Books Published in June 1989

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JUNE 1989

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New Books List: 494 titles

  • Blood Under the Bridge

    Bruce Zimmerman

    SAN FRANCISCO --A city of scenic perfection, where executives consult the Tarot, sunny days dawn shrouded in fog... and women are losing their heads for all the wrong reasons. Quinn Parker knows about fear. He's fought it enough. But nothing cold ...

  • Ingulf the Mad

    Paul Edwin Zimmer

  • Almost Perfect Sum

    Rona S. Zable

    Ellen Jane Gardner lands a summer job as a mother's helper on Cape Cod and learns that she will be looking after a spoiled, nasty brat, but the sight of next-door neighbor Todd Crowley revives her enthusiasm...

  • The Maxton Bequest

    Alison York

    "Money can't buy everything." That's what Ros told the arrogant Dan Maxton when he tried to buy the run-down Stables she inherited from his grandfather. Everything she held dear was wrapped up in the studio she'd established...

  • Beastnights

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

  • Law in Charity

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    The frontier town of Charity is growing larger -- and more lawless. Enter Jason Russell, a new kind of Sheriff.Texas Territories, 1848. At the edge of the mountains, in what will someday become Colorado, the frontier community of Charity needs someon...

  • Regression

    Frank Wyka

  • The Place

    T.M. Wright

    Greta King is scared. There’s no one home, and she’s locked out. Something is very wrong. Even The Place, Greta’s imaginary world, is touched by terror. The bright blue sky has turned black-red, and the magical cats won’t talk anymore. ...

  • War in the Nueces

    Don Worcester

  • The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf

    Virginia Woolf

    Woolf continually used stories and sketches to experiment with narrative models and themes for her novels. This collection of nearly fifty pieces brings together the contents of two published volumes, A Haunted House and Mrs. Dalloway’s Party; a nu...

  • Seven American Nights

    Gene Wolfe
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  • Among the Eagles

    G. Clifton Wisler

  • A Secret Understanding

    Patricia Wilson

    Their relationship was explosive Ever since Jordan Reece had come as the new editor of the Bradbury Herald, the morning conferences were a battleground where he and Cassandra Preston crossed swords. Jordan knew that Cassy resented him, and whe...

  • Liar's Moon

    Mary Anne Wilson

    THIEF OF HEARTS Michael Conti met Alexandria Thomas while she was committing a near-perfect crime: stealing an expensive bracelet from a posh L.A. jewelry store. Only his intervention kept her from walking away with the booty. He knew he ought to ...

  • The Fortress

    Colin Wilson

  • Love Me Like a Rock

    Leigh Anne Williams

    They had absolutely nothing in common... The absentminded professor and the fast-track ad exec. Archaeologist Ethan Brody was out of place in Stacy Morrison's career-oriented New York City world. Ethan had spent the last eight years in a primitive...

  • Dandelion

    Bronwyn Williams

    Another Man's Woman . . . Cabel Rawson didn't have to resort to paying a woman for her favors. So when he saw the delicate dockside beauty unsuccessfully plying her trade, he hated himself for the desire she aroused in him. Maggie McNair had ru...

  • The Elephant and the Kangaroo

    T.H. White

    “THERE’S AN ANGEL IN THE CHIMNEY!”Mrs. O’Callaghan had come up with some pretty farfetched notions, but when she came running to Mr. White with this announcement, he was convinced she’d lost all touch with reality. Yet when the sensible Eng...

  • Treasure Hunters

    Val Whisenand

    WINNER TAKE ALL Jason Daniels had a secret mission: pose as a quiz-show contestant and weed out the dishonest players. Unfortunately, the most obvious candidate for deception was his teammate, Lori Kendall. No matter that Lori seemed too up-front ...

  • The Challenge

    A.B.C. Whipple

  • Fool's Coach

    Richard S. Wheeler

  • Stop

    Richard S. Wheeler

  • Love and Murder

    Peter Whalley

  • The Kremlin Contract

    N.C. Weyl

  • The Assassin and the Deer

    Diane Weyer

    Tessa works as an undercover agent for the Organization, the top-secret arm of a human rights group. When her Boss informs her that a man has breached the security of their communications network, she accepts her assignment to terminate him. Down mou...

  • A Matter of Feeling

    Sophie Weston

    Ten years could not erase the memory When unsophisticated teenager Barbara Lamb turned her back on Portugal, she'd made a new life and career for herself in England. Her one aim was never again to have to ask anyone for help. When her old frien...

  • Poky Little Puppy's Special Day

    Cindy West

  • Leader of the Band

    Fay Weldon

    Fay Weldon mines the fields of sexuality, procreation, and astronomy in her liberating novel about the ongoing quest for self-fulfillment Sandra Harriswife, astronomer (known for discovering the planet Athena), television phenomenon, and professio...

  • Polaris and Other Stories

    Fay Weldon

    Fay Weldon journeys to the wilds of Scotland and far-off Tasmania in these twelve tales of sexual politics and marital and political warfare In “Christmas Lists—A Seasonal Story,” the endless lists created by a suburban couple becom...

  • Life With a Star

    Jiri Weil

    Following the Nazi occupation of Prague, Josef Roubick, an ordinary ex-bank clerk, finds his whole world rendered extraordinary. Overnight he changes from being a simple Czech citizen to being a hunted Jew. "Life With a Star" relates Josef's life und...

  • Do You Remember Babylon?

    Anne Weale

    He could have chosen any woman he wanted Adam Rocquaine, idolized the world over for his looks and singing voice, was a man completely out of Maggie Hornchurch's experience. So far, her experience had been strictly limited to building her care...

  • Fire Horse

    Denis M. Way

  • The Priory

    Margaret Wasser

  • The Notorious Nabob // The Nabob

    Sheila Walsh (1)

    THE DUKE'S DAUGHTER Lady Olivia Egan was the daughter of a duke--but she had fallen far from that high estate. Only by wedding well could she climb out from under her late father's mountain of debt. Her choices were dismal. There was vastly wea...

  • A Private Affair

    Kelly Walsh

    NICK MALONE, P.I, WAS CONFUSED .... Ever since Laurel Davis--personal manager of movie star Diana Baxter--had come into his life, he had felt like the co-star of an action-packed adventure film! First there was the seemingly unsolvable case of ...

  • Guest of Honor

    Irving Wallace

    U.S. President Matthew Underwood is dangerously indifferent to his job until he meets the female head of tiny Lampang, falls in love, and becomes mired in Lampang's internal politics to the detriment of his own career...

  • The Wizard of Oz Movie Storybook

    Jan Wahl

    Dorothy and her faithful friends the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion and Toto journey down to the Emerald City in the magical land called Oz. Features colorful stills from the 1939 motion picture....

  • The Sorcerer's Curse

    Paula Volsky

  • Pirate's Bride

    Lynette Vinet

    He'd take her with or without he "I do"! CAPTURED BY THE HAWK All young Bethlyn Talbot had wanted when she set sail for the colonies was to track down the husband she'd been forced to wed as a child. Then her ship was attacked by ...

  • Final Dictation

    L.M. Vincent

    Radiologist and former college basketball star Townsend Reeves doesn't think twice about making an on-call switch with colleague Barry Zimmerman so he can attend a Missouri Wildcats basketball game; that is, not until Zimmerman is found bludgeo...

  • Luk Mume, Luk Dade, I Kan Rit

    Una Villiers

  • The Saga of Dharmapuri

    O.V. Vijayan

  • Knight of the Living Dead

    Allen Varney
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  • Big Planet

    Jack Vance

    The objective of the mission from Earth: to stop the ruthless Barjarnum of Beaujolais from expanding his empire on the Big Planet...and prevent the world from falling under this tyrant's domination. Then sabotage forces the craft to crash land, and t...

  • Ten Years Beyond Baker Street

    Cay Van Ash

  • A Collector of Photographs

    Deborah Valentine

    'A touch of Margaret Millar . . . worth watching' Sunday TelegraphSan Francisco artist Roxanne Gautier's startling paintings of male prostitutes has sent shock waves throughout the art world - and in her personal life. When Taylor Adams, her favouri...

  • Star Spangled Lover

    Linda Vail

    DESIRE--PRIMITIVE, EXCITING...AND OUT OF CONTROL! For Laura Newton, the vast unchanging desert of the American Southwest was filled with mystery and irresistible challenge. Determined to save priceless Navajo relics from looters, she was risking h...

  • Hard Candy

    Andrew H. Vachss

    Now a paid assassin, Burke is on a collision course with a man named Train, who runs a 'safehouse' for kids. But when Burke learns that his suspicions about Train are right (the safehouse keeps kids in harm's way), he becomes his own gun-for-hire....

  • A Compelling Case

    Michael Underwood

  • Bunnykins Rhyming Games

    Colin Twinn

    Simple instructions encourage parents to teach children such classic rhyming games as "Pat-a-Cake" and "I'm a Little Teapot" while colorful illustrations of Beatrix Potter's Bunnykins hold children's imaginations and attention...

  • Condition Purple

    Peter Turnbull

    In Glasgow one summer evening a frightened young woman in heels is walking. Click. Click. Click. The man who will kill her when he sees her is in the city. She knows this because she has seen his car cruising in the grid system, and she knows he k...

  • Family Sins

    William Trevor

    In Family Sins, William Trevor brings his tremendous empathy and keen eye for detail to these gemlike tales of country life in Ireland. Here are twelve portraits of everyday folded in crisis-haunted by memory, battered by circumstance. The middle-...

  • Repeat Performance

    Lynda Trent

    Years ago, Jordan Landry had broken their engagement--and Carley Kingston's heart--to marry another woman. Left behind in the small Texas community of Apple Tree, where rumors and gossip die hard, Carley had tried to forget--but she hadn't forgiven. ...

  • Mary Poppins and the House Next Door

    P.L. Travers

    Mary Poppins, the unflappable nanny of the Banks children, is back again It is a day like any other for Mary Poppins and the Banks family in Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane until a telegram arrives with the momentous news that Miss Andrews, the...

  • His Kind of Woman

    Pat Tracy

    MEANT FOR EACH OTHER He'd been her late husband's fiercest rival, and for Grace Banner that was reason enough to stay away from Matthew Hollister -- even if he was mesmerizingly attractive. The moment he saw Grace, Matthew knew she was one of a...

  • Darci in Cabin 13

    Martha Tolles

  • Hayballs

    Peter Tinniswood

  • Full Coverage

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    She wasn't covered for heartbreak Giving away teddy bears was a crazy way for Max Armstrong to attract customers--or so insurance agent Clare Pemberton thought. She figured she'd have no trouble, wiping out his cuddly brand of competition ... unti...

  • Out of the Blue

    Dianne Thomas

    Car, clothes, and money stolen, April Conway and her daughter, Staci, are stranded in a local police station, waiting for Jake the Rake to come and get them. The father of Staci's pen pal, Jake is an all-star athlete, a notorious womanizer, and April...

  • My Secret History

    Paul Theroux

    Brilliantly written, erotically charged, My Secret History is Paul Theroux's tour de force. It is the story of Andre Parent, a writer, a world traveller, a lover of every kind of woman he chances to meet in a life as varied as a man can lead. It beg...

  • Wildflower

    Laura Taylor

    IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT... When Alexa Rivers discovered the truth about her arranged marriage the night before her wedding, she couldn't go through with the ceremony and hastily fled the altar. Then an accident left her injured and helpless on a des...

  • The Sorcerer's Sacred Isle

    Keith Taylor

  • Giants of Elena

    Robyn Tallis

  • Horrorvid

    Robyn Tallis

  • The Great Tabascoes

    John Talbot

    The Great Tabascoes are a small family of mice who travel from town to town with their magic show. They work hard to put on a good performance but they are poor and their equipment is old and worn out. Things are getting desperate - something has to ...

  • The Kentish Manor Murders

    Julian Symons

    What the Haynes encounter at Castle Baskerville is, in Val’s words “really screwy.” A tycoon apparently allergic to light surrounded by moats and drawbridges and a permanent staff of guards, doctors, nurses and “companions: who work under the...

  • Quite Honestly

    Luci Swindoll

  • Incident at Pishkin Creek

    Gary D. Svee

  • Emergency

    Jessica Sutton

    A searing drama of passions and power plays within the walls of Hollywood's superstar hospital. FIGHTING FOR LIFE The quake that rocked downtown Beverly Hills, Bel Air, and Hollywood has left Bel Air General battered but still standing, and the...

  • Dead Men Don't Marry

    Dorothy Sucher

  • The Widget, the Wadget, and Boff

    Theodore Sturgeon
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  • Carolina Skeletons

    David Stout

    As a fourteen-year-old black boy living in 1940s South Carolina, Linus Bragg should know better than to follow the two bicycling white girls. But something about Sue Ellen and Cindy Lou compels him. Maybe it’s the way Cindy Lou speaks to him, o...

  • Between the Lightning and the Thunder

    Randy Storms

  • Truck Shot

    Jim Stinson

    Stoney Winston is teaching a film workshop at low-rent Angeles Commercial Design College when the college president is literally blown away. To pry loose the insurance transfusion needed to keep the dying college alive, Stoney follows the murderer&rs...

  • The New Girl

    R.L. Stine

    WELCOME TO FEAR STREET Don't listen to the stories they tell about Fear Street. Wouldn't you rather explore it yourself ...and see if its dark terrors and unexplained mysteries are true? You're not afraid, are you? She's pale as a ghost, blonde and...

  • The Body's Memory

    Jean Stewart

    Poet, essayist, and disability-rights activist Stewart writes "a remarkable first novel . . . less about disability than about the evolution of a reflective soul through the vehicle of disablement" (Orlando Sentinel). "A frank calls to arms."--San Fr...

  • Tama and Other Stories

    Bruce Stewart

  • Sharing California

    Jeanne Stephens

    PUPPY LOVE What was Annie Malloy supposed to do with half of California? And why on earth did she have to share custody of the crazily named basset-hound star of a dog food commercial with her ex-lover, Sam Bennington? Not that she didn't like ani...

  • Season of Passion

    Danielle Steel

    Kate is only eighteen when she meets Tom Harper, one of America's biggest pro-football stars.  They share an idyllic and glamorous first love.  But the bullet that suddenly ends Tom's career also ends their life together.  A failed suicide atte...

  • The Walking Shadow

    Brian Stableford

    Paul Heisenberg is mysteriously endowed with the ability to jump through time. Together with thousands of eventual followers, he begins a journey that eventually takes him a billion years into the future. The Earth has been devastated by war with an ...

  • Cartomancer

    Anne Spillard

  • Harold's Runaway Nose

    Harriet Sonnenschein

  • A Little Rebellion

    Beverly Sommers

    It was deja vu all over again When Neil Blessing walked into Flanagan's bar, sat down with the Rooftop Gang and ordered the ritual Friday-night roast beef platter, Kevin looked pleased. Andy looked uneasy. And Lulu Lenahan looked ready to spit nai...

  • Still Lives

    Scott Sommer

    Thom Frankle's world is completely cracked up, but just when he believes he's beyond consolation, he begins to hear a voice murmuring reassuring Biblical quotations. That, and the appearance of Constance, a young widow with a 7-year-old son, helps Th...

  • Deliver Us From Evil

    Stephen Smoke

  • Jane's House

    Tom Smith

  • Soul/Mate

    Rosamond Smith

  • A Masculine Ending

    Joan Smith (1)

    Loretta Lawson, English professor at London University, is annoyed when she discovers a sleeping stranger in the supposedly empty Paris flat she has borrowed. When she returns from a feminist literary conference to find the stranger gone but his bed...

  • It Takes Two

    Joan Smith

    IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO Wes Adler seemed to have it all--a high-powered career and his pick of the finest things life had to offer. Still, Wes was certain that something was missing--something he couldn't find. But when he met hotel concierge Jennie...

  • Deep Chill

    Ian Slater

    The bestselling author of Air Glow Red STATE-OF-THE-ART SUSPENSETWO THOUSAND FEET BELOW THE WAVESSHOWDOWN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEAUSS New York. A sixteen-thousand-ton nuclear Trident submarine lies like a giant metal coffin on the floor of the icy No...

  • Book of the Dead

    John Skipp

    Blood-draining tales by horror masters--including Stephen King, Robert McCammon, Ramsey Campbell, and David Schow--conjure the heinous deeds of the vengeful living dead, in a collection of Zombie stories...

  • The President's Women

    June Flaum Singer

    Three women ruthless Judith, who would stop at nothing to see her son Rud, president; wild, beautiful Carlotta; and her sweet sister Francesca all desired Bill Sheridan, whose chief desire was to be president. In turn, Carlotta's daughters Jade and A...

  • King of Hearts

    Tracy Sinclair

    Suave, mysterious Morgan Destine asked more questions than he answered. But sheltered schoolteacher Stephanie Blair knew one thing for certain: he ruled her senses, and she ached to have him end the torment he created with almost casual expertise. ...

  • Man With the Little Dog

    Georges Simenon

  • Arabesques II

    Susan Shwartz

  • That Long Silence

    Deshpande Shashi

    Jaya's life comes apart at the seams when her husband is asked to leave his job while allegations of business malpractice against him are investigated.



    Her familiar existence disrupted, her husband's reputation in question and their fu...

  • Mesabi Huntdown

    Jon Sharpe

  • Sybil

    Flora Rheta Schreiber

    Here is the unbelievable yet true story of Sybil Dorsett, a survivor of terrible childhood abuse who as an adult was a victim of sudden and mysterious blackouts. What happened during those blackouts has made Sybil's experience one of the most famous ...

  • Darkness Falls

    Joyce Anne Schneider

    The death of a young girl in a wealthy Connecticut town shakes the community in this suspenseful "tale of psychological terror, skillfully plotted, and deftly written" (San Diego Union).In the sheltered coastal town of Grand Cove, Connecticut, the si...

  • Lauren Takes Charge

    Susan Saunders

    Lauren's mother gets a job, so Lauren is on her own. She has extra responsibilities and more allowance, but she seems to be doing all the cleaning up after her Sleepover friends. Is it time for a tough, new Lauren?...

  • Patti's Secret Wish

    Susan Saunders

    When Patti stops spending time with her sleepover friends Kate, Lauren, and Stephanie, they wonder what could be distracting her, and rumors fly when they see her at the local college with an older boy...

  • The Game of the Silence

    Richard Sauer

    Locked in a Los Angeles institution, would-be screenwriter Lee Warren meets a troubled young woman whose sanity may hinge upon the truth concerning a long-ago accident, and he vows, upon release, to unravel the mystery...

  • The Birth of a Grandfather

    May Sarton

    May Sarton’s 7th novel is about marriage, family, life’s cycles, and the regeneration of love Frances and Sprig Wyeth have come to the old Wyeth house in Maine for the summer. In a house filled with lively members of her husband’s extended fam...

  • The Education of Harriet Hatfield

    May Sarton

    “Harriet Hatfield begins a new life at the age of 60 after her lover of 30 years has died and left her comfortably well off. But when Harriet opens a bookstore for women in a blue-collar neighborhood of Boston, she is viciously attacked for her ...

  • Beansprouts

    Rosemarie Santini

    Nina Norton, adept at both ballet and baseball, finds herself torn between the wishes of her mother and her grandfather, both of whom want her to pursue a single activity, while she is unsure what she wants for herself...

  • Private Lies

    Rosemarie Santini

  • Capital Crimes

    Lawrence Sanders

    He calls himself Brother Kristos, a bearded bear of a man, whose eyes can pierce the soul. His origins are cloaked in mystery, but his present mission is clear: to take upon himself transgressions of the wives of Washington, absolving them of guilt. ...

  • Tales by Moonlight II

    Jessica Amanda Salmonson

  • Murder in Focus

    Medora Sale

    Sent to Ottawa to attend a seminar on anti-terrorism in advance of a trade summit, Toronto Police Inspector John Sanders has nothing more on his mind than getting through the tiresome sessions. But from his first encounter with Harriet Jeffries, an a...

  • Beyond Safe Boundaries

    Margaret Sacks

  • Passion's Golden Fire

    Susan Sackett

    His searching caresses ignited Passion's Golden Fire ECSTASY'S HEIGHTS All Sabine Payne wanted was to be the perfect daughter to her widowed father and to become an archeologist like him. Then one night, deep in the Yucatan jungle, she c...

  • Subterranean Gallery

    Richard Paul Russo

  • I'll Take It

    Paul Rudnick

    They came. They saw. They came and took what they saw.

    The Esker sisters are shoppers. Loving, caring, driven, merciless shoppers. Ida never "passes a store without slipping in and buying something to give away." Pola, who only buys in bulk, w...

  • Too Many Weddings

    Pamela Roth

    Those she joined he put asunder Willie Webster had performed enough weddings to believe in the power of love--and marriage. Matt Bailey had handled too many divorce cases to think love was even worth a try. But the fact that he equated love with m...

  • Nattie Witch

    Ruth Rosner

    Nattie the witch girl seems to have a normal day, eating breakfast, going to school, and playing with her pet, until you realize that her breakfast is newt loops, her school is a witch school, and her pet is a lizard....

  • Andi's War

    Billi Rosen

  • Sydney, Herself

    Colby Rodowsky

  • Captive Enchantress

    Gina Robins

    SHE'D GRANT HIM THREE WISHES When clever Chelsie Channing escaped her abductors by hiding in a men's bathhouse, it was too late before she realized she'd jumped from the frying pan into the fire. The soapy tub where she sought refuge belonged to non...

  • Blood Tells

    Stephen Robertson

  • The Enigma Variations

    John Maddox Roberts

    They changed his name, wiped his memory clean, and replaced his hand with a thing of polished steel. But the man called Slate will stop at nothing to regain his past and the woman whose face he almost remembers. Who or what is Slate? The giant corpor...

  • Mississippi Massacre

    J.R. Roberts

    They were about as different as snake oil and springwater. But when Justin Tarr eyed another man's wife in a smoky gambling hall, it was Clint Adams who pulled him out of the mix-up and saved his hide. That was the first time the unlikely duo brushed...

  • Blue Notes Under a Green Felt Hat

    David Ritz

  • Little Boxes of Bewilderment

    Jack Ritchie

  • Mississippi Madness

    Eugenia Riley

    HE SAVED HER LIFE … THEN TAUGHT HER TO LOVE… A rare man indeed, this Jared Hampton. Reckless, gallant, and afraid of no one, he not only pulled half-naked Jasmine Dubroc, a penniless orphan, from the black depths of the Mississippi River, but da...

  • In the Eyes of Mr. Fury

    Philip Ridley

    The day Concord Webster turned eighteen, the devil died. - The devil's real name was Judge Martin, but Concord's mother had always told him that he was the devil. She called his house Hades and said that he kept bats and snakes in his bedroom. But ho...

  • The Book of the Dead

    Robert Richardson

    When wealthy Charles Carrington, proud owner of an unpublished Sherlock Holmes story and husband to a younger, adulterous wife, is murdered, amateur detective Augustus Maltravers must turn to Holmes himself to solve the crime...

  • Foolish Deceiver

    Sandra K. Rhoades

    Allie knew blondes didn't have more fun She'd spent so much of her life working on high-powered scientific projects that she didn't have much time for play. And perhaps it was hardly surprising that her first love affair ended in disas...

  • Dark Canyon

    Bill Reno

  • Intimate Evil

    Paul Reidinger

    Seventeen-year-old Jason McGuire is on death row for the murders of his brother and father. When his case comes up for appeal, Jason refuses to assist in his own defense, saying he killed them because "he felt like it". But Bryan Delafield, his lawye...

  • Game of Survival

    Dian Curtis Regan

  • Desert Bride

    Joanne Redd

    FROM ENGLAND TO A PASHA'S HAREM TO THE BURNING SANDS OF THE SAHARA... Fleeing an English nobleman's wrath, Lorna Winters became a Barbary pirate's prize, sold to a pasha's harem. Her violet eyes and auburn hair promised a king's ransom--and soon it ...

  • Fowl-filcher

    Ranga Rao

  • Dungeon

    Random House

    Beneath the ruins of an ancient castle, there is a magical dungeon holding treasure beyond imagination. The treasure is for the taking, but first there are ferocious monsters that must be dealt with. Enter the dungeon...where only heroes dare to trea...

  • Mountain of Fear

    Rona Randall

    Original title: Silent Thunder. A frightened girl probes into the past to find the secret that doomed her to a bizarre and sinister future. Margaret Buchanan seeks to learn the terrifying secret nestled in the ancient Cleft of Fenris, a quest m...

  • Hide and Seek

    Paul Preuss

    The third in a spectacular new series of science fiction thrillers evolving from the work of Arthur C. Clarke, the best-selling author of 2061: Odyssey Three. Her code name is Sparta. Her beauty veils a mysterious past and abilities of superhuman ...

  • Leah's Story

    Fayrene Preston

    When Zarah, the old gypsy woman, gave her the wondrous string of creamy pearls, promising that a man with cinnamon-colored hair would enter her life and magic would follow, Leah insisted she didn't believe in such pretty illusions. But when handsome ...

  • Pyramids

    Terry Pratchett

    Unlike most teenaged boys, Teppic isn't chasing girls and working at the mall. Instead he's just inherited the throne of the desert kingdom of Djelibeybi--a job that's come a bit earlier than he expected (a turn of fate his recently departed father w...

  • Hatteras Blue

    David Poyer


    In a graveyard of the Atlantic, a treacherous sercret has been buried...until now.

    A U-boat went down in 1945, and now, more than 40 years later, the bodies of the three crewmen have surfaced near Hatteras Island. But their chilling reappe...

  • The Crash of Empire

    Jerry Pournelle

    Empires do not grow old gracefully. As the edifice of ancient government succumbs to entropy, as civil war reigns, the result is indeed "interesting times," the times of interstellar Huns locked in mortal combat with Imperial storm troopers. Original...

  • Oh My, a Fly!

    Jan Pienkowski

  • Holly's Hope

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    Holly Chambers was beautiful... but she appeared to be dead! Justin Hope was shocked at the sight of bodies lying everywhere. What disaster had befallen the pretty Wisconsin town, and how could he help the lovely woman lying on the grass before him? ...

  • Dead Crazy

    Nancy Pickard

    Award-winning author Nancy Pickard has been receiving high acclaim for her mystery series starring sleuth Jenny Cain. This time Cain finds herself following the trail of a possible paranoid schizophrenic slasher -- only to uncover clues that put her ...

  • The Tart Shoppe

    Phyllis Taylor Pianka

    Teas and Cakes for Discriminating Tastes The sign outside The Tart Shoppe door came as a welcome relief to Lady Constance. She and her Aunt Millicent were travelling from Cornwall to London. Yet afflicted as she was with a violent illness, Constan...

  • Blood Rights

    Mike Phillips

    Black journalist Sam Dean searches for the missing daughter of a Conservative Member of Parliament, and the case soon leads him deep into a world of blackmail, racial prejudice, kidnapping, and murder...

  • Mickey Mouse and the Pet Show

    Joan Phillips

  • Tough Enough

    W.R. Philbrick

  • Leonardo's Judas

    Leo Perutz

  • Forever the Dream

    Mary Pershall

    Northern California, 1878. Monterey was the golden land where Major Jeremy Morgan built a flourishing empire and made his vast fortune. Where, basking in the luxuiant glow of prosperity, he and his wife Ariana raised their children. Hamilton....A vis...

  • Death Wind

    Don Pendleton

    TROPIC HELL A hard probe into a cocaine pipeline leads Mack Bolan to a Caribbean drug lord and into a shadowy KGB conspiracy. Increased Soviet activity on the island of Grenada points to something more sinister than drug trafficking--and much more...

  • Call and Response

    T.R. Pearson

    Meandering from comic set pieces to hilarious digressions, Call and Response perfectly captures the peculiar lilts and rhythms of the South -- and spins a magical tale of love and all its manifold complications. The novel centers on Nestor Tudor, a m...

  • Deadly Summer

    Francine Pascal

    Revenge... Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield are working as summer interns at The Sweet Valley News when they hear that a patient has escaped from a nearby psychiatric hospital. Assigned to research the man's past for an article, the twins discover th...

  • Ex-Wife

    Ursula Parrott

    1929. The book begins: My husband left me four years ago. Why-I don't precisely understand, and never did. Nor, I suspect, does he. Nowadays, when the catastrophe that it seemed to be and its causes are matters equally inconsequential, I am increasin...

  • Summer Land

    Dan Parkinson

    Bravely blazing new trails to the Western frontier, Christopher Post, Luther Ferris and his wife Kate, and Luther's sister Ellie are emboldened by dreams ranging from wealth in the forbidden Spanish territories to taming the untouched land to finding...

  • The Slavers

    F.M. Parker

    Running from the deadly repercussions of accidentally killing a man, Ken Larrway finds sanctuary in the uneasy, doomed colony of Janus, where polygamy and death are common, and a gunslinger never rests easy...

  • Horse in New York

    Cam Parker

  • Who's in the Box, Bobby?

    Pat Paris

  • The Race Against Time

    Bernard Palmer

  • The Sacred Ruins

    Bernard Palmer

  • The Showdown

    Bernard Palmer

  • Celebrating With Flowers

    Jane Packer

    This work contains ideas for arranging flowers to celebrate special occasions as well as to turn an ordinary room into a celebration in itself. The author created the wedding bouquet for Sarah Ferguson and has been described as a pioneer of the natur...

  • Savage Fury

    Wanda Owen

    INNOCENT DREAMER Lovely auburn-haired Gillian was secure in her quiet world on a remote ranch in Arizona Territory, yet she longed for romance and excitement. But her girlish fantasies didn't prepare her for the strange new feelings that assaulted h...

  • The Darkened Room

    Alex Owen

    A highly original study that examines the central role played by women as mediums, healers, and believers during the golden age of spiritualism in the late Victorian era, The Darkened Room is more than a meditation on women mediums -- it's an explora...

  • By Death Possessed

    Roger Ormerod

  • Palu

    Louis Nowra

    A woman from New Guinea who possesses supernatural powers travels to Australia to be with the leader Emo, then back to her homeland with him, and finds that his lust for power puts her in mortal danger...

  • The Champions

    Paul Nichols

  • Night of the Weeping Women

    Lawrence Naumoff

  • My Brother Stealing Second

    Jim Naughton

    After his older brother is killed, Bobby tries to come to terms with some disturbing truths about his family and political corruption in their town, as well as deal with his profound grief and the beginning of his first love...

  • Over the Moon and Far Away

    Margaret Nash

    This is a school story with a difference. It all began on the first day of the summer term. Ben glanced up as a new girl walked in. She wore odd socks and around her neck hung a glass prism. The new girl is called Zillah and she says that she's a tra...

  • Bloodletters and Badmen - Book #2

    Jay Robert Nash

  • A Writer's Nightmare

    R.K. Narayan

  • Ghostbusters II

    Ed Naha

    The dauntless heroes who caused spines to tingle and ghosts to flee in the original "Ghostbusters" are back in fine form, wreaking havoc on the spirit wiorld as they set out to rescue Dana from further ghostly phenomena...

  • Deadly Score

    Paul Myers

  • Skate Expectations

    Bill Myers

    Meet Nick Martin, a normal kid with an unusual friend--the lively, animated McGee! These companion books to the award-winning videos develop the themes to a greater degree, presenting kids with important values. (Ages 8 to 12)

    In #4 Skate Expectat...

  • Deathless, the

    Myles Murchison

    After eminent scientist Walker Stevenson is killed trying to discover Ponce de Leon's legendary city of eternal life, Stevenson's lover, Dr. Harriet May Eddy, tries to solve his murder and faces a force of staggering evil...

  • The Imperial Agent

    Timeri N. Murari

  • Ice Follies

    Barbara J. Mumma

  • Mother Goose Rhymes

    Diane Muldrow

  • Rightfully Mine

    Doris Mortman

    For Gaby Cocroft, home and husband are everything -- until the day she is suddenly left alone, without work, without money, without love. Summoning the courage to start over, she gambles all on the tantalizing lights of New York -- only to discover t...

  • Fantasma

    Thomas F. Monteleone

    Family against family -- to the death!The blood feud between the Manzaras and the Candelottos began when the first Mazara strega cursed the family's hated rivals for Mafia power. Now the younger generation does battle with guns and explosives, abando...

  • The Ecolitan Operation

    L.E. Modesitt Jr.

    IN THE DAYS OF THE EMPIRE The Empire spans the human galaxy, its agents everywhere. Major Jimjoy Earle Wright, secret agent of the Empire, intelligent and highly trained, succeeds too well in overthrowing a military dictatorship and the result ...

  • Jennie

    Jane Claypool Miner

    She has lost everything in the great flood -- except her courage. Swept away in the murderous torrent of the Johnstown Flood of 1889, Jennie fights death--and wins. Now she must continue to fight for herself and her family by working as a telegrap...

  • Daddy's Girl

    John Milne

    1989, American hardcover edition, St. Martin's, NY. 201 pages. Suspense novel. London private investigator, Jimmy Jenner, returns for his third case. Milne is a marvelous writer. This time out, a drunken Hollywood actor wants to track down his daught...

  • Cally's Enterprise

    Claudia Mills

  • Angelfire

    Linda Lael Miller

    Shocked by the threat of an arranged marriage to an aging magistrate, Bliss Stafford fled through the rugged New Zealand countryside. But chance--and the barrel of her father's pistol--wed her to Jamie McKenna, a handsome, headstrong rancher whose bo...

  • The Hungry Billy Goat

    Rita Milios

  • Son of Two Worlds

    Haydn Middleton

    Middleton ( The Lie of the Land ) presents a lyrical but graphic retelling of the ancient Celtic story of Pryderi. Pendaran, chieftain of the herdspeople of Dyfed who dwell in the mortal world, wins the love of Rhiannon, a horse-goddess from the immo...

  • Rubens

    Emma Micheletti

    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scann...

  • Far Harbor

    Melisa C. Michaels

  • The Big Killing

    Annette Meyers

    Headhunters, Leslie Wetzon and Xenia Smith, go after the top guns in the financial world- Wall Street, where everyone is looking to make the big killing. A slick, successful stockbroker that Wetzon is interviewing. at the Four Seasons, leaves her to ...

  • Circles Effect and Its Mysteries

    George Meaden

  • The Royal Treatment

    Judith McWilliams

    What had she done to deserve this? It just wasn't Eleanore Fulton's day. As it i weren't disaster enough, she suddenly found herself sole guardian of her cousin's baby. Then, to top it off, millionaire Arab playboy arrived on her doorstep with an ...

  • But Nellie Was So Nice

    Mary McMullen

    A pleasant middle-aged spinster, Nellie Hand is everybody's friend and confidante, learning all of her friends' innermost secrets until one of them decides that, nice as she is, Nellie should be silenced permanently...

  • A Question of Honor

    Lindsay McKenna

    Orders were orders, but battle-weary undercover agent Kit Anderson chafed at seeking refuge from death threats in the house of her new boss, Coast Guard Lieutenant Noah Trayhern. Noah's cold authority masked inner demons to rival her own; his rough k...

  • Just for the Summer

    Christine McDonnell

  • Sick of Shadows

    Sharyn McCrumb

    Another bride, Another groom, Another lazy afternoon... Of murder. ENGAGED TO BE MURDERED Eileen Chandler, of the very eccentric Georgia Chandlers, is all set to be married. Unfortunately nobody much likes the groom; they fear he's out to s...

  • Lords of Thlassa Mey

    Dennis McCarty

  • Blood Brothers

    Gary McCarthy

    A FATAL FRIENDSHIP Ben Pope and Rick Kilbane are as different as night and day. A miner's son, Ben is an awkward, earnest kid with no money and lots of hard luck. Rick is the wild, troublemaking son of Ulysses Kilbane, a professional gambler and t...

  • Conflict

    Margaret Mayo

    Personal relationships were out Ambitious to get Berry's Cider Farm bark on its feet after her father's death, Blythe Berensen simply had no time for them. And especially not with Coburn Daggart. Years ago he had hurt her badly, and she...

  • Love and Will

    Rollo May

    The heart of the dilemma of modern man is our failure to understand the real meanings of love and will, their sources and their interrelations. In bringing fresh insight and interpretation to these concepts, May shows how we can attain a deeper consc...

  • The Art of Survival

    A.E. Maxwell

    What does a man do for diversion when a blow-out strands him in the snowy wilds of Santa Fe? If he's Fiddler--and he's just burned up 1500 miles of open road between California and New Mexico--he's ripe for trouble. And Native American painter Maggie...