Books Published in February 1981

New Books List: 190 titles

  • The Easter Egg Artists

    Adrienne Adams

  • Blood River Gold

    Swain Adams

  • Shelter on Blue Barns Road

    C.S. Adler

  • Island Called Moreau

    Brian W. Aldiss

    A castaway government official is stranded on an island of man-made monsters in this bold reimagining of the H. G. Wells science fiction classic War is hell, and the conflict tearing the world apart may be humankind’s last. Set adrift on a makeshif...

  • Pigs Say Oink

    Liza Alexander

  • Witch, Goblin and Ghost in the Haunted Woods

    Sue Alexander

  • Deadly Disclosure

    Alix Andre

    The night hid danger -- and an enemy who waited Diana heard the stealthy noises behind her as she crept back to the house. She stopped abruptly, her skin tingling in alarm. She was being stalked.... Panic flashed through her, but she resolutely...

  • War and Passion

    Leslie Arlen

    The Borodins - a dynasty as old as their homeland. Born to soft privilege and iron power, they are now swept into a tempest of War and Passion. And as the old ruler falls and his glittering empire turns to dust, the Borodins and those they cherish mu...

  • A Season of Surprises

    Rebecca Ashley

    Ever the spitfire, never the wife. Just as well, too, for Miss Julia Weston , in all her 24 years, had never found a man she wanted to spend 10 minutes with, let alone a lifetime. So what in the name of heaven was she doing at Grayhall, Lord Brand...

  • Rebel Against Love

    Elizabeth Ashton

    'We've met before, Mr. de Savigny." Josephine's words startled the snobbish French aristocrat, who had earlier mistaken her for a stable boy. The error was understandable, for Jo liked her tomboy image and scorned feminine things l...

  • The Cat and the King

    Louis Auchincloss

    A cat may look at a king, says an old proverb. The king is the Sun King, Louis XIV of France, whose fabled court at Versailles was the wonder of Europe; the cat is the watchful chronicler, Louis de Rouvroy, second duc de Saint-Simon, author of the fa...

  • Death in a Cold Climate

    Robert Barnard

    It was midday on December 21st in the city of Tromsø when the boy was last seen: a tall, blond boy swathed in anorak and scarf against the Arctic noon. After that he wasn’t seen again, not until three months later, when Professor Mackenzie’s dog...

  • Maggie's Way

    Martha W. Barrett

  • Lilies, Rabbits, and Painted Eggs

    Edna Barth

  • Second Sight

    Cecilia Bartholomew

    Determined to remain independent despite increasing, irreversible blindness, Roz Linde buys an old house in a run-down section of San Francisco and becomes the terrified target of a madman's nightmarish threats...

  • Lasting Love

    Antonia Blake

    A talented young display designer, honey-haired Beth Bradenton came from a big, warm family. Winning the trust and love of a nine-year-old boy like Andy was second nature to her. But could she win the heart of Andy's guardian, her boss, the han...

  • The Limits of Pain

    K. Arne Blom

    He was being tortured - agonizingly tortured. All policemen make enemies, and Lieutenant Martin Holmberg was no exception. A number of men had sworn revenge, but he'd never feared them. Not until now. Now he and his family were being terrorized. Some...

  • Uncollected Stories

    Joseph Blotner

    These forty-five stories include not only some of Faulkner's best, but also what proved to be the testing ground for what latter became such major novels as THE UNVANQUISHED, THE HAMLET and GO DOWN MOSES....

  • Danger UXB

    Michael Booker

  • Mediterranean Caper

    J.L. Bouma

  • The Solstice Cipher

    Bruce H. Boyer

  • Buckskin Rider

    W.F. Bragg

  • Snowflakes in the Sun

    Audrey Brent

    A NEW LIFE BECKONED.... Jennifer Evans had come all the way from Oklahoma to take the job at Rainbow Ridge Ski Lodge in California. Here, at last, was the chance she had been dreaming of--or so she thought. That was before she had met her new b...

  • To Flee from Eagles

    Anne-Marie Bretonne

    A Storm of Imperial Passion When Prince Alexei sweeps the dazzling and tempestuous Charlotte into his arms and into the glorious land of Mother Russia to be his bride, he promises her a life of love and luxury. But beneath its surging tide of ...

  • Celia Garth

    Gwen Bristow

    A bustling port city, Charleston, South Carolina, is the crossroads of the American Revolution where supplies and weapons for the rebel army must be unloaded and smuggled north. From the window of the dressmaker’s shop where she works, lovely Celia...

  • Winter Journey

    T. Alan Broughton

  • Too Long a Sacrifice

    M.D. Broxon

    FROM 6TH CENTURY IRELAND THE THE PALACES OF THE SIDHE TO THE STRIFE-TORN STREETS OF MODERN BELFAST... Ancient Ireland. Tadgh the bard and Maire, his magical wife are spirited away by the Old Ones, counters in an age-long and inscrutable game. Today. ...

  • To Conquer Chaos

    John Brunner

    The barrenland lay on the face of the world like a sore, nearly round, more than three hundred miles in circumference. It had been there so long that it was endured, as were the twisted monsters that wandered out of the barrenland and killed. Conrad,...

  • Honkytonk Man

    Clancy Carlile

    On the road, Oklahoma to Nashville, 1938--as a 14-year-old dustbowl lad comes of age in the footloose company of his raunchy, alcoholic, gifted-country-singer uncle. Yes, it's a familiar, movieish mix of sentiment and dueling-banjo slapstick, but Car...

  • The Blue Falcon

    Robyn Carr

    From Dangerous Passion in Private Chambers to the Pageantry of the Royal Court, They Cherished a Forbidden Love The flaxen-haired Chandra watched with love as de Corbney grew to manhood, his hair as black as deep night, his fierce blue eyes shinin...

  • Hurok of the Stone Age

    Lin Carter

  • The Q Man

    Nick Carter

    EARTHQUAKE! When Nick Carter flew in low over San Diego all he could see was a dense cloud of brick dust. The city was virtually gone. Next stop: Los Angeles, as the quake worked its way up the fault line. And the devastation was man-made. T...

  • Serena

    Mollie Chappell

    "I HOPE WE MAY NEVER MEET AGAIN, SIR." And the pale young beauty meant it with all her heart. But Serena Spence did meet handsome Giles Abbott again and again. And each meeting was marked by her deepening feelings for him. Feelings she ...

  • I Love You

    Remy Charlip

  • Milady Hot-At-Hand

    Elizabeth Chater

    IT WAS A PERILOUS MASQUERADE! Andrea knew her honor would be compromised if this escapade ever came to light. But she did not care. She had to discover who had murdered her father, the count, and Pola, her beautiful but wild sister. So, disguis...

  • Leaves of Fire, Flame of Love

    Susan Chatfield

    "Jason!" she cried, sensing his catlike grace, feeling herself trembling against him with a hungry passion she couldn't deny. She had everything -- beauty, wealth, power. A senator's daughter, in months Lindsay Sheffield was to mar...

  • Day of Fate

    Theodore A. Cheney

  • Downbelow Station

    C.J. Cherryh

    Pell's Star occupied the central spot in the coming conflict between Earth's tired stellar empire id the tough onslaught of its rebellious colonies. Whoever controlled Pell's Downbelow station held the key to Earth's defensive perimeter -- or the jum...

  • My Bodyguard

    Joe Claro

  • The Lone Pilgrim

    Laurie Colwin

    A dazzling collection of stories that masterfully weaves together tales of love and desire in all its forms, exploring the universal complications of the heart -- and the mysteries of being fully human in the world. • “Colwin’s b...

  • Anything for a Friend

    Ellen Conford

  • Golden Fever

    Parley J. Cooper

    HER HEART WAS PROMISED... Paulette Faviere knew one desire: to rejoin her love. Dester Granville. Raised like brother and sister on his parents' sprawling Louisiana plantation, Dester had gone to California to seek his fortune in the gold fields a...

  • The Midwife

    Gay Courter

    Hannah Blau, the midwife, fought savage religious prejudice to gain medical training in Moscow's legendary Imperial College. She fought her own doubts and fears as she plunged into a forbidden love affair and an even more hazard-filled marriage. She ...

  • Abandoned for Love

    Caroline Courtney

    The Duke of Lyveden needed a wife--but which of three eligible ladies of the Ton would be most suitable? The best way to choose, he decided, was to arrive in London with a fraudulent fiancee--and judge the ladies' true characters by how they behav...

  • Killers Corral Dual

    Merle Coustiner

  • This Calder Sky

    Janet Dailey

    The great Calder Empire stretched across the Montana plains as far as the eye could see. Everyone knew a Calder's word was law and that one day Chase Calder would carry the name Calder to new glories. But for handsome, arrogant Chase Calder there...

  • The Travelling Kind

    Janet Dailey

    She'd known his type right from the start When Charley Collins needed a cowboy for her Idaho ranch, she had no choice but to hire Shad Russell. He was a drifter and a loner -- and undeniably attractive. Falling in love with a man like Shad wou...

  • Mindsounds

    E.J. Daniel

    Fiction. "...But in reality she was frightened and confused. She was inside and outside of her own body at the same time. And she didn't know what was wrong, why she wasn't together, or even how to change where she was -- or wasn't. How could Kathy c...

  • Garfield Gains Weight

    Jim Davis

    He sleeps late and wakes up grouchy. He hates joggers, beats up dogs, and shreds his owner. He's cynical, witty, urbane, and sometimes downright mean. But best of all, he's back, better than ever, to delight cat-lovers and cat-haters alike....

  • The Dealmakers

    Charles Dennis

  • Love Not Human

    Gordon R. Dickson

  • Hibiscus Lagoon

    Dorothy Dowdell

    It was a long way from snowbound Minnesota to the tropical blue skies and volcanoes of Pago Pago. When Thayer Elwood arrived to help her uncle run his banana plantation, she never dreamed that his sudden death would make her sole owner of Seacrest. ...

  • One Day Scene Through a Leaf

    Patrick Dowers

  • Hill of Summer

    Allen Drury

  • The Wooing of Earth

    Rene J. Dubos

    Dubos, an eminent microbiologist and experimental pathologist, offers new insights into man's relation to the natural world, stressing that man has the knowledge and technology to enrich rather than despoil...

  • The GG 2 Deception

    C.R. Duggan

  • Change of Heart

    Margaret Eastvale

    Anne had thought him lost to her forever But now, after six long years, the news arrived that Lord Ashorne was alive-not killed while fighting in Spain as she had believed. An irrational thrill surged through her... but the next moment Anne adm...

  • The Half-Breed

    J.T. Edson

    Like the man the mob was trying the lynch, the Ysabel Kid was half Comanche. He was a crack shot with a Colt Dragoon, a master of the border country art of cut-and-slash, and the fastest shot with a Winchester Yellow Boy repeater Texas had ever seen....

  • Babylon

    Anthony Esler

    She was Leah, daughter of Ludah. The proud and sensual beauty who captivated Babylon, the mighty city of hanging gardens and ziggurats that flung its towers at the sky. Here she learned the ways of traders, soothsayers, and prostitutes sacred to the ...

  • Longarm on the Big Muddy

    Tabor Evans

    SOMETHING WAS HALTING THE U.S. MAIL -- AND IT WASN'T RAIN OR SLEET... The Feds wanted to know why the mail kept disappearing on a certain shallow stretch of the river they called the Big Muddy. So they sent Longarm, in disguise, to take a gander. ...

  • Master of Shadows

    Susanna Firth

    He had the eyes of a predator Even if drama critic Max Anderson hadn't wrecked Vanessa's promising acting career, she would have loathed the man on principle alone! His inviting if slightly world-weary smile and outrageous charm had mad...

  • Dixiana Moon

    William Price Fox

  • Man Who Loved Books

    Jean Fritz

  • Hard Summer

    Stephen Fugate

  • Clear the Decks

    Daniel V. Gallery

  • A Falcon for a Queen

    Catherine Gaskin

    “SHE HAS KILLED.” It’s a long way to come from China to the depths of the Scottish Highlands for the sake of a few words splashed in confused Chinese script down the side of a scroll with a drawing of a bird perched on a bare willow bough. ...

  • The Revolution from Rosinante

    Alexis A. Gilliland

    THE CAMPBELL AWARD WINNING NOVEL. The reluctant revolutionary! Charles Cantrell thought he had enough headaches as project manager of a crew building a habitat on the asteroid, Rosinante. Then some dunderheaded politician back on Earth shipped severa...

  • The Company of Women

    Mary Gordon

    Felicitas Bright, charming, intelligent -- raised by five intensely religious women and a charismatic, controversial priest. For them, the future is in her hands. Felicitas She trades her sheltered purity for a taste of ordinary happiness -- at Col...

  • Wolf at the Door

    Victoria Gordon

    Kelly resented being treated like a child. Although she looked about seventeen, Kelly was well qualified for partnership in her father's Western Canada catering business. Self-confidence wasn't a problem, but the arrogant owner of the mining ...

  • Mirror

    Leonard Gross

  • House of Christina

    Ben Haas

    A noble manor house in Vienna is the setting for plot and counterplot involving a Nazi, a militant Jew, an American writer, and the lovely and spoiled mistress of the house during the catastrophic thirties and forties...

  • Portrait of Love

    Jean Hager

    He was a famous Cherokee painter and she was his greatest challenge. But when Tiana Vann, granddaughter of an Indian elder, posed for Jordan Ridge, it was with a fierce resentment born of anger and fear. Jordan Ridge had walked into her life and c...

  • Hotel

    Arthur Hailey

    During five days in the midst of a hot, steamy Louisiana summer, the lives of a colorful cast of characters intertwine in a series of public, private, and personal dramas at the famed St. Gregory luxury hotel. Book available....

  • Star of the Sea

    Linda Haldeman

  • Stand-In Bride

    Carole Halston

    HER MARRIAGE WAS A BARGAIN When their father is lost in a storm, Nicole and her brother are left penniless. Then help comes from an unexpected source when Nicole's rich girl friend, Angela, walks out on the eve of her society wedding. If Nico...

  • The Determined Bachelor

    Judith Harkness

    THE COUNTERFEIT GOVERNESS Anne Calder was a headstrong young woman, unwilling to marry some dull country squire and stubbornly set on earning her living as a London novelist. But before she could follow her first successful book with a second, Ann...

  • The Devil's Love

    Lane Harris

    SHE WAS A FEVER RACING THROUGH HIS BLOOD. Untamed, unpredictable, utterly captivating, Christina was determined to live free as the wind--yet was fatally bound to the one man whose passion could imprison her forever. HE BURNED LIKE A FLAME IN H...

  • Ashworth and Palmer

    Thomas Hauser

  • The Hungarian Game

    Roy Hayes

    ---- From the hardcover edition

    Jacket Copy: The Hungarian Game is the most exciting espionage novel since the debuts of Len Deighton and John le Carré, and perhaps the first American book to equal the pace and suspense of those transatlantic...

  • The Tarrant Rose

    Veronica Heley

    SHE HAD LOST HER HEART TO THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER... Raven-haired Sophia knew him as Philip Rich, a poor relative of the Earl of Rame. And she knew that he awakened in her a craving that her betrothed, Sir John Bladen, could not satisfy. But sh...

  • The Rat on Fire

    George V. Higgins

    A riveting, blistering novel about the shady side of the law and the business side of the Boston underworld by the one and only George V. Higgins. Jerry Fein is a small-time lawyer, occasional booking agent, and full-time slumlord. But he’s no...

  • Green Paradise

    Heather Hill

    A HOTEL, DEEP IN THE PERUVIAN JUNGLE, WAS HER HOME. Lexie Reed's legacy from her father was his beloved Green Paradise lodge. It had been their home, and Lexie would do anything to keep it... even if it meant she had to accept help from her enemy,...

  • The Quick and the Deadly

    Morgan Hill

  • No No Sammy Crow

    Lillian Hoban

  • Cloud Catchers

    Ursula Holden

  • The Cosmic Chase

    Richard Hutton

  • They Call Me the Mercenary Two, Slaughter Run

    Axel Kilgore

  • Deadly Silents

    Lee Killough

    Ten and Roban, police officers newly arrived on the planet Egar from Earth, attempt to solve the murder of a fellow officer with little understanding of the criminal motives of the planet's two alien races...

  • The Hangwoman

    Pavel Kohout

    Unable to gain admittance to high school and hampered by conflicting guidance from her counselors, fifteen-year-old Lizinka Tachezy follows the offhanded advice of a friend: attend hangman's school and learn the art and science of killing...

  • Abduction

    Charlotte Lamb

    She needed time--and that was running out After two years' separation from Gabriel, her husband, Marisa still didn't think she was ready to cope with being his wife. His wealthy life-style had intimidated her. His snobbish friends had made...

  • Going for Gold

    Mary J. Latsis

    John Putnam, a detective-minded bank executive, suspects a conspiracy when the favored ski jumper at the Winter Olympics is shot during a trial run and an unusual amount of counterfeit traveler's checks turns up at Sloan Guaranty...

  • The Woods Are Dark

    Richard Laymon

    Neala and her friend Sherri only wanted to do a little hiking through the woods. Little did they know they would soon be shackled to a dead tree, waiting for Them to arrive. The Dills family thought the small hotel in the quiet town seemed quaint and...

  • We Must Have a Trial

    Margaret Leek

  • The Ludi Victor

    James Leigh

    "The branch whipped forward and smashed into him precisely where I intended it should - full in the throat. I know something of medicine, and I think he must have died instantly from the blow. He fell forward in the stream, the current took him, and ...

  • Fight for the Valley

    Lee Leighton

  • Cold Feet

    Gen Leroy

  • The Brash American

    Samantha Lester

    Majestic, imperious, the Duchess arrived at Brinsley Hall to find Melissa, her great-granddaughter, torn between excitement and despair. Why must she marry without love? First, the reckless American who offered bold compliments had been brusquely...

  • Wife for a Year

    Rachel Lindsay

    If only she could turn back the clock! Juliet Stone was an acclaimed actress and a very happy bride-to-be. But disaster struck when a strange illness ruined her career and caused her fiance to desert her. Lonely and desperate, Juliet accepted D...

  • Hellfire

    Jake Logan

  • Fond Farewel Dying

    Syd logsdon

  • The Enterprising Minx

    Marian Lorraine

    Laurel Ingram had always loved Jason Devereaux. But her loyal, silent adoration, her dreams of marriage, were shattered when Jason inherited a Sussex estate--and a ravishing young ward, who quickly parlayed her status into fiancee. Lady Danila Wil...

  • The Country Rose

    Diana Lyndon

    When her marriage-shy son leaves home, a lady tries to flush him out by bringing out a beautiful young country lady. Young Viscount Albemarle was rich, handsome, eligible and obstinate -- refusing to wed any of the beautiful belles throwing themselve...

  • Prisms

    Marianne MacKay

    While working as a volunteer in a psychiatric unit, Virginia Adams, born to wealth but vaguely dissatisfied with life, comes upon her friend, Courtney Wilson, lying unconscious, unidentified, and in restraints in a hospital bed...

  • Winter's Tales Twenty Six

    A.D. MacLean

  • Love in Jeopardy

    Magali

    The man she loved was linked to disaster... Dawn was amazed to discover someone living in the deserted abbey she was exploring. Still, she accepted his explanation that he was an artist who needed the solitude. When he offered to paint her portrai...

  • The Ruins of Love

    Denyse Mai

    The perfect answer became a nightmare! Staying at her uncle's botanical gardens in Florida was more than a vacation for Christa. Her uncle needed help, she loved working with plants, and there was Ryan, a childhood sweetheart.... The greenhouse...

  • Back Bay

    William Martin

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A rip-roaring page turner. A perfect read!" - Boston Globe Meet the Pratt clan. Driven men. Determined women. Through six turbulent generations, they would pursue a lost Paul Revere treasure. And turn a family secret...

  • Olden Days

    Joe Mathieu

  • Mouse and the Egg

    William Mayne

  • Salt River Times

    William Mayne

  • Just Causes

    Malcolm McConnell

  • Trail Drive

    Peter McCurtin

  • The Sun Dogs

    Mark J. McGarry

  • Snowcastles

    Duncan McGeary

  • No Earthly Shore

    Francine Mezo

  • Whisper My Name

    Fern Michaels

    HOW COULD SAMANTHA TELL CHRISTIAN THAT SHE WAS "SAM" BLAKELY? For Samantha it began as a dream come true. She finally landed a staff photographer's position on Daylight Magazine. She was well on her way. And then she met the owner, Chr...

  • Secret Life of the Underwear Champ

    Betty Miles

    STAR QUALITY Starring in television commercials sure isn't what it's cracked up to be, discovers ten-year-old Larry Pryor. The shooting schedule conflicts with his baseball practice, and he actually has to wear makeup on film! But the biggest proble...

  • Private Sector

    Jeff Millar

  • A Natural Weapon

    Garry Mitchelmore

  • The Money That Money Can't Buy

    James Munro

  • Midnight Man

    Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    NOW YOU SEE HIM... Law-enforcement officials think they've seen everything until they bump into Elmo Wimpler, the inventor of a substance that can make anything invisible. Wimpler's found his niche in life by dropping out of sight -- literally -- ...

  • Coal Mine No. 7

    Robert Nathan

  • Not Once But Twice

    Betty Neels

    It was more than a family matter... Dr. Duert ter Brandt disapproved of Christina's relationship with his brother, Adam, and he made sure they both knew it. True, he didn't stop Chrissy from coming to Holland to work near Adam - but he...

  • Gold in Her Hair

    Anne Neville

    Anne's journey to Rome is burdened with grief and suspicion. Her beautiful sister died in a car crash, leaving a young daughter and a wealthy husband no one in the family had met. Just before her death, she wrote a letter to Anne telling of a dark se...

  • Voices of Loving

    Anne Neville

    LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT Jane Murray fell in love with Max Carstairs the first time she saw him on the Stratford stage. She never dreamed that one day she would play a role in his life. When tragedy struck, the famed actor, it drove him into a reclusive ...

  • Bullwhacker

    James D. Nichols

  • Magic Windows: An Antique Revolving Picture Book

    Ernest Nister

  • Malsum

    Gerald J. O'Hara

  • Glitter Street

    Tim O'Sullivan

  • The Alienated

    G.E. Oap

  • Sentimental Education

    Joyce Carol Oates

    A collection of stories exploring the puzzles and potentials of passionate love includes tales of a divorcee's hasty marriage, a rich executive's affair with a wayward girl, and the erotic love between two cousins...

  • The Sixth Winter

    Douglas Orgill

    Frank Rhind was lucky. He saw the Ice Dancer and lived. The town of Hays died. And still they didn't believe Dr. William Stovin's warnings. For very many years climatologists had been predicting a change in the world's climate but they always believe...

  • Camilla

    Sara Orwig

    She was brave as she was proud When her only hope of returning home lay in traveling a thousand miles on horseback, Camilla, unlike the fragile females of her society, was equal to the task. When food rations became meager, she ignored her hung...

  • Salem's Daughter

    Maggie Osborne

    Love's Divided World Fervently Bristol Adams tried to be what seventeenth-century Puritan New England believed a proper young lady should be - dutiful, devout, submissive to restraints and immune to desire. But even in this harsh atmosphere, he...

  • The Visitor

    Chauncey G. Parker

    THE ULTIMATE NIGHTMAREFor rising young executive Bart Hughes, his Manhattan brownstone was his castle—a haven of peace and security amid the urban rot of New York.Now, with his wife and children away for the summer, it was more peaceful still....

  • Soup on Wheels

    Robert Newton Peck

  • Lion of Languedoc

    Margaret Pemberton

    The witch-hunters were close behind Spurred on by a twisted sense of justice, they wanted nothing more than to see Marietta burn at the stake. Terrified, Marietta ran till she could run no more. She collapsed on the ground and awaited her dread...

  • Making Tracks

    Rob Phillips

  • Dinner Time

    Jan Pienkowski

  • Federation

    H. Beam Piper

    LITTLE FUZZIES ... SPACE VIKING ... GUNPOWDER GOD ... FUZZY SAPIENS ... At the time of his tragic death, H. Beam Piper was rapidly becoming acknowledged as peer and heir of authors like Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov. Like Heinlein and Asimov...

  • Well of the Unicorn

    Fletcher Pratt

    Fletcher Pratt's fantasy classic. "The Well Of The Unicorn is one of the finest novels in the field of heroic fantasy."-- L. Sprague de Camp....

  • Less Than Angels

    Barbara Pym

    Catherine Oliphant is a writer and lives with handsome anthropologist Tom Mallow. When he begins a romance with student Deirdre Swann, Catherine turns her attention to Alaric Lydgate, who has a fondness for wearing African masks....

  • Garth Pig and the Ice Cream Lady

    Mary Rayner

  • Dangerous Fascination

    Liliane Robin

    This time she knew it was no accident Patricia gazed out at the lake longingly, shifting slightly in her wheelchair. She would have dearly loved to swim ... if only she hadn't been injured in that car accident! Frustrated, she wheeled closer to...

  • Second-Best Bride

    Margaret Rome

    Angie didn't know all the facts! When her sister, Cilla, decided not to marry Terzan Helios after all, Angie was persuaded to go to his Greek island to break the news. Cilla had described Terzan as "sinfully wealthy and wickedly attract...

  • Spadeful of Spacetime

    Fred Saberhagen

  • On the Ropes

    Otto R. Salassi

  • Sonoma

    Leonard Sanders

  • Natural History of Marine Mammals

    Victor B. Scheffer

    Describes the feeding, reproduction, migration, and defense of representative marine species, tracing the evolution of ancestral land animals into the modern marine mammals and stressing the relationship between body form and body function...

  • Well Spring

    Harriet Sarnoff Schiff

  • The World of the Unborn

    Leni Schwartz

  • The River Raiders

    Jon Sharpe

    SHOWDOWN WITH DEATH When a pistol-packing blonde beauty pegged Skye Fargo, the Trailsman, as a hired gunslinger out to get her uncle's foreman, it was draw first and ask questions later. Yet by the time he'd tamed the gorgeous young spitfire enoug...

  • Killer's Council

    Scott Siegal

  • A Robert Silverberg Omnibus

    Robert Silverberg

    Three novels tell of the search for a self-exiled genius who is Earth's last hope, three people who witness Earth's defeat by alien invaders, and an Earthman's experience with a rebirth ceremony on a planet ruled by elphantlike creatures...

  • The Watcher

    Kay Nolte Smith

  • Gorky Park

    Martin Cruz Smith

    A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive. honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identi...

  • Shadow Play

    Michele Spence

  • The Stories of Elizabeth Spencer

    Elizabeth Spencer

  • Sable Moon

    Nancy Springer

    Like a misty fog, a dark force rolls over the Isle of Welas. Now proud-hearted Prince Trevyn must embark on a quest to free the Isle of evil's grip and realize his own legendary destiny ......

  • Long Winter's Night

    Sondra Stanford

    THEY WERE ALONE IN THE WILDERNESS.... When her small plane was forced down in the Alaskan wilderness, Christie hoped eagerly for rescue. But how could she have known that rescue would come in the form of Scott Kingsley, a reclusive author who had ...

  • Innocent Abroad

    Jessica Steele

    'You've been well paid for the bargain." The deep voice over the phone made no sense at all until Reggie's sister Bella hastened to explain the immensity of the problem. It seemed that Bella had agreed to act as Severo Cardenosa...

  • Evil of the Day

    Thomas Sterling

    VENICE JAN. 8TH 12-pm 1959 OLD FRIEND: I have known for some time that my life was about to close… A poor man may die peacefully but a man of means may have no such simple comforts. Too often his last hours are tortured by the distribution h...

  • Masquerade

    Cecilia Sternberg

  • Terebori's Gold

    Lynsey Stevens

    Kley could have any woman he desired Brooke Drynan accepted a teaching position in North Queensland to get over a broken heart--not to fall for another heartbreaker. So when she met the district's ideal bachelor and he so arrogantly misjudg...

  • Moonlight Variations

    Florence Stevenson

    THEY MADE UNEARTHLY MUSIC . . . .TOGETHER Golden haired Lorrie MacIvor, a classical pianist, inherited the touch of her renowned ancestor, Barbary Clinton, who, a century ago, had given her heart to a brooding violinist with a curse upon his blood...

  • Key West Connection

    Randy Striker

    Ex--Navy SEAL Dusky MacMorgan survived a military hell only to find it again where he least expected it--as a fisherman trolling the Gulf Stream in his thirty-foot clipper. His new life is shattered when a psychotic pack of drug runners turns the tur...

  • The Deep Six

    Randy Striker

    For millions of readers, New York Times bestselling author Randy Wayne White “raises the bar of the action thriller.” (The Miami Herald) Two decades ago, under the pen name Randy Striker, he was already delivering high-octane adventure with ex-Na...

  • On the Edge of Love

    Sheila Strutt

    She loved a man who refused to love again Ross Sutherland was the boy next door. Everyone assumed Dulcie would marry him. "But do I really love Ross?" Dulcie agonized. It wasn't until she was on a huge Saskatchewan cattle ranch as c...

  • The Calling of Bara

    Sheila Sullivan

  • The Wanton Fires

    Meriol Trevor

    GEORGIANA ALLISON, A TRADESMAN'S DAUGHTER, HAD ALWAYS HAD HER PRETTY HEAD FILLED WITH ROMANTIC NOTIONS. Then an unexpected proposal of marriage from Sir Miles Dynham brought the exciting world of balls and masquerades and titled wealth within ...

  • The Ants of Gods

    W.T. Tyler

  • The Easter Book

    Jenny Vaughan

  • Kissed by Moonlight

    Dorothy Vernon

    IT WAS EDEN NO MORE. The island paradise of Chimera had been her father's dream come true, and now Petrina had to watch it become just another tourist trap. Worst of all, the man responsible for the change was David Palmer--the man she had sec...

  • Creation

    Gore Vidal

    Once again the incomparable Gore Vidal interprets and animates history -- this time in a panoramic tour of the 5th century B.C. -- and embellishes it with his own ironic humor, brilliant insights, and piercing observations. We meet a vast array of hi...

  • Blackrobe

    Robert E. Wall

    1981, original mass market paperback edition, Bantam, NY. 360 pages. Book 1 of the series, The Canadians. Historical novel, concerning a young man who wonders about his past. He finds contentment with an Indian princess....

  • Shadow Dance

    Margaret Way

    ALIX WAS MUCH TOO SMART FOR THIS JOB Alix Conroy's journalistic talents were unquestioned, so when her boss, Carl Danning, gave her difficult assignments, she usually welcomed the challenge. This is time he went too far with his demands. ...

  • The Life I Really Lived

    Jessamyn West

    Sparkling with Jessamyn West's special gifts of poetic language and vivid detail, this is a powerful portrait of Orpha Chase, a writer whose blissfully sentimental books contrast acutely with her own difficult life....

  • The Friendly Persuasion

    Jessamyn West

    1981, mass market paperback reprint edition (of a work first published in 1945), Penguin Books, NY. 243 pages. The author's first novel, concerning a Quaker family. Became a beloved film starring Gary Cooper....

  • The Light Within

    Yvonne Whittal

    He'd shattered every one of her defenses Even at their first meeting, Roxana had feared Marcus Fleming. But she had fallen in love with him anyway -- a dynamic man whose life-style would be severely hampered by her blindness. "I won'...

  • The Singer in the Stone

    John Willett

  • Desert Rose, English Moon

    Claudette Williams

    Desert Rose She was just nineteen, exotically beautiful, and the daughter of one of the country's richest and most powerful men... An arranged marriage with a man she despised would make Holly Winslow a prisoner for life, and so she ran from her...

  • The Breaking of Northwall

    Paul O. Williams

    THE IDEAL EXILE To the Pelbar, the sentence seemed a living death--exile to distant Northwall for a year, isolated from the security and order of Pelbarigan society, facing the barbarian tribes of the Shumai and Sentani. But the rebellious Jest...

  • Brother Demons

    Jack Williamson

    One of the best things science fiction can offer is a fresh analysis of what it means to be human. This book delivers on that analysis -- in spades. Ordinarily, a review shouldn't provide a synopsis, but since one is not provided by Amazon.com, I'...

  • Natchez

    Logan Winters

  • Shaman's Daughter

    Nancy Wood

    SHAMAN'S DAUGHTER -- At twelve, Supaya climbed the mountain and had a vision not knowing that it was the beginning of the end...that she was the last of her people to be thus blessed. Three times a bride, Supaya's men came from three different worl...

  • Journey from Flesh

    Nicholas Yermakov

  • Prehistoric Animals

    Peter Zallinger

    Illus. in full color. Young dinosaur enthusiasts will find this easy pictorial guide satisfying. Brief statements on marine, hoofed, air-borne, reptilian, and other prehistoric creatures—one to three per page—give information on their eatin...

  • The Whisperings Within

    David Philip Barash

    A zoologist uses case studies of human and animal behavior to support his argument that many aspects of human sexual behavior, parenting, kinship patterns, aggression, altruism, and racism have their roots in evolutionary adaptations made by man's an...

  • Say it My Way

    Willard R. Espy