Books Published in October 1986

New Books List: 478 titles

  • 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...

  • Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1986

    Edward D. Hoch

  • Year's Best Horror Stories 14

    Karl Edward Wagner

  • The Year before Last

    Kay Boyle

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Worth Winning

    C. Terry Cline

  • Worlds Apart

    Linda A. Cooney

  • Words in Commotion and Other Stories

    Tommaso Landolfi

  • The Woman Who Knew Too Much

    Dana Clarins

  • 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...

  • The Witch's Christmas

    Norman Bridwell

  • Witch-Cat

    Joan Carris

  • The Wink

    Evelyn Harter

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • White Angel

    E.B. Cross

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

  • Where the Kissing Never Stops

    Ronald Koertge

    In addition to the typical teenage anxieties and insecurities, Walker must also deal with the death of his father, shaky family finances, and a budding new romance with a girl named Rachel. Reprint. AB. SLJ. VY. ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • What Niall Saw

    Brian Cullen

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

  • Werebeasts of Hel

    Asa Drake

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

  • 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...

  • Warrior Women of Weymouth

    Barbara Siegel

  • The Wardove

    L. Neil Smith

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Walkaway Clause

    John Dalmas

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

  • Waiting for the End of the World

    Madison Smartt Bell

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

  • Voice of the Visitor

    Larry Slonaker

  • 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 ...

  • Until Summer's End

    Valerie Flourney

  • 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...

  • Unexpected Pleasures

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 Ugly Little Duck

    Patricia C. McKissack / Pat McKissack

  • Two Tales

    Washington Irving

  • Two Songs This Archangel Sings

    George C. Chesbro

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • True Stories

    David Byrne

  • Troubles

    J.G. Farrell

    Winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize A sad, tragic, and darkly funny “tour-de-force” about the Irish war for independence, set at a crumbling hotel on the western coast of Ireland (Guardian) 1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Arc...

  • Traveling in Family

    Carlos Drummond

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • To Make the Bitter Sweet

    Patricia Dunaway

  • 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...

  • Timesearch

    George W. Proctor

  • 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 Time of the Transference

    Alan Dean Foster

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

  • A Time for Vengeance

    Giles A. Lutz

    Jonse Kirby's world is abruptly shattered when he returns home one day to find his wife dying of stab wounds. He immediately sets out to track down the killer, a man about whom he knows nothing except that he has red hair and a long scar on his face....

  • 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...

  • Three Sisters

    Audrey Wood

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

    Megan Stine

  • 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...

  • This Is the Place for Me

    Joanna Cole

  • 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...

  • 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.

    ...

  • Thank You Henrietta

    Niki Daly

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

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

    Ellen Weiss

  • Tarnished Victory

    Rosemary Joyce

    After winning her first beauty pageant, Linda Ellis encounters personal and romantic turmoil as she competes with scheming Arlene for John, and with ruthless new rival August O'Connor, until a shocking scandal upsets everything...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Sweetie Baby Cookie Honey

    Freddie Gershon

  • Sweethearts

    M.E. Cooper

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Sweet Dreams, Sweet Princes

    Mack Reynolds

  • Suzette and Nicholas in the Garden

    Satomi Ichikawa

  • Super Word Find Fun

    Pat Brigandi

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • Sugarcane Island

    Edward Packard

  • 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....

  • The Strong-man from Piraeus and Other Stories

    George Johnston

  • Strictly for Laughs

    Ellen Conford

  • Strangers in Blood

    David Cudlip

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Story of the Nativity

    Elizabeth Winthrop

  • Stories About Rosie

    Cynthia Voigt

  • Stolen Flower

    Philip Carlo

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

  • Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories

    Steven Bauer

  • Steamboat in a Cornfield

    John Hartford

  • 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...

  • Star Streak: Stories of Space

    Betty M. Owen

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Spooky and the Wizard's Bats

    Natalie Savage Carlson

  • The Spookiest Day

    David Gantz

  • Spiral

    David L. Lindsey

    THE CORPSE LAY IN THE DRY HEAT OF THE HOUSTON MORNING SUN, INSIDE THE GATES OF A CRUMBLING MANSION. A SPIKE HAD BEEN DRIVEN INTO THE SKULL... For Detective Stuart Haydon, it was the sign of Los Tecos, a Latin-American death squad sworn to politica...

  • Sorraya in a Coma

    Esmail Fassih

  • Sorcerers!

    Jack Dann

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

  • Soldiers and Civilians

    Tom Jenks

    This engaging collection of contemporary short stories is about both the brutality of war as experienced in its immediacy on the field and about its long- term effect on daily life. Some stories recall battles of the past, such as Bob Shacochis's ``W...

  • Snowball in Hell

    Adam Lassiter

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Smugglers Trail

    Max Brand

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

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

  • Slocum and the Deadly Feud

    Jake Logan

    A RIVER OF BLOOD DIVIDED THE BRADY AND DANCER FAMILIES...No sooner does Slocum ride into the dusty town of Ledville than trouble finds him. Deadly trouble. A bitter feud has left both Brady and Dancer kin planted deep in Texas soil. It doesn't take l...

  • Sleightly Invisible

    Patrick Kelley

  • Slaves of New York

    Tama Janowitz

    This collection of stories describes the life-styles of New York urbanites--young women, artists, an educated prositute--who find themselves sharing cramped Manhattan apartments and bobbing half-cheerfully, half-lost in the city...

  • Slaughter Express

    Jon Sharpe

  • Slaughter Day

    Nick Carter

  • Skywriting by Word of Mouth: And Other Writings, Including the Ballad of John and Yoko

    John Lennon

    A collection of stories and drawings, including Lennon's thoughts on first meeting Yoko Ono, the breakup of the Beatles, his persecution by U.S. and British authorities, and his adventures with the American political underground...

  • Sir Cedric Rides Again

    Roy Gerrard

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Silver Star

    Stirling Silliphant

  • The Shoemakes: God's Helpers

    Elsie Rives

  • 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....

  • Shanghai Surprise

    Tony Kenrick

    In prewar Shanghai a young American's search for a secret cache of flowers involves him with a missionary group called the Helping Hand Society, a variety of secret criminal societies, and a beautiful, talented Chinese woman...

  • 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...

  • Shadows Nine

    Charles L. Grant

  • Shades of Dark

    Aidan Chambers

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

  • 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....

  • Serendipity

    Stephen Cosgrove

  • Seek Out and Destroy

    Alan Evans

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Secrets of Stonehenge

    Milo Dennison

  • 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...

  • 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 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 ...

  • Savage Stronghold

    Craig Sargent

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Sally's Calendar Book; With Stickers

    Gloria Gill Morrell

  • Sabotage

    Fletcher Knebel

    When tanker broker Mitch Donahey gets a job offer he can't refuse from the Jordanian owner of a large shipping firm, he meets a beautiful supertanker captain named Mona, who is linked to the mysterious sinkings of several tankers...

  • Runaway Maggie

    Carol Leith

    Maggie the circus dog leads the performers a merry chase through dressing tents and into the Big Top itself. Board pages of varying shapes contain openings that allow a glimpse of what happens in the next spread....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Rotten Ralph's Trick or Treat!

    Jack Gantos

  • Room to Breathe

    Joann Bren Guernsey

    Set in 1969 just after Mandy's mother's death, this novel depicts Mandy Smetana's awkward attempts to break away from the stifling situation of clinging to her boyfriend Peter and being clung to by her still-grieving father...

  • 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 ...

  • Robin Hill

    Carol Greene

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

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