Books Published in January 1986

New Books List: 481 titles

  • 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

  • Adrienne and the Blob

    Judith Enderle

    Adrienne was happy that she had been accepted in an exclusive summer biology class. She was sure it would be stimulating, and she looked forward to doing the independent research. She had certainly not expected Tuck to be part of her program, especia...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Agent Provocateur

    Lucy Hamilton

    WHO WAS MARK JAMES? He had escaped from his jungle captors and reached safety despite a bullet in his leg. It was Dr. Mickie Blake's job only to heal his wound, but she soon took on the added task of healing his heart. His past was clouded...

  • Air of Enchantment

    Sarah Keene

    Drawn together as if by magic Sam Cassidy was a busy architect. He knew next to nothing about caring for children--especially not pint-size refugees from the jet set. So he hired Tessa O'Brien, an innovative day-care teacher from Los Angeles,...

  • 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...

  • All Shook Up

    Elizabeth Levy

  • 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....

  • The Alternate Asimovs

    Isaac Asimov

  • And the Desert Blooms

    Iris Johansen

    Pandora had always known there was no other man in the world for her but Philip El Kabbar, the magnificently arrogant sheikh who ruled the desert land where she'd grown up. As a reckless tomboy she'd refused to go unnoticed by the fascinatin...

  • Angels of September

    Andrew M. Greeley

  • 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....

  • Any Woman's Blues

    Alice Walker

  • Arnold Lobel's Little Library of Nursery Rhymes

    Arnold Lobel

  • 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...

  • B. C. Great Zot, I'm Beautiful

    Johnny Hart

  • Bachelor Mother

    Elda Minger

    She could picture his face First he'd stare, incredulous. Then he'd laugh. Then he'd treat her to a long assessing look, and their friendship would dissolve right before her eyes. Melanie Randell could picture it all, but with no husband and no...

  • 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...

  • Bareback

    Merrilee Steiner

  • 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...

  • 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

  • Beyond the Veil

    Janet Morris

    Beyond the Veil is the second volume in an annual, non-themed horror series of entirely original stories, showcasing the very best short fiction that the genre has to offer, and edited by Mark Morris. This new anthology contains 20 original horror st...

  • The Big Grouse

    Douglas Clark

  • 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
    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    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 ...

  • Blackbird Keep

    Jesse Osburn

    The old house loomed large...menacing... Instantly Holly knew that she never should have come, but her mother had insisted that she pay her uncle a summer visit. The inmates of the house were weird too. Her uncle was evasive, her aunt, pale and fri...

  • Blithe Spirit

    Mary Haskell

    On the advice of a mischievous Ouija board, business-weary executive Linda Chester dashes off for a European vacation, certain she'll meet the man of her dreams. Sure enough, within hours of her arrival, a heartstoppingly handsome stranger rescues he...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Bluebells on the Hill // The Cowboy Next Door

    Barbara McMahon

    She wanted Mac to be happy again Amanda longed to escape stardom and live where she could be herself. Her new cabin, nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, seemed perfect--until she met Mac MacKensie, her neighbor. Still bitter over the desertion of hi...

  • 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....

  • Bombs Away

    Brown & Company Little

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • Bush War!

    William Moore

  • 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...

  • By Love Restored

    Nancy Johanson

    Brittany Lawson's first dream had been to marry Mitch Newmann and have a family. That one thwarted, she turned to her career as an architect. She had another dream, to buy the old Casebolt House and restore it for herself. Her firm has given her the ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Caesar Code

    Johannes Mario Simmel

  • The Cape Cod Affair

    Edith Delatush

    Mathematics professor Vanessa Blake had work to do. House-sitting on Cape Cod seemed the ideal opportunity to do it -- until the waves tossed up a very intriguing stranger with a very sprained ankle. President of a sporting goods empire, Luke Spencer...

  • Caribe

    J.R. Sprechman

  • Carson City Colt

    J.D. Hardin

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • Cautious Lover

    Stephanie James

    LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE Jess Winter always operated with a master plan, and Elly Trent found herself on schedule to marry him. He said she was everything he wanted: undemanding, reliable, tolerant -- and she could cook! Elly wanted to scream. Jess ...

  • 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...

  • Christmas Day Kitten

    James Herriot

  • Cimarron on a Texas Manhunt

    Lew Baines

  • Circus

    Mattie Lou O'Kelley

  • Cities of the Dead

    Linda Barnes

    AT MARDI GRAS EVEN THE DEAD CAN'T REST.... Steam rises from the streets and strippers dance in light as bleary as a drunk's vision. But actor and part-time private eye Michael Spraggue didn't come to New Orleans to gawk. He's trying to get an innoce...

  • 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...

  • The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor

    Peter Hillsman Taylor

  • Coming Dark Age

    Roberto Vacca

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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, ...

  • 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....

  • Cross My Heart

    Diana Gregory

    Craig Markham has been Meg's best friend for years, but now she wishes it were more than that. She's tried everything - from moonlit walks on the beach to a daring new swimsuit. But nothing seems to work. When handsome Mike Sanders asks Meg out. S...

  • 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
    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

  • Cutter's Lady

    Kristin James

    PORTRAIT OF A LADY... Leslie Harper was every inch a lady when she walked into the seedy Texas bar. Cutter was clearly no gentleman, but then, no gentleman could do the job she needed done. With Cutter's help she had to enter strife-torn Sa...

  • Cyclops

    Clive Cussler

    A FATAL OCEAN TREASURE HUNT...A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN ON A SECRET MISSION... AN INTERNATIONAL STAND-OFF ON THE SURFACE OF THE MOON! A wealthy American financier disappears on a treasure hunt in an antique blimp. From Cuban waters, the blimp drifts towar...

  • 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. ...

  • Danger Mouse Saves the World--Again

    Brown & Company Little

  • Dansville

    Robin McCorquodale

    Two lovers...consumed by a bittersweet obsession. From a small plains town in the aftermath of World War II, to the magnificent estates of Houston's elite--their hopes and dreams were as vast and beautiful as the Texas sky, their passions as hot as t...

  • Dante's Daughter

    Heather Graham

    Her life depended on it. Or at least her future as an aspiring young journalist. That was the only reason Katie Hudson would confront the man she'd always resented. Her in-depth interview with Ken Hart, superreceiver for the Sarasota Saxons, turn...

  • Dark Betrayal

    Patricia Lake

    Jake was dangerous -- too dangerous to love? Devastated at her betrayal by renowned playwright Jake Logan, Deborah Stevens had fled to Los Angeles to establish a career in fashion design. Now three years later, back in England, she knew she had to...

  • 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...

  • Daughter Of The Moon

    Lynn Carlock

  • A Day in Space

    Suzanne Lord

  • Dead Ground

    Philip Kerrigan

  • Deadly Nightshed

    William Maner

  • 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 ...

  • Death of the Mayfly

    Lee Enderlin

  • Delta Force

    Chuck Norris

  • 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...

  • Diary of Beatrice Webb

    Norman MacKenzie

  • Dickens

    Steven Marcus

  • Diplomatic Affair

    Claire Harrison

    It takes courage to love someone Ten years ago Rachel and Chris were in love. But ambition outweighed the strength of that youthful passion and they parted. Chris left for Europe to take up a foreign diplomatic post, and Rachel became a success...

  • 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...

  • Dragon Queens Revenge

    Eric Affabee

  • 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...

  • The Dreamhouse

    Robin Lloyd-Jones

  • The Drifter

    Gilbert Morris

  • 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...

  • A Dying Fall

    June Thomson

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Even Cops' Daughters

    Martha G. Webb

  • Ever Since Eve

    Kasey Adams

    Linda Dawson has only good intentions in matchmaking for her widowed mother Ruth, but Paul Tanner thinks both women are scheming manipulators after a rich man's money! When Paul's wealthy friend Simon falls for Ruth, Paul is furious with Lind...

  • Evil Mark

    Graham Miles

  • The Executor

    Gerald Hammond

  • 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...

  • Fair Game

    Daisy Vivian

  • Fairy Godmother

    Charles Clement

  • Family Secrets

    Ruth Langan

    THEY WERE ALL SUSPECTS... in the blackmailing of Trudy St. Martin. So for her eightieth birthday, all family members were invited to return to the fabulous St. Martin estate to celebrate...and to prove their innocence. Ivy Murdock, the gardener's...

  • 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...

  • Final Command

    Warren Norwood

    When an alien alliance upsets the balance of power in the conflict between the Sondak Confederacy and United Central Systems, Sondak's brilliant, ruthless commander launches a last-ditch offensive to transform defeat into victory...

  • 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...

  • Fire in Heaven

    Malcolm Bosse

  • Flames from the Ashes

    Stuart Buchan

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Floating Illusions

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Frailties

    Nancy Geyer

  • Frank and Stein and Me

    Kin Platt

  • Freeway Fighter

    Steve Jackson

  • Friendly Rivals

    Lisa Norby

  • 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 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...

  • The Gambler's Game

    Lee Magner

    It was a struggle for Katherine McKendrick to keep her Sierra Nevada ranch going. When big- city gambler Matt Farrell ended up in Still Waters jail, wrongly accused of misconduct, it seemed the perfect opportunity to hire herself a hand. Everyone war...

  • 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 ...

  • 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,...

  • Getting in

    Anne Hunter Lowell

    The simmering rivalry between Pearl sorority president Susie Madden and failed presidential hopeful Paula Parker comes to a head when Susie's younger sister Nancy, a girl clearly not suited for Pearl, pledges her sister's sorority...

  • The Ghost Dancers

    Patrick Andrews

    Captain Mack Hawkins, Lieutenant Ludlow Dooley and their Kiowa-Comanche Detachment of U.S. Scouts are dispatched to the Arizona Territory, their mission to put a halt to a series of raids on horse ranches. Neither they nor the U.S. Army realize these...

  • 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...

  • Gifted Education: A Comprehensive View

    Margie Kitano

  • 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...

  • Go Down Fighting

    John Mackie

    The Rat Bastards face the deadliest battle of all as the war draws to an explosive end. The Japanese launch a final, desperate attack-a blood-hungry suicide mission. And the Rat Bastards finally meet their match. Kicking, clawing, shooting, stabbing-...

  • The Golden Christmas Treasury

    Rick Bunsen

  • The Golden Grove

    Nancy Kress

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Graham Greene, While Waiting for a War

    Bill Buford

  • The Grail Seeker's Companion

    John Matthews

    There have been many books about the Grail, written from many differing standpoints. Some have been practical, some purely historical, others literary, but this is the first Grail book which sets out to help the esoterically inclined seeker through 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...

  • 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...

  • Granta 20

    Bill Buford
    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

  • 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 ...

  • Gumby Book of Colors

    Jane Hyman

  • 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

  • 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...

  • Hagar the Horrible: Brings 'EM Back Alive

    Dik Browne
    • / General Fiction
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  • Hair Trigger Kill

    E.B. Majors

  • Halfhyde and the Chain Gangs

    Philip McCutchan

    Recalled to active duty and assigned to the old square-rigger "Glen Hallandale," Lieutenant St. Vincent Halfhyde is given the unwelcome task of transporting unruly, dangerous convicts to the South African wars...

  • 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...

  • Hard-Boiled Dames

    Bernard A. Drew

    First Edition. Signed by the author of the preface, Marcia Muller. A very good plus book in a very good plus dust jacket. Book and jacket have mild shelf wear. An anthology of mystery stories from the pulps of the 1930's featuring women investigators...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Heart Aflame

    Susan Kirby

    Amanda Holt, if not the town beauty like her sister Ellen, is the town's most outstanding designer/seamstress, and her business is thriving to the point that, to complete Ellen's wedding gown, she must find a way to work without interruption. Escapin...

  • 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...

  • Heartland

    Robert Douglas Mead

  • Heathcliff, One, Two, Three and You're Out

    Geo Gately

  • Heaven on Earth

    Sandra Kleinschmit

    IN THE BOOK OF LOVE. Samantha Monroe planned to spend the summer swept away in a world of fantasy created by her favorite romance author. Then one day a real live fantasy man appeared before her on the beach. Jason Armstrong seemed to have step...

  • Henriette: The Story of a Doll

    Tracy Friedman

  • 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...

  • The Highest Tower

    Ann Hurley

    DON'T LOOK DOWN! BeeGee Chambers finally belonged somewhere. After years of travel she'd discovered the joys of home in the paradise of Fort Myers, Florida. At last, BeeGee had found her niche. Dan Greening had found his place, too -- a...

  • The Homeward Bounders

    Diana Wynne Jones

    If he finds the right world, Jamie can get Home again.When Jamie stumbled upon the powerful Them playing Their mysterious games, They threw him out to the Boundaries of the worlds. Since then, he's been yanked from world to world, doomed to wonder in...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Howling III

    Gary Brandner

    This is it Gary Brandner's famous book, "THE HOWLING III." A must read

    "If you haven't read Gary Brandner you're missing a treat." STEPHEN KING

    * * *

    They are man. And they are beast. Once again they stalk the night, eyes aflame, teeth fl...

  • The Humbug Man // A Rancher for Christmas

    Diana Palmer

    Montana rancher Tate Hollister had to be the grouchiest, grumpiest humbug man widow Maggie Jeffries had ever met. But as the holiay season progressed, Maggie discovered that Tate wasn't completely immune to the Christmas spirit - his loving embrace c...

  • Hunting the Elephant in Africa

    Chauncey Hugh Stigand

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • If I Loved You Wednesday

    Jeannette Eyerly

  • If Wishes Were Saabs and Other Nursery Rhymes for Modern Times

    Tom Darbyshire

  • 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...

  • In the Name of Love

    Jacqueline Ashley

    For months, she'd prepared for nothing but this moment She'd moved to Tulsa, disguised her features and changed her name. She'd carefully chosen time and place so that the encounter would seem perfectly innocuous. Now she found herself staring at ...

  • In the Shadow of the Bear

    Judith St. George

  • In These Promiscuous Parts

    Menna Gallie

  • An International Episode and Other Stories

    Henry James

  • Into the Light

    Judith Duncan

    SHE COULDN'T EVADE HER PAST FOREVER When Natalie Carter fled her home in British Columbia eleven years ago, she disappeared without a word to Adam Rutherford, the man she loved. Her return threw her and Adam together again, but the reunion ...

  • 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...

  • Is There a

    Barbara Steiner

  • 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...

  • 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 â€" ins...

  • Jade

    Nancie MacCullough Weir

  • Jell-O Syndrome

    Winifred Morris

    A teen-ager who has always made fun of boy-conscious friends and who has been groomed to develop her "full potential" finds herself becoming interested in boys and begins to question some of her former thinking....

  • Jemima Shore's First Case and Other Stories

    Antonia Fraser

    MEET ANTONIA FRASER'S JEMIMA SHORE.... Jemima Shore didn't plan on a life of detection. But at the age of fifteen, while staying at a Catholic boarding school, she found herself plunged into a bizarre situation involving a suspicious miracle and a...

  • Jeweled Skies, Shimmering Sands

    Anna Hudson

    Survival expert Vivian Chaney was interested in selling copies of her books -- but this time her literary agent had gone too far. Vivian always knew that David McMahon was arrogant, hardheaded, and penny-pinching, but she wasn't aware he was also...

  • 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...