Books Published in October 1987

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — OCTOBER 1987

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New Books List: 511 titles

  • Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper

    Pamela Elizabeth West

  • Young Mrs. Cavendish and the Kaiser's Men

    K.K. Beck

  • 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...

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

    Edward D. Hoch

  • Year's Best Horror Stories 15

    Karl Edward Wagner

  • 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...

  • The Women's Decameron

    Julia Voznesenskaya

    10 women quarantined in a Lenin maternity clinic tell each other stories that reflect women's experience in the contemporary USSR. The author, who was a founder of the first independent women's group in the USSR, was imprisoned and then exiled for he...

  • Woman Hater // Mountain Man

    Diana Palmer

    MOUNTAIN MAN Everyone in the office described the boss's mysterious older brother as a real woman hater -- an absolute bear of a man. So, when Nicole White had to travel with her ailing employer to his brother's home in Montana, she was prepared ...

  • The Wizard of 4th Street

    Simon Hawke

    WIZ KIDS NAB GEMS Wyrdrune was a student wizard with a penchant for botching spells. Kira was a cutie whose snatch-andgrab act was big on New York's seamier streets. In spite of themselves, they managed to pull off the heist of the 23rd century. T...

  • The Witching of Ben Wagner

    Mary Jane Auch / M.J. Auch

    When twelve-year-old Ben moves with his family to a town on the shore of Lake Ontario he finds a friend who seems to be a witch and who helps him meet the problems associated with his moving and with his stormy relationships with his father and big s...

  • Witchchild

    Carole Mortimer

    'I AM NOT PREPARED TO LET A LITTLE GOLD-DIGGER LIKE YOU ANYWHERE NEAR MY SON!' It was a case of mistaken identity, but Leonie Spencer wasn't about to clear the air immediately and make things easy for Henry Hawker Sinclair. After all, he had accu...

  • Wish for the Moon

    Carole Mortimer

    She despised him now - hadn't he killed her cousin? Elizabeth Farnham had met Quinn Taylor before she became the mistress of Farnham Hall, and she had loved him during his brief visit. But when she discovered he was responsible for Fergus...

  • The Winter Heart

    Victoria Glenn

    WARMTH IN WINTER Being a Hollywood actress was far from glamorous for Amanda Ryan. But whether she was playing a Martian in a music video, or recording voice-overs for cartoon characters, she was determined to succeed not only for herself but for ...

  • The Winning of Miss Lynn Ryan

    Ilene Cooper

    Miss Ryan is unlike any teacher Carrie's ever had. She's pretty and glamorous -- and she picks favorites. Carrie would do anything to be in that circle of favorites, and at last she's found a project that will let her shine. But the campaign to win M...

  • 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...

  • Will You Be My POSSLQ

    Eve Bunting

  • 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...

  • Wicked Invader

    Sara Wood

    "Please, kiss me. I want you to kiss me." Cool, reserved Olivia Kent hardly recognized herself when she begged a complete stranger in the Royal Academy Gallery to kiss her--twice. She couldn't even explain herself to the bearded rep...

  • The Whole Truth

    Jenny Loring

    THE YEARS HAD CHANGED EVERYTHING BUT THEIR LOVE Besides integrity, Susannah Ross brought a certain poise to the judgeship--and nothing could have threatened that more than seeing Dan Sullivan in her court. Dan. The lawyer she'd lived with and lov...

  • White Romance A

    Virginia Hamilton

  • 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...

  • Where Memories Begin

    Elizabeth Glenn

    She wasn't nineteen anymore Gorgeous Chandler Scott had been Lanni Preston's first experience with passion. She alone had glimpsed the vulnerable side of the aloof, arrogant youth. When he'd left her suddenly that summer, without expla...

  • When the Spotlight Fades

    Susan Marie

  • When the Fat Man Sings

    William Murray

    SHIFTY TAKES A BIG GAMBLE ON A FAT MAN Rotund Fulvio Gasparini is the world's greatest operatic tenor and worst gambler. He is losing at the tables and losing big... until magician Shifty Lou Anderson steps in with his hot hand for dice and recoups ...

  • When Hearts Dream

    Laurel Pace

    No dream was impossible for Anne and Wes Major and minor setbacks hadn't stopped Anne Torrence from opening a boutique in Charlotte, North Carolina. Long, pressure-filled days never prevented successful engineer Wes Jordan from moonlighting as a j...

  • What's the Matter with Carruthers

    James Marshall

  • What's Happening to My Junior Year?

    Judith St. George

    Steppie Emerson's wonderful plans for her junior year and going steady with senior Roger Curtis go awry when her mother's obsession with playing pool leads to the opening of an after-school pool hall for "delinquents" in the Emerson basement...

  • What Did You Lose, Santa Claus?

    Berthe Amoss

  • Whale Song

    Tony Johnston

  • Washington Wives

    Maureen Dean

    After the President's closest adviser dies, the President announces that he will name a successor within five days and four of Washington's most powerful women launch their own powerplay, each determined that her man will be appointed...

  • War Weapons

    Craig Sargent

    After his encounter with Gen'l Patton III, The last Ranger is out for revenge. As he hunts for the renegade rmy man who is looking to build a fascist empire, Stone finds that he is also being hunted himself....

  • A Wanted Man

    Regan Forest

    He was as guilty as sin What with all the cattle rustling going on, brand inspector Beth Connor was suspicious of everyone. Especially a certain skinny-dipping drifter she caught red-handed with two of her neighbor's horses. Though she soon...

  • Walt Kelly's Pluperfect Pogo

    Walt Kelly

  • Walt Disney's Classic Cinderella

    Jan Carr

  • Wake up, Vladimir

    Felicia Bond

  • Wait for Me!

    Molly Cross

  • Voyage 1st Dec Mmp

    Robert Carlyle

    “Henry Carlisle has done a superb job. Voyage to the First of December has true distinction … A story that has long lain buried in the annals of the American Navy is the record of the only alleged mutiny -- an abortive one at that -- in our count...

  • 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 ...

  • The Veil

    Denis Johnson

  • Vale of the Vole

    Piers Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    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 ...

  • Unlikely Partners

    Jacqueline Diamond

    Sarah felt as if she were Cinderella High-society dances at the yacht club, flights in a private plane to the California wine country, a designer wardrobe--life had never been this wonderful for shy librarian Sarah Farentino. Suddenly she was lead...

  • Unicorn Crossing

    Nancy Luenn

  • Unfair Advantage

    Jessica Summers

  • 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...

  • Unbuilding

    David MacAulay

  • 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...

  • 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'...

  • Travel Light

    Naomi Mitchison

    "Travel Light is the story of Halla, a girl born to a king but cast out onto the hills to die. She lives among bears; she lives among dragons. But the time of dragons is passing, and Odin All-Father offers Halla a choice: Will she stay dragonish and ...

  • Touch the Moon

    Marion Dane Bauer

    Jennifer is disappointed on her birthday when her father gives her a little china horse and the promise of riding lessons instead of the real horse she's been expecting....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Tomorrow's Lover

    Samantha Harvey

    She wasn't certain of his motives Danni Paige was shocked when her family received Jay North's eviction notice. After years of struggle they'd finally built up a successful business. Danni couldn't just stand by and let Jay ruin ev...

  • 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...

  • Tides of War

    Douglas Muir

    To ensure the success of the D-Day invasion, U.S. submarine commander Lieutenant Skeet Merrill and sensuous but deadly Norwegian spy Sigi Petersen must face the wrath of an ace U-boat commander and the Gestapo's top manhunter...

  • 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...

  • Thunderstruck

    Pamela Toth

    Honey Collingsworth adored her twin brother and loved working on his hydroplane crew. The racing "thunderboats" took her breath away. Unfortunately, so did tall, muscular driver Alex Checkhov--the hated competition. Though Honey cherished stolen 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...

  • Three Dog Winter

    Elizabeth Van Steenwyk

    The world of sled dog racing in northern Montana forms the background for a twelve-year-old boy's adjustment to his father's death, his mother's remarriage, and the integration of two families into one....

  • The Three Billy Goats Gruff

    Janet Stevens; Susan Stevens Crummel

    Janet Stevens gives us a new look at the confrontation between three billy goats and an ugly troll. “The pictures are exceptionally well reproduced, and Stevens makes clever use of her layout, propelling the actions out of the borders at times, giv...

  • The Three Bears Rhyme Book

    Jane Yolen

  • This Is Your Captain Speaking

    Ivy Ruckman

  • Texas Tumble

    E.J. Hunter

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Testostero

    David Foster

  • 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...

  • Tempted

    Robyn Carr

    SHE WAS BELLIGERENT AND IRREVERENT, AND HE WAS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE ... Widowed at thirty-three, with two small kids to bring up alone, Beverly Simpson wanted to blame someone. Until now, fate had been on her side, she admitted that, but in a cruel...

  • Temporary Residence

    Helen Hudson

  • 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...

  • Tales from the Planet Earth

    Frederik Pohl

  • Taking Chances

    M.J. Farrell

  • 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...

  • Sweet Dreams

    Barbara J. Neasi

  • Sweet and Sour

    M.E. Cooper

  • Surrender to a Stranger

    Sibylle Garrett

    A WOMAN IN NEED Investment banker Laura Foster's son had been kidnapped by her vengeful ex-husband. Laura had come to sultry Mexico to find the child, but she couldn't challenge the wealth and power of Julio Vasquez on her own. Gabe Bor...

  • Surf's Up

    Janet Quin-Harkin

  • 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 ...

  • Suicide Mission

    Jack Hawkins

  • 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 ...

  • Strictly Business

    Leigh Michaels

    They had always been "just friends" Gianna West and Blake Whittaker were senior partners of the successful family-owned Westway Cosmetics in Chicago. It was a perfectly satisfactory relationship -- friends since childhood, they were imperv...

  • Stretching the Truth

    Francine Pascal

    What's wrong with Mary Robinson? That's what Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield want to know. She has a rich new stepfather who has a fabulous yacht and is going to build them a huge house. So why has Mary been acting so strange? Jessica is confident th...

  • 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 ...

  • The Story of a Main Street

    John S. Goodall

    A panoramic, wordless picture history chronicles the evolution of an English main street, from the medieval period through the changes and developments of the Elizabethan, Restoration, Georgian, Regency, Victorian, and Edwardian eras, to the present....

  • Storm Cloud Marriage

    Roberta Leigh

    He'd never ask a second time Sandra had known Randall Pearson forever. Her father's totally dependable deputy, he never stepped out of character. Until the night when he'd surprised her by asking her to marry him. Sandra had rejecte...

  • Station Break

    John Fischer

  • Starring Stephanie

    Susan Saunders

    Stephanie blows an audition for the lead in the school play and shy Patti gets the part. If Stephanie can't act in the school play, who will she ever be a video star?...

  • 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 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...

  • 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. ...

  • 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 ...

  • Split Infinity

    Piers Anthony

    THROUGH THE CURTAIN On the technological, decadent world of Proton, someone was trying to destroy Stile, serf and master Gamesman. His only escape lay through a mysterious "curtain" revealed by a loving robot. Beyond the curtain lay Phaze -- a wor...

  • The Splendid Outcast: Beryl Markham's African Stories

    Beryl Markham

  • The Splendid Outcast

    Beryl Markham

    She passionately loved horses horses, flying, Africa, and men, perhaps in that order. Beautifully evocative of the forces that ruled Beryl Markham's heart, these stories... the moving depiction of a rogue horse... an adventurous flight over the Ameri...

  • A Spaniard in the Works

    John Lennon

    AN OMNIBUS EDITION OF JOHN LENNON’ S WHIMSICAL POETRY, PROSE, AND DRAWINGS, REISSUED IN CELEBRATION OF THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH....

  • Spangle

    Gary Jennings

  • Space Station Ice-3

    Bruce Coville

  • A Southern Family

    Gail Godwin

    The novels of Gail Godwin are contemporary classics -- evocative, powerfully affecting, beautifully crafted fiction alive with endearing, unforgettable characters. Her critically acclaimed work has placed her among the ranks of Eudora Welty, Pat Conr...

  • The Sorcerer's Apprentices

    Nicholas Stuart Gray

  • 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...

  • So Hungry!

    Harriet Ziefert

    Illus. in full color. Lewis and Kate are hungry and make a snack. The story incorporates concepts such as 'bigger' and 'faster' while depicting an accurate account of sibling competition. The print is bold and well spaced for easy reading. Good mater...

  • Smooth Move

    Berniece Rabe

    Gus records in his journal the many adventures and misadventures of his family's move from Portland, Oregon, to Washington, D.C., including packing, broken-down moving vans, and the first day at a new school...

  • Smoke in the Wind

    Robyn Donald

    Her response to him was frightening... Venetia had felt desire before. The result? Such a disastrous marriage that she felt she wanted never to experience desire again. And she hadn't -- until now. Ryan Fraine, famous documentary filmmaker,...

  • Slocum and the Cherokee Manhunt

    Jake Logan

  • The Slipper

    Jennifer Wilde

    They started out with nothing but their dreams, determined to meet destinies filled with fame and fortune. ONCE UPON A TIME.... There were three young women who dreamed of glittering, magical lives, of living with Prince Charming happily ever aft...

  • Slave Trade

    Chuck Bainbridge

  • Slaughter Zone

    Frank Garrett

  • The Sky Jumps into Your Shoes at Night

    Jasper Tomkins

  • 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...

  • Silver Bear

    Jean Marzollo

  • Signs and Portents

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

  • Shock Effect

    Glen Ebisch

  • Sherlock Chick and the Peekaboo Mystery

    Robert M. Quackenbush

    Look out Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Chick hatched from his egg with a detective’s hat and magnifying glass, and he’s looking to track down a missing mouse in this adorable, easy-to-follow mystery from Robert Quackenbush.When Mother Mouse’s son S...

  • Shadows Ten

    Charles L. Grant

  • Shadow of the Gallows

    Doyle Trent

  • 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...

  • The Seventh Gate

    Geraldine Harris

    Having acquired six of the seven keys necessary to free the imprisoned Savior of Galkis, Kerish-lo-Taan faces danger and death alone in the Desolation of Zarn with only his memories and determination to sustain him...

  • 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....

  • September Faces

    Seymour Epstein

  • See No Evil

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • 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 Secret Diary of Katie Dinkerhoff

    Lila Perl

  • The Secret at the Polk Street School

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    To help her class win the school contest, Dawn Bosco will have to find the person who is trying to ruin their play, Little Red Riding Hood Ms. Rooney’s second-grade class is determined to win the school contest by putting on a surprise pla...

  • 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-...

  • Search the Seven Hills

    Barbara Hambly

    In ancient Rome, a poor philosopher races to rescue his kidnapped lover before she is abused by the sinister Christian cultThe son of a wealthy Roman family, Marcus gave up the prestige and riches that were his birthright to devote himself to philoso...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • School's Out

    Alison Blair

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Santa's Puzzle Bag

    Edward Roberts

  • Saint Mike

    Jerry Oster

  • 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, ...

  • Run Wild, Run Free

    Nancy Morse

    HE WAS NO ORDINARY COWBOY Hank Reardon could outrope and outride any man in Wyoming but guilt over his wife's death while he was out on the rodeo circuit forced him to retreat to his ranch to breed horses and break mustangs, vowing never to compet...

  • Run Away Home

    Marianne Shock

    Burke Julienne had firmly scheduled his future, and it didn't include Savannah Jones. Yet when her ailing eighteen-wheeler stranded her on his lush California estate, he was unwillingly mesmerized by the scruffy, delicate trucker. Savannah napped ...

  • Rosella and the Star

    Jennifer Magnani

  • 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....

  • Room Service

    Frank Moorhouse

  • Room for One More

    Virginia Nielsen

    WHAT WAS FIVE YEARS' AGE DIFFERENCE? Nothing, as far as Seattle technician Brock Morley was concerned. He loved widow Charlotte Emlyn with all his heart and was determined to marry her. Charlotte was ready to agree--until her teenage son Wade d...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • River of Joy

    Jack Metzler

  • Ride the Eagle

    Vita Vendresha

    He could torment her days with doubts and her nights with desires that fired her soul. He was everything she ever wanted. But they were opponents in a labor dispute, each fighting to win. Would she risk her brilliant career for the promise of lo...

  • 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...

  • The Riddle and the Rune

    Grace Chetwin

  • Riches

    Una-Mary Parker

  • Richard and the Vratch

    Beatrice Gormley

    Exploring the hills near his house, Richard sees an odd drawing and hears eerie sounds: "vratch, vratch." Is a strange animal hiding in the sagebrush, or is it Richard’s imagination? What’s the matter with Richard’s new dog? And why is that cre...

  • Rich in Love

    Josephine Humphreys

    At the age of seventeen, Lucille Odom finds herself in the middle of an unexpected domestic crisis. As she helps guide her family through its discontent, Lucille discovers in herself a woman rich in wisdom, rich in humor, and rich in love....

  • 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...

  • Republic and Empire

    Jerry Pournelle

  • Reluctant Prisoner

    Stephanie Howard

    What was in it for him, she wondered Why had wealthy Fausto Cabrini been willing to bail her father out of his financial problems? Tanya knew she should be grateful, but she didn't trust the man. Sure enough, when the family's treasured...

  • Red-Hot Hightops

    Matt Christopher

    When Kelly Roberts plays basketball at home with her friend Ester, she's a whiz, but as soon as she faces a crowd, she freezes. One day Kelly finds a brand-new pair of red hightops in her locker. They fit her perfectly, and whenever she wears them, h...

  • Raven's Gathering

    Keith Taylor

    A POET AND A PIRATE, THEY WERE THE DEADLIEST TEAM ON THE NORTHERN SEASHE IS FELIMID MAC FAL, once a bard of Ireland. Now he uses his wits and his magic in the service of his lover, the most notorious pirate on the seas of ancient Britain.SHE IS GUDRU...

  • Ratha's Creature

    Clare Bell

    Conquering the Red Tongue, Ratha claims the flickering creature as her own, for no wild cat before could tame mysterious fire. But now the bold she-cat must suffer for her triumph: the jealous leader of her clan orders her into exile. Banished, Ratha...

  • Raging of the Wea

    Charles Gidley

  • Rage

    Wilbur Smith

    A World Aflame Never have the destinies of a nation and of a family been so dramatically entwined. In the decades after World War II, South Africa struggles against the tribal violence at its heart--between Englishman and Afrikaaner, white and bla...

  • The Radiant Way

    Margaret Drabble

    Liz Headleand, Esther Breuer, and Alix Bowen have been friends since Cambridge. Twenty-five years later, life has led them all down very different paths. Liz is a successful and well-known psychiatrist with a full social life. Esther, an eccentric bo...

  • The Rabbi of Lud

    Stanley Elkin

    Rabbi Jerry Goldkorn resides in Lud, New Jersey, where Jews from the surrounding states come to bury their dead.

    Distressed by the lack of living children in the area, the Rabbi''s daughter Connie creates a scandal that livens up the town o...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Princess Who?

    Emily Chase

    She's a real, live princess! The Princess Allegra of Montavia is touring boarding schools, and Jane, Andy, and Toby are put in charge of her during her visit to Canby Hall. Everyone is excited, and Jane gives plenty of advice on how to treat royalt...

  • 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...

  • Pretty Good Magic

    Cathy East Dubowski

    Illus. in full color. "Magic, humor, and an unusual ending make Pretty Good Magic pretty good fun. The text hops along with the overabundance of rabbits that Presto (a 'pretty good magician') has produced. Beginning readers will delight in the troubl...

  • Pressure Point

    Nick Carter

  • Pop Goes the Weasel!

    Robert Crowther

  • Poor Man's Orange

    Ruth Park

    First published in 1949 as the sequel to the award-winning "The Harp in the South", this novel continues the story of the Darcy family of Sydney. The author also wrote "Swords and Crowns and Rings", which won the Miles Franklin Award....

  • Playing the Field

    Eileen Hehl

    Life has always been uncomplicated for Megan Carter. But when Megan starts her sophomore year by falling in love with Troy Fennell, things become a little more complex. When Troy encourages Megan to try out for the field hockey team, her natural a...

  • Playing in the Rain

    Barbara E. Harmeyer

  • The Playboy Prince

    Nora Roberts

    LADY OF MYSTERY Prince Bennett Bisset of Cordina had been making gossip headlines since his teens--but the prim and proper Lady Hannah Rothchild wasn't his usual choice in women. Something in her eyes intrigued him, and he was determined to discove...

  • Play Rhymes

    Marc Brown

  • Plasm

    Charles Platt

  • Pin-Up

    Hajime Sorayama

    Recounts the life of one of the greatest movie stars of the 1940s, revealing the dreams and heartbreaks of Betty Grable's career and personal life, from the little girl ruthlessly torn from her family to her years as a cancer patient...

  • Pied Piper of Hamelin

    Barbara Bartos-hoppner

  • The Pianoplayers

    Anthony Burgess

    Following the death of her father, an irregularly employed pianist, Ellen Henshaw becomes a high-class prostitute in Paris during the 1930s and then founds a chain of schools to instruct men in the arts of love and music...

  • The Persuading Stick

    John Rowe Townsend

  • The Penguin Book of Modern Yiddish Verse

    Ruth R. Wisse

  • Passions

    Helen Chappell

  • 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&#...

  • 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...

  • Pandora's Box

    Mary Pope Osborne

  • Paloverde

    Jacqueline Briskin

    The love story of Amelie -- the sensitive, ardent, young girl whose uncompromising code of honor leads her to choices that will reverberate for generations. The tale of two brothers whose fierce love for the same woman almost destroys them both. Th...

  • Palace of Mirrors

    Charles Rigdon

    After agreeing to help a wealthy but dying Palm Beach grande dame find her two illegitimate children, Brett Farrell, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo-journalist encounters a major anti-Castro, revolutionary terrorist...

  • A Painful Loving

    Margaret Mayo

    He made it clear just what he was after Maybe everyone else on Lakades, including Kara Lincroft's sister who insisted she visit, thought Aleko Tranakas the perfect antidote for a young widow's loneliness and grief. But not Kara. She did...

  • The Pack

    William Essex

  • Outcast

    Francine Pascal

    No one to turn to... Ever since Regina Morrow's tragic death at Molly Hecht's party, everyone has been treating Molly as if she has the plague. Nobody at school wants to talk to her, her parents have permanently grounded her, and even her good frie...

  • Outback Nights

    Emilie Richards

    WELCOME TO OZ Russet Ames had escaped! As the plane flew over the Australian countryside, Rusty felt no regret at having left behind the glittering New York world of modeling. She was looking forward to a quieter pace, a tranquil life in the land ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 Ortiga Marriage

    Patricia Wilson

    He was all she'd longed for, all she feared The same call that delivered the tragic news of her mothers death delivered Meriel back into the force field that was Ramon Ortiga--the man she had left Venezuela seven years ago to escape. Nevert...

  • Orpheus Circle

    Edward McGhee

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • One-Minute Christmas Stories

    Shari Lewis

  • One Of Those Days

    Pat Thomson

  • One Friend to Another

    Elizabeth Feuer

    Embarking on a new life style as she starts junior high, Nicole Aldrich seeks the friendship of the most popular girl, Rhonda Winkler, but later must face the truth about real friendship when she discovers that she has been betrayed...

  • Once upon a Time, I Used to Be Older

    Barbara E. Harmeyer

  • On the Edge

    Francine Pascal

    Headed for trouble... Regina Morrow and Bruce Patman have been going together for months. But when beautiful, devious Amy Sutton is paired up with Bruce on a school project, she schemes to steal him away from Regina. Little by little Bruce's resist...

  • 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...