Books Published in January 1986

New Books List: 481 titles

  • The Complete Nebula Award-Winning Fiction

    Samuel R. Delany

    Combined edition of two novels and two short stories which won the Nebula Award. Babel - 17 (winner, 1966 Nebula, 1995 James Tiptree, Jr. Award, Classics; nominated, 1967 Hugo Award; 1975 Locus Poll Award, All-Time Best Novel (Place: 36)); A Fabulous...

  • Gifted Education: A Comprehensive View

    Margie Kitano

  • Mindshadow

    J.M. Dillard

    The tranquil planet of Aritani has suddenly come under attack by a vicious and unknown enemy. The Enterprise rallies to the scene, only to plunge into a deadly nightmare: Spock is found mysteriously injured, his mental powers crippled and weak, and K...

  • Rimrunners

    C.J. Cherryh

    Loki is a mercenary ship and bounty hunter. Bet Yeager is a killer elite Earth Company Marine whose side lost. Now she is forced to escape aboard Loki, surrounded by enemies and hunting her old comrades. And the fighting skills she must use to surviv...

  • Toplin

    Michael McDowell

    A troubled man disturbed by the appearance of a neighborhood restaurant's waitress, a hideously deformed woman named Marta, decides that it is his destiny--and his obligation--to put Marta out of her misery...

  • The Alternate Asimovs

    Isaac Asimov

  • 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...

  • Cadre One

    Robert O'Riordan

    The Cadre sequence of Space Operas comprising Cadre One (1985), Cadre Lucifer (1987) and Cadre Messiah (1988) follows the career of orphaned space cadet Pol Tryees into adventurous adulthood across the Galactic Empire, which he comes to understand an...

  • 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...

  • Pstalemate

    Lester Del Rey

  • Retief

    Keith Laumer

    The ceremonious protocol of the Yills was impressive, colorful, and, in the long run, deadly! It was up to Jame Retief to figure out how to respond to the Yill's overtures in the correct manner; all the while keeping his superiors from making a deadl...

  • The Tail of the Arabian Knight

    Geoffrey Marsh

  • The White Fire

    Robert E. Vardeman

  • Angels of September

    Andrew M. Greeley

  • Chant

    David Cross

    Professional assassin and martial arts master Chant is about to go from hunter to hunted in this thriller from the author of the Mongo Mysteries.   John “Chant†Sinclair is precise, patient, perfect. A highly trained killer with a mastery of...

  • Dead Ground

    Philip Kerrigan

  • 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 ...

  • Even Cops' Daughters

    Martha G. Webb

  • Evil Mark

    Graham Miles

  • The Face Behind the Mask

    John Minahan

    A series of rapes, committed by imposters using a similar modus operandi, has New Yorkers afraid and NYPD Chief Vadney on the warpath, while Detective "Little John" Rawlings and his partner Brendan sort out the clues...

  • Floating Illusions

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

  • Frailties

    Nancy Geyer

  • Gerald's Party

    Robert Coover

    Robert Coover's wicked and surreally comic novel takes place at a chilling, ribald, and absolutely fascinating party. Amid the drunken guests, a woman turns up murdered on the living room floor. Around the corpse, one of several the evening produces,...

  • Guilty Knowledge

    Lesley Grant-Adamson

    Rain Morgan is on assignment in the French Riviera for the London Daily Post. She is on the trail of a hot story about Sabine Jourdain and her long affair with the famous painter, Marius Durance. But on the eve of their scheduled interview Sabine is ...

  • Hawksmoor

    Peter Ackroyd

    Integrating portraits of an eighteenth-century architect and a modern London police inspector, this novel focuses on two men, both undergoing a process of disintegration and both involved in a series of similar murders...

  • Into the Valley of Death

    H.R.F. Keating

    On Friday next, pub owner Jack Steadman would hang for the murder of Alfie Goode, drunkard and ne'er-do-well. The case was open-and-shut to everyone but Miss Harriet Unwin, who had less than a week to prove that Jack, a Crimean war hero, was innocent...

  • Last Rights

    Arthur Douglas

  • Lie Down With Lions

    Ken Follett

    In the Afghan mountains lies the Valley of Five Lions, a place of ancient legend. To it come two young aid workers and an American who has a message for the legendary guerrilla leader, Masud, who is wanted dead or alive by the Russians. Below, in the...

  • Loaded Questions

    Philip Loraine

    Two London journalists become enmeshed in a web of international intrigue and political machinations when they join forces with a former CIA operative to investigate the assassination of an Israeli diplomat...

  • Look Back on Murder

    Malcolm Gray

    Stated First Edition in the United States. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Small rubs to the dust jacket's spine tips and corners. Signed on the title page by Gray. Review copy with publisher's slip laid-in....

  • Lost Gallows

    John Dickson Carr

    "Carr (1906-1977) is at the top of his game in this taut whodunit first published in 1931." -- Publishers Weekly, Starred reviewThe British Library resurfaces an early gem from one of the great writers of the Golden Age of classic crime fiction.As th...

  • Loves of Harry Dancer

    Lawrence Sanders

  • The Man in the Moss-Colored Trousers

    Mary Bringle

    In a village seven miles north of Dublin, a group of children find the body of a man concealed in the ramshackle grandstand of a derelict racecourse. He is clad in mosscolored trousers and without identification. Dublin Garda Sergeant Sean Lynch has ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Sisters

    Robert Littell

    An astonishing thriller from the author of The Company

    A classic among espionage aficionados, The Sisters features what the New York Times called "the plot of plots." Centering on Francis and Carroll, two enigmatic and extremely dangerous CI...

  • The Spy Who Barked in the Night

    Marc Lovell

  • Strange Felony

    Elizabeth Linington

  • Strong Medicine

    Arthur Hailey

    Master storyteller Arthur Hailey’s New York Timesâ€"bestselling novel takes readers behind the scenes of the billion-dollar pharmaceutical drug industry It starts as a routine case: Mary Rowe contracts hepatitis from unclean drinking water, and the...

  • A Talk With the Angels

    Desmond Meiring

  • The Trouble at Aquitaine

    Nancy Livingston

  • 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...

  • Crescent Carnival

    Alicia Knight

    The carnival would reveal many surprises .. . Nicole Reid looked forward to leaving Tangier, Morocco, and returning to New Orleans in time for Mardi Gras. Being pursued by a gray-eyed Arab through crowded bazaars was more than unsettling. Then ...

  • 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...

  • Someone Else

    Becky Stuart

    “No matter how happy you are you always want to be someone else, â€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 ...

  • Threats and Promises

    Barbara Delinsky

    Mistaken identity ... or the real thing? Lauren Stevenson still felt self-conscious about the way she looked after having undergone plastic surgery in the Bahamas. But she'd opened a frame shop in Boston with a friend and welcomed starting afresh....

  • The Beleaguered Lord Bourne

    Michelle Kasey
    • / Traditional Regency
    • Buy Buy

    MISCHIEF IN MARR1AGE The Earl of Bourne wanted no part of married life. After years of danger in foreign wars, he was eager to plunge into a campaign of Conquests among the long lists of London lovelies who would give their all to please a man as...

  • Dance of Desire

    Sarah Fairchilde

    A LADY AROUSED Virginia's first impression of Lord Sherbourne was somewhat less than favorable. First he almost ran her down as he came thundering through the forest on horseback. Then he silenced her indignation with a most ungentlemanly kiss. ...

  • Fair Game

    Daisy Vivian

  • 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"...

  • 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 ...

  • Rogue's Bride

    Ellen Fitzgerald

    Ariadne Caswell-Drake had little choice when she wed Sir Iden Peverell. She was an inexperienced chit of a girl, he was a very experienced man of the world, and two nights alone with him on a lonely Greek isle was enough to make marriage a necessary...

  • 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....

  • Making Promises

    M.E. Cooper

    Crossed signals… Monica Ford's interests are strictly professional when she volunteers to work at WKND, the Kennedy High School radio station. Then she meets Peter Lacey, the WKND d.j., and discovers they're on the same wavelength. Peter know...

  • Coffin on the Water

    Gwendoline Butler

    In 1946, newly promoted detective-constable John Coffin arrives in Greenwich to take up his post. Soon after, the body of a young woman floats down the Thames to South London. It quickly becomes clear that this is no ordinary murder: the victim has b...

  • 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...

  • The Right to Sing the Blues

    John Lutz

    New Orleans is off Alo Nudger's beaten path; the St. Louis private detective likes the comforts of home. But he also loves jazz and when he's given a round-trip ticket to the Crescent City by legendary clarinetist Fat Jack McGee, who needs to talk to...

  • The Big Grouse

    Douglas Clark

  • Blood Test

    Jonathan Kellerman

    It is a case unlike any psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware has ever encountered. Five-year-old Woody Swope is ill, but the real problem is his parents. They refuse to agree to the one treatment that could save this boy's life. Alex sets out to convince ...

  • 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...

  • A Dying Fall

    June Thomson

  • Gideon's Risk

    J.J. Marric

    Gideon's Risk...was as perilous as a tightrope walk over a pit of hungry lions: one false step and Scotland Yard's Commander George Gideon would be torn to pieces by the ravening beasts of London's urban jungle. The vicious Carter brothers--car thiev...

  • The Cat Sitter Mystery

    Carol Adorjan

    WHAT WAS HIDING IN THE MANSION NEXT DOOR? There was something scary about the house next door. Beth certainly didn't believe in ghosts, but the big old mansion set in the shadows did look haunted. Even Mrs. Goodall, the owner, looked a little like...

  • 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....

  • Finding Hoseyn

    Colin MacKinnon

    In Tehran during the last years of the Shah's reign, veteran journalist Jim Morgan pursues the details of an Israeli's murder and discovers a bloody conspiracy more disturbing than the violence endemic to Tehran...

  • Mystery of the Melted Diamonds

    Carol Farley

  • Notebooks of Samuel Butler

    S. Butler

  • Triple Crown

    Jon L. Breen

  • Zodiac

    Robert Graysmith

    A "San Francisco Chronicle" reporter provides an account of the series of unsolved murders committed in California from 1968 to the early seventies in which letters were sent to the "Chronicle," announcing the crimes and signed with a symbol from the...

  • 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...

  • Any Woman's Blues

    Alice Walker

  • The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor

    Peter Hillsman Taylor

  • Diary of Beatrice Webb

    Norman MacKenzie

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Old Forest and Other Stories

    Peter Taylor

  • Olive Field

    Ralph Bates

  • The Trouble with Ghosts

    Brown & Company Little

  • By Love Beguiled

    Sandra Dubay

    HE TAUGHT HER THE MEANING OF ECSTASY --BUT COULD SHE WIN HIS HEART? Widowed after seven years of celibate marriage to a man old enough to be her father, Lysette Ravaisson is still young, lovely, and free at last to seek the love she longs for. But...

  • Cries the Wilderness Wind

    Susan Kirby
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    They both loved the orphaned child. But which of them knew what was best for her? Rachael Whitaker - Boston born and bred, she reluctantly joins her mother and stepfather on a wagon train to Illinois in the spring of 1837. When her mother falls ill, ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Golden Obsession

    Catherine Creel

    MASTER HER COMPLETELY Independent Stephen Campbell first glanced at flame-haired Jennie Jackson, his desire flared as hot as molten rock. Then he saw three strapping brothers and the rugged gold miner quickly decided a moment of ecstasy sure wasn't ...

  • A Grand Passion

    Mary Mackey

    INTRIGUES YOU, SWEEPS YOU UP AND HOLDS YOU IN HIGH SUSPENSE UNTIL THE FINAL CURTAIN THREE GENERATIONS OF INESCAPABLE OBESSION Sweeping from Jazz age Paris to the golden era of Hollywood, to Moscow, London and New York, here is the glamorous a...

  • 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...

  • Harem

    Diane Carey

    Jessica Grey watched ruggedly handsome Tarik crossing the moonlit floor of the seraglio. This was her captor...the rebel leader who kidnapped her from a world of four o'clock teas and lavish embassy balls and gave her away to the Sultan's harem where...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Love, Honor and Betray

    Elizabeth Kary

    Emerald-eyed Charl Beckwith was too proud for love until she met the mysterious Seth Porterfield, a duke's bastard son, sent by England to betray the new America she loved ... As war raged around them, passion was their battlefield ... As fate wre...

  • Loving Longest

    Jacqueline Marten

    THEIRS WAS A TENDER FREE LOVE THAT NEITHER DISTANCE NOR TIME COULD DESTROY! Beautiful, clever Mara Rydale was born to British aristocracy but raised in obscure poverty by a humble family. In the heady freedom of English country summers she fell in...

  • Magnolia Landing

    Jessica Manning

    SINFUL AND SENSUAL, STEAMING WITH PASSION...A SAGA OF THE SIX PLANTATION FAMILIES OF MAGNOLIA LANDING 1830. Upriver from wicked, whirling New Orleans lies Magnolia Landing, a fabled place of power, privilege and passion. Here every taboo is spurne...

  • Memory's Embrace

    Linda Lael Miller

    ONLY ONE MAN ROUSED HER HEART TO LOVE -- AND ONLY SHE COULD FREE HIM FROM HIS HAUNTING, TRAGIC PAST! In the wilderness of 1880's Oregon, lovely Tess Bishop was captivated by the most fascinating stranger ever to drift into her small lumber t...

  • 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...

  • 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 â€" a city that is suffering under the effects of the American Civil War. After an afternoon ties her to her Highland love, Hector, A...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Royal Passion

    Jennifer Blake

    MARA HAD A DESPERATE PLAN OF DECEPTION THAT WOULD IGNITE INTO ROYAL PASSION Amid the color and music of a gypsy camp in the foothills of France, Mara Delacroix of Louisiana and Roderic, Prince of Ruthenia, met for the first time. She was the daug...

  • Savage Torment

    Cassie Edwards

    Free-spirited Judith McMahon's idea of a good adventure doesn't involve taking over her father's lumber business, but the Chippewa country surrounding the mill inflames her imagination. The reality is something she could never have prepared for - a v...

  • Seasons of Love

    June Masters Bacher

    Rediscovery of the lost Blue Bucket Mine lures the men of "Tomorrowland" from their home to the slopes of Superstition Mountain. Grief from the loss of her infant daughter still fresh in her heart, Rachel dreads the thought of further separations fro...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • This Rolling Land

    Sandy Dengler

    Why was she so purely delighted that he had entered her world? In an age of the decline of the Spanish dons--those elegant lords of central California during the mid-1800s--Felicidad Martines meets an Irish sea-man, Seamus Fisher. Though born in d...

  • Ties That Bind

    Jean Sutherland

  • Trail to Glory

    Marilyn Meredith

    THE WOMEN WHO WON THE WEST 1858: MARY -- The gentle eastern schoolteacher ost her heart to a handsome traper, overcomign the hardships of frontier life in the Wisconsin wilderness to establish a family dynasty. 1880: WILHELMINA -- Mary's flame-...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • When Love Awaits

    Johanna Lindsey

    Lady Leonie of Montwyn, the exquisite mistress of Pershwick, recoiled in horror. Cruelly pledged to the dreaded Sir Rolfe d'Ambert, Lord of Crewel, she knew that her life was indeed over. But when she met the dark, magnificent, man who came to claim...

  • Wildfire

    Carol Finch

    INFERNO OF PASSION Innocent ebon-haired Alexa had no desire to journey to the western frontier -- until she met handsome Keane Rawdon. His glance shot a delicious tingling down her spine. His musky scent whet her appetite for his kiss. In that ins...

  • All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes by

    John Farris

    The military wedding of Clipper Bradwin, youngest son of the old, distinguished Virginia family, begins a series of events marked by the blood vengeance and terror that have followed the family from its actual beginnings in the dark African jungle...

  • 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...

  • Hero of Dreams

    Brian Lumley

    Dissatisfied with Life? Something vital is missing from David Hero's comfortable, ordinary existence. One day is much like the next, simple, predictable ...boring. But the nights! Each night David Hero finds himself transported to a marvelous w...

  • Through the Flames

    Duffy Stein

  • The Man Who Shot Lewis Vance

    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    Someone’s gunning for John Wayne in this “well-plotted” mystery set in 1940s Hollywood featuring a wisecracking private eye (Publishers Weekly).   Something about Lewis Vance’s story doesn’t add up. The guy claims t...

  • Golem in the Gears

    Piers Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    A golem to the rescue!Grundy Golem was the size of an inconsequence, and nobody had any respect for him -- including Grundy! To prove himself, he volunteered to ride the Monster Under the Bed to the Ivory Tower to find little Ivy’s long-lost dragon...

  • Bolt Action

    Roy Lebeau

    When Lee Morgan invests in a stand of timber, he gets more than he bargained for when he gets a gorgeous partner who is talented in many ways, and catches the deadly eye of a vicious Russian timber baron. Original....

  • Bugle and Spur

    Brian Garfield

    He was the best soldier Fort Dragoon ever had ... and the colonel was out to break him ... Colonel Mallory loved busting young lieutenants like dried sticks. So when he arrived at Fort Dragoon, he gave every lowdown, scum-eating duty in the outfit to...

  • Carson City Colt

    J.D. Hardin

  • Cimarron on a Texas Manhunt

    Lew Baines

  • The Drifter

    Gilbert Morris

  • Gun Country

    Wayne C. Lee

    Brent Clark is trapped into accepting a deadly mission: He must get into well-guarded Gunsight Canyon, convince pretty Virgie Kurtzman that she is really heiress Virginia Pool, and smuggle her out, willingly or otherwise....

  • The Gun of Jesse Hand

    Lewis B. Patten

  • Hair Trigger Kill

    E.B. Majors

  • Heartland

    Robert Douglas Mead

  • Lassiter Gold

    Loren Zane Grey

    LOREN ZANE GREY continues in the grand tradition of his father, Zane Grey, with further adventures of Lassiter -- the rough-riding loner from Riders of the Purple Sage who became America's favorite hero. THE GREATEST WESTERN LEGEND OF ALL TIME It st...

  • Lone Star and the White River Curse

    Wesley Ellis

    A KNIGHT TO REMEMBER ... He appeared mysteriously in full armor, riding a black steed. The Ute Indians believed he was an evil spirit. The ranchers only knew that he was stampeding their cattle and burning their barns. But when the medieval knight f...

  • Longarm and the Big Shoot Out

    Tabor Evans

  • 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...

  • The Mammoth Hunters

    Jean M. Auel

    Once again Jean M. Auel opens the door of a time long past to reveal an age of wonder and danger at the dawn of the modern human race. With all the consummate storytelling artistry and vivid authenticity she brought to The Clan of the Cave Bear and i...

  • Mescalero Dawn

    Jake Logan

    CAPTURED BY INDIANS! John Slocum was defenseless, poisoned by a scorpion's bite, when the fearsome Mescalero Apaches seized him as their prisoner. The proud Apache tribe was on the run from government troops and Mexican bounty hunters, trying to free...

  • Pistoltown

    Roy Lebeau

    Tired of running from the law, Buckskin Frank Leslie, a.k.a. Finn Lacy, hides out in Bristolton, Texas where he becomes a partner in the local whorehouse, but trouble finds him once again when he defends a group of ranchers against a powerful cattle ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Stranger from the Tonto

    Zane Grey

    Lost in the Sonora Desert, Kent Wingfield makes an oath to a dying gold prospector that sends him to a canyon in Utah to fulfill his vow and save a damsel in distress from a man named Bonesteel. Reprint....

  • The Swamp Slayers

    Jon Sharpe

  • Twin Peaks or Bust

    E.J. Hunter

  • Villa's Rifles

    Lewis B. Patten
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  • Western Union

    Zane Grey

    Young Harvard man Wayne Cameron travels west and meets his destiny. There, he falls in with a brave group of Westerners struggling to fulfill a dangerous, desperate and thrilling dream - to carry through a thousand miles of dangerous wilderness a sin...

  • The Island

    Isabelle Holland

    Seventeen-year-old Hilda travels to the Caribbean to visit distant relatives. She finds out shocking things about her self and about plans affecting her. When Hilda receives an invitation from her aunt and uncle to visit them on the tropical islan...

  • 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...

  • Adam Draws Himself a Dragon

    Irina Korschunow

  • African Hunter

    Bror Von Blixen-Finecke

  • After the Flood

    P.C. Jersild

    Thirty years after a nuclear holocaust has virtually destroyed the world, Edvin, the youngest survivor, born during the war, joins a group of survivors gathered on a barren island in the Baltic, where living conditions mirror those of the Middle Ages...

  • All Shook Up

    Elizabeth Levy

  • Animal Walk: Make Way for the Horses, Lions, Camels, and Bears in This Spectacular Grand-Entry Parade!

    Sue Dreamer

    Spectators watch the circus parade. On board pages which fold out into one long strip. Turning the strip over reveals six removable, die-cut animal figures which link together to form a free-standing animal procession....

  • Arnold Lobel's Little Library of Nursery Rhymes

    Arnold Lobel

  • B. C. Great Zot, I'm Beautiful

    Johnny Hart

  • Bareback

    Merrilee Steiner

  • Benjamin's Portrait

    Alan Baker

  • 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...

  • Best of the New Wave

    Arthur Byron Cover

  • The Bird of Time

    George Alec Effinger

    Hardcover in dust Jacket. First printing. Book is in perfect shape. A well cared for collector's copy. Dust jacket also in perfect shape and housed in mylar cover. Also includes loose-leaf review copy certificate....

  • The Birds of Sadness

    Marie-Terese Baird
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    The indomitable spirit of seventy-eight-year-old Melanie faulters when she learns that her granddaughter Juliet, a young career woman, plans to abort the illegitimate child that Melanie so joyfully looks forward to caring for...

  • Blackballed

    Michael Mewshaw

  • Blackbird

    Dorothy McMillian

    DEATH FEAST The wedding party was over. The beautiful bride was a hideously blotched and grotesquely bloated corpse. The handsome groom lay twisted on the grass, his features frozen in the awful agony of his death. The guests -- the distinguished ...

  • Blood Link

    David C. Miller

  • The Blood of His Servants

    Malcolm MacPherson

    The Blood of His Servants is a remarkable true story. In the whole range of Holocaust literature it stands apart, for it recounts the search by one survivor for the single Nazi murderer of his family -- a man who had once been their friend.  In ...

  • 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...

  • Brothers

    Dean Hughes

  • Bush War!

    William Moore

  • Cabot Wright Begins

    James Purdy

    Cabot Wright Begins, first published in 1964, may be one of the most neglected masterpieces in postâ€"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 Caesar Code

    Johannes Mario Simmel

  • Caribe

    J.R. Sprechman

  • Christmas Day Kitten

    James Herriot

  • Circus

    Mattie Lou O'Kelley

  • Coming Dark Age

    Roberto Vacca

  • 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...

  • Crewe Train

    Rose MacAulay

    Denham Dobie has been brought up in Andorra by her father, a retired clergyman. On his death, she is snatched from this reclusive life and thrown into the social whirl of London by her sophisticated relatives. Denham, however, provides a candid re...

  • Curanne Trueheart

    Donald Newlove

    Self-conscious wisecracks and barely credible incidents aside, this plunge into the mind of a madwoman thoroughly engrosses the reader. Initially, it seems that thrice-institutionalized Curanne will find her way back to sanity by marrying Jack Truehe...

  • Curious George Walks the Pets

    H.A. Rey

  • Curious Little Kitten around the House

    Linda Hayward
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  • Danger Mouse Saves the World--Again

    Brown & Company Little

  • 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...

  • Dating Your Mom

    Ian Frazier

    From the opening essay, "The Bloomsbury Group Live at the Apollo (Liner Notes from the New Best-Selling Album)" to the title piece that discusses ways in which you might begin a romance with your mother ("In today's fast-moving, transient, rootless s...

  • A Day in Space

    Suzanne Lord

  • Deadly Nightshed

    William Maner

  • Death of the Mayfly

    Lee Enderlin

  • Delta Force

    Chuck Norris

  • Dickens

    Steven Marcus

  • Dominator

    James Follett

    An American under suspicion because of an accident aboard the NASA space shuttle "Dominator" that killed an astronaut and an Israeli lieutenant drummed out of the army face off for a showdown as Middle East conflicts embroil the superpowers...

  • The Dreamhouse

    Robin Lloyd-Jones

  • Dzerzhinsky Square

    James O. Jackson

    Faced with unjust execution by the Soviet state for collaboration with the Germans, Russian POW Grigory Nikolayevich Malmudov becomes a courier for the Americans in exchange for a new identity and being smuggled back into his own country...

  • Eat A Bowl Of Tea

    Louis Chu

    At the close of the Second World War, racist immigration laws trapped enclaves of old men in Chinatowns across the United States, preventing their wives or families from joining them. They took refuge from loneliness in the repartee and rivalries exc...

  • Elena

    Thomas H. Cook

    A fictional portrait of American writer Elena Franklin explores the impact of twentieth-century history on a small but influential literary group and evokes the human costs demanded in the life of a visionary artist...

  • Fairy Godmother

    Charles Clement

  • Fell of Dark

    Reginald Hill

    A friendship renewed; a marriage going sour; Harry Bentick heads for the Lake District not knowing if he's going in search of something or running away. Then two girls are found murdered in the high fells, and suddenly there's no doubt about it. He's...

  • Fire in Heaven

    Malcolm Bosse

  • Flames from the Ashes

    Stuart Buchan

  • Flesh and Blood

    Pete Hamill

    Blond blue-eyed Bobby Fallon is a tough Brooklyn Irish kid with a hunger to slay dragons. His fists hit like a mule kicking downhill. When he throws a punch, a scream bellows his rage, for his world is an endless chain of enemies. The torment of Pet...

  • Flying Is Fun!

    Carol North

  • For They Shall Inherit

    Malcolm MacDonald

    In nineteenth-century England, Clive Mortimer, son of a wealthy industrialist, and Freddy Oxley, the brilliant son of a laborer employed by Clive's father, are inseparable friends until they both fall in love with the same woman...

  • Frank and Stein and Me

    Kin Platt

  • Freeway Fighter

    Steve Jackson

  • Friendly Rivals

    Lisa Norby

  • The Fuse

    Tom Keene

    After Gordon Hallam's father is murdered because he was connected with a top secret World War II mission in Russia, Gordon fears he is the next target for death and that Operation Apostle is still under way...

  • Game of Honor

    Tom Lewis

  • 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 ...

  • The Glass Mermaid

    Susan Clymer

    What's happening to Becca's mermaid? Becca couldn't wait to see her Christmas presents. Exactly at midnight on Christmas Eve, she stole downstairs -- but suddenly stopped at the foot of the staircase: Something was moving on one side of the tree...

  • The Golden Christmas Treasury

    Rick Bunsen

  • The Good Apprentice

    Iris Murdoch

    Edward Baltram is overwhelmed with guilt. His nasty little prank has gone horribly wrong: He has fed his closest friend a sandwich laced with a hallucinogenic drug and the young man has fallen out of a window to his death. Edward searches for redemp...