Books Published in February 1985

New Books List: 349 titles

  • Tongues of Fire

    Peter Abrahams

    A chilling and explosive tale of revenge set in the Middle East from acclaimed suspense novelist Peter Abrahams, aka Spencer Quinn, author of the Chet and Bernie Mysteries After his unit is decimated in the Israeli war, Lieutenant Isaac Rehv returns ...

  • The Passion and the Pain

    Stacy Absalom

    If only her aunt hadn't planned it this way Most women would have jumped at the opportunity to accompany powerful London art dealer Benet Saker on a business trip to Bermuda, so why was Kirsten reluctant? She knew her aunt had always intended h...

  • Reach for the Sky

    Kasey Adams

    Brenden Morgan, stunt pilot turned flying instructor, made his living in the sky, but his feet were firmly planted on the ground...until Kitty Larkin signed up for lessons. "Safety first" was Brenden's motto -- in business and in pleasure...

  • Random Hearts

    Warren Adler

    What the author of The War of the Roses did for hate, he now does for love. He's a happily married man. She's a happily married woman with a little boy and a good life. Or so they both believe. There's absolutely no reason why they should ever me...

  • Passions

    Lillian Africano

  • Starship

    Brian W. Aldiss

  • A Song for Mandy

    Dawn Aldridge

  • Temporary Husband

    Susan Alexander (2)

    She needed a permanent love Kate had been practically engaged to a charming young Frenchman when she learned that another man held a temporary lease on her future. Apparently, wealthy film director Blake Templeton had been financing her family&...

  • Pieces of Dreams

    Charlotte Vale Allen

    Strangers Caley Burrell had her lift all mapped out. She knew who she would love, who she would marry, where they would live and how many children they would have. Martin Maddox had a devoted wife and two sons. He was going to live happily ever...

  • Flandry of Terra

    Poul Anderson

  • The Irresolute Rivals

    Jane Ashford

    RAGE AT FIRST SIGHT The first sight that Miss Susan Wyndham and Miss Marianne MacClain had of each other was enough to make their eyes blaze. For both were arriving at the first grand ball of the season at the same time -- in identical gowns. B...

  • Sunset and Dawn

    Kate Ashton

    New Mexico -- Where a bold passion was kindled and seared her heart forever Beth Johanssen and Jerry Dixon were as different as a rugged mountain and a desert flower... as sunset and dawn. They met in a fierce confrontation that frightened her...

  • Myth Conceptions

    Robert Asprin

    A demon who had lost his powers, Aahz still managed to keep his apprentice, Skeeve, out of most kinds of trouble. Then Skeeve was summoned to the court of Rodrick the Fifth of Possiltum to audition for the position of Court Magician. Unfortunately fo...

  • The Guardians

    Richard Austin

    Freedom's Last Hope: Unknown to most American's, there is a plan for the day after. Before the dust of World War III has settled, Project Guardian moves into action. America's secret weapon is a four-man elite survival team, armed with awesome combat...

  • Journey to Love

    June Masters Bacher

    Shamed by her father's drunken indulgences and his promise to sell her as a wife, Rachel Buchanan escapes her house to join a wagon train bound for the West. With her faith in God as Provider; she seeks out Colby Lord, a man she barely knows, begging...

  • All the Days of My Life

    Hilary Bailey

    A child of the slums, murderer's widow, and convicted prostitute, Mary Waterhouse rises from her sordid beginnings in London's underworld to become the wife of a liberal politician--with a shocking secret of his own--and carves out a successful caree...

  • All-By-Herself

    Betty Baker

  • A Masked Deception

    Mary Balogh

    THE RIVALS The handsome, dashing, wealthy Richard Adair, the seventh Earl of Brampton, was caught in a most devilishly difficult tug-of-war. Claiming his hand was shy and demure Margaret Wells, who became his bride in an icily arranged marriage de...

  • School for Murder

    Robert Barnard

    The Burleigh School, a private day academy for boys, has little to recommend it. Under the myopic and inept leadership of its headmaster, Edwin Crumwallis, its days may in fact be numbered. Especially when he chooses as his next headboy the particula...

  • Silverwood

    Joanna Barnes

    She was a regal beauty, wife of a wealthy California financier, devoted mother and mistress of Silverwood, her glorious estate. For over half a century she welcomed the social elite, the captains of industry, stars and scoundrels, lovers and opportun...

  • Flaubert's Parrot

    Julian Barnes

    BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • From the internationally bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes a literary detective story of a retired doctor obsessed with the 19th century French author Flaubert -- and with tracking down the stuffed parrot tha...

  • Distant Worlds

    Monica Barrie

    LIFESAVER . . . On Lanie Rodman's first night in New York she saved a stranger from jumping off a ledge to certain death. She gave him the gift of life, and soon the gift of her love, as well. Betrayal descended on her the next day when the str...

  • Silken Threads

    Monica Barrie

    As the daughter of a corporate monarch, Cassandra Leeds was expected to marry into high society -- with or without love. But society wasn't enough for Cassie, and when the chance to manage the Twin River Ranch was offered as her last chance for indep...

  • Overnight to Many Distant Cities

    Donald Barthelme

  • For Every Season

    Barbara Bartholomew

    To everything there is a season… For Lara Ames, it was a time to heal, a time to cast away the stones of a difficult past and contemplate the ripples of the future upon the surface of Lake Travis. ...

  • Call Me Friday The 13th

    Betty Bates

  • Secrets of Lost Island

    Lynn Beach

  • Slow Dancing

    Elizabeth Benedict

    As Lexi and Nell get older, the two young feminists discover that the constrictions of their bright, ambitious lives start to fall away and neither their friendship nor their ideals seem to work as well...

  • Capitol Affair

    Fran Bergen

    PASSIONATE POLITICS They both worked for the government in the education field, each with a lesson to teach the other. According to Jeff MacKennon, director of program funding, ambition was the secret to climbing the ladder of success in the fa...

  • Delicate Dimensions

    Dorothy Ann Bernard

    Hateful House! That's what eccentric syndicated cartoonist Marci Mathews thought of builder Brett Atkins's housing designs. She was going to use her skills to help him transform them. Thanks to Brett, Marci was a new woman. He'd helped her keep to...

  • The Best Reasons

    Beverly Bird

    LIKE SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT . . . Sabrina Caide ran the marina on Thunder Cay, the island that was her refuge from an unhappy former life. Then Chase Cutter entered the harbor and took over her days--and her nights--forcing her back into the...

  • Shroud of Vengeance

    Pike Bishop

  • From This Day Forward

    Jackie Black

    Her brother described Michael Venner as saintly, but the hard-muscled man who appeared before her looked more like a black-bearded pirate. This was the man she was to "marry" and smuggle back into the States -- all to save her brother's g...

  • Star Struck!

    Shannon Blair

    Carrie's excited when she's cast as an extra in a rock video, but her excitement soars sky-high when she finds out that the star of the video is Michael Jackson, her favorite singer in the world! Working on the Jackson video is like a dream come t...

  • Passion's Lady

    Sara Blayne

    Marriage to the arrogant Earl was a dangerous game... until she lost her heart... HONOR'S FIRE She was a charming rogue, an impish child -- and a maddeningly alluring woman. And if the Earl of Shayle knew little else about the mysterious ...

  • Group Portrait With Lady

    Heinrich Boll

    Cited by the Nobel Prize committee as the “crown” of Heinrich Böll’s work, the gripping story of Group Portrait With Lady unspools like a suspenseful documentary. Via a series of tense interviews, an unnamed narrator uncovers the story -- past...

  • In Passion's Defense

    Rebecca Bond

    She fought for her principles -- and for her heart Venice attorney Faith Karell would never be rich and famous-she didn't want to be. Faith lived on principles and thrived on justice fairly meted out. Faith had no use for lawyers who sought newspa...

  • Four and Twenty Bloodhounds

    Anthony Boucher

  • Language of Love

    Mary Bradford

    In this reader-participation romance, readers help high school junior Laurie decide whether to date Joe Fletcher, a handsome baseball player, tutor the good-looking new French exchange student, or audition for a part in the community theater producti...

  • Night's Daughter

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    For nearly two hundred years, audiences the world over have thrilled to Mozart's The Magic Flute. Their love for the music has been equalled by their fascination with the strange and wonderful magic of the story of Papageno the bird-man, the darkly m...

  • The Winds of God

    Anne M. Brady

  • The Light Side

    Joan Bramsch

    Trapped! Alone in a stuck elevator, Savvy Alexander felt her terror growing and fought it the only way she could -- by inflating the helium balloons for her party business as a distraction. When that didn't work, she curled up on the floor and pray...

  • The Trail to San Triste

    Max Brand

    A hot-tempered young drifter is set up in the Mexican town of San Triste to impersonate the missing heir to the Vereal estate and to clear the way for the theft of the magnificent treasure hidden on the estate...

  • The Brain-Eaters

    Gary Brandner

    In Milwaukee, a regular at Vic’s Tavern suddenly smashes a beer bottle and carves up the other customers.In Manhattan, an easygoing cabdriver goes berserk and hurls his cab into a crowd of pedestrians.In Seattle, a young bride slashes her husband i...

  • Bloodstorm

    Matt Braun

  • No Safe Place

    Barbara Bretton

    Fear has only one face -- courage comes in many forms For too long, Stefanie Colt had skated on thin ice. Unable to walk the streets of New York without casting nervous glances over her shoulder, unable to contemplate her responsibilities at Tele-...

  • Home Before Dark

    Sue Ellen Bridgers

  • The Dragonmaster

    Rick Brightfield

  • A Magic Serenade

    Sharon Brondos

    He taught her to see with her heart. Ginny Matthesson's trip to Australia marked the first anniversary of her divorce. She wasn't looking for love, but John-Simon Black had other ideas. The blind French singer was slated to become the hottest item on...

  • Sunset Embrace

    Sandra Brown

    They were two untamed outcasts on a Texas-bound wagon train. Two passionate travelers, united by need, threatened by pasts they could not outrun... Lydia Bryant -- voluptuous and russet-haired, fleeing from a secret shame, vowing that never again ...

  • Thursday's Child

    Sandra Brown

    Oh, why had she let Ann talk her into this masquerade, Allison thought wildly as her twin's fiance Davis embraced his "bride-to-be." Even two days seemed forever to the shy, serious scientist pretending to be the graceful, charming, sexy ...

  • Willy the Wimp

    Anthony Browne

  • The Tender Barbarian

    Dixie Browning

    AN UNLIKELY COMBINATION After a high point that wasn't all that high, Emily McCloud's life had begun a slow, gentle decline, and there was no reason to believe it would ever climb again. A spinster schoolteacher, Emily was a bit old-fashi...

  • Intruder's Kiss

    Carole Buck

    Cautious, sensible Sara Edwards was about to be murdered! Or so she thought when, armed with a squash racquet, she prepared to tackle a noisy intruder. Instead, she landed at the feet of roguishly charming 'burglar' Matt Michaels, the apartment's rig...

  • Little Fawn

    Sonja Bullaty

  • Little Wild Ducklings

    Sonja Bullaty

  • On Wings of Song

    Mary Burchell

    "It's the girl who interest me." Those fateful words spoken by the great conductor Oscar Warrender changed Caroline's life. She'd never considered herself a potential opera singer, but with Warrender's encouragement and ...

  • The Tiger Lily

    Shirlee Busbee

    The passion of their fury was the splendor of their love... As her golden auburn hair fell luxuriantly about Sabrina's flawlessly beautiful shoulders, Brett Dangermond was lost in the desire of the moment. And Sabrina, who had adored him as a gir...

  • On Distant Ground

    Robert Olen Butler

    The winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. An army intelligence captain is to be court-martialled for having kidnapped and set free a Viet Cong officer. This forces him to confront two sets of events - his own concern for the prisoner, and hi...

  • A Scent of Nutmeg

    Colleen Cairns

  • Boss Lady

    Blair Cameron

    Elementary school principal Anne Carlson had fought hard to reach the top: too hard to let freewheeling Michael Evans put her off her stride. And the Puget Sound community wasn't about to approve of the blue-jeaned newcomer or anyone sympathetic to h...

  • Macau

    Daniel Carney

  • Raging Passion

    Amanda Carpenter

    She was primed to blow sky-high To the casual onlooker, Jessica King appeared to have everything: sophistication, a high-paying modeling career, a fabulous penthouse apartment in New York -- and Damien Kent. But appearances were deceiving. Jes...

  • Tempest

    Anne Carsley

    Tempest first met Justin St. Trevian in the midst of a raging storm. She thought that he only wanted to play with her heart, but he wanted much more from her. From the rich plantations of Jamaica, ablaze with angry rebellion, to the haunting beaut...

  • Nights at the Circus

    Angela Carter

    Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction

    From the master of the literary supernatural and author of The Bloody Chamber, her acclaimed novel about the exploits of a circus performer who is part-woman, part-swan

    Sophi F...

  • Chindera

    Nancy Cato

    Queensland 1860. An empire built on sugar. Far from his native Scotland, Andrew Johnstone had built his fortune on the back of dirt-cheap Kanaka labourers. His elder son, James, was haunted by the murder and rape of his young wife. Daughter Hel...

  • One Police Plaza

    William J. Caunitz

    A nude corpse in a bathtub. Name: Sara Eisinger. Occupation: travel agent. For Detective Lt. Dan Malone of New York's Fifth Precinct, it's all in a day's work. Until a little gold key in Sara's possession leads him to an after-hours sex club. U...

  • The Comet

    Robert Charles

    The earth is cloaked in cold darkness by the cloud of interstellar dust in the wake of Halley's Comet, and the combined force of every missile on earth may not be large enough to dispel the fearsome cloud...

  • Winter Sun, Summer Rain

    Ann Charlton

    Was this the man she'd idolized? Lacey's fantasies were shattered when her childhood hero, Australian tennis pro Luke Harrow, turned out to be an overbearing brute. And yet, as she worked more closely with him, Lacey was certain the old...

  • Behind the Scenes

    Josephine Charlton

    He was the perfect man for the perfect part. Vanished for ten years after a near fatal accident, Wade McAllister had returned to play the starring role in Scorpio, and she, Lucy Moran, casting director of Pentacle Pictures, had engineered it. It was ...

  • Make Me a Star

    Emily Chase

    LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION! Shelley, Dana, and Faith are sure that winter at Canby Hall is going to be the pits -- until a film crew arrives to shoot a movie right on campus! For Shelley, this could be a dream come true. For Dana, it will mean unexpecte...

  • Lady With a Past

    Lillian Cheatham

    His face, his voice branded her soul It was the sort of mad unbelievable coincidence that one swore could never happen. Through her devotion to Maud, Josey had blundered into her worst enemy! Six years ago, Josey had pinned her last desperate h...

  • Cole's Landing

    Maryhelen Clague

    Cole’s Landing was a quiet hamlet just fifty miles north of New York City. During the last days of the Revolutionary War, a battle was brewing in the home of Sarah Reed that threatened to tear one family apart. Sarah, deeply in love with Lieuten...

  • Another Sunny Day

    Kathy Clark

    Sarah and Sunny--the Day sisters--identical twins, a dazzling mirror image. But it was Sunny who sang; Sarah didn't A long habit of helping out had made Sarah tour assistant. At ease in the saddle, she'd agreed to stand in for her superstar s...

  • Bait of Dreams

    Jo Clayton

    A BAIT OF DREAMSrnrnThey called the gems Ranga Eyes. They were beautiful crystals. cool and smooth. They opened doorways to magical realms, leading to escape, happiness, peace. But they exacted a terrible price for they were an incredible narcotic. A...

  • Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library

    Eth Clifford

    Mary Rose and Jo-Beth are sisters who hardly ever agree on anything, but they both feel as if this night will never end. First their car runs out of gas in an unfamiliar city and their father goes in search of a gas station. Then Jo-Beth makes Mary R...

  • Stalker

    Liza Cody

    Anna Lee is back on a case. It seems like just a routine matter--a con man who's skipped town with his partner's money. But the trail quickly unwinds from the seedy byways of London to a deceptively peaceful rustic village, where Anna makes an unexpe...

  • Walter

    David Cook

  • With Mercy Toward None

    Glen Cook

    The holy wars had begun. His family was slaughtered by bandits. He was abandoned to die in the desert...but he survived, with the help of his God, and became El Murid, the Disciple. Against him rides Haroun ben Yousif, High Prince of sorcery. Their w...

  • Before It's Too Late

    Nina Coombs

    Even her advanced degree in anthropology couldn't help Liz Landry figure out her own behavior when it came to Garth Kincannon. A champion bullrider and a worldclass male chauvinist, Garth could be infuriating, but he was an ideal subject for her ...

  • Deadly Design

    Linda A. Cooney

    Charlotte is swept into a web of danger when she investigates her new boyfriend's possible connection with a tough street gang....

  • Blow-Up: and Other Stories

    Julio Cortazar

    A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murderer’s intended victim . . . Originally published in hardcover as End of the Game and Other Stor...

  • Alien Vengeance

    Sara Craven

    There was no excuse for her response The ruthless Andreas Nikolaides had lured Gemma to his remote villa in Crete with a single purpose in mind: to punish and humiliate her in revenge for her brother's seduction of a local girl. He was a ma...

  • Demon Lover

    Kathleen Creighton

    HE HELD HER WITH CHAINS OF LOVE.... JULIE MAGUIRE She was a ten-year veteran of the U.S. Border Patrol, but one night's slipup left her on the verge of an early -- and final -- retirement. CHAYNE YOUNGER They called him the Blue-eyed ...

  • Bloodrose House

    Cecily Crowe

    Lucia Vail, an American, has come to Bloodrose House for what she hopes will be a peaceful visit, so that she can write her book -- and recover from a very unhappy divorce. Instead, Lucia becomes involved in a most unsettling mystery. The elegant ...

  • Lady Be Good

    Elissa Curry

    While etiquette columnist Grace Barrett is every inch a lady, Luke "the Laser" Lazurnovich is no gentleman. When the ex-football player chauffeurs Grace to a snowbound airport, his candor catches her off guard ... and his physique evokes a wild, prim...

  • The Vendetta

    John Cutter

  • The Pride of Hannah Wade

    Janet Dailey

    In the harsh New Mexico Territory, Hannah Wade was captured and enslaved by avenging Apaches. Only her steel-edged will to live kept her alive. Finally rescued, she returned to a husband who shunned her touch, and to white women friends who found...

  • It's an Aardvark-Eat-Turtle World

    Paula Danziger

    What could be better? Rosie and Phoebe have been best friends since they met on the Divorce Express, shuttling between their parents on weekends. Now Rosie's mom and Phoebe's dad have fallen in love and they're all moving in together. Rosie has alway...

  • The Great Cat Massacre: and Other Episodes in French Cultural History

    Robert Darnton

    When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730's held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in pa...

  • The Turn of the Tide

    Samantha Day

    How long could she keep up this ridiculous charade? There was no point in telling Jesse Stuart the truth about her real age, Stefanie reflected bitterly. From the day she'd met this tough and virile marine biologist on a windswept beach on ...

  • Caught in the Middle

    Lily Dayton

    They'd been best friends--Abby, Peter, and Jordan. Even after Abby and Peter married and both men rose in the world, it seemed the bond between the three of them had held. But all that was changed now. Abby and Peter were divorced. Peter was gone, an...

  • A Very Easy Death

    Simone De Beauvoir

    A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s death “shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence” (The Sunday Tele...

  • White Noise

    Don DeLillo

    Jack Gladney teaches Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America where his colleagues include New York expatriates who want to immerse themselves in "American magic and dread." Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fe...

  • In Custody

    Anita Desai

  • The Sword of Calandra

    Susan Dexter

    Tristan, the rightful king of Calandra, and his beloved Princess Elisena must find the long-lost Sword of the Last King before they are destroyed by Galan and his master of magic, as well as the frightful hounds of Nimir...

  • Cinnabar

    Graham Diamond

  • Love Needs No Reason

    Shirley Dowling

    Some slight spine creasing and a little edge wear. Date stamp on top edge and a small amount of smugging on edges. Initials on inside front page, no other marks and intact. Ships very quickly and packaged carefully!...

  • Nellie

    Brigitte Downey

  • Road War

    D.B. Drumm

    In the midst of the postnuclear wasteland, Traveler braves hideous mutants, savage road rats, and the fanatical Road Wasps to recover a fortune in buried bullion and forestall the President's monstrous war machine...

  • Desire's Blossom

    Cassie Edwards

    A TURBULENT JOURNEY When her family was lost at sea off the coast of China, 8 year old Letitia Taylor became the adopted daughter of a Chinese mandarin. Although her flame red hair was dyed black and her face was disguised with powder, little Lee-Le...

  • Very Old Money

    Stanley Ellin

    Michael and Amy Lloyd, live-in servants to the straightlaced Durie family, are slowly, and for seemingly innocent reasons, becoming involved in a series of events leading to tragedy, scandal, and ghastly death because of Margaret Durie, the elderly d...

  • Lone Star and the School for Outlaws

    Wesley Ellis

    THE CARTEL IS AFTER JESSIE AND OUT FOR BLOOD! The death-bed confession of a hired gun reveals a plot to take Jessie's life, and a training ground for the cream of professional killers. Ki goes undercover and joins up. But Jessie is taken hostage. To...

  • Because the Night

    James Ellroy

    Three citizens are butchered during a liquor store holdup. An unstable veteran cop vanishes without a trace. Nothing connects these events except for a nagging hunch in the back of Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins' brain--a sinister foreboding that w...

  • I Can Get Organized

    Karen Erickson

  • The Will and the Way

    Rita Clay Estrada

    He swore he wasn't marriage material... April Flynn loved Jace Sullivan with all her heart. He was warm, generous, kind... and the perfect lover. With him she had everything--except a commitment. She'd find a way to change his mind on that scor...

  • Longarm and the Durango Payroll

    Tabor Evans

  • He's My Baby Now

    Jeannette Eyerly

  • Son of the Endless Night

    John Farris

    The Millennium Approaches - In a peaceful Vermont courtroom humanity will be called to trial by endless evil. Ancient and implacable - armed with sensuality, delusion and horrible death - it will join itself to human weakness in an unholy alliance....

  • Surviving

    Elizabeth Faucher

    All the happiness money could buy -- Two perfect families living the perfect life. Two teenagers who had everything going for them. Everything seemed so right. How did it go so wrong?...

  • One More Time

    Charles Ferry

  • Lord Caliban

    Ellen Fitzgerald

    THE DREADFUL DEBT Lord Rodger Colbourue had saved Clemency's life one terrifying day when she was trapped in a collapsing tower; and he came to her rescue. Now he had come to claim that life he had saved, as he proposed marriage without a...

  • A Storm upon Ulster

    Kenneth C. Flint

    Out of the grey mists of an Irish dawn. a woman of the wild whispered to the warrior Cucalain of great adventure...of a majestic queen with flaming red-gold hair...of dew-drenched meadows where war chariots prepared for battle...of obscene incantatio...

  • Cold Judgment

    Joanne Fluke

    The Perfect Cure On the surface they are beautiful and talented. But few know of the harrowing darkness inside each of them, how close they are to losing their tenuous grip on sanity. Dr. Elias is their only hope. But he's dying. And he's made his...

  • Bugs Bunny Marooned!

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • The Rewrite Man

    Bryan Forbes

    Down on his luck and recovering from a bitter disappointment, Hollywood scriptwriter, Harvey Burgess thinks his problems are solved when he is summoned to the South of France to rewrite the script of a flagging movie about the French Revolution. But ...

  • A Clash of Wills

    Lauren Fox

    There's grit in Carrie Carstairs. After her husband's death, she vowed to make it on her own in the heady masculine field of stock brokerage. Enter Harlen Matthews, investor extraordinaire, uncanny inventor, and eccentric multimillionaire, wh...

  • The Life of the Party

    Maureen Freely

  • The Last Frost Fair

    Joy Freemen

    Miss Madeleine St. Cross could not escape the knowledge that she had been blessed with blinding beauty. If her multitude of suitors had not made her aware of that obvious truth, her family certainly had. For Madeleine was their sole hope of repairing...

  • Stay Hungry

    Charles Gaines

  • Infantry in Vietnam

    Albert N. Garland

  • Habitations of the Word

    William H. Gass

  • The Love Arena

    Pat Gaston

  • Desirable Property

    Catherine George

    It wasn't really any of her business Verity didn't approve of her married girlfriend Gussie's affair with Captain Benedict Dysart, but she wasn't personally involved. All she had to do was sell Gussie's Cotswold cottage and try...

  • Prodigal Sister

    Catherine George

    Two fiances at once seemed a bit excessive... Sarah had left her Welsh home under something of a cloud, and she wanted to return with flags flying. So she said she'd be arriving for her sister's wedding with a surprise guest--her fiance. ...

  • A Day for Damnation

    David Gerrold

    Ravaged by plagues fatal to two-thirds of the population, Earth now faces the final violation... invasion of the giant, carnivorous Chtorr. James Edward McCarthy was comandeered from hip college biology studies and sent off to fight alongside all ...

  • A View of the Mountains

    Morris Gibson

  • The Raging of the Sea

    Charles Gidley

  • Lazy Lions, Lucky Lambs

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    R-O-A-R! The March wind sounds like a gigantic lion. Richard "Beast" Best thinks March is the worst month of the whole year. Mr. Mancina, the principal, has reminded him it's almost time for report cards. If he doesn't get good grades, he might be l...

  • Doctors' Wives

    Marilyn Gilman

  • The Finishing School

    Gail Godwin

    Justin Stokes would never forget the summer she turned fourteen, nor the woman who transformed her bleak adolescent life into a wondrous place of brilliant color. In the little pondside hut also known as the “finishing school,” eccentric, fre...

  • Miss Mary's Husband

    Emma Goldrick

    He vowed to cherish the wrong sister Mary Margaret McBain had always wanted a family -- a real one, in which she could love and cherished in return. But when her father conned her into stalling for time at her twin sister's wedding, Mary ne...

  • Best Friend Insurance

    Beatrice Gormley

  • Passion's Vine

    Elizabeth Graham (1)

    She'd neither forgotten nor forgiven him How dared Benedict Ramsey turn up at Serena's guest house in Bermuda as if his wife's death had finally released him from the ties that bound him? Did he really expect Serena to fall into his...

  • Another Runner in the

    Robert Granit

  • Saraband of Lost Time

    Richard Grant

    An intrepid band of adventurers--the ancient scholar Inbote, a man of vision; the cunning Sergeant Brass; and the frail lovely Wicca--voyage through time to the secret place of the Overmind to save Earth from destruction...

  • Virgin and Martyr

    Andrew M. Greeley

  • Great King's War

    Roland J. Green

    When Calvin Morrison, a Pennsylvania street cop, is captured by a flying saucer and transported into a dangerous parallel Earth, he must lead the kingdom of Hos-Hostigos in a battle against savage warriors...

  • Victorian Villainies

    Hugh Greene

  • The Hash Knife Outfit

    Zane Grey

    They are just about as bad and evil as outlaw gangs come. But in the end, they finally go straight.Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction that takes place in the old West. Westerns -- books ab...

  • Timeservers

    Russell M. Griffin

  • Man Who Loved Dirty

    David Guy

    With his marriage and career on the rocks, Matt Gregg takes on a job as private investigator, hoping to boost his self-esteem and save his marriage, and finds himself enmeshed in the bizarre world of pornography and murder...

  • The Scent of Hibiscus

    Rosemary Hammond

    She wasn't looking for holiday romance Wendy wasn't cut out for adventure. Her disastrous experience with David had given her enough excitement -- and pain -- to last a lifetime. So she escaped to the Bahamas for a much-needed holiday. ...

  • The Sioux

    Irene Handl

  • Otherworld

    W.A. Harbinson

  • The Buffalo Soldier

    J.D. Hardin

  • Bay City Burnout

    Richard Harding

  • Ghost of Gamma Rho

    Elaine Harper

    WAS THE OLD SORORITY HOUSE REALLY HAUNTED? It certainly appeared to be. Mysterious noises at night, figures lurking in the shadows, and near accidents had made everyone apprehensive. Marcie had even seen the ghost who was reputed to haunt her room...

  • Killebrew's Daughter

    Janice Harrell

    OUT ON A LIMB! At last, shy, quiet Molly would escape her flamboyantly noisy family who loved nothing better than the limelight. She had been offered the job as assistant editor of the new school paper. She looked forward to doing her own thing wi...

  • Secrets in the Garden

    Janice Harrell

    HER HOPES WERE WILTING WITH THE LETTUCE! Corrie had been so sure that growing a vegetable garden for her home economics class project would win her the “A” that she needed. She even thought that the spring sun would shine on a budding romance ...

  • Grove of Night

    Sara G. Harrell

    THE HOUSE HAS A WOMAN AGAIN. Rosemary Plantation has stood undisturbed since Sherman’s army marched across Georgia. The grand house was built for a beautiful French bride whom the townspeople still whisper about. Solange Rabalais, it is said, di...

  • Thorn of Love

    Robin Lee Hatcher

    SHE VOWED SHE WOULD NEVER SURRENDER TO THE MAN WHO HAD SHED HER BROTHER'S BLOOD When young James Brizwell, squire to Richard Osborn, Earl of Wayfair; died in a jousting accident, his grief-stricken sister Ranna swore everlasting enmity against the h...

  • The Ivanhoe Gambit

    Simon Hawke

    Sometimes Sergeant Major Lucas Priest wondered why he had enlisted in the U.S. Army Temporal Corps. Fighting in the Time Wars wasn't the easiest way to make a living. Sailing with Lord Nelson, battling Custer at Little Big Horn, and a year of pillagi...

  • Perfect Timing

    Catherine Healy

    HER BIOLOGICAL CLOCK WAS TICKING... Kina Katanich wanted a child, but the father would have to be three things -- tall and dark like her... and temporary. She didn't expect loyalty from any man. Only motherhood mattered now. On a trek through...

  • Wild Hearts

    Virginia Henley

    A bold abduction made her a rogue's captive...but love soon made them both passion's slave. WHAT RANSOM FOR LOVE? Surrounded by the glitter and gold of a lavish Renaissance palace, beautiful Tabby Lamont was given in marriage to the wealthy old...

  • The Glory Run

    Anne Henry

    She ran for glory but she won for love Once Emily Williams had been a fleet-footed golden-haired girl who existed for the sheer joy of running. Despite her eight-year hiatus from competition, Coach Keith Lancaster had only to see Emily on the trac...

  • Loving Deception

    Lori Herter

    A DELICATE BALANCE She'd worked hard to get to the top, and even harder to bury her love for Blake Rawlins. As acting controller of Chicago's Waterfront Imports, Pamela Westbrook had cultivated a dress-for-success look that worked -- perha...

  • Penance for Jerry Kennedy

    George V. Higgins

    A fast-paced, witty and authentic novel that transports the reader into the exhilarating world of crime and chicanery that defines the life of Boston lawyer, Jerry Kennedy.  Heretofore successful lawyer Jerry Kennedy, our classy yet sleazy prota...

  • The Ghostway

    Tony Hillerman

    A KILLING SPIRIT Old Joseph Joe witnessed the shoot-out between two strangers at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One died. The other drove off into the dry lands of the Big Reservation. But not before he had given Old Joe a look at a Polaroid of the man ...

  • Fun City

    Burt Hirschfeld

    Out-of-work reporter Eddie Watson turns away from his whiskey and women to investigate the corruption, murder, and worse let loose on the city by a power-hungry man named Harrison and his rapacious wife, Lilly...

  • Risk Factor

    Naomi Horton

    WORTH ANY RISK Everyone cautioned Robyn St. Claire against falling love with Jarrett Ames. Jarrett had let a bad experience with marriage embitter him, and he believed that love was an illusion. But Boryn knew that his hard exterior protected a g...

  • 16th of September Game

    Robert Houston

  • A for Andromeda

    Fred Hoyle

    Resurrecting the plot of a classic television science fiction series, this novel follows a group of scientists who detect a radio signal from a distant galaxy. The signal turns out to contain instructions for the design of an advanced computer, but w...

  • Last Gasp

    Trevor Hoyle

    Marine biologist Gavin Chase deciphers the mysterious message of a seemingly crazed Russian scientist, and, teamed with biologist Cheryl Detrick, tries desperately to foil the superpowers' plans for environmental war, plans that include total destruc...

  • Honeymoon

    Anna Hudson

    When Laura Lee Mason promised to love, honor, and cherish Judd Simpson, she hadn't anticipated a honeymoon for four...or a husband who always won his way with passion when words failed. It was a disaster from the moment they joined Judd's new...

  • A Stranger to Love

    Donna Huxley

    She hated to ally herself with a stranger Laura had no choice. Only the expertise of New York financial analyst Frank Jordan could save her small Connecticut corporation from a takeover by the powerful conglomerate, Schell International. She ne...

  • Maxwell's Train

    Christopher Hyde

    Burnt-out intellectual Harry Maxwell, employed as a cleaner for the Washington Terminal Company, becomes involved in a plot to steal a U.S. Treasury currency shipment from the railroad, a scheme that embroils him with the World People's Army, an inte...

  • Scorpion Swamp

    Steve Jackson

  • No Stranger to Love

    Arlene James

    Brock Mackie was no stranger to love. He'd made his peace with God and had chosen his profession out of a desire to serve. Yet the love this therapist felt for his patients had never touched his heart -- until he tried to counsel Hillary Garrison...

  • Quest of the Hawk

    Leigh Franklin James

    The Hawk, John Cooper Baines, joins forces with an Indian nation to battle ruthless desperadoes, while in New Orleans, an old enemy sworn to kill the Hawk threatens a beautiful French girl and in the Southwest, war with Mexico begins....

  • The Devil to Pay

    Stephanie James

    THE PRICE OF LOVE Just as Emelina Stratton was about to break into an empty beach cottage, a man materialized out of the fog with a Doberman at his heel. Julian Cotter was as quietly lethal-looking as his dog. A man who exuded an aura of command ...

  • The Scorpio Man

    Claudia Jameson

    Was it wrong to want to make love again? Four years had passed since the death of Cherry's husband, and she'd remained faithful to his memory. No other man had interested her -- until she moved to London and became secretary to the dynamic...

  • A Shot at Love

    Jill Jarnow

    Samantha has always wanted to fly to one of those exotic islands in the Caribbean. So when her father announces a vacation to Paradise Bay with the other families from his company, it's nearly Samantha's dream come true. There's only one problem, ...

  • White Satin

    Iris Johansen

    Her skates sparkled as Dany Alexander spun on the glistening ice, tracing patterns in moonlight, lost in a shimmering fantasy. Suddenly Anthony Malik appeared beside her, matching his gliding steps to her own. With a cool, driven passion he had sha...

  • Rendezvous

    Nancy John

    When Kati Young found herself working for Scott Drummond it was a meeting arranged by fate. Once she had thought that her father's printing company would be her inheritance, but Scott had stolen that dream--and her heart. Now she was proud to be t...

  • Tender Summer

    Jim Johnson

  • A Loving Defiance // No Longer a Stranger

    Joan Johnston

    BOLDLY, SHE RESCUED HIM FROM RENEGADE INDIANS--UNWITTINGLY, HE TURNED HER INTO A WOMAN IN LOVE In the rugged Rocky Mountains, where pioneers and Indians still bloodied the land, Rebecca preferred buckskin to lace--and a gun to a parasol. She vowed...

  • Shadow Behind the Curtain

    Velda Johnston

    For twenty years the shadow has been there, unseen, a threat to Deborah’s future. She had seemed to have everything -- books, intelligence, and indulgent, rich stepfather, and a handsome, wellborn fiancé. Then in her twenty-fourth year her step...

  • The Friendship Barrier

    Penny Jordan

    Could they ever be more than friends? Jake was Stephanie's employer... her best friend ... and if he hadn't had to rescue her from a gang of youths two years ago, he could have been so much more.... Now there was an invisible barrier be...

  • The Only One

    Penny Jordan

    Love has no price Brooke Beauclere was under no illusions. To Adam Henderson she was an object of fleeting desire--upper class, stunningly beautiful, elusively tantalizing--a suitable conquest for an over-confident male with a fortune at his dispo...

  • The Six-Month Marriage

    Penny Jordan

    A six-month marriage; a quick annulment Blake Sefton had married Sapphire to acquire her father's Cotswolds farm. And at first she'd been too besotted with him to realize that his passion burned for his mistress, Miranda, not for his virgi...

  • Bloodtide

    Robert Kalish

  • These Latter Days

    Laura Kalpakian

    "You listen to me, my girl" Ruth Douglass tells her daughter. "You've got three choices in this world, and only three. A woman can be a virgin, a wife, or a widow, and that's all there is."Ruth Douglass should know. The central charact...

  • Then Came Laughter

    Carol Katz

    HE GAVE HER THE GIFT OF LAUGHTER Tied to a rigid work schedule and scarred by the memory of a troubled marriage, Jocelyn rarely laughed. Then she met Dun--an intriguing stranger who surprised her with joy and courted her with a gentle, whimsical l...

  • Notorious

    Karen Keast

    Hedonist. Drew Cambridge is everything dedicated veterinarian Kate Hollister doesn't want in a man. The boldly decadent Britisher photographs nudes by clay... and beds them by night. The word "commitment" is utterly foreign to him. Still, when an ...

  • Witness

    William Kelley

    She couldn't let him kill.
    He wouldn't let her die.

    John Book, Detective: onto the biggest drug-ring murder in the history of Philadelphia crime.
    Rachel Lapp, beautiful young widow: Amish, religious, pacifist. And, by a brutal fluke, cru...

  • Ned Kelly and the City of Bees

    Thomas Keneally

    Ned Kelly would never have imagined shrinking his size in order to escape the dreary hospital bed where he’s recovering from appendicitis. But, that’s exactly what Apis, his new friend (who happens to be a bee), helps him do with the aid of a spe...

  • The Good Wife

    Barbara Kennedy

  • Honey and Spice

    Deborah Kent

  • Ice Princess

    Madeleine Ker

    She had to cut this man out of her life When rally driver Conrad Brandon turned up as a physiotherapy patient at Gala's London clinic, she never expected their professional relationship to develop into a mutual attraction. She had no right ...

  • The Spy Next Door

    Lawrence Kessner

  • Kill and Tell

    William X. Kienzle

    "This is the good old Dorothy Sayers/John Dickson Carr school of homicide with civilized people doing what civilized people do best: dispatching each other." -- Los Angeles Times"Bill Kienzle does have a way with a tale. And a nifty way of mixing Ch...

  • Sunsmoke

    James Killus

    A smog researcher dies under mysterious circumstances, and the air around Los Angeles becomes unexpectedly clear. But not for long! A tale of magic, and love, and Japanese martial arts, and atmospheric research. The long-awaited reissue of James Kill...

  • Silent Stream

    Rowan Kirby

    He seemed determined to ruin everything. Tess had never heard of Professor Joshua Mayer before, but she knew she didn't want this forceful and brilliant American historian meddling with the popular medieval-literature course she taught at the Lon...

  • Blackie and Marie

    Marta Koci

  • Seduction in Berlin

    William Kotzwinkle

  • A Troll in Passing

    Stephen Krensky