Books Published in December 1985

New Books List: 312 titles

  • Spinneret

    Timothy Zahn

    A “brisk and entertaining” novel of a barren, mysterious planet that may save humanity—or destroy it—by the author of Star Wars: Heir to the Empire (Publishers Weekly).  Chasing a new frontier, humankind sends a manned st...

  • The Dark Brain of Piranesi: and Other Essays

    Marguerite Yourcenar

    In this collection of the eminent writer's most important essays, her illuminating critical intelligence ranges from the Rome of "Historia Augusta" through the sixteenth century to the moderns Selma Lagerlof, Constantin Cavafy and Thomas Mann...

  • Cards of Grief

    Jane Yolen

    An alien civilization is forever changed by the incursion of human social scientistsand an ancient prophecyin this award-winning novel. The year is 2132 when members of the Anthropologist's Guild set down on the planet Henderson's IV, or L'Lal'lo...

  • A Mortal Glamour

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    It is hard for Pere Guibert to accept what is happening in this once-holy sanctuary. The ecstatic moans of pleasure and wild thrashings behind closed doors. The shame, mingled with rapture, on once beatific faces. One after another, men and women who...

  • Down the Strings

    Nancy M. Wright

  • Put Out the Light

    Sara Woods

    Anthony Maitland's good friend, Jeremy Skelton, decides to produce a restoration play by Sir John Cartwright. Another good friend, Meg Hamilton, is set to star. But before opening night, a series of mysterious warnings, ghostly voices, and accidents,...

  • Evening the Score

    Eleanor Woods

    Kyle Larson's presence had never been stronger in Michele's life than now. Suddenly the department store tycoon was aggressively fighting off the other men in her life, trying to reclaim his ex-wife with passion -- and guilt. Their 5 year old daughte...

  • Go Deep

    John Wingate

  • The Widow's Son

    Robert Anton Wilson

    Throughout history, secret societies have played a crucial role in shaping events that have created our world. Only an inner circle of power elite know the full extent of the influence of the conspiracy.It is Paris, 1772, and Sigismundo Celine knows ...

  • Warriors of the Code

    Lee Davis Willoughby

  • The Touch

    Anne C. Williman

  • The Legion of Time

    Jack Williamson

  • The Metal Green Mercedes // The Puppeteer

    Timothy Williams

    Northern Italy, 1982: Inspector Piero Trotti is enjoying his breakfast at a café when gunmen drive up and shoot the man sitting at the next table. Was Trotti their intended target? He isn’t sure. The case falls under the jurisdiction of the local ...

  • The Tailchaser's Song

    Tad Williams

    Meet Fritti Tailchaser, a ginger tom cat of rare courage and curiosity, a born survivor in a world of heroes and villains, of powerful feline gods and whiskery legends about those strange, furless, erect creatures called M'an. Join Tailhaser on his m...

  • Whispers of An Autumn Day

    Lee Williams

    Lauri Fields can't believe it--a rival bidder has bought her famous grandfather's desk ... and stolen her right to the love letters hidden inside! If Adam Brady, author of popular "trash" biographies, finds and publishes them, her family honor may ne...

  • That Man from Texas

    Quinn Wilder

    Dallas Hawthorne was a mystery man The big Texans stories of his life on the rodeo circuit fascinated Cory, but she was disturbed by the fact that he never mentioned a woman's name in connection with that past. Surely he'd had affairs b...

  • A Moment in Time

    Yvonne Whittal

    Past and present came shatteringly together! Christie understood Lyle Venniker's shock at meeting her again. She felt the same. If she'd known he was supervising the archaeological dig in South Africa, she'd never have applied for the ...

  • Illegal

    Joanna Wharton

  • Children of the Light

    Susan B. Weston

    Jeremy Towers, a nineteen-year-old daydreamer with visions of saving the world but who prefers vicarious adventures to real ones, becomes the unlikely--and reluctant--savior of the endangered people of Idamore...

  • Blanche and Nicky

    Elliot West

    Set in Brooklyn during the Depression, this novel depicts Blanche Cassola's courage and determination to build a life for herself and her son Nicky despite misfortune, adversity, and ultimately grave physical danger...

  • Fires in the East

    Rachel Welles

  • A Call to Arms

    John Welcome

    Stephen Raymond, upset by the unhappy marriage of his former sweetheart, Barbara, to the ruthless Andrew Massiter, begins a new life in Kenya, while their son, Kit, searches to uncover the secret of his birth, on the eve of World War II...

  • Splashman

    Lydia Weaver

  • Hardcover

    Wayne Warga

  • Louie & Women

    Todd Walton

    Louie Cameron â€"â€"jazz musician architect beach bum philosopherâ€"â€" is no stranger to women. Free wheeling across CA, drifting across a phantasmagoria of surfâ€"swept beaches and golden women, he has already met three that want to make an honest ...

  • Supertrucks

    Sloan Walker

  • One Step Ahead

    Donna Kimel Vitek

    She'd been shanghaied! One minute she was relaxing aboard the Rosalie, the next a modern-day pirate had taken charge. Callie Simpson's St. Croix vacation was geared to give her a change of pace. Expecting island calm, she never dreamed she'd be swept...

  • Cenotaph Road

    Robert E. Vardeman

  • Portrait in Black

    Joan Van Every Frost

  • Gray Eagles

    Duane Unkefer

    Thirty-one years after World War II, eight Luftwaffe aces, the "Grey Eagles," seek out their wartime nemesis, pilot Roger Lowen, and, in restored, fully armed Messerschmitt 109's, engage in one last dogfight...

  • Senior Year

    Vicki Tyler

  • Dangerous Moonlight

    Kay Thorpe

    She found him dangerously attractive Lynn Renford planned to combine her holiday in Greece with her ambition to learn everything she could about the tour business. Except that her attention was seriously diverted by Andreas Stephanos, an internati...

  • Two to Tango

    Mary Jo Territo

    THEY HAD THE WORLD BY THE TAIL Rick and Dori Williams were one of the hottest husband-wife dance teams in the world. The International Ballroom Dancing Competition was only months away. This year, they were going to win. Suddenly a freak accide...

  • Madame Mao

    Ross Terrill

    This is the most complete and authoritative account of the childhood and tumultuous life of Jiang Qing, from her early years as an aspiring actress to her marriage and partnership with Mao Zedong, the controversial years of power after Mao's death, h...

  • Marianne, the Magus, and the Manticore

    Sheri S. Tepper

    LEGACY OF MAGIC Marianne was born to luxury in the tiny nation of Alphenlicht, nestled in the mountains between Turkey and Iraq. Then her parents died, leaving control of their fortune to the older brother she fears. Struggling to make her way as ...

  • Getting Personal

    Elizabeth Tener

  • The Wedding Group

    Elizabeth Atwood Taylor

    Cressy has grown up in a world of women, presided over by her eccentric, artistic grandfather Harry Bretton. Rebelling against the wholesome, organic values of her home life, Cressy decides to leave home in search of more ephemeral pleasures. Taking ...

  • Palladian

    Elizabeth Taylor

  • Goodbye, Glamour Girl

    Erika Tamar

    Liesl, a young Jewish refugee who yearns to be glamorous and famous like Rita Hayworth, finds herself sidetracked by Billy Laramie, an incorrigible troublemaker, in a story about a young girl coming of age in Manhattan during World War II...

  • The Nutcracker: A Story and a Ballet

    Ellen Eichenwald Switzer

    Describes the Tchaikovsky ballet, the Hoffman story on which it was based, and the version staged by Balanchine for the New York City Ballet, as shown through photographs and interviews with some of the dancers....

  • Happy As a Dog's Tail

    Anna Swir

  • Love's Perfect Island

    Rebecca Swan

    Alexandra Gilbert had come to the untamed Aleutian Islands to study birds not men. At least that's what she'd thought before' the infuriating, black-haired owner off-McLeod Seafoods--Ian McLeod--captured her heart. But their fledgling love was soo...

  • The Darkling Wind

    Somtow Sucharitkul

    The majestic conclusion of the original Inquestor Series, S.P. Somtow's classic masterpiece of the fall of a galactic empire, returns in a new edition in time for the publication of new novels in the series. What is it like to rule over a million wor...

  • Double Exposure

    Jim Stinson

    Fighting for life at the bottom of the Hollywood food chain, Stoney Winston tangles with his sleazy boss, a brush fire, a porno operation,two murder victims, and some ladies who'd like to tangle with Stoney. When the dust settles, Stoney stands a...

  • Methuselah Enzyme

    Robert Stewart

  • From Love's Ashes

    Frances Patton Statham

    ATLANTA BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS...A RESPECTABLE SOCIETY EXPLODING IN SCANDAL Beautiful Steppie Wexford finds her peaceful, happy life suddenly shattered. First, her husband is murdered. Then her stepdaughter accuses her of killing him! And her ...

  • Warlock Enraged

    Christopher Stasheff

    On the magical planet Gramarye, science coexists with witches and elves, intergalactic scientist Rod Gallowglass is the disbelieving High Warlock, and telepathy is the most common means of transportation ......

  • When I Give My Heart

    April Stafford

  • Dark Banquet

    St. Martin's Press

    A selection of ghost stories from the 1800's - mid- 20th century. Some of the authors include M. P. Shiel, Benson, Charles Dickens (The Signalman), Robert Louis Stevenson, Marion Crawford, Robert Hitchens, De La Mare and Wakefield....

  • Kindred Hearts

    Lacey Springer

    COME IN FROM THE RAIN After years spent cooking up a storm in the family-owned restaurant, Madeleine had finally established "Martian's" as one of the finest eateries in all of Seattle. The restaurant was her life--and her family's...

  • Wrong for Each Other

    Deborah Spector

    Gretchen Diamond is basketball star Sean Flanders's number one fan. She loves his unruly blond hair and boyish smile. And when he finally asks her out, she's ecstatic! Then Gretchen lands in hospital with appendicitis, and fellow patient Mitch bri...

  • Test of the Ninja

    Curtis Smith
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

  • My Trip to Alpha I

    Alfred Slote

    Traveling by VOYA-CODE, it takes Jack only a few seconds to get to the planet where his aunt lives, six million light years away. Jack has gone to Alpha I to help his aunt move to Earth. But Aunt Katherine is acting very strangely, not like herself a...

  • The Bass Saxophone

    Josef Skvorecky

    The two haunting, poetic novellas that comprise The Bass Saxophone brilliantly evoke the comedy and sadness of life under the Nazi and Soviet dictatorships. They are prefaced by a remarkable memoir of Skvorecky's jazz-obsessed youth. Jazz is a symbol...

  • The Movie Set

    June Singer

    "Compelling&a bawdy tale&ingeniously plotted." -- San Diego Union

    "...for readers addicted to the Hollywood novel filled with sex (some of it kinky), people on the make (in bed or in the movies), this multichaptered saga will hit the mark." -- ...

  • Stranger in My Heart

    Helene Sinclair

    Morgana leaves her straitlaced boarding school to marry the intriguing Griffin Kynes, owner of Albemarle plantation, and finds both passion and disillusionment in her marriage... She came from the strait laced North to a land of seething passions....

  • A Loving Enchantment

    Cynthia Sinclair (1)

    IN WAR-TORN WALES, GWENYTH'S MAGIC BEWITCHED HER ENGLISH ENEMIES -- AND TRAPPED HER IN A PASSIONATE BATTLE OF LOVE AND BETRAYAL! Lovely Gwenyth Glendower was said to possess Druid secrets of healing and of victory in war. Her country needed h...

  • An Invincible Love

    Anne Silverlock

    She'd saved his life! When she tracked Michael Andrews, the brilliant young geneticist, to his Maryland home, he was almost gone--felled by gas fumes. Who would have believed that mouth-to- mouth resuscitation could lead to searing kisses? And how co...

  • After the Flames

    Robert Silverberg

  • The Obsession

    David Shobin

  • In Yana, the Touch of Undying

    Michael Shea

    A student of ancient lore, Bramt Hex abandons his ivory tower to seek fame and fortune and discovers that his quest has become a desperate battle for survival as he searches for the secret of immortality in Yana...

  • The White Hell Trail

    Jon Sharpe

  • The Discovery

    Steve Shagan

  • Wildfire

    Alexandra Scott

    Something very strange was going on here, she thought With her fiance in traction and her wedding plans postponed, Leone knew she should be upset. Instead she felt incredibly relieved. What was the matter with her, she wondered. Didn't she ...

  • Carnival of Animal

    Moacyr Scliar

  • Before and After

    Hertha Schulze

    Libby Carstairs was astounded when devastating fashion photographer Blake Faulkner made her the object of his reckless wager with a top makeup artist -- vowing to put her on the cover of Vogue in just six months! The masterful Blake assured Libby sh...

  • Best Laid Plans

    Rosemary Schneider

    Wasn't marriage the right choice? Kathryn had decided. At thirty-six, the well-bred Bostonian would become Mrs. Northrop Davis Ill. She wanted marriage and children. But Kathryn hadn't counted on seeing Nick Marganin again! They had sha...

  • Totentanz

    Al Sarrantonio

    A mysterious carnival brings death and unearthly terror to the quiet town of Montvale, and only thirteen-year-old Reggie Carson stands between the town and the evil, vengeful force seeking its destruction...

  • A Swell Style of Murder

    Rosemarie Santini

    When Rick Ramsey stumbles on a human hand while jogging, he and his beautiful writer wife, Rosie Caesare, the daughter of SoHo's most powerful non-Mafioso, suddenly find themselves enmeshed in a web of murder, in a witty blend of mystery and romance...

  • Where Dragons Lie

    R.A.V. Salsitz

    Princess Sharlin, the swordsman Dar, Thurgood the wizard, and Toothpick the dwarf embark on a perilous quest to awaken the legendary Golden Dragon, their sole hope of defeating the evil Nightwing, the Black Dragon...

  • Plans for Departure

    Nayantara Sahgal

    For the eminent scientist Sir Nitin Basu, spending the summer of 1914 at a remote hill station in the Himalayas, the arrival of a single Danish woman hired as his secretary by his sister didi is as alarming as an invasion. Tall, fair, unconventional ...

  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 1

    Catherine E. Sadler

    In this first collection of Holmes's stories, the beloved detective uses his uncanny skills to rescue a king from blackmail, to capture an ingenious bank robber, and to save an innocent son accused of patricide....

  • The Pirate

    Barry Sadler

    Casca Longinus. Cursed by Christ on Golgotha. Condemned to outlive the ages, and wander the globe a constant soldier. Forever fighting, surviving, waiting for Him to return. Jolted from a Caribbean paradise, Casca joins ranks with the infamous Blu...

  • For Love of Mike

    Courtney Ryan

    Hours after leaving her fiance at the altar, Gabrielle Cates is trapped on a deserted beach in a bedraggled wedding gown, with only her cat, her guilty conscience ... and a tall, slightly intoxicated, thoroughly spellbinding man for company. Being re...

  • Sinister Barrier

    Eric Frank Russell

  • Tolkien Quest Night of -OSI

    John Ruemmler

  • Madame Sousatzka

    Bernice Rubens

    Madame Sousatzka is a gifted piano teacher who specializes in child prodigies and hosts her lessons in the dilapidated London home she shares with three other eccentrics: a 'countess' in retirement, a gay osteopath, and a 'woman-of-the-e...

  • Another Man's Treasure

    Renee Roszel

    Garbage wasn't anyone's cup of tea Yet examining a month's haul of garbage was, in theory, no different from a prehistoric dig--a precise, painstaking science. But when Raine Webber and her University of Maine anthropology class arrived at the hun...

  • The Coyote Crossing

    Frank Roderus

  • The Turn-Out Man

    Frank Roderus

  • Red Chameleon

    Charles Robertson

  • Dual Image

    Nora Roberts

    SHE COULD BE ANY WOMAN HE WANTED... As "Amanda Jamison," Ariel Kirkwood suffered stoically through the daily traumas of a popular soap opera. She was adored by her loyal fans, as well as the real people in her life. Booth DeWitt had written hi...

  • Kiteworld

    Keith Roberts

    The Realm of Kiteworld has survived nuclear catastrophe and is governed by a feudal and militant religious oligarchy - the Church Variant.In the outer Badlands, real or imagined Demons are kept at bay by flying defensive structures of giant interlock...

  • Archer's Revenge

    J.R. Roberts

    As far as Clint Adams is concerned, having a reputation is bad enough, so when he finds out that The Legend of the Gunsmith is selling like hotcakes he hightails it to New York to track down the author. He's not disappointed when he learns it's so...

  • The Storyteller

    Harold Robbins

    The Storyteller is the powerful saga of Joe Crown, a poor kid from Brooklyn with a burning ambition to write. Joe fights his way up from poverty, taking on the explosive New York world of gangsters and whores, reveling in the seductive glitter of Hol...

  • This Proud Love

    Barbara Riefe

    Alexandra Love fought her way to the top of a man's world with a woman's cunning and a spirit as mighty as the Rockies. She forged an empire that spanned the vast plains and dared to do what no man could - build the railroad that would open the rich ...

  • Gilding the Lily

    Emilie Richards

    NO LAUGHING MATTER Lesley Belmont had always held back--from success, men, from love. But now she had a chance for her first solo interview, and she was determined to give it her all. She planned to have Travis Hagen, America's premier cartoonist,...

  • Angels All Over Town

    Luanne Rice

    Una Cavan doesn't believe in ghosts. But ghosts seem to believe in her. At least, her father's ghost does, walking into and out of her life as casually as if he were entering and exiting a room. Una has always believed the Cavan women had the...

  • The Lagrangists

    Mack Reynolds

    L-5, a point in the Earth-Moon System where orbits are forever and the new age of Freedom and Plenty can begin. Now, they're trying to kill the man in charge of the first L-5 colony, and Private Eye Rex Bader is the man who will have to find and stop...

  • Eros Descending

    Mike Resnick

    Thomas Gold, crusading leader of a fanatical religious sect, embarks on a holy crusade of liberation that threatens the existence of the "Velvet Comet" as he becomes the self-declared "savior" of a race of beautiful elfin aliens living on the pleasur...

  • Written on the Wind

    Rita Rainville

    THE WRITE STUFF... Handwriting analyst Dean Trevor had enough to do tracking down a potential leak at the prestigious Silicon Valley company that employed her. It was just too much that she also had to convince acting president Brand McAllister of...

  • This Promised Earth

    Lee Raintree

    200 years ago, the dream began...when a simple homestead was built, and survived, in Indian territory. The dream flourished through West Bend's days as a great Alabama plantation owned by William Sellers, his wife Martha and their son Calvin. But dur...

  • The Ruby in the Smoke

    Philip Pullman

    "Beware the Seven Blessings..." When she first utters these words, Sally Lockhart doesn't understand their meaning. But when an employee of her late father hears them, he dies of fear. Thus begins Sally's terrifying journey into the seamy underwor...

  • Just As I Am

    Eugenia Price

  • Operation Exile

    E. Hoffmann Price

    Alexander Heflin, Imperator of North American, had his hands full: a war was brewing that could destroy the Imperium. Seeking to protect his wife, Lani, from their increasingly powerful enemies, Alex called on the one person he could trust: ex-war he...

  • Judgment by Fire

    Thomas Philo

  • The Private Lives of Private Eyes

    Otto Penzler

  • Texas Tigress

    Sonya T. Pelton

    A MAN'S WORD "I'll be back, missy, when you're all grown up," laughed arrogant Ashe Brandon to little Tanya Hayes, "and you better be waiting." The rich, carefree rogue hadn't meant a thing he said -- until he returned to find the innocent girl had ...

  • A Scent of Heather

    Jane Peart

    Romantic Jessamyn Baird had to pinch herself to realize she wasn't dreaming. She really was in Great Britain on a trip she had wanted to take all of her life. But it wouldn't last forever. Soon she would have to make some hard choices about her futur...

  • Seedtime and Harvest

    E. Mary Pearce

  • Mistletoe Magic

    Lynn Patrick

    With her long blond curls and fragile beauty, petite Melissa Ryan was as picture perfect as a department store's Sugarplum Fairy. It was an unlikely role for an out-of-work schoolteacher to play, but it was Christmas and she needed the money. She nev...

  • Special Christmas

    Francine Pascal

    Deck the halls of Sweet Valley High... The Wakefield twins and their friends at Sweet Valley High are in festive spirits. It's Christmas vacation, the annual parade is just days away, secret Santas are busy buying surprise gifts, and everyone's ta...

  • True Love

    Francine Pascal

    Having problems at home with her grandmother and father, Caitlin is torn between her new boyfriend, Laurence Baxter, and her former love, Jed Michaels, who has refused to see her since he discovered her terrible secret...

  • Lifetime Affair

    Patt Parrish

    She was just being neighborly Helping Ben Macklin literally save his beachhouse from destruction during a "nor'easter" was automatic to Caroline Ferris. Neighbors on the wild and windy Virginia coast had to help one another out. Battling the st...

  • Love by Proxy

    Diana Palmer

    RISKY BUSINESS When Amelia Glenn walked into Worth Carson's boardroom wearing a trench coat and a belly dancer's outfit, Chicago's most powerful constuction magnate was fit to be tied. But that didn't stop Amelia from performing her entire act for t...

  • The Marshal

    Lauran Paine

  • Ghost Hunter

    Edward Packard

    Gr 4-7 In a kind of choose-your-own-sequel, ``you'' return to the house from the author's Who Killed Harlowe Thrombey? (Bantam, 1981), now haunted by the ghost of its former owner. Between ghosts and jewel thieves, this one scares up as much exciteme...

  • Sunstroke

    Elizabeth Oldfield

    Was she being bribed to put love on hold? Alyssa had only days left to free herself from the clutches of her late husband's creditor. So the offer of twenty thousand pounds from Sheikh Tariq's uncle seemed a miracle--even if it meant leavi...

  • Blind Duty: Call to Arms

    Frederick Nolan

  • Soft Lies, Summer Light

    Peggy Nicholson

    THE SCHEME WAS ABSURD: IT WOULD NEVER WORK! Tricking little old ladies was not Alison Eriksen's strong suit. And posing as a lady's companion for the sake of a dubious painting was not her idea of a fun summer. Despite fake credentials ...

  • Eye of the Beholder

    Charlotte Nichols

    BELOW THE SURFACE Beneath her beautiful exterior, Daina Wellsfry hid a bitter past. Her father had always tried to manipulate her and refused to understand her commitment to the handicapped children she taught. But Daina found in them something sh...

  • The Counterfeit Secretary

    Susan Napier

    Ria was tired of leading a double life James Everett, the domineering head of Everett Communications, had never found a secretary who could meet his impossible standards--not until Ria Duncan came along. James demanded cool efficiency and exclu...

  • Finding the Center

    V.S. Naipaul

  • The Bustan

    Sa'di S. Shaikh Muslihu-D-Din

  • Knight's Possession

    Carole Mortimer

    Could he slay all her dragons? After years of watching her mother's gullible heart drive her from one man to the next, Laurel had decided to marry, for sensible reasons. She didn't believe in fairy tales, knights in shining armor and happy...

  • Two in a Huddle

    Diana Morgan

    Selena Derringer, reluctant new co-owner of the worst team in the National Football League, is drowning her sorrows with tequila when a dark stranger takes advantage of her muddled state to wangle a job as quarterback! Though supposedly past his a...

  • Renegades of Luntar

    Roger E. Moore
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

  • Tempest

    Helen Mittermeyer

    "I'm not giving up this marriage without a fight!" Ross Tempest vowed, and his wife Sage shivered at the fury and hurt in his voice. Married very young to the dynamic industrialist, Sage felt she'd never belonged in his life. His family had cowed her...

  • State Secrets

    Linda Lael Miller

    Holly Llewellyn's life was suddenly swept away in the current of controversy. She was an honest, hardworking cookbook author. But her brother was a fugitive who left Holly with his young son, calling only to ask for money. And Holly's cousin was a...

  • Pursuit in the Wilderness

    Jan Michaels

    A deadly game was being played out... Blythe Daniels had looked forward to spending a week camping in the Adirondack mountains. After reaching the shelter high up in the woods, she discovered that someone else was there--a man wearing a shoulder h...

  • The Death Ceremony

    James Melville

    Inspector Otani submerges himself in a murder at a ceremonial tea in James Melville's latest, highly praised mystery. Martin's....

  • My Science Project

    Mike McQuay

  • Country Mouse and City Mouse

    Patricia C. McKissack / Pat McKissack

  • Imaginary Lands

    Robin McKinley

    A collection of short fantasy tales includes works by Patricia McKillip, Jane Yolen, Joan Vinge, Peter Dickinson, James P. Blaylock, P.C. Hodgell, Robert Westall, Michael de Larrabeiti, and Robin McKinley...

  • Of Earth and High Heaven

    Melinda McKenzie

    Dr. Brooke Bryant had her feet on the ground but wanted to test her daring theories miles above it on a NASA space station. But first she had to get past top astronaut Harry Pritchard-and when she found herself in an intense affair with him, she had ...

  • The Exile Waiting

    Vonda N. McIntyre

    Center, sole surviving city in a storm-torn Earth, is like some hilltop city of the Renaissance, only wholly underground, and quarried out of a limestone cave system. The ruler is a Medici figure gone to seed: it's a hierarchical, free enterprise soc...

  • Spies Like Us

    Gordon McGill

  • A Bug in the System

    Seth McEvoy

    Unfairly accused of stealing money from automatic teller machines and tampering with school data banks, Chip, the android boy, searches for the true culprit while fending off Erin's schoolgirl crush on him...

  • Find the Kirillian!

    Seth McEvoy

    More than an app! You make the decisions! You are an Interplanetary Spy. Your mission is to capture Phatax, the Kirillian. He is a ruthless criminal who has stolen the Royal Jewels of the planet Alvare and kidnapped its young prince. You must recover...

  • Skinner

    Richard McEnroe

  • D.C. Death March

    Mike McCray

  • Louisiana Firestorm

    Mike McCray

    The Black Berets have met the enemy—and he lives next door!Letting a struggling Chicano gas company run its pipeline across their Louisiana land struck the Black Berets as a good idea—especially once Cowboy got an eyeball on Isabella Cifu...

  • The Red Man Contract

    Mike McCray

    The Black Berets are back—and headed straight into a massacre.In Mesa County, Nevada, the tide of history was about to change. A tiny tribe of Indigenous Americans had just beaten the white man in his own court—and won title to some of th...

  • A Chance of Rainbows

    Anne McAllister

    It was different when it was your own life Lainie Tucker couldn't believe that Griffin had left Los Angeles. After a whirlwind courtship and seven short months of marriage, how could he leave? Lainie would have counseled one of her clients to ...

  • Tame the Restless Heart

    Patricia Matthews

    HER HEART CRIED OUT FOR ONE MAN, BUT SHE WAS HOSTAGE TO ANOTHER. HER NEW, EXCITING WORLD GLITTERED WITH AS MUCH PROMISE AS HER DEEP NEW LOVE. Lovely, talented Laura Purcell married the wrong man for the wrong reasons. Soon she is cut adrift fr...

  • Shady Lady

    Jan Mathews

    Catherine Coulton strikes a deliberately provocative pose. It's hot and her feet hurt, but she's got a job to do--arrest the man for solicitation. Instead, she kisses him back for all she's worth...and is fighting mad when she learns he's Nick Samuel...

  • An All-Consuming Passion

    Anne Mather

    Morgan didn't play Holly's kind of game Morgan Kane arrived on Pulpit Island in the Caribbean with strict instructions: collect his boss's daughter and bring her back to London. Holly Forsyth had no intention of leaving her job at t...

  • The Three Little Kittens

    Jean Marzollo

  • From This Day Forward

    Sandra Marton

    It hadn't been a storybook marriage But all the same Caitlin had been shattered when her husband dies. She threw herself, heart and soul, into building up Justin's business, determined to further the prospects she had always held dear. ...

  • Hero at Large

    Aimee Martel

    RESCUE MISSION When Leslie Allen went to the Air Force Pararescue school, it was to report on the operation to her employer, the Department of Defense. She knew she would encounter opposition because she was a woman, and because the school guarded...

  • Everything We Wanted

    Lindsay Marcotta

  • Some Women Dance

    Helene Mansfield

    THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL Theirs was a world of dazzling splendor, and they were its stars. Show girls in Europe's most spectacular extravaganza, they danced in the glamour capitals of the world to the wild applause of princes and dukes. Showered wi...

  • A Lust for Danger

    Margaret Malkind

    Their brief encounter was flash-fire passion shared in the face of death. Sylvia Goddard hadn't even seen Hank Weston's face as they hid in the dark hut, escaping the gunfire of the Paraguayan police. She knew only the comfort of his hands, his kind ...

  • Christmas Masquerade

    Debbie Macomber

    CHANGE PARTNERS Jo Marie first met Andrew, her dream man, in the crush of a Mardi Gras parade. But by Christmas, he was introduced to her as someone else's fiance. Yet Jo Marie noticed that Andrew and his intended didn't always act like...

  • They Stood in the Door

    Don Macnaughtton

  • Maid of Honor

    Charlotte MacLeod

    A young woman must escape family conflict -- and find her own identity -- in order to track down a thief in this novel by an acclaimed mystery writer. -- Persis Green’s existence has been overshadowed by the looming prospect of her older sisterâ€...

  • The Destiny of Isabelle Eberhardt

    Cecily Mackworth

  • Power and Seduction

    Amii Lorin

    In raw November Tina Merritt returned to her seaside home in Cape May, New Jersey, seeking solace, escape. But there was no escape from Dirk Tanger, who held the key to her trust fund--and to a lock on her heart. She tried to hate him, to blame him f...

  • The Death Hunters

    Warren T. Longtree

  • Six-Gun Bride

    Jake Logan

  • Afternoon of An Autocrat

    Norah Lofts

    Sir Charles Augustus Shelmadine was an autocrat. He ruled his village with a firm but kindly hand--instructing his tenants on their crops, their children and their love affairs. And when he died and the new Squire came, the village stirred uneasily. ...

  • Love Only Once

    Johanna Lindsey

    WHEN LOVE IS BOTH TORMENT AND ECSTASY... Her life changed forever the night she was abducted from a dark London street and carried to a stranger's townhouse. At first Regina Ashton was amused, then outraged at the arrogance of this bronzed, golde...

  • New Man

    Carrie Lewis

    IT WAS A CHANGING WORLD… But Rick wasn’t at all sure that he wanted to be a part of it. He wasn’t really the type to glory in a challenge and to thrive on risks. Yet the very first day of the fall term he would be initiating a project that c...

  • Lawyers for the People

    Elizabeth Levy

  • Orchids for Mother

    Aaron Latham

  • Conte's Run

    Adam Lassiter

  • Triangle

    Adam Lassiter

    It's Dennison's toughest assignment: shut down the Golden Triangle drug connection for good. But to stop the deadly stream of white poison from seeping onto U.S. streets he must first eliminate the kingpins....

  • Home Free

    Kathryn Lasky

    Fifteen-year-old Sam Brooks wants to move back to his home town in Indiana from Massachusetts, until he joins an old wildlife photographer in a fight to save the Quabbin Reservoir, a bald eagle refuge from developers...

  • The Nightmare Machine

    Glen A. Larson; Robert Thurston

  • September's Dream

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    IN AN ICY WILDERNESS, A DELICATE BEAUTY DARED TO LOVE--THE TOUGHEST MAN IN THE YUKON! Lovely September Malloy traveled from San Francisco to Alaska with one dream-to find her renegade gold miner father. Then she was robbed by a smooth con man, and...

  • Labyrinth

    Jon Land

    "The Committee" has masterminded a fiendish, far-reaching plot rooted in the highest corridors of power. Code name: Tantalus. Tantalus -- all the more daring because it is so obvious -- strikes at the very lifeline of humanity. Its aim is enormous, h...

  • The Legend of Weathertop

    Heike Kubasch

    The War of the Ring is over, but evil things live on. High on Weathertop, the ancient and revered site known as Amon Sûl, Orcs gather to attack travelers on the Great East Road. Within the peak lies a secret passage to the Deeps, great caverns benea...

  • Jewel of the Moon

    William Kotzwinkle

    Fifteen short stories, ranging from the Italian Renaissance and czarist Russia to a double amputee singing on the streets of New York. The much-anthologized title story has been called the most erotic ever told....

  • A Machine Called Indomitable

    Sonny Kleinfield

    Profiles the scientist who adapted for clinical use a nuclear magnetic resonance scanner that can detect the difference between a cancer cell and a normal cell by its chemistry, and which may replace X-rays, surgery, and CAT scans....

  • The Hahnemann Sequela

    Harold King

  • Eyas

    Crawford Kilian

  • Troy Chimneys

    Margaret Kennedy

    FIRST PENGUIN BOOKS EDITION. 1985 trade paperback. Margaret Kennedy (The Constant Nymph). A Victorian gentleman is forced by illness to entertain himself with the family archive, and he uncovers the Regency-era correspondence and diaries of one Miles...

  • Like the Lion's Tooth

    Marjorie Kellogg

  • The Courier

    Derek Kartun

    Released from prison to carry out a perilous mission, Quinton is given the task of transporting the French Treasury for Paris to Portugal in his vintage Bentley to keep the money from falling into the hands of the Nazis...

  • Edge of Reckoning

    Marianne Joyce

    Was he the man of her dreams...or part of a nightmare from her past. A Dangerous Passion. Sara Holliday was determined to uncover the long buried secrets of her childhood. Twenty years ago her beautiful mother had suddenly disappeared in the wi...

  • Desire for Revenge

    Penny Jordan

    Sarah believed in love at first sight One enchanted evening at a masquerade ball Sarah French fell in love with a sapphire-eyed stranger. "I want to make love to you," he murmured. As if in a dream Sarah answered, "I want it, too......

  • The Merry Month of May

    James Jones

    A family of intellectuals comes apart at the seams during the 1968 student revolts in Paris The Parisian student revolts of May 1968 shook the countryand the European continentto its foundations. In a tradition-obsessed nation where the old-gu...

  • Jackeen J. O'Malley for Congress

    Crockett Johnson

  • A Summer Smile

    Iris Johansen

    He appeared in her life with the unexpected force of a desert sandstorm, sweeping her from terrifying danger into the sweet haven of his arms. Daniel Seifert was a fierce man, used to taking whatever he wanted, but Zilah, the spirited woman he'd ...

  • Now or Never

    Arlene James

    HANDYMAN From the first moment she laid eyes on him, Mary Judith thought there was something suspicious about Nolan Tanner. Why was her brooding new tenant so secretive about his background? Though his past was shadowed, Nolan always made the futu...

  • Promises and Lies

    Susanne Jaffe

    Hers was a Cinderella story in search of a happy ending. As a shy girl in a small Midwest town, Valerie Cardell longed to escape her hateful life-and the violent familywho abused her with their tyrannical jealousies and bitterness. But she shocked th...

  • Expensive Sins

    Paula Jacobs

  • Devil's Gambit

    Lisa Jackson

    Tiffany Rhodes's problems with her breeding farm started long before she met Zane Sheridan, a horse breeder with a reputation for shady dealings. Yet she couldn't help feeling relieved when Zane offered to buy her out. Though Tiffany didn't trust...

  • Target

    Stephen Hunter

    Walter Lloyd. Middle-American. Easy-going Texan. Soon to face the biggest test of his life when his past comes to haunt him with a vengeance. Donna Lloyd. Housewife. Kidnapping victim. She'd do anything for her family. Now she'll learn that they'l...

  • Garfield and Nermal Play Hide-And-Seek

    Tom Huge

  • The Beetle of Aphrodite and Other Medical Mysteries

    Michael Howell

    Twelve recreated medical cases--from Robert Bruce to the Marquis de Sade--demonstrate how doctors throughout history have had to become detectives to track down the elusive causes of infectious diseases and unexplained deaths...

  • Fatal Attraction

    Imogen Howe

  • Enter Frederick K. Bower

    Anthony Horowitz

  • Whoppers

    Nancy J. Hopper

  • Shining Moment

    Diana Holdsworth

    ONCE IN A LIFETIME a woman like Kate Brenner came along. Derek Langley had been smuggled out of. Russia when he was a child. Now he had a chance to go back to rescue the father he dearly loved. Kate was a member of the acting troupe that was to pr...

  • A Much Needed Holiday

    Joan Hohl

    A CHRISTMAS ANGEL For Kate Warren, Christmas was a time of indifferent parents and empty feelings. So when she saw the beautiful child lost among the holiday shoppers, she vowed to give the neglectful parent a piece of her mind. But she was unp...

  • The Goddess Game

    Burt Hirschfeld

  • Fourth Down Death

    Michael T. Hinkemeyer

    At Pater Noster University, a co-ed is murdered, a local woman has visions of the Virgin Mary on the golf course, and Sheriff Emil Whippletree finds himself in conflict with America's best football team...

  • The Day Fort Larking Fell

    Will Henry

  • Fire in Paradise

    Betty Henrichs

    She thought she'd had enough of football to last her a lifetime. A bad marriage to a star football player had left journalist Ashley Buchannan with a love and knowledge of the game but a healthy distrust of the men who played it. Yet the offer of...

  • Perils of P. K.

    Navia Hayden

  • John Creasey's Crime Collection, 1985

    Herbert Harris

    This outstanding collection features stories--some previously published, some published here for the first time--from such masters as P.D. James, Peter Lovesey, Antonia Fraser, Julian Symons, and many more...

  • Orinoco Adventure

    Elaine Harper

  • The Crystal Dove

    Mollie Hardwick

  • The Tincup Railroad War

    J.D. Hardin

  • Nebula Awards: SFWA's Choices for the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy 1984

    Harcourt Brace

    An anthology of the best in science fiction for 1984, selected by members of the Science Fiction Writers of America, features a work by the winning novelist, award-winning shorter pieces, and an essay on the year in science fiction...

  • Nebula Awards: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 1985

    Harcourt Brace

    An anthology of the best in science fiction for 1984, selected by members of the Science Fiction Writers of America, features a work by the winning novelist, award-winning shorter pieces, and an essay on the year in science fiction...

  • The Love War

    Paula Hamilton

    Jaimey Carson -- disk jockey and star of the city's hottest call-in radio program, "Romance on the Airwaves" -- was San Antonio's number-one matchmaker. Until the station's new owner arrived, determined to make radical changes -- ...

  • Machine

    Denis Hamill