Books Published in March 1989

New Books List: 460 titles

  • Prize Stories 1989: The O. Henry Awards

    William Miller Abrahams

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

  • The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

    Douglas Adams

    Beloved, bumbling Detective Dirk Gently returns in this standalone novel from Douglas Adams, the legendary author of one of the most beloved science fiction novels of all time, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.When a check-in desk at London’s...

  • Ellsworth

    Jon Agee

  • The Scarlet Flower: A Russian Folk Tale

    Sergei T. Aksakov

  • Forgotten Life

    Brian W. Aldiss

    Second in the acclaimed Squire Quartet—from the author of “Supertoys Last All Summer Long,” the basis for the movie A.I.: Artificial Intelligence.   Winner of two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and named a Grand Master by the S...

  • Butterfly

    Jo Ann Algermissen

    REBEL WITH A CAUSE Vanessa Monarch, aristocratic proprietress of the elegant Southern restaurant, The Butterfly, had drifted into a passionless engagement to a conservative banker. But memories of romantic rebel Seth Kimble still haunted her. Year...

  • Son of a Gun

    Allan Alhberg

  • Gamearth

    Kevin J. Anderson

    A fantasy role-playing game has unexpected results when the mythical, magical world created by David, Tyrone, Scott, and Melanie comes to life and its inhabitants refuse to vanish with the end of the game...

  • Captive Desire

    Jane Archer

    PASSIONATE PERSUASION Victoria Malone fancied herself a great adventuress and student of life, but being kidnapped was too much excitement for even Victoria! Especially when her arrogant kidnapper thought she was part of Red Duke's outlaw gang...

  • Full Spectrum 2

    Lou Aronica

  • Born to the Land

    Brent Ashabranner

  • Lion at the Door

    David Attoe

    Tells the story of Hazel Sapper, a girl growing up in England's industrial Midlands, who is more accustomed to threats and fear than security. Curious and sensitive Hazel, could not be more out of place amid the domestic violence and anti-intellectua...

  • Fellow Passengers

    Louis Auchincloss

    In this novel by the author of The Golden Calves set in 1930s high society, a young man recounts the people in his life and what he’s learned from them.This superb gallery of portraits gathers its wit and resonance from the discerning eye of the ce...

  • Hillbilly Heart

    Stella Bagwell

    LOVE CHILD Lauren Magee was back in Arkansas to finally reveal the secret she'd kept for four long years. It was time to face her past, and important for her son to know his father -- even if Lauren would be happy never to see Morgan Sinclair ...

  • Digby and Kate Again

    Barbara Baker

  • The Williamsburg Forgeries

    John Ballinger

  • Gilgamesh

    Jo Bannister

    Clio Marsh is enjoying a friendly din­ner with a few neighbors when one of them, David, is shot in the back by an unknown intruder. The group had been celebrating David's upcoming competition in the dangerous sport of horse-eventing, in which he had...

  • Code Name: Marauder

    Ned Bannister

  • The Man Who Wasn't There

    Pat Barker

    In Pat Barker's" The Man Who Wasn't There," twelve-year-old Colin knows little about his father except that he must have fought in the war. His mother, totally absorbed by the nightclub where she works, says nothing about him, and Colin turns to film...

  • Kindred Spirits

    June Barraclough

    When Jane Banham’s father died, she was forced to leave the Norfolk village where she had grown up to live with an unknown uncle in London. But the twenty-year-old orphan’s spirits revived when her uncle introduced her to the leading lights of...

  • Blood Doesn't Tell

    Richard Barth

    It's that rarity of rarities--a white boarder with a baby at New York City hospital who is still up for adoption. And Margaret, smitten with him, immediately sets wheels turning to become his foster mother. Her elderly cronies on upper roadway feel t...

  • Live by the Gun

    Wayne Barton; Stan Williams

  • Dexterity

    Douglas Bauer

    Douglas Bauer's profound and exquisitely written first novel quickly established him as one of America's best new writers when it was first published in 1989. Now back in print, this darkly poetic novel is imbued with the same tough and tender unders...

  • Theft: A Novella

    Saul Bellow

  • A Painter of Our Time

    John Berger

    From John Berger, the Booker Prize-winning author of G., A Painter of Our Time is at once a gripping intellectual and moral detective story and a book whose aesthetic insights make it a companion piece to Berger's great works of art criticism. T...

  • Father of the Orphans

    Mark Bernheim

  • Tender Conquest

    Lisa Bingham

    INNOCENT SEDUCTION When prim, proper Esther Miles took over the Benton House Orphanage, she thought she'd be healing the most innocent casualties of the recent war. But the bruised and broken body of a roguish drifter dumped on her doorstep reduce...

  • The Popcorn Project

    Cynthia Blair

    A trip to glamorous Hollywood brings more than poolside parties, sunny beaches, and Disneyland to adventurous twins Chris and Susan Pratt.  When a movie studio executive asks for their help in finding out what’s troubling his actress daughter,...

  • Home Is the Sailor

    Kathryn Blair (2)

    Some sailors have a girl in every port At sea, merchant marine officer Christopher Weaver had everything under control, but on land it was anything but smooth sailing. He had a dilapidated houseboat, an errant son, an invalid mother and a crazy ne...

  • Count-a-Saurus

    Nancy Blumenthal

  • Just in Passing

    Susan Bonners

  • Dreamhouse

    Douglas Borton

    Can you imagine a house called Ragged Edge - where giant fireballs appeared from nowhere to barbecue human flesh? Where a voluptuous teenage sex queen turned into a skeleton seductress? Where a phantom Porsche drove victims to death? Where Nazi conqu...

  • Captives of Time

    Malcolm Bosse

    Set against the turbulent, apocalyptic world of medieval Europe, this richly textured novel follows the odyssey of Anne and Niklas Valens, orphaned by the murder of their parents and raised by their uncle, a clockmaker, who teaches Anne the secrets o...

  • Ms. Fortune's Man

    Barbara Boswell

    Nicole Fortune insisted that the baby she held was Drake Austin's child and demanded money from the world-famous photographer She expected rage, denial, even threats, but instead he laughed...and stirred feelings she had no business having for a ...

  • Zoo Song

    Barbara Bottner

  • Texas Fire

    Caroline Bourne

    SHE WANTED HIS LOVE From the moment the arrogant Englishman had arrived at her ranch with a very pregnant woman in tow, he had made Laureli Cade's blood boil. Not denying his desertion of his wife and baby, the handsome rogue had taken Laureli in hi...

  • My Sister's Hand in Mine

    Jane Auer Bowles

  • The Cat Who Went Underground

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    Jim Qwilleran packs up his old kit bag and his two Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, for a sun-and-fun summer at his log cabin in Moose County. Their vacation starts off ominously with the disappearance of a handyman hired to patch up Qwilleran's cabin...

  • Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar

    Richard Brautigan

    An omnibus edition of three counterculture classics by Richard Brautigan that embody the spirit of the 1960s

     

    Trout Fishing in America is by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco thro...

  • Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Min e Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar

    Richard Brautigan

    Collected in one volume, three counterculture classics that embody the spirit of the 1960s.   Included here are three great works by the incomparable Richard Brautigan:  Trout Fishing in America is by turns a hilarious, playful, and melanch...

  • Rooftops

    Robert Tine Brennan

  • Mrs., Presumed Dead

    Simon Brett

    "Living in a house where a murder had taken place did give a certain social cachet..." Intrepid detective Mrs Pargeter, sixty something (and a little bit more), has risked almost everything with a daring move to the well-to-do housing estate of Sm...

  • A Sudden Sunlight

    Laurey Bright

    For Natalia Indrisi, the nightmare began when she woke from unconsciousness. She couldn't remember her accident, nor the man claiming to be her fiance. Worst of all, she couldn't remember the baby whose arrival was only a few months away. To Matt ...

  • Latecomers

    Anita Brookner

    A novel about the 50-year friendship of two dissimilar German refugees brought over to England as children from Nazi Germany. Their friendship becomes a funny yet touching model for the ways in which human beings come to terms with the tragedy of liv...

  • Golden Birthday Book

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • Feathers in the Wind

    Pamela Browning

    Once her face had been her fortune... But Caro Nicholson could not rely on her beauty anymore. A brutal attack in Central Park had put an end to her lucrative modeling career, and now, frightened, she only wanted to get away from the cruel city. S...

  • Simply Magic

    Carole Buck

    Awakened by strange and primitive mating music emanating from the apartment below, Brooke Livingstone suddenly believes all the tall tales she's heard about her neighbor, Dr. Archimedes Xavier "Meade" O'Malley. Only one electric meeting with him conf...

  • Interzone

    William S. Burroughs

    In 1954 William Burroughs settled in Tangiers, finding a sanctuary of sorts in its shadowy streets, blind alleys, and lowlife decadence. It was this city that served as a catalyst for Burroughs as a writer, the backdrop for one of the most radical tr...

  • Tess

    Katherine Burton

    Tess -- Unforgettable...and as elusive as moonlight on water, Tess Calloway was afraid to risk, and afraid not to. She was torn by desire for a man who was both sinner and saint. Seth -- He was born unwanted on the wrong side of the tracks, but, insp...

  • Buried Dreams

    Tim Cahill

    The definitive study of John Wayne Gacy -- from his abusive childhood to the murders of thirty-three boys -- based on four years of investigative reporting.   John Wayne Gacy, the “Killer Clown,” was a suburban Chicago businessman sentenced ...

  • A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg

    Tim Cahill

    Cahill is great! He is the P.J. O'Rourke of the outdoors! Fearless and hell-bent on overcoming all obstacles in his path, Cahill takes us to the oddest and scariest adventures nature has to offer....

  • Betrayals

    Gina Caimi

    She's What Every Woman Wants To Be. And What Every Man Wants. To countless millions of adoring fans, she needs no introduction. The name alone--Lara Layton--evokes a dazzling portrait: her hair a platinum halo framing sky-blue eyes, glossy, inviti...

  • New Mexico Showdown

    Will Camp

  • Wild Mustang

    Joanna Campbell

  • Juice

    Robert Campbell

    Alfonso "Puffy" Pachoulo is an L.A. juiceman, a guy who'll lend you a bone ($1000) or more. But he gets it back -soon- with interest. And Billy Ray, a would-be actor and compulsive gambler, is having trouble making his payments. So is Allen Nadeau, a...

  • Cal Cameron by Day, Spiderman by Night

    A.E. Cannon

  • The Snows of Jaspre

    Mary Caraker

    Morgan Farraday, an administrator from Earth, becomes involved in the destiny of the planet Jaspre when her daughter Dee meets the charismatic Anders Ahlwen, whose followers receive psychic powers and a transcendent spiritual reality from the artific...

  • Spooky and the Witch's Goat

    Natalie Savage Carlson

  • Ties That Bind

    Marisa Carroll

    Kevin came into her life, and her world changed When Kevin Sauder came into Lisa Emery's quiet world on the wooded shores of a Michigan lake, he was looking for sanctuary. But the young conservation officer and her little family, consisting of...

  • Day of the Assassin

    Nick Carter

  • Passages of Gold

    Ginger Chambers

    Life was primitive ... . . . in Amador Springs, California. Linda Conway and her sister slept in a lean-to, bathed in a stream and panned for nuggets of gold in the icy water. Their enemies were cougars, claim jumpers and time. It wasn't the life ...

  • Woman in the Shadows

    Sara Chance

    From the moment he'd seen Suzanne Frazier, entrepreneur James Southerland knew the intriguing redhead would be his. He was determined to discover why she was so elusive about her past and secretive about her present. When it came to Suzanne, James de...

  • Who's Got a Crush on Andy?

    Emily Chase

    How do you mend a broken heart? Andy found her prince at the royal wedding, but it didn't work. So she's never going to fall in love again. And she's keeping very, very busy to make sure she doesn't. The new, too-busy-for-love A...

  • Shapers

    Robert R. Chase

  • Cyteen: The Rebirth

    C.J. Cherryh

  • Thirteen Detectives

    G.K. Chesterton

    Collects Chesterton's mysteries featuring sleuths other than Father Brown, such as "The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse" with a Mr. Pond, but features as well one previously uncollected Father Brown story, "Father Brown and the Donnington Affair"...

  • Lean on Me

    Deborah Chiel

  • Life Gift

    Rickley S. Christian

  • The Story of Horrible Hilda and Henry

    Emma Chichester Clark

  • The Whitelands Affair

    Anna Clarke

    Writer-turned-sleuth Paula Glenning stops for lunch at the Burdens', finds them at war with each other, and soon becomes an unwilling player in their game of emotional blackmail that ends in murder. Reprint....

  • The Cold Moons

    Aeron Clement

    A tale of the badgers of Cilgwyn who are faced with a choice of staying in the valley they have inhabited for a generations or embarking on a journey that will bring them either freedom or extinction. We meet the badgers, learn of their relationships...

  • Leah's Song Apple

    Eth Clifford

    The Depression brings a hard life to Leah, her younger brother Daniel, and their widowed mother, but through the love and aid of a blind musician named Gideon the family finds a will and way to stay together....

  • Mr. Jordan in the Park

    Laura Jane Coats

  • Living on Water

    Matt Cohen

  • No More Baths

    Brock Cole

    When Jessie McWhistle's family tries to make her have a bath in the middle of the day, its just too much, and she decides to leave home. She attempts to follow the example of a happy pig in her deep oozy wallow. Full-color illustrations....

  • Love Is in the Air

    Jennifer Cole

  • Votan Treasure

    Jackson Collins

  • Bullet Proof

    Max Allan Collins

    THEY COULDN'T BUY NESS OR BREAK HIM...SO THEY TRIED TO KILL HIM.Cleveland's a solid union town, but organized crime has put the squeeze on labor with an extortion ring that doesn't stop at murder. Everyone's on the take--everyone except Eliot Ness, w...

  • Dorrie and the Pin Witch

    Patricia Coombs

  • Umbrella Day

    Nancy Evans Cooney

  • A Matter of Concealment

    Dewitt S. Copp

    Scott Reardon--code clerk, bassoonist, and murderer--betrays U.S. intelligence to play his own hand in espionage, pitting Soviet, American, and British forces against him, and doomed Abwehr double agent Colonel Paul Sturm alone can stop him...

  • Dead Ball: A Mystery introducing Angus Straun

    Barry Cork

    When murder interrupts a major golf tournament, Inspector Angus Straun--policeman, best-selling author, and golfer--looks into the matter and finds bizarre behavior at the Royal West Wessex Golf Club and a murderer willing to do in the Inspector...

  • The Day of the Rainbow

    Ruth Craft

  • Island of the Heart

    Sara Craven

    It was a marvelous opportunity And Sandie grabbed it. Only afterward did she realize she'd been a little naive. When noted pianist and composer Crispin Sinclair offered her free tuition at his Irish home, she had no idea how closely she res...

  • Cimarron Bride

    Catherine Creel

    UNCIVILIZED AS A SAVAGE Impulsive, spirited Jessie Clare had been looking for adventure when she journeyed to Cimarron, New Mexico. But the spunky schoolmarm got a lot more than she bargained for when marauding Apaches captured her--and would releas...

  • King of the Mountain

    Melinda Cross

    It was a pretty scary situation Trapped in the Rockies on top of Mount Hazard in a December blizzard wasn't the usual ending to a fashion photo session. It was no time for Marnie to find out that one of her models didn't have her insuli...

  • The Hot Pilots

    T.E. Cruise

    In control of the powerful firm of Gold Aviation, the Gold family faces the challenges and trails of the postwar years....

  • Fort Blood

    Chet Cunningham

  • The Torturer

    Rick Dade

  • Extra! Extra!

    Ruth Jean Dale

    She wanted an exclusive Penny Thurston had a nose for news, and Joe Jackson was IT. An interview with him would be her ticket out of Palookaville, into the Big Time. Unfortunately, when it came to reporters the reclusive cartoonist had no sense of...

  • Fast Forward

    Linda Davidson

    Tracy Berberian hopes this will be the summer that her talents as a country-western musician are discovered and gets a gig with her boyfriend, Fury, but tension causes the couple to part, and a movie director moves in on Tracy...

  • Lover Boy

    Leila Davis

    His reputation impugned by a slanderous ex-girlfriend, Ryan Archer--now known as "Lover Boy"--wishes to lose his "bad" reputation as he grows increasingly attracted to outspoken feminist Laura Nettleton...

  • Heart of Marble

    Helena Dawson

    He wasn't what she expected.. Cressida was filled with misgivings when she met her new employer, Sir Piers Aylward. She was prepared for a bespectacled, aged aristocrat -- not this frosty, withdrawn, though decidedly handsome, young man. We...

  • The Stone House

    Dianne Day

  • Heart of Pastoral Counseling

    Richard Dayringer

    The relationship between pastor and parishioner is the essence of pastoral counseling--a simple truth with profound implications. Dr. Richard Dayringer explores these implications in The Heart of Pastoral Counseling: Healing Through Relationship, Rev...

  • The Complete Compleat Enchanter

    L. Sprague de Camp

  • Nathan's Fishing Trip

    Lulu Delacre

  • The Power of Pinjarra

    Sandy Dengler

    An unseen, evil hand was reaching out to crush Marty Frobel and his family, trying to drive them far from their native Queensland home. Their only hope is the-Power of Pinjarra.

    The opal-rich area of Southwestern Queensland at the turn-of-the c...

  • The Prisoners of Time

    Joe Dever

  • Best Friends Tell the Best Lies

    Carol Dines

    Fourteen-year-old Leah's loyalty and devotion to her emotionally troubled friend, Tamara, brings into focus some of her conflicting feelings about her mother's imminent remarriage and her own growing attachment to a young Mexican American, the nephew...

  • Love's Reward

    Robyn Donald

    She'd been taught never to trust anyone Wealthy socialite Cathy Durrant had grown up in a family where the ability to dominate was regarded as an art. Eventually her acquired ruthlessness had led to a failed marriage and wreaked havoc with inn...

  • Time Travelers

    Gardner Dozois

    Presents a collection of time-travel adventures featuring many young science fiction writers exploring other dimensions and new realities, including Kim Antieau, John Kessel, Lewis Shiner, and Andrew Weiner...

  • Space Gladiators

    David Drake

  • Spearhead

    Peter Driscoll

    This is a fast-paced thriller full of violence, intrigue and passion. It draws a portrait of modern South Africa and centres round the figure of the imprisoned leader of the People's Congress, Nelson Kumalo. The author has also written The Wilby Cons...

  • The Poetry Girl

    Beverley Dunlop

  • Ali Baba & the 40 Thieves

    Margaret Early

  • Child of Saturn

    Teresa Edgerton

    The Kingdom of Celydonn has been at peace for fifty years, since the great wizard Glastyn conquered the Wild Magic and drove its monsters underground. The rule of King Cynwas is virtuous, the crops have been plentiful, and the people have relaxed in ...

  • A Lunar Eclipse

    Robert Edric

    Rachel, a freelance writer, struggles to come to terms with life after the death of her husband. She tries to lose herself in casual affairs and plans for the future, but returns to the past in an attempt to make sense of the present. From the author...

  • A Gentle Passion

    Cassie Edwards

    Dangerous Terrain Faye Poincare was city-bred. Army scout Joe Harrison was a tracker. She despised his easy superiority. He didn't trust her. They came from different worlds, but contempt wasn't all they felt toward each other. For she was an ...

  • Lone Star and the Barbary Killers

    Wesley Ellis

    An outlaw's thirst for blue blood has the Lone Star duo a hoofbeat ahead of death in the eightieth 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, a...

  • Another Little Drink

    Jane Ellison

  • Josephina Hates Her Name

    Diana Engel

  • The Right Time

    Mary Tate Engels

    Who was rescuing who here? Working in remote Harmony Creek was not a plum volunteer assignment as far as efficiency expert Gwyn Frederick was concerned. Especially when the doctor she intended to organize had actually requested a nurse. Never mind...

  • Body Mortgage

    Richard Engling

    This is the first edition of BODY MORTGAGE from 1989. A 2018 revised edition is available in both Paperback and Kindle formats.A gritty thriller in a nightmare America where human parts are worth more than the whole....

  • Shadow on the Sun

    Lynn Erickson

    IT WAS NO VACATION Lucy Hammond's boyfriend had his nerve! Instead of joining her in Cozumel as planned, he'd sent his buddy, hockey pro Jeff Zanicek, in his place. Jeff was just supposed to entertain Lucy until Roy arrived. But then a ...

  • Silent Thunder

    Loren D. Estleman

    The tabloids were full of it. Constance Thayer, after a night of clubbing, drinks, and drugs, had taken an automatic pistol from the collection of her industrialist husband Doyle Thayer Jr. and emptied it into his back, as he lay naked and unconsc...

  • Longarm and the Mad Dog Killer

    Tabor Evans

    THE FACE OF AN ANGEL, A DEVIL'S HEART! A baby-faced murderer is leaving a trail of corpses across the Montana Territory. A killing machine in boots, Ned Larson has already sent one unlucky lawman to an early grave. And Longarm is next on this bloo...

  • In a Rebel's Arms

    Barbara Faith

    PRISONER OF DESIRE Caroline Winwood had come to the island of San Germaine to find her father. But she'd barely arrived before she was whisked off by the military police, threatened, then just as suddenly "rescued" by dark, mysterious ...

  • Traitor's Caress

    Colleen Faulkner

    SAVAGE GENTLEMAN Smuggled aboard a ship bound for the rebellious colonies, the beautiful English Keely Bartholomew was ill-prepared for life in America, much less for the uncivilized half-breed captain who was to be her husband. How could she marr...

  • The Best Horror Stories from the Magazines of Fantasy & Science Fiction

    Edward L. Ferman

  • Cougar Canyon

    Peter Field

  • An Unwelcome Alliance

    Ellen Fitzgerald

    THE MISTAKEN MISMATCH Beautiful Lady Belinda Devereaux and handsome Lord Gerald Courtenay were passionately in love when they were married. Unfortunately they were not in love with each other. Belinda's heart belonged to Lord Anthony Furneaux, wheth...

  • Helen and the Great Quiet

    Rick Fitzgerald

  • The Zebra Network

    Sean Flannery

    "Look to Washington. Look to Moscow. Zebra One. Zebra Two." These cryptic words, whispered on a dark Moscow street, lead one-time CIA "golden boy" David McAllister on a desperate quest for the truth. Hunted by KGB and CIA alike, McAllister must decip...

  • Fairy Tales

    Pauline Fogell

  • Wild Honey

    Suzanne Forster

    Sasha McCleod was trouble -- and Marc Renaud knew it! The studio had overruled him, insisting he direct her in the masquerade of a lifetime -- she was to double for the star who'd fled his comeback film before it was finished. But when Sasha lear...

  • When Summer Ends

    Susi Gregg Fowler

  • The High Tech Knight

    Leo Frankowski

    One Thing At A Time Somehow, Conrad Stargard, faithful Roman Catholic and stalwart Socialist of the Peoples Republic of Poland, 20th Century, had been marooned in Poland, A.D. 1231. Somehow, Conrad found himself under investigation by the Inqui...

  • Rise and Shine

    Fiona French

  • Stranger Than Fiction

    M.L. Gamble

    If books could kill... Plagiarism was an ugly word. And Tony Nichols kept repeating it. Could Claire Kennedy's reclusive bestselling author have stolen her latest mystery novel from one of Tony's students? Was Claire's reputation, and the future o...

  • Night Launch

    Jake Garn

    As the first Soviet-American space mission is about to be launched, the crew prepares to make aeronautic history, but one person aboard is a spy with terrorist ties who could steer the shuttle toward tragedy...

  • Bandit's Embrace

    Georgina Gentry

    TOO AROUSED TO RESIST When her scheming, jealous stepmother-to-be forced Amethyst Durango to enter a convent, the headstrong heiress swore she'd experience life to the fullest before being shut away. And when her violet eyes gazed upon the hands...

  • Red Whiskey Blues

    Denise Gess

    Red Whiskey Blues, the new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Good Deeds, is a powerful story of love, loss, and healing tinted with Denise Gess's special touch for edgy humor and eccentric characters. In 1982 in a quiet seaside town, thir...

  • Bartered Bride

    Lauren Giddings

    SHE WED WITH RELUCTANCE Rosalind Dunstan's father had always been high-handed, but buying her a husband was the last straw. Though Geoffrey Chilton had quite managed to steal her spinsterish heart, Rosalind sensibly reminded herself of the peril...

  • A Walk in the Wood

    Anna Gilbert

    When Kate Borrow takes a teacher's job in a Pennine village, she is unaware that she's accepting a date with destiny. Lovely Kate could hear a girl's haunting voice singing in the darkness that first eerie night she arrived in Kinning, the English vi...

  • Quest

    Derek Gill

  • Woman of Singular Occupation

    Penelope Gilliatt

    Fleeing France and her diplomat husband to escape the Nazis, Catherine de Rochefauld travels to Turkey where she hopes to resume her mission, but her attraction to American banker Thomas Drake may end in disaster...

  • After All These Years

    Eve Gladstone

    COULD THEY REWRITE HISTORY? Sarah Crewes was at it again, creating chaos with her archival diggings. First she discovered that Ramsey Falls was celebrating its tricentennial one year too early. Now she was about to unearth an even more startling h...

  • Disney Babies: A to Z

    Golden Books

  • A True Marriage

    Lucy Gordon

    A TEMPORARY MARRIAGE Her fiance had postponed their wedding again -- this time indefinitely -- and Gail Lawson vowed to marry the first man she bumped into. While making a dramatic exit, she promptly slammed into the suspicious, darkly handsome st...

  • Arafura Pirate

    Victoria Gordon

    Sharks were her game, not scoundrels! Marine biologist Jinx Beaumont had the sinking feeling her given name foretold the voyage ahead of her. She was jinxed, all right--stuck with Race Morgan, a merciless buccaneer of a captain. Studying shark ...

  • Has Anyone Here Seen William?

    Bob Graham

  • Sweet Savage Eden

    Heather Graham

    DEFIANT BRIDE From the first time Jasmine's eyes met those of Lord Jamie Cameron in a smoky British inn, theirs was the wrong kind of attraction -- not gentle, slow, and easy, but hot, hard, and all-consuming. The illegitimate daughter of an a...

  • Jack and the Monster

    Richard Graham

  • Myths of Religion

    Andrew M. Greeley

  • Night of the Hunter

    Jennifer Greene

    MAN OF THE MONTH MR. MARCH Name: Tanner Kind of Man: A proud, elusive loner who, like the Great Snowy Owl he rescued, prized his freedom above all else. His Undoing: A woman named Charly. Carson Tanner lived his life closer to the edge th...

  • Contrarywise

    Zohra Greenhalgh

    From back cover - "Contrarywise HIS NAME MEANS MISCHIEF... Rimble, the Trickster, is a merry god - dancing through streets as a gust of leaves, hobbling along canals as an old hag, roaming through gardens as a wiry dog. And where Rimble travels, tr...

  • Alvin Webster's Surefire Plan for Success (And How It Failed)

    Sheila Greenwald

    Gifted fifth grader Alvin Webster, accustomed to always being the best, the first, and the one with the most right answers, has some adjustments to make when he finds out he is getting a new baby brother at the same time he tries to tutor a less gift...

  • Mat Pit and the Tunnel Tenants

    Sheila Greenwald

  • This Island Isn't Big Enough for the Four of Us!

    Gery Greer

    Pete and I stared at each other. Two girls camping on our island?

    Pete and Scott are horrified when they find Sunny and Jill camping with Jill's aunt on Turtle Island, the same "deserted" wilderness where Pete and Scott planned to have a ...

  • The Favored Child

    Philippa Gregory

    THE GREAT HOUSE STARED LIKE A SIGHTLESS GIANT, ITS YELLOW STONE BLACKENED AND CHARRED BY THE FIRE THAT BURNED OUT THE LACEYS AND WRECKED THE FAMILY. THIS WAS MY LEGACY. Heiress of Wideacre, the most infamous estate in 18th-century Sussex, Julia La...

  • Teddy Bears at the Seaside

    Susanna Gretz

  • Welcome the Sunrise

    Liza Hadley

    Allison was desperate to prove herself. For reasons nobody could understand, Alison gave up her position with a legal firm and signed on as a courier at a campsite in the Dordogne region of France. She reasoned a change of scene would take her mind o...

  • Loving Women

    Pete Hamill

    It was 1953. A time of innocence. A time when the world seemed full of possibilities. And all the rules were about to change. Michael was a streetwise Brooklyn boy heading south to join the Navy and become a man. But he was about to learn more abo...

  • A Secure Marriage

    Diana Hamilton

    "Mr. Mescal, will you marry me?" They were the hardest words Cleo had ever said. It was out of desperation, not love, that she proposed to her dynamic boss, Jude Mescal. Cleo could see no other way out of her predicament or to safeguard...

  • The Real Thing

    Lucy Hamilton

    A COVERT AFFAIR Computer programmer Jessie Ames knew what to expect from her life -- until the day she was asked to sell defense secrets to the Russians. Then her safe, comfortable world was turned upside down, her house burglarized and her daught...

  • The Charmer

    Patrick Hamilton

  • The Man Who Lived by Night

    David Handler

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    Celebrity ghostwriter Stewart ""Hoagy"" Hoag is off to London to dig up the secrets of reclusive bad-boy superstar Tristam ''T. S.'' Scarr, formerly of the legendary British rock group Us. T.S. is ready to reveal all, in a book destined to become...

  • Love's Wild Frontier

    Jeanne E. Hansen

    KISSING COUSINS Elizabeth Hepplewhite didn't mind when she heard people call her a spinster - at 27 years old, she didn't expect to find the perfect mate. So when she left Virginia for the rugged terrain of New Mexico, Elizabeth didn't...

  • Shadowmaker

    Ron Hansen

    The Shadow Maker

    I replace old shadows with new ones, plump shadows with lean ones, shabby shadows with spiffy ones," the Shadowmaker tells the townspeople. Soon everyone is parading around with brand-new shadows -- everyone...

  • Blood Royal

    Mollie Hardwick

    Recounts the story of the Boleyn family, detailing the experiences of Mary and Anne and their relationships with Henry VIII, their brilliant but ill-fated brother George, and their children, one of whom would rule England...

  • The Nobody Club

    Madge Harrah

  • Animal Rescue Farm

    Sharon M. Hart

    Arden is proud to be the jockey for Glory--an abused thoroughbred filly who recovered at the girl's grandparents' farm for sick and abandoned animals, but snobby Tiffany may ruin Arden's chance to shine...

  • Moonwalker

    Rick Hautala

    IN DYER, MAINE, THE DEAD WON’T STAY BURIED! The people of Dyer liked their quant little farming community just the way it was. So they didn’t question the bizarre, unexplained disappearances that had begun to plague their town. No one talked...

  • Happy Mother's Day!

    Deborah Hautzig

    Grover feels like a failure because he can't think of the perfect present to give his mother on Mother's Day. What he doesn't realize is that he's already given her the best present: himself! ...

  • Riverine Slaughter

    Jack Hawkins

    THE MEN OF THE FIRST AIR CAV They were the cowboys of the sky -- the U.S. helicopter gunship soldiers who believed in what they fought for and laid their lives on the line. BROWN WATER HELL! When a Mobile Riverine Force patrol boat is savagely ...

  • Ritual

    William Heffernan

  • Cambodian Sanctuary

    Eric Helm

  • The Pushcart Prize XIII: Best of the Small Presses 1988-1989

    Bill Henderson

  • Hidden Inheritance

    Emily Hendrickson

    A MOST PERILOUS POSITION Beautiful Vanessa Tarleton realized the risk of accepting a position in the household of Nicholas Leighton, Earl of Stone. She knew very well his lurid reputation. But Vanessa's father had gambled away her family fortun...

  • The Missing Tarts

    B.G. Hennessy

  • Reckoning at Yankee Flat

    Will Henry

    This is the story of Henry Plummer. He was a silken-voiced charmer, leader of the dread ''Road Agents'' an d sheriff of Virginia City who, wearing his badge of office, murdered, robbed and terrorized the whole, vast Montana Ter ritory. '...

  • Warbirds

    Richard Herman

    Colonel Anthony "Muddy" Waters has a mission: to mold a company of poorly trained rogues and misfits into heroes. His assignment is one that no other officer in the United States Air Force would touch. But Waters has a fabled stubbornness and dedicat...

  • Perfect Guy,the

    Ann Herrick

  • The Man of Gold

    Evelyn Hervey

    Even before the terrible events of the spring of the year '74 Miss Unwin had regretted, frequently and sometimes bitterly, her decision to accept the post of governess to Mr. Richard Partington's two motherless girls.

    When Harriet Unwin relu...

  • Sky All Around

    Anna Grossnickle Hines

  • Mismatch

    Tami Hoag

    Bronwynn Prescott Pierson had certainly made a mess of things! She'd left a disloyal groom at the altar, driven to Vermont, and now stood, near-tears, on the steps of a ramshackled Victorian house in her satin wedding gown. When a gorgeous, all-Ameri...

  • Quick Chick

    Julia Hoban

  • Window on Tomorrow

    Joan Hohl

    When Andrea Trask sets eyes on her new earth-studies professor, she knows he's perfect, the man of her dreams -- literally. In fact, Andrea has to pinch herself to make sure she's not dreaming. Handsome Paul Hellka and her fantasy are one and the sam...

  • Charlotte the Starlet

    Barbara Ware Holmes

  • The Last Wizard

    Tanya Huff

    BY POWER CURSED -- She was Crystal, the one true child of the seven goddesses, created by them and raised to become the nemesis of Kraydak, who for countless centuries tormented the world with his evil sorcery. Now Kradak was dead, and Crystal's pu...

  • Hurray for Ali Baba Bernstein

    Johanna Hurwitz

    Ever since David Bernstein changed his name to Ali Baba, his life hasn't been the same! Who but Ali Baba could solve the mystery behind his suspicious neighbor in Apartment 7G? Or have a cup of hot chocolate with the real Santa Claus and turn a bori...

  • Nora's Stars

    Satomi Ichikawa

  • Alien Salute

    Charles Ingrid

    THE CALL TO ARMS-- had come at last. The treachery of the Thraks on the planet Bythia had resulted in the death of Jack Storm's commanding officer, and in the loss of many a fledgling Knight. Now, the Emperor of the Triad Throne had handed Jack c...

  • Prayer for Owen Meany

    John Irving

    Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite guarder, believes he is God's instrument; he is. This is John Irving's most comic novel; yet Owen Meany is Mr. Irving's most heartbreaking character....

  • Princess and the Frog

    Rachel Isadora

  • Gulliver's Stories

    Beulah F. Jackson

  • Night Glow

    Martin James

  • Currents of Love

    Judith Jett

    Through a series of trying circumstances, Southern-bred Delaney Rollins and handsome, sensitive Anthony Callahan build a strong and loving relationship and despite a period of misunderstanding and separation, rekindle their timeless love...

  • Carrier War

    Roger Jewett

  • My Father's Moon

    Elizabeth Jolley

  • Stories

    Elizabeth Jolley

    A combination of Jolley's two short story collections, Five Acre Virgin and The Travelling Entertainer, these stories focus on people overcoming or being overcome by life's challenges. They are wise, funny, and often perverse works by a unique author...

  • Chair Person

    Diana Wynne Jones

  • The Dream of a Beast

    Neil Jordan

    Nightmares mingle with reality in the story of a man whose animal instincts lead him to an affair carried out at the zoo and his bestial subconscious, which can no longer tolerate the safe cage of suburbia...

  • As Silly as Knees, as Busy as Bees

    Norton Juster

  • The Rookie Princess

    Janice Kaiser

    THE FOOTBALL WORLD WAS STUNNED! So was child psychologist and former Homecoming Queen Hillary James when she was named acting owner of the San Francisco Schooners. After all, she'd only seen one pro game in her entire life--she didn't know a half-...

  • Buried Caesars

    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    Gen. Douglas MacArthur enlists the help of a discreet private detective in “one of the sprightliest of the [Toby Peters] series” (Time).   It’s September 1942, and Gen. Douglas MacArthur believes he’s got what it takes to...

  • Danger in Disguise

    Carolyn Keene

    When George persuades Nancy and Bess to volunteer for incumbent Councilman Tim Terry’s political campaign, Nancy finds herself in the middle of a web of lies, blackmail, and deceit. Will she expose the culprit before the campaign is destroyed?...

  • We Are Still Married

    Garrison Keillor

    “Garrison Keillor made it possible, after twenty years of black humor…to be both funny and nice, hip and winsome, scathing and loving, all in the flick of a single many-barbed quip -- -- The Washington Post Book World“Keillor’s lit...