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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — NOVEMBER 1986

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New Books List: 375 titles

  • The 120-Hour Clock

    Francis M. Nevins Jr.

  • Acts of Contrition

    William Heffernan

    Taut and grittily realistic, this explosive novel of deceit and revenge weaves a suspenseful tale of a man who built his career on his ability to cover up the past, and of the woman who made it her business to expose it. From the author of The Corsic...

  • After the Torchlight

    Diane Carey

    GREGORY GORDON'S COAL-BLACK EYES BORED STRAIGHT INTO MY SOUL. NO FORCE HAD EVER HELD ME IN PLACE LIKE THE GRIP OF HIS EYES AS HE MOVED TOWARD ME.... Beautiful Jean Forbes fled 18th-century Scotland to seek refuge from the ruthless British Army. ...

  • The Alamo Treasure

    J.D. Hardin

  • Alana

    Monica Barrie

    A PROUD, BEAUTIFUL WOMAN TORN BETWEEN HONOR AND DESIRE The Civil War had ravaged everything but her beauty and her dreams. Alana Belfores vowed to rebuild Riverbend at any cost -- even a loveless marriage. Not until Rafe Montgomery rode into he...

  • 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...

  • All My Tomorrows

    Rosemary Hammond

    She didn't want a part-time love From the first night when Dr. Jessica Carpenter opened her door to Jason Strong, she sensed he was dangerous. As she nursed his wounds in war-torn San Cristobal, Jessica fell in love with the fugitive reporter....

  • The Alley Cat

    Yves Beauchemin

    First published in Quebec in 1981, Beauchemin’s highly acclaimed comic masterpiece of storytelling follows in the tradition of the great novels of the 19th century.

    When Florent Boissonneault comes to the aid of an accident victim, his life ...

  • 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...

  • America's Zero Hour

    Ryder Stacy

  • 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...

  • The Art of the Tale

    Daniel Halpern

    Collects masterpieces of short fiction--from traditional forms and folktales to surrealism--and offers a wide representation of authors from the United States as well as European and newer Third World literature...

  • Assault into Libya

    Jim Case

    The killers had it coming to them! Book 2 of Cody's Army by Jim Case....

  • Back to Malachi

    Robert J. Conley

  • Ball and Chain

    E.J. Hunter

  • Battlestations!

    Diane Carey

    Back on Earth enjoying a well-deserved shore leave, Captain Kirk is rudely accosted by a trio of Starfleet Security guards. It seems he is wanted for questioning in connection with the theft of transwarp--the Federation's newest, most advanced propul...

  • Beats Me, Claude

    Joan Lowery Nixon

  • Beiderbecke Tapes

    A. Plater

  • 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...

  • 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 Big Brand

    Elmer Kelton

  • Big City Detective

    Jack Dautrich

  • Big Sisters Are Bad Witches

    Morse Hamilton

  • The Bishop

    David Helwig

    Tells the life of an Anglican bishop, whose life has been full, but who now lies on his deathbed after a debilitating stroke. The story looks at several people whose lives touch that of the bishop, slowly, the reader pieces together the life of a rem...

  • Bitterness

    James Henry

  • Blood from the Mummy's Tomb

    Derek Farmer

  • The Blood of the Borgias

    Sarah Bradford

  • Blood River Down

    Lionel Fenn

  • 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....

  • The Bogeyman

    Maxine O'Callaghan

  • 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...

  • Borrowed Summer

    Marion Walker Doren

  • Brandon Papers

    Brandon Quentin

  • 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...

  • Bride on Approval

    Elizabeth Ashton

    An arranged marriage was not the answer! Sancia longed to be free from the restrictive atmosphere of her father's house -- but her loveless upbringing had convinced her that she'd never be able to respond to a man's lovemaking. So, ...

  • Buck

    Tamela Larimer

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Cajun Man

    Olivia Ferrell

    SOUTHERN MAN Carol DuBois was strong, smart and ambitious. She knew she could run the family business better than her brother, but her father had been blind to everything except the fact that she was a woman. So she set out to prove she could make...

  • The Calculus of Murder

    Erik Rosenthal

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • The Cattlemen

    Bill Pronzini

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Charli Toledo Hopeless

    Grace Williams

  • Child of Darkness

    David Silva

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Chosen Parents

    Mel Arrighi

    A detective believes that Scott and Sandy Lamson, two bright, beautiful, and incestuous siblings, have murdered their parents and are engaged in a deadly, bizarre game that involves a search for new parents and strange accidents...

  • Christmas Secrets

    Ann Schweninger

  • Circus!

    Mattie Lou O'Kelley

  • The Cloisonne Locket

    Barbara Hazard

    THE DESIGNING DUKE The devastatingly handsome, fabulously wealthy Duke of Rutland was sure that Miss Rosemary Barton was too good to be true -- and too beautiful to be good. Surely this extraordinarily lovely young lady had put herself in his p...

  • Cold Iron

    Nicolas Freeling

    The ninth Inspector Castang murder mystery is “a heady pleasure” in which “learning the identity of the miscreant is only one of the delights” (Publishers Weekly).Recently promoted to Commissaire of a small province in northea...

  • The Colonels

    W.E.B. Griffin

    They were the professionals, the men who had been toughened by combat in the mine-laden fields of Europe, in Korea, in Greece, in Indochina. Now, in the twilight of a dying decade, they must return to the States to forge a new type of American soldie...

  • Colsec Rebellion

    Douglas Hill

    In this thrilling conclusion to the ColSec Trilogy, five young outcasts return from exile to free Earth from an authoritarian government. In the savage streets, they rally the Earth's people to fight for freedom....

  • 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...

  • Commando Attack

    Alan Marks

  • The Complete Prose of Marianne Moore

    Marianne Moore

  • Conjuring Summer in

    Mildred Ames

    Sixteen-year-old Bernadette experiments with psychic forces, including black magic, in her unhappiness over the family's move to California; but a series of murders and a threat on her own life ensue....

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Creep

    B.W. Battin

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Daddy

    Charles Cohen

    Jamie Grenne, a handsome forty-year-old history professor, leaves his brilliant and beautiful wife for a red-haired graduate student with a trust-fund, but everything changes after Jamie learns that his wife is pregnant...

  • Dance With Me

    M.E. Cooper

    Getting in Step... It seems that nothing will cheer up Fiona Stone when she doesn't get into London's prestigious National Ballet. So when she joins the rest of her family in Rose Hill, her brother Jeremy sets her up on a blind date with gorgeous, l...

  • Dancing With Mermaids

    Miles Gibson

    First published in 1985, Miles Gibson's phantasmagoric second novel returns to print with a new preface by the author. Wreathed in legends and haunted by ghosts, the little Dorset village of Rams Horn is a fantastical seaside world where reality ebbs...

  • Danger on the Sound Track

    Nancy K. Robinson

  • Dark Angel

    V.C. Andrews

    AT LAST, HEAVEN WOULD FIND THE HAPPINESS SHE LONGED FOR...FREE FROM THE SCORN AND CONTEMPT OF HER PAST! In her grandmother's fine, rich Boston house, Heaven Leigh Casteel dreamed of a wonderful new life -- of new friends, the best schools, beautiful...

  • Daughters of the Law

    Sandy Asher

  • Deadly Withdrawal

    Cort Martin

  • A Death for a Dancer

    E.X. Giroux

    Gentlemanly Robert Forsythe and his longtime PA "Sandy" Sanderson are sleuthing up a storm, investigating innocent victims who maybe weren’t so innocent after all…No, Katherine St. Croix was not a hoofer, but she also wasn’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...

  • Death in Durango

    E.B. Majors

  • Deep Kill

    Irving A. Greenfield

  • Den of Dragons

    J.H. Brennan

  • 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...

  • Difficult Death

    Rene Crevel

  • Doc

    Richard Graber

  • Double Trouble

    Yvonne Greene

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Duke's Dilemma

    Elizabeth Chater

    WITH AN EARLDOM AT STAKE, HER BROTHER'S MISHAPS WERE NO ACCIDENT! It took two attempts on her nine-year-old brother's life to alert Lady Leslie Endale that their greedy guardian March Wardell meant to have the family fortune. But transp...

  • Ease

    Patrick Gale

    A world-weary playwright takes on a fake name and a sleazy apartment -- and learns to live again -- in this charming novel from bestselling author Patrick Gale. Success came quick to Domina Tey. An award-winning playwright, Domina was famous before s...

  • 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...

  • Escape from Gulag Taria

    Joseph Rosenberger

  • Every Moment Counts

    Martha Hix

    From the ashes of her loveless existence, Marcella Parker put all her energies into her career. Now, newly arrived in Texas and eager to start her vice presidency at Goodman National Bank, she certainly couldn't fall for the cool green eyes of he...

  • 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...

  • The Eyes of the Killer Robot

    John Bellairs

    Will thirteen-year-old Johnny Dixon suffer the same fate Evaristus Sloane's robot can only be activated by human eves, and the maniacal wizard has selected Johnny as the donor. When Johnny is kidnapped, Professor Childermass and Fergie race to Sloane...

  • The Face in the Frost

    John Bellairs

    A quirky fantasy classic by “a writer who knows what wizardry is all about” (Ursula K. Le Guin).
     
    A richly imaginative story of wizards stymied by a power beyond their control, A Face in the Frost combines the thrills of a ho...

  • Fairy Tale Treasury

    Dorothy Briggs

  • A Fall from Aloft

    Brian Burland

  • Falling For You

    Lisa Swazey

  • False Impressions

    Karin Berne

  • Family Ties

    Joe Claro

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • Fire Signs

    Jocelyn Griffin

    RIVALS Sara knew she had to be wary of Nick Foster. As her chief rival, he displayed a fearlessness that was unmatched in Boston's business world. Something in his dark lion's eyes ignited a fire in Sara's soul, intense and dangerous. And with one...

  • Flame of Fidelity

    Sandra Dubay

    SHE SET MEN'S PASSIONS ABLAZE Lovely Fidelity Fairfax inflamed the desires of every man she met. Her search for a lasting love led her from one forbidden romance to another, and finally to England's royal court, where she caught the eye of the kin...

  • 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...

  • Follow Your Heart

    Dorothy Brenner Francis / Dorothy Francis

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Foundling Fox

    Irina Korschunow

  • 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...

  • The Freeman

    Jerry Ahern; Sharon Ahern

    The near future. Weak-kneed appeasers in Washington, D.C., have forged an alliance with the Soviet Union and created a police state within our own borders. The first victim of the new regime is the Bill of Rights. A daring band of freedom fighters in...

  • 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 museâ€"artis...

  • Futuredays: A Nineteenth Century Vision of the Year 2000

    Isaac Asimov

  • Galactic Bounty

    William C. Dietz

    THE GREATEST GALACTIC MANHUNT OF ALL TIME A traitor is on the loose. A treacherous navy captain plans to sell military secrets to the alien Il Ronn. The only man who can stop him is Sam McCade--an interstellar bounty hunter with a score to sett...

  • 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...

  • The Gemini Plot

    Eric J. Collenette

  • Gilbert and the Birthday Cake

    Jack Harvey

  • Go Away, Stay Away

    Gail E. Haley

  • 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....

  • Golden Bay

    Gloria Bevan

    Love was seldom where you looked for it Never again, Liz Stuart cautioned herself, would she fall a willing victim to the facile charms of an attractive stranger! With that conviction uppermost, she decided a holiday was in order. And so, with ...

  • The Golden Circle

    Ferne Margulies

  • Golden Glory

    Stella Bagwell

    COWBOY'S DREAM ... Russell Harrison was after an elusive dream in which his wife had held no part. Rodeo was his narcotic, winning his high. Once he was out there rolling, Lynn was forgotten. Now, after five years, Lynn was back in Oklahoma...

  • The Golden Lion

    Pamela Haines

    Italy -- it was where Maria Verzotto was born and where secret societies, ruled by the man they called "the Lion;' controlled her family's fate. From here, with her heritage locked deep in her heart, destiny would toss Maria from poverty ...

  • 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...

  • 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 Great Ideas of Lila Fenwick

    Kate McMullan

  • 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...

  • Gummi Bears Book of Yummies

    Patricia Lakin

  • Halfway to Heaven

    Pamela Bauer

    LIFE WAS FAR TOO COMPLICATED What with a rebellious teenage daughter and an alarming attraction to sexy department store magnate Cole Braxton III, designer Rachel Kincaid hardly knew where to turn. She couldn't afford to fall in love with Cole;...

  • Hamilton Stark

    Russell Banks

    Hamilton Stark is a New Hampshire pipe fitter and the sole inhabitant of the house from which he evicted his own mother. He is the villain of five marriages and the father of a daughter so obsessed that she has been writing a book about him for years...

  • Hammerlocke

    Jack Barnao

    John Locke, aka HammerLocke, an expert in guerilla tactics. The wealthy family of Herbert "Herbie" Ridley hires Locke to chaperone the wimpy teenager on a sojourn to Italy, where the tough hero is severely tested. Outnumbered and outfoxed, Locke is h...

  • Hank's Woman

    Jo Ann Algermissen

    THE QUALITY OF LOVE As Quality Control Manager at Bunyan Manufacturing, Jennifer Wagner had dedicated herself to her career. For years she'd struggled up the corporate ladder, only to have someone else land "her" job. Hank Riley was an...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Hatteras Light

    Philip Gerard

    Set off the treacherous Outer Banks of North Carolina during the final days of the First World War, Hatteras Light is the compelling story of the dedicated keepers of the Hatteras lighthouse and their tightly knit community. For generations...

  • Head First

    William Marshall

  • Heat of the Night

    Annette Broadrick

    BREATHLESS In the heat of the night, trapped in a jungle in South America, Melanie took a deep breath. She'd encountered various obstacles on her journey through Colombia, but mudslides and earthquakes were nothing compared to Justin Drake. ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Hide and Seek

    Ellen Devlin

  • The Hills Are Eternal

    Sara Hylton

  • 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...

  • Hold Back the Night

    Linda Barlow

    KIDNAPPED It was a land of beauty, fragrant with olive trees and wildflowers. Photographer Tracy Heath was in Turkey to shoot travel pictures, but the glittering waters of the Aegean made her forget the scenery and zoom in on a sailboat and its su...

  • 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...

  • I Am Fifteen: And I Don't Want to Die

    Christine Arnothy

  • I Am the Only Running Footman

    Martha Grimes

    Not far from a fashionable Mayfair pub called I Am the Only Running Footman lies the body of a blond shopgirl. She has been strangled with her own scarf-a fact that reminds Scotland Yard's Richard Jury of an unsolved murder in Devon, where the irasci...

  • 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...

  • I Was a 15-Year-Old

    Patti Stren

  • 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...

  • In La-La Land We Trust

    Robert Campbell

    When a head without a body turns up in a lake near New Orleans, the locals write it off as another prank by the witch queens. But when a body without a head falls out of a station wagon in Los Angeles, folks sit up and take notice. Child porn, snu...

  • 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...

  • Indiana Jones and the Cup of the Vampire

    Andrew Helfer

    The young reader joins forces with dashing archaeologist Indiana Jones to search for a mysterious goblet--which, according to legend, can grant eternal life to those who drink from it--believed to be buried in the grave of the notorious, fifteenth-ce...

  • The Institution

    Walter Adamson

  • It Walks by Night

    J.D. Carpenter

  • Ivy Larkin

    Mary Stolz

  • Jeeter, Mason and the Magic Headset

    Maggie Twohill

  • The Journal Of Emily Rose

    Jeffie Ross Gordon

  • Journeys

    Judith Summers

  • Judge Benjamin

    Judith Whitelock McInerney

  • Judgment in Blood

    Jack D. Hunter

  • 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....

  • Just the Way You Are

    Janice Boies

    When the Cupid's Arrow computer matches her up with super cute Jeremy Griffin, Dee's ecstatic! But then she overhears him saying he'd never date a crazy girl like her. So Dee decides to become as calm and serious as he is-- and sure enough Jeremy ask...

  • The Karamanov Equations

    Marshall Goldberg

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • King Rollo's Play

    David McKee

  • 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...

  • Lantana Lane

    Eleanor Dark

    We have lived round the corner from the world, with not even a signpost to betray our whereabouts... and if the treasure we have accumulated makes no show upon our bank statements, neither is it subject to income tax.'Lantana, bushy and massive, is A...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Lever Action

    Kit Dalton

  • 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 ...

  • The Little Company

    Eleanor Dark

    It is 1941 and the storm clouds of war gather over Australia. In the mountains outside Sydney the Massey family are reunited by their father's death. Gilbert is a successful novelist, struggling with writer's block in middle age. A socialist and inte...

  • Little Dracula's Christmas

    Martin Waddell

  • Lone Star and the Nevada Mustangs

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki round up a pack of wild horses -- and a coffin-load of danger in the fifty-first Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and K...

  • Long Distance

    Penelope Mortimer

  • Longarm and the Escape Artist

    Tabor Evans

    THE HANGMAN OR THE WIDOW? California lawmen have nabbed Chauncey Mahoney, alias the Stovespit Kid, and it's Longarm's job to bring him back to Denver to stand trial for the murder of a U.S. Marshal. But the Kid doesn't stay jailed long. Like spit ...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • Love on the Range

    Louise E. Powers

  • A Lover Scorned

    Isabelle Holland

    Reverend Claire Aldington was upset enough to learn a female colleague had been killed. Then she learned that her fiance had secretly known the woman. When more murders start to occur, Claire joins the police to catch the killer--who may turn out to ...

  • 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...

  • Loydene in Love

    Lael Littke

  • 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...

  • Macroscope

    Piers Anthony

    Macroscope Throughout history, man has been searching for better ways to gather information about his universe. But although they may have longed for it, not even the most brilliant minds could conceive of a device as infinitely powerful or as immeas...

  • Malice Domestic

    Mollie Hardwick

    LIFE ON THE SOUTH COAST OF ENGLAND DOES WONDERS FOR A BROKEN HEART. Her new life in a tiny Kent village suits Doran Fairweather to a T. Devastated by a bad love affair, she now finds deep contentment in her shabby old house, her antiques business,...

  • 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...

  • The Man in the Monkey Suit

    Oswaldo Franca Jr.

    Alfonso, a mechanic and matter-of-fact hero in a world so drab it's comical, buys a garage from two friends who have sold to him because ``the place was out of control.'' Alfonso attempts to bring order to the business but is thwarted, and his person...

  • The Marriage Deal

    Sara Craven

    Jago was the only possible solution Ashley Landon was desperate. After two years of her best efforts as chairman, her family's business faced either bankruptcy or a takeover. Then Jago Marrick, her ex-fiance, turned up with a hardheaded altern...

  • 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...

  • The Master Assassin

    Nick Carter

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Miami Mice

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Mirror of Her Dreams

    Stephen R. Donaldson

    The Mirror of Her Dreams is the story of Terisa Morgan and Geraden, son of the Domne, in the strange land called Mordant. It is a rich and finely textured novel of love and lust, power and court politics, in this place where nothing is ever what it s...

  • The Mission

    Robert Bolt

    In order to come to terms with his violent past, soldier-of-fortune Rodrigo Mendoza joins forces with a priest, Father Gabriel, head of a Jesuit mission deep in the South American jungle, to battle ruthless slave traders preying on the Guarani native...