Books Published in June 1987

New Books List: 438 titles

  • Thirty Phone Booths to Boston

    Don Kardong

  • Uncertainty and Defense

    Jerry Pournelle
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    ECHO THROUGH THE LAND... From the gray gunsmoke mists of a far-off alien realm to a violent valley of sinister shadows and frightfully bloody death, from an evil planet haunted by generals of the past and the soldiers who served them to a brutal t...

  • Buddies

    Ethan Mordden

    "What unites us, all of us, surely is brotherhood, a sense that our friendships are historic, designed to hold Stonewall together," muses on character in Ethan Mordden's Buddies. This need for friendship, for nonerotic affection, for buddies, shines ...

  • Bipohl

    Frederik Pohl

  • Miss Melville Regrets

    Evelyn E. Smith

    What can a woman do? Susan Melville's trust fund is dwindling, her teaching job is terminated, her lover is abroad for the season, and her apartment is going co-op.
    So naturally Miss Melville decides to shoot herself at a posh society party. Unfor...

  • Flying Saucers

    Isaac Asimov

  • Tides of the Heart

    Diana Bachmann

  • The Shift

    Hugh Cook

    When Earth's Big Man, Troy Iridian, forms an unholy alliance with the Spang, an alien race that controls Earth by weilding the Shift, a device that can relocate both space and time, Gabriel Archangel, Troy's conscience-ridden righthand man, interceed...

  • Learning Tree

    Gordon Parks

    "A fine novel."
    THE BOSTON HERALD
    Photographer, writer, and composer, Gordon Parks has written a moving, true-to-life novel of growing up as a black man in this country in this century. Hailed by critics and readers alike, THE LEARNING TREE tel...

  • To the Victor, the Spoils

    Jenny Arden

    She still clung to a love from the past When Imogen's fiance died, she needed someone to help soothe away her sudden pain and loneliness -- someone to care about her, someone to care for. Kirk Cameron was there -- and she married him. He wa...

  • Strike at the Heart

    Emma Darcy

    "At heart I'm the last of the great romantics." Jackie Mulholland scorned Sunny King's extravagant boasts. Everything about the Australian movie director who had become her next-door neighbor irritated her: his opulent mansion, his...

  • An Expert Teacher // Hired by the Playboy

    Penny Jordan

    He'd taught her how to kiss. But did he know about love? All her life, Gemma's parents had stressed the "right sort" of people. Only once, at fifteen, had Gemma slipped past their biased protection and chosen a secret friend for he...

  • Honeymoon Island

    Marjorie Lewty

    She planned a holiday, not a honeymoon! Three years ago Lucie had fled a life of luxury in Paris and Guy Devereux, a jet-setter she intended to steer clear of and a powerful banker her father insisted she marry! Now, secure in her independence,...

  • Autumn at Aubrey's

    Miriam MacGregor

    Even he should see it was asking too much! A search for family led Donna to Aubrey's, an idyllic resort in New Zealand's Lake Taupo region. She hadn't expected to become part of a family the instant she arrived! But a sick little gi...

  • Passionate Revenge

    Sally Wentworth

    More than anything she wanted to hurt him back At eighteen, Zara Layston fell hopelessly in love with Heath Masterson. When he left for America without so much as a call, she was devastated. Seven years later, Zara, owner of a multimillion-doll...

  • Visit to the Sesame Street Museum

    Liza Alexander

    Illus. in full color. Curious to see a moon rock, Bert and his friends go to the Sesame Street Museum, where they find all the marvels of art, science, and history that a museum can offer, from dinosaurs to Egyptian mummies. This lively book shows yo...

  • The Horse Soldiers

    Bill Pronzini

  • Zoe and George ; the Island of Colours

    Veronique Arendt

  • Suicide Season

    Rex Burns

    EVEN A WHITE-COLLAR CRIME CAN END UP IN SOME PRETTY DIRTY DOINGS. Private detective Devlin Kirk has finally landed his first big case. And it is big -- the sabotage of two $100-million real estate deals. It seems to be a routine case of industrial...

  • Dark Arrows

    Alberto Manguel

  • Skeen's Return

    Jo Clayton

    Trapped in an alternate dimension, the tough and self-confident Skeen confronts slavers, monsters, and alien assassins in a fast-paced space adventure.   Skeen is back! Sexy space pilot and larcenous scoundrel -- a tomb raider who could give Lar...

  • Scandal Bound

    Anita Mills

    MISS MARLING'S MISTAKE Miss Ellen Marling made a most serious mistake when she let her father marry her off to the beastly Baron Basil Brockhaven. Just how immense an error it was became crystal clear to this innocent but independent young lady wh...

  • North Star

    Paul Joseph Lederer

  • The Great Pretender

    James Atlas

  • The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories

    Henry Lawson

  • Friday Night Is Papa Night

    Ruth A. Sonneborn

  • Empery

    Michael P. Kube-McDowell

    The first human interstellar civilization was destroyed by the Mizari -- alien Sterilizers from a black star in the Ursa Major cluster. Sixty thousand years later, humanity's far-flung remnants have reunited to form a new galactic empire. The Unified...

  • Atlantic Encounter

    Eric J. Collenette

  • Sea of Death

    Gary Gygax

    Few people have ventured into the Ashen Desert, and fewer still have re-turned to tell of what they saw and how they managed to survive. But a young man named Gord cannot allow himself to be disheartened by this knowledge. Part of an ancient and evil...

  • Desolation Road

    Richard Austin

    CALIFORNIA SLAUGHTER From the nuclear devastation of World War III rose the Guardians. Guerrilla freedom fighters in a United States fallen prey to invading forces. They are the last reminder of what America stood for--and the last hope of what Am...

  • Return of the Seventh Carrier

    Peter Albano

    OUT OF A BYGONE ERA... During the violent, bloody years of World War Two the Japanese aircraft carrier YONAGA sat frozen in an icy Arctic graveyard. Now, more than four decades later, the mighty warship once again prowls the oceans. But the face of ...

  • The Covered Wagon

    Emerson Hough


    The Covered Wagon is one of the classic sagas of the American West, set in the days of the settlement of the far frontier in the Northwest. A gatherings of families join together in the spring west of the Mississippi to form long wagon trains hea...

  • Longarm and the Desperate Manhunt

    Tabor Evans

  • Lone Star and the Rustler's Ambush

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki lock horns with a herd of vicious rustlers in the fifty-eighth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the martial a...

  • Last of the Breed

    Louis L'Amour

    Here is the kind of authentically detailed epic novel that has become Louis L'Amour's hallmark. It is the compelling story of U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escape...

  • Winter Flame

    Kelly Adams

    Maggie Anderson's future seems as bleak as the November landscape of Assateague Island...until local fire fighter Fletch Russell scoops her tip in his capable arms and spirits her straight into the hubbub of his warm, boisterous family. Maggie ca...

  • Proud Glory

    Ann Barron

    A TOWERING LOVE IN A MAGNIFICENT LAND Mollie O'Meara's dream was to flee from Ireland's wretched poverty -- and from the rude advances of a lecherous employer. Her chance came in the form of a tall, ruggedly handsome stranger from Amer...

  • Frontier Fires

    Rosanne Bittner

    AN INDOMITABLE CLAN IN A MIGHTY LAND TEXAS ... it was where Caleb Sax, the half-breed Indian many knew as Blue Hawk, dared to love a white woman, take her for his own, and with her raise a dynasty in a territory torn by conflict. TEXAS ... where t...

  • Jemima Dancer

    Corintha Bennett

    THE BUSINESS OF LOVE... The daughter of a wealthy tradesman, Jemima was a willful beauty with no use for the titled gentlemen of the beau monde. That is, until her father decided to match her with his young business partner Adam Kendall. Jemima...

  • Milady in Love

    Marion Chesney

    JUST WHEN HE'D FOBBED OFF THE LAST BRAT, ANOTHER APPEARED TO TAKE HER PLACE! Poor Lord Anselm! The dashing bachelor was forever plagued with dying relatives leaving their female children to his care. Indeed, he had squired so many a silly miss...

  • The Reluctant Debutante

    Marilyn Carter

    SHE WAS TO TUTOR THE MAN SHE LOVED... ...and it sent young Evelyn's heart a-racing! For though Thomas Byers was a gambler with a reputation of being a ladybird chaser, every look from his dark eyes tempted the scholarly beauty to put down her...

  • Scandal Broth

    Marian Devon

    "SO NOW YOU KNOW, YOU LOOSE SCREW. YOU PROPOSED TO THE WRONG WOMAN!" Having delivered this facer to the Honorable Fitzhugh Denholm, a delighted Antonia Thorpe watched as he reeled from the shock. For the notorious rake thought he had escaped a mar...

  • Deception and Desire

    Suzannah Davis

    Theirs was the perfect love, until she had to destroy it with a lie. As Katherine Holt faced Jordan Scott again, the magic was still there. Eleven years couldn't erase the passion -- or the pain. Jordan was a successful lawyer now, breeding horse...

  • Shameless Desire

    Thea Devine

    UNWILLING TEMPTRESS Delanie knew she was playing a dangerous game but she had no choice. Blackmailed into impersonating long-lost Alicia Mandeville, she was forced to spy on the arrogant owner of Mandeville Hall. But Brule Mandeville was no easy tar...

  • Lady of the Night

    Georgina Devon

    WILLFUL HEART Young Lady Damaris FitzHubert possessed beauty, fortune, and impeccable lineage. But that didn't seem to do her any good where the Duke of Camber was concerned. The man she had adored form afar since childhood had no interest whatsoe...

  • The Raven and the Rose

    Virginia Henley

    HER BEAUTY WAS THE SPARK... Her hair was black silk against her ivory skin; her gray eyes burned with opal fire. The love child of King Edward IV, Roseanna Castlemaine was pledged to her father's most prized warrior. Baron Ravenspur was dark, strong...

  • Wyoming Wildfire

    Leigh Greenwood

    Slow Burn With the inheritance of half her uncle's Wyoming spread, Sybil Cameron felt she'd gained her independence al last. Then she met her partner -- a man who firmly believed a woman had no business running a ranch. Determined to prove B...

  • Summer Storm

    Catherine Hart

    SUMMER STORM She was as soft and warm as a sweet summer rain -- as tempestuous and unpredictable as a thunderstorm over the desert. WINDRIDER He was destined to lead his people as a warrior chief and to tame the woman named Summer Storm. Though...

  • Always the Dream

    Lydia Lancaster

    SHE WAS A BEAUTIFUL HOUSEMAID ... HE, A WEALTHY GENTLEMAN. TOGETHER THEY WOULD SHARE A MOST SURPRISING LOVE! In the lavish Cranston household, Heather Bailey dusted, scrubbed and pined for the visits of Jared Cranston, the dashing heir whose teasing...

  • Texas Star

    Deana James

    IN THE SUN'S BLAZE Ebon-haired Star Garner was a wanted woman -- and Chris Gillard was determined to collect the generous bounty for bringing her in. He caught the lovely fugitive...but then she trapped him -- bewitching him with her luscious ...

  • Velvet Embrace

    Nicole Jordan

    BEWILDERING PASSIONS From the moment she saw him standing arrogantly in the doorway of her bedroom, Brie Carringdon knew Dominic Serrault was the kind of man who was accustomed to taking what he wanted. His gray eyes glittered like shards of ice as ...

  • Destiny's Desire

    Victoria London

    They never expected revenge to lead them into each other's arms! AN UNEXPECTED TWIST Revenge. It was the only thing on Joanna Beckwirth's mind on her wedding day. She had been swept off her feet by the handsome Stephen Drake only to be ...

  • A Sweet-Talkin' Man

    Jackie Leigh

    Irresistibly sexy, wealthy man-about-town Ryland Norville can sweet-talk his way into any woman's heart--but Callender Remington knows talk is cheap. She's come to Nashville to trade in her silk blouses for suede boots and her careful sophistication ...

  • Loving Lies

    Penelope Neri

    She'd risk her fortune for one night of love! UNITED BY ECSTASY Rugged Joel McCaleb would do anything to get some property of his own -- even if it meant faking his identity and marrying a woman he'd never before seen. But when the gambl...

  • Touch of Midnight

    Kerry Price

    Lily Lyons has an overactive imagination. Arriving on a dark and stormy night to claim the ghostly house she's inherited, Lily fancies herself the heroine of a romantic thriller. And when she meets ruggedly handsome Jake Kettering, the caretaker's ne...

  • Hart's Desire

    Linda Raye

    When burned-out intensive care nurse Erin Brady agrees to help out Boy Scout camp director Hart Logan, she's expecting six weeks of fresh air and R and R. She's certainly not prepared for kitchen duty cooking for three hundred hungry boys--or for the...

  • Two's Company

    Sherryl Woods

    Hollywood director Ashley Ames hates having to compromise--and kids and commercials are two of her least favorite things. When she finds she's in charge of an ad featuring two-year-old carrottop Kevin Donovan, she almost walks off the set until the t...

  • A Fire in the Heart

    Francine Rivers

    In the lawless California wilderness, she found a new life of danger -- and desire. When her radical views scandalized Boston society, beautiful Amnesty Brown headed west to claim a dead uncle's estate in a rugged California gold town high in the...

  • Hot Winds from Bombay

    Becky Lee Weyrich

    SHE DREAMS OF EXCITEMENT IN FARAWAY LANDS. She is Persia Whiddington, astonishingly beautiful, voluptuous, and on the brink of womanhood. He is Zachariah Hazzard, handsome, lustful, and ambitious, a sailor destined to be captain of a merchant ...

  • Windstorm

    Katherine Sutcliffe

    ISLE OF DESIRE Autumn Sinclair feels the stranger's eyes arrogantly raking her slender body -- igniting her innocent senses with wild, unfamiliar desire. But when their eyes meet, Autumn is shaken by the cool hostility that twists Brice Donovan's ...

  • Strangers

    Rosie Thomas

  • A Family Affair

    Cindy Victor

    Like mother, like daughter, thinks family psychologist Tamara Beattie as she drives through a blizzard into South Dakota's Black Hills. She's on her way to put a stop to Matthew Goddard, the man who wants her daughter Jilliane to get married too soon...

  • Donovan

    Elmer Kelton

    Donovan was supposed to be dead. The town of Dry Fork, southern Texas, had buried him years before when Uncle Joe Vickers had fired off both barrels of a shotgun into the vicious outlaw's face as he was escaping from jail.Now, Uncle Joe has been shot...

  • Judgement Day

    Pauline Glen Winslow

    Heed this warning from Publishers Weekly: "It begins when a spoiled, indolent couple, Bette and Royal Andersen, purchase St. Barnabus, an ancient English church, and transport it and rebuild it in their wealthy California suburb of Blissful Garden. A...

  • The Bonn Blitz

    Gar Wilson

  • The Devil's Cat

    William W. Johnstone

    The Devil’s Disguise Cats. The town was alive with them. All kinds. Black, white, fat, scrawny . . . They lived in the streets, in the back yards, in the swamps of Becancour. Sam, Nydia, and Little Sam had never seen so many cats. The cats’ ...

  • American Eden

    Ryder Stacy

  • Deathworld 2

    Harry Harrison

    Jason dinAlt has been kidnapped and is being returned to the planet Cassylia to stand trial for his crimes. But en route the space ship he is on crash lands on a planet inhabited by men who have lost much of their technology. It is up to Jason to fin...

  • Golden Sunlands

    Christopher Rowley

  • Colony in Peril

    P.M. Griffin

    Galactic Force. Military Might. They Battle Tomorrow's Deadliest Enemies... Armed for justice, trained to kill-they are the best of the best.Star Commandos. A military elite, forged in a galactic conflict. War's end marks the beginning of their missi...

  • Empery

    Michael P. Kube-McDowell

    The first human interstellar civilization was destroyed by the Mizari -- alien Sterilizers from a black star in the Ursa Major cluster. Sixty thousand years later, humanity's far-flung remnants have reunited to form a new galactic empire. The Unified...

  • Madbond

    Nancy Springer

    A king and a madman in a dying world must join together, facing monsters and terrors to save what few mortals still remain, in the first book of the masterful Sea King Trilogy by one of fantasy fiction’s most accomplished world builders Once th...

  • Forest of the Night

    Marti Steussy

    THE LADY AND THE TIGER The First-In team had promised New Lebanon's loggers that the planet's tigerlike predators were gone. But it was a tiger that stood over Hashti in the woods, pawing her and uttering an eerie, songlike cry. Panicked, the hors...

  • The Pig, the Prince & the Unicorn

    Karen Brush

  • Reap the East Wind

    Glen Cook

    It has ended. It begins again. In Kavelin, Lady Nepanthe's new life with the wizard Varthlokkur is disturbed by visions of her lost son, while King Bragi Ragnarson and Michael Trebilcock scheme to help the exiled Princess Mist re-usurp her throne --...

  • Radio Free Albemuth

    Philip K. Dick

    In his last published novel, Philip K. Dick produced a wild, impassioned work that reads like a visionary alternate history of the United States. Agonizingly suspenseful, darkly hilarious, and filled with enough conspiracy theories to thrill the most...

  • The Winged Assassin

    Catherine Cooke

    Haunted by gods and demons, Arris flees from his destiny into a life of slavery and danger. Then he faces a mission to kill his childhood best friend—if he doesn't fall in love with him first. The first in a trilogy set in an imaginary ancient...

  • The Net

    Loren J. MacGregor

    Fabulously wealthy Jason Horichi, falling into a life of crime to satisfy a thirst for adventure, enters a dark realm of dangerous double-dealing and bizarre vengeance when she becomes involved with a telepath...

  • House of Shadows

    Andre Norton

    Susan dreamed of the children of Kuydall house. She heard their voices, calling to her out of the past, wanting her to join them. Then she found the box of antique paper dolls. There was something strange about the dolls, something that drew Susan...

  • Rings of Ice

    Piers Anthony

  • The Island Worlds

    Eric Kotani

  • Doomsday

    Jack McKinney

    THE ROBOTECH DEFENDERS THOUGHT THE WAR WAS BEHIND THEM! A war without victors, that had brought two races to the brink of extinction. A war without spoils, save for the devastated Earth itself... A new-age ark, the Super Dimensional Fortress ha...

  • Planet in Peril

    Kim Mohan

  • Birth of Fire

    Jerry Pournelle

    Birth Of Fire is the story of Garrett Pittston, wrongly convicted of murder. Pittston faces a choice: life in prison, or near-slavery on Mars. Under the appalling conditions imposed by those who run the mines from Earth, Pittston and his fellow worke...

  • The Demon Lord

    Peter Morwood

    THE DEMON WAKES! Aldric, master warrior, avenger of his clan, he whom legend named Deathbringer had been forced, for honor's sake, to undertake a secret mission for his king, a mission that led him straight into the troubled border provinces of th...

  • A Night in the Netherhells

    Craig Shaw Gardner

    In the conclusion of the Ebenezum trilogy, the wizard Ebenezum and his hapless apprentice, Wuntvor, must do everything in their power to save Vushta, City of Forbidden Delights, from Guxx, the rhyming demon....

  • Yes Is Forever

    Jane Worth Abbott

    SHE WANTED TO BE A WIFE AND MOTHER FIRST Donna McGrath wasn't lacking in career ambition. On the contrary, she knew that one day she'd probably be coaching gymnasts of Olympic caliber. But right now she was single-minded. She had one summer in ...

  • Summer of Promises

    Barbara Andrews

    Some people like nostalgic walks down memory lane. Not Gail Nolan. She lived in the present. She was young to be head nurse, but she loved her work. She was content with her life, with dating Dr. David Benedict, a man at ease with traditions of wealt...

  • No Holding Back

    Candice Adams

    LOSS OR GAIN? Widowed at a young age, Elana Bradley knew she was a neophyte in the affairs of the world, but she fully intended to protect her late husband's company from hotshot young businessman Patrick Cummins. At first their relationship was a...

  • Promises

    Judith Arnold

    In the old days they'd have called it a "happening". Camera crews and reporters packed the offices of Dream magazine for its fifteenth anniversary celebration and the first-ever reunion of its six college founders. For Julianne, Laura, Kimberly, S...

  • A Mist on the Mountain

    Stella Bagwell

    MISMATCHED... She was a fishing guide in the mountains of Oklahoma. He was an assistant district attorney from Dallas. She didn't know a thing about law. He didn't know a thing about boats. What they did know was that they'd fallen th...

  • Demon Rumm

    Sandra Brown

    When Rylan North gave Kirsten Rumm his thigh-melting, mouth-drying, heartstopping smile, she knew she could not refuse him... even if letting the actor share her home for a week would force her to relive the last terrible days before her stunt pilot ...

  • The Vixen's Kiss

    Jackie Black

    Fate made Elizabeth Farrell the punk lead singer of a teenage rock band. With her orange wig, purple lipstick, and sultry voice, she looked every inch "the Vixen" of her brother's rock band. But what strange magic drove Boston Brahmin Dr. Sonny Strot...

  • The Best of Yesterday

    Judith Bolander

    SHE HAD TO READ BETWEEN THE LINES Jody Jenson was as old-fashioned as her charming Minneapolis bookshop. But debonair lawyer Clif McClelland had no interest in tradition. He came in search of a book -- and found Jody instead! Clif was not a man...

  • Amber Skies

    Leigh Bristol

    Under the Blazing Amber Skies of Texas Theirs Was A Reckless Passion For Jessica, born into poverty and her father's cruelty, the offer of marriage from rich rancher Daniel Fielding seemed like a miracle. And when her father shot her fiance in cold ...

  • Return to Yesterday

    Annette Broadrick

    Taking chances. Felicia St. Clair wasn't going to let it happen again. She came home to Texas to search for her missing brother, Adam, but -- she wasn't going to fall for Dane Rineholt -- she'd made that mistake once, and that was enough. But from ...

  • Not a Marrying Man

    Barbara Boswell

    A shameless rogue with the ladies, Sterne Lipton had never met a woman who challenged and excited him as Brynn Cassidy did -- but she'd known him too long and just wasn't seducible for love or money... and he had wagered a bundle on getting her into ...

  • The Genuine Article

    Katheryn Brett

    CONFLICT OF INTEREST.. . A. J. McMichael never suspected that her brief encounter with a handsome stranger would turn out to be one of the most important moments of her life. She returned to North Carolina to run her late father's newspaper and...

  • Jericho

    Maggi Brocher

    BEHIND THE WALLS... of a nunnery, in the fury of a Kansas dust storm, a penniless Irish girl labored through the night to bring forth her illegitimate baby. Leaving her tiny son in the care of the sisters, she vowed that one day she would return....

  • Rake's Progress

    Marion Chesney

    Lord Guy Carlton, late of His Majesty's regiment and weary from the war in France, has only wine, women and song in mind when he rents Number 67 for the Season. He certainly has no desire for a serious attachment -- and marriage, never! Then his ...

  • Where the Wandering Ends

    Sara Chance

    HIGHWAY OF LOVE Andrea Carpenter knew that Nicholas Griffin had always regarded her as a traitor to the female species. True, she was a truck driver, but she was as feminine as any woman. Andrea simply liked the freedom she found on the open road....

  • The Sun Always Rises

    Judith Daniels

    Restaurateur Catherine Harrington had known a once-in-a-lifetime love. She never believed it could happen again -- least of all with her deceased husband's best friend. Rugged, sexy and a free spirit, stuntman Nick O'Donovan lived for the ...

  • The Dreaming Pool

    Paula Christopher

    Fire and Ice Her icy beauty hid her unusual talent for finding what others had lost... or stolen. Psychic Eslin Hillary was looking for a racehorse worth millions, abducted from California's legendary Roundtree Stables. Her efforts brought he...

  • Gypsy Dancer

    Kathleen Creighton

    HONOR VS. LOVE Who was she really -- Lily Fazekas, the name she had used since childhood, or Iiona Kormany, the name of her newly discovered baptismal certificate? Joseph Varga knew something about Iiona and needed to know more. She was his c...

  • Twice Shy

    Evelyn A. Crowe

    HE GAVE HER BACK LOVE AND LAUGHTER Shelley Morgan would never forget her humiliation upon learning that her husband, Anthony, was guilty of treason. Then came the shock of discovering he'd been killed...and that he had a twin brother, Cord Low...

  • Forbidden Passion

    Marilyn Cunningham

    His blazing sensuality, his raw animal power, mesmerized her. But Annelyse Barrett, a lawyer with impeccable social credentials, lived in a different world from Steve Mather, the carpenter she'd hired to remodel her new home. How could she resist the...

  • The Best Revenge

    Edith Delatush

    Their encounter was no coincidence. Charla Treemont suspected both their scheming fathers of maneuvering her meeting with Kirk Webster in an attempt to promote marriage -- and grandchildren! Kirk was as infuriating as she remembered. But the coolly a...

  • My Lady Adventuress

    Roberta Eckert

    LADY KATHERINE'S QUANDARY Katherine Spencer barely knew the handsome, charming Captain Giles Swynford when she yielded to his passionate plea for her romantic attention. And only after she recklessly promised herself to him did Katherine learn th...

  • For Karin's Sake

    Samantha Day

    They were like a happy family -- almost For the first time in two years, Skye Cameron was beginning to feel whole again. She was settled and comfortable living at Bjorn Stefansson's country estate on the shores of Lake Winnipeg, caring for his...

  • Kiss of the Dragon

    Barbara Faith

    They were searching for an ancient treasure...but they found a timeless love. MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD A deathbed request sent Bethany Adams to Hong Kong in search of the legendary Golden Dragon, symbol of eternal love to those who viewed him wi...

  • Siren from the Sea

    Heather Graham

    She looked like a mermaid, helplessly clinging to a driftwood plank. Brittany Martin couldn't have chosen a better ploy to attract playboy yachtsman Flynn Colby. But one look into her rescuer's azure eyes and she saw dangerous waters ahead. Here on S...

  • Wild, Sweet Madness

    Elizabeth Fritch

    REBEL LOVER Outside her genteel Gettysburg home the bloodiest battle of the Civil War raged on, but inside, beautiful, proud-spirited Jessie Morgan fought to save a life. The wounded man who lay on her floor was her natural enemy, a soldier of the...

  • One of the Family

    Victoria Glenn

    OUT OF THIS WORLD As an adopted child, science fiction writer Alexandra Reynolds had always dreamed of having a sibling. So when she received a fan letter from a sister she'd never met, Alex jumped at the chance to speak at a convention in the...

  • The Baby Trap

    Carole Halston

    Ginny Sutherland longed for a child, but remarriage was out of the question. No man would ever measure up to the one true love she'd lost. Certainly not Ed Granger, the most infuriating tenant in the Hawaiian condo complex she managed. Flaunting his ...

  • Forbidden Fruit

    Brooke Hastings

    Chaperoning Lady Georgina Philipps on her dates was a big comedown for ad exec Mike Napoli, but that was the price he had to pay for accepting her grandmother's lucrative account. Even worse, "her ladyship" treated him like the lowest for...

  • Midnight Deception

    Lindsey Hanks

    LOVE AND LIES In the bayou dawn's blue stillness, desperation lent fury to Danielle Algernon's sword as she dueled to save her honor and her plantation from her magnificent enemy's arrogant hold. But fury was no match for cold steel. D...

  • Tangled Triumphs

    Terri Herrington

    UNFINISHED BUSINESS Carly Abernathy knew that nobody fought dynamic consumer advocate Reese Cartwright and won. But her toy company's most popular product was Reese's latest target. Despite their past relationship, she had to take him on -...

  • Rebel Passion

    Betina Krahn

    TAUNTING TEMPTATION Aria Dunning slapped Tynan Rutland's handsome face with great satisfaction. The beautiful colonist was not about to sacrifice her virtue just so her royalist father could marry her off to an unscrupulous English earl. Rutland wou...

  • The Captive Heart

    Barbara Keller

    He held her bound against him with a savage insistence, his manly strengh crushing her to his body, claiming her sweet mouth with his own.... A night of burning passion did what beautiful young Maragarida Ross hoped it would: It convinced Brant C...

  • The Main Attraction

    Jayne Ann Krentz

    The whole town was buzzing Filomena Cromwell's return home after ten years set small, sleepy Gallant Lake on its ear. Gorgeous, successful and driving a flashy Porsche, she was no longer the mousy girl who'd once found her fiance in bed with anoth...

  • Notorious Lady

    Dawn Lindsey

    THE ACCUSING EARL The handsome, wealthy, and iron-willed Earl of Roxbury made two major mistakes when he stormed into Miss Philippa Mayhew's drawing room and accused her of seeking to wed his youthful nephew Julian for his fortune. First, i...

  • Love Song for a Raven

    Elizabeth Lowell

    SHELTER FROM THE STORM Carlson Raven had never seen anyone more beautiful or more courageous than Janna Moran as she struggled against the stormy sea in the Queen Charlotte Islands. When he rescued her from the choppy waters and revived her with ...

  • No Competition

    Debbie Macomber

    THE ART OF LOVE Shane Reynolds knew talent when he saw it, and Carrie Lockett was definitely talented. After collecting her paintings and admiring her from afar, Shane thought he knew what made Carrie tick. It should be fairly easy to make the wom...

  • The Fairy Tale Girl

    Ann Major

    Once upon a time, the role of pampered and protected princess-wife was what Amber Johnson had wanted. But then reality stepped in, and she began searching for something more: self-reliance and independence. Fleeing to the untamed landscape of Colo...

  • On Restless Wings

    Mia Maxam

    THE RED BARON Professor Gloria Russell programmed her life to be as organized as her computers. So when Virginia Tech's new aviation instructor, Major Ross Adams, landed his antiquated biplane in her pasture, Gloria found herself in trouble. He...

  • Dream Chasers

    Anne McAllister

    How could one explain the mysteries of the heart? Some people created haunting melodies, some saw hope in a far-off land. Owain O'Neill couldn't pinpoint the urge that led him to Belle River, Wisconsin, to see for himself the child he'...

  • With Flying Colors

    Lorena McCourtney

    It was time for some serious pillow talk A good, firm mattress--that was what Cindy O'Rourke needed. But when she got stuck with two at a garage sale, a fellow shopper with bedroom eyes was willing to take one off her hands. Willing, too, when it ...

  • Callahan's Gold

    Tate McKenna

    One day Tory Talbot was minding her struggling boutique in LA; the next she was in Tombstone listening to a will left by the father who had aboned her so long ago. She was bittter about the past. And she deserved more than half a treasure map. A mot...

  • Shower of Stars

    Joyce McLean

    THE LEGEND On soft summer nights the stars fell down around the old tower of Gwynlothian Castle, and it was said that wishes made there would come true. THE BRIDE Married by proxy to a man she had never met, Jessalyn waited alone in the lofty t...

  • Perfect Partners

    Jennifer Mikels

    SURPRISE ATTACK The barrel of a revolver was not what police sergeant Ryan Brady expected to greet him at a private investigation agency--even though he did enter unannounced and after hours. And seeing an unflinching Megan Gallagher behind th...

  • No Reservations

    Judith McWilliams

    And this was only the beginning . . . Lost and unsuspecting, Jessie Anders stumbled into a madhouse disguised as a quaint Vermont inn. Not only did a "corpse" appear in her room that night, halt her rescuer, John Tarrant, obviously thought the sit...

  • Night of the Jaguar

    Paula Paul

    She should have asked for a doggy bag! Mariah Perkins' lunch was interrupted by the sound of her tour bus leaving, and now she was stranded miles from Cancun. So she did what any shy, retiring schoolteacher would do--she stowed away on the next bu...

  • The Midnight Hour

    Jude O'Neill

    Before their stormy breakup, mystery collaborators Cleo and Gus had penned many a cliffhanger--but none as dizzying as their own prospective reunion. Wisecracking Gus and stylish Cleo were to face off at sleuthing in the very inn where they'd once de...

  • Wind Warning

    Sara Orwig

    After his borrowed yacht crashed in a storm and tossed him headlong into Lake Superior, Mike Smith fought the slender figure who tried to pull him to safety aboard a houseboat. Savannah Carson had no way of knowing why Mike was wary of rescue, but sh...

  • Solid Gold Prospect

    Hertha Schulze

    Matt Lamartine had the sexiest earlobe she'd ever seen, Nita Holiday decided, but was it enough to start a serious relationship? When the wickedly attractive mining engineer tried to pick her up in the library's rare book room, she thought he was a ...

  • Mandrego

    Tracy Sinclair

    Elissa had flown to steamy Mandrego for revenge, not romance. So how could she be falling for charismatic Troy Benedict, the man whose job it was to protect her vile enemy? After endless planning to avenge her father's death, she dare not risk everyt...

  • Legacy

    Maura Seger

    HERITAGE OF DANGER... Gwen Llywelyn came to Myrddin's Rock to sell the ancient Welsh castle that one branch of her family had called home for generations. But what she found when she arrived was a heritage she could not deny, a danger she could no...

  • Passion's Splendor

    Carla Simpson

    FALSELY ACCUSED Beautiful Laine Dalton sat back in horror as Marshal Ranse McCandliss accused her of being connected to the infamous Dalton gang. True, she was an orphan with no link to her past, but Laine was convinced that there were no skeleton...

  • After Midnight

    Ruth Alana Smith

    THEY HAD MORE IN COMMON THAN THEY SUSPECTED... As a psychologist for the New Orleans Police Department, Alex Vaughn had her hands full. The chief was unsupportive and the men resented dealing with the "lady shrink". Sergeant Nick Stavos was par...

  • Possibles

    Lass Small

    HUSBAND MATERIAL? Dark hair and eyes. Shaggy brows. Stern mouth. Nice, athlete's body. Possible husband material. Too bad he wasn't interested in... What was Sarah Moore thinking? She had given up on men! Especially when the man was her new boss, St...

  • The Heart Club

    Margaret St. George

    Molly McPherson hated injustice When Gran and the other members of the Heart Club discovered they'd been victimized by a patent-thief, Molly tried to help. But according to Mike Randall, a part-time inventor with a full-time interest in Molly, the...

  • Double Masquerade

    Alison Tyler (1)

    There was no denying it. Lara Blakely and Tracy Cormier were stunning look-alikes. From the moment he'd set eyes on Lara, private investigator Tom Drake though he'd found his woman. Would a weekend at an isolated island estate reveal that she was ind...

  • To Ask Again, Yes

    Carolyn Thornton

    Why wait for fate? In the privacy of her apartment, Ivy Kendall cooked up an alternative to the fabled chance encounter with Mr. Right. The Date-Mate T-shirt, which transformed Ivy into a walking personal ad, was eye-catching, to the point and, Iv...

  • False Pretenses

    Joyce Thies

    FARMER'S DAUGHTER Something wasn't right on the Courteau Pig Farm. The FBI had evidence that pointed to Patricia Courteau being a Mafia hit woman--but one glimpse of Tricia had a lump bigger than all Iowa in G-man Paul Lansing's throat. Either thi...

  • Unwitting Accomplice

    Tina Vasilos

    One thing led to another It was shocking enough for Dina Pappas to discover her dead husband had been a criminal. Now she was suspected of being one, too. When Ran Constantine was assigned to investigate, Dina was prepared for a fight--not for ...

  • The Way of Destiny

    Jackie Weger

    She wasn't entirely innocent Leah Spencer thought she had outrun the past; she and her children had made a fresh start on Galveston Island. But when her boss announced that someone was embezzling company funds, history began to repeat itself . . ....

  • Image in the Looking Glass

    Jacquelyn Cook

    There was no discounting those hands. Someone was determined to kill her. As the crippled Confederate army struggled desperately on their last scrap of hope during the final months of the Civil War, Caroline Hannah was fighting her own battle for sur...

  • The Cat Who Played Brahms

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    Is it just a case of summertime blues or a full-blown career crisis? Newspaper reporter Jim Qwilleran isn't sure, but he's hoping a few days in the country will help him sort out his life. With cats Koko and Yum Yum for company Qwilleran heads for...

  • A Is for Alibi

    Sue Grafton

    Laurence Fife was a slick divorce lawyer and slippery ladies' man. Until someone killed him. The jury believed it was his pretty young wife Nikki, so they sent her to prison for eight years. Now, Nikki's out on parole and Kinsey Millhone's in for tro...

  • The Black Rose

    Frederick D. Huebner

    Seattle lawyer and sleuth Matt Riordan discovers a disturbing link between the disappearance of his girlfriend and Patty's brother, a member of a white supremacist party, and the murder of Matt's old Vietnam friend Bernie Seaton...

  • Appleby and the Ospreys

    Michael Innes

    Available to download for the very first time, the fantastic Inspector Appleby series by celebrated crime writer Michael Innes.

    Clusters, a great country house, is troubled by bats, as Lord and Lady Osprey complain to their guests, who inclu...

  • Taking the Fifth

    J.A. Jance

    "WE HAVE A BINGO" At first, the cops had little to go on -- a paycheck stub from Starlight Productions, a matchbook from the Edgewater Inn. Oh, and a body. Definitely male and decidedly dead, covered with strange little puncture wounds. Then they sh...

  • Tropical Heat

    John Lutz

    Welcome to Miami. Keep one hand on your wallet and the other on your gun. It was what you might call a lucky shot. A single bullet ended Carver's day as a cop and began his career as a P.I. When a dark-haired beauty needs help finding a missing lover...

  • Kill Flash

    T.J. MacGregor

    Gill Kranish, Hollywood producer. Genius. Sensualist. Manipulator. Anyone could be out to destroy him . . . .

    Kranish is a legend -- and his new TV movie, Night Flames, promises to be his most spectacular. But one night Kranish receives a vide...

  • Bullet Hole

    Keith Miles

    In the world of championship golf, the stakes are high and passions run to match. And never more so than at the British Open Championship, particularly when it is played at Saint Andrews, venerable home of the game.For Alan Saxon, too long ago a cham...

  • Break Point

    Ilie Nastase

  • The Third Lady

    Shizuko Natsuki

    She Had Appeared From Nowhere.. ...quietly watching the storm through the French doors of the Chateau Chantal's salon. Away from the cares of work and family in Japan, Kohei Daigo felt strangely drawn to this woman, also Japanese, whose haunting s...

  • Prime Suspects

    Bill Pronzini

  • Miss Melville Returns

    Evelyn E. Smith

    Quondam professional assassin Miss Susan Melville, now an equally successful artist, has the role of amateur sleuth thrust on her when she unintentionally stumbles upon arson, drug smuggling, and murder...

  • Swan Song

    Robert R. McCammon

    AN EPIC JOURNEY OF TERROR ACROSS A LAND SEETHING WITH UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS. AMERICA!-HAUNTED BY AN EVIL WHOSE TIME HAS FINALLY COME. An ancient evil roams the blasted, nightmare country, an evil as old as time. He is the Man with the Scarlet Eye, t...

  • The Uplift War

    David Brin

    As galactic armadas clash in quest of the ancient fleet of the Progenitors, a brutal alien race seizes the dying planet of Garth. The various Uplifted inhabitants of Garth must battle their overlords or face ultimate extinction. At stake is the exist...

  • A Time for Heroes

    Will Bryant

  • The Silent Executioner

    Marcel Allain

  • Slam the Big Door

    John D. MacDonald

    When Mike Rodenska, a former journalist and recent widower, visits his old friend Troy Jamison in Florida, he's shocked at what he finds. For despite the parties, the shapely women, the devil-may-care air that surrounds Troy and his friends, Mike can...

  • A Candidate for Murder

    Frank Orenstein

  • The Timothy Files

    Lawrence Sanders

    Lawrence Sanders' phenomenal bestselling thrillers, including The First Deadly Sin and The Seventh Commandment, have achieved worldwide acclaim. In this shattering story of urban crime, Sanders introduces Timothy Cone, a private eye who digs too deep...

  • The Rose Rent

    Ellis Peters

    A late spring in 1142 brings dismay to the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, for there may be no roses by June 22nd. On that day the young widow Perle must receive one white rose as rent for the house she has given to benefit the abbey or the cont...

  • For the Good of the State

    Anthony Price

    By the CWA Gold Dagger award-winning author of Other Paths to GloryTwo KGB rivals, General Zarubin and Professor Nikolai Andrievich Panin, confront each other on a point overlooking the British Channel. Meanwhile, Henry Jaggard of British Intelligenc...

  • Fate Accomplished

    Jonathan Ross

  • A Chorus of Detectives

    Barbara Paul

    The stars of the Metropolitan Opera search for a crazed killer who plans to bring the company down. They find the tenor dangling from a water pipe, hanging by his own suspenders. His corpse is still warm. Naturally, the opera’s manager doesn’t st...

  • Talley's Truth

    Philip Ross

  • The Uninvited Corpse

    Michael Underwood

    Rich old gentleman Vernon Gray, has succeeded in involving young solictor Rosa Epton in his legal affairs. She is instructed to make him a will and has become an unwilling agent in finding him anew housekeeper. But not long after he has made his will...

  • The Raider

    Jude Deveraux

    Returning to Warbrooke, Maine, after ten years abroad, Alexander Montgomery doesn't like what he sees. Redcoats are running rampant over the town, intimidating citizens and imprisoning patriots. Alexander vows to take action. By day, padding his coat...

  • Misery

    Stephen King

    Paul Sheldon, author of a series of historical romances, wakes up in a secluded farmhouse in Colorado with broken legs and Annie Wilkes, a disappointed fan, hovering over him with drugs, ax, and blowtorch and demanding he bring his heroine back to li...

  • Flight of the Old Dog

    Dale Brown

    Flight of the Old Dog is the runaway bestseller that launched the phenomenal career of Dale Brown. It is the riveting story of America’s military superiority being surpassed as our greatest enemy masters space-to-Earth weapons technology -- neutral...

  • Split Image

    Don Pendleton

    BEAR HUNT One U.S. pilot in exchange for three Bulgarians convicted of spying. It was a routine swap between the superpowers--until the American vanishes on his first night in the States. Mack Bolan is brought in to track down the fugitive flie...

  • The Dark Behind the Curtain

    Gillian Cross

  • The Door Between

    Nancy Garden

    When her father announces plans for a housing development in the woods considered sacred by the mysterious hermit, the village is attacked by seemingly supernatural wild dogs; and Melissa realizes that she must find and pacify the hermit, even if it ...

  • Young Legionary

    Douglas Hill

    After twelve-year-old Keill survives an Ordeal designed to test his capability to survive the harsh conditions and savage life forms on the planet Moros, he is selected for advanced combat as a Young Legionary....

  • The Danger Quotient

    Annabel Johnson

    A super-genius in a small underground colony of survivors of nuclear war, eighteen-year-old Casey risks journeying back to the twentieth century to discover why the survivors are dying and how he can save them all....

  • Deadly Stranger

    Peg Kehret

    When Katie Osborne goes to visit her new friend Shannon Lindstrom, a stranger says Shannon's at her piano lesson. The next day Shannon is reported missing and Katie is the victim of a hit-and-run driver. Katie doesn't realize that she's the only one ...

  • Bestiary Mountain

    John Forrester

  • Death on the Rocks

    Michael Allegretto

    After Phillip Townsend dies in a car crash west of Denver, private eye Jacob Lomax, hired to investigate the accident, discovers that the dead man, a pillar of the community, is the star of a porno film and follows a trial that leads to murder...

  • Weep No More, My Lady

    Mary Higgins Clark

    Cypress Point - the ultimate California spa where the rich and famous pursue health and beauty in unalloyed luxury. But lovely young Elizabeth Lange is after something else: the truth about the death of her beloved sister - a famous actress who plun...

  • Nantucket Soap Opera

    S.F.X. Dean

  • A Scrap of Time

    Ida Fink

  • Venetian Mask: A Psychological Thriller

    Mickey Friedman

  • The Rat

    Gunter Grass

    A female rat engages the narrator in a series of dialogues-convincingly demonstrating to him that the rats will inherit a devastated earth. Dreams alternate with reality in this story within a story within a story. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Hele...

  • Where the Rainbow Ends

    Christopher Hudson

    Guy Tanered, sent to Ceylon to oversee the rubber trade, becomes involved in politics and romance during the Japanese victories of World War II and witnesses the end of British rule after the Japanese bomb the island...

  • To the Sargasso Sea

    William McPherson

  • Utah

    Toby Olson

  • Season of the Jew

    Maurice Shadbolt

  • Dreams of the Kalahari

    Carolyn Slaughter

  • Sightings

    Susan Trott

    The power of obsessions and the fateful consequence of the misunderstandings that go with them are revealed in the lives of eighteen-year-old free spirit Sunny Scott and her family, friends, and lovers...

  • Black Woman, Black Woman

    A.B. Assensoh

  • Jade and Fire

    Raymond Barnett

  • A Proper Woman

    Lillian Beckwith

    ''You looked for a moment as if you might be going to smile at me,'' he remarked. ''But I see I was mistaken; I suspect your smiles are precious and you hoard them so they are seen only by very special people.''

    Anna is a child living in a ...

  • More Die of Heartbreak

    Saul Bellow

    In More Die of Heartbreak, our erratic narrator explains to his audience that he must abandon Paris for the Midwest. Of course, Kenneth merely wants to be closer to his beloved uncle, the world-famous botanist Benn Crader, to receive the older man’...

  • The Accompanist

    Nina Berberova

    "A spellbinding short novel set in post-revolutionary Russia about a young girl''s jealousy. The fifth book of Nina Berberova to be published by New Directions, The Accompanist, written in 1936, proved to be a literary phenomenon in Europe where it w...

  • The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars

    Steven Brust

    Once upon a time there was a kingdom that lived in darkness, for the sun, the moon and the stars were hidden in a box, and that box was hidden in a sow''s belly, and that sow was hidden in a troll''s cave, and that cave was hidden at the end of th...