Books Published in December 1989

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — DECEMBER 1989

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New Books List: 409 titles

  • 'Tis the Season

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    She had interior motives Anna Tilford's Connecticut farmhouse was the perfect weekend escape from the pressures of designing interiors for New York's elite. But her peace was shattered when her country neighbor, Sam Garrison, announced that his ev...

  • 29/29

    Nick Bragger

  • 7 x 7 Tales of Seven

    Hanna Johansen

    A seven-year-old boy identifies with sevensleepers, little squirrel-like creatures who sleep for seven months, and he insists on doing everything in sevens, including going to bed at seven o'clock, eating seven potatoes, and taking seven minutes to w...

  • The 97th Step

    Steve Perry

    ONE MAN. THREE LIVES. IN A FIGHT-OR-DIE FUTURE ... MWILI was born on a cruel, desolate planet ... and dreamed of the stars. FERRET was a thief and smuggler on exotic worlds ... until his ruin. PEN was trained by the master warriors, the Sib...

  • Adam Blair

    Adam Blair

  • Advance, Retreat

    Richard Rive

  • Adventures of Freddie

    John H. Perry

  • African Burn

    Gar Wilson

  • African Short Stories

    Joan S. Kenna

  • Alias Madame Doubt

    Anne Fine

    Miranda's three children thoroughly enjoy their huge, overdressed baby sitter/cleaning woman who is actually their father in disguise, and they dread the day when their mother discovers Madame Doubtfire is really her ex-husband....

  • Alistair Maclean's Death Train

    Alastair MacNeill

  • All About Women

    Andrew M. Greeley

    You're in for an unforgettable experience when America's master storyteller turns his enormous narrative gifts to the passionate, haunting subject of the American woman, searching for--and often finding--love and faith... in Andrew M. Greeley's All A...

  • All for Nothing & Another Story

    W.P. Farnfield

  • All or Nothing

    Catherine Lanigan

    THEY WERE HIGH-STAKES PLAYERS IN A DANGEROUS GAME OF POWER AND PASSION... MAUREEN McDONALD She left behind the glamour of the big city to triumph in a barren and uncompromising land. But now she'll have to trust her heart to one man...or watch he...

  • The All-American Male

    Glenda Sanders

    Her pumpkin was a Porsche Tired of living in a gilded cage, heiress Cassaundra Snow decided to spread her wings and experience the "real" world. But while posing as the all-American working girl, she encountered Chuck Granger, all-American male . ...

  • America's Sword

    Ryder Stacy

    Ted Rockson and his band of freedom fighters respond to a distress signal in post-nuclear America, crossing the Forbidden Zone to rescue a group of survivalists threatened by Cultmaster Chairman Jensen and his mind-destroying weapons...

  • Amy's Pen Pal

    Francine Pascal

    Elizabeth Wakefield and her best friend, Amy Sutton, have big plans for the holiday weekend, including a fabulous party, a family barbecue, and the chance to see a dreamy deejay broadcast live from the Sweet Valley Mall.



    But the weeken...

  • And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees

    Michael Bishop
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  • Antaeus: Essays

    Daniel Halpern

  • Any Day Now

    Elizabeth Quinn

    FALLING IN LOVE WAS EASY--THE FIRST TIME. NOW ALL THE RULES HAD CHANGED... Kate Buchanan still remembered the jeans and t-shirt Nick Ricci wore the last time she saw him. She remembered every bitter word that passed between them, every tear she c...

  • Any Similarity to Persons Living

    Berkley Publishing Group

  • The Apprentice

    Deborah Talmadge-Bickmore

  • Aspects Of Love

    David Garnett

    A young boy, a beautiful actress, an elderly aristocrat - troubled desire and tangled emotions flowering against the glowing backgrounds of Southern France, Italy and Paris, in perilous defiance of the barriers of age. Such are the 'aspects of love' ...

  • Assassins

    F.M. Parker

    The time is 1847, and the place is turbulent New Orleans during the staging of American forces for the invasion of Mexico. Timothy Wollfolk traveling to New Orleans to claim a huge inheritance, is shot and thought dead and thrown into the flooding Mi...

  • Atlanta Burn

    Bob Ham

  • Attack of the Seventh Carrier

    Peter Albano

  • The Baby Who Would Not Come Down

    Joan Knight

  • Baby-sitters' Winter Vacation

    Ann M. Martin

    A week of skiing, skating, and snowball fights. Why can't homework always be like that? Every year, Stoneybrook Middle School (the whole school!) gets invited to Leicester Lodge in Vermont for a week of winter adventure! This trip sure isn't li...

  • Bad for Each Other

    Billie Green

    Getting assigned to interview Dylan Tate was an incredible coup for Keely Durant -- the spectacularly handsome actor and sax player hadn't talked to the press for years -- but how could she tell her editor that five years earlier she and this her...

  • Be Still My Heart

    Patricia Hermes

  • Beautiful Mutants

    Deborah Levy

  • A Beautiful Place to Die

    Philip R. Craig

    A GREAT PLACE TO VISIT... BUT YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO DIE THERE During his career as a cop on the back streets of Boston, Jeff Jackson saw enough of the evil that men do to last a lifetime. So he retired to the serenity of Martha's Vineyard, to spend...

  • Bedouin

    Fred Rendell

  • Bedside Manner

    Jo Ann Algermissen

    WINNING WAYS... Dr. Kristie Fairbanks had spent a lifetime trying to gain her father's respect and admiration. When he reluctantly let her assume management of the Fairbanks Care Centers, she saw her chance to prove herself. But then he hired hos...

  • Before the Wind

    Maura Seger

    IF YOU WOULD SEDUCE ME ... PROMISE ME YOUR LOVE Even her glorious beauty could not save nineteen-year-old Dominique from the maddened mob outside the Tuileries Palace. As lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette, Dominique had lived a luxurious life in...

  • Beloved Avenger

    Joan Van Nuys

    The Pearls of Naipoor -- long ago, Lucian Thorne had been convicted of stealing the fabled jewels and stripped of his command. Becoming the elusive "Ghost," he sailed storm-tossed seas, preying upon the ships of the villain who had ruined him...

  • Bernie Entertaining

    Larry Bograd

  • The Best Gift of All

    Andrea Davidson

    ALL SPENCE WANTED WAS A MOTHER TO LOVE Spence Carruthers had a room full of toys, a live-in grandfather who knew all about fishing, and a father who'd forgotten how to count his blessings. Mark Carruthers had run so hard and so long from childh...

  • Betrayal of Love

    Diana Hamilton

    "A divorce? Is that what you want?" After four years apart, Leon's reappearance was an intrusion into Felicity's successful new life. She'd done her best to forget him. Leon Draker might not have changed much in that time, b...

  • Betsie's Secret

    J.H. Taylor

  • A Bewitching Compulsion

    Susan Napier

    Clare Malcolm was in more than enough trouble She'd been having difficulty preventing her mother-in-law from exploiting her son Tim's talent as a violin prodigy. Now she was under pressure from maestro David Deverenko. Yet when David arid his d...

  • The Big Silence

    Bernard Schopen

    IN NEVADA, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. IN NEVADA, NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS. A man may vanish in the vast deserts, dusty towns, or glittering cities of Nevada as easily as mirages form on the sun-baked playa or the neon-washed streets. Private detective J...

  • Biggest Valentine

    David Gantz

  • The Bird, the Beast & the Fishes Tail

    A.W. Spacey

  • Blackmailer's Summer

    Peter Whalley

  • Blind Man with a Pistol

    Chester Himes

    At once grotesquely comic and unflinchingly violent: the final entry in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, set in New York in the sweltering summer heat. “A sensual, surreal, cartoonishly violent and breathtakingly bawdy comic universe.” ...

  • Blood Kin

    Michael McGann

  • Blood Line

    Alanna Knight

    Prior to a visit to Scotland from Queen Victoria, an unidentified corpse washes up on the rocks below Edinburgh Castle, the first in a series of baffling events that result in some suspicions that may have international repercussions...

  • Blood Money

    Will McLennan

  • Blood of the Children

    Alan Rodgers

  • Blue Bloods

    Margaret Ann Reid

  • The Blue House

    Naishan Cheng

  • Blue Moon

    Dawn Stewardson

    The year is 1862 Prospectors swarm over the Sierra Nevada, hunting for gold, desperadoes roam the range, and the Indians are on the warpath. Dr. Henry Lockhart is so busy setting broken bones that he hasn't any time for women. Just as well....

  • Body of Evidence

    David A. Van Meter

    Vietnam vet turned private eye Gardner Wells agrees to locate a friend's rebellious daughter in Mexico, but when the runaway's young son and a previous private investigator disappear, the case takes on dangerous dimensions...

  • Bold Texas Embrace

    Victoria Thompson

    HOT-BLOODED RANCHER Art teacher Catherine Eaton could hardly believe how stubborn Sam Connors was! Even though the rancher's young stepbrother was an exceptionally talented painter, Sam forbade Catherine to instruct him, fearing that art would make ...

  • The Book of Marvels

    Christopher T. Leland

  • The Book of Ruth

    Jane Hamilton

    PEN/Hemingway Award Winner: An “enthralling” novel of a woman trapped within a tragically dysfunctional family (Entertainment Weekly).   From the New York Times"bestselling author of The Excellent Lombards and A Map of the World, this is ...

  • Boomerang

    Barry Hannah

    Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Prize for his first novel Geronimo Rex and twice nominated for the National Book Award, Hannah ( Hey Jack! ; The Tennis Handsome ) again exhibits his antic imagination and spare but striking prose style. In his eighth book,...

  • Boy Trouble

    Francine Pascal

    Torn in two... Patty Gilbert is elated when she finds out that her boyfriend, Jim Hollis, is coming home from college for a weekend visit. But then she finds out that her older sister, Jana, is coming to visit the same weekend, and she tells Jim s...

  • Brainrose

    Nancy Kress

    When Caroline Bohentin, Joe McLaren, and Robbie Brekke undergo Previous Life Access Surgery, the journeys into their separate pasts turn out to have an interwoven, horrifying relevance to the future of humankind...

  • Brass Cross

    Bruce L. Blackie

  • Brats

    Mary R. Truscott

  • A Bundle of Papyrus

    Moelwyn Merchant

  • Buzzard's Gap

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo agrees to shepherd two beautiful and hot-blooded sisters through a dangerous stretch of country, not reckoning on having a deal with a clan of twisted killers and rapists called the Bible Boys...

  • Camp Champion

    Holly Simpson

    Heading off to gymnastics camp, Jo encounters a real distraction in the form of Steve Michaels, a tall, tanned champion gymnast who seems more interested in extracurricular activities than in training...

  • Campground Caper

    Mel Cebulash

  • Can't Quit You, Baby

    Ellen Douglas

    “It is rare when a book this fine enters the world of contemporary American literature.” " The Boston Globe

    Two women share a Mississippi household for fifteen years, rolling out piecrusts and making conversation. Cornelia is rich, whit...

  • Canow Kernow

    Dyllansow Truran

  • A Carol Christmas

    Muriel Jensen

    THE CHILDREN WANTED A FAMILY TO BELONG TO It was their last Christmas together. Housemother Carol Shaw wanted to make it special for Frank, Nicky, Dorcas, Kathy and Candy -- children who'd never had a family and faced an uncertain future in foster h...

  • The Case of the Constant Suicides

    John Dickson Carr

  • Castle of Crushed Shamrocks

    Lee Karr

    Blood Seeped Into the Flagstones... Aileen O'Connor grew up in England, believing that her soldier father had died fighting Napoleon and that her mother's native Ireland was a gentle, romantic land of shamrocks and leprechauns. Then, when she was...

  • Cat's Eye

    William W. Johnstone

    SCARTCH. PURR Night after night the soft cat noises drifted through the isolated A-frame where famous author Dee Conner retreated to write her romances. Was it another harmless prank pulled by one of her fans? Or with it something much more sini...

  • Changes

    Emily Hallin

    Meg encounters resistance and competition in her relationship with Stanley--from his mother, who would rather he dated debutante Daphne Wainwright, and from Wanda Zetterquist, who wants Stanley for herself....

  • Chase the Thunder

    Patricia Potter

    A Common Goal Casey Saunders's father had been cruelly gunned down in the street. And Sean Mallory was the one man who could lead her to the killer. Mallory had been hunting Wilson and his gang of cutthroats across the Southwest. He didn't need...

  • Cheyenne's Lady

    Patricia Rice

    Her heart pounded as his lips closed over hers. Never before had she been kissed like this...never before had she been so willing to surrender to love's passionate promise... Daughter of New Mexico cattle baron and an enchantingly lovely Mexican a...

  • Children of Time

    Deborah Moulton

    David reluctantly obeys the laws of the computer-controlled government of the future which demands that every child spend every other month with a foster parent until he is imprisoned by a mad woman in a castle with hundreds of other children...

  • Christmas Stranger

    Joan Hohl

    CHRISTMAS EVE 1889 Shots rang out along with the peal of church bells. U.S. Marshal Matthew Hawk fell wounded onto the snow -- not ready to die. He'd just determined to make himself a better life, find a wife, maybe start a family. But Matt ha...

  • Circle of Light

    Eliane Corbeil Roe

    When Lucy, a French-Canadian girl, allows herself to be talked into representing her school's eighth grade in a scholarship competition, she is surprised by the changes in others' attitudes toward her as well as by her own inner strengths....

  • Class Reunion

    Jan Mathews

    After all these years, only minutes into their class reunion -- Dyana Kincaid is drawn to old beau Chad Weber like a moth to a flame. Despite his enormous success and fame, Dyana finds Chad is as wonderful and down-to-earth as he used to be. In Dyana...

  • The Closer We Get

    Ruth Glick

    Elena Castille The petite artist had traveled all the way to Santa Barbara to marry the man she loved. When Stephen suddenly spurned her affections, she was distraught. Pride wouldn't let her return home to Venezuela. Stephen Gallagher A min...

  • Coffin in Fashion

    Gwendoline Butler

    Scotland Yard's eminent Detective John Coffin was a mere sergeant. Anticipating a promotion, he now buys a house that needs repairs and proves a catalyst to dire events. Workmen find the body of an adolescent boy under the floor--and Coffin, though i...

  • Coinspinner's Story

    Fred Saberhagen

    The gods thought it a fine jest when they forged the Twelve Swords of Power and gave them to mere mortals to fight over. The jest turned sour when men learned that the Swords could kill the gods; now the gods are gone, and the Swords are scattered am...

  • The Color of Neanderthal Eyes

    James Tiptree Jr.
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  • The Colorado

    Gary McCarthy

  • The Colorist

    Susan Daitch

  • Come Gentle the Dawn

    Lindsay McKenna

    Another nightmare or a dream come true? Though weary and frightened, hazardous-materials technician Brie Williams could still spot danger, and her rugged new partner seemed to be it. Did Linc Tanner's macho facade hide chilling threats...or enough wa...

  • The Comforts of Madness

    Paul Sayer

    THE COMFORTS OF MADNESS is the unspoken monologue of Peter, a 33-year-old catatonic psychiatric patient, who is selected for an intense and controversial process of rehabilitation.  Published in 1988, the book won that year's Constable Trophy, t...

  • Command and Control

    James D. Mitchell

  • The Confession of Brother Haluin

    Ellis Peters

    Winter arrived early in 1142, bringing with it a heavy snowfall. The safety of the guest-hall roof at the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul comes into jeopardy, and the brothers are called upon to effect repairs. But the icy and treacherou...

  • The Confessions of Aleister Crowley

    Aleister Crowley

  • Confirm or Deny

    Graham Ison

  • Corky's Brother

    Jay Neugeboren

    Neugeboren's debut collection of stories and third book. The title story, actually a novella, won the Transatlantic Review Novella Award, tells the story of Corky's baseball-playing brother, "probably the most famous guy in our neighborhood in Brookl...

  • The Cornish Captain's Tale

    Laurence J. O'Toole

  • The Courts of Love

    Jean Plaidy

    "When I look back over my long and tempestuous life, I can see that much of what happened to me-my triumphs and most of my misfortunes-were due to my passionate relationships with men." Raised in the pleasure-loving Aquitaine duchy of France, wher...

  • The Crazy Kill

    Chester Himes

    From “one of the most important American writers of the 20th century” (Walter Mosley) comes a classic thriller in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, in which love and jealousy erupt into violence.  One early morning, Revere...

  • Crescent in the Sky

    Donald Moffitt

    BLUES FOR ALLAH For a thousand years the Great Awakening had spread the word of Allah to the stars. And for a thousand years there had been no Caliph to unite the disparate Islamic planets-the vast interstellar distances made the required pilgrima...

  • The Crime of the Century

    Kingsley Amis

    When a series of murders performed by a killer with a peculiarly thin blade take place in London, Detective Superintendent Bill Barry is recalled from retirement. Doctors, psychologists, lawyers and politicians join in the hunt, but the biggest crime...

  • Cross Tides

    Elaine K. Stirling

    He was her destiny Talia Gibrian was dead--or so the world L thought. During a political coup in her homeland, the fiery freedom fighter had plummeted from the cliffs of San Vito and been swept away into the Mediterranean. But 7alia had survived a...

  • Crush on the Coach

    Elizabeth Levy

    With her mom running for city council, Lauren has no time to take stock of the events in her life--especially her crush on her new gymnastics coach--but with the help of friends, family, and even the new coach, Lauren discovers the truth....

  • Cupboard Kisses

    Barbara Metzger

    Lady or Lightskirt? Well-bred orphan Cristabel Swann tolerates her thankless teaching job--until her uncle dies unexpectedly. Arriving in London to claim her inheritance, Cristabel encounters something else entirely--a loutish naval captain who wo...

  • Dare to Go A-Hunting

    Andre Norton

    Throughout the civilized galaxy, in spacers' ports on the most far flung worlds, an ancient Terran legend echoes...about a race of magical beings called the Little People or the Fairy Folk. What if there is truth behind the old stories and songs? Wha...

  • The Darkest Heart

    Brenda Joyce

    SHE WAS CALLED THE BELLE OF THE SOUTHWEST Beautiful Candice Carter enjoyed the attentions of every eligible man in the New Mexico Territory, until her reckless heart led her to near death in the desert. But rescue came from a savage...Jack Savage,...

  • Dead Fix

    Michael R. Geller

    Jockey Ken Eagle is mystified when a wealthy racehorse owner keeps buying worthless horses and transforming them into winners. Are his techniques genuine - or is there another more sinister reason for his success?...

  • Dear Santa

    Margaret St. George

    FLASH AND AMY WANTED TO BE A FAMILY AGAIN Their dad's job kept him in Los Angeles. Amy and Flash lived with their mother in Aspen Springs, which was supposed to be a great place for kids. Amy and Flash knew where they all belonged--together. Bu...

  • Death of a Hollow Man

    Caroline Graham

    A BLOODY DISASTER... The players of the Causton Amateur Dramatic Society (CADS) were well rehearsed and ready for their opening night production of Amadeus. But no one was prepared for the leading man to give his all to the climactic scene. With o...

  • Death of His Uncle

    C.H.B. Kitchin

  • Death Squad London

    Jack Gerson

    Former German police inspector Ernest Lohmann is called in by Maurice Kovel to investigate the mysterious "suicide" of Kovel's daughter, whose body has been discovered in the Thames, in a mystery set in 1936 London...

  • Death Wore a Diadem

    Iona McGregor

    A finishing school matron's plans to use a visit by Empress Eugenie of France as a social stepping stone meets with disaster when theft and murder run rampant in the school and a jaded pupil must search the streets of Edinburgh to catch the culprit...

  • Deathgrip

    Jerry Ahern

    A death grip is strangling our precious liberty as martial law marches across the land. The President has been murdered, and the Big Lie told the American people -- that David Holden and his Patriots are guilty! But there is one hope: evidence exists...

  • A Deepe Coffyn

    Janet Lawrence

  • The Demoniacs

    John Dickson Carr

    ONE WAS DEAD, THE OTHER ALIVE… One was a vile old bawd who lived in a brutal world that suddenly turned on her. The doctor said she died of fright -- but her killers knew better… The other, lusty and young, escaped from a brothel only to fa...

  • Denim and Diamonds

    Debbie Macomber

    Nine long years ago a tearful Letty Ellison had fled Red Springs, Wyoming -- and her beloved Chase Brown -- to pursue her dreams. Life had dealt her some cruel blows, but with her head held high and her child in tow, she was finally coming home to th...

  • Devil's Deal

    Richard Austin

    HELL ON EARTH The Guardians emerged from the ashes of World War Ill. Their mission: to restore post-nuclear America to its former glory. Armed for justice, these guerrilla freedom fighters are civilizations last hope in a savage wasteland. Now-...

  • The Devil's Mode

    Anthony Burgess

    Included in this collection are eight short stories and a 110-page novella, "Hun", about the life and loves of Attila and his fight against the patricians of Rome. The author has written over 50 books including "Any Old Iron", "Earthly Powers" and "A...

  • The Devil's Spy

    Michael Hastings

  • Dialing the Wind

    Charles L. Grant

    Night in Oxrun Station From the dark porch of a lightless house the music rises, seeking those listeners desperate for love...for only they will hear the hidden secrets of this very special song. Four people are trapped by their innermost desir...

  • The Diamond's Sparkle

    Celeste Hamilton

    MULTIFACETED LOVE Altruistic attorney Liz Patterson had little time for romance, a fact deplored by her Aunt Eugenia. Eugenia had given her niece heirloom diamond earrings -- no more brilliant than Liz herself, she'd said. Now Eugenia had found her ...

  • Digging Up

    Nancy Krulik

  • Double Life A.Jones

    Hila Coleman

    Angela, a sixteen-year-old girl from a poor neighborhood in New York City, learns not to judge people by their socio-economic class after she reluctantly accepts a scholarship to a fancy boarding school....

  • Double-Dyed

    Raymond Chaplim

  • Down in the Valley

    David M. Pierce

  • The Dragon Never Sleeps

    Glen Cook

    THE VOICE OF THE DRAGON ECHOED ACROSS CANON SPACE... "Surrender or die!" For four thousand years the Guardships had issued that dictat. Built and armed by great mercantile houses, their computer cores alive with the engrams of great past leaders, ...

  • The Dragon's Revenge

    Courtney Henke

    J. D. Smith watched the woman with the wild chestnut hair and sky blue eyes coach a football team of tough youths and wondered how it would be to tangle with the dragon lady! He longed to kiss Charly's defiant mouth, to watch her eyes change colo...

  • Dream Again of Love

    Phyllis Halldorson

    A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE... Years ago, Flynn Warren had taken one look into Mary Beth's terrified blue eyes and had known exactly what to do. The grief-stricken young woman was alone in the war-torn country, and it was up to Flynn to get her ...

  • Dream Date

    Carla Bracale

  • Dream Song

    Sandra Lee Smith

    IN SEARCH OF YESTERDAY'S SECRETS...AND TOMORROW'S LOVE Autumn O'Neill had come to Arizona on an archaeological dig for the remains of the mysterious Anasazi Indians. The recent UCLA graduate also hoped to discover her own Navajo roots. Yet when th...

  • Dunraven's Folly

    Dawn Lindsey

    A DASHING LORD SETS A BOLD BEAUTY'S HEART RACING OUT OF CONTROL RUNAWAY ROMANCE Lovely Cathleen Dunraven had to keep herself under the tightest control. She could not by word or gesture betray the roguish schemes of her beloved grandfather, Sir...

  • Earthfall

    Jerry Brown

  • The Edge of the Wood

    Alan Bold

    "Rarely has any collection of short stories had such a range as this. Satire, slap-stick comedy, pathos, realism, fantasy, murder are all here, and all told in fine, concise prose. We expect that from Alan Bold, one of Scotland's outstanding poets an...

  • Edin's Embrace

    Nadine Crenshaw

    WAR HUNGRY VIKING The crash of a wooden club and the howl of a Norse cur forever shattered innocent Edin's dreams of marrying her childhood sweetheart. And when the svelte young beauty found herself in the grip of her betrothed's killer, Edin vowe...

  • The Education of J. J. Pass

    T.F. Rigelhof

  • Elements of Creation Myths

    R.J. Stewart

  • Emerald Embrace

    Marjorie Price

    The author of Renegade Heart and Desire's Dawning will set the racks on fire with this splendid story of a spirited Irish lass who finds rapture in the arms of a man she can never trust! The lovely Irish mill girl Carina O'Rourke was ready to pay ...

  • The Emerson High Vigilantes

    Gloria D. Miklowitz

    When Paul agrees to help a classmate campaign for president of the student body on a law and order platform, he is drawn into increasingly violent vigilante activities, supposedly defending the school, which worry him and cause him to question the in...

  • Emma Chizzit and the Queen Anne Killer

    Mary Bowen Hall

    SALVAGED Not one to spend her golden years rocking and reminiscing, Emma Chizzit is owner and one-woman crew of A-1 Salvage, looking for collectibles or hauling junk from old houses. Sure, some people get edgy--a woman her age in a battered pickup...

  • The End of It

    Mitchell Goodman

    The End of It is a novel about an American fighting in Italy during World War II....

  • Equal Affections

    David Leavitt

    "Equal Affections tells the story of the funny, loving, and tragic Cooper family. Louise, the indomitable matriarch, has had cancer for twenty years. Her son Danny, a lawyer, lives in a New Jersey suburb with his lover Walter, who is slowly growing o...

  • The Estuary Pilgrim

    Douglas Skeggs

    A Monet that was once a treasure of Nazi Germany becomes the center of a violent and mysterious international art fraud scandal when the painting--which was supposedly destroyed during World War II--resurfaces...

  • Every Woman Loves a Russian Poet

    Elizabeth Dunkel

    Kate Odinokov, an attractive 33-year-old advertising executive, contemplates suicide in this readable, if unremarkable, first novel, but admits, ``I could never kill myself: I love clothes too much.'' Already infatuated with her handsome Italian ther...

  • Fat

    Barbara Wersba

  • The Fate of an Eagle

    Irving A. Greenfield

    John Wesley Anderson attempts to supplement his wealth, his art collection, and his mistress with political power, a maneuver that involves Anderson's use of his CIA contacts but that backfires when the Agency decides to terminate him...

  • Father Christmas

    Mary Blayney

    'TIS THE SEASON Annie VerHollan would have done anything for her adorable eight-year-old nieces -- even put up with their Scrooge of a father. So what if she'd loved Daniel Marshall -- and hated him -- for ten years! When the handsome widower offere...

  • The Father of Love

    Janette Oke

    The heartwarming story of Marty and Clark Davis in the Love Comes Softly Series has captured the imaginations and emotions of readers from all ages and backgrounds. When Marty first travelled west, her dreams of a bright future were shattered with th...

  • Final Class

    John Markham

  • Final Covenant

    Arnaldo Hernandez

  • Final Performance

    Robert Carley

  • Fire Queen

    Deborah Grabien

    Maeve, Queen of Connacht. . . Warrior, ruler, lover. She was everything men wanted. . . And her enemies feared most. At fifteen, the flame-haired queen was renowned throughout the Celtic world for her two-handed prowess in battle and her haunting, ot...

  • Flamingo

    Bob Reiss

    On sabatical from his crime beat at the "New York Daily News," reporter Raleigh Fixx travels to the Florida Keys to write a book on a bird sanctuary and becomes the suspect in the murder investigation of a man he had just met...

  • Flirting With Danger

    Linda Turner

    THE MIDNIGHT HOUR Sheer terror had driven cosmetics heiress Gabriella Winters to flee her family home in the dead of night. But when a frightening encounter aboard a freight train led to rescue by dark, handsome stranger Austin LePort, she knew sh...

  • Flute

    Shona Ramaya

  • Fool on the Hill

    Matt Ruff

    From the author of Lovecraft Country: Myth and reality collide on a college campus “in a comic fantasy of wonderful energy, invention, and generosity of spirit” (Alison Lurie).   Stephen Titus George is a young writer-in-residence at Co...

  • Forever Love

    Maria Greene

    He found her lying beside the fallen coach, an exquisite beauty...quite dead. Then her body mysteriously vanished -- until, days later, still haunted by her memory, Carey McLendon looked across a crowded salon and saw her once again -- radiant with l...

  • Free Flight

    Douglas Terman

  • Freedom Uncensored

    J.H. Taylor

  • Frozen Stare

    Richard B. Schwartz

    Jack Grant, Vietnam vet turned L.A. private eye, spends his days busting small-time insurance defrauders. But his latest client gives him the cold shoulder―literally― when he turns up dead in a tub of ice. Another body in a downtown meat freezer ...

  • Game of Hearts

    Sally Cheney

    APPEARANCES CAN BE DECEIVING When governess Josephine Foster arrived at Westover Manor, she thought it rather odd to find herself presented to the young master as a worthy object for his affections. But since the man was the devilishly handsome De...

  • Gathering Storm

    Brian Kelleher

    THE SECRET WARRIORS -- They were America's top test pilots -- but the test they were making now would never make the headlines. They had to sneak America's newest air weapon -- the F-86 Sabre Jet -- into the skies over Korea to see if it stood up aga...

  • The Ghost of Craven Cove

    Carolyn Keene

    MYSTERY IN THE MISTS.... Nancy, Bess, and George have been invited by their former grade-school teacher June Braden to spend their vacation on the coast of Maine. Miss Braden's brother, Karl, was recently lost at sea and is presumed dead, but his da...

  • The Ghost of Tintern Abbey

    Henry Gardner

  • Giant Steps

    Kenneth Tauloe

  • The Gilded Web

    Mary Balogh

    TWOFOLD TEMPTATION Dark-haired and beautiful Miss Alexandra Purnell had a problem that most young ladies would have adored. Not one but two handsome lords had offered her marriage - and Alexandra had only to choose between distinguished Edmund Rai...

  • Giotto

    Mario Bucci

  • Gloria's Birthday

    Norma Levinson

  • Going Out in Style

    Gloria Dank

    Wealthy Bella was the first to go. You could say she was a fashion victim. Bella Whitaker was quite sure her night on the town would be a night to remember. Her black velvet gown was all the rage, her diamond earrings opulent without being ostentatio...

  • The Gold Ball

    Hanne Marie Svendsen

    THE GOLD BALL ~~ "The story she tells is part epic family chronicle and part the life and death of an enchanted world - an island off the coast of Denmark - and its generations of inhabitants over the last four centuries, all of them descended from t...

  • Gorgon Child

    Steven Barnes

    IN THE NIGHTMARE FUTURE OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ONLY THE STRONGEST SURVIVE Raised on the streets of a devastated twenty-first century torn by plagues, riots, and social decay, Aubry Knight was trained to be a lethal killing machine. Betrayed b...

  • The Great Male Conspiracy

    Betty Bates

    Twelve-year-old Maggie vows to have nothing to do with the male sex when her brother-in-law deserts her older sister and their baby, her father becomes wrapped up in his research, and Todd, a classmate, teases her unmercifully...

  • The Great Thistledown Flood

    Bron Smith

  • Guilt on the Lily

    Roger Ormerod

    While traveling around Europe with his wife Amelia, retired detective Richard Patton receives an urgent message too late--its sender is found murdered and Patton, attracted to the mystery, uncovers the involvement of several of his former colleagues...

  • Gunner Kelly

    Anthony Price

    By the CWA Gold Dagger award-winning author of Other Paths to GloryAn innocent enough advertisement, placed by General Maxwell, retired war hero and beloved squire of Duntisbury Royal, equally innocent hamlet nestled in the English countryside. But t...

  • H.M.S. Hood Vs Bismark

    Theodore Taylor

  • Halfway to Heaven

    Katherine Granger

    ALL WORK AND NO PLAY Lindsey Andrews wanted to be Publicity Director at Wentworth Enterprises so she could see her late father's dream come to life. But after arriving at the interview, having lost her heel and limping like a lame duck, she co...

  • Hands of the Strangler

    J.R. Roberts

    Clint Adams can't resist getting tangled in other folks' troubles -- especially when those folks are pretty females. But when his pal Rick Hartman bets the Gunsmith he can't take a vacation without getting mixed up in someone else's bad business, Cl...

  • Hanged Man in the Garden

    Marion Halligan

  • Hardball

    Barbara D'Amato

    FOR A SOFT-SPOKEN GRANDMOTHERLY TYPE, LOUISE SUGARMAN HAD A LOT OF ENEMIES... As head of Common Sense, an organization to repeal Illinois' drug laws, Louise had earned the wrath of the PTA, police and church groups all over Chicago. Free-lance jou...

  • Hell to Hallelujah and Ride to the Gun

    Ray Hogan

    In two complete novels, John Mosby is instructed by Robert E. Lee to blow up the Mogatawny Bridge to sever the Union's supply lines, and Dave Stanbuck fights to prevent Butcher Jaffick from taking over the entire Mangus Valley...

  • Hell-Bound Express

    Nick Carter

  • Hellhole

    Clay Dawson

  • Here Comes Kate!

    Judy Carlson

  • The Hills and the Valley

    Janet Tanner

      She grew up wanting for nothing -- but war and a family secret could put an end to her dreams: “This well-told story holds the reader’s attention.” -- Publishers Weekly   In the English coal mining town of Hillsbridge, Barbara Hall...

  • Holding Pattern

    Kali Hale

  • Homecoming

    D. Alexander Smith

  • Honolulu Red

    Lue Zimmelman

  • Hopper's Places

    Gail Levin

  • Horse Show

    Bonnie Bryant

    THE SADDLE CLUB GIRLS GET SET FOR SOME BIG CITY EXCITEMENT! Stevie, Carole, and Lisa are thrilled when they get the chance to attend the American Horse Show in New York City with Mrs. Reg and their teacher Max. Not only is it the most important horse...

  • Hunter in the Dark

    Monica Hughes

  • Ice Dragon

    Richard A. Knaak

    He was a novice warrior, young and untrained, yet Cabe Bedlam fought the fierce shape-shifting Dragon Kings who sought to rule the world of man. Wielding his magic sword against their glittering scaled armor, he drove them back into their petty Drago...

  • Idle Women

    Susan Woolfitt

  • The Illustrated Pilgrim's Progress

    Jean Watson

  • In Full Possession

    Helen Flint

    British author Flint makes her U.S. debut with this slender tale whose implausibility is unredeemed by the febrile brilliance of her taut, idiosyncratic prose. Television repairman Benedict Ashe, age 38, lives in Sheffield with his dying mother, Bet,...

  • Incognito Mosquito Flies Again!

    Don Madden

    Incognito Mosquito lectures FBI agents on five of his greatest cases, involving Russian Cagey Bee spies, Maflia Boss Sy the Fly, and other infamous criminals, and invites the reader to solve each mystery...

  • Indian Story Book

    Richard Wilson

  • Inn of Fear

    Alun Morgan

  • Intense Involvement

    Jenny Arden

    "I never give up on a challenge!" Brave words, but Elise was beginning to wonder whether her job as physiotherapist to the domineering Luc de Rozanieux would end in her resignation -- or her dismissal. She knew the dangers of getting in...

  • Jack Galaxy, Space Cop

    Robert Kraus

  • Jem

    Roderick Conway Morris

  • Jeremy Quacks

    Bruce Balan

  • John and Anzia

    Norma Rosen

  • Journey to Rilla

    Thomas Wylde

    His name is Dr. Bones. He races across a perilous galaxy in search of mysterious artifacts, lost worlds, and foreign species. If you're unafraid of the dangers of the universe, then you're ready for Dr. Bones. On the planet of Rilla, Bones uncovers a...

  • Kaleidoscope

    Joyce Porter (1)

    She'd been betrayed by love . . . Years ago a spy had lured schoolgirl Ann Bennett into a false marriage, then callously ordered her death and fled to the Soviet Union. Ann had lived, but could not escape the shadow of her "husband's" espionage. ...