Books Published in December 1981

New Books List: 183 titles

  • Gosh! Wow!

    Forrest Ackerman

  • Allies of Antares

    Alan Burt Akers

    Beneath the two suns of Antares, the planet Kregen was truly the wonder of the universe. For there, at the inscrutable planning of unseen powers, had been gathered members of the great races of the galaxy, set down among Kregen's lands to become part...

  • The Dark Between the Stars

    Poul Anderson

  • Mask of Destiny

    Marianne Andrau

    A glamorous city...where terror awaited. Natalie's decision to work in Monte Carlo for the summer thrust her into a strange glittering world. There she met Ramona, a millionaire's daughter -- and a woman dangerously obsessed with gambling. Im...

  • Centaur Aisle

    Piers Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    INTO DARKEST MUNDANIA Dor was having troubles growing up to be the next Magician-King of the magic Land of Xanth. He wanted no part of running the Kingdom. But now Good King Trent was leaving on a trade mission to non-magical Mundania, home of suc...

  • Satan's Angel

    Kathryn Atwood

    FROM WILD CHILD TO WAYWARD BEAUTY -- HER WILL KNEW NO MASTER, HER HEART BUT ONE... Raised in the wild, the unwanted child of a noblewoman, silver-haired Angel is found by two wayfaring scoundrels who rename her Jackie, train her in the roguish way...

  • Trauma

    Virginia Barclay

  • The Beacon

    Susan Barrett

    (extracts from the jacket of the Hamish Hamilton edition)
    Katherine Mullen faces a commonplace tragedy.  After twenty years of marriage her husband leaves her for a younger woman and she must try to construct a new life for herself and her two te...

  • Walking Naked

    Nina Bawden

    'Dazzlingly effective . . . not easy to forget' FINANCIAL TIMES'Continually surprising, witty and often disquieting, Walking Naked is one of Nina Bawden's most impressive novels' COSMOPOLITAN 'Among the most perceptive and accomplished novelists writ...

  • Strength of Stones

    Greg Bear

    In a theocratic world far into the future, cities control their own movements and organization. Constantly moving, growing and decaying, taking care of every need their inhabitants might think of, the cities have decided that humans are no longer ...

  • Dean's December

    Saul Bellow

    After being widely portrayed as a virulent racist and a traitor to his city, Professor Albert Corde, dean of the faculty of Journalism, is forced to leave Chicago. Corde is ill-equipped to handle the outrage that faces him, both as the author of seve...

  • Street Beat

    Stewart H. Benedict

  • A Merry Chase

    Rebecca Bennett

    She vowed she'd never be a brood mare for some fashionable fop -- and the ton agreed completely. Betta St. John was a bluestocking, a would-be lady novelist, and a rustic, for heaven's sake! She was condemned to be a spinster. Until dashin...

  • Neighbors

    Thomas Berger

    Suburban regular guy Earl Keese confronts the yawning pit of chaos in the persons of Harry and Ramona, a younger couple who have just moved into the only other house on their dead-end street. Literally overnight, Earl's painstakingly controlled world...

  • Sally

    Leonora Blythe

    SHE HAD ALWAYS DONE AS SHE PLEASED -- WITH NARY A THOUGHT TO THE CONSEQUENCES. Indeed, Sally Mallory's great success throughout the ton as a fine portrait painter had been aided by such spirited independence -- along with they wit and extraord...

  • Logan's Choice

    Frank Bonham

    The Yaqui Indians had a few friends - and a lot of dead enemies. Tom Logan's dad had been one of their few white friends. But now Frank Logan was dead and his son had to prove his own worth by coming up with the $10,000 that the whites had stolen - o...

  • Peeper

    William Brinkley

  • The Long Day Wanes

    Anthony Burgess

    A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism.

    Set in postwar Malaya at the time when people and governments alike are bemused and dazzled by the turmoil of independence, this three-part novel is rich in hilarious comedy and razor...

  • Good-Bye Chicago

    W.R. Burnett

  • Fly Away, Jill

    Max Byrd

    This adrenaline-packed page-turner from bestselling author Max Byrd brings back the unstoppable P.I. Mike Haller, this time in the streets of London.Lighting a cigarette in the gray night, P.I. Mike Haller is uneasy about the job that has brought him...

  • Take This Love

    Mary Carroll

    NOW WAS HER CHANCE.... Jamie MacPherson had always dreamed of seeing the Highlands. She wanted to leave London forever and concentrate on her painting. Now that her uncle had died, she could claim her inheritance -- a cottage on the land of her ki...

  • The Parisian Affair

    Nick Carter

  • Jazz, Jazz, Jazz

    Patrick Skene Catling

  • Sisters

    Lynne Cheney

    This story of a Washington wife who leaves her powerful husband to join a womyn's commune is charged with the kind of eroticism you just don't expect from the Second Lady of the United States of America. I was amazed at how graphically Ms. Cheney det...

  • Noonblaze

    Milan Chiba

  • Murder at Buckingham Palace

    T.E.B. Clarke

  • Bittersweet

    Suzanne Clausse

    The dancers whirled in mounting frenzy. Serena's heart pounded as the insistent drumbeat of a primitive ritual filled the air. She had come to this remote South American village in a desperate attempt to find her brother. She had to make sure he was ...

  • Hard Cash

    Max Allan Collins

    Heist-man Nolan is enjoying his retirement from crime, running his own restaurant, when the president of a bank he robbed two years ago shows up with a blackmail demand. All Nolan has to do is rob the bank again--and play patsy to a sexy girl friend'...

  • Destiny's Spell

    Susanna Collins

    Titania Evans, as elegant as the models in her fashionable boutique...and heartsick. She loves her ex-husband Jeremy who wants an "open marriage" she cannot endure. Then the dream man of her teens steps back into her life, and she's su...

  • An Honorable Offer

    Catherine Coulter

    MEN WERE ALL BEASTS THAT SABRINA WAS DETERMINED TO BEST Lovely young Sabrina Eversleigh, granddaughter of the esteemed Earl of Monmouth first learned of the disreputable desires of men when her dissolute brother-in-law attempted to force himself u...

  • The Masquerading Heart

    Caroline Courtney

    They were twins who looked exactly alike--to strangers. Those who loved them recognized the spirit in Serenity's eyes, the gentleness in Sylyana's. But Ashen Svlyana was invited by her godmother, who'd not seen her in four years, to come to London fo...

  • How to Become a Virgin

    Quentin Crisp

    Unabashedly famous after nearly fifty years of obscurity, Crisp writes of the consequences of the film, "The Naked Civil Servant," his recent life as a celebrity, and his love affair with North America...

  • The Case of the One-Penny Orange

    E.V. Cunningham

    Masao Masuto, a Nisei detective on the Beverly Hills police force, investigates a ransacked house from which nothing is missing and the murder of a noted stamp dealer, and searches for an 1847 postage stamp from Mauritius. MASAO MASUTO BREEDS ROSE...

  • The Eyes on Utopia Murders

    Barbara D'Amato

    "The Most Peaceful Town in the World" boasts the sign leading to the quiet adult community of Young Lake. And it was-until they started shooting across the generation gap. First there were the "incidents": a broken arm, a scorpion sting, rocks hurled...

  • For the Love of God

    Janet Dailey

    A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN? He was the Good Samaritan who offered her roadside help, then stepped into his green sportscar and disappeared. Abbie Scott suddenly forgot the broken heart that had brought her home to Eureka, Arkansas. She only remembered...

  • White Fire

    Rebecca Danton

    SHE USED HER BODY TO BUY HER HUSBAND'S DREAMS. Lord Jerrold has the power to turn the Meissner Pottery Works into one of the most successful in the world, if only Mrs. Meissner - the graceful and beautiful Lillian - will meet his insistent dem...

  • Caroline and Julia

    Clare Darcy

    HURDLES FOR THE HEART Julia Daventry was an entrancing enchantress--but could she erase the arrogance of superbly attractive, supremely condescending Neville Devereaux? Caroline Devereaux was an exquisitely adorable young lady--but could she in...

  • Hand of Zei

    L. Sprague de Camp

    Dirk Barnevelt knew he wasn't a hero, but somebody had to find the explorer who'd vanished on the low-tech planet, Krisha and to do that, somebody had to single-handedly rescue a beautiful princess from bloodthirsty pirates and to do that, somebod...

  • The Entity

    Frank De Felitta

    """ Y]ou'll find this novel a compelling, frightening read ... a truly terrifying tale ... Careful plotting, well-wrought characters, and lots of scientific detail - along with the surefire appeal of sex, violence, and the paranormal - add up to a wo...

  • Windhaven's Bounty

    Marie De Jourlet

    The Bouchard legacy has left its imprint upon the South, as generation after generation thrive on the belief that hard work and a strong family will endure, even as the turmoil of Reconstruction continues to tear asunder a young land. The legacy will...

  • By Frequent Anguish

    S.F.X. Dean

    Professor Neil Kelly is passionate about language, about his scholarly work on John Donne, about teaching at his venerable New England college. But with his wife long dead, he's resigned himself to the belief that his chance for more personal passion...

  • Stellar Science Fiction Stories 6

    Judy-Lynn Del Rey

    Anthology of original sci-fi stories. Includes: 5980 A.D. (poem) by Robert Zend; Till Death Us Do Part by James P. Hogan; . . . All Ye Who Enter Here by Jack Williamson; A Gift of Space by Margaret C. Hewitt; The Cerebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras ...

  • Marrakesh

    Graham Diamond

  • The Ripper

    William Dobson

  • The Dark Abyss

    Robyn Donald

    Amnesia wrapped her in its soft cocoon Luce had awakened in hospital with no memory. And the New Zealand police, despite an extensive search, had found no trace of her former self. So for two years she had simply got on with living. Then she me...

  • Frozen Jungle

    Jane Donnelly

    It was not often that anyone got the better of the celebrated writer Duncan Keld, let alone managed to damage his reputation - but journalist Pattie Moss had unwittingly managed to do just that, with the result that Duncan, to put it mildly, had a ve...

  • Sensuous Burgundy

    Bonnie Drake

    They were enemies--adversaries who would soon face each other across the courtroom in a taut murder trial... one arguing for the prosecution; the other for the defense. Yet Laura Grandine found this commanding giant of a man irresistible. And he l...

  • Clea

    Lawrence Durrell

    The magnificent final volume of one of the most widely acclaimed fictional masterpieces of the postwar era.

    Few books have been awaited as eagerly as Clea, the sensuous and electrically suspenseful novel that resolves the enigmas of the Alex...

  • Mountolive

    Lawrence Durrell

    Mountolive is a novel of vertiginous disclosures, in which the betrayer and the betrayed share secret alliances and an adulterous marriage turns out to be a vehicle for the explosive passions of the modern Middle East. This book was digitized an...

  • Balthazar

    Lawrence Durrell

    Balthazar, is the second volume of Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, set in Alexandria, Egypt, during the 1940s. The events of each lush and sensuous novel are seen through the eyes of the central character L.G. Darley, who observes the interactions ...

  • Justine

    Lawrence Durrell

    Alexandria - a thousand dust-tormented streets. Flies and beggars own it today, and those who enjoy an intermediate existence in between. Five races, five languages, a dozen creeds - but there are more than five sexes. The sexual provender which ...

  • The Glass Heiress

    Alice Dwyer-Joyce

    When a family goes to the fair for an evening's enjoyment and tragedy strikes them out of the skies, a safe and loving home is destroyed. Anne Catherine, daughter of Dr John Rohan of Derrycreevy House, finds herself in a strange world. She refuses ...

  • Miracles

    Martin Ebon

  • McGraw's Inheritance

    J.T. Edson

    The San Garcia was gila monster country, where the bears got fat on cattle if they got fat at all. McGraw couldn't figure it. Who would want his dry, rocky ranch badly enough to send a hired killer after him? McGraw needed help, and he knew where ...

  • A Vintage Year

    Jessica Eliot

    She was heiress to the prestigious Merritt wine importing firm, on a buying trip to France. But the true purpose of Jacqueline's visit was to unearth the difficulty she sensed beneath the usually flawless surface of her sister Maude, the baroness de ...

  • The Great Deception

    Douglas Elliot

    In seventeenth-century New England, Richard Dunstable--an English nobleman stripped of his title and exiled to the New World--must fight against savage Indians and cunning spies in his struggle to protest his beloved America...

  • Warton and the King of the Skies

    Russell E. Erickson

  • Warton and the Traders

    Russell E. Erickson

  • Longarm and the Devil's Railroad

    Tabor Evans

    THE WILDEST OUTLAWS IN THE WEST HAD A NEW "DISAPPEARING ACT"... They called it the Devil's Railroad, the mysterious route that shuttled the country's most-wanted men to South America. Disguised as a notorious one-eyed bandit, Longarm sets out to b...

  • Who Wrote the Book of Love?

    Thomas Farber

  • Newsreel

    Irvin Faust

  • Sight of a Stranger

    Sandra Field

    Blaise was like a violent summer storm How could Shannon ever hope to understand this man who had given light to her world of blindness? He had rushed headlong into her life, turning it upside down. Yet he was as deep and unfathomable as the sea. ...

  • Blood Money

    Aaron Fletcher

  • Mayan Enchantment

    Lila Ford

    Alex Wood knew this was the most exciting job she'd ever have--photographing the ruins of a Mayan city sunk deep below the Pacific. Vic Clarke, the handsome archeologist who'd made the incredible find, had thought "Alex" was just the "man" for the...

  • The Morphodite

    M.A. Foster

    How do you destroy a conspiracy without making waves? Because every such underground movement has a key person, the subtle way is to remove that keystone and watch the rest of the organization fall apart. Their world was ultra-conservative, isolat...

  • The Quick and the Dead

    Judy Gardiner

  • Morelli's Game

    Patricia Lee Gauch

  • Meg

    Maurice Gee

  • The Believers

    Janice Holt Giles

    Rebecca Fowler is only seventeen when she marries Richard Cooper. She cannot remember a time when she has not loved and trusted him and followed where he led. At first the marriage is happy; it is only after their child is stillborn that Richard show...

  • Wanted for Murder

    George G. Gilman

    Book #20 in the Adam Steele Series - Adam Steele's gun was still smoking as the Chinese girl uttered his name with her dying breath. The real killer had escaped and now Steele was on the run with a murder charge on his head.Steele needed help. Martha...

  • Covenant with Tomorrow

    Lester Goran

  • A Friend of the Family

    Denice Greenlea

    "THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES IN LOVE." Soon after these words were spoken to lovely Anna Whitten, she discovered their terrible truth: events on a faraway battlefield had left her a widow at twenty three. But she would not allow her grief to d...

  • The Belle of Brighton

    Georgina Grey

    "I don't believe you. Sir Lawrence has shown me no sign of admiration. Indeed. I might say it's quite the contrary. It appears he finds me interfering and clumsy, and a good many other things. None of them complimentary." Thus spok...

  • Four Friends

    Robert Grossbach

  • Web of Desire

    Jean Hager

    No other man had aroused her as Thorne had done with a touch -- or merely a look. Once, they had found each other. Once they had fallen in love. Once he had been the world to her. Even now the pain of betrayal pierced Rhea's heart like a stiletto....

  • Desire

    Anne Hampson

    HE WANTED AN HEIR, BUT NOT A WIFE. Kim Rosswell was young, beautiful, and desperate. Vidas Christou was wealthy, and determined that the child she carried bear the Christou name. Kim knew she should have told Vidas the truth. There could not p...

  • Mexico Kill

    Dane Hartman

  • Journey to the East

    Hermann Hesse

    A great writer . . . complex, subtle, allusive. - New York Times Book Review

    In simple, mesmerizing prose, Hermann Hesse's Journey to the East tells of a journey both geographic and spiritual. H.H., a German choirmaster, is invited on an exped...

  • Heartbeeps

    John Hill

    They were the perfect couple. Val was designed for total politeness, Aqua was the ultimate seductive hostess. Together they were the finest America could produce, until something went wrong and they did the two things robots were programmed NOT to ...

  • Lawman's Choice

    Ray Hogan

    Shoham was about to become no-man's land--a town without a marshal, and Matt Kollister, caught in a murder frame-up and heading south to save his neck, was a marshal without a town. But was Matt, on the run from the law himself, really the man to cl...

  • The Rose Parade Mystery

    Laura Lee Hope

    Only a few days before the spectacular Rose Parade in Pasadena, California, the Bobbsey twins visit with the Hamlin family. Mr. Hamlin is a well-known float builder and he invites the Bobbseys to help decorate the floats for the parade. But when t...

  • Red Dust

    David Houston

  • Spirit Wrestler

    James Houston

    Abandoned as a youth by his mother, an Eskimo man learns of the art of shamanism from the woman who adopts him, confronts a white stranger in the remote Canadian wilderness, and faces a final disgrace...

  • Easy Company and the Engineers

    John W. Howard

  • Sweet Dawn of Desire

    Meg Hudson

    "YOU'RE A BIT TOUCHY AREN'T YOU, JOY?" That did it! His sarcastic carping was driving Joy crazy! She didn't care if he was a famous British spy--she had feelings even if he didn't! When she was assigned to edit James Dun...

  • Visitor from Vienna

    Darrell Husted

    THE TOAST OF VIENNA SHE BECAME THE SCANDAL OF A COUNTRY TOWN! Only recently returned from glittering Vienna, where she had been feted by the most dazzling and influential citizens of Europe, Catherine Fothinby found a summer at her, cousins' c...

  • Jacintha

    Sara Hylton

    Jacintha Carradice is raised by her wealthy and domineering grandmother and discovers the turmoils of betrayal and love within the centuries-old confines of an enormous mansion in the north of England...

  • Go Die in Afghanistan

    Stuart Jason

  • Captive Heart

    Claudette Jauniere

    He committed the worst crime of all. John Sibray was handsome, sophisticated...and a swindler. Elizabeth found out about him too late -- just after she'd married him. Shocked and frightened, she ran away. But he tracked her down and smoothly caug...

  • Two Women and Their Man

    Mervyn Jones

  • Greenstone

    Yvonne Kalman

    There was only deadly silence. And then her mind went blank, unable to grasp the horror that shattered her childhood... Even from the ruins of a tragic moment, Juliete Periodot would emerge a beautiful young woman with a spirit that could not be defe...

  • A Patch of Blue

    Elizabeth Kata

  • The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam

    Omar Khayyam

    Philosopher, astronomer and mathematician, Khayyam as a poet possesses a singular originality. His poetry is richly charged with evocative power and offers a view of life characteristic of his stormy times, with striking relevance to the present day....

  • Meeting at Midnight

    Flora Kidd

    But without his love she had nothing at all It had been old Hunter Finley's dearest wish that Elizabeth marry his stepson, Dugald Morin. After meeting and falling in love with Dugald, that wish was Elizabeth's, too. But their marriage h...

  • Aventine

    Lee Killough

  • World and Thorinn

    Damon Knight

    Thorinn, alienated from his father and brothers, embarks on a journey to the center of the earth, traveling down a dry well and encountering strange worlds, a variety of races, and finally, a supreme intelligence...

  • Polish Complex

    Tadeusz Konwicki

    The Polish Complex takes place on Christmas Eve, from early morning until late in the evening, as a line of people (including the narrator, whose name is Konwicki) stand and wait in front of a jewelry store in Warsaw. Through the narrator we are told...

  • Herman the Helper Lends a Hand

    Robert Kraus

  • A Suitable Marriage

    Marlaine Kyle

    Her grandfather had discovered he hadn't a feather to fly with. Her brother had resorted to money- lenders, and Cynthia, Lady Chattington, had resolved to save them all by leaping into the London season with a will and marrying money. She would se...

  • Desert Haven

    Roumelia Lane

    He didn't understand what it meant to her Maybe it was an impossible, sentimental task. But Celia was - determined to stay in Bahrain until she located her father's first love, the beautiful Arab girl Nevine. And simply because he'd...

  • Just Like Yesterday

    Ruth Langan

    THE LOVE SHE LEFT BEHIND He was the only man who had ever called her Mike. And now, years after their bitter parting, Michelle Miller Scott had to face Erick McCord once again. She had returned to Northern Michigan to negotiate a merger between he...

  • Bound by Love

    Catherine Lanigan

    Fires of Love Fires of War Apocalypse of Passion Theirs was a love between strangers begun on the edge of doom. In a Southern mansion Christopher made Elise his bride and swept her through New York society to the glittering capitals of Europe....

  • A Private Truce

    Anthony Lawman

  • Winter's Tales, No 27.

    Edward Leeson

  • Healer

    Leonard Levitt

  • Browser's Guide to Erotica

    Roy Harley Lewis

    Surveys over 2,000 years of erotica, noting such authors as Ovid and Henry Miller and such popular books as Fanny Hill and the work of Chaucer and James Joyce, with anecdotes on the effects of censorship in publishing erotic books throughout the year...

  • A Girl Bewitched

    Marjorie Lewty

    Loving him meant heartbreak for sure! Lisa's letters to her cousin Emma were full of glowing details about the new man in her life, Trent Marston. Then Lisa suddenly decided to marry Richard Southall. What had happened? All Emma had to do w...

  • Souls and Bodies

    David Lodge

    The ups, downs, and exploits of a group of British Catholics--for whom the sexual revolution came a little later than it did for everybody else...

    In this bracing satire, a group of university students make their way through the fifties and into th...

  • Blazing Guns

    Jake Logan

  • Straw Boss

    Stephen Longstreet

  • Blood on the Moon

    Warren T. Longtree

  • The Tomb

    H.P. Lovecraft

    THE. TOMB The tomb of the old Hyde family held a fatal attraction for Jervas Dudley until he communed with the dead and learned their secrets. THE FESTIVAL An ancient ritual sends a procession into the catacombs beneath an old church to confront...

  • Blind Bend

    Lorn Macinnes Macintyre

  • Wrack and Rune

    Charlotte MacLeod

    A gruesome murder leads Professor Peter Shandy to uncover an ancient Viking curse. When 105-year-old Hilda Horsefall tells young reporter Cronkite Swope of a stone carved with Norse runes that once sat in the nearby woods, the writer starts saliva...

  • Index to Who Was Who

    Palgrave Macmillan

  • Ultimate Issue

    George Markstein

    Why was Air Force Captain John Tower court-martialed - on a charge as absurd as adultery? Why are British, Russian, German, and American secret agents working overtime to put him away for good? What is the one devastating Cold War secret that unite...

  • Duelling Fire

    Anne Mather

    She couldn't bear the unexpected truth Sara gladly accepted the offer of acting as companion to her youthful Aunt Harriet. Her father had recently died, and she welcomed the solace the English countryside offered. But life in Harriet's...

  • The Mind Breaker

    Arthur Mather

  • Massacre at Umtali

    Peter McCurtin

    Jim Rainey was an ex-marine from Texas who made his living doing what he did best—fighting. Now he was in Rhodesia, signing up for a nice fat fee as leader of a special anti-terrorist squad.The men under his command were a bunch of steel-hard k...

  • Dear Friends

    Tom McHale

  • The Second Vespers

    Ralph M. McInerny

    Father Dowling sorts through a colorful assortment of scholars, librarians, and writers, all rival claimants to a noted author's unpublished manuscripts and letters, to solve several mysterious accidents--or crimes....

  • Wave of Destiny

    Martha Melahn

    It was a joyous occasion when the Frazier and Ramsden families were united in marriage. Lovely seventeen-year-old Anne-Marie Frazier had no doubt that her future with Captain Bart Ramsden would be all that she had dreamed. But on a sea voyage to the ...

  • A Time to Hurt, a Time to Heal

    Gloria D. Miklowitz

  • Mermaid

    Margaret Millar

    Cleo Jasper, a beautiful woman in her early twenties, drops out of sight while attending an exclusive school for retarded young people. Shortly before her disappearance she had gone to the office of Tom Aragon, a young Hispanic lawyer, for what seems...

  • Hero Jesse

    Lawrence Millman

  • Stop Go Word Bird

    Jane Belk Moncure

  • The War Hound and the World's Pain

    Michael Moorcock

  • Bold Venture

    Colleen Moore

    Millicent Hardesty abandoned Australia's rugged outback for the elegance of England's Haddington Hall, determined to restore the manor to its former grandeur -- and elevate herself to Society. As Lady Millicent she sailed into her unexpect...

  • Fallback

    Peter Niesewand

  • The Gourmet

    Jim Nisbet

  • Ride Proud, Rebel!

    Andre Norton

    As the Civil War rages, young fifteen-year-old Drew Rennie decides that he must enlist and fight for the Confederate cause. Barely old enough to shave, he runs off and joins General Morgan's campaign against the North. Drew has courage and bravery to...

  • Hey, Remember Fat Glenda?

    Lila Perl

  • Gentle Torment

    Johanna Phillips

    Tawny-haired Lindy Williamson fled the sun-graced south for the promise of the Alaskan frontier -- leaving behind Jake, the rugged ex-husband who'd tormented her even as he tempted her. Facing a challenging job with an oil-drilling company, Lindy...

  • Deceptive Love

    Anne N. Reisser

    She was a fantastic secretary. But what made men think her willingness to share their work meant a willingness to share their beds? More than once Keri's mischievous green eyes, auburn hair, and sensuous body had cost her a perfectly good job. But...

  • Sun Mountain Slaughter

    Clint Reno

  • Black Fire

    Barbara Riefe

    A World of Haunting Passion and Dark Desire, of Monstrous Evil and Throat-Clutching Terror ... Black Fire - It will menace the lives of two frightened and desperate lovers. Lorna, a red-haired green-eyed beauty, and Paul, her handsome and roguish...

  • Five Fingers

    Hudson Rivers

  • The Heiress Companion

    Madeleine Robins

    While Rowena Cherwood did not go around boasting of it, she had a tidy legacy from her parents and was free to choose the life she wanted. She did not care for the shallowness of high society, and so she accepted a position with Lady Bradwell as a co...

  • Psionics War

    Joseph Rosenberger

  • Any Number Can Die

    Morgan Ross

  • Berserker Wars

    Fred Saberhagen

    "LIFE AND DEATH IN DREADFUL CONFLICT STROVE..." It happened long ago and far away. Perhaps in this galaxy, perhaps in one close by. Two war-maddened races fought -- and though both are gone, their legacy abides: the Frankenstein weapon that destroyed...

  • The Demon Breed

    James H. Schmitz

    The bluish-grey torsos and powerful arms were enclosed by webbings of straps, holding tools and weapons. The bulging eyes on the big round heads were double-lensed..Seventy years before Parahuans came out of space to launch simultaneous attacks on a ...

  • Everything That Moves

    Budd Schulberg

  • Winterfire

    Carin Scofield

    WINTER PASSION When Laurel Martin traveled to Winterfire Castle in upstate New York, it was like traveling back in time. Certainly Evan Templar, the family scion, was the very image of a feudal lord. She had come to receive the priceless Templ...

  • Chase Royal

    Donald Seaman

    The head of Scotland Yard, the world's first bomb-disposal expert, and Prime Minister Disraeli do not realize that the bomb attacks in London are only a diversion from an Irish Republican Brotherhood plot to kidnap Queen Victoria...

  • The Taming of the Shrew

    William Shakespeare

    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com. Lies down on the ground, and falls asleep....

  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona

    William Shakespeare

    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com. SPEED. You mistook, sir; I say she did nod; and you ask me if she......

  • Henry IV, Part 1

    William Shakespeare

    Each edition includes: Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the playFull explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the playScene-by-scene plot summariesA key to famous lines and phrasesAn introduc...

  • An Innocent Deception

    Linda Shaw

    SHE MADE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES--AND FOUND A DARING NEW LOVE! Struggling young journalist Amanda Phillips had the brains and ambition to match her golden-haired, sensual beauty--and enough daring to follow powerful banking titan Russell Gregory t...

  • The Hatter's Phantoms

    Georges Simenon

  • Moscow Requiem

    John Simpson

  • Holiday in Jamaica

    Tracy Sinclair

    SHE WAS PLAYING A DANGEROUS GAME when Erin Brady agreed to go to Jamaica for a week with Jason Dimitrou. It was the only way that she could pay back her brother's debt. Jason was cruelly determined to take advantage of the situation. Yet when a gent...

  • U.N. Sabotage

    Robert Skimin

  • Unconquered

    Bertrice Small

    Miranda -- Strong-willed. Impetuous. Brilliant. Beautiful. Unconquered -- when she's forced to marry a stranger to keep her home -- even though it's clear he's the only man for her... Unconquered -- when a savage Crimean slave breeder see...

  • The Ring of Ikribu

    David C. Smith; Richard L. Tierney

    She lived in a savage world in an uncivilized age -- a world ruled by men and governed by the sword. They called her Red Sonja -- for her flame-red hair, for the smouldering fire of her pride which gave her sword-arm a strength that few men could mat...

  • Love's Brightest Hour

    Elaine C. Smith

    A luxurious house perched over a bottomless abyss ... people who flew to town as casually as others drove ... a vast wilderness ... and Tyron Mitchell, the rugged genius who ruled his remote domain with a tyrannical will.... So this was Alaska! He...

  • The Survivor

    Sydney Smith

  • Embrace the Wind

    Blaine Stevens

    They blazed a trail of passion in the heart of the Florida wilds.... -- It began in the heat of scandal. A young man flees his Virginia home for the pirate coves of Spanish Florida -- and footloose adventure... -- Jeremiah Locke, sent on a secret...

  • Play Our Song Again

    Lynsey Stevens

    She couldn't erase the painful past... Alex knew only too well that her marriage to Justin de Wilde, the talented symphony conductor, had been a disastrous mistake. But now, six years after they'd separated, Justin wanted her back. Alex...

  • The Hot and Copper Sky

    Bruce Stewart

  • The Last to Know

    John C. Stewart

  • Absence of Malice

    Kerry Stewart

  • The Bureau

    William C. Sullivan

  • The Moorstone Sickness

    Bernard Taylor

    After the death of their infant son, Hal and Rowan Graham decide to leave the mad bustle of London and move to a quiet country refuge. And the rustic village of Moorstone seems perfect. Too perfect ...? Lying beneath a hill capped by an enormous ston...

  • Drunk Driving Defense

    Lawrence Taylor

  • On Golden Pond

    Ernest Thompson

  • Fuzzy Bones

    William Tuning

    Decent men everywhere rejoiced in the Pendarvis Decision, which declared the species Fuzzy sapiens to be a sentient race entitled to all the rights and privileges of man. But of course that was only the beginning. Men had a long way to go before they...

  • The Hand of Fate

    Michael Underwood

    When the only, but nevertheless convincing, evidence of murder is a skeletal hand wearing a wedding ring, a husband is charged with the murder of his wife and the result is a challenging courtroom puzzler...

  • Lesson in Love

    Claudette Virmonne

    Harsh realities demanded desperate action A dangerous scandal threatened to erupt Martha Brooke Benton mingled with the cream of Boston society, at ease in its innermost circles. She'd recently become engaged to Skip, a handsome Princeton m...

  • Beetle Bailey: Not Reverse!

    Mort Walker

  • Fugitive Summer

    Jane Wallace

  • Home To Morning Star

    Margaret Way

    The girl had come home a woman Miranda Seymour was shocked to suddenly learn she was penniless--and that her distant cousin, Blake Seymour, had been supporting her. Blake, her self-appointed guardian, had always treated her as a foolish child. ...

  • Watching Me, Watching You: Stories

    Fay Weldon

    A distillation of our times: eleven short stories from this brilliant contemporary writer.`Watching Me, Watching You' was Fay Weldon's first collection of short stories. They vary widely in theme, while remaining avowedly feminist, sometimes bitter, ...

  • Dance of the Snake

    Yvonne Whittal

    Dane had no wish for commitment He regarded all women as potential bedmates. And Jessica, newly arrived doctor in the Transvaal town, resolved that she would never be one of them. Her relationship with Dane Trafford would be strictly profession...

  • The Cajuns

    Lee Davis Willoughby

  • The Greatest Crime

    S. Wilson

  • The Killing Circle

    Chris Wiltz

    Private investigator Neal Rafferty finds the body of a French Quarter book dealer, a list of females, each with a good reason to kill, and a love affair with the prime suspect....

  • No Man of Her Own

    Violet Winspear

    A crisis plunged her into turmoil Dominique Davis had to set aside her plans to enter the convent when she heard the shocking news: her sister, Candy, was partially paralyzed and needed her desperately. Alarmed, she set out at once for Italy to...

  • The Devil in a Forest

    Gene Wolfe

    He lives deep in the forest in the time of King Wenceslas, in a village older than record. The young man's hero-worship of the charming highwayman, Wat, is tempered by growing suspicion of Wat's cold savagery, and his fear of the sorcerous powers of ...

  • Tempting Fate

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

  • Mira's Passage

    Marianne Langner Zeitlin

    Rites of Passage The daughter of Jewish immigrants. Mira had put her heritage behind her. As the beautiful wife of New `pork's most successful producer, as a member of the elite circle that was Broadway society, she had everything ... everything a...

  • Gallery of Monsters

    Katy Hall