Books Published in January 1990

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JANUARY 1990

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New Books List: 486 titles

  • Phantom Regiments

    Robert Adams

  • Voices // Return to Harken House

    Joan Aiken

    In the 1930's eleven-year-old Julia goes to spend the summer with her playwright father and finds that he has abandoned her to the care of her pre-occupied stepmother who seems unaware of the strange voices that haunt Julia every night....

  • World Famous Muriel and the Magic Mystery

    Sue Alexander

    World Famous Muriel earns her reputation again when, with the help of numerous peanut butter cookies, she finds the Great Hokus Pokus after he disappears in the middle of rehearsing for his magic show....

  • Redemption

    Tariq Ali

    Distinguished radical historian Ali ( Revolution from Above ) takes as the subject of his first novel the impact on the left of recent events in Eastern Europe. His lighthearted approach to a world congress of Trotskyists, convened to reassess their ...

  • Effie

    Beverley Allinson

  • Feeling the Flame

    Joyce Anglin

    Yanked from KJTX-TV's helicopter by the strong arms of a virile stranger, Jordan Donner twisted around to discover that Nicholas Estevis, the station's new owner, thought she was trespassing! When she convinced him she'd been hired as a pilot-reporte...

  • And Eternity

    Piers Anthony

    IN PURSUIT OF THE ULTIMATE GOOD After an overwhelming succession of tragedies, life has finally, mercifully ended for Orlene, once-mortal daughter of Gaea. Joined in Afterlife by Jolie -- her protector and the sometime consort of Satan himself -- t...

  • Big One

    Harrison Arnston

  • Mystery in Hollywood

    Jennifer Austin

  • Ticket to Danger

    Jennifer Austin

    Cassie travels to merry old England to visit her pen pal, Alex, and when Alex is kidnapped and Scotland Yard is stumped as to her whereabouts, Cassie is forced to step into the competent shoes of Sherlock Holmes to find her friend...

  • Treasure Beach

    Jennifer Austin

    Eighteen-year-old Cassie Jones faces grave danger when she investigates the mysterious incidents that are plaguing the salvage crew that is searching for treasure from a Spanish galleon sunk in tropical waters....

  • Race Against Time

    Jennifer Austin

  • Until There Was You

    June Masters Bacher

    Along the glittering coast of Mazalan, a young woman with only a short time to live searches for truth and the love she’s always wanted. Loralei Coleman receives the devastating news that she is terminally ill. Not caring where she spends her last...

  • The Dutch Caper

    James Baddock

    Royal Marine Captain Alan Cormack and Lieutenant Tony Woodward journey to Nazi-occupied Holland to work with the Dutch underground in an attempt to secure a German bomber with its new radar and take it back to England for study...

  • No Horsing Around

    Stella Bagwell

    WINNER TAKE ALL For Jacqui Prescott, nothing could match the thrill of riding a racehorse -- until she moved to her uncle's Oklahoma ranch and discovered a completely different kind of animal. Sexy Spencer Matlock stirred her as no man ever ha...

  • Winters Tales, New Series 5

    Robin Baird-Smith

  • Love in the Wind

    Madeline Baker

    HER ENEMY'S EMBRACE Shattered by grief at her fiance's death, lovely Katy Marie Alvarez decided to enter a convent. But fate had other plans. En route to her destination, the coach in which Katy traveled was attacked by Indians and Katy, the lon...

  • The Mezzanine

    Nicholson Baker

    A National Book Critics Circle Award"winner elevates the ordinary events that occur to a man on his lunch hour into “a constant delight” of a novel (The Boston Globe).   In this startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive novel, New York...

  • Julianne's Song

    Kit Bakker

    Where your heart is lies your treasure... Home. To professional storyteller Julianne Blanchet, home was south Mississippi; Gulf breezes so thick with heat they stole your breath away; live oaks draped with Spanish moss standing sentinel for a cult...

  • The Trophy

    Bill Baldwin

    THE EMPIRE'S LAST HOPE FOR FREEDOM The long-ranging war for galactic domination ends as the Emperor Triannic and his evil League of Dark Stars suddenly sue for armistice. Empire-based radicals, seeking to maintain peace, are disabling the Fleet. A...

  • Golden Girl

    Jane Ballard

    The only reason Claire Montgomery entered the “Golden Girl” competition sponsored by Trent’s Department Store is that her brother dared her to. So, she’s stunned when she is chose to be Trent’s spokes model in local television commercials. ...

  • Wings of a Dove

    Elaine Barbieri

    A heart lost, a heart found. And a love that lasts a lifetime... Their journey began on a harrowing train ride across the American heartland. Leaving behind the rough tenements of nineteenth-century New York City, two orphans -- a pale, frightene...

  • In Spite of Themselves

    Elizabeth Barnes

    She was nicknamed the Ice Princess Anne Chapin was reserved, shy and conventional. And she was astounded when cynical New York businessman Nicholas Thayer asked her to pose as his supposed mistress. Anne was involved with Joel, a man who badly ...

  • Iris

    William Barton

    A small, disaffected group of artists, scientists, and software developers en route to Titan, the crew of "Deepstar was seeking escape, isolation, and refuge when Iris wandered into the solar system. Now curiosity and wonder are drawing the star trav...

  • Tree of Life

    Barbara Bash

  • Winter Heat

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    ICE PRINCESS Alison Young had always lived by the rules: marry well, live quietly and never do anything scandalous. But deep down the wealthy widow knew something was missing and so she filled her lonely days with work. Then one day she looked out...

  • Picturing Will

    Ann Beattie

    Picturing Will, the widely acclaimed new novel by Ann Beattie, unravels the complexities of a postmodern family. There's Will, a curious five-year-old who listens to the heartbeat of a plant through his toy stethoscope; Jody, his mother, a photograph...

  • Popularity Potion

    Eve Becker

  • Pursuit of Fear

    William Beechcroft

  • The Dead Do Not Praise

    Pauline Bell

    Headmistress Sarah Bland was not popular - in fact, people had been heard openly wishing her dead - so when she is found bludgeoned to death in her own office, many are suspect. Her demise seems not only desirable but also rather convenient for those...

  • Seventh Avenue Murder

    Liza Bennett

    DESIGNS TO DIE FOR . When the head of a leading women's clothing manufacturer hangs herself with material from the new hosiery line, people will talk. Especially advertising people. Especially when the dead woman was about to cancel a huge deal fr...

  • Valentine Blues

    Jeanne Betancourt

    Aviva's altruism gets the better of her when she persuades her parents to allow the cutest boy in the eighth grade--an orphan--to move into their home, and then overhears him rating her a mere two on a scale from one to ten....

  • Dropshot

    Jack M. Bickham

    A cold-war spy novel. Brad Smith, investigating the 'accidental' death of Pat Reilly, once his doubles partner on the tennis circuit (and on a few missions for he CIA), discovers plot and counterplot galore on the tiny island of St Maartem....

  • Dearly Beloved

    Jane Bierce

    HEAVEN SENT Big-city lawyer Rebecca Hobbs thought a visit to her sleepy Southern hometown would provide respite from the cosmopolitan hustle and bustle. Instead of peace and quiet, though, she found minister Frank Andrews--a man who could make her...

  • Dancing in the Aisles

    Kathryn Blair (2)

    HE NEEDED THE PERFECT PARTNER Todd Chase Barclay was desperate to attract customers to his family's failing grocery-store chain. And advertising expert Brittany Masters had a proposal that sounded just crazy enough to work. Brittany suggested a...

  • Requiem for Anthi

    Jay D. Blakeney

  • Make Friends, Zachary!

    Muriel Blaustein

  • Psycho House

    Robert Bloch

    The new Bates Motel is a tourist attraction, a re-creation of the infamous murder site, and the developers are already counting their profits. But there's a new exhibit that nobody expected: the bloody corpse of a teenage girl crumpled in the fron...

  • Monsieur Pamplemousse Investigates

    Michael Bond

    A WICKED BLEND OF EVIDENCE, WITH ONLY A PINCH OF CLUES! Le Guide is plagued with mishaps: a false death announcement about le Directeur is planted in the leading newspapers, piranhas in the fountain outside the office are dining on the goldfish, a...

  • This Club Frowns on Murder

    Albert Borowitz

    Premature condolence notes to Alumni Club members seem like little more than vicious fun until a club member dies, and crime historian Paul Prye and his wife step in to uncover old grudges, embarrassing secrets, and a startling conclusion...

  • Cyberbooks

    Ben Bova

    The Future is Coming, and It’s Going to be Hilarious! First Time in Paperback for This Wildly Comic Look by a Best-Selling and Award-Winning Writer at Several Possible—and Bizarre—Tomorrows, Including Two Complete NovelsBen Bova, be...

  • The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    When Mrs. Cobb heard unearthly noises in the antique-filled farmhouse, she called Jim Qwilleran for help. But he was too late. It looked as if his kindly ex-housekeeper had been frightened to death--but by whom? Or what? Now Qwilleran's moved into th...

  • Trespasses

    Caroline Bridgwood

  • This Wicked Generation

    Carolyn Bridgwood

  • The Day Chubby Became Charles

    Achim Broger

  • The Outfit

    J.P.S. Brown

  • Ships in the Night

    Dixie Browning

    MISMATCHED... Never again would Gioia Murphy agree to a blind date. The blond hunk she'd been promised turned out to be dark, rugged and so unthrilled to see her, she wondered why he'd shown up at all. Still, it was just as well they hadn&...

  • Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille

    Steven Brust

    SO YOU'VE HAD A HARD DAY? YOUR PLANET''S JUST BEEN NUKED? WELCOME TO COWBOY FENG'S! ...If can find it, that is. Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille is a great place to visit, but it tends to move around bit--from Earth to the Moon to Mars to ano...

  • Just for Girls

    Bonnie Bryant

  • L.A. Gang War

    Jack Buchanan

  • Once Burned, Twice As Hot

    Patt Bucheister

    Rhys Jones had come to exotic Hawaii in search of a mysterious woman -- but the powerfully good-looking lawyer forgot his quest after he bumped into a strawberry blonde who was temptation in the flesh. When he learned that the exquisite Lani was part...

  • The Sun Came Down

    Percy Bullchild

    A mysterious death and the desecration of a London Church leads Chief Inspector David Adams to a quietly influential group, its sinister "Chairman," and a nightmarish plot to improve an inhuman "New Order" on the world...

  • A Place of Light

    Mary Bucci Bush

    Impeccably crafted and sensitively written, this collection of short stories is built around the outstanding yet ordinary individuals and rural working class eccentrics of the author's native upstate New York. Gritty, raw, and real, these depictions ...

  • Skipping Around the World

    Francelia Butler

  • Julie's Tree

    Mary Calhoun

  • Flight of the Wild Gander

    Joseph Campbell

    In these essays, Joseph Campbell explores the origins of myth and their role in everyday life -- from Grimm fairy tales to Native American legends. He explains how the symbolic content of myth is linked to universal human experience and how myths ...

  • Death in a Lonely Land

    Peter H. Capstick

    From the author of Last Horizons, Peter Hathaway Capstick now presents Death in a Lonely Land, a second volume of his hunting, fishing, and shooting adventures on five continents―stories collected from such magazines as Outdoor Life, NRA’s Ame...

  • The Bloody Chamber

    Angela Carter

    From familiar fairy tales and legends " Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss-in-Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires, werewolves " Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories....

  • Isle of Blood

    Nick Carter

  • Airshow

    Phillip Castle

  • The Family of Pacual Duarte

    Camilo Jose Cela

    Cela was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in October 1989, and this novel is considered by many to be his masterpiece. It is the story of an ignorant Castillian peasant and multiple murderer, and it tells of the savage impulses behind his crime...

  • The Best Teacher in the World

    Bernice Chardiet

  • The Love Expert

    Maggi Charles

    How do you entertain a world-renowned authority on mating games? Intimacy-shy Stacy MacKenzie didn't want to touch the question. Given a choice, she'd have stayed miles away from her boss's cousin, dashing James Ashley-Sinclair. Instead, she was forc...

  • Penthouse Suite

    Sandra Chastain

    Kate Weston was a feisty Jill-of-all-trades who could fix plumbing and repair any car, but no adult education class had prepared her to face hotel owner Max Sorrenson draped in nothing but a towel! When she dropped her wrench in lustful embarrassment...

  • Perry Mason in the Case of Too Many Murders

    Thomas Chastain

    PERRY MASON IS BACK! After a hiatus of almost twenty year, the world's foremost lawyer/sleuth returns in the most baffling case of his career. With the aid of his associates, Della Street and Paul Drake, Jr., Perry Mason once again employs his rem...

  • Sebastian (Super Sleuth) and the Stars-in-His-Eyes Mystery

    Mary Blount Christian

  • Sebastian (Super Sleuth) and the Baffling Bigfoot

    Mary Blount Christian

  • Murder on Tour

    Dick Clark; Paul Francis

    Ageless DJ Clark offers a lot of rock 'n' roll lore, too much of it name- and song-dropping, while his co-authorPaul Engleman writing under a pseudonym ( Catch a Fallen Angel )gives us a so-so plot and thin characterizations. Narrator Del Barnes, a o...

  • Small Town

    Janet Kotsel Clarke

  • Four Month Friend

    Susan Clumer

  • Wednesday Is Spaghetti Day

    Maryann Cocca-Leffler

    Do you ever wonder what your pet cats do when you leave them home alone? Perhaps they have their friends over for a spaghetti lunch!  Maryann Cocca-Leffler's  bestselling book, "Wednesday is Spaghetti Day" is a hilarious and suspenseful loo...

  • Texas Star

    Barbara Hancock Cole

  • Catch of the Day

    Marion Smith Collins

    IN TOO DEEP... Katie Johns's heart stood still as the sound of her pursuer's footsteps grew closer. The sea gulls that flew over the dark, deserted docks couldn't save her, and the light at the end of the pier seemed so far away. Relie...

  • The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

    Padriac Colum

  • Emperor of America

    Richard Condon

    When a nuclear bomb destroys the White House and devastates Washington, D.C, Army colonel Caesare Appleton becomes the Emperor of the United States in this political satire from the author of Prizzi’s Honor.In the aftermath of an assumed nuclea...

  • Child's Play

    Sal Conte

    THREE STRIKES AND YOU’RE OUT…FOREVER!Crandall, New York—a sleepy little town, as American as apple pie and baseball. Nothing unusual about it…except the Crandall Giants, national Little League champions for two years runn...

  • Pears Cyclopedia

    Christopher Cook

  • The Wizardry Compiled

    Rick Cook

    Q: How does a shanghaied computer Beek conquer all the forces of Darkness and win the love of the most beautiful witch in the world? A: By transforming himself from a demon programmer into a programmer of demons! Darkness defeating and witch wo...

  • Harmful Intent

    Robin Cook

    It should have been a routine childbirth. But somehow, the mother died in delivery, the baby was born brain-damaged, and Jeffrey Rhodes, the anesthesiologist, is running for his life. Charged with malpractice, he is found guilty of harmful intent and...

  • Infanta

    Louise Cooper

  • Houston in the Rearview Mirror

    Susan Rogers Cooper

    THE FIRST SUSPECT IN THE KILLING OF A HUSBAND IS ALWAYS THE WIFE However, the wife in this case is Chief Deputy Sheriff Milt Kovak's baby sister, Jewel Anne. Now, he and Jewel weren't real close, but Milt knows their mama didn't raise any killers....

  • Mask of Treachery

    John Costello

    Newly discovered British and American reports, interviews, and expert analysis substantiate an account of the espionage network created by Anthony Blunt and of its infiltration of British and American institutions...

  • Bright Star

    Harold Coyle

    In the not-too-distant future, an assassination attempt by Libyan terrorists sparks an Egyptian retaliatory raid across the borders. As the conflict intensifies, U.S. and Soviet troops are drawn into the battle. Front-line soldiers on both sides emba...

  • The Rattlesnake Master

    Beaufort Cranford

  • Asian Eyes

    Ken Crowder

    When the director of the U.S.-Asian intelligence center in Tokyo is murdered, American intelligence hires ex-OSI agent Dan Crutcher to find the killer, a quest that leads him to the fortress stronghold of a professional terrorist...

  • Top Gun

    T.E. Cruise

    The Gold family learns that the relatively peaceful period of the seventies is just as dangerous as wartime, when they face industry changes that threaten the existence of the powerful Gold Aviation empire....

  • The Surrogate Gun

    Jack Cummings

  • The Wars of Heaven

    Richard Currey

    The lives of the working class in West Virginia -- a train engineer, an epileptic, coal miners and outlaws, the fragile and dispossessed -- are explored in this powerful yet tender collection of six short stories and a novella. They depict an isolate...

  • Over to You

    Roald Dahl

  • The Sea Peoples

    Peter Danielson

  • Pattern of Deceit

    Emma Darcy

    His stipulation suited Ann just fine Matt Fielding might be impossibly arrogant but he was right about the office being no place for romance. Matthew Fielding had the reputation of being a high roller -- in more ways than one. Ann had found th...

  • No Gentle Encounters

    Mons Daveson

    Dominic wasn't used to being crossed! Especially by a woman. For reasons of his own, he chose to act the helpful neighbor -- offering the inexperienced Letitia and her young brother advice on running the farm they'd inherited in tropical Q...

  • A Rock and a Hard Place

    Peter David

    Under the best circumstances, terraforming is a tough, dangerous task that pits the hardiest of pioneers against an unforgiving environment. When the terraformers on the planet Paridise fall behind schedule, Commander Riker is given temporary leave, ...

  • White Rook

    J. Madison Davis

    From Publisher's Weekly: Davis's MWA Edgar nominee, The Murder of Frau Schutz , established his fine reputation, and this novel will add to his stature. The action jets off with Pittsburgh private eye Dub Calabrese in New Orleans, working secretly wi...

  • Garfield Stories

    Jim Davis

  • Devil's Deception

    Suzannah Davis

    THEY SAILED ON A PERILOUS OCEAN OF BREATHTAKING DESIRE... She was a beautiful English aristocrat trying to escape an arranged marriage in the Colonies, only to find herself captive in the powerful arms of the most ruthless pirate on the high seas....

  • A Distant Thunder

    Teresa De Luca

    Caught between her English and Spanish heritage, convent-raised Dolly Carrasquez is at the center of family conflicts, a turmoil echoed in the approaching Spanish Civil War, as she meets three men who will change her life...

  • Atropos

    William L. Deandrea

    "American agent Alan Trotter is back in the fourth and last installment of DeAndrea's ( Cronos ) popular espionage series. We find Trotter recuperating from his most recent brush with death in the upstate New York home of Regina Hudson, CEO of the Hu...

  • The Writer's Trade & Other Stories

    Nicholas Delbanco

    Life is long and art is short in these nine stories about creativity. The writers' problems seem insuperable: his craft isolates and empties him. He exists more as an eye, a voice, or an ear than as a whole, resonant human. Some of Delbanco's writers...

  • Chasm of Doom

    Joe Dever

    The classic role-playing adventure returns! Third in the series. YOU are the sole survivor of a devastating attack on the monastery of the Kai, who for thousands of years have protected the realm of Sommerlund. The servants of darkness hunt you acros...

  • Earthmind

    Paul Devereux

  • The Tryst

    Michael Dibdin

    “One of my patients thinks somebody’s trying to kill him,” Aileen Macklin says to her husband over breakfast. A psychiatrist with a fading marriage, Aileen is haunted by the glue-sniffing lad who comes to her in a panic, begging to be admitted ...

  • Vendetta

    Michael Dibdin

    In Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen, Michael Dibdin has given the mystery one of its most complex and compelling protagonists: a man wearily trying to enforce the law in a society where the law is constantly being bent. In this, the first novel h...

  • Skeleton-In-Waiting

    Peter Dickinson

    A New York Times Notable Book: CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson revisits his alternate British monarchy, ensnaring the imagined royal family in a dark conspiracy of kidnapping, politics, scandal, and murder Britain’s beloved Princess Louise ...

  • The Long White

    Sharon Dilworth

    The winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, The Long White is predominantly set in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a place where the land and weather frequently dictate one's life. In Dilworth's hands, place and character merge to create wonderfully int...

  • How Pooh Got the Honey

    Disney Book Group

    When Pooh discovers that he as run out of honey and sets out to get more, his friends try - each in their unique way - to help him.

    Questions and a puzzle on the last pages help young readers to test their skills....

  • Tigger and the Apple Tree

    Disney Book Group

  • Mickey and the Big Storm

    Disney Book Group

    At news of a storm, Donald and Goofy set out to play, while Mickey heads to the store for provisions. Once the storm hits, Mickey's prepared - a good thing, since Donald and Goofy need someplace warm to wait it out!...

  • Donald Frog

    Disney Book Group

  • My House Is on Fire

    Ariel Dorfman

    In stories of lyrical, brutal beauty, a world is created that resonates with fear, betrayal, and authoritarianism, yet is lit by a resilient faith and hope.
     
    In the title story, a brother and sister build the “castle” of chairs and bla...

  • When School Is a Str

    Curt Dudley-Marling

  • The Draper Solution

    Galen C. Dukes

  • The Serpent's Mark

    Robert Lipscomb Duncan

    Serial killer catcher Peter Stein must leave behind his peaceful Shenandoah mountain home and his disapproving wife to track a Las Vegas killer bent on performing a resurrection and in search of a sacrificial lamb...

  • 'Til There Was You

    Kathleen Eagle

    For Mariah Crawford, the consequences of her brief, impulsive interlude with a captivating stranger were undeniable: her career was over before it had even begun. A pregnant skier didn't stand a chance of making the Olympics. For Seth Cantrell, a...

  • The Lone Star Killers // Texas Killers

    J.T. Edson

    To Dusty Fog's eye, it seems like a killer's convention is set to convene in Corpus Christi in honor of the arrival of a European crown prince. And it's Dusty's job -- along with fast-draw artist Waco, a knife master called the Ysabel Kid, and other ...

  • Cry in the Night

    Carol Ellis

  • Lone Star at Cripple Creek

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki risk death to settle a bloody battle over a gold mine!Utilizing all the seductive charm and martial arts firepower they can respectively muster, Jessie and Ki dive headlong into an explosive labor dispute at the Bluebell mine at Cripple...

  • Longarm and the Pawnee Kid

    Tabor Evans

  • Condom Book for Girls

    Alison Everitt

  • The Case of the Vanishing Villain

    Carol Farley

    Thirteen-year old Flee Jay recounts the adventures of herself and her beautiful, brilliant younger sister, Clarice, when they become trapped on a car ferry in the middle of Lake Michigan with an escaped convict...

  • Precious Cargo

    Joe Clifford Faust

    When Angel's Luck was blown to space junk, trader James May and his crew could not collect their reward for retrieving the stolen Essence Phials, which held the extracted minds of humanity's greatest geniuses. So they were grateful to be rescued by t...

  • Ice!

    Arnold Federbush

  • Looking For Love

    Ellen Feldman

  • Stones

    Timothy Findley

    A brilliant collection of nine short stories that explores the realities of contemporary relationships, offers imaginative visions of urban life, and examines the divisive and destructive acts played out on the personal battlegrounds of family life

  • Witch

    Hugh Fleetwood

  • Hangman's Range-Saddle Pals

    Lee Floren

  • Scrooge's Silly Day

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • Mem's the Word

    Mem Fox

  • Beneath the Waters

    Oswaldo Franca Jr.

    There were stories and stories beneath the waters, love and hate, tenderness and greed. This dazzlingly original novel gives them to us for safekeeping -- the life and the people of a place that is no more.
     
    All the places where those peopl...

  • The Light in Exile

    Cheryl J. Franklin

    THE ADRAKI MENACE-- They roved the spaceways, calling no world home, though they conquered and then destroyed many a promising planet. They were the Adraki, last survivors of an alien race. Some said they were bent on bringing the rest of the univer...

  • Silvercat

    Kristopher Franklin

  • A Daring Deception

    Pamela Frazier

    A Love Too Bold... Alone, and in reduced circumstances, the Honorable Janice Dering made a vow: one day she would see the splendors of Paris. Working as a governess under a false identity, she escorts her employer's daughter to the city she has dr...

  • The Black Wind of Penrose Island

    Kate Frederick

    The secretarial position on remote Penrose Island was the answer to Nicola Wentworth's prayer. But as she left behind all that was familiar to venture into the unknown, she felt strangely apprehensive. And her apprehension only increased when her arr...

  • Hooray for Hellywood

    Esther Friesner

    Melisan Cardiff, succubus turned establishment housewife and mother, must foster all her powers against a television evangelist who is, in reality, the demon Raleel and determined to steal her son's soul...

  • Wise Child

    Monica Fulong

    In a remote Scottish village, nine-year-old Wise Child is taken in by Juniper, a healer and sorceress. Then Wise Child’s mother, Maeve, a black witch, reappears. In choosing between Maeve and Juniper, Wise Child discovers the extent of her supernat...

  • Good Omens

    Neil Gaiman; Terry Pratchett

    According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner. So ...

  • Cheyenne Caress

    Georgina Gentry

    VULNERABLE GIRL Even though seventeen-year-old Luci hadn't a friend in the world, the slender, willowy half-breed knew she could handle herself with anyone --- anyone except Johnny Ace. The full-blooded Pawnee scout's heated glance made her shiver w...

  • The Magic Camera

    Adele Geras

  • Hairdo

    Sarah Gilbert

    When the most popular beauty parlor in a small South Carolina town closes, Ruby McSwain gets the chance to move her own Celebrity Styling Shop into top position--if she can please the local eccentrics...

  • Golden Swan

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    When B.J. Gray roared up Cal Mixall's driveway, wrapped in form-fitting black leather, and crashed her motorcycle into his greenhouse, he was enchanted... and bent to kiss the shaken lady as the prince had awakened Sleeping Beauty! She responded to ...

  • Grandma and the Pirates

    Phoebe Gilman

  • A Death for a Double

    E.X. Giroux

    When family members at a reunion at the English country home of Anthony Funicelli receive death threats, London barrister Robert Forsythe steps in, but is too late to prevent the murder of Funicelli's look-alike cousin...

  • The Imagination of the Heart

    Judith Glover

    In other people's eyes, Kitty van der Kleve is privileged. Despite her humble origins as an orphan and workhouse girl, she is now married to a gentleman of wealth and social standing in Victorian Tunbridge Wells.But Kitty would willingly change place...

  • Joe Giant's Missing Boot

    Toni Goffe

  • Hansel and Gretel

    Golden Books

  • In Deep Woods

    Judith Goldsmith

    A chilling novel of suspense in the tradition of Mary Higgins Clark. When her best friend becomes the latest victim of a serial killer,illustrator Carol Warren is thrown into a waking nightmare. NYPD Detective Eric Gaines has tracked the killer with ...

  • Convicted of Love

    Lucy Gordon

    PRISONER OF LOVE Lawyer Diana Waldman had a soft spot for anyone in need, and when she first met infuriating Lee Fortuno, she thought he was just another hard-luck case. But Diana quickly learned that this man was different. The tough undercover ...

  • Night of the Shadows

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    When legendary gunslinger Stephen Fuller arrives in the town of Cedar Rapids, Anna Toland, the matron of the town jail, must make sure that he stays out of trouble, but when a man is murdered, Stephen stands accused of the crime, and Anna, believing ...

  • Asterix in SP

    Rene Goscinny

  • An Arabian Courtship

    Lynne Graham

    Polly didn't expect to be happy Family loyalty and the knowledge that her love for Chris would never be returned led Polly to accept marriage to Prince Raschid, heir to a desert kingdom. The problems she thought she'd face were practic...

  • The Further Adventures of Joker

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Amber and Amethyst

    Kay Gregory

    Amber had no real reason to feel depressed She'd had a fantastic day, even if Kyle hadn't kissed her. But Kyle had made it clear that he didn't intend to become involved. He was certainly a man of contradiction -- an ex-university p...

  • Meridon

    Philippa Gregory

    Meridon knew she did not belong in the dirty, vagabond life of a gypsy. The half-remembered vision of another life burned in her heart, even in the midst of the Salisbury Fair of 1805 where thieves, wastrels, and circus rogues bargained for their for...

  • The Lawless Land

    Romer Zane Grey

  • Ben Bova Presents Father to the Man

    John Gribbin

  • Counterattack

    W.E.B. Griffin

    From the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor to America's first bold counterstrike against the Japanese on the beaches of Guadalcanal, this compelling novel takes readers to the front lines of victory and defeat....

  • The Good Spy

    John Griffiths

    A former hero in the 1956 Hungarian uprising and a reluctant Soviet spy, Nicolai Beranski would like to exit quietly from the espionage business, but no one is making retirement easy for him as he struggles to stay alive in the midst of a deadly supe...

  • Mrs. Gigglebelly Is Coming for Tea

    Donna Guthrie

  • Arabian Nights

    Husain Haddaway

    Working from the definitive edition established by Muhsin Mahdi (based on the 14th century Syrian manuscript), this is a translation of "The Arabian Nights". It contains stories, of Arabic and Persian origin, which weave magic into the fabric of ever...

  • Whose Dog Are You?

    Gerald Hammond

  • My Destiny

    Rosemary Hammond

    Nothing comes with a guarantee Joanna admitted that -- yet she still wasn't prepared to take the risk of letting Stephen Ryan into her life. When her husband, Ross, a policeman, was killed on duty, it took Joanna a long time to pull herself...

  • The Only Man

    Rosemary Hammond

    It was Alex who came to help Jenny's life fell apart after her father died and Peter Fleming jilted her. She was left in a state of shock. Her father's friend Alex offered her a home and a job at his winery, and Jenny accepted. But Alex...

  • Nebula Awards 24: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 1988

    Harcourt Brace

  • Eden's Gate

    Karen Harper

    IN THE MIDST OF WAR, DESIRE SET THEM FREE. TOGETHER THEY WOULD CONQUER THE WILDERNESS... As the French and Indian War raged, one heart was held captive: brave, beautiful Claire Chandon knew the peril of Ethan Trent's powerful embrace -- the ru...

  • Mountains of the Moon

    William Harrison

  • The Phantom Blooper

    Gustav Hasford

    Vietnam soldier James "Joker" Davis is in hot pursuit of the Phantom Blooper--a renegade marine, or an American deserter, who leads patrols into enemy territory--until he comes face to face with the Viet Cong and sees how the other half lives...

  • Reluctant Mistress

    Brooke Hastings

    When the soothsayer warned Leilani Howe that a tall blond haole would soon invade her Hawaiian paradise - and her heart - bringing passion yet leaving behind pain, Lei planned to stand her ground and solidly defy fate. But the moment her company's te...

  • Unknown Soldier

    Michael Hastings

  • Dream Tide

    Robin Lee Hatcher

    THE GROOM He'd married only to fulfill the terms of a bargain, but Brandon Fitzgerald found his wife-by-proxy the most enchantingly beautiful creature he'd ever beheld. They said her mind was touched by madness, that she'd never be a pro...

  • Call Back the Dream

    Barbara Hazard

    His lips were warm, persistent, ardent, and the kiss went on and on. He held her so close she couldn't tell if the heart beating so furiously was his or her own... Beautiful and innocent Camille Talbot was the daughter of a stern country vicar, raise...

  • Troll Story

    Nicholas Heller

  • Empire

    Eric Helm

  • Recon

    Eric Helm

  • A Private Understanding

    Elizabeth Hewitt

    CLAUDIA'S CONFLICT Enchanting Claudia Taverer had not lost her heart to the man she wed, she had lost a game of cards. She had wagered her hand in marriage against a fortune that her family desperately needed, and aristocratic Lindsay Allister had...

  • Hazard of Love

    Sally Heywood

    "A creature from another planet" That was what Lucas de Maine compared her to. And that was how Goldie felt. After her glamorous existence as a Hollywood starlet, she no longer seemed to have a place in the conventional English village whe...

  • Cold Harbor

    Jack Higgins

    In this Higgins adventure classic, an Allied spy operation is suddenly jeopardized just as it's about to discover Rommel's plans for defeating the D-Day invasion....

  • Memoirs of a Dance Hall Romeo

    Jack Higgins

    The abrasively sentimental (and apparently autobiographical) narrative concerns Oliver Shaw, an eager young soldier just out of the British army in 1949 and ready for action of a different kind. " . . . and so," begins the novel, "I decided to devote...

  • The Woman in the Cloak

    Pamela Hill

    Born blind and physically deformed, Margaret of Metola is abandoned by her parents in the city of Castello and becomes a ray of light for the people of the city, befriending and healing the needy and the ill in this story of thirteenth-century Europe...

  • Wild Texas Rose

    Martha Hix

    SHE YEARNED FOR EXCITEMENT Mariah Rose's innocent fantasies of the wild west didn't prepare the British beauty for the man she saw barrelling out of the Texas brush -- splendidly tall, overpoweringly masculine...and naked as the day he was ...

  • Little Chief

    Syd Hoff

  • Handmade Secret Hiding Places

    Nonny Hogrogian

  • Nobody's Fault

    Nancy Holmes

    On a brisk April night in 1974, Lord Charles Warrington sneaks back into his fashionable London townhouse to murder his estranged wife, the Countess Amanda. Instead he bludgeons to death a young nanny by mistake, then brutally beats his wife, only t...

  • Goatsong

    Tom Holt

    Eupolis of Pallene, goatherd, nascent playwright, and contemporary of Pericles, Sophocles, Euripides, and Socrates, spends his days in the company of goats composing comic verse, in a tale of Athens at the height of its glory...

  • Forever and a Lifetime

    Jennifer Horsman

    Princess In Distress Even when a towering, muscular man swept her upon his horse, Lady Nichole Lucretia was certain her Swiss castle was impenetrable. Surely her guards would easily take down her assailant and punish him for his arrogance. But when t...

  • Murder Not Proven?: Four Notorious Scottish Murder Cases

    Jack House

  • The Predator

    Linda Grace Hoyer

  • Too Loud a Solitude

    Bohumil Hrabal

    A fable about the power of books and knowledge, “finely balanced between pathos and comedy,” from one of Czechoslovakia’s most popular authors (Los Angeles Times).   A New York Times Notable Book   Haňtá has been compacting trash fo...

  • Once Inside the Library

    Barbara A. Huff

  • Little Mouse's Big Valentine

    Thacher Hurd

  • Aldo Peanut Butter

    Johanna Hurwitz

  • Breeding Ground

    Shaun Hutson

    The slugs have returned. They slither along the dank, fetid tunnels of London's sewers in search of human flesh, and now they bring a new horror. Dr Alan Finch is the only man capable of destroying the breeding ground for ever. The author's previous ...

  • Erebus

    Shaun Hutson

    As the people of the tiny village of Wakely begin to grow long, sharp teeth and fingernails, and they come to love the darkness and hate the sunlight, they begin to prey on innocent strangers who wander into their town...

  • Truman's Spy

    Noel Hynd

    Bestselling author of numerous books, screenplays, and magazine articles, Hynd has proven himself to be a master of espionage fiction. Truman's Spy is set against the highly-charged backdrop of the Cold War, and as the political climate heats up, Hyn...

  • Migrant Souls

    Arturo Islas

  • North of Eden

    Sandra James

    His life depended on her U.S. Marshal Zach Corbett desperately needed a guide to help him track a convicted killer through Oregon's treacherous Cascade Mountains. But the only climber qualified to lead him...was a woman. Randy Pierce knew t...

  • Vampire Child

    Ruby Jean Jensen

    BAD BLOOD Babette had always adored her younger brother Paddy. She couldn't understand why her crazy mother Ketti hated and feared the dear little boy so. Then, on one terrible night, the baby of the family Billy, was discovered dead in his crib--hi...

  • The Night Man

    K.W. Jeter

    Steven is the scrawny kid who hangs around with the football team, suffering their bullying and teasing. He imagines what it would be like to have a friend looking after him, but before long it is not just his imagination as horrible things start to ...

  • Notorious

    Iris Johansen

    It didn't matter to Sabin Wyatt that the jury had acquitted gorgeous actress Mallory Thane of his stepbrother's murder -- she had become his obsession, his to punish for having enslaved and ruined Ben with her beauty and faithlessness. Tempted to abd...

  • Batter Up

    Neil Johnson

  • Dogsbody

    Diana Wynne Jones

    A funny, heartbreaking, stunning book by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones -- with an introduction by Neil Gaiman.The Dog Star, Sirius, is tried - and found guilty - by his heavenly peers for a murder he did not commit. His sentence: to live on th...