Books Published in April 1981

New Books List: 233 titles

  • Horseclans Odyssey

    Robert Adams

    LAND OF LEGEND BEYOND A RIVER OF BLOOD... The call has gone out and the clans are gathering to hear the words of their war chief, Milo of Morai-words of prophecy that promise an end to wandering and a land of their own, the legendary homeland from...

  • The War of the Roses

    Warren Adler

    This is the novel that inspired one of the most famous movies about divorce ever made, starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. Oliver and Barbara Rose are a passionate couple who meet at a Cape Cod auction while bidding for matching figurines. ...

  • Original Sins

    Lisa Alther

    Five childhood friends with big plans face the changing realities of life in Tennessee in the 1960s in this novel from bestselling author Lisa Alther As Sally and Emily Prince and Jed, Raymond, and Donny Tatro sit under their beloved Castle Tree i...

  • 666

    Jay Anson

    THE OMEN OF ULTIMATE EVIL…THE SIGN OF THE DEVIL…THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST 666 That was the hell-black number on the old house that suddenly appeared on Sunset Brook Lane. Inside, a red light flickers from an unseen source. Inside, mocki...

  • Blue Adept

    Piers Anthony

    DOUBLE DESTINY For Stile, life was a matter of shuttling madly between two worlds, with the problems growing greater on each. On the science world of Proton, he was a serf, trying to prove his right to exist by competing in the Great Games. On Pha...

  • Hour of the Clown

    Amos Aricha

    The plot was spawned in Moscow in the innermost circle of the world's most dreaded intelligence organization. Within a month a vast army of international terrorists was mobilized to zero in on the Unites States, where fifteen leading figures, startin...

  • Terror at Sea

    Dean W. Ballenger

  • The Darkroom

    Carolyn Banks

    Carolyn Banks based the character of William Holland on the high-profile case of Bradford Bishop, the State Department official who, in 1976, murdered his mother, his wife, and his three children in their suburban Maryland home. Allegedly, Bishop loa...

  • Dream Park

    Steven Barnes; Larry Niven

    THEY WERE ALL PLAYING GAMES Chester Henderson was playing at revenge, to shore up his faltering reputation as a Loremaster and erase the memory of an embarrassing debacle. . . . Richard Lopez was out to crush Chet Henderson, and prove that his...

  • Imram

    William Barnwell

    Part II of the Blessing SeriesTurley Vail, with his disturbing visions, is destined to save the world of Imram, but he doesn't want the responsibility. Beneath the scientific wisdom of the Blessing Papers lies a catastrophic evil only he understands....

  • A Ragged Plot

    Richard Barth

    It's a lovely garden, this formerly desolate lot off Broadway, now burgeoning with the healthy green of growing things. Too bad the kindly old Puerto Rican man who had started it wouldn't be there for the harvest. Luiz is dead, mysteriously and fa...

  • Angry Lover

    Patti Beckman

    SHE WAS FINALLY ON HER OWN! At twenty-four years of age Deborah Denhoff asserts her independence. Despite parental disapproval she travels to Texas to research the life of Clement Vaulkhurst -- Nobel Prize-winning novelist and a distant relative -...

  • Gallipoli

    Jack Bennett

  • The Philadelphia Experiment

    Charles Berlitz

    One day in 1943, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, something happened . . .
    Suddenly the U.S.S. Eldridge, a fully manned destroyer escort, vanished into a green fog, within seconds appeared in Norfolk, Virginia, and then reappeared in Philadelphia!<...

  • The Patriarch

    Chaim Bermant

    In turn-of-the-century Glasgow, Russian immigrant Nahum Rabinovitz aids other Jews to safety as pogroms sweep Russia, marries his childhood sweetheart, and establishes a family distinguished by its passionate commitments and intellectual pursuits...

  • Lovers and Liars

    Doris Bingham

  • Chill Wind of Ravenhill

    Mary Bishop

    The old hotel was a haven for mystery--and death! The isolated old hotel perched high atop a steep cliff in Cornwall was certainly not a place Sara Moore would have chosen to spend her vacation, but when her car broke down she had no choice. No...

  • Raiders of the Lost Ark

    Campbell Black

    THE HOLIEST ARTIFACT ON EARTH IS FILLED WITH DAZZLING, INCREDIBLE POWER. INDIANA JONES HAS TO GET TO IT BEFORE THE NAZIS DO. Indiana Jones, archeology professor and swashbuckling adventurer, has unearthed many an ancient treasure. But now the v...

  • Marina

    Laura Blackmon

  • Made for Each Other

    Parris Afton Bonds

    SNOWBOUND IN A SECLUDED HILLTOP CABIN! Reporter Julie Dever thought she knew everything about New Mexico's youngest senator, Nicholas Raffer, not only his politics but his intimate social life as well. However, when he rescues her from a car wreck...

  • A Penguin Year Lib

    Susan Bonners

  • Dear Sarah

    Elisabeth Borchers

  • Notes to a Science Fiction Writer

    Ben Bova

  • The Chaneysville Incident

    David Bradley

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    ""The Chaneysville Incident rivals Toni Morrison''s Song of Solomon as the best novel about the black experience in America since Ellison''s Invisible Man."" — Christian Science Monitor

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  • Empire Blues

    Taylor Branch

  • 6 Gun Country

    Max Brand

  • Jury of Six

    Matt Braun

    LONE GUN ON THE VENGEANCE TRAIL Ben Langham was dead, his body riddled with bullets, buzzards picking at his bones. And Luke Starbuck, who loved Langham like a father, knew who did it. A savage, fast-as-lightning killer named William Bonney, a.k.a. ...

  • The Wrong Man

    Katrina Britt

    She loved him, but love wasn't enough Rachelle should never have married Pete Standring. She'd known he was a Canadian oil prospector, but she hadn't realized it was his whole life. Moreover, she hated oil-field living. So she left ...

  • The Debut

    Anita Brookner

    An “almost flawless novel” (People) about a quiet scholar who is convinced that her life has been ruined by literature and that she must make a new start in life.Since childhood, Ruth Weiss had been escaping from life into books, and from the att...

  • The Emerald Necklace

    Diana Brown

    A TRAGEDY OF ERRORS The first error was one of pride -- pride that made Lady Leonora spurn the loving attentions of her commoner husband for the frivolous company of her aristocratic friends. The second error was one of vanity -- the kind of vanity...

  • Wren of Paradise

    Dixie Browning

    TROPICAL NIGHTS MIRRORED THEIR PASSION.... Hannah Blanchard was thrilled about the unexpected invitation to the Isle de Cozumel off the coast of Mexico. It offered a needed respite after her recent illness. But her stepsister, Jill, has other pl...

  • Sheep Look Up

    John Brunner

    An enduring classic, this book offers a dramatic and prophetic look at the potential consequences of the escalating destruction of Earth. In this nightmare society, air pollution is so bad that gas masks are commonplace. Infant mortality is up, and e...

  • The Flame Stone

    Kate Buchan

    "Traitor's daughter! You're not wanted here!" It was a harsh welcome for Charlotte, returning home to France after four years abroad. The Franco-Prussian war was over, but the villagers of Montsapin had not forgotten it. They had ...

  • Beyond the Flag

    C. Buonanno

  • Cities of the Red Night

    William S. Burroughs

    While young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, the population of this modern inferno is afflicted with the epidemic of a radioactive virus. An opium-infused apocalyptic vision from the legendary author of Naked Lunch is the first...

  • I'll Get By

    Elizabeth Byrd

    In New York City in 1928, just before the stock-market crash, fifteen-year-old Julie tries to reconcile life with her practical mother and dashing father and to deal with her love for a handsome college student...

  • The Outcast

    Beverly Byrne

    Griffins had ridden beside English kings since the time of William the Conqueror. But now Roger Griffin found himself banished from the opulent court of Charles II. Penniless, Roger vowed to carve a new destiny for generations of Griffins yet unbor...

  • Katie John and Heathcliff

    Mary Calhoun

  • Penny Wise

    Sarah Carlisle

    They may be cut from the same bolt of cloth but they rub each other the wrong way... Ever since his young wife's death, Lord Randolph Stanton had gone from gaming hall to music hall, running up gambling debts and living down a dissolute reputation. O...

  • Tournament of Shadows

    Nicholas Carnac

  • The Love Child

    Philippa Carr

    When Lucy's mother is flung out of the house by her husband, she is rescued by a naval officer. Only on her deathbed does she reveal Lucy's true lineage. Trying to hold the family together, Lucy seeks work at the Buchanan house, where her mother work...

  • The Drop of the Dice // Will You Love Me in September?

    Philippa Carr

    LOVE'S GAMBLE Clarissa, orphan daughter of Carlotta, is rescued from squalor and brought back to the family home at Enderby. Surrounded by Jacobite intrigues, she is kidnapped by them as a suspected spy. It is the Jacobite leader who allows...

  • Fantasy Annual 3

    Terry Carr

  • Divide the Wind

    Mary Carroll

    DID SHE DARE BELIEVE IT? A fabulous job as fabric designer for Torelli Silks, a studio in a private wing of an ancient villa on the shore of Lake Como, and the undivided attention of Antonio Torelli, handsome scion of the leading Italian silk fami...

  • Fireworks

    Angela Carter

    ''I started to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.'' So says Angela Carter of this collection, written during a period living in Toyko. These exotic, sensuous stories represent Carter''s first major achiev...

  • The Society of Nine

    Nick Carter

  • The Ouster Conspiracy

    Nick Carter

  • Safari Encounter

    Rosemary Carter

    "Impalavlei is just a business to you!" Jenny wouldn't see her late father's quiet bushveld game park transformed into a sophisticated resort -- as Joshua Adams undoubtedly intended. Impalavlei had to keep up with the times, he'...

  • The Reluctant Duke

    Philippa Castle

    MISMATCHED HEARTS If he looked at her, she felt weak and if he did not, she was in despair. Of course, the Duke of Stanfield saw blonde, violet-eyed Julia Hartman -- when he noticed her at all -- only as the amusing younger sister of the ravishing...

  • The Kindred Spirit

    Ginger Chambers

    The last thing Elizabeth Martin ever imagined was being swept away by a famous author like Matt Trehern -- suddenly married to a dashing stranger. “It’s not a wife I’m after. I don’t need one.” Matt was brutally frank. Their marriage ...

  • Quadrille

    Marion Chesney

    HE WAS A ROGUE AND A HERO AND HE HAD MARRIED HER FOR HER MONEY Everyone in bon ton knew that Lord Hubert Challenge had married country mouse Mary Tyre for her dowry, but no one had yet guessed that Mary had actually fallen in love with her husband...

  • Rainbow Jordan

    Alice Childress

  • Herbie Goes Bananas

    Joe Claro

  • Sharpe's Eagle

    Bernard Cornwell

    RICHARD SHARPE FEARLESS SOLDIER, RUTH LESS ENEMY, AND PASSIONATE LOVER Captain Richard Sharpe--bold, professional, and ruthless--is leading his battle-hardened veterans against Napoleon at Talavera in the bloodiest Peninsula battle yet. Sharpe has...

  • The Man Whose Name Was Not Thomas

    M. Jean Craig

  • The Highland Countess

    Helen Crampton

    The Contradictory Countess Morag Fleming, the Countess of Murr, had been bride to the most lecherous lord in Scotland yet this ravishingly lovely girl had never been touched. Needless to say, she had never borne a child yet as a young widow, she c...

  • The Shaggy D.A.

    Vic Crume

  • A Tradition of Pride

    Janet Dailey

    The honeymoon was over long, long ago Lara Cochran had once been a happy bride. Then Trevor, her charming husband, had turned to other women. Divorce was unheard-of in Lara's family, but she didn't want one anyway. One disastrous marria...

  • Monte Carlo

    Dorothy Daniels

    THE RICH AND THE RECKLESS. In this, her latest novel, best-selling author Dorothy Daniels weaves a dazzling story of romance and danger set in the golden era of Monte Carlo in the 1890s. A city sizzling in sin and teeming with royalty and high-rol...

  • The Sisters of Valcour

    Dorothy Daniels

    VIRGINIA HAMMOND WAS THE BELLE OF VALCOUR ISLAND The spoiled, beautiful daughter of her cotton-raising father -- enchanting with her beaux, harsh with her slaves and aflame with the rebel cause. But she was not the only daughter James Hammond had ...

  • Charlotte

    Hilary Desmond

  • The Velvet Promise

    Jude Deveraux

    ALL OF ENGLAND REJOICED ON HER WEDDING DAY, BUT JUDITH VOWED THAT HER HUSBAND WOULD GET ONLY WHAT HE TOOK FROM HER! At the flower-bedecked altar, the first touch of their hands ignited an all-consuming passion. The tall, broad-shouldered Gavin M...

  • Dale Loves Sophie to Death

    Robb Forman Dew

    Robb Forman Dew's cult first novel explores themes of familial and romantic bonds as it tells the story of a woman whose husband stays behind in New England while she and their children spend the summer in her Midwestern hometown....

  • The Brementown Musicians

    Donna Diamond

  • Winnie-The-Pooh

    Walt Disney

  • The Ghost of Staghorn

    Auriel Douglas

    THE SCOTTISH MOORS CRY DANGER What begins as a simple visit to her fiery grandfather in Scotland quickly escalades into a terrifying scene of mysterious treachery. Nothing has prepared Laurie, strong-willed and independent, for the evil lurking wi...

  • The Gehlen Portfolio

    Thomas Douglas

  • Surrender by Moonlight

    Bonnie Drake

    It was a moment of exquisite torture. Cynthia's nerves tingled madly under his piercing blue-eyed gaze. "Understood?" he asked, his voice as commanding and arousing as his look had been. "Yes," she managed, turning away, breaking the spell he had...

  • Rabbits Rafferty

    Gerald Dumas

  • Deadline

    John Dunning

    When a circus tent fire calls Tribune reporter Dalton Walker into action, he's disturbed to find that an eight-year-old girl has fallen victim to the tragedy; even more troubling is the fact that no relatives come to identify the body. While searchin...

  • A Way of His Own

    Thomas A. Dyer

  • Soccer Duel

    Thomas J. Dygard

  • Family Affair

    Mignon G. Eberhart

    Home Is Where The Horror Is.. Suddenly, all the people she knew and loved seemed menacing and unfamiliar. It started right after Sarah Favor saw her fiance leave the country on a secret mission for the State Department. She came home -- and discov...

  • The Return of the Whistler

    Blossom Elfman

  • Chase a Tall Shadow

    John Ell

  • Longarm in Northfield

    Tabor Evans

    IT WAS A TOWN OF TIGHT-FISTED MEN -- AND BRAZEN WOMEN... Northfield. It grazed the eastern edge of the Badlands. A man could get lost-or killed-there, and no one would ever know the difference. Northfield. Tough, cocky, and a whole lot of troub...

  • The Sun Dancers

    Barbara Faith

    TOAST OF TWO CONTINENTS, FROM MEXICO TO SPAIN! They called her La Gringa -- beautiful blonde bullfighter Mariana Toscano, daughter of film goddess Pat Palmer and the late great matador Roberto Toscano. But it wasn't until Mariana fled the glit...

  • Experiment With Death

    E.X. Ferrars / Elizabeth Ferrars

    After killing Guy Lampard, director of a large research institute in England, the murderer changed all of the clocks at the institute, leaving the police unable to determine where the suspects were at the time of the crime...

  • Birthright

    Phillip Finch

  • Storm at the Jetty

    Leonard Everett Fisher

  • Coming Attractions

    Fannie Flagg

    Beginning in 1952, Daisy Fay Harper's journal chronicles the young girl's growth from a lonely and insecure eleven-year-old to the self-assured, flamboyant winner of the Miss Mississippi contest six years later...

  • We'll Have a Friend for Lunch

    Jane Flory

  • Eight Short Novels

    E.D. Flower

  • Masada

    Ernest K. Gann

  • The Cana Diversion

    William Campbell Gault

    He made a stupid mistake and it cost him his life! Joe Puma had been a private investigator for a long time. He should have known better than to meet a stranger on the outskirts of town - especially a stranger with Mafia connections. It was a mistake...

  • Mirror of Darkness

    Caroline Gayet

    Venice was the city of Jan Gibson's dreams But a creeping miasma of decay, an atmosphere of deceit and violence, lay just beneath the shimmering surface of the City of Waters. Jan discovered this the night a stranger tore roughly past her in a dar...

  • The Bonner Boys

    Campbell Geeslin

  • McGarr at the Dublin Horse Show

    Bartholomew Gill

    As the grand pageant of the Dublin Horse Show begins, Chief Inspector of Detectives Peter McGarr, investigating several IRA-related murders, desperately searches for the missing clue that will prevent a horrifying act of terrorism...

  • Can't Catch Me, I'm the Gingerbread Man

    Jamie Gilson

    Not many hockey players enter baking competitions. But Mitch McDandel is no ordinary hockey player. Can Mitch rescue his parents faltering health food store by winning the grand prize in the national Bake-athon with his Health Nutty Gingerbread? "An ...

  • In Her Garden

    Jon Godden

  • The Everywhere Man

    Victoria Gordon

    The situation was becoming ludicrous! As far as Alix was concerned, Quinn Tennant was obnoxious, arrogant, conceited -- and he had a habit of showing up everywhere! She discovered he was her new boss, her landlord, and even the judge at the com...

  • Madrona Island

    Elizabeth Graham (1)

    Lee had waited a long time for revenge Seven years ago Lee had been a starry-eyed eighteen-year-old who foolishly thought that if she loved and wanted to marry Kelsey Roberts, he must feel the same. That he was already married came as a great s...

  • The Cardinal Sins

    Andrew M. Greeley

    The Cardinal Sins ignited a worldwide sensation when it first appeared nearly thirty years ago. Selling more than three million copies, it launched Andrew M. Greeley's career as one of America's most popular storytellers. Back in print at last, this ...

  • The Great Liquidator

    J.V. Grombach

  • Quantrell's Raiders

    Frank Gruber

    Donny Fletcher, a captain in the United States Army, was facing execution, and he was forced to become a fugitive while trying to prove his innocence. He joined up with Quantrell's gang of bloody bushwhackers, but when Quantrell's campaign into Lawre...

  • Woman Called Scylla

    David Gurr

    American journalist Jane Montigny begins a quest to discover the true fate of her English mother, an undercover agent in World War II who left her mark at Hitler's Berchtesgaden, in Occupied Norway, and at the Ravensbruck death camp...

  • Love, Mary

    Mary Gwynn

  • Antaeus

    Daniel Halpern

  • The Gathering

    Virginia Hamilton

    In the third book of The Justice Cycle by an award-winning author, four youths with special powers battle an evil force known as Mal as they lead the Slakers out of the Dustland and into a high-tech city of domes. Reprint....

  • Mr. Jacobson's War

    Richard Hammer

  • Wayfarers

    Knut Hamsun

    In this Norwegian saga of restlessness, Hamsun presents young Edevart, a headstrong boy ill at ease with books, but fiercely self-determined and eager to escape his poor village of Polden. He becomes a close friend of August, a man-orphan, rootless, ...

  • Heights of Rimring

    Duff Hart-Davis

    In a desperate attempt to rescue an American general and to retrieve a document critical to the future of the West, a secret expedition, headed by a bitter British agent brought out of retirement, struggles through the awesome Himalayas...

  • Sandstone Experience

    Tom Hatfield

  • The Sea Runners

    Ralph Hayes

  • Me and My Mona Lisa Smile

    Sheila Hayes

  • The Tangled Web

    Barbara Hazard

    "O WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE, WHEN FIRST WE PRACTICE TO DECEIVE!" Here is the Duke of Chatham, deeply in love with Lady Winship, but supposedly courting her daughter, Mariel, instead. And here is young Algernon Carleton, deeply infatuated with the...

  • Volcano

    Susan Heller

  • American Baroque

    Lamar Herrin

  • Death Audit

    James A. Howard

    Psycholigist Whit Ely thought life was going splendidly for his patient, Janice Lavery. She certainly had no reason to end her life. But suddenly she was dead, and the verdict was suicide. Ely needed to know where his diagnosis had gone wrong. He tal...

  • Easy Company and the Suicide Boys

    John W. Howard

  • Easy Company and the Medicine Gun

    John W. Howard

  • Easy Company and the Green Arrows

    John W. Howard

  • Aldo Ice Cream

    Johanna Hurwitz

  • The Golden Sky

    Kristin James

    WIN OR LOSE HE WOULD TAKE HER--IN PASSION...OR IN ANGER! Beautiful, successful Alexis Stone had everything a woman could dream of--money, beautiful clothes, a glamorous job in her father's Dallas oil company, handsome men clamoring for her attenti...

  • Heir to Rowanlea

    Sally James

    Young Charlotte's loveliness lay not only in her violet eyes with their incredible lashes, but in her fanciful imagination. For instance, she fancied that she would be the one to help her beloved cousin Harry win the girl of his dreams. But the girl ...

  • Heart's Revenge

    Claudette Jauniere

    Portugal's torrid sun fanned hidden passions. Jocelyn Carmichael was unhappy at her sister-in-law's estate. Her father had sent her there, hoping she'd forget her dream of becoming a musician, but Jocelyn had no intention of giving up her...

  • Murder in Focus

    Robert Julian

    Alec Bradley was on location and on a very tight schedule, photographing lobstermen one day, seascape artists and their painting the next. He hadn't counted on being interrupted cy a murder investigation. He hadn't counted on being the next target ...

  • Peter: The Prince of Apostles

    Paul Karch

  • For This I Went to College?

    Bil Keane

  • Good Behavior

    Molly Keane

    Miss Iris Aroon St. Charles's recollections of her shy, awkward youth among the elegant Irish country gentry early in the century gradually reveal a barbaric strain, a faint but insistent aroma of cruelty, and the ruling delusion of her life...

  • Love's Claimant

    Jillian Kearny

    She pretended to be a long-lost heiress to claim her fortune, but dare she accept the other woman's devoted suitor as well? She had never lied before. But now Elizabeth must abandon her scruples. Orphaned, alone and soon to lose her employment...

  • Two Lucky People

    Tony Kenrick

  • Personal Affair

    Flora Kidd

    It was easy to fool one of the Lindleys Stage glasses and a severe hairdo had tacked Gregory Lindley into thinking that Margret was right for the job of housekeeper-governess. Maybe it was because he never really looked at her. Which was fine. Mar...

  • Criminals

    David Kranes

  • St. Camber

    Katherine Kurtz

  • Ain't I a Wonder and Ain't You a Wonder Too

    Jess Lair

  • Young Pioneers

    Rose Wilder Lane

    A middle grade novel by Rose Wilder Lane, daughter of beloved Little House author Laura Ingalls Wilder! This middle grade novel is an excellent choice for tween readers in grades 7 to 8, especially during homeschooling. It’s a fun way t...

  • I'll See You in My Dreams, at Least

    Mell Lazarus

  • Lycanthia

    Tanith Lee

    Even in today's world there are corners where past evils still cast their terror-haunted shadows. When the young man, Christian, came to his inheritance -- a once grand mansion in just such a remote corner of France, he knew only that there was some ...

  • Mister Big Time

    Elizabeth Levy

  • Spare the Rod

    Elizabeth Levy

  • The Case of the Fired-Up Gang

    Elizabeth Levy

  • Hard Texas Winter

    Preston Lewis

    A Spur Award-winning AuthorIn the aftermath of the Civil War, Morgan Garrett heads west in search of work and a new start. Neither comes easy for a man burdened with a lame arm as a reminder of the lost war. With winter approaching, he finds work - ...

  • I Want a Brother or Sister

    Astrid Lindgren

  • Mirrors

    James Lipton

  • The Amateur

    Robert Littell

    A spy thriller classic from the author of "The Company" Before Robert Littell vaulted onto the bestseller lists with "The Company, The Amateur," which has been long out of print, established him as a contemporary master of the espionage thriller. In...

  • Manifest Destiny

    Barry B. Longyear

    Manifest Destiny—Humankind''s early reach for the stars:<BR <BR “The Jaren, five young backland aliens enlist to do war with the humans. “Enemy Mine, (the story that became the motion picture). “Savage Planet, a ...

  • Fortress

    Gabrielle Lord

    May 8, 19809.15am.A routine day for young Miss Sally Jones, teacher at remote Sunny Flat bush school, suddenly explodes into terrifying violence. Masked gunmen appear at the windows - Father Christmas, Daffy Duck and others, surround and seize the yo...

  • The Trail of Conflict

    Emilie Loring

    A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE In the wedding of the decade, Geraldine Glamorgan's millions were united with Steve Courtlandt's aristocratic name. Both young, handsome, vibrantly alive, they found themselves, "for better or for worse," bound in a glitt...

  • A Book of Cats and Creatures

    Ruth Manning-Sanders

  • Sand Rivers

    Peter Matthiessen

    In late 1979, the writer and naturalist Peter Matthiessen and the wildlife photographer Hugo van Lawick joined a safari into the Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania, one of the largest yet least-known strongholds of wild animals left on earth. S...

  • Gentleman in Paradise

    Harper McBride

    "Stop! Oh, please, stop!" she sobbed. A primitive and strangely beautiful fire licked through her veins, and a painful yearning seared her body. Buffy Vallentine had just won a sensational victory at the Bahamas Invitational Tennis Tournament. But...

  • Pilgrimage

    Drew Mendelson

  • Save the Last Dance for Me

    Judi Miller

    There is a killer in New York City. He's targeting ballerinas. Why? How does he manage to hide himself for nearly a year? He remembered them all vividly. Delicious Lisa had happened by accident. But Elizabeth…she had stopped by for coffee. He left ...

  • Death of a Source

    Richard Moore

    Lies can be dangerous--they can also be deadly! Martha Pease was a glutton for publicity. She would no anything to get her name in the paper--even lie. She lied about corruption in the state's highest courts, about politicians who were "...

  • Maugham P

    Ted Morgan

  • Devil Lover

    Carole Mortimer

    Andreas had every reason to hate her! Regan's father had run off with the wife of Andreas Vatis, and Andreas wasn't the kind of man to take that lightly. He wanted revenge; and now that her father was dead, Regan was the only one who could...

  • Slave Safari

    Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    SLAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME A bevy of Baltimore society debs have been kidnapped, only to mysteriously reappear in the African nation of Busati doing hard labor in an exclusive, government-supported cathouse. It looks as if Busati's top banana, Pr...

  • Doctor of the Isles

    Helen Murray

    On the lovely tropical island of St. Flavia, Dr. Diana Brett had established a successful medical practice. Traveling from island to island on her calls, she met the enigmatic Fenton Leigh. A former doctor himself, his past was shrouded in mystery. D...

  • Bernice Myers' Book of Giggles

    Bernice Myers

  • CAPTAINS PLEASURE

    M. Myers

    THE SPOILS OF WAR...THE SPOILS OF LOVE In the 16th century, Pizarro's Peru was the crossroads of the old world and the new. Civil rebellion and political upheaval rocked the country. And amidst the chaos... CATHERINE--Clever, aristocratic, and heads...

  • Village of the Vampire Cat

    Lensey Namioka

  • A Book of Country Tales

    Walter Needham

  • Bitter Heritage

    Denise Noel

    Heather's heart froze in sickening horror. She and Lionel, her fiance, were caught in bumper-to-bumper traffic. It meant she'd be late for the final fitting of her wedding gown. But when an old blue Volvo tired to squeeze into the line ahead of them,...

  • The Seduction and Other Stories

    Joyce Carol Oates

    "17 stories: An American Adventure, Gifts,Getting and Spending, Splendid Architecture, On the Gulf, The Seduction, Passions and Meditations, 6.27pm, Out of Place, Notes on Contributors, The Imposters, Years of Wonders, The Madwoman, Double Tragedy st...

  • Prosperity Signs

    Lynne Palmer

  • The Loving Slave

    Margaret Pargeter

    When did love turn to vengeful hate? Young Gina hero-worshipped Quentin Hurst, but to him she was just a child, a dirty tomboy who helped in his stables with the horses. His frequent snide remarks had been cruel, but she'd always forgiven him....

  • Jeeves

    C. Northcote Parkinson / Cyril Northcote Parkinson

    Acquiring those traits that render him indispensable to his master, a member of London high society, valet Reginald Jeeves masters the art of silent movement, memorizes "Debrett's British Peerage," and anticipates his employers's every need....

  • Surviving Sisters

    Gail Pass

  • Your Eyelids Are Growing Heavy

    Barbara Paul

    Suffering from amnesia, a young pharmaceutical executive discovers she’s the victim of a hypnotist Megan Phillips wakes up on the fourteenth hole. Her clothes are grass-stained, her back is aching, and the last two days are a total blank. She’s n...

  • The New War

    Don Pendleton

    Rescue or terminate... Bolan's mission: rescue and evacuate the American agent known as Laconia ... or terminate him. Laconia had been tracking a group of Arab terrorists across three continents until he suddenly disappeared in the remote jungl...

  • Money Men

    Gerald Petievich
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