Books Published in October 1985

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — OCTOBER 1985

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New Books List: 413 titles

  • Darkhold

    Jerry Brown

  • 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...

  • Execution Exchange

    Nick Carter

  • 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...

  • The Hard Knocker's Luck

    William Murray

  • Mountain Massacre

    Jack Buchanan

  • Operation: Dragn Fire

    William Sno

  • Operation: Star Raider

    Eric Affabee

  • 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...

  • The Ghost Squad and the Halloween Conspiracy

    E.W. Hildick

  • Vermilion

    Nathan Aldyne

    Two misfit sleuths search for a street hustler’s killer in this mystery series debut first published in 1980 and set in Boston’s gay scene. Daniel Valentine is a gay bartender and former social worker. Clarisse Lovelace is his straight pal who wo...

  • Remembering

    Dandi Daley Mackall

  • Teddy Jo and the Magic Quill

    Hilda Stahl

  • 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....

  • An Angel's Share // Witness to Death

    Heather Graham

    She had no choice. She was his prisoner. She hadn't committed a crime. She’d seen one. As state's witness in a murder case, Lorna Doria was invaluable--and in danger. It was New York City undercover cop Andrew Trudeau's job to...

  • The Answering Tide

    Regan Forest

    She needed answers -- and she needed him. Adrienne Canaday had never thought of herself as a woman of mystery...until she discovered her birth certificate was a forgery. Unexpected, too, was the immediate fascination she had with dolphins...and with...

  • Autumn Reckoning

    Maggi Charles

    Although Jennifer Bentley was one of the world's richest heiresses, she had carved her own career as a creator of children's books, pouring all her emotions into the pages. Now she was returning to the beautiful Berkshires, where a stormy marriage ha...

  • Believe in Magic

    Dianne King

    TOGETHER THEY MADE THEIR OWN KIND OF MAGIC... Leigh Adams had planned to be firmly established as a film director before she fell in love. Zachary Stewart, producer, changed that. Working together day and night on Lodestar, Leigh and Zach disco...

  • 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...

  • Blue Ribbon Summer

    Nancy Morgan

  • 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...

  • Chance Hero

    Ann Gabhart

    A chance encounter. What was it about the Chance Woods? The local gossips said that just to walk in them was dangerous. Not many ventured into their depths. There were too many stories about people who wandered in and never came out. That would n...

  • A Chance Worth Taking

    Lynn Erickson

    She was the toughest challenge of all order. Serenity. her own oil company. Until Rick Hagen came to town. Kate Cummings, owner of her own Colorado based oil company, had it all, until she met Rick Hagan, hot corporate Robin Hood. He asked her help i...

  • Chances Are

    Barbara Delinsky

    He was a master at the game Public-relations expert Liz Jerome treated all her clients with professional detachment. But her new client, sexy Donovan Grant, just wasn't having any. Instead he caught her off guard with his subtle come-ons and his h...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Dangerous Interlude

    Emily Elliott

    As a police investigator and forensic chemist, Amanda Blakeman had seen her share of danger and excitement. But she'd never known anyone quite like Jack Vance, the daring homicide officer who'd put the San Antonio SWAT Team on the map. Jack&#...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Escape Me Never

    Sara Craven

    There was simply no escaping love... Cassie Linton turned unobtrusiveness into an art. She wasn't a frustrated widow -- ripe for the taking -- and she went out of her way to avoid appealing to the opposite sex. But the day she was forced to...

  • False Impressions

    Ariel Berk

    FIRST IMPRESSIONS CAN BE FALSE... Audrey adjusted her startlingly skimpy uniform and prepared for her first night waitressing at the Angel Club. What was a mild-mannered anthropology teacher doing in this ridiculous getup? Good question. Her publi...

  • Finding Out

    Lindsay Armstrong

    Would they ever have a happy anniversary? David Marchmont had forced the beautiful Lineesa Creighton, Australia's top model, to marry him a year ago--as restitution for the death of his younger brother. Lineesa had suffered her own guilt ov...

  • Forbidden Dream

    Karen Keast

    Hearing Cade Sterling's honeyed gravel voice hurls the past at Sarah Braden. Cade ... her ex-husband's brother, who'd been at her side when she needed help most. His hand injured, he now needs her help on his nationally syndicated comic strip. So why...

  • Forbidden Love

    Eleanor Robins

  • 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...

  • Fortune's Darling

    Frances Davies

    Dazzling Andrew Wiswood--alias "Louisa May Lustleigh," illustrious romance author--coolly uses women as stimuli for his torrid writing. Literary agent Joanna Simmons abhors a man for whom females are merely emotional fodder. But to secure his shamele...

  • 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...

  • Glittering Promises

    Anna Hudson

    Christine McMahon was determined that her annual get-rich-quick scheme was going to pay off this time. With the help of her beautiful sexy twin sister and her agent brother, how could a book called Hunter's Guide to Stalking a Man miss? But when Chri...

  • Golden Goddess

    Stephanie James

    SMUGGLED TREASURE Hannah Prescott had indulged in an innocent fantasy about Jarrett Blade, the handsome stranger books on the same plane with her on her vacation to Hawaii. But when this same man forced his way into her life by breaking into her h...

  • Hand in Hand

    Edith Delatush

    Beautiful librarian Erica Doddsworth was something of a local celebrity: a crack handwriting expert, she could tell exactly what a man was after just by looking at his signature. But when Mike Evans, the dashing new police chief, asked her to help hi...

  • The Hard Man // Tempted by the Seductive Stranger

    Penny Jordan

    Jay was a threat to her way of life! Vicky had worked for ten years to support her ten-year-old twins and a stepson, to hold onto the old home--her own needs unfulfilled in the struggle. When she thought of the past it was with regret and a fee...

  • The Heart's Yearning

    Ginna Gray

    Glamour, success, money...Laura Phillips had it all. Yet despite her full life, one yearning constantly tugged at her heart -- the desire to see her son. She'd been forced to give Mike away when he was born, but now the emptiness was too vast, th...

  • Hunger

    Rowan Kirby

    Her self-imposed isolation was over. Beth's life was devoted to her books and bookshop in the peaceful English village of Falconden. After a disastrous affair in London she wanted nothing more to do with people. But as she became increasingly inv...

  • Island of Desire

    Antoinette Hale

    Block Island. She thought of it as her island. Elizabeth Dale-Jones - gallery proprietor, amateur photographer, all-around dilettante, and local heiress - was certain of two things: No one was going to put up a hotel that blocked her parents' view of...

  • Journey Toward Tomorrow

    Karyn Carr

    Finding him again could mean the greatest joy of her life, or a bigger heartbreak than she could imagine. For seven long years memories of Bert had kept Marcy Delaney wondering, hoping, but never really expecting to find him again. Yet, while vaca...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Love Among the Allies

    Margot Arnold

  • Love Beyond Question

    Alicia Brandon

    Love was so easy when they first met The Tulsa nursery often hired prisoners on the work-release program, so nursery manager France Marriott was unfettered by fear or suspicion. She didn't know what Stephen Foley had done -- she only knew that...

  • Love Is in the Air

    Diana Gregory

    Deena Whitney is flabbergasted when she wins flying lessons, but her boyfriend Brad thinks they're a waste of time. He urges her to learn practical skills like computer programming and accounting. But Deena doesn't listen. Once she's in the cockpi...

  • Love Out of Season

    Ella Leffland

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Man in Room 12

    Claudia Jameson

    She'd coped admirably until he came along! Usually Dawn Davies took things in stride. But what with the blizzard and the flu epidemic at her mother's Welsh country inn, the man in room twelve was too much! She hadn't the time to pan...

  • 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...

  • A Matter of Magic

    Linda Hampton

    When the handsome man she'd crashed into headlong produced a rose from thin air, talent agent Georgette Finlay was sure she'd found the magician she'd been seeking! Unprepared to lose his amateur status or his executive job, Murray Richards did his b...

  • 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...

  • Memories of the Heart

    Jean Kent

    Suzy Yoder's childhood had been idyllic. Raised by a loving Amish woman on a simple Pennsylvania farm, her life was perfect. Except for one thing--she didn't know who she was. Now Suzy's dream of discovering her identity might come true. She might...

  • Midsummer Midnight

    Parris Afton Bonds

    IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM Damon Demetrios temporarily "kidnapped" Sigourney Hamilton, a journalist whose by-line drew as much interest as her subjects. He wanted her to cover the Macedonian struggle for freedom, but she was afraid to become involved,...

  • Moontide

    Stella Cameron

    FATE BESTOWED THEM WITH A SECOND CHANCE Two years ago, Greer Beckett had lost everything. Her husband, her child, even her dreams. Getting on with her life was easier said than done, but now she was willing to try. It was time to go back to Eng...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Night Bells Blooming

    Emma Goldrick

    Could she find the courage to love? Evy Hart was low on courage. She was frightened by anything that moved, that seemed authoritative, that seemed too masculine -- like Jason Brown. He was all male. Overpowering! But he was not the enemy. Afte...

  • Nina's Song

    Anna James

    TWO'S COMPANY Ten years ago Nina thought that she and Alex had a future together, as a couple and as a musical team -- Alex wrote the words; she made the music. But now she realized that all she had was their past. Except that Alex had just...

  • 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. ...

  • Odds Against Tomorrow

    Patti Beckman

    What happens when a world-famous French ladies' man marries a young woman determined to become queen of the Sport of Kings? Nikki Cameron found out when she became Mrs. Jacques Trenchard at the tender age of twenty -- it meant someone had to g...

  • On the Loose

    Rose Bayner

    AN AMERICAN IN PARIS! That’s what Walter soon would be! A would-be sophisticate who couldn’t even speak French. A ladies’ man who hadn’t met his lady. A world traveler who had yet to see the world. And now he had his chance! For three w...

  • One More River

    Suzanne Ellison

    It wasn't that Amy didn't believe in God ... It was just that she was afraid that He no longer believed in her .. . Faith, like childhood, was something she seemed to have outgrown, and returning to Camp Colina, the scene of her most meaningful ex...

  • 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...

  • Partners for Life

    Sharon Brondos

    SHE'D NEVER MET SUCH A ZANY MAN When Nick Hawthorne burst into the ladies' room and asked her to dance, Laura Jensen knew her life was about to take a dramatic turn. Nick was a golf pro with a vision of health for the world -- personali...

  • A Perfect Vision

    Monica Barrie

    Architect Lea Graham tumbled down the hillside of her personal paradise, a stretch of land in New Mexico that she planned to develop into a model community. Waiting at the bottom of the hill was Darren Laird, a fiery artist who would fight anyone ...

  • Pink Satin

    Jeanne Grant

    Self-conscious about her voluptuous figure, Greer Lothrop feels safer offering men chicken soup and companionship than arousing their impassioned longings. But when a crank phone caller leaves her quaking, she seeks comfort from captivating Ryan McCu...

  • Point of Impact

    Emma Darcy

    It was time to end her years of loneliness Somewhere deep inside Helen knew that even after four years her love for Joe would always be there -- a faint unsatisfied longing. Yet she hoped never to see him again. To think that their meeting wou...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Riding High

    Marilyn Youngblood

  • River of Dreams

    Naomi Horton

    RENEGADE LOVE Beyond the sleek yacht stretched the mighty Amazon -- and the Brazilian jungle that hid Leigh Barnett's missing father. She'd come from Denver to find the only man daring enough to make the journey. Reluctantly Race Sloane ag...

  • Roses, Always Roses

    Claudia Jameson

    How could they have any future together? "Do you think my life's ambition is to bring ruin and unhappiness to anyone whose name is Kent?" Daniel Conrad was frustrated by Donna Kent's refusal to acknowledge the attraction between th...

  • Safe Harbour

    Rosalie Henaghan

    Anna annoyed him -- before they'd even met! She had heard about Mark Findlay -- from his sister, who had hired Anna in Mark's absence. Anna had no way of knowing he had returned. Nor that the man she'd so disastrously kept encounter...

  • 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...

  • Silent Crescendo

    Catherine George

    Were they totally wrong for each other? Judith neither knew nor cared much about classical music, and the last man on earth she expected to fall in love with was the great tenor Rafael David. Their affair couldn't last, she told herself. Th...

  • 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...

  • Softly Flits a Shadow

    Elizabeth Duke

    The honeymoon cruise was already booked It was to have been a dream trip -- Hawaii, the Pacific Islands and on to Australia. But Robyn had been jilted by her fiance. Her heart and her pride had taken a battering, so Robyn was glad for the flirt...

  • Southern Fire

    Jo Calloway

    The chance chance to spend a summer ghostwriting the history of a small Mississippi town for two elderly belles was the answer to Barbara Whitney's prayers. Putting a hectic year of teaching behind her, she anticipated a period of peace and grace. Bu...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Summer Stars

    Alexis Hill Jordan

    Two weeks in the Virginia wilderness. It was no picnic. It was a unique company testing ground. The prize, for engineer Nikki Scott -- if she proved equal to the rugged challenges -- was the job she wanted: manager of a major bridge-building project....

  • Sunlight and Silver

    Kelly Adams

    When a nearly naked stranger steps into her cabin, riverboat pilot Jacy Jones assumes he's a "birthday present" ... and boldly asks to unwrap him! Though Jacy's convinced she doesn't need a man, Noah Logan's audacious kiss arouses her trembling aware...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Through Eyes of Love

    Pamela Browning

    For Cassie Muldoon, life itself was an act of courage John Howard's search for Cassie led him to Flat Top Mountain in North Carolina--to a small cabin inhabited by a woman as shy and lovely as a doe. People traveled miles for Cassie's soothing tea...

  • To Have It All

    Robin Elliott

    ALL OR NOTHING Jenna Winter didn't make a habit of getting locked in department-store windows, but if Brant Adams would always be there to rescue her, it was something that she could easily get used to. The ex-football star of the Los Angel...

  • Token of Love

    Joan Grove

    If anything could go wrong, it clearly would. Christina Burke had come to the convention as stand-in for her ailing boss. Scheduled to meet with the company's efficiency expert, she was determined to dislike him on sight. But the West Virginia re...

  • An Unexpected Gift

    Andrea Davidson

    A thoughtless boast teased them with love -- and sudden death Despite his charm, Greg Fisher was a fool. To have wagered his career, his reputation and most probably his life against the possibility of finding a legendary mine! Oh, Anne knew he th...

  • 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...

  • Virtue and Vice

    Lucy Gordon

    TRADING PLACES Julia and Cindy were identical twins -- but different as night and day. Their family called them Virtue and Vice, and Julia was the good twin. She would I never do anything as foolish as to agree to impersonate her sister -- especia...

  • 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...

  • 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 Woman Like That

    Constance Bartel

  • 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...

  • 40 Min War

    Janet Morris

  • 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...

  • The Atlas of the Land

    Karen Wynn Fonstad

  • 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...

  • Bestiary

    Jack Dann

  • Bright Shadow

    Avi

    In one day, Morwenna has gone from being the lowliest servant in the king's castle to the most powerful person in the land, for she has become the wizard, the bearer of the last five wishes in the kingdom. But with her new gift come rules: She cannot...

  • The Bronze King

    Suzy McKee Charnas

  • 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 ...

  • The Crimson Sea

    Gary Gygax

  • Duende Meadow

    Paul Cook

    For six hundred years after the final war, a handful of survivors live below the fields of Kansas--transformed into ghostlike beings, duendes--to wait for the healing of Earth, but, when they finally emerge, they discover age-old enemies in control...

  • 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...

  • Hansel and Gretel

    Sandy Ann Nightingale

  • Irish Folktales

    Henry Glassie

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Lure of the Dark

    Sarah Sargent

  • Saga of Old City

    Gary Gygax

    GREYHAWK... a beautiful, wondrous city. a cruel city. a harsh, pitiless city for a young orphan boy with no money and no friends -- but plenty of enemies! Enter the Old City of Greyhawk, that marvelous place where dreams -- and nightmares ...

  • Skull Gate

    Robin Wayne Bailey

    The fierce swordfighter Frost has lost her supernatural powers and must travel to the pit of hell and back in order to save herself and the kingdom. Doing battle with all the forces of Hades: demons, sorcerers, vicious spiders, and the most vile o...

  • The Trail of Bohu

    Charles R. Saunders

  • Warlock

    Glen Cook

    The world grows colder with each passing year, the longer winters and ever-deepening snows awaking ancient fears within the Dengan Packstead, fears of invasion by armed and desperate nomads, attack by the witchlike and mysterious Silth, able to kill ...

  • When Dreamers Cease to Dream

    Barbara Bartholomew

    A message sent by their android tutor QL47 from the future leads Jeanette Lacy, her brother Neil and their friend Jesse Lansden to travel in time again, for it says: 'WITHOUT YOU THE ALIENS WILL ALL DIE'. Knowing their friend Amy is amongst the alien...

  • Yorath Wolf

    Cherry Wilder

  • 4400763ters Rules Set 4

    Random House

  • After the Ball Was Over

    Rosemary Kingsland

    In a concise novel of class and caste set in a provincial town in India in 1930, a gallery of eccentrics, including Jane Barhill, daughter of a martinet father, and poor Lizzie Edwards, who thinks she is a bird, work out their tangled destinies...

  • Airships

    Barry Hannah

    Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award, Airships is a “strong, original, tragic and funny” story collection of “the creative Southern tradition” (Alfred Kazin).   One of the most revered short story collections of the past fifty years, Airships...

  • Alamein to Zem Zem

    Keith Douglas

  • 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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  • 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...

  • American Reich

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    Eros Keith

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    Mort Walker

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    J.C. Winters

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    A counting book
    for the youngest --
    filled with motion,
    excitement, and
    suspense. Twelve
    riders compete
    in a bicycle race.
    Who will win?
    (A word to the wise:
    Keep your eye
    on Number 9!)
    ...

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    Michael Wolk

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  • Bonnie's Blues

    Jeffrey Cooper

    High-school junior Bonnie Simmons, reporter for the school newspaper, interviews rock star Jerry Casablanca, lead singer for the Ragged Edge, and soon finds herself romantically involved with Jerry, editor Peter Stepman, and Tim, her best friend's co...

  • Boocoo Death

    John Lansing

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    Janette Turner Hospital

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    Frederick R. Karl

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    Mary Stolz

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    Nancy Carlson

  • Calke Abbey Derbyshire a Hidden House Revealed

    Howard Colvin

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  • Caught

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  • The Convict and Other Stories

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  • Diary of a Frantic Kid Sister

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  • Disposable People

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  • Doodle Soup

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  • Double Exposure

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  • The Emperor's New Clothes

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  • Fee Fi Fo Fum

    Allan Ahlberg

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  • First Comes Spring

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  • Funny Farm

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  • Get along Gang and Missing C-

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  • God Bless Us Every One!

    Andrew Angus Dalrymple

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

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    "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 ...

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  • The Great Thirst

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  • Happy Birthday, Little Witch

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