Books Published in July 1989

New Books List: 435 titles

  • Zaanan: Fatal Limit

    Al Bohl

  • Z Is for Zombie

    Mel Gilden

    A new neighborhood pizza parlor features live entertainment from a line of dancers who look remarkably dead, and when Ms Cosgrove becomes one of the entertainers, Danny, Barbara, and their friends from P.S. 13 must save her...

  • Yours and Mine

    Debbie Macomber

    "MOM HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT OF GETTING MARRIED AGAIN?" Joanna hadn't. Marriage, she told her daughter, was an experience she had no intention of repeating. Tanner Lund felt the same way. Like Joanna, he'd been divorced after a ...

  • You'll Hear from Us

    Marilyn Cooley

  • Yesterday's Pawn

    W.T. Quick

  • Yesterday's News

    Jeremiah Healy

    MURDER ON DEADLINE "Perched on the edge of greatness," they said about the run-down port city of Nasharbor, Massachusetts. Of course, they were the same guys who were pushing a condominium development on the waterfront, and who might be tied up wi...

  • Word of Honor

    Evelyn A. Crowe

    Honor Marshall As a child in Houston, she had witnesses her mother's death in an air disaster. Years later when she found out it was murder, she vowed to hunt down the person responsible. Travis Gentry The secret service agent agreed to help...

  • Woman in the Dark

    Dashiell Hammett

    A young, frightened, foreign woman appears at the door of an isolated house. The man and woman inside take her in. Other strangers appear in pursuit of the girl. Menace is in the air.

    Originally published in 1933, Hammett's Woman in the Dark s...

  • A Woman in Love

    Brittany Young

    TREASURES OF THE HEART When archaeologist Melina Chase returned to her father's treasure-hunting ship in the Greek Isles, she found his project threatened by a series of unexplained "accidents." One of the prime suspects was financier Aristo Drapa...

  • Wolfsong

    Wendy Pini; Richard Pini

    From the authors of Elfquest and the creators of Thieves' World, this second volume is set in the Elfquest world--a time when the Wolves and the Wolf-Riders were forming their deep emotional bonds and learning how to live on the World of Two Moons....

  • Wish Giver

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    HE WAS HER LAST CHANCE ... Glynis Hamilton would do anything to save her critically ill son's life, even if it meant confronting the man who'd caused her such bitter heartbreak six years before. Once Glynis had loved Cort McBride, but, consumed by...

  • The Wilder Way

    Hilary Cole

    Infuriating. Impudent. Frustrating. Meddlesome. Charming. Jane Walker can't say enough about her new -- and unwanted -- business partner, S. S. Wilder. All her best intentions to do her uncle proud, all her determination to be a great private inv...

  • A Wilder Name

    Laura Leone

    ONCE BITTEN, TWICE SHY After her scandalous divorce, Nina Gnagnarelli vowed never to trust a man again. She hid behind her carefully cultivated cool exterior--but then Luke Swain came along. He irritated her from the moment they met. But he also a...

  • A Wicked Slice

    Aaron Elkins; Charlotte Elkins

    Lee Ofsted just makes the cut for the Pacific Western Woman's Pro-Am golf tournament. She's never hit the ball better -- but for some reason, her drives keep slicing. But this isn't the only mystery -- soon Lee discovers the body of the tour's star a...

  • Who Framed Mary Bubnik?

    Jahnna N. Malcolm

    Mary Bubnik may be the klutziest ballerina at the Deerfield Academy of Dance, but she loves taking lessons with her best friends McGee, Zan, Gwen, and Rocky. But now that her mom is having money problems, Mary may have to quit ballet. What will the ...

  • White Midnight

    Kathleen O'Brien

    How could she afford to welcome him home? Amanda had been dangerously naive the summer Drake Daniels raked in a cool ten thousand dollars for leaving her family's Georgia estate and disappearing into the night without her. His betrayal had nea...

  • White Heat

    Helen Mittermeyer

    Pacer Dillon was an irresistible heartbreaker, a maverick with sapphire eyes and a fiery temper who was determined to take over Colm Fitzroy's family business. She was certain she could stop him, but when passion like a tidal wave swept over her duri...

  • White Cargo

    Stuart Woods

    MODERN PIRATES They should have killed Catledge. But they were too cruel. They let him live while they raped his wife and daughter. Let him live while they sent his yacht and his family to the bottom of the Caribbean. Let him live knowing...

  • When I See Your Face

    Connie Bennett

    She wanted him desperately... But there were numerous reasons mystery writer Ryanne Kirkland couldn't consider a future with Hugh MacKenna, the charismatic private investigator from Los Angeles. Firstly, she was blind. And she didn't wa...

  • What Is God Like?

    Eugenia Price

  • West of January

    Dave Duncan

    The Aurora Award–winning novel of a remote far-future world caught in a cycle of destruction, from the author of the Seventh Sword saga.   On the distant planet of Vernier, a single day lasts an eternity. Lifetimes pass before a region fu...

  • Wendy Watson's Mother Goose

    Wendy Watson

  • The Wedding March

    Terry Essig

    WITH MARRIAGE IN MIND Feisty five-foot Lucia Callahan wanted to marry, but she didn't want a husband to coddle her the way her too-tall family had. So she moved to Chicago, got a job at Statler Computing Group and tried to meet as many eligibl...

  • The Web of Spider

    W. Michael Gear

    The conclusion to Gear's thriling Spider sci-fi trilogyThe Sirian rebellion had proved the catalyst for the rise of two powerful new forces in the galaxy. Ngen Van Chow, leader of the failed rebellion, had fled to a distant world, establishing a base...

  • Web of Desire

    Rachel Ford

    It was an appalling coincidence! Ordinarily Camilla would have delighted in the chance to use her embroidery skills in restoration work -- even though it meant a trip to the Caribbean. But this island had been her family island, and the house, ...

  • Water Walker

    Nancy Willard

    Willard's ( In His Country ) ninth collection stints on serious or complex subjects in favor of frequently dazzling verbal pyrotechnics. The poems proceed through careful scrutiny: one pays homage to a newt; another seeks theology in a hardware store...

  • The Warlock Insane

    Christopher Stasheff

    Armed with superior technological prowess, Rod Gallowglass has so far been equal to the challenges of planet Gramarye. But can he beat an evil sorcerer on the battlefield of the mind?...

  • Waltz With the Flowers

    Marcine Smith

    SLOW DANCING A freak accident had cost ex-jockey Estella Blaine her career--and much more. Hiding a pain too sharp to face, she sought refuge on a farm and lived an untroubled existence ... until the day she walked into bank manager Cody Marlowe's...

  • Waking Dream

    Carol Wallace

    Researching the life of a nineteenth-century American heiress who married an English aristocrat, Sarah Llewellyn finds herself drawn to the heiress's present-day descendant, the future Earl of Saltire, and caught in a web of dangerous secrets from th...

  • Wade Dives In

    Jim Davis

  • A Viking's Daughter

    John Andrews

    The daughter of a powerful Icelandic chieftain becomes leader of a settlement in Greenland, where her authority is challenged by the men of the colony, in a novel that recalls the glory days of the legendary Viking explores...

  • Vanishing Act

    Carolyn Keene

    When a rock idol becomes the invisible man, Nancy makes a guest appearance Superstar Jesse Slade has been missing for three years -- until Nancy spots a clue on the videotape of Slade's last concert. She and her friends George and Bess fly to Califo...

  • Under the Influence

    Elizabeth Travis

    WOMEN JUST LOVED GREG DILLON TO DEATH... Gorgeous and charming, the talented artist was simply irresistible--even to happily married women like Carrie Porter. But when the egocentric playboy is found shot and stabbed in an office at Carrie and Ben...

  • Tyrannosaurus Was a Beast

    Arnold Lobel

  • Turning Toward Home

    Joyce Hollyday

  • Turning Tables

    Judith Arnold

    THIS TIME SHE'D GONE TOO FAR Amelia's outrageous sister had incited a riot. Gotten herself arrested by the Wisherville, New York police. And hired a lawyer crazy enough to file a freedom-of-speech lawsuit on her behalf. Before an embarrass...

  • Tunnel Rats

    Cliff Banks

  • Triplets

    Mollie Gregory

    The Wyman triplets had everything money could buy, and more … beauty, intelligence, talent and a devoted mother, determined to give her gifted children all the privileges of the good life. But most of all, Sara, Sky and Vail shared the special clos...

  • Trigwater Did It

    Lissa Rovetch

  • Tree House

    Victor Mullen

    ANCIENT EVIL Joshua always knew he was different. While the other kids liked to play, Joshua liked to kill. And he did. Joshua didn’t care if the others shunned him, for he had a special place. A big, old oak tree. His tree. Nobody knew about ...

  • Trackdown

    Robert Vaughn Bell

  • Time Exposure

    John Lutz

    Private investigator Alo Nudger of St. Louis beguiles the reader again in the fifth of Lutz's droll, deftly plotted mysteries. Timid Nudger, determined to be a mensch, gives new meaning to fighting city hall on an assignment from Adelaide Lacy. Her s...

  • Threat of Exposure

    Doreen Roberts

    DOUBLE JEOPARDY Eden Granger's new life in Portalnd, Oregon, and her job as an aerobics instructor were a protective cocoon against yesterday's nightmare. She didn't like questions. She didn't like reporters. She didn't like Cade Warner. But he was ...

  • Those Mysterious Dinosaurs

    Gina Ingoglia

  • Thorne's Wife

    Joan Hohl

    Valerie Thorne loved her husband with passionate devotion. When they'd first met, Jonas's bewildering moods and stunning tenderness had breathed new life into her. Now, three years later, Valerie felt a deep desire to be his partner and his equal in ...

  • Thick as Thieves

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • These Are Best Years?

    Nadine Roberts

  • There I Was

    David Sherman

    Men who have been in combat may or, as is more usually the case, may not tell war stories. When they do tell them, they usually leave out various details, and often change things. After all, the stories can dredge up painful memories. In addition, th...

  • A Tender Silence

    Karen Keast

    Cold. Hot. Violent. Gentle. To MIA widow Anne Elise Butler, explosive Captain Kell Chaisson was quicksilver personified. To her horror, her final duty to her husband-a foray into Bangkok's treacherous black market-depended on the troubleshooter's dea...

  • Tempting Torment

    Jo Goodman

    SINFUL PLEASURES It seemed like a good idea. The handsome American was dying anyway. Why not marry him and flee England in the guise of Noah McClellan's widow? But Jessa Winter hadn't counted on Noah's will to live. Nor on his smouldering desires on...

  • Tempting the Wolf

    Deborah Smith

    Erica Gallatin felt her spirit rise to the challenge and fury in James Tall Wolf's eyes. The brilliant renegade Cherokee who'd played pro football was pure threatening masculinity: fierce, dangerous, with a heart-stopping physique -- and utterly irre...

  • Temple of Dark Destiny

    Ryder Syvertsen

    HIDDEN DEEP IN THE FROZEN MOUNTAINS OF TIBET ARE REVELATIONS THAT COULD SHATTER THE WORLD! An ancient Tibetan prophecy came to pass when supernatural forces beyond human comprehension transformed CIA agent Bart Lasker from a mere mortal into the M...

  • Teacher Crush

    Francine Pascal

    Madly in love... Pretty and talented Olivia Davidson has always seemed independent. So it comes as a total surprise to Elizabeth Wakefield when Olivia confides in her that she's lonely. Everyone she knows is going out with someone, and now she's read...

  • Target

    David Drake; Janet Morris

    REFUGEE FROM ARMAGEDDON Sam Yates' job -- Commissioner of Security for United Nations lunar headquarters -- was a pretty boring one ... until mankind's first extraterrestrial visitor arrived on the moon asking for political asylum. Now, everyon...

  • Taming of the Shrew

    Graham Holderness

    A robust and bawdy battle of the sexes, this ever popular comedy captivates audiences with outrageous humor as Katharina, the shrew, engages in a contest of wills–and love–with her bridegroom, Petruchio. Their boisterous conflict is set o...

  • Talent

    Howard Kaminsky

    "A solid entry in the high-glitz genre, with the Kaminskys' most attractive heroine and strongest storytelling so far." -Kirkus ReviewsDestined to become the head of her uncle's successful talent agency, Allison Morton encounters resentful co-workers...

  • Switchstance

    Phoebe Matthews

    “Life Is Not A Sitcom…” That’s what my grandmother said when I pointed out to her that grandmothers on TV sitcoms don’t smoke. Mothers and fathers don’t go running off in opposite directions either. And their fifteen-year-old daughters...

  • Swapping

    Shirley Love

    This novel explores the notion that women change themselves to fit men's fantasies. The theory is illustrated by Felicia, who is attractive and married to a workaholic, and Ann, a country housewife absorbed in her garden. Unexpectedly, their lives cr...

  • Swann

    Carol Shields

    Carol Shields's award-winning and critically acclaimed "literary mystery," first published in 1987.Swann is the story of four individuals who become entwined in the life of Mary Swann, a rural Canadian poet whose authentic and unique voice is discove...

  • Super Sleepover Guide

    Susan Saunders

  • Sun River

    Richard S. Wheeler

    They call him Mister Skye He's big, he's tough, and he knows the West as few others do the trails, the people, the weather - everything from which a tenderfoot needs to be protected. Skye's biggest problem is protecting people from themselves. Mister...

  • Summer for Secrets

    Lou Kassem

  • Suicide

    Dorothy Brenner Francis / Dorothy Francis

  • Suffer the Children

    John Saul

    Innocence dies so easily. Evil lives again . . . and again . . . and again.One hundred years ago in Port Arbello a pretty little girl began to scream. And struggle. And die. No one heard. No one saw. Just one man whose guilty heart burst in pain as h...

  • Stuck on You

    Kristine Rolofson

    It was a sticky situation Maggie McGuire decided Samual Winslow must have a peculiar affinity for wallpaper paste. Why else would Rhode Island's most eligible man glue himself to her side as she slaved over his palatial home? Not that she minded e...

  • Strikezone

    David F. Nighbert

    William Bull Cochran, a former minor league pitcher whose career derailed when he killed a batter with a wild pitch, now owns a moving and storage company in Galveston, Tex. The circumstances of his life abruptly change again when two masked men walk...

  • Story of Santa Claus

    Barbara Shook Hazen

  • The Stories of Francis Wyndham

    Francis Wyndham

  • Stephanie's Big Story

    Susan Saunders

    The Sleepover Friends become writers for the new school newspaper, but Stephanie is annoyed when Karla keeps "scooping" her listings of upcoming parties for the "Social Notes" column and decides to find out just how Karla is doing it....

  • A Star in the Saddle

    Ann Sheldon

    When soap opera star Joanna Curtis films an episode right next to Rancho del Sol, everyone except Linda gets a chance to know the crew, and Linda soon suspects that Joanna covets her beloved horse, Amber. Linda is the only one of her crowd who is ...

  • The Spy Who Longed for Home

    Michael Grundt Spang

    When his treachery is exposed by intelligence agent Peter Nordheim, Norwegian diplomat Anders Bergers defects to Moscow but soon decides to return home, bringing with him information about a KGB spy under deep cover in Norway...

  • Spring Thaw

    Sally Bradford

    Picturing her face had kept him alive To Wing Commander Adam Campbell, hell and heaven weren't just philosophical concepts. Hell was the stark wasteland he'd inhabited as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. Heaven was the sustaining memory of Ce...

  • Spellcaster

    J. Edward Ames

    BLOOD REVELS New Orleans. A hideous terror threatens this year’s Mardi Gras festivities. From the shadowy gloom of the French Quarter, a pair of cold, malevolent eyes stare out at the gathering masses with blood-chilling hatred. A silent street pe...

  • Spell of the Mountains

    Rosalie Henaghan

    "I'd sooner kiss a snake than you!" When Sophie had angrily insulted New Zealand hotelier Jon Roberts, she'd never expected him to respond with a wager. If he managed to wangle her cherished homestead motel away from her, he'd ...

  • Sonys and the Chain Letter Gang

    Susan Smith

  • A Song in the Wilderness

    Lee Stafford

    It was a shock to have him back in her life Lucas Tremayne had played an overwhelming role in her teenage past. Now, as the new writer-in-residence at the university where Amber Kingsland was secretary to the dean, there was no way she could avoi...

  • Something of Heaven

    Marilyn Pappano

    HAUNTED BY A MEMORY... Gabriel Rodriguez had never forgotten Rachel Martinez. In the darkness of the night, the memory of their love filled his dreams, stirring his soul and making his body hunger for her touch. But in the daylight he remembered t...

  • So Sweet a Sin

    Brooke Hastings

    Forrbidden Fruit Impetuous Sophie Stoddard bristled when her uncle, the Earl of Wynbourne, entrusted her to the watchful care of stern Puritan merchant Edward Holt for the voyage to Boston. Soon, however, Sophie discovered the passionate side of t...

  • The Snow Party

    Beatrice Schenk De Regniers

  • Snake Oil Wars

    Parke Godwin

  • Snake Charmer

    John Griffiths

    Philip Nolan discovers the body of a seventeen-year-old former student in a New Mexico canyon, and he teams up with Police Lieutenant Jacobsen to find the killer after he reads the shocking entries in the girl's journal...

  • Slow Death

    Jake Logan

    THEY WERE AN ORNERY BUNCH OF HOMBRES. A wild gang of whiskey runners. and Slocum had 'em figured for trouble from the start. He'd let them off too easy when he'd caught them red-handed rustling cattle from Lynn Dawson's Lazy D spread. That was his mi...

  • Slow Dance

    Diane Hoh

    A handsome boy, A beautiful girl, A night to remember… Summer at the posh Drifting Dunes Beach and Tennis Club means romance, fun, and excitement. For Lauren, it means working on her tan, and finding the perfect boy (tall -- very tall) to t...

  • Simon's Secret

    Judith Worthy

  • Silver Slaughter

    Jon Sharpe

    BULLION AND BLOOD The U.S. government was losing a vital stream of silver bullion to nameless thieves -- and that was where Canyon O'Grady came in. The big, red-haired man with the flashing grin and blazing gun had been appointed by the President ...

  • Shield's Lady

    Amanda Glass

    JOINED BY POWER AND PASSION! She was a cool confident businesswoman, a beautiful outcast from the East determined to regain her rightful status. He was a Shield, an intense mercenary respected and feared throughout the opulent cities and savage fr...

  • Shapes Mistaken

    Ross Feld

  • Sex and Other Sacred Games

    Kim Chernin

    Sex and Other Sacred Games is an imaginative look at sexuality, in which a chance encounter in a Paris cafe sets off a parley, a heated discussion, an on-going dialogue, between a feminist and a femme fatale. While following the development of their ...

  • The Seven Days of Creation

    Leonard Everett Fisher

  • The Serpent's Tooth

    Denis Kilcommons

  • Seize the Fire

    Patricia Potter

    The Arizona Territory, 1865 Despite the army's cruel treatment, the prisoner, known only as MacKenzie, remained proud and aloof, yet April Manning had seen the flash of fire in his dark, impenetrable eyes. Somehow she knew the half-breed scout was...

  • Secrets of Tyrone

    Regan Forest

    Strange dreams haunted her Shadows on a staircase ... a hand without a body ... heartbroken, unearthly sobs. The images never varied through the years, nor the feeling of stark terror. The photograph Karen Barnett discovered in her mother's effect...

  • Secret Scars

    Cynthia Crosson Tower

  • The Second Shift

    Arlie Hochschild

  • Search for Omm

    Jonathan Cott

  • Schoolroom In The Parlor

    Rebecca Caudill

  • A Scent of Roses

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    The phone call Susan Miller had feared all her married life had finally come: her race-car-driver husband, Greg, had crashed! Miraculously, he was only bruised, but he'd completely lost his memory. Six months earlier, she'd left Greg, unwilli...

  • Scandinavian Folktales

    Jacqueline Simpson

  • Say Cheese

    Vassily Aksyonov

    Max Ogorodnikov, a member of a satirical group of top-ranking Soviet photographers, scandalizes the underground resistance when he decides not to defect but to live like a free man in the Soviet Union...

  • The Saturn Experiment

    Peter Shepherd

  • Satan Wants You

    Arthur Lyons

    The diverse manifestations of satanism are explored in a study that ranges from sixth-century Persia to the present day and probes the appeal of satanism in contemporary American culture and probable future of this disturbing cult practice...

  • The Saga of Henry Starr

    Robert J. Conley

    Henry Starr was one of the most notorious criminals of the Old West, famed far and wide for robbing two banks in the same town at the same time -- a feat even the Dalton Gang couldn’t pull off. Still, Henry Starr was a reluctant outlaw.  An ho...

  • Saddle the Storm

    Harry Whittington

  • Rules of Prey

    John Sandford

    The killer was mad, but brilliant. He left notes with every woman he killed. Rules of murder. Never have a motive. Never follow a discernible pattern. Never carry a weapon after it has been used... So many rules to his sick, violent games of death...

  • Rosemoore

    Arthur Cavanaugh

    Unholy secrets scar the past of a Catholic girls school that represented a social and financial coming of age during the early twentieth-century, and alter the lives of the people caught in its orbit, including Louise Maguire, the determined nun who ...

  • The Road to Mandalay

    Kathleen Korbel
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    Workaholic Kate Manion had finally taken a break from her high-pressure job and now sailed the high seas on a windjammer. Devil-may-care captain Jack Whelan melted her icy exterior to find a woman passionate with desire. Could their love be the real ...

  • Road to Holocaust

    Hal Lindsey

  • Ripper

    Mary Clark

  • Ring, Rock and River

    Barbara Bolton

  • Ride Tall, Hang High

    Chet Cunningham

    There's nothing like a smoking six gun in your hand to make you grow up fast! They were the youngest-and some said the most dangerous-gang in the territory. They were just kids, but the savagery of the untamed West made men out of them before their t...

  • Richard Scarry's Best Friend Ever

    Richard Scarry

  • Revenge of the Valkyrie

    Thorarinn Gunnarsson

  • Refuge

    Rob Chilson

    A man without memory, in a city of robots gone wild. At his side, a mysterious woman whose own identity he has reconstructed, and whose memories of him may be true or false. The young man calls himself Derec. In the shattering climax to his quest he ...

  • Reckless

    Jeanette Mines

  • The Rebus Bears

    Seymour Reit

    The Rebus Bears



    The interweaving of words and pictures within a rebus framework turns this charmingly funny retelling of Goldilocks and the Three Bears into a visual puzzle, adding fresh spice to a well-loved fairy tale....

  • Ravished!

    Parris Afton Bonds
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    Nelli Walzchak was a take-charge nurse on the job, but her personal life was virtually nonexistent. A Mexican vacation changed all that when she found herself kidnapped by a dashing buccaneer who wanted her professional help, then asked her to stay o...

  • The Rainbow Stories

    William Vollmann

    From a writer who has won comparison with Thomas Pynchon and William S. Burroughs comes thirteen unnerving and often breathtaking stories populated by punks and angels, skinheads and religious assassins, streetwalkers and fetishists--people who live ...

  • The Radiant Warrior

    Leo Frankowski

    NEW LIGHT ON THE PAST Conrad Stargard, a 20th-century Pole marooned in 13th-century Poland, had just ten years to prevent the Mongol Hordes from slaughtering everyone in Poland. So he "invented" all the modern advances, things like prefabricate...

  • Rabbit Story

    Alvin R. Tresselt

  • Quiller KGB

    Adam Hall

    Somewhere, behind the Iron Curtain, a top secret mission may change the ultimate fate of East and West Germany. It is code-named Operation Trumpeter. And it is now approaching zero hour -- when the Wall comes tumbling down....

  • Quiet

    Peter Parnall

  • Puss in Boots

    Susan Saunders

  • Psychic Fair

    George O'Har

    At a boys' academy in Massachusetts, student Adrian Sparks finds a Ouija board and contacts the world of the dead--only to become a helpless pawn in the bloodthirsty quest for revenge conceived by a tormented mind...

  • The Promise

    Danielle Steel

    Love is a Promise Never to Say Goodbye... Michael and Nancy... he was a gifted young architect with dreams of a future he would help to build. She was a beautiful, talented artist whose struggle out of a painful past earned her the right to hope f...

  • Pretty Women

    Kate Coscarelli

    After World War II, three young wives accompany their Air Force officer husbands to Tripoli--where one of the women is killed--and twenty years later the two survivors resolve to finally unravel her mysterious death...

  • The Powerful Pickle Problem

    Sally Farrell Odgers

    Grandad Pickle s Pickle Palace makes the best pickles in the world. There s Plain Pickle, Popular Pickle, Particular Pickle, Perfect Pickle, Princely Pickle . . . .. . Best of all is Powerful Pickle. It is the choicest, tastiest, most original pickle...

  • Playmates

    Robert B. Parker

    Spenser scores again! In Robert B. Parker's newest, most electrifying bestseller, America's favorite iron-pumping, gourmet-cooking private eye smells corruption in college town. Taft University's hottest basketball star is shaving points for quick ca...

  • Playing to Win

    Janice Boies

    When Shannon Nelson shows up at Fire Lake Soccer Camp for a two-week session, she can't believe her good luck. She'll be training with Gregg Warner, the high school soccer legend from her hometown in Michigan. A few pointers from Gregg and sh...

  • A Place for Outlaws

    Allen Wier

    A Place For Outlaws starts off as a family novel, as warmly evocative and intimate over time as an album of family photographs, and imperceptibly, turns into a shocker, grounded in subterfuge, perversity, and violence. The overall movement brings goo...

  • A Pirate's Pleasure

    Heather Graham

    SHE WAS HIS DEFIANT CAPTIVE. With her flame gold-hair and azure eyes, Skye Kinsdale was a prize beyond compare. Betrothed to a lord she'd never met, she set sail for America sworn to reject him on sight until the infamous pirate Silver Hawk seized ...

  • Pirate's Mistress

    Kathryn Davenport

    HIS SEDUCTIVE TOUCH Joanna Reynolds was filled with glee when her ship was attacked by pirates. Now, she might not have to go to India to meet the husband she'd been forced to marry by proxy! But her glee turned to fury when she was taken prisoner ...

  • The Pirate O'Keefe

    Helen R. Myers

    LADY OF THE ISLAND A multimillionaire and modern-day pirate, Garret O'Keefe found himself shipwrecked on a small Caribbean island. Always in search of adventure to appease his restless spirit, O'Keefe wasn't sure what he was looking for in life--u...

  • The Pilgrim's Rules of Etiquette

    Taghi Modarressi

  • Peter Pan

    Amye Rosenberg

  • Passion's Ransom

    Betina Krahn

    CAPTIVE BEAUTY Blythe Woolrich was a proper and respectable female. Genteelly poor and thoroughly modest, she was not at all the sort of woman to be held for ransom by a horde of nefarious pirates. And certainly not the sort whose passions could b...

  • Parrot's Wood

    Erma Fisk J.

    “Jonnie Fisk has that rare gift of taking an engaging personality―inquisitive, observant, sympathetic, humorous, and above all indomitable―and conveying in intact into print. Within the first few pages of her books the reader feels that he h...

  • Paint It Black

    W.R. Philbrick

  • The Pact

    Jerome Preisler

  • Oxford Blood

    Antonia Fraser

    BLUE BLOOD SPILT AMONG THE SPOILED OFFSPRING OF BRITAIN'S BEST FAMILIES! Jemima Shore, Britain's most popular newswoman, is at Oxford University, reluctantly shooting a TV expose of the exotic life-styles of overprivileged undergraduates, among th...

  • Out of the Blue

    Elise Title

    The tall, handsome Englishman showed up unexpectedly... Jonathan Madden's appearance in Courtney Blue's life was straight out of a thriller. As a bookstore clerk, Courtney had read plenty of those! He was no professor, as he claimed. But definitl...

  • The Oracle

    Hugh Cook

    "WARS WERE NOT AS LIVELY AS STORYTELLERS PRETENDED..." Yen Olass could read dreams and tell the future. Even as chaos reigned in the city of Gendormargensis, the oracle's talent served her well. Indeed, as the city fell to battling warlords and im...

  • Operation Iron Fist

    G. Harry Stine

    The most awesome force in military history on guard for freedom!NOW BACK IN PRINT!In the ongoing struggle for survival in a war-torn world, a new breed of super-warrior explodes onto the international battlefield. Terrible instruments of destruction ...

  • The Open Market

    Catherian Nevel

  • Once and for Always

    Leigh Michaels

    She'd sworn never to set foot in Iowa again Jill Donovan loved big cities and the fast pace, and the prospect of spending her days as the wife of a small-town hardware merchant had never appealed. Yet her latest modeling assignment took her...

  • On Dangerous Ground

    Lamar Underwood

    Underwood's experience editing and writing for outdoor magazines serves him well in this convincing first novel. The storyline cuts back and forth between a wounded grizzly bear in the Alaska backwoods and a New York City publisher's offices where mu...

  • Old Creole Days

    George Washington Cable

    Published in 1879, this collection consists of seven short stories portraying Creole life in New Orleans. While glamorizing an exotic and enticing city, Cable also introduces social satire to round out the picture of this incredibly diverse locale. T...

  • Odd Man Out

    Lass Small

    MR. JULY Name: Graham Rawlins Question: What did a man have to do to catch a woman's eye? Answer: Whatever it took. Reliable Cohort: Gus Graham Rawlins had finally found the perfect apartment--and the most fascinating apartmentmate, Roberta ...

  • The Observers

    Damon Knight

    An alien intelligence has infected the residents of Sea Venture with a personality change that gives them the ability to see the flaws in civilization and the evil power to affect changes to evolve to true intelligence...

  • No Way to Treat a Lady

    Rita Rainville

    HEART TROUBLE! Aunt Tillie was getting messages from the spirit world again, telling her that Dave McGraw, her llama-ranching nephew, was having -- Oh no! Heart trouble! She would have to make sure he was treated with tender loving care--especiall...

  • No Surrender

    Lindsay McKenna

    Fresh from grueling years of pilot training, Alyssa Trayhern couldn't believe the navy was about to crash-land her career. Butwhy else assign her as copilot to cocky jet jockey Clay Cantrell? Aly vowed to defy Clay's cruel hatred of her Trayhern name...

  • No Regrets

    Fern Kupfer

    Happily-married Sharon agrees to accompany her newly-divorced friend Barbara and Barbara's children cross-country, and the trip affords the two women a chance to learn much about themselves and each other...

  • Nightmare on Elm Street

    Joseph Locke

  • Nightmare Logic

    Matthew Hall

  • Night Riders

    Tony Phillips

  • The Night Of The Moonbow

    Thomas Tryon

    In this spellbinding novel of idyllic childhoods torn apart by the blossoming terror of child pitted against child, Tryon spins a tale of the hidden horrors that lurk behind children's innocence, and an inevitable explosion of evil....

  • Nice Work

    David Lodge

    Winner of the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award and short-listed for the Booker Prize, "Nice Work" is a hilarious comedy of society and class misunderstandings. When Vic Wilcox, MD of Pringle's engineering works, meets English lecturer Dr Robyn P...

  • Nevada Nights

    Georgina Gentry

    TEXAS TOMBOY When feisty Dallas Durango couldn't bear the stuffy Boston girls' school a minute longer, she fled as far West as her money would take her: to St. Joe, Missouri. There the runaway heiress discovered that women earned mere pennie...

  • Murder on the Glitter Box

    Steve Allen

    Steve Allen, Detective At Large Always a kindly soul, Steve Allen has agreed to step into the breach when Terry Cole, king of the late-night talk shows, takes a much-needed vacation. But he gets more than he bargained for when one of his guests drop...

  • Murder in a Locked Box

    Alan Robbins

  • Murder by Deception

    D.R. Meredith

    Charlton Price-Leigh III came to the Texas panhandle to win approval for a potentially life-threatening nuclear waste dump. What he got was a knife in the chest. The police have only one suspect -- the owner of the wheat field where Charlton's naked ...

  • Murder at the Kennedy Center

    Margaret Truman

    During a gala benefit for the Democratic Party's hottest presidential hopeful at the glittering Kennedy Center, a young woman dies, a victim of quick and brutal violence. The murder weapon belongs to the candidate. The chief suspect is the candidate'...

  • Mountains of the Sun

    Evelyn Hart

  • Mothers Can't Get Sick

    Sylvie Wickstrom

  • Mother West Wind's Neighbours

    T.W. Burgess

  • The Morning After

    Dallas Schulze

    SOMETHING WAS TERRIBLY WRONG The morning after Lacey Newton's thirtieth birthday bash, her head pounded, her eyes ached - and she woke up in a Las Vegas hotel room. When someone groaned beside her in bed, Lacey thought she knew the worst. But the ...

  • Monkey Station

    Ardath Mayhar

    A plague is devasting mankind. Deep within the Amazon jungle, scientists have altered the genetic makeup of macaque monkeys, making them self-aware and giving them the power of speech. Only by working together can the two races--man and monkey--find ...

  • Money to Burn

    Michael Hendricks

  • The Money Eaters

    Ian Edwards

    (It s the worst day ever for David and Briar when they move to the city. David misses the countryside and Briar hates leaving her horse behind. But there s no time to feel miserable - not when there is a baffling mystery to be solved. They team up wi...

  • The Monday Sheepdog

    Ivy Baker

  • Mindscream

    R.D. Zimmerman

  • Midnight Lover

    Barbara Bretton

    IN A ROUGH NEVADA BOOMTOWN, JESSE REARDON CALLED EVERY SHOT -- UNTIL BEAUTIFUL CAROLINE BENNETT STEPPED OFF THE STAGECOACH! Arriving like an exquisite mirage in a cloud of western dust, Caroline Bennett laid claim to her dead father's only leg...

  • Midnight Blue

    Dorothy Garlock

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  • The Middleman and Other Stories

    Bharati Mukherjee

    A National Book Critics Circle Award winner and New York Times Notable Book: “intelligent, versatile . . . profound” stories of migration in America (The Washington Post Book World).   Illuminating a new world of people i...

  • Merlin's Web

    S.W. Mayse

  • McGruer and the Goat

    Christobel Mattingley

  • Maury Had a Little Lamb

    Janette Oke

    Just exactly how much mischief do you think one little lamb can get into? You'll be surprised when you read about this little lamb.

    Left alone by his mother and family, Shandy the lamb soon learns that trouble seems to follow him wherever he go...

  • Matt's Crusade

    Margot Marek

    Seventh grader Matt Tyson is tempted to join his new friend Allie in a public protest against the Army's decision to stockpile nuclear missiles outside their town, even though the demonstration conflicts with a big football game in which he is needed...

  • The Masters of Darkness

    Joe Dever

  • Master of Fearful Depths

    Patrick H. Adkins

  • Masks

    John Vornholt

    The Enterprise journeys to Lorca, a beautiful world with a feudal ,culture where the inhabitants wear masks to show their rank and station. There, Captain Picard and an away team don masks of their own to begin a quest for the planet's ruler and the ...

  • The Marrying Kind

    Glenna Finley

    ROMANTIC ENCOUNTER When red-haired beauty Jessica Webster arrived on secluded Orcas Island, the only thing she had on her mind was a little rest and relaxation -- a peaceful getaway from the pressures of her high-powered public relations job. But ...

  • Marianne

    George Sand

    Sand takes the timeless theme of a younger woman in love with an older man to create a romance with a feminist twist. Her vivacious heroine is both the author''s ideal of female emancipation and a subtle attack on the other Marianne, the French Repub...

  • Manhattan Is My Beat

    Jeffery Deaver

    Five feet two inches of slick repartee, near-purple hair, and poetic imagination, twenty-year-old Rune hasn't been in Manhattan for very long. But she's crafty enough to have found a squatter's paradise in an empty TriBeCa loft, and a video store job...

  • The Man-Kzin Wars II

    Larry Niven

    KZINTI Born and bred to hunting, they had never encountered a species they couldn't treat as prey -- until they met the canny pseudo-pacifists from Planet Earth. They nearly overwhelmed, humanity on first contact, but fast as you can say "Ghengis ...

  • Man on the Make

    Roberta Leigh

    "I take orders from whoever's paying me:" Mark Raynor's reply was firm. "And that's your father." His attitude brooked no argument and Charlotte boiled with rage. Mark Raynor definitely didn't want to play nursem...

  • Magnificent Folly

    Iris Johansen

    Why was Andrew Ramsey watching her daughter Cassie from the cliff above the beach, Lily Deslin wondered with a sudden chill in her heart. When she discovered the secret they shared, she was shocked-and terrified he'd try to take her beloved child fro...

  • Magic Touch

    Noelle Berry McCue

    LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT One stormy night a stranger's fierce desire broke through divorcee Caroline Barclays self-imposed defenses. She'd never thought of herself as beautiful, but James Mitchel's searing touch had made her feel irresistible. Still, C...

  • Magic Mirror

    Mickey Friedman

  • The Magic Mirror

    Algernon Blackwood

  • Magic Embrace

    Jennifer Horsman

    When the infamous pirate Black Garrett learned his brother had been murdered because of a flirtatious chit, the surly rogue swore revenge. Tracking down the worthless wench, Garrett stole her aboard his vessel, planning to ruin her reputation and use...

  • Mademoiselle

    Merle Jones

  • MacV

    Eric Helm

  • Lovers and Deceivers

    Jolene Prewit-Parker

    Obsessive businessman Marsh Trayburn turns to his neglected wife and family to help him save his cherished mill when it becomes obvious that someone is feeding his enemies information about the mill's operation...

  • Lovers

    Carmel B. Reingold

    A married, successful writer and an independent single woman fall unexpectedly and deeply in love during a chance meeting at a summer, beachside party, and each must wrestle with the love and guilt they feel to reach a decision about the fate of thei...

  • Love: Poems

    Danielle Steel

    This is a special book about special people.  People who have loved me, and whom I have loved.  People who have brought me joy beyond measure, and sometimes incredible pain.  People I have hurt, sometimes more than I can...

  • Love This Stranger

    Linda Shaw

    Mary Smith was on the run. A tangled case of mistaken identity allowed her to escape to an Austrian chateau, assume a new career and hide from past entanglements. Or so she thought. But Dr. Jed Kilpatrick knew Mary was an impostor. And once he had to...

  • Love Not Dishonour

    Sara Wood

    Lucy was ready to do battle. After her younger sister Selina's frantic call, Lucy had flown to Italy immediately to confront Massimo Mazzardi, Selina's blackmailing boss. But Selina's plotting left Lucy stranded--apparently in the wrong--and at...

  • Love Is Not Enough

    Marilyn Levy

    A visit to her boyfriend's ritzy beachfront home becomes an eye-opening occasion for Delphi, a seventeen-year-old half-African-American, half-Greek who is comfortable with herself until she meets Nick's parents...

  • Love and Money

    Ruth Harris

  • Lottie's Circus

    Joan W. Blos