Books Published in November 1986

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — NOVEMBER 1986

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New Books List: 375 titles

  • 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 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...

  • Wycliffe and the Quiet Virgin

    W.J. Burley

    Wycliffe investigates the disappearance of a young girl - and becomes involved in a major criminal investigation . . .Chief Superintendent Wycliffe doubted whether he would enjoy his Christmas. With his wife away, he rashly accepted an invitation to ...

  • The Wrong Mirror

    Emma Darcy

    He had robbed her of everyone she loved To Karen Aylward, newspaper magnate Hal Chissolm was a monster. He'd refused to marry Kirsty, her pregnant twin sister, so that Kirsty had given up their son at birth--to be adopted by Karen. Then Kir...

  • Wrack and Roll

    Bradley Denton

  • Woman in a Lampshade

    Elizabeth Jolley

  • Wolf Rider

    Avi

    The phone rang three times before Andy picked it up. "Hello?" he said. A voice replied, "I just killed someone." Only Andy Zadinski is convinced that the caller is serious. But no one else will listen; not the police, not his friends, not even hi...

  • The Witches Eye

    Steven Charles

    Jennifer Field and her friends investigate Witch's Eye, a mysterious lake, to search for clues to the terrible events stalking Thaler Academy only to stir up the evil, alien horror lurking deep in the murky waters...

  • Winter in Eden

    Harry Harrison

    Harry Harrison, an acknowledged master of imaginative fiction, broke new ground with West of Eden. He brought to vivid life the world as it might have been, where dinosaurs survived, where their intelligent descendents challenged humans for mastery o...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Wild Temptation

    Helen Conrad (1)

    Carne Harlow's every nerve tingled with danger. Champion race-car driver Grant Cody lived in the fast lane -- and wanted to take her along for the ride. For the first time she'd been kissed by a man who'd found a vein of response in her ...

  • Wild Star

    Catherine Coulter

    He had stopped kissing her...leaving her parted lips trembling, waiting for more. Oh, how she wanted him But Byrony knew that Brent Hammond was the last man in the world she should want. This handsome San Francisco gambler was legendary for all t...

  • Wild Land, Wild Love

    Mallory Burgess

    HEARTS ON FIRE Genna felt a spark of white heat engulf her as Alex's mouth claimed hers. Sweet murmurings of love silenced her protest as he carried her across the room to rest on the soft white pillows... Yet instead of the love she longs for...

  • Wild Horse Mesa

    Hillary Benford

  • Wild

    Joanna Wharton

  • When Love Flies By

    Jeanne Allan

    It would be tempting fate to love a man like him... Her brother's wife had just delivered twins, so Lindsey tried to blot out the memories of her father's death and fly to Germany. If it hadn't been for the strong, sensitive man sit...

  • Whatever It Takes

    Barbara Boswell

    It was an impossible match, Kelly Malloy fumed when ordered to team up with Brandt Madison. If the man was such a good journalist, why was he working for one of the sleaziest rags at the checkout counter? But once she met the devastatingly handsome m...

  • Whale and Dolphin

    Vincent Serventy

  • West of Pilot Range

    Louis L'Amour

  • 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...

  • 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'...

  • The Wedding at Port-Au-Prince

    Hans Christoph Buch

  • The Wanderer's Promise

    Paula Hamilton

    Her chance of a lifetime had one hitch -- partnership with a man she despised. Brenda Dupree was a whiz at law and numbers. Steve Kingsley had the hands-on know-how they needed to monitor KLM's oil wells. But how could she trust him? Contemptuous...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Vampyre

    David Campton

  • The Unwilling Heiress

    Deborah Fruchey

    Lucy Trahern, sometime governess to the three Bostram children, has suddenly lost her position. As the story opens, she is wandering London without baggage or money in the rain, looking for a night’s shelter. Beyond hope, she finds two old ladies w...

  • Undercover Affair

    Sydney Ann Clary

    Flame Garret had to be free. Her husband, Logan, left her no choice. Possessive, proud, resentful of her success as a pop singer and her help in his years as a struggling young lawyer, he'd forced her decision. Flame thought their passion had bur...

  • Unconfirmed Kill

    Eric Helm

    A year in the jungles of Vietnam brings its own reprieve - R and R. The men of U.S. Army Special Forces Camp A-555 are excited at the prospect of time away from that hellish conflict. But, although they don't know it, the squad is marked for death ...

  • Twin Cities Run

    David Robbins

  • Twilight Child

    Warren Adler

    When Charlie and Molly’s son dies in an accident, their daughter-in-law remarries quickly and is vaulted into a new world of money and privilege. She is now determined to lead a new life and to keep her young son free from his grandparents’ blue-...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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, ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Too Much Saxon Violence: and Other Important Issues for Punsters

    Paul Dickson

  • Tomorrow's Sphinx

    Clare Bell

    Kichebo, a female cheetah living in the Nile Valley in a future world thousands of years after humankind migrated to space to escape ecological catastrophe, finds her life compliclated by strange hunters in sky vehicles...

  • 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...

  • Time Wars

    Poul Anderson

  • A Time for Us

    E.V. Dolan

  • Thunderhawk

    Jon Sharpe

  • 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 ...

  • 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 -- ...

  • There's an Ape Behind the Drape

    Bernard Most

  • There Will Be War

    Jerry Pournelle

  • There Are No Spies

    Bill Granger

    The time is March. The name is Devereaux -- the November Man -- the American field officer who has gone to ground on Lake Geneva. He doesn't know that a beautiful KGB agent has been ordered to stalk two Novembers -- and kill them both...or that Hanl...

  • Thanksgiving Promise

    Blaine M. Yorgason

  • Texas Born

    James Reno

  • The Tender Seed

    Harry Ringel

  • The Temptation to Exist

    E.M. Cioran

  • The Temporary Husband

    Barbara Allister

    THE IDEAL ARRANGEMENT Beautiful Miss Amanda Desmond had no interest in being a wife, for to be a man's possession was a notion that filled her with loathing. Handsome and wealthy Andrew Fairleigh, Lord Mainwaring, detested the idea of marriage,...

  • 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...

  • Teddy's Birthday

    Michelle Cartlidge

  • 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...

  • Taking Care of Yoki

    Barbara Campbell

    Nothing is ever simple for Barbara Ann, better known as Bob. No matter how hard she tries to do what's right, things always seem to turn out wrong. And there's no one she can turn to for help -- her father is away fighting in the w...

  • Sweet Tomorrows

    Francine Christopher

    CUTTER WAS AS UNUSUAL AS HIS NAME Valerie Wentworth wasn't used to surprises. She'd traded in her close-to-the-edge existence on Wall Street for the placid predictability of a small New York town and ownership of an antique doll shop. C...

  • Sweet Tempest

    Eileen Bryan

    Her only legacy was a fierce determination to succeed. At thirty Rachel Daniels was a widow and owner of a failing farm. How could she refuse the handsome drifter who offered to work for room and board until harvest? She couldn't afford to say no... ...

  • Sweet Revenge

    Linda A. Cooney

  • 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 ...

  • The Streets

    Michael Zausner

  • 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'...

  • Still Waters

    Kathleen Creighton

    Determined to face her fear of water, Maddy Gordon signed up for beginner swimming, and found herself surrounded by seven-year-olds! And why did her instructor have to be golden-muscled Olympic swimmer Zack London, whose grin still gave her goose bu...

  • 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...

  • Starring Punky Brewster

    Ann M. Martin

  • Star Quality

    Jennifer Cole

    Three teenaged sisters--Nicole, embarking on a modeling career; Mollie, who wants to be an actress; and Cindy, who plans to be a stunt woman--share clothes, their homework, and the hopes, dreams, and fears of their lives....

  • Spring and Shadow Man

    Emily Johnson

  • A Special Man

    Billie Green

    Greenleigh Acres was a refuge for the rich and famous, and it was there that Amanda first saw the man she knew only as "Danny." Her heart ached at seeing him confined, and she vowed to let him taste freedom. Away from Greenleigh, "Dann...

  • Southern Dreams and Trojan Women

    Leo Snow

  • Solid Ground

    Hugh Miller

  • The Soldier's Prize

    Dan Cragg

  • 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...

  • Soldier Boy

    Michael French

  • Snow Country

    James Skofield

  • A Snake in the Grass

    Jack L. Chalker

    The Four Lords of the Diamond is a series of four science fiction novels. Each volume of the series primarily follows a duplicate of a government agent as he lands on his prison planet and begins to both investigate the menace to the civilized worlds...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Sleep Of Spies

    Palma Harcourt

    Philip Camplin is determined who, inside the ministry of defense, is responsible for substituting nerve gas for the tear gas British troops used to disperse a peaceful demonstration in Northern Ireland...

  • Skinwalkers

    Tony Hillerman

    Three shotgun blasts explode into the trailer of Officer Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police. But Chee survives to join partner Lt. Joe Leaphorn in a frightening investigation that takes them into a dark world of ritual, witchcraft, and blood -- all...

  • Simon's Night

    Jon Hassler

    "A marvel. Out of Old Age, which our peculiar times have determined to view as a sort of generational sin, Jon Hassler has drawn forth a poignant, funny, wise novel about Eternal Youth."
    THE CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER
    Simon Shea, a retired professo...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Silent Tower

    Barbara Hambly

    In her latest novel, The Silent Tower, Barbara Hambly has written a complex tale of dark magic, mystery and deadly danger involving a woman computer programmer who struggles to help a condemned wizard save--or perhaps destroy?--two worlds......

  • Shooting Star

    Barbara Bretton

    "Be daring," Katie's sister said So Katie Powers, staid Bostonian in the middle of an otherwise sensible vacation in Japan, followed the advice ... and was trapped with Tom Sagan in a trail that dangled high over a bottomless ravine, was stranded ...

  • Sherlock Holmes: A Centenary Celebration

    Allen Eyles

    sherloch homes: a centenary celebraton is illustrations with many of the original classic illustrations by such artists as sidney paget and frederic dorr steele, and also with scenes from holmes representations on stage and sceen....

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Raleigh Legacy

    L.B. Greenwood

  • 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...

  • Shadows 6

    Charles L. Grant

  • Seven Fables

    Aesop

  • The Seven Ages

    Eva Figes

  • The Serpent Mage

    Greg Bear

    Berkley Books, 1986. Mass market paperback original, 1st edition Sequel to "The Infinity Concerto" (1984). Fans of epic fantasy, magical realism, and well-crafted alternate realities will enjoy these novels....

  • The Senator's Daughter

    Mary Bringle

    Charlotte Madigan, daughter of a powerful senator, finds her glittering, pampered world of high-level politics shattered by the shocking murder of her father at the hands of his mistress and the ensuing scandal, disgrace, and desolation...

  • Semper Fi

    W.E.B. Griffin

    THE PROUDEST OF THE PROUD. THE MARINES. From Shanghai to Wake Island, the Corps was America's first line of defense as the winds of war exploded into the devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Now, the bestselling author of the acclaimed BROTH...

  • 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...

  • The Secret of the Round Beast

    John Forrester

    While the rebel Ryland lies imprisoned on the moon by the Overone Guardians, his teenage children and their allies continue their fight on Old Earth against the Gorid and the hybrid creatures he has created....

  • The Secret of Santa Vittoria

    Robert Crichton

    In the last days of World War II, German forces are sent to occupy the Italian hill town, Santa Vittoria, and claim its great treasure: one million bottles of the Santa Vittoria wine that is its lifeblood. The clownish mayor, Bombolini, matches wits ...

  • 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...

  • Seasons

    Ellin Ronee Pollachek

  • Searching Heart

    Patricia Aks

    Despite her love for her adopted parents, Sally Brighton is determined to find out who were her natural parents....

  • Sea Changes

    Robert Kotlowitz

  • Scarlet Town

    Maryhelen Clague

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Saga of Seaview Circle

    Laura Van Wormer

  • Ruth

    Jeremy Cooper

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Roman Fantasy

    Betty Henrichs

  • Rock Video Strikes Again

    Barbara Adams

  • Robot Dreams

    Isaac Asimov

    Legendary American adventurer and explorer Charles Burton Irwin, accompanied by his wife and children, builds a new life on the Western frontier, from the era of wagon trains and cattle drives to the dawn of the railroads...

  • Robak's Fire

    Joe L. Hensley

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Rich Hall's Vanishing America

    Rich Hall

  • 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...

  • Recitative

    James Merrill

  • The Real Thing

    Barbara Delinsky

    It was a setup After breaking her leg, aerobics instructor Deirdre Joyce was fit company for no one. Especially not for equally disgruntled Neil Hersey, whose reputation as a lawyer had been unjustly tarnished. Craving solitude, both turned to ...

  • Rawhide Justice

    Jake Logan

  • 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 Ransome Inheritance

    Rachelle Edwards

    "WHEN I ARRIVED IN LONDON I WAS BUT A GREEN GIRL. I AM NO LONGER A CHAWBACON, AND I TRUST NO ONE!" The friendless Miss Jenna Tregail had ample reason to say as much. Bamboozled by an infamous bawd, the innocent Jenna coshed an old lecher and got h...

  • 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 ...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • Race Against Time

    Pip Baker

    YOU and the Doctor must join forces to find and destroy the most awesome device ever created in a RACE AGAINST TIME. Doctor Who is the world's greatest Time Lord, but an awful calamity has befallen him. Along with YOU and his companion Peri, the D...

  • 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...

  • Punky Brewster at Camp Chipmunk

    Ann M. Martin

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Promises Broken

    Francine Pascal

  • 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...

  • Present for Santa

    James Burke

  • Premier Book of Major Poets

    Anita Dore

    This brilliant collection spans the Middle Ages to modern day to bring you a unique selection of the greatest poetry of all times. Arranged around major themes such as love and hate, war and peace, liberty and oppression, alienation and city life, TH...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Pets for Sale

    Rita Golden Gelman

  • Personals

    Susan Lois

  • The Persimmon Tree and Other Stories

    Marjorie Barnard

  • 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...

  • The Penguin Book of Southern African Stories

    Stephen Gray

  • Pearl

    Helen Ashfield

    PASSIONATE VICTORY At eighteen, poor but hardworking Pearl Cartwright possessed a golden beauty that became her curse. For the impudent and philandering Bruce Sackville vowed to have her graceful form, and cleverly planned her seduction. Desperate...

  • Passion and Possession

    Kathy Clark

    Love with a proper stranger had its price. But Jessica Scott was willing to assume all risks -- alone. She'd thought their week of passion was a fleeting vacation fling until she had to face the unexpected consequences. Then Mark Kendrick appeare...

  • The Parfit Knight

    Juliet Blyth

    A VOICE TO BE CHERISHED... That was how Rosalind Vernon, the exquisite mistress of Oakleigh Manor, perceived the stranger at her door. Beset by highwaymen, he had come in search of refuge. But Rosalind, robbed of sight by a childhood accident, had...

  • Paradise

    Donald Barthelme

    "No other word for it: a charming book."ââ,¬â€Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek

    Simon, a middle-aged architect separated from his wife, is given the chance to live out a stereotypical male fantasy: freed from the travails of married life, he ends u...

  • 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, &#...

  • Out of the Blue

    Mons Daveson

    She didn't need supervision! When Ainsleigh Dexter arrived at Cooktown, she already hated the man who had taken over her life. How could her father have named a total stranger as her guardian? But he needn't think he'd get his own way ...

  • The Orphan's Disguise

    Vanessa Gray

    LOVE BY ANY OTHER NAME Lovely young Miss Corliss Hewett was a runaway who had run into a most perplexing pack of trouble. Fleeing her fate as a poor and put-upon relation of the terrifyingly tyrannical Lady Dacre, Corliss sought refuge under an...

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