Books Published in October 1983

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — OCTOBER 1983

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New Books List: 335 titles

  • Change of Heart

    Patricia Aks

    Working hard to prove she deserves her position as sports editor of the school newspaper, Betsey keeps running into trouble with Eric, who is new to the job of sports photographer....

  • Time Patrolman

    Poul Anderson

  • The New Sister Theatre

    Lucilla Andrews

    Not even her appointment as Sister General Theatre could free Margaret Lindsay from her unhappiness when Joe de Winter broke off their engagement, and it was rumored that the reason was Joe’s friendship with an attractive hospital pathologist. But ...

  • Refugee

    Piers Anthony

    Oct. 1983 Avon mass market paperback,15th printing. Piers Anthony (Being a Green Mother). This is the first in the series BIO OF A SPACE TYRANT, featuring the stages in the life of Hope Hubris, the Tyrant of Jupiter, and his beloved sister Spirit. - ...

  • Dragon on a Pedestal

    Piers Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    There was trouble in Xanth again -- all kinds of trouble in fact. The Gap Dragon had escaped from the Gap and was ravaging across the land. The forget-spell that had covered the Gap was breaking up into small forget-whorls that wandered about, givin...

  • China Gate

    William Arnold

    A childhood refugee of the separation of Taiwan from China, Bryan White journeys from the leadership of an American teenage gang in Taiwan to control of a vast, powerful, corrupt, and influential business empire...

  • A Radical Arrangement

    Jane Ashford

    A MATCHLESS DILEMMA Sir Justin Keighley was everything that repelled Margaret Mayfield in a man. He was shocking in his opinions, arrogant in his manner, rude in his actions, and completely without respect for the common decencies of civilized soc...

  • Robot Collection

    Isaac Asimov

  • 13 Horrors of Halloween

    Isaac Asimov

  • Hit or Myth

    Robert Asprin

    KING FOR A DAY King Rodrick takes a powder--leaving Skeeve in his place to marry his homicidal fiancee Hemlock and face the tender mercies of Bruce, the Mob's fairy godfather who wants Skeeve working for him ... or not at all. On top of that, A...

  • The Face of Chaos

    Robert Asprin; Lynn Abbey

    THIEVES' WORLD is a unique experience: an outlaw world of the imagination, where today's top fantasy talents are invited to contribute their own tales. The result has been a bestseller from the beginning, a challenge to writers and a favorite of fan...

  • Exit Lady Masham

    Louis Auchincloss

    In this witty historical novel by the author of Watchfires, a poor woman joins the eighteenth-century court of Queen Anne and ends a war.On the Continent, John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, is laying waste to the lowlands in a bloody combat with Lo...

  • The Rescue of Miss Yaskell and Other Pipe Dreams

    Russell Baker

    Humorous essays by the Pulitzer Prize"winning “supreme satirist” (The Washington Post Book World).   This collection of more than a hundred anecdotes and essays from the legendary journalist, New York Times columnist, and author of the bes...

  • The Secret Staircase

    Jill Barklem

    Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the miniature world of the mice of Brambly Hedge!It is Midwinter''s Eve and the mice of Brambly Hedge are very busy. This evening, after dark, they will all be gathering round a blazing fire for the traditional midwi...

  • The Gentle Winds

    Monica Barrie

    WINDS OF CHANGE . . . Jase Patten swept into Ti Caissen's orderly life like a cool wind from her unclaimed heritage: the Napa Valley. She left Philadelphia and went with him to the lush life she had never known, a life made seductive by the miracl...

  • Another Kind of Love

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE . . . When Ali Cameron left behind the cosmetics industry and the city for a healing vacation in the Ozarks, she had her priorities straight. Work was the only item on the list. Adam Forrest changed all that. He awoke emo...

  • Silent Beginnings

    Ariel Berk

    SILENT AWAKENING Weary of selling her beauty as a fashion model, Kate Ryder had abandoned the world of glamorous wardrobes and parties for a more rewarding career. Now she could teach the ways of the world to those who heard only silence. Widow...

  • The Address Book

    Anne Bernays

    Editor Alicia Baer, agonizing over an attractive job offer which would require her to live apart from her husband and teenaged daughter, discovers in her address book five new names, unknown to her but written in her handwriting...

  • Mandala

    David Bischoff

  • Dark Surrender

    Diana Blayne

    She was cornered: Maggie Sterline's past had caught up with her. What strange twist of fate had led her to walk unknowingly back into the lion's den? Saxon Tremayne was a hot-blooded giant of a man. What had happened between them was a misunderst...

  • Quincunx of Time

    James Blish

  • Twilight Zone

    Robert Bloch

    A bigoted man learns about intolerance by visiting the past, a gremlin terrifies an airplane passenger, a lonely boy controls the world, and a group of old people are given a chance to recapture their youth...

  • Smart Women

    Judy Blume

    Two thirtysomethings try to find their way through the complications of post-marriage love in this beloved novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Judy Blume. Margo and B.B. are each divorced, and each is trying to reinvent her life in C...

  • Restless Tide

    Georgia Bockoven

    HIS OTHER PASSION STOOD BETWEEN THEM No question, Karla Fleming was in love with her husband. She loved Rick fiercely, devotedly, and she didn't care who knew it. He was her man. But Rick craved more in life than a fulfilling relationship. A Gr...

  • Lavender Blue

    Parris Afton Bonds

    Only one man was a match for her beauty...her daring...her spirit... She was in a stranger's bed, hating him . . . and wanting him. Each time Jeanette thought of the Frenchman, she tingled with reluctant delight. He was a mercenary with no ...

  • The Unvanquished

    Terry Nelsen Bonner

    1899, Australia The eve of a new century; the birth of a new nation. Michael Bourke Irons: His strength is tested by the enemies who would destroy him -- and by the women who would love him. Elizabeth is his first wife -- helpmate of his hungr...

  • Image of a Man

    V.G. Bortin

    A skeptical young American journalist journeys to Italy to report on the latest tests of the Shroud of Turin, in a story that interweaves the modern world with the history of the relic and the lives of the people, throughout the ages, who are influen...

  • Image of Love

    Dixie Browning

    CALL OF THE MOUNTAINS When Romany Caris agreed to paint portraits of the Sinclair children, she welcomed the opportunity for a summer of solitude. Her looks and profession matched her gypsy name...but names could be deceiving -- and Cameron Sincla...

  • Best of Young British Novelists 1

    Bill Buford

  • The Killing Touch

    Warren Burke

  • Disabled and Their Parents

    Leo Buscaglia

    Helps the disabled and their families through the complicated processes necessary to meet their unique mental, physical, and emotional needs. It offers hope, insight, and strength to take on the greatest of all human challenges....

  • Kaheesh

    Nathan Butler

  • Passion's Rebel

    Kay Cameron

    SHE CAME TO A NEW WORLD OF DESIRE -- AND DANGER When she came to join her aristocratic husband in Virginia, beautiful Rayna Talgarth was a faithful wife and a loyal British subject. But as the colonies burst out in revolution, Rayna herself plunged ...

  • Death of Che Guevara

    Jay Cantor

    In his critically acclaimed epic first novel, Jay Cantor, author of Krazy Kat and Great Neck, draws on history, myth, and his own prodigious imagination to take on the life and death of revolutionary icon Che Guevara.In his now famous progress throug...

  • Mountain Memory

    Suzanne Carey

    STORM WARNINGS She came to the Smokies to lure a reclusive film star back to the movies with an irresistible script. Reluctantly, producer's assistant Kate McCullough agreed to visit David Vine at his rustic mountaintop retreat. But she hadn't rec...

  • Beyond the Flight of Birds

    Lois Carnell

    Two hearts entwined can soar beyond the fight of birds... As an architect, Myrhia Lassiter took her greatest joy in creating buildings from sketches to massive structures of glass and concrete. Through her career, Myrhia had learned to deal with t...

  • The Decoy Hit

    Nick Carter

  • Cassie and Chris

    Sara Casey

  • Where Aspens Quake

    Tory Cates

    Kristin Jonsson was ready for a new life, but not a new man. She would save her emotions for her photograph her pictures would never disappoint her the way people could. When she met Grayson Lowry she nearly changed her mind, but he was as afraid ...

  • Salvage for the Saint

    Leslie Charteris

    Based on a two-part episode of Return of the Saint, starring Ian Ogilvy, the Saint takes part in a powerboat race only for his main competitor''s boat to blow up midrace. As Simon comforts the man''s widow, he discovers some rather unusual behavio...

  • Last Waltz in Vienna

    George Clare

  • Supersub

    Halsey Clark

  • Just Tell Me When We're Dead

    Eth Clifford

  • Ghostly Terrors

    Daniel Cohen

    HAUNTING GHOSTS, WALKING CORPSES, EVIL SKULLS... They're all in GHOSTLY TERRORS, the book that will leave you screaming for more! Meet the mysterious black-clad woman who appears from nowhere to ride a train to disaster. Shiver to the tale of the ...

  • Lost In The Museum

    Miriam Cohen

    The first grade is going on a trip to the museum. It's an exciting day for everybody. The teacher says the most important thing is to stick together. So when Danny says he knows where the dinosaur is, Jim and his friends follow. The only problem is, ...

  • Jed and Jessie

    Abby Connell

  • Tabernacle

    Thomas H. Cook

    He kills according to the will of God. He believes in the mission that God has made manifest to him: to restore the sanctity of the Mormon Church. The means to this purification will be multiple murder. The streets of Salt Lake City run straight and ...

  • A Tempting Stranger

    Lori Copeland

    "You have the disposition of a witch, the tongue of a shrew--and the body of an angel;" he whispered seductively in her ear.... Just the kind of thing a man like Garrett Morganson would say. What had Chandra Loring let herself in for? Engaged, ...

  • A Crowning Mercy

    Bernard Cornwell; Susannah Kells

    PASSION AND DESTINY The civil war that is tearing England asunder in the year 1643 has not yet touched Dorcas Slythe, a secretly rebellious young Puritan woman living in the countryside south of London, who longs to escape the safe, pious tyranny ...

  • A Time of Death

    Dobrica Cosic

  • Reach to Eternity

    Dobrica Cosic

  • South to Destiny

    Dobrica Cosic

  • Tread Softly

    Ann Cristy

    Cady Densmore's love for her husband Rafe never dimmed. Not once in the months he lay paralyzed and she struggled to fulfill his seat in the Senate. Not once during the dangerous surgery that restored him. Not once on the long campaign for his re...

  • The Abyss

    Jere Cunningham

  • Chinatown Chance

    Tom Cutter

  • The Witches

    Roald Dahl

    This is not a fairy tale. This is about real witches. Grandmamma loves to tell about witches. Real witches are the most dangerous of all living creatures on earth. There's nothing they hate so much as children, and they work all kinds of terrifyi...

  • Calder Born, Calder Bred

    Janet Dailey

    Ty Calder was a stranger to the mighty empire that was his legacy -- the ranchlands that rose to meet the Montana skies. He learned the ways of ranch life from young Jessy, who knew the land and her own heart. But Ty worshiped dark, glamorous Tara...

  • The Sensible Courtship

    Megan Daniel

    THEY AGREED ON JUST ONE THING- TO MARRYANYONE BUT EACH OTHER Lord Richard Devlin was looking for a meek wife to worship him as lord and master while leaving him free to pursue the pleasures of a single life even as a married man. Lady Francesca W...

  • The Silver Skull

    Les Daniels

  • The Computer Caper

    Milton Dank

  • Blind Prophet

    Bart Davis

    The worlds of espionage and high technology clash when a KGB-supported assassination of a senator, an attack on a Berkeley think tank, and the kidnapping of a computer scientist lead to a Soviet-American confrontation...

  • Bad Money

    L.J. Davis

  • Island Fires

    Jocelyn Day

    Allie Larson escaped to Honolulu, hoping to forget the past -- and a betrayal more devastating than the secret she hid behind dark glasses. Then into her bookstore walks charismatic Dane Thaxter, a top photographer she worked with when she was a ...

  • Zero

    Ignacio De Loyola Brandao

  • Brotherhood of Blood

    Lionel Derrick

    GRIDIRON DEATH SQUAD Sixty violent injuries in one football season...it didn't seem like much. But when Mark Hardin suits up to join the San Diego Sharks at their preseason training camp, he uncovers a deadly pattern of brutality that affects every t...

  • For Love of a Stranger

    Lily Devoe

  • The Cosmic Puppets

    Philip K. Dick

    A man’s hometown is drastically changed -- and no one knows what he’s talking about -- in this science fiction novel from the author of The Zap Gun. Following an inexplicable urge, Ted Barton returns to his idyllic Virginia hometown for...

  • Hindsight

    Peter Dickinson

    A seemingly innocuous inquiry leads a successful novelist to recall longsuppressed childhood memories of "Mad Molly" Benison and the tragedy, trauma, and violent death that happened forty years earlier...

  • Dorothy Returns to Oz

    Walt Disney

  • Shadows Across the Sand

    Susan Dodson

    Spending Christmas with a relative in the very small town of Hibiscus, Florida, sixteen-year-old Billie embroils herself in the mystery of who is terrorizing the old people who live there and for what purpose....

  • Pfarr Lake Affair

    Joan J. Domning

    Leslie Pfarr hadn't been back at her father's resort for an hour before she found herself pitched into the lake. Only one person could be responsible -- Eric Nordstrom! The brash teenager who'd made her childhood a constant torment had ...

  • A Fierce Encounter

    Jane Donnelly

    Martin Jackson was a form of madness Since their brief and blazing affair five years before, Lacey had not heard a word from Martin. He'd left Chadsford to pursue a brilliant career in television, and she knew he'd forgotten her completely...

  • An Irresistible Impulse

    Billie Douglass

    Three weeks on sequestered jury duty looked like heaven to Abby Barnes, who had problems she was only too eager to leave behind. Then she met fellow juror Ben Wyeth and suddenly she had a new problem -- one she was forced to confront. Love didn...

  • Morgan's Land

    Tracy Dunham

  • The Unwinding Corner

    Alice Dwyer-Joyce

    This is the story of Shanne Gregg, a girl born and brought up in a changing Ireland, from the turn of the century to the First World War. The daughter of a country doctor, she works in the Convalescent Home of Screebogue, tending to wounded British s...

  • Delicate Balance

    Emily Elliott

    He was just what the doctor ordered -- only she was the doctor, and while he'd once been her patient, he was clearly in command now. Between her office, the hospital, and her ever-present beeper, Barbara Weimer M.D., hardly had time to breathe. T...

  • The Neverending Story

    Michael Ende

    Unicorns, dragons, sprites, will-o'-the wisps: the inhabitants of an enchanted world. And into this world -- through the pages of an old book -- ventures Bastian, a lonely boy of ten or twelve. But Fantastica is slowly decaying, its Childlike Empr...

  • Secret Admirer

    Carrie Enfield

    Jenny’s hospital duties as a new candy striper had not been too serious so far, until she met blue eyed Bryan as he was being wheeled into X-Ray. But it was not his broken leg that upset her, she knew it would heal quickly. It was the possibility o...

  • The One-Star Jew: Short Stories

    David Evanier

  • The Solitary Man

    Jonathan Evans

  • Longarm and the Big Outfit

    Tabor Evans

    CATTLE RUSTLERS AND CROOKED LAWMEN HAVE TAKEN OVER THE TOWN OF CODY... And they've framed rancher Juan Romero -- an old pal of Federal Marshal Long's -- on a murder charge. Romero's been proven innocent, but the local ranchers have their own ideas...

  • Forest of a Thousand Daemons

    Daniel Orowole Fagunwa

    "

    His total conviction in multiple existences within our physical world is as much an inspiration to some of the most brilliant fiction in Yoruba writing as it is a deeply felt urge to ''justify the ways of God to man.''""-Wole Soyinka, translator ...

  • Gods of Riverworld

    Philip Jose Farmer

    Gods of Riverwold is the fifth and final chapter in Philip Jose Farmer's New York Times bestselling classic SF series, Riverworld Thirty billion people from throughout Earth's history have been resurrected along the great and winding waterways of Ri...

  • The Family of Max Desir

    Robert Ferro

    Max Desir loved his Italian-American family--even after his iron-willed father exiled him from its intimate inner circle. Max Desir loved his lover, Nick, with whom he openly took up life first amid the enchantment of Rome, then amid the realities of...

  • The Tree

    John Fowles

    The classic meditation on creativity and the natural world“For years I have carried this book. . . with me on travels to reread, ponder, envy. In prose of classic gravity, precision, and delicacy, Fowles addresses matters of final importance.”&#x...

  • Shipwreck

    John Fowles

  • Tsotsi

    Athol Fugard

    "Athol Fugard is renowned for his relentless explorations of personal and political survival in apartheid South Africa - which include his now classic plays Master Harold and the Boys and The Blood Knot. Fugard has written a single novel, Tsotsi, ...

  • George Orwell

    T.R. Fyvel

  • The Magistrate

    Ernest K. Gann

    The famed storytelling talent of the author of The Aviator, The High and The Mighty and Fate Is The Hunter has never been more powerfully on display than in this tale of one wonderfully good man's personal and professional trial by fire, centering ar...

  • Fair's Fair

    Leon Garfield

    Jackson is cold and starving in the dreadful winter weather. He's looking forward to the steaming pie that is payment for a long night's work. When the huge black dog comes - growling and glaring - Jackson gives it half his meal. One bargain soon lea...

  • Promises

    Catherine Gaskin

    Magnificent saga of a woman's promise and the passion, tragedy and triumph that it brings. Black Jack Pollock inherited a fortune and married a beautiful, wild aristocrat. Shrewd, tough and unscrupulous, he was the last man to take pity on the bedrag...

  • The Geneva Transfer

    Frank Geron

  • Matilda Jane

    Jean Gerrard

  • Above and Below Stairs

    John S. Goodall

  • Fun With the Fumble Families

    Toni Gould

  • The Adventures of Mel and Tess

    Toni Gould

  • Talking Dog Stories

    Toni S. Gould

  • A Daring Proposition

    Jeanne Grant

    After bitter experience, Leigh vowed never to marry -- but she desperately wanted a child. In this age of medical breakthroughs, she decided on a bold plan -- to have a mere acquaintance, Brian Hathaway, father a child for her by scientific means. ...

  • Heart on Trial

    Tricia Graves

    Janelle Richmond was a winner. She had worked long and hard to become a junior partner in a prestigious New York law firm, and she wasn't going to let anyone come between her and her ultimate goal--starting her own practice. But Janelle never even ha...

  • Shadowcastle

    Michael Gray

  • Nostradamus

    Liz Greene

  • The Man Who Loved Dirty Books

    David Guy

    With his marriage and career on the rocks, Matt Gregg takes on a job as private investigator, hoping to boost his self-esteem and save his marriage, and finds himself enmeshed in the bizarre world of pornography and murder...

  • Daphne's Book

    Mary Downing Hahn

    The Secret Everybody in Jessica's English class makes fun of Daphne. She never says a word to anyone -- just walks around with her nose in a book, with her long straggly hair hanging over her face. Now the worst thing has happened. The teacher has a...

  • Danza!

    Lynn Hall

  • Crisis Can

    Jordan Hamilton

  • Crisis

    Jordan Hamilton

  • Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush

    Virginia Hamilton

    Why had he come to her, with his dark secrets from a long-ago past? What was the purpose of their strange, haunting journeys back into her own childhood? Was it to help Dab, her retarded older brother, wracked with mysterious pain who sometimes t...

  • Bobby Catches a Bug

    Ray Hammond

  • Bobby Meets a Pirate

    Ray Hammond

  • There Must Be Showers

    Anne Hampson

    YESTERDAY'S LOVE Interior designer Shelley Scott couldn't believe her bad luck when she landed her dark, arrogant ex-husband Nick Montpelier as a client. Then she found out her assignment: to renovate the elegant mansion that she and Nick ...

  • The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

    Ron Hansen

    "

    Jesse James was a fabled outlaw, a charismatic, spiritual, larger-than-life bad man whose bloody exploits captured the imagination and admiration of a nation hungry for antiheroes. Robert Ford was a young upstart torn between dedicated worship an...

  • Death in the Forest

    Ian Harding

    The Iron Division's war-hardened Assault Troop moves into battle again - as the Nazi army attacks one last time through the Ardennes. To carry out their secret reconnaissance mission, Corrigan and his men must take on three armies. Between their Ge...

  • Once More With Feeling

    Melinda Harris

    Kathleen trembled with astonishment -- and excitement -- when Guy Maslin sauntered into her dance rehearsal. She thought she had put the charismatic conductor behind her after their brief, disastrous marriage five years ago. Yet here he was in Vienna...

  • A Night to Remember

    Shirley Hart

    "Has it ever occurred to you;' he asked, towering over her, "that anyone who hates so passionately must love just as passionately too?" It had not. Before Ty Rundell came hurtling into her life, exquisite Leigh Carlow had been cont...

  • Casper: In Fun and Monsters

    Harvey Comics Staff

  • Badman

    Cynthia Haseloff

  • Mr. Miller, the Dog

    Helme Heine

  • Bold Conquest

    Virginia Henley

    His courage led men to victory. But his heart surrendered to her love. HE CONQUERED HER LAND, BUT WAS FORCED TO FIGHT FOR HIS HEART When Guy de Montgomery's Norman army swept across the countryside, claiming all in its path, the fairest prize ...

  • More Than Friends

    Betty Henrichs

  • Final Grades

    Anita Heyman

    In despair that her perfect scholastic record is about to be marred by an English teacher whose demands confuse and anger her, seventeen year-old Rachel begins to question the direction of her life and the goals that her parents assume for her....

  • The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz

    Russell Hoban

    "Jachin-Boaz is a maker and seller of maps. In his shop are maps that will lead you to whatever it is you most desire: love, inspiration, wealth. But his greatest achievement is a master-map showing the location of everything that has ever been found...

  • The Renegade Gun

    Ray Hogan

  • I Unpacked My Grandmother's Trunk

    Susan Ramsay Hoguet

  • Hit and Run

    Jerry Hopkins

  • Computerwise

    Henry Horenstein

  • Pawnee Medicine

    Bill Hotchkiss; Judith Shears

    In the summer of 1820, the Spaniard Antonio Behele and mountain main Termite Joe Hollingback returned to the Pawnee village at the headwaters of the Republican River, where they would meet the powerful warrior Pitalesharo, the son of Knife Chief and ...

  • To Love a Stranger

    Meg Hudson

    Would it be worth the risk to love a stranger? As Karen Morse began her long trip from Manhattan to Vermont, she felt uneasy. Karen's cousin Maida had been frantic in her plea for companionship, and knowing Maida's house was in an isolated area, K...

  • Desert Splendor

    Samantha Hughes

    Windy Ryan had left Not Springs years ago. In the concrete canyons of New York she'd learned to cut her losses. Only modestly successful as a model, she'd invested in a new dream -- Ryan's Oasis -- and come back to create her future. Was ...

  • Love's Secret Journey

    Margaret Hunter

    In a land of mystery and ancient treasures she found a passion and a man who would share her secret dreams of love. His arms enfolded her, his mouth reclaimed her own and kisses, long and lingering, obliterated everything but fierce desire. Weak with...

  • Two of a Kind

    Arlene James

    IT WAS TOO LATE FOR SECOND THOUGHTS. Her mind was set, Patricia Gordon-Wyatt knew that whatever it took, she would make Joe Byron Foxglove love her. But it wouldn't be easy. She came to his North Dakota plains home as the trusted lawyer to ...

  • A Little Tour in France

    Henry James

    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.I am ashamed to begin with saying that Touraine is the garden of France; that remark has long ago lost its bloom. The town of Tours, however, has some thing sweet and bright, which suggests that it is sur- ...

  • The Amber Sky

    Kristin James

    HE WAS ASHE HARLAN, ONLY SON OF ALEC STONE, AND HE HAD GIVEN IN TO FORBIDDEN LOVE... . When Valerie de la Portilla met Ashe Harlan she wasn't free to love, nor did his harsh assessment of her cool beauty bode well for a future together. Yet there ...

  • The Testimony

    Robin James

    For vibrant Christine Ludan, the six months apart from her husband has been a dark time. But now dynamic Jesse Ludan, Milwaukee's controversial reporter, is coming home. Christine yearns for their lives to flow together once again, just as th...

  • The Hanging

    William M. James

    26th story in the gripping Apache series. The sleepy little town of Defiance, Arizona used to be a friendly place - until the streets ran red with innocent blood spilled by a marauding band of Apaches and Mexicans....

  • The Wilful Lady

    J.G. Jeffreys

  • Ranch: Portrait of a Surviving Dream

    Moira Johnston

  • Ordinary Miracles

    Erica Jong

  • Man-Hater

    Penny Jordan

    She was an ice maiden with a heart of glass Kelly Langdon's short, disastrous marriage had left her deeply suspicious of men. She knew all too well that her looks--along with a sizable inheritance--made her an attractive target for fortune ...

  • Conan the Triumphant

    Robert Jordan
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Leading his Free-Company of mercenaries, the mighty Cimmerian is embroiled in many-sided anarchy following the death of Ophir's king. He enters the service of the voluptuous Lady Synelle, unaware that she is secretly High Priestess of the vile demon-...

  • Cordelia?

    Garson kanin

  • The Haunted Carousel

    Carolyn Keene

  • Hey, Didi Darling

    S.A. Kennedy

  • Garden of Malice

    Susan Kenney

    Lady Viola Montford-Snow was a noted English novelist, and the creator of exceptionally beautiful gardens at her home at Montford Abbey. Following her death, her son Giles wants to publish her letters and diaries. He hires Roz Howard, an associate pr...

  • Virtuous Lady

    Madeleine Ker

    "Virtuous lady seeks unusual employment." As a lark, Storm decided to advertise for a job in the situations Wanted column of the evening paper. The replies were overwhelming! Among the offers to lend her money, a few salacious ones and som...

  • The Son of Someone Famous

    M.E. Kerr

    Though to Brenda Belle Blossom's mother he is just "that boy . . . tying those beer cans to the Christmas tree," sixteen-year-old Adam is really the son of a famous movie star who hobnobs with royalty while jetting all over the world. Smarty Brenda B...

  • Dangerous Encounter

    Flora Kidd

    Had she been blinded by love? Helen had almost committed herself to another man when time and chance conspired to throw her and Magnus Scott together on an isolated island off the west coast of Scotland. Magnus's mercurial moods and tender ...

  • Turn Back the Dawn

    Nell Kincaid

    Commitment--all her life beautiful Kate Churchill had managed to avoid it, diverting herself with second-rate men. Her success as advertising and promotion director of a once- legendary New York department store was more than compensation. Or at l...

  • Act of Darkness

    Francis Henry King

  • Noni and Other Stories

    Joan H. King

  • Pet Sematary

    Stephen King

    The Creeds. An ideal family. Physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son. Close, loving, wonderfully alive. When they found the old house and enchanting grounds in rural Maine, it seemed too good to be true. It was...

  • Ike and Porker

    Susan E. Kirby

  • Poker Game

    Fletcher Knebel

  • The Pickpocket and the Saint

    Sheldon Kopp

  • Mistral's Daughter

    Judith Krantz

    They were three generations of magnificent red-haired beauties born to scandal, bred to success, bound to a single extraordinary man--Julien Mistral, the painter, the genius, the lover whose passions had seared them all. Maggy--Flamboyant mis...

  • The Man Who Tried to Save Time

    Phyllis Krasilovsky

  • The Dragon Lensman

    David A. Kyle

  • The Last Elegant Bear

    Dennis Kyte

    Abiner Smoothie, heir to four generations of aristocratic beardom, more than justifies the fond hopes of his papa, Baron Beauchamp "Bobo" Smoothie, and his mama, Baroness Penny Armstrong, American copper heiress and actress....

  • Darkness of the Heart

    Charlotte Lamb

    Did she really want to know the truth Nicole Lawton was one of London's most successful private detectives. But she had more than a professional interest in the mystery surrounding her friend Melanie's death. Had she drowned, as the fac...

  • The Portland Murders

    Charles Larson

  • Silken Tremors

    Sybil Le Grand

    In the heart of San Francisco, Sidney McKenna's first meeting with the computer magnate, Philip Oliver, was a disaster. Handsome, powerful, he shook her up so much that she botched the job interview: But she was intrigued ... However, the awesome...

  • Anackire

    Tanith Lee

    The lowland girl seemed to contain fire. Her hair stirred, flickered, gushed upward, blowing flame in a wind that did not blow. A tower of light shot up the sky, beginning where the girl stood. For half a second there was only light, then it took fo...

  • Foxy Lady

    Cheyco Leidmann

  • The Year Of Sweet Senior Insanity

    Sonia Levitin

  • Sam's Bath

    Barbro Lindgren

  • The Flight of the Falcon

    Robert Lindsey

    Christopher John Boyce was a son of affluence and privilege whose disaffection with America led him to sell to the Soviets sophisticated and highly secret spy-satellite information. Eventually uncovered and arrested, Boyce was convicted of espionage ...

  • A Summer's Embrace

    Cathie Linz

    Deil-- the name was Scottish for "devil." Had the master fiend himself invaded Kelly Watson's life? No one had warned her. When Kelly's roommate had left for England, she'd made no mention of her brother coming to take her place in Aspen. Yet here...

  • Scent of Gold

    Hilary London

    Their love was as rare as the scent of gold... Rilla Yorke could not believe her good fortune. A reporter for a small newspaper devoted to the arts in San Francisco, Rilla was given the chance to live her fantasy--to interview famous author Richar...

  • Dynasty

    Eileen Lottman

  • Love's Stormy Heights

    Jacqueline Louis

    SHE REFUSED TO LET HIM DESTROY HER DREAM Joanne Patton was determined to climb the majestic Dhaulagiri, a treacherous peak in the Himalayas, and only one man stood in her way. As head of the all-male expedition, James Bryant could choose the team ...

  • The Danvers Touch

    Elizabeth Lowell

    TOO MUCH MONEY AND TOO LITTLE LOVE Cat Cochran took nothing from her ex-husband but a determination to earn her own way in the world. Her cameras provided her with the means of making a living. Yet no matter how successful she became, she still dr...

  • City

    David MacAulay

  • The Pueblo Children of the Earth Mother

    Thomas E. Mails

  • Uncivil Seasons

    Michael Malone

    The polite Piedmont town of Hillston, North Carolina, wants to go on believing it is still too temperate to require homicide experts. But when the wife of a state senator is found beaten to death, the inner circle of Hillston's ruling families arrang...

  • Girls in the Newsroom

    Marjorie Margolies

  • Rapscallion Jones

    James Marshall

  • English Rose

    Jacqueline Marten

    He had no intention of falling in love with this contrary beauty. "YOUR VOICE CALLED ME," HE SAID. "MY VOICE NOW BIDS YOU TO GO AWAY." This exchange marked the first meeting of Primrose Darcourt and Major Lord Jason Woodleigh. ...

  • Wild Concerto

    Anne Mather

    Fate forced Lani St. John to an impossible choice when her adolescent dreams became a wrenching reality. For Jake Pendragon, the brilliant concert pianist she had loved from afar for years, reentered her life with an undeniable, devastating attractio...

  • Passport to Passion

    Sharon McCaffree

    RIGHT NOW...ANY MAN WOULD DO Bea Allen had told her tour group she was meeting a "friend" in Paris ... but he didn't show. To save face she needed a stand-in. And John Robertson filled the bill. But he was more than shed bargained for. Suddenly...

  • The Big Heat

    William P. McGivern

    When Detective Dave Bannion discovers the involvement of city officials in two deaths, he soon finds his own life in danger, in the unforgettable tale of murder, corruption, greed, and vengeance. Reprint....

  • Rogue Cop

    William P. McGivern

    From the station houses to the joy houses, they knew about Mike Carmody. He was the best cop money could buy, and when the Syndicate boys said jump, Carmody knew just how high. But they couldn't buy Carmody's kid brother Eddie--and when Eddie turn...

  • A Grave Without Flowers

    Mary McMullen

  • Pig Pig Goes to Camp

    David McPhail

  • Fathers

    Robert Meister

    A variety of people disclose their memories about and feelings for their fathers and examine the influence their fathers have had in their choice of careers, friends, and spouses and important areas of their lives...

  • Whirlwind

    Jennifer Mikels

    Dayna Palmer was a travel agent--and used to excitement. But the whirlwind of emotion in which Brand Rentrow swept her up was something new to her. Brand was the man whose professional life Dayne had been sent to investigate. She had heard compla...

  • Day the Senior Class Got Married

    Gloria D. Miklowitz

    Seventeen-year-old Lori is convinced that marrying Rick right after graduation is what she most wants in the world and that participating in the simulated marriage unit of their Consumer Economics class will only help them start their marriage on the...

  • SummerSon

    Angel Milan

    TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT Writer Ginger Holland had lived in SummerSon for two years, lovingly restoring the magnificent old house before applying for National Landmark designation. Then Michael Merrick returned to reclaim his family home, promising...

  • The Way of the Samurai

    Yukio Mishima

  • Fort Yuma

    Hank Mitchum

    STAGECOACH -- A powerful new series of adventures set in the West's most dramatic towns -- filled with the danger, history and romance of the bold men and women who conquered the frontier. They struck as swiftly as deadly desert snakes. Ernie ...

  • The Emigrants

    Vilhelm Moberg

    Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish pioneers in America. His consistently faithful depiction of these humbl...

  • Prisoner of the Ant People

    R.A. Montgomery

    (Ages 9-12) You are part of an elite research team, the Zondo Quest Group. Your mission is to combat the Evil Power Master, a rogue entity who is destroying planets one by one in a quest to control the universe. You wake up and find most of your team...

  • Dorothea

    Catherine Moorhouse

    Dorothea Sandham, trapped as unpaid companion to her distant cousin, Leticia Grayson, reluctantly pays an intrusive condolence call on a grieving young widower, Sir Tate Bancroft. Having lost his bride in childbirth, and goaded by the bullying of Vic...

  • I, the Sun

    Janet Morris

    From palace coups in the lost city of Hattusas to treachery in the Egyptian court of Tutankhamun, I, the Sun, the saga of the Hittite king Suppiluliumas, rings with authenticity and the passion of a world that existed fourteen hundred years before th...

  • The Courting of Marcus Dupree

    Willie Morris

  • Trust in Summer Madness

    Carole Mortimer

    This man should have been her husband Jarrett King had walked out on Sian three years before, breaking their engagement and leaving her devastated. Now he was back, expecting her to come to him. He had a wife. He was dating Sian's sister. H...

  • Marie Blythe

    Howard Frank Mosher

    A new edition of a classic novel with a strong female lead.Howard Frank Mosher is one of the best-loved writers of northern New England. One of his most vivid and memorable characters is Marie Blythe. At the dawn of the twentieth century, a young gir...

  • The Joining of the Stone

    Shirley Rousseau Murphy

  • Trace

    Warren Murphy

    Devlin Tracy is a very good insurance investigator in a profession that rewards success. He lives in a luxury condo on the Las Vegas Strip and only works when he feels like it. He also drinks vodka by the pint, cracks wise to damn-near everyone, a...

  • Tales of a Dead King

    Walter Dean Myers

  • Fireflies

    Shiva Naipaul

    Shiva Naipaul was the brother of V. S. Naipaul and author of Firefles and The Chip-Chip Gatherers. Fireflies, his first novel, published in 1970 and longlisted for the 'Lost Man Booker Award' in 2010, is set in Naipaul's native Trinidad. It includes ...