Books Published in June 1981

New Books List: 292 titles

  • Some Time

    Tom Dardis

  • Columbine

    Ray Kennedy

  • Bo Rabbit Smart For True

    Priscilla Jaquith

  • The Evil Image: Two Centuries of Gothic Short Fiction and Poetry

    Patricia L. Skarda

  • Turnaround

    Don carpenter

  • The Breaking Earth

    Keith Laumer

    The earth gone mad... Always, beneath the calm surface of our planet, colossal forces are building up, and from time to time must find release; minor geological events such as the San Francisco earthquake, and the eruptions of Krakatoa and Mt. St. H...

  • The Thing at the Foot of the Bed

    Maria Leach

  • The Bartered Bridegroom

    Georgina Grey

    From the moment Judith laid eyes on her uncle's friend, Lord Harrow, she knew he was trouble. Things were already bad enough since she had involved herself in her uncle's sticky marriage arrangements She certainly did not need Lord Harrow's caustic a...

  • The New Breed

    Douglas Elliot

  • Man With a Falcon

    Caroline Martin

    They said he was in league with the Devil! Richenda shivered at the thought. Lord Devenish, a commander in the enemy Royalist army, was known for his cruelty and senseless plundering, his looting and burning of all that lay in his path. And now...

  • An Apple from Eve

    Betty Neels

    Love wasn't part of their bargain Renting their house was the only way Euphemia could salvage her family's muddled finances. If only the tenant had been someone she liked--anyone but Dr. Tane van Diederijk, that disturbingly abrupt man ......

  • Castle in Spain

    Margaret Rome

    Never again would she dance on stage Birdie's career as a ballerina was over, ruined by a fluke accident. Reeling from the shock, she let sympathetic friends lure her to the island of Menorca for a rest. It was there that Birdie met the Con...

  • Heart Under Siege

    Joy St. Clair

    She was strictly a one-man woman Gemma was stunned when she learned she'd been chosen as secretary-companion to a wealthy Kentucky horsewoman. For her crucial job interview with the woman's neighbor, Shade Lambert, had been a disaster. ...

  • Copper Lake

    Kay Thorpe

    She was committed to the crazy scheme Toni Bradbury pretended to be Sean's fiancée--not because she loved him, but to fool one particular person: Rafe Stewart, Sean's domineering stepbrother. Rafe deserved to be put down by a woman. He...

  • My Name Is Asher Lev-3

    Chaim Potok

  • Looking for Work

    Susan Cheever

  • Biorhythms in Your Life

    Daniel Cohen

    Good days and bad days are not coincidence. We all have them. If you have ever had the feeling that there was some sort of cycle operating within you, you are absolutely correct. There are cycles at work. Physical, mental, and emotional cycles. And t...

  • California and Other States of Grace

    Paul Theroux

    A journey back to California and her father's bedside prompts the noted writer to recall her California childhood and her studies and career in the East and to examine the customs and mores of California...

  • Falconhurst Fancy

    Kyle Onstott

  • Sun on the Wall

    Lee Leighton

  • The Cruiser

    Warren Tute

  • Solomon's Daughter

    C.E. Poverman

  • Other People

    Martin Amis

    "One of the most gifted novelists of his generation” (TIME) gives us a metaphysical literary mystery that is as ambitious as it is intriguing, an investigation of a young woman's violent extinction that also traces her construction of a new and odd...

  • The Bloodborn

    Robert Leckie

    The relief party arrived at the frontier settlement of Schenectady too late. All they found were smoldering ruins and the hideously butchered corpses of men and women. The French and Indian raiders had left only one living being behind -- a squalling...

  • Childmare

    A.G. Scott

  • Ruins of Kaldac

    Jeffrey Lord

  • A Sandition Quadrille

    Rebecca Baldwin

    TWO IS COMPANY -- FOUR IS A LOVE KNOT THAT NEEDS UNTANGLING! Spirited Miranda Brandywine knew that even though Charles Hartley was a poet and a dreamer, there was no reason for her father to stop the marriage. And gentle, lovely Emily Rockhall ...

  • Catherine

    Audrey Blanshard

    "CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND? I AM BEING SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER!" Poor lovely Catherine Ebford. Being forced by her guardian into a marriage she did not want. And so Catherine, a stubborn young woman with a head full of romantic notions (with th...

  • The Wild Harp

    Jacqueline La Tourrette

    ROSALEEN... She was the spirited daughter of a courageous woman who fled with her family from the Irish famine to the hope of America. Rosaleen never forgot the stormy past -- the past in which she huddled with her family on a Boston pier in that wi...

  • Paradise Wild

    Johanna Lindsey

    She taunted him, defied him, and forced him to reckless desire. Corinne Barrows's flashing emerald eyes bid men fulfill her any desire. She was the scandalous darling of Boston's gilded age. SWORN TO REVENGE Now she had sailed half round the...

  • The Avenhurst Inheritance // Three Loves

    Sylvia Thorpe

    Original title: The Avenhurst Inheritance. THREE BEAUTIFUL WOMEN THREE EXQUISITE PASSIONS THREE HEARTS BEATING WITH LOVE--FOR THE SAME MAN Handsome, passionate Jocelyn Rivers had fallen deeply in love with Celia Croyde , the neighborhood be...

  • Lifeship

    Harry Harrison

  • The Vampires of Nightworld

    David Bischoff

    For five hundred years a mad computer scientist who called himself Satan ruled the nights of the planet Styx, each sundown unleashing hordes of cyborg creatures -- werewolves, vampires, dragons, and worse -- to terrorize what had once been the idylli...

  • The Moth and the Flame

    Tracy Adams

    MORE THAN SHE BARGAINED FOR! When her once wealthy father died leaving only bad debts, beautiful, jet-setting Ann Milan found work with the darkly handsome Julian Terrace, owner of the famous Terrace Inn. Soon Ann found herself falling desperatel...

  • Strange Destiny

    Sandra Bray

    Her sudden wealth inspired treachery Ramona was surprised to learn after her uncle died that shed inherited a fortune. She would have to travel to Majorca to collect it, a prospect that excited her. Majorca was lovely and she hadn't seen her a...

  • The Hostage Bride

    Janet Dailey

    TRAPPED! When Tamara "borrowed" company funds to help her invalid mother, she had every intention of replacing the money before anyone discovered the loss. Then the company was taken over by the ruthless entrepreneur Bickford Rutledge. ...

  • Flamenco Nights

    Susanna Collins

    Rosie Powell had been jilted by the only lover she had ever known. Now, visiting her brother Danny in Spain, the honey-haired painter from the Midwest found her heart at risk again. Juan de Arevalo, the world-famous flamenco guitarist and proud ar...

  • Guardian Devil

    Monette Cummings

    Given by her dying grandfather into the custody of the Marquis of Theale, known to London Society as "Devil" for his wicked ways. Beautiful young Maris was both attracted and repelled by her worldly guardian. The Marquis, on the other hand, found his...

  • The Chadbourne Luck

    Lucia Curzon

    At 16, country-fresh, penniless Ceci Gramont was wooed, then scorned by the darkly handsome Lord Armin Sherlay. Now at twenty-six, a wealthy, titled widow, she's heir to the famed Chadbourne Luck at cards. It lasts only as long as its possessor ...

  • The Unlikely Rivals

    Megan Daniel

    THEY WERE A PERFECT MATCH-- FOR A FIGHT TO THE FINISH Saskia Van Hooten was a lovely young lady with the weight of her entire family's future on her slender young shoulders--and a stubborn spirit that refused to bow to adversity. Derek Rowbridge ...

  • Letty

    Clare Darcy

    If Letty Montressor had not been quite so determined to escape from her family and marriage to the odious Mr Sludge, she would not have been found wandering the streets of London late at night with no other companion but her canary. Harry Tyne, th...

  • The Marriage Season

    Sally Dubois

    Julia blushed to think of the shy young brides on their dower-strewn marriage beds. It was the time for weddings, for love. But not for Julia. She must leave -- leave India at once. She had found so much: the fulfillment of work, a sense of belong...

  • Desperate Longings

    Frances Flores

    The scent of his skin rushed at her. His hands tightened on the nape of her neck, pressing her forward. Then his lips were hungrily on hers. Was it a dream? Luz Rivas loved her job at the studio. She loved her life in the barrio. She had no illusions...

  • Tiffany's True Love

    Zabrina Faire

    Tiffany had hurt him! Though she was little more than a child, she had known Peter must face the truth. She had led him to the moonlit abbey ruins, to the lovers' tryst, so that he could see that his fiancee was untrue to him. Now, five years l...

  • Jasmine Passion

    Paula Fairman

    Born of an impassioned and clandestine love between a Chinese princess and a handsome American captain, Le' Sing lost her mother at birth -- her father disappeared. Raised in a temple and trained in the art of love, when she finally came of age...

  • Too Rich for Her Pride

    Jacqueline Hacsi

    He was the living embodiment of Donna Marshall's romantic fantasy ... the most eligible, elusive bachelor in fun-loving Rio: Scott Carlton, head of Carlton Chemicals, her boss, richer--and handsomer--than anyone had a right to be. And now Scott h...

  • Love Legacy

    Carole Halston

    AT LAST SHE WAS HOME! After graduation, Clementine Masters returned to Glenmeadows Farm in Kentucky where the death of the farm's owner evoked a unique legacy. An unknown relative inherits everything after a year; however, Glenmeadows can ...

  • Outback Summer

    Nancy John

    ON TO ADVENTURE... Nicola had great hopes for her Australian holiday, and even the fact that her friends couldn't meet her plane didn't dampen her spirits. In fact, her adventure started right away when a handsome stranger offered to drive...

  • Winter Love Song

    Meredith Kingston

    It was too much the dream come true. Felicia Hollingsworth, ski champion and Olympic hopeful, fell deeply in love with her instructor, Grant Mitchell, married him... and lived happily ever after. Until the divorce, and the devastating choice that dro...

  • Forbidden Flame

    Anne Mather

    He'd be her friend but never her lover Caroline's job as governess at a Mexican hacienda was more demanding than she'd dreamed possible. Her employer, Esteban, was an evil and vulgar man, and he wanted her. She turned for help to L...

  • Jessabelle

    Maggie MacKeever

    DIVORCED, DISHONORED--AND OUT FOR REVENGE! When Jessabelle ran off after a fight with her tempestuous husband, the Earl of Pennymount, she had not expected to be kidnapped by a highwayman. Nor had she foreseen that Lord Pennymount's displeasure, a...

  • At Devil's Bridge

    Helen Marval

    She had returned to a house of strangers. Seventeen year's ago Angela's mother had fled Casa Amati -- her husband's ancestral estate in Lombardy -- taking her small daughter to safety in California. Now Angela had returned in answer to a call for hel...

  • Beyond Tomorrow

    Fern Michaels

    THE SEARCH FOR HIS "DREAM HOUSE" ENDED IN THEIR LOVE. Carly Andrews disapproved of the wealthy people who spent their summers in Bar Harbor as they waited for the fall social season to begin but Adam Noble was different. Raised in the community...

  • Mirabeau Plantation

    Marcia Meredith

    Of course the ravishing Crystal Mirabeau of Mirabeau Plantation was meant for nobility, luxury and a carefree life. That was why she married the Marquis de Vega while she was in Paris. If she returned to Mirabeau with a rich husband, she would lighte...

  • Love Beyond Desire

    Rachel Palmer

    ROBIN KNEW IT WAS WRONG TO LOVE HIM Robin Hamilton's archaeological job on a Mexican hacienda promised to be an exciting venture. But she soon found herself drawn into the midst of a dark devastating turmoil. She should never have let herse...

  • Love's Captive

    Liliane Robin

    The desert offered a challenge -- and terror Amber and her companion, Ian, eagerly set out to explore an ancient fort deep in the Sahara. But their adventure abruptly ended when a bullet whined past their jeep. Seconds later a volley of shots fi...

  • Tangier Nights

    Clarissa Ross

    VAGABOND DESTINY... Well-bred, innocent Mary Cabot. Her future amid the cream of Boston society, as the pampered fiancee of banker Harry Ames, seems assured until her brother Frank vanishes--along with a suitcase full of the bank's money. Mary's des...

  • Under Cover of Night

    Claudette Virmonne

    Passion concealed a cold-hearted scheme Edith Bailly, a shrewd businesswoman, and her beautiful niece, Valerie, happily accepted a wealthy client's invitation. As guests at his magnificent country home, their stay promised to be delightful. But Ed...

  • Veil of Gold

    Donna Vitek

    MARRIAGE FOR PROPRIETY Jilted and brokenhearted, Megan Jordan believed she would never trust another man, until she met Dr. Alex Dominic. A widower with two sons, Alex's sensuality and the vulnerability of the Dominic children attract Megan. Re...

  • The Dubrovnik Massacre

    Nick Carter

    When Tito discovered a plot to sabotage Yugoslav autonomy, his only possible confidant was his oldest enemy -- Dusan Ankavic the dissident. And the only person Ankavic can turn to now that Tito is dead is Nick Carter. But when Ankavic meets with an "...

  • The Golden Bull

    Nick Carter

  • Letter from the Dead

    Anna Clarke

  • Innocent Blood

    P.D. James

    ADOPTED AS A CHILD, PHILIPPA PALFREY HAD THE BEST OF EVERYTHING. But, at eighteen, she wanted more. She wanted to know the identity of her real parents. Having always fantasized herself the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat and a parlour maid, s...

  • The Other Shoe

    Mary McMullen

  • The Golden Sabre

    Jon Cleary

    This volume is produced from digital images created by Internet Archive for The New York Public Library. The Internet Archive and The New York Public Library seek to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes...

  • Murder Must Appetize

    H.R.F. Keating

    A monograph of Golden Age detective fiction from H.R.F. Keating, doyen of classic detective writers.

    Murder Must Appetize is an affectionate return to the halcyon days of the detective story when Hercule Poirot and Lord Peter Wimsey were y...

  • The Shadow Man

    John Lutz

    A KILLER OF MANY PERSONALITIES Martin Karpp was Alan Hobson, a compulsive thief. He was Willy Bennet, a flagrant homosexual. He was Jay Jefferson, a fanatic right-winger. He was Paul Liggett who hid his true nature behind a mask of mystery. Martin Ka...

  • If There Be Thorns

    V.C. Andrews

    Chris and Cathy Made Such a Loving Home... for fourteen-year-old Jory -- so handsome, so gentle. And for Bart, who had such a dazzling imagination for a nine year old. Then the lights came on in the house next door. Soon the Old Lady in Black was t...

  • Bething's Folly

    Barbara Metzger

    RELUCTANT ROMANCE The chattering and giggling in a ballroom full of hopeful young debutantes had sent Lord Alexander hurrying for covers He had promised his father, the Duke of Carlyle that he would marry, but the fun-loving young lord was finding...

  • Wide Is the Water

    Jane Aiken Hodge

    The time is 1780 and the bloody War of Independence has ended, but the peace terms are still a matter of passionate debate. To the young lovers parted by the throes of war, the separation is not only one of miles but also of attitudes and heritage. M...

  • Blood County

    Curt Selby

  • An April Love Story

    Caroline B. Cooney

    “Today,” My father announced, “I bought a farm in North Carolina. We’re leaving the city, Marnie. We’re going back to the land.” Back to the land? Leaving the city? Marnie Macdonald can’t believe her ears, her parents must be kidding. ...

  • Murder at the Flea Club

    Matthew Head

    Paris. The Flea Club. Denizens of the night gather to indulge their tastes. Older, wealthy American women and screechy men compete for the favors of handsome young gigolos. A prostitute plies her trade at the bar. Bored expatriates mark time over dri...

  • The Other Side of Silence

    Ted Allbeury

  • American Cowboy

    Will James

    i>The American Cowboy spans three generations of cowboys in the American West, from the young trail boss of the very first cattle drive from Texas north to the railroads, to his grandson, born after the open range had been fenced in. Discover the dan...

  • The Rainbow Chase

    Kris Karron

  • Rabbit Book

    Christian Morganstern

  • Field of Honor

    Timeri N. Murari

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  • Vida

    Marge Piercy

    Originally published in 1979, Vida is Marge Piercy’s classic bookend to the ’60s. Vida is full of the pleasures and pains, the experiments, disasters, and victories of an extraordinary band of people. At the center of the novel stands Vida Asch. ...

  • Goodbye, Janette

    Harold Robbins

    A dynasty of women triumphs in the fiercely male-dominated world of high fashion amid the ruins of war. A daughter honors her mother s ultimate sacrifice by becoming a ruthless businesswoman who will stop at nothing to raise high her family s name...

  • Wrap Her in Light

    Sandra Adelson

    In the last golden years of Egypt, a great love was born in the city of the dark gods. She was a princess, beautiful daughter of Pharaoh Akhenaten and Nefertiti and heir to the throne of Egypt. He was a lowly scribe of the royal court, who would defy...

  • A Man Condemned

    Peter Alding

  • Marmalade Man

    Michael Patrick Allen

  • Shadow Train

    John Ashbery

  • All over Again

    Nathaniel Benchley

  • Getting Away With Murder

    Alan Dennis Burke

  • Any Two Can Play

    Elizabeth Cadell

    Natalie Travers had only just had her house in Brighten converted into flats, and installed five sets of tenants, when her younger brother Julian sent her an appeal for help. Newly deserted by his wife of one year, he was finding it impossible to cop...

  • Juniata Valley

    Virginia Cassel

  • Brick Alley

    David Chacko

  • Preventive and Community Medicine

    Duncan Clark

  • The Tynedale Daughters

    Norma Lee Clark

    THEY WERE SISTERS, DAUGHTERS, AND OCCASIONAL RIVALS IN LOVE.... What could be more idyllic than three lovely ladies sitting on the lawn of a Regency estate on a cloudless summer day? Nothing, it would seem, could blemish this picturesque scene ...

  • Aces and Eights

    Loren D. Estleman

    Dead Man's HandNo one paid any mind to Jack McCall as he unloaded a .44 caliber slug into Wild Bill Hickok's brain at point-blank range. Deadwood's legendary gunslinging marshal was dead, holding a poker hand of aces and eights, a dead man's hand.The...

  • July's People

    Nadine Gordimer

    “So flawlessly written that every one of its events seems chillingly, ominously possible.” -- Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book ReviewA startling, imaginative novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureA violent war for equality has ...

  • Psychic and the Swami

    Kathleen M. Gordon

  • Mirror of Her Own

    Rosa Guy

  • The Love Hunter

    Jon Hassler

  • Does This School Have Capital Punishment?

    Nat Hentoff

  • Buller's Guns

    Richard Alexander Hough

  • Tales Out of Time

    Barbara Ireson

  • Suzette and Nicholas and the Sunijudi Circus

    Michele Lochak

  • Requiem for Idols

    Norah Lofts

  • Thieves' Brand

    Giles A. Lutz

  • The Island Keeper

    Harry Mazer

  • The Horseman's Word

    Georgess McHargue

  • The Temptation of Eileen Hughes

    Brian Moore

    Eileen Hughes is young, hauntingly beautiful and very naive. Befriended by her wealthy employers, Bernard and Mona McAuley, she leaves Ulster for the first time in her life to spend a holiday with them in London. But all is not well with the McAuleys...

  • Nirvana Blues

    John Treadwell Nichols

    This final volume in John Nichols's acclaimed New Mexico trilogy, (“Gentle, funny, transcendent.” -- New York Times Book Review).Like its predecessors, The Nirvana Blues is a lusty, visionary novel that blends comedy and tragedy, reality and fan...

  • This Is My Best

    Frederik Pohl

  • Mourners Below

    James Purdy

  • Teheran Contract

    Gayle Rivers

    Recounts the harrowing rescue mission--Operation Blue Fire--led by the author, a mercenary arms dealer, and six special forces agents, of a wealthy, internationally important Jewish family from Khomeini's revolutionary tribunal...

  • Circles Of Time

    Phillip Rock

    The Acclaimed Trilogy That Has Been Called a Must-Read for Fans of Downton AbbeyA generation has been lost on the Western Front. The dead have been buried, a harsh peace forged, and the howl of shells replaced by the wail of saxophones as the Jazz Ag...

  • Hey, Lover Boy

    Thomas Rockwell

  • Miracle Play

    Susan Richards Shreve

  • Friends Till the End

    Todd Strasser

  • The Pilgrims Progress in Modern English

    Jean Watson

    Carefully revised in modern English, this modern classic includes Bunyan's original Scripture references plus hundreds of additional references, chapter end-notes to help clarify scriptural and historical references, and an index of words, meanings, ...

  • The Storms of Fate

    Patricia Wright

    The lives of beautiful, ambitious Arabella Sperling and handsome revolutionary Harry Cornish, friends since childhood, take different directions amidst the tumult and upheaval of London in seventeenth-century Restoration England...

  • If There Be Thorns

    V.C. Andrews

    Chris and Cathy Made Such a Loving Home... for fourteen-year-old Jory -- so handsome, so gentle. And for Bart, who had such a dazzling imagination for a nine year old. Then the lights came on in the house next door. Soon the Old Lady in Black was t...

  • Dawn of Desire

    Iris Bancroft

    Jarmila's extraordinary beautiful is becoming more bewitching by the day and her heart beginning to quicken with the vibrant passions of a woman, when Prague, her home, is suddenly overrun by revolutionary Czechs demanding independence from Austria's...

  • The Saint and the Happy Highwayman

    Leslie Charteris

  • And Not Make Dreams Your Master

    Stephen Goldin

    Wayne Corrigan is a professional Dreamer. He creates nighttime entertainment to thrill the minds of the sleeping public. But when one of his colleagues goes crazy and tries to commit suicide, he threatens to take the entire audience along for the rid...

  • Freer's Cove

    Ethel Gordon

    Who was the more innocent? The children whose lives were threatened at the great and isolated mansion of Freer's Cove? Or the newcomer who had trustingly accepted a seemingly privileged post with the wealthy Freer clan? What begins as the perfect...

  • Compromised Love

    Anne Hillary

    "You have stripped this child of her good name and must replace it with your own. I insist that you marry her!" High-spirited, hot-tempered Stacy Prescott had sworn she would never wed an elderly stranger. Now, her escape with young Lauri...

  • Slocum's Blood

    Jake Logan

  • Wild Valley

    Charlotte Paul

    It's 1893 in the town of Gold Mountain and the Snoqualmie Valley of Washington state -- several years after the events of "Gold Mountain." Into this now peaceful community comes young Merrie Cowen, ready to give birth, while searching for the husband...

  • Love's Savage Embrace

    Charlotte Prentiss

    SHE WAS LOVER AND LADY - PASSION'S PLAYTHING AND SWEET SEDUCTRESS... Lucilla Lockwood, the innocent young scion of a noble family, yearning for the touch of a man to fire her blood. Abducted from her father's manor, only her indomitable will woul...

  • Green Eyes

    Suzanne Rand

    Will Julie's crazy jealousy destroy the love she waited so long to find... Julie has had a crush on Dan ever since sophomore year. Now that Pam, Dan's old girlfriend, has moved away, Julie finally has him all to herself. And he is worth the wait. Da...

  • A Season of Hard Desires

    Shirley Schoonover

  • The Satin Vixen

    Linda Shaw

    She was a beautiful British hostage to the rebel Scottish crown...so soft to touch, so dangerous to hold... SHE WOULD SAVE THE LIVES AND FORTUNES OF HER VILLAGE... Swept from her home as hostage, beautiful chestnut-haired Christin Winchelsea wa...

  • Barren Land Showdown

    Luke Short

  • Louisiana Lady

    Cynthia Van Hazinga

    LOUISIANA LADY The proudest of all riverboats, a symbol of Southern beauty and grace. Now in the midst of a tempestuous race to the Delta, her crew of lovers and heroes play out their own raging drama of love and destiny… KATE DUVALL, the ca...

  • Death Trick

    John Frederick Burke

  • Jed Smith: Freedom River

    Fred Lawrence

    The land of the upper Missouri was a wilderness… A land where men fought to the death for a stack of beaver pelts. Where river men and mountain men hacked their way to unbelievable wealth. Where Indians lurked, ever ready to attack at the first ...

  • The Heart's Awakening

    Valerie Ferris

    "There's a nasty term for women like you--and for what you do to a man." Eden recoiled. He hadn't believed her! He thought everything they had said about her back home was true! And here they were, "temporarily" married for the sake of an experime...

  • Quiet Night of Fear

    Charles L. Grant

    Welcome to Starburst … a quiet seaside resort where the people of the future escape into the past, and where only four things are certain … 1. Four people are dead. 2. You are next. 3. The murderer isn't human. 4. Night is falling....

  • Search for Happiness

    David Ritz

    Al Gonfio was the king of soaps - the cigar-chomping, wisecracking writer of the daytime drama call Search For Happiness. And he just had a brainstorm: Sister Prudence - a nun fighting to save her convent from Burger King. To play the part he found...

  • Summer Girl

    Caroline Crane

    Fourteen might seem a little young for a full-time mothers helper, but Mary Shelburne wasnt worried. Prim and responsible Cinni was the best girl Mary interviewed. With two small children and another on the way, Mary needed help that summer at their ...

  • Vanishing Vector

    John Evans

    The international climate soars to a red-alert pitch when a mysterious death claims dozens of Chinese diplomats in Washington DC. The stability of the world is at stake. And everyone wants a cover-up - including the Chinese. The imminent arrival of t...

  • Robot in the Closet

    Ron Goulart

  • Mad River

    Donald Hamilton

  • Easy Company and the Longhorns

    John W. Howard

  • The Tanglewood Murder

    Lucille Kallen

  • Two for the Price of One

    Tony Kenrick

  • War Is Heaven

    D. Keith Mano

  • Bride of Vengeance

    Rose Marie Abbot

    There was no escape. She had wept and begged. She had fled to London and sought her grandmother's help. All to no avail! Miss Cherry Hilliard was Lady Varian now-imprisoned in a great country house, required to sit at dinner and watch her handsome...

  • Two by Two

    Bo Beskow

  • Rogue Moon

    Algis Budrys

    A Hugo Award Finalist: Humanity struggles to understand a killing labyrinth discovered on the Moon in this science fiction adventure about death and rebirth Hugo and Nebula Awardâ€"winning author Robert Silverberg credits Rogue Moon with containing â...

  • High Water at Catfish Bend

    Ben L. Burman

    IT’S HARD TO BE AS SMART AS A RACCOON No one knew how old "Doc" Raccoon got so smart. After all, he didn't have a college diploma or even a library card. But whenever there was a problem at Catfish Bend, he was the animal everyone turned to. So...

  • Owl Hoots Twice at Catfish Bend

    Ben L. Burman

  • Seven Stars for Catfish Bend

    Ben L. Burman

  • Blow a Wild Bugle at Catfish Bend

    Ben L. Burman

  • High Treason at Catfish Bend

    Ben L. Burman

  • Strange Invasion of Catfish Bend

    Ben L. Burman

  • Fire Below Zero

    Barnaby Conrad

  • Boo

    Pat Conroy

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    Bestselling author Pat Conroy’s debut novelâ€Â"now available as an ebook

    A powerful story of a man’s undoing at the hands of his greatest admirer

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    At the South Carolina m...

  • The Revisionist

    Douglas Crase

  • The Cabal

    Philip Dunn

  • Gladiator

    Bill Earls

  • Love in Paris

    Murray Kalis

  • Broken Promise

    Alex Lazzarino

  • Hot Type

    Marjorie Lipstyte

    Dissatisfied with her job as secretary at a large newspaper, Arlyn Crane solves a murder she accidently uncovered, uses her success to be promoted to a reporter, but learns it will still be difficult to fulfill her ambitions...

  • Rudge

    J.B. Masterson

  • Tularemia Gambit

    S Perry

  • Love's Secret Storm

    Leonora Pruner

    Meg, self-centered, genteel social butterfly, finally marries, only to discover that she cannot tolerate her husband's lifestyle and values. Blinded by her passionate ego, she flees back to the security of her father's home. Nursing the wounds of a...

  • Green Monday

    Michael Thomas

    A financial wizard and a deeply cultured Arab minister manipulate world oil prices to the point where the market has a 100,000,000-share day and international economics and politics are faced with fundamental change...

  • Trespasser

    Melvin Weiser

  • Victory

    Yabo Yablonsky

  • The Long Way Home

    Poul Anderson

  • Star Trek 3

    James Blish

  • Hawkline Monster

    Richard Brautigan

    The time is 1902. The setting; eastern Oregon. The action begins when Magic Child, a fifteen-year-old Indian girl of surprising sophistication and accomplishment, wanders into the wrong whorehouse looking for the right men -- the men who will kill t...

  • Wandor's Flight

    Roland J. Green

  • Four Days

    Harold King

  • Magick of Camelot

    Arthur H. Landis

  • Miss Peach

    Mell Lazarus

  • The Best Little Girl in the World

    Steven Levenkron

    THE BESTSELLING NOVEL THAT BROKE THROUGH THE SILENCE ABOUT ANOREXIA NERVOSA At first, no one knows that something is fatally wrong with fifteen-year-old Kessa -- not her parents, teachers, friends, or family doctor. No one knows Kessa avoids eatin...

  • Fighting Vengeance

    Jake Logan

    The Valley was primed to explode into hell. And by the end of his first day there, Slocum had been threatened, shot, and clubbed into unconsciousness. He owed his life to the beautiful settler's daughter who found him, bound his wounds, and offered h...

  • Superman, Last Son of Krypton

    Elliot S. Maggin

  • Who Killed Harlowe Thrombey?

    Edward Packard

    SOMEONE MURDERED HARLOWE THROMBEY. ONLY YOU CAN FIND OUT WHO DID IT. Millionaire Marlowe Thrombey hired you to find out who was out to get him. But before you even got started, someone laced his bedtime brandy with arsenic. Now you have a murder cas...

  • Hidden Variables

    Charles Sheffield

    1982 Locus Poll Award, Best Single Author Collection (Place: 15). Collects 14 stories with introduction and afterwords by the author, including: The Man Who Stole the Moon, The Deimos Plague, Forefather Figure, Moment of Inertia (McAndrew series), Th...

  • Lord Tedric III

    E.E. "Doc" Smith

    Ace mass market paperback, 1981. This is the third of four novels Eklund wrote in the "Tedric" series, based on a character conceived by Smith. The other novels are "Lord Tedric" (1978); "Space Pirates" (1979); and "Alien Realms" (1980)....

  • Show of Force

    Charles D. Taylor

    As the two largest, most powerfully equipped naval fleets in history move slowly toward each other near Islas Piedras?an American missile site in the Indian Ocean that threatens Russia's grip on the Middle East?two men stand in the darkened control r...

  • The Accident

    Elie Wiesel

  • Last Communion

    Nicholas Yermakov

    Boomerang--an untouched pastoral planet: on the surface it seems a perfect candidate for human colonization. But first a Colcom survey team must make contact with the Sades-=the humanoid-looking natives of Boomerang--and determine whether they are an...

  • Rebel's Return

    Edwin Booth

  • Prime Suspect

    R.D. Brown

    Detective Harry Bliss has one hell of a problem. She's Susan Meredith, she's gorgeous--and she's so deep into trouble she can't find her way out. First, someone attacks her outside her office. Then someone cuts her brake lines, drugs her, and ransack...

  • Checkpoint Charlie

    Brian Garfield

    At the end of the Cold War, a brutal murder in a Moscow alley forces two rival agents together in a mission to catch a serial killer - before it’s too late.

    Moscow is a bad place for an American to walk alone, particularly a woman as ...

  • Mademoiselle de Maupin

    Theophile Gautier

    Theophile Gautier's masterpiece "Mademoiselle de Maupin" might be better known for its lengthy preface than the actual novel itself. It is there in which the author discusses art for art's sake, arguing that "everything useful is ...

  • The Eternal Reich

    Jerome M. Knopp

    Led by a beautiful woman, the conspirators infiltrated the highest levels of the West German government. And they claimed the Fuehrer lived again... American reporter Jim Banning is swept up in a maelstrom of treachery, corruption and lust as he purs...

  • Only the Strong

    Mike Minehan

  • Silver Canyon

    Logan Winters

  • The big boys

    Max Simon Ehrlich

  • Churchill's Gold

    James Follett

    1941 BRITAIN'S LAST HOPE FOR SURVIVAL A vast shipment of gold to buy desperately needed arms -- a shipment carried on a commandeered American whaling ship on a secret voyage across the Atlantic. From Germany, the most advanced killer submarine in t...

  • After Eli

    Terry Kay

    In the Nahella Valley of Appalachia, a rumor is whispered about a man named Eli Pettit and the small fortune in stolen money he supposedly hid on his farm before disappearing, leaving a wife, daughter and sister-in-law to tend the land and guard the ...

  • Municipal Bonds

    Jerry Oster

    A tale of crossed lovers and mistaken identities set in contemporary Manhattan pairs an actress who makes commercials and a struggling novelist, who are both over thirty and both still hoping to make it big...

  • Longarm and the Laredo Loop

    Tabor Evans

    A MAN COULD GET KILLED ON THE LOOP... The Laredo Loop -- a notorious rustling network that spirited U.S. longhorns south of the border, fixed them up with phony "legal" papers, then shipped them back to Laredo for sale. When Longarm is enliste...

  • Invisible Wife

    Jane Arbor

    Vicente was master of a lost art... Tania obeyed her father's last request: she contacted the Venetian glassmakers, the Massimos. And Benno Massimo whisked her away from an empty life in England, bringing her to the family villa -- as his fian...

  • Dark Remembrance

    Daphne Clair

    It was time she faced the truth After her husband Perry's death, Raina believed Logan Thorne, his business partner, visited often because of her son, Danny. When Logan offered marriage, she didn't take him seriously. Why should he tie h...

  • The Eagle's Fate

    Dinah Dean

    Why did he seem to dislike her so? Captain Valyev had been kindness itself when he stopped on the road to give assistance to Nadya, one of a vast crowd of refugees fleeing before Napoleon's advancing army. But the moment she told him her full name...

  • Always the Boss

    Victoria Gordon

    She was determined to stick it out... A legacy had brought Dinah to Australia, and at first she regarded the chance of a job in a television news department as a bonus -- and a challenge. But when she found herself continually clashing with her...

  • Confirmed Bachelor

    Roberta Leigh

    Her assignment was glamorous but tough The man Robyn was sent to work with was the disreputable playboy author, Bradley Dexter--a man whose scandalous life-style and cynical attitude she despised. However, Robyn wasn't easily deterred. She ...

  • Collision

    Margaret Pargeter

    She wouldn't bend to his proud demands From the moment Selena literally bumped into brilliant film director Max Heger, she was drawn into a dangerous courtship--one she desperately tried to escape. She wanted no part of Max's glittering, a...