Books Published in February 1990

New Books List: 412 titles

  • Why Isn't Becky Twitchell Dead?

    Mark Richard Zubro / Mark Zubro

    One would think teaching would be a quiet profession. But not in Chicago, thinks high school teacher Tom Mason when he hears that one of his students has been accused of killing his girlfriend. As a friend of the boy's family, Tom is asked to help cl...

  • Economies of the Heart

    Christopher Zenowich

  • Miss Suzy's Easter Surprise

    Miriam B. Young

  • The Ambassador's Daughter

    Brittany Young

    PRINCE CHARMING Juliana Sheridan had traveled halfway across the world to celebrate her parents' anniversary in France, where her father was the American ambassador. Her family was staying at the breathtaking countryside chateau owned by Duc Alain...

  • Mom Meets Her Maker

    James Yaffe

    I HAD THE PERFECT GIFT FOR MOM THIS YEAR. A MURDER. Not only was Dave's mother a great cook, but she had an amazing knack -- between the chopped liver and the strudel -- for solving his most difficult murder cases. Possibly because no detail, no mat...

  • A Gift upon the Shore

    M.K. Wren

    “A poignant expression of the durability, grace, and potential of the human spirit” set in a post-nuclear dystopia where words are worth killing for (Jean M. Auel, author of the Earth’s Children series).   By the late twenty-first cen...

  • Madoc

    Pat Winter

    ONE OF HISTORY'S GREATEST UNTOLD STORIES A.D. 1170--Embittered by the tyranny of the English monarchy, Welsh prince Madoc sailed with ships of settlers across the Western Ocean in search of a new home. Three centuries before Columbus, he landed on...

  • Pirate's Wild Embrace

    Linda Windsor

    Betrothed to a man she detested, fiery Shannon Brennan vowed to escape the tempestuous pirate stronghold where she'd been raised since infancy by her fierce buccaneer father. In order to putt off her daring scheme, she had to convince devilishly hand...

  • Come by Chance

    Madeleine Winch

  • Unsolved

    Kirk Wilson

  • Sweet Betrayal

    Lauren Wilde

    With fury raging in his heart, Texas Ranger Adam Prescott rode into Mexico, determined to capture the pillaging general who called himself the Chaparral Fox. Anita's blood boiled as the arrogant American undressed her with his eyes. He was he...

  • Rainy-Day Cat

    Kathy Wilburn

  • Fortune's Lady

    Robin Leanne Wiete

    "I want you, Marianne, I want you so much," he said. And suddenly pleasure and pain, fear and anticipation all blended together for her. "Yes!" she cried out joyously. "Oh, Nick, yes...!" The untamed nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest offered be...

  • The Singing Stones

    Phyllis A. Whitney

    It begins one momentous October day when an unexpected letter arrives, inviting Lynn McLeod to the Virginia Blue Ridge home of Stephen Asche, her former husband. Stephen's daughter - by another woman - is troubled and needs her help. Lynn is a clinic...

  • A Liberated Man

    Diana Whitney

    Fact or Fiction? Plumber Shannon Doherty knew better than to believe everything she read. Still, when she met celebrated cartoonist and ladies' man Mitch Wheeler, his dashing looks and devil-may-care demeanor nearly convinced her that tales of hi...

  • The Far Tribes

    Richard S. Wheeler



    There are many legends of great mountain men, hunters and trappers who manage to survive on their own in the harsh landscapes and forests of the West. The frontier is full of adversity, from blood-hungry natives to the vicious beasts of th...

  • Where the River Runs

    Richard S. Wheeler

  • Exit Wounds

    John Westermann

    With his Thirteenth Precinct partners, Orin Boyd sets out to patrol a crime-ridden Long Island town and must confront the burnout, gunfire, and loss of idealism that are occupational hazards for police...

  • Welcome to Little Golden Book Land

    Cindy West

  • Beautiful Losers

    Barbara Wersba

  • Wrath of Ashar

    Angus Wells

    In the north, a fire rages through the world-spanning forest of Beltrevan. Out of the flames is born a terrifying being with monstrous powers--Taws, Messenger of the fire-god Ashar. The ancient prophecies say he will raise a great Horde from the warl...

  • Valley of Fire

    Peggy Webb

    Rick McGill was the dangerous type, a man who could say or do anything and make a woman like it--but he was the best private investigator in Tupelo, Mississippi, and Martha Ann Riley decided that he was just the man to find her sister's gambler husba...

  • The Lyon and the Lamb

    Pat Warren

    Daughter of a fearsome publishing king, editor Augusta Lyon had had it with domineering males. Nonetheless, she was roped into accompanying some egotistical superstar author on a whirlwind cross-country publicity tour. Who could have predicted that c...

  • Fair Fortune

    Rebecca Ward

    IF HIS HEART BELONGED TO ANOTHER, WHY DID HE KISS HER WITH SUCH LONGING? With her mother's failing health and their rather reduced circumstances, Margaret Hannay had little choice but to grin and bear her position as a paid companion to the very d...

  • Sisters in Crime 2

    Marilyn Wallace

  • Jester's Girl

    Kate Walker

    Quite unwittingly she played the fool The argument in Jessica Terry's little restaurant was more than a single, isolated scene. For her infuriating customer turned out to be Daniel Tyson, hot new comic sensation in the world of entertainment. B...

  • Runaway

    Kate Walker

    Shane had forced Rowan to run away She ran from her home, her family, and the blackmailing attempts of her stepbrother. It catapulted her headlong into the life of the unsuspecting Nathan Kennedy. Falling in love with him was easy, but confron...

  • Amy Said

    Martin Waddell

  • Hollywood

    Gore Vidal

    Hollywood marks the fifth episode in Gore Vidal's "Narratives of Empire," his celebrated series of six historical novels that form his extended biography of the United States.        It is 1917, and President W...

  • Flame Across the Highlands

    Katherine Vickery

    Two powerful clans at war. Two lovers consumed in desire's fierce embrace... A GALLANT WARRIOR AND A REGAL CHIEFTAIN'S DAUGHTER SURRENDERED TO PASSION'S BLAZING GRACE... Amid the ancient splendor of the glens, Brianna of the Clan M...

  • Logic of the Heart

    Patricia Veryan

    WAS SHE FALLING IN LOVE WITH A MAN WHO COULD ONLY BRING HER HEARTACHE? Susan Henley had inherited the Highperch Cottage legally--if somewhat notoriously--and no insufferable baron would cheat her out of the dear old place! She would fight Valenti...

  • The Heart's Disguise

    Lisa Ann Verge

    IN THE SCENTED DARKNESS OF HIS LAIR, A WILY PIRATE STOLE HER INNOCENCE. Disguised as a lad, raven-haired Adriana Joubet hired on as cabin boy to the notorius Sea Wolf. She knew the Englishman was a traitor who preyed on his own countrymen, and she...

  • Sweet Talk

    Stephanie Vaughn

    Stephanie Vaughn is a writer’s writer, one whose debut collection of stories, Sweet Talk, was published more than two decades ago to critical acclaim. Readers have come to these stories over the years through word of mouth, posting glowing reviews ...

  • Past Tense

    Tina Vasilos

    A slipped word could spell d-e-a-t-h Tony knew that the elegant woman who'd fainted the lobby of his posh London hotel had disguised her origin, her identity, her accent. But she couldn't disguise the fear in her eyes. For months, Samantha Smit...

  • Orchestranimals

    Vlasta Van Kampen

  • Sugar and Rum

    Barry Unsworth

    A "powerfully done" (Times Literary Supplement) and tantalizingly semi-autobiographical novel from the author of the Booker Prize-winning Sacred Hunger. Unable to work on his novel about Liverpool's slave trade, Benson is teaching creative writing an...

  • The Stone Veil

    Ronald Tierney

    The 69-year-old semi-retired private detective reluctantly takes the case of a Mrs. William B. Stone who seems to have lost track of her husband. Shanahan, who finds his once lonely life complicated by an attractive younger woman, nevertheless finds ...

  • Henry in Love

    Marian Thurm

    Henry and Kate's May-December love is threatened when the sixty-eight-year-old man becomes unexpectedly ill and his twenty-eight-year-old wife must care for him, while his meddlesome ex-wife and daughter interfere...

  • Black Mesa

    Aimee Thurlo

    Sacred land... To the Tewa tribe, Black Mesa was a land for secrets and for ritual. Navajo FBI Agent Justin Makai had traveled a long way to reach it -- to see his old friend John Romero -- only to find the Tewa man missing and John's beautiful A...

  • Forever Mine, Valentine

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    Hartman strikes again! Old Charlie Hartman was out of his mind! To insist that Spence Jegger would marry the first woman he saw on Valentine's Day was pure madness, given Spence's opinion of marriage. And an aging vagabond playing St. Valentine wa...

  • Big Bird's Square Meal

    Emily Thompson

  • Big Bird Gets Lost

    Patricia Thackray

  • The Halloween Hex

    Max Taylor

  • Short Circuit

    Max Taylor

  • Search for the Starblade

    Keith Taylor

    The champion of ancient Ireland—on a quest for blood and magic!A WARRIOR'S QUESTThe swordplay of Oghmal, brother to the Queen of the Danans, is celebrated throughout the isle of Tirtangir. Yet nowhere can he find a weapon worthy of his warrior...

  • Siege

    Domini Taylor

  • Busy Day

    Cyndy Szekeres

  • Favorite Two-Minute Stories

    Cyndy Szekeres

  • Fine Mouse Band

    Cyndy Szekeres

  • Moving Day

    Cyndy Szekeres

  • Stormspell

    Faye Summers

    STORMSPELL -- Catherine Presentine came from a family of ne'er-do-wells, villains who would stoop to anything for gain. So when Charles de Morney returned to Creighwell Hall to find the beautiful young widow in control of his inheritance, he was ap...

  • Special Gifts

    Anne Stuart

    MIXED BLESSING Elizabeth Hardy was afraid - afraid of her ability to see things she had no way of knowing, and afraid to risk her heart again. In Colonel Sam Oliver she found the one man who could give her courage - and tempt her to love once more...

  • Wild Animal Babies

    Marty Stouffer

  • Force of Arms

    G. Harry Stine

    The Warbots combine human brainpower with mechanical brawn to fight a battle on three fronts against Japan, China, and the Soviet Union for control of an island that is overflowing with mineral resources...

  • This I Promise You

    Tracy Stern

  • Soup of the Day

    Frances Starn

  • A Perfect Marriage

    Lee Stafford

    Should she accept Rick's proposal? "Marry me," Rick had said, "and your home will be safe. " That was the only way Marissa Grafton could stop her ancestral home, Grafton Court, from being plundered. It now belonged to dynami...

  • Body of Opinion

    Susannah Stacey

    SOME GUESTS DON'T KNOW WHEN TO LEAVE... The party at the Manor had been a smash, and rock star Ken Cryer was feeling, well pleased...until he found golden Alix Hamilton in his bed. Despite her seductive pose, Alix didn't fancy Ken, or anyone else....

  • Appearances

    Robin St. Thomas

    Realizing that she needs the influence of a powerful and wealthy man to help her succeed on Broadway, talented and beautiful Rachel Allenby must choose between three such men--Jamie, Lehman, and Howard...

  • Outside in

    Beverly Sommers

    IF SHE'D KNOWN THEN WHAT SHE KNEW NOW... At twenty-seven, Jill was masquerading as a high-school senior to find the truth about her sister's death. She was also causing quite a commotion. Snubbing the cheerleaders. Hanging out with the jocks. ...

  • Libby on Wednesday

    Zilpha Keatley Snyder

    Libby hates school. Before this year she was tutored at home by her eccentric but brilliant relatives, but now her mother has decided it's time for Libby to be "socialized." So here she is, stuck with four kids she doesn't like in a writers' club tha...

  • Getting Even

    Elyssa Snow

  • Roving Reporter

    Elyssa Snow

  • The Diamond Hunters

    Wilbur Smith

    Death Mine A diamond empire unites them. A struggle for power divides them. Johnny Lance and Benedict van der Byl, almost brothers, have come to the crossroads of their lifetime rivalry. Far beneath the African earth waits a fabulous cache of min...

  • Me and My Baby View the Eclipse

    Lee Smith

     A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK “Extremely powerful…Me and My Baby View the Eclipse is about striving and the secret nobility of people who live in a small-town American South. In these stories -- thank heaven -- not everything fits: the...

  • New Orleans Mourning

    Julie Smith

    FESTIVAL OF MURDER It's Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and as the gaudy Rex parade proceeds down St. Charles Avenue, hysterical revelers crowd the street to see the King of Carnival. This year he's the prominent Chauncey St. Amant: upper-crust, yet do...

  • Grover's Day at the Beach: A Counting Story

    Jessie Smith

    Grover sees a bottle, two toy sea horses, three waves, four beach umbrellas, five old shoes, six sailboats, seven kites, eight seagulls, nine Popsicle sticks, ten bottle caps, eleven shells, and twelve friends...

  • Tails, Claws, Fangs and Paws: An Alpha Beast Caper

    Terry Small

  • Contact

    Lass Small

    FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD... . . . was where Ann Forties longed to be, not trapped at a tiresome party. And when she found herself under the eye of one gorgeous attorney, all her instincts screamed, "Run!" Once badly burned, she now steered clear...

  • Empire of Heaven

    Linda Ching Sledge

    Rulan, healer and concubine, warrior and spy, finds herself torn between three different men--Hung, the half-mad revolutionary leader; rebel hothead and poet Pao An; and Manchu general Li--in a saga set during the Taiping Rebellion...

  • Strange Attractors

    William Sleator

  • The End of Lieutenant Boruvka

    Josef Skvorecky

    In this collection of stories, Lieutenant Boruvka, a Prague cop, confronts Soviet troops and opposition from every corner as he continues to track down murder suspects in most influential positions and jeopardizes his career in doing so...

  • Garfield the Big Star

    Norma Simone

  • The Fall of Hyperion

    Dan Simmons

    Now, in the stunning conclusion to the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. On the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that ...

  • Confessions

    Diana Silber

    Four college chums go on to lives of success and personal fulfillment, but someone out there knows the private weakness that each woman harbors and is bent on terrorizing this frightened group of friends...

  • Suicide Attack

    John Sievert

    Enraged by his wife's death and the Soviet bombing of Fort Carson, Colonel Dean Sturgis returns to send his team of high-tech super-soldiers on a kill-or-be-killed mission against Soviet strongholds in America...

  • Kate's House

    Mary Francis Shura

    Eleven-year-old Kate and her family are in Oregon at last and Kate is having a difficult time adjusting to her new life. The dark woods are frightening, and her best friend Tildy wants to return to her mother back East. But by Christmastime, Kate'...

  • Silver Rock

    Luke Short

    TULLY GIBBS WAS A KILLER ... A bullet sang, and Tully Gibbs hit the dirt. Tully was a killer -- trained, highly skilled, merciless. But he was pinned down, exposed to the hail of rifle fire: shots slamming past his ear, spraying the bitter dust into ...

  • Murderous Remedy

    Stella Shepherd

  • Lights Out in the Reptile House

    Jim Shepard

    A shy and apolitical herpetologist-in-training finds the weight of history bearing down on him as the effects of repression ramp up in his country In an unspecified country that combines elements of Chile under its military regime, South Africa under...

  • Summertide

    Charles Sheffield

    SUMMERTIDE BLUES It was just before Summertide, the time when the twin planets, Opal and Quake, would orbit closest to their sun, subjecting both--but Quake in particular--to vast tidal forces. And it was to be the most violent Summertide ever, du...

  • Essays In Disguise

    Wilfrid Sheed

    The author's third collection of essays discusses literary figures such as Hemingway and Salinger, fatherhood, Ronald Reagan, television, politics, American humor, the Catholic Church, and other topics...

  • Case Dismissed

    Linda Shaw

    NATHAN CYPRESS MADE HEADLINES He had movie star looks, he'd earned a ruthless reputation running Washington, D.C.'s, largest newspaper, and his brief marriage to the paper's glamorous owner-followed by her tragic death was still scandalous. Especi...

  • Desert Desperados

    Jon Sharpe

  • Lean on Me

    Carolyn Seabaugh

    At fourteen, Nicki Eaton had been betrayed, her innocent trust badly shaken by a family 'friend.' Now a grown woman, she was tough enough to face life's challenges head-on - all but one. When she met broad-shouldered boat bilder Clay Parnell, her hea...

  • Fire and Ice

    DeLoras Scott

    Ruby lips and a diamond heart. A Modest Proposal Widow Jessy Turner knew that she had better take Cort Lancaster up on his offer, or lose the diamond-and-ruby necklace Cort had won from her no-good husband. The heirloom was the one thing that J...

  • People in Trouble

    Sarah Schulman

    'A book of resistance and love, as urgently necessary now as it was thirty years ago' Olivia Laing First published in 1990, discover this blistering novel about a love triangle in New York during the AIDS crisis. The perfect novel to read after bing...

  • Funhouse

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Red Firestorm

    Dan Schmidt

    When Soviet MiGs shoot down two CIA reconnaisance planes, the men of Eagle Force spring into action and head for the Himalayas to recover the black box that recorded the mission before the Soviets can get to it...

  • Richard Scarry's Best Times Ever

    Richard Scarry

  • Richard Scarry's Mother Goose Scratch and Sniff Book

    Richard Scarry

  • Richard Scarry's Naughty Bunny

    Richard Scarry

    Richard Scarry''s Naughty Bunny is now back in print as a Little Golden Book!

    Beloved Richard Scarry has created one of his most endearingly naughty characters ever. Little bunny doesn''t deliberately try to be naughty, but more often than not...

  • More Anatomy of Murder

    Dorothy L. Sayers

  • A Family Affair

    Judith Saxton

    A sweeping family saga travelling from England to China at the beginning of the 20th century. It is 1900 and Adeline Warburton and Arnold Haslington have fallen deeply in love. But though both are from wealthy families, their social status is too far...

  • The Trouble with Patti

    Susan Saunders

  • Chuck Wood and the Woodchucks in the Big Game

    Marilyn Sadler

  • Fourteen

    Marilyn Sachs

    A MOST UNLIKELY PAIR My mother has just finished writing her fourteenth book -- one for each year of my life. They've all been about me in one horrible way or another, and I hated them all. Each time, she promised the main character would not resemb...

  • Thorn

    Fred Saberhagen

    Europe, 500 Years Ago Vlad Tepes, Prince of Wallachia, hunts royal prey -- a renegade Princess. Ordered to kill the woman, he tracks her across the continent -- but finding her, Dracula loses his heart. The United States, Today Undead, Vlad Tepe...

  • Animals in the Wild

    Joanne Ryder

  • Puppies Are Special Friends

    Joanne Ryder

  • Agatha Christie Trivia

    Richard T. Ryan

  • The Vicar's Daughter

    Eva Rutland

    He never expected to fall in love with his own wife! The viscount married the vicar's daughter! Lord Domenic Stanhope was handsome, charming, wealthy and possessed of a roving eye. To him marriage meant freedom to pursue his amorous affair...

  • Rocking the Boat

    Ian Ross

    1963 and Paul Shaw, suburban dreamer, barely out of his teens, is ready to make the most of those flower-powered days of innocence and decadence as the black-and-white post-war world of Britain blooms into glorious psychedelic colour. Soundtra...

  • Rabbit's Rainy Day

    Amye Rosenberg

  • Twelve Year Old

    Stephen Roos

  • Don't Blame Me!

    Paul Rogers

  • Doctors and Doctors' Wives

    Francis Roe

  • Lizzie's Worst Year

    Catherine Robinson

  • With Love, from Sam and Me

    Nadine Roberts

    Although Mary Lou is treated badly by her foster parents, she manages to endure, but when the duo takes in a two-and-a-half-year-old named Sam, she is determined that he will not suffer as she has and runs away with him...

  • A Piece of Cake

    Leigh Roberts

    Running a bakery in Santa Cruz was the perfect setup for single mom Thea Willits. Business was booming, and she had more time now for the man in her life--six-month-old Lucas. Lucius Donovan had been devastated when Thea abruptly left him over a year...

  • Wagon Train to Hell

    J.R. Roberts

    The Sioux were at peace with the white man, thanks to Chief Running Arrow. So Clint Adams was mighty surprised to see the small wagon train under attack by the Indians. He was also surprised to hear the blast of Spencers, the most powerful firearms i...

  • Dallas Run

    David Robbins

  • Peregrine Dream

    Ray Ring

    The second Henry Dyer novel captures the stark beauty of the Arizona desert, as Dyer pursues and captures a kidnapper of two peregrine falcons; but when the poacher has his throat cut, the birds disappear and things start getting complicated...

  • Farrell's War

    Bill Reno

  • Go In and Sink!

    Douglas Reeman

    February 1943. As the balance of the war slowly shifts in Britain's favour, Lieutenant-Commander Steven Marshall brings his battle-scarred submarine into home port. Captain and crew are exhausted after fourteen months' continuous service, but...

  • Sunrunner's Fire

    Melanie Rawn

    IT BEGAN WITH THE DISCOVERY OF THE STAR SCROLL -- the last repository of forgotten spells of sorcery, the only surviving record of the ancient foe who in times past had near destroyed the Sunrunners and their magic. Now, as Andry the new Sunrunner L...

  • A Passage of Stars

    Alis A. Rasmussen

    Lilyaka Hae Ransome answered to no man. Born to a powerful clan on the storm-wracked colony world of Unruli, she'd grown up willful, independent, strong. The only person who held her respect was the enigmatic man called Heredes; who tutored her in hi...

  • Four Steps to Death

    Diana Ramsay

    Fancy footwork is required of dance instructor Maggie Tramayne when she finds her friend Nina skewered with one of her own kitchen utensils, and she must sidestep both the police and the killer's next culinary surprise in order to survive...

  • Seduction

    Amanda Quick

    Townsfolk called him devil. For dark and enigmatic Julian, Earl of Ravenwood, was a man with a legendary temper and a first wife whose mysterious death would not be forgotten. Some said the beautiful Lady Ravenwood had drowned herself in the black, m...

  • Pure Murder

    A.M. Pyle

    Cincinnati homicide detective Cesar Franck investigates the difficult case of a murdered dermatologist with a cocaine habit and powerful friends, including a news anchorman, a TV news director, and the police lieutenant who is Cesar's boss...

  • Stella Dallas

    Olive Higgins Prouty

    This pulp classic of motherhood and money introduced the immortal character portrayed on film by Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Midler -- “a feminist gem” (Michael Bronski).   An ambitious woman from working-class roots, Stella sets her sights o...

  • Heart Songs and Other Stories

    Annie Proulx

    Before she wrote the bestselling Brokeback Mountain, Annie Proulx was already producing some of the finest short fiction in the country. Here are her collected stories, including two new works never before anthologized. These stories reverberate with...

  • The Legacy

    Fayrene Preston

    Caitlin Deverell had been born in SwanSea, the magnificent family home on the wild, windswept coast of Maine, and now she was restoring its splendor to open it as a luxury resort. When Nico DiFrenza asked her to let him stay for a few days, caution ...

  • My Balloon

    Fiona Pragoff

  • Morte D'urban

    Edmund Powers

  • Angels on Toast

    Dawn Powell

    Everyone in Dawn Powell's New York satire Angels on Toast is on the make: Lou Donovan, the entrepeneur who ricochets frantically between his well-connected current wife, his disreputable ex, and his dangerously greedy mistress; Trina Kameray, th...

  • Golden Spur

    Dawn Powell

  • Wicked Pavilion

    Dawn Powell

    The “Wicked Pavilion” of the title is the Café Julien, where everybody who is anybody goes to recover from failed love affairs and to pursue new ones, to cadge money, to hatch plots, and to puncture one another’s reputation. Dennis Orphen, the...

  • The Other Side of the Family

    Maureen Pople

    In 1942 fifteen-year-old Katherine travels to Sydney, Australia, to stay with her mother's parents for the duration of the war, but, when Japanese submarines appear in Sydney's harbor, Katherine is sent inland to stay with her other grandmother at Pa...

  • The Paris Review Anthology

    George Plimpton

    Venerable at 35 and justly venerated for its unequalled mix of fiction, poetry, interview and essay, the Paris Review remains the single most important little magazine this country has produced. A glimpse through the table of contents of this new ...

  • Tooth-Gnasher Superflash

    Daniel Pinkwater

  • Fall into Darkness

    Christopher Pike

    They said she murdered her best friend. The trial is for murder. Ann Rice is dead. Her best friend, Sharon McKay, stands accused. But there is no body. And the three witnesses to the crime only heard what happened, and did not see it. Nevertheless...

  • A Time of War

    Michael Peterson

    Desperate for a way out of war, President Johnson appoints Bradley Marshall, a seasoned diplomat and veteran of two wars as his Special Ambassador to Vietnam. Marshall's mission is to bring back the critical information LBJ needs to override Gen. Wes...

  • Conan the Free Lance

    Steve Perry
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy


    Fate tosses the dice for Conan of Cimmeria, and they come up...death. Dimma, the Mist Mage, knows nothing of the muscular Cimmerian, but the vile necromancer's plans require his death. Thayla, beautiful Queen of the Pili, would rather take Conan ...

  • Heartstrings

    Grace Pendleton

    Anna Terhune was finally on her way! Her new dream job would launch her career like a skyrocket. There was only one problem: her short-fused boss. Anna knew that stubborn, demanding Garrett Downing could inspire her to greatness--if his biting comman...

  • Knockdown

    Don Pendleton

    CONTRACT The Mob is muscling in on New York's building trade, their web of corruption extending from union racketeering to controlling supplies. The law seems powerless to stop it, and the ruthless Five Families are playing rougher by the minute. ...

  • Probable Cause

    Ridley Pearson

    A police detective struggles to outwit a twisted killer in this “breathless” crime novel by the New York Times"bestselling author of Undercurrents (Chicago Tribune).   Carmel, California is a scenic, peaceful tourist haven where James Dewi...

  • Wind Crystal

    Diana L. Paxson

  • Lucky Star

    Betty Paul

    OVERNIGHT SHE BECAME A FAMOUS BEAUTY... Star Merrick had grown up in her celebrity mother's shadow. But now the ugly duckling had suddenly blossomed into a stunning beauty, thrust into a spotlight of her very own. BUT FAME AND BEAUTY HAD A SHOC...

  • Jessica's Cat Trick

    Francine Pascal

    One afternoon identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield are playing outside when they find a cat that has no home. Cats aren't allowed inside the Wakefield house because Mr. Wakefield and Steven have allergies. But more than anything the twins ...

  • The New Elizabeth

    Francine Pascal

    Elizabeth’s ready for a change! Elizabeth is tired of people saying she is the steady one, the dependable one. When Jessica teases Elizabeth about never taking risks, Elizabeth is so fed up that she secretly takes up surfing to prove that she can ...

  • Burn Marks

    Sara Paretsky

    Someone knocking on the door at 3 A.M. is never good news. For V.I. Warshawski, the bad news arrives in the form of her wacky, unwelcome aunt Elena. The fire that has just burned down a sleazy SRO hotel has brought Elena to V.I.'s doorstep. Uncoverin...

  • The Body in the Belfry

    Katherine Hall Page

    FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS There was no question that the body in the church belfry was Cindy Shepherd and that she was very dead. The kitchen knife sticking out of her curvaceous young body left no doubt. Faith Sibley, the minister's wife who found ...

  • Cinnabar

    Robert B. Oxnam

  • Deceptive Desires

    Wanda Owen

    Tiffany Renaud loved her life as the only daughter of a wealthy Parisian industrialist. She had suitors, servants and a ball gown in every color of the rainbow. The last thing she wanted was to cross the ocean on a cramped and stuff ship just to visi...

  • Deathknight

    Andrew J. Offutt

  • A Wreath for the Bride

    Lillian O'Donnell

    Newlywed Mary Langner's body surfaced in the icy waters of Rockaway, New York, one day after her husband reported her missing from their cabin. Angela Doran is murdered on the one-month anniversary of her marriage. P.I. Gwenn Ramadge, hired by Mary's...

  • Eminent Domain

    Dan O'Brien

  • Hansel and Gretel

    Carol North

  • Rings of Gold

    Suzanne Nichols

    She was going for gold For Tori Anderson, an Olympic gold medal was just a ski slope away. But she'd been sidelined by an injury, and racing again might put her in a wheelchair for life. Helping injured athletes was what Michael St. James did b...

  • Backfire

    Christopher Newman

    In 1963, a beautiful young girl dies in the middle of an abortion on a cold table in a motel room. The cover-up is quick, quiet and -- for almost thirty years -- worth every penny. Now it's 1991. At the dawn of a presidential campaign, the old secret...

  • Beau Guest

    Judith Nelson

    Katherine Farthington was determined that her devious uncle, the unscrupulous Edward Farthington, would not sell her family home. When Uncle Edward brought the urbane Nicholas Markham and the Duke of Bellingham, prospective buyers, to Farthington Ha...

  • Razzle-Dazzle

    Ed Naha

    WELCOME TO CALIFORNIA, MR. BROSKEY. NOW LEAVE. Lt. Kevin Broskey has cracked a mass-murder case and brought down a porn king, but now he's persona non grata in the Bay City Police Department. The reason: Broskey's got a thing about guys who kill c...

  • Ada, or Ardor

    Vladimir Nabokov

    Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist.  It tells a love story troubled by incest.  It is also at once a fairy ta...

  • Bert and the Magic Lamp

    Michaela Muntean

  • Herry's New Shoes

    Michaela Muntean

  • Very Bumpy Bus Ride

    Michaela Muntean

    Some unexpected things happen as the Rumbletown bus bumps its way to the county fair carrying Mrs. Fitzwizzle and her strawberries, Granny Smith and her apples, a gaggle of funny geese, and a black-and-white cow...

  • Memory Lane

    Vella Munn

    THE LURE OF THE PAST... Though she'd been brought back by duty and responsibility, Kim Revis was planning to enjoy her visit to her childhood home. She'd promised herself that her job, designing a security system to put a stop to the recent ra...

  • Crossing Enemy Lines

    R.A. Montgomery

    Their discovery of the vaccination serum to stop the Death Enzyme, an AIDS-like virus, threatens to divide the members of TRIO as Matt and Mimla disagree over the strategy for the serum's use, and David becomes caught in the middle...

  • Traitors from Within

    R.A. Montgomery

  • Afterlife

    Paul Monette

    A powerful exploration of the way AIDS reshapes relationships and lives Afterlife is a haunting and unforgettable story of men facing loss and seeking love, movingly capturing the moment in the 1980s when the AIDS epidemic was completely devastati...

  • Amazing Space Facts

    Dinah L. Moche

  • North Platte

    Hank Mitchum

  • Daring Moves

    Linda Lael Miller

    TAKING CHANCES... After a broken love affair, Amanda Scott grasped at one straw after another, until finally she ended up in a line waiting to have the latest popular self-help expert autograph his book. Was it fate that placed Jordan Richards bes...

  • My Darling Melissa

    Linda Lael Miller

    THEIR PASSION WAS AS FREE AND SPLENDID AS THE TOWERING WILDERNESS OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST... Devastated on her wedding day by a shattering revelation, Melissa Corbin turned to a stranger with a brazen bargain: she would take his name in exchange fo...

  • The Warrior and the Witch

    Carl Miller

  • A Matter of Principal

    Leigh Michaels

    Somehow she had managed to survive. Though it hadn't been easy for Camryn Hastings since her husband's death had left her to bring up their child alone. The bed-and-breakfast trade she ran from their home provided a reasonable living ...

  • His Chariot Awaits

    Kasey Michaels

    BOY TROUBLE .. . Just what was widower Daniel Quinn supposed to do with a ten-year-old whiz-kid with more freckles than friends and a perpetual frown on his face? His sulking son stubbornly refused to give his new neighborhood--or his father--a ch...

  • The Case of the Borrowed Baby

    Susan Meyers

    Fifth-grade sleuth P.J. Clover and her colleague, Stacy Jones, must find a stolen necklace and a lost doll within two days or P.J. will lose her entire T-shirt collection and Stacy's bike will be destroyed...

  • The Case of the Stolen Laundry

    Susan Meyers

  • The Case of the Missing Mouse

    Susan Meyer

  • Heartbreak Hotel

    Jackie Merritt

    SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF KC Logan couldn't believe her eyes. She'd arrived in Harmony, Montana, expecting to rescue her sickly grandfather from financial ruin. Instead, the old fellow was in the money and kicking up his heels. And as for KC, she...

  • Dateline: Kydd and Rios

    Glenna McReynolds

    Nobody knew more about getting into trouble than Nikki Kydd, but that talent had made her perfect at finding stories for Josh Rios, the daring photojournalist who'd built his career reporting the battles and betrayals of San Simeon's dictatorship. A...

  • Crew Chief

    Jesse Mcleod

  • When Angels Fall

    Meagan McKinney

    DEVIL'S KISS It was five years since Elizabeth Alcester had laid eyes on her former stable boy Ivan Tramore . . . five years since her world had collapsed in devastating ruin around her. Now, penniless and desperate, she finds herself at the mercy o...

  • Dragondoom

    Dennis L. McKiernan

    A thousand years before the Winter War, proud Elgo, valiant, prince of the hard-riding, hard-fighting Vanadurin, and his warband defeat the seemingly invincible dragon Sleeth. The fabulous wealth in the drake's lair is brought home amid great rejoici...

  • Liar's Dice

    Michael McGann

  • The Perfect Clown

    Carole McElhaney

    A death-defying high wire act ... two bodies colliding in midair... and within seconds Nicole Ross's whole world shattered. But as she lay broken and bereft amid the sawdust and glitter, a man reached out to her, a man whose tender, compassionate tou...

  • Antar and the Eagles

    William Mayne

    One day young Antar is carried away towards the mountains by a fierce eagle. The great bird takes the small boy not as food, but for a mission vital to the entire eagle species. Before he can begin his task, however, Antar must learn to be an eagle....

  • Just a Daydream

    Mercer Mayer

  • This Is My Friend

    Mercer Mayer

  • Favorite Fairy Tales and Verses

    Darcy May

  • The Good Fight

    Lia Matera

    Attorney Laura Di Palma is in complete control of her high-profile life--she's about to become a partner, signed lithographs decorate the walls of her spectacular San Francisco apartment, and her Mercedes is paid for. But control turns to utter chaos...

  • Palm Springs

    Trina Mascott

    Palm Springs is an historical novel, a magical love story, a dynamic family saga, and a lyrical ode to the desert. In Palm Springs, Paris, Rome and Mexico, the novel chronicles the joys and sorrows of Ginger McKinntock, her movie star sister, and the...

  • Deficit Ending

    Lee Martin

    Nursing a nine-week-old baby during a bank robbery isn't Fort Worth detective Deb Ralston's idea of fun...but the robbers have a gun, she doesn't, and her son Cameron is demanding lunch - blissfully unaware of the terror gripping the crowd. Ready o...

  • Ace in the Hole

    George R.R. Martin

    Since a strange alien virus created the superhuman beings known as Aces and Jokers four decades ago, they have struggled for respect and recognition. Now they are key players in a presidential convention torn by hatred and dissent as assassins stalk ...

  • Dawn's Wicked Stepsister

    Ann M. Martin

    Now that Dawn and Mary Anne are friends and sisters, Dawn wants them to do everything together -- share a room, talk all night long, wear each other's clothes. But living with Mary Anne isn't exactly what Dawn expected. Mary Anne brags about havin...

  • Revenge in Little Texas

    Jason Manning

    Sheriff Clem Brackett faces trouble in the Nebraska cowtown known as "Little Texas" when cattle baron Tyler Kane rides into town looking for a local card hustler who made the mistake of killing Kane's brother...

  • Man's Fate

    Andre Malraux

    As explosive and immediate today as when it was originally published in 1933, Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine), an account of a crucial episode in the early days of the Chinese Revolution, foreshadows the contemporary world and brings to life the pr...

  • Freedom Express

    Mack Maloney

    AMERICAN ARMAGEDDON Decimated in a deadly rain of treachery and deceit, the United States is united no longer. But out of a war-blackened landscape emerges the brilliant ace fighter pilot Hawk Hunter--a lone warrior on the bloody road of retributi...

  • Frivolous Pretence

    Anthea Malcolm

    ONLY A CAD WOULD DOUBT A LADY'S INNOCENCE! A LADY'S INNOCENCE When secret information about the scandalous divorce trial of Queen Caroline fell into the wrong hands, Demetra Hawksley was incensed to learn that she was suspected of betra...

  • Fallen Angel

    Debbie Macomber

    Only child Amy Johnson was destined to run her father's multimillion-dollar corporation someday. Then she met Josh Powell. Rugged, handsome and sexy, he awakened the hungry, loving woman within her and uncovered her long-buried desire to raise a fami...

  • Death Trap

    John D. MacDonald

    In life, Jane Ann never had much use for a halo, but in her violent death she finally earned one. When they found a suspect, everyone relaxed except Hugh MacReedy.Maybe he should have stayed out of it, but MacReedy owed a big debt to the patsy they w...

  • No Surrender

    Mary Lyons

    The feeling was mutual They hated each other. Oriel thought American banker Jake Emmerson was a thoroughly nasty, bad-mannered male chauvinist. Based on their first unfortunate encounter, Jake thought Dr. Oriel de Montfort was a certifiable lun...

  • The Year I Owned the Yankees

    Sparky Lyle

  • Bertie and the Seven Bodies

    Peter Lovesey

    The second entry of the Bertie, Prince of Wales mystery series, featuring future King Edward VII, Albert Edward, as an amateur sleuth solving suspicious murders in Victorian England.Bertie, Prince of Wales, is delighted to be invited by Lady Amelia, ...

  • Men Under Water

    Ralph Lombreglia

    "In his first collection of stories, Ralph Lombreglia writes about being young and unsettled, about trying to connect and not always making it--or succeeding in startling ways. A powerful first collection."--The New York Times Book Review...

  • Colorado Killers

    Jake Logan

    TEN STEPS AHEAD OF DEATH They escaped from the vengeful eye of Kevin McDonald and the seamy trap of his bordello...and tumbled right into Slocum's path. Any other time, Slocum would be mighty pleased to find himself in the company of four young be...

  • Homework

    Margaret Livesey

    Immensely compelling and profoundly chilling, Homework echoes Henry James's Turn of the Screw-it's that eerie, beautifully crafted, and brave in its willingness to illuminate the dark side of childhood and our own most closely guarded notions of inno...

  • Merab's Beauty and Other Stories

    Torgny Lindgren

    COLLECTIBLE.FIRST EDITION,. Hardcover.Dust Jacket.Inside Pages In Excellent Condition. REWORK THE STORY OF KING DAVIS INTO A NEW EPIC NOVEL. CHECK OUR STORE FRONT FOR MORE GREAT BOOKS & CDs. FAST SERVICE. -28-...