Books Published in January 1986

New Books List: 481 titles

  • Zorro and the Pirate Raiders

    D.J. Arneson

    The Pirate Raiders, with the villainous Captain Bardoso in command, are employed by the vicious Captain Ramon to kidnap the daughter of a wealthy caballero, hoping to use her to trap Zorro. Battles on land and sea, flashing swords and booming cannon ...

  • 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...

  • Yesterday's Promises

    Nicola Thorne

  • 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...

  • Wrap It in Flags

    Robert Terrall

  • The World We Have Lost

    Peter Laslett

  • Wizard of the Pigeons

    Megan Lindholm

    A gorgeously illustrated 35th anniversary edition of the urban fantasy classic, featuring a new foreword by Megan Lindholm and illustrations by Tommy Arnold.

    Seattle: a place as magical as the Emerald City. Subtle magic seeps through the cra...

  • Winter's Tales

    David Hughes

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The White Witch

    Emily James (1)

  • White Raven

    Michael Blodgett

  • The White Fire

    Robert E. Vardeman

  • 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...

  • When Snow Meets Fire

    Christine Flynn

    MELTING AWAY.... The Aleutian Islands were exactly where Dr. Tory Richards wanted to be: far away from nonstop, high pressure Los Angeles, where she'd done her medical internship. Now all she was going to do for a year was administer to the simple...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Way-Farer

    Dennis Schmidt

  • The Wave

    Evelyn Scott

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Waged Work: Reader

    Virago Press

  • Voices from the Moon P

    Andre Dubus

  • The Visitor

    Jack W. Hayford

  • 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...

  • Village Tales

    Henry Williamson

  • Villa's Rifles

    Lewis B. Patten
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  • Vertical hold

    Laurel Bauer

  • Vein of Gold

    Elaine Camp

    Black gold. Oil. Men risked lives and fortunes to find it, but Faith Hutton went them one better: she risked her heart. Faith quit a good job as a petroleum geologist to join forces with wildcatter Houston Traynor. Houston was a maverick, unintere...

  • Vatican

    Malachi Martin

  • Valentine Rosey

    Sheila Greenwald

  • The Utilitarians

    Jeremy Bentham

  • Up to Ten and Down Again

    Lisa Campbell Ernst

  • 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...

  • An Unexpected Pleasure

    Nancy Martin

    ONE ROMANTIC NIGHT CHANGED THEIR LIVES Everyone in the press corps was talking about the illustrious David Whittaker. When Bret Donovan an accomplished journalist herself, met him, she understood why. The man was perfect. Not long after David l...

  • Under the Ginkgo Tree

    Sara Orwig

    When Sandy Smith's ginkgo trees wilted for the third time, nursery owner Gabe London just had to investigate. And when he met the lovely manager of the Casa Grande Retirement Center, he guessed who the culprit was: his younger brother Pete, who would...

  • Uncollected Stars

    Piers Anthony

    An anthology of sixteen neglected or forgotten masterpieces of science fiction encompasses works by such writers as Walter M. Miller, Jr., Lewis Padget, Jerome Bixby, Pauline Ashwell, and Donald E. Westlake...

  • An Unbreakable Bond

    Robyn Donald

    Bound to each other by passion ... Eliot Buchanan was outraged to think that his late uncle's mistress would inherit a large share of the family's New Zealand estate. And as executor of the will he planned to do everything in his power to ...

  • Twin Peaks or Bust

    E.J. Hunter

  • True Colors

    Jayne Ann Krentz

    Her heart was on the line Jamie Garland loved working for the eccentric Miss Isabel. Her job often threw her into the company of the most fascinating people . . . like Cade Santerre. From the start, he made no secret of the fact that he desired he...

  • The Trouble with Ghosts

    Brown & Company Little

  • The Trouble at Aquitaine

    Nancy Livingston

  • Triple Crown

    Jon L. Breen

  • Travelers

    Larry Bograd

  • 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...

  • 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-...

  • Tower of Glass

    Ivan Angelo

    The five interlocking stories in The Tower Of Glass create a singular, powerful account of a nation in turmoil - and a prophetic warning about an oppressive government's need to control not just the society but the mind. Through symbolism, wry humour...

  • Tournament of Knights

    Joe Lasker

  • Tough Act to Follow

    Anne Henry

    Their paths should never have crossed But in a town as small as Heritage, Missouri, such things were inevitable. In one day, Elaine Farrell encountered Judge Nathan Stewart not once, but twice. The first time, he lectured her about speeding. The sec...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Top of the World

    John Rowe Townsend

  • Too Late to Be Good

    Craig Jones

    By day, Fay Colby is a successful advertising executive, whose alternate persona, Ann Decker, recklessly satisfies an insatiable lust each night--but her separate worlds collide as her many lovers are systematically murdered...

  • 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...

  • To Love a Thief

    Joanne Bremer

    For a moment it was like a movie--romantic, adventurous, exciting. Then Hillary Ann Worthington snapped back to reality-albeit reality of a rather exotic sort. The Blue Flamingo--a vintage railroad train that rivaled the Orient Express--was her late ...

  • Ties That Bind

    Jean Sutherland

  • Thumper's Little Sisters (Walt Disney Fun-To-Read Library, Volume. 2)

    Disney Book Group

  • Through the Flames

    Duffy Stein

  • Three Wishes

    M. Jean Craig

  • Three Sisters

    Norma Fox Mazer

    How’s a girl supposed to know when she’s in love -- and more importantly, how does she get out of it? One remarkable older sister would be bad enough, but Karen Freed has two: Liz, a beautiful poet, and Tobi, compellingly intense and argumentativ...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • That New Pet!

    Alane Ferguson

  • Terminal Road

    D.B. Drumm

  • The Ten-Million-Dollar Golf Ball

    Albert E. Killeen

    In order to clinch the critical golf match for the chairmanship of Quincetree Golf Club against the present chairman, Charles Twitchell III, twenty-handicap golfer Hubert J. Carnes spends ten million dollars to create an electronically controlled gol...

  • Target Red Star

    Nick Carter

  • A Talk With the Angels

    Desmond Meiring

  • The Tail of the Arabian Knight

    Geoffrey Marsh

  • TACK into Danger

    Marvin Miller

  • TACK Against Time

    Marvin Miller

  • The Tachyon Web

    Christopher Pike

  • Sweets to the Sweet

    Jeanne Grant

    When exhausted, anxious new mother Laura Anderson crashes her Pinto into a vintage Austin-Healey, her plea for a savior comes true in the capable, disarming driver of the injured vehicle. Chocolate manufacturer Owen Reesling proves to be both fairy g...

  • The Swamp Slayers

    Jon Sharpe

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Summer Vacation

    Edith Kunhardt
    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Strange Felony

    Elizabeth Linington

  • State of Grace

    Joy Williams

    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE â€˘ 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...

  • 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...

  • Stairway C

    Elvire Murail

  • The Spy Who Barked in the Night

    Marc Lovell

  • Spy Wednesday

    William Hood

    TREASON DAY Alan Trosper tried to quit the racket. But the Firm wouldn't hear of it. Now Trosper knows that there are only two kind of spies -- dead and alive. ...

  • Spinster

    Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  • Spanish Moon

    Beverly Wilcox Hull

    Was it the chance she'd been waiting for? Uncertain of her expertise. Joanna Kinsman hesitated. As assistant to the director of a leading art auction and appraisal firm, she was to go to Spain to assess a collection that might be worth millions. Bols...

  • Soul of the City

    Robert Asprin; Lynn Abbey

    KEEP ONE HAND ON YOUR MONEY AND THE OTHER ON YOUR SWORD! Welcome to SANCTUARY,- a city of outlaws and adventurers in a world of war and wizardry, peopled with colorful characters created by today's top fantasy talents: LYNN ABBEY • C. J. CHER...

  • 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 ...

  • The Solitary

    Lynn Hall

  • Softwar

    Thierry Breton

    The Soviets buy an American supercomputer through France, supposedly to forecast weather in Siberia, but the suspicious U.S. sends brilliant computer scientist Brendon Baines to plant a series of booby traps in the software...

  • 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...

  • Sleep

    Lynn Biederstadt

  • The Sky Is Falling

    Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    THE MURDEROUS MONEY MACHINE It was honer than sex. It packed a bigger punch than the H-bomb. And best of all, it was worth a sky-high pile of blue chips for the company that could make and market the machine that could tap the full energy of the ...

  • Six Key Cut

    Max Crawford

    Wealthy Vietnam vet Sid Mehring goes to Miami to learn whether his young ward Jamie, orphaned sister of one of his dead buddies, has been murdered or been part of a cocaine scam. She's in love with Byron Racicot, who is in homosexual thrall to the sa...

  • 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...

  • Sir Silver Swine

    Susan Saunders

  • 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, ...

  • Silver Linings

    Shirley Davies-Owens

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Shelter

    Marty Asher

  • Shapes to Show

    Karen Gundersheimer

  • Shadows of Eden

    Rosemary Badger

    Meeting Joshua was just what she needed Though Eden certainly didn't agree -- at first. Haunted as she was by memories of the accident in which she'd lost her family, Joshua's arrogant takeover of her life was a rude shock. Graduall...

  • 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 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Sesame Street Count to Ten

    Emily Thompson

  • Sequel

    Elizabeth Lowell

    GABRIEL VENTURE HAD TAUGHT HER HOW TO LOVE--AND HOW TO HATE At nineteen Joy Anderson had been innocent, trusting, and wholly in love with Gabriel Venture. Gabe was a journalist on assignment. Joy had been his guide. Together they explored Lost Ri...

  • Selected Poems

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Sea to Shining Sea

    Berton Roueche

  • 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...

  • Savage Enquiry: Who Controls Childbirth?

    Wendy Savage

  • Saturnalia

    Grant Callin

  • Sarah's Questions

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Santabear's First Christmas

    Howard B. Lewis

  • 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...

  • Run for the Sun

    Barry Sadler

  • Rumplestiltskin

    Golden Books

  • 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...

  • Rope of Gold

    Josephine Herbst

    In the conclusion of the Trexler trilogy, the shadow of the Depression darkens America, affecting men and women of all walks of life, in a realistic portrait of the political, economic, and social upheaval of the 1930s...

  • Romance in the Roaring Forties: And Other Stories

    Damon Runyon

  • 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...

  • Rogue Bolo

    Keith Laumer

    The first completely automated Bolo, designed to operate normally without a man on board, was the landmark XV Model M, which performed remarkably well.However, the always-present possibility of capture and use of a Bolo by an enemy was a constant sou...

  • 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...

  • Rivals

    George V. Allen

    Libby Grey tries to cope with repeated disappointments from her married lover, politician Ken Stresland, and deal with her vengeful former boss, Meg Peters, the manipulative president of a successful headhunting firm...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 â€" God’s precious gift to the Israelites through the conquest of Canaan. But for Rizpah, the ...

  • 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 Rich and the Mighty

    Vera Cowie

    When renowned model Elizabeth Sheridan inherits the fortune of billionaire Richard Tempest, she seems determined and savvy enough to survive the family battles of Tempest's greedy stepchildren--until she meets Dev Loughlin...

  • 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...

  • 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, ...

  • 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...

  • Rescue in Mirkwood

    John Ruemmler

  • 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...

  • A Regular Rolling Noah

    George Ella Lyon

  • Reflections of Yesterday

    Debbie Macomber

    Angie Robinson and Simon Canfield were from opposite sides of the track. But when they were seventeen, their love knew no boundaries. When Mrs. Canfield told Angie her son had found someone else, she didn't believe it - until she saw the proof. So An...

  • Red Pottage

    Mary Cholmondeley

    Red Pottage is the story of adultery and a clergyman who destroys his sister's art. The first plot contained in this novel is that of Rachael West an heiress and her love for a man trapped in an illicit affair who is doomed to die by is own hand....

  • Reckless

    Amanda Carpenter

    This was the ultimate test of courage Leslie considered herself tough. She loved her work as a foreign correspondent, which thrust her into a world of danger and adventure -- a world where she could forget the pain and grief locked within her. ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • The Purse

    Kathy Caple

  • The Pull

    Bobby Jack Nelson

  • Pstalemate

    Lester Del Rey

  • 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...

  • Promise Me

    Mons Daveson

    Geena had accepted Jordan's decision She had tried hard not to fall in love with Jordan Kincaid. For although she was a friend of his sister, Geena regarded the wealthy businessman as strictly out of her world. Things hadn't worked out ...

  • Privates

    Gene Horowitz

  • A Private Passion

    Sarah Juon

    The sudden reappearance of Alan Weiss, a former lover from her days as a student activist, threatens to upset Marlena's marriage to Russell, a successful dentist, as she is forced to confront hidden feelings, dreams, and desires...

  • The Princess of Flames

    Ru Emerson

    On the stolen throne of Darion sits the ursurper, Sedry, haunted by the silent grey eyes of the half-sister he banished, whose gift for magic was equal to his own; Elfrid, the Bastard. At watch, folded into the darkness, Bal of Korent remembers a hal...

  • Pretty Good for a Woman

    D.A. Callard

  • 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...

  • Power Point

    Rowan Kirby

    Only her feelings could guide her Child psychologist Anna Coleman knew that the key to helping her patient lay in persuading Neil Tyrell, the boy's older brother and legal guardian, to attend their sessions and reveal his own turmoil concernin...

  • Pooh's New Clothes

    Pete Goodman

  • 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...

  • Playing Fields in Winter

    Helen Harris

    Sarah Livingstone and Ravi Kaul meet at Oxford. She is English, sensing a chance to evade the pattern of conventional middle-class life to which her experience has so far conformed. The more sophisticated Indian, Ravi, also wishes to sample another w...

  • 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 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...

  • Pilgermann

    Russell Hoban

    "After Pilgermann, a German Jew in the year 1096, ravishes the tax collector's wife, an angry Christian mob retaliates by brutally castrating him. Bleeding and left for dead, Pilgermann experiences a vision of Jesus Christ and resolves to set out on ...

  • Phoenix Sword

    Wade Barker

  • Pawn of Prophecy

    David Eddings

    WHILE THE DARK GOD SLEPT Long ago, so the Storyteller claimed, the evil God Torak sought dominion and drove men and Gods to war. But Belgarath the Sorcerer led men to reclaim the Orb that protected men of the West. So long as it lay at Riva, the p...

  • Passionate Deception

    Mary Lyons

    It was a daring plan that backfired completely! Harriet Drummond, promising law student, caused a commotion the day she protested an expropriation bid by Lancaster International. Her antics landed her in the office of the company chairman, Ja...

  • Passion's Rogue

    Helen Carras

    An expert in Middle Eastern languages and the daughter of a famed archeologist, Gerri Wainwright was at home in the most exotic cities of the world. But nothing had prepared her for handling Foreign Service Specialist Scott Antrim. Bold, sensual, he ...

  • Paradise Found

    Diana Morgan

    Casey Flanagan thought she was still dreaming when she awoke in the middle of the blue Caribbean, and a stranger as handsome as a Greek god handed her a glass of champagne and introduced himself as the millionaire James Sinclair, III. But the sweet d...

  • Over the Edge

    Linda A. Cooney

  • Outlaw's Empire

    Ray Hogan

  • Our Snowman

    M.B. Goffstein

  • Our Love

    Fern Brown

    After interviewing Daniel Luu, a Vietnamese student and former refugee, for an article in the school newspaper, shy Sue Bolkowski discovers that despite their different backgrounds, they have much in common, including a mutual attraction....

  • Oranges in the Snow

    Anne Kolaczyk; Ed

    Sitting in a ditched car in a Minnesota blizzard, wondering why she'd ever left California, Erika Sarinaan knew her body had frozen solid. But when a bearded Viking of a savior turned up to dig her out, she felt a surprising sudden thaw in her heart!...

  • One Time in Glory

    Frank James

    Growing old and losing his sight, Marshal Bill Triggman decides to settle in the small, quiet town of Glory, where he thinks he can keep the peace--but circumstances change when a gang of outlaws moves into town...

  • One in a Million

    Sandra Field

    For love or money? A million dollars made Laura a very eligible prospect for marriage but it was a handicap for a young woman who wanted to be loved for herself. She needed time to think about her future plans. A month at a Cape Breton cottage ...

  • Olive Field

    Ralph Bates

  • Old Forest and Other Stories

    Peter Taylor

  • The October Circle

    Robert Littell

    This harrowing Cold War thriller from the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author of The Company is “a brave, ambitious, and most worthy book” (The Washington Post).   Connoisseurs of the literary spy thriller rank Robert Littell up there with J...

  • Nurse's War

    Brenda McBryde

  • Numbears

    Kathleen Hague

  • 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 ...

  • Nowhere to Run

    Anne Hunter Lowell

  • 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...

  • Notebooks of Samuel Butler

    S. Butler

  • North to Destiny

    Donna Carolyn Anders

  • 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...

  • No Longer a Dream

    Carole Mortimer

    Was he offering her a second chance for love? To research her book, author Cat Howard had chased down Caleb Steele, the arrogant owner of a film studio. But when she woke up in his bed one morning, unable to remember how she'd got there, she w...

  • Nine Women

    Shirley Ann Grau

    A “luminescent” collection of stories about nine Southern women from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Keepers of the House (The New York Times). The nine namesake women of this collection come from widely disparate worlds, f...

  • 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...

  • Nightbook

    William Kotzwinkle

  • 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 ...

  • Night Prayers

    Frank Coffey

    Alex and Sarah Milholland came to Bryan Cove on the eve of a dark anniversary. And they had a visitor. A woman-child of startling beauty, who appeared out of nowhere the night of the mysterious storm. -- With her arrival, the Milhollands quiet life...

  • The Night of the Scorpion

    Anthony Horowitz

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

    Shannon Ravenel
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  • New Black Mask #6

    Richard Layman

  • The New Black Mask #5

    Richard Layman

    Featuring the best from the modern masters of detective, intrigue, suspense, and mystery fiction: "William Haggard: An Interview"; "Timeo Danaos" & "Commentary on Timeo Danaos" by William Haggard; "After the Thin Man: Part 1" by Dashiell Hammett; "Ac...

  • Mystery of the Melted Diamonds

    Carol Farley