Books Published in July 1988

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JULY 1988

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New Books List: 403 titles

  • Ecstasy's Fire

    Rosalyn Alsobrook

    DESIRABLE DEVIL Victoria Connors had returned to Valley Oaks for only one reason -- to get back her land. And if it meant working for the incredibly handsome new owner to reclaim it, then she would. But she would not allow the dark-haired devil to w...

  • Shepherds of the Night

    Jorge Amado

  • Additional Evidence

    James Anderson

  • Resurrection, Inc.

    Kevin J. Anderson

    IT IS THE FUTURE AND THE DEAD WALK THE STREETS... Resurrection, Inc. found a profitable way to do it. All it took was a microprocessor brain, a synthetic heart and blood, and, presto, anyone with the price could buy a Servant with no mind of its o...

  • Blood Rite

    Michael Falconer Anderson

  • The Spear of Mars

    Poul Anderson

  • Going Back

    Judith Arnold

    Daphne always played it safe Realtor Daphne Stoltz was horrified that her latest client and potential neighbor was Brad Torrance. Brad was a living reminder of the night Daphne hadn't played it safe, the night a certain lovelorn, tipsy coed set ou...

  • Remember, in Jamaica

    Katherine Arthur

    Something wasn't quite right Claire knew exactly what to expect from her boss, Terrill Hawkes -- impossible demands, shouting and yelling, insane schedules. They had cordially fought their way through the past three years. In the beginning,...

  • Gavriel and Jemal

    Brent Ashabranner

  • Speaking in Tongues

    Linda Phillips Ashour

  • Extraterrestrials

    Isaac Asimov

    Eleven stories--by Piers Anthony, R.A. Lafferty, James E. Gunn, and others--focus on the lives and motives of extraterrestrials on Earth, their adustment to human society, and their impact on human life...

  • The Well-dressed Explorer

    Thea Astley

  • Truck Driving Woman

    Elizabeth August

    CHAUFFEUR-DRIVEN MAN A tragedy had brought them together, but Darcy Raines could see no future in her growing attraction to Cole York. She drove a truck and operated heavy machinery, while the wealthy Cole -- Darcy imagined -- lunched at a country...

  • Riddles of Love

    Judy Baer

    Searching for love... When Darby Sutton's grandfather died, he left behind a very unusual will. To claim her inheritance, Darby must solve a series of baffling riddles. And there is only one person who may be able to help: her grandfather's bold you...

  • The New Kid in Town

    Stella Bagwell

    HOME BASE Teaming up with ex-rodeo star Matt Tanner to coach her son's Little League club was more than reserved Natalie Fuller had bargained for. She'd told herself she'd never need another man in her life, but she couldn't keep h...

  • Death Claim

    Joan Banks

  • The Himitsu Attack

    Wade Barker

  • Breaking the Ring

    John Barron

  • Grand Illusions

    Jane Barry

    From the turbulent decades of England between World Wars, comes the unforgettable saga of a beautiful, vulnerable young woman and her handsome, brooking cousin. Drawn from the sheltered luxury of their country home into the decadent freedom of bohemi...

  • Devil At Crossroads

    James Barwick

    The life of American Theo Chandler becomes entangled with that of the beautiful Anne-Marie Claudel after the murder of her sister, in a tale of intrigue, love, passion, and vengeance set in Nazi-occupied France...

  • Treasured Embrace

    Marsha Bauer

    INNOCENCE CAPTURED When terrified, untouched Marisa awoke aboard a ship of bloodthirsty pirates, all she could think of was staying alive. The curvaceous beauty could only play for time before they slaughtered her, too, so she started to perform a...

  • Run Silent Run Deep

    Edward Latimer Beach

  • Rich Men, Single Women

    Pamela Beck

    A compelling, readable novel about contemporary women, Rich Men, Single Women portrays with witty accuracy the dilemma of choosing between a career, marriage, money or wanting all three.When three 30-something bridesmaids watch their best friend marr...

  • The Guardsman

    P.J. Beese

    Imperial Guardsman Ki Lawwnum presides over the lives of the empress and Princess Natanha--and over an emperor slowly going mad--and he must decide whether to continue his protection or join the rebels...

  • Nuclear War

    Gregory Benford

    MANKIND HAS FINALLY BLOWN ITSELF OFF THE MAP Nuclear war. The greatest single threat facing mankind. The arsenals of a man-made Armageddon await only a word...the touch of a button...a computer-glitch to reduce our cities to twisted wreckage, where s...

  • Magicians of Erianne

    James R. Berry

    Ronan mysteriously appears on the island of Erianne, remembering nothing but his name his magical powers, and an awful nightmare, and becomes drawn into a crisis that could change history and cost his life...

  • Final Assault

    Stephen Ames Berry

    Successfully completing a "suicide" mission in the forbidden quadrant, the battle cruiser Implacable returns to homebase and finds Fleetops in turmoil. Commodore J'Quel D'Trelna is stripped of his command, the Implacable is impounded and her crew thr...

  • Johnny Zed

    John Gregory Betancourt

    A corrupt Congress rules a drugged-out America, land of slums and malls. But in the underground, a few violent young malcontents will stop at nothing to smash the system...and bring back the Constitution and the President. JOHNNY ZED is their leader....

  • Lord Wraybourne's Betrothed

    Jo Beverley

    HE WON HER HAND Though she hailed from one of England's oldest, richest families, the Honorable Jane Sandiford had been brought up in a frugal fashion, far from the lavish London set she was about to join. For Jane was to wed the dashing Lord Wr...

  • Day Seven

    Jack M. Bickham

    The Soviet and American space programs are turned upside down by the suicide of a high-ranking NASA trainer, the murder of his psychiatrist's secretary, the disappearance of a Soviet shuttle, and machinations of mysterious power brokers...

  • Post No Bonds

    Marcia Biederman

    Grace Stark, a middle-aged New England housewife, takes over her husband's job as a bondsperson, posts bond for a drug dealer who immediately skips town and tracks him down with the assistance of his girlfriend...

  • Loving Attitudes

    Rachel Billington

  • Last of the True Believers

    Ann Birstein

    Sunny Mansfield, Connecticut WASP and first-time novelist, falls in love with brilliant poet David Harvey, a Jew despite their differences in background, his chronic unfaithfulness, and his discomfort with her growing reputation as a writer...

  • Blob

    David Bischoff

  • Campus Fever

    Alison Blair

    Sophomore Roni Davies is finally improving her college grades when mononucleosis lands her in the infirmary and in a romance with fellow patient Chris Harrison, but she worries about the fate of her studies and her new relationship...

  • Summer Secrets

    Susan Blake

    Tabby's summer plans have taken a definite turn for the worse. Instead of catching rays at ritzy Camp Sail-Away with her best friend, Tabby finds herself working as a counselor at her relatives' wilderness camp. Surrounded by wild animals and bratty ...

  • Evidence of Love

    John Bloom

  • Movement of Mountains

    Michael Blumlein

    When a virus attacks a race of genetically engineered slaves, Dr. Jules Ebert must decide whether to cure the disease or allow its dissemination on the chance that it will liberate the slaves and the rest of humankind...

  • Stage Fright

    Garrett Boatman

    Out of the darkness of the fetid Hudson River, the undead rose to eat their victims alive....Horror-movie monsters burst from late-night TV screens — to turn their viewers into victims.Biker gangs of decomposing corpses rode the highways of Am...

  • Black Chameleon

    Martin Booth

  • Unsent Letters

    Malcolm Bradbury

  • A Stone of the Heart

    John Brady

    A brutal murder on the grounds of Trinity College, Dublin, sparks a police investigation with unexpected consequences for Sergeant Matt Minogue of the Garda Murder Squad. When the body of student Jarlath Walsh is discovered with is head beaten in,...

  • Hold Tight

    Christopher Bram

    A World War II sailor works in a New York City brothel - for his country. After being arrested in a gay brothel in New York during a raid, Seaman Second Class Hank Fayette doesn''t understand why his homosexual activities are grounds for imprisonm...

  • Upon a Moon-Dark Moor

    Rebecca Brandewyne

    SHE WAS HIGHBORN AND BEAUTIFUL...HE WAS GYPSY-DARK AND BRAZEN Only the crying gulls and crashing waves of the rocky Cornish coast were witness to their embrace. Maggie was Sir Nigel Chandler's proud daughter and the mistress of Highclyffe Hall...

  • After Eden

    Joyce Brandon

    Teresa Garcia-Lorca's blond hair and blue eyes belie her Criolla heritage: she is the favored daughter of El Gato Negro, the infamous Mexican revolutionary... until the truth of her paternity throws him into a murderous rage and Teresa must flee for ...

  • With All My Heart

    Annette Broadrick

    WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE As soon as he saw beautiful reserved Emily Hartman, charismatic Jeremy Jones knew they were from two different worlds. His was a fast-paced, glamorous rat race; hers was the stable, comfortable existence he'd been longing to...

  • Savannah Lee

    Noreen Brownlie

    THE CAT'S MEOW Blake Elliot, staid mayoral candidate, was astounded. He'd been sent to investigate Savannah Lee Sherman's Le Tigre Cat School -- allegedly a shady business. Instead, he found a beautiful, outspoken woman whose expertise...

  • The Maverick Touch

    Clyde M. Brundy

    Royce and Lucy arrive in the Colorado wilderness determined to protect the beauty of the land surrounding them and to build a life together but are faced with a ruthless landowner looking to rape the land and possess Lucy...

  • Spiritual crisis of Man

    Paul Brunton

  • Flynn's Fate

    Patt Bucheister

    When Cabe Flynn returned home for his grandfather's funeral, Summer Roberts met him with fire in her eyes and ice in her words. She wouldn't forgive him for almost never visiting the wonderful old man who'd raised him -- even if she couldn't ignore ...

  • Strictly Business

    Linda Cajio

    Jess Brannen adored practical jokes -- especially when they were played on someone else! That was how she ended up at a male strip show in Atlantic City, enjoying the delicious torment of one of her friends. But when she awoke next morning beside N...

  • The Last Ivory Hunter

    Peter H. Capstick

    A chance meeting around a safari campfire on the banks of the Mupamadazi River leads to The Last Ivory Hunter: The Saga of Wally Johnson, a grand tale of African adventure by renowned hunting author Peter Hathaway Capstick.

    Wally Johnson sp...

  • Donald Duck, TV Star!

    M.V. Carey

  • Devil's Moon

    William M. Carney

    Briggs City was going to be Kyle Richard’s salvation. A small town. Peace and quiet. Simplicity. A place where a man could recover from the tragedies of the past, no matter how hideous. And take on the challenge of being the new chief of police. ...

  • Bambi

    Jan Carr

  • The Burning Eye

    John F. Carr

  • Come Home to Me

    Marisa Carroll

    Laurel got more than she wished for Laurel Sauder was in town for a few weeks, filling in at her father's pharmacy. Special Agent Seth Norris was passing through Bartlow, Ohio, accompanying the president on a whistle-stop tour of the region. Laurel ...

  • Sensations

    Virginia Carry

  • Bolivian Heat

    Nick Carter

  • No Greater Joy

    Rosemary Carter

    She would not let him love her Alison Lenox loved working at Bushveld Camp. Giving children riding lessons and trail rides through the African countryside helped her to escape the bitter memories of Raymond's betrayal. But before she knew w...

  • Crown of Mist

    Kimberly Cates

    AS WAR RAGED ACROSS THE LAND, THEY REJOICED IN A FIERCE AND FORBIDDEN LOVE She was Brianna Devlin, a golden-haired Irish lass, a creature of the wind and sea ... as wild and beautiful as the land she loved. He was Creighton Wakefiefd, an elegant ...

  • Call My Name Softly

    Ginger Chambers

    Anne was looking for peace and quiet When her small hometown turned against her for exposing a network of corruption, Anne Reynolds sought the tranquility of a California beach town. But how could she find peace when neighbor Robert Singleton and ...

  • Ransomed Heart

    Ann Charlton

    'That Jamieson Brat,' he'd called her! Stacey Jamieson was rattled by the scorn of flint-edged Hal Stevens. Why should she care if he thought her a useless, spoiled socialite? He was merely a security man, recently hired by her millio...

  • Dark Corners

    Elaine Raco Chase

    THEY'RE STRANGE BEDFELLOWS, RELUCTANT LOVERS... AND AN UNBEATABLE TEAM WHEN MURDER AND MAYHEM COME THEIR WAY. NIKKI HOLDEN. Her early education was in the street. Her finishing school was a reformatory. She graduated to be street-smart. sharp-tong...

  • The Cardinal of the Kremlin

    Tom Clancy

    Two men possess vital data on Russia's Star Wars missile defense system. One of them is CARDINAL--America's highest agent in the Kremlin--and he's about to be terminated by the KGB. The other is the one American who can save CARDINAL and lead the wor...

  • Chang's Paper Pony

    Eleanor Coerr

    It's the time of the gold rush, and Chang has come with his grandfather to California from China. Chang's dream is to own a horse of his own. With luck ... and a little gold dust ... that wish just might come true.

    ...

  • Modern Masters of Horror

    Frank Coffey

  • Love, Sex and Money

    Sharleen Cooper Cohen

    It begins on graduation day in Berkley 1962: the story of three women, friends for life, whose passion and ambitions are fueled by love, sex and money, and whose dreams are shaped by the torrent of history that changed women's lives forever. Pam drea...

  • Romancing Charley

    Hilary Cole

    When free-lance reporter Charley Channing literally runs into a stranger on the back stairs of a hotel, she's more shaken by his devastating masculinity than by the collision! Newspaper columnist James MacNamara's equally smitten, so he claim...

  • Desert Enchantress

    Laurel Collins

    Beautiful American Kate Wrightwood longs to explore the temples and tombs of ancient Egypt. And British Nick Hammonton, a handsome young archaeologist, is Kate's ticket to adventure. But the passionate embrace of notorious bandit, the Desert Falc...

  • Foxy Lady

    Marion Smith Collins

    There was something in the air Odd that flame-haired chanteuse Dani Fox was the mother of a somber and serious teenage son. Almost as odd as stuffy Professor Hamp Lowell having a flamboyant and carefree daughter. But when they all met on holiday i...

  • Man's Work

    John Connelly

  • Taking the Ferry Home

    Pamela Conrad

  • Old Men Forget

    Duff Cooper

  • Don't Get Close

    M.E. Cooper

    Magnetic... Brash, impulsive Daniel Tackett is instantly captivated by beautiful, delicate Lin Park when he meets her at a high school leadership camp. Cautious Lin is drawn to Daniel's spontaneous style, and romance blossoms. When camp ends, Dan...

  • King of Swords

    Sara Craven

    A vulgar Greek peasant, Julia had called him When she learned that Alexandros Constantis was buying Ambermere, her beloved ancestral home, Julia was filled with shame and anger. Not only would he take away her home, he would strip away every shred...

  • Pepa

    Aileen Crawley

  • Captive Flame

    Catherine Creel

    SERVANT TO A SCOUNDREL Freedom-loving Meghan Kearny was awfully happy when the arrogant American Devlin Montague rescued her from a cutthroat gang in the Bahamas. Even though the handsome planter was tricked into saving her, the spirited lass want...

  • The Royal Flush

    Milt Creighton

  • Sphere

    Michael Crichton

    In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor. Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who descend together into the depths of the sea to in...

  • Good Night, Sleep Tight

    Mary Cron

  • Walking Papers

    Jay Cronley

  • The Brass Ring

    Susan Lynn Crose

    When her handsome tennis pro fiance slipped the carousel's beribboned brass ring onto her wrist and murmured, "With this ring, I thee wed," Dr. Shawna McGuire felt tears of happiness slip from her eyes. In twenty-four hours she'd be Mrs. Parker Harr...

  • Colombia Crackdown

    Chet Cunningham

  • Sioux Slaughter

    Chet Cunningham

  • The Falcon's Mistress

    Emma Darcy

    She was in trouble from the start Bethany Lyon McGregor fell foul of the autocratic Prince Zakr, ruler of Bayrar, almost as soon as her plane landed. He thought he could manipulate her...bend her to his will...as easily as he trained his great ...

  • Bullfrog & Gertrude Go Camping

    Rosamond Dauer

  • Labrador

    Kathryn Davis

    Back in print, Kathryn Davis’s riveting debut about the indelible pacts and hidden hatreds of sisterhoodLabrador is the story of two unforgettable sisters. Willie, the eldest, is willful, beautiful, and wayward; to Kitty, the youngest, she is the r...

  • The Hollywood Takes

    Michael De Larrabeiti

  • Killed in Paradise

    William L. Deandrea

    In a spine-tingling mystery, death follows TV network sleuth Matt Cobb to BermudaA cruise ship full of mystery writers may sound like a fantasy for some, but for Matt Cobb, whose job consists of untangling serious knots for a large television network...

  • Frog Eyes Loves Pig

    James Deem

    Teen reporter tells all. Allan Antottle, 16, has made all the right moves in starting his junior year at Ocotillo High. He got contact lenses - goodbye Frog Eyes - and has become feature editor of the school newspaper. He's also looking for a girlfri...

  • Lucky Dog Days

    Judy Delton

    AUGUST IS HELP-A-PET month! The Scouts decide that the best way to help homeless animals is to raise money at a yard sale. It's going to mean a lot of hard work. But, in the end, the Pee Wees might be lucky enough to get a pet of their own!...

  • Coming Triumph

    Rick DeMarinis

  • The Burning Women of Far Cry

    Rick DeMarinis

    This surrealistic Black comedy centers around a household in the town of Far Cry, whose members include Jack, a confused teenager; La Donna, Jack's sexy, brilliant, Einstein-adoring sister; and Jade, his sensous, exotic-looking mother...

  • Stendal Raid

    Al Dempsey

    War makes strange bedfellows. Hajj Amin al-Husseini, Great Mufti of Jerusalem, had to die, even if it meant a collaboration between the British and the Zionist freedom-fighters they had been battling through-out Palestine. But Hajj Amin was under H...

  • Code of Honor

    Sandy Dengler

    Turn-of-the-century Australia holds one of the world's most magnificent settings for Book One of the new Australian series. From the jungles of the Queensland coast to the servitude of the sugar plantations to the mysterious lives of the Aborigines,...

  • Death Mask

    Jane Dentinger

    An invigorating new theatre-world mystery by the author of Dead Pan. Actress/sleuth Jocelyn O'Roarke has her hands full when she stages and directs a fund-raiser to save an old theatre from demolition--and an unpopular actor dies right in front of th...

  • The Dungeons of Torgar

    Joe Dever

    Vital information has come to you, news of three radiant gems held in the infamous fortress-city of Torgar. As Kai Master, you have vowed to restore your Order and this report brings you hope, but it also confirms your worst fears. The Darklords have...

  • A Question of Class

    Marian Devon

    A PAIR OF LOOK-ALIKE RAKES FORM A WICKED WAGER WITH DEVILISH CONSEQUENCES FOR A LOVESTRUCK LADY! After breaking off a loveless engagement, lovely Lady Venetia Lowther vowed she'd rather be a spinster than marry a man who didn't love her, despite w...

  • Paris Trout

    Pete Dexter

    Pete Dexter’s National Book Awardâ€"winning tour de force tells the mesmerizing story of a shocking crime that shatters lives and exposes the hypocrisies of a small Southern town.   The time and place: Cotton Point, Georgia, just after World W...

  • The Number File

    Franklin W. Dixon

    It was to be a carefree Bermuda vacation, but before they know it, the Hardys are smack in the middle of an investigation. Local expatriate Bernhard Kruger is running a credit card scam involving millions--and Frank and Joe are determined to find pro...

  • Bonepile

    Gaylord Dold

    One beautiful summer Mitch Roberts is visiting his grandmother in a small Kansas town. A young girl there wants Roberts to help free her brother who has been on death row for fourteen years. The girl insists her brother did not commit the crime. So, ...

  • An Unlikely Combination

    Anne Marie Duquette

    "You can't assign me to this man!" Forest Ranger Sherri Landers felt her heart sink when she learned the name of her new partner. M. S. Barrett -- reputed to be the most difficult and demanding ranger at the Rocky Mountain station. And...

  • Private Treaty

    Kathleen Eagle

    Swept away . . . The storm that lashed the trees was nothing to the storm that swept through Carolina Hammond on the day Jacob Black Hawk first drew her into his embrace. The desires he awakened in her were dangerous, and made more so because they...

  • Two of a Kind

    Rosemary Edghill

    HER APPROACH TO ROMANCE WASN'T FASHIONABLE....IN FACT, IT WASN'T EVEN ROMANTIC! A young woman of great determination and organizational ability, Lady Juliette Devereaux was still smarting from the failure of her carefully planned coming ou...

  • Sagebrush Sleuth

    J.T. Edson

    Arizona was wide open. The whole damn territory was easy-pickins for any two-bit cow-thief, back shooting gunslick, or blood-simple outlaw. The law belonged to the fastest gun. And justice was in the hands of fools and cowards. So when cattle baron B...

  • Lone Star and the Silver Bandits

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki fight their way out of a bloody mountain war in the seventy-second 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 marti...

  • Fair Play

    Suzanne Ellison

    HE WAS HER KNIGHT, AND SHE WAS HIS LADY But Betsy Hanover and Geoffrey "Spence" Spencer were just pretending to be lovers for the sake of Muskingum, Ohio's Renaissance Faire. And then they truly did fall in love, a development that ...

  • Longarm and the Blood Bounty

    Tabor Evans

  • Last Invasion

    Simon Farrell

  • Vickers

    Mick Farren

  • Snowfire

    Colleen Faulkner

    Raised in Alaska and answerable to no man, headstrong Gabrielle LeBeau felt only scorn for the Southern gentleman who came to the territory too late in the season. But when the sable-haired young woman found him nearly dead from exposure, she didn...

  • The Best Horror Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

    Edward L. Ferman

  • One Light, One Sun

    Eugenie Fernandes

  • The Gift

    Marie Ferrarella

    BREAKING THE ICE Luke Randall had forgotten that people like Eve Tarrington existed; even in the face of near disaster she was cheerful. When she and her kid, appeared at his doorstep in a snowstorm, he had no choice but to offer them shelter. Now...

  • Silence the Shadows

    Christine Flynn

    Pregnant, widowed and mired in debt, Megan Reese desperately needed help. Arrogant David Elliott, her former nemesis, unexpectedly provided it. Her late husband's friend patiently showed her the ropes, taught her independence. But once he got her...

  • Alien Nation

    Alan Dean Foster

    In the not-too-distant future, a spaceship crashlands in Los Angeles, and aliens infiltrate the city's crime fighting force where only one tough detective sees the evil of these "harmless" creatures, one of whom becomes his partner...

  • Flinx in Flux

    Alan Dean Foster

    KNIGHT ERRANT Flinx and his amazing minidrag Pip were always finding themselves in the middle of danger and galactic intrigue, so when they found an unconscious young woman on a riverbank deep in the jungles of Alaspin, Flinx wasn't surprised. Nor...

  • Outer Heat

    Alan Dean Foster

  • City Jitters

    Christopher Fowler

  • Taking a Chance

    Robin Francis

    Disaster loomed large for our heroine With an apartment furnished with lawn chairs and a little black book stuffed with names, Paulette D'Amboise was in danger of becoming the Holly Golightly of Madison, Wisconsin. Men fought to take her out; no o...

  • Druid's Blood

    Esther Friesner

    A subtle blend of fantasy and history evokes a nineteenth-century England where the genius of such men as Byron and Wilde coexists with a monarch's dark magic, and one lone sleuth must break the evil spell...

  • Pride of Place

    Kathleen Fuller

    Hard-drinking, irrepressible Fitz Connely inherits a fortune, Stockwell family tempers flare, the Stockwell women find Fitz irresistible, and a murder charge finds Patrice Stockwell torn between the affections of two men...

  • Timid Timothy's Tongue Twisters

    Dick Gackenbach

    Gr 1-3 Gackenbach's half dozen rhymes in this addition to the tongue twister collection are spoiled, at times, by text and art that do not match. The ``fish'' with a grin who pulls the young fisher named Fisher into the Wisher is a porpoisea mammal, ...

  • My Life in the Seventh Grade

    Mark Geller

  • Waylander

    David Gemmell

    All of Waylander's instincts had screamed at him to spurn the contract from Kaem the cruel, the killer of nations. But he had ignored them. He had made his kill. And even as he went to collect his gold, he knew that he had been betrayed. Now the D...

  • Apache Trick

    Buck Gentry

  • Game Without Rules

    Michael Gilbert

    Mr. Calder lived with a golden deerhound named Rasselas in a cottage in Kent. Mr. Behrens lives with his aunt and keeps bees. No one would in the least suspect that the pair are in fact agents for the British Joint Services Standing Committee and the...

  • Jillian Jiggs

    Phoebe Gilman

  • Those Were the Days

    Golden Books

  • Bloodied Ivy

    Robert Goldsborough

    He was a man a lot of people hated, even in death. He was Hale Markham, a professor at an upstate New York College, a man infamous for his poisonous jealousy, backstabbing, and character assassination. His death is graded accidental. As Archie pokes ...

  • Silent Knives // Death on a #8 Hook

    Laurence Gough

  • Subject to Change

    Lois Gould


    This lyrical, monstrously inventive novel, set in an imaginary Renaissance, features five characters who revolve in changing configurations: Henry an unwilling, fearful ruler; Diane, his beautiful, cunning mistress; Catherine, his sallow, despera...

  • Makbara 1981

    J Y. Goytissol

    In Arabic, the word 'Makbara' refers to those parts of North African cemeteries where young couples go to get away from their elders and hang out. A celebration of Amour Fou, Makbara reveals Goytisolo's deep love for Arabic culture seen as sensuous a...

  • Wild Justice

    Lesley Grant-Adamson

    The London Daily Post has been purchased recently by an American entrepreneur, Hal MacQuillan, who ousts the editor, assumes the position himself, and sets about cheapening the tone and quality of the paper. Among those whose jobs may soon fall under...

  • Takeover Man // It Started With Angus

    Vanessa Grant

    She would never trust another man With her job as harbormaster, Maggie had finally made a new life for herself, her daughter Dixie and Angus MacAvoy, her grandfatherly neighbor. Nothing could shatter her peace. When Angus's son Michael, an ...

  • Where Angels Fear

    Ginna Gray

    "I DO?" Waking up in bed with virile Sam Lawford was hardly Elise Holman's typically angelic behavior. Lately she'd been fighting an attraction to her workaholic and oh-so-sexy boss, yet never for a moment did she think those amorous fantasies c...

  • Angel Fire

    Andrew M. Greeley

    Someone to watch over me? Sean Seamus Desmond, newly-announced Nobel Prize winner, relishes the unknowns of science, but a real-life mystery of love and passion. . . in the form of a beautiful woman who says she's his guardian angel? Impossible. Yet ...

  • On The Diamond

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Monday I Love You

    Constance C. Greene

    Grace has two big problems -- how will she cope? Grace Schmitt is a bit of a dreamer. In her mind, she’s the most popular girl in school, with flowing golden hair and too many friends to count. And let’s not forget all the boys who admire her per...

  • Isabelle and Little Orphan

    Constance C. Greene

  • Delicious Sex

    Gael Greene

    Explains everything that every woman needs to know for a more fulfilling love life, featuring sections on dressing for sex, foreplay, and seductions in restaurants and including exercises, costume ideas, and fantasy scenarios...

  • Lassiter's Ride

    Loren Zane Grey

  • Conversations with Capote

    Lawrence Grobel

    Recorded between July 16, 1982, and August 25, 1984, when Truman Capote died, these unexpurgated interviews cover a wide range of territory, including Capote's views on his life, his personal demons, his homosexuality, his bout with drugs and alcohol...

  • Gone the Sun

    Winston Groom

    Beau Gunn returns from Vietnam stripped of his boyish naivete and becomes a successful playwright and journalist, but when he is drawn back to his native Alabama, he uncovers a scandal so shocking that it may destroy many lives, including his own...

  • Paris, Pee Wee and Big Dog

    Rosa Guy

  • New Friends

    Dorothy Haas

  • The Wild Side

    Diana Hamilton

    He was playing judge and jury Hannah had been only nineteen when she'd first come to London -- a beautiful, naive nineteen. She'd fallen madly in love with an exciting man, only to discover he was married. Then there was Eden Wilmott -- n...

  • Heartbeats

    Lucy Hamilton

    THE RIGHT MEDICINE Vanessa Rice knew exactly what to think of police sergeant Clay Williams: he was completely infuriating. But new he was in Dodd Memorial Hospital with a gunshot wound, and the least she could do was be friends with the man--if h...

  • Model for Love

    Rosemary Hammond

    No personal involvement she'd told him When Adam St. John agreed to let her sculpt his head, Felicia firmly laid out the rules. He would pose, she would work, and that was it. For Adam, a handsome and successful entrepreneur, was the kind o...

  • Forever My Love

    Margaret Hardisty

  • Uneaseful Death

    Mollie Hardwick

    "As usual, Hardwick provides suitable literary repartee."
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    Doran Fairweather is beginning to enjoy the task of appraising family treasures at a two-day Antiques Roadshow, basking in the luxury of Caxton Manor. Then the snow starts falli...

  • Keepsakes

    Madeline Harper

    He was a real find Nora Chase's father had gambled away all the precious keepsakes of her childhood. With her customized shopping service, she compensated for that loss by providing others with the mementos they craved. And even though her own...

  • Masquerade

    Janice Harrell

    DESPERATELY SEEKING ANN Here was the good news. The guy Ann-Marie had drooled over from afar for so long had finally noticed her. One day at the ice-cream shop he walked over and asked her for a date. There was just one teensy problem. Biff thought...

  • Fair Exchange

    Emma Harrington

    GROUNDS FOR MARRIAGE With his dark green waistcoat and lacy cuffs, Lord Geoffrey Stephen Wyndham-Parkes could have been the rage of London. At the dock in Savannah, however, his attire simply amused, and no one laughed louder than the woman he had...

  • Passion's Tempest

    Emma Harrington

    Judith Ainsworth gladly returned to London when she inherited her father's business. But coffee shops and antiques held little interest for the young heiress -- her real ambition was to find the handsome and mysterious Englishman whose searing ki...

  • If Only We Could

    Elisabeth Harvor

    THESE SIX STORIES AND NOVELLA INTRODUCE THE READER TO AN IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZABLE WORLD - A WORLD OF UNREMARKABLE PEOPLE AND THEIR STRUGGLE FOR COMFORT AND HAPPINESS. SHINING MOMENTS OF INSIGHT POINT US T THE COMEDY AT THE HEART OF SORROW AND INCREAS...

  • Gemfire

    Robin Lee Hatcher

    Fiery Gem McBride was hardly more than a child when Chase Dupre won her in a lucky hand of poker. She was only fifteen, but one look in his startling sapphire eyes made her yearn to be woman enough to hold him. Left behind at Chase's sprawling cat...

  • Island Temptress

    Jean Haught

    Martinique aristocrat Christopher Phillips mistakes young housekeeper Dionne Martin for the woman his father has chosen to be Christopher's wife and his uninvited advances toward the stunning servant inflame her desire. He changed her quiet garde...

  • Monsoon Massacre

    Jack Hawkins

  • You've Been Away All Summer

    Sheila Hayes

    After a summer spent away in Connecticut, twelve-year-old Fran looks forward to resuming her usual activities with her best friend Sarah, but Sarah has a new friend that seems to claim all her time and attention....

  • Red Dust

    Eric Helm

    From dawn to dusk, nothing moves on the highways from Hanoi to the DMZ. Weeks have passed since Navy pilots spotted daytime enemy traffic. The Americans are baffled by this recent NVA tactic. But the capture and interrogation of a Vietcong student...

  • Sepulchre

    James Herbert

    A conflict of evils . . . In James Herbert's Sepulchre, there is a house called Neath that holds a dark and terrible secret. In that house there is a psychic called Kline who is part of its secret. The Keeper is guardian of the house, of the psychic,...

  • The Ladder of Perfection

    Walter Hilton

  • Montigue on the High Seas

    John Himmelman

    A rollicking picture book saga of a timid mole who becomes a reluctant seafaring adventurer. The perils of Montigue begin when he is forced to seek refuge in a soda pop bottle after a rainstorm floods out his burrow. Awakening after the storm, he dis...

  • Anachronisms

    Christopher Hinz

    The starship Alchermon is several months out from Earth, on a simple mission of planetary exploration, when Captain Ericho Brad encounters a strange alien on the planet Sycamore. Against advice, he brings the alien on board. The author also wrote "Li...

  • Jesus an Interview Across Time

    Andrew G. Hodges

    Imagine having an in-depth conversation with the Lord about the details of His earthly life, of His divinity and humanity, and other insights not revealed in Scripture. In this fascinating, biblically sound work of fiction, an evangelical Christian p...

  • At Risk

    Alice Hoffman

    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic comes a “memorable...strikingâ€(Village Voice) novel that vividly portrays an American family shattered by tragedy.

    Ivan and Polly Farrell have two bright and talented childre...

  • Scandal in Bath

    Samantha Holder

    AH, SWEET MYSTERY OF LIFE... Mariella Chase graciously swept back her golden curls, sat down at her secretary, and proceeded to write -- with relish. She had not penned one of her whodunits since before widowhood. Only now she was not simply writi...

  • The Heat Is On

    Sarah Holland

    Lorel felt a shiver of alarm It ran like ice-cold water down her spine. A man, a blue-eyed stranger, had stormed into the room in the middle of her party and switched off the music, and now he furiously confronted Lorel. She stared at him, figh...

  • Dancer from the Dance

    Andrew Holleran

    “An astonishingly beautiful book. The best gay novel written by anyone of our generation.†-- Harper’s“Through the sweat and haze of longing come piercing insights â€" about the closeness of gay male friendship, about the vanity and imperfect...

  • Chinese Western

    Zhu Hong

  • The Truth or Dare Trap

    Nancy J. Hopper

  • Crossfire

    Naomi Horton

    "I'M PREGNANT." Eleven years ago those words had driven Kailin Yarbro and Brett Douglass apart. Brett was a rebel -- a reformer -- and he'd known, deep down, that Kailin was using him to get back at her wealthy industrialist father...

  • The Fourth Codex

    Robert Houston

    Quintus Paz, Special Agent for the U.S. Customs Service, searches for a stolen ancient Indian parchment, through Mexico and Latin America and is forced to confront an old love affair, dodge bullets, and battle disgruntled Mayan spirits...

  • Mickey Mouse and His Boat

    Alice Hughes

  • Danger-Heavy Goods

    Robert A. Hutchison

    Chronicles the harrowing, sometimes deadly work of truckers carrying heavy goods across Europe all the way to Saudi Arabia on a sixteen-hour-a-day haul that shakes through fourteen countries and is fraught with constant danger...

  • The Big Lifters

    Dean Ing

    Engineer and business tycoon John Peel's latest innovation-- an experimental heavy-lift airship, the Delta One--makes him the target of the trucking industry, labor unions, and Middle Eastern terrorists. Reissue....

  • Shining Through

    Susan Isaacs

    It's 1940, and Linda Voss, legal secretary extraordinaire, has a secret; she's in love with her boss the pride of the Ivy League, John Berringer. Not that he'd take a second look at her, a German-Jewish girl from Queens who spends her time taking car...

  • Bad Guys

    Eugene Izzi

    Jimbo Marino, a tough Chicago cop on an undercover assignment in the Mob, confronts an old nemesis, Gigi Parnell, a vicious psychopath bent on destroying Marino, the police officer who had put him behind bars...

  • The Take

    Eugene Izzi

  • A Servant of Quality

    Eileen Jackson

    PLAYING WITH FIRE Beautiful Lady Sophia (layering thought it worth running any risk to escape marriage to the boring Edwin Fothergill--hut now it seemed she had leapt from the frying pan into the fire. Instead of being waited on hand and foot, ...

  • Hurricane Force

    Lisa Jackson

    Everyone knew Cord Donahue had embezzled the family fortune and fled, only to drown in the icy waters of Puget Sound. Numb with grief at Cord's betrayal, Alison Banning had wed his brother and borne a child. But three years later Alison was a wid...

  • Recent History

    Annette Williams Jaffee

  • A Cannibal in Manhattan

    Tama Janowitz

  • The House With The Iron Door

    Margaret Mary Jensen

    April investigates the mysterious circumstances behind her grandfather's death when she and her mother spend the summer in Sand Canyon, a small town in the middle of the Majave Desert. ...

  • One Touch of Topaz

    Iris Johansen

    a Loveswept Exclusive [1988] Samantha Barton was ethereal as moonlight and all fragile grace, but she was also Topaz, a woman whose courage had survived a revolution -- and Fletcher Bronson wanted to protect and ravish her all at once. The enigmatic...

  • The Hands of Eddy Loyd

    E. Richard Johnson

    A routine drug bust turns to horror for detectives Tony Lonto and Pat Runnion when they turn up a missing suspect, the corpses of several victims slashed with machetes, and a cache of human bones gnawed by human teeth...

  • Bats on the Bedstead

    Tadlock Norma Johnson

    When his family moves into an old house, eleven-year-old Ricky is threatened by a flock of evil bats who want to regain possession of the house....

  • Borrowed Time

    Janice Kaiser

    Stephanie Burnham was about marry, about to savor her first tasty of happily ever after. Then tragedy struck, leaving her fiance critically injured. With her life in shambles, Stephanie's only solace was a man in white-powerful, compassionate Dr. Pet...

  • After Dark

    William Katz

    Bouncing back from a horrible, failed marriage, Anne Seibert moves to a new town. But the pain she still feels turns her into a hopeless insomniac. Each night, unable to sleep, she stares out her window, and often sees the handsome man across the str...

  • The Right Place to Be

    Barbara Kaye

    IT WAS A BLESSING IN DISGUISE. Monica Jordan had left sleepy Gillespie, Oklahoma, behind years ago. But when she inherited her great-aunt's Victorian mansion, she was forced back into the fold. The historical landmark was the pride and joy of everyon...

  • The Joker's Revenge

    Carolyn Keene

    NANCY AND HER PALS GO UNDERCOVER IN CHICAGO'S MOST EXCLUSIVE DEPARTMENT STORE Mischief is in fashion at the Danner & Bishop department store, and the owner suspects foul play. The only clue is a playing card--a joker--left behind at the scene of e...

  • Rich and Dangerous

    Carolyn Keene

    While on vacation in New York, Nancy Drew saves the life of an elderly woman who turns up dead a few days later. Is the victim’s supposedly caring family to blame?...

  • The Joker's Revenge

    Carolyn Keene

    NANCY AND HER PALS GO UNDERCOVER IN CHICAGO'S MOST EXCLUSIVE DEPARTMENT STORE Mischief is in fashion at the Danner & Bishop department store, and the owner suspects foul play. The only clue is a playing card--a joker--left behind at the scene of e...

  • Socks for Supper

    Jack Kent

  • Stormy Attraction

    Madeleine Ker

    It was an invitation she could not refuse! An invitation to the wealthy Juan Torres's home was coveted in the Majorcan social circuit. But Paula Castle was not going there to socialize. She was going to do everything in her power to convince t...

  • The March on Warsaw

    Leo Kessler

  • Ruby Orchid

    Katharine Kincaid

    SKIRT CHASING SCOUNDREL. When the roguish Gerrick Scott landed on the Hawaiian island she called home, outspoken Caitlin Price let the lusty captain know how unwelcome he was. But even as the indignant blonde warned him not to despoil her native sc...

  • Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?

    Kenneth Koch

    First published to enormous acclaim in 1973, this book became a classic that revolutionized the way children are taught to read and write poetry. The celebrated poet Kenneth Koch conveys the imaginative splendor of great poetry--by Blake, Donne, Stev...