Books Published in October 1984

New Books List: 382 titles

  • Wildcatter's Kiss

    Kelly Adams

    Sheer force of will kept Cally Taylor faithful to her late husband's dream -- running his dilapidated farm and drilling for oil with an ancient rig. That same determination stopped her from evicting Mike Donovan, the ruggedly handsome wildcat dri...

  • Return of the Drifter

    Melodie Adams

    HAD SHE COME TOO FAR TO LOOK BACK NOW? When Kathryn was seventeen, the fiery excitement of Judson Taylor's touch had seared itself into her imagination and flesh forever. Seven years after she'd been devastated by his abandonment, she h...

  • Roadside Valentine

    C.S. Adler

  • Shell Lady's Daughter

    C.S. Adler

    Fourteen-year-old Kelly doesn't understand why she has been shipped off to stay with her rigid grandparents in Florida. And why does her mother have to stay up north in the hospital and her grandmother refuses to answer her questions? Walking the hot...

  • The Burn

    Vassily Aksyonov

  • The Island of Crimea

    Vassily Aksyonov

  • Pattons Best

    Pamela Allen

    K-Gr 2 This very slight story has a baby's wish come true. Tired of lying powerless in her crib, the frustrated baby chooses one of those magic nights when the moon is out and the tide is full to make her escape. Her toy lion becomes enormous and fie...

  • Jubiaba

    Jorge Amado

  • Sea of Death

    Jorge Amado

    Written in 1936 when Amado was twenty-four years old, Sea of Death tells the dockside tales of Bahia. Sailors and their wives, steeped in the rich mythology surrounding the goddess Iemanja, are at the heart of this novel, a lyrical and tragic portray...

  • 7 Conquests

    Poul Anderson

    This collection of seven intriguing and illuminating episodes, ranging from the era of dinosaurs to the space age, explores the reaction of the human race to the stresses of conflict and high technology...

  • Happily Ever After

    Barbara Andrews

    She wrote sexy romance novels. Everyone expected Brenda Storm to look and act as if she'd stepped out of the pages of one of her own books. Eric Sheffield, president of a national bookstore chain, was no exception. From the moment his lips unexpe...

  • The First Year

    Lucilla Andrews

    A young probationer nurse at a large teaching hospital like St. Martin's doesn't have much time for leisure - let alone romance. Attractive, young Rose Standing learned what it was like to work under an exacting Sister, to be so busy that hunger and ...

  • The Repentant Rebel

    Jane Ashford

    FEAR OF FALLING Miss Diana Gresham was only seventeen when she was lured by the scheming Gerald Carshin into making a ruinous misstep, only to be abandoned by that handsome scoundrel. Now she is twenty-five, beautiful, wealthy, vibrantly intell...

  • Dinner Ladies Dont Count

    Bernard Ashley

    Two books in one: Dinner Ladies Don't Count and Linda's Life. Both are school stories - in the first, Jason has to prove that he didn't take Donna's birthday cards; in the second, Linda tells a lie about why she can't go on the school outing. Fun and...

  • Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space

    Isaac Asimov

  • Wond

    Isaac Asimov

  • Young Extraterrestrials

    Isaac Asimov

    Eleven stories--by Piers Anthony, R.A. Lafferty, James E. Gunn, and others--focus on the lives and motives of extraterrestrials on Earth, their adjustment to human society, and their impact on human life...

  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes

    Allen Atkinson

  • Captains of the City Streets

    Esther Averill

    Captains of the City Streets is another trip into the world of the legendary Cat Club of Greenwich Village. Two adventurous young cats—Sinbad and the Duke—are best friends who share a "trampish love of the free and easy life." T...

  • Home in the Sky

    Jeannie Baker

  • Quarrelling, They Met the Dragon

    Sharon Baker

  • Bewitched

    Linda Barlow

    Actress Bret Kingsley only plays at being a witch. But TV muckraker Daniel Haggarty takes her all too seriously. Though she laughs off his menace, denying his dark, brooding appeal, he vows to fulfill a personal vendetta by publicly humiliating Bret'...

  • Turquoise Sky

    Monica Barrie

    THE ARIZONA TERRITORY WAS BEAUTIFUL AND UNTAMED AND SO WAS SALENA ANDREWS Alone after her father's murder, Saley fought valiantly to keep his ranch -- and his dream -- alive. Then U.S. Marshal Cord Langley arrived to investigate mysterious Ind...

  • A Promise Once Made

    Barbara Bartholomew

    PROMISES TO KEEP Erin Palmer returned to the land of her birth to gather research information on folktales of the Ozarks. Yet soon after her arrival in Pine Creek, a long-kept secret seemed close to emerging: Who were her natural parents? Garet...

  • A Love Like This

    Barbara Bartholomew

  • Under the Freeze

    George Bartram

    A game with no sides... A game with no rules... A game where no one can win... The impossible happens - when enough plutonium to incinerate the globe is stolen from inside Russia. Only a few have power enough to execute such a scheme...Only ...

  • The Wind from a Burning Woman

    Greg Bear

  • Infinity Concerto

    Greg Bear

    THERE IS A SONG YOU DARE NOT SING ... a melody that you dare not play, a concerto that you dare not hear It is called a Song of Power. It is a gateway to another world -- agate that will lock behind you as you pass, barring you from the Earth fore...

  • Willie de Wit: Lord of the Ring

    Michael Beaudin

  • With All My Heart

    Emma Bennett

    Being a student again wasn't easy for Cathlin Roberts. The prospect of a new job as manager of a Texas research company was all the motivation she needed. But when she found that her law professor was none other than handsome, arrogant Gage Grant, it...

  • With a Face Like Mine

    Sharon L. Berman

  • Just Call My Name

    Dorothy Ann Bernard

    As a television news reporter, Jessica Andres was always on the lookout for a good story. So when a solo camping trip in the rough took her straight into the arms of a rugged and mysterious woodsman named Clayton Farley, her reporter's instinct told ...

  • Dark Tyrant

    Helen Bianchin

    "Are you saying you own me?" Samantha could hardly take it all in. How could her stepfather have fallen so deeply into debt that he'd bartered for more time with his only remaining asset -- Samantha. Yet had Alex Nicholas not purcha...

  • Lover or Deceiver

    Natalie Bishop

    He didn't even know that she existed, but Cassie Blakely wasn't about to let that small obstacle stand in her way. She was determined to get to know Joel Shepherd quite well indeed. For her newspaper, she would expose the prominent Hawaiian developer...

  • Weird Zone

    Christopher Black

  • East Side, West Side

    Jillian Blake

    LANE PATTON represented the chic East Side of New York. She was fashionable, as arty as the magazine she wrote for--and far too busy for that thing called love. DAVID COREY lived on the down-to-earth West Side. He was a doctor who took his respons...

  • Teddy Beddy Bear's Bedtime Songs and Poems

    Judy Blankenship

  • The Keys to Billy Tillio

    Eric Blau

    Twenty years after the death of his best friend, Billy Tillio, Sylvan Fox receives the keys to Tillio's apartment, a legacy from the past that exposes him to a nightmare of murder, mind control, and international conspiracy...

  • Christmas Lessons

    Janine Boissard

  • Sue Barton Rural Nurse

    Helen Dore Boylston

    At twenty-three, Sue Barton was a high-spirited and courageous young nurse with a temper that matched her red hair. She had graduated from a great metropolitan hospital, served with distinction in the Henry Street Settlement in New York, and incident...

  • Blue Hat, Green Hat

    Sandra Boynton

    “OOPS!” Three earnest animals and one misguided turkey learn colors and clothes. Though admittedly, the turkey never quite gets the hang of it. A bestselling book every year since its publication in 1984....

  • City of Sorcery

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Haunted by mysterious images of dark, hooded figures and the cawing of strange birds, and drawn by the memory of two lost comrades, Magdalen Lorne, chief Terran operative on Darkover must pursue her quest not only to the frozen ends of the physical w...

  • Island Man

    Muriel Bradley

    RETURN TO PARADISE . . . Liana Beldon had been raised away from her family's Hawaiian home, but an urgent call from her sister brought her back to the islands to save the family property. Her struggle brought her up against Jax McHenry, whose a...

  • Night Fighter

    J.R.D. Braham

  • A Kiss to Make It Better

    Joan Bramsch

    When Dr. Jon McCallem arrived on the peaceful Minnesota island, he was as burned out emotionally as Jenny Larson had been when she'd sought sanctuary there. Appointing herself as visiting nurse, Jenny prescribed the perfect cure -- teaching Jonny ho...

  • Decisions

    Freda Bright

  • In a Class by Itself

    Sandra Brown

    Ten years had passed since Dani Quinn had graduated from high school in the small Texas town, ten years since the night her elopement with Logan Webster had ended in disaster. Now Dani approached her tenth reunion with breathless uncertainty. Logan w...

  • Savage Awakening

    Virginia Brown

    DANGEROUS TEMPTATION Victoria Michaels didn't know how to handle a man like Cord Rawlins. She was awed by his lean, hard strength, intrigued by his fearsome reputation, and bewitched by the promise of passion in his eyes. With one burning touch, one...

  • First Things Last

    Dixie Browning

    A HOSTAGE HEART Belinda Massey had lived all over the world, but nothing in her experience as an au pair had prepared her for Chandler Harrington. Their eyes had met one moonlit night a year before and she had never forgotten him. Accused of ki...

  • Monster Maker

    Tom Brumberger

  • Run for the Roses

    Eileen Bryan

    For as long as she could remember, Bobbie Jo Tate had dreamed of being a jockey. A petite spitfire, she'd stood up to ridicule, fought for the right to take her place in the male-dominated world of Thoroughbred racing, and succeeded. Now Jeremy and R...

  • The Ghosts of Departure Point

    Eve Bunting

  • Julia's Magic

    Eleanor Cameron

  • A Damaged Trust

    Amanda Carpenter

    She would never again let a man hurt her "You'd have been willing if I hadn't told you I was married." Neil had acted as if he'd been the offended party instead of Carrie. It still hurt -- she had loved and trusted him. A wo...

  • Match Made in Heaven

    Malissa Carroll

    The world of fine wines was a heady one. It had given beautiful young Tessa Mallory, apprentice winemaker, a reason to go on after her' husband's death. But while others gave every thought to the new vintage, Tessa was distracted. Success in the new ...

  • Cloud Waltzer

    Tory Cates

    Blond, daring and powerful, Archer Hanson was like a Viking explorer -- and the territory he wanted to discover was Meredith Tolliver. Soaring high in his giant balloon, Meredith felt as if she were waltzing on a cloud. Archer loved her, she loved hi...

  • Christmas Moon

    Denys Cazet

  • Shades of Moonlight

    Laurel Chandler

    Spirited Tria O'Connor had always relied on her second sight for guidance -- but nothing could prepare her for Carfax Tower or its broodingly handsome owner, Sir James. And though his reaction to finding this American psychic investigator in his ...

  • Four Is a Crowd

    Emily Chase

    Pamela thinks she can buy her friends the way she picks her clothes... And Shelley almost falls for it. The movie star's daughter is new to Canby Hall, and Shelley can't believe the glamorous life Pamela has led. Despite Faith and Dana's warnings,...

  • Here There Be Dragons

    Marianne Clark

    Handsome and famous TV newsman Gabe Whitfield was everything a woman could want --and everything beautiful Rachel Novak feared. When Gabe took over the old Whitfield mansion, he seemed to embody all the forces of change that threatened the historic t...

  • Stillwatch

    Mary Higgins Clark

    A STRANGER HAS WARNED HER -- STAY AWAY She is Pat Traymore -- young, beautiful, talented, and deeply in love with a handsome congressman. She's come home to the glamorous, high-powered world of Washing-ton to produce a TV series. Her subject: ...

  • A Choice of Futures

    Arthur C. Clarke

  • Peppermint Gang and Frog Heaven

    Laurie B. Clifford

  • The Donkey's Gift

    Thomas M. Coffey

  • Sinners

    Jackie Collins

    Hollywood seems to be all glittering premieres, dazzling movie sets, and fabulous parties, but underneath the glamour and gloss is the seamy, sultry underbelly that Jackie Collins so masterfully exposes in the shocking, passionate world of Sinners!Lo...

  • Kill Your Darlings

    Max Allan Collins

    When a once-revered author is found murdered in his Chicago hotel room during the Boucheron, an annual gathering of mystery writers and fans, Mallory must contend with the victim's gorgeous widow, a dishonest bookseller, and a host of tempermental au...

  • Goodbye Forever

    Barbara P. Conklin

    Kari Langtree is afraid to give her heart away; it seems that every time she loves someone, she has to say goodbye. Her father died two years ago, and now her favorite sister has gotten married. The pain of another goodbye is more than Kari can stand...

  • Ecstasy's Paradise

    Phoebe Conn

    HIS EYES BEWITCHED HER When the arrogant. captain came to escort Anna Thorson to her future husband, the stunning blonde was at her wits' end. How could she leave her home to marry a man she didn't know and didn't love? But as she glared defiantly a...

  • Groupmind

    Mike Conner

  • Dancehall

    Bernard Conners

  • Shadows Linger

    Glen Cook

    Mercenary soldiers in the service of the Lady, the Black Company stands against the Rebels of the White Rose. They are tough men, proud of honoring their contracts. The Lady is evil, but so, too, are those who falsely profess to follow the White Rose...

  • The Alejandra Variations

    Paul Cook

    Mnemos Nine, a complex computer used by the State Department for predicting catastrophes that is also an intelligent being with human emotions, shares an extraordinary relationship with nuclear strategist Nicholas Tejada...

  • I'm Not Your Other Half

    Caroline B. Cooney

    A high school junior finds the perfect boyfriend . . . but is he too good to be true? Chapman High juniors Fraser and Annie have been best friends forever. They're each missing only one critical thing: the right boyfriend. Then Annie meets Price. ...

  • Down with Wimps

    Scott Corbett

    Claudine and Bessie, self-appointed scourges of wimps, cause chaos when an author visits their elementary school, save the children from a lunch of Broccoli Surprise, and cause the downfall of such notable wimps as the class snob and the school's wor...

  • Sweet Surrender // Evening Star

    Catherine Coulter

    HIS DARK DESIRES CLAIMED HER He was the highest bidder for her beauty. And now Giana was the property of the handsome, hot-blooded American who had paid heavily to possess her exquisite body, who hungered to initiate her innocent flesh into the fla...

  • Familiar Ground

    Elizabeth Cox

    A man haunted by the death of his brother and a forty-year-old secret returns to his Tennessee hometown in this novel by the author of A Question of Mercy.A novel of homecoming, loss, and the power of story, Familiar Ground follows the return of Jaco...

  • Bagthorpes Abroad

    Helen Cresswell

  • Mystique

    Ann Cristy

    Misty Carver, professionally known as Mystique, knows all too well what Lucas Stuyvesant Harrison wants. Each night he watches her play the piano in the posh Edwardian Room of Manhattan's Terrace Hotel. Several times he approaches her. But, thoug...

  • The Maltese Vengeance

    John Cutter

  • Summer Sunrise

    Lee Damon

    THEY WERE THE ORIGINAL ODD COUPLE Tally Bishop, one of New England's hottest architects, wore a lavender hard hat, handled an eighteen-wheeler like a pro and called her crossbred bobcat Splendid. To the English, Bram Ramsdale was Troy Castleman...

  • The Man Who Melted

    Jack Dann

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    The Man Who Melted is a warning for the future. It is the Brave New World and 1984 for our time, for it gives us a glimpse into our own future—a future ruled by corporations that control deadly and powerful forms of mass manipulation. It is...

  • Magicats

    Jack Dann

  • A Cherished Account

    Jeanette Darwin

    Tax returns, yes--love affairs, no. Straightening out artists' financial tangles was Megan Saunders' specialty as an accountant, but her disastrous marriage to a painter had taught her that artists' business affairs were all she wanted to handle. Yet...

  • Moonheart

    Charles de Lint

    When Sara and Jamie discovered the artifacts, they sensed the pull of a dim, distant place, a world of misty forests, ancient magics, mythical beings, ageless bards ... and restless evil. Now, with their friends and enemies alike--Blue, the biker; Ke...

  • Brothers

    Robert De Maria

  • It Can't Be My Grave

    S.F.X. Dean

  • Indian Tales

    Jamie Deangulo

    Hailed by Ezra Pound as the "American Ovid" and renowned as a linguist and a self-described "amateur anthropologist," Jaime de Angulo drew on his forty years among the Pit River tribe of California to create the amalgam of fiction, folklore, tall tal...

  • Valentina

    Joseph H. Delaney

    Valentina, an artificial intelligence program come to life, and her creator, Celeste Hackett, a shy college student and computer genius, are menaced by an unscrupulous lawyer and two computer wizards hired to destroy Valentina...

  • The Heart Victorious

    Delaney Devers

    Each had known...and lost...a perfect love, and neither expected a second chance. But that was before pretty, new mother Bet Valentine clouted rugged Louisiana rancher Jake Calloway with a mop...and convinced him she was the perfect candidate for a s...

  • The Final Encyclopedia Vol. 1

    Gordon R. Dickson

  • Desire and Dream

    Kaye Dobkin

    HER HEART COULD NEVER FORGIVE...OR FORGET From the moment she met the handsome French millionaire, her days were filled only with him ... from early morning trail rides on his estate to moonlit nights in his arms. There was no life outside their l...

  • English Creek

    Ivan Doig

    In this prize-winning portrait of a time and place -- Montana in the 1930s -- that at once inspires and fulfills a longing for an explicable past, Ivan Doig has created one of the most captivating families in American fiction, the McCaskills.The witt...

  • Lahti's Apple

    Joan J. Domning

    Scented with delicate fragrance of apple blossoms, the warm air swayed Laurian Bryant's senses, left her helpless to resist the seductive courting of the celebrated violinist who owned the orchard near her music camp. Mesmerized by Keska Lahti, ...

  • If Wishes Were Horses

    Jean Slaughter Doty

    If Wishes Were Horses is Jean Slaughter Doty's story of loss and perserverance—and one not to miss.Thirteen-year-old Stephany Reed and her older sister struggle, after their father's death, to keep the family horse farm going but are balked by ...

  • The Medical Center Murders

    Lisa Drake

  • Drop Dead

    June Drummond

  • Guinea Pigs Far and Near

    Kate Duke

  • No Bugles, No Drums

    Charles Durden

  • Alpine Condo Crossfire

    Mignon G. Eberhart

    She Never Expected Murder. A chilly December weekend at suburban Alpine Village quickly overheats when Emmy Brace's uncle, Judge Harry Doane, claims that her job as a TV news researcher is endangering her life. Angry with the Judge, she is f...

  • The Mountains of Eden

    Jaroldeen Edwards

    From the harsh western wilderness, they carved the glorious future.... The gentle promise of a new faith first beckoned the McElins to Utah's virgin territory. But it was the fierce beauty of the Rockies themselves that would fill their hearts wit...

  • Lone Star and the Stockyard Showdown

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki take on a wild downtown stampede -- and the Devil himself!He called himself a man of God. But he was the emissary of the devil. What was Prince Klaus von Stumpf of Bavaria doing in Kansas City? And what was his priest-secretary, Father ...

  • Looking at You

    Mark Emerson

  • Secrets

    Judith Enderle

    “EVERYONE HAS SECRETS.” So Buff told Cara. But could she tell him hers? How could she admit that rich old Mrs. Bridgeworth was not really her grandmother, that she really didn’t live with her in a splendid mansion? She could never tell her ...

  • American Indian Myth and Legends

    Richard Erdoes

    Gathering 160 tales from 80 tribal groups, this collection offers a panorama of Native American mythic heritage. There are tales of creation and love, of heroes and war, of animals, and the end of the world. The authors have added a selection of cont...

  • Love Medicine

    Louise Erdrich

    Set on and around a North Dakota reservation, Love Medicine, the first novel by National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich is the epic story about the intertwined fates of two families: the Kashpaws and the Lamartines.

    With asto...

  • Timeless Rituals

    Laurel Evans

    RAIDER OF THE LOST HEART Dana was an archeologist. She had often thought that life would be much less complicated if some strong Viking raider would stride out of the past and carry her away. Then one evening in the deepening Danish twilight Dr. ...

  • Longarm on the Arkansas Divide

    Tabor Evans

  • Longarm on the Ogallala Trail

    Tabor Evans

  • The Burning

    Jeff Fain

  • Gates of Creation

    Philip Jose Farmer

    It was a game the Lords played. Jadawin knew that his father had stolen Chryseis, the woman he loved. The only way to rescue her was to find the gateway into his father's universe and bring her back. But the portal was difficult to locate, and even i...

  • Sara's Stand

    Whitney Faulkner

    War threatened to destroy the world that summer of 1914, and for lovely Sara Campbell it brought an end to a golden time. Once the most toasted debutante in New York, the sultry beauty had left the haven of her family for the arms of a handsome Germa...

  • Love Beyond Surrender

    Susan C. Feldhake

    She was a Southerner, born and bred. He wore a Yankee uniform. But love declared a truce. Darcy Lindell was spoiled, selfish, and even in faded calico, utterly enchanting. Her heart belonged to no man--except perhaps to a devastatingly hand-some s...

  • The Princess and the Thorn

    Paul R. Fisher

  • Affairs of State

    Sara Fitzgerald

    COMPROMISING POSITIONS Maggie's election had been considerably helped by the incumbent senator's bad luck in getting caught up to his ears in a kickback scheme. She wasn't going to be so foolish as to get involved in anything that mig...

  • The Third Time

    Rebecca Flanders

    She swore love wouldn't deceive her for the third time Nothing could prevent Dani Miller from organizing a union at the Intercomp plant in Somerset, Indiana -- though Vice-president Mick Cavenaugh tried his level best to stop her. To keep Dani...

  • Atlas of Pern

    Karen Wynn Fonstad

    Combines descriptive entries with detailed maps and schematics to provide a comprehensive guide to the geography, history, and inhabitants of Anne McCaffrey's fabulous world of dragons and dragonriders...

  • Shadowkeep

    Alan Dean Foster

    Practer Fine, an adventurous young blacksmith, is given the task of finding the source of the unimaginable evil of Shadowkeep, a mysterious castle, and freeing his land from its enchantment, in a fantasy adventure based on the computer game "Shadowke...

  • One-Eyed Cat

    Paula Fox

    Ned Wallis knows he's forbidden to touch the rifle in the attic. But he can't resist sneaking it out of the house, just once. Before he realizes it, Ned takes a shot at a dark shadow. When Ned returns home, he's sure he sees a face looking down at...

  • Magic Circle

    Dorothy Brenner Francis / Dorothy Francis

  • The Lost American

    Brian Freemantle

    A new British operative in Moscow becomes mired in a web of deceit

    The KGB is never surprised. When Jeremy Brinkman''s file lands on the director''s desk, informing him of the new British cultural attaché, the spymaster knows what it m...

  • A Lovely Day to Die and Other Stories

    Celia Fremlin

  • George Washington's Breakfast

    Jean Fritz

    "George W. Allen is a boy who never gives up until he finds out what he wants to know--in this case, what his namesake ate for breakfast . . . The sprightly, humorous story and likable colored illustrations bring history alive and make research meani...

  • Dreamweaver

    Felicia Gallant

    Mallory - Talented, beautiful, sophisticated. As the author of the movie box office smash Nestar, was she about to risk her entire career for the man she loved? Colt - Brilliant charming, charismatic. Blacklisted as a director, would he use Mallory...

  • Role of Honour

    John E. Gardner

    Following scandal and his shock resignation from Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, James Bond becomes a gun for hire; able, and willing, to sell his lethal skills to the highest bidder. And SPECTRE, it seems, are eager to have the disgraced ...

  • Norman Plays Second Base

    Clare Gault

  • The Twelfth Transforming

    Pauline Gedge

    No period in Egyptian history has been the source of so much fascination as the reign of Akhenaten, the XVIII Dynasty pharaoh whose impetuous government took his country to the brink of disaster. In The Twelfth Transforming, Pauline Gedge tells the r...

  • Beloved Gravely

    Christian Gehman

    Recovering from the devastating breakup of a love affair, rock singer and composer Carl Phillips returns home to Middleville, Virginia, and finds himself invited--with a host of other colorful characters--to a pig roast...

  • The Twelfth Juror

    B.M. Gill

    As the jury deliberates the case against TV personality Edward Carne, on trial for his wife's murder, the accused man's fate lies with the twelfth juror, Robert Quinn, who has a deeply emotional interest in the outcome...

  • Mona is Missing

    Shannon Gilligan

  • In the Middle of a Rainbow

    Barbara Girion

  • One Order to Go

    Mel Glenn

  • Cargo

    Harold Goodwin

  • Take All Myself

    Lucy Gordon

    "DID MY HEART LOVE TILL NOW..." For Bryce Trafford and Beverly Darwin, it was exactly that sense of awesome inevitability that hit them with their very first glance. Fate it may have been, but that didn't make it easy. Beverly was ...

  • Silver and Spice

    Jeanne Grant

    For years, Jake Rivard has swept in and out of Anne Blake's lifelike a whirlwind, disarming her with his roguish charm, thrilling her with his passionate lovemaking...and striking terror into her conservative banker's heart with his wildly sp...

  • Unlikely Stories, Mostly

    Alasdair Gray

    In this volume of stories and illustrations, the author of Poor Things “perfected the blend of visual and verbal elements [that] characterized his work” (Financial Times).   In “The Crank that Made the Revolution,” an enterpris...

  • The Last Hero

    Billie Green

    Toby Baxter never remembered the instant she met Jake Hammond, but that moment had bound them together forever. Toby felt an unfamiliar exultation when Jake gently brushed her cheek with his fingers, summoning forth a sensation of warmth and womanli...

  • Death Dive

    Irving A. Greenfield

    While attempting to salvage an incalculable fortune in gold from an ancient wreck, America's high technology submarine, the Shark, faces a Soviet killer sub with the same mission and a suspected double-agent aboard...

  • King of the Outlaw Horde

    Romer Zane Grey

  • The Fugitive Trail

    Zane Grey

    Zane Grey''s bestselling novels have thrilled generations of readers with heart-and-guts characters, hard-shooting action, and high-plains panoramas.

    When his brother, Barse, pulled one of the biggest hold-ups Texas had ever seen, Bruce Lock...

  • Hostages to Fortune

    Jocelyn Griffin

    For once, Verity Brandon had no defense. Trying to escape the fury of dangerous storm, she was caught red-handed breaking into and entering a secluded lighthouse. Once the door was open, she ran headlong into the equally dangerous Brock Adams. Lit...

  • One in a Million

    Joan Grove

    If only she'd listened to reason, not emotion, the affair with Gavin Richards would have been strictly business. Kalinda Forrest couldn't afford to play dangerous games with the brother -- and financial manager -- of the Fifth Avenue client s...

  • Rodeo Summer

    Judie Gulley

    Plump fifteen-year-old Janet, the non-riding member of a family of riders, determines to prove herself by learning to be a rodeo barrel racer, but the horse she chooses for her own turns out to be all but unmanageable....

  • Sigismund

    Lars Gustafsson

  • The Last Ride

    Carolyn A. Haddad

    On his first date with popular Cindy, high school sophomore Doug refuses to let her ride in a car with a drunk driver, but later, after a fatal crash, he feels guilty for not having somehow saved the car's other passengers as well....

  • Dreams

    Barbara Hall

  • Passage Through Midnight

    Unity Hall

    Jade and Poppy McKenzie Martin, orphans adopted by an English aristocrat, travel a perilous road of corruption, murder, depravity, and desire through Hong Kong as they search for the secrets of their past after the mysterious death of their father...

  • Blood Highway

    Richard Harding

  • Turkey Trot

    Elaine Harper

    MARTHA WOULD HAVE TO WING IT! Harlan Blacker was always leading a protest group against such evils as the cafeteria food, elephant poaching in Africa, excessive homework, global warfare, or potholes in the Blossom Valley streets. Now he appeared t...

  • Every Intimate Detail

    Madeline Harper

    Sparks flew when they met Appearing on the TV talk show "Speak Out" had been a major mistake, Jessica Hale realized. She'd been raked over the coals by its admittedly charismatic host, Luke Maxwell! Jessica vowed to turn the tables ...

  • An Independent Woman

    Claire Harrison

    Her only salvation was the stranger Jo Davidson scoffed at the idea of accepting at face value a stranger's offer of help and company. She was not that naive! But when a mountain storm created plumbing problems in her new tent, she had to turn...

  • Courting Trouble

    Nicole Hart

  • The Tie That Binds

    Kent Haruf

    From the bestselling author of Eventide, The Tie That Binds is a powerfully eloquent tribute to the arduous demands of rural America, and of the tenacity of the human spirit.Colorado, January 1977. Eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough lies in a ...

  • Hanneman's War

    Thomas Hauser

  • Little Witch's Big Night

    Deborah Hautzig

    "Forced to stay at home on Halloween because she's been too good, Little Witch gives three trick-or-treaters high-flying broomstick rides. ""A bouncy tale, presented in a fresh and funny manner"".--Booklist. ""Step Into Reading Books"" Step 2. Full c...

  • Humors of Blood and Skin

    John Hawkes

  • Vietnam Nurse

    Evelyn Hawkins

    A WOMAN Second Lieutenant Sybil Watkins was more than a nurse -- she was a soldier. When she volunteered to go to Vietnam, Sybil thoughts she knew what she was in for, but nothing could have prepared her for what she found -- the terror-filled Sai...

  • Headmaster's Papers

    Richard Hawley

    John Greeve is the headmaster. The 30 years of his life at The Wells School have been rich, challenging, and full of meaning. But now John Greeve's precisely ordered world is crumbling. The values he so passionately believes in are being threatened b...

  • Whispers in the Wind

    Suzanne Hay

    TO THE WILDER SHORES OF LOVE... Lynlea. Her tawny-eyed sensuous beauty bespoke a lineage the envy of kings, a birthright forfeited one blazing night of violence when her noble name was fixed to a death warrant. From the safety of her beloved Fr...

  • Wishful Thinking

    Barbara Haynes

  • The Enchanting Stranger

    Barbara Hazard

    MARRIAGE AND MISCHIEF Beautiful young Lady Patricia Westerly thought she knew the bargain she was making when she wed the wealthy Mr. Alvin Biddles. In return for placing herself in this loathsome man's grasping hands, she would free her fathe...

  • Class Distinctions

    Tim Heald

  • Tom the TV Cat

    Joan Heilbroner

    Illus. in full color. "After Tom becomes a television watchaholic, he wants to be a singer, strongman, or football player like those he sees on TV. However, every time he tries, he lands in trouble. This perky story will have even the most rank begin...

  • Behind Every Good Woman

    Betty Henrichs

    She thought him a rank amateur. He thought her a naive, wealthy girl who'd never had to work for anything she wanted. They were both wrong. Jessica Hart was a capable candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives. Nick Kosachezk, campaign manag...

  • Cherokee Summer

    Anne Henry

    She would always remember those golden days Jordan Karshall had not suspected she'd inherited her father's wanderlust. But her days, divided between her job and her graduate-school courses, had fallen into a dull routine and the archaeolog...

  • Sweet Nothings

    Charlotte Hines

    When Liz sees a blond bombshell throw herself at John, she's forced to reflect on her marriage. Has she become supermom at the expense of being superwife? Is John more emotionally involve with his patients than he is with her? Determined to pr...

  • Anvil of the Heart

    Bruce T. Holmes

    Genetic engineers have been able to create a new version of humankind, a new race of highly intelligent, unemotional, non-violent, rational beings. It is now the year 2057 and John Cunningham’s generation is the last of its kind. Cunningham wit...

  • The Scarecrow Mystery

    Laura Lee Hope

  • Foul Shot

    Doug Hornig

    Charlottesville private detective Loren Swift is hired by the Majors family to find their missing daughter, Leigh, and becomes involved in the murder of a California detective, the death of a civil rights leader, and the attempted murder of Delmos Ve...

  • The Best American Short Stories 1984

    Houghton Mifflin Company

  • The Kamikazes

    Edwin Palmer Hoyt

  • Question Box

    Roberta Hughey

    Ninth-grader Anne has problems with a strict father who thinks she isn't mature enough to take a social relationships class or go on an overnight school trip, and wants to dictate her choices of clothes and friends....

  • Pathway to Heaven

    Elizabeth Hunter (1)

    RESEARCH WAS HER BUSINESS... Very English Sarah Gilbert had often thought her job was a strange one: looking up other peoples' ancestry. But she needed the money, and she had always enjoyed history. Many Australians and Americans came to her t...

  • Keep Tomorrow For Me

    Terry Hunter

  • DeDe Takes Charge!

    Johanna Hurwitz

    DeDe thought being in charge would be easy. Instead, it's a disaster! DeDe's mother and father got divorced a year ago and now everything's all changed. Her mom has to work odd hours. Her dad expects DeDe to talk to a telephone answering machine whe...

  • Intimate

    Donna Huxley

    Could his lies destroy her marriage? When Anna refused Porter Deman's despicable demands, she'd no idea he'd plot limitless revenge. Then she was fired. Her reputation was smeared, and her career was ruined. The only good thing to h...

  • Tears of Pride

    Lisa Jackson

    TEARS OF PRIDE tears of sorrow. Sheila Lindstrom's grief over her father's death was still fresh when he was told that the winery that was her Rage would soon fall prey to a large corporation. Sheila braced herself for an unpleasant confr...

  • Love on the Line

    Anna James

    COULD THEIR LOVE WITHSTAND THE TEST OF TRUTH? Dr. Erica Jordan dispensed advice on how to handle life's problems via her radio talk show, but when it came to handling her own difficulties she didn't find things so easy. She met Josh Ingram at ...

  • A Meeting of Hearts

    Arlene James

    NO TRESPASSING PERMITTED! Willow was prepared to fight with every bit of ammunition she possessed to keep Cassle Oil Company from drilling on her horse farm. But the moment she encountered its determined owner, Trey Cassel, Willow knew she was in ...

  • Trilogy of Death

    P.D. James

    Commander Adam Dalgliesh investigates a murder in a forensic science lab, Philippa Palfrey, an eighteen-year-old adoptee, learns that her natural mother was a murderess, and Cordelia Gray tries to solve the murder of houseparty guest...

  • Nightwalker

    Stephanie James

    DEAD OF NIGHT Cassie was alone in the old mansion when the lights went out. Then three knocks on the heavy front door resounded through the house. Lashed by rain, Justin Drake stood at her doorstep. A sudden bolt of lightning illuminated the dark...

  • The Frenchman's Kiss

    Claudia Jameson

    She had to make Nikolai see sense Janine was perfectly happy about her brother Robert's engagement to Lara Nekrassova, but Lara's arrogant brother Count Nikolai had forbidden the marriage with such violence that Janine was ready to fight b...

  • Memories to Share

    Jessica Jeffries

    NOTHING WAS EXACTLY AS IT SEEMED A dark night. A car -- a bicycle -- a boy. Raw fear sliced through Angela Carruthers on impact -- but she swore the accident wasn't her fault. Dr. Patrick Merrill believed her, and his passionate caring help...

  • Life Its Ownself

    Dan Jenkins

    From the author of Semi-Tough -- one of Sports Illustrated’s top 100 sports books of all time -- comes the hilarious continuing comic adventures of star NFL player Billy Clyde Puckett.Injured football player and TV sports commentator Billy Clyde Pu...

  • Winter's Bounty

    Muriel Jensen

    Beckoning her heart was the warmth of winter's bounty The Christmas reunion in Astoria, Oregon, was a boisterous gathering of love in many forms, but Marijane Westridge was a stranger to all of them. Her mother's recent wedding, her older sister's...

  • Champagne Nights

    Nancy John

    CHAMPAGNE NIGHTS... ...and sun-filled days--those were the gifts that Phil Maxwell gave to Melissa Colville. What had started as a purely professional association quickly grew into an affair of the heart as well. But Melissa was a widow with ot...

  • Angels

    Denis Johnson

    The odyssey of two losers--Jamie, mother of two young children, fleeing her unfaithful husband and the world by downing bottles of barbituates, and Bill Houston, a professional thief looking for a job--who find each other as they lose everything...

  • The Cheat

    Pat Jordan

    Sportswriter Bobby Giaquinto measures his life in sexual conquests, along with the occasional story deadline.  He plods through life numbly, until he meets a woman he cannot forget, and becomes gripped by a baseball story about a very righteous ...

  • Campaign for Loving

    Penny Jordan

    She desperately wanted to believe in his love Secretly Jaime Templeton still regretted having walked out on Blake. But his four-year silence had confirmed her fears--that Blake didn't love her or their child So naturally Jaime was suspiciou...

  • Lisa Logan

    Marie Joseph

    During the height of the Depression, young Lisa Logan takes a job in a fabric store, and her talent of color, line, and design lead her to the heights of the fashion and design world Lisa Logan was still a girl when she learned that it was a man's...

  • Rare Breed

    Janet Joyce

    "KEEP AWAY FROM ME, STACEY, OR WE'LL BOTH REGRET IT." They were two very different people, but Stacey wasn't sure that regret was what she felt in Jordan's arms. Exhilaration? Perhaps. Fear? Maybe a little. Wonder? Definitely. Love . . .? But...

  • The Wizards of Armageddon

    Fred M. Kaplan

    This is the untold story of the small group of men who have devised the plans and shaped the policies on how to use the Bomb. The book (first published in 1983) explores the secret world of these strategists of the nuclear age and brings to light a c...

  • To the Tenth Generation

    Rita Kashner

  • John Sinbele R. I. P.

    A. Ivan Kaufman

  • Be an Astronaut!

    Bill Kaufman

  • Be a Pirate!

    Bill Kaufmann

  • Be a Police Officer!

    Bill Kaufmann

  • Death in Kashmir

    M.M. Kaye

    Moonlit mountains, heart-stopping suspense, and sudden death -- all await you in Kashmir Sarah Parrish has traveled to the mountainous paradise of Kashmir for some skiing and much needed relaxation. But a pall is cast over the snow-capped peaks wh...

  • Suddenly the Magic

    Karen Keast

    Court McAlister is far too commanding for Winter Loring's taste. What's more, he insists on dredging up her miserable past. Worst of all, the divorced Louisiana contractor accuses Winter of having an affair with his teenaged son! Still, against a...

  • Rituals

    Charlene Keel