Books Published in May 1980

New Books List: 175 titles

  • Black Flame

    Lynn Abbey

    NEW WORLDS TO CONQUER Priestess, healer, warrior, witch, Rifkind rode out of the Asheeran desert alone but for the Goddess of the Bright Moon, to whom she owed her allegiance. Alone she faced the strange new world of "civilization"; alone she drove ...

  • Racing in Her Blood

    Millys N. Altman

  • Legend of Hatred

    Alix Andre

    House of a thousand terrifying secrets Grim and forbidding, Rochefort loomed above the road like a robber baron's stronghold. To Jacqueline, the outsider, the family's problems were at first a welcome distraction from her own troubles. ...

  • Sicilian Summer

    Elizabeth Ashton

    His approach to life was irresponsible! Niccolo Martelli was the most exciting man Lucy had ever met, yet she had no illusions about him. He was a rich aristocratic Sicilian; Lucy was an English children's nurse. Then she learned the match...

  • Barnaby Shrew, Black Dan and the Mighty Wedgwood

    Steve Augarde

  • Mr. Right

    Carolyn Banks

    Mr. Right is a novel that defies categorization, at once scary, erotic and very funny. It is a measure of the book’s spell that at the precise moment it has us on the edge of our seats, it can still make us laugh out loud....

  • Tangled Butterfly

    Marion Dane Bauer

    After an emotional outburst at her brother's wedding, Michelle is sent for a rest cure at Minnesota's Apostle Islands where she meets Paul, a young Native American writer who realizes how deeply disturbed she is...

  • Beyond Heaven's River

    Greg Bear

    THE LAST VETERAN Kawashita had passed up the chance to die honorably, to go down with the mortally wounded carrier Hiryu. He was sure he had made the wrong choice when the alien spacecraft plucked him from the sea near Midway -- now he would certain...

  • Captive Heart

    Patti Beckman

    "I WILL HAVE YOU WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT...." JoNell knew that the wealthy South American playboy Jorge Del Toro would carry out his threat. He played the game of love and business with a fierce determination to win. But JoNell was unpre...

  • Fall of Fortresses

    Elmer Bendiner

  • The School Book

    Anne Bernays

    A year in the life of Tigris School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and of fortyish divorcee and board member Sally Cooper tests the school's unorthodox approach, the teachers' practices, and Sally's friendship with the new head mistress...

  • Half a World Away

    Gloria Bevan

    Looking for one man, she found another Nicola, for her Aunt Bella, happily traveled halfway around the world to find a long-lost uncle Walter. It seemed the perfect holiday -- leaving her small, safe world for the excitement of New Zealand. Bu...

  • Star Fall

    David Bischoff

    Berkley Books, 1990. Mass market paperback, 1st edition. Prolific sci-fi novelist Bischoff's tale of a huge starship carrying representatives of all intelligent races on a voyage to the legendary center of the universe, old Earth. A sequel, "Star Spr...

  • Goldsmith's Row

    Sheila Bishop

    Who is Grace Wilton? Is she heir to the Tabor estate, or is she a penniless nobody perpetrating a hoax? Old Mrs. Tabor wanted desperately to find her only grandchild, missing since birth, and it was comforting to believe this pretty, amenable youn...

  • Miranda

    Leonora Blythe

    The lovely Miranda was as scandalous as she was beautiful. Young Lord Romford had his hands full as her guardian and right now he was at his wit's end. Only the night before Miranda had allowed the dashing Viscount Brynmawr to unmask her at a ...

  • Seventh Avenue

    Norman Bogner

    This New York Times bestseller depicts New York's fashion industry during the Great Depression of the 1930s.It tells the dramatic story of Jay Blackman's rise from tenement kid to the king of Manhattan's garment district and the women he loves - and ...

  • Fahrenheit 451

    Ray Bradbury

    Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires... The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning ... along with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, ...

  • Space on My Hands

    Fredric Brown

  • The Umbrella-Maker's Daughter

    Janet Caird

    In 1832 Mary Tullis and her father, the umbrella-maker, arrive from Glasgow to make a new life in the Scottish town of Dyplin. It will be a hard year for the townsfolk: cholera comes, so do the resurrectionists stealing bodies from their graves. The ...

  • A Hangman for Paradise

    Jack Canon

  • Shadow and Sun

    Mary Carroll

    Britt Ryan had never dreamed that her flair for photography would take her to France to visit the historic Chateau de Laon. Now she had only to pin down the elusive Philippe, master of the chateau, and she would have all the shots she needed for a st...

  • Scandal of Falconhurst

    Ashley Carter

    Scandal... She was born to Ham Maxwell's bed wench Elen, sired by the handsome mustee Brass Door. Through ironic tricks of fate, Scandal became, at 17, the belle of white New Orleans in 1961 and married into its wealthiest family. Meanwhile the m...

  • And Next the King

    Nick Carter

  • Bucks

    Peter Chandler

  • The Sensitive Woman

    Sandra Chandler

  • The Saint Steps In

    Leslie Charteris

    The Saint is in Washington, DC, when a young woman asks for his help. Her father, a noted scientist, has invented a new form of synthetic rubber. But he has disappeared, and she is under threat. She turns to Simon Templar, who soon finds himself i...

  • Rules of the Game

    Elaine Raco Chase

    She had expected Judge Griffen's "old" friend to be an elderly gentleman, but from the moment she set eyes on handsome Adam Rourke, Samantha Logan thought she knew the score. She was only the judge's young assistant, a mere law stu...

  • The Gamester

    Elizabeth Chater

    DARLING DECEIVER When Griselda (called Zelda by her friends) discovers that her irresponsible younger brother has lost the family mansion to a notorious gamester named Devil Fallon, she refuses to accept defeat. Unbeknownst to her brother, she ...

  • Love in Exile

    Blanche Chenier

    "I THINK I AM GOING TO FAINT," said Roseanna's mother when she learned that her sixteen-year-old daughter had been seen with Count Czarski, a man almost old enough to be her father. Worse, he was a Pole, an ally of Napoleon's and a prisoner of war. ...

  • The Cradle Will Fall

    Mary Higgins Clark

    A minor road accident landed county prosecutor Katie DeMaio in Westlake Hospital. That night, from her window, she thought she saw a man load a woman's body into the trunk of a car...or was it just a sleeping pill induced nightmare? At work the n...

  • Cross Current

    C. Terry Cline

    Witnessing visions that speak languages unknown to him, a minister in a small southern town is seized by a mysterious disease. Joshua McDavid is a devout and powerful preacher, but there are unanswered questions in his past, and doubtful answers i...

  • Trespassers

    Andrew Coburn

  • Revenge of the Incredible Dr. Rancid and His Youthful Assistant, Jeffrey

    Ellen Conford

  • Katya

    Lucy Cores

  • Lord Deverill's Heir

    Catherine Coulter

    AN UTTERLY SHOCKING HUSBAND The first time that captivating, quick-tempered Arabella Deverill saw Justin, she thought this arrogantly handsome stranger to be a vagabond adventurer trespassing on her family lands. The next time she saw him was...

  • Heart of Honor

    Caroline Courtney

  • Lord of the High Lonesome

    Janet Dailey

    "Why doesn't he leave us alone? " Kit and her grandfather managed the Flying Eagle Ranch. For years they'd been doing it without interference from its long line of mostly absentee owners. Now the newest heir, Baron Reese Talbot,...

  • Bridal Black

    Dorothy Daniels

    DARK DESTINY Beautiful Amy Wilton had always considered herself to be a levelheaded young woman, a quality she had desperately needed when bother her parents died, leaving her totally alone in the world. But then handsome horse-breeder Alex Paige ...

  • The Power Eaters

    Diana Davenport

    Not since Jacqueline Susann has a woman written a novel of such savage eroticism and international intrigue.-- United Press International --- The scorching new coast-to-coast sensation that goes from the bedrooms of the beautiful people to the back r...

  • The Chelsea Murders

    Lionel Davidson

    Originally published in 1978 and now reissued in paperback, a thriller about a local reporter who decides to investigate the case of a serial killer in Chelsea who beheads his victims. From the author of THE NIGHT OF WENCESLAS....

  • Walking on Air

    Pierre Delattre

  • The House on Prague Street

    Hanna Demetz

    The House on Prague Street is a story told with translucent simplicity and freshness. It is a story of haunting innocence and terrible devastation, of lost love, of survival. It has an impact we have not felt since The Diary of Anne Frank and John ...

  • Games at Twilight

    Anita Desai

    Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the kaleidoscope of urban life - evoking the colour, sounds and white-hot heat of the city. Warm, perceptive, humorous and touched with sadness, Anita Desai's stories are peopled with...

  • Deep Six

    Martin Dibner

  • Seven Gothic Tales

    Isak Dinesen

    Romantics, adventurers, sensualists, melancholics and dreamers inhabit the bizarre and exotic world conjured up in these seven intricately interwoven tales, whose settings range from Tuscany and Elsinore, to a dhow on its way from Lamu to Zanzibar. P...

  • The Apeman's Secret

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • The Pentagon Spy

    Franklin W. Dixon

    First valuable antique weather vanes are stolen in Pennsylvania Dutch Country and Frank and Joe are hired to catch the thieves. Meanwhile, their father is asked to find a missing Navy employee and a top-secret government document. What is the connect...

  • Fair Wind of Love

    Barbara Douglas

    Recently orphaned and disappointed in love, Sarah Kingsley leaves England for Canada where she is forced into a marriage of convenience and becomes involved in the intrigues connected with the War of 1812...

  • The Adventures of Holly Hobbie

    Richard S. Dubelman

    Convinced that her archaeologist father, who disappeared in Central America, is alive, Liz visits her grandparents' colonial homestead where a picture of Holly Hobbie comes to life, and together the girls conduct a search that leads ultimately to Gua...

  • Changing of the Guard

    John Ehle

  • Close Combat

    Jack Ehrlich

  • Double Folly

    Marnie Ellingson

    Where was Enid? How much longer could Chrissy Ashton masquerade as her look-alike cousin? It all began as a game, a harmless favor to Cousin Almeria, who promised to sponsor Chrissy in London Society if she would pose as her missing daughter and ...

  • Rough Justice

    Janine Ellis

    She'd always wanted to meet Mark Taylor But not in her wildest dreams could Lorraine have imagined the circumstances. As summer help at Stainthorpe Hotel, assigned to clean his room, she was dusting under the bed when her long hair got caught i...

  • Longarm at Robbers Roost

    Tabor Evans

    IN HANSVILLE -- THEY SAID THE TRAIL WENT DEAD... Government rifles. They'd been missing for six months -- and the hard-nosed local law said they were gone for good. But Longarm found a bigger swindle -- rustled herds and a cheatin' sheriff....

  • The Night Raiders

    Hal G. Evarts

  • Lord of the Trees, the Mad Goblin

    Philip Jose Farmer

    Ace Books, 1980. Reprints the back-to-back Ace Double from 1970. Along with "A Feast Unknown" these are part of Farmer's Grandrith/Caliban series involving characters meant to mirror Tarzan and Doc Savage....

  • Cachalot

    Alan Dean Foster

    SEAWORLD A guilt-ridden Earth had turned Cachalot over to the few surviving cetaceans as a perpetual refuge -- a planet whose surface was one great ocean, where the remnants of the whales, porpoises, and dolphins could pursue their lives and perha...

  • The Andreasson Affair

    Raymond E. Fowler

    This examination of a case of alien abduction “will captivate, bother, intrigue, and even frighten as one . . . contemplates its implications” (Dr. J. Allen Hynek, founder, Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) Reviews).The Andreasson Aff...

  • The Stone

    Anthea Fraser

    Attracted to the Druid stone that sits on a hill overlooking her house, fifteen-year-old Vanessa discovers the diary of a priestess who committed an act of unspeakable violence and becomes the victim of an ancient Druid curse...

  • To Stalk a Killer

    Caroline Gayet

    "Who sent you her? Are you spying?" Kathy could hardly believe her ears. From the moment she'd arrived at Montelupo, everything seemed to conspire against her. Handsome Ryan Alastair resented her, suspecting her of some sinister plot to torment him. ...

  • Fools Gamble

    Scott Gibbons

    "Hazeldene was a clever, handsome young man who lived in Beirut and traveled around the storied Middle East - Baghdad, Istanbul, Damascus - selling perfectly respectable office supplies for a perfectly respectable firm. It said so on his passport. Ac...

  • The Empire Strikes Back

    Donald F. Glut

    Though they had won a significant battle, the war between the Rebels and the Empire had really just begun. Now, several months later, the Rebels have established an outpost on the frozen wasteland of Hoth. But even on that icy, backwater planet, t...

  • The Passionate Savage

    Constance Gluyas

    Flaming Dawn--who broke her people's trust by giving herself to the white hunter, Lucien Marsh, and followed him into a white man's world where the price of her desire was unspeakable degradation. Lady Samantha Pierce--who broke her marriage vows and...

  • Path of Desire

    Ellen Goforth

    When Megan Taylor accepted the job as private secretary for Yolanda Delgado, she knew she might meet Jacques Ducruet, the unscrupulous playboy businessman she blamed for her father's bankruptcy and suicide. But the appeal of a charity drive and the n...

  • Amphigorey Too

    Edward Gorey

    This follow-up to the darkly humorous Amphigorey is wittier, more macabre, and more wondrous than ever. Master illustrator and iconic gothic storyteller Edward Gorey gives his fans 20 more nonsensically and mind-bending tales that draw fans...

  • A Private Vendetta

    Roderick Grant

  • Both Sides of the Coin

    Georgina Grey

    "Twin Jewels. Not a Shade of Difference in the Hair. Spun Gold for Both of Them. Eyes Matching Brown. Same Tilt of the Nose. Charming. Alike as Two Peas in a Pod:" They were twins. Susan and Penelope. But they had been brought up apart. No...

  • Robber's Trail

    Zane Grey

  • Passion Star

    Julia Grice

    THE SAPPHIRE CALLED THE PASSION STAR It was stone- mined by men and polished to brilliance- but to Adrienne McGill the six-spurred Passion Star was both magic charm and mystic curse. It transported her out of the slums of Glasgow to training and ...

  • Payment in Full

    Anne Hampson

    Sarah loved her happy single life in London. But the sweet memory of Carl Duris and their first encounter in Greece made her heart wander, her mind wonder. Soon she was back in Carl's arms -- a captive bride, a prisoner of love and revenge on ...

  • Stormy Masquerade

    Anne Hampson

    CLINT DIDN'T KNOW WHO KAREN WAS -- AND WHAT WOULD HAPPEN WHEN HE FOUND OUT? Karen began her masquerade as Clint's staid, middle-aged housekeeper in a fit of pique. He had said she couldn't act. Well, she would show him! At first it ...

  • How Thunder and Lightning Came to Be: A Choctaw Legend

    Beatrice Orcutt Harrell

  • So Wild a Rose

    Virginia L. Hart

  • Ride South!

    Cynthia Haseloff

  • The Conservatory

    Phyllis Hastings

    Green Sanctuary The conservatory--a warm, peaceful room filled with lush tropical plants--was where lovely Ellie Russell went to escapte the brooding sadness of her Victorian home. Tragedy hung heavily over the house where Ellie's sister lain unco...

  • Dead Man's Range

    Ernest Haycox
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    A man named Clint. He took a step forward and spoke harshly; "You're trapped. Give in -- or fight!" The night was streaked by tangled shadows as -- Curly's bunch broke, wheeled and raced for cover. A gun flash mushroomed out and then a long, ragged...

  • Green Gods

    N.C. Henneberg

  • Yellowstone Kelly

    Will Henry

  • Passion's Blazing Triumph

    Melissa Hepburne

    Never in her wildest dreams had Isabella VanDerLind Jones dared to believe she would ever become a queen. Suddenly, here she was, a naive American girl now the supreme empress of an exotic Mediterranean island...an Eden that none could enter except a...

  • Solo

    Jack Higgins

    In Europe's capitals, the ultimate assassin shoots to kill. In those very cities, on the nights of the killings, the brilliant concern pianist John Mikali performs... Not even his lover, American psychologist Katherine Riley, suspects the truth. B...

  • The Anathema Stone

    John Buxton Hilton

    Vacationing with his wife in a Derbyshire village, Superintendent Simon Kenworthy of Scotland Yard finds himself participating in a local dramatic production and in a series of sinister, unexplained incidents...

  • The Little Scottish Ghost

    Franz Hohler

    A not-so-scary ghost story about a little ghost who learns that she’s better at making people laugh out loud than faint from fear!Little Ghost is learning how to haunt, but nothing goes right. Her ball and chain run away with her, her clanking ...

  • Sins of the Fathers

    Susan Howatch

    "Full of fascinating dialogue, surprising twists of plot, and well-developed, memorable characters, a stunningly successful work of fiction."
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    This is the tumultuous novel of men and women pitted against a world of wealth, power...

  • Scott and Amundsen

    Roland Hunter

  • Ladies of the Valley

    Herbert Kastle

    THEY CAME TOGETHER TO MAKE AN X-RATED MOVIE.

    The Leading Lady, playing the part she played best...

    The Leading Man, willing to expose more than his body to make a comeback.

    The Best-Selling Author, ready to sacrifice anything for...

  • Ghostflight

    William Katz

  • The 81st Site

    Tony Kenrick

  • Four Days

    Paddy Kitchen

  • Clone Rebellion

    Evelyn leif

  • Midsummer Bride

    Mary Lewis

    FORBIDDEN PASSION She had come to Sweden to discover her roots, only to find a love beyond her wildest dreams--and an ancient curse that said it could never be hers. From the first explosive moment they met, Eve Tremaine knew she would never forge...

  • Prisoner in Paradise

    Marjorie Lewty

    Her stepfather lived in a fairy-tale world Ralph Francis had snatched Sara from her boarding school and thrust her into his jet-set life-style. She was delighted with her stepfather's generosity--and the excitement of their life together. U...

  • A Tolkien Compass

    Jared Lobdell

    This guide to travels in Middle-Earth includes an original chapter by Tolkien himself, explaining the meaning and origin of the names in Lord of the Rings. Can hobbits be psychoanalyzed? Does Tolkienâ,"s Christianity shine through his imitations...

  • Autumn Street

    Lois Lowry

    When her father leaves home to fight in World War II, Elizabeth goes with her mother and older sister to live in her grandfather's stately old house on Autumn Street. It's there that Elizabeth forms a special friendship with Tatie, the cook, and Tati...

  • Maria Elena

    Valentina Luellen

    It was a time of unrest and dissension... A Protestant queen sat on the English throne, facing the threat of King Philip of Spain, who plotted an invasion of English shores. In the midst of all this strife was Maria Elena, an innocent Spanish girl to...

  • The Wild Quarry

    Giles A. Lutz

    Vince Carwin had returned to his old stamping grounds in New Mexico to look for wild horses--so they said. There was a fortune to be made from those mavericks--so the story went. But there were others who advanced a different reason for Carwin's retu...

  • Love Is Not Enough

    Ruth Lyons

  • The Boy Who Looked Like Shirley Temple

    Bill Mahan

  • A Regency Match

    Elizabeth Mansfield

    She taught him a lesson in manners, and learned a lesson in love A duel of manners How dare he! Sophia fumed as she recalled the scene at the ball. Ruefully, she admitted to herself that she shouldn't have thrown her arms around him, a total st...

  • The Brezhnev Memo

    Morton Marcus

  • Eating Cake

    Meredith Marsh

  • The Peacock Bed

    Joanne Marshall

    In the summer of 1862, orphaned and alone, beautiful, emerald-eyed Abigail Menory was delighted to spend the summer with her school friend Charity Scott. But danger awaited her in the wild Scottish borderlands. Forced to play a dangerous part in a...

  • Barbary Bounty

    Melissa Masters

    THEIR PASSION WAS BORN IN CHAINS, FOUND FREEDOM IN AN UNTAMED LAND AND ECSTASY ON THE OUTLAW SEAS. BRAZEN AND BEWITCHING... She was too reckless to submit to the plantation code of her wealthy family... too proud to surrender to any man until o...

  • Whisper of Darkness

    Anne Mather

    Joanna didn't know what to expect... Necessity forced Joanna Seton to accept a position as governess to Jake Sheldon's daughter. She set out for Ravensgarth, his farm in the Lake District, with a determination to make the best of what she ...

  • Love's Sweet Agony

    Patricia Matthews

    REBECCA HAWKINS She was young, beautiful and used to winning. But at nineteen her ideas of victory were confined to equestrian contests and harness racing. Now, as her womanly graces began to attract men, it would be a different kind of competitio...

  • Ghosts

    Ed McBain

    A young woman stops at the grocery store after work, but she never makes it home -- at least not all the way. She is stabbed to death in front of her building, her groceries strewn across the cold pavement. Upstairs her neighbor and popular ghost sto...

  • The Games of 'Eighty

    W.H. Mefford

  • Heartsong

    Kristin Michaels

    Deep In The Heart Of Texas… When Aunt Bea hurt her ankle, lovely Kelly St. John temporarily abandoned both her New York job and her handsome, successful fiancé, Roger, to fly out to Texas and help run her aunt’s restaurant. She arrived there ...

  • Assignment : Burma

    Lee O. Miller

  • Charlotte Bronte

    Helene Moglen

  • Trackdown

    Arthur Moore

  • Blood Rites

    Barry Nazarian

    Aiding in the search for a missing coed gradually leads Michael Marsten, her teacher and advisor, to the unsettling discovery that there may be other young women from other schools who had already met similar related fates. And then as his pursuit of...

  • Caroline's Waterloo

    Betty Neels

    "I don't went my life disturbed." Baron Radinck Thoe van Erckelens was very clear about his reasons for wanting to marry Caroline Tripp--and love was not one of them. Caro loved Radinck, though, so she agreed to his terms--that she ...

  • Treacherous Mission

    Denise Noel

    Fear drove her on -- a life was at stake! Breathlessly Beth stumbled through the rainy night toward the rendezvous point. This was her last chance to lift the shroud of secrecy from her husband's disappearance, and the cold voice on the phone had war...

  • Lion of Islam

    Howard L. Oleck

  • The Elusive Marriage

    Patricia Ormsby

    'Stay where you are, or I'll pull the trigger!' Cherryanne Devenish meant every word she said. If the Marquis of Shalford moved one pace nearer she was prepared to shoot him. Yet still the arrogant marquis chose to ignore her threat. He stepped forwa...

  • Eruption

    Paul Patchick

  • Pursuit

    Lewis B. Patten

  • Virgin

    James Patterson

    ONLY A MIRACLE CAN SAVE US NOW. As the world prays, the Vatican watches, waiting in horror as the terrifying prophesy long held secret is about to be fulfilled. One young virgin shall bear the child of light. Another shall spawn the beast of everl...

  • Liars and Tyrants and People Who Turn Blue

    Barbara Paul

    A human lie detector sets off in search of a revolution There are 1,500 hand grenades in Alabama’s Styx River, and none of them work. Rebels are attacking UN peacekeeping forces in Burma and Honduras, but just when the battle gets started, they fin...

  • Spanish Masquerade

    Jane Peart

    Anne had to keep reminding herself that she was an American student at the University of Madrid. True, she was a replica of the Nordic beauty that Miguel de Ortega had married. But how had she let the handsome, compelling stranger convince her to pla...

  • Pieface and Daphne

    Lila Perl

  • Trap for Perseus

    Ludek Pesek

    When an investigative space mission discovers the spaceship Argo, missing for 200 years, the crew is trapped aboard the totalitarian microcosm of Argo and the commander is selected for indoctrination into Argo thought and behavior....

  • Crossing the Water

    Sylvia Plath

    "Crossing the Water, a collection of poems written just prior to those in Ariel, . . . is of immense importance in recording [Plath's] extraordinary development. One senses on every page a voice coming into its own, the chaos of a lifetime at last ge...

  • West of Honor

    Jerry Pournelle

    Sooner or later, all civilizations age and decline, grow senile and die -- either by conquest from without, or from internal rot. The final days of Western Civilization are signaled by the joining of the USA and the USSR into a ruthless and imperial ...

  • Affairs of the Heart

    Nora Powers

    FOR $20,000 JESS WOULD DO ANYTHING! And when Derek Thorpe offered that sum to Jess Stanton to photograph his jungle expedition, she jumped at the chance. However, when Thorpe learned the "Jess" stood for Jessica, he wasn't pleased with the idea...

  • Truly Bizarre

    Harold E. Priestly

  • A Glass of Blessings

    Barbara Pym

    'I closed my eyes and prayed for myself, on this my thirty-third birthday, for my husband Rodney, my mother-in-law Sybil, and a vague collection of friends who always seem to need praying for. When I opened my eyes again I had caught a glimpse of the...

  • Before Death Comes

    Maurice Rawlings

  • The Professor's Daughter

    Piers Paul Read

    This is a novel about a daughter of a high-powered Harvard professor who gets involved with one of her father's political students and with a plot to assassinate the local senator who also happens to be her mother's lover. Piers Paul Reed also wrote ...

  • The Last Decathlon

    John Redgate

  • The Writing and Selling of Fiction

    Paul Revere Reynolds

    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scannin...

  • Amer Father

    William Reynolds

  • Joshua Then and Now

    Mordecai Richler

    Joshua Then and Now is about Joshua Shapiro today, and the Joshua he was. His father a boxer turned honest crook, his mother an erotic dancer whose greatest performance was at Joshua’s bar mitzvah, Joshua has overcome his inauspicious beginnings in...

  • Dyed for Death

    Warrick W. Rider

  • The Only Man in Hollywood

    Mark Roberts

  • Berserker's Planet

    Fred Saberhagen

    DEATH GOD... Five hundred years have passed since the combined fleets of humanity met and broke the berserker armada at Stone Heath. But though the human victory was total, one of the killer machines -- weaponless, its star drive a ruin -- managed ...

  • The Anarchists' Convention & Other Stories

    John Sayles

    "Before John Sayles was an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, he was a National Book Award-nominated writer of fiction. The Anarchists'' Convention is his first short story collection, providing a prism of America through fifteen stories. These everyday p...

  • Rough Strife

    Lynne Sharon Schwartz

    Ivan and Caroline, a contemporary couple of shared tastes and distinctly individual interests, make their perilous passage through courtship, early marriage, child rearing, careers, affairs, and causes, maintaining their sometimes tenuous union...

  • Golden Interlude

    Ellen Searight

    Laurie's heart thudded wildly. Here, on this hill, she was alone with Angus King. Below them lay the dazzling landscape of Spain's Costa del Sol--white-walled towns overflowing with flowers, and the sun-sparkled sapphire of the Mediterranean ...

  • Byway to Love

    Margaret SeBastian

    Lovely young Sophie Sandringham knew whom she wanted to wed -- Oliver Grantford, her childhood sweetheart. Happily, Oliver shared her desire. One obstacle stood in their path: Oliver's father, whose threat to strip Oliver of funds and future p...

  • Stalking

    Tom Seligson

  • A First Look at Whales

    Millicent Selsam

  • A Glorious Third

    Cynthia Propper Seton

    “Cynthia Propper Seton has created one of the decade’s most noble, intelligent, and endearing heroines. . . .How does A Glorious Third compare with A Fine Romance, Seton’s highly acclaimed last novel? That’s like comparing Pride and Prejud...

  • Strangers, Healers

    Benjamin Siegel

  • Master of Boranga

    Mike Sirota

  • Appaloosa Rising: Or, the Legend of the Cowboy Buddha

    Gino Sky

    In Gino Sky's Appaloosa Rising, you will witness an authentic Western writer creating a series of erotic and improbable tall tales that read like Idaho saloon talk. If you want to absorb a vision of the west that satisfies your deepest fantasies, but...

  • Little Lives

    John H. Spyker

  • Golden Tide

    Sondra Stanford

    ONLY FOOLS PLAY WITH FIRE TWICE. Five years ago Melody Travers had fled in humiliation and anger from her marriage to Brand Travers. He was a hard man used to making decisions and having them instantly obeyed. Now he was forcing her to marry him a...

  • Dakota Territory

    Robert Steelman

  • The Leo Man

    Rebecca Stratton

    "He's every bit as sexy as his father! " Her grandmother thought that description would appeal to Rowan, but Rowan was determined to avoid any friendship with the arrogant James Fraser. Aboard his luxury yacht, that wasn't easy. When they were ...

  • Sensible Cecily

    Margaret Summerville

    She was the poor cousin of Lady Prunella Throxton, brought to London as companion to the flighty teen- age heiress. Perhaps in such moneyed company even Cecily Camden could find a suitable husband. Tall, slim, red-haired, and unfashionably freckled, ...

  • Verdict of Thirteen

    Julian Symons

  • The People Beyond the Wall

    Stephen Tall

  • Bad Sisters

    Emma Tennant

  • Chance Meeting

    Kay Thorpe

    She had driven away the man she loved. Sharon Tiler met Lee Brent by accident, but his pursuit of her was purposeful and marriage quickly followed. But when rumors started, Sharon hadn't the confidence or security to ignore them. The though...

  • A Confederacy of Dunces

    John Kenned Toole Jr.

    Ignatius Reilly, the hero, is a grotesque Gargantua, in violent revolt against the entire twentieth century and what he takes to be the manifold excesses and perversions of the past 400 years. He lumbers through New Orleans leaving chaos in his wake....

  • Polly

    Jennie Tremaine

    She was a bewitching minx, that pretty Polly Marsh, and she knew it. She also knew that beauty could be her passport into the castles where she had always known she belonged. So she set her cap for a duke and joined the firm of Westerman's as a steno...

  • A Hunter Comes Home

    Ann Turner

    Returning to his tiny Eskimo village after a dismal year away at school, fifteen-year-old Jonas plans to fulfill his dream of becoming a hunter by observing the old ways of Owl Man, his proud grandfather...

  • Sweet Not Always

    Karen Van Der Zee

    Matt had no idea how capable Jacqueline was! Jacqueline Donnelly was fed up with people who doubted her competence because she was young, beautiful and appeared fragile. And Matt Simmons was furious because head office in New York had hired her...

  • Rogue Ship

    A.E. Van Vogt

  • Daughters of the Opal Skies

    Aola Vandergriff

    Tamsen Tallant, most beautiful of the fabled McLeod sisters, is alone in the Australian outback. Alone with a ranch to run, two rebellious teenage nieces to care for, and Opal Station's new head stockman to reckon with - a man whose very look holds a...

  • Thomasina

    Joan Vincent

    "I'll never marry, never!" twenty-one-year-old Thomasina declared, scorning the flirtations and matchmakings that were the very breath of Regency society. Orphaned and impoverished, she had seen her highborn father gamble away their meager fortun...

  • Falcon's Lair

    Claudette Virmonne

    Death lurked beneath the face of love She had never been so frightened! The bridge swayed precariously over the chasm and Shelagh clutched the railing with all her strength. The boards in front of her were missing-she couldn't go on. And sh...

  • The House in Holly Walk

    Dorothy Wakeley

    In a small Midland town in the nineteenth century, four girls are reared by their widowed father. There is Faith, eager for independence and a home of her own; Hope, beautiful but selfish; Charity, clever and compassionate, who seeks fulfilment in th...

  • Children at the Gate

    Edward Lewis Wallant

  • Starbriar

    Lee Wells

  • The Twyborn Affair

    Patrick White

    Eudoxia is the consort of an elderly Greek who fancies himself a Byzantine emporer, Eddie is a hired hand in the Australian outback and Eadith is the madam of a London brothel. The central character in this book appears to all three, in France in 191...

  • Naughty Lady Ness

    Claudette Williams

    HER NAUGHTINES, THE WAYWARD LADY NESS.... Her real name was Vanessa and she was forever getting into scrapes that titillated her peers and shocked her parents. This time she'd really started the gossips mongering, so the lovely Lady Vanessa...

  • Lingard

    Colin Wilson

  • Where Mountains Wait

    Fran Wilson

    LONG AGO, ALAN HAD SPOKEN OF THIS MAGICAL PLACE .... Now with Peter Merrick as guide, Hensley has the chance to admire the cool meadows and snowy mountain peaks her brother once loved. Peter and Alan had been the best of friends, and so it had see...

  • Shadow of the Torturer

    Gene Wolfe

    The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly. Shadow & Claw brings togeth...

  • They Stay for Death

    Sara Woods

    Gossip is rife in the provincial town of Chedcombe. It seems there have been dark doings at the Restawhile Hotel, actually an exclusive nursing home. Three residents have recently died -- all of them very rich. When a fourth succumbs, it becomes clea...

  • Remember Me When I Am

    Carol Beach York

  • Splitsville

    Frank Baginski