Books Published in August 1992

New Books List: 477 titles

  • Last Bridge Home

    Iris Johansen

    Jon Sandell was no more like his cousin Mark than the sunset resembled the dawn, Elizabeth Ramsey knew -- but her beloved Mark was gone, and she didn't know whom to trust anymore. Jon told her stories she didn't want to believe, his gaze savagely pos...

  • Scimitar

    John Abbott (1)

  • Happy Birthday, Babs!

    Linda Williams Aber

  • Revolution #9

    Peter Abrahams

    Blake Wrightman died during the Vietnam War. Not on a Southeast Asian battlefield, but on an American college campus. He died the day the bomb he planted at an anti-war protest claimed a small boy’s life -- and forced Blake Wrightman to vanish. Now...

  • This Is the American Earth

    Ansel Adams

    This is a very special Ansel Adams book with a limited availability. It contains 44 photographs of an ecological/ environmental nature by Ansel Adams as well as work by Eliot Porter, Philip Hyde, Edward Weston and Margaret Bourke-White....

  • Skeleton Crew

    Allan Ahlberg

    Skeleton Crew is one of the titles in Allan Ahlberg's iconic children's picture book series about skeletons, Funnybones. Despite being set in a dark dark house, this brightly coloured book is perfect for early readers! Zzz! The three skeletons enjoy ...

  • Ghost Train

    Allan Ahlberg

    The Ghost Train is one of the titles in Allan Ahlberg's iconic children's picture book series about skeletons, Funnybones. Despite being set in a dark dark house, this brightly coloured book is perfect for early readers! Whoo-ooo-ooo! It's midnight a...

  • The Golden Harvest

    Jorge Amado

  • What Time Is It, Dracula?

    Victor G. Ambrus

  • Count, Dracula!

    Victor G. Ambrus

  • Never Say Good-Bye

    Diane Ames

    Determined to fall in love for the summer, junior counselor Jennifer Trowbridge decides to compete in the ""Best Junior Counselor"" competition but is shocked when her chief competitor turns out to be Andy Brenner. ...

  • Creeping Shadows

    Gary Amo

    Five years after fleeing a dangerous man, California lawyer Jennifer Warren is leading a seemingly idyllic lifestyle--that is, until a series of disturbing events convinces her that her ex-lover has found her. Original....

  • A Gentle Giant

    Caroline Anderson

    A mountain of a man... "You Belong in the City, Dr. Cameron. Not the Wilds of Scotland." Tired and weary after her long journey, this was not what Jamie wanted to hear. But Dr. Rob Buchanan's desperate need for help in his widesprea...

  • The Doll's House

    Evelyn Anthony

    Rosa Bennett and Harry Oakham. Oakham, a career intelligence officer who is bitter over being forced into retirement, has gathered the world's most cold-blooded ex-spies (all lacking a place in the post-Communist world order) to apply their talents f...

  • Mercycle

    Piers Anthony

    COMBINE: one ordinary bicycle, one fearless explorer, one miracle of technology ADD: oceans of water, a mermaid or tow, a dash of danger STIR AND ENJOY!...

  • Mouvar's Magic

    Piers Anthony; Robert E. Margroff

    The mysterious prophecy that has shaped the life of Kelvin Knight Hackleberry and his family seems nearly to have run its course. The Two Kingdoms that were joined by Kelvin to form Kelvinia have now been united with three others, to make a great con...

  • Groo Dynasty

    Sergio Aragones

  • Rose Among Thorns

    Catherine Archer

    England, 1066 Rose of Carlisle had forsaken her Saxon pride to protect her people from the Normans' wrath. Even when the crude leader of the conquering knights declared he would take her to wife, Rose had held her tongue and accepted her fate. The...

  • Opposing Camps

    Judith Arnold

    HAZY, HOT AND HUMID... He liked blowup dolls, water fights and practical jokes. By day, Camp Mohawk director Dan Macklin wanted nothing more than summer fun. Until he paddled across Silver Lake and met Rebecca Pruitt. And until the sun went dow...

  • Canavan's Trail - Brothers of the Range

    Burt Arthur

    In Canavan's Trail, a former sheriff rescues a young girl from a drunken outlaw, and in Brothers of the Range, a mother worries that her three sons will kill one another over their father's estate. Original....

  • The Stallion Queen

    Constance Ash

    Finding refuge with her followers in the Saquave Wilderness after abandoning their homeland, Glennys reigns as the Stallion Queen, living in harmony with all creatures of the wild, until an unexpected stranger darkens her door. Original....

  • The Witch's Wedding

    Rosalie Ash

    Was this just an elaborate seduction plan? Verity Lacey wasn't sure why Luc Garcia had lured her to the sunny Dominican Republic on the pretense of work. There were no catering jobs, as he had promised. In fact, he only expected her to lie in ...

  • Mythology of the British Isles

    Geoffrey Ashe

  • Unwillingly to Earth

    Pauline Ashwell

  • The Wife He Wanted

    Elizabeth August

    WEDDING BELL BLISS? When powerful businessman P. Bradley Franklin swept into the office to check out her company's books, Annabelle Royd vowed to keep things strictly professional. But the irresistible executive was like no man she'd ever ...

  • Moon Fate

    James Axler

  • Just for Kicks

    Paul C. Baczewski

  • Rendezvous at Skull Mountain

    Paul Bagdon

    When Sun Dog, the proud native American chief, vows to attack a wagon-load of settlers heading for Skull Mountain, the most sacred of all Indian lands, Scrapper John worries that he will lose his friends in the fray. Original....

  • Queen of Hearts

    Cynthia Bailey-Pratt

    Handsome and generous gambler Sir Carleton Blacklock is more than willing to pay Danita's debts for her, no strings attached, but the luck she brings him at the gaming tables convinces him that she is more than a charity case. Original....

  • Guilty Passion

    Jacqueline Baird

    Heartless seduction Rebecca's shame and humiliation had been complete. Benedict Maxwell had never intended to marry her. He'd wanted revenge for his brother, and she, fool in love, had given him all the rope he'd need to hang her. It h...

  • Rodney's Inside Story

    Lynne Barasch

    Baby Grey, a rabbit who lives under a tree and loves eating, has a book about Rodney Rabbit, and Rodney, who lives in a cabbage, has one about him, through which they both learn the meaning of home and family...

  • More Precious Than Gold

    Elaine Barbieri

    When her wagon train was attacked by Indians, Carolina feared she was destined to die on the desolate Dakota prairie. Salvation came reluctantly in the form of Drake McNeil. Bewildered by her deepening feelings for the handsome loner, frightened by h...

  • A Talent for Trouble

    Anne Barbour

    The Wicked Wit Young Lady Talitha Burnside knew she was a plain country mouse compared to the dazzling belles of the ton. Certainly as handsome a London Lord as the Viscount Chelmsford could have no interest in a shy creature like her, especially...

  • Blood Brotherhood

    Robert Barnard

    Old church meets new with a vengeance when a monk is brutally murdered at St. Botolph’s....

  • A Fatal Attachment

    Robert Barnard

    A celebrity scholar in a small village tears her nephews from their immediate family and raises them in an atmosphere of cruelty. As old Lydia Perceval plans to destroy yet another group of impressionable young children’s love for their parents, th...

  • And Baby Makes Perfect

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    A PERFECT PASSION Sexy tycoon Drew MacMillan lived life on the edge and was the favorite subject of society columns and wagging tongues. No one ever expected the rugged renegade to return to the East Texas town he'd once called home, but here he w...

  • Dead Man's Secret

    Lynn Beach

  • Grandma According to Me

    Karen Magnuson Beil

  • Sunset Scandal

    Cherie Bennett

    Return to Sunset Island in Sunset Scandal, the shocking ninth book in the bestselling series about Emma, Samantha, and Carrie--away from home in the ultimate summer job! There was an armed robbery last night. Someone says she saw Kurt running from t...

  • Tourist Attraction

    Connie Bennett

    Ross McKendrick always got what he wanted... And right now he wanted two things. He wanted Lauren Widmark, owner of the most influential travel agency in the country, to endorse his new resort. And he wanted Lauren in his bed. But he'd started of...

  • Distant Echoes

    Laura Gilmour Bennett

    Rachel seemed to have everything: an attractive French husband, a successful restaurant business and a son she adored. So why did she feel there was some threat to her happiness? Laura Gilmour Bennett is the pen-name of Laura Bennett and Jean Gilmour...

  • Michael Berenstain's Butterfly Book

    Michael Berenstain

  • Lord of My Heart

    Jo Beverley

    A CHOICE OF ROGUES To save her barony from ruin, Madeleine de la Haute Vironge must wed one of a trio of lords offered by King William. A shocking twist of fate impels the convent-bred beauty into the arms of the most dangerous of the three--a mag...

  • Bambi's Snowy Day

    Betty G. Birney

  • Horses

    Blue Lantern Studio

  • Last Hanging at Paradise Meadow

    Stephen A. Bly

    The third book in a continuing western series that captures the gritty textures of Western life while delivering a powerful spiritual message. Stuart Brannon devises a plan to convince the people of Paradise Meadow that an outlaw is lying about his r...

  • Emily's Shoes

    Dermot Bolger

    Michael grows into a reclusive young man who works in a Dublin library. He is unable to free himself from a shoe fixation which is now a torment as well as a relief. The author's first two novels received the AE Memorial Award, The Macauley Fellowshi...

  • The Witch Goes to School

    Norman Bridwell

  • The Older Man

    Laurey Bright

    Handsome widower Grant Morrison needed a temporary nanny, and who better than Rennie Langwell for the job? After all, she adored his children and was quite capable in the kitchen. Yet there was one role that Grant would never let her fill--wife. T...

  • Revolution in Russia

    Richard Brightfield

    You are young Indiana Jones traveling through Russia in 1917, working as an undercover spy for the French embassy. Caught up in the political revolution, you encounter Vladimir Lenin and the famous reporter John Reed....

  • Island Summer Love

    Amy Belding Brown

    While vacationing on the Maine coast just before her marriage to Cabot Wilder, Boston's most eligible bachelor, Allison Curtis finds herself attracted to rugged Maine lobsterman Brent Connors, and begins to suspect that her upcoming wedding could be ...

  • City Sounds

    Craig Brown

  • Night of the Hawk

    Dale Brown

    At the end of that terrifying mission, Lt David Luger was left for dead on a frozen Siberian airfield -- but Luger didn’t die. Captured and then brainwashed, he was sent to a secret research facility in Lithuania, where he developed the first Sovie...

  • Morgan's Child

    Pamela Browning

    AND BABY MADE THREE When Kate Sinclair impulsively agreed to become a surrogate mother for a divorced socialite, she hadn't counted on the other woman reneging on the contract midway through the pregnancy -- and telling Kate she'd changed ...

  • Singular Attraction

    Lynne Marie Bryant

    DEVLIN--A Handsome Flyboy, an Outrageous Flirt, or Just a Romeo on the Run? He'd just barely missed hitting her plane, and Kristi Bjornson wanted to give the careless tenderfoot who'd crash-landed on the Alaskan lake a piece of her mind! But when...

  • Where Is Joe Merchant?

    Jimmy Buffett

    Where is Joe Merchant? That''s what his sister, Trevor Kane, the hemorrhoid-ointment heiress, wants to know. For Desdemona, Merchant is the missing link in her ongoing communications with space aliens. Tabloid journalist Rudy Breno only cares that Me...

  • Mike and the Magic Cookies

    Jon Buller

  • The Reluctant Prince

    Linda Cajio

    ALEX--A Noble Rogue Who Commanded Her Heart's Surrender... He captured the terrified woman with gentleness, promising her protection but ordering her to take cover with him from the unexpected violence in the streets! Emily Cooper rebelled at bei...

  • Only by Your Touch

    Stella Cameron

    Sworn to avenge his brother's death, Edward de Worthe, the sixth Viscount Hawkesly, is determined to woo, wed and ruin the beautiful stepsister of the man responsible. But Lindsay Granville will not be easily won -- for she possesses a strong ind...

  • Sand Dollar

    Bethany Campbell

    Gabe Cantrell had a bad attitude Whitney Shane thought life couldn't get much worse. The yacht she'd been on had exploded, leaving her two colleagues injured, and the whole group stranded on a deserted island with little hope of rescue for...

  • Star of Shadowbrook Farm

    Joanna Campbell

    When a horse with the potential to become a champion arrives at the farm where Susan lives, Susan realizes that she must get over the fear of riding she acquired after a bad fall in order to train him. Original....

  • Raid on Truman

    John T. Campbell

    As the battle carrier U.S.S. Truman patrols in the waters off the coast of Korea, watching over the nation, a crazed Asian dictator orders the release of nerve gas and renders the six-thousand-man crew virtually helpless. Reprint....

  • Frontier Bride

    Ann Carberry

    A PROUD WOMAN Dakota Lane refused to count on Red Creek's handsome, arrogant sheriff to track down the man who robbed her family. A PROTECTIVE MAN Ben Cable would be damned if he'd let the curvaceous beauty chase after an armed killer by herself...

  • Baby Swap

    Suzanne Carey

    LEO MAN When Seth Danner first met Margo Rourke he knew she was destined to be his. But he didn't know his new housekeeper had a secret that could destroy his family... or that he'd have to shield his child from that secret. And Seth was the type of ...

  • Plan B for the Middle Class

    Ron Carlson

    In The News of the World, Ron Carlson's celebrated last collection, it was widely noted that the news was good. Here, as everybody goes to Plan B, the news is stronger, edgy, and bittersweet. Here are men and women in the middle--of life, of relation...

  • One Special Child

    M.J. Carr

  • Noisemakers

    Judith Caseley

  • Fire and Spice

    Carla Cassidy

    WILD AT HEART Iron-willed redhead Ginger Taylor had run away from only one thing in her life -- Judd Bishop. As a moody thirteen-year-old orphan, she'd fiercely depended on her guardian grandfather's love. Then Judd had appeared on the sce...

  • We Scream for Ice Cream

    Bernice Chardiet

  • Lonely Christmas Tree

    Andrew Charman

  • Never Trust an Elf

    Robert N. Charrette

    Some say that the dragons are the most powerful beings on Earth. Certain elves disagree with that belief in the strongest, most violent terms.An ork of the Seattle ghetto, Kham usually worries about more mundane problems. Day-to-day existence in the ...

  • Chanur's Legacy

    C.J. Cherryh

    Hilfy Chanur, once a member of her aunt's crew on Pride of Chanur, is now captain of her own vessel, Chanur's Legacy. It should have been the ideal existence for Hilfy, her fondest dream fulfilled, but instead the youong captain's increasingly hard-p...

  • It's Her Funeral

    Joyce Christmas

    While it is safe to say that neighborhood busybody Frances Rassell was not well liked, who despised her enough to kill her? An outspoken opponent of a luxury high rise built by the Texas millions of Lady Margaret Priam's dear friend Carolyn Sue Hoope...

  • The Vampire Odyssey

    Scott Ciencin

    A LEGACY OF DARKNESS To Danielle Walthers, moving to Beverly Hills was like entering a designer fairy tale of exclusive shops and chic parties. Yet below its slick surface, a world of shadows pulsed and pounded with dark power and wild desire. W...

  • Riverboat Temptation

    Gwen Cleary

    WAS HE HER ENEMY? Columbia Baranoff and her pa worked their paddlewheeler up and down the Willamette River with pride. Unfortunately, they had one greedy competitor who would stop at nothing to drive everyone else out of business. Nothing, Columbia ...

  • Thanksgiving at the Tappletons'

    Maryann Cocca-Leffler

    Mrs. Tappleton gets up early to prepare the turkey. Mr. Tappleton sets off to buy the pies. Kenny makes the salad, and Jenny mashes the potatoes. Then all the relatives arrive for an enormous Thanksgiving dinner.

    But this year nothing seems ...

  • Crime Punishment and Resurrection

    Michael Collins

    This new collection of short fiction by Michael Collins features his famous protagonist, one-armed private eye Dan Fortune and his trademark band of malevolent characters. The scene moves from seedy streets in Little Italy to posh mansions in Santa B...

  • Blue Moon Bayou

    Katherine Compton

    A ROGUE'S PASSION Spirited and lovely Delia Abernathy cherishes her independence -- and resents her grandmother's insistence that she marry before inheriting the family wealth. To soften her guardian's firm resolve, the resourceful Lou...

  • The Goodnight Trail

    Ralph Compton

    From bestselling author Ralph Compton -- an extraordinary saga of the trail-blazing cowboys who made their fortune driving cattle from Texas to the Great Frontier. The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longho...

  • Go-Ahead Rider

    Robert J. Conley

    When recent Harvard graduate George Tanner returns home to Tahlequah in the Cherokee nation, he finds the town bustling and accommodations scarce. The council is in session and everyone is in town.Captain Go-Ahead Rider, the district sheriff, offers ...

  • Stranger's Embrace

    Helen Conrad (1)

    SHE YEARNED TO BE KISSED Fiery-spirited Marina Crafts craved excitement. Mexico was finally free from Spanish rule, life along the California coast was peaceful, but dull, and the chestnut-haired beauty dreaded the idea of marrying a stuffy proper m...

  • The India Exhibition

    Richard Timothy Conroy

    Hired to mount an exhibition for the sesquicentennial of the birth of K. V. Chandra, precursor of Mahatma Gandhi, Henry Scruggs realizes that Violet, the assistant assigned to him, is not actually an expert on India but a troublemaking nuisance. A fi...

  • Operation: Homefront

    Caroline B. Cooney

    When high school sophomore Laura Herrick's mother goes off to Saudi Arabia with the National Guard, life on the homefront changes for Laura, her father and two brothers. Nothing gets done as their days are spent glued to the TV screen waiting for new...

  • Freshman Summer

    Linda A. Cooney

    A fling with a surfer? Me? YES!!! Am I losing Josh...to my best friend KC!?! Hawaii + perfect guy = Paradise. Or does it? I'm in L-O-V-E -- but there's something he's not telling me......

  • Scoundrel

    Bernard Cornwell

    Bostonian Paul Shanahan is many things: part-time marine surveyor, smuggler, gunrunner, suspected CIA agent. A full-time scoundrel with ties to nothing and no one--except to an ex-lover who died years before in a hail of bullets--he has agreed to tra...

  • All That Remains

    Patricia Cornwell

    A killer is stalking young lovers. Taking their lives ... and leaving just one tantalising clue When the bodies of young courting couples start turning up in remote woodlands areas, Dr Kay Scarpetta's task as Chief Medical Examiner is made more dif...

  • Space Brat

    Bruce Coville

    THE BIGGEST BRAT ON THE PLANET SPLAT! It wasn't really Blork's fault he was a brat. It was the piece of eggshell that got stuck behind his ear the day he was hatched. It made him cry. But baby Splatoons aren't supposed to cry. So Blork got a brat la...

  • Trickster

    Chris Curry

    Determined to catch a brutal serial killer, Detective Sergeant Phil Waterman finds competition in Dori Gallagher, a reporter intent on avenging her sister's murder and breaking the biggest story of her career. Original....

  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    Richie Tankersley Cusick

  • Wake up, Mr. B.!

    Penny Dale

  • Juniper

    Margot Dalton

    Two kids and a cowboy Buck Buchanan could ride a Brahma bull or a bucking bronco, and he could sweet-talk the birds off a tree, or a cowgirl out of her britches. But what was he supposed to do when his sister dumped her two boys with him and took ...

  • Unbridled

    Mark Daniel

    With his career faltering and his creditors chomping at the bit, champion steeplechase jockey Georgie Blane considers throwing his next race and is introduced to the dangerous world of bookies, conmen, and corruption. Reprint....

  • The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifth Annual Collection

    Ellen Datlow

    A anthology of the fantasy and horror stories recognized by the World Fantasy Awards features the work of Ellen Kushner, S. P. Somtow, Charles de Lint, Karl Edward Wagner, Kara Dalkey, Pat Cadigan, K. W. Jeter, Midori Snyder, Jane Yolen, and others....

  • Swept Away

    Cay David

    HOT SPELL Maybe it was the heat of the shimmering Florida sun. Maybe it was the frustration of finding Safe Harbor, the condominiums that were partly her responsibility, in such a dilapidated state. Or maybe it was the seductive sight of Sam Gibs...

  • Rahne of Terra

    Peter David

  • Dying for Chocolate

    Diane Mott Davidson

    THE CATERER Meet Goldy Bear: a bright, opinionated, wildly inventive caterer whose personal life has become a recipe for disaster. She's got an abusive ex-husband who's into making tasteless threats, a rash of mounting bills that are taking ...

  • The Last Rangers

    Jake Davis

  • Cool Under Fire

    Justine Davis

    NO PROMISES TO KEEP Unnaturally calm, they called her. But a lifetime spent confronting the unexpected made it quite natural for Shiloh Reese. However, her control was almost shattered the night she found a nearly naked stranger-- obviously in nee...

  • Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord

    Louis De Bernieres

    Dionisio Vivo, a young South American lecturer in philosophy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policemen in town, the message is all too clear: Dion...

  • Chiller Thriller

    Barthe DeClements

  • Sarah and the Stranger

    Shawna Delacorte

    SEEING IS BELIEVING.... Wade Danforth was obsessed with beautiful things -- women, cars, art. Then a Freak accident blinded him. Suddenly he was in darkness and could only see the world through the eyes of therapist Sarah Jane Morrison -- whose te...

  • Doctor on Trial

    Henry Denker

    A young doctor and lawyer struggle together to save their reputations in a hysterical malpractice case initiated by a powerful tycoon whose daughter died in a chaotic emergency room. 20,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo....

  • Pinocchio: Walt Disney

    Disney Book Group

  • Time Bomb

    Franklin W. Dixon

    A TWIST IN TIME...A TWISTED MIND...A TERRIFYING TWIST OF FATE FOR FRANK AND JOE AND TOM! A dream that has long fired the human imagination has become a reality: time travel. But as Tom Swift and the Hardy boys are about to discover, the dream can ...

  • Last Man to Die

    Michael Dobbs

  • Sea Stallion

    Bill Dolan

  • The Trespasser

    Jane Donnelly

    Once was enough Kate Kershaw could hardly believe that she'd been jilted. Again. But she decided that this time she wouldn't meekly accept her fate. She didn't think she could stand to have more sympathetic glances sent her way by well...

  • Flight

    Fran Dorf

    After 20 years in a coma, the heroine comes round, her faculties completely intact. 20 years earlier she had fallen from a cliff, and against all odds, survived. But did she fall? Or was she pushed? This is the starting point for a psychological chil...

  • Blood Kin

    Marjorie Dorner

    Obsessed with finding her roots, adoptee Kate Lundgren travels to a quiet Minnesota town where she finds her biological mother to be callous, cold, secretive, and, the next day, strangled to death. 15,000 first printing. $10,000 ad/promo. Tour....

  • The Van

    Roddy Doyle

    Roddy Doyle’s acclaimed Booker Prize-nominated novel, “a darker portrayal of midlife crisis and an expansively farcical chain of misadventures” (The New York Times Book Review) Jimmy Rabitte, Sr., is unemployed, spending his days alone and...

  • The Snapper

    Roddy Doyle

    From the Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, the follow up to his acclaimed debut novel The Commitments  Twenty-year-old Sharon Rabbitte is pregnant. She's also unmarried, living at home, working in a grocery store, and keeping...

  • The Reaver Road

    Dave Duncan

    WELL MET TRAVELER! Since you are going in my direction, why don't we walk on together for a while? If luck is with us, perhaps we shall overtake Omar before nightfall, if that pirate of an innkeeper spoke true... You say you have never heard of...

  • Fergus and Bridey

    Olivier Dunrea

  • Arrangement With a Rebel

    Anne Marie Duquette

    The rules were his But the choice was hers Except that Lissa Hannelly didn't really have a choice. She had to get her pilot's license -- her family's small charter business in the Colorado Rockies depended on it. And ex-military pilo...

  • Zimiamvia

    Eric Rucker Eddison / E.R. Eddison

    DIMENSION TO DIMENSION... WORLD TO WORLD ~ A lady strays from a garden path and enters a different realm. A castle harbors a secret cabinet and a golden key. A king wages dynastic war for control of three kingdoms. Thus, a saga that rivals the wond...

  • Savage Mists

    Cassie Edwards

    As the great leader of the Omaha Indians, Iron Cloud wants peace for his people. But the constant abuses of unscrupulous government agents forces the warrior to choose a dangerous course. Never does he dream that his quest for vengeance would bring h...

  • Lexie on Her Own

    Lisa Eisenberg

    With Christmas just around the corner, Lexie Nielsen faces all kinds of crises--her best friend moves away; her parents and siblings are too busy for her; her pet cat is seriously injured; and she has no money for Christmas presents. Jr Lib Guild....

  • Lone Star and the Santa Fe Showdown

    Wesley Ellis

    On a train ride from hell, Jessie and Ki track a deadly duo of fake lawmen!When a duo of duplicitous criminals posing as lawmen terrorizes a trainload of passengers and attacks Ki, leaving him for dead, Jesse and Ki pick themselves up and set out to ...

  • Gross and Gruesome Games and Puzzles

    Larry Evans

  • Longarm and the Cheyenne Kid

    Tabor Evans

    When a friend is brutally murdered, Longarm sets out to hunt down the killer, the Cheyenne Kid, and his band of thugs, who specialize in kidnapping other men's wives and hunting innocent people for sport. Original....

  • Longarm and the San Joaquin War

    Tabor Evans

  • False Profits

    David Everson

    As chief troubleshooter for the Speaker of Illinois' House of Representatives, Bobby Miles is ordered to track down Joseph X. Smith, the possible descendent of a late Mormon leader who may have information that could undermine the Lincoln legend...

  • Deadly Deception

    Anne Farell

    Thirty years after unscrupulous businessman David Methany fathered an illegitimate child, Methany's legitimate daughter and heir, Beth, finds her new job as the head of her late father's company hampered by Methany's former indiscretions....

  • Tales of Riverworld

    Philip Jose Farmer

    In this compilation of short stories, history meets the future as everyone who has ever lived awakens in Riverworld. Authors featured in the collection include Phillip C. Jennings, Harry Turtledove and Ed. Gorman....

  • The Small Bang

    Jack Fenno

    After British physicist Erich Sturmer is lost in an avalanche while skiing in the Alps, his wife, Chandra, and his best friend, John Peake, return to England to wait for Erich's body to be found and to make some private inquiries...

  • Blue Orchids

    Julia Fenton

    It was the most eagerly awaited Broadway musical ever: the star-studded premier of Dr. Zhivago. For theatergoers, critics, cast and crew, it would be a night to remember. But for Valentina and Orchid Lederer, it would be much more. They were raised a...

  • A Doctor's Secret

    Betty Ferm

    A MATTER OF LIFE… It was the worst thing that could possibly happen to a dedicated pediatrician; a child in her care died -- under questionable circumstance. The tragedy nearly destroyed Dr. Becca Landau’s life and her medical career, but some...

  • Libel the Dead

    John Fink

    When a Los Angeles talk show host sues "Beyond" magazine for its article portraying him as someone who condones drug use, Mike Lindenthal flies out to L.A. to meet with the article's writer and becomes involved in murder...

  • Chef

    Douglas Florian

  • Born to the Purple

    S.L. Florian

    Introducing Lady Delia Ross-Merlani... The high-living blueblood with an eye for fashion, a taste for caviar and champagne -- and a nose for murder. To the manner born, Lady Delia Ross-Merlani is high society's sexiest, savviest, classiest new sle...

  • My Friend Fang

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • Little Red Riding Hood

    Justine Korman Fontes

    The big, bad wolf laughs out loud for readers to hear as poor Little Red Riding Hood cries, "Let me out!" from behind the locked closet door, along with many other sound effects accompanying this full-color storybook....

  • Revenge

    Natalie Fox

    "You live up to your reputation," he said quietly, leaning dangerously close to her mouth. "Cold, frigid, mouth as sharp as tomorrow's razor." That was what everyone thought of Alexia Townsend, and it was exactly what she wante...

  • Harm's Way

    Aleister Foxx

    Hired to retrieve an eighteen-year-old runaway, Montreal private eye Lee Harms discovers that his efforts to do so have caused a vicious organized crime gang to put a price on his and his family's heads...

  • The Novice's Tale

    Margaret Frazer

    TO THE PRIORY A LADY CAME FOR MISCHIEF ... AND FOR MURDER It is the year of Our Lord's grace 1431, and the nuns of England's St. Frideswide sweetly chant their Paternosters behind gracious, trellised walls. But their quiet lives are shattered by t...

  • Jokes from the Crypt

    Eleanor Fremont

  • The Dream

    Kit Gardner

    It Seemed Impossible. At first sight, schoolteacher Elizabeth Burbridge knew Lord Alec Sinclair was the man of her dreams--her wicked, heathen dreams such as dedicated educators were not supposed to have! His sensuality threatened her every moral ...

  • Brain Twister

    Randall Garrett

    This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...

  • The Lies of Fair Ladies

    Jonathan Gash

  • Walt Disney's Pinocchio Fun with Shapes and Sizes

    Marc Gave

  • The Neighbor from Outer Space

    Maureen George

    With an alien from outer space living right in their own neighborhood of Twin Oaks, Katie, Chrissy, Maddie, and Brian, the members of the Excitement Club, are certain that their summer vacation will be anything but unexciting. Reprint....

  • Hidden in the Past

    Rosemary Gibson

    Torn between two brothers... Daniel Sinclair had always aroused strong feelings in Kat. But for as long as she could remember, it was his gentle brother, her childhood friend James, that she'd hoped to marry one day. But fate had other plans! ...

  • Royal Ecstasy

    Robin Gideon

    AN IMPRISONED PRINCESS Princess Jade Crosse felt trapped and utterly alone. With her loveless marriage at an end, she became the ruler of her late husband's fiefdom; yet in reality she was a powerless prisoner - confined to the castle by high "advis...

  • Iktomi and the Berries

    Paul Goble

  • Muppet Babies Christmas Book

    Golden Books

  • Alphabet House

    Golden Books

    Plays a musical theme and the sounds of cleaning as the cast of characters do their daily chores--except for one lazy member who snores his way through the day--teaching children the alphabet as they go....

  • Ten in the Bed

    Golden Books

  • Chicken Little

    Golden Books

    Chicken Little's surprise when an apple falls from a tree, crafty Fox's song, and the rest of the animal characters in this perennial children's favorite are made audible in this special sound edition....

  • The Widow's Mite

    Emma Goldrick

    There goes the neighborhood! Lucy Borden has problems enough -- namely a house that's falling down around her. She doesn't need the aggravation of her rude, impatient neighbor, despite the fact she likes his precocious little daughter, Mau...

  • Teammates

    Peter Golenbock

    This is the moving story of how Jackie Robinson became the first black player on a Major League baseball team when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s, and how on a fateful day in Cincinnati, Pee Wee Reese took a stand and declared Jackie ...

  • Seeing Eye Willie

    Dale Gottlieb

  • Now He Thinks He's Dead

    Ron Goulart

  • Home Is Where the Heart Is // Cinderella in Overalls

    Carol Grace

    LOST HORIZONS Catherine Logan had been devastated by the repossession of her family's farm. She'd fled to South America to help other farmers -- and to satisfy her heart's longing for the land. But Catherine realized willing hands and an agricultura...

  • Wages of Sin

    Andrew M. Greeley

  • An Occasion of Sin

    Andrew M. Greeley

    Playing the role of "devil's advocate" for the Church, Father Laurence McAuliffe investigates allegations that John Cardinal McGlynn--a candidate for canonization--led a less-than-saintly life. Reprint....

  • Just Like Old Times

    Jennifer Greene

    THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC Divorcing her sexy husband, Craig, was the hardest thing Karen Reardon had ever done, but they'd been drifting apart--and the hottest nights this side of the tropics just weren't enough anymore. But try telling that to the kid...

  • An Impossible Kind of Man

    Kay Gregory

    Slade was impossible.... Impossible to ignore! Especially now that Bronwen was forced to share his apartment. Still, she thought she could control the attraction she felt for the handsome Welshman -- which was a good thing, considering Slade's...

  • Frankenstein's Hamster: Ten Spine-Tingling Tales

    Barbara Griffiths

  • The Last Spy

    John Griffiths

  • Jan Pienkowski's Fairy Tale Library

    Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm

    Each of the fairy tales in this miniature slipcased collection is complemented by detailed silhouettes that illustrate such stories as "Cinderella," "Puss-in-Boots," "The Sleeping Beauty," and "Snow White."...

  • Caught in the Shadows

    C.A. Haddad

    STRANGER THAN FICTION Hacking may be borderline legal, but the profit is there, big-time, especially in a high-profile divorce case like the one Chicago computer "researcher" Becky Belski has just been handed. Arrest record? Bank statemen...

  • Return Engagement

    Violet Hamilton

    LOVE LOST The impertinence of the man! Their broken engagement years ago had been a result of Tony Everely's roving way with women, and Francey had no intention of accepting his attentions a second time. As a society hostess of the first order, ...

  • Maltese Falcon

    Dashell Hammett

    A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man name Gutman, and Brigid O’Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties s...

  • Doghouse

    Gerald Hammond

    During a visit with his fiancee Beth's recently widowed aunt, John Cunningham becomes convinced that George Muir, Beth's uncle and a renowned wildlife artist, had been murdered while working in his studio...

  • Deep Freeze

    Sean Hanlon

    When the hip twelve-year-old rapper, M. C. Hop, is named number one suspect in the murder of Alaska Representative Brad Cooper, political flack Prester John Riordon steps in to solve the crime. Original....

  • The Enchantment

    Kristin Hannah

    "IT TAKES MUCH GOLD TO FILL AN EMPTY SOUL. AND ONLY A DROP OF MAGIC." Emmaline Hatter was a beautiful, brilliant, and rich Wall Street financier in the nineteenth century -- until the crash of 1893 wiped her out completely. Without friends, family...

  • Dying Breath

    Jon A. Harrald

  • Past Imperfect

    Janice Harrell

    Was she doing an old friend a favor . . or setting herself up to die? Hired by her childhood friend and ex-fiance Phillip Fleming to spend the summer keeping his wild teenage daughter company, and out of trouble, writer Ann Barker gets more than ...

  • Lost in the Fun House

    Jack C. Harris

  • The Turing Option

    Harry Harrison; Marvin Minsky

    What would happen if man's highest technical achievement, the computer, was combined with the moat highly evolved organ on the planet, the human brain? For Brian Delaney, theory becomes reality when gunmen storm his high security laboratory and put a...

  • Stormy Weather

    Amanda Harvey

  • Great-Uncle Dracula

    Jayne Harvey

  • O Happy Day and Other Tinyburg Tales

    Robert J. Hastings

  • Gunpowder Trail

    Clint Hawkins

    Leading twenty-one men and their families as they travel through rough territory in the direction of Oregon, Wade Calhoun must help them battle native Americans and the uncooperative Mother Nature. Original....

  • A Handful of Dreams

    Barbara Hazard

    FORBIDDEN VENUS Even as a ragged Irish child, Sally Desmond was so beautiful that men noticed her -- like the soldier who tossed her the sovereign that became a talisman for her dream. But none of the dreams came true when she became a woman mor...

  • A Country Cotillion

    Sandra Heath

    Undying Desire Beautiful Elizabeth French had learned both the pleasure and pain of love as the bride of James French. But now that irresistible and infamous libertine was dead-and Elizabeth chose to wed a handsome lord as different from James as ...

  • Corsican Honor

    William Heffernan

    When Ernst Ludwig, one of the world's most feared terrorists, comes to Marseilles on a mission of terror, it is up to CIA agent Alex Moran to stop Ludwig, but the explosive situation becomes further complicated by the involvement of the Corcican Mafi...

  • Grim and Ghastly Goings-On

    Florence Parry Heide

  • No Free Lunch

    C.J. Henderson

    The hottest, toughest, sexiest thriller of the year, No Free Lunch is Henderson's shattering novel of private investigation and public scandal - a shocking search for a small-town girl in the big city. Her name is Mara Phillips. Her fiance is rich an...

  • Sleep Tight

    B.G. Hennessy

  • Who's Afraid of Ghosts

    Gail Herman

  • The Puppy Who Went to School

    Gail Herman

  • The Big Deal

    Alison Cragin Herzig

  • Liasions

    Nicole Girbon Hester

  • False of Heart

    Elizabeth Hewitt

    SURPRISED BY LOVE Beautiful Lady Elise Merivale lead been betrayed once by love--and had vowed never to expose her heart main. Even when forced into marriage with haughty and handsome Randall St. John, she vowed to resist this man whose conquests ...

  • The Secret Sun

    Fred Hiatt

    An American journalist looking for a new angle on a story about Hiroshima discovers a document indicating that Japan had been working on an atomic bomb during World War II that might have destroyed Seattle. 40,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo....

  • Soft and Noisy

    Judy Hindley

  • Rumble Thumble Boom!

    Anna Grossnickle Hines

  • The Last White Knight

    Tami Hoag

    ERIK - A Golden-Haired Sir Galahad with a Taste for Twinkies... He arrived on the scene like a conqueror, defending her cause with confidence and compassion, but Lynn Shaw suspected the charismatic politician was only looking for headlines! Intrig...

  • Windover

    Jane Aiken Hodge

    Set in England at the time of the French Revolution. Mark Weatherby disappears after asking Kathryn Pennan's abusive, lecherous stepfather for her hand in marriage. A year later, she is forced to marry a wealthy young banker, a desperate act to save ...

  • Convenient Husband

    Joan Hohl

    MR. AUGUST Convenient Husband: Jasper "Main" Chance -- over six feet of lean, muscled trouble -- who had a few things a certain beautiful, broke farm girl desperately needed... Disgruntled Wife: Stacy Hunsberger -- a woman with a ranch ...

  • Ruthless Lover

    Sarah Holland

    An indecent proposal! Twenty-four hours after meeting the beautiful Lady Serena Flaxton, Nick Colterne proposed. To his chagrin, she refused...until he threatened to withhold financial aid from her family Serena was furious -- Nick may be the sexi...

  • Seven for a Secret

    Victoria Holt

    "Secrets! I was looking for secrets everywhere." Tragedy brought young Frederica to the idyllic hamlet of Harper's Green, where she was drawn subtly into the lives of its inhabitants: lovely Aunt Sophie, gentle Rachel Grey, headstrong Tamarisk St....

  • Project Cyclops

    Thomas Hoover

    “A high-tech launch site, a missing nuke, and Arab terrorists with nothing to lose . . .”In the sun-dappled waters of the Aegean, ex-agent Michael Vance pilots the Odyssey II, a handmade replica of the sailcraft of the ancient hero Ulysses. Out o...

  • Three's a Crowd

    Jordan Horowitz

  • Let's Jump!

    Houghton Mifflin Company

  • Charles Tiger

    Houghton Mifflin Company

  • Cake That Mack Ate

    Houghton Mifflin Company

  • Marking Time

    Elizabeth Jane Howard

    For fans of Downton Abbey, the second volume of the critically acclaimed Cazalet saga takes readers into the lives of an extended British family and their devoted retinue   It is 1939, and Hitler has just invaded Poland. The exigencies of wartim...