New Books List: 127 titles


  • Charlotte Vale Allen

    She liked him, yet she didn't. Staring at her with those demanding eyes, then sweeping her off from the party, commandeering her for himself. But she had to admit that it was exhilarating to have such a witty, sophisticated man crazy to marry her--ri...



  • Evelyn Anthony

    A widow attempts to fulfill her dead husband’s last request -- to enter his prize horse in the Derby -- and plunges into a deadly world of blackmail, revenge, and murder Less than a year after arriving at his sprawling ancestral estate as his s...



  • Ellen Argo



  • Caroline Arnett

    Theodora Minturn was astonished to find herself co-heir to Ardsley Hall. She was even more astounded by the peculiar conditions of her cousin's will. For six months Theodora was to share the fabulous estate with her distant relation, Lord Deve...



  • John Ashbery

    This reissue of a book of thirty-nine poems, first collected in 1977, reminds us of Ashbery's astonishing explorations (to use Donald Barthelme's words) of places where no one has ever been. "Wet Casements," "Syringa," "Loving Mad Tom," and the long ...



  • Elizabeth Ashton

    Istanbul was strange and mysterious to English-born Venice Franklin, yet she soon fell in love with it -- and with the aloof Kemal Osman. But Kemal was a man committed to serving his country and his ambition did not include a foreign wife. "A mar...



  • Margaret Atwood

    Dancing Girls is Margaret Atwood’s highly praised first collection of short fiction. In it she explores the dark intricacies of the mind, the complexities of human relationships, and the clashes between cultures. In the stories, the mundane and...




  • Neal Barrett Jr.

    I have done more than my share of wandering. In a few short years, I have been slave, scholar and master of ships. I have played no small part in the death of two great empires. I have nearly been eaten whole by the shapeless thing that guards the Gr...



  • Betty Beaty

    "It's a tough world and you are soft!" The two-week educational cruise started badly for Kate Cameron. She had found a young stowaway for whom she felt sympathetically responsible and had therefore fallen foul of Mark Templar, the powe...





  • Marion Zimmer Bradley

    This is the novel of four who defied the powers of the matrix guardians--fanatics who protected those powers so that the planet of the ruddy sun might never fall beneath the influence of materialistic Terrans. The four who found themselves fused i...







  • Philippa Carr

    Against the turbulent background of Cromwellian England is set this sweeping tale of a beautiful young woman's journey from innocence to wisdom -- from love to treachery. Lovely, naive Arabella Tolworthy had grown accustomed to her innocence -...



  • Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

    Anton Chekhov remarked toward the close of his life that people would stop reading him a year after his death. But his literary stature and popularity have grown steadily with the years, and he is accounted the single most important influence on the ...



  • Matt Christopher

    Threatened by a beating if he hits against Roy's pitching, Johnny almost loses a ballgame for his team....



  • Vera Cleaver

    The Drawns learn the real meaning of "family" and "Love" in their struggle to survive in the Badlands of South Dakota. They inherit a farm from their Grandpa who owns the farm in the Badlands. It ends up with a run down house and buildings. The real ...







  • Elizabeth Boatwright Coker

    India St. Julien was the spoiled daughter of a proud and wealthy Charleston family. The world was hers for the asking until she met Maximilian Allan, a handsome young planter from up-country South Carolina. Her family and friends considered Allan an ...




  • Avery Corman

    Avery Corman’s powerful classic novel about the end of a marriage and the bond between a father and child

    For Joanna and Ted Kramer, building a life in New York City is tough but full of joy thanks to their lovely little boy, Bil...



  • Jane Corrie

    Would their life be ruined by this feud? "Promise not to have anything to do with Patrick Rafferty," Carl asked. Teresa, loving him, wanted to agree. Yet how could she refuse to see her newly found uncle? It was only then that she learned about...




  • Janet Dailey

    Leah was reluctant to leave the mountain site where their plane had crashed for the hostile desert beyond. "We could die out there," she argued. But Reilly was part Indian, and she discovered that her strong, resourceful companion could s...



  • Clare Darcy

    A dead bore! Miss Georgina Powers concluded after shutting the door in the face of her latest suitor, announcing to one and all that spinsterhood was preferable to a life with a dimwit twice her age. She longed for a love match, not the humdrum offer...




  • Peter De Vries

    Middle-aged, middle-class writer Bob Swirling copes with his puritanical upbringing, his repressed emotions and hostilities, his lack of self-confidence, and his imagined terminal illness by retreating into the identity of Groucho Marx...




  • Tomie DePaola

    Helga, a troll, must somehow acquire a dowry with which to marry or, by the god Odin’s command, be doomed to wander the earth forever. “Richly colored pictures capture the droll humor of [Helga’s] clever, determined fight to garner impressive r...



  • Anita Desai

    Nanda Kaul, a woman remote in her self-imposed solitude among the Simla hills of India, her strange and silent great-granddaughter, and the broken old woman who is her only friend are touched in varying ways by the violence of living...



  • Stephen R. Donaldson

    WHILE THE EVIL DAYS COME After scant days in his "real" world, Thomas Covenant found himself again summoned to the Land--the strange world of magic and earthpower. There forty bitter years had passed, while Lord Foul, immortal enemy of the Land, m...



  • Stephen R. Donaldson

    THE FINAL CHALLENGE Twice before, Thomas Covenant had been summoned to the Land, the strange other-world where magic worked. Twice he had been forced to join with the Lords of Revelstone in their war against Lord Foul, the ancient enemy of the Lan...



  • Sheila Douglas

    Polly hadn't wanted to work for Dr. Geoffrey Mortimer in the first place. Now, with the job nearly at an end, she should have been happy. Happy! She'd never felt more miserable. Geoffrey was demanding, arrogant and unforgiving, yet she had...



  • Eileen Dunlop

    An invalid teenage girl and her eleven-year-old brother uncover secrets of past generations who lived in their family's house in Edinburgh....



  • Lawrence Durrell

    Although Durrell spent much of his life beside the Mediterranean, he wrote relatively little about Italy; it was always somewhere that he was passing through on the way to somewhere else. Sicilian Carousel is his only piece of extended writing on the...



  • Paula Fairman

    Love or Hate? Their searing passion drove them to magical heights of ecstasy... Forced into the employ of a lustful tavern-keeper whose rapacious attacks made her his slave by night as well as by day, orphaned Kate McCrae escaped from the squalor...



  • Philip Jose Farmer

    A New York Times bestsesller, The Dark Design is the third novel in Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction legend Philip José Farmer's Riverworld series. Milton Firebrass, once Mark Twain's enemy and now his greatest ally, plans to build a gi...




  • Howard Fast

    Dan Layette -- the roughneck son of an Italian fisherman. He battled out of the rubble of the San Francisco earthquake to build a mighty shipping empire; rose to the gilded heights of Nob Hill society through a loveless marriage to the daughter of th...




  • Colin Forbes

    When an unknown source, obviously high-up in the Politburo of the Soviet Union, sends word that his cover is blown, American intelligence launches an all-out attempt to rescue the man known only by his code name, Angelo...




  • Antonia Fraser

    When a murder takes place in a secluded tower at Blessed Eleanor's Convent in Sussex, and the victim is an old school friend, investigative TV reporter Jemima Shore finds herself in the middle of a disturbing puzzle. The dead woman, a nun and heiress...



  • Patricia Gallagher

    FOREDESTINED! A silken fervor caressed them, a flame consuming beautiful Star Lamont and dashing Captain Troy Stewart in a wave of ripening desire beneath the Southern sky. FORESWORN! Across a fiery landscape scorched by the fury of slave revol...



  • Caroline Gayet

    "There's something I have to tell you..." For weeks the tiny fishing village had been aflame with rumors about the mysterious stranger who walked the beaches every day. Why had he come? What was he after? Only Marie had broken through the reser...



  • John Godey






  • Lorinda Hagen

    THE GREAT MASQUERADE After being imprisoned in London's infamous Newgate Prison, Clarissa -- illegitimate daughter of an English nobleman -- swore that someday she would become very rich. But she was too well known in London so she sailed off ...



  • Joe Haldeman

    NO CRERTURE IN THE GALAXY IS DEADLIER THAN MAN. Otto McGavin, one of twelve Prime Operators in the universe, worked for the clandestine arm of the trans-space peacekeeping agency as a ruthless guardian of alien rights. He traveled from planet to p...



  • Arlene Hale

    Beautiful Barbara Martin was off on a holiday that might lead to marriage or the end of a romance... Lovers' reunion that was what the beautiful chalet in the Colorado mountains meant to lovely young Barbara Martin. She could hardly wait t...



  • Anne Hampson

    She soon regretted her careless words In anger, Lynn had called the dark Gypsy stranger "one of the dregs of society." Much to her horror, this had provoked him to bodily kidnap her. The final blow had come after their Gypsy wedding. Bu...



  • Niel Hancock

    Welcome to Atlanton Earth You are invited to enter a universe unto itself...a vast realm of forest and river, mountain and cave, town and castle...a place of peril where the forces of light and forces of darkness meet in inexorable, immemorial combat...



  • Denis Hayes

    A safe, sustainable future is certainly not assured, granted the awesome power of vested interest and inert bureaucracies. But on the evidence provided in Rays of Hope, such a future appears well worth fighting for.

    Major energy transitions al...



  • William Hegner



  • John Hersey

    Writing at the height of his powers, John Hersey has created a taut, dazzling novel of suspense and revelation -- in which we watch, mesmerized, the fateful convergence of two lives.           &#...




  • Patricia Campbell Horton

    When King Charles met the auburn enchantress whom all London whispered about, he was transfixed by violet eyes that promised an unashamed sensuality. And when he beckoned her to his side as adored Queen of Pleasure over all the pomp and power of h...




  • Henry James

    Mrs. Gereth had said she would go with the rest to church, but suddenly it seemed to her that she should not be able to wait even till church-time for relief: breakfast, at Waterbath, was a punctual meal, and she had still nearly an hour on her ha...



  • Norma Klein



  • Henry Kuttner

    A psychiatrist travels to a world of magic and gods in this take on “Jason and the Argonauts” from the Hugo Award"nominated author of Earth’s Last Citadel.   Jay Seward remembers a former life in a land of magic, gods, and goddesses -- a...




  • Roberta Leigh

    Sara concentrated on her reply. "Of course," she lied, "he's charming!" And Madame Rosa, who had such romantic high hopes for them, knew that her assistant did not like her nephew, Bruno--heir to the vast cosmetic industry she ...



  • Marjorie Lewty

    "A time for everything...a time to love" Daniel's eyes gleamed as he quoted the words. At seventeen Cassandra had fallen in love with Daniel Marshall. She had been bitterly hurt by his rejection of her in favor of his career. Seeing...




  • Jean S. MacLeod

    She thought Grant was an intruder.... Makeda loved the island. But since her father's death, Millo was no longer their home. True, Grant Ogilvie, the new owner, said they could stay until she completed her father's book--yet how could s...



  • Magali

    "You were mistaken no one sent for you!" Maxime was thunderstruck. She had rushed from Paris to this hacienda in Mexico the moment she learned the job was hers. "Of course, you did," she stammered. "I received a cable. The Marquis hired me as...



  • Dindga McCannon



  • James Alan McPherson

    A beautiful collection of short stories that explores blacks and whites today, Elbow Room is alive with warmth and humor. Bold and very real, these twelve stories examine a world we all know but find difficult to define.

    Whether a story dashes...




  • Hollister Noble

    As a woman alone during the Civil War with a mission that is destined to take her deep into enemy territory, Anne Carroll comes face to face with the intimacies and intrigues of war. Danger is everywhere in the eyes of a once-trusted friend, in the k...



  • Denise Noel

    "You used my son to ridicule me!" Corinne couldn't believe her ears. She loved the boy. But she loved the boy's father more. And with good reason, for Abel Josselin had saved her life He had done much more than that. She stared at Abel uncompre...



  • Scott O'Dell

    A young girl relates her feelings and experiences as a participant in the battle of San Pasqual during the last days of the war between Californians and Americans....



  • Vance Oakley Packard

    Surveys the current work, projects, and ambitions of geneticists, behavioral psychologists, psychosurgeons, technologists, marketing professionals, and others involved in reshaping and controlling people and their behavior, and examines the moral imp...




  • Lilian Peake

    Shaun's laughter rang out just as Carp reached the door. She couldn't help overhearing what he said to his aunt. "You're not implying that I'm attracted to Cara Hirst," he said, astonishment in his voice. "My dear aunt,...





  • Ishmael Reed

    “Folks. This here is the story of the Loop Garoo Kid. A cowboy so bad he made a working posse of spells phone in sick. A bullwhacker so unfeeling he left the print of winged mice on hides of crawling women. A desperado so onery he made the Pope cry...




  • Barbara Rex

    Jessica's sense of limited space and time and her longing for closer ties with her estranged daughter, Molly, are both intensified when she turns sixty-nine and Molly comes to live with her in conflict and need...



  • Roberta Roleine

    "Whose side are you on?" Yvette was desperate. She was in Bulgaria on her honeymoon. Her husband had disappeared. She didn't know anyone. She didn't speak the language. Convinced that Roussev, the tour guide, knew a great deal...




  • Philip Roth

    From the Pulitzer Prize"winning author of American Pastoral -- "a thoughtful...elegant" (The New York Times Book Review) and often hilarous novel about the dilemma of pleasure: where we seek it; why we flee it; and how we struggle to make a truce b...



  • Lawrence Sanders

    Coming out of retirement to investigate the stabbing murder of critically acclaimed but hated artist Victor Maitland, former Chief of Detectives Edward X. Delaney is faced with a mob of greedy suspects and a tangle of possible motives. Reissue....



  • Richard Scarry

    This book is full of things to do; from building a town to making a costume for halloween, one can never go bored with this book on hand. pages to color, cars to build, and dozens of other things to make. this book will keep kids of all ages busy for...




  • Irwin Shaw

    Wesley, haunted by his father's murder, begins a strange and deeply personal quest; Billy becomes involved with a girl who leads him into unexpected dangers; Gretchen finds new challenges and experiences a remarkable twist to her life. Moving between...






  • Ian Slater

    An ecological hellfire threatens the west coast of North America in this international thriller from the bestselling author of the WWIII novels.   In the early dawn fog off the coast of Southern Alaska, two million-ton tankers collide. Both are ...



  • Martin Cruz Smith

    From Martin Cruz Smith, the internationally bestselling author of Gorky Park, comes a reissue of Nightwing, the million-copy bestseller that Stephen King called “one of the best horror novels in the last twenty years.”As darkness gathers, the sky...




  • J.I.M. Stewart

    'Professor Sanctuary,' the Provost said evenly, 'favours the immediate launching of an appeal . . .' And so it begins . . . In J.I.M. Stewart’s superbly melding of wit, mystery, observation and literary prowess a gripping novel develops that will e...



  • Deirdre Stiles




  • Essie Summers

    There was no trust. How could love last? Jane Grey was aware that Broderic Adair resented her intrusion into her grandmother. Esmeralda's life. She knew he regarded her and her family as spongers on the bounty of an old lady. But Jane had ...





  • Thomas Thompson

    New York Times Bestseller: The “gripping” true story of a beautiful Texas socialite, her ambitious husband, and a string of mysterious deaths (Los Angeles Times). Joan Robinson Hill was a world-class equestrian, a glamorous member of Houston high...



  • Mary Towne



  • John R. Tunis / John Roberts Tunis

    Roy Tucker left the Dodgers to become a war hero—and now he’s fighting to get back onto the baseball diamond Roy Tucker was one of the best prospects the Dodgers had—first as a pitcher, then as an outfielder when he injured the...



  • John R. Tunis / John Roberts Tunis

    Roy Tucker and his Brooklyn Dodgers teammates summon every ounce of their collective skill to fight for the greatest title in baseball—World Series champs.Includes an introduction by Bruce Brooks....



  • Scott Turow

    One L, Scott Turow's journal of his first year at law school introduces and a best-seller when it was first published in 1977, has gone on to become a virtual bible for prospective law students. Not only does it introduce with remarkable clarity the ...



  • Margaret Way

    Paradise was not quite perfect... Suddenly, heartbreakingly orphaned, Deborah and her young brother, Chris, were swept under the protective wing of a man who had once loved their mother. But when they reached their new home in Northern Australi...



  • Morris West

    Son of a Norwegian master-mariner and grandson of Kaloni, the last of the great Polynesian navigators, Gunnar Thorkild is a man consumed by a dream. Convinced that the Polynesians' legendary Island of the Dead is real, he risks his career, his li...



  • Mary Wibberley

    He was everything she disliked--or was he? Gil Bryden didn't welcome Charlotte to Peru. A hard, disciplined man, he was ready to lead an expedition seeking a lost Inca city. And he was not amused to find that the "Charlie" he'd exp...




  • Jack Williamson

    The Legion of Space is a science-fiction novel by the American writer Jack Williamson. It was first published in book form by Fantasy Press in 1947 in an edition of 2,970 copies. The novel was revised from a version that was originally serialized in ...



  • Robin Wilson

    This unique and provocative collection assembles masterful stories by twelve of SF's greatest practitioners, including Samuel R. Delany, Harlan Ellison, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Frederick Pohl. Each story is accompanied by an eloquent critical essay in...



  • Violet Winspear

    Trapped in the middle of the African jungle while a war raged round her, Eve Tarrant knew that all that stood between her and a singularly unpleasant fate at the hands of African revolutionaries was the tough mercenary Major Wade O'Mara. Thrown t...




  • Patricia Wrightson

    WHEN THE MOUNTAIN CRIED Wirrun was a man of the People, the aborigines of Australia. He was young and educated in the ways of the whites. But when the mountain cried for help, he heard. For the Ninya, the ancient ice-spirits, were seeking to bring...



  • David MacAulay

    A 1978 Caldecott Honor Book The word itself conjures up mystery, romance, intrigue, and grandeur. What could be more perfect for an author/illustrator who has continually stripped away the mystique of architectural structures that have long fascinate...



  • Cao Xuequin

    The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature.

    "The Story of the Stone" (c. 1760), also known as "The Dream of the Red Chamber", is one of the ...