Books Published in January 1984

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JANUARY 1984

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New Books List: 461 titles

  • Two Winters and Three Summers

    Fyodor Abramov

  • Blossoms in the Snow

    Megan Alexander

    GUILT WOULD NOT LET HER LOVE When Laura Adams was offered a teaching job in Japan, she snapped it up -- just what she needed, a new horizon. Little did she know she would soon meet Geoffrey McDermott, the man who had falsely married and then de...

  • The Judas Factor

    Ted Allbeury

    Once a top officer in the secret service, Ted Anders has been cut loose - but not entirely freed - by his superiors. They take a practical view: Anders is a dangerous man, but entirely too valuable to lose. Their solution is to set him up as propriet...

  • Night Train to Paradise

    Penny Allison

    DRESSED FOR SUCCESS Lorna had fought hard to become a poised and polished woman. But if she was a true sophisticate, why was she so drawn to the local college football coach? She and Grady "Night Train" McGraw had nothing in common. He, in his ...

  • Tirra Lirra by the River

    Jessica Anderson

    One of Australia’s most celebrated novels: one woman’s journey from Australia to LondonNora Porteous, a witty, ambitious woman from Brisbane, returns to her childhood home at age seventy. Her life has taken her from a failed marriage in Sydney to...

  • Good-by Day

    Leone Castell Anderson

  • The Supergirl Storybook

    Wendy Andrews

    Kara, who lives in Argo City with other survivors of the explosion which destroyed the planet Krypton, goes to Earth in a desperate search for the lost Omegahedron, a power source without which her city is doomed....

  • Memories of the Heart

    Joan Walsh Anglund

  • Women's Touch Women in Denial

    Isabelle Anscombe

    Examines the lives and work of pioneering women, such as Vanessa Bell, Sonia Delaunay, and Elsie de Wolfe, whose textile tableware, and furniture designs made important contibutions to the industry of interior design...

  • First Among Equals

    Jeffrey Archer

    FOUR MEN DRIVEN BY POWER, AMBITION, AND SUCCESS... Charles Seymour, second-born son, will never be the earl like his father, but he did inherit his mother's strength--and the will to realize his destiny... Simon Kerslake's father sacrificed everythi...

  • Journey toward Death

    Amos Aricha

  • Twilight Years

    Sawako Ariyoshi

  • First Season

    Jane Ashford

    LOVE WAS SO MUCH MORE DANGEROUS THE SECOND TIME AROUND Lady Anabel Wyndham was in a most unusual situation for her first London season. Beautiful, witty, and still young, she nonetheless was a widow with three small and very lively children. Thus ...

  • Hunting Season

    Jacqueline Ashley

    Love was the prize game during hunting season... The accidents had started again and Jackie Roth was frightened. It seemed as if the nightmare of her husband's death was repeating itself in a strange effort to have Jackie die and be reunited with ...

  • Churchkitten Stories

    Margot Austin

  • Monster Family

    R.G. Austin

  • Brontosaurus Moves In

    R.G. Austin

  • A Fool for Murder

    Marian Babson

    THERE'S NO FOOL LIKE AN OLD FOOL. OR A DEAD ONE. It's a house of fools. Thirty-five-year-old Tamar acts more like six-teen, accompanied by her boyfriend, an adolescent "Toy Boy" who has his own reason for partaking of the Creighleighs' hospitality...

  • The Forever Passion

    Karen A. Bale

    Forced to succumb to the brutal savage ways of band of wild Comanches who attacked her California-bound coach. Lisa wished only to escape and regain her freedom. Instead, she was made a hostage. Because of her striking beauty and fighting spirit t...

  • Montengrin Gold

    Brian N. Ball

  • The Caravaggio Obsession

    Oliver T. Banks

  • Daggers and Javelins

    Amiri Baraka

  • Pleasures: Women Write Erotica

    Lonnie Garfield Barbach

  • Beguiled

    Linda Barlow

    To professor Viola Bennett, Stephen Silk-wood presents more of a riddle than the detective stories he pens. Years ago, as a sensitive, eager new author, he stole her innocent heart-and broke it. Later he began writing mysteries featuring a callous, c...

  • The Emerald Illusion

    Ronald Bass

  • Endless Summer

    Rose Bayner

    Sarah had carefully planned her escape! At last she had the chance to flee "Deadsville" and her parents and enjoy the most wonderful summer of her life. She had found a baby-sitting job on her own and would soon be taking the ferry to Setawket, a gla...

  • Wee Sing for Christmas

    Pamela Conn Beall

    See the happy glow of Christmas on the faces of wee ones as they sing these favorite songs of the holiday season. Christmas a time of sharing, and this collection of songs and finger plays allows you to share the joy of music with friends and family ...

  • Disjecta

    Samuel Beckett

    “[Beckett] is a serious writer with something serious to say about the human condition: and therefore one of the dozen or so writers those who are concerned with modern man in search of his soul should read.”—Stephen Spender, The ...

  • Time for Us

    Patti Beckman

    WOULD SHE FLY SOLO FOREVER? Kristen was flying solo in her first cross-country race. And if she won, the prize money would be enough to buy her own business. She was literally sky high. Then Gentry O'Keefe landed in her life again, upsetting all h...

  • Lovestorm

    Barbara Benedict

    Torn from England By An Impostor Husband, She Lost Her Innocence On The High Seas and Suffered the Torment of a Secret Love... Eager to escape her grandfather's hatred, high-spirited young Katherine Farley agreed to marry Julian Warwick, a strang...

  • Miss Mapp

    E.F. Benson

    The acclaimed author of Mapp and Lucia introduces the beloved Miss Elizabeth Mapp, a devious social climber, in this charming British comedy of manners. In the English seaside village of Tilling, Miss Elizabeth Mapp keeps a thorough notebook about ev...

  • Dream Feast

    Fran Bergen

    Jennet Howe was a dreamer. She had always hoped to expand her gourmet cooking school and even start her own catering business. But her dreams faded amid the realities of maintaining El Paseo, the dilapidated building that had been in her family for g...

  • Search for Dinosaurs

    David Bischoff

    The archaeopteryx was a prehistoric creature that many scientists believe was the first bird. Your mission: to track down this creature and photograph it, which may prove once and for all whether or not birds descended from dinosaurs. But to do this,...

  • Midnight Waltz

    Jennifer Blake

    Arranged marriages among the Creole aristocracy of Louisiana were common, and beautiful Amalie knew she was fortunate that her husband, Julien Declouet, was so kind and attentive. But ever since her wedding night, Julien had refused to touch her. Ama...

  • Pippa Mouse

    Betty Boegehold

  • New Islands

    Maria Luisa Bombal

  • Deep Purple

    Parris Afton Bonds

    WOMEN OF THREE GENERATIONS...THEIR LIVES INTERTWINED FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY Catherine Howard She left behind everything she knew to go in search of the life she yearned for in the untamed land of Arizona. But it took the reckless, hot-blooded Lo...

  • Sinclair's Double War

    Terrell L. Bowers

    Bowers Wayne Sinclair was more dead than alive when he came home to Sunset, New Mexico, after the Civil War. And now, he wanted to forget the hellish time he'd spent at the Andersonville prison camp. He wanted to marry the girl he had left behind ...

  • Rose of Rapture

    Rebecca Brandewyne

    Some called her a sorceress, for her silvery blond beauty was so haunting as to bewitch any man who beheld her. Some called her a healer, for her tenderness could tame the wildest creature. Amid the thorny tangle of the War of the Roses, Lady Isabell...

  • When Morning Comes

    Laurey Bright

    For Claire Wyndham it was the time to choose: life in the convent where she had been brought up, or life in the real world, with its challenges, its dangerous temptations. Scott Carver epitomized all those dangers for her. She saw him as a playboy...

  • Wings

    Jill Briscoe

    Wings offers daily understanding and strength for a more meaningful, more joyous outlook on life. Jill Briscoe shares situations in her life and her thoughts about them in this, her first collection of daily devotions....

  • Our Lives, Our Fortunes

    Janice Young Brooks

    FROM THE RAW HILLS OF SCOTLAND TO THE RAW NORTH CAROLINA SHORE... The gentle garnet-haired daughter of a proud Scottish nobleman, lovely Lilia MacAllister had never imagined a place like Devil's Landing. Yet nearby, on an embattled strip of land bet...

  • The Hawk and the Honey

    Dixie Browning

    TO THE VICTOR THE SPOILS When Cleo Lawrence came to Oklahoma's Gallagher Ranch to see her Great Uncle Wint, she hardly expected to become bait for Wint's oil-and-cattle-baron boss! Arrogantly, Roane Gallagher sized her up, said he neede...

  • The Story of Henri Tod

    William F. Buckley Jr.

    It is 1961 in Berlin, and the Cold War is at its most chilling. Suave CIA agent Blackford Oakes has come to investigate. Brilliant, charismatic, and with a tragic past, Henri Tod is head of Bruderschaft, the underground anti-Communist organizatio...

  • Snowshoe Trek To Otter River

    David Budbill

  • Wycliffe and the Beales

    W.J. Burley

    A mysterious death ... an eccentric family living on the edge of Dartmoor ... And Chief Superintendent Wycliffe has one of his most complex cases to date.The Cornish Detective series'Gripping' THE TIMESThe Beales are an odd, reclusive family living i...

  • The Place of Dead Roads

    William S. Burroughs

    A good old-fashion shoot-out in the American West of the frontier days serves as the springboard for this hyperkinetic adventure in which gunslingers, led by Kim Carson, fight for galactic freedom. The Place of Dead Roads is the second novel in th...

  • Bittersweet Sixteen

    Nancy Bush

  • Hellbreak Country

    Jackson Cain

  • A Time for Judas

    Morley Callaghan

    This audacious and intriguing new version of the story of Christââ,¬â"¢s trial, crucifixion, and resurrection is based on the writings of Philo of Crete, a secretary to Pontius Pilate. Throughout his time as Pilateââ,¬â"¢s scribe, he attended Chris...

  • This Tender Truce

    Elaine Camp

    VINTAGE LOVE The Boutonnet vineyards meant everything to Tory, but she hadn't counted on her grandfather's one condition: marry his godson, Chance Mobley, or lose the vineyards forever. Tory vowed she would never love the arrogant Frenchma...

  • A Woman of Destiny

    Orson Scott Card

    For Pride, For Passion, For Her Family From the inferno of industrial England to the shining promise of a new America, Dinah Kirkham rose to free herself and her children from poverty's grim reign, and reach for the freedom that is every woman's d...

  • The Secret of Operation Brain

    Dale Bick Carlson

  • The Best from Universe

    Terry Carr

  • Live for Love

    Shana Carrol

    HIGH SEAS ADVENTURE RAN IN HIS BLOOD -- DARK GYPSY RHYTHMS SURGED IN HER SOUL! Tawny-gold and sensual, Adriana the gypsy girl set men aflame with her provocative campfire dance. Even Tom Paxton, dashing master of a South Carolina plantation and de...

  • Paxton Pride

    Shana Carrol

    THE FIERY ROMANCE OF A WOMAN'S LOVE AND A MAN'S WILL -- AT ODDS IN THE UNTAMED LAND THAT CLAIMED THEM... Karen Hampton -- the belle of Washington, D.C. society, an irresistible beauty who won men's hearts and used them --until the rugg...

  • Caribbean Coup

    Nick Carter

    When the U.S. and Russia become locked in a deadly power struggle over a small Caribbean island, AXE sends in agent Nick Carter to tip the scales. But this will be no easy win. Valuable ore beneath the island's surface makes it a crucial possessio...

  • Blood Will Tell

    Gary Cartwright

    "A riveting true story of money and murder and the trial of the Texas millionaire T. Cullen Davis—accused of attempting to kill his estranged wife and later plotting to hire a hit man to finish the job.This fascinating and bizarre true crime st...

  • Make Noise, Make Merry

    Miriam Chaikin

  • River of Dancing Gods

    Jack L. Chalker

    Beyond The Sea of Dreams Life had not been kind to Joe and Marge. Now, according to the stranger who met them on a road that wasn’t there, they were due to die in nineteen minutes, eighteen seconds. But the ferryboat that waited to take them acr...

  • Frontier of the Dark

    A. Bertram Chandler

    The Mannschenn Drive was the gateway to the stars, but it had one unfortunate site effect: Traveling faster than light, mankind reverted to the bestial form of his own legendary nightmare-the lycanthropic horror that the full moon once called forth f...

  • Violent Sundays

    Bob Chandler

  • Fireball

    John Christopher

    Two cousins are thrust into a parallel reality when they travel through time and fire in the first book of the alternative history Fireball Trilogy, from critically acclaimed Tripods author John Christopher.Simon and his cousin Brad hadn’t wanted t...

  • Eva's Music

    Patricia Chute

    Simultaneously learning that her remarkable mother is about to die and that she herself is about to become an unwed mother, Eva, an unconventional young harpist, learns to live with grace and passion in her own way...

  • Storm Remembered

    Evelyn Claire

    SYNOPSIS: "When Burke Adamlee left Boston to return to her beloved Storm Hollow Ranch in Texas, memories of her failed marriage were spinning in her mind. Reunited with her grandmother and hoping to find peace in the familiar surroundings, Burke is s...

  • Dead Letter

    Douglas Clark

    Detective Chief Inspector Bill Green of Scotland Yard receives an anonymous letter from a former army comrade who has inadvertently witnessed a murder. The witness has good reason to maintain anonymity, because one of the accomplices to the murder ha...

  • The Wake of the Storm

    Ewan Clarkson

    Three people--Dawn, a young woman fleeing a tragedy, rural veterinarian Brian, and Scarr, a reclusive farmer--learn about the wonders and mysteries of nature as they share a concern for an injured otter...

  • The Kissimmee Kid

    Vera Cleaver

  • Starship Sapphire

    John Cleve

  • Life and Times of Michael K

    J.M. Coetzee

    From author of Waiting for the Barbarians and Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee. J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. In a So...

  • Shining Promise

    Marianne Cole

    Attorney Sarah Harbison must be objective and pragmatic in the courtroom, but Jim Laney's broad shoulders and warm brown eyes set her sights on the bedroom instead. Soon his burning kisses fan her steamy fantasies into a torrid reality... But the ...

  • Race Against the Wind

    Sue Ellen Cole

    RACING FOR RESPECT... It was hard to be a woman breaking into a male-dominated field -- especially if that field was horse racing. Few men were willing to believe that a petite sylph like Sabina could handle half a ton of fractious Thoroughbred. ...

  • The Wings of Night

    Kathryn Collins

    FIERCELY SHE REBELLED AGAINST THEIR FATE From the tumultuous moment they'd met, Ravenna Jones was captivated by Luke Rathbourn. Fresh from Kentucky, she was ready for a worldly adventure. He was a British aristocrat, caught off guard by her...

  • The Fire in His Hands

    Glen Cook

    Once a mighty kingdom reigned, but now all is chaos. In the vast reaches of the desert, a young heretic escapes certain death and embarks on a mission of madness and glory. He is El Murid - the Disciple - who vows to bring order, prosperity, and righ...

  • Arthur The Kid

    Alan Coren

  • Manna

    Lee Correy

  • D-Day Minus One

    Lawrence Cortesi

  • Victory at the Supermarket

    JoAnne Coughran

  • Chandra

    Catherine Coulter

    SHE WAS WED TO ONE STRONG MAN -- AND DESPERATELY WANTED BY ANOTHER Lovely, golden-haired Chandra, raised by her noble father to handle weapons as well as any man, was prepared to defend herself against everything but love. Too proud to be slave ...

  • Refuge in His Arms

    Jasmine Craig

    Megan Brookfield's world is deeply shaken when her "husband" is exposed as a spy... and she is accused of being his accomplice! Suddenly England seems a very hostile place indeed. When handsome agent Steve Callahan is assigned to guard Megan, he p...

  • Mixed Doubles

    Jasmine Cresswell

    CHANGING COURTS How could she tell her fiance that his best friend and client had once been her lover? Melissa Edwards had accompanied the man she meant to marry to Joel Robertson's posh California resort, but once she arrived, her purpose.. w...

  • No Gentle Possession

    Ann Cristy

    Their love was like no other -- tempestuous, impassioned, unrestrained. Then they threw it all away, thoughtlessly betraying their God-given gift. Heaven itself seemed to frown in disapproval... When Zen Driscoll and Damon Aristides meet again yea...

  • Chip Mitchell: The Case of the Robot Warrior

    Fred D'Ignazio

  • Dance for Two

    Kit Daley

    One moment she stood triumphant before an adoring New York audience, a principal ballerina with a skyrocketing career ahead of her, the next she was shaking with uncontrollable emotion in Drake Taylor's powerful arms. Why had he come now, just...

  • The Second Omni Book of Science Fiction

    Ellen Datlow

  • The First Omni Book of Science Fiction

    Ellen Datlow

  • A Love So Fresh

    Marilyn Davids

    To talented film editor Anna Markham, marriage was a trap she'd escaped once and was determined not to fall into again. Never would she sacrifice her talent, her career opportunities, to be any man's sweet little plaything. Then she met novelist Ben ...

  • Stars

    Daphne Davis

    Sparkles and beguiles as it captures Hollywood's brightest superstars in hundreds of candids, movie stills, publicity photographs and revealing biographical essays that include filmographies and Academy Awards. Fully illustrated (some color)....

  • Star of Peace

    Jan De Hartog

    A disturbing portrayal of a group of Jewish exiles from Nazi Germany. Bound for South America on an ageing Dutch freighter in 1939, two hundred and fifty innocent believers find their future resting in the hands of an idealistic captain, their only ...

  • Bad Timing

    Owanna De St. Jeor

  • City of the Dead

    Lionel Derrick

  • Echoes of War

    Joan Dial

    Echoes of War, a panoramic love story, family saga and adventure, is set against the backdrop of a continent torn apart by war and fear. Young American tour guide Kate Keiron is trapped in Europe on the brink of World War II. Rescued from a fright...

  • Voyage to Adventure

    Michael J. Dodge

    You're an ensign in the Starfleet and you've been assigned to the Enterprise! With Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock, you'll explore amazing new worlds. You might rescue an alien race from a deadly disease, or do battle with a Klingon spy, or time travel to...

  • Stones for Ibarra

    Harriet Doerr

    Winner of the National Book Award for First Work of Fiction"A very good novel indeed, with echoes of Gabriel García Márquez, Katherine Anne Porter, and even Graham Greene."--The New York Times Richard and Sara Everton, just over and just under...

  • Unexpected Developments

    R.B. Dominic

    Democratic congressman Ben Safford of Ohio, a member of the Uniform Weapons Committee, investigates a potential scandal encompassing the Air Force, the Pentagon, a new supersonic fighter plane, and a strange case of pilot error...

  • Daughter of Regals and Other Tales

    Stephen R. Donaldson

    A short story collection from the New York Times bestselling author -- available in trade paperback for the first time. “Donaldson proves that he is as adept at the short story as he is at the novel" (Denver Rocky Mountain News), in this superb ...

  • Sailor's Guide to Sails

    Sven Donaldson

    1984, hardcover, Dodd Mead, NY. 178 pages, b&w illustrations and photos throughout. The unusual author writes for magazines, has a sailing and sail-making background, and holds a doctorate degree in marine biology. "This title discusses everything th...

  • A House in the Country

    Jose Donoso

  • Funeral Urn

    June Drummond

  • Texas Blossom

    Kathleen Drymon

    PASSION'S PETAL Lost and alone in an untamed land, innocent honey-haired Sorrel should have been elated to see the tall, dark-haired stranger. But his piercing blue eyes burned like fire through her skimpy dress while his gentle touch made her flesh ...

  • In Passion's Shadow

    Sandra Dubay

    HE PURCHASED HER BODY, THEN CAPTURED HER HEART W hen Lady Carina Lynleigh first laid eyes on the man who called himself Flint Ashton, her favors were being auctioned off by the infamous whoremonger who had kidnapped her as she fled her London home...

  • That's how it was

    Maureen Duffy

    'I was just a girl and life offered only things I despised: houses, children, security, housework. I had to pass. I had to. I had to be different.' Paddy is illegitimate, the daughter of another Paddy -- an active member of the IRA who abandons her ...

  • The Deep Kill

    Jack Dugan

  • Flambard's Confession

    Marilyn Durham

    Set at a time of great violence, danger, loyalty and deceit, FLAMBARD'S CONFESSION is a novel at the heart of which is William II, son of William the Conqueror, and his chaplain, Ranulph Flambard. Ranulph was born the son of a poor priest and a w...

  • Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor

    Anne Edwards

    The life of Princess May of Teck is one of the great Cinderella stories in history. From a family of impoverished nobility, she was chosen by Queen Victoria as the bride for her eldest grandson, the scandalous Duke of Clarence, heir to the throne, wh...

  • Eros in Orbit

    Joseph Elder

  • Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

    M. Barnard Eldershaw

  • Lone Star and the Ghost Pirates

    Wesley Ellis

    Making a mint off a defenseless, sugar-rich nation: that's what the Baron and his men have in mind when they camouflage a fleet of Starbuck ships sailing from New Orleans to Cuba. But even an obstacle course of explosives, cunning rurales, and the ha...

  • Strange Wine

    Harlan Ellison

    Collection of prime Ellison stories, each with a substantial preface. Introduction: "Revealed at Last! What Killed the Dinosaurs! And You Don't Look So Terrific Yourself;"Croatoan (1975); Working With the Little People (1977); Killing Bernstein (1976...

  • Regina

    Leslie Epstein

  • Longarm in Virginia City

    Tabor Evans

  • No Man's Brother

    Charles Ewert

  • The Search for Snowship Song

    Marilyn Ezzell

    MYSTERY MUSIC Susan Sand accepts and invitation to tea at gloomy Malindor Manor, where an exotic gypsy woman draws her into a baffling web of intrigue. The tea leaves foretell a ghostly black bird in flight -- the first in a collection of clues...

  • Israel

    Fred Feldman

    Epic in scope, rich in history, ISRAEL is a vivid and searing portrait of historical Palestine and America. This powerful and compelling saga tells the story of two Jewish families caught in the tide of history, with all the drama, passion, love, val...

  • Bristol's Law

    Rose Marie Ferris

    Obstinate, insolent, arrogant -- and wickedly, irresistibly attractive! That just about summed up Thad Bristol, but it didn't solve Laura Powell's problem. She had come to Ely, Minnesota, to achieve a goal -- to open her own gift shop, gal...

  • Life Penalty

    Joy Fielding

    It’s every mother's worst nightmare and Gail Watson is living it: her six-year-old daughter Cindy was found brutally raped and strangled in a park only blocks from their home. Family and friends urge Gail to get on with her life, but Gail is living...

  • I Can't Forget You

    Lois I. Fisher

    When Jeri and Kemp went out together last year, they were always going to movies, parties, and dances. It was wonderful, but Jeri could barely keep pace with the constant activity. Her grades began to fall. Finally, Jeri had to make a tough decision ...

  • A Modern Girl

    Rebecca Flanders

    Old-fashioned indeed. That was one thing Megan Brown was determined not to be. She wanted to be sophisticated, a mysterious, adventurous and provocative. She had come to the romantic eyeless to have a brief, and uncomplicated modern affair. Marc Cham...

  • Consumer Report

    Monte Florman

  • Terminal

    Colin Forbes

    'SUPERB... COLIN FORBES HAS NO EQUAL AT THIS SORT OF THING' SUNDAY MIRRORA terrible secret lurks within an exclusive Swiss Clinic...When news reporter Bob Newman gets a tip-off about a mysterious package smuggled across an eastern border, it's yet an...

  • The Pandora Secret

    Anthony Forrest

  • An Artist's Touch

    Chelsey Forrest

    SHE WASN'T LOOKING FOR ROMANCE. Leah craved solitude . . . time alone with no distractions to keep her from her painting. But she'd no sooner arrived at secluded Vero Beach than Taylor Cambridge began to monopolize not only her time but he...

  • Pursuit of the Deadly Diamonds

    J.J. Fortune

  • Search for Mad Jack's Crown

    J.J. Fortune

  • Escape from Raven Castle

    J.J. Fortune

  • Memories of Love

    Robin Francis

    All they had left were their memories of love Matthew Jonas didn't believe in good-byes. When he thought of all the people that had walked in and out of his life during his successful career as a journalist, he knew he would meet with some of ...

  • Burn Out

    Herb Freudenberger

  • Cutthroat

    Jason Frost

  • What's Claude Doing?

    Dick Gackenbach

  • The Art of Fiction

    John E. Gardner

    "John Gardner was famous for his generosity to young writers, and (this book) is his . . . gift to them. The Art of Fiction will fascinate anyone interested in how fiction gets put together. For the young writer, it will become a necessary handbook, ...

  • Death of the Fox

    George P. Garrett

    A meticulous re-creation of Elizabethan England that forms a trilogy with The Succession and Entered from the Sun. Here the author delves into the story of Sir Walter Ralegh's fall from favor for alleged conspiracy against James I. Garrett transports...

  • Elbowing the Seducer

    T. Gertler

    A classic novel of love, sex, and the vagaries of the literary life, as witnessed by a young woman on the verge of successDina Reeve is a talented writer with a dry, urban sense of humor and a tendency to worry about sharks in bathtubs. Howard Ritchi...

  • Good Deeds

    Denise Gess

  • Fire! Fire!

    Gail Gibbons

  • Rat Teeth

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    It's bad enough that his parents are divorced and his two front teeth stick out a mile, but when he loses a baseball game to the fourth graders, even a toughie like Cliffie feels he has no choice but to run away....

  • The Black Seraphim

    Michael Gilbert

    James Scotland, a young pathologist, decides on a quiet holiday in Melchester, but amid the cathedral town's quiet medieval atmosphere, he finds a hornet's nest of church politics, town and country rivalries, and murder. He is called upon to investig...

  • Godforsaken

    George G. Gilman

  • Wintermind

    Parke Godwin

  • Rudolph

    Golden Books

  • Macunaima

    E.A. Goodland

  • Silicon Valley

    Roger Goodyear

    Thirty-four-year-old Bert Mathias stakes the future of his multimillion-dollar computer corporation--and his marriage--on his partner's attempt to build a computer that will simulate human consciousness...

  • The Woman in Red

    Paula Gosling

  • Night, Sea, and Stars

    Heather Graham

    Crash-landing on a remote South Pacific island put fashion executive Skye Delaney at a distinct disadvantage. And when she learned that her arrogant pilot was none other than Kyle Jagger, the mysteriously reclusive international entrepreneur, she kne...

  • Firebird

    Janice Graham

    Concert violinist Annette Zeldin feels every inch the outsider when she arrives in the closed ranching community of Cottonwood Falls to settle her mother's estate. Under.the thumb of her cold and overbearing father, she clings to her young daughter, ...

  • Moments to Share

    Katherine Granger

    For ten years Megan and Jay Crawford have pursued demanding careers -- and taken passionate delight in their love for each other. Now, starting a family seems the perfect way to enhance their already deep and unyielding bond. But months later, Meg...

  • Kisses from Heaven

    Jeanne Grant

    Loren Shephard doesn't want his help, but the brawny stranger won't take no for an answer. Masterful Buck Leeds wins over Loren's tippling grandfather and flighty sister, bringing order to the chaos of her madcap household. He even becomes Mr. Fix-it...

  • The Accessible Aunt

    Vanessa Gray

    One Suitor Was Dismally Dull . . . Celina Forsyth had never imagined that a gentleman could be as thoroughly worthy and as completely uninteresting as Mr. Lawrence Coleraine, the aristocratic clergyman who persisted in promising her unending wedded ...

  • Crime Without Passion

    Richard Grayson

    An aristocratic young woman, Denise de Richemont, has murdered an important journalist, Jaques Le Tellier. She is acquitted by a sympathetic jury when she confesses it to be a crime of passion - revenge for the journalist's indiscreet revelation of h...

  • The Warrior Rearmed

    Sharon Green

  • Sunny Side Up

    Frances Hurley Grimes

    BREAKING AWAY When Diana was first assigned Pat Atherton as a partner in her wacky sociology class, she was ecstatic -- until she found out that their relationship would revolve around a project involving a raw egg! Suddenly Diana's world becam...

  • Huey

    Jay Groen

  • The World of Dick and Jane Anderson

    Grosset & Dunlap

    Large hardcover in large print. See Dick and Jane and all their friends-Tim, Spot and Puff, along with Mother, Father, and Sally. Book combines three original best loved readers. Guess Who - We Come and Go - We Look and See 194 pages...

  • Too Much Trouble

    Dorothy Haas

    People are starting to call her "Tink Becker, that redheaded troublemaker." It's not fair. Is her red hair a jinx? Is that why her great ideas always go wrong? Tink thinks so. She asks her mom, who works in the Fountain of Beauty and knows about s...

  • The Mutants Are Coming

    Isidore Haiblum

  • There Is No Darkness

    Jack C. Haldeman

    A young man must fight -- literally -- for the opportunity to escape his backwater home planet and journey to the stars. A towering young giant growing up on a high-gravity world of perilous plants and savage creatures, Carl Bok is thrilled when heâ...

  • A Hard Bargain

    Carole Halston

    Adam Craddock was out to buy what Whitney Baines wanted to sell: a valuable piece of Alabama beachfront. But that was only the beginning of their dealings, because once Adam saw Whitney he wanted her every bit as much as he wanted the land. They w...

  • The Guns of Heaven

    Pete Hamill

    TOMORROW, THE STRUGGLE WILL BE FOUGHT ON OUR STREETS On a visit to Northern Ireland, newspaper reporter Sam Briscoe meets with a mysterious IRA leader and agrees to deliver an envelope to his supporters in New York City. It's a decision with grave...

  • Changing Keys

    Gwen Hamlin

  • Polly's Pet

    Lucille Hammond

  • Short Stop for Romance

    Elaine Harper

    HE WAS MORE THAN A CRITTER-SITTER! Mark Maxwell was the star baseball player and just about the most popular guy in Blossom High. Celia nearly flipped when she found out that her mother had hired him to dog-sit while the Clinton family went off to...

  • A Secret Rage

    Charlaine Harris

    A successful New York model, Southerner Nickie Callahan has grown tired of city living. On a whim, she returns to Knolls, Tennessee, to live with her best friend, Mimi Houghton, and to resume her college education, But the peaceful Southern life Nic...

  • Tenth

    MacDonald Harris

  • Play to Win

    Shirley Hart

    The company raider -- lean, mean, and absolutely devastating -- Devlin Halliday had once devastated more than Carolyn Wakefield's senses. As a graduate lecturer at the university, he'd once read her the riot act on her appearance, her grades,...

  • Daughter of Marignac

    Constance Heaven

    19th century, the last years of the Napolean era. As a child, Louise Marignac is sent to the English countryside to live when her father Pierre du Vallon, an artist, is arrested for treason. Years later, while in Paris, she is astonished to see a ...

  • Somebody Please Love Me

    Aviva Hellman

  • The Pushcart Prize VIII: Best of the Small Presses 1983-1984

    Bill Henderson

  • Heretics of Dune

    Frank Herbert

    The planet Arrakis--now called Rakis--is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms are dying. And the children of Dune's children awaken from empire as from a dream, wielding the new po...

  • Shrine

    James Herbert

    Now a major film called The Unholy starring The Walking Dead's Jeffrey Dean Morgan.In James Herbert's horror novel Shrine, innocence and evil have become one . . .A little girl called Alice. A deaf-mute. A vision. A lady in shimmering white who says ...

  • Winner Take All

    Nancy Holder

    It wasn't easy being Wonder Woman, but executive Holly Johnson had no choice -- she was a powerful presence at the office, an unstoppable force on the racquetball court, and too much woman for the men she knew... until Dick DeWitt came into her life....

  • Surprises

    Lee Bennett Hopkins

    ‘These thirty-eight poems offer beginning readers a chance to try some verse. With drawings that pack a lot of action, a friendly book that will connect with everyday lives and lend a little music along the way.’ -- BL.

    Notable Children's Boo...

  • The Nation Thief

    Robert Houston

    In 1855, William Walker--surgeon, lawyer, newspaper editor, and radical reformer--sets out from San Francisco with a band of fifty-seven men to conquer Nicaragua, liberate the Indians, and create the perfect democracy...

  • Blood Tango

    Robert Houston

  • Beloved Stranger

    Meg Hudson

    EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM WAS A MYSTERY As an anthropologist, Sara Westcott had come to San Francisco to research the Russian community, not to fall in love. Then she met Alexei Varentsov. Alexei was an enigma in so many ways. He spoke little of his...

  • Bitter Dreams

    Dolores Hughes

  • Politics of Passion

    Samantha Hughes

    With her elegant Nordic beauty Helga Tarr looked as though she were born to play a leading part in Washington's high society. Her Minnesota law firm had sent her to the Capitol. A legal secretary, she now had the chance to begin again, to study l...

  • The Emperor's Games

    Damion Hunter

    Centurions at war. The Roman Empire at stake.Brothers Correus and Flavius have won respect in service to the Empire. Correus is entrusted with the honoured task of running the Emperor’s brutal games. Flavius, a Centurion at his brother’s side, ha...

  • Virgin Territory

    E.J. Hunter

  • Kiss of the Rising Sun

    Elizabeth Hunter (1)

    HE INTRODUCED HER TO A NEW WORLD. Hannah Weston, a young English art teacher, was sent to Japan by the Selbourne Art Museum to collect objets d'art for their Oriental art collection. How could she have guessed that her most interesting acquisi...

  • Knowing God's Secrets

    John Hunter

  • Hold on to Love

    Mollie Hunter

  • Silver Enchantment

    Jane Ireland

    For Celia Norwood, arriving in New Mexico, the future looks as bright as the great southwestern sky. Especially when her job as site-planner for Enchanted Canyon Monument brings her face to face with tawny-haired, blue-eyed Ramos Valdez. The inten...

  • Albert the Running Bear's Exercise Book

    Barbara Isenberg

  • Days of Grace

    Brenda Jagger

    Olivia Herons vagrant Parisian childhood ended on the day her brother died. Now, as heiress to Clarrow Fell, Olivia brings her delightful, frivolous mother and her sisters home to Yorkshire - and to a different world. The elegant salons, the shabby l...

  • Journeyer

    Gary Jennings

    "I HAVE NOT TOLD THE HALF OF WHAT I SAW AND DID!" --Marco Polo Venturing across worlds that few had ever seen, he knew pleasures that few would ever dare. Only now can the story be told...as only Gary Jennings, author of the magnificent internati...

  • Reach for the Stars

    Sara Jennings

    With his sun-burnished hair, his chiseled features and muscles of warm steel, he was the most dangerous -- and desirable -- man she'd ever met. A Seattle-based free-lance photojournalist, Jenny was assigned an article on mountain climbing -- t...

  • Baffle Book

    F. Tennyson Jesse

  • The Lady and the Unicorn

    Iris Johansen

    Janna Cannon scaled the high walls of Rafe Santine's private estate, afraid of nothing and determined to appeal to the powerful man who could save her beloved animal preserve. She bewitched his guard dogs, then cast a spell of enchantment over him as...

  • A Piece of the Moon Is Missing

    James L. Johnson

    This new Code Name Sebastian finds that good man of God who does "not faint in the day of adversity" sent up to the North Pole where a Professor Thorsen, desperate and dangerous after his -- and Sebastian's -- failure with his son, is supposedly carr...

  • V

    Kenneth Johnson; A.C. Crispin

    Kenneth Johnson''s Warner Bros. television series V swept the nation and drew in hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide. Now, the novel V is finally back in print, with an all-new, never-before-seen revised ending.

    V tells the exciting st...

  • The Two of Us

    Nora Johnson

  • Fatal Attraction

    Craig Jones

    A family ravaged by suspicion... A suburban town paralyzed by fear... A father desperate for his daughter's love... A son bent on destroying his mother's chances for happiness... A devoted young man helping his fiancee cope... A masked rapist lashing...

  • Delroy Is Here

    Rhodri Jones

  • Parachutes and Kisses

    Erica Jong

    Married (again) and divorced (again), Isadora Wing is a single parent with an adorable daughter, an irritating ex-husband, and a startling assortment of suitors: an unorthodox rabbi, a poetic disc jockey, the son of a famous sex therapist, and WASPil...

  • A Carol in the Dark

    Cathleen Jordan

    T'WAS THE MURDER BEFORE CHRISTMAS... Christmas was coming to the South Dakota campus of Crosscreek U. But instead of finding a partridge in his pear tree, history professor Will Gray was about to find himself involved in a mystery--and a murder o...

  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

    James Kahn

    The swashbuckling archaeologist returns in one of his most challenging adventures yet! 

    A novelization of the major motion picture

    The time is 1935. Through a series of misadventures in Shanghai -- and a narrow escape from death -- In...

  • The Last Ambassador

    Marvin Kalb

  • Time After Time

    Molly Keane

    Durraghglass is a beautiful mansion in Southern Ireland, now crumbling in neglect. The time is the present - a present that churns with the bizarre passions of its owners' past. The Swifts - three sisters of marked eccentricity, defiantly christene...

  • Luke Sutton, Outrider

    Leo P. Kelley

  • Cimarron and the High Rider

    Leo P. Kelley