Books Published in January 1986

New Books List: 481 titles

  • Sarah's Questions

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Miss Know It All And The Good Day Mice

    Carol Beach York

  • Floating Illusions

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

  • Written in the Stars

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    Writing children's books as a team required imagination and concentration. For five years Jill Blake and Greg Richmond had worked together happily in a perfectly platonic partnership. But from the night Greg rushed Jill to the emergency room with app...

  • The Honeymoon

    Violet Winspear

    THE TWO SISTERS LOOKED ASTONISHINGLY ALIKE But that was where the similarities ended. For although Angelica was sensual and sophisticated, Jorja was gentle and meek, accustomed only to the sheltered life in her father's quiet vicarage. And ...

  • The 5th Angel

    David Wiltse

    He is an American, a patriot... and a disciplined commando trained to infiltrate and destroy. But a war game gone awry has turned Sergeant Mark Stitzer into a haunted victim of his own madness, a walking instrument of death. Now he is on his own miss...

  • Village Tales

    Henry Williamson

  • State of Grace

    Joy Williams

    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE • This "beautifully crafted" (The New York Times Book Review), haunting, profoundly disquieting novel manages to be at once sparse and lush, to combine Biblical simplicity with Gothic intensity and strangeness. It i...

  • A Tough Act to Follow

    Max Wilk

    Eileen Tighe, a 1980s Hollywood film executive, sets out to find Jody Cassel, the one-time funny-lady star of early television and encounters a host of colorful, secretive, and threatening characters who knew Jody and her secret...

  • Huysman's Pets

    Kate Wilhelm

    First came the chimpanzee experiments, which made Stanley Huysman famous- a Nobel Prize-winning geneticist. Then came the studies with human children, which were unknown to the public, and stashed away in top government files. Now, Huysman is dead. H...

  • Flaming Tree

    Phyllis A. Whitney

    A haunting, contemporary tale of deception and romance set by the breathtaking vistas of California's Monterey Bay... A COMPASSIONATE WOMAN HAUNTED BY HER PAST. A MYSTERIOUS MAN WHO LEADS HER TO LOVE. AND THE DANGEROUS SECRET THAT IS STRONGER TH...

  • Driven to Distraction

    Jamisan Whitney

    Andee Rotini has had enough of her six overprotective brothers, but they come in handy when she impulsively agrees to drive renowned photographer Thor Engborg to the Southwest. Truck driver Freddy makes a junk-food drop when she's most sick of Thor's...

  • Death in a Bowl

    Raoul Whitfield

    Death in a Bowl, first published in 1931, is a hard-boiled detective novel in the style of genre-master Dashiell Hammett. The novel features Ben Jardinn, a rough, hard-drinking private investigator based in an office near Grauman’s Chinese Theatre ...

  • Breathing Space Only

    Wynne Whiteford

    The world was a wilderness, a nuclear waste ruled by violence and death where the only safety was fear and the only hope was isolation. Then the visitors came, the stationary light in the sky overhead every night. Some whispered that they were th...

  • Rising Thunder

    Carolyn Ann Wharton
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    You gave the best performance of an innocent, hardworking unmarried woman that I've ever seen, Miss Abigail... Abigail Brannon had never expected frontier life to be easy. But when Indian marauders had murdered her young husband only a few years afte...

  • Robbers

    Peter Whalley

    After his boss dies, Harry Sommers, a gentle former prizefighter and amiable ex-con inadvertently inherits the private-eye trade when he investigates the blackmailing and murdering of the crooks who pulled off a successful wage heist eight years earl...

  • Gypsy Moon

    Becky Lee Weyrich

    SHE RAN AWAY FROM THE ALTAR -- INTO THE ARMS OF A HOT-LOODED GYPSY His name was Mateo. Magnificently sexy. Totally charming. Bursting with life in a way that set Charlotte's blood on fire. From the first moment she saw him, performing in a dazzlin...

  • Love and Glory

    Jeane Westin

    THROUGH THE FIRE AND FURY OF WORLD WAR II, THEY RISKED THEIR HEARTS AND THEIR LIVES... On a hot July day in 1942, at a military base in Iowa, their friendship began: wisecracking, soft-hearted Bunny; Page, the ambitious Army brat; naive, tormented J...

  • Rat Man of Paris

    Paul West

    West's 1986 novel takes readers into the mind of Paris's famous Rat Man, who would shock passersby by exposing a live rat kept hidden beneath his coat. West delves into the Rat Man's fictional life, focusing on how the murder of his parents by the Na...

  • Return to Paradise

    Jennifer West

    Slinging hash in Paradise, Idaho, had not exactly been Jaime Quinn's idea of heaven. Especially after Reeve Ferris, her skating partner had left her behind in his quest for an Olympic gold medal. But she had not been able to afford the skating lesson...

  • Jade

    Nancie MacCullough Weir

  • Kissyfur and the Birthday Hugs

    Larry Weinberg

  • The Wings of Morning

    Jackie Weger

    She was in the market for a loving man... Some people said Sheriff Garrett Stark was so charismatic he should bottle his charm. But Rachel Cameron swore she wouldn't take it if he was giving it away. To her mind, he was the most infuriating, bighe...

  • Muckle Annie

    Jan Webster

    Annie McIlvanney is desperate to get away from the life of poverty and boredom that she has grown up with in Glasgow " a city that is suffering under the effects of the American Civil War. After an afternoon ties her to her Highland love, Hector, A...

  • Even Cops' Daughters

    Martha G. Webb

  • The Book of the River

    Ian Watson

    The river cuts right across the known world, from the impassable Far Precipices to the sea. The people on one bank are cut off from those on the other, for the black current has the power to stop them crossing.Only women can travel repeatedly up and...

  • Queenmagic, Kingmagic

    Ian Watson

    In another world, somewhere in space and time, two countries - Bellogard and Chorny - are locked in perpetual war, conducted by magic. Each of the main members of the two countries' courts - king, queen, prince, bishop, knight and squire - has their ...

  • Literary Critics

    George Watson

    A history of literary criticism from Dryden to T.S. Eliot and Iris Murdoch, that shows by what stages the art of analyzing literary works has evolved from the early experiments of the seventeenth century into the techniques of the twentieth. The auth...

  • Selected Poems

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

  • Wales' Work

    Robert Walshe

    As a longtime employee, now official biographer of the late Wallace Wales, last of the moguls of the great London publisher Wales & Wales, Robert Racine embarks on a madcap, macabre, enigmatic quest in search of his lunatic, erstwhile mentor's life...

  • A Case of Loyalties

    Marilyn Wallace

    Was Tricia Rayborn telling the truth when he said she didn't kill Clifford, Hawkins? Tricia Rayborn was a typical California teenager. She drank a little beer. She smoked a little pot. She enjoyed a little excitement. Excitement was running hig...

  • The Seventh Secret

    Irving Wallace

    When evidence emerges that Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun may not have committed suicide, and Dr. Harrison Ashcroft, an Oxford historian writing the definitive Hitler biography, is killed in an accident, a diverse group of people searches for the secret ...

  • Any Woman's Blues

    Alice Walker

  • African Hunter

    Bror Von Blixen-Finecke

  • Fair Game

    Daisy Vivian

  • Waged Work: Reader

    Virago Press

  • Rightfully Mine

    Aggie Villanueva

    “Why should the name of my father be wiped from Israel like
    footprints in a sandstorm because he bore only daughters?”

    The Promised Land " God’s precious gift to the Israelites through the conquest of Canaan. But for Rizpah, the ...

  • Nightfire

    Valerie Vayle

    FROM RUSSIA'S GLITTERING COURT TO WAR-RAVAGED VERSAILLES, SHE WAS PRISONER OF ONE GREAT PASSION... NOBLE BLOOD ABLAZE WITH PASSION Raised by a London seamstress, summoned as dressmaker to Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, beautiful Si...

  • Summer Wine

    Freda Vasilos

    Greece. Its fragrant air embraced Sara Morgan like a gentle lover. Why hadn't she come before? She'd done her Ph.D. work on the ancient inhabitants of this land, but had never seen its sparkling waters or fertile valleys. Until now, as she joined her...

  • The White Fire

    Robert E. Vardeman

  • Night Shadow

    Linda Vail

    Heart of diamond. soul of ice--Jessie McMillan's reputation as a high-level bounty hunter hadn't been built on hearsay. She could act like a beautiful socialite or a cat burglar with equal aplomb. And now she was stalking a man who d made off with a ...

  • Coming Dark Age

    Roberto Vacca

  • A Traveler in Time

    Alison Uttley

    The “superb” time travel adventure of one lonely young girl, a remarkable family, and an impossible task, set between modern and Elizabethan England (The Washington Post)"A beautiful book . . . a form of enchanting ghost story, with the ghosts dr...

  • The Single's Almanac

    Jeffrey Ullman

    This is not so much a guide to finding a mate as it is a self-help book for single men and women. The focus is on making friends. However, there is also plenty of advice on finding "sleeping partners," with all sorts of pointers on venereal disease, ...

  • The Catnip Man

    Barbara Turner

    A KISS IS STILL A KISS Julia Pike could think of a dozen things she'd rather do than chaperon her famous stepsister on a cruise up the Mississippi. Especially after she discovered that Kim's bodyguard was Chad Branson, one of Hollywood's most cel...

  • Lady Anne's Deception

    Jennie Tremaine

    She had a long way to go from the wedding to become a wife. "SOMEHOW I WILL MARRY BEFORE MARIGOLD--ANYONE WHO WILL HAVE ME" When Lady Anne Sinclair vowed to marry before her spoilt beauty of a sister, she had no idea the "anyone"...

  • Top of the World

    John Rowe Townsend

  • Super Couple

    Mary Towne

    Cheerleader Binky Nolan and star football player Piers Anderssen are pushed into a relationship by peer pressure and only learn they really share interests and a mutual attraction after they break up....

  • Yesterday's Promises

    Nicola Thorne

  • A Dying Fall

    June Thomson

  • An Impractical Passion

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    Mother Nature was working overtime Friday the thirteenth, and a hurricane was blowing Sydney Blake's cottages away. Not the best day to meet the love of her life! Yet when Colin Lassiter emerged from the rubble, smiling wickedly, Sydney was charme...

  • Conscience Place

    Thomas Thompson

    The Place, a colony of the deformed offspring of nuclear accident victims, flourishes peacefully--unknown to the outside world which is unknown to it--until the outside world threatens to invade this tranquility...

  • Sesame Street Count to Ten

    Emily Thompson

  • Reach for the Stars

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    All the evidence pointed to one conclusion Marriage was not invented for a couple like Susan Trent and Steve Markham. For one thing, their jobs were polar opposites. As sheriff, Steve was obligated to keep the peace. As a consumer-advocate reporte...

  • Wrap It in Flags

    Robert Terrall

  • Blood Heritage

    Sheri S. Tepper

    Badger Ettison does not believe in demons. Until a shrieking, freezing horror escapes its ancient prison. A soulless hunger. Hunger that turns a beautiful woman into a shriveled husk before she has time to scream. Hunger that has no form, no substanc...

  • The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor

    Peter Hillsman Taylor

  • Old Forest and Other Stories

    Peter Taylor

  • The Hounds of God

    Judith Tarr

    The Hounds of God, the minions of the early Inquisition, threaten to annihilate both Alfred, now the Lord Chancellor of Rhiyana, and his Kingdom, a challenge that leads to a final confrontation with the Pope himself...

  • A Criminal Comedy

    Julian Symons

    Friends of Derek and Sandy Crowley receive word that Derek is having an affair with Gerda Porson, the wife of his older and duller partner at PC Travel, an affair that leads to murder....

  • The Praesidium of Archive

    Jefferson Swycaffer

    At the year-end meeting of the Praesidium, the elite ruling group of the Concordat federation, old hatreds flare and First Secretary Raymond Parke faces his greatest challenge--an assassin sent by another member of the Praesidium...

  • The Emancipist

    Veronica Sweeney

    The story of Aidan O'Brien, whose dangerous rivalry with Devlin Kelly sets him up for betrayal and sends him in bondage from violent, famine-torn Ireland to Australia. There he confronts the untameable land to fight for his dreams and the woman he lo...

  • The Joan Sutherland Album

    Joan Sutherland

    This book is an autobiography pin pictures of Joan Sutherland, the magnificent diva of the opera world. There are photos of memorable first nights & the famous productions of Lucia di Lammermoor, La Traviata, Norma, & The Tales of Hoffmann. Dazzl...

  • Ties That Bind

    Jean Sutherland

  • Dating Games

    Tina Sunshine

    When Marc Applebaum is crazy about Miss LaRue, his new French teacher, Allison Barrett is pursuing Marc, and Miss LaRue seems interested in Mr. Garfield, an eighth-grade teacher, Jonathan Fisher starts a dating service to straighten things out...

  • The Shadow Between

    Diana Stuart

    AN AIR OF MYSTERY.. Thunder rolled overhead as Alida Drury drove through the huge iron gates, now rusty with age. Since the summer she'd spent here sixteen years ago, the McLeod mansion had become sadly neglected, crowded by massive oaks castin...

  • Someone Else

    Becky Stuart

    “No matter how happy you are you always want to be someone else, ”Mrs. Brinks had explained to Kellogg and Carey shortly before her mysterious disappearance. The thought returned to haunt them. Where had she gone? Had she been abducted? Had some ...

  • Listen Children

    Dorothy Strickland

    Listen Children is an  introduction to the world of black literature for all  young people who are learning about values and  feelings.



    - Poems by Lucille Clifton,  Eloise Greenfield, and Langston  Hughes



    - A f...

  • Memory Blank

    John E. Stith

    First published by Ace Books.

    Cal Donley wakes up missing his recent memory and covered with blood. Someone else's blood. He learns that he's a computer engineer living on the L5 orbital colony Daedalus, and he's married to a tantalizing stran...

  • Vision of Destiny

    Whitney Stine

    An epic novel of love as wild, as deep, as powerful as the storms of a nation's rebirth. Beautiful Chinee is struggling to free herself from the superstitions that have kept the women of her county enslaved for centuries. Armor, her tender, impassion...

  • Hunting the Elephant in Africa

    Chauncey Hugh Stigand

  • Ice Blues

    Richard Stevenson
    • / Private Investigator
    • Buy Buy

    Donald Strachey finds the grandson of the godfather of Albany's political machine dead--in Donald's car. When he finds a letter on the corpse specifically asking for his help, Donald, a gay P.I., does his best to fulfill the dead man's mission-even a...

  • Playing for Keeps

    Janice Stevens

    Until now, Lindsey was sure that cute, popular Doug McConnell would never notice an ordinary girl like her. But when he shyly offers to teach her how to play basketball, she realizes she might have been wrong. And after he spends hours patiently coac...

  • Wildfire

    Richard Martin Stern

    Limns a portrait of catastrophic forest fire in New Mexico's Samrio National Forest, where a prolonged drought, the homes that fringe the forest, campers, and two escaped convicts are the ingredients for disaster...

  • Whispers on the Wind

    Jeanne Stephens

    LIFE IS BUT A DREAM... For Marty Newland those words seemed all too true. It scared her that what she dreamed might eventually come to pass, and never more than when she dreamed of the recently abducted girl. Marty had to convince the police to...

  • Bareback

    Merrilee Steiner

  • Is There a

    Barbara Steiner

  • Through the Flames

    Duffy Stein

  • Wanderlust

    Danielle Steel

    Audrey Driscoll grew up in her grandfather's San Francisco mansion. Her parents had been killed in a tragic accident when she was a child. By 1932 she was a second mother to her beautiful younger sister, a high-spirited companion for her elderly gran...

  • Banjo Man

    Adrienne Staff; Sally Goldenbaum

    Laurie O'Neill had led the most sheltered life possible for twenty-three years. When she arrived in Washington at midnight she couldn't help but be shocked: the nuns had never taught her how to act when face-to-face with a half-naked man! But in that...

  • At Long Last Love

    Andrea St. John

    She'd inherited a "man's job" With a woman's determination Susannah Lockwood decided to keep her father's construction business and run it herself. She was an engineer, ready to prove herself on the job. But she wasn't ready for Adam McBride, her fir...

  • In the Shadow of the Bear

    Judith St. George

  • Caribe

    J.R. Sprechman

  • A Lasting Kind of Love

    Catherine Spencer

    Liz wanted their love to last forever After the disastrous consequences of her first love, Liz Newman had come to Vancouver and achieved success--a thriving business and a glamorous image. But she had never forgotten Con Henderson, or the passiona...

  • Against Interpretation: And Other Essays

    Susan Sontag

    A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against Interpretation and Other Essays is the definitive collection of Susan Sontag's best known and important works published in Penguin M...

  • A Grand Street Reader

    Ben Sonnenberg

    Since its founding in 1981, the quarterly Grand Street has become one of the country's premier literary journals; included here is a judicious selection of articles, fiction and poetry published in its pages over the past five years. There are deligh...

  • The Keeper

    Robert Arthur Smith

  • A Land Remembered

    Patrick D. Smith

    A Land Remembered has been ranked #1 Best Florida Book eight times in annual polls conducted by Florida Monthly Magazine. In this best-selling novel, Patrick Smith tells the story of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family who battle the ...

  • LGB Bugs Bunny and the Health D

    Teddy Slater

  • Dream Girl

    Tracy Sinclair

    Angelique Archer gasped at the magnificent necklace. As Vendome Cosmetic's Dream Girl, she had mad admirers, but none as attentive as the mysterious Claude Dumont from Souveraine. She'd better return it personally--and put an end to this extravagance...

  • Junior Year Abroad

    George Simpson

  • Silken Surrender

    Carla Simpson

    Jenna Randolph was a sheltered young innocent when she first met the handsome rogue Stefan. Part of the post London society crowd, she was curious about this man who seemed so opposite her own world. Jenna wanted to understand the new, desperate year...

  • Nothing Ventured

    Suzanne Simms

    DECENT EXPOSURE Mary Beth Williams was a respectable librarian from a good family, engaged to an eligible man. It was all very nice. But when her husband-to-be found someone more exciting, Mary Beth gambled everything for some excitement of h...

  • The Caesar Code

    Johannes Mario Simmel

  • Reluctant Rapture

    Marjorie Shoebridge

    Passion's Prisoner - Cast into prison for a crime she did not commit, lovely young Juliet Westover was horrified to learn that she was to be transported to Australia. Abord the barquentine Grace, she was noticed by the vessel's captain, Ross Jamieson...

  • The Swamp Slayers

    Jon Sharpe

  • Love in the Wind

    Norma Seely

  • Shadow of Desire

    Fela Dawson Scott

    PASSION'S REVENGE She was a ravishingly beautiful renegade who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. No one knew that beneath her dashing facade, Katrina Easton burned to exact revenge on the villainous uncle who had killed her parents and seiz...

  • The Wave

    Evelyn Scott

  • Lady Escapade

    Amanda Scott

    A PROUD BEAUTY SHOWS HER LORDLY HUSBAND A MIND -- AND HEART -- OF HER OWN THE DEFIANT DIANA Enchanting and enticing young Diana Sterling was swept off her feet by the ardent and imperious Count of Andover--and carried by him over the threshold ...

  • Geneen

    Robert J. Schoenberg

    Chronicles the career of the man who masterminded ITT's growth into a conglomerate grossing more than twenty billion dollars a year and whose ruthless methods of business contributed to the subversion of two governments and the compromise of Richard ...

  • Way-Farer

    Dennis Schmidt

  • Savage Enquiry: Who Controls Childbirth?

    Wendy Savage

  • Sir Silver Swine

    Susan Saunders

  • Heart Shift

    Glenda Sands

    TORCH SONG Blond and fragile, Christine Dubarry was a serious distraction to Fire Chief Ian West. As he stood by her side, flames consumed her art gallery supplies shop. Little did he know that she would become the prime suspect in his arson inves...

  • Loves of Harry Dancer

    Lawrence Sanders

  • Rain of Flowers

    Ann Salerno

    NEITHER ONE COULD SAY GOODBYE Kate Cleary's dream was to become a world-famous curator. She had other dreams, too. The tall, dark and handsome type. They came true when she met Cass Yashima. From that moment on they were inseparable. Business t...

  • Run for the Sun

    Barry Sadler

  • Wasp

    Eric Frank Russell

    The war had been going on for nearly a year and the Sirian Empire had a huge advantage in personnel and equipment. Earth needed an edge. Which was where James Mowry came in. If a small insect buzzing around in a car could so distract the driver as to...

  • Romance in the Roaring Forties: And Other Stories

    Damon Runyon

  • Rescue in Mirkwood

    John Ruemmler

  • Sea to Shining Sea

    Berton Roueche

  • Staroamer's Fate

    Chuck Rothman

    Quarnian Dow, a syron trained in the ancient art of seeing into the heart and minds of others, joins Rex, a seasoned pilot, to search for Staroamer, a generational ship launched and lost more than five centuries earlier...

  • To the Precipice

    Judith Rossner

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar comes an enthralling tale of money, love, and one woman’s quest to have both in a world that wants her to have neither.Young, beautiful Ruth Kossoff is drawn dangerously by two e...

  • Louisiana!

    Dana Fuller Ross

    Visions of endless horizons brought them from the four corners of the earth to the deepwater port where the muddy Mississippi approached the Gulf's blue waters. Some came to earn their fortune by honest sweat; others came to make their gold with vice...

  • Emile and the Dutchman

    Joel Rosenberg

    Emile and the Dutchman were made for each other, though neither would ever admit it. They compliment each other perfectly, covering each other's weaknesses and amplifying each other's strengths. They make the best team in the Thousand World Contract ...

  • Second Nature

    Nora Roberts

    For Celebrity magazine reporter Lee Radcliffe, tracking down the world-famous, notoriously private, horror-story writer Hunter Brown had become a personal quest. Her carefully planned ambush finally paid off at a small writer's conference in Flag...

  • Showdown in Raton

    J.R. Roberts

    An urgent letter from Clint Adams' old friend in Raton, New Mexico, triggered an avalanche of trouble for the Gunsmith. First a sexy young widow made him a target for marriage. And then a savage gunman horse-napped Clint's trusty gelding, Duke. And t...

  • The Piranhas

    Harold Robbins

    Friction. Mafia turmoil. Hollywood snakes and Wall Street vipers. That's what Jed Stephens has got. And a body. …Or, he would, if a certain species of vicious little fish couldn't strip a corpse bare in under a minute. Jed should have known...

  • Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang

    Mordecai Richler

    Poor Jacob Two-Two. Not only must he say everything twice just to be heard over his four brothers and sisters, but he finds himself the prisoner of the dreaded Hooded Fang. What had he done to deserve such a punishment? The worst crime of all " ins...

  • Curious George Walks the Pets

    H.A. Rey

  • A Morning Moon

    Paula Reibel

    A MORNING MOON It was an arranged marriage and Mindel’s young heart rebelled. But her wedding night touched her with fire, and the memory of the burning love was to shape her life, and her children’s lives, for generations… A MORNING MOON...

  • Desert Rose

    Colleen L. Reece
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    According to Desert Rose Birchfield's first cousin and best friend Nate Birchfield, there was only one man for her, and it didn't matter that he lived thousands of miles from Wyoming Territory. Love--and Nate, of course--would find a way. Carmicha...

  • Sable Flanagan

    Betty L. Receveur

    THOUGH HER HEART MIGHT BREAK, SHE COULD NOT STOP LOVING HIM. Strikingly beautiful, red-haired Sable Flanagan risked everything - for an unknown love. A perilous journey from Old New York around Cape Horn brought her to the gilded shores of San Fra...

  • New Stories from the South: The Year's Best 1986

    Shannon Ravenel
    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

  • The Ham Reporter

    Robert J. Randisi

    Robert Randisi has long been held as a master of the genre.—Michael Connelly Bat Masterson is no longer a sheriff in the Old West. He's moved East to New York City where he gets a job as a sport's writer for The Morning Telegraph. But when his...

  • All-American Girl

    Suzanne Rand

    Gina Damone, the daughter of loving old-fashioned parents and co-captain of the Midvale High Cheerleaders, is delighted when rich handsome Dex Grantham asks her out until she discovers that his values are not necessarily hers....

  • Cabot Wright Begins

    James Purdy

    Cabot Wright Begins, first published in 1964, may be one of the most neglected masterpieces in post"World War II American literature. Cabot Wright is a handsome, Yale-educated stockbroker and scion of a good family. He also happens to be the convic...

  • The Railroaders

    Bill Pronzini

    An anthology of twelve Western short stories including "Casey Jones," O. Henry's "The Passing of Black Eagle," Wayne D. Overholser's "Steel to the West," Giles A. Lutz's "Westward Rails," John Jakes' "Hell on the High Iron," and others...

  • No Man's Kisses

    Nora Powers

    GAMBLE ON LOVE When she took over the Montana ranch after her father's death, horse trainer Hilary Benson knew she would have to honor his heavy debts. However, she hadn't counted on fulfilling his very special debt to Justin Porter III. Delive...

  • Prospero Drill

    Carl A. Posey

    As U.S. scientists prepare to implement Project Prospero, a risky weather experiment that will attempt to influence the course of super-hurricane Dolly, America's intelligence agencies and a Soviet "hurricane research" jet clash with each other and w...

  • Mother Mother I Want Another

    Maria Polushkin

    Just as Mrs. Mouse kisses baby mouse goodnight, he cries, “Mother, Mother, I want another!” His concerned mama rushes off to invite other mothers -- Mrs. Duck, Mrs. Frog, Mrs. Pig, and Mrs. Donkey -- to help put her son to bed. But baby mouse doe...

  • Frank and Stein and Me

    Kin Platt

  • The Lady in the Tower

    Jean Plaidy

    Beautiful, doomed Anne Boleyn... forbidden to marry the man she loved...trapped by the relentless passion of her liege lord, King Henry VIII...destroyed in a political catastrophe whose poignant echoes still reverberate. Her attractions were so powe...

  • The Tachyon Web

    Christopher Pike

  • Untamed Surrender

    Michalann Perry

    Dakota Territory, 1875 She was a captive of his kiss -- and a prisoner of his touch! WILD EMBRACE Starr thought the world had ended when Indians killed her family and carried her away to the wilderness. Then she glimpsed the strikingly hand...

  • Seven Viking Romances

    Penguin Books

    Combining traditional myth, oral history and re-worked European legend to depict an ancient realm of heroism and wonder, the seven tales collected here are among the most fantastical of all the Norse romances. Powerfully inspired works of Icelandic i...

  • The Funeral Makers

    Cathie Pelletier

    "A crazy, rollicking whoop of a book, written with a poet's sensibility and deeply wacky down-home wisdom." -- Lee Smith, author of The Last GirlsA century after the impulsive McKinnon brothers set out to tame the Canadian wilderness and instead land...

  • The Gun of Jesse Hand

    Lewis B. Patten

  • Villa's Rifles

    Lewis B. Patten
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  • Best Friends

    Francine Pascal

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Jessica and Elizabeth are ready to take on middle school . . . but are they ready to take on each other? The New York Times bestselling world of Sweet Valley returns in these all-new graphic novel adaptations!Jessica and...

  • Hostage!

    Francine Pascal

    Regina's life -- in jeopardy ... When Elizabeth Wakefield learns that Regina Morrow has returned unexpectedly to Sweet Valley from Switzerland, she drops by to visit. A strange woman answers the door and says Regina cannot have visitors. With the h...

  • Nowhere to Run

    Francine Pascal

    What will The Droids do without Emily? Elizabeth Wakefield is surprised when Emily Mayer tells her she wants to join the school newspaper. After all, Emily's a musician, not a writer. Why would The Droids' crack drummer turn to writing, especially ...

  • Return to Faraway

    Valerie Parv

    More than anything she wanted King's trust Faraway, the beautiful remote cattle station Shan Penrose knew so well, was the perfect location for the film she was producing. But returning to Faraway meant coming face-to-face with King Falconer, ...

  • Fly in the Cobweb

    Frank Parrish

    When Dan Mallett's mother requires a costly hip operation, the wily poacher sets out to separate a wealthy new neighbor, Harold Dartie, from his money and accidently stumbles on dangerous secrets from Dartie's past...

  • Small Business

    Thomas Trebitsch Parker

    Ten pounds overweight and banned from his favorite bakery. Foiled at tennis by the obnoxious Rosenthal. Nearly arrested as a not-so-innocent bystander at a traffic accident. Helplessly alone at the helm of his small business. Martin Fassler's in trou...

  • After the Music

    Diana Palmer

    SOLID AS A ROCK Rock star Sabina Cane had heard plenty about the wealthy Hamilton Regan Thorndon III, head honcho of Thorn Oil. His brother, Al, warned her of Thorn's reputation for breaking hearts, but singing was Sabina's life and she was gratef...

  • The Humbug Man // A Rancher for Christmas

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