Books Published in March 1987

New Books List: 426 titles

  • You Can't Get Lost in Capetown

    Zoe Wicomb

  • Yesterday and Tomorrow

    Erin Yorke

    A PASSION AS POWERFUL AND CONSTANT AS THE NILE . . . Unlike most young English women in 1935, Cassandra Barstowe had been captured by white slavers, put up for auction, then rescued by a man on a white stallion. All in her first day in Egypt! E...

  • Yendi

    Steven Brust

    In which Vlad Taltos and his Jhereg learn how the love of a good woman can turn a cold-blooded killer into a real mean SOB.... Vlad tells the story of his early days in the House Jhereg, how he found himself in a Jhereg war, and how he fell in lov...

  • Worldstone

    Victoria Strauss

  • Women and Men

    Joseph McElroy

    Beginning in childbirth and entered like a multiple dwelling in motion, Women and Men embraces and anatomizes the 1970s in New York - from experiments in the chaotic relations between the sexes to the flux of the city itself. Yet through an intricate...

  • Wives

    Parley J. Cooper

  • Within Reach

    Marilyn Pappano

    SHE WAS EVERYTHING HE COULDN'T HAVE -- and everything he wanted. Not only was Krista MacLaren's father suspected of smuggling illegal aliens -- and possibly worse--across the border, but she was a typical child of privilege, too rich for Border Pat...

  • The Witchwood Cradle

    Esther Friesner

  • Winterbourne

    Susan Coppula

    In the harsh, turbulent Middle Ages, lovely Lady Melyssan remains as she always has been -- sweet, timid, and content to be alone. But in a desperate move to resist the advances of the dreaded king, she claims to be married to his worst enemy, Lord J...

  • The Winter Picnic

    Dixie McKeone

    Marriage was out of the question Miss Amethy Portney would make a delightful mother... or so thought four-year-old John William Farringham, tenth Duke of Lowestroft. Jackie, as his intimates called him, was being raised by his cousin, the Earl of ...

  • A Winning Combination

    Maris Soule

    He really shook her up . . . Alexis Martin had been footloose long enough. Home again in Alaska, she was determined to settle down and finish her education. But when she met J. J. Callaway at a party, her thoughts turned to lessons of a different ...

  • Winner's Cut

    Preston Pairo

    Repetitious, repellent sex scenes and unvarying scatological expressions pale in comparison with Pairo's offenses against the English language in this dreary thriller. The large cast features cops and crooks in Florida's Dade County, with narcotics d...

  • Wingman

    Mack Maloney

    THE FINAL WAR IS OVER Disarmed and leaderless, the United States is united no longer. The capital city of Washington has been reduced to a smoking pile of radioactive rubble. In weeks a proud nation is decimated in a deadly rain of treachery and d...

  • Wind of Promise

    Dorothy Garlock

    Fiery-haired Vanessa was determined to cross the prairies, ford the mighty rivers, and climb the Rockies to reach Colorado. Her hands held the reins of the mule team with wiry strength...but her resolve weakened when a tall stranger, lean of body, wi...

  • Winchester Valley

    Kit Dalton

    Morgan's plan to use a wagon load of buxom beauties to draw a band of desperadoes out of their hideout worked all too well. For out they come, guns blazing and determined to capture the ladies and leave Morgan's bones bleaching in the sun....

  • William and Boomer

    Lindsay Barrett George

  • Wild Midnight

    Maggie Davis

    A rich young woman finds danger, deception, and desire where she least expects in this breathtaking novel from the award-winning author. Rachel Brinton came from her comfortable home in Philadelphia to the savage and breathtakingly beautiful land of ...

  • Wild Life

    Todd Strasser

    Gr 6-8 After struggling for years (Rock ' n' Roll Nights 1982) and finally making it to the top ( Turn It Up! 1984, both Delacorte), the rock band Coming Attractions self-destructs: Oscar, the keyboardist, retreats into egomaniacal fantasies; Karl, t...

  • The White Tiger

    Robert Nathan

  • The White House Pantry Murder

    Elliott Roosevelt

    It's Christmas 1941, but the ever-present Nazi threat makes this holiday season one of the bleakest in our nation's history. In the White House, President Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor prepare, not so much for Christmas, but for the arrival of Eng...

  • Whistling Dixie

    Adrienne Edwards

    From the moment they meet in a flooded computer room infested with snakes. they seem destined to re-enact a romantic war beteen the North and South. Statesque Roberta E. Lee, the Memphis Zoo's curator of reptiles, is no swooning Southern Belle. Steph...

  • When the Night Wind Howls

    Pamela F. Service

    Ghostly apparitions at the community theater thirteen-year-old Sidonie and her mother join as a way of making friends after moving to a small Indiana town lead Sid to an investigation which uncovers something so sad and so evil it seems it could neve...

  • A Well-Matched Pair

    Sheila Bishop

    HAD SHE FALLEN IN LOVE ONLY TO LAND IN SCANDAL? When a terrible snowstorm pitchforks Miss Edith Bruton into a world of fashionable strangers, she is giddy with delight -- especially when asked to journey back to London with the party. She even wi...

  • Welcome, Little Baby

    Aliki

    "Welcome to our world, little baby. We've been waiting for you." "In a simple text that's perfect, Aliki conveys warmth, love, hope, and the special tenderness felt by parents at the birth of their child."--Horn Book....

  • A Way to Remember

    Meg Hudson

    SOME THINGS SHOULD LAST FOREVER When Chris Talmadge met Dr. Madeline Clarke at the slot machines in one of Aruba's sumptuous casinos, he literally hit the jackpot--and dubbed Madeline his "Lady Luck." Madeline was wildly attracted to Chris desp...

  • Water from the Moon

    Jane Breskin Zalben

    During her sophomore year in high school, Nicole Bernstein of New York City learns that relationships with girlfriends or admired boys can be painful, and that not everyone is capable of giving or loving to the same degree....

  • Walking the Distance

    Marian Thurm

  • Voyage of Terror

    J.H. Brennan

    The reader must face the gigantic Cyclops and the hammer-wielding Vulcan while navigating through time from ancient Greece back to Avalon, where Saxon warriors are advancing and the sword Excalibur has vanished...

  • Voices on the Wind

    Sandra Canfield

    SHE MADE HIM FEEL ALIVE AGAIN Nicole Rawlins had seemed the perfect wife-so perfect her husband Burke had run away and buried himself in an ocean of bourbon and guilt rather than accept her death. When he finally returned to Boston and his law ...

  • Very Cold for May

    William P. McGivern

    Her corpse would be the hottest news in town.

    May Laval was as brilliant as a ten-carat diamond--and just as cold. As the calculating ruler of a social set, she influenced generals, politicians, and big businessmen. Slowly and shrewdly, she ...

  • Vagabonds of Gor

    John Norman

    As treachery and betrayal become the prime weapons in the war between Ar and Cos, Tarl Cabot is trapped in the siege of Ar's Station. And when Ar's Station falls to the warriors of Cos, it is only with the aid of the loyal Vosk League, that Tarl and ...

  • Unto the Beast

    Richard Monaco

    The savagery and dark obsessions of Adolf Hitler become the chilling manifestation of a dark, supernatural past in a speculative novel that blends history and imagination into a study of the ultimate, secret source of evil...

  • The Undaunted Bride

    Miranda Cameron

    NO MARRIAGE RING WOULD CHAIN HER When Beatrice wed Gareth Risborough, the Baron of Brook, she was forced to vow to love, honor, and obey him. Nothing, however, could force her to keep those vows. Never would she love this man who made it clear...

  • Uncertain Magic

    Laura Kinsale

    In the splendor of love's passion, only the heart dared dream. LOVE'S SWEET ABANDON He was called the Devil Earl and scorned by gentle society. But to Roderica Delamore, this disreputable Irish rake would make the perfect husband... for a young...

  • The Tyrant

    Patricia Veryan

    THEY PLOTTED TREASON TOGETHER -- UNTIL LOVE GOT IN THE WAY... Brooks was gallant, handsome, and loved her dearly, and perhaps Phoebe loved him in return. But thoughts of her betrothed fled the evening her brother enlisted her aid with his rebel ...

  • Two Girls One Boy

    Janet Quin-Harkin

    City Girl, Country Girl... Caroline's thrilled to find out she's got a long-lost cousin exactly her age. But she's horrified when Chrissy comes to spend a year with her family. Caroline's a reserved and polite only child -- now she has to share her ...

  • Twisted Tree

    Palma Harcourt

    Journalist Leo Cantley and his caravan are attacked, imprisoned, and left to die in Africa, but even though he escapes, he finds that the danger has followed him to the supposed safety of his London home...

  • The Twilight Realm

    Christopher Carpenter

  • Turkish Delight

    Rosemary Edghill

    WANTED: ONE HUSBAND -- INDOLENT, AMIABLE, AND RICH -- TO WED A WOMAN WITH A PAST. Perhaps, Louisa Darwen reflected, an ad in the Gazette would find her a suitable husband. She had no wish to charm the ton -- and, after her "scandalous" upb...

  • Tropical Heat

    Joan Grove

    It was a "couples only" Caribbean resort. Doug Channing, Chance Island's devastating owner, had already met Liz's "husband" How could she tell him they were unmarried detectives investigating a case critical to her floundering agency? How could she r...

  • The Traveler

    John Katzenbach

    From the New York Times"bestselling author: “A powerful, obsessive novel of murder and madness” traveling cross-country (The New York Times).   Miami detective Mercedes Barren, recovering from a traumatic shooting, has transferred to the r...

  • Trackless Seas James

    Leonard Johnson

  • Touch and Go

    Elizabeth Oldfield

    Their love deserved a second chance Karis Buchanan, owner of a health club in London, was a self-sufficient woman who made her own decisions. Seth Mauroy, a business executive in Thailand, was accustomed to taking charge. Small wonder their romanc...

  • Tomorrow's Vintage

    Marisa Carroll

    Time was Alanna's ally And she never knew it until Kyle Stafford arrived on Lake Erie's South Bass Island. Time, which aged and mellowed the fine wines of her family's vineyards, had worked subtle changes on her feelings for Kyle, deep...

  • Tie Breaker

    Anne Hunter Lowell

  • Three Ducks Went Wandering

    Ron Roy

    In this gentle yet suspenseful story, three adventurous little ducklings wander away from their barnyard home and unwittingly avoid disaster after disaster until they eventually return to the nest, where their mother takes them under her wing for a n...

  • This Band of Gold

    Georgia Dallas

  • Third Prize Surprise

    Susan Saunders

  • There Once Was a Lover

    Dixie Browning

    NEITHER RHYME NOR REASON Joelle Middleton was constitutionally incapable of making waves. She was painfully shy. Her social life consisted of confiding to Ivan, her pet lovebird, and reading Clayton Abbott's witty limericks and insightful edit...

  • Then Came Love

    Nancy Gramm

    FIRST COMES BABY Maggie O'Rourke had made up her mind. It was her only hope of having a child of her own -- she had no time or desire to fall in love or get married. With careful timing and planning, Maggie selected the man who would be the fa...

  • Their Song Unending

    Anna James

    A secluded island, a timely plane failure, and voila: Logan Addison, conservative investment counselor, was stranded on romantic St. Cat's with Justine Hart, the flamboyant singer he'd desired from afar. And soon calamity led to caresses... ...

  • That Eye, the Sky

    Tim Winton

    In this modern Australian classic, award-winning author Tim Winton tells the story of young Ort Flack and his struggle to come to grips with the forces pulling his family apart. An extraordinary snapshot of boyhood, That Eye, the Sky is also a powerf...

  • Texas Wildfire

    Eleanor Woods

    He was a mountain of a man. She was as delicate as porcelain. He craved adventure. She wanted security. But Christina Mattlock had taken the biggest risk of all. Wealthy, powerful John Mattlock thought he could have what he wanted when he wanted it. ...

  • Texas Triumph

    Victoria Thompson

    HE SAID "I DO" Ranch foreman Cole Elliott couldn't say no to his enticing boss Rachel McKinsey when she proposed they have a marriage in name only. The virile gunslinger had had his eye on the shapely filly since he first hired on and dreamed of h...

  • Texas Trackdown

    J.R. Roberts

    When Clint Adams rescues beautiful Milly Hathaway from a cornered bandit, he already knows she's the daughter of the richest man in the territory. But what surprises the Gunsmith is when the young miss mistakes a frisky night of passion for a marriag...

  • Texas Rogue

    LaRee Bryant

    She felt his strength. Lovely Laura Nichols fled her uncle's home when she was forcefully engaged to a fat ugly old man. But when her stage was attacked by bandits, leaving her in the Texas wilderness with roguish Blake Saunders the innocent beauty w...

  • Tender Fury

    Helen Conrad (1)

    "Just give me six months. That's all I want." David Duke, the champion motorcyclist, didn't waste time. From the devil-may-care light in his eyes to the "show-me" curl of his lip, he gave off sparks of danger. But Maggie Jones couldn't say no. She wa...

  • Taste of Treason

    Laura Pender

    She'd let the wolf in her door As long as Alison could remember, there had never been trouble at Holbrook's Hideaway. The family resort on Lake Superior was her pride and joy. But the arrival of Stewart Dalton and his mysterious wife cha...

  • Tangles

    Barbara Boswell

    In the courtroom Krista Conway was a feared opponent, a real tough cookie in high heels and pinstriped suit -- but when she stood before Judge Logan Moore, he felt his blood catch fire! She was a living, breathing mass of gorgeous contradictions: a h...

  • Tallahassee Higgins

    Mary Downing Hahn

    Tallahassee was about as miserable as a twelve-year-old could be. She’d always lived with her beautiful, free-spirited mother, Liz, and she could do anything she pleased -- pig-out on junk food, veg-out on TV, forget about homework. Now Liz was off...

  • Talk to Me, My Love

    Deborah Kent

  • The Tale of the Bunny Picnic

    Louise Gikow

  • Sword of the Heart

    Maureen Kurr

    To beautiful young Alix Beauchamp, Philip de Saines was an enigma, a chevalier who refused to defend his honor, a man who arrogantly ignored the rules of courtly love. Betrothed to his brother Julian, Alix knew Philip could have no place in her heart...

  • The Sword at Sunset

    Rosemary Sutcliff

    This brilliant reconception of the Arthurian epic cuts through the familiar myths and tells the story of the real King Arthur: Artos the Bear, the mighty warrior-king who saved the last lights of Western civilization when the barbarian darkness desce...

  • Surviving the Seasons

    Fern Kupfer

    “Funny, sad, and familiar, from the anguish and delight of early love to its wistful repetitions in old age. Surviving the Seasons is very moving, and absolutely true.” -- Belva PlainThese are the golden years, under the Florida sun. No...

  • Surrender the Night

    Christine Monson

    BRIDE OF REVOLUTION... SLAVE OF SHATTERING DESIRE Desperate to escape the clutches of her mother, Eliza Hilliard trades the sumptuous false freedoms of Boston society for marriage to a royal stranger... An innocent in a palace of dark intrigue...

  • Sunny Chandler's Return

    Sandra Brown

    The whispers began when she entered the ballroom -- and every male eye in the place was caught by the breathtakingly lovely spitfire with the slightly shady reputation. Ty Beaumont knew a heartbreaker when he saw one and also knew that nothing and no...

  • Summer Long-A-Coming

    Barbara Finkelstein

  • Sultry Nights

    Anne Kolaczyk; Ed

    They were just teenagers that long hot summer when Rachel Anders and Ben Healey met, but the sensual fireworks they set off were shot with passion far beyond their years. At summer's end their farewell was full of promises--and almost shocking heat--...

  • A Suitable Arrangement

    Rebecca Ashley

    WED AND WIDOWED BY A WASTREL. SHE WAS ALL ALONE IN THE WORLD. The last person Katie Marshall expected to meet at Belham Manor was Lord Wellesy, the man she had rejected to marry her rakehell husband. Bitter yet still strangely attracted to Ka...

  • Suicide Run

    Irving A. Greenfield

  • Sugar and Spice

    Debbie Macomber

    BY THE BOOK... With her high school reunion coming up, librarian Jayne Gilbert was determined to go with a handsome man on her arm. The problem: finding one. So Jayne decided to rely on her favorite source of instruction: books. Riley Chambers ha...

  • Strangers from Earth

    Poul Anderson

  • Strange Tales

    Mildred Sproxton

  • Stolen Day

    Lass Small

    TEN MILES TO PIONEER FAIR. ACROBATS, TROUBADOURS, CONTESTS, COME ONE COME ALL The sign beckoned to the responsible, rather prim Priscilla Nobbly, and for the first time in her life, she did something impulsive. Priscilla felt so reckless that she...

  • Steeldust II-The Flight

    J.P.S. Brown

  • Staring at the Sun

    Julian Barnes

    The bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending traces the life of a seemingly ordinary woman with an extraordinary disdain for wisdom in this “marvelous literary epiphany” (The New York Times Book Review). In this wonderfu...

  • Star Griffin

    Michael Kurland

  • Stagecoach to Hell

    Jon Sharpe

  • Spring Fever

    Francine Pascal

    During a visit to their aunt and uncle in Kansas, Jessica and Elizabeth are puzzled by the hostility of the local girls and upset when their relatives refuse to allow them to date two handsome carnival workers....

  • Spirit Wolf

    Gary D. Svee

    In frigid Montana, a boy tracks a killer wolf and learns to be a manIt is the worst winter anyone in Montana can remember. If the cold doesn’t let up soon, the Brue family farm may be done for good—and the Brues along with it. Young Nashu...

  • Spell Bound

    Jennifer Rabin

  • Spawn of Hell

    William Schoell

    Such a peaceful little town… Or so it appears when David Hammond and Anna Braddon arrive in Milbourne, CT where the horribly mutated body of Anna's brother has been discovered. Nobody knows what caused Jeffery's death, or the mysterious disap...

  • Son of Holmes

    John T. Lescroart

    THE TIME: 1915, World War I rages on. THE PLACE: Valence, France, a quiet backwater of gaslit streets and crowded cafes. THE GAME The search is on for the world's most dangerous assassin. Only one man can match wits with a criminal of suc...

  • Something Worth Saving

    Myrna Marshall

  • Something To Treasure

    Judi Cross

    David was your ordinary matter-of-fact computer type. Certainly not the kind of guy to see a mermaid. Was he? Then how come he'd seen one? Who else could it have been out there on the rocks combing her long golden hair? Had his terminals jammed? Was ...

  • Soldier's Medal

    Eric Helm

    For the men of U.S. Army Special Forces Camp A-555, the enemy comes in many forms. But perhaps the most dangerous adversary is one that the Americans cannot see - a soldier who surrenders to combat pressure. Sergeant Sean Cavanaugh and a patrol of ...

  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Margaret Davidson

  • Smart Moves

    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    Hollywood gumshoe Toby Peters is charged, along with FBI agents Spade and Archer, with the dangerous duty of protecting the lives of both Albert Einstein and Paul Robeson from scheming Nazis. Reprint....

  • Sixgun Cemetery

    Jake Logan

    SLOCUM SMELLED TROUBLE as soon as his old buddy Cap Locke sent for him. And riding into Sixgun he knew he was right. It was a town with more folks buried than livin' and the only one smiling was the undertaker. What's more, one look at Cap's luscious...

  • Sister of the Quints

    Stella Pevsner

    Emergency babysitting for her stepmother's quintuplets cuts into Natalie's social life and the media attention that quintuplets bring complicates matters, but Natalie resists the temptation to return to her real mother when one of the quintuplets is ...

  • Single Combat

    Sandra Field

    Lydia never even considered matrimony As a pathway to happiness it was highly overrated. Her own mismatched parents, long divorced, were an example of what could go wrong. Lydia had grown up without love. She'd learned to live without it, s...

  • The Singing Detective

    Dennis Potter

    Potter presents the delightful script of the much-acclaimed BBC/PBS series. It is the unfolding tale of Philip Marlow, a bedridden writer of detective stories, whose real-life memories mix with pop culture fantasies as he lies in a London hospital....

  • Silver Love

    Hayton Monteith

    Was she saving her neck or cutting her own throat? One minute, beautiful, penniless Pan Belmont was fleeing an irate restaurant manager; the next, she was standing in Silver Galen's sumptuous penthouse, a ragged waif accepting his strange offer. She'...

  • Silent Hunter

    Charles D. Taylor

    The Russians are converting the Arctic Ocean into a Soviet domain.The American response: IMPERATOR ... the most advanced weapon ever devised in submarine warfare. As large as an aircraft carrier, it glides silently along the ocean floor, and within ...

  • The Showgirl and the Professor

    Phyllis Halldorson

    Sunshine Smith's uninhibited warmth made her the darling of Reno showgirls. Chadbourne Fitzhugh III's pedigree and doctorate suited him for ivory-tower university life. When a math class brought them together, they became living proof that op...

  • Show Me a Hero

    Alfred Coppel

  • The Shadow of Moonlight

    Lindsay Armstrong

    Her marriage was sudden, short and secret When she was swept off her feet at nineteen, even her husband's wealthy family didn't know about Meredith Sommerville's marriage to their son. But after Leigh's death his family had warmly ...

  • Shadow of Deceit

    Lizabeth Loghry

    Who was the unknown accomplice? Willow Laughlin was the last person to see her best friend, Cassie Clayton, alive. Cassie had just died in prison. Although she and another man had been sentenced for armed robbery, a third culprit was still at larg...

  • September Rainbow

    Sibylle Garrett

    DESERT INTRIGUE Damon Noble was handsome, charming, exciting -- and the wrong man to fall in love with. After meeting Damon at a posh Washington, D.C., party, Jessica Stanton realized that she couldn't resist him. Still, she was wary of lovin...

  • Segu

    Maryse Conde

    A powerful novel of Africa's history and the men and women who determined its fate. From the East came Islam. From the West, the slave trade. The battle for Africa's soul had begun...
    "A wondrous novel about a period of African history few other w...

  • Secret of My Success

    Martin Owens

  • Second Chance

    Syd Banks

    The inspiring philosophical journey of a man who goes to Hawaii to recover from the shock of his wife’s death, and who finds the mystical Mama Lila, who helps him begin the journey to inner peace.

    “Second Chance is a quietly powerful book...

  • Seasons of the Heart

    Susan C. Feldhake

    On the day Alton and Sue Ellen Wheeler were wed, they stepped into a future fraught with danger and uncertainty. Life on the Illinois frontier was harsh. But their love was strong, as tenacious as the trials they could be called upon to bear. “I...

  • Scotland Yard Detective

    Seymour Reit

    In 1905, a young Indian prince, Ahmed Pali, boarded a train in Cambridge, England and vanished. His father is enraged and will damage the already tense relations between England and India unless Scotland Yard finds the boy. You have traveled back to ...

  • Scaffold

    Edward B. Lurie

  • Savage Revenge

    J.D. Hardin

  • Savage Flame

    Betty Brooks

    APACHE SUNRISE It was a complete surprise when luscious Rebecca Shaw found herself one New Mexico morning surrounded by marauding redskins and prisoner of their ugly, vicious leader. The terrified beauty was sure her fate was sealed, when suddenly ...

  • A Savage Adoration // An Innocent's Surrender

    Penny Jordan

    Dominic acted as if nothing had happened As though Christy's adolescent advances had not aroused his anger and contempt. The humiliation of his words had haunted her since and stood between her and all other men. Her career in London had co...

  • Satin and White Lace

    Barbara Turner

    Something Old, Something New With her blond hair, blue eyes and china-doll face, Chrissy Daniels was the best bridal model in Oregon. She was also an incurable romantic. But her dreams went far deeper than white lace and satin. More than anything...

  • Saraband

    Eliot Bliss

  • Sambaqui

    Stella Carr Ribeiro

  • The Samarkand Dimension

    David Wise

    Wise, ( The Invisible Government; Spectrum knows his subject well, in this case the intelligence community's involvement with parapsychological warfare. Yet his third novel seems almost apologetic about its subject. While everything eventually fits n...

  • Sacred Trusts

    Barbara Atlee

    Best friends Whitney Baraday and Patrice Rigby are drawn apart by World War II until Whitney, as a member of the Allied Secret Service, embarks on her most dangerous mission and Patrice, an internationally famous journalist, risks her life to save Wh...

  • Sacred Places

    Nancy Morse

    A HERITAGE OF HOPE... Carly McAllister was a doctor, and she planned to spend her life working with her people: the Sioux of South Dakota. But too many of them were dying of distinctly unnatural causes, and if Carly was to protect them, she had to...

  • Runaway Lover

    Alison Tyler (1)

    He was everything she knew she should avoid--a handsome, lusty trucker dedicated to the single life. Chelsea Ingram was running from a world of high finance and low politics ... and a wedding that should have taken place the very night she found hers...

  • The Runaway

    Gilbert Morris

  • The Rug Merchant

    Phillip Lopate

    A one-time graduate student who took over his uncle's New York rug store, middle-aged Cyrus Irani faces a harsh world with his customary old-world grace as he is lead from sex clubs to the Zoroastrian temple...

  • Ruff Leaves Home

    Anne Carter

  • The Royal Snuff Box

    Barbara Hazard

    THE TEMPTING TARGET Lady Julia was a beauty who stood out even in a London filled with lovely ladies. For a rake like Robert Hammond, she was an appealingly available female to be conquered with all his seductive skills. For an upright ge...

  • A Rose-Red City

    Dave Duncan

    The city of Mera is a fortress hidden from the rest of humanity, a sanctuary for the diverse group of people rescued from death by the Oracle that rules the city. The Oracle has brought together the citizens of Mera from every land and every time per...

  • Rocky II

    Sylvester Stallone

  • Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

    Samantha Lee

  • Road to Love

    Katherine Arthur

    It's him! she thought Ten thousand dollars was up for grabs in the Fling soft drink promotion. And Leslie Lyon, free-lance. photographer, had the inside track. She'd stumbled upon the perfect man -- a reincarnation of Clark Gable. Only ...

  • Riversbend

    Helen Hicks

    Afterwards, Beth wondered why she had felt no premonition, no hint of danger, when Adam Heller invited her to a house called Riversbend. But at the time, still in shock over her father’s death, she had felt only gratitude. The local people spoke...

  • River Dogs

    Robert Olmstead

  • Risky Business

    Janice Harrell

    No doubt about it, Mary Ann was nosy. To start with, she’d been curious enough to listen to Adam’s proposition. He needed a favor, and she was just the girl to help him out. Well, hanging around with Adam wouldn’t exactly hurt her social stand...

  • The Ridiculous Story of Gammer Gurton's Needle

    David Lloyd

  • Return to Eden

    Jeanne Stephens

    Mia had never stopped loving David, but their young marriage hadn't stood a chance. He hadn't really cared for her. He had only proposed on the rebound. Years later, a slimmer, more confident Mia met David again, and this time he clearly wanted he...

  • The Red White and Blue

    John Gregory Dunne

    Take a Roller Coaster Ride Through Three Tumultuous Decades of Modern America The Brodericks -- one of the most incredibly powerful and unusual families ever created: JACK Reporter, Hollywood screenwriter, renegade son running from the shadow ...

  • Red Center

    Frederick Nolan

  • Really Ridiculous Rabbit Riddles

    Jeanne Wallace

  • The Quintessential Woman

    Cory Kenyon

    He'd invented a housekeeping robot that threatened to destroy her business. She had no choice but to sabotage Harrison Kent and his infernal machine. But Brit McIver hadn't reckoned on the mad genius's booby-trapped home--or the Adonis who greeted he...

  • Quiet Night

    Ann Morris

  • Quiet Money

    Robert McDowell

  • Pursued by Love

    Caty Lear

    BON APPETIT When Alicia Stevenson, owner of Panache Pantry, went to meet her new landlord, she felt like David facing Goliath--without a slingshot. Connan O'Rourke wanted to terminate her lease, and Alicia was determined to fight him with everythi...

  • The Proper Miss Porter

    Ruth Langan

    PRIM AND PROPER Alexandra Porter was the most practical, the most levelheaded, frustratingly uncooperative woman Clif Andrews had ever met. She was also a loyal employee and a devoted mother. So loyal and devoted, she didn't have time to consider ...

  • Prize Stories 1987: The O. Henry Awards

    William Miller Abrahams

    Twenty of the finest short stories published during the past year are collected in this edition of the award-winning literary series, which features the best in short fiction from magazines and journals across the country....

  • The Private Garden

    Arlene James

    GARDEN OF DREAMS An exclusive family-owned restaurant, The Private Garden, was the center of Chafen Farris's life. She dreamed of restoring it to its former glory and had no intention of selling it to anyone -- not even the very tempting land ...

  • Prisoner in His Arms

    Dallas Hamlin

    An interest in ruins brought Cally Stevens to Central America. Now a dangerous band of insurgents threatened to see that she never left. What would become of her if they discovered she was not the daughter of the powerful American they believed her t...

  • The Primrose Path

    Jean Reece

    She cleverly orchestrated his downfall ... Lady Anne Severne was incensed when her brother-in-law, the marquess of Crewe, accused her of being a trollop. He was convinced that Anne's husband had died in a duel while defending her honor. In rea...

  • Poppy the Panda

    Dick Gackenbach

  • Pirates of the Thunder

    Jack L. Chalker

    Hawks had refused to help the ambitious Lazio Chen in his quest to find the five gold rings that could break Master System's hold over humankind-- and that refusal had landed him on the deadly prison planet Melchior. But when Hawks and some fello...

  • Pirate Jupiter and the Moondogs

    Nicole Rubel

  • The Phoenix Bells

    Kathryn Grant

  • Phoebe's Deputy

    Beverly Sommers

    Which was better: a man or extra closet space? As Deputy Richie Stuart applied the tape measure for the new shelves, Phoebe Tripp pondered this problem, latest of a series that plagued her. Does a swearing-in count when the sheriff-elect is wearin...

  • Phewtus the Squirrel

    V.H. Drummond

  • Persian Nights

    Diane Johnson

    On the eve of the revolution in Iran, Chloe Fowler, alone after the unexpected departure of her doctor husband, finds herself in a country undergoing violent change where everyone suspects everyone of something...

  • Penny Royal

    Susan Moody

    The news hit the papers ... Dr Bruno Fenlinghetti, esteemed Italian archaeologist and director of Rome's Instituto Ferlinghetti, had disappeared from his home near Naples. A pair of priceless statuettes had also vanished. You didn't have to be Perry ...

  • Penny

    Beatrice Schenk De Regniers

  • Peeps into Fairyland

    Ernest Nister

  • Passion's Folly

    Lori Copeland

    She knew it was a mistake to buy the luxury yacht with office heartthrob T. J. Templeton. But Ellie Millstein had decided it was time to loosen up and learn how to live. Why had the rakish sun-bronzed playboy chosen conservative Ellie to share his fl...

  • Panky and William

    Nancy Saxon

  • Paint Her Face Dead

    Jane Johnston

    Reporter Louisa Evans smelled a hard-hitting expose when she signed up for SUM - a new EST-like group encounter marathon. But when the green-haired punkette next to her dropped dead of cyanide poisoning, Louisa got more than a story - she got a murde...

  • Out of the Blue

    Barbara Bartholomew

  • Only Make-Believe

    Julia Winfield

    When Darcy Stevens hears that the students in her social studies class will be paired off in mock marriages, she assumes her "husband" will be longtime boyfriend Bruce. But instead she's matched up with quiet, bookish Josh Foster. Suddenly, the semes...

  • One Fine Day the Rabbi Bought a Cross

    Harry Kemelman

    On a trip to the Holy Land, Rabbi Small is drawn into a deadly conflict between religious extremists in the New York Times"bestselling series. Retired millionaire Barney Berkowitz, from the small Massachusetts town of Barnard’s Crossing, invites ...

  • On Wings of Love

    Laurel Pace

    Rob and Lisa were trying to have a romance It wasn't going well. A woman like Lisa deserved candlelit dinners and moonlit beaches, but with an energetic six-year-old on his hands, Rob's life was a merry-go-round of Girl Scouts and class cookouts. ...

  • The Omcri Matrix

    Jay D. Blakeney

    In the Planet Patrol, Costa was the best. The smartest, toughest, most ambitious officer in the ranks. Until the day the Omcri-a deadly alien force of faceless assassins-kidnapped the Kublai of Drugh, killing Costa's patrol but leaving her alive. The...

  • Old Henry

    Joan W. Blos

    The neighbors aren't too happy about Henry and his beat-up old house. Why doesn't he clean it up, and weed his garden and sweep his walk? Henry's got better things to do. Tired of being bothered, he finally gets fed up and moves away. The funny ...

  • Office Building

    Bruce Elliott

  • Odin's Eye

    Marguerite Murray

    Fifteen-year-old Cicely's summer job at a seaside boarding house owned by a family friend turns into a dangerous adventure as she stumbles across clues to a long unsolved murder and possible espionage....

  • The Oak Tree

    Laura Jane Coats

  • Nursery Crimes

    B.M. Gill

    Presents a compelling portrait of an evil, cold-blooded killer, the adorable, sweetly innocent, six-year-old Zanny, who is responsible for the murders of her little foster brother and the bread man, among others...

  • Nowhere Man

    Jerry Oster

  • Nostalgia Kills

    Robert Westbrook

    What if the greatest American rock star of the sixties, drowned in his bathtub seventeen years ago, did not accidentally die of a drug overdose but was murdered? Now, a new murder in Beverly Hills leaves blues-playing police lieutenant Nicky Rachmani...

  • Northshore

    Sheri S. Tepper

    Come to the world of the River. A world distant in time and space, a world where the pace of life is counted by the tides of the great River; but where, as in the river itself, there are swift dark currents flowing under a placid surface. Meet Pam...

  • Nobody Told Me What I Need to Know

    Hila Colman

  • No Strings Attached

    Annabel Murray

    She loved a man she knew nothing about Vita Raven loved her life: a career in travel and a whirlwind of parties at home in London. No man had ever tempted her to give up any of it--until she met Craig Stonier. Dubbed the "Rock" by her f...

  • No Sad Song

    Alison York

    She'd use her head, and not lose her heart Ahead of Annabel lay a brilliant career. If, that is, the talented young singer accepted the renowned Piers Bellingham as her agent. But in Annabel's mind the top-smooth entrepreneur was respon...

  • No Holds Barred

    Jackie Leigh

    To the business world he's Eli Sutherland, sophisticated investment manager. But to wrestling fans he's Stud Savage, the mock-ferocious hulk whose act of raw machismo toward genteel Miss Tiffany brings down the house. No one dares object when Stud pl...

  • No Contest

    M.E. Cooper

  • Nightmare

    Marjorie Dorner

    After her teenage daughter comes home with a tale of abuse and attempted kidnapping, Linda Hammond, a tough, independent, single mother finds the police refuse to listen and becomes determined to protect her daughter at all costs...

  • Night Moves

    Jean Kent

    When Greg Heflin sweeps Kelsey Sviderskas from her crumpled hatchback in a freeway pile-up, Kelsey longs to leave bier hard-won wariness behind and surrender to his easy windblown charm, his disturbingly gentle touch. But a gray-green sedan's been fo...

  • Newspaper Murders

    Bill Granger

    Reporter Frank Sweeney is murdered, leaving the Chicago Special Squad, including Sergeant Terry Flynn and Detective Karen Kovac, to deal with conflicting pressures from the newspapers, political figures, suspects, and the Cook County machine...

  • The New Mexico Heritage

    Lauran Paine

  • New Destinies Vl I

    Jim Baen

    Spring 1987, Volume 1. Editor: Jim Baen. An anthology of original stories and articles. FICTION INCLUDES: "Point Man" by Timothy Zahn; Iron (serial, part 2 of 2) [Man-Kzin Wars] by Poul Anderson (first part appeared in "Far Frontiers" Volume VII, Win...

  • Never a Dull Moment

    Jennifer Cole

  • The Neon Rain

    James Lee Burke

    From the pulsing jazz of the French Quarter to the twisting trails of drug-dealers' swamps, New Orleans is Detective Dave Robicheaux's turf. But now he's fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with the police brass, with the ...

  • Nadine

    Matt Cohen

    Spanning four decades from the 1940s to the present and set against the backdrops of Paris, Jerusalem, Cambridge, and Toronto, this novel focuses on a sensuous female astronomer's attempt to free herself from the past...

  • Mystery on Nine Mile Marsh

    Mary C. Jane

    Moody's Island, set like a jewel in Nine-Mile Marsh, is a valuable piece of property. When the widow who owns it dies and leaves the island to an absolute stranger, everybody wonders why. There is still one living relative, Clyde Moody, who was n...

  • My Dog and the Birthday Mystery

    David A. Adler

  • My Big Farm Book

    Carol Thompson

  • Murder-By-The-Sea

    Layne Littlepage

  • Murder Takes a Partner

    Haughton Murphy

    A death at the ballet draws Reuben Frost into a backstage conspiracy   While striding down Fifth Avenue, reveling in the beauty of the city, Reuben Frost loses his footing -- and is caught by a ballerina. Hailey Coles is a slip of a girl, but he...

  • Murder on a Mystery Tour

    Marian Babson

    The “consistently witty” Agatha Award"winning author presents a tale of murder in a country mansion (Mystery News).   With their fortunes dwindling, Reggie and his wife, Midge, have turned the family mansion into an English country inn. Wh...

  • Murder Off the Glass

    Michael J. Katz

  • Mr. Wonderful

    Fran Michaels

    A lesson in love... When popular Dave Reiner asks Sara Grant out for the first time, she can hardly believe it's true. She's had a secret crush on the handsome, dark- haired junior for years. Now that he's finally noticed her, Sara's going to do a...

  • Mother of an Army

    Charles Ludwig

  • Mother Hen

    Lilian McCrea

  • Moonlit Splendor

    Wanda Owen

    When Pierre Renaud awoke in an isolated cove after a long day of carousing, he saw an enchanting blonde beauty strolling amid the moon-washed rocks. Convinced she was a rum-inspired dream, the wealthy adventurer reached out to mold her supple curves ...

  • Moon Lake Angel

    Vera Cleaver

  • The Monster Bed

    Jeanne Willis

  • Molly in Danger

    Anne Carter

  • Mojave Guns

    Roe Richmond

    A decade after the end of the Civil War, ex-rebel Rick Montrill leads the men of Fort Burnside into combat against the feared Apaches, but finds he cannot restrain maverick Lt. Chris Herrold from fighting his own personal war...

  • Mind to Mind

    Don Pendleton

    Meet Ashton Ford, Psychic Detective ... Private Investigator Ashton Ford has special powers, powers some call supernatural. A former naval intelligence officer, Ford will shatter your ideas of reality and take you into a mystical world of vision, int...

  • Men to Match My Mountains

    Irving Stone

    Acclaimed author of biographical and historical fiction Irving Stone turns his magnificent talent to telling America’s most colorful and exciting story -- the opening of the Far West.

    Men to Match My Mountains is a true historical masterpie...

  • Melissande

    Diana Delmore

    Arrogant and Most Improper ...was the only way to describe Gideon Maitland. The handsome Marquess of Rochedale, he dared to steal a kiss from the lovely Melissande de Castellane when they met by chance by his curricle. Later, after a proper introd...

  • Mekong!

    James R. Reeves

  • Master Wolf

    Rose Estes

    GREYHAWK... A caravan on a mysterious mission ... A sleeping beauty, stalked by evil ... A young shaman of the fierce Wolf Nomads, cast out by his ancient tribe, must come to grips with his manhood and a family legacy of magic ... Travel the...