Books Published in October 1985

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — OCTOBER 1985

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New Books List: 413 titles

  • You're a Real Hero, Amanda

    Arvella Whitmore

  • Yorath Wolf

    Cherry Wilder

  • The Yngling

    John Dalmas

  • Year's Best Horror Stories 13

    Karl Edward Wagner

  • World Treasury of Children's Literature

    Clifton Fadiman

  • World Enough & Time

    James Md Kahn

  • 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...

  • A Woman Like That

    Constance Bartel

  • A Wodehouse Bestiary

    P.G. Wodehouse

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Winning Streak

    Arnold Grisman

    Called "The Golden Arm" to celebrate his six touchdown passes thrown against Harvard, Goldberg is now a lucky gambler in Las Vegas who meets a complicated and beautiful woman named Barbara and a complicated and dangerous man named Doc...

  • The Wild Rose

    Rene J. Garrod

    SECRET DESIRES California's gold rush had lured Miranda Austen and her father all the way from London. But when her father lost his life in the harsh wilderness, the well-bred English beauty was suddenly alone in the uncivilized American West. Onl...

  • Wild Flame

    Gina Delaney

    NEW LOVE She had been born and reared a gentle English lass. Yet once seventeen-year-old Milly set foot on the vast Australian farm, she had the Outback in her blood. Young and innocent, she dreamed of love's sweet awakening. But she couldn't tame...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • When Darkness Falls

    Barbara Corcoran

    A junior counselor at a summer camp in the Montana mountains, seventeen-year-old Julie Horton is puzzled by the behavior of fellow counselor Mark after the strange disappearance of one of her young campers....

  • West of Cimarron

    G. Clifton Wisler

  • Watch Out, Ronald Morgan!

    Patricia Reilly Giff

  • 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 ...

  • Wanted: a Fairy Godmother

    Crockett Johnson

    Cushlamochree! When Barnaby Baxter was five years old, he prayed and prayed for a fairy godmother, but none was available. So the powers that be sent him J.J. O'Malley, an unemployed Fairy Godfather with his inevitable fine Havana magic wand, of cour...

  • The Wanderer

    Dennis Schmidt

  • The Visitor

    Helme Heine

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Universal Prey

    Jefferson P. Swycaffer

  • 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...

  • Under Plum Lake

    Lionel Davidson

    A young boy swimming off the cliffs of Cornwall discovers a cave, the entrance to a wonderful new world of giant, long-living people, fish that swim in the air, flower-flavored water, and varying time patterns...

  • 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...

  • Two Islands

    Ivan Gantschev

  • 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...

  • The Tree of Life

    Hugh Nissenson

  • The Trail of Bohu

    Charles R. Saunders

  • Too Short Fred

    Susan Meddaugh

  • Tolstoy

    Charles Neider

  • 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...

  • To Walk the Line

    David Quammen

  • 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...

  • The Time of Her Life

    Robb Forman Dew

    Now restored to print -- the acclaimed second novel by the National Book Award-winning author of Dale Loves Sophie to Death and The Evidence Against Her. Claudia and Avery Parks, lovers since high school, are now in their thirties. Intelligent, charm...

  • Time After Time

    Allen Appel

    Alex Balfour travels back in time to Tsarist Russia. There he witnesses the death of Rasputin, befriends the young son of the Tsar, participates in the Revolution, battles his father and attempts to rescue the royal family....

  • Timber Blood

    Steven F. Havill

  • Tickled to Death

    Simon Brett

  • 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...

  • Three for Luck

    Josephine Poole

  • The Three Billy Goats Gruff

    Ellen Appleby

  • Thor's Hammer

    Wynne Whiteford

  • There Was an Old Woman

    Stephen Wyllie

  • Teddy Jo and the Magic Quill

    Hilda Stahl

  • Teddy Bear Tales

    Joan Walsh Anglund

  • 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...

  • Tales of the Horseclans

    Robert Adams

  • Taking Care

    Fanny Howe

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Swept in the Wave of Terror

    Gloria Skurzynski

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • Stop That Witch!

    Mary Clark
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  • Starquake

    Robert L. Forward

    Starquake, the sequel to Dragon's Egg, takes place on the surface of a neutron star. The gravity is 67 billion Earth gravities. The native cheela, the size of sesame seeds, live a million times faster than their human friends in orbit. After a starqu...

  • 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...

  • 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 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....

  • 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...

  • A Stainless Steel Rat is Born

    Harry Harrison

    In the auspicious annals of crime, chicanery and counter-espionage, one name towers above all the rest--"Slippery Jim" diGriz, the fabled outlaw known and feared as The Stainless Steel Rat! Now, the uncanny, untold origins of the 25th century's most ...

  • Spyship

    Tom Keene

  • Spring Fever

    Abby Connell

    In a romantic tale focusing on a young girl at two separate periods of her life--at fourteen and at seventeen--Sarah must come to terms with her parents decision to turn their farm into a country store and with her feelings for childhood friend Seth ...

  • The Spirit of Enterprise

    George Gilder

  • The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull

    John Bellairs

    Professor Childermass has disappeared. And Johnny Dixon can find few clues: a haunted dollhouse and a lighted. menacing iack-e-lantern. The dollhouse is a miniature replica of a room in the Childermass family home -- the same room where the professor...

  • Spark

    Muriel Spark

  • Space Assassin

    Steve Jackson

  • 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...

  • Soup on Ice

    Robert Newton Peck

  • Son Of Slime That At

    Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

  • Something Sleeping in the Hall

    Karla Kuskin

  • Some Beasts No More

    Kenneth Giles

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • So Sick!

    Harriet Ziefert

  • 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...

  • The Sleepwalkers

    Hermann Broch

    With his epic trilogy, The Sleepwalkers, Hermann Broch established himself as one of the great innovators of modern literature, a visionary writer-philosopher the equal of James Joyce, Thomas Mann, or Robert Musil. Even as he grounded his narratives ...

  • Slammer

    Ben Greer

    Set in a Carolina state penitentiary, Slammer brings to life a dark, complex world of the prison system. Told from the eyes of four of the characters, the reader becomes caught up in the violent tensions that filter throughout the prison. Aaron Wal...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Ship Rock

    Ted Greenwood

  • Shaggy Dog's Christmas

    Don Charles

  • 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...

  • Shadows Eight

    Charles L. Grant

  • The Sergeant

    Dennis Murphy

  • Seize the Fire

    Laura Kinsale

    THEIRS WAS A LOVE FORGED FROM TARNISHED DREAMS AND HAUNTING SECRETS... Sheridan Drake was a fallen angel... a scoundrel... a blackguard... every maiden's nightmare. Olympia St. Leger was an exiled princess in need of a hero. Amused by her innocenc...

  • 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...

  • The Secret Bluestocking

    Eileen Jackson

    HER SHAMEFUL SECRET On the surface, Miss Emma Waring seemed a most proper young lady. True, her hair was a rather unfashionable reddish-gold, and at times a spark of deviltry marred her studiously innocent gaze. But all in all, Emma obeyed the pro...

  • The Scoundrel's Daughter

    Rachelle Edwards

    "I AM TO HAVE A SEASON AFTER ALL. I CAN SCARCELY CONTAIN MY DELIGHT!" Jacey Trevallion's joy at being summoned to London by her profligate father is to be short-lived indeed. For once there, he confesses to her that he has promised her portion--an...

  • Savage Storm

    Phoebe Conn

    SHE DREAMED OF A HUSBAND Luscious Gabrielle had lost everything she had in Kansas City. Now all she wanted was to survive the Oregon Trail and start a new life as a mail order bride. Then she met ruggedly handsome Jason Royal, and the auburn-hair...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Safe Houses

    Lynne Alexander

    Gerda, the former mistress of both Adolf Eichmann and Raoul Wallenberg, a Hungarian Jew whose once great beauty is fading in a Brooklyn apartment, Rella, her ugly and gullible daughter, and Jack, an upstairs neighbor, share an extraordinary past...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Roses Are Dead

    Loren D. Estleman

    Hit man Peter Macklin battles divorce attorneys, mobsters, and hired assassins in this action-packed, hard-boiled thriller   For years, Donna ignored the guns in her husband’s safe, his long hours, and all the cash he couldn’t possibly have ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The River Between

    Jacquelyn Cook

    The River had Brought Him to Her -- Would the River also Keep Them Apart? From the belvedere of her Alabama mansion on the banks of the Chattahoochee River, Lily watched for steamboats and dreamed of the man who would one day be united with her ...

  • 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...

  • Riding High

    Marilyn Youngblood

  • 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...

  • Remembering

    Dandi Daley Mackall

  • 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...

  • 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.

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  • Recombinations

    Perri Klass

  • 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...

  • Rebel

    Elizabeth Evelyn Allen

    She lived and loved with passion -- but only on her terms! "AIN'T SHE SOMETHING!" the soldiers cried as they watched her ride the huge stallion into the raging river...to save a drowning man. She was Marsh Creighton, a ravishing teen...

  • Ready... Set... Robot

    Lillian Hoban

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Raid

    G. Clifton Wisler

  • Race Against Time

    Piers Anthony

    John Smith is a typical teenager living in a world he believes to be America in the 1960s, but the strange behavior he sees forces him outside forbidden boundaries to discover the shocking truth. Reissue....

  • A Question of Happiness

    Janine Boissard

  • 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...

  • Promise Forever

    Dee Austin

  • Private Desires // Leonie

    Elizabeth Adler

    Leonie is born into a world of poverty and hardship, she came from the provinces to find her future in Paris. With only her exotic beauty, seductive innocence, and fiery spirit, Leonie vows to rise above her poverty and make a name for herself. As sh...

  • 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....

  • The Price of Fame

    Maisie Mosco

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

  • Prairie Songs

    CONRAD P

  • 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 ...

  • A Position of Trust

    Roy Hart

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Peace Company

    Roland J. Green

    If you seek peace -- prepare for war A rule as true in the 24th Century as it is today. When 75 planets from savage tribes to outlaw tyrannies to star-spanning mega-powers -- totter on the brink of the hell that began the day Earth destroyed itsel...

  • The Party

    Raymond Briggs

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Outrage

    Henry Denker

  • Or the Bambino Dies

    Peter Inchbald

  • The Opium Queen

    Warren T. Longtree

  • Operation: Star Raider

    Eric Affabee

  • Operation: Dragn Fire

    William Sno

  • 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...

  • Once There No Pandas

    Margaret Greaves

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Notes from the Nervous Breakdown Lane

    Ken Brown

    A collection of the best cartoons by the well-known postcard artist is subtly nightmarish, sneaking the surreal into everyday circumstances, with a nostalgic style from the Forties and Fifties, and a twist of Eighties distortion...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • Night Train to Paris

    Manning Coles

  • Night of the Whale

    Jerry Spinelli

  • 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...

  • Newbery Award Library

    Emily Cheney Neville

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Nata

    Helen V. Griffith

    K-Gr 2 ``Nata was usually good, but one June day she wasn't.'' She tangled a spider's web, disturbed the bees, tied a knot in the cricket's feelers and was generally unpleasant to all of the garden creatures. Only the toad knows what is the matter wi...

  • Mystery Trivia Quiz Book

    Kitty Reese

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Murder in the Queen's Armes

    Aaron Elkins

    SKULLDUGGERY... Why would anyone steal a thirty-thousand-year-old skull? England's famous Poundbury Man has been swiped right from its museum case, and anthropologist Gideon Oliver, honeymooning in Britain with his new bride, Julie, finds the myst...

  • 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....

  • Moving Too Fast

    M.E. Cooper

    Can opposites attract . . . for keeps? It's love at first sight when an accidental meeting throws Sasha and Wesley together. But on their first date, this couple realizes they have little in common besides their love for each other: she's a romant...

  • Moving Pictures: An Antique Picture Book

    Ernest Nister

  • Mountain Massacre

    Jack Buchanan

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Mo to the Rescue

    Mary Pope Osborne

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • Midair

    Frank Conroy

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Mel Gibson

    David Ragan

  • Maui-Maui

    Stephen Cosgrove

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Mars One Crew Manual

    Kerry Mark Joels

  • 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...

  • Marital Affairs

    Morris L. Cohen

    Intelligent, talented, and attractive Lisa and Jason Green, a Southern California couple, totally committed to each other, find their relationship undermined when Lisa must stifle her own needs and promising career to support Jason's insatiable ambit...

  • Marie

    Peter Maas

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Man from Internal Affairs

    Nat Hentoff

    Jazz-loving New York police detective Noah Green, trying to find a killer on New York's Lower East side, finds himself trying, at the same time, to ward off the depredations of the Internal Affairs Division...

  • Mallory's Gambit

    L. Christian Balling

    In a familiar but extremely well fleshed- out and grippingly authentic narrative, Balling ( The Fourth Shot , 1982) takes a credibly flawed and down-to-earth American protagonist from the extem porized assassination attempts of a French Underground c...

  • Making Waves

    A.C. Chandler

  • 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 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...