Books Published in March 1981

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — MARCH 1981

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New Books List: 239 titles

  • Beautiful Girl

    Alice Adams

    “Nobody writes better about falling in love than Alice Adams. . . . How can one person know so much?” --The New York Times Book Review   With appearances in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and Redbook, as well as in the  O. Henry ...

  • Hidden Lives

    Marvin Albert

    Nicholas Grayle makes a name for himself in Paris's art world and back streets, casts his lot with a Moroccan Berber tribe, and returns to France, the woman he loves, and a third identity just as Nazi Germany is occupying France...

  • Storm of Deception

    Alix Andre

    Were the vicious notes a taunt -- or blackmail? Robin escaped her tormentors and fled to England, aided by a stranger -- on the condition that she pretend to be his wife. Later she discovered the real reason for his unusual offer. One small lie...

  • Trail of Blood

    Michael Angelella

  • Beau Barron's Lady

    Helen Ashfield

    Bess Hathaway was little more than a street urchin when the dashing Beau Barron seduced and then abandoned her. But her boundless love and fierce ambition lift her her at last to the same courtly world in which Barron traveled. A twist of fate bro...

  • Man of Honour

    Jane Ashford

    Eliott Crenshaw saw his duty -- and married Laura Lindley. What else could a gentleman do when they had been snowbound together at an inn -- unchaperoned? The fact that Laura was beautiful, gentle, and completely suitable as a wife made his behav...

  • Asimov on Science Fiction

    Isaac Asimov

    A collection of essays by a master of science fiction is devoted to a discussion of the nature, characteristics, and function of science-fiction writing, including information on authors, works, and themes...

  • Roadwork

    Richard Bachman

    What happens when one good-and-angry man fights back is murder -- and then some... Bart Dawes is standing in the way of progress. A new highway extension is being built right over the laundry plant where he works--and right over his home. The house ...

  • Captive Ecstasy

    Elaine Barbieri

    From the moment Amanda laid eyes on the Indian imprisoned at the fort, she felt compassion for him, but she never imagined that she would soon become his captive. At first the lovely young colonial was terrified of the dark stranger, but then she saw...

  • Strands of Desire

    Antoinette Beaudry

    RAGING TIDES Ruthlessly raped by her drunken stepfather - a man she had always admired and adored until he left an indelible mark on her innocent flesh - an embittered Opal Grant is determined to erase the shame that sears her very soul. But in A...

  • Just off Fifth

    Edith Begner

  • Departures

    Jane Bernstein

  • A Touch of Terror

    Claudette Bert

    "Too late, it you were planning to escape." The gunman shut the door behind him. As the key turned, Jenny's eyes filled with desperate tears. She'd refused to give the jewel thieves any information that would jeopardize her fiance's life. But t...

  • Honora Clare

    Sheila Bishop

    HONORA HAD NOT EXPECTED ROMANCE TO BE ONE OF HER SCHOOL'S SUBJECTS! But then, she had not expected to be left penniless at the death of her father. All she had were two houses in Bath, but they did provide her with freedom. And with the shocked di...

  • Perilous Waters

    Jane Blackmore

    Young and beautiful, Sally Marryat was the kind of woman men longed for. They dreamed of holding her, not for a day, not for a night, but forever. Max Sherborne, the famous, brilliant writer, returned to the English seaside village in search of the w...

  • Once There Was Fat Girl

    Cynthia Blair

    Martha Nowicki had progressed from chubby to fat without really noticing. And she always settled for less than she wanted. But when she was passed over for a promotion at her job, and her boyfriend Eddie deserted her, she knew she’d have to make...

  • Leadville

    Edwin Booth

  • Hell on Horseback

    J.L. Bouma

  • The Deadliest Profession

    William Boyles

  • Kingdom of Summer

    Gillian Bradshaw

    In a time when civilization was dying, one man fought a noble battle against evil--Arthur Pendragon. And to his fight of Light against Dark there came a warrior born of night but sworn to uphold the day: Gwalchmai, Hawk of May. Of all the knights ...

  • Fritz and the Beautiful Horses

    Jan Brett

    Fritz was not beautiful. He didn’t have a braided mane or a glossy coat. He couldn’t prance with long, graceful strides like the elegant horses who carried lords and lovely ladies to the city—a city that allowed only the most beauti...

  • Tickets

    Richard P. Brickner

  • Walk Together Children

    Ashley Bryan

  • The Lighthorsemen

    Bill Burchardt

    A member of the Indian police responsible for maintaining law and order in Oklahoma Territory, Johnson Lott, because of his feelings for her, finds it impossible to tell Martha Ann and her father they must leave...

  • Senseless

    J. Douglas Burtt

  • The Homing

    Jeffrey Campbell

  • Line of Chance

    Thomas Caplan

  • Twist of Chance

    Elizabeth Carey

    It began in the kitchen of a roadside inn. Louisa, in the act of trying to rescue a small dog from the inhumanity of the innkeeper, was herself rescued by the dashing Lord Braybury. He mistakenly assumed that she was a fortune hunter. But, in trut...

  • Horse of Darius

    Justin Cartwright

  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

    Raymond Carver

    The most celebrated story collection from “one of the true American masters” (The New York Review of Books) -- a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark that includes the iconic and much-refe...

  • The Diamond Exchange

    Thomas Chastain

    When Max Kauffman, Deputy Chief Inspector of the N.Y.P.D., finds his entire precinct infiltrated by two bands of international thieves, he stages an ironic denouement of their jewel heist planned for broad daylight...

  • Short Walk

    Alice Childress

    "A Short Walk" is a sweeping epic novel, which captures the movement of black Americans from the rural south to the urban north. Cora James, born to a black woman who has had a love affair with a white man, grows up poor in South Carolina, marries an...

  • The Star-Crowned Kings

    Rob Chilson

    The human race has split into two groups: ordinary people like Race and his mother and sister, and the Starlings, humans with godlike telekinetic powers.  Their powers enable them to carry spaceships to the stars and settle many planets, while o...

  • The Boy from the UFO

    Margaret Goff Clark

    Tibbo, the boy from the UFO, has special powers. Nothing can withstand them. Now Tibbo is ready to leave for his own planet, Ornam. He plans to take Barney with him and keep him there for 100 years. Tibbo is using in special power to force Barney ...

  • Dmitri

    Jamey Cohen

    THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK IS TICKING… It is Monday, May tenth, and in a sixteenth-century palace, nine-year-old Dmitri Ivanovich, son of Ivan the Terrible and hair to the Russian throne, has less than a week left to live unless he can find a way to esc...

  • Seven Days to a Brand-New Me

    Ellen Conford

    What can you do when you're dull, dull, dull, and Adam Holmquist, the boy of your dreams, is blond, tan, and practically a Greek god? Maddy Kemper, with the aid of Dr. Dwayne Dudley's book Seven Days to a Brand-New You!, begins an all-out campaign --...

  • The Paper Caper

    Caroline B. Cooney

  • Sargasso

    Edwin Corley

  • The Swans of Brhyadr

    Vivienne Couldery

    THEY WERE LOVERS LIKE NO OTHERS... He was Neville Rossiter, titled, handsome, and fabulously wealthy. She was his magnificent wife, Arabella--a headstrong, independent beauty he lifted from a drab, but respectable country obscurity. They were admi...

  • The Home Front

    Margaret Craven

  • Summer of the Raven

    Sara Craven

    She was trapped into a lie! Rowan's stepmother, Antonia Winslow, was selfish and totally unscrupulous. It suited her purposes to pretend that Rowan was only sixteen years old. But it was nineteen-year-old Rowan who suffered the backlash of the...

  • Thunder on the Right

    Alan Crawford

  • Odd Job Man

    N.J. Crisp

  • Magic Ground

    Joseph Csida

  • The Silver Mistress

    Chet Cunningham

  • Dakota Dreamin'

    Janet Dailey

    Now she could make her dreams come true Edie Gibbs stared at the check in her hand. She'd never imagined that the inventions Joe worked on during their eighteen years of marriage would provide a windfall after his death. Actually, she had o...

  • Chance to Sit Down

    Meredith Daneman

  • The Reluctant Suitor

    Megan Daniel

    THE LADY IN DISTRESS Margaret Barbara Heather St. Vincent, beautiful, charming, and just a little bit devilish, and graced with one of the finest fortunes in Regency England -- a fortune she was certain to lose if she didn't wed within a month's tim...

  • Xpd

    Len Deighton

    It is 1979. A stolen World War II document kept secret since then is about to surface, propelling the most ruthless secret agents of Great Britain, America, Germany, and the Soviet Union into a desperate battle of wits and violence. Anyone who learns...

  • It's a Pig World out There

    Phyllis Demong

  • Alien Encounter

    Flanna Devin

  • Circle, Crescent, Star

    Anson Dibell

    Now Dibell's latest novel takes us again to the world of the Valde warriors and the legendary science menace of forbidden Kantmorie. Jannus confronts triple danger as the immortal monster Ashai Rey hunts him down, as his protector of the Crescent go...

  • The Interloper

    Robyn Donald

    She would sacrifice everything for Mark Meredith had no choice after her mother's death but to turn to her estranged grandfather for help. To keep her two-year-old brother, Mark, from his tyrannical clutches, however, she pretended that Mark w...

  • In Passion's Tempest

    Cassandra Dorth

    HER SAVAGE HEART! Voluptuous Mimi was the dark-haired, dark-eyed, and utterly spoiled niece of the wealthy Parisian nobleman Nathane Marchamp. She had been engaged for a number of years to French explorer Francois LaLoque, her childhood sweethear...

  • The Wildcats

    J.T. Edson

    Six feet three and built like Hercules, Mark Counter was certainly the most handsome of all the Floating Outfit’s members. Independently wealthy, he dressed elaborately, using the fancy clothes to set off his handsome and virile features. But M...

  • The Book of Ebenezer Le Page

    G.B. Edwards

    Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place...

  • The Merchant's Daughter

    Rachelle Edwards

    SMUGGLERS, GHOSTS, AND MYSTERIES! Delicate and lovely Lilith Redshaw shivered as she looked up at Monk's House, her aunt's home on the desolate Kent shoreline. Lilith had been sent to visit with Lady Standish to escape the memories of an unhapp...

  • A Controlling Interest

    Peter Engel

    Both seekers of power and control--financial, personal, and sexual--Walter Curt and Katy Rochester risk one of the most daring venture-capital gambits of the century in their desperate quest to acquire the lucrative Magnatel Ltd...

  • Longarm South of the Gila

    Tabor Evans

    THE ARIZONA TERRITORY. THE CLIMATE WAS HEALTHY. THE BULLETS WEREN'T... Mina Cobre was a little town with a lot of copper-and a lot of killing. Already two politicians had been shot in a bitterly fought election to see who would run the show. L...

  • Kiss Mommy Goodbye

    Joy Fielding

    KISS MOMMY GOODBYE... IT MEANT FOREVER Those goodbye kisses Donna received from her children when ex-husband Victor picked them up for their day's outing with him were for all time... forever. Only Donna did not know that, and the memory of her chil...

  • Midnight Encounter

    Glenna Finley

    Love Was The Last Thing On Her Mind When beautiful Antonia Morgan set out for a relaxing, solitary vacation in New Orleans. So when her friend’s handsome brother, Adam Driscoll, called to say that he, too, was in New Orleans and then invited her t...

  • The Officers' Wives

    Thomas Fleming

    'If the Army wanted you to have a wife, they would have issued one' Old soldiers saying Joanna, Honor, Amy - three fresh young brides embrace their soldier husbands in the fateful June of 1950. As they walk beneath the ceremonial arch of drawn sabre...

  • The Bride of Lowther Fell

    Margaret Forster

  • Outland

    Alan Dean Foster

    Here on Lo - moon of Jupiter, hell in space - men mine ore to satisfy the needs of Earth. They are ahrd men, loners for whom the Company provides the necessities: beds, food, drink and women for hire. Now, in apparent suicide or in frenzied madness, ...

  • Kingfisher Scream

    Anthony Fox

    Peter Harvester is asked to take the place of a British agent who has come under the influence of a Soviet mindcontrol operation--the goal being to persuade a high-level Russian naval officer to defect...

  • Reflex

    Dick Francis

    Dear Sir, I am sure you will be interested in the enclosed photographs, which I was happily able to take a few days ago in St. Tropez. As you will see, they show you in a compromising position with the young lady who is known as your daughter. ...

  • The Sea Wolves

    Wolfgang Frank

  • The Actor

    Gerald gardner

  • Love Bites

    Freda Garmaise

  • The Ozine Conquest

    C.M. Gilbert

  • The Body of a Girl

    Michael Gilbert

    Detective Chief Inspector Mercer is called to the scene when a skeleton of a girl is found on Westlaugh Island in the upper reaches of the River Thames. What appears to be a straightforward and routine investigation, however, leads to unexpected even...

  • The Lost Provinces

    Stephen Glazier

  • Nella

    John Godey

  • Stepping Stones

    Robert S. Gold

  • Fighting Submarine

    Edwyn Gray

    From the author of the bestselling U-boat series, comes a fabulous new series about the war at sea.Lieutenant-Commander Cavendish R.N. was cashiered from the navy after master-minding a dummy torpedo run during peacetime on the pride of Nazi Germa...

  • The Dreamer of the Vine

    Liz Greene

  • Give Us a Smile Rosy

    Sheila Greenwald

    Uncle Ralph's books about Rosy's two older sisters, a dancer and an equestrian, made them famous. Now it is untalented, 10-year-old Rosy's turn, and when Uncle Ralph gets out his camera determined to make Rosy and her violin his next book, Rosy's tro...

  • Glen of Frost

    Belinda Grey

    "Loyalty merely sleeps. It is not dead!" Lachlan's eyes kindled. "Every true Jacobite will fight and if needs be die for the Stuart--as I will!" Fiona shivered. If Lachlan were to die, Glen Seidhe would belong to his brother, Jamie, whose lust ...

  • The Reluctant Rivals

    Georgina Grey

    "SOMETHING IS WRONG, KATE. I KNOW IT. YOU WENT EVER SO PALE WHEN PAPA SPOKE OF LORD GILCREST." Something was wrong. For when Kate realized that the man of her dreams, Lord Gilcrest, was being tricked into a betrothal with her cousin Belinda, her ...

  • The Death of AbbE Didier

    Richard Grindal

    Two dramatically contrasting episodes face Inspector Gautier in his latest mystery: the death by stabbing of the vicar of the fashionable church of Saint Clothilde in the confessional box; and the theft of the Duchesse de Paiva's diamond necklace dur...

  • The Midnight Fury

    Susan Ellen Gross

    Violante de Pallars: She was a rebel baron's daughter, a spirited woman taught to fight for her freedom and her desires. Isaac Ravalya: He was the queen's trusted advisor, a man of proud heritage, torn between his duty to his people and the reckles...

  • The Missing Person

    Doris Grumbach

    The Missing Person is a tellingly achieved fusion of thought and action and the most fully realized evocation of Hollywood themes in a long, long time.” ―Alan Cheuse, Los Angeles Herald Examiner

    The Missing Person is a daring work that tell...

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  • Paradise Isle

    Jacqueline Hacsi

    He was Hollywood handsome, born to be loved. But Adam Blake singled out modest Pamela Morgan because, he said, he was tired of women who tried to trap him. How could Pamela know that from the moment they met on that unforgettable Caribbean vacatio...

  • The Kissing Gate

    Pamela Haines

    SHE PASSED THROUGH THE GATEWAY OF OPPORTUNITY INTO A WORLD OF DANGEROUS DESIRE When young parlormaid Sarah Donnelly saved the child of the aristocratic Ingham clan from drowning, she received the most enticing yet perilous of rewards. This lovely, u...

  • Shadow of Apollo

    Anne Hampson

    SHE WAS DESTINED FOR HEARTBREAK. Jenny had never approved of her stepmother Sylvia's plans to marry Glavcos Kyrou, an old and wealthy Greek. She was made even more miserable once she reached his island home, for there she met his handsome, arr...

  • Pastel City

    M. John Harrison

    A glittering future world has vanished... Viriconium, the Pastel City, last of the Afternoon Cultures, is left a wasteland of crumbling ruins. The secrete sparks of discontent between North and South have been fanned to savage flames. The peaceful so...

  • The Dark Horseman

    Marianne Harvey

    Nicholas Trevarvas -- rich, arrogant, commanding. The dark, haughty figure who stalked the cliffs astride his powerful stallion...the man who haunted her dreams and fears... Donna Penroze -- she would do anything but sacrifice her pride...anything...

  • Island Conquest

    Brooke Hastings

    SEVEN YEARS STOOD BETWEEN THEM... Seven years since Lani's love for her aristocratic stepbrother, Daniel, had turned to anger and cold dislike. Now he was back -- to steal away the small brother she had raised. He gave her an ultimatum: acc...

  • The Pushcart Prize V: Best of the Small Presses 1980-1981

    Bill Henderson

  • Nebula Winners Fifteen

    Frank Herbert

  • Encore

    Monique Raphel High

    In the opulent Russia of Nicholas and Alexandra, she danced her first solo...and captivated the hearts of two men - one a powerful patron of the arts; the other; a brooding young painter who loved her with a passion she was powerless to resist. -- ...

  • The Case of the Bashful Bank Robber

    E.W. Hildick

  • A Place of Ravens

    Pamela Hill

  • Playground of Death

    John Buxton Hilton

  • A Touch of Magic

    Elizabeth Hunter (1)

    IT HAD SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA When Harriet Ferrer's godfather unexpectedly asked her to visit his hotel in Gambia, she accepted with alacrity. She did not know that he had also invited the world-renowned playboy and hotel magnate, Phineas de...

  • Coffin Corner

    Stuart Jason

  • Threat

    Richard Jessup

  • Daystar and Shadow

    James Weldon Johnson

  • Death and Lila Fell

    Michael J. Johnson

    WHO KILLED VIVIAN ...AND THE OTHERS?

    THE MURDER
    Years ago, lovely Lila Fell lost Myron Kimmich to another woman, and now he was dead. His bizarre will left Lila his $3 million estate. Myron's wife, Vivian, and his grown children each rec...

  • The Last of the Dog Team

    William W. Johnstone

    THE LAST OF THE DOG TEAIYI At the age of sixteen, Terry Kovak had a reputation in North Georgia--with girls his own age, women old enough to be their mothers, and with a military officer who saw the pure, hard violence in Terry's eyes. By graduation...

  • The Wine and the Music

    David A. Kaufelt

  • Seagull

    Yashar Kemal

  • Beyond Control

    Flora Kidd

    Her only chance was to trust him Confined and suffering from amnesia in a revolutionary country, Kate was near despair. When Sean Kierly appeared, claiming to be her fiance, it was a godsend. Unfortunately, the authorities insisted they be married...

  • The Parachutists

    Edward Klein

  • Peace Breaks Out

    John Knowles

  • Remnant

    Mary LaCroix

    The story of Jesus comes alive in this novel of two women who were close to the Master-His teacher Judith and His sister Ruth-and of the many who set the stage for history's greatest event. The story begins with the expectation and preparation su...

  • The Dagger of Islam

    John Laffin

  • Banners of Silk

    Rosalind Laker

    She ruled an empire of elegance. Louise Vemet. Raised in the slums of Paris. Coming of age around the splendor and corruption of the Second Empire. She ruled the world of fashion, clothing the most fabled women of title and of pleasure in a society w...

  • Gundown at Golden Gate

    Patrick Lee

  • In the Strong Woods

    Paul Lehmberg

    Lehmberg's account of the summer he lived alone in a remote cabin in the northern Minnesota lake country reveals his motivations and the experience of being overwhelmed by the splendor of nature and the strangeness of solitude...

  • Love's Long Journey

    Ana Leigh

    Jennifer Hunter was too vulnerable to control her passion and too restless to settle for love....

  • Shuttered Window

    Elizabeth Levy

  • Take Two, They're Small

    Elizabeth Levy

  • The Runt

    Elizabeth Levy

  • People in Glass Houses

    Elliot Lewis

  • A Certain Blindness

    Roy Harley Lewis

    A decades-old mystery leads retired police inspector Eric Ward into imminent danger when his informal investigation into the secret legacy of a convicted murderer points to a scandal that could rock two prominent families...

  • Beyond the Lagoon

    Marjorie Lewty

    "God preserve me from rich men's daughters!" Only Susan saw the irony of Gideon North's contemptuous statement. She wasn't rich at all--but she was pretending to be Della Benton, who was. A free holiday on Grand Cayman islan...

  • The Gypsy Heiress

    Laura London

    They were as different as a falcon and a butterfly: he, the subtle, soaring hunter; she, vulnerable and trembling with fear; he, the arrogant, iron-willed Lord Brockhaven; she, the ragged gypsy girl dragged from the woods to be jailed as a poacher, o...

  • Winter Count

    Barry Lopez

    From the American Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams comes a timeless, intoxicating collection of evocative stories. In these exquisite tales, an explorer goes mad when faced with the disappearance of a river; blue herons descend upon Manhatt...

  • A Harmless Ruse

    Alexandra Lord

    Life at Westerham Park was a lark for Cassandra and her cousin Claire until Wilfred Westerham returned from the wars determined to take the young ladies firmly in hand. But the birds would not be caged. In a trice they flew off to London with Claire ...

  • The Game Is Played

    Amii Lorin

    "But you don't even know me," she whispered hoarsely. "I will," he replied, silencing her protests with a kiss that left her trembling. He had to be mad, barging into her life, making his proposal so bluntly that it stunned her. ...

  • A Certain Crossroad

    Emilie Loring

    A SECOND CHANCE... Judith Halliday arrived in a small new England town to forget her tragic affair with Neil Peyton, an idealistic young doctor. But a mysterious accident - or an attempted murder - brings him to the same town. Hurt by Neil's baffli...

  • 1 Million Centuris

    Richard lupoff

  • Soft Touch

    John D. MacDonald

    Jerry Jamison wants out: out of a sloppy marriage, a dull job and the empty suburban rat race. Once Jerry had a beautiful bride and a good salary at her old man's successful business - that was before his wife turned into a lush. Before the business ...

  • Free Fall in Crimson

    John D. MacDonald

    GIRL IN COMA INHERITS FORTUNE -- that is how the headlines read when terminally ill tycoon Ellis Esterland was beaten to death at a stop on the Florida Turnpike two years ago -- murdered as his daughter lay unconscious, never to recover from a road a...

  • The Grub-And-Stakers Move a Mountain

    Charlotte MacLeod

    WILDFLOWERS, MOLASSES COOKIES…AND HOMEMADE MURDER Who on earth was disturbing the Spotted Pipssisewa? That’s what Miss Dittany Henbit wanted to know when she found a strange young man from the Water Department running a bulldozer over the alre...

  • From Thunder Bay

    Arthur Maling

    A perennial loser, Paul Regensberg drifts into a sophisticated gunsmuggling scheme, panics at a small Ontario airport and kills a RCMP constable, and, escaping into the wooded wilderness, relies on his woodsman skills to survive...

  • Slim Down Camp

    Stephen Manes

    From the author of Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!: The hilarious saga of a summer at the world's worst weight-loss camp: Sam Zimmer's parents might as well have sent him to prison for the summer. Camp Thin-na-Yet is all about losing weight,...

  • A Regency Charade

    Elizabeth Mansfield

    What if a gentleman should fall in love with his own wife... He appeared, disturbingly handsome, in the doorway. "Well, my dear, are you ready for our first performance in this charade?" He appraised her with an odd look in his eyes. "No one at th...

  • The Last Innocent Man

    Phillip Margolin

    The papers call him the Ice Man. David Nash, defense attorney - cool, unruffled, practically unbeatable in the courtroom. Most of his clients are guilty. A few may be monsters. Suddenly the Ice Man is assailed by doubts and unanswerable questions...

  • King of Kings

    Malachi Martin

    Fact, legend, myth, and history merge in an epic portrait of the first great captain-king, the shepherd boy who slew Goliath, conquered the Philistines, overthrew Saul, and became the leader of the Jews...

  • Dangerous Stranger

    Marian Martin

    Eden O'Connor hadn't meant to fall in love with David Harrington, especially since she was engaged to another man. But when her fiancee's brother was murdered, Eden was faced with the strong possibility that the man she loved might very well be a mur...

  • Holiday in Bath

    Laura Matthews

    She knew him far too well to love him -- until she discovered how little she knew of love. TRELENNY REFUSED To MARRY CRANFORD! With his talk of antiquities, his formal black cravat and his positively parental attitude toward her, Cranford Ashwi...

  • Love Island

    Barbara Max

    Why did Angela Blair leave her engagement ring, her fiance, and her future behind to rush to Greece at the invitation of her friend Stephanie Pallas of the fabled publishing family? Her restlessness only grew worse when she met Stephanie's dev...

  • Sanjo

    Evelyn Wilde Mayerson

  • Ocean of Regrets

    Noelle Berry McCue

    How could she forget him? A memory of hard brown hands caressing her skin into unbearable pleasure, and a firm, sensuous mouth driving her wild with desire still exploded in her mind. But David Carmichael was just that -- a memory. Anna Mason had put...

  • To Him Who Waits

    Mary McMaster

    What is the secret that Samantha Honeywell, world famous singing star, can't share with her manager Harvey James, the man she hopes to marry? And how does it involve Andre' Saint-Cyran, the handsome, worldly Frenchman she travels to Nice to see? Six ...

  • Pacific

    Charles Mercer

  • The Reluctant Match

    Polly Meyrick

    "I will not marry a man chosen for me!" "But, Sophie, my dear," her stepfather said kindly, "you could not hope for a more advantageous match." Sophie put her hands over her ears. "You may talk as long as you like, but I will never listen." ...

  • Love's Pilgrimage

    Kristin Michaels

  • Men's Club

    Leonard Michaels

    First published in 1981, Leonard Michaels's The Men's Club is a scathing, pitying, absurdly dark and funny novel about manhood in the age of therapy. "The climax is fitting, horrific, and wonderfully droll" (The New York Times Book Review). Seven me...

  • Snowy River Brumby

    Elyne Mitchell

  • The Lost Jewels of Nabooti

    R.A. Montgomery

    THE JEWELS OF NABOOTI ARE MISSING AND ITS UP TO YOUTO FIND THEM. Two diamonds, two rubies. All powerful.They can bring good and they can bring evil to those who possess them. The Jewels of Nabooti, priceless treasures of an ancient African tribe, ...

  • Tar Baby

    Toni Morrison

    A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winnerJadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins....

  • The Flame of Desire

    Carole Mortimer

    Only Luke made her feel so alive! Sophie Bedford didn't like anything about Luke Vittorio--but she fell in love with him just the same. Luke was attractive to women; as a portrait painter there were many in his life. Worse, Sophie suspected...

  • Ice in His Veins

    Carole Mortimer

    No way would Eden agree to his demands Jason Earle had no right to make demands, much less insist that she go to England to see David Morton, her grandfather. After all, the old man had ignored Eden for years. True, Jason, his emissary, was bre...

  • No Place to Run

    Barbara Beasley Murphy

  • Mill

    James T. Murphy

    There was nothing left in Ireland for Mary Roark but troubles and sorrow. Across the sea, America beckoned to her with the golden promise of a better life. But in the new land of Massachusetts, hopeful young immigrants like Mary Rourk were welcomed o...

  • Rising Higher

    Robert Nathan

  • Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven

    Larry Niven

    Ranging from the 20th Century to the 31st, these interconnected stories trace Man's expansion and colonization throughout the galaxy... Becalmed in hell Howie's spaceship had a malfunction...but it might be only psychosomatic! Wait it out He was trap...

  • Rogue of Gor

    John Norman

    Jason Marshall learned the meaning of manhood and the power of women, both dominant and submissive, when he was kidnapped from Earth to the Counter-Earth called Gor. Winning his freedom, Jason set out single-handed to win his own place on that glorio...

  • The Treacherous Heart

    Helen Nuelle

    When Kimberly Cartwright came home from college for her mother's funeral, she never expected to stay. Now, once again, she reveled in the riverscape --the blue skies, the cool water, the tiny islands dotting the Mississippi. Kim was determined...

  • Stealing Home

    Phillip O'Connor

  • The Pew Group

    Anthony Oliver

    She didn't mean to do it, but somehow Doreen Corder's foot went out just as her detested husband reached th top of the stairs. He was in the antiques business and left her next to nothing in his will. Now all Doreen has is the Pew Group, a rather ugl...

  • The Land Endures

    Mary Emily Pearce

    The sequel to Pearce's "Apple Tree Lean Down" begins as the Wayman family moves into Holland Farm during the cruel, desperate years of the 1920s and, united in hope and effort, triumphs over adversity...

  • New York Time

    Richard Peck

  • Justice Lion

    Robert Newton Peck

  • The Lone Ranger

    I.B. Penick

  • Churchill and His Generals

    Barrie Pitt

    This book vividly brings alive the dramatic situation facing Europe and the Allies after the loss of Dunkirk. Churchill and his generals - Alexander, Brooke, Wavell and Montgomery - were faced with many disasters that required courageous decisions in...

  • The Passion of Loreen Bright Weasel

    James Polk

  • The Source of Light

    Reynolds Price

    Here is the second volume of A Great Circle, the highly acclaimed Mayfield family trilogy, from one of America's literary treasures. Though a novel independent from The Surface of Earth, The Source of Light continues the saga of the Mayfield family,...

  • Creature!

    Bill Pronzini

  • 63: Dream Palace

    James Purdy

    Tells the stories of two brothers who move to a Chicago slum after their mother's death, a woman who can't abide her new, married name, a father and son who are unable to express their feelings, and others...

  • The Innocent Heart

    Nina Pykare

    "I shall be as good a wife as...as you deserve!" she cried, then stood aghast at her temerity. A year had passed since Lord Atwood had left her--almost at the altar. Shamed, humiliated, Jeannie Burnstead had retired to Shropshire and vowed ne...

  • Rock Fever

    Ellen Rabinowich

  • Encyclopedia Brown's Fourth Book of Games and Puzzles

    Jim Razzi

  • The Ballad of T. Rantula

    Kit Reed

  • Wild Fire

    Barbara Riefe

    WILD FIRE A forbidden love that defied the blind fury of hell From the American West to the wilds of Asia, from dizzying heights of passion to the heartbreak of wicked, wanton love, Tawny was swept across oceans and continents in a blaze of ...

  • Charleston

    Alexandra Ripley

    SUDDENLY IT WAS GONE. GONE FOREVER. Once the ballrooms had glittered with the laughter of beautiful young women, the woods had echoed with the shouts of men on the foxhunt, the plantations had graced the lush countryside in silent majesty. Then ca...

  • Apple Is My Sign

    Mary Riskind

  • Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies

    Moss Roberts

    This collection of tales opens up a magical world far from our customary haunts. Ghost stories, romances, fables, and heroic sagas: the forms are familiar, but the characters we meet surprise us at every turn. For those who know and love the tales of...

  • Chasm of Fear

    Liliane Robin

    Had she walked into a nightmare of crime? Kay wasn't used to sleuthing, but she had to find Dr. Justin Beauvoir somewhere in the south of France. He had written her a letter breaking off their engagement, no reasons given. Her trek led her to S...

  • Bring Back the Summer

    R.H. Robinson

  • Time Travelers Strictly Cash

    Spider Robinson

    A collection of stories and essays from the author of the popular 'Callahan's Saloon' series. Some are set in Callahan's beloved bar, all -- stories and essays -- are entertaining and thought provoking. Nobody's perfect, but Spider comes pretty damn...

  • California!

    Dana Fuller Ross

    WAGONS WEST Violence ignited by the glitter of gold. Men desperate to strike it rich. Families and farms forsaken in a wild rush West to stake a claim. Strong men and courageous women struggle across an untamed continent to gamble their last dolla...

  • The Great Frog Swap

    Ron Roy

  • Panther!

    Alan Ryan

  • Trading in Gold

    Paul Sarnoff

  • String

    Dennis Schmitz

  • The Marriage Bargain

    Joanna Scott

    SHE COULD NEVER ABANDON HER FAMILY Cindy Templeton expected to inherit a company after her father's death. Instead, to gain her legacy, she had to marry the one man she hated: Boyd Hamilton, a businessman to whom control, of companies and of women...

  • Chasing After Annie

    Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

  • Gunmen's Graveyard

    Scott Siegal

  • Manwolf

    Gloria Skurzynski

  • The Boy Who Saved Earth

    Jim Slater

  • Tricky Troggle

    Jim Slater

  • For the Witch of the Mists

    David Smith

  • Jelly Belly

    Robert Kimmel Smith

    It's tough for eleven-year-old Ned to stop eating. At four-feet-eight inches tall, he weighs one hundred and nine pounds, and he keeps growing -- wider. When his parents send him to a summer diet camp, he and his bunkmates can't quite give up their o...

  • Lifetime

    Scott Sommer

    Two novellas and three stories present some of the inhabitants of today's America of fast foods, new lifestyles, nuclear plants, and heartaches galore--including a ten-year-old cocaine dealer, a sporadically mad divorced man, and an unhappy dog catch...

  • Season of Vengeance

    W.W. Southard

  • West of the Moon

    Edith St. George

    HER FUTURE WAS UNCERTAIN. Living out west had always been Debra Waynfield's dream, but she had never imagined sharing it with the tall stranger, Marcus Reede. Now that she had met him, she knew that she could never let him go. But she had found no...

  • Captive

    Robert Stallman

    A shapeshifter’s love for a human sends him on a dangerous journey in the second entry of this science fiction trilogy for fans of Ray Bradbury and Clifford D. Simak. The shapeshifting beast has grown and is now on his third human form: Barry ...

  • Palomino

    Danielle Steel

    Samantha Taylor is shattered when her husband leaves her for another woman. She puts her advertising career on hold and seeks refuge at a friend's California ranch, where she loses herself in the daily labor of ranch life. Here, she discovers the...

  • The Magic of His Kiss

    Jessica Steele

    "I'm not the first man to kiss you!" Karn Fellingham had the most appalling opinion of Jemma's sister, so it was rather insulting that he mistook Jemma for Christine. Still, Jemma thought she could pull her sister out of trouble...

  • The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity and Class in America

    Stephen Steinberg

  • Animal Pictures

    William Stobbs

  • Journeys of Frodo

    Barbara Strachey

  • The Silken Cage

    Rebecca Stratton

    Kadir's help was the last resort Worried to death about what had become of her twin brother, Peter, Troy set off for Morocco to look for him. However, her searching proved futile--until Kadir ben Raschid unexpectedly offered his assistance....

  • Death Riders

    Dan Streib

  • Autumn in April

    Essie Summers

    They stared at each other in dismay Rosamond recalled seeing this unknown man's disgusted face over Gaspard MacQueen's shoulder when she'd kissed him good-bye in England. Gaspard, who had loved and lost her grandmother years ago, and w...