Books Published in May 1985

New Books List: 407 titles

  • The Vampire Takes a Trip

    Angela Sommer-Bodenburg

  • Once in Golconda

    John Brooks

  • Wild Places

    Ann Sutton

  • White Water

    Joyce R. Kornblatt

  • Going to Day Care

    Fred Rogers

  • The New Baby

    Fred Rogers

  • I Was a Second-Grade Werewolf

    Daniel Pinkwater

  • Pig Pig Grows Up

    David McPhail

  • Good Intentions

    Jane Adams

    Anne Manning, a divorcee and single parent for twelve years, finds herself increasingly unable to control her rebellious fourteen-year-old son, Billy. As a last resort, she reluctantly arranges to send him to his father, Don, for the summer. Despite ...

  • Young Rissa

    F.M. Busby

    Rissa breathes a sigh of relief as the ship lifts off. It seems she's escaped danger, and no one has recognized the scientifically altered being as the beautiful young heir to the Hilzein Establishment-or so it seems. Possessing the only force capabl...

  • 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...

  • Walk the Moons Road

    Jim Aikin

  • Silk and Steel

    Cordia Byers

    She longed to plunge a dagger into his handsome back... She had mastered the arts of war, not love. Disguised as a man, she fought as fiercely as any Scots warrior. Then an English soldier with blazing blue eyes stormed her castle walls and exposed J...

  • 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...

  • Blind Man's Bluff

    Michael Adams

  • James Bond in Strike It Deadly

    Scott Siegel

  • The Botticelli Madonna

    Richard Cox

  • Tumbleweeds Roundup!

    Tom K. Ryan

  • Follow That Bird

    Sesame Street

  • Tumbleweeds Buckaroo

    Tom K. Ryan

  • Luna

    Delacorta

    Serge Gorodish, a classical musician turned confidence man, must rescue Alba, his thirteen-year-old partner, who has been kidnapped by an insane pychiatrist for the benefit of his even crazier patient...

  • Don't Play Games

    Emma Darcy

    Should she stake her future on him? Kate had been brought up to believe that promises were not to be given lightly, and despite her husband's lies and blatant infidelity, she'd managed to hold on to her integrity -- if not her ability to t...

  • Cyclone Season

    Victoria Gordon

    This man could create a whirlwind of his own Holly had only the vaguest idea of what to expect when she accepted her aunt's invitation to stay in the remote Pilbar Region of western Australia, and she was overwhelmed by the beauty and wildness...

  • Time Fuse

    Penny Jordan

    The situation was explosive Selina Thorn arranged work with a prominent London QC not to break up his marriage -- the way her mother had once tried -- but to get to know her father secretly so that she could put her past behind her. She hadn...

  • You Owe Me // The Tycoon She Shouldn't Crave

    Penny Jordan

    Seeing Slater again would cause Chris pain Natalie had always known how desperately in love with Slater Chris had been, and she'd arranged things so that Chris would have to return to England and face the man who'd rejected her. For as a f...

  • Fusion

    Rowan Kirby

    She was found innocent of true love Gina's cool demeanor and efficient manner ensured her success as a solicitor and also acted as her best defense in dissuading romantically minded suitors. An unsuccessful early marriage and the responsibi...

  • Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?

    Charlotte Lamb

    Trust didn't come easily to Tess... Tess was wary of good-looking men. Too often they were sexual opportunists to whom fidelity meant nothing--like her father. And she doubted if playwright Steve Houghten was any different. He'd turned ...

  • 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," ...

  • 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 ...

  • Silverthorn

    Raymond E. Feist

    A poisoned bolt has struck down the Princess Anita on the day of her wedding to prince Anitha of Krondor. To save his beloved. Anitha sets out in search of the mystic herb called Silverthorn that only grows in the dark and forbidding land of the S...

  • The Will of the Gods

    Sharon Green

  • Guns at Gray Butte

    Lewis B. Patten

  • Cimarron and the Prophet's People

    Lew Baines

  • Silver City

    Sara Dowse

  • The Secret World of Polly Flint

    Helen Cresswell

  • Mog at the Zoo

    Helen Nicoll

  • Tales from the Thousand and One Nights

    N.J. Dawood

    The tales told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahriyar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature. From the epic adventures of "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp" t...

  • Coco Can't Wait

    Taro Gomi

  • The Woman in White

    Frederick R. Karl

  • Amanda and the Witch Switch

    John Himmelman

  • 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...

  • Witches of Kregen

    Alan Burt Akers

    When his new army was ready to march against the witch hordes, it rained frogs! It was a veritable heavy bombardment from empty skies! That's the sort of thing Dray Prescot was up against during the war of the Nine Unspeakable Curses!Dray was struggl...

  • A Spy in Winter

    Michael Hastings

    On the point of defecting, Alex Orloff, the Russian-born recruiter of Kim Philby, tracks down a double-agent murderer, but finds that Philby--threatening death to Orloff's daughter--holds all the aces...

  • Sword and Sorceress II

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    SWORD AND SORCERESS II What better guide could there be through the realms of witchery and wonder, of combat and danger, of romance and magic than the hand and mind of Marion Zimmer Bradley, author of the bestsellers CITY OF SORCERY, THENDARA HOUS...

  • The Last Ride

    Mike Wales

  • Lone Star and the Golden Mesa

    Wesley Ellis

    AN ANCIENT GALLEON OF GOLD ENTOMBED WITH A TERRIBLE SECRET The Napi is a peaceful Arizona tribe whose only possession is the desert valley where they live. But deep beneath the desert's surface, trapped centuries before, is a Spanish warship laden w...

  • Wildfire

    Kelly Adams

    One moment Sean Feyer emerges from the lush forest and into ranger Molly Carter's life like the poet-naturalist she's always dreamed of. The next, they're pressed intimately against the earth as flames leap up around them -- and sparks of...

  • By Love Possessed

    Linda Barlow

    Refusing to let vague threats disrupt her vacation in Mexico, flamboyant shipping magnate Diana Adams rejects the idea of a bodyguard ... especially when he proves to be black-mustached, darkly powerful Francis O'Brien, the lover she unwittingly jilt...

  • Midwinter's Night

    Jean Canavan

    THE LONELY SOBS OF A FRIGHTENED LITTLE GIRL MELTED THE VIKING WARRIOR'S FIERCE HEART But Aric's sympathy turned to rage when his stepmother announced he was to wed the child Christina when she came of age. Defiant, he fled his home to seek...

  • Crisis at Valcour

    Dorothy Daniels

    The war between the states is over -- but Virginia Hammond's most heartbreaking battle has just begun. She was the most ravishing bride in the county and she had married the love of her life, Elias Birch. But when Virginia bore him another man's c...

  • Gentleman at Heart

    Elissa Curry

    When former pitcher Jake Shepard, notorious for having decked a Yankee's manager, dubs free-spirited Alexis Celestine 'Sexy Lexie,' she wants to deck him. The scruffily dressed, tough-guy handsome, small-town Lothario is hardly her type -...

  • Passion's Dance

    Lauren Fox

    Both are battered but undefeated veterans of physically punishing careers -- his football, hers ballet. Yet Amelia Jorgenson insists she has nothing in common with "dumb jock" Randy Williams. Not even when she falls at his feet, and he tucks ...

  • The Arms of a Stranger

    Lydia Lancaster

    FLEEING A FORCED MARRIAGE, YOUNG ARIADNE WAS RESCUED BY A GALLANT STRANGER! Jeremy Abbot. The handsome heir to a fabulous fortune, was so impeccably chivalrous that her innocent heart was lost at once. With some trepidation, she arrives at the ...

  • An Uncertain Chime

    Lizabeth Loghry

    ALARMING PASSION Aunt Agatha's will held more than one surprise: her lovely little bell collection was left to Bethany; but her million-dollar fortune was left to no one...because it was missing. But the biggest shock for Bethany was the ha...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Heartsong

    Leigh Riker

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Tea Party

    Charles L. Grant

    After unknown buyers purchase Winterest a seventeenth-century stone mansion believed to be haunted, the neighboring residents receive and invitation to a tea party and find themselves caught in a whirlwind of supernatural vengeance and violence. D...

  • The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped

    Sheri S. Tepper

  • The Changeling

    Kenneth McKenney

  • Space Doctor

    Lee Correy

  • Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds

    Brian Daley

    QUEST PERILOUS Mankind was beginning its third leap into the Galaxy, but Old Earth had so long kept to herself that her people were unable to travel safely among the rough-and-tumble cultures that had evolved on distant worlds. That annoyed Ear...

  • Brainz, Inc.

    Ron Goulart

    Sylvie Kirkyard was co-owner of Brainz, Inc., makers of the world's finest androids. So when she was murdered, she came directly to Odd Jobbs, Inc. to find out who had done it. It seems that her firm had perfected a personality chip that guaranteed i...

  • Pale Rider

    Alan Dean Foster

    Gun-toting preacher Gabriel takes on ruthless, gold-hungry miner Coy Lahoud and a gang of gunfighters led by Marshall Stockburn, a dark spectre from Gabriel's past, to protect the independent miners of Carbon Canyon...

  • House of Zeor

    Jacqueline Lichtenberg

    "The first published novel in this bestselling series asks the question: ""What if the basic human nature suddenly changed?"" Hugh Valleroy of the Gen Police undertakes a covert mission into Sime Territory to rescue the woman he loves from the Sime k...

  • Secret of the Lost Race

    Andre Norton

    Joktar was running for his life -- and he didnā€™t know why. After growing up orphaned in the spacemanā€™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...

  • Wolfling

    Gordon R. Dickson

    One hundred years into the future, the first expedition from Earth reaches Alpha Centurai III and discovers that all life, including humankind, is governed by the Throne World and Earth is only a primitive outpost, but one man from Earth will show th...

  • Reach for the Sky

    Barbara Andrews

    Struggling young actress Libby Sloan had arrived in Arizona to play a small part in a big western movie. She'd had her eye on her opportunity -- not on Craig Wicklow: yet the cool, sardonic stuntman had clearly singled her out for a little on-loc...

  • Come Home to Love

    Judith Arnold

    She could share his home, but what about his heart? Lissa Cavender had dealt with her share of crazy clients in the past, but Jared Stone astonished her. He had not gotten anywhere with her by telephone, so he just showed up one night at the class...

  • All or Nothing

    Rosalyn Alsobrook

    Randy Brinnad just didn't know his place Housekeepers were supposed to be women. Kind, deferential women who helped smooth the hectic lives of busy executives. Randy Brinnad didn't qualify on any account. Yes, he arrived at the Lovall's Shreveport...

  • Forever Eden

    Barbara Bennett

    Deep in the jungles of Mindanao, Cassandra Wellsley sought refuge--from the false values of her glamour-girl existence, from friends who could not understand, from herself. And in the routine of her life in the mission compound, she was content--unti...

  • A Gift of Wild Flowers

    Georgia Bockoven

    He was a challenging subject Assigned to photograph renegade banker Brian Robertson, Kelly Stewart didn't realize what she'd be letting herself in for. First off, she faced a four-day hike through the towering Sierra Nevada. Kelly had never backpa...

  • That Special Magic

    Laurien Blair

    LOVE NEEDS ALL THE HELP IT CAN GET! Ryan Davis and Dana Winter had been madly in love six years ago--the youthful, exuberant love of two kids in college. Now they were both successful adults: She tested products for a large food corporation; he...

  • Fool's Gold

    Beverly Bird

    CAUGHT! Devon Jordan was devastated when she saw Clay Wyatt. A year ago she'd fallen hard for him--just before the bottom dropped out of her world. A year ago she'd been part of society, not catering its parties. Her bank account had been full ...

  • Provocative Peril

    Annette Broadrick

    RISKY BUSINESS Three weeks on the scenic Oregon coast at the Tropicana Royale was Carolyn Kenniwick's dream come true. It was time to leave her gift shop behind and make a change. New clothes, a new hairdo, and a new attitude were going to mak...

  • Cherished Beginnings

    Pamela Browning

    Their views on childbirth were as different as day and night Maura McNeill needed a gynecologist, but not for the usual reasons. As a practicing midwife, she needed a doctor willing to sponsor her to a hospital and to be her backup in case of an e...

  • Just a Kiss Away

    Joanna Brandon

    Robin Chandler knew it was crazy to go back to work at the Sentinel, but the idea of being a freelance field reporter again was incentive enough to make her willing to put up with anything. Even her ex-husband. She could handle the toughest assign...

  • Starfire

    Barbara Bretton

    Sara would have traded her fortune for some privacy... Sara Chance was a jet-setter. As the wealthy widow of the beloved Maxwell Chance, she led a glamorous, opulent life. Yet Sara was miserable. All the money in the world couldn't make up for her...

  • The Troubadour's Romance

    Robyn Carr

    Pawn in a royal bargain, beautiful Felise Scelfton was handed in marriage to Sir Royce Leighton, the scarred and brooding lord of the grim keep of Segeland. And between them desire grew, bursting into a raging hunger that blazed at their merest touch...

  • Star Attraction

    Eva Claire

    Shelley Tremayne was tired of men who treated love like a movie script and had gotten over Christopher Devon, an actor, who was far more in love with himself than with Shelley. She had even written a book, about their relationship; the names were cha...

  • Love Letters

    Elaine Camp

    DEAR MAUDIE, What should I do about my philandering husband? My daughter's flirty boyfriend? My boring love life? Emmy Bakersfield, aka "Maudie," dealt with such questions every day. Her most intriguing correspondent wanted to know how to woo the ...

  • Angel in His Arms

    Suzanne Carey

    BOURBON STREET BLUES She was a jazz singer, come to New Orleans to learn the facts about the mother she so resembled-and had never known. Fate led Annie Duprez to Bourbon Street and into the arms of Jake St. Arnold, drummer, architect and part own...

  • The Original Miss Honeyford

    Marion Chesney

    MISS HONEYFORD WAS SOUR ON ROMANCE Miss Honaria Honeyford was sent to London to save the family fortune by hunting a wealthy husband -- and being a loving if not entirely dutiful daughter, she obeyed. But if she was reluctantly willing to surr...

  • Different Dreams

    Tory Cates

    Malou Sanders had always felt most comfortable in the world of animals and chose their company over that of men. So when land developer Cameron Landell threatened to sell the Texas ranch where her troop of Japanese monkeys made their home, Malou deci...

  • A Vision of Love

    Melanie Catley

    He'd stolen her dreams! She knew it the moment she walked into the Key West gallery and saw his paintings. It was uncanny -- as if a perfect stranger had seen into her very soul! But beautiful Christabel Bates had no idea that Jon White -- in spi...

  • The Earl and the Emigree

    Elizabeth Chater

    The Earl of Stone and Hammer has always led a peaceful and undisturbed life. That is until a gorgeous young French woman shows up on the doorstep of his home. She brings news that his brother, who has been missing for years, is dead in the streets of...

  • Devil's Daughter

    Catherine Coulter

    ENSLAVING PASSION His imperious blue eyes raked over her trembling body. She had never imagined that Kamal the savage sultan who dared make her a harem slave, would look so like a blond Nordic god. She had never dreamed that the warm, exploring t...

  • When Midnight Comes

    Edith Delatush

    David Swenson had left without a word. Six months later he was back, expecting Marcy Brown to understand --and give him another chance. How could she trust him again? Yet with just one touch she was his, hating herself for being such easy prey for a ...

  • Practice Makes Perfect

    Kathleen Downes

    When they played racquetball, Pippi sensed Jeremy's controlled power, his lean body graceful as a jungle cat. But when they went for coffee later, the image vanished, replaced by that of her dear best friend. Always there for her each time a roma...

  • Azure Days, Quicksilver Nights

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    In the silvered moonlight Monte Carlo shimmered like a thousand precious gems, and Chrystal Remy stood alone, the glittering essence of the resort's timeless magic. Having bid for and won the services of Damon Dance to appraise her aunt's villa full ...

  • Wings of Gold

    Suzanne Ellison

    SHE WANTED IT ALL -- BUT NOT ALL AT ONCE! The life of an astronaut-surgeon was incredibly demanding, but Dr. Erin Ness thrived on the challenge. And she was absolutely ecstatic when NASA appointed her to a history-making shuttle launch! Only ...

  • Heart of Glass

    Victoria Glenn

    SHE HAD WALKED AWAY FROM A FORTUNE -- AND NOW IT WALKED BACK INTO HER LIFE. Mara Worthington left everything she had grown up with -- humiliation from a domineering father, grief over her dead brother, and the family fortune. Now a strange cl...

  • Wild Sweet Wilderness

    Dorothy Garlock

    NO MAN'S SLAVE! Berry was only eighteen - and a fresh-mouthed kid - when she left the wagon trails to find her father's claim in Missouri. She was happy to be free from her father's tyranny. But now with only her gentle young step mother beside her,...

  • Hold Close the Memory

    Heather Graham

    After twelve painful years Kim Trent finally accepted the truth: Brian was dead. A widow with twin sons, she rejoiced in Keith Norman's love. They agreed to live together, to move toward marriage in steps...until Brian returned from the dead, a ...

  • Call of the Dove

    Madge Harrah

    As a staff designer for a prestigious greeting card firm in Kansas City, Bethany Clark had a keen appreciation for composition and color. Lately, however, her life had been a monochromatic study in gray. And while visiting the observation deck of a c...

  • Diamond in the Rough

    Joan Grove

    Little Miss Fix-It! She'd fallen off a ladder into his arms, dousing his hair with house paint. Now David Morris refused to believe that the petite woman in his arms was official handyperson, competent to paint his new apartment. What began as a ...

  • Legend of the Sun

    Elizabeth Hunter (1)

    LOVE ON LOCATION Lucy had always been fascinated by Egypt. She had taken her degree in Egyptology and was qualified as an art historian and professor, but she preferred working in the field. When given the chance to front a series for television o...

  • A Perfect Likeness

    Sandra Heath

    THE CRUELEST OF CHOICES The handsome, elegant, and wealthy Sir Sebastian Sheringham had seen only a miniature portrait of Bryony St. Charles when he selected her to be his bride. It was clear to her that this man who had everything he wanted, inc...

  • Windsong

    Linda Herring

    Robert was Never Coming Back... How Could She Endure Life Without Robert? And Where was God When She Needed Him Most? Somewhere there had to be answers to the agonizing questions that plagued Beth Martin. The aching void in her heart could not be sat...

  • Someone Waiting

    Joan Hohl

    THE SUBJECT WAS MARRIAGE. Stacy Ernshaw went to Montana too interview a "professional housewife," Sandi Case, for Women First magazine. A few days with the Case family proved to Stacy that true love can create a perfect marriage. But a perfe...

  • The Moongate Wish

    Nancy John

    Make a wish as you step through the Moongate, then wait for it to come true. So went the legend on Bermuda. Erika Talbot was managing The Moongate Hotel, but a woman as career oriented as she was had no business listening to legends and making wis...

  • Love's Advocate

    Jean Kent

    Invited as a guest speaker at the local college, criminal lawyer Joel Stires seemed more than happy to find himself imprisoned in Ingrid's elegant backwoods home for the weekend. From the first touch of his lips on hers, she felt her resistance melt....

  • The Forever Dream

    Iris Johansen

    HE PROMISES NOTHING LESS THAN LOVE WITHOUT END Exquisite, radiant Tania Orlinov -- incomparable prima ballerina, renowned Soviet defector, she expresses the dreams of love only dance can reveal...but seeks none of them for herself. Brilliant, ...

  • Crossroads

    Jenna Lee Joyce

    He was a man of many faces Chandra Collins knew precisely what was underneath the conservative business suit Lincoln Young wore on the day they were introduced. After all, she'd spied this mild-mannered accountant racing across her property on...

  • The Waiting Game

    Jayne Ann Krentz

    The answer was crystal clear... Sara Frazer had no choice. She had to break into Adrian Saville's house to look for clues to the whereabouts of her Uncle Lowell. And once she was inside, she couldn't help doing some additional snooping around - just...

  • Beloved Stranger

    Phyllis G. Leonard

    DRAWN TO EACH OTHER BY SILKEN THREADS OF DESTINY. BOUND BY BURNING DESIRE... SHE WAS HIS IN A MOMENT OF MADNESS... Shameless in the embrace of the extraordinary stranger sent by fate to claim her on the burning shores of the Yucatan, Belle Bra...

  • The Blue Sea of August

    Thea Lovan

    SWEPT AWAY... Alixandra Forbes expected the summer to be smooth sailing when she took the job as captain of a chartered boat for rich and handsome Simon Grant. But Simons artist's eye was instantly intrigued with her innocent beauty, and he became d...

  • The Crystal Unicorn

    Doreen Owens Malek

    WILD IRISHMAN Hope Sellars had traveled to Ireland on business, never expecting to meet a man like Aidan Quinn. A glass craftsman at the crystal works Hope's company sought to acquire, he was outspokenly opposed to the American takeover. From t...

  • Midnight Lavender

    Patricia Matthews; Clayton

    The Nordic Star set sail for the Mediterranean with a group of passengers hell-bent on frolic. But for assistant cruise director Cassandra Kanaris, the glamorous job was her ticket to Greece, where she hoped to find the father she'd never know: a dea...

  • Red Tail

    Lindsay McKenna

    TAILSPIN She'd known the job was hazardous, but the Coast Guard Search and Rescue helicopter pilot Lieutenant Storm Travis learned its true toll when she lost her husband. Suddenly, love seemed an impossible dream. Then Lieutenant Bram Gallaghe...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The McGuffin

    John Bowen

    A chance scene viewed through the rear window of his South Kensington flat, an incident that reminds him of a Hitchcock movie, involves film reviewer Paul Hatcher in a mystery that puts his life in desperate peril...

  • Audition for Murder

    P.M. Carlson

    To escape New York City's public pressures and diminish Lisette's need for alcohol and drugs, actor Nick O'Connor and his beautiful wife accept roles in a university production of Hamlet, but someone in the cast wants Lisette dead...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Blue Room

    Georges Simenon

    ā€A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.ā€¯ -- John Le CarrĆ©Master novelist Georges Simenonā€™s critically acclaimed tale of the destructive power of lust and guiltā€He felt no resentment towards Andree...

  • 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...

  • Over on the Dry Side

    Louis L'Amour

    LONG-RIDIN' MAN Chantry came home to a murdered brother and a couple of squatters. Then the Mowatt gang moved in. They were looking for his brother's buried treasure. Chantry was going to lead them to it. Or else....

  • The Secret Country

    Pamela Dean

    THE SECRET COUNTRY was full of wizards, witches, unicorns, a magic ring, the Dragon King... But then the Secret Country became real--the magic was real, the intrigue was real, the sharp edge of a sword drew real blood. The game was getting out of...

  • Ishmael

    Barbara Hambly

    The Enterprise is on a peaceful mission at Starbase 12 when a bizarre cosmic phenomenon causes a Klingon ship to suddenly vanish--with Spock aboard for the ride. Spock's last message from the Klingon ship is cryptic and frightening. The Klingons are ...

  • Trial by Fire

    Richard Austin

    AMERICA'S FUTURE IS IN THEIR HANDS Out of the ashes comes Americas fighting best. The Guardians, an elite four-man survival team trained to hair-trigger tautness, have been entrusted with freedoms last hope: the top-secret Blueprint for Renewal. ...

  • Castle of Doves

    Constance Heaven

    In 1833, after the death of her dear father and her mother's hasty re-marriage, Charlotte accepts her cousin Clive's invitation to come to Spain with him as his wife's companion. During the trip, Charlotte falls in love with the mysterious Don Lorenz...

  • 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...

  • Pearlhanger

    Jonathan Gash

    Agreeing to find Donna Vernon's missing antiques dealer husband only because he's broke, Lovejoy, an expert divvie, finds himself in the way of numerous antique bargains until Sidney Vernon is found murdered and Lovejoy is the police's prime suspect...

  • 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...

  • The Missing Bishop

    Ross H. Spencer

  • High Adventure

    Donald E. Westlake

    One manā€™s quest to make history -- and a lot of money: ā€High entertainmentā€¯ from the three-time Edgar Awardā€"winning Grand Master of Mystery (Elmore Leonard).   Kirby Galway may be a low-level marijuana smuggler in Belize, but the man has...

  • The Abandoned Bride

    Edith Layton

    JILTED BEAUTY! Strikingly beautiful young Julia Hastings had been an inexperienced innocent when handsome, high-born Robin Marlowe induced her to elope with him--only to abandon her without a word of explanation on their wedding night. Julia w...

  • High Voltage

    Lori Copeland

    Had she gone mad? Laurel Henderson hadn't expected the burden of inheriting her father's farm to fall squarely on her shoulders. And if Sheriff Clay Kerwin couldn't catch the culprits who were sabotaging her best efforts, her hopes of selling it were...

  • Laughter in the Rain

    Debbie Macomber

    Abby Carpenter longed for the type of romance she had read about in books. She loved Logan, but thought a little spice in her life might prove interesting. Then she met Tate Harding, the handsome stranger who had been watching her in the park. He ...

  • Here Come the Boys

    Emily Chase

    They're letting boys into Canby Hall! Dana, Faith, and Shelley are in for a shock. Canby Hall has gone co-ed! Only three boys arrive, but who would have thought they could turn a girls' school upside down? Having boys on campus brings new fun, new...

  • James Bond in Win, Place or Die

    R.L. Stine

  • 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...

  • Change of Hearts

    Linda A. Cooney

    What do you get when you fall in love? Four couples: They met and fell in love. Some would stay together, some would break apart. But none of them would ever forget ... ...

  • Children of Morrow

    H.M. Hoover

  • This Time of Darkness

    H.M. Hoover

  • A Shock to the System

    Simon Brett

    An ambitious executive is motivated by malice and murder in this darkly comic Edgar Awardā€"nominated thriller by the author of the Charles Paris mysteries.   Graham Marshall is a respectable husband and father and dedicated London businessman. ...

  • A Parish of Rich Women

    James Buchan

  • If Mice Could Fly

    John Cameron

  • Less Than Zero

    Bret Easton Ellis

    Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age, in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too muc...

  • The Three Passions of Countess Natalya

    Alan Fisher

  • Rainy Day Man

    Rita Garitano

  • The Crimson Wind

    Max Hennessy

    Newspaperman Harley Marquis is sent to cover the impending revolution in Mexico in 1911, falls in love with the unpredictable Angelica Ojarra, and is swept up in the turmoil following the overthrow of Profirio Diaz...

  • The International Garage Sale

    Stefan Kanfer

    Network correspondent Alec Lessing is assigned to cover the World Body, located in two buildings on Manhattan's East Side, where delegates from every nation vie to one-up each other and betrayal takes the form of a villianous plot...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Departure

    Janet Stevenson

  • Runaway

    Clarissa Watson

  • Norby and the Lost Princess

    Isaac Asimov

  • Hannie Richards, Or, The Intrepid Adventures of a Restless Wife

    Hilary Bailey

    The world-wide smuggling activities of Englishwoman Hannie Richards come into conflict, eventually, with her life in Devon with her gentleman-farmer husband and two children, and she begins an exciting new career...

  • Love Always

    Ann Beattie

    From an award-winning, national bestselling author comes a "ferociously funnyā€¯ novel (The Los Angeles Times) about an advice columnist in Vermont whose life is about to be turned upside down. Lucy Spenser, the Miss Lonelyhearts of a chic count...

  • Letters from the Dead

    Campbell Black

    It was a dream vacation for two single mothers and their teenagers, awkward Tommy and lovely, gentle Lindy. Miles away from anyone, alone in a long-deserted house, with only the restless waves, the swirling sands, the winds that whispered in the nigh...

  • The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman

    Raymond Briggs

    BANG! BANG! BANG! went the guns of the Tin-Pot Foreign GeneralBANG! BANG! BANG! went the guns of the Old Iron WomanRaymond Briggs's visceral take on the Falklands War is uncompromising in its dark and moving satire of the build-up and aftermath of th...

  • The Alphabet of Grace

    Frederick Buechner

    With characteristic eloquence and insight, Buechner presents a three-part series of reflections that probe, through the course of one day, the innermost mysteries of life. Blending an artist's eye for natureal beauty, the true meaning of human encoun...

  • Convictions

    Taffy Cannon

    Two young women of aristocratic southern families establish a friendship that continues through their radicalized college years to the tempestuous years that follow and embroils them in the upheavals of the 1960s...

  • Catcher with a Glass Arm

    Matt Christopher

    A young baseball player struggles to overcome his fear of a pitched ball, improve his throwing, and somehow redeem himself in the eyes of his teammates....

  • The Marburg Chronicles

    Alfred Coppel

  • See What I Am

    Roger Antoine Duvoisin

  • On Sunday the Wind Came

    Alan C. Elliott

  • The Blue Star

    Robert Ferro

    Incandescent angels of love ... an eclectic voyage.Two heroes, reflective Peter and Byronic Chase, indulge their youthful appetites in Florence. Over the next 20 years their paths diverge and reconverge. Chase marries into the Italian aristocracy and...

  • Trauma

    John J. Fried

  • Surrender Mountain

    Joan Gimbel

  • Heat

    William Goldman

    Las Vegas security officer Nick Escalante, an ex-Marine, chances on to a bizarre kidnapping threat and is plunged into a nightmare world of false identities, vicious grievances, and gruesome encounters...

  • Monkey Puzzle

    Paula Gosling

    CLASS DISMISSED ON ACCOUNT OF MURDER.... Professor Aiken Adamson was not well liked. In fact, somebody disliked him enough to ensure that his malicious, nasty tongue never wagged again. When his corpse was found, his tongue was nowhere in sight. ...

  • Had I a Hundred Mouths: New and Selected Stories 1947-1983

    William Goyen

    Goyen's final collection of stories, putting together selections from his long career as well as some of his newer works. Published in tandem with a new novel after about a decade of publishing silence. The title story won an O.Henry Prize....