Books Published in October 1987

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New Books List: 511 titles

  • Paper Money

    Ken Follett

    PAPER MONEY It was worth a night of sex that a high government official would never forget. PAPER MONEY It was worth setting the stock market spinning in a ruthless grab for a giant corporation. PAPER MONEY It was worth any gamble for a corporate r...

  • Encounter at Farpoint

    David Gerrold

    SPACE...THE FINAL FRONTIER. THESE ARE THE ALL-NEW VOYAGES OF THE U.S.S. ENTERPRISE! Gene Roddenberry, the man who created the original STAR TREK television series, now brings the magic of STAR TREK to a brand-new, even more exciting future--a futu...

  • How Much for Just the Planet?

    John M. Ford

    Dilithium. In crystalline form, the most valuable mineral in the galaxy. It powers the Federation's starships... and the Klingon Empire's battlecruisers. Now on a small,out-of-the-way planet named Direidi, the greatest fortune in dilithium crystals e...

  • Michael Whelan's Works of Wonder

    Michael Whelan

  • Signs and Portents

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

  • Battle Station

    Ben Bova

    THE FIRST MAN ON THE MOON WAS A CIVILIAN But those who have gone on to explore our newest boundary have almost all been military personnel. Space is truly the final frontier, and with the explorers and settlers will come the forces that will prese...

  • Burning Chrome

    William Gibson

    Ten brilliant, high-resolution stories from the man who invented the term cyberspace: From the chip-enhanced couriers of Johnny Mnemonic to the street-tech melancholy of Burning Chrome, Gibson's characters and their intensely realized worlds become i...

  • Clypsis

    Jeffrey A. Carver

    RACEWAY TO THE STARS Imagine Clypsis, an entire solar system designed as the most awesome racetrack in the history of the sport. Imagine personality-implanted robots, whose knowledge and influence can make or break a racer's career, and fusion-...

  • Combat Command: Shines the Name

    Mark Acres

    A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE TRAPPED IN AN ALIEN WORLD! You are Paul Nelson. Once a CIA mercenary, you took your orders from Rick Galloway. Then an operation went bad. Outnumbered. Outgunned. You faced certain death, until the alien spaceship appeared. But ...

  • The Crown Jewels

    Walter Jon Williams

    Drake Maijstral, a dispossessed aristocrat and master thief, is commissioned to steal the invaluable jeweled box that has become the focus of the power struggle between the Khosali alien conquerors and the successfully rebellious Humans...

  • Exile

    David Peters

    In exile from her home world, Tivia, a warrior princess, disguises herself as a man and joins a group of space pirates who intend to destroy Bhodi Li, the man she loves, and the rest of the Photon Guardians...

  • Experiment in Terror

    Bernal C. Payne

  • Fever Season

    C.J. Cherryh

  • The Golden People

    Fred Saberhagen

    The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Inventions . . . Emiliano Nowell was a world-class genetic engineer. He was also a wealthy and idealistic man with the time and money necessary to follow his dreams. In secret laboratories far from Earth he used...

  • Invid Invasion

    Jack McKinney

    A DESPERATE COUNTERINVASION... The Invid Regis had succeeded where the Zentraedi and their Robotech Masters had failed. She had driven her warrior horde across the far reaches of space to lay claim to the galaxy's last supply of the Flower of Life a...

  • Kill Ratio

    David Drake

  • Kinsman Saga

    Ben Bova

    Having abandoned his family's Quaker roots, Chet Kinsman becomes a hot shot astronaut and the first space murderer, and although subsequently barred from space, he becomes determined to conquer this final frontier...

  • Nightrider

    David Mace

  • The Price of Glory

    William H. Keith Jr.

    The Gray Death Legion has been betrayed. After a year-long campaign in the service of House Marik, Grayson Carlyle and the warriors of the Gray Death Legion were ready for a rest. But their home base has been destroyed, their families scattered, a...

  • Shadow

    Dave Duncan

    Sald Harl would like nothing more than to soar on the wings of his noble eagle, but his youthful rides in the sky are cut short by an appointment to guard the prince. Sald watches his dreams of flight fade with his name and independence as he takes o...

  • Space Station Ice-3

    Bruce Coville

  • The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted

    Harry Harrison

    In a galaxy where civilization covers every world with steel and ferroconcrete. only a very special man can break all the rules and still stay free...A man who moves through the rafters of society like a rat. A stainless steel rat... And when the gal...

  • Tales from the Planet Earth

    Frederik Pohl

  • Toolmaker Koan

    John McLoughlin

    In the not-too-distant future, after a One-Day War separates the world into two opposing power blocs, a Soviet space probe discovers Charon, an ancient, god-like computer system that has been studying Earth for centuries...

  • Another Death in Venice

    Reginald Hill

    Trouble strikes a group of tourists in Italy: “Reginald Hill delivers literate, complex, and immensely satisfying thrillers” (Orlando Sentinel).   Sarah and Michael Masson are on holiday in Italy, and their tour is making its way to Venice -...

  • The Beauty Queen Killer

    John Creasey

    Only a jealous lover? Betty Gelibrand was young, exceptionally beautiful, and the proud winner of a contest that guaranteed her a part in a movie. It was a small part, to be sure, but every great actress had to start somewhere small...or so she told ...

  • The Blind Spot

    John Creasey

    An Inspector West mystery. Janet West finds an envelope containing the message "This is only the beginning!" under her front door. And her husband, Inspector Roger West of Scotland Yard, is in the hospital, the victim of an unknown acid thrower. ...

  • Bullshot

    Gabrielle Kraft

  • Death at Appledore Towers

    Gerald Lientz

  • The Devil's Home on Leave

    Derek Raymond

    A man’s corpse is discovered in a London warehouse, bundled into five shopping bags. Our nameless narrator from the Unexplained Deaths division of the Met is put on the case. As he probes a world of horror in South London, a terrible secret from hi...

  • Eddy Deco's Last Caper

    Gahan Wilson

    In words and pictures, the popular "New Yorker" cartoonist and short story author parodys the classic Sam Spade-type, hard-boiled detective novel in this story of hard-drinking private detective Eddy Deco...

  • Evidence to Destroy

    Margaret Yorke

    At first Lydia Cunningham seems just a nice, neat, self-contained widow in reduced circumstances, who has problems with her children... Her daughter Thelma, recently divorced, has just paid a rare visit - bringing along a young man she met on the...

  • Felicity

    Coral Lansbury

    With a murderous rapist roaming Long Island's prestigious Pequod College, suspicion falls on Bernie Lefkowitz, a campus playboy, and his recently jilted lover, Felicity Norman, a voluptuous art historian...

  • The Fires of Fu Manchu

    Cay Van Ash

  • The Forgotten Murders

    John William Wainwright

  • Heat Lightning

    John Lantigua

  • Hunt With the Hounds

    Mignon G. Eberhart

    At dusk, murder rode with the bright-jacketed huntsmen through woods and fields. Among them was young and pretty Sue Poore, involved with an attractive man whose wife had been mysteriously murdered. Already under suspicion, Sue Poore was ripe for mur...

  • In the Name of the Father

    A.J. Quinnell

  • The Lost Get-Back Boogie

    James Lee Burke

    TROUBLE 1S RISING 1N MONTANA'S BITTERROOT VALLEY ... ... and Frank Riordan is the only one willing to stop it. As he wages a one-man campaign to shut down the local pulp mill that is polluting the air and devastating the environment, tensions are ...

  • The Only Girl in the Game

    John D. MacDonald

    Her employers are the high priests of Las Vegas and she is their handmaiden. Her job is to lead the lambs to the sacrifice, to keep them happy at the tables, where her partners slaughter the suckers. She longs to be free of the entertainers rubbing e...

  • Out on the Rim

    Ross Thomas

    Would you be wary if someone gave you the assignment of delivering five million dollars to a Philippine terrorist--never mind from whom or why? Booth Stallings, a terrorism expert just fired from his job at a bashful organization that never admitted ...

  • Ride a Dark Horse

    Lynn Hall

    After her father is killed in a shameful accident, Gusty McCaw becomes suspicious of happenings at Tradition Farm, the horse farm where she works, and soon finds herself caught in a web of dark secrets, danger, and murder...

  • Roscoe's Leap

    Gillian Cross

    A plan to restore a guillotine and other strange toys once belonging to an eccentric millionaire fills his twelve-year-old great-great-grandson with nameless dread and concern for his family's safety....

  • Saint Mike

    Jerry Oster

  • Spree

    Max Allan Collins

    The taut, final crime novel in Max Allan Collins's Nolan series. Both Nolan and his friend Jon have retired from the dangerous game of robbery. But a backwoods hoodlum named Cole Comfort kidnaps Nolan's girlfriend and demands he pull one final, huge ...

  • Uncle Charles Has Locked Himself in

    Georges Simenon

    Upon returning home, Charles Dupenn, a humble bookkeeper, locks himself in the attic and will not respond to his wife or his daughters, who remain downstairs speculating on what might be happening as they cast anxious glances at the ceiling...

  • The White Audi // Persona Non Grata

    Timothy Williams

    Northern Italy, 1985: Commissario Piero Trotti is on the verge of retirement from the police force. He is 56 years old, and though he is widely respected for his integrity and work ethic, he is not widely liked. The junior detectives he works with tr...

  • Yellowfish

    John Keeble

    Wesley Erks, itinerant machinist and "high class jack-of-all-trades," takes a hefty fee for smuggling a group of illegal Chinese immigrants ("yellowfish") from Vancouver, B.C., to San Francisco in the 1970s. Three are teenaged "Hong Kong boys," one o...

  • Young Mrs. Cavendish and the Kaiser's Men

    K.K. Beck

  • Chase the Storm

    Alison Tyler (1)

    ASSIGNMENT: KISS AND NEVER TELL Jennifer Heath's a knockout...in looks and karate moves. Now she's shopping the most expensive Paris boutiques and doing a little favor for the CIA. But her little assignment turns into big trouble when she goes to...

  • Dangerous Places

    Elaine Raco Chase

    NIKKI AND ROMAN. DETECTIVE AND REPORTER. IF THEY DON'T KILL EACH OTHER, THEY MIGHT SOLVE A FEW MURDERS. The 7 Deadly Sins have never been so - Deadly! Or so much fun! Meet Nikki Holden - she may know 140 characters but social media is not her ...

  • The Lady

    Anne McCaffrey

    AMIDST THE GRANDEUR OF THE EMERALD COUNTRYSIDE, A MAGNIFICENT STORY UNFOLDS.... They are the Carradvnes, who for over 200 years have bred and trained horses of the finest caliber on Cornanagh--a land so beautiful it inspires the soul. But all i...

  • Moving Target

    Fran Earley

    Two for the price of one Tracy Hannon had seen little action during her term as sheriff of San Isabel County. The tranquil atmosphere was shattered, however, when a sniper took aim at Shane Keegan, the dynamic chairman of Trans-world Systems. Shan...

  • Night Magic

    Karen Robards

    WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE A SECRET AGENT? Author Clara Winston was snuggling in for the night when the strange men burst into her carriage house apartment. Terrified, she couldn't make sense of their heavy Russian accents, but they seemed to be dema...

  • Operation S.N.A.R.E.

    Eve Gladstone

    She was torn between loyalty...and suspicion Trouble began for Boston-bred Molly Ryder when her tape recorder was stolen from her handbag. Later that day she found a dead man lying on her living room floor. Rick Boulter, an assistant district a...

  • Search the Shadows

    Barbara Michaels

    Born of a secret tainted bloodline... Haskell Maloney came to Chicago to study Egyptology, following in her mother's academic footsteps. But it was more than a degree she was seeking. Haskell was looking for answers to her mother's untimely death-...

  • A Breath of Scandal

    Diana Campbell

    Susanna Randall thought she knew everything there was to know about Edward Sutton the Earl of Langham, when she wed him. First, he was marrying for the fortune that her wealthy father pledged to him. Secondly, his devotion long had been claimed by th...

  • A Duet for My Lady

    Marjorie DeBoer

    A Gentleman with a certain spark... that was who Stephanie Endicott wanted for a husband, but he was not to be found in Philadelphia. And expedition to London, it was hoped by her indomitable mother, would produce a suitable match -- with an earl, a ...

  • The Elusive Countess

    Elizabeth Barron

    BESET AND ENAMOURED... The heath was cloaked in a mist so lush that Lady Rosaline could not find her way. Not could the beautiful countess divine the face of the gallant stranger whose waiting arms saved her from the starless, rainswept night. No...

  • The Guarded Heart

    Barbara Hazard

    Beautiful Erica Stone left Regency England for Vienna with a husband she barely knew. But she found her husband mysteriously murdered and herself alone in a city of romance, where women were playthings and words of love were lies. Owen Kingsley, t...

  • Letters to a Lady

    Joan Smith

    A HIGH STICKLER LIKE HARRUP WRITING LETTERS TO A LADYBIRD! 'TWAS SCANDAL IN THE MAKING! Having been his neighbor all her life. Diana Beechum thought little of delivering some documents to Charles, Lord Harrup in London, when he had requested a...

  • Romany Summer

    Ellen Fitzgerald

    THE ULTIMATE INDISCRETION Beautiful, chestnut-haired Felicity Carruthers was little more than a girl when a thwarted elopement with the young man she loved left her with the loss of both her love and her reputation. Felicity was older now and w...

  • The Ruthless Lord Rule

    Michelle Kasey

    A proud beauty defies a lord who has never known defeat. THE ELUSIVE MISS LAWRENCE Fashionable society buzzed with rumor when Miss Mary Lawrence made her appearance in its most exalted circles. Where had this startling young beauty come from, ...

  • Head over Heels

    M.E. Cooper

  • Sweet and Sour

    M.E. Cooper

  • Take Two

    Kristi Andrews

    Shane Bradbury, the fun-loving impetuous co-star of a television soap opera and the youngest in a dynasty of actors, faces problems on the set and off when her grandmother, a famous actress, joins the cast of her show and she breaks up with Mitch...

  • Tricks

    Ed McBain

    On Halloween night in the 87th Precinct, a liquor store owner is shot, by costumed children, a headless torso is discovered, and Detective First Class Eileen Burke, disguised as a hooker, hopes to trap a serial killer...

  • Midnight Rambler

    Linda Barlow

    DARK SHADOWS There were no such things as vampires! Dany Holland knew that, yet Max Rambler still sent shivers down her spine. She'd never seen him in the daylight... and she found it impossible to escape from his dark, hypnotic eyes. With ever...

  • Sea Gate

    Maura Seger

    They were worlds apart... BRAVE NEW WORLD... Andrew Paxton was a man of science -- he dealt with the facts and left the fantasizing to others. His work involved classified government material, so when his small son discovered a raven-haired bea...

  • As October Dies

    Kenn Davis

    When three paintings are stolen from her private collection, Agnes Trevillion hires detective Carver Bascombe to investigate her art curator, Jordan Kooby, but the case takes a lethal turn when Kooby turns up dead...

  • Beasts of Valhalla

    George C. Chesbro

    He's an ex-circus performer turned hard-nosed New York private eye -- with a Ph.D. in criminology and a black belt to boot. He's also a dwarf -- which creates some problems even as it gives him special insight into the slings and arrows that pierce t...

  • The Revenge of the Hound

    Michael Hardwick

    A badly mauled tramp and the footprints of a giant hound; the theft of Oliver Cromwell's bones a sinister murder on the channel ferry; an illustrious personage who fears blackmail....It is up to Sherlock Holmes and his brilliant powers of deduction t...

  • Scorcher

    John Lutz

    Someone is going around Orlando, Florida incinerating people with a homemade flame thrower. Drawn into the affair by personal tragedy, Carver, ex-cop turned private eye, begins checking into the killings and soon learns that all evidence points to Pa...

  • The Straight Man

    Roger L. Simon

    It's not a good time to be Moses Wine. After the events of California Roll, his life seems to have taken a turn for the worse-he's lost his high-paying security job at the Tulip Computer Corporation, his kids don't pay any attention to him, his love ...

  • Cause and Effect

    Ralph M. McInerny

    IT'S FUNNY WHAT A MAN DOES WHEN HE'S TOLD HE'S DYING... Andrew Broom has everything: a thriving law practice in Wyler, Indiana, a beautiful and sophisticated wife and more money than he thought he had a right to. He's also in the middle of one of ...

  • Corkscrew

    Ted Wood

    Reid Bennett and his dog Sam serve as the police force for not-so-quaint Murphys Harbor, Ontario. They have yet another perilous but important task. There are some pretty nasty bikers disrupting the fa ade of serenity of Murphys Harbor, and Reid must...

  • Hip-Deep in Alligators

    Robert Campbell

    When the bosses of Chicago's Democratic Party Machine send precinct captain Jimmy Flannery underground to inspect the city's sewers, the idea is to teach him to keep his nose out of other people's business. But Flannery figures what goes on in his wa...

  • The Secret of Annexe 3

    Colin Dexter

    WHO HOLDS THE KEY TO A HOTEL ROOM? AN AMOROUS STRANGER? A DANGEROUS LOVER? A West Indian Rastafarian costume won him first place at the Haworth Hotel's New Year's Eve ball. But when his body is found in Room 3 of the hotel's annexe, no one knows h...

  • The Candy Cane Caper

    Cynthia Blair

    Christmas is in the air as teen-age twins Chris and Susan Pratt head to their grandparents’ house in a charming, snow-covered village in Vermont. But the girls do more than engage the entire town in a festive holiday celebration. With their usual c...

  • Interface for Murder

    Lloyd Biggle Jr.

    When a high school computer genius is murdered after he claims to have written a program that will identify the slasher, who has attacked five local college students, Jay Pletcher is hired to find the killer...

  • A Matter of Crime, Volume 2: New Stories from the Masters of Mystery and Suspense

    Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

    PAPERBACK ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION, Harvest/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, © 1987. First Printing, so stated, no previous publication. Includes 'The White Cat' by Joyce Carol Oates; 'Smart Guys Don't Snore' by Joe Gores; 'A Trouble Of Fools' by Linda Barn...

  • Public Enemy No. 2

    Anthony Horowitz

    From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Alex Rider seriesThirteen-year-old Nick Diamond is in prison! Framed for a jewel heist, quick-thinking Nick finds himself sharing a cell with public enemy number one: Johnny Powers. Nick’s only ...

  • Skin of Dreams

    Raymond Queneau

    In this delightful, cinema-inspired daydream of a novel, an identity-shifting protagonist uses the everyday inspirations of his life to catapult himself into the realm of imagination, blurring the boundaries between reality and fantasy.The Skin of Dr...

  • Tootsie Tanner, Why Don't You Talk?

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Youthful sleuth Abby Jones finds her investigation complicated by an unlikely prime suspect, the mysterious Tootsie Tanner and her disappearing twin, Tillie, a rumor of a runaway, and a terrifying baby-sitting job...

  • The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1987

    Edward D. Hoch

  • The Best American Short Stories 1987

    Houghton Mifflin Company

  • World's End

    T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle

    Haunted by the burden of his family's traitorous past, woozy with pot, cheap wine, and sex, and disturbed by a frighteningly real encounter with some family ghosts, Walter Van Brunt is about to have a collision with history. It will lead Walter to s...

  • Aurora

    Kathryn Atwood

    THEY WERE LOCKED TOGETHER IN THE PASSIONATE EMBRACE OF INTRIGUE, SCANDAL, AND DESTINY... Handsome Lord Blacklaw rescued her from the horrors of Bridewell prison -- then made her his pawn in a dangerous game of intrigue and espionage. She became...

  • Avenging Angel

    Lori Copeland

    LAWLESS LOVE With her beautiful face profiled against the hot Missouri sky, Wynne Elliot was every inch a southern lady, but that didn't make the rifle in her hands any less deadly. She had sworn vengeance on the handsome scoundrel who'd taken ...

  • Briar Rose

    Susan Wiggs

    DANGEROUS PASSION From the moment Briar Rose sets eyes on Lord Gareth Hawke's magnificent Saxon face -- his golden hair gleaming in the sunlight -- she is captivated. She has found her knight -- a loving partner to one day be lord of Briarwood, he...

  • The Chinese Emperor

    Jean Levi

    In third century B.C. Ch'in, as that alien world is depicted in this extraordinary feat of scholarship and imaginative representation, modes of behavior were exotic, at least from a modern vantage point. A malicious courtier induces the susceptible p...

  • Crystal Rapture

    Sarah Edwards

    A BEAUTIFUL, DEFIANT YANKEE Cassandra Caldwell joins her father in London only to lose him under mysterious circumstances. A suicide note satisfies Scotland Yard, but not headstrong Cassie. Determined to see justice done, she accepts the more than g...

  • Defiant Vixen

    Katharine Kincaid

    BEAUTIFUL AVENGER Seraphim Carver narrowed her golden eyes as she considered the final details of her plan. She'd managed to stow away aboard the Lawrence and persuade Commodore Perry to let her stay and serve as a nurse... now she had to find a way...

  • Desert Moon

    Jude Williams

  • Destiny's Dawn

    Rosanne Bittner

    A Magnificent Epic of the Frontier -- And a Man Torn Between His Heritage and His Heart The civilized world called him Caleb Sax, but among the proud Cheyenne he was known as Blue Hawk, the warrior destined to conquer new lands in his search for...

  • Doctor's Heart

    Jeanne Felldin

  • Forever Fancy

    Jean Haught

    Fare to Freedom. After she killed in self-defense, alluring Fancy Broussard had no choice but flee Clarence, Missouri. Desperate to get out fast, she had sneaked aboard a private railcar, plotting to distract its owner with her womanly charms...just ...

  • Forever Love

    Laurie Grant

    COURTLY LOVE, FOREVER LOVE Simon of Winslade had just one thing in mind when he claimed sweet Ysabeau's yielding lips: seduction. Too long she had tempted him with the melting innocence of her soft, dark eyes; too long she had held herself aloof, ...

  • Highland Sunset

    Joan Wolf

    A tidal wave of desire flooded through her at the touch of his lips. She clung to him as he pressed her back onto the pillows, his powerful body following hers... When beautiful, dark-haired Vanessa MacIan met Edward Romney, Earl of Linton, she to...

  • In the Shadow of the Peacock

    Katharine Gordon (1)

  • Kimberly's Kiss

    Kathleen Drymon

    NO MAN'S PLAYTHING All of her girlhood, high-spirited Kimberly Davonwoods had spent her days racing her horse, perfecting her fencing, and roaming London's byways disguised as a boy. Then, at nineteen, the raven-haired beauty suddenly found herse...

  • The Lady and the Lawman

    Joyce Brandon

    THE SUN IS HIGH. THE LINES ARE DRAWN. THE SHOWDOWN IS ABOUT TO BEGIN.... Danger and death are a way of life on the Western frontier in the 1880s--a fact Angie Logan discovers when she returns to her family's Arizona ranch fresh from an Eastern col...

  • Looking Glass Years

    Jill Gregory

    Her heart's destiny soared on the wings of time... Elly Forrest... a woman who dared to dream. Hers was a life of laughter and tears, heartache and joy. From the industrial boom of Pittsburgh in the late 1800s to the windswept grandeur of Chicago,...

  • Love and Splendor

    Patricia Hagan

    DESTINY OF LOVE... AND SPLENDOR When Dani Coltrane flees to Paris, she leaves behind heartache and pain, and vows no man will ever control her. But then the proud heiress to the Coltrane dynasty meets the dashing nobleman, Drake, and her determinati...

  • Love's Golden Promise

    Lynette Vinet

    SHE WAS THE CAPTIVE OF HIS DARK DESIRE. Penniless and .heartbreakingly beautiful, Wynter McChesney, knew of only one man who could lend her the vast sums she needed to save her ancestral manor. But the collateral Cort Van Linden demanded was an ou...

  • Moontide Embrace

    Constance O'Banyon

    NIGHT CLOAKED SPLENDOR Ever since notorious Judah Slaughter had kissed thirteen-year-old Liberty Boudreaux in thanks for helping him escape, she knew there could be no other for her. Now, five years later, the gangly girl had become a breathtaking ...

  • Nighthawk's Embrace

    Gloria Pedersen

    Nicholas Harrowe had taken Elissa aboard his ship as a prisoner of war, then captured her heart with a single burning kiss. He had claimed her hand in a hasty midnight ceremony, then dueled the man who doubted her virtue at dawn. He had made her a wo...

  • No Choice But Surrender

    Meagan McKinney

    PRISONER OF PASSION Penniless and alone, Lady Brienne had come to Osterley Park, back to the house of the father she despised. She found a stranger waiting -- an arrogant American whose sensuality set her heart beating wildly, rendering her powerles...

  • An Obsession With Honor

    Andrea Kent; Bette McNicholas

    STORMY PASSIONS SWEPT HER ONTO THE SWELLING SEAS Treason! The word gripped Blair's heart with an icy dread. British troops were burning Washington, and Blair O'Bannon, feisty young patriot, had been marked for arrest. First her father had been abd...

  • Passion's Angel

    Betty Brooks

    Destined for Love She saw him in one of her visions--a handsome, dark-haired man, badly wounded, waiting for his Indian captors to finish him off...And though emerald-eyed Angellee Tucker was intent on tracking her parents' killer, she couldn&#...

  • Robbie Taggert, Highland Sailor

    Judith Pella; Michael Phillips

    After his love for Jamie MacLeod was refused, Robbie Taggart left the Scottish Highlands to seek fortune and adventure on the high seas. But when military discipline becomes too constraining for him, he resigns and takes a position on a freighter bou...

  • Scarlet Surrender

    Sandra Dubay

    A SCARLET ROSE HAD BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER In the still, hot, sweet-scented night, Grey Verreaux entered a shadowy room, expecting to enjoy the lush charms of his intended bride. Like the fragrant petals of the flower that marked her door, passion u...

  • Sea Dream

    Terri Valentine

    NO TIME FOR ROMANCE Since her father died, headstrong Erica Armstrong had run his vast shipping company, finding the success and freedom she always craved. Still, there were moments when the sensuous blonde yearned to luxuriate in her femininity and...

  • Songbird

    Linda Shaw

    In the wake of the Civil War Jessica saw Conrad Montgomery, the man she loved, driven out of Texas-threatened by the vengeance of a man sworn to destroy him. but in time Conrad returned to a new Texas-magnificent, wild, arrogant a land that fueled hi...

  • Spring Will Come

    Sherry DeBorde

    On the terrifying day of her father's death, Camille Braxton Beaufort went searching the gambling halls and bordellos of the muddy Mississippi for the one man her father promised she could trust, and the man she would manly--Charles Longmont. ...

  • Starfire

    Judith E. French

    Rebecca Bradford descends the grand staircase of her new Maryland home. Her gown shimmers with every step, her radiant beauty belying her contempt for this world of golden luxury. For years she has lived as "Star Blanket," daughter of the Shawnee, wh...

  • The Tender Devil

    Colleen Shannon

    He was the devil in the flesh. She was an angel in his arms.. Aimee Lingstrom ... a blonde Norwegian beauty, she vowed no man would ever possess her. Yet to save her family from financial ruin, she recklessly gave herself in marriage to an abso...

  • Texas Blonde

    Victoria Thompson

    She swore she'd share his name -- and win his heart! DESPERATE FOR A HUSBAND When dashing Josh Logan rescued her from death by exposure petite Felicity Morrow realized she'd never survive rugged frontier life without a man by her sick And...

  • Texas Rose

    Veronica Blake

    Unexpected passion... -- Lisa Parker laughed as she galloped to the creek. She loved her forbidden dawn rides across the Texas countryside. Lost in thought, Lisa didn't notice the clothing draped on the tree behind her. But she couldn't fail to see...

  • Thursday and the Lady

    Patricia Matthews

    1848. America's most unforgettable era. As suffragettes begin their long struggle...as the gold rush spurs glorious optimism...comes a story of a proud, passionate love only the gifted pen of Patricia Matthews can tell. Jemina Benedict refuse...

  • To Love a Rogue

    Valerie Sherwood

    Lovely Lorraine London had a sensuous charm that seemed to ignite the passions of every scoundrel in New England. Born in revolutionary America, she was sold into indentured servitude until she caught the roving eye of Raile Cameron, a renegade gunru...

  • Venture to Love

    Jocelyn Stirling

    There is something exceptional about Argent Wood, a dignity and determination that set her apart from other young women of 19th century Europe. Indeed, that fateful morning Argent steps from the coach and confronts London's grime and congestion, her ...

  • Wild Is My Love

    Janelle Taylor

    SET IN A THRILLING AGE OF NOBLE KNIGHTS AND LADIES FAIR, HERE IS A MAGICAL, ROMANTIC TALE OF BOLD ADVENTURE, EXOTIC FANTASY AND WILD, ENDLESS LOVE... She is the bewitchingly lovely Princess Alysa. He is a mysterious stranger who has come to res...

  • Winds of Betrayal

    June Lund Shiplett

    She was caught between two passionate men -- and her own wild desire SHE WAS ONE MAN'S LAWFUL WIFE--AND ANOTHER MAN'S LAWLESS DESIRE Beautiful, voluptuous Lizette Kolter deeply loved her husband Bain Kolter, even though the handsome adv...

  • 50 Great Tales of Terror

    John Canning

  • Crowned Heads

    Thomas Tryon

    Though the greats of Hollywood may fade, their secrets live on foreverFedora is dead, and movies will never be the same. A star since the early days of Hollywood, she survived the business for an unprecedented four decades before retiring to Crete. A...

  • Devil's Race

    Avi

    Sixteen-year-old John Proud discovers his family's dark secret in 1854 an ancestral namesake confessed to being a demon. Now John finds himself battling his ancestor who is trying to use John for an evil purpose. Mounting suspense plus the sure draw ...

  • Entombed

    Guy N. Smith

    Years Ago . . . the children toiled in the dank slate mines of Cowmgilla, hostages to their mad overseer . . . helpless victims in his evil satanic rites. Now . . . on the outskirts of the charming Welsh village, something stirs deep in the...

  • A Flame in Byzantium

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Atta Olivia Clemens had received St. Germain's darkest gift -- would his love save her from the True Death?...

  • Halo

    Chet Day

  • Lady

    Thomas Tryon

    LADY recreates a small New England town of the 1930s and '40s. Seen through the eyes of an eight-year-old boy, Woody, we meet Lady, a charming widow, owner of an imposing home on the Green. As does Woody, we come to care for and love his "special fri...

  • The Manse

    Lisa Cantrell

    Happy Halloween! Each Halloween, the Manse becomes a House of Horrors. Vampires, werewolves, ghouls and ghosts - not to mention Frankenstein's monster - stalk the premises. Bats and spiders drop upon the unwary. At every turn a new fright awaits -...

  • Mantis

    K.W. Jeter

    Except in times of greatest need, the female praying mantis does not destroy her mate. Rae has needs, hungers that cannot be easily satisfied. Michael thinks he understands her desires, believes he can fulfill her needs. He is wrong, Rae’s need ...

  • Night Caller

    Daniel Ransom

    The antique telephone sat in darkness in the attic. Dust and cobwebs obscured its once gleaming surface. Wires hung limply from its rusted innards. It should have been nothing more than an interesting piece of junk. Except that sometimes, late at nig...

  • Nights in Ghostland

    Carol Beach York

  • The Other

    Thomas Tryon

    NYRB Classics presents the landmark psychological horror novel about 13-year-old twins living in a bucolic New England town -- one good and the other very, very evil. “A whirlpool of Oh-My-God horror.” -- Ira Levin, author of Rosemary’s Baby...

  • The Pack

    William Essex

  • Psychic Spawn

    Ryder Syvertsen

    EVIL IN ASHES... It had been the most important work undertaken by Nazi Germany, the key to the future of the master race--an ultrasecret, super-advanced genetics project designed to perfect the world's ultimate, most devastating weapon, the human m...

  • Throwback

    Mark Manley

    Once in many generations, it reappears. Scientists cal it a freak of evolution. The people in the hills have another name for it. Throwback. Something preys on your mind even as it grows under your skin. It will sprout a bone structure. Clawi...

  • Year's Best Horror Stories 15

    Karl Edward Wagner

  • Mystery of the Deadly Diamond

    Elizabeth Howard

    Living in Paris at the turn of the century, a sixteen-year-old American girl uses an experimental diving bell to explore the floor of the Seine and uncovers a trunk which may be linked to the theft of a priceless diamond....

  • Mystery of the Magician

    Elizabeth Howard

    In a mystery set in turn-of-the-century Paris, American Paris MacKenzie inherits her murdered uncle's estate, including a mirror with a deadly secret that threatens the life of master magician Houdini...

  • Mystery of the Metro

    Elizabeth Howard

    In 1900, sixteen-year-old Paris, a Chicago teenager with a fondness for Sherlock Holmes, travels to Paris, France, to visit her uncle, a prominent scientist, only to find on her arrival that he has died under circumstances sufficiently mysterious to ...

  • A Scent of Murder

    Elizabeth Howard

    Meet PARISParis Mackenzie is a sixteen-year-old from Chicago with an irrepressible personality and a passion for Sherlock Holmes. When she visits her namesake city at the turn of the century, Paris finds all the glamour and romance she ever dreamed o...

  • Conan the Defiant

    Steve Perry
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Before avenging a friend's death, the youthful Conan must battle undead warriors and Men With No Eyes--two formidable factions seeking the Source of Light, a talisman that can make Neg the Malefic unconquerable or destroy him forever...

  • Love and War

    Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    The legend of Raistlin's daughter! A strange story that cannot be confirmed, yet it is whispered among the elves of Silvanesti, gossiped about by the kender of Krynn, and told here for the first time by Caramon, the enigmatic mage's surviving twin...

  • Vale of the Vole

    Piers Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    When Esk, a young ogre-nymph-human, began his pilgrimage to the Good Magician Humfrey to rid himself of a seductive demoness, little did he know it would become a mission of mercy. A running river paradise and its harmless inhabitants were perishing ...

  • The Actor

    Robert J. Conley

    When Bluford Steele and the traveling acting troupe he has joined arrive in the dangerous town of West Riddle, the evil tyrant of the town forces them to perform and then steals their money, and Bluford must play the role of a lifetime as a ruthless ...

  • Blood Hunt

    Neil M. Gunn

  • The Cockeyed Coyote

    Pierce MacKenzie

  • Dancing at the Rascal Fair

    Ivan Doig

    The central volume in Ivan Doig's acclaimed Montana trilogy, Dancing at the Rascal Fair is an authentic saga of the American experience at the turn of this century and a passionate, portrayal of the immigrants who dared to try new lives in the impos...

  • Early Thunder

    Jean Fritz

    Daniel knew he was loyal to England and the King. Until something happened that changed his life forever. This "vivid and compelling story of the American Revolution" is set in Salem in 1774, when people were either Tories or Whigs and the growing v...

  • Guns Along the Mora

    Ray Hogan

  • Guns Roaring West

    Peter Field

  • Hostage Arrows

    Jon Sharpe

  • Illinois Prescott

    G. Clifton Wisler

  • Lawman's Justice

    James Calder Boone

    The trio were as close to evil as flesh and blood could get. And with the Grand River running red in the wake of their killing spree, Remington and his men make a desperate bid to draw the desperados out..using themselves and an innocent farm family ...

  • Lone Star and the Phantom Gunmen

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki follow a town's bloody secret to Boot Hill!Jessie and Ki ride out to the Arizona territory to look after Starbuck interests. They find the town of Whitewash helpless against a band of phantom rustlers. And what starts as cow thieving en...

  • Lone Star in a Range War

    Wesley Ellis

    A corrupt cattle town explodes as an innocent man is sentenced to hang in the sixty-second Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki --...

  • Longarm on Dead Man's Trail

    Tabor Evans

  • The Serpent Never Sleeps

    Scott O'Dell

    Pocahontas and early Jamestown are brought to life through the eyes of the Newbery Award winner's historical heroine....

  • Shadow of the Gallows

    Doyle Trent

  • Slocum and the Cherokee Manhunt

    Jake Logan

  • Stringer on the Assassin's Trail

    Lou Cameron

    Stringer was just doing his job when he went to hear Teddy Roosevelt speak at a railway stop in Granger, Wyoming. But Stringer’s job is to write about the speech -- not get shot at. So suddenly a certain reporter has a powerful curiosity about who ...

  • Sundance

    Bill Reno

    THE BADGE To a violent land, a frontier yet untamed, came a man who wore a badge of law and order. He faced the myriad dangers and paid the price in blood to become one of the most enduring heroic figures of the Old West. SUNDANCE U.S. Marshal ...

  • Taos

    Hank Mitchum

    Jeanne Townsend had to get out of Albuquerque fast. An undercover Pinkerton agent, she had damning evidence against the corrupt Darryl Landreth. When the red-haired beauty took the north bound stage to Denver. Landreth's hired hardcases set out in cl...

  • Texas Tumble

    E.J. Hunter

  • Trial by Fire

    J.R. Roberts

    A likable hunchback dies trying to save Clint's life. His last request extracts a strange promise from the Gunsmith. Now Clint must find the dead man's long lost daughter. A fortune waits for the missing gal, if only the Gunsmith can find her. It'...

  • Absurd Courage

    Nobuko Albery

  • Adam's Smile

    David McPhail

  • An adultery

    Alexander Theroux

    The third novel from acclaimed, award-winning Alexander Theroux is a darkly realistic tale of adultery set in contemporary New England. Christian Ford is a man who is betrayed in an adulterous affair, only to discover that he himself betrayed a woman...

  • African Calliope

    Edward Hoagland

  • African Journey

    John Chiasson

  • Among Friends

    Caroline B. Cooney

    THE AWESOME THREESOME Together-forever friends -- that's how everyone had always thought of them, and how they'd thought of themselves. Until now. Jennie: The powerful center of the trio, Jennie strives for perfection. But her quest to be the bes...

  • Anastasia's Chosen Career

    Lois Lowry

    Anastasia Krupnik has exactly one week to work on her school assignment called "My Chosen Career." Determined to be a bookstore owner, she must first develop poise and self-confidence. So Anastasia takes the plunge and spends her life savings on a mo...

  • Anna Delaney's Child

    John Thorndike

    Meet Anna Delaney, a smart, loving woman whose life is shattered when her car skids on some unexpected ice-the last remnants of winter-and her nine-year-old son Kevin is killed. Reeling from this loss and bruised by the effects of a now-defunct marri...

  • Another Mouse to Feed

    Robert Kraus

  • Arnie and the Stolen Markers

    Nancy Carlson

  • The Baby Sitters Club Notebook

    Sonia W. Black

  • Bah Koo

    Robert Rhodes

    Bah Koo leaves his forest home, where the other animals laughed at him for being different, and goes to live with a human family where he discovers he possesses a magical gift that can help all humans...

  • Ballad of the False Messiah

    Moacyr Scliar

  • Baltasar and Blimunda

    Jose Saramago

    “A romance and an adventure, a rumination on royalty and religion in 18th-century Portugal and a bitterly ironic comment on the uses of power.” -- The New York Times Portugal, 1711. The Portuguese king promises the greedy prelates of the Church ...

  • Battlefields Beyond Tommorow

    Charles G. Waugh

  • Bedtime Stories

    Dina Anastasio

  • Beetles, Lightly Toasted

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    Fifth-grader Andy Moller will do anything to win the Roger B. Sudermann essay contest so that he can win fifty dollars and get his picture in the local newspaper. His cousin and rival, Jack, feels exactly the same way. But how can Andy be inventive a...

  • The Berenstain Bears and the Day of the Dinosaur

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

  • The Berenstain Bears on the Job

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

  • Big Bird's Bedtime Story

    Rick Wetzel

    Illus. in full color. Big Bird wants a bedtime story about himself, and he gets one: all about what happens one day when an enormous egg appears on Sesame Street. Big Bird doesn't see what the egg has to do with him and soon falls asleep--but young l...

  • The Big Room: Portraits from the Golden Age

    Michael Herr

  • Billy Ray and Good News

    Frank Roderus

  • Birthday Presents

    Cynthia Rylant

  • Black Swan

    Christopher Hope

  • Blood and Dust

    Robert Steelman

  • Blood Russian

    R.D. Zimmerman

    Hoping to earn the money necessary to break free of his wife, and start a new life with his beloved Lara, Boris devises a profitable smuggling scheme, not realizing that his wife and her brutal lover are plotting his demise...

  • Blue Bug Goes to Paris

    Virginia Poulet

  • Blues in the Night

    Elizabeth Jordan

    Lovely Dessie Heavener, a small-town girl and a talented singer, rises to the heights of the jazz age musical world only to be seduced, betrayed, and driven to the depths of despair by three different men...

  • Bobbin Up

    Dorothy Hewett

  • Brain Wave

    Raymond Obstfeld

    In a race against time, Geoffrey Kane strives to untangle the unfathomable truth behind a vicious network of hitmen and thieves called Excalibur, who use the money from jewel heists to buy blackmarket plutonium--the key ingredient in a homemade atomi...