Books Published in August 1990

New Books List: 463 titles

  • Back to 'nam

    Jack Buchanan

  • Berserker

    Dan Schmidt

  • Getaway Blues

    William Murray

    Recovering from a long streak of bets on horses that couldn't lose but did, Shifty Lou Anderson is more than happy to augment his meager income by playing part-time chauffeur to an elderly oddball millionaire--especially since most of the driving tak...

  • Grim Reaper

    Duncan Long

  • Hammerheads

    Dale Brown

  • Infiltrator

    Jerry Ahern

    A TRIAL BY FIRE AND ICE... It started as a simple military exercise. A NATO counter-terrorist squad takes on Babcock, Hughes, and Cross, who are holding volunteer "hostages" in a remote Alpine village. But what was supposed to be a war of fancy mane...

  • Pockets of Resistance

    Will Sundown

  • Survival in the Ashes

    William W. Johnstone

    HELL ON THREE SIDES Nuclear and germ warfare have reduced America's amber i waves of grain to a savage wasteland. Amid a world of smoldering ruin, few men have the awesome courage or specialized skills to fight back, to rebuild. Ben Raines, famed ...

  • Target

    Eric Helm

  • Yellowstone Run

    David Robbins

  • Buried in Time

    Carolyn Keene

    AMERICA’S HOTTEST TEEN DETECTIVES TEAM UP IN A DEADLY DIG FOR CLUES NANCY DREW heads west to help archeologist Tod Langford investigate a series of thefts and threats interrupting his work. A young Native American woman, Red Sky Winsea, claims t...

  • The Case of the Photo Finish

    Carolyn Keene

    NANCY TAKES THE LEAD IN A CASE OF TREACHERY ON THE TRACK River Heights is the site of the International High School Track and Field Games, and the rivalry between world-class athletes has drawn Nancy into a world-class mystery. America's Cheryl Pier...

  • The Cat Who Lived High

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    The colorful Casablanca apartment building is in danger of demolition--but not if Jim Qwilleran can help it. He's determined to restore the building to its original grandeur So he- moves in with Koko and Yum Yum--and discovers that the Casablanca is ...

  • Deep Secrets

    Carolyn Keene

    A young woman vanishes at sea -- but it may be Nancy’s relationship with Ned that’s on the rocks Nancy's summer at the beach is drawing to a close, and the time has come for her to choose between Russian dancer Sasha Petrov and boyfriend Ned Nic...

  • A Fete Worse Than Death

    Joyce Christmas

    A social climber scales her last ladder in this Lady Margaret Priam Mystery, where just before one of her own soirees, Lady Ross is unceremoniously strangled. A guest of the party herself, Lady Margaret Priam quietly figures things out on her own. Th...

  • Ropedancer's Fall

    M.K. Lorens

    WINSTON MARLOWE SHERMAN... By day, he's a bulky, suede-elbowed Shakespeare professor with subversively nontraditional notions. By night, he hunches over his trusty, rusty old Underwood typewriter and secretly becomes Henrietta Slocum--a mystery nov...

  • Island Quarry

    Ernest Herndon

    Carl Connolly, a reporter in New Orleans blows the lid off an international drug ring -- only to discover that the drug lord has a particularly strong sense of vengeance. Connolly finds there is a contract out on his head, so, assisted by his editors...

  • The Purple Door

    Janifer C. De Vos

  • Sadie Rose and the Mad Fortune Hunters

    Hilda Stahl

  • Too Tough to Cry

    Paul Powers

  • After Hours

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    They were two of a kind Executive assistant Angie St. Clair knew the office gossips said she and her boss, Rhys Wakefield, were made for each other; they were both cold, intimidating workaholics. But Angie's impersonal facade was her only protecti...

  • All We Know of Heaven

    Barbara Bretton

    THEIR FIRST MEETING WAS AT DEATH'S DOOR The bride who smiled at him from the white Rolls-Royce had the innocent face of an angel. Jack Flanagan stared, transfixed. In the next moment, the car burst into angry red flames. Jack pulled her from th...

  • Always

    Jo Morrison

    A woman for all seasons Jodi and Tanner had been lovers for eight summers. And Tanner had spent eight lonely winters hoping she'd come back and stay on the farm--to no avail. Now all he wanted was to forget her... and Lara Jamison was just the one...

  • Another Whirlwind Courtship

    Barbara Boswell

    TWICE SHY... After jilting the President's son, Chelsea Kincaid found herself on the run from the press and from the first family! Her only hope: formidable Cole Tremaine, who offered to hide her at his mountain estate. But independent Chelsea had...

  • Arrogant Interloper

    Catherine George

    Jane Calvert had always been sensible She held a responsible job in London and was engaged to solid Adrian. Only one thing was missing -- love. So she called off the wedding, gave notice at work and faced the future -- without a fiance and with...

  • The Best of Friends

    Alexandra Sellers

    PARTNERS IN CRIME Solving yesterday's crimes was her specialty, but now reporter Lou Patch had a modern-day mystery on her hands. Somebody she cared about -- a good girl who'd gotten mixed up with the wrong crowd -- was missing, and Lou had to f...

  • Between Two Moons

    Eve Gladstone

    The lion and the lamb Thirty-one years old and already president of Lambs, the most fashionable woman's specialty store in Manhattan, Kelly Aldrich has it all -- until her store is sold to the notorious Campbell brothers. For the first time...

  • A Binding Contract

    Alison York

    What a strange, ironic, topsy-turvy world, Julia couldn't help thinking. Warren Kane had been part of her past, and now it seemed that he was back to stay. Only this time, Julia Sinclair was to be tied to him in a contract from which there ...

  • Bittersweet Revenge

    Rosemary Hammond

    What a fool she'd been Val was distressed and outraged when Michael Prescott blamed her for his brother's death. But she saw red when she uncovered Michael's deliberate plan of revenge. She should never have trusted a man -- particu...

  • Broken Blossom

    Jennifer Greene

    SECOND CHANCES Kelsey Whitfield needed someone she could trust, someone who could help her find the daughter she'd lost so long ago. That was all she wanted from life -- a chance to make up in some small way for the mistakes she'd make in the pas...

  • Change of Pace

    Sharon Brondos

    ROUGH AROUND THE EDGES She was the daughter of a Georgia senator, under doctor's orders to take a break from the hectic pace of Washington's political whirl. When Police Chief Sam Cassidy first saw the long-legged blond sitting in his offi...

  • Choices of the Heart

    Barbara Faith

    As miles of track unfurled behind her, Susan Alexander looked forward to the warm, remote haven of the Mexican mountains. Alone, afraid, and as vulnerable as a woman could be, she would surely find shelter there. Indeed, fate put a handsome strang...

  • Cimarron Glory

    Pepper Adams

    THE BOSS'S DAUGHTER Rancher Ross Forbes had paid his dues and now worked hard for the man who'd given him a second chance. But repaying that kindness didn't mean sharing stolen kisses with his boss's beautiful daughter. Though Ross longed to have ...

  • Connal

    Diana Palmer

    SHY BRIDE... Penelope Mathews had spent her entire adolescence worshipping the elusive C.C. Tremayne - from afar. Until one night, trying to protect the mysterious loner from his once yearly bender before he landed in a Mexican jail, Pepi was forc...

  • The Court

    Elizabeth Walker (1)

    LADY MARIA: PRIVILEGED, LUSTFUL AND DOOMED From The Court, a Yorkshire estate larger than some of the Royal Family's palaces; to London's dark, tantalizing underworld of sex and drugs; Lady Mara Hellyn was known as one of Britain's young, glitteri...

  • The Devil and Ms. Moody

    Suzanne Forster

    The Mysterious Outlaw... Raw physical power had never appealed to Edwina Moody -- until she was mesmerized by the man in black leather known as Diablo! Hired to find the missing heir to a fortune, she'd followed his trail to Blackie's Bar, w...

  • A Dream Too Sweet

    Lee Stafford

    Alexandra was perplexed, and hurt True, her arrival at the Chateau d'Albigny was unannounced, but she hadn't expected to be shown the door! And Dominic, the dashingly handsome older cousin she'd adored, was as cold as the frost that...

  • The Eagle of Solamenza

    Annabel Murray

    It would be difficult to conceal her identity. Yet Diana found when she went to Italy in search of her adopted Cousin Julia, that it was necessary. Conte Giacomo Ortoni's contempt for English girls was plain -- and probably extended to those from...

  • Free to Dream

    Janet Franklin

    TIME FOR LOVING How could Andrea MacLarson survive the four weeks of unscheduled time her late aunt's bequest of a mountain hideaway required? The driven accountant never expected to last more than a couple of days at the isolated ski resort.....

  • Freshman Dorm

    Linda A. Cooney

    K.C. ANGELETTI President, Future Business Leaders, 1, 2, 3, 4... beautiful, cool, intense. Crystal ball: Business tycoon, President of the United States. Will anything stop her from getting ahead? FAITH CROWLEY All-American . . . smart, ever...

  • Gold Coast

    Mary Pershall

    SUN-DRENCHED SCANDAL. LOVE-SCORCHED SECRETS. AND ONE WOMAN WHO DARED TO LIVE IT ALL ... Jessica Bellamy was a glamorous young lawyer--stunning, sophisticated and successful. Then she faced the biggest challenge of her career ... A worker's myst...

  • The Golden Raintree

    Suzanne Simmons Guntrum

    A CENTURY OF AMERICAN ROMANCE Innocence cloaked the sleepy Indiana town where Christine Brick enjoyed girlhood. The Quaker farm girl knew sun-dappled afternoons sitting under the Golden Raintree dreaming of James Warren, all-American boy. It was a...

  • Happy Medium

    Karen Toller Whittenburg

    CARLY ABBOTT COULDN'T RESIST A CHALLENGE Armed with only her boundless zest for life and her twenty-volume Mr. Fix-It Guide, Carly was looking forward to being owner/ manager of the ramshackle Winton Arms Apartments. She was charmed to hear abo...

  • The Heart Mender

    Kathleen Creighton

    DAMSEL IN DISTRESS Jenna McBride needed rescuing, and Reno was her knight in shining armor. Well, make that a defender in black leather, riding a motorcycle instead of a white stallion. Jenna was mesmerized by this dangerous man. He was everything...

  • Hidden Messages

    Regan Forest

    Bewitched, bewildered...and lied to! When Laurie MacDonald saw the Loch Ness monster, she thought she'd discovered Scotland's greatest mystery--until she met Eric Sinclair. Park Gypsy, part rogue, all sex appeal, he evoked a wild and primitive res...

  • Humble Pie

    Pamela Browning

    SOMETHING BIG WAS AFOOT The news came rocketing out of the Cascade Mountains: Bigfoot lives. Anthropologist Anne Springer immediately raced to Shula, Washington -- where she was forced to share a wilderness guide with a researcher's nightmare....

  • Invitation to a Wedding

    Helen R. Myers

    MYSTERY MAN Workaholic Blair Lawrence would have done anything to avoid attending her brother's wedding with a blind date set up by Mom--even go so far as to invite as her escort the gentle, serious man who watered her company's plants. But what w...

  • Jade's Passion

    Laura Taylor

    FIRE AND ICE Jade Howell had struggled to make her dream of a center for homeless children become a reality. There wasn't room in her life for a man--especially Reed Townsend, the virile construction foreman she secretly found irresistible. From t...

  • Laughter on the Wind

    Bay Matthews

    Rambler's Rest was home to Molly O'Connor--even the plantation's ghosts felt like family. Nearly destitute, she'd risk anything to stay on--anything--including marriage to her dangerously sensual stepbrother... . The sweet irony was not lost on cy...

  • A Little Inconvenience

    Judy Christenberry

    The War Was On It was not the type of story Elizabeth Broadhurst usually covered, but when the call came from her editor, she couldn't say no. Wealthy entrepreneur Jason Harmon had been secretive and camera shy for ten years. Now that he had agr...

  • The Love Bet

    Francine Pascal

    Do opposites attract? Dana Larsson is fed up with love! She tells Elizabeth Wakefield and Todd Wilkins that she prefers singing with her band, The Droids, to wasting her time on dates. Aaron Dallas is fed up, too. He insists that soccer is more imp...

  • Maggie's Man

    Jackie Merritt

    BATTLE OF WILLS The Holloway ranch was cattle land. Always had been. Always would be. And nobody was going to tell Maggie Holloway any different - least of all Sloan Prescott. If he thought he could mosey in and let his sheep graze all over her pr...

  • Make Room for Daddy

    Andrea Edwards

    Overworked and once burned by love, dyed-in-the-wool romantic Kelly Farrell had become the neighborhood matchmaker rather than seek a man of her own. She promptly checked out all newcomers for her deserving friends, and strong, silent Ben Peterson, c...

  • Music from the Heart

    Pamela Laskin

    Madeline Davis, a junior at John Jay High School, is completely tone-deaf. So when she ends up in a band class due to a scheduling error, she's determined to get out, until she meets gorgeous saxophone player George Held. George is talented, witt...

  • Night Spice

    Karen Keast

    Rori Kelsey's sultry voice made "Night Spice" the hottest radio show in steamy New Orleans, but her on-air sizzle was a sham compared to her unnaturally chaste existence. And now even her professional success had soured: menacing poison-pen letters w...

  • Nights of Destiny

    Sara Wood

    Hannah was there to do business When she'd set off for Morocco, Hannah Jourdain had been sure she'd be immune to Khalil ben Hrima. She expected no problems in dealing with the man she'd chosen as her business adviser. "And this ...

  • An Obsessive Desire

    Miranda Lee

    He was a fantasy, a magnetic stranger Rhea had admired him from across the crowded room, but she never dreamed she'd see him again in Bangaloo Creek! Stephen Crane made it plain that he planned to stay--and that he found Rhea attractive. As...

  • One Secret Too Many

    Vanessa Grant

    It had been sheer fantasy "Alex" would never forget the magic of the night she met "Sam" on a deserted beach in Vancouver. Now the spell was broken and Alex Diamond, crime writer extraordinaire, was forced to return to her solit...

  • Parent Plot

    Francine Pascal

    The battle is on! Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield's father is running for mayor of Sweet Valley. The twins are hard at work on his campaign -- but they're taking opposite sides in an even bigger contest: a contest to bring romance into their parents...

  • Passage of the Night

    Amanda Carpenter

    Kirstie had gone to considerable trouble Her plot just had to succeed! She would abduct Francis Grayson and dump the attractive businessman on a remote mountain in Vermont. And she'd leave him there until her elder sister Louise was safely mar...

  • The Past Is Another Country

    Lois Battle

    Three women who had met as girls at a West Australian convent school--a film director on the brink of fame, a quiet, reclusive married woman, and a nun poised on the brink of a sexual awakening--face profound decisions...

  • Playing by the Rules

    Connie Bennett

    Alex Devane He swore he'd never again carry a gun. The former police lieutenant had seen and done too much to ever want to be reassociated with violence .... Ivy Kincaid She helped make Alex see he would only be helping people by working to ...

  • Prairie Cry

    Dawn Flindt

    In a windswept, forsaken corner of the world, Hayden Conover forged an uneasy alliance with Tomara Metcalf. He didn't know her, didn't trust her, but he had to work with her long enough to bring her murderous relatives to justice. Then he'd put the f...

  • Preston Harper, M.D.

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    The Brash Baby Doctor... Handsome pediatrician Preston Harper wanted a baby, but not a wife--until delicious, distracting Dinah Bradshaw appeared in his office carrying Jenny, the child who'd made her an instant mom! He'd carefully mapped out his bu...

  • Pretence of Love

    Carol Gregor

    Bella couldn't back out now Yet the thought of substituting for her twin sister, Mandy, filled her with panic. Before she knew it, however, Bella found herself on location in Mauritius, bluffing her way as leading lady in a film directed by...

  • The Promise

    Fayrene Preston

    The Ruthless Son of a Powerful Dynasty... Conall Deverell was stunned by Sharon Graham's demand: that he honor a promise made by his grandfather to her great-aunt--and that the favor she wanted was that he make her pregnant! Ten years before, he'd...

  • Promise of Marriage

    Kristina Logan

    WEDDING BELL BLUES Whoever said opposites attract must have been talking about Kate Marlowe and Barrett Fox. Her life's work was bringing people together, and his was tearing them apart. The pretty wedding consultant and the sexy divorce lawyer sh...

  • Reilly's Return

    Tami Hoag

    The Sexiest Man on Earth... The fan magazines called Pat Reilly the Hunk from Down Under, the man-of-action movie star who made strong women tremble, but young widow Jayne Jordan had fled Hollywood--and the attraction that burned between her and her...

  • Relentless

    Patt Bucheister

    The Irresistible Journalist... Women had always come easy to Nick Lyon, because he seemed not to need them -- but years ago he'd hurt Dionne Hart, and now he needed her help! Heiress to a great business empire, shed vanished from his life at the...

  • A Rising Passion

    Lynsey Stevens

    Was their marriage doomed to fail? Kasey wondered if Jordan Caine was entirely honest when he said he'd married her in good faith. He claimed he wanted a wife to act as hostess, to manage his home and to warm his bed. He hadn't mentioned ...

  • Roses Have Thorns

    Betty Neels

    Sarah wasn't pleased to see Radolf Nauta again It was his fault she'd lost her job at the hospital and had been forced to look elsewhere for work. She hadn't expected to meet him in this new environment. Radolf was just the sort of...

  • Scarlet Scandals

    Carol Budd

    She's fabulously rich. He's a high society gardener. They're about to discover passion--and danger--in their own backyard. Georgette Richards lived almost peacefully on Scarlet Street, San Francisco's exclusive enclave for the very rich and rather ec...

  • Seventh Heaven

    Alice Hoffman

    In SEVENTH HEAVEN, Alice Hoffman takes us to a typical suburban community in the typical suburban decade of the 1950s to explore what happens when Nora Silk comes to town. Nora is extraordinary. Strong, sexy, passionate, and mysterious, she is det...

  • Sheep's Clothing

    Kate Bradley

    INTIMATE STRANGERS A bullet-filled chase through the dark woods left investigative journalist Drew Carter injured and weak -- and convinced he'd died and to heaven when he awoke in a blond angel's isolated cabin. B Elizabeth Johnson was very rear ...

  • Silent Enchantment

    Lacey Dancer

    LADY OF THE MIST When Atlanta executive Alex Kane bought a cottage in the backwoods of Georgia, he hoped the solitude would restore his health. He never expected to encounter country splendors that would heal his heart. She first appeared in a ...

  • Small Town Girls

    Pamela Wallace

    Bright, powerful, and accomplished, Kate, Val, Barbara, and Shelly live in a world of film industry soirees, parties on Malibu Beach, and European tours--until a twenty-year-old secret returns to haunt them. Reprint....

  • Southern Nights

    Marcia Martin

    IT WAS EVERY WOMAN'S DREAM COME TRUE ... A dazzling inheritance. A sprawling family estate. And a seductive, irresistible man. Adopted at birth, Maggie Hastings knew nothing of her true family's past. Suddenly, she was heir to a fortune--the ma...

  • A Sparrow Falls

    Marion Smith Collins

    IN A DIFFERENT LIFE, THEY WOULD NEVER HAVE MET. BUT IN 1942, THEY ARE BOUND BY WAR - AND BY THE MEN THEY BID GOOD-BYE.... During World War II, and elegant Seattle hotel became the residence for Navy families whose men were fighting in the Pacific...

  • Starlight, Star Bright

    Kelly Walsh

    A case of divided loyalties Miami marketing researcher Ivy Austin had her hands full caring for her late husband's daughter, her widowed father and her high-spirited brother, Scott. But family-oriented Ivy wouldn't have had it any other way. S...

  • Storm Warning

    Kathryn Brocato

    SHELTER FROM THE STORM Devon Rayburn had always been strictly off limits Though his tall, muscular build and sunstreaked hair had warmed the hearts of every red-blooded girl in Winnie, Texas, Devon had been spoken for. Until now Gospel singer V...

  • Stormy Weather

    Irma Walker

    On a dark and stormy night.... Stormy Todd found herself out in the cold. Unfairly evicted from her home, she did what a mother had to do--secretly installed herself and her kids at the beach house of her landlord, real estate developer Guy Harris...

  • A Summer Kind of Love

    Shannon Waverly

    Would past secrets keep them apart? Joanna Ingalls had planned a quiet summer at the family cottage on Martha's Vineyard. She was emotionally drained after her husband's death and desperately needed some time alone with her live-year-old s...

  • Summer's Pride

    Angela Wells

    Rico felt only contempt for her now Once it had been different. "There was a time," he said, "when I would have given everything I possessed for the pleasure of taking you to my bed and loving you." His statement offered no comf...

  • Taken on Trust

    Sally Wentworth

    Lyn couldn't tell what he was thinking That was the trouble. Despite their initial conflict, it hadn't taken Lyn long to realize that Morgan French was the only man in the world for her. What Lyn wanted she usually got and this time was...

  • Talisman

    Laurien Berenson

    He was in the doghouse! As far as Kelly Ransome was concerned, she and Eric Devane had only one thing in common -- a very large, very playful Rottweiler puppy. Kelly had been hired by Eric to train his pooch, but she was beginning to think Er...

  • Thai Silk

    Anne Weale

    She could at least try to help, Clary thought. After all, a fellow Briton in trouble in a strange land aroused a fellow feeling. Not that wealthy businessman Alistair Lincoln was particularly grateful to her for summoning him halfway across the world...

  • Through the Looking Glass

    Joyce McGill

    WHO WAS LISA GILLETTE? Her best friend was dead--killed in a tragic automobile explosion intended for her. And now time was running out for orphan Lisa Gillette, who was haunted by shadowy images of a childhood she couldn't remember. She had to pi...

  • Through Thick and Thin

    Anne Peters

    WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH... Lisa Hanrahan was hardly what department store owner Daniel Jefferson Morgan, Jr., had expected. Why would anyone hire the pint-size ragamuffin as a security agent? From the moment she'd told him to get out of her way,...

  • To Trust a Stranger

    Rosemary Gibson

    Was she just a passing fancy? Fern hadn't known much in the way of happiness where men were concerned. And she'd learned to avoid girlish dreams. Then Mr. Right turned up in the shape of Piers Warrender, dynamic, attractive and altogeth...

  • Trophies

    Ainslie Sheridan

  • Trumpets of Silver

    Norma Harris

    From the prejudice and pogroms of czarist Russia to the poverty of New York, and from the violence and hatred of World War II to the founding of Israel, the three children of Schmuel Kaminsky carve out their separate destinies...

  • The Turquoise Heart

    Ellen James

    A man of mystery in a land of mystery! Annie Brooke had never met anyone like Derrek F. Richards. With his forthright ways, his easygoing charm, she found him as unfamiliar and exciting as the New Mexico landscape. Annie had come to Santa Fe to r...

  • Twice in a Blue Moon

    Dixie Browning

    MR. AUGUST Name: Tucker Owen Address: The wrong side of town. Marital status: Bachelor-and proud of it! Future plans: to remain single, especially since his childhood sweetheart ran off to marry another man. Years had passed since town ...

  • Two for the Price of One

    Madelyn Dohrn

    Growing up in foster homes, Courtney Hughes learned two important lessons: don't let anyone push you around, and don't risk leaving another child in the same predicament. That ruled out men and motherhood -- making money would have to do. The...

  • Virgin Territory

    Suzanne Carey

    SHOULD SHE OR SHOULDN'T SHE? It was every man's nightmare . . . and it was coming true for hard-hitting newspaper columnist Phil Catterini. Lovely Crista O'Malley wanted him to change her status as the last virgin in Chicago, and if he didn't hono...

  • Wanted: the Perfect Man

    Terry Lawrence

    Rebel in a Three-Piece Suit... Steve Rousseau was a real Prince Charming who offered Cally Baldwin a drink, a steak, and understanding immediately after shed dumped the latest jerk in her life--too bad she'd decided at that moment to give up men!...

  • Winter Roses

    Catherine Spencer

    Meredith planned to talk to her landlord She hadn't planned on his taking her by surprise like this. Just when her life seemed to be regaining its equilibrium, Mr. High-and-Mighty Tom Whitney, successful divorce lawyer, had to bounce into town and...

  • Deadly Valentine

    Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

    AN INTIMATE INVITAIOTN... Mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance didn't really want to go to her neighbor's Valentine Day masked ball -- particularly not after the voluptuous brunette made a pass at Annie's husband, Max. So when her dizzy mother-in-...

  • Heathern

    Jack Womack

    Heathern, the sequel to Ambient and Terraplane, has been praised by William Gibson as a "savage urban baroque informed by a penetrating humanity ... his best so far!" Tautly written and appallingly funny, Heathern is a dystopian tale of corporate com...

  • Awakening

    Yoshiyuki Tomino

    Gundam is to Japan what Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are to the United States--an animated television series that became a cultural phenomenon. If this novel is any indication, the primary appeal of Gundam lies in its warrior robot hardware, specific...

  • Best of Aesop's Fables

    Margaret Clark

  • Curses! Broiled Again!

    Jan Harold Brunvand

    From the master folklorist and sly wit, Jan Brunvand, comes a collection of all-new urban legends. Did your cousin's wife's dentist's daughter go to the tanning parlor once too often and had her insides cooked? Has your husband's brother's nephew tea...

  • Dawn Song

    Sharon Green

  • Diggers

    Terry Pratchett

    In a world whose seasons are defined by Christmas sales and Spring Fashions, hundreds of tiny nomes live in the corners and crannies of a human-run department store. They have made their homes beneath the floorboards for generations and no longer rem...

  • Eric

    Terry Pratchett

    ERIC IS THE DISCWORLD'S ONLY DEMONOLOGY HACKER. PITY HE'S NOT VFRY GOOD AT IT. All he wants is his three wishes granted. Nothing fancy--to be immortal, rule the world, have the most beautiful woman in the world fall madly in love with him, the usu...

  • Glass Slippers Give You Blisters

    Mary Jane Auch / M.J. Auch

  • Gossamer Axe

    Gael Baudino

    BAND OF WONDER A doorway between worlds opened, releasing Christa, her harp--and her quest. Imprisoned for centuries, she had escaped from the faery Sidh and the musician Orfide, weavers of spells and schemes. But the doorway had shut too quickly, l...

  • Hammer of the Sun

    Michael Scott Rohan

    IN A TIME BEFORE HISTORY -- IN A WORLD LONG FORGOTTEN Seven winters of peace have come and gone since fledgling mage and Mastersmith vanquished the Power that enslaved a lost city. But in a time of healing, seeds of disaster are nurtured in the ...

  • The Interior Life: A Quest

    Katherine Blake

    Sue had two kids, one husband, a lovely home and a boring life. Sometimes, when the PTA meeting proved that a committee is a life form with many feet and no brain, or when her husband was even more inattentive than usual, or when the realization that...

  • Makoto

    Kelley Wilde

    MAKOTO Japanese: getting the job down no matter what. Making the supreme effort. Going all the way. Meet Motoko Shirata Leigh, living alone for the first time in her life. Japanese, a newly-divorced mail-order bride -- truly a stranger in a stran...

  • Outbanker

    Timothy A. Madden

  • Raising the Stones

    Sheri S. Tepper

    Hobbs Land was a quiet agricultural colony, a peaceful plant where men and women worked together as equals to provide food for other worlds. Once it had been the home of the alien Owlbrit, who left behind only the temples where their strange gods had...

  • Son of the Hero

    Rick Shelley

    THE BUFFER ZONE That was what they called the seven kingdoms that stood between the mortals' world of Earth and the realm of the immortal elves. When Gil Tyner planned to celebrate his twenty-first birthday with his parents, he didn't have the faint...

  • Stone of Farewell

    Tad Williams

    It is a time of darkness, dread, and ultimate testing for the realm of Osten Ard, for the wild magic and terrifying minions of the undead Sithi ruler, Ineluki the Storm King, are spreading their seemingly undefeatable evil across the kingdom. With th...

  • Threshold

    Janet Morris

    Joe South, a young test pilot heading home from a mission, awakens in his ship to discover that he has traveled five hundred years into the future and landed on the planet Threshold, where he soon finds himself embroiled in the dangerous, deceptive, ...

  • Triplet

    Timothy Zahn

    When a young researcher ventures through a mysterious planetary system, dangerous secrets come to light in this novel from a Hugo Award–winning author.  Grad student Danae Panya’s dream assignment has been approved. She’ll stud...

  • The Usurper

    Angus Wells

    Kedryn, the young prince prophesied the sacred Book of Kyrie, has led the Three Kingdoms to victory over the barbaric northern Hordes commanded by the demonic Taws, the fire-born Messenger of the war-god Ashar. But victory had a terrible price. Ke...

  • White Jenna

    Jane Yolen

    Nebula Award Finalist: A long-awaited savior joins forces with her dark twin to confront the evil threatening their land in the second book of the acclaimed epic fantasy the Great Alta Saga Grown to young womanhood in the mountain region of the Dales...

  • Ace, the Very Important Pig

    Dick King-Smith

    A PIG WITH A PLAN Ace is no ordinary pig. He understands human language completely, and he's determined to avoid the awful fate that befalls his brothers and sisters: the Market. First, he befriends the farmer's house pets, easygoing Clarence the ca...

  • All About Football

    George Sullivan

    Explains the game of football, presenting its history and profiles of leading players....

  • Almost Starring Dad

    Suzanne Allen

  • The Amazing Adventures of Albert and His Flying Machine

    Thomas Sant

    When twelve-year-old Albert inherits a thousand dollars from an uncle, he decides that what he needs most is a zephyrcar--a flying machine that skims over the ground--to help him deliver papers on his morning route....

  • America by Mail

    Arcama Group

  • And the Ass Saw the Angel

    Nick Cave

  • Angel, Archangel

    Nick Cook

    The Allies are advancing on Berlin in the dying days of the Second World War, but the Russians are plotting much more than the end of the Third Reich. Operation Archangel's aim is for Soviet troops to blast their way straight to the English Channel. ...

  • Any Woman's Blues

    Erica Jong

    WITH HER GROUNDBREAKING BESTSELLER FEAR OF FLYING, ERICA JONG TAUGHT US HOW TO FLY. NOW, WITH ANY WOMAN'S BLUES, SHE SHOWS US HOW TO LAND. Leila Sand, artist, mother, and world-class celebrity, is a true woman of her times. She came of age in the ...

  • Appelard and Liverwurst

    Mercer Mayer

  • Arachnophobia

    Nicholas Edwards

  • Armour Wherein He Trusted

    Mary Webb

    Published posthumously in 1929, together with ten short stories, this is a medieval romance. It is the story of Sir Gilbert and his love for Nesta. Whilst delighting in love's pleasures, he strives to renounce earthly passion, seeking instead spiritu...

  • Aspen Affair

    Burt Hirschfeld

    In the decadent underside of an elite Aspen playground, Geneva Sharps, the gorgeous, insatiable wife of billionaire Duncan Turner Sharps, has a scorching affair with an unscrupulous aerobics instructor that leads to vengence and murder...

  • Baby Brontosaurus

    Beth Spanjian

  • Baby Calf

    Patricia Mignon Hinds

  • Baby Cougar

    Beth Spanjian

  • Baby Duckbill

    Beth Spanjian

  • Baby Grizzly

    Beth Spanjian

  • Baby Lamb

    John Butler

  • Baby Pig

    Patricia Mignon Hinds

  • Baby Raccoon

    Beth Spanjian

  • Baby Stegosaurus

    Beth Spanjian

  • Baby Triceratops

    Beth Spanjian

  • Baby Wolf

    Beth Spanjian

  • The Ballad of Belle Dorcas

    William H. Hooks

  • Baseball and Butterflies

    Karen Lynn Williams

  • Be Brave, Baby Rabbit

    Fran Manushkin

  • Bear and Mrs. Duck

    Elizabeth Winthrop

  • Bear Hunt

    Anthony Browne

  • Beautiful Seashell

    Ruth Lercher Bornstein

  • A Bed by the Window

    M. Scott Peck

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The memorable scenes are powerfully drawn. . . . A spiritual mystery . . . both moving and brave.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewThe acclaimed author of the phenomenal bestseller The Road Less Traveled adds ...

  • The Big Book of Monster Masks

    Angela Holroyd

  • Blood on the Lotus

    Lawrence C. Vetter Jr.

  • Blueprints

    Sara Vogan

  • Boats, Boats, Boats

    Joanna Ruane

  • A Bottle in the Smoke

    A.N. Wilson

    Julian embarks on a career as an aspiring actor and novelist, supporting himself as a bartender in a seedy pub frequented by other bohemians in London of the 1950s. Through an old school friend, Julian meets Anne and they fall in love. However, thing...

  • Bushido Code

    Eiji Yoshikawa

  • Catching the Light

    Susan Pope

  • City Street

    Douglas Florian

  • Clash of Eagles

    Leo Rutman

  • Coconut Kind of Day

    Lynn Joseph

  • Could It Be?

    Joanne F. Oppenheim

    Once there was a big brown bear who had been sleeping all winter long. With the popping, snapping, dripping sounds of nature everywhere, one special sound wakes the bear. What could it be that tells the bear to come out from underground?FROM ...

  • The Counterfeit Tackle

    Matt Christopher

    Buzz and Corky may be identical twins, but they are not very much alike. Corky, outgoing and popular, plays tackle on the Otters football team. Buzz, the school chess champion, is quiet and reserved. Corky is surprised when Buzz offers to substitute ...

  • Creature Feature and Other Stories

    Jim Razzi

    WARNING Before you open this book: Reading these stories when you are alone or before bedtime is only for the strong of heart! SPINE CHILLERS are sure to make you shiver and shake. Five spine-chilling tales about creatures of the night await you...

  • Crocodile Attack

    Hugh Edwards

  • Cults of Horror

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Daisy's Crazy Thanksgiving

    Margery Cuyler

  • Dark Room

    Deanie Francis Mills

  • Darkman

    Randall Boyle

  • Daydreams

    Denys Cazet

  • The Defense

    Vladimir Nabokov

    Nabokov's third novel, The Luzhin Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness. As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive,  distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up ches...

  • Dinosaur James

    Scott Taylor

  • Don't Rent My Room!

    Judie Angell

  • Donald Duck Stories

    Walt Disney

  • Donkey's Tale

    Joanne F. Oppenheim

    On the way to market to sell their donkey, a farmer and his son take the advice of everyone they meet. This merry folktale shows what happens when two foolish farmers try to please everyone.FROM AMERICA’S MOST TRUSTED NAME IN EARLY CHILDHOOD ED...

  • Double Wedding Ring

    Patricia Wendorf

    In a novel based on the author's own family history, Rhoda Greypaull leaves the Somerset, England, farm of her father in the middle of the nineteenth century and journeys to America to marry her dead cousin's husband and care for his child...

  • A Dozen Dizzy Dogs

    William H. Hooks

    Dogs with checks, dogs with stripes, dogs with spots, dogs with funny hats...look for all these dogs and more in the funniest, zaniest, counting adventure ever!FROM AMERICA'S MOST TRUSTED NAME IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION More than seventy years of e...

  • Drawer in a Drawer

    David Christiana

  • Dream Street

    Bill Kelly

  • Elevator/Escalator Book

    Bob Barner

  • Entered from the Sun

    George Garrett

    Completing his masterful trilogy of novels set in Elizabethan England, Garrett again applies distinguished literary skills to spin a tale dark with deception and metaphysical questions but teeming with sensuous and concrete details that convey the sp...

  • Epitaph of a Small Winner

    Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis


    “I am a deceased writer not in the sense of one who has written and is now deceased, but in the sense of one who had died and is now writing.” So begins the posthumous memoir of Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian. Though the g...

  • Eye of the Heart

    Barbara Howes

    Hispanic (Spanish: hispano, hispánico) is a term that originally denoted a relationship to Hispania, which is to say the Iberian Peninsula: Portugal, Andorra, Gibraltar and Spain. During the modern era, Hispanic sometimes takes on a more limited mea...

  • Eyeballs for Breakfast

    M.M. Ragz

    YUCK! DAD'S IN THE KITCHEN...AND MURPHY'S IN A JAM! Murphy Darinzo can do no wrong -- until he gets into trouble for dunking Ashley Douglas' pigtail in a pot of gray gooey glue. He just wanted to teach her a lesson! But now everyone thinks he has...

  • Fatso Jean, The Ice Cream Queen

    Maryann Macdonald

  • The Fire Dream

    Franklin Allen Leib

    There is Stuart, who believes that danger, no matter how terrifying, must never be avoided; Coles, who is torn between his pride as a black man and his desire to excel in the white man's Corps; Hunter, whose own inner demons may kill him before the e...

  • First Date

    Elizabeth Levy

  • Foolish Miss Crow

    Peter Firmin

  • Forgive and Forget

    Lewis Smedes

    In Forgive & Forget, Lewis B. Smedes show you how to move form hurting and hating to healing and reconciliation. With the lessons of forgiveness, you can establish healthier relationships, reclaim the happiness that should be yours, and achieve lasti...

  • The Fox and the Kingfisher

    Judith Mellecker

  • Fox's Dream Sandcastle

    Keizaburo Tejima

  • Freckles

    Jean Stratton Porter

    In Freckles a homeless waif finds his deliverance in the primeval Limberlost swamp. Maimed and abandoned as an infant, Freckles seeks a chance to prove his worth. He is given that opportunity as the guard of the precious timber of the Limberlost....

  • Front Hall Carpet

    Nicholas Heller

  • Full Moon of Women

    Ursule Molinaro

  • Garfield's Scary Tales

    Jim Kraft

  • The Ghost in the Mirror and Other Stories

    Jim Razzi

    WARNING Before you open this book: Reading these stories when you are alone or before bedtime is only for the strong of heart! SPINE CHILLERS are sure to make you shiver and shake. Five spine-chilling tales about ghosts await you in this scary book....

  • The Girls Strike Back: The Making of the Pink Parrots

    Kathilyn Solomon Probosz

  • Gonna Bake Me a Rainbow Poem

    Peter Sears

  • Grandpa's Garden Lunch

    Judith Caseley

  • Great Baseball Stories

    Multiple Authors

    A celebration of America's national pastime incorporates both fiction and nonfiction and includes contributions by Ring Lardner, James Thurber, Damon Runyon, Bernard Malamud, Garrison Keillor, John Updike, and Red Smith...

  • Great Expectations

    Douglas Brooks-Davies

  • Great Russian Short Stories

    Norris Houghton

    From romanticism to realism, nineteenth-century Russian fiction gave the world masterworlds of the imagination from such authors as Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gorky, and Turgenev. This outstanding collection now allows readers to exp...