Books Published in October 1986

New Books List: 478 titles

  • 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...

  • The Black Magician

    G.C. Edmondson

  • 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...

  • Blood Storm

    Jack Buchanan

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • POW

    Eric Helm

    "I will ask you questions, you will give me answers." And the Vietcong commander knew just how to ask questions of the three American soldiers who had become his prisoners. When units from U.S. Army Special Forces Camp A-555, the Triple Nickel, were...

  • Savage Stronghold

    Craig Sargent

  • Slaughter Day

    Nick Carter

  • 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....

  • Sugarcane Island

    Edward Packard

  • 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 ...

  • 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-...

  • 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 Godwin Sideboard

    John Malcolm

  • The Mystery Lady

    Anna Clarke

  • 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...

  • The Fisherman's Lady

    George MacDonald

    The woman’s body lay in an upper room of an old house overlooking the sea. Her life had been shrouded in mystery as surely as her body was now wrapped in the pale linen of death… So begins the stunning narrative of Malcolm, the Scottish fisher...

  • To Make the Bitter Sweet

    Patricia Dunaway

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • California Generation

    Jacqueline Briskin

  • 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...

  • Chasing the Comet

    Dona Vaughn

  • 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&#...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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? ...

  • 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...

  • Dash Of Pepper

    Katrina West

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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. "...

  • 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...

  • Heat of the Night

    Charlotte Lamb

    Vicky didn't want to take Ricco seriously After all, she'd come to Florence to hide out. Bitter from the discovery that her fiance, however famous, was a first-class heel, she wasn't ready for another relationship. Besides, Ricco always seemed ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • The Look Of Love

    Veronica Ladd

    Kenneth was a famous model…an actor…but Tamara wanted to know more. Who was the person behind the handsome face that smiled at her from all the ads? What lay behind those eloquant eyes that met hers from every teen commercial? Was he a spoile...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • The Marati Legacy

    Dana James

    "I've agreed to work for you -- and that's all!" When Luke Avery needed an oceanographer to help him search for sunken treasure off the Madagascar coast, Melanie took the job -- reluctantly. Not that she was worried about the wo...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Private Eyes

    Julia Winfield

  • Rachel's Resistance

    Nicole Hart

    Rachel and her friends were thrilled to be spending a summer in France, living in an old chateau with family friends. They were learning the language touring the peaceful countryside, making new friends. Rachel had even found her first boyfriend, Jea...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Worlds Apart

    Linda A. Cooney

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Close to Home

    Oralee Wachter

  • The Frog Prince

    Mary Lewis Wang

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • A Matter of Metalaw

    Lee Correy

  • The Moon and the Face

    Patricia A. McKillip

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

    Susan Shwartz

  • The Nargun and the Stars

    Patricia Wrightson

  • 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...

  • Reign of Fire

    Marjorie Bradley Kellogg

  • 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...

  • Sally's Calendar Book; With Stickers

    Gloria Gill Morrell

  • Super Word Find Fun

    Pat Brigandi

  • Sweet Dreams, Sweet Princes

    Mack Reynolds

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Warrior Women of Weymouth

    Barbara Siegel

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Agents of Insight

    Steven Klaper

  • Aiki

    John Gilbert

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    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....

  • Assignment Burma

    Lee O. Miller

  • Behold the Man

    N. Richard Nash

  • Ben and the Bear

    Chris Riddell

  • Bernard

    Bernard Waber

  • The Best American Essays 1986

    Elizabeth Hardwick

  • The Best American Short Stories 1986

    Raymond Carver

  • 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...

  • Best Times

    B.B. Hiller

  • The Black Sheep

    Elizabeth Heck

  • Blood, Bread, and Poetry

    Adrienne Rich

  • 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...

  • Bordertown

    Mark Alan Arnold

  • Boris and the Monsters

    Elaine MacMann Willoughby

  • 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...

  • The Bunjee Venture

    Stan McMurtry

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Centurys Daughter

    Pat Barker

  • Character Parts

    John Clifford Mortimer

  • Christmas, 1940

    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • Class

    Joanna Wharton

  • Class Dismissed Two

    Mel Glenn

  • 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...

  • Club Hollywood

    Rob John

  • Collected Stories, 1948-1986

    Wright Morris

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

    Lisa Campbell Ernst

  • 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....

  • Counter Attack

    Frank Garrett

  • Crazy Moon Zoo

    Dan Potter

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Doctor Who: The Companions

    John Nathan-Turner

  • 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...

  • Early Sorrow

    Charlotte Zolotow

  • Efan the Great

    Roni Schotter

  • 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...

  • 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 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Fat Woman

    Leon Rooke

  • 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...

  • Fire in the West

    Leo Kessler

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

    Millicent Selsam

  • Flying

    Donald Crews

  • Foxy Fables

    Tony Ross

  • Frankenbagel Monster

    Daniel Pinkwater

  • 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...

  • Get Rich Mitch

    Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

  • 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 Gollywhopper Egg

    Anne Rockwell

  • The Great Valentine's Day Balloon Race

    Adrienne Adams

  • Gummi Bears Merry Beary Xmas

    Mary Oliver

  • Halloween Surprises

    Ann Schweninger

  • Happy Birthday, Ronald Morgan!

    Patricia Reilly Giff

  • Happy Christmas Gemma

    Sarah Hayes