Books Published in May 1990

New Books List: 529 titles

  • Follow Me!

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Penny Goes to the Movies

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Stitches

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Tim and Jim Take Off

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Under the Water

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Frost and Fire

    Roger Zelazny

    Frost and Fire is a triumph of style and vision. The collection opens with “Permafrost” which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards and the final story in the collection is “24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai” which won Zelazny the Hugo Award and...

  • Seconds

    Lois Wyse

    Written by the author of The Rosemary Touch, this is the story of three young women, second wives to rich, older men. They were at camp as teenagers when something shocking happened, and are now blackmailed by the camp director who threatens to revea...

  • Stolen Moments

    Sherryl Woods

    PAST IMPERFECT--PRESENT TENSE! The antiques have several things in common: they're priceless; they're southern...and they're gone with the wind. While reporter Amanda Roberts is doing an article on old Georgia homes, valuable heirlooms are disappear...

  • Tea and Destiny

    Sherryl Woods

    The credo at Ann Davies's house was always "room for one more." But that meant safe, simple kids and kittens, not full-grown men with muscles and mustaches! Tea and sympathy soothed feverish little brows, but brawny, bearded Hank Riley generated heat...

  • Terraplane

    Jack Womack

    Terraplane, the second in Jack Womack''s acclaimed Ambient series, is a vision of alternate reality -- New York in 1939, as experienced by travelers from the twenty-first century. Retired general-turned-corporate-spy Luther Biggerstaff and his hit ma...

  • I for Isobel

    Amy Witting

    Winner of the Barbara Ramsden Prize, 1990. This was life: no sooner had you built yourself your little raft and felt secure than it came to pieces under you and you were swimming again. Born into a world without welcome, Isobel observes it as warily ...

  • Masks of the Illuminati

    Robert Anton Wilson

    This American underground classic is a rollicking cosmic mystery featuring Albert Einstein and James Joyce as the ultimate space/time detectives. One fateful evening in a suitably dark, beer-soaked Swiss rathskeller, a wild and obscure Irishman ...

  • Stormy Surrender

    Patricia Wilson

    "Love is mainly imagination," Diego declared But Kathryn Hart already knew that the lordly Diego Alvarez was a man without a heart. After all, he'd come back into her life like a tiger, demanding and arrogant. She hadn't wanted ...

  • Dream Chasers

    Mary Anne Wilson

    THE DREAM NEVER DIES Dream Chasers was Channel Three's highest-rated program, and travel-show host Jill Segar meant to keep it that way. So when the president of San Arman invited her to do a feature on his country, she was determined to go--wheth...

  • Earth Hounds, as Explained by Professor Xargle

    Jeanne Willis

  • Joseph

    Rex Williams

  • Spirit's Willing

    Leigh Anne Williams

    ANGIE WAS SEEING STARS Glitter. Glamour. Fame--and fraud? Collaborating on the "as told to" autobiography of a Hollywood living legend, Angie Sullivan was sipping Chablis with superstars--and fretting about her deadline. Angie's employer was di...

  • Loving Lies

    Ann Williams

    Her guardian angel sparked a devil's desire. NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH Someone was terrorizing Lauren Downing. The thwarted attacks, the threatening phone calls, were driving her to the edge. Funny . . . the only sane, decent thing in her life was ...

  • Quantum Web

    Kirby L. Wilkins

    As Nixon visits China, and India explodes its first nuclear bomb, a Berkeley nuclear physicist, upset with nuclear proliferation, journeys to Nepal to seek peace with himself only to encounter a powerful lama with his own plans for the future...

  • Changing the Rules

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    It wasn't in the rules Elise Webber had it all. Looks, a glamorous job as a TV anchorwoman, a beautiful Atlanta apartment-and the charismatic lawyer, Dustin Chandler. Well, she didn't exactly have Dustin. Dating was all she could expect from a man...

  • Pirates Ahoy!

    Hans Wilhelm

  • The St. Lawrence Run

    Stephen F. Wilcox

    Curiosity and a cryptic letter from the dead man bring crime writer T.S.W. Sheridan to a small town in northern New Yorks Thousand Islands region to look into the murder of a professor from the local college. Soon he encounters a decrepit old seaman ...

  • A Place Called Home

    Lori Wick

    As the dim lights of the train station faded, Christine Bennett wondered if she would ever see home again. With the death of her grandfather, her only living relative, Christine experienced a deep loneliness she'd never felt before. The words o...

  • The Specialist

    Wynne Whiteford

  • Widow's Folly

    Margaret Westhaven

    FREE SPIRIT With beauty, wit and a sizable fortune, Maria, Comtesse de Beaulieu, could have had her pick of suitors, yet preferred not to marry. Rather, the young widow savored the life she led: throwing splendid literary soirees, hatching fabulous ...

  • A Woman's Place

    Nicola West

    Their relationship was to be purely business Jan wasn't interested in romance anyway. Her career was what counted. TV producer Marc Tyrell made it equally clear that he wasn't going to work with a prickly woman. As far as he was concern...

  • Jewel of Promise

    Marian Wells

    Jewel of Promise begins in late 1860 with newly married Olivia and Alex Duncan ending their long anticipated honeymoon amid the rumbles of discontent in the pro-slavery southern states. Alex's honeymoon gift to Olivia, a black onyx and gold filigree...

  • Still Point

    Deborah Weisgal

    A first novel about the passions and rivalries ruling a top New York ballet company. The cast includes Alexander Ives, who dances through the bedrooms of beautiful ballerinas, and Dana Coelho, an up-and-coming gay dancer who plays dangerous games wit...

  • Rivals of Weird Tales

    Robert E. Weinberg

  • Best Behavior

    Jackie Weger

    EVERYONE WANTED WHAT WAS BEST FOR BETHANY... Willa Manning longed to give her beloved adopted daughter the grandparents she dreamed of, but not at the risk of losing her forever. Nicholas Cavenaugh understood Willa's reservations, but he'd prom...

  • Lost Ladies of the Windswept Moor

    Beverly C. Warren

    He was like the moor itself -- unpredictable, moody...and dangerous. “Cheviot Chase? Tis a place to stay away from, miss.” Even though she was only nineteen, and a woman, Janet Clarissa Clarke was determined to prove herself a capable resto...

  • Precious Things

    Lynda Ward

    They lived charmed lives Amanda and Mark Wexler were still madly in love with each other after ten years of marriage. Every day was a celebration of their mutual devotion and the personal success they'd achieved in their Portland-based antiques bu...

  • The Golden Orange

    Joseph Wambaugh

    THE WEST-COAST PLAYGROUNDS OF THE FILTHY RICH... WHERE PASSIONS BLOW AS HOT--AND AS DEADLY--AS THE SANTA ANA WINDS When forty-year-old cop Winnie Farlowe lost his shield, he lost the only protection he had. Ever since, he's been fighting a bad bac...

  • Acting on Impulse

    Susan Jo Wallach

    Savannah Wheeler can hardly believe that she actually succeeded in arranging a 2 week class trip to Stratford-upon-Avon in England! A chance to study Romeo and Juliet-or pursue a romance with incredibly handsome, popular Greg Edwards, the school socc...

  • Rings

    Ruth Walker

  • The Method

    Paul Robert Walker

  • The Hidden House

    Martin Waddell

  • On Fortune's Wheel // The Tale of Birle

    Cynthia Voigt

    There are some who say that the Lady Fortune has a wheel, and all men are fixed upon it. The wheel turns, and the men rise, or fall, with the turning of the wheel. Birle has agreed to be wed to the huntsman Muir an escape from the drudgery of Lath...

  • Maximillian's Garden

    Nina Vida

    During a trip to Mexico in search of their heritage, Dolores, a Los Angeles judge, and her sister are kidnapped by revolutionaries led by Chaya Dedano, a Mexican film star, and swept back in time into Mexico's rich historical past...

  • A New Life

    Martha Vanceburg


    A New Life is a celebration of the miracle of pregnancy. As a mother to be, your entire body and soul are changing dramatically. From the joys of hearing you baby’s heartbeat and feeling the first flutters of movement within to the inevitable a...

  • The Great Zoo Hunt!

    Pippa Unwin

  • One, Two, Tie up My Shoe: A New Look at an Old Nursery Rhyme

    Liz Underhill

  • The Kid from Tomkinsville

    John R. Tunis / John Roberts Tunis

    The Season Is Going, Going, Gone! Roy Tucker, the rookie pitcher from Connecticut, is the wiz kid for the Brooklyn Dodgers this year. Not only does he have incredible stuff on the mound, but he can hit, too. Things are looking good for the Dodgers...

  • Newfie Jokes

    Bob Tulk

  • Restoration

    Rose Tremain

    The Booker shortlisted novel that “restored the historical novel to its rightful place of honor” (New York Times).Robert Merivel, son of a glove maker and an aspiring physician, finds his fortunes transformed when he is given a position at the co...

  • Nearest of Kin

    Pamela Townley

  • Leaves on the Wind

    Carol Townend

    LOVING THE ENEMY After Judith Coverdale saw her family's estate razed to the ground by Normans, she vowed to avenge her family's honor. She donned a boy's disguise and joined a band of outlaws, led by her brother, to terrorize the invaders. When d...

  • An Open Life

    Michael Toms

  • In a Father's Place

    Christopher Tilghman

    The stories of Christopher Tilghman bring to life the trials and bonds of American families, set against the encroached-upon, yet still-expansive landscapes of our continent. "Radiant. . . . a gifted writer, blessed with an instinctual feel for the e...

  • Against All Odds

    Kay Thorpe

    Kerry had fancied herself in love with Brad. But that had been four years ago--when Brad Halston had shattered her by telling her he wasn't the marrying kind. So Kerry Wallace wasn't particularly thrilled to find Brad was one of the bos...

  • Heather

    Jean Thesman

    “HERE'S TO US, THE WHITNEY GIRLS!” Heather, Amelia and Erin raised their juice glasses in a toast. Cousins by birth and friends by choice, they know they can always count on each other -- even when the miles separate them. Here is Heather's st...

  • Slalom to Terror

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    Little Jenny was missing And Leigh Chandler, a kindergarten teacher, felt the dreadful echoes from her recent past return. Were the same forces from that previous experience at work? One moment Jenny Buchanon was skiing with classmates at the lavi...

  • Panic Blood

    Catherine Texier

  • Chicago

    Studs Terkel

    Too personal to capture an objective view of Chicago, too much in a hop, skip, and a jump style to clearly focus on any aspect of the city, Terkel's latest book is entertaining, nostalgic, and a paean to his town. Managing to hark back to his own boy...

  • Gremlins 2

    Michael Teitelbaum

  • Lease on Love

    Jennifer Taylor

    'I doubt I can teach you anything.' Genevieve's voice was curt. 'Especially about love and romance, Ross Harper. You could write a textbook on it by now.' Ross was everything Genevieve despised in a man. A womanizer who cared for no one's feelings ex...

  • The Deadfall Trap

    Barry Taylor

  • Rough Red

    Martin Sylvester

    While vacationing in the French countryside, urbane wine merchant and sleuth William Warner is drawn into the search for a fellow vacationer's daughter, who has been abducted to Spain, only to become the target of a homicidal maniac...

  • No Promises

    Pamela Curtis Swallow

  • Bel Air

    Katherine Stone

    Bel Air--where even the rich and famous are impressed by the wealth that surrounds them. Set in the hills above Hollywood, this is the world of Allison, Winter and Emily. Three beautiful, talented women who couldn't be more different. Three women who...

  • The Complete Birdhouse Book

    Donald Stokes

    Copiously illustrated with line drawings and full-color photographs, this large format paperback book contains the essential information that backyard nature enthusiasts want and need -- to build and seek out birdhouses, including the right birdhou...

  • Redshift Rendezvous

    John E. Stith

    One man must stop starship hijackers from using an unusual starship to plunder a wealthy colony. Aboard the Redshift, light moves so slowly you can see its passage, and relativistic tricks are an integral part of shipboard life. Flip a light switch a...

  • Missing

    R.L. Stine

    WELCOME TO FEAR STREET Don't listen to the stories they tell you about Fear Street. Wouldn't you rather explore it yourself...and see if its dark terror and unexplained mysteries are true? You're not afraid, are you? "Please help... Our parents a...

  • Sleepwalker

    R.L. Stine

    WELCOME TO FEAR STREET Don't listen to the stories they tell you about Fear Street. Wouldn't you rather explore it yourself...and see if its dark terror and unexplained mysteries are true? You're not afraid, are you? “Somebody -- help! Don’t let...

  • Prize Passage

    Dawn Stewardson

    Could she resist? Holly Russell wished there were more hiding places aboard the cruise ship. Then at least she could avoid Mac MCCloy, and maybe her hormones and her heart would stop racing each other. They'd better, because as d psychologist Holl...

  • Cow

    Beat Sterchi

    Cow is the story of a Spanish agricultural labourer, Ambrosio, who goes to Switzerland as a Gastarbeiter. He is bound for Innenwald, a village in the Swiss highlands, and the novel begins as he is about to spend a summer working for Farmer Knuchel. I...

  • Sex and Other Sacred Games

    Renate Stendhal

  • Blue Lightning

    Charlie Stella

    After his best friend, Larry Jordan, is shot down and captured over North Vietnam, Lt. Jim Campbell swears to rescue Jordan from a P.O.W. camp, but he must first confront his nemesis, North Vietnamese ace Major Quac To Quang...

  • Dog Walkers Club

    Carol Stanley

  • Murder in the Charleston Manner

    Patricia Sprinkle

    A LETHAL DOSE OF SOUTHERN COMFORT "Trouble follows that woman like fleas follow a dog" her father had always said about Aunt Mary. Sheila Travis ruefully agrees when she is dispatched by her colorful aunt to Charleston to "investigate" some mysterio...

  • Red Wizard

    Nancy Springer

    Seventh-grader Ryan is whisked from his world into a fantasy kingdom by an incompetent wizard trying to find the perfect color red, but the mistake may avert a crisis with a rebel warlock and help Ryan solve a problem with his own father....

  • Secret Anniversaries

    Scott Spencer

    The experiences and struggles of Caitlin Van Fleet are shaped and molded by the struggle between isolationists and anti-Nazi forces in Washington, D.C., on the eve of World War II, in a novel that spans five decades in Caitlin's life...

  • The Devereaux File

    Ross H. Spencer

    Wisecracking Chicago PI Lacey Lockington gets caught in a dangerous game of international espionage in this gritty, “truly hilarious” mystery (Kirkus Reviews).   Former Chicago police detective Lacey Lockington isn’t much for small talk. B...

  • Corrupted

    Beverly Sommers

    NO ONE TO TRUST.... Sandy McGee was a cop -- and as honest as the day was long -- so nothing infuriated her more than a fellow officer who'd turned bad. Johnny Random was exactly that, and now Sandy and her partner were assigned to protect him so...

  • The Words on the Page, the World in Your Hand

    Virginia Solotaroff

  • A Brush With Death

    Joan Smith

    Cassie Newton anticipates the intrigue and romance of joining her husband, investigator John Weiss, as he travels to Montreal to crack an art forgery case, but the glamour turns to gore when a painter is murdered...

  • The Merry Month of May

    Joan Smith

    SARA HAD NEVER CHASED AFTER A MAN -- BUT THEN SHE'D NEVER MET ONE SO ADDLEFATED! Though far from the heartbroken miss whose betrothed had disappeared six years ago, Sara Wood saw no need to reveal her secret contentment. Peter would have made ...

  • Dreamspinner

    Barbara Dawson Smith

    THE HEART OF A SCOUNDREL... Dark scandal haunted Kent Deverell, the moody and enigmatic Duke of Radcliffe. His young wife had met an untimely and tragic end, spawning rumors of foul play among the local gossip-mongers. But young Juliet Carleton wa...

  • Leon's Prize

    Jerry Smath

  • Wrong Address, Right Place

    Lass Small

    THE COMFORT INN Linda Parsons was excited about her first business trip--and a shambles of a bed-and-breakfast place wasn't going to dampen her spirit. Especially since ruggedly sexy innkeeper Mitch Roads seemed determined to make her stay enjoyab...

  • Forbidden Zone

    James Slater

    David Adam responds to the bombing raid that killed his wife in London by volunteering for a dangerous mission behind enemy lines, a mission that targets the German's lethal A-1 rocket program for destruction...

  • Mr. Personality: Profiles and Talk Pieces

    Mark Singer

    A superb collection, Mr. Personality brings together the best of Mark Singer’s profiles and "Talk of the Town” pieces from The New Yorker (1977 -- 1989). In these thirty-three witty and offbeat pieces, Singer presents a slice of New York and it...

  • Passion's Wild Delight

    Rebecca Sinclair

    He tempted her with passion...and won her with love! She Swore Everlasting Revenge Golden-haired Nikki Dennison lived for only one thing: revenge on Kurt Frazier, the lying, no account scoundrel who'd killed her papa. For six years, the gun...

  • Partners in Time

    Pamela Simpson

    Sam Hackett, a U.S. federal marshal, finds himself transported from 1882 to more than one hundred years into the future, where he meets C.J. Grant, a beautiful private eye on the trail of a deadly Hollywood killer...

  • Larkspur

    Sheila Simonson

    Invited to spend the weekend at the mountain lodge of poet David 'Dai' Llewellyn outside San Francisco, Lark Dailey feels obligated to attend, although her police officer lover, Jay, isn't very keen on the idea of spending a 'literary weekend' with L...

  • Man in the River, The

    Simon & Schuster

    Twelve-year-old Sandy and ten-year-old Kate, whose father has become the town drunk, receive investigative help from a retired policewoman when their father drowns mysteriously in the river after beginning to make a new life for himself....

  • The Door

    Georges Simenon

  • Child of Darkness

    David B. Silva

  • The King of Colorado

    Jon Sharpe

  • Shoshoni Spirits

    Jon Sharpe

  • Gulliver's Fugitives

    Keith Sharee

    While searching for the USS Huxley, a starship missing for over ten years, the Enterprise stumbles across a forgotten colony of humans on a planet called Rampart-a world where fiction, speculation, and works of the imagination are considered the ulti...

  • Playing With Fire

    Dani Shapiro

    Two women--Lucy, daughter of a traditional Jewish family, and Carolyn, wealthy and reckless--come to share a rare love together, until Lucy succumbs to the charms of Carolyn's stepfather. Reprint. NYT....

  • Going, Going, Gone!

    Bess Shannon

    The battle was on As vice president of a prestigious New York auction house. Connie Nathan was used to challenges. Appraising the late Marquise de Vernay's possessions meant she'd have to contend with tough-minded curator Kenneth Considine--whatev...

  • Fortune's Tide

    Maura Seger

    A REVOLUTIONARY PASSION IN A WORLD THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN... ENGLAND 1778 -- America has lost her noble fight for freedom. Her defeated leaders have been imprisoned, awaiting their dark destinies at the hands of the British tyrants.... A spirited...

  • Mighty Good Road

    Melissa Scott

    IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED--HIRE IT DONE! What does a big corporation do when a job is too dirty and dangerous for its own employees? Why hire a freelancer, of course. That's how salvage operators Gwynne Heikki and her sidekick Sten Djuro find ...

  • The Diary of a Teenage Health Freak

    Joel L. Schwartz

  • Gunpower

    Mark Schorr

    Anti-terrorism expert Robert Stark is hired to rescue the kidnapped sister of an American publisher, but as his search continues he discovers that all the terrorist groups, as well as the CIA, are trying to stop him...

  • The Desert Look

    Bernard Schopen

    Reno private eye Jack Ross has been living off the desert for six months when his idyll is interrupted by TV newswoman Miranda Santee, who wants his help on a story. Miranda has an old photograph of two Vegas showgirls who, the story goes, robbed a ...

  • Ring of Fire

    Dan Schmidt

  • Big Chair for Little Bear

    Claire Schmacher

  • Stephanie and the Wedding

    Susan Saunders

    The Sleepover Friends are afraid that their roles as bridesmaids in the wedding between Stephanie's Uncle Nick and their substitute teacher are in jeopardy when they hear the couple discussing elopement...

  • Comes the Blind Fury

    John Saul

    A century ago, a gentle blind girl walked the cliffs of Paradise Point. Then the children came -- taunting, teasing -- until she lost her footing and fell, shrieking her rage to the drowning sea... Now Michelle has come from Boston to live in the big...

  • Punish the Sinners

    John Saul

    Italy 1252. Inquisition. Accusation. Fear.  Torture. The guilty and the innocent dying for sins real  and imagined in the flames of the burning stake.  Neilsville, 1978. Peter Blasam has come to this  sleepy de...

  • Looker

    Jorge Saralegui

  • Island Nights

    Glenda Sanders

    First impressions count When Stephen Dumont arrived in Barbados he was hot, tired-and grumpy. And if Janet Granville hadn't come to his rescue, he might never have made it through customs, let alone found his hotel. He wanted to thank her and apol...

  • Young Merlin

    Robert D. San Souci

    Follows young Merlin's life from his birth to a human mother and non-human father, through his life as an orphan and the emergence of his prophetic powers, to his near-fatal encounter with King Vortigern...

  • Comet

    Carl Sagan

  • Just Like Always

    Elizabeth-Ann Sachs

  • The Chipmunk Song

    Joanne Ryder

  • The Redneck Bride

    John Fergus Ryan

  • Carnival

    Jenna Ryan

    Nothing had prepared her for this Thick fog seeping off the Devon moor. The brooding ruins of an alchemist's castle. And the carnival itself, whose maze of tents and caravans hid the priceless Saxony jewels -- and the identity of the carny who'd kil...

  • Beyond the Stars

    David William Ross

    THE SIGN OF THE WOLF, THE EYE OF THE VULTURE It was the end of a magnificent era for the warring tribes of the high Dakota plains--when the Great Chiefs still raised the battle lance... and the sunburnt buffalo grass was stained with the blood of...

  • Oklahoma Pride

    Dana Fuller Ross

    Young and old hitched their wagons to the dream of free land when the United States announced that Oklahoma's Indian Territory would be opened for settlement. "Sooners" rushed in, boomtowns went up overnight, and on the wide prairie hopes blossomed i...

  • Freckly Feet and Itchy Knees

    Michael J. Rosen

  • Twelve-Year-Old Vows Revenge after Being Dumped by Extraterrestrial on First Date

    Stephen Roos

  • Doodle Dog

    Frank Rodgers

    “Eye-catching " appealingly told” - School Library JournalSam knew he couldn't have a real dog of his own, but his mum drew him a picture - a 'Doodle' she called it - of a beautiful black and white puppy. Sam took it bed with him that night...

  • Secret of the Howling Cave

    Lee Roddy

  • The Best-Kept Secret

    Emily Rodda

    The award-winning classic by internationally renowned author Emily Rodda. Beckoning music, gleaming horses, the lure of the carousel. Cecilia says merry-go-rounds are for little kids, but Jo feels there's something mysterious and not at all childish ...

  • Heart of the Falcon

    Suzanne Robinson

    BLAZING WITH ROMANCE, INTRIGUE, AND THE SPLENDOR OF AN ANCIENT EMPIRE--A MAGNIFICENT SAGA OF LOVE AND BETRAYAL ... Though grief-stricken at the death of her parents, there is nothing raven-haired beauty Anqet prizes more than her beloved home, Nef...

  • The Whole Truth

    Anthony Robinson

    In love with another woman, Leonard Bradley, the head of a prominent New York family, contemplates murdering his wife, but suddenly someone else has the same idea, and soon Leonard is fighting for his reputation and his life. Reprint....

  • To Grandmother's House We Go

    Willo Davis Roberts

    To avoid foster home care while their mother is recuperating from illness, three children run off to the home of a grandmother they have never seen, where they find a cold reception and a terrible secret....

  • Snake Oil

    Les Roberts

    Actor-private detective Saxon reluctantly takes on the case of real-estate developer George Amptman, who suspects his wife of having an affair, but the case takes a dark turn when the woman's lover is found dead...

  • Trail of the Assassin

    J.R. Roberts

    Clint Adams can't exactly say no when the President of the United States asks for his help. But he dang sure wishes he could. This job is mighty big -- and dangerous. The Gunsmith has to baby-sit some hotshots visiting from India, but that's not the ...

  • Boston Run

    David Robbins

    Led by Blade, they were a handful of men and women who fought to keep post-nuclear America from plunging into total darkness. The odds were against them, but in a land ruled by chaos, a little action went a long way. In the years after the war, the R...

  • Trouble with Elephants

    Chris Riddell

  • The Dying of the Light

    Robert Richardson

    As playwright Augustus Maltravers watches his girlfriend Tess portray a heartbroken Desdemona in a clifftop ampitheater, real tragedy is played out a few miles away as aging sculptor Martha Shaw lies dying beneath her own granite statue...

  • Labor Dispute

    Emilie Richards
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    Johanna Hastings should have been feeling blessed -- married, with three sons, now she had a new baby on the way. But David was always working the farm and the boys still thought she should be their willing slave. There was only one solution. to her ...

  • Love Forever After

    Patricia Rice

    Penelope read his pleasure in the way he looked at her, in the sensual line of his mouth as he kissed her again, and in the golden gleam of his eyes as he discovered her joy... Beautiful Penelope Carlisle was an untouched innocent when she wed Vis...

  • Stone Heart

    Luanne Rice

    From New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice comes a long-awaited opportunity for readers to discover an acclaimed early novel -- one of this cherished storyteller’s most powerful and complex portraits of the fragile bonds of family and home....

  • At Grammy's House

    Eve Rice

  • The Vulture

    Bill Reno

    THE BADGE To a violent land. a frontier yet untamed. came a man who wore a badge of law and order. He faced the myriad dangers and paid the price in blood to become one of the most enduring heroic figures of the Old West. THE VULTURE He is Victo...

  • Shadow's Realm

    Mickey Zucker Reichert

    SHADOW'S CALL When Shadow received a message that Shylar needed his aid, the master thief and his three companions, Allerum--now an elf swordsman but once a twentieth century American soldier--and the two Dragonmages, Silme and Astryd, immediatel...

  • Apache Bride

    Joanne Redd

    A NYMPH WITH A STREAK OF INDEPENDENCE Bold, beautiful Alison Carr left behind a frivolous life in Baltimore for the excitement of the sun-scorched trails of the wild Southwest. But it would take an arrogant Apache chief to change her world one night...

  • Talking Tree

    Inna Rayevsky

  • Born Rich

    Georgia Raye

    The world of high fashion harbors malice and murderous intentions toward Countess Dani di Portanova, who has made numerous enemies among the well-heeled in her rise to becoming a world-class fashion designer...

  • The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties

    Shannon Ravenel

  • Silversword

    Lindsay Randall

    ONLY PRIDE COULD DIVIDE THEM: THE SILVERSWORD WOULD UNITE THEM Shunned by the superstitious villagers and condemned by her own father, beautiful, headstrong Mara fled her home at the first opportunity. Setting her face northward, she little dream...

  • Cold Coffin

    Erica Quest

    When Detective Chief Inspector Kate Maddox hears of Sir Noah Kimberley's disappearance, she isn't overly concerned. After all, wealthy, older men who head their own companies have been known to walk away from their wives and businesses without a good...

  • Henry Babysits

    Robert M. Quackenbush

    Henry the Duck discovers that babysitting isn’t all fun and games in this latest “playful” (School Library Journal) picture book about his merry misadventures from beloved author Robert Quackenbush!Henry the Duck is a very good neighbor. Even t...

  • The Prize Pulitzer

    Roxanne Pulitzer

  • Firewind

    Bill Pronzini

    Three outlaws arrive in the country town of Big Tree, Calif., on a blazing hot day of a long dry summer, in this well-crafted western by veteran Pronzini (The Last Days of Horse-Shy Halloran). A huge shipment of munitions is a-sittin' in Big Tree jus...

  • The Northerners

    Bill Pronzini

    A collection of Western tales crosses the northern border to bring out stories of high adventure in the Canadian frontier, by such authors as Jack London, Rex Beach, Victor Rousseau, and Samuel Alexander White...

  • Edge of Eden

    Nicholas Proffitt

  • Tongues of Angels

    Reynolds Price

    Bridge Boatner has never forgotten the drama that unfolded at a summer camp in the Smoky Mountains in 1954. He was twenty-one then, art counselor at Camp Juniper, an environment lush with nature and buzzing with rowdy boys on the brink of manhood. In...

  • The Runaway Heart

    Martha Powers

    Running From Love... It was unthinkable! Marriage? To cousin Woodie? Arabella would sooner die--or better yet, escape. So, the lovely young girl headed for London, leaving all her family problems behind. Maybe somewhere she could find happiness .....

  • The Gift Of Asher Lev

    Chaim Potok

    “Extraordinary . . . No one but Chaim Potok could have written this strangely sweet, compelling, and deeply felt novel.” -- The Cleveland Plain Dealer   In his powerful My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok gave the world an unforgettable charac...

  • Jubilee Jim and the Wizard

    Donald Porter

    Railroad tycoons Jay Gould and Jim Fisk flee to New Jersey and, from across the Hudson, wage a war with millionaire railroader Cornelius Vanderbilt, in a historical saga peopled with the famous and infamous...

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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    Roberto Pazzi

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    Joan Nestle

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