Books Published in August 1981

New Books List: 218 titles

  • Goldilocks and the Three Bears

    Lorinda Bryan Cauley

  • Where Mountains

    Lesley Hazleton

  • There Was an Old Woman

    Steven Kellogg

  • Tunnel Vision

    Fran Arrick

  • Dark Enigma

    Rebecca Stratton

    Greece held disturbing surprises for her... Carey had been Niki's nanny for four years. Now that he was an orphan, she was taking him to Greece to his mother's family. Niki's uncle, Dimitri Karamalis, turned out to be stern and high...

  • Daughter of the Misty Gorges

    Essie Summers

    Why was Conrad so hostile toward her? Once Christabel had thought he was the man with whom she'd spend her life--he had been far from indifferent to her on that brief holiday in England. Yet he had made their parting final. But it seemed th...

  • Kit and Kitty

    Sarah Carlisle

    IT WAS ALL ARRANGED.... When lovely Kitty Leyburne and young Kit de Fleming got engaged, they had never before set eyes on each other. Suddenly, their whole lives were set out before them, and they didn't like it one bit. But to all their r...

  • Dance for a Lady

    Eileen Jackson

    SHE WAS PURSUED BY A MAN SHE DETESTED. AND TORMENTED BY THE MAN SHE LOVED. Abused and neglected during all the years she had lived with them, Anabel fled her aunt and uncle's home on the eve of her proposed engagement to her loathed cousin Mil...

  • The Captive Mind

    Czeslaw Milosz

    [Translated by Jane Zielonko][Read by Stefan Rudnicki]The best-known prose work by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature.Written in the early 1950s, when Eastern Europe was in the grip of Stalinism and many Western intellectuals placed th...

  • Richard Scarry's Best Christmas

    Richard Scarry

  • Howling 2

    Gary Brandner

  • Peanuts Double

    Charles M. Schulz

  • Love and Kisses, Snoopy

    Charles M. Schulz

  • Adventures of Mr. Toad

    Disney Book Group

  • Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year, 1981

    Multiple Authors

  • A Difficult Truce

    Joan Wolf

    HOW COULD SHE VOW TO LOVE THE MAN SHE WAS SWORN TO HATE? THE REBELLIOUS BRIDE Beautiful and fiery young Christina MacCarthy came from a line of Irish aristocrats who had battled the hated British for centuries. But now Christina had been taken ...

  • The Magic Side of the Moon

    Kristin Michaels
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    Beautiful Kim Durant was devoted to the great outdoors, but her fiancé, Brant Hilliard, a handsome astronomer, was so committed to stargazing that he couldn’t see the ground beneath his feet. To please Kim, Brant agreed to go camping in the specta...

  • Big Bend

    Richard Meade

  • Graffiti Big Ten

    Hammerstorm Hann

  • Carolina

    Leonora Blythe

    AT THE GRAND SALONS OF LONDON OR THE SOCIETY SPAS AT BATH, CAROLINA MALLORY ALWAYS PUT HER ORPHANED FAMILY FIRST. BUT SHE COULD NEVER QUIET HER YEARNING HEART.... When her father died in disgrace and financial ruin, Carolina devoted herself to pic...

  • The Smithfield Bargain

    Rachelle Edwards

    BEAUTIFUL IMPOSTER Moments after lovely and spirited Annabel Haygarth was unjustly dismissed from her position as governess for allegedly seducing her employer's son, she found herself involved in a hairbrained scheme involving her employer's daug...

  • Forbidden Wine

    Fiona Harrowe

    Her fiery beauty was a burden, her passion a curse Joanna Coke was the apple of her father's eye. And while his lowly position could never protect her from the advances of men who lusted after her, Joanna's own spirited loveliness was more...

  • Lord Brandsley's Bride

    Claire Lorel

    Rumor had it that Lady Waring was an accomplished flirt - and a mercenary adventuress... The Marquess of Brandsley had come out of the seclusion of his country estate to save his young cousin from the clutches of this beautiful widow. Only to fin...

  • The Face of Love

    Anne N. Reisser

    Though she struggled to maintain control, Andrea couldn't deny the waves of pleasure coursing through her body as his strong hands caressed her knowingly. Breck Carlson -- blond, blue-eyed, towering above her like a Ming warrior. His vigor and amb...

  • The Nightmare Begins

    Jerry Ahern

    World War III is now a bloody page in American history. With nuclear holocaust killing more than a quarter-billion people worldwide and the United States just a memory, John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Cover Operations Officer, weapons expert, and survival...

  • Emerald Bay

    Winter Ames

    Once Nan had let her heart rule her life. Now the auburn-haired beauty is divorced and making it in the high-powered world of real estate. By the breathtaking mountains and emerald waters of Lake Tahoe, she suddenly finds herself working hand in glov...

  • Rapture Regained

    Serena Alexander

    Cathy Dawson had left breathtakingly beautiful Malawi to escape the memories, the heartbreak--and Derek Guenther. Six years have passed when she returns, unwillingly, to manage Africa House, the estate and wildlife preserve of her ailing uncle. Me...

  • The Goblin Tree

    Robyn Anzelon

    She couldn't believe he would harm anyone... Brooke Williamson returned to her beloved California to photograph the coastline for a book of poems. Or so her story went. In reality, it was the trouble at Seafog -- the house on the cliffs -- that drew ...

  • Love's Treacherous Journey

    Patti Beckman

    AN INFURIATING MAN! That was Katy O'Hara's personal opinion of movie superstar Craig Sverenson. But as junior editor of Personality Magazine, she had to remain objective and get an in-depth interview with Sverenson while he filmed his late...

  • To Have, to Hold

    Elaine Camp

    WHOM DID HE REALLY LOVE? Temple could hardly believe her luck when she landed the glamorous singing job at St. Thomas's most fashionable nightclub. It was her chance to be somebody, to live the good life on the exotic, sun-baked island. B...

  • Tender Yearnings

    Elaine Raco Chase

    Writer Nick Maxwell arrives at a Virginia bookshop to find the owner causing problems for his father's credit card company. Abigail Wetherby turns out NOT to be a dusty old bibliophile, but a gorgeous, sexy woman making changes -- in more ways than o...

  • Wanderer's Dream

    Rita Clay

    SHE HAD WON THE PRIZE -- AND LOST HER HEART. When Danee Hathaway won a trip to Acapulco, she thought all her dreams had come true. What could be better than cloudless skies and beaches of soft, white sand? Then she met Travis.Cameron. This hand...

  • All for Love

    Patricia Gallagher

    After her grandfather's death, Jacintha Howard was left only the family's New York mansion, Riverview, and her abiding love for Earl Britton. She had adored her guardian since she was a child, but Earl was married to another, and Jacintha would n...

  • Renegade Girl

    Mary Ann Gibbs

    SHE WAS FORCED TO SUFFER THE SHAME OF HER FATHER'S CRIMES! Poor Vicky Lingford. Her feckless, handsome father had scandalously ruined the family name by swindling most of London's finest and fleeing to the continent Disgraced beyond repair, snu...

  • Quest for Love

    Doris Faber

    Love defied an ancient curse... His lies hurt...but the truth hurt more Fran was devastated when Terry abruptly left Ireland. It had been so easy to fall in love with him -- and so hard to understand why he'd suddenly disappeared without an...

  • Passionate Stranger

    Caroline Gayet

    Claudine had thought her marriage was over. Before Bryce's accident they had done nothing but quarrel. Then a senseless car crash changed both their lives completely. Her husband lay swathed in bandages for months. Only after extensive plastic surger...

  • Enchantment

    Anne Hampson

    BROKEN PROMISES, SHATTERED DREAMS Monique was hurt when Miles told her that they had to hide their engagement if she was to follow him to his new job on Grand Cayman Island. It seemed to foreshadow the end of the engagement, and her fears were ...

  • The Seventh Gate

    Delores Holliday

    She wanted a refuge -- she found horror. Lea Bond stepped back in time when she claimed her inheritance, the brooding seacoast house called Seven Gates. Her striking resemblance to her dead Aunt Joanna made the past come eerily to life. She was told ...

  • The Cautious Heart

    Phillppa Heywood

    Still a captivating beauty ten years after her own scandal-tainted season, Eleanor Portland returns to London. Facing down and finally dazzling the society that would shun her, Eleanor comes into her own. As a girl, she'd loved unwisely and borne...

  • Too Close for Comfort

    Lori Herter

    “Baja California is no place for a woman alone,” said the arrogant stranger. Mark Chavira was too handsome by far. And far too self-assured. But Joey Scott pointedly ignored his disturbing stare and set out for La Paz, Mexico. All too soon she...

  • Waters of Eden

    Katherine Kent

    FROM ENGLAND'S BLEAK PROMISE - TO HAWAII'S SWEET BLISS! Delicate, golden-haired Anne Demarest sailed to Hawaii hoping to unravel the mystery of her father's death. But Anne's heart held still another secret - the memory of fog-shrouded meetings wi...

  • Oh, What a Tangled Web

    Joyce Lee

    She seemed perfect--as exquisite as a porcelain doll with a face like a cameo. But rumor was rampant. She had a bizarre deformity. A hideous hidden birthmark. She was mad. How else explain why a beauty like Callie Belcroft had been kept so discreetly...

  • Only Perfect

    Rochelle Larkin

    SAMANTHA AND DAVID HAD EVERYTHING... ...an ideal marriage, two lovely children, success in their separate fields of art and business. They were beautiful people leading beautiful lives, insulated by love and wealth from the problems most married cou...

  • Toria

    Margaret MacWilliams

    She was born in disgrace and raised in poverty, a servant who soared to the top of London's theatrical world with her astounding beauty, glorious voice, and the blessings of the Prince of Wales himself. Toria Leighton ruled supreme onstage. Bu...

  • The Court of the Flowering Peach

    Janette Radcliffe

    Wild ecstasy and soaring passion in the secret heart of the Orient... Katie Adair, the schoolmaster's beautiful daughter. She would be swept from seclusion in England to sail the China Seas with the brooding Rupert Llewellyn in search of precious sil...

  • Love's Encore

    Rachel Ryan (1)

    A glorious day on the sparkling Utah slopes lay behind her. Flames blazed on the hearth in front of her. Before she knew what possessed her, Camille had surrendered utterly to the virile stranger -- a man like no man she had met before. Two ...

  • The Fugitive Heiress

    Amanda Scott

    A HIGH-SPIRITED YOUNG BEAUTY SPURNS A RESPECTABLE OFFER OF MARRIAGE AND SETS HER CAP FOR LONDON'S MOST ELIGIBLE LORD. A LONDON KIND OF LOVE Catheryn Westering should have been happy to marry eminently respectable, utterly devoted Mr. Edmund Cas...

  • Chasing Rainbows

    Esther Sager

    They grew up on a green-hilled estate in Virginia--Winna, the perfect beauty; Libby, the auburn-haired favorite. Then a childhood accident left Libby to struggle for the rest of ' her life against towering physical odds. Now she is an exquisite wo...

  • Valley of the Butterflies

    Anne Shore

    One computer error had brought her from Texas to the Athens office of Adelfia Cinetronics, Inc. Now another had plucked her from the typing pool and whisked her off to Adam Adelfia's private island to be his executive assistant for the holidays. ...

  • Midnight Wine

    Edith St. George

    NEVER A BRIDE? Heather Ashton wanted to be a wife and mother more than anything in the world. Her compassionate heart had led her into three engagements, but she had never been married. Now she was beginning to think she was incapable of truly fal...

  • Fourteen Karat Beauty

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    DRIVEN TO DESPAIR . . . From the moment they met, Paige Garrison knew that Linc Tanner was someone special. Arrogant and magnetic, he seemed to her as dangerous as his profession: auto racing. She came from a different world, and her wealthy fa...

  • Communicating Door

    Stella Allen

  • Saint and the Brighter Buccaneer

    Leslie Charteris

    “The art of crime,” said Simon Templar, “is to be versatile,” and in these fifteen tales the Saint is as good as his word. Whilst dispensing his own brand of justice to a rich assortment of villains, he kisses a policewoman, buys a raceho...

  • Suspect

    B.M. Gill

    Two years after neurosurgeon Paul McKendrick is accused of incompetency by George Webber, the husband of a patient left paralyzed after an operation, McKendrick's daughter and mistress are killed and the police suspect Webber...

  • Solo Blues

    Paula Gosling

  • Mozart Score

    Edwin Leather

  • A Man of Affairs

    John D. MacDonald

    Sam Glidden owed all his success to the opportunities he'd received from Thomas McGann, president of the Harrison Corporation. But now McGann was dead, and Mike Dean, a wildly flamboyant business speculator, was looking to add the Harrison Corporatio...

  • A Sort of Samurai

    James Melville

    When the body of a German businessman is found in a disused warehouse in the aftermath of a local earthquake, Superintendent Otani and his trusted detectives - the streetwise 'Ninja' Noguchi and the flamboyant Jiro Kimura - believe it to be a routine...

  • When the Wind Blows

    John Saul

    When the Wind Blows THE CHILDREN WILL CRY... The children were waiting. Waiting for centuries. Waiting for someone to hear their cries. Now nine-year-old Christie Lyons has come to live in the house on the hill -- the house where no child...

  • Kamikaze Justice

    Patrick Lee

    CROSSED SWORDS Tanaka Tom Fletcher is in Colorado seeking f Bradley Ashton, a former lieutenant in the regiment that murdered his family. Learning that Ashton is leading a religious cult in the Rocky Mountain valley, Fletcher takes off for the com...

  • Mysteries of the Worm

    Robert Bloch

    As in a dream I swayed to the gilded coffin. I tore away the paneling and lifted the lid, and then I knew it was no dream, for dreams cannot approach the horror that was the creature lying within, with eyes like a midnight demon's and a face of loath...

  • A Dead Giveaway

    Stella Allan

    Acceding to her new lover's enthusiasm, Julia Sturgis, a successful playwright, visits the country retreat of her wealthy ex-lover and finds herself embroiled in a dangerous drama of chicanery, kidnapping, and murder...

  • Night Probe!

    Clive Cussler

    Dirk Pitt proved invincible in RAISE THE TITANIC! Now, with the future of virtually every person in the world at stake, he is enlisted to spearhead his most daring mission yet--the rescue of a vital document for the United States. For an energy-starv...

  • The Revenge Game

    Gerald Hammond

    When a skeleton is deposited on the flooded banks of a canal, Gerald Hammond--gunsmith and sometime hunter--becomes enmeshed in the fatal sequence of events played out against the background of the wild Scottish Lowlands...

  • Remembrance

    Danielle Steel

    Her beloved Italian homeland shattered in the wake of World War II, exquisite Serena, Principessa di San Tibaldo, has nothing left except her name, her ancestry... and her heart which she gives completely and forever to Major Brad Fullerton. But not ...

  • The Ladies of Hanover Square

    Rona Randall

    Dulcima Howard, former Gaiety Girl, madame of a fashionable card salon, and mistress of young Lord Ashleigh, yearns for marriage and respectability. But Justin Ashleigh seeks more violent pleasures, for he has inherited the pale amber eyes and the in...

  • Gypsy Fires

    Marianne Harvey

    High above the storm-ravaged Cornish coast, Carnecrane, ancestral home of the proud Cremyllas family stood waiting... waiting for Carmella - waif, child-woman, impetuous actress - to play out her greatest role. Green eves flashing, she yearned f...

  • The Pride

    Judith Saxton

    Book One in the compelling Neyler Quartet, following the triumphs and tragedies of a wealthy family through the first fifty tumultuous years of the twentieth centuryBook One in the compelling Neyler Quartet1901Tina Rose is the beloved daughter of a w...

  • Shadow of Cain

    Vincent Bugliosi

    Raymond Lomak is a mass murderer, and he's due to be released from San Quentin. Has he been rehabilitated?...

  • Dupe

    Liza Cody

    THE P.I. FROM THE U.K. She's street smart. Tart tongued. And very, very British. Meet the sassy star of an award-winning private investigator series. ANNA LEE The police call it an open-and-shut case, an accident. But Deirdre Jackson's parents w...

  • The Eisenhower Deception

    Clive Egleton

    Eisenhower decides to stop the British invasion of the Suez, and Charles Winter, determined to have it proceed, manufactures evidence damaging to Eisenhower, threatening to expose it unless the president cooperates...

  • The Ultimate Game

    Ralph Glendinning

    The Man challenges Jim Dempsey, Fairport's powerful and brilliant chief of police, to the ultimate game of criminal skill when he commits a series of meticulously planned murders without an apparent motive...

  • Without a Trace

    John Harris

  • The Keeper of the Isis Light

    Monica Hughes

    Since Olwen has spent her entire life on an uninhabited planet, adapting to its environment, when a spaceship from Earth appears, Olwen, although a human being, finds the earthmen repelled by her appearance...

  • Mouse Days

    Leo Lionni

  • A Circle in the Sea

    Steve Senn

    Through the powers of a ring, a 13-year-old girl with problems adjusting to her new school enters an undersea world where she becomes a dolphin and aids the whales in retaliating against slaughter by whalers....

  • There's a Party at Mona's Tonight

    Harry Allard

  • Voyagers

    Ben Bova

    Keith Stoner, ex-astronaut turned physicist, knows the signal from space that his research station is receiving is not random. Whatever it is, it's real. And it's headed straight for Earth. He'll do anything to be the first man to go out to c...

  • Chances

    Jackie Collins

    The book that made Collins one of America's favorite authors sweeps readers from the sophisticated playgrounds of Europe to the glittering gambling palaces of Las Vegas, plunging into the world of the Santangelo crime family. The book introduces stre...

  • Below the Salt

    Thomas B. Costain

    Time was strangely rolled back 700 years so that he was hearing an account of those stirring, violent events in England and Europe that led to Magna Charta and thus contributed so much to the liberties of future generations: with a story, most of it ...

  • The Birds of the Air

    Alice Thomas Ellis

  • The Man With a Load of Mischief

    Martha Grimes

    Long Piddleton had always been wary of newcomers. But the quiet town was stunned when the first stranger was found dead, upended in a butt of ale in the cellar of the Men with a Load of Mischief. Then the second body appeared, swinging in place of th...

  • The Phantom Warrior

    Fred Grove

    When Victorio, the terrible Apache war chief appears to have returned from the dead and incites the Apache tribes, only an undermanned cavalry and a few trusted Apache scouts can save the town from destruction...

  • The Last Great Love

    Marilyn Harris

    Catherine and Jeff shared all the sweet pleasures of life; raising two children, buying a home, struggling together to build a family and establish careers. And whether they fought or fondled, wept or whispered, they always knew the tender and passio...

  • Double Standards

    Aviva Hellman

    Beth Van Ess, a middle-aged woman currently without a husband or children, reviews the past thirty years of her life--her marriage, her attempts to fulfill her family's conflicting needs, her divorce--and builds a new life for herself...

  • Angel of Light

    Joyce Carol Oates

    A story of loyalty, betrayal, revenge and finally, forgiveness. It begins when Maurice Halleck, Director of the Commission for the Ministry of Justice is accused of wrongdoing, then dies in a suspicious car accident. A suicide note and confession are...

  • Fighter Pilot

    Kelly Rollins

  • Whispers III

    Stuart D. Schiff

  • Bread upon the Waters

    Irwin Shaw

    With one act of kindness, the fate of a Manhattan family is forever altered in this New York Times–bestselling novel by the author of Rich Man, Poor Man.  The Strands are a happy family, save for the occasional financial struggle. Allen, t...

  • The Pet Store

    Peter Spier

  • My School

    Peter Spier

  • The Food Market

    Peter Spier

  • The Toy Shop

    Peter Spier

  • The Fire House

    Peter Spier

  • Last Rites

    Paul Spike

  • Pretender to the Throne

    Vladimir Voinovich

    When Chonkin is mistaken for Prince Golitsyn, Hitler, Himmler, Stalin, and Beria try to have him captured, each side needing him for their political machinations, but Chonkin, the wise fool, eludes them in this burlesque of institutionalized fear and...

  • Women's Work

    Anne Tolstoi Wallach

    Domina Drexler, the smart, attractive, and ambitious vice-president of a powerful advertising firm, is driven to overcome all obstacles and to become the senior vice-president and a director of the company...

  • The Maharajah and Other Stories

    T.H. White

  • Treasures on Earth

    Carter Wilson

  • Roman Candles

    Tracy Adams

  • Legions of Antares

    Alan Burt Akers

    For too long the iron legions of the evil empress of Hamal had devastated the neighboring lands and islands of Kregen. Under the twin suns of Antares, that planet of marvels had been made a scene of carnage, rapine, and death. Dray Prescot, Earthman ...

  • The Manhunter

    Matt Braun

    In a lawless landWhen Luke Starbuck takes on a wealthy banker as a client, the only thing more compelling than the paycheck is his prey. The James-Younger gang has confounded countless detectives, including the men of the Pinkerton Agency. Now it'...

  • The Parasite

    Ramsey Campbell

  • Solar Menace

    Nick Carter

  • Abbie in Love

    Barbara Corcoran

    Although she often thinks about her family, home, and friends in Montana, Abbie Fiske is fascinated by the fast-paced life in Boston and New York City and falls madly in love with Congressman Philip Blanton...

  • Little, Big

    John Crowley

    John Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood -- not found on any map -- to marry Daily Alice Drinkawater, as was prophesied. It is the st...

  • Longarm and the Blue Norther

    Tabor Evans

    ICE STORMS AND LONGHORNS... When too many fences are cut for cattle rustling, Longarm is sent out to collar the culprits. Instead he winds up in the thick of a local land feud, a troubled budding romance, and the fading marriage of a memorable you...

  • The Bay of Noon

    Shirley Hazzard

    Long out of print, Shirley Hazzard's classic novel of love and memoryA young Englishwoman working in Naples, Jenny comes to Italy fleeing a history that threatened to undo her. Alone in the fabulously ruined city, she idly follows up a letter of intr...

  • The Day Beyond Destiny

    Anna James

    RHODES WAS THEIR ISLAND, CALLING THEM BACK TO HER WINDSWEPT SHORES... AMANDA. Born an American, she would be seduced by the fiery Alexis Venitikos, shipping magnate and freedom fighter, the man who would lead her from a loveless marriage into a ne...

  • Lookout Mountain

    Paul Ledd

  • Way of Passion

    Elizabeth Lee

  • Silver Nutmeg

    Norah Lofts

    He could buy anything... except her love. He had built his empire on nutmeg, the treasure of the exotic spice island of Banda. Evert Haan's kingdom lacked only one thing - a wife. Ad so Annabet arrived from Holland by ship... but her celebrat...

  • The Unforgiven

    Patricia MacDonald

    She swore she was innocent. Maggie Fraser has tried to forget. The body of the man she loved. The blood seeping into the snow. The scandalous murder trial. The twelve agonizing years in prison for a crime she did not commit. But now Maggie is ...

  • The Spoils of Eden

    Cary Morgan

    LIMITLESS WEALTH. ENDLESS DESIRE. Leona Travis - beautiful, ruthless, and ravenous, who used her sensuality to stir and satisfy the hungers of many different men as she rose to breathtaking heights in the exclusive world of the international super...

  • Follow the Drum

    Andre Norton

    Johanna and her brother, Gerrit, had waited their whole lives for a real home in England, instead of the military camp tents they had come to know. But on their arrival in England, Gerrit was framed for treason. He managed to escape the noose, only t...

  • My True Love

    Denise Robins

    Lovely, orphaned Lyn Taylor feared the fabulous whirl of the sophisticated London social season would pass her by. As secretary to her wealthy, snobbish Aunt Diana, she was the carefully hidden Cinderella as the list of eligible bachelors - men of mo...

  • Venetian Rhapsody

    Denise Robins

    Twenty years of age, Katherine Shaw arrives in Venice, to be governess for the Marchesa Voccheroni's daughter. For Katherine, it was a fairy tale come true - Venice is the most romantic city in the world. From a quiet English upbringing, Katherine su...

  • Winged Love

    Denise Robins

    Torn by war, torn by love... From war-darkened London to the lush countryside of southern France during World War II, a pilot is caught in a conflict of passion versus duty. Neir Richardson, an R.A.F. flight lieutenant, fought side-by-side with the F...

  • Love Play

    Rosemary Rogers

    They have money, power and arrogance--and the world is theirs. Beautiful and unspoiled, Sara Coleville knows she can play their game. Now her fine-bred defiance and brazen masquerades have excited Marco Marcantoni--enflaming the hot-blooded duke's mo...

  • Emmeline

    Judith Rossner

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar -- a haunting tale of forbidden love set against the backdrop of the American industrial revolution.This is the story of Emmeline Mosher, who, before her fourteenth birthday, was s...

  • The Fugitive Heiress

    Amanda Scott

    A HIGH-SPIRITED YOUNG BEAUTY SPURNS A RESPECTABLE OFFER OF MARRIAGE AND SETS HER CAP FOR LONDON'S MOST ELIGIBLE LORD. A LONDON KIND OF LOVE Catheryn Westering should have been happy to marry eminently respectable, utterly devoted Mr. Edmund Cas...

  • Daughters of Moonsong

    Jessica Stuart

    Exquisite passions explode in the enthralling saga of a dynasty driven by lust -- and a daughter marked by her mother's sin. Locked into a loveless marriage with the man who secretly covets her mother's fortune, April Moonsong yearns for h...

  • Onyxx

    Tony Chiu

  • The American

    Howard Fast

    Fast's stunning reimagining of the life of John Peter Altgeld, a courageous politician and forgotten national hero Though Abraham Lincoln is often considered the United States' most legendary politician, he wasn't the only country lawyer out of Il...

  • Easy Company in the Black Hills

    John W. Howard

  • Short Fiction of Norman Mailer

    Norman Mailer

  • Hot Time in Old Town

    Mike McQuay

  • Remember Me When I Am Dead

    Carol Beach York

    The first Christmas after their mother dies is especially difficult when nine-year-old Jenny receives a message and a gift from Momma and writes her a letter. Jenny Loring was puzzled by the grim little verse that had suddenly appeared in her scho...

  • A Killing Trade

    William Boyles

  • Listen to the Animals

    William L. Coleman

    Monkeys, jaguars, porcupines, panda bears-and almost fifty other exciting animals jump, run and fly through the pages of this book. And each one has his own delightful story to tell to the minds of that one kind of person who never tires of animal st...

  • Alpine Gambit

    Ned Cort

    Fortress of Fear in cold mountain isolation, the Nazis are building a massive fortress say reports, from which they will fight forever. The boxer tem parachutes down to a glacial Alpine ridge, to work secretly with Russian agents and discover the tru...

  • Mariana

    Karen Strickler Dean

  • Coming Out

    Wallace Hamilton

    For gay men and lesbians, as well as for the families and friends of gays, this 1990's guide to coming out privately and publicly is a frank, powerful, and much-needed book. Eichberg says that a full-scale effort to find a cure for AIDS will only be ...

  • Sheltered Lives

    Mary Hazzard

    Sheltered Lives is a novel about a young woman's journey from New England to New Mexico in the 1960s. Gail Godwin described it as an honest, elegant, individualistic narrative about a woman making an effort to re-evaluate herself in terms of her marr...

  • Gilded Canary

    Brad Latham

  • Canopus in Argos

    Doris Lessing

  • King of Argent

    John T. Phillifent

  • Former King

    Steven pond

  • Annie Jordan

    Mary B. Post

    “I ask you to drink to the woman who made all this possible for us -- to the woman who started out life on the waterfront, made the First Hill accept her… To Annie Jordan, my friends, a woman of courage, honesty, and beauty, such as we will not ...

  • Super Sundays

    Ken Rappoport

  • Secret Lover Elmtree

    Arthur Roth

  • I Hate Preppies Handbook

    Ralph Schoenstein

  • Mallory's Luck

    Katherine Shoesmith

    It was her lack of personal resources that enabled Deborah Corless to endure the grudging charity of her relatives -- and the gloomy bitterness that had shrouded Ralston House since the mysterious death of her cousin, lovely young Lucia Ralston, six ...

  • Counter Play

    Anne Snyder

  • The Abyss

    Marguerite Yourcenar

    Marguerite Yourcenar instantly assumes command of our imagination in her novel The Abyss. Almost before we know it the author establishes a scene and time, and engages us in the fate of two cousins.

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  • Come Alive at 505

    Robin F. Brancato

  • Survival of Freedom

    John F. Carr

  • Prisoner of Cell Block H

    Mary Carter

  • The Nitrogen Fix

    Hal Clement

    A Nomadic family in the future is allied with an octopus-like alien who can survive in earth's new atmosphere, which has combined with nitrogen. Humans must live in shelters with oxygen-generating plants, or use suitable breathing equipment. Some of ...

  • The Old Neighborhood

    Avery Corman

    At midlife, Steven Robbins returns to his old Bronx neighborhood and boyhood memories, instinctively searching for the happiness and fulfillment his successful but empty marriage and advertising career have not provided...

  • Tuppenny

    Julia Cunningham

    Tuppenny goes to Jessica's house for employment and finds it full of secrets about Jessica's runaway sister, and, at a church, she witnesses a terrifying sacrifice that seems to destroy her as it had destroyed a minister's child...

  • The Point Man

    Steve Englehart

    A magickal novel by comics legend Steve Englehart in which an ex-Army DJ is recruited by a legendary alchemist to fight a cabal that is using magick as a weapon of mass destruction.Max August was a point man when he served during the Vietnam War, the...

  • Diamond Spitfire

    Robin Moore

  • Other Stories and the Attack of the Giant Baby

    Kit Reed

  • Rabble in Arms

    Kenneth Roberts

    The second of Roberts's epic novels of the American Revolution, Rabble in Arms was hailed by one critic as the greatest historical novel written about America upon its publication in 1933. Love, treachery, ambition, and idealism motivate an unfor...

  • Matter of Time

    Roni Schotter

  • Through the Narrow Gate

    Karen Armstrong

  • Witchfires

    Santana Arroyo

    Salem's witch hunters drove beautiful Maddie Bradshaw into the arms of a rogue pirate! A Bewitching Beauty When rejected suitor Andrew Matthias accuses lovely Maddie Bradshaw of witchcraft, she has nowhere to turn. Despite her father’s wa...

  • The Indian Killer

    Harold Calin

  • Breaker

    Kit Denton

    There was a Breaker Morant—he was executed at Pietersburg on 27 February 1902. His crime? Wilful murder of civilians. Yet to this day his guilt remains in doubt. Kit Denton''s novel, The Breaker, does more than recount the facts and mystery ...

  • Charlie and the Ice Man

    John Eller

  • England Made Me

    Graham Greene

    From master storyteller Graham Greene comes the tale of Anthony Farrant, who has boasted, lied and cheated his way through jobs all over the world. Then his adoring twin sister, Kate, gets him taken on as the bodyguard of Krogh, her lover and boss, a...

  • Last View of Eden

    Ralph Hayes

  • My Guru and His Disciple

    Christopher Isherwood

    My Guru and His Disciple is a sweetly modest and honest portrait of Isherwood's spiritual instructor, Swami Prabhavananda, the Hindu priest who guided Isherwood for some thirty years. It is also a book about the often amusing and sometimes painful co...

  • Matthew Ratton

    Anne Knowles

  • The Best Sellers

    Stephen Lewis

  • Cassy

    Elizabeth Lyle

    MAKE A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE TO SAVE THE FAMILY FORTUNES? CASSY PUT HER FOOT DOWN. Even though the Marquis of Allingham is extremely handsome, wealthy, and in all things suitable, Lucasta, known as Cassy, will marry only for love. When tragedy l...

  • An Imperfect Joy

    Jean Stubbs

    Continues the saga of the Howarth family, detailing the problems, triumphs, and loves of Charlotte and her brothers, William and Dick, in Wydendale Valley at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution...

  • Love Is of the Valley

    Jean Stubbs

  • Hot Night in Purgatory

    Steve Travis

  • A Room To Die In

    Ellery Queen
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    A schoolteacher fights to prove that her father’s suicide was actually murder in this classic whodunit from one of the greatest names in mystery fiction. Ann hasn’t seen her mother in three years, and she doesn’t miss her at all. But without wa...

  • Another beginning

    Sian James

  • Harvest of Fury

    Jeanne Williams

    They claimed a heritage of passion, a dynasty of power, from the young wild glory that was Arizona! THEY WERE WOMEN WHO LIVED BOLDLY, FIGHTING FOR THE LAND --AND THE MEN THEY LOVED... For Talitha, blond foster child, gentle stormy-eyed Patrick ...

  • Dust Devil

    Parris Afton Bonds

    Their passion gave rise to a mighty desert empire... On the untamed Southwestern plains they made love--and history. Rosemary... the feisty Irishwoman with secret fears--and secret loves. She made the Cambria empire hers forever. Stephen......

  • Another Life

    Rosemary Carter

    Did such a perfect love only tempt fate? Young, beautiful, Sara Demaine was on the verge of a brilliant career as a prima ballerina, desperately in love with Dr. Clyde Montgomery and eagerly looking forward to their marriage.... Yet one year la...

  • Flash Point

    Jane Donnelly

    He was actually trying to bribe her! Liam Sherrard really believed that Carly was after his aunt's money. She was incensed when he even offered to recompense her if she'd refuse the old lady's invitation to visit their chateau in Britt...

  • The Storms of Spring

    Sandra Field

    She was afraid she'd never become a woman. After her desperately unhappy marriage to Barry, the last thing Vicki Peters wanted was another involvement. Being an unloved widow was better than risking her heart again. But almost against her w...

  • Arctic Enemy

    Linda Harrel

    The journey brought danger--and love For reporter Sarah Grey it was the assignment of a lifetime --accompanying the supertanker Arctic Enterprise on her maiden voyage through the Northwest Passage. Despite the hazards involved she was determine...

  • Falcon's Prey

    Penny Jordan

    Could East and west love side by side? They were in love--why shouldn't they be married? But both Felicia and Faisal knew there would be problems. Ordinary English girls just didn't marry wealthy Arabs. On a cloud of love and optimism, ...

  • Untamed Witch

    Patricia Lake

    From the best to the worst... in a moment No love could be greater than what Amy felt for the sensitive artist Matt Cavanagh. From moment they met, she knew they were destined for each other. When Amy agreed to visit Crete with Matt, she though...

  • Dangerous

    Charlotte Lamb

    "I've never trusted a woman in my life!" Domenicos Aegethos was as blunt as his words. A wealthy man who got what he wanted, he brooked no argument from anyone, least of all a woman. As companion to Domenicos's motherless daughter, Laura had he...

  • Moonshadow

    Valentina Luellen

    Dominic liked women who were soft... But Veronique, now that she shouldered all the responsibilities for her father's plantation, was becoming anything but. Yet why should she care? Despite her girlhood crush on the handsome Dominic d'E...

  • Chance of Love

    Helen May

    Love had never entered her plans Elinor had come to London to find a rich husband. She found instead the poor but disturbingly attractive Mr. Christopher Brand. She thought him a dissolute gambler. He thought her a scheming minx. She revised he...

  • Freedom to Love

    Carole Mortimer

    Women were just playmates to him Adam Wild was a dynamic man--a talented photographer, exceptionally attractive, but cynical to the core. Women flocked to him, but his affairs never lasted long. In his own words, "Only freedom can give happine...

  • Dangerous Rapture

    Sue Peters

    "He'll be old and bandy-legged ..." Or so Roma's roommate had predicted of Earl Paget. Roma had inherited not only the racehorse, Silver Cloud, but also Earl, its trainer. It was unfortunate that the man didn't match her roo...

  • Bold Breathless Love

    Valerie Sherwood

    He called her his Golden Bird of Love and he had wanted her from the day he'd first seen her on the balcony next to his in Amsterdam. Clad only in her nightdress, her golden hair catching the rays of the sun at dawn, her voice softly raised in song. ...

  • The Viscount's Witch

    Edith De Paul

    She was blessed with healing hands, breathtaking beauty, and a disguise too effective for her own good. Even the Viscount of Kingsley thought Vanessa was a boy and employed her first as a groom for his injured horse, then as his own personal page! Ho...

  • Friday is a Killing Day

    James A. Howard

    The murder method was always the same, and the killer always struck on a Friday. The police thought psychologist Whit Ely should have the answers. But all he knew was that another Friday was coming up. And Friday was a killing day!...

  • Prompt for Murder

    Sinclair MacKellar

    He was an easy man to hate--and to murder Desmond Connors was the dirtiest stage director in the business. He cheated on his wife. He blackmailed members of his cast. He broke contracts. And he got away with it. Finally someone had had enough. ...

  • The Coven

    James M. Fox

    The rich have the money to keep their follies private… But sometimes the price can be too high! When Robert C. Whitney III started to go off the rails, his family paid Attorney John Rose to keep the police and the press quiet. It was easy ...

  • Voice Of The Past

    Margaret Leek

  • Covenant of the Crown

    Howard Weinstein

    THE SHADDAN CROWN IS THE KEY TO POWER--AND THE KLINGONS HAVE THE ADVANTAGE! An Enterprise shuttle is forced to crash-land in a violent storm on the barren planet Sigma 1212. Spock, McCoy and Kailyn, the beautiful heir to the Shaddan throne, surviv...

  • The Stone Idol

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • The Vanishing Thieves

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • Running Out of Magic

    Elizabeth Levy

  • Santa Claus Killer

    Alfred Slote

  • Showdown at Black Mesa

    Cort Martin

    THERE WEREN'T MANY WHO COULD STAND UP TO HIS FAST DRAW--OR HIS HOT GUN!BOLT WAS A WANTED MAN... WANTED BY HIS FAMILY THE LAW--AND BY A WHOLE LOT OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN! Jared Bolt takes the risk of returning to Black Mesa when he hears that beautiful Bel...

  • Sweet Familiarity

    Daoma Winston

    From the author of Mira comes this remarkable new novel of an occult vengeance and reincarnation. After a ten-year exile a young man returns to his hometown -- the scene of an accident which had cut short the life of his love, a girl of great beauty ...

  • In the Shining Mountains

    David Thompson

  • On Maiden Lane

    Bruce Nicolaysen