Books Published in October 1985

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — OCTOBER 1985

Best Reviewed

New Books List: 413 titles

  • 40 Min War

    Janet Morris

  • 4400763ters Rules Set 4

    Random House

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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.

    ...

  • 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...

  • All Geared Up

    Seth McEvoy

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Another Dawn

    Sandra Brown

    Jake Langston wasn't a man to go looking for trouble, though if it found him he'd settle it -- with a gun or a soft threat. But the night beautiful Banner Coleman forced his hand, he was lost... Torn by secrets he'd never shared, Jake ...

  • 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...

  • Appleby's Answer

    Michael Innes

    One of the Appleby crime novels. In a West Country village Priscilla Pringle, writer of clerical detective stories, becomes involved in one of her own ingeniously constructed plots. Luckily Sir John Appleby, retired Metropolitan Police Commissione...

  • The Armchair Detective

    Straus & Giroux Farrar

  • Assassin Code

    Ben Mochan

  • The Atlas of the Land

    Karen Wynn Fonstad

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Balancing Act

    Rebecca Larsen

  • Batteries Not Included

    Seth McEvoy

  • Battle Drive

    Barbara Siegel; Scott Siegel

  • Bedita's Bad Day

    Eros Keith

  • 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...

  • Beetle Bailey: Thin Air

    Mort Walker

  • 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...

  • Berlin Fugue

    J.C. Winters

  • Bestiary

    Jack Dann

  • 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...

  • Bicycle Race

    Donald Crews

    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!)
    ...

  • Big Bad Pig

    Allan Ahlberg

  • The Big Picture

    Michael Wolk

  • Bimwili and the Zimwi

    Verna Aardema

  • Bioblast

    Raymond Z. Gallun

    The enigmatic Lance Tolliver, a unique blend of human being and genetic chameleon with extraordinary abilities, may be either the next step in human evolution or the evil sire of a race of supermonsters capable of destroying humankind...

  • 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...

  • The Bishop and Other Stories

    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

    In the waning weeks of his life, a renowned bishop reflects on his past and his priorities. Written during the period when Anton Chekhov was gravely ill with tuberculosis, "The Bishop" reflects the author's feelings about his own imminent death, and ...

  • 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...

  • Blue Ribbon Summer

    Nancy Morgan

  • 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

  • Borderline

    Janette Turner Hospital

    By chance, Felicity, a Boston art gallery director, and Gus, a Canadian insurance salesman, witness the arrest of Salvadorean refugees trying to enter Canada, and decide to help an alien missed by the custom inspectors...

  • 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...

  • Bowens Ark

    George Sakers

  • 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...

  • British Short Stories

    Frederick R. Karl

  • The Bronze King

    Suzy McKee Charnas

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Bunnies and Their Hobbies

    Nancy Carlson

  • Calke Abbey Derbyshire a Hidden House Revealed

    Howard Colvin

  • Cam Jansen and the Mystery at the Monkey House

    David A. Adler

    Someone's been monkeying around at the monkey house.... A few monkeys are missing from the zoo, and Cam is sure she knows how the thief took them from their cages. With the help of her amazing photographic memory and her best friend, Eric, can Cam...

  • 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...

  • Caribbee

    Thomas Hoover

    In the epic and powerful tradition of James Clavell and James Michener, Thomas Hoover, author of the international bestseller, The Moghul, presents a magnificent novel of bold adventure, political intrigue, and passionate romance. Caribbee, dazzlingl...

  • Caught

    Jane Schwartz

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • A Change of Fortune

    Sandra Heath

    TEMPTING TARGET Miss Leonie Conyngham was as wealthy as she was beautiful and proud--until family disaster stripped her of fortune and left her with only her pride to defend her beauty. Rupert, the Duke of Thornbury, the most notorious and suc...

  • Charleyhorse

    Cecil Dawkins

  • Chloe and Maude

    Sandra Boynton

    First published in 1985, this classic Sandra Boynton storybook of three stories about two best friends has been redrawn and redesigned for a new generation of young readers!Chloë and Maude is a truly terrific children’s classic, celebratin...

  • 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...

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

    Caroline Royds

  • The Coach That Never Came

    Patricia Beatty

    A stagecoach that vanished without a trace...$40,000 in stolen payroll money...a jewel-studded belt buckle -- they are all pieces of a 110-year-old mystery, that Paul Braun is determined to solve.

    While the thirteen year-old Easterner is vis...

  • The Coming of the Kid

    Oakley Hall

    A lush who talks to horses, a dwarf with a traveling pharmacy, a world-weary grizzly named Duke, and hordes of uncanny riders make up the supporting cast of this satiric fable about the advent of the Kid, summoned to battle Evil in the Old West...

  • The Cone-Gatherers

    Robin Jenkins

    The acclaimed novel of brothers working on a Scottish estate during WWII “has a strange haunting poetic quality…a fable of eternal significance” (Iain Crichton Smith). As World War II rages through Europe, brothers Calum and Neil work to gather...

  • 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 Convict and Other Stories

    James Lee Burke

    THE COLLECTION NO CRIME FICTION FAN SHOULD BE WITHOUT -- THE ESSENTIAL SHORT STORIES OF JAMES LEE BURKE "America's best novelist" (The Denver Post ), two-time Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke is renowned for his lush, suspense-charged portrayals o...

  • Coral's Reef

    Dee Scarr

  • Crazy Love

    M.E. Cooper

    Out of control... When Kim and Woody fall for each other, it's like a romantic scene from one of Woody's Kennedy High stage productions. Kim's smart, independent, and pretty; Woody's funny, talented, and handsome. They're destined for a happy endi...

  • 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 Crimson Sea

    Gary Gygax

  • 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....

  • Cuckoo's Egg

    C.J. Cherryh

    They named him Thorn. They told him he was of their people, although he was so different. He was ugly in their eyes, strange, sleek-skinned instead of furred, clawless, different. Yet he was of their power class: judge-warriors, the elite, the fig...

  • 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 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...

  • Curious George Goes Hiking

    H.A. Rey

  • Curious George Makes a Splash

    Nancy Krulik

  • Custer's Last Stand

    Will Henry

    The real story of the Little Big Horn begins a thousand bitter miles southward in a drift of burning tipi ashes on the banks of the Washita. There, in November 1868, Custer and his Seventh Cavalry murdered the sleeping village of the peace chief Blac...

  • 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 Dangerous Dr. Langhorne

    Ellen Fitzgerald

    THE LORD OF SCANDAL From the moment beautiful Lady Vanessa Ventriss saw Sir Philip Langhorne at a ball, she was entranced by this tall, elegant, handsome man. Then she began to hear the rumors about him. First she heard that he had been a common ...

  • 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&#...

  • Darkhold

    Jerry Brown

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Diary of a Frantic Kid Sister

    Hila Coleman

  • 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...

  • Disposable People

    Marshall Goldberg

  • 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...

  • Dogwood Afternoons

    Kim Chapin

    Dogwood Afternoons is the story of Andrew Mavis, a young race-car driver. Mavis is testing his car on a new superspeedway, running practice laps against his boyhood friend and rival, Wynn Tatum, as they vie with each other for a job with a factory r...

  • Doodle Soup

    John Ciardi

  • Double Exposure

    Joy Gould Boyum

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Elberg Collection

    Anthony Oliver

  • The Emperor's New Clothes

    Nadine Bernard Westcott

  • Enchanted Isle

    James M. Cain

    While searching for her father, a runaway stumbles into a deadly mess At thirteen, Mandy was too old for spanking when her stepfather first took her over his knee. She’s didn’t mind the pain, but hated the look in his eye and his lingerin...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Execution Exchange

    Nick Carter

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Fanglith

    John Dalmas

    Two political refugees are pursued by the Thought-Police and the violent warriors of eleventh-century Earth after they are trapped on a barbaric planet with only a small computer and a telepathic wolf to help them...

  • Fear Itself

    Tim Underwood

  • Fee Fi Fo Fum

    Allan Ahlberg

  • Fifties Style

    Richard Horn

    Two hundred color and black-and-white photographs provide a visual catalog of the full range of design and decoration during the 1950s, ranging from jetlines to album jackets, from automobiles to advertising images, from buildings to bangles...

  • 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...

  • First Comes Spring

    Anne Rockwell

  • 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 ...

  • The Florida Burn

    Stephen Grave

  • Footsteps

    Richard Holmes

    Richard Holmes’s great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume ‘Sidetracks’.In 1985, Richard Holmes published a small book of essays called ‘Footsteps’ and the writing of biography was changed forever. A dari...

  • 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...

  • Four-D Funhouse

    Clayton Emery

  • Frederica in Fashion

    Marion Chesney

    "SINCE THERE IS NO HOPE OF MY SECURING AN ELIGIBLE PARTI, DUE TO A SAD LACK OF LOOKS, I AM RUNNING AWAY...." So wrote the sixth of the famous Armitage sisters. For how could colorless Frederica Armitage withstand a Season's scrutiny af...

  • 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....

  • Freedom Beach

    James Patrick Kelly

  • Friend

    Diana Henstell

    Paul "Piggy" Conway, a thirteen-year-old scientific genius, brings back to life his beloved Samantha, who lives next door, after the young girl is murdered by her alcoholic father, and the grotesque "rebirth" has unexpected and horrific repercussions...

  • 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...

  • From a High Place

    Edward Mathis

  • Frosty Snowman ABC

    Patricia Schories

  • Funny Farm

    Jay Cronley

    Andy and Elizabeth Farmer exchange New York for a rural paradise but find that the pond next to their new house has snakes, the house is infested with mosquitoes, and the former owner is buried in the yard...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Garfield Rolls On

    Jim Davis

    You just can't keep a good cat down. And with Garfield you'd need muscles to do it, anyway. This is the frisky feline's tenth collection and it's full of the antics and acrobatics you know and love him for. As a bonus it also features an inteview wit...

  • Gentle Warrior

    Julie Garwood

    IN FEUDAL ENGLAND, THE NOBLE ELIZABETH WAS TRAPPED IN HER OWN CASTLE-SUBJECT TO A PASSIONATE LORD! 1086, England. Lady Elizabeth Catherine Montwright barely escaped the bloody massacre that destroyed her family and exiled her from their ancestral ...

  • George H. Ghastly and the Little Horror

    Ritchie Perry

  • Get along Gang and Missing C-

    Jim Razzi

  • The Ghost Squad and the Halloween Conspiracy

    E.W. Hildick

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • God Bless Us Every One!

    Andrew Angus Dalrymple

    This sequel to "A Christmas Carol" is set in the Cratchit household seven years later when Bob Cratchit is a smug senior partner in the law firm of Cratchit and Scrooge, and Tiny Tim a rebellious teenager...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Golly Sisters Go West

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    A funny introduction to pioneer life, perfect for classrooms and homeschoolers

    The Golly Sisters are heading west. They’ve got new dresses and the best show on either side of the Mississippi. But can they keep their act together long enoug...

  • 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...

  • Goodnight Moon Room

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • 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 ...

  • Grassy Knoll

    Poul Anderson

    The benevolent, paternalistic World State regarded the freedom-minded Jeffersonians as a minor embarrassment whose violent elimination would cause more disruption than their demise would merit. So both sides were happy when the chance came for volunt...

  • Grave for a Russian

    Charles Vance

  • The Great Thirst

    William Duggan

  • Halloween III

    Tommy Lee Wallace

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Hansel and Gretel

    Sandy Ann Nightingale

  • Happy Birthday, Little Witch

    Deborah Hautzig

  • Happy Worm

    Allan Ahlberg

  • The Hard Knocker's Luck

    William Murray

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • Hazel Rye

    Vera Cleaver

    An eleven-year-old girl, with no appreciation for land and growing things, finds her values beginning to change when she agrees to let an impoverished family live in a small house she owns, in exchange for working in the surrounding orange grove....

  • He Will Not Walk With Me

    Alice Bach

  • 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...

  • Heaven

    V.C. Andrews

    OF ALL THE FOLKS IN THE MOUNTAIN SHACKS, THE CASTEELS WERE THE LOWEST--THE SCUM OF THE HILLS Heaven Leigh Casteel was the prettiest, smartest girl in the backwoods, despite her ragged clothes and dirty face.. . despite a father meaner than ten vi...

  • Hell Town

    Jon Sharpe

  • Help!

    Allan Ahlberg

  • Hitler Must Die

    Herbert Moll Mason

  • 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...

  • Homework Caper

    Joan Lexau

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Hush Money

    Peter Israel

    Hired to kill a sensational story, a modern-day shamus discovers a murder The rumors start flying almost as soon as Karen Beydon leaps out her window. The newspapers provide myriad theories as to what led this beautiful heiress to hurl herself out of...

  • I Been There Before

    David Carkeet

    As the years of Mark Twain's birth and death coincided with the two successive appearances of Halley's Comet, this book records Twain's fictive reincarnation, provoked by the comet's approach toward Earth in November, 1985...

  • I Love My Baby Sister... Most of the Time

    Elaine Edelman

  • Ice

    Anna Kavan

    A dazzling and haunting vision of the end of the world, Ice is a masterpiece of literary science fiction now in a new 50th anniversary edition with a foreword by Jonathan Lethem"One might become convinced that Kavan had seen the future . . . A half c...

  • In the Woods

    Luigi Puricelli

  • The Incredible Cat Caper

    Kelley Roos

  • Irish Folktales

    Henry Glassie

  • The Iron Web

    Ken Crowder

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Keeping in Touch

    Ellen Goodman

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Last Rites

    Jorge Saralegui

  • 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...

  • The Later Adventures of Tom Jones

    Bob Coleman

    In 1774, Henry Fielding's irrepressible hero is roused from his finally staid and settled life and lights out for the turbulent American colonies, dogged by diverse ladies, husbands, children, lawyers, and villains...

  • The Laziest Robot in Zone One

    Lillian Hoban

  • 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...

  • Let a Soldier Die

    Gary Holland

    After mistakenly killing a group of American soldiers who had wandered into his target area, Vietnam helicopter pilot Warrant Officer Troll begins--with fatal results--to hesitate in carrying out his mission and struggles to redefine his sense of him...

  • Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!

    Miriam Cohen

    When the class finds out that the new boy, Alex, exaggerates and even lies, no one wants anything to do with him. But when Alex helps Jim, he decides to befriend him, and soon Alex learns that to be accepted, you just need to be yourself....

  • 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 Lion and the Leopard

    Mary Ellen Johnson

    Love, Duty and Loyalty Collide in a Dramatic Fashion to Determine King Edward II's Future in the Medieval Historical Romance, The Lion and the Leopard, by Mary Ellen Johnson--Medieval England in the reign of Edward II, from 1307-1327--Maria Rendell w...

  • The Littles and the Missing Cat

    Cheryl Mead

  • Lone Star and the Gold Mine War

    Wesley Ellis

    JESSICA STARBUCK: WANTED FOR LARCENY Passing herself off as Jessica Starbuck, a scheming cartel woman buys up dozens of mining claims in California's Mother Lode -- paying for them with counterfeit bank drafts and leaving the real Jessie holding the...

  • The Long Approach

    Maxine Kumin