Books Published in July 1987

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JULY 1987

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New Books List: 401 titles

  • 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...

  • Actors

    Kevin O'Brien

  • Adventures in Babysitting

    Elizabeth Faucher

    Chris's plan for spending a romantic evening with her boyfriend while she babysits falls through after she is stood up, shot at, chased by car thieves, sings in a blues club, and scares off a street gang called the Black Lords...

  • The Akbar Contract

    Mike McCray

  • All Our Yesterdays

    Stuart Buchan

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Almost Summer Carnival

    Emily Chase

    One strike, and they might be out. Everyone is working hard on the big annual Almost Summer Carnival when the Canby Hall maintenance crew goes on strike! The headmistress wants to close the school and cancel the carnival, but Toby and Andy persuad...

  • Alnilam

    James Dickey

  • Ambush!

    Steve MacKenzie

  • And Venus Is Blue

    Joan Hood

  • Angel Face

    Norma Klein

  • Angel in My Backpack

    Mary Lou Carney

  • 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...

  • Artists' Helpers Enjoy the Evenings

    M.B. Goffstein

  • 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 ...

  • Baby Grand

    Joseph E. Keene

    DEVIL’S TUNE The baby grand was a beauty. From its gleaming rosewood finish and it 88 mother-of-pearl keys to the flawless workings of its inner hammers and dampers, the piano was a masterpiece of exquisite craftsmanship. Sometimes, late ...

  • Bambi and His Forest Adventures

    Golden Books

  • Basil & Josephine Stories

    C.P. Fitzgerald

    Fourteen of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-loved and most beguiling stories, together in a single volume

    In 1928, while struggling with his novel Tender Is the Night, Fitzgerald began writing a series of stories about Basil Duke Lee, a fiction...

  • Basil of Bywater Hollow

    Jill Baker

  • 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,"...

  • Beach Days

    Ken Robbins

  • Beach Party

    M.E. Cooper

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • The Berkut

    Joseph Heywood

    A lost classic of the historical thriller genre by beloved mystery writer Joseph Heywood. The Berkut revolves around an elite Soviet team -- Special Operations Group -- tasked in 1945 with tracking down Hitler, attempting to escape Berlin with the ai...

  • Berlin Breakout

    Julian Romanes

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Blackbird

    Steve MacKenzie

  • Blaze of Glory

    Michael Carreck

  • Blind Trail

    Giles A. Lutz

  • 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...

  • The Boy Next Door

    Arlene James

    BEST GIRL The boy she'd once worshiped, Jeff Paul Logan, had returned after twelve years, and Veronica Champlain cringed at the memory of her teenage crush. Her white knight had ended up hurting her. Now, with the responsibility of raising ...

  • 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...

  • Brain Child

    J.B. Dibble

  • The Burning Ground

    Madeena Spray Nolan

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Captain's Seduction

    Joan Grove

    Melanie Ford felt like a spy -- but a spy caught at her own game. She wasn't looking for romance. She was collecting evidence to prove a point: Cruise ship officers, and especially captains, were confirmed womanizers. And her published article wa...

  • 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...

  • 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, ...

  • Cardinal Rules

    Barbara Delinsky

    He'd had a flock of women Corey Haraden wasn't nicknamed "the cardinal" for his red hair alone. Nor for his nesting instinct! Which was precisely why Corinne Fremont was determined to quash his amorous advances. But Corey was eq...

  • Carousel of Love

    Kathy Clark

    Her whole life rode on an exquisite antique carousel. It was her legacy, her future, and all her hope. And his Galveston bank was her only chance to raise the money she needed to buy and restore it. One look at blue-eyed silver-blond Julie Lafferty a...

  • Carved in Stone

    Kathleen Eagle

    Sky Hunter left Hollywood and headed for the hills. The serenity of the Rockies would clear his mind and help him make some hard decisions. He didn’t expect to run head-on into the only woman for him. Author Elaina Delacourte went to the mountai...

  • The Case of the Horrible Swamp Monster

    Drew Stevenson

  • The Case Worker

    George Konrad

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Charles in Charge, Again

    Elizabeth Faucher

  • Charon's Ark

    Richard Gauger

  • 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 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...

  • Christain Mother Goose Tales

    Marjorie Ainsborough Decker

  • Christian Mother Goose Tales

    Marjorie Ainsborough Decker

    Christian Mother Goose ® has been a treasured building block in Christian child development for over 25 years. These Biblically-inspired Christian childrens nursery rhymes are morally-based adaptations of traditional mother goose rhymes. Christian M...

  • Christmas Cat

    Isabelle Holland

  • 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, ...

  • Cinderella and Her Animal Friends

    Golden Books

  • 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 ...

  • Citadel Run

    David Robbins

  • 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...

  • Commitments

    Judith Arnold

    In the seventies it was called bad Karma Andrew Collins, self-avowed cynic, and Kimberly Belmont, optimist, seemed destined to remain antagonists forever. They barely exchanged a word at their college paper's fifteenth anniversary bash. But shortl...

  • 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 Counterfeit Hostage

    Carl Yeager

  • Counterfeit of Murder

    Ray Harrison

  • 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...

  • Crackdown

    Nick Stone

  • The Crossword Hunt

    Herbert Resnicow

  • Cupid's Campaign

    Kate Gilbert

    Reedsville's dognappers must be stopped! And animal rights activist Allie Tarkington's found the man to do it--Frank Wade, a dashing, drop-dead handsome prosecutor with political ambitions. Frank's afraid the association might tarnish his bright futu...

  • Dabble Duck

    Anne Leo Ellis

  • A Dangerous Proposition

    Melodie Adams

    INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE Blake Marlow was used to undercover investigations. He'd spent years on the vice squad in Florida putting plenty of men and women behind bars. Then why was this suspect, one Cassandra Wyatt, giving him sleepless nights? R...

  • 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, ...

  • Deadly Force

    Mark Dixon

  • Deadly Justice

    Dallas Barnes

  • Death Mask of Pancho Villa

    George Guthridge

    When the peasants and townspeople of Mexico revolted against the corrupt government from 1910-1923, their leader was the legendary Pancho Villa. Your mission is to go back in time and find the missing plaster cast that was made of Villa's face right ...

  • 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 ...

  • Demons

    Jack Dann

    A collection of fourteen fantastic and frightening tales from such renowned writers as Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, and Jack Vance, featuring worlds inhabited by darkness, wicked devils, dark tords, playful imps, and shapechangers...

  • 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...

  • A Different Kind of Love

    Michael Borich

    A teen girl and her mother in Southern California are visited by the mother's younger brother, a drummer in an up-and-coming rock band who decides to stay with them for a while, but his affectionate behavior toward her confuses young Weeble.  Is it ...

  • 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...

  • Dolly Dodo

    Bernard Wiseman

  • Don't Tell Laura

    Susan Trott

  • 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 Bucky Shanghai

    Alice Bach

  • Double Nocturne

    Cynthia Felice

  • 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...

  • Dragon with Red Eyes

    Astrid Lindgren

  • Dragon's Gold

    Piers Anthony; Robert E. Margroff

    When Kelvin was a child, his mother read to him from the Book of Prophecy and he asked what the poem meant. Now he was about to learn.

    The Kingdom of Rud languishes under the heel of a usurper; an evil sorcerer has taken the throne in the name...

  • 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 Dream Sleepers and Other Stories

    Patricia Grace

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • East and West

    Gerald Green

  • East of Hell

    Nick Carter

  • 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...

  • Edge of Destruction

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Equations of Chaos

    Robert E. Vardeman

  • 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...

  • Extraordinary Means

    Donna Levin

  • 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...

  • Fair Game

    Susan Andrews

    It was the date of a lifetime Julie Turner wished she had never agreed to be a contestant on Love Life, a popular TV dating game. And she never thought she would win. But now she and Marcus Allen, star of daytime TV, had to spend a week together i...

  • The Family on Coppins Bridge

    Elizabeth Daish

  • Fat, a Love Story

    Barbara Wersba

  • 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...

  • Fenella Fang and the Great Escape

    Ritchie Perry

  • Fifty

    Avery Corman

  • First Lady

    Erin Pizzey

  • First Mates

    Joanna Gilpin

    Her future beckoned...but so did he Julie Thorne wanted one last glimpse of her childhood haven before selling it. But what she saw there gave her pause. The scenery had definitely changed. Down by the water stood a breathtaking man, muscular, bro...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Flight of the Phantom

    Richard Parque

  • Flintstone Kids Buried Treas

    Victoria Crenson

  • Fool's Music

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    KIDNAPPED! Lauren DeCoty hadn't expected to be greeted by gunmen when she opened her hotel room door. She was in France on assignment, and what reason would anyone, especially the Palestinian Nationalist Front, have for kidnapping a top fashion m...

  • Forced Entries

    Jim Carroll

    "The sensational sequel to the bestselling memoir The Basketball Diaries

    During the early 1970s, Jim Carroll was a young and rising star in the crazy and creative downtown scene in New York City. He worked at the Factory for Andy Warhol and d...

  • Friends and Relations

    Elizabeth Bowen

    Elizabeth Bowen’s deceptively simple novel opens with the weddings of two quietly conventional sisters: Laurel to Edward, and Janet to Rodney. Ten years later, one intense week is all it takes to unravel the couples’ peaceful lives as a long-conc...

  • Gabriel's Lament

    Paul Bailey

  • 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...

  • Gay Priest

    Malcolm Boyd

  • Getting Home

    F.M. Busby

  • Getting Married Buff

    Susan Haley

  • Ghosts of Night and Morning

    Marvin Kaye

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Great English Short Stories

    Christopher Isherwood

  • 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...

  • Ground Zero

    Richard Cox

  • Grover's Just so so-Stories

    Nancy Hall

  • Growing Pains

    N.H. Kleinbaum

  • A Hand to Execute

    Randy Lee Eickhoff

  • The Happy Foreigner

    Enid Bagnold

    Fictional account of the author's experiences working as a volunteer driver in France during the First World War. Contrasts the duties and demands of the heroine's external life, with the freedom and excitement of her internal life during a w...

  • Harry

    Robert Wales

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Heroes of the Army

    Bruce Jacobs

  • The Hess Assault

    Leo Kessler

  • Hidden Longings

    Marie Lindquist

  • 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 ...

  • The Hobo Woods

    Eric Helm

    After spending one year back in the World, U.S. Special Forces Captain Mack Gerber returns to Vietnam smack in the middle of a political boondoggle. Although the Americans have firm evidence of a major enemy buildup in the Hobo Woods region, they are...

  • 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 ...

  • A Horsewoman in Godsland

    Claudia J. Edwards

  • 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...

  • How Dear the Dawn

    Marc Eliot

  • How I Kept the U. S. Out of War

    Judi Miller

  • I Am Eyes Ni Macho

    Leila Ward

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • In Search of Mom

    David Peters

  • In the Time of the Dinosaurs

    William Wise

  • Incognito

    Susan Trott

  • 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...

  • 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...

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

  • 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 ...

  • Jackdaw Cake

    Norman Lewis

  • Jamaica Run

    Clifford Mason

  • Journey to Boc Boc

    Oscar De Mejo

  • Journey to Membliar

    Sharon Baker

    Planet of cataclysm and chaos, Naphar is a fantastic world of Night Demons, exploding trees, screaming plants and living gems. Where three races, all products of genetic engineering-the gigantic Rabu, the manikin Kakano and the unseen Beloved-battle ...

  • 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...

  • Just Good Friends

    Lucy Gordon

    CURTAIN CALL The marriage was over. The time had long passed in which Antonia could survive in actor Flynn Rawley's shadow, and she'd set out to create her own role as director Toni Locksley. Now, four years later, she still couldn't f...

  • Katie Can

    Becky Bring McDaniel

  • 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...

  • A Kind of Healthy Grave

    Jessica Mann

  • King of Heart's Heart

    Sam Teague

  • King's Castle

    Carolyn Wesley

  • Knight Fall

    Laurence Payne

  • L. A. Superlatives

    Roy Kammerman

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Lament for a Silver-Eyed Woman

    Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

  • 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...

  • Legions of Hell

    C.J. Cherryh

  • 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 ...

  • Little Myth Marker

    Robert Asprin

    FROM THE VERY BOTTOM OF THE DECK... Skeeve's dealt himself a fine mess of trouble this time. First he bluffs his way into a high-stakes game of dragon poker and, by some miracle, wins. Then, still flush with luck, Skeeve heads straight for the kin...

  • The Lockhorns

    Bill Hoest

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Lord of Laos

    John Lansing

  • Love at First Sight

    Ann Reit

  • Love, Dating And Other Disasters

    Arlene Erlbach

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...