Books Published in February 1989

New Books List: 369 titles

  • 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...

  • Accommodating Molly

    Candida Crewe

  • Acts of Love

    Helen Chappell

  • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 2

    Catherine E. Sadler

  • After Sundown

    Randall Boyll

  • 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...

  • 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

  • The All-Girl Football Team: Stories

    Lewis Nordan

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Another Orphan

    John Kessel
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  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • The Assertive Woman and Other Anomalies

    Marsha Drake

  • 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...

  • Back to School

    Alison Blair

  • 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...

  • Backlash

    Bill Reno

  • Bathing Ugly

    Rebecca Busselle

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 Biggest Easter Egg: Activity Storybook with over 90 Stickers

    David Gantz

  • The Black Jade Road

    Kathryn Grant

  • 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...

  • 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 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Charro!

    Harry Whittington

  • 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

  • Citadels of Mystery

    L. Sprague de Camp

  • 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

  • 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...

  • Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays

    Thomas Sowell

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Daddy Long Ears

    Robert Kraus

  • The Danger Within

    Michael Gilbert

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Death in Wessex

    Audrey Peterson

  • Death Ride

    Paul Kropp

  • Deathwatch

    Ray Harrison

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • A Dog for Jesse

    Sharon M. Hart

  • 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 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Enigmatic Eye

    Moacyr Scliar

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Family Life

    M. Robertson

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Farewell to Russia

    Richard Hugo

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Festival of Esther: The Story of Purim

    Maida Silverman

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • A First Look at Animals with Horns

    Millicent Selsam

  • First Things First

    Kristi D. Holl

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Going Hollywood

    Marion Schultz

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Great School Lunch Rebellion

    David Greenberg

  • Gun-Handy

    Norman A. Fox

  • 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...

  • 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 Hangman

    Justin Ladd

  • The Haunting of Willow Dasset

    Kathleen Rowntree

  • 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...

  • Hawkwood

    Andrew O'Rourke

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • High Priest

    Molly Cochran; Warren Murphy

  • The Holly Hudnut Admiration Society

    Lisa Norby

  • 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 ...

  • Hot Pursuit

    E.J. Hunter

  • The Househusband

    Christine Park

  • How I Captured a Dinosaur

    Henry Schwartz

  • 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...

  • 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 a Dark Dream

    Charles L. Grant

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Inferno!

    Mark Smith

  • 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...

  • 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."...

  • Ironbottom Sound

    Lindsay Baly

  • 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...

  • 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

    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&#...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Land of the Infidel

    Robert Shea

  • 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

  • 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 ...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • The Lilith Factor

    Jean Paiva

  • 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...

  • 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 Is for the Dogs

    Pat Rhoads Mauser

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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! ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Man from Colorado

    Louis Trimble

  • Master of the Fist

    Bettany Hughes

  • 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...

  • 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