Books Published in March 1988

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — MARCH 1988

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New Books List: 462 titles

  • 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...

  • Adventures of Satan Hall

    Carroll John Daly

  • Aesop's Fables: A Pull-the-Tab Pop-Up Book

    Claire Littlejohn

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Alice Artist

    Martin Waddell

  • Alice Meets the White Rabbit

    Teddy Slater

  • 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’...

  • 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...

  • All the King's Men

    William Mayne

  • Always and Forever Friends

    C.S. Adler

  • The Amazing Valvano and the Mystery of the Hooded Rat

    Mary Robinson

  • Ancient Secrets

    Kate Bradley

    UNDER WATCHFUL EYES Ryan McKay always trusted his instincts. This time they told him the woman he'd seen was guilty of smuggling pre-Columbian artifacts out of Mexico to her Arizona art gallery. Trailing her had been fascinating, but to see justic...

  • Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner

    Amy Schwartz

  • Anvil of Hell

    Don Pendleton

  • 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

  • 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...

  • The Barrabas Strike

    Jack Hild

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • Better Than a Brother

    Edith S. McCall

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Bloodtrail to Mecca

    Nick Carter

  • 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...

  • Bohannon's Book

    Joseph Hansen

  • 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?”...

  • The Borgia Dagger

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • Bossyboots

    David Cox

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Building Dreams

    Justine Valenti

  • 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, ...

  • C.A.D.S.

    John Sievert

  • 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...

  • Camelot 3000

    DC Comics

  • Canal Zone Conquest

    Mark K. Roberts

  • Capers in My Kirk

    Angus MacVicar

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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, ...

  • 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...

  • The Cat Who Had 14 Tales

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    A courageous Siamese bags a cunning cat burglar...a country kitty proves a stumbling block in a violent murder...and an intuitive feline's premonition helps solve the case of the missing antique dealer....

  • Catch a Falling Star

    Brooke Hastings

    Kristie Clarke thought she had it all -- a fresh identity and precious summers with Lizzie, the little girl who held the key to her past. She'd be reaching for the moon to expect more. Then Lizzie's adoptive father, cynical Ken Gunnison, ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Change of Circumstance

    Margaret Bingley

  • 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...

  • Cheyenne Blood Storm

    Chet Cunningham

  • The Cinderella Dare

    Jacqueline Diamond

    Sometimes dreams do come true... But with unexpected results. When Mary Ellen Spencer was finally able to fulfill all her hopes and dreams and transform herself and her life, she found that it was not so easy to leave the old self behind. Going fr...

  • 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...

  • Clap Your Hands

    Sarah M. Hayes

  • The Clue in the Camera

    Carolyn Keene

    NANCY FLIES INTO THE CITY OF THE GOLDEN GATE--AND LANDS IN THE MIDDLE OF AN UNDERWORLD MOB! When award-winning photojournalist Emily Foxworth invites Nancy, George, and Hannah to visit San Francisco, they look forward to a picture-perfect holiday ...

  • 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 ...

  • Colorado Robber

    Jon Sharpe

  • Colors

    Kirk Mitchell

  • 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...

  • Come Endless Darkness

    Gary Gygax

  • 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, ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Crazy for You

    Jahnna Beecham

    Piper Elliott has always dreamed of attending the glittering Harlequin Ball. Each summer the ball is held at the exclusive country club where Piper is a waitress, but only the most glamorous people in the resort town of Kittery Cove are invited. This...

  • 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...

  • Criminal Elements

    Bill Pronzini

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Daniel O'Rourke

    Gerald McDermott

  • Darkest Hour

    William P. McGivern

  • 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....

  • Deadline for a Critic

    William X. Kienzle

    "Kienzle's ninth may be hailed as his most complex and finest mystery." -- Publishers Weekly"... good character analysis and a tantalizing story make this one of Kienzle's best." -- Library Journal"As Kienzle addresses serious modern issues, he sto...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Death Brigade

    Jack Hawkins

  • Death by Analysis

    Gillian Slovo

  • A Death for a Dietician

    E.X. Giroux

  • 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...

  • Death Ride

    Paul Hofrichter

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Deliverance at Los Banos

    Arthur Anthony

  • Derelict

    Robert L. Hovorka Jr.

    Five survivors of the ill-fated spaceliner "Goddess," led by Ensign Pamela Dubois, discover a derelict ship controlled by a predatory cybernetic entity--and in their fear Dubois's companions decide to sacrifice her to the alien...

  • Desert Raid

    Steve MacKenzie

    In a deadly world of modern warfare, the art of combat is taken to In a deadly world of modern warfare, the art of combat is taken to its awesome limits. Only one fighting unit has the skill and ruthlessness to handle all this killing power. They're ...

  • 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...

  • Disney Babies First Words

    Golden Books

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Do You See What I See?

    Mathew Price

  • The Doll Hospital

    Peter Menegas

  • 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...

  • Dukakis

    Charles Kenney

  • Earthrace

    Tom Keene

  • Eddie Black

    Walter Shapiro

  • Elf Defense

    Esther Friesner

    When the King of Elfhame discovers that his mortal wife, Amanda Taylor, and their son, Prince Cassiodoron are hiding in Godwin's Corners, Connecticut, he is determined to use his magic to make them return...

  • 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 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...

  • Even That Moose Won't Listen to Me!

    Martha G. Alexander

  • Extra Credits

    Mike Lupica

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Family Carnovsky

    Israel Joshua Singer

  • Fang, the Gnome

    Michael Greatrex Coney

    THERE WAS A TIME WHEN THE EARTH HAD THREE MOONS, and when the seductive sorceress Avalona could alter futures and bend "happentracks" with her spells. Indeed, in this vast chaotic universe called The Greataway, with its many imaginable futures, anyt...

  • 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...

  • Firefly in the Night

    Ginger Chambers

    The situation called for drastic measures What danger so threatened Marlie Richards that her own father had her kidnapped, spirited to a safe house miles from her Houston home and watched twenty-four hours a day? Marlie wouldn't know until she...

  • 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...

  • Fly on the Wheel

    Katherine C. Thurston

  • Fool's Gold

    Lynn Erickson

    A CASE OF GOLD FEVER... That's how Cripple Creek residents diagnosed it, and Abby McAlister had it bad. Holding down two full-time jobs to support her twin boys no longer made sense once Abby learned she actually owned a Colorado gold mine! Ty ...

  • 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...

  • Forever Spring

    Joan Hohl

    Now was the winter of discontent for Paul Vanzant. His children were grown, the wife he'd once loved -- but who'd bitterly betrayed him -- was gone. He felt rudderless on a chillingly cold sea... Then he met Karen Mitchell -- a woman in th...

  • 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...

  • The Four Conditions

    Gary W. Campbell

  • 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...

  • The Fox Hunt

    Sven Nordqvist

  • Freedom Fight

    Richard Austin

    BORDER BLOOD-STORM! From the nuclear devastation of World War III rose the Guardians. Guerrilla freedom fighters in a United States fallen prey to invading forces. They are the last reminder of what America stood for--and the last hope of what Ame...

  • Friends, Russians, and Countrymen

    Hampton Howard

    The United States intelligence agents who are portrayed in ''Friends, Russians, and Countrymen'' are too eccentric, too literate and too wisecracking actually to work for the American Government, but this is the only unpersuasive element in an otherw...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Grandma's Promise

    Elaine Moore

  • 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...

  • The Great Escape

    Philippe Dupasquier

  • Great Escape

    Simon Farrell

  • Great-Uncle Felix

    Denys Cazet

  • The Green Dark

    Marie Ponsot

  • The Green Lion of Zion Street

    Julia Fields

  • Hanna's Hog

    Jim Aylesworth

  • 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'...

  • Happy Father's Day

    Steven Kroll

  • Hard-Boiled Defective Stories

    Charles Burns

  • Heartlanders

    Mark Dixon

  • 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...

  • Hello, Goodbye

    David Lloyd

  • Helltrain

    Bill Garnett

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • House in Clewe Street

    Mary Lavin

    This absorbing family saga, first published in 1945, reveals the poignancies of an Irish Catholic upbringing, and is a testimony to Mary Lavin's considerable power as a storyteller. Theodore Coniffe, austere property owner in Castlerampart, looks for...

  • Housekeepers Dog

    Jerry Smath

  • 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...

  • How Spider Saved Easter

    Robert Kraus

  • Hunger for Horror

    Robert Adams

  • 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...

  • Illustrated Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

    Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm

  • 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...

  • In Shadowland

    Mitsumasa Anno

  • 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...

  • In the Woods

    Ermanno Cristini

  • Incentives

    Clare Nonhebel

  • Intimate Details

    Barbara Boswell

    Wealthy and beautiful Vanessa Ramsey was used to men chasing her, throwing themselves at her feet -- and she'd earned her reputation as a vixen no man could tame. But when her father made Lincoln Scott an offer he couldn't refuse, she was the prize ...

  • Invitation to Camelot

    Parke Godwin

    You are cordially invited to a wondrous world of magic and adventure. Enter an enchanted kingdom where swords clash in blazing fury, ancient wizards cast astonishing spells, and valiant knights make battle with dragons to protect a lady fair. So, co...

  • 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...

  • An Irresistible Force

    Sandra Kleinschmit

    IN THE LINE OF DUTY Clay Christensen needed an honest partner for his investigation, one who was above temptation. Now he wondered if he'd chosen too well. Kit O'Connell not only seemed able to resist temptation, but she also seemed able to resist...

  • 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...

  • It's George!

    Miriam Cohen

  • Iva Dunnit and the Big Wind

    Carol Purdy

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

    Marcel Pagnol

  • 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...

  • Jennifer's Rabbit

    Tom Paxton

  • Jocelyn

    Gloria Chisholm

  • John L. Byrne's Fear Book

    John Byrne

  • Johnny Castleseed

    Edward Ormondroyd

  • Journeys

    Houghton Mifflin Company