Books Published in August 1985

New Books List: 326 titles

  • 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...

  • The Accident

    Dexter Masters

  • Accidental Tourist

    Anne Tyler

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize"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...

  • Adam's Daughters

    Elizabeth Villars

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • And Still the Earth

    Ignacio Brandao

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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 Beirut Retaliation

    John Cutter

  • 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...

  • Best Friends Dont Co

    Joel L. Schwartz

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • Bizou

    Norma Klein

  • Blind Date With Death

    Cornell Woolrich

  • 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...

  • Blood Island

    Peter McCurtin

  • 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...

  • Blood Run

    Alex Webb

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 . .&#...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Busting Caps

    Nik Uhernik

  • 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...

  • Cajun Lover

    Katherine Sargent

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Cease Fire

    Jack Casey

  • Challenge of the Wolf Knight

    R.L. Stine

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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?...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Cross Currents

    Robert Rostand

  • The Crystal City

    Nancy Etchemendy

  • Crystal Clouds

    Robert E. Vardeman

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • The Day Is Dark and Three Travelers

    Marie-Claire Blais

  • 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...

  • Deadly Games

    Edward Topol

  • Death's Shadow

    Zach Wyatt

  • Deathwatch

    Elleston Trevor

  • Defiant Dreams

    Cheri Michaels

  • The Denver Duchess

    Warren T. Longtree

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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'...

  • Diasporah

    W.R. Yates

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • A Domestic Affair

    Martin Russell

  • 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...

  • The Dream Years

    Lisa Goldstein

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Elegy for a Soprano

    Kay Nolte Smith

  • Encyclopedia Brown's Book of Wacky Animals

    Donald J. Sobol

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Executioner Waits

    Josephine Herbst

  • 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....

  • Far Frontiers 3

    Jerry Pournelle

  • 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...

  • Flying to Nowhere

    John G. Fuller

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Fright Night

    Tom Holland

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 Ghost Squad Flies Concorde

    E.W. Hildick

  • 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 ...

  • Ghostbusters: The Supernatural Spectacular

    Richard Mueller

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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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  • 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...

  • Grandpa Bear

    Bonnie Pryor

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Green King

    Paul-Loup Sulitzer

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Hands of a Stranger

    Robert Daley

  • The Handyman

    Penelope Mortimer

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • The Helen Oxenbury Nursery Storybook

    Helen Oxenbury

  • 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...

  • Hellrider

    Dan Killerman

  • 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 Hide and Seek Mystery

    Judy Wathen

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Horn of Plenty

    E.J. Hunter

  • 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...

  • Humages

    Roberto Marchiori

  • Hydrabyss Red

    William Tedford

  • I'll Take Manhattan

    Danielle Barlette

  • 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...

  • 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'...

  • In Search of Graphics

    Sandra Markle

  • In the Land of Nyx

    John Bowers

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Jill

    Mary Carraway

  • Jinian Footseer

    Sheri S. Tepper

  • Junk on the Hill

    Jeremy Pikser

  • Kaye Wayfaring in Avenged

    James Mccourt

  • Keepers of the Secrets

    Philip Jose Farmer

  • Kelly Country

    A. Bertram Chandler

  • 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...

  • The Kindness of Strangers

    Bernard Taylor

  • King of the Mountain

    Adam Lassiter

  • Kingdom Come

    Michael Pye

  • 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...

  • Kisses That Miss and Other Awkward Moments

    Antonia Van der Meer

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • The Life of Solitude

    Francesco Petrarch

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Little Turtle's Big Adventure

    David L. Harrison

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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'...

  • Love and Other Euphemisms

    Norma Klein

  • Love Lost

    Francine Pascal

  • 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...

  • Lubyanka

    James Burch

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Meanwhile

    Max Handley

  • Megan's Beat

    Lou Willett Stanek

  • Mighty Mizzling Mouse and the Red Cabbage House

    Friso Henstra

  • 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...

  • Minnikin, Midgie and Moppet

    Adelaide Holl

  • Mischievous Meg

    Astrid Lindgren

  • Miss Know It All Returns

    Carol Beach York

  • Misty's Mischief

    Rod Campbell

  • Mitzi's Honeymoon With Nana Potts

    Barbara Williams

  • Molly Pink Goes Hiking

    Judith Caseley

  • The Mountain That Loved a Bird

    Alice Mclerran

  • Murder at the Cheatin' Heart Hotel

    Art Bourgeau

  • Murder in the First Reel

    Bill Pronzini

  • My Mother Sends Her Wisdom

    Louise McLenathan

  • The Mysterious Mr. Ripley

    Patricia Highsmith

  • 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...

  • Mystery of the Ancients

    Morris Simon
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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  • 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...

  • Nelson Makes a Face

    Burton Cohen

  • Nightcap

    J.P. Smith

  • 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 ...

  • One In A Million

    Kathryn Makris

  • 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...

  • One-Minute Favorite Fairy Tales

    Shari Lewis