Books Published in December 1985

New Books List: 312 titles

  • My Brother, My Enemy

    George Victor Bishop

  • The Scarlet Cord

    Deborah Elder Champagne

  • The Touch

    Anne C. Williman

  • Garfield and Nermal Play Hide-And-Seek

    Tom Huge

  • A Child's Book of Prayers

    Michael Hague

    Michael Hague's beautifully illustrated, best-selling collection of traditional prayers. From "The Lord's Prayer" to "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep," the nineteen verses included are familiar, comforting, and appropriate for even the youngest child, whi...

  • Heathcliff Life

    George Gately

  • Beyond Blame

    Stephen Greenleaf

    Berkeley, California. Birthplace of the free-speech movement. Site of campus sit-ins. Home to flower children. And now, two decades later, a city of murder. Psychologist Dianne Renzel has been killed-not just murdered, but mutilated in her own bed...

  • Carnival of Animal

    Moacyr Scliar

  • Jackeen J. O'Malley for Congress

    Crockett Johnson

  • Finding the Center

    V.S. Naipaul

  • Love Me Not

    Lindsay Armstrong

    "So, what am I going to do?" It was a question Leonie couldn't quite answer. But suddenly, she knew she couldn't go through with her plans of revenge against Guy Richardson. She'd been going to try to make him fall in love w...

  • 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......

  • 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...

  • Yangtze Valley and Beyond

    Isabella Lucy Bird

  • Omens of Kregen

    Alan Burt Akers

    PRESCOT'S GREATEST CAHALLENGE! Striving to save his strife-torn empire of Vallia from the Nine Unspeakable Curses, Dray Prescot has faced a plague of murderous werewolves and attack by the witch hordes. Now he must conquer the bloodthirsty for...

  • A Chance Encounter

    Mary Balogh

    THE MOCKING MARQUIS Miss Elizabeth Rossiter was finished with love forever - after a disastrous episode that had left her with a broken heart and a reputation that would be ruined should her scandalous secret be revealed. She had sought safety by ...

  • The Last Frost Affair

    Joy Freeman

  • Encore Marmaduke

    Brad Anderson

  • Kohn's War

    Fredric Arnold

    Fighter pilot, Fred Kohn, a nineteen-year-old Jewish boy from Chicago, finds himself fighting not only the Nazis but also a fellow officer and pilot, who is an implacable anti-Semite, in this autobiographical novel of World War II...

  • Fire Song

    Catherine Coulter

    Dear Reader: Lord Graelam de Moreten is a warrior, a man both hard and ruthless, a man who takes what he wants and never looks back. Kassia de Lorris of Brittany is gentle yielding, untested in the ways of men. She cheats death only to find her...

  • Free Amazons of Darkover

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    FROM THENDARA TO THE HELLERS AND BEYOND... Return with Marion Zimmer Bradley and the Friends of Darkover to the planet of the Bloody Sun, the world of Darkover, where powerful families gifted with rare mental powers of loran rule the land, where T...

  • Shuttle Down

    Lee Correy

  • The Rebel of Rhada

    Robert Cham Gilman

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Kinch

    Matt Braun

  • Lone Star and the Alaskan Guns

    Wesley Ellis

    GUNFIGHT ON THE GLACIERS Starbuck's prime scout has turned up dead in the frozen capital of the newly formed Alaskan territory, and Jessie and Ki know the cartel can't be far behind. There's a wild and dangerous wealth to be had in this savage new l...

  • Longarm and the Stagecoach Bandits

    Tabor Evans

    GHOST RIDER! Black Jack Slade was supposed to be dead, hanged long ago by a vigilante gang in Virginia City -- but did they really do the job? Somebody's still robbing the Julesburg Stage on its hardscrabble run up to Holyoke. Somebody who knows whe...

  • The Day Fort Larking Fell

    Will Henry

  • The Runaway Debutante

    Elizabeth Chater

    HER FOOLISH FATHER HAD GONE GAMING AGAIN -- AND HAD LOST HIS DAUGHTER IN THE BARGAIN! Barely out of the schoolroom, Matilda Mountavon is presented with odious news: her rakehell father has gambled away the family fortune and the only settlement he c...

  • The Fire Within

    Laine Allen

    In one breath he scares her witless, rescues her from tumbling off a cliff, and silkily tries to seduce her! To waitress Cara Chandler, flagrantly sensual millionaire Lou Capelli is a man to avoid. Yet her mischievous, matchmaking boss repeatedly hur...

  • Tender Is the Night

    Helen Carter

    Forceful, dynamic Chris Carpenter fascinates Toni Kendall. But she wants more than a fling, and a man wilds named his boat The Siren, his dinghy The Flirt, and his cat Romeo hardly seems ready for commitment! Moreover, Chris is her superior at Lytel ...

  • Golden Flame

    Dorothy Dowdell

    ONE GOLD MINE. TWO MEN. A WOMAN WHOSE DREAMS WILL NOT BE DENIED. Stylish San Francisco, 1894. A world of fabulous balls and high society. But for beautiful Dorcas Hamilton, whose grandfather has all but bankrupted the family with his investment in...

  • 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. ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Fatal Attraction

    Imogen Howe

  • 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...

  • Executive

    Piers Anthony

    To pursue his ultimate goals, the tyrant of Jupiter disguises himself as a rebel leader in this sci-fi saga from the New York Times–bestselling author. He was shaping his times as no one before him dared, mercilessly scourging an entire planet ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Legion of Time

    Jack Williamson

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Sinister Barrier

    Eric Frank Russell

  • Eyas

    Crawford Kilian

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Ashes of the Past

    Monica Barrie

    When Blair Sanders first met famous playboy author Sean Mathias, she'd already been well-acquainted with his work. As head of 1,er own literary research company, she had investigated two of his previous novels, but was still surprised when Sean reque...

  • Faces of a Clown

    Jane Worth Abbott

    SHE WAS A FOOL -- FOR LOVE Making others laugh was the raison d'etre of professional clown Laura Fenton. All she wanted in exchange was the sight of a less troubled brow or sad eyes suddenly alight with joy. That and enough cash to keep her small ...

  • Flowing to the Sky

    Judith Arnold

    In just one day her life spun out of control Brooke Waters had to be talked into the event -- it wasn't her style to attend a big bash in Central Park, especially when it was held for people with unusual names. Nor was it like her to be attrac...

  • Dateline: Washington

    Patti Beckman

    The Chronicle's chief editor knew sparks would fly when he teamed up his two best reporters. Combine Bart Tagert's expertise at probing into political hanky-panky with Janelle Evan's zeal for investigation, and he'd blow the lid off the hottest story...

  • The Catch of the Season

    Jackie Black

    Freedom meant everything to Catherine James. And freedom meant money. When her father died and it looked as if Amalgamated Oil would fall into the hands of her inept younger brother, she had to act. Cato Cassidy, her father's partner, had to be lured...

  • Teacher's Pet

    Ariel Berk

    A LOVING LESSON Cecily Adams left Long Island to begin again. She'd lost her husband, and the only way to forget was to leave it all behind. Her teaching certificate was her ticket to freedom. She was settling into life as a high school teacher...

  • The Matthias Ring

    Rebecca Bond

    Had the man she loved put her in danger? When Lauren Malin went to Budapest in hope of adventure and romance, she got more than she'd bargained for. On her way home, she was harassed by Hungarian customs agents. Strange events continued once Laure...

  • String of Pearls

    Natalie Bishop

    Brittany Daniels and Devon Gallagher were utterly devoted...at one time. Passion had fused them together, but a painful experience turned mutual desire into mutual distrust. Her career as a top model and his drive as a top investigative reporter k...

  • Interior Designs

    Pamela Browning

    Was love worth the risk? With the opening of her exclusive interior-design boutique Cathryn Mulqueen thought she'd attained all her goals -- she was chic, successful, a local celebrity whose photograph appeared regularly in the West Palm Beach...

  • The Stallion Man

    Joan Bramsch

    His eyes smoldered from magazine ads, his lips murmured seductive invitations across the airwaves. But in the flesh, Hooker Jablonski -- the real-life model for Stallion Man cologne -- was more gorgeously devastating than Juliet McLane had ever drea...

  • Through the Eyes of Love

    Jo Calloway

    She loved running her life the way she--and she alone--saw fit. Leigh-Anne Dancer enjoyed the independence of owning her own flower shop in her native Alabama. But her neat, ordered world was shattered when she saw someone jump from a train and found...

  • Hook, Line and Sinker

    Elaine Camp

    FISH OR CUT BAIT.. Roxie would have to tell Sonny the truth someday. True, she was a reporter for Sportspeople, but an expert fisherwoman? Never! Why had she agreed to the deception? Were an interview with the country's top angler and her boss'...

  • Hold on to Forever

    Francine Christopher

    "YOU DON'T GIVE AN INCH, DO YOU?" Garth D'Anno was used to getting his own way. What he wasn't used to was women like the unyielding Katie O'Connell--especially when he found out she was the new high-school wrestling coach. Garth had expected a...

  • The Education of Miss Patterson

    Marion Chesney

    THE GRIM GUARDIAN For lovely young Miss Patricia Patterson, life seemed a delightful dream -- until the spectre of her guardian, Lord Charles Gaunt, cast a shadow over her carefree days of idleness and enchanting evenings of dazzling balls and del...

  • Without a Hitch

    Marion Smith Collins

    He sent her into a tailspin It was glorious to be footloose, buzzing along the interstate toward a new life in Florida. Libby Hamilton could think of nothing else -- until she caught Holt Whitney's grin in her rearview mirror. He was glorio...

  • A Stroke of Genius

    Helen Conrad (1)

    Mimi Markman had found a haven of peace and quiet at Cypress Retreat -- the artists' colony on the California coast. She'd come to work on her sculpture -- hidden away from the world. Then composer Jeffrey Lane moved in next door. The grand p...

  • Tears of Gold

    Helen Conrad (1)

    Could he create an illusion of love? The day Pamela Starbuck encountered mystery-man Michael Donovan panning for gold on her property, her heart had been heavy with the burden of having to sell the home her family had treasured for generations. ...

  • First Things First

    Barbara Delinsky

    Love was easy... in paradise Chelsea Ross was devoted to finding missing children. But Samuel Prescott London, the son of a wealthy Boston socialite, was not the usual runaway--he was a forty-year-old executive! Discovering Samuel's hideaway ou...

  • River Lady

    Jude Deveraux

    In a chance encounter on Virginia's riverfront, Leah, a beautiful waif, unwittingly captured the one man she had always loved! Handsome, well-born Wesley, in an unexpected twist of fate, becomes Leah's reluctant husband. Determined to forge a n...

  • Winning Hearts

    Gloria Douglas

    It was well worth the wait When top model Elizabeth Jackson was sixteen, she had been helplessly in love with John Logan. That is, until the rugged cattleman had spurned her childish advances. But six years later, things were different. Six years ...

  • Stronger Than Passion

    Emily Elliott

    Her South Texas hometown was far from the heady heights of New York's modeling world, but Maureen Garteiser had left the fast lane behind. At thirty, she craved new beginnings: her own beauty salon -- and a husband and family to make her life com...

  • 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 -- ...

  • Moonlight Serenade

    Laurel Evans

    LIFE IN THE SLOW LANE was fine with Emma. She loved running a radio station in the small Connecticut town. So when television producer Simon Eliot invited her to give a speech in New York, she refused. But when Simon kept returning on weekends, E...

  • Islands in Turquoise

    Barbara Faith

    SHE NEEDED SOME TIME ALONE Marisa Perett was on her way home when Hurricane Bertha swept through the Florida Keys, leaving destruction in her wake. When Marisa rescued newsman Michael Novak from the sea, his effect on her was just as devastating....

  • Rent-A-Bride Ltd.

    Emma Goldrick

    There had to be a catch... "You're not to be afraid," the stranger on the flight from Denver reassured Stacey. And suddenly her predicament seemed less overwhelming. His warmth and strength instilled courage in her as if by osmosis. ...

  • Love's Redemption

    Kathleen Fraser

    Sinful Seduction. A lock of Hilary Pembroke's glorious red hair fell over the strong hand tracing a tantalizing caress along the low bodice of her satin gown. Suddenly Patrick Lyle tightened his powerful embrace, preventing her from pulling a...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Hemingway's Notebook

    Bill Granger

    Everyone is looking for it on St. Michel in the Caribbean. Here the president is a raving lunatic, the "Black Police" have the run of the capital, guerilla forces mass in the hills, an organized crime syndicate plans its own takeover, and U.S. agent...

  • 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...

  • Portrait in Black

    Joan Van Every Frost

  • Hardcover

    Wayne Warga

  • School for Slaughter

    George G. Gilman

  • 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...

  • The True Bride

    Thomas Altman

    "Ellen Campbell is eight months pregnant. Her husband loves her very much. This should be the most joyous time of her life. Yet terrifying things are happening, and all her deepest fears are coming true... Someone is watching her. At the supermarket....

  • The Crystal Dove

    Mollie Hardwick

  • Chiaroscuro

    Peter Clothier

  • Down the Garden Path

    Dorothy Cannell

    In a charming English village, nothing is what it seems ... Tessa Fields is a young orphan determined to uncover her true origins. With the help of the Misses Tramwell, two endearing elderly ladies, and the reluctant assistance of her secret love,...

  • Not Exactly a Brahmin

    Susan Dunlap

    DEATH BY CADILLAC Telegraph Avenue ain't what it used to be now that gentrification has gotten under 'way. But Jill Smith, the junk-food-loving, smart and savvy Berkeley cop, hasn't changed. Chugging along in her vintage VW to fetch a pint of choc...

  • A Swell Style of Murder

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