Books Published in October 1989

New Books List: 587 titles

  • Pressure Drop

    Peter Abrahams

    A thrilling adventure set in the world of underwater diving from acclaimed suspense novelist Peter Abrahams, aka Spencer Quinn, author of the Chet and Bernie Mysteries Deciding on her thirty-ninth birthday that a baby is the best present she could gi...

  • Young Zaphoid Plays It Safe

    Douglas Adams
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    Contains the unabridged texts of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe," "Life, the Universe, and Everything," "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish," and "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe"...

  • Tender Nights

    Kelly Adams

    The accident that killed Livvy McCabe's husband had left so many voids. Only now did Livvy feel their little daughter could tolerate the changes they had to make. Liv and Mimi were going home again -- for comfort and resolutions to appease the pa...

  • Sea of Green

    Thomas Adcock

    The first in the “beautifully written” Edgar-winning series featuring an NYPD detective working the mean streets of Manhattan’s West Side (The Washington Post).   Detective Neil Hockaday, a son of Hell’s Kitchen who grew up to join the N...

  • Cam Jansen and the Mystery of Flight 54

    David A. Adler

    Take off with Cam on a runaway adventure! Cam and her friend Eric go to the airport to meet Aunt Molly, just arriving from France. But before you can say "bonjour," a young French girl has disappeared, and it's Cam to the rescue! ...

  • Terre Haute

    Will Aitken

    Sex, for a young boy, is a great discovery. But when a young boy is betrayed by love, sex can become a powerful weapon -- especially when used against a married man.
     
    I’m going home and I’m going to tell my father exactly what you did ...

  • Words of Wisdom

    Megan Alexander

    He'd broken their engagement And he hadn't said why. All Jenny Valentine knew for sure was that men like Luke Beaumont ought to come with warnings tattooed on their foreheads. Then Jenny moved to Woodhaven, a village in Northern California's re...

  • Better Get Your Angel On

    Jennifer Allen

  • It's Bedtime

    Dina Anastasio

    Five bedtime stories-- "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," "The City Mouse and the Country Mouse," "Little Red Riding Hood," "The Little Red Hen," and "The Three Little Pigs"-- are accompanied by illustrations....

  • Shadow Dance

    Susan Andersen

    THE DANCER AND THE DETECTIVE. TOGETHER, THEY'RE EXPLOSIVE... Amanda Charles was a showgirl with Grace Kelly good looks and lovely violet eyes that were wide open to both the golden glamour and sequined tawdriness of Reno. But like the dancers in ...

  • Game Play

    Kevin J. Anderson

    The Gamearth Trilogy continues. It was written in the Rules--Save the World! Over the past two years, a group of four players had given so much to their role-playing world that it had developed a magic of its own. The creatures, warriors, sorcerer...

  • Clawhammer

    Poul Anderson

  • The Nutcracker

    Fay Angus

  • Baby of the Family

    Tina McElroy Ansa

    An evocative, delicately comic story of a girl’s coming of age. From the moment of her birth in a rural black hospital in Georgia, Lena McPherson is recognized as a special child, with the power to see ghosts and predict the future. Named a Notable...

  • Man from Mundania

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

    New York Times bestselling author Piers Anthony's Man from Mundania concludes the fan-favorite Xanth trilogyEmbark on a thrilling journey with Ivy, a young, bored out-of-her-wits princess trapped within the confinements of Castle Roogna. Yearning for...

  • The Clearing

    Alan Arkin

  • A Love Affair

    Lindsay Armstrong

    She was free at last to do what she wanted Family pressures had forced Ashley at nineteen to give up the man she loved. Now, six years later, she wanted to put the family farm back on its feet. She hadn't counted, though, on Ross Reid, now...

  • Genocide Express

    Jack Arnett

  • Goodnight, Horsey

    Frank Asch

  • Counting America

    Brent Ashabranner

    A close-up look at the U.S. census chronicles the history of the census from 1790 to the present, explains how information is collected, discusses what the census tells us about America, and speculates on the 1990 census...

  • The Honourable Detective

    Jeffrey Ashford

  • Love Thy Neighbor

    Jacqueline Ashley

    "A FRIEND IN NEED" WAS HER MOTTO Emma Springer admired her new neighbor's dedication. Detective Jack Spencer made work his number one priority. But Jack had a lot to learn about women. When he went undercover to catch a crook he wou...

  • Bittersweet Betrayal

    Suzanne Ashley

    When her unscrupulous boss demanded she spy on the competition, computer specialist Tannis Robbins faced a tough choice. Though her conscience said no, she desperately needed funds to care for her critically ill sister. The added threat of blackmail ...

  • Deadly Resolutions

    Anna Ashwood-Collins

    The dead body of an army general rings in a grim New Year at the annual hike of the New York Coast Walkers club. Especially since each member is a suspect, including Abigail Doyle, efficiency expert cum private investigator, skilled at butting in...

  • Nemesis

    Isaac Asimov

    In the twenty-third century pioneers have escaped the crowded Earth for life in self-sustaining orbital colonies. One of the colonies, Rotor, has broken away from the solar system to create its own renegade utopia around an unknown red star two light...

  • Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own

    Isaac Asimov

  • Nemesis

    Isaac Asimov

    In the twenty-third century pioneers have escaped the crowded Earth for life in self-sustaining orbital colonies. One of the colonies, Rotor, has broken away from the solar system to create its own renegade utopia around an unknown red star two light...

  • Cheyenne Surrender

    Karen A. Bale

    Anna and Nathan were too much in love to notice when the dark, brooding stranger slipped into camp and stole Anna's sacred Cheyenne medicine pouch. But when the bronzed and brazen interloper forced Anna to ride away with him, the lovely Cheyenne ...

  • Deadly Promise

    Mignon F. Ballard

    The first victim was her husband. Then his best friend. So Molly Stonehouse had come to Harmony, Georgia, for Christmas -- to discover who in her husband's cheery hometown was a murderer. At the center of the mystery is a secret from the past, an...

  • Codename: Slingshot

    Ned Bannister

  • The Woman Who Talked to Herself

    A.L. Barker

  • Death and the Chaste Apprentice

    Robert Barnard

    Des Capper, landlord of Saracen's Head, a splendid Elizabethan inn, had been called a bore, a snoop, and other things not fit to print. Currently he was provoking his newest arrivals, the performers of the Ketterick Arts Festival--as rowdy a group as...

  • Willie's Not the Hugging Kind

    Joyce Durham Barrett

    Willie stops hugging his family because his friend Jojo thinks it's silly, but he soon realizes that he really misses his mom's and dad's hugs. "The colloquial text is accompanied by glistening full-page paintings [of an African-American family]." -...

  • Added Delight

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    TEXAS TEMPTATION Widower Joshua Malone had his hands full running a business and raising his two small children all by himself. So he hired Melissa Banning as a housekeeper to make his life easier--and immediately found he'd only added to his trou...

  • Thirteen Means Magic

    Eve Becker

  • Gung Hay Fat Choy: Happy New Year

    Terry Behrens

  • The Bellarosa Connection

    Saul Bellow

    A powerfully compressed exploration of the meaning of memory, The Bellarosa Connection is a masterful novella from a writer whose new work of fiction is further testament to his acclaimed gifts in creativity....

  • Rummies

    Peter Benchley

    Scott Preston, a distinguished New York editor and alcoholic, enters the Banner Clinic, a celebrated drug and alcohol rehabilitation center, and finds himself surrounded by a bizarre and colorful group of fellow patients...

  • Hitler's Daughter

    Timothy B. Benford

    This election year thriller was written two years before the first woman ran on major ticket in a Presidential election. It received the West Coast Review of Books' Porgie' Award as one of the three best original novels of the year and a decade later...

  • A Package Deal

    Ariel Berk

    All or nothing. Douglas Baldwin had problems. His job as a magazine marketing director was demanding, he'd recently moved to the East Coast, and he had a young son to raise --- alone. Then he started falling for his son's babysitter! Heather Lewis ...

  • Destinations South

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    One rash day financial dynamo H. M. Somerset had cashed in her ritzy urban existence for a one-way ticket to a remote Caribbean isle. Now, two years later, she was at peace -- until plane trouble stranded thorny workaholic mogul Silas Duran in her tr...

  • After Alice

    Margaret Bingley

    Allan and Julie's wedded bliss is disturbed by the appearance of Julie's dead cousin Alice who, returned from the afterlife to seek revenge on Julie, seduces Allan and takes over the body of Julie's unborn child...

  • Love Lies Slain

    L.L. Blackmur

  • ABC Bestiary

    Deborah Blackwell

  • Out on the Cutting Edge

    Lawrence Block

    It isn't called Hell's Kitchen for nothing--a gritty landscape of dark doorways and dirty alleys inhabited by crack addicts and homeless. A sleaze-and-terror playground lorded over by Mickey Ballou, the bloodstained Butcher Boy. Ex-cop, ex-boozer, ex...

  • Watch Out for the Little Guys

    Steve Bloom

  • Tales of Long Afternoons

    Max Bolliger

  • Night Train at Deoli: And Other Stories

    Ruskin Bond

    Predominantly set in the valleys of Uttarakhand, the stories in this book are warm, intimate portraits of life in the Himalayan foothills. Apart from gently satirical studies about village and small-town braggarts and petty officials, this collection...

  • Deathsong

    Douglas Borton

    Billie Lee Kidd was the new queen of country music, but the little gal from New Mexico had picked the wrong song to sing. Because all around her, people were dying hideously, destroyed by voices that sang fiendish tunes of dark, dreaded terror. A cho...

  • One Step from Paradise

    Barbara Boswell

    Police officer Lianna Novak was furious about her transfer to Burglary, but when handsome Detective Michael Kirvaly claimed her as his partner, she was shocked by the attraction that sizzled between them! Michael felt his breath catch when the sultry...

  • The Geography Of Desire

    Robert Boswell

    American expatriate Leon Green, manager of a rundown hotel, and other local residents of La Boca, a Central American seaside village, are forced to confront a whole new world when the country's civil war begins to affect the town...

  • Red Line

    Charles Bowden

    The author is joined by a retired narcotics cop as they investigate the assassination of a drug dealer and hit man outside Tucson, Arizona.One of Charles Bowden’s earliest books, Red Line powerfully conveys a desert civilization careening over the ...

  • Lithium for Medea

    Kate Braverman

    Lithium for Medea is as much a tale of addiction -- to sex, drugs, and dysfunctional family chains -- as it is one of mothers and daughters, their mutual rebellion and unconscious mimicry. Here is the story according to Rose -- the daughter of a narc...

  • Real Life Diary of a Boomtown Girl

    David Breskin

    Randi Bruce's hometown rocketed from a population of twenty-five hundred to twenty-five thousand practically overnight, and she wants her life to move that fast, too. By the time she lands a job as a blaster on an all-woman crew in a Wyoming coal min...

  • Nightmare in Morocco

    Vickie Britton

    Just the thought of Morocco send shivers of fear through Noa Parker. As a child, she got lost in the endless, narrow passageways of Tangier, and the terror still haunts her. New her boss wants her to lead a new tour through the country, and Noa is ...

  • A Love Remembered

    Annette Broadrick

    A MAN WITH A MISSION One morning, government agent Tim Walker woke up to find a beautiful woman sleeping next to him -- and his memory of the last two weeks gone. When the mysterious blonde gave her same as Elisabeth Barringer, the situation went...

  • Delta Pearl

    Maureen Bronson

    Rags to Riches Andrew Wade followed the hopeful fortune seekers to the rivers of Arkansas, searching for the perfect pearl -- and found Jena Veray. She was a desperate young woman running from her past, and even Andrew's love couldn't shie...

  • Hot Siberian

    Gerald A. Browne

    A young Soviet diamond trader races to shut down clandestine gem smugglers in Siberia before the cartel decides he is the mastermind of the operation in New York Times–bestselling author Gerald A. Browne’s thrilling, atmospheric novel Nik...

  • Manger Is Empty

    Frederick Buechner

    From Library Journal: Like Miz Lil and the Chronicles of Grace ( LJ 2/1/89) and much of his other writings, Wangerin's new collection of stories, parables, and poems shines with his unique blend of power and vulnerability, passion and faith. Time an...

  • 10 Birthday Special !

    Bill Buford

  • Valentine and Orson

    Nancy Ekholm Burkert

  • Among Sisters: Short Stories by Women Writers

    Susan Cahill

  • Stringer and the Hell-Bound Herd

    Lou Cameron

    When freight trains conquered the West, the big, dusty drives of beef on the hoof became just a colorful piece of cowboy nostalgia. So when a cattle baron called C. J. Tarington aims to punch a thousand-plus head through the unforgiving heat and sage...

  • The Late Gentleman

    Stella Cameron

    She was no stranger to the dead But the venerable scholar on Kristin Wallace's bed was recently dead--and Charles Belmain blamed her for the demise of the Belmain-family archivist. In England to conduct research, Kristin put her historical method ...

  • The Blood of Roses

    Marsha Canham

    In a novel that sizzles with passionate intrigue and breathtaking romance, Marsha Canham whisks the reader back to war-torn Scotland as a legendary warrior fights for the two things most precioius to any man: his country and the woman he loves. TH...

  • Most Secret

    John Dickson Carr

    John Dickson Carr, master of the Golden Age British-style whodunit, delivers a dazzling historical mystery set in Restoration LondonIn England, the Civil War is finished, Cromwell is dead, and the monarch Charles II sits happily upon the throne. It i...

  • The Clinker

    Roger Vaughan Carr

  • The Adventures of a Photographer in LA Plata

    Adolfo Bioy Casares

  • M.E. and Morton

    Sylvia Cassedy

    Eleven-year-old Mary Ella, ashamed that her older brother Morton is a slow learner and longing for a friend of her own, is astonished when the flamboyant new girl on the block picks Morton for a friend....

  • A Pocketful of Cricket

    Rebecca Caudill

    Chee! Chee! Inside Jay's dark pocket Cricket began fiddling. The talking stopped. Everybody listened.A Caldecott Honor classic that celebrates friendship and new experiences-back in print on its 40th anniversaryOne afternoon late in August, before ...

  • The Sirens Sang of Murder

    Sarah Caudwell

    A lawyer’s lucrative case has deadly consequences in the third installment of the Hilary Tamar mysteries that began with Thus Was Adonis Murdered“Sarah Caudwell is one of my very favorite mystery writers.” -- A. J. Finn, New York Times bestsell...

  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm

    Lorinda Bryan Cauley

  • Carly & Co.

    Mel Cebulash

  • With a Little Spice

    Sara Chance

    EVERYTHING NICE Heiress Ginger Bellwood had learned from experience not to trust men -- especially men who craved power. So, instead of opening herself up to love, she worked at using her money to improve life in her small Georgia town. Ginger did...

  • Trail

    Louis Charbonneau

    A lively and thoroughly researched novel of Lewis and Clark’s nineteenth century adventures, including journal entries from Lewis’s loyal dog, Seaman.In 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set forth to explore and map the West, forging a tra...

  • Love Spin

    Ann Charlton

    He made her remember the way she used to be Darcie's past as a racing-car driver was ancient history. After her husband Gavin's death in a Grand Prix race, she refused to lose her stepson, Matt, that way. Nowadays, she only drove as a chau...

  • Rusalka

    C.J. Cherryh

    A PERILOUS LOVE In the folk-tales of pre-Christian Russia, the most dangerous ghost of all was the Rusalka, a murdered girl still seeking to exist by drawing the energy of life from all nearby living things. Once Pyetr Kochevikov had mocked belief i...

  • Wizard Spawn

    C.J. Cherryh

  • Silken Bonds

    Marion Chesney

    MODERN NOTIONS WERE ALL WELL AND GOOD, BUT WHERE DID ONE FIND A MAN TO SHARE THEM? Though Frederica chafed at the restricted life she lived as the adopted daughter of the infamous bluestocking Mrs. Waverley, she did agree with her philosophy. Unti...

  • Finessing Clarissa

    Marion Chesney

    THE SCHOOL FOR MANNERS Amy and Effy Tribble are matchmakers extraordinaire, but when Clarissa Vevian is sent to their School For Manners, the redoubtable Tribbles fear they have met their match. How can they possibly polish this potentially lovely...

  • Private Dancers

    Jocelyn Christopher

  • Blueprint for Love

    Amanda Clark (1)

    He looked so familiar..."So that's who he is!" At first, Shannon West didn't recognize the name on the blueprints. Griffin Marek. And the man's surliness hardly invited curious questions. It didn't take her long to disco...

  • The World's Most Famous Ghost

    Daniel Cohen

  • Bully Trouble

    Joanna Cole

    Illus. in full color. "Plagued by a bully named Eddie who steals their treats, Arlo and Robbie turn the tables on him by concocting an enticing lunch that is booby-trapped with hot sauce. The plot is sure to please and the reading is easy, with jaunt...

  • Mother Goose and the Sly Fox

    Chris Conover

  • Hijacked Heart

    Sally Cook

    She was prepared to meet challenges Yet on her first big assignment as a photojournalist, Claire found that she wasn't ready for Jake Eagleton. Dynamic, footloose, and wedded to his career as a structural engineer, Jake made it plain he was...

  • The Crimson Goddess

    Catherine Cooke

    Stuck in the gods' realm with his beloved Prince Saresha, Arris searches for a way out. He may have to accept the help of the demon who has sought his soul since he was a boy. In the final installment of the Winged Assassin trilogy, Arris fights to b...

  • Samantha Gill, Belly Dancer

    Karen Coombs

  • Inferno

    Louise Cooper

    For centuries the Tower of Regrets stood alone upon the plain, and no man or woman dared turn their face to it, for fear of the curse that lay within. And so it might have remained--but for the recklessness of a king's foolish daughter... Her titl...

  • Fatal Passion

    Lucy Cores

  • A Token of Jewels

    Diane Cory

    Across the tides of revolution, in a radiant new world, she challenged fortune...and her heart! Amid the glory and opulence of majestic St. Petersburg, beautiful Anna knew there was more to life than the Tsar's glittering balls. But her fiery spirit...

  • The Past of Forever

    Juanita Coulson

    WHAT'S PAST IS...DEADLY? Dan McKelvey, poor relative of the powerful Saunder-McKelvey family, was stranded on a world where aliens and human archaeologists sought evidence of the past of a strange race. Members of that race were stunted savages now,...

  • Twelve Days of Christmas

    Claire Counihan

  • Fury

    John Coyne

    Disturbed by strange memories and violent passions, an upwardly-mobile New Yorker discovers with the aid of a channeller that she was once a Cro-Magnon, the target of a murderer who still stalks her. A single, upwardly mobile professional woman, J...

  • Can't Dance

    Max Crawford

  • Nevada Captive

    Catherine Creel

    SHE'D DEMAND HIS RESPECT All that was left of her father's frontier struggle was the McAlister Stage --- and spirited Caley McAlister was determined to make the company a success. Then that tall and handsome Marshal Jake Brody swaggered into...

  • Charades

    Jasmine Cresswell

    Matching wits with a murderer was a deadly dare... Abigail Deane had made it her mission to ensure that the fortune in Confederate gold left to her and her sisters, Linsey and Kate, was safely banked and invested. But the bank accounts now showed ...

  • Babar in the Jungle

    Kathryn Cristaldi

  • The Little Snowgirl: An Old Russian Tale

    Carolyn Croll

  • Punchout Christmas Cards

    Robert Crowther

  • Punchout Christmas Decorations

    Robert Crowther

  • Inside Out

    Jean Cullen

    Wouldn't almost everyone in their midfifties wish they looked twenty-five again? Longtime friends Billie and Fran do. They want to be just as they are now - smart, independent, and sexy - only younger, and ready to take on a world that's finally read...

  • Dead Man's Hand

    Chet Cunningham

  • Sleeping Arrangements

    Laura Cunningham

  • Trick or Treat

    Richie Tankersley Cusick

    Dressed to kill Martha knew there was something evil about the house she was moving into. If was so cold...and creepy. And it wasn't just the house that was giving her a weird feeling. Martha was sure someone was following her... watching her ever...

  • Texas Triumphant

    Daniel Da Cruz

  • Ghosts for Christmas

    Richard Dalby

  • Three's a Crowd

    Alison Dale

    Mindy Hamilton can't believe the change in Brian Swinton, her best friend Janet's older brother. Over the summer, he has somehow transformed himself from a skinny, average guy into a major heartthrob! Mindy is used to Brian being obnoxious - not g...

  • The Sword of Sagamore

    Kara Dalkey

  • Close to Sunrise

    Pat Dalton

    Denyse's unexpected inheritance is Sunrise Key off Florida's Gulf Coast, near the islands Sanibel and pirate hideaway, Captiva. There, her management abilities are challenged by a resort in serious decline, financially and physically. Two app...

  • The Power and the Passion

    Emma Darcy

    Her father had warned her. "Danton Fayette is the most dangerous man I know," he'd said. He advised her to steer clear of the dark, disturbing tycoon. Some deep instinct in Bernadette, however, rose to meet the challenge. She would ...

  • Robert and the Balloon Machine

    Benjamin Darling

  • Ancestors

    Robyn Davidson

    Unable to escape the ancestral ghosts that haunt her, Lucy returns home to the Australian rainforest and the loving, eccentric aunt that raised her in order to confront the hauntings of her past.Raised an orphan in the rainforest of North Queensland,...

  • Dollarville

    Peter Davies

    Written by the author of The Last Election, this is an exploration of the trends, fears and madness of the modern world. Charlie Fish wants a quiet life but gets caught up in a guerilla firefight. He meets Melinda Isenhope, a dissident ecologist, and...

  • Heart of the Raven

    Diane Wicker Davis

    LEGEND FORETOLD THAT WHEN THE RAVENS RETURNED TO SCHATTENBURG, THE RIGHTFUL HEIR WOULD REGAIN THE THRONE. For exiled Prince Karl Wilhelm, a man who could assume many identities but never his own, that legend is both a promise and a curse. Driven t...

  • Good-Bye and Keep Cold

    Jenny Davis

  • Sir Orson to the Rescue

    Jim Davis

  • Beware! Rooster at Work

    Jim Davis

  • Dreamboat

    Maggie Davis

    She was jinxed Dr. Steven Cambridge may have been a certified "dreamboat," but Felicity Boardman's blind date with him was hardly smooth sailing. Catastrophe that their first encounter was, however, it didn't begin to match their s...

  • The Thread

    Philip J. Davis

  • Kimura

    Robert Davis

  • The Ghost Dancers

    Clay Dawson

    When the Indians begin their Ghost Dance ritual to bring back the buffalo and send away the white man, the settlers' and cavalry's fear threatens to turn into full-scale war, and Long Rider must prevent this bloodshed...

  • Babar to the Rescue

    Laurent de Brunhoff

  • Say Goodnight, Gracie

    Julie Reece Deaver

    There are friends we can't imagine living without. Morgan and Jimmy were kids together, whirling around the porch on hot summer days. They've been friends forever, and by now they know each other inside out. They do everything together--from cutting...

  • Heart of the Night

    Barbara Delinsky

    "This is Jared Snow warming you...in the HEART OF THE NIGHT" Every night, the husky voice of D.J. Jared Snow wafts over the airwaves of Rhode Island. As warm and pliant as a kiss, it arouses scores of women listeners, each with a fantasy ...

  • Home Is the Sailor

    Terry Denton

  • Breaking the Fall

    Robert Detweiler

    Modern literary criticism has virtually neglected to interpret contemporary narrative fiction, poetry, and drama from a distinctly religious perspective. In this book, Robert Detweiler, the premier scholar of theology-based literary criticism, red...

  • Highway Holocaust

    Joe Dever

  • Relentless Passion

    Thea Devine

    A NEW DESIRE The day Logan Ramsey came back to Colville, Colorado, Maggie Colleran felt whole again. She'd known Logan all her life, but lately thoughts of him had invaded her days and nights in a disturbing, different way. Those strong shoulder...

  • Flight of Magic

    Jacqueline Diamond

    WAS IT POSSIBLE TO FLUNK LOVE? What was the quintessential high-powered businesswoman doing with a laid-back cartoonist who'd lampooned her in a nationally syndicated comic strip? Eating Larry Toland's gooey desserts. Enjoying him in his role a...

  • Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass

    Isak Dinesen

  • Cantor's Dilemma

    Carl Djerassi

    When Professor Isidore Cantor reveals his latest breakthrough in cancer research, his promising research fellow, Dr. Jeremiah Stafford, has only to conduct the experiment and win Cantor the Nobel prize. But how far will Stafford go to guarantee th...

  • Woof Finds a Family

    Danae Dobson

  • Woof and the Haunted House

    Danae Dobson

  • Woof Goes to School

    Danae Dobson

  • Rapture's Reward

    Sandra Donovan

    SHE TRESPASSED ON HIS HEART When ranchero Diego Alvarez caught a gypsy girl stealing his chickens, he thought he'd turn the pretty thief over to the sheriff. Then the towering aristocrat struggled with his curvaceous captive and had no choice but ...

  • Swashbuckling Lady

    Gail Douglas

    She was a vision from days when buccaneers ruled the seas, but this alluring pirate queen was deliciously, touchably real! Captain of a restored brigantine, Morgan Sinclair enjoyed the fantasy shed created for tourists in Key West and played her own ...

  • Highflying Woman

    Dorothy Dowdell

    Passion in the open skies of California... Flying airplanes was redheaded Kate MacLean's dream. But her father, a struggling airplane builder, scoffed at the notion of a woman pilot. And his young engineer, Scott Nichols, agreed, despite his love...

  • Heads to the Storm

    David Drake

    Eyes to the future, heads to the storm, the heirs of Rudyard kipling have written some of the most profound and thrillling science fiction in the English language. Some of the very best are gathered here to pay tribute to the man who inspired them al...

  • Space Infantry

    David Drake

  • I Wish I Liked Rice Pudding

    Joyce Dunbar

    Joyce Dunbar's text captures one small girl's spirited objection to the things she doesn't like, and her relish in the things she does - things which we can all identify with and remember from our own childhood. Bright watercolours depict both the ha...

  • Don't Look Behind You

    Lois Duncan

    If you had the perfect life, would you be able to walk away forever? April has no choice. It's senior year, and April has everything -- great friends, a handsome boyfriend, and a shot at the state tennis championships. Until she learns that her...

  • The Birthday Moon

    Lois Duncan

  • Stealth

    Guy Durham

    Called back for one last CIA mission, Michael Pretorius is cast in a scheme to steal the technology for the next-generation KGB stealth bomber, and he finds himself embroiled in the deadly games of double agents and ruthless enemies...

  • Texas Trio

    J.T. Edson

    Mark Counter must break up a vicious cat-fight between two of the nastiest ladies of the West, Martha "Calamity" Jane Canary, who feigns helplessness to dupe Counter, and Belle Starr, whose steps are dogged by a bunch of bounty hunters...

  • Mistress Masham's Repose

    Franz Eichenberg

  • A Daughter's Promise

    Julie Ellis

  • Loyalties

    Julie Ellis

    Anne and Felicia. Cousins, bound together by their ambitions, driven apart by a rivalry that began generations before. They are both beautiful, both talented...and each is determined to control the company that is their shared legacy. By the terms of...

  • Lone Star and the Arizona Strangler

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki risk their necks on the trail of a gruesome killer...Someone is taking Shakespeare seriously and is killing all the lawmen in Yuma, including Jessie's ex-fiance Judge Hastings. Jessie is determined to find the strangler, even if it mean...

  • Who Shot Longshot Sam?

    Paul Engleman

    Corralled into entering a handicapping contest at a seedy New Jersey racetrack by one of his dubious pals, New York private eye Mark Renzler is on hand when master handicapper Longshot Sam Natoli catches a sniper's bullet. Natoli was the odds-on favo...

  • Peeper

    Loren D. Estleman

    MEET RALPH POTEET: PEEPER Being a hard-boiled private eye in a crummy neighborhood of Detroit ain't easy. You gotta scrabble for every cent, whether it's pictures of the county supervisor's wife with a grocery store clerk, or a predawn call from a...

  • Longarm and the Hangman's List

    Tabor Evans

  • Longarm in the Clearwaters

    Tabor Evans

  • The Trouble with Herbert

    Heather Eyles

    This book for young readers by the author of "Well I Never" and "The Double" tells the story of Herbert the guinea pig. The book is one of a series which aims to form a bridge for young children between picture books and fiction and is designed for n...

  • Capricorn Moon

    Barbara Faith

    MOONLIGHT MADNESS One minute she was strolling serenely through the breathtaking Gardens of Alhambra; the next, shots rang out, and she was thrown to the ground and pinned beneath the body of a fierce, black-eyed stranger. And for schoolteacher El...

  • The Young Black Stallion

    Steven Farley

    In this prequel to The Black Stallion, we learn the story of the Black before he was shipwrecked with Alec Ramsay. Born in the mountain stronghold of Sheikh Abu Ishak, the colt shows great promise. During a band of robbers’ attempt to steal him, th...

  • Mountain Home

    Erika Favor

    Catch Me If You Can Crooked Fork tradition held that if a man chased a woman - and caught her - he'd win her hand in marriage. Though deeply dedicated to the small mountain community, Skye Archer had made sure she'd outrun its every male. But to ...

  • Cambodia

    Brian Fawcett

    "Cambodia: A Book For People Who Find Television Too Slow" is a ferociously brilliant book that challenges its readers to see the world with new eyes, in a new light. Through an arresting division of its pages-- thriteen wildly imaginative short stor...

  • Mulligan

    Andrew J. Fenady

    His killing instincts honed by the Vietnam conflict, Mulligan nonetheless refuses to join a CIA death squad, but when the Mafia kills his girlfriend and makes him the next target, the ex-soldier unleashes his bloody fury...

  • Rawhide Rider

    Peter Field

  • Goodbye Forever

    Sandra Field

    They were both running away Roslin Hebb was trying to escape from a life that had suddenly turned sour. Tyson McCully had a past that made him scared to trust in the future. A chance meeting brought them together and their paths seemed fated to...

  • Fourth-Graders Don't Believe in Witches

    Terri Fields

    Seeing is Believing! When Allan's new neighbor, Mrs. Mullins, tells him she's a witch, he's convinced she's teasing him. (Or else she's crazy!) It wouldn't be the first time that someone teased Allan -- at school horrible Jennifer Swanson does it ...

  • Inside Noah's Ark

    Laura Fischetto

  • Dragon's Milk

    Susan Fletcher

    "You must go to the dragon. You must leave tonight." Before she even hears the words, Kaeldra already knows what she must do. She must search out the mother dragon whose draclings have just hatched and somehow get some of her precious milk. It's the ...

  • Death on the Mississippi

    Richard Forrest

    Lyon Wentworth, children's book author turned sleuth, and his State Senator wife, Bea, are only slightly surprised when Lyon's old army buddy, Dalton Turman, turns up at their Connecticut home in a coffin. A notorious practical joker, Dalton can neve...

  • Blood Legacy

    Prudence Foster

    IN THE HELLISH HEAT OF THE FLORIDA NIGHT, THEY SATE THEIR RAVENOUS HUNGER... He calls himself Count Ferencz Nadasdy, and his foreign manner and brooding ways are an impenetrable mystery to the townspeople of Fort McIntyre. Yet beautiful Angelique G...

  • The Flying Warlord

    Leo Frankowski

    UNCERTAIN VISION For a twentieth-century man, Conrad Stargard had done a lot in thirteenth-century Poland. In just nine years, he had "discovered" universal education, aircraft, radios, steam boats, and machine guns. More important, he had prepare...

  • Tooth and Claw

    Frank Frazetta

    Death Dealer Gath of Baal searches for Noon, Queen of the Cats, accompanied by a motley crew--the bounty hunter, Gazul, the Doctor Doolittle-like animal lover, Bilbarr, and Fleka, the obsequious and sexually generous slave girl...

  • Chinchilla Farm

    Judith Freeman

    Raised a Mormon in a small town in Utah, married to a stiflingly conventional adulterer, Verna Flake has gotten tired of pretending. So she heads for Los Angeles, where people have the freedom to find themselves over and over again. In this lyrical a...

  • Circle of Revenge

    Michael French

  • A Temporary Ghost

    Mickey Friedman

    Georgia Lee Maxwell eagerly agrees to help ghostwrite a book in Provence until she arrives at the home of the would-be author--a wealthy widow and an accused murderer, who presides over a houseful of suspitious characters...

  • Water King's Laughter

    Esther Friesner

  • Gyo Fujikawa's Come Follow Me

    Gyo Fujikawa

  • Fortune's Lady

    Patricia Gaffney

    They were natural enemies -- traitor's daughter and zealous patriot -- yet the moment he saw Cassandra Merlin at her father's graveside, Riordan knew he would never be free of her. She was the key to stopping a heinous plot against the king's life, y...

  • Connections

    Donald R. Gallo

    A collection of seventeen short stories by such noted writers for young adults as Gordon Korman, Chris Crutcher, T. Ernesto Bethancourt, Richard Peck, and M.E. Kerr, spanning subjects that include penpals, the first day of high school, computers, and...

  • What Is It?: A Spin-About Book

    Beau Gardner

  • Slaves of the Volcano God

    Craig Shaw Gardner

    SEE! South Sea beauties feed a virgin-hungry volcano! SEE! Cowboys who sing as well as they shoot! SEE! Zabana the jungle lord ride his trusty elephant companion! Roger Gordon's job in public relations was never this exciting. Not until a Captain ...

  • My Cousin Katie

    Michael Garland

  • Carrington

    Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

    Here is an absorbing biography of the English artist Dora Carrington, who called herself simply "Carrington". A talented painter, living a bohemian life, Carrington was torn by conflicts as an artist and a woman. A mystery to those who knew her, she ...

  • Yours Till Forever

    David Gifaldi

  • Paint Gold and Blood

    Michael Gilbert

    A young man stumbles across a conspiracy to steal an early Italian triptych in France, little realising that years later it may hold the key to his future wellbeing. Meanwhile, he deals with a matter of embezzlement of church funds not to mention the...

  • The 92nd Tiger

    Michael Gilbert

    Hugo Greest is the tiger. He now has a TV adventure series in which he has knocked out 91 beautiful girls and 91 villains. The 92nd comes unexpectedly when he is approached by the Foreign Office. It seems that His Highness Sheik bin Rashid bin Abdull...

  • The Yellow Wallpaper

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    Known primarily for her classic and haunting story "The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an enormously influential American feminist and sociologist. Her early-twentieth-century writings continue to inspire writers and activists today....

  • Hobie Hanson, Greatest Hero of the Mall

    Jamie Gilson

  • Voices in the Evenin

    Natalia Ginzberg

  • Mothers

    Gloria Goldreich

    Eager to give her family a new start in California, impoverished mother of three Stacey Cosgrove agrees to become the surrogate mother for David and Nina Roth, a well-off couple who cannot conceive, but their neat contract soon turns into a vicious b...

  • Puss in Boots

    Van Gool

  • The Mother Goose Book

    Mother Goose

  • The Other Side

    Mary Gordon

    “An elegant and moving generational saga . . . Satisfying and emotionally rich.” -- People
     
    Both Ellen and Vincent left Ireland in the early part of this century, one bitterly escaping shame, humiliation, and fear; the other filled wit...

  • Cloud Castles

    Kaitlyn Gorton

    A DREAM COME TRUE When a handsome savior appeared in the midst of a nightmare car accident, Kendra Jennings convinced herself he must have been a dream. Then she awoke in a rural Maine clinic and discovered he was very real, indeed. Only now, Off...

  • The Violet Closet

    Gary Gottesfeld

    First novelist Gottesfeld weaves an intricate mystery that grips readers from the opening chapter. The hackneyed convention of the disheveled, hard-drinking, down-on-his-luck journalist playing detective is given a new spin in the character of Charli...

  • Love Not a Rebel

    Heather Graham

    RELUCTANT SPY They called her "Highness," ravishing Lady Amanda Sterling, forced to spy on Lord Eric Cameron by the lord governor of Virginia and her evil, ambitious father! She'd detested Eric Cameron on sight. He was a traitor to King and country....

  • Little Toot and the Loch Ness Monster

    Hardie Gramatky

  • Taking Chances

    Vanessa Grant

    Zeb Turner seemed to be two different men And Misty was thoroughly confused when he turned up at her detective agency. Why would any man, for business reasons request that she kidnap him? Something was wrong. But trying to find out more about Z...

  • Hellhound Magic

    Sharon Green

    WHERE SPELLS AND SHAPES SHIFT -- When Laciel the sorceress returned home after completing her quest for the Balance Stone, it was to find Morgiana her mentor, and foster mother gone, and only the wizard Graythor and the shape-changer Rik awaiting h...

  • Devil's Night

    Jennifer Greene

    SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION Psychologist Jacqui Hughes rarely lost her cool. Then a series of suspicious fires sent sexy fire fighter Scott Llewellyn into her life, and he began wreaking havoc with her heart. To Jacqui's consternation, Scott was...

  • Trickster's Touch

    Zohra Greenhalgh

    Bored with his life in the dull state of Speakinghast, Rimble the Trickster, the youngest god of the Greatkin family, decides to perform the ultimate prank, unraveling time and creating his own warped sense of temporal reality called "Shiftime"...

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Thistle of Scotland

    L.B. Greenwood

  • Bitter Secret

    Carol Gregor

    Sophie's world was orderly, well controlled Then the charismatic new owner of Sedbury Hall made an unwelcome intrusion into it. "You're just a taker, Seth Huntingdon," she told him. "You see something you want and it doesn'...

  • Special Operations

    W.E.B. Griffin

    In this exciting new series, W.E.B. Griffin reveals a city police force with all the authentic detail and drama that made THE CORPS and BROTHERHOOD OF WAR phenomenal bestsellers. Here is an explosive novel of the men and women behind the badge -- a u...