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New Books List: 78 titles

  • Hip kids' Letters from Camp

    Bill Adler

  • The Key to Her Heart

    Julia Alcott

    She came to fulfill a promise and stayed to claim a legacy of love... Germany's Black Forest was, thought Elizabeth Lowell, a perfect place for romance. And Erich, the charming aristocratic heir to the castle where Elizabeth was guest, couldn't ha...

  • Summer Rainfall

    Kerry Allyne

    She'd been duly warned, of course But what really got her dander up was Rafe O'Sullivan's taunts that she wasn't the type to manage a farm. She had inherited the twenty-acre piece of land near Australia's north coast and, fe...

  • Ending Up

    Kingsley Amis

    A group of disgruntled septuagenarians prepare for their final days in this dark and “very funny” English novel about death and the inevitability of growing old (The Observer) Everyone wants a comfortable place to die, and Kingsley Amis’s chara...

  • Clarissa

    Caroline Arnett

    "THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY WE CAN ESCAPE FROM OUR PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES AND THAT IS FOR YOU TO MARRY ME THIS AFTERNOON.... I WILL MAKE NO DEMANDS ON YOU. TO BE BLUNT, THERE WILL BE NO LOVEMAKING. WHAT DO YOU SAY?" The words of Lord Lynburn cam...

  • Aldair in Albion

    Neal Barrett Jr.

    On the day that Aldair found that his world had abruptly turned upside down, his history-changing quest began. And he did not even then know that it was to be a quest. Aldair had been a true acolyte of the Faith when it happened. And then he found hi...

  • Say Hello to the Hit Man

    Jay Bennett

  • The Big Jump

    Leigh Brackett

    Stardrive! Access to the farthest reaches of the Galaxy! Ballantyne created and tested the new engines. Then he returned from the stars ... alone and dying of radiation. Arch Comyn must find out what happened -- and to do that he must make the pe...

  • Friendly Fire

    C.D.B. Bryan

    The true story of Michael Mullen, a soldier killed in Vietnam, and his parents’ quest for the truth from the US government: “Brilliantly done” (The Boston Globe). Drafted into the US Army, Michael Mullen left his family’s Iowa farm in Septemb...

  • Haunted Tower

    Barbara Ninde Byfield

  • The Search for Bigfoot

    Peter Byrne

  • Dolphins in the City

    Bo Gustaf Bertelsson Carpelan

  • Hollywood Tragedy

    William H. Carr

    Original Description (1962): “Fatty Arbuckle, Jean Harlow, Errol Flynn, Marilyn Monroe, Ingrid Bergman, Elizabeth Taylor. Why were these names smeared across the world in scarlet headlines? Too much money, too much fame, too much adulation, too muc...

  • Wife Made to Measure

    Ruth Clemence

    Jocelyn had been more or less bullied into marrying Simon Wadebridge, although she had never doubted her feelings for him. It was Simon's feelings for her that made her uneasy -- and his feelings for all the other beautiful women in his life....

  • The Great McGoniggle's Key Play

    Scott Corbett

  • Rainbow for Megan

    Jane Corrie

    Megan had always looked on Alain as an older brother, so it was embarrassing for both of them when people began to link their names romantically. In an attempt to prove everyone wrong, Megan went to her good-looking boss for assistance -- but only su...

  • Show Me

    Janet Dailey

    "I don't blame you for hating me at first," Jake said. "After all, I forced you to marry me. But you do see why I had to tell you all this, don't you? You've been so honest with me that I had to be the same with you. Tanya&...

  • Elyza

    Clare Darcy

    A YOUNG LADY IN DISGUISE -- AND A MAN OF DISTRACTING MYSTERY Lovely Elyza Leigh was wearing the clothes of a boy and on the brink of a humiliating comeuppance at the hands of a crude innkeeper when she was rescued by handsome, elegant Cleve Redmayne...

  • I Hear America Swinging

    Peter De Vries

    Fledgling marriage counselor Bill Bumpers enjoys more than professional involvement in the affairs of Mr. and Mrs. Heck Brown, their hired hand, an arc-welding sculptress, and a lady wrestler, transforming a fallow Iowa farm into an American idyll...

  • Last Seen Wearing

    Colin Dexter

    How does a dead girl write? Her boyfriend lie? A policeman die? LAST SEEN WEARING More than two years ago, Valerie Taylor, a seventeen-year-old pupil at the Roger Bacon School, near Oxford, disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Inspector ...

  • Undead

    James dickie

  • Rebels and Reformers

    Alberta Eiseman

  • Leonora

    Catherine Fellows

    "Leonora, how could you!" cried Lady Constance. "To actually stamp your foot when I swear Sir Mark was on the very brink of offering for you ! Such good fortune can never come our way again." "I wouldn't," Leonora said with deadly emphasis, "marry...

  • The Smoking Iron

    Peter Field

  • Sizwe Bansi Is Dead

    Athol Fugard

  • A Kiss for Apollo

    Janice Gray

    Joanne had almost recovered from her shattered romance with Niko Seferis. Concentrating on the much less demanding friendship with his charming cousin Alex was just the right cure. And then, Niko came back into her life -- bringing all the old hea...

  • Woody Guthrie Sng Bk

    Woody Guthrie

  • Hannah's House

    Shelby Hearon

  • Children of Dune

    Frank Herbert

    The desert planet has begun to grow green and lush. The life-giving spice is abundant. The nine-year-old royal twins, possessing their fathers supernormal powers, are being groomed as Messiahs. But there are those who think the Imperium does not n...

  • The Bird of Night

    Susan Hill (1)

  • Land of the Sun

    Nerina Hilliard

    Although they were engaged, Terry Morgan would not marry Kay Sheridan until he had uncovered his past. He must find his unknown mother and discover her origins. The search led Kay and Terry into the vast unknown Sahara, to a new way of life among ...

  • M*A*S*H Goes to Vienna

    Richard Hooker

  • The St. Francis Effect

    Zachary Hughes

  • The Furies

    John Jakes

    The glittering saga of our America -- and the people who made her great. Spanning the young American continent . . . its burgeoning east coast cities . . . its warring frontiers . . . its lawless towns of the West . . . the continuing saga of the Ke...

  • Barlow Comes to Judgement

    Elwyn Jones

  • Richard Bolitho, Midshipman

    Alexander Kent

    Richard Bolitho - Midshipman

    October 1772, Portsmouth. Sixteen-year-old Richard Bolitho waits to join the Gorgon, ordered to sail to the west coast of Africa and to destroy those who challenge the King''s Navy. For Bolitho, and for many of ...

  • Doctor Rat

    William Kotzwinkle

    As the grant-supported, knowledgeable survivor of the most refined scientific experiments, Doctor Rat, Ph.D., dedicates himself to defending mankind against the worldwide rebellions, uprisings, and insurgencies of his fellow animals...

  • Maria Montessori

    Rita Kramer

    The definitive biography of a physician, feminist, social reformer, educator, and one of the most influential, and controversial women of the 20th century. Maria Montessori effected a worldwide revolution in the classroom. She developed a new method ...

  • Turn Killer

    Brian Lecomber

  • The Storm Lord

    Tanith Lee

    THE STORM LORD is a big novel of an unknown planet and of the conflict of empires and peoples on that world. It is the story of a priestess raped and slain, of a baby born of a king and hidden among strangers, and of how that child, grown to manhood,...

  • Whispering Knights

    Penelope Lively

  • Beloved Viking

    Suzanna Lynne

    Philippa's job of illustrating a book on ostriches was fascinating -- and so was the owner of the ostrich farm, Paul Rainier. But Philippa knew she came a poor third in his life: how could she compete with either his job or his beautiful ex-f...

  • Blue Hammer

    Ross MacDonald

    "FIND THE PAINTING, MR. ARCHER." Archer had more experience with missing persons than paintings, but the case seemed simple enough. Until the trail was bloodied by one murder after another. And Archer shifted his sights from an art thief to an artfu...

  • We Who Not As Othr

    Daniel P. Mannix

  • Forbidden

    Anne Mather

    "I haven't come back into your life, James," Caroline said. She was shocked to discover that the position she had accepted as governess was the in the home of the man she had spent six years trying to forget. Aware that nothing had re...

  • Ashenden, Or, the British Agent

    W. Somerset Maugham

    A collection of stories featuring Ashenden--a writer drawn into the war through undercover intelligence--reflects the author's experiences in the Intelligence Department during World War I. (General Fiction)....

  • The Queen of Naples

    Elizabeth Mayhew

  • Frights

    Kirby McCauley

    Seventeen chilling tales of horror and suspense by some of the masters of the genre include works by Dean Koontz, Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Cloch, David Drake, Poul Anderson, and T. E. D. Klein, and is accompanied by illuminating notes by...

  • Rebirth When Everyone Forgot

    Thomas McClary

  • Mawrdew Czgowchwz

    James Mccourt

    Diva Mawrdew Czgowchwz (pronounced “Mardu Gorgeous”) bursts like the most brilliant of comets onto the international opera scene, only to confront the deadly malice and black magic of her rivals. Outrageous and uproarious, flamboyant and serio...

  • The West End Horror

    Nicholas Meyer

    New York Times Bestseller "As authentically, irresistibly gripping as anything Conan Doyle ever wrote…Don't miss it." -- CosmopolitanMarch 1895. London. A month of strange happenings in the West End. First there is the bizarre murder of theater cr...

  • Better Foot Forward

    Ethan Mordden

  • Jessica's Wife

    Hester Mundis

  • Inferno

    Larry Niven; Jerry Pournelle

    "Welcome to Infernoland," an unearthly voice hisses. And the late, great Allen Carpentier plunges into the fantastic abyss of an ingenious, living hell. His is a one-way journey through dim nether- regions where flame-colored demons wield diabolic...

  • Violent Country

    Frank O'Rourke

  • Woman on the Edge of Time

    Marge Piercy

    Once a college girl, now a pickpocket. Once a loving mother, now a "child abuser." Once beautiful, now worn and discarded. Connie Ramos. A heroically sane woman, now labeled insane. Held against her will in a mental hospital, Connie is just anothe...

  • The Fun House

    Philip Reid

  • Adam's Rib

    Margaret Rome

    "Like it or not, you will become my wife," Adam promised grimly. "Either willingly or unwillingly; the choice is yours. But if you decide to fight me, don't forget I won't be the first Fox to capture a Maxwell woman by force!"...

  • The Raven and the Phantom

    Dana Ross

    Pretty Ellen Morton knew that her life was in danger at Mortondale. One young woman had already been found in the garden, her throat slit. Was it the gruesome work of the ghost, as the old housekeeper believed--the ghost of a young doctor, spurned in...

  • A Fine Romance

    Cynthia Propper Seton

    “An elegantly written comedy of manners, constructed around serious ideas—ideas jovially and sometimes outrageously explored by a group of civilized people. . . .It has been a long time since so much sparkling, quirky talk has appeared in...

  • Mind Riders

    Brian Stableford

  • The Spectator Bird

    Wallace Stegner

    From the “dean of Western writers” (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize winning"author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety, his National Book Award"winning novel
     
    A Penguin Classic

    Joe Allston is a retired litera...

  • Abel's Island

    William Steig

    William's Steig's Abel's Island tells the story of a mouse who gets swept away from his beloved wife -- a truly timeless classic about life's simple pleasures.Abel's place in his familiar, mouse world has always been secure; he had an allowance from ...

  • Age of Consent

    Ramona Stewart

  • Sir Toby Jingle's Beastly Journey ; Story and Pictures

    Wallace Tripp

  • Alien Seed

    E.C. Tubb

  • Clara

    Luisa Valenzuela

  • Are We There Yet?

    Diane Vreuls

  • Meridian

    Alice Walker

    Meridian Hill is a young woman at an Atlanta college attempting to find her place in the revolution for racial and social equality. She discovers the limits beyond which she will not go for the cause, but despite her decision not to follow the path o...

  • Blossoming Gold

    Gwen Westwood

    It had been five years since Emma had last seen Jared Wells, the man who had broken her young heart. Now they had met again, and she was a very different person -- more sophisticated, more experienced, well able to withstand his devastating attrac...

  • The Golden Valley

    Daoma Winston

    For beautiful Anitra Martinez marriage to Leigh Ransome meant escape from a brutal fathers tyranny. She was irresistibly drawn by the American's strength, his passion, his will ... and she believed in his love. Heir to one of the great Spanish la...

  • The Bad News Bears

    Richard Woodley

    Former minor leaguer Morris Buttermaker is a lazy, beer swilling swimming pool cleaner who takes money to coach the Bears, a bunch of disheveled misfits who have virtually no baseball talent. Realizing his dilemma, Coach Buttermaker brings aboard gir...

  • Murderer Invisible

    Philip Wylie

    A vengeful scientist uses his brilliant discovery to unleash terror on the world in this timeless science fiction classic from an early-twentieth-century master The scientific community has always shunned William Carpenter. A strange, hulking giant, ...

  • The Penguin Book of Welsh Short Stories

    Alun Richards

    'It is my hope that the Wales of the past and present is well represented in this volume, together with the world of work and workmen in some of our more ravaged terrains'. In twenty-four short stories, written by Welsh men and women, for the most pa...

  • Danny Fox

    David Thomson