Books Published in August 1985

New Books List: 326 titles

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • Death's Shadow

    Zach Wyatt

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 " a community living in vast subterranean cities " and the Mutes, who have evolved to withstand the radiati...

  • Crystal Clouds

    Robert E. Vardeman

  • Jinian Footseer

    Sheri S. Tepper

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Time of the Annihilator

    John Morressy

  • Diasporah

    W.R. Yates

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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, ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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, ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 -- ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 t...

  • 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 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Cajun Lover

    Katherine Sargent

  • 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...

  • 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?...

  • 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...

  • 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'...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Murder at the Cheatin' Heart Hotel

    Art Bourgeau

  • 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...

  • Upon Some Midnights Clear

    K.C. Constantine

    Christmas is a crime for cop Mario Balzic, and this mystery set in a small rust-belt town is “steady entertainment for fans of down-and-dirty local color” (Kirkus Reviews).   Not everyone is in the holiday spirit in Rocksburg, PA. Especially...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Murder in the First Reel

    Bill Pronzini

  • Deathwatch

    Elleston Trevor

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • The Dream Years

    Lisa Goldstein

  • 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...

  • Suntanned Days

    Caroline B. Cooney

  • Challenge of the Wolf Knight

    R.L. Stine

  • Love Lost

    Francine Pascal

  • 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...

  • Corbin's Fancy

    Linda Lael Miller

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    M.E. Cooper

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    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...

  • Hands of a Stranger

    Robert Daley

  • Elegy for a Soprano

    Kay Nolte Smith

  • 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...

  • A Day Without Sunshine

    Les Whitten

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  • Tap City

    Ron Abell

  • 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...

  • A Time to Choose

    Janine Boissard

  • 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...

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    Marilyn Caldwell-Wilson

  • Molly Pink Goes Hiking

    Judith Caseley

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    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...

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    Burton Cohen

  • Swan's Chance // A Wild Heart

    Celeste De Blasis

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  • 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

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  • Dauntless

    Alan Evans

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  • The Crime and the Crystal

    E.X. Ferrars / Elizabeth Ferrars

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  • 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...

  • Winter Magic

    Eveline Hasler

  • The Ways of Darkness

    Joseph Hayes

  • 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...

  • Three from Galilee

    Marjorie Holmes

  • The Red Fox

    Anthony Hyde

  • 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 ...

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    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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • My Mother Sends Her Wisdom

    Louise McLenathan

  • Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories

    R.K. Narayan

  • Lazlo's Strike

    Theodore V. Olsen / T.V. Olsen

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    Jeremy Pikser

  • Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance

    Richard Powers

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  • Druid's Enchantment

    Millie J. Ragosta

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  • Sunday Morning We Went to the Zoo

    Deborah Kogan Ray

  • A Domestic Affair

    Martin Russell

  • Warrior in Bronze

    George Shipway

  • Accidental Tourist

    Anne Tyler

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  • McKenzie's Hundred

    Frank Yerby

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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • White Death

    Nick Carter

  • Windhaven's Fury

    Marie De Jourlet

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  • River Raid

    Eric Helm

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  • Payoff at Pawnee

    L.P. Holmes

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Blind Date With Death

    Cornell Woolrich

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Mitzi's Honeymoon With Nana Potts

    Barbara Williams

  • 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...

  • 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

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  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Scorpion Trail

    Jon Sharpe

  • Nightcap

    J.P. Smith

  • 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...

  • Deadly Games

    Edward Topol

  • 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...

  • I'll Take Manhattan

    Danielle Barlette

  • To London With Love

    Danielle Barlette

  • And Still the Earth

    Ignacio Brandao

  • Lubyanka

    James Burch

  • Cease Fire

    Jack Casey

  • The Beirut Retaliation

    John Cutter

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Crystal City

    Nancy Etchemendy

  • The Watchers of Space

    Nancy Etchemendy

  • Meanwhile

    Max Handley

  • 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

  • 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...

  • Skinny Malinky Leads the War for Kidness

    Stanley Kiesel