Books Published in March 1988

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New Books List: 462 titles

  • 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...

  • Mindhopper

    James Weldon Johnson

  • 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 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. ...

  • 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’...

  • Barking Dogs

    Terence Green / Terence M. Green

    On the streets of Toronto in 1999, tough cop Mitch Helwig abandons the rules after gangsters kill his partner, trades in his standard gun for an illegal laser pistol, dons the "barking dog" lie-detector device and wages a one-man war on the mob...

  • 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...

  • Between the Stars

    Eric Kotani

    On the Saturnian moon Rhea, Derek Kuroda unearths two enigmatic objects of immense power. He joins forces with a genius inventor hoping to use the objects for space exploration, but others are intent on using the artifacts for more sinister purpos...

  • 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...

  • Camelot 3000

    DC Comics

  • Castle Perilous

    John DeChancie

    YESTERDAY HE WAS AN UNEMPLOYED PHILOSOPHY MAJOR. TODAY HE LIVES IN A CASTLE... ...that's worlds away from home. His best buddy looks like seven feet of walking shag carpet, and the girl in his life's from California. In Castle Perilous, everyone has...

  • 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...

  • Do You See What I See?

    Mathew Price

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Black House

    Patricia Highsmith

    "A border zone of the macabre, the disturbing, the not-quite accidental." -- John Gross, New York Times Book ReviewHorrific tragedy becomes disturbingly ordinary in The Black House, a masterful collection of short stories, written during a particula...

  • 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...

  • Boss

    David Handler

    Kiddo is back and a decade older. At 23, he's not much wiser or thinner, but the family business needs him, and so does the woman of his dreams. It's time to grow up--whatever that means....

  • The Butcher's Theater

    Jonathan Kellerman

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   They call the ancient hills of Jerusalem the butcher’s theater. Here, upon this bloodstained stage, a faceless killer performs his violent specialty. The first to die brutally is a girl. She is drained of blood, ...

  • Cookie

    Jan Adkins

    Tough smart, and sexy rancher Cookie Culler has to deal with a host of dangerous visitors to her ranch in Washington state's high country when her crooked brother shows up after having swindled a bunch of drug-smuggling dentists...

  • Criminal Elements

    Bill Pronzini

  • The Deadly Ackee

    Joan Hadley

    A PREPPIE HOUSE PARTY IN JAMAICA IS ENOUGH TO DRIVE A BODY TO MURDER.... The last thing bachelor-botanist Theo Bloomer wants to do is chaperon his niece and her house party on la Caribbean vacation. Nevertheless, bullied by his sister and seduced ...

  • Death by Analysis

    Gillian Slovo

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • First Prize

    Edward Cline

    In First Prize, Chess Hanrahan, a private detective in New York City, searches for a missing prize-winning writer, who has not claimed the much-coveted award. He learns that he has been murdered, not by an envious writer, but by the most unlikely per...

  • Hot Money

    Dick Francis

    With his five ex-wives and the nine children between them, it's no great surprise that spectacularly wealthy gold trader Malcolm Pembroke should preside over a motley clan in constant conflict with one another. But when violent death strikes the l...

  • The Juliet Effect

    Jesse Slattery

  • The Last Private Eye

    John Birkett

    Nasty horseplay at the Derby lands Rhineheart in a race against time to stop a murderous scheme … Michael Rhineheart is a Louisville private eye with a taste for bourbon and a nose for trouble. He's as tough and savvy as they come. His sleuthing se...

  • The Last Ship

    William Brinkley

    Hailed as “an extraordinary novel of men at war” (The Washington Post) this is the book that inspired the TNT television series starring Eric Dane, Rhona Mitra, Adam Baldwin and Michael Bay as Executive Producer. The unimaginable has happened. Th...

  • The Meatman

    Mike Mallowe

  • Murder in Yiddish

    Isidore Haiblum

    Things become complicated when private eye James Shaw tries to rescue the elderly Mrs. Silbert from burglars while staking out a crooked cop only to discover one of the thieves dead in the cop's apartment and a mysterious letter written in Yiddish...

  • 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...

  • Pigeon Blood

    Gary Alexander

  • Pork City

    Howard Browne

    When former Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is gunned down on the streets of Al Capone's Chicago, in June 1930, tough Tribune publisher Colonel Robert McCormick becomes determined that someone will pay for the crime...

  • Sacrificial Ground

    Thomas H. Cook

    Edgar Award Finalist: A troubled cop obsessively searches for a young girl’s killer.   The young girl lies in a ditch without a scratch on her—a white high school student stretched out dead in the black part of Atlanta. She was a ric...

  • The Secret Life of Algernon Pendleton

    Russell Greenan

    Relates the mad and murderous adventures of Algernon Pendleton, who lives in a relic-filled house in Brookline, Massachusetts with his closest companion--a porcelain pitcher that speaks to him on a regular basis...

  • The Seduction

    Art Bourgeau

  • Shadow Money

    George Alec Effinger

    While attending college in Michigan, van Eyck concocts a plan to get rich quick by stealing computer tapes containing the payrolls of the three major auto companies and ransoming them back during labor negotiations...

  • The Small Hours of the Morning

    Margaret Yorke

  • The Third Friday

    George J. Bellak

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Winter Wolves

    Earle Wescott

  • 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....

  • 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?”...

  • 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...

  • A Deadly Breed

    Caroline Burnes

    Ronnie Sheffield had the scoop of her career At stake was the most controversial bill in Mississippi's history. At risk was State Senator Jeff Stuart, who'd introduced the bill, and who'd been the target of a would-be murderer. But at the center o...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Lord John's Lady

    Gayle Buck

    THE PERFECT MAN Lord John Stokes was all that Sophia Wyndham could possibly want. He was handsome. He was wealthy. He was charming. He was honorable. He was kind. And he was brave -- brave enough to risk death to save Sophia from a hideously unsui...

  • A Matter of Duty

    Sandra Heath

    A proud beauty weds a handsome lord who promises her everything but love ALTAR-BOUND Handsome and wealthy Lord Christopher Highclare made it painfully clear why he was asking a virtual nobody like Miss Louisa Cherington to be his wife. He had m...

  • The Savage Marquess

    Marion Chesney

    A MOST CURIOUS CHEMISTRY Certainly the two should never have met. The handsome, wealthy Marquess of Rockingham was the most notorious rake in London, as infamous for his violent temper as he was for his intemperate ways. And Miss Lucinda Wester...

  • A Scent of Lilac

    Elizabeth Law

    She'd come to uncover the family scandal -- and found a rake with a secret of his own... A DARK SECRET IN HER PAST Mr. Chance Harland was a most infuriating gentleman! Lilac Morton had traveled all the way to Yorkshire to discover the deep, d...

  • Sir Sham

    Marian Devon

    WAS HE A SOPHISTICATE? A SMUGGLER? OR SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY? NOT THAT SHE CARED, MIND YOU! What would Mama have done? Lucy Haydon bet a monkey Mama would have joined the other hostesses casting lures for dashing Mr. More. Certainly the London...

  • 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...

  • Falling for You

    M.E. Cooper

    Shy, bookish Frankie Baker, a newcomer to Kennedy High, falls for Josh Ferguson and together they help a Kennedy student who has become the victim of a terrible prank planned by some of Frankie's former classmates...

  • Upstaged

    Kristi Andrews

  • 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...

  • A Radical Departure

    Lia Matera

    REQUIEM FOR A RADICAL San Francisco lawyer Julian Warneke used to defend draft resisters and Black Panthers--until the copyright protection of their fitness books became more lucrative. After lunching at a chichi restaurant, Julian drops dead o...

  • The Big Drop

    Peter Corris

    'The godfather of Australian crime fiction.' A client falls from the twentieth storey of a building; a rock star goes missing; an erotic Mongol scroll vanishes; a film star has a problem that has nothing to do with creativity - it's all in a day's wo...

  • Dancer's Debt

    John Lutz

    Helen Crane, a beauty ''men build dreams around,'' hires private eye Alo Nudger to find out what's troubling her lover Jake Dancer. Middle-aging, old-shoe Nudger tails Dancer and manages to save him from a couple of strong-arm men. Dancer handsome, f...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Polo Anyone?

    Jerry Kennealy

    Banker Paul Randall offers Polo a rich fee to sit in on a poker game and discover whether computer tycoon Ron Dettman is cheating. He is, but Polo outfoxes the cardsharp and wins thousands from him. Collecting the money, though, pulls the detective i...

  • A Death for a Dietician

    E.X. Giroux

  • Over the Edge

    Jonathan Kellerman

    BRACE YOURSELF FOR SHOCK -- when Alex Delaware gets a phone call from a former patient, a young, troubled genius who suffered a devastating mental collapse... when he drives through the night to save his life and winds up in a morass of murder....

  • Plugged Nickel

    Robert Campbell

    When someone pulls the emergency brake up on the California Zephyr, Jake Hatch is catapulted out of the train--onto a severed corpse. All mystery buffs will enjoy the adventures of Jake Hatch, a railroad detective with a widow at every whistle stop....

  • 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...

  • Travels

    Michael Crichton

    Fueled by a powerful curiosity--and by a need to see and feel and hear, firsthand and close-up--Michael Crichton's travels have carried him into worlds diverse and compelling. This is a record of those travels--an exhilarating quest across the famili...

  • Facemaker

    William Katz

    After undergoing reconstructive plastic surgery, a journalist discovers a cache of photos of women whose faces eerily match her own beautiful new face and further investigation reveals a sinister side to Dr. Andre Loval's practice...

  • Adventures of Satan Hall

    Carroll John Daly

  • The Amazing Valvano and the Mystery of the Hooded Rat

    Mary Robinson

  • Deep Dive

    Doug Hornig

    When he discovers a drowned man while scuba diving, private investigation Loren Swift becomes convinced the death was not an accident and his investigations lead them to a psychic research organization...

  • 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?....

  • The Ghost of the Lost Mine

    Jake MacKenzie

    Don’t trust anyone, Dakota King! Cranky old rancher Zeb Efraim is a desperate man, so desperate that he salts a deserted old mine on his ranch with gold dust to fool some greenhorn Easterners into buying it. Then he disappears. Called in to f...

  • Graveyard to Let

    Carter Dickson

    Shortly after leaping into his swimming pool and vanishing without a trace, American arts patron and accused embezzler Frederick Manning is found dead in a nearby graveyard and his old friend, British sleuth Sir Henry Merrivale, investigates...

  • Hard-Boiled Defective Stories

    Charles Burns

  • Here Lies

    Eric Ambler

    Ambler peels back the layers of experience which have affected his life with the familiar skill he uses to unfold the plot of one of his novels. The first paperback publication of the Edgar-winning autobiography....

  • Paradise of Death

    Frank Orenstein

  • The Boat

    Lothar Gunther Buchheim

    Autumn 1941. A U-boat is on a hazardous patrol in the Battle of the Atlantic, but the tide is beginning to turn against the Germans. As the U-boat is forced to hide beneath the surface of the sea, the increasing claustrophobia of the submarine become...

  • Change of Circumstance

    Margaret Bingley

  • The Family Carnovsky

    Israel Joshua Singer

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

    Marcel Pagnol

  • Yoshe Kalb

    Israel Joshua Singer

  • All Our Tomorrows

    Patricia Boatner

    She was Anne...a once carefree American girl who followed the man she loved to Poland -- to be swept into the horrors of a World War that would change her life forever. -- She was "Ania"...fearless Resistance fighter, who never faltered, even in th...

  • 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 Captain's Caress

    Leigh Greenwood

    BITTER FATE Summer Ashton almost welcomed the news of the pirates boarding the Sea Otter. Anything would be better than joining the old man she'd been forced to wed by proxy -- even death at the point of a sword. But as the handsome pirate capta...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Devil's Envoy

    Jasmine Craig

    Finding a badly beaten man in the Sussex countryside of 1826 was a shock for Charlotte Rippon, but she succoured his needs, only to discover that he didn’t seem to speak English. Prince Karim Alexander, working undercover between London and Istan...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Golden Dreams

    Barbara Benedict

    Lovely gray-eyed Samantha Eggersley was a hopeless dreamer, leaving behind her drab existence for rosy vision of stirring romance and thrilling adventure. But even Samantha never dreamed that she would be swept off her feet by an impossibly handsome ...

  • Hidden Fires

    Betina Krahn

    SHE FOUGHT TEMPTATION Eden Marlow was dismayed by her fascination with the audacious Ramsay MacLean. Apparently that line English finishing school had done little to smooth the unladylike edges from her colonial soul. Why else would she be drawn to ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Perfume of Paradise

    Jennifer Blake

    Terrified of her impending marriage, beautiful Elene Larpent scents her body with a Haitian voodoo perfume guaranteed to bewitch the wealthy landowner and ensure his devotion. But just moments into the wedding, a violent slave uprising interrupts the...

  • The Pride of Lions

    Marsha Canham

    THEY WERE TORN BETWEEN PRIDE AND PASSION ... It was a boastful wager, a bold flirtation meant to win a proposal from the most eligible officer in His Majesty's Royal Dragoons. How was the spoiled and pampered Catherine Augustine Ashbrooke to know ...

  • Ryan's Gold

    Cordia Byers

    Dreams Of Gold Led Her West, Where Her Innocence Was Soon Lost To The Flames Of Desire.... Golden-haired Emerald Banyon sees her prospector father meet death at the hands of merciless claim jumpers. Vowing revenge, she escapes into the wildernes...

  • Savage Eden

    Cassie Edwards

    Innocence Lost Alone in the Kentucky wilderness, beautiful Pamela trembled under the gaze of the strong, silent red-skinned warrior -- and hungered for his touch. Strong Bear was magnificent, a handsome, virile Indian chief. And to Pamela, he was t...

  • Shadow Passion

    Robin Gideon

    FIRST GLANCE On her way to begin a new life, Shadow almost fell prey to a bunch of wild outlaws looking to steal her only possession: her innocence. But then the beautiful half-breed was saved by the mysterious Sorren McKenna, and her fate was forev...

  • 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...

  • Sweet Secrets

    Elisabeth Kidd

    Perilous Attraction With the gaslights' glow upon her chestnut hair, no woman ever looked lovelier than American heiress Madeleine Malcolm. Her fortune and dazzling beauty attracted many men. Yet she looked for just one--Teddy Malcolm. The young r...

  • 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...

  • A Taste of Fire

    Sandra Dustin

    IRRESISTIBLE GRINGO Knowing how to ride and shoot as well as any man, Antonie Ramiriz had come to Texas to offer her deadly skills to Royal Bancroft -- the man who had saved her life and who now needed her protection. The first time she had seen the...

  • Three Daughters

    Consuelo Sarah Baehr

    From the fertile hills of a tiny village near Jerusalem to the elegant townhouses of Georgetown, Three Daughters is a historical saga that chronicles the lives, loves, and secrets of three generations of Palestinian Christian women.Born in rural Pale...

  • Untamed

    Joan Dial

    From the sunwashed deserts of Arizona to the shadowy moors of Yorkshire, from the raw wilderness of the Australian outback to the bloody battlefields of the Boer War, they broke society's rules... Kidnapped by Indians while on her honeymoon in Ame...

  • Untamed Glory

    Suzannah Davis

    DESPERATE PASSION Brenna Galloway clung desperately to Rafe Sinclair's hard muscular frame, forgetting for the moment that he was a man she despised -- the right hand of America's most powerful railroad tycoon -- a man responsible for her brother's ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Black Ambrosia

    Elizabeth Engstrom

    Angelina is a killer. You’d never know it to look at her -- until you look into her eyes. Angelina doesn’t kill out of hatred or fear -- she kills out of love, bringing solace to her victims, guided by the seductive Voice that speaks only to h...

  • 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...

  • Helltrain

    Bill Garnett

  • 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...

  • Night Visions: In the Blood

    Charles L. Grant

  • Night Visions: The Hellbound Heart

    George R.R. Martin

  • The Servants of Twilight

    Dean Koontz

    An ordinary parking lot in southern California. Christine Scavello and her six-year-old son are accosted by a strange old woman. "I know who you are," she snaps at the boy "I know what you are." A scream, a threat - and then a grotesque act of viole...

  • The Site

    Melisand March

    When an old apartment house at 277 Park Avenue, Manhattan, is torn down and replaced with an office building, terrible things begin to happen to those with a connection to the buildings, and one of those people, Valerie Harris, may hold the key to th...

  • 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...

  • Murder

    Harold Adams

  • Conan the Warlord

    Leonard Carpenter
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    In the ancient land of Nemedia, Conan of Cimmeria agrees to impersonate Baron Eihnarson's son and heir in order to escape a foul prison cell--at least until he can escape completely, with a pouch full of gold. Calissa, the Baron's sensuous daughter, ...

  • 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 ...

  • Cheyenne Blood Storm

    Chet Cunningham

  • Colorado Robber

    Jon Sharpe

  • 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...

  • A Distant Land

    Matt Braun

    THREE MEN CONQUERED THE FRONTIER... Three Brannock brothers once came west. Now, one of them survives, and Clint Brannock feels the weight of responsibility as he does his job as a U.S. deputy marshal. Hunting down an outlaw in the Indian territori...

  • The Eyes of the Cat

    Will C. Knott

    As Hawk watched the Blackfoot warriors attack their Bannock Indian enemies, he was shocked at what he saw. The Blackfoot were attacking not in the helter-skelter Indian manner, but with an organized military precision that made them the most powerful...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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'...

  • 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...

  • Laramie Lovers

    Dirk Fletcher

    Arriving in the town of Laramie, Spur McCoy is greeted with bullets, which take the life of his horse, and drowns his sorrows in the arms of brazen beauty Priscilla Shuntington who needs his help in finding her parents, who have mysteriously disappea...

  • Lone Star and the Cheyenne Trackdown

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki rescue a reformed gunslick from a bloody crossfire in the sixty-seventh 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, and Ki -- the ...

  • Longarm on the Thunderbird Run

    Tabor Evans

  • Man Called Dundee

    Leo P. Kelley

  • Max and Me and the Wild West

    Gery Greer

  • The Medicine Knife

    Don Coldsmith

    The Elk-dog People have two new members, Sky-Eyes and Woodchuck, once soldiers in the imperial French Army but now fully assimilated into the tribe. When the People are threatened, the two must use both their French and Elk-dog ways to save their new...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Meet Samantha

    Susan S. Adler

    Samantha Parkington is an orpan who lives with her rich grandmother in 1904. There are many servants in Grandmary's busy, bustling household, but there is no one for Samantha to play with. That's why she's so excited when Nellie moves in next door. N...

  • 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 ...

  • Murphy's Gold

    Gary Paulsen

  • Redskin Rosebud

    E.J. Hunter

  • Samantha Learns a Lesson

    Susan S. Adler

    Samantha goes to Miss Crampton's Academy, a private school for proper young ladies, where everyone is buzzing about the upcoming speaking contest. Samantha is working hard to win the gold medal. But she has something else on her mind, too. She's worr...

  • 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 Seven Silver Mountains

    Alan Vaughan Elston

  • Slocum and the Red River Renegades

    Jake Logan

    SLOCUM WOULDN'T SAY YES TO A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN. Not when all she offered was a job. Even a job as pleasant as guarding the shapely Claudette Durant on the road to Fargo couldn't match what Slocum already had -- money in his pockets and all the whiskey ...

  • 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...

  • To Be a Man

    William Decker

  • 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...

  • 76 Hours: The Invasion of Tarawa

    Eric Hammel

  • Acts of Faith

    Hans Koning

    Haunted by his refusal to help a Basque nationalist years before, former journalist turned New York librarian John Balthasar stumbles upon a connection between Spanish exiles in New York and Cubans in Florida, the FBI, and a conspiracy involving nucl...

  • Alice Artist

    Martin Waddell

  • Alice Meets the White Rabbit

    Teddy Slater

  • All the King's Men

    William Mayne

  • Always and Forever Friends

    C.S. Adler

  • Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner

    Amy Schwartz

  • Apalachian

    Jack Kelly

  • Apple Tree

    Peter Parnall

  • The Ark Sakura

    Kobo Abe

    A classic from the renowned Japanese novelist about isolation and the threat of a nuclear holocaust, The Ark Sakura is as timely today as it was at its original publication.

    In this Kafkaesque allegorical fantasy, Mole has converted a huge und...

  • Assignment: Or on the Observing of the Observer of Observers

    Friedrich Durrenmatt

    When F. accepts the assignment to investigate the alleged rape and murder of Otto von Lambert's wife, she becomes entangled in a world of mistaken identity, terrorism, political intrigue, and espionage...

  • At the Cafe Splendid

    Terry Denton

  • The Avenue, Clayton City

    Eric C. Lincoln

    The Avenue in C. Eric Lincoln’s fictional town is the principal residential street of the black community in Clayton City, a prototypical southern town languishing between the two world wars. Unpaved and marked by ditches full of frogs, snakes, and...

  • 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 ...

  • Bagthorpes Haunted

    Helen Cresswell

  • The Beginner's Book of Dreams

    Elizabeth Benedict

    Eight-year-old Esme Singer embarks on a ten-year search for inner truth, as she accepts--then rejects--the self-deluding role models of her alcoholic mother and an absent father who dreams of getting rich...

  • Better Than a Brother

    Edith S. McCall

  • Bohannon's Book

    Joseph Hansen

  • Borrowed Children

    George Ella Lyon

    Golden Kite Award winner1989 Booklist, Editor's Choice School Library Journal, Best Books of 1988 Publisher's Weekly , Best Books of 1988 Twelve-year-old Amanda Perritt is pitched head-first into adult responsibilities when she has to quit school to ...

  • Bossyboots

    David Cox

  • Canal Zone Conquest

    Mark K. Roberts

  • Capers in My Kirk

    Angus MacVicar

  • Captains of the Sands

    Jorge Amado

    A Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of BahiaA Penguin ClassicsThey call themselves “Captains of the Sands,” a gang of orphans and runaways who live by their wits and daring in the to...

  • Cecile

    Janine Boissard

    In the final installment of the adventures of the Moreau family, eighteen-year-old Cecile, youngest of the four sisters, still displays her irreverence and rebellion but begins to experience the unfairness and turmoil of life and love...

  • Center of Attention

    Francine Pascal

  • Century of the Wind

    Eduardo Galeano

    From pre-Columbian creation myths and the first European voyages of discovery and conquest to the Age of Reagan, here is "nothing less than a unified history of the Western Hemisphere... recounted in vivid prose."-The New Yorker

    A unique and ep...

  • Chasing Shadows

    Louisa Dawkins

    The upper-class English family of Henry and Barbara Drayton begins an inevitable disintegration when their school-age son is discovered to be having an affair with his governess and their daughter, Joanna, comes of age as she travels the world lookin...

  • Clap Your Hands

    Sarah M. Hayes

  • 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 ...

  • Collected Stories of William Humphrey

    William Humphrey

    The essential anthology of early short fiction by an American master Set primarily in Texas and Oklahoma during the Great Depression, these extraordinary stories display the unique blend of irony, nostalgia, and sharp-edged lyricism that established ...

  • Colors

    Kirk Mitchell

  • Cookies Week

    Cindy Ward

  • The Courier

    Gerald Cole

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • Daniel O'Rourke

    Gerald McDermott

  • Darkest Hour

    William P. McGivern