Books Published in August 1985

New Books List: 326 titles

  • 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. ...

  • A World Made of Fire

    Mark Childress

    “A damned fine story. . . As different voices add their information about the book’s most important event, the Christmas night fire in the Bates house . . . we realize that Childress is working in a time-honored framework: that of the ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • With Fondest Regards

    Francoise Sagan

  • The Witch's Dream

    Florinda Donner

  • Winters Coming, Winters Gone

    Allen Glick

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

  • Winter Magic

    Eveline Hasler

  • 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, ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Widening Circles

    Elizabeth L. Sturz

  • 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...

  • White Death

    Nick Carter

  • The Whistle Blower

    John Hale

  • Whirlwind

    Marilyn Caldwell-Wilson

  • 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...

  • 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 Ways of Darkness

    Joseph Hayes

  • Water Dancer

    Jillian Blake

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

  • The Watchers of Space

    Nancy Etchemendy

  • Warrior in Bronze

    George Shipway

  • Wanting It

    Rudolf Steiner

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Viet Journal

    James Jones

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories

    R.K. Narayan

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Trinity and Other Stories

    Nancy Kress

  • 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, ...

  • Tracer

    Frederick Barthelme

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • To London With Love

    Danielle Barlette

  • A Time to Dance

    Karen Strickler Dean

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

  • A Time to Choose

    Janine Boissard

  • The Time of the Annihilator

    John Morressy

  • Time Between

    Shirley Streshinksy

  • Thunder Over Eden

    Emma Goldrick

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

  • 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...

  • Three from Galilee

    Marjorie Holmes

  • Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance

    Richard Powers

    Three tales intertwine around a photo of three young men on the brink of WWI in this literary debut by the Pulitzer Prize"winning author of The Overstory.In the spring of 1914, renowned photographer August Sander took a photograph of three young me...

  • 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...

  • The Third Millenium

    David Langford

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

  • The 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......

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Thai Triangle

    Jayne Bauling

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Tap City

    Ron Abell

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Swan's Chance // A Wild Heart

    Celeste De Blasis

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

  • 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 ...

  • Suntanned Days

    Caroline B. Cooney

  • Sunday Morning We Went to the Zoo

    Deborah Kogan Ray

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Storm Over Valka

    Alan Burt Akers

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Stardust

    Shelly Gross

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

  • Spy for George Washington

    Jay Leibold

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 Skook

    J.P. Miller

  • Skinny Malinky Leads the War for Kidness

    Stanley Kiesel

  • Sisters

    Debby Mayer

  • 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 ...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Sea Wall

    Marguerite Duras

  • Scorpion Trail

    Jon Sharpe

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • Robert, My Son

    Henry Denker

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

  • River Raid

    Eric Helm

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

  • 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...

  • Ribbons and Haywire

    Steven Carpenter

  • 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 -- ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Red Fox

    Anthony Hyde

  • 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 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Raj

    Donald Robinson

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • The Puppet Master

    Pippa Clarke

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

  • Promise of the Unicorn

    Sara Craven

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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'...

  • Please Love Me

    Keith Miller

  • 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 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...

  • 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, with Pity Is Not Enough as its first volume, shows clearly that Herbst in fact succeeded ...

  • 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...

  • Phantom Skateboard

    Elaine Harper

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

  • Payoff at Pawnee

    L.P. Holmes

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • One-Minute Favorite Fairy Tales

    Shari Lewis

  • 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 In A Million

    Kathryn Makris

  • 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 ...

  • Nightcap

    J.P. Smith

  • Nelson Makes a Face

    Burton Cohen

  • 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...

  • Mystery of the Ancients

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

  • The Mysterious Mr. Ripley

    Patricia Highsmith

  • My Mother Sends Her Wisdom

    Louise McLenathan

  • Murder in the First Reel

    Bill Pronzini

  • Murder at the Cheatin' Heart Hotel

    Art Bourgeau

  • The Mountain That Loved a Bird

    Alice Mclerran

  • Molly Pink Goes Hiking

    Judith Caseley

  • Mitzi's Honeymoon With Nana Potts

    Barbara Williams

  • Misty's Mischief

    Rod Campbell

  • Miss Know It All Returns

    Carol Beach York

  • Mischievous Meg

    Astrid Lindgren

  • Minnikin, Midgie and Moppet

    Adelaide Holl

  • 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...

  • Mighty Mizzling Mouse and the Red Cabbage House

    Friso Henstra

  • Megan's Beat

    Lou Willett Stanek

  • Meanwhile

    Max Handley

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Lubyanka

    James Burch

  • 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...

  • Love Lost

    Francine Pascal

  • Love and Other Euphemisms

    Norma Klein

  • 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'...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Little Turtle's Big Adventure

    David L. Harrison

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Life of Solitude

    Francesco Petrarch

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Kisses That Miss and Other Awkward Moments

    Antonia Van der Meer

  • 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...

  • Kingdom Come

    Michael Pye

  • King of the Mountain

    Adam Lassiter

  • The Kindness of Strangers

    Bernard Taylor

  • 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...

  • Kelly Country

    A. Bertram Chandler

  • Keepers of the Secrets

    Philip Jose Farmer

  • Kaye Wayfaring in Avenged

    James Mccourt

  • Junk on the Hill

    Jeremy Pikser

  • Jinian Footseer

    Sheri S. Tepper

  • Jill

    Mary Carraway

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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. ...

  • 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 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 ...

  • 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...

  • In the Land of Nyx

    John Bowers

  • In Search of Graphics

    Sandra Markle

  • 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'...

  • 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...

  • I'll Take Manhattan

    Danielle Barlette

  • Hydrabyss Red

    William Tedford

  • Humages

    Roberto Marchiori

  • 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...

  • Horn of Plenty

    E.J. Hunter

  • 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...