Books Published in May 1990

New Books List: 529 titles

  • Dread Brass Shadows

    Glen Cook

    SOMEBODY HAD LOST A LOT OF BRASS and everyone wanted to find it. And now the stakes were betting so rich it made even a hard-boiled detective like Garrett nervous. Then the casualties began piling up, starting with Garrett's own beautiful red-hair...

  • Countdown

    David Hagberg

    A high-tension espionage thriller as gripping as Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal, or Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October.A Soviet Agent is found dead inside an Israeli nuclear weapons stockpile so secret the United States doesn't know it ...

  • The Fifth Profession

    David Morrell

    From the bestselling author of First Blood comes a spectacular thriller, in which a former Navy SEAL and a Japanese samurai master are bound together in a terrifying past that never happened....

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Slice

    Rex Miller

    A specialist on serial murderers, Jack Eichord studies a trail of gruesome murders leading from Chicago to his neighborhood in Atlanta, and he suspects that a serial killer he had left for dead is still alive and out for revenge...

  • An Abyss of Light

    Kathleen M. O'Neal

    The Gamant people, the only group who had refused to join the tyrannical Galactic Magistrate's Union of Solar Systems, must stage a fierce rebellion against the Magistrate and protect themselves from the forces that made them Chosen ones...

  • Cyber Way

    Alan Dean Foster

    Someday, science will abolish magic. But not murder. Computers will catch the killers. But not this time. One cop will unearth the truth. But it's not human....

  • Dayworld Breakup

    Philip Jose Farmer

    From the Hugo Awardâ€"winning author of Riverworld: The conclusion of the trilogy set on a future Earth where freedom is threatened by an insidious lie.   Before the dawn of the New Era, the world was divided into nations with separate governmen...

  • Earth

    David Brin

    A microscopic black hole has accidentally fallen into the Earth's core, threatening to destroy the entire planet within two years. Some scientists are frantically searching for ways to prevent the disaster. But others argue that the only way to save ...

  • Escape from China

    R.A. Montgomery

  • The Feelies

    Mick Farren

    Wanda-Jean's only hope of experiencing a feelie--a scientific marvel that allows people to live out their fantasies while they sleep--is to win one on a game show, but the grand prize may actually be a curse...

  • Firefight Y2K

    Dean Ing

    WELCOME TO THE FUTURE Armor will be self-repairing ... Killer hornets will be bred to attack only the enemy ... The forerunners of tunneling combat vehicles already exist ... Manned aircraft could actually dodge laser beams of orbital platforms ....

  • 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...

  • The Hemingway Hoax

    Joe Haldeman

    The Hemingway Hoax is a Hugo- and Nebula-winning novella that weaves an intricate plot of a fake Hemingway manuscript with time travel, multiple universes, and the potential destruction of the omniverse itself.

    Hemingway's first ...

  • The Hunter

    Rose Estes

    Ice Age warrior Braldt the Hunter is captured and sold into slavery while searching for a healing crystal, and is forced to fight against creatures from other worlds in an intergalactic coliseum called Arena....

  • Jagged Steele

    J.D. Masters

  • 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 ...

  • Mission: Tori

    Johanna M. Bolton

    Mier Sliver was one of the Federation's top agents, trained, honed, and genetically enhanced. Her uncanny empathy & enhanced vision had carried her through 17 years of Security's deadliest missions. When two diplomatic...

  • Nebula Awards: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 1988

    Harcourt Brace

    Nebula Awards Showcase (Hardcover). Audience: General/trade. Works by Greg Bear, Ray Bradbury, Lois McMaster Bujold, Gordon R. Dickson, George Alec Effinger, Mack McDevitt, Gene Wolfe, Jane Yolen and many more....

  • On the Planet of Bottled Brains

    Harry Harrison

    He's the perfect starship trooper: big, strong, and not too bright. He's the perfect hero: willing to do almost anything to save his neck (it's one of the body parts that's still his own). Tsuris, the Mystery Planet, has a mysterious secret weapon...

  • The PEOPLE OF PLANET EARTH

    Roy A. Gallant

    Discusses the urgent problems presented by population growth in a scientific analysis of the issue, from mythic accounts of the origin of humanity, to the evolution of modern technological civilization...

  • Pshrinks Anonymous

    Janet Asimov

    TRICKS OF THE MIND-- OR SOMETHING MORE? Each month the members of an exclusive club get together in the heart of Manhattan to trade some very unusual tales. The club is Pshrinks Anonymous, where psychiatrists of every school analyze their most int...

  • The Quiet Pools

    Michael P. Kube-McDowell

    Controversy arises over the Diaspora Project, a program designed to carry ten thousand men and women to a new life outside the solar system, and the Homeworld movement, led by the mysterious Jeremiah, threatens to stop it no matter what the cost...

  • Rally Cry

    William R. Forstchen

    TO VICTORY--OR DEATH! When Union Colonel Andrew Keane led his blue-coated soldiers aboard the transport ship, he could not have foreseen that their next port of call would be in neither the North or South but on an alternate world where no human w...

  • 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...

  • The Specialist

    Wynne Whiteford

  • Spider-Man VS. Venom

    David Michelinie

    The alien costume is back-and it hungers for revenge! Spider-Man's sentient substitute costume has done to bitter Daily Globe reporter Eddie Brock what it always wanted to do to the web-spinner-possess him completely! The alien costume and Eddie Broc...

  • Tales from Planet Earth

    Arthur C. Clarke

    If you want an omnibus of short fiction by Arthur C. Clarke, a Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master, then you want The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke. If you're looking for a representative sample of Clarke's short stories, or for s...

  • 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...

  • Wolfwalker

    Tara K. Harper

    A GIRL AND HER WOLF Dion was a healer and a wolfwalker, and the unique telepathic bond that she shared with the wolf Gray Hishn sometimes seemed to amplify her sensitivity to her patients. But she never guessed how strong that bond could be, or wh...

  • An Accurate Watch

    David W. Doyle

  • Bad Neighbors

    Isidore Haiblum

    Hired to defend a tenants group against intimidation and threats of violence from their new landlord, James Shaw finds himself confronting a vicious gang of thugs and a deadly secret from the past that could cost the detective his life...

  • The Big Kiss

    O'Neil De Noux

    THE BIG KISS - LaStanza Novel #2 This is New Orleans - 1982. In Homicide, you're only as good as your last case. Fresh from solving the Slasher Murders, NOPD Homicide Det. LaStanza must investigate a 'floater' pulled from the Mississippi River. The b...

  • 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...

  • Cardinal Virtues

    Andrew M. Greeley

    Father Laurence O'Toole McAuliffe, the pastor of Saint Finian's parish in Forest Springs, is weary and worn out, his priesthood and faith in tatters. Once literally a bomb-throwing radical and then a Vatican Council liberal, Lar McAuliffe has grown o...

  • The Chartreuse Clue

    William F. Love

    Bishop Francis Regan is a busy man. Wheelchair-bound for some time, he is not always the easiest of men to get on with.

    But then, as the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of New York, he has plenty on his mind…

    And on his patch, he has a...

  • A Cold Killing

    Deforest Day

    When Ivy League educated Chase Defoe, a security systems consultant, investigates an insurance claim on stolen clothing as a favor to a friend, he tangles with a murderous band of poachers and hijackers in rural Pennsylvania...

  • Comfort Me With Spies

    Marc Lovell

  • The Deadfall Trap

    Barry Taylor

  • 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...

  • The Door

    Georges Simenon

  • 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...

  • East of Outback

    Sandy Dengler

    Book 4 in the Australian Destiny series. The story of a young man finding his way into the responsibilities of manhood in the Outback of Australia....

  • Gamebuster

    Annabel Johnson

    Overhearing what seems to be a bomb plot and discovering a dead body in the trunk of his car are only the beginnings of a dangerous adventure in which a high school senior rediscovers his father, an undercover agent, and becomes involved in a fight a...

  • 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...

  • 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 Innocent

    Ian McEwan

    A member of a British-American surveillance team in Cold War Berlin finds himself in too deep in this "wholly entertaining" work (The Wall Street Journal) from the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement. Twenty-five-year-old Leo...

  • Is Anybody There?

    Eve Bunting

    Is anybody there?For Marcus Mullen, being a latchkey kid is no bigdeal. Every day after school, he picks up his key from it's hiding place in the oak tree in the yard, and spends the afternoon working on his bike or cooking dinner for his mom and him...

  • Kill the Story

    Jahnna N. Malcolm

  • 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....

  • Murder in State

    E. Howard Hunt

    When his former colleague, Blake Selwyn, is found dead soon after revealing his suspicions of top-level diplomatic treason, retired State Department official Alan Stuart reluctantly agrees to help Selwyn's beautiful widow find the killers. Reprint....

  • My Grandfather the Spy

    Corinne Gerson

  • Night of Reunion

    Michael Allegretto

    Alex, his wife, Sarah, and their young son, Brian, are living happily in Colorado Springs until Christine Helstrum, an escaped mental patient who had killed Alex's first wife and child, returns to stalk the family...

  • Pirate Jenny

    April Bernard

    Life sucks, but you can still get a good deal if you're sharp. On this motto hangs the saga of a heroine who makes herself up as she goes along, never looking back. A closely observed and intricate comedy of class relations, here is a novel of suspen...

  • Purpose of Evasion

    Greg Dinallo

    Greg Dinallo’s blockbuster Rockets’ Red Glare earned rave reviews for its ingenious use of the Cuban Missile Crisis and detailed knowledge of current military technology. Now, with Purpose of Evasion, Dinallo proves he&rsqu...

  • Sandman

    Richard Martins

    A series of murders involving Iranian cab drivers in Chicago brings together three individuals intent on solving the case, Mary Agnes McCarthy, an FBI agent, Jack Corrigan, a veteran police officer, and Philip Hallet, a professor of Middle East studi...

  • Sight Unseen

    David Lorne

  • Soviet Sources

    Robert Cullen

    A former Newsweek Moscow correspondent concocts a suspenseful story of an American reporter who crosses the thin line between journalist and spy when he ferrets out top-secret party information that leaves him running for 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....

  • Trigger Man

    Joe Joyce

    Fergus Callan, an IRA trigger man, confronts his violent past in Ireland when he returns from exile in the United States and finds himself pursued through Dublin's backstreets to IRA safehouses in the suburbs by George Keerins, an Irish intelligence ...

  • 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....

  • Betrayals

    Anne Harrell

    Rebecca Blackburn caught a glimpse of the famed Jupiter Stones as a small child. Unaware of their significance, she forgot about them-until she discovered the priceless, long-missing gems were the key to a deadly chain of events spanning thirty years...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Into the Darkness

    Barbara Michaels

    Upon the death of her grandfather, Meg Venturi unexpectedly inherits the eccentric millionaire's antique jewelry business. There is one catch to her sudden windfall-she must share the wealth with a taciturn and oddly attractive young man who has an e...

  • 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...

  • The Dubious Miss Dalrymple

    Kasey Michaels

    A DARING DALLIANCE Romance and adventure were simply not to be hers, of that comely Elinor Dalyrmple was certain. But her staid spinster's world went scandalously atilt when the death of a distant cousin made her brother the new Earl of Hythe -- a...

  • An Early Engagement

    Barbara Metzger

    MARRY HER VILE COUSIN, AND LOSE HER INHERITANCE AS WELL AS HER INDEPENDENCE? NEVER! Thus Lady Emilyann, a hellion with a nose for trouble, tracked down her childhood friend and insisted he honor the betrothal arrangement their fathers had made yea...

  • The General's Granddaughter

    Dorothy Mack

    MISS SARAH'S SECRETS Lovely and proud Miss Sarah Ridgemont was in disguise in the house of her wealthy and willful grandfather, Sir Hector Ridgemont. She would play the part of a humble servant until she felt safe asking the old curmudgeon for the...

  • The Incurable Matchmaker

    Mary Balogh

    FAIR GAME It was well known that Diana Ingram was as impeccably virtuous as she was exquisitely beautiful. It was just as well known that the handsome and charming Marquess of Kenwood was the most insatiable and successful seducer in all of aristo...

  • Knaves' Wager

    Loretta Chase

    "I need no further proof that you are despicable!" Lilith Davenant's sensibilities were appropriately offended. How dare the brazen Lord Julian Brandon kiss her when he knew full well the man she was to marry was in the next room! It matt...

  • Lady Elizabeth

    Linell Anston

    They were both too proud for their own good Lady Elizabeth Croyden, darling of the ton, had declined many an offer in order to marry Sir Antony Russellford when he returned from the Americas. She was ecstatic the day he came to call, until she...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 .....

  • A Susceptible Gentleman

    Carola Dunn

    She hardly knew whether to laugh or cry! she thought that the Viscount was a man of virtue, but when he returned from London to his country seat, a series of startling revelations forced her to readjust her thinking; she was then called upon to rescu...

  • The Talisman

    Dawn Lindsey

    A DARING BEAUTY RISKS ALL FOR THE LOVE OF A HANDSOME STRANGER THE SCANDALOUS STRANGER Mr. Rhys Fitzwarren spelled trouble from the beginning when he intruded on Miss Alessia Fielding's sheltered life. He was wounded by a mysterious gunshot, and...

  • The Wicked Corinthian

    Eileen Jackson

    THE EARL OF INFAMY Lovely Emma Kendrick could not sit idly by while her stunningly beautiful younger sister Charmian was forced to wed the notorious Earl of Somerville. It was bad enough that Somerville was as cynical as he was handsome and as ...

  • The Wicked Count

    Emily Maxwell

    DARING DAYDREAMS Despite her sheltered country upbringing, Corrine Randolph dreamed of a dashing lover just like the ones in the novels she so relished. Her own betrothed, the object of her girlhood adoration, paled in comparison to her thrilling ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • The Reluctant Bridegroom

    Gilbert Morris

    The Reluctant Bridegroom begins with Sky Winslow, the son of Chris and Dove Winslow, agreeing to return East and bring a wagon train of brides to the men of Oregon City. As experienced as he is on the trail, the past hurts of an unfaithful wife and t...

  • By Reason of Insanity

    James Neal Harvey

    A troubled homicide cop chases a killer with an artistic sensibilityMarketing executive Peter Barrows spends his nights scouring Greenwich Village for wannabe models. He lures them back to his studio with promises of stardom, getting their hopes up j...

  • Evil at the Root

    Bill Crider

    When a nursing home resident in sheriff Dan Rhodes's small Texas town is found suffocated, a plastic bag tied over his head, the prime suspect, a fellow resident with whom the victim had quarreled, disappears. The victim's daughter, heir to his consi...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Cannon's Mouth

    W. Glenn Duncan

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    Rafferty's Rule 20: Any hunch so strong that it hurts just has to be right.

    It's not a typical day when Rafferty gets mistaken for a hitman. Always the altruist, Rafferty tries to warn the intended victim, only to find someone has beaten hi...

  • Copp in the Dark

    Don Pendleton

    PRIVATE EYE JOE COPP HATES THE DARK ... ESPECIALLY WHEN HIS ONLY COMPANY IS A KILLER Ex-cop Joe Copp takes a case, and he's not even sure who he's working for. Surrounded by a cast of frightened actors, and the theater's gorgeous director, he's bo...

  • 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 ...

  • The Flip Side of Life

    James E. Martin

    A routine missing-persons investigation involves Cleveland private detective Gil Disbro with a ruthless killer as Disbro searches for a missing eight-year-old boy who may know too much about his mother's suspicious death...

  • Gone to Glory

    Robert Irvine

    Ace shortstop Pepper Dalton had finally learned to hit. Or so it seemed to the good people of Salt Lake City. Moroni Traveler, a private eye named for an angel and cut from the same cloth as his hell-bent father, was hired to prove that Pepper hadn't...

  • Not Long for This World

    Gar Anthony Haywood

    L.A. private eye Aaron Gunner has familiar qualities: he's youngish, not very successful (his "office" is behind a barber shop), eyed askance by cops but appreciatively by pretty women, medium-boiled with a strong ethical sense. The hook is he's blac...

  • 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...

  • Running Fix

    Tony Gibbs

  • Bernie and the Bessledorf Ghost

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    What's bigger than a chair, but smaller than a house? Larger than a loaf of bread, but isn't an animal or a vegetable? What could this ghost want?! Bernie and his friends Georgene and Weasel are going crazy trying to figure out how to please th...

  • Dew Drop Dead

    James Howe

    Snooping around the mysteriously abandoned Dew Drop Inn, Sebastian Barth and his best friends, David Lepinsky and Corrie Wingate, are startled to come upon what they are certain is a dead body. Sebastian is the first to put into words what they all b...

  • Everything but the Squeal

    Timothy Hallinan

    Simeon Grist is a private eye and Los Angeles is his city, and in the mid-nineties it's a city of lost children. Against his better judgment -- this is heartbreak territory -- Grist is on a new case, one that leads him down the streets of LA and into...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • The Earth Sings

    Ya Ding

  • Fathers and Daughters: Portraits in Fiction

    Jesse D. Geller

  • An Inconvenient Woman

    Dominick Dunne

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • â€śGood unclean fun . . . [a] convoluted, scandal-greased, exposed-backsides-of-the-rich-and-famous story . . . told in a confiding, breathless undertone.” -- Entertainment WeeklyJules Mendelson is wealthy. Astron...

  • Prophet

    Shulamith Hareven

    Hivai, a prophet from the ancient village of Gibeon, is exiled from his home when his prophesy of an attack on the village proves to be false, and joins a small band of traveling Hebrews, enemies of the Gibeonites...

  • Squabble and Other Stories

    John Holman

  • Women on Women: An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction

    Joan Nestle

    The 29 stories in the volume range from the daring and erotic "Eat" by Sapphire to Dorothy Allison's energetic Southern tale "A Lesbian Appetite" to Valerie Miner's suspenseful "Trespassing." Whether its the joy or loss of love, the difficulty of fam...

  • 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...

  • The Bear Flag

    Cecelia Holland

    Cat Reilly travels from Boston to the California territory by wagon train with the help of John C. Fremont and Kit Carson, and she and her lover, Count Sohrakoff, struggle to make California an independent republic. Widowed on the arduous trek ...

  • Black-Eyed Susan

    Deborah Camp

    THEIR PASSIONS RAN AS FREE AS THE LAND THEY VOWED TO TAME... Ever since she could remember, dark-eyed Susan Armitage had longed for Logan Vance -- the only man who could never be hers. Then one day an unexpected twist of fate brought the virile a...

  • Bright Destiny

    Elizabeth Evelyn Allen

    Jolie called it "a gift from God." Indeed, when first they met, she was a nun in a Strasbourg convent; he was a dashing Scottish doctor. Together, they dared to nurse wounded Huguenots, when fled France... and in Rorke's arms, Jolie was born as a wom...

  • Daughters of the Storm

    Elizabeth Buchan

    A NATION DIVIDED BY POWER AND PASSION Paris, 1789--the time is ripe for revolution. In the glittering court of Louis XVI, the extravagance of the rich grows more outrageous every day. While in the streets, the restless crowds gather like dark clou...

  • Desperado Dream

    Karen A. Bale

    A NEGLECTED BRIDE Lovely Lisa Anderson understood her husband's restlessness only too well. The moment she saw the familiar wanderlust in his blue eyes, she told him to go ahead and leave their comfortable California ranch and to come back onl...

  • Divided Heart

    Susan Bowden

    Outside the palace gates, beyond the splendor and pageantry of Queen Elizabeth I's court, all of England was in turmoil...as Elizabeth sought to repress the Catholic faith; as she plotted against her cousin and rival, Mary, Queen of Scots; as she dro...

  • 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...

  • The Endless Sky

    Kathryn Davis
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    The Badlands had won the first time. Angry rivals of the Marquis de Mores had brought his financial empire to its knees. Defeated, he and his family were forced to retreat, taking their ambition and glorious dreams with them. Now, years later, th...

  • Forever Paradise

    Miranda North

    SHE HAD TO ESCAPE HER PAST Marriage! Exquisite Lydia Collins had had enough of it for a disastrous two months and she swore she'd never wed again. Seeking only some peace from all men, the now-rich widow went abroad to see her late husband's lands i...

  • Guardian Angel

    Julie Garwood

    The Emerald flew across the seas, its black hull teasing the waves, its sails whipping on the wind. Aboard was the pirate Pagan--despised by the ton, whose riches this scoundrel plundered: beloved by the poor, whose plight was eased by the pirate'...

  • 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 Hell Raiser

    Dorothy Glenn

    Unlacing Elizabeth... Roughhewn lumberman Sam Ferguson had little use for prissy city Miss Elizabeth Caldwell. If he had to cart the persnickety female safely through the Montana wilds, the least he could do was raise a little hell along the way.....

  • The Imperialists

    William Stuart Long

    Setting in the period from 1902, the end of the Boer War in Africa, to 1914 and the beginning of the Great War in Europe. A new century dawns, and new hopes drive the children of convicts and colonialists who proudly call themselves "Aussies." So...

  • Jenny's Dream

    Victoria Morrow

    Their proud hearts surrendered--to an untamed desire they dared not call love! Orphaned and penniless, Jenny Bydalek met Aaron Gannon the day he used his hard-won wealth to ease her plight--with shelter and a job in his Kansas City hotel. Aaron was...

  • Kentucky Fire

    Amanda O'Dell

    HE MADE HER BLOOD BOIL After she leapt from her careening carriage, Chelsea Lynn Cambridge should have been grateful to the handsome rescuer who boldly tended to her injuries. But his insolent gaze and knowing smile brought out the worst in her, and...

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