Books Published in February 1982

New Books List: 250 titles

  • The Lightning Tree // The Weeping Ash

    Joan Aiken

    Two extraordinary tales, and many fates, intertwine in this magnificent novel of India and England in the last years of the eighteenth century. Sixteen-year-old Fanny Paget, newly married to the odious Captain Paget, had come to live with him and...

  • Dark Persuasion

    Marianne Andrau

    Loving him demanded courage...and caution Maureen Williams was deeply attracted to dashing film produce Charles Faubert. Yet she knew marriage was out of the question -- he was already engaged. Then Charles was accused of dealing on the black m...

  • Frontier

    Michael Ansara

    Despite the excitement of the spring of 1961, with space technology opening up a new frontier, by January 15, 1962 NASA's director Jim Magedini must accept losing the race to put the first man in space, but soon afterword he resolves to win...

  • A Lady of Independence

    Helen Argers

    'MY LORD, IT IS AN HONOR I SHOULD PREFER TO DECLINE." Astera Claybourne's startling reply to Viscount Weston's proposal of marriage left the dashing young bachelor in a state of shock. How dare she reject the splendid match arranged by her guardi...

  • Melt a Frozen Heart

    Lindsay Armstrong

    She had hoped never to see him again... Steven Harrow had known he was the object of her schoolgirl crush. He had also been the witness to her humiliation. But five years had passed and Morgan had developed confidence and a protective instinct ...

  • White Witch

    Elizabeth Ashton

    His hatred was as strong as her love Laurel wanted to keep her nephew, Peter, after the death of her sister and her sister's husband, Pedro de las Aguilas. For Peter's sake, however, she felt compelled to take him to his father's famil...

  • Tantalizing Locked Room Mysteries

    Isaac Asimov

  • Space Mail

    Isaac Asimov

    Such writers as A.E. van Vogt, Sharon Webb, Barry Malzberg, and Gordon R. Dickson explore the future and the solar system in a collection of stories presented in the form of diaries, memos, and letters...

  • Palimpset

    Meg Atkins

  • The School for Cats

    Esther Averill

    Jenny Linsky, the famous little black cat of Greenwich Village, has never been to school before. When her master, Captain Tinker, sends her to a boarding school in the country to learn the special knowledge of cats—manners and cooperation—...

  • Not to Be Trusted

    Jessica Ayre

    Her own heart betrayed her... Lynda Harrow was the very first on-staff interior designer at Dunlop Associates, an architectural firm. And she enjoyed being involved in an assignment from its inception... usually. But Paul Overton, the firm'...

  • Knight and Chivalry

    Richard W. Barber

  • Death's Door

    Wade Barker

  • Wait for the Storm

    Jayne Bauling

    The only man to resist her spell... Lesley wanted to embarrass her wealthy parents, and her efforts were certainly rewarded. All of Johannesburg society was talking about her...the beautiful spoiled nymphomaniac. No one knew she was actually in...

  • On the Way Home

    Robert Bausch

    Imagine the elation of having your dead son brought back to life. That is what Michael Sumner's parents experience when, one year after he's reported killed in action in Vietnam, they are told their son is alive and has escaped from a cadre of Viet C...

  • Moon Song

    Byrd Baylor

  • Barrels to the Moon

    Harold Berson

  • Winter Winds

    Jackie Black

    His masculine grace and power mesmerized her. His arrogance infuriated her. Janna had to keep reminding herself that she owed him her life. Without his help, stuck on the highway in the midst of a raging Wyoming blizzard, she would never have survive...

  • Star Dwellers

    James Blish

  • The Ambush Murders

    Ben Bradlee

  • Forever My Love

    Rebecca Brandewyne

    They were born to hatred, but DESTINED TO LOVE Echoing across the stormy waters of Loch Ness came a gypsy's haunting curse, foretelling a forbidden passion that would drench the Scottish crags with blood. And from the first moment that Mary...

  • Too Much in Love

    Patty Brisco

    Holly and Jeff are so much in love.... Then Holly tells Jeff she's going to have a baby. What can they do? Their parents are furious and can't agree about anything. Jeff is so confused he hardly seems to care what happens! Holly doesn't know which wa...

  • A Weave of Women

    E.M. Broner

  • November Nineteen Eighteen

    Gordon Brook-Shepherd

  • Southern Discomfort

    Rita Mae Brown

    Here is the story of Hortensia Reedmuller Banastre, a beautiful woman entrenched in old money, white magnolias and a loveless marriage -- until she meets a gorgeous young prizefighter. Against a panorama of such memorable characters as Banana Mae Par...

  • Cider from Eden

    Nancy Bruff

    Chloe was one of those women who could get away with anything. Her beauty and captivating charm excused her every misdeed - even when she deserted her children and husband to run away with another man. As she traveled around the Caribbean, Central...

  • Someone to Love

    Ann Bryan

    Julie hoped she would find love at her new home in Tall Pines. She looked forward to meeting new friends, learning to ski at her parents' resort, and spending time with her mother after years of separation. Then Nolan Radford, a performer at the l...

  • A Quiet Place

    Peter Burchard

  • Lights of Barbrin

    Joseph Burgo

    Originally released as part of the legendary Timescape series from Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster), this book has been substantially revised and updated for its re-release. From the original Timescape edition cover copy: THE QUEST OF E...

  • The Hidden Princess

    Chad Calhoun

  • Marriage by Bequest

    Elizabeth Carey

    "WHAT AN ODIOUS MAN. HE WILL NEVER, NEVER MARRY YOU, LUCINDA." Marriage however, was precisely what that rakehell, the Marquess of Lothan was proposing. Melissa Grey, Lucinda's sister, was decidedly unhappy about the Marquess, she knew that he was ...

  • Fault Lines

    James Carroll

  • Dominican Affair

    Nick Carter

    An attempt to rescue the American ambassador held by terrorists after they take over the United States embassy in the Dominican Republic involves secret agent Nick Carter in a sinister plot of international intrigue...

  • Earth Shaker

    Nick Carter

    Nick Carter, agent N-3 for the secret organization AXE, must stop a master criminal--known only as Earth Shaker--who is intent on gaining world control by causing disastrous earthquakes in major nations around the globe...

  • Treason Game

    Nick Carter

    Nick Carter is hunted and branded a traitor after he investigates the association of a known Russian agent with a top-secret missile project and uncovers the treasonous activities of important American government officials...

  • Damocles Threat

    Nick Carter

    Eleven of the world's top secret agents, including Nick Carter of AXE, converge on the storybook principality of Monaco in a dangerous and deadly race to obtain the formula for a thermo-nuclear weapon...

  • Israeli Connection

    Nick Carter

  • Daredevil

    Rosemary Carter

    "I didn't expect you'd stoop quite so low." Their first meeting was unfortunate. Raoul Vareen thought Trisha was a hardheaded newswoman who'd do anything for a story. Posing as a model, she'd won the heart of his brother...

  • Cousin Henrietta

    Emma Cave

    After Henrietta's parents die, she is sent to the home of her wealthy uncle where the course of her future is shaped dramatically by new and conflicting family relationships as well the events and social milieu of Edwardian England...

  • The Spring Street Boys Team Up

    Mel Cebulash

  • Call It Love

    Ginger Chambers

    First he appeared out of nowhere to rescue her from a liar and a bully, then he treated her as if she were the kind of woman who provoked every man she saw and invited attack JoAnna was beside herself. And there was no escape. There he was, just d...

  • Magic Crescendo

    Maggi Charles

    HIS TOUCH WAS WORTH MORE THAN HER FAME. Christa Emery had always lived vicariously through Paul. His triumphs as a concert pianist were hers. Now his pain was hers as well. Paul was just reaching his peak when the accident crippled his hand and...

  • Angels of Doom

    Leslie Charteris

    Simon Templar is The Saint -- daring, dazzling, and just a little disreputable. On the side of the law, but standing outside it, he dispenses his own brand of justice one criminal at a time.

    Simon Templar finds himself on the side of the righ...

  • Angela

    Elizabeth Chater

    "I AM ANGELA SWANN, OF SWANHOLM IN CORNWALL. I AM RUNNING AWAY FROM MY STEPFATHER WHO PLANNED TO MARRY ME TO HIS NEPHEW" Angela explained all this to the sturdily handsome young farmer who had rescued her. Richard Bennet was a kind man, an...

  • The Faraway Drums

    Jon Cleary

    In 1911 in Delhi, King George V is on the brink of being crowned emperor of India. While on duty near Simla, a handsome British intelligence officer, Clive Farnol, finds a plot to assassinate His Majesty. Meanwhile, a young Bostonian reporter, Bridie...

  • Developments

    Kathleen Conlon

  • Paradise Postponed

    Jane Converse

    RIGHT AND WRONG HAD NO MEANING. They came together in a lush tropical garden . . . a man and a woman in their own private world. One look in Evan Forrester's dark, compelling eyes had made Anne Beale forget her purpose in coming to Hawaii...fo...

  • Shadowline

    Glen Cook

    THE VENDETTA IN SPACE... had started centuries before "Mouse" Storm was born...with his grandfather's raid on the planet Prefactlas, the blood bath that freed the human slaves from their Sangaree masters. But one Sangaree survived--the young Norbon ...

  • Sharpe's Gold

    Bernard Cornwell

    WELLINGTON MUST CALL ON THE ONLY MAN BRAVE AND RUTHLESS ENOUGH TO WIN AT ANY COST CAPTAIN RICHARD SHARPE A year after the victory at Talavera, Wellington's army, outnumbered and bankrupt, is on the verge of collapse. Its only hope lies in a cache ...

  • Tender Triumph

    Jasmine Craig

    Alone and penniless on a remote Mediterranean island, Andrea Donnelly finds herself freed by widowhood from a disastrous marriage, but still bound by emotional trauma. A job as cook at the secluded Villa Verdon offers her a chance to rebuild her sha...

  • On Us Thy Poor Children

    Robert Cranny

  • An Adverse Alliance

    Lucia Curzon

    No one could be happier than Anthea Heberdeen when the dashing Titus, Earl of Vane, claimed her for his bride. But her dreams were shattered when heartache kept her husband from her side. Abandoned, Anthea seeks refuge in the theater. Here, she be...

  • Terms of Surrender

    Janet Dailey

    PRISONER OF HER PAST . . . Long ago they had been husband and wife--when Angie Hall was just a teenager. Now, under the burning Texas sun, they are enemies--and lovers once again as Deke Blackwood's lean, hard rancher's body rekindles the ...

  • The Snarl of the Beast

    Carroll John Daly

    Before Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep, Before Dashiell Hammett’s The Red Harvest, there was Carroll John Daly’s The Snarl of the Beast, the first true hard-boiled detective novel. Featuring Race Williams, a private detective afraid of no ma...

  • The Rebel Angels

    Robertson Davies

    The first book in the acclaimed Cornish Trilogy. “[A] darkly funny scuttle through academe’s more covert passageway . . . saucy stuff indeed.” -- Kirkus Reviews   Davies weaves together the destinies of this remarkable cast of characters, ...

  • Summer Romance

    Rebecca Diamond

    Louise takes a job as art counselor at a summer camp and finds that the job involves more than teaching art to kids when a handsome counselor dares her to shoot the rapids with him. LOUISE WAS PLANNING THE BEST SUMMER OF HER LIFE. Louise Basset...

  • Mexican Rhapsody

    Diana Dixon

    MUSIC ALONE COULD NOT SATISFY THEIR DESIRES.... Alexandra Stephanus, beautiful and talented, lacked the discipline that drove a performer onward seeking new heights of acclaim. Marcus Rivera, proud and bitter. Was a virtuoso pianist robbed of his ...

  • Search for a New Dawn

    Billie Douglass

    SHE WOULD ALWAYS BE HIS AURORA! As beautiful and uncontrollable as nature's wonder that bore her name. As naive and reckless as that first sensual awakening that drew them together, leaving them powerless .... Aurora Matthews accepted the challen...

  • Beast or Angel

    Rene Dubos

  • Elvis

    Steve Dunleavy

    A devoted son. A generous friend. A model Army recruit. A gifted entertainer. A beloved hero to millions. This is the Elvis Presly the world knew -- and cherished.
    Brooding. Violent. Obsessed with death. Strung out. Sexually driven. This is the ot...

  • The Winter People

    John Ehle

    While sitting in her 150-year-old cabin in the mountains of North Carolina at the beginning of the Depression, Collie Wright sees furtive figures emerging from the woods on a chilly, near-winter evening. The figures turn out to be clockmaker Wayland ...

  • Warton and the Castaways

    Russell E. Erickson

  • Longarm on the Barbary Coast

    Tabor Evans

    FAKE MONEY MEANS REAL DANGER AT THE FRISCO MINT! These were no ordinary counterfeiters. Someone inside the San Francisco Mint was stamping out U.S. double eagles with one hundred percent phony gold! Sent to the wild Barbary Coast -- alive with ...

  • Seven Rivers

    Eli Fackler

  • The Bedspread

    Sylvia Fair

  • Aphrodite's Legend

    Lynn Fairfax

    The Great Bowl of Aphrodite was one of the most precious artifacts in the world, and finding it had launched Jessica Lofting's brilliant career as an archaeologist. Now Jessica's rival France Diamond is calling it a fraud.... France is a l...

  • Book Philip J Farmer

    Philip Jose Farmer

  • Lullaby

    Lawrence Field

    Psychologist John Rossman and a camper's mother investigate the strange events and terrifying nightmares that threaten the lives and sanity of teenagers at the Hazel Summer Center and discover a lethal experiment and secret conspiracy...

  • The Overlord

    Susanna Firth

    He was a threat to her life, her heart Suddenly Verity's peaceful existence on the Argentine pampas was in jeopardy. The ranch her father managed was in trouble -- and Ramon Vance had come to investigate. It infuriated Verity that the overb...

  • City of Illusion

    Vardis Fisher

    He is a full-grown man, alone in dense forest, with no trail to show where he has come from and no memory to tell who - or what - he is. His eyes are not the eyes of a human. The forest people take him in and raise him almost as a child, teaching him...

  • Zemindar

    Valerie Fitzgerald

    A magnificent love story unfolds against a backdrop of exotic splendor and stirring deeds as young Englishwoman Laura Hewitt joruneys to the East to the fabled fiefdom of the Zemindar, Guardian of the Earth. In love with her cousin Emily's husband, L...

  • Making Love

    Leonore Fleischer

    Zack and Claire are the perfect couple. Intelligent, sucessful and deeply in love. They remain in love, even when Zack is compelled to choose between his marriage and the inner feelings he can no longer ignore - his attraction to another man....

  • Officer's Wives

    Thomas Fleming

  • The Silver Flame

    L.L. Foreman

  • Can't You Make Them Behave, King George?

    Jean Fritz

    All King George the Third ever wanted was for everyone to be as conscientious as he was about obeying the rules! After all, he followed the rules for being a good king: he married a princess, he had heirs, he was careful with his country's money . . ...

  • Sounding the Territory

    Laurel Goldman

  • Bunny Make-It Book

    June Goldsborough

  • Fort Apache, the Bronx

    Heywood Gould

    Captain Dennis Connolly assumes command of the 41st Precinct in the South Bronx and creates new pressures for the policemen whose tours of duty have become a life-and-death struggle in an area they have christened Fort Apache...

  • The Fifth Jade of Heaven

    Marilyn Granbeck

    THE LEGEND OF THE FIVE JADES... From Beverly Hills to Paris to Hong Kong, wherever priceless antiques are sold, Arisa is learning to live up to her family's trust. In the world's most glamorous business, she is determined to hold her own, even aga...

  • Emerald Decision

    David Grant

  • The Science Fictional Dinosaur

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Agent Out of Place

    Irving A. Greenfield

  • Heroes of Zara Keep

    Guy Gregory

    Five young men and women saved from destruction by an ancient master of wind and lightning, placed in the care of wise and loving teachers. But before they can complete their apprenticeship, they are called to a perilous quest: to steal a mystic crys...

  • A Distant Eden

    Donna Grundman

    Reckless, Headstrong, She Hungered For The Wild Freedom On A Savage Untamed Land... A pampered San Francisco beauty, Nora Crandall fled her father's house, determined to marry Anthony Lowery, the charming young artist... to undertake a perilous jo...

  • The President's Man

    Nicholas Guild

    It was a great team from the start. Simon Faircliff: candidate for the U.S. Senate, the liberal's darling, with the charisma of a great leader. And Frank Austen: young, sharp, ruthless; in search of a job-and a cause. It took them eight years...

  • Flowers of the Desert

    C.A. Haddad

  • Lullaby

    Oakley Hall

  • Winter's Crimes

    George Hardinge

  • Dream Master

    Laura Hardy

    HE WAS THE HUNTER AND SHE HIS PREY Kate knew that when Marc Athicos wanted something, he went after it -- and got it. She also knew that now he wanted her. They had met when he had come to claim her orphaned nephew, Stevie, and take him to Gree...

  • Family Reunion

    Joyce Harrington

  • Intimate Strangers

    Brooke Hastings

    HE HAD WRITTEN THE BOOK ON HER. Rachel Grant had worked hard to put her unhappy past behind her and thought she had succeeded, until Jason Wilder's novel, based on her life, shattered her thin veneer of confidence. When they met in the secluded...

  • Missing

    Thomas Hauser

    The Pulitzer Prize"nominated book that served as the basis for the Oscar"winning movie starring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek.   Charles Horman was an American freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker who had traveled to Chile in the ea...

  • The Covington Inheritance

    Barbara Hazard

    "I DO NOT BELI EVE IN SUBTERFUGE AND PLAY-ACTING! That is why we are all here, is it not, to try to gain sole possession of a very large inheritance?" Five people and only five have been summoned to the bedside of Lady Cecily. But just one will...

  • Einstein Plot

    Basil Heatter

  • A Convenient Bride

    Betty Henrichs

    He meant to have his cake and eat it... to marry a drab little countrified miss, hide her away in the provinces, and pursue his own licentious pleasures in town. And Lord Ashford found just what he wanted in Penelope Stanwood, penniless daughter of t...

  • The Green Frontier

    John Buxton Hilton

    After the mysterious death of a popular German radio pastor in England, former Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent Kenworthy is called back to investigate a mystery that stretches back to postwar Berlin...

  • Monster Museum

    Alfred Hitchcock

  • Tugman's Passage

    Edward Hoagland

  • The Great Gum Drop Robbery

    Russell Hoban

  • Mercy...its the Revolution

    Nicole Hollander

  • The Coming of the Demons

    Gwenyth Hood

    In October 1268, the imminent execution of Conradin, pretender to the throne and pawn in the struggle between church and empire is interrupted by the arrival of extraterrestrials who are viewed, respectively, as angels or demons...

  • Mexico Bay

    Paul Horgan

  • The Donors

    Leslie Alan Horvitz

    The death of an actress exposes a secret network that traffics identitiesand lives On a crisp winter night, glamorous actress Maia Stevens is killed in a car accident. Alone in her car, her body burns to ash. But before long, Michael Reiss in the N...

  • Through the Eye of Time

    Trevor Hoyle

    In an alternate universe, Germany, and not the United States, has developed the first atomic bomb - and now, a group of scientists on the planet Earth IVn are seeking a way to being that research back!While investigating their research, scientist and...

  • Wizard in Waiting

    Robert Don Hughes

    WANTED: A POWERSHAPER! The Imperial House of Chaomonous was awake again. For a thousand years, while the two-headed dragon barred magic from the Golden Kingdom, the castle had slept. But now the dragon was dead, and the castle stirred and surveyed i...

  • High Tension

    Dean Ing

  • Progress of Stories

    Laura R. Jackson

  • The Eagle and the Serpent

    Lee Jackson

  • Armada

    Michael Jahn

  • Excalibur

    John Jakes

  • Journey of Fear

    Claudette Jauniere

    Norway blossomed into sudden wonderland. Vickie was keen to see the fjords of Norway, but her motives ran deeper than a simple vacation. On a million-to-one chance she was looking for a man -- one who had turned her life topsy-turvy during a fleeting...

  • The Chadwick Ring

    Julia Jeffries

    THE RIVALS It was no secret that Ginevra had a rival for her husband. All of London knew that Richard Glover, the Marquess of Chadwick, kept Amalie de Villeneuve as his mistress--and every rake in town smiled at the idea of a chit of a girl like G...

  • Terrible Teague Bunch

    Gary Jennings

    In 1905, in the Texas-Louisiana border country, four men meet at Mmc. Mattie Fouquet's Mahogany Parlor of Recreation, Diversion & Entertainment. Foyt is a cowboy who has outlived his era. Karnes is an oil-field rigger, sick of his man-killing job....

  • When You Were a Baby

    Ann Jonas

  • Long Cold Winter // His Blackmail Marriage Bargain

    Penny Jordan

    Freedom was all she wanted from him Autumn was desperately struggling to put behind her the bittersweet memories of her marriage to Yorke Laing. He'd nearly destroyed her once with his cold brand of loving, but time and a demanding job had ...

  • Super Sleuths!

    Carolyn Keene

  • The Ballads of the Big California Woman

    Jeanie Keltner

  • Memed, My Hawk

    Yashar Kemal

    Set in the mountains of Anatolia, this story of love, pursuit and vengeance recounts the efforts of Memed, a poor orphan, to obtain justice against a tyrant, even if it means taking to banditry to achieve his ends. The author also wrote "The Wind fro...

  • Dennis the Menace to the Core

    Hank Ketcham

  • A Choice of Cousins

    April Kihlstrom

    A sharp-tongued young beauty is forced to say yes to a nobleman she hates at first sight. THE PERFECT MISMATING Edward Fambrough, Earl of Danver, made no secret of the contempt he had for women--and Sara Farthingham was equally outspoken in he...

  • Being There

    Jerzy Kosinski

    A quirky, brilliant novel starring Chauncey Gardiner, an enigmatic man who rises from nowhere to become a media phenomenon -- “a fabulous creature of our age” (Newsweek).   One of the most beloved novels by the New York Times"bestselling a...

  • The Operation

    Albert Kovetz

  • Stalking Point

    Duncan Kyle

    A covert game of cat and mouse will decide the victor of the Second World War.1941. The battleship Prince of Wales races across the war-darkened Atlantic. Her secret human cargo makes her an irresistible prize for U-Boats. And the man she carries can...

  • Comstock Lode

    Louis L'Amour

    THEY CAME TO THE COMSTOCK... It was just a godforsaken mountainside but no place on earth was richer in silver. For a bustling, enterprising America, this was the great bonanza. The dreamers, the restless, the builders, the vultures--they were lur...

  • The Melancholy Virgin

    Annabel Laine

    'You're not going to be best pleased. It's a case of murder.' -- With these words from a Bow Street Runner, that nonpareil of Regency London, Charles Edward Graham Dornay, fifth Earl of Moriston, finds himself entangled with the violent and mysteri...

  • To Those Who Dare

    Lydia Lancaster

    THEY WERE SOCIETY'S DARLINGS Ther were born to marry for wealth and position, rear respectful children and take tea with the elite. But they chose love instead of prestige, principles instead of pride. In a growing town on Erie Canal, they dared...

  • Cricket

    Nathaniel Lande

  • Natural Enemy

    Jane Langton

    Spiders, bees, everything in nature had its place, until people interfere -- then things can turn to murder. Edward Heron died, grasping for breath, with yellow jackets hovering around him. Had Edward’s asthma finally killed him -- or were there...

  • The Death of Lorenzo Jones

    Brad Latham

  • Meeting Rozzy Halfway

    Caroline Leavitt

    An inspired story of growing up ordinary--and extraordinary--in the Boston suburbs. Meeting Rozzy Halfway follows a family falling apart at the seams when one daughter descends into madness and the second daughter tries to protect her. A shattering s...

  • Americans at War 2

    Robert Leckie

  • A Joy Forever

    Joyce Lee

    Who was this dashing cavalier who whisked her off to ecstasy on the eve of Countess Rosshaven's ball? He said his name was Kenneth Fontayne and pronounced himself a willing servant to the deliciously indiscreet Gigi Barrington who leapt from the ...

  • Glorious Angel

    Johanna Lindsey

    Not even fate could tear them from passion's destiny. Beautiful Hellion Though the sultry Alabama hellion was chased by every boy in town, she was a dirt-farmer's daughter--and could only dream of being loved by Bradford Maitland, heir to magnifi...

  • Bless This House

    Norah Lofts

    PIRATE, WITCH, BAWD & RAKE They had all been sheltered and shaped by the great house. Now, after almost five centuries, Merraway still stood - a beautiful, wracked monument to flaming passions and human hopes.... The story of Merravay, "a stat...

  • Game of Hearts

    Sara Logan

    IT WAS NO GAME TO HER! Christina Lennox went to North Carolina's Grandfather Mountain Games with high hopes. She had business worries aplenty, and her fiance had just jilted her, but with Alex Stewart's help, she was going to have a good time. Aft...

  • Hunters

    Jack Lovejoy

    THE DAY THE STARSHIPS CAME ...was the day that man became a hunted animal on his own planet. From the moment the missiles failed to fire the human race was on the run. But there was no place to hide, from -- The Hunters...

  • The Parsifal Mosaic

    Robert Ludlum

    Michael Havelock's world died on a moonlit beach on the Costa Brava. He watched as his partner and lover, Jenna Karats, double agent, was efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There was nothing left for him but to quit the game, get out. Unti...

  • Murder in the Wind

    John D. MacDonald

    Murder in the Wind, one of many classic novels from crime writer John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook.   With the waters rising and the winds whipping through the sky, ...

  • Ballroom of the Skies

    John D. MacDonald

    Ballroom of the Skies, a classic science fiction novel from John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook.   Have you ever stopped to wonder why the world is eternally torn by w...

  • Lady Sweetbriar

    Maggie MacKeever

    IT WAS WIDELY KNOWN THAT LADY SWEETBRIAR HAD A PAST But her fiance Sir Avery cared not a whit. He wanted her anyway. Lady Sweetbriar, known to her friends as Nikki, could not help it that she constantly got herself into scrapes. For instance, i...

  • River of Death

    Alistair MacLean

    TREACHERY-- MURDER-- AND A DEADLY VENGEANCE In the last desperate hours of Hitler's Reich, two SS officers plot to escape to South America with a fortune in stolen loot. But only one succeeds. He builds a multimillion dollar empire in Brazil, an...

  • The Healing Heart

    Magali

    She had come to Spain to heal old wounds. When Lauren came to El Pariso to escape her painful past, she met Carlos Chavez, whose own past was marred by tragedy. His wife had died in a freak car accident for which Carlos blamed himself, even though he...

  • The Last Trophy

    Brian Marsh

  • The Crying Heart Tattoo

    David Lozell Martin

    An international cult classic and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, The Crying Heart Tattoo follows the unlikely romance between a young man and a woman more than twice his age. Beginning their relationship when Sonny is just fourteen and Fe...

  • Smokescreen

    Anne Mather

    Alex was not the man she expected him to be The time for Olivia's revenge had come. Her elderly husband, Henry Gantry was dead. She'd take Henry's monument to himself, his fabulously wealthy corporation, and either sell it or put it in...

  • Emelie

    Melissa Mather

    Over one hundred and fifty years ago at Tamarack, a great stone mansion in the Vermont hills, Emelie and her secret lover were savagely destroyed by her jealous husband. Now, another Emelie is in love at the family estate she inherited--Tamarack. ...

  • Death Turns Right

    Joseph Mathewson

  • Strictly Amateur

    Tom McCormack

  • Winning Position

    Mark McCrackin

  • Heartthrob

    Margaret McKean

    HEARTTHROB Another man in the music business! That was the last thing lovely photojournalist January Warburton needed after her disastrous marriage to music producer Mike Stone. But bold, sensuous Lance Devlin, lead singer for the rock group L.A. Ex...

  • Better Off Dead

    Mary McMullen

  • Extreme Remedies

    Ellen H. Meyer

  • Forget Tomorrow

    Desiree Meyler

    When her father murders his wife and her lover, Hester finds herself transformed from poverty-stricken waif into the darling of Victorian society, but her happiness, security, and love soon becomes threatened...

  • The Belligerent Miss Boynton

    Kasey Michaels

    PRIDE'S CHALLENGE When Amanda Boynton made her entrance at the opening of Almack's, the ladies gasped and the gentlemen gaped. And towering over the startled assembly, Jared Delaney stood transfixed. Accustomed to the giddy young ladies who tw...

  • Wild Seed

    Paige Mitchell

    Selinda -- She was a wild, sensuous gypsy girl, free with her love but not with her heart. As long as she desired virile, defiant Ben Calder she would stay with him. She would bear him a son and leave her heritage behind... Anna -- The only man ...

  • Shadowed Stranger

    Carole Mortimer

    Her love was doomed before it had begun Rick Howarth was "too" everything: too old, too sophisticated, too experienced, and most of all, too married! But none of that prevented eighteen-year-old Robyn Castle from falling in love with hi...

  • The Vicar of Christ

    Walter F. Murphy

    The New York Times Bestseller is now available in its 35th Anniversary Edition, featuring an extensive new introduction by Justice Samuel Alito of the U.S. Supreme Court. (NOTE: Only the new edition from QUID PRO BOOKS is an all-new printing and incl...

  • Smoked Out

    Warren Murphy

    HOW CRAZY DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO LIVE IN LAS VEGAS WITH A GORGEOUS, ORIENTAL, PART-TIME HOOKER -- AND CHASE KILLERS FOR A LIVING? ASK DIGGER! His mother calls him Julian. His bookie calls him Mr. Burroughs. His friends call him Digger. He changes his...

  • Night Watcher

    James F. Murray

    Don't go out after dark in Dorsett. Not if you want to live. He sits in the dark. Watching. Waiting. In the moonlight, moans of illicit lovers drift up from the swimming pool. In the shadows, drugs quickly change hands. Soon he will show them all....

  • Young Torless

    Robert Musil

    Four adolescent boys in an Austrian military school act out the rites of passage in brutal, disturbed rituals which foreshadow the conditions and way of thought which led to a Nazi takeover thirty years later...

  • A Green Desire

    Anton Myrer

    One brother was charming and ruthless, and let their aunt buy him into Harvard, Wall Street, society. The other, ambitious but decent, stayed by their mother and made his own way to the top. Raised in separate worlds, they were bound from youth by a ...

  • Laughter in the Dark

    Vladimir Nabokov

    Amidst a Weimar-era milieu of silent film stars, artists, and aspirants, Nabokov creates a merciless masterpiece as Albinus, an aging critic, falls prey to his own desires, to his teenage mistress, and to Axel Rex, the scheming rival for her affectio...

  • Bloodletters and Badmen

    Jay Robert Nash

    A narrative encyclopedia of American criminals from the pilgrims to the present....

  • Aphrodite's Cave

    N. Richard Nash

  • Hearts

    Thomas R. Nassisi

  • Ghosts of Elkhorn

    Kerry Newcomb

    A forgotten gunslinger battles modern-day gangsters At seventy-one, the Wind River Kid is a kid no longer. In the last days of the Old West, he was feared in gambling halls across the country, a hard-nosed card shark who didn’t mind killing to prov...

  • Summer Lace

    Jenny Nolan

    As silvery blond Janice Morgan sat in her design shop creating beautiful wedding dresses for blushing brides, she tried not to think about the man she'd lost--and the wedding she'd never have. Then Chase Brandon returns, hardened, changed. His dev...

  • Where the Chill Came From

    Howard Norman

  • Mask of the Jaguar

    Jessie North

    The emerald-green, quetzal-haunted jungle is truly dazzling, but the beauty of the setting belies the imminent danger to Julie's life; all too soon she finds herself caught up in a nightmare of deception, smuggling and murder, complicated by cryp...

  • Dead Bolt

    Raymond Obstfeld

  • Inside UFO 54-40

    Edward Packard

    CAPTURED BY A UFO! CAN YOU ESCAPE? You're aboard a supersonic jet, high above the Atlantic. Suddenly a huge, gleaming white cylinder shoots out of the clouds. The next thing you know you are inside the galactic ship Rakma -- captured by the all-p...

  • The Pleasuring of Rory Malone

    Charles Panati

  • Ah but Your Land Is Beautiful

    Alan Paton

  • Bitter Revenge

    Lilian Peake

    She could not shake the tragic past... Carla Howard still had nightmares, even after three years. But tragic as her fiance, Crispin's, death had been, another face haunted her waking mind. For on that fateful night when Carla had broken her en...

  • Violent Streets

    Don Pendleton

    Mack is back! The call to Mack Bolan is urgent, almost frantic. Rosario Blancanales's kid sister, Toni, has been raped and beaten --but at least she is still alive, unlike the five other victims whose throats were slashed by the Minneapolis maniac...

  • Penelope Gets Wheels

    Esther Allen Peterson

  • About David

    Susan Beth Pfeffer

  • Shooting Star

    W.R. Philbrick

    Ronnie Garrick, a wild but amazingly talented singer from rural Texas, takes it on the road, risking her heart, her voice, and her life, as she claws her way to the top....

  • Michelle

    Carolyn E. Phillips

  • Amber-Eyed Man

    Johanna Phillips

    When chance forces Meredith Moore to seek refuge at Ward Sanderson's Mexican estate, she thinks the worst is behind her. But her host, magnetic and mysterious, is alternately cold, then kind. Winning the trust of Ward's small daughter and invalid br...

  • The Dennecker Code

    J.C. Pollock

    At the end of World War II, SS General Karl Dennecker devised a diabolical plan of escape. Forty years later, Special Forces vet Jack Callahan discovers Dennecker's body in the Rockies and finds himself embroiled in a desperate battle to stay alive. ...

  • The Magnolia Siege

    Pamela Pope

    The man she loved, loved someone else Ryan Donalson was adamant. If Jessica Franklin, scriptwriter, was not going to finish the job, Hanna Ballantyne, secretary to Jessica, would And that meant accompanying the famous director, and his film cre...

  • Birthright: The Book of Man

    Mike Resnick

    The epic story of humanity writ large across the galaxy: “A tour de force . . . an award caliber novel . . . a profound contribution to science fiction” (Barry Malzberg, author of Beyond Apollo). In the twenty-f...

  • The Woman Hunt

    J.R. Roberts

    On the cold trail of a woman he loved many years ago. The Gunsmith finds the going gets hotter as he gets closer to finding her. His search takes him to the explosive Rancho Soto, a huge spread in New Mexico. The old flame is now married to the power...

  • A Long Time to Hate

    Willo Davis Roberts

    THE FIRST TIME, THEY WERE JUST GIRLS. Seven years ago, on a dark night in Redwood County, California, Donna Malloy and Kay Richards were forced to watch as a pyschoatic killer shot-gunned a 17-year-old friend. Then they were brutally raped. Don...

  • Spring Is Here

    Michele Chopin Roosevelt

  • The Dancing Years

    Clarissa Ross

    In the spring of 1933, gaiety on board the great ocean liner Brittania had never been at a more feverish pitch. The glorious strains of Cole Porter filled the air, the champagne flowed, and the dancing never seemed to stop. To pretty Sally Wyse, p...

  • Empire Builder

    Paul R. Rothweiler

  • The Garden of Persephone

    Cesar J. Rotondi

    In twelfth-century Sicily, King Roger II, with the help of his English aide and diplomatic envoy, Julien Fitz Nigel, launches a revolutionary plan to unite southern Italy in independence from the papacy...

  • Sands of Xanadu

    Melanie Rowe

    "YOU'RE ONE OF BLAKE'S GROUPIES," Alex accused, his blue eyes flashing. And suddenly Cara Demorest understood his antagonism toward her. Alex believed that she was chasing his playboy older brother, helping him in his scheme to destr...

  • Copycat

    Barbara Samuels

    Amusing line drawings and prose tell the story of Benjamin, Sarah's timid, self-doubting boyfriend, who is intimidated by her brash, self-confident cat, Sid, and contrives a desperate plan to triumph over the cat and win Sarah's total love...

  • Macho Camacho's Beat

    Luis Rafael Sanchez

    The effects of American advertising, television, and comic books on life in Puerto Rico are vividly depicted in this tale of a pro-American senator, his Black mistress, aristocratic wife, and right-wing terrorist son...

  • The Tender Mending

    Lisa Sanders

    Just who did Dr. Paul Douglas think he was? Before they even met, he had pegged Dee Woods as the neglectful mother of seven-year-old Beanie, for reasons of her own, she had let him believe the worst In fact, she was Beanie's loving aunt, the one w...

  • The Myrmioon Project

    M. Scarborough

    When anchorman Harvey Grunwald returns to the air after his family experiences a series of bizarre accidents, cameraman Jeff Campbell notices subtle differences in Grunwald and, after investigating, discovers a horrifying application of space-age tec...

  • Hecate's Cauldron

    Susan Schwartz

  • Love Me Again

    Alexandra Scott

    She had never loved anyone else Eva Smith almost fainted, so great was the shock of seeing Dr. Andrew Steward in the hospital. She hadn't seen him in seven years, not since he had broken her heart by becoming engaged to someone else. Would...

  • A Keeper for Lord Linford

    Margaret SeBastian

    "AS FOR LORD LINFORD, HE COULD BE THE LAST MAN ON EARTH, VISCOUNT OR NOT, AND I COULD NOT CARE LESS." When Lady Gordon's lovely daughter Ancilla made up her mind, it was most difficult to change it. And that spirited female had decided...

  • Art Appreciation Made Simple

    John P. Sedgwick

  • Little Bunny Learns Colors

    Art Seiden

  • Captive of Desire

    Alexandra Sellers

    THEIR PASSIONATE UNION DEFIED THE POWERS THAT TORE THEM APART LOVE RECAPTURED, THEN LOST AGAIN... Laddy Penreith was seventeen the night she met Soviet writer Mischa Busnetsky. Surrounded by a watchful crowd, neither could reveal the searing p...