Books Published in April 1982

New Books List: 284 titles

  • Footsteps on the Stairs

    C.S. Adler

    Fun loving Dodie is at a creepy beach house to get to know her neat little stepbrother and her cool, perfect stepsister, Anne. Anne is thirteen, like Dodie, but they couldn’t be more different. When both girls hear footsteps on the stairs at night,...

  • The Haunting of Cassie Palmer

    Vivien Alcock

  • Cobalt

    Nathan Aldyne

    In this 1982 gay murder mystery by the author of Vermilion, summer in Provincetown is a nonstop party -- until it stops dead.   Daniel Valentine is a gay bartender and former social worker. Clarisse Lovelace is his straight pal who works in real...

  • The Kestrel

    Lloyd Alexander

    The second book of Lloyd Alexander's Westmark Trilogy explores the darker side of humanity and will leave you questioning everything.

    Theo is traveling Westmark, learning about the country of which he will soon be Prince Consort. He is not sur...

  • Contract for Marriage

    Megan Alexander

    THEY WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO FALL IN LOVE -- BUT PASSION MADE A MOCKERY OF THEIR VOWS I CAN'T DO IT, CHRISTY THOUGHT. I JUST CAN'T. All week long she'd tried to convince herself that she, Christy Steele, Aunt Martha's properly b...

  • The Secret Life of Mr. Weird

    Jeffrey Allen

  • Valley of Lagoons

    Kerry Allyne

    She couldn't let her mother be so foolish Gayna was shocked when her mother announced suddenly that she was remarrying. Hadn't her father's desertion proved that men were not to be trusted? But her arguments fell on deaf ears, and i...

  • A Coast of Trees

    A.R. Ammons

    This collection of shorter poems won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981.

    Of this volume, the noted critic Harold Bloom has written, "A Coast of Trees represents A. R. Ammons at his strongest and most eloquent in the lyric mode. The ...

  • Anno's Britain

    Mitsumasa Anno

  • Regency Rogue

    Helen Ashfield

    The Earl of Dunmorrow is asked by the Prince Regent's secretary to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Sir Christopher Dee, an inquiry complicated by his eccentric father and his love for Lady Davinia Temple...

  • Adam's Daughter

    Faye Ashley

  • The Valley of Horses

    Jean M. Auel

    This unforgettable odyssey into the distant past carries us back to the awesome mysteries of the exotic, primeval world of The Clan of the Cave Bear, and to Ayla, now grown into a beautiful and courageous young woman. Cruelly cast out by the new lead...

  • Waiting for Johnny Miracle

    Alice Bach

    Becky is no longer mistaken for her identical twin, Theo, after her surgery and chemotherapy treatments for cancer, and her triumphant struggles against an entirely new set of circumstances separate them still further...

  • The King's Fool

    Margaret Campbell Barnes

    A Remarkably Intimate Tale of the Intrigue, Ruthlessness, and Majesty of Henry VIII's Court When country lad Will Somers lands himself the plum position of jester to the mercurial King Henry VIII, he has no idea that he's just been handed ...

  • Rich Dreams

    Ben Barzman

  • Bitter Victory

    Patti Beckman

    SHE COULD NEVER FORGET HIM She was Veronica McDonald, public relations consultant. He was her first--and only--client: Slade Huntington, senatorial candidate and the husband she'd left two years before. But the passion that had once flamed through...

  • The Faraway Lurs

    Harry Behn

  • A Question of Trust

    Dorothy Ann Bernard

    Love me, love my dog? No -- that was all wrong! As owner of her own boarding kennels in the Florida panhandle, fiery-haired, hot-tempered Irene Malone despised Matt Davis. But his pit bull terrier Rocky, was another matter. She had gone so far as to ...

  • Story for a Black Night

    Clayton Bess

    One dark night, an African father tells the story of another black night long ago when he, Momo, was a small boy -- when he lay awake in his house in the bush, with his mother and grandmother and baby sister -- when there came a knock on the door and...

  • Under Heaven's Bridge

    Michael Bishop

    A multinational expedition has landed on the planet Onogoro, a cold and dour world circling one star of a binary pair. Their objective is to investigate a strange alien race, known to the human visitors as the Kybers. These aliens, dwelling in a gre...

  • Forever Rainbows

    Cynthia Blair

    A FOREVER RAINBOW IS HARD TO FND. Diana has it all. Everyone says so. A Harvard M.B.A., a successful career, and the perfect commuter love affair. Then it all falls apart. On the rebound, Diana meets Malcolm, an associate at the Arrowsmith Grou...

  • Lillelord

    Johan Borgen

    In Lillelord, Norway’s contemporary master Johan Borgen (1902-79) demonstrates his belief that our lives tend toward schizophrenia. Wilfred Sagen at fourteen is still a perfectly turned out, impeccably behaved "Little Lord Fauntleroy" to his fam...

  • Palmerston: The Early Years 1784-1841

    Kenneth Bourne

  • Sword of Chaos

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Darkover, the planet of the Bloody Sun, is one of the great triumphs of the imagination. Its peoples, its sciences, human and non-human, have been brought to life and its legendry has the ring of authentic folklore comparable only to the depth and co...

  • Her Home

    Victor Briggs

    Guiding women through every aspect of buying property, Rejnis reviews the various types of available housing, the property rights of cohabitants, and the best housing choices for widows and divorced women...

  • The Onyx

    Jacqueline Briskin

    New York Times"bestselling author Jacqueline Briskin delivers a richly romantic, epic novel about the founding of the automobile industry, spanning two continents and five turbulent decades of American history In 1894, while penniless nineteen-year...

  • Renegade Player

    Dixie Browning

    SHE WAS DETERMINED TO PUT THE PAST BEHIND HER. Her engagement was over, and gorgeous realtor Wilhelmina Silverthorne was determined to live her life her way. She'd stick to the things she knew and trusted - fast cars and haute cuisine - and steer ...

  • School for Slaughter

    Peter Buck

  • Daniel's Duck

    Clyde Robert Bulla

    Daniel is hurt when others laugh at his wood carving, until he learns that giving people pleasure takes a very special gift. ‘Good, warm feelings result from reading this gentle tale set in rural Tennessee during pioneer days.' 'CS. ‘A lovely boo...

  • Math for Smarty Pants Or Who Says Mathematicians Have Little Pig Eyes

    Marilyn Burns

    Built on the theme that the methods of mathematics are simply devices for solving problems, this book covers a variety of mathematical thought, including geometry, probability, computer technology, graphs, functions, and calculator puzzles...

  • Personhood

    Leo Buscaglia

  • Amethyst Summer

    Claire Cameron

  • Lord Margrave's Deception

    Diana Campbell

    "WITH THIS LIE I DO THEE WED" Every young lady dreams of being proposed to by a lord -- by Lord Margrave's proposal left lovely Miranda Russell frozen with shock, before she realized that poverty left her with no choice but to say yes....

  • Silent Dreams

    Drusilla Campbell

    A novel of rage and passion, of incredible hope and shattering despair - in the landscape of a changing America. Ths is the epic story of Suzannah Hopewell - passionate, willful and beautiful - the proud daughter of an enormously rich mill owner. M...

  • Mayan Moon

    Eleni Carr

    HE WAS AN ENIGMA SHE COULD NOT DECIPHER -- And a man she could not resist. Beneath the silver Mexican moon, beside the sacred Well of Souls, Antonio Ferrara, a man of fierce Mayan pride, took Rhea Glenn on a journey of passion that encompassed th...

  • Sleep Out

    Carol Carrick

  • This Triumphant Fire

    Anne Carsley

  • This Dark Enchantment

    Rosalind Carson

    SUSPICIONS PLAGUED HER WEARY, ACHING HEART A fantastic job offer lured Karin into the enchantment of Quebec, a city long known for its exciting but dangerous traditions of conflict and romance. Right now she didn't need either! Karin's...

  • The Hunter

    Nick Carter

  • The Saint Goes on

    Leslie Charteris

    "

    Simon Templar is the Saint—daring, dazzling, and just a little disreputable. On the side of the law, but standing outside it, he dispenses his own brand of justice one criminal at a time.

    In these three classic stories, the Saint inves...

  • The Misfortunes of Mr. Teal

    Leslie Charteris

    A novelette of three stories about 'The Saint' Simon Templar, in the final battle of wits between Simon and Rayt Marius. the Saint fights a life-and-death fight with ungodly evildoers on one hand, and tweaks the nose of poor Inspector Teal, unusual a...

  • Nightscape

    Thomas Chastain

  • A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich

    Alice Childress

    Benjie can stop using heroin anytime he wants to. He just doesn''t want to yet. Why would he want to give up something that makes him feel so good, so relaxed, so tuned-out? As Benjie sees it, there''s nothing much to tune in for. School is a waste o...

  • Royal Wedding

    Mary Christopher

    HER WILDEST DREAMS WERE COMING TRUE... She was in London... Julie Elliott, in London assigned to cover the Royal Wedding, the most dazzling event of the decade! Julie was thrilled. But Nick Tregarron found it all absurd. Even as the handsome photo...

  • Horse and the Bad Morning

    Ted Clymer; Miska Miles

  • Angel Face

    Stanley Cohen

  • Cactus Rose

    Zandra Colt

    Disillusioned, sassy Stacia Marshall couldn't deny the attractions of Paul Curtis, but she couldn't stand him either. And the cynical, sharp-tongued millionaire couldn't tolerate her--the reporter assigned to cover his society wedding. A plane cra...

  • So Little Time

    Sharon M. Combes

    Darcey, I write this because I’ve just come from the doctor. He told me it would be very soon and these are things I must say to you. I know the last five months have been hard on you, knowing that I was going to die. Those months in the hospital ...

  • Mishmash and the Big Fat Problem

    Molly Cone

    "Here"s Mishmash again! This time, our favorite mutt is somewhat overweight and rather lazy. But fear not, he solves his problem by joining a school marathon. A rib-tickler." -- An American Bookseller"s Pick of the Lists "Once again the easy style, ...

  • Soon to Be Immortal

    Ellen Conley

  • St. Augustine's Pigeon: The Selected Stories of Evan S. Connell

    Evan S. Connell

  • The Swordbearer

    Glen Cook

    HIS WAS A POWER TOO DANGEROUS TO KEEP! On the day his town was laid to waste, Gathrid, a newly made orphan, escaped into a cave, and there was wedded to a woman, a legend, and a sword. Forged on the anvil of death, imbued with the souls of his ...

  • Mystery Madness

    Otto Coontz

  • The Stars Cry Love

    Lynna Cooper

    GUARDIAN OF LOVE The bullet that shattered her windshield marked the beginning of a new life for lovely Clea Bennett. Rescued from her ruined car by handsome astronomer Conal Shannon, Clea suddenly found herself in the hands of a very determined g...

  • The Abode of Life

    Lee Correy

    ON THE PLANET MERCAN THERE ARE NO STARS, NO MOON, NO OUTER SPACE .. . The citizens of Mercan cannot conceive of worlds beyond their own. Their sun, Mercaniad, is prone to deadly, radioactive flare-ups, and the Mercans have organized their life aro...

  • Ross's Girl

    Jane Corrie

    Ross was more like a brother than a fiance And Vicky suddenly rebelled against the idea of marrying him. It had all been arranged long ago between their families, to amalgamate the two large cattle stations. Neither had been consulted, and Ross...

  • A Dictionary of World Mythology

    Arthur Cotterell

    The powerful gods of Greece, Rome, and Scandinavia, the more mystical deities of Buddhist and Hindu India, and the stern spirits of the African and American continents all reflect very different civilizations, yet they also demonstrate the unity o...

  • Outward Bound

    Juanita Coulson

  • Love in Waiting

    Caroline Courtney

    Sir Michael Monford had seen her before... when he rescued her from the drunken embrace of a customer at the Crown tavern and when she had sold him fragrances at the shop called Maison Castle. Would he recognize her now in her new finery when she ...

  • Death in a Tenured Position

    Amanda Cross

    It's only because Janet Mandelbaum is no feminist that the stuffy old boys of Harvard agree to make her the first woman professor in the English department. But they're not happy about it. At a sedate and proper afternoon tea, someone slips a m...

  • The James Joyce Murders

    Amanda Cross

    "If by some cruel oversight you haven't discovered Amanda Cross, you have an uncommon pleasure in store for you."
    THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
    Kate Fansler is vacationing in the sweet and harmless Berkshires, sorting through the letters of H...

  • Cinderella Season

    Elaine Daniel

    THREE ENCHANTED WISHES All her life Jenny Rowland had imagined summer in the glorious Cotswolds. And now she was here, sketching, wandering the countryside that poets had immortalized, and working--guiding visitors through the priceless art collec...

  • French Jade

    Rebecca Danton

    When shy Minna Redmond overheard the dashing Oliver Seymour call her plain and dowdy, she vowed to make him pay for that remark. She would make him fall in love with her and beg on his knees for her love.... Which is why she decided to masquerade...

  • The Thursday Woman

    Muriel Davidson

    When pure chance puts Martha Sullivan in a courtroom with accused wife-murderer Everett Madison, her obsession with the accused murderer leads her away from rationality and the advice of family and friends and toward a moment of ultimate darkness...

  • Gates of the Sun

    Lucinda Day

    TORN BY JEALOUS LOVE Swept from poverty to life in a sumptuous Italian villa, young Diane Gray was dazzled by her new job as governess to the motherless daughter of famed film director, Count David Leonardi. But her idyllic dreams of winning his a...

  • The Queen of Zamba

    L. Sprague de Camp

    Meet Victor Hasselborg, easily the most miserable Private Investigator in the entire galaxy. More comfortable with the dull routine of investigating insurance frauds than interstellar adventure, Hasselborg is bound by duty to chase a runaway heire...

  • Fighter

    Len Deighton

  • Two Blocks Down

    Jina Delton

  • Only Jody

    Judy Delton

  • Thin Line

    Roy Doliner

    What -- and who -- made Jack Sullivan: that oddest of preparatory academies, the United States Central Intelligence Agency, and its graduates, the people who inhabit the ambiguous world of spies, deceit, and illusion. In early 1963, when the CIA with...

  • An Old Passion

    Robyn Donald

    A dream of love -- lost and betrayed Merrin Sinclair had vowed she would shed no more tears for Blase Stanhope or for the life they might have had together. Six years ago his distrust had driven her into an empty marriage on the rebound that ha...

  • The Rapist

    Daniel Dorbes

    EVERY MAN IS A SUSPECT While the village slumbers, a restless man lurks in the shadows. He jingles his keys... keys to the houses where women sleep alone. Shame keeps his victims silent. A wig, a mask, a pair of gloves, keep his identity secret. A...

  • The Valley of the Ponies

    Jean Slaughter Doty

    The Valley of the Ponies is Jean Slaughter Doty's story a girl's efforts to save a herd of innocent animals—illustrated by Dorothy Haskell Chhuy.Jennifer and Melissa—a pony which she has borrowed for the summer—attempt to save a herd...

  • Fun to Go: A Take-along Activity Book

    Roy Doty

  • The Uncertain Heart

    Sheila Douglas

    But she loved the man -- not the image Nursing a Grand Prix racing driver was really no different from nursing other private patients -- except when the driver was devastatingly handsome and the nurse was tender-hearted. But Linda knew her love...

  • My Lady's Deception

    Barbara Doyle

    What started as a lark soon became a dangerous deception as spirited Val Ainsworth stepped into her look-alike cousin's shoes. Posing as the famous Drury Lane actress Moira Blanford, Val met and entertained Sir Charles Stockton in elegance. Bu...

  • Ships Aflame

    Rebecca Drury

    The American Revolution at sea was found from the decks of history's most beautiful ships. And the men and women who took them into battle challeneged overwhelming odds and brutal conditions as they forged a nation and a navy. SHIPS AFLAME is the sto...

  • The Queen's Messenger

    W.R. Duncan

  • The Winners

    Dominick Dunne

    When Mona Berg's boss, Hollywood super-agent Warren Ambrose, suffers a stroke under extremely compromising circumstances, she takes over his agency to promote the career of sexy young Frankie Bozzaci and makes him a star...

  • Next of Kin

    Mignon G. Eberhart

    Death of a Senator He was Stuart Channing and he had everything to live for. A former senator, up for a big Cabinet appointment, he had power, influence, and a very beautiful wife. His death behind the locked door of his study mystified the public, t...

  • An Important Family

    Dorothy Eden

    The best-selling author of The American Heiress, The Millionaire's Daughter, and The Vines of Yarrabee returns to her own roots -- amidst the barren beauty of the New Zealand mountains -- for this masterful story of an aristocratic family pioneering ...

  • The Devil's Finger

    Robert Emmett

    Someone was blasting America's key spy satellites apart - and it was Mike McVeigh's job to find out who. Someone had devised a weapon that could hunt and kill at a range of 22,000 miles - and Mike had to find out what it was. Someone had built a hidd...

  • Longarm in Yuma

    Tabor Evans

    BURNING HELL IN A YUMA PRISON... Getting arrested and disgraced was just another assignment for Longarm -- a way to get into the federal pen in Yuma. There he had to make friends with an old-timer who once stole and secretly buried an army payrol...

  • The Refugee Summer

    Edward Fenton

  • Fortunes

    James B. Ferguson

  • Katie's Terror

    David E. Fisher

  • Wretched Robert

    Lois I. Fisher

  • It's No Crush, I'm in Love!

    June Foley

  • The Man from St. Petersburg

    Ken Follett

    In 1914, Germany arms for war and the allies are preparing their defences. Both sides need Russia. The Earl of Walden and Winston Churchill plan a secret Russian alliance, but a man steals into England, intent on leaving his mark on history. Fate cat...

  • Quest for the Faradawn

    Richard Ford

    Brought up by Brock the badger after being abandoned by his human parents, Nab undertakes the quest for the Faradawn, the three magical grains guarded by the Elflords of the Mountains, Forests, and Seas....

  • Jason Mcgee

    Robert H. Fowler

  • Say Please

    Dorothy Brenner Francis / Dorothy Francis

    Cleaning the science room aquarium seemed like a funny way to get to know a boy, and anyway, Pam was too shy to take advantage of the situation. When Steve dropped off a newspaper clipping the next day, Pam hoped that he was expressing at least a cas...

  • Garden of Silvery Delights

    Sharon Francis

    Ivan Akira, a striking Eurasian industrialist, had all the arrogance of his samurai ancestors -- and his own disdain for working women. He infuriates Rea Harley. She needs his sponsorship to rebuild the career her ex-husband destroyed... but in a ...

  • Friends and Lovers

    Jennie Gallant

    THEIR MEETINGS HAD BECOME PITCHED BATTLES. Wendy's brother-in-law, Lord Menrod, was an arrogant, high-handed, albeit dashing, tyrant who was no more fit to be the guardian of children than a dancing bear. So Wendy thought. The children in question...

  • The Searching Hearts

    Dorothy Garlock

    SHE FOUND ADVENTURE ON THE WINDSWEPT PRAIRIES -- AND A THRILLING, BOUNDLESS LOVE! Lovely, copper-tressed Tucker Houston, was a fiercely independent orphan, determined to become a schoolteacher and find a better life, in the rich new lands of the W...

  • Nevsky's Return

    Dimitri Gat

  • Benji Takes a Dive at Marineland

    Rita Golden Gelman

  • Wagons East

    George G. Gilman

  • The Prisoner

    George G. Gilman

  • The Sun's Asleep Behind the Hill

    Mirra Ginsburg

  • Class Dismissed!

    Mel Glenn

  • A New Dawn

    Ellen Goforth

    HER JOB WAS CHALLENGING. When Cara Logan joined The House of La Deaux--her aunt Estelle's decorating firm--she was determined to make a career for herself, and not get trapped into domesticity as her mother had been. But that was before she ha...

  • Edwardian Entertainments

    John S. Goodall

  • A Modest Harmony

    Sheila Gordon

  • The Montmartre Murders

    Richard Grayson

    A painter has vanished: normally an event of no importance, but Théo is the heir to a fortune, and so Inspector Gautier of the Sûreté is put on the case. Then a shady art dealer is murdered. A dealer who had acquired three paintings under dubious ...

  • The Jasmine Veil

    Gimone Hall

    INDIA: a land of teeming millions under the power of a handful of British officials, and about to explode into savage violence. INDIA: a world of strange contrasts, fabulous wealth, and utter degradation, where the stench of squalor is intermingled ...

  • The Time of the Dark

    Barbara Hambly

    Spawn Of Darkness Night after night, Gil found herself dreaming of an impossible city where alien horrors swarmed from underground lairs of darkness to destroy mankind and all the works of men. But when the wizard Ingold Inglorion crossed the Void...

  • A Woman's Place

    Lucy Hamilton

    No matter how much she might have wanted to deny it, Anna Stone was a woman -- with a woman's fears, a woman's needs. In Lew Coleman's compelling gaze she saw the answer to all the dreams she had never dared to dream, and when his lips...

  • Fair Game

    Gerald Hammond

  • Stardust

    Anne Hampson

    COULD FAIRY TALES COME TRUE? When her adoptive parents died, Jody Hendrick felt that her life was over, for they had left her almost nothing with which to make her way. When she found out that a distant relative had left her half of a luxury h...

  • Creek Rifles

    Peter Hansen

  • Monday's Child

    Mollie Hardwick

  • The Cursed Heiress

    June Harris

  • Eden Rising

    Marilyn Harris

    SHE IS THE ESSENCE OF GOODNESS. HE IS POSSESSED BY EVIL. AND THEY COME TOGETHER IN THE MOST ASTONISHING CHAPTER YET IN MARILYN HARRIS' EXPLOSIVE EDEN SAGA After driving most of his loved ones away from Eden Castlc with his cruel manipulations. the o...

  • Crescendo

    Melinda Harris

    Carlo Benoni wasn't exactly handsome. He was magnificent! Alexis Dimitroff could hardly believe her good fortune. Her ex-husband had claimed she couldn't even survive on her own, and here she was arranging a tour for this devastating man, a world-fam...

  • Honor Bound

    Richard Harris

  • Angel

    Samantha Harte

    Left alone after her mother's death, 14-year-old Angel has nowhere to turn but to her mother's lover, a gruff-spoken mountain man. Angel's story, told in her own words, is the bawdy, rambunctious, and passionate tale of a dancehall girl, who comes we...

  • Small Masterpiece

    Tim Heald

  • The Sure Salvation

    John Hearne

    A gripping chronicle of a slave revolt aboard a nineteenth-century slave ship becalmed in the South Atlantic evokes a powerful confrontation between good and evil in a vividly and dramatically realized tale...

  • Ellis Island and Other Stories

    Mark Helprin

    This award-winning short story collection by the acclaimed author of Winter’s Tale “ascends to the peak of literary achievement” (The Boston Globe).Winner of the Prix de Rome and the National Jewish Book Award, these eleven stories demonstrate ...

  • The Midnight Hangman

    Morgan Hill

  • Let's Go

    Bill Hoest

  • White Horses

    Alice Hoffman

    [Read by Rebecca Mitchell]Alice Hoffman, the bestselling author of such beloved novels as Practical Magic and Seventh Heaven, has written a powerful story of love that show's why she has been called a ''born storyteller'' (Entertainment Weekly).Wh...

  • The Hedgehog Feast

    Edith Holden

  • Fallen Angels

    Ursula Holden

  • Follow Your Dream

    Marjorie Holmes

  • Senior Trip

    Marjorie Holmes

    “Our treasurer reports that we have exactly one dollar and fifteen cents in the treasury. Despite this dismal fact, we voted unanimously to undertake a trip of eleven hundred miles to Washington, D.C., next spring.” What a wonderful, crazy id...

  • Big Girls

    Nancy Holmes

  • Love Captive

    Jacqueline Hope

    RUNAWAY HEART Anne had gone to Morocco to help her brother and his bride-to-be elope. But she never anticipated being abducted herself--by the very man the runaway lovers were trying to elude. Carlos had made the situation all too clear: Either...

  • Gaggle of Gardens and How They Grew

    Janet Horowitz

  • Dear Mamma Please Do

    Marilee Hortin

  • Buller's Dreadnought

    Richard Alexander Hough

    After witnessing the defeat of the Russian fleet at Tsushima, Buller and Maclewin become involved in a campaign to deceive the Germans concerning the armament capacities of the British Dreadnought cruisers...

  • Paradise

    David Houston

  • Seeking the Mythical Future

    Trevor Hoyle

    An acclaimed scientist is chosen to travel through alternate futures to find safe haven - and instead, finds a totalitarian world of dictators and concentration camps . . .Christian Queghan is a Myth Technologist, a highly respected scientist on Eart...

  • The Guardian of Isis

    Monica Hughes

    In 2136 A.D. the settlers on the planet Isis, under the dominance of an absolute ruler, have lost all the technical knowledge of their forefathers and reverted to a primitive society dominated by myths and taboos....

  • Tower of Treason

    Zachary Hughes

    Exciting story set in New York City, 1944. The WWll is nearing its end. Americans are on the Rhine, Russians on the eastern borders, Pres Roosevelt is about to make a major speech in the Grand Ballroom of New York's famous hotel.....BUT....lurking in...

  • Love, Dad

    Evan Hunter

    A young woman leaves home during the turbulent early '70s seeking freedom and self-expression yet, on her return, she cannot accept her father's pursuit of self-fulfillment through his divorce and remarriage...

  • A Girl Called Boy

    Belinda Hurmence

    "You act like you're proud of them being slaves!" Boy tells her father with disgust when he speaks lovingly of his ancestors. "They deserved to be slaves, the way they let themselves be pushed around and never tried to fight back or anything. I would...

  • The Mottled Lizard

    Elspeth Huxley

  • The St. Petersburg Affair

    Olga Ilyin

  • Ashton's Folly

    Jean Innes

    FLIGHT FROM HEARTACHE When Peter broke their engagement, Joanne's only escape from the heartbreak of rejection was the wild, remote Scottish island of Maigh. There, as secretary to the famous author Gerald Ashton, she tried to erase her shattered ...

  • Dangerous Magic

    Stephanie James

    HER HEART'S KEEPER... Elissa Sheldon fought her way up the corporate ladder -- and into Wade Taggert's arms. Her sultry innocence intrigued him, and he set out on a campaign of seduction that stripped her emotions bare and left her quivering i...

  • Entangled

    Paul Jason

  • So Many Tomorrows

    Nancy John

    SECOND TIME LUCKY Having been mistaken in her first marriage, Shelley Armitage wasn't thinking of love--until Jason Steele found her and taught her the meaning of desire. He urged her to feel again, to trust, to seek the light of passion and fo...

  • Maggie Craig

    Marie Joseph

    At the turn of the century, the North of England was a hard, bleak world. A world where joy and love were the words in someone else's book - where men were resigned and women oppressed. Strong-willed and spirited, rebellious and beautiful, Maggie Cra...

  • The Aquarius Transfer

    Robert Joseph

  • The Eighth Veil

    Ellis Kadison

    This splendid novel, like Quo Vadis and Ben Hur, brings to life the colorful and corrupt world of imperial Rome and the dramatic feelings and events of Judea in the time of Christ. It is also the love story of a Jewish Zealot who becomes a Christian-...

  • Perola

    Phyllis Ann Karr

    HE WAS AN IRRESISTIBLE ENEMY... When young Perola set out to avenge the death of her dear departed sister, she had no idea what to expect. She only knew that no matter what the cost, she would repay the rogue who had deserted her sister and left h...

  • The Death of Ruth

    Elizabeth Kata

    Molly Blake is a woman with a gruesome secret from which she cannot escape. A secret which lies buried beneath her husband's camellias " and the fear of its discovery will drive her to madness.

    John and Molly Blake are a quiet suburb...

  • In the Heat of the Summer

    John Katzenbach

    In John Katzenbach’s debut novel, the brutal murder of a young girl leads Malcolm Anderson, reporter for The Miami Journal, into an obsessive hunt for a ruthless mass murderer in this fast-paced thriller that was adapted into the film The Mean ...

  • We Were Once Beautiful Butterflies

    Maria Kavanagh

  • Eye of the Hurricane

    Sarah Keene

    TWO MIRANDAS There were two sides to Miranda Jeffreys: the practical English miss and the daring dreamer, wild and free. In Jake Delacroix, a man as elusive as the morning mist over the Florida Keys, she found a searing passion that would weld ...

  • My Awful Cousin Norbert

    Beverly Keller

  • Shoeless Joe

    W.P. Kinsella

    The novel that inspired Field of Dreams: “A lyrical, seductive, and altogether winning concoction.” -- The New York Times Book Review  One of Sports Illustrated’s 100 Greatest Sports Books  “If you build it, he will come.” When R...

  • The Queen of the What Ifs

    Norma Klein

  • Last Days of Patton

    Farago Ladislas

    "It would be as hard to give up all thought [of being a soldier] as it would be to stop breathing," wrote George S. Patton in October 1945; "The great tragedy of my life was that I survived the last battle." But Patton would not see the year out: in ...

  • The Storm and the Sword

    Jeanne Lancour

    This saga tells of the men and women who lived in the High Middle Ages - re-creating the loves, the violence, the beliefs and forbidden desires of an extraordinary era of human history. Here are the high and the low, the mighty and the poor - from...

  • Rock

    Bob Larson

  • The Reluctant Dawn

    Juliet Lawrence

    WAS HE TOO GOOD FOR HER? HE SEEMED TO MOVE IN A WORLD APART... Anna Frances swore she didn't care. He had hired her as a nurse-companion to his mother, and that was just what she meant to be -- as cool, capable and efficient as he was icy, arroga...

  • I Can if I Want To

    Arnold Lazarus

    A great deal of unhappinesss is a direct result of our beliefs--the things we tell ourselves over and over again. Twenty five years after its initial publication, I Can If I Want To remains a classic. Its easy-to-read style, and simple-to-apply appro...

  • The Silver Metal Lover

    Tanith Lee

    He seemed utterly natural and perfectly human. He had total coordination and beautiful grace. He was handsome: eyes like two russet stars, eyelashes and hair dark cinnamon. Skin pale silver. He was a robot, and he could do everything a man could d...

  • Travels of the Enu

    Jakov Lind

    Lind, Jakov. Travels to the Enu. New York, St. Martin's, 1982. Octavo. 125 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. First edition of this brief satirical novel, Lind's first novel to be composed in English. ...

  • Outlaw Games

    Vicki Lindner

  • Remembrance of Love

    Cathie Linz

    She could barely resist his soft caress, the scent of his skin, his lips pressing hungrily on hers. She could barely believe she was in his arms again. A year ago, Karyn had been a radiant bride with her whole life ahead of her But within hours th...

  • Snowbound Weekend

    Amii Lorin

    It began innocently enough. A ski weekend in the Adirondacks. But when the blizzard began and the tour bus was forced to stop at a wayside motel for a snowbound weekend, it became something else again. All around her, wide-eyed Jennifer Lengle cou...

  • Tibetan Inroads

    Stephen Lowe

  • The Anointing

    Martha Mabey

  • Pyramid

    David MacAulay

  • Love's Tormented Flame

    Kate MacBride

    SHE WAS AS BEAUTIFUL AS AN ANGEL...AND AS STRONG-WILLED AS THE DEVIL. Page Carver had grown up fast. Left destitute by her father's death, she fled to Chicago to escape her past and carve out a new life in the sprawling, rough city. She might ...

  • Baby Hints Handbook

    Chris Casson Madden

  • Temptation's Triumph

    Joanna Makepeace

    She Betrayed Her Father and Her Faith -- to Love a Royal Rogue AS 17th-CENTURY ENGLAND SUFFERED TURMOIL AND TREACHERY HE CONSUMED HER SOUL WITH A FORBIDDEN LOVE Rachel's lovely, tear-filled dark eyes looked out from beneath the ugly Puritan cap...

  • The Adventures of Johnny Bob

    Ted Mann

  • The Frost Fair

    Elizabeth Mansfield

    It was the worst winter in London's history, and the worst dilemma in Meg's. Fiery Lady Margaret Underwood thoroughly enjoyed being single and the toast of the ton. But Lady Meg also enjoyed being immensely wealthy, and by the terms of the late E...

  • A Question of Law

    Jon Mantague

  • Moon Dragon

    Fran Manushkin

  • Hide and Seek

    Lindsay Maracotta

  • A Stroke of Genius

    Ted Mark

  • Place Your Bets

    Zeke Masters

  • Stormspell

    Anne Mather

    The lush night released undreamed-of passions When a tropical storm battered the tiny Caribbean island of Indigo, Ruth Jason's sheltered life was dramatically changed. Young and vulnerable, having lived virtually alone with her father on the i...

  • Peacock in the Jungle

    Wynne May

    "You're a cheat -- and I don't like cheats!" Hugo was furious with Tirza -- and with good cause. She had deliberately used him and lied to him. Contrary to what Tirza had thought, Hugo was a man of principle and integrity, and his damaged opini...

  • First Blood

    Peter McCurtin

  • Great Cat

    David McPhail

    Because of her size, Great Cat, the biggest cat that ever lived, causes the neighbors to fear for their children's safety. Therefore, Great Cat and Toby move to an island where they rescue a sinking boatload of children....

  • Double Wedding

    Alix Melbourne

    A DARING MASQUERADE... Mariotta Abingdon was growing restless under the restricted life she led in Bath. Miss Abingdon's dress, like her limited social circle, was dictated by her mother, who was a very strict lady. Imagine Mariottas delight wh...

  • Nightstar

    Fern Michaels

    SHE FELT LIKE CINDERELLA AT THE BALL! Whisked from typing pool obscurity to overnight fame as The Nightstar Girl--the ultimate model for Rayven Cosmetics' sensational new perfume--Caren Ainsley felt that at any moment the dream would vanish, that ...

  • The Tenacious Miss Tamerlane

    Kasey Michaels

    A DUKE'S DESPAIR! Tansy Tamerlane was headed for yet another position as governess when her distant cousin Ashley, Duke of Avanoll, invited her to London to act as a sensible chaperone to his flighty sister, Lady Emily. But the captivating...

  • Masquerade of Love

    Alice Morgan

    She had had no choice. In desperation she had bought the blond wig, flown to Las Vegas, and singled out Brad Lucas for a night of unforgettable passion -- then fled, not even waiting for the dawn. How could she know that the memory of his touch wo...

  • Leave of Absence

    Theodore Morrison

  • Angel Death

    Patricia Moyes

    While Henry and Emmy Tibbett are enjoying a sunny Caribbean holiday, events take an ominous turn when a shrewd old lady who has been staying at their hotel tells them of her strange experience with a vanishing boat, then herself disappears mysterious...

  • Design for Enchantment

    Rachel Murray

    LAST IN ELUSIVE LOVE Sarah's aspirations for her one-woman business took wing when she landed a coveted job decorating the interior of an historic manor house. And, though she respected the brilliant young architect in charge of the project, she r...

  • The Book of Five Rings

    Miyamoto Musashi

    The Book of Five Rings is a famous text written by the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi in 1645, concerning Martial Arts, in particular Kenjitsu and the art of Zen. Miyamoto Musashi uses language that is as sharp and decisive as his sword - delivering in u...

  • Kettle of Roses

    Walter Nash

  • The King's Tea

    Trinka Hakes Noble

  • The Fallon Legacy

    Reagan O'Neal

    THE FALLONS They would let nothing stop them - not rebellions, not their enemies, not each other. From Washington to Mexico City - From the Atlantic Ocean to Texas - They were the builders of nations. This was the Fallon Legacy...

  • The Bravados

    Frank O'Rourke

    VENGEANCE TRAIL Convicted killers with nothing to lose, the three prisoners had murdered the jail guard, kidnapped the daughter of the town’s richest merchant, and stolen the finest horses in the territory. But their desperate bid for freedom ha...

  • The Young Dragons

    Bradford J. Olesker

  • Seaview

    Toby Olson

    The action of Toby Olson’s PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel Seaview sweeps eastward, following three men and two women across a wasted American continent to an apocalyptic confrontation on Cape Cod. Melinda hopes to reach the seaside where she was ...

  • Run, Run, as Fast as You Can

    Mary Pope Osborne

  • Kit Carson: Trapper King

    Laura Parker

  • Platinum Logic

    Tony Parsons

  • Save Johanna

    Francine Pascal

    Johanna is a modern woman happy with her life as a writer and her love for her fiance, until her research into the life of a mass murderer pulls her into a disturbing world of cults and sinister attractions...