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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — MARCH 1988

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New Books List: 462 titles

  • Neverness

    David Zindell

    In a cosmos of prolific evolutionary diversity and complexity, Mallory Ringess, headstrong novice of the Order of Pilots, sets out to penetrate the Soild State Entity and to track down the secret of immortality...

  • Sundown

    Michael Zimmer

    Hell had come a-callin' on the remote cattletown of Sand Creek, Nebraska Territory. Wide-spread rustling from the area's ranches were about to destroy the local cattle industry, and the recently opened Black Hills, with its gold camps like Custer Cit...

  • Toasted Bagels

    Joyce Audy Zarins

  • Two Lives and a Dream

    Marguerite Yourcenar

    "Set in Rembrandt''s Amsterdam, ""An Obscure Man"" is the story of Nathanaël—innocent, open to experience—born like Everyman upon the stream of life. In ""A Lovely Morning,"" Nathanaël''s young son joins a touring company of Jac...

  • Death on Account

    Margaret Yorke

    Robbie is a quiet man, passive and unassuming. He is the sort of man who is taken for granted by the people around him, passed by for promotions and bossed around by his wife. Middle-aged, Robbie has never known love, or passion, or power. Oh, in his...

  • The Small Hours of the Morning

    Margaret Yorke

  • Taji's Syndrome

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    It began with six innocent children--and the terror they would bring to life ... A human error, an unreported lab accident. Six pregnant women, six unknown children spreading a plague far deadlier than any doctors have ever seen before--a horror that...

  • Below the Threshold

    Allen L. Wold

    When psychologist Jack Pages' patients, many of whom are struggling to cope with the alien invasion, begin to lose their fear of the reptilian Visitors, he races to discover the secret of the aliens' mental manipulation...

  • Hot-Blooded

    Mary Anne Wilson

    A DEBT TO PAY Nick Dantry's life had been saved, but in the process another man's had been lost. First, though, the man had told Nick about a vast treasure hidden deep in the Brazilian rain forest. Nick vowed to find it and use it to help the old ...

  • Miss Venezuela

    Barbara Wilson

  • Long Blue Blazer

    Jeanne Willis

  • Divided Treasure

    David Williams

    While investigating complaints of pension fraud reported by workers at a candy factory in North Wales, British banker and amateur sleuth Mark Treasure stumbles onto two corpses and a hidden web of greed and infidelity...

  • The Way We Die Now

    Charles Willeford / Charles Ray Willeford

    When Miami Homicide Detective Hoke Moseley receives an unexplained order to let his beard grow, he doesn't think much about it. He has too much going on at home, especially with a man he helped convict ten years before moving in across the street. Ho...

  • Crazy Time

    Kate Wilhelm

    Zapped by an experimental laser, "Corky" Corcoran is dispersed into space and must gather himself in the form of an apparition around psychologist Lauren Steele, while a paranoid colonel from the Pentagon pursues them, thinking they are Soviet spies...

  • The Skull Beneath the Skin

    Phyllis White

  • The Forbidden Territory

    Dennis Wheatley

    Dennis Wheatley's first published novel, introducing his modern trinity of musketeers in the epicurean Duke de Richleau, financier Simon Aron, and the wealthy young American, Rex Van Ryn.

    The Duke receives a coded message from his miss...

  • The Satanist

    Dennis Wheatley

    For years Colonel Verney had suspected a link between devil-worship and the subversive influence of Soviet Russia. When they found Teddy Morden's crucified body, he knew his grimmest fears were justified and that world peace was also endangered.<...

  • Pretty Girls

    Garret Weyr

    United as much by their height as by their desire to be pretty, the Amazons, Penelope, Alex, and Caroline, weather jealousies, failed romance, an unwanted pregnancy, and bulimia during one semester at the University of North Carolina...

  • City Heiress

    Margaret Westhaven

    Lord Geoffrey Barnstone tries to convince the young heiress Polly Percy to marry him, although she is not of aristocratic stock, but unknown to Polly, the unscrupulous Lord Barnstone simply wants to keep from losing his estate...

  • In for a Penny

    Margaret Westhaven

    "I'M RESOLVED NEVER TO MARRY" Penelope Lacey declared stoutly to Sir Edward Marchmont--even though he was the object of her amorous girlhood fancies. All Hampshire knew that Pen was mad for the dashing aristocrat, but Marchmont seemed quite disint...

  • There Is a Season

    Cara West

    HER WORST SINS HAD BEEN THOSE OF OMISSION.... Temporary office worker and would-be novelist Kate Hennessey had a creative imagination, especially when it came to men. But, despite bohemian fantasies, her old-fashioned values always won out. It ...

  • Winter Wolves

    Earle Wescott

  • Houses of Ivory: Stories

    Hart Wegner

    This compilation of stories brings to life the culture and society in a region of Eastern Europe devastated by World War II, where Poles, Austrians, and Ukranians must adjust to overwhelming loss, new, harsh reality, and a bleak future...

  • Untamed Heart

    Rochelle Wayne

    SHE CRAVED ADVENTURE When auburn-haired Julianne Ross got her daddy's permission to go to Fort Laramie, the enthusiastic woman reporter could hardly wait to interview her first Indian! But after she met the fort's handsome scout, David Hunter, Julie...

  • What Is the Matter with Mary Jane?

    Daisy Waugh

    'It is odd that the galvanised industry of women's literature should have passed by that most telling of female malaises, Anorexia Nervosa... Daisy Waugh breaks the silence with a resounding clatter of imaginative energy. WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH MARY...

  • Look Homeward, Love

    Pat Warren

    Of all possible partners for a cross-country trucking run, Jake Murphy would've been Kara Finelli's last choice. The man was arrogant, defiant and at least as stubborn as she. Worse, his rugged sexuality could easily distract her from her dreams of h...

  • Cookies Week

    Cindy Ward

  • What's Wrong Here?

    John Wallner

  • Mists of Ravensfall

    V.F. Wake

    Harriet had always dreamed of striking out on her own, leaving her disapproving aunt and her pugnacious uncle. So when the job of tutoring Marcus Raven's two children was offered to her, she eagerly accepted. Though it meant going to the ends of the ...

  • Alice Artist

    Martin Waddell

  • Wild Type

    Jeffrey Ivan Victoroff

  • Tame the Wild Wind

    Katherine Vickery

    Hungrily, his lips closed on hers... and Cecilia shivered as her body responded to a wanton desire as sudden as a summer storm... For beautiful country schoolteacher Cecilia Amanda Sinclair, life was as flat as the desert horizon, and as predictab...

  • Road to the Stars

    Robert E. Vardeman

  • Building Dreams

    Justine Valenti

  • The Lion and the Jackal

    W.T. Tyler

    Political blunders and diplomatic hipocrisy lead to a bloody confrontation between Ethiopia and the African nation of Jubba, where jaded American diplomat Logan Talbot witnesses the folly of a third-world power-play between the U.S. and the Soviet Un...

  • The Shooting Gallery

    Yuko Tsushima

    This collection of eight stories deals with the changing role of women in modern-day Japan, touching on the passion, joy, and sorrow associated with newfound freedom and its endless antagonistic relationship with responsibility...

  • Just a Little Bit Lost

    Laurel Trivelpiece

  • Happy Birthday, Molly!

    Valerie Tripp

    The books in this collection tell the stories of three American girls who lived long ago: --Kirsten, a pioneer girl of strength and spirit who settles on the frontier, --Samantha, a bright Victorian beauty, an orphan raised by her wealthy grandmoth...

  • Happy Birthday, Samantha!

    Valerie Tripp

    Samantha's birthday party is nearly ruined when Eddie Ryland plays a mean trick. Then Agnes and Agatha, Cornelia's ten-year-old twin sisters, save the day with an invitation to visit New York City. Samantha loves the twins' carefree attitude and can'...

  • Meet Molly

    Valerie Tripp

    FOR MOLLY MCINTIRE, life seems full of change. It's 1944 and the world is at war. Her father is far away caring for wounded soldiers. Her mother is busy working for the Red Cross. Mrs. Gilford, the strict housekeeper, makes her eat terrible things li...

  • Molly Learns a Lesson

    Valerie Tripp

    When the teacher announces the Lend-a-Hand Contest to help the war effort, Molly is determined that the third grade girls will plan the winning project. Instead, they choose an idea that Molly knows will never work out. So she talks two friends into ...

  • Molly's Surprise

    Valerie Tripp

    The Mclntires face a disappointing Christmas. Dad is off at war in England, Molly's grandparents can't come for the holidays, and it looks like there won't be any exciting presents. Worst of all, the family hasn't heard from Dad for a long time, and ...

  • Heat Lightning

    Lynda Trent

    Like man primeval, he called himself Adam. But who, Maya fretted, was he really, this Glorious stranger who'd stumbled, badly beaten, out of the night? She'd given him shelter--she was in danger of giving him her heart--but was their lightning-fast l...

  • Something Good

    Brenda Trent

    NO PLACE LIKE HOME After a lifetime of drifting, indulging her parents' farfetched schemes and consequent disappointments, Rachel Fentress was ready to settle down to something good, something worthwhile. She craved the security of a promising job...

  • Pulse Points

    Suzanne Topper

    Gaia Gerald inherits the New York jewelry store for which she has worked after the shocking discovery that the late owner was her long-lost grandfather, but along with the inheritance, she soon discovers other secrets, that may cost her life...

  • A Warm December

    Jacqueline Topaz

    When wealthy executive Dave Anders goes to the vet to pick up his dog, he ends up chasing a monkey and kissing the vet herself! Dr. Merrie McGregor's dazzled by Dave's powerful sensuality but thinks she'll never see him again--until he shows up as Sa...

  • Fly on the Wheel

    Katherine C. Thurston

  • Land of Illusion

    Kay Thorpe

    They were alone in the world The night Ross rescued her, Nicola knew that naivete had caused her abduction. Furthermore, it was self-doubt about her acting ability that had made her accept a nanny position in the middle of a Venezualan jungle in t...

  • A Virtuous Lady

    Elizabeth Thornton

    HARDENED RAKE Briony Langland knew she was expected to take her place in England's polite society. But the straight-laced Quaker miss had no patience for London's constant social whirl of halls, soirees, and the dashing young blades who f...

  • The Stalker

    Theodore Taylor

    In a chilling tale of revenge and retribution, a father tracks the man responsible for the sexual abuse and murder of his daughter, a criminal protected by diplomatic immunity, family power and influence, and his own crafty ingenuity...

  • Bayou Bluff

    Clay Tanner

    When the President of the United States wants a million dollars in gold given secret passage downriver...even a gambler has to fold his hand. At least until bullion-hungry buccaneers call his bluff with an old bayou battleship. Then, count on Chance ...

  • The Proving

    Thomas Szollosi

    Edgar Lamp is not your garden-variety mass murderer. Like most serial killers, he isn't too fond of other people. What sets Lamp apart is his technique: he has a unique way of separating his victims from their internal organs. Call it his signature. ...

  • Out of This World

    Graham Swift

    Out of This World interweaves the history of a blighted family with the tragic and ludicrous history of the twentieth century. Its alternating narrators are a father and daughter--each obsessed with the other and irrevocably estranged--surveying thei...

  • Wolfen

    Whitley Strieber

    In the dark, they are watching...They are waiting for you.No one has ever lived to tell the horrifying truth about them. Yet even now the Wolfen are gathered in the night-dark alleys ... unseen, poised ... ready to destroy their helpless human prey....

  • Gift of the Golden Mountain

    Shirley Streshinsky

    California in the 1960s and 70s forms the background to a saga of one family’s passions, past and present, played out against the explosive era of the Vietnam War. It follows the young part-Chinese heiress, May Reade, as she searches through her il...

  • Pea Pod Pop-Ups

    Michael Stoy

  • Sophie's Knapsack

    Catherine Stock

  • Strike Force

    Dick Stivers

  • Chain Letter

    Elaine K. Stirling

    Break the chain...and he'd break your neck Vicky Green had been leading a pleasant but quiet life, running her gift store in Madison, Wisconsin, and nursing her drooping plants. If she hadn't received the chain letter, she never would have met Jus...

  • Broken Date

    R.L. Stine

    A DATE WITH DEATH Jamie and Tom are in love. They've gone steady since junior high, and are planning to graduate from high school and attend college together. Them, of course, they'll marry. Everything is perfect until Tom breaks a date-and al...

  • Blindsight

    Michael Stewart

    Twenty-nine-year-old Guy Sullivan is losing his vision and developing powers of precognition, a talent that could save his life as research specialist Patrick Roach prepares a risky treatment to save his sight, and his vengeful son prepares to unleas...

  • An Unholy Alliance

    Serita Mendelson Stevens

  • Elizabeth Gail and the Teddy Bear Mystery

    Hilda Stahl

    Libby found herself right in the middle of a mystery when she was given the responsibility of protecting Teddy from a menacing stranger. Where could she get the courage to face the dangerous man who threatened Grandma Feuder?....

  • Defiant Angel

    Lisann St. Pierre

    Rafe was the fearless leader of a brigand band who seized a spirited beauty from the clutches of an evil marquis. . . and received a bullet for his pains. Katrina was the rebellious servant girl who'd been caught in a trap, a defiant angel who waril...

  • Cold New Dawn

    Ian St. James

    Overlong, conventional novelizing about post-WW II Britain. Cold New Dawn starts engagingly, telling us about the grade-school days of Keir Milford and Dusty Miller--two likable chaps who consort like little colonels at school, with Dusty as the ace ...

  • Paradox Planet

    Steven Spruill

    Kane and Pendrake: Space Detectives... Elias Kane: ex-member of the Space Navy, gambler, private eye, he's the consummate - though unwilling - hero to billions of citizens on dozens of worlds. Now Briana, the new Imperator, sends him on a dangerous m...

  • Hex Witch of Seldom

    Nancy Springer

    This contemporary fantasy by award-winning author Nancy Springer sweeps readers along on a girl’s journey of enlightenment and transformation Raised in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania by her grandpap, Bobbi Lee Yandro has been seeing things...

  • Not on a White Horse

    Nancy Springer

    From the day twelve-year-old Rhiannon spots a lost white Arabian gelding in the woods near her small Pennsylvania mining town, her life finds a focus as she learns to deal with family problems and decides the direction her life will take...

  • The Physalia Incident

    Art Spikol

    The mysterious death of a scuba diver off Bermuda plunges "World" magazine science editor Alex Block into a baffling case of mistaken identity, unexpected events, and murder that he attempts to unravel using his computer partner, STELLA...

  • The Secret Letters of Mama Cat

    Jody Sorenson

  • The Ogre and the Frog King

    Gregoire Solotareff

  • Veterans Park

    Don J. Snyder

  • White Horse Cafe

    Roberta Smoodin

    Tomas, owner of a Los Angeles cafe and grandson of a former Mexican general, is lured into a gem scam with some shady characters, and his girlfriend, aspiring actress Sasha Berlin, decides to go along for the thrills...

  • Brightsuit Macbear

    L. Neil Smith

    Berdan Geanar has had a difficult life. Unsure of himself, and apparently hated by the grandfather he has lived with since the death of his parents, he has no idea of what to do with his life. But when his grandfather abandons him, taking all the fam...

  • If You Love Me

    Joan Smith

    'TIS THE SEASON Christmas was supposed to be a happy time. But for Robin Halton, returning home for the holidays--and her brother's wedding--would only conjure up dreams of what might have been. When she'd broken her engagement to Sean Blake three...

  • Jed's Sweet Revenge

    Deborah Smith

    When Wyoming cowboy Jed Powers came to claim Sancia Island, he was prepared to evict a squatter--but instead found himself bewitched by a water nymph more beautiful than any wildflower. Thena Sainte-Colbet was an enchanting wildcat, an earth mother w...

  • Housekeepers Dog

    Jerry Smath

  • Blindman's Bluff

    Lass Small

    FIRST IMPRESSIONS Kimberly Miller and Logan Pederson would each get a sizable legacy - but only if they spent two weeks together, with no less than two hours per day alone. There was one small problem: they were perfect strangers. Logan wasn't...

  • Death by Analysis

    Gillian Slovo

  • The Juliet Effect

    Jesse Slattery

  • Alice Meets the White Rabbit

    Teddy Slater

  • The Family Carnovsky

    Israel Joshua Singer

  • Yoshe Kalb

    Israel Joshua Singer

  • Silver Mistress

    Carla Simpson

    SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN SHOCKED Only when she’d been locked inside a steamboat trunk for hours did impulsive Laurel Wentworth doubt the wisdom of her means of fleeing her dictatorial uncle. But after she pounded furiously and someone pried open the...

  • My Big Book of Fairy Tales

    Simon & Schuster

  • Red River Story

    Alfred Silver

    The people in this story all lived. The settlers dreamed of a home of their own and land to farm. The half-Indian buffalo hunters dreamed of a land kept open for their wild, free way of life. And the great fur companies, there in the wilderness of th...

  • Out of the Whirlpool

    Alan Sillitoe

  • C.A.D.S.

    John Sievert

  • A Not-So-Perfect Marriage

    Edwina Shore

    Ros knew she was being unreasonable, but her marriage to James had not been a bed of roses. Consequently she saw no reason to let him back into her life on any permanent basis when he appeared not to have changed his attitudes in any way at all! It w...

  • The Mayor of Castro Street

    Randy Shilts

    The Mayor of Castro Street is Shilts's acclaimed story of Harvey Milk, the man whose personal life, public career, and tragic assassination mirrored the dramatic and unprecedented emergence of the gay community in America during the 1970s.Known as "T...

  • Sight of Proteus

    Charles Sheffield

    a thrilling novel of pursuit and unveiling in a world where the forms of humanity are practically boundless -- until one man breaks an unbreakable law; until an alien force looses itself upon the world -- and a planet that exploded sixteen million ye...

  • Fire in the Sky

    J.A. Shears

    Dan Locke, an American trapper in the Yukon, threatens to bring war to the region when he falls in love with an Indian girl named Loon-cry and violently takes her from her brutal husband, causing the warriors of her tribe to set off on a terrifying r...

  • Second Cup of Coffee

    Jean Shaw

  • Happy Birthday, Kirsten!

    Janet Beeler Shaw

    Exciting new things come to the Larsons' farm in Minnesota in the springtime -- including a big new barn and a tiny new baby. But changes bring new worries and more work for Kirsten, too. First she is afraid for Mama's health. Then caring for a baby ...

  • Kirsten Learns a Lesson

    Janet Beeler Shaw

    Kirsten has a hard time in her new American school because she doesn't speak English very well. Miss Winston, her new teacher, is strict and not very understanding. Things get worse when Miss Winston comes to live with the Larson family. Kirsten's on...

  • Kirsten's Surprise

    Janet Beeler Shaw

    The Larson family celebrates their first Christmas in America, and Kirsten wants to keep some of their old Swedish traditions alive in the new country. She secretly plans a Saint Lucia celebration for her family. For her own Christmas she hopes for j...

  • Meet Kirsten

    Janet Beeler Shaw

    In the summer of 1854, after a long and dangerous journey on a small ship, Kirsten Larson and her family arrive in America. Everything in the new land is different from the small village Kirsten left behind in Sweden. The way people dress, how they t...

  • Colorado Robber

    Jon Sharpe

  • Eddie Black

    Walter Shapiro

  • Merry Wives of Windsor

    William Shakespeare

    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com. Enter JUSTICE SHALLOW, SLENDER, and SIR HUGH EVANS....

  • Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems

    William Shakespeare

  • Dangerous Deceptions

    Arabella Seymour

    On an isolated island during the Second World War, Evelyn Tregeale, a talented artist, discovers that her new husband is using emotional blackmail to force her into painting a magnificent forgery of a Raphael masterpiece to trick the German army...

  • Carousel Waltz

    Julia Searle

    I hope I never see him again! That's what Carolyn told herself after their first encounter; after Amory Grant's bombshell about not renewing the lease on her lace-making store. Then, after weeks of fruitless searching for new premises, ...

  • Rampage

    Prue Scott

    Chris Taggart is a ruthless, driven, real estate entrepreneur, whose buildings have changed the skyline of New York, and who, despite his hard-won wealth and power, can still pour concrete and carry a hod as well as cut a billion-dollar deal with the...

  • Navigator

    Michael Scott

  • Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner

    Amy Schwartz

  • Samantha's Surprise

    Maxine Rose Schur

    Samantha has high hopes for the best Christmas ever. Things start to go wrong when her Uncle Gard announces he is bringing the beautiful Cornelia home for the holidays. The household goes into a dither, and in all the confusion, no one pays much atte...

  • The Sorceress and the Book of Spells

    Anne Schraff

    The reader must foil the Sorceress of the Sea's dreadful plot to kill King Peter, Queen Susan, King Edmund, and Queen Lucy and seize the throne to save the realm of Narnia, under the guidance of Aslan, Son of the Emperor-Beyond-the-Sea...

  • Napoleon the Donkey

    Regina Schindler

  • The Four Hoods and Great Dog

    Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

    A move to the country introduces Steven and June Hood to the kitten Foudini and the largest dog anybody has ever seen, two talking animals who are preparing a return visit to the world from which they originally came and decide to take the children w...

  • A World of Light

    May Sarton

    "Its revelations, its tender frankness, its acutely sensitive observations recommend [this book] to Sarton's growing legion of readers." ? Choice

    May Sarton's celebrations in this book center around the friendships that flowered in her life from a...

  • Alien Child

    Pamela Sargent

    Alone on Earth, a young girl searches for a new beginning Nita is a child of the Institute. Ever since she can remember, she has roamed its sterile halls, living out her youth in the care of a fur-covered guardian from another world. The Institute’...

  • The Man of Her Dreams

    Glenda Sands

    KNIGHT IN TARNISHED ARMOR Critics called her "the emerging grand mistress of the sensitive, sensual scene," but for Charity Lovejoy, romantic interludes had always been confined to the pages of her books. She knew how love was supposed to be, and...

  • Island Captive

    Susan Sackett

    Their passion blazed beneath the Caribbean sun! HE RESCUED HER As she looked into the leering faces of the Mexican Revolutionaries who held her prisoner, Ariel Beresford prayed for a miracle. So when a handsome Englishman stepped in to claim he...

  • After the Fact

    Fred Saberhagen

    ASSASSINATION PLOT Once again Fred Saberhagen's remarkable new series character, Pilgrim, is at the center of strange and mysterious affairs. When last heard from, the Flying Dutchman of Spacetime was busy robbing the Pyramids so that he might fue...

  • To Love Them All

    Eva Rutland

    What kind of man would want to hire a wife? A man like Stephen Prescott. A successful, driven, man who believed that "this love stuff doesn't last." A globe-trotting bachelor uncle with an orphaned niece and nephew suddenly thrust into...

  • Spirit of Love

    JoAnn Ross

    She was the woman of his dreams As a deputy district attorney, Justine Lamoreaux dealt in facts, not fantasy. So she had little patience for the claims of one Colin Tiernan. They'd never laid eves on each other, but he kept insisting he'd been dre...

  • Against All Odds

    Patricia Rosemoor

    ALASKA'S GLACIERS LEFT HER COLD Dagny Havland had come a long way from the harsh rural conditions of her childhood. Her success in business was hard won and she wasn't about to give it up--especially for Thor Lindquist. Thor had tossed aside mo...

  • Bound by Desire

    Rosemary Rogers

    Out of the tempestuous union of Steve Morgan and Ginny Brandon came Laura--daughter of light, woman of desire, the child born of a blistering, incomparable passion. A ravishing temptress at play in a world of fabulous wealth, like her mother before h...

  • The Amazing Valvano and the Mystery of the Hooded Rat

    Mary Robinson

  • The Plutonium Conspiracy

    Jeffrey Robinson

    Richard Holbrook, a former jet pilot working at the U.S. Navy's London office, uncovers the looting of their nuclear fuel shipments and sets out to find the group responsible and recover the plutonium before it falls into the wrong hands...

  • Irish Rose

    Nora Roberts

    Burke Logan was a gambler, and luck had made him owner of Three Aces, one of the finest stables in Maryland. He'd come to Ireland to buy horses, but one look at Erin McKinnon's fiery beauty told him that he'd be leaving with a whole lot more. Erin M...

  • Canal Zone Conquest

    Mark K. Roberts

  • Deadly Memories

    J.R. Roberts

    He was called Laramie Jones. They found him half-dead in a pool of blood. Brutally beaten and abandoned on a lonesome trail. He was a man without a memory. A wanderer without a past. Now he's asking the Gunsmith to help him find the life he lost l...

  • Cajun Nights

    Susan Richardson

    Jeannie Kilmartin was dangerous -- and the most desirable woman Elliot Escudier had ever met! When the impetuous travel writer invaded his idyllic Louisiana marshes in search of a story, he knew she spelled trouble... and he was just the man to give...

  • The Hormone Jungle

    Robert Reed

    From Hugo Award-winning author Robert Reed. Set 2,000 years in the future, THE HORMONE JUNGLE tells the story of hunters and the hunted, fighting on an overcrowded, terraformed Earth, inhabited by trillions of lifeforms -- some human, some robotic, s...

  • Fortune's Desire

    Lindsay Randall

    GLITTERING PRIZE Catherine Diamond had never seen such a beautiful horse anywhere before--and she was determined to have it for herself. But when she challenged the horse's owner in a card game, she didn't expect to gamble with her heart. If truth...

  • Crampton Hodnett

    Barbara Pym

    Life has a certain reassuring if not terribly exciting rhythm for the residents of North Oxford. Miss Morrow is content in her position as spinster companion to Miss Doggett, even if her employer and the woman’s social circle regard her as a piece ...

  • Iva Dunnit and the Big Wind

    Carol Purdy

  • In Silence Sealed

    Kathryn Ptacek

    Two ravishing beauties--the Greek sisters Athina and August Kristonosos.Three giants of the Romantic Movement--John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and George Gordon, Lord Byron.Three great poets, all of whom die young.All three know the Kristonosos sis...

  • The Baby Blue Cat who Said No

    Ainslie Pryor

    Unwilling to follow the examples of his three siblings, Baby Blue Cat refuses his fish sandwich supper and fusses about going to bed like the rest of his well-ordered family, in a tale that is ideal for toddlers at the same stage. Reissue. Storytime ...

  • Criminal Elements

    Bill Pronzini

  • Raindance

    Kate Proctor

    To save her reputation, she lied to him When Sally Hughes arrived in Africa, the situation at Zambezi Safaris was desperate. Despite her feelings, she knew that until they found the missing man, their main supporter, Paul Morrant, must not know th...

  • The Preacher's Boy

    Terry Pringle

    Michael Page has trouble with the two most important relationships in his life -- with his minister-father and his girlfriend who wants to sing rock and roll. His attempts to work them out brought widespread recognition to a book with as much humor a...

  • Do You See What I See?

    Mathew Price

  • Sapphire Lightning

    Fayrene Preston

    She was his cousin's beautiful widow, an enchantress with topaz eyes -- and Linc Sinclair knew instantly she was all he ever wanted. Heat and desire had come up as suddenly as a summer storm, and his turbulent soul demanded he possess Toni Sinclair -...

  • The Dead of Winter

    David Poyer

    Combing the woods of rural Pennsylvania in the hopes of finding the man who shot and killed his son in what the police called a hunting accident, Paul Michelson risks his life for the sake of justice. Reissue....

  • Gazebo Rendezvous

    Martha Jean Powers

    THE DUKE'S HANDSOME WARD WAS NO LAD, BUT A WOMAN--AND A HEARTBROKEN ONE AT THAT! Of course the formidable Duke of Ruhaven would readily accept his new ward if she were a boy. So plucky Miss Leslie Lathrup contrived a most cunning disguise! But ...

  • Union Pacific

    Donald Clayton Porter

    Former Pony Express rider Ted Henderson is hired to protect the workers laying rails for the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads, who are being attacked by opponents of the railroad and angry Sioux warriors...

  • The Green Dark

    Marie Ponsot

  • Under the House

    Leslie Hall Pinder

    UNDER THE HOUSE is the story of the Rathbones, a prominent Saskatchewan family who live with a secret they're determined to keep. Only young Evelyn finds the courage to break down the wall of silence that keeps the truth at bay. Her ally is Aunt Maud...

  • Where the Wild Geese Go

    Meredith Ann Pierce

  • Kiss Me Again, Sam

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    It had to be jet lag, or some crazy dream; Samuel Garter decided when he discovered adorable Austin Tyler hanging upside down from a huge hole in the ceiling over his bed! But she was deliciously real, an unlikely construction worker with silky aubur...

  • Anvil of Hell

    Don Pendleton

  • Time to Time

    Don Pendleton

    Private investigator Ashton Ford is hired by the husband of an aging--but still beautiful--movie star to help with his wife's obsessions with UFOs and the occult by disproving her convictions that someone, somewhere in space is calling her...

  • Captive Chains

    Sonya T. Pelton

    They were bound together by love's CAPTIVE CHAINS. EAGER TO TEACH Nineteen-year-old Shaina Hill had yearned to be a teacher for as long as she could remember. And as she headed out for the remote area called Thunder Valley in the Washington Te...

  • D.O.A.

    Dave Pedneau

    THE TEAM: Whit Pynchon, the D.A.'s top cop (and bane of the town's police force) is back on another murder case, more heinous than any he can remember. Dogging his footsteps is Annie Tyson-Tyree, local crime reporter and Whit's lover as well, determ...

  • Gallant Bride

    Jane Peart

    Would she ever be accepted as a wife....as a Montrose...as a woman? It is a long journey from Blythe Dorman's ranch home in Lucas Valley, California, to the ancestral Virginia mansion of her new husband, Malcolm Montrose. There are mountains of de...

  • My Favorite Time of Year

    Susan Pearson

  • The Crack in the Cosmic Egg

    Joseph Chilton Pearce

    With a new preface by the author. This enormously popular New Age classic, beautifully written and intellectually challenging, has inspired and guided millions of readers to develop new, creative, inventive modes of thinking....

  • Jennifer's Rabbit

    Tom Paxton

  • Murphy's Gold

    Gary Paulsen

  • Center of Attention

    Francine Pascal

  • Pretenses

    Francine Pascal

    Too much mystery ... Cara Walker feels that her boyfriend, Steven Wakefield, isn’t paying enough attention to her. Suddenly he’s acting aloof and withdrawn. Cara’s good friend Jessica, Stevens sister, suggests that Cara add some mystery to the...

  • Together Forever

    Francine Pascal

    Newlyweds Jeff and Caitlin find their happiness threatened when Jeff is left paralyzed after a near-fatal accident, and his only hope of recovering lies in the hands of his longtime enemy, Dr. Julian Stokes...

  • Bird in the Net

    Frank Parrish

    Dan Mallet, the clever and witty thief who lives in a ramshackle cottage in Wessex, England, works to solve the murders of two American visitors and to clear the prime suspect, the wife of a local minister...

  • Lovespell

    Andrea Parnell

    How could Diana be doing this, when she was still celebrating her marriage to Jonathan? How could she surrender to the passion of Drew Symons, the wild and handsome half-gypsy cousin of the gentle man she had wed? Was she the victim of a spell cast o...

  • Apple Tree

    Peter Parnall

  • Jean de Florette and Manon of the Springs: Two Novels

    Marcel Pagnol

  • Seekers in Sneakers

    Sharron Oyer

  • Johnny Castleseed

    Edward Ormondroyd

  • Paradise of Death

    Frank Orenstein

  • Soft Water

    Robert Olmstead

  • Winter Is Not Forever

    Janette Oke

    WINTER IS NOT FOREVER With schooling behind him, josh wonders what else life holds. Should he continue his studies and become a pastor? Is he to help his aging grandpa and uncle on the farm? With his friends moving on, Josh feels like his life has...

  • The Fox Hunt

    Sven Nordqvist

  • McKenzie's Boots

    Michael Noonan

  • Incentives

    Clare Nonhebel

  • Gentleman's Trade

    Holly Newman

    AFTER THE BALL Rain fell in buckets that spring. It bounced off balconies, drenched gardens and, to lovely Vanessa Mannion's dismay, turned New Orleans' main lane into one big puddle. Even with her skirts held high, Vanessa could not prevent mud f...

  • Manana Man

    Christopher Newman

    Jack Terranova is hired to kill a big-time politico in Columbia but accidentally kills two C.I.A. men on his trail and finds himself on a path that leads him to a nest of Columbian drug dealers and Nicaraguan arms dealers hiding out in Silicon Valley...

  • The Enigma of Arrival

    V.S. Naipaul

    The Nobel Prize-winning author distills his wide experience of countries and peoples into a moving account of the rites of passage endured by all people and all communities undergoing change or decay. • "Naipaul's finest work." -- Chicago Tri...

  • Colour the Sky Red

    Annabel Murray

    Her peaceful life was shattered Teale Munro had come bursting into Briony's little Devonshire shop one afternoon. Within minutes he'd accused her of lying, labeled her a redheaded tart, and finally insisted she was the woman who'd sedu...

  • Murders and Acquisitions

    Haughton Murphy

    During a weekend in the country, Reuben Frost investigates the murder of a frozen-food king who got himself into hot water   Reuben Frost misses a lot of things about life as a corporate lawyer, but working for Andersen Foods Corporation is not ...

  • Playroom

    Gloria Murphy

    Victoria Louise, then nearly 25 and her favorite companion, a doll she called Rosalie return to her hometown. Hounded and harassed because of her morbid obesity, Victoria Louise was coming home to show she had arrived. Nearly 100 pounds slimmer, Vict...

  • The Book and the Brotherhood

    Iris Murdoch

    A story about love and friendship and MarxismMany years ago Gerard Hernshaw and his friends “commissioned” one of their number to write a political book.Time passes and opinions change. “Why should we go on supporting a book which we detest?”...

  • Eye of the Storm

    Marcia Muller

    Private eye Sharon McCone is lured away from San Francisco to what she thinks will be a weekend "busman's holiday." Her sister Patsy has invited her to Appleby Island, once the home of an agricultural tycoon. With his heirs long gone, the rich man's ...

  • To Love Again

    Carole Mortimer

    Would she always be "the kid next door"? Christi was twenty-two to Lucas's thirty-seven. They had lived in adjacent flats for four years now, and though Christi had been in love with her handsome divorced neighbor ever since they'd...

  • Nothing to Declare

    Mary Morris

    Great travel writing has always been about the person making the trip as well as the things he or she encounters, and Mary Morris's category-defying 1988 memoir was an instant classic as much for its candid revelation of the author's turbulent emotio...

  • Grandma's Promise

    Elaine Moore

  • The Stove Haunting

    Bel Mooney

    When his family moves to a large rambling house in the English countryside, Daniel discovers an old stove which leads to a journey into the past, to 1835, where as a kitchen servant, he becomes involved in the local farm workers' dangerous plans to f...

  • Colors

    Kirk Mitchell

  • The Panama Hat Trail

    Tom Miller (1)

    This exploration of the countries and cultures of South America examines how different cultures view one another, assesses the mythic appeal of the United States, and looks at the economics of world trade...

  • Whose Hat?

    Margaret Miller

  • Goodbye Tomorrow

    Gloria D. Miklowitz

    A high school junior who has received two blood transfusions finds out he has the AIDS virus, though not the disease, and finds all his relationships changing--with his friends, his girlfriend, and even his family...

  • The People in the Picture

    Haydn Middleton

  • A New Desire

    Leigh Michaels

    He acted as if he were in charge of everything When Whitney Lattimer arrived in Kansas City, she'd already had it with Max Townsend. It was his fault she was dog tired. And who did he think he was, anyway, demanding the immediate presence of a...

  • Lullabies and Baby Songs

    Jannat Messenger

  • The Doll Hospital

    Peter Menegas

  • The Wildcatter

    Desmond Meiring

  • Mortal Splendor

    Walter Russell Mead

    Argues that the decline of America is inevitable, examines the efforts of the past four administrations to deal with this decline, and suggests that we must learn to accept our economic and social interdependence with the Third World...

  • The Time of the Forest

    Tom McGowen

  • Darkest Hour

    William P. McGivern

  • Daniel O'Rourke

    Gerald McDermott

  • Summertime

    Maureen Mccoy

  • Caught in a Dream

    Susanne McCarthy

    The reality was--her Baron was no prince Cassy's grandfather indulged in two expensive pastimes--playing "lord cT ,: Manor" and betting the ponies. Both pleasures overreached his means to support them, and now the crunch had come--eviction from hi...

  • Better Than a Brother

    Edith S. McCall

  • Doors

    Ed McBain

    A cautious New York burglar risks his neck for the score of a lifetime in this rollicking thriller by the bestselling author of the 87th Precinct series.   Alex Hardy is the finest thief in New York City. A crib burglar, he robs apartments -- ne...

  • All the King's Men

    William Mayne

  • There's Something in My Attic

    Mercer Mayer

    Uh-oh, there might be something creeping around in the attic. Could it be a monster?

    After a little girl hears something snooping around in the attic when she’s sleeping, she decides to investigate. How can she sleep when something is makin...