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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JULY 1987

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New Books List: 401 titles

  • Patchwork

    Ila Yount

  • Maggie Mine

    Karen Young

    ROMANTIC AND THE CYNIC Maggie Taylor believed in love, marriage and happily ever after. Cash McKenzie was a dyed-in-the-wool cynic, totally disillusioned with romance. Only his young daughter was capable of softening his heart. Until Maggie kno...

  • The Counterfeit Hostage

    Carl Yeager

  • Lucky In Love

    Josephine Wunsch

    Do opposites attract ? Maggie wanted to think so, especially after she met Greg. But her best friend didn't agree. She carefully explained why Maggie and Greg could never be a couple. > Greg was into music; Maggie wasn't. > Greg was mad ab...

  • Masterplay

    William F. Wu

    In a world of the future in which court cases are determined by computer-game combat, friends and Master Gamers Richard Ross and Ken Li become caught up in a deadly game that could mean death for one of the opponents...

  • Into the Night

    Cornell Woolrich

    TWO OF THE GREATEST AUTHORS OF NOIR FICTION IN AN UNFORGETTABLE COLLABORATIONAn innocent woman lies dead in the street, felled by a stray bullet. Now it’s up to the woman who killed her to investigate the dead woman’s life and pick up its cut-sho...

  • Woe to Live on

    Daniel Woodrell

    Set in the border states of Kansas and Missouri, Woe to Live On explores the nature of lawlessness and violence, friendship and loyalty, through the eyes of young recruit Jake Roedel. Where he and his fellow First Kansas Irregulars go, no one is safe...

  • Pure Temptation

    Sara Wood

    Eve thought of herself as plain Yet something within her responded deeply to glamorous, sophisticated Matt Cavell from the first time she saw him. Dancing wildly with a mysterious young companion in the soft Mallorcan night, he held Eve spellbound...

  • To Swallow a Toad

    P. Weston Wood

  • Round the World Air

    Katie Wood

    Aimed at the serious long-distance traveller this guide gives professional advice on the best places and best prices for a long journey. It suggests stop-offs and side trips; describes airport facilities round the world and places to sleep and eat....

  • A Lady No More

    Eileen Witton

    From the top of her glossy dark curls to the tips of her dainty kid slippers, Eugenia Wolverton was every inch a lady. But when her disreputable cousin threatened to take over the family estate, she set propriety aside to go to America to find her b...

  • Dolly Dodo

    Bernard Wiseman

  • In the Time of the Dinosaurs

    William Wise

  • Miss Undine's Living Room

    James Wilcox

    A candidate for the office of Superintendent of Streets, Parks, and Garbage, middle-aged matron Olive Mackie of Tula Springs, Louisiana, finds her political aspirations thwarted when her ninety-one-year-old Great Uncle L.D. comes under suspicion for ...

  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Suzanne Weyn

  • Busy Body

    Donald E. Westlake

    Aloysius Engel, a middle-echelon gangster newly promoted to be assistant to the "Big Man," is instructed to retrieve hidden drugs from a new grave, but finds only an empty coffin and begins a ghoulish chase after the missing corpse...

  • King's Castle

    Carolyn Wesley

  • Fat, a Love Story

    Barbara Wersba

  • The Price

    Marvin Werlin

    Harry Stone is a self-made man and has come a long way from his humble upbringing in the East End of London. He is cold and ruthless and the only thing that truly arouses him is the making of money by whatever means he sees fit. He believes it must a...

  • The Birth and Death of the Miracle Man

    Albert Wendt

    This remarkable collection of stories offers a portrait of the fascinating and complex world of Samoa. There is Salepa, down on his luck but determined to use his one talent on the reluctant inhabitants of a nearby town; Fiasola, who feels that th...

  • Castle of Shadows

    Beverly C. Warren

    LOST PARADISE She had spent the summers of her childhood there. amid the wild splendor of Strath off the west coast of Scotland, Dunmoore Castle had been her castle in the clouds, the island her kingdom, and cousin Alec her dark prince. Then, ab...

  • I Am Eyes Ni Macho

    Leila Ward

  • Harry

    Robert Wales

  • Telefon

    Walter H. Wager

    An edgy Cold War thriller, perfect for fans of The Manchurian Candidate and other terrifying conspiracy novels.   The Russians called the project TELEFON.   Collect 430 first-class English speakers who’d never left the country. Drill them...

  • Tatja Grimm's World

    Vernor Vinge

    Multiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge's first full-length novelAs a mud-spattered youngster, Tatja quickly realized she was different from the stone-age primitives with whom she grew up. Her insatiable curiosity and thirst for knowledge could not b...

  • Equations of Chaos

    Robert E. Vardeman

  • Coyote

    Lynn Vannucci

    It’s 1986… Mickey Azzi is a soap opera star living in Los Angeles. But she still hasn’t gotten over an affair she had years before, when she was a student living in New York. The affair was with one of her professors, Coyote. In Mi...

  • Loving Charade

    Linda Vail

    There was a first time for everything. Amelia had never seduced a man before but she was going to try. She'd made a deal. Her brother was in danger and his safety depended on it. But surely the devastating Colt wasn't the kind to be tricked by her in...

  • Roger's Version

    John Updike

    As Roger Lambert tells it, he, a middle-aged professor of divinity, is buttonholed in his office by Dale Kohler, an earnest young computer scientist who believes that quantifiable evidence of God’s existence is irresistibly accumulating. The theolo...

  • Pink Satin Lady

    Alison Tyler (1)

    Teddy Shannon's business was booming. Her Teddy Girls, clad in pink satin, turned heads as they sped by on their bikes--the city's most unique messenger service. But when Teddy herself delivered a package to the devastating Gil Raymond, world-famous ...

  • Presumed Innocent

    Scott Turow

    Hailed as the most suspenseful and compelling novel in decades, Presumed Innocent brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary citizen facing conviction for the most terrible of all crimes. It's the stunning portrayal of one man's all-too...

  • Don't Tell Laura

    Susan Trott

  • Incognito

    Susan Trott

  • When Your Lover Leaves

    Susan Trott

    Ronda Thompson begins to lose her grip on sanity when her enjoyable and fulfilling life is punctured by two dramatic events: a lover's unexpected abandonment for his wife and a rapist's rampage through her neighborhood...

  • By Any Other Name

    Jeanne Triner

    SHE WAS A CONTRADICTION Whitney Richardson had everything--beauty, sophistication, charm and money. So what was she doing on a Wisconsin farm, and where exactly was all that capital coming from? Professor Adam Crawford wanted the answers. He wa...

  • Woman in the Wind

    Pamela Townley

    Dickie Bennet, an English farm girl, must use every ounce of her energy and intelligence to seek vengeance against the rich, and influential Redfield family, whose two sons ruthlessly raped her when she was a teenager...

  • Pride of the Peacock

    Stephanie S. Tolan

    Thirteen-year-old Whitney and her friend Paul gain insight into their fear of nuclear war and new hope through their association with a sculptor who has lost her husband and the sculptor's beautiful peacock...

  • Lady Killer

    Masako Togawa

    A dizzying tale of lust, mystery, and murder -- from a beloved Japanese crime fiction author and LGBT iconThe Lady Killer leads a double life in Tokyo's shadowy underworld. By day, he is a devoted husband and hard worker; by night, he cruises cabaret...

  • Iron Master

    Patrick Tilley

    Hundreds of years after civilisation has been destroyed by nuclear war, the Earth is divided between the Trackers of the Amtrak Federation " a community living in vast subterranean cities " and the Mutes, who have evolved to withstand the radiati...

  • Seven Miles from Sydney

    Lesley Thomson

  • Golden Girl

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    CYCLING WAS HER ONLY PASSION For eleven years Rachel York had struggled and sacrificed to be the very best. Now she was going for the gold--literally--aiming for a spot on the Olympic team. Yet the road to glory was fraught with difficulty. The...

  • Sundipper

    Paul B. Thompson

  • Nature's Way

    David C. Thomas

  • King of Heart's Heart

    Sam Teague

  • Mississippi Rogue

    Clay Tanner

    There aren’t many turns of the cards that can surprise a riverboat gambler, but when the Montana law wants the Wild Card to ferry a murderer downriver for a meeting with the hangman, Chance Sharpe draws the one hand he never expected. The accus...

  • Chase the Wind

    Rebecca Swan

    Justine Fleming had fled the frenzied city life for good. She was happy in eastern Washington, slowly restoring her grandparents' estate and painstakingly training her falcon. The last thing she needed was a keyed-up businessman rushing her around ...

  • The Duke's Revenge

    Marlene Suson

    A gentleman learns that loving well is the best revenge... "YOU ARE TRYING TO FOB ME OFF. BUT I SHALL HAVE YOU! I ADORE YOU!" Miss Alyssa Eliot's virtuous heart sank as she listened to the Marquess of Stanwood's wild declaration...

  • Promises to Keep

    Wendy Susans

  • Velvet Deception

    Casey Stuart

    THE RAVEN Raven MacCennon knew she should not be intrigued by a man like Taber O'Flynn, yet she could not get the infamous revolutionary out of her thoughts. He was dashing, daring, fearless...and he'd eluded capture for so long that her fellow Engl...

  • Cat Magic

    Whitley Strieber

    The arrival of Amanda Walker, a talented young artist, in the seemingly peaceful town of Maywell, New Jersey, triggers a bizarre and horrific series of events in a terrifying tale of modern witchcraft. Some people in Maywell, New Jersey, commute t...

  • Crackdown

    Nick Stone

  • The Case of the Horrible Swamp Monster

    Drew Stevenson

  • Daughters of Desire

    Serita Stevens

    A man of savage passions, a woman of secret desires, a love as wild as the untamed land. Fleeing a forced marriage, Marquis de Racine, Genevieve set sail for New France with a boatload of bartered brides. Her etheral beauty brought offers aplenty, ...

  • The Dreaming

    Amanda Stevens

    A CLOSET ROMANTIC Dr. Toni Sinclair was a busy woman whose only time for romance was in her dreams. Then she took a much needed vacation in Egypt and discovered that the ages -- old country, with its ancient pyramids and exotic temples, was everyt...

  • Mistress of Cliff House

    Jeanne Stephens

    THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT... Cliff House... an isolated mansion on the rocky coast of Maine. Cassie Underwood had come to care for her injured grandmother, then found herself in the middle of a family intrigue with potentially dangerous con...

  • Thirty Years on the Line

    Leo Stapleton

  • Where Eagles Soar

    Emily Spenser

    He could flirt with life but not with her! An Arizona mountaintop was an unlikely and perhaps "risky" place to fall head over heels for a jet-setting adventurer--but Jenny Roberts did when she rescued Paul Conan Brant III. Nevertheless,...

  • Operation: Tiger Strike

    William Sno

  • Lament for a Silver-Eyed Woman

    Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

  • Never a Stranger

    Marcine Smith

    HANDYMAN'S SPECIAL Favor Conroy had come home to Lost Lake after a failed marriage. She enjoyed working as school superintendent and on her uncle's resort. But everything changed the day a skunk darted through Favor's legs as she fixed a fence, tr...

  • Love's Harbinger

    Joan Smith

    Lady Faith Mordain’s fiancé is castigated in Guy Delamar’s Harbinger newspaper as a thief. She believes the social climbing editor must be wrong--though Lord Thomas apparently did take flight with the company’s funds. The race to retrieve the ...

  • Rising

    Alison Smith

  • Roderick

    John Sladek

  • The Bayou Fox

    Helene Sinclair

    "I vow on my father's grave to ruin Edward Hammond!" -- Bethany's tearstained face turned toward the grey Kentucky sky. Daughter of a riverboat gambler, Bethany had nevertheless been brought up a lady, innocent of men like Hammond, the "Bayou Fox,"...

  • The Burning Land

    Barbara Siegel

    Sixteen-year-olds Matt and Dani are deep underground in a theater storage room when nuclear missiles hit, and when they emerge one month later, they struggle to survive in the radioactive wasteland that was once their home....

  • Survivors

    Barbara Siegel

    Fire Brats is a series set in the aftermath of World War 3, it follows the struggles of two teenagers Matt and Dani to escape a nuclear-bombed city and find a new life. Matt and Dani cross a huge river on a raft, and are taken in by a kindly old s...

  • Mary Ashe

    Barbara Sherrod

    Hers was a sensible heart. But is good sense enough when true love calls? The Difficulty With Miss Ashe... Spoilt, eccentric, willful, and perverse -- such was the portrait of Mary Ashe as limned by the wags of society. After all, they whispe...

  • Main Force Assault

    David Sherman

    The members of Combined Action Platoon Tango Niner, a motley collection of misfits, individualists, and characters, await an opportunity to ambush the Viet Cong and corrupt South Vietnamese to deal them a bloody beating...

  • Love's Enchantment

    Susan Shelley

    HE WAS THE CONQUEROR, SHE WAS HIS PRIZE -- BUT LOVE WAS TRIUMPHANT Ravishing, raven-tressed Glyns had no choice but to submit when the Normans raided the wild Welsh land. But the blue-eyed beauty would never surrender her spirit to their leader, S...

  • The Boys of Winter

    Wilfrid Sheed

    Jonathan Oglethorpe, an editor, and Waldo Spinks, an aging novelist, race to write the perfect comic novel about art, life, and sex in the Hamptons, as they try to organize the local writers' softball team...

  • Egg to Chick

    Millicent Selsam

    How an egg cell develops -- from the time it is joined by a sperm until the baby chick is hatched 21 days later -- is simply and clearly explained.

    A Reading Rainbow Selection...

  • A Male Child

    Paul Scott

  • Fleeting Images

    Ariana Scott

    Images is the creation of America's top model turned entrepreneur, Jessie-Ann Parker. IMAGES is a model agency with a difference, and it brings together four girls all irresistibly drawn to the glamorous world of high fashion. Yet behind its glossy i...

  • Merrie

    Vivian Schurfranz

    She's run away to become a part of history, and to fall in love. It will take everything she had to survive the first year at Plymouth Colony. Stowing away aboard the Mayflower to escape an arranged marriage, sixteen-year-old Merrie Courtland recei...

  • Summer Camp Creeps

    Tim Schoch

  • Richard Scarry's Busy Workers

    Richard Scarry

    Labeled drawings show a police officer, electricians, movers, a fire fighter, pilots, a limousine driver, gas station attendants, mechanics, heavy equipment operators, a butcher, cashier, baker, musicians, a dentist, teacher, and a nurse...

  • Who's Got a Secret?

    Susan Saunders

  • The Unwanted

    John Saul

    Cassie Winslow is sixteen.  She has just lost her mother in a terrible accident.  Now, lonely and frightened, she has come to live with the father she barely knows and his new family in tiny False Harbor on Cape Cod.  Fo...

  • The Things We Do for Love

    Glenda Sands

    ET TU, BRUTE? Standing in an unemployment line appalled rugged engineer Austin Hastings -- until the prettiest woman he'd ever seen came in off the street, boldly caught his eye, and told him she could use a man like him. Intrigued by the possibili...

  • Reluctant Hero

    Francoise Sagan

  • Nanny's Texas Table

    Larry Ross

  • Berlin Breakout

    Julian Romanes

  • The Planet on the Table

    Kim Stanley Robinson

  • The Pietrov Game

    Jeffrey Robinson

  • None But He

    Patricia Robins

    When Mandy's boyfriend dies in a motorbike accident, she is left alone with a young child and little money. It seems a perfect solution to Mandy's twin problems of finance and loneliness when her son's uncle Jon offers her a job as his receptionist -...

  • Command Performance

    Nora Roberts

    RETURN ENGAGEMENT In Eve Hamilton's youth, His Royal Highness Alexander de Cordina had played the part of a fairy-tale prince. Cordina was still a storybook place, but seven years ago Eve had learned that its villains were undeniably real. She had...

  • Hot Ice

    Nora Roberts

    Rich, gorgeous Whitney MacAllister possesses all the wealth and beauty every woman dreams of. Reckless Whitney likes fast cars, vintage movies, and dangerous men. But even this jaded, high-living Manhattan socialite is taken by surprise when a strang...

  • Homesteader Guns

    J.R. Roberts

    Clint walks into the second worst kind of trouble there is. His old friend Buzz Fahnstock has asked him to help fight a bloody range war. Fahnstock's on the side of the homesteaders facing down the brutal cattlemen of the Big Tom Valley. The sodbuste...

  • Beach Days

    Ken Robbins

  • Citadel Run

    David Robbins

  • The Crossword Hunt

    Herbert Resnicow

  • Love at First Sight

    Ann Reit

  • Iron Pirate

    Douglas Reeman

    Surprise will be total. It will show the world what we can do. You will do it for Germany!' The crack German heavy cruiser Prinz Luitpold had always been lucky in battle. To the beleaguered army on the Baltic coast she was their one remaining symbol ...

  • Unicorn Expedition

    Satyajit Ray

    Please Read Notes: Brand New, International Softcover Edition, Printed in black and white pages, minor self wear on the cover or pages, Sale restriction may be printed on the book, but Book name, contents, and author are exactly same as Hardcover Edi...

  • Greenfinger

    Julian Rathbone

    Esther Carter, the beautiful and vibrant wife of an agricultural economist, faces danger and greed in the jungles of Central America when an international corporation mounts a covert operation to destroy a new product...

  • Daring Desire

    Colleen Quinn

    SHE NEEDED HIM Beautiful, chestnut-haired Muirgel flushed with fury as the unscrupulous mercenary stated his outrageous demands. He would come to the aid of her people if she would fill his pockets with gold ... and spend one night in his bed. Muirg...

  • Nothing In Common

    Janet Quin-Harkin

  • Allure

    Fayrene Preston

    She'd never expected to see Rick O'Neill again, never wanted to recall a night sky filled with lightning and stars, and a boy who had broken her heart. But when Chandra Stuart returned to her hometown so many years later, he was there... and he want...

  • Eleanor : The Passionate Queen

    Anne Powers

    Eleanor of Aquitaine: Heiress to the richest duchy of France, she ruled its hot-blooded nobles as no man ever had and reveled in the sensuous pleasures of its courts of love. The King of France: Bedazzled by the radiant beauty of his bride, the m...

  • First Lady

    Erin Pizzey

  • Stickman

    Seth Pfefferle

  • Entrance to Eden

    Sue Peters

    This man took the cake! To Kay, securing the catering contract for a high society wedding at Canon Court was testimony to her culinary talents and those of her sister, Helen. When their aristocratic host, York Demster, dared to doubt their capa...

  • In Search of Mom

    David Peters

  • Roses of Glory

    Mary Pershall

    ROANNA ROYSTON The beautiful tavern wench from the lusty London docks whom fortune made a lady ... she was as bold and rebellious as the wild mane of hair that tumbled round her shoulders -- until one man's savage passions possessed her. GILES f...

  • Fenella Fang and the Great Escape

    Ritchie Perry

  • Life to Life

    Don Pendleton

    Private Investigator Ashton Ford has special powers. His sense of an orderly universe is threatened by ideas of spirit communication and past lives. Reverend Annie is a powerful, stunningly beautiful psychic who gives spiritual guidance to thousands ...

  • Hit and Run

    Laura Pender

    She couldn't believe she'd been so gullible When her fiance disappeared, along with most of her life savings, Pam Jordan had little choice but to believe she had been the victim of an elaborate con. And if Matt O'Neil were to be believed, she had ...

  • Twilight Temptress

    Sonya T. Pelton

    Her innocence entranced him ... her passion bewitched him! Angela didn't know whom to trust. She had no memory of who she was or how she'd come to be at Tamarind Plantation. But one thing she was sure of- she was not Robert Fortune's bride. No matt...

  • Desire's Rebel

    Patricia Pellicane

    Glory, Nevada was a dry, dusty dung heap of a town in the middle of nowhere. Why had Nora's father dragged her here in the first place? Well, old Doc Bowen was too ill now to answer his daughter's questions, and if the townspeople of Glory wanted a t...

  • The Seizing of Yankee Green Mall

    Ridley Pearson

  • Knight Fall

    Laurence Payne

  • Seasons of Revenge

    William Paul

  • The Mermaid's Touch

    Lynn Patrick

    Two treasure hunters discover the ultimate prize is love. When diver Jason Price's oxygen tank fails during a hunt for sunken treasure, he knows he's going to die. In fact, he knows the beautiful mermaid he sees swimming toward him will usher him to ...

  • Leaving Home

    Francine Pascal

    Elizabeth Wakefield has always dreamed of visiting the beautiful mountains of Switzerland, so she's thrilled when she has a chance to attend an exclusive Swiss boarding school. As much as she loves Sweet Valley, Elizabeth is positive the romantic, sn...

  • One of the Gang

    Francine Pascal

    Pamela Robinson gains a new understanding of herself and her handicap when she comes to the aid of a friend, Jessica Wakefield, after an ankle injury threatens to put Jessica out of the Sweet Valley Mini-Olympics...

  • Man Shy

    Valerie Parv

    It was to be the start of a new life. For Alita, agreeing to run her friend Karen's farm secretarial agency in the Australian outback was the first step away from her past. She hoped to forget her regrettable marriage and perhaps find that not al...

  • Flight of the Phantom

    Richard Parque

  • Sweet Vietnam

    Richard Parque

  • Whispers at Midnight

    Andrea Parnell

    IF ONLY HIS KISS HAD BEEN HARD, BRIEF AND DEMANDING, BUT IT WAS NOT. IT WAS GENTLE AND PROBING, POSSESSING. A BUDDING THEN FERVID PLEASURE TOOK AMANDA'S BREATH AWAY, AND IT ONLY MATTERED THAT SHE WAS IN HIS ARMS, RESPONDING TO ITS SWEET SOLACE FOR AL...

  • Skye

    Lauran Paine

    THE MAN - Frank Cutler was minding his own business in one of those slab-board towns where life was even cheaper than whiskey. Until an angry clash put him at the small end of the law's gunsights. THE LAND - Big enough to hide a man forever. Until a...

  • Spirit Meadow

    Lauran Paine

  • Head to Toe

    Joe Orton

    Here, together for the first time in one volume, are Joe Orton's earliest and last published works. Head to Toe is the saga of Gombold, who strays onto the head of a creature some hundred miles high and begins making his way through the giant's nethe...

  • Sapphire and Silk

    Leslie O'Grady

    Nicholas kissed her, and at that one moment took Aurora's breath away. She closed her eyes and forgot all doubts and misgivings. She was ready to surrender herself to him completely... Beautiful young Aurora Falconet had ample warning of the k...

  • Actors

    Kevin O'Brien

  • Magic in Ithkar 4

    Andre Norton

  • The Burning Ground

    Madeena Spray Nolan

  • Tar and Feathers

    Dorothy Nelson

    Dorothy Nelson's first book to be published in the United States focuses on a demented, dysfunctional Irish family. The Crawford family is dominated by Da (Joe), a manic-depressive thief and liar who has spent two years in prison for exposing hims...

  • Trade Secrets

    Carla Neggers

    She was spoiling for a fight Juniper Killibrew could be as prickly as her namesake plant. She prided herself on that. That and her dedication to the family firm. But when the company was sold out from under her, she wound up nose to nose with the in...

  • The Doubtful Marriage

    Betty Neels

    He was the answer to all her prayers Matilda worked as a nurse in her uncle's busy small-town medical practice. Though she found caring for her patients satisfying, Tilly was well aware of her need for something greater. Little did she susp...

  • Golden Reckoning

    Jean Nash

    AMID THE DAZZLING WHIRL OF OLD NEW YORK, TWO LOVERS DARED TO LIVE A BURNING MOMENT OF TRUTH, THE HOUR OF THEIR GOLDEN RECKONING Acclaimed as a breathtaking actress, Miranda Oberon was the toast of New York's most brilliant age. But deep in her heart...

  • Blood Ties

    Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    THE GURU OF GARBAGE Lyle Lavellette was known to some as Detroit's maverick genius, and to others as the biggest gasbag the auto city had ever seen. But now this golden-tongued tycoon had proved his critics wrong by producing a car that could.free...

  • Lover Man

    Dallas Murphy

    I had it easy--relaxing in my Morris chair, listening to jazz, and collecting paychecks from my dog Jellyroll's successful acting career. Then Manhattan Homicide South came pounding on my door, and tranquility vanished for a long, long time. Billi...

  • Monsters, Monsters!

    Michaela Muntean

  • Oscar's Silly ABC's and Other Stories

    Michaela Muntean

  • Merlyn's Magic

    Carole Mortimer

    THE TEMPESTUOUS NIGHT HELD A MAGIC ALL ITS OWN When dawn came, Brandon Carmichael retreated into his own private torment where he still grieved the tragic loss of Suzie, his beautiful and talented wife. Merlyn, dismayed at their own passion and hu...

  • The Captive Bride

    Gilbert Morris

    Her pilgrim family had nurtured her in an atmosphere of religious and political freedom -- now enemies of that freedom threatened her very life! THE CAPTIVE BRIDE takes the Winslow family beyond the Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth to assist in buildi...

  • Voyage

    Charles Morgan

  • Bedroom Magic

    Alice Morgan

    Was turnabout fair play? On the plane, he'd been the most exciting, seductive man she'd ever seen. Lerisa deliberately set out to seduce him -- and almost succeeded. But when she walked into Logan West's office in San Diego to discover he was her bos...

  • Doomsday Morning

    C.L. Moore

    A classic, post-apocalyptic vision of America created by C. L. Moore, an undisputed master of science fiction’s golden age.   In the wake of a nuclear war, the totalitarian system known as Comus has restored order in a shattered America. Comus...

  • Sapphire Heart

    Hayton Monteith

    He'd bossed and bullied her. He'd been the menace of her childhood. And now that Charity Bigham had come home to a legacy of wealth and treachery, Tell Layton was still there, watching out for her, insisting he wanted her. True to her name, Charity k...

  • Journey to the Treasure

    Louise Moeri

    They knew they couldn't give up. Victoria has heard her grandfather's story of the fabulous golden treasure a thousand times. He has told it so often that no one believes him anymore -- not even Victoria. Then suddenly it's no longer just a st...

  • Velvet Fire

    Elda Minger

    HIGH PRICE It was a cruel twist of fate that brought Gwyn to the Dark Stallion. As a country vicar's daughter, the beautiful young woman had nowhere to turn after she was indentured to Janet Wickens, the madame of London's most fashionable ...

  • Wanton Angel

    Linda Lael Miller

    ONLY ONE MAN COULD EVER CLAIM HER... When Bonnie McKutchen left her wealthy husband inn a storm of heartache and betrayal, she fled New York with nothing but the dress on her back. Eli McKutchen finally caught up with her in a Washington mining to...

  • How I Kept the U. S. Out of War

    Judi Miller

  • Wild Nights

    Ann Miller

  • Satin Secret

    Emma Merritt

    HEATED MURMUR After young Marta Carolina had been attacked by pirates, shipwrecked in a storm and beset by Indians, she was convinced the New World brought nothing but tragedy...until virile William Dare rescued her. The rugged American made her fee...

  • In Remembrance of Rose

    M.R.D. Meek

    "Mr. Kemp, someone is trying to kill me . . . " Thus confided wealthy, charming seventy-year-old Rose Amaury to Lennox Kemp, whom she had asked to prepare her will. But before Kemp can investigate, Rose is found dead, victim of a bungled robbery a...

  • Scout's Honor

    Glenna McReynolds

    Anna Lange entered the room in a cloud of midnight silk and a scent of danger. To Mitch Summers she was truly a lady who could take a man's breath away. He'd followed her into a world of high stakes and white sands, determined to sway her gambler's...

  • The Pirate's Lady

    Kay McMahon

    SAVAGE HUNTER When lovely Jennifer Grey discovered she was shipwrecked on Chad LaShelle's outlaw island, the innocent girl wished she'd died at sea with her fellow passengers. She'd heard of the notorious pirate's scurrilous reputation and the flawl...

  • Southern Cross

    Jack McKinney

    A NEW ALIEN MENACE HAS COME TO RAVAGE EARTH-- Some twenty years before, the Robotech Masters sent their giant warrior-slaves, the Zentraedi, to plunder Earth of its Protoculture secrets. But heroic men and women repulsed the invasion in a war that...

  • These Kingdoms

    Kenneth McKenney

    The search for Spanish gold leads English buccaneer Christopher Stone and his disgruntled crew to Tayasal, the last great city of the Mayan empire and a territory ruled by the death rites of the bloodthirsty Mayan religion...

  • Maybe by Then I'll Understand

    Jane McFann

    Maybe the reason I fell so hard is because I'd never had a boyfriend. Sweet sixteen and never been kissed. Until Tony. Tony was a really cool guy and for some reason he liked me -- really liked me. It was wonderful -- finding little notes taped to my...

  • Katie Can

    Becky Bring McDaniel

  • The Akbar Contract

    Mike McCray

  • Inspecting the Vault

    Eric McCormack

    These 18 stories by the author of The Paradise Motel range from magic realism to the hauntingly macabre. Whether describing a town of one-legged miners, a bizarre brother/sister relationship, or salty seamen telling their favourite real-life horror...

  • Puss in Boots

    Ed McBain

    Prudence Ann Markham was as careful as her name. Before heading out to her car in the deserted parking lot she packed up the film she'd been editing, checked the studio gear, set the alarm, and locked the outer door. It was 10:40 P.M.--but Prudence A...

  • Woman Who Had Everything

    Davidyne Mayleas

    Cameron Hightower builds a financial empire as magnificent as her love for Tim, but after destiny takes the love of her life, a secret--in the form of Cyrus Hansen, a cutthroat corporate raider--returns to haunt her...

  • Some Warm Hunger

    Bay Matthews

    Six long years ago, misguided ambition had made Jessie Harper say goodbye to rugged, beloved Bodie Lattimer. Now her driving desire to be the country's best horse trainer threatened to sever another relationship ... with her daughter. Years of dus...

  • Jamaica Run

    Clifford Mason

  • Hook or Crook

    Cort Martin

    BOLT WAS A WANTED MAN... WANTED BY HIS FAMILY, THE LAW -- AND BY A WHOLE LOT OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN!Bolt travels to the town of Waco to try and solve a mystery -- prostitutes are turning up murdered and there seem to be no suspects or clues as to who is ...

  • A Kind of Healthy Grave

    Jessica Mann

  • The Circle War

    Mack Maloney

    FORTRESS AMERICA Decimated in a deadly rain of treachery and deceit, its great cities and vast countryside reduced to a war-blackened landscape, the United States is united no longer. But out of the blasted ruins emerges the brilliant ace fighter ...

  • All Things Considered

    Debbie Macomber

    Judd Matthiessen was no good. His father had always said so, and his desertion of Lanni and their daughter seemed to prove it. So why did it feel so right to Lanni when Judd walked back into her life? And why did she agree to accompany him to the Mat...

  • Terrible Tide

    Charlotte MacLeod

    Cliff House may be haunted, but no ghost is as scary as the family’s secret history. Holly Howe is just beginning to succeed in the cutthroat world of New York modeling when a car accident ruins her good looks forever and she is forced to retreat ...

  • Ambush!

    Steve MacKenzie

  • Blackbird

    Steve MacKenzie

  • Song of the Forest

    Colin Mackay

    Lyrical, intense, and foreboding, this is a remarkable first novel. Set in the Dark Ages, it tells of a year in the life of a remote village, the labors of its inhabitants, their struggles and fleeting pleasures in the face of threatening forces that...

  • Nurse in the Sun

    Pam Lyons

    From Student Nurse in dull, grey Nottingham -- to Clinic Rep in sun-drenched Malloca Emma Jackson could hardly believe her luck. She’d applied to SunFair Holidays on the spur of the moment -- now, alone in a foreign country among strangers, she beg...

  • Rep on the Run

    Pam Lyons

  • Blind Trail

    Giles A. Lutz

  • Slocum and the Wild Stallion Chase

    Jake Logan

  • Gambler's Lady

    Cait Logan

    Nick Santos needs a wife... and Kini Reynolds is just what he's looking for, a class act who could discourage his ex-wife from trying to get custody of their four-year-old daughter. When he offers to gamble with Kim for high stakes--a temporary, "han...

  • Hidden Longings

    Marie Lindquist

  • Dragon with Red Eyes

    Astrid Lindgren

  • Jackdaw Cake

    Norman Lewis

  • Extraordinary Means

    Donna Levin

  • Robot Raiders

    Ellen Leroe

  • An Impossible Man to Love

    Roberta Leigh

    Facing the impossible was part of her job Called to Istanbul to replace her boss on a lucrative building project, gifted architect Stephanie Rodgers was prepared to do her level best. What she wasn't prepared for, however, was her client...

  • Beyond the Great Wall

    Jay Leibold

    YOU'RE THE STAR OF MORE THAN 21 ENDINGS. WILL YOU SURVIVE YOUR JOURNEY BEYOND THE GREAT WALL? It's the year 1901, and Baron von Frothingham, an eccentric collector of art, has contacted you for an important mission. He wants you to find his agent...

  • Lord of Laos

    John Lansing

  • Wings of Love

    Alexandra Lang-Carlin

    Lovely young Julianna was nothing but an outspoken country lass when she dared match wits with Lord Charles Ashmont in the dusty lanes of St. Cuthberts. But she swore that one day she would marry the dashing, fair-haired lord. Restored to her righ...

  • Echo of Passion

    Charlotte Lamb

    He had loved her then deserted her. Zoe Stroud had been completely shattered when Rory Ormond walked out of her life. Now she had a chance to repay some of the pain he'd caused her -- and prevent him from hurting someone else, too. As a succe...

  • Campfire Dreams

    Ofelia Lachtman

    Chris’s parents had been against her taking a job at Camp Whiteoak. “You’re only 16,” they’d said. They were being overprotective. They just wanted to keep her a little kid forever. They didn’t want her to grow up. But when she arrive...

  • Treasures of the Heart

    Anne Lacey

    Just because her magnificent ancestral home was pronounced doomed, did that mean headstrong Lane Hartleigh had to stand by and watch her treasure crumble into the mighty Mississippi? No way! She'd rally her lawyers, cajole her cousins, even launch an...

  • Flight into Fear

    Duncan Kyle

    A dynamic race with death high above the frozen North Atlantic.At eight hundred feet the Atlantic waves looked huge; they also looked terrifyingly near, rearing up hungrily as though to lick at our feet, and still there was no sign from the engines t...

  • Swordspoint

    Ellen Kushner

    "Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood new-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as the single spot of claret on the lace cuff. And it therefore follows that evil lurks behind each ...

  • Odyssey

    Michael P. Kube-McDowell

    THE FIRST IN A SPECTACULAR SERIES OF ADVENTURES EVOLVING FROM THE WORKS OF ISAAC ASIMOV! A man without memory, stranded on an icy asteroid. His only chance for survival is locked within a band of mining robots who are dutifully searching the surface...

  • The Case Worker

    George Konrad

  • Hell's Children

    Will C. Knott

    Golden Hawk. Half white man, half Comanche. Mountain man. Pathfinder. Wagon master. Army scout. A legend in his own time. An awesome nemesis to his enemies. But a bulwark and a haven to those facing the terrors of that raw, savage land.Golden Hawk ha...

  • Woodsedge

    Barbara Knight

  • Growing Pains

    N.H. Kleinbaum

  • Angel Face

    Norma Klein

  • Christmas in July

    Julie Kistler

    Kit kept reminding herself that she was only visiting If she didn't, her mother and four sisters would surely drive her to homicide or insanity. The "fabulous Wentworths," as they were known locally, were beautiful, dramatic and madcap. Together, ...

  • The Hess Assault

    Leo Kessler

  • Fell

    M.E. Kerr

    John Fell loves his family and gourmet cooking, and feels appropriately tormented by Keats, his rich girlfriend from the right side of the tracks. A normal life - normal, that is, until he meets Woodrow Pingree one night by ramming into the back of h...

  • The Wilder Shores of Love

    Madeleine Ker

    He saw her at her worst and loved her anyway Margot had always had a rebellious spirit and determination to make it on her own--emotionally as well as professionally. But she was shaken by the sudden death of her father, feeling lost and vulner...

  • Emily and the Green Circle

    Mary (1) Kennedy

    It was as if she had come to a secret garden full of flowers where birds sang and fountains splashed.... Nine-year-old Emily Crump has lived in a trailer most of her life. She and her parents travel from town to town. They never stay anywhere lon...

  • Polo Solo

    Jerry Kennealy

    Streetwise, smart-mouthed, and down-on-his-luck San Francisco private eye Nick Polo had gotten an offer he couldn't refuse. After all, he was sitting out a stretch in the slammer and a top city official was offering him a ticket to the street and his...

  • Sleightly Deceived

    Patrick Kelley