Books Published in May 1981

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — MAY 1981

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New Books List: 229 titles

  • The Hand

    Pamela Allen

    K-Gr 2 This very slight story has a baby's wish come true. Tired of lying powerless in her crib, the frustrated baby chooses one of those magic nights when the moon is out and the tide is full to make her escape. Her toy lion becomes enormous and fie...

  • Mixed Feelings

    Kerry Allyne

    The relationship was strictly platonic! Kylie was thoroughly enjoying her job as chauffeur/companion to the gentlemanly Grant Brandon -- until she met his nephew. Race Brandon frankly disapproved of his relative's "arrangement" wi...

  • Word from Our Sponser

    Judie Angell

    After discovering that a plastic drinking mug bears a decal with a dangerously high lead content, twelve-year-old Alfred Caro manages to bring about a recall of the product and must deal with his father's advertising agency that promoted the mug...

  • Spitfire

    Lindsay Armstrong

    How could she bear to stay with him? Bobbie hadn't even really got over her parents' death and already she had to face losing Greentree Farm. When Rod Simpson offered not only to buy the farm but also to let her stay on, Bobbie wasn'...

  • Chance Encounter

    Joel Audrenn

    Her enchantment turned to suspicion ... and fear. As a new employee of a prestigious art gallery, Karen nervously accepted a difficult challenge. She was to bid on the priceless mask of Lugalki ... and to be alert to a possible forgery. But her spiri...

  • The Bridge Across Forever; A True Love Story

    Richard Bach

  • Tanamera

    Noel Barber

    It took a great love to defy society's disapproval. It took a great war to change society's rules. "They were golden days, when Singapore was as rich as its climate was steamy ... and I fell in love with the Chinese beauty of Julie Soong, and, ag...

  • Within the Hollow Crown

    Margaret Campbell Barnes

    Amid the turbulence of the 14th century, when he was only eleven years old, Richard II was crowned King of England. He was never to know the carefree life other boys his age enjoyed. Instead, the early years of his reign were a constant battle agains...

  • The Firing Squad

    James Barnett

  • Planet in Arms

    Donald Barr

    One small planet battles the entire galactic empire. The war would bring them victory. The peace could bring their destruction....

  • A Question of Inheritance

    Josephine Bell

  • The Savage Touch

    Helen Bianchin

    Money was Lee's top priority! When her sister, Alicia, decided to play matchmaker, Lee found herself trapped in an uncomfortable situation with the infuriating Marc Leone. He was attractive, she had to admit, but also the most cynical, egot...

  • All the Days Were Summer

    Jack M. Bickham

  • Killer's Paradise

    Jack M. Bickham

    Guidelines and standards for building and deploying robots and AI systemsare provided by ethical frameworks. These guidelines assist makesure that AI is developed and deployed in a way that benefits society as a whole, upholds basic human decencies l...

  • The Favorite Sister

    Sheila Bishop

    The story of the downfall of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. The story of Essex's last five years of triumph and disaster greatly affected his much loved sister Penelope Rich. Forced into a legal marriage but bound by a youthful betrothal to the ...

  • A Question of Honor

    Karen Blake

    THE CHIT WAS A GREAT BEAUTY -- LUSTROUS GOLDEN HAIR, EYES LIKE BLAZING EMERALDS, SKIN LIKE DRESDEN PORCELAIN. AND HE MISTOOK HER FOR A SERVING GIRL. The first time the Marquess kissed her was in the blacksmith's barn. He took Kate for just ano...

  • Eight Is Enough

    Tom Braden

    The true story behind the classic TV show: A father’s delightful account of raising eight free-spirited children in 1970s America. Tom Braden had a colorful career: He parachuted into Nazi-occupied France, directed the CIA’s covert operations pro...

  • Who'd Hire Brett?

    John Brett

    Eccentric California detective John Brett's search for Edie Wilson's valuable New Guinea Mud Dancer icon leads him into a bizarre mystery accompanied by drug dealers, art dealers, earthquakes, and murder...

  • Under the City of Angels

    Jerry Brown

  • The Cybil War

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    When Cybil Ackerman crosses her eyes at Simon for the first time, he knows he's in love. The battle over Cybil begins when Simon's best friend, Tony, decides he is, too. And he'll stop at nothing to wreck Simon's chances of winning her! Tony tells...

  • Tricks

    Renaud Camus

  • Woman Chief

    Benjamin Capps

    Exploring an intriguing, little-known passage of American history, Capps investigates the legends surrounding a courageous Indian woman who, defying the tradition of her people, became the undisputed leader of the Crow Nation...

  • Death in the Silent Places

    Peter H. Capstick

  • The Song of the Siren

    Philippa Carr

    TWO SISTERS AS DIFFERENT AS NIGHT AND DAY. CARLOTTA -- willful, beautiful, and passionate, men could not resist her seductive charms. She sacrificed everything -- loyalty to country, duty to husband, and the respect of her family -- to live in Par...

  • Miss Hungerford's Handsome Hero

    Noel Vreeland Carter

    Sharp-tongued Charlotte Hungerford had a talent for taking the puff out of a man's pride...a talent that seemed sure to doom her to spinsterhood at twenty-six. Hadn't she hurled the crockery at Princess Sophia's tea party -- straight a...

  • David Asks, Why?

    Linda S. Chandler

  • Call for the Saint

    Leslie Charteris

    The Saint is back. Fifty books are now available starring the debonair classic-crime hero. Simon Templar is the Saint—daring, dazzling, and just a little disreputable.

    With the invaluable assistance of Hoppy Uniatz and the help of a bea...

  • Lord Randal's Tiger

    Elizabeth Chater

    "PLEASE CALL ME TIGER." Chloe was masquerading as an untidy bundle of rags in the corner of the stable when Lord Randal Beresford found her. And to protect the "poor little dab of a female" from her wicked stepbrother, he dressed h...

  • A Handsome Man

    Susan Cheever

  • Sunfall

    C.J. Cherryh

    Men had gone to the stars; they had trod the soil of distant planets and settled their colonies; yet the homeworld of Earth remained. It was legend; it was a place of nostalgia for mankind's lost youth; it was always there. For every son or daughter ...

  • Bachelor's Fare

    Gail Clark

    Sir Malcolm Calveley's weakness for the gentler sex would land him in the suds, they said. No sooner had the dashing Malcolm returned from abroad than rumor had him romancing his own cousin's wife, the ravishing Lady Thea Davenham. At the sam...

  • Barossa

    John Clive

  • Gamemaker

    David Keith Cohler

  • The Shooting Party

    Isabel Colegate

    It is the autumn of 1913. Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his Oxfordshire estate for the biggest hunt of the season. An army of gamekeepers, beaters, and servants has rehearsed the intricate ageâ€"old ritual, the ge...

  • Taxi to Dubrovnik

    Whitfield Cook

  • Inherit My Heart

    Lynna Cooper

    A young career woman inherits an adventure on the high seas and a fortune in love Sea Mates When lovely young Amy Bancroft boarded the Sea Witch, she was still marveling over her new inheritance. Imagine, her own boat, and a cabin in Maine with...

  • Secret Marriage

    Dorothy Cork

    FORBIDDEN LOVE Penniless, a burden to her relatives, Grace Lawson had rashly married a virtual stranger to escape an intolerable home situation. She looked forward to making a new life in the Australian Outback. Soon she learned that she had be...

  • Frank City

    Joe Cottonwood

  • The Tucson temptress

    Chet Cunningham

  • Pianissimo

    Jessica Dare

  • Amazing Grace

    Judith Davis

  • The Spike

    Arnaud De Borchgrave

  • Second Game

    Charles V. de Vet; Katherine MacLean

    Mankind's Ten Thousand Worlds has expanded and prospered until they encountered their first aliens. These were people, almost as human as those who had originated on earth, but with some slight differences. One of their differences was that they woul...

  • Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade

    Barthe DeClements

    Your teacher is too strict, fractions are too hard, and the most disgusting girl in school has the seat next to yours... Nothing’s fair! Jenny knows one thing for sure -- Elsie Edwards is a fat thief who steals people's lunch money to buy candy....

  • Cathedral

    Nelson DeMille

    St. Patrick's Day, New York City. Everyone is celebrating, but everyone is in for the shock of his life. Born into the heat and hatred of the Northern Ireland conflict, IRA man Brian Flynn has masterminded a brilliant terrorist act--the s...

  • The Golden Lure

    Mark Denning

    PAPERBACK ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION, Tower Books #51664, published 1981. First Edition, First Printing, so stated, no previous hardcover. Cover blurb: "For CIA Operative John Marshall, it began with glittering figurines, and ended with International Ter...

  • Inca Gold Hijack

    Lionel Derrick

  • Wounded Land

    Stephen R. Donaldson

    IT ALL BEGAN WITH THE CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT THE UNBELIEVER.... ...AND NOW THE STORY CONTINUES IN THE WOUNDED LAND 4000 years have passed since Covenant first freed the Land from the devastating grip of Lord Foul and his minions. The mon...

  • A Day Late

    Carolyn Doty

  • Glory Land

    Dorothy Dowdell

    "My God, he's beautiful," Garnett thought when she saw him. He was indeed a king. And would he, the great Edward Kingston, think that Garnett, the dirt-poor daughter of a small-town minister, was good enough for his eldest son? Garn...

  • The Outrageous Lady Caroline

    Rachelle Edwards

    As the widow of a titled gentleman, the very beautiful Lady Caroline Kilgarron was pursued by fortune hunters and impetuous young men, and by aging rapes, too. One, the Earl of Farrowdale, was particularly insistent. And Caroline's unprecedented ...

  • Red Eye Blues

    Joyce Elbert

  • Twelve Fair Kingdoms

    Suzette Haden Elgin

    Based on Ozark Mountain folklore, this fantasy recounts the adventures of the Brightwater family, who seek revenge when a guest's baby is kidnapped and encased in a life-support bubble hung from a churchyard tree...

  • The Year of the Child

    Marian Engel

  • Longarm and the Golden Lady

    Tabor Evans

    IT'S A WILD WEST SHOW -- AND IT'S GETTING WILDER BY THE SECOND... Colorado planned a gala reception for the copper-haired Princess Danica of Hungary. But a band of Slavic rebels had plans of their own for her Highness... To stop them cold, Long...

  • The Phaedra Complex

    Jeannette Everly

  • The Beast

    Jonathan Fast

    Lovely and moody movie star Rebecca Weiss takes the place of her agent as a captive in the mysterious mansion of H. W. Beeze III and develops a deep compassion and intense physical attraction for her disfigured, tormented captor...

  • The Spider's Eye

    Claudette Fayet

    Fear crept over her as the fog thickened. Terrified, Christina waited alone at the deserted marina in the dead of night. The pier's fog-warning light blinked eerily through the mist. Desperately she wished she'd heeded her friend Dan's advice -- to l...

  • Clash of the Titans

    Alan Dean Foster

    Plaything of the Gods He was Perseus, son of Zeus and Danae, born in disgrace, exiled to perish at sea, fated to survive at heavenly caprice--until he met his love, defied the Gods and dared to fight them or die. She was Andromeda, enslaved by ...

  • A Shroud for Mr. Bundy

    James M. Fox

    When private detective Johnny Marshall was asked by Jeremiah Peter Bundy to investigate Bundy's own death, all Marshall could do was laugh. -- But the laughing stopped when Marshall discovered that a certain Jeremiah Peter Bundy had in fact just be...

  • House of Another Kind

    William Fritts

  • Song of Sirens

    Ernest K. Gann

  • The Duchess of Asherwood

    Mary A. Garratt

    The stakes were high, and she was the ravishing pawn in a dangerous charade of love... "YOU WILL BE MY DUCHESS," DECLARED THE DOUR DUKE OF ASHERWOOD. "BUT NEVER MY WIFE!" No one was more stunned by her acceptance of his outrageous proposal tha...

  • The Detonator

    Walter Garys

  • Rebels of Sabrehill

    Raymond Giles

    HER HAUNTING BEAUTY MASKED HER LONELINESS--AND THE FORBIDDEN DESIRE THAT SEETHED INSIDE HER.... This is the story of Miss Lucy Sabre, the prim and proper mistress of Sabrehill. By herself she tried to manage the once magnificent Sabrehill Plantation...

  • Darkness Visible

    William Golding

    The destinies of three mysterious lost children entwine in this James Tait Black Memorial Prize-winning fable by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies.A figure had condensed out of the shuddering backdrop of the glare.He is born ...

  • The Meeting at Telgte

    Gunter Grass

    A group of leading intellectuals from all parts of Germany gather in 1647 for the purpose of strengthening the last remaining bond within a divided nation-its language and literature-as the Thirty Years' War comes to an end. Afterword by Leonard Fors...

  • A Season of Delight

    Joanne Greenberg

  • Ladycat

    Nancy Greenwald

  • Daughter of Isis

    Belinda Grey

    Her life changed almost overnight! All of Ellen's eighteen years had been spent in Cwm Bedd, a tiny village in Wales. She loved the countryside...but with her newfound womanhood, she yearned for something more. And then one day it happened....

  • Strike Force 10

    Heinz Gunther

  • Captured by Love

    Jean Hager

    She was the veterinarian newly come to claim her job on the largest quarter-horse ranch in Texas. He was the boss who thought he had hired a man. Dr. Leigh Alexander expected trouble before she even met Shane Casey, but she never expected to be as...

  • To Start Again

    Phyllis Halldorson

    INTO A NEW LIFE When she woke up after the accident, Anne knew that there had been a mistake. Her name wasn't Angela, and she certainly had never been married to Rory Hawthorne. But Angela and Rory were dead, and Anne could never go back to ...

  • War Games

    Karl Hansen

    THE STRANGEST SOLDIERS AND REBELS CLASH ON THE MOST INCREDIBLE BATTLEFIELDThey were no longer human—they were hybrids, genetic/cyborg soldiers. They fought each other in savage battles through the ice forests of Saturn's moon. They held the co...

  • Burning Memories

    Laura Hardy

    SHE WANTED ALL HIS LOVE. Nicola's had never been a real marriage; Steve's real wife had been his job, and she only his mistress. He thrived on the dangerous life of a foreign correspondent until one day she gave him a choice: he could keep...

  • Sweet and Deadly // Dead Dog

    Charlaine Harris

    Six months ago, Catherine Linton's parents were killed in a car accident. Now, on a wilting hot day in the small town of Lowfield, Mississippi, Catherine finds the bloody body of her doctor-father's long-time nurse. Suddenly Catherine knows that h...

  • HRH The Man Who Will Be King

    Tim Heald

    Some spine creasing and edge wear. Front cover has a spine edge crease and back cover has some top corner creasing. Light reader curl and age tanning. No mark and intact. Ships very quickly and packaged carefully!...

  • The Unwilling Heiress

    Sandra Heath

    WAS SHE AN ARISTOCRAT -- OR AN IMPOSTOR? It took but a few words from the lips of a dying woman to change beautiful young Janine Oldfield's life utterly. The woman was her mother, who declared that Janine was more than the daughter of the mo...

  • Intrusions

    Ursula Hegi

    Brilliantly stretching literary conventions, Ursula Hegi, author of the best-selling Stones from the River, creates a funny and original novel within a novel to explore the doubts, decisions, and "might-have-beens" that mark not only the writing proc...

  • Coppers Girl

    Rosalie Henaghan

    Quitting her job wasn't good enough Frances was shattered when she learned the man she'd fallen for was already married. She broke off with him immediately -- then decided to get so far away there'd be no danger of running into him aga...

  • God Emperor of Dune

    Frank Herbert

    More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in DUNE. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib, and now the virtually immortal God Empero...

  • The Book of Frank Herbert

    Frank Herbert

  • Mad at You!

    Lisa Verge Higgins

  • Shalom, My Love

    Ida Hills

    Once upon a time, before she came to Israel, Karen Zanville had thought nothing could come between them. Margo Zingler was her best friend and near double. But “twinship†and “sisterhood†were on the line when Steve Jamison boldly stalked cla...

  • Yellow Butter Purple Jam

    Mary Ann Hoberman

    An exuberant collection of bouncy, rhythmic verses takes in hippos, armadillos, the folk from Backward Town, llamas without pajamas, and other topics...

  • Exhibit

    Leslie Hollander

  • Mistress Falconhurst

    Lance Horner

  • Ladies of Levittown

    Gene Horowitz

  • The Sending

    Geoffrey Household

    In this remarkable thriller, a British estate owner with psychic powers senses he’s being hunted on his own land by a bloodthirsty beast Alfgif Hollaston, a cultured English gentleman and painter, has returned to his childhood home in remote Somer...

  • Invaders at Ground Zero

    David Houston

  • Easy Company and the White Mans Path

    John W. Howard

  • Tall in the West

    Vechel Howard

  • Rebel in Love

    Veronica Howard

    Halcyon Glaybourne was a headstrong country girl in love with a dashing stranger. But she was promised in marriage to the son of the Marquis of Rexdale, a man she had never met! Duty-bound and desperately unhappy, Halcyon accompanied her godmother...

  • American Spirit

    Gram Jackson

    K-Gr 2 This very slight story has a baby's wish come true. Tired of lying powerless in her crib, the frustrated baby chooses one of those magic nights when the moon is out and the tide is full to make her escape. Her toy lion becomes enormous and fie...

  • Sweet Love, Bitter Love

    Anna James

    Caught on the winds of tempestuous desire in the United States of America secession war. SWEPT UP IN PASSION'S FURIOUS STORM Breathtaking Bethany Winfield, honey-haired Carolina beauty, sought haven -- only to be brutally violated; knew fie...

  • Wings of the Hawk

    Leigh Franklin James

    FROM THE PRODUCER OF THE WAGONS WEST SERIES -- THE MOVING SAGA THAT BEGAN WITH THE HAWK AND THE DOVE NOW BLAZES ACROSS THE GREAT SOUTHWEST John Cooper Baines - The Hawk - comes of age. Strong and bold, his restless spirit drives him to challenge t...

  • The Trip to Panama

    Janosch

  • A Marriage of Convenience

    Tim Jeal

    'A majestic Victorian tale... Wealthy lawyer Esmond, discarded illegitimate son of a peer, has pinched his way to the top of his profession, while his handsome, debt-ridden cavalry officer brother Clinton has inherited the title and the ancestral hom...

  • Duel at Gold Buttes

    William Jeffrey

  • Waters Dark and Deep

    J. Farragut Jones

  • The Wayward Winds

    Evelyn Kahn

    DAUGHTERS OF THE STORM... The great dust winds of the 30's blew across the plains, leaving three children abandoned - Three large-eyed, terrified sisters, ripped from their roots and each other's nurturing warmth were adopted by separate famil...

  • High Midnight

    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    A forties Hollywood PI does not forsake Gary Cooper: “Like all of Toby [Peters’s] adventures, High Midnight is high entertainment” (The Cincinnati Post).   When laconic leading man Gary Cooper needs a detective, he does the sma...

  • A Life Worth Living

    Phyllis Karas

  • Luke Sutton, Outlaw

    Leo P. Kelley

  • DreamTide

    Katherine Kent

    Away from the Hollywood madness, one man, one woman, one passion--might live forever! SHE WAS READY TO FORGET TINSELTOWN...ALL THE GLITTER, ALL THE DECEIT, AND EVERYONE! Beautiful Hollywood photographer Liz Holly had finally had enough--the gla...

  • Double Dare

    Edward Keyes

    A drug dealer turned informant navigates New York’s underworld in a tale that “maintains tension†from an Edgar Award finalist (The New York Times Book Review). A twenty-nine-year-old Italian immigrant, Tony Farrell has all the trappings of suc...

  • The Judas Gene

    Albert Klainer

    It was born in Dachau to kill today...

    Doctor Thaddeus Reichmann leaned over the body lying in front of him and made the incision. The war was about to end, the final solution a failure. It was his duty to plant the seeds of the next holoca...

  • First Voyages

    Damon Knight

    First Voyages is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Damon Knight, Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander, first published in paperback by Avon Books in May 1981. It is a compilation of the first published stories of twenty pro...

  • Dream Island

    Roumelia Lane

    Grown-up hearts could be badly broken... Laraine was tired of being treated like a child--she was nineteen, with a woman's feelings! But how could she convince Neal Hansen of that? Neal claimed not to believe in love, yet Laraine sensed his...

  • Love's Tempest

    Elinor Larkin

    He was a rakehell and a shameless bounder. Ursula Manning had been warned--by her brother, George, and by Richard, Viscount of Uxbridge, himself. To be associated with him, by name alone, was to risk being known as a light-skirt. But she would not...

  • The Mistress of Harrowgate

    Jessica Laurie

    Margaret could not avoid the intense stare of Elizabeth Ashcroft's portrait for the elegant bejeweled could have been her identical twin! When Margaret heard and saw impossible things, she feared that Elizabeth was trying to send her a dangerous...

  • Lago

    John Lee

  • Come Out Smiling

    Elizabeth Levy

  • Victory Summer

    Dawn Lindsey

    YOUNG LOVE, THROWN AWAY, MAY NEVER BE FOUND AGAIN... Jessica Lansdowne, a handsome woman whose sprightly manner hid a well-kept secret, at six and twenty had adjusted quite nicely to a life of quiet unmarried propriety. Until dashing Max returned....

  • White Hell

    Jake Logan

  • The Traitors

    William Stuart Long

    IN THE MIDST OF BLOODSHED AND REBELLION A NEW GENERATION STRUGGLED TO BE BORN... Through heartbreak and tragic loss they had fashioned a new life in the land of their exile. But even now they could not rest securely. The courage of beautiful Abigail...

  • The Pembroke Colors

    Stephen Longstreet

  • Morgan Wade's Woman

    Amii Lorin

    Wealthy and beautiful Samantha Denning was an independent woman who was determined to stay that way. But when her father died, his will included the shocking stipulation that she marry within five months or lose her inheritance. To solve her problem,...

  • Lauren

    Harriette Luger

  • Chasing Trouble

    Harriette Luger

  • Gossip Wars

    Milt Machlin

  • The First Book of Eppe

    Roderick MacLeish

    After having been unjustly confined to a mental hospital for seven years for throwing his mother's lover into a swimming pool, twenty-four-year-old sexually naive Sherborne Eppe embarks on travels through America accompanied by a Black hoodlum named ...

  • Protege

    Malcolm MacPherson

  • Pact of Love

    Magali

    One slip and the penalty was death. Brad's duties as first officer of the luxury yacht The Fine Madness promised to be exciting. The guests were wealthy and fun loving ... and his new job included playing escort to the captain's beautiful young niece...

  • Superman: Miracle Monday

    Elliot S. Maggin

  • The Christ Commission

    Og Mandino

    In front of eight million TV viewers, "The Greatest Mystery Writer in the World" bragged he could prove Christ was actually stolen from the tomb and never really rose from the dead . . . if he were given just one week back in ancient Jerusalem. ...

  • Falkland Road

    Mary Ellen Marks

    Mark's extended photo essay on the prostitution district of Bombay is one of the landmarks of color photojournalism. Small half-inch tear at base of spine. Slight scuffing and fading to cover. Interior and photographs are clean and unmarked....

  • Raiders of the Lost Ark Storybook

    Les Martin

  • Man of Destiny

    Graham Masterton

  • Castles of Sand

    Anne Mather

    The reunion was almost unbearable Ashley Gauthier could hardly believe she was actually seeing her son. Circumstances had forced her to give him up at birth seven years earlier to her deceased husband's wealthy Arab family. Now the unexpect...

  • Tides of Love

    Patricia Matthews

    The magnificent saga of a woman swept up by passion and torn between two loves. The violent sea threw them together only to tear them apart yet again... Out of a band of violent men, shipwreckers all, came Marianna Harper--a girl so unkempt t...

  • The Winds of Night

    Anne Maybury

    “Where is your husband, Mrs. Ardley…?†In a Georgian house isolated atop a cliff, Judith Ardley was alone, exposed to the disembodied shadows that fell across the patio, to cryptic messages that came for her absent husband, to a fear she had...

  • The Appraiser

    Jack Mayfair

  • Path of Exoterra

    Gordon McBain

  • They Thirst

    Robert R. McCammon

    First published in 1981, They Thirst was Robert McCammon’s fourth novel, and it remains one of the major milestones of an ambitious, constantly evolving career. Like its predecessors -- Baal, Bethany’s Sin, and The Night Boat -- They Thirst made ...

  • Legend of the Lone Ranger

    Gary McCarthy

  • The Nightingale Trivet

    Russell Mead

    He was a pillar of the community... Wealthy and retired, Clarence Bell was the image of the virtuous civic leader, with impeccable credentials and a host of local admirers. Suddenly he was dead, his skull battered by a savage assailant. Just as sudde...

  • Down Home

    George Mettler

  • The Black Glove

    Geoffrey Miller

    NOMINATED FOR THE EDGAR AWARDTerry Traven is an L. A. private eye who modeled himself after Philip Marlowe and thrived in the 1960s, becoming a minor celebrity for his hardboiled style and his skill at tracking down runaways. But now it's the 1980s, ...

  • Montauk Fault

    Herbert Mitgang

  • Mystery of the Maya

    R.A. Montgomery

    ARE YOU BRAVE ENOUGH TO TAKE THE MAGIC POTION AND TRAVEL BACK IN TIME? You are in Mexico. You've come to explore the ruins of the ancient and mysterious Mayan Indians, whose civilization disappeared 800 years ago. Many before you have tried to so...

  • The Cobra Team

    Robin Moore

  • The peregrine falcon

    Robert William Murphy

  • Island of Desire

    Helen Murray

  • The Legend of Tarik

    Walter Dean Myers

  • An Accidental Woman

    Richard Neely

  • White Nights, Red Dawn

    Frederick Nolan

  • Forerunner

    Andre Norton

    Of all the justly famous writers of science fiction and fantasy, none has inspired greater enthusiasm and loyalty than Andre Norton. Of all Ms. Norton's works, none has been more warmly received than her famed Forerunner series, a series whose heroes...

  • Run From Nightmare

    Maxine O'Callaghan

    Janet Valek was on the run... And private investigator Delilah West had been hired to find her. Delilah spent a lot of time on the case. She learned more than she wanted to about Janet's abandoned futile life and the questionable company she kept. B...

  • The Fallon Pride

    Reagan O'Neal

    The war of 1812... From the shores of Tripoli to the burning of Washington, from the Louisiana Purchase to Aaron Burr's Empire of Mexico, to the War of 1812, Robert Fallon--bastard son of wealth--takes part in all the momentous events of his time. B...

  • Red Star in Orbit

    James E Oberg

  • Envy and Other Works

    Iurii Karlovich Olesha

  • Double or Nothing

    Tess Oliver

    SHE TOOK A GAMBLE ON LOVE... . Leigh Mallory knew that Dow Madigan was a man to be reckoned with from the first moment he had strolled arrogantly into her California office. His East Coast reserve had angered her, but his gentle touch had opened h...

  • Time Machine II

    George Pal

  • Maria Canossa

    Sandra Paretti

    The Lufthansa plane touched down on the darkened landing strip in Rome and Maria Canossa breathed a sigh of relief. She was home...away from Berlin and nine years of a disastrous marriage...back to the refuge of the beautiful city of her childhood. ...

  • Queen's Lady

    Patricia Parkes

  • Clutterkill

    Gary Paulsen

    A sniper was loose on the Chicago strip. And the city was running scared. He killed from the rooftops, swiftly, terribly and at random. He shot secretaries, tourists, even policemen - anyone who came within range of his high-powered rifle. And he van...

  • Strangers Into Lovers

    Lilian Peake

    "I am cured, of both the illness and you." Randall West's words rang in Gillian Taylor's head. Their love affair had ended abruptly. Randall had been dying... and knowing this, Gillian hadn't been able to face him. So she had r...

  • Portrait in Shadows

    Jane Peart

    Shocked by her broken engagement, Cameron Forrest blindly accepted Justin Bradford's offer to come to Gull's Glen and paint the portrait of the famous author's beautiful young bride. In the peace and privacy of the magnificent Big Sur ...

  • The Curse of the Pharaohs

    Elizabeth Peters

    Amelia Peabody and Radcliffe Emerson, heroic survivors of Crocodile on the Sandbank, are called back to Egypt by Lady Baskerville to complete the excavation of a recently discovered tomb. The dig had been left unfinished by her newly dead--and possib...

  • Jenny

    Patricia Phillips

    IN AN AGE OF GILDED PLEASURES HER BEAUTY WAS AS DANGEROUS AS IT WAS DESIRED... Bawdy Restoration England was no place for a chestnut-haired beauty like Jenny Dunn. Raised in country innocence, but forced to flee to London, Jenny found protection...

  • Late in the Season

    Felice Picano

    A telling novel about gay life after Stonewall, Late in the Season is one of the finest novels in the long career of one of the founding members of the Violet Quill Club. Set on Fire Island in late September, this is the story of an unlikely pair of ...

  • Cruel Triumph

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