Books Published in January 1989

New Books List: 496 titles

  • Arrow of God

    Chinua Achebe

    "My favorite novel."  -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie“A magical writer -- one of the greatest of the twentieth century.”  -- Margaret Atwood “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” ...

  • Chatterton

    Peter Ackroyd

    The mystery of Chatterton is investigated by two Londoners, a young poet and an elderly female novelist, who find more riddles than answers from their search. At once hilarious, this entertaining comedy is a thoughtful exploration of the deepest issu...

  • Swindle

    George Adams

    "Charlie Byrne`s favorite prop girl, Ginny Rowen, messes up a job, explaining later that her mind was on $50,000 she had turned over to a couple she now suspects are running an investment scam. Almost simultaneously, Byrne falls for Ginny. Intent on ...

  • Storm and Fire

    Kelly Adams

    Just who, Emma Kendrick wants to know, does Joel Rivers think he is? First he punches out her nephew's football coach, then he sends Emma's sister into a flabbergasted rage by telling her she doesn't know how to raise her son! As if that&...

  • Monsters and Magicians

    Robert Adams

    FOR A POOR, DOWN-ON-HIS-LUCK EX-MARINE, FITZ WAS DOING OK It all started when "Fitz" Fitzgilbert tumbled down a certain STAIRWAY TO FOREVER -- and found himself in another world. At first it had seemed a world that offered only infinite loneliness, ...

  • The Rich Shall Inherit

    Elizabeth Adler

    Millions of dollars will belong to the person who can prove he or she is a descendant of the mystery woman called Poppy Mallory. Millions of lies have been told along California's Gold Coast, in Paris's demimonde, and Italy's dangerous underworld, t...

  • Give Yourself a Fright

    Joan Aiken
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    Readers beware! Mischievous ghosts, ancient curses, and monstrous spirits inhabit these thirteen spine-tingling tales. Enter a world of fantasy where a blast of a whistle brings a boy from the past, where a ghostly awl perches night after night at th...

  • Lady in Cement

    Marvin Albert

  • Llama and the Great Flood

    Ellen Alexander

  • Success

    Martin Amis

    In Success Amis pens a mismatched pair of foster brothers--one "a quivering condom of neurosis and ineptitude," the other a "bundle of contempt, vanity and stock-response"--in a single London flat. He binds them with ties of class hatred, sexual riva...

  • Apes and Angels

    Philip Appleman

  • A Twist in the Tale

    Jeffrey Archer

    Archer's ( Kane and Abel ) talent as a raconteur is evident in these 12 distinctive short stories, all of which have surprise endings. Many center on human failings such as jealousy, obstinacy, pettiness or prejudice; 10 are based on "known incidents...

  • Meddlesome Miranda

    Jane Ashford

    THE APPRENTICE ADVENTURESS Miss Miranda Dennison was a properly brought-up young lady with an improper appetite for adventure. She found it in abundance on the isolated estate of Baron Philip Highdene. There was the darkly handsome, brooding ba...

  • Cat's Eye

    Margaret Atwood

    Returning to the city of her youth for a retrospective of her art, controversial painter Elaine Risley is engulfed by vivid images of the past. Strongest of all is the figure of Cordelia, leader of the trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce ...

  • Wild Horse Canyon

    Elizabeth August

    LOVE THINE ENEMY For years the Colberts and Randolphs had battled over Wild Horse Canyon. Now feisty Maggie Randolph had to marry to keep her inheritance, and Joe Colbert was a willing bridegroom -- as long as the canyon was her dowry. It was a pe...

  • A Treasury of Jewish Folklore

    Nathan Ausubel

    Author of The Jewish Book of Knowledge and The Pictorial History of the Jewish People. "A must for everyone, Christians and Jews alike." --New York Times. This classic collection of more than 800 traditions, legends, parables, and songs, with a gloss...

  • Shadowdale

    Richard Awlinson
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The gods walk the Realms. Banished from the heavens, they now roam the world, from Tantras to far-off Waterdeep, seeking to regain their full powers. Malevolent Bane, power-hungry Mystra, and Helm, guardian of the heavens, all know the lost Tablet...

  • Tantras

    Richard Awlinson
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Elminster has been murdered. Now, Midnight and Adon, who saved the Dales from the evil god Bane in the Battle of Shadowdale, have been sentenced to death for the murder. But chaos has taken hold of nature and magic since the gods were exiled from ...

  • Children of the Maker

    Lucy Cullyford Babbitt

    As far as Paragrin and Cam, mortal rulers of the Melde Colony, are concerned, theirs is the only colony that exists on earth. They have no way of knowing that Jentessa, their Half-Divine Ruler, has a sister, Magramid, who is the Half-Divine Ruler of...

  • My Cat's Surprise

    Bailey

  • Forever Nineteen

    Grigorii Iakovlevich Baklanov

  • Exit Wounds

    Michael Baldwin

  • Daring Masquerade

    Mary Balogh

    BETWEEN TWO FIRES Beautiful young widow Katherine Mannering vowed that no man would ever possess her. Her brief but brutal forced marriage left her with profound distaste for what went by the name of love. But that was before she met Nichola...

  • Code Name: Retriever

    Ned Bannister

    Young recruits culled from America's top military academies are sent by the Pentagon on a special mission to Hungary where--disguised as students--they must gain information on an important space project...

  • A Midsummer Night's Killing

    Trevor Barnes

    Trying to bounce back from being dumped by her husband, Inspector Blanche Hampton reluctantly begins an investigation into a headless corpse discovered on Hampstead Heath and runs into an endless barrage of deceit and trickery...

  • Brittany

    Linda Lang Bartell

    LOVE'S PRIZE She was a young French woman living a quiet hell until her husband's family brutality forced her to strike back -- and flee before her crime was discovered... Assuming a new identity, she called herself Brittany and took wo...

  • Knight Sparks

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR .. . Carly Mitchum was serious about being a cop, so the hassling she got from her male colleagues might have been no more than an occupational hazard--if only Rance Knight hadn't seemed to share their views. Rance wasn't j...

  • Kathleen

    Brian Behan

  • Wittgenstein's Nephew

    Thomas Bernhard

    It is 1967. In separate wings of a Viennese hospital, two men lie bedridden. The narrator, named Thomas Bernhard, is stricken with a lung ailment; his friend Paul, nephew of the celebrated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, is suffering from one of his...

  • Home Sweet Home

    Jeanne Betancourt

    Tracy undergoes a drastic lifestyle change when her family moves from their New York City apartment to Grandmother Tilly's farm where she makes few friends until Anya, a foreign exchange student, arrives from the Soviet Union....

  • Pacific Paradise

    Gloria Bevan

    Two years was a long time to be parted from the man you were going to marry, but Joanne's feelings hadn't changed. And, despite the doubts that the annoying Craig Summers tried to plant in her mind, she knew that Rick would keep their rendezvous on t...

  • Montana's Treasure

    Janet Bieber

    GUNSMOKE Finding herself at the wrong end of a loaded rifle in a strange new frontier wasn't Amanda Lukenas's idea of a warm welcome. She and her young son had come all the way to Montana to visit her ancestors' homestead site before Amanda sold t...

  • Dragonstar Destiny

    David Bischoff

    The Stunning Conclusion to the Dragonstar Series!A STARSHIP OF DINOSAURS ... WITH A HUMAN CARGOThe 160-million-year-old, world-sized starship with its crew of sentient dinosaurs mystified humankind when it entered our solar system. Careers and even g...

  • Trading Hearts

    Susan Blake

    Best friends since grade school, Val Cassidy and Petey Boyd have always shared their secrets. But Val can't bring herself to share one special daydream: attending the Valentine's Day ball with recent transfer student Jason Talbot. Then Val's romantic...

  • Same Blood

    Mermer Blakeslee

  • Right Boy, Wrong Girl

    Janice Boies

    A change of plans ... Katie Jackson just can't understand why real life can't be as romantic as her favorite soap opera, where the heroine falls in and out of love every week. On a visit to her cousin Shanna in Minnesota, Katie decides it's time for...

  • Room on the Roof

    Ruskin Bond

  • Time Stops at Shamli and Other Stories

    Ruskin Bond

    Residents of nondescript villages and towns, Ruskin Bond s characters are remarkable for their quiet heroism, courage and grace, and age-old values of honesty and fidelity. They lead lives that are touched by natural beauty as well as suffering the l...

  • The Giant's Shadow

    Thomas Bontly

    An American teacher goes to Germany to escape his failing marriage and drinking problem, finds himself the prime suspect in a muder, and becomes ensnarled with international intelligence forces and a beautiful, dangerous woman...

  • Caps, Hats, Socks, and Mittens

    Louise Borden

  • No, Not Bloomsbury

    Malcolm Bradbury

  • Unholy Ground

    John Brady

    When Arthur Combs is found murdered in his cottage just outside Dublin, police think he must have surprised a burglar. The 73-year-old expatriate retiree lived a solitary existence with few friends, but no enemies. Or so it seems when Detective Serge...

  • Forever Roses

    Louise Brindley

  • Hearts of Fire

    Leigh Bristol

    Bold and beautiful, Storme O'Malley was a legend among America's privateers. Daring with her sword, defiant in her spirit, she was captain, she was captain of the Tempest, the most dreaded pirate ship on the sea. But no man had ever kissed her honeye...

  • Cinnamon Wharf

    Janice Young Brooks

    A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN'S RISE IN A WORLD OF MEN -- A SWEEPING SAGA OF PASSION AND POWER SHE VOWED TO BECOME MORE THAN AN ORNAMENT OF VICTORIAN SOCIETY As a child, beautiful, red-haired Mary Beecham was plucked out of poverty and placed in the la...

  • Patchwork Farmer

    Craig Brown

  • Yellowhorse

    Dee Brown

  • Dirty Work

    Larry Brown

    Dirty Work is the story of two men, strangers -- one white, the other black. Both were born and raised in Mississippi. Both fought in Vietnam. Both were gravely wounded. Now, twenty-two years later, the two men lie in adjacent beds in a VA hospital.O...

  • Rainbow Roun Mah Shoulder

    Linda Beatrice Brown

    What happens when spirit offers you a gift you're not sure you want to accept?
    Few women could love as Rebecca Florice did -- with a passion born of another world, an unseen world. Ever since the vision of her youth, the vision that brought healin...

  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

    Sam Brown

  • Long Time Coming

    Sandra Brown

    Marnie Hibbs recoiled in shock as Law Kincaid crossed her yard, fury in his arctic blue eyes. What was the fair-haired hero of the, space program doing here, and why did she still find him so heart-stoppingly handsome she couldn't breathe? Fo...

  • Thin Ice

    Dixie Browning

    FIRE AND ICE Maggie Duncan had left the high-powered business world and a failed marriage for her grandfather's cabin and a new "career" carving bird decoys. She'd found peace in her solitude -- then Sam Canady arrived. Sam want...

  • Crossfire Kill

    Jack Buchanan

    Europe Held Hostage! In Paris, a German government official is shot and killed in the streets. In Frankfurt, an American general is kidnapped from a US army base. Both jobs are carried out by skilled professionals, experts in the field of internation...

  • Brothers in Arms

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    PEACE HAD BROKEN OUT ALL OVER THE PLANET... Which made it tough, to be a mercenary captain. If his enemies would just leave him alone, Miles Naismith decided bitterly, the, Dendarii Free Mercenary Fleet would collapse all on its own. But Miles'...

  • Wycliffe and the Tangled Web

    W.J. Burley

    A beautiful girl goes missing, and Wycliffe must untangle a mystery to solve a murder . . .A beautiful schoolgirl goes missing from a Cornish village on the day she has told her boyfriend and sister she is pregnant. The possibility that she has been ...

  • The Comeback Kids

    Bob Cairns

  • Tracks of the Hunter

    John Callahan

  • Stringer and the Oil Well Indians

    Lou Cameron

    Usually it takes Stringer a little while to rile folks in a new town. But no sooner does he step off the train in Tulsa than some sidewinder is doing his best to turn Stringer into yesterday’s news. The hot story in Tulsa is the oil boom. It seems ...

  • Once and for Always

    Stella Cameron

    HER PAST READ LIKE A FAIRY TALE Once upon a time a girl named Caitlin McBride went to Wales and fell for a lad named Trevor Morgan .... Now Caitlin lived in Beverly Hills. She had a troubled teenage daughter and a dead marriage. She'd returned ...

  • Influence

    Ramsey Campbell

    Now a major Netflix movie."This is a chilling work and the fullest treatment of one of Campbell's recurring themes - the psychic violence family members wreak upon one another." Publishers WeeklyQueenie is the ageing matriarch of the Faraday family, ...

  • Red Cent

    Robert Campbell

    The Burlington Northern was speeding through Iowa when passengers spotted six Indians riding alongside in pick-ups. Suddenly, they began firing pot-shots, a bullet pierced the dining car window - and millionaire Harold Chaney was dead. When railro...

  • Mariah

    Sandra Canfield

    Mariah Small-town Louisiana stifled her restless spirit; like the wind, she was destined to be free. Mariah is an enigma to the people of Calloway Corners, who could never comprehend her essence: both wanton and innocent, worldly and naive. Ford...

  • Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp

    Donald Carrick

  • Snowy Path

    Lark Carrier

  • The Magic Toyshop

    Angela Carter

    From the master of the literary supernatural and author of The Bloody Chamber, a startling tale of the redemptive power of physical and emotional love
     
    One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morni...

  • The Deadly Diva

    Nick Carter

  • Final Voyage of the S.S.N. Skate

    Stephen Cassell

    The "leper" of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, SSN 578 nuclear attack sub SKATE should have been reduced to scrap a decade earlier. But America is on the brink of impending disaster at Russian hands ... and the underwater deathtrap has one final mission to p...

  • The Dandy's Deception

    Philippa Castle

    "FIRST LOVE IS BEATING IN MY HEART... AND FOR A FOP!" With her blue-eyed beauty, charm, and youth -- not to mention a splendid dowry -- Ullainee Pollinger came to her first Season expecting to be able to pick and choose among London's bachelors. ...

  • Intimacy

    Susan Chace

    As the daughter of a Catholic mother and a Jewish father, thirty-seven-year-old Cecilia grows up obsessed with the Church's rituals and her own overwhelming sense of guilt. She pursues her own bizarre form of penance by rubbing herself with poison iv...

  • Echo of Lions

    Barbara Chase-Riboud

    From the author who brought Sally Hemings to vibrant life for millions of readers comes another controversial and fascinating historical figure -- Joseph Cinque. Here is the story of a black man desperate to return to his country, and a white man try...

  • Viscount Vagabond

    Loretta Chase

    FROM DISTRESS TO DISASTER Catherine Pelliston simply would not abide by her father's wishes and marry the slovenly Lord Browdie. But her escape through the streets of London only seemed to lead her from bad to worse. First, she was robbed. And ...

  • Perfecting Fiona

    Marion Chesney

    Amy and Tribble can only ponder why Miss Fiona Macleod was placed in their charge at their School for Manners. For there seems to be nothing about the young heiress that needs perfecting. She is demure, refined -- and turned many a handsome head at h...

  • Those Other People

    Alice Childress

  • V For Victor

    Mark Childress

    It is 1943 in Mobile, Alabama. While the world prepares for war, sixteen-year-old Victor -- sent to care for his grandmother -- yearns to be part of the unfolding patriotic adventure. Victor's wish comes true, and he embarks on a suspenseful series o...

  • Grime and Punishment

    Jill Churchill

    It's So hard to Kill Good Help These Days... With three kids to raise on her own, Jane Jeffry sometimes needs a hand with the housework. But many of her complaining neighbors believe that the "Happy Helper" cleaning lady they all share w...

  • Babylon South

    Jon Cleary

    In 1966 Sir Walter Springfellow, head of Australian intelligence, vanished mysteriously and without a trace. As a young constable, Scobie Malone investigated the disappearance. Years later some bones are found up in the hills which are presumed to be...

  • Still River

    Hal Clement

    The riddle of enigma...

    Years of exacting study were coming to an end. All five student scientists, each the best its species had to offer, were one step away from their final degrees. One examination remained: The students were to determin...

  • A Woman's Guide to Adultery or Thinking of Monica

    Carol Clewlow

  • Luke Was There

    Eleanor Lowenton Clymer

  • Goldilocks

    Andrew Coburn

    Goldilocks is vintage Coburn, the Coburn of Sweetheart, The Babysitter, and Love Nest. This is a story of a New England town where all the deals have been quietly cut, the cops have traded their souls to crime bosses, and the crime boss of crime boss...

  • People Like Us

    Barbara Cohen

  • The Quick

    Burt Cole

    In the not-too-distant future, Shaman, a superhuman mercenary, races back to the United States from the South Seas when a civil war tears the country apart, and he plunges into both sides of the conflict...

  • Campus Fever

    Jennifer Cole

  • Blood and Wine

    Penny Colvin

    HER PRIDE WAS FORMIDABLE, HER LOVE UNDYING... HER SAGA, UNFORGETTABLE It was 1940. Nazi troops plundered the French country' But radiant, willful Michou Valette stood fearless in her father's great vineyards. Someday these lush lands of St. Emilio...

  • Flesh and Blood

    Thomas H. Cook

    Now living in New York, ex-cop Frank Clemons investigates a brutal slashing   The sleek high-rises of Park Avenue make Frank Clemons uneasy. The former Atlanta homicide detective came to New York after a sickening murder case soured him on the S...

  • The Man in the Green Chevy

    Susan Rogers Cooper

    Meet Milt Kovak, divorced, overweight, mid-40s Chief Deputy of Prophesy County, Oklahoma. When his sleepy little burg and the surrounding towns suddenly get some horrific murders, Milt's cool intuition and great people-skills are put to the test. S...

  • Dancy's Woman

    Lori Copeland

    Lauren Vandis was sent to the boondocks of Mississippi with one essential mission: She had to persuade Coyle Dancy not to sue her family. And if it means helping her ailing father, Lauren was willing to pour on the charm, thick as molasses, sweet as ...

  • No Easy Place to Be

    Steven Corbin

  • The Kimberly Killing

    Peter Corris

    This crime novel describes the experiences of one Ray Crawley who is sent to investigate the death of a retired Attorney General and ends up following the widow, exploring the gay sub-culture and travelling around Australia....

  • The Dark Abyss

    Bruce Coville

    Neville Folliot, a 19th century explorer, goes missing and his brother Clive sets out to find him. He stumbles across "The Dungeon", a place of strange atmospheric conditions, beings from distant galaxies and hidden pockets of time....

  • Free Fall

    Jasmine Cresswell

    A sequence of three suicides with only one thing in common -- they had all been roommates of Liz Meacham. And Liz was the only person in Denver who was convinced that they had all been murdered. Was she being set up to be the next victim? Her only ho...

  • Freckles and Willie

    Margery Cuyler

  • Rhyme Stew

    Roald Dahl

    A collection of irreverant rhymes featuring characters from fairy tales, fables and nursery rhymes - as you''ve never seen them before! From the tortoise and the hare and Hansel and Gretel to Ali Baba and Aladdin, these traditional stories will never...

  • Working for Love

    Tessa Dahl

  • The Terrible Wave

    Marden Dahlstedt

    by Marden Dahlstedt "During the disastrous flood of 1889 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a spoiled teen-age girl learns to accept responsibility as she and her companions search for their families and friends." Google Books...

  • The Adventures of Race Williams

    Carroll John Daly

  • On the Run

    Leigh Daniels

    Someone was stalking her The house in Carmel was the perfect retreat for working on her detective novel, but suddenly Sarah O'Shaughnessy found herself in the middle of a thriller come to life. It had to be a case of mistaken identity, but no one ...

  • Lullaby River

    Maria Danly

  • Blood Is Not Enough

    Ellen Datlow

    Seventeen tales revolving around the vampire legend explore diverse variations on the classic theme and include stories of a method actress who sucks emotion from co-stars, a nightmarish version of The Walrus and the Carpenter, and other chilling tal...

  • Changing Gears

    Linda Davidson

    Jed Mason, popular but lacking romance in his life, joins Russ Stevens' volleyball team in hopes of drawing the attention of Russ's sister Leslie, who insists she and Jed are nothing more than friends....

  • The Lyre of Orpheus

    Robertson Davies

    “The final Cornish Trilogy novel from an author who “tells terrific stories that twist around and double back on themselves in surprising ways” (The New York Times).   There is an important decision to be made. The Cornish Foundation is th...

  • Too Deep for Tears

    Kathryn Lynn Davis

    Dashing English diplomat Charles Kittridge relished the abundant pleasures of the world...and in his far-flung wanderings, he left behind three remarkable daughters. ALISA ROSE, a beauty of the Scottish highlands endowed with their father's lust ...

  • Time for School, Nathan!

    Lulu Delacre

  • Dragon's Knight

    Carol L. Dennis

    THEY ARE HUMANS--AND DRAGONS. HEROES--AND FRIENDS. MAGICAL--AND MIGHTY. AND SO ARE THEIR KIDS! NOW A LAND OF GODS NEEDS THEM ALL... Jarl Koenig thinks his children and witch-wife, Mirza, are safely vacationing on the wonderworld Realm. Until Faf, ...

  • The Ipcress File

    Len Deoghton

    Britain's top scientists begin to vanish, and one man can find out what's going on, but his identity must remain a secret if he intends to safeguard the secrets of the West, sniff out treason, and live to tell the tale. Reprint....

  • Visiting Miss Pierce

    Pat Derby

    "In this strong first novel, a teenager whose school project forces him to visit a senile woman in a convalescent home becomes wrapped up in her stories...Derby is adept at incorporating telling details of parochial school and home life, often with t...

  • Ghost of a Chance

    Jacqueline Diamond

    They say that ghosts have unfinished business Footsteps sounded in the empty rooms. Her nephew heard voices in the night. And the resident ghost buster of Orange, California, wanted to televise a seance in her living room. If Cheri Louette admitte...

  • Doomsday Weapon

    Terrance Dicks

  • The Earth Lords

    Gordon R. Dickson

  • Thai Horse

    William Diehl

    "It's enough to make Ludlum seem humdrum."
    ATLANTA JOURNAL & CONSTITUTION
    Christian Hatcher, the licensed killer they call the Shadow Warrior, is out of jail and looking for the betrayer that got him there. With his body wasted and his spirit n...

  • Blood Cult

    Mark Dixon

  • The Last Command

    D.B. Dodson

  • Labor of Love

    Madelyn Dohrn

    Schoolteacher Kara Reynolds had moved to the remote Lake Erie island to deliver her baby in peace -- and in private. The last thing she needed was some protective male asking too many questions. Still, bush pilot John Brickner was rock solid. Maybe i...

  • Flirting With Danger

    Gail Douglas

    Cassie Walters knew all about Bret Parker's image as a womanizing power broker, but when she replaced her sick employee as butler at one of Bret's glamorous parties, she was mesmerized by the dangerously appealing charmer -- and he was spellb...

  • Pirate's Wild Paradise

    Kate Douglas

    UNEXPECTED SURRENDER Daughter of the infamous Henry Morgan, beautiful Jamie Morgan could hold her own against any pirate on the high seas...except Franco DeCortega. The handsome Spaniard bested her with his saber, then spared her life at the risk ...

  • Alaska

    Allen Drury

  • Stranger on the Shore

    Carol Duncan

    HE'D COME LOOKING FOR HER ... Sarah Wilson knew that her special gift set her apart and made her easy prey for the morbidly curious, the skeptical. So when the stranger breezed into town, she figured he was just another thrill seeker. She certainl...

  • Miss Hartwell's Dilemma

    Carola Dunn

    Amaryllis Hartwellâ,"s Academy for Young Ladies has been a life saver. After her father caused a scandal, and left her without funds, she made the Academy her refuge and her causeâ,”employing her dear aunt and devoted governess and creating...

  • The Kobayashi Maru

    Julia Ecklar

    A freak shuttlecraft accident -- and suddenly Captain Kirk and most of his senior officers find themselves adrift in space, with no hope of rescue, no hope of repairing their craft, or restoring communications -- with nothing, in short, but time on t...

  • Goldilocks

    Cooper Edens

  • Lucifer's Lady

    Rachelle Edwards

    WITH THE BREEDING OF A LADY, AND THE MANNERS OF A HOYDEN, AMANDA HAD A LOT TO LEARN. Amanda Westwood detested the arrogant Marquess of Glendarvon after he ruined her gamester father. And although Glendarvon paid her way through school, no word of ...

  • Lone Star and the Death Merchants

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki take on a pack of crooked gamblers in a deadly game of chance...One by one, the town's citizens are cashing in their chips, leaving grieving widows and gambling debts. It is up to Jessie and Ki to turn the tables on some crooked card sh...

  • Variant

    Alan Engel

    After an ailing Russian boy turns up at a hospital in Paris desperate for treatment for the rare disease called Progeria, officials find that the Russians have pioneered a DNA-modifying technique capable of producing people of inordinate intelligence...

  • Manhunt

    Janet Evanovich

    Alexandra Scott: Wilderness Woman. It had a terrific ring to it, but Alex felt a sudden twinge of terror. She'd traded in her Wall Street job and fancy condo for a cabin in the Alaska woods, and there was no turning back! She'd wanted to esca...

  • Silver Noose

    Patricia Gardner Evans

    HANG 'EM HIGH... The only reason Jesse McClintock wasn't dangling at the end of a rope, executed for a crime he hadn't committed, was that he'd traded a quick death for what could very well be a slow one: working on the ranch owned by widow Mirand...

  • Longarm and the Medicine Wolf

    Tabor Evans

    Considered a living legend, Texas Sheriff Gus Hackett makes it to retirement before someone blows him away and although the local law calls it an accident, Longarm sees it as murder and swears vengeance...

  • Longarm and the Indian Raiders

    Tabor Evans

  • Longarm and the Renegade Sergeant

    Tabor Evans

  • Winterchill

    Ernest J. Finney

  • The Silver DeSoto

    Patty Lou Floyd

  • Courtney's Conspiracy

    Christine Flynn

    PLAYING CUPID Steve Powers couldn't figure out what had gotten into him. He usually liked the quiet type, but he was completely smitten by Courtney Fairchild, who was impulsive, carefree and boisterous. When she cooked up a scheme to pair his fath...

  • Vulcan's Glory

    D.C. Fontana

    Here is a very special STAR TREK novel--from the woman consistently voted by the fans as their favorite writer from the original STAR TREK television series! D.C. Fontana, writer of such classic STAR TREK episodes as "Journey to Babel" and "This S...

  • The Tale of the Turnip

    Jim Forest

  • The Passions of Kate Madigan

    Suzanne Forster

    TEACHER'S PET Ty Raphaell was the most breathtaking man drill instructor Kate Madigan had ever encountered, and when he stepped into her reserve officer training class, she knew her work had been cut out for her. The rules against fraternizati...

  • One little elephant balancing

    Edith Fowke

  • The Periwinkle Brooch

    Kate Frederick

    Deborah Conway was well aware of her position. Left penniless and alone, she had no other choice but to accept the post as a ladies' companion to Lord Charles Denton's sister. But from the moment she set foot into the baron's home, she kn...

  • Blood Thirst

    L.A. Freed

    BLOOD THIRST follows the transformation of Angela Trenton as she becomes a vampire. Attacked and left to die, she is faced with uncertainty and fear as her body begins to change. She is aided by another vampire named Elijah, and he becomes her mentor...

  • London Revealed

    John Freeman

  • Windsong

    Judith E. French

    LOVE'S DECEPTION It had been a daring and dangerous deception, but Linna O'Neill had made it to America, fleeing Ireland with the legendary Irish rebel Rory Desmond, now an American colonial. Rory believed he was marrying a young heiress - not her...

  • A Small Colonial War

    Robert Frezza

    A FEW GOOD MEN -- AGAINST A PLANET! IN THE 22D CENTURY, WHEN THE JAPANESE RULED AN INTERSTELLAR EMPIRE FROM THE EARTH, AN IMPERIAL TASK GROUP WAS DISPATCHED TO PUT DOWN WITH MINIMUM BLOODSHED THE THREE-WAY COLONIAL REVOLT ON A FACTORY WORLD THE ...

  • A Multitude of Monsters

    Craig Shaw Gardner

    "A fun romp. The field needs more humorists of this caliber." (Robert Asprin)

    While seeking a cure for his malady of magicks, the suffering sorcerer Ebenezum and his hapless apprentice are rudely interrupted by militant monsters with a cause...

  • Rebel's Return

    Sibylle Garrett

    WHAT PRICE LOVE? When reporter Toni Prescott accepted an assignment in remote, revolution-torn Afghanistan, she knew that danger came with the territory. What she hadn't anticipated was her response to Ahmed Khan -- a man as magnificent and untame...

  • Jade Woman

    Jonathan Gash

    Lovejoy, connoisseur of valuable antiques and beautiful women, is on the run, fleeing both the law and the lawless in England. Traveling to Hong Kong seems a wise move, and soon Lovejoy is settled in there, checking out antiques and making good use o...

  • The Way of Spider

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