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New Books List: 462 titles

  • Yoshe Kalb

    Israel Joshua Singer

  • Yonder

    Tony Johnston

  • 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...

  • Women at Their Work

    Betty Lou English

  • 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....

  • Without a Doubt

    Risa Kirk

    WHY WAS EVERYTHING GOING WRONG? Marketing executive Valerie Stafford was frantically racing around Portland International Airport trying to find her visiting niece when she literally ran into the handsomest man she'd ever seen. Mortified, she had ...

  • Winter's Crimes 19

    Hillary Hale

  • Winter Wolves

    Earle Wescott

  • 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...

  • Winter Dreams

    Barbara P. Conklin

    Hearts don't lie... When Anna's family moves to the small, sleepy town of Blue Mountain, she's sure she's in for a lonely, uneventful junior year. Then she meets Michael Cartwright. He's charming, incredibility handsome - and recovering from an ac...

  • The Wildcatter

    Desmond Meiring

  • Wild Type

    Jeffrey Ivan Victoroff

  • The Wild Baby Gets a Puppy

    Barbro Lindgren

  • Whose Hat?

    Margaret Miller

  • Who's Sick Today?

    Lynne Cherry

  • 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...

  • Where's Peter?

    Edith Kunhardt

  • Where the Wild Geese Go

    Meredith Ann Pierce

  • What's Wrong Here?

    John Wallner

  • What Would a Guinea Pig Do?

    Kate Duke

  • 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...

  • What a Wimp!

    Carol Carrick

    Barney is playing with his new sled when Lenny Coots and his friend suddenly show up, grab the sled, and spoil Barney's fun. Why do they have to pick on him? Barney doesn't know many people in Hillside yet. His parents have recently been divorced,...

  • Wendy

    Mary Carraway

  • 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...

  • The Warrior Victorious

    Sharon Green

  • 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...

  • Wanted: Tony Roston

    Emily Hallin

    WHO WAS HE? His picture, gorgeous and smiling, had fallen out of Shelley's battered American literature book. She'd felt and immediate bond with this attractive stranger, but when a classmate found the snapshot propped up on her desk, the rumors sta...

  • Walt Disney's Pinocchio

    Golden Books

  • Walt Disney's Donald Duck; Some Ducks Have All the Luck

    Golden Books

  • 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...

  • Veterans Park

    Don J. Snyder

  • Ursa Ultimatum

    Terry Baxter

    Sheriff Morgan Cassidy the terrifying task of preventing nuclear annihilation when a KGB agent arranges to have twelve nuclear warheads smuggled into the U.S. where they are to be detonated simultaneously in major cities...

  • Upstaged

    Kristi Andrews

  • Unwedded Bliss

    Katherine Granger

    RISKY BUSINESS Marc English was dumbfounded. Monica Bliss, the cool, successful lady lawyer, wanted him to father her child? Monica insisted that this relationship be strictly business: she wanted a child, but she was single, and she intended to 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...

  • 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

    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...

  • 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...

  • An Unholy Alliance

    Serita Mendelson Stevens

  • 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...

  • Under Suspicion

    Lucy Hamilton

    HER DREAM COME TRUE WAS BECOMING A NIGHTMARE! Allison Schuyler felt as if she were watching her medical career go up in smoke before it even got going. She had barely started her internship when chief resident Cruz Gallego began accusing her of be...

  • 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...

  • Twilight

    Judith Arnold

    Was it love or a bad case of nerves? The way she'd been feeling lately, Susan Duvall couldn't tell. Since the discovery of her boss's unethical business practices, Susan's fast-track career had hit a roadblock and her emotions had been riding a ro...

  • The Tsar and the Amazing Cow

    J. Patrick Lewis

  • The Trusting Heart

    Carol Gregor

    She wasn't about to be a transitory pleasure Cool, self-reliant Kate Taylor had saved six long years to bring her son to see the African wilderness. Nothing would be allowed to intrude on their dream come true. And that included any advance...

  • 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...

  • Travelin' Man

    Charlotte Hughes

    So what if traveling salesman Brian Anthony was Mr. Body Beautiful with a damnably handsome smile -- Dannie Drysdale wasn't buying! Devastatingly gorgeous, ambitious men weren't her type, she reminded herself -- until Brian's mind-boggling kisses sw...

  • Trail of the Dragon

    Susan Kelly

    A MISSING TEACHER SENDS SCANDAL TO SCHOOL Liz Connors can't say exactly why she's gotten herself mixed up in a search for a missing person. But when her former employer Carl DiBenedetto, head of the English Department of a Boston-area college, ask...

  • Tower to the Sky

    Phillip C. Jennings

  • Touching

    Marilyn Levy

  • 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...

  • Toasted Bagels

    Joyce Audy Zarins

  • To Tame a Tycoon

    Emma Goldrick

    He excited her...and he scared her Robert Carlton had dropped into Laura Lackland's world -- an island backwater in the West Indies -- by helicopter. He'd charmed her minx of a daughter with bedtime stories. And he'd sent Laura's p...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • To Love a Stranger

    Beverly Bird

    TRAPPED IN A LIE Tyler Cort needed answers. He couldn't understand Samantha Gate's wariness whenever he got close to her, and he'd become determined to learn her secrets. No doubt about it. The woman was hiding something. What Sam couldn't tell...

  • To Be a Man

    William Decker

  • 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...

  • The Time of the Forest

    Tom McGowen

  • 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...

  • Thor's Hammer

    Robert A. Heinlein

  • This Time Round

    Catherine George

    "I wouldn't intentionally hurt any woman." Leo Seymour's words were meant to be reassuring. But Davina Lennox couldn't help remembering that seven years ago, intentionally or otherwise, he had badly hurt her. She'd been ...

  • The Third Friday

    George J. Bellak

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Tet

    Eric Helm

  • Ten Little Wizards

    Randall Garrett

    Lord Darcy, Investigator in Chief for the Court of Good King John, and Sean O Lochlainn, a top forensic sorcerer, investigate the muder of Master Raimun DePlessis, whose body is found in a locked room...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Taltos

    Steven Brust

    JOURNEY TO THE LAND OF THE DEAD. ALL EXPENSES PAID! Not my idea of an ideal vacation, but this was work. After all, even an assassin has to earn a living. The trouble is, everyone knows that a living human cannot walk the Paths of the Dead, an...

  • 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...

  • The Sweetheart Waltz

    Susan Kalmes

    NORTHERN LIGHTS Alaska was a beautiful place to visit, Alexandra admitted, but she wouldn't want to live there. How could she spend her life in a town where the social event of the season -- The Bachelor's Ball -- culminated in an auction for a chan...

  • 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...

  • Surrender the Dawn

    Jan Mathews

    Policewoman Laura Davis was raped while posing as bait in a sting operation. Federal agent Kyle Patterson felt guilty because he headed that operation. Now, several months later, they're partners in another dangerous undercover maneuver--and even the...

  • Surprise of Burning

    Michael Doane

  • 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...

  • Summertime

    Maureen Mccoy

  • Suitor

    Gloria Dyal

  • Strike Force

    Dick Stivers

  • Stranger at Winterfloods

    Mary Lyons

    What else could she do but take the man home? Surely when a handsome stranger manipulates you into giving him a lift and promptly faints with fever in the front seat of your car, the term "mannapping" hardly applies. Not knowing where he b...

  • 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...

  • The Stone Book Quartet

    Alan Garner

  • Statutes of Limitations

    Monroe Engel

    Ben Morrison, retired owner of a small chain of bookshops, who sells his business to a large chain, becomes concerned by his daughter's involvement with an unemployed former activist and his mother-in-law's approaching eighty-fifth birthday...

  • Stanley and the Women

    Kingsley Amis

    Looking for emotional support after learning that his son is going mad, Stanley Duke, a beleaguered advertising executive, turns to Nowell, his first wife, who blames him for the boy's illness, and his second wife, Susan, who confesses she hates him...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Sophie's Knapsack

    Catherine Stock

  • 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...

  • Some Kind of Wonderful

    Debbie Macomber

    BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Once upon a time there was a beautiful, rebellious New York socialite who wasn't interested in fortune or fame; Judy Lovin valued friendship, integrity and her job as a preschool teacher. Then her father's business collapsed, ...

  • Solitaire

    Lisa Gregory

    Once In A Lifetime She was born Jennifer Taylor in a small Arkansas town. She was blonde, beautiful, and called "poor white I trash" by every man who wanted her. And every man did. But Jennifer was innocent as only a young girl with big dreams ...

  • Soft Water

    Robert Olmstead

  • So What?

    Miriam Cohen

  • The Small Hours of the Morning

    Margaret Yorke

  • 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 ...

  • Sleeping Beauty and the Prince

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • The Skull Beneath the Skin

    Phyllis White

  • Sizzle

    Barbara Brett

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    "" A] battle fraught with...the dirtiest of tricks...the stuff that destroys marriages, people, lives.... Sizzle through the summer with Sizzle.""--The Salem News

    It's the glitzy1980s. Fortunes are being made and lost--and made again. Wal...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Simple Gifts

    Pamela Browning

    Curtisville, Kansas, is one town in the Heartland It is farming, family and faith. It is the dreams of those rugged settlers who wanted a better life for themselves and for their children. It is a place where night comes slowly and quietly, where ...

  • 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...

  • Silly Baby

    Judith Caseley

  • 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 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...

  • Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems

    William Shakespeare

  • 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...

  • Shadow of His Wings

    Bruce Chandler Fergusson

  • 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 Seven Silver Mountains

    Alan Vaughan Elston

  • Seven Days to Petrograd

    Tom Hyman

    During the First World War, American agent Harry Bauer is called on to infiltrate a train carrying a party of Russian revolutionaries, kill their leader--a man named Lenin--and complete a mission that could change history...

  • 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...

  • Serenissima

    Erica Jong

  • Seekers in Sneakers

    Sharron Oyer

  • The Seduction

    Art Bourgeau

  • 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 Secret Letters of Mama Cat

    Jody Sorenson

  • Second Cup of Coffee

    Jean Shaw

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.<...

  • 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 -...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Road to the Stars

    Robert E. Vardeman

  • Return to Raindance

    Phyllis Halldorson

    UNFINISHED BUSINESS Carol Murphy had made something of Herself in the eight years since she'd left Raindance, Nebraska, in the wake of a scandal that had destroyed her young marriage. And she'd almost convinced herself the past was dead and buried ...

  • Redskin Rosebud

    E.J. Hunter

  • 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...

  • Recipe for Murder

    Carolyn Keene

    Murder is brewing at a world-famous cooking school in Chicago where two chefs turn up dead shortly after Nancy Drew and Ned enroll for a course on a bet....

  • Raymond Rabbit Goes Shopping

    Lynne Dennis

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Quint's World

    Samuel T. Fuller

  • Quiller's Run

    Adam Hall

    On a freelance mission in Southeast Asia. Probing the shadowed secrets of a devastating arms deal. Stalking a beautiful smuggler who seduces, then kills, any man who crosses her. Especially a man who knows too much. Like Quillen.....

  • The Questing Hero

    Hugh Cook

    Young Togura confronts exotic women, brawny pirates, quarrelsome dragons, and the crusty old Wizard of Drum on his quest for the index to the rediscovered odex of ore, a magical disc filled with the riches and knowledge of bygone civilizations...

  • Quest for King Arthur

    Ruth Ashby

    IT IS THE YEAR 490. You have traveled back to Britain during the Dark Ages. You are escaping from enemy Picts when you become lost in a snowstorm. You spot red eyes glowing nearby-and suddenly a savage wolf leaps at you out of the wilderness! Should ...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • Prize Stories 1988: The O. Henry Awards

    William Miller Abrahams

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

  • Princess Gorilla and a New Kind of Water

    Verna Aardema

  • 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 ...

  • The Pride of His Life

    Bevlyn Marshall

    From her cameo brooch to her canopy bed, Victoria Langford was primly old-fashioned--hardly wisecracking, macho Serge Zhdanov's type. But a tumble over tangled leashes in Boston's Public Garden led to a startling kiss . . . and an attraction more pot...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Pound Puppies in Public Nuisance

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Playing Games

    Barbara Cummings

  • Pigeon Blood

    Gary Alexander

  • The Picolinis

    Anne Graham Estern

    Jessica and Peter Blake convince their parents to buy an antique dollhouse that turns out to be inhabited by the Picolini family, tiny circus figures who come alive and lead the children into a bizarre mystery...

  • 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...

  • Peter Pan and Children

    Gilbert Adair

  • The Peron Novel

    Tomas Eloy Martinez

    A fictional account, using actual names and events, of the 1973 return from exile of Argentina's most enigmatic leader and his struggle to retain control over his party, his nation, and his own life and mind...

  • 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 People in the Picture

    Haydn Middleton

  • Pea Pod Pop-Ups

    Michael Stoy

  • 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...

  • Paradise of Death

    Frank Orenstein

  • Parades

    Houghton Mifflin Company

  • Parachute

    Richard Lees

    A contemporary love story written in the form of a series of letters follows a married playwright from the West coast, who journeys to the East to work on his first Broadway play, leaving behind his wife and his best friend...

  • 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...

  • Overnight

    Richard De Combray

  • Over the Rainbow

    Sandra Lee

    Right time, wrong place After barely surviving a devastating tornado, Dana Cunningham swore she'd never set foot in Oklahoma again. But twelve years later she was back home, with the courage to face her demons. Or so she thought, until a storm sent ...

  • 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....

  • Over the Edge

    Jay Johnstone

  • 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...

  • Out of the Whirlpool

    Alan Sillitoe

  • Orphaned Pup

    Eleanor J. Lapp

  • One Bear in the Picture

    Caroline Bucknall

  • On Top

    Marilyn MacGregor

  • The Ogre and the Frog King

    Gregoire Solotareff

  • Nutty Can't Miss

    Dean Hughes

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • No Contest

    Alison Blair

    Hot off the presses… Samantha Hill hasn’t had much time for extracurricular activities during the first half of her sophomore year at Hawthorne College. But now that her toughest semester is over, Sam has a lot of spare time and nothing to do....

  • Night Visions: The Hellbound Heart

    George R.R. Martin

  • Night Visions: In the Blood

    Charles L. Grant

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Nesting Instinct

    Corey Keaton

    A housewarming party... for two Megan Sinclair was determined to buy her ancestors' home, enticed by the valuable heirloom she thought was hidden inside. So bidding against a big-city investor--no matter how sexy--proved incredibly frustrating. ...

  • Navigator

    Michael Scott

  • Napoleon the Donkey

    Regina Schindler

  • Mythic Greece: Age of Heroes

    Aaron Allston

    In MYTHIC GREECE you get: * ROLEMASTER/MERP statistics * FANTASY HERO statistics for all elements of role-playing in the Age of Heroes * Character Creation rules that allow you to play extra-powerful Greater Hero and Demigod characters, for use with ...

  • My Favorite Time of Year

    Susan Pearson

  • My Big Book of Fairy Tales

    Simon & Schuster

  • Murphy's Gold

    Gary Paulsen

  • 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 ...

  • 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...