Books Published in January 1985

New Books List: 448 titles

  • Afro-American Folktales

    Roger D. Abrahams

  • Dark Night Dawning

    Stacy Absalom

    What did he want from Abby now? Abby hadn't told a soul what Keir had done to her a year ago, how he'd ruined her future as a concert pianist and devastated her faith in love. Keir Minto, Canada's most eligible bachelor, had pursued...

  • No Longer at Ease

    Chinua Achebe

    “A magical writer -- one of the greatest of the twentieth century.”  -- Margaret Atwood “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.”  -- Toni MorrisonA classic story of moral struggle i...

  • A Woggle of Witches

    Adrienne Adams

  • Finders Keepers

    Candice Adams

    The neon nights, the steamy sense of danger, the strangeness of the Strip -- it was a world that small-town, unsophisticated Madeline Catlin might never have entered. But if the police wouldn't help her, then Victor Canelli would. She'd come all the ...

  • Not Too Perfect

    Candice Adams

    With her St. Louis radio station riding the top of the charts, Adrienne Donnelly wasn't too worried about the competition. After all, KTOO's handsome new president might have an irresistible smile -- but he certainly hadn't a prayer when ...

  • Seven Magical Jewels of Ireland

    Robert Adams

  • Jeffrey's Ghost and the Fifth Grade Dragon

    David A. Adler

  • Origin of a Vendetta

    Jerry Ahern

  • Mortimer Says Nothing and Other Stories

    Joan Aiken

    Four new Arabel and Mortimer stories, not published singly. More wild and wonderful adventures for Arabel and her pet raven Mortimer with a bad cat, an army of mice, a telephone prankster, a very unrestful holiday for Mr. Jones, and Arabel's horri...

  • Werewolves of Kregen

    Alan Burt Akers

    Dray Prescot is an Earthman, seaman and soldier, brought across four hundred light years to a planet of Antares. The Star Lords, a race advanced beyond our ken, needed him on that world called Kregen.Now, having at last returned to his home empire, t...

  • Peter's Sister

    Jeanne Allan

    Seeing him awakened painful memories As a teenager Sara had corresponded with Brad Rawlins, her brother Peter's best friend in Vietnam, but when Peter was killed the link had been severed. Brad had never written again. Now he was here in C...

  • Love Is a Long Shot

    Ted Allan

  • Legacy of Fear

    K.T. Anders

  • We Can't All Be Heroes, You Know

    Linda Anderson

    Dan and Rosaleen try to keep aloof from the violence of present-day Belfast but find themselves ineluctably drawn in as Dan is pulled into the "Provos" and Rosaleen enters into an impulsive love affair with a troubled British soldier...

  • My Kind of Love

    Barbara Andrews

    Landing a job, as assistant to one of New York's leading antique dealers was a dream come true. Yet Kate Bevan, fresh out of Nebraska, soon discovered that working for Alex Gilbert was more than a nine-to-five job -- it was an open invitation to ...

  • The Disappearing Man and Other Mysteries

    Isaac Asimov

  • The Handmaid's Tale

    Margaret Atwood

    A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, ...

  • Baby Doll

    Carroll Baker

  • Empire of Sun X

    Peggy Ballard

  • Amber Passion

    Elaine Barbieri

    THE LAST THING MELANIE RECALLED was the dinner she had shared with her beloved Captain Worth Randolph. But when she awoke from her drugged sleep, their ship had been captured -- and the magnificent auburn-haired beauty lay helplessly bound hand a...

  • Dragon Rising

    Wade Barker

  • Knight of Passion

    Linda Barlow

    Philippa Ilalsey is determined that her next "knight in shining armor" will shine where it counts: on the inside. While blond, sun-bronzed, sword-brandishing Geoffrey Reardon could be a medieval knight reincarnated, the dashing professor is harboring...

  • Tailor-Made

    Elizabeth Barrett

    New York actor Daniel Collins was perfect for the role of the brash Petruchio in the summer stock production of KISS ME, KATE, and Chris Burns had all she could do to keep her mind on her costume designs and away from his devilish grin and roving lip...

  • Fire Bird

    Jean Barrett

    His plane falls from the sky like a wounded bird. Finding him unconscious on a remote, ice-bound island, Carly Bannister struggles to help. Abruptly startlingly, his blue eyes open to meet hers... From that first searing contact, desire flares swe...

  • The Time Keeper

    Barbara Bartholomew

  • Matinee Idol

    Ron Base

  • Rage to Possess

    Jayne Bauling

    Didn't it occur to him that he might be wrong? Shyness and years in Africa's Karoo desert had bred in Carla Duminy a deep reserve that she wore like invisible armor to shield herself from harsh realities. The cold hauteur some people thoug...

  • Summer of my Independence

    Rose Bayner

  • Nashville Blues

    Patti Beckman

    Determined to save her family's failing business, Andrea Castille arrived in Nashville to persuade top country-western singer Jess Clark to endorse the once legendary Castille guitars. From the moment they met, it took more strength than she p...

  • Perfect Harmony

    Fran Bergen

    He was her mentor; she was his protegee. Transformed by Shawn Dennis from a gangling, inhibited ballerina into a modern dancer, Antonia Arliss had been so overpowered by his personality, she had allowed herself to be drawn into a brief, disastrous ma...

  • The Dancing Bear

    Chaim Bermant

  • Birnbaums Florida for Free

    Stephen Birnbaum

  • Free Spirit

    Cassandra Bishop

    PRIZED POSSESSION Ophelia Hoeing considered herself a free spirit, and her independence was her most valued possession. That and the his-and-hers Jaguars she was going to win on "Bet You Can't Do It," the world's craziest game show. In fact, thos...

  • Dimension of Doom

    Christopher Black

  • Ariel's Song

    Barbara Blacktree

    Karen Watts was a successful eye specialist, but she didn't need a degree to see that handsome, sensual marine biologist Ariel Singer was irresistible to women. Karen had come to Cape Cod to find a new beginning, to forget a cold, passionless marriag...

  • Spinster's Song

    Parris Afton Bonds

    Assigned to desolate Kingdom Come, Texas, to work off her government loan, young Dr. Mary Margulies wanted only to put in her time and then to establish a profitable practice elsewhere. She had no ambition to form any lasting attachments in the pover...

  • Sensuous Perception

    Barbara Boswell

    Ashlee Martin had always known she was psychic -- and that she had a twin sister from whom she'd been separated from birth. Now, years later, she was going to meet Amber Rose Aames, her only true blood relative, and her sister's adoptive fam...

  • All the Right Moves

    Joanna Brandon

    He'd come to the secluded cabin in British Columbia to sweep her away to Los Angeles in protective custody as witness for the prosecution in a notorious murder case. But Christopher Petrie didn't know that the gorgeous "gangster's moll" lounging sedu...

  • Sara Will

    Sue Ellen Bridgers

  • Fetters of the Past

    Laurey Bright

    Jess Wilder had lost a child and a husband, and as a defense against ever being hurt again, she had adopted a devil-may-care attitude that left her with many acquaintances, but few real friends. She would never have expected Gareth Seymour to be t...

  • The Wall of the Plague

    Andre Brink

    Andrea, a Black woman from South Africa, living in France with her white lover, a filmmaker, discovers new meaning, vulnerability, and responsibilities as a Black and as a woman, after the intrusion of a militant South African Black man...

  • Hunter's Prey

    Annette Broadrick

    TRAPPED BY LOVE Sleek high-fashion model Kristi Cole bore scant resemblance to the teenaged tomboy Jason McAlister had known. But inside she was the same person who'd spent her life in love with him. Jason was like a wildcat, tawny-haired...

  • Tender Verdict

    Maureen Bronson

    IN THIS CASE SHE WOULD RESERVE JUDGMENT Anna Provo was an American success story. The child of poor immigrants, she had overcome all obstacles -- including love -- to secure a seat as a Seattle county court judge. At thirty, she had put youth and ...

  • My First Pop-up Book of Opposites

    Graham Brown

  • Hot Wire

    James Brown

  • Spellcaster

    Katy Brown

  • Alyssa Deane

    Kitt Brown

    The ruggedness of the Western Frontier. The romance of the California Theater. Alyssa Deane had been forced by her vain and selfish actress mother to masquerade as a boy on the wagon trip west. But it was not until she became aware of Matt, a...

  • M.I.A. Hunter

    Jack Buchanan

  • On Writing the Short Story

    Hallie Burnett

  • The Winter Hearts

    Marjorie Burrows

    SMOLDERING FIRES OF DESIRE A sudden act of violence forced Meg to flee from her home in Cross Creek and seek refuge in a secluded cabin high in the mountains, protected by two ranchers she barely knew. The ruggedly handsome Jed Turner was cool ...

  • Jason's People

    Beverly Byrne

    Here is the story of two families in Whitby Falls, a slate-quarrying town in Vermont. One family, the Whitbys, is wealthy and powerful. The other, the Villettes, is dirt poor. But despite the fact that they hate each other -- and because of the lusty...

  • Ten Items or Less

    Stephanie Calmenson

  • Payment in Kind

    Diana Campbell

    AN ENTERPRISING YOUNG LADY Molly Trevor's father had made a fortune and lost his good name by becoming a Midas-like moneylender rather than remaining a penniless aristocrat. When Molly inherited both the glitter of his gold and the shadow ...

  • Reunion

    Drusilla Campbell

    The social advance of San Francisco architect Nathaniel Sloane and his movie-star wife, Renatta, is imperilled by one daughter's involvement in the punk-rock scene and another's pursuit of her own fatal games...

  • Playwheels with Moving Parts!

    Rod Campbell

  • Never Say No

    Jean F. Capron

    Betsy Marsh has had it with Rob Carney. She's told him over and over she's not interested in him, but he just won't give up! Things only get worse when their teacher assigns them to create a comic strip together, so Betsy lays down some ground rules....

  • The Class of Forty-Nine

    Don carpenter

  • Bridge of Dreams

    Helen Carter

    Years ago Liz Forsyth, pregnant and on the verge of divorce, poured forth a tale of confusion and disillusionment to her boss, Josh Gates. He listened with compassion, restraint...and an emotion she didn't dare analyze. Now they unexpectedly m...

  • Tolkien

    Humphrey Carter

  • Circle of Scorpions

    Nick Carter

  • The Blue Ice Affair

    Nick Carter

    Diamonds may be forever, but certain of these precious jewels may lead to a global crisis -- especially when Soviet-backed troops plan to invade Namibia and seize the great boron-diamond mine, the key to laser weaponry. With a handful of mercenari...

  • Masters of Flux & Anchor

    Jack L. Chalker

    THE TIME OF DANGER IS AT HAND Mervyn, wizard and Fluxlord, leader of the Nine Who Guard, faces the ultimate threat of the opposing Seven Who Wait: the opening of the Hellgates to World. Closed more than two thousand years ago, they are portals to ...

  • Cutting Edge

    Lisbeth Chance

  • A Touch of Passion

    Sara Chance

    ONE TOUGH CUSTOMER As a woman bar owner, Kit was used to dealing with difficult situations. But when Harrison Tyler strode into her bar and impaled her with his black-eyed stare, her famed self-possession fled. Ty had come for his runaway nie...

  • What's a Girl To Do?

    Emily Chase

    What are best friends for? Shelley, Faith, and Dana volunteer to work at the local hospital. It's a big responsibility but each of the roommates is worried about something else--Shelley with the upcoming spring play tryouts; Faith with the possibili...

  • Boy Trouble

    Emily Chase

    Never get mixed up with your roommate's boyfriend. The girls of Canby Hall find that rules were made to be broken, when Shelley starts dating Randy behind Dana's back. Of course, Dana's busy schedule was the reason that Shelley and Ran...

  • Locksley

    Nicholas Chase

  • Chanur's Venture

    C.J. Cherryh

    Pyanfar Chanur thought she had seen the last of Tully, the lone human who had so disrupted the peace of Meetpoint Station and gained the Chanur clan the enmity of half a dozen races as well as their own. But in this striking sequel to the Hugo-nomina...

  • Alien Stars

    C.J. Cherryh

  • Patch of Black Satin

    Jeanne Cheyney

    Becky finds more fame that she ever dreamed just by choosing to grow blackberries for her 4H project. She even gets noticed by Alan Connor, who she has admired from afar. Does he like her for her or for her berries? Or could he be looking for a c...

  • First Act

    Anne Christie

  • The Dark River

    Phillip Clarke

  • King of the Slavers

    John Cleve

    Manjanungo was one of the most feared bandits in the galaxy. With the aid of a fellow pirate, he captured the Starqueen, the second largest luxury liner in space and trie to convince his aristocratic and nymphomaniacal cousin, Lady Seeava to join him...

  • Gently Into Night

    Katherine Coffaro

    Emily Rusk is ambitious and determined. Even from her childhood days in Indiana she craved excitement. She found it on the New York police force and would allow no one to take it away... Joel Kline is demanding and stern. These were the qualities nee...

  • Angel of Death

    Anthea Cohen

  • Kingsley's Touch

    John Collee

  • Sweet Country Music

    Vivian Connolly

    He's her Ozark "outlaw" -- the lean, mean singer whose loving puts her on top of the world. She's his "mighty midget" -- the petite powerhouse who's charts. Dana glories in her dual role as Jedd Harnett's cool-headed m...

  • The Snowblind Moon

    John Byrne Cooke

    On a remote cattle ranch in a peaceful Wyoming valley, in the hushed villages of beleaguered Indian tribes, among the government troops advancing through the bitter winter landscape, the time of the Snowblind Moon heralds the beginning of an apocalyp...

  • Racing to Love

    Caroline B. Cooney

  • 8 + 1

    Robert Cormier

    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Relationships of friend with friend, father with daughter, black with white, and young with old provide the basis of nine stories which explore the feelings and reactions of people in various situations...

  • Dear Adam

    Jasmine Craig

    Dear Adam. Since childhood, he'd never once let Lynn Frampton down. Now she was seeking his advice on a most delicate matter--how to make her boss, on whom she has a fierce crush, notice her as a woman. Adam's answer astonishes her: He'...

  • Surrender to Desire

    Catherine Creel

    "KISS ME AT DUSK" ... raven-haired Marianna whispered against Alexander Donovan's bare muscled chest. Even though he was so arrogant and overbearing, whenever she found herself in the tight circle of his arms, the spirited beauty kept saying things ...

  • Song of the Seabird

    Christina Crockett

    SHE WAS A SINGER WITHOUT A SONG Suffering from a failed marriage and broken dream Claire Parnell returned home to Palm Shores, Florida. She had begun to think she would never sing again, until she met Dylan Jamison. This gentle and caring man r...

  • Trouble on the Blue Fox Islands

    Dorothy Young Croman

  • The Scroll of Man

    John Dalmas

    The Guardian of Earth's call for the ultimate warrior transports Charley Judge three million years into the future and places him against the evil sorcerer Shu-Gwelth in the final battle between good and evil...

  • Ark

    David Daniel

    When one of its agents disappears while investigating rumors about the location of Noah's Ark, a U.S. government agency called "the firm" sends Vietnam veteran Jeff Rivers to look for missing archaeologist Bruce Hansman and for Hansman's daughter Eve...

  • Goodbye, Karl Erich

    Sam Dann

    In the Germany of the 1930s, anti-Nazi physician Richard Stammler cures Karl Erich Mueller, a young man psychologically unable to speak since his father's tragic death, and watches in horror as Mueller uses his newfound voice to support the Nazis...

  • Saipan Slaughter

    John Darby

  • Mysterious East

    Frances Davies

    When renowned Danish photographer Erik Sondersen requests a fashion model from India for his latest shoot, Karen East is forced to mask her blond good looks beneath a suntan, hair dye...and the pseudonym Indira Singh. Erik unwittingly pronounces "...

  • Jack and the Beanstalk

    Beatrice Schenk De Regniers

  • The Diver's Tomb

    Ann Deagon

    Sojourning in Greece to reconsider her troubled marriage, forty-two-year-old Connie Nolan has a tempestuous love affair with Alki, a Greek seaman, leaves him because he is married, and plans to return to America when she discovers a lump in her breas...

  • Death Comes Home

    Jake Decker

    From their covert hideaway, the Force answers a summons from Fillmore IN to solve a string of mutilation murders that the cops can't handle. But the killings are only part of the small town's strong lure...

  • The Forever Instinct

    Barbara Delinsky

    They took each other by surprise The New Hampshire woods was the last place Jordanna Kirland expected to encounter Patrick Clayes. Her ex-husband's long-time professional rival, Patrick rivaled no man for sheer good looks, virile charm and depth o...

  • The Day-Dreaming Lady

    Jacqueline Diamond

    When Lady Sara Rowdon’s domineering parents forbade her to marry the impoverished man she loved, they had no idea he would one day return with a title and a fortune. She was not even allowed to explain why she rejected him. Four years later, Sar...

  • Maddy's Song

    Margaret Dickson

  • Beyond the Mountain

    William Dieter

    Frustrated by his love for another man's wife and his desire to solve the lingering mystery surrounding his father's accidental death, Brook Hartman mounts an investigation and lays a trap that ironically deepens the tragedy...

  • Walt Disney Pictures' Return to Oz

    Disney Book Group

  • Dumbo at Bat

    Disney Book Group

  • Corrie's Cat Ring

    Rhonda Dixon

  • Rise and Fall

    Milovan Djilas

  • Stand Still the Moment

    Margaret Dobson

    She'd known it from the moment she set eyes on him. Dr. Simon Gregory didn't want a woman in his house. Neat as a pin, methodical as clockwork he'd feared a woman would upset his carefully ordered world -- and want something from him. Wel...

  • Yes, With Love

    Meg Dominique

    Appearances were deceiving... Nan Blake hadn't expected to find photographer Spencer Gallant wearing an apron at their first meeting. But he proved to be far from domesticated. In fact, Nan was hardly prepared for the onslaught of his power...

  • Atlantis: The Antediluvian World

    Ignatius Donnelly

    As a fable proves nothing. There is an unbelief which grows out of ignorance, as well as a scepticism which is born of intelligence. The people nearest to the past are not always those who are best informed concerning the past. For a thousand years ...

  • Variation on a Theme

    Billie Douglass

    LIKE THE TWO STRANDS OF A DUET, the lives of Rachel Busek, flutist, and Jim Guthrie, private investigator, drew together until they became one. Rachel was a child of privilege, while Jim came from the wrong side of the tracks. There seemed no ...

  • Raney

    Clyde Edgerton

    "This book is too good to keep to yourself. Read it aloud with someone you love, then send it to a friend. But be sure to keep a copy for yourself, because you'll want to read it again and again."-- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey Raney is a small-town Bap...

  • All Too Soon

    Andrea Edwards

    Spine creasing very light. Top edge has a roller stamp. Front cover has an erased price. Couple pages have a small bottom dog-ear. No other marks than stated, clean and tight. Ships very quickly and packaged carefully!...

  • Royal Singles

    Christopher Egerton-Thomas

  • Tomorrow's Promise

    Emily Elliott

    She'd come from North Carolina, newly divorced, to start over. Lindsay Voss, interior decorator, set designer for Dallas's leading catalog house, was succeeding so splendidly that at first the attentions of Drake Malone, top male model, seemed like j...

  • Summer to Summer

    Carol Ellis

    Fourteen-year-old Jamie finds herself with a crush on the new nineteen-year-old lifeguard, in the first of two self-contained stories, which describe Jamie at fourteen and her older, wiser self at seventeen...

  • Lone Star and the Amarillo Rifles

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki join a traveling circus -- headed for a deadly showdown!The cartel has a bold new idea: take control of New Mexico Territory by financing a rebellion and smuggling arms under the tents of a traveling circus from Amarillo. To stop them, ...

  • Offside

    Gisela Elsner

  • Poverty Bay

    Earl Emerson

    As sole heir to his beloved grand-daddy's fortune, noble and naive Lance Tyner wants to use the money for the good of mankind. But some not-so-good specimens of the species--including Lance's conniving father, sleazy brother, and spoiled sister--have...

  • The Rainy City

    Earl Emerson

    Something made Melissa Nadisky flee her husband and their daughter. The note she left behind paints a picture of a woman haunted by a private hell. Now private eye Thomas Black is asked to find Melissa--before she's consumed by her secret, terrifying...

  • Lilacs

    Lynn Erickson

    LOVE HAD ELUDED THEM ONCE. ONLY THE BRAVEST HEARTS WOULD SEIZE A SECOND CHANCE. Sheriff Rafe Wade shunned his elegant Eastern past for the new and untamed West. But his dreams were shadowed by tragedy. Then, like a lone star in a dark sky, Ra...

  • Sociology: An Introduction

    J. Ross Eshleman

  • Dayworld

    Philip Jose Farmer

    “Every bit as appealing as the Riverworld saga,” this brilliant high-concept dystopian novel features an overpopulated Earth under strict government control (Booklist).  Only by being watched may you become free.   It’s 3414 AD, the r...

  • Mad Puppetstown

    M.J. Farrell

  • Protectorate

    Mick Farren

  • Bed of Roses

    Jean Faure

    They share a passion for roses. But when nursery owner Sarah Turner invites multimillionaire land baron Daniel Lowell into her private garden, she has no idea he'll impulsively offer to buy her entire stock ... or that the warm intimacy between them ...

  • Ballad of Typhoid Mary

    J.F. Federspiel

    Recounts the story of Maria Caduff, the immigrant cook known as Typhoid Mary, a woman infected with the deadly, contagious disease but herself immune to it, who carried the bacillus throughout elite New York homes and hotels...

  • The Summer of Jack London

    Andrew J. Fenady

    A powerful recreation of the story of legendary adventurer Jack London, the man who captured the passionate struggle between man and nature in his novels, follows the young London as he embarks on an ill-fated sea voyage and journeys to the Yukon gol...

  • Love's Waiting Game

    Glenna Finley

    Wild River of Love Returning to the scenic grandeur of Idaho's steep river canyons made lovely Danielle Livingtone's eyes flood with tears. Not only was her stepfather selling White Water Lodge, her childhood home on the raging rapids of Snake Riv...

  • Between The Lines

    Dorothy Fischer

    THEY HAD TO HOLE UP THE IMAGE… For years April and Ryan Brannon, model children and stars of their mother’s morning talk show, had pretended to be people they weren’t. They had dutifully kept up with their work, kept out of trouble, professi...

  • Mont Cant Gold

    Paul R. Fisher

  • Murder on the Hudson

    Don Flynn

  • Q Is for Duck: An Alphabet Guessing Game

    Marcia McClintock Folsom

  • Owl Time

    M.A. Foster

  • Your Cheating Heart

    Pamela Foxe

    Jules Edwards was the attorney for the second largest record company in the world . . . intelligent ... tough . . . experienced. A man who had lost in love until he met Danielle Martins. She was a theatrical agent . . . smart . . . stubborn ... be...

  • Season of Dreams

    Robin Francis

    For Thia and Luc, love became a shared obsession... It was ironic that the Stratford, Oregon, Centennial Celebration was to be held at the Warwick Inn. The old hotel had been recently purchased by Domini Developers and was to be decorated by Somme...

  • Candidate for Love

    Janine French

  • The Executive Bride

    Ellen Freudenheim

  • Prisonland

    Jason Frost

  • Fragments

    Jack Fuller

    Shattered by their experiences in Vietnam, two friends, Neuman and Morgan, attempt to come to terms with themselves, their relationship with each other, and their feelings about the war and struggle to put their lives back together...

  • On Wings of Dreams

    Patricia Gallagher

    A Passionate Woman In A Dazzling American Era! the 1890s .... America's most unforgettable era ... the end of a gilded century ... the war-ravaged South is struggling to be reborn .. suffragettes are clamoring for freedom and the vote .. wealth a...

  • Mystery at Rinn Mor

    Jo Ann Galligan

  • The Aviator

    Ernest K. Gann

  • Prisoner of Vampires

    Nancy Garden

  • Guess What?

    Beau Gardner

  • Screenwriting

    Stephen Geller

  • The King Beyond the Gate

    David Gemmell

    Times had changed. Once the mighty fortress had stood strong, defended by the mightiest of all Drenai heroes, Druss, the Legend. But now a tyrannical, mad emperor had seized control of the fortress. And his twisted will was carried throughout t...

  • Breakneck Bawdyhouse

    Buck Gentry

  • Lights! Camera! Action!

    Gail Gibbons

  • Tall Woman

    Harry S. Gibbons

    She was Virginia Dare, the first white child born in the New World. Her parents' fears of the "red heathens" came terrifyingly alive when she heard her mother's screams and saw brightly-painted half-naked savages destroy everything she loved. They sw...

  • The Truth about Santa Claus

    James Cross Giblin

  • The Valentine Star

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Celebrate Valentine's Day with this classroom tale! It's time for everyone in Ms. Rooney's room to make cards for the Valentine box. Emily Arrow couldn't be happier when Dawn Bosco gives her some colored stars to decorate her cards. She plans to ...

  • A File on Death

    Kenneth Giles

  • Divorcing Your Grandmother

    Jean Gould

  • Yes Virginia, There Is Right and Wrong!

    Kathleen M. Gow

  • Heart of the Hurricane

    Ginna Gray

    When Althea was hired as assistant to the demanding, brillant entrepreneur Ward Kingman, she knew that neither power, money, nor incredibly masculine good looks would turn her head. Althea could control her feelings where men were concerned. She was ...

  • The Unruly Bride

    Vanessa Gray

    THEY AGREED TO DISAGREE Lovely, quick-tempered Althea Rackham and the handsome, haughty Lord Soames agreed on just one thing: they were not meant for each other. This proud pair were engaged but a few days before their clash of wits and wills s...

  • The Count from Wisconsin

    Billie Green

    Monte Carlo was a long way from Plum, Texas, Kate Sullivan thought as she studied the glittering society party she'd crashed. Feeling out of her element, she escaped into the protective darkness of the garden to catch her breath -- and instead fe...

  • Bright River Trilogy

    Annie Greene

    Three women find themselves brought together by their powerful attachment to a charming drifter with a passion for freedom this debut novel by Annie Greene.In the shabby and terrible town of Hooks Crossing, Maryland, three women are connected through...

  • Just In-Between

    Constance C. Greene

  • Dhow Patrol

    Martin Gregg

  • Lassiter

    Loren Zane Grey

  • Lost-- and Never Found

    Anita Gustafson

  • Poppy and the Outdoors Cat

    Dorothy Haas

  • Heroes

    David Hagberg

    Three men came to Berlin, pounded from the air by Allied bombers, under siege by Russian armies.Three men, with loyalties enmeshed in a web of fear and deception.Three men whose courage would be tempered in the harsh forge of duty, as each would risk...

  • The Hand of Ganz

    Isadore Hailblum

  • Winter's Crimes 16

    Hillary Hale

  • Rescue Chopper

    Ruth Hallman

  • A Common Heritage

    Carole Halston

    Birgitta "B.G." Jensen's late grandmother had included a simple request in her will: that B.G. visit Sweden, her ancestral home. Stubbornly American, right down to her nickname, B.G. had gone reluctantly, out of love. But after meeting Ni...

  • Laughter's Way

    Paula Hamilton

    First she'd attacked him in the stalled elevator, then let him beguile her into dinner, and finally, melted in his arms. Now she wanted him out of her life -- out of her hotel forever! Alexis Cartwright came to Galveston with one purpose -- to bu...

  • Pursuit of Arms

    Gerald Hammond

    After reformed poacher-turned-detective Keith Calder has repaired a load of arms for an unsavory arms dealer, the arms shipment is hijacked and Calder's seven-year-old daughter is kidnapped by the hijackers...

  • Colorado Silver Queen

    J.D. Hardin

  • Stone of Help

    Robin Hardy

    Deirdre, the heir to the throne in the kingdom of Lystra, is lured away from her husband, kidnapped by renegades, and sent into slavery in the palace of Sheva, the cruel monarch of Goerge, where she awaits the opportunity to free herself and regain h...

  • Dragon's Point

    Claire Harrison

    Was love blinding her to the truth? Jason Hale possessed the brains and the ruthlessness Magpie imagined a criminal kingpin would need, but she couldn't believe he was the man the R.C.M.P. suspected of smuggling drugs into Canada. She had t...

  • A Legend in His Own Time

    Susannah Hart

    NOT JUST ANY GOOD SAMARITAN... When she was practically crushed by her writing desk while moving into her Manhattan apartment, Fredericka O'Shea knew it wasn't her day But then she watched a very attractive pair of muscular legs carry her desk ups...

  • Richie Rich on Thin Ice

    Harvey Comics Staff

  • Fortune's Daughter

    Diana Haviland

    A SPLENDID RAGS-TO-RICHES STORY Vanessa Kenyon arrived in New York in 1847. She was orphaned, destitute, and utterly alone. She never would bare dreamed of the future that awaited her: a future teeming with all the joy and pain, laughter and te...

  • Adventures in the Alaskan skin trade

    John Hawkes

    Sunny Deauville's duties as proprietor of the best brothel in Alaska and her lusty, guilt-free life are counterbalanced by her obsession with finding her father, lost years before in the backcountry wilds...

  • Precious Moments

    Laura Hawkins

    Two dozen underprivileged children had been looking forward to a summer of fun at the Springer Lodge, a camp tucked between the glorious Rocky Mountains. But this year, since her father was out of commission, Katie Springer had to run the camp hersel...

  • The Emerald Duchess

    Barbara Hazard

    DISHONOR'S DAUGHTER Emily Wyndham heartily hoped never to follow in her mother's straying footsteps, for Emily's mother had followed a path of love that made her the scandal of society--and her death left Emily not only penniless but branded with ...

  • Pel and the Stagehound

    Mark Hebden

  • Out of Bounds

    Eileen Hehl

    Only an airhead would go for a guy nicknamed "Killer." But Tobie Tanner is no airhead. A serious, intelligent student, Tobie has most of her life planned, up to the moment she finishes her first novel. But once she interviews Lou "Killer" Keller f...

  • LGB Little Red Riding Hood

    Rebecca Heller

  • Pretty Redwing

    Helen Henslee

    A sheltered southern woman's gradually consuming, ultimately fatal attraction to her stepson and the long-dormant needs and emotions resurrected by that attraction are revealed through her daughter's eyes and memories...

  • The Garbage Chronicles

    Brian Herbert

  • The Keeper of the Walls

    Monique Raphel High

    ONE UNFORGETTABLE WOMAN, TWO POWERFUL MEN, IN A TUMULTUOUS TIME THAT PROBED THE DEEPEST PLACES OF THE HEART From a sheltered French convent to the splendor of Paris in the twenties, Lily Bruisson blossomed into a special woman -- beautiful, innoc...

  • Wild Card

    Margaret Hobbs

  • Dark of the Moon

    P.C. Hodgell

    FIRST BERKLEY EDITION. Feb. 1987 mass market paperback. P. C. Hodgell (The Sea of Time). Jame and her friend Marc journey over the mountains to find Jame's twin brother Tori, but they must face great dangers, including planet-threatening enemies....

  • The Cornudas Guns

    Ray Hogan

  • A Taste for Rich Things

    Joan Hohl

    RICH MEN, RICHER MEN ... Charlott Marks cultivated her playgirl reputation with a vengeance. How could she ever let those contemptible society types learn that she wasn't like them, that she was actually the mysterious Max Charles, famous and resp...

  • Finders Keepers

    Nancy Holder

    The fog hung low over the Golden Gate, an appropriate setting for Allison Jones, for whom Phillip Marlowe and Sam Spade were more real than fictional, and whose offbeat occupation as a pet detective allowed her to live out her fantasies. Searching f...

  • Now Is Not Too Late

    Isabelle Holland

    When eleven-year-old Cathy learns the truth about the mother whom she had been told was dead, her compassionate grandmother helps her understand the thin line of good intentions that often separates truth and dishonesty...

  • Fire and Ice

    Anna Hudson

    The last thing Dr. Kelle Langdon expected to find on her winter Antarctic expedition was a burning passion that jeopardized her life -- and her hard-won medical career. Surrounded by twenty men, as the only woman at the remote polar station, she coul...

  • The Pork Butcher

    David Hughes

    During the Second World War, a unit of the German army of occupation in France was troubled by partisan activity and decided on reprisals against the town of Oradour. As a result of that decision, the name of that small place is known around the worl...

  • Shenandoah Summer

    Samantha Hughes

    Directing her own Chicago ad agency had put Sal Carter right on top. But now she was more than ready to leave the hectic business world to paint in the peace and solitude of a ramshackle Virginia farm in the foothills of the Shenandoah Mountains. ...

  • Chasing the Rainbow

    Ann Hurley

    RAINBOW CHASERS To Ria, a rainbow was the spectrum produced in a complicated lab procedure. As a scientist, she dealt in concrete terms; her rules were grounded by caution and security. Steve Early was a rainbow chaser. He piloted a hot-air bal...

  • Love Notes

    Jane Ireland

    Heart-stoppingly handsome, charming, brilliant -- Steve Weston had his pick of women, and Gayle still can't quite believe he chose her. As they embark on challenging Ph.D. programs, she vows to prove herself worthy of her husband's love... ...

  • Ratings Are Murder

    R.R. Irvine

  • Gypsy Wind

    Lisa Jackson

    BECCA PETERS, Thoroughbred breeder, was devastated when Jason Chambers died. Now she would have to deal with his son, Brig, who would want her to honor his father's loan. Six years before, Becca had loved Brig, but he had accused her of drugging a ...

  • Pirate's Gold

    Lisa Jackson

    They were business associates, executives in the cutthroat, fast-track industry of rock music and video, both burdened with the mistakes of past relationships. As often happens, adverse circumstances drew Maren McClure and Kyle Sterling together -- t...

  • Chrysanthemums and Other Stories

    Feng Jicai

  • The Clay Pigeons of St. Louis

    Glover S. Johns

    Originally published in 1958 and now available for the first time in paperback, this classic of modern military history tells the exciting true story of the fall of St. L", the first major objective of the invading American armies in Normandy in June...

  • Pray for Ricky Foster

    Jane Johnston

    THE KIND OF CASE THAT TEARS YOUR HEART OUT... Two-year-old Ricky Foster spent a bright October afternoon in the park with his babysitter, Lorna. But the young woman never returned home to the Fosters' apartment. Neither did Ricky. A twisted min...

  • The Barefoot Brigade

    Douglas C. Jones

    War has ripped Martin Hasford's nation apart, and, like many men, he is torn between his devotion to his family and his sense of duty. Leaving his wife and children behind to run the family farm near Elkhorn Tavern, Hasford embarks on a path from whi...

  • Amityville: The Final Chapter

    John Jones