Books Published in October 1984

New Books List: 382 titles

  • 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...

  • The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 10

    Arthur W. Saha

  • Wond

    Isaac Asimov

  • 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...

  • 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

  • Witches Brew

    Marcia Muller

  • Wishful Thinking

    Barbara Haynes

  • Wise Virgin

    A.N. Wilson

  • 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 ...

  • Winter Song

    Jackie Weger

    His arms meant safety--and desire Anna Nesmith's life was relatively happy, relatively stable. The bruising news that state investigator Francis Caburn brought her changed everything. Shattered and vulnerable, Anna turned to Caburn for help. He...

  • Winter of the Heart

    Linda J. Larosa

    She fled a secret terror to pursue a secret dream. It began as a magical love story of champagne and candlelight, of passion and romance in a marble palace. But when the aristocratic Julienne married Franz, she had no foreboding of his legacy, the da...

  • Wine of Astonishment

    Earl Lovelace

  • The Wind from a Burning Woman

    Greg Bear

  • Willie de Wit: Lord of the Ring

    Michael Beaudin

  • 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...

  • Wild Animals

    Peter Straub

  • 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...

  • Where Is Emmett Gold?

    Erica Kohl

  • When Love Commands

    Jennifer Wilde

    Savagery & Splendor This tumultuous love story continues the rapturous adventures of Marietta Danver, a woman whose beauty sets men's hearts aflame. Marietta races to London by carriage to start a new life with the only man she has ever truly loved-...

  • When Elephants Forget

    Warren Murphy

    Devlin Tracy is an insurance fraud investigator, and a good one. The pay's great, he lives in swingin' Las Vegas, and only has to work when he feels like it. Taking on a New York-based case for Garrison Fidelity isn't something Trace particularly ...

  • What's a Frank Frank?

    Giulio Maestro

  • Weird Zone

    Christopher Black

  • Weekend of Fear

    Virginia Nielsen

    THE JEWELS WERE HIDDEN WHERE EVERYONE IN TOWN COULD SEE THEM, BUT NO ONE KNEW THEY WERE THERE.... When the school loner, Brick, falls heir to a fortune of jewels, his life is threatened. He asks Jacey to hide the jewels for him until he can get them...

  • Ways of the Wind

    Patricia Rae

    Anne Curry's passion for handsome Breck Breckenridge burned as fiercely as the western sun. And when the tall, lean rancher asked her to be his wife and go with him to the vast, open land of the Arizona Territory, Anne could not refuse. Though she kn...

  • Wanton Splendor

    Bobbi Smith

    STORM OF PASSION Kathleen had every intention of keeping her distance from the dangerously handsome Christopher Fletcher. But when a hurricane devastated Derniere Island, she crept into Chris's arms for comfort. The mocking look in his face made h...

  • 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...

  • Vampire Moves In

    Angela Sommer-Bodenburg

  • 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...

  • Us and Uncle Fraud

    Lois Lowry

    Mysterious things begin to happen after Uncle Claude comes to stay with his sister's family....

  • 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 Unicorn Crown

    Rhondi Vilott

  • Uneasy Lies the Head // To Hold the Crown

    Jean Plaidy

    From exile and war to love and loss -- every dynasty has a beginning.Henry Tudor was not born to the throne of England. Having come of age in a time of political turmoil and danger, the man who would become Henry VII spent fourteen years in exile in ...

  • 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 ...

  • Ultraheroes #9

    Len Neufeld

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Trish for President

    Lael Littke

    Opposing Jordan Avery, young political genius and her secret heartthrob, in the race for junior-class president, Trish enlists the aid of R.G., her campaign manager and boy-next-door, her best friend Dannalee, and her own dog, Snyde...

  • 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...

  • Tramp Steamer and the Silver Bullet

    Jeffrey Kelly

  • Tourists

    Richard B. Wright

  • Tough and Tender Stories

    Veronica Michael

  • A Touch of Madness

    Deirdre Mardon

    He was endearingly unique... As a psychologist, Gale Christopher was used to meeting all kinds. Nothing, no one, fazed her--until she met smiling handsome Sky Dawson in an elevator. Within minutes the eccentric Texan proposed marriage; within hou...

  • Touch a Wild Heart

    Vella Munn

    Who would be brave enough to touch a wild heart? Chela was proud of herself and her people. Teaching English to Mexican immigrants in the pear orchards of Oregon, Chela felt she was making a contribution, bettering the lives of those for whom she ...

  • Too Near the Fire

    Lindsay McKenna

    LIFE SAVER Leah Stevenson was a trained fire fighter, and all she knew when she battled her way through the smoke and flames was that there were lives to be saved. Now two innocent children were trapped inside a burning house, and Gil had trust...

  • Tomorrow and Forever

    Francesca Macklem

  • 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...

  • To the Tenth Generation

    Rita Kashner

  • To Love and to Conquer

    Joyce Verrette

    SHE WAS MORE REAL TO HIM THAN LIFE ITSELF They were born worlds apart but destined to a passion that would survive the Inquisition that ravaged her country and the conquistadors who enslaved his. Rianna Alava of Madrid was driven from Spain to dis...

  • To Love and Cherish

    Kathleen Yapp

    HEAVEN ON EARTH The balmy Hawaiian island of Kauai was paradise for most visitors, but for Dr. Hillary Moss, it posed the greatest challenge of her life. She'd come to serve God, to provide medical care for His people, poor farmers and field hands...

  • 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. ...

  • A Time Between

    Shirley Streshinsky

    EVERY PASSION HAS ITS PRICE IN A GLORIOUS AND EXPLOSIVE AGE Prohibition...bootleg gin...motion pictures...Hallie Duer covers them all. As the star journalist for San Francisco's leading newspaper she probes the heart of the hottest stories of the ...

  • 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 ...

  • This Kind of Woman: Ten Stories by Japanese Women Writers, 1960-1976

    Yukiko Tanaka

  • Thirty-Six Exposures

    Kevin Major

    The last months before high school graduation are a watershed for seventeen-year-old Lorne as he confronts an autocratic teacher, befriends the wild and daring Trevor, begins a relationship with a girl, and contemplates a future away from his native ...

  • 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...

  • Teddy Beddy Bear's Bedtime Songs and Poems

    Judy Blankenship

  • 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...

  • Taking Chances

    Lynda Trent

    CHELSEA VAUGHN had a new job as an automobile repossessor, but she failed in her very first assignment: she took the wrong car and landed an innocent man in jail. JASON MALONE bore Chelsea no grudge. In fact he was pleased, because she had inadver...

  • 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 ...

  • Swept Off Her Feet

    Coleen Kimbrough

    From head to toe he was all male Cassie Ryan couldn't take her eyes off the gorgeous man working out at her local gym. Adam Bradshaw had a perfect build, a perfect smile--and the perfect feet for her client's soap advertisement. Cassie signed A...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Sugarcane Island

    George Weber

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Stuka Pilot

    Hans-Ulrich Ulrich Rudel

    Stuka Pilot is the best book ever published about the air war against Russia. Hans Ulrich Rudel began his amazing career as a Stuka pilot in Poland in 1939, fought in the great air battles over Leningrad, Stalingrad and Moscow, and finished the war f...

  • Strands of War

    Jean Alexander Kemeny

    Deputy Fuhrer Martin Borman begins to set up his own international spy network, starting with a blackmailed Boston businessman and a young German who landed by U-boat in Maine....

  • A Story Well Told

    Thea Lovan

    ISN'T IT ROMANTIC? Tall, devastating heroes always fall madly in love with beautiful, spirited heroines. As a bestselling romance author, Linnet Brooks knew this better than anyone. Tall, devastating Jon West was a critically acclaimed biograph...

  • 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: ...

  • State of Grace

    Joseph Pintauro

  • Something to Be Desired

    Thomas McGuane

    A funny, rueful, and beautifully rendered portrait of American manhood on the rocks from the highly acclaimed author of Cloudbursts and Ninety-two in the Shade In life Lucien Taylor has made several mistakes, but the two most grievous are as fo...

  • Slocum's Winning Hand

    Jake Logan

  • Skin and Bone

    Gwynne Vevers

  • 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...

  • Sinner and Saint

    Prudence Martin

    Kaler O'Connell was an ex-con, a man Beth Rasmussen had been warned to avoid. But she hired him, dared to offer him a second chance even as gossip mushroomed in the small South Dakota town. Beth had to admit that something more than compassion had...

  • Silversea

    Jan McGowan

    SHE WAS A RAVEN-HAIRED BEAUTY, AND HEIRESS ... AND HER MOTHER'S PRISONER Laurie Stepney's fortune was coveted by her profligate mother. Trapped in London's gaudy social whirl. Laurie longed to escape -- but only marriage could free her...

  • 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...

  • Silent Partner

    Nell Kincaid

    Independence was all--in work and in love! Makeup artist Laura Dawson came to New York to make a name for herself. She hadn't expected to meet a man like Gordon Chase, head of CTC Television, who offered jobs and contacts that could carry her straigh...

  • Sigismund

    Lars Gustafsson

  • Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space

    Isaac Asimov

  • 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...

  • Sharps Justice

    Jon Sharpe

  • 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...

  • Shadows and Light

    Francesca Stanfill

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • See You In July

    Barbara Steiner

    WAS RON REALLY BAD NEWS? Everyone but Mollie thought so. He was on probation. He'd been mixed up in a grocery store burglary. Her mother called him that boy. Her best friend advised her to find another boyfriend. But Mollie sensed that beneath Ron'...

  • Secrets of the Gnomes

    Rien Poortvliet

  • 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 ...

  • Secrets

    Bernard Maclaverty

  • Season of Mists

    Doreen Owens Malek

    Tom was an enigma! When seventeen-year-old Cory met Tom she knew at once that he was everything that she had always wanted; he was gentle, understanding and funny. Every time she saw him, she fell more deeply in love ... Could she love a boy whos...

  • 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...

  • The Scots

    Jane Toombs

    The story of the Logans and the Ruthvens -- their fierce passions, their cherished dreams -- and of the dark destiny that pursued their generations... DUGALD LOGAN -- A fierce fighter who believed in the strength of Scotland... but the land was tor...

  • Schtech Report

    Pluto Press Staff

  • The Scarecrow Mystery

    Laura Lee Hope

  • 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...

  • Savage Autumn

    Constance O'Banyon

    SEASON OF DESIRE Joanna gave a cry of terror when the tall young leader of the Blackfoot tribe carried her away from all that she held dear. But when he laid her gently back against the buffalo robe in his tepee, she felt strangely safe. And when th...

  • Sarah Phillips

    Andrea Lee

    Discover the acclaimed author of Red Island House Andrea Lee’s first novel -- a coming-of-age classic that follows a young Black woman through her middle-class childhood in the suburbs of Philadelphia and her travels as an adult in France that capt...

  • 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...

  • San Quentin

    Jack Lynch

    Bragg returns to San Quentin State Prison to stop a bloodbath as war breaks out between the guards and a gang of convicts holding hostages, who are demanding the release of their leader's kid brother, who has been accused of murder...

  • Saigon Slaughter

    John Lansing

  • Sabotage

    Jay Leibold

  • Sable

    Ellen Tanner Marsh

    SHE WAS EUROPE'S GREATEST BEAUTY -- AND A SEA CAPTAIN'S GREATEST PRIZE Sable St. Germain, ebony-haired love child of Raven Barrancourt and Charles St. Germain ... her diamond-bright will ruled the wild and barren Scottish hills where she grew to...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • Roadside Valentine

    C.S. Adler

  • River Rapture

    Patricia Markham

    Lisa Taylor had always dreamed of seeing her by-line in New York's glamorous Ostyle magazine. Could one special assignment shatter years of hard work? Her subject: Brendan Donovan, the infamous racing-car champion who'd quit the track after a near-fa...

  • Rituals

    Charlene Keel

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Red Wind Blowing

    Aola Vandergriff

    "the Sky's the limit. You'll have everything. I'll have you dripping in diamonds, I promise." It was a time of great hope for the men who sweated in the Oklahoma oil fields where the precious black gold gushed from the earth. It was a time of prom...

  • Reaching Colorado

    Frank Roderus

    Tenderfoot Harrison Wilke wondered about the three men: heavily armed, avoiding the town, carrying gold coin in their saddlebags. Alert. Surly. Arrogant. Robbers, Harrison concluded; they must have robbed a bank or a train. Harrison thought abou...

  • 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....

  • Ram Song

    Sharon Webb

    When humankind achieved immortality. there were some who rejected the gift. To preserve their creative fire, the men and women of Aulos, a colony world devoted to music, cut all contact with the worlds of men. Now, after ten thousand years, strang...

  • 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....

  • Quarrelling, They Met the Dragon

    Sharon Baker

  • 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...

  • Promise Me Today

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    Having no tomorrows to give, he said, "Promise me today." Detective Tom Hennessey cared. He cared enough to confront teacher Merritt Reed about his nephew's grades. He cared enough to notice the little things about Merritt that signaled a half-bur...

  • A Private Life

    Cynthia Propper Seton

  • The Princess and the Thorn

    Paul R. Fisher

  • President's Daughter

    Ellen Emerson White

  • The Posse

    J.R. Roberts

    What kind of men trample a little girl to death? Only the worst kind of low-down, subhuman varmints-and that's why Clint Adams agrees to join a posse to track down the gang of murdering bank robbers. But with a posse made up of a resentful deputy...

  • Pilgrim's Soul

    Hayton Monteith

    She was only a young girl when they first met, but handsome, magnetic Rath Dixon had made an indelible impression. By the time Liz Butler left her family's lavish Nevada home, her catastrophic marriage behind her, to open her own design studio in ...

  • The Perfect Affair

    Lynn Patrick

    Creating fantasy weddings was Morgana Lawrence's business. So when financial consultant Nicholas Bradford hired her to dream up a medieval celebration for his sister, she promised to give him her most magnificent creation yet. But keeping her min...

  • Peppermint Gang and Frog Heaven

    Laurie B. Clifford

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • A Past Revenge

    Carole Mortimer

    "I wanted you, Danielle, the moment I saw you." Nicholas Andracas was not only commissioning Danielle to paint the portrait of his latest mistress, he was also boldly trying to seduce her with his lethal charm. The rich and arrogant oil...

  • 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...

  • Paddington's Storybook

    Michael Bond

  • Out of the Shadows

    Duffy Stein

    Lovely widow Linda Devonshire finds herself trapped in the nightmare of her past as she is stalked by the murderous stranger who killed her parents, a mysterious figure who may be a figment of her own imagination...

  • 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...

  • One Order to Go

    Mel Glenn

  • 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...

  • Old Man Yury

    Valentinovich Trifonov

  • An Officer and a Lady

    Mary Ruth Myers

    Air Force Captain Judith Clarke, assigned to a missile base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, faces difficult decisions in both her personal life and career as she struggles to cope with an alcoholic friend and co-worker and her love for civilian Wade Lowell...

  • Ocean Fires

    Diana Morgan

    Living in a lighthouse off a tiny fishing village was just what Veronica Coyne wanted - for the summer, at least. A beautiful oceanographer who had just received her degree, Veronica looked forward to two golden months of research and relaxation on L...

  • North

    Alan Zweibel

  • Norman Plays Second Base

    Clare Gault

  • No Bugles, No Drums

    Charles Durden

  • 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...

  • Night Train

    Thomas F. Monteleone

    In the bedrock beneath New York, a beautiful news reporter and a hard-bitten cop enter an eerie maze of abandoned tunnels, searching for a a train that vanished with all aboard -- over a half century ago. But under the city of skyscrapers and tour...

  • Night of Nights

    Elizabeth Levy

  • Night Fighter

    J.R.D. Braham

  • Nebula Awards: #19

    Multiple Authors

  • 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...

  • My Secret Admirer

    Stephen Roos

  • My Own Worst Enemy

    Margot McDonnell

  • My Nursery School

    Harlow Rockwell

  • 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...

  • Motown and Didi

    Walter Dean Myers

    Motown lives in a burned-out building one floor above the rats, searching out jobs every day, working his muscles every night, keeping strong, surviving. Didi lives in her cool dream bubble, untouched by the Harlem heat that beats down on her brother...

  • Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes

    Allen Atkinson

  • More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

    Alvin Schwartz

    Here are 28 scary stories. Some are funny, some macabre, and some just plain spooky. All are perfect for telling aloud in the dark or for reading alone . . . if you dare!...

  • 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...

  • The Moon's Fire-Eating Daughter

    John Myers

  • Monster Maker

    Tom Brumberger

  • Mona is Missing

    Shannon Gilligan

  • 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...

  • Meg and Mog Birthday Book

    Helen Nicoll

    A book for filling in friends' and relatives' birthdays. Each double-spread has a calender sheet with space for every day of the month, facing a picture of Meg and Mog and a short rhyme appropriate to the season....

  • 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 ...

  • The Medical Center Murders

    Lisa Drake

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • The Maltese Vengeance

    John Cutter

  • Magicats

    Jack Dann

  • Magic Circle

    Dorothy Brenner Francis / Dorothy Francis

  • Made in Heaven

    Linda Raye

    Two years after their divorce, Cameron Wakefield reenters Blair's life, as magnificent) handsome and coolly in control as ever. Though he intends to revive a failing Boston newspaper, he insists that business no longer dominates his life. And he want...

  • Loyal Opposition

    Mia Maxam

    STRANGE BEDFELLOWS Even though they were political opposites, when Laura Weston left Hollywood for Alaska to film promotional spots for Chet Winchester's gubernatorial campaign, she was determined to do a professional job. She never expected to be...

  • 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...

  • A Lovely Day to Die and Other Stories

    Celia Fremlin

  • 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 ...

  • Love Medicine

    Louise Erdrich

    “The beauty of Love Medicine saves us from being completely devastated by its power.”  --  Toni MorrisonSet on a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation, Love Medicine -- the first novel from master storyteller and National Book Award-winn...

  • A Love Like This

    Barbara Bartholomew

  • Love Is Where You Find It

    Cyndi Richards

  • 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 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...

  • Lorenzo

    David McPhail

  • Lord Wildfire

    Claudette Williams

    She was hiding an outrageous secret... LADY SATIN WAVERLY HAD DONE AN UNFORGIVABLE THING. SHE HAD WRITTEN A NOVEL. ... Under a pseudonym, of course. It had the town in panic, because it was all about "them." If it were ever revealed ...

  • Looking at You

    Mark Emerson

  • Longarm on the Ogallala Trail

    Tabor Evans

  • Longarm on the Arkansas Divide

    Tabor Evans

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Lingering Embers

    Lynsey Stevens

    "Yvie, I can't believe I've found you at last. " Four years ago, Yvie would have run straight into Josh Graham's arms. She'd been so sure of his love--so unprepared for betrayal. "Try to understand," he'd asked ...

  • Like a Lover

    Lynn Michaels

    Love and money. The perfect design for murder… Within two weeks of inheriting twenty-five percent of Lightbody Inc. from her father, fashion designer Jay-Jay Lightbody has two close calls: a suspicious house fire and a near-miss from a hit-and-r...

  • 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...

  • The Life and Hard Times of Heidi Abromowitz

    Joan Rivers

  • Lieutenant Lamb

    Kenneth Maynard

    Newly promoted, nineteen-year-old Lieutenant Matthew Lamb joins the frigate H.M.S. "Sturdy" and finds himself quelling mutinies and battling the French on land and sea, in a naval adventure set in the eighteenth century...

  • A Lasting Gift

    Lynn Turner

    TURNING TO EACH OTHER WAS ONLY NATURAL Jennifer had been happy, married to Michael Page. He died after a tragic illness, and now all she wanted was to be left alone. Then Nathan Page, Michael's younger brother, arrived, determined to take c...

  • 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....

  • Last Message to Berlin

    Philippe Van Rjndt

  • 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...

  • 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, ...

  • Ladykiller

    Lillian O'Donnell

    Sergeant Norah Mulcahaney of the NYPD develops an obsessive determination to track down the brutal murderer of young, vulnerable, trusting women in Central Park, a ruthless and spellbinding ladykiller...