Books Published in April 1986

New Books List: 415 titles

  • Your Foot's on My Feet

    Marvin Terban

  • 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...

  • A Year of Beasts

    Ashley Wolff

  • Wrong Name Angela

    Lenore Fleischer

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

    Barbara Bottner

  • 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...

  • The World Around Us

    Disney Book Group

  • 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...

  • The Woman Who Escaped from Shame

    Toby Olson

  • A Woman of Means

    Peter Hillsman Taylor

  • 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...

  • The Woman in the Moon

    Donald Lehmkuhl

  • Wolf's Favor

    Fulvio Testa

  • Within the Labyrinth

    Norman Lewis

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Witch Baby

    Wendy Smith (1)

  • 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...

  • Wilkes the Wizard

    Jackie Webb

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Widows in the Dark

    Elizabeth Smith Gatov

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

  • White Dynamite and Curly Kidd

    Bill Martin Jr.; John Archambault

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • When We Lived with Pete

    Stuart Buchan

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • West of the Law

    William MacLeod Raine

  • The Way of Healing

    Hannah Hurnard

  • Watermusic

    Sarah Sargent

  • 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...

  • Wankh: Ischai II

    Jack Vance

  • Wager

    Steven Linder

  • Villa in the Sun

    Marjorie Lewty

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

  • Veracruz

    Rosalind Wright

  • Venus Delights

    F. Perez

  • An Urban Affair

    Daniel Stern

    It was in New York that he discovered Sarah.

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • U-Boat Commander

    Peter Cremer

  • Two If by Sea

    Andrew Garve

  • Twisted Sister

    Toby Goldstein

  • Trick of the Ga Bolga

    Patrick McGinley

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

  • Trapped in Time

    Bernal C. Payne

  • 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...

  • Tonight You're Mine

    Edith Delatush

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

  • 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...

  • Tomorrow & Tomorrow

    Brenda Cole

  • To Stand Beneath the Sun

    Brad Strickland

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

  • To Speak of Love

    Claudia Jameson

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

  • To Fight the Wild

    Rod Ansell

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • To Africa with Love

    Carroll Baker

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • A Theater of Timesmiths

    Garry Kilworth

    Trapped behind walls of towering ice, First City was a prison from which no one ever escaped. The Trysts ruled with an iron fist: violent death was a common sight on the streets.Morag MacKenzie was a mind-prostitute who gave erotic thought stimulatio...

  • 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...

  • Testament to the Bushmen

    Jane Taylor

  • Tennessee

    Dotson Rader

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

  • Tech Battleground

    John Sievert

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Sweet Lou

    Lou Piniella

  • Summer of Rising Stars

    Madeline Sunshine

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

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Stop Thief!

    Dorothy Brenner Francis / Dorothy Francis

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

  • Stones of the Wall

    Dai Houying

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

  • Still Storm

    Francoise Sagan

  • Station Breaks

    E.C. Norton

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • Star Wind

    Linda Woolverton

  • 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...

  • Sportswit

    Lee Green

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Soup for Supper

    Phyllis Root

  • The Sorcerer's Lady

    Paula Volsky

  • A Song Twice over

    Brenda Jagger

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

  • Song of Laughter

    Lauraine Snelling

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

  • Solomon and Sheba

    Faye Levine

  • 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....

  • So Near, So Far

    Jessica Steele

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

  • 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...

  • Small Wonder

    Caryl Hansen

  • 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...

  • The Sky Changes

    Gilbert Sorrentino

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

  • The Silver Link, the Silken Tie

    Mildred Ames

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Seven Mins in Heaven

    Jane Bernstein

  • Settling the Score

    Anne Hunter Lowell

  • Sesame Street One, Two, Three Story Book

    Pearl Kingsley

  • The Sesame Street ABC Storybook

    Jeffrey Moss

  • The Serpentine Assassin

    Flint Dille; David Marconi

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

  • Secondary Attachments

    Greg Herriges

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

  • Second Chances

    Elizabeth Gilchrist

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

  • Search for the Nile

    Robert Walker

  • 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...

  • Scarlet Shield of Shalimar

    Scott Siegel

  • 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...

  • Sapphire Road

    Wynne Whiteford

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Roman Solution

    Wallace Henley

  • Road Kills

    Christopher Cook Gilmore

  • 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...

  • Riley's Last Hunt

    Frank Calkins

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Revenge of the Senior Citizens

    Kit Reed

  • Return to Treasure Island

    John Goldsmith

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

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • The Return of Captain Conquer

    Mel Gilden

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

  • Requiem for a Woman's Soul

    Omar Rivabella

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Red Message

    Peter Abrahams

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

  • Recipe for Romance

    Terri Fields

  • Rear-View Mirrors

    Paul Fleischman

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

  • The 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...

  • A Rage to Live

    John O'Hara

  • Race the Wind

    Veronica Flynn

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

  • 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...

  • Putting on an Act

    Christi Killien

    High school sophomore Skeeter McGee is forced to examine her relationships with her brother, best friend, and current love interest when a pen pal's move to town threatens to expose the big lie Skeeter has told in her letters....

  • Puppy Love

    Jeanne Betancourt

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

  • 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...

  • Prize Stories 1986: The O. Henry Awards

    William Miller Abrahams

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

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

  • 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...

  • Prisoner of Elderwood

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

  • The Present and Past

    Ivy Compton-Burnett

  • Posse from Hell

    Jon Sharpe

  • 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...

  • Poor Caroline

    Winifred Holtby

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

  • Polly Wants a Cracker

    Bobbie Hamsa

  • 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...

  • A Place Like Dairy-Anne

    Sandra Epstein

  • Pig Pig and the Magic Photo Album

    David McPhail

  • Pictures of Adam

    Myron Levoy

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

  • The Picnic Basket Mystery

    Jon Chardiet

  • Peter and the Wolf Pop-up-Book

    Sergei Prokofiev

  • Pete and Lily

    Amy Hest

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Patient Has the Floor

    Alistair Cooke

  • Pathfinders

    Geary Gravel

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Partisan

    Clare Nonhebel

  • Parents and Children

    Ivy Compton-Burnett

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

  • 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...

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

    Mickey Friedman

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • One Minute Animal Stories

    Shari Lewis

  • 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...

  • One Day in Paradise

    Helme Heine

  • 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...

  • Not Playing the Game

    Jennifer Chapman

  • Nora's Castle

    Satomi Ichikawa

  • Noblesse Oblige

    Nancy Mitford

  • Noble Spud

    Rick Johnson

  • 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...

  • No More Boys

    Charlotte White

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

  • Nicholas

    C. Kempner

  • Nature's End

    Whitley Strieber

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

  • Natural Killers

    Marshall Goldberg

  • The Narrow House

    Evelyn Scott

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

  • 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...

  • My Book

    Ron Maris

  • Murder by Remote Control

    Janwillem Van De Wetering

  • Mrs. Abercorn and the Bunce Boys

    Liza Fosburgh

  • Moses in the Bulrushes

    Warwick Hutton

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Mission Deadly Snow

    Joseph Rosenberger

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Middle School Blues

    Lou Kassem

  • Mice!

    Julie E. Frankel

  • 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...

  • Memories of the Assassination Attempt and Other Stories

    Gerard Windsor

  • 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...

  • 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...