Books Published in September 1984

New Books List: 347 titles

  • Seventeen and In-Between

    Barthe DeClements

    At seventeen, things aren't so simple anymore. Elsie Edwards has been going out with Craddoc for three years now. He's the most popular guy at school and Elsie thought she'd always want to tie "Craddoc's girl." But now that she's seventeen, Craddo...

  • Sailing Ships

    Ron Van der Meer

  • Wrongway Applebaum

    Marjorie Lewis

  • Dresden 1945: The Devil's Tinderbox

    Alexander McKee

  • Ramona Forever

    Beverly Cleary

    What's going to happen next at the Quimby house? Things are changing quickly for Ramona, who finds that being a grown-up third-grader is hard work. Nothing is the way it used to be. Mr. Quimby worries about finding a teaching job, while Ramona wor...

  • Oh, Kojo! How Could You!

    Verna Aardema

    After trading his gold to Ananse for a dog that fetches firewood, a cat that catches rats, and a dove that collects tasty snails, Kojo is disappointed when none of the animals can do what was promised...

  • Encyclopedia Brown's Book of Wacky Sports

    Donald J. Sobol

  • Silent Night

    Joseph Mohr

  • Scenes from Later Life

    William Cooper

  • Dario Fo: People's Court Jester

    Tony Mitchell

  • Pohlstars

    Frederik Pohl

  • Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern

    Anne McCaffrey

    PANIC ON PERN An air of pleasant anticipation hung so thickly over the Halls, Holds and Weyrs of Fern that it had affected even the businesslike ways of Moreta, the Weyrwoman of Fort Weyr, where her dragon, Queen Orlith, would soon clutch. Then...

  • The Land Beyond the Gate

    Lloyd Arthur Eshbach

  • The Glitter & the Gold

    Michael Dyne

  • Sons

    Robert De Maria

  • The Very Bad Bunny

    Marilyn Sadler

  • Mickey's Christmas Carol

    Walt Disney

  • Two Wheels for Grover

    Dan Elliott

  • Halloween Masks

    Anthony Rao

    Be a witch, be an owl, be a black cat . . . be a skeleton or a king or a queen! All that's needed is a pair of scissors and some string to make a dozen colorful, wonderful masks and crowns to cut out and wear for trick-or-treating, parties, or just p...

  • Garfield Loses His Feet

    Jim Davis

    The perfect holiday gift for fans of the flabby tabby!Can a cat with no feet . . . bounce into bed? . . . trot to the TV set? . . . race to the refrigerator?You can be sure that your favorite furry feline will find a way!...

  • The Important Visitor

    Helen Oxenbury

  • Grandma and Grandpa

    Helen Oxenbury

  • The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

    Lorinda Bryan Cauley

  • The First Christmas

    Tomie DePaola

  • Frontier

    Disney Book Group

    Here is a very special Louis L'Amour book, a book to be treasured by his many fans and by a whole new audience of readers, for Frontier is an eye-opening celebration of the American land. 213 pages of text and colorful illustrations of the beautiful ...

  • Reckoning

    Phillip Finch

    After the death of their father in a plane crash, two brothers--playboy Matt Sample and his shy, hardworking younger brother, Billy--find themselves at bitter odds over the ranch they inherited and in love with the same woman...

  • Forty Thousand in Gehenna

    C.J. Cherryh

    "Set in the same future as #f r Inning Downbelow Station, but fully self-contain , i5`is a story on the classic theme of human underestimation of the alien. The 40,000 colonists on Gehenna are abandoned for political reasons. When the re-supply ships...

  • The Lightning Touch

    Megan Ashe

    Kristin Cole vowed she would never get involved with another mountain climber. Her extraordinary talent had made her a better climber than her husband and ruined their marriage--even before a tragic fall claimed his life. Now the lightning touch of e...

  • Wild Heritage

    Allison Mitchell

    THE MARQUIS’ DAUGHTER …shivered with desire as the dashing Scotsman ran practiced hands over the eager young flesh beneath her fragile gown. Celeste was so innocent, so beautiful… and so ready to be made a woman. Crushing her fresh curves to...

  • Indian Summer

    Patricia Baehr

  • Sue Barton Visiting Nurse

    Helen Dore Boylston

    The vivacious redhead and her friend Kit find positions with Visiting Nurse Service in New York City’s famed Henry Street Settlement House, where they must work with newborn babies, obstinate old people, immigrants without a word of English, blacks...

  • An Item from the Late News

    Thea Astley

  • From the Bottom Up

    Leigh Allison Wilson

    "Leigh Allison Wilson is, as one of her narrators says of the country music lover, ""an inveterate truth seeker who, deep down, believes every word is at best a pack of decent lies and at worst a matter of opinion."" This debut collection was one of ...

  • Of America East and West

    Paul Horgan

  • The Stalkers

    D.B. Drumm

  • Seg the Bowman

    Alan Burt Akers

    Here's a special treat for everyone who loves novels of high adventure on exotic worlds in the tradition of Burroughs and Norman. For this is such a novel, complete in itself, of Dray Prescot's fighting comrade, Seg, the finest archer of two worlds. ...

  • Slocum in Deadwood

    Jake Logan

    SLOCUM WAS HOT ON FUN-FILLED IDEAS! But little did he know he would run into an "upstairs girl" named Merry who had a few great ideas of her own. Merry caught Slocum in a compromising position that cost him ten thousand dollars. It wasn't going to be...

  • Lone Star and the Mountain Man

    Wesley Ellis

    Strange things are happening in the Starbuck mines... When Jebediah Baker, an old friend of Jessie's father, is hanged by a mob, and the Starbuck manager in the town of Mule is killed with dynamite tied around his waist, Jessie and Ki head for Mon...

  • Steele's War: The Preacher

    George G. Gilman

  • Bride of the Wind

    Stephanie Blake

    Could any man tame her wild, wanting heart? LOVE, DESIRE, AND REVENGE IN AN UNTAMED LAND... From the treachery of a Texas prison to the dangerous beauty of the plains, from the harsh challenge of a herding trail, to the sprawling glory of a Wyo...

  • Rules of the Game

    Nicola Andrews

    Margaret Mary Hennessy hates Dunne Holborn on sight. It's bad enough that her assignment to design a total-environment game at a science-fiction convention has deposited her among rollicking Martians and disgruntled Ewoks. Now her company is fois...

  • Encore

    Carole Buck

    Called "the lion" by his ex-teammates, Sean Culhane had the lazy grace of a jungle cat -- and was equally dangerous when aroused. Dancer Melissa Stewart remembers it all too well when, clad only in bits of lace, she quite unexpectedly bumps i...

  • Amaranth

    Nella Benson

    AGAINST THE EVIL THAT WOULD DESTROY INNOCENCE, HERS WAS THE GREATER POWER OF LOVE. TWINS They came into this world at the same moment -- identical in every way the eye could perceive, different in ways that were beyond understanding. Keridwen ...

  • Where the Heart Is

    Claudia Bishop (1)

    Theirs was a fairy-tale courtship: handsome tycoon Max Randall fell in love with painter Vicki Carrolton's self-portrait and vowed to make the real woman his wife. Now, after one year of conjugal bliss, Vicki has blossomed as both woman and artist, w...

  • Winning Ways

    Christina Dair

    Is former basketball superstar Ryan Bridges, now a college coach, charming Victoria Wallace because he's sincerely interested in her, or because she can steer a talented student to his team? Victoria's initial skepticism turns to disbelief wh...

  • Anniversary Waltz

    Mary Haskell

    Movie-star handsome, impossibly sexy, tormentingly tender: Hank Lewis is everything Carol wants in a husband. It's the influence of Hank's mother, Maggie, she could live without. Breezing out of her fifth marriage, Maggie chooses to "recuperate" a...

  • A Compromising Passion

    Nell Kincaid

    As a high-powered theatrical agent, Andrea Sutton made it her business to turn people into stars. But when the rugged ex -- first baseman and magazine centerfold Jim Haynes came to her as a client, she was in trouble. Launching an athlete into an act...

  • Bride of Fortune

    Elizabeth Lane

    When spirited Agnes Joy marries Prussian Prince Felix Salm-Salm, she is swept up in an adventure that will carry her from America's Civil War to Mexico City, where the Austrian Emperor Maximilian and his tragic Empress, Carlota, hold their lavish cou...

  • French Rose

    Jacqueline Marten

    HE WANTED HER FOR HIS MISTRESS--SHE WANTED MUCH, MUCH MORE New York in 1780 was a city ravaged by war, occupied by British troops. Into this city of chaos came Alexander De Lacey--a gallant, dashing rogue and an officer in the ing's army. W...

  • Ecstasy's Conquest

    Kay McMahon

    HIS KISS SEALED HER FATE Lovely Victoria Remington couldn't believe this was happening to her -- she'd been won in a card game by a devilish rogue of a pirate! Just days ago she'd been the pampered belle of Raven Oaks plantation. But as she looked...

  • Onyx Flame

    Jan Moss

    LOVE'S FANTASY Megan McBride was beautiful, successful, and confidently in charge of her life, but she suddenly found herself reacting like an infatuated schoolgirl on a job interview. That was the effect Michael Richardson had on her. There was ...

  • Sweet Splendor

    Diana Mars

    Ah, the peaceful solitude of cruising down the Mississippi River on a houseboat. Or so Dale Hayward anticipates--until she finds a nearly nude man in her bathroom! Rakishly Burke Sheridan, oil-company troubleshooter, invites her to share his shower. ...

  • Rebel Bride

    Brenna McCartney

    HE TOOK HER AS HIS YANKEE LOVER -- THAN MADE HER HIS... CONFEDERATE BRUTE Amber Rawlins was furious! She was ready to hang for being a Union spy; how dare Southern Major Brant Faulkner suggest she warm his bed to save her life? But when his deman...

  • Fortune's Smile

    Cassie Miles

    For vivacious actress Carrie Frazier, the chance to star in a Broadway musical directed by her sexy, sophisticated husband, Dylan, is a dream come true. But Dylan also plans to produce the show--a tremendous financial risk. Carrie revels in making...

  • The Redeemers

    Clayton Matthews

    The Moraghans and the Dankers. Theirs was a brutal blood feud that set the dusty prairies of East Texas aflame with tragic violence. But Lena, a fiery auburn haired beauty in the prime flush of womanhood, was fighting a more personal battle--the crue...

  • Breakfast With Tiffany

    Kate Nevins

    Will the neighborhood "cat burglar" strike Tiffany Bradford's mystery bookstore next? When Kirk Davis, tough city cop, is assigned to the case, Tiffany throws over her fictional hero, urbane Lord Peter Wimsey for Kirk, a real-life protector with fasc...

  • Asking for Trouble

    Donna Kimel Vitek

    He looked more like a professional athlete than a professor of philosophy. And he was good at running too--running away. Two years ago Daniel Logan had left the university, left Grace Mitchell without a word of explanation. Now, as suddenly as he'd g...

  • The Magnificent Dream

    Day Taylor

    THE MORRISONS - Ezra, the proud patriarch; Prudence; Tolerance; and the beautiful Susannah - a woman bound to her elders by duty and forbidden love. They left New York to follow the charismatic Sam Brannan on a periolous journey around Cape Horn, see...

  • Promise of Paradise

    Cynthia Sinclair (1)

    THE GOLDEN-HAIRED STRANGER SHE SAVED FROM DEATH THREATENS HER LIFE, HER LAND AND HER PEOPLE! Beautiful Wailani was a Princess of the islands, subject to the warrior king Kamehameha. When a British officer, lost at sea, washed up on the beaches of ...

  • Pillow Talk

    Lee Williams

    Though Drew Dalton's extraordinary success as a management consultant and best-selling author make him an exciting prospect for Sarina Hamilton's speakers' bureau, she arranges speaking engagements for women only. Besides, the blatant invitation in D...

  • I Martha Adams

    Pauline Glen Winslow

  • Incarnate

    Ramsey Campbell

    Molly, a young television production assistant, and her lover, Martin, struggle for survival against a monstrous, diabolical force created by Molly and her fellow participants in a scientific experiment in prophetic dreaming...

  • Ironbrand

    John Morressy

  • Palimpsests

    Carter Scholtz

    While exploring an ancient site used by Neanderthal Man, a young anthropologist stumbles upon a mysterious metal cube made of an unknown alloy, an artifact that can yield a clue to the secrets of time travel...

  • Symbol of Terra

    E.C. Tubb

    Clues from Angado, clues from the lady Govinda, all leading Dumarest on in his search for the lost Planet Earth. But first they lead him to a collector of ancient wisdom called Tama Chenault.But Chenault is not all that he seems, and Dumarest is forc...

  • Tales of the Flying Mountains

    Poul Anderson

    In a thrilling collection of hard science fiction stories, a master of speculative fiction envisions a volatile future when Earth’s colonies throughout the galaxy attempt to break free from home-world rule On a spaceship rocketing toward the st...

  • A Breed Apart

    Monica Barrie

    DEENA HARWELL She had been raised in the Kentucky bluegrass and she saw her chance to go back--as well as to rebuild her father's reputation as a trainer--if she could purchase Vindicator, a colt with championship potential. Her dream led her to ris...

  • An Unlikely Trio

    Kasey Adams

    Jeni O'Brien had come to the campsite in the Utah forest hoping that Timmy, the child she was adopting, would join her before the vacation was over. She definitely hadn't come to meet a man. But when her sparkling green eyes met Brad Carey's deep bro...

  • American Beauty

    Maggi Brocher

  • Harbor Lights

    Alice Brooke

    QUIET PLEASE .. . It wasn't that Jessie Morrow didn't enjoy being a librarian. She just didn't like the image that went along with it. Especially when she seemed to fit it. Long walks, good books, peace and quiet--that was why she'd moved to Maine...

  • No Other Love

    Katherine Coffaro

    Through all those years, there had been no other love The world called director Dario Napoli a genius, but for one week Eliza Rothcart had called him her husband. His sudden presence at Rothcart Productions was a bonus for the daytime drama Beyond...

  • The Reluctant Abigail

    Miranda Cameron

    AND THEN LOVE BECAME HER MASTER.... Lady Gabriela Pennington came disguised as a servant to the country manor of her distant cousin Alina as a matter of family duty. She had to find out the truth about rumors that Alina was totally besotted with th...

  • Touched by Fire

    Jo Calloway

    She was the widow Charboneau, young, shockingly beautiful, and off limits to outsiders--the rugged drillers in the southern Louisiana oil fields. Anne-Marie was rich, but lived like a pauper under the thumb of her powerful father. No man had ever cha...

  • Rapture of the Deep

    Barbara Cameron

    SEA CHANGE Lori Fairchild poured her heart into her work with dolphins. She loved the clever, innocent creatures; with them she could communicate an affection she usually found difficult to demonstrate. As hard as it was for Lori to admit a n...

  • Dynasty of Desire

    Carol Carmichael

    Wounded and dispirited, Ulysses Cade returns from the Civil War to the town of Royal Creek, to find his parents and sister dead. While his old friend Dr. Amos Thompson tends his injury, Ulysses encounters pretty Abby Lamont, who immediately falls in ...

  • Finger Prints

    Barbara Delinsky

    In another life she was Robyn Hart, a journalist who saw too much and was willing to talk about it. Now she is Carly, with a new job and identity courtesy of the Witness Relocation Program. But even with a different name and appearance, Carly lives i...

  • Harbor of Dreams

    Ginger Chambers

    She was struggling to keep her head above water. Her Houston area restaurant was floundering. Even worse, her fifteen-year-old sister and ward was growing up too fast. And when Kathy appeared with a man twice her age in tow, Ashley Stevens laid down ...

  • Passion's Prey

    Ginger Chambers

    Love didn't stalk her -- she had become passion's prey Dr. Sloan Adams provoked Lacy Stewart endlessly. Trapped beside the annoyingly handsome veterinarian on the flight from Boston to Austin, Texas, Lacy only wanted to be left alone. Sloan Adams,...

  • Sweet Masquerade

    Marion Chesney

    "YOU HAVE SOME EXPLAINING TO DO, MASTER FREDERICK," SAID THE EARL. "OR SHOULD I SAY...MISS FREDERICA." The tenth earl of Berham did not know what to do. An attractive 32-year-old bachelor, he was appointed guardian of one Freddie A...

  • A Winning Combination

    Lori Copeland

    When Kayla Marshall met the shy, gentle salesman at Trahern Tool and Die, she knew she'd finally met the man she wanted to marry. Franklin's inexperienced yet curiously bold touch filled her with a passion unlike any she'd ever known. And...

  • A Woman's Empire

    Dorothy Dowdell

    THE SPECTACULAR OLD NORTHWEST AND TWO WOMEN WHO DARED TO CHALLENGE GREAT ODDS FOR THEIR DREAMS… CYRA -- She came as a bride to the timberlands of Washington to face the hatred of her husband’s brother -- the tyrannical Grant, who believed wome...

  • Savage Dawn

    Kathleen Drymon

    He was undeniably male Lisa should have been terrified of the awesome Indian who attacked her carriage and took her captive. Instead the touch of Silver Fox's hand was like magic against her silken skin and possession by his powerful flesh made...

  • Rebel Heart

    Meg Dominique

    How could such opposites attract? Interior designer Tracey Gibbs and architect Patrick Moran were a winning team -- by day. After hours, Tracey preferred a quiet evening at home, while Patrick roared off in his sports car in search of excitement. ...

  • Taste of a Dream

    Casey Douglas

    As rioting beset the Malaysian capital, two strangers sheltered in a basement -- and fell in love. The madness of the world was purged with the night. With the dawn they were separated.... Until four years later in Washington, when cultural advi...

  • Priority Affair

    Andra Erskine

    Her every instinct cried out "danger" when Fallin O'Hara first saw Preston Smithwick. The handsome financier had brought his motherless daughter to her stable for riding lessons and now he was invading her fantasies. Fallin reminded herself that she ...

  • Snowbird

    Lynn Erickson

    SOMETIMES ONE JUST KNEW... International intrigue was not the usual preoccupation of Willy Patterson, art gallery owner, world-class skier. But she could not refuse to help an old friend take refuge in the U.S. Hyde Vandemeer, quintessential CI...

  • Bedouin Bride

    Barbara Faith

    KATHERINE BISHOP She felt as if she were living a novel when she was kidnapped and carried into the Moroccan desert. RASHID BEN HASIR He had connections to two worlds: the civilized West, and the fierce East that was his heritage. They clashe...

  • Highland Flame

    Kathleen Fraser

    KINGDOM OF LOVE Alasdair Cameron wrapped the luscious vixen in his powerful embrace and let his eyes burn hungrily over her flawless body. Frances Murray was ripe for love -- a bursting blossom -- and this fiendishly handsome man sparked a strange...

  • A Heart Divided

    Elizabeth Fritch

    Rawlins was a magical name in the San Francisco of 1906, especially to the beautiful Felicity Adams. Swept off her feet by dashing Bryce Rawlins, she was awestruck by the wealth and power of the fabled family. But when she met Bryce's brother, sh...

  • Not Meant for Love

    Victoria Glenn

    MAYBE IT WAS HIS EYES... Or maybe it was the chocolate Santa he gave her. Or the way he sat so companionably, eating her Christmas cookies. Or maybe it was the kiss under the mistletoe that had so disordered her senses. Whatever it was, Cassie ...

  • Secrets and Desire

    Sandi Gelles

    As newly appointed president of Tannaco Oil, Michela Aberdeen commanded power and respect as a true oil tycoon. But when it came to Jet Lethbridge, her heart yearned to be ruled. He first swept into her life on the glittering streets of New York--...

  • Serena's Magic

    Heather Graham

    They made love under a witch's moon, strangers swept away by destiny's fires. From the moment he walked out of the forest and into her arms, Serena Loren knew they had met before, that this magnificent man had returned from the past to claim ...

  • Fit to Be Loved

    Antoinette Hardy

    Katrina Bright had sweated through countless hours, bending and stretching, punishing her body to work off every ounce of fat. But from the moment Fletcher Ramsey ambled into the health club she had founded and informed her that he'd taken over the b...

  • Reasonable Doubts

    Brooke Hastings

    LAURA SILVER She was as rare and special a woman as her name implied, but the happiness that should have been hers had been destroyed by one man. GREGORY STEIGER was the son of that man, and her new employer. Laura was determined to best him an...

  • A Commercial Enterprise

    Sandra Heath

    SCANDALOUS SUCCESS Miss Caroline Lexham knew tongues would wag when she turned the elegant London mansion she had inherited into an aristocratic hotel. But she didn't expect that she risked far more than a fleeting breath of scandal. Her debauc...

  • Blue Fire

    Terri Herrington

    LOVE ON THE LINE "Weathergirl" Nicole Stevens vowed to win a top anchor spot. But TV station owner Barret Downing tried to keep her out of hard news. Having once tasted her love, how could he pave the way for her inevitable success when s...

  • Pepper's Way

    Kay Hooper

    WANTED: MAN. Must be over six feet tall and weigh at least two hundred pounds. Must own large house on considerable acreage. Must like animals. Must have job with flexible hours. Preferably single. Call Pepper. The classified ad was provocative ye...

  • Dream Builder

    Naomi Horton

    SHADOW OF THE PAST Boston architect Lindsay Forrest had lived without Ryan McCrea for three years when he suddenly walked back into her life again -- the same dark, moody, brilliant master who had taught her everything she knew -- and had broken ...

  • Take My Hand

    Anna Hudson

    Alexandria Foster was content to be the cool, collected executive secretary for Lady Jane's Beautiful Cosmetics -- until Sioux Compton besieged her all-woman world with his well-planned campaign. The tall green-eyed Indian was determined to become ch...

  • A Song in the Night

    Anne Lacey

    Hospital administrator Katie Brentwood had vowed never to get involved with a surgeon again. Then Dr. Bryce Emerson started working at the shock trauma center, and she knew she was in trouble. With just one glance, Bryce stirred in her the same vi...

  • Touch the Horizon

    Iris Johansen

    With a madcap's bravado and a gypsy's soul, Billie Callahan had escaped from wild situations before -- but when a sandstorm gathered around her in the Sedikhan desert, she felt like Pauline in silent-film peril. Suddenly through the shifting...

  • Silver Shores

    Yvonne Kalman

    FAR DESTINY The Yardleys of San Francisco had never planned to go back to New Zealand. But now, young May Yardley, reared in the genteel luxury of a wealthy shipping family, would be forced to know the dark scandal that had driven her mother from...

  • Caretakers

    Tabitha King

    By all rights, they never should have known each other. Torie Christopher was a member of the Maine aristocracy, reckless and willful, wed to a blue-blooded doctor, and enjoying all the pleasures and privileges of wealth and position. Joe Nevers w...

  • Eden of Temptation

    Ruth Langan

    A VERY PROPER LADY He called her a little prude, likened her to the Victorian ladies who had come to his lush Hawaiian island in the nineteenth century. But she was no prude, Ann Lowry insisted, just because she dressed conservatively, kept to ...

  • That Wintry Feeling

    Debbie Macomber

    A PROMISE FULFILLED Cathy Thompson, a school teacher, needed a dramatic change in her life to forget a painful past-and her move to Alaska would certainly be a start. She didn't know that from the ruins of one love she would be led to the passiona...

  • Angels Never Sleep

    Rochelle Larkin

    She'd been content to live in the aura of her husband's love and fame. Then suddenly, tragically, Chris Ashley, the brilliant young playwright, was dead, and Alison was alone- alone with the terrible loss, the scandal, the hurt... It was Mitch, t...

  • Winner Takes All

    Cathie Linz

    Kenna Smith was convinced, a woman's place was in the house--the Wisconsin House of Representatives. Her high-powered campaign to win the primary proved it. She was not convinced that she needed a husband to improve her image, although her intrepid c...

  • Desert Rose

    Frances Lloyd

    HE WAS GORGEOUS .. . But Natalie hadn't meant to faint at Josh Forde's feet. She had arrived at his Australian outback ranch in a jolting truck that had destroyed all of her feeble attempts to hold on to her dignity--and her balance. Then Nata...

  • Woman Alive!

    Nelle McFather

    A SINGLE WOMAN IN A WORLD OF COUPLES....When Jessica's husband suddenly died, leaving her deeply in debt as a result of bad investments, she was confronted with more than her share of problems. Not only would she have to overcome her grief, but she w...

  • Flight Into Sunshine

    Nancy Martin

    EACH UNDERSTOOD THE OTHER TOO WELL Tracy knew Rory Buchanan was out of her league. He was one of the "big boys" from Chicago; she was bright but unschooled, all bluff and thunder. Yet she had something he needed. Her small commuter a...

  • Moon on East Mountain

    Hope McIntyre

    LAND OF MORNING CALM Clover McBain had come to love Korea--its people, its beauty, and its rich heritage. As a city planner she tried to blend its Eastern traditions with her innovative designs. But Roarke Deveraux, the engineer on her housing pr...

  • Connoisseur's Choice

    Dixie McKeone

    He didn't seem prepared to forgive and forget Marlie had been working for her uncle in Virginia Beach every summer for years, and she knew everything there was to know about his business. If she had only known as much about Greg Alston, her un...

  • Tongue-Tied

    Cassie Miles

    Her kiss was his cure Speech therapist Crystal Baxter knew exactly what her priorities were. First she would get her Ph.D. Then she would consider romantic involvements. Luke Todmorden had his own priorities. The handsome aspiring senator had t...

  • River Rapture

    Vella Munn

    Dreams came true as she succumbed to river rapture When Michon volunteered to chaperon a group of teenagers on a trip down the John Day River, she knew her appearance worked against her. Employed by an exclusive department store in Oregon, Michon ...

  • Hearts Enchanted

    Penelope Neri

    PASSIONS ENFLAMED The moment Lord Brian Fritzwarren saw the saucy, slender wench bathing in the river he could not staunch his desire. Her fresh, sun-warmed skin beckoned for his touch. Her flawless, seductive face invited him to rain fiery kisses a...

  • Passion's Rapture

    Penelope Neri

    SHE WAS THE CAPTIVE OF A VILLIAN -- AND A PRISONER OF HIS LOVE! EACH DAY Amanda Sommers, a ravishing English beauty, raged at the devastatingly handsome Miguel de Villarin. He had shot her fiancé Paul, accusing him of a life: dishonoring de Vill...

  • The Rawhide Man

    Diana Palmer

    IT WAS A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE. But convenient for whom? Jude Langston had practically kidnapped Bess and brought her to his San Antonio ranch. It wasn't that he'd wanted her so desperately -- his cool green eyes were firmly fixed on the shares...

  • Breaking All the Rules

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    Blaze Holland had a delicious secret identity, friends she adored, a perfectly contented life -- so when she shared a ride during a blizzard with roguish visiting professor Taylor Shay, she was definitely not looking to fall in love! There was no de...

  • Desire's Child

    Candace Schuler

    She had a secret token of his love Makeup artist Desiree Weston had always admired Oscar-winning-actor Jake Lancing. Actually meeting him in person was a fantasy come true. His melting brown eyes caught hers, leaving her breathless. And when he to...

  • Feathers in the Wind

    Margaret Ripy

    Dr. Kendall Spencer had never allowed a man to get close to her. She was too committed to her patients to have room in her life for anything--or anyone--else. Then Sloan Hunter walked into her office, and she knew that was going to change. Sloan r...

  • An Affair of Honor

    Amanda Scott

    OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER At twenty-six, Miss Eleanor Lindale was old enough to have experienced love and loss through a family disaster that seemed to have consigned her to spinsterhood. She was also old enough to be asked to guide her stunni...

  • Tender Betrayal

    Joann Robb

    Ballerina Monica Bradshaw swept across the rehearsal hall in one last pirouette, whirling right into the arms of an irresistibly handsome stranger. From that first electrifying embrace, Monica knew she'd been fated to move through life's music with t...

  • Silver Zephyr

    Maura Seger

    ALLEGRA WHITNEY. At twenty-eight Allegra lived a life based on business, but in her heart there was a dream, a dream of one special man. SIMON YORK. He was a man with a secret mission, but he, too, had a dream, a dream of one extraordinary woman....

  • The House of Shadowed Roses

    Carol Warburton

    Heather Peyton was thrilled when the Ashleys hired her as a companion and brought her to their Cornwall estate. Young, penniless, alone in the world, she was eager to call someplace home. And when Heather saw the magnificent rose-strewn grounds of Ro...

  • For All Time

    Sondra Stanford

    Although she knew Mr. Anthony Nugent would not be enchanted to meet her, Lisa Knight would not take no for an answer. She was determined to interview the former football star, millionaire businessman and philanthropist for a national magazine. She...

  • The Last Key

    Beverly Sommers

    She held the secret to the last key After eight years, Toby had almost stopped expecting him. Hidden away in Key West, running a charter fishing boat, Toby had changed her hair, her clothes--even her walk. But when she saw Mac McQuade, she knew sh...

  • Velvet Is for Lovers

    Edith St. George

    FULL FATHOM FIVE Alyson had signed on to dive for a sunken galleon off the coast of Ecuador, and she knew there would be no avoiding Ivan Kyriokos, leader of the expedition. She knew Ivan wasn't a man to be trifled with-he was the sort of man...

  • A Daring Alliance

    Alison Tyler (1)

    The man in her bedroom was holding a gun! Would her panic subside when she discovered he was a cop? Whitney Shaw, sociology professor, had had her own reasons for being at a very questionable pansy. Instead of raiding the place, Trapper Logan had res...

  • Tangled Lies

    Anne Stuart

    She was all caught up in his tangled lies... The porcelain butterflies arrived like clockwork every year on her birthday. Rachel Chandler received gifts postmarked from exotic places all over the world from her brother Emmett Chandler, who had bee...

  • Sea Spell

    Abra Taylor

    Whoso takes this woman in love The sea shall tear asunder . . . Despite the cool voice of rationality, the family curse had haunted Danielle all her life . . . especially after the sea had claimed her husband's life nine years before. Untouch...

  • The Wildfire Trace

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    Dr. Maggie Connelly and attorney Jeff Rawlins fall in love while involved in a struggle to help a ten-year-old boy regain his memory and discover the truth about his mother's death. PERILOUS LOVE Maggie Connelly enjoyed the drama and excite...

  • Promise Me Sunshine

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    The choice was hers: love or loyalty Single parent Nell Richards had no time for romance. Every moment was taken -- working in her barbershop, raising a growing daughter, leading a Girl Scout troop. Then Barry Jackson arrived at her door. Warm, at...

  • Business As Usual

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    As acting director of Fantasy Toys, Drew Sinclair faced more than the usual problems of putting the company back on its feet. Working under her was Casey McCord, the man she had once loved and lost. How would Casey react to having her give him ord...

  • High Stakes

    Eleanor Woods

    As a top-notch insurance investigator for her Florida firm, Laine Harper was no stranger to trouble. But she hadn't expected so much so soon. All at once she was confronted with an insurance fraud case that promised certain danger --and with the need...

  • Murder on High

    George Kennedy

  • Secret of the Sixth Magic

    Lyndon Hardy

    BEYOND THE FIVE MAGICS The laws of the five magics were being set aside. First to go were those of the high art of sorcery. Then true magic, upon which the commerce of all Arcadia depended, had been voided. And now even thaumaturgy, the engineerin...

  • The Thesues Code

    Marc Hammond

    THE DEADLY QUEST Crete, 1942. Captain Roger Thomas's mission was to hold the Nazi forces on the ancient island at bay--in readiness for the Allied invasion that never came. Now Bill Thomas has returned to seek the truth about his father's death...

  • Blow Your House Down

    Pat Barker

    'Blow Your House Down is swift, spare and utterly absorbing - you'll probably read it, as I did, in one tense sitting' NEW YORK TIMES 'A courageous and disturbing novel' ELIZABETH WARD, WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD 'Despite its black humour, it is a de...

  • As a Favor

    Susan Dunlap

    A call from an ex-husband is never welcome.  For Berkeley cop Jill Smith it wins a Nobel Prize for chutzpah.  Her ex wants a favor.  His "friend" and co-worker, Anne Spaulding, is missing.  Anne's ransacked apartment--complete with blood-spra...

  • Kill Zone

    Loren D. Estleman

    A remarkable new antihero, mob hit man Peter Macklin must end a hostage crisis on a tour boat in Lake Erie   Siegfried, a terrorist group made up of a killer, a bassist, an ex-marine, a demolitions expert, a Black Panther, a national guardsman, ...

  • Three and One Make Five

    Roderic Jeffries

  • Big Money

    Peter Turnbull

    Glasgow's investigative P division goes into action when a meticulously planned post office raid yields two clues--the trace of a rare plant on the getaway car and the teeth of a long-dead murder victim...

  • The Hellion

    LaVyrle Spencer

    WHAT WOULD PEOPLE SAY? Rachel Hopis had only just become a widow, and who should be pounding down her door but Tommy Lee Gentry. Tommy Lee. Crazy boy. The hell raiser of Russellville, Alabama, had three marriages behind him and a string of fast...

  • When Love Dies

    Francine Pascal

    The end of romance... The Wakefield twins' older brother, Steven, is heartbroken. His girlfriend, Tricia Martin, no longer seems interested in him. She breaks their dates and doesn't return his calls. Steven can't understand why Tricia's feelings h...

  • Sylvia Game

    Vivien Alcock

    During a trip to the seaside with her ne'er-do-well artist father, twelve-year-old Emily makes friends with a gypsy's son and the young heir to a stately home, who are struck by her resemblance to mysterious, long-dead Sylvia, a girl in a painting by...

  • Do You Love Me, Harvey Burns?

    Jean Marzollo

  • Corpse in a Gilded Cage

    Robert Barnard

    MURDER IS ALWAYS RELATIVE. Not every man wants his home to be his castle. Such were the sentiments of Perce Spender when he found himself in the draughty drawing room of Chetton Hall. The sudden demise of a distant relative had transformed Perce f...

  • Second Marriage

    Frederick Barthelme

  • Not Dead, Only Resting

    Simon Brett

    Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women . . . and solving crimes! A binge-worthy cozy mystery series from the original king of British cozy crime, internationally best-selling, award-winning author Simon Brett, OBE. For fan...

  • The Whispering Gallery

    Richard H. Francis

    A cast of characters--two space-drifting astronauts, a paranoid solicitor, and an unhappily flatulent Manchester, among others--struggle with the paradoxes of modern life through nonstop episodes that include a nightmarish dinner party in Antarctica ...

  • Chubby Bear

    Yasuko Ito

  • Chubby Snowman

    Hitomi Kuroki

  • Ice Cathedral

    George Leonard

    When loner Mark Kessler, trying to prevent the slaughter of birds in a wildlife sanctuary, kills a man, he experiences an unexpected pleasure in killing that drives him finally to retreat beneath the ice-covered water of Long Island's Great South Bay...

  • The Room Upstairs

    Norma Levinson

    Leah Lazarus, a thirty-year-old woman, becomes deeply embroiled with her tenants, a colorful and eccentric group that becomes an extended family, and finds her caustic self-involvement transformed into empathy and fulfillment...

  • July 7th

    Jill McCorkle

    An unsolved murder at the Quik Pik propels us into twenty-four hours of rich comedy and fast action in the North Carolina town of Marshboro. Two memorable presences are Granner Weeks, a white widow, and Fannie McNair, a black housekeeper. They know t...

  • The Cheerleader

    Jill McCorkle

    Jo Spencer is a girl who knows what to be and how to be it-straight-A student, cheerleader, May Queen, popular and cute and virginal, and in perfect control. But halfway through her first year in college in the early seventies, her carefully normal l...

  • Sisters

    David McPhail

    The classic children’s book celebrating the joys and challenges of sisterhood -- with the author’s illustrations newly hand-colored. Sisters are different in so many ways, and alike in many more. But there is one heartfelt way in which they are&#...

  • The Earl's Season

    Emma Lange

    The Willful Widow Lady Juliana Whitfield was dazzlingly beautiful and fabulously wealthy. No wonder this young widow was the prime prize in the marriage mart. But Juliana shocked society and stunned a swarm of suitors by making it clear she never ...

  • The Foreigner

    David Plante

    In 1959, a young American journeys to Europe to discover how the people live and finds himself forever transformed by two people, Angela and Vincent, who introduce him to a dangerous but passionate new world...

  • The Vestal Virgin Room

    C.W. Smith

    C.W. Smith’s hit novel The Vestal Virgin Room is a tragi-comic love story about a married couple and the agonies and ecstasies of being hitched through thick and thin. Don and Dottie Baxter are a husband-and-wife musical duo (both sing while she’...

  • Steely Blue

    Dennis Smith

    From the author of Report from Engine Co. 82 comes the story of two best friends who chase their childhood dreams of becoming firemen but find themselves living significantly different lives.Steely Byrne and Jack Haggerty grew up as best friends with...

  • Chubby Engine

    Daisuke Yokoi

  • Chubby Tugboat

    Daisuke Yokoi

  • Say Goodbye to Sam

    Michael J. Arlen

    It will come as no surprise that Michael J. Arlen's first novel is at once romantic, disturbing, and original, an artistic achievement of impressive subtlety and force.A famous father and his estranged son meet for the first time in many years on the...

  • Run Out the Guns

    Robert Challoner

  • 3-D Traitor

    Milton Dank

    Six junior high students investigate the appearance of the ghost of Benedict Arnold in the historical house of an elderly friend, who simultaneously is being pressured to sell her home by a number of people....

  • Legends of Jesse Dark

    Michael Doane

  • The Roads of Earth

    Allen Drury

  • I Love My Baby Sister

    Elaine Edelman

  • Houses on the Site

    Stuart Evans

  • The Fourth Protocol

    Frederick Forsyth

    It is a time of political unrest in Great  Britain. And behind the Iron Curtain an insidious plot  is being hatched, a plan so incendiary that even the KGB is ignorant of its existence -- Aurora, the sinister brainchild of two of the world's most...

  • Portrait in Oil

    Charles Fox

  • Let's Hear It for a Beautiful Guy

    Bruce Jay Friedman

  • Firefly Gadroon

    Jonathan Gash

  • The Water Is Wide

    Elizabeth Gibson

  • The Zurich Numbers

    Bill Granger

    They are immigrants, working in American laboratories and universities. They are Soviet spies, forced into a network of terror, with their families dangling as hostages. When Devereaux--the November Man--uncovers the brutal scheme, the forces of both...

  • Above All, Love

    Jeanne M. Greenleaf

  • The Lives of Rachel

    Joel Gross

    IN EVERY GENERATION, THERE IS ONLY ONE RACHEL... She is the firstborn daughter of a proud and ancient Jewish family, the heiress to a legacy of remarkable strnegth and courage. A NAME, A MENORY, A PROMISE From Judea to Arthurian England, fr...

  • Ladies

    Doris Grumbach

    "A tale told in delicate brushstrokes of a relationship in which two hearts came almost literally to beat as one."

    Newsday

    In the late 18th century, Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby defied all conventions of their Irish homeland and el...

  • The Diamond Waterfall

    Pamela Haines

    SHE HAD SOLD HERSELF FOR THEIR COLD SPARKLE... They had a sumptuous suite, in the finest hotel in Nice. the fireplace glowed, the big bed waited. It was their wedding night, but first Robert wanted to show her the Firth jewels. Kneeling beside Lil...

  • Threshold

    Nancy Henderson

    Unable to face another Christmas with her happily married younger sisters, thirty-two-year-old Soren Benedict, attractive, intelligent, and a failure at choosing a man, finds romance at a deserted seaside resort...

  • Mama Don't Allow

    Thacher Hurd

    Saxophone-playing Miles and his Swamp Band find a bevy of sharp-toothed, long-tailed alligators who love to listen to their music. But little do Miles and his band know what the alligators plan for them at the close of their jubilant all-night ball ...

  • Greenhouse

    Dakota James

  • Rex, Q.C.

    Dorothea King

  • Family Truths

    Syrell Rogovin Leahy

    LOVED BY TWO MEN, BETRAYED BY A THIRD. SHE RISKED LOSING EVERYTHING TO A HERITAGE SHE COULD NOT ESCAPE... Born to beauty. privilege and great promise, Judy Wolfe was a golden girl in the glittering sixties, destined to follow her distinguished fat...

  • Modus Vivendi

    Deidre Levinson

  • Felony Report

    Elizabeth Linington

  • The War of the End of the World

    Mario Vargas Llosa

    Deep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It is a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. There is no ...

  • Hat

    David Lloyd

  • Harland's Half Acre

    David Malouf

    The destinies of artist Frank Harland and young Phil Vernon intertwine in a haunting, evocative portrait of the life and work of the artist, childhood, family bonds, and the dark dimensions of vision, creativity, and passion that become the roots of ...

  • Circles in a Forest

    Dalene Matthee

    A descendant of the first Dutch colonists in South Africa comes of age in the late 1800s, torn between his love of the Knysna Forest and its wildlife and the demands of his family and a dramatically changing world...

  • The Darkest Day

    Dennis L. McKiernan

    The destined hour has come....It is the time foretold, when the Dark Liege Gyphon will return from exile to subdue all creation to his vile domination. In the Iron Tower Modru works his magics to summon his implacable lord. And across Mithgar the War...

  • Revenge of the Nerd

    John McNamara

  • Last Days

    Joyce Carol Oates

  • Unearthly Neighbors

    Chad Oliver

    Monte Stewart was an extremely intelligent, somewhat contentious anthropologist with a sense of humor and a nonconformist approach to life. As an expert in his field, he was chosen to approach the first apparently human-like form of life ever to be e...

  • Cold Light of Day

    Emma Page

    A Kesley and Lambert novel.The sun has risen but successful young stockbroker Gavin Elliot is still in bed.He lies on his side, his pyjama top hitched up to reveal his back- and a knife sticking out from between his shoulder-blades…ReviewsPraise fo...

  • Buccaneer

    Dudley Pope

    It is the 1650's and Spain considers the Caribbean to be its own private sea. But England, Holland and France conspire to battle for freedom on the oceans set in days littered with the plunder of piracy. Ned Yorke, a loyal Royalist living in Barbados...

  • The Cloud

    Deborah Kogan Ray

  • Dance a Step Closer

    Mary E. Ryan

    Fifteen-year-old Katie tries to cope with many changes in her life when her actress mother acquires a serious suitor, her best friend drifts away into other interests, her dance teacher encourages her hopes of a dance career, and the boy she's always...

  • The Passion of Molly T.

    Lawrence Sanders

    The Women's Defense Corps, an elite paramilitary force led by the charismatic Molly Turner and her brother-in-law, Rod Harding, embarks on a deadly quest for revenge against males judged guilty of crimes against women...