Books Published in February 1989

New Books List: 369 titles

  • 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...

  • Farewell to Russia

    Richard Hugo

  • Return to Honor

    Doug Beason

    Five thousand miles from the U.S., the president of the United States is facing death. In one hour, an American force will strike back -- with the most daring rescue mission ever! The RDF -- Marine Corps Rapid Deployment Force -- can strike anywher...

  • Dorsai's Command

    Gordon R. Dickson

    You are Mies Ohanlon, active-duty officer of the elite corps known as the Dorsai. Young and inexperienced, you are about to take on your first assignment--a raw, violent challenge that will make or break your career in the finest military force in th...

  • The Player of Games

    Iain M. Banks

    The Culture -- a human/machine symbiotic society -- has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels ...

  • 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 ...

  • A Murder Waiting to Happen

    L.A. Taylor

  • The Ascension Factor

    Frank Herbert; Bill Ransom

    “This final collaboration between the late Herbert (Dune) and Ransom is a worthy sequel to their novel The Lazarus Effect.” -- Publishers Weekly   Pandora’s humans have been recovering land from its raging seas at an accelerated pace sinc...

  • 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...

  • Citadels of Mystery

    L. Sprague de Camp

  • 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...

  • The Gate of Ivory

    Doris Egan

    THE SCIENCE OF MAGIC-- is what lures people from all over the galaxy to the world of Ivory. Ivory, exotic and dangerous, where everything is for sale, and law exists only to protect the most powerful families. And to anthropology student Theodora of...

  • 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...

  • The Mirror Maze

    James P. Hogan

    bestselling author James P. Hogan presents a riveting, near-future, high-tech thriller about the rise to power of a third American political party—and the potentially lethal consequences of this rise when a nuclear warhead disappears.

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  • Norby Down to Earth

    Janet Asimov

  • Orion's Sword

    Reginald Bretnor

  • Prison Planet

    William C. Dietz

    Convicted of a crime he did not commit, Jonathan Renn is sentenced to life in the Swamp, a prison-planet death row in a distant galaxy. Renn only has two choices: Escape the Swamp or die in the process. Defending himself from attacks by deadly, na...

  • 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...

  • A Rebel in Time

    Harry Harrison

    Can history be changed?Can the South still win the War Between the States?Colonel McCulloch thinks so...and his gold, his gun, and some very special blueprints stand behind him to help him prove it.Sargeant Harmon is a black man who hopes not...and o...

  • Revenge of the Damned

    Allan Cole; Chris Bunch

    THE GREAT ESCAPE Sten had fully expected to die in a blaze of glory, taking his Emperor's greatest foe with him. Instead he was a slave laborer in a P.O.W. camp deep in the heart of enemy territory. But sitting out the action had never been Ste...

  • Space Folk

    Poul Anderson

  • 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...

  • Trillion Dollar Trick

    Bennett A. Williams

  • Visions from the Sea

    Robyn Tallis

  • Betrayals

    Brian Freemantle

    On the eve of her wedding, a woman must fight to rescue her fiance from an international terrorist plot.

    It''s been nearly a year since Janet''s husband, Hank, died of a terrible illness. Though she thought she would never love again, John S...

  • 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...

  • The Danger Within

    Michael Gilbert

  • 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 ...

  • Die Like a Dog

    Brett Halliday

    Mike Shayne goes grave robbing in a pet cemetery to solve the case of a millionaire’s murder It’s 11:00 am, and Mike Shayne has just poured himself a cognac, when Henrietta Rogell strolls into his office. Normally, Shayne would extend no special ...

  • The Edge

    Dick Francis

    "BEWARE. MANY PEOPLE ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM" So proclaims the ad for the Great Transcontinental Mystery Race, a glittering rail junket that not only promises the opportunity to race a thoroughbred on some of the world's great courses, but somethin...

  • 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...

  • Foolproof

    Philip Daniels

    Jeremy Newton is one of the brighter young men coming along in the City. In time, he will be a respected and prominent figure in London's financial world. But Jeremy is impatient. He has access to insider information on the stock market and knows how...

  • The Mother Murders

    Dale L. Gilbert

  • 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....

  • 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 Problem of Virtue

    M. David Pohlman

  • 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 ...

  • Video Kill

    Joanne Fluke

    LIGHTS...CAMERA With painstaking care, he "casts" his victims, each woman resembling an Alfred Hitchcock star, each killing echoing six of the legendary director's films. The only clue he leaves behind is a gruesome video of his handiwork. But the...

  • The Wisemann Originals

    Ron Goulart

  • A Death in the House

    Stella Cameron

    Secrets... ...secrets of the past. What happened long ago in the cellars of Airstone Hall in Dorset, England, was coming back to haunt the present. Sue-Ellen Hill didn't realize that taking on the task of turning the old Elizabethan house into a b...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Escapade

    Marian Devon

    SOARING ACROSS THE CHANNEL WITH A ROGUE? HER ADVENTURES WERE JUST BEGINNING! Lady Maria Carlton, woefully tired of her insipid life, eagerly followed the exploits of the intrepid lady aeronaut, Madame Blanchard. But when she attended one of Madame...

  • A Gift of Daisies

    Mary Balogh

    THE IMPOSSIBLE MR. GOWER Lady Rachel Palmer was quite used to men falling helplessly in love with her. Every gentleman in aristocratic society, including her devoted fiance, Lord Algernon Rivers, fell a willing victim to Rachel's dazzling beauty a...

  • The Heather and the Blade

    Marian Devon

    IN STRUGGLE WAS BORN THEIR PASSION. IN SURRENDER THEIR LOVE. Spirited Laurie Campbell was a pawn of peace -- married into the traitorous MacDonald clan to end an ancient feud. Proud and defiant, she boldly challenged the mocking eyes of her new ...

  • An Intriguing Desire

    Janice Bennett

    Charles Marcombe was ready to retire. The British secret agent had done his bit against the blasted Bonaparte -- legends would be told about his exploits as Le Maniganceur, The Intriguer. Now it was time to nurse his wounds and come to terms with the...

  • 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...

  • The Reluctant Ghost

    Sheila Rosalynd Allen

    In his lifetime, Harry was a rogue and a rake. Now he's a ghost -- visible only to those in love. He roams the halls of Steadford Abbey, atoning for his romantic sins by helping others find romance sometimes, with the most unexpected -- and charm...

  • The Right Suitor

    Rebecca Ashley

    HOW COULD SHE WED AN ENGLISHMAN? SHE KNEW LITTLE OF THE ENGLISH AND EVEN LESS OF MEN! As much as Priscilla Springton longed to remain in India, her parents insisted on a proper English marriage. They'd even picked the groom! Priscilla, however, wa...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Snake Tattoo

    Linda Barnes

    Carlotta Carlyle, ex-cop, struggling private eye, and 6'1" of long tall redhead, takes any case that walks through the door. This time the door opens twice. First in is her old partner, Lieutenant Mooney of the Boston police, unfairly charged with br...

  • Curses!

    Aaron Elkins

    STICKS AND STONES...AND BONES Mayan ruins in the Yucatan ... a secret room in a tomb ... an ancient skeleton. To Gideon Oliver, anthropologist, this archaeological find is paradise on earth. He and his wife, Julie, have joined his old mentor, Abe ...

  • Dark Place

    Aaron Elkins

    SAVAGE HUNGER Deep in the primeval rain forests of Washington State, the body of a brutally murdered man is discovered. And a chilling mystery unfolds. Could the spear that killed him really be identical to one used by primitive hunters ten tho...

  • 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...

  • Now and Then, Amen

    Jon Cleary

    A nun is found murdered on the steps of the Quality Couch, Sydney's most expensive house of ill repute. She was Sister Mary Magdalene, an idealistic young woman who previously had worked at a mission in Nicaragua. Detective Inspector Scobie Malone, t...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Case of the Fiddle-Playing Fox

    John R. Erickson

    Someone or something has been robbing eggs from the chicken house. Hank stakes out the chicken house and, to his surprise, sees a fiddle-playing fox hop in with the hens, play them some hot fiddle music, and then accept several fresh eggs as his paym...

  • The Cold Front

    Sean Hanlon

    Pres Riordan, reporter for the "Anchorage Herald," gets a big break when he is asked to investigate claims of a "miracle fertilizer," but behind the innovative product is a man with a taste for murder...

  • Ninth Life

    Don Matheson

  • Farewell, Dresden

    Henri Coulonges

    A twelve-year-old girl attending a circus is caught in the bombing of Dresden and returns home to find her sister killed and her mother mad with grief, and must assume adult responsibility for her own and her mother's safety...

  • The Final Opus of Leon Solomon

    Jerome Badanes

    In an autobiographical novel, Leon Solomon, a Jewish historian, plans to commit suicide after being caught stealing priceless documents on Judaica but instead writes of his life--his internment in Auschwitz, the losses he has suffered, and his loves...

  • My Life on the Plains

    Ian Frazier

    With his distinctive blend of intrepidity and wide-eyed wonder, Frazier relates the tale of his 25,000-mile drive across the Great Plains states. In the tradition of Mark Twain's Roughing It , Great Plains is a heartfelt expedition through western Am...

  • 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...

  • Arizona Vixen

    LaRee Bryant

    Sabra Powers knew that her fate had been decided the moment she locked eyes with the handsome stranger in the park. Although she too was new to the Arizona territory, she didn't recognize the man from the various social events she'd been frequenting....

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Heaven Sent

    Virginia Brown

    BEAUTY AND THE BOUNTY HUNTER To the wild green hills of Idaho came lovely Hannah McGuire. Teaching in her father's missionary school, flame-haired Hannah braved the lawless frontier with a prayer on her lips. Leering men and scream-bullets cou...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Love's Sweet Captive

    Blaine Anderson

    Lady Braetana is taken captive by Thorgunn, a Viking sea captain, and, although the Vikings had killed her mother, Lady Braetana can feel only desire for her attractive kidnapper. RAPTURE'S SLAVE -- As the limestone cliffs of her Glendonwyck van...

  • 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...

  • Night Fire

    Catherine Coulter

    ONLY HIS BURNING LOVE COULD SAVE HER Trapped into a loveless marriage, Arielle Leslie knew a life of shame and degradation. Even after the death of her brutal husband, she was unable to free herself from the shackles of humiliation. Only Burke Dru...

  • Night Flame

    Catherine Hart

    CHEYENNE CAPTIVE She was stunningly beautiful -- her hair a vivid blaze of red, her eyes the burning blue of a fire's heart -- and from the moment he saw her, Night Hawk knew she must be his. She was his Flame, and the desire to possess her soft b...

  • 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...

  • Prisoner of Passion

    Jean Haught

    PRINCE CHARMING Virginia Branson was tired of being a slave to her father's drunken tirades. After leaving their home in Texas, he had practically wasted all of the profits from their small business on whiskey and gambling - and Virginia had all to...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Renegade Heart

    Madeline Baker

    A WANTED MAN AN INNOCENT WOMAN A WANTON LOVE When beautiful Rachel Halloran took Logan Tyree into her home, he was unconscious, a renegade Indian with a bullet wound in his side and a price on his head. To Rachel he was nothing but trouble, a ma...

  • 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...

  • Savage Dreams

    Veronica Blake

    Savannah belle Regina Atwood couldn't wait to rejoin her father at Fort Bowie Arizona Territory. The more remote from civilization she got the more the innocent miss tried to focus on the reunion but powerful sensuous dreams she barely understood bec...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Scandalous Desires

    Diana Stainforth

  • The Silver Land

    Nancy Harding

    She was the beauty who fired men's dreams-the shing heart of a legendary age. Daughter of a peaceful Celtic clan, Melangell fell captive to Nechlan, the firece warrior-king. The green-eyed beauty was his destined bride-and his fate, according to anc...

  • 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...

  • Tender Savage // Beloved Warrior

    Phoebe Conn

    TOO FAST TO STOP When innocent Erica Hansen fled to Minnesota to escape the Civil War's horrors, she had no idea she was stepping right into the middle of an Indian uprising. And until a painted, whooping brave swept her onto his stallion, she never...

  • 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 ...

  • When Morning Comes Again

    June Masters Bacher

    Courtney Desmond reluctantly took on her new role as mistress of Mansion-in-the-Wild. Somehow she knew that the end of an era had come-and things were destined to change. But she and Clint were unprepared for the challenges to come: the kidnapping of...

  • After Sundown

    Randall Boyll

  • Eden's Eyes

    Sean Costello

    PRAY YOU NEVER SEE THE WORLD THROUGH EDEN'S EYES.On a cool spring night in a quiet northern community, a life of violence comes to a violent end. In a drunken brawl, petty criminal Eden Crowell is beaten to the brink of death. Following a futile atte...

  • Fear and Trembling

    Robert Bloch

    Contents: The Yougoslaves A Most Unusual Murder The Brood of Bubastis Groovyland The Chaney Legacy Floral Tribute Reaper The Shrink and the Mink [“The Shrink and the Nympho”] A Killing in the Market The New Season ETFF Freak Show Hor...

  • In a Dark Dream

    Charles L. Grant

  • 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 ...

  • The Lilith Factor

    Jean Paiva

  • 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! ...

  • Razor's Edge

    Robert W. Walker

  • 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...

  • Deathwatch

    Ray Harrison

  • 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...

  • Conan the Hero

    Leonard Carpenter
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    In the steaming jungles of Venji, Conan of Cimmeria fights in a war seemingly without end, a war against drug-crazed raiders who strike without warning and vanish like smoke, a war against the implacable wizard, Mojourna. Yet his enemies are not only...

  • 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...

  • Backlash

    Bill Reno

  • Charro!

    Harry Whittington

  • Doc Leroy, M.D.

    J.T. Edson

    Doc Leroy was the best sawbones on the range--and a cowboy to boot. But those foolish enough to cross him quickly found that Doc Leroy was mighty handy with a gun, and he could cure all their ills with a lightning draw....

  • 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...

  • Gun-Handy

    Norman A. Fox

  • The Hangman

    Justin Ladd

  • Hot Pursuit

    E.J. Hunter

  • Lone Star and the Medicine Lodge Shootout

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki track down a crooked banker to save a town in the seventy-ninth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the martial ...

  • Longarm in a Desert Showdown

    Tabor Evans

    A DESERT HELL RUNS RED WITH BLOOD... Arizona's Sonora Desert is the closest thing to hell Longarm's ever seen. It's hot as a stove, and water is more precious than gold. But the Papago Indians and a few rugged ranchers manage to scratch out a livi...

  • Man from Colorado

    Louis Trimble

  • On the Trail of Four

    Max Brand

  • Raiders

    Barry Myers

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • South of the Border

    John Byrne Cooke

    Butch Cassidy combines forces with a silent movie company in 1919 to take a trek to the Mexican deserts, where they encounter a bloody revolution and create the ultimate romance of the Wild West--which includes the famed Pancho Villa...

  • The Terrell Brand

    E.Z. Woods

  • Texas Hell Country

    Jon Sharpe

  • 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