Books Published in December 1980

New Books List: 174 titles

  • Rebel of Antares

    Alan Burt Akers

    Lone Earthman on the vivid and intricate world of double-sunned Antares in Scorpio, Dray Prescot had been the pawn of the unseen Star Lords who had seeded that planet with the offspring of a hundred alien races. But at last Prescot has come in sight ...

  • Counterfeit Honeymoon

    Julia Anders

    She was a bride-for-hire to a man she barely knew. "Strictly business," said Jason Corey when he took Lynne Delevan out of the typing pool and made his astounding proposal -- a trip to Italy and a secure future if she would become his wife fo...

  • Out of the Night

    Marianne Andrau

    A year of love... a year of terror Lisa Talbot had come to Austria to help her brother recover from a heart attack, but Europe proved more than she had bargained for. At first all went smoothly in the quaint house nestled deep in the Austrian A...

  • One Brief Sweet Hour

    Jane Arbor

    Bad memories were best left buried The luxurious Caribbean cruise was a onetime extravagance -- supposed to help Lauren forget the past and build a new life. Instead it brought her face to face with the unhappiest part of that past -- Dale Rans...

  • Silver Arrow

    Elizabeth Ashton

    His proposal came as a complete surprise Frances was flattered by it. After all, Gray Crawford was a prominent figure in the speedboat-racing world. Frances hadn't minded working as a domestic in his Scottish Highlands house, but it wasn...

  • Cosmic Crusaders

    Pierre Barbet

    Two complete alternate-universe novels in one big DAW double. Are there parallel dimensions in which history turned out differently? Are there other universes with other Earths where the alternates became the realities? Here are two exciting science ...

  • Hellinger's Law

    Justin Barr

  • The Further Adventures of Haley's Comet

    John Calvin Batchelor

  • Transfigurations

    Michael Bishop

    In a clearing in a continental forest on the planet BoskVeld, a hominoid species of alien, the Asadi, daily act out their enigmatic rituals. These lithe, mane-bearing simian creatures trudge about obsessively, their rainbow eyes spinning like pinwhee...

  • Bali Breezes

    Esther Boyd

    Soft winds whispered seductively across the island. Claudia was entranced. She had come all the way from Philadelphia to Bali to learn the sensuous dances of the Balinese. Now she found herself staying on working at the island's luxury hotel, fal...

  • Fairy Tale Treasury

    Raymond Briggs

  • Jubilee Trail

    Gwen Bristow

    The history of California in the mid-19th century comes alive in this captivating historical novel. Garnet Cameron, a fashionable young lady of New York, is leading a neat, proper life, full of elegant parties and polite young men, yet the prospect o...

  • The Pearl Pagoda

    Susannah Broome

    Megan leaves England in a clipper ship to meet her fiance, but the Pearl Pagoda, symbol of the beauty and mystery of ancient China, casts its spell over her and she encounters an inexplicable death and is suddenly imprisoned Welsh orphan, Megan J...

  • Timescoop

    John Brunner

    A Pandora's box of evilFreitas had commanded the engineers of his vast, world-wide empire to build him a device that could ransack the past.Now all the riches of the ages were his for the taking. But mere wealth was not what Freitas was after. Suprem...

  • Players at the Game of People

    John Brunner

    GAMES PEOPLE PLAY-- OR GAMES PLAYED WITH PEOPLE! War hero, jet-setter, gourmet--Godwin Harpinshield was all of these and more; his life was a game played among the Beautiful People whose fame, wealth and power set them above the law and beyond the...

  • Earthly Powers

    Anthony Burgess

    An exploration of the very essence of power centers on two men who represent different types of earthly power--one an eminent novelist and well-known homosexual, the other a man of God who rises through the Vatican hierarchy...

  • The Heart of the Matter

    Diana Burke

    Miss Regina Cressley had put all thoughts of romance behind her. At thirty-two she had committed the unpardonable -- and unladylike -- sin of becoming managing director of her own company. A legacy to be sure, but one she had guided to brilliant new ...

  • Where There's a Will

    Anne Burton

    She changed her will at 7 pm. By 10 pm she was dead... When the body of Maureen Ross, a retired actress worth millions, was found in her bed, suffocated with a pillow, Scotland Yard arrested her grandson, Kevin. After all, he would have inherited her...

  • Weird Tales

    Lin Carter

    Volume 48, No. 1, First in a series of 4 issued in mass market paperback format. Contents: The Eyrie, essay by Lin Carter; Scarlet Tears, by Robert E. Howard; Down There, (1978) by Ramsey Campbell; The Light From the Pole, by Clark Ashton Smith and ...

  • A Station in the Delta

    John Cassidy

  • Gentle Pirate

    Jayne Castle

    "Don't ask me to stop," he whispered in a husky voice that came from deep in his chest. "I want you so badly...." Simon Kendrick had charged suddenly into her life. Commanding, intimidating, as her boss he controlled her job. ...

  • Burden of Proof

    Mary Challis

    Scandal was his business - his murder was the result... When Norman Russell was shot with his own pistol, Scotland Yard immediately charged a renowned surgeon, Mark Sheridan, with murder. They claimed it was revenge. Russell had accused Sheridan of p...

  • The Constant Companion

    Marion Chesney

    "I am Miss Lamberton. Miss Constance Lamberton. I hoped that you would employ me as your companion." And so the quiet Constance Lamberton, an orphan, came to the household of the haughty and beautiful Lady Amelia Godolphin. She would serv...

  • Never Count Tomorrow

    Daphne Clair

    Soren ruined all her plans Lin Blake had a special mission in coming to work on the Wingard family farm in New Zealand. But for personal reasons that mission had to remain a secret. She hadn't counted, however, on meeting someone like Soren...

  • Golden Rain

    Douglas Clark

  • The Right Honourable Viscount

    Gail Clark

    Lady Barbour brought her stepdaughter to London to make a match. She didn't place much hope in the prospect as Miss Callie Whateley had an oh-so-what attitude toward romance. The two ladies lodged with their cousin, Morgan Phyfe, on the fasionable Ha...

  • Edge of Violence

    Suzanne Clausse

    She was tormented by violent threats Samantha's life changed drastically after she met Brett and fell hopelessly in love with him. But her happiness was short-lived. She had become a victim of bizarre events that filled her with terror -- even...

  • Close to Critical

    Hal Clement

    Close to Critical is a science fiction novel by Hal Clement. The novel was first serialized in three parts and published in Astounding Science Fiction magazine in 1958. Its first hardcover book publication was in July 1964....

  • Prisoner Cell Block H No. 2

    Henry Clement

  • Polyeuctus, the Liar, Nicomedes

    Pierre Corneille

  • Lord Harry's Folly

    Catherine Coulter

    Lord Harry Monteith was the most dashing young rake that London had seen in years, unbeatable at the gaming table, irresistible to the ladies, and indifferent to danger from dueling pistols or swords. Miss Henrietta Rolland was the dazzling young...

  • Time Out of Mind

    Richard Cowper

    As a young boy, Laurie Linton encountered a strange apparition: a ghostly man who urgently mouthed a message:KILL MAGOBION!Years later, as a member of the UN Narcotics Security Agency, Linton and the beautiful Carol Kennedy were assigned a special du...

  • Fair Annie of Old Mule Hollow

    Beverly Crook

  • One of the Boys

    Janet Dailey

    "I don't like him and I never will." Petra's words concerning Dane Kingston proved mistaken as time passed. For he could both enrage and arouse her by turns. Petra had worked hard to achieve the equality she had with the male ca...

  • Nicola

    Dorothy Daniels

    Lovely Nicola Maneth had one burning ambition -- to become a PRIMA BALLERINA ASSOLUTA. She would allow nothing to stand in her way, and she would use any man to achieve her goal, including Emperor Franz Josef himself! Despite the Emperor's patron...

  • The Goering Treasure

    Gordon Davis

  • Oktoberfest

    Frank De Felitta

  • Defenders of Windhaven

    Marie De Jourlet

    A sweeping series of Americans who rebuilt the South after the Civil War -- of their dashed hopes, their indomitable spirit... Out of the ashes of the Civil War, a South rebuilds, the blue and the gray disband, the wounds of a nation begin to heal, ...

  • Twist of Fortune

    Jean De Secary

    Jennifer's kidnapper was prepared to kill Celia screamed as she raced along the beach after four-year-old Jennifer's kidnapper. She had to reach the dock before he did -- and there was no time...no time. The launch was pulling away just...

  • Dark Dream of Love

    Eleanora De Vincent

    A Handsome Young King . . . His Beautiful But Unwilling Bride . . . And His Fiery Mistress. Clotaire: With swiftness and unexplained brutality he strikes down Deirdre’s guardian uncle and declares his intention to make the golden-haired beauty ...

  • The All-the-Way Man

    Joyce Dingwell

    "An involvement's the last thing I want." Tim Fortescue was a confirmed cynic when it came to women he wasn't going to repeat his ancestor's mistakes. And besides, his outback cattle station was strictly a man's world. B...

  • Iceberg

    Robyn Donald

    "Daddy, why don't you marry Linnet?" Little Sarah Doyle adored Linnet, whose heart was touched by the loneliness of the bright motherless child. Sarah's father, Justin, was another matter entirely. He could be cold as ice, yet h...

  • The Picnic and Other Inimitable Stories

    Gerald Durrell

    Tongue-in-cheek irony and genuine humanity infuse a collection of short stories in which nothing--a family picnic, a tour of the English countryside, a three-day cruise around the Greek isles--goes as planned...

  • The Ravishers

    Jeanne Duval

    A Woman's Price -- The price of Lysandra's falling in love was her being torn from her homeland of Gaul and sent to distant Rome. The price of her virginity was a few coins of silver, contemptuously tossed to her by the legionnaire who had brutally u...

  • Stanley Elkin's Great

    Stanley Elkin

    Collects the most amusing and perceptive passages from the acclaimed comic's previous books, including selections from The Dick Gibson Show, The Franchiser, and The Living End which reveal the humorous side of American life...

  • End of the Journey

    Matylda Engelman

  • Longarm and the Rurales

    Tabor Evans

    LA ESCONDIDA It was a sun-baked Mexican town where a desperate man could bury his past- and his secrets. Longarm was headed there to collar Clay Maddox, a renegade Texas Ranger wanted for murder. But he rides into more than he bargained for-...

  • Modern Irish Short Stories

    Ben Forkner

  • The Death at Yew Corner

    Richard Forrest

    A no-nonsense politician and her children’s author husband search for answers to a retirement-home homicide in this gripping small-town murder mystery. Fabian Bunting wheels herself down the hallway of the nursing home, opera glasses clutched in he...

  • Regency Belles

    Elsie Gage

    The Duchess was a mischievous matriarch--and the best matchmaker in London. The Duchess rather excelled at putting people down a notch, a whimsy it sometimes pleased her to indulge. And thus she commandeered her nephew Julian, Duke of Charlesworth...

  • Squash Pie

    Wilson Gage

  • Lamia

    Michael Gardine

  • Frenchman's Harvest

    Emma Gayle

    After all this time... it couldn't be! Helen Caister was just eighteen, in the bloom of young womanhood. England had been her home ever since her parents' tragic deaths when she was only three. But suddenly her beloved guardian grandfather was ...

  • Lord Sin

    Constance Gluyas

    UNHOLY COUPLING Beautiful Annaliza Sedgewick was a parson's daughter, as unspoiled and untamed as the wild cliffs of Cornwall. Lord Jonathan Sinclair was the most handsome and infamous nobleman in eighteenth-century England, with the pick of Lo...

  • Rites of Passage

    William Golding

    Introduced by Annie Proulx, lose yourself in an epic naval journey in this Booker Prize-winning novel: the first in the acclaimed Sea Trilogy by the author of Lord of the Flies.I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who live too close to...

  • The Sugar Dragon

    Victoria Gordon

    He rose from the sea like a bronzed god And Verna Grant, experienced editor, thought the man was fantasy. In one moment on the dark predawn beach he had captured her heart -- and then disappeared. Just as suddenly, Con Bradley arrived. As a col...

  • Escape to Ecstasy

    Yvonne Gordon

  • And Baby Makes 3

    Jack Gordun; Winifred Wo

  • Backward Glances

    Lois Greenhaw

  • Colorado Woman

    Patricia Greenlaw

    Lindsay Tyler was orphaned during a violent Indian attack and was sent to live with her kind uncle, Ned Tyler, near Durango, Colorado. On his sprawling cattle ranch, Lindsay fell in love with the robust West, and soon blossomed into a beautiful and h...

  • Cry for the Demon

    Julia Grice

    Out of the deep comes a terror no woman can resist. Where the lava flows and sharks hunt, Ann Southold has found a retreat on the island of Maui. Here the painful memory of her husband dims, her guilt's and fears are assuaged, and she meets a...

  • Crisis on Citadel II

    David Hagberg

  • Dangerous Lady

    Barbara Hazard

    "I DON'T CALL FIFTY GUINEAS SILLY. I'D DO ANYTHING TO SAVE WARDLEY HALL AND I NEED MONEY TOO BADLY TO WORRY ABOUT DISHONESTY. I WAGER I'D MAKE A WONDERFUL HIGHWAYMAN:" Thus spoke the lovely Lissa Ward on the eve of her first adventure as a highway...

  • Invader

    Albert F. Hill

  • Hansi, the Girl Who Loved the Swastika

    Maria Anne Hirschmann

  • Danger on Cue

    Rebecca Holland

    Acting is a cruel business--and sometimes a deadly one! One young actress died because she knew too much. Another had been savagely attacked. Was the theater killer one of the cast or one of the stage crew? No one knew. Whoever he was, he had a ...

  • Fight Back!: And Don't Get Ripped Off

    David Horowitz

  • Steps Out of Time

    Eric Houghton

  • Marabelle

    Tom Huff

  • Bride of the Sun

    Elizabeth Hunter (1)

    A MARRIAGE OF FATE After the death of her great-uncle, Eleanor Stewart left her native England for the Greek island of Rhodes to take over the house which he had willed her. Here on this sun-blessed island she discovered a destiny that she had ...

  • Kissing Cousins

    Anna James

    HENRIETTA. She is a high-spirited beauty who has been pursuing her cousin Roddy since they were children. Now they are grown, and though not a word of love has been uttered, Henrietta is certain that she can make Roddy ask for her hand. But it has...

  • Petronella's Waterloo

    Sally James

    Impetuous Petronella Fanshawe took the job as governess to Madame de Courcy's children only to escape the domination of her formidable guardian, Mrs. Deeping. But when the de Courcys moved to Paris, Petra traded her governess garb for the dark skirts...

  • Ambush Range

    Don P. Jenison

  • Backward Place

    Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

    Six colourful, comic characters inhabit A Backward Place. All but one are Westerners who have come to Delhi to experience an alternative way of life. But, far from being hippies, their ability to adapt to this exotic culture often leaves something...

  • The War Between the Pitiful Teachers and the Splended Kids

    Stanley Kiesel

  • Poseidon's Shadow

    A.P. Kobryn

  • Silent Partners

    Albert Kovetz

  • Seduction

    Charlotte Lamb

    Clea felt insulted -- by both men! Clea's stepfather, Domenico Kerasteri, had followed Greek custom in choosing a man for her to marry. Defying him meant arousing his violent temper. Ben Winter was the man who desired her and was determi...

  • Galactica Discovers Earth

    Glen A. Larson; Mike Resnick

    GALACTICA DISCOVERS EARTH Galactica was trapped! A Cylon warfleet was lurking just a lightjump away. And Earth -- hopelessly primitive! -- was completely unaware that the renegade Xaviar was rearranging history to make the planet into his private em...

  • The Water Castle

    Ingeborg Lauterstein

    Two worlds collide in this novel - the romantic, elegant world of Austrian aristocracy and the brutal world of Nazi occupation.

    The narrator, Reyna von Meinert, is a Viennese girl who grows from childhood into young womanhood as the Third...

  • Death Under Par

    Janice Law

  • The Harvard Crimson Anthology

    Greg Lawless

  • The Sirian Experiments

    Doris Lessing

    The third volume of Lessing's visionary series is the first-person account of Ambien II, a female ruler of the Sirian empire who slowly realizes how sophisticated the Canopus empire is and attempts to effect a similar society...

  • Slocum's Rage

    Jake Logan

  • See Texas and Die

    Jake Logan

  • Slocum's Fire

    Jake Logan

    The train carried many of Frisco's finest whores, a Chinese madame and a fortune in opium, as well as two armed killers. If Slocum could get the train safely to its destination, Madame Lu had promised him many nights of loving, plus a partner's sh...

  • The Tawny Gold Man

    Amii Lorin

    Long ago, in a moment of wild, rioting, ecstasy, Judd Cammeron had vowed to love her always. Now as Anne Moore looked at her stepbrother, she saw a total stranger, a man who planned to take control of his father's estate and everyone on it. Anne knew...

  • First Channel

    Jean Lorrah; Jacqueline Lichtenberg

    Rimon Farris, a rich Sime farmer's son, has a golden future: all he has to do is marry his childhood sweetheart, Kadi, and he's set for life. But Kadi matures into a Gen, as one-third of the human children do, randomly; and suddenly is considered no ...

  • Where Is Janice Gantry?

    John D. MacDonald

    Sam Brice, the perfect rugged hero, is involved with a young widow named Janice Gantry. But when she vanishes, Janice leaves behind a trail of blackmail, murder and a man at war with his own sense of duty.Sam is too curious to steer clear of the myst...

  • Now, God Be Thanked

    John Masters

    From gracious drawing rooms to the lush green countryside, from sensuous boudoirs to the stately halls of Parliament, here is a magnificent novel, a richly romantic panorama of love and destiny. Brilliantly etched and dramatically portrayed, three ge...

  • The Avenging Maid

    Janis Susan May

    "Who is this scullery maid with the manners of a duchess?" The question was plainly written on the face of Geraint Catton, the young history master at St. Gregory's school. But Lady Phillipa Stanhope-Fredericks, alias "Maggie,' co...

  • First of All

    Joan McCullough

  • The Final Conflict

    Gordon McGill

    Around the globe, drought, famine and flood are striking down helpless millions. And everywhere there is trouble. Damien Thorn's followers can be found--almost before disaster strikes-- ready to offer aid to the pitiful survivors. Damien, the handsom...

  • Canary Red

    Robert McKay

    “You mean my father is alive?” Ming Campbell thinks she has been an orphan since babyhood. Now her aunt is telling her that her father is alive, and coming home…from jail! What will he be like? Will he be cruel and hard and vicious? Or w...

  • Ask of the Wind

    James J. McKenna

  • South of Nogales

    Steve Mensing

  • Seraphina

    Jean Merrill

    SERAPHINA'S LIFE WAS ORDERED AND TRANQUIL UNTIL .. . her niece, Georgiana, came to visit. First Miss Georgiana's canary flew over the gate and into the garden of Seraphina's long-lost fiance. Then Miss Seraphina Silk missed her weekly Ladies' Guil...

  • After Hard Guns

    Eli Mitchell

  • Search and Destroy

    Robin Moore

  • Time of Desecration

    Alberto Moravia

  • The Tempest Lily

    Helga Moray

    She was the bewitching, dark-haired Lady Lily and he was the magnetic English privateer, Adam Clune... On the fabled isle of love, they had stolen forbidden ecstasy. They crossed the turbulent Atlantic in Adam's gallant ship, endured violent mutiny a...

  • Living Together

    Carole Mortimer

    Would her tragic past blight her future? Helen was not emotionally ready for any man--much less the forceful actor Leon Masters. A brief disastrous marriage had left her terrified of men. She wanted desperately to forget her past, but she could...

  • Panzer Grenadiers

    Ernst Wilhelm Muller

  • African Love Song

    Helen Murray

    When Kay Ingram accompanied young Donald and Janita Garvin to West Africa, where they were to join the widowed father on his cocoa plantation, she had no inkling that her love for the two motherless children would encompass their father as well. B...

  • A Perfect Match

    Julia Murray

    She was to become Lady Windlow... But Miss Louisa Parke was not at all pleased by the prospect - despite the fact that Lord Windlow was one of the most handsome and eligible bachelors in London. Maybe if she'd had some say in the matter, ...

  • A Crime Story

    Jay Robert Nash

    Crime writer Jack Journey is embroiled in a murder mystery when he is asked to act as press liaison for the grieving family, little does he realize that his unique knowledge give him an edge over the professional investigators, and that that knowledg...

  • When May Follows

    Betty Neels

    How could anything so right be so wrong? She had said yes gladly, but later Katrina wondered why she had agreed to marry Raf van Tellerinck. There was no love between them, certainly. But he needed a wife, and Katrina like and respected him. So...

  • Guinevere

    Sharan Newman

    The neglected mythical girlhood of the ill-fated, beautiful queen of Camelot, Guinevere, is provided in a tale of the spirits, magical beasts, and characters who attended the kind but willfully thoughtless Guinevere...

  • The Divide

    William Overgard

  • Heart on Holiday

    Elaine Fowler Palencia

    He was powerful, forbidding and rich, a man who took everything for granted, including her. Catherine Gray hated Cesar Saavedra Solano from the moment they met at the airport, from the moment he arrogantly whisked her into his country and his life wi...

  • Early Autumn

    Robert B. Parker

    A bitter divorce is just the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back. Then Spenser decides to do some kidnapping of his own. Heading for the Mane woods, he's determined to give a...

  • To Catch a King

    Harry Patterson

  • The Omni Strain

    Cliff Patton

  • You Can Hear Magpie

    Paula Paul

  • Ficiton of the Absurd

    Dick Penner

  • Blue Pages

    Eleanor Perry

    An acidulous, often raucous account of the many times that screenwriter Lucia Wade has been had by men--self-serving clods all. Lucia deeply loves her second husband, director Vincent, particularly in the star-dusted Greenwich Village days when he ma...

  • Katie McCrary Wiggin

    Kathleen C. Phillips

  • The Paisley Butterfly

    Phyllis Taylor Pianka

    Poverty did have its privileges, mused Lady Margaret Battersby Spence, happily forced into commerce by circumstance--and character. But all too soon a near scandal obliged her to close the doors of her beloved bookshop and enter the private employ of...

  • The Notebooks

    Sam Picard

  • The Giant Kill

    Kin Platt

    Max Roper, durable investigator, is sapped, doped and imprisoned on a boat apparently used by a mysterious Oriental for business purposes. The point of this caper is to have Max carry a warning to basketball superstar Jo-Jo Gonzaga that he must throw...

  • All Their Kingdoms

    Madeline A. Polland

    In a land ravaged by famine, beauty was her only dowry. He came riding into her life like a knight on a white horse, Matt O'Connor, the one man for Celia Healey's heart from the moment they met. Gloriously in love, she was swept into realms of opulen...

  • All That Glitters

    Elizabeth Powers

  • Toot-Toot-Tootsie, Good-Bye

    Ron Powers

    A baseball commentator in the 1950s witnesses radical social change and faces certain realities about himself, when he is paired in the booth with a beauty queen in order to boost a network's sinking ratings...

  • Elvis, We Love You Tender

    Dee Presley

  • The Nephew

    James Purdy

  • The Stolen Goddess

    Richard L. Purtill

    Weaving from the same magic cloth that endeared the late Thomas Burnett Swann to his myriad fantasy readers, Richard Purtill again explores the wonders of pre-Grecian Kaphtu in this unusual flight of the imagination. This is the story of Ducalion ...

  • Any Woman Can

    David R. Reuben

  • Fall from Grace

    Mozelle Richardson

    Commissioned to compile a history of the wealthy Darvells' horticultural activities, John Corbin scours the family archives, dallies with the estate's beautiful head gardener, and otherwise wrestles with the temptations of his unique avocation: black...

  • Forbidden Love

    Karen Robards

    INNOCENCE AND ECSTASY When Megan had last seen her guardian, handsome, aristocratic Justin Brant, she had been a rebellious child, and he had seemed a stern, forbidding figure. Now, at seventeen, she was a breathtaking beauty, beneath whose dew...

  • Cover Stories

    Robert Rosenblum

    The author of The Sweetheart Deal has come up with a novel that takes suspense out of the realm of genre fiction and makes it as special as his writing.  From Athens to Washington and back to Greece winds a labyrinth of intrigue in which two former ...

  • The Alumni Murders

    Paul Ruse

  • Night of the Living Dead

    John Russo

    They are coming, rising rotten from their graves, filling the night with a furious howl, and staining the earth bloody-red ... They are growing, their powers are swelling, from feasting on flesh and gnawing on bone, now they are drunk on the sweet ta...

  • Macho Camachos Beat

    Luis Rafael Sanchez

    The effects of American advertising, television, and comic books on life in Puerto Rico are vividly depicted in this tale of a pro-American senator, his Black mistress, aristocratic wife, and right-wing terrorist son...

  • Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction

    George H. Scithers

    A collection of stories by some of today's leading science-fiction writers--including Garrett, Lee, Wolfe, Asimov, Longyear, and Foster--opening up to the reader a variety of imaginative worlds and characters...

  • Dusky Rose

    Joanna Scott

    MARRIAGE TO A STRANGER Laura had been half in love with David from the moment they met, but her opinion of his employer, D. Jonathan Lattimer, was far from complimentary. Then one morning she awoke to find herself married--to David Jonathan Lat...

  • The Plight of Pamela Pollworth

    Margaret SeBastian

    FOR WANT OF A COOK TRUE LOVE WAS STIRRED... Actually, it was for a French chef that the lovely and honorable Pamela Pollworth was hunting. Since her family had moved to London they would be deeply embarrassed if they did not have a French chef in ...

  • Emmie's Love

    Janette Seymour

    Emmie Dashwood was left only one family treasure: magnificent, innocent beauty... She was sold as a wife to an aged Canadian general, a crony of her libertine grandfather who engineered wanton orgies from his sickbed... Taken as a prize of flesh,...

  • The Sundown Searchers

    Jon Sharpe

    BETWEEN AN ARROW AND A SIX-GUN When Skye Fargo, the Trailsman, stepped in to save Charity Keller from a bullet's deadly path, he didn't know this fiery-tempered, sensuous lady would soon be leading him on a fool's errand into the heart of Comanch...

  • Shadows

    Jory Sherman

    A desperate and wealthy toy manufacturer seeks out a clinic in Mexico as a last-resort cure for his terminal cancer. But the mansion he buys there is more insidious than his illness-shadowy apparitions stalk his every move. No sooner are Chill and La...

  • A Friend of Kafka and Other Stories

    Isaac Bashevis Singer

  • Best John Sladek

    John Sladek

  • August Strangers

    Michael Slosberg

    Four New York Times best-selling authors unite in this suspenseful collection of paranormal romances that features J. D. Robb's Missing in Death, in which Detective Eve Dallas investigates a woman's mysterious disappearance from a New York City ferry...

  • The Ghosts of Kampala: The Rise and Fall of Idi Amin

    George Ivan Smith

  • Venus Belt

    L. Neil Smith

    TWO UNIVERSES WEREN'T ENOUGH--THE FEDERALISTS WANTED THEM ALL! More than 150,000 women had been kidnapped--they vanished without a trace. No ransom demands. That was in the crime-ridden, bureaucracy-stifled "main" world of 1999. In the freedom-lov...

  • The Destined

    W. Thomas Smith Jr.

  • Rebel Pride

    Sylvie F. Sommerfield

    It had always been understood that Holly Jemmison would marry Graham Forrester, thus uniting their fortunes and merging the lands of Heritage with those of Cross Oaks, the two largest plantations in the area. But when the handsome but disreputable Ad...

  • Christina's World

    Blakely St. James

  • No Trespassing

    Sondra Stanford

    FAITH FORGOT THE LAW OF THE LAND. Faith Hallister's peaceful strolls across old Watson's land ended the day she encountered a strong, dark man on a horse-the Tennessee property's new owner. When she found employment at the Donnell mansion, Faith ...

  • Devil in Disguise

    Jessica Steele

    Could she convince him of the truth? Clare Harper arrived in Greece to find Lazar Vardakas accusing her brother of seducing Lazar's young sister. Clare knew it couldn't be true. Even worse, she learned that to appease his great family p...

  • Mask of Treason

    Anne Stevenson

    Lovely, independent Fiona Grant, a costume designer in the London opera world, returns for a holiday to her parents’ home in the Scottish Highlands. On the way she meet imperturbable Max Wyndham, a naval officer on an investigative mission regardin...

  • Pawn of the Omphalos

    E.C. Tubb

    Fiction, Science Fiction, For Mark Carodyne, life was a gamble. That's why he came to Krait. Krait was dominated my a pulsing Omphalos. It filled the sky above. Would Mark save the planet from destruction by obtaining the data....

  • Nanette

    Patricia Veryan

    She could outrun her family, her past, and her pain but she couldn't escape true love. FORCED TO MARRY HER UNCLE FOR MONEY--IT WAS THE OUTSIDE OF ENOUGH. To foil her family's attempt to keep her considerable dowry in their coffers, Nan...

  • Voices of Terror

    Claudette Virmonne

    The old house was a perfect setting for crime Her dying words hinted at evil When her Great-Aunt Rachel died, Heather inherited the old woman's house. But it wasn't until she went to live in it that she found the letter her aunt had nev...

  • Showers of Sunlight

    Donna Vitek

    STRANDED IN ITALY Leigh Sheridan's dream of working on an Italian newspaper as a reporter turned into a nightmare when she failed to land the job. Her seemingly hopeless plight drove her to the beautiful Isle of Capri to find employment with Marcu...

  • The Lucifer Comet

    Ian Wallace

    They discovered a vast comet far out between the stars. Within its icy core were two beings, frozen in still life for thousands of years. One was human, a Prometheus figure. But the other, locked with the first in a tableau of eternal combat, was Luc...

  • No Commercial Potential

    David Walley

  • Temple of Fire

    Margaret Way

    Would love rise from the ashes of tragedy? Julian Standford had everything: looks, virility, intelligence and money. The perfect gentleman - if gentlemen were also heartless and ruthless! Unfortunately, Fleur's little halfbrother was a Sta...

  • The Pliant Animal

    George Weinberg

  • Star Surgeon

    James White

    Trying to solve the baffling medical problem of the comatose, immortal, and possibly homicidal demigod Levellin would have been trouble enough for Senior Physician Conway. But the episode triggered the gravest crisis in the history of Sector General....

  • A Dream of Thee

    Mary Wibberley

    He controlled both words and people! Catriona Forbes returned home to the Scottish island of Crannich only to please her grandparents. But she had to admit she desperately needed the break from her hectic life as a famous actress. Her unexpecte...

  • A Race for Love

    Faye Wildman

    SHE TOOK A CHANCE.... Orphaned since early childhood, Tanya Steele had been shuttled from relative to relative. For the past five years she had lived with distant cousins; now they were dead, and she was alone again. But that was before she met...

  • The Privateer

    Jon Williams

  • Take the Money and Die

    Wynn Williams

    Lee was a very deadly lady who knew what she wanted... And she wanted Mike Nardini. So Mike obliged, and became Lee's partner in a series of smooth, profitable burglaries. Mike made good money, but he was much more interested in the fringe benefits. ...

  • Flash Gordon the Lost Continent of Mongo

    Al Williamson

    OUR COPY HAS THE SAME COVER AS STOCK PHOTO SHOWN, SCUFFING, EDGE WEAR CREASING AND SOME DISCOLORATION ON COVERS AND SPINE. THERE ALSO IS SOME CREASING, TANNING AND DISCOLORATION INSIDE COVERS AND PAGES. MUSTY ODOR....

  • The River People

    Lee Davis Willoughby

    These Are The People Who Dared The Wild River In the 1800's the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers were the great roadway that bore men and women westward in search of wealth, glory, a new life. The path was turbulent, dangerous, often deadly. ...

  • A Girl Possessed

    Violet Winspear

    The woman was an undying legend When Jane agreed to the ruse, she had no idea what she would be up against. She agreed to pretend to be Baron Pagan Pentrevah's wife because he needed help. He was a man driven by the consuming memory of Roxa...

  • Dancer in the Shadows

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    MARRY IN HASTE, REPENT AT LEISURE. And Valerie had plenty of time to repent--four long years. Her marriage to Sean Hunter had been deliriously happy until her desire to become a dancer had torn them apart. Her husband gone, Valerie lost her career...

  • Single Light

    Maia Wojciechowska

  • Love's Willing Servant

    Avis Worthington

    She had known the innocent love of childhood - she had trusted and been betrayed. And now, aboard a ship for the New World, another man wooed her with dark murmurings of strange pleasures. He was an outcast, traveling under an alias, bound for Virgin...

  • Starfinder

    Robert F. Young

  • Walt Disney Productions Presents Donald Duck's Tallest Tale

    Disney Book Group

  • Walt Disney Productions Presents Scamp to the Rescue

    Disney Book Group

  • You Are Somebody Special

    Charlie Shedd