Books Published in June 1989

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JUNE 1989

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New Books List: 494 titles

  • The Year's Best Fantasy

    Ellen Datlow

    Drawn from a range of periodicals, anthologies, and small-press publications, this collection of fantasy and horror fiction encompasses works by Jane Yolen, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Disch, and other notable authors...

  • Year of the Monkey

    Ronald Argo

    Acclaimed as one of the most important novels of the Vietnam War, YEAR OF THE MONKEY takes us not only into the savage jungles where death waits in every paddyfield, but into the apocalyptic world of political corruption, where friendship and betraya...

  • Wrong Place, Wrong Time

    W. Glenn Duncan

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    Rafferty's Rule 19: When you can't tell the bad guys from the good guys, it's time to get the hell out.

    It hurts to admit it, but Toby Wells played Rafferty like a bar-room fiddle, and Luis Ortega is dead. And while the cops know Rafferty d...

  • A Writer's Nightmare

    R.K. Narayan

  • The Wrath

    Bob Ham

    The ruthless battle has entered a new phase. Mob leader Bruno Segalini didn't die, and now he has his own motorcycle gang to do his dirty work. But the 18 -wheel warriors are on the scene again to protect the Lee trucking business....

  • Working Murder

    Eleanor Boylan

    Clara Gamadge puts down the phone with a tremor of excitement. Only a year ago that call would have come to her husband, gifted sleuth Henry Gamadge. Now Henry is dead, and Clara is summoned to deal with the latest convulsion in an old family tragedy...

  • Wordy Gurdy

    Ricky Kane

  • Woman's Estate

    Merle Jones

  • 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....

  • Witch Wood

    John Buchan

    First published in 1927 and set in the 17th century, this is a wonderful story of witchcraft in the forests of England....

  • Willowswood Match

    Gayle Buck

    The love-shy young lady A most painful experience in love sent beautiful young Miranda Wainwright from her home in America to the estate of her aristocratic cousin in England. Here she could start a new life, far from humiliating memories of betra...

  • 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...

  • Wildfire

    Norah Hess

    SWORN ENEMIES The Yankees had killed her sweetheart, imprisoned her brother and driven her from her home...but beautiful, golden-haired Serena Bain faced the future boldly as the wagon trains rolled out. Ahead lay countless dangers. But all the peri...

  • A Wild Desire

    Rebecca George

    HE HAD A DATE WITH A DECK OF CARDS...THEN HE MET BRIER MORGAN Lighthearted Brier Morgan always bowed to the strict commands of her iron-willed Mormon parents -- until her father presumed to arrange her marriage! Stowed away on a produce wagon, the...

  • The Widow of Oz

    Kathryn Lasky Knight

    At fifty-two, newly widowed, children grown, Knight realizes most of the decisions of her life have been made by others. The time has come for growth, self-discovery, and for finding her own way home from Oz....

  • The Widget, the Wadget, and Boff

    Theodore Sturgeon
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  • Who's in the Box, Bobby?

    Pat Paris

  • Who Whispered near Me

    Killarney Clary

  • White Gamma

    David Chacko

  • The Whiskey Runners

    Justin Ladd

    Bethany Hale arrives in Abilene preaching an anti-alcohol message, and soon three people, have died from poisoned liquor, but Deputy Cody Fisher determines someone's using poison to drive moonshiners out of business...

  • When We're Alone

    Jane Donnelly

    It was difficult to say no to him Colin Radbrook had made a name for himself as an investigative reporter -- and wasn't easily deterred from reaching his goal. And Livvy admitted that in other circumstances she might have succumbed all too ...

  • When We Get Home

    Maud Markson

  • Wee Color Wee Sing for Christmas

    Pamela Conn Beall

  • The Way Things Are

    E.M. Delafield

    "'You've never told me about your marriage, Laura?' said Duke Ayland.

    . . . 'Yes. It's only - I'm very fond of Alfred,' said Laura, taking the plunge and temporarily unaware that almost all wives begin conve...

  • Warrior Sky

    Jack Hawkins

  • War in the Nueces

    Don Worcester

  • 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 ...

  • Vengeance

    Jerry Ahern

    The FLNA terrorists had thought that by breaking Patriot leader David Holden, they would be one giant step closer to conquering America. So they had kidnapped him and held him captive in a South American cocaine country, where he was subjected to rut...

  • Until Spring

    Pamela Browning

    She didn't know her real name... And the streets were her home. But Jane Rhodes knew that she deserved a roof over her head, a job, a better way of life. She'd struck out from the blustery streets of Chicago, hoping to reach sunny Californ...

  • Twilight of the Dawn

    Elizabeth Nell Dubus

    As the Civil War casts its ominous shadow across a divided nation, four young scions of the Old South aristocracy embrace a passionate and dangerous destiny. -- Gabrielle Canno -- The alluring and sheltered plantation miss, whose fiery independence...

  • Twilight of Empire

    Allan W. Eckert

    One of the premier chroniclers of our nation's turbulent frontier history, Allan W. Ecker now presents another spellbinding chapter in the conquest of the American wilderness.  Here is the powerful, compellingly human story of the white man's strug...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Treasure

    Steve MacKenzie

    In the deadly world of modern warfare, the art of combat is taken to its awful limits. Only one fighting unit has the skill and ruthlessness to handle all this killing power, making every corner of the globe its field of fire; using with chilling eff...

  • Tourists

    Lisa Goldstein

    The 1993 American Book Award-winning author of The Red Magician presents another spellbinding tale. In a faraway land called Amaz, a family whose ordinary appearance masks hidden conflicts discovers things that change them forever. "One of the great ...

  • Tough Enough

    W.R. Philbrick

  • The Toothache Tree

    Jack Galloway

    A kidnapper and his teenaged captive in forced togetherness in the woods, amid the real-life beauty, fascination, and cruelty, of nature. Fun-filled, suspenseful, and heartwarming. And so the legend goes that if you break the skin of another with the...

  • 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...

  • Tommy at the Grocery Store

    Bill Grossman

  • Titan

    Steve Jackson

    Covers the turbulent history of the planet Titan, from its early civilizations, through the devestating war of the wizards, to the present-day wilderness and anarchy where the delicate balance between good and chaos could at any moment be overturned....

  • Tiger Dawn

    Kathleen Creighton

    THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY Zoologist Sarah Fairchild had a mission in Indonesia: to protect the life of the endangered orangutan. But deep in the steamy rain forests she encountered an altogether different species -- the magnificent jungle pre...

  • Thump Thump Rat-a-Tat-Tat

    Gene Baer

  • Three Hunters

    William Harrison

  • 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...

  • Thank Heaven Fasting

    E.M. Delafield

    "She could never, looking backwards, remember a time when she had not known that a woman's failure or success in life depended entirely upon whether or not she succeeded in getting a husband"

    When in the company of a young man ...

  • Ten Years Beyond Baker Street

    Cay Van Ash

  • The Ten Silver Coins

    Nick Butterworth

  • Temperatures Rising

    Sandra Brown

    Mysterious, elusive Chantal duPont was an enchanting forest nymph in a revealing white gown, beckoning Scout Ritland into the sultry night with promises of pleasure in her breathtaking blue eyes. But when the exquisite island princess pulled a gun an...

  • Teach Me

    Stella Bagwell

    Who's Teaching Whom? Bernadette Baxter saw no harm in giving her boss a few pointers on the art of courtship when he asked. After all, a man as kind as Mr. Atwood deserved the woman of his dreams. But after a few "practice" dates, Bernadette bega...

  • Tawny Scrawny Lion Saves the Day

    Golden Books

  • 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...

  • Tama and Other Stories

    Bruce Stewart

  • Tall Timber

    Dirk Fletcher

    Thompson Lumber Comapny was the biggest logging operation in Oregon,but someone was sabotaging their shipments and equipment, and stray bullets had left two people dead - on of them a government inspector. That's when the Secret Service called in Spu...

  • Talking God

    Tony Hillerman

    A grave robber and a corpse reunite Navajo Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee. As Leaphorn seeks the identity of a murder victim, Chee is arresting Smithsonian conservator Henry Highhawk for ransacking the sacred bones of his ancesto...

  • Tales by Moonlight II

    Jessica Amanda Salmonson

  • Sydney, Herself

    Colby Rodowsky

  • 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 ...

  • Sweet Sixteen

    Linda A. Cooney

    Carrie cannot wait until she and her friends can get away from her strick stepfather and celebrate her sixteenth birthday with her real father who lets them do as they please--regardless of the consequences...

  • Sweet Desserts

    Lucy Ellmann

  • A Summer of Horses

    Carol Fenner

  • 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...

  • Subterranean Gallery

    Richard Paul Russo

  • Stupid Cupids

    Jahnna N. Malcolm

    Valentine's Day is coming up, and the girls at the Deerfield Academy of Dance have boys on the brain. It all starts when a new student enrolls in their ballet class-a boy. And he's not just a good dancer . . . he's mega cute! Then Zan, McGee, Rocky, ...

  • Strike

    Eric Helm

  • Stop

    Richard S. Wheeler

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Spy Story

    James Burke

  • Spring Training

    Mark Freeman

    After burning up the minors, the Rosemont Rookies -- Dave "DT" Green, Glen "Scrapper" Mitchell, and Roberto "Magic" Ramirez -- have been setting a match to the major leagues in spring training. Now the first games of the new season are approaching --...

  • Spartina

    John Casey

    Winner of the 1989 National Book AwardA classic tale of a man, a boat, and a storm, Spartina is the lyrical and compassionate story of Dick Pierce, a commercial fisherman along the shores of Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. A kind, sensitive, family ...

  • The Souls of Black Folk

    W.E.B. Du Bois

    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line."  Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and...

  • Soul/Mate

    Rosamond Smith

  • The Sorcerer's Sacred Isle

    Keith Taylor

  • The Sorcerer's Curse

    Paula Volsky

  • 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...

  • Somebody's Baby

    Claire Harrison

  • So What Do I Do Now?

    Dallas Groten

  • Small Pleasure

    C.B. Christiansen

  • Slocum and the Outlaw's Trail

    Jake Logan

    A BLOODY STAGECOACH AMBUSH is nothin' out of the ordinary on the Texas range. But there's something strange about the masked kid---who kills only one of the passengers without even bothering to rob the others! It's downright peculiar. Then, when S...

  • 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...

  • The Skull

    Shaun Hutson

    THE SKULL It had been waiting for centuries, buried in a place they called the evil ground... waiting for just one drop of blood to restore it to life. But when Nick Regan discovered the skull on a construction site, he and his archeologist wife C...

  • Skip to My Lou

    Loretta Lustig

  • 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...

  • Six Roommates and a Baby

    Emily Chase

    There's nothing the 407 girls can't handle. Is there? All the girls of 407, old and new converge on Boston to be godmothers at the christening of their form housemother Alison's new twins. And not everyone is happy about it. Then Al...

  • Sir William and the Pumpkin Monster

    Margery Cuyler

  • Simply Irresistible

    Barbara Boswell

    Surgeon Jason Fletcher was the hospital heartbreaker, a gorgeously virile playboy with no scruples--until he stepped in to protect Laura Novak from a hotshot younger doctor! Why had he, the man without a possessive bone in his body, suddenly felt jea...

  • Silk Road

    Jeanne Larsen

    Set during the Tang Dynasty of eighth-century China, a sweeping fantasy tale of Greenpearl, kidnapped by Tibetan raiders, chronicles her dual quest--to learn the language of humans, and to find her long-lost mother...

  • 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...

  • Shy Little Kitten's Secret Place

    James Duncan Lawrence

  • The Showdown

    Bernard Palmer

  • 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...

  • Shadow Games

    Glen Cook

    After the devastating battle at the Tower of Charm, Croaker leads the greatly diminished Black Company south, in search of the Lost Annals. The Annals will be returned to Khatovar, eight thousand miles away, a city that may exist only in legend ... t...

  • Seven American Nights

    Gene Wolfe
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  • Seminar on Youth

    Aldo Busi

    "Seminar on Youth" is an account of the adventures of a young peasant from northern Italy who becomes a homosexual prostitute in Milan and Paris. For money or company he pursues relationships, most memorably with an insecure French girl, and through ...

  • Seductive Scoundrel

    Victoria London

    HIGH-HANDED MISS Should he silence her with kisses or with death? That was Lord Logan Hammond's choice when he overheard gorgeous Gillian Marlowe rattling on about the traitorous conversation she'd overheard. If the virile American spy kil...

  • 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...

  • The Secret of the Sunken Treasure

    Laura Lee Hope

  • A Season of Swans // A Wild Legacy

    Celeste De Blasis

    After the firestorm of violence and tragedy that severed North from South and brother from brother, the Falconer dynasty--like the nation itself-- needs time to heal, to rebuild, to rise from the ashes. Waiting in the wings is a new generation of Fal...

  • 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...

  • Schiller

    Matthew Hunter

    An American journalist, stationed in Moscow, is drawn into a defection plot which goes disastrously wrong. Haunted by the suspicion that the CIA knew of his attempts to help a dissident writer and his wife escape from Russia, he goes in search of the...

  • 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...

  • Sanctuary

    Joseph P. Desario

    “DeSario is a miracle worker. . . . [He] swings for the fences and knocks it clear out of the park.”   Booklist     In Joseph P. DeSario’s suspenseful novel, tabloid reporter Matt Teller’s discovery of a brutal crime leads...

  • Sanction to Slaughter

    Nick Carter

  • The Saga of Dharmapuri

    O.V. Vijayan

  • The Sacred Ruins

    Bernard Palmer

  • Run That Sucker at Six

    N. Leigh Dunlap

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • The Roses of Constant

    Bethany Campbell

    Evil inhabited the town Some kind of madness had overtaken everyone but Valery Essex. Lifetime neighbors were lying under oath. Planting evidence in her backyard. Making midnight phone calls designed to terrorize her. Unless Valery got to the hear...

  • Roommates

    Alison Blair

  • Rolling Thunder

    Mark Berent

    Rolling Thunder is an historical novel about the decisive role politics played during the Vietnam War. Its characters range from men in the field to the Pentagon and the White House. Fighter pilots and Special Forces warriors try to do their be...

  • Rogue's Gold

    W.W. Lee

  • River Song

    Craig Lesley

    As he grows older and reevaluates his life, Danny Kachiah is sure he wants to teach his son the traditional Nez Perce ways and convince him to give up the rodeo, while also being unsure of how to handle his marriage-minded ex-sister-in-law...

  • Ring of Gold

    Sandra Field

    It was not the holiday she'd planned When a friend forced her to take a much-needed break from the pressures of her job, Paige Montgomery had her own plans. Top of the list was to get her life into some kind of order. Instead she found hers...

  • 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...

  • Riddell of Rivermoon

    Miriam MacGregor

    If only she could heal the rift... Fleur knew all about the bitter family quarrel that had divided her mother and her aunt. No word had been exchanged between the two families for ten years. So when Luke Riddell appeared from his property on th...

  • The Rich Farmer

    Nick Butterworth

    An exciting re-launch of this delightful series taking the single titles to eight in total. The Rich Farmer tells the story of how every year he grew more and more corn until his barns were bursting. All his neighbours thought he must be very cleve...

  • Resurrection Dreams

    Richard Laymon

    Haunted by memories of a deranged boy named Melvin, who attempted to bring a dead body back with power from a car battery, Vicki returns home years later and encounters Melvin, who, just released from the institution, has special--and horrifying--pla...

  • 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. ...

  • Regression

    Frank Wyka

  • Red Phoenix

    Larry Bond

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    From the author who collaborated with Tom Clancy on Red Storm Rising, this is the book that dares to show us the military hardware, global upheavals, and raw combat a second Korean War would unleash. How F-16s would blast across the 38th Parallel...

  • Reach

    Edward Gibson

    Reach is the story of Commander Jake Ryder and the Wayfarer 2, a deep-space probe sent out to determine the fate of its sister ship, turned suddenly and mysteriously silent. It is a heart-stopping account of uncommon courage and resolve in the face o...

  • The Race Against Time

    Bernard Palmer

  • Quite Honestly

    Luci Swindoll

  • 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...

  • Quality of Mercy

    Faye Kellerman

    Rebecca Lopez enjoys a life of privilege in Elizabeth's England--yet she guards secrets she dares not reveal. The beautiful, tempestuous daughter of the queen's own physician, Rebecca is also a converso--a Jew who practices her prohibited religion cl...

  • 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...

  • Private Relations // Secrets at the Beach House

    Diane Chamberlain

    When his friend, a wealthy Jewish-Iranian banker and an illegal alien, is squeezed for money by a group of Muslim extremists threatening to turn him over to the INS, Fiddler steps in to help. Reprint....

  • Private Lies

    Rosemarie Santini

  • 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 ...

  • The Priory

    Margaret Wasser

  • Princess of Hanover

    Helene Lehr

  • Princess of Fire

    Shannon Drake

    Amid the Furious Cry of Battle, a Private War of Passion Had Just Begun . . . Hastings; 1066. Clouds of war darkened the horizon as Saxons and Normans clashed with a vengeance. Yet another battle raged ... as two sparring hearts collided ... ...

  • The Price of Murder

    John D. MacDonald

    John D. MacDonald’s The Price of Murder features a complex plot told in a multiple-character format. Published in 1957 as a paperback original, The Price of Murder begins with the troubled marriage of English college professor Lee Bronson and his v...

  • The Price of Glory

    Lynn Bartlett

    WHAT PRICE FAME? Reporter Cassandra Blake would do anything for a story, even place her own life in peril. Then she met her new boss, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seth Winter. Suddenly she didn't know which to fear more-terrorist threats or t...

  • 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...

  • The Power of One

    Bryce Courtenay

    In 1939, as Hitler cast his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, hatred of a similar kind took root in South Africa, where the seeds of apartheid were newly sown. There a boy called Peekay was born. He spoke the wrong language--English, the langu...

  • The Pooped Troop

    Judy Delton

    Let the Fitness Festival Begin!The Pee Wee Scouts are getting into shape. It's exercise and sports galore! Mrs. Peters, their troop leader, explains each event and tells the Scouts how to earn the Fitness badge. Molly gets excited. About the bicycle ...

  • Polo in the Rough

    Jerry Kennealy

    Investigative journalist Jack Slate was writing a book exposing those who had helped themselves to the Swiss-bank bounty of Iran's late Shah, and obviously someone didn't want Slate to name names. The story unfolds as a mad dash for the missing manus...

  • 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...

  • Poky Little Puppy's Special Day

    Cindy West

  • Playing With Fire

    Risa Kirk

    THEY HAD A LOT IN COMMON Yet they were bitter rivals from the start. Cal Stewart and Mary Nell Barrigan were two Tacoma-based engineers competing for the same contract. Each needed desperately to win it. Mary Nell had put her sister through nur...

  • The Player Knight

    Ellen Fitzgerald

    LOVE UPON THE WICKED STAGE... Lovely Arabella Ashmore knew that a proper young lady would not dream of becoming an actress, no matter how talented she might be. She also knew that a proper young lady would never fall in love with an actor; no matt...

  • A Place in Mind

    Sydney Lea

  • 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. ...

  • 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 ...

  • A Picnic With the Barleys

    Karen Mezek Leimert

  • Phantom Filly

    Caroline Burnes

    Speed Dancer was missing, and the mysteriously sent video was the first clue in three years that he might still be alive. As horse trainer at Dancing Water Ranch, Dawn Markey had every reason to want to get their prize stallion back. Even when the tr...

  • Peter Pan

    Jan Carr

  • Peril Under the Palms

    K.K. Beck

    An exotic cruise churns up a murder wave. A Hawaiian haunting... When sugarcane heiress Antoinette Caulfield docks in Hawaii to visit her grandparents, she's met by a ghost: her school chum and chaperon, Iris Cooper, spots the figure of a woman i...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Party Line

    A. Bates

    Some talk. Some listen. Some disappear. Mark can't stop calling the Party Line. It's easier to talk to girls when nobody knows who you are. But something weird is going on. One by one girls are disappearing, and Mark is convinced it has somet...

  • 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...

  • Palace of Light

    Jacoba Atlas

  • The Pack

    John Grant Fuller

  • Ozzy

    Richard E. Allen

  • 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...

  • Over the Edge

    Carolyn Keene

    A posh resort catering to outdoor activities is plagued by a series of accidents, leading the owner to invite Nancy Drew to investigate the increasingly dangerous goings-on....

  • Over in the Meadow

    Paul Galdone

  • Outlaw Deputy

    Peter Field

  • 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...

  • Other People's Money

    Arthur Lyons

    P.I. Jacob Asch is hired by a Mr. Saffarian to trail his "daughter"--unaware that the woman is actually a world-class art smuggler--an assignment that results in a missing detective and a tangled world of thievery...

  • Ophelia and the Great Idea

    Deborah Levy

    Knowledge, intuition, science, and love are thrown into question in a collection of stories that embodies everyday dilemmas and dramas in settings as diverse as Ibiza to Camden Town, and from rural Spain to a precarious rowboat...

  • On My Honor

    Malacai Black

  • Old Tin Sorrows

    Glen Cook

    A CORPS OF CORPSES was what it seemed Garrett had committed himself to find when Blake Peters turned up to reclaim some overdue favors. Someone was trying to kill Peters' boss, wealthy, retired General Stantnor, in a most lingering, painful, and may...

  • Oh My, a Fly!

    Jan Pienkowski

  • Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

    Frank Lambirth

  • 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...

  • Not Part of the Bargain

    Susan Fox

    Wade had come to take her back to Texas Just before his death, Joanna's father had put Wade Hollister in charge of his ranch and all his financial assets. He'd also given Wade his daughter. Joanna, an insecure, overweight seventeen-year...

  • Not As Far As Velma

    Nicolas Freeling

    “That artful master of the international policier . . . delivers another one of his uncommonly intelligent procedurals with Inspector Henri Castang.” -- The New York TimesWhen Police Commissaire Henri Castang is summoned to invest...

  • No Way Home

    Patricia MacDonald

    With chilling echoes of a notorious, real-life murder in Connecticut, nationally bestselling author Patricia MacDonald's gripping novel unwraps the layers of fear and guilt in a small town where nothing bad ever happens -- until a pretty teenager dis...

  • The Ninth Buddha

    Daniel Easterman

    Former British Intelligence officer Christopher Wylam's son is kidnapped by a Buddhist group that thinks he is the reincarnation of a holy man, and Wylam battles a Russian agent through 1920s India, Tibet, and Mongolia to free the boy...

  • Night With a Stranger

    Joanna Mansell

    The holiday of a lifetime! That's what Lorel decided to blow her aunt's small legacy on--and damn the consequences. After two miserable years she needed a break before reassessing her future. And what could be more extravagant than a tr...

  • Night of the Weeping Women

    Lawrence Naumoff

  • A Night of Errors

    Michael Innes

    An ex"Scotland Yard inspector is pulled out of retirement to investigate a murder and a family’s fiery legacy in this classic British mystery. Sir John Appleby has left Scotland Yard behind to retire to the country -- but there’s no escaping cr...

  • Nice Girls

    Janet Kotsel Clarke

    A novel about three girls seeking fame and fortune in New York. A blonde Californian escaping her family, a glamorous redhead from Manhattan high society and a plump, self-conscious small-town girl become room-mates and find that love and fame don't ...

  • 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...

  • Nemesis

    Louise Cooper

    THE TOWER OF REGRETS You who sit at my side by the fire; you whose restless ghosts walk in the shadows of my dreams; you children yet unborn: If you would see your people live and prosper, then let these ancient stones lie in solitude. For this is...

  • Nature Babies

    Lisa Bonforte

  • 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....

  • The Nationalists

    William Stuart Long

    A TIME OF WAR AND GLORY - A TIME FOR THE "NEW" AUSTRALIAN TO FORGE A WILD LAND INTO ONE UNITED STATE The days of exploration were over. Now cries of "Unlock the Land!" echoed from the outback to the cosmopolitan streets of Sydney. A young generati...

  • 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...

  • My Kind of Game

    Marvin Albert

  • My First Murder

    Susan P. Baker

    Former parole officer Mavis Davis, now a rookie private investigator, becomes embroiled in deceit, violence, and scandal while investigating the murder of Doris Jones, a woman with many disturbing secrets...

  • My Dream Guy

    Carla Bracale

    Kate Weatherby's dream of dating a gorgeous hunk are all washed up when her parents cancel a trip to the beach at the last minute. Somehow, spending a week at Hidden Ranch on Lake Vallecito in her home state of Colorado seems a lot less appealing! ...

  • 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...

  • Mute

    Piers Anthony

    Interstellar adventure awaits an unlikely hero when he’s recruited to save the galaxy in this thrilling space opera from the bestselling author.Mute is science fantasy of mutation and psi: special mental powers. The protagonist, Knot, is a doub...

  • Murder Is My Business

    Brett Halliday

    MURDER AT THE RIO GRANDE

    Ten years ago, private eye Mike Shayne did a job for one of the richest men in El Paso, digging up dirt on a boy courting the tycoon’s daughter. Now the daughter’s back, all grown up and dangerous. And so’s Shay...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Mother Goose Rhymes

    Diane Muldrow

  • A Most Unusual Lady

    Janet Grace

    THERE are none so blind who will not see Miss Louisa Stapley defied every description of a lady. But it was mere misfortune which was responsible for many of her misadventures. Having rescued her from her most recent mishap, Lord Alnstrop deci...

  • A Morning Affair

    Janice Kaplan

    In the pressure cooker world of network morning TV, the only sin is coming in second. Jackie Rogers. Beautiful and talented, she is the woman other women dream of being. She has just moved to New York to claim the coveted job of network correspondent...

  • Moon Shadow

    Janice Kaiser

    WORLDS APART Beneath the shadowed moon, Kira Lowell found herself mesmerized by the fire she saw in Joshua Bearclaw's eyes. The moment he touched her, she was lost in his exotic magic, a spell so powerful that she forgot he was the enemy. Joshua w...

  • Monster Mashers

    Mel Gilden

    SAVE THE MONSTERS!Danny Keegan and his monster pals C.D. Bitesky, Howie Wolfner, and Elisa and Frankie Stein are thrilled when their old friend Zelda Bella-who they think may be a witch-turns up as the star of the new TV show Mother Scary's Matinee.B...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Missing Movie Creature

    Mary Anderson

    Cassie and Barney are cousins who have nothing in common except that both admit they've never seen a monster.. Cassie has been dumped in boarding schools all her life and she considers her poor nine-year-old cousin Barney Prescott to be a major wimp....