Books Published in April 1986

New Books List: 415 titles

  • Mansion of Dark Mists

    Eva Zumwalt

    The mansion echoed with love, fear, and death. Lovely, honey-haired Katherine Livingston inherited a magnificent state, and fell heir to a season of fear, greed, and lust. Two families occupied the house. The hateful Dewitts, and Charles and Joanna M...

  • To Catch a Thief

    Brittany Young

    STOLEN HEARTS Michael Adams left Racine, Wisconsin, for glamorous Paris with one intention: To hire a professional thief to steal back her grandmother's chalices. But the intended victim was forewarned--by Michal's own grandmother! Maybe he cou...

  • Veracruz

    Rosalind Wright

  • Star Wind

    Linda Woolverton

  • Fool's Gold

    Ted Wood

    One-man police force Reid Bennett enters gold strike territory. These are boom times in Canada. The biggest gold strike ever has turned Olympia into an instant mecca for prospectors, chopper pilots, construction workers, and drifters, all eager for a...

  • A Year of Beasts

    Ashley Wolff

  • Starr's Showdown

    G. Clifton Wisler

    SHOOTOUT IN DODGE In Dodge City, arguments get settled once and for all. Like the quick, mean way the drifter with the Confederate hat and the fast draw persuades his opponent. The man’s lean prowess in a fight is enough to impress Mike Dunstan,...

  • Memories of the Assassination Attempt and Other Stories

    Gerard Windsor

  • Southern Comfort

    Kit Windham

    There's no love lost between brash Leo Myers and cool Kelly Winters, but he offers her the job anyway --and she finds herself accepting! The chance to write a film script and finally earn her Ph.D. is worth enduring the prejudiced, insensitive filmma...

  • The Final Price

    Patricia Wilson

    "My wife wears my rings--no others!" Andreas Skoradis acknowledged neither the divorce nor Olivia Page's right to become engaged again. "How dare you come back to me, wearing another man's rings," he accused her when she re...

  • Gentlemen in England

    A.N. Wilson

  • Early Stages: The Professional Theater and the Young Actor

    Walter Williamson

    Presents a brief history of the theatre and describes the necessary qualities, training, and experience needed by prospective actors and actresses, as well as various opportunities in the acting profession. Also profiles ten young performers describi...

  • Cale

    Sylvia Wilkinson

  • Hurry Home

    John Wideman

  • A Woman's Touch

    Karen Whittenburg

    Paige Randall Lawrence was the owner of Randall Electronics. No matter what anyone said, she was going to hire back her ex-husband. Jefferson Lawrence might have been accused of stealing company secrets, but it had never been proven. And he was the o...

  • Sapphire Road

    Wynne Whiteford

  • No More Boys

    Charlotte White

    When flirtatious Molly decides she's through with boys forever, her best friend Kristi bets her that she can't stay away. Even Molly wonders if she can survive the whole summer without a date. Just as her determination weakens, she finds an unexpecte...

  • Dream Sister

    Alexandria Whitaker

  • The Cat Story

    R.C. Whatling

  • Harnessing Peacocks

    Mary Wesley

    A young single mother funds her son’s education in a most unusual way in this “delightfully lighthearted” novel from a beloved bestselling author (Kirkus Reviews).   Ever since a pregnant and unmarried Hebe was forced to leave ...

  • The Grandmothers

    Glenway Wescott

  • Star Light, Star Bright

    Marian Wells

    Jenny's search for truth and for power to control her own destiny continues even into her marriage to the young lawyer, Mark Cartwright. Her happiness and security with Mark are often shadowed by dark thoughts and frightening memories. The very belie...

  • Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen

    Fay Weldon

    Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and o...

  • Tarnished Armor

    Peggy Webb

    When television producer Alice Spencer announced, "I need a man!" and headed down to the Boston harbor to find her perfect specimen, she only planned to hire her "catch" for a series of commercials. She hadn't figured on falling f...

  • Wilkes the Wizard

    Jackie Webb

  • Girl in a Golden Bed

    Anne Weale

    She knew David was the man for her It didn't take long for artist Liz Redwood to fall in love with the English baronet David Warren Castle. She'd always admired his paintings. And when circumstances brought them together for the summer at ...

  • Search for the Nile

    Robert Walker

  • Beetle Bailey: Three's a Crowd

    Mort Walker

  • The Sorcerer's Lady

    Paula Volsky

  • A Comfortable Corner

    Vincent Virga

  • Journey to Enchantment

    Patricia Veryan

    Only Passion Could Burn as Bright as their Love for their Country A JOURNEY OF LOVE AND DANGER...AND A VAST TREASURE Beautiful, flame-haired, fiercely independent Prudence has two passions: Scotland and the heroics of Ligun Doone, scourge of th...

  • Wankh: Ischai II

    Jack Vance

  • Murder by Remote Control

    Janwillem Van De Wetering

  • Treasure for a Lifetime

    Linda Vail

    It began with a scrap of yellowed paper hidden in Lee Ramsey's custom-made guitar. Determined to unravel the paper's meaning, the sexy, renowned jazz musician arrived at Kendra Garrett's shop. Like her father before her, she made instruments musician...

  • Brazil

    Errol Lincoln Uys

    Chronicles the history of Brazil, as seen through five generations in the lives of two families--the Cavalcantis, settlers who establish the archetypical Brazilian plantation, and the da Silvas, pathfinders and prospectors in search of El Dorado...

  • The Great Skinner Enterprise

    Stephanie S. Tolan

  • The First Family

    Patrick Tilley

    Hundreds of years after civilisation has been destroyed by nuclear war, the Earth is divided between the Trackers of the Amtrak Federation â€" a community living in vast subterranean cities â€" and the Mutes, who have evolved to withstand the radiati...

  • Finally the Pawn

    Jada Thacker

  • Wolf's Favor

    Fulvio Testa

  • Your Foot's on My Feet

    Marvin Terban

  • The Reluctant Heiress

    Janet Templeton

    Pamela Forrest erroneously suspects that the Earl of Kinnon is a callous fortune hunter when she learns that her late uncle's will declares that she must marry the handsome nobleman or forfeit her inheritance...

  • Marble Dance

    Lygia Telles

  • A Woman of Means

    Peter Hillsman Taylor

  • Testament to the Bushmen

    Jane Taylor

  • Summer of Rising Stars

    Madeline Sunshine

    While working as an apprentice at a summerstock theater, aspiring actress Kristy Mason is plunged into romance with teenaged movie idol Bobby Baskins, but their relationship is threatened by his manager and a troublesome, jealous starlet...

  • Town Tangle

    Margaret Summerville

    A bold young beauty teaches a haughty lord a most humbling lesson in love. THE VAIN VISCOUNT Miss Camilla Selwyn had to admit that the arrogant Viscount St. John had a great deal to be arrogant about. He was titled, handsome, wealthy, accomplis...

  • Godbody

    Theodore Sturgeon

    The arrival of a mysterious savior transforms a small town in this provocative parable from “a master storyteller certain to fascinate” (Kurt Vonnegut).   Everything changes when Godbody comes to town. He appears out of nowhere, enig...

  • Nature's End

    Whitley Strieber

    The year is 2025. Immense numbers of people swarm the globe. In countless, astonishing ways, technology has triumphed--but at a staggering cost. Starvation is rampant. City dwellers gasp for breath under blackened skies. And tottering on the brink of...

  • To Stand Beneath the Sun

    Brad Strickland

    A planet where women outnumber men 10 to one, where men are woshipped as Lords, but women still rule the planet. A ship called the "Sailing Star" is in a decaying orbit around the planet. From the Sailing Star falls a pod containing Tom Perion, a st...

  • Promises to Keep

    Jocelyn Stirling

    In the early nineteenth century, amid the turbulence of New York, Boston and Washington, spirited Evangeline Bryant falls in love with her cousin's husband Jason Farr, but respecting Jason's marriage vows, takes up a life of independence...

  • Operation: Deadly Decoy

    R.L. Stine

    The reader becomes Presto, a master of disguise and a member of the G.I. Joe team, and is given the assignment to prevent Cobra from disrupting negotiations between the President of the United States and the Chinese Premier...

  • An Urban Affair

    Daniel Stern

    It was in New York that he discovered Sarah.

    As Simon recovers from a professional disaster - and escapes Chicago for New York - he is drawn to the beautiful, exciting, and mysterious Sarah. Even though the forty-year-old Simon has a wife a...

  • So Near, So Far

    Jessica Steele

    He thought no man was safe from her. On Kacie Peter's first day of work her new boss had the nerve to insinuate she had a less than respectable reputation with men. Worse, he ordered her not to make a play for him -- he had no intention of changi...

  • Ukrainian Egg Mystery

    George Edward Stanley

    DETOUR TO A MYSTERY It was the most exciting night of their lives. As the ice hockey team from Miss Westminster's Fine School for Girls boarded the plane, they were reminded by Miss Westminster herself that the honor and glory of their school was on...

  • Royal Summer

    Ann Stanfield

    A PRINCE HANGING OUT FOR AN HEIRESS? HE WOULDN'T CATCH HANNAH JASPER! Long accustomed to a life of independence -- especially in financial matters -- Miss Hannah Jasper was not about to relinquish her freedom to the fortune-hunting Prince Andre-Ch...

  • Decepticon Poison

    Judith Bauer Stamper

  • American Glory

    Ryder Stacy

  • Blk Beast

    Joseph A. Springer

  • One Life at a Time

    Natalie Spark

    Her search was over, her problems starting For three years Ariel had looked for the vital stranger who, because of amnesia, had stumbled onto her island and into her life. A man she had called Kane. Now, in London, she'd found her man--a ma...

  • The Sky Changes

    Gilbert Sorrentino

    Divorce in America is the subject of Gilbert Sorrentino's novel. Tracing the New York-to-San Francisco journey of a family as husband and wife try to maintain the illusion that their marriage can be rescued, The Sky Changes records the unimaginable d...

  • Captive Embrace

    Sylvie F. Sommerfield

    "I NEVER WILL MARRY" ...swore handsome, independent Sebastian Cain. Especially now that he sought his brother's killers he was determined that nothing distract him from the vengeance trail--even so tempting a diversion as the curvaceous ...

  • Circuit

    Melinda Snodgrass

  • Song of Laughter

    Lauraine Snelling

    Lareana Amundson can almost find something to smile about, even with the tragic death of her husband John, a new baby son to bring up alone, and a large dairy farm to manage. Like jajestic Mt. Rainier, the rugged peak that stands sentinel over her pr...

  • The Witch Baby

    Wendy Smith (1)

  • For Richer or Poorer

    Ruth Alana Smith

    HE WAS HER COWBOY SHE WAS HIS PRINCESS But the cowboy was an imposter and the princess a fraud. Britt Hutton was not a wealthy socialite from Boston; Clay Cole was not a rich Texan oilman. But, cunningly moving in the same elite circles, they wer...

  • Reverend Randollph and the Splendid Samaritan

    Charles Merrill Smith

    In the sixth Reverend Randollph mystery, an upstanding parishoner--dubbed the Spendid Samaritan--is the victim of torture and murder, sending Randollph through a maze of greed, hatred, and more murder, where he finds that murder, like charity, begins...

  • Canis the Warrior

    James Sinclair

  • The Berlin Connection

    Johannes Mario Simmel

  • The Couple from Poitiers

    Georges Simenon

  • Highway of Eternity

    Clifford D. Simak

    Two present-day investigators race across time to escape malevolent aliens from the future and their terrible “gift” of immortality in this novel by a Nebula Awardâ€"winning author. What is the price of eternal life? Secret agent Jay Corcoran is ...

  • The Marathon Photograph and Other Stories

    Clifford D. Simak

  • Tech Battleground

    John Sievert

  • Scarlet Shield of Shalimar

    Scott Siegel

  • The Last Barrier

    Edwina Shore

    She'd had time to get over things So everyone said. Physically Paula had recovered, but the guilty feeling of being responsible for the accident that killed her fiance and his small son still overwhelmed her. She agreed to spend time at a c...

  • All Things Are Lights

    Robert Shea

    Lured by the glory of the Crusades, legendary troubadour Roland battles the evil Amalric, the Inquisition, and infidel armies for the love of two women--Diana, a hunted Cathar heretic, and Nicolette, wed to Amalric...

  • Posse from Hell

    Jon Sharpe

  • Shadows of the Heart

    Maura Seger

    NIGHTMARE Over and over, Kirk dreamed that he was falling...falling. Each night he awoke drenched in sweat, shaking and unable to decipher the dream. Finally, with no other alternative, he went to Nora Hilliard for help. As a psychologist, Nor...

  • The Narrow House

    Evelyn Scott

    The work of American modernist novelist Evelyn Scott has been compared favorably to that of Henry James and Marcel Proust. The Narrow House is a masterpiece of moodiness that offers keen -- and often unsettling -- insight into the inner workings of t...

  • A World of Villages: A Six-Year Journey Through Africa and Asia

    Brian M. Schwartz

    Seeking a place ``where winter was a fairy tale,'' Schwartz, a young Yale Law School graduate, set off in 1976 and for six years wandered in remote areas of Africa and Asia. Touring as cheaply as possible, visiting villages rather than cities and tow...

  • Her Majesty, Aunt Essie

    Amy Schwartz

  • Designing Woman

    Candace Schuler

    She had designs on him Starting an affair with your ex-husband was a little unorthodox, Daphne Granger admitted. But she had never stopped loving Adam since their divorce eleven years earlier. Meeting him now after all this time brought back th...

  • Watermusic

    Sarah Sargent

  • Rich Like Us

    Nayantara Sahgal

    The lives of two very different New Delhi women are traced from the period following Indira Gandhi's declaration of the Emergency through to each woman's discovery that power and riches are useless substitutes for love...

  • Still Storm

    Francoise Sagan

  • April Fool's Day

    Jeff Rovin

  • Shadows Over Briarcliff

    Marilyn Ross

    The desperate summons could not be ignored . Stephen Briar's note was more than the grief-stricken missive of a newly widowed brother-in-law. Since Ann's untimely death, evil had settled over Briarcliff, and Stephen was fighting for his survival. Jes...

  • Mission Deadly Snow

    Joseph Rosenberger

    THE CUBAN CONNECTION Somewhere under the rich canopy of the Colombian jungle is the nerve center of the world's largest drug operation. And right now twenty thousand kilos of cocaine are being processed for shipment to Havana -- to be used as a weapo...

  • Soup for Supper

    Phyllis Root

  • Confessions of a Wayward Preppie

    Stephen Roos

  • My Rebel, My Love

    Willo Davis Roberts

    ORPHANED AND PENNILESS, WINSOME REBEL CAME TO NEW YORK WITH A BRAVE HEART AND A TENDER HOPE... New York in the gay nineties was a paradise where anything seemed possible. Into the wondrous city came Rebel Moran, a spirited beauty searching for an...

  • One Summer

    Nora Roberts

    RIVALS Bryan Mitchell and Shade Wilder. She was America's greatest celebrity photographer. He was one of the world's most respected photojournalists. COMPANIONS They were working together, traveling across the country, recording two views of one Ame...

  • The Diamond Gun

    J.R. Roberts

    Dan Rondo had retired his guns and settled down -- but when his young wife was raped and killed by two men, his life was shattered... and it was time for action. He strapped on his guns, and, once again, "The Diamond Gun" scoured the West, seekin...

  • Legacy of the Sword

    Jennifer Roberson

    BEASTS--OR SORCERERS! For decades, the magical race of shapechangers called the Cheysuli have been feared and hated exiles in their own land, a land they rightfully should rule. Victims of a vengeful monarch's war of annihilation and a usurper kin...

  • Requiem for a Woman's Soul

    Omar Rivabella

    In a town in an unnamed Latin American country, a Catholic priest -- racked by moral doubt regarding the Church’s social role -- discovers the torn papers of a diary belonging to a woman arrested and brutally tortured for no apparent reason....

  • But in the Fall I'm Leaving

    Ann Rinaldi

  • Stubborn Cinderella

    Eugenia Riley

    Tracy O'Brien never expected to meet Prince Charming in the supermarket--especially when she was dressed in an old romper without a stitch underneath, and carrying a bucket of cleaning supplies! But Anthony Delano was suddenly there beside her, all p...

  • Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

    John R. Riggs

  • A Woman of Dreams

    Barbara Riefe

    The 1920's, America's most unforgettable era, when the Charleston swept the dance floors. Model T's filled the streets and wealth and power flowed like bathtub gin. After the death of her adoring husband, Judith Bainbridge takes on the moguls of Wall...

  • Angel and the Saint

    Emilie Richards

    A PERFECT MATCH... Opposites attract? Not in this case, they didn't. He was everything Angelle Reed disliked in a man. A hulking mountain of masculinity--probably thought he was God's gift to women. And as far as Kyle Sullivan was concerned, those...

  • Dillon's Promise

    Cinda Richards

    Nothing rattles cocky Scotsman Dillon Cameron--except learning he's fathered a child by his best friend's beautiful widow! Outraged at the secret of his daughter's birth, haunted by a deathbed promise, Dillon storms Thea Kearney's highlands cottage, ...

  • The Contract

    J.W. Rhoads

    After agreeing to pay Madame Vallette fourteen thousand francs annually for the rest of her life in exchange for the title to her spacious Paris apartment after her death, Monsieur Baudoin obsessively monitors the activities of his elderly neighbor...

  • The Revenge of the Senior Citizens

    Kit Reed

  • Desert Flight

    Jim Razzi

  • The Good Luck Girl

    Suzanne Rand

  • West of the Law

    William MacLeod Raine

  • Fate Worse Than Death

    Sheila Radley

    THE STOLEN BRIDE This was to be Sandra Websdell's wedding day, but she's missing. Her mother assumes Sandra has had a change of heart. But then a treasured garden statue is held for ransom and returned smashed beyond repair. A hush of fear steals ...

  • Tennessee

    Dotson Rader

    A friend of Williams in the last decade of his life interweaves the playwright's own reminiscences of his turbulent life and career and his celebrated friends with a firsthand view of Williams' later life...

  • Bigfoot Dreams

    Francine Prose

    A novel about learning to live in a world stranger than any tabloid headlineThough she s written dispatches from across the globe covering the Loch Ness monster, live dinosaurs, and the ever-enigmatic yeti Vera Perl never leaves the offices of"This W...

  • Peter and the Wolf Pop-up-Book

    Sergei Prokofiev

  • The Gift

    John Prater

  • Forsake the Sky

    Tim Powers

  • The Catholic

    David Plante

    Daniel, the young child of Plante's well-received Francoeur Trilogy (The Family, The Woods, The Country appears as the first-person narrator of this brief but powerful meditation on sexual obsession. The intensely self-conscious Daniel is drawn to He...

  • Sweet Lou

    Lou Piniella

  • The Eagle Catcher

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    If she'd known Jace Dalton was an Air Force test pilot, Heather Wade would never have let him near her, let alone invite him home for dinner! She'd had more than enough of men risking their lives in planes after her husband had died in a fiery crash,...

  • Tiger is a Scaredy Cat

    Joan Phillips

    Scared of dogs, vacuum cleaners, and even mice, a faint-hearted feline has a chance to prove himself a hero when a baby mouse gets lost from its parents. ...

  • 4 Ways Comp Midnite

    Francis Phelan

    Chronicles the calling, training, and priesthood of a midwestern Catholic priest whose at-first welcome devotion and certainties of faith are turned to doubt and spiritual turmoil by observations and events...

  • Lion in the Valley

    Elizabeth Peters

    A SEASON TO REMEMBER The digging season of 1895-96 promised to be a wonderful one: Amelia Peabody, her irascible and doting husband Emerson, and their hell-raising--and precocious--eight-year-old son Ramses were off to Egypt. And true to his word,...

  • Venus Delights

    F. Perez

  • Ashes to Ashes

    Don Pendleton

    Meet Ashton Ford He's been a spy and a naval officer. A scholar and an adventurer. A man whose knowledge of cryptology and philosophy is exceeded only by his capability with handguns. But what Ashton Ford does best is hardly so conventional. You see,...

  • Sweet Revenge

    Patricia Pellicane

    Reena Braxton was a most unusual lady - crowned with golden beauty, a brilliant wit, and winsome charms that sparkled in the staid drawing rooms of 17th Century England. When her cousin suggested a journey to America, Reena knew the trip would be a r...

  • The Marigold Field

    Diane Pearson

    Through the vibrant years of the early part of the century--from 1896 to 1919--lived the Whitmans, the Pritchards and the Dances, whose lives were destined to be interwined... These poor, proud, high-spirited people... people whose roots were in the ...

  • Trapped in Time

    Bernal C. Payne

  • Lady Alicia's Secret

    Rachel Cosgrove Payes

    Lady Alicia had a plan... Since the gallants who courted her were enchanted only by her face and her fortune, Lady Alicia Morgan Fitzhugh St. John was determined to seek true love elsewhere-away from London and all who knew her. So she create...

  • Alone in the Crowd

    Francine Pascal

    Secret song… Lynne Henry is tall, awkward, and painfully shy. The one bright spot in her life is her songwriting. In her room, playing her guitar, Lynne forgets how lonely she is and becomes someone special. When The Droids, Sweet Valley High's m...

  • Boss of Yarrakina

    Valerie Parv

    She should have told him the truth Now it was too late. Joselin, for the sake of her aunt's health, had agreed to a fake engagement with Talan Devereaux. But there was no way she was going through with a wedding ceremony. Joselin's clev...

  • At a Certain Age

    Herbert Park

  • The Godchildren

    Sharon Pape

  • Call Me Scarlett

    Katherine Pancol

    Three schoolmates each have a dream--Severine to be a reporter, Martine to live in America, and Juliette to find her Prince Charming--but their worldly education has just begun as they experience the disappointments and disillusionments of adult life...

  • Eye of the Tiger

    Diana Palmer

    A SECOND CHANCE She'd been a teenager with a furious crush, and he'd been an experienced man out to avenge himself on the girl he really loved. Eleanor Whitman hated the memory - and she hated him. But even four years later, the sight and scent of...

  • The Woman Who Escaped from Shame

    Toby Olson

  • When Breaks the Dawn

    Janette Oke

    Having survived the harshness of their first year in the far Northwest, Elizabeth and Wynn, her Royal Canadian Mountie, now face new challenges, make new friends, start a new school and are presented with a new posting. Will their love for each other...

  • A Rage to Live

    John O'Hara

  • Passion's Fortune

    Leslie O'Grady

    "I want to make love to you, Vannah, but you must say you want me." There was a great roaring in her ears, but whether from the ocean or the blood pounding though her brain, Vannah couldn't tell. All she knew was that she wanted him tonight. Beau...

  • Streams to the River, River to the Sea

    Scott O'Dell

    The award-winning author Scott O'Dell brings Sacagawea's story to life, giving us a breathtaking account of this young heroine's role in an American saga.Sacagawea, a young Native American woman, accompanied by her infant and her cruel husband, exper...

  • The Congressman's Daughter

    Craig Nova

    Alexandra Pearson, daughter of a shrewd, recently deceased politician, marries the treacherous Bryce MacPherson and experiences the poisonous effects of her father's lasting power until she discovers the promise of forbidden love...

  • Station Breaks

    E.C. Norton

  • The Partisan

    Clare Nonhebel

  • And Maggie Makes Three

    Joan Lowery Nixon

    Twelve-year-old Maggie, living with her grandmother in Houston, joins the drama club at school, wins a part in a play, begins to make friends, and learns to deal with feelings of loneliness, selfishness, being in love, and having an unusual family li...

  • Last Year's Hunk

    Marie Nicole

    HE LONGED TO BE PASSE... . For Travis McQuade, being the hottest new star on TV was definitely a mixed blessing. Success was wonderful, but he wanted to be known for the quality of his acting, not the breadth of his biceps. Enter C. J. Parker, ...

  • The Right Touch

    Eileen Nauman

    She was living dangerously As a TV camera operator and competing fencer, Devorah Hunter had enough to handle. She didn't need a tough, sexy guy like Cal Travis around - she suspected he was a real lady-killer. Yet when she met the notorious pi...

  • Savage Sunrise

    E.P. Murray

    BREATHLESS SUNSET... With jet-black hair streaming behind her and a slender body hugging her Appaloosa, there was no woman lovelier than Whisper on the Water--and there was no man who could hope to capture her! Then her stallion reared before the...

  • Land of Thunder

    Annabel Murray

    Were her feelings real or imagined? A car accident had erased Zara's memory She'd been told she was married--but she didn't recognize her husband. And worse, her new employer, attractive reclusive author Tor Endacott, was disturbingly ...

  • The Last Alchemist

    Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    THE STONED GOLD BOG The Philosophers Stone. The key to turning base metals into gold. Everyone knew it didn't exist. Except it did. And now the last of the alchemists, Harrison Caldwell, had his hands on it and was reaching out to grab the nuclear...

  • The Sesame Street ABC Storybook

    Jeffrey Moss

  • Paradise Postponed

    John Clifford Mortimer

    Ultraliberal clergyman Simeon Simcox, rector of the village of Rapstone Fanner, leaves his entire fortune to Leslie Titmuss, a social-climbing conservative politician. As Mortimer recounts the gossip and dastardly goings-on in Rapstone Fanner, he cre...

  • The Inch Boy

    Junko Morimoto

  • Socrates and the Three Pigs

    Tuyosi Mori

    A wolf's attempt to figure out in which of five houses he is most likely to find one of three little pigs introduces such mathematical concepts as combinatorial analysis, permutations, and probabilities....

  • Roses Never Fade

    Raye Morgan

    A GHOST OF A CHANCE In the middle of a stormy northern California night, a handsome stranger walked into the foyer of Bailey Trent's supposedly haunted house. He was certainly no ghost, but who was he? He turned out to be Kurt Palmer, a definit...

  • Bringing Up Baby

    Diana Morgan

    Can handsome but harried efficiency expert George Demarest survive the antics of a scruffy toddler called Speedy? Not without the help of good-natured neighbor Andie Maguire--who innocently agrees to baby-sit the "monster" and finds her life becoming...

  • An Uncommon Hero

    Modean Moon

    White knights don't charge into a person's life every day They especially don't narrowly avoid killing you when doing it. But after he picked Elena Matthews off the ground and checked her for broken bones, Bill McDuff cheerily explained his servic...

  • Desert Princess

    Hayton Monteith

    She was an innocent. He was a worldly sophisticate. She was a student at UCLA. He was heir to the throne of a small but wealthy Middle Eastern kingdom. From the moment they met they were swept away by feelings they could barely control. And yet it wa...

  • Noblesse Oblige

    Nancy Mitford

  • It's Only Natural

    Cassie Miles

    He had a devil in him... Dane MacGregor's crash landing into Laurel Janeway's mountain meadow was foolhardy - and deliberate. He was bent on using her to promote his client's herbal products. He was also conning her. Though Laurel couldn't tr...

  • No Place for a Lady

    Cassie Miles

    To succeed as the first female professional football player, Elaine Preston's got to be tough. She can't give in to the cynics and critics. Or fall for big, blond Curt Michaels, whose protectiveness reveals her vulnerability, whose need to understand...

  • Snowflame

    Christa Merlin

    He comes intending to buy her house--never expecting to meet her face to face, or to intrude upon her grief the day after her husband's funeral. Guilt, pity, and inappropriate desire war within him. For Elaine Jeffrey's haunted eves and fragile beaut...

  • In Good Faith

    Judith McWilliams

    She was looking forward to delicate negotiations... Libby Michalowski was livid. Being labeled a spinster and presented with a bizarre marriage contract had made her the laughingstock of her colleagues. Instead of winning her hand, Joseph Landowsk...

  • Pig Pig and the Magic Photo Album

    David McPhail

  • The Little Red Hen

    Patricia C. McKissack / Pat McKissack

  • Matter of Honor

    William P. McGivern

    Mark Weir, a Chicago police lieutenant, is killed investigating a smuggling ring set up by army servicemen in Germany. His father, a retired general, decides to solve the case and find his son's murderers. Meanwhile, Durham Lasari, an Army private...

  • Trick of the Ga Bolga

    Patrick McGinley

    Set against World War II, this is a tragi-comic tale of an Englishman who tries to start a potato farm in rural Ireland, and is mistaken for a hero by the locals - with bizarre consequences, escalating to accidental death, suicide, and murder.
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  • Jonathan's Cloud

    Gardner McFall

  • A Creed for the Third Millennium

    Colleen McCullough

    A Creed for the Third Millennium has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher....

  • Another Part of the City

    Ed McBain

    New York Police Detective Reardon uncovers the links connecting the murder of a Little Italy restaurateur, the financial manipulations of a Madison Avenue art dealer, and the fluctuations in the international markets for crude oil, fine art, and the ...

  • Cinderella

    Ed McBain

    Private detective Otto Samalson sees the tail -- a black Toronado he can’t shake. One dark window rolls down, exposing the barrel of a gun, and the detective is dead.

    Otto had already known his days were numbered and said as much to his f...

  • At Daggers Drawn

    Margaret Mayo

    Nothing ever seemed to come right for her! Terri Denning's new job as surgery nurse in the Lake District was spoiled when her boss, Dr. Kiel Braden, was convinced she had taken it on just to be near Barry, his brother and partner. No amount...

  • Lamb in Command

    Kenneth Maynard

  • Earthquake

    Ann Matthews

  • Fiela's Child

    Dalene Matthee

    Set in nineteenth-century rural Africa, Fiela’s Child tells the gripping story of Fiela Komoetie and a white, three-year old child, Benjamin, whom she finds crying on her doorstep. For nine years Fiela raises Benjamin as one of her own children. Bu...

  • Lady of Fortune

    Graham Masterton

    They were shrewd and uncompromising, the Watsons, and all the arrogance and acumen with which old Tom Watson had built up the family's banking business was there in his children and grandchildren. Their methods were as aggressive as their lifesty...

  • Cat's Grin

    Francois Maspero

  • White Dynamite and Curly Kidd

    Bill Martin Jr.; John Archambault

  • Gideon's Lot

    J.J. Marric

    Scotland Yard's top detective, Commander Gideon, must stop the new flood of criminals from abroad--an Italian seeking control of the vice market, a sadistic American kidnapper, and an Australian psychopath with an appetite for sex spiced with murder...

  • My Book

    Ron Maris

  • Hercules amongst the North Americans

    Mark Marek

    Examines the nature, forms, and dynamics of self-hate and compassion, regarded as the strongest anti-therapeutic and therapeutic forces, respectively, and reevaluates society's more important destructive cultural values and conventions...

  • Handling Sin

    Michael Malone

    On the Ides of March, our hero, Raleigh Whittier Hayes (forgetful husband, baffled father, prosperous insurance agent, and leading citizen of Thermopylae, North Carolina), learns that his father has discharged himself from the hospital, taken all his...

  • Yesterday's Hero

    Debbie Macomber

    WITH THIS RING Nothing was going to keep marine biologist Leah Talmadge or world-famous photographer Cain Hawkins from missing this chance of a lifetime--an expedition to study the rare whales of the Diamantina Islands. But when the governor of th...

  • The Lonely Sea

    Alistair MacLean

    A collection of riveting tales of the sea including the story that launched his writing career and the account of the epic battle to sink the German battle ship, Bismarck.THE MASTER STORYTELLER IN HIS ELEMENT…Alistair MacLean has an unmistakable an...

  • The Man Who Wanted Seven Wives

    Katie Letcher Lyle

  • Dead Air

    Mike Lupica

    When an ex-girlfriend--a former Miss America turned television commentator--is reported missing and presumed dead, Peter Finley, an investigative journalist for a New York cable TV station, trails the clues that lead to a powerful Christian cable TV ...

  • Anastasia Has the Answers

    Lois Lowry

    Anastasia continues the perilous process of growing up, as her thirteenth year involves conquering the art of rope climbing, playing Cupid for a recently widowed uncle, and surviving a crush on her gym teacher....

  • Settling the Score

    Anne Hunter Lowell

  • Jack of Diamonds

    Warren T. Longtree

  • Flawless Execution

    John Logue

    A classic murder mystery set in the high-stakes world of pro football, from the master storyteller of sports and suspense. A Morris & Sullivan Mystery originally published by Ballantine Books, FLAWLESS EXECUTION is now available in a quality eboo...

  • Slocum and the Horse Thieves

    Jake Logan

    HANG 'EM HIGH! This time Slocum had sworn he'd keep out of trouble. But even before he reached the outskirts of Cole City, the hanging party was in full swing. Matt Kahane's lynch mob was too big for any reasonable man to reckon with. But Slocum wasn...

  • Lucille

    Arnold Lobel

  • Grania, She-King of the Irish Seas

    Morgan Llywelyn

    Here is an extraordinary novel about real-life Irish chieftain GRACE O'MALLEY. From Morgan Llywelyn, bestselling author of Lion of Ireland and the Irish Century novels, comes the story of a magnificent sixteenth-century heroine whose spirit and passi...

  • Wild Horizons

    Frances Lloyd

    RIVALS When twelve-year-old Marla Stanley accepted a dare to kiss Chad Tarrant, she had no idea that ten years later he would return to take up where she'd left off. The notorious black sheep of the family had come back to Maraboora--the Tarran...

  • Wager

    Steven Linder

  • Villa in the Sun

    Marjorie Lewty

    They'd been so happy early in their marriage Villa Favorita on the Riviera had been their private paradise, the place where Hal and Joanna had shared all their feelings. Yes, Hal had showered Joanna with mink and diamonds, too, but her real ha...

  • One Minute Animal Stories

    Shari Lewis

  • Within the Labyrinth

    Norman Lewis

    After the war's end, Manning is sent to Malevento, Italy, a town devastated by a volcanic eruption, and becomes involved in the case of a hero of the Resistance who was imprisoned on false charges made by a rival...

  • Pictures of Adam

    Myron Levoy

    Fourteen-year-old Lisa, a talented amateur photographer, becomes involved in a bittersweet relationship with an emotionally disturbed boy when she does a photo essay on his run-down home up in the hills....

  • Solomon and Sheba

    Faye Levine

  • These Hallowed Hills

    Ana Leigh

    THE LOWLAND LADY AND THE HIGHLAND LAIRD Elizabeth Scott, a lovely, spirited young maiden from the Scottish Lowlands, is outraged to learn that she must leave the comforts of Ballantine, her ancestral home, and journey to the remote and barbaric Hi...

  • The Woman in the Moon

    Donald Lehmkuhl

  • Gypsy Renegade

    Megan Lane

    She was a Gypsy dancer who'd captured the attention of a top fashion designer. However, Shanda Nicholas had no intention of modeling his upcoming spring line. Nor would she star in any other productions York Summerfield had in mind--on or off stage. ...

  • Blood Solstice

    James Howard Kunstler

    Grover Graff, a reporter who specializes in investigating religious cults, discovers a link between the scattered pieces of the body of his best friend and the Children of Abraham, one of the cults he has been investigating...

  • Strangers

    Dean Koontz

    THEY WERE STRANGERS. A handful of people. From different backgrounds, living in different towns and cities across America, they had nothing in common - except fear. THEY WERE VICTIMS. Cold and stark, an unknown terror gripped their dreams a...

  • With Open Arms

    Sandra Kitt

    Ordinary people weren't Grant Stockard's style He'd proven that during the first altercation he had with Victoria Wescott in the backyard of her Reston, Virginia, home. Busy, important and very proud, her new neighbor was openly disdainful of Vict...