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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JULY 1987

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New Books List: 401 titles

  • Flight of the Phantom

    Richard Parque

  • Chapterhouse: Dune

    Frank Herbert

    THE FINAL CHAPTER OF THE BESTSELLING SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURE OF ALL TIME! The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now, the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's power, have colonized a green world-and are turning it into a desert, m...

  • Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise

    Shane Johnson

  • Strangers from the Sky

    Margaret Wander Bonanno

    IT BEGAN WITH ENTERPRISE--THE NATIONWIDE BESTSELLER THAT TOLD OF THE LEGENDARY "STAR TREK" CREW'S FIRST ADVENTURE TOGETHER. NOW HERE IS THE SECOND GIANT STAR TREK NOVEL. IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: United at last after countless years of warfare,...

  • 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...

  • Double Nocturne

    Cynthia Felice

  • Equations of Chaos

    Robert E. Vardeman

  • Getting Home

    F.M. Busby

  • Into the Out of

    Alan Dean Foster

    Earth is being invaded by the shetani. The potential savior is an African elder named Olkeloki who is capable of fighting evil in this world and the spirit one. But to be successful he needs the help of government agent Joshua Oak and a feisty ...

  • 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 â€" a community living in vast subterranean cities â€" and the Mutes, who have evolved to withstand the radiati...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Robot Raiders

    Ellen Leroe

  • Roderick

    John Sladek

  • The Shadow Dancers

    Jack L. Chalker

  • Solar Kill

    Charles Ingrid

    SAND WARS! The Thrakian invasion had swept from world to world, turning once-fertile planets into vast, desert wastelands. To halt these world destroyers, the Dominion Empire sent in its finest warriors--the Knights. In their powered battle armor,...

  • 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...

  • To Sail Beyond the Sunset

    Robert A. Heinlein

    Maureen Johnson, the somewhat irregular mother of Lazarus Long, wakes up in bed with a man and a cat. The cat is Pixel, well-known to readers of the New York Times bestseller The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. The man-is a stranger to her, and besides ...

  • Varkaus Consp: Grassy Knoll

    John Dalmas

  • Athena

    Franklin Bandy

    Athena von Dietrich had been found not guilty of murdering her husband. The members of the jury, however, were suspect: Someone, at least one, had accepted a bribe. Everyone on the jury was tainted. For Jonathan Michaelis, the allegations meant th...

  • Azrael

    William L. Deandrea

    Allan Trotter goes head to head with the Angel of DeathAllan Trotter’s counter-espionage service began at birth: His father, the head of an ultra-secret intelligence wing of the US government, deliberately conceived him with a gorgeous Russian ...

  • 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...

  • The Crossword Hunt

    Herbert Resnicow

  • The Death Tape

    Kate Gallison

    When Nick Magaracz's supervisor in the Treasury department of the State of New Jersey asks him to investigate the payment of a dead man's estate tax, he little thinks that Nick will uncover a whole platoon of domestic terrorists who are dead only to ...

  • The Distant Stranger

    Palma Harcourt

    Twenty-five years after an abortive and fatal attempt to escape East Germany, a letter found in a dying woman's purse leads ex-soldier Hugh Merryck on a dangerous quest from Bonn, to Paris, New York, and Toronto...

  • Dragonfire

    Andrew Kaplan

    WHERE DEATH RULES, ALL IS PERMITTED. The Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia. A forbidden world of rival warlords, opium smugglers, and deadly secrets hidden in ancient ruins. Now this world is about to explode into war, and only a lone American age...

  • The Face of Death

    Lesley Grant-Adamson

    Claimed by Peter Dulton at the hospital where she is being treated for amnesia, Carol slowly begins to realize that this man, who learned of her plight in the newspaper, has a terrible secret of which she has unwittingly become a part...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Her Honor

    William J. Coughlin

    After giving up a promising, though demanding route to a political career, cool, ambitious Kathleen Talbotthe "Ice Queen" of the public prosecutor's office accepts a judgeship in its place. Her powerful father is so infuriated by her choice that he s...

  • 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...

  • A Kind of Healthy Grave

    Jessica Mann

  • King's Castle

    Carolyn Wesley

  • Knight Fall

    Laurence Payne

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Murder on the Aisle

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    Tobin, the co-host of a movie review program, finds himself in trouble after his partner is found murdered moments after an on-camera argument, and it is learned that he was having an affair with his partner's wife...

  • Peter Capstick's Africa

    Peter H. Capstick

    Peter Hathaway Capstick is a name synonymous with excitement, danger, and high adventure. Sportsman, adventurer, raconteur par excellence, Capstick has been recognized as a modern-day master of African hunting literaturea successor to the works of He...

  • Rising

    Alison Smith

  • Shawnee Alley Fire

    John Douglas

  • Siege

    Richard Hoyt

    SIEGE is a welcome find, the characters cleverly drawn . . . It is cynical, humorous, violent, and Byzantine. In other words., it admirably reflects the current world state of affairs. —Baltimore Sun A PIECE OF THE ROCKGibraltar-there's no way...

  • Sleightly Deceived

    Patrick Kelley

  • Summer Camp Creeps

    Tim Schoch

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Waterman

    Doug Hornig

    Craik, a disillusioned intelligence agent, settles in Brawlton, Virginia, but soon learns that the quiet fishing community is controlled by Judge Holder, an ominous figure who moonlights as a gun runner...

  • Wild Pitch

    A.B. Guthrie Jr.

    From a Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning novelist of the American West comes the first installment in a mystery series as entertaining as the Montana sky is big A self-made cattle baron with a bad habit of letting his stock graze on his neighbors’ property,...

  • 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 ...

  • Nightcap

    Margaret Dobson

    SHE'S KNEE-DEEP IN DANGER... AND HEAD OVER HEELS IN LOVE. Jane Bailey dreamed of a Hawaiian vacation with Phillip, her partner in detection...and, she hoped, romance. His kisses would be more torrid than the tropical breezes, his touch more sensua...

  • Ransom in Jade

    Fran Earley

    Her conscience was her undoing.... Ten years ago, as a live-for-the-moment college student, Melinda Harding had committed an act of folly while vacationing in the Guatemalan Highlands. Now, on her second visit, she intended to right the past wrong...

  • Woodsedge

    Barbara Knight

  • The Constant Heart

    Mary Balogh

    THE ROGUE'S RETURN Miss Rebecca Shaw had lost her heart once in her young life -- lost it and had it broken. At last it had mended -- mended enough for her to say yes when the handsome, high-minded young Reverend Phillip Everett asked her ...

  • 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...

  • The English Bride

    Theresa Grazia

    "I HAVE PUT THE ENGLISH TO ROUT!" Arrogant, stoutly patriotic, as well as one of the most handsome and sought-after bachelors in New York, Jonathan Trescott proclaimed his triumph as Lady Lavinia Crossley fled tearfully from the glittering drawing r...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Miss Fiona's Fancy

    Marion Chesney

    THE WILD WAGER It was a challenge that Miss Fiona Grant could not resist. The Misses Penelope Yarwood, Euphemia Perkins, and Letitia Helmsdale all smugly informed her that the Marquess of Cleveden was at once the most eligible and the most elusive...

  • A Streak of Luck

    Ellen Fitzgerald

    TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE It seemed a dream come true when handsome, charming Gervais Fenton, Lord Sayre, asked for Lady Rachel Villiers' hand in marriage. Not only did Rachel adore Gervais at first sight, but marriage to him would free her from the web...

  • Beach Party

    M.E. Cooper

  • Bye Bye Love

    M.E. Cooper

    The end of an era... Graduation time is finally here, and most of the seniors at Kennedy High are ecstatic to be leaving math tests, gym class, and school lunches behind. But not Phoebe. She's so confused about graduating, she doesn't know what to...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Secret of Love

    Glenna Finley

    Freelance reporter Miranda Carey embarks on a travel assignment aboard a European cruise ship and is surprised when her arrogant publisher Mitch Emerson turns up. Then, mysteriously pushed down a flight of stairs, she senses danger. When Mitch forces...

  • Something New

    M.E. Cooper

    During her cousin's wedding, Amy forgets about her boyfriend Colin after she meets a handsome usher named Todd, but when the wedding is over, Amy discovers that her feelings for Colin and Todd have become confused...

  • This Side of Tomorrow

    Ruth Livingston Hill

  • Long Teeth

    Marvin Albert

    Pete Sawyer is a private eye of a different kind. The son of a World War II American pilot and a brave French resistance fighter, he grew up on both sides of the Atlantic -- though he prefers his sun-dappled villa on the Riviera to most other places....

  • Minnesota Strip

    Michael Collins

    Hired to track down a missing kid bent on avenging the brutal murder of a beautiful Vietnamese refugee, Dan Fortune finds himself deep in a nasty network of white slavery, narcotics and hired killers. The bloody trail of bodies gets uglier and more c...

  • The Monkey's Raincoat

    Robert Crais

    When quiet Ellen Lang enters Elvis Cole's Disney-Deco office, she's lost something very valuable--her husband and her young son. The case seems simple enough, but Elvis isn't thrilled. Neither is his enigmatic partner and firepower, Joe Pike. Their s...

  • 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...

  • The Cherry Blossom Corpse

    Robert Barnard

    ROMANCE IS MURDER Passionate, inflamed, searing -- the vocabulary of the trade. But the words also described the irritation felt by Scotland Yard's Perry Trethowan when he was persuaded to attend the World Association of Romantic Novelists' conventi...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Brain Child

    J.B. Dibble

  • Jamaica Run

    Clifford Mason

  • 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...

  • Great English Short Stories

    Christopher Isherwood

  • Seasons of Revenge

    William Paul

  • 110 Shanghai Road

    Monica Highland

    Shanghai...breathtaking birthplace of dreams and destinies...exotic mecca of wealth and pleasure...proud land of tradition torn by turbulent times, and threatened by passionate men and women who leave no rules of love or war unbroken. -- In the day...

  • Angel's Fire

    Connie Drake

    After escaping the confines of the convent, Meagan couldn't wait to begin living her life. On the brink of womanhood, Meagan yearned to taste life's pleasures one by one. She longed to experience the kind of heated passion only a young lover could br...

  • 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,"...

  • Belle Marie

    Laura Ashton (1)

    THEY CROSSED THE BOUNDARIES OF DESIRE TO EXPLORE THEIR OWN SECRET PASSIONS The DuMontaignes were the cream of Louisiana society, rulers of a magnificent Creole dynasty, and owners of the beautiful plantation Belle Marie. Yet power and wealth led ...

  • Beloved Enemy

    Jane Feather

    DEFIANT BEAUTY Ginny Courtney faced the tall intruder with cool mockery in her wide gray eyes and prayed he would not sense her fear. She could not let this Roundhead colonel cast her out of her home! For the sake of the royalist fugitives hidden ...

  • A Captive Freedom

    Emma Drummond

    Leila Duncan, toast of the 1896 London stage, and Vivian Veasey-Hunter, officer and nobleman. Vivian, who, because of a technicality regarding his birth, is known as "The Gentleman Bastard," is instantly smitten with the stunning and talented Leila, ...

  • 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...

  • 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, ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Everlasting Covenant

    Robyn Carr

    The Everlasting Covenant is a tale of peril and romance, great courage and forbidden love. The setting is fifteenth-century England, during a time of confusion and bloodshed. As the Wars of commence, the York versus Lancaster battle for the throne ov...

  • 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...

  • Heart's Possession

    Veronica Gregory

    DANGEROUS LOVE At eighteen, poised on the threshold of womanhood, Jessica's world is suddenly shattered in one terrible moment of truth. Cruelly torn from her childhood home and the only family she's ever known, she agrees to a marriage she hopes wi...

  • Love's Beautiful Dream

    June Masters Bacher

    Spring had returned to the Columbia Valley, wrapping Courtney Glamora in the soft blossoming dreams of her love for Clint Desmond and their upcoming June wedding. But what begins as a beautiful and blessed time for Courtney and Clint is marred by a t...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Passion Rose

    Mallory Burgess

    WAR OF THE HEART Around them swirl the masked and splendid revels of King Richard III s treacherous court. Yet it is Dai Griffyth, a traitor to the Red Dragon of Wales and Red Rose of Lancaster, who fires Tallie's blood with desire's hunger ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Sky of Ashes, Sea of Flames

    Kimberleigh Caitlin

    TWO LOVERS CONSUMED BY THEIR DESIRES. ONE ENEMY, SWORN TO DESTROY THEM... With burnished hair of fire and a temper to match, Meaghan O'Leary was the most beautiful lass in all of Wicklow. Pursued by the diabolic Lord Radcliffe, she would only yiel...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Wild Conquest

    Rene J. Garrod

    INNOCENT VICTIM It was to be her very first trip by herself to the big city, and Rausey Bauer couldn't contain her excitement. But then a man she had never seen in her life grabbed her, pushed her into his coach and had his driver hurry them out of ...

  • Wild Dawn Fever

    Melanie Davis

    SHE COULD HAVE ANY MAN--BUT ONE.... Wild Desire. Even as a young girl, carefree and spirited on her parents' Argentina ranch, Dawn Cesares was breathtakingly beautiful, her body hinting of the voluptuousness to come. And now that she's twenty, no ...

  • 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...

  • The Burning Ground

    Madeena Spray Nolan

  • 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...

  • Ghosts of Night and Morning

    Marvin Kaye

  • How Dear the Dawn

    Marc Eliot

  • Maniac

    Stuart Friedman

    DEMENTIA Tormented by madness, Joel Danton was trapped in the twilight world between reality and fantasy. He could hear the terrified screams of young women--his victims?--taste their blood on his lips and feel the ultimate ecstasy as they died in...

  • Ms. Faust

    Chris Dubbs

  • Night Hunter

    Robert Faulcon

  • Sleep Tight

    Matthew J. Costello

    SWEET TERROR It started with a little boy. A little boy who sneaked out to go to the pool and was never seen again. Old Miss Waverly disappeared soon afterward. And then that hotshot student vanished into thin air. Things like this just didn't hap...

  • Stickman

    Seth Pfefferle

  • Tales of the Dark

    Lincoln Child

  • 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 Wanting

    Campbell Black

    It was the perfect summer home for Max and Louise and their twelve-year-old son. The California pine forest was peaceful, silent, isolated, and the old couple who lived nearby just loved to entertain young Denny. It was perfect... Until Louise mad...

  • Counterfeit of Murder

    Ray Harrison

  • The Thistlewood Plot

    J.G. Jeffreys

  • Blind Trail

    Giles A. Lutz

  • 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...

  • The Hess Assault

    Leo Kessler

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Kill Dusty Fog!

    J.T. Edson

    Because of Dusty Fog's success in leading the Texas Light Cavalry, General Trumpeter, a Union officer, orders that he be killed or captured...

  • Lone Star and the Tong's Revenge

    Wesley Ellis

    A secret society of Chinese warriors sentences Ki to death in the fifty-ninth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the martial ...

  • Longarm and the Rocky Mountain Chase

    Tabor Evans

    After word reaches the U.S. Marshal's office that the murderous Coulter gang is planning to strike a train hauling a shipment of gold dust, Longarm joins the gang under an alias to discover the details of the hold-up and warn the sheriff...

  • 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...

  • Morgette and the Alaskan Bandits

    G.G. Boyer

    192 pp. A fine, tight, unread, unmarked copy in a fine, bright, unclipped dist jacket. A very readable novel by a controversial author who may have been better off writing fictional novels than the history of Wyatt Earp and Tombstone, Arizona!...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Slocum and the Wild Stallion Chase

    Jake Logan

  • Spirit Meadow

    Lauran Paine

  • Trail of the Mountain Man

    William W. Johnstone

    THE MOUNTAIN MAN KNOWS WHAT GOLD DOES TO MEN'S SOULS! When gold is discovered near the little town of No-Name, Colorado, the citizens are overjoyed at their good fortune...until trouble gallops down Maine Street on a horse straight out of Hell. Fo...

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