Books Published in August 1985

New Books List: 326 titles

  • Fortune's Child

    Cheryl Zach

    Melissa has everything: money, looks, brains and a jock boyfriend named Tank. But her parents' marriage is breaking up, and she fears no one likes her for herself. She goes through an unsteady period and finally ends up with a quiet Oriental loner wh...

  • A Wilder Passion

    Karen Young

    OUT OF CONTROL Now that she was co-anchorwoman of the evening news, Lacey Wilder's life was far from boring. Standing in the rain, waiting for a helicopter to interview victims of an oil rig explosion was all in a day's work. But what she didn't e...

  • Miss Know It All Returns

    Carol Beach York

  • Stardust and Sand

    Amanda York

    DESERT FLOWER When Ginny Hooper first met Tony on her last day at the Workin' Late Bar, she knew he was someone special--though she never would have guessed he was part of the vast DeLeon gambling empire headquartered in Las Vegas. Ginny wanted...

  • McKenzie's Hundred

    Frank Yerby

    WAR OF HEARTS They called her Rambling Rose McKenzie, a woman so wild and sweet, so high-spirited, no man could tame her -- or resist trying. Her birthright was McKenzie's Hundred, rich Virginia acres threatened by a desperate war. Blind de...

  • Diasporah

    W.R. Yates

  • Death's Shadow

    Zach Wyatt

  • Blind Date With Death

    Cornell Woolrich

  • Relentless Pursuit

    Eleanor Woods

    Shena McLean had done her best. She'd apologized for plowing her beat-up pickup truck into his new Lincoln. She'd tried to help him pull his car out of the ditch. But he'd accused her of being a one-woman demolition derby and had become a wild, mud-d...

  • Mitzi's Honeymoon With Nana Potts

    Barbara Williams

  • A Day Without Sunshine

    Les Whitten

    Reluctantly aiding a woman fight a wealthy and mysterious cartel interested in her vineyard, retired investigative reporter Aubrey Warder stumbles into a baffling conspiracy that threatens the world-wide wine industry...

  • Wild Jasmine

    Yvonne Whittal

    Nothing was the way she had imagined it! Excitement filled Sarika on the flight home to Bombay. Working in her father's firm, now that she had her degree in architecture, would earn his respect, if not his affection. To find her parents awa...

  • Summer Lightning

    Becky Lee Weyrich

    They were playing a game of double masquerade. But their lusty passion could not be denied... He was Captain Damien Clay, a freewheeling, swashbuckling, handsome member of Morgan's Raiders, daringly disguised as a woman to help win the war for the...

  • A Stranger's Touch

    Sophie Weston

    She tried to avoid the stranger's touch Cindy Masters had been content to withdraw to her grandfather's farm in England and care for her cousins--anything to escape getting caught up in her mother's promiscuous bet-setting world. Bu...

  • Sky High

    Nicola West

    I'm looking for tough, experienced pilots, not young kids with their heads literally in the clouds,' Sky Darrington informed Sandie Lewis the day she showed up for a job interview -- a woman instead of a man. But having come so close to livin...

  • The Hawk of Venice

    Sally Wentworth

    If only they'd met in other circumstances "Are you accusing me of lying?" Count Berini denied all knowledge of Petra's friend Sara Hamling, the girl he'd run off with. But Petra had seen them drive away together in Carlo's ...

  • Taming Maggie

    Peggy Webb

    They were destined to be adversaries from the moment they met! Preservationist Maggie Merriweather had vowed to ruin opening day of hunting season by playing "Taps" on her silver trumpet to warn the ducks away. When banker Adam Trent discovered her p...

  • Blood Run

    Alex Webb

  • The Hide and Seek Mystery

    Judy Wathen

  • Tears in the Rain

    Pamela Wallace

    Kentucky born Casey Cantre London, determined to fulfill her last request and deliver a letter to a mysterious stranger. But when she reached the home of wealthy old Lord Bredon, she was met with only coldness and anger. Vowing to solve mystery, C...

  • Adam's Daughters

    Elizabeth Villars

  • Crystal Clouds

    Robert E. Vardeman

  • Kisses That Miss and Other Awkward Moments

    Antonia Van der Meer

  • Busting Caps

    Nik Uhernik

  • Accidental Tourist

    Anne Tyler

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author -- an irresistible novel exploring the slippery alchemy of attracting opposites, and the struggle to rebuild one’s life after unspeakable tragedyTravel writer Macon...

  • Deathwatch

    Elleston Trevor

  • Simple Pleasures

    Lynda Trent

    CAN'T BUY ME LOVE She was just Cassie Collins, manager of the Daisy Dilly Flower Shoppe. Not an overly exciting life, but paying her phone bill and keeping Mr. Beebles, her pet gold fish, in fish food kept her happy. She wasn't the kind to become ...

  • Deadly Games

    Edward Topol

  • Cloud Warrior

    Patrick Tilley

    Hundreds of years after civilisation has been destroyed by nuclear war, the Earth is divided between the Trackers of the Amtrak Federation â€" a community living in vast subterranean cities â€" and the Mutes, who have evolved to withstand the radiati...

  • Foolish Pride

    April Thorne

    PRIDE GOETH BEFORE A FALL, and no one knew that better than horsebreeder Kendall Voss. Her farm was in trouble, but she was too proud to accept help, even from her too-attractive neighbor, Jordan Craig. Jordan was a neophyte in the horsebreedi...

  • Bismarck Cross

    Steven L. Thompson

    Obsessed by the desire to reunify Germany, two military men--one West German, one East German--implement a scheme to eliminate NATO and Warsaw pact influence from the region by using nuclear blackmail...

  • Jinian Footseer

    Sheri S. Tepper

  • Hydrabyss Red

    William Tedford

  • The Kindness of Strangers

    Bernard Taylor

  • Green King

    Paul-Loup Sulitzer

  • Widening Circles

    Elizabeth L. Sturz

  • Time Between

    Shirley Streshinksy

  • Words from the Heart

    Natalie Stone

    The Winnebago, Wisconsin, Gazette! For Jessica.Rowen, fresh out of journalism school, it was merely a stepping-stone to the thrilling, high-powered New York publishing world. She was hot to cover the news; had a dozen good column ideas. "Miss Lovey H...

  • Challenge of the Wolf Knight

    R.L. Stine

  • The Naylors

    J.I.M. Stewart

    George Naylor, an Anglican priest, has doubts about his faith. He goes to stay with his brother’s family, who unfortunately regard religion with some disdain and George as a bit of a joke. Enter Father Potter, sent by the establishment to regain th...

  • Cagney & Lacey

    Serita Mendelson Stevens

    Two women from very different backgrounds leave their old lives behind to become police officers with the New York City Police Department, in a novel that explores the early lives of Christine Cagney and Mary Beth Lacey and how they became a team...

  • Wanting It

    Rudolf Steiner

  • Megan's Beat

    Lou Willett Stanek

  • A Civil War

    Beverly Sommers

    Annie didn't want to be carried back to old Virginny! It had been okay for her childhood summers, but to spend a whole year in West Virginia enrolled in some hick school and living in a backwoods cabin was just not her idea of a blast. Most of her g...

  • Encyclopedia Brown's Book of Wacky Animals

    Donald J. Sobol

  • Gallatin Divergence

    L. Neil Smith

    In a parallel universe to America, George Washington has been executed and Alexander Hamilton is exiled, leaving a government-free country--until, centuries later, several Hamiltonians want to travel back in time to save him...

  • Elegy for a Soprano

    Kay Nolte Smith

  • The Devious Duchess

    Joan Smith

    A handsome nobleman must crack the case -- or lose his only love. THE PENNY-PINCHING DUCHESS PLAN A BIRTHDAY DO FOR HER BROTHER? THAT WAS ODD INDEED! Deirdre Gower and her dashing fiance, Lord Belami, found it most peculiar that the Duchess'...

  • Nightcap

    J.P. Smith

  • The Sorcery Within

    Dave Smeds

    Volume One of The War of the Dragons trilogyElenya and Alemar have come of age hidden from the decades-long war between an empire-craving dragon and the human dynasty that stands in the way. The twin sister and brother nevertheless may be the means t...

  • This Heart of Mine

    Bertrice Small

    Embarking on a dangerous secret mission for Queen Elizabeth, beautiful, indomitable Skye O'Malley and her noble husband Adam de Marisco must leave behind their lovely, 15-year-old daughter Velvet. They have no fears for the safety of their youngest c...

  • Mystery of the Ancients

    Morris Simon
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  • Warrior in Bronze

    George Shipway

  • Scorpion Trail

    Jon Sharpe

  • Sweet Burning

    Sandi Shane

    Maggie Spencer wasn't about to let anyone play cupid for her, but she had no qualms about using her best friend's escort service to find suitable "no-strings" dates to accompany her on business functions. But when a devastatingly handsome law student...

  • Comes a Stranger

    Maura Seger

    HE WAS A DARCY, and for Anthony that meant a life of obedience to an ancient code of duty and honor. He was an English nobleman, and she was merely Victoria Lombard, an orphaned American with no knowledge of her parents or her past. Or was she?...

  • Undercover

    Maura Seger

    The night had a hundred eyes... The guards had locked Tyne Saunders in a cell and thrown away the key. No one knew this was all part of Tyne's plan...she wasn't both an ace reporter and a crack shot for nothing. It was Falconer Darcourt, the h...

  • Best Friends Dont Co

    Joel L. Schwartz

  • Brainchild

    John Saul

    Alex Lonsdale was one of the most popular kids in La Paloma, California.  Until the horrifying car accident.  Until a brilliant doctor's medical miracle brought him back from the brink of death.  Now, Alex seems the same...

  • The House of the Prophets

    Nicholas Saudray

    In the ficticious Middle Eastern country of Marsanee, a country in the throes of revolution, an idealistic architect struggles to realize his dream of interfaith tolerance and peace, in a novel capturing the turmoil and passion of the contemporary Mi...

  • Cajun Lover

    Katherine Sargent

  • With Fondest Regards

    Francoise Sagan

  • The Phoenix

    Barry Sadler

    Casca Longinus. Cursed by Christ on Golgotha. Condemned to outlive the ages and wander the globe a constant soldier. Forever fighting, surviving, waiting for Him to return. Viet Cong Commander Ho van Tuyen has a hit list... and Casca is on it. Usi...

  • The Third Book of Swords

    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......

  • A Domestic Affair

    Martin Russell

  • Sand in the Wind

    Robert Roth

    The eBook edition and the Periphery Press "Trade Edition" (large 6"x9" format, superior quality) of Sand in the Wind are, at present, the only corrected and authorized editions available.


    "...an extraordinary tribute to the GIs who, as [Ro...

  • Cross Currents

    Robert Rostand

  • Summer Times

    Marcia Rose

    This is the story of one summer in the life of Natalie Simon, creative VP of a major New York ad agency, hard-drinking, sexy lady, woman in control of her life. This is the story of the summer when it all almost falls apart. She's had it! Her imma...

  • Raj

    Donald Robinson

  • The Golden Horseman

    J.R. Roberts

    Clint Adams has had a number of strange assignments in his time, but none more unusual than acting as a bodyguard for a Japanese ambassador -- and a prized statue of the Golden Horseman. As the train bearing Clint and the Japanese delegation trav...

  • Walking on Air

    Michele Robbe

    As the only woman on the ground crew for the company airship Andromeda, Alexandra Prince was used to fighting her own battles--and letting the men know what was on her mind. But when Cameron Ramsay joined the crew, the "men only" rules were suddenly ...

  • A Dangerous Passion

    Joann Robb

    Who was Jenny Winslow... and why had investigative reporter Dan McGee fallen so hard for this beautiful stranger in top secret trouble? Logic told him that love didn't come from a few days of dodging bullets and a few nights of explosive passion, bu...

  • Dark Torment

    Karen Robards

    SHE WAS MISTRESS, BUT PASSION MADE HER HIS SLAVE. A landowner's daughter, honey-blonde Sarah Markham was a virgin furiously dedicated to dreams of a just world - yet feverishly yearning for a man's clasping arms...Then she met a black-haired Irish...

  • Such Rough Splendor

    Cinda Richards

    Amelia has had it with contrary males! Her husband left her but won't leave her alone. Her brother denies his hair-raising escapades, but relies on her to bail him out. The last straw is Houston "Mac" McDade-the orneriest, gentlest, dumbest, smartest...

  • Sunday Morning We Went to the Zoo

    Deborah Kogan Ray

  • Dreams So Fleeting

    Louisa Rawlings

    Love's Reckoning... Illegitimate daughter of a great French nobleman, young Ninon was whisked from a life of cruel drudgery by the dashing Philippe, Count of Froissart. But the flame-tressed Ninon was to be misfortune's captive once again, just as Ph...

  • Detroit Combat

    Carl Ramm

    A gang of pornographers turns kidnapped women into sex slaves -- and only Hawker can save them Brenda Paulie is fresh out of law school, newly married, and recently pregnant. She’s also marked to die. In an affluent neighborhood of Detroit, three m...

  • Druid's Enchantment

    Millie J. Ragosta

    It was a time of magical mists and primeval forests, of powerful chieftains and white-robed druids who called themselves mediators between humans and the ancient Celtic gods. And it was in the house of the King and Queen of Ireland that Marda, their ...

  • The Great Boy Chase

    Janet Quin-Harkin

    When her best friend, Toni, talks Jill Gardner into spending summer in Europe, Jill is worried. Toni has been leading her into scrapes since they were kids, and Jill is sure their trip will spark an international disaster. But when they arrive in Fra...

  • What's in the Dark?

    Ellery Queen

    A blackout leaves New York in chaos as cop Tim Corrigan searches for a shadowy killer in this classic mystery from the legendary author. High above the sidewalks of Manhattan, Miss Graves is closing up the offices of the Burns Accounting Company when...

  • Kingdom Come

    Michael Pye

  • Grandpa Bear

    Bonnie Pryor

  • Murder in the First Reel

    Bill Pronzini

  • Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance

    Richard Powers

    “Dazzling and audacious. . . Nothing short of astounding.” -- Philadelphia InquirerThe critically acclaimed debut novel from the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment.“A writer of blistering intellec...

  • Casanova's Chinese Restaurant

    Anthony Powell

    Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally p...

  • Kindly Ones

    Anthony Powell

    Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally p...

  • Far Frontiers 3

    Jerry Pournelle

  • The Years of the City

    Frederik Pohl

    In the New York City of the next century, twin domes over Manhattan control extremes of weather, illegal hang-gliding is common, and many old problems have been solved--but the rage of some Gothamites cannot be controlled. Reprint. PW. NYT. ...

  • Red Rose of Anjou

    Jean Plaidy

    A WOMAN'S AMBITION WAS FULFILLED THROUGH MEN--BUT MEN HAD AMBITIONS OF THEIR OWN. Margaret of Anjou came to England and married King Henry VI. Born to a family of strong women, Margaret was no exception. She was passionate, impulsive, loving, viol...

  • Junk on the Hill

    Jeremy Pikser

  • The Shadowless Day

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    Whether revitalizing the department store empire his grandfather had founded, or relentlessly pursuing a woman he desired, Linc Reynolds wasn't afraid to break tradition or encounter resistance--he was that sure of himself! But falling in love with h...

  • The Life of Solitude

    Francesco Petrarch

  • Valiant Bride

    Jane Peart

    Happiness and fulfillment, heartbreak and tragedy, faith and triumph--the unfolding panorama of "The Brides of Montclair." MONTCLAIR--The magnificent ancestral home of the Montrose family, built on an original King's Grant along the James River. B...

  • Prima Donna at Large

    Barbara Paul

    A headstrong young soprano must solve a murder to save her friend The Metropolitan Opera has no time for illness. So when its principal baritone succumbs to a head cold on the eve of Carmen, house diva Geraldine Farrar doesn’t hesitate to recommend...

  • Double or Nothing

    Lynn Patrick

    They were a terrific team--fantasy writer Valerie Lindahl and artist Anne Delaney. Together they'd found the perfect vehicle for their talents in the sexy swordswoman, Valarya the Valiant. Sometimes Valerie felt that if she could only step into the p...

  • Love Lost

    Francine Pascal

  • Too Much in Love

    Francine Pascal

    Hanging on for love. Bill Chase and DeeDee Gordon have been happy together for a long time. But lately DeeDee has become too dependent on Bill. She wants to do everything and go everywhere with him. Bill feels that he doesn't have any room to bre...

  • The Helen Oxenbury Nursery Storybook

    Helen Oxenbury

  • Lazlo's Strike

    Theodore V. Olsen / T.V. Olsen

    Hungarian immigrant Lazlo Kusik risks everything to find a fortune in the gold-rich hills of the Sierra Nevada, but when he finally stumbles upon a treasure of gleaming gold, he has to guard his discovery and his life from the gold-hungry hardcases o...

  • Country Blue

    Marie Nicole

    SING FOR YOUR SUPPER That was just about what Dani Christopher had to do. She had thrown herself into the limo--and the lap--of Clint MacPherson, because as a top talent agent he was her last hope. Dani had dreamed of making it as a singer, but...

  • Skystalker

    Len Neufeld

    The reader's decisions and ability to solve mazes and puzzles will determine whether the interplanetary spy can capture Skystalker, a criminal who has stolen the ancient Romular Sphere from the planet Kellzor...

  • Interior Designs

    Carla Neggers

    She was a designing woman. Lizzie Olson had come all the way from Kansas to take New York by storm--beginning with high-powered literary agent Michael Wolfe. All she needed was one break, an opportunity to show off her interior-designing talents in M...

  • Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories

    R.K. Narayan

  • The Belchamber Scandal

    Frances Murray

    Family disaster overwhelms Amelia Belchamber, obliging her to make a new life for herself as a Governess in the north of England. Her troubles begin when she is left alone with eight offspring, the children of her employer, cotton manufacturer, Stane...

  • The Seventh Stone

    Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    THE DEADLIEST STONE OF ALL A bigger chill than snow. Harder to kick than heroin. The Destroyer was stoned on star lust. Remo was losing it...and loving it...in the highly-trained arms of Kim Kiley, Hollywood sex specialist...and the hottest wea...

  • Wanderlust

    Vella Munn

    People couldn't change -- not really No matter how much Lori Black wished otherwise, she was born and bred a longer. It was a legacy she'd inherited from her father, a lumberjack of few needs and fewer words who'd taken his daughter with him as ...

  • There's Nothing to Be Afraid Of

    Marcia Muller

    Heartbreak Hotel... The Globe Apartments, six stories of decaying brick and concrete, rise above San Francisco's volatile Tenderloin district. The seedy former hotel, once a haven for the city's down and out, now houses Vietnamese families striving ...

  • Ghostbusters: The Supernatural Spectacular

    Richard Mueller

  • The Handyman

    Penelope Mortimer

  • Lady Surrender

    Carole Mortimer

    She was no threat to his friend's marriage At first Aaron Grantley couldn't see why his best friend would throw away eight good years of marriage for the likes of Charly Allenby. But before long he couldn't imagine any man--married or ...

  • The Time of the Annihilator

    John Morressy

  • The Mind Bandits

    Stephen Mooser

    As the lone survivor aboard a wandering space station, the reader must choose between landing on an unexplored planet or tracking down the mysterious plague that has spirited away everyone aboard the space station...

  • Hiding Places

    Modean Moon

    She couldn't escape the past until she found a future The only truth in Hillary Michaels's life had been her love for Anton Roeffler. ButAnton would never believe that--how could he? When she'd arrived in Altus, Arkansas, four years ago, Hillary h...

  • Rangoon

    Christine Monson

    WILLING PRISONER IN A PALACE OF DREAMS... Rangoon. Lysistrata's heart raced with excitement. A world away from Boston. A place where she could forget... Rangoon--land of color and adventure--where, like an emerging butterfly, she would taste ...

  • Rand Emory's Woman

    Nicole Monet

    LOVE DEBT When her father's sudden death left Sara Benedict alone and facing bankruptcy, the last person in the world she wanted to depend on was business tycoon Rand Emory. Rand had promised her father to take care of her, but Sara wasn't inte...

  • Blood and Dreams

    Richard Monaco

    Parsifal, a knight of the Round Table, becomes engrossed in the search for the Holy Grail while coping with his errant son, Lohengrin, who has stolen a magical sword and plans to give it to the evil Morgana...

  • Hammer of Darkness

    L.E. Modesitt Jr.

    A TERRIFYING JOURNEY Martin Martel had become a dangerous man. The revelation that he had the gift of ESP, a power that belonged only to the gods, was certain cause for the respected scholar to be banished from the planet Karnak and exiled to an o...

  • Bright Desire

    Erica Mitchell

    IN WILD AUSTRALIA SHE FOUGHT AGAINST THE PASSION OF TWO RECKLESS HEARTS--A RUGGED ADVENTURER'S AND HER OWN. Far from the stifling drawing rooms of England, beautiful Susan Barrett forged a life in a wide open land. Then the Gold Boom brought a...

  • Corbin's Fancy

    Linda Lael Miller

    FANCY JORDAN KNEW MANY A MAGIC TRICK -- BUT WINNING JEFF CORBIN'S LOVE WOULD TAKE A MIRACLE! When a traveling carnival left Fancy Jordan stranded in the rugged Washington Territory; she thought her luck had run out. Alone, penniless, she wel...

  • Please Love Me

    Keith Miller

  • Ghost in My Soup

    Judi Miller

    Scott's New House Is Haunted! Ten-year-old Scott’s troubles start the day he and his family move to Chagrin Falls. His best friend is now far away, he's stuck in a school he hates, and all the popular boys ignore him, Plus, strange things start ...

  • The Skook

    J.P. Miller

  • Anna's Child

    Angel Milan

    BABE IN THE WOODS Anna Harte had a secret dream, but it was hers alone. Anna wanted a child of her own to love--but she wanted her freedom, too. An apprenticeship to a Creole Chef in New Orleans enabled her to escape the constant demands of her...

  • A Lover's Gift

    Lynn Michaels

    Sometimes second chances can be murder… Jack Draper is the last person Aubrey Nichols expects to pop back into her life. She doesn't need her heart broken again, especially by a desperate man holding a gun. Dr. Jack Draper's life is in j...

  • 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...

  • Defiant Dreams

    Cheri Michaels

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • The Mountain That Loved a Bird

    Alice Mclerran

  • My Mother Sends Her Wisdom

    Louise McLenathan

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Blood Island

    Peter McCurtin

  • Kaye Wayfaring in Avenged

    James Mccourt

  • Sisters

    Debby Mayer

  • The Accident

    Dexter Masters

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • In Search of Graphics

    Sandra Markle

  • Humages

    Roberto Marchiori

  • 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...

  • One In A Million

    Kathryn Makris

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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 Denver Duchess

    Warren T. Longtree

  • 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...

  • Mischievous Meg

    Astrid Lindgren

  • One-Minute Favorite Fairy Tales

    Shari Lewis

  • 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...

  • Spy for George Washington

    Jay Leibold

  • 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...

  • King of the Mountain

    Adam Lassiter

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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,...

  • Trinity and Other Stories

    Nancy Kress

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Bizou

    Norma Klein

  • Love and Other Euphemisms

    Norma Klein

  • 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

  • Skinny Malinky Leads the War for Kidness

    Stanley Kiesel

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Viet Journal

    James Jones

  • 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...

  • 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 t...

  • 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...

  • The Red Fox

    Anthony Hyde

  • Horn of Plenty

    E.J. Hunter

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Three from Galilee

    Marjorie Holmes

  • Payoff at Pawnee

    L.P. Holmes

  • Fright Night

    Tom Holland

  • Minnikin, Midgie and Moppet

    Adelaide Holl

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • The Ghost Squad Flies Concorde

    E.W. Hildick

  • The Mysterious Mr. Ripley

    Patricia Highsmith

  • 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 Executioner Waits

    Josephine Herbst

  • 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...

  • Mighty Mizzling Mouse and the Red Cabbage House

    Friso Henstra