Books Published in August 1984

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — AUGUST 1984

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New Books List: 370 titles

  • You Want to Be What

    Anne Snyder

  • You and No Other

    Cynthia Wright

    She didn't want to be his wife -- until she burned to be his lover... "I FIND THAT I AM IN LOVE WITH MADEMOISELLE DE FLEURANCE," SAID ST. BRIAC TO THE KING. "I CAME HERE TO ASK HER TO BE MY WIFE:' What a thrill to hear those words from him! Yet...

  • Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris

    Susan Mary Alsop

    Hardcover book with dust jacket relates the history of representatives of the newly founded United States of America in Paris in the years 1775-1785. Notes; bibliography;index. 319 pages. Illustrated.Author is Susan Mary Alsop....

  • Wyoming Wench

    Dirk Fletcher

    Arriving in the town of Elk Creek, Wyoming, on an undercover mission to expose the brutality and madness of the town's sheriff, Spur McCoy gets a warm welcome in the arms of a blonde bombshell who distracts him from the task at hand. Reissue....

  • The Wyomian

    Betsy Page

    Blythe didn't know he'd hunted her down Blythe Walters was the kind of woman any man would be proud to have as his wife, and she was doing a fine job of raising the twins. But try telling that to Tate Calihan... . The mysterious rancher...

  • The Wrong Man

    Ann Major

    HE WAS ALL WRONG Grant had never fit comfortably into Abigail's life. She was the daughter of one of Pittsburgh's wealthiest families; he was the son of an immigrant steelworker. It took eight long years for her to put him in her past--an...

  • Worthy Opponents

    Nicole Carr

  • The World Invisible

    Shulamith Levey Oppenheim

    A young boy comes of age as he must make a decision between two worlds--the life of a man like his human father or to surrender to the siren call of the sea, the legacy of his mother, a selchie, a mythical Scottish creature...

  • A World Apart

    Emma Darcy

    She wanted love and marriage--not a fling It was one thing to match wits with Patrick Hagan on a TV talk show, where authors were expected to promote their wares in as frivolous a manner as possible. It was quite another to be madly pursued in the...

  • Working Relationship

    Madeleine Ker

    It wasn't very easy to like Seton Chambers As a director of powerful and compassionate documentaries, he had inspired Madge to become a filmmaker As a man and an employer, he was utterly impossible, and she came close to hating him. He was ...

  • The Women's Room

    Marilyn French

    A landmark in feminist literature, THE WOMEN'S ROOM is a biting social commentary of a world gone silently haywire. Written in the 1970s but with profound resonance today, this is a modern allegory that offers piercing insight into the social norms a...

  • Woman of the Century

    Eleanora Brownleigh

    Alicia Turner was a very special kind of woman. She had the beauty and wealth that came only with New York high society, and the courage and determination that came only from a demanding profession. She was a unique blend of fire and ice, passion and...

  • Woman of Letters

    Margery Safir

    Alex, an unconventional and married young scholar sets out to seduce the man of her dreams, a Nobel Prize-winning playwright, in a story about the effects of sexual liberation in modern intellectual society...

  • The Witches of Eastwick

    John Updike

    “John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters [and] The Witches of Eastwick [is one of his] most ambitious works. . . . [A] comedy of the blackest sort.†-- The New York Times Book ReviewToward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snu...

  • Wings of the Morning

    Betty Beaty

    It was 1903, and golden-haired, aristocratic Amelia Jerningham was determined to make her mark on the world. Air travel and flying machines were still merely pipedreams, but the daring young woman knew she could make them come true. She had intellige...

  • Wild Swan // A Wild Hope

    Celeste De Blasis

    Vibrant, multicharactered, an authentic tapestry of its times, here is Wild Swan -- a novel that spans continents and generations to tell the epic story of one passionate woman, and the many faces of love. Sweeping from England's West Country dur...

  • Wild Rose

    Mary Canon

    When Rose Marie Jacguard, the South's most beautiful belle found herself swept into the strong Yankee arms of Bram Darcy, she was forced to admit that the fire-hot power of his lips was as dangerous as his dark reputation. But soon her traitorous hea...

  • Wild and Wanton

    Dorothy Vernon

    IT WAS AN ALLURING IDEA Lindsay Cooper had never thought of being a model; she only wanted to go to cosmetic heir Nick Farraday's party so she could see for herself the man she considered responsible for her brother's death. Then Nick tabbed her ...

  • Who's Who in Wagner

    Phillip Hodson

  • Whitewater Dynasty

    Helen Lee Poole

  • White Stag of Exile

    Thomas Shapcott

    COSMOPOLITAN BUDAPEST IN THE 1890S, TORAW COLONIAL BRISBANE IN AUSTRALIA: KAROLY PULSZKYWAS THE VICTIM OF POLITICAL INTRIGUE, JEALOUSY, AND HIS OWN HERITAGE OF CULTURE AND PRIDE. OTHERS MADE THE CHANGE AND GRASPED THE OPPORTUNITIES OF ANEWLIFE, A NEW...

  • A Whisper in the Night: Tales of Terror and Suspense

    Joan Aiken

    Thirteen tales blending the commonplace and the bizarre focus on the encounters of young people with the supernatural as in the tale of an unpopular student who masters the powers of a ghostly artifact to seek refuge in a happier time....

  • Web of Darkness

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    THE DARK MAGIC TOOK ALL SHE COULD GIVE The young priestess Deoris abandoned all she had once loved to follow the sorceror Riveda. He was a healer, esteemed by the Temple, but he practiced the. dark arts in secret. And when his forbidden rites requ...

  • The Wasp Factory

    Iain M. Banks

    The polarizing literary debut by Scottish author Ian Banks, The Wasp Factory is the bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath.Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: T...

  • The Walking Coat

    Pauline Watson

    The Walking Coat is Pauline Watson's beautiful story, majestically illustrated by the great Tomie dePaola.Scott's cousin's cast-off coat covers Scott from head to toe and helps him mystify friends and neighbors and enjoy a series of minor adventures....

  • Voyage to the City of the Dead

    Alan Dean Foster

    IRRITATING HORSEYE! Many worlds of the Humanx Commonwealth boasted of "natural wonders," but Horseye was truly unique--the planet, had the most spectacular river valley anywhere in the known universe and was home to three alien cultures. The fa...

  • Viriconium Nights

    M. John Harrison

  • Virgins

    Caryl Rivers

    The million-copy bestseller: “A laugh-out-loud and cry-out-loud tale of growing up . . . this fast paced, sassy novel triumphs†(The Philadelphia Inquirer).   For the seniors at Immaculate Heart High, hormones triumphed over t...

  • Venus Plus X

    Theodore Sturgeon

    Charlie Johns is living a relatively quiet life in New York City when suddenly, someone snatches him from 61 North 34th Street and delivers him to the strange, future world of Ledom. In this world, technology has triumphed over hunger, overpopulation...

  • Vengeance Valley

    J.D. Hardin

  • The Unwelcome Suitor

    Marjorie DeBoer

    FIRST HE STOLE HER HAPPINESS -- AND NOW HE WANTS TO STEAL HER HEART Beautiful Elena Tyndale had once been the happy bride of dashing Captain Rodney Farnsworth, who had won her young heart with an impulsive, wildly romantic elopement. But her br...

  • Untamed // Taming the Notorious Billionaire

    Carole Mortimer

    Sometimes forewarned is not forearmed. He had an easy charm and the ability to make Keilly feels as if she was the only woman in the world. But wasn't that part of his act? Keilly wouldn't allow herself to fall in love with a man like...

  • An Unforgettable Caress

    Donna Kimel Vitek

    Mariette couldn't resist! There was attorney Paul Gallagher's appointment book lying untended on the desk. Did it contain the name of the mystery woman he refused to reveal--his client, her real mother? She'd had to look. And been caught red-handed! ...

  • Unexpected Sunrise

    Helen Mittermeyer

    Entrepreneur Micah Steele had built an empire by going after what intrigued him and making it his. Now he wanted Delphi Reed, whose classic beauty echoed ancient Greece, when mortal men made love to goddesses. Only when Micah began to probe the lov...

  • Under Cover of Night

    Jasmine Craig

    Kristin married mild-mannered Grey Hamilton for his quiet strength and warm sensitivity--and because, in private, she discovered a man of masculine authority and virile self-control. But now his sudden reluctance to start a family... and a series of ...

  • The Tyzak Inheritance

    Nicola West

    She'd never forgiven that first betrayal So why, Trina Compson thought, should she welcome Griff Tyzak back to Compson Crystal? He'd taken advantage of her father, learning everything he could about the business and then deserting to st...

  • Two of a Kind

    Lori Copeland

    Running a Florida gift shop was a full-time challenge for spirited Courtney Spenser But when her lively widowed mother started chasing around town with seventy-year-old motorcycle enthusiast Clyde Merrill, the shop was suddenly the least of her worri...

  • Trouble Rides a Fast Horse

    J.R. Roberts

    Rufus King has made a lot of enemies -- and he deserves them all. Now, three of them are on his trail ready to dish out their own brand of frontier justice. Clint Adams is after King because King bushwhacked the Gunsmith and wounded his horse, Duke...

  • Trouble in Paradise

    Joan Smith

    GARDEN OF EDEN A hopeless romantic, Lisa had transformed her old Pocono Mountains hotel into an idyllic spot for honeymooners. And when the charming, sophisticated David Spencer checked into her Paradise Inn, she let herself believe that romance ...

  • Trivia Mania II

    Xavier Einstein

  • Treasure

    Sheldon Renan

  • Towers of Rexor

    Rhondi Vilott

  • Touched By Diamonds

    Colette Collins

  • Touch of Moonlight

    Liz Grady

    Serious-minded Sarah Templeton is horrified when her latest assignment to interview Newport's "Ten Sexiest Men" requires that she deceive the first candidate, superior court judge Brad Chandler, into going on a blind date. She's even ...

  • Too Good to Be True

    Francine Pascal

    A devil in disguise... The Wakefield twins are wild with excitement. Glamorous, sophisticated Suzanne Devlin is coming to Sweet Valley from New York City. For two weeks, Elizabeth will show her around town while Jessica has the time of her life in...

  • Tomorrow Will Come

    Megan Lane

    Everything about her was rare--her beauty, her talent, her artistry--and the fatal disease that would keep renowned ballerina Jordanna Hames from ever dancing again. Even harder to face was leaving lion, the brilliant young photographer who'd made lo...

  • To Tame a Proud Lady

    Mary Fowlkes

    She was a fool, dreaming of love Katie had only one loyalty, to her family, and one duty, to keep her brood of young brothers together in their Missouri home. And if that meant entering into a convenient arrangement with computer tycoon Jason R...

  • A Tiger for Malgudi

    R.K. Narayan

    A venerable tiger, old and toothless now, looks back over his life from cubhood and early days roaming wild in the Indian jungle. Trapped into a miserable circus career as 'Raja the magnificent', he is then sold into films (co-starring with a beefy T...

  • There Are Alligators in Our Sewers and Other American Credos

    Paul Dickson

  • The Texan's Lady

    Lauren Wilde

    He was infuriating! She was exasperating! She gave him her body but denied him her love! Christine fumed as she followed the tough tall Texas ranger up the Sierra Madres trail. She'd hired Chad Yancey to help her rescue her brother. But who would res...

  • The Tesla Bequest

    Lewis Perdue

    It was born in the mind of a benevolent genius. It became a weapon that could rule the world. New York City, 1943 Nikola Tesla, possessor of the most brilliant mind in the history of physics, lies dying in the dark. His death appears to be natural. I...

  • Terminal Transfer

    Trevor Martin

    As Chase Manhattan, GM, Texaco, and Lockheed executives ponder the whereabouts of missing corporate millions, Jordan Freeling, a computer genius avenging his father's political ruin, watches his Swiss bank account swell...

  • The Tender Melody

    Dorothy Leigh Abel

    Can Chris and Diana trust each other enough to overcome the obstacles they face to find an enduring love? When Diana arrange for her thirteen-year-old sister to meet Christ Jarrett, her favorite Christian performer, the surprise is even greater fo...

  • Tender Awakening

    Alison Tyler (1)

    How long had Laine Sinclair lived on hope? Her work-touring, speaking, keeping alive an active interest in recovering the Vietnam vets still missing in action-had become her whole life and kept that hope alive. Now it was dead. She knew for certain. ...

  • Tawny Rose

    Katherine Kent

  • Tales of Henry James

    Henry James

    """The Author on His Craft"" again reprints James 's critical essay ""The Art of Fiction"" and related passages from his notebooks, including a new passage on ""In the Cage."" ""Criticism"" has been entirely updated and includes ten new essays by cri...

  • The Switch

    Nick Sharman

    The fiery car crash that killed the American and his lovely daughter had been an accident, a tragedy that was entirely Adam Lawrence's fault. But no one knew about it -- not even Adam's invalid wife or vivacious daughter Trudy. No one knew except Ada...

  • Sweetheart of a Deal

    Suzanne Michelle

    SHE WAS SWEET ON HIM Tilley's frantic days as a Wall Street stockbroker were over. Now as the owner of a candy shop, her life revolved around holidays--chocolate bunnies for Easter, Halloween candy, Christmas sweets, and, of course, Valentine's Da...

  • Sweet Vixen

    Susan Napier

    Life without him had been dull--but safe Max Wilde had taken over as executive editor of New Zealand's leading fashion magazine just to create havoc, Sarah Carter thought bitterly. He wasn't content with changing the magazine's format, however....

  • Superior Women

    Alice Adams

    A brilliant novel tracing the tangled, heart-warming and heartbreaking relationships of a group of intelligent and attractive young women as they grow to maturity over the course of four explosive decades in American life -- from the forties to the e...

  • Sunrise Express

    Hank Ketcham

  • Summer Surrender

    Abra Taylor

    She wasn't hired to be his mistress! Christy Sinclair had expected to find tutoring Dr. Joshua Brent's motherless daughter challenging. But the passionate advances of her explosive, magnetic employer proved much more difficult. The long...

  • Summer Games

    Elizabeth Lowell

    OLYMPIC TRIALS Raine Chandler-Smith belied her slight figure with a surprising strength. She had the skill, timing, and sheer guts it took to guide a Thoroughbred through grueling cross-country endurance events. For Raine, the Olympics was the cul...

  • Sue Barton Senior Nurse

    Helen Dore Boylston

    Here is a refreshing and authentic story of a nurse’s life. In it redheaded, vivacious Sue Barton finishes her training and goes on to the many experiences, both humorous and exciting, that a pretty young nurse can meet in a great modern hospital. ...

  • Stryker's Children

    Joyce Anne Schneider

    The deaths of several women patients, including two pregnant women, lead Madison Memorial intern Dr. Jill Raney to investigate the causes of the deaths and discovers a pattern of unethical genetic experimentation masterminded by Dr. William Stryker...

  • The Steps of the Sun

    Joanna Trollope

    Set in 1899 in South Africa, as the rumblings of dissent and racial resentment began to erupt into a savage war between Boer and Briton, so three young men found their lives drawn together. Matthew Paget, son of an archdeacon, was turbulent, rebellio...

  • Steal Away

    Candice Adams

    It was a long way from Silicon Valley to backwoods Tennessee, but Laurette Hailey was ready to escape the fast-paced California computer world to come home to the Smoky Mountains and let memories of a disastrous marriage fade into the summer air. ...

  • Spies

    Richard Sapir

    An FBI investigation of a German spy ring on American soil threatens to devastate lives, loves, and families forty years after the end of World War II   A watertight packet is discovered by a diver in the waters surrounding Block Island. Unrecov...

  • Special Someone

    Terri Fields

    Katie's plans for a super summer are destroyed when her parents whisk her off to Arizona. Katie doesn't know a single soul, and she's afraid it will be the most boring vacation of her life - until she meets Dave. For Katie, Dave's a dream come tru...

  • Special Payments

    Jeremy Woods

  • The Speaker of Mandarin

    Ruth Rendell

    “The heiress apparent to Agatha Christie.†-- Los Angeles TimesChief Inspector Wexford is in China, visiting ancient tombs and palaces with a group of British tourists. Is he hallucinating, or does a bent old woman with bound feet follow him ever...

  • Space Olympics

    Ron Martinez

    You are an Interplanetary Spy. Your mission is to travel to the first space olympics and protect the super athlete Andromeda. Gresh the evil master spy plans to kidnap her and sabotage the Olympics. You must make sure that Andromeda completes the Oly...

  • Soul Warrior

    Fred Saberhagen

    Coinspinner, Farslayer, Mindsword, and nine more...The gods gave the Swords of Power to humankind for a game--but the swords can kill gods as well as mortals. And as the gods begin to die, the mortals find that life is not what it seemed...
    ...

  • Something out There

    Nadine Gordimer

  • The Snowman Who Went for a Walk

    Mira Lobe

  • Snowflakes on the Sea

    Linda Lael Miller

    MALLORY O'CONNOR McKENDRICK To the daytime TV audience she was the ruthless Other Woman, but the real Mallory's marriage seemed to be falling victim to a woman who was truly as unprincipled as the character Mallory played. NATHAN McKENDRICK ...

  • Smoke Street

    Mark Smith

    A young sailor jumps ship in a Central American nation torn by revolution and embarks on a dangerous odyssey through the war-torn country, encountering a variety of mysterious characters, as he searches for his sweetheart, an American teacher...

  • Smart Enough To Know

    Eileen Goudge

    She's a wildcat in disguise.... Elaine's closest friends -- Kit, Alex, and Lori -- are the only ones who know that she is also the rowdy school mascot, Wilbur the Wildcat. To the rest of the school, she is shy, soft-spoken Elaine Gregory "the Brai...

  • Slow Fade

    Rudolph Wurlitzer

    An intimate portrait of legendary Hollywood director Wes Hardin focuses on a man whose life and career have been devoted to the manipulation of images and who, at seventy, tries to strip himself of illusions and make peace with his world...

  • Sisters Impossible

    J.D. Landis

  • Siren

    Dino Buzzati

  • The Sioux Spaceman

    Andre Norton

    Kade Whitehawk is a rebellious junior member of the Terran Space Service, an organization involved in intergalactic trade. The background of this science fiction novel is a little different from the author's usual universe of Free Traders and long-va...

  • The Singular Miss Carrington

    Barbara Hazard

    THE ODD ALLIANCE Miss Claire Carrington was the most independent young lady ever to scandalize the London ton with her refusal to bow to the dictates of fashion or the rules of ladylike deportment. Andrew Tyson, the Marquess of Blagdon, was the...

  • Sing Me a Love Song

    Millie J. Ragosta

    Restoration authority Rosalie Farland, owner of a successful antique shop, sells a valuable family heirloom to help Michael Carmichael, the man she loves, when he finds himself in financial difficulties...

  • The Silver Horse

    Elizabeth Lynn

  • Silver Dawn

    Valerie Zayne

    Lia Cooper, efficiency expert, could make any business run like clockwork--but could she manage a relationship with charming, unpredictable Brett Rayner? A brilliant but mercurial entrepreneur, Brett was her first big client...and the first man to ar...

  • Silken Longings

    Sharon Francis

    Priding herself on her business acumen and immunity to sensual temptations, Alix Delaney boldly flies to the Orient and secures a contract to market the famous silk of Asian-American mogul Gavin Arran. But Thailand's sultry breezes, colorful page...

  • The Siege of the Dragonriders

    Eric Affabee

  • The Shores of Another Sea

    Chad Oliver

    On the dusty, remote plains of Kenya, Royce Crawford runs a baboonery. One day there is a strange light in the East African sky, and the baboons start disappearing from their cages. he finds that the animals have changed. The strange look of cold int...

  • Sheryl

    Ralph Hayes

  • The Sheepish Book of Opposites

    George Mendoza

  • Shadows of Doom

    Dennis L. McKiernan

    The winter war had begun... At Gunnaring Gap, the valiant Riders of [talon began their charge. And though Chcallerain Keep lay in ruins and butchery had led to the capture of Princess Laurelin, heroes strode forth from the ranks of Men, Elves, War...

  • Shadow Singer

    Marcia J. Bennett

  • The Shadow and the Golden Master

    Walter Brown Gibson

    Lamont Cranston, the Shadow, matches wits with the Oriental master criminal Shiwan Khan, in the first book publication of two classic novels from the original pulp magazine, "The Golden Master" and "Shiwan Khan Returns"...

  • The Seventh Swan

    Nicholas Stuart Gray

  • The Seeing Summer

    Jeannette Eyerly

  • See You in September

    Carol Ellis

  • Secrets of the Heart

    Jacqueline Ashley

    Only love could unlock the secrets of the heart Investigative reporting was Melissa McKee's lifeblood. Even, though she had given up her job with a top Washington, D.C. newspaper to move to Rockport, Maryland, Melissa still had a feel for news...

  • Secret Hearts

    Janice Harrell

  • Secret Fire

    Violet Winspear

    As far as Melly could see, she and the worldly Jourdan Lanier had nothing in common, except the rare blood that flowed in their veins. Yet Jourdan wanted Melly was his wife, and not because she'd just saved his life. Melly was exactly the wom...

  • The Secret

    Adrian Malone

  • Sail with a Pirate

    Bryon Preiss

  • Runner in the Street

    James Grady

  • Run to Rapture

    Margot Prince

    In a shocking moment of pain and failure, marathon runner Cissy Barlow had gone from odds-on favorite to spectator, betraying her Olympic chances--and her coach--by foolishly breaking his rules. Standing on crutches on the sidelines, she was preparin...

  • Rough and Ready

    Elizabeth Oldfield

    "I'll get rid of you, " Rhys had promised her And Alexis had no doubt that he meant it. She needed her job as cashier at the Casino Venetia, in London's racy Soho district, but her employer's tough Welsh bodyguard was determine...

  • Romantic Caper

    Melinda McKenzie

    Diana Bach was the daughter of an infamous international jewel thief. lyre Smyth-George was a determined Scotland Yard Inspector. Diana was impulsive, impetuous, beautiful and clever. lyre was cautious, handsome, and naturally suspicious. They wer...

  • The Right Woman

    Jenny Loring

    COULD THIS BE THE RIGHT MAN? Lia Andrews was a blackjack dealer. Flint Tancer was a gambler. At least that's what it looked like to the patrons of Lake Tahoe's Goldorado casino. In fact Lia was a psychologist working on her master's thesis. And...

  • The Revenge of the Robins Family

    Thomas Chastain

  • Revenge of Labyrinthon

    Vladimir Koziakin

  • Red America

    Ryder Stacy

    AMERICAN REBELLION! World War III shattered the United States and now a once proud nation is ruled by the brutal Russian Empire. But America's Free Cities, led by a remarkable soldier of survival, Ted Rockson, are making a bold and bloody bid for ...

  • Range of Passion

    Paula Fairman

    Hilary St. John had always loved everything connected with the Turquoise Ranch. The Arizona spread was home to her even though her family lived there only by the grace of its mysterious owner. But then one day a dark stranger from the East walked int...

  • Quimble Wood

    N.M. Bodecker

    Quimble Wood is the magical story of four little people's survival in the wilderness. When their box falls out of a car in the middle of a forest, the Quimbles are suddenly faced with the oldest of dilemmas: how to fend for themselves; how to get foo...

  • Queen of the Flat-Tops

    Stanley Johnston

  • Public Affair

    Sarah James

    To prove a point, would she risk a public affair? Liza Manchester, outspoken member of Graham University's feminist community, couldn't stand Professor Scott Harburton. Scott, best-selling author of pop psychology books, was a nightmare of...

  • The Psycho Soldiers

    John Cutter

    Jack Sullivan, the Specialist, tracks John Swenson, a vicious cult leader who escaped from a southern California asylum and is leading his bloodthirsty followers on a murder spree along the East Coast...

  • Promises in the Dark

    Pamela Wallace

    MIRANDA RICHARDSON She was the picture of a lady lawyer, but her heart was just waiting to be awakened by love. DAN AUSTIN He was an actor who played the ladykiller both on screen and off--but never in a literal sense. So he was really thrown wh...

  • Promise of Spring

    Jean Hager

    Widowed and wary April DuBois thought she had everything she needed in Rusty her six-year-old son, and her chic Tulsa boutique. But from the moment Vic Leyland invaded her life, she was threatened by passions -- and fears she'd never known before...

  • Promise of Love

    Ariel Berk

    NEVER BEFORE Carla Roche knew what it was like to be loved by a man. Hadn't she left her family and friends and risked everything to follow her husband to New York? And when Alec was gone, Carla was sure she would never feel as deeply about anyon...

  • Promise Me Paradise

    Donna Comeaux Zide

    The story of a love born in the tumult of Mexican revolt, tested in the drawing rooms of London and in the ancient ruins of Aztec glory. 1914. She wore an iridescent gown that shimmered like the plumage of a Bird of Paradise. He held her close ...

  • The Programmer's Guide to the Galaxy

    Sandra Markle

  • Prima Donna

    Carroll & Graf Publishers

  • Priestly Murders

    Joe Gash

  • Precious Objects

    D.G. Devon

  • Planet of Whispers

    James Patrick Kelly

  • Pirate's Promise

    Ann Cockcroft

    FIRST, SHE REPLACED THE LADY'S MAID. THEN SHE REPLACED THE LADY. Heather Woode knew her future prospects were dismal. After her father's death in debtor's prison, she had signed papers of indenture and boarded a ship bound for the rebe...

  • Picnic On Nearside

    John Varley

    A collection of short stories from the Hugo and Nebula award-winning author who "has the imagination of six ordinary science fiction writers" (George R.R. Martin) -- John Varley.Picnic on Nearside includes nine astonishing stories from an author whos...

  • Perfect Mouse

    Dick Gackenbach

  • The Perfect Match

    Ginna Gray

    THREE AGAINST ONE In all her considerable experience, Maggie Trent, television producer, divorcee and mother of a teenaged daughter, had never met anyone more attractive than the man she stumbled over making love to a gorgeous, brainless blonde. C...

  • Perfect Happiness

    Penelope Lively

  • The Peace War

    Vernor Vinge

    First in a quintessential hard-science fiction adventure, Hugo Award-winning author Vernor Vinge's The Peace War follows a scientist determined to put an end to the militarization of his greatest invention--and of the government behind it. The Peace ...

  • Paul Bunyan

    Steven Kellogg

    A funny retelling of the tallest of tall tales, the rollicking adventures of Paul Bunyan and his great blue ox, paired with the extravegant and lively illustrations of Steven Kellogg. Perfect for read-alouds full of laughter!

    Do you know wh...

  • Passion's Tempest

    Nicole Duval

    Island Flame With her flawless, smooth skin and enticing, soft curves, lovely Chantal had the face of an angel - and the body of a seductress. And when the pirate captain Peter O'Flaherty raided her ship in the calm Caribbean waters, he swore to ...

  • Passion's Bride // The Captain's Lady

    Jo Goodman

    "I am your prisoner," Alexis murmured bitterly when she found herself aboard an American naval vessel. But no man could hold her prisoner for long, not even the lean, green-eyed Captain Tanner Cloud whose slow, sensuous touch aroused a fire of passio...

  • Partners for Life

    Arlene James

    A BRAVE NEW WORLD When she landed on the scorching plains of west Texas, Lois "Petey" Palmer was looking for more than her inheritance. Underneath the bravado and courage was a woman fervently searching for a purpose. Some answers were provided...

  • The Owl

    Robert L. Forward

    With darkness as his ally and the streets as his home, private investigator Alexander L'Hiboux, the sleepless victim of insomnolence, hunts the individuals responsible for the brutal mutilation of a shipping magnate's daughter...

  • Overtures of the Heart

    Rhett Daniels

    Their love was a rhapsody in blue. Two promising music students, Ayn Remington and Gerick Grier, met at Juilliard. Their time together had the perfection of a clear, shimmering melody--as romantic as Chopin, as passionate as Beethoven. But it ended o...

  • The Outlaws

    Bill Pronzini

  • Oregon Brown

    Sara Orwig

    His voice murmured huskily through the night, reaching out to embrace her senses across the airwaves -- and Charity Jane Webster was smitten! Deejay Rory Runyon was a perfect fantasy love, calling her "darlin'" and sharing love songs with her hour af...

  • Orchid of Love

    Kathryn Kent

    As lovely and exotic as the rare flowers she raised, Jackie Allison was determined to make her Florida greenhouse a success. And with the help of another nursery owner, dynamic Cal Prescott, that dream was coming true. Yet Cal taught Jackie far more ...

  • Ora: Cle

    Kevin O'Donnell

  • Opium

    Tony Cohan

    Innocent family members are dragged into a world of violence and corruption when the Lin family of Hong Kong--long-standing kingpins of the illicit opium trade--is threatened by new competition from European syndicates...

  • The Open Marriage

    Flora Kidd

    She wanted him to ask her to stay They'd agreed before their marriage to give each other enough freedom to come and go as they pleased. And it had worked extremely well--until Jessica Gower had discovered that Alun Gower was seeing another wo...

  • The Only Other Crazy Car Book

    Sloan Walker

  • One More Tomorrow

    Aimee Duvall

    In her fantasies Megan Lord was sophisticated, alluring, and completely in control. But real life kept catching her by surprise -- toppling her into swimming pools, popping out her contacts, setting her face-to-face with a teeth-gnashing Doberman...a...

  • On the Other Hand, Death

    Richard Stevenson

    Dot and Edith's happiness in their home stands in the way of their neighbors' decisions to sell to the Millpond Corporation so it can build another blight on the landscape. A campaign of intimidation, at first merely irritating, escalates to murder b...

  • The Omicron Invasion

    E.E. "Doc" Smith

    THE LADY A OFFERS AN ALLIANCE Devastated by alien invasion, one of the Empire's far-flung planets - Omicron - is the destination for an astonishing mission. For the first time in many years, top SOTE agents Yvette Babol and Jules d'Alembert agree to...

  • Odds Against

    Erin Ross

    DOUBLE OR NOTHING Lori figured that a small town and a class of third-graders could drive even the most dedicated teacher crazy after a while. A summer at Lake Tahoe was just what she needed to shake up her life a bit. But she got more than sh...

  • Now, in September

    Meg Hudson

    IT WAS A NO-WIN SITUATION Dirk Van Der Maas had the power and style of a Madison Avenue executive yet an artist's soul -- a combination Andrea Campbell found alluring. But Andrea couldn't let personal feelings affect her work--not when ...

  • Not into Temptation

    Sian James

  • North American Indian Masks

    Frieda Gates

  • Nobody's Perfect

    Richard Reinsmith

  • No Room for Love

    Maris Soule

    She'd never felt so much a woman... As a bank manager in a small midwestern town, Carla Parker was used to chauvinistic men. But industrialist Trent Campbell, the bank's newest client, wasn't the least bit fazed by females in power. He saw Carla a...

  • Nightshades

    Bill Pronzini

    When Great Western Insurance hires the Nameless Detective to investigate an accidental death in a small northern California town, it looks like a routine case -- one he expects to solve swiftly so he and his lady friend, Kerry Wade, can take a much n...

  • Nightmares

    Charles L. Grant

  • Night of the Ripper

    Robert Bloch

  • Nice Girls Don't

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Tory knew it wasn't nice, but she felt it was right. Tory Travis just wanted to play ball. But little things started to get to her. The boys' team went by in a bus while Tory and her teammates were squished into a station wagon. The boys were budg...

  • A New Way to Pay Old Debts

    Philip Massinger

    New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes:

    The playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibliographical and textual standards
    Textual notes recording signi...

  • Never Too Late

    Cally Hughes

    As their three teenage daughters reach for independence, Meg and David Alexander are thrilled to be freer from parenting. Now Meg can finish her education and join David on business trips. Now they can indulge in playfully spontaneous lovemaking. Now...

  • The Nebula Awards No. 18

    Robert Silverberg

  • The Nebraska Quotient

    William J. Reynolds

    Former private investigator turned writer Nebraska finds himself involved with the murder of his ex-partner, a pornography ring, two different Mafia gangs, the decadent and desperate daughter of a senator and a political conspiracy reaching to the Wh...

  • Native Tongue

    Suzette Haden Elgin

    "Originally published in 1984, this classic dystopian trilogy is a testament to the power of language and women''s collective action.In 2205, the Nineteenth Amendment has long been repealed and women are only valued for their utility. The Earth''s ec...

  • My Darling Detective

    Hilary Cole

    Samantha and Joel Loring are perfect companions and enthusiastic lovers, with a boundless zest for life. But the realization that Joel's latest video game invention has been stolen by his best friend leaves Joel reeling...and Sam, a private detec...

  • The Musician's Quest

    George MacDonald

    Robert Falconer, who appears briefly in THE TUTOR'S FIRST LOVE, is the main character in this compelling story of a young man's search for meaning to life and spiritual reality. Robert's mother had died when he was very young. His father, overwhel...

  • Murder's Out of Tune

    Sara Woods

  • Murder and Magic

    Randall Garrett

    The Sidewise Awardâ€"winning series. “If you are looking for something different in the way of mysteries a few hours with Lord Darcy is a fun way to go†(Daily Kos).This alternate history series starring detective Lord Darcy and his sorcerer side...

  • Moses the Kitten

    James Herriot

    A tiny, bedraggled kitty is found tucked beside a frozen pond, and nursed back to health on a nearby farm. But when he is fit enough to join the other animals, he turns out to have a very unusual idea of who his mother is....

  • Morgette on the Barbary Coast

    G.G. Boyer

    Determined to exact revenge on Forrest Twead for killing his friend, Dolf Morgette will stop at nothing to capture the brutal killer, but as he tracks him to San Francisco, a city known for its rough clientele, Morgette must fight for survival while ...

  • More Good Old Stuff

    John D. MacDonald

    Offering indisputable evidence of the early talent that was to lead him to the top of the bestseller lists everywhere, these fourteen tales of crime and corruption, of sleuthing and suspense, of treachery, intrigue, and revenge, by the incomparable J...

  • The Moon in the Water

    Pamela Belle

    An historical saga set during the English Civil War and telling the story of two star-crossed lovers. This is the first of Pamela's civil war series. Pamela did extensive research into her writings to give an accurate portrayal of life in 17th cen...

  • Moon Deluxe

    Frederick Barthelme

  • Mistaken Identity

    Beverly Sommers

    It was clearly a case of mistaken identity... At least that's what Julie Domino kept telling herself. Normally, she taught economic theory at New York University and led a quiet life. But when Julie's radical filmmaker-sister, Emery, is re...

  • The Missouri

    Helen Lee Poole

  • Mansions

    Neal Travis

  • The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa

    Martin Page

  • The Man in the Gray Flannel Shroud

    Frank Orenstein

  • Maid in Boston

    Paula Corbett

    FARMER'S DAUGHTER Red hair and a nose covered with freckles only made Kathryn Lambert appear innocent, Mitchell Grant realized after he made the supreme mistake of underestimating her. When he'd offered her a job in his Boston firm after seeing he...

  • Lynn's Challenge

    Sandy Miller

  • The Luck of Texas Mccoy

    Carolyn Meyer

    Sixteen-year-old Texas, in order to keep the ranch left to her by her grandfather, sells some acreage to a movie company as a location for western films, and finds herself becoming involved with a young actor....

  • Loving Relations

    Elizabeth Hunter (1)

    ONCE BURNT, TWICE SHY Stephanie had been crushed and humiliated when Jean-Louis had jilted her. She swore that she would never again be involved with a Frenchman. A nice, safe Englishman would be more her cup of tea! Pierre was hardly the gentl...

  • Lovebirds

    Janet Quin-Harkin

    Tiffany hasn't seen her film-maker father in the two years since her parents' divorce. So naturally she's uneasy when her mother suddenly announces she's remarrying and taking a long honeymoon, and Tiffany has to spend the time with her father. For t...

  • Love's Unending Legacy

    Janette Oke

    Marty Davis had thoroughly enjoyed her visit with daughter Missie, even though a tragic accident had extended it far longer than originally planned. But now she and Clark are home again, and there are changes to make. The family begins to adjust to C...

  • Love's Suspect

    Betty Henrichs

    Whitney Wakefield felt she had finally escaped her past. She has landed an important computer programming contact with a luxurious department store. Here jewels, furs and sumptuous salons surrounded her. Here she was far away from San Francisco, from...

  • Love's Secret Garden

    Nona Gamel

    "You're just like your cactus garden--all dry and prickly. You could be green and tender if you'd relax and let nature take its course." Easy for him to say. Loma Phillips knew better. She'd wake to find herself once again at a man's mercy. Marri...

  • Love Times Two

    Stephanie Foster

    Twin sisters Claudia and Cassie are looking forward to their family vacation on Green Lake. A whole month of boating, swimming, and exploring. They're sure it's going to be a terrific vacation until they discover they've both fallen for the same boy....

  • Love Spell

    Deana James

    DESIRE'S ARROWS With a tunic draping her sensuous figure and a cap hiding her wheatgold hair, no one guessed that the boy Gil was really the voluptuous Gillian. Only men could belong to craftsmen's guilds, and as the best bowmaker in all of England,...

  • Love Exam

    Rita Aero

  • A Lost Love

    Carole Mortimer

    She didn't have to guess how Rafe felt about his wife Brooke Adamson knew the whole bitter story. Because she was Rafe Charlwood's wife, or rather she had been, before the terrible car accident Rafe believed had claimed her life. Now, t...

  • Lord of Darkness

    Robert Silverberg

    Captive to the slave-trading colonists of Angola, young British seaman Andrew Battell longs for his home in the England of Elizabeth I, but increasingly finds himself enthralled by the occult arts of the Lord of Darkness...

  • The Look Again . . . And Again, and Again, and Again Book

    Beau Gardner

  • The Look Again . . . And Again, and Again, and Again Book

    Beau Gardener

  • Longarm and the Desert Duchess

    Tabor Evans

    A DESERT FORTRESS... Dead center of the Mojave Desert was not prime real estate. It was mighty peculiar that a Spanish Duchess had built herself a luxurious castle in that very place. And it was even more peculiar that the U.S. agents sent to inve...

  • Lone Star and the Montana Troubles

    Wesley Ellis

    THE CARTEL STRIKES -- AND THE STAKES ARE HIGH... Beginning with a midnight ambush on the Starbuck ranch, the cartel launches its boldest attack yet: a shrewdly plotted takeover of the Montana copper mines. When they arrive in the company town, Jessi...

  • Lily of the Mohawks

    Jack Casey

  • Like Mother, Like Me

    Sheila Schwartz

    College professor's daughter's embarrassment when he runs off with a student, leaving his wife and daughter devastated. Jen became so involved with her mother's problems that she is unable to deal with her own. A tender, heartwarming story about adol...

  • Like Father

    David Black

  • Light of My Heart

    Kathleen Karr

    His heart was as hard as the rockbound coast of Maine. Could the radiance of her love light their way? Emily -- Glowing with hope, she longed for the love of a husband she barely knew. Keith -- Dark and brooding, he was a man with a dismal past...

  • The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

    Fay Weldon

    This is not a book for everyone, but its admirers are vigorously enthusiastic. For example:
    Rhoda Koenig in New York Magazine, who calls it ". . . a novel of blazingly hot revenge, one that amply illustrates the saying about heaven having no rage ...

  • Letter from Bronze Mountain

    Rosemary Carter

    Can you love and hate at the same time? It was unusual for Megan Westcott to put her trust in a stranger so quickly. But Roan was no ordinary stranger. He was the most extraordinarily dynamic man she'd ever met Without fear or hesitation, M...

  • Late-Blooming Flowers and Other Stories

    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

  • Last One Home

    John Ehle

    Last One Home, the final book in John Ehle's masterful Appalachian series that traces the King family from The Land Breakers in 1779, as the first white settlers in the Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina, through the Great Depression in ...