Books Published in May 1985

New Books List: 407 titles

  • The Small Potatoes and the Birthday Party

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Cobra

    Timothy Zahn

    Jonny Moreau becomes one of the Cobras--an invincible soldier with surgically implanted weapons--in order to help defeat the alien Troft, and years later, works for both human and Troth when a new menace arises. Original....

  • Hungarian Rhapsody

    Marilyn Youngblood

    Though it was hard to leave the boy she loved, fifteen-year -old Ariel knew that going to Hungary and filming on location would be just the kind of boost her budding acting career needed. True, it was hard to leave Jesse, but she was sure that absenc...

  • A Likely Story

    Carol Beach York

  • Man's Best Friend

    Amanda York

    DOG DAYS OF SUMMER Romance wasn't on veterinarian Alex Aimes' mind when she was walking her Irish setter on the beach one foggy morning--but romance has a way of sneaking up on you. The mists parted to reveal a scruffy golden retriever--and her eq...

  • Lifeforce

    Colin Wilson

  • Mountain Spell

    Ann Meredith Wills

    WHOSE SIDE WAS SHE ON? Maggie McAllister had nabbed a plum assignment as the lawyer chosen to help prevent skiing on Mount Shasta. Her drive for the environmentalists' cause was sure to win favor in her law firm. But the chief advocate for a sk...

  • North Gladiola

    James Wilcox

    Ethyl Mae Coco's rambling Victorian home on North Gladiola -- the Main Street of Tula Springs, Louisiana -- is the only residence left at the business end of town, but it's a hotbed for chaotic comedy. Mrs. Coco, aged fifty-seven and feeling somewhat...

  • Scumbler

    William Wharton

    Know Scumbler in his poignant, hilarious life. Get mad at him and even cry with him. Here's Don Quixote, Santa Claus, and Faust rolled into one "thick shadow" of a man. A joyous sixty-year-old American street painter lives on the Left Bank in Paris, ...

  • Executive Lady

    Sophie Weston

    No marriage, no merger! The merger of Vivian Glass with Raoul de Martin's powerful French conglomerate was essential. Philippa knew she couldn't afford to offend him. But she positively prickled every time Raoul came near her. Here was ...

  • High Adventure

    Donald E. Westlake

    One man’s quest to make history -- and a lot of money: “High entertainment” from the three-time Edgar Award"winning Grand Master of Mystery (Elmore Leonard).   Kirby Galway may be a low-level marijuana smuggler in Belize, but the man has...

  • Reckless Passion

    Rochelle Wayne

    FIRST SHE SAW HIM AS A YANKEE -- THEN SHE KNEW HIM AS A MAN! THOUGHTLESS RAPTURE When he yanked away the heavy drapes, Union Major Jeff Clayton found himself facing a Rebel spy -- and the most alluring woman he had ever seen! He boldly stared at ...

  • Runaway

    Clarissa Watson

  • Vows Forever

    Lynda Ward

    SHE HAD A SURPRISE RIVAL Elizabeth Swenson got a shock when she drove her Porsche into Ridleyville, Arkansas. Her estranged husband, her big-time corporate shark, was the minister at the Good Samaritan church! The bigger shock was finding out s...

  • The Book of Sorrows

    Walter Wangerin Jr.

    This sequel to the award-winning The Book of the Dun Cow stands on its own as a powerful work of literature. In this absorbing, highly original fantasy, Chauntecleer, Pertelote, and the other familiar characters of the Coop struggle to piece together...

  • Spangles

    Irma Walker

    THERE WAS MAGIC UNDER THE BIG TOP When she was in the cage with her cats, lion trainer Tanya Rhodin had the upper hand. So why, when it came to Wade Broderick, did she feel so out of control? The millionaire businessman had run away to the circ...

  • The Last Ride

    Mike Wales

  • Selling Out

    Dan Wakefield

    Even an East Coast academic can’t resist Hollywood’s siren allure in this hilarious novel of the dangers that come with fame and fortune Literature professor Perry Moss has slowly amassed it all: a steady job at Haviland College in southern Vermo...

  • An Innocent Millionaire

    Stephen Vizinczey

  • Return to Oz

    Joan D. Vinge

    Dorothy returns to Oz during a storm only to find that the magical kingdom has been conquered by the evil Nome King and Mombi the Witch, and she sets out with the Scarecrow, Tin Man, Cowardly Lion, and other new friends to find the rightful ruler...

  • The Very Best People

    Elizabeth Villars

    A challenging career carries Kathryn Owen to the inner circle of the New Deal and involves her in a torrid twenty-year love affair with Tyson Enfield that survives every trial but time and the reality of a love as powerful as their own...

  • An Intimate Oasis

    Cindy Victor

    She had nothing to fear in loving him... The last thing Stephen Gary expected to find in the desert was a mermaid. But that was before he saw his mother's swimming instructor, Holly Hutton, emerge from their Palm Springs pool. Suddenly he wanted t...

  • Sanguinet's Crown

    Patricia Veryan

    He may have saved her life, but she must lose her heart all the same... "'T'S ALMOST TWO YEARS NOW. I WILL NOT WALK IN TERROR OF MONSIEUR SANGUINET FOREVER" So says Miss Charity Strand, and, having escaped the clutches of the e...

  • Dragon Robe

    Charles Vance

    After surviving an airplane crash in the mountains of Northwest China, Master Sergeant Douglas Carr struggles across 270 miles of enemy territory to inform Mao Tse-Tung of the Chinese Nationalist plot to kidnap him from Red Army headquarters...

  • Pelangi Haven

    Karen Van Der Zee

    It was only a matter of time Linden fled from Waite's violent black moods to be alone at her Pelangi haven--Rainbow Island off the coast of Malaysia. Instead, she found a friend. There was strength and determination in Justin Parker's f...

  • Prized Possession

    Linda Vail

    Microbiologist Dr. Erin Barclay had never met her mysterious employer, the legendary owner of Scott Research and Development. But when a threatening phone call forced her to destroy her own top secret work and flee, Erin was suddenly given a disturbi...

  • Murder in the Supreme Court

    Margaret Truman

    THE CHIEF CLERK TO THE CHIEF JUSTICE WAS FOUND MURDERED IN THE COURTROOM... When young Clarence Sutherland was discovered sitting in the Chief Justice's chair with a hole in his head, the question of course was, why? Who would want to kill such...

  • Trying Not to Love You

    Laurel Trivelpiece

    MARK WAS JUST TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE... Mother couldn't believe it. She'd just been complaining that I never had any boyfriends. Then Mark's dazzling smile and sunny spirits changed my life. Mark was full of surprises. An orphan from Iowa. he wasn...

  • Suspects

    David Thomson

    Noah Cross, Norma Desmond, Norman Bates, Harry Lime - these are a few of nearly a hundred names that inhabit the mind of the narrator as he starts to compose short biographies of some of the most famous characters in the history of film noir. He sket...

  • Nell

    Nancy Thayer

    This beloved novel by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer tells the uplifting story of a single mom seeking independence and struggling to find her way.   Nell St. John is not living the life she imagined for herself -- not by a long ...

  • Heart's Journey

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    On a muddy road near Dawson Springs, they met again Gwen Nolan looked at the face she had not seen in twelve years and heard echoes of all their breathless promises and whispered dreams. Memory stretched across the chasm of years and bridged the d...

  • For Love of Lord Roland

    Julie Tetel

    She was beautiful and alone in a world of chivalry and dark passions The first time Lady Marguerite saw Sir Roland of Guimont, she was at the glittering Plantagenet court, caught in intrigues of state. The second time, she was a traitor's daugh...

  • The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped

    Sheri S. Tepper

  • The Old Colts

    Glendon Swarthout

    When Glendon Swarthout's barber introduces him to a retired journalist in the local OK Tonsorial Corral, the one, the only Walter Winchell, he is stunned to learn that the old-timer is in possession of a remarkable document: the true story of Bat Mas...

  • Wild Places

    Ann Sutton

  • The New England Resistance

    Tim Sullivan

    The resistance members' ingrained distrust of all aliens conspires against Willie, a Visitor who has volunteered for a secret biochemical experiment to develop a new toxin, and antidote, to fight the Visitors...

  • First Daughter

    Whitney Stine

    Jade, the eldest daughter of a noble Chinese family, becomes caught in the nightmarish terror and savagery of civil war in turn-of-the-century China as she falls in love with a great patriot and sacrifices everything she holds dear for the sake of th...

  • The Badlands of Hark

    R.L. Stine

  • James Bond in Win, Place or Die

    R.L. Stine

  • Lady Darlington

    Robert Stewart

  • Departure

    Janet Stevenson

  • The Anvil Chorus

    Shane Stevens

    This brilliant novel of obsession and revenge from the author of the bestselling By Reason of Insanity is one of the most darkly compelling stories of evil ever written. "I recommend it unreservedly . . . but only (to) readers with strong stomachs an...

  • The Ten-Minute Entrepreneur

    Mark Stevens

  • A Promise to Dishonour

    Jessica Steele

    Once a rake--always a rake? If only Ashlie's brother hadn't accepted work so far away from London. Perhaps then his wife wouldn't have fallen for her rakish boss and Ashlie wouldn't have had to interfere.. "You drive a hard ...

  • Loving

    Danielle Steel

    Bettina Daniels lived a fairytale existence of  glamour, endless parties, and luxury among  America's top celebrities -- simply because she was the  beautiful daughter of famous American author Justin Daniels. Then, in o...

  • Now and Forever

    Danielle Steel

    WHEN THE HEART'S ILLUSIONS SHATTER, REALITY CAN BE FRIGHTENING -- OR BEAUTIFUL Jessica and Ian Clarke...they were the golden couple -- young, glamorous, exciting. Most of all, they had each other, and marriage had only deepened their all-consumin...

  • Passion's Promise // Golden Moments

    Danielle Steel

    Smart, beautiful, and very rich, Kezia Saint Martin leads two lives: one as a glamorous socialite jetting between the poshest places in Europe and America; the other, under a false name, as a dedicated journalist committed to justice and her professi...

  • To Love Again

    Danielle Steel

    In Rome, Isabella and her husband, Amadeo, have created an idyllic marriage and the House of San Gregorio, the most exciting name in European high fashion. But in an act of terrorism, Amadeo is kidnapped and taken from Isabella forever. Fleeing to Ne...

  • Crime Lab

    George Edward Stanley

  • Sweet Anger

    Erin St. Claire

    SWORN ENEMIES Kari Wynne had every reason in the world to hate DA Hunter Mckee. In her eyes, he was ambitious, unprincipled, and too hard driving. Her feud with him had cost her the TV reputation she had struggled to win, the job that was her life...

  • The Missing Bishop

    Ross H. Spencer

  • An Excess of Love

    Cathy Cash Spellman

    POETS AND DREAMERS, REBELS AND ARISTOCRATS, CAUGHT IN THE CRIMSON TIDE OF REVOLUTION AND DESIRE... Ireland at the turn of the century... beautiful, restless, seething ... a time of high passions. It was then that the FitzGibbon sisters knew a loya...

  • Gossip

    Patricia Meyer Spacks

    Explores the nature, morality, and aesthetics of gossip; examines gossip in history and the psychology of gossip; and analyzes gossip--as subject and literary technique--in plays, letters, biographies, and novels....

  • The Vampire Takes a Trip

    Angela Sommer-Bodenburg

  • True-Life Adventure

    Julie Smith

    Paul McDonald was upset: first his boss drops dead in his living room, then someone breaks into his home and later torches it. How is he supposed to write a bestselling mystery surrounded by all this crime? Paul worked part-time for Jack Birnbaum, r...

  • Royal Revels

    Joan Smith

    WHEN A LADY'S BETROTHED SERVES THE RAKISH PRINCE REGENT, LOVE CAN BE A NATIONAL SCANDAL! SHE WOULD SACRIFICE ANYTHING FOR HER BELOVED -- ANYTHING BUT HIS HEART! Nothing could dampen Miss Deirdre Gower's spirits now that she was betrot...

  • Desire's Flame

    Carla Simpson

    ECSTASY'S SPARK Maren fought like a wildcat when the arrogant knight carried her off in his arms. The Welsh beauty had no love for the English murderers who had slaughtered her mother and ransacked her home. But when her handsome captor held her s...

  • Prisoners of Pax Tharkas

    Morris Simon
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

  • One Hundred and One Questions and Answers about Dangerous Animals

    Herbert Simon

  • The Blue Room

    Georges Simenon

    “A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” -- John Le CarréMaster novelist Georges Simenon’s critically acclaimed tale of the destructive power of lust and guilt“He felt no resentment towards Andree...

  • The Cat

    Georges Simenon

    Why are Emile and Marguerite Bouin still married? They cannot stand each other. This is evident from the moment we meet them, isolated and wordless before a beautiful fire. Their only correspondence is an occasional invective jotted on a scrap of pap...

  • November

    Georges Simenon

    Contesting bitterly for the sexual favors of their Spanish maid, a father and son share the same house and table with their unloved and unbearably isolated mother, who seeks the ever-diminishing solace of alcohol. Only the daughter, involved in a lov...

  • With Each Caress

    Anne Silverlock

    She was surrounded! Madly, persistent, infinitely resourceful, he'd countered her every move to resist him. Even her own had been wooed and won and was now playing matchmaker! Matt Sager - star football player, male model and master charmer -came t...

  • The Time Travellers

    Robert Silverberg

  • James Bond in Strike It Deadly

    Scott Siegel

  • What Happens to a Hamburger?

    Paul Showers

    What happens to a hamburger and all the other food we eat? Digestion! In your mouth, your stomach, and your intestines, food is turned into bones and muscles and energy for your body to use. Carrots and peaches, eggs and pickles, all make you stro...

  • There Goes the Ghost

    Victoria Sherrow

  • The Range Killers

    Jon Sharpe

  • Gorgeous Wedding

    Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

  • Betsey Brown

    Ntozake Shange

    Praised as "exuberantly engaging" by the Los Angeles Times and a "beautiful, beautiful piece of writing" by the Houston Post, acclaimed artist Ntozake Shange brings to life the story of a young girl's awakening amidst her country's seismic growing pa...

  • Follow That Bird

    Sesame Street

  • Golden Chimera

    Maura Seger

    IN SEARCH OF A DREAM . . . Brilliant and beautiful Cassia Jones had been sheltered in her scientific haven like a princess in a tower, lacking only a stranger's kiss to awaken her to the real world. Tristan Ward's adventurous spirit would have ...

  • Conrad

    Bill Schorr

  • Please Send Junk Food

    Susan Schneider

  • Hand Me Down the Dawn

    Mary Harwell Sayler

    He loved the Land, and God, and a Homeless Waif. She loved the Man... "Cat"--The name suited her. Tiny and feisty and fiercely independent, Catherine Caldwell was determined to prove that she could take care of herself--even if it meant braving th...

  • Sophie

    Judith Saxton

    She can hardly believe it’s happening… Not so long ago Sophie had been the type of girl who could only make friends with people as lonely and friendless as herself. And yet now, here she is with a London flat, a job in television and the ki...

  • Shattered Night

    Kay Sandiford

  • Fires at Night

    Ann Salerno

    Love was never predictable Justin Chaffey had all the answers when it came to Hawaii's volcanoes. But none of his rules and scientific principles seemed to apply to the phenomenon of Shell Bennett. The explosive attraction between them took Sh...

  • The Berserker Throne

    Fred Saberhagen

    Another episode in the Berserker wars of the far distant future when powerful machines continue trying to eradicate all life and the living battle back. Space opera, political intrigue, touches of technology. The main character, a royal, political pr...

  • Tumbleweeds Buckaroo

    Tom K. Ryan

  • Tumbleweeds Roundup!

    Tom K. Ryan

  • Another Chance

    Jeanette Ryan

  • Mississippi!

    Dana Fuller Ross

    WAGONS WEST The irresistible lure of limitless opportunity drew con men and kings, merchants and sailors, outlaws and heroes to New Orleans, the spicy Cajun capital at the mouth of the majestic Mississippi. Here European bluebloods mingled with bu...

  • Going to Day Care

    Fred Rogers

  • The New Baby

    Fred Rogers

  • Walk in My Soul

    Lucia St. Clair Robson

    Tiana was a Cherokee woman. She grew up learning the magic, spells, and nature religion of her people. Before Sam Houston became the father of Texas, he was a young man who had run away from his home in Tennessee to live among the Cherokee. He came t...

  • Night of Power

    Spider Robinson

    Jos aimed straight for the tank ahead, was doing 80 kph by the time he reached it, jogged the wheel and was around it, still accelerating. He was screaming right onto 48th Street before the tank's turret could swivel around to track him.He did not tu...

  • Victoria

    Willo Davis Roberts

    Texas pride was in her blood, burning love was in her heart... A dashing Texan or a proud Mexican. Which man would win her love? To beautiful, lovely Victoria Winters, Texas in 1835 is a place where parties last for three days. It's also a place of...

  • Partners

    Nora Roberts

    LAURELLIE ARMAND... Her competition with fellow reporter Matthew Bates went beyond professional rivalry; she fought the spark of sexual attraction as well. But when the two of them became unwilling partners investigating a mysterious death, Laurel ...

  • Tempting Fate

    Nora Roberts

    The MacGregor clan was closely knit. Caine MacGregor's sister had married Diana Blade's brother, but the emotions Caine felt meeting Diana had nothing to do with family -- everything to do with desire. Caine was something of a ladies' man, a demo...

  • Hell With a Pistol

    J.R. Roberts

    Any man would be thrilled to find out he has a long-lost son -- or would he? What if that "son" turns out to be a merciless killer who guns down men for the fun of it? That's the dilemma facing Clint Adams when he learns that a young gunman named...

  • The Ten Pines Killer

    J.R. Roberts

    It's snowing corpses in Ten Pines, Utah, and the townsfolk are pointing accusing fingers at the stranger with the reputation as a "gunfighter." The stranger happens to be Clint Adams, who is stuck in Ten Pines because of a freak blizzard. Now the...

  • Eye of the Beholder

    Kay Robbins

    The last thing Tory Michaels expected when she answered tier doorbell that morning was a marriage proposal... especially from a man she'd never laid eyes on before. But within hours, Devon York has glided effortlessly into her life, bearing kittens a...

  • Heartsong

    Leigh Riker

  • Murder Across and Down

    Herbert Resnicow

    During their fiftieth anniversary celebration, the prestigious Cruciverbal Club plans on holding a contest for the country's most skilled crossword puzzle experts, with a fifty-thousand-dollar prize at stake, but the event is overshadowed by the murd...

  • Choose Your Own Adventure Number Five Boxed Set

    Random House

  • Quiet Road to Death

    Sheila Radley

  • Trouble Making Toys

    A.M. Pyle

  • A Gift of Love

    Natalie Pryor

  • Three Men in New Suits

    J.B. Priestley

  • The Endless Frontier, Vol. 1

    Jerry Pournelle

  • Blue Bug Goes to School

    Virginia Poulet

  • The Stones of the Abbey

    Fernand Pouillon

  • Out at Home

    Gary Pomeranz

    Kicked out of college and at odds with his bizarrely difficult mother, eighteen-year-old Arnie Barzov proves his betting skills on the Cubs and his manhood to an exotic Chinese girl, in Chicago during the 1950s...

  • Downtown

    Viido Polikarpus

    Separated from his mother, young Cary finds himself in Downtown, a place beneath the streets of New York City where discarded people, places, and things live on, and takes Allie, a gamin of Downtown, as his companion...

  • Black Star Rising

    Frederik Pohl

    "Take us to your leader, if you can..." When a mysterious alien spacecraft approaches Earth and demands to speak with the President of the United States, then destroys a large Pacific island to demonstrate its strength and underscore its seriousne...

  • I Was a Second-Grade Werewolf

    Daniel Pinkwater

  • Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror

    Daniel Pinkwater

  • Face

    Cecile Pineda

    Nominated for a 1985 American Book Award, this first novel centers on a Brazilian man whose face is horribly disfigured in an accident. Helio Cara loses his job, his mistress, his friends, and then seeks to create a new visage through a grisly form o...

  • Waiting for Prince Charming

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    Chelsey Star groaned when she spotted the shattered windshield of the blue Ferrari, her joy at hitting a home run suddenly evaporating. How would she ever pay for it, and how could she face its owner? When Mitch Brannon jogged over, his tanned, rugge...

  • Prime Time

    Susan Beth Pfeffer

    The first book in Susan Beth Pfeffer’s Make Me a Star series introduces six Teenagers, each waiting for that first big break Open call! Now casting for brand-new prime time series. No experience necessary.   Tenth grader Miranda Newgate is vi...

  • To Live and Die in L.A.

    Gerald Petievich

    To Live and Die in L.A. is a harrowing tale, which has become a major motion picture, of cult status, depicting the dark underside of America's "West Coast" metropolis.

    Two U.S. Treasury agents, both partners and antagonists, are drawn i...

  • Manny and Rose

    Joan K. Peters

  • My Clock Book

    John Peter

  • Dawn of the White Rose

    Mary Pershall

    ISABEL DE CLARE. Her tawny beauty was a King's prize, to be locked within a brooding castle until she exchanged its gray walls for a husband's tyranny... WILLIAM MARSHAL. The towering knight armed with a will of steel, he conquered Isabel's senses...

  • Big Fish

    Thomas Perry

    First published in 1985 and long out-of-print, Big Fish, one of Thomas Perry’s most sought-after titles, is now available to readers in an e-book format. Powerfully-plotted and funny, Big Fish follows dangerous and mysterious Los Angeles entr...

  • A Picture Book ABC

    Penguin Books

  • Guns at Gray Butte

    Lewis B. Patten

  • More Than a Dream

    Lynn Patrick

    It was her big chance: the opportunity to direct the TV miniseries that could make or break her career. But golden boy Dion Hayden had been signed to star--against Randi St. Martin's wishes and her will. They'd worked together before. She'd lost her ...

  • Come Sing, Jimmy Jo

    Katherine Paterson

    Written by Newbery, National Book Award, and Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal winner Katherine Paterson

    The Johnsons are becoming country music stars. They're on TV and the radio--and it's all because of James. His voice and his guitar playing brin...

  • Loving

    Francine Pascal

    In the first volume of a trilogy, the lovely, dazzling, and devious Caitlin Ryan, a young girl raised by her wealthy, powerful, and cold grandmother, will do just about anything to get Jed Michaels, the boy she wants...

  • Showdown

    Francine Pascal

    More than she bargained for... When Lila Fowler's mysterious new boyfriend finally appears at her pool party, Jessica Wakefield is dazzled. Jack is handsome, sexy, and exciting - even more perfect than Lila described him. So Jessica wastes no time m...

  • Hellbound

    Richard Parque

  • Big Phil's Kid

    M.M. Parker

    "You'll probably get an immense kick out of Big Phil's Kid, a thoroughly delightful story about a boy whose father owns homes in Manhattan, Palm Beach, and Massachusetts, tosses off hundred dollar bills at the slightest pretext, and heads a big, lov...

  • Impasse

    Margaret Pargeter

    He was obsessively wary of love and marriage Slade Western was arrogant and overbearing, bent on having his own way. Passion seemed to be the only emotion he understood--that and possessiveness. Lee had always wanted a home and a man willing to...

  • The Australian

    Diana Palmer

    For two years Pricilla Johnson watched John Sterling manage his cattle station, and at the tender age of eighteen she innocently surrendered her young heart to him. He was big, brash, brazen and Australian. Everyone called it infatuation, Priss knew ...

  • Passion's Torment

    Victoria Pade

    LOVE'S SURRENDER Only desperate fear could have made young Alisa resort to trickery to force the handsome and wealthy American sea captain, Christian Reed, to marry her. Safely away from England, she vowed to give him all her love...yet she da...

  • Dangerous Charade

    Marrissa Owens

    DOUBLE GAME... They met by moonlight, but Maggie Summer's midnight foray into Kyle Spencer's bedroom wasn't what it seemed. She was a detective hired to protect him from whoever was threatening him, at the office and at home. The problem was Kyle...

  • Calhoun and Kid

    Sara Orwig

    Courtney Meade only meant to dissuade Jared Calhoun from shooting Ebeneezer, her son's pet hawk, when she dove over the fence and tackled him. But the gun he held went off... and wounded her furious neighbor in the foot! All the way to the hospital J...

  • The Sudden Land

    Dale Oldham

  • Agents of Sympathy

    Frank O'Neill

    Boston Brahmin and part-time CIA agent Giovanni Sidgewick Stears is drawn into a plot to depose of a pro-Western North African monarch and into a savage world of Moselm fanaticism, torture, and confused loyalties...

  • Savage Winter

    Constance O'Banyon

    SEASON OF FIRE Nothing in Joanna's genteel Philadelphia upbringing had prepared her for life with her beloved Windhawk. Each time the handsome Indian warrior claimed her creamy flesh, she gloried in his fiery kisses and melted in his steely embr...

  • Secret of the Lost Race

    Andre Norton

    Joktar was running for his life -- and he didn’t know why. After growing up orphaned in the spaceman’s helltown of interstellar New York, Joktar was adept at dodging the law, but he knew of no special reason why all the police forces of the civil...

  • Looking for Bobby

    Gloria Norris

  • Footfall

    Larry Niven; Jerry Pournelle

    THE SNOUTS ARE COMING Men first saw the invader as a series of dots on astronomical plates. It moved in a way that meant it was operating under power, heading from Saturn directly toward Earth. And since no life was possible on Saturn or its moons...

  • Mog at the Zoo

    Helen Nicoll

  • Venetian Sunrise

    Kate Nevins

    Antiques dealer Rita Stewart steps into Venice ... and enters a dream. Enchantment claims her with shimmering sunlight, gilded palaces, warm- hearted people--and vibrantly handsome, endearingly roguish American painter, Frank Giordano, who eagerly of...

  • Passion's Betrayal

    Penelope Neri

    SHE WAS A THIEVING TEMPTRESS When Luke Steele met the sparkling green eyes of the masked bank bandit, he instinctively knew this was no gun-slingng robber; he was looking at sensuous, spirited Promise O'Rourke. He was the only one who saw through ...

  • At the End of the Day

    Betty Neels

    Why was he talking to her about love? Julia was puzzled by the austere Professor van der Wagema's remark that there should be more to life than working at St. Anne's Hospital in London. "At the end of the day you know what that is," ...

  • Nabokov's Quartet

    Vladimir Nabokov

  • Return to Arkady

    Jeneth Murrey

    Tomorrow she would be in Corfu again Joanna had fled the sun-drenched island with proof that her husband, Arkady St. Vlastos, had been unfaithful. And she'd been carrying Arkady's child. Now Arkady was back in England, demanding custody...

  • Lords of the Earth

    Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    SUPERFLY He's big. He's black. He's bad. And he ain't afraid of no DDT. The Lord of the Killer Flies was a buggy billionaire, out to liberate oppressed vermin everywhere. He didn't include people in that category. The Destroyer did. Still, he t...

  • The Assault

    Harry Mulisch

    It is the winter of 1945, the last dark days of World War II in occupied Holland. A Nazi collaborator, infamous for his cruelty, is assassinated as he rides home on his bicycle. The Germans retaliate by burning down the home of an innocent family; on...

  • Lovers in the Afternoon

    Carole Mortimer

    He was more attentive as a lover Leonie had a tendency to drop things, knock things over or bump into them, a tendency that had irritated her husband Adam Faulkner when they'd lived together--a tendency that her lover seemed to find endearing....

  • Lotus Blossom

    Hayton Monteith

    An innocent dressed in skimpy black satin, Lotus Sinclair Weston took the job as a roving photographer in a Las Vegas casino with one purpose: to learn who had run up huge gambling debts in her uncle's name. If she failed, her whole family would be d...

  • Casa Grande

    Hank Mitchum

    STAGECOACH -- A powerful new series of adventures set in the West's most dramatic towns -- filled with the danger, history and romance of the bold men and women who conquered the frontier. Framed! That's what someone was doing to Cooper Dundee. At...

  • Kite

    Ed Minus

    Fifteen-year-old Kite Cummings moves from a Baptist orphanage to his aunt and uncle's warm home and into a world of shadow and light, threatening and promising adult experience, morality and responsibility, and fateful decisions...

  • Dungeon Demons

    Hilary Milton

  • Come Next Summer

    Leigh Michaels

    She should have run as fast as she could... Yet, looking back, Devon knew she wouldn't change a thing. Loving Jon Hardesty was worth all her turmoil. From the day three months ago when circumstances had forced them to share the only availab...

  • Dreams to Keep

    Leigh Michaels

    Could they ever work together? Chelsea had dreamed of becoming the first female partner at Shelby Harris and Associates the most respected architecture firm in St. Louis And she'd backed up her ambition with long hours and hard work--only to h...

  • Late Settings

    James Merrill

  • Pig Pig Grows Up

    David McPhail

  • The Changeling

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