Books Published in July 1983

New Books List: 269 titles

  • Diamond of Desire

    Candice Adams

    South Africa -- 1850. A dangerous land of staggering wealth and tropical beauty. On the eve of the Boer War in South Africa, Davina meets a powerful man who inflames her deepest passions. ....He moved toward her. His hand began its exploration. She n...

  • Arabel and Mortimer

    Joan Aiken

    Three adventures of a little girl, Arabel, and her pet raven, Mortimer. MORTIMER’S TIE (Arabel and Mortimer, Bk 4) The Jones Family are offered a cruise to Spain on a luxury liner, but things go wrong when Mortimer's favourite green tie is blow...

  • Love Everlasting

    Moeth Allison

    HER BEAUTY WAS MORE THAN SKIN DEEP. Libby Dreiser was a chemist who parlayed her knowledge into the ownership of a big-money cosmetics corporation. Jay Gatling was the man she went to when she needed financing for her newest idea. Together they...

  • Albatross

    Evelyn Anthony

    Who was the mole called Albatross? Was he Brigadier James White, the revered head of British Intelligence? Was he Humphrey Grant, his second-in-command? Was he Jon Kidson, the perfect technocrat and brother-in-law to the woman assigned to unearth Rus...

  • Perhaps Love

    Lindsay Armstrong

    She would never be immune to him Just when she thought she'd recovered from an adolescent crush on the handsome journalist Heath Townsend, Sasha found herself under his spell again. He was one of the most eligible bachelors in Australia, an...

  • Romance in Store

    Elaine Arthur

    Carol had always been attracted to blond, handsome Gregg, the charismatic swimming star of Deerfield High. It was true that he never understood her more serious side, but what did that matter when they had such a good time together and all her fr...

  • Family Sins

    Inez Asher

  • Cherished Moments

    Sarah Ashley

    Joy Osoff never regretted rejecting marriage to pursue a glamorous public-relations career. But her vague longings take shape... and her dreams of romance are fulfilled... when she encounters raven-haired Bill Birke. They meet in glorious Paris an...

  • The Haunted Castle

    R.G. Austin

  • Corporate Lady

    Rosemary Badger

    She was programmed for business not love! Almost since birth, Victoria had been groomed to work in her father's company, the Webster Corporation. Why should she care about the people that were uprooted when the vast corporation bought out t...

  • Blueprint for Rapture

    Lenora Barber

    TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT She was a lady contractor in a man's world, fighting for the right to build Phelan Cannon's lavish island home. Enraged that he'd unwittingly hired a woman, the eccentric tycoon attacked Gabrielle Seberg at first sight with a...

  • The Case of the Missing Bronte

    Robert Barnard

    MURDER BY THE BOOK Meeting an elderly spinster in a cozy Yorkshire pub seemed a harmless bit of serendipity for vacationing Scotland Yard Superintendent Perry Trethowan. But what Miss Edith Wing carried about in her large blue leather handbag turn...

  • Island Heritage

    Monica Barrie

    IT WAS AN ISLAND MADE FOR LOVERS But developer Perri Courtland refused to admit that it should remain untouched, or to acknowledge her love for Krane Elliott, the man who fought her plans at every turn. The only time they didn't argue was when ...

  • The Fashion System

    Roland Barthes

    Fashion never ceases to interest psychologists, aestheticians and sociologists. Roland Barthes, however, examined fashion from a new point of view. Using descriptions from magazines, he uncovered a system of meaning and subjected it for the first tim...

  • A Deadly Place to Stay

    Josephine Bell

  • Innocent Surrender

    Susan Berencsi

  • Building Passion

    Jane Bierce

    A sturdy foundation can become a lifetime of building passion Osprey Builders was slowly establishing a strong reputation and Jacqui Belpre had right to be proud of how far she had taken the small Tampa Bay construction company since her parents' ...

  • Changes

    Robert Bishop

  • The Plunderers

    Jonathan Black

  • Royal Seduction

    Jennifer Blake

    She didn't know what would become of her if her captor tired of her. But until then, she was a slave to the ecstacies of passion.... She was living a quiet life with her aunt in the steamy countryside near New Orleans. Her name was Angeline. S...

  • Anywhen

    James Blish

  • Sometimes They Bite

    Lawrence Block

    They make not look dangerous, but look again. And listen closely, as an unwelcomed visitor shares terrifying secrets with a stranger at an isolated fishing hole. Observe two men who concoct a convoluted Hitchcockian murder pot, only to discover death...

  • Wind Song

    Parris Afton Bonds

    WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE.... When socialite Abbie Dennis went to teach at the Kaibeto Reservation school it was as if she had been reborn in a world of primeval beauty and primitive passions. And the most elemental force of all was Cody Strawhand, th...

  • The Diggers

    Terry Nelsen Bonner

    King Kiernan is a product of New York City's tenements, possessing an inner drive for adventure, a burning need for freedom, and the courage and strength of a frontiersman. Jason Tyler, King's partner, is a former slave who won his freedom at a de...

  • Murder in the Title

    Simon Brett

    Charles Paris is his own worst enemy, a louche lush who can resist anything except temptation " especially in the form of women and alcohol. He’s been out of work so long now he feels he may never get a job and he’s driving Frances, his semi...

  • Swamp Witch

    Laurie Bridges

  • In the Shadow of the Brontes

    Louise Brindley

    Orphaned servant girl Lizzie Godolphin's uncanny resemblance to Anne Bronte leads her into a friendship with Anne and enmeshes her in the mystery and romance of the talented and tormented Bronte family...

  • On Wings of Passion

    Beth Brookes

    Fiery journalist Erin Quinlan doesn't want to write the military expose assigned to her. But the job will give her a chance to hurt the Air Force as it hurt her. Revenge will be sweet -- even if it can't bring back her husband. Captain Ty Phillips...

  • Heirloom

    Eleanora Brownleigh

    Whether she was sipping tea in a European salon or charming politely in a Mexican villa, emerald-eyed Thea was not only a woman of elegance -- but also an American spy. When the stunning young beauty became the bride of a dashing aristocrat, no one g...

  • Loving Adversaries

    Eileen Bryan

    Del Harris had struggled against every prejudice in the book to rise to the rank of police sergeant. Now a new promotion was in sight. She'd never allowed herself to look beyond ambition-- until Mitchell Parrish walked into her life. A renowned d...

  • The House on Curzon Street

    Alan Caillou

    In this adventure-packed novel, Alan Caillou re-creates an era of historical flamboyance and high drama that sweeps across three continents. Beginning in India in 1806 and ending in Florida at the conclusion of the American Civil War, The House on Cu...

  • Bones of Contention

    Edward Candy

  • Worthing Chronicle

    Orson Scott Card

  • Hard Drivin' Man

    Nancy Carlson (1)

    Sabrina hugged the steering wheel as she maneuvered her truck around the racetrack. She sensed Jacy in heated pursuit, recalled his arms clasping her to his unyielding chest. His touch had sent hot shivers up and down her spine, and she'd nearl...

  • Rapture's Heaven

    Cyndy Carpenter

    Enchanting, innocent Lauriette could hardly believe such happiness was hers! Over a year has passed since she had seen her English fiance, the aristocrat Sir Evan Brimley, and she was finally sailing to be in his arms, take his name and share his fut...

  • A Flight of Splendor

    Joellyn Carroll

    "You've been playing at life for too long!" Erin Wentworth McIntee winced at the words. Her grandmother controlled her inheritance. She had no choice but to agree. Two months -- she had two months to prove herself working as assistant on Congressw...

  • The Yukon Target

    Nick Carter

  • Beach Head

    C.E. Case

  • Pay the Price

    Igor Cassini

  • Danger in the Old Fort

    Kate Chambers

  • The Secret of the Singing Strings

    Kate Chambers

    With her cousin under suspicion, Diana Winthrop must catch the real culprits in the case of the missing violin.......

  • A Touch of Magic

    Linda Chapman

    In "A Touch of Magic", Lauren is worried when her little brother Max stops caring for his puppy - how can she and Twilight help him to realize that looking after a pet is very important? In "Snowy Dreams", Twilight's magic is fading! Lauren can't bel...

  • All Things in Their Season

    Helen Chappell

  • The Westerby Sisters

    Marion Chesney

    ROYAL OBSESSION She cared nothing for his rank and consequence. She cared nothing for his haughty demeanor and his immaculate attire. She was an impudent baggage to be sure. But the Duke of Collingham had the sinking feeling that Lady Bet...

  • Kioga of the Wilderness

    William L. Chester

    Far on the northernmost perimeter of the world, an unmapped wilderness which is the lost homeland of the American Indians serves as the background for the coming of age of an abandoned white boy known as the Snow Hawk....

  • Depths of Danger

    Halsey Clark

  • Star Slaver

    John Cleve

  • The Auction

    Alexander Cole

  • A Distant Castle

    Sue Ellen Cole

    THE MUSIC OF THE AGES PLAYED FOR THEM ALONE. Ryan Sagan had been the object of Holly's one childhood crush, the only emotional release she had ever allowed herself. But the boy he had been then had done nothing to prepare her for the man he had beco...

  • The Naked Countess of Liechtenstein

    John Colleton

  • Trembling of a Leaf

    John Colleton

  • Parisian Nights

    Susanna Collins

    Dana McNeil thought she had fully recovered from her tempestuous love for reporter Edouard Roubaix -- until he re-entered her life with a tantalizing offer. The chance to introduce computerized graphics to French national television is a golden op...

  • Godplayer

    Robin Cook

    Dr. Cassandra Kingsley is about to discover that neither her marriage nor her job is what she thought. And when she sets out to find the truth, it may just kill her....

  • Valor at Samar

    Lawrence Cortesi

  • Great American Short Stories

    Milton Crane

  • Golden Illusions

    Sarah Crewe

    Finally out of Simon's shadow and adventurously on her own in sun-gilded Genoa, Jenny Armstrong meets a dazzling stranger who, in one vibrating instant, seems to know her intimately. As the hazy glow of the Riviera spins its shimmering illusio...

  • Joyride

    Stephen Crye

  • Family Honor

    George Cuomo

  • The Winning Hand

    Tom Cutter

  • Love's Pirate

    Mary Daheim

    Beautiful Dallas Cameron, left penniless by her father's death, was desperate. When she discovered that Iain Fraser, favorite of the Queen, was making his fortune as a pirate, she proposed a bargain: her silence for the security of marriage. Dallas n...

  • Frostfire

    Jennifer Dale

    At first. Rachel Devlin wanted only one thing from Colin Knight: Revenge. The devastatingly handsome Olympic figure skating champion had seduced Rachel's younger sister while she trained at his famous skating academy. Rachel took a job as an inst...

  • Vengeance of the Lion

    Peter Danielson

    Children of the Lion, proud inheritors of a legend that marked them for greatness -- and a destiny that swept them from the dusty camps of desert warriors to the opulent palaces of councilors and kings. They were bold people on the crest of a noble a...

  • Music in the Night

    Andrea Davidson

    Like notes on a scale they made music in the night From the moment he saw her perform on the concert stage, David Atwell knew he had to meet Elena Shubert again. The past twelve years dissolved as a memory. When David stepped back into her life...

  • Slouching Towards Kalamazoo

    Peter De Vries

    Anthony Thrasher is a fifteen-year-old underachiever who simply cannot grasp the mundane realities of the eighth grade. While under the tutelage of his free-spirited teacher Miss Maggie Doubloon (she has the audacity to assign The Scarlet Letter to h...

  • Anthea

    Diana Delmore

    CHANCE-MET BY MOONLIGHT... It could not have been a more romantic meeting...In the lush Italian hills, Geoffrey Stretton, soon to become Lord Lyndock, rescued the beautiful Princess Anthea von Hellenberg from the clutches of local highwaymen. And ...

  • Plundered Paradise

    Lionel Derrick

  • New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers

    Robert S. Desowitz

    A medical ecologist examines the threat posed by disease-carrying parasites and insects and identifies the conditions--miracle drugs, destruction of natural controls--that have encouraged them to flourish...

  • Hunter's Payne

    Joan J. Domning

    Like a force of nature P. Lee Payne strode into Karen Hunter's office demanding to know why she was stalking him. Intrigued by his moody sensitivity, thrilled by his vulnerability, Karen was determined to interview the brilliant but mysterious ph...

  • Return to Yesterday

    Robyn Donald

    She never wanted a reconciliation Six years ago Catlin Loring had stumbled on her husband in bed with another woman. Shattered she'd fled New Zealand and begun a new life in Australia. Now, forced to return to Conal for a favor, she was sur...

  • Beyond Fantasy

    Billie Douglass

    NEVER AS STRANGERS Before they met, Mark Birmingham had been the center of Deanna Hunt's romantic fantasies. Before they were properly introduced, the dignified heiress to Atlanta's Hunt International Hotel had abandoned herself shameless...

  • Desire and Conquer

    Diane Dunaway

    The ranch had always been her world. Now she was on her way to the National Championship. If she won, her financial problems would be solved. There would be high stud fees, a chance to make Casa Contenta the finest Arabian horse-breeding farm in Cali...

  • Lavender Lady

    Carola Dunn

    A COUNTRY GIRL -- AND AN EARL With a clutch of lively half brothers and sisters to raise and too few servants, Hester Godric's life was one of simple country domesticity. Then David Fairfax arrived on her doorstep. The victim of a frightful co...

  • East Wind

    Julie Ellis

    After the untimely death of her parents, Constance Levy is sent to live with relatives in Hong Kong, a journey that leads her into romance with a complex young man and an encounter with her Jewish faith...

  • Lone Star and the Opium Rustlers

    Wesley Ellis

    SIN CITY OUTLAWS The international crime cartel that killed Jessie's dad is out to destroy the Starbuck empire, and they're allied with the Steel Claw, the gang leader of the West's wide-open city. To stop them, Ki fights the "tong" while Jessie g...

  • Picture Perfect

    Carrie Enfield

    Click! She had done it again! Almost everyone wished pesky Liane with her candid shots would learn the proper way to take pictures " of subjects carefully posed who always looked their best. Only handsome Alan appreciated Liane’s knack for ca...

  • Dead in Center Field

    Paul Engleman

    It's the summer of 1961, and all eyes in the sports world are riveted on New York's Yankee Stadium, where young outfielder Marvin Wallace is mounting an assault on Babe Ruth's record of 60 home runs in a season. As the upstart slugger closes in on th...

  • Mr. St. John

    Loren D. Estleman

    Race Buckner and his accomplices are robbing banks and trains all over the West. Their ingenious brand of banditry has made them virtually unstoppable-until a legendary lawman is put on their trail. Mister St. John. Irons St. John thought he had put...

  • Longarm and the Lone Star Vengeance

    Tabor Evans

    LONGARM AND THE LONE STAR LEGEND TOGETHER AGAIN! It was to be the biggest fair Texas had ever seen. Hosted by Jessica Starbuck, its biggest attraction was a shooting contest that would draw every gunslick in the West, including Buffalo Bill Cody a...

  • The Renegade

    Cliff Farrell
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  • Not a Stranger

    John R. Feegel

  • Little Murders

    Jules Feiffer

  • Dark Horse

    John Fischer

    In this classic tale, white horses are consumed with appearances and addicted to a comfortable lifestyle of food, shelter, and praise. When one horse bravely leaves everything he has known to follow a dark horse who promises adventure, he begins a jo...

  • Morning Song

    Rebecca Flanders

    Shane was obviously very miserable I believe that's one of the things we're supposed to have in common, he'd said -- and it was. When Lauren's dancing career ended abruptly with a fall, she seemed to have nothing left to live fo...

  • The Temptation of St. Antony

    Gustave Flaubert

    A book that deeply influenced the young Freud and was the inspiration for many artists, The Temptation of Saint Anthony was Flaubert’s lifelong work, thirty years in the making. Based on the story of the third-century saint who lived on an isolated...

  • Staying Alive

    Leonore Fleischer

  • Murder Isn't Enough

    Don Flynn

  • The Lost Tribe

    Louise Munro Foley

  • Ice Prophet

    William R. Forstchen

    The Ice Prophet Series, Book 1

    A New York Times bestselling author Author's New York Times bestselling One Second After is in development with Warner Bros. as a major motion picture

    For millennia after the Accident, Earth lay c...

  • Krull

    Alan Dean Foster

    It descends from space... THE BLACK FORTRESS raining death and destruction upon the planet KRULL Who will rise to defend the people? who will defy the red-eyed Beast who dwells within the Fortress? One man dares. Colwyn, who is armed with t...

  • The Art of Living and Other Stories

    John E. Gardner

    An inspired book of short stories that explores the profound relationship between life and art While mourning the loss of his son in the Vietnam War, an Italian chef reflects on the importance of art for future generations. An American boy retreats i...

  • Too Many Magicians

    Randall Garrett

    Set in an alternate reality where Richard the Lionheart’s descendants rule the Anglo-French Empire, the laws of magic have developed in place of the laws of physics. In this late 20th century world, people still travel through pea fog by horse and ...

  • Cortes Letter

    Michael Gillette

  • Dark Star of Love

    Elizabeth Glenn

    No limits could hold their dark star of love Regan Allison was in a desperate need of a shower. After two days of working on her garden to make her small cabin presentable, she felt entitled to a long encounter with a hot spray of water and a bar of...

  • Bitter Harvest

    Morton J. Golding

  • A Season for Love

    Heather Graham

    "Witch! Seductress! Temptress!" The words struck out in anger. They were not the words he had first used. Two strangers aboard a ship cruising at sea, their words, their kisses, their touch, had been filled with a fierce, tender passion. And Ronni...

  • Love on the Run

    Leslie Graham

    Katie discovered that running with Brian was different from running with anyone else. There was a oneness about them. They shared the elation and joy of it just as they shared so much else. For Katie had found out that she could tell Brian how she fe...

  • Easy Answers

    Judith Greber

  • Karpov's Brain

    Gerald Green

  • In This Sign

    Joanne Greenberg

    Abel and Janice Ryder share an enduring love too powerful to be broken by a terrifying world they cannot understand. Often heart-breaking, IN THIS SIGN is the story of these two deaf people who triumph in a strange and hostile world and, in the end, ...

  • Blissful Joy and the SAT's

    Sheila Greenwald

  • Bitterleaf

    Lisa Gregory

    HER DESIRE WAS HER SHAME In sultry Charleston, Meredith Whitney was known as the icy Mistress of Bitterleaf. Then she met the regal blue gaze of a golden-haired slave upon the auction block, and with one burning look he branded her as the victim o...

  • The Rainbow Season

    Lisa Gregory

    Luke Turner An outcast, they called him "bad blood" from his boyhood in a tarpaper shack to his nights in a prison cell. Sarah McGowan Her roots were deep in the Texas soil. But her secret shameful love for her sister's husband kept her from ...

  • Bitterleaf

    Lisa Gregory

    HER DESIRE WAS HER SHAME In sultry Charleston, Meredith Whitney was known as the icy Mistress of Bitterleaf. Then she met the regal blue gaze of a golden-haired slave upon the auction block, and with one burning look he branded her as the victim o...

  • Secret of Quaking Asp Cabin and Other Stories

    Zane Grey

  • Olympia

    Elgin Earl Groseclose

    It was in Constantinople, capital of the eastern Roman Empire, that tribune Probos Antonius found the one woman he wanted but could not have -- Olympia, a beautiful and devout Christian. The barrier between them was a secret from his bloodstained pa...

  • The Last Valley

    A.B. Guthrie Jr.

  • Half the Battle

    Lynn Hall

  • Delphine

    Ena Halliday

    DELPHINE WAS BOTH CHILD AND WOMAN, A DAZZLING BLEND OF INNOCENCE AND DESIRE She had gone willingly to Andre, able to acknowledge the attraction that had grown between them during the long voyage from Canada to France. They had spent the most gl...

  • The Armies of Daylight

    Barbara Hambly

    Outside the great stone Keep of Renweth, the night was the province of the Dark Ones--monstrous creatures that had swarmed out of their eldritch underground caverns to destroy humanity. Inside, where the pitiful remains of the oncegreat Realm of D...

  • Spell of the Island

    Anne Hampson

    TEMPTATION IN PARADISE A trip to the exotic island of Mauritius in order to rescue her troubled sister, Louise wasn't exactly Emma's dream vacation. But as soon as she met Paul Fanchotte, her sister's problem became all too clear. ...

  • Match Point

    Angela Harper

  • Light of My Life

    Elaine Harper

    “Lucille means Little Light,” David explained. Lucille didn’t care. She was upset because she hadn’t been given a part in the school play. Now she would have to settle for a job behind the scenes working on the lights. All the action woul...

  • A Dangerous Haven

    Shirley Hart

    He was everything she abhorred. His seductive success at public relations for museums, theaters, and art galleries spilled over into his private life. Kaynon Edwards should have been labeled "Lethal -- Destructive to Women!" Tara Hallworth...

  • TV Tales

    Harvey Comics Staff

  • Someone Special

    Ginny Haymond

  • The Corsican

    William Heffernan

    In a novel that moves from Nazi-occupied France to contemporary Saigon, Pierre Sartene, grandson of the ruler of a financial empire founded on crime, searches for the man--a betrayer of the Sartene organization--who murdered his father...

  • Friday

    Robert A. Heinlein

    FRIDAY ... is a secret courier. She is employed by a man known to her only as "Boss:' Operating from and over a near-future Earth, in which North America has become Balkanized into dozens of independent states, where culture has become bizarrely vul...

  • Miriam

    Lois T. Henderson

  • Lazarus Effect

    Frank Herbert; Bill Ransom

    Based on a New York Times bestseller, inhabitants of a planet colony confront totalitarianism in this “intelligent” sci-fi fantasy “with solid characters” (Kirkus Reviews).   In The Jesus Incident, Hugo and Nebula Award"winning author ...

  • A Sporting Proposition

    Elizabeth Hewitt

    WHAT KIND OF WOMAN WAS SHE? Beautiful young widow Ancilla Martin knew what kind of man Lord Devin Langley was. As owner of one of England's finest racing stables, he was a devotee of fine horseflesh, the thrills of the turf, and the excitement ...

  • The Neck of the Giraffe: Where Darwin Went Wrong

    Francis Hitching

  • What Do You Mean

    Bill Hoest

  • Passion Flower

    Jennifer Horsman

    Jamaica, Boston, Virginia 1795 Young and beautiful Catherine Mary O'Neill a.k.a. Jasmine, lived the carefree fantasy life in the magnificent wilds of Jamaica with her doctor grandfather. When Jasmine was just a child, her grandfather rescued a beau...

  • Vicious Circle

    Imogen Howe

  • Kiss the Tears Away

    Anna Hudson

    " You owe me, " he said, pushing his luck. " The price is dinner -- and evening together. " Clearly they were on a collision course. First he'd barged into her office, an IRS agent who never stopped to consider that Jaycee Warne...

  • A Charm for Adonis

    Meg Hudson

    HE SEEMED SO HAUNTINGLY FAMILIAR Maybe because Nikolas Mylonis looked like a Greek god, falling under his spell seemed only natural. But falling in love was the last thing Candace had expected. A journalist--and a good one--she couldn't keep he...

  • Triggering Town

    Richard Hugo

    "Richard Hugo's free-swinging, go-for-it remarks on poetry and the teaching of poetry are exactly what are needed in classrooms and in the world."â,”James Dickey

    Richard Hugo was that rare phenomenon of American lettersâ,”a distinguis...

  • John Bozeman: Mountain Journey

    Greg Hunt

  • Appleby's End

    Michael Innes

    A Scotland Yard detective is snowed in with a strange family and a killer with a lethal passion for literature in this classic British mystery. Something’s afoot in the village of Snarl. Incidents include animals turned to stone and ominous tombsto...

  • Dream Images

    Amalia James

    Emma whirled into snowy Vermont from balmy hometown Atlanta to make a short film in the romantic wilderness. Realizing it was her big chance to establish herself as a documentary moviemaker, Emma, worked with a fury. Even the magnetic presence of rug...

  • No Easy Conquest

    Arlene James

    SHE WOULD NEVER BE HIS EASY CONQUEST! That Festival Day on the Louisiana bayou had been the best one yet for Josie Jackson. Not only had she sold her needlepoint for a high price but she had been offered the opportunity to leave the confines of th...

  • Times Past

    William M. James

  • Red Roses Forever

    Amanda Jean Jarrett

    On the eve of the first Kentucky Derby, a brave young beauty encounters romance and danger--and a suitor with a fatal secret. A GIRL NAMED WILLA BETH--A THOROUGHBRED NAMED LIGHTNING--AND A RACE THAT WILL CHANGE THEIR WORLD... CHURCHILL DOWNS, L...

  • A Certain Sunrise

    Jessica Jeffries

    IF ONLY MARLA COULD GIVE IN... Just this once .... Just this once to feel something for a man without her mind's sickening warning of rejection. Yet Marla dreaded feeling love for horse breeder Stefan Gerhardt. To him, love meant marriage ...a...

  • Never Too Late

    Nancy John

    Grant Kilmartin had been so busy building his construction company that he had given little thought to building relationships. Natalie Kent changed all that. They clashed professionally, especially when he felt that she wasn't playing fair. But ev...

  • Never Say Farewell

    Joanna Jordan

    WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO THE MAN SHE ONCE KNEW? Shock and disbelief assailed Terra as Grant Ingraham strode back into her life. The man she had adored when she was growing up, the university student who used to visit her father, was now a high-powe...

  • Death in Kenya

    M.M. Kaye

    Memories, magic--and murder lie in wait on the scorching plains of Kenya Victoria Caryll departs London for the lush jungle of her Aunt Emily's estate, Flamingo, her adventurous heart full of forbidden desire--and foreboding. Soon she will see...

  • Murder on Location

    George Kennedy

  • Precious Possession

    Kathryn Kent

    Debonair, devilishly handsome, there was a strength in Max Randolph, a subtle power both intense and tender, to which Sabrina Whitfield couldn't help responding. Yet something warned her to beware, for this ambitious businessman was both co-worker an...

  • A Free-Range Wife

    Michael Kenyon

  • The Galactiad

    Gregory Kern

  • Wish for Tomorrow 19

    Pam Ketter

    If people could be colours, Linden thought she would be "gray". She was not a cheerleader or most popular or a great dancer like her closest friends. Linden was only shy, serious and very reliable. But one night her smile caught the eye of Rob Way...

  • May We Sleep Here Tonight?

    Tan Koide

  • Worldly Goods

    Michael Korda

    Paul Foster and Niki Greenwood, business barons, bitter rivals, each with an obscure past in central Europe, battle over the acquisition of a small publishing house to prevent publication of a potentially devastating book...

  • The Sex War

    Charlotte Lamb

    Daniel was a sweet poison to her When Lindsay discovered her brother was in a state of financial disaster, she was willing to do anything to help--or almost anything. Daniel Randall, her ruthless ex-husband, was the one person who could rescue ...

  • A Surfeit of Alibis

    Philip Lauben

  • Dangerous Male

    Marjorie Lewty

    "Working for me will be a baptism of fire. " That was Harn Durrant's promise, and he proved to be a man of his word. But the position gave Gemma the experience she needed to begin her career -- and the chance to pay Harn back for fi...

  • Wildfire

    Cathie Linz

    She was the original Ice Princess--tall, blond, aloof Amanda Richards, Associate Librarian of Deer field College, a woman with everything under control -- until an arsonist set the campus ablaze and a persistent detective set her heart afire. Brad...

  • The Green House

    Mario Vargas Llosa

    Mario Vargas Llosa's classic early novel takes place in a Peruvian town, situated between desert and jungle, which is torn by boredom and lust. Don Anselmo, a stranger in a black coat, builds a brothel on the outskirts of the town while he charms ...

  • Slocum's Justice

    Jake Logan

  • Unnatural Talent

    Les Logan

  • Replay: Murder

    John Logue

    Harry Carr is the legendary college football coach who takes no prisoners. Even to the point of forcing his star quarterback off his unbeaten team ... because the QB didn't want to play in garbage time with a twice-broken nose. No one really likes th...

  • Shoshone Run

    Warren T. Longtree

  • Eighth Moon: The True Story of a Young Girl's Life in Communist China

    Bette Lord

    Sansan was four when the Communists took Tientsin. She was seventeen when she left China in 1962. This is her story of the years between: how she lived, what she hated, whom she loved; a sturdy, stubborn girl's true record of an existence none of her...

  • The Wilderling

    Claire Lorrimer

    Although born into the British aristocracy, the Honourable Sophia Lucienne Rochford was raised in obscurity first in a French convent and then in a Parisian brothel. Like a wilderling -- a cultivated flower that manages to live in the wild -- Lucy ha...

  • Summer Thunder

    Elizabeth Lowell

    TREACHEROUS BEAUTY Hers was the face that launched a thousand ads. Holly North was known to the world as the sensual and untouchable Shannon--the object of countless men's dreams. But to Lincoln McKenzie, the rancher Holly had always loved, the beau...

  • The Last Bordello

    Cort Martin

    BOLT WAS A WANTED MAN... WANTED BY HIS FAMIIY, THE LAW -- AND BY A WHOLE LOT OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN! She was naked, which Bolt didn't mind; but, she was also about to be tarred and feathered-just for using her assets to make a living -- and that got h...

  • The Ravens of Rockhurst

    Marian Martin

    "The evil that men do lives after them...." And indeed it did at Rockhurst, the gloomy old Padgett mansion. For Jacob Padgett had left his heirs a legacy of suspicion and distrust -- along with a fortune in art treasures. To pretty young Courtn...

  • Green Lightning

    Anne Mather

    "It will never work," her friend warned Helen winced at the frank assessment of her chances for romantic happiness. For she had loved Heath since childhood, and as she'd grown into a woman, her emotions had deepened and changed in ways...

  • King Cobras

    William C. Matthews

  • Lost in Love

    Mia Maxam

    A MOST UNUSUAL ENGAGEMENT! When Miranda Bridger, fleeing from an unpleasant home situation, tumbled into an unknown, waiting limousine, she hardly expected to be whisked off to a wedding party as the awaited bride. Neither had she planned to take...

  • Tears of Gold

    Laurie McBain

    Vengeance leads Nicholas around the world in search of the temptress Mara until their meeting turns his desire for revenge into passionate love. Haunted by the memory of her aristocratic father's desertion of his mistress and children, Mara O'Flynn ...

  • Beloved Intruder

    Noelle Berry McCue

    He brought her back to life, kicking, screaming, and fighting every step of the way. Shannon Douglas hated Michael Brady from the moment he threw open the doors and brought the tingling breezes of life into her shadowy existence. Under his fiercely...

  • A Perfect Match

    Jill McGown

    TO THE MARRIAGE OF TWO MINDS... After twenty-six years of marriage, Donald and Helen make no pretense of being passionately in love. Happily independent of each other, they get their pleasures elsewhere. But things get a bit too cozy when Donal...

  • Chase the Clouds

    Lindsay McKenna

    REACH FOR THE SKY As a reputable horse trainer, Dany couldn't honor the contract her ex-husband had made with Sam Reese. It was ludicrous to hope that a feisty stallion raised in a herd of wild mustangs could ever compete as a Grand Prix jumpe...

  • An Unkindness of Ravens

    Dee Morrison Meaney

    Hers was the inheritance of a lineage that stretched thousands of years back in time to the women who raised the first circles at Stonehenge, women who laid their dead in womb-shaped barrow graves. She was the last of those women, bound up in love of...

  • Mary, Wayfarer

    Mary E. Mebane

    A memoir detailing the Black experience in the South during the 1950s and 1960s recounts the author's educational experiences, teaching career, the rise of the Black Power movement, and meeting with James Baldwin and Malcolm X...

  • Forbidden Destiny

    Emily Mesta

    SHE BOLDLY PLAYED THE TEMPTRESS... Jennifer Blake arrived in Bogota with one purpose: to meet--and bewitch--Alejandro Adler. The wealthy Colombian businessman was guilty of a drug-smuggling offense he'd pinned on her brother. She was determined to...

  • Stormy Serenade

    Suzanne Michelle

    CHEMICAL ATTRACTION How could she feel so involved with a man she'd known only twenty-four hours? Top photographer Kiki Andrews had returned to Texas to photograph country singing sensation Stoney Blue for Lifestyle Magazine, never imagining the c...

  • Wild Harvest

    Allison Mitchell

    ONE NIGHT OF LOVE John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale and Lord High Commissioner of Scotland, was a man of honor - but questions of conscience faded when he laid eyes on 16-year-old Mary MacPhee. This beautiful, red-haired daughter of a Scottish re...

  • Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games

    Rosalind Moore

  • Adriana

    Catherine Moorhouse

    After the death of her father, Adriana Bancroft sets off to find her twin brother, Tate, missing in action in Portugal during the Napoleonic War. Disguising herself as a boy, she finds a position taking care of an unhappy young child - cousin and hei...

  • The Mansions of Space

    John Morressy

    Jod Enskeline, a free trader, agrees to help the priests of the planet Peter's Rock search for the Holy Shroud in return for their priceless collection of ancient books from Earth...

  • Undying Love

    Carole Mortimer

    The secret in her heart left no room for love Since her husband's death in a fiery car crash six months earlier Shanna had thrown herself into her work by day and wild parties by night. The truth was, Shanna was afraid of being alone--and even...

  • A Voyage Round My Father

    John Clifford Mortimer

    John Mortimer’s autobiographical play is the affectionate portrait of a son’s relationship with his father. Growing up in the shadow of the brilliant barrister, who adored his garden and hated visitors, and whose blindness was never mentioned, th...

  • Terra Science Fiction 2

    Richard D. Nolane

    TERRA SF II THE YEARS BEST EUROPEAN SF "The most contemporary selection to date of European science fiction, with outstanding stories..." Such was the comment of Fantasy & Science Fiction on the first volume of TERRA SF "This book should start a ...

  • Rebel Temptress

    Constance O'Banyon

    A war between two lovers Alone and unprotected, beautiful green-eyed Honor was helpless against the savage Yankees who stormed her plantation home. Then she met Yankee Major Adam O'Roarke. What ecstasy to be in the arms of a strong handsome ma...

  • Lord Raven's Widow

    Leslie O'Grady

  • Summerhaze

    Kate O'Hara

    There was no reason for his hostility! Returning home to New Zealand after five years abroad, Romy was stunned when she met the manager of her family's farm, Summerhaze. The intense, darkly compelling Quila Morgan reacted to her with immediate...

  • The Fairfax Brew

    Sara Orwig

    How fragile is the line between love and hate .... Lady Fairfax had lovingly raised her two orphaned grandchildren, beautiful sisters, but as unalike as a lion and a lamb. Where dark-haired Allele was pale and gentle, Clairice was a quick-tempered...

  • The Entertainer

    John Osborne

  • War Without Frontiers

    Andrew Osmond

  • Caribbean Gold

    Margaret Pargeter

    He wanted her for all the wrong reasons For two years Eden had pined away for Vern Lomax, knowing full well she could never regain his love. From the first time they'd met Eden had responded to him with such deliberate passion it surprised ...

  • Until Love Is Enough

    Laura Parker

  • Paradine's Gauntlet

    Don Pendleton

    Through the gates of madness! Bolan was up against a master adversary -- Paradine. The terrorist tsar, presumed dead after an earlier encounter with The Executioner, had returned with a vengeance. Paradine has hijacked a plane filled with an in...

  • Lightning Strikes Twice

    Sue Peters

    He insisted everything was her fault! Jay had agreed to escort her friend's children to their Uncle Lyle in England, but being subjected to his animosity was never part of the agreement! When lightning struck his home, Lyle blamed Jay for the r...

  • Immortal Dragon

    Michael Peterson

  • The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 12

    Pocket Books

    This is a stellar collection of short stories and novellas. Of the 13 stories in this collection, I enjoyed all of them except one, and that was more a matter of taste than the story being poorly written. Most of the authors I had never heard of and ...

  • A Cab at the Door

    V.S. Pritchett

  • Ellery Queen's Lost Ladies

    Ellery Queen

  • The Satyr Ring

    Alison Quinn

    She didn't even know her name .. . When they brought her to the London hospital, she didn't know who she was or where she'd come from. So they called her Sarah Smith, to match the initials on the strange ring she wore. Sarah stayed on to work a...

  • Silicone Valley Slaughter

    John Quinn

  • Maternity Nurse

    Patricia Rae

    It's every woman's dream to have a fulfilling career--and that's what Carol had found as a maternity nurse. No matter how tired she got, a "code blue" still suffused her with energy and the routine of labor and delivery was always exciting. But espec...

  • Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales

    Vance Randolph

    Vance Randolph has long been an undeniable presence on the American folklore scholarship scene. His Ozark corpus is "the best known single body of regional folklore in the United States," according to Richard Dorson, director of the Folklor...

  • Tales Galactic 3

    Mike Resnick

  • The Dice Man

    Luke Rhinehart

    “One of the fifty most influential books of the last half of the twentieth century,” a comic novel about a therapist making life choices by rolling dice. (BBC)   The cult classic that can still change your life . . . Let the d...

  • Valiant Hearts

    Evan H. Rhodes

    Valiant Hearts continues the epic of The American Palace. In 1829 the White House is rocked by intrigue and sexual scandal; the visionary Andrew Jackson, aided by Rebecca, alias Rebel Thorne, struggles to hold the fragmenting Union together.

    The B...

  • Tycoon

    Alayna Richards

  • Ladyfingers

    Shepard Rifkin

    The box was mailed to the police commissioner himself. The wrapping was ordinary brown paper.The box was five inches long, two inches wide and one inch deep.It looked ideal for mailing a wristwatch.But there was no watch in it.Just a finger.A lady's ...