Books Published in December 1988

New Books List: 363 titles

  • A Man of the People

    Chinua Achebe

    From the renowned author of The African Trilogy, a political satire about an unnamed African country navigating a path between violence and corruption   As Minister for Culture, former school teacher M. A. Nanga is a man of the people, as cynica...

  • Of Myths and Monsters

    Robert Adams

    Dec. 1988 SIGNET mass market paperback, 2nd printing. Robert Adams (A cat of silvery hue: A Horseclans novel). Could the future technology they'd brought to the past withstand the challenge of creatures out of legend? - Amazon...

  • Remember Betsy Floss

    David A. Adler

  • Assault on the Empress

    Jerry Ahern

    TERMINATE WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE A dying terrorist makes a last desperate bid for bloody glory on a luxury cruise ship. But what begins as a savage terrorist attack could end in a biological holocaust spawned by a KGB virus. The men of the Surgic...

  • Decision Time

    Jerry Ahern

    IN A CORRUPT CAMPAIGN, ONLY BULLETS COUNT AS VOTES AGAINST TERROR.In the streets of America's most violent city, the radical FLNA continues a ruthless campaign against freedom. Their law-and-order candidate for mayor is backed by an international syn...

  • To Fortune Born

    Elizabeth Evelyn Allen

    A NUN'S COWL HID HER BEAUTY... Jolie's luminous eyes looked at the handsome Scotsman, Rorke Campbell, from beneath the cowl of her habit. A foundling raised by the nuns of Strasbourg, she had defied the king by nursing a wounded Huguenot, and now ...

  • The Godchild

    Stephen Alter

  • Bowhunter

    Stephen Altman

    Young Tory Bowhunter and his uncle Noah search for the boy's famed buffalo-hunting father and, on their journey, become embroiled with a young woman and a rival Indian and are soon caught up in a lethal Ute insurrection...

  • Serpent's Silver

    Piers Anthony; Robert E. Margroff

    A Roundear there Shall Surely Be Born to be strong, raised to be free Fighting Dragons in his Youth Leading Armies, Nothing Loth Ridding his Country of a Sore Joining Two, then uniting Four Until from Seven there be One Only then will h...

  • Captive Dreams

    Jane Archer

    HEADSTRONG HALF-BREED Exquisite, golden-haired Raven Cunningham could not stop her heart from fluttering whenever she set her gaze on strong, virile Slate Slayton. With his broad frame, dark hair and blue-gray eyes, he made Raven want to melt into h...

  • Practice to Deceive

    Bess Arden

    Annie Rose, a forty-year-old analyst, faces problems with the men in her life: Mel Rose, her gambling husband, Leonard Lilianfeld, her psychoanalyst, Rex Ryder, her married lover, and Abram Rubenstein, his analyst...

  • Heat of the Moment

    Lindsay Armstrong

    She was truly out of her depth! Perhaps Serena had rushed into accepting work in a nightclub just shy of respectable. But she'd been desperate. And wasn't her new job as governess at an isolated grazing station more dangerous still? The...

  • Asimov's Galaxy

    Isaac Asimov

  • The Butterfly Avengers

    Barbara Atlee

    When Witney Baraday, a beautiful widow and intelligence agent for the OSS, discovers that the Nazis have killed her husband, she enlists the help of two female friends in order to wreak vengeance on Adolf Hitler...

  • Love Everlasting

    Charlotte Austen

    Molly Cooper hated the way the Tory soldiers stared at her as she served them ale at New York's Boar's Head Tavern. Handsome Richard Floyd word England's redcoat, but the feel of his gaze only made her tremble -- with desire. When he followed her int...

  • Plague Years

    Richard Austin

    RACE AGAINST TIME From the nuclear devastation of World War III rose the Guardians. Guerrilla freedom fighters in a United States fallen prey to invading forces. They are the last reminder of what America stood for--and the last hope of what Ameri...

  • New Destinies, Volume VI

    Jim Baen

  • Cactus Rose

    Stella Bagwell

    DESERT BLOOM In the first blush of youth, Andrea Rawlins had fallen for the foreman of her father's ranch. But Tony Ramirez had mysteriously left El Paso -- and Andrea -- behind. Now, years later, she was struggling to keep the ranch in busine...

  • Winter's Tales

    Robin Baird-Smith

  • Codename: Sand Castle

    Ned Bannister

  • Cabal

    Clive Barker

    In the terrifying title story, a tortured soul called Boone seeks refuge in a necropolis in the wilds of Canada, where he finds the shape-shifters known as the Nightbreed. Only the courage of this strange human can save them from extinction. And only...

  • Happy Valentines Day

    Carol Barkin

  • Unwanted Attentions

    K.K. Beck

    Rebecca Kendall is being stalked by Benjamin Knapp, but when his blood is found in her car, she is accused of his murder, and the case seems simple--until Rebecca vanishes and is held hostage by Benjamin...

  • A Belfast Woman

    Mary Beckett

    A collection of short stories portrays women of Northern Ireland, whose lives bear the imprint of war, religious conflict, and the struggle to raise their families, and who find themselves questioning their beliefs...

  • Wolf

    Martin Bell

    A collection of stories, songs, poems, and modern-day parables peopled with men and women who struggle with contemporary problems probes the meaning of the human spirit and the doctrine of unconditional love...

  • In the Midday Sun

    Guy Bellamy

    In the bath one morning Daniel Ward works out how to take 1 million from the local banks without the use of violence. He has always been addicted to puzzles. But, with the money in his hold-all, he thinks it best to leave the country before anybody d...

  • Texas Wildcat

    Linda Benjamin

    NO-WIT BANKER From the moment spirited "Cat" Jordan met handsome Bostonian Logan Blackstone, she couldn't stand his overbearing arrogance. How dare he deny her ranch credit because he didn't think a woman could do the job! Though the slender blonde ...

  • Stepping Out

    Elizabeth Bernard

  • The Blind Archer

    John Gregory Betancourt

    In an ancient Earth ruled by magic, young Ker Orrum discovers the perils of sorcery as he journeys into a dark world of vision without sight as he takes on the deadly wrath of the Faceless Demons. Reprint....

  • Test of Friendship

    Alison Blair

    Romantic rivalry splits college roommates Stacy Swanson and Roni Davies, and when Stacy announces she will be spending her junior year in Italy, she jeopardizes the friendship of her other roommates as well....

  • Compulsion

    Robin Blake

  • The Alien Within

    Johanna M. Bolton

    "First Edition, January 1989' Stated on copyright page/ States "First Time In Print" on back cover. A Del Ray book # 35541 with a US price of $3.50 & Canada $4.50 Cover art by Neal McPeeters. Pages number 277. Clean copy with a tight spine,crisp page...

  • Any Cold Jordan

    David Bottoms

  • Gambler's Gold

    Matt Braun

  • A Fine Madness

    Barbara Bretton

    There was trouble in paradise Dialectician Kelly Madison hadn't seen anything like it. The servants eavesdropped. The chauffeur opened Max's mail. And Brazilian billionaire Maximilian Steel's Florida island was so secure that even Max himself coul...

  • A Touch of Spring

    Annette Broadrick

    A LOVE FOR ALL SEASONS Publicist Stephanie Benson had gone on nationwide author tours before, but always with women -- never with a man...alone. Escorting handsome novelist Colonel Alexander Sloan from coast to coast was a test of her professional...

  • Cavalry Scout

    Dee Brown

    A western saga of honor amid the nineteenth-century Indian wars from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.   “I wished I was back in Texas and had never left there to end up scouting in such godfo...

  • The Screaming Mimi

    Fredric Brown

    A hard-drinking reporter, a schizophrenic stripper, a disgraced psychoanalyst, and a mysterious serial killer who razors his female victims to death, collide with deadly and shocking reverberations in Fredric Brown's masterful crime classic THE SCREA...

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Mysterious Friend of Oscar Wilde

    Russell A. Brown

  • 'Tis the Season

    Noreen Brownlie

    THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE... When Holly Peterson joined the Chain of Caring, her goal was to spread some holiday cheer -- not engage in a gift-giving competition! But that was exactly how fellow do-gooder Nick Petrovich seemed to view their roles as...

  • Children of the Thunder

    John Brunner

    Telepathic children hold the fate of humanity in their hands in this “compulsively readable novel” from the Hugo Award–winning author of Stand on Zanzibar (The Washington Post). In Children of the Thunder, Brunner creates another ne...

  • Forbidden Hearts

    Mary Burkhardt

    OPPOSITES ATTRACT Millicent Fitzroy had known Taggart O'Rahilly from the time they were both children. But the Taggart she saw standing in front of her on her wedding day was not the same as the boy she remembered. He had grown into the most gor...

  • The Standard Life of a Temporary Pantyhouse Salesman

    Aldo Busi

    Angelo Basarovi is a homosexual in his 30s, finishing a thesis and earning his living as a salesman and interpreter to Cesare Lometto, owner of a pantyhose factory and the embodiment of nouveau-riche Italy. Together they set out on a series of sales ...

  • Wild Seed

    Octavia E. Butler

    HE COULD NOT DIE: Doro was a mind force who changed bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex--or design. He roamed Earth, gathering the genetic Wild Seed: the tormented, mad thought-readers, seers, and witches. Some he helped. Some he destro...

  • The Virgin In the Garden

    A.S. Byatt

    From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes a wonderfully erudite novel in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy, intersect richly and unpredictably."Large, complex, ambitious, humming with ene...

  • Deathward

    Richard Lee Byers

  • Nightwylde

    Kimberleigh Caitlin

    A PASSION AS HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL AS AN IRISH BALLAD. A country torn by the flames of rebellion, Ireland held the destiny of Maryssa Wylder--a woman scorned for her willful spirit, and banished from the social whirl of London. A LOVE AS TENDER AN...

  • At First Sight

    Linda Cajio

    Lawyer Angelica Windsor was both fierce and fragile, serene and determined, a woman of fire and ice who had obsessed Dan Roberts since the day they'd met -- and violently disagreed for the first time! Somehow they argued over everything...until the n...

  • Dawn's Early Light

    Caryn Cameron

    The Greatest Danger Is to Love... An innocent at thirty, Brett Benton had never known desire until she met Alex Sanborn. His bold gaze stoked a hungry yearning within her, but her pride rebelled at yielding to the man who suspected she was a Briti...

  • The Diamond Trap

    Bethany Campbell

    "Come home and marry Dennis." That's what her mother insisted after Dinah MacNeil announced she'd be postponing her wedding. But Dinah was going to Nashville to help one of her students get his start in the country-music business. ...

  • The Way of the Seeded Earth: The Sacrifice

    Joseph Campbell

  • Brighton Road

    Susan Carroll

    SHE WAS A MISTRESS OF DISASTER -- AND HE DEMANDED SHE KEEP HER DISTANCE! With his broad shoulders and flashing dark eyes, Lord Ravenel could have stepped from the pages of lady author Gwenda Vickers's gothic novels! Certainly she hadn't...

  • Black Sea Bloodbath

    Nick Carter

    After the Soviet Union unwisely relocates all of their vital intelligence material to an installation in the city of Sukhumi, on the Black Sea, the killmaster launches a one-man invasion of the area to obtain the top secret documents...

  • Black Sand

    William J. Caunitz

    A brutal machine-gun massacre at a seaside resort kicks off a deadly hunt for a priceless ancient artifact, with two hardened street detectives thrown together as unlikely partners. Detective Lieutenant Teddy Lucas is the brooding head of a foul-mout...

  • Fantasy: The 100 Best Books

    James Cawthorne

  • Southern Comfort

    Sara Chance

    BAYOU KNIGHT Victoria Wynne and Cord Darcourte were a creative force. As partners in a New Orleans architectural firm, they were not only a professional team, they were the best of friends. And it was as friends that they'd stood by each other th...

  • Diamond Moods

    Maggi Charles

    Two years ago josh Smith had "set her free" . . . and Marta Brennan had been running ever since. First furious, then heartbroken, Marta had finally accepted Josh's rejection--and another man's proposal. But a chance meeting brought her dangerously...

  • King of the Carnival and Other Stories

    Willi Chen

  • Sebastian (Super Sleuth) and the Santa Claus Caper

    Mary Blount Christian

  • My Brother Stevie

    Eleanor Lowenton Clymer

  • The Wishing Well

    Eugene Bradley Coco

  • UFO's, the Third Wave

    Daniel Cohen

  • Deceits of Time

    Isabel Colegate

    Colegate's latest contribution to her sizable corpus of novels, of which the filmed The Shooting Party is the best known, is an extraordinarily accomplished excursus of subtle complexity into memory and the nature of truth, the search for meaning and...

  • Chasing Dreams

    Helen Conrad (1)

    At nineteen, Keri Taylor had worshipped Lars Brewer, the best swimmer in the world, a shining example of what hard work and persistence could accomplish. Now the tall, fun-loving boy had become an entrepreneur haunted by his volatile past. His slow, ...

  • Deep Harbour

    Sally Cook

    A man to be avoided at all costs! That was what Lucy told herself about Laurent. She was spending the summer working for her uncle on the Spanish island of Minorca. She wanted to heal a broken heart and enjoy the sun. A holiday romance could destr...

  • The Court of the Lion

    Eleanor Cooney

    In a tale set in eighth-century China during the T'ang dynasty, the emperor's power dwindles as, one by one, those nearest to him are eliminated, and only eunuch Kao Li-Shih is left to save the empire...

  • Tale of Love

    Lori Copeland

    Swept Away It had to be the worst day of her life. Hilary Brookfield sat on a bus bench, the wind whipping fiercely about, her eyes slowly drowning in a pool of tears. This was meant to be a vacation, a time for peace and quiet, a time to mend her...

  • Narcs

    Robert Coram

  • Fate's Trick

    Matt Costello

    TURMOIL IN THE TWENTY UNIVERSES Alex Tanen, a small-time night club magician, suddenly wins a $1,000,000 sweepstakes. He tries to collect-and is soon battling alligators, monster Constructs, minotaurs ... because Alex's "prize" is a lure to anothe...

  • The Hawthorne Heritage

    Teresa Crane

    Recovering from the death of her brother and the loss of her first love, Jessica Redmond marries Robert FitzBolton and they flee to Italy, but she must return to England to claim her inheritance and her child's future Jessica Hawthorne's parents,...

  • The Sorcerer's Keeper

    Kathleen Creighton

    Standing in the moonlight, brilliant scientist Culley Ward saw that the happy house of his childhood had become haunted by memories... and wondered if his loneliness would ever end. Then the unexpected arrival of an exquisite, irrepressible stranger ...

  • Captive Melody

    Nadine Crenshaw

    WEDDING BELLS FOR LAURA When a handsome stranger overpowered her in her boudoir right after her marriage ceremony, inexperienced Laura Upton was too frightened to do more than faint. Later, when she awoke, the scarcely-clad beauty found herself o...

  • The Rough Rider

    Jack Cummings

  • Rivals

    Janet Dailey

    RIVALS IN BUSINESS A successful advertising executive with impeccable family connections, Flame Bennett had attracted Malcolm Powell as a powerful ally. As her mentor, he wanted to see her succeed. As a man, he wanted more of Flame than she was wi...

  • The Doomsday Exercise

    Bart Davis

    “Bart Davis is a rare talent...His novels are extraordinary.” â€"Gerry Carroll, author of North SAR “A first-class thriller which encourages frantic reading” â€"Liverpool Daily Post When U.S. military intelligence officer Captain David Hallam...

  • Valley of the Shadow

    Christopher Davis

  • The Secret of the Seal

    Deborah Davis

    While hunting, a 10-year-old Eskimo boy befriends a seal pup. "When Kyo learns that his uncle is hunting for a seal to take to the zoo, he must use every bit of resourcefulness he can muster to save his vulnerable playmate. Readers are not hit over t...

  • Swann Song

    Gibbs Davis

  • Fast Death

    Clay Dawson

  • Beloved Adversary

    Marjorie DeBoer

    A CHARMING PREDICAMENT When very young, Catherine Penrose had been adopted by Jessica Craig, a kindly widow who lavished her with affection. At eighteen, Catherine had blossomed into a genteel yet spirited beauty, and the proud foster mother and ...

  • Winter

    Lynn Deighton

    Peter and Pauli Winter are two very different brothers born into a time when the horrors of war engulf and extinguish the Germany that is. Yet for all their differences, the destinies of the two brothers are forever bound to the madness that lies ahe...

  • Foxhunt

    Bertie Denham

  • The Retreat

    Henry Denker

    In an exclusive rehabilitation center visited by troubled celebrities, Kitzi Mills, recovering from alcoholism, meets a cast of other fast-living, troubled men and women struggling to reconstruct their shattered lives...

  • Rainforest

    Jenny Diski

  • Sleeping Beauty

    Walt Disney

  • Little Treasury of Walt Disney

    Walt Disney

  • A Worm Turns

    Arthur Douglas

  • See Naples and Kill

    Gregory Dowling

  • Counter Attack

    David Drake

    Pledged to protect us all The soldiers of the Alliance come from different worlds, different cultures. But they share a common mission: to reclaim occupied space from the savage Khalian invaders. The ruthless aliens, armed with lasers and plasma c...

  • Lie Down in Roses

    Shannon Drake

    A LOVE IN BLOOM HATH MANY THORNS LADY GENEVIEVE - proud and beautiful, she vowed to save the castle of Edenby through a single, dangerous act of passion - offering her hand in marriage to the invading enemy she despised... LORD TRISTAN - One of...

  • Destiny's Splendor

    Kathleen Drymon

    NO WAY OUT Jessica Star Colton had nowhere to turn. At nineteen, she had two years before being free of the cruel guardian who intended to marry her off to the highest bidder and keep her fortune for himself. Jessica thought she would never escape...

  • Where Passion Dwells

    Sandra Dubay

    NO POWER ON EARTH COULD KEEP THEM FROM EACH OTHER'S ARMS Raine McQuaid, lovely and spirited young heiress, had always taken it for granted that she would someday marry Patrick Thorndyke and unite their families' vast plantations - until the day sh...

  • A Murder of Crows

    Margaret Duffy

  • Death of a Raven

    Margaret Duffy

    At a luxurious vacation house on the Canadian coast, a curious house party has gathered. Its object is not sociability but security - the safety of the crack English engineers whose mission is to design the missile controls for Canada's revitalized n...

  • The Lion's Share

    Lee Duigon

  • The Destiny of the Sword

    Dave Duncan

    THE RIDDLE OF THE GODDESS Wallie Smith had been dying on another world when the Goddess transferred his mind to the body of the barbarian swordsman Shonsu. Then She gave him the great, magical Sapphire Sword of Chioxin and sent him on a mission. ...

  • Spirits of Cavern and Hearth

    M. Coleman Easton

    On a series of enormous mountain ranges beneath peak-of-the-world, Yarkol Dolmi works to help his tribe across a poisonous volcanic landscape until he becomes afflicted with an illness that changes his role with the tribe...

  • Lone Star and the Texas Rangers

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki ride south of the border to clear a lawman's name!The Texas Rangers are the hardest-riding, straightest-shooting breed of lawmen ever to wear a badge. So when Jessie and Ki hit El Paso to see if their old friend Ranger Semus Jones is in...

  • Buying Time

    Peter Elvy

  • Longarm and the New Mexico Shoot Out

    Tabor Evans

  • Longarm and the Lone Star Frame

    Tabor Evans

    REUNION WITH DANGER The way Longarm saw it, his old friend Jessie Starbuck was easy on his eyes, but hard on his health. When he answered her telegram he didn't reckon on a welcoming committee of local lawmen out to try her for murder...or a pack ...

  • Longarm in the Sierra Madres

    Tabor Evans

  • No Man's Land

    William Fairchild

  • Honeymoon

    Knut Faldbakken

  • Mother's Girl

    Elaine Feinstein

  • Sweet Diamond Dust

    Rosario Ferre

    "“Hypnotic… should not be missed.”—Lucy Stark, Voices from the Gaps

    Originally published in Spanish under the title Maldito Amor (""Cursed Love""), Sweet Diamond Dust introduced American readers to a voice that is by t...

  • Retribution

    Herb Fisher

    Youngblood, a Green Beret who has wasted away in prison on trumped-up charges while the Mob is free to terrorize his family, hits the street to take his revenge on the syndicate and avenge his wife and children's suffering...

  • The Art of Death

    Richard Fliegel

    Stuck in traffic on the Cross-Bronx Expressway, Detective Sergeant Shelly Lowenkopf finds himself in the middle of an apparent attack by young black Indians with rubber-tipped arrows when another motorist fires back. Shelly takes the shooter down to ...

  • Lotus Deception

    Walter Flohr

  • Disney's Oliver and Company Movie Storybook

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • The Gallant Governess

    Pamela Frazier

    The Scandalous Perils of Love... Well born and gently bred, Claudia Barnett knew only the graceful country life of her family's ancient estate. Then a shocking reversal cast her out into an often cruel world. Tremulous but undaunted, Claudia becam...

  • Us Against Them

    Michael French

    Driving a club expedition to the Adirondack wilderness, friends and fellow club members Devon, Marcy, and Reed face difficult decisions about conflicting loyalties, the limits of friendship, conscience, trust, and independence...

  • Apple-Tree and Other Stories

    John Galsworthy

  • Albert and Victoria

    Deborah Gangloff

    Two best friends, Albert and Victoria, enjoy a very pleasant life in the walls of the sixty-eighth floor of the Empire State building until Victoria decides not to hibernate for the winter like the rest of the bugs....

  • River of Tomorrow

    Dorothy Garlock

    ONLY HER DEFIANT PRIDE KEPT HER FROM BEGGING FOR HIS LOVE... Behind her proper schoolmarm ways, sunny blond Mercy was the same sassy spitfire she had been as a child. An orphan raised by the Quill family with her foster brother Danny, she had alwa...

  • The Lion's Lady

    Julie Garwood

    1810. She has taken London society by storm. Christina Bennett... the ravishing beauty with the mysterious past. Rumor whispers she is a princess from a far-off kingdom on the continent. But only she holds the secret --until the night Lord Alexander ...

  • Loveknot

    Catherine George

    Sophie thought marriage was for the birds! When she saw her boss, Alexander Paget, jilted at the altar, Sophie's heart bled for him. But she didn't appreciate the rush of interest the ex-bridegroom soon showed in her. Sophie refused to ...

  • Gamble at Iliamna

    Ted Gerken

  • Death's Head Berlin

    Jack Gerson

  • Spectacular Stone Soup

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    "You never help people," Jiwon says. Her friend is right. Stacy can't remember the last time she'd helped anyone! Now Mrs. Zachary wants her class to be people-helpers and prepare a Spectacular Stone Soup together. Stacy works hard to be helpful, b...

  • Hennessey's Heaven

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    Venny McClure had come to her family's private island to hide, not to fall in love -- but when a bronzed, tantalizing hunk accused her of trespassing, she trembled with stirrings of desire. Hennessey was charming, dangerous, an utterly handsome m...

  • The Wonderful Pigs of Jillian Jiggs

    Phoebe Gilman

    After discovering that buttons look just like pigs' noses, Jillian Jiggs embarks on an extravagant pig-making enterprise. She makes pirate pigs, princess pigs, striped pigs, and plaid pigs and sells them for ten cents each. Full color....

  • Murder for Christmas II

    Thomas Godfrey

    Another perfect stocking stuffer for the person who has everything--and plans to leave it to you. It's been said that Christmas brings out the best in everyone. This is certainly true of mystery writers, who seem to have been inspired to their bes...

  • English Country House Murders

    Thomas Godfrey
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    Nothing could seem more civilized, more orderly and sedate than a weekend at one of Great Britain's country estates. Yet these staid, conservative houses play host to a wider variety of murders than do the mean streets of America's darkest cities....

  • West to Eden

    Gloria Goldreich

    Emma Coen Lewin is the magnetic heroine of this absorbing family saga, a brave young woman who flees Amsterdam at the turn of the century for a new life in an American desert town called Phoenix. With her brothers and her husband Isaac, who has fled ...

  • Madeleine's Marriage

    Emma Goldrick

    She knew trouble when she saw it! New Englander Madeleine Charbonneau was too big a girl to think of marriage -- five feet ten inches, to be precise. Her problems consisted mainly of keeping a roof over her head in the quiet town of Laconia, New H...

  • Steeltown

    James Grady

  • The Kerandraon Legacy

    Sara Grant

    LEGACY OF LOVE Luc Keraven had been taken by Christie Beaumont's beauty one magical moonlit night, but that was as far as it could ever go. He was convinced that her mother had tricked his father into leaving her Kerandraon, his family home. L...

  • Mr. President, Private Eye

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Lady of the Island

    Jennifer Greene

    ISLAND ENCOUNTER The last thing Jarl Hendricks ever expected was to find himself face-to-face with a woman aiming a shotgun at his head! But behind Sara Chapman's bravado, Jarl sensed a very real fear. What--or whom--was she afraid of? He had to f...

  • Woodwitch

    Stephen Gregory

    'A thorough reinvention of the Gothic landscape . . . Gregory's voice and vision are wholly original.' - Ramsey Campbell 'Admirable . . . a queerly intense, hothouse atmosphere.' - "Newsday" 'A finely written and truly creepy novel with a haunting ...

  • Rainbows, Fleas, and Flowers

    Geoffrey Grigson

  • Her Own Terms

    Judith Grossman

  • Midnight Sins

    Ellin Hall

  • Kisses of the Enemy

    Rodney Hall

    Australia declares its independence but finds that, under the leadership of American Bernard Buchanan, troubles grow, and the seeds are sown to overthrow the new, oppressive regime in a speculative novel set in the near future...

  • Queen Bee

    Emily Hallin

    RETURN OF THE NATIVE For the past year life had been just about perfect for Sally. That was before her older sister, June had unexpectedly returned to interrupt Sally's first date with super dreamboat Trevor. Worse yet, June planned to stay. She had...

  • Tame the Wind

    Karen Harper

    Lady Gerta knew the dangers of love. It ravaged the halls of king Henry VIII's court, unleashing a boody turmoil of jealousy and deceit. And yet, in the powerful arms of Captain Edward Clinton, Gerta was prepared to cast aside her fears...to su...

  • Minstrel's Fire // Cut and Run

    Anne Harrell

    The largest uncut diamond in the world, the Minstrel’s Rough, is little more than legend. Brought into the Peperkamp family in 1548, it has been handed down to one keeper in each generation. Juliana Fall has inherited its splendor from her uncle --...

  • Prairie Paradise

    Emma Harrington

    SHE EMBRACED HER FREEDOM When the stunning Shoshoni maiden Blue Feather was captured by cruel-hearted Blackfeet, she prayed for death rather than torture at her enemies' hands. But when a golden-haired white man defied all odds, to save her, the...

  • Ivory Temptress

    Emma Harrington

    Angel of Mercy... Arriving in England on the brink of war, fiery, independent American Catherine Weston defiantly determines to join Florence Nightingale in her work in exotic lands. But Fate has other plans for the dark-haired vixen. At a magical ch...

  • Shadows of the White Sun

    Raymond Harris

  • A Harvest of Death

    Ray Harrison

  • Honeymoon With Murder

    Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

    IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH ... Mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance and detective Max Darling are finally tying the knot, but a bizarre sequence of events might unravel this blissful marriage before it begins. With the ceremony completed and the ...

  • Sniper Kill

    Jack Hawkins

  • Shifting Fires

    Eric Helm

  • Prisoners of Arionn

    Brian Herbert

    When aliens encapsulate the entire San Franisco Bay Area and transport it to their home planet, eleven-year-old Michelle Fouqet, granddaughter of the acting Mayor of San Francisco and daughter of eccentric parents, views the situation as another of l...

  • A Really Cute Corpse

    Joan Hess

    Claire Malloy, reluctant director of Farberville's Miss Thurberfest beauty pageant, is being driven to distraction by baton twirlers, off-key singers, lead-foot dancers, and the general hysteria that is convulsing the eighteen beauties vying for this...

  • Fantasy Lover

    Sally Heywood

    No other man could compare! In her brief stint as a foreign correspondent, Merril met the only man she thought she could ever love. Azur, he called himself, and he was as wild and electrifying as his war-torn country. Even back home in London, ...

  • A Season in Hell

    Jack Higgins

    In Paris, a Cambridge University student is murdered. When his body arrives in England it will be stuffed with pure heroin .... On a training field used by Britain's elite Special Air Service, a young sergeant hones his killing skills to a savage pit...

  • The Sutburys

    Pamela Hill

    By the beginning of the nineteenth century, the derelict estate of Fenfallow has fallen into the hands of the Sutburys, remote kinsmen of the family who once lived there. Their fortunes rise and fall with the feud between Felix Sutbury and his brothe...

  • There Are No Ghosts in the Soviet Union

    Reginald Hill

    With gleeful malice aforethought, Hill explodes the genre of the short murder tale and diverts it to his own wicked, original ends. These six stories by the creator of mysteries featuring Detective Dalziel and Sergeant Pascoe ( An Advancement of Lear...

  • Devil's Wind

    Douglas Hirt

  • Old Bear Tales

    Jane Hissey

  • Oasis

    Brian Hodge

    A golden time -- that's what Chris Anderson, his brother Aaron, and their friends expected of that final summer. Freedom, and lazy, pleasure-filled days before the responsibilities of college and career. An idyll in the seclusion of their newfound hi...

  • Captain's Paradise

    Kay Hooper

    When Robin Stuart was plucked, drenched and shivering, from the stormy seas, she clung desperately to the arms that had reached for her--but had she escaped from one terror into another? She'd been too close to danger not to recognize it again in the...

  • The Clue in the Classroom

    Laura Lee Hope

  • Carries Games

    Nancy J. Hopper

  • Still Life

    E.E. Horlak

  • The Game of Life

    Norma Howe

  • Promised Passion

    Hannah Howell

    Raised among eleven brawny, boisterous brothers, beautiful Islaen MacRoth knew nothing of the tricks a maiden uses to trap a husband. Instead, her desperate father had arranged a match at court -- with a man who had sworn never to wed again. But f...

  • Sweet Misery

    Charlotte Hughes

    Roxie Norris was a minister's daughter, but the stubborn, spunky enchantress was no saint! When her car died on Tyler Sheridan's doorstep, the devastatingly handsome restaurateur was stunned: he'd expected a shy country girl with scrawny legs, not a ...

  • A Scandalous Bargain

    Ann Hulme

    She agreed to marriage and nothing more Emily Weston led a simple, pleasant life in the English countryside of Essex. As a ward of a peer, she wanted for nothing, except the return from the Peninsular War of her guardian's son, whom she consid...

  • Beyond the Sunset

    Louise Hurren

  • A Patch of Earth

    Bobby Hutchinson

    ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID NEVER A BRIDE... Liz Morrison was so delighted by the marriage of her best friend, Chris Johnstone, to Michael Quinn that she almost forgot her own loneliness. But when her tear-filled eyes met the piercing gaze of wedding g...

  • In Honor's Shadow

    Lisa Jackson

    Long ago, a young Brenna Douglass had declared her undying love to her sister's boyfriend, Warren Stone. The result was a passionate kiss, followed by a panicked rejection that devastated Brenna. Ten years later, after her sister Honor's d...

  • Moonwalker

    Michael Jackson

  • Spring Thunder

    Sandra James

    IT WAS ALL HERS Jessica Culver was the proud owner of a run-down house, twenty acres of land . . . and a dream. She was determined to start a nursery business, even though she was struggling with the trauma of her recent divorce and the unfamiliar...

  • The Newspaper of Claremont Street

    Elizabeth Jolley

    This is the story of an old cleaning woman -- known as “Weekly” or “The Newspaper” to the residents of Claremont Street for whom she works -- who dreams of escape from the parasitic demands of both her past and her present. This new edition o...

  • Confessions Of Abby Winslade

    Tessa Kay

    WHEN THREE'S A CROWD Spending Easter vacation in a dreary English coastal resort off season with relatives was not exactly a treat for lively fourteen-year-old Abby and her dreamy, romantic older sister, Helen. Yet it had its charms -- namely Gray C...

  • Innocent Pretences

    Lucy Keane

    Things weren't always what they seemed Suzie had to tighten her belt financially when her friend Katrina abandoned her during their holiday in Jordan. But she was determined to see the rose city of Petra. She got rather more than she bargai...

  • The Mystery of Misty Canyon

    Carolyn Keene

    Unless Nancy can win the money in the Independence Day Rodeo, she’ll lose her beloved ranch. Before the rodeo, Tammy Calloway is thrown from her horse in what appears to Nancy to be a set-up. Determined to find out who wants Tammy out of the race, ...

  • Death by Design

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy stalks a poisoner through Chicago's high-fashion jungle After receiving a series of death threats, hot young fashion designer Kim Daley calls Nancy Drew to investigate. At first it seems like a simple case of jealous rivals. But suddenly the c...

  • Luke Sutton, Mustanger

    Leo P. Kelley

  • A Question of Trust

    Shirley Kemp

    SHE DIDN'T WANT TO LOVE HIM The money was good, but being Matthew Clayburn's assistant wasn't. Thea was willing to work hard to support her sister's baby, but this dictorial, gorgeous man demanded more than nine-to-five efficiency. He'd stipulated ...

  • The Midas Touch

    Katherine Kendall

    They were both hooked Whales were dying mysteriously off the coast of Cape Cod, and marine biologist Shelby Haynes was trying to discover the cause. Which was how she found herself being hauled from the ocean by one brawny Jake Lawson, who soon re...

  • Sleeping Dogs Die

    Frank King

  • A Daring Wager

    Valerie King

    ADVENTUROUS MINX Ellie Dearborne bit her lip in consternation. How could she have gotten herself in such a fix! Her penchant for gaming had finally led her to ruin. It seemed like such a lark, wagering her devious cousin George that she would obtain...

  • Credit-Card Carole

    Sheila Solomon Klass

  • Forever My Love

    Lisa Kleypas

    Her lips softened and clung to his, seeking the warmth and taste of him. His tongue feathered against hers, and she shivered with a craving more powerful, more urgent, than hunger or thirst. . . . Exquisitely beautiful Mira Germain was only eight...

  • Satin Seduction

    Allison Knight

    When fiercely independent Alexander Dampier was tricked into an arranged marriage by his overbearing father, the furious young man swore he'd never consummate his vows. But when the hot blooded gentleman farmer first set eyes on his long limbed b...

  • Splendor

    Reva Korda

    IN ROME, THE WORLD'S MOST VOLUPTUOUS CITY, LOVE IS THE ULTIMATE SEDUCTION... In one stunning year, Tess Farraday swept her own New York advertising agency into the golden circle of high-powered clients, luxury and sophistication. Now she's landed ...

  • Primal Scene

    Yale Kramer

    During his rounds at Bellevue Hospital, resident Dr. Seth Conrad learns that young aide Jennifer Light has been beaten to death and becomes involved in his own investigation, a search that points to the complicity of his colleagues...

  • Dreams Part One

    Jayne Ann Krentz

    History was repeating itself Diana Prentice needed a break from the power games of the corporate world. She picked the charming mountain town of Fulbrook Corners as her sanctuary, not knowing that mysterious forces had lured her to the scene of a...

  • Dreams Part Two

    Jayne Ann Krentz

    They were bound by fate Pregnant! Diana Prentice knew she should be ecstatic - bearing Colby Savagar's child - but she wasn't. The idea of motherhood frightened her. Almost as much as the recurring dreams that told her she needed Colby...dreams th...

  • A Charmed Life

    Anne Lacey

    Dr. Tessa Fitzgerald firmly believed the world was a dangerous place. In her experience, disease and disaster lurked in every corner, and caution was always necessary. So when reckless Ross Stanton collapsed at her feet, she instantly recognized h...

  • In the Name of the Law

    Charles Lachman

    Lawyer Jimmy Janos is busy defending a member of the Sick Assassins who has murdered a number of people at Presbyterian Hospital when he is faced with the most compelling case of his career--to stop his own disbarment...

  • The Half Breed

    Justin Ladd

  • Bewitching Minx

    Janis Laden

    COMMON TROLLOP From her first encounter with the Marquis of Penderleigh when he had mistaken her for a common trollop, Penelope had been incensed with the darkly handsome lord. And even though he offered the hospitality of Pender Castle when Penelop...

  • Time for Fun Cubby Bear

    Elizabeth Laird

  • Desperation

    Charlotte Lamb

    A whirlwind courtship, then a year apart Megan had been fully prepared to wait for Devlin's return from his year-long filming trip to the Amazon. Despite the differences in their backgrounds and their ages, she knew their love was right. Bu...

  • Cabin Fever

    Terry Lawrence

    TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT Autumn Kierney had won a Colorado ski weekend, but getting snowbound in a mountain cabin was no prize. Her only lifeline was the deep telephone voice of "Rescue Central." Though he barked orders as tenderly as a drill sergea...

  • Story of a Happy Woman

    Elizabeth Levin

  • The Winner

    Elizabeth Levy

  • Those of My Blood

    Jacqueline Lichtenberg

    In the world of the future, Titus Shiddehara has a unique heritage. Twenty years earlier, he'd been ?killed? in a car crash and buried by his fiancée, having been forbidden by his vampire ?father? to reveal his true heritage to his human lover. ...

  • Silver Angel

    Johanna Lindsey

    Her tender passion turns to love...and master to slave Kidnapped and sold into slavery, Chantelle Burke was led into the Pasha's scented chambers swearing she'd never surrender to this ruthless master. But she was stunned by the magnificen...

  • The Farmer in the Soup

    Freya Littledale

  • Slocum and the Gunfighter's Return

    Jake Logan

    A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE CAN BE A DEADLY THING. Dustin Larrimore knew damn little about the night his pa died. Just what his mama managed to tell him twelve years later on her deathbed. Now he aims to go back to the family ranch and dig up the truth. Wh...

  • Bertie and the Tinman

    Peter Lovesey

    It is 1886 and the greatest of all jockeys, Fred Archer, has put his gun to his head and shot himself. An inquest is arranged with indecent haste. His mind was unhinged by typhoid, say the jury, despite conflicting evidence. The Prince is suspicio...

  • From Furmanov to Sholokhov: An Anthology of the Classics of Socialist Realism

    Nicholas Luker

    Teachers and students of Russian literature will find this anthology indispensable. The classic prose works of Socialist Realism have been gathered into one volume, with notes, biographical material on the writers, and photographs....

  • The Steadfast Heart

    Dorothy Mack

    A MOST DANGEROUS SECRET Beautiful and spirited Miss Natasha Phillips was enraged by the arrogant effrontery of Major Cameron Talbot. First the major arrived in London to take command of Natasha's entry into society, ordering her to behave like ...