Books Published in November 1990

New Books List: 429 titles

  • Moveable Mabeline

    Karen Ackerman

  • Target Nuke

    James B. Adair

  • Mr. Popularity

    Nicholas Adams

    Dreaming of dating the most popular boy in school, Cassie is never suspects that Brad is a merciless killer despite his adorable face, wealth, and fancy sports car, and when Brad begins paying attention to Cassie, she is unaware of his true desires. ...

  • A Cat in the Manger

    Lydia Adamson

    THE CORPSE WHO CAME FOR CHRISTMAS Off-off Broadway actress-turned-sleuth Alice Nestleton is just crazy about cats, particularly her Maine coon cat Bushy and zany alleycat Pancho. Now she's hoping for a merry little Christmas peacefully cat-sitting at...

  • The Gateless Barrier: The Wu-Men Kuan

    Robert Aitken

    The Gateless Barrier is generally acknowledged to be the fundamental koan collection in the literature of Zen. Gathered together by Wu-men (Mumon), a thirteenth-century master of the Lin-chi (Rinzai) school, it is composed of forty-eight koans, or...

  • Favorite Tales of Shalom Aleichem

    Sholem Aleichem

  • Witch

    Katina Alexis

    The arrival of handsome, young minister Chris Dixon and his powerful gospel of pain and redemption have an irresistible fascination for the women of Congreve, Georgia, but they begin to die one by one, and only one woman knows the truth...

  • The Great Treasure Hunt

    Suzanne Allen

  • Grandpa Jake and the Grand Christmas

    Mildred Ames

  • Dawn

    V.C. Andrews

    IN HER FINE NEW VIRGINIA SCHOOL, DAWN LONGCHAMP FEELS HAPPY AND SAFE. BUT NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS... Now Dawn and her older brother Jimmy have a chance for a decent, respectable life, and Dawn's secret, precious hope to study singing can come true....

  • The Farmyard Cat

    Christine Anello

  • Truffles in Trouble

    Catherine Anholt; Laurence Anholt

  • Truffles Is Sick

    Catherine Anholt; Laurence Anholt

  • Orc's Opal

    Piers Anthony; Robert E. Margroff

  • Near the Sea

    Jim Arnosky

  • Unsafe Harbour

    Rosalie Ash

    They say things come in threes And for Charlotte, it certainly seemed true. She hadn't been prepared for her father's death -- nor for the state of disrepair into which his boatyard had fallen. But she was determined to salvage his busines...

  • The Times of My Life: A Memoir

    Brent Ashabranner

    The acclaimed author reminisces about the events of his life, from the time of the Depression to the Vietnam War, set against a backdrop of historical events including World War II, the Peace Corps, and the civil rights movement...

  • Becky Bartlett, Superstar...

    Carrie Austen

    Although she is the only girl who does not want the coveted role of Juliet in the school's production of "Romeo and Juliet," Becky wins the part anyway, and soon everyone thinks she is a teacher's pet...

  • Benjamin's Balloon

    Alan Baker

  • Winter Wolf's Woman

    Karen A. Bale

    Anna O'Leary couldn't have been happier! At last she was back together with her beloved Nathan Hawkins, and heading West to live on his Arizona ranch. Then the black-haired beauty's dreams were shattered when their train was raided and she found hers...

  • War Fever and Other Stories

    J.G. Ballard

    A war-ravaged Beirut is the setting for the title story of this visionary collection, a tale in which a young street fighter inadvertently discovers how to bring an to the bloodshed only to find that his solution is all too effective as far as som...

  • Playing House

    Mary Balogh
    in

    This warm and delightful collection brings together five all-new stories of Christmas by some of the most beloved and highly acclaimed Regency authors. Written especially for the new edition, these delightful tales capture the spirit of Christmas ri...

  • Death of an Old Goat

    Robert Barnard

    Professor Belville-Smith had bored university audiences in England with the same lecture for fifty years. Now he was crossing the Australian continent, doing precisely the same. Never before had the reaction been so extreme, however, for shortly afte...

  • A Vintage Affair

    Elizabeth Barnes

    Lucas was different; different and dangerous Jenny had been hurt before by a man and she wouldn't let it happen again. That's why her life now revolved around her father's ailing antique car restoring business. She was determined to ge...

  • Cheated Hearts

    Karen Lawton Barrett

    BACK IN HIS ARMS When T. C. Dennison was asked to paint a mural for a local children's hospital, she couldn't refuse. The job would help settle her father's debts, which she had struggled to pay off since his death eight years ago. But T. C. had n...

  • The Talking Pictures Murder Case

    George Baxt

  • Assault on Alpha Base

    Doug Beason

    A US Air Force commander fights to take back his base and stop terrorists from unleashing a nuclear attack in this gripping thriller. The greatest power on Earth is about to be stripped of its defenses Alpha Base. It’s the home of America’s nucl...

  • Death of a Hussy

    M.C. Beaton

    WEALTHY MAGGIE BAIRD IS NEITHER NICE NOR KIND NOR GENEROUS. About the best that can be said of her is that inside her middle-aged body, there still beats the heart of a beautiful tart. So when her car catches fire, with Maggie in it, there are ...

  • Redwork

    Michael Bedard

  • A Falling Star

    Pamela Belle

    After years of shameful exile in Holland, Sir Alexander St Barbe is back in Somerset to claim Wintercombe as his inheritance. Bitter quarrels break out on the night of his arrival -- and soon the old fires of family passions and religious contention...

  • A Man to Believe in

    Nikki Benjamin

    UNDERCOVER LOVER He was the last man Kate Evans expected to see stride into the public library where she worked. After deserting her fifteen years ago, Lucas Hunter was back -- at just the wrong moment. Her quiet life had been turned upside down, ...

  • The Holly Brooch

    Janice Bennett
    in

    For the Carstairs' young music instructress, Christmas means finally being able to repay a debt of honor... if her two lively charges don't get in the way of her heart as well as her pride....

  • The Code Talkers

    Chuck Bianchi

  • The Stefanos Marriage

    Helen Bianchin

    Aleksi Stefanos was out of her league And Alyse Anderson knew she was mad to contemplate playing games with such a man. But it was the only way Alyse could secure happiness for little Georg, her dead sister's child. She must fool Aleksi -- ...

  • The Mythology of Mexico and Central America

    John Bierhorst

    "In this expansive volume, John Bierhorst brings to light the gods and heroes of pre-Columbian times - and demonstrates that they are very much alive today. The book provides translations of twenty ""basic myths,"" showing how these have influenced t...

  • Spirit Child

    John Bierhorst

  • Sioux Splendor

    Rosanne Bittner

    SHY AS A DOE s a preacher's daughter in Deadwood, South Dakota, blonde and innocent Cynthia Wells rarely left the safety of her father's home. But when the kind-hearted girl heard an Indian boy was to hang the next day in revenge for some miners' de...

  • The Christmas Bride

    Sara Blayne
    in

    Married by proxy five years earlier, Kathryn will meet her husband for the first time at Christmas when he comes home from the war. Will it be her dreams come true... or a day of reckoning?...

  • Old Soldier

    Vance Bourjaily

  • The Delicate Prey

    Paul Bowles

    Paul Bowles once said that a story should remain taut throughout, like a piece of string. That tense, stretched tone is the key to this collection of 17 eerie tales by the author best known for The Sheltering Sky. The Delicate Prey is ...

  • The Sheltering Sky

    Paul Bowles

    A beautiful paperback edition of a landmark of 20th Century literature, by acclaimed author Paul BowlesIn this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend an alien culture--and the ways in which th...

  • Dream Of The Wolf

    Scott Bradfield

  • Tender Prey

    S.W. Bradford

    When television journalist Amanda Price exposes corruption in a small New England town, the subject of her report--a cruel and manipulative man named Edward Casperson--stalks Amanda and her daughter seeking revenge...

  • Witch Hill

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    This little-known classic by the late Marion Zimmer Bradley is a wonderful treat for readers feeling the loss of this marvelous author. Part of Bradley's beloved "Light" series, Witch Hill is a sensuous story of witchcraft, demonic possession, and tr...

  • Reluctant Hero: A Snowy Road to Salem in 1802

    Philip Brady

    In 1802 a thirteen-year-old farm boy, Cutting Favor, journeys to Salem, Massachusetts, to sell shingles and furs to provide food for his family, rescuing a girl and encountering many dangers along the way...

  • Traders

    William Brashler

  • Spell of Intrigue

    Mayer Alan Brenner

    POWER POLITICS were suddenly the order of the day in the once-peaceful trading town of 0olsmouth. No one was quite sure whether gods or mortals were behind the sneak takeover of merchant-trader Haalsen Groot's business assets, but one thing was cert...

  • Sentimental Journey

    Barbara Bretton

    A CENTURY OF AMERICAN ROMANCE 1890s--1990s At train depots everywhere women say "I'll Be Seeing You" to their husbands and lovers. Off to join the Allied cause are Catherine Wilson's father and fiance. To Catherine, Johnny Danza is yet another...

  • Clifford's Word Book

    Norman Bridwell

  • Wish You Were Here

    Rita Mae Brown

    Curiosity just might be the death of Mrs. Murphy--and her human companion, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen.  Small towns are like families:  Everyone lives very close together. . .and everyone keeps secrets.  Crozet, Virgin...

  • Renegade Embrace

    Virginia Brown

    THE MAN OF HER FANTASIES Lovely Laurette Allen was shocked by the barbarity of life in California. At her very first fiesta, she was pulled into the shadows and forcibly kissed by tall, dark Cade Caldwell. But much worse than the manners of the menf...

  • Phoenix

    Steven Brust

    IN GODS WE TRUST. ALL OTHERS PAY CASH. Always a good rule if you're in my line of work, but who'd think a god would take me up on it? There I was, facing certain death, when the Demon Goddess answered my prayers for rescue. Strange she should take a...

  • Tropical Heat

    Patt Bucheister

    The First Man Who Ever Loved Her... They'd escaped from the orphanage together when she was just a child, and Salem Shepherd had adored John Canada forever. But when the bewitching gypsy girl was transformed by time into a beautiful woman, he'd se...

  • Granta Christmas

    Bill Buford

  • Screaming Bones

    Pat Burden

  • Parts Unknown

    Rex Burns

    Devlin investigates a missing Salvadoran’s gruesome fate

    Devlin Kirk and his partner Bunchcroft are Denver’s finest industrial security experts, even if Denver doesn’t see it that way. Their last big case got them out of debt, but sin...

  • Crime Classics

    Rex Burns

  • The Moon Is Hell!

    John W. Campbell

    John W. Campbell was the man who made modern science fiction what it is today. As editor of Astounding Stories (later Analog), Campbell brought into the field such all-time greats as Asimov, Heinlein, Sturgeon and many others, while his own writing b...

  • The Gift Horse's Mouth

    Robert Campbell

    In the seventh entry in Campbell's splendid series featuring Chicago sewer inspector Jimmy Flannery (the Edgar-winning The Junkyard Dog ), the part-time detective is moved by incipient parenthood to rea c h at last for the committeeman's job in the 2...

  • Ashes to Ashes

    Lillian Stewart Carl

    Rebecca comes to a replica of a Scottish castle in Ohio to catalog a collection of historical artifacts. But she's not wanted there, either by her Scottish co-worker or by the ghosts of the past."Fans will be overjoyed!" Rave Reviews"Not your common ...

  • Murder Misread

    P.M. Carlson

    CAMPUS POLITICS CAN BE MURDER When Maggie Ryan returns to her alma mater as a consultant to reading expert Charlie Fielding, she takes along her two small children to enjoy the drowsy campus after the hectic pace of New York. But the academic peac...

  • Refuge from Today

    Marisa Carroll

    Micah McKendrick was Accustomed to Solitude A pilot in Vietnam, Micah had returned from the conflict shattered by the violence he had witnessed--and perpetrated. Withdrawing to Michigan's remote Upper Peninsula, he devoted himself to his solitary ...

  • The Bishop's Daughter

    Susan Carroll

    WHATEVER HAD POSSESSED HER TO EMBRACE A MAN IN SUCH A WANTON FASHION...? And then to actually box his ears like some brawling tavern wench was certainly not expected of a lady, let alone the bishop's daughter! Granted Kate had provocation....

  • The Winter Hedgehog

    Ann Cartwright

  • Rainbow Wishes

    Jacqueline Case

    SNOWBOUND! Evie Winthrop had spent hours freezing in her car, immobilized by a fierce blizzard. When Mason Kincaid's pickup came barreling through the storm, he was nothing short of a hero. Knowing they'd never make it into town, Evie guided him t...

  • Dreams of Destiny

    Jackie Casto

    THE CAPTAIN She had dreamed of him all her life, had waited eagerly for the man who would take her soaring among the stars. But when Esme was rescued from her desert exile and taken aboard the ship of her dreams, she found its captain a man of steel...

  • Boo! Young Scary Stories

    Laura Cecil

  • Story and Its Writer

    Ann Charters

    Ann Charters has an acute sense of which stories work most effectively in the classroom and knows that writers, not editors, have the most interesting and useful things to say about the making and the meaning of fiction. Instructors look forward to e...

  • The Wayward Heiress

    Blanche Chenier

    SHE was irresistible as she was infuriating When Emma Armstead slid down the bannister at the Houghton Academy for Young Ladies, she slid right into Lord Brandford's heart. But Charles didn't know it and for some little time, he and Emma w...

  • Flood Tide

    C.J. Cherryh

    Cardinal Boregy's murder has proven a catalyst for dangerous new political games among the Great Houses. As intrigues begin CO unwind, the death toll slowly mounts, shifting control in many of the Houses. To some this seems the perfect opportunity to...

  • Emily Goes to Exeter

    Marion Chesney

    An unexpected inheritance lets the delightful Miss Hannah Pym take to the roads of England. With her kind heart and irresistible charm, she could change the course of young love forever. A dead employer's legacy of five thousand pounds allows ...

  • X-Men: The Asgardian Wars

    Chris Claremont

    SC, TPB, Unread Some Shelf Wear, Used-Very Good, Written by Chris Claremont. Art by Paul Smith, Arthur Adams, Terry Austin, Bob Wiacek, Alan Gordon, and Mike Mignola. Cover by Arthur Adams. Published in April of 1988. Softcover, 220 pages, full color...

  • Starlings Laughing a Memoir of Africa

    June Vendall Clark

    Hardcover and Dust Jacket. 1990 First Edition . Doubleday, London, New York, Toronto Sidney, Auckland.- 304 pages. the jacket have minor wear on edges, The book is clean, tight, straight, like new. (Please see the pictures.) Quick and safe shipping. ...

  • Angel of Mercy

    Kathy Clark

    HAD IT REALLY BEEN LOVE? During the war, Jeff Hawkins's tenderness had been nurse Angela Greene's sanctuary from the horrors of Vietnam, and his passion had been their salvation. But Jeff had been wounded long before a bullet brought hi...

  • Rama II

    Arthur C. Clarke; Gentry Lee

    THE RAMANS ARE BACK... -- Years ago, the enormous, enigmatic alien spacecraft called Rama sailed through our solar system as mind-boggling proof that life existed--or had existed--elsewhere in the universe. Now, at the dawn of the twenty-third cen...

  • Little Lou

    Jean Claverie

  • Murder Song

    Jon Cleary

    A young woman named Mardi Jack is killed by a sniper’s bullet in a Sydney apartment apparently owned by a wealthy businessman, Boru O’Brien, who has ties to seedy goings-on and to the prime minister’s wife. O’Brien, the real target of the ass...

  • Wilder

    Loletta Clouse

  • Inkeeper's Daughter

    Barbara Cohen

  • The House of Dolls

    Barbara Comyns

    The four eccentric blue-haired ladies who make money by illegally entertaining elderly gentlemen rent the upstairs rooms at Amy Doll's house, until Amy decides its time for them to move on before they make an impression on her daughter...

  • Rough Cut

    Bruce Cook

  • Other People's Houses

    Susan Rogers Cooper

    IN PROPHESY COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THE UNLIKELY EVENT OF A HOMICIDE IS COUPLED WITH THE LIKELY EVENT THAT IF ONE OCCURS, THE VICTIM IS SOMEBODY EVERYBODY KNOWS.... And everybody knows nice bank teller Lois Bell who, along with her husband and three kid...

  • The White Zone

    John W. Corrington

    New Orleans homicide detective Rat Trapp is summoned to Los Angeles by an old flame, Camille Bynum, only to become caught up in the investigation of her murder, a crime whose roots lie in the era of Hollywood blacklisting...

  • Child's Play 2

    Matthew J. Costello

  • Time of the Fox

    Matthew J. Costello

    When grad student Jim Tiber hears about a time machine at Columbia University, his first plan is to go back in time and to meet the Beatles and study the way they rose from mediocrity. However, just as he''s about to discover their secret in 1962,...

  • Scare Time

    William Craig

  • The Mysterious Gift

    Kathleen Creighton
    in

    Christmas looked bleak. Karen Todd was broke, with eight-year-old Andrew to support. Only mechanic - and guardian angel - Tony Angelo stood between her and total poverty. After all, no car, no job. Then Andrew asked Santa for a very special gift. Wou...

  • Spellbound

    Nadine Crenshaw

    THE POWER OF HIS EMBRACE Slender Norah Ramsay was terrified of the fiance she'd just spurned. Now that her father had died, Norah wasn't about to honor promises she herself hadn't made! Still the innocent heiress knew Jervais Le Strand w...

  • A Home at the End of the World

    Michael Cunningham

    From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, comes the acclaimed novel of two boyhood friends A Home at the End of the World, now a feature film starring Colin Farrell and Dallas Roberts Jonathan. There's Jonathan, lonely,...

  • Teacher's Pet

    Richie Tankersley Cusick

    Kate will do anything to be the teacher’s pet An aspiring horror writer, Kate likes a little scare. When offered a spot at an exclusive weeklong writing conference, she jumps at the chance to go. After all, it’s taught by William Drewe, the ma...

  • The Busy Day of Mamma Pizza

    Anne-Marie Dalmais

    Mamma Pizza has a busy day running her restaurant as she goes to the market to buy fresh produce, prepares the food that will be served, and helps her customers enjoy their delicious spaghetti and pizza...

  • The Busy Day of Jack Rabbit

    Anne-Marie Dalmais

  • The River Queen

    Melaine Daniels

    OLIVIA SOAMES RETURNED TO THE SOUTH AND DISCOVERED A TUMULTUOUS DESTINY... New Orleans. A city enlivened by the heady spice of its food, the powerful steam of its majestic riverboats--and the stormy passions of its people ... AURORA BRAND The re...

  • Little Bunnies Around Town

    Norma Daniels

  • Bride of Diamonds

    Emma Darcy

    This was a contest of power Man against woman -- woman against man. The most primitive duel of all. When Laura left her glittering life in Boston to learn more about her father's past in Australia, she didn't realize she'd be confro...

  • The Land God Made in Anger

    John Gordon Davis

    A salvage operation in South Africa on a Nazi sub becomes an international manhunt involving Israel's secret service when Captain James Mcquade realizes that one of the Nazi commanders may still be alive and trying to revive the Third Reich...

  • Blood of Poets

    Kenn Davis

    IF WORDS COULD KILL... Police lieutenant Rafael De Anza's wife has been charged with murdering a lady poet. Both women belonged to the same poetry group and had been seen fighting in a restaurant-a fight that ended with Laura De Anza threatening t...

  • Thomas Gray, Philosopher Cat

    Philip J. Davis

  • Vengeance Town

    Clay Dawson

  • Castle War!

    John DeChancie

    A year after Castle Perilous' battle with the Hosts of Hell, an evil mirror-version of the Castle materializes, complete with a hostile army of alter egos drawn from the computerized cosmos' 144,000 inverted worlds...

  • The Dream Unfolds

    Barbara Delinsky

    He wanted it his way Gideon Lowe was more than some macho construction worker, and the Crosslyn Rise building contract would prove it. The last thing he needed was Christine Gillette tromping onto his work site, disturbing his men--and his equilib...

  • Rosy Noses, Freezing Toes

    Judy Delton

    Christmas is coming and the Pee Wees have a new badge to earn. A music badge. Mrs. Peters wants everyone to perform in the big Christmas music show. That means the Pee Wees can tell about a famous music-maker, sing, or play an instrument. Molly's ...

  • The Magic Boat

    Demi

  • Find Demi's Baby Animals

    Demi

  • McCade's Bounty

    William C. Dietz

    McCADE'S AN INTERSTELLAR BOUNTY HUNTER -- AND THIS TIME TERROR STRIKES TOO CLOSE TO HOME... Sam McCade's men destroyed the deep space command post of pirate Mustapha Pong six years ago. But Pong is back -- and he wants vengeance. He's kidnapped Mc...

  • The Teddy Bear Tree

    Barbara Dillon

  • Disney Minnie 'n Me - My Favorite Book: A Book of Poems

    Disney Book Group

  • Disney Minnie 'n Me - Cooking Together: A Book of Recipes

    Disney Book Group

  • In Self-Defense

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Frank and Joe Hardy investigate when danger threatens Bayport's new self-defense school and find themselves up against a ruthless real-estate developer out to buy the building in which the school is located...

  • One for One

    Madelyn Dohrn

    When tiny Tony was suspended from elementary school, single mom Joanna Parker was sure the man behind the deed -- principal Scott Hartman -- was a monster. Who else would kick out a kindergartner? Breathing fire, Joanna stormed the school where ge...

  • The Broken Cord

    Michael Dorris

    The controversial national bestseller that received unprecedented media attention, sparked the nation's interest in the plight of children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, and touched a nerve in all of us. Winner of the 1989 National Book Critics Circle ...

  • Molder of Dreams

    Guy Doud

    Guy Doud, National Teacher of the year in 1986, has written an entertaining and moving book, autobiographical in nature, that asserts the power people have to mold one another's dreams and to forward or undermine others' hopes....

  • Good Night, Mr. Holmes

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    Miss Irene Adler, the beautiful American opera sin who once outwitted Sherlock Holmes, is here given an, unexpected talent: she is a superb detective, as Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker can attest. But in matters of the heart she encounters difficulty....

  • Rinn's Star

    Paula E. Downing

    An indentured starfarer, Rinn McCrea displeases her Chinese masters when the aliens of Delta Bootis attack her ship and she must seek refuge with the Soviets, who intend to use Rinn's telepathic powers to make peace with the aliens...

  • Seeds of Hope

    Robert Durback

    The inspirational writings of Henri Nouwen have touched millions of readers all over the world. With his death in September 1996 there was a tremendous outpouring of tribute to him and clear recognition of the importance of his writings. Much beloved...

  • Autumn Harvest

    Roger Duvoisin

  • Foucault's Pendulum

    Umberto Eco

    Three clever editors (who have spent altogether too much time reviewing crackpot manuscripts on the occult by fanatics and dilettantes) decide to have a little fun. They are inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years before from a suspicious...

  • Lone Star and the Cheyenne Showdown

    Wesley Ellis

    100th JUBILEE EDITIONJessie and Ki must rescue the transcontinental railroad from a bitter and bloody siege!Bossing a crew that's laying track over some of the roughest terrain this side of Hell is no easy feat. And Hugh Hollister's job has been a fa...

  • The Harlan Ellison Hornbook

    Harlan Ellison

  • Spirit of the West

    Suzanne Ellison

    Clayton Gann He was a cowboy, a camel-roping jokester who couldn't quite transcend his loathing of anything remotely academic--though he'd have to in order to win Roberta Wheeler, history professor extraordinaire and the most interesting woman he'...

  • Longarm and the Longley Legend

    Tabor Evans

  • Longarm and the Dead Man's Badge

    Tabor Evans

    Pine Hill County landowner Brian Levinson wants to extend his influence, and so runs for sheriff, letting little stand in the way of his ambition, including the current sheriff and the law-minded Longarm...

  • Seti

    Fred Fichman

    When Sam Alexander notifies the authorities that he has found a deep-space radio source, he discovers he must compete with spies, scientists, and bureaucrats for control of the first extraterrestrial contact...

  • The Land of Maybe

    Sandra Field

    Marya Hansen had once been in love The whole unhappy episode had made her decide she should never let herself get involved again. No matter how attractive the man. And Craig Huntingdon was certainly attractive -- he was rich, intelligent and hi...

  • Happy Miss Rat

    Peter Firmin

  • Mountain Man

    Angela Fisher

  • San Francisco Surrender

    Donna Fletcher

    BEGUILING THIEF Lovely Victoria Chambers had a dangerous secret: forced by desperation into a life of crime, the eighteen-year-old beauty was actually the notorious wharf thief known as "The Serpent"! But from the moment she set eyes on s...

  • The Silent Brotherhood

    Kevin Flynn

    This is the terrifying story of the most dangerous radical-right hate group to surface since the Ku Klux Klan first rode a century ago. The Silent Brotherhood attracted seemingly average citizens with their call for pride in race, family, and religio...

  • Rhapsody of Love

    Rachel Ford

    They were trapped in the same Caribbean hideaway Things were a mess, and painter Maggie Sanderson didn't know what to do. Not that famous composer Steve Donellan had given her an option. He'd bluntly told her, "I don't care if you&...

  • Privileged Secrets

    Rebecca Forster

    IN THE LUSH ENCLAVES OF LOS ANGELES, BLIND AMBITION FUELS CAREERS--AND PASSION CAN BE THE ULTLMATE TEST Rachel Williams was on her way up. The sensuous, elegant beauty had been named presiding judge of the Superior Court, and had been invited to j...

  • Dick Francis Treasury of Great Racing Stories

    Dick Francis

    The master thriller writer and world-renowned champion steeplechase rider has selected these fourteen classics of short fiction to represent the most enthralling of all stories about horse-racing.
    Inside, you'll find a stableful of thrills and a f...

  • Sleight of Heart

    Kara Galloway

    What if he could see through her...? Illusionist Kate Christopher had all kinds of tricks up her sleeve. But proving Garrett Brody was a con artist took more than magic. Not only did the E.S.P. expert display psychic know-how, he knew exactly what...

  • Wake up Bear, It's Christmas

    Stephen Gammell

  • A Lady of Fortune

    Mona Gedney

    The lovely Lady Danby had finally come out of mourning to take the town by storm with her quick wit, her charming manner and her fresh faced beauty. In fact, the ebony-haired widow could hardly believe her own popularity for just weeks before she'...

  • Mik's Mammoth

    Roy Gerrard

    Left behind when his tribe sets out in search of a better place to live, caveman Mik rescues Rumm, a baby mammoth, who becomes his constant companion, and together they come to the rescue of Mik's old tribe...

  • Voyage of the Star Wolf

    David Gerrold

    The Silk Road Convoy was the oldest, richest, and safest caravan in the starlanes--a perfect target for the devastating opening blow in the alien Morthan Solidarity's war against the Alliance. The LS-1187 was a destroyer-class starship, untested in b...

  • Thin Air

    David Getz

  • Rod Serling's Twilight Zone

    Walter Brown Gibson

  • The Leavetaking

    Anna Gilbert

    Comes a Dark Stranger... Charming, picturesque Emberside Grange -- where Isobel Penrose shared an idyllic life with her widowed father and Lydia, her vivacious older cousin. Then one day a tall, dark stranger invaded their lives. He called himsel...

  • I Cannot Get You Close Enough

    Ellen Gilchrist

    Three intertwining novellas about love, death, and the bonds of blood: “To say that Ellen Gilchrist can write is to say that Placido Domingo can sing.” -- Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Journeying through the lives of different m...

  • Night Lights and Pillow Fights: A Tiny Dinos Story About Safety

    Guy Gilchrist

  • Moonlight Man

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    The Irresistible Vagabond... He was a gorgeous golden panther of a man, but Sharon Leslie insisted that Marc Duval was no more than a handsome drifter who'd befriended her son and tormented her by playing sad songs on his harmonica late at night. ...

  • A Fresh Start

    Sally Goldenbaum

    HIGH GEAR Nick Bannister knew all about women. They bored him. Until the day this eligible bachelor stepped into a limousine and got taken for the ride of his life! Chauffeur Kate Morelli was the most exciting female he'd ever met. With her sp...

  • Wolverine - Nick Fury: Scorpio Connection

    Archie Goodwin

  • Song of the Lorelei

    Lucy Gordon

    SIREN'S SONG Laurel Blake had grown up on magical tales of the Rhine's Lorelei Rock and the maiden whose sweet melody lured sailors to their doom. Spellbound by the romantic mission that had brought her to the enchanted land, Laurel arrive...

  • Blood Harvest

    Gary Gottesfeld

    Rena Halbrook's childhood friend, Maura, disappears. At the same time a grisly murder occurs at her vineyard. Delving into her friend's past, Rena finds an 18th-century French manuscript suggesting madness in Maura's family, an obsession with blood s...

  • Even the Butler Was Poor

    Ron Goulart

    While investigating the killing of his ex-wife's former boyfriend, Rick Dell, Ben Spanner follows a bizarre riddle that leads to a ventriloquist's dummy and its dead owner, dark secrets, blackmail, and murder...

  • League of Terror

    Bill Granger

    The armistice has been all but signed. The Cold War is over. The world has no further use for spies. Or so it would seem.Fortunately, Devereaux--the spy they call November--knows better. Even now, he finds himself and his implacable nemesis locke...

  • Emerald Fire

    Laurie Grant

    No Peril Could Part Them… Lovely Joan of Hawkingham knew little of love. Haunted by the mysterious death of her older sister and sheltered by court life, she had grown into an emerald-eyed innocent … until Richard of Kindsclere boldly kissed h...

  • Best-Laid Plans

    Vanessa Gray

    The Headstrong Heiress Miss Melpomene Fiske -- better known as Pommy--had marriage on her mind. But she did not have it in her plans. For marriage was what she vowed to escape. That was why she found herself alone and defenseless on the midnigh...

  • Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories

    Martin H. Greenberg

    A collection of more than a dozen Christmas-related science fiction tales features stories by Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, Michael Swanwick, Frederik Pohl, Gordon R. Dickson, Connie Willis, and many other stars of the genre...

  • Colorado Bride

    Leigh Greenwood

    Lovely Carrie Simpson had journeyed all the way to Green Run Pass, Colorado, to prove she could make it on her own. Now she wasn't about to lose the position as stage manager because she wasn't married. The petite chestnut-haired Southern belle told ...

  • Lassiter in the Comanche Stronghold

    Loren Zane Grey

  • Never Heave Your Bosom in a Front Hook Bra

    Modine Gunch

    Modine Gunch is Everywoman who thanks God for indoor plumbing because the bathroom is the only place to get away from the kids and who is tempted to clean the kitchen floor with a garden hose. The "Modine Gunch" column appears monthly in New Orleans ...

  • Hot Water

    Sally Gunning

    PETER BARTHOLOMEW'S FIRM SPECIALIZED IN ODD JOBS, BUT DISCOVERING DEAD BODIES WAS NOT ALL IN A DAY'S WORK Pete's company did just about anything that needed doing on the Cape Hook island of Nashtoba. He'd been all set to catalogue books up at Edna...

  • The Naked Typist

    J.P. Hailey

    When Steven Winslow takes on a bizarre labor/management dispute involving a young woman fired for resisting the advances of her employer, he learns that his client's name and address are phoney, a discovery that is followed by her disappearance...

  • Weird Tales

    Peter Haining

  • Ozark Payback

    Bob Ham

  • Song of Orpheus

    Barbara Hambly

    A terrible plague of avarice, a life-threatening disaster, and the shocking secrets of Father's past cast dangerous shadows underground... and even Above--where the mysterious Vincent and the beautiful Catherine confront perils that will test the lim...

  • A Traitorous Heart

    Violet Hamilton

    A BANKER'S DAUGHTER Katherine Wilde congratulated herself. She bad neatly sidestepped her father's demand that she accept young Pemberton's timid proposal by mentioning the attentions she'd received, from Simon Stafford, the Marqui...

  • The Glastonbury Thorn

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    When war hero Nicholas Farris comes home for the holidays, he is disconcerted to find that the worshipful tomboy he left behind has grown into a most desirable young lady....

  • Where's Waldo? The Ultimate Fun Book

    Martin Handford

    The man in the striped sweater, round glasses, and hat returns, joined by his new girlfriend, Wilma, and her dog, Woof, in a new collection of busy scenes in which to locate Waldo, plus press-outs, stickers, games, and puzzles....

  • The Frozen Franklin

    Sean Hanlon

  • Honey Girl

    Madge Harrah

  • Ben Loves Anna

    Peter Hartling

  • The Vengeful Viscount

    Leigh Haskell

    Unsafe Haven Felicity Bellwood was bright, beautiful, charming titled, and twenty. In short, she was positively perfect for a most advantageous marriage. But there was one problem. Felicity did not--ABSOLUTELY did not--want to get married. O...

  • Promised Sunrise

    Robin Lee Hatcher

    THE WAY WEST An unforgettable romance of the American Frontier... Disillusioned by the War Between the States and the loss of his beloved Twin Willows Plantation,Tucker Branigan set out on the rugged Oregon Trail, leaving everything behind to ma...

  • Sayton's Folly

    Pamela Hatton

    Being evicted was the first shock Helen was shattered that she and her young son would have to leave the Lodge at Sayton's Folly. Even worse was the shock that Martyn Sayton had inherited the estate and was returning to claim it. Surely he ...

  • Dead Voices

    Rick Hautala

    ONLY THE DEAD ARE TRULY SAFE. A young girl is killed on a desolate highway. A mother agonizing by unceasing guilt. In the vivid light of day, in the nightmare depths of sleep, her daughter calls to her from the grave. And soon she’ll know if t...

  • Caribbean Adventure

    Betsy Haynes

  • Colours of a New Day: Writing for South Africa

    Stephen Hayward

  • Group Therapy

    Shelby Hearon

    Lutie Sayre, a 32-year-old Texas-raised sociology teacher, moves to New York, where she joins group therapy to discover what other people think of her. ``A charming comedy of manners and morals--funny, tender and wholly appealing,'' praised PW. (Aug....

  • The Pirate and the Pagan

    Virginia Henley

    A HELLCAT BEAUTY SCHEMING FOR LOVE Wild as a pagan goddess, Lady Summer galloped her stallion along the Cornish coast. She had dabbled in the smuggler's game to save her family estate, but a wealthy marriage would better serve her purpose now. Lor...

  • Victories

    George V. Higgins

    A former baseball player, who has been dispirited by his past mistakes, finds his life rejuvenated after he reluctantly agrees to run against a radical hippie in the volatile Vermont state elections of 1968...

  • Tempestuous

    Tami Hoag

    The Devilishly Reckless Rogue... When Alexandra Gianni felt a man grab her shoulder and quickly threw Christian Atherton to the ground, the aristocratic charmer was intrigued and challenged! Women were supposed to fall at his feet, not the other ...

  • Silly Tilly's Thanksgiving Dinner

    Lillian Hoban

    Confusion erupts when Silly Tilly Mole plans a special Thanksgiving dinner for her friends but falls asleep amid her preparations, but her friends come to the rescue to save the celebration from disaster...

  • The Yule Log

    Karla Hocker
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    A beautiful young widow sets out to celebrate "Christmas the way it used to be," and finds that a treasured friendship can blossom into a warm and lasting love....

  • Cherokee's Caress

    Kathryn Hockett

    SHE VOWED TO BIND HIM TO HER! Forced into a life of servitude, penniless New England widow Sabrina James longed to escape her dreary existence. Her dream was to head west--for excitement and adventure! And her wish came true the day a tall stranger ...

  • Invasion of the Fast Food

    Ann Hodgman

  • A Fatal Advent

    Isabelle Holland

    Call it ESP, but Reverend Claire Aldington had an uneasy feeling about Christmas. And as the season approached, havoc indeed reigned at fashionable St. Anselm's on New York's Upper East Side. A petty thief was on the loose. A radical young priest was...

  • When We Dead Awaken

    John R. Holt

    Newly married to Jack Parrish, Elsa finds her happiness transformed into a nightmare when Jack begins to suffer from horrifying dreams that lead him to question his sanity and to fear the return of his brother, dead for more than a year...

  • The Best American Short Stories 1990

    Houghton Mifflin Company

    The number one story anthology in America continues to grow in popularity. Here in a single volume is the finest short fiction of the year, selected by Richard Ford, the eminent novelist, short story writer, and essayist....

  • Wicked Deceiver

    Stephanie Howard

    Olinda's world shattered She'd worked hard to attend the conference in Miami and now, the presence of one man would destroy it for her. Guy de Chevalley was the only man Olinda had ever despised. He was arrogant, coldly calculating -- a...

  • Restless Nights

    Charlotte Hughes

    Her Sweet-Talking Guy... The man who'd slipped through the security gate onto the private island was no run-of-the-mill burglar, but a hunk in tight jeans who left Kelly Garrett breathless! But when she discovered that the man she'd captured...

  • The Snow Lady

    Shirley Hughes

  • Echoes

    Jackie Hyman

    Suppose you had an evil double, an inhuman twin who could act on all your most perverse, secret desires? Something strange and unnatural is happening in a once-peaceful community in California. A serial killer is preying on young women, and all cl...

  • Belle haven

    Jul Jackson

    Expelled from college, impoverished orphan Dabney Beale seeks refuge at the family estate, Belle Haven, where her tyrannical Aunt Charlotte presides over a sinister retinue, but her refuge becomes a nightmare of dark secrets and intrigue...

  • Double Exposure

    Lisa Jackson

    Gavin had loved Melanie -- a long time ago. Now, returning to Taylor's Crossing, he wanted only to forget her and the promises they'd forged in the heat of passion. Promises she'd inexplicably broken the moment he'd left to secure the...

  • The House of Janus

    David James

  • Wild Texas Heart

    Deana James

    Fan Breckenridge was terrified when the stranger found her near-naked and shivering beneath the Texas stars. Unable to remember who she was or what had happened, all she had in the world was the deed to a patch of land that might yield oil...and the ...

  • The Yankee

    Kristin James

    He was an outcast Ex-Union colonel Andrew Stone had had his fill of "Southern hospitality." The War had been over for years, but the local townsfolk still held a mighty grudge. His marriage to the respectable Miss Carlisle would make life a lot ea...

  • The Merry Pranks of Till Eulenspiegel

    Heinz Janisch

  • Minor Characters

    Joyce Johnson

    A novelist recalls life among the writers in the beat generation, including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, LeRoi Jones, and Gregory Corso, and the talented and tragic women who made up their circle...

  • The Stalkers

    Terry C. Johnston

    No one captures the glory, adventure and drama of the courageous men and women who tamed the American West like award-winning author Terry Johnston. His Plainsmen series brims with colorful characters, fierce battles and compelling historical lore.En...

  • Aardvarks, Disembark!

    Ann Jonas

  • The Great Hunt

    Robert Jordan

    The Wheel of Time turns and ages come and go. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. For centuries, gleemen have told of The Great Hunt of the Horn. Now the Horn itself is found: the Horn of Valere long thought only le...

  • Sunday Driver

    Valerie Kane

    SERVICE WITH A SMILE Carrie Ryan had dealt with her share of difficult clients. As a driver for her father's limousine service, she had braved traffic snarls and foul weather to keep her passengers happy. But she had never encountered a client as ...

  • The Pond

    Robin Karl

  • Giant Steps

    Barry Neil Kaufman

    "You'll Laugh, You'll Cry, But You'll Walk Away Cheering."

    Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

    Barry Neil Kaufman won national acclaim with Son-Rise and To Love is to Be Happy With. Now, he takes readers on an intimate journey through the challenges faci...