Books Published in April 1983

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — APRIL 1983

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New Books List: 257 titles

  • 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'...

  • Don't Get Taken Every Time

    Remar Sutton

  • Thunder on the Tennessee

    G. Clifton Wisler

  • Never Speak of Love

    Adrienne Martine-Barnes

  • Labyrinth: Pursuit

    Taylor Branch

  • The Penguin Leunig

    Michael Leunig

  • Taking Care of Terrific

    Lois Lowry

    Fourteen-year-old Enid Crowley can't stand her name. When she takes a summer job babysitting young Joshua W. Cameron IV, Enid decides it's time for a change: she calls herself Cynthia, and Joshua becomes Tom Terrific. Every day they're off to Boston'...

  • The Dancing Class

    Helen Oxenbury

  • Eating Out

    Helen Oxenbury

  • The Birthday Party

    Helen Oxenbury

  • The Secret Annie Oakley

    Marcy Heidish

  • 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...

  • The Crazies and Sam

    Judy K. Morris

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Upchuck Summer

    Joel L. Schwartz

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Possession

    Christopher Starks

  • The Trident Hijacking

    Dan Streib

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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'...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Chinese Spur

    Berent Sandberg

  • 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...

  • Mirror Image

    Barbara Bartholomew

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Embrace the Storm

    Lynda Trent

    There was nowhere to hide from their violent passion. "MARRIAGEABLE WOMEN WANTED: DECENT HUSBANDS GUARANTEED" Darcy Mayhew never dreamed that her plight would become so desperate that the advertisement for mail order brides would seem l...

  • 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 Treasure of Wonderwhat

    Bill Starr

  • 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'...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Texas Wildflower

    Tammie Lee

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Same Last Name

    Kathleen Gilles Seidel

    Marriage means more than sharing the same last name April Peters knew that Christopher Ramsey did not love her when they married. But Christopher's genteel Virginian background dictated that a woman about to have your baby became your wife in a hu...

  • The Kidnapped Bride

    Amanda Scott

    A CHARMING YOUNG BEAUTY AND TWO NOTORIOUS NOBLEMEN: ONE WHO BLITHELY STEALS HER LEGACY, THE OTHER HER HEART THE LORDLY ABDUCTION Beautiful young Sarah Lennox-Matthews was shocked to her core when Darcy Ashton, the dissolute Earl of Moreland, i...

  • 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...

  • Rebellious Love

    Maura Seger

    Could he conquer her divided heart? HE STOOD FOR EVERYTHING SHE DESPISED Alluring Verony Langford knew full well her fate. Now that her father was dead and his lands and title granted to the mysterious Curran d'Arcy, only her grace and beau...

  • Gossamer Magic

    Lisa St. John

    When the dashing stranger grabbed Thea Todd off the sunny Viennese street, she thought her life was in peril. Then she looked into his dark eyes, and she feared instead for her heart. Her abductor was famous T.V. producer Wolfgang Eckhert, and he had...

  • Moonlight Persuasion

    Sharon Stone

    Dragu Cosmetics was in trouble, and marketing executive Anne Hopkins had a solution. She was eager to launch the new product in Rome, but dreaded spending time with Justin Bradley, the firm's urbane, womanizing--and altogether too attractive--attorne...

  • Blue Mist of Morning

    Donna Vitek

    WORKING FOR LOVE Anne Fairchild had made it a rule never to get involved with, the boss. So when the president of Manning Consultants asked her to be a live-in companion for his younger sister, she vowed to resist his magnetic charms. But livin...

  • Dangerous Embrace

    Donna Kimel Vitek

    It had been so easy... easy to give in to his hungry kisses, his urgent passion, and her own desperate longing.... But the aftermath had been the most difficult experience of her young life. Kate Austin had fled the past, determined to deny the re...

  • Love Has No Pride

    Charlotte Wisely

    Was he too good to be true? Eve Forsythe's talents as a photographer met their match in male model Roger Halpern's incredible good looks, but it was the warm promise of his smile that stirred her as a woman. Willingly she surrendered to him in an ...

  • The Sunset Gun

    George Bartram

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • Kristen's Passion

    Sylvie F. Sommerfield

    A BURNING SEA OF DESIRE AWAKENED THEIR ENDLESS LOVE! WILD RAPTURE and spine-tingling fear melted into a burning sea of desire the moment Captain Morgan Black took the luscious Kristen in his arms. Slowly his mouth claimed hers in a deep, lingering...

  • 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...

  • Kings Blood Four

    Sheri S. Tepper

    In the lands of the True Game, your lifelong identity will emerge as you play. Prince or Sorcerer, Armiger or Tragamor, Demon or Doyen... Which will it be?...

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Turner's Wife

    Norman Garbo

  • Speak, Angel

    Mary Elsie Robertson

  • Intimate Friends

    Michael Patrick Allen

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • The Trail of the Serpent

    Jan De Hartog

  • 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...

  • Love by Any Other Name

    June Foley

  • 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 journeyâ€"here is the one indispensable A-to-Z guide that brings Tolkien’s universe to life.

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  • Defects of the Heart

    Barbara Gordon

  • 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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Boll Weevil Express

    P.J. Petersen

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • My Horrible Secret

    Stephen Roos

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

    Ivy Ruckman

  • I Saw Him First

    Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

  • Victim of Love

    Dyan Sheldon

    Linda Sutcliffe finds her devotion to her smug husband fraying, discovers his infidelity, throws him out and--vacillating between forgiveness and revenge--moves toward personal change and satisfaction...

  • Local Lads

    Patrick Montague Smith

  • Diary of Good Neighbor

    Jane Somers

  • In Constant Flight

    Elizabeth Tallent

  • Bodies and Souls

    Nancy Thayer

    In this fast, steamy novel by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer, residents of a seemingly picture perfect New England town struggle to hide their shocking secrets . . . until they can no longer. From his position behind the pulpit, Rever...

  • Ararat

    D.M. Thomas

  • Paul's Game

    Mary Towne

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Zion Road

    Simon Harvester

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • Virginia City

    Hank Mitchum

  • Star Frontiers Referee's Screen and Mini-Module

    Tom Moldvay

  • 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 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 ...

  • Miss Fancy

    Etta Revesz

  • 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...

  • 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?...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • The Barbary Coasters

    Lee Davis Willoughby

  • The Whalers

    Lee Davis Willoughby

  • TV 2000

    Isaac Asimov

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Launching of Linda Bell

    William F. Hallstead

  • King of Heaven

    Burt Hirschfeld

  • Easy Company and the Dog Soldiers

    John W. Howard

  • Cimarron and the Border Bandits

    Leo P. Kelley

  • Father Murphy's First Miracle

    Elizabeth Levy

  • Fatkat

    Jerry Marcus

  • 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...

  • The Calling

    Bob Randall

  • Savage Showdown

    Jon Sharpe

    EVERYONE WANTED SKYE FARGO'S HIDE After a beautiful young girl was kidnapped and killed by a coldblooded murderer, Skye Fargo swore a blood oath of vengeance. But the killer's trail led through Sioux Territory -- lair of the most dangerous, dead...

  • Christinas Needs

    Blakely St. James

  • Silence Among the Weapons

    John Arden

  • Cry of the Condor

    Richard Hale Curtis

  • 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...

  • Devil's Virtuosos

    David Downing

  • 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 Shadow of the Ship

    Robert Franson

  • The Ability to Love

    Alan Fromme

  • 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...

  • A Waltz on the Wind

    Ian Kavanaugh

  • Cherish the Dream

    Holly A. Mascott

  • Nicole Down Under

    Michel Morgan

  • No Comment

    Vahan Shirvanian

  • Invisible Green

    John Thomas Sladek

  • Road of Iron

    Gregory St. Germain

  • The Flight of the Eagle

    Olof Sundman

  • Richard A.

    Sol Yurick

  • The Glory Hand

    Paul Boorstin

  • 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,...

  • 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....

  • 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

  • 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 ...

  • Revelation

    W.A. Harbinson

  • Deadly Eyes the Rats

    James Herbert

  • To See My Mother Dance

    Sheila Solomon Klass

  • Retief Diplomat at Arms

    Keith Laumer

  • Passion in the Desert

    Curt Leviant

  • Outlaw Canyon

    Lewis B. Patten
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  • Praise Human Season

    Don Robertson

  • 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...

  • Darkness Weaves

    Karl Edward Wagner

    Kane - indestructible swordsman, invincible sorcerer, immortal wanderer through strange worlds. Efrel, Empress of Pellin, seeks vengeance on the King of Thovnos and chooses Kane as her champion....