Books Published in April 1986

New Books List: 415 titles

  • The Lotus Cup

    Jane Louise Curry

  • The Witch Baby

    Wendy Smith (1)

  • 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...

  • To Africa with Love

    Carroll Baker

  • Dark Harvest

    Brent Ashabranner

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Fuel Injected Dreams

    Robert Baker

  • The Marathon Photograph and Other Stories

    Clifford D. Simak

  • 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...

  • Your Foot's on My Feet

    Marvin Terban

  • Still Storm

    Francoise Sagan

  • Nora's Castle

    Satomi Ichikawa

  • 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....

  • One Minute Animal Stories

    Shari Lewis

  • Conan the Renegade

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

  • Beetle Bailey: Three's a Crowd

    Mort Walker

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Wolf's Favor

    Fulvio Testa

  • 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...

  • Murder by Remote Control

    Janwillem Van De Wetering

  • 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...

  • 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.......

  • 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,...

  • Down on the Funny Farm

    P.E. King

    Illus. in full color. "A young farmer thinks he has gotten a real deal when an old man sells him a farm for one dollar. Upon inspection, however, there are a few liabilities: a cat that thinks it's a horse, a rooster that thinks it's a dog, and other...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • The Sesame Street ABC Storybook

    Jeffrey Moss

  • Sesame Street One, Two, Three Story Book

    Pearl Kingsley

  • Twisted Sister

    Toby Goldstein

  • The Berenstain Bears' Knight to Remember

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Pig Pig and the Magic Photo Album

    David McPhail

  • Don't Worry I'll Find You

    Anna Grossnickle Hines

  • A Year of Beasts

    Ashley Wolff

  • Fables

    Toinette Harrison

  • Sweet Lou

    Lou Piniella

  • 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...

  • An Earthquake in My Family

    J.F. Federspiel

  • The Brave Little Toaster

    Thomas M. Disch

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Hidden Heart

    Laura Kinsale

    HER HEART CHOSE LOVE Tess Collier had spent most of her young life wandering the exotic lands of the world with her father, the Earl of Morrow. But when he died in the Amazon jungle, Tess reluctantly prepared to honour his last wish and return to ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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, ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Anthonology

    Piers Anthony

  • Less Than Human

    Robert Clarke

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Sorcerer's Lady

    Paula Volsky

  • Sapphire Road

    Wynne Whiteford

  • 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...

  • 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 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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, ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Southern Nights

    Barbara Kaye

    SHE'D BEEN HIS DREAM GIRL FOR HALF HIS LIFE Shannon Parelli had spent fifteen years in the shadow of her famous husband. Though she regretted his untimely death, she rejoiced in her newfound freedom. She never dreamed the past awaited her back ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Lotus Moon

    Janice Kaiser

    A TWIST OF FATE CAME BETWEEN THEM Buck Michaels's experiences in Asia during the Vietnam War left him with some haunting memories...and one unanswered question. He had reason to believe he'd fathered a child in Thailand, but the mother ...

  • Fortune Hunter

    Cory Kenyon

    It was the chance of a lifetime. Fortune cookie maker Rita St. John was the new manager of the Dragon's Lair Chinese restaurant. There was nothing to stop her from making it a success--except for one problem, her silent partner, Vic Fortelli. He saw ...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Barbed Wire

    Elmer Kelton

    Irishman Doug Monahan runs a fencing crew outside the south Texas town of Twin Wells, digging post-holes and stringing red painted barbed wire for ranchers as protection against wandering stock, rustlers, and land hungry thugs.Monahan's fencing opera...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

    John R. Riggs

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Watermusic

    Sarah Sargent

  • 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 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 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...

  • 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...

  • Nicholas

    C. Kempner

  • 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 ...

  • The Man Who Wanted Seven Wives

    Katie Letcher Lyle

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • The Couple from Poitiers

    Georges Simenon

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Cale

    Sylvia Wilkinson

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Riley's Last Hunt

    Frank Calkins

  • Not Playing the Game

    Jennifer Chapman

  • 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...

  • The Patient Has the Floor

    Alistair Cooke

  • Games

    Vera Cowie

  • 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...

  • Home Front

    Patti Davis

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Lovers and Cohorts

    Herbert Gold

  • 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...