Books Published in December 1985

New Books List: 312 titles

  • Young Sherlock Holmes

    Alan Arnold

    ON HIS FIRST MURDER CASE, A BRILLIANT SCHOOLBOY IS SWEPT INTO A PERILOUS ADVENTURE! YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES When his friend the eccentric professor mysteriously dies, sixteen year-old Holmes suspects foul play. The eager detective drags his new ...

  • Yes is Better Than No

    Byrd Bayler

  • Yangtze Valley and Beyond

    Isabella Lucy Bird

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Write On!

    Dorothy Brenner Francis / Dorothy Francis

    Vonnie was moving again. It was always a heartache and a challenge. This time she was less concerned about her diabetes, for she had picked up an exciting new skill. She knew it would be of help in setting new goals and in making new friends. Sure en...

  • 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...

  • Wise Grandmother Duck

    Disney Book Group

    Donald and his nephews head to Grandma's farm for a vacation and, when they arrive, learn that Grandma has lost her farmhand. With much work to do, the boys pitch in eagerly, but that is not Donald's idea of a vacation. He develops mysterious complai...

  • The Winter Heart

    Lillian Cheatham

    She'd gone from one predicament to another Meg had taken the blame when her young stepsister, Carol, provoked a tragic accident. And in the ensuing publicity she, and not Carol, had been branded a cheap little adventuress. So when novelist Si...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Whoppers

    Nancy J. Hopper

  • The White Hell Trail

    Jon Sharpe

  • 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...

  • Where's That Duck?

    Mary Blocksma

  • 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...

  • When I Give My Heart

    April Stafford

  • What's Bred in the Bone

    Robertson Davies

    Second in the Cornish Trilogy following The Rebel Angels. “An altogether remarkable creation, [Davies’] most accomplished novel to date.†-- The New York Times  Shortlisted for the Booker Prize   Francis Cornish was always good at kee...

  • 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 ...

  • Warriors of the Code

    Lee Davis Willoughby

  • 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 ......

  • Warbonnet

    Clay Fisher; Will Henry

  • Video Fever

    Kathleen Garvey

    ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS! Film and video should have been Nell's favorite class, but it was spoiled for her by the insistent, infuriating comments of Daniel McEnroe, who seemed to think of himself as Mr.Video in person. As a budding scr...

  • 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...

  • The Two Mrs. Grenvilles

    Dominick Dunne

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • â€œMurder most swank . . . required reading.†-- Vanity FairWhen Navy ensign Billy Grenville, heir to a vast New York fortune, sees showgirl Ann Arden on the dance floor, it is love at first sight. And much to the...

  • 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...

  • The Turn-Out Man

    Frank Roderus

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • The Touch

    Anne C. Williman

  • 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...

  • Too Much Too Soon

    Jacqueline Briskin

    Three sisters. Vastly different...equally talented...stunningly beautiful...destinies forever entwined by the one man who opened their eyes and their hearts to TOO MUCH TOO SOON....

  • Tolkien Quest Night of -OSI

    John Ruemmler

  • The Tincup Railroad War

    J.D. Hardin

  • Tin Woodman

    David Bischoff

    TIN WOODMAN, the novel, served as the basis of the authors' screenplay/screen story for the Star Trek: Next Generation third-season episode, Tin Man.Div Harlthor is a misfit by anybody's definition, a young man gifted with such strong psychic powers ...

  • 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...

  • The Three Little Kittens

    Jean Marzollo

  • Those Harper Women

    Stephen Birmingham

    Edith - the grande dame, daughter of old Meredith Harper himself. From the mansion under the blue skies of St. Thomas, she had watched her mother try to break into the ranks of the old money, and then lost her own daughter to the restless, golden soc...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • They Stood in the Door

    Don Macnaughtton

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Test of the Ninja

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

  • 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 ...

  • Temptations

    Linda A. Cooney

    Beautiful but shy Holly Harris is thrilled when Eddie Santiago asks her to the prom, but she fears that scheming Nadia Lawrence's false announcement that Holly's father is a millionaire might have prompted Eddie's invitation...

  • 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...

  • Teddy Teabury's Fabulous Fact

    Sandy Asher

    Can Teddy save his town from bankruptcy? FACT: Teddy Teabury's parents run Thistledown Inn, but ever since the superhighway was built, both traffic and business have been, slow in Thistledown. FACT: Teddy's armed himself with an amazing arsenal...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Supertrucks

    Sloan Walker

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Summer Dreams

    Bill Gutman

    This jock-romance features a pair of runners. Kim has a hard time adapting to big-time competition, and Derek realizes he may be at his level of incompetence in the fast company of Olympic High. A few minor characters float through the plot, which is...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Steel Brother

    Gordon R. Dickson

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Splashman

    Lydia Weaver

  • 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...

  • Spies Like Us

    Gordon McGill

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Skinner

    Richard McEnroe

  • Six-Gun Bride

    Jake Logan

  • Sinister Barrier

    Eric Frank Russell

  • Shuttle Down

    Lee Correy

  • 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...

  • Shattered Moon

    Kate Green

  • 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...

  • Sesame Street Counting Book

    Dina Anastasio

  • 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...

  • Senior Year

    Vicki Tyler

  • Seedtime and Harvest

    E. Mary Pearce

  • School for Slaughter

    George G. Gilman

  • 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...

  • The Scarlet Cord

    Deborah Elder Champagne

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • Revolution

    Richard Francis

  • Revenge Ride

    George G. Gilman

  • Retrieval

    Colin Dunne

  • 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. ...

  • Renegades of Luntar

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

  • 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...

  • Red Chameleon

    Charles Robertson

  • The Rebel of Rhada

    Robert Cham Gilman

  • Razor Game

    James Grady

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Private Lives of Private Eyes

    Otto Penzler

  • 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...

  • Portrait in Black

    Joan Van Every Frost

  • 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 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...

  • Perils of P. K.

    Navia Hayden

  • Palladian

    Elizabeth Taylor

  • Orinoco Adventure

    Elaine Harper

  • Orchids for Mother

    Aaron Latham

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Old World, New World

    Mark Dintenfass

  • 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 Obsession

    David Shobin

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Northlight // Quiller

    Adam Hall

    QUILLER --The Bureau's top intelligence agent. Quick, deadly, he moves into the world's hot spots at a moment's notice. His mission: get in, get the job done and -- if he can -- get out alive. DEADLY DECEPTION Murmansk -- On the eve of a summit m...

  • The Nightmare Machine

    Glen A. Larson; Robert Thurston

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • My Science Project

    Mike McQuay

  • My Brother, My Enemy

    George Victor Bishop

  • 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 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." -- ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • The Missing Mr. Mosley

    John Greenwood

    While Inspector Mosley, is away, a series of bizarre events, including the disappearance of Janie Godwin, an eccentric old woman, plagues the peaceful village of Hempshaw End, and Detective-Superintendent Grimshaw and Sergeant Beamish are at their wi...

  • Methuselah Enzyme

    Robert Stewart

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • The Marshal

    Lauran Paine

  • 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 ...

  • 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€...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Machine

    Denis Hamill

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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 -- ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Long Tomorrow

    Leigh Brackett

    One of the original novels of post-nuclear-holocaust America, The Long Tomorrow is considered by many to be one of the finest science fiction novels ever written on the subject. The story has inspired generations of new writers and is still as mesmer...

  • 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...

  • Like the Lion's Tooth

    Marjorie Kellogg

  • 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...

  • The Legion of Time

    Jack Williamson

  • 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...

  • Lawyers for the People

    Elizabeth Levy

  • The Last Frost Affair

    Joy Freeman

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Kingdom Come

    Jarrod Comstock

  • 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...

  • Kinch

    Matt Braun

  • Killer Station

    Martin Caidin

  • Just As I Am

    Eugenia Price

  • Judgment by Fire

    Thomas Philo

  • Journey to Atlantis

    J.J. Fortune

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Jackeen J. O'Malley for Congress

    Crockett Johnson

  • Its Me Christy

    Phyllis Green

    Every girl in sixth grade is allowed to wear pantyhose but Christy! So Christy decides to steal a pair. And she gets caught! For punishment she has to spend a whole week with her "bad" grandmother - a truck driver and very tough old lady whom Chri...

  • It's Me, Christy

    Phyllis Green

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • The Intruder

    Thomas Altman

    One by one, the women of the fashionable community of Las Cosimas begin to die, some in compromising positions. Tobias Manning, ex-cop and now community security officer, worries for beautiful, bored Caroline Cassidy, whose new lover's face looks fri...

  • 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 Initiate

    Louise Cooper

    Down all the ages the twin powers of Order and Chaos have been locked in an eternal struggle for control of the worlds of men. Somewhere beyond the realms we know, in a time when Order as triumphed, a child is born; a nameless outcast destined to ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Illegal

    Joanna Wharton

  • If You're Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow

    Cooper Edens

    If tomorrow morning the sky falls...have clouds for breakfast. If you have butterflies in your stomach...ask them into your heart....such are the unconventional solutions offered to lifes problems in If Youre Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Ra...

  • 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'...

  • 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...

  • 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 Hidden Hand

    J. Sidlow Baxter

  • 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...