Books Published in October 1990

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — OCTOBER 1990

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New Books List: 546 titles

  • Cimarron Rebel

    Pepper Adams

    JAMES DEAN MEETS FATHER KNOWS BEST! Darcy Durant had been dreaming of a wedding when Hey Sawyer had hightailed it out of her life. Now, the handsome rebel was back-with quite a cause. To gain custody of his orphaned stepchildren, Riley needed a wi...

  • Peek-A-Boo

    Janet Ahlberg

  • Golden Bird

    Jo Ann Algermissen

    Dangerous Territory Laura Lee Shannon was a pint-size package of blond beauty, mischievous spirit and fierce Southern pride. She'd do almost anything to get the money to save her war-ravaged plantation -- even promise to marry a man she hardly...

  • I Wish I Had a Pirate Suit

    Pamela Allen

  • Wild Western Bride

    Rosalyn Alsobrook

    SHE NEEDED A HUSBAND Anna Thomas loved riding the Orphan Train and finding decent families for her charges. But when a Texas judge tried to separate two young brothers, the dedicated beauty went beyond the call of duty. She proposed to handsome, blu...

  • The Memorial

    James Amos

    Jake Adams' emotional visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial sparks memories of his wartime experiences and reflection on the impact of the war's confusion, ferocity, and human degradation on his life, attitudes, and beliefs...

  • Helping Out

    George Ancona

  • Passion's Price

    Linda Andersen

    FROM RECKLESS DESIRE...TO ETERNAL LOVE On the eve of her marriage to a wealthy but vile duke, eighteen-year-old Jarina Hamilton cut off her hair, dressed herself as a boy, and stowed away on an American merchant ship. Once discovered, her boyis...

  • Sink the Armada!

    Keith William Andrews

  • Isle of View

    Piers Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    LovelornLoveworn Love Lost

    Perplexed Prince Dolph, Xanth's precocious shapeshifter, should be in love but isn't. Nonetheless, he must chose between two fiancées -- Nada the uninterested and Electra the uninteresting -- or a...

  • Blood of Innocents

    John Arbucci

  • Change of Life

    Judith Arnold

    FORTY ISN'T FEEBLE On Lila Chapin's birthday, something snapped. She packed her bags, wrote a note and left -- just like that. Unbeknownst to her family, Lila was giving herself the present she wanted most: a month's vacation. She w...

  • Mother Goose's Words of Wit and Wisdom

    Tedd Arnold

  • Mary in the Middle

    Sandy Asher

  • Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories, Vol. 1

    Isaac Asimov

    The first book of the definitive three-volume collection of short stories by the prolific Isaac Asimov, whose tales have delighted countless fans for over half a century--a must for every science fiction bookshelf....

  • Joey's Father

    Elizabeth August

    FATHER AND SON Jessie Mallery had been a blushing bride when her husband, Brant, deserted her without a word, shattering all of Jessie's hopes and dreams. Now, Jessie was a single mother...and she lived in fear that Brant would discover -- and...

  • Julie's Dream Date

    Carrie Austen

  • The Music of Chance

    Paul Auster

    An “exceptional” (Los Angeles Times) tale of fate, loyalty, responsibility, and the real meaning of freedom, from the author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1:  A NovelA finalist for the PEN/Faulkner AwardThis “rich and dazzling” (Wall Street J...

  • School For Cats And Jenny's Moonlight Adventure

    Esther Averill

  • Hollywood At Home

    Sid Avery

  • The Loved and Envied

    Enid Bagnold

    At age fifty-three, Lady Ruby Maclean shines at the centre of her aristocractic circle in Pouilly. Her admirers look to her and wonder how such a feted woman can accept with equanimity the prospect of aging, as they themselves struggle with jealousy,...

  • Gentle As a Lamb

    Stella Bagwell

    LITTLE LAMB LOST All Colleen McNair wanted was to be left alone. She'd seen enough of the world to know she desired no part of it. But a storm was gathering around her home high in the Rockies, and it was just a matter of time before everythin...

  • Smart Rats

    Thomas Baird

    In a terrifying near future in which the wasteland Earth can no longer support all its human population, a seventeen-year-old is endangered by a new edict calling for the relocation of one child from every two-progeny household....

  • Public Affairs, Private Relations

    Letitia Baldrige

    Poised, self-assured, head of her own multimillion-dollar public relations firm, Marika Wentworth is a confidante to the rich and powerful. A close friend of the First Lady, she lunches at Le Cirque and attends black-tie dinners with Washington's upp...

  • If Thoughts Could Kill

    G.F. Bale

    Following a childhood accident, Sarah discovers that she possesses telekinetic powers, and she suppresses them until her work at a crisis center for battered women gives her occasion to use her abilities--to wipe out abusive men...

  • Halloween Double Dare

    Jacqueline A. Ball

  • Battle of the Class Clowns

    Jacqueline A. Ball

  • An Unlikely Duchess

    Mary Balogh

    THE DEFIANT DAUGHTER Lovely young Miss Josephine Middleton might be an earl's daughter, but she had no desire to be a duke's wife. Not when the duke was the Duke of Mitford, known to her as a lustful libertine who would be a horror of a husband. ...

  • The Damnation Game

    Clive Barker

    In a nightworld where decomposing corpse-assassins stalk their prey, Marty Strauss, the bodyguard to a famous industrialist, discovers that someone is coming to collect the soul of his employer as payment for an ancient debt. Reissue....

  • Coyote

    Linda Barnes

    WHY CARLOTTA? A blazing redhead, a loner with a cabbie's license and a mean volleyball spike, Carlotta Carlyle has a talent for trouble. Tonight her mysterious client speaks broken English and clutches a newspaper detailing the discovery of a muti...

  • Happy Bear, Christmas Star

    Bobbi Barto

  • Urban Roosts

    Barbara Bash

  • Forbidden City

    William Bell

    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Thrilled when his cameraman father invites him along on an assignment in China, seventeen-year-old Alex Jackson does not suspect that they will become part of the great historical events sweeping China in the sp...

  • Animal Fair

    Jill Bennett

  • It's OK to Say Don't

    Betsy Beogehold

  • Gwinna

    Barbara Helen Berger

  • Eye for Eye // The Tunesmith

    Lloyd Biggle Jr.
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    A teenager who has the ability to kill people without touching them tries to escape from those who want to use his power for their own purposes, and the last true musician on Earth uses his music to fight the enforced mediocrity of the Performers' Gu...

  • Great Invasion of the Stone Moles

    Daniel Billiet

  • Comes the Rain

    Beverly Bird

    Gray Eyes, a courageous Navajo medicine woman, and warrior chief Hawk battle to protect their love and heritage from the encroaching ways of the settlers in the Arizona Territory...

  • Brainfire

    Campbell Black

    John Rayner is perplexed, angry, and grief stricken; his brother Richard, a powerful diplomat in London, has just died. While some believe that it was suicide, Rayner suspects something more sinister. A State Department official with a stalled career...

  • The Lollipop Plot

    Cynthia Blair

    When the mayor of Chris and Susan Pratt’s home town receives a threatening letter, once again the twins use their cleverness â€" and their identical appearance â€" to track down the culprit.  But in this sleuthing adventure, the twins’ abili...

  • The Secret of Mirror House

    Jennifer Blake

    THE CHOICE Amelia Harveston was very young, very beautiful, and very much alone. The invitation to come and live with her cousins at Mirror House, the plantation home built by her grandfather, saved her from the poverty she faced after her mother ...

  • The Devil in My Heart

    Stephanie Blake

    IN AN AGE OF FORBIDDEN PASSIONS, A SEARCHING HEART LONGS FOR FREEDOM... A strict upbringing in King William's England had taught beautiful Samantha West that it was a woman's place to be seen but not heard, obedient and unquestioning... ...

  • After the Fortune Cookies

    Ann R. Blakeslee

    The summer Allison turns twelve brings many disturbing changes, as she fights to protect her beloved grandfather from the schemes of other family members and seeks the courage to stand up to the taunts of her spiteful cousin Carolina...

  • Adventure Challenge

    John Blashford-Snell

  • The Start of an Adventure

    John Blashford-Snell

  • Fudge-A-Mania

    Judy Blume

    Peter Hatcher's summer is not looking good. First of all, Peter's brother Fudge -- the five-year-old human hurricane -- has a plan: to marry Peter's sworn enemy, Sheila Tubman. Disgusting! Could anything be worse? Yes. Peter's parents have deci...

  • The Goblin Aeroplane and Other Stories

    Enid Blyton

  • Zaanan: The Ransom of Renaissance

    Al Bohl

  • Where Is Mittens?

    Kelly Boivin

  • The Others

    Margaret Wander Bonanno

    Years after the blossoming cooperation between the Others, a race advanced by genetic and nutritional science, and the primitive People has withered, the poet Lingri chronicles the dying days of her advanced race and explores her admiration for the s...

  • Allegheny Captive

    Caroline Bourne

    CAPTURED TREASURE Lady Charissa Sherwood's impetuous nature had finally caught up with her! As she enjoyed a forbidden moonlight swim on the Isle of Wight, smugglers captured her and sold her into slavery. Now, the flame-haired niece and sole ...

  • The Christmas Songbook

    Peter Bowman

  • Plagued by Nightingales

    Kay Boyle

  • Black Swine in the Sewers of Hampstead

    T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle

    This book examines the development of sensationalism and the reporting of crime in the popular press and literature of mid-Victorian Britain, and its nature and causes. The author looks at the origins of source material obtained by novelists like Cha...

  • Sexual Intercourse

    Rose Boyt

    Isobel's decision to become pregnant by mama's boy Norman in order to win her father Anthony's love results in tragedy when Anthony prefers his granddaughter to his daughter and Norman takes his relationship with Isobel seriously...

  • Becoming the Butlers

    Pamela Brandt

  • Eagle Eye

    Cat Branigan

    "Another day of death. You don't hold grudges in Vietnam. One minute you're flipping someone the bird, the next minute he's fighting by your side -- tomorrow you'll both be hoisting a toast to the dead at the Gunfighter's Club in Saigon. That is, if ...

  • Squandering the Blue

    Kate Braverman

  • Rahab

    Gloria Howe Bremkamp

  • The Wild Christmas Reindeer

    Jan Brett

    Little Teeka thought she had to be firm with the reindeer to get them ready for Santa's important flight, but when her bossy yelling only got their antlerstangled up, she knew she had to try something different."Beautifully conceived and finely wroug...

  • They Jumped at Midnight

    William B. Brewer

  • Skin Game

    Michael Brodin

  • Paradise Cafe and Other Stories

    Martha Brooks

  • It's All Zoo

    Gerald A. Browne

    New York Times best-selling author Gerald A. Browne's stylish debut novel about a pair of unlikely lovers in 1960s Paris.

    It's not the prostitutes who are keeping Lillian awake. She may share her apartment building with a bordello, but the ...

  • Starlight Christmas

    Bonnie Bryant

    IT'S GOING TO BE A CHRISTMAS THE SADDLE CLUB WILL NEVER FORGET! Stevie and Lisa can't wait for the holidays to begin. But the Christmas season just hasn't been the same for Carole, ever since her mother died. When the local veterinarian hires her ...

  • Sweet Texas Fury

    LaRee Bryant

    SEDUCTIVE TRAITOR Now that the War Between the States was over, fiery Texas beauty Lydia Upton wanted only two things: revenge on the man who'd killed her father, and enough money to pay the taxes on the family farm. And the only one who would ...

  • Make-Believe Marriage

    Carole Buck

    NO STRINGS ATTACHED Cassandra Leigh Addams couldn't quite believe the mess she'd gotten herself into. Her make-believe engagement to her boss, infamous, charismatic Brandon Marcus, had somehow turned into a real-life marriage -- and she di...

  • Fathers

    Virginia Budd

    When Alice Morgan, whose father died trying to defend his neighbor from her abusive husband, is drawn to Julian Wolf, the volatile couple's son, their shared childhood experiences of their fathers colors their lives together...

  • Tales from Margaritaville

    Jimmy Buffett

    "Entertaining....The whole volume is a tribute to Buffett's storytelling skills and his essentially sunny, manana-influenced worldview."
    THE HOUSTON POST
    Just where is Margaritaville anyway? It's not on a map, but it does exist, in the brillian...

  • A Matter of Time

    Anne Bullard

    SWEET CAROLINA When Christine Gentry headed south to her grandfather's cottage on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, she was facing a difficult decision. Should she sell the house and the surrounding acreage to island developers, or hold onto ...

  • Closing Costs

    Thomas Bunn

  • Jericho's Daughter

    Mallory Burgess

    Beautiful Tess Jericho tried to hate the arrogant new lord of the tiny Shropshire village where she had grown up. She tried to believe her father and her childhood sweetheart when they told her that Gideon Cade would only break her heart. But when th...

  • A Morning for Flamingos

    James Lee Burke

    Clutching the shards, of his shattered life, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux has rejoined the New lberia police force. His partner is dead -- slain during a condemned prisoner's bloodyflight to freedom that left Robicheaux critically wounded...and...

  • Seven Stories of Christmas Love

    Leo Buscaglia

  • The Iskra Incident

    Jimmie H. Butler

    The Iskra Incident is a good, old-fashioned techno-thriller with America against the Soviet Union late in the Cold War.


    When a plane carrying top Soviet officials crashes en route to an epoch-making summit in San Francisco, and a US Air Fo...

  • Possession

    A.S. Byatt

    National Bestseller
     
    Winner of England’s Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of yo...

  • The Dark Messiah

    Martin Caidin

  • Italian Folk Tales

    Italo Calvino

    Chosen as one of the New York Times’s ten best books in the year of its original publication, this collection immediately won a cherished place among lovers of the tale and vaulted Calvino into the ranks of the great folklorists. Introduction by th...

  • The Ends of the Earth

    Bethany Campbell

    The tickets came with strings attached Jennifer Martinson knew precisely why her grandfather wanted her in Alaska. To drag poor Keenan back to California for a Martinson Brubecker marriage merger, the dream of two wily old powerbrokers. Oh, Jen...

  • Torments

    Lisa Cantrell

    TRICK OR TREAT! Halloween A time to dress up like a monster from your worst nightmare and collect good things to eat. Only this year the monster’s aren’t costumes and the nightmares are real. And the good things to eat…are people’s s...

  • Eye for Eye // The Tunesmith

    Orson Scott Card
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    A teenager who has the ability to kill people without touching them tries to escape from those who want to use his power for their own purposes, and the last true musician on Earth uses his music to fight the enforced mediocrity of the Performers' Gu...

  • Maps in a Mirror

    Orson Scott Card

    Maps in a Mirror brings together nearly all of Orson Scott Card's short fiction written between 1977 and 1990. For those readers who have followed this remarkable talent since the beginning, here are all those amazing stories gathered together in one...

  • Quail Song

    Valerie Scho Carey

  • Where Angels Glide at Dawn: New Stories from Latin America

    Lori M. Carlson

  • Visions of the Heart

    Emily Carmichael

    CAPTIVE LOVE Miri Sutcliffe's wedding plans -- and the future she thought was hers -- were utterly destroyed by the war between England and America. Her handsome fiance was on the run for treason, and soon the lovely aristocrat herself, wrongful...

  • Sleeze Brothers

    John Carnell

  • The Ghosts' High Noon

    John Dickson Carr

    John Dickson Carr, one of the masters of the British-style detective novel, evokes the danger and delights of 1912 New Orleans in this puzzling murder mysteryJournalist and spy novelist Jim Blake takes an assignment for Harper’s Weekly that put...

  • The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book

    Angela Carter

  • Surprise Party

    David A. Carter

  • Testimony and Demeanor

    John Casey

    A young intellectual is called into active duty and receives a rude awakening to the realities of military service. An Ivy League graduate is pressed casually into Intelligence work and encounters himself mirrored in his new-found friend--a Russian s...

  • Menorahs, Mezuzas, and Other Jewish Symbols

    Miriam Chaikin

  • Over the River and Thro' the Woods

    Normand Chartier

  • My Mother's House, My Father's House

    C.B. Christiansen

  • Mummy Took Cooking Lessons and Other Poems

    John Ciardi

  • The Old Corps

    Johnnie Clark

  • Flatfoot Fox and the Case of the Missing Eye

    Eth Clifford

  • Why Doesn't the Sun Burn Out?

    Vicki Cobb

  • Laura Leonora's First Amendment

    Miriam Cohen

    A young girl who likes to read stories about courageous people, must find her own form of courage when she discovers that a boy with AIDS has been mandated to attend her school and other students and parents react with hysteria...

  • Quest for the White Bull

    Don Coldsmith

    TRAIL OF VISION This spring the annual Sun Dance is without joy. The buffalo -- upon which the People depend for their survival -- have not returned with the greening of the grasses. While the holy men gather to find away to bring back the herds, Re...

  • King of Light and Shadows

    Adrian Cole

    Chaos gathers like a dark cloud above Omara -- as the evil Anakhizer prepares to unleash a storm of wizard war upon the last stronghold of the human race. Only the stolen power of Orhung's rod can bring salvation to the doomed world. But the wondrous...

  • Return of the Emperor

    Allan Cole; Chris Bunch

    The Eternal Emperor was dead, and the five members of the Privy Council ruled in his place. But they quickly discovered that their power would collapse around them if they didn't locate the Emperor's secret source of Anti-Matter Two, the econ...

  • Stranded!

    Clay Coleman

    After their plane crashes in the middle of the ocean, seven misfit boys struggle to an uncharted subtropical island, where they find a band of criminals who have been mutated by an ill-fated government experiment and then abandoned...

  • Evil in the Sun

    Iris Collier

  • The Regulator

    Dale Colter

    October 1991 Harper Paperbacks 1st Edition 1st printing mass market paperback as shown. Tight spine, clear, crisp pages, no spine creases, no tears, smokefree, light edge wear from our bookstore. Fiction...

  • Freshman Guys

    Linda A. Cooney

    Proper, preppy Lauren is ready to rebel. Her mother forbids her to quit the elite Tri Beta sorority, but Lauren is plotting to get herself kicked out. Her new friend, charming and dangerous Dash Ramirez, may just be the way. Faith is involved in ...

  • Other Bells for Us to Ring

    Robert Cormier

    A young girl tests her curiosity about faith when her father is missing in action and her best friend disappears during World War II. Darcy Webster, a Unitarian, attempts to resolve her crisis with a visit to an old nun whose prayers were said to bri...

  • Another Day, Another Dungeon

    Greg Costikyan

    IF YOU were going adventuring, in search of some great treasure, would you choose these companions? TIMAEUS D'ASPERGE is the leader of the expedition. He's a newly graduated wizard, and he knows just as much about magic as brand-new MDs know about...

  • Sky above Earth Below

    Joanna Cotler

  • Flowers in the Blood

    Gay Courter

    Beautiful Dinah Sassoon, daughter of an affluent opium trader and pillar of Calcutta's tight-knit Jewish community, see her privileged future destroyed when her mother is mysteriously murdered. This tragic event leaves Dinah dishonored and virtually ...

  • Black Bear

    Daniel J. Cox

  • Child of Shadows

    John Coyne

    When the time is right… when the place is right… Evil is born. Melissa Vaughn is a social worker who has turned her back on the cold heartlessness of modern big-city bureaucracy. Adam is a feral child, a refugee from the murky, violent world...

  • Sandman

    Linda Crockett

  • The Players Come Again

    Amanda Cross

    A scarcely believable rumor climbing the literary grapevine hints that Emmanuel Foxx's great modernist novel, Ariadne, whose theme is a woman's emotional life, may actually have been written by his wife, Gabrielle. When a New York publishing house in...

  • A Heart So Innocent

    Charlene Cross

    A high-spirited young beauty, she knew nothing of love's treacherous rhapsody... UNITED BY CHANCE, THEY WERE MATCHED IN DANGEROUS PRIDE -- AND DESPERATE PASSION Queen Victoria herself had decreed it: Lady Aidan Prescott must marry. The girl...

  • A Husband for Holly

    Monette Cummings

    THE STAKES WERE HIGH... BUT LOVE WAS THE PRIZE The captivating Felicia disguised her true self to insure that her younger sister Holly would marry well. But alas, the dark, mysterious Trevor Thomas thwarted Felicia at every turn. Doubly determined...

  • Enchanted Circle

    Marilyn Cunningham

    FULL CIRCLE Brianna Royce hoped to make archaeological history by unraveling the mysteries of the elusive Daynew Indians here in this lush, green, isolated area of Idaho. She wasn't prepared for the not-so-subtle warnings to leave...or for Mat...

  • Freckles and Jane

    Margery Cuyler

  • A Faint Cold Fear

    Robert Daley

    The bestselling author of Prince of the City and Year of the Dragon returns to the dramatic world of the NYPD cop in this explosive page-turner that takes readers from the asphalt jungle of New York to the Amazon. "A first-rate, thought-provoking thr...

  • Sagebrush and Sunshine

    Margot Dalton

    He was a lonesome cowboy For fifteen years--while driving cattle and riding Brahman bulls--Gray Lyndon dreamed of his perfect woman. When Joanna McLean moved onto the ranch down the road, he knew he'd found her. But Joanna was mourning her daug...

  • The Colour of Desire

    Emma Darcy

    Kathleen had abandoned her dreams The accident had ended her hope of a musical career. So she couldn't understand why Sister Cecily had practically forced her on Morgan Llewellyn, the world-famous composer. "The best solution," Sist...

  • Mind-Force Warrior

    Peter David

    HE CAN READ MINDS, DESTROY BUILDINGS WITH A BRAINSTORM, AND KILL WITH A THOUGHT. BUT HE NEVER UNDERSTOOD JUST HOW FAR HE COULD GO-UNTIL HE WAS PUSHED OVER THE EDGE... Chuck Simon is an ordinary man with extraordinary mental powers. After years ...

  • Sing to Me of Dreams

    Kathryn Lynn Davis

    'There is a future I do not seek, but which will come to be, just the same...' With these words echoing in her heart, Saylah, born of a white father and Indian mother, set off on a journey that would take her through all the mysteries of the human he...

  • A Talent for Love

    Saranne Dawson

    SILVER EYES HAUNTED HER Tori Wentworth saw things. Her police-chief brother-in-law applauded her gifts, while she prayed for a full night's rest unriddled with psychic dreams. Then she dreamed about a killer terrorizing her town. She also s...

  • Killed on the Rocks

    William L. Deandrea

    At a snowed-in retreat, a corporate takeover turns deadly A remote mansion, a blizzard, and lack of phone service: It's an opportunity a killer can't pass up. Matt Cobb, the in-house troubleshooter for a television conglomerate, is summoned to an ...

  • How to Find a Ghost

    James M. Deem

  • The Dream

    Barbara Delinsky

    She was in turmoil Heiress Jessica Crosslyn had to make a decision. If she sold the family estate, she'd lose her ancestral home forever. If she turned it into the condominium development of her dreams, she'd have to work with Carter Malloy. He wa...

  • Merry Merry Huckleberry

    Judy Delton

  • Don Juan in the Village

    Jane DeLynn

    Don Juan, a smooth, arrogant, and insecure woman forever searching for the perfect lover, prowls the lesbian bars of the Village, the beaches of the Caribbean, erotic Italy, and elsewhere on her quest. Reprint....

  • A Scrambling after Circumstance

    Margaret-Love Denman

    With literary legerdemain, first novelist Denham wins readers' affection for her cranky, bedridden, demanding narrator Eula B., whose refrain, as she lives out her last days amid the plastic geraniums in her daughter's trailer, is that the old ways w...

  • Hilary and the Lions

    Frank DeSaix

    Lost, Hilary seeks refuge by one of the lion statues on the steps of New York Public Library and is delighted when the statues come to life and take her on a tour of the city before returning her to her parents...

  • The Dragon Knight

    Gordon R. Dickson

    Sir James Eckert, now Baron de Bois de Malencontri et Riveroak, woke one morning with the odd sensation that something was wrong... and it was. During the night he had been transformed back into the shape of a dragon. Now Jim must embark on a new ...

  • The Matrix Man

    William C. Dietz

    MAN CAM It cost Rex Corvan megabucks and his right eye, but the miniaturized camcorder implant made him News Network 56's Man Cam, the top reporter on the tube. Whatever Corvan "saw" went out via satellite, and millions of news junkies in America'...

  • Aida: A Picture Book for All Ages

    Leontyne D. Dillon

  • The First Dinosaurs

    Douglas Dixon

    Brief text and illustrations introduce the characteristics and natural environment of thirteen early dinosaurs such as Saltopus and Dimetrodon; includes a glossary of terms and miscellaneous facts about dinosaurs....

  • Six Miles To Roadside Business

    Michael Doane

    Following his father's suicide, Vance makes a quiet garden in the wilderness for himself and his family, until a strange cult inverts his father's death into religious myth, adopting Vance as resident prophet. He wanders into the desert searching for...

  • A Dragon in a Wagon

    Lynley Dodd

    When Susie Fogg takes her dog for a walk, she dreams of having a more exciting pet. Something huge, fierce or odd, like a dragon in a wagon. She soon gets carried away by her imagination. An imaginative, rhyming and wonderfully silly picture book tha...

  • A Summer Storm

    Robyn Donald

    His intentions couldn't be honorable "I find you profoundly, shatteringly attractive," Blaize Stephenson told Oriel. But what on earth could a man with his success and money see in a gawky primary schoolteacher with an inferiority comp...

  • The Darker Side of Paradise

    Robyn Donald

    Saul Jerrard was the key to her dream A man, they said, who knows his own mind and is about as tough to crack as a granite wall. Surprisingly, Candace's visit to the South Pacific island of Fala'isi was going better than she'd expec...

  • Body Scissors

    Jerome Doolittle

    Presidential hopeful Dan Markham hires Tom Bethany to check out J. Alden Kellicott, the man he wants for Secretary of State. Bethany, a self-styled 'security consultant,' is an insider with his own jaundiced view of the corridors of power. Turning Ke...

  • A Reasonable Madness

    Fran Dorf

  • Surface Action

    David Drake

    THE FINAL DESTRUCTION OF EARTH FIF NOT END THE BATTLES OF MANKIND But it did impose certain rules on the wars of Venus. Nuclear weapons were banned. The survivors of Earth lived in domed colonies beneath the sea, and their battles were fought on t...

  • A Promise of Gold

    Joan Druett

    THE ACTRESS -- As tough underneath as she was soft on the outside, Harriet Gray fast-talked her way onto Jake Dexter's ship, double-talked his crew into joining the rush to California, and sweet-talked her way into the captain's arms -- before she ...

  • Tom's Tail

    Arlene Dubanevich

    Mice are running rampant in the houe where Tom the cat lives. They're lunching and munching freely in the kitchen, fishing in the goldfish bowel, and even daring to poke and prod Tom as he sleeps the days away. But soon the troop of marauding mice go...

  • Who Killed Cock Robin?

    Margaret Duffy

    Husband-and-wife team Major Patrick Gillard and novelist Ingrid Langley, employed by Britain's Secret Service, attend the funeral of beloved co-worker Terry, blown up in his car. Still grieving, the pair must investigate the murder of another MI5 ope...

  • Fatal Sisters

    W. Glenn Duncan

    Naive housewife Patty Akister believes he missing husband is a 'secret agent' on a 'mission.' Jaded P.I. Rafferty believes otherwise, but he?s not about to burst the lady's bubble. The way Rafferty sees it, what Patty Akister doesn't know won't hurt ...

  • Unlikely Places

    Anne Marie Duquette

    She wasn't looking for a vacation romance Felicity Barrett was so used to putting her career first that she didn't know how to relax -- even on vacation in the scenic Rocky Mountain town of Silverton, Colorado. Which was why she spent her ...

  • Sparrowhawk

    Thomas A. Easton

  • Requiem for a Dove

    Marjorie Eccles

    When Chief Inspector Gil Mayo investigates the death of Marion Dove, whose body had been found floating in a canal near her home, he uncovers devastating secrets from the past that have profound repercussions for Dove's family...

  • Slip Gun

    J.T. Edson

    Folks said that Waxahachie Smith was finished when his enemies cut off both his trigger-fingers. But he came from a breed that did not accept defeat.So he rode the range, ready to sell his fighting skills to the highest bidder. Nor was he ever out of...

  • Roses After Rain

    Cassie Edwards

    AUSTRALIA Vast and untamed, it was a land that tested the boundaries of a man's courage, and rugged Ian Lavery reveled an the struggle as he pitted himself against bushrangers, wild dingoes and drought. THALIA Beautiful and provocative, she ...

  • The Judge

    Hank Edwards (1)

  • Lynch Law

    Josh Edwards

    Once, John Stone had everything a man could ever want: wealth, position and a woman who loved him. That was before the Civil War. Now he’s lost his fortune and his fiancée has disappeared. With only his Colt, a picture of Marie and a missi...

  • Love Finds a Way

    Rachelle Edwards

    HE WAS HER SISTER'S BETROTHED. AND QUITE SIMPLY, SHE LOATHED HIM. Lord Crandon was considered one of the most charming and handsome Corinthians of the ton. And the news that he would soon wed Miss Laura Montescue shattered the hopes of many an...

  • Fantasy of Love

    Rachel Elliot (1)

    Casey had made her decision carefully And eight months as a journalist at the Cumbria TV station confirmed that she'd been right to leave the fast pace and heartbreak of London. Until her first encounter with handsome Jamie Oliver, the loca...

  • Lone Star in a Colorado Ambush

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki are marked for murder when a cattle-buying trip turns into a slaughterhouse in the ninety-eighth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's...

  • Lone Star and the Bank Robbers

    Wesley Ellis

    A bank robber makes off with a cool million and Jessie and Ki must track him down in the ninety-ninth 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...

  • Soul of the West

    Suzanne Ellison

    Brady Trent His unique wagon-train business was his livelihood, but the remote Rocking T ranch was his lifeblood, his passion, his only true love. He was damned if another woman was going to force him to leave his beloved home, take away his dream.....

  • Bloodcircle

    P.N. Elrod

    WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN, MY DAY BEGINS ... As a vampire, I have a number of handy skills--I can hypnotize mortals, walk through walls, and shrug off bullets like insults. The one thing I haven't been able to manage, so far, is to find the woman who...

  • The Calling of the Three

    Ru Emerson

    A hard-working junior lawyer, her sister, and her sister's eighteen-year-old son are summoned from California on Earth to help save the kingdom of Zelharri from an evil force that has seized power there...

  • Skryling's Blade

    Rose Estes

  • Satin Sheets and Strawberries

    Marcia Evanick

    The Incurably Romantic Adventurer... The sign said FAIRYLAND--ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK, and Logan Sinclair couldn't imagine what his aunt Ruth and uncle Henry were doing living there in Snow White's cottage! Then Kelli SantaFe appeared, a golden-hai...

  • Longarm and the Lost Mine

    Tabor Evans

    THE MOST VICIOUS VERMIN IN THE WEST Jason Tanner isn't just mean. He's crazy. Tanner likes to take hostages during bank stickups, then tease the lawmen by leaving parts of his victims along his getaway trail. Longarm put him away where he belonged...

  • Jingle Bells: A Holiday Book with Lights and Music

    Carolyn Ewing

    The sights and sounds of an old-fashioned Christmas come to life in this delightful book. Everyone's favorite holiday tune starts to play at the pull of a tab, and a rollicking sleigh ride sweeps readers through a glorious winter landscape to Granny'...

  • World of the Short Story

    Clifton Fadiman

    Spanning in scope from this century's early moderns, including Somerset Maugham, D.H. Lawrence, and Colette, to the best of todays practitioners, such as Ann Beattie, Raymond Carver, and Joyce Carol Oates, this collection features sixty-two stories f...

  • Face to Face

    Shirley Faye

    PLAYING WITH FIRE Christiana Smith was content with her solitary life. She had learned to live on her own in the after-math of a terrible car accident that took her sight and her husband's life. She had no interest in a passing flirtation with Dam...

  • Between Friends

    Hila Feil

    Tessa learns some lessons about friendship, loyalty, and love when she and her best friend, Justine, spend a summer at Cape Cod working at the Center for Marine Studies, and they both fall for Keith, a college student who works with them...

  • The World Next Door

    Brad Ferguson

    KINGDOM COME...AND BACK AGAIN! World War Three finally struck in 1962. Atom bombs fell like the wrath of God...but it was not quite the end of the world. In the Adirondacks and elsewhere, a handful of men and women hang on to a simple, primitive e...

  • Counterstrike

    Sean Flannery

    Ace Assassin Donald Moran has been hired by high-level Russian officers to kill Mikhail Gorbachev and destabilize the Soviet Union. But when the job is called off at the eleventh hour, it is already too late to stop Moran -- a psychopath, he has spen...

  • Gin and Daggers

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    DEADLY NIGHT IN LONDON TOWN Jessica Fletcher is off to London to deliver the keynote address at a convention for the International Society of Mystery Writers. She's also looking forward to seeing her mentor, Marjorie Ainsworth, who's hosting a pa...

  • Drugstore Cowboy

    James Fogle

    The novel that inspired the major motion picture directed by Gus Van Sant

    Bob Hughes, the offbeat, edgy, and slightly skewed leader of a crew of traveling junkies, describes himself as “one of the cleverest and ringiest and most notorious do...

  • The Power Twins

    Ken Follett

    Fritz and Helen are amazed when they awaken one morning with supernatural powers. Meanwhile, in another galaxy, two sinister empires are in a power struggle over an innocent planet. Can Fritz and Helen use their powers to settle the dispute and save ...

  • Rapid Falcons

    Margery Forester

    After inheriting his great-aunts's fortune, Ambrose Jessop decides to build a new life in Devonshire and finds himself attracted to the beautiful--but married--Raby Farway, in a story set against the 1832 struggle for Parliamentary reform...

  • Button, Button

    Robin Francis

    Who's got the button? It's an old fashioned game of hide and seek. Only, Jenny Spaulding doesn't know who's hiding or what she's looking for. What she does know is the loser end up dead. The police say Jenny's journalist father committed suicid...

  • No Pain, No Gaine

    Edwina Franklin

    In some cases crime pays... And Sandy DiGianni found the switch to a police gazette more challenging than the women's magazine where she first cut her teeth. Her brainstorm to write a series about unsolved murders yielded a sinister turn. Police se...

  • Time to Let Go

    Alison Fraser

    Sara was too angry to be amused Even with the misunderstanding sorted out, she still seethed at the man's insulting assumption. He actually seemed to believe he'd been on intimate terms with her! Even worse, he'd confidently expected t...

  • The Big Trouble

    Steve Frazee
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    In the title story, The Big Trouble, He Cries, a Uncompahgre Ute, sees his first white men at the end of the summer of many rains while still a boy. The white men who are in the area searching for gold attack the small encampment, killing everyone ex...

  • The Madness Season

    C.S. Friedman

    THE ALIEN WITHIN He'd had so many names over the centuries, so many new identities that he could scarcely remember who he had originally been. Now his name was Daetrin, a name given by the alien conquerors of humankind, the Tyr. Three hundred y...

  • One Christmas

    Canna Funakoshi

  • The Animals' Christmas

    Catharine Gardam

  • Revenge of the Fluffy Bunnies

    Craig Shaw Gardner

    CHEER the hapless heroism of Captain Crusader! JEER... the wanton wickedness of Antoinette, Mistress of Evil! FEAR the animated assault of the fearsome fluffy bunnies! A terrible change has come to the Cineverse. In all its many movie worlds, bad ...

  • The Batman Murders

    Craig Shaw Gardner

    THE JOKER GOES WILD A banker, missing for months, finally turns up dead--wearing the unique costume of the Cape Crusader. Three other prominent Gotham City citizens are also missing, and the only clue to their abductor's plot is a calling card--a ...

  • Passion's Endless Tide

    Rene J. Garrod

    SWEET INNOCENCE Beautiful Leah Daniels knew nothing of society's rules. She had lived all alone on a remote Pacific isle since her mother's death three years ago. So when a handsome, raven-haired stranger washed up half-dead on her beach, she didn't...

  • Grandma's Little Darling

    Stephen R. George

    Ancient terror A twelve year didn't want to mess up her chances of getting adopted by here newest foster family. So she didn't tell anyone about the strange feeling she got whenever she went near Grandma. The old lady made her feel creepy. Gr...

  • Ecstasy's Princess

    Robin Gideon

    Assigned to escort the lovely American to the palace of her loathsome fiancé, Dimitri took full advantage of their private railcar, intending to insult the future bride of his hated enemy. But when the brooding Russian kissed Alexandra's full pink l...

  • Emily Arrow Promises to Do Better This Year

    Patricia Reilly Giff

  • Beast and the Halloween Horror

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Halloween should be fun, but Beast is in big trouble. He was working really hard on his spelling homework when Ms. Rooney read The Halloween Horror to the class. Then she told the students to write to the author. "Say anything," Matthew sugge...

  • Werewolf, Come Home

    Mel Gilden

    WEREWOLF, COME HOMEIT'S A DOG'S LIFEWhat happens when a werewolf gets sick? He turns into a dog! When Howie Wolfner comes down with the mongrels, Danny Keegan and his monster pals are worried. What if Howie the werewolf never becomes a boy again?Dann...

  • The Boy from the Burren: First Book of the Painter

    Sheila Gilluly

  • Fade to Black

    Robert Goldsborough

    Whether it's a case of soda or a case if industrial espionage, soft drinks have never been Nero Wolfe's cup of tea. So only with great reluctance - and considerable prodding from Archie Goodwin - does the legendary sleuth agree to investigate the app...

  • Black Friday

    David Goodis

    From the author of Dark Passage and Shoot the Piano Player, a thriller about the dark ethics of crime, and the man unlucky enough to violate them.

    With its chilling portrait of a doomed man sorting his way among the perverse loyalties of a cri...

  • Shoot the Piano Player

    David Goodis

    Once upon a time Eddie played concert piano to reverent audiences at Carnegie Hall. Now he bangs out honky-tonk for drunks in a dive in Philadelphia. But then two people walk into Eddie's life--the first promising Eddie a future, the other dragging h...

  • Never Too Rich

    Judith Gould

    Two pulchritudinous protagonists, talented designer Edwina and super-model Billie Dawn, seize the limelight in this vervy, sassy novel of the fashion world by the author of Dazzle and Sins. Ravishing redhead Edwina--tossed aside by her haute couture ...

  • A Taste of Heaven

    Carol Grace

    A RAGE TO LIVE The fear that had sent tour guide Kyla Tanner on an endless search for adventure had brought her to the very roof of the world -- the ancient Himalayan city of Kathmandu. And it had thrown her -- against her will -- into the arms of...

  • Stunts

    Charles L. Grant

    As Brian Oakland and his friends prepare to perform their various "stunts" on Halloween, a man, twisted by years of isolation, sits in one of the houses in their neighborhood, contemplating revenge. Reprint. PW....

  • Sweet and Wilde

    Billie Green

    Her Rough-and-Ready Guide to the Badlands... When Alyson Wilde became guardian to a streetwise thirteen-year-old named Lenny nothing in her privileged life had prepared her to be his mother -- but she vowed to try! She wasn't thrilled to meet ...

  • P.I. Files

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Foundation's Friends: Stories in Honor of Isaac Asimov

    Martin H. Greenberg

    Original tales by such science fiction luminaries as Orson Scott Card, Harry Turtledove, and Connie Willis, written in honor of Isaac Asimov's fiftieth anniversary in the genre, are set in one of his fictional universes...

  • Slow Dance

    Jennifer Greene

    MR. OCTOBER Name: Max Carlson Description: Rugged. Earthy. Overpoweringly male. Passions: The land. Clean country living, peaches...but not babies! Weakness: Attractive city slicker Kit Sanders. She's classy, elegant -- and about to give ...