Books Published in August 1985

New Books List: 326 titles

  • Tap City

    Ron Abell

  • Storm Over Valka

    Alan Burt Akers

    Drak, Crown Prince of Vallia, Dray Prescot's son, was sore beset on three sides. For one, he was leading an army of liberation against the usurper Alloran who had seized part of Vallia - and who was grinding Drak's troops down with blackest magic and...

  • Lisa's Choice

    Patricia Aks

    Lisa's father just didn't understand; there were certain questions that a growing girl couldn't talk to her father about. After her mother's death, he had become withdrawn and bitter. Then finally, Cynthia came into Lisa and her younger brother Er...

  • No Sense of Humor

    Elizabeth Alden

    IT WASN'T FUNNY, it was embarrassing! Rowen couldn't believe that her dog had taken hold of a stranger's ankle and wouldn't let go! Dave Archer seemed remarkably amused by the whole thing, but all Rowen wanted was to get away. Unfortunately--or was ...

  • Calling the Shots

    Kathy Alerding

    Senior trainer for the Omaha Hawks hockey team, Elaine D'Arte was accustomed to dealing with macho males. Until Roland Pantier, "The Panther," skated into her life and broke all the rules. At thirty-eight, the Edmonton Oilers star was nea...

  • Other Women

    Lisa Alther

    Caroline is a giver—as an ER nurse, as devoted lover to her partner, Diane, as a divorced mother of two boys, and as the daughter of world-class do-gooders—but can she accept help from others and still be herself? When trauma cases i...

  • Brain Wave

    Poul Anderson

    From the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author: “A panoramic story of what happens to a world gone super intelligent” (Astounding Science Fiction).
     
    With “wonderfully logical detail . .&#...

  • Mystery Of Headless Horse

    William Arden

    Ruin threatens the proud old Alvaro family! They can’t pay the mortgage on their ranch. Their house and barn have been destroyed in a suspicious fire. Their only hope is to find the family’s priceless heirloom -- a jeweled sword that mysteriously...

  • Last Man on Earth

    Isaac Asimov

    Stories tell of the last survivor of an alien purge, a time traveler, an immortal who outlives all of his companions, a scientist who tries to postpone the end of his race, and an individual who stays behind when Earth is abandoned...

  • Reckless Heart

    Madeline Baker

    THEIRS WAS LOVE THAT WOULD NOT DIE They had played together as children, the Indian lad and little Hannah Kincaid. Then Shadow and his people went away, and when he returned, it was as a handsome young Cheyenne brave. Hannah, now a beautiful you...

  • Concrete Island

    J.G. Ballard

    On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost ludicrous predica...

  • Race for Tomorrow

    Elaine Barbieri

    SHE WAS ONLY DOING IT FOR THE MONEY! Trina Mallory was a famous and glamorous model, but that profession was only a means to support her real passion -- race-car driving. Trina loved racing for the sheer thrill of it and for the knowledge that whe...

  • I'll Take Manhattan

    Danielle Barlette

  • To London With Love

    Danielle Barlette

  • Tracer

    Frederick Barthelme

    Weaves a tale of tangled loves and desires in the story of a newly divorced man named Martin who decides to spend a weekend with his ex-sister-in-law Dominica, and promptly becomes her lover.Martin, in the middle of a divorce, is seeking solace. Flyi...

  • Child of Tomorrow

    Barbara Bartholomew

    STRANDED FOREVER in a place beyond the touch of all familiar things and people, Jeanette and Amy hadn't counted on losing the timeway. But, even worse, now their friend Jesse is trapped in a world not his own. After much searching, the girls fi...

  • Thai Triangle

    Jayne Bauling

    She loved them both -- in entirely different ways Romney wanted to bridge the gulf between Kit and Justin Faulkner before it was too late. The bitter hostility of the two brothers' reunion in Thailand was threatening to destroy them all. To...

  • Through the Safety Net

    Charles Baxter

    Baxter dives into the undercurrents of middle-class American life in these eleven arresting, often mesmerizing stories. Whether they know it or not, Baxter's characters are floating above an abyss of unruly desire, inexplicable dread, unforeseen trag...

  • The Forest of Peldain

    Barrington J. Bayley

    Life was not possible on that watery world except on the Hundred Islands. The Empire of Arelia ruled them all - all except one. Peldain was entirely covered with a forest so impenetrable and so deadly that all attempts to explore it were disastrous. ...

  • All the Marbles

    Beverly Bird

    HEARTBREAK HOTEL The inn she had inherited from her father was failing, so Jenny took a leave of absence from her prestigious job in San Francisco and headed for Little Beach, Oregon, an island as small as its name implied. It was too small, in...

  • A Little Bit of Warmth

    Jackie Black

    Torn between love for her father and concern that he might be involved in unsavory business, Laura Weymouth -- the industrialist's idealistic daughter -- fled to the family's secluded Montana hideaway. She never expected to wake at midnight t...

  • The Day Is Dark and Three Travelers

    Marie-Claire Blais

  • Water Dancer

    Jillian Blake

    They were both champions, competing for the greatest prize of all -- love! Prima ballerina Avis Considine was approaching old age--at 28. An agonizing accident threatened to end her brilliant dancing career. In Keith Harding Avis saw a man wh...

  • The Disappearing Dwarf

    James P. Blaylock

    Second in the fantasy trilogy set in “a magical world, magically presented . . . Having journeyed there, you will not wish to leave, nor ever forget” (Philip K. Dick).   Jonathan Bing, Master Cheeser, has been growing a b...

  • A Time to Choose

    Janine Boissard

  • Murder at the Cheatin' Heart Hotel

    Art Bourgeau

  • In the Land of Nyx

    John Bowers

  • Billingsgate Shoal

    Rick Boyer

    After a fishing trawler runs aground on the Massachusetts shore, the young scuba diver sent to investigate the wreck is found floating lifeless in the water. Doc Adams, the unhappy friend of the unlucky aquarian, is soon launched through the stormy s...

  • And Still the Earth

    Ignacio Brandao

  • An Instant in the Wind

    Andre Brink

    Shortlisted for the 1976 Booker PrizeThe year is 1749, when the Boers ruled South Africa. And so it has come to his Baas’s final command to his Hottentot slave Adam, to flog his mother, because she refuses to prune the master’s vineyard in order ...

  • In Perfect Harmony

    Sharon Brondos

    There were certain occupational hazards... Sophie Matthews had learned to deal with temperamental performers working in PR. But when demanding superstar Buddy Sinclair swept into town, she had trouble just keeping her feet on the ground. Buddy'...

  • Glory

    Janice Young Brooks

    She staked a claim to his heart in the name of love -- and glory! Orphaned since birth, shy, beautiful Janet Sullivan had never known the fire of passion, the thrill of a dare. Then Ryan Donovan, a bold, blue-eyed prospector, swept into the bustling ...

  • The Big Sneeze

    Ruth Brown

    The hilarious story of a sneeze that causes barnyard havoc The farmer is snoozing on the hay in his barn, surrounded by his dozy animals, when the fly buzzing around lands on his nose. Of course he sneezes, which sets off a long chain of consequence...

  • Something for Herself

    Dixie Browning

    When Mitchell Lyons came racing around a sharp curve on that back country road, he wrecked more than Gren Alderman's heart. The crash also delayed Gwen's plans to start a new, independent life. Forced to spend time with Mitch while her car wa...

  • Handyman Special

    Pamela Browning

    She changed houses into homes and loneliness into love Sage McKenna had a unique reputation in her little South Carolina town. People called upon her when their houses needed remodeling or repairs, because she could do the jobs better than anyone....

  • Lubyanka

    James Burch

  • Whirlwind

    Marilyn Caldwell-Wilson

  • Lord Cleary's Revenge

    Miranda Cameron

    Love or Hate?... Young and beautiful Miss Felicia Mannering was engaged to the dashing and attentive Darcy Vellacort -- and as his fiancee, she was duty-bond to side with him against the world and make his enemies hers as well. But Felicia didn'...

  • Misty's Mischief

    Rod Campbell

  • Ribbons and Haywire

    Steven Carpenter

  • Jill

    Mary Carraway

  • To Touch the Moon

    Rosalind Carson

    TOO MUCH TO DO WAS THE NAME OF THE GAME Sabrina Prescott, an irrepressible San Franciscan, jumped at the opportunity to carry out her first full-fledged directing assignment in Tokyo. Overwhelmed by the challenge of transposing an American musi...

  • White Death

    Nick Carter

  • Molly Pink Goes Hiking

    Judith Caseley

  • Cease Fire

    Jack Casey

  • Trading Secrets

    Jayne Castle

    WHEN SHE BOLDLY PICKED UP A STRANGER IN A POSH ACAPULCO BAR... Sabrina Chase meant only to have a casual fling. She never dreamed the rugged expatriate would appear in Dallas to rekindle passionate memories she preferred to forget. They were, ...

  • Kelly Country

    A. Bertram Chandler

  • Gates of Grace

    Evelina Chao

    Beginning with the dramatic departure of the last boat allowed to leave China before Mao’s Community Party sealed off the country in 1949, Gates of Grace continues in the tradition of Belva Plain’s Evergreen and Cynthia Freeman’s A World Full o...

  • That Special Sunday

    Maggi Charles

    Something was missing... Paula Danvers noticed her prize possessions disappearing one by one from her table at the Cape Cod flea market. Someone was stealing the only things she had left to remember her beloved grandmother by. And someone was s...

  • An Irresistible Force

    Ann Charlton

    Irresistible force meets immovable object Battle lines formed the day Fairlie commandeered the Australian construction company's giant earth mover blocking the driveway. Carson Tate had gone too far in his aim to drive out her grandmother. ...

  • A World Made of Fire

    Mark Childress

    Mark Childress is an artist with an ear comparable to Eudora Welty's. I haven't read a Southern novel since Losing Battles that has given me such pleasure. - Harper Lee. An extraordinary burst of praise greeted Mark Childress's enthralling first nove...

  • Dark Dream

    Daphne Clair

    The engagement shocked them all Meredith Townsend had been Michael's girlfriend for years, and although he hadn't formally proposed, she'd always understood they would marry. She was stunned speechless, then, to meet his fiancee! Si...

  • A Private Affair

    Kathy Clark

    Private Investigator Kelly McClain was an expert at capturing incriminating photographs of wandering husbands. But no quarry had yet eluded her quite so efficiently as Adam Davis. The dark, devastatingly handsome philanderer was so good at covering h...

  • The Puppet Master

    Pippa Clarke

    He might be the puppet master... But Anna was no willing marionette. She was a woman with flesh and blood and feelings. She found it hard to believe that Cristian Casas might use her to repay her brother-in-law for starting up his own Mediterra...

  • Changer's Moon

    Jo Clayton

    The two contenders tossed the dice for the final contest. The Noris drew the Runner, the Sword, the Sorcerer, the Eve. He was pleased. The armies could march. The valley and all that was in it would be his. The Indweller drew the Kingfisher, the P...

  • Nelson Makes a Face

    Burton Cohen

  • Lucky

    Jackie Collins

    JACKIE COLLINS’ BIGGEST BESTSELLER THE FABULOUS HEROINE OF CHANCES RETURNS ... SHE'S A HOT-BLOODED BEAUTY, IN LOVE WITH POWER, HUNGRY FOR PLEASURE ... WILD, NOTORIOUS, TROUBLE ... SHE'S LUCKY With the Sensual grace of a panther, Lucky Santangelo...

  • Upon Some Midnights Clear

    K.C. Constantine

    During the Christmas season in Rocksburg, Pennsylvania, Mario Belzac's investigation into the alleged mugging of Mrs. Garbin by Billy Lum leads to a confrontation with the bigoted fire chief, a powerful local columnist, and an alienated Vietnam vet...

  • Suntanned Days

    Caroline B. Cooney

  • Alone, Together

    Linda A. Cooney

    Changing partners . . . Brenda's falling for Brad hook, line and sinker. Finally, she's somebody's number one. But then she learns the real reason behind all of Brad's attention. He's still hurt about his break-up with his last girlfriend, Phoebe...

  • Made for Each Other

    M.E. Cooper

    A perfect fit... Janie Barstow knows that underneath her own shy exterior, there's a bright, funny girl just waiting to be discovered. But so far Janie's attempts to fit in at Kennedy High have led from one disaster to another. Henry Braverman is...

  • Promise of the Unicorn

    Sara Craven

    He'd promised her her heart's desire For years Sophie had avoided being absorbed--however kindly--by the powerful Marchese family. Now she had to swallow pride and misgivings alike to help finance Mark's business so that they could be ...

  • Windflame

    Sarah Crewe

    To college fundraiser Melissa Markham, wealthy alumnus Dakin Quarry is big game. But when she targets him for a generous bequest, he antagonizes her colleagues, disrupts the banquet she's arranged, and engineers a tryst in his hotel room. Clearly...

  • Hand of Fortune

    Corinna Cunliffe

    DANGEROUS MASQUERADE There was no way that Miss Henrietta St. John could stop the sale of her family estate of Rutherford Place and her late father's magnificent racehorse Hypericum. And when the land and the steed were snapped up by the wildl...

  • The Beirut Retaliation

    John Cutter

  • Hands of a Stranger

    Robert Daley

  • Swan's Chance // A Wild Heart

    Celeste De Blasis

    Wild Swan --it is their land, the foundation on which Alexandria and Rane Falconer have built their lives and fortunes. Now, civil war threatens all. As Alex defends Wild Swan and her Thoroughbred race horses, as Rane battles to preserve his shipbuil...

  • Golgotha Falls

    Frank De Felitta

    """Total entertainment . . . one of those roaring new-wave horror novels that has the power to keep the reader hooked from the first few lines."" - Whitley Strieber

    ""A terrifying new novel by the author of Audrey Rose."" - Chicago Tribune

    ...

  • Windhaven's Fury

    Marie De Jourlet

    New Horizons As the nation stands poised on the brink of a new era, an age of unprecedented growth and industrial expansion, the Bouchard family is swept along, seeking new opportunities. But the traditions of Windhaven and the Old South live on, ...

  • A Time to Dance

    Karen Strickler Dean

    To every thing there is a season. Lara and Summer. They've been best friends since they started ballet school five years ago. Now they're ready for the biggest challenge of all -- a tryout with the Ballet Association School of New York City. ...

  • Unholy Moses

    Philip Degrave

    Assigned to investigate the murder and grand larceny following upon the unveiling of a work by America's hottest new painter, Detective Sergeant Teresa Webb ignores her cartoonist husband's intuition about the missing masterpiece until it is nearly t...

  • Robert, My Son

    Henry Denker

    A model son since he was adopted, Robbie Ward, now in his midteens, experiences wildly erratic changes of mood, a dangerous condition that his parents must face and find help for before it is too late...

  • Twin of Fire

    Jude Deveraux

    Blair Chandler loved a man of challenge and passion --- Dr. Lee Westfield. Still, she clung to her own dream of practicing medicine in Chandler, Colorado. With her impetuous spirit she had won her degree, and then won Lee's heart. Yet even as their a...

  • Lucky's Woman

    Delaney Devers

    He claimed he loved her but had to leave. She said she adored him but wouldn't follow. So, with wrenching finality, roughhewn "Lucky" Verret and his ladylike wife Summer went their separate ways: he to his beloved Louisiana bayou; she to ...

  • The Green Hydra

    Flint Dille

    As Sagard, the reader must survive the tomb of the seven-headed Green Hydra and obtain the precious jeweled trophy that is protected by the Nightripper and the horrid lizards with silent tongues of death...

  • Enter With a Kiss

    Diana Dixon

    IT DIDN'T ADD UP... Andrea Parsons liked her life as a math teacher, so why was she fighting so hard to regain her former eminence as an actress? Especially when she was going to be directed by Logan Kincaid, the only man she had ever loved. He...

  • As Love Would Have It

    Meg Dominique

    She couldn't resist what he offered In a tight spot, Liza Walker pretended she had a fiance. So when real lover potential happened along -- cartoonist Max Grant -- her lie trapped her into a platonic relationship. From the start her feelin...

  • The Witch's Dream

    Florinda Donner

  • Forget Me Not

    Gabrielle Dupre

    "Cry for yourself, Simone. Weep for the girl who is no one. Weep for the woman who dared to love a prince..." Rudolph Nikolaivich -- His was a golden beauty, masking an inner darkness. His was a tormented soul that was Russia itself and the glint...

  • Sea Wall

    Marguerite Duras

  • The Bamboo Bed

    William Eastlake

    -- Dying in a bamboo bed, Captain Clancy hallucinates several philosophical conversations with a snake and a tiger. Meanwhile, Captain Knightbridge and Nurse Jane of the Search & Rescue Unit have sex in their helicopter -- the Bamboo Bed -- at 10,000...

  • The Best Reason of All

    Emily Elliott

    As executive chairman of Selby Oil, Charlene McLanahan wielded a great deal of power. She could make or break a career. And when renowned biologist Dr. Leon Leatherman appeared before her grant committee, requesting money to pursue his controversial ...

  • The Burnt Lands

    Richard Elliott

    After a nuclear space missile misfires causing a solar flare that devastates Earth, the President of the United States is kidnapped by German terrorists, and it is up to troubleshooter John Norris and Vice-President Julia Waggoner to get him back...

  • Lone Star and the Biggest Gun in the West

    Wesley Ellis

    JESSIE AND KI STRIKE BACK WITH A VENGEANCE! Fenton Chadwick is getting richer by the day -- at Starbuck's expense. His outlaw army rules the San Joaquin Valley, and his pirate navy chokes the rivers. As if that isn't enough, Jessie's life is threate...

  • Some Distant Shore

    Lynn Erickson

    A War To End All Wars... A Passion To Challenge Destiny LONDON 1917... A time of forced gaiety and weary patriotism, when the specter of war was a constant shadow. Into this volatile world came Emily Baird a gently-reared New England beauty who d...

  • A Woman's Choice

    Rita Clay Estrada

    He was a sucker for a pretty face Sam Lewis, attorney-at-law, was immediately attracted to Catherine Sinclair -- despite her lethal reputation with men. The blond, blue-eyed siren had tearfully requested his help ... and soon devastated him with h...

  • The Crystal City

    Nancy Etchemendy

  • The Watchers of Space

    Nancy Etchemendy

  • The Ghost Veronica Gray

    Ken Eulo

    They were just kids, playing in the graveyard among the rotting bones of the dead. They were just kids, playing new and explosive games, indulging in forbidden pleasures, exciting each other...and something else, something evil. They were just ...

  • Dauntless

    Alan Evans

    The odds are against Commander Smith in this epic story of battle on the high seas.Autumn, 1917: Britain is just about surviving against incessant U-boat attacks, but there are mutinies in France, a revolution in Russia and stalemate on the Western F...

  • Longarm on the Goodnight Trail

    Tabor Evans

    MEAN AND CROOKED Who says a cattle outfit has to be run sensibly? The owners of these lean, leathery longhorns are driving them 150 miles west of their destination, but that's no crime. Or is it? Everything looks okay to Marshal Long -- who wo...

  • Keepers of the Secrets

    Philip Jose Farmer

  • The Immigrant's Daughter

    Howard Fast

    The conclusion of the Lavette saga focuses on Barbara, now in her sixties, whose campaign for election into Congress brings excitement, the renewal of a romantic love, mortal danger, tragedy, and personal triumph...

  • The Crime and the Crystal

    E.X. Ferrars / Elizabeth Ferrars

    A retired professor finds that an amateur sleuth’s work is never done, even on an Australian holiday in this cozy mystery with “a dandy plot” (Publishers Weekly). Andrew Basnett takes a break from his little English village to spend Christmas i...

  • Infinity's Web

    Sheila Finch

    This is the tale of the many possible lives of Anastasia Valerie Stein which come to touch one another through a twist in the fabric of space-time: Ann, unhappy wife and mother in a world much like our own; Val, independent teacher in a timeline of s...

  • Remember the Dreams

    Christine Flynn

    It had been five years, but things hadn't changed. Kyle Donovan still treated her like his kid sister. Toni Collins had been in love with Kyle then, and she couldn't help but remember her dreams. Kyle had been her boss, her best friend -- ...

  • The Burning Woman

    Jessie Ford

    In a Catholic orphanage in Venice in 1687, Cathryn Godwyne and Father Vittorio fall in love and pursue a tempestuous, forbidden relationship in Rome, England, and America...

  • One Step Ahead

    Regan Forest

    He was full of contradictions Misty Chandler had moved to Colorado for the simple lifestyle that funning a country inn offered. But with the arrival of her first guest, virile ex-pilot Craig Sutherland, Misty's peace was shattered. Tough and gentl...

  • Storm and Starlight

    Lauren Fox

    Forceful and impulsive, relentless and mischievous, larger than life and thoroughly irresistible, Eric Nielson immediately captivates Maggie McGuire. Though she's come to investigate his satellite-dish manufacturing company in an entirely profess...

  • Flying to Nowhere

    John G. Fuller

  • Carpenter's Gothic

    William Gaddis

    This story of raging comedy and despair centers on the tempestuous marriage of an heiress and a Vietnam veteran. From their "carpenter gothic" rented house, Paul sets himself up as a media consultant for Reverend Ude, an evangelist mounting a grand c...

  • A Taste of Deception

    Eve Gladstone

    She let him take control of her life--lock, stock, and truffles... Kate Manning's life as a struggling actress in the Big Apple--an existence supported by selling her homemade chocolates--was relatively calm until Tony Kendall completely disrupted...

  • Winters Coming, Winters Gone

    Allen Glick

    The Marines portrayed in Winter’s Coming, Winters Gone might have been the kids who lived on your block. But the treacherous jungle war marked them, and estrangement at home set them apart. Winter’s Coming, Winters Gone is a tale of betrayal and ...

  • Daughter of the Sea

    Emma Goldrick

    She couldn't let on she knew he was lying Rose was found washed ashore on a French Polynesian Island in the South Pacific. And although she didn't have amnesia, that was the story she presented to Giles Gengron and his daughter, Josie. It ...

  • Thunder Over Eden

    Emma Goldrick

    All Belle wanted was revenge on Harry Revenge for the callous way he'd treated her getting a Mexican divorce, throwing her out of the house. And he'd taken all their money! Things didn't work out that way. Instead, Belle ended up married again ...

  • The Dream Years

    Lisa Goldstein

  • Fair Game

    Paula Gosling

    On Sunday Clare's biggest concern was whether she was ready to get married. Then she stopped to help a stranger pick up the papers he'd dropped. On Wednesday a bomb had destroyed her home and she was in hospital. But the nightmare was just beginning....

  • Heart of the Hunter

    Liz Grady

    Something in Leigh Bramwell's photograph alerts hardened bounty hunter Mitch utter that she's no gangster's moll. Still, he's been hired to hunt her down, and the money will be easy... But Leigh's stark terror, soft innocence, and plucky sell-reli...

  • Sensuous Angel

    Heather Graham

    He swore like a truck driver, tackled would-be muggers like a demon, and swept her into his arms like the devil himself. He was a walking powder keg -- and he was a priest? Donna Miro, heiress to an olive oil fortune, didn't know what to think. B...

  • The Reckless Gambler

    Vanessa Gray

    THE INFURIATED MISS FINLAY Miss Caroline Finlay was furious at her odious grandfather, Sir Egbert. That crusty old curmudgeon had given her hand in marriage to Lord Julian Carteret without asking her approval. Caroline had even more reason to ...

  • Suspicion

    Millie Grey

    When Cade Hamilton came looking for dancer Lita Jamison, he believed the worst about her-that she'd shot his brother Jeremy during a lover's quarrel. But instead of hating this woman he'd never met, he was overwhelmed by an explosive passion to make ...

  • Stardust

    Shelly Gross

    Trudy Coles' rocky rise to Hollywood stardom takes her from her West Virginia mining-town home through Hollywood's decadent underworld and the glitter of Broadway, to a bout with alcoholism and her final triumph...

  • Playing Catch-Up

    A.B. Guthrie Jr.

    A ruthless killer preys on the young women of Montana in this tale of suspense from a pioneer of Western fiction Madame Simone runs a brothel on the outskirts of Overthrust, Montana, an oil town just down the road from the ranching community of Midbu...

  • Secret Intentions

    Jean Hager

    It had been eight years since Dr. Anabel Dixon had laid eyes on Dr. Jud Westby -- and still she couldn't forgive him for one fatal mistake in the operating room on the night of her beloved brother's death. Now the renowned surgeon had ret...

  • The Whistle Blower

    John Hale

  • The Kiss Flower

    Gimone Hall

    No man had ever kissed Susannah this way before. The Marquis de Silva towered over her, his manly strength making her feel as helpless as a magnolia petal caught in the swirling waters of the Mississippi. And as this irresistibly handsome man pressed...

  • Almost Heaven

    Carole Halston

    Still recovering from a bitter divorce, Ho Drake jumped at the chance to join her friends for a weekend of whitewater rafting in West Virginia. Yet secretly, she yearned only to see Zek McCade once more. The rugged, blue-river guide had remained f...

  • Meanwhile

    Max Handley

  • Hell's Bells

    J.D. Hardin

    Doc Weatherbee and Raider, Pinkerton operatives, are robbed on their way to Helton, Nevada, where a mysterious woman named Sequin owns half the town, and an old friend, the local marshal, needs their help...

  • Phantom Skateboard

    Elaine Harper

    Ordinarily cautious, Anne thought that it was high time to add a little excitement to her life, so when she found strange goings-on at the old Westbrook mansion, she decided to investigate. Her curiosity led her straight to Gary Westbrook and into mo...

  • Little Turtle's Big Adventure

    David L. Harrison

  • Winter Magic

    Eveline Hasler

  • The Ways of Darkness

    Joseph Hayes

  • River Raid

    Eric Helm

    THE SQUAD HAS A DATE WITH CHARLIE--TO TURN THE MUDDY WATERS OF THE MEKONG A BLOODY RED! The North Vietnamese have made the Mekong River a floating artillery base, and Special Forces Camp A-555 is a nest of American sitting ducks. The Scorpion Squad...

  • The Storm Within

    Anne Henry

    Real love began with knowledge and grew with understanding Sally Jo Hampton had borne all kinds of indignities as Sally Storm, Oklahoma City's most popular weathergirl. But when the station manager decided to change her image from simpering to sul...

  • Pity Is Not Enough

    Josephine Herbst

    "I'd rather fail in story writing than succeed in anything else,"         Josephine Herbst declared in 1913. The Iowa native's Trexler family trilogy,         wit...

  • The Executioner Waits

    Josephine Herbst

  • Lady's Time

    Alan V. Hewat

    Magical realism and haunting mysticism cloud the circumstances surrounding the death of Lady Winslow, a New Orleans woman of mixed racial background who passes for white in the Vermont resort where she teaches music and plays ragtime...

  • The Mysterious Mr. Ripley

    Patricia Highsmith

  • The Ghost Squad Flies Concorde

    E.W. Hildick

  • The Scent of Lilacs

    Joan Hohl

    ON THE HUNT... The moment Jake met Gayle he decided that she would fit into his plans perfectly. Having set out to acquire a suitable mother for his daughters, he had no idea that he would come to desire Gayle's naive sensuality and alluring f...

  • Out of This World

    Nancy Holder

    Gary Wolf watched from across the convention hall as Kalinda. Queen of Space, greeted her adoring fans. Suddenly she looked up and met his gaze, and her reaction was astonishment at the quickening in her heart. But when they were introduced, actress ...

  • Minnikin, Midgie and Moppet

    Adelaide Holl

  • Fright Night

    Tom Holland

  • Payoff at Pawnee

    L.P. Holmes

  • Three from Galilee

    Marjorie Holmes

  • Borrowed Time

    Alan Hruska

    When a computer genius and inventor of a device that may revolutionize the computer industry falls in love with a computer analyst, they unknowingly transgress the time/space restraints of their own world and enter into a parallel existence...

  • A Gift from the Sea

    Meg Hudson

    He proved to be the perfect inspiration. Mystery writer Donna Madison had gone to Cape Cod to cure a case of writer's block. She hadn't anticipated the added attraction of a beached freighter or the instant carnival that sprang up along the shore. Hu...

  • Horn of Plenty

    E.J. Hunter

  • The Red Fox

    Anthony Hyde

  • We Speak No Treason - 1

    Rosemary Hawley Jarman

    The pageantry, intrigue, and suspicions that characterize the court of Edward IV finally center on his younger brother who moves through fear, love, envy, and betrayal to the throne and, ultimately, to a bloody death...

  • Quiet Comes the Night

    Jessica Jeffries

    TOGETHER THEY COULD HEAL THE WOUND This isn't really happening. That's what Shelley Kessner tried to tell herself the night her husband died. She hoped it was a nightmare--but it wasn't. She needed time to think, and Vermont was the perfect pla...

  • Layers of Deceit

    Roderic Jeffries

    The patient, brandy-drinking Inspector Alvarez must convince his superiors that what appears to be an innocent death is really a murder connected to a series of strange incidents, including the disappearance of a dog and the attempted suicide of a Ma...

  • Viet Journal

    James Jones

  • Fire With Fire // Blackmailed by the Vengeful Tycoon

    Penny Jordan

    It occurred to him that he could use her Emma had always played the role of dependable older sister, so it was not surprising that after smashing up Drake Harwood's brand-new Ferrari, Camilla, unable to pay, expected Emma to bail her out. B...

  • Good Enough to Dream

    Roger Kahn

    The true story of a year in the life of the Utica Blue Sox, a minor league baseball team in upstate New York, by the acclaimed author of The Boys of Summer.   Roger Kahn’s The Boys of Summer immortalized the 1950s Brooklyn Dodgers. Good Enoug...

  • Portrait of a Lady

    Elizabeth Kary

    Museum conservator Paige Fenton has no doubt whatsoever--the painting is a forgery. And its owner, Grant Hamilton, has no reason to pursue her so intently except to buy her cooperation in the ensuing scandal. She doesn't trust him ...yet she's helple...

  • Chicken Little

    Steven Kellogg

    "The sky is failing! The sky is failing!" Chicken Little and her feathered friends are all aflutter when she gets a mysterious bump on the head. Steven Kellogg's hilarious retelling and irresistible illustrations bring fresh delight to this timeless ...

  • The Arrogant Lover

    Flora Kidd

    She felt the pull of past attraction Kathy Reid still loved Lucas MacBride, but she didn't trust him. He'd made love to her nine years ago, then left without a word. And now that the man she'd married on the rebound was dead, Lucas was...

  • Skinny Malinky Leads the War for Kidness

    Stanley Kiesel

  • Blood Run

    Dan Killerman

    FALLEN ANGEL ON THE RUN! Hitchhiker Lisa Stevens is as tough as a Texas coyote and as beautiful as a prairie sunset -- a combination bounty hunter Jesse Heller can’t resist. From the moment she throws her long legs across his big black Harley he...

  • Hellrider

    Dan Killerman

  • Love and Other Euphemisms

    Norma Klein

  • Bizou

    Norma Klein

  • E.T. Storybook Green

    William Kotzwinkle

    Stripped of his powers for displaying signs of earthly corruption, E.T. must elude the elite guards of the Starcruiser fleet, escape to Earth, and guide Elliott through his awkward transition into manhood...

  • Who's Who in Greek and Roman Myth

    David A. Kravitz

    Notes the identifying features and full family relationships of each figure in the mythologies and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, while separate entries identify places, creatures, and objects of relevant importance or note...

  • Trinity and Other Stories

    Nancy Kress

  • Bishop's Heir

    Katherine Kurtz

    "DEATH TO ALL DERYNI!" Once again the Kingdom of Gwynedd under young King Kelson found itself facing the horror of war between the Church and the Deryni. And this time, there was also the threat of revolution. Caitrin, Pretender Queen of Meara,...

  • The Bride Said No

    Charlotte Lamb

    The bride was having second thoughts With the wedding only a day away, Miranda had more than prenuptial jitters. She felt betrayed by the two men she loved most in the world. How could her father have promised Sean control of the family busines...

  • Capture the Wind

    Lisa Lancaster

    Never Did the Land Face So Dark a Threat...Never Did Love Face So Great a Challenge Mercedes Fielding was a young woman of unbending will and fierce courage. Her willowy beauty held a hot passion that could inflame any man and a cold temper that c...

  • The Third Millenium

    David Langford

    Two scientists forecast, on the basis of present scientific knowledge as well as an understanding of historical, social, and political trends, the "history" of the next millenium, written as if looking back from the year 3000...

  • The Disguise of Love

    Mary Lapietra

    ""You'll love it in Chicago, Julie!" Armed with her Bible and a college degree in Journalism, Julie Chambers left Kansas for Chicago--determined to conquer the world of mass media. But little did she dream what lay waiting in the "Windy City" to c...

  • King of the Mountain

    Adam Lassiter

  • End As a Hero

    Keith Laumer

    Granthan's mission was the most vital of the war. It would mean instant victory -- but for whom? Earth didn't trust his information. They were sure that he had been brain washed by the enemy. He had to convince them that he could be trusted before th...

  • Spy for George Washington

    Jay Leibold

  • Second Chance

    Nancy Levinson

    Joanne Trask moves from an isolated town in Alaska to California, eager to experience everything she's missed. But there's almost to much to try. Fortunately, her new home is full of cute boys like Tony Corda, who quickly offers to teach Joanne all s...

  • One-Minute Favorite Fairy Tales

    Shari Lewis

  • Mischievous Meg

    Astrid Lindgren

  • Slocum Rides Alone

    Jake Logan

    WILD JUSTICE. Wesley Putnam was Head Detective for the Arizona Cattlemen's Association, and the best friend Slocum ever had -- until four fugitive rustlers burst into a cantina and gunned Wesley down in cold blood. All Slocum got from the dying frien...

  • The Denver Duchess

    Warren T. Longtree

  • Circumpolar!

    Richard A. Lupoff

    ANTARCTIC SAVAGES - PREHISTORIC MASTODONS - FLYING FORTRESSES - PARALYSING RAY GUNS - GRYPHONS - WATER-WITCHES - LOST CONTINENTS - WONDERFUL FLYING MACHINES...AND MORE!Coming soon - the most fantastic contest ever conceived: An airplane race pitting ...

  • The Book of Kells

    R.A. MacAvoy

    A majestic novel of a young artist who opens a portal in time to the turbulent age of tenth-century Ireland. THE BOOK OF KELLS is a grand tale of rousing adventures and miraculous wonders--a haunting tale of love and faith so strong it conquered time...

  • Above Suspicion

    Helen MacInnes

    “A red rose, a chance phrase, and some spilt cointreau--this was the first link in a chain of events that were to lead Richard and Frances Myles to Nazi-dominated Germany. The young Oxford don and his attactive wife were sent by the British Foreig...

  • Ride a Pale Horse

    Helen MacInnes

    When Karen Cornell, a beautiful journalist on assignment in Czechoslovakia, agrees to help a would-be defector by carrying top-secret documents to Washington, she is pulled into an astonishing web of terrorism, political assassination, blackmail, esp...

  • The Venetian Affair

    Helen MacInnes

    Set in the 1960s during the Cold War, this is a captivating espionage adventure from “the queen of spy writers” who has been compared to Graham Greene and Ian Fleming (Sunday Express).   While on assignment in Paris and Venice, an American j...

  • The Plain Old Man

    Charlotte MacLeod

    THE CURTAIN CAME DOWN ON MURDER Aunt Emma Kelling didn't have an enemy in the world. But she did have "Ernestina"-- an invaluable old portrait inherited with Pleasaunce, her New England mansion--and a passion for producing Gilbert & Sullivan. S...

  • The Trouble With Caasi

    Debbie Macomber

    NO ROOM FOR LOVE Running Crane Enterprises was Caasi's whole life. Every waking minute was centered around the hotel chain. So what if her heart was vacant? Then rugged Blake Sherrill handed her his resignation, and Caasi's emotions began to somersa...

  • Hidden Charms

    Lee Magner

    She'd only meant to boost her ego after the blow of a broken engagement. She'd set out to snare a man--and succeeded beyond her wildest expectations. Had it not been for a strange turn of events, she'd have surrendered utterly to Adam Locke's searing...

  • Hollaran's World War

    Tim Mahoney

    Upon his return from service, Vietnam veteran Thomas Joseph Hollaran finds that his wife has left him, his home town, Newark, New Jersey, is disintegrating, and only his buddy Eddie can help him get through...

  • One In A Million

    Kathryn Makris

  • Devil's Deception

    Doreen Owens Malek

    LIES. . . Could she love a man who lied his way into her life? Brett Devlin had a job to spy on beautiful law student Angela Patria, niece of a powerful Manhattan millionaire. Angela's Uncle Frank was suspected of smuggling drugs, and it was De...

  • Humages

    Roberto Marchiori

  • In Search of Graphics

    Sandra Markle

  • Friends Along the Way

    Julia Markus

    Betsy Lewis is an innocent abroad until she meets Alice Blanders Russo and her much younger lover, Leo Conti. Together they form a triangle of friendship and desire that will turn Betsy’s marriage -- and her principles -- upside down. Add a hilar...

  • A Classic Death

    Amy Louise Marsland

    The murder in the south of France of the cabaret star known as "The Madwoman of Pontaillac" draws Laura and Francois LeBreton into its vortex as the dead woman's seemingly innocent secrets from the past wreak unexpected consequences...

  • The Accident

    Dexter Masters

  • Sisters

    Debby Mayer

  • Kaye Wayfaring in Avenged

    James Mccourt

  • Blood Island

    Peter McCurtin

  • Lieutenant Cameron RNVR

    Philip McCutchan

    When his antiquated ship is destroyed in a vicious battle with a German heavy cruiser, Lieutenant Cameron is the only officer left to command the lifeboats and guide the survivors, thousands of miles from land, to safety....

  • Hold Fast the Dream

    Lurlene McDaniel

    For ambitious TV journalist Catlin Rurke, the political platform of independent senatorial candidate Matthew Carr sparks both suspicion and curiosity. If what he says is true, he just might influence the large undecided vote and swing the election. T...

  • Jack and Susan in 1953

    Michael McDowell

    In this time-shift romance series by the screenwriter of Beetlejuice, the timeless lovers are on a daring adventure through 1950s NYC and Havana.   Regardless of what the calendar says, Jack and Susan are always, eternally, twenty-seven years ol...

  • Magic to Do

    Melinda McKenzie

    What disturbed Paul Sand most at Berkeley's Psychic Fair wasn't the phony fortune-tellers: It was his chance encounter with an elegant blue-eyed woman. When they met, Paul felt the instant magnetism that magically draws two people together across spa...

  • My Mother Sends Her Wisdom

    Louise McLenathan

  • The Mountain That Loved a Bird

    Alice Mclerran

  • Race for the Roses

    Maxine McMillan

    WINNER TAKE ALL It was a long shot, but Adrianna Adams was willing to take a chance and spend her life savings on Sarazen, the majestic black stallion with racing potential. If she could make him into a winner, the success of her stables would be ...

  • Iseult

    Dee Morrison Meaney

    In all the lands of Arthur's Britain no knight could outshine Tristan of Lyonnesse. Fierce in battle, gentle on the strings of a harp, unequaled in the hunt, notorious in Tintagel's bedrooms, he seemed bound for a glorious destiny--and found ...

  • Defiant Dreams

    Cheri Michaels

  • The Savage Miss Saxon

    Kasey Michaels

    A HASTY BETROTHAL Alexandra Saxon had journeyed all the way from America to introduce herself to her grandfather, Lord Saxon, and had no intention of being turned away, despite her unannounced arrival in the middle of the night. It was only in the...