Books Published in April 1986

New Books List: 415 titles

  • Circuit

    Melinda Snodgrass

  • Decepticon Poison

    Judith Bauer Stamper

  • Desert Flight

    Jim Razzi

  • Earthquake

    Ann Matthews

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • Sapphire Road

    Wynne Whiteford

  • Wankh: Ischai II

    Jack Vance

  • 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...

  • Watermusic

    Sarah Sargent

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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 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 Couple from Poitiers

    Georges Simenon

  • 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...

  • Murder by Remote Control

    Janwillem Van De Wetering

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

    Mickey Friedman

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Woman in the Moon

    Donald Lehmkuhl

  • 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, ...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 Good Luck Girl

    Suzanne Rand

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • An Earthquake in My Family

    J.F. Federspiel

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Still Storm

    Francoise Sagan

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • Conan the Renegade

    Leonard Carpenter
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  • Prisoner of Elderwood

    Bruce Algozin
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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Jack of Diamonds

    Warren T. Longtree

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Longest Manhunt

    J.D. Hardin

  • Posse from Hell

    Jon Sharpe

  • 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 ...

  • Riley's Last Hunt

    Frank Calkins

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • West of the Law

    William MacLeod Raine

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • April Fool's Day

    Jeff Rovin

  • An Artist of the Floating World

    Kazuo Ishiguro

    From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prizeâ€"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...

  • 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...

  • At a Certain Age

    Herbert Park

  • 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...

  • Barbarian in the Garden

    Zbigniew Herbert

  • Beetle Bailey: Three's a Crowd

    Mort Walker

  • The Berlin Connection

    Johannes Mario Simmel

  • Best Friends

    Steven Kellogg

    To Kathy the greatest thing in the world is a best friend. And Louise Jenkins is hers. They do everything together, from sharing their chocolate milk at lunch to riding Golden Silverwind, their make-believe horse who lives in the imaginary stable bet...

  • Blk Beast

    Joseph A. Springer

  • The Brave Little Toaster

    Thomas M. Disch

  • 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...

  • But in the Fall I'm Leaving

    Ann Rinaldi

  • 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.......

  • By the Sword Divided

    Molly Hardwick

  • Cale

    Sylvia Wilkinson

  • 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...

  • Canis the Warrior

    James Sinclair

  • 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...

  • The Cat Story

    R.C. Whatling

  • Cat, Herself

    Mollie Hunter

  • Cat's Grin

    Francois Maspero

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • A Comfortable Corner

    Vincent Virga

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Confessions of a Wayward Preppie

    Stephen Roos

  • 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...

  • Connecting

    Laura Huffines

  • 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....

  • Criminal Trespass

    Helen Hudson

  • Dark Harvest

    Brent Ashabranner

  • Department Store

    Gail Gibbons

  • Don't Worry I'll Find You

    Anna Grossnickle Hines

  • 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...

  • Dragons on the Road

    Patricia Lee Gauch

  • Dream Sister

    Alexandria Whitaker

  • Eric's Choice

    U.m Holden

  • Fables

    Toinette Harrison

  • Feet of a Snake

    Barry Chubin

  • 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...

  • Finally the Pawn

    Jada Thacker

  • Forsake the Sky

    Tim Powers

  • Fourth Floor

    John Burke

  • Fuel Injected Dreams

    Robert Baker

  • 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...

  • Gentlemen in England

    A.N. Wilson

  • Getting Rid of Aunt Edna

    Frieda Hughes

  • The Gift

    John Prater

  • 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...

  • The Godchildren

    Sharon Pape

  • The Grandmothers

    Glenway Wescott

  • The Great Skinner Enterprise

    Stephanie S. Tolan

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • Her Majesty, Aunt Essie

    Amy Schwartz

  • 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...

  • Home Front

    Patti Davis

  • 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...

  • Hurry Home

    John Wideman

  • I Never Wanted to Be Famous

    Eth Clifford

  • 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...

  • The Inch Boy

    Junko Morimoto

  • 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...

  • Island of Secrets

    Kim Jordan

  • Jonathan's Cloud

    Gardner McFall

  • 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 Kiss

    Jennifer Cole

  • 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...

  • Lamb in Command

    Kenneth Maynard

  • 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...

  • The Line

    Robert Houston

  • The Little Red Hen

    Patricia C. McKissack / Pat McKissack

  • 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 Lotus Cup

    Jane Louise Curry

  • 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...

  • Lovers and Cohorts

    Herbert Gold

  • Lucille

    Arnold Lobel

  • The Luck of Miss L.

    Lee Kingman

    Alec yearns to win the Junior Rowers Race but the lack of a boat of his own, the competition of bully Stomper Gates, the apparent betrayal of his best friend, and a near-fatal hit-and-run boating accident threaten his goal...

  • 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 Man Who Wanted Seven Wives

    Katie Letcher Lyle

  • Manhattan Project

    David Bischoff

  • The Marathon Photograph and Other Stories

    Clifford D. Simak

  • Marble Dance

    Lygia Telles

  • 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...

  • Memories of the Assassination Attempt and Other Stories

    Gerard Windsor

  • Mice!

    Julie E. Frankel