Books Published in February 1989

New Books List: 369 titles

  • 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...

  • Inferno!

    Mark Smith

  • Invitation to Death

    Nick Carter

    Part of the Nick Carter "Invitation to Death" murder mystery series. US Aerospace secrets in a briefcase vs. millionaires, Soviet Spies and beautiful women. The NY Times says of Carter, "The American James Bond."...

  • Rim of Fire

    Gar Wilson

  • The Struggle

    Jerry Ahern

    IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY -- WOULD JOHN THOMAS ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE…? In the post-apocalyptic world, consumed by World War III, right and wrong, virtue and vice have skewed their meanings. Old animosities remain; new and deadly all...

  • 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 ...

  • The War Chest

    Porter Hill

    The Bombay Marines are the East India Company's private fighting ships, defending India's coast and naval trading routes. Captain Adam Horne is the commander of history's first naval commandos and a hero in the mould of Hornblower, Alexander ...

  • Warbringer

    Mark Smith

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Death in Wessex

    Audrey Peterson

  • Fatal Flashback

    Eileen Fulton

    Nina McFall can't wait to take a long-overdue vacation from the pressures--and dangers--of "The Turning Seasons" set. The rambling old farmhouse she's rented in upstate New York seems the ideal spot for a long, peaceful rest. With her friend Robin Ta...

  • Murder in Paradise

    Ann Cleeves

    The honeymoon was over... and Jim and his English bride, Sarah, had come home to Kinness to settle down. But first there was to be one huge celebration for the newlyweds, with the whole island present. And before the party was over, there would be a...

  • A Prey to Murder

    Ann Cleeves

    Eleanor Masefield could be very difficult to handle, but murdering her seemed a bit extreme.... It was Eleanor Masefield's own idea to sponsor an Open Day at her beautiful Gorse Hill Hotel -- a celebration designed to raise funds for the protectio...

  • 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 ...

  • White Mountain Murders

    Steve Sherman

  • The Assertive Woman and Other Anomalies

    Marsha Drake

  • Our Daily Walk

    F.B. Meyer

  • Overland Escape

    Lee Roddy

  • Acts of Love

    Helen Chappell

  • 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...

  • All That Glitters

    Elizabeth Anderson

  • 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...

  • The Aloha Bride

    Emma Darcy

    Julian's proposition came at the wrong time Alone on what should have been her honeymoon, Robyn felt the tropical paradise of Maui seemed to mock her. Yet she was determined not to be hurt again, and her reaction to Julian was one of anger. ...

  • 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...

  • Ask Not of Me, Love

    Phyllis Halldorson

    Few men could have gone through what Caleb Winters had -- and lived to tell about it. But Nancy Lloyd quickly discovered that few men were like Caleb, period. In no time the Washington Island nurse fell irreversibly in love with her appealing patient...

  • Awakening Dreams

    Vanessa Grant

    They were lucky to be alive! But to Crystal Selwyn, a tax auditor on her way to the Queen Charlotte Islands, trekking out of the wilderness with Jesse Campbell was not her idea of normal travel. Jesse was adamant that the search-and-rescue pe...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Boyfriend School

    Sarah Bird

    All she wanted was a little romance. All she got was love... YOU'RE SINGLE, BROKE AND ABOUT TO GO OUT ON A DATE WITH A WISPY GOON. ISN'T LIFE ROMANTIC! Gretchen Griner is the underpaid, under-appreciated photographer for the AUSTIN (tha...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Calypso's Cowboy

    Lynne Marie Bryant

    When Smokejumper Caly Robbins parachuted onto the wilderness ranch, she expected to fight a fire-but instead she was swept into the arms of the gorgeous black-haired cowboy of her dreams! With a thoroughly masculine smile he provoked his captured ang...

  • 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...

  • Desert Star

    Sally Garrett

    WHAT SHE'D DONE WAS UNFORGIVABLE For twenty-five years Caroline Noble had cut off every emotional attachment. She never went near Granville Kane, the man who'd fathered her child--the child she'd given away. Then Carrie met her "baby," now a ri...

  • Family Ties

    Kay Bartlett

    HEARTSTRINGS For social worker Ben Norwood, Anne Gregory had become much more than the mother of a boy who was one of his cases. But how could he tell her that he fantasized about making love to her? The truth would destroy his professionalism and...

  • 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. ...

  • Foul Play

    Steffie Hall

    When Amy Klasse loses her TV job to a dancing chicken, handsome veterinarian Jake Elliott rescues her with an offer to be his receptionist. Jake just can't resist a damsel-in-distress and Amy certainly doesn't mind Jake's charming sinceri...

  • Friend or Foe

    Jenny Arden

    Kira found it hard to maintain a truce Kira's late husband had given Glenn Mason guardianship of her stepdaughter, Heather -- a fact Kira deeply resented. As far as she was concerned, it gave him no rights to interfere in her life! But as G...

  • The Gentleman Insists

    Joan Hohl

    MR. FEBRUARY... Who? Hank Branson What? One lean, rugged, devastating male. With? An uncontrollable desire for Laura Seaton. Why? She was the most irresistible female ever to sizzle a man's senses! Hank couldn't believe it! Five minutes wi...

  • Gone Fishin'

    Elizabeth Glenn

    She wasn't ready for the world of the rich and famous Bronwyn Jones thoroughly enjoyed her summers at River's Bend fishing camp. Although working at the family-owned resort meant sharing space with two old-fashioned grandparents and seven ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Heart to Heart

    Marie Ferrarella

    LISTEN WITH YOUR HEART Living in an almost silent world, Christie Clayton learned how to speak with her heart and body. A talent for mime had made the petite, dark-haired beauty into the star performer at Atlantis Marine Park -- it had given her t...

  • High Jinx

    Nancy Gramm

    LUCK, BE A LADY Wildcat oilman Mike Bannister was in desperate need of some good luck if he wanted to save his business, but he never expected it to show up in the form of a beautiful Cinderella, scrubbing floors in her evening gown. From the mome...

  • 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...

  • It Takes a Thief

    Kay Hooper

    Dane Prescott was charming, gallant, a man of mystery and shadows whose smile could make a woman forget her name! Jennifer Chantry was terrified when he caught her with a pilfered diamond bracelet, stunned when he kissed her breathless, and delighted...

  • Jo

    Tracy Hughes

    JO: Spirited defender of the rights of every man, woman and household pet in Galloway Corners; feisty rebel searching passionately for a cause worthy of her fiery nature. E.Z.: Rock and roll heartbreaker whose own heart is committed to America&#...

  • Kissed by An Angel

    Kathy Clark

    She would always have the guilt... And it changed Kristi Harrison's life. She could not do her job; she could not stay in Denver, where it all began. The only thing she could do was get away. Her friend's Florida beach house was the perfect retrea...

  • 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...

  • Light Another Candle

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    Every time Sandy met Richard Gearing, he ended up soaking wet -- and it was all her fault! First she knocked the smoky-voiced professor with Greek god muscles into a parking lot puddle, then she drenched him in the stream that ran between their homes...

  • 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 ...

  • A Man Around the House

    Donna Carlisle

    HUSBAND FOR HIRE There were squirrels in the fireplace, dust balls in the hallways, and her cat refused to eat. To busy executive Kendra Phillips, Househusbands, Inc., sounded like the answer to all her problems -- a man at your service twenty-fou...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • A Most Convenient Marriage

    Suzanne Carey

    BABY BOOM Widow Rachel Vanden Ross couldn't believe her ears. Marcus Davenport, one of the richest men in Europe had proposed to her! It should have been a scene out of a fairy tale, but there was a catch--Marcus only wanted a wife in order to hav...

  • My Perfect Valentine

    Judy Baer

    Love in disguise... Carissa Stevens is devastated when her boyfriend of sixteen months, popular Glen Matlock, dumps her for a vivacious cheerleader - and right before the Valentine Masquerade. Shy Carissa believes she'll never have another boyfrie...

  • Near the Edge

    Patt Bucheister

    When Joanna Kerr insisted in a honey-smoke voice that she didn't need protection, Alex Tanner drew closer, welcoming her resistance. There was little satisfaction in easy conquest, and something in her cool eyes tempted him to melt her ladylike f...

  • 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 ...

  • No Right or Wrong

    Katherine Granger

    Anne Emerson's campaign to build a modern library sparked heated controversy in rustic Chadfield. Handsome traditionalist Stephen Hunter proved the key opponent to outspoken Anne's cause -- until his sudden, scorching kiss left her literally ...

  • 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...

  • On Wings of Angels

    Aimee Duvall

  • 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...

  • One Whiff of Scandal

    Judith Arnold

    Can love survive scandal? Sex, money and power -- for weeks, Griffin had been investigating what promised to be the worst scandal ever to hit the sleepy Rhode Island communities. Then Granby Record reporter Jill Bergland stumbled onto the story. S...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • A Pirate at Heart

    Marcy Gray

    HE WAS IRRESISTIBLE.... When Gabriella Michaelson met the wildly attractive pirate at the Halloween party, naturally she knew he wasn't actually Long John Silver. But the struggling sculptress never suspected him to be the roguish rascal he r...

  • 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 ...

  • The Reckoning

    Joleen Daniels

    Laura Wright was haunted by her past -- a rugged Texas cowboy, a night of unequaled passion and a love that wouldn't die. Seven years ago she'd turned down Cal Sinclair's proposal, and he'd wedded her sister on the rebound. But n...

  • Remember Tomorrow

    Pamela Hatton

    "I swore I'd make you pay, Cassie." Powerful, arrogant Ross Tyler had become a bitter man. Now fighting against painful injuries and the conviction that Cassie had deserted him after the car crash, he was determined to settle old score...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • A Simple "I Do"

    Joanna Gilpin

    Her feelings were not negotiable Once upon a time Gail Sheridan might have given in to man's demands. But not anymore. Her decorating business had taken off, and with it her self-confidence. This was one old-fashioned girl who was liberated an...

  • 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...

  • Stranger at the Wedding

    Joan Mary Hart

    PRIDE AND PASSION Debra McLeod planned to hold her head up high and attend her ex-fiance's wedding, even though celebrating was the last thing on her mind. But what she hadn't counted on was meeting Clint Rasmussen, a dashing, rakish stranger. Cli...

  • 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 Tender Tyrant

    Victoria Glenn

    STRICTLY BUSINESS Jennifer Ramsey had to find a husband fast: terms of her father's will demanded she marry -- and what better choice was there than her father's business partner, Seth Garrison? After all, Seth was a trustworthy, straitlac...

  • 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...

  • Wayfaring Stranger

    Jackie Black

    A BEAUTIFUL, DETERMINED AMERICAN WOMAN A desperate search for truth drove Anne Gatewood to grab the first plane to Peru. The American embassy had wired that her sister, Linda, had been killed in an auto accident, but Linda's last letter hinted at a ...

  • When Winter Ends

    Carol Gregor

    It was a no-win situation for Sarah Out of loyalty to her kindly employers, Sarah agreed to leave her administrative job with Newski in London to take on a job as temporary chalet girl at their small ski resort in France. For some reason, the o...

  • Another Orphan

    John Kessel
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  • 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....

  • The Black Jade Road

    Kathryn Grant

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Land of the Infidel

    Robert Shea

  • 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...

  • Men Like Rats

    Rob Chilson

  • 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...

  • Nul's Quest

    Brad Strickland

  • On the Seas of Destiny

    Ru Emerson

    In this, the third tale of the Nedao people, Nisana the AEldra of the cat-kind narrates her experience among the beleaguered humans. She wishes that there were others left to speak of such a story, yet she is the only witness able to tell of it. Shar...

  • 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...

  • The Sea Sword

    Adrienne Martine-Barnes

  • Seven of Swords

    Carole Nelson Douglas

  • Sleeping in Flame

    Jonathan Carroll

    “Jonathan Carroll is a cult waiting to be born, a novelist of rare and terrifying power.” -- Pat Conroy
     
    Ricocheting between Vienna and Los Angeles, between the worlds of desires and dreams, Sleeping in Flame is a hypnotic literary nove...

  • A Spell of Deceit

    Laurie Goodman

    Trusting Lies Chris hated Roamers. It was Roamer sorcery that had cursed the land and started the feud with his people, the Homesteaders, and it was the Roamers' fault that Chris' parents were dead. Arron, a Roamer, hated Homesteaders. It was the ...

  • Vengeance of Orion

    Ben Bova

    Fresh from a space battle, Orion finds himself thrust back in time to confront gods in the ancient world, to Greece where he must prevent the Greek army from destroying the citadel of Troy, to Jericho to bring down the walls, to Egypt... If he fails,...

  • Vettius and His Friends

    David Drake

    For centuries Rome ruled the most diverse grouping of races and cultures ever under a single dominion. But sorcerous powers as black as Time itself gather barbarians to shatter Roman peace. Vettius, a soldier as ruthless as his age demands and Dama, ...

  • Wizard's Bane

    Rick Cook

    What do you get when a computer geek crosses a wizard? Answer: A very angry wizard--and a computer geek in a lot of trouble. Spells are a lot like computer programs: they're both formulas, recipes for getting things done. And they both can be bu...

  • Accommodating Molly

    Candida Crewe

  • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 2

    Catherine E. Sadler

  • Agent of Influence

    David Aaron

    NEWS/WORLDWEEK is up for grabs. The Communications conglomerate that owns many of America's largest newspapers, magazines and television stations is the target of a hostile takeover bid by French media magnate Marcel Bresson. But something sini...

  • The All-Girl Football Team: Stories

    Lewis Nordan

  • Ambush At Osirak

    Herbert Crowder

    Fast-paced and authentic, Herbert Crowder's dramatic thriller draws on modern events from the heart of the Middle East--where the specter of nuclear confrontation lurks just beyond the horizon. A gripping novel....

  • Any Old Iron

    Anthony Burgess

    Fifty years in the lives of two families--one Russian-Welsh, another Jewish--are traced from WW I to the founding of Israel. PW described this as ``a novel that is for the most part breathlessly readable, touching and funny by turns, and which passes...

  • Back to School

    Alison Blair

  • Bathing Ugly

    Rebecca Busselle

  • 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...

  • The Biggest Easter Egg: Activity Storybook with over 90 Stickers

    David Gantz

  • 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...

  • The Cage Keeper: and Other Stories

    Andre Dubus

    Passion and betrayal, violent desperation, ambivalent love that hinges on hatred, and the quest for acceptance by those who stand on the edge of society-these are the hard-hitting themes of a stunningly crafted first collection of stories by the best...

  • Charades

    Janette Turner Hospital

    This stunning and intoxicating novel speaks of passion and obsession, ranging in setting from an Australian rainforest to Boston and Toronto. A mysterious and elusive love affair haunts the lives of three women in Australia. Twenty years later, on th...

  • The Cherry Pit

    Donald Harington

    A flamboyant, lascivious, comic novel about restoration and renewal, in which the protagonist returns to his hometown and encounters a life that is both instantly familiar and disturbingly strange. His journey back begins as a recovery mission, but t...

  • The Chocolate-Covered Clue

    Laura Lee Hope

  • The Class Trip Runaways

    Adam Mills

  • Cockroaches of Stay More

    Donald Harington

    With this wonderfully irreverent comic novel, Harington leaves off chronicling the human inhabitants of the Arkansas Ozark town of Stay More and turns his attention to its insect world. In depicting the cockroach community, who perambulate on gitalon...

  • Code Name: Stinger

    Ned Bannister

  • Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays

    Thomas Sowell

  • Crazy Campout

    Lisa Norby

  • The Cult of the Black Virgin

    Ean Begg

    Why are over 400 of the world's images for the madonna "black" or "dark"? Why are they so little known? "The Cult of the Black Virgin" investigates the pagan origins of the phenomenon as well as the heretical Gnostic-Christian underground stream whic...

  • Daddy Long Ears

    Robert Kraus

  • The Day Room

    Don DeLillo

    The play opens in a hospital; the characters are patients, doctors and nurses. It is a recognizable, predictable world. And yet, as the scenes unfold -- in dialogue crackling with intelligence and insight, with incandescent bite and humour -- our sen...

  • Death Ride

    Paul Kropp

  • 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 ...

  • A Dog for Jesse

    Sharon M. Hart

  • The Double Fudge Dare

    Louise Ladd

  • The Dreamers

    Brian Hall

  • The Dreaming

    Robert S. Souci

  • Dreams of Gods and Men

    W.T. Quick

  • The Easter Treasures

    Diane Arico

    Presents a collection of stories and poems expressing Easter and springtime themes, including "The Velveteen Rabbit," "The Selfish Giant," "The Easter Bunny That Overslept," and poetry by such authors as Elizabeth Coatsworth and Aileen Fisher....

  • Eighty-sixed

    David B. Feinberg

    "In 1980, B. J. Rosenthal''s only mission is to find himself a boyfriend and avoid setbacks like bad haircuts, bad sex, and Jewish guilt. In post-AIDS 1986, B.J.''s world has changed dramatically - his friends and lovers are getting sick, everyone ...

  • Enigmatic Eye

    Moacyr Scliar

  • Family Life

    M. Robertson

  • Festival of Esther: The Story of Purim

    Maida Silverman

  • A Fine Line

    Ken Gross

    The victim of an intended mugging at the airport, Jack Mann kills his attacker and then takes the one million dollars he was carrying, setting himself up as a target for the cops, the mob, and the IRA...

  • Firebird

    James Carroll

    Firebird, the author's seventh novel, is about the most fateful act of espionage of the twentieth century. Set in the era of Hiss, Fuchs, McCarthy and the Rosenbergs, all of who feature in this story. It is a breathtaking political thriller. But unli...

  • A First Look at Animals with Horns

    Millicent Selsam

  • First Things First

    Kristi D. Holl

  • A Friend from England

    Anita Brookner

    In one of her most delicate and suspenseful novels to date, Anita Brookner brings us an exquisite story of friendship and duty. Rachel Kennedy and Oscar Livingston were not precisely friends or family. Rachel had been acquanted with Oscar for some ti...

  • Going Hollywood

    Marion Schultz

  • The Great School Lunch Rebellion

    David Greenberg

  • Gus the Bus

    Olga Cossi

    After Gus, a dependable cartoon schoolbus, gets new heavy duty radials he finds himself "galloping" with the colts in the pasture and racing fire engines until the bus inspector lets some air out of the tires and returns Gus to normal...

  • The Haunting of Willow Dasset

    Kathleen Rowntree

  • Hawkwood

    Andrew O'Rourke

  • High Priest

    Molly Cochran; Warren Murphy

  • The Holly Hudnut Admiration Society

    Lisa Norby

  • The Househusband

    Christine Park

  • How I Captured a Dinosaur

    Henry Schwartz

  • Ideal Genuine Man

    Don Robertson

  • The immortal Bartfuss

    Aharon Appelfeld

    Set in contemporary Israel, The Immortal Bartfuss is perhaps the most profound and powerful portrait of a Holocaust survivor ever drawn. Using the techniques of omission and indirection perfected in such masterpieces as Badenheim 1939 and To the Land...

  • In the Deep Woods

    Nicholas Conde

    Soon the pain of slaughter would lead to her... Carol Warren's professional success was an artistic triumph -- the result of turning the monsters of young nightmares into harmless illustrations for children's books. But there was nothing imaginary...

  • In Window Eight, the Moon Is Late

    Diane Worfolk Allison

    A little girl named Ann carries out a chore and exchanges goodnights with her large extended family in this lyrical prose poem that evokes the peaceful close of a summer's day and the affection shared by family members...

  • Incline Our Hearts

    A.N. Wilson

  • Indecent Proposal

    Jack Engelhard

    Reviewers have called it "powerful" and "brilliant." Newly released for its 25th anniversary edition, Jack Engelhard's novel "Indecent Proposal" has found its place alongside such classics as Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" and Tolstoy's "Anna Kar...

  • Ironbottom Sound

    Lindsay Baly

  • 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...

  • Jim Meets The Thing

    Barbara Cohen

  • Jo's Search

    Paul Kropp

  • Jonah and the Whale

    Marcia Williams

  • 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...

  • Killpoint

    Kyle Maning

  • King of the Dinosaurs: Tyrannosaurus Rex

    Michael Berenstain

  • 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...

  • Last Man Out of Saigon

    Chris Mullin

  • The Last War

    Martyn Godfrey

  • Latin Jazz

    Virgil Suarez

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • Let's Play Ball!

    Jim Davis

  • Life-Rails

    Scott Walker

  • 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 ...

  • Love Is for the Dogs

    Pat Rhoads Mauser

  • Mad Mad Monday

    Alvin Silverstein

  • 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...

  • Master of the Fist

    Bettany Hughes

  • Menage

    Anthony Mancini

  • A Mother's Secret

    Carolyn Haddad

  • Mousekin's Easter Basket

    Edna Miller

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • A Nice Surprise for Father Rabbit

    Brian Mangas

  • The Ninth Issue

    Dallin Malmgren

  • No Other Place

    Jack Gould

  • No, No, Charlie Rascal

    Lorna Kent

  • 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...

  • Old Negatives

    Alasdair Gray

    Alasdair Gray's fiction is about modern states of love, faith, language and politics. The verses in Old Negatives deal with the same things, omitting politics. They have been written at different times since 1952 and are arranged chronologically to s...

  • Original Ray's

    John Captiva

  • Panda Club's Tree House

    Michael Berenstain

  • Paxos Tiger

    Ted Simon

  • Polar Bear Cubs

    Downs Matthews

  • Poopsie Pomeranz, Pick Up Your Feet

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Poopsie Pomerantz is sure that ballet lessons will make her slim and graceful. But her friend Tracy Matson makes fun of Poopsie's efforts, saying there's no hope for chubby Poopsie. Tracy is surprised when Poopsie announces she's getting the starring...

  • Private Renaissance

    Maria Bellonci

  • Rain Man

    Lenore Fleischer

  • 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. ...

  • Remembrance of Swings Past

    Ron Luciano