Books Published in April 1986

New Books List: 415 titles

  • 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...

  • Abode of Princes

    Jayne Bauling

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

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • American Glory

    Ryder Stacy

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • Anthonology

    Piers Anthony

  • 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...

  • April Fool's Day

    Jeff Rovin

  • 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...

  • An Artist of the Floating World

    Kazuo Ishiguro

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

  • 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,...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Beetle Bailey: Three's a Crowd

    Mort Walker

  • The Berenstain Bears' Knight to Remember

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Birds Of A Feather

    Janice Harrell

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

  • Blk Beast

    Joseph A. Springer

  • 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...

  • Blood Ultimatum

    Nick Carter

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Circuit

    Melinda Snodgrass

  • A Comfortable Corner

    Vincent Virga

  • Conan the Renegade

    Leonard Carpenter
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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  • 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

  • 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 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...

  • The Couple from Poitiers

    Georges Simenon

  • 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

  • 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...

  • Dark Harvest

    Brent Ashabranner

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Decepticon Poison

    Judith Bauer Stamper

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Department Store

    Gail Gibbons

  • Desert Flight

    Jim Razzi

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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, ...

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Drug Runner

    Patrick Andrews

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • Earthquake

    Ann Matthews

  • An Earthquake in My Family

    J.F. Federspiel

  • 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...

  • Eric's Choice

    U.m Holden

  • 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...

  • Fables

    Toinette Harrison

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Finally the Pawn

    Jada Thacker

  • 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 " a community living in vast subterranean cities " and the Mutes, who have evolved to withstand the radiati...

  • 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...

  • Flying Doctor

    Lilian Darcy

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Forsake the Sky

    Tim Powers

  • 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 ...

  • Fourth Floor

    John Burke

  • Fuel Injected Dreams

    Robert Baker

  • 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, ...

  • Games

    Vera Cowie

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Gentlemen in England

    A.N. Wilson

  • 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...

  • Getting Rid of Aunt Edna

    Frieda Hughes

  • 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 Gift

    John Prater

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 Good Luck Girl

    Suzanne Rand

  • The Grandmothers

    Glenway Wescott

  • 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...

  • The Great Skinner Enterprise

    Stephanie S. Tolan

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 Award"winning author. What is the price of eternal life? Secret agent Jay Corcoran is ...

  • A Hint of Splendor

    Kathy Clark

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

  • 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...

  • Home Front

    Patti Davis

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • Jack of Diamonds

    Warren T. Longtree

  • Jonathan's Cloud

    Gardner McFall

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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

  • 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 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...

  • 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, ...

  • 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...

  • Less Than Human

    Robert Clarke

  • Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

    John R. Riggs

  • 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

  • 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,...

  • The Little Red Hen

    Patricia C. McKissack / Pat McKissack

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • The Lotus Cup

    Jane Louise Curry

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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