Books Published in June 1985

New Books List: 388 titles

  • The Acceptance World

    Anthony Powell

    Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London . Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally ...

  • Acts of Magic

    Cassie Miles

    He conjured up more heat than she could handle Dell Delaney's parents had been magicians. Yet that zany, vagabond life had never been her style. Her obvious preference for accounting struck her relatives as weird! Then Adam 'ABC" Cooper explode...

  • Afterwar

    Janet Morris

  • The Alaskan Mystery

    Carolyn Keene

  • Alive and Starting Over

    Sheila Solomon Klass

  • Ambush at Vermejo

    Jim Boss

  • America's Last Declaration

    Ryder Stacy

  • Antipodes Jane

    Barbara Ker Wilson

    Recovering from a broken love affair, Jane Austen decides to accompany her aunt and uncle to New South Wales, where she falls in love once more and applies her considerable talents to creating a new society...

  • Any Other Complaints?

    Jim Unger

  • Arabian Assault

    Preston MacAdam

  • Artifact

    Gregory Benford

    Artifact A small cube of black rock has been unearthed in a 3500-year-old Mycenaean tomb. An incomprehensible object in an impossible place; its age, its purpose, and its origins are unknown. Its discovery has unleashed a global storm of intrigue,...

  • Asterxix and Soothslayer

    Rene Goscinny

  • At Lady Molly's

    Anthony Powell

    Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally p...

  • At the Vanishing Point

    M.B. Siegel

  • Atlan

    Jane Gaskell

    In the bloody war over the continent of Atlan, Princess Cija has been forced to wed the invader, the evil man-serpent, Zerd. When Zerd's enemies attack, Cija flees his imprisoning castle only to be discovered by her archrival, Sedili, Zerd's former w...

  • B Is for Burglar

    Sue Grafton

    Finding wealthy Elaine Boldt seems like a quickie case to Kinsey Millhone. The flashy widow was last seen wearing a $12,000 lynx coat, leaving her condo in Santa Teresa for her condo in Boca Raton. But somewhere in between, she vanished. Kinsey's cas...

  • Back to the Future

    George Gipe

  • The Beauty's Daughter

    Monette Cummings

  • Beloved Enemy

    Cynthia Sinclair (1)

    PROUD DAMARIS LIVED FOR THE ROYALIST CAUSE UNTIL SHE AWOKE TO LOVE -- FOR A SWORN FOE OF THE CROWN! The English countryside swarmed with Cromwell's merciless troops, and lovely Damaris St. Cyr was forced to escape with her wounded father to Fr...

  • Best Detective Stories of the Year, 1981: 35th Annual Collection

    Edward D. Hoch

  • Beyond Sanctuary

    Janet Morris

    In this Thieves World fantasy, the warrior-servant of the fickle god of storm and war, immortal Tempus, is denied the love of mortal women so that anyone who loves him must die, and anyone he loves loathes him...

  • Beyond the Sunset

    Diana Bachmann

    In the years just before World War II, years of wild pleasure before...the darkness, there lived an enchanting young girl, Jacqueline. A woman of strength and passion, she bewitched men with her beauty. Ravished by a king-to-be, pursued by a power...

  • Big Bird Visits the Dodos

    Deborah Hutzig

  • The Big Deal

    Jack Glasgow

  • A Bit of Daring

    Mary Haskell

    Climbing stairs gives Melinda Pelham vertigo. Scaling a mountain gives Jonathan King a thrill. The mere thought of a pup tent makes her claustrophobic. Camping under the stars is his idea of paradise. Surely a match between such a hothouse flower and...

  • Black Rain

    Masuji Ibuse

    "Black Rain is centered around the story of a young woman who was caught in the radioactive ""black rain"" that fell after the bombing of Hiroshima. lbuse bases his tale on real-life diaries and interviews with victims of the holocaust; the result is...

  • Blackboard Bear

    Martha Alexander

  • Blackbone

    George E. Simpson

    In the wilds of Montana lies the prison on Blackbone Mountain, a secret base where German prisoners of war are incarcerated. Outside its gun towers and barbed wire, World War II still rages. Inside, another war is brewing. Evil has already penetrated...

  • Blood of the Eagle

    Fred Dickey

  • Bloodspoor

    James McVean

  • The Blue Bedroom and Other Stories

    Rosamunde Pilcher

    Celebrate life's journeys with the beloved author whose stories of life and love have touched the world.Dive into the work of acclaimed author Rosamunde Pilcher in this captivating collection of short stories.Renowned for her novels The Shell Seekers...

  • The Bohemian Connection

    Susan Dunlap

    Investigating her suspicion that a beautiful woman's murder is linked to a dealer who supplies drugs for the raucous annual festivities of the Bohemian Club, meter reader Vejay Haskell uncovers a wealth of deadly secrets. Reissue....

  • Bones

    Bill Pronzini

    Thirty-five years after Harmon Crane's suicide in a locked room, the Nameless Detective attempts to uncover the reasons behind the kingpin of pulp detective fiction's death, and by so doing, he enters into a deadly game...

  • The Book of Kantela

    Roland J. Green

  • Borrowed Dreams

    Debbie Macomber

    As the new assistant manager of an Alaskan freight company, Carly Grieves had a lot to get used to-especially with a man like Brand St. Clair around to keep her on her toes. The rugged daredevil pilot had an uncanny knack for unsettling her comple...

  • Breaking the Ice

    Ariel Berk

    FRAGILE: HANDLE WITH CARE After a marriage to an actor who loved himself more than her, Emily Squires realized she would rather pursue her career as a veterinarian and come home in the evenings to her adorable oversize puppy, Gus. But then she ...

  • Bremen Town Musicians

    Jack Kent

  • The Bride

    Vonda N. McIntyre

  • Bright Flame, Distant Star

    Blair Cameron

    Did she look a likely candidate for a summer fling? In fact, she was a candidate for the bar. A beautiful young widow, Melissa Bennett intended to become her father-in-law's corporate attorney and return to make her home with him and her little daugh...

  • Broken Eagle

    Robert Tine

    After dropping nuclear bombs on Russia during World War III, six American fliers crash land in the Soviet heartland and must survive the seventeen-hundred-mile journey to Alaska's border on foot....

  • Built to Kill

    Richard Harding

    WAR AT THE END OF THE WORLD On the scarred continent of a war-wasted America, men fight for food, shelter, and survival. The ideals of a once mighty nation lie shattered. But one man remembers. One man leads the smugglers, raiders, and survivalists w...

  • Call Back Yesterday

    Doreen Owens Malek

    Maria hadn’t wanted to give up her summer job in California and come to New Jersey to keep house for her great aunt. At first she’d been bored and restless. The she began to be troubled by dreams- dreams so disquieting that they took over her ...

  • Call It Love

    Robin Elliott

    MADE FOR EACH OTHER They didn't have much in common. Burke Madison was a criminal lawyer. Morgan Gray was a children's book illustrator. His days were spent defending characters like bail-jumper "Baby" Reyes. Her "clients" ...

  • Can't Say No

    Jeanne Grant

    Bree Penoyer would love to tell off her insufferably arrogant neighbor Hart Manning -- but she's lost her voice! And Hart, a seemingly irresponsible ladies' man, delights in stealing kisses from a woman who can't say no.... Ever more ...

  • Cassie

    Vivian Schurfranz

    Her love was a wild and untamable as the frontier itself. Ever since blonde Cassie Stevens was captured by the Indians at the age of four she has loved her Iroquois family, and at fifteen she can shoot and ride as well as any warrior. The her worl...

  • A Catskill Eagle

    Robert B. Parker

    In the detective business, Spenser sometimes had to bend the law. Other times, he broke it. But he lived by his own inviolate rules. He didn't kill unless he had to. He helped a friend in trouble. And he loved just one woman -- even though she was th...

  • Chaos of Crime

    Dell Shannon

    It's springtime in Los Angeles, and there's murder in the air .. An early June hot spell takes its toll as it fuels a wave of bloody and bizarre crime for Luis Mendoza of the LAPD. Grisliest by far is the psycho they call the werewolf, who gets hi...

  • Charlatan

    William Hamilton

    This comedy of manners set among the rich and against the background of thoroughbred racing recounts the dilemma of Edgar Barnes, whose dissipated dragon of a wife is recalled from the brink of death when her colt wins the Kentucky Derby and the Prea...

  • Charlie Mike

    Leonard B. Scott

    If war may be said to bring out the worst in governments, it frequently brings out the best in people. This is a novel about some of the very best. Some led. Some followed. Some died.“One of the finest novels yet written about the war in Vietnam.â€...

  • The Chocolate Chip Cookie Contest

    Barbara Douglass

  • The Cider House Rules

    John Irving

    First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is John Irving's sixth novel. Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St...

  • A City Solitary

    Nicolas Freeling

    Three mocking, self-confident punks have vandalized the Forrestiers' home. The actual damage is minimal, but Walter Forrestier's brush with crime, and with the criminal justice system, begins to corrupt all the values he holds sacred. Forced into act...

  • Clouds of Guilt

    John William Wainwright

  • Cold War

    David Brierley

    A now inactive agent who quit the CIA, Cody finds herself plunged back into the breach after she refuses to help Crevecoeur, head of the French Surete, and wakes up in a hospital for the criminally insane in East Berlin...

  • Colleen

    Eva Gibson

    Colleen, now on her own, is determined to develop her talents as a seascape artist. She is also looking for an inner peace that seems to continually elude her. Her friend Pete does what he can to help her in this search. Her new-found independence...

  • Come in from the Cold

    Alexandra Dors

    THE ICEMAN COMETH How could Cathie Finlay accomplish so much? Not only was she a gourmet caterer, she was also an aspiring mystery writer. Yet there was one mystery she couldn't unlock. How could Mathew Alston be a successful lawyer; a fine father...

  • Crabby Gabby

    Stephen Cosgrove

  • Cracker Jackson

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    A backlist gem from a Newbery-winning author!

    Cracker Jackson has a problem. A big, serious, adult problem. When he receives an anonymous note in the mail, he finds out that his old babysitter, Alma, is in danger. Cracker's the only one who ca...

  • Crampton Hodnet

    Barbara Pym

    A novel featuring a pair of farcical romances captures early versions of the author's famous clergymen and excellent women, the original Miss Doggett and Jessie Morrow from Jane and Prudence, and a distinctly Oxford cast of characters...

  • Crash Landing!

    Francine Pascal

    Terror in the skies... George Warren has been looking forward to taking his girlfriend, Enid Rollins, as a passenger on his first licensed flight. Afterward he's going to tell her something he's known for a long time - he doesn't love her anymore, a...

  • Crosswinds

    Nancy Moulton

    LOVES TURMOIL Logan leaned down and kissed her softly. Rhea had been kissed before... but not like this. It sent startling waves of sensations through her. Why couldn't she stop Logan? Why didn't she want to? Their "marriage" was only a business ar...

  • The Crown of Kings

    Steve Jackson

    Final book in the 4 part series. Each sorcery book is a complete adventure - you don't need to have read a previous book to move on to the next. Play as either a warrior or a wizard. If you choosee wizardry, your survival will depend onyourknowledge ...

  • Crunch Bunch

    David Bischoff

  • Curves of Pursuit

    Thomas Farber

    In his first novel, Thomas Farber gives us an unusually honest look inside the heart of a man trying to understand the curves of pursuit in his own life. His ties, for example, to his older brother: as boys and on into adulthood, the two communicate ...

  • D.A.R.Y.L.

    N.H. Kleinbaum

    D.A.R.Y.L.--a Data Analysing Robot Youth Lifeform--is a little robot boy who must escape government agents seeking to terminate him while discovering what it means to be human and the importance of love...

  • Daddy's Little Girl

    Daniel Ransom

    NO ONE COULD FIND HER NO ONE COULD SAVE HER Sweet, innocent Deirdre was missing. But no one in the small, quiet town of Burton wanted to find her. They had waited a long time for the perfect sacrifice. And now they had found it... SHE COULDN'...

  • Dance of the Happy Shades and Other Stories

    Alice Munro

    WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013In these fifteen short stories--her eighth collection of short stories in a long and distinguished career--Alice Munro conjures ordinary lives with an extraordinary vision, displaying the remarkable ...

  • Dark Companions

    Ramsey Campbell

    COME CLOSE, MEET YOUR DARK COMPANIONS… Poor Elaine is working late at the office again, with no company but the smell of dust and old paper. But something sinister moves in the elevator shaft…something ghastly, down there. In a way, the worst ...

  • Darling Obstacles

    Barbara Boswell

    Surgeon Greg Wilder wanted to court the feisty and beautiful widow who'd been caring for his four kids, but she just wouldn't let him past her doorstep! Sure that his interest was only casual, and that he preferred more sophisticated women, Maggie M...

  • Daughter of Fortune

    Carla Kelly

    Born into Old-World elegance, beautiful Maria Espinosa lost her parents and her fortune when plague ravaged Mexico City. Now she lay in the blazing heat of the Santa Fe trail, sole survivor of a brutal Apache raid. Rescued by Diego Masferrer, Maria c...

  • Deadly Flowers

    Robin Snyder

  • Death in Autumn

    Magdalen Nabb

    They found the body in the river just as dawn was breaking over Florence ... The dead woman was wearing a lot of rings, a, large bracelet, elegant earrings--and underneath her expensive fur coat she was absolutely naked. At first, it seemed lik...

  • Death Tide

    A.C. Crispin

  • Denver's Lady

    Clarissa Ross

    Feisty auburn haired Clare lived in a rough man's world. Together with her railroad building father, she had traveled across the raw Western frontier and seen things no proper woman should. But her heart had never been touched by any man's love-not u...

  • Design for Two Hearts

    Phyllis Halldorson

    AFTER A FASHION Since the sudden death of her husband, young, inexperienced Laurie Quayle had stepped in as the new president of Quayle Fashions. But she wasn't the only one who vowed to carry on the family business. Once like a son to her ...

  • The Desires of Your Heart

    Donna Fletcher Crow

    "And He will give you the desires of your heart . . ." In Sandy Hollis' heart there had always been an England, but when her dream visit became reality, she was amazed at God's timing. Surely the land of Shakespeare and Jane Austen, of Buckingham ...

  • The Devil of Dragon House

    Janis Susan May

    In 1858 young ladies of good family did not take their lives and futures into their own hands. Orphaned from birth, Dilly Farraday has always been shunted all over the South from one unwelcoming relative to another. Too pretty for her current familyâ...

  • Diamond Rock

    Mark Schorr

    In the 3rd novel featuring Red Diamond, the downtrodden N.Y. cabbie turned hardboiled private eye is living in Los Angeles, and gets drawn into the world of rock and roll. Big Band forties meets big hair eighties, with the quest for lady love Fifi La...

  • Diana the Huntress

    Marion Chesney

    THE FIFTH OF THE FAMOUS ARMITAGE GIRLS WISHED SHE WAS NO GIRL AT ALL! Poor Diana Armitage! All she cared for was the hunt, and she loves to hunt while dressed as a man! With her lustrous black hair and enormous dark eyes, Diana is shy of men yet d...

  • Divine Assassin

    Bob Reiss

    After his fiance is murdered by Libyan terrorists, Tim Currie, an ex-American hostage of Iran teams up with John Zarek, his former cell mate in Iran, to assassinate Libyan Head of State Muammar al-Qadaffi...

  • Doing the Impossible

    Neil E. Jackson Jr.

  • The Domino Vendetta

    Adam Kennedy

  • Don't Tell Mommy

    Harold Friedman

    Dark secrets from her long-forgotten past stalk hard-working actress Julie Weston, her unborn child, and the people she loves, and only her husband Robert can save her from the horror. Somebody's stalking Julie's baby and it's not even born yet......

  • Donald Learns a Lesson (Walt Disney Fun-to-Read Library, Volume 17)

    Disney Book Group

    Donald Learns a Lesson is Volume 17 of the Walt Disney Fun-to-Read Library. Daisy teaches Donald that before a contest, it is a great idea to practice and get prepared to compete. Color illustrations; 40 pp....

  • Doomstar

    Richard S. Meyers

  • The Double Wager

    Mary Balogh

    HENRY WAS NO GENTLEMAN In fact, Henry was not a man at all. Henry was a young lady, if you could call any female a lady who refused to go by her proper name of Henrietta but preferred her most unsuitable tomboyish nickname. But now Henry had to be...

  • Downtime

    Cynthia Felice

    In this science fiction adventure, lovers Calla and Jason are forced apart by the obligations of duty when Calla stands alone against a power-hungry tyrant who would destroy the universe in order to rule it...

  • The Dreadful Duke

    Barbara Hazard

    HE WAS A LORD SHE WOULD HATE TO LOVE There seemed no reason why Lady Juliet Manchester should not be wed. She was beautiful, well born, witty, charming, intelligent. But this Juliet allowed no male to play Romeo to her. For reasons that she kept v...

  • The Dream Book

    Helen Barolini

  • Dreams Beyond Tomorrow

    June Masters Bacher

    Will you wear the ring - be my wife, my real wife - forever and ever?... After the long, hard journey, they stood on the little knoll - feasting their eyes on the beauty of Oregon's fertile fields. Rachel Lord, Colby's wife in name only, longs for th...

  • Dry Hustle

    Sarah Kernochan

  • Ducktails

    Janette Oke

    Quackery and his duckling brothers and sisters are very busy learning the ins and outs of being a duck--how to swim, where to eat, and how to steer clear of danger. They're anxious to grow up and know all there is to know--especially his brother Zack...

  • Duke: Memories and Anti-Memoirs of a Participant in the Repression

    Enrique Medina

  • Dusklands

    J.M. Coetzee

    "J.M. Coetzee's vision goes to the nerve center of being." -- Nadine GordimerThe revolutionary first fiction by Nobel Prize Winner, J.M. CoetzeeA shattering pair of novellas in the tradition of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Dusklands probes the links b...

  • Easy Connections

    Liz Berry

    No more exams. No more boring holiday work. Just two blissful weeks painting in the country - then, art college at last. Just paint, paint, paint! Cathy Harlow is a gifted painter. She is seventeen and three glorious years at art college stretch ahea...

  • The Edge of Tomorrow

    Isaac Asimov

    First Printing Good. No Jacket Not Large Print Science Fiction. 9 Oz. Light shelf and corner wear, inside pages clean but yellowed, yellowing to outside page edges, some turning wrinkles and creases. No Jacket...

  • Emperor Stone

    Sheila Strutt

    She had to be more than just Daniel Stone's wife Carly's insistence on an acting career of her own had cost her her marriage to brilliant English director Daniel Stone. But she had succeeded, and proven at last that her faith in herself...

  • Enchantment

    Kimberli Wagner

    Bewitched by her dark eyes and captivating smile, Alex Kouris was stunned by the depth of his desire for the mysterious woman across the cafe. Rhea Morgan went still, full of wonder at the flash of yearning she'd felt when her eyes met those of the s...

  • Epitaph for Three Women

    Jean Plaidy

    HE WAS A KING FOR ALL HIS LIFE--AND LIKE ANY KING, WAS BOTH HATED AND LOVED... At the age of nine months, Henry VI became king of a turbulent England. Three women who came into his life were to have a deep and lasting effect not only on him but on...

  • The Eskimo's Secret

    Carolyn Keene

  • Exorcism // Propositioned in Paradise

    Penny Jordan

    Could she exorcise her dreams of love? Looking back, Christy realized that Simon hadn't wanted to fall in love with her six years ago -- while she'd had no other choice. Still, she shouldn't have assumed he'd want to marry her. ...

  • The Face

    Marvin Werlin

    The Face: it was horrible - damaged, scarred in a car accident. Behind it lurked shy, frightened, innocent Emily Gorden - the perfect victim for a con man's scheme, a scheme masquerading as love. The Face: now it is beautiful, the pride of a succ...

  • Face-Stuffer's Anonymous

    Dik Browne

  • Fall from Grace

    Larry Collins

  • The Fall of Saigon

    Richard Ford

    Granta #15 collection of essays. Essays included: *On Harley-Davidson (Richard Ford); *Grandma Norman and the Queen (Philip Norman); *The Fall of Saigon (James Fenton); *Ten Years On; *Toothpaste (Frank Snepp); *Impotence (Norman Podhretz); *Dominoe...

  • False Colors

    Miriam Borgenicht

  • Family Bible

    Beverly McGlamry

    In 1632 Robert Barker abandoned a successful London printing business after his presses issued an edition of the Bible uring the faithful to "go forth and commit adultery." He brought his family to the New World, to a quiet Puritan homestead on th...

  • Family Life

    Russell Banks

    In Family Life, Russell Banks's first novel, he transforms the dramas of domesticity into the story of a royal family in a mythical contemporary kingdom. Life inside this kingdom includes the king (dubbed "the Hearty" or "the Bluff"), who squeals ang...

  • Family Passions

    Betsy Aswad

    The Otways' anticipated quiet summer with English professor Samuel Coleridge Barnes and his extended family is disrupted by the arrival of Jason Beauregard Baynard III, a twenty-four-year-old Southern blond seminarian and his retinue...

  • Family Trappings

    Barbara Ucko

  • Fatal Secrets

    Linda A. Cooney

    Kate suspects that Dave is tampering with her friend's science-fair experiment but discovers that he has really uncovered a diabolical plot to dump chemical wastes. They team up to uncover the villains, risking their lives in a dangerous showdown bef...

  • Fierce Eden

    Jennifer Blake

    ELISE WAS SURE ALL MEN WERE BRUTES. THEN SHE MET REYNAUD CHAVALIER... A widow at twenty-five, beautiful Elise Laffont had been married to a beast of a man who left her with a strong aversion to sex. She was quite content to manage her small Loui...

  • First Light

    Emily Ellison

  • Flawless

    Burt Hirschfeld

  • Flight of the Archangel

    Isabelle Holland

    Lovely free-lance journalist Kit Maitland's assignment to write about the Van Reider mansion on the Hudson is threatened by a series of bizarre "accidents," dark secrets from her own past, and murder THE MAN IN THE MANSION Free-lance journalist...

  • Florentine and Julia

    Carroll & Graf Publishers

  • For Love or Honor

    William Saxon

    Elizabeth Langer's accession to the Securities and Exchange Commission necessitates her impartial judgment of her tycoon fiance's dealings and complicates her desire for her fiance's first cousin and archrival...

  • Forbidden Dawn

    Sonya T. Pelton

    CRIMSON SPLENDOR The dangerously handsome stranger had haunted Monica's nights with dreams of intoxicating passion. Though the innocent beauty had seen him for only a moment, his glittering black eyes had boldly caressed her, sending ripples of desi...

  • Forest Things

    Gerard Di Pego

  • A Forever Affair

    Rosemary Carter

    "Welcome home," he said softly Despite its savage beauty, Marakizi, Jarrod's African game reserve, was no longer home to Cathy. She'd come back because Jarrod had ignored her letter asking for a divorce. But a few minutes in Jar...

  • The Fortune Seekers

    Carolyn Terry

  • Found Wanting

    Lin Carter

  • Fox Hunt

    Carol Jerina

    SHE PLAYED THE ROLE OF MISTRESS TO A MASTER SPY... AND SOON THEIR PRETENSE FLARED INTO REAL PASSION! When Charlotte Atwater arrives in 1890's Paris, she plans to visit her elderly aunt and take in the sights. Then a masked man breaks into her ...

  • Frangipani

    Anne Weale

    So much for her dreams of a peaceful cruise... "By the time we dock in Fiji, " Cassandra's sister enthused, "I'll find you a millionaire, too. It won't be difficult if you play your cards right. " As if Cassandra could ...

  • Frog Went A-Courting

    Nina Barbaresi

  • The Further Adventures of the Little Mouse Trapped in a Book

    Monique Felix

  • Gemini

    Domini Taylor

    TWICE THE BLESSING, TWICE THE TERROR. Peter and Pandora Collins. Blond. Angelic. The perfect twins. Truly the children who have everything. And richly deserve it. Then why does their baby brother have that unfortunate accident? Why does their moth...

  • The Gemini Man

    Susan Kelly

  • Girls

    Henry Demontherlant

  • Give and Take

    Norma Klein

  • Glitterby Baby

    Stephen Cosgrove

  • The Glory Game

    Janet Dailey

    Luz Kincaid Thomas has everything--wealth, two lovely teenagers, prestige, beauty and love-until her husband leaves her for a younger woman. Suddenly adrift, Luz confronts fear, loneliness and the rebellion of her son and daughter. When she meets mag...

  • The Gold Seekers

    William Stuart Long

    They came seeking wealth and vengeance. Their dreams might forge a nation or destroy it. In the 1850's Australia was a land of fertile promise and bitter truths, a wilderness. With the discovery of gold Australia became a mecca for men, questing adve...

  • Greasy Lake and Other Stories

    T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle

    Mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, The Washington Post Book World says these masterful stories mark T. Coraghessan Boyle's development from "a prodigy's audacity to something that packs even more of a wallop: mature artistry." They cover ever...

  • Halloween

    Gail Gibbons

  • The Hammer and the Horn

    Michael Jan Friedman

    Once a god . . . always a god It took place more than a thousand years ago...the Twilight of the Gods and the destruction of Asgard, home of Thor and Odin. But a sculptor named Vidar still remembers that horrific time. He is an immortal, a bastard s...

  • Hard Money

    Michael M. Thomas

  • Harkaway's Sixth Column

    John Harris

    An explosive action-packed war drama: four British soldiers are cut off behind enemy lines in British Somaliland and when they decide to utilise a secret arms dump in the Bur Yi hills and fight a rearguard action, an unlikely alliance is sought betwe...

  • The Haunted House Mystery

    Laura Lee Hope

    The Bobbsy’s are off on another adventure when Flossie wins a contest! She thinks up the best name for a renovated mansion and receives as a prize an exact miniature of the newly-named Gingerbread Manor -- and a trip to Oklahoma City for the whole...

  • Heartbreak Plains

    Valerie Parv

    Shandy was angry, angry and frustrated Chedoona Downs was a beautiful place to stay--even as a virtual prisoner. And once Shandy knew no harm was intended, the shock of having been kidnapped disappeared. But since she was not the person he'd in...

  • The Helmsman

    Bill Baldwin

    Military Science-Fiction novel chronicles the adventures of StarSailor and extraordinary Helmsman Wilf Brim during an epoch of discord and outright war among various star-nations within a galaxy that could be a far-future version of the one in which ...

  • Here Be Dragons

    Sharon Kay Penman

    THE PRINCE is Llewelyn, riding forth from the mists of Wales to challenge the awesome might of England. THE KING is John, born a Plantagenet, sworn to defend an empire, even at the cost of a cherished daughter's love. THE WOMAN is Joanna, torn ...

  • Hidden Meanings

    Charlotte Vale Allen

    Wynne Shipton is the woman who lives in the small house at the corner. Tony Wakeman lives in the large, imposing house across the road. They are people who have merely nodded politely in passing -- until the day Tony accepts a delivery for his neighb...

  • Hideaway

    Carol Norris

    As the daughter of a notorious Hollywood torch singer, Amy Barrett had fought long and hard to escape the limelight. But now she was a national heroine -- the mystery woman who'd performed a miracle by rescuing a drowning child from a freezing pond. ...

  • Hilarious Adventures with Bruno and Boots

    Gordon Korman

  • Hobo Dogs Christmas Tree

    Thacher Hurd

  • Hooples on the Highway

    Stephen Manes

    “Oh No! … This can’t be happening!†Alvin Hoople just can't wait to get to Philadelphia. He'll see the Liberty,Bell, Independence Hall, and the U.S. Mint. The best thing will be the Phillies baseball game. Alvin is the world's biggest Phil...

  • Horses of the North

    Robert Adams

  • House of Hades

    Steve Jackson

  • House of Storms

    Violet Winspear

    A compelling story of powerful passions, bound by a tradition of honor. Threatened by a legacy of deceit. A reclusive author, a tragic death and a turbulent family sweep a young editor into a maelstrom of passion and danger. Caught between the pride ...

  • How Many Tomorrows?

    Alison Tyler (1)

    Phoebe Vaughn was desperate. She would do anything for her younger sister. Even hold Calvin Prescott at gunpoint and demand that his pharmaceutical company supply the costly drug that could save Pat Vaughn's life. Phoebe's outrageous tactics won Cal'...

  • Huntsville Breakout

    Tom Cutter

    TRACKER'S HOT ON THE TRAIL OF THE BANK ROBBERS' LOOT...WITH A GANG OF DESPERADOES RIGHT ON HIS HEELS. TRACKER CHASES SOME BIG BUCKS...RIGHT INTO A SHOWDOWN SOUTH OF THE BORDER. It was the biggest bank job the territory had ever seen: $600,000 stolen ...

  • The Hyde Park Murder

    Elliott Roosevelt

    Eleanor Roosevelt puts on her investigative cap when a Hyde Park neighbor is accused of a multimillion dollar stock swindle. But just as his family turns to her for help, the case darkens -- as financial fraud becomes murder most foul. Mrs. Roosev...

  • I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

    Philip K. Dick

  • I Speak for the Dead

    J.J. Maloney

    Nick Reilly, a courageous, incorruptible investigative reporter determined to expose an attempted Mafia takeover of the Kansas City nightclub area, finds himself threatened by rival factions of the local mob...

  • I'll Be Wearing a White Carnation

    Judi Miller

  • The Imperator Plot

    Steven Spruill

    HE IS THE IMPERATOR ...Gregory Amerdath, Master of Imperial Earth and the Eight Worlds Beyond. Even here, deep in his Imperial city of Chronos, in the safety of the Garden of the Nine Planets, he is protected by praetorian guards. His ever-watchful ...

  • In Her Own Image

    Anna Murdoch

    On a sheep farm in New South Wales, owned by the daughter she despises, a mother anxiously awaits the arrival of the daughter she favors, igniting violent emotions beneath the complacent surface of the family...

  • In Love's Shadow

    Ginger Chambers

    Clay had not changed a bit -- but Sarah had Sarah would never have returned to Galveston had it not been for her mother-in-law, who was very ill. It was Sarah's love for Allison that had firmed her resolve -- that and the knowledge she wasn...

  • In the Enemy Camp

    Robert Lipscomb Duncan

    When his closest aide is assassinated, Ivy League American ambassador Charles Clements enters the treacherous world of Indonesian politics to track down the murderer from among the six men vying to control the wealth of Indonesia's oil fields...

  • In the Wings

    Katie Goldman

  • Innocent by Association

    Lisa Jackson

    Megan McKearn could make heads turn with just the flash of her smile. But acting as president of her father's brokerage firm left her with little time for men -- and that included the handsome, assured stockholder Garrett Reaves. Garrett wanted t...

  • Intimate Kill

    Margaret Yorke

    After serving ten years of a life sentence for murder, Stephen Dawes was released on licence to start a new life. But Stephen could not let the past bury itself - he alone knew he had not killed his wife Marcia. As Stephen set out to reconstruct ...

  • Island of Fear

    Roxanne Dent

    The terrified victim of a black magic vendetta. When the man she loved was killed in an attempt to overthrow a corrupt Haitian government, Riva Landau felt bound to visit the island and the people for whom he had given his life. But from the mome...

  • It's Hard to Be a Russian Spy

    Alexei Korotyukov

  • James Bond in Barracuda Run

    Steve Otfinoski

    James Bond must keep the "Barracuda," a top-secret supersonic submarine, from falling into the hands of the infamous Dr. Hans Glaub, a former Nazi conducting bizarre experiments in genetic engineering and brain implants...

  • James Bond in Programmed for Danger

    Jean M. Favors

    James Bond matches wits with the deadly, beautiful KGB agent, Pola Ivanova, and other enemy operatives to recover the missing Z-disc, the invention of the sinister Max Zorin and a power source of unimaginable magnitude...

  • Janine

    Elaine Harper

    Everything had changed for Janine and Craig now that baby Timmy had arrived. Janine hadn’t yet recovered her full strength, and the moving and readjustment to Blossom Valley were taking their toll. Taking care of Timmy was exhausting, and Jani...

  • Jenny Kiss'd Me

    Isabelle Holland

    Overweight and lacking in self-esteem, seventeen-year-old Jill Hamilton, daughter of an alcoholic doctor, finds her life transformed by her relationship with handsome Nathan Vandermark, who attends an exclusive, nearby prep school...

  • Jigsaw

    Joyce Carol Oates

  • The Journey of Death

    Jake Logan

  • Journey to Nowhere

    Dale Maharidge

  • Jubal Sackett

    Louis L'Amour

    Wilderness explorer Jubal Sackett was the son of Barnabas Sackett, the first of that name to come to the New World. Jubal feared no man, nor backed away from any challenge. His fierce determination to blaze new trails took him across the vast, savage...

  • Kara, the Lonely Falcon

    Joseph Girzone

    The author of the nationally bestselling Joshua series brings back his inspiring tale of life, love and self-sacrifice. Kara the falcon finds his world transformed when he vows never to kill another animal again, even if his very survival is depends ...

  • Keep Your Mouth Closed, Dear

    Aliki

  • Kentucky Love

    Joe Coomer

  • A Killing Season

    Barbara Brenner

  • The Kingdom of the Cats

    Phyllis Gotlieb

  • Lady Sorceress

    Patricia Rice

    LOVE'S POTENT SPELL The warmth of his mouth entraps her moist lips, and he urges her to complete surrender. Can she deny the blazing desires of this hot-blooded English lord who had once protected her as a child and now seeks to conquer her as a woma...

  • The Lamplit Answer

    Gjertrud Schnackenberg

    The award-winning poet's second poetry collection includes several works of light verse and a free verse poem about Chopin's first year in Paris, but is dominated by rhymed and cadenced poems concerning significant historical lives and events...

  • The Last Assassin

    Daniel Easterman

    In an Iranian suburb, seven men meet a macabre and voluntary death. They choose to die rather than be captured and interrogated, leaving only one mysterious clue to their identities and mission. Seven more immediately take their place, to carry out t...

  • The Last Heroes

    Alex Baldwin

    Originally published under the author's pseudonym of Alex Baldwin, a best-seller by the author of the Corps series follows a World War II flying ace as he tries to secure material for the first atomic bomb. Reprint....

  • Last Quadrant

    Moira Chand

  • Li'l Wolf Saves the Day

    Disney Book Group

    Li'l Wolf Saves the Day is Volume 16 of the Walt Disney Fun-to-Read Library. Li'l Wolf is a friend of the three pigs. Read how preparations for County Fair exhibits ties into the fouling of the Big Bad Wolf's plans. Color illustrations; 48 pp....

  • Liavek

    Will Shetterly

    Liavek, the City of Luck on the Cat River, a cosmopolitan capital of art, intrigue, adventure, and magic, is the focus of this collection of tales by Gene Wolfe, Jane Yolen, Steven Brust, and other renowned fantasy writers...

  • Lifeguards Only Beyond This Point

    Michael French

    Working as a waiter at the Hotel Sherborne, Max Riley is only too happy to take a job as a lifeguard after the regular lifeguards go out on strike, but he finds himself in trouble when he falls for the head lifeguard's girlfriend...

  • Light and Shadow

    Lisa Gregory

    A World of Reckless Deception Jason Somerville aroused unquenchable fire in Carolyn Mabry...burning desires like she had never known before. Forcibly, he brought the beautiful actress to his ancestral home in England. Passionately, he made her ...

  • Lightning Storm

    Anne McAllister

    Summer lightning -- that described Jake Torey had fallen in love with him as a teenager, but he'd regarded her as a child. Singed by the experience she met and married another man. Now, seven years later, she'd returned to California as ...

  • Lilacs Are Blooming Wars

    Alice Parizeau

    Sweeping from the end of World War II through the turbulent decades following to the era of the Solidarity movement, this historical saga chronicles the lives of Irena, Helena, and Inka Stanowski, three generations of women and their struggles....

  • A Little Night Music

    Lee Williams

    Kathy Groves has never seen the roommate who gently woos her with flowers. But late-night classical music disc jockey Jonathan Woods is very much present as he blatantly seduces her with his sexy voice, polished manner, and provocative lines. Yet, de...

  • Lone Star and the Rio Grande Bandits

    Wesley Ellis

    OUT OF THE FRYING PAN AND INTO THE FIRE... Things were hot enough back at the Circle Star. The cartel's operatives were moving in on the Starbuck spread, and it took the grisly death of a hired assassin to move them out again. The Lone Star team nee...

  • Lonesome Dove

    Larry McMurtry

    A love story, an adventure, an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's LONESOME DOVE is the grandest novel ever written about the last, defiant wilderness of America. Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove, and meet the kinds of unfor...

  • Long Journey of Lukas B

    Willi Fahrmann

    In the 1870's fourteen-year-old Lukas accompanies a group led by his master carpenter grandfather, from their Prussian village to the United States, to seek their fortunes, and where Lukas hopes to find his long missing father....

  • Longarm and the Lone Star Rescue

    Tabor Evans

    ROBIN HOOD GONE BAD... Will Sayre, once known throughout the West as the people's Robin Hood, is now accused of a string of murders, robberies and kidnappings of ordinary folks. His actions are puzzling, the results, lethal. Has the leader of the ...

  • Longarm on the Santa Cruz

    Tabor Evans

    LONGARM DIDN'T BELIEVE IN GHOSTS BUT... ...how else could he explain a dozen bank robbers in shiny slickers making off with $50,000 in government bonds and then disappearing into thin air? And in broad daylight! To make a tight spot tougher, cashe...

  • Lord of the Air

    Carol Gregor

    The new life she'd made was already in tatters! Cindy hadn't expected to find a small airfield adjoining her new property, or flight instructor Jake Seaton on her doorstep demanding she let him build a second runway on her land. He argu...

  • Lotors Giant Robeast

    Robin Snyder

    From 1984, the illustrations look like early computer animation or Photoshop. Outer space star wars fight, intergalactic crime, superhero with Lion Heads, and other thrilling adventures allow for plenty of room of your own imagination. :)...

  • Love & Betrayal & Hold the Mayo

    Francine Pascal

    Two hundred miles from home, completely on our own, with the easiest work in the world -- I can hardly wait! It has to be the best summer of Victoria Martin's life! She and her best friend, Steffi, are going to be waitresses at Camp mohaph, and a...

  • Love Play

    Carole Buck

    Their year-long debate-by-mail was hardly an auspicious beginning: He called her a "raving reincarnation of Susan B. Anthony"; she dubbed him "arrogant, obnoxious and overbearingly macho." Yet when Shakespeare scholar Torie Clavel f...