Books Published in February 1989

New Books List: 369 titles

  • Superted's Dream

    Mike Young

  • Tristan and the Hispanics

    Jose Yglesias

    When an upper-crust and self-conscious Yale freshman is sent to Florida to settle the estate of his Hispanic grandfather, he expects to do business quickly but finds himself deeply enmeshed in his history and in selfdiscovery...

  • Hong on the Range

    William F. Wu

    In this science fiction satire of westerns, after the American West was destroyed in a series of biological disasters, rebuilding it is a lot like building it in the first place, but there are crucial differences. For example, new, partly mechanical ...

  • Reckless

    Sherryl Woods

    SHE CAN SMELL A DETECTIVE A MILE AWAY. Amanda Roberts is a natural, a New York-bred ace reporter who got stuck doing boring stories for a rural Georgia newspaper, like covering a cooking demonstration by the world-famous Chef Maurice. But when the ...

  • The Terrell Brand

    E.Z. Woods

  • Lady's Choice

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    Whoever called it midlife crisis? At forty Abby Townsend faced a dozen crises a day. Her son was leaving San Diego for law school--and refusing to leave Zach Randolph's daughter behind. Abby's daughter had discovered boys, clothes and credit cards...

  • Rim of Fire

    Gar Wilson

  • Incline Our Hearts

    A.N. Wilson

  • How Sweet It Is!

    Roseanne Williams

    Chocolate -- not man -- is a girl's best friend This was the creed that cookbook author Cait Rafferty lived by. Her belief in the wise words wavered, however, when devastating and dynamic Adam Webster jogged onto the set of the talk show where...

  • Jonah and the Whale

    Marcia Williams

  • Trillion Dollar Trick

    Bennett A. Williams

  • Smart House

    Kate Wilhelm

    Former N.Y. arson investigator and retired cop Charles Meiklejohn and his wife, Constance Leidl, a psychologist, return in a taut, high-tech mystery abounding with ingenuity. The ultimate dream of child prodigy Gary Elringer, the founder of Bellringe...

  • Moonshadow

    Susan Wiggs

    PASSION'S SURRENDER Brash, beautiful Jessica Darling preferred to forget what she'd done to survive her destitute childhood. Now, her shameful past safely behind her, she found contentment as the governess of two motherless children -- until their...

  • Rebel's Desire

    Robin Leanne Wiete

    Her heart pounded and her breath grew shallow as his lips possessed hers. A rush of excitement, terror, and longing seemed to burst inside her. There was no escape.... Beautiful Sarina Chapman knew that Braden Welford was the last man in the world...

  • Charro!

    Harry Whittington

  • Cast a Tall Shadow

    Diana Whitney

    Ex-probation officer Nathan Brodie was man enough to fight for his ideals. He wouldn't pander to the investigator assessing his ranch for troubled juveniles. He knew Kristin Price was one tough woman, that she could make or break his dream-he never s...

  • Nebraska

    George Whitmore

    Twelve-year-old Craig McMullen is left with only one leg after a car accident. The long months of recuperation become almost unbearable until his Uncle Wayne comes home. Soon Craig and Uncle Wayne are into grandiose schemes that lead to a disaster--a...

  • The Beautiful Room Is Empty

    Edmund White

    When the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a big gray country of families on drowsy holiday." That country has no room for a scholarly teenager with gu...

  • Promises

    Pamela Wallace

    Amid the glamour and opulence of Edwardian high society, they found the promise of a lifetime. Destined to Love Cruel fate had cast Belinda Sutton from riches to rags. But nothing had prepared her innocent heart for the mysterious American whos...

  • Life-Rails

    Scott Walker

  • Razor's Edge

    Robert W. Walker

  • Tree By Leaf

    Cynthia Voigt

    It's not fair that Clothilde's father has returned from World War I so disfigured that he retreats to the boathouse as a recluse. It's not fair that her brother has abandoned the family to live with his rich grandfather in Boston. It's not fair that ...

  • Rhapsody in Bloom

    Mona Van Wieren

    A HIDDEN TREASURE... was what New York art exporter Kane Powell found in small-town gardener jenny McCarthy. Kane was sure that with his advice and guidance, jenny could develop her green thumb further. So he contracted her to landscape his estate...

  • Feather Stroke

    Sydney J. Van Scyoc

    Dara, an outcast girl of the mountains with magical powers and the ability to commune with birds, returns to her village where she must fight to save her people from tyrannical rule and herself from a loveless, arranged marriage...

  • Extenuating Circumstances

    Jonathan Valin

    To P.I. Harry Stoner, Ira Lessing had everything to live for: money, a beautiful wife, good friends, and a reputation that would do credit to a saint. But Lessing disappeared one hot July night, and Stoner knew in his gut that the man was dead. Yea...

  • My Wicked Valentine

    Linda Vail

    They called her the Lady of the Lake. She was gorgeous, remote, ice-blond Dominique Saint Cloud, whose lavish estate dominated Lakeshore Drive--and whose slightest whim intrigued the wealthy, restless residents of Lake View Heights. Dom was throwi...

  • Man from Colorado

    Louis Trimble

  • Be Mine, Valentine

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    There was nothing predictable about her love life If it hadn't been for a freak snowstorm, Roxie Lowell wouldn't have felt compelled to take eccentric Charlie Hartman under her wing--only to become the object of his matchmaking zeal. He claimed he...

  • Tangled Dreams

    Julie Tetel

    Dangerous Temptation Amid the gracious suites of Maddox Hall, golden-haired Marianna Lowth gave herself in marriage to the ruggedly attractive Lord Anthony Maddox. It was a marriage of freedom. The newly titled lord needed. a wife to oversee his e...

  • A Vision of the Hunter

    John Tempest

    Passionate, exciting, filled with tenderness and violence, love and lust, here is the story of an ancient people...and of the foundling whose vision would change the destiny of his foster tribe forever. His name was Finn, and his life was transforme...

  • A Murder Waiting to Happen

    L.A. Taylor

  • Shadow Tiger

    Barry Taylor

  • Visions from the Sea

    Robyn Tallis

  • Spring Bamboo: A Collection of Contemporary Chinese Short Stories

    Jeanne Tai

  • Wonderland Avenue

    Danny Sugerman

    At the age of thirteen, Danny Sugerman- the already wayward product of Beverley Hills wealth and privilege- went to his first Doors concert. He never looked back. He became Jim Morrison's protégé and- still in his teens- manager of the Doors and...

  • Latin Jazz

    Virgil Suarez

  • Passion's Prisoner

    Casey Stuart

    When Cassandra Lansing put on men's clothing and entered the Rawlings saloon she didn't expect to lose anything -- in fact she was sure that she would win back her prized horse Rapscallion.... Josh Rawlings though that a little gambling was just what...

  • Nul's Quest

    Brad Strickland

  • Deep Quarry

    John E. Stith

    First published by Ace Books.

    In Deep Quarry, Stith once again successfully combines mystery with hard science fiction. Ben Takent is a private eye on a hot, dusty world at the edge of the civilized galaxy. When he's asked to find out who is ...

  • More Than a Feeling

    Elaine K. Stirling

    HE COULDN'T SURVIVE WITHOUT HER Andonis Sotera was the kind of man a woman might encounter in a Moroccan cafe or on a luxury cruise ship. In short, he was the kind of man Karen Miller would never meet. And yet they fell in love. Suddenly the ci...

  • Max Onstage?

    Megan Stine

    Max, the ghost, has never appeared to anybody but Jeffrey, so no one else believes he exists. But strange things have been happening lately that only the presence of a ghost could explain, and Jeffrey's friend Kenny is beginning to think that Max jus...

  • Max Saves the Day

    Megan Stine

    Jeffrey Baker's got a problem, and his name is Robin Dessart. Robin, the new kid in Jeffrey's class, is a know-it-all and a bully. First, he gives all of Jeffrey's friends a hard time. Then he gives Jeffrey the chicken pox!Jeffrey knows that the only...

  • Pet Day Surprise

    Megan Stine

    Jeffrey's friend Ben brings his garter snake to school for a report, and the class likes it so much that their teacher agrees to have a  “pet day,” when all the children can bring their pets to class. The only problem is that Jeffrey doesn't...

  • Booby Trap

    William Stevenson

    Predictable plotting and one-dimensional characters destroy the reader's expectations for Stevenson's newest thriller. Col. Zia Gabbiya, a Khadafy-like Middle Eastern potentate, infiltrates and takes command of a former British colony resembling Berm...

  • To Stay Forever

    Jessica Steele

    To Stay Forever She book the first to flight to Greece. Kendra's response was prompt after an appeal for help from her cousin Faye, who was married and living in Athens. Fortunately, she found Faye's marital problems were not insurmountab...

  • Apache Heartbeat

    Judith Steel

    Stripped naked beneath a blistering sun, Philadelphia debutante Hillary Collier had never suffered such humiliation. All the sienna-haired beauty had wanted from her trip to Arizona was to marry the Fort Apache officer who was her fiance. But shrieki...

  • Star

    Danielle Steel

    Young, innocent and strikingly beautiful Crystal Wyatt was an outcast, envied and resented by all but her devoted father, with whom she shared a dep love for their remote California ranch. When her father dies, Crystal is alone and unprotected. Devas...

  • Scandalous Desires

    Diana Stainforth

  • Fortune's Bride

    Cheryl Spencer

    LOVE'S HAUNTING QUESTIONS Bound by a mysterious contract made years earlier by her father, young, innocent Kaytlene Newell broods as she awaits the arrival of her bridegroom. Equally furious, Daevon Merrick, Earl of Merrick, assumes only blackmail w...

  • Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays

    Thomas Sowell

  • The Dreaming

    Robert S. Souci

  • New Moon

    Midori Snyder

    Oran is simmering with tension... Two hung red years ago, the Fire Queen destroyed her rival queens of Earth, Air, and Water in the fateful Burning and took power over the land. No child with a trace of the elemental magic was allowed to live. Yea...

  • Inferno!

    Mark Smith

  • Warbringer

    Mark Smith

  • The Polka Dot Nude

    Joan Smith

    DANGER. DECEIT. AND DEATH... For biographer Audrey Dane, it was the chance of a lifetime. The legendary Hollywood star, Rosalie Hart, had selected Audrey personally to write the memoirs of her dazzling life and career. A visit to the great lady's ...

  • The Lurker

    James V. Smith Jr.

    There is something horrible lurking in the shadows, watching and waiting for the right moment to attack . . . and only one woman can stop it. Reporter Laren Hodges knows she must find a way quickly -- before she is the next victim! ...

  • Never Let Go

    Deborah Smith

    Confusion, fury, and disbelief filled Rucker McClure's soul when he saw his wife across the airport waiting room. A year ago his beloved Dinah had vanished without a trace, but he'd never stopped looking for her, never given up hope, until now, when ...

  • Uncle Dad

    C.W. Smith

  • The Schemes of Dragons

    Dave Smeds

    Volume Two of The War of the DragonsThe dragon's wings have spread at last, giving him dominion of the skies as well as the seas. His armies have grown. His cadre of sorcerers is unmatched. It seems that nothing can stop the creature from founding hi...

  • Lost Love Found

    Bertrice Small

    To the ivory palaces and harems of the East comes the exquisite Valentina, driven by destiny, heritage...and passion. VALENTINA HAD BEEN ADMIRED, MARRIED, WIDOWED, YET HAD NEVER KNOWN LOVE.... ...Not even at the illustrious Court of Queen Eliza...

  • Sins for Father Knox

    Josef Skvorecky

    “Ten more mystery stories by the gifted Czech novelist. . . . Offbeat. . . . tongue-in-cheek entertainment for aficionados of classic puzzlers in the Ellery Queen tradition―especially those who’ll also appreciate Skvorecky’s darkish, edgy ...

  • Paxos Tiger

    Ted Simon

  • Mad Mad Monday

    Alvin Silverstein

  • Festival of Esther: The Story of Purim

    Maida Silverman

  • White Mountain Murders

    Steve Sherman

  • Proteus Unbound

    Charles Sheffield

    Behrooz Wolf lost his job with the Bureau of Form Control when his great love Mary left him. The solar system''s expert on form control sat hooked to a dream machine to escape his lonely and hallucination-filled reality. Then the form control mach...

  • Land of the Infidel

    Robert Shea

  • Texas Hell Country

    Jon Sharpe

  • Nate the Great Stalks Stupidweed

    Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

    Join the world’s greatest detective, Nate the Great, as he solves the mystery of the missing plant! Perfect for beginning readers and the Common Core, this long-running chapter book series will encourage children to problem-solve with Nate, using l...

  • The Hawk's Lady

    Colleen Shannon

    He was a pirate. She was his slave... In a strange exotic land, she was a prisoner of passion... Beautiful and boldly defiant, Lady Victoria sailed away from England to escape an obligation of marriage. Then, the unthinkable happened. Her sh...

  • Caldecott and Co.

    Maurice Sendak

    A collection of the author and illustrator's critical writings is devoted to writers and artists whose work he admires, including Randolph Caldecott, Beatrix Potter, and Walt Disney, and also features several interviews and autobiographical pieces...

  • A First Look at Animals with Horns

    Millicent Selsam

  • Savage Revenge

    Theresa (1) Scott

    UNBEARABLE BONDAGE...UNBRIDLED PASSION...UNFETTERED LOVE... A fiery Indian beauty, Haina would accept no man as her master, not even the virile warrior who had made her his captive. For years their families had been fierce enemies, and now Chance ha...

  • Enigmatic Eye

    Moacyr Scliar

  • How I Captured a Dinosaur

    Henry Schwartz

  • Going Hollywood

    Marion Schultz

  • Late at Night

    William Schoell

    BEDTIME STORY They had gathered for a weekend on notorious Lammerty Island, a harsh outcropping of rock off the coast of Maine with an unsavory reputation for repeated violence and bloodshed. But none of the assembled guests believed rumors of an ...

  • Lauren's Sleepover Exchange

    Susan Saunders

    When nine youngsters from Walden Elementary come to Riverhurst for a week, it sounds like big fun ahead for the Sleepover Friends, but Kate, Lauren, and Stephanie find the newcomers bring their share of trouble, too....

  • Rent-a-Star

    Susan Saunders

  • Twin Trouble

    Susan Saunders

    A new baby in the family compounds Sara's already shaky problem of identity as a twin in a growing family, and her town's 150th anniversary celebration further complicates things as her fifth grade club competes with a rival club to win the most priz...

  • Red Devil

    David Saperstein

    Russia is in the grip of a bizarre evil. One which transcends politics and borders. RED DEVIL A man who never lived. His name is Valarian. For years he stalked the bleak corridors of the Kremlin, slowly and patiently weaving his web of terror. ...

  • Ask Me What I Want

    Rosemarie Santini

    Talented and attractive, young Alice Martin must make some difficult choices--between a career as a veterinarian or a fashion model, and between shy Bobby Benton and outgoing Matt McDain--while trying to please everyone....

  • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 2

    Catherine E. Sadler

  • The Trench Soldier

    Barry Sadler

    Casca Longinus. Curst by Christ on Golgotha. Condemned to outlive the ages and wander the globe a constant soldier. Forever fighting, surviving, waiting for Him to return. World War I. It was mankind's first taste of modern warfare. And before it ...

  • Savage Heat

    Nan Ryan

    SHE WAS THE GENERAL'S GOLDEN-HAIRED DAUGHTER. Recklessly she danced the night away. Newly arrived at the Denver cavalry post, she was the darling of the regiment... until a shadow fell across her path -- a raven-haired man who made her blood run hot...

  • The Haunting of Willow Dasset

    Kathleen Rowntree

  • Murder in the Oval Office

    Elliott Roosevelt

    MURDER IN THE OVAL OFFICE Who shot Alabama Congressman Winstead Colmer to death in the Oval Office of the White House? With all the windows and doors bolted from within, it appeared to be a suicide. But too many people around Capitol Hill were bre...

  • Loving Kindness

    Anne Roiphe

    From the acclaimed author of "Fruitful" comes a novel of the love between a mother and daughter. Annie Johnson has worked hard to raise her daughter, Andrea. She is shocked, therefore, when 22-year-old Andrea calls from Israel and announces that she ...

  • Overland Escape

    Lee Roddy

  • Family Life

    M. Robertson

  • Ideal Genuine Man

    Don Robertson

  • Ride for Vengeance

    J.R. Roberts

    The six bank robbers had taken more than gold from the vault. They took the sheriff's life...and left Rick Hartman a bloody, beaten mess. Now, the Gunsmith's friend is lying unconscious with a slug in his chest. The doc says it is a coma, and all the...

  • Daughter of the Lion

    Jennifer Roberson

    THE POWER OF THE LIR IS HERS-- She is Keely twin sister to Corin, and, daughter of Niall, the ruler of Homana, and she alone has the power to shapechange into any form, a power akin to that of the Firstborn. And like her brothers, Keely has been c...

  • Twilight's Key

    Christine Robb

    MYSTERIOUS LOVE As the stage rumbled on through winding canyons and sandstone hills, Heather Loring had the strangest sensation. Bound to Twilight Mesa to write an article on long-vanished cliff dwellers, she could sense the past approaching. She ...

  • Rainbow Fire

    Emilie Richards

    AT THE RAINBOW'S END. Far below the dusty Australian outback lay a buried treasure that burned with crystal fire and awakened lust in the hearts of men: opal. And it was there, in the dark tunnels of the Rainbow Fire mine, that Kelsey Donovan was ...

  • Backlash

    Bill Reno

  • The Survivor

    Fritz Joachim Raddatz

  • Dreams of Gods and Men

    W.T. Quick

  • The Surface of the Earth

    Reynolds Price

    Published in 1975, The Surface of Earth is the monumental narrative that charts the slow, inextricable twining of the Mayfield and Kendal families. Set in the plain of North Carolina and the coast and hills of Virginia from 1903 to 1944, it chronicle...

  • Alexandra's Story

    Fayrene Preston

    When Alexandra Sheldon turned to meet Damon Barand's mesmerizing eyes, she felt as if she'd waited her whole life for this man, for this moment -- and he found her infinitely desirable, a goddess of fire and innocence. But was it the woman he noticed...

  • Between the Thunder

    Patricia Potter

    Divided Loyalties Ryan Mallory had risen from the ashes of personal tragedy with a fierce passion for life. In the Colorado hideout of her Rebel brother, she won the hearts of every soldier with her gentle ways and giving nature. But her greatest ...

  • The Wind in the East

    Pamela Pope

  • The Problem of Virtue

    M. David Pohlman

  • Spark Fire

    Tony Phillips

  • Death in Wessex

    Audrey Peterson

  • Desert Strike

    Don Pendleton

    POWER PLAY The murder of the king of Saudi Arabia turns the entire Gulf area into a powder keg. Officially the U.S. government's hands are tied. Unofficially the - President wants to know who's behind the assassination--and he wants the killer ter...

  • Sky Pirate

    Laura Pender

    Her best reporter had been found--dead on the docks Rachel Morgan felt personally responsible when her business reporter turned up dead on the Puget Sound wharves. Police insisted it was a mugging gone awry. But Rachel suspected something more sin...

  • Frontier Temptress

    Patricia Pellicane

    SHE'D DO ANYTHING TO GO WEST When high-spirited Mattie Trumont learned her sister's killer was living comfortably in Sacramento, the black-haired beauty swore she'd travel there and give him his due. But after she hired towering Mike Callahan to be...

  • Arly

    Robert Newton Peck

    Although Arly Poole seems bound to follow in his father's footsteps as a field worker in Jailtown, Florida, where his family lives in 1927 in the shadow of a cruel boss, his world suddenly seems larger when a schoolteacher comes to town....

  • He Huffed and He Puffed

    Barbara Paul

    Wealthy financier A.J. Strode was as ruthless as he was dirty, acquiring and discarding both wives and companies with equal aplomb. Now he wants to sink his teeth into a company called the House of Glass. He needs this company - and will stop at noth...

  • Good Vibrations

    Lynn Patrick

    SHE BELIEVED IN LOVE Alyce McKenzie still lived by the values she'd learned in the sixties. She gave her love freely to her family and friends--and she was passionate in her efforts to help feed the hungry and homeless of Minneapolis. But when ...

  • Second Chance

    Francine Pascal

    Just like everyone else... Quiet, determined Kristin Thompson knows exactly what she wants from life. Since she was little, she has had one goal - to become a world-class tennis player. Now all she has to do is win one more tournament and she'll qu...

  • Teamwork

    Francine Pascal

  • The Househusband

    Christine Park

  • The Lilith Factor

    Jean Paiva

  • San Antonio

    Sara Orwig

    SAN ANTONIO, the untamed territory of Texas, where acres of wilderness were up for grabs and fortunes were waiting for every man who had fought for Texas. SAN ANTONIO, where Luke Danby, growing up in this land of peril and promise, was driven by a...

  • Hawkwood

    Andrew O'Rourke

  • Rituals

    Robert Nordan

  • The All-Girl Football Team: Stories

    Lewis Nordan

  • Crazy Campout

    Lisa Norby

  • The Holly Hudnut Admiration Society

    Lisa Norby

  • Under the Eye of the Clock

    Christopher Nolan

  • Darkwell

    Douglas Niles
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The ultimate struggle of good and evil. . . . At stake, the survival of the Moonshae Isles. Tristan Kendrick, newly crowned High King of the Ffolk, must forge a lasting alliance between the divergent peoples of the Isles. The druid Robyn must conf...

  • Team Spirit

    Paul Nichols

    Things are looking up for the Tigers when their lackluster football team is boosted by talented tight end Pete Reiser, but when he quits without explanation, there is frantic effort to get him back in the game...

  • Knock-Off

    Christopher Newman

    The designer of the trend-setting new sportswear line of the Close Apparel label is found bludgeoned to death in the corporate offices. Missing items point to a piracy ring that could cost the company plenty. Still, Detective Joe Dante wonders whethe...

  • Raiders

    Barry Myers

  • Murder Keeps a Secret

    Haughton Murphy

    Historian David Rowan is riding high. He's a Pulitzer Prize winner, a speech writer for a leading Presidential candidate, the lover of a glamorous TV anchorwoman, the biographer of a great Supreme Court justice. So it's big news when someone pitch...

  • Two to Tango

    Barbara J. Mumma

  • Last Man Out of Saigon

    Chris Mullin

  • Changing Winds

    Florence Moyer

    Beautiful and proud southerner Moriah St. James becomes an unwilling spy for the Union when she is blackmailed into stealing the Confederacy's plan for a new sea going vessel-the submarine. When Moriah meets the dashing Zane she realizes her task wil...

  • Like Men Betrayed

    John Clifford Mortimer

    It is the tale of Christopher Kennet, a respected solicitor and a private man, who discovers his son's involvement in a mysterious and possibly illegal manipulation of the funds of a longtime client. As the deal unfolds, both father and son discover ...

  • Last Letters from Hav

    Jan Morris

    Visiting this imaginary place, somewhere on the Mediterranean coast, is Jan Morris, commissioned by an American magazine to write letters from Hav. Under her gaze, sometimes baffled, always sharp, Hav and its bizarre inhabitants spring to life in thi...

  • Blue Flame

    Helen Mittermeyer

    The alabaster skin, the amethyst eyes--Dev Abrams shook his head. Why, after all this trine, did he think he saw his dead wife in the theater lobby? Then he looked again and met the shocked eyes of the only woman he had ever loved. Felicity felt stun...

  • Silverado

    Hank Mitchum

    Riding high on the box seat looking out over the broad backs of a six-horse team, stage driver Mike Wakefield was keeping an eye out for bushwackers in the lawless mining camps north of San Francisco. He wasn't looking for the beautiful Chinese girl ...

  • The Class Trip Runaways

    Adam Mills

  • Only Forever

    Linda Lael Miller

    LET THE BUYER BEWARE Nick DeAngelo was home with the flu, but he started feeling better the moment he switched on the TV shopping channel and saw Vanessa Lawrence. The charming hostess offered a wealth of intriguing items - her heArt, however, was...

  • Mousekin's Easter Basket

    Edna Miller

  • Secrets Not Meant to Be Kept

    Gloria D. Miklowitz

  • Our Daily Walk

    F.B. Meyer

  • Terry's Universe

    Beth Meacham

    This collection of all new short fiction by thirteen of today's top science fiction writers represents a memorial to the late Terry Carr and includes contributions by Ursulia K. Le Guin, Roger Zelazny, and Robert Silverberg, among others...

  • Backblast

    Lee McKeone

    Conek Hayden had been ducking both planetary and space police for much of his life, smuggling, running, and dodging blaster bolts -- until he had enough to buy his good-guy license. Now it's back to square one. The militaristic Amal have taken ove...

  • Abracadaver

    Ralph M. McInerny

    NOW YOU SEE HER... NOW YOU DON'T A magic show at St. Hilary's one snowy night proves entertaining for the stragglers who braved the weather. Aggie Miller allows her ring to be used in a disappearing act and Father Dowling chances to notice the ins...

  • By Appointment Only

    Davidyne Mayleas

    SHE HELD THE WORLD'S MOST FABULOUS TREASURE IN HER HANDS The House of Uni was known for rare jewelry masterpieces, and Celia Taggard was heir-apparent to the legendary fortune. Then a shocking secret - and a senseless murder - threatened to bri...

  • Metaconcert

    Julian May

    All over the world, the metapsychics are honing their skills, learning to stretch their incredible minds far beyond the ken of ordinary humans. Most are dedicated to the harmony of the human soul. But some have darker intentions...

    If the meta...

  • Love Is for the Dogs

    Pat Rhoads Mauser

  • Polar Bear Cubs

    Downs Matthews

  • Summer's Promise

    Bay Matthews

    A year after losing her teenage daughter, Joanna Morgan knew that both her husband and son were drifting away from her ... or was it she who was drifting away from them? Grief was a cold, numbing fog, and she was lost in it, unsure how to find her wa...

  • The Rialto Affair

    Jan Mathews

    Two years ago, Dr. Amanda Pearson gave hotshot criminal lawyer Tyler Marshall more than just the professional testimony he needed to win the biggest case the town of Rialto had ever seen. Amanda had given Tyler herself, too. And then he was gone. She...

  • Ninth Life

    Don Matheson

  • The Sea Sword

    Adrienne Martine-Barnes

  • Juffie Kane

    Beverly S. Martin

    Chronicles Juffie Kane's rise to fame on Broadway, her upbringing in lavish surroundings, the success she achieves based on beauty and gritty determination, and the sins of her father--for which she will be made to pay...

  • Jessi Ramsey, Pet-sitter

    Ann M. Martin

    The Mancusis don't have any kids...but they sure have a lot of pets! So when they're desperate for a sitter, whom do they call? The Baby-sitters Club! Kristy's insulted. The Baby-sitters don't pet-sit. But Jessi's always liked animals, and she tal...

  • Mallory and the Trouble with Twins

    Ann M. Martin

    Mallory knows she's a good baby-sitter. She's been looking after her seven younger brothers and sisters for years. So when Kristy offers her a steady job baby-sitting for the Arnold twins, Mal thinks it'll be easy money. The twins sure are cute in...

  • Grady's Lady

    Bevlyn Marshall

    Love 'em and leave 'em was tennis pro Ryan Grady's creed--his aloof family and faithless ex-wife had taught him the dangers of real loving. That included falling for voluptuous blond bombshell Blythe Peyton. His brother Guy's alleged paramour, a dead...

  • In My Wildest Dreams

    Ellen Tanner Marsh

    She recklessly tasted his passion. Now she yearned for the sweet wine of his love... Fiery-haired Rowena de Bernard had been exiled by Napoleon's conquests from the luxurious French chateau of her birth to the snowy moors of Scotland. Then Capta...

  • The Lady Disguised

    Elizabeth Mansfield

    When the Honorable eight-year-old Stanley Farrington vanished, his sister Ada set out to find him. Disguising herself in boys' clothing, she started her perilous search in a nearby gypsy camp, ending it in the splendid drawing rooms of the London ton...

  • Killpoint

    Kyle Maning

  • A Nice Surprise for Father Rabbit

    Brian Mangas

  • Menage

    Anthony Mancini

  • The Ninth Issue

    Dallin Malmgren

  • Master of the Hunt

    Lee Magner

    THE MASTER OF HER HEART Deep in fox hunting country, Richard Faust was finally closing in on his prey. Years after his conniving stepmother had introduced herself, following his father's mysterious death, he still hoped to ensnare her with her ow...

  • Almost An Angel

    Debbie Macomber

    A WOMAN'S PLACE Bethany Stone had been in love with her handsome employer, Joshua Norris for years...secretly. He probably didn't even know her first name -- let alone the passion she felt every time she thought about him! Certain Joshua would ne...

  • On Ice

    T.J. MacGregor

    She was beautiful. Blond. And bloody. McCleary doesn't know who she is. And he can't remember who he is.
    When the maid walked into the motel room, she found Mike McCleary sacked out on one bed and a dead woman on the other. To the police, the priv...

  • A Notorious Woman

    Malcolm MacDonald

    Johanna Rosewarne flees her aunt, her uncle, and her poverty when she meets a young doctor intended for her cousin, but she becomes confused by her feelings after she meets the independent Hal Penrose...

  • Leo Africanus

    Amin Maalouf

    "I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called ...

  • Remembrance of Swings Past

    Ron Luciano

  • On the Edge

    Peter Lovesey

    Soon after World War II, two former co-workers in the operations room of a Royal Air Force Squadron meet in the street. Their lives have diverged dramatically but each wants to get rid of her husband. And so a mutual assistance pact is made....

  • Gold Fever

    Jake Logan

    TROUBLE DOGGED SLOCUM'S TRAIL...he'd barely had a chance to cool off with the lovely Sally Ryan when he saw a man he had to kill. It didn't matter that the man was with the Ramey gang. He was robbing a bank and had to die. But that was just the b...

  • Red Branch

    Morgan Llywelyn

    In a land ruled by war and love and strange enchantments, Cuchulain -- torn between gentleness and violence, haunted by the croakings of a sinister raven -- fights for his honor and his homeland and discovers too late the trap that the gods have set ...

  • Death in a Distant Land

    Nancy Livingston

    EXCESS BAGGAGE It is impossible for the honorable G.D.H. Pringle to refuse his beloved Mavis Bignell anything that her heart desires. A trip to Australia--via Singapore in the Somerset Maugham fashion--would be so romantic. Since it's costing him ...

  • Carnivores

    J.R. Levitt

    San Francisco police department detective Jason Coulter investigates the related but seemingly patternless killings afflicting the area, an investigation that becomes more urgent when the detective's personal life is touched...

  • One Sultry Summer

    Laura Leone

    SILENT PARTNER What would a hotshot architect like Race Bennett want with a kennel? That was what Vicky Wood needed to know when she discovered her late business partner had given half his property to his illegitimate son. Her dream had been almos...

  • Not Without Love

    Roberta Leigh

    Maybe she wasn't cut out to deceive Unbeknownst to Reese Denton, a powerful engineering magnate, Julia Winterton had been hired as his bodyguard. His friends thought he needed protection from his enemies. Julia, a beautiful ex-model tired...

  • The Heart's Secrets

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    A tempestuous Irish beauty. A California gentleman. A love challenged by... AMID THE ARROGANT MANSIONS OF SAN FRANCISCO'S NOB HILL, AN IRISH FIREBRAND WON A RARE AND SPLENDID LOVE... Dublin O'Driscoll left her tiny Irish island, traveling hal...

  • The Eighth Trumpet

    Jon Land

    THE MURDER In spite of the tightest high-tech security ever conceived, billionaire Jordan Lime is savagely killed by a weapon that tears him apart limb by limb with grim, laserlike efficiency. THE CONSPIRACY An army unlike any other has fired it...

  • The Double Fudge Dare

    Louise Ladd

  • The Hangman

    Justin Ladd

  • Burning Water

    Mercedes Lackey

    Something ancient and incredibly powerful is stalking Dallas. First it attacked cattle, now it's going after people: men, women, even children-dozens at a time. And it leaves behind an aura of supernatural evil. Detective Mark Valdez feels that ev...

  • Firebrand

    Susan Kyle

    HE DARED TO TEACH HER LOVE Gaby Cane had always been a bit afraid of Bowie McCayde. When Gaby was fifteen and shaken by tragedy, Bowie's parents had taken her in; yet even on their sprawling Arizone ranch, she had sensed his simmering resentment. ...

  • Death Ride

    Paul Kropp

  • Jo's Search

    Paul Kropp

  • Daddy Long Ears

    Robert Kraus

  • Perchance to Dream

    Kathleen Korbel

    TO SLEEP . . . Nightmares. They'd tormented Jason Mitchell ever since the night his partner had been killed, so he'd fled to the only place he knew to regain peace of mind--his isolated cabin. But, unknown to him, he was being watched by the most ...

  • Smugglers Notch

    Joseph Koenig

    For Larry St. Germain, an ambitious sheriff's lieutenant in a sleepy Vermont county, there isn't all that much to do. Mostly he marks time waiting to take over as commanding officer and dreams of future glory. But when the teenage daughter of the ...

  • Always a Bridesmaid

    Patricia Knoll

    The ring came as a real shock .. . "What's the worst he can do to me?" Shelby Featherstone wondered as she bluffed her way to A. J. Court's table. She intended to crash the great god's business lunch and railroad him into renti...

  • Dead and Gone

    Mary Kittredge

    DEADLINES When writer Charlotte Kent began researching her latest self-help book, Tricks for the Sick! at a renowned East Coast medical center, she hadn't planned a chapter on tips to avoid murder. A slimy, unprincipled medical student is dead....

  • Emerald Enchantress

    Carol King

    ICE MAIDEN Victoria Quayle had no patience with men like Captain Greyson Tyrell. The arrogant rogue obviously thought he could claim any woman who caught his fancy. But just because the English beauty’s mysterious past prevented her from marryin...

  • The Scholar's Daughter

    April Kihlstrom

    A LEARNER IN LOVE Miss Calista Standish had been taught by her scholarly father to exercise her mental powers to their fullest--but never had she faced so difficult a problem as Mr. John Witton. How could a country Miss like Calista possibly at...

  • Another Orphan

    John Kessel
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  • No, No, Charlie Rascal

    Lorna Kent

  • Desert Lightning

    Brian Kelleher

    It's the beginning of VE Day and the end of the war in Europe heralds a newer war with the Soviets. Monopolizing and exploiting German technological breakthroughs will be critical in the new cold war. A cadre of USAF officers gathers captured German ...

  • The Case of the Rising Stars

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy, Bess, and George are in Chicago for the Mystery Lovers convention -- and two of the two stars scheduled to appear have been kidnapped! Some think it’s just a ratings ploy, but Nancy uncovers the truth. Can she save the missing stars before s...

  • Going to the Dogs

    Dan Kavanagh

    Duffy receives a message from the country mansion of Vic Crowther, an old and dubious acquaintance, that a dead body has been found in his library. So the uncommon street-smart, cynical, neurotic, bisexual private investigator leaves London and proce...

  • The Enterprising Lord Edward

    Michelle Kasey

    IN DEFENSE OF VIRTUE Miss Emily Howland's prime duty as companion to her cousin, Lady Georgians Chilworth, was to assure the preservation of her charge's virtue. For not only was Georgians society's most exquisite beauty; she was woefully innocent...

  • The Shinglo

    Alex Kane

    It started in Vietnam. Deep in the steaming jungles of war, a hidden, sacred cave offered refuge to a handful of desperate American soldiers. It was their only chance for survival. And the horror of that moment, that hideous underground hell, would h...

  • Hall of Sparrows

    Beth Carlsey Jones

    The battle cry of bloody Viking invasion swept across Britain, dividing its people into vengeful enemies in a kingdom at war... And with a blazing spirit as furious as the raging battle was the unconquerable Emma, a fallen noblewoman driven from h...

  • Farewell Horizontal

    K.W. Jeter

    The cylinder was the world and within it lived the Horizontal dwellers--factory drudges and the wealthy, privileged few. Seeking to escape the Horizontal, Ny Axxter, a free-lance graffex artist, took to the Vertical, the outside of the Cylinder. Here...

  • Side by Side

    Muriel Jensen

    United forever... That's what Janessa Knight and Clay Barrister proclaimed as fanciful children. It was a bond they vowed would never be broken... But childhood dreams could not anticipate adult realities. When Janessa became involved in ...

  • The Wimp and the Jock

    John Ibbitson

    Football season is looming ahead and, much to his surprise and dismay, the unathletic Randy finds himself--with the unsolicited help of his friends--spending his summer vacation training for team tryouts...

  • The Boy Behind the Counter

    Kalindi A. Hunter

    High-school sophomore Ellen Kaufman learns a lot about loyalty, trustworthiness, and love when the boy with whom she falls in love turns out to be in on a developer's plans to close the ice cream shop where she works...