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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — APRIL 1983

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New Books List: 257 titles

  • Restless Tides

    Kelly Adams

    Kate Flannery hired a stranger to help aboard the Kathryn D and was instantly attracted to his physical strength and endurance -- until she learned he was her most powerful adversary, Jim Carlisle, heir to the Carlisle Refineries. The oil company'...

  • Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Circus Clown

    David A. Adler

    Cam "The Camera" Jansen, her friend Eric, and Aunt Molly are all having a fine time at the circus -- until Cam suspects something sneaky. In a flash, Cam and Eric are on the track, trying to catch some clever pickpockets. The thieves think they're...

  • Funnybones

    Janet Ahlberg

    This is the first book in the "Funnybones" series and introduces the skeletons - a big skeleton, a little skeleton and a dog skeleton. They live in a dark dark cellar of a dark dark house on a dark dark hill and so the word repetition continues throu...

  • Someone Like Jeremy Vaughn

    Bea Alexander

    The world was a stage for Jeremy Vaughn… From the first moment Sharon had met Jeremy she had known he was extraordinary, different from the rest of the crowd, someone who would have the power to confuse her with new ideas, open up new horizons. ...

  • Intimate Friends

    Michael Patrick Allen

  • Death in the Greenhouse

    J.R.L. Anderson / John R.L. Anderson

    Old Mr Quenenden seems not to have an enemy in the world: having retired to a cottage in Berkshire, he leads an idyllic life breeding tropical plants. Which is why it comes as a complete shock when his body is discovered in his greenhouse - murdered....

  • Tzili: The Story of a Life

    Aharon Appelfeld

    The youngest, least-favored member of an Eastern European Jewish family, Tzili is considered an embarrassment by her parents and older siblings. Her schooling has been a failure, she is simple and meek, and she seems more at home with the animals in ...

  • Silence Among the Weapons

    John Arden

  • Ransomed Heart

    Sparky Ascani

    LOVE WASN'T PART OF THE BARGAIN Beautiful, blonde Analisa Avalon just wanted to sell her jewelry to pay her father's gambling debts, but the buyer would settle for no less than the most precious jewel of all...Analisa! The shock of Roan de la Cor...

  • Things Are Seldom What They Seem

    Sandy Asher

    A suave high school drama coach is at the bottom of fourteen-year-old Debbie's withering relationships with her older sister, her best friend, and short, witty Murray, whose friendship had been very special to her....

  • TV 2000

    Isaac Asimov

  • Mirror Image

    Barbara Bartholomew

  • The Sunset Gun

    George Bartram

  • Enchanted Surrender

    Patti Beckman

    Haunted by her past. Sandy Carver worked to build a new life. One with no room for love. Carl Van Helmut saw something in Sandy that cried out to him. That left him longing to make her life -- and his -- complete. When the past came back to tor...

  • The Way of the Wolf: The Gospel in New Images

    Martin Bell

    Intriguing tales, timeless poetry, enchanting songs . . . Beguiling characters like Barrington
    Bunny . . . Joggi, the porcupine . . . Lena, the witch . . . Joshua, the boy who has lost his magic . . . and the great silver wolf -- majestic, ever-pr...

  • Come Jericho

    George J. Bellak

    When Hollywood's most celebrated director arrives to make a film in the primitive interior of southern Mexico, the project is complicated by relations among the people involved, including the director's wife and his mistress...

  • Sweet Passion's Song

    Deborah Benet

    Rock star Tait Jeppeson was handsome, magnetic, as dynamic onstage as off and, to his new personal aide, Sabra Reynolds, as elusive as his haunting melodies. She knew she could easily melt in his arms, but Sabra's rule was never love where love was n...

  • By Passion Bound

    Emma Bennett

    He was obstinate, rude, primitive-and the most dangerously attractive man Megan Jonas had ever met. rom their first explosive encounter rugged farmer Alan McDonald Had peeled away her sophisticated businesswoman's veneer, had penetrated her cool self...

  • A Place on Earth

    Wendell Berry

    Published in 1967, we return to Port William during the Second World War to revisit Jayber Crow, the barber, Uncle Stanley, the gravedigger, Jarrat and Burley, the sharecroppers, and Brother Preston, the preacher, as well as Mat Feltner, his wife Mar...

  • Stardust

    Parris Afton Bonds

    Passion beyond reason, love beyond control... "I'm telling you, Maggie, I won't let you ride roughshod over me as you do other men. If we can't meet as equals then one of us will have to surrender. And it sure as hell won't be ...

  • The Glory Hand

    Paul Boorstin

  • Greyhaven: An Anthology of Fantasy

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    DAW Books paperback original (1983). Includes the stories: "They Come and Go" by Joel Hagen; "Cat Tale" by Vicki Ann Heydron; "Bedtime Story" by Anodea Judith; "Wrong Number" by James Ian Elliot; "The Bardic Revel" essay by Marion Zimmer Bradley; "Fr...

  • Love Changes

    Barbara Bretton

    When first love failed her, it took someone special to prove love changes... It took Stacey Andersen five years to put the pieces of her life back together after her fiance walked out. As a successful businesswoman with part ownership in a small c...

  • A Heritage of Passion

    Elizabeth Bright

    ...She felt suspended in time, steeped in peerless pleasure. She relished the sharp rise of her passion. She was lost in her sudden surge of desire. She heard the sounds of her own moaning as she arched her back. A final, lucid thought came to her. W...

  • The Wish Giver

    Bill Brittain

    "I CAN GIVE YOU WHATEVER YOU ASK FOR ONLY FIFTY CENTS." The people of Coven Tree are no strangers to magic. In fact, the town's very name comes from a gnarled old tree where covens of witches used to gather. Even now, imps and fiends continue to a...

  • Look at Me

    Anita Brookner

    A lonely art historian absorbed in her research seizes the opportunity to share in the joys and pleasures of the lives of a glittering couple, only to find her hopes of companionship and happiness shattered....

  • Arthur's April Fool

    Marc Brown

    Join Arthur and celebrate the holidays with three favorite Arthur Adventures! In Arthur's Valentine, Arthur has a mysterious secret admirer. For Presidents' Day, Arthur delivers his winning essay to the President with a little help from his sister D....

  • Sudden Death

    Rita Mae Brown

    Outrageous, irrepressible and endlessly  entertaining, the bestselling author of Rubyfruit Jungle  and Bingo spins a behind-the-scenes tale of women's  professional tennis that dramtically intertwines  the hear...

  • Tomorrow's Promise

    Sandra Brown

    Would past ghosts destroy the joy of tomorrow's promise? Keely Preston never forgot her husband, even though he was listed as Missing In Action for twelve years, half a world away. Mark was frozen in time for Keely, as the sweet, restrained passio...

  • Jhereg

    Steven Brust

    THE ASSASSIN There are many ways for a young man with quick wits and a quick sword to advance in the world. Vlad Taltos chose the route of the assassin. To his other qualifications he added two things: The first was a smattering of witchcraft-badl...

  • While Passion Sleeps

    Shirlee Busbee

    THE LADY: Beth Ridgeway was a violet-eyed platinum beauty -- the kind of woman who made men burn with desire. Yet her husband Nathan didn't want her... THE ROGUE: Rafael Santana, the darkly handsome and arrogant son of a wealthy Texas family, had ...

  • Bessie

    Lawrence Bush

    At the tender age of twelve, Bessie is exiled to Siberia because of her brothers' anti-czarist activities. At twenty-five, she loses her husband and baby girl to the ravages of civil war in revolutionary Russia. At forty, she faces down Nazi ho...

  • Mash

    William E. Butterworth

    Before the movie, this is the novel that gave life to Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John, Hot Lips Houlihan, Frank Burns, Radar O'Reilly, and the rest of the gang that made the 4077th MASH like no other place in Korea or on earth. The doctors who worked in...

  • It's My Turn

    Eleni Carr

    Deb was devastated when she heard the news... A move from a small town to a big city can certainly change a person's life, especially when you're sixteen and don't like the idea. Soon she found that there was more to it than just changing schools and...

  • Let Passion Soar

    Sherry Carr

    Kacie Daniels' career in computer programming skyrockets--until she challenges rugged Jake Weston, company president. Though she proves her professional ability by streamlining his firm's operations, Jake's attention seems fixed on Kacie's personal q...

  • Run Before the Wind

    Joellyn Carroll

    It was a long time since any man had made her feel like a woman. But Jacob Santini, brash coach of the Cleveland Warriors, threatened to melt Jennifer Arlington's ice castle at their first encounter. Suddenly they were news--the beautiful reporter...

  • Lion's Domain

    Rosemary Carter

    "You're chasing after a crazy dream!" Despite her friend's warning, Nicola knew nothing would stand in the way of her becoming a safari guide in the South African lowveld. And even when the piercing blue eyes of Delayney Tours p...

  • Conflict of Interest

    Jayne Castle

    Beautiful Kali Havelock was all business. As VP of Interaction Automation, Inc., she was determined to outsmart the competition and corner the rights to the most advanced industrial robots...robots invented by the impossibly brilliant, outrageously h...

  • Medusa: A Tiger by the Tail

    Jack L. Chalker

    THE BEGINNING OF THE END GAME The Confederacy's grand scheme seemed to be working. They had substituted the mind of their best operator for the minds of four criminals--every one a top assassin -- and sent one to each of the four Warden worlds to ...

  • Treasure of Love

    Laurel Chandler

    Dynamic, sophisticated Jane Burton had never met a man she couldn't handle -- until Francisco Portalba swept into her life. Handsome, magnetic Francisco was like a swashbuckling hero from a more romantic age. As captain on this voyage in search o...

  • In the Wink of an Eye

    Kelly Cherry

    IN THE WINK OF AN EYE is a modern fable in the form of a novel. Or a romantic satire. Or a social burlesque. Or an ironic fantasy. Or all of the above. Whatever the label, it's a joy to read.  This tale is about a revolution--a small, upstart, n...

  • Summer Dreams

    Barbara P. Conklin

    When they say goodbye to Michael, will Katy and Steven be losing each other too... Katy's summer promises to be the most challenging one of her life. She'll be taking care of Michael, the little blind boy, helping him get over a recent tragedy. It...

  • Sand Trap

    Caroline B. Cooney

    A FATAL MISTAKE Tonight Janney Fraser is turning off the highway to drive home on the winding back roads, her mind filled with thoughts of leaving Holly Oaks, North Carolina…of finding help for Ross, her crippled stepson…of meeting a man to re...

  • Playing for Keeps

    Lori Copeland

    It seemed so long ago that Jessica Cole, swept away on a tidal wave of passion, had married the only man she ever loved. Almost immediately the seventeen-year-old child bride and Jason Rawlings were divorced, victims of family and fate. Now, eight ye...

  • Island Spell

    Dorothy Cork

    SHE COULDN'T RUN FROM LOVE. When Aidan Elliot's wedding plans dissolved into disappointment, she jumped at the chance to escape by accepting a position as secretary to famed author Guy Desailley on his tropical island retreat. It seemed p...

  • An Intimate Deception

    Catherine Coulter

    THE DANGER OF DESIRE From the moment beautiful and innocent Evangeline de Beauchamps entered the household of Richard Clarendon, Duke of Portsmouth, she felt herself falling under the spell of this man who had conquered so many women with his looks...

  • Winds Over Manchuria

    Alla Crone

    Three generations -- they would know the splendors of Imperial Russia, the terror of exile, the Japanese occupation of China, the promise of America, and proof that sometimes a woman must love more than once to find true happiness.  Winds Over M...

  • Running Loose

    Chris Crutcher

    Louie Banks has it made.He's got a starting spot on the football team, good friends, and a smart, beautiful girlfriend who loves him as much as he loves her.Early in the fall, he sees all his ideas of fair play go up in smoke; by spring, what he care...

  • Cry of the Condor

    Richard Hale Curtis

  • The Phoenix and the Mirror

    Avram Davidson

    Inspired by the legends of the Dark Ages, The Phoenix and the Mirror is the story of the mighty Vergil-not quit the Vergil of our history books (the poet who penned The Aeneid), but the Vergil conjured by by the medieval imagination: hero, alchemist,...

  • Sealed With a Kiss

    Wendi Davis

    Leslie was determined to be true to her old boyfriend even when she moved to another state and started in a new school. But foxy Mark Spencer had other plans for her, and it was becoming more difficult every day not to fall in with them. SHE WOULD...

  • The Trail of the Serpent

    Jan De Hartog

  • Between the Lines

    Roberta Dennis

    MIXED MEDIA . . . Monica left the chill of Chicago for the heat of New Orleans and hey old career as a photographer for a new one as a journalist. Her prose could bring her prizes, but 1 greatest prize of all was one that only her heart could e...

  • The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

    Philip K. Dick

    From the acclaimed author of VALIS, the world of an Episcopal bishop is shaken up by death and the discovery of ancient scrolls in Israel. The final book in Philip K. Dick’s VALIS trilogy, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer br...

  • The Alien Way

    Gordon R. Dickson

    One man is mentally linked to an alien who is spearheading an invasion of Earth; a group of soldiers fight to win new space for Earth; and a small group of men fight against a machine that controls all life....

  • Hunter's Orange

    William Dieter

    Three hunters and their wives, friends since high school, journey to southeastern Utah for a special buffalo hunt and encounter tragedy, violence, a testing of values, and a breakup of old friendships...

  • Jessica: Take Two

    Diana Dixon

    As if redoing a scene for one of her films, actress Jessica Steele had a chance to try again with the one man who had mattered in her life: her ex-husband, Grahme Foreman. She was different now, mature, a woman of position, but still afraid to tru...

  • The Guarded Heart

    Robyn Donald

    His was a terrible vengeance Alannah's thoughtlessness when she was sixteen had caused an accident with tragic consequences. Then, three years later, when she'd finally come to terms with the past, she was painfully reminded of her guilt. ...

  • Face the Tiger

    Jane Donnelly

    "Don't underrate yourself," Gavin said But Sophy's lifetime habit was hard to break. After all, if family and friends thought you were a dimwit, what chance did you have? Sophy had arrived at Gavin Tighe's home raging to con...

  • The Best Man

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    What do you do when you discover your husband isn't what he seemed to be? Barbara Collins is a prosecuting attorney for the city of St Paul, Minnesota. At 33, she's been devoted to her work and has never had a serious relationsjip with a ...

  • Flip Side of Yesterday

    Billie Douglass

    LOVE'S FIRES REKINDLED Fate had first united them eleven years before in a brief, explosive encounter. But lightning was about to strike twice as Chloe MacDaniel, now a geological consultant, and Ross Stephenson, real estate developer, found t...

  • Devil's Virtuosos

    David Downing

  • The Silver Fox

    Bonnie Drake

    He was sly. A predator. An opportunist And countless women were only too willing to be his prey.... She had been warned about Sloane Harper the smiling, silver-haired stranger who'd gazed into her eyes for one all-consuming second and sent her hea...

  • Lone Star and the Kansas Wolves

    Wesley Ellis

    AN OLD SUPERSTITION COMES TO LIFE Werewolves in Kansas? The Hungarian immigrants on Starbuck land were convinced that the legendary creatures had followed them to America. But Jessie and Ki smell a rat -- and the cartel that murdered Jessie's fath...

  • Come Winter's End

    Claire Evans

    Carrie Thorne was intrigued by Morgan King's paintings -- and even more fascinated by the artist himself. His turbulent past and reclusive present aroused her journalist's instincts, while his seductive appeal reawakened her long-dormant desi...

  • The Englishman's Daughter

    Peter Evans

    A mischievous, gratuitous intrigue on the part of a defected English official in Moscow places his actress daughter in mortal danger and involves several KGB and MI5 officers, an impoverished British playboy, and a psychopathic Russian film director...

  • Longarm and the Calico Kid

    Tabor Evans

  • Seth and Me and Rebel Make Three

    Jeannette Eyerly

  • Benefits

    Zoe Fairbairns

    It is summer... a heat wave... tense, uneasy days in the city. There are ominous signs of political turbulence in the dying years of the twentieth century. Welfare benefits are under attack, but women are fighting back, using unorthodox weapons. Lynn...

  • The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction

    Edward L. Ferman

    Mass paperback reprint of hardcover original. 15th place, 1983 Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology. Contents: Introduction, essay by Edward L. Ferman; Window, by Bob Leman (nominated, 1981 Nebula Award); The Fire When It Comes, by Parke Godwin (winner...

  • The Tides of Summer

    Sandra Field

    Their love was like the tides... Hitchhiking her way across Canada, Sharon was unexpectedly drawn to Ross Bowen's Nova Scotia farm. And although she was a nurse, working as a hand at Marshwinds provided the perfect escape from her past as well...

  • Goldfinger

    Ian Fleming

    Auric Goldfinger: cruel, clever, frustratingly careful. A cheat at canasta and a crook on a massive scale. The sort of man James Bond hates. So it's fortunate that Bond is the man charged by both the Bank of England and MI5 to discover what this, the...

  • Love by Any Other Name

    June Foley

  • Local Hero

    Bill Forsyth

  • Transformer

    M.A. Foster

    The Morphodite was a genetically constructed genius who had turned the tables on the police state that had created it. Settled down to a man's quiet life, he contemplated a lifetime of doing good in a liberated world...until a vengeance squad wiped o...

  • Waves

    M.A. Foster

  • The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth

    Robert Foster

    For the millions who have already ventured to Middle-earth, and for the countless others who have yet to embark on the journey"here is the one indispensable A-to-Z guide that brings Tolkien’s universe to life.

    EVERY CHARACTER
    From Ad...

  • Banker

    Dick Francis

    Young investment banker Tim Ekaterin suddenly finds himself involved in the cutthroat world of thoroughbred racing--and discovers his unexceptional world of business blown to smithereens. When the multimillion-dollar loan he arranges to finance th...

  • The Shadow of the Ship

    Robert Franson

  • The Ability to Love

    Alan Fromme

  • Turner's Wife

    Norman Garbo

  • For Special Services

    John E. Gardner

    BOND IS BACK -- BETTER THAN EVER! SPECTRE IS BACK, TOO -- James Bond thought he had destroyed SPECTRE years ago. He was wrong. Now he is assigned to smash the most evil force on earth once and for all, with all his usual deadly skills and all his ...

  • The Thousand Mile War

    Brian Garfield

    The 1942 Japanese invasion of two of the Aleutian Islands, the thousand-mile archipelago west of Alaska, represents the only time in modern history that American territory has been occupied by a foreign power. The ensuing fifteen-month campaign, memo...

  • Defects of the Heart

    Barbara Gordon

  • Highland Gathering

    Elizabeth Graham (1)

    Was she only as alluring as her money? Fiona's position as chief executive officer of MacKay International Hotels was immensely satisfying. Her wealth and power drew many suitors, but their unwanted claims of love were pitifully transparent. O...

  • Ask Anybody

    Constance C. Greene

    They're friends to the end and Nell is definitely the living end! Schuyler Sweet is anything but. Ask anybody. Like Betty and Rowena -- they've been pals with Schuyler through more Maine-iac years than you can count. But even Betty and Rowena don't ...

  • The White Wave

    Jocelyn Griffin

    It was unbelievable, too good to be true Jenny had taken the job in London to escape her memories and her grief ...and found herself thrust into a whirlwind courtship with her stunningly handsome boss. Adam was a man who wined and dined some of...

  • Home of the Brave

    Joel Gross

    Follows the course of American history through one Connecticut family, tracing the lives of the descendants of John Collins and Virginia Taylor, who establish a home in the New England wilderness in 1636...

  • Amy Jean

    Lorinda Hagen

    CHILD BRIDE Amy Jean Lewis died in 1955. Through telepathic thought she told her husband that she would return...he should watch for her. Christopher Lewis begins a quest through the minds of psychics and throughout the country in search of the c...

  • Yesterday's Enemy

    William Haggard

    Colonel Charles Russell, lately Head of the Security Executive, returns to action when he learns of the probable nuclear acquisitions of a deposed South American dictator and his aide, who seeks revenge against those who killed his family in Hiroshim...

  • Launching of Linda Bell

    William F. Hallstead

  • The Marriage Bonus

    Carole Halston

    They had been uneasy high school sweethearts: ambitious Charlene, and Burt, from the wrong side of town. But people change. An unhappy stint as someone else's " club wife" had left Charlene longing for real love and a real man. With Burt she found...

  • The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl

    Virginia Hamilton

    One long time ago, Pretty Pearl god child lived high on a mountaintop in Africa with all other gods. Curious about mankind and itching to show off her powers, she came down off the mountain with her brother, know-all best god John de Conquer, and ...

  • Love So Rare

    Anne Hampson

    SHE WAS MARRIED TO A STRANGER.... At last Dawn was on her way to South Africa to claim her half of the estate she had inherited with Ralf Deverell, the arrogant, bronzed Afrikaner she had unwillingly married as part of a legal agreement. When...

  • Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays

    Lorraine Hansberry

    Here are Lorraine Hansberry's last three plays--Les Blancs, The Drinking Gourd, and What Use Are Flowers?--representing the capstone of her achievement. Includes a new preface by Jewell Gresham Nemiroff and a revised introduction by Margaret B. Wilke...

  • Revelation

    W.A. Harbinson

  • Zion Road

    Simon Harvester

  • The Secret Annie Oakley

    Marcy Heidish

  • Deadly Eyes the Rats

    James Herbert

  • The Case of the Slingshot Sniper

    E.W. Hildick

  • King of Heaven

    Burt Hirschfeld

  • Round and Round and Round

    Tana Hoban

  • Dancing in the Dark

    Janet Hobhouse

    Set against the glitter of Manhattan society is "one of the most acute and serious novels on the theme of modern relationships in the last decade...Hobshouse has leapt into a rare class of novelist-as-social historian that was the metier of Jane Aust...

  • The Vengeance of Fortuna West

    Ray Hogan

  • The Mystery of the Laughing Dinosaur

    Laura Lee Hope

    When the Bobbsey Twins set off to visit a famous museum in Washington, D.C., they find themselves on the trail of an intriguing mystery that begins with a laughing dinosaur! They pay little attention to it until Flossie makes a puzzling discovery tha...

  • Easy Company and the Dog Soldiers

    John W. Howard

  • Stormy Paradise

    Joy Howard

    THE STUFF OF WHICH DREAMS ARE MADE... Samantha Hall was thrilled to practice tropical medicine on the lush Micronesian island of Good Providence. It was an exotic fairy-tale world--with Chris Girard, the island's lean, virile benefactor, as the cl...

  • A Lasting Treasure

    Cally Hughes

    Addy wasn't married, but she had a daughter--button-eyed, fairy-like Grendel. Of course, no man would want an unwed mother. But that was just as well, since Addy was finished with men. She'd made her own life and had Grendel, whom she treasured above...

  • Fountains of Paradise

    Elizabeth Hunter (1)

    SHE WOULD BE RICH AND FAMOUS! When Michal Brent, a talented young jewelry designer, was offered a free trip to Sri Lanka, she could not believe her good fortune. Now she could buy unusual and beautiful stones, which she would set herself and sell ...

  • Desert Flower

    Dana James

    "You? My new assistant? What sort of joke is this?" To Dr. Elyn Scott, it was no joke at all -- it was a cruel twist of fate. She had applied to the Khalifa Clinic in Egypt partly because of her ex-fiance's accusation that ambition had...

  • To Tame the Hunter

    Stephanie James

    LADY-KILLER ON THE PROWL Selena Caldwell tried to escape to a Utah resort, but York Sutherland followed, like a jaguar stalking its prey He would have her and his revenge on the man she'd left, the competitor he promised to destroy by taking a...

  • London Frolic

    Josephine Janes

    Diana Fletcher will do anything to save her family's estate from the despicable Lord Coventry. Even accept money from Lord Aubrey Brampton, a dashing stranger. Even follow Lord Brampton through the Great Fog to London to be a companion to his ecc...

  • The Courts of Illusion

    Rosemary Hawley Jarman

    Mais father (a Richard supporter), living with his imperious mother, hard-working brother, and beloved sister in near-poverty. And, in the three-act tragedy that follows, Nicholas will eventually become the most trusted follower of ""Richard ...

  • Perfect, the Pig

    Susan Jeschke

    1980 edition- Feels like an unread copy. Clean copy, no rips, tears, stray marks or writing in the book. Normal shelf and edge wear from handling. Light foxing (tanning) to pages. Satisfaction guaranteed!...

  • Glory in the Flower

    Norma Johnston

    Fourteen-year-old Tish continues her diary recording the trials and tribulations of the six months between January and June in 1901....

  • A Sudden Engagement

    Penny Jordan

    Had he been cruel only to be kind? Kirsty's promising stage career had nearly been destroyed by a scathing review written by Britain's foremost drama critic, Drew Chalmers. So when Kirsty saw a chance to avenge herself, she took it, unmind...

  • Conan the Unconquered

    Robert Jordan
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The mightiest barbarian, intent on delivering stolen gems, must rescue a beautiful, trusting noblewoman in peril of her outwit bloodthirsty assassins sworn to belief in nothingness; and confront at last the degrading evil and incredible power of the ...

  • The Listening Silence

    Marie Joseph

    A romantic wartime saga which tells of love and loss, divided families and shifting loyalties. On a bombing mission over Germany, David Turner's thoughts are with Sally Barnes in Liverpool. Deaf since childhood, Sally is young and vulnerable and D...

  • A Questing Heart

    Deborah Joyce

    SHE WANTED MORE THAN A PASSING ADVENTURE Beryl had no intention of joining the Everest expedition when, in place of her ailing brother Brad, she flew to Nepal with supplies for his team. Then fate and Rock Rawling's dark magnetism conspired...

  • Passion's Victory

    Jennifer Justin

    Alexandra O'Neill hadn't been her own woman when she first knew Matt Farraday, the one man who had stirred her blood as a woman's blood was meant to be stirred. Matt Farraday . . . Five years had passed since their last meeting, but time hadn't di...

  • Fear Itself

    Stefan Kanfer

    Outraged by America's refusal to stop Hitler's Final Solution and blaming the nation for the death of his family in a Nazi concentration camp, Niccolo Levi sets out to assassinate President Franklin Roosevelt...

  • A Waltz on the Wind

    Ian Kavanaugh

  • Cimarron and the Border Bandits

    Leo P. Kelley

  • Colder Eye

    Hugh Kenner

    An acclaimed critic examines the work and accomplishment of the writers of the Irish Literary Revival--Yeats, Joyce, Synge, Beckett, O'Casey, O'Brien, and others--and the causes, circumstances, and ramifications of that Revival...

  • Stand into Danger

    Alexander Kent

    1774. Aboard the 28-gun Destiny, Bolitho, now a third lieutenant, deals with piracy, conspiracy, and treason in the Caribbean....

  • Voyage of the Mistral

    Madeleine Ker

    Nicolette had tricked Alex St. Cloud She'd never behaved like that before. But it did get her onto his yacht. Crewing for Alex during the stormy voyage back to England, Nicolette realized she hadn't been honest with herself. It wasn'...

  • Dark Seduction

    Flora Kidd

    Was he her salvation or her destruction? Dark, foreign and satanic-looking, Vittorio had appeared abruptly when Marina's life was at its lowest ebb, whisking her away from gloomy London to a Mediterranean paradise. He was like some demon lo...

  • Christine

    Stephen King

    Christine is no lady, but 17-year-old Arnie Cunningham loves her enough to do anything to possess hell. Arnie's best friend Dennis distrusts her at first sight. Arnie's teen-queen girlfriend Leigh fears her the moment she senses her power. Arnie'...

  • Laser Shuttle

    Philip Kirk

  • The Killer Virus

    Philip Kirk

  • To See My Mother Dance

    Sheila Solomon Klass

  • And Both Were Young

    Madeleine L'engle

    In this novel by A Wrinkle in Time author Madeleine L'Engle, Philippa is miserable at an all girls' boarding school in Switzerland . . . until she meets the mysterious Paul.Flip feels miserable when she first arrives at boarding school in Switzerland...

  • With Time and Tenderness

    Tira Lacy

    She didn't want to see him again -- not ever. But evading him required an explanation, and Kathleen Bolton didn't want to reveal that part of her past -- not to anyone. Stephen West -- once heir apparent, now owner of the fabulous West Hotel chai...

  • Love's Golden Spell

    Willa Lambert

    WOULD HER FANTASY LOVER COME BACK TO HER? He was young, standing beneath a blue-gum tree, the sun in his gleaming hair and golden eyes. She was there with him, and it was good to laugh, to touch and kiss in innocence... with Christopher. Janet ...

  • China Song

    Elizabeth Lane

    With the opium wars raging all around her, Kathleen Bellamy waged a war of her own. -- Her spirit was unquenchable. Despite her missionary father and the cruel twist of fate that left her blind, she declared her love for Cheng Lo, loyal servant of ...

  • Retief Diplomat at Arms

    Keith Laumer

  • Texas Wildflower

    Tammie Lee

  • Passion in the Desert

    Curt Leviant

  • Father Murphy's First Miracle

    Elizabeth Levy

  • Shadows Across the Sun

    Albert Anatolevich Likhanov

  • The Old Priory

    Norah Lofts

    COULD LOVE PREVAIL IN A HOUSE THAT BROUGHT EVIL TO THREE GENERATIONS? WHAT DESTINY AWAITED LOVE IN A HOUSE CURSED BY FATE? The Old Priory had stood abandoned, shrouded in whisperings of doom, for as long as the townspeople could remember. Now i...

  • Silver City Shootout

    Jake Logan

  • Touch of Love

    Winifred Madison

    When her mother took on a handsome new boarder, a young medical student, Karen decided that he should be the love of her life. She had to learn for herself that there are many different ways of loving. KAREN HAD ALWAYS WONDERED… What was it l...

  • One Night's Deception

    Katheryn Mallory

    A FORGERY OF LOVE ... When Natasha Barron locked eyes with Marc Duchaine at a chic Manhattan party, she felt a surge of emotion she had never known before. Even when the Frenchman suspiciously disappeared the next morning--with a priceless Matisse...

  • The Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield

    Katherine Mansfield

    Considered one of the greatest short story writers of her generation, Katherine Mansfield was a modernist writer from New Zealand. This collection includes thirty-five of her most popular stories. In this volume you will find the following stories: &...

  • Fatkat

    Jerry Marcus

  • Bawdy House Showdown

    Cort Martin

    BOLT WAS A WANTED MAN... WANTED BY HIS FAMIIY, THE LAW -- AND BY A WHOLE LOT OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN!San Francisco should be big enough and rich enough to support another bawdy house--especially one being run by Jared Bolt. But getting girls to staff it s...

  • Love Song

    Prudence Martin

    His business was music. Cameron Stone was a starmaker--a dealmaker. Persuasion was his forte. He had convinced Julia Hollis to move in with him only hours after they met. They were to be strictly roommates sharing the same beautiful town house, b...

  • Cherish the Dream

    Holly A. Mascott

  • Case of the Chocolate Snatcher and Other Stories

    M. Masters

    Nine short mysteries starring Hawkeye Collins and Amy Adams, two twelve-year-old sleuths who solve mysteries using Hawkeye's sketches of important clues. The reader is invited to solve the mystery before the solution is presented....

  • Cage of Shadows

    Anne Mather

    She thought of him as her father's friend Matthew Wilder had been a brilliant medical researcher who had suddenly disappeared from Joanna's life. Her memory of him was vague. When they finally met again on a remote Florida key, he bore ...

  • Dancer's Luck

    Ann Maxwell

    DAEMEN -- a forgotten place at the very edge of the galaxy, a dying planet where people lived by luck alone. This was the number-one stop for Rheba, the Senyas fire dancer, and Kirtn, her Bre'n mentor, as they sought to fulfill their promise to re...

  • Someone to Love

    Norma Fox Mazer

    Nina always thought that if just one person would love her perfectly and completely, she’d never be alone again Nina’s the first person in her family to leave home and go to college. Maybe that’s why she feels so isolated once she gets there, e...

  • Now and Forever

    Sharon McCaffree

    Independence--would it separate them both now and forever? When Jeannie Rasmussen met Paul Raymond for the first time, she knew that he was something special. But as a highly self-sufficient woman, Jeannie had sheltered herself from relationships ...

  • The War

    Michael McDowell

    Wartime in Perdido jolted the sleepy little Alabama town as new people entered the community. Outsiders would invade the comfort of the wealthy Caskeys and take their daughters. This, though, was part of the master plan of Elinor Caskey, who would...

  • The Dark

    John McGahern

    Set in rural Ireland, John McGahern''s second novel is about adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted by both puritanical state religion and a strange, powerful and ambiguous relationship between son and wi...

  • Sweet Adversity

    Kate Meriwether

    Probation officer Meredith Jennings gave her whole heart to her job . . . until the day that job led her into the chambers of Judge Warren Baxter. Suddenly she saw career demands--hers and his -- in a different light, because they were keeping her...

  • No Place for a Woman

    Suzanne Michelle

    SIREN IN A MAN'S WORLD With her raven hair and violet eyes, Jessica Brooks looked more like a movie star than the Houston Galaxies' newly hired sports psychologist. But she soon discovered that psyching up the basketball team for victory was easy...

  • Close to the Edge

    Gloria D. Miklowitz

    In spite of having all the advantages money can provide, high-school senior Jenny sees little point in life until she volunteers to play the piano for a senior citizens' band and receives the benefit of elderly wisdom....

  • Virginia City

    Hank Mitchum

  • Star Frontiers Referee's Screen and Mini-Module

    Tom Moldvay

  • Escape

    R.A. Montgomery

    THE YEAR IS 2035. YOU ARE IN ENEMY TERRITORY. The United States has been split into three hostile states: Dorado, Rebellium, and Turtalia. You are one of the leaders of the Turtalian spy mission. Your job is to fly the Doradan invasion plans to T...

  • Nicole Down Under

    Michel Morgan

  • The Crazies and Sam

    Judy K. Morris

  • Insights

    Mary Ruth Myers

  • Gryphon in Glory

    Andre Norton

    Intruder in the Waste The Waste was stirring and strange forms of the Dark, long quiet, began to wake as Kerovan--whose cloven hoofs marked his kinship with the Old Ones--journeyed into the Waste on a secret mission, leaving behind the girl he lov...

  • The Fourth Horseman

    Alan E. Nourse

    Wilderness Patrol fficer Pamela Tate, scouting in the mountains of Washington, sees and touches a ground squirrel in the dusty path, blood trickling from its mouth. Forty-eight hours later she lies dead at her campsite, covered in mysterious welts an...

  • The Best of Myles

    Flann O'Brien

  • Cayo

    Saliee O'Brien

    KEY WEST The lush, tropical island simmering in never-ending summer. Home to the Trents, four generations of plantation royalty, consumed by a passion for wealth and power, cherishing their immortal name and their secret sins... ABIGAIL is the ma...

  • The Amethyst Ring

    Scott O'Dell

    Spanish seminarian Julián Escobar, known to the Mayas as Lord Kukulcán and worshipped as a god, witnesses the fall of the Mayan and Incan civilizations with the coming of Cortés and Pizarro....

  • Childhood

    Jona Oberski

    A rediscovered masterpiece: an unblinking view of the Holocaust through a child’s eyes Told from the perspective of a child slowly awakening to the atrocities surrounding him, Childhood is a searing story of the Holocaust that no reader will soon f...

  • No Sweeter Song

    Rachel Palmer

    IT WAS ALREADY TOO LATE TO AVOID THE HURT Paul Cypress thrilled audiences the world over with his velvet baritone voice. Accompanying him on the piano was more exciting than Shannon had ever anticipated. But she could not have foreseen her prim...

  • Outlaw Canyon

    Lewis B. Patten
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  • Night of Possession

    Lilian Peake

    She lost herself in his eyes. The last thing Lisa Maynard wanted on her holiday in the exotic Canary Islands was the company of a handsome stranger, so she kept her distance. Her cool demeanor hid her bitter disappointment in love from even her...

  • Tuscany Terror

    Don Pendleton

    Let the bastards beware! Crazed communist killers had the Italian government and NATO in a stranglehold. The terrorists were, literally, holding trump-- the wife and infant daughter of a high-ranking U.S. Army officer. The bloodthirsty vermin ha...

  • The Immortals

    Natasha Peters

    Born illegitimately to an American mother and a Chinese father, Amalie Berenger has been raised from infancy by Parisians. -- During WWII, she is tricked into giving herself to a Nazi officer in order to protect her adoptive father, not knowing he ...

  • The Boll Weevil Express

    P.J. Petersen

  • The Bogey Man

    George Plimpton

    What happens when a weekend athlete - of average skill at best - joins the professional golf circuit? George Plimpton, who had earlier tried out for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (in Paper Lion) and got a chance to pitch to a team...

  • My Search for Warren Harding

    Robert Plunket

    An exhilarating, brutal, comedic masterpiece -- an American classic that will “leave you so giddy you’ll go and kick sand in somebody’s face” (Houston Post) When My Search for Warren Harding, Robert Plunket’s glittering story of literary sl...

  • Time Stands Still

    Nora Powers

    THEIR LOVE WAS HIDDEN, BURIED-- AND WILD. Libby Collins had two passions: one for discovering oil and one for Jared Harper. Although Jared had stormed out of their youthful marriage, Libby still ached for his embrace and for the kisses that had le...

  • Cleansing War of Garik

    Michael Price

    Pursued by an enraged mob of mutants, you must flee across the frozen Parklands of the Ancients [Yellowstone] to find proof of your innocence. This campaign module contains Gamemaster notes, background information, maps, new creatures, new artifacts,...

  • The Calling

    Bob Randall

  • Informed Consent

    Neil Ravin

    There is a war being fought inside University Hospital -- between passion and reason, honor and ambition, life and death! Lars Magnussen has a thriving law practice, a house on the water, two cars in the garage, a beautiful wife, two nice kids. ...

  • Horses

    Kate Reddick

  • Miss Fancy

    Etta Revesz

  • Her Mother's Keeper

    Nora Roberts

    HER MOTHER NEEDED HER Gwenivere Lacrosse had decided. So she took a vacation from her demanding New York job with prestigious Style Magazine to go home to Louisiana. Gwen was sure that her mother had been duped by the successful and unscrupulous au...

  • Praise Human Season

    Don Robertson

  • Speak, Angel

    Mary Elsie Robertson

  • My Horrible Secret

    Stephen Roos

  • Montana!

    Dana Fuller Ross

    WAGONS WEST Rugged pioneer trails led them across snowy mountain peaks to the grassy plains of big-sky country. Rich mines of fabulous gold lured dreamers and desperados to stake their claims in this lawless territory. There, brave ranchers fought...

  • What's an Average Kid Like Me Doing Way Up Here?

    Ivy Ruckman

  • The Awakening

    John Russo

    Amanda Caulden led a sheltered life on her father's California ranch -- until the day Hank Montgomery stormed into town. A hot-blooded union organizer with a taste for ladies and fine champagne, he sensed the fire that smoldered beneath her prim, vir...

  • Soldier of Fortune

    Barry Sadler

    Casca Longinus. Cursed by Christ on Golgotha. Condemned to outlive the ages, and wander the globe a constant soldier. Forever fighting, surviving, waiting for Him to return. The Cambodian jungle... an easy place to die. Endless miles of vermin-inf...

  • Close the Door Behind You

    Ray Salisbury

    The experiences of four-year-old Simon at the close of World War II, including his uncle's death and his father's return from a Japanese prison camp, are presented completely from Simon's point of view...

  • The Chinese Spur

    Berent Sandberg

  • Love's Sweet Music

    Jean Saunders

    HE PLAYED THE MUSIC OF HER HEART. For Angela Raines, it seemed like a dream come true. As publicist for the renowned but mercurial pianist Paul Blake, she had the opportunity of a lifetime--to accompany him on his Continental tour. She adored Pari...

  • Paradiso

    Antonia Saxon

    Pat Jessup thought she had found her own private paradise in Mexico. Sparkling waters, palm trees and the job of her dreams. . .What more could she ask? Local mayor Santos Ribera showed her the one ingredient that had been missing: passion intense...

  • Worst Enemies

    Jack Scaparro

    New York City is in a turmoil because of a series of bizarre crimes. These killings are too close to home for detective Neil Romano of the NYPD. Could the psychic research and Chinese mysticism be true? What if they are?...