Books Published in March 1986

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  • Love Is the Crooked Thing: Stories

    Lee K. Abbott

    Eleven stories tell of romance on a bus trip, a young man who faces death to win his wife, the relationship of a father and son, a pro football player's decision to marry, and a soldier's experiences in Vietnam...

  • Kiss the Clown

    C.S. Adler

    Viki Hill, daughter of a missionary in Guatemala, finds her budding romance with Marc Bruggerman threatened by unresolved parental problems, Marc's self-centeredness, and her growing feelings for Marc's older brother, Joel, a sensitive, generous, dys...

  • The Real Me

    Patricia Aks

    Fifteen-year-old Wendy Clayton's close relationship with her divorced mother becomes strained when her mother decides to remarry....

  • The Cuckoo Sister

    Vivien Alcock

  • Matters of the Heart

    Charlotte Vale Allen

    They were the unforgettable, passionate men and women bound together by an era of turmoil and tears, by ties of blood and passion, by a search for love, happiness and fulfillment... FRANCES ... A beautiful, proud Englishwoman torn between her drea...

  • Night Calls

    Rex Anderson

    Something very unpleasant is happening in Houston. Chad Palmer, owner of a lighting store, has become the target of a homicidal maniac. With frightening regularity, the disturbed killer telephones Chad and forces him to listen helplessly as he kills ...

  • A Home Is to Share...and Share...and Share

    Judie Angell

  • Persephone

    Homero Aridjis

  • Zorro Rides Again

    D.J. Arneson

    WHO IS ZORRO? To the public he's a perfect gentleman--but secretly he's a master swordsman, sworn to uphold justice and defend the California territory. Zorro, who hides behind a mask of mystery--bold and brilliant, he's feared by all who break the ...

  • Life Drawing

    Emily Arnold

    From the author of A CRAVINGA portrait of the artist as a young woman, coming of age in a tempestuous family, exploring love, choosing to follow the less travelled path."There's so much intelligence here and a search for truth... Miranda Geer knows e...

  • Red Rose

    Mary Balogh

    THE SINGLE-MINDED MISS In the whirl of the London marriage mart, Miss Rosalind Dacey stood alone. While other young ladies used all their wiles to snare a husband, Rosalind did the reverse. Single she was and single she would remain. If she had an...

  • Continental Drift

    Russell Banks

    “The most convincing portrait I know of contemporary America . . . a great American novel.” -- James Atlas, The Atlantic MonthlyFrom acclaimed author Russell Banks, a masterful novel of hope lost and gained -- a gripping, indelible story o...

  • Who Is Carla Hart?

    Joanna Barnes

    CARLA HART: to the world, a woman of rare beauty, a talented actress at the height of her career -- a woman of passion and wit, apparently blessed with the perfect husband. CARLA HART: a woman in need, perhaps of too much love -- surely with too m...

  • Kenjiro

    Pat Barr

    Japan in 1862 was a land of cherry blossom, frail obedient women, and the fierce traditions of the old Samurai. When the white Barbarians came in to trade, it seemed bloody conflict was inevitable. As Kenjiro, the young nobleman, looks down from h...

  • I the Supreme

    Augusto Roa Bastos

    I the Supreme imagines a dialogue between the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator known as Dr. Francia and Policarpo Patiño, his secretary and only companion. The opening pages present a sign that they had found nailed to the wall of a cathe...

  • The Alfred Hitchcock Murder Case

    George Baxt

  • To the Highest Bidder

    Neva Beach

    He was determined to get what he wanted. Even if it meant giving a woman a chance. She was determined to prove she could do the job better than anyone else. Bowman's Mill was on the brink of financial disaster but had the rare hardwood Randall Gordon...

  • When the Gods Returned

    Charles Beamer

  • Sleepless Days

    Jurek Becker

    An East German schoolteacher is jolted into an awareness of his mortality by a seeming heart attack. The actions he takes afterword put him on a collision course with the state in which he has painlessly, if numbly, lived his life. The results, whi...

  • The Wise Queen

    Anthea Bell

  • Devious Murder

    George Bellairs

    First published in 1973, Devious Murder is a Chief Inspector Littlejohn mystery full of intrigue, tantalising clues and colourful characters.

    Whilst taking the dog out for the last walk of a rainy day, Inspector Littlejohn of Scotland Yard...

  • The Wicked Enchantment

    Margot Benary-Isbert

  • Diamond in the Sky

    Natalie Bishop

    Maybe she was crazy to think she could help Jason Garrett. But Taylor Michaelson owed him her career. When they'd starred together in the sensational Diamond Girl films, he'd made her the best she could be. Without Jason. she'd have been ...

  • The Get along Gang and the Tattletale

    Sonia W. Black

  • Heatstroke

    Jillian Blake

    Tony Miles had been a rock star. Cary Davidson had been a cheerleader. A decade earlier they had been brought together for an elaborate publicity stunt. And in one evening they had shared something Cary had never forgotten. Now the magazine that h...

  • What they Don't Teach You in Jr. High

    Susan Blake

  • Homunculus

    James P. Blaylock

    It is the late 19th century and a mysterious airship orbits through the foggy skies. Its terrible secrets are sought by many, including the Royal Society, a fraudulent evangelist, a fiendish vivisectionist, an evil millionaire and an assorted group l...

  • Hero and the Terror

    Michael Blodgett

  • The Jack the Ripper Walking Tour Murder

    Albert Borowitz

    London, August 1988. Paul Prye, Columbia University professor and true crime nut, and his wife Alice, art historian but a devotee of Agatha Christie, were in town for the centennial of Jack the Ripper's bloody crimes. Paul was meeting a group of fell...

  • Cardboard Crown

    Martin Boyd

    In "The cardboard crown" Mr Boyd returns to the theme of Lucinda Brayford. It is the story of an Australian woman of the last century whose need for the traditional civilisation of Europe draws her from her own country. Yet this continual attraction ...

  • Hold the Dream

    Barbara Taylor Bradford

    EMMA'S GLITTERING DREAM CONOUERS A NEW GENERATION Ablaze with all the sweep, grandeur, and dynamic characters that made A Woman of Substance a legend worldwide, Barbara Taylor Bradford's spellbinding sequel begins as fiery Emma Harte shocks the wo...

  • The World in His Arms

    Joanna Brandon

    Dawn Hastings was caught between the devil and the deep blue sea--or rather, between Brent Graham, the man shed married, and Scott Larkin, whom she'd loved for as long as she could remember. They'd all been kids together. Then Scott was sent away to ...

  • Egalia's Daughters

    Gerd Brantenberg

  • Merari

    Gloria Howe Bremkamp

  • Heart of the Comet

    David Brin; Gregory Benford

    From the fertile imaginations of two of science fiction's most formidable talents, nebula Award winners Gregory Benford and David Brin, comes a compelling and visionary novel of epic proportions...a story of drama and power, of deep human courage and...

  • Family and Friends

    Anita Brookner

    In an ambitious departure from her usual form, Anita Brookner expands her canvas in Family and Friends to create a richly textured novel about the life of a wealthy Jewish family in London, focusing on the generation that came to maturity between the...

  • Season of Desire

    Janice Young Brooks

    Raised in a secluded world of books and dreams, Kate Sayers put fantasy behind her and came to Kansas to work as a Harvey girl in one of Mr. Fred Harvey's finest railroad restaurants. She was marked by innocence. The brooding stranger she glimpsed...

  • High Jinx

    William F. Buckley Jr.

    The year is 1954, and Joseph Stalin is dead. As the ruthless Laurenti Beria, head of the KGB, plots to succeed him, another drama is taking place in a distant part of the Soviet empire. United States and British commandoes have begun a mission to ove...

  • Someone Is Hiding on Alcatraz Island

    Eve Bunting

    The Outlaws, the toughest gang in school, follow Danny Sullivan to Alcatraz Island after he unintentionally thwarts one member's attempt to mug an old woman. There he is trapped as they plot their revenge. PW praised Bunting's storytelling sk...

  • Janet Hamm Needs a Date for the Dance

    Eve Bunting

  • Love Is a Durable Fire

    Brian Burland

  • Wycliffe and the Four Jacks

    W.J. Burley

    A murder committed in the night of dead. It's all a game for Detective Wycliffe to solve in a puzzling case.Writer David Cleeve lived exactly the way a bestselling novelist should live - in an opulent house set in a beautiful corner of Cornwall. But ...

  • The Fall of Saigon

    David Butler

    A noted journalist draws on his firsthand impressions and experiences to interweave the lives of thirty men and women, both American and Vietnamese, who became caught up in the climactic fall of Saigon in April 1975...

  • The Not-Just-Anybody Family

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    When Junior Blossom wakes up in the hospital, his last memory is of crouching on the barn roof with cloth wings tied to his arms, and of Maggie and Vern in the yard below, urging him to fly. That had been just before Junior spotted a police car appro...

  • Unfinished Rhapsody

    Gina Caimi

    MUSIC WAS ALL THAT MATTERED Jason Caldwell was the scariest man Lauren Welles had ever met. As a child, she'd worshiped him--he was her guardian, her harshest judge, her most demanding teacher. He'd been her world, but he seemed determined to mold...

  • Sweet-Time Lovin'

    Blair Cameron

    For Tamara Armando, confirmed junk-food addict, inheriting a chocolate company seemed like a dream come true. Even if it meant leaving New York and going to Seattle to run it. However, her strange windfall soon became complicated. She discovered that...

  • Highland Tryst

    Jean Canavan

    WHEN THE GREAT CLANS OF SCOTLAND SHED BLOOD FOR HONOR, KATHLYN SURRENDERED...TO A DANGEROUS LOVE! Daughter of a powerful laird, Kathlyn was a proud, wild beauty. One man could turn her fiery eyes soft as the Highland mist: Alex Lindsay, a fierce...

  • Under the Wild Moon

    Diane Carey

    PASSION’S ANCIENT MAGIC By torchlight Will Scarlet lowered Katie into the soft furs that covered his bed. As he pulled away her velvet gown to expose her creamy whiteness he sensed the desire coursing through her. He had captured her, yet she mo...

  • Confess to Apollo

    Suzanne Carey

    YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN.... Or so Zoe Walker thought when she was sent back to the Greek fishing community of Tarpon Springs, Florida, to do some political trouble-shooting for her boss, the governor. On her very first day, though, she met a man w...

  • The Littles Visit the Statue of Liberty

    Lorentz Carlson

  • Waking Up

    Amanda Carpenter

    Something was happening to their friendship... Robbie Fisher had always been a couple of years and a few changes behind her neighbor, Jason Morrow. Still, he'd lent an ear to all her dreams and troubles right up to the time he'd left for u...

  • The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

    Angela Carter

    Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his ...

  • Mercenary Mountain

    Nick Carter

  • Aviva's Piano

    Miriam Chaikin

  • Lady Dearborn's Debut

    Elizabeth Chater

    "SENSIBLE? HAVE YOU EVER KNOWN ME TO DO THE SENSIBLE THING, DEAREST CLEA?" Clea Bradford must ruefully agree with her aunt, Lady Floss Dearborn. Throwing off her widow's weeds, Floss intends to use her small inheritance to find a suita...

  • Sebastian (Super Sleuth and the Bone to Pick Mystery)

    Mary Blount Christian

  • An Honest Woman

    Anne Christie

  • Cabin 3033

    Anna Clarke

  • The Trouble with Dad

    Babette Cole

  • Flowers and Fruit

    Colette

  • Going to See the Leaves

    Linda Collins

  • Out of the Clear Blue

    Marion Smith Collins

    If he'd sailed into the harbor at the prow of a Viking ship, Molly couldn't have been more surprised. Dashing Rand Eriksson seemed to be the perfect romantic hero -- a pirate adventurer from out of a dream, and all rugged, powerful man! But M...

  • Another Marvelous Thing

    Laurie Colwin

    Another Marvelous Thing is perfect for anyone who knows firsthand that opposites actually do attract. These spare and unsentimental stories display how two very different people -- a tough-minded and tenderhearted woman and an urbane, old-fashioned o...

  • Something Wild and Free

    Helen Conrad (1)

    Skydiving was the most exhilarating way she knew to stop thinking -- and feeling. Faced with this breathtaking challenge, Jennifer Thornton could forget her estranged parents and her brother's death. Until Reid Carrington appeared out of the blue...

  • Top Gun from the Dakotas

    Merle Constiner

  • Wind Along the River

    Jacquelyn Cook

    "...her heart pulsed to the rhythm of Jonathan's words "I do care." EMMA EDWARDS - At 27, she had reached the evening of her life. Dependent upon the bounty of an uncaring arid capricious sister-in-law, she feels that even God has forgotten her... ...

  • Dorrie and the Museum Case

    Patricia Coombs

  • Working It Out

    Linda A. Cooney

  • Secrets

    M.E. Cooper

    Secret Admirer… Bashful Cynthia has fallen in love -- with her best friend, Bill. But she's afraid to confess her feelings face to face. If he doesn't feel the same way, their friendship may be ruined forever. So Cynthia decides to become Bill's se...

  • Sharpe's Regiment

    Bernard Cornwell

    A CORRUPT POLITICAL ENEMY IS DETERMINED TO DISBAND THE SOUTH ESSEX REGIMENT AND TO DESTROY MAJOR RICHARD SHARPE Shape returns to England and discovers an illegal recruiting ring that sells soldiers like cattle to other divisions. The ringleaders k...

  • The Road to Corlay

    Richard Cowper

    On The Eve of the Fourth Millenium a slowly-building civilization, struggling out of the rubble of the Drowning, - was crushed beneath the scepter of a powerful and repressive Church. But On the Eve of the Fourth Millenium the sound of a magical ...

  • A Dismal Thing to Do

    Alisa Craig

    THE MRS. IS MISSING It’s bad news for Detective Inspector Madoc Rhys of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. His wife’s new car has been found abandoned in the middle of nowhere -- with nothing inside but her handbag and a faint odor of burning....

  • Angelina's Birthday

    Helen Craig

    This birthday book has the year separated by seasons. Each season has two (2) magnificent colored pages of illustrations followed by a monthly illustrated lined calendar to note birthdays. Thereafter follows an address book....

  • A High Price to Pay

    Sara Craven

    What choice did she really have? Alison Mortimer had felt there was something going on over and above the appalling reality of her father's sudden death. And Nicholas Bristow's presence confirmed her suspicions. Her father, she discover...

  • The Moreton Scandal

    Jasmine Cresswell

    The trap was set -- and she was the bait It was strange that the fabulously wealthy Captain Moreton, hero of the Napoleonic Wars should find himself proposing to the first eligible female he met on his return to England. After all, he had vowed to...

  • The Million Dollar Lift

    Richard Crighton

  • Contract on the President

    John Crosby

  • Tiger Butte

    Jack Cummings

  • Fortune's Choice

    Elissa Curry

    Intent on blowing her last ten bucks in style, down on-her-luck socialite "Joey" Fortune sweeps into exclusive Bluefelter's restaurant -- never expecting a dashing stranger with a Rhett Butler grin to gallantly invite her to dinner! Only ...

  • Pride's Captive

    Mary Daheim

    Serena was sure Brant Parnell wanted to marry her for her father's money, but it didn't matter. An elopement with the handsome sea captain would get her to Massachusetts where she could realize her most cherished dream -- to be a newspaper journalist...

  • The Curse of Sagamore

    Kara Dalkey

    Everyone in the kingdom is battling over control of the throne except young Prince Abderian, who becomes trapped in a web of political intrigue involving ghosts and goddesses, demons and dragons, heroes and heretics, and a powerful but senile wizard...

  • Not So Fast, Songololo

    Niki Daly

  • Woman of Honour

    Emma Darcy

    She'd lost her trust in men Not one, but two bad experiences with men had put Molly strictly on the defensive. From now on she'd have nothing to do with them. So Molly concentrated instead on the gourmet catering service she and a frie...

  • Still Grow the Stars

    Harriette De Jarnette

    DIVIDED HEARTS The love that binds together the lovely Fanette and her husband, Jared McLaury, is put to a severe test when war is declared between the North and South and Jared, a dedicated abolitionist, joins the Union Army. Forced to leave thei...

  • Initiation

    Jean de La Fontaine

  • Stay on Your Toes, Maggie Adams

    Karen Strickler Dean

    Although nineteen-year-old Maggie Adams is ready to become a full-time member of the ballet company, a jealous ballerina and a temperamental director are ruining her chances and her boyfriend is pressing for marriage...

  • Freak's Amour

    Tom DeHaven

  • Straight from the Heart

    Barbara Delinsky

    The attraction was undeniable Heather Cole had an urgent reason for seeking Robert McCrae. But the renowned heart specialist distracted her from her purpose with his marvelous bedside manner .... In no time, they were dating steadily. Every tim...

  • Opal Fire

    Sandy Dengler

    "Peter, hurry home quickly. I need you." Four months after Polly Chase married an Australian, Peter, he went off to the War. Now, five years later, she is still waiting for his return. Coming back from town to her farm she encounters an itinerant,...

  • Deadwood

    Pete Dexter

    DEADWOOD, DAKOTA TERRITORIES, 1876: Legendary gunman Wild Bill Hickcock and his friend Charlie Utter have come to the Black Hills town of Deadwood fresh from Cheyenne, fleeing an ungrateful populace. Bill, aging and sick but still able to best any ma...

  • Play It Again, Sam

    Petra Diamond

    Forget the '80s! Incurably nostalgic Nedda Shaw rhapsodizes over old movies and escapes to a more genteel age by collecting antique dresses. When trendy Hollywood filmmakers invade her sleepy hometown, she's thrown for a loop -- especially by...

  • Tefuga

    Peter Dickinson

    In this evocative tale of suspense from CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, a British diplomat’s wife in Nigeria inadvertently precipitates a senseless tragedy, and six decades later, her son becomes caught up in a maelstrom of violent politica...

  • On the Run

    Gordon R. Dickson

    After the police order him to forget his missing wife, Kil Bruner's search leads him to deformed psychos, secret societies of wierd giants, time-warping superhumans, and warring conspiracies ready to destroy Earth...

  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Walt Disney

  • At the Top

    Michael Donovan

  • Death Riders of Hel

    Asa Drake

    Bloodsong 2# The forces of Hel have kidnapped Bloodsong's daughter in a desperate effort to reawaken the dark magic buried in her soul. From the island of the Berzerkers to wise Freya's domain, Bloodsong battles an onslaught led by the ghoulish De...

  • Gentleman Bear

    William Pene DuBois

  • Ravishing of Lol Stein

    Marguerite Duras

    The Ravishing of Lol Stein is a haunting early novel by the author of The Lover. Lol Stein is a beautiful young woman, securely married, settled in a comfortable life -- and a voyeur. Returning with her husband and children to the town where, years b...

  • Count Sergei's Pride

    Janet Edmonds

    Count Sergei Borodinov demanded obedience -- from his soldiers, his serfs and his wife. In his household there would be no hint of the westernization ordered by the Tsar. But Kirsty, his beautiful young bride, was English and use to independence -- a...

  • Hard Riders

    J.T. Edson

    Their fame spread like wildfire through the West—a band of Texans who rode and fought together like brothers in the name of justice.There was Mark Counter, the soft-spoken young giant whose dandy appearance belied a strength few men could match...

  • Hunter's Snare

    Emily Ruth Edwards

    "Fake an engagement, are you serious?" When Samantha Abbott's boss, Richard Bohlen, asked her to help protect him from an old flame, she thought the idea was outrageous. Ridiculous! She couldn't understand why anyone would have to ...

  • Dangerous Dandy

    Rachelle Edwards

    HOW MYSTERIOUS! A HURT STRANGER FOUND ON THE PROPERTY, IN THE MIDST OF A SNOWSTORM... No one was more surprised than Davinia Winterton when the dashing Rupert Jardine was discovered, in need of her ministrations. For a while the seamless quiet she...

  • Bunnies on Their Own

    Amy Ehrlich

  • A Very Special Lover

    Emily Elliott

    Jody had had good reason to leave her husband. Yet now, suddenly widowed and left with a young son to support, she faced an impossible choice. Her husband had died in debt to his brother. And now Doug had given her an ultimatum -- share her business ...

  • The Only Sin

    Julie Ellis

    Lilli Landau's desperate drive to build a cosmetic empire rivaling those of Helena Rubenstein and Elizabeth Arden and to satisfy the desires of her heart takes her through the boardrooms and bedrooms of the rich and powerful. Reissue....

  • Lone Star and the Timberland Terror

    Wesley Ellis

    Someone's out to crush the Starbuck logging empire -- and Jessie along with it in the forty-third Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, an...

  • Goldkorn Tales

    Leslie Epstein

    After ten years in prison for shooting - and permanently crippling - a young policeman, Victor Jenner is released to a strange new world and told to make a new life for himself. It's hard to fill in the days, but at least there's one blessing - he wa...

  • Something to Treasure

    Rita Clay Estrada

    She vowed never to be burned again Men! To Brenda Hunt they were all alike--selfish, egocentric boors. And who had time for them, anyway? A single parent, Brenda had three children to raise, a house to run, a job to keep. Leo Coulter was an esp...

  • Longarm in the Texas Panhandle

    Tabor Evans

    LEGENDS DIE HARD ... But when they start robbing trains, that's when Longarm steps in. It's been nearly two years since Longarm out-gunned the Kiowa Kid. But it takes more than bullets to kill a legend. And, from the way an impostor down in Tex...

  • See Dave Run

    Jeannette Eyerly

    Although a school friend, a truck driver, a waitress, a clinic doctor, and a sheriff try to help fifteen-year-old Dave as he struggles to leave behind a troubled past, no one can keep him from running toward his inevitable, shattering destiny...

  • Two Days in Aragon

    M.J. Farrell

    Grania and Sylvia live in the Georgian house of Aragon, with their mother, Aunt Pidgie and Nan, the family nurse. Grania is conducting an affair with Nan's son, Foley, whilst Sylvia falls for Captain Purvis. But the days of dignified calm are numbere...

  • The Deep End

    Joy Fielding

    Joanne Hunter's secure suburban world is falling apart. Her husband's desertion after twenty years of marriage leaves her stunned. Eve, her best friend, is strangely distant. Her grandfather, who's been a pillar of strength and support, lies ill and ...

  • The Straight Game

    Rebecca Flanders

    A lonely old lady. A fortune. A missing heir. Eleanora Jassamine Wiley, known as E.J. to her friends and associates, knew the combination would attract every con man in fifty states to San Francisco. Which was why, as Honoria Fitzgerald's atto...

  • Foul

    Lenore Fleischer

  • The Spoils of War

    Thomas Fleming

    A general-turned-powerbroker, his southern-born wife and revolutionist son, an ardent feminist, and assorted elitists, politicians, and newsmen cope with the passions, griefs, and realities of post-Civil War America...

  • Loving Ties

    Janis Flores

    WHAT A PERFECT FAMILY... No one really knows the truth about the Camerons -- Ben's secret love, Iris's manipulations, the bitter reality of Darcy's marriage, the shaking fear behind Claire's smile, the conflicts reigning in Jenna&...

  • Lark

    Richard Forrest

    A corrupt cop must investigate a series of bizarre murders in order to save his city from itself in this grim hard-boiled thriller. Middleburg, Connecticut, is a dying river town, and Tommy Lark will be its undertaker. A hardened veteran of the local...

  • The Perfect Choice

    Melissa Forsythe

    Their meeting was not accidental Catherine Davenport never stood out in a crowd and was seldom the one to capture a man's eye. First glances and romantic interest usually went to her friend Julia. Matthew Ragsdale, however, wasn't distr...

  • Pure Land

    David Foster

  • Break In

    Dick Francis

    Blood ties can mean trouble. Kit Fielding, proud heir to tradition and sporting hero to legions of fans, learns this lesson to his rapidly mounting regret. His close, even telepathic kinship with his twin sister, Holly, draws him into a crusade to sa...

  • Harlot's Ruse

    Esther Friesner

    Megan's beauty and magical gifts lead her to a world of sorcerers, Madam Glister's House of Prayer, a dragon's stronghold, and to adventures in the lands of mortals, demons, and gods--on her quest to find true happiness...

  • A Girl Named Summer

    Julie Garwood

    A little lie can get her in lots of trouble. A little lie never hurt anyone. That's what Summer Matthews thought when she met David Marshall and fell in love. Summer would do anything for David, including letting him believe something about hersel...

  • Some Summer Lands

    Jane Gaskell

    DAW Books, 1986. DAW Collectors No. 666. Mass market paperback. Reprint, 1st thus. Book 5 in the 5-book "Atlan / Cija" cycle. Set in prehistoric South America and in the mythical world of Atlantis. The books in the series are: "The Serpent (1963); "T...

  • Light Years

    Maggie Gee

    Lottie Lucas is the luckiest person she knows. She has looks, money, three houses and a teenage son she adores So why is her husband Harold walking out on her? Light Years is also about zoos and the zodiac; the seasons and the stars; and how humans ...

  • Popples' Pajama Party

    George

  • Laina

    Eva Gibson

    "A Springflower Book- Romance and Mystery for young teens. When Laina moved to a backwoods logging town, it wasn't the fact of having to leave her best friend which troubled her the most. It was her parents separation that was tearing her apart ins...

  • Wizenbeak

    Alexis A. Gilliland

  • The Navigator of Rhada

    Robert Cham Gilman

  • Another War, Another Peace

    Ronald J. Glasser

    Two men--David, a naive, idealistic young doctor, and Tom, a battle-hardened veteran--find their lives forever transformed as they become involved in a mission to bring medical aid to Vietnamese civilians in villages near the military base...

  • Shelly

    Leila Prince Golding

  • Murder in E Minor

    Robert Goldsborough

    When a maestro is murdered, Archie is flabbergasted when the gargantuan gourmet detective lifts himself out of retirement, amid a juicy public scandal, Wolfe and Archie feast on suspects yet starved for facts, until the scanty clues finally arrange t...

  • Equal Distance

    Agustin Gomez-Arcos

  • The Trumpet of Terror

    Deborah Lerme Goodman

    (Ages 9-12) Odin entrusted your family with his Trumpet generations ago. Now it is yours, and you know the rules: only blow the trumpet once in a lifetime. You are about to sail to new lands when an old man with one eye approaches you. Is this Odin, ...

  • Once Upon a Time

    Lucy Gordon

    CAUTION: DANGER AHEAD Once upon a time Bronwen Montorsoli, a young widow, struggled to support her son with odd singing jobs. But then a social worker accused her of filling her boy's head with grandiose fantasies of being related to an Italian pr...

  • Come Morning

    Joe Gores

    Released after spending several years in San Quentin, Runyan must confront several people involved in the jewel heist that put him away--insurance investigator David Moyers, treacherous accomplice Jamie Cardwell, and Louise Graham, author of a book o...

  • Galaxy Jane

    Ron Goulart

    Interplanetary journalist Jack Summer discovers that smugglers plan to secret their supply of the deadly drug Zombium aboard an immense movie studio starship, and, with the help of his boss's daughter and a robot photographer, he sets out to get ...

  • The Love-Makers

    Judith Gould

    Elizabeth-Anne Hale, stunning, ambitious, and sensual, arrived in New York with a dream that seemed impossible to everyone but herself. For she knew she had the brains - and the body - to make it come true. In the free-wheeling world of high finance...

  • Kitty Collins

    Philip Gould

  • The Errant Bridegroom

    Vanessa Gray

    THE LORD OF TEMPTATION It was a long way from a sheltered English country estate to the dazzling whirl of Vienna where the glittering nobility of Europe had assembled to celebrate victory over Napoleon. For Corinna Darley, it was a journey filled ...

  • Button Zone

    Wilfred Greatorex

    Russian armies were massed on their borders, waiting for a single shot to send them flooding over Europe. That shot would be fired thousands of miles away - in Washington D.C. Learning that much was easy for intelligence agent Calvin Rudge. Easy, tha...

  • Jesse's Girl

    Billie Green

    Jesse Perkins smiled: E.M. Cooper, D.V.M. Little peanut was now the town Veterinarian. Had it really been eleven years since he'd left Bitter, Texas? Eleven years since the sheriff jailed him for a crime he didn't commit? Ellie gasped. Exhilaratio...

  • Letters to Sherlock Holmes

    Roger Lancelyn Green

  • The Romanov Connection

    William M. Green

  • Love from Elizabeth

    Meredith Gregg

  • The Broken Citadel

    Joyce Ballou Gregorian

  • Forrest Gump

    Winston Groom

    The modern classic that inspired the beloved movie starring Tom Hanks.

    Six foot six, 242 pounds, and possessed of a scant IQ of 70, Forrest Gump is the lovable, surprisingly savvy hero of this classic comic tale. His early life may seem inaus...

  • Forever Flowing

    Vasily Grossman

  • Runway Zero-Eight

    Arthur Hailey

  • Savage Surrender

    Lindsey Hanks

    BELOVED ENEMY Hallie Parker's mission was vengeance. Disguised as a bandit, she chased down every stagecoach approaching Prospect City to take back the ill-gotten wealth of the man who killed her father. Her scheme was so successful that the villa...

  • The Runaway Rancher

    J.D. Hardin

  • Homecoming

    Elaine Harper

    Tracy, immature, flighty, and a bit of a snip, falls for the brother of her sister's fiance, but amidst plans for the wedding and the homecoming dance, she comes to suspect Biff of being a boozer. It turns out that he is acting as an undercover agent...

  • Husbands and Lovers

    Ruth Harris

    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

    Promises and betrayals. A gun in a Tiffany bag.Carlys Webber's sad and insecure beginnings are past but her future is threatened when her husband faces the first failure of his dazzling career. His lust for...

  • Love Is a Distant Shore

    Claire Harrison

    Dare she let down her guard? Reporter Geoff Hamilton had an uncanny knack for getting to the heart of the matter. And Petra Morgan didn't fancy spending an entire month with him while she prepared for her swim across Lake Ontario. Swimming...

  • Seven Steps to Treason

    Michael Hartland

    Former intelligence agent Bill Cable returns to espionage under terrifying circumstances when the Soviets kidnap his daughter and threaten to expose a past mistake that would escalate suspicions that he once betrayed an agent...

  • Why Are You So Mean to Me?

    Deborah Hautzig

  • Visit to the Sesame Street Library

    Deborah Hautzig

    Illus. in full color. "Big Bird discovers that the book he wants to buy in the bookstore costs more than he has, so the bookseller wisely sends him to the library. There, Big Bird discovers that libraries have records, cassettes, story hours, films, ...

  • Penny and Peter

    Carolyn Haywood

    From Carolyn Haywood, author of the beloved Betsy series, here are four more classics for young readers. These adorable stories of childhood adventures are as fresh today as when they were written more than a half century ago. And now, thanks to dyna...

  • Cliffs of Fall: And Other Stories

    Shirley Hazzard

    From the author of The Great Fire, a collection of stories about love and acceptance, expectations and disappointmentShirley Hazzard's stories are sharp, sensitive portrayals of moments of crisis. Whether they are set in the Italian countryside or su...

  • Billy Goats Gruff

    Susan Hellard

  • Grandpa & Bo

    Kevin Henkes

    Bo was spending the summer with Grandpa. they walked and fished and made thing together. They celebrated Christmas together -- a very special summer Christmas. But best of all, they talked and laughed and talked some more. And when they finally sa...

  • Strangled Prose

    Joan Hess

    I'm Claire Malloy. I run that cute little bookstore in the abandoned railroad depot--the Book Depot. I love Mildred--a.k.a. Azalea Twilight--so I agreed to let her use my store for the autograph party for her latest smutty romance, Professor of Passi...

  • Tourist Season

    Carl Hiaasen

    The only trace of the first victim was his Shriner's fez washed up on the Miami beach. The second victim, the head of the city's chamber of commerce, was found dead with a toy rubber alligator lodged in his throat. And that was just the beginning... ...

  • Black Dog

    Tony Hickey

  • Among Birches

    Rebecca Hill

  • Parisian Girl

    John Hohenberg

    Henri's was chic and popular, a piano bar in the Latin Quarter where information was as free flowing as the wine, as easy to have as the women. And were young American Arch Holden just wanted to forget his past, make a few bucks playing Noel Coward t...

  • The Legacy of Lillian Parker

    Leslie Holden

  • Catch and Saddle

    L.P. Holmes

    Death came cheap. A lot of men would have figured it a bargain to buy the deed to the Pinderlee spread for a single dollar. Clay Hanford knew better. He knew that the thousands of acres of lush grasslands in the Fandango Basin were a graveyard for an...

  • Fevers

    Joel Homer

    An embittered Vietnam veteran and journalist, William Straw, and a beautiful anthropologist embark on a perilous odyssey into the Amazon jungle in search of the ruthless, deadly Michael Fevers, an ex-patriate American turned ruler of a primitive nati...

  • Read-A-Rebus: Tales and Rhymes in Words and Pictures

    William H. Hooks

  • Split Images

    Naomi Horton

    ROMANCE BY THE BOOK Cassidy Yorke had interviewed plenty of celebrities for her TV talk show, but no one had gotten her goat the way Logan Wilde did. The author of the hottest sex guide on the market had virtually seduced her on live television. A...

  • Dirt Rich

    Clark Howard

    This saga about the building of an oil empire and one man’s personal journey is “wonderful . . . A truly exciting novel” (Orlando Sentinel).   After Sam Sheridan returns home from the World War I battlefront, he receives an ...

  • Closed System

    Zach Hughes

    Pat Howe, skipper and sole crew member of the space tug Skimmer, sensed trouble as soon as he accepted the commision from the Zede businessmen. Why were they willing to pay so much for him to transport medicine to Taratwo? And why did they insist on ...

  • America 2040

    Evan Innes

    Locked in a fierce struggle with the Soviets and on the brink of nuclear annihilation, the United States sends a courageous group of men and women, led by Captain Duncan Rodrick, on a mission into the uncharted realms of outer space...

  • Zachary's Law

    Lisa Jackson

    Unconventional described Zachary Winters to a T. Lauren Regis found it difficult to imagine this rugged man doing anything as confining as studying law journals, pacing in front of a jury, or straightening an imported silk tie. But if Zachary Winters...

  • Images

    Anna James

    BETTINA'S BACK! Tina Lawrence wanted to avoid the hoopla surrounding her return to modeling, but publicity was part of the package. So, it seemed, was Adam Cole, the arrogant head of Century Cosmetics, whose products Tina would be advertising. ...

  • Reason Enough

    Arlene James

    ISLAND GIRL In all the time he had spent on Guam, Captain Victor Dayton had never given much thought to the islanders. That is, until Coral Jerome came storming onto his ship. Coral was wild and carefree, as bright and sunny as her tropical hom...

  • A Very Special Favor

    Kristin James

    LOVE IN BLOOM .. . Emily had been a plain Jane all her life, but that hadn't stopped her from loving Adam Marshall, her charismatically handsome employer. She had never thought that Adam saw her as anything other than a secretary--until the day he...

  • The Maul and the Pear Tree

    P.D. James; T.A. Critchley

    In 1811 John Williams was buried with a stake through his heart. Was he the notorious East End killer or the eighth victim in the bizarre and shocking Ratcliffe Highway murders? Drawing on contemporary records and newspaper cuttings, for example, the...

  • A Family Affair

    Sandra James

    FATE DREW HER TO HER SON'S FATHER As an act of compassion, Jenna Bradford had served as surrogate mother for a childless couple. Now, on the brink of marriage herself, she found she couldn't erase the memory of the son she'd borne. Determined ...

  • Separate Lives

    Carolyn Jantz

    Was it marriage for money or love? Gwen Shaughnessy's marriage to Brad Robilliard, the cold, controlled founder of Robilliard Enterprises, was a business deal strictly for money. If they stayed together for one year, Brad's uncle, a misgui...

  • One of the Boys

    Jill Jarnow

    Friendship-1; Love-0 Until now, super athletic Jenny loved being the manager of the boys' soccer team. The guys all accept her as one of them, and she's made a lot of good friends. Unfortunately, gorgeous, gray-eyed Rick thinks of her as just a fr...

  • Wild Robin

    Susan Jeffers

  • Mr. O'Malley Goes for the Gold

    Crockett Johnson

  • The Wounded Stag

    William Johnston

    Examines the roots of Christian mysticism, explains how to connect prayer with peace and social justice, and discusses the Eucharist, the interpretation of the Scriptures, and the sense of God's presence...

  • As Soon As It Rains

    Kaylie Jones

  • Desire Never Changes // The Convenient Lorimer Wife

    Penny Jordan

    Marry Chase Lorimer--impossible! Since Somer MacDonald's humiliating encounter with Chase Lorimer on the isle of Jersey, she had kept men at a distance. Five years ago she had foolishly tried to prove her sexual desirability by seducing the...

  • A Matter of Time

    Deborah Joyce

    No one would believe she was not a traitor Julie Smith, flight attendant, stepped off the plane in Honolulu and was arrested. The charge was theft of government property -- spying! A top secret computer disk was missing. In the wrong hands, the in...

  • The Popples and King Most

    Peggy Kahn

  • Max in Love

    Marilyn Kaye

  • Max on Earth

    Marilyn Kaye

  • The Feminine

    Richard Kehl

  • Cimarron and the Red Earth People

    Leo P. Kelley

  • The Masakado Lesson

    William P. Kennedy

    A motley group of greedy Americans plays an intricate global game of triple cross involving sex, poker, bank defrauding, and the cracking of the most sophisticated codes ever invented, with the winner taking control of the world...

  • New Day

    C.L. Keyworth

  • Snares of the Enemy

    Pauline King

    When inspector Evan Morgan, a devout Wesleyan Methodist, investigates a murder at the Ambelhurst monastery, he discovers that tracking a killer in a monastic community is more difficult than he imagined...

  • Cut in Diamonds

    Margaret Kirk

  • It's O.K. If You Don't Love Me

    Norma Klein

    New Yorker Jody has what she thinks is a very liberated view of sex, while Midwesterner Lyle still thinks love means having to say you're sorry. "The trauma and confusion of the sexual coming-of-age by a liberated woman is presented with skill and un...

  • The Butler and His Lady

    Anne Kolaczyk; Ed

    Pat Mahoney was every working woman's dream -- a gorgeous brawny build that filled out his white butler's coat to perfection, devastating blue eyes that twinkled with knowing humor, and could he ever cook! Hired to put Dusty Ross's life in comfortabl...

  • Where Are You Going, Little Mouse ?

    Robert Kraus

  • Sweet Starfire

    Jayne Ann Krentz

    She was Cidra, an ethereal, fiery-haired beauty, raised amid the serenity and shelter of a spiritual race, but belonging to another people, the so-called Wolves. He was Teague Severance, a ruggedly handsome adventurer, a Wolf used to taking - and get...