Books Published in July 1990

New Books List: 432 titles

  • Young Indiana Jones and the Tomb of Terror

    Les Martin

    BLOOD-CHILLING ADVENTURE IN SUN-BAKED EGYPT! Young Indiana Jones has some questions: Where did a street kid get a priceless gold ring? Why does a German archaeologist say the Pharoah's tomb is empty? What lies beneath the trapdoor in the Valley of t...

  • The Young Astronauts

    Rick North

    Athletic Nathan, whose motley crew of boys and girls has reached the semifinals in the United Nations' Mars program, struggles to help them learn the skills they will need to win the coveted roles as young colonizers of the Red Planet...

  • Yankee Lover

    Beverly Barton

    TO ARMS John Mason knew better than to make a wager with a lady. Ladies, he'd learned, didn't play fair. But the chance to win a date with the sultry Southern belle perched daintily in the county fair's dunking booth made the bet worth taking. ...

  • Wondermonger

    Michael Rothschild

  • A Woman's Work

    Laura Leone

    Marla had learned an important lesson for a woman in a man's world -- never get too close to a client. With her job hanging by a thread, she had to resist the sexy, irreverent sporting-goods king who'd just handed her his multi-million dollar account...

  • With No Regrets

    Lisa Jackson

    As far as cynical attorney Jack McGowan was concerned, he couldn't have much sympathy for a woman who'd chosen to marry his filthy-rich sworn enemy. He would represent Kimberly Bennett in her desperate child-custody battle -- and he would tas...

  • The Witch of the Low Tide

    John Dickson Carr

    A man fears his beloved is not who she claims to be in this sophisticated puzzler by John Dickson Carr, a master of the British-style detective novelDavid Garth has just stepped off the train at Charing Cross when he is summoned to Scotland Yard to a...

  • Winterfire

    Lois Faye Dyer

    THE COWBOY AND THE LADY Hers was the face that had launched million-dollar ad campaigns, the smile that lit the covers of popular fashion magazines. But New York model Ashley Tierney was tired of the superficial life before the camera's lens. She ...

  • Wind Child

    Nancy Harding

    The laws of her people decreed that men should rule -- and women obey. She would defy every tradition. Born to an ancient nomad tribe of the steppes, beautiful, blue-eyed Arima was the Scythian chief's proud daughter. Yet she would go to the tent ...

  • Wilkes for the Defense

    Winston Schoonover

    This first novel is an acidly hilarious view of justice in action, but many readers will find it disrespectful, vulgar and foul. In a bizarre cross between Rumpole of the Bailey and mud wrestling, Schoonover writes himself in as the legal sidekick of...

  • The Wild Sweet Witch

    Philip Mason

    A novel describing the changes that came to India during the last years of the Raj, through three generations of a single family in northern India. The author has written several books under the pseudonym "Philip Woodruff", including "The Men Who Rul...

  • Wild Card

    Don Pendleton

    WINNER TAKE ALL A quick strike on a new cocaine pipeline flooding Miami puts Mack Bolan in the middle of a pressure cooker ready to explode. And the Executioner wants to make sure the right people burn. Mafia-backed bikers, the DEA, their FBI w...

  • Wild America

    Jayne Loader

  • Widow's Fire

    Elizabeth Chadwick (1)

    With a herd of ornery cattle and the threat of rustlers to contend with, the last thing Justin Harte needed on roundup was a woman. And a widow woman at that. But as he looked into Anne McAuliffe's beguiling eyes his troubles were only beginning. Ann...

  • Who Likes Rain?

    Tiffany Passwaters

  • Where's Patti?

    Susan Saunders

    While visiting Stephanie's grandmother, Nana, the Sleepover Friends plan to participate in the contests at the big local festival with Nana's neighbors, Mindy Sue and the Tyler twins, but their plans are upset by Patti's conflict with Mindy Sue...

  • Wet Paint, a Color Story

    Michaela Muntean

  • The Way Back Home

    Emilie Richards

    ALIAS ANNA FITZGERALD... There was danger in Anna Fitzgerald's past--and there would be danger in her future, too, if anyone ever discovered she was really Rosie Jensen. As a teenager, she'd fled from an impossible situation, only to discover t...

  • Waltzing in the Attic

    P.B. Parris

    Isolated on a Nebraska farm, Hannah Meier's life has been scarred for fifty years by abuse from succeeding generations of men in her family and by the care of her bitter crippled sister, but Hannah's human spirit endures...

  • Walks Without a Soul

    George W. Proctor

    Hunting down the Comanche raiders who killed his infant daughter and kidnapped his remaining family members, Nate Wagoner journeys through a hostile land where he obtains the name, "Walks Without a Soul." Reprint. AB. LJ. ...

  • Walk Upon the Wind

    Christine Flynn

    Nicole Stewart's refined life had not prepared her for the likes of brawny Aaron Wilde, the uncivilized he-man sailing her to the Bahamas. Nor did it prepare her for shipwreck -- on an uncharted isle -- in the Bermuda Triangle! With her clothes a...

  • The Wailing Winds of Juneau Abbey

    Peggy Darty

    Abby Whitaker knew the true meaning of grief and loneliness. Young, poor, and tragically widowed, she had little hope of finding happiness until a surprising letter arrived - and changed her life. Her uncle, the black sheep of the family and a seeker...

  • Voice of the Planet

    Michael Tobias

    Disillusioned with his work and tormented by mysterious messages, ecologist William Hope Planter travels to a Buddhist monastery at the base of Everest intending to reevaluate his life, but he is soon drawn into the world of Gaia, the spirit of Earth...

  • A Vision of Light

    Judith Merkle Riley

    A VISION._ ...of 14th-century England-a time of crude country villages, brawling towns, and splendid cities teeming with untold riches and strange wonders. A VISION... ...of demons and angels, simpletons, holy flagellants, and fools... of travel...

  • The Viking's Woman

    Heather Graham

    HER WILD SPIRIT MADE HIM CRAVE HER Her firebrand hair blazed as glorious as a sunrise. Her long limbs promised the sweet mysteries of the night. Rhiannon, King Alfred's favorite niece, was enraged when her uncle sealed an alliance of war by pl...

  • Very Best Christmas Present

    Jim Razzi

  • Venus de Molly

    Peggy Webb

    GODDESS OF LOVE Respectable banker Samuel Adams was horrified when his mother announced plans to marry Molly Rakestraw's father. Carefree, golden beauty Molly, world renowned as the model for the artistic masterpiece Venus de Molly, would raise ey...

  • Vengeance Road

    Jake Logan

  • A Vase for a Flower

    Denny Pinkus

  • Utrillo's Mother

    Sarah Bayliss

  • Up the Junction

    Nell Dunn

    The girls - Rube, Lily and Sylvie - work at McCrindle's sweet factory during the week and on Saturday they go up the Junction in their clattering stilettos, think about new frocks on H.P., drink tea in the cafe, and talk about their boyfriends. In th...

  • Until Proven Innocent

    Susan Kelly

    Tall, red-haired Liz Connors is a former college professor turned crime writer who is expert at digging up details even the cops couldn't find. This time she has to: her lover, Detective Lieutenant Jack Lingemann, is being held without bail on a ...

  • Under Lock and Key

    Cassie Miles

    The past was shrouded in mystery Mollie Locke had always refused interviews regarding her father, a world-famous writer. She wasn't about to bend the rules for Dr. Flynn Carlson -- even if he was the official biographer assigned by her father's es...

  • Twins

    Roxanne Pulitzer

    A fairy-tale marriage to jet-setter Dexter gains Anne Graham entrance to the exclusive Palm Beach society, but Dexter's lust, greed, and vengeance destroy Anne and send their twin daughters, Carrie and Gracie, on a collision course with fate...

  • Tweety and Sylvester

    Darrell Baker

  • Tug of War

    Joan Lingard

    AS the Second World War progresses, twins Astra and Hugo are forced to leave their home in Latvia. With their family, they take to the roads as refugees, but then Hugo is injured and separated from the others. Brother and sister are torn apart.  ...

  • Trouble in a Fur Coat

    Janette Oke

    Trust Janette Oke to bring you the warmest, most beguiling creatures animal friends that millions of children fall immediately in love with. And Trouble In a Fur Coat is no exception. Here, you'll meet Natook and Kimwa, two adorable bear cubs and s...

  • Trip to the Planets

    Lucille Hammond

  • The Tree

    Judy Hindley

  • Treasures

    Johanna Kingsley

    From the golden decadence of Paris, Tokyo, Rome, and Thailand to the diamond-edged dazzle of New York, stunningly lovely Pietra “Pete” D’Angeli is the most sought-after jewelry designer of the decade. But even her glittering success cannot make...

  • Treasure Hunt

    Liza Alexander

  • Treason in Time

    Keith William Andrews

  • Trapped

    Margaret Mayo

    She was her own boss now And as far as Candra Drake was concerned, things would stay that way. She loved the freedom her narrow-boat home gave her, and she was determined to pursue her career as a company secretary without bowing to the influen...

  • The Trail of the Screaming Teenager

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Help! Someone's a thief. It's a hot summer day at the beach. The sand is crammed with bodies. Arno the killer kindergarten kid is building an apartment complex on his mother's feet. Somewhere a teenager is screaming. Who has stolen Gladys-Mindy's ...

  • Tower of Power

    Robert Loren Fleming

    The G.I. Joes must go into action when the evil group, COBRA, takes over the Eiffel Tower and uses it to create a magnetic force designed to pull down the space shuttle carrying the President of the U.S....

  • Tough Baby

    Jesse Sublett

    Martin Fender, the sleuthing bass player seen in Rock Critic Murders , is back in a sequel that reads well but doesn't match the tension of Sublett's first. Upon returning to Austin, Tex., after a grueling road trip with his band, Fender downs a drug...

  • To Speak for the Dead

    Paul Levine

    Miami trail lawyer Jake Lassiter, "ex-football player, ex-public defender, ex-a-lot-of-things," is defending Dr. Roger Salisbury, a surgeon and womanizer charged with malpractice in the death of wealthy Philip Corrigan. But the dead man's daughter in...

  • Tiny Toon Adventures: Rock `n' Roar

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • Till the End of Time

    Allen Appel

    Despite his seemingly normal life, history teacher Alex Balfour possesses a unique genetic predisposition to transcend the barriers of time, journeying back to 1945, where he is faced with the dilemma of whether or not to prevent the bombing of Hiros...

  • Through the Looking Glass

    Kay Hooper

    THE MAN IN HER MIRROR... He was a financial wizard, a driven rogue with a Midas touch, but Gideon Hughes had no interest in keeping the run-down Wonderland carnival he'd inherited -- until an enchantress with spun-silver hair presented him with a ...

  • Throne of Fools

    Adrian Cole

    THE EPIC ADVENTURE CONTINUES -- A BREATHTAKING STRUGGLE OF GOOD AGAINST EVIL IN A WORLD OF DARK AND TERRIBLE SECRETS THE OMARAN SAGA The wicked city of Xennidhum has fallen -- and Simon Wargallow believes his world is saved. But now Quanar Remoon...

  • This Wild Heart

    Patricia Pellicane

    SHE COULDN'T TRUST HIM Beautiful Morgan Wainwright was eager to trade her New York townhouse for the rangelands of Nevada, where she'd inherited a half-share in the Red Rock Ranch. But then Morgan met her darkly handsome partner, the half-Indian, a...

  • These Things Happen

    Marian Thurm

  • That Man Next Door

    Judith Bowen

    LOVE THY NEIGHBOR Only one stretch of stony soil -- and one stubborn woman -- prevented Ben Wade from realizing the dream of owning his mountain retreat. But he intended to purchase that land -- even if it meant marrying the new owner! Caitlin ...

  • That Bloody Bozeman Trail // Stagecoach West

    Frank Bonham

  • Texas! Lucky

    Sandra Brown

    Lucky Tyler attracted trouble--and women--like a lightning rod. But the night he stepped in to rescue a mysterious redhead in a seedy bar, he got more than he bargained for! The lady excited him, challenged him, drove him wild with desire--then vanis...

  • Tent Show

    Susan Saunders

    One memorable summer afternoon in a small town, a girl who is disgusted that her older sister is marrying and settling down listens to a story told by a contemporary of her grandmother's, and from that moment on views life a little differently....

  • Temperature's Rising

    Susan Gayle

    He'd schemed his way into her heart Nurse Kyla Bradford had seen plenty of sick people, and Ted Spencer wasn't one of them. In fact, he was the healthiest male specimen she'd ever encountered -- and one of the sneakiest! Ted was a repo...

  • Tattercoats

    Margaret Greaves

  • A Taste of Heaven

    Emma Richmond

    Dries du Vaal wasn't overjoyed at her message Bryony had come in person to tell him that his niece Clare - who should have been at her Swiss finishing school - had joined Bryony's brother Daniel on a trip to the Far East. She hadn'...

  • The Taboo Scarf and Other Tales

    George Weinberg

    Every decade, a rare work of nonfiction comes along that offers readers an intimate and compelling glimpse of the deep secrets of behind the wondrous human psyche. George Weinberg's The Taboo Scarf and Other Tales of Therapy is such a book, a stunni...

  • T J. and the Pirate Who Wouldn't Go Home

    Carol Gorman

    T.J.'s eccentric Uncle Ainsley builds a time machine that accidently brings a pirate from 1690 to the present, and the pirate, Captain Billy, is having such a good time in the modern world that he refuses to return to his own time...

  • Sweet Conquest

    Marsha Bauer

    THAT KIND OF WOMAN When gunslinger Clay Weston came upon a scantily clad beauty in the California wilderness, he could only conclude the obvious -- and he was eager to accommodate this lady of the evening. The brazen blonde challenged him to a wrest...

  • Sun Kissed

    Stephanie St. Pierre

    Even though it was her idea to break up with her boyfriend, Jessie Slater can’t help feeling jealous when he starts dating another girl. So she’s delighted when her grandmother invites her down to Florida over spring break " until she learns th...

  • The Summer House Cat

    Michele Granger

  • Suitable for Framing

    Aimee Thurlo

    Murder... The ugly accusation made Ann Dixon's life a nightmare. She hadn't done anything wrong, but the evidence against her was damning. For her son's sake, Ann needed to prove her innocence quickly, and get their lives back to normal. For as th...

  • Such Visitors

    Angela Huth

    The characters in Angela Huth's marvellous collection of stories are all winners or losers in the game of love: from the two friends competing in a gruelling cross-country marathon for the man they both wish to marry, to the lonely Cheltenham wid...

  • Strike Fighters

    Tom Willard

  • Story of Christmas

    Paul Fehlner

  • The Stone Dogs

    S.M. Stirling

  • Stealing Josh

    Susan Blake

    The only thing Andrea likes about moving back to her widowed father's rural hometown is that she can see her best friend, Lisa, again, but when she falls for Lisa's boyfriend, Josh, her most precious friendship is threatened...

  • Starstrike

    W. Michael Gear

    SPACE WARS First contact had been an event some humans had dreamed of, others had dreaded, and still others believed would never happen. When it finally did, no one was prepared for when the Ahimsa came, the course of human destiny was changed in ...

  • Stars, Moon and Clouds

    Eugene Bradley Coco

  • Stardust

    Robert B. Parker

    Spenser's never had a client like Jill Joyce, the star of TV's Fifty Minutes. She's beautiful, bitchy, sexy -- and someone is stalking her. Spenser can hardly blame the would-be assassin ... until he learns the true meaning of "stage fright."...

  • Stacey and the Mystery of Stoneybrook

    Ann M. Martin

    Stacey and the Baby-Sitters investigate a spooky old house in this mystery from the classic hit series.To a New York City girl like Stacey, the fact that an old -- supposedly haunted -- house in Stoneybrook is being torn down is no big deal. But then...

  • St. Louis Fire

    Joseph Meek

  • Spooky House: Glow in the Dark

    Joanne Barkan

  • The Spanish Prize

    Joanna Makepeace

    Doa Maria Santiago y Talavera understood only too well what the corsair threatened. Despatched by her uncle to Cartagena, to marry her betrothed, Maria had rebelled against a loveless arranged match to a cold-hearted and autocratic Spanish hidalg...

  • Space Vectors

    Robert E. Vardeman

    A world shattered into fragments and a planetoid-sized space station laid to waste. Then came the real threat. An entire alien race is dying as the humans fight among themselves for superiority.Can Jerome Walden and his AI-enhanced dog Egad save an...

  • Space Dreadnoughts

    David Drake

    Massive and arrogant, they patrol the final war zone - deep space. All great battleships before them - the celebrated fleet of the Spanish Armada, the mighty gunboats of the British Navy - are mere toys in comparision. In their armoured bellies swarm...

  • Southern Hospitality

    Sally Falcon

    NORTHERN CHARM, SOUTHERN PASSION As far as Logan Herrington was concerned, civilization did not exist beyond the city limits of Boston. When Preston Herrington sent his heir-apparent south on a three-month assignment for Rally Driver magazine, Log...

  • South Lies the Valley

    Veronica Sweeney

    Fleeing tragedy and the turmoil of the 1866 Fenian uprising in Ireland to seek sanctuary in her native Australia, Katherine Carron finds her family threatened by violence and her own grief undermined by the arrival of Brendan Kelehan...

  • Sons of the Titans

    Patrick H. Adkins

    Kronos had killed his children to secure his power against the threat of prophecy, but now the child he unknowingly spared, Zeus, is ready to claim the throne of the Titans--unless his appetite for dangerous women destroys him...

  • Songs of the Dancing Gods

    Jack L. Chalker

    The evil Dark Baron has escaped and joined forces in the far North with the Master of the Dead to theaten all of Husaquahr with enslavement. Only Joe can stop them -- but Joe is no longer quite himself. In fact, he's not sure who he is!...

  • Somebody Sing

    Tom Leopold

  • The Some-Day Country

    Luke Short

    Lieutenant Scott Milham must put down an uprising when a band of homesteaders and rancher Jess Hovey battle each other--as well as the law and the Cherokees--for a prime piece of Cherokee land in the Kansas Territory...

  • Soldier's Joy

    Madison Smartt Bell

    A man returns home from Vietnam to his now abandoned family homestead outside of Nashville, suffering from a serious psychological wound incurred in combat. He meets up with a childhood friend who is black, and together they battle against a platoon ...

  • Snakes in the Garden

    Leonard S. Whiteley

    Egotistical Florida realtor and philanderer Thomas Clay becomes the principal suspect in the shooting death of his grandfather, when his alibi--his business partner's wife--denies being with him on the night of the murder...

  • Skeletons

    Eric Sauter

    The murder of his lover sets Philadelphia cop Patrick Paige on the trail of a psychopath in this superbly frightening suspense novel. Paige had been tracking the killer, Edward Grant, for years--but for his brilliant burglaries. Now that Grant has ad...

  • Silver Linings

    Helen Conrad (1)

    A DAUGHTER OF THE SOUTH MARRIES FOR LOVE BUT LIVES IN DESPAIR IN A DISTANT LAND.... Claire Montgomery is the refined Southern wife of an ambitious petroleum engineer who whisks her and their two children off to live in Saudi Arabia. There, life beco...

  • Silver Gifts, Golden Dreams

    Megan Alexander

    Erica Hunter had big plans Now that the children had flown the nest, she and Brad would build their dream house. Erica would launch her interior design career. And, after twenty-five years of marriage, she and Brad would finally have their privacy...

  • Shoot-Out at Crossfork

    J.R. Roberts

    No one in Crossfork Landing would dare call Powder River Bill Beedle a liar...he just stretches the truth a mite sometimes. Still, Clint Adams counted Bill as a friend-he'd trust him with his life, if necessary. But the Gunsmith isn't so sure abou...

  • Shifter

    Garfield Reeves-Stevens

    Galen Sword was known as a rick NYC playboy. The public didn't know his Porsche contained state of the art equipment designed to track down an extraordinary creatue , or that Galen was actually on a dangerous quest to find another world...his world....

  • Shards

    Jo Bannister

    A.K.A. - CRITICAL ANGLE They've been inseparable partners ever since the day Gil Todd, a renowned British reporter for over thirty-five years, hauled a drunken Mickey Flynn out of a New York City bar and helped him become one of the world's most r...

  • Shadow Mountain

    Harriet Segal

    Spanning the years of the Great Depression and World War II, this saga of a Southern Jewish family moves from New York to Paris, from Monte Carlo to London, but always it returns to its main setting, the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
    A B...

  • Separate Cases

    Robert J. Randisi

    Miles Jacoby misses his days in the boxing ring and wonders--after a humiliating confrontation with a prosecutor--whether he's qualified to work as a private investigator. Two cases have landed in his lap, and neither is going anywhere. One invol...

  • Self Portrait with Wings

    Susan Green

  • Secret Whispers

    Anne Beaumont

    Burying the past gave birth to the future Gaby returned to Shorelands, the ancestral home of her youth, to make peace with Justin's memory. She had to put thoughts of her childhood sweetheart behind her before marrying Harry. Gaby didn'...

  • Secret Sixguns

    Jon Sharpe

    When Skye Fargo is sent to investigate the strange disappearance of his old friend, Doc Emerson, he comes face-to-face with a mysterious black-clad gunman who is able to vanish without a trace....

  • Secret Lives

    Max Egremont

    Although Layburn, Bligh, and Loftus, are all affected by their stay at Cragham, Layburn's luxurious estate, it is Loftus whose life is changed the most after he stumbles upon Layburn's dead wife's diary which reveals the secrets of her marriage and l...

  • Searcher

    Josh Edwards

    Searching for his missing fiancee and suspecting she might have made her way to Texas, John Stone takes on a job escorting a settlers' wagon train that is headed there, fighting for his life against Indians, outlaws, and uncompromising thirst along t...

  • Sea Lion

    Franklin Allen Leib

    Lured by great wealth waiting to be plucked by daring financiers, major American and European banks grapple for profits in the glass towers of Hong Kong and its neighbors. One of the most respected "Lions" is Holden Chambers, who has a subtle appreci...

  • The Screaming Knife

    Robert E. Vardeman

    ECHOES OF TERROR Peter Thorne's astonishing psychic ability has led the San Francisco Police Department to several killers in the past. But now a particularly horrific homicide has placed him on a dangerous collision course with an elusive fiend--...

  • The School

    T.M. Wright

    Working together to transform an abandoned old public school into a bed-and-breakfast, Frank and Allison Hitchcock soon feel the ghosts of the hallways, including the vengeful spirit of a teacher. Harry Briggs led a fairly normal life, but now h...

  • Savage Season

    Joe R. Lansdale

    To the legion of readers made captive by master author Joe R. Lansdale--creator of Mucho Mojo and The Two Bear Mambo--the rose fields of LaBorde, Texas, evoke one thing only: home turf of Hap Collins, survivor who can't quite lose his white trash reb...

  • Saturday's Child

    Dallas Schulze

    Daughter of immigrants, child of the footlights, San Francisco seamstress Katie McBride has never known a day without work. Her industry finds its rewards when she's hired to sew the trousseau for the Nob Hill wedding of the 1905 season. Former Ro...

  • The Santa Fe Ring

    Clay Dawson

  • Running Scared

    Jenny Arden

    Elfin didn't want Garel in her life He'd caused her too much unhappiness the first time. To think he'd had the gall to barge into her calm, well-ordered life for the second time unnerved her. A lot of water had flowed under the brid...

  • Run Wild With Me

    Sandra Chastain

    The Defiant Drifter... He was a wicked-looking cowboy seeking refuge in the stormy night, a stranger in a town where outsiders weren't welcome--but when Andrea Fleming tried to arrest the man who'd broken into the empty house, Sam Farley threw her...

  • Rules of the Road

    Lucian K. Truscott IV

    While visiting his small Ohio hometown, Sam Butterfield, a young Army lieutenant recently returned from a tour of duty in Germany, finds himself caught in a web of political corruption and sexual blackmail after he steps in to stop the brutal beating...

  • Rounded With Sleep

    Rob Chilson

  • Rosie's Popularity Plan

    Carrie Austen

    Despite the misgivings of her friends, Rosie agrees to have the Party Line organize a party for the crabby and universally unpopular Jennifer Peterson, but Rosie has a complicated secret plan to make the party a success...

  • Roses Love Sunshine

    David M. Pierce

    A thriller, featuring a private investigator who is funny, imperfect, compassionate, attractive and no fool. In the course of finding out why a burglar would break into a photographer's workshop without taking anything, he meets an attractive TV news...

  • The Rogue and the Runaway

    Mary Jo Putney

    MISCHIEF FOR MAXIMA Dark-haired and daring Miss Maxima Collins found it hard to play by the Regency rules. She far preferred the free and easy ways of her native America to the straitjacket of aristocratic English manners and morals. But when ...

  • Robocop II: The Movie

    Alan Grant

  • Rio Grande Revenge

    Chet Cunningham

    In jail for cutting up a gringo in a fair fight, Juan Romero now rides with the outlaws! He's been with them since leaving his wife and young son behind in Mexico. On his return he finds them taken prisoner by a murderous officer of the Federales. Th...

  • Riding in Cars With Boys

    Beverly Donofrio

    Denied college, Beverly Donofrio lost interest in everything but riding around town in cars, drinking and smoking, and rebelling against authority. She got married and divorced and finally ended up in an elite New England university, books in one arm...

  • Riders of the Silver Rim

    Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene

  • Rhanna

    Christine Marion Fraser

    On a bitter winter night in 1923, farmer Fergus McKenzie loses his beloved wife in childbirth. Overcome with grief, he refuses to see his baby daughter, Shona. So the islanders of Rhanna gather round Shona to give her the care she needs....

  • Revolution's Shore

    Alis A. Rasmussen

    DRIVEN BY VENGEANCE, HONOR, AND LOVE, SHE DARED THE VAST REACHES OF SPACE TO BATTLE FOR FREEDOM Forsaking her highborn family, Lily Ransome set out on a star-flung journey of danger and discovery, and won the heart of Hawk Kyosti, a handsome near-...

  • Return to War

    P.M. Griffin

    Connor, Karmikel, and their former unit had served on the planet Anath for several months during the War. Now, they and their current comrades are back in response to a call for aid to combat another invasion. This time, the enemies are Britynons, ol...

  • Return of the Unicorn

    Suzanne Lord

    When Dragon loses his ability to breath fire, Beldin the unicorn and the rest of his friends set out to find the cure, in an adventure tale that also includes a series of puzzles for the reader to solve...

  • Respected Sir

    Naguib Mahfouz

    In Respected Sir, Mahfouz retells a familiar theme -- vaulting ambition -- in a powerful and religious metaphor. Othman Bayuumi's humble origins do not stop him from coveting the Director-Generalship of the governmental department he has entered as a...

  • Rats

    Page McBrier

  • The Ramsey's Badge

    Will McLennan

    Sickened by the cowardly citizens of Plentiful and spurned by the only inhabitant with any backbone, the lovely and willful Tucker, Kyle Ramsey is prepared to leave the pitiful town behind until a band of desperados kidnaps Tucker...

  • The Race for God

    Brian Herbert

    God, it turns out, lives on the planet Tananius-Ofo in the distant galaxy 722C12009. And now, after countless millennia, He's invited us to come visit Him. Not everybody, mind you. Just an odd assortment of heathens, heriticts, pantheists, perverts a...

  • Prospector's Gold/Canyon Walls

    Zane Grey

    In "Prospector's Gold," the fatal flaw of a loner and desert man could be his undying love for a woman, and in "Canyon Walls," Smoke Bellows leaves behind a shady past in Arizona to start fresh as a ranch hand in Utah...

  • A Private Kind of War

    Harold Schofield

  • Private Eyes

    Charlotte Hughes

    The Very Private Investigator... With his dark gaze and daredevil looks, private eye Jack Sloan was tough to get along with, tough to get to know, but he was the best at doing a dirty job. When his partner asked him to train his niece, Jack took o...

  • The Presence

    T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    A Small-Town Lawyer. Big-City Corruption. Can One Person Truly Make a Difference? T. J. Case, a North Carolina lawyer and politician, takes a stand of integrity that costs him his election. As he considers his future, a morning of quiet reflec...

  • Portal of the Wind

    Shizuko Natsuki

    It begins with a murder that seems never to have happened... A famous Japanese artist is hacked to death by a rejected apprentice. A young man dies in a traffic accident that may or may not have been suicide. A young woman sees a photograph in a m...

  • Poor Cow

    Nell Dunn

    Joy - also called Blossom, Sunshine and Blondie by the men in her life - walks down Fulham Broadway carrying her week-old baby, Jonny. She is twenty-one, with bleached hair, high suede shoes, and a head full of dreams. Her husband Tom is a thief and ...

  • Pirate's Legacy

    Clare Richmond

    A LEGACY OF BETRAYAL... The search for justice drew Abby Heatherington to the magnificent Louisiana plantation, The Prize of India. But something stronger drew her to its owner, Carter Forbes. During the Civil War, Abby's great-great-great aun...

  • Phule's Company

    Robert Asprin

    The Few. The Proud. The Stupid. The Inept. Meet the soldiers of Phule's Company. They do more damage before 9:oo A.M. than most people do all day... And they're mankind's last hope....

  • Perry Mason in the Case of the Burning Bequest

    Thomas Chastain

  • Permanent Errors

    Reynolds Price

    PERMANENT ERRORS First published early in Reynolds Price's career, here is a marvelous collection of stories revolving around those decisive moments in our lives when an act, a statement-or perhaps the withholding of either-determines a loss we will ...

  • Perish in July

    Mollie Hardwick

    Light comedy suddenly turns to dark murder when personalities clash in the parish production of Gilbert and Sullivan. Now antique dealer Doran Fairweather, to distract herself from a crisis in her marriage to ex-vicar Rodney Chelmarsh, immerses herse...

  • The Perfect Hero

    Christopher Matthew

    When fighter pilot Hugh Fleming is shot down in the Battle of Britain, his life seems devastated by his burns and disfigurement. During his time in hospital, however, his personality changes and matures as he becomes aware of his physical limitations...

  • Passage Home

    Alison McLeay

    FATE BROUGHT A STRANGER TO HER SHORE...AND SWEPT HER INTO AN ADVENTURE NO WOMAN COULD RESIST BUT FEW COULD SURVIVE Like the sea she loved, Adam Gaunt was a compelling force, sweeping Rachel Dean far from her proper home in Victorian England to th...

  • The Parade

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Paper Doll

    Elizabeth Feuer

  • Panda's New Pet

    Michael Berenstain

  • Panama Dead

    Mike McQuay

  • Painted Lady

    Maura Seger

    Woman of mystery... SHE WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN HE'D EVER SEEN... Life on picturesque Block Island was quiet and serene. Until the day historian Giles Chastain literally collided with chic Manhattan photographer Petra O'Toole and s...

  • The Pact

    Alice Raymond

    THE CURSE A 300-year-old covenant signed in blood defiling the souls of the innocent. A foul, unholy alliance with the forces of evil borne from the dying screams of… THE SORCERESS Mercy Parton, a godless vixen with desires so unspeakably ...

  • The Oxygen Barons

    Gregory Feeley

  • Outcasts

    Clayton Emery

    In the beginning, the rune swords were created…and were lost. Forged by dwarves and tempered in the blood of a god, these magnificent blades hold a devastating power that only the Dark Lord himself would dare to wield. Now, the swords must b...

  • Out of Sync

    Isidore Haiblum

  • The Other Mother

    Pamela Jerrold

    Disaster had struck Caitlin O'Shea. Her abruptly widowed sister had bailed out of her commitment to impending parenthood, leaving Caitlin, the surrogate mother, holding the baby! Cait had always claimed women could go it alone-now she'd have to prove...

  • The Orange Fish

    Carol Shields

    A superb collection of short stories from the author of The Stone Diaries, winner of the Governor General's Award.Emerging from these twelve beautifully articulated stories are portraits of men and women whose affairs and recoveries in life take us i...

  • The Open Range Men

    Lauran Paine

  • One Girl at a Time

    Roberta Leigh

    Tansy had met Vin Makram before The first time he'd become irate after hearing her bad-mouth the goods in his store in Thailand. So it was embarrassing to unexpectedly discover, on their second meeting, that he was both a leading businessm...

  • Off Limits

    Doris Parmett

    The Handsome Heartbreaker... He was a devastating charmer, a hunk with brains who made television screens melt when he seduced his gorgeous siren costar on their top-rated weekly show. Joe Michaels and Liz Davis were dynamite together when the cam...

  • Not Easy

    Lass Small

    A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND When medical photographer Penelope Rutherford arrived at the police station to report her missing camera, she never dreamed she'd find herself attracted to Winslow homer, the ruggedly appealing detective assigned to her ...

  • No Sweeter Ecstasy

    Phoebe Conn

    TERMS OF SURRENDER When Marc Aragon saw the half-naked blonde climbing out of the window of a San Francisco brothel, the handsome sea captain happily caught the delightful bundle of golden curls and silken flesh in his arms. But he ended up with mor...

  • No Regrets

    Kathryn Ross

    Heather had reason to feel confident She'd managed to carve out a successful career as an advertising executive, despite the difficulties of being a single parent. She knew she could handle her latest assignment. Then she learned that the c...

  • No Hiding Place

    Brooke Sinclair

    BEHIND CLOSED DOORS When the agency van pulled up in front of the small antique shop on Cape Cod, Dr. Matthew Stone was not impressed. He found it hard to believe that this quaint little store could serve as a safehouse for him. And he doubted tha...

  • No Accounting for Love

    Eva Rutland

    She refused to be one of those women! Cindy Rogers absolutely would not join the crowd of women drifting through her boss's office door. Though she understood why they did. Clay Kencade was undeniably attractive. Successful. And wealthy. Bu...

  • Ninja Gaid

    F.X. Nine

  • The Nightmare People

    Lawrence Watt-Evans

    When all of Edward J. Smith's neighbors disappear one day, both he and the police are understandably perturbed, but upon their eventual return, Edward notices subtle differences in his neighbors that lead him to believe they have become zombies...

  • Nighthawk

    J.T. Edson

  • Night Stalkers

    Duncan Long

  • Night of Dragons

    R.A.V. Salsitz

    Princess Sharlin, her husband Dar, and Turiana, the golden dragon queen, race against time to find Balforth, Sharlin and Dar's infant son, before the evil Baalan can use the baby in a horrifying blood ritual...

  • Night Fires

    Sandra Marton

    What did he want with her? To Gabrielle Shelton, her flower shop in New Orleans was a refuge she badly needed--a refuge from her past. So even though James Forrester had rescued her from a nasty accident, she couldn't welcome him into her life...

  • Next of Kin

    Carly Mcintyre

    From the steamy bordellos of turn-of-the-century New Orleans to the glitter of upper-crust New York society, three women--Callie Chenier, Honey Winslow, and Tessa Fitzgerald--are bound by passion and divided by a dark legacy of violence, intrigue, ma...

  • The New Kate

    Susan Saunders

  • New Frontiers

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Nemesis

    Rosamond Smith

    A series of unexplained deaths in an academic community could be the work of a killer looking for revenge when an eminent professor, accused of raping a male graduate student, escapes unpunished for his crime...

  • Navy Seals

    James B. Adair

    After the SEAL Team, an elite commando unit of the Navy, saves a man's life instead of destroying stolen Stinger missles, it is assigned to a suicide mission--penetrate the Persian Gulf and destroy the missiles...

  • The Naked Eye

    William J. Reynolds

    The fifth explosive Nebraska crime novel, a Mystery Book of the Month Club Selection.After finishing a case in Minneapolis, private eye Nebraska gets into a fist-fight with a rich kid who has more money than brains. But what seems like a passing, unp...

  • The Mysterious World of Marcus Leadbeater

    Ivan Southall

  • My Sister, the Blabbermouth

    Jean Marzollo

    When Lisa's eavesdropping and little sister Julie's gossiping threaten to ruin a romance between their day camp director and a camp counselor, it is up to all the kids at camp to get the couple back together...

  • My Grandmother's Stories

    Adele Geras

  • My First Love, My Last

    Pat Warren

    I've taken Bobby. The threatening note plunged Nora Maddox into a living nightmare. Why had her unstable ex-husband kidnapped her son and disappeared into the treacherous Oregon wilderness? Could he be apprehended before Bobby got hurt? Rafe Sloan...

  • Mouse Mess

    Cyndy Szekeres

  • A Mouse in My House

    Nancy Van Laan

  • The Most Beautiful House in the World

    Witold Rybczynski

  • Mortal Words

    Kathryn Lasky Knight

    A fundamentalist heckler disrupts a sedate children's literature conference in Boston -- and hours later, award winning illustrator Calista Jacobs and one of her fellow panelists are the victims of vicious pranks. When the third member of the panel i...

  • The Moon Pool

    Richard Parsons

    A black comedy about the British Diplomatic Service, which takes a look at the corridors of power in the Foreign Office and gives an account of the in-fighting that takes place when the post of Foreign Ambassador to Washington falls vacant....

  • Mixed-Up Mice in the Big Birthday Mix-Up

    Robert Kraus

  • Mixed-Up Mice Clean House

    Robert Kraus

  • Midnight Magic // Luck Be A Lady

    Betina Krahn

    DETERMINED TO CONQUER Rane Austen watched his lovely nurse with a wary eye. He'd been in Devonshire long enough to know that luscious Charity Standing was widely believed to be a jinx. And he had nearly been killed by a smuggler's bullet just aft...

  • Middle Passage

    Charles Johnson

    A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Charles Johnson’s National Book Award-winning masterpiece -- "a novel in the tradition of Billy Budd and Moby-Dick…heroic in proportion…fiction that hooks the mind" (The New York Times Book Review) -- now w...

  • Mickey Mouse Scratch and Sniff Book

    Walt Disney

  • Mexican Bolero

    Angeles Mastretta

    Set in Mexico in the 1930s and 1940s, this book tells of a woman whose husband's corrupt rise to power disgusts her and prompts her to take a lover. The love affair is set within the framework of a corrupt political system, in which events are manipu...

  • The Metrognome and Other Stories

    Alan Dean Foster

    Forget what you thought you knew about the universe and enter the fantastic world of master storyteller Alan Dean Foster . . .
    OPERATOR ASSISTED CALLS ARE CHARGED AT A HIGHER RATE. Mr. Parkworthy had a score to settle with the telephone company, ...

  • Metal Gear

    F.X. Nine

  • A Merry Go-Around

    Coral Hoyle

    SHE was "flirting" with danger! Kate McClintock was an imposter. In order to help her father with his daring plan to restore his property and fortune, Kate agreed to pose as the celebrated courtesan the Contessa D' Allesandria of the ...

  • Merrie Christmas Drink Book

    James Carroll

  • Me and Brenda

    Philip Israel

  • Maverick

    Bruce Bethke

    TERRIFIC PAPERBACK FROM 1990! FIRST ACE EDITION! AMAZING SHAPE FOR ITS AGE! MANY PHOTOS ATTACHED! NO EDGE WEAR! SPINE HAS ONE CREASE AND A SMALL DING AT THE BOTTOM BINDING IS GREAT, STILL TIGHT! ALL ORDERS SHIP SAME DAY WITH TRACKING NUMBERS! clstwll...

  • Matthias

    Elsie J. Larson

  • Matter of Oaths

    Helen S. Wright

    Originally published in 1988, A Matter of Oaths is a space opera with heart, intergalactic intrigue and epic space battles.

    When Commander Rallya of the patrol ship Bhattya hires Rafe as their new Web officer, she knows she is taking a ris...

  • Mask of Passion

    Lucy Keane

    Nina somehow felt threatened by him She felt dominated by his height, his attitude, his sheer male presence. And just when she- thought she'd persuaded herself to forget about Hal Crayle. But here he was standing on the Greek island beach, ...

  • The Marshal's Own Case

    Magdalen Nabb

    The seventh Marshal Guarnaccia Investigation For the first time, Marshal Guarnaccia is assigned to be lead on a murder investigation. When the dismembered body of a beautiful woman turns out to be that of a transsexual prostitute, the marshal must le...

  • Marrying Harriet

    Marion Chesney

    'If you have a Wild, Unruly, or Undisciplined Daugher, two Ladies of Genteel Birth offer to Bring Out said Daughter and Refine what may have seemed Unrefinable. We can make the Best of the Worst' When Amy and Effie Tribble, two charming bu...

  • The Mark Twain Murders

    Edith Skom

    CHECKING OUT IN COLLEGE LIBRARY MAY BE PERMANENET...AND DEADLY! Skulduggery was afoot in the campus library at Midwestern University. Sinister students were razoring pages from periodicals and stealing obscure essays for term papers. A bookish thi...

  • March Violets

    Philip Kerr

    The brutality and corruption of Nazi Germany serve as the backdrop for this impressive debut mystery novel. Scottish-born Kerr re-creates the period accurately and with verve; the novel reeks of the sordid decade that saw Hitler's rise to power. Bern...

  • A Man for Maggie

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    IT WAS MIND OVER MATTER Love didn't affect Maggie Turner in the usual way. Instead of getting starry-eyed, Maggie got psychic static. No sooner had Dr. Ethan Baxter moved into her Monterey guest house than her long-dormant psychic gift ran riot...

  • Make Way for Dragons!

    Thorarinn Gunnarsson