John Nathan-Turner

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

    Ellen Weiss

  • 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...

  • The Centurys Daughter

    Pat Barker

  • 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.

    ...

  • 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...

  • Bordertown

    Mark Alan Arnold

  • Class

    Joanna Wharton

  • Mouse's Christmas

    Michelle Cartlidge

  • Little Dracula's First Bite

    Martin Waddell

  • Louanne Pig and the Witch Lady

    Nancy Carlson

  • Year's Best Horror Stories 14

    Karl Edward Wagner

  • Halloween Surprises

    Ann Schweninger

  • Lost and Found

    Jean Little

    A Jean Little Classic

    When Lucy's family moves to a new town just before school begins, Lucy is lonely and worried about whether she'll make new friends. Then she meets a little dog that is friendly and may -- or may not -- be a stray. Her parent...

  • Worth Winning

    C. Terry Cline

  • 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...

  • Just Like Archie

    Niki Daly

  • Thank You Henrietta

    Niki Daly

  • Look at Me

    Niki Daly

  • The Black Magician

    G.C. Edmondson

  • 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 ...

  • Savage Stronghold

    Craig Sargent

  • Blood Storm

    Jack Buchanan

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Longarm and the Runaway Thieves

    Tabor Evans

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • California Generation

    Jacqueline Briskin

  • 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 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 Incense Tree

    Jacqueline La Tourrette

  • Spring Bride

    Anne Keyworth

    "I WILL HAVE ANSWERS, MRS. ROWLEY, SO PRAY DO NOT THINK THAT YOU CAN FOB ME OFF!" When Lord Welham spoke thus to the diminutive widow of his beloved cousin Robin, he little knew the tales that that young lady could tell. He determined that Anne sh...

  • Conquer the Night

    Karen Keast

    Psychologist Charley Ware knows her new client, police detective Laud Roberts, is walking a razor's edge of denied emotions. Having sworn to avenge a vicious crime, the virile cop has a chip on his shoulder the size of Mount Rushmore. Worse, he&#...

  • Fireglow

    Linda Ladd

    ONLY THE PASSION OF HIS LOVE COULD TAME HER WILD HEART TAMED BY LOVE It was for Caitlin's own safety that the queen commanded Trey Cameron to capture the renegade beauty who was plundering Spanish ships in the Caribbean. He was then charged...

  • Lady of Spirit

    Edith Layton

    INTO THE LION'S DEN Miss Victoria Dawkins was in a most perilous position. Cast out of respectable society by a scurrilous slur on her good name, alone and penniless in the London lower depths, this proud but all too vulnerable young lady coul...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • A Rich Wife

    Barbara Wyden

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Ghost Train

    Stephen Laws

    Something deadly is stalking the corridors of the King's Cross train, preying on the passengers. It once attacked commuter Mark Davies and threw him from the train. Ex-policeman Les Chadderton is obsessed with the murders and suicides on the East Coa...

  • Night Show

    Richard Laymon

  • 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...

  • Voice of the Visitor

    Larry Slonaker

  • A Matter of Metalaw

    Lee Correy

  • Chumash

    Gary Thompson

  • 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...

  • Star Commandos

    P.M. Griffin

    Armed for Justice. Trained to Kill. They Were the Planet's Only Hope. . . . The Amonites: Innocent colonists eager to escape their impoverished homeworld and begin a new life on the unspoiled planet Vishnu. Colonists' zeal and spacers' greed have led...

  • 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...

  • Fire Sanctuary

    Katharine Eliska Kimbriel

    A beautiful, dangerous world of subtle radiation, its people still human...by most standards. A place where genetics may determine your present, but skill and luck will determine your future. A planet where there is enough love...and hate...for ev...

  • 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...

  • The Khyber Connection

    Simon Hawke

    The year was 1897 Khyber Pass echoed with the sounds of war. Soldiers from Britain, India, and Afghanistan were immersed in a bloody conflict. Enter the Time Commandos. Their mission: To foil a plot that has set timelines on a collision course. On...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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. ...

  • 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? ...

  • Jasmine on the Wind

    Mallory Dorn Hart

    In the brutal back alleys of Cindad Real, two yound pickpockets steal a precious moment of love...so intense, so abondoned, their hearts areforever bound. Cruelly torn from each other's arms, they are swept apart by the tides of war. Francho, the ...

  • An Unexpected Pleasure

    Lucy Hamilton

    Cate and Jesse had been childhood friends, then lost track of each other. They met again by chance, and this time it seemed they would stay together -- at first. Cate's photo essay on Jesse's pediatric work at the hospital stirred his ange...

  • Dream Lover

    Paula Hamilton

    Bruce Powers was every woman's fantasy and Hollywood's hottest star. But how dare they let him twist her beautiful script into some comedic vehicle for his own ego? Wheeling-dealing Hollywood was a far cry from Amarillo, but Susan McCarthy...

  • Bittersweet Harvest

    Leslie Davis Guccione

    SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS Well, there were only six Branigan brothers, but that was already six too many for Holly Bancroft. She'd come to Millbrook to sell her inherited estate and be done with it. Simple. But she found that nothing was sim...

  • Passion's Gamble

    Robin Lee Hatcher

    IN THIS GAME OF CHANCE, SHE RISKED EVERYTHING FOR LOVE At a tender age, young Alexis Ashmore was torn from her lush Virginia plantation home to live in the untamed new territory of Idaho, where her father sought his fortune. It was there that h...

  • A Scandalous Publication

    Sandra Heath

    A WOMAN'S WEAPON Wagging tongues of society declared that there was no woman, married or single, that the notorious Max Talgarth could not conquer with his arrogant good looks and devastating charm. It was common knowledge as well that there was ...

  • I Love You, Jonathan Sky

    Anne Henry

    She couldn't afford to make a mistake Beth Dunning was a public figure in the San Diego medical community, and it was a well-known fact that public figures couldn't expect to have private lives. Or private affairs. Which was why, no matter how she...

  • Head Over Heels

    Terri Herrington

    Marti Jackson came to Colorado to forget one man, only to fall into the arms of another. A skiing accident brought them together when Doug Duziak saved her -- and refused to leave her alone. One night in his protective custody and she was lost. "...

  • California Copper

    Joan Hohl

    CALIFORNIA BEACH BOY? How else did one describe a magnificent, golden-bronzed resident of the California coast? Singer Aubrey Mason didn't know, and she didn't care to find out--until she gazed into Zackery Sharp's dark eyes. Zack was no boy. H...

  • Tuckerville Revival

    Monique Holden

    Tuckerville had everything a sleepy little town needed: homemade peach cobbler, friendly people and twenty-five-cent shoe shines. But Mayor Rhetta Tucker knew that Tuckerville was fading, and pastries and shoe shines weren't going to save it. To surv...

  • Too Many Husbands

    Charlotte Hughes

    For a dozen grateful bachelors Meri Kincaid played the role of wife in every way but romance -- cleaning, shopping, laundry -- even if it meant leaving too little time for her own life! Then lucky number thirteen entered the picture.... Businessman ...

  • Impressions

    Tracy Hughes

    "You were about as discreet as a meteorite," he said Kathryn Ellerbee, image consultant, had to create a salable look for Darryl Sledge, anchorman of a new public affairs show about to break into the television ratings. And she tried to ma...

  • Texas Tempest

    Deana James

    SHE NEEDED TO HAVE HIM Jet-haired Eugenia Leahy was sensuous and slender with an iron will that intimidated even the most powerful of men. Then a handsome stranger rescued her after a bad fall and the steel-hearted beauty suddenly felt soft and vuln...

  • Second Wife

    Stephanie James

    TO ERR IS HUMAN Flynn Rammage had not behaved well. Eight months ago, hurting from the breakup of his marriage, he'd been angry at the world. That hadn't stopped his attraction to Heather Devany, but he'd loved, then left her. Now h...

  • A Stranger's Smile

    Kathleen Korbel

    MEMORIES Anne hadn't wanted the family's money, power--or madness. Just their generations-old home in the Appalachians. Just freedom from memories of a marriage that had nearly destroyed her. Just the peace she'd found in her new life ...

  • Between the Lines

    Jayne Ann Krentz

    Wedlock to deadlock... The honeymoon was never supposed to end, Amber Langley reflected wryly. but at the rate she and Gray were going, it wouldn't even get off the ground! Amber had married Gray with her eyes open. Endearing and warm, he was ...

  • Yesterday Once More

    Debbie Macomber

    JUST LIKE BEFORE ... Three years ago, Julie Houser had fled from Wichita, Kansas, before her wedding. Young and shy, Julie had felt incapable of entering handsome Daniel Van Deen's society world--and incapable of impressing his society dragon of a...

  • Sins of Omission

    Catherine Lanigan

    A LOVE FOR ALL TIME Once she had given her heart completely--to have love crushed by the power of tremendous wealth. With fierce pride and determination, she turned her course and made her pact with destiny... From a life of poverty in a small Fre...

  • See Only Me

    Shirley Larson

    IT SEEMED LIKE A LIFETIME AGO Investigating Jessica Moore was the toughest assignment that Rourke Caldwell had ever been handed as a corporate-crime specialist. When he'd known her, she'd been an innocent, light-years away from the sophisticated p...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Nurses

    Richard Frede

  • Noble Lord

    Peter Lauder

    Arriving in New York from the island of Antiqua, Police Sergeant Robin Hope investigates the death of his brother-in-law, a petty jewel thief, and uncovers a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II that involves the most expensive colt in the world...

  • Gideon's Night

    J.J. Marric

    Gideon's Night is inhabited by thugs, murderers, and maniacs as a rule. But on this particular evening, an unusually virulent pair of psychopaths is leaving behind a grisly trail of pain, grief, and blood. First, there's the "baby snatcher" - kidnapp...

  • 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...

  • Dead Straight

    Andrew Nielson

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Twisting the Rope

    R.A. MacAvoy

    If you were among the many readers who lost their hearts to R.A. MacAvoy's remarkable first novel Tea with the Black Dragon, you are invited to rejoin Mayland Long and Martha Macnamara in an astonishing new adventure filled with music, mystery, and m...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Dark Side

    Doug Hornig

  • The Murder at the Murder at the Mimosa Inn

    Joan Hess

    Claire Malloy here. The mock murder weekend at the charming Mimosa Inn, designed to let me and other amateur sleuths try our skills, sounded too fun to pass up. When we arrived, it was hard to tell the guests from the actors, and it was good I'd brou...

  • 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...

  • Lew Archer, Private Investigator

    Ross MacDonald

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Murder at the Superbowl

    Fran Tarkenton

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Deathman, Do Not Follow Me

    Jay Bennett

  • 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...