Books Published in February 1983

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — FEBRUARY 1983

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New Books List: 248 titles

  • Alice and the Boa Constrictor

    Laurie Adams

    After learning in science class that boa constrictors make wonderful pets, Alice saves her money until she has enough to buy Sir Lancelot. There are two cliques in her class at Miss Barton's School for Girls -- the Peaches and the Turnips.  The Peac...

  • Something Old, Something New

    Lillian Africano

  • Foul Matter

    Joan Aiken

    Depleted by a passionate life brimming with love and lovers, free-spirited Clytie Churchill becomes haunted by the shadows of her past until a harrowing experience, when she is held captive with a French doctor, transforms her...

  • Very Much a Lady: The Untold Story of Jean Harris and Dr. Herman Tarnower

    Shana Alexander

    Based on the author's exclusive interviews with Jean Harris, as well as with Harris's and Tarnower's friends and families, this account examines the multifarious emotional entanglements that exploded the night Herman Tarnower was shot...

  • Forgiveness

    Jennifer Allyn

  • Somewhere to Call Home

    Kerry Allyne

    His very presence put her on her guard Rowan had no choice but to go to work for the overbearing arrogant Fraser Delaney -- she needed the job, and besides, if she refused, it could jeopardize her best friend Tanya's job on Fraser's planta...

  • Silver Huntress

    Felicia Andrews

    Starchild belonged to her people, but it was James Sinclair, the fearless wagon train scout, who had captured her proud heart. Then, her peaceful world shattered by a rival tribe's brutal massacre, Starchild was rescued by two visiting Englishmen and...

  • What's Best for You?

    Judie Angell

    Everything about the divorce was decided, ad that made Lee angry. No one had asked for her opinion, and at fifteen she felt she should have a say in the matter. The family house was rented, twelve-year-old Allison and seven-year-old Joel would live...

  • Invasion of the Black Slime and Other Tales of Horror

    R.G. Austin

  • A Matter of Honor

    Rebecca Baldwin

    Now She Was Young Widow Winsome -- And Her Past Was As Clouded As Her Future When gently bred Honor Winsome, who had run away 8 years ago with a dashing but shady young gambler, suddenly found herself a penniless widow, she was certain something w...

  • The Regiments of Night

    Brian N. Ball

    Beneath the Earth's shattered crust...does the Black Army still wait? After a thousand years of defeat...is the Black Army still fit? Inside their lost underground stronghold...is the Black Army drilling? Archeologists considered the legend superstit...

  • The Magic Man

    David Bannerman

    Donald Briggs O'Meara can be who he needs to be, when he needs to be. It's one of the reasons he's had such an extraordinarily successful career as a con man. And it's why, when the government needs someone special -- someone with the gift of gab, wh...

  • The Skin Swindle

    Wade Barker

    The Porn King's kindom is vast; beautiful women and children are his slaves, bondage his politics, and death his ultimate discipline. Chained to the wall of the Porn King's palace, death always arrives. But never quite fast enough. B rett Wallace en...

  • Love's Majesty

    Charles Beamer

  • The Rescue of Ranor

    Wilanne S. Belden

    Minna, a White Witch who had learned just enough to set up on her own, was not interested in being a witch. She just wanted to be left alone. And she thought she had herself nicely situated in a place where no one would find her. But someone did. His...

  • That Certain Summer

    Emma Bennett

    He was part of her past, and that was exactly where she meant to keep him. Yet, she would never forget her eighteenth summer, the summer he had appeared- not a boy, but a man with a man's passions- to teach her the searing pleasures of first love. ...

  • Prelude to Passion

    Fran Bergen

    Operatic set designer Nydia Lear seemed to have every-thing she needed to make life complete, including a job with world-famous maestro Kurt Klausen. Kurt Klausen ... He intrigued Nydia, but she had a job to do and no time for love. Or so she thou...

  • By Camel or by Car

    Guy Billout

  • Davy Crockett: Frontier Fighter

    Lee Bishop

  • Fallen Star

    James Blish

  • The Pioneers

    Terry Nelsen Bonner

    The growing colony of New South Wales becomes a battleground between convict descendants and pioneering free settlers. Edward Carmichael, a young London aristocrat, came to the new land to make his fortune and establish a position in Sydney societ...

  • The High Road

    Ben Bova

  • Beauchamp

    Florence Bowes

    “She’s not rich.” He sat down on the rumpled bed and pulled on short boots of fine brown leather. “Her uncle, David Douglas, is rich. Her father spent his inheritance living it up.” He grinned suddenly. “That’s a man after my own heart...

  • Web of Light

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    BLACK AND WHITE MAGIC WERE AT WAR .. . Domaris, disciple of the Temple of Light, was wrenched from her peaceful life by the arrival of Micon, the Atlantean prince, whose powers over wind and sun, earth and fire, are coveted by the sorcerers of the...

  • Futures

    Freda Bright

  • A Secret Valentine

    Dixie Browning

    HE WAS THE LAST MAN ON EARTH SHE COULD TRUST. Love was a cruel teacher for Grace Spencer. It brought her nothing but pain and humiliation, and she was determined that no man would ever take advantage of her again. Now that her life was finally ...

  • The Great Steamboat Race

    John Brunner

  • The Megadeath Option

    Peter Buck

  • Open After School

    Bonnie Butler

  • To Be or Not to Be

    Sue Byfield

    She couldn't believe it had all happened Visiting her sister, Chris in Spain was a dream come true for Stacy -- for it was there she met Felipe. But she was inexperienced and didn't know how to handle the handsome womanizer or the over...

  • Dawn's Promise

    Jo Calloway

    Lesley Gardner had flown across the world, joined an archaeological dig in the heart of Africa, and buried herself in work to forget the crushing heartbreak she had left behind. Yet, she had given her promise. She would go home to Oregon for Chris...

  • Hart's Hope

    Orson Scott Card

    JUSTICE IS CRUEL But tender mercy is the cruelest of all. It was for mercy's sake that Palicroval the Fair left you to live after the desecration of your honor...to live and become great Queen Beauty, whose power makes the very gods tremble and...

  • Voice of Our Shadow

    Jonathan Carroll

    Living in Vienna, Joseph Lennox, a young American writer haunted by the specter of his overbearing brother's tragic death, finds himself erotically, and ominously, involved with the strange and manic Paul and India Tate...

  • Midnight Sun

    Mary Carroll

    A SCANDINAVIAN HOLIDAY had been Texan-born Lark Avery's idea of an amusing way to enjoy a summer. But when Tag Hansen's car ran into her, she was forced to change her plans. Her limited funds did not allow for such an emergency. It seemed like a str...

  • The Outback Ghosts

    Nick Carter

  • Her Golden Eyes

    Sara Chance

    Tawny, feline Summer McAllister was a born sailor, captain of her own ship, but one look at jet-setter Brandon Marshall and her heart was caught. When Brandon chartered the Sea Mist for two weeks, he was astonished to find her in charge. From the mom...

  • Brea File

    Louis Charbonneau

    Spilled blood is not easily washed away...The People’s Revolutionary Committee massacre was no accident. The annihilation of the PRC -- the domestic terrorist organization responsible for a string of deadly attacks in the U.S. -- was orchestrated b...

  • The Saint : five complete novels

    Leslie Charteris

  • Experiment in Love

    Rita Clay

    DATELINE: LOS ANGELES LEAD STORY: LOVE Fiercely independent Victoria Brown was hoping to land herself a job at a prestigious L.A. paper when she met wealthy and handsome Kurt Morgan. She was immediately attracted to him, and her plans began to c...

  • Moonscatter

    Jo Clayton

    With skin as pale and eyes as black as death, a blood-red ruby depending from one nostril, he was Ser Noris, the most villainous wizard of all time. He had done it all-slain all adepts worth his scorn, attained immortality, become the dire tyrant of ...

  • The Yoke of Shen

    John Cleve

  • Nez Perce Legend

    Mick Clumpner

    Dell Publishing Febuary 1983 1st Edition mass market paperback with light rub marks on corners/edges from light use/shelf wear. Tight spine, good covers, clear, crisp pages, little wavy. Ships same day as payment received!...

  • Bet You Can't!

    Vicki Cobb

    With this collection of irresistible bets, you can team up with science and be a winner every time. Stump your family, friends, or favorite enemy with these deceptively simple dares. They're all impossible to perform thanks to principles of gravit...

  • Follow the Wind

    Don Coldsmith

    A FATHER'S QUEST Don Pedro Garcia impatiently measured time in the number of forced marches the horses could endure. He was an old man now, and he wanted to see his son who. rumor had it, was alive among the Indians of the Great Plains. Don Pedro'...

  • Gentle Awakening

    Marianne Cole

    Brandeis Evans had to get away--from the loss of her husband and child, and from her medical practice, which resurrects their memory. Attempting to heal her ravaged spirit, she retreats to a small Ozark village. But Dr. Matt Wilde--a man more arde...

  • War Comes to Willy

    James Lincoln Collier

    A free thirteen-year-old black girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears....

  • Passion's Domain

    Nina Coombs

    "Deny that you want me," Greg demanded. "Just try and deny it..." Auburn-haired Mickey Callahan had never met a man as infuriating as architect Greg Bennett. Couldn't he understand that his cold steel skyscraper was all wrong f...

  • Dorrie and the Witches' Camp

    Patricia Coombs

  • Quintessence

    Betty Cornfield

  • Dangerous Delight

    Christine Hella Cott

    SHE FLED FROM PASSION'S TORMENT Sal Si Puedes...Escape If You Can. The plantation's very name should have warned Eleni. She had come to this Peruvian hideaway to purchase rare gems, but found the mysterious gem dealer, Lucio Ferraz, far...

  • Prairie Girl

    Barbara Coy

    Stephanie hated moving to her grandmother’s isolated in Oklahoma. That was before she fell under the spell of rolling mountains, and windswept prairies, before she met a tall, dark-haired boy as rugged and exciting as the vast country she grew to l...

  • Sup With the Devil

    Sara Craven

    Could he seduce her into forgetfulness? Courtney had always dreamed of one day desired by a lover and responding ardently to him. But with the right man -- not ever with Blair Devereux! For three long years, the memory of how Blair had ruined ...

  • Enthralled

    Ann Cristy

    It wasn't Teel's habit to lie--but then, Chazz Herman, with his devastating golden eyes and glittery jet-set world, was a dangerous man. He'd stop at nothing to get a woman he wanted--and he wanted every inch of Teel. If he thought she was a nun--she...

  • The Silent Voice

    Julia Cunningham

  • Through Clouds of Flame

    Richard Hale Curtis

  • The Medusa Syndrome

    Ron Cutler

  • Tender Rhapsody

    Jennifer Dale

    Unable to fulfill her dream of becoming a classical pianist, Judith Vanover had turned to musical agenting. But she kept her standards high, scorning popular musicians -- until she met Oliver. Forced to accept the charismatic rock star as a client, s...

  • Not the Marrying Kind

    Helen Dalzell

    She took a deep breath, then plunged ahead! To save the home she loved, Kathryn proposed to Zac. There were no messy emotions attached--it was nice and simple. Several things puzzled her though--the elation she felt when he accepted, and the du...

  • Primavera

    Marjorie David

  • Killed With a Passion

    William L. Deandrea

    Returning to the quiet, upstate New York town that is the home of his alma mater and the location of the wedding of a pair of old friends, network troubleshooter Matt Cobb finds himself up against murder...

  • Crown of Desire

    Marjorie DeBoer

    As Paris became a battleground for the crowned heads of Europe, beautiful Daphne de Monceau, daughter of one of the most powerful families in Napoleon's faltering Second Empire, was caught up in a struggle that would change her world forever. Pled...

  • The Wildon Affair

    Roland Deforrest

  • Promises to Come

    Genell Dellin

    What do you do when you meet a guy and can’t get him out of your mind? What do you say when you fall for him and your brothers have told him things that make you sound like a gawky boy. How do you act… when you really want him to stand up and...

  • A Woman of New Orleans

    Rochel DeNore

    Felicité Fortier, a dynamic, ravishing woman of the 1890s -- she dared to dream of success, power and independence, striving to meet the challenge of a new era. Determined to open the finest restaurant in New Orleans, she finds herself matched again...

  • Murder on Cue

    Jane Dentinger

    Aspiring actress Jocelyn O'Roarke vowed she’d made her last diaper commercial. Her new job as understudy to the leading lady in a smash Broadway play was sure to make her a star. She’d even captured the heart of the dashing leading man. All she n...

  • Velvet Song

    Jude Deveraux

    They were both outcasts by a harsh decree, on the brink of a shared destiny of passion! With her father murdered, her home burned, lovely Alyx Blackett fled to the woods -- and sanctuary in the camp of Raine Montgomery, a nobleman outlawed by the...

  • Defiant Mistress

    Anne Devon

    In Belgium on the eve of Waterloo, the world seems turned upside down, but Louisa Varley must bravely face the truth. She is penniless and abandoned, and forced to become an actress--much to the horror of her suitor. . . and his older brother, Richar...

  • People at Work

    Disney Book Group

  • Ride Float and Fly

    Disney Book Group

  • Simple Science

    Disney Book Group

  • Animals and Their Babies (Disney Library)

    Disney Book Group

  • All About You, Vol. 11

    Disney Book Group

  • Mickey's Counting Book

    Walt Disney

  • Goofy's Book of Colors

    Walt Disney

  • Diamond Queen

    Dorothy Dixon

    Her name was Alice Ivers, but everyone knew her as "Poker Alice," the blue eyed, golden haired vixen who longed for romance, adventure and riches. And when she discovered she possessed a gambler's intuition and a talent for playing cards, she knew ho...

  • Lover from the Sea

    Bonnie Drake

    "To sum it all up, I see myself stranded, with neither past nor future, in a small house, with a very beautiful woman:' April Wilde's heart pounded, her mind was in a whirl. What was she to make of this handsome shipwrecked stranger? Marooned in h...

  • Courage at Sea

    Rebecca Drury

  • High and Outside

    Linnea A. Due

  • Tender Rhapsody

    Judith Duncan

    SHE CARRIED HER HEARTACHE LIKE A SEARING FLAME Nightclub singer Jillian Lambert had a special earthy quality to her voice that excited critics and audiences alike. Her fans didn't know that the deep emotion she poured into her music was evoked by ...

  • Iron Lace

    Lorena Dureau

    FROM THE WAR THAT RAGED IN HER HEART, ONLY LOVE COULD FREE HER. Handsome Miguel Vidal de la Fuente assumed he could calm the seething resentment of his beautiful ward. What he didn't count on was her wiliness or his passion. Monique's d...

  • Revenge of the Rainbow Dragons

    Rose Estes
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

  • Sixgun Legacy

    Evan Evans

  • Longarm on the Great Divide

    Tabor Evans

    SILVER WAS DISAPPEARING WITHOUT A TRACE... Peacock was a two-bit town stuck high along the Continental Divide. But that's where the narrow-gauge railroad picked up the payload from the silver mines. And that's where a slippery gang of train robber...

  • For Love of Mother-Not

    Alan Dean Foster

    THEY CALLED HIM FLINX... He was just a freckle-faced, redheaded kid with green eyes and a strangely compelling stare when Mother Mastiff first saw him on the auctioneers block. One hundred credits and he was hers. For years the old woman was h...

  • Just Friends

    Dorothy Brenner Francis / Dorothy Francis

  • Kate's Way

    Sara Francis

    Kate and Luke had one thing in common Neither trusted the other. She, badly hurt in a previous relationship, wasn't ready for commitment. He, an internationally renowned singer, suspected the motives of any woman who tried to get too close. ...

  • Precious Interlude

    Margaret Gayle

    ALIX FELT HER VERY SOUL RUSHING TO MEET HIS Alix faced the archaeological trek, deep into the Sahara, with great trepidation. The notorious Lai Renard, sponsor of her late mother's expedition was to accompany her, too. She could not forget ...

  • Office Party

    Michael Gilbert

  • The Urge to Die

    Peter L. Giovacchini

  • Fortune's Play

    Eve Gladstone

    Winds of change from the north, Chinook winds, swept across the Montana plains to bring Niki into Steve's arms once more. In the heat of the Arabian desert their marriage had shattered; in the shadow of the Montana oil derricks they found each oth...

  • Four Days

    Gloria Goldreich

    Happily married to a successful attorney, the mother of two growing children and herself a businesswoman responsible for her own computer firm, Ina Feldman suddenly discovers she is pregnant. At first, she feels she cannot allow her carefully planned...

  • Lavinia's Cottage

    John S. Goodall

  • Father and Son

    Edmund Gosse

    At birth Edmund Gosse was dedicated to 'the Service of the Lord'. His parents were Plymouth Brethren. After his mother's death Gosse was brought up in stifling isolation by his father, a marine biologist whose faith overcame his reason when confronte...

  • Whale Watch

    Frank Graham

  • When Next We Love

    Heather Graham

    "I'll never see things your way!" Leigh raged. Arrogant, imperious, Derek Mallory -- famed English rock star -- watched her with mock surprise. Had he summoned her to his palatial estate on Star Island to offer her the chance to prove ...

  • Don't Forget to Write

    Patsy Gray

  • Bright Dawn

    Francesca Greer

    SIX MONTHS TO MARRY! Pa Travis gave Rae-Ellen an ultimatum. Your baby needs a father, he declared, and you're too young and beautiful to stay a widow. Pa had even picked the man for her, Jess Tower, her new foreman. He was handsome and arrogan...

  • There Is No Darkness

    Joe Haldeman; Jack C. Haldeman

    The universe is not interested in fair play. The universe is interested in survival. That is lesson number one aboard the giant advanced-training ship called "Starschool". Those who fail to learn lesson one very rarely have cause to worry about what ...

  • Lysette

    Ena Halliday

    SHE WAS THE MOST WILLFUL, EXASPERATING, DESIRABLE WOMAN HE HAD EVER MET. Lysette, the Marquise de Ferrand, was young, widowed and penniless. In 1636, the French countryside was in turmoil as Lysette attempted to make her way to her brother's h...

  • Breakaway

    Ruth Hallman

  • My Brother's Image

    Mark Hamilton

  • Dreamtime

    Anne Hampson

    AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE When Jane left America for the Australian Outback, she left with high hopes for a happy new life. But there she met the handsome and domineering Scott Farnham and instead found herself in a heartbreaking trap. Even though it...

  • The Floating Gods

    M. John Harrison

  • Caught in the Rain

    Shirley Hart

    It was no use -- no use at all. Cathy Taylor's promising acting career -- her whole life -- suddenly seemed doomed to fail. Wildly, impulsively, she had quit her Hollywood job and driven cross-country in hope of doing summer stock in Upstate New ...

  • Irina's Story

    Hermann Hartfeld

  • Proud Surrender

    Diana Haviland

    TURBULENT PASSIONS IN A VANQUISHED LAND -- AND A WOMAN'S COURAGE IN LOVE... It was the Reconstruction Era, when carpetbaggers swept across the South to plunder a defeated people. But Megan, the lovely Irish orphan who had been forced to live ...

  • Murphys Boy

    Torey L. Hayden

    His name was Kevin but his keepers called him Zoo Boy. He didn't talk. He hid under tables and surrounded himself with a cage of chairs. He hadn't been out of the building in the four years since he'd come in. He was afraid of water and wouldn't t...

  • The Scorpio Cipher

    Ralph Hayes

  • The Osprey Dilemma

    Steve Hayes

    Yesterday he was a Nazi spy. concealed in the U.S. Coast Guard, he fed America's secrets to the enemy. After the war he destroyed all traces of his past, watching, waiting for the moment to strike. Today he is a Washington politico. Charming, urba...

  • Afternoon of a Faun

    Shelby Hearon

    Fifteen-year-old Jeanetta Mayfield finds her life dramatically altered by the discovery that she was adopted, while a young man, Harry James, transforms his life by adopting a new family, Jeanetta's biological parents...

  • Time's Up!

    Florence Parry Heide

  • Animal Crackers: A Bestial Lexicon

    Robert Hendrickson

  • Animal Crackers

    Robert Hendrickson

  • Winter of the White

    Marie Herbert

  • To Have and to Hold

    Lori Herter

    Yes -- she couldn't deny it -- she still wanted him. But it could never be as it had been before. A few short years ago Stacie Smythe had been his student at the university. Awed by his brilliance, overwhelmed by her own desire, she had becom...

  • The Eleventh Year

    Monique Raphel High

    Two roommates from Vassar go to the post-war Paris of Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald. One forgoes her dream of being an artist to marry an aristocrat, while the other pursues her dream of becoming a famous writer....

  • In the Arms of Love

    Alexis Hill (2)

    "Those macho types don't appeal to me," Rachel Pritchard insisted. 'Jason Brand leaves me totally cold." Easy enough to say, but was it true? A blue-eyed Adonis in tight jeans and T-shirt, he had invaded her freshman Composition class. An unschool...

  • Double Trouble

    Laura Lee Hope

  • Agatha's Friends

    Thomas Houser

    When a drug dealer is killed, the police question the victim's neighbor Agatha Tilden, who doesn't remember anything unusual--until a bloody knife is found in her bedroom. Fragments of memory begin to surface--an argument, screaming, blood. But who w...

  • Prairie Flame

    Jessica Howard

    IRISH-AMERICAN PRINCESS, SWEET FLAME OF LONDON SOCIETY Lovely, headstrong Meridel McGraw daughter of a wealthy New York industrialist, had vowed to marry an English nobleman. Yet it was Dan Forrester, the rugged American rancher, who swept her fro...

  • Easy Company and the Bible Salesman

    John W. Howard

  • Return to Rapture

    Meg Hudson

    A PILGRIMAGE IN THE NAME OF LOVE... Monica knew it was foolish to real time as a tour guide. But she had to find out why Ian MacGregor--the handsome laird with whom she'd fallen rapturously, irrevocably in love a year earlier--had cut her off ...

  • Summer Rhapsody

    Nancy John

    Nina's future in the ballet seemed assured, as did her future in love. But nothing was as it seemed, and soon both were gone. Suddenly she was free to explore her relationship with British tycoon Dextor Rolfe, the man who had been tempting her...

  • Adrift

    Tristan Jones

    Recounts the intriguing wanderings of the renowned adventurer as he travels the world's waterways, detailing the frustrating and time-consuming difficulties he finds when dealing with customs officials, police, and other bureaucrats...

  • Phantom Marriage

    Penny Jordan

    She had weathered life's storms alone Tara had been only seventeen when she'd given herself to James. She had borne him twins in secret, inventing a short-lived marriage to protect her fatherless children and to hide her shame. The year...

  • Cimarron and the Hanging Judge

    Leo P. Kelley

    He rode from Texas with his Colt at his side, his Winchester in a saddle scabbard, a look in his eyes that made men back off, and a lean, muscled strength that made women gaze at him long and hard. He called himself Cimarron, with his hand on his gun...

  • Cimarron Rides the Outlaw Trail

    Leo P. Kelley

  • Jody

    Deborah Kent

    Jody's not sure exactly when things begin to seem, well, funny. But gradually during her junior year she realizes she's not hearing quite right. It's so embarrassing! She can't follow her friends' conversations anymore and she can barely understand h...

  • An Improper Companion

    April Kihlstrom

    A DEVIL'S CHOICE Heather Wade faced a thoroughly devilish dilemma when she heard the astounding proposal of the wealthy and notorious Sir Leslie Kinwell. This man who had brutishly dishonored her virtue now calmly announced she was to become his w...

  • California, INC.

    Joel Kotkin

  • Bowdrie

    Louis L'Amour

    THE NAME IS BOWDRIE It was a name that caused the most hardened gunmen to break out in a cold sweat. Chick Bowdrie. He could have ridden the outlaw trail, but the Texas Rangers recruited him because they didn't want to have to fight against him. P...

  • The Space Eater

    David Langford

    Ken Jackin has defeated death forty-six times thanks to the extraordinary phenomenon called Anomalous Physics, but now he has his most difficult mission: stop the experiments on a runaway space colony. In order to get into the colony Ken and his lov...

  • The Duke's Wager

    Edith Layton

    BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA Lovely Regina Berryman was pursued by two men -- the two most attractive and infamous bachelors in London. One was Jason Thomas, Duke of Torquay, whose skill and success in seduction had made him a legend...

  • The Little Drummer Girl

    John Le Carre

    John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow world's of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim. In this thrilling and though-provoking ...

  • One Who Kisses

    Marjorie Lewty

    He would do anything to get what he wanted Piran St. Just had told her so himself, and Polly was soon to find out how true his words would be. A wife would make it easier to win custody of his nephew Jules, and the little boy had become very at...

  • Harpy's Flight

    Megan Lindholm

  • Prelude to Chaos

    Edward Llewellyn

    Gavin Knox was bodyguard to the President of the United States and witness to a crime which could shake civilization to its foundations. Judith Grenfell was a neurobiologist who discovered a side effect of the most common pharmaceutical on the mar...

  • Slocum's Drive

    Jake Logan

    JOHN SLOCUM WAS NO CATTLE DROVER. But for an old friend's sake and a chance at 50.000 dollars, he'd ride through Hell -- and Hell might have been easier. Slocum had 2,500 head of steers, a handful of desperate wranglers. and his boss's desirable daug...

  • Return to Kaldak

    Jeffrey Lord

  • Dark but Full of Diamonds

    Katie Letcher Lyle

  • In the House of Dark Music

    Frances Lynch

    A graveyard, sinister music, a small child's nightmare...A children's tune played on a hurdy-gurdyA small boy's nightmareThe same tune played by an old blind beggar outside a foggy graveyard - and heard again by an old, bed-ridden womanAnd heard agai...

  • All These Condemned

    John D. MacDonald

    A television star wilting under the limelight. An adman with a stiff upper lip. A rising New York artist. A desperate housewife. All are victims of a cruel puppet master -- and one of them is a killer.Introduction by Dean KoontzThe head of a global c...

  • Dead Low Tide

    John D. MacDonald

    Dead Low Tide is an iconic early thriller from John D. MacDonald, the mastermind behind Cape Fear and the Travis McGee novels. On the coast of Florida, a working stiff is wrongfully accused of murdering his boss -- and must outwit one of MacDonald’...

  • Gypsy Autumn

    Doreen Owens Malek

  • Mephisto

    Klaus Mann

    A SAVAGE INDICTMENT OF EVIL, TOLD WITH AMAZING SKILL, MEPHISTO IS BASED ON THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR'S OWN BROTHER-IN-LAW, THE CELEBRATED GERMAN ACTOR GUSTAV GRUNDGENS. BANNED IN GERMANY FOR YEARS AFTER ITS INITIAL PUBLICATION, THE BOOK HAS BECOME A BES...

  • An Adventure in Love

    Marilyn Manning

    HE WAS INFURIATINGLY PATRONIZING! Julie Brewster, a young fashion copywriter, considered herself lucky to have won a prestigious business trip to London. To placate her overprotective grandfather, she agreed to stay there with Morgan Stuart, an o...

  • Praise-Song for the Widow

    Paule Marshall

    While on her annual Caribbean cruise, Avey Johnson, a Black, middle-aged widow, finds her comfortable life unraveling and embarks on another voyage, an odyssey in search of spiritual and cultural regeneration...

  • A Knight to Remember

    Pam Martin

    Although he was a knight riding gallantly through Tina's dreams, she was sure that in reality there was no room for him in her life. She already had her hands full with Stan, her steady, reliable boyfriend, and Bell, the mare she was preparing for th...

  • Heart's Shadow

    Prudence Martin

    With some misgivings, lovely Diana French said good-bye to her safe, quiet, staid life as a librarian and took the job at Quillian's Modeling Agency. Swept into the high-powered world of fashion and advertising, she was geared for excitement, steeled...

  • The Dragon Rises

    Adrienne Martine-Barnes

  • An Elusive Desire

    Anne Mather

    She had made her choice years ago As a girl, Jaime had learned how powerful love can be in the arms of a wealthy Italian count, Raphael di Vaggio. Yet she had rejected him to pursue her career. He had found someone else and for five years Jaime...

  • Race the Tide

    Mia Maxam

    INNOCENT DECEPTION Christina McIntire had inherited her father's garage business. She was a fine mechanic and worked on the most expensive cars in Florida. It was no wonder that when Scott Kirkner strolled into her garage, he mistook her for a boy. ...

  • Court of Memory

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