Books Published in May 1987

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New Books List: 401 titles

  • Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

    Douglas Adams

    There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time-traveller, AND... the devastating secret of humankind! DETECTIVE GENTLY'S BILL FOR SAVING HUMAN RACE FR...

  • Barbed Wire Noose

    Harold Adams

  • When Rich Men Die

    Harold Adams

  • In Hot Pursuit

    Pepper Adams

    DO BLONDES HAVE MORE FUN? Fair-haired Maggie Ryan had always lived quietly and sedately. So how did she ever get pegged as a suspect in a counterfeiting operation? Suddenly Maggie was experiencing a drama of her own. J.P. Tucker, the agent se...

  • Fourth Floor Twins and the Skyscraper Parade

    David A. Adler

  • Bunny Rabbit Rebus

    David A. Adler

    After hungry Little Rabbit eats all the food in the house, Mother Rabbit trades favors to friends for lettuce and carrots. Pictures are substituted for words or parts of words in a rebus version of the story....

  • Overlord

    Jerry Ahern

    It's a perilous world after the fiery apocalypse of World War III, and John Thomas Rourker--ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons specialist, and survival expert--pursues his arch-enemy Vladmir Karamatsov into the strife-torn, blackened wildernes...

  • Noble Ambition

    Elizabeth Albright

    He thought the worst of her -- until she decided to get the best of him! YANKEE SPIRIT Lord Carlton was quite simply the most arrogant man Susan Phillips had ever encountered. As a young American visiting her aunt and uncle in London, she was n...

  • My Brother Tom

    James Aldridge

  • Speak Softly

    Lauren Alexander

  • The El Dorado Adventure

    Lloyd Alexander

    Vesper Holly is surprised as her guardian, Brinnie, when she receives a mysterious summons to Central America signed by Alain de Rochefort. Vesper sets sail at once to find de Rochefort and explore the land that she has inherited. On her arrival she ...

  • Illusions

    Charlotte Vale Allen

    When Stanleigh Dunn, an award-winning author of children's books notable for her complexly intricate illustrations, meets Daniel Goddard on a flight to London, they are each (although unknown to the other) in the grip of a terrible loss. Their chance...

  • Nosey Mrs. Rat

    Jeffrey Allen

  • Torture Tomb

    C. Dean Andersson

    THE NIGHTMARE - For young artist Gina and her lover Jim, it began with a terrifying vision of Gina's long-missing sister, once thought dead, now a prisoner of a horror beyond imagining. THE SEARCH - Their last hope -- a circle of witches who c...

  • Graveyard of the Angels

    Reinaldo Arenas

  • Cuzcatlan Where the Southern Sea Beats

    Manlio Argueta

  • When the Night Grows Cold

    Lindsay Armstrong

    His timing was almost perfect Kate Wiley hated to admit it, but singlehandedly managing the large Australian ranch was too much for her. That's when Grevil Robertson appeared on her doorstep with his offer of help. Kate soon learned his int...

  • Lost Time

    Catherine Arnold

  • The Reluctant Rake

    Jane Ashford

    A SCANDALOUS SURPRISE Miss Julia Devere was the most innocent and sheltered of young beauties. Her doting parents had succeeded in shielding her from exposure to the sordid facts of life in society, and now both they and she were delighted with he...

  • The Legend

    Hugh Atkinson

  • Skinny Island

    Louis Auchincloss

    Twelve stories contemplating destiny and detailing the life of Manhattan’s upper class over the course of one hundred years, from the author of Honorable Men.It’s only twelve miles long and two miles wide, but it has more money for its area, more...

  • Final Cut

    Steven Bach

    Combining wit, insightful anecdotes, and historical perspective, the executive producer of "Heaven's Gate" offers an inside look at the making of the thirty-six-million-dollar disaster and its impact on modern moviemaking...

  • Reckless Love

    Madeline Baker

    Two men claimed her -- only one could tame her reckless heart... JOSHUA BERDEEN was the cavalry soldier who had traveled the country in search of the lovely Hannah Kincaid. Josh offered her a life of ease in New York City, and all the finer thin...

  • Captured by a Cowboy

    Becky Barker

    Was it impulse, instinct, or intuition that made Raquel surrender to a total stranger? By morning she was no longer a waitress at a Chicago truck stop but a woman on her way to an isolated Wyoming ranch with Holt Tyler, the man who knew all her secre...

  • The Bandini Affair

    Milton R. Bass

    BLOOD MONEY Somebody wanted to bleed Benny Freedman white with fear. Enough fear to give the Mob back the money that he had inherited and that they figured was theirs. They started with a bullet through Benny's arm. Then they aimed lower -- at a far ...

  • Love Child

    Jean Bedford

  • Crabbe's Journey

    William Bell

    Feeling misunderstood at home and at school, Crabbe, a wealthy Canadian teenager, runs off to live in the woods where he meets a mysterious woman who teaches him about outdoor survival and taking responsibility for one's life....

  • The Stone and the Flute

    Hans Bemmann

    Setting out on a journey with a rare and magical stone, Listener searches for his grandfather, the legendary Gentle Fluter, from whom he will inherit a magical instrument and for the woman whose eyes match the colors of the stone...

  • The Ai War

    Stephen Ames Berry

  • American Book of the Dead

    Stephen Billas

  • Texas Lily

    Stephanie Blake

    Only a lover's tender touch could free her desires... With a deed in her hand and passion in her heart, beautiful Lillian Dewar came to the raw Texas frontier to stake her claim in the American dream. There, she would forge her destiny...building ...

  • Martin's Hats

    Joan W. Blos

  • Wanted Woman

    Parris Afton Bonds

    SECRET LOVE... As an undercover agent for the Macedonian government, Lady Phillipa Fleming had to pose as Giles Hayes-David's sister, which didn't give either one of them the chance to express their growing feelings for each other. And Phillipa...

  • The Sisters

    Pat Booth

    "With...THE SISTERS--a seething nest of sex and jealousy between an actress and her sibling, a novelist--Pat Booth will have secured her position on the front line of pop-erotica writing."
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    In the sleek and driven world of Los Angeles--where ...

  • Crooked Hearts

    Robert Boswell

    After Tom, the most likely Warren to break the family cycle of self destruction, drops out of Berkeley, he finds that he and Ask--the two tormented middle-children--together form the eye of the Warren hurricane...

  • Feral Cell

    Richard Bowes

  • Maid of Buttermere

    Melvyn Bragg

    Melvyn Bragg's highly-acclaimed bestselling historical novel, the story behind one of the 19th century's greatest scandals. Set in the Lake District in the early 19th century, the riveting story of an imposter, bigamist and fortune hunter who came t...

  • These Golden Days

    John Braine

  • Surprising Myself

    Christopher Bram

    Seventeen-year-old Joel can''t be gay if he''s straight

    After four years of living with relatives in Switzerland, 17-year-old Joel Scherzenlieb finds himself in the United States for the summer, working at a Boy Scout camp. There, he meets ...

  • Kingdom of Horror

    J.H. Brennan

  • Table Money

    Jimmy Breslin

    Returned to his Queens home in 1970 after winning a Congressional Medal of Honor in Vietnam, Owney Morrison works at digging tunnels during the day and escapes with drink at night--from everything, including his wife Dolores and their child...

  • Drop Zone Sicily

    William B. Brewer

  • Klitches Four

    Marc Brown

  • Chasing Rainbows

    Carole Buck

    Feisty Paralegal Laura Dawn Newton is furious when she learns her mother's been arrested--for disturbing the peace--and the man who hails her out is none other than Kenyon C. Sutton, a perfectly gorgeous do-gooder lawyer from an old-money Boston elan...

  • The Rogue's Daughter

    Molly Bull

    Had she really stood in front of God and church and minister, and allowed herself to be joined to Seth Matthews for life? Only a few short months after graduation, Rebecca Roberts found herself with both the teaching job she desperately needed an...

  • Dawn

    Octavia E. Butler

    Lilith Iyapo is in the remote Andes, mourning the death of her husband and son, when nuclear war destroys the world. Centuries later, she revives, held captive aboard a starship. Miraculously powerful and hideously grotesque galactic beings, the O...

  • Sugar and Other Stories

    A.S. Byatt

    Collected in a single volume for the first time -- an unforgettable book of short stories from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession that explores the fragile ties between generations, the dizzying abyss of loss, and the elaborate memories we...

  • Come Sunrise

    Beverly Byrne

    The exquisite Amy Norman is only seventeen when her parents are killed--and her life is changed forever. She can never go home again. She must stay in New York with friends of her family, people she has never met... From the moment Amy moves in with...

  • Black Thursday

    Martin Caidin

  • Under the Dog Star

    Joseph Caldwell

    After her husband's death, a mother moves her family onto a farm and hatches a scheme to win back the land she used to own

    An unlikely criminal, Andy Durant is robbing gas stations to buy back land once connected to his wife's farm in upsta...

  • For Love, Only 4 Love

    Pasquale Campanile

    In his fictional account of the life of Jesus's father, Campanile, an Italian novelist, sketches a sentimental portrait of the man and a broad panorama of everyday existence in Roman Palestine. Narrated by the carpenter's Greek companion, the story d...

  • Pros and Cons

    Bethany Campbell

    She couldn't let them get away with murder P. J. Fitzjames, Jr., had a score to settle: four elderly bachelors had swindled her out of four million dollars, and P.J. wanted it back. Enter Eli Holder, king of con men. He had a foolproof pla...

  • Indian Country

    Philip Caputo

    Indian Country is a sweeping, brave and compassionate story from one of our most acclaimed chroniclers of the Vietnam experience.Christian Starkmann follows his boyhood friend, an Ojibwa Indian called Bonny George, from the wilderness of Michigan’s...

  • The Marrying Kind

    Rosalind Carson

    He was unmanageable ... and irresistible Efficiency expert Nora Courtney wasn't about to waste time with some muscle-bound hunk who was just playing around. She wanted a husband, and a father for her son. No matter how charming and sexy, Kerry Rya...

  • Holy War

    Nick Carter

  • The Star Seeker

    Maggi Charles

    Back on Cape Cod to forget her sorry past, Hilary Forsythe scorned the trite prediction that soon she'd meet a "tall, dark and handsome stranger" who would claim her heart forever. But mysterious "Madame Zola" had an inside track on Hilary -- an...

  • Portrait of a Nude Woman as Cleopatra

    Barbara Chase-Riboud

  • Doctors and Women

    Susan Cheever

  • Growin' Pains

    Mary Blount Christian

  • Clark: Collected Short Stories

    Manning Clark

  • Last Seen in London

    Anna Clarke

  • Nine Men Who Laughed

    Austin Clarke

  • The Peralta Country

    Richard Clarke

  • Lady Is the Tiger

    Paul Coggins

  • Intimate Strangers

    Matt Cohen

  • Friends Forever

    William L. Coleman

    Wise, practical advice to help keep friendships alive and rewarding, just the way God intended them

    Friends are too important to take lightly. They need and deserve a generous helping of tender, loving care. Friendships can be absolutely great ...

  • Golden Gates

    Jean Conrad

    Marianna Windemere travels all the way to San Francisco to ensure a simple dream: to live peacefully in Philadelphia with an amiable husband. But her fiance, Harold Van Wooten, is not as eager to return East as Marianna had anticipated. He tells her ...

  • Through the Valley of Love

    Shirley Cook

    "Danielle Fuller, who are you, anyway? A simple, fun-loving research assistant - or a sophisticated and mysterious secret agent?" Dani Fuller longs to tear off her old "preacher's kid" label. She's already moved to San Francisco and taken a job as ...

  • Master

    Louise Cooper

    Chaos stalks the Realm of Order; the fate of a world hangs on one woman's life. In Conclave grave the Lords of Light will summon their God to battle. Adept of Chaos, sworn to the Law, the Master rides to confront his terrible destiny. This is the ...

  • Slow Dancing

    M.E. Cooper

  • Sharpe's Siege

    Bernard Cornwell

    TRAPPED WITH HIS BACK TO THE SEA, MAJOR RICHARD SHARPE AND A HANDFUL OF MEN MUST STAND AGAINST A BATTALION OF FRENCH TROOPS Sharpe's mission seemed simple: capture a small unguarded French coastal fort, cripple Napoleon's supply lines, and retreat...

  • Crickle-Crack

    Stephen Cosgrove

    After countless phone calls and letters from fans, we've brought back these time-honored tales. Sharing life lessons and memorable morals, the Serendipity books are a seasoned favorite with children and parents alike. So, journey to the magical, myst...

  • Buttermilk Bear

    Stephen Cosgrove

  • Memily

    Stephen Cosgrove

  • Misty Morgan

    Stephen Cosgrove

  • Afterglow

    Catherine Coulter

    MATCHMAKER'S VICTIMS . . . What were their friends thinking of? Chelsea Lattimer and David Winter couldn't have been more different. Chelsea was a writer. She lost herself in the past to make up for the inadequacies of the present. David was a doc...

  • Jade Star

    Catherine Coulter

    He raised his head and looked at her in the dim light. I don't know where to kiss you first," he said. "I want all of you at once." Beautiful Juliana DuPres knew she should give herself to Dr. Michael "Saint" Morris body and soul. He was everythin...

  • Scoundrel's Bride

    Catherine Creel

    TAHITIAN TEMPTRESS After months at sea, virile Ryan Gallagher was hungry for a woman. Then he saw raven-haired Hillary Reynolds, and the lusty captain would settle for no less. Her violet eyes promised infinite passion; her creamy skin was flushe...

  • Now Just One Minute!

    George Crenshaw

  • Shadow of Doubt

    Caitlin Cross

    Widow Julia Velasco supposedly had it all: diamonds, furs ... baby Tonio. And everything in her gilded cage was hers to keep -- except her son. Frantic to escape her "generous" in-laws, covering her tracks with careful lies, she kidnapped Ton...

  • One to Count Cadence

    James Crumley

    The time: late summer, 1962. The place: Clark Air Force Base, the Philippines. Sergeant Jacob “Slag” Krummel, a scholar by intent but a warrior by breeding, assumes command of the 721st Communication Security Detachment, and unsoldierly crew of b...

  • The Crazy Horse Electric Game

    Chris Crutcher

    Willie Weaver used to be a hero. Now he's nothing.Willie is a top athlete, the star of the legendary game against Crazy Horse Electric. Then a freak accident robs him of his once-amazing physical talents.Betrayed by his family, his girlfriend, and hi...

  • Our War and How Won It

    E.J. Cullen

  • F-Cubed

    Daniel Da Cruz

  • Dangerous Hideaway

    Kit Daley

    Christmas in Austria--the dream of a lifetime! Anna Stanfield had won the trip from a radio DJ's call-in contest. She had to go. Still, it was lonely so far from her young son. But soon Anna was a guest at Mark Prince's elegant chateau. Or was she a ...

  • Gunsmoke Gorge

    Kit Dalton

    When a ruthless gang of Eastern carpetbaggers sets out to seize control of large parcels of Western lands, Lee Morgan joins forces with legendary gunfighter Tom Horn to stop the schemers and their hired guns. Reprint....

  • Conspiracy of Hearts

    Pat Dalton

    Her mother thinks she's in Hawaii. Her employer's sure she's home for a family emergency. But the truth is Lisa Rollins is on the run--with a handsome spy--from a man with a gun and a false badge. He says his real name's Eric Trevor, but how can Lisa...

  • Thumbelina

    Margaret Davidson

  • Nijinsky Is Dead

    Kenn Davis

    Private detective Carver Bascombe is hired by San Francisco ballet star Joel Burck, who is convinced someone is out to kill him, and stumbles into a bizarre web of jealousy, international intrigue, and murder...

  • Yearbook

    Melissa Davis

    Most Unlikely to Succeed Heather, Ashley, Terry, Blaze. Their guidance counselor has come up with the worst punishment she can think of for their "failings." The four of them have to assign the tag lines underneath every senior's class picture, whic...

  • The Tiger's Woman

    Celeste De Blasis

    SHE COULD FLEE HER PAST, BUT NOT ESCAPE IT! She called herself Mary Smith and hid her extraordinary beauty behind widow's weeds. She came to San Francisco in flight from a secret so shattering, a man so dangerous, that no disguise could long shiel...

  • Twilight Whispers

    Barbara Delinsky

    TO GIVE MY LOVE TO YOU... Katia Morell never looked at Jordan Whyte without wanting him. From the time she was a child, his laughter stirred her heart, his touch heated her blood. She had never stopped dreaming of him in all the years since she ha...

  • Jungle Gold

    Sandy Dengler

    For three years, he kept to himself the knowledge about the gold. Now is was time to seek, to find, and then to get outof the jungle and settle down. But thwarting his well laid plans for retirement were a number of adverseries...

  • Luisa Domic

    George Dennison

    Luisa Domic, a Chilean pianist whose husband and children were killed in the 1977 purges; Harold Ashby, a famous composer; and Marshall Berringer, a political writer, visit a poet and his family living on a Maine farm...

  • The Forbidden City

    Joe Dever

    YOU ARE THE WIZARD GREY STAR ON A JOURNEY TO THE FORBIDDEN CITY...A LAND OF MAGIC, MADNESS...AND MENACE! You are being pursued by the evil Wytch-king's obedient minions--the fierce warriors of Shadaki, the terrible phantom spirit known as Deathgau...

  • And So to Murder

    Carter Dickson

  • Spacial Delivery

    Gordon R. Dickson

  • Three's a Crowd

    Doris Miles Disney

    Whenever spoiled, wealthy Julie Graham gets into trouble, she goes back to the family homestead until her own world steadies on its axis. But this last time she discovers that ‘you can’t go home again.’ Her emotionally straight-laced sister, Al...

  • Soothsayer

    Margaret Dobson

    SHE'S A SLEUTH BY DAY ...A TEMPTRESS BY NIGHT. Jane Bailey didn't need a crystal ball to tell her that Phillip Decker wasn't a passing fancy. She was falling in love with the guy! That's why she agreed--for a modest fee--to help him find Howard Sp...

  • Country of the Heart

    Robyn Donald

    "See what you've got me into--" Finley wished she'd never set eyes on the woeful stray spaniel that led her into Blake Caird's realm. For although she was bound to recover from the pneumonia that had prompted her vacation, she'd never get over a m...

  • A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

    Michael Dorris

    Starting in the present and moving backward in time, this is the thrice-told tale of the three women...15-year-old part-black Rayona, searching for a way to find herself...her American Indian mother, Christine, consumed by both tenderness and resentm...

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection

    Gardner Dozois

  • Black Ice

    Colin Dunne

  • Lou Dunlop: Private Eye

    Glen Ebisch

    When a student in Lou Dunlop's high school English class disappears, Lou begins to wonder what happened to her. Urged on and assisted by Jessie Phillips, the missing girl's attractive and and exasperating best friend, he quickly discovers that this w...

  • Under the Stars and Bars

    J.T. Edson

    Young Confederate captain Dusty Fog of the Texas Light Cavalry's Company "C" is confronted by a vicious band of Rebel misfits, a union scout who saves his life, and a fanatical Yankee determined to kill him...

  • Lone Star and the Death Train

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki ride a runaway train into a conspiracy of bitter vengeance!A savage gang of shotgun-wielding outlaws are out to bust the Central Pacific Railroad. But when a string of clever robberies doesn't halt the trains, the bandits turn to sabota...

  • Rooms of Their Own

    Jennifer Ellison

  • Pinecones and Orchids

    Suzanne Ellison

    THEY COULD NEVER BE MORE THAN FRIENDS Safety Inspector Ted Ballard was Robbin Walker's best buddy and a godsend to her kids. He'd helped them all survive the trauma of divorce, just as Robbin had helped him and his kids get over the loss o...

  • The Cavalier

    Leonard J. Eon

  • Does Your Nose Get In The Way, Too?

    Arlene Erlbach

    SO YOU THINK YOU'VE GOT PROBLEMS I am a victim of heredity, to say nothing of circumstances. To some kids at Highland High School, a nose that resembles a pear is not such a disaster. One little nose job. But would my dad every agree to that? He'd s...

  • Lady of Hay

    Barbara Erskine

    Jo Clifford is a confirmed skeptic. A hard-hitting journalist, she is all set to debunk hynosis and the nonsense of past-life regression in her next magazine series... until she submits to a simple hypnotic session and finds herself inextricably boun...

  • Longarm and the Cottonwood Curse

    Tabor Evans

    WELCOME TO COTTONWOOD, TEXAS Cottonwood used to be a nice place to live. Now it's a powder keg on a short fuse. People are dying and nobody knows.why. The settlers are blaming the Indians and the Indians are pointing blame at the settlers. Some ar...

  • Daughter of the Empire

    Raymond E. Feist; Janny Wurts

    Magic and murder engulf the realm of Kelewan. Fierce warlords ignite a bitter blood feud to enslave the empire of Tsuranuanni. While in the opulent Imperial courts, assassins and spymasters plot cunning and devious intrigues against the rightful heir...

  • Giant

    Edna Ferber

    The basis for the classic film starring James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rock Hudson, Giant is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber's sweeping generational tale of power, love, cattle barons, and oil tycoons, set in Texas during the first ...

  • High Rider

    Olivia Ferrell

    LIFE WASN'T A JOKE... to a rodeo clown. Rama Daniels knew that from experience. Called upon to risk her life to save rodeo riders, Rama worked the circuit year after year until an accident ended her career. Then Bare Lawson rode roughshod i...

  • A Place to Belong

    Christine Flynn

    PHYSICAL THERAPY As professional as she was beautiful, sports therapist Rachel Summers was determined to view hockey star Eric Johnston as just another client. Truly as enigmatic as his "ladies' man" reputation boasted, Rachel agreed t...

  • Deluge Drivers

    Alan Dean Foster

    A crew of castaways races to uncover what’s heating up an icy planet, in this science fiction adventure by the #1 New York Times"bestselling author. Seemingly marooned on the freezing cold planet of Tran-ky-ky, Ethan Frome Fortune doesn’t know ...

  • Trembling Hills

    Norman A. Fox

  • The Right Kind Of Girl

    Dorothy Brenner Francis / Dorothy Francis

    Would Vonnie ever get it together ? Vonnie was just beginning to feel at home in Houston. She was doing well in school, had made new friends and was even getting to be known as a leader. Things had settled down after the unfortunate shoplifting epis...

  • Double Play

    Lance Franklin

    Baseball coach Dan Cronin steps in to help one of his players, Tom Keenan, who is feeling torn between his responsible position as first baseman and his job as guitarist and songwriter for a rock band...

  • The Mystery of Angelina Frood

    R. Austin Freeman

    A beautiful young woman is in shock. She calls John Strangeways, a medical lawyer who must piece together the strange disparate facts of her case and in turn, becomes fearful for his life. Only Dr Thorndyke, a master of detection, may be able to solv...

  • The Choice of Eddie Franks

    Brian Freemantle

  • God's Children

    Stephen F. Freind

    Kevin Murray, Monsignor Patrick Aloysious Carney, and Vincent Grosso are three powerful men who are bound by ancient beliefs, a lifelong friendship, and a secret that could destroy them and the women they love...

  • Ussa

    James N. Frey

  • Gyo Fuji Orig Mother

    Gyo Fujikawa

  • No Deals, Mr. Bond

    John E. Gardner

    Two female agents of Operation Cream Cake - double agents and honey traps against the KGB - are murdered. Bond must find the others and conduct them to safety before they meet a similar fate. In a race against time, Bond travels to Ireland and the KG...

  • Ecstasy's Bride

    Rene J. Garrod

    FURY'S FIRE Elizabeth Dickerson had never been so angry in her life! Seth Branting had promised to marry her -- she had it in writing. And now the handsome Wyoming rancher not only denied he proposed he insisted all the letters she'd recei...

  • Journey to the Center of the Atom!

    Carol Gaskin

  • Marry Me Tomorrow

    Joan Merrill Gerber

  • Ellen Foster

    Kaye Gibbons

    "When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy." So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kay Gibbons's first novel, which ...

  • Outward and Visible Signs

    Julia Marion Gibert

  • Front Page Exclusive

    Barbara Girion

  • Prescription for Success

    Barbara Girion

  • A Death for a Doctor

    Leo Giroux Jr.

    After the Foster family is murdered, barrister Robert Forsythe's secretary, posing as a Foster relative, discovers that almost everyone in the village had a motive for murder and that she could be next...

  • Teot's War

    Heather Gladney

  • Velvet Night

    Jo Goodman

    HE BETRAYED HER FATHER Ever since she was a girl, flame-haired Kenna Dunne had hated handsome Rhys Canning for lying about killing her father. Now, even though she hadn't seen him since the war ended, the vengeance seeking beauty swore to make t...

  • A Pearl Beyond Price

    Lucy Gordon

    A TRUSTING HEART Lynette Hallam despised Italian men. Her brief marriage to one had been a fraud. She could never forget the pain and guilt she felt after learning that her "husband" had another wife. But she found herself wanting to make an excep...

  • Once upon a Kiss

    Eileen Goudge

  • The River Bank

    Kenneth Grahame

  • Shadows 8

    Charles L. Grant

  • Voyage of the Nightingale

    Billie Green

    The South Pacific should have meant warm sand and a soothing sea -- period. But Rachel McNaught's search for her half brother took her to all kinds of places -- and into all kinds of trouble. Sabotage, tropical poisons, near-marriage to an isl...

  • The Rebel Prince

    Sharon Green

  • Dear Reader

    Jennifer Greene

    TEACHER'S PET Leslie Stuart was renowned or her success with dyslexic students -- so why did the government need her in an isolated cabin in the Tetons? When her pupil turned out to be Sam Pierce, the pieces fit. She had three weeks to teach t...

  • Still Waters

    Leslie Davis Guccione

    BITTERSWEET LOVE Sky was coming home. After years of shuttling between seasonal family homes, she decided the small town of Millbrook was where she belonged. Schuyler House was hers, and she planned to make it the historical showpiece it had once ...

  • And I Heard a Bird Sing

    Rosa Guy

    Eighteen-year-old Imamu's newly-found contentment, with his job and the apartment he shares with his frail mother, is shattered when he is inadvertently drawn into the sinister events taking place in a wealthy household where he has been delivering g...

  • Hero at Large

    Steffie Hall

    He cooks a pot holder in the spaghetti sauce and needs lessons on making Jell-O. Still, petite skating coach Chris Nelson's committed to keeping her sexy, scruffy, new "house husband" around. After all, she did break his arm...and his t...

  • What Comes Naturally

    Gail Hamilton

    WHAT WAS SHE TO DO? Finding herself on a canoe trip in northern Ontario without mousse, blow-dryer or makeup was down-right embarrassing for Elizabeth Wright, renowned creator of a well-known brand of organic cosmetics. The worst part was havin...

  • In the Name of Love

    Paula Hamilton

    From protest marches to wildlife photography, Samantha Graham had tried everything, triumphed at nothing. Dreaming of adventure and accomplishment, she now planned to join the CIA -- no matter what happened. What happened was murder. Suddenly Sam ...

  • I Remember Valentine

    Liz Hamlin

    Unable to fully comprehend the complexities of adult life in Marietta, Ohio, during the Great Drepression, the narrator and Valentine, two twelve-year-old girls, inadvertently precipitate a violent conclusion to a smouldering scene of betrayal...

  • The Mists of Milwood

    Monique Hara

    The Milwood Hotel It rose like a pale castle in the moonlight against a backdrop of bluffs and drifting steam. Owned by the powerful Hampton family, it had once been a fashionable resort where the wealthy came to 'take the waters.' Now it presided...

  • Cloud Of Doves

    Palma Harcourt

  • Thunder Mountain Massacre

    J.D. Hardin

  • Starring Susy

    Janice Harrell

    Who’s that guy ? His name was Paul Weiser. He was new in town and he was gorgeous! Dark hair, lots of muscles and a sexy scowl. To Sara, he was the embodiment of all her romantic daydreams. Sara had never had a boyfriend, just a best buddy, Sco...

  • The Cromwell File

    William Harrington

    Terrorist attacks on the art treasures of the Western world, carried out by a single individual dubbed "Oliver Cromwell," lead up to a final assault aimed at Notre Dame de Paris and the dignitaries assembled for a memorial service for British agents ...

  • Glowstone

    MacDonald Harris

  • Nothing Happened

    Ebba Haslund

  • Grand Opening

    Jon Hassler

    Twelve-year old Brendan tells the story, set in 1944-45, that begins with his parents' decision to buy a run-down grocery store in a tiny Minnesota town. What they discover about small town idealism, bigotry, and good old American values will change ...

  • Don't Cry, Little Girl

    Beverly Hastings

    Jenna Vreers, a lovely young divorcee, moves to New York City to build a new life for herself and her four-year-old daughter, Kris, only to find that her child has become the target of a ruthless, relentless psychopath...

  • The Kit Carson Scout

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