Books Published in October 1985

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — OCTOBER 1985

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New Books List: 413 titles

  • Star for Latecomers

    Paul Zindel

    Brooke, a sixteen-year-old dancer, prefers a normal public school to the special school for aspiring celebrities that she attends, but, when illness strikes her family, she determines to become a star to fulfill her mother's most cherished dream....

  • Hollywood Dream Mach

    Bonnie Zindel

    When Gabrielle journeys to Los Angeles to visit her old friend Buffy for the summer, she cannot adjust to the world of movie glamour until she meets the son of a filmmaker, is swept into a chic new social life, and faces crucial decisions about her l...

  • So Sick!

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Alexis

    Marguerite Yourcenar

    It was with Alexis that, in 1928, Marguerite Yourcenar began her career as a novelist. The book remains one of the stellar literary debuts of the century. Yourcenar has created a moving meditation on the relationship between pleasure and love.

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  • Riding High

    Marilyn Youngblood

  • The Curate's Wife

    E.H. Young

    1985 first thus, Penguin Books trade PB. Virago Modern Classics. An unconventional beauty with no household skills marries a curate names Cecil Sproat and has to repress her appreciation of handsome young men...

  • No Ordinary Man

    Brittany Young

    TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE Before she'd even met him, Cassie Wilde knew that Franco was no ordinary man. The Italian attorney had been secretly settling her late father's r debts. To Cassie, it all sounded too good to be true--even downright suspicious. ...

  • There Was an Old Woman

    Stephen Wyllie

  • Christina's Ghost

    Betty Ren Wright

    "You mean he's a ghost?" The last thing Christina wants to do this summer is stay with grumpy Uncle Ralph in his old Victorian house. She's sure she'll have an awful time. But on her very first day there, Christina meets a sad, mysterious little g...

  • The Big Picture

    Michael Wolk

  • A Wodehouse Bestiary

    P.G. Wodehouse

  • The Raid

    G. Clifton Wisler

  • West of Cimarron

    G. Clifton Wisler

  • Berlin Fugue

    J.C. Winters

  • Lifeburst

    Jack Williamson

    Somewhere, eons past, the seekers had begun as weapons—cyborg war machines. nuclear explosions, and powerful lasers meant little to them, for each was larger than 10 battleships and subsisted on a diet of heavy metals, preferably radioactive...

  • The Island of the Grass King

    Nancy Willard

    Anatole’s search for wild fennel to cure his grandmother’s asthma takes him on a fantastic voyage. “This is a book for those who revel in the unexpected, in wonderful invention, in powerful and vivid and even mystical fancy. McPhail’s fine li...

  • Yorath Wolf

    Cherry Wilder

  • You're a Real Hero, Amanda

    Arvella Whitmore

  • Thor's Hammer

    Wynne Whiteford

  • Caracole

    Edmund White

    In French caracole means "prancing"; in English, "caper." Both words perfectly describe this high-spirited erotic adventure. In Caracole, White invents an entire world where country gentry languish in decaying mansions and foppish intellectuals excha...

  • Pride

    William Wharton

    During the Depression, a 10-year-old boy befriends a carnival stuntman and his lion cub and learns about the meaning of family, loyalty, love, and survival....

  • All

    Joanna Wharton

    Terribly written, this has a certain goofy charm and unintended humor. Flashy and hostile punker Amy, who underneath the glitter and black mesh stockings is really lonely and vulnerable, is stranded at a stodgy Boston college, dreaming that her Londo...

  • Making

    Joanna Wharton

    Cathy is having adjustment problems at collegelow grades, boyfriend troubles, jealous enemies. John isn't calling because he's too attracted, and her friends foil evil Susan's plan to get John into bed by mid-term. Campus Fever girls cuss, drink, do ...

  • The Emperor's New Clothes

    Nadine Bernard Westcott

  • The Wishing Star

    Marian Wells

    In the same genre as THE WEDDING DRESS and WITH THIS RING, author Marian Wells brings history and fiction together in a powerful novel of light and darkness, truth and falsehood, good and evil. THE WISHING STAR Jenny, living in the frontier district...

  • Remember Me

    Fay Weldon

    Madeleine wants to love, be remembered—and take revenge Abandoned by her husband, Jarvis, for a new wife and child, Madeleine is left alone with her troubled adolescent daughter, Hilary. By day, Madeleine tends (or doesn’t tend) to Hilary...

  • Birds of a Feather

    Peggy Webb

    Why had she let her mother persuade her to join the bird-watchers retreat? Mary Ann Gilcrest fumed--she had no business in the great outdoors! Then gorgeous Bill Benson offered to share his binoculars, and Mary Ann was drawn into his search for the r...

  • Centrifugal Rickshaw Dancer

    William J. Watkins

    Uwalk Wenn, a rebel agent, and the centrifugal rickshaw dancers join forces with charismatic rebel leader Roger Count Aerowaffen to wrest control of the Grand Sphere from the repressive LeGrange Corporation...

  • Halloween III

    Tommy Lee Wallace

  • Star Rise

    Pat Wallace

    UP AND AWAY... Lisa Heron longed to reach the stars, but her role in the space program seemed limited to the practice of psychiatry. Though she had been cleared for space flight, she had begun that her moment to taste the glory of the heavens would ...

  • Beetle Bailey: Thin Air

    Mort Walker

  • Reckless Heart

    Lois Arvin Walker

    HIS SCANDALOUS PAST INTRIGUED HER -- BUT SHE WAS PLAYING WITH PASSION'S FIRE! INNOCENT LADY Rebecca Langford, the toast of London, had never been so mortified in her life. She had defied society by inviting the notorious Earl of Compton to he...

  • Year's Best Horror Stories 13

    Karl Edward Wagner

  • Galapagos

    Kurt Vonnegut

    “A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewGalápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journe...

  • Practice to Deceive

    Patricia Veryan

    They dared all for one England, one dream, one love! NO TREACHERY CAN CONQUER A PASSIONATE HEART. NO MASQUERADE CAN CONCEAL THE EYES OF LOVE... It is 1746. Bonnie Prince Charlie's rebellion has been crushed, and his loyal followers, bound ...

  • Millennium

    John Varley

    To Louise Baltimore and her fellow citizens of Earth in the 99th century, life offers bleak prospects. The world is on its deathbed, dying from the accumulated poisons of one too many wars. Suicide is common, since convincing reasons for hanging arou...

  • Grave for a Russian

    Charles Vance

  • The Rattle-Rat

    Janwillem Van De Wetering

    Douwe Scherjoen has been murdered, far from his native Friesland. This remote province of Holland is almost like a foreign country, so it's fortunate that Detective GrQpstra was born there. With Sergeant de Gier in tow, he heads across the dike to hi...

  • Choices and Chances

    Linda Vail

    Time was not on her side. Her biological clock was ticking away, leaving lovely stained-glass artist Heather Evans with some risky medical options. Everything might be solved by simply having a baby--but was that an option, with no man in her life? W...

  • Flood

    Andrew H. Vachss

    Burke’s newest client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-priced stripper, and the skills of a professional executioner. She wants Burke to find a monster for her -- so she can kill him with her bare hands. In ...

  • Fear Itself

    Tim Underwood

  • Forever

    Lynn Turner

    Together they faced a dangerous ordeal Somehow Bernadette knew she could stake her life on Colonel Sam Forrester. And when their plane was sabotaged and she and Sam were left behind in the jungle so that the plane could take off again, she knew sh...

  • Marguerite, Go Wash Your Feet

    Wallace Tripp

    A collection of amusing verses by a variety of poets, including Emily Dickinson, Spike Milligan, Shakespeare, and others. "The illustrations contain caricatures, puns, ridiculous juxtapositions, and frequent references to other artists . . . Just ide...

  • Lucky in Love

    Jacqueline Topaz

    Devil-may-care Patti Lyon is a gambler at heart, cheerfully making ends meet by winning outlandish sweepstakes and wacky TV game shows. Stunning but straitlaced civic leader Alex Greene represents everything she rebels against--and he staunchly oppos...

  • Katie's Baby-Sitting Job

    Martha Tolles

    Katie thought baby-sitting would be fun! Katie was thrilled when Mrs. Stellan called and asked her to baby-sit for the evening. She had never done any baby-sitting before, but she was sure she could take care of four-year-old Annie. After all, Kat...

  • Who's Reading Darci's Diary?

    Martha Tolles

    Darci thinks that her pesky neighbor, Matt McGrath, has stolen her diary and read her entries about "adorable" Travis; Travis's visits increase her anxiety, and Darci's little brother delays revealing the truth about the diary's disappearance...

  • Death over Darien

    Ramsay Thorne

    Captain Gringo spearheads a red-hot war in Panama!Even when he is minding his own business, trouble seeks out Captain Gringo. This time the British Secret Service is on his back, seeking information on a Scottish pearl­ trading colony on the Caribbe...

  • Affairs of Love

    Nicola Thorne

    About two sisters, one a doctor, the other an actress, and their attempts to establish themselves in difficult and controversial professions at the end of the nineteenth century....

  • Cream of Creature from the School Cafeteria

    Mike Thaler

    Something very strange was going on in the school cafeteria. The food smelled awful and was making funny noises. But when it slurped out of the pans and across the floor, eating everything in its path, the children ran for their lives. Something had ...

  • The Cunning Little Vixen

    Rudolf Tesnohlidek

    Juxtaposing a world of not-so-innocent animals and a world of humans, scarcely more intelligent or less brutal, this first translation of the Czech novel recounts the story of the forester Bartos and the vixen Sharp-Ears...

  • The Universal Prey

    Jefferson P. Swycaffer

  • Leader of the Pack

    Diana Stuart

    Even a man who is pure of heart And says his prayers at night, May become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms And the winter moon is bright. Jenna concentrated on training her husky team for the dogsled race. She refused to think about werewolves...

  • Bully of Barkham Street

    Mary Stolz

    What made Martin Hastings, the ‘bully’ of A Dog on Barkham Street, behave the way he did? Martin resolves problems of his own in ‘a sensitive study of a lonely, frustrated boy. The [family] relationships are exceptionally well drawn.’ -- BL....

  • Unsuspected Conduct

    Elaine K. Stirling

    She never suspected what awaited her in Rio... As a junior corporate attorney, Bethany Grey bemoaned the lack of glamour in her life. So when her aunt Zoe asked her to come to Rio de Janeiro, Bethany readily accepted. There, she became reacquainte...

  • Conquest of the Time Master

    R.L. Stine

    The king's daughter has disappeared into the caverns of time. Now you must journey through time -- to the past and the future to rescue her from the awesome power of the Time Master. You must choose now: will you be the wizard or the warrior? As the ...

  • Secrets

    Danielle Steel

    Danielle Steel, America’s number-one best-selling novelist, has held millions spell-bound with such novels as Family Album, Full Circle, and Changes. But with Secrets she takes her readers beyond the tightly knit world of the family, into the hea...

  • Teddy Jo and the Magic Quill

    Hilda Stahl

  • Never Love a Cowboy

    Andrea St. John

    She had a husband--until she demanded a home, a family, a normal life, and drove champion broncobuster Les Russell away. Their three-week marriage had landed in the dust when Shana McCloud, Miss Rodeo America, decided that nuptial bliss and nomadic r...

  • Night of the Whale

    Jerry Spinelli

  • Spark

    Muriel Spark

  • Savage Kiss

    Sylvie F. Sommerfield

    SHE SAVED HIS LIFE WITH A KISS -- THEN SURRENDERED HER HEART TO FORBIDDEN SPLENDOR! FORBIDDEN RAPTURE The caress of the frontier wind and the kiss of the Western sun had always been enough for ebony-haired Falling Water. Then she stumbled across ...

  • Operation: Dragn Fire

    William Sno

  • Swept in the Wave of Terror

    Gloria Skurzynski

  • Journey to Love

    Cynthia Sinclair (1)

    A DANGEROUS JOURNEY KINDLED THEIR LOVE AND THREATENED TO SEPARATE THEM FOREVER! On the day of Gabrielle's betrothal to the wealthy, older Louis Chauvin, English soldiers invaded her French Canadian village. Taken from her fiance, forced aboard...

  • Last Seen Alive

    Dorothy Simpson

    Winner of the CWA Silver Dagger: A troubled woman returns to her peaceful English village after twenty years -- and is murdered within twenty-four hours. When Det. Inspector Luke Thanet was a young man, Alicia Parnell was one of the most popular girl...

  • Gilgamesh the King

    Robert Silverberg

    A thrilling retelling of the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh from the Hugo and Nebula Award–Winning author of Lord Valentine’s Castle.
     Gilgamesh’s appetite for wine, women, and warfare is insatiable. As the King of Uruk...

  • Needle in a Timestack

    Robert Silverberg

    A collection of twenty classic stories from the Science Fiction Grand Master who “seems capable of amazements beyond those of mere mortals” (The Washington Post Book World).  Needle in a Timestack is Robert Silverberg at his very best -- in...

  • Battle Drive

    Barbara Siegel; Scott Siegel

  • Grace in the Wilderness: After the Liberation, 1945-1948

    Aranka Siegal

    "As 15-year-old Piri leaves the hospital, she and her older sister Iboya, clinging to each other as they did in the camps, are given loving care in Sweden...[The book] captures, perhaps for the first time in young adult literature, the complexity of ...

  • Hell Town

    Jon Sharpe

  • Son Of Slime That At

    Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

  • Stalk a Stranger

    Rachel Scott

    His passion brought a promise of love...darkened by a shadow of suspicion. LOVE IN THE SHADOWS The man in the red Porsche was obviously in trouble, but Bianca knew she'd be taking a dangerous chance if she went to his aid...alone in the mid...

  • The Mark of the Warrior

    Paul Scott

    In 1942, defeat aroused the British government and the British survivors of Burma to start their own training schools in India, where the cadets learned the reflexive instinct to fight, kill and survive...

  • The Shipkiller

    Justin Scott

    It was the largest moving object on the face of the earth, but for Carolyn and Peter Hardin it was a towering wall of steel bursting out of a squall at full speed, bearing down on their ketch Siren. In a few dramatic moments, Siren was shattered by t...

  • Caught

    Jane Schwartz

  • Bully!

    Mark Schorr

    Being the 26th U.S. president is sometimes more of a burden than an asset for Theodore Roosevelt. Our youngest president investigates a dangerous conspiracy that could alter the course of history while he runs the country, engages in his unique lifes...

  • Frosty Snowman ABC

    Patricia Schories

  • The Wanderer

    Dennis Schmidt

  • Coral's Reef

    Dee Scarr

  • The Trail of Bohu

    Charles R. Saunders

  • The Magnificent Spinster

    May Sarton

    Sarton's 17th novel explores the realities and reverberations of a 50-year friendship between two remarkable women that ended with the death of Jane Reid. It is relived because Cam, in her seventies, decides to celebrate "the magnificent spinster" in...

  • Lure of the Dark

    Sarah Sargent

  • Last Rites

    Jorge Saralegui

  • A Taste of Romance

    Glenda Sands

    HERO AT LARGE Denise Logan was fast on her way to becoming one of the top divorce attorneys in the state of Texas. But after years of watching her clients' marriages disintegrate, she'd ruled out all notions of love in her own life. Then she me...

  • Tyler's Woman

    Linda Sandifer

    LOVE'S ETERNAL FIRE Roseanne McVey was determined to join the dangerous cattle drive to the Colorado Territory -- with Tyler Chanson, the tall, darkly handsome man she had adored since she was a child. Beneath the magnificent starlit skies, she woul...

  • The Bedtime Book

    Daniel San Souci

    K-Gr 4 A brightly illustrated collection of 11 folk and fairy tales shortened for bedtime reading. The collection includes popular titles, such as ``The Three Billy Goats Gruff'' and ``The Elves and the Shoemaker.'' The tellings follow standard texts...

  • Bowens Ark

    George Sakers

  • Mr. Wakefield's Crusade

    Bernice Rubens

    One day, the man in front of Luke at the post office drops down dead in line. Instinctively, Luke's hand snakes out and slips the corpse's unposted letter into his pocket. With this impulsive act, he begins a search for justice....

  • The Christmas Book: Stories, Poems, and Carols for the Twelve Days of Christmas

    Caroline Royds

  • Wild Embrace

    Myra Rowe

    WILD LOVE It did not take long for Marisa Montfort to fall in love with the lean, dark Frenchman Nicholas Pomfrey. At first glance he made her gypsy blood boil and awakened her sleeping desires. Although still a young innocent, she knew thaat she ...

  • Blue Heron

    Philip Ross

    To save the life of a child, James Marley searches desperately for the elusive, former radical Sarah Kleinhagen, responsible for the bombing of a government facility, and discovers that they are both being stalked by a ruthless killer...

  • Duskfire

    JoAnn Ross

    Not in a million years! Collaborating with rakish Ryan Sinclair would be impossible, Brandy Raines knew. He wrote gritty detective novels; she penned sweeping romantic sagas. Joint authorship would never work. Reluctantly Brandy agreed to meet...

  • Risky Pleasure

    JoAnn Ross

    Was it a dream come true--or a nightmare? Blair MacKenzie had a successful modeling career, but her lifelong dream was to own a stable of horses, as her estranged grandfather had. When he died and left his reputable California farm to her, she tho...

  • Dancing in the Dark

    Carolyn Ross

    The first time Sarah Brady glides across the floor in Eric Elliott's arms, sparks fly. Sarah's certain they were made to dance together. Eric agrees - he even talks Sarah into auditioning for a TV dance competition. When they win a spot on the sho...

  • The Incredible Cat Caper

    Kelley Roos

  • King Island Christmas

    Jean Rogers

    The Eskimos have to carry their biggest walrus skin boat to the other side of the island in hopes that the sea will be calm enough there so they can bring Father Carroll ashore from a waiting freighter...

  • First Comes Spring

    Anne Rockwell

  • Forbidden Love

    Eleanor Robins

  • Boundary Lines

    Nora Roberts

    FAMILY FEUD The feud between the Barons and the Murdocks spanned generations.... Jillian Baron was determined to make the Utopia ranch work -- for herself and to justify her grandfather's trust in her. Her heritage was important, and if making...

  • Wild Bill's Ghost

    J.R. Roberts

    The rumors are flying in Leadville -- Hickok is still alive! The way the story goes, somebody else, and not Wild Bill, was killed by Jack McCall in Deadwood. Clint Adams isn't one to put much stock in rumors ... but he's never actually seen Bill's...

  • Promises to Keep

    Joann Robb

    California Senator Eve Steele knew the issues, but when it came to the politics of loving, she lost all sense of diplomacy. Especially with her estranged husband, Alex, who could ruffle her cool image with a single fiery touch. Now Alex was running h...

  • Sweet Georgia Gal

    Emilie Richards

    FORBIDDEN FRUIT Hair the color of wildflower honey; skin like peaches and cream; lips like sweet watermelon. First runner-up for Miss Georgia, Stacey McDonald had a wholesome beauty that Ryan Cunningham couldn't resist. And neither could his four ...

  • Curious George Goes Hiking

    H.A. Rey

  • Adventures: Being a Stirring Chronicle of Intrigue, Romance,

    Mike Resnick

    Con-man adventurer Dr. Lucifer Jones matches wits with hordes of cannibals, royal mummies, bloodthirsty vampires, the Lord of the Apes, the White Goddess, and other perils on the Dark Continent, in this satirical fantasy romp...

  • Mystery Trivia Quiz Book

    Kitty Reese

  • Get along Gang and Missing C-

    Jim Razzi

  • Legacy

    Doris Rangel

    A skittish packhorse stood over his fallen rider "Hello, sweet Carolyn," sighed the delirious man she found. He not only knew her name, he had the photograph she'd thought lost with her husband David in a South-East Asian prisoner-of-w...

  • 4400763ters Rules Set 4

    Random House

  • The Girl Most Likely

    Suzanne Rand

    Conflict erupts between Stacy Harcourt, the popular, beautiful, and bright captain of Midvale High's cheerleaders, and her friends, Gina Damone and Tess Belding, when Stacy starts dating the dynamic Nick Cooper...

  • The Mysterious Marquis

    Eileen Ainsworth Ramsay

    Returned from the Valley of the Kings, Elizabeth Ridgeway enjoys a break from collating her archaeologist papa’s notes by walking in the lovely woods around her Perthshire home. There she discovers a small boy who has fallen into a stream. Since he...

  • Mel Gibson

    David Ragan

  • To Walk the Line

    David Quammen

  • The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur

    Howard Pyle

    Time honored retelling of the Arthurian legends, including the adventures of Sir Galahad and the pursuit of the Holy Grail, as well as the last days of King Arthur -- his attack on Sir Launcelot, fatal battle with Sir Mordred, and final journey to ...

  • Murder Moves in

    A.M. Pyle

    In order to investigate a murder in a recently gentrified neighborhood of Cincinnati, detective Cesar Franck finds he must deal with angry contractors, entrepreneurs, and a self-serving community leader...

  • In the Woods

    Luigi Puricelli

  • Shadowtide

    Dianne Price

    "She was the bride of a stranger--caught in a whirlpool of terror!" Alone in the world, Jenna had little choice but to accept Brennan Savage's unexpected proposal. Son starkly beautiful Cape Savage she hoped to find a home and a loving...

  • Human Error

    Paul Preuss

    "[W]onderful, enlightened, and convincing beyond any reasonable expectations of what a science fiction novel should be." -- Greg Bear Compugen has become a giant player in the tech field overnight by making genetically altered viruses into "biochips...

  • My Parents Think I'm Sleeping

    Jack Prelutsky

    From Children’s Poet Laureate Jack Prelutsky and illustrator Yossi Abolafia, My Parents Think I''m Sleeping is the perfect book to get young readers excited about bedtime. 

    This Level 3 I Can Read book is a f...

  • A Woman's Wiles

    Nora Powers

    GAME OF LOVE When licensed psychologist Fran Warren wrote her book defending scientific theories on how to catch a husband, she was hardly prepared to have it attacked by heartthrob Martin O'Brien, host of the city's biggest talk show. But Fran...

  • Soldier's Art

    Anthony Powell

    Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally p...

  • Red Heroin

    Jerry Pournelle

    When engineer and army vet Paul Crane agrees to accompany his police officer friend on a night cruise, he never expected a deadly shoot-out would lead to his being recruited in a CIA sting operation involving China and the heroin trade.

    ...

  • Three for Luck

    Josephine Poole

  • Eva's Spell

    Ingrid Pitt

    She was a legend in her own lifetime.Eva Duarte, the small-time actress and radio announcerwho turned Juan Peron from an ambitious soldier into the most charismatic leader Argentina had everknown.Peron was ambitious, and had used the ferment of World...

  • Rainbow's Angel

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    When R. J. Jenkins first saw her, Kelly Morgan stood drenched in brilliant colored light from a stained-glass window--an angel who took his breath away. But there were many sides to this special woman, he soon learned: the organized executive who'd b...

  • Rosalind

    Clarice Peters

    "YOU CAN'T BE THINKING OF MARRIAGE FOR THE GIRL. SHE'S JUST A CHILD!" Rosalind McHenry's outrage knows no bounds when her wastrel brother announces a dubious design: he intends to marry off his daughter, Felicity, a mere school...

  • George H. Ghastly and the Little Horror

    Ritchie Perry

  • Death in the Devil's Acre

    Anne Perry

    When a doctor is found brutally murdered in the lurid section of London aptly named "Devil's Acre;" even its most hardened residents are stunned. But shock soon turns to horror when Inspector Pitt discovers three more bodies with the same gruesome "c...

  • Dirty War

    Don Pendleton

    IT WAS A WAR THAT ATE MEN'S SOULS Five men break all the rules to fight the Vietnam War according to their own moral vision. To these five Conghunting, mud-eating dog soldiers, rank means nothing. Mack Bolan, Gunsmoke Harrington, Whispering Dea...

  • Hammerhead Reef

    Don Pendleton

    FALL OF THE DRUG LORDS Mack Bolan answers a journalist's desperate cry for help, but arrives in Florida to find the reporter mysteriously murdered. And clues left by the man lead to a billion-dollar drug empire. Narcotics smugglers seem to be a...

  • Soup on Ice

    Robert Newton Peck

  • So Much to Give

    Sheila Paulos

    She was shocked when Noah Jamison suggested a marriage of convenience. But it seemed the only answer for singles wanting to adopt. Reluctantly Maggie Clay agreed to a business arrangement with the Minneapolis Sentinel's controversial columnist, follo...

  • Memories

    Francine Pascal

    Torn apart by love... The Wakefield twins' older brother, Steven, hasn't dated anyone since his girlfriend died of leukemia. He can't even look at another girl without thinking of his beloved Tricia. But Steven is drawn to Cara Walker. Sweet Valle...

  • Return to the Cave of Time

    Edward Packard

    Turn the pages, turn back time—and turn your fate.U-Ventures®: Edward Packard’s classics, revised and expanded for today’s readers! The best in interactive adventure fiction—challenging, stimulating, and tremendous...

  • Prairie Songs

    CONRAD P

  • Golden Ecstasy

    Wanda Owen

    ANDREA WAS TOO INNOCENT ...to know that she felt intense desire for the rakehell Gil Barlow. The stunning beauty was furious that he had seen her tumble from her horse. But nothing could match her rage when he thoroughly kissed her full trembling li...

  • Mo to the Rescue

    Mary Pope Osborne

  • Dear Mit

    Sara Orwig

    "Dear Mit," his letter began, and Marilyn Pearson was transported instantly back to childhood, when Colly Rankin had been her very best friend, sharing secrets and daring her to do wild things. They'd lost touch after college, but now he was coming b...

  • Where Fires Once Burned

    Zelma Orr

    Life offers few second chances--and none without a price It was the warmth of April's love that stretched across the years and the miles to comfort Russ in the dark days of his captivity. It had come when he'd needed it most--and now that he was f...

  • The Elberg Collection

    Anthony Oliver

  • Moving Pictures: An Antique Picture Book

    Ernest Nister

  • The Tree of Life

    Hugh Nissenson

  • Hansel and Gretel

    Sandy Ann Nightingale

  • Newbery Award Library

    Emily Cheney Neville

  • Tolstoy

    Charles Neider

  • Never the Time and the Place

    Betty Neels

    He was a bad-tempered annoying, arrogant man! And later encounters with Julius van Tacx only confirmed Josephine Dowling's first impression. Nothing about Julius fitted her image of an ideal husband. He greatly disturbed Josephine's usually ser...

  • Natural Selections

    Gloria Nagy

    After watching his aristocratic Southern family die from accidents, suicides, and disease, Adam Richeleau fathers a child to keep the family name alive, fakes a suicide, and undergoes the long-awaited operation that makes him a woman...

  • The Hard Knocker's Luck

    William Murray

  • Pigs Get Fat

    Warren Murphy

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    Thomas Collins is a commercial real estate agent with an insatiable sexual appetite. He'd do unspeakable things with a snake, a friend confides, if only he could get that low. Normally, that'd just be Mrs. Collins's business, but Mr. Collins is a...

  • The Sergeant

    Dennis Murphy

  • American Reich

    Douglas Muir

    After the murder of his girlfriend, reporter Kirk Stewart uncovers a plot--by right-wing religious fundamentalists, the Ku Klux Klan, the American Nazi Party, the CIA chief, and major industrial leaders--to seize control of the United States...

  • The Price of Fame

    Maisie Mosco

    The post-War shadows are receding " but will they ever disappear?Love and loss, success and failure, the joy of motherhood and the anguish of rejection " these are the patterns woven into Alison Plantaine’s life. But her dedication to the theat...

  • 40 Min War

    Janet Morris

  • Blue Ribbon Summer

    Nancy Morgan

  • Assassin Code

    Ben Mochan

  • Beyond Armageddon

    Walter M. Miller Jr.

    Distinguished science-fiction writer Walter M. Miller, Jr., and famed anthologist Martin H. Greenberg have compiled a collection of stories that address one of the most challenging themes of imaginative fiction: the nature of life after nuclear w...

  • Love With a Proper Stranger

    Christa Merlin

    From the first, their lips, eyes, and words speak utter infatuation. Though Any a Meredith's not the kind of woman to picnic with a stranger and make love in the crumbs, with Brady Durant she can hardly hold back. His slightest touch inspires intense...

  • Too Short Fred

    Susan Meddaugh

  • The Littles and the Missing Cat

    Cheryl Mead

  • Polished With Love

    Judith McWilliams

    He wanted a wife Simon Montcrief's wish seemed simple enough, Georgia Ingram decided. After all, marriage was the ultimate goal of all those who used her dating service, Cupid's Computer. But Simon also requested lessons in courting his future ...

  • Table of Contents

    John McPhee

    First published in book form 1985, Table of Contents is a collection of eight pieces written by John McPhee between 1981 and 1984. Geographically and thematically, they range from Alaska to New Jersey, describing, for example, the arrival of telephon...

  • The Matchmaking Department

    Dixie McKeone

    She didn't belong here ! What was the heiress to a multimillion-dollar department store doing working on a warehouse loading dock? It was all her uncle's fault, Jamie fumed. She didn't mind learning the family business from the grou...

  • All Geared Up

    Seth McEvoy

  • Batteries Not Included

    Seth McEvoy

  • Safekeeping

    Gregory McDonald

    Brought to the United States under a program to save children from the Nazi blitzgkrieg, Robby Burns, a duke's son, finds himself under the questionable protection of a New York newspaper reporter inclined to drink...

  • From a High Place

    Edward Mathis

  • Pale Orchid

    Anne Mather

    Once he'd made her feel so special Perhaps that was why he had succeeded where other men had failed. If Laura had not been so naively flattered by Jason's attentions three years ago, she might have recognized him sooner for what he was, in...

  • Hitler Must Die

    Herbert Moll Mason

  • Winter Meeting

    Doreen Owens Malek

    SILENT ENCOUNTER A twilit hush had settled over the cemetery, and the sighing of the wind in the trees and the hiss of falling snow combined to enclose two strangers in a still world. Leda Bradshaw was visiting the grave of her beloved father. Kyl...

  • A Friend or Two

    Debbie Macomber

    MISTAKEN IDENTITY What was a Wainwright doing waitressing in a French pastry shop? Elizabeth was well aware of the fruits of wealth, but money wasn't bringing fulfillment. Fisherman's Wharf was a breath of fresh air for the Boston socialite, but whe...

  • Valley of the Snows

    Jean S. MacLeod

    It was a chance she couldn't miss When Lucy Abbott agreed to work for the Baroness Liperdorf at Schloss Lamberg in Switzerland, she never dreamed it would have such a devastating effect on her life. Nor had she expected to meet someone like...

  • Remembering

    Dandi Daley Mackall

  • Baaa

    David MacAulay

    After the last person has gone from the earth, sheep take over the world, make the same mistakes as humans, and eventually disappear as well....

  • Marie

    Peter Maas

  • Switcharound

    Lois Lowry

    Caroline and J.P.'s father has asked them to come visit him and his new wife in Des Moines, Iowa. They don't really want to go, but they also don't have a say in the matter. Upon arriving, they discover they each have unexpected and unpl...

  • The Opium Queen

    Warren T. Longtree

  • Vigilante Justice

    Jake Logan

    SLOCUM WAS JUST PASSING THROUGH New Mexico Territory. He didn't want to know why posses were roaming the country looking for men to string up, why the governor's militia was pillaging the country, or why Ute raiding parties had the people barricaded ...

  • Frederick's Fables

    Leo Lionni

    Illustrated on every page, this sumptuous anthology contains thirteen of Lionni's most popular animal fables, including three Caldecott Honor books--Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse, Swimmy, and Frederick. Reissue....

  • Gifts of the Queen

    Mary Lide

    Ann of Cambray galloped across the Norman countryside, her flaming hair a banner unfurled in the breeze. Her lord, Raoul of Sieux was taking her home to the land of his childhood, to lie in his arms, to bear his child, to live in peace. But they w...

  • Homework Caper

    Joan Lexau

  • A Lake in Kyoto

    Marjorie Lewty

    She should have been happy to be back home Sue had been delighted when Luke Masters arranged her return to England. Now she was miserable. Luke was a good organizer. She wondered if he'd organized their wedding yet. If so, he hadn't men...

  • The Good Terrorist

    Doris Lessing

    The Good Terrorist follows Alice Mellings, a woman who transforms her home into a headquarters for a group of radicals who plan to join the IRA. As Alice struggles to bridge her ideology and her bourgeois upbringing, her companions encounter unexpect...

  • The Futurological Congress

    Stanislaw Lem

    The Franz Kafka Prize-winning author invites you to a doped-up dystopia. “Nobody can really know the future. But few could imagine it better than Lem.” -- The Paris Review   Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathin...

  • Miriam in Her Forties

    Alan Lelchuk

    The sequel to "Miriam at Thirty-Four" continues the account of the often unconventional life of Cambridge free-lance photographer Miriam Scheinman as she attempts to expand her horizons and personal freedom...

  • More Than a Summer's Love

    Yvonne Lehman

    A summer at Subic Bay -- a dream come true or an incredible nightmare testing her to the limit? Stacey Stamford has entertained a ten-year-long dream--to meet the young Filipina whom she has sponsored through a children's fund organization since b...

  • Love Out of Season

    Ella Leffland

  • Crossfire Country

    Roy Lebeau

    Lee Morgan, with the help of a lovely young Ojibway squaw, sets out to avenge the death of Canadian land baron Matthew Dowd--a mission that leads him to Dowd's former partner, who is determined to stop Lee dead in his tracks. Original....

  • Always Coming Home

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers of science fiction. More than five years in creation, it is a novel unlike any ever written. A rich and complex interweaving of sto...

  • False Angel

    Edith Layton

    A prudent young beauty vows never to let England's most notorious rake cast his spell over her THE LIBERTINE LORD...AND THE LADY Lord Joscelin Kidd, Marquess of Severne, was the handsomest and most charming nobleman in London--and the most noto...

  • Balancing Act

    Rebecca Larsen

  • Boocoo Death

    John Lansing

  • Moon for a Candle

    Maryn Langer

    Alexas Spence -- She came west, a small-town girl with big dreams, ready to fight for the only thing she had ever owned -- her ranch -- even if it meant clashing with the logger and the gentleman. David Hornbeck -- He rode into her life in a fine...

  • Star-Crossed

    Ruth Langan

    Perhaps if she'd met him under different circumstances--another time, another place. B.J. knew the arrogant Adam London thought she was just another reporter searching for glory. But his mother, the reclusive screen star, wanted her story told and hi...

  • The Trouble With Magic

    Megan Lane

    It would never work. She was not only an artist, but a bona fide psychic. He was an ex-military man, a war hero, and now a promising senatorial candidate. Vella Redding and Matthew Colridge had nothing in common. They had only to be seen in public to...

  • Something Sleeping in the Hall

    Karla Kuskin

  • The Long Approach

    Maxine Kumin

  • Curious George Makes a Splash

    Nancy Krulik

  • Distant Replay

    Jerry Kramer

    The nostalgic reunion of the first Super Bowl champions, the Green Bay Packers of the mid-1960s, elicits reminiscences of their victorious triumphs and their tragic losses, especially of their late coach, Vince Lombardi...

  • Hating Alison Ashley

    Robin Klein

    A classic story of friendship and jealousy from a beloved Australian author.
    Erica has always believed herself to be the star of her sixth grade class. But then Alison Ashley shows up, and right from the start, seems to threaten Erica's position. ...