Books Published in January 1987

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JANUARY 1987

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New Books List: 494 titles

  • Can This Telethon Be Saved?

    Barbara Adams

  • Connections: A Guide to the Basics of Writing

    Peter Dow Adams

  • Moon Valley

    Jon Agee

  • The Terror

    Jerry Ahern

    When the earth's atmosphere explodes info a blazing wave of global fire, few could hope to escape with their lives. But John Thomas Rourke--ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist and survival expert--would not be denied another chance a...

  • A Dead Liberty

    Catherine Aird

    A crime of passion, a jealous admirer, a woman who would kill before she would be spurned--it might all fit if only the primary suspect would talk in CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird's Dead Liberty. Lucy Durmast waits patiently in front of...

  • 1787

    Joan Anderson

  • Dahut

    Poul Anderson; Karen Anderson

    In book three of the King of Ys series, Gratillonius’s reign faces a deadly new threat from across the sea For sixteen years Gratillonius has been the king of Ys, a position he has used to bring the once-teetering city-state back to stability ...

  • A Place to Hide

    Evelyn Anthony

    Frank Arbuthnot, rejecting his background of wealth and privilege, becomes a pawn in the murderous game of Irish politics and is betrayed by Marie, a beautiful terrorist who is insanely jealous of Frank's halfsister...

  • Fathers and Daughters

    William S. Appleton

    A groundbreaking study of the critical years shared by fathers and daughters interprets the important phases of a woman's life and the influences of the paternal role model at each point.

    William S. Appleton, M.D. is a psychiatrist who has ...

  • The Heart of the Matter

    Lindsay Armstrong

    Could she stir passion where once she stirred pity? For the intensely shy Clarry Kingston, life would have been unbeatable without her very special friend, Robert Randall. In every crisis he had been there to run to. Even when they married, it ...

  • Trapped in Tar

    Caroline Arnold

  • The Discovery of King Arthur

    Geoffrey Ashe

    Myths, legends, and literary mysteries mix with maps, relics, and historical facts in The Discovery of King Arthur. Scholars, students, and general readers of all ages have wondered -- for centuries -- about whether Britain was ever really ruled by a...

  • The Long Journey Home

    Jacqueline Ashley

    Was it a declaration of love or war? As Cassy studied Bram Palmer's contented smile, she wasn't sure what she'd gotten herself into. No Stewart would invite a Palmer home for coffee, and no Palmer would accept. The mill-owning Stewarts...

  • Myth-Nomers and Im-Pervections

    Robert Asprin

    How could such a thickheaded demon be so thin-skinned? But Aahz, Skeeve's friend and mentor, has taken exception to something his partner has said, and left in a huff. It was just a myth-understanding, but now it's Skeeve's job to apologize for his t...

  • Brute Force

    Richard Austin

    BAYOU BLOODBATH! From the ashes of World War III rose the Guardians. Their mission: put the U.S.A. back on the map as a democracy. Now rumors of a new inexhaustible energy supply have surfaced. Developed by the U.S. before the war,' whoever finds ...

  • Benya Krik, the Gangster and Other Stories

    Isaac Babel

    A group of stories by Isaac Babel, in which he seeks to balance the image of Jewish violence against the violence done to Jews who are so Jewish that they cannot help but be nonviolent. The collection includes the tales Benya Krik and The Gangster....

  • Love's Soft Whisper

    June Masters Bacher

    Sent away from family and friends, young Courtney Glamora begins a long, mysterious journey to find adventure, love and faith in the rugged Columbia Territory. A pawn between rival family factions of wealth and aristocracy, Courtney is sent far from ...

  • The Fighting Agents

    Alex Baldwin

    The Philippines, 1943. The remnants of the American forces--those who escaped the Japanese--have fled into the mountains. But their war has only just begun. Led by the fiery, unorthodox Lieutenant Colonel Wendell Fertig, a ragtag army of troops and P...

  • The Wood Nymph

    Mary Balogh

    HOW COULD SHE LOVE A MAN WHOM SHE COULD ONLY DESPISE? How could Lady Helen Wade possibly love a gentleman like William Mainwaring, handsome and wealthy as he might be? How could she love this object of her two older sisters' matrimonial designs? ...

  • The Warning Bell

    Lynne Reid Banks

  • The Relation of My Imprisonment

    Russell Banks

    “Banks has skillfully used his repertoire of contemporary techniques to write a novel that is classically American -- a dark, but sometimes funny, romance with echoes of Poe and Melville.† --  Washington Post"A marvelously written litt...

  • No Ceiling but Heaven

    Mykal Mayfield Banta

  • Ecstasy's Trail

    Elaine Barbieri

    SHE RAN FROM THE LAW It didn't matter that it was self-defense when alluring Billie Winslow killed the richest man in Texas; she had no choice but to flee. Binding her luscious curves and cutting her luxurious hair, the blonde fugitive signed on as ...

  • God's Country

    Martha Barron Barrett

    Feisty Anne Aiken MacKnight arrived on the shores of America alone and virtually a slave--indentured to the Glenn family who farmed a spread in eastern Pennsylvania. What Anne found in the new world opened her eyes--here was an exciting land big e...

  • Miss Drayton's Crusade

    Elizabeth Barron

    Undaunted By Adversity Poor Melissa Drayton! Her eagerly awaited visit with her old school chum found her in the most unsettling situation. She had arrived at the Yorkshire estate only to find beautiful Sarah overcome with misery, and her handsome...

  • Between the Raindrops

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    Take her baby away from her? Never! Beth Loring was determined to fight for her daughter--in court, if necessary. But it was hard to concentrate on a custody battle when a new neighbor scented determined to distract her. What Beth didn't know abou...

  • The Last Emperor

    Edward Behr

  • Powwow

    June Behrens

  • Children of Arable

    David Belden

    No dysfunctional families here ? no families. No gender wars here ? no gender. In a galactic civilization so scared of emotion it has abolished gender and families, a young person decides to give birth. And so does the person's lover. But only one of...

  • Zero Db and Other Stories

    Madison Smartt Bell

    From the National Book Award–finalist: This “brilliant” story collection exploring the lives of dispossessed Americans is “one of his best achievements” (The Washington Post).   Thematically focused on hard-luck cha...

  • Cornish Mystery

    Jean Bellamy

  • Under the Wheel

    Gregory Benford

  • Lucia in London

    E.F. Benson

    LOVE A LA LONDON When Lucia Lucas, the absolute monarch of provincial English society, sets out to seize the throne of London’s smartest set, the problem is, can a beautiful, ambitious woman take a dashing, ambitious lover -- without betraying h...

  • The Russian Bride

    Marcelle Bernstein

    A marriage has been arranged...A very unlikely marriage...between Salka, olive-skinned and golden-eyed, and Leon, the experienced Viennese sensualist. Salka's parents are far away in Russia, and her Hamburg cousins want her off their hands. Leon i...

  • Sweet 16 and Never

    Jeanne Betancourt

  • September Light

    Horst Bienek

  • Some Kind of Wonderful

    David Bischoff

    The story of four San Paulo High students whose lives intertwine, including Keith Nelson, a social zero, Amanda Jones, the golden girl of the social scene, Hardy Jenns, a rich kid, and Drummer Girl, who lives only for music and Keith Nelson...

  • Lola Koala and the Ten Times Worse Than Anything

    Muriel Blaustein

  • Playing With Fire

    Jill Bloom

    She could get burned playing with fire Firefighter Sarie Appleton thought she'd seen the last of the arson fires, But she was wrong. Obviously the culprit was still on the loose. The latest building destroyed was owned by one of Boston's leading c...

  • Inner Joy

    Kory Bloomfield

    Suggests possible remedies for curing anhedonia, the inability to experience pleasure to the fullest, and encourages individuals to unlock hidden pleasure potential at play and at work through natural turn-ons...

  • Hit the Ball and Drag Charley and Other Great Golf Stories

    Gerry Blumenfeld

  • F.N.G.

    Donald Bodey

    "One of the most hard-hitting of all the Vietnam novels." The Boston Herald.

    In Vietnam, a new guy loses his rawness fast. Almost as fast as he can lose his life.

    Gabriel Sauers of Two Squad is newly arrived in Nam, a graduate of basic ...

  • What the Wind Told

    Betty Boegehold

  • Monsieur Pamplemousse Takes the Cure

    Michael Bond

    When France's leading gastronomic guidebook decides to launch itself into the expanding health farm market, its Director decides Monsieur Pamplemousse is the man for the job: overweight, underactive, with a blood pressure count that threatens to shoo...

  • Gateway of Doom

    J.H. Brennan

  • Scarlet Sunrise

    Leigh Bristol

    A Southern Belle... A Rugged Frontiersman... Destined For Passion And Obsession Elizabeth was as elegantly beautiful as her family's lavish plantation; Jed was as rough and brutal as the lawless Texas land he loved. She belonged to a world out o...

  • The Spell

    Hermann Broch

  • Crown Sable

    Janice Young Brooks

    FROM THE DEPTHS OF POVERTY TO A WOMAN OF POWER AND MEANS Irene Kossock was a terrified 13-year-old when she arrived as an immigrant in turn-of-the-century New York. No one could suspect the stunning beauty that would be hers, or the talent and ambit...

  • Haunted House

    Rebecca Brown

    After returning from Europe, Robin finds her hard-working mother transformed into a film star with an invented past, and attempts to restore her Victorian dream house only to have the house itself mysteriously turn on her...

  • The Flutterby Princess

    Pamela Browning

    "Women aren't supposed to be rolling stones..." Will Anthony complained of Nuala Kemp's nomadic life-style. She traveled from town to town, delighting children with her story telling at fairs and libraries. But one stormy night in ...

  • Teckla

    Steven Brust

    THE TECKLA WERE REVOLTING I'd always known they were. Teckla were lazy, stupid, cowardly peasants. Revolting. Old joke. But now they were revolting against the Empire. New joke. And a Jhereg crimelord, feeling the pinch, was popping the rebels....

  • Few Flowers for St. George

    Brian Burland

    James Berkeley, a student at a Canadian university, is stricken to the point of suicide by loneliness and the incapacity to find or give love after the death of his father reveals the intricate bonds in his apparently close-knit family...

  • A Little Princess

    Frances Hodgson Burnett

    Ten-year-old Sara Crewe wasn't really a princess. But she seemed like one when she first arrived at Miss Minchin's London boarding school. Her father had given her all sorts of beautiful clothes before he had returned to India, as well as a pony, a F...

  • Hard Habit to Break

    Linda Cajio

    When gorgeous Matt Callahan came to town, he set off fireworks--and Liz O'Neal felt her senses sizzle as if everyday were the 4th of July! Living next door to the devastatingly handsome mystery man threatened to shatter her respectable bank manager's...

  • Just Too Cool

    Jamie Callan

    CAN THE HOTTEST PUNK GUITAR PLAYER EVER TO HIT THE CHARTS BEHAVE ANYTHING LIKE YOUR AVERAGE 16-YEAR-OLD...? You bet your bass she can. Because underneath Furstenberg's rainbow colored hair, she knows how to work hard enough to make her band an "o...

  • The News of the World

    Ron Carlson

    These stories come at us from every direction. They are Ron Carlson's response to the eighties, the stories we will want by our sides as the decade ends. Whether it is a husband trying to bring his marriage back together or Bigfoot finally coming for...

  • The Devil's Darling

    Emily Carmichael

    AN OUTLAW'S CAPTIVE ON A LAWLESS SEA ... She was India Catherine Carey, an eighteen-year-old English beauty betrothed to a man she did not love, a helpless girl aboard a sinking ship in a storm-wracked sea. He was Christopher Barnett, the noblema...

  • The Forever Bond

    Eleni Carr

    EVE HAD BLOSSOMED WITH CARL'S LOVE Eve Raptis had freed herself from the bonds of a conservative upbringing and a traditional marriage. Her new career as a high-school guidance counselor was hard won, but she was proud of her achievement. Then ...

  • In Spite of Thunder

    John Dickson Carr

    The master of the Golden Age British-style detective novel presents his redoubtable sleuth Dr. Gideon Fell in a baffling murder mystery set in the Swiss Alps Young Audrey Page has been warned against joining the aging film star Eve Eden and her tempe...

  • The Lady Who Hated Shakespeare

    Susan Carroll

    HATE, REVILE, AND DESPISE HER HANDSOME COUSIN? THE LADY DID PROTEST TOO MUCH! Really, it was the outside of enough! Not only did Cordelia Renwick's bookish father intend to spend his summer engrossed in Shakespeare, but he invited his insufferable...

  • Mandingo Master

    Ashley Carter

    WHO IS THE MASTER? WHO IS THE SLAVE? Falconhurst--the south's greatest slave-breeding plantation-has known great heights of glory and grueling hard times. But a new adventure begins when Master Hammond returns from Africa with Obed--a Mandingo! ...

  • His Majesty, Queen Hatshepsut

    Dorothy Sharp Carter

  • Change of Heart

    Helen Carter

    From the moment actress Marla Travis begins reading the lead role in Alexander Stratis's new play, she feels something vibrantly compelling about him -- a restrained masculinity that fires her blood, a sensitivity to the deep mysteries of life th...

  • Mandricardo

    Lin Carter

  • Crossfire Red

    Nick Carter

  • The Social Fabric

    John H. Cary

  • Philippine Hardpunch

    Jim Case

    Jared Bolt and a Comanche warrior risk their lives to capture a brutal gang of outlaws, who raped and killed two Indian girls....

  • Perfect Timing

    Anne Cavaliere

    OPEN CASTING Olivia's flair for the dramatic had gotten her in trouble before, but this time she'd really done it. When she bumped into Marsha, the "friend" who had stolen her fiance years ago, Olivia just couldn't admit that she was still unmarri...

  • Edgar Cayce's Story of Jesus

    Edgar Cayce

    America’s “sleeping prophet†offers his unique interpretation of the greatest story ever told.
     
    In addition to his labors on behalf of the physically afflicted, the world-renowned prophet and psychic, Edgar Cayce, gave a series of 2,5...

  • Dagon

    Fred Chappell

    Regularly cited in lists of the world’s best horror novels, Dagon tells the story of Peter Leland whose ancestral secrets emerge to plunge him into a world of terror and degradation.  Employing the Mythos developed by America’s great fantasi...

  • The Enemy Within

    Steven Charles

    JENNIFER IS FIGHTING A BATTLEFOR THE SURVIVAL OF THE PLANET.The eerie night cloaks Thaler Academy in silent shadows. Jennifer and her friends know that something is out there. It is infinitely dangerous and it comes from a distant world; intending to...

  • A Time to Love

    Elizabeth Chater

    MOIRA LOVELACE FOUND SHE HADN'T A FEATHER TO FLY WITH.... When her beloved parents perished in a fire, Moira decided to throw her penniless self upon the mercy of her married cousin Lili. But en route to Lili's London manse, Moira witnessed a most...

  • At the Sign of the Golden Pineapple

    Marion Chesney

    "I DO NOT THINK I WANT TO BE MARRIED AT ALL. I WANT TO BE RICH. VERY RICH..." Miss Henrietta Bascombe's bosom chums gasped to hear a well-bred lady talk of going into trade. For Henrietta was hell-bent on turning her pittance of an inheritance int...

  • Castine

    Patricia Chute

  • The Exile of Celine

    Tom Clark

    Accused Nazi sympathizer Celine--author, doctor, anti-semite--is hunted by the French Resistance, and is arrested and hospitalized to await his seemingly inevitable fate, in this fictional recreation of the controversial writer's last days...

  • Dark Desire

    Virginia Coffman

    HE WAS NICHOLAS BERTOLD...AN ARROGANT AND HANDSOME WEALTHY NOBLEMAN, THE MAN THEY CALLED "THE SATANIC FRENCHMAN" From the moment he first touched her, Alain Daviot knew her fate was sealed. The hot waves of desire she felt in his arms over...

  • A Reckoning for Kings

    Allan Cole; Chris Bunch

    "Down a thousand miles of jungle trail the enemy came. The Tet Offensive was about to explode:

    THEIR SIDE: The attack, their long awaited General Offensive, will begin during the traditionally peaceful celebration of the Vietnamese New Year - the...

  • Monster Movie

    Joanna Cole

  • Interjecting Valery

    John Colleton

  • The Skin Chairs

    Barbara Comyns

  • Sisters by a River

    Barbara Comyns

    Mammy had her excape in her imaginary lovers, we children did not have much excape in the winter, but when the summer came there was the sun and river, some mornings I would get up at five and row up the river before anyone else had been on it, and t...

  • Emerald Fire

    Phoebe Conn

    GOLDEN GLOW When his brother died for loving gorgeous Bianca Antonelli, determined Evan Sinclair swore to find the killer -- by seducing the dangerous temptress who lured him to his death. Having long explored the myriad ways of pleasuring a woman, ...

  • The Hampton Sisters

    Bernard Conners

  • Doomstalker

    Glen Cook

    The world grows colder with each passing year, the longer winters and ever-deepening snows awaking ancient fears within the Dengan Packstead, fears of invasion by armed and desperate nomads, attack by the witchlike and mysterious Silth, able to kill ...

  • Outbreak

    Robin Cook

    Murder and intrigue reach epidemic proportions when a devastating plague sweeps the country. Dr. Marissa Blumenthal of the Atlanta Centers for Disease Control investigates … and soon uncovers the medical world’s deadliest secret…...

  • Veil of Shadow

    Catherine Cooke

    After the wizard invasion, the survivors face new danger. The immortal Shape-Changer spirit stalks Kyellan, the Goddess Temple resists Briana's right to become First Priestess, and the weary kingdoms turn against the remaining wizards. The sequel to ...

  • Be Mine

    M.E. Cooper

    Roses are red . . . It's hearts, flowers, and candy for the couples at Kennedy High as they celebrate the most romantic day of the year -- Valentine's Day! ...

  • A Night at the Movies Or, You Must Remember This

    Robert Coover

    Previews, coming attractions, horror, romance, mystery, even intermissions--you name the type of movie and there's a fiction within this collection to cover it--all written with the exuberance you've come to expect in Robert Coover's writing....

  • Bond of Fate

    Jane Corrie

    "I need a wife," Julian Cridell stated It was not quite what Melanie had in mind when she applied for the position. As a newly graduated teacher, without a job or a home, the advertisement for a companion to a teenage girl had seemed made ...

  • A Project Named Desire

    John W. Corrington

    In this second of the New Orleans Mystery novels, NOPD Captain of Homicide “Rat” Trapp reencounters Camille Bynum, an old love Rat grew up with in the god-forsaken Desire project. Camille left Desire for Los Angeles twenty years ago but...

  • Project Named Des

    John W. Corrington

  • Split Time

    Charles P. Crawford

    Devastated by his parents' separation and lonely after a move to a new home, fifteen-year-old Evan becomes disastrously involved with a beautiful young woman whom he does not know is emotionally disturbed....

  • Code of Blood

    David Cross

    From the author of the Mongo Mysteries: The suspicious death of a friend leads the world’s most wanted criminal down a dark and dangerous path.   There are very few people international assassin John “Chant†Sinclair trusts, and even fewer...

  • Valentines to Make Yourself

    Bill Cummings

    This book, size 8" X 11" was designed for children to make and decorate valentines. The valentine designs by Bill Cummings are delightful and humorous. Drawn in black and white they resemble cartoons. Valentines are also reproducible so that this boo...

  • Rebels West

    Jack Cummings

  • Classified Classics

    James Cummings

  • Under the Northern Lights

    Marilyn Cunningham

    He'd warned her -- and he was right! Alaska was rougher and more dangerous than she'd ever imagined. But Hilary Ames was determined, in spite of Burke Thornton, to make the trip. But once on the trail, Hilary soon discovered that Burke proved...

  • Heart to Heart

    Stefanie Curtis

  • Trouble W/Soap

    Margery Cuyler

    Laurie and Soap have always been best friends, but Laurie finds Soap's crazy pranks less funny when Soap gets them both suspended from junior high school and Laurie becomes attracted to more sophisticated friends--and to boys...

  • Danger in Paradise

    Kit Daley

    It was one thing to read about adventure, another to live it! A desperate phone call sent Samantha Prince flying from the safety of her New Orleans bookstore to Rio and into the wilds of the Amazon. Her mission: to find her brother and a hidden treas...

  • The Playmasters

    John Dalmas; Rod Martin

    NEVER WILL SO MANY HAVE GIVEN SO MUCH FOR SO FEW The aliens came to Earth not for conquest, but simply to create a war and watch it played out by humans. But they are prohibited from using any technology not developed on the planet--and 20th-centu...

  • Scattergun

    Kit Dalton

  • Fatal Finish

    Martina Dalton

  • A Hint of Scandal

    Dana Daniels

    When rancher Trey Jones sweeps Darcey Dennison into a bone-melting kiss in broad daylight, no one's more surprised than Trey himself. He scoffs at her scientific research of UFO sightings. And he's saddled with responsibilities no woman would...

  • In the Field of Fire

    Jack Dann

  • The Very Best

    Jenna Darcy

  • Puss in Boots

    Margaret Davidson

  • Jack, the Giant Killer

    Charles de Lint

    In a contemporary retelling of the classic tale, Jacky Rowan's discovery that she possesses the ability to see into the faerie world leads her into a quest to claim a treasure and a confrontation with a giant...

  • Paradox Alley

    John DeChancie

    The conclusion to the classic Skyway series by the award-winning author of Castle Perilous.

    Jake McGraw, independent space trucker, has been shanghaied. He and his crew, fresh off their adventures in Starrigger and R...

  • Lords Temporal

    Joseph H. Delaney

  • Dragon's Pawn

    Carol L. Dennis

  • A Tale of Pierrot and Other Stories

    George Dennison

  • Cliff Walk

    Margaret Dickson

  • 334

    Thomas M. Disch

    If Charles Dickens has written speculative fiction, he might have created a novel as intricate, passionate, and lacerating as Thomas M. Disch's visionary portrait of the underbelly of 21st-century New York City. The residents of the public housing p...

  • Going Live

    Muriel Dobbin

    What happens in this riveting novel when three ambitious women compete for the role of TV's first female anchor - in the fiercest, fastest track of them all? Martha Vogel, a brilliant veteran reporter caught in an obsessive relationship with a networ...

  • The Valley in Between

    Marilyn Cram Donahue

  • Dinosaur Day

    Liza Donnelly

    Crazy about dinosaurs, a boy and his dog imagine they see one under every lump of snow until the day they get a big surprise. Includes an illustrated glossary listing various dinosaurs and their characteristics....

  • Wildcatter Woman

    Dorothy Dowdell

    THE ROWDY WORLD OF CALIFORNIA’S OIL COUNTRY IS NO PLACE FOR A LADY. But that doesn’t stop the determined and pretty Alexandra Young, an independent woman in the days when women were only seen -- not heard. Leaving behind exclusive San Franc...

  • Year It Rained

    Crescent Dragonwagon

    Elizabeth Stein, seventeen, is an uneasy survivor. Back from a year of madness, she finds that everyone she knows is falling apart and the questions she asks seem to have no answers. But the past--including the year it rained--must be untangled.Her f...

  • Children's Crusade

    D.B. Drumm

  • Shapes: How Do You Say It?

    Meredith Dunham

  • The Fantastic Flying Journey

    Gerald Durrell

  • Something Worth Keeping

    Kathleen Eagle

    SOMETHING WORTH KEEPING Brenna Sinclair wasn't quite sure what she was looking for when she returned to the Black Hills, but what she found was a challenge of the heart: Cord O'Brien. Cord was a mountain man, as untamed as the mustangs he swore...

  • Fisherman's Curse

    M. Coleman Easton

  • Marriages

    Alan Ebert

    A car crash on the night of the reunion and a haunting near-death experience catapult Joanna, Sara, and Dean into a terrifying future where shattering revelations about themselves and their marriages unfold...

  • Court-Martial of Daniel Boone

    Allan W. Eckert

    Accused by his longtime enemy of conspiring to turn Boonesborough, Kentucky, over to the British during the Revolution, Daniel Boone must fight for his honor, and his life, against charges of treason. Reissue....

  • The Duke's Gambit

    Roberta Eckert

    ANDREA KNEW THE DUKE SHE WAS DEALING WITH Miss Andrea Howard had no illusions about Hamilton Calgry, the Duke of Haverford. Her first sight of him was when she came upon him making the most improper advances toward her lovely young cousin Eliza...

  • Walking Across Egypt

    Clyde Edgerton

    "An unpretentious, finely-crafted novel that will linger with the readers like the last strains of a favorite hymn. It is more enjoyable than a pitcher full of sweet tea and one of Mattie's home-cooked dinners."--The Atlanta Journal & Constitutio...

  • Devil Gun

    J.T. Edson

    It was the deadliest weapon in the West--a gun that could down a whole regiment, a whole Indian tribe of a whole town without even trying. They called it the Devil Gun.Captain Dusty Fog of the Texas Light Cavalry had orders to capture that gun from a...

  • Cady

    Lillian Eige

  • Death of an Ex-Minister

    Nawal El Saadawi

  • Disobedient Heart

    Carolyn Eliot

  • The Office

    Bruce Elliot

  • Pearls Are for Tears

    Audrey Ellis

  • Lone Star and the Stagecoach War

    Wesley Ellis

    MURDER ON THE OVERLAND EXPRESS! A business trip to San Francisco turns into deadly drama for Jessie and Ki. An old friend of Alex Starbuck recruits the Lone Star duo to investigate a recent string of fatal accidents and costly robberies that have pl...

  • Bruised Fruit

    Amy Ephron

  • Longarm and the Mexican Line-Up

    Tabor Evans

  • Desert Song

    Barbara Faith

    A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS Christy's brother had disappeared without a trace in the Sahara Desert. Now Christy was in Morocco, determined to find him. The only one who could help her was Hassan Ben Kadiri, a man born and bred in the desert, who lo...

  • Citizen Phaid

    Mick Farren

  • A Death of Honor

    Joe Clifford Faust

    THE GIRL WAS SPRAWLED OUT ON THE FLOOR IN THE LIVING ROOM OF HIS APARTMENT.  So begins Joe Clifford Faust's classic science fiction mystery, which has thrilled both SF and non-SF readers since its release nearly 25 years ago. Originally publishe...

  • Quest for the Elf King

    Bill Fawcett

  • The Other Devil's Name

    E.X. Ferrars / Elizabeth Ferrars

    When an old colleague complains of disappearing neighbors, a retired professor of botany starts digging for clues in this delightful cozy mystery.Andrew Basnett may be retired from academia, but that doesn’t seem to have stopped his former colleagu...

  • Bloodrock

    Richard Ferrie

  • Time Will Tell

    Karen Field

    Attorney Corinne Daye no longer knew whom to trust: Derek Moar, the devastatingly attractive stranger who bore an amazing resemblance to her dead husband, or Margaret Krens, her loyal assistant, who insisted that Derek was on the wrong side of the la...

  • The Heirs of Bellair

    Ellen Fitzgerald

    THE PERFECT MARRIAGE VS. THE ULTIMATE FOLLY Despite a penchant for reading extravagant romances, Miss Pamela Caldwell was a most sensible young lady. She knew for instance, that her upcoming marriage to her dear childhood friend, good-looking, ple...

  • Painted Sunsets

    Rebecca Flanders

    She got more than she bargained for... Cassie Grant wanted to get back to her roots. The richness of Wyoming's history and her love of the land lured her back to the Circle P Ranch. But when her brother left her in charge of the cattle roundup...

  • Ben's Baby

    Michael Foreman

  • The Man at Ivy Bridge

    Suzanne Forster

    COULD SHE RISK DISCOVERING WHO HE WAS? Once she'd felt the touch of the stranger's dark look, Chloe's life was never the same again. But was Nathanial Cutter a stranger? His hauntingly familiar gaze told her no... Perhaps he was ex...

  • Memory Of Fire

    Eduardo Galeano

    A re-creation of the conquest of the Americas and Latin America, divided into 2 parts. In the first are the myths of pre-Columbian America; in the other, the history of America unfolds from the 15th century to 1700....

  • Faces and Masks

    Eduardo Galeano

    "From pre-Columbian creation myths and the first European voyages of discovery and conquest to the Age of Reagan, here is 'nothing less than a unified history of the Western Hemisphere... recounted in vivid prose.'"--The New Yorker

    A unique an...

  • Keeping Warm

    Mary Gardner

  • Weaver of Dreams

    Sally Garrett

    HE HELD THE KEY TO HER FUTURE Growing up dirt-poor on a Kentucky farm had instilled in Abbie Hardesty the need for financial independence. At thirty, she was an accomplished weaver. All that stood in the way of her overseeing every aspect of her o...

  • Mysterious Stranger

    Madeline Garry

    One look and Kathryn O'Neill knew the brooding stranger was trouble. But David Zachary made the chestnut-haired beauty an irresistible offer: hard cash to rent the apartment next door. His disturbing amber gaze spelled danger, the kind of danger she ...

  • Live Girls

    Ray Garton

    Seeking consolation after losing his job and his girlfriend, Davey Owen enters a small, dark club in the seedy precincts of the city and finds a world of uncontrollable ecstasy and unbelievable horror inhabited by savagely seductive vampires...

  • Cod Streuth

    Bamber Gascoigne

  • Moonspender

    Jonathan Gash

    Lovejoy doesn't mind an occasional take, but the wholesale theft of national treasures is something else. So when "moonspenders"--antiques poachers with hi-tech metal detectors--start digging up his native East Anglia's ancient treasures, Lovejoy tak...

  • Gee

    Maurice Gee

  • Deadline!

    Gail Gibbons

    Examines the diverse behind-the-scenes activities of a typical working day at a small daily newspaper, from morning preparations for meeting the deadline to the moment the afternoon papers leave the presses....

  • Happy Birthday!

    Gail Gibbons

  • The Second Bridge

    Gary Gildner

  • The Rishi

    Leo Giroux Jr.

    Three people--Santha Wrench's father, her lover, and an Indian agent--try to rescue the lovely half-Indian woman from the ancient Thuggee death cult that believes her to be the link between a violent past and the present and forces her to participate...

  • Quest for the Cities of Gold

    Richard Glatzer

    When Christopher Colombus discovered the New World in 1492, it opened the floodgates for the countries in Europe to colonize as much as land as they could. Portugal was a major power, and now is your chance to join the Portuguese in their exploration...

  • An Actor

    M.B. Goffstein

  • Golden Bunny and Seventeen Other Stories

    Golden Books

    We sell Rare, out-of-print, uncommon, & used BOOKS, PRINTS, MAPS, DOCUMENTS, AND EPHEMERA. We do not sell ebooks, print on demand, or other reproduced materials. Each item you see here is individually described and imaged. We welcome further inquirie...

  • Mickey Head for the Sky

    Golden Books

  • King of the Hill

    Emma Goldrick

    She owned the mountain -- he owned her heart Marcie Waters's emotions needed a good rest. After the traumatic experience of a hijacking incident, the Adirondack cabin she'd inherited from her uncle beckoned invitingly. Certainly, Marcie...

  • Hurrah for the Next Man Who Dies

    Mark Goodman

  • Touch Of Magic

    Jeffie Ross Gordon

    AN ENCHANTED CITY Cass, Paulie, and Cass’s swinging grandmother, Nonna, hit New York with a bang. From the moment they arrived, they knew that they’d found the city of their dreams. Cass would act, Paulie would write, and Nonna -- well, no one...

  • The Man Who Stayed Below

    Alan Gould

    In 1913, sixteen-year-old Johnny Boult joins the wool-clipper "Emilia Denholm" in Melbourne as it sails for London and finds the stark reality of shipboard life different from his glamorous dreams of seafaring...

  • The Loves of Catrin

    Iris Gower

    The Loves of Catrin tells the story of Catrin Owen whose life began in the grim world of a Welsh copper town in the nineteenth century. Born and bred in the poverty-striken streets that sprawled round the smelting works, Catrin dreams of escaping fro...

  • Fudge

    Charlotte Graeber

  • D Is for Deadbeat

    Sue Grafton

    When Alvin Limardo walks into P.I. Kinsey Millhone's office, she smells bad news. He wants Kinsey to deliver $25,000. The recipient: A fifteen-year-old boy. It's a simple matter. So simple that Kinsey wonders why he doesn't deliver the money himself....

  • Defiant Heart

    Laurie Grant

    My Enemy, My Love... She was the proud, spirited wife of a Saxon noble. He was the invader, a Norman knight, who was as ruthless on the battlefield as he was in the boudoir. Together, Lianne and Guy were like fire and water, opposites who shared a de...

  • Patience of a Saint

    Andrew M. Greeley

  • Madam's Room

    Jennifer Greene

    DEN OF INIQUITY... Brass chandeliers, marble fireplaces, casino tables...the house was unlike anything Maggie Flannery and Michael Ianelli had ever seen. Still, nothing prepared them for the upstairs. Ten bedrooms, each decorated in shocking hues...

  • Wideacre

    Philippa Gregory

    "I WANTED ITS SWEET EARTH WITH EVERY WAKING THOUGHT AND BREATH AND DREAM ...I WOULD HAVE DONE ANYTHING, COMMITTED ANY SIN, TO OWN WIDEACRE. " She lived in an 18th-century England where women were forbidden to inherit wealth or land. But Beatrice L...

  • Reputation for a Song

    Edward Grierson

  • Jewel of India

    Sue Gross

    She met him in Paris, and then he swept her off to his own world--India. Suddenly Laure Hastings was a princess in an exotic fairy tale as Bharat Bhati lavished her with jewels, fulfilled her every sensual fantasy, her every need, her every wish. He ...

  • The Little Gymnast

    Sheila Haigh

    She's a natural. From the moment Anda steps up onto the balance beam, her teachers know she's a natural. But even a natural has to train to become a great gymnast, and Anda has a lot of catching up to do. Anda works hard to turn herself from a ...

  • Winter's Crimes

    Hilary Hale

    Eleven mystery stories deal with a child murderer, a dying man's plans for revenge, a clever con man, a fatal bus trip, arson, an unexplained car bombing, embezzlement, a murder plot, and a kidnapping hoax...

  • Honeymoon for One

    Carole Halston

    Take her baby away from her? Never! Beth Loring was determined to fight for her daughter -- in court, if necessary. But it was hard to concentrate on a custody battle when a new neighbor seemed determined to distract her. What Beth didn't know ab...

  • Curious World: A New Yorker at Large

    Philip Hamburger

  • The Worried Widow

    Gerald Hammond

  • Adverse Report

    Gerald Hammond

    In Scotland to view his uncle's gift of a house, Simon Parbitter learns that his uncle's death was not a peaceful one. On meeting Keith Calder he learns that the shooting 'accident' was probably murder. When Keith is injured in another 'accident' Par...

  • Renegade Heart

    Peggy Hanchar

    Beautiful blonde Bree Rikker was a proud and spirited Southern Belle who had scorned all suitors when she was captured by a savage Seminole Indian war party. Shocaw's was the strongest and bravest of all Seminole warrior chiefs, obeyed by every S...

  • Tommorrow's Treason

    Palma Harcourt

    It began when Washington diplomat Jon Troy became entangled with a beautiful stranger â€" and it ended in false charges of violent sexual assault. Now an international conference in Norway throws Troy into an affair with gorgeous East German with a ...

  • The Swindler's Trail

    J.D. Hardin

  • Castles In Spain

    Janice Harrell

    Finally Cassie’s dream had come true. She was going to Spain! To help her finance the trip, her uncle, the managing editor of a large newsmagazine, had commissioned her to interview the son of a famous TV star who by chance would be touring Spain a...

  • The Burning Stone

    Deborah Turner Harris

  • Impulse

    Barbara Harrison

    THE ESSENCE OF LOVE Young, ambitious Jabina Grant had once had it all: a rich husband, a luxurious mansion, and jewels to rival a queen's. The, without warning, one night the chestnut-haired beauty lost everything -- and was left with only the...

  • Death on Demand

    Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

    A NOVEL APPROACH TO MURDER At Annie Laurance's Death On Demand bookstore on Broward's Rock Island, South Carolina, murder most foul suddenly isn't confined to the well-stocked shelves. Author Elliot Morgan's abrupt demise during a weekly gathering o...

  • The Strategies of Zeus

    Gary Hart

    As the world comes closer to the Third World War, Frank Connaughton and Ekaterina Davydov find themselves involved in a race against time and deceiving their own government in order to avert a catastrophic confrontation...

  • Sweet Pretender

    Virginia Hart

    There should be no lies between lovers It could have been so wonderfully romantic -- two sisters falling in love with two brothers. But one of the sisters was involved in a masquerade, and the other was forced to go along with the ruse. And whe...

  • By Love Renewed

    Betty Headapohl

  • The Passion of Estelle Jordan

    Ernest Hebert

    Sometimes the characters in Ernest Hebert’s Darby Chronicles hew close to real life. When the author was a college student pulling shifts part time at a hospital laundry, he worked alongside a woman in her fifties -- unadorned, sweet-natured, and w...

  • The Fall Of Camp A-555

    Eric Helm

  • The Ghost in the Sunlight

    Kathleen Herbert

    It was the heroic age, and the misty hills of Old Britain were to witness the last great battle between the ageing kings -- South of the Humber was Penda, the blazing heathen leader of Mercia -- North was Oswy, Christian, subtle, and determined to we...

  • Night of the Fox

    Jack Higgins

    On a secret sea maneuver just before D-Day, American Colonel Hugh Kelso goes down in the English Channel. Wounded and adrift for days, he washes ashore on the German-occupied island of Jersey. The news spreads panic through the Allied high command: K...

  • The Collected Stories of Wolfgang Hildesheimer

    Wolfgang Hildesheimer

    A collection of nineteen stories about such eccentric characters as an insomniac who makes a midnight visit to his bird dealer to purchase an owl to take to Athens, and a world-famous pianist whose lifelong dream is to be an insurance agent...