Books Published in April 1986

New Books List: 415 titles

  • Red Message

    Peter Abrahams

    The CIA concludes that the disappearance of math genius Teddy Wu is an obvious defection to Red China, but his lover, Beth Hunter, investigates further and discovers an international political conspiracy of terrifying proportions...

  • Prize Stories 1986: The O. Henry Awards

    William Miller Abrahams

    “Widely regarded as the nation’s most prestigious award for short fiction.” -- The Atlantic Monthly

    The O. Henry Prize Stories 1986 collects 19 of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazin...

  • Hostage of the Heart

    Linda Acaster

    Enemies -- in all but love Rhodri ap Hywel, prince of the Welsh, had crossed the border to reclaim by force those lands stolen from him. Caught up in the bloody conflict and held hostage was the Saxon Lady Dena. When her kinsfolk would not pa...

  • Challenge the Fates

    Jo Ann Algermissen

    A MOTHER'S LOVE... Was Joey her child? Autumn Hayes's heart surged. But her joy at discovering that she might have a healthy seven-year-old son turned to rage as she realized the horrible deceit involved. Had Luke Stafford's mother del...

  • Prisoner of Elderwood

    Bruce Algozin
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

  • The Captivated Countess

    Barbara Allister

    BEFORE AND AFTER When Catherine Durrell first met Dominic Reston, the Earl of Harwich, she was a mere girl. She fell in love with him instantly, helplessly -- and, sad to say, hopelessly. For Dominic saw her only as a child, if he noticed her at all....

  • The Silver Link, the Silken Tie

    Mildred Ames

  • A Different Kind of Man

    Barbara Andrews

    She wore white linen. He wore blue jeans. She was a member of an elite country club, polishing her golf game for the upcoming tournament. He was assistant ground keeper. Yet Tony Dunn was the most devastating man April Quinn had ever set eyes on. It ...

  • Drug Runner

    Patrick Andrews

  • To Fight the Wild

    Rod Ansell

  • Anthonology

    Piers Anthony

  • An Elusive Mistress

    Lindsay Armstrong

    Not that I care! she tried to tell herself At nineteen, Hillary had been a little girl trying to keep up with a husband light years ahead of her. When the marriage ended, she built a wall around the memory of Clive Eastman. Six years later, Hil...

  • Cinderella Wife

    Katherine Arthur

    She'd be crazy to say yes Powerful fashion mogul Davin Sigmundsen's proposal of a marriage of convenience was the most bizarre thing Susanna had ever heard. She knew she'd be convincing in the role of Davin's adoring wife, but w...

  • Dark Harvest

    Brent Ashabranner

  • Armageddon Run

    Richard Austin

    A FLIGHT THROUGH DESOLATION The one-day war left a trail of carnage and mayhem across a crippled America. The Guardians emerged from the ashes--a high-tech four-man team, armed and trained to carry out a top-secret U.S. recovery plan. But the H...

  • Death in Fashion

    Marian Babson

    DECEMO daring and detested--London's hippest young designer SUNNY high cheekbones and ambitions--Decemo's in-house model JAKE well meaning and well connected--her paramour and manager REBA jilted and jealous -- Sunny's competition THE...

  • Bloodsongs

    Robin Wayne Bailey

    Everyone, even Frost, thought that she was an ordinary mother and wife. But she begins a quest to find out who she is after the unforgiving grip of death snatches her husband and two sons from her loving arms. Her identity found, this mother and w...

  • To Africa with Love

    Carroll Baker

  • Fuel Injected Dreams

    Robert Baker

  • Patchwork

    Carolyn Banks

    Rachel is running...running scared. Yesterday she heard that her ex-husband had been found murdered in his home, his strangely mutilated body wrapped in a patchwork quilt. She's certain of only two things: that the killer is their son Drew (recen...

  • Lovebound

    Danielle Barlette

    While in the Swiss Alps, Amanda's desperate desire to impress a world-famous Alpine skier prompts her to take skiing lessons, but when she meets her ski instructor, she all but forgets about her previous interest...

  • Special Delivery

    Monica Barrie

    He had entered Leigh's life as a misty vision, a Good Samaritan who had rescued the young widow, and then coached her through the painful ordeal of childbirth. But once he was certain mother and daughter were going to live, the man Leigh knew only as...

  • A Man of Character

    Barbara Bartholomew

    MYSTERY MAN Running the family farm while Gran recuperated provided enough work to keep Cathleen busy till the cows came home. She VV had no time for romance. Then she gazed into the fathomless blue eyes of one mysterious stranger and time stood s...

  • Abode of Princes

    Jayne Bauling

    Was then no quarrelling with Fate? Before journeying to beautiful Rajasthan in India to meet her fiance's best friend, Jon Steele, Cadence had blithely believed she controlled her destiny. She'd no idea that a vast consuming passion wou...

  • The Berenstain Bears' Knight to Remember

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

  • Seven Mins in Heaven

    Jane Bernstein

  • Puppy Love

    Jeanne Betancourt

    A child of divorced parents, eighth-grader Aviva has to deal with her two families, a new baby brother, grief over her dog's death, a crush on an unattainable boy, and a troubled schoolmate who turns out to be a really good friend and strong support....

  • Ride the Wind

    Beverly Bird

    FIRST LOVE, LAST LOVE . . . At nineteen Kendra had been in love with Sloan Durant, but after one kiss that seared itself into her memory but apparently meant nothing to him, he'd abandoned her, to marry another woman. Kendra had left ranching a...

  • Manhattan Project

    David Bischoff

  • Meet the New Dawn

    Rosanne Bittner

    As railroads etched the earth and fence-stringers carved the range, the Plains Indians fought desperately in their last days of freedom. Each day, the Cheyenne warrior Lone Eagle and his white woman Abigail Trent felt the pain of change - but each ni...

  • World's Greatest Expert on Absolutely Everything . . . Is Crying

    Barbara Bottner

  • Confessions of a Spent Youth

    Vance Bourjaily

    In this masterwork of confessional literature, a man approaching middle age recalls his impetuous youth with fondness, remorse, and astonishment Spanning the years 1939 to 1946, this is the story of a defining era in one man’s life and an exhilarat...

  • Warchild

    Richard Bowes

    In New York, after World War III, Garvin, a boy with telepathic powers, is sold to a Rider, an entity who inhabits other bodies, but breaks free using his powers to become the legendary Warchild, the power that can save the universe...

  • Full Circle

    Alicia Brandon

    Caught in the middle, she had nowhere to turn Annie Barron needed adventure. Signing up as a deckhand on an all-male Alaskan fishing ship was just the thing. She anticipated problems, but nothing she couldn't handle. Until she met Joe Rawlins, ...

  • Deceptions

    Annette Broadrick

    When movie star Lisa Renee married her leading man, Drew Donovan, their lives seemed as perfect as the roles they played. Then Drew and Lisa lost their first child, and Lisa was overcome by a guilt that drove a wedge into their marriage. Even now, a ...

  • Magic Kingdom for Sale--Sold!

    Terry Brooks

    FAIRY LAND -- C.O.D. Landover was a genuine magic kingdom, with fairy folk and wizardry, just as the advertisement had promised. But after he purchased it, Ben Holiday learned that there were a few details the ad had failed to mention. The king...

  • High Hearts

    Rita Mae Brown

    Bright, gutsy and outrageous, Geneva Chatfield is the newly married daughter of the world's most renowned horse-breeder and the best rider in the South. So when Fort Sumter's guns signal the start of the Civil War, Geneva cuts her hair, dons a unifor...

  • The Rana Look

    Sandra Brown

    She had a "look," a style that went beyond beauty, a gift that had made Rana Ramsey a modeling legend. But when she began to feel like a precious object, always sought after but not for herself, she ran -- to a rickety boarding house in a small Texas...

  • Wild Heart

    Virginia Brown

    UNTAMED HEART Stolen away from her family and taken hostage by as group of juaristas, Amanda Cameron feared for her life. But once she met their bandit leader El Leon, she feared for her innocence. She found she could not pry her eyes away from hi...

  • When We Lived with Pete

    Stuart Buchan

  • Fourth Floor

    John Burke

  • Deception So Agreeable

    Mary Butler

    An alliance with the devil Lady Bradamant Mount-Aubin knew the proposal was not offered seriously. London's most notorious rake had many such schemes for seduction, and by all accounts they were always successful. But now Lord Nicholas Devlin ...

  • Butterfly Revolution

    William Butler

    Welcome to High Pines Summer Camp for Boys. There is hiking, swimming, canoeing--and a revolution led by General Frank. He promises change for the better, but little by little, he begins to change, and the revolution turns into a nightmare.......

  • Babylon Gate

    Edward A. Byers

    Developed ostensibly to aid mankind, the orbiting Babylon Gate is transformed into the ultimate weapon by its three power-mad owners, but combat veteran Gil Warren develops a plan to stop their reign of terror...

  • The Messiah Stone

    Martin Caidin

    Doug Slavers plays the mercenary game, and every time he plays he wins: in Africa, Central America, Vietnam--or right here in the USA. Now he's on the biggest hunt of his life: to find and seize a certain object that, incredibly, confers the power of...

  • Riley's Last Hunt

    Frank Calkins

  • Right Behind the Rain

    Elaine Camp

    RALEIGH'S STORY .. . Devastated by the death of her beloved brother, Raleigh Torrence was in no mood for Evan Younger's attentions. Evan was a man who'd seen it all--as a psychologist, he had to be--and he'd decided that the only way to deal wi...

  • Conan the Renegade

    Leonard Carpenter
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

  • Blood Ultimatum

    Nick Carter

  • Hired Husband

    Melanie Catley

    Lillie Laughton thought she held all the strings. She had the face of an innocent. hair like a flaming halo, and she sang like a smoky-voiced angel. Those virtues -- and her grandfather's love -- had taken her straight to the top and made her a s...

  • Prisoner of Love

    Maranda Catlin

    ALIX SMITH Lithe, golden, sensuously feminine, Alix was lonely being the divorced mother of two. But to make it on her own, she had to sacrifice her desires and devote herself to her painting. Spending a summer at the solitary Bar F Ranch seemed the...

  • Not Playing the Game

    Jennifer Chapman

  • The Picnic Basket Mystery

    Jon Chardiet

  • Focus on Love

    Maggi Charles

    FOCUS ON LOVE... Beneath those features was a story the camera could tell. This man had lived. He had suffered. He had conquered the suffering, but it left a shadow the camera could reveal -- and could make fascinating. But while Judith Richard...

  • The Schoolmistress and Other Stories

    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

    FYODOR LUKITCH SYSOEV, the master of the factory school maintained at the expense of the firm of Kulikin, was getting ready for the annual dinner. Every year after the school examination the board of managers gave a dinner at which the inspector of e...

  • The Gates of Hell

    C.J. Cherryh

    Out of the underworld and into your heart! Rumor has it that there is a way out of Hell, through tunnels. Of course the rumors could he disinformation direct from the Father of Lies; all the Heroes of Hell who have assembled for the adventure know th...

  • The Miser of Mayfair

    Marion Chesney

    With Each London Season, and Enchanting Romance Moves into the Fashionable Town House at Number 67 Clarges Street. And there below the Stairs the Staff Has a Special Mission -- to Arrange a Match...to Hatch a Scheme...to Bring Love Home to A HOUSE...

  • To Dream of Love

    Marion Chesney

    MUST ONE SISTER SUFFER IN POVERTY WHILE THE OTHERS LIVE IN THE LAP OF LUXURY? Must one indeed, thought Harriet Clifton. Inviting herself to her widowed sister Cordelia's posh London townhouse for the Season was surely the only way to meet a ma...

  • Feet of a Snake

    Barry Chubin

  • A Hint of Splendor

    Kathy Clark

    It was the chance of a lifetime. Elissa Stewart was one of the first private citizens chosen by NASA for space travel. But Elissa hadn't reckoned on Greg Rogers. Lean and handsome, the commander wanted no part of civilians on board his flight -- ...

  • Queen Victoria's Bomb

    Ronald W. Clark

    A sudden intolerably bright fireball lights up a remote and deserted Indian plateau. Searing heat melts rock into incandescent pools of glowing liquid. The earth heaves. A monstrous thunderclap of sound reverberates over the land. An ominous mushroom...

  • Less Than Human

    Robert Clarke

  • Drinker of Souls

    Jo Clayton

    LIFE-CLAIMERS She was Brann, the Drinker of Souls, from whom all but the very brave and the very foolish fled in fear. Bonded to twin demonic shape-shifters, she roved the land in search of rich life source to feed her demons' need. But Brann too...

  • I Never Wanted to Be Famous

    Eth Clifford

  • Tomorrow & Tomorrow

    Brenda Cole

  • Be Mine, Valentine

    Hilary Cole

    Heiress Melanie Carroway is at her wit's end. The butler drinks. Her aunt conducts seances. And dashing Peter Valentine, a charming burglar who steals only kisses, is trying to seduce her! Is Peter as nutty as Melanie's family -- or the pe...

  • The Kiss

    Jennifer Cole

  • Dreams Gather

    Kathryn Collins

    HE TAUGHT HER THE ART OF LOVING Signing Grant Wellington, the controversial bad boy of the art world, to an exclusive showing at her Toronto gallery was a dream come true for Amanda. If the terms he had in mind for their contract weren't stric...

  • Parents and Children

    Ivy Compton-Burnett

    Eleanor and Fulbert Sullivan live, with their nine children ranging from nursery to university age, in a huge country house belonging to Fulbert''s parents, Sir Jesse and Lady Regan. Sir Jesse sends Fulbert, his only son, on a business mission to ...

  • The Present and Past

    Ivy Compton-Burnett

  • The Patient Has the Floor

    Alistair Cooke

  • More Than Friends

    M.E. Cooper

    Too close for comfort... Chris and Ted are one of the steadiest couples in Rose Hill. He's the star quarterback at Kennedy High; she's just been elected student government president. Everyone knows they belong together. Only Ted is beginning to h...

  • The Dying Trade

    Peter Corris

    Hardy needs work. In fact, he’s the type of detective who never turns down a case. He can afford not to. So when wealthy Bryn Gutteridge, a real estate heir who amuses himself by shooting seagulls, asks Hardy to find out who has been threatening hi...

  • Games

    Vera Cowie

  • On Executive Orders

    Rianna Craig

    The mission was secret, the danger was overt . . . Amanda Perry was the manager of the Tri-Cola bottling plant in Mexico City and therefore no stranger to challenge. But agreeing to assist the U.S. government in a covert operation was quite anothe...

  • Heart's Desire

    Gwyneth Cravens

    Intensely optimistic matriarch Effie Hammond's efforts to cheer on her quietly troubled family--an ill husband, self-absorbed daughter, and drug-addicted son--are counterpointed by her daughter-in-law Judy's realization of the family's growing desper...

  • U-Boat Commander

    Peter Cremer

  • The Lotus Cup

    Jane Louise Curry

  • Midnight Secrets

    Kit Daley

    She was a mystery writer and the creator of a female detective with ESP. But Meredith Ryan had never envisioned Simon Hunter. The private eye broke all the rules -- from his snazzy red T-bird to his elusive charm. He provoked conflict and chemistry a...

  • Flying Doctor

    Lilian Darcy

    Dr. Clifford Ransome infuriated her! The senior doctor at the base was wrong about Janet Green! He was convinced that a frivolous romantic attraction to one of his colleagues had lured her to work in the sweltering Australian outback. And he treated ...

  • Girl of Mystery

    Mons Daveson

    He refused to let her go "Am I to take you home, Mystery Girl?" Ashley Carlton was completely baffled by the young woman who'd dashed in front of his Jaguar. She refused to tell him where she lived, which left Ashley no choice but t...

  • Silk Lady

    Gwen Davis

    SHE HAD THE KIND OF BEAUTY MEN COULD KILL FOR--AND SOMEONE DID. She had eyes the color of the sea and honey-toned skin that men wanted to roll in. She was mistress to two of the most powerful men in America ... yet no one knew her past, or even he...

  • Home Front

    Patti Davis

  • The Mackerel Plaza

    Peter De Vries

    Reverend Andrew Mackerel, a recent widower falls in love with Molly Calico, a clerk at City Hall, but must keep it a secret because of the plaza and shopping mall being planned to honor the late Mrs. Mackerel...

  • The Country Cousins

    Dinah Dean

    A female can easily meet with an accident... Canons Grange was the perfect setting for a romantic adventure -- and its handsome owner was suitably mysterious. Robert Hartwell seemed the perfect English gentleman. But why was he absent so freq...

  • Tonight You're Mine

    Edith Delatush

    Ellen Foster would do anything to make her own personal escort agency, Foster Executive Services, a success. Until Kane Windsor, a rugged Canadian executive, arrived in New York and everything went haywire. When his secretary landed in the hospital, ...

  • Within Reach

    Barbara Delinsky

    Daughter of a wealthy senator, wife of a ruthless tycoon, she had everything a woman could want...except love Danica Lindsey's cool violet eyes belied the passion that surged beneath her patrician beauty. Locked into a loveless marriage, she t...

  • Cassandra

    Diana Delmore

    A Soldier's Daughter Raised by an officer father on the edge of Napoleonic battlefields, Cassandra was accustomed to danger and excitement. As daring and high-spirited as she was lovely, she scorned the balls and other pleasures allowed respectable ...

  • Judge Spencer Dissents

    Henry Denker

    Judge Spencer, the senior member of his Federal Judicial District, known for his eccentric opinions and peculiar common sense, is considered obsolete by his younger colleagues, who, when pressing him to retire, find themselves outsmarted...

  • Kincaid

    Henry Denker

  • The Invisible Empire

    Flint Dille; David Marconi

    On the screen, a hooded figure slowly superimposed itself over the burning image of the Hindenburg. "Gentlemen, what you have just witnessed is only a sample of the disasters I am capable of constructing if my demands are not met. . . . The Bro...

  • The Serpentine Assassin

    Flint Dille; David Marconi

    "Tredekka!" a voice thundered. Spinning around, 13 stared into the cold, dark eyes of the Jinda-dii--the High Priest of the Serpentine Assassins. The Jinda-dii spoke softly, "As penalty for your crimes against the Brotherhood, Agent 13, you hav...

  • The Brave Little Toaster

    Thomas M. Disch

  • The World Around Us

    Disney Book Group

  • Lord Iverbrook's Heir

    Carola Dunn

    A HEART IN DISARRAY Selena tossed her flaxen curls defiantly. She was acting like a positive bird-wit!-- quite unlike the independent young beauty who was used to managing both her farm and her family with the utmost aplomb. Why, no one had even b...

  • Georgia Nights

    Kathleen Eagle

    When the band "Georgia Nights" made a swing through Massachusetts. Connor Ryan took time for a personal visit that would change his life in ways he'd never dreamed. How could he have been prepared for Sarah Benedict, a dark-haired, dark-eyed encha...

  • A Fighting Chance

    Mignon G. Eberhart

    THE CASE OF THE FRAMED FIANCE Call her naive or just a fool for love, but Julie Farnham never stopped believing in Jim Wingate's innocence even though the case against him was open and shut. He had been found with a smoking gun in his hand, kneel...

  • Pennies in the Fountain

    Robin Elliott

    A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS Megan James must have been a witch, for she was casting a spell over "Blade of Steel" Danner. What color were those magic eyes of hers that made him want to follow her everywhere? And why was she with Frankie Bode...

  • Lone Star in the Cherokee Strip

    Wesley Ellis

    A band of cattle rustlers are after Jessie's hide!If troubles were cattle, Jessie and Ki would have a whole herd on their hands. A bloodthirsty band of marauding outlaws, led by a seductive half-breed Creek Indian girl, is terrorizing the cattle ranc...

  • Suicide Hill

    James Ellroy

    Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins is the most brilliant homicide detective in the Los Angeles Police Department and one of its most troubled. In his obsessive mission to protect the innocent, there is no line he won’t cross. Estranged from his wife ...

  • A Place Like Dairy-Anne

    Sandra Epstein

  • Ship of Force

    Alan Evans

    A renegade commander must take matters into his own hands in this epic First World War thriller.Summer, 1917: Britain is losing the war against the deadly German U-boats. After close fought action, Commander David Cochrane Smith uncovers what he beli...

  • Longarm and the Rancher's Showdown

    Tabor Evans

    A BLOOD-SOAKED RACE AGAINST TIME A ruthless butcher was on the loose in Colorado country, an innocent youth was framed, and Longarm was in the middle of it all. The locals were already stringing up a noose -- and Longarm had to act fast before the...

  • Tomorrow Is Forever

    Barbara Faith

    MEXICAN HEAT... For Annie McCallister, divorce was just another item for her list of failures. But here in Puerto Madero, she'd found a haven...good friends...time to forget...and the children. Her little refugees. She'd handled their tear...

  • Love's Charade

    Jane Feather

    A LADY REVEALED The Earl of Linton had never been prone to sentiment. Only boredom could have led him to rescue Danny, a filthy street urchin, from the clutches of a drunken brawler. Once rescued, however, the spirited ragamuffin proved a handful ev...

  • An Earthquake in My Family

    J.F. Federspiel

  • Magician: Master

    Raymond E. Feist

    Once he was an orphan called Pug. apprenticed to a sorcerer of the enchanted land of Midkemia. Then he was captured and enslaved by the Tsurani. a strange, warlike race of invaders from another world. There, in the exotic Empire of Kelewan, he ear...

  • Pocketful of Rainbows

    Marie Ferrarella

    Time was running out With only three weeks in which to perform a miracle, was it any wonder Maggi Cole was in a panic? The whole world seemed to be conspiring against Maggi, producer of the biggest charity extravaganza New York had ever seen. P...

  • The Gated River

    Lucy Ferriss

    After Marika Hooper's husband, Richard, the American ambassador to the West African country of Yumana, is assassinated, Marika flees to New York to be reunited with an old lover, but ties to Richard prompt her return to Yumana...

  • Recipe for Romance

    Terri Fields

  • Diamonds for My Love

    Glenna Finley

    TEXAS LOVE When beautiful, independent Trish Benham arrived for two weeks of sun and relaxation at her brother's new home in Dallas, she found he was out of town on business. And holding the keys to the bunkhouse was his arrogant ex-boss Curt Dris...

  • The Forgotten Marriage

    Ellen Fitzgerald

    THE STOLEN BRIDEGROOM Alicia Delacre had every reason to consider herself the most fortunate of young ladies. Lucian Morley, the man she adored, had made her his wife. All she could see was perfect happiness ahead. But by the time she came as the V...

  • Wrong Name Angela

    Lenore Fleischer

  • Rear-View Mirrors

    Paul Fleischman

    Seventeen-year-old Olivia hasn’t seen her father since she was eight months old. But when he summons her out of the blue, Olivia travels cross country to New Hampshire to meet him. That summer, she learns to adapt to rural life and to try to unde...

  • The Whipping Boy

    Sid Fleischman

    Prince Horace is so naughty that everyone calls him Prince Brat. But the prince is not allowed to be spanked. So an orphan boy named Jemmy is taken from the streets to be the prince's whipping boy. When Prince Brat decides to run away, he takes Je...

  • Hang Spur McCoy

    Dirk Fletcher

    Wounded and left for dead by a gang of outlaws while trying to save a family of homesteaders, Spur McCoy finds himself accused by the local sheriff of being a member of the gang and targeted by a bloodthirsty lynch mob. Reprint....

  • Race the Wind

    Veronica Flynn

    She was a fiery redhead, a jockey racing to the top in a macho world. Tracy Morgan burned with a single-minded ambition until Mark Flanagan returned from her past to ignite other fires. He'd been her secret teenage obsession -- unattainable, unaw...

  • Hot Properties

    Suzanne Forster

    CAN LIGHTNING STRIKE TWICE? Sunny Tyler had the perfect smile, career and a seemingly perfect engagement. What could go wrong? Plenty. Thanks to an interview with Graham Chance, Sunny and her fiance became the talk of the town -- Barbie and K...

  • Mrs. Abercorn and the Bunce Boys

    Liza Fosburgh

  • Stop Thief!

    Dorothy Brenner Francis / Dorothy Francis

    Vonnie was above her head!... She was making new friends and enjoying academic life in Houston. Now it was time to give a party, and she had the perfect opportunity. Monique Wager, the school glamour girl, was returning from Europe to take up her old...

  • Aegean Enchantment

    Emily Francis

    It was a dream come true .. . Physiotherapist Nancy Spaulding had never been farther from her New York home than New Jersey. Suddenly she was offered the chance to visit a Greek island paradise, to continue treating a convalescing child she'd come...

  • Mice!

    Julie E. Frankel

  • Paper Phoenix: A Mystery of San Francisco in the '70s

    Mickey Friedman

  • Unbalanced Accounts

    Kate Gallison

    While tracking down 375 checks reported missing from New Jersey's Bureau of Mental Rehabilitation, Nick Magaracz, an unassuming private detective, comes across sordid office love affairs, eccentric bag ladies, Atlantic City gangsters, and a few myste...

  • Two If by Sea

    Andrew Garve

  • West Wandering Wind

    W.R. Garwood

    With a six‑gun in his holster and a Bowie knife in his boot, Judge Roy Bean leaves Mexico on the Spanish Trail heading for California in search of a woman and buried gold. But which one was he willing to fight for more? The American Frontier pr...

  • Widows in the Dark

    Elizabeth Smith Gatov

    A practical guide to finance for widows offers compassionate workable guidelines for coping with a wide range of financial problems, discussing inheritance and wills, mortgage and other fixed payments, investment principles, financial records, and mo...

  • Dragons on the Road

    Patricia Lee Gauch

  • The Chicano War

    William Campbell Gault

    Former private eye Brock Callahan takes on the cause of a little Mexican-American boy whose guardian brother has disappeared and finds himself involved with a group of Los Angeles gangsters, arson, murder, and a frame-up...

  • A State of Corruption

    Paul Geddes

    Ludovic Fender, a recently retired investigator and a Catholic with connections in Rome, is summoned to assist in the investigation of a Vatican Bank official's death, a young priest's suicide, and a major financial scandal within the Vatican...

  • Hawk in Silver

    Mary Gentle

    Teenaged Holly finds a strange coin which leads her and her friend Chris into strange adventures with the magical people of the Hollow Hills....

  • Department Store

    Gail Gibbons

  • Poppy Girl

    Jacqueline Gilbert

    Feathering his own nest -- was that his aim? Philippa Ingram accepted calmly the news that she was a possible heir to the Copperthwaite Wool Mills of Cumbria. The prospect of fortune did not overwhelm her, but a certain Frenchman did. On holida...

  • Second Chances

    Elizabeth Gilchrist

    Catherine falls for Chris, a German athlete with dreams of Hollywood stardom, only to become trapped in a web of passion, love, and obsession, in a story set against the glittering, fast-living backdrop of Los Angeles's movie community...

  • The Return of Captain Conquer

    Mel Gilden

    In the house with two front doors, Watson Congruent's father sells souvenirs from the long-canceled TV show, The Adventures of Captain Conquer, and is also trying to build an actual "motivator," the device that powered the Captain's h...

  • Road Kills

    Christopher Cook Gilmore

  • Ask Me if I Care

    H.B. Gilmour

    Jenny is fourteen when she moves from her mom's house in Florida to her dad's in New York. It's hard starting over -- new family, new school, new friends.

    Then Jenny meets Pete McCaffrey, the mysterious boy next door. Stay away from him, every...

  • Illusions

    Eve Gladstone

    SECRETS... The call from Washington was an unwelcome intrusion in the orderly life Jill Holmes had arranged since her last--and final--assignment. But no one ever walked away from the Agency. They needed Jill's special talent once again, and they ...

  • Lovers and Cohorts

    Herbert Gold

  • Natural Killers

    Marshall Goldberg

  • Return to Treasure Island

    John Goldsmith

    The swashbuckling Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver journey back to the legendary Treasure Island and face mutiny, capture by Spaniards, treachery in Jamaica, slavery in Mexico, and romance for Jim with the lovely Isabella Zorillo...

  • Twisted Sister

    Toby Goldstein

  • The Wines of Pentagoet

    John Gould

    Recounts a tale revolving around the life and times of the Morning River people who lived in "The Maine" prior to the American Revolution, continuing the saga of the friends and enemies of Elzada Knight...

  • Spinner's Wharf

    Iris Gower

    Rhian Gray left Sweyn's Eye to work in Yorkshire, where she became the mistress of Mansel Jack, an ambitious mill-owner. When she returns to her home town, she finds it torn apart by the Great War. Rhain must decide whether her future lies with Manse...

  • After Midnight

    Charles L. Grant

    A collection of stories by such authors as Bernard Taylor, Ramsey Campbell, Bob Booth, and Alan Ryan concerns itself with the terrible mysteries that occur in the hours of darkness between midnight and dawn, when beasts rule and the wind blows cold...

  • House on Coliseum Street

    Shirley Ann Grau

    Twenty-year-old Joan Mitchell has lived her entire life in the stately New Orleans house on Coliseum Street, where her mother and half sister have steadily undermined her self-regard. To Joan, her fate seems sealed and strangely inconsequential. Then...

  • Pathfinders

    Geary Gravel

  • Sportswit

    Lee Green

  • The Celebrant

    Eric R. Greenberg

    The first two decades of the 20th century were a time of promise and innocence in America. Hardworking immigrants could achieve the American dream; heroes were truly heroic. Eric Rolfe Greenberg brilliantly and authentically chronicles the real-li...

  • Time Loves a Hero

    Ben Greer

    Cody Walker's life is inalterably changed after he spends a summer with mysterious billionaire Mallory Beale, falls in love with two women, and resolves the mystery of the severed bond between his father and the billionaire...

  • Moonlit Obsession

    Jill Gregory

    A Beautiful Spy and an American Patriot -- Thrown Together in a Battle of Destiny and Love... Electrifyingly beautiful, Anemone Carstairs had come to New Orleans as a British spy, placing her country before all else -- until she met Stephen Burke...

  • Mayfair

    Evelyn Grey

    A TANGLED WEB OF DECEPTION CLOUDED WITH OVERPOWERING GREED, THREATENED TO DESTROY ALL THAT WAS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL... Serena was living a life of stately bliss, sharing an idyllic love with her new husband, Lord Justin Barkham, in the elegant fam...

  • If Winter Comes

    Lynn Hall

    As an escalating world crisis makes the threat of nuclear warfare imminent, teenage Meredith and her boyfriend Barry draw closer to each other and to other people important to them during what could be the last weekend of their lives...

  • Adam's Breed

    Radclyffe Hall

    This early work by Radclyffe Hall was originally published in 1926 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Adam's Breed' is a novel about a waiter that becomes disgusted with his job and goes to live in the forest as ...

  • Antaeus 56

    D. Halpern

    Spring 1986 back issue of the literary magazine. This issue devoted to writings around the work of British novelist Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939). Guest edited by Sondra Stang, includes essays by William H. Gass, Mary Gordon, Max Saunders, many others....

  • Doctor's Orders

    Paula Hamilton

    Meeting a handsome doctor while stranded on the highway in a Texas blizzard was the kind of romantic encounter most women dreamed of. But Heather Rhodes had tried her luck once with the medical profession and never wanted to fill that prescription ag...

  • Polly Wants a Cracker

    Bobbie Hamsa

  • Small Wonder

    Caryl Hansen

  • The Longest Manhunt

    J.D. Hardin

  • By the Sword Divided

    Molly Hardwick

  • Redworld

    Charles L. Harness

    World-saver, or world-breaker?The treaty that ended the civil war decreed that the men of science and the followers of the gods would split all of society between them. Yet Guild apprentice Pol was torn between the logic of science and the lure of fa...

  • Birds Of A Feather

    Janice Harrell

    Annabelle was ready for the big time. She wanted to date someone who didn't remember her from kindergarten, someone who cared more about her and less about the habits of the green -eared beetle, in other words, someone new and glamorous. Who would ha...

  • Fables

    Toinette Harrison

  • One Day in Paradise

    Helme Heine

  • By Reason Of

    M.R. Henderson

    With heavy rains threatening mudslides, blocked roads, and virtual isolation to the residents of Coldwater Canyon and an insane killer on the loose, a recently widowed mother returns home with her daughter and gradually realizes that they are not alo...

  • The Roman Solution

    Wallace Henley

  • Barbarian in the Garden

    Zbigniew Herbert

  • Secondary Attachments

    Greg Herriges

    Johnny Spector, a high-school teacher on Chicago's north-west side, becomes increasingly disillusioned with his life and the violence of the streets until he meets Marlyn Valentin, a student who challenges his growing indifference...

  • Pete and Lily

    Amy Hest

  • Return to Shadow Creek

    Helen B. Hicks

    Her past held the key to her survival The nightmares began after her parents' fatal accident, but the terror did not set in until Cindi Moore returned to Shadow Creek. Long ago, when Cindi was a child, an incident at the ranch had terrified her...

  • Little Tales of Misogyny

    Patricia Highsmith

    "These stories, once you get the hang of them, are very wicked, very funny and -- this being Highsmith’s mission in life, as far as one can tell -- very unsettling." -- The GuardianWith an eerie simplicity of style, Highsmith turns our next-door n...

  • Don't Worry I'll Find You

    Anna Grossnickle Hines

  • Eric's Choice

    U.m Holden

  • The Blue House

    Delores Holliday

    The house beckoned…then became her obsession The beautiful stained-glass window drew Kala Aiden irrevocably to the house that was the color of the horizon. But her fiance, Peter Caterson, wanted to demolish the place so that he could pursue his ...

  • Poor Caroline

    Winifred Holtby

    Caroline Denton-Smyth is an eccentric, dressed in trailing feathers and jangling beads, peering out from behind her lorgnette. Sitting alone in her West Kensington bedsitter, she dreams of the Christian Cinema Company - her vehicle for reform. For Ca...

  • Crimson Rapture

    Jennifer Horsman

    Never had Christina seen a man as handsome as the notorious pirate Justin Phillips. His lean, masculine frame radiated a shocking strength; his piercing blue eyes left her feeling helpless and weak. Somewhere deep inside her, the innocent beauty felt...

  • People of the Sacred Oak

    Bill Hotchkiss

    Seeking revenge for the murders of her husband and children by the whites, Ooti, a lovely young Indian woman, finds new love in the arms of Benjamin Goffe, a white journalist and outspoken critic of the treatment of the Indians...

  • The Conduct of the Game

    John Hough

    Lee Malcolm pursues his dream of becoming a major-league umpire and finds, as he grows in professional skill and in worldly wisdom, that integrity and conduct--on and off the field--are more important than the game...

  • The Line

    Robert Houston

  • Stones of the Wall

    Dai Houying

    Set in Shanghai in the late 1970s, this novel depicts the life of Sun Yue, a woman once branded a "rightist" and now confronted with the necessity of reconciling her political convictions as she strives to forget her failed marriage, raise her daught...

  • Criminal Trespass

    Helen Hudson

  • Connecting

    Laura Huffines

  • Getting Rid of Aunt Edna

    Frieda Hughes

  • Cat, Herself

    Mollie Hunter

  • The Way of Healing

    Hannah Hurnard

  • Wherever You Go

    Bobby Hutchinson

    Raine wanted one more chance to be young and free Sharing a passion for motorcycles and the open road, the motley assortment of bikers called themselves the Retreads, and on any other day Raine Kennedy would have given them a wide berth. As a duti...

  • Moses in the Bulrushes

    Warwick Hutton

  • Nora's Castle

    Satomi Ichikawa

  • Appleby's Other Story

    Michael Innes

    During a walk to Elvedon House, palatial home of the Tythertons, Sir John Appleby and Chief Constable Colonel Pride are stunned to find a police van and two cars parked outside. Wealthy Maurice Tytherton has been found shot dead, and Appleby is fa...

  • An Artist of the Floating World

    Kazuo Ishiguro

    From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize"winning novel The Remains of the Day
     
    In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebrat...

  • Rings of Kether

    Steve Jackson

    The reader becomes a narcotics agent for the Galactic Federation, entrusted with the mission of going undercover in the lawless Aleph Cygni star system to stop the flow of illicit Satophil-d from spaceports of Kether...

  • A Song Twice over

    Brenda Jagger

    At the height of the Industrial Revolution, two women struggle to break free of the conventions that bind them. Cara, poor and beautiful, dreams of evading the menacing shadow of the workhouse, of becoming both financially independent and free of her...

  • Texas Storm

    Deana James

    ENTICING FILLY Looking at the deserted spread he'd been awarded by General Sam Houston, Reiver MacPherson knew he was going to spend his days in backbreaking labor But when he spied a shapely blonde runaway hiding out on his property, he was sure th...

  • To Speak of Love

    Claudia Jameson

    Chelsea had to grow into love Neglected by her parents, Chelsea Prescott was a rebellious, insecure teenager when she'd first met Ricardo Colchero at his family home in Madrid. "Be careful about what you want, nina," the dark-eyed bank...

  • Noble Spud

    Rick Johnson

  • Carlisle's Hope

    Norma Johnston

    In one of the slimmest plots to launch a new series (The Carlisle Chronicles) yet this season, Jessica Carlisle is a part of an old family (and a lot of old family traditions), in whose roots she finds much comfort. Her father, who is with the foreig...

  • Return of the Mountain Man

    William W. Johnstone

    GOD FORGIVES... The town of Bury took up a piece of Idaho Territory that was still raw, untamed frontier. It was no place for the cowardly or faint-hearted, but Smoke Jensen was neither. Nor were Stratton, Potter and Richards, the three bloodthirsty ...

  • Howl's Moving Castle

    Diana Wynne Jones

    IN WHICH A WITCH BEWITCHED THE HATTER'S DAUGHTER ... AND THEN SOME. Sophie lived in the town of Market Chipping, which was in Ingary, which was a land where invisible cloaks and seven-league boots really did exist. Which meant that nothing was qui...

  • Island of Secrets

    Kim Jordan

  • A Man Possessed // Return of the Forbidden Tycoon

    Penny Jordan

    He'd rejected her once already A cruel fate brought Dominic Harland back into Kate Hammond's life. Eight years ago, in the midst of a bleak marriage, Kate had offered herself to Dominic only to be humiliatingly rejected. The pain had li...