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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — NOVEMBER 1986

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New Books List: 375 titles

  • The Three Wishes: An Old Story

    Margot Zemach

    Once again, Margot Zemach brings new life to a traditional story: the tale of the three wishes granted to those who are kind and compassionate. In Zemach's interpretation, a poor woodcutter and his wife are working in the forest when they hear a ...

  • The Streets

    Michael Zausner

  • Hey, Al

    Arthur Yorinks

    Al, a janitor, and his faithful dog, Eddie, live in a single room on the West Side. They eat together, they work together, they do everything together. So what's the problem?

    Thier room is crowded and cramped; their life is an endless strugg...

  • Thanksgiving Promise

    Blaine M. Yorgason

  • Monster Makers, Inc.

    Laurence Yep

    In the far future on the distant aquatic planet, Carefree, someone is sabotaging a small company specializing in biogenetic engineering, and Rob Sawyer, the sixteen-year-old son of the company's owner, is blamed for a series of destructive accidents...

  • Sleep While I Sing

    Laurali R. Wright / L.R. Wright

    A murder on Canada’s Sunshine Coast hits close to home for a former city cop in a mystery of “excellent writing, inventive plots and realistic characters” (Publishers Weekly). Karl Alberg was a big-city cop, for Pete’s sake. He solved crimes ...

  • All for Love

    Sherryl Woods

    When a tragic fall shattered his dreams, tennis champ Evan Thomas sought refuge in bitter isolation ... Now feisty schoolteacher Corey Reed is determined to draw him out with her heart-melting gaze, her cheery badgering, and a passel of roughneck kid...

  • Triple Threat

    Eleanor Woods

    There was no love lost between Jordon and Rand Maxwell. If some lingering concern had driven Rand to his ex-wife's hospital bedside after she was shot in a holdup, what had made him stay? After three years Jordon was astonished that the man who'd acc...

  • Silk and Satin

    Marcia Wolfson

    When Mark Saunders, one of America's wealthiest men, is pushed to his death from his penthouse office, police detective Brian Sullivan finds that the suspects include Saunders' wife Darleen, and her four best friends from college...

  • Soldier of the Mist

    Gene Wolfe

    "A marvelously fluent, evocative historical...glowing, fascinating intricate work, full of gods and ghosts and magical metamorphoses, set forth in a modern prose that agreeably captures the rhythm and spirit of the period." --Kirkus Reviews...

  • Antelope Springs

    G. Clifton Wisler

    Everett Raymond maintains a stop along the stage route with his family, but when a stranger arrives requesting lodgings for a few days, the former marshal finds his world of peace and solitude shattered...

  • Almost Heaven

    Lee Williams

    Oh, to see Davey once more. As the plane's about to crash, Catrina Reed scribbles that last request. Upon her miraculous survival, she's stunned to discover her well-meaning roommate has attempted to fulfill her wish! But instead of Catrina's childho...

  • The McLaffertys

    Jude Williams

    Gold! The word spread like a fever over the young United States-and men and women poured over the plains, the desert, the mountains, to seize their chance of wealth beyond reckoning. The raw mountain man, Michael McLafferty and the beautiful, half Ch...

  • Charli Toledo Hopeless

    Grace Williams

  • Wild

    Joanna Wharton

  • Crazy Vanilla

    Barbara Wersba

    A sensitive, lonely fourteen-year-old boy and a strong, uniquely individual fifteen-year-old girl become friends unexpectedly when they discover they share both a love of animals and the ambition to become wildlife photographers....

  • Moroccan Madness

    Angela Wells

    The magic of their love still held her to him On the night of their wedding, Karim's trust in Vida had been shaken. And without forgiveness Vida had felt there could be no marriage. So, although she loved him, Vida left and tried to close t...

  • Fools Crow

    James Welch

    The 25th-anniversary edition of "a novel that in the sweep and inevitability of its events...is a major contribution to Native American literature." (Wallace Stegner)In the Two Medicine Territory of Montana, the Lone Eaters, a small band of Blackf...

  • The Cyborg and the Sorcerers

    Lawrence Watt-Evans

    "In the tradition of the old ""Ace Doubles"" two-in-one books (flip one over to read the second title) -- here is the fifth Wildside Double: the two-volume ""War Surplus"" series by Lawrence Watt-Evans, ""The Cyborg and the Sorcerers"" and ""The Wiza...

  • Prairie

    Anna Lee Waldo

    Charles Burton Irwin. An American legend. He was a leader of men and a lover of adventure. With his wife and children at his side, he grabbed hold of the reins of change and rode the wild American West into a new frontier--the twentieth century. Fro...

  • Little Dracula's Christmas

    Martin Waddell

  • A Marriage of Inconvenience

    Daisy Vivian

    SHE WAS A WOMAN WHO KNEW HER OWN MIND BUT NOT HER OWN HEART A BARTERED BRIDE Clarissa St. Miniver was no blushing bride when she exchanged wedding vows with Viscount Wrackham. She was a proud young woman coolly grasping a golden opportunity -- to...

  • Laying Down the Law

    Donna Kimel Vitek

    Carly Jaymes had exciting plans. Filled with sunny enthusiasm, she moved to Trent County, North Carolina, and into the old Wainwright mansion. But someone had other plans for her. A malicious ghost, a mysterious phone-caller, and a menacing visitor b...

  • The Judgment of Paris

    Gore Vidal

    Power, knowledge, and love are the temptations of three alluring women as Philip wanders from Paris to Rome. Yet his choice matters less than the act of choosing in this witty odyssey of self-discovery....

  • The Saga of Seaview Circle

    Laura Van Wormer

  • Protege

    Justine Valenti

    Successful TV producer Diana Sinclair falls in love with Luke Merriman, the star she created, but ruthless and ambitious production assistant Nikki DePaul threatens to steal Diana's lover and her career...

  • King of Seduction

    Alison Tyler (1)

    He was too handsome to trust. Amanda Caselli didn't even try to hide her contempt for Nicholas Banat, a guest at her mother's Newport estate. Was he a gigolo ... or merely a man with an intriguing past? He'd escaped from his own country and was sti...

  • Jeeter, Mason and the Magic Headset

    Maggie Twohill

  • Breaking Free

    Marcella Thompson

    "You mean chickens come with the farm!" Melissa had just bought property for the first time in her life, and was delighted to discover a poultry contract was part of the bargain. To a city girl from Tulsa it seemed the perfect touch to a p...

  • An Old School Tie

    Andrew Taylor

  • Riverboat Rampage

    Clay Tanner

    Riverboat owner, gambler and ladies' man Chance Sharpe gets word of strange goings-on up on the Mississippi by Craddock's Bend. Several boats have disappeared behind mysterious fogs ... spirits are haunting the riverbanks. it all seems like hogwash t...

  • Falling For You

    Lisa Swazey

  • King's Ransom

    Victor Suthren

    BOOK TWO IN THE GALLANT SAGA

    The Spanish have sent La Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion, a bejeweled gold statuette, to France to seal their pact of loyalty and insure Spain's dominance on the high seas.

    But the statue has vanished, and Paul G...

  • Journeys

    Judith Summers

  • I Was a 15-Year-Old

    Patti Stren

  • Ivy Larkin

    Mary Stolz

  • Foul Play

    Elaine K. Stirling

    She was guilty until proven innocent Malcolm Spencer was missing, and Carina Rawlins was left holding the bag. The success of the Myrmidon's opening play of the season depended on her. She certainly didn't expect Damian Fleming to show up. Holl...

  • A Walk in Paradise

    Ada Steward

    The sea was a peaceful whisper of azure, the island a plantation of blooming hibiscus and wild greenery. A walk along St. Croix was like a walk in paradise, but Haley Canton wasn't in the Caribbean seeking pleasure. She wanted vengeance, and Rye Pier...

  • Beyond Her Control

    Jessica Steele

    It was time to live for herself Brooke had held the family together ever since her mother's death, putting off her own dreams for the sake of her father, younger brother and sister. So when her sister, staying at a chateau in France to upgr...

  • The Secret of Rainbow Island

    Judith Bauer Stamper

    YOU are JEM, everyone's favorite rock star. An unscrupulous developer wants to turn beautiful Rainbow Island into a tourist trap and your friend Samantha, whose father owned the island, needs five million dollars to save it. The future of a little pi...

  • Men on Men: Best New Gay Fiction

    George Stambolian

    This extraordinary collection gathers together the most popular and gifted voices in gay fiction today. Compiled from work in progress and originals written especially for this collection, as well as previously published fiction, these brilliant stor...

  • Kevin's Story

    Adrienne Staff

    Kevin Ross knew how far he'd come since his lonely childhood--now he had a wonderful family of friends, a thriving business...and a secret dream he refused to confess, even to himself. When gorgeous Suzy Keller swept into his life. Kevin felt a sudde...

  • America's Zero Hour

    Ryder Stacy

  • Elephant Man

    Christine Sparks

    John Merrick had lived for more than twenty years imprisoned in a body that condemned him to a miserable life in the workhouse and to humiliation as a circus sideshow freak. But beneath that tragic exterior, within that enormous and deformed head, th...

  • Staying Afloat

    Muriel Spanier

    Working as a "household assistant" to the Kort family as a means of regaining control over her life after the death, in childbirth, of her only daughter, Sylvie Weymar, a widow, finds herself drawn into the Korts various individual problems...

  • Southern Dreams and Trojan Women

    Leo Snow

  • Snow Country

    James Skofield

  • Child of Darkness

    David Silva

  • Savage Range

    Luke Short

    Down on his luck, Jim Wade takes a job as foreman of the deadliest bunch of cowboys he has ever seen. Then he discovers that he has been set up to take the blame for a bloody massacre the crew commits and is forced to turn fugitive with a lynch mob a...

  • For All Time

    Anne Shorr

    She had trained her sights on him When Callie Barnes inherited one of Sanibel Island's oldest newspapers, her first move was to launch a campaign against the "progress" marring her beloved home. As the most powerful developer involved, the dynamic...

  • Thunderhawk

    Jon Sharpe

  • Whale and Dolphin

    Vincent Serventy

  • Butterfly Autumn

    Carolyn Seabaugh

    LOVE IS HERE TO STAY Adriana Anderson was back home for good. Growing up in an air force family had kept her moving long enough. But now, with tasks like remodeling her parents' old Victorian home and teaching at the university, her life was all w...

  • Christmas Secrets

    Ann Schweninger

  • Rachel

    Vivian Schurfranz

    Can she be true to her heritage and to the boy she loves? It is 1910 and 16-year-old Rachel Roth and her family are immigrants from Poland to America. When Rachel sees the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, she catches her breath. The magnificent...

  • For the Love of Mike

    Candace Schuler

    Beneath the coveralls was a vibrant woman Limo service owner "Mike" Frazer preferred to spend her time tinkering with the engines of her prized fleet. So she was nonplussed when sexy Devlin Wingate requested that she personally chauffeur him aroun...

  • Miami Mice

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Tweedlioop

    Stanley Schmidt

    MAROONED ON EARTH Bill Nordstrom knew something was odd when the squirrel he was feeding ignored the nuts and raisins...and devoured the plastic bag! The squirrel turned out to be Tweedlioop, a squirrel-like alien, lone survivor of a spaceship cra...

  • Groa's Other Eye

    Dennis Schmidt

    THE QUEST Vestla Ravenhair, mother to Voden, spoke of the Well of Mimir with her dying breath. The gods who guided Voden said that to go there was but part of his Destiny. And the fearful Power that lay coiled within would not let him deny the tru...

  • Odds on Love

    Marche Sands

  • The Year's Best Fantasy 12 (Year's Best Fantasy)

    Arthur Saha

    Selected from a variety of magazines and periodicals, this collection of outstanding fantasy tales features works by Harlan Ellison, Jane Yolen, A.A. Attanasio, George Alec Effinger, Nicholas Yermakov, and other masters of the genre...

  • God Calling

    A.J. Russell

    The message of comfort and hope that breathes through the pages of God Calling was forged out of adversity, and as a result has touched the hearts of millions, making this one of the bestselling devotional books of all time....

  • This Old Man

    Lois Ruby

    A spunky young girl forms an unlikely friendship with a dying Chinese man while living in a group home For Greta, having light and carefree Hackey hanging around her mom is a lot more fun than having an ordinary dad. But Hackey isn’t her father -- ...

  • Walk With Danger

    Susan Rubin

    A murderer was loose in the Santa Monica neighborhood where Sharon lived. She was determined to do something about it, and came up with a plan that might prevent further tragedies. She would see to it that as many little kids as possible got to schoo...

  • Louisiana Lady

    Myra Rowe

    Left an orphan after her father's untimely death, Leander Ondone fought to made a place for herself in the world. With the promise of her family's plantation, Beaux Rives, becoming her own next year on her 18th birthday she tried to hold on to her in...

  • The Calculus of Murder

    Erik Rosenthal

  • Escape from Gulag Taria

    Joseph Rosenberger

  • More Adventures of Samurai Cat

    Mark E. Rogers

  • Danger on the Sound Track

    Nancy K. Robinson

  • A Will and a Way

    Nora Roberts

    It was worse than winning the lottery--much worse. This bequest might mean more money, but the strings attached had Pandora McVie tied up in knots. Respecting Uncle Jolley's last wishes meant spending time isolated in the Catskills with Michael Donah...

  • The Trail Drive War

    J.R. Roberts

    A trail drive means trouble on the hoof for Clint Adams. A beautiful cattle baroness summons him to Wyoming after her foreman turns up dead and she needs someone to help her honcho a trail drive. Together they move her cattle down a treacherous trail...

  • Twin Cities Run

    David Robbins

  • The Tender Seed

    Harry Ringel

  • Runaway Heart

    Clare Richmond

    Love was an act of faith for Barbara Private investigator Daniel McGuinn appeared to be an open book--but one that shut tight if you tried to read the pages. Barbara Emerson should have been suspicious of a man as elusive as Dan, but instead she h...

  • Sweet Mountain Magic

    Emilie Richards

    BELIEVE IN MAGIC? No way. Astute, logical Sarah MacDonald had based her life on facts that were tried and true. No starry-eyed dreamer was going to change her way of thinking. Then she discovered Galen Madigan, tired and wounded, hiding out in ...

  • My Kingdom for a Hearse

    Craig Rice

    A supermodel’s beauty secrets trigger an ugly series of murders in this “pretty damn wonderful” mystery (The New York Times).   From her velvety voice to a pair of legs that say walk this way, Delora Deanne is the most divine creation ever...

  • Texas Born

    James Reno

  • Promise Me Love

    Jane Redish

    Until now, Julie was afraid that Chad Harris - with his deep green eyes and heart-stopping smile - would never notice her. Then he gets a job working with her at her family's stable, and Julie begins to think there's hope. And when he finally asks he...

  • Brandon Papers

    Brandon Quentin

  • Pubis Angelical

    Manuel Puig

    In this artful fusion of espionage thriller and science fiction, Manuel Puig tells one story shared by three women -- an actress in the 1930s, living in her husband''s fairy-tale castle; a young woman in Mexico City in the 1970s convalescing in a hos...

  • The Cattlemen

    Bill Pronzini

  • Tales Of Mystery

    Bill Pronzini

    A collection of detective fiction from the pulp magazines of the 1940s and 1950s, with contributions from writers such as Dashiell Hammett, John D. MacDonald, John Jakes, Cornell Woolrich, and Paul Cain...

  • Proud Captive

    Dianne Price

    HE LIBERATED HER SENSES Headstrong Shona Cameron would never accept that she, the favorite daughter of a feared Scottish clansman, was now a lowly indentured servant in the Colonies. Certain that her flawless good looks would snare her a rich husb...

  • Burke, the Kingpin

    Fayrene Preston

    Heirs to a great dynasty, the Delaney brothers were united by blood, united by devotion to their rugged land ... and known far and wide as THE SHAMROCK TRINITY. Powerful men... rakes and charmers... they needed only love to make their lives complete...

  • The Game of Love

    Heather Graham Pozzessere

    HE CAME CRASHING INTO HER LIFE! They met over smashed fenders and clashing tempers, and if Jade never saw the arrogant stranger again it would be altogether too soon. It was not to be. His name was Jeff Martin, and he was the ex-baseball star c...

  • Love on the Range

    Louise E. Powers

  • There Will Be War

    Jerry Pournelle

  • Rio Grande

    Donald Clayton Porter

    As the Civil War rages in the East, crack Confederate troops march westward to seize Union outposts along the Rio Grande, and only a band of roughriders, led by the legendary Kit Carson, stands against them...

  • Centrifuge

    J.C. Pollock

    His devastating secret might save his country -- if his country didn't kill him first! Fighting behind the lines in Vietnam, Mike Slater had learned the fine art of killing. He'd also learned a secret that turned out to be a timebomb. Because years ...

  • Seasons

    Ellin Ronee Pollachek

  • Beiderbecke Tapes

    A. Plater

  • Frieze

    Cecile Pineda

    This poetic narrative discusses the creative life of a 9th century Indian stonecarver who is drafted at an early age to spend his entire life working on the thousands of statues that fill the niches of an Indonesian temple. Exploring the muse"artis...

  • Listen for the Drummer

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    Pounced on by a screeching cat, then tackled by a mountain of licking dog, Hunter Emerson knew instantly that life around Brenna MacPhee would never be dull! With her mop of honey blond curls and eyes that shone with wicked humor, Brenna knocked the ...

  • Sheer Honesty

    Susan Phillips (2)

    A GOOD DEAL Valerie Dixon had no problem assessing the value of real estate. So when John Spencer tried to sell her his brother's ramshackle house, it was love at first sight--with both the house and John. But Valerie wasn't quite as experience...

  • The Raven in the Foregate

    Ellis Peters

    When the beloved Father Adam dies, Abbot Radulfus recommends the young priest Ailnoth for the parish of Holy Cross, known as the Foregate. Ailnoth has much to recommend him, but his zeal and lack of pity quickly alienate him from his flock. So much s...

  • The Desecration

    Mark C. Perry

    They clashed in a battle older than history... As the dwarf king Mearead, lord of the Crystal Caves, stood gazing at the golden gates of Tolan, he remembered those dark times when evil was rampant and the Dark Lord had the upper hand. Those were t...

  • Death Has a Name

    Don Pendleton

    TARGET: ISRAEL Israel--a nation born of war and nurtured under siege--is the target for a daring raid by a Palestinian suicide squad. More than six thousand miles away in a Florida safehouse, Mack Bolan learns of the plot from a mortally wounde...

  • Captive Caress

    Sonya T. Pelton

    "I'LL NOT FORCE YOU" With just a glance at his terrified captive, the half-breed Lakota knew he'd have to possess her that night. To grasp her flowing blonde hair, to caress her creamy firm curves would catapult him to heights of ecstasy he'd never ...

  • Hatchet

    Gary Paulsen

    Thoughts of his parents' divorce fill Brian Robeson's head as he flies in a single-engine plane to visit his father in the Canadian wilderness. When the pilot suffers a massive heart attack and dies, Brian must somehow land the plane by himself and t...

  • Choosing Sides

    Francine Pascal

    Friends and foes... No matter what Elizabeth does, she can't stop her best friend, Amy Sutton, from trying out for the Unicorn Club's cheering squad. Elizabeth is sure that the Unicorns are going to steal Amy away from her. Then Elizabeth learns tha...

  • Promises Broken

    Francine Pascal

  • Winter Carnival

    Francine Pascal

    Elizabeth Wakefield's enjoyment of the Winter Carnival, Sweet Valley High's weekend at a ski resort, is threatened by the inconsiderate attitude of her twin sister, Jessica, and by Jessica's interference between Elizabeth and her boyfriend...

  • The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan

    Stuart Palmer

    Hildegarde Withers is on the hunt again, as a vacation in California lands her a movie job and two dealers to clear up. Her own death brings Inspector Piper to the scene, and her resurrection cuts through Hollywood red tape as she becomes a target...

  • Beware of Married Men

    Elizabeth Oldfield

    She refused to be "the other woman" Jorja Reynolds liked her boss, Daniel Lecomber, and her job as his personal assistant in the Lecomber real-estate firm. She also adored his small son Toby. But when her relationship with Dan developed...

  • Circus!

    Mattie Lou O'Kelley

  • The Bogeyman

    Maxine O'Callaghan

  • Savage Summer

    Constance O'Banyon

    For all of her nineteen years, Sky Dancer lived with the knowledge that she was different: but the breathtaking beauty never had to face life off of her beloved Blackfoot land. Yet she never knew true fear until she began to have visions of a magnifi...

  • Beats Me, Claude

    Joan Lowery Nixon

  • Foxy Lady

    Marie Nicole

    A SPORTING CHANCE... Dallas Carlyle wasn't the kind of female sports reporter who felt she needed to go into the locker room to get her story, but star pitcher and all-around ladies' man Ryan Fox didn't give her a choice. If he had to give this Da...

  • Child's Play

    Peggy Nicholson

    SHE'D SET HERSELF A NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TASK Snatching a small boy from under his bodyguard's nose was going to prove no mean feat. But Tey Kenyon was committed. She'd built her plan on cunning and deceit, but Mac McAllister proved an...

  • The 120-Hour Clock

    Francis M. Nevins Jr.

  • Mrs. Tortino's Return to the Sun

    Shirley Rousseau Murphy

  • There's an Ape Behind the Drape

    Bernard Most

  • Long Distance

    Penelope Mortimer

  • The Complete Prose of Marianne Moore

    Marianne Moore

  • Pizza Tiger

    Thomas Monaghan

    The founder of Domino's Pizza explains how he expanded his business into the largest pizza delivery company in the world, discussing how ingenuity and strict personal ethics have made the American Dream come true...

  • Tulsa

    Hank Mitchum

    STAGECOACH -- A powerful series of adventures set in the Old West's most dramatic towns -- filled with the danger, history, and romance of the bold men and women who conquered the vast and violent frontier. The wild and wide-open Oklahoma Territor...

  • Solid Ground

    Hugh Miller

  • The Truth Trap

    Frances A. Miller

    Winner of the California Young Reader Medal in the high school category and an ALA Best Book of the Year. Following the death of his parents in a car accident, fifteen-year-old Matt McKendrick runs away from his hometown with his small, deaf sister, ...

  • Recitative

    James Merrill

  • The Great Ideas of Lila Fenwick

    Kate McMullan

  • The Perfect Mix

    Cara McLean

    His timing was perfect Aubrey Jones didn't know it, but she was waiting for a hero. And when Robert Browning charged in to protect her purebred cat from being stolen, he was dangerously close to becoming her knight in shining armor. But could s...

  • Exclusive Contract

    Dixie McKeone

    Relying on first impressions could be trouble .. . Janet Talbot may have been fresh from the Midwest, but she knew the first rule of professional counseling--never get romantically involved with a client. But as an enthusiastic novice, Janet co...

  • King Rollo's Play

    David McKee

  • Judge Benjamin

    Judith Whitelock McInerney

  • Goodly Heritage

    Beverly McGlamry

    BARKER-MARKEY: A NAME THAT ECHOED DOWN THE BUSTLING COAST OF THE COLONIES... for their ships had no equal for grace and innovation. Little did rivals suspect the shocking secret--that these peerless vessels were designed by a woman! Yet Eliza Bar...

  • The Hercules Text

    Jack McDevitt

    The classic first-contact science fiction novel that launched the career of Jack McDevitt, the national bestselling author of Coming Home -- now revised from the original edition, and featuring a new foreword. From a remote corner of the galaxy ...

  • Contract: Terror Summit

    Mike McCray

    Five nuclear bombs are in the hands of an unidentified madman somewhere in the Sahara. Or so the Black Berets have been led to believe.When a bloody raid in Libya turns up nothing but a camp of terrorists who know nothing about any bombs, the elite A...

  • Killashandra

    Anne McCaffrey

    A Crystal Singer novel -- a captivating blend of adventure, intrigue and romance.Killashandra Ree's life was one of catastrophic changes. She had joined the Heptite Guild to become a crystal singer, get rich, and forget her past. And at first everyth...

  • Roses and Regrets

    Bay Matthews

    It took two to make love. It took two to make a baby. It took two to destroy a marriage. And now, eight years later Ginna LeGrand was returning to her husband's Louisiana thoroughbred farm. Ginna hoped that she and Ryan could pull together and disc...

  • Hanky-Panky

    Jan Mathews

    Why does Phillip Manning accuse respectable Darcy Kincaid of being a high-class hooker? Why does Darcy's teenage sister hit him over the head with a gin bottle? Darcy doesn't know the answers only that Phillip conducts the strangest job interview. An...

  • Legacy of the Wolf

    Sonja Massie

    The legendary Wolf Rock rose high above the lush greenery covering the tiny island. And jutting sharply into the golden Caribbean sky gleamed its crowning jewel, the lighthouse. Inside lived in the man Brittany David had come to see. Grandson of Wolf...

  • In Country

    Bobbie Ann Mason

    In the summer of 1984, the war in Vietnam comes home to Sam Hughes, whose father was killed there before she was born: The soldier-boy in the picture never changed. In a way that made him dependable. But he seemed so innocent. "Astronauts have been...

  • Out of the Shadows

    Sandra Marton

    "I'll always do what's best for you." All that Mrs. Webster dreamed of for her daughter was acceptance by San Jacinto's tightly knit country club set. She went out of her way to steer Lauren toward the right sort, insisting, &#...

  • A Conspiracy of Strangers

    Lee Martin

    Detective Deb Ralston's chance discovery of a dead woman, nine months pregnant, in a ditch leads her into a morass of kidnapping and murder in which she has to fight for her own life and for her son's life as well....

  • Deadly Withdrawal

    Cort Martin

  • Punky Brewster at Camp Chipmunk

    Ann M. Martin

  • Starring Punky Brewster

    Ann M. Martin

  • Head First

    William Marshall

  • Drastic Measures

    Jacqueline Marshall

    The nightmare began when she stepped off the plane Sarah Guthrie needed a holiday. When her friend Chris Browning suggested Mazatlan, she jumped at the chance. But what began as a vacation turned into a deadly game of hide-and-seek. Michael Fly...

  • Silk and Splendor

    Ellen Tanner Marsh

    SWEPT BY DANGEROUS AND GLORIOUS PASSION...THEY DARED TO FALL IN LOVE ISLAND OF DREAMS PARADISE OF LOVE His sun-weathered face was arrogantly handsome as she trembled under the steady gaze of his unyielding blue eyes. China Warrick had turned in d...

  • Commando Attack

    Alan Marks

  • The Golden Circle

    Ferne Margulies

  • Hooples' Horrible Holiday

    Stephen Manes

    From the author of Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!, here's the hilarious sequel to Hooples on the Highway and The Hooples' Haunted House:

    Thanksgiving! Turkey! Pumpkin pie! Parades! Alvin Hoople and his family are off to his grandpar...

  • Children of the Mist

    Aleen Malcolm

    A magnificent tale as passionate and beautiful as Scotland herself... THE ROLLING GLENS AND MISTY LOCHS OF SCOTLAND CLOAKED THE FIERY PASSIONS OF A PROUD PEOPLE Kat MacGregor--daughter of a banished clan...and heir to its fury and shame...her b...

  • Death in Durango

    E.B. Majors

  • The Rake

    Karen Lynn

    Amid the elegant splendor of aristocratic England in the early nineteenth century, a determined young woman fights to keep her rightful inheritance even as she battles to keep love at bay with an appealing but mysterious man... When her father is ...

  • The Secret Servant

    Gavin Lyall

    Major Harry Maxim, formerly of the SAS, is a mysterious man who lost his wife to a horrific plane accident. He is as surprised as anyone when he is hired by 10 Downing Street to assist in matters of defence and security.

    Using all the kno...

  • Tell Me No Lies

    Elizabeth Lowell

    PUPPETS ON A STRING China's most priceless artifacts are being smuggled into the U.S. An international crisis is about to explode. Unless a desparate trap to catch a thief succeeds. And one woman is the key. LINDSAY DANCER - Her worldwide reput...

  • A Change of Heart

    Anne Hunter Lowell

    During a ski trip, six members of the most exclusive sorority at William Howard Taft High School find themselves sharing one room and, to make matters worse, two of the girls are attracted to the same guy...

  • Personals

    Susan Lois

  • Rawhide Justice

    Jake Logan

  • Rugged Glory

    Cait Logan

    Ben Woden -- To Sami, he's six feet plus of overpowering masculinity, a hard-brawling, blunt-talking Wyoming rancher who wants her to tutor his rebellious teenage son. Edgy as a grizzly, ornery as a polecat, he's all lean, tough, elemental male. Some...

  • Loydene in Love

    Lael Littke

  • In Love With the Man

    Marjorie Lewty

    This was one adventure her heart hadn't planned As a junior programmer, being chosen for the Tokyo fact-finding team represented the career opportunity of a lifetime for Pippa Marsden. And the prospect of sharing the exciting East with Adri...

  • Bones of God

    Stephen Leigh

    On the Earth of 2558 A.D., the followers of Molitor Ab believe they have found their savior--the Sartius Exori--in the person of Colin Fairwood, who promises to deliver them from the oppression of the ruling Zakkaist church...

  • Proud Surrender

    Jackie Leigh

    What terrible grief has driven wealthy Sean Bridges to rugged isolation in the North Carolina mountains? Teri MacKinley wants his help on her folklore project, but she can't stand his fierce hostility. Still, she's drawn by his powerfully masculine p...

  • Smoke

    Geoffrey Leeds

    American adventurer Stedman Wright finds himself on the run after he throws the corpse of a murder victim--the mysterious Omar, who held a vital key in the balance of power in the Middle East--from his hotel window...

  • New Black Mask #7

    Richard Layman

  • To an Easy Grave

    Alexander Law

    Still grieving over the accidental death of his young wife, Richard Cane learns that his friend, pro quarterback Sean Denby, has been murdered and, deciding to find the murderer himself, uncovers many deadly secrets...

  • Retief in the Ruins

    Keith Laumer

    It's a rare day when Terrans meet eye-to-eyestalk with the slimy little sticky-fingers--er, that is to say, the noble alien Groaci. This time the races clash on the planet PopuRi, once the home of a mighty interstellar power. Popu-Ri has sunk into de...

  • Buck

    Tamela Larimer

  • Good and Dead

    Jane Langton

    THE OLD WEST CHURCH HAD MORE REASONS THAN MOST TO WORRY ABOUT DECLINING MEMBERSHIP.... It isn't a loss of faith that is emptying the pews at Old West Church. It is something far more sinister-an inexplicable number of people are taking up residenc...

  • Love in the Dark

    Charlotte Lamb

    He had always been a threat. Stephanie had come halfway around the world, built a new life, met another man. And now Gerard Tenniel had arrived -- Gerard, who knew all about the scandal five years earlier and threatened to talk about it. Unless. ...

  • Gummi Bears Book of Yummies

    Patricia Lakin

  • Fascination

    Patricia Lake

    He penetrated all her defenses Pretending indifference to Jordan Haves was too much of a challenge to Lise Holbrook's acting abilities. From the instant they met at a party in London, the wealthy patron of the arts dominated her thoughts. ...

  • West of Pilot Range

    Louis L'Amour

  • Mystery of the Secret Room

    Ellen Kushner

  • Crystal Flame

    Jayne Ann Krentz

    HE WAS FIRE... SHE WAS ICE... TOGETHER THEIR PASSION WAS A CRYSTAL FLAME A woman of glittering eyes and cool celestial bearing, she is Kalena, the last survivor of a proud heritage. Now, disguised as an innocent country girl, she is on a deadly se...

  • Sea Changes

    Robert Kotlowitz

  • The Foundling Fox

    Irina Korschunow

  • Not This August

    C.M. Kornbluth

    Defeated in battle, will the United States be forced to surrender to the armies of China and Russia?...

  • Flame of the Inquisition

    Marc Kornblatt

    IT IS THE YEAR 1487. You have traveled back to Spain during the Inquisition to find Queen Isabella. You've just scaled the walls of an enemy castle when suddenly one of the guards wielding a razor-sharp scimitar rushes at you. You must act quickly...

  • The Big Brand

    Elmer Kelton

  • Hit and Run Holiday

    Carolyn Keene

    A friend's near-murder plunges Nancy into a dark tangle of clues on Florida's sunny beaches Sun, surf and boys are all Nancy, Bess and George have on their minds when they cruise into Ft. Lauderdale for a week of fun. But that changes abruptly whe...

  • Fire and Ice

    Carol Katz

    Kirsten Holley knows the exhilaration of skating, and the devastation of defeat. Now she needs all the courage she can muster to launch her skating comeback--and confront Rory Lanceford, the coach who abandoned her in her darkest hour... the lover wh...

  • The Toplofty Lord Thorpe

    Michelle Kasey

    THE UNSUSPECTING EARL Miss Lucy Gladwin knew all the faults of the eminent, elegant Julian Rutherford, Earl of Thorpe. Julian was not only unbearably arrogant, he was insufferably self-centered and infuriatingly egotistical, as pleased with himsel...

  • Courting Trouble

    Janet Joyce

    ORDER IN THE COURT Judge Blythe Cramer had always run a tight courtroom until hot-tempered attorney Patrick McBride stormed in. It wasn't her first encounter with the wild Irishman -- Blythe and Patrick had attended the same grammar school and...

  • Loving // Bride in Name Only

    Penny Jordan

    He offered her marriage -- but only in name Inheriting a small cottage near London had allowed Claire Richards to achieve independence for herself and her young daughter, Lucy. So when Jay Fraser accused her of encouraging Lucy's friendship wi...

  • The Well

    Elizabeth Jolley

    Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged and eccentric, brings Katherine into her emotionally impoverished life. Together they sew, cook gourmet dishes for two, run the farm, make music and throw dirty dishes down the well. One night, driving along the desert...

  • Woman in a Lampshade

    Elizabeth Jolley

  • Bloodland

    William W. Johnstone

    Returning home to Lewiston, Nebraska, after serving as a mercenary for many years, Key Lessard must save his town and the world when a diabolical neo-Nazi group forms a violent army bent on destroying anyone who has not joined their twisted regiment....

  • Carlisles All

    Norma Johnston

    When her father's taken hostage in the Middle East and her mother goes to Europe to keep close to the situation, Jess Carlisle, fifteen, must handle the press and take care of her brothers and sisters...

  • Colter's Wife

    Joan Johnston

    IN A BOLD, DARING BARGAIN SHE MARRIED A STRANGER...AND DISCOVERED NEW DEPTHS OF DESIRE! It was a shocking alliance indeed -- Kinyan Holloway, the proud young widow, and Benjamin Colter, the tall, scarred drifter driven by a dream. Only as a marrie...

  • Spring and Shadow Man

    Emily Johnson

  • York, the Renegade

    Iris Johansen

    Heirs to a great dynasty, the Delaney brothers were united by blood, united by devotion to their rugged land...and known far and wide as THE SHAMROCK TRINITY. Powerful men...rakes and charmers...they needed only love to make their lives complete. ...

  • The Mallory Touch

    Muriel Jensen

    Randy thought she had charge of her own destiny That is until Matt Mallory, with his famous Midas touch, came to Scannon Cove, Oregon, to set up the Cove Mallory Inn. At first he was just a customer buying a car at Stanton Motors, Randy's deal...

  • Strange Bedfellows

    Arlene James

    ROMANCING THE OPPOSITION Caleen Brady mayor? If she'd been unsure of the idea before, she certainly wasn't after she hit that pothole. Why, if her mysterious Prince Charming hadn't rushed her to the hospital, who knows what might'...

  • The Dream Makers

    Anna James

    HOLLYWOOD, SOUTH CAROLINA Diligence Hall Plantation was perfect for the filming of Glory Road, but reclusive Reese Benedict had no intention of letting Hollywood film people near the place. So Eva Sinclair, Marchetti Films' best troubleshoote...

  • A Lucky Star

    Jacqueline Jade

    MYSTERIOUS DESIGNS? What had really happened to the chief costume designer for the new theater production of The Tempest? Inheriting the job should have been Marti Montagne's big break. Instead, she found herself involved with a mystery--and direc...

  • Necessary

    Ken Jackson

    The Mob from Kansas City has been moving construction equipment around for years, "blue-skying" and making lots of money for themselves and for corrupt county and city commissioners. An anonymous call points Necessary toward a crooked construction fo...

  • The Hills Are Eternal

    Sara Hylton

  • Welcome the Morning

    Bobby Hutchinson

    She could drive a man to unnatural acts No one but Charlie Cossini and her construction crew had ever proven immune to the lure of Haleiwa, Hawaii. Benjamin Valentine Gilmour, a man who gave new meaning to the term "idle rich," considered Charlie'...

  • Judgment in Blood

    Jack D. Hunter

  • Ball and Chain

    E.J. Hunter

  • The Forever Promise

    Meg Hudson

    THIS WAS THEIR SECOND CHANCE On a sunny June day fourteen years ago, just hours before she was to wed King Faraday, her high-school sweetheart, Claire Parmeter made a devastating discovery. Another woman was carrying her fiance's child. Claire fle...

  • The Dragon Portfolio

    Richard Hoyt

    In China...the reds are out to hit American capital markets for half a billion dollars.... Ella Nidech, American spy on the rise, and James Burlane, the CIA-s very best man of action...turn out to be the hottest new team to do battle...with others...

  • Rafe, the Maverick

    Kay Hooper

    Heirs to a great dynasty, the Delaney brothers were united by blood, united by devotion to their rugged land...and known far and wide as THE SHAMROCK TRINITY. Powerful men...rakes and charmers...they needed only love to make their lives complete. ...

  • I Know a Trick Worth Two of That

    Samuel Holt

    Sam Holt spent years playing Packard, everyone's favorite TV-detective; he's got no desire to play sleuth in real life. But when a long-lost pal calls with a rant about conspiracies, sinister cargo ships and hit men, and then gets poisoned at a party...