Books Published in September 1980

New Books List: 221 titles

  • Rich Rewards

    Alice Adams

    Daphne has fled to San Francisco after a particularly disastrous love affair. But she is also there to redecorate her friend Agatha's house. It doesn't take long for Daphne to learn, however, that the house isn't the only thing in the beautiful, conf...

  • Texas Fever

    Jordan Allen

  • Lured by Greed

    Alix Andre

    A terrible memory haunted her... Evelyn gazed in wide-eyed horror at the broken and crumpled body of her father. She was four years old when he was killed.... No one had dared to investigate his death. Seventeen years later she returned to Cors...

  • Rebellious Rapture

    Jane Archer

    A BOLD AND DARING STORY OF SURGING PASSIONS AND DARK DESTINY TRAPPED as a girl into agreeing to a loveless marriage, she fled in the night to take sanctuary in Marseilles... EXPLOITED as a pawn in the wily games of men, she was brazenly used ...

  • Sister Wolf

    Ann Arensberg

    In the picturesque Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, Marit Deym lives alone on a thousand-acre inheritance from her aristocratic Hungarian parents. Though bright and attractive, she is a stranger to the complexities of human relationships. She keeps ...

  • Dare to Love

    Candice Arkham

    Lights! Camera! Action! The elephants thundered by and on a beam high above them, Maggie performed her death-defying gymnastic stunts. How far she had come from chilly Michigan, from the moments of despair when she knew she would never compete for...

  • Christina

    Caroline Arnett

    The banks of the Nile held many mysteries for Christina. There were the secrets of the tomb her father had discovered, and the strange young man she found lying half-dead on the steps one fateful day. Taking pity on him. Christina secretly nursed ...

  • Bluestocking // Last Gentleman Standing

    Jane Ashford

    Elisabeth Elham had no use for the Marriage Mart. Perhaps when she'd been a penniless nineteen, it might have supplied the husband she needed to support her. Now, however, she was an heiress, twenty-four years old, independent, proud of her bluest...

  • Future in Question

    Isaac Asimov

  • House of Lies

    Joel Audrenn

    Was it a paradise...or a prison? A beautiful vacation...a holiday of terror Sylvia had been looking forward to her canoe trip for months. Armed with tents and sleeping bags, she and two girl friends were setting out to explore one of the loveli...

  • Bayou Lady

    Nancy Bacon

    Pampered and protected from the ugly aftermath of the Civil War, beautiful Amanda Belie Bradshaw is forced to flee to California from her Louisiana home. Unprepared for the violent lustiness of the land... the raw danger... and the vulgar wealth, she...

  • Sadness

    Donald Barthelme

    Masterpiece stories of wit, whimsy and satire. A saint struggling with the greatest of all temptations: daily life. A genius proposes a world inventory of genius to create a better life, but he cannot bear the company. Family life trembles with enoug...

  • Punish Me With Kisses

    William Bayer

    Punish Me with Kisses is the story of two sisters and the Mysterious Dark Man to whom both are helplessly drawn. It begins in Bar Harbor, Maine, summer playground of the rich. Shy and sensitive Penny Berring watches as her beautiful sister Suzie puts...

  • Health Hazrd Nuclear

    Peter Beckmann

  • Island Lovesong

    Louise Bergstrom

    Megan had come to Hawaii from New York on business. She had with her a manuscript that her employer, a literary agent, had pronounced hopeless. David Miller the magnetic, dark haired man who met her plane agreed. But she had a strange hunch... Isl...

  • Superfudge

    Judy Blume

    One Fudge is enough. Farley Drexel Hatcher, otherwise known as Fudge, plans to be a bird when he grows up. As far as his older brother, Peter, is concerned, Fudge will grow up to be a big pain! Dealing with Fudge has been hard enough, but now Peter ...

  • Birthpyre

    Larry Brand

  • Toby Alone

    Robbie Branscum

    Depressed over the death of her beloved Granny, Toby withdraws, mourning in solitude and alienating her boyfriend, Johnny Joe, until news that he has proposed to another woman snaps her out of her self-imposed isolation...

  • Inheritance

    Owen Brookes

    "A chilling thriller in the tradition of The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby ... It ranks among the scary best!"- New York Post She was foster-mother to a strange band of paranormal children. The townspeople joked about the "freak-farm" she ran, b...

  • Finger Rhymes

    Marc Brown

  • Pure and Simple

    Marian Burros

  • Terror in Rio

    Alan Caillou

    Colonel Tobin's private army is on the march... against enemies plotting to overthrow a South American government! BRAZIL ERUPTS... A country that finds itself caught up in the throes of a bloody revolution. The regular army cannot cope with the well...

  • Daphne

    Sarah Carlisle

    From the moment dashing Lord Edenbury -- called Max by his friends -- caught seventeen-year-old Daphne throwing mice into the music room window he was taken with her. The mice, he soon learned, were a ploy to cement the romance between her sister ...

  • A Grandmother for the Orphelines

    Natalie Savage Carlson

  • Dream's Edge

    Terry Carr

  • Suicide Seat

    Nick Carter

  • Crimes Past

    Mary Challis

    The ex-con was very dead, a knife embedded in his back...and lawyer Jeremy Locke’s address in his pocket. The Scotland Yard that meant Jeremy was in the thick of things along with his older brother, a longtime fugitive from justice. Jeremy kn...

  • Star Loot

    A. Bertram Chandler

    In luck and out of luck, John Grimes was a living legend of the spaceways. He had been an officer of the service, he had been the victim of a mutiny, he had discovered lost worlds, he had served under strange masters and on strange ships, but he had ...

  • The Saint Meets the Tiger

    Leslie Charteris

  • Wild Pitch

    Matt Christopher

    Eddie doesn't like the idea of girls playing baseball in his league, but when one of his pitches injures a girl, he rethinks his attitudes....

  • Midnight Surrender

    Margaret Major Cleaves

    He came into her life in a raging storm on the wild moors of Cornwall, tantalizing her with his virile strength, with his fierce desire for her, Katherine Cranston, beautiful copper-haired daughter of a powerful lord. Katherine stiffened with pride e...

  • Tell Me No Lies

    Hila Colman

  • The Counterfeit Bride

    Vivian Connolly

    A peasant girl forced into a fraudulent marriage must deny her dearest love to protect her dearest friend... The deception had seemed harmless enough. A schoolgirl's prank in which Miranda Testa would masquerade as her foster sister, Amanda, and t...

  • The Mask of Love

    Katherine Court

    For as long as she could remember, she had been Ann--Ann de Lessencour--first an orphan, then a foster child, finally a beautiful young woman with a modest life of her own. Then, out of the blue, the letter came, calling her Avrilette... sister... be...

  • The View from 80

    Malcolm Cowley

    Paperback: 89 pages Publisher: Penguin Books; 1st Edition(PB) edition (February 1, 1982) Language: English ISBN-10: 0140060502 ISBN-13: 978-0140060508 Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.3 inches Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces...

  • Out There Where the Big Ships Go

    Richard Cowper

  • Star Web

    Joan Cox

  • Tyler Toad and the Thunder

    Robert L. Crowe

  • Difficult Decision

    Janet Dailey

    He was a man with a heart of marble: Until the day of the job interview, when his totally emotionless eyes fastened on her, Deborah hadn't believed anyone could be as cold and hard as Zane Wilding. He was the most demanding boss she'd e...

  • Han Solo and the Lost Legacy

    Brian Daley

    A WARLORD'S TREASURE The fabled hoard of the mad tyrant Xim was beyond measure--it was also, as far as Han Solo and his Wookiee partner Chewbacca were concerned, strictly legendary. But the pleadings of an old spacebum who had once saved his life-...

  • House of Silence

    Dorothy Daniels

    THE POWERS OF DARKNESS seemed to have marked lovely orphan Nila Parris for their own from the moment of her mother's unexpected death. Penniless, with nowhere to turn, Nila was relieved when Evelyn Dunbar, her mother's sister, offered her a home. ...

  • A Mixture of Frailties

    Robertson Davies

    The “first-rate . . . abundantly funny” conclusion to the Salterton Trilogy, following Leaven of Malice and Tempest-Tost (The New York Times).   Louisa Bridgetower, the imposing Salterton matron, has died. The substantial income from her est...

  • Ladies in Waiting

    Gwen Davis

  • Petals of the Rose

    Juliana Davison

    The right man for Rosanna She was like a rose, drawing the young men of the London ton to her beauty, but Rosanna Shelton spurned all those eager bees. What she needed, she decided, was an older man--one with fewer demands. A suitable husband who ...

  • Shadrach

    Meindert De Jong

    Even after Davie had had the little black rabbit, Shadrach, for several weeks, it was still almost unbelievable. Every morning when Davie woke up it was a miracle all over again -- there in his grandfather's barn sat a wriggle black rabbit, and it wa...

  • Candidate's Blood

    Lionel Derrick

  • Hawaiian Trackdown

    Lionel Derrick

  • Return Engagement

    Diana Dixon

    FOR EIGHT YEARS SHE TRIED TO FORGET HIM! Liza Marsh worked hard to pull her life together after that one fateful summer. She was now a respected actress, on the verge of leaving her hit Broadway show after a year's run. But when Liza begins...

  • Amberleigh

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    HER HEART WAS BORN ANEW... Amberleigh, with her hair of flame, had come to the St. Clare estate in Ireland to escape her grey life as a governess. Here she would become a companion to the nobly born Elaine St. Clare, an old school friend, so frag...

  • The Garden of Winter

    Gordon Eklund

  • The Suicide Murders

    Howard Engel

    She was cool, attractive - a real society lady - and she was in trouble. Benny Cooperman, a private eye with a hard head and a tender heart, was ready to help her in any way he could. But when her husband commits suicide the day Benny begins his inve...

  • A Breach of Fate

    John Evans

  • Longarm and the Railroaders

    Tabor Evans

    FROM REDCLIFF, THEY RACED TO LAY THE RAILS Two railroad teams vie to reach Eagle Pass -- the winner will control the mines. But a pair of thieving brothers sabotage the lines and hide out deep in the red-clay hills. Longarm hunts for the desper...

  • No Stars So Bright

    Mary Faid

    “No stars so bright as the lights of home.” Neil Drummond thought as he returned from America to see family residence in Scotland. But he hadn’t bargained for all the changes, especially the presence of Cathy Paton. Like it or not, he couldn...

  • How the Hibernators Came to Bethlehem

    Norma Farber

  • Spartacus

    Howard Fast

    Spartacus, a fictionalization of a slave revolt in ancient Rome in 71 BC, is well known today because of the 1960 movie starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier. It was originally published in 1951 by Fast himself, after being turned down by eve...

  • American Beauty

    Edna Ferber

    Originally published in 1931, this bestselling American family saga from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber shares the story of the Oakes family, as their relationships and property encounter numerous struggles over the course of hundreds of y...

  • Affairs of Love

    Glenna Finley

    A British antiques swindle lures a lovely journalist into treachery and romance… A Romantic Assignment To earn some extra money while vacationing in England, beautiful journalist Tracey Winslow is determined to get an interview with that noto...

  • Promises to Keep

    Thomas Fleming

    Promises To Keep A story of a young man who loses his family to a dreadful disease and struggles with the Why. He seeks to find himself and his purpose in life void of the ones he loved. He seeks a change from his hometown and decides to live on a...

  • The Vow

    Maria B. Fogelin

  • Gator

    George Ford

  • The Night Before Christmas

    Gyo Fujikawa

    Authors: Gyo Fujikawa Publisher: Price Stern Sloan Pub Keywords: christmas, night Published: 1980-09 Language: English ISBN-10: 0448131455 ISBN-13: 9780448131450 Binding: Paperback List Price: Unknown...

  • Minuet

    Jennie Gallant

    "ALLOW ME TO PRESENT LADY CELESTE IMOGENE MARIE AUGE FAWTHROP." Lord Degan looked down on the ball of gray rags that appeared to be inhabited by some form of human life. He perceived that beneath the tatters and filth a pair of bright, topaz eyes ...

  • Sweeney's Honor

    Brian Garfield

    Eleven soldiers attempt to hold a river crossing in the middle of the desert The Colorado River's most vital point for American settlement is the ferryboat at Yuma Crossing. When the gold rush begins, a gang of white outlaws seizes the ferry from...

  • The Crossword Mystery

    Robert B. Gillespie

    She starved to death in the midst of plenty. But the 'plenty' was on the other side of a locked door. Someone ha d gone to great pains to confine her in the soundproof room. With no window, with no telephone, with no way to reach the outside world, s...

  • Flight to Landfall

    Gerald M. Glaskin

  • Take Three Tenses

    Rumer Godden

    PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE This lush, unforgettable saga sweeps the reader through the tumult and splendor of an extraordinary century -- and into the lives of the proud family who leased the “great house” in London for 99 years. When the orphan...

  • An Artist

    M.B. Goffstein

  • Transplant

    Leonard S. Goldberg

  • Fanny G.

    Lou Graham

  • The Big It

    A.B. Guthrie Jr.

  • East To Paradise

    Jacqueline Hacsi

    How could anyone call this work? A month in Hong Kong assisting Scott Shipley, the richest, most handsome bachelor she had ever met! But Robin Woodrow left California with a different dream, a dream of self-discovery, of inner confidence to match ...

  • Temporary Bride

    Phyllis Halldorson

    TIME WAS RUNNING OUT . . . . Shane McKittrick wanted to hire a woman to be his wife and bear his child. Karen Muir, driven by her love for him and sure that she could win his love before the time limit on their marriage had expired, became his wif...

  • Man of the Outback

    Anne Hampson

    OUT OF THE FRYING PAN, INTO THE FIRE! For years Sally Baxter's ungrateful family had taken advantage of her, never giving her time for a life of her own. They were outraged when she told them she was going to Australia. She was determined, how...

  • Willowwood

    Mollie Hardwick

    Lillian de Wentworth was the perfect Victorian heroine, with her pale white skin, her striking copper hair, and her frail body, still suffering the effects of a long-ago accident. -- To the world, she seemed a helpless invalid, a beautiful crushed ...

  • The Portent

    Marilyn Harris

    A serene, isolated Colorado town falls prey to the uncontrollable forces of nature and its terrified, panic-stricken inhabitants search the sinister wilderness for the real source of their tribulation...

  • Return of a Fighter

    Ernest Haycox

    THE LAW WAS AGAINST HIM. -- Eight years ago Hugh Kingmead had been a scared kid fighting to keep his small ranch. But he was no match for the ruthless landgrabber who wanted it. Falsely accused of a murder he didn't commit, Kingmead left the county...

  • The Dark

    James Herbert

    In James Herbert's The Dark, madness rages as the lights begin to fade and humanity is attacked by an ancient, unstoppable evil . . .It came like a malignant shadow with seductive promises of power. And somewhere in the night . . . a small girl smile...

  • Twin Colts

    Morgan Hill

  • Captain Fantom

    Reginald Hill

    Captain Carlo Fantom, a Croatian, spake thirteen languages.. He was very quarrelsome and a great ravisher.. Set in the 17th Century, tells the story of this soldier of fortune's adventures in The Thirty Years War and in the English Civil War. ...

  • The Spy's Wife

    Reginald Hill

    IN ONE MOMENT HER WHOLE WORLD EXPLODES. Molly Keatley's life couldn't be better. She has a comfortable home in a London suburb, friends, money--and Sam, her loving journalist husband. Then one bright September morning, Sam grabs a suitcase from th...

  • People of Darkness

    Tony Hillerman

    DEATH VISION... The old Indian was already dying when someone tried to murder him. A box stolen from a rich man's house was filled only with rocks--but that man's wife offered Sgt. Jim Chee $3,000 to get it back. Out in the Bad Country under th...

  • Dinner at Alberta's

    Russell Hoban

  • Agatha Crumm

    Bill Hoest

  • Angel Landing

    Alice Hoffman

    The New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic offers “an affecting love story, laced with humor”(Booklist) that tells the tale of a man and a woman so consumed with helping others that they are in danger of failing in t...

  • Murder Takes a Wife

    James A. Howard

    It was just another job--a job of murder! If Tom Scott divorced his wealthy wife he'd be left without a cent And if he didn't have a cent he wouldn't have his beautiful mistress, Eve. It was a story Jeff had heard before--and he knew he'd found...

  • The Wicked One

    Mollie Hunter

  • Death Mechanic

    A.D. Hutter

  • Before the Fact

    Francis Iles

    Lina Aysgarth had lived with her husband for nearly eight years before she realized that she was married to a murderer...it did seem a pity that she had to die, when she would have liked so much to live....by Francis Iles....

  • The Hermit

    Eugene Ionesco

  • Wilderness Track

    Owen G. Irons

    Crutcher knew he was a fool when he agreed to lead a handful of Army men after the Apaches who robbed a train and massacred the passengers and crew. If Thumb was running, he could not be caught--and even if Crutcher found him, there was no one in th...

  • The Possible She

    Susan Jacoby

  • The Other Anne Fletcher

    Susanne Jaffe

  • A Clandestine Affair

    Sally James

    "MARY! I DO NOT WISH YOU TO MARRY A RAKE OR A GAMBLER, BUT WHEN YOU REALLY FALL IN LOVE, YOU WILL NOT BE THINKING ABOUT THE WORTHINESS OF YOUR LOVER!" Lovely Mary Wyndham had just about given up the notion of true love when she met Sir Ingram. Tha...

  • Let's Go Play at the Adams

    Mendal W. Johnson

    Surely, it was only a game. In the orderly, pleasant world Barbara inhabited, nice children -- and they were nice children -- didn't hold an adult captive. But what Barbara didn't count on was the heady effect their new-found freedom would...

  • A Time of Soldiers

    Andrew Jolly

  • Elkhorn Tavern

    Douglas C. Jones

    With her husband gone east to fight for the Confederate Army, Ora Hasford is left alone to tend to her Arkansas farm and protect her two teenage children, Calpurnia and Roman. But only a short distance away, in the shadow of Pea Ridge, a storm is gat...

  • Lord of Misrule

    Gareth P. Jones

  • The Six Fingered Glove Mystery

    Frances K. Judd

    The thieves start back to the freight car for another load of stolen goods. This is Kay's chance. Quickly she lets herself into the shack and lifts the trap-door. In the dark cellar, dimly lighted by the lamp, she sees many crates and boxes, undo...

  • The Double Disguise

    Frances K. Judd

    "Here is your pay." Kay is dumbfounded as she watches her host, Alice Janey, give a mysterious witchlike woman some money. Kay later learns that Nanna is Miss Janey's clairvoyant and that Nan revealed the location of Miss Janey's miss...

  • World Fantasy Awards

    Judith Schoener Kalina

  • The Miramer Deduction

    Jordan Keeling

  • Confederates

    Thomas Keneally

    A powerful novel of America’s Civil War told through the voices of Confederate soldiers, turncoats, and Stonewall Jackson in the weeks leading up to the great slaughter at Antietam In the summer of 1862, as the Civil War rages on, a ragtag Confeder...

  • Maggie

    Lena Kennedy

    Born in the rough heart of London's East End, like a resilient city flower struggling toward the meager sun, Maggie kept on... through the death of her beloved father, her cherished marriage to a wayward husband of great tenderness and sudden brut...

  • Hell's Pavement

    Damon Knight

    Republishing all of SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight's books, in conjunction with the author's estate - see all of Damon Knight's books from ReAnimus Press!Anti-social behavior is cured? by giving everyone an analogue, a mental imprint of an authority f...

  • Vintage

    Anita Clay Kornfeld

    Set against the legendary background of the lush California vineyards, Vintage is a vibrant family saga with strong characters and swiftly moving action. In this drama of American growth from the late 1800's to 1970, filled with racial strife, politi...

  • Fat Magic

    Steven Kroll

  • Who Is Mary Stark?

    Lloyd Kropp

    An epitaph on a tombstone: “Alleged name Mary Stark. Died January 1, 1966. An Unknown Life.”Of the three people most closely touched by Mary Stark, one is a young girl who learns -- through her -- what it means to be haunted. The second is an att...

  • Stranger in the Night

    Charlotte Lamb

    She hadn't even known his name As an inexperienced drama student, Clare had been shocked and disgusted by the sudden and rough lovemaking of Luke, an older, handsome stranger. She had turned away from love--for good. Now, nine years later, ...

  • Love's Emerald Flame

    Willa Lambert

    A SIMPLE JOB BECAME A DEADLY JUNGLE TREK To Diana Green, reporter, it seemed easy: go to Machu Picchu, snap a few pictures, take notes, then return. Thousands of tourists did it every year. But the remote Incan ruins attracted more than just si...

  • Your Secret Admirer

    Carl Laymon

  • Take Back the Night

    Laura Lederer

  • Kill the Dead

    Tanith Lee

    Kill the dead? How can you slay that which is already slain? Yet...sometimes the dead refuse to stay quiet. For there are times when the dead have a duty that must be fulfilled. There are times when those must walk who defy God and Nature to do so; ...

  • Night's Black Agent

    Fritz Leiber

  • Cassidy

    Lee Leighton

  • City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit

    Elmore Leonard

    Clement Mansell knows how easy it is to get away with murder. The cool killer is already back on the Detroit scene -- thanks to some nifty courtroom moves by his lawyer -- and he's feeling invincible enough to execute a crooked judge on a whim. L...

  • The Case of the Frightened Rock Star

    Elizabeth Levy

    Jody was organizing a rock concert to raise money to rebuild the burned-down school stadium. She had invited Michael Harper, a rock star and a recent graduate of her high school, to perform. But nothing went right with Jody's plans! Someone spilled r...

  • The Lunar Effect

    Arnold Lieber

  • Fires of Winter

    Johanna Lindsey

    Northern lights, Nordic nights, and a woman's smoldering surrender... NEVER A VIKINGS CAPTIVE Spirited across an icy sea, lovely and dauntless Lady Brenna Carmarham vowed vengeance on her Viking abductors. Slavery was the fate of women capture...

  • To See a Fine Lady

    Norah Lofts

    Araminta's heart told her that she was in love with Jan, the local laborer, a handsome man whose very touch made her pulse pound. Her head, however, told her that to marry Jan would consign her to a life similar to the one led by her mother. She envi...

  • The Hidden Magic of Uxmal

    Enrique H. Lopez

  • Head Hunters

    James Luceno

  • The Towers of Trebizond

    Rose MacAulay

    Hailed as "an utter delight, the most brilliant witty and charming book I have read since I can't remember when" by The New York Times when it was originally published in 1956, Rose Macaulay's The Towers of Trebizond tells the gleefully absurd sto...

  • A Companion in Joy

    Dorothy Mack

    Given the choice of wedlock or a debtor's cell, the dashing Nicholas, Viscount Torvil, agreed to marry a woman he had never met. Of course, he would continue his scandalous affaire with the flame-haired Cecile, Lady Montaigne. Hadn't Kath...

  • Athabasca

    Alistair MacLean

    The nail-biting tale of sabotage set in the desolate frozen wastes of two ice-bound oil fields, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. SABOTAGE! THE VICTIMS Two of the most important oil-fields in the world - one in Canada, the othe...

  • On the Big Wind

    David Madden

  • One Step at a Time

    Lenor Madruga

  • Black Plume

    David Madsen

    First edition. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Simon & Schuster remainder mark at the bottom page block. Soiling to the edges of the upper page block. Small bump to the upper edge of the front cover. The dust jacket has a small tear at t...

  • Gato

    Mel Marshall

    1980. Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 223 pages. 8 oz. (7 x 4.25 x .5 inches Paperback). GATO by Mel Marshall, ISBN#0440129338, Fiction, Westerns. ** An Outcast to his own people, he clawed his name into a legend....

  • The Magnate

    Jack Mayfield

    These three came together in a savage, three-cornered game--with fame, fortune and a vast publishing empire at stake...and no one was censored...TRAVIS BURKE--the raw young genius who came out of nowhere to turn on the pressure-cooker publishing worl...

  • Provenance

    Frank McDonald

    Provenance is a fascinating adventure through the international art world, a world where artists and collectors hide behind masterpieces, and sell their souls to the highest bidder. A New York Times bestseller and sold in twelve international edition...

  • In Between the Sheets

    Ian McEwan

    Darkly brilliant short fiction by the New York Times-bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Machines Like Me and Atonement.   A two-timing pornographer becomes the unwilling object in the fantasies of one of his victims. A jaded millionaire...

  • Love Circle of the Suns

    Paige McKenzie

  • Golden Lasso

    Fern Michaels

    HER DREAM HAD BECOME A NIGHTMARE! When Jan Warren inherited the Rancho Arroyo dude ranch, she thought all her troubles were over. At last she and her young brother, Benjie, would have a home of their own, a place to be secure--together. But Der...

  • The Perfect Weapon

    Bennett Michelson

  • The Secret Art of Ian Miller

    Ian Miller

    Information from the official Ian Miller website: Ian Miller is an artist, illustrator and writer based in the U.K. He graduated from the Painting Faculty of St Martin's School of Art in 1970. Between 1975 and 1976 he worked for Ralph Bakshi on his ...

  • The Gold Connection

    Robin Moore

  • Brand of Possession

    Carole Mortimer

    How could she have been so very naive? When Stacy Adams discovered the true identity of Jake Weston, the "dreamy" man she had started seeing, she was furious. He had deliberately misled her! But she found she couldn't resist the pow...

  • The Birthday Present

    Bruno Munari

  • The Elephant's Wish

    Bruno Munari

  • Animal Tales

    Ernest Nister

  • Lore of the Witch World

    Andre Norton

    The Witch World is never explored: the smallest valley holds strange happenings and a past which reaches into things stranger still. The traveler finds the unexpected, the ancient, the bizarre at every turn. Nature is powerful here and those who open...

  • Seven Spells to Sunday

    Andre Norton

  • The Danger in Loving

    Helen Nuelle

    'Why not me?' he whispered, gathering her into his arms and pressing his lips to hers. Why not, indeed! Fiery Melissa Dean tossed her coppery hair. A storm raged in her blue eyes. She would not be sold for a title to crown her father's fo...

  • Wicked Designs

    Lillian O'Donnell

    In a mix of politics and murder, detective Mici Anhalt investigates the apparent cocaine overdose of a rich dow ager, Blanche Landry, and the motives of a retired admiral and a gubernatorial candidates wife...

  • Deception

    Margaret Pargeter

    The battered sign changed her life "Housekeeper wanted," Thea read, amused. Who would want such a job in the middle of the Scottish wilds? Yet, surprisingly, Thea soon found herself running the household at Drumlarig and nursing its s...

  • Captive Kisses

    Maxine Patrick

    Kelly Hartly wanted nothing more than a little rest and relaxation, so when her friends offer for her to use their Louisiana summer home while they are in Europe, Kelly gladly accepts the offer. But RR isn't what's in store... When she arrives at the...

  • Phoenix Island

    Charlotte Paul

    ONE LONELY ISLAND, ONE TIDAL WAVE, NINE SURVIVORS . . .  A tsunami is one of the last things Dr. Andrew Held expects while entertaining guests on Phoenix Island, the tiny, isolated outpost of Washington State he has made his private home. But when ...

  • A Child Is Missing

    Charlotte Paul

    An open window . . . an empty crib . . . A family's nightmare begins . . . again! Forty years after the crime that shocked the nation, the son of an executed man is compelled to re-enact his father's hideous deed -- and a famous flier's son finds ...

  • A Secret Affair

    Lilian Peake

    "Your mind has been warped by cynicism." Alicia's accusation was bitter. "I'm a realist," Todd said with a shrug. "I've had my fill of women and I've vowed never to marry. But if any woman offers me the benef...

  • Maximilian the Greatest

    Penguin Books

    Relates the adventures of 12-year-old Maximilian and his friends, Peter and Jessica, as they help the police officers of the Mid-Manhattan Precinct solve a variety of crimes. Solutions are provided at the end of the book....

  • A Day in the Zoo

    Penguin Books

  • Teen Angels

    Sonia Pilcer

  • Prose Bowl

    Bill Pronzini; Barry N. Malzberg

    A 1980 satire on writing and sports set in the near future, when violence is banned and hack writing takes its place. No time to dance in the endzone when you have 2000 words to write and the clock is ticking....

  • Healing Emotional Life Problems

    Kathlee Ramsey

  • Bonus Rooms

    Random House

  • When the Music Changes

    Marie Reno

  • The Snare

    Liliane Robin

    She was being blackmailed--but why? Eleanor was outraged to find her stepbrother had dragged her into his criminal activities just before his arrest. But nothing could match the white-hot fury his accomplice felt when Eleanor tipped off the police...

  • The Wild Man

    Margaret Rome

    Lynx-eyed, he looked more devil than man That was Rebel Storm's first--and lasting--impression of Luiz Manchete, self-appointed king of the Amazon jungle. Appropriately, the natives called him Curupira, the wild man. Rebel wanted to do anth...

  • Shamrock Smash

    Joseph Rosenberger

  • Texas!

    Dana Fuller Ross

    WAGONS WEST The sweeping saga of America's great expansion and the invincible men and women who braved the unknown peril of the vast frontier. Ever onward! They came from a young nation's East and West, from around the world--to claim new lands, n...

  • Blind Outlaw

    Glen Rounds

  • Panzer Soldier

    Barry Sadler

    Goldman and Casca meet in Berlin, a chance meeting that gives Casca the opportunity to tell of one of his more contemporary adventures as a soldier for the Third Reich fighting the Russians. It was easy for Casca to go along with some of the basic p...

  • Brass Diamonds

    Berent Sandberg

  • The Tenth Commandment

    Lawrence Sanders

    For years he has reigned as the king of suspense--from The First Deadly Sin to McNally's Puzzle, with a few dozen bestsellers in between. The Tenth Commandment is a masterpiece of murder and intrigue, featuring a detective's hunt for a team of killer...

  • Recovering

    May Sarton

    Sarton suffered a brutal review of her last novel, personal problems, and a mastectomy in 1979 and this journal reveals how she drew on her inner strength to surmount this series of crises and regain her creative powers....

  • Run Don't Walk

    Harriet M. Savitz

    The last thing Samantha wanted when she entered Scot High School was to be noticed. On the other hand, Johnny Jay, another wheelchair student at Scot, was a fighter, battling to obtain accessible school washrooms for the both of them. To Johnnys cons...

  • The Snoopy Festival

    Charles M. Schulz

  • Distant Stations

    Jonathan Schwartz

  • The Tenth Measure

    Brenda Lesley Segal

    Flee through the golden fields of the Holy Land with Alexandra, strong-willed and gray-eyed descendant of the House of David, sold as a slave into the incredible degradation that was Rome. -- Walk the streets of Jerusalem with Eleazar, the warrior ...

  • The Scapegoat

    Mary Lee Settle

    Set in 1912, The Scapegoat propels readers towards a fateful day in a coal miners' strike when distant relatives of the Beulah dynasty, only dimly aware of their blood ties, face off in a dispute that escalates into a frenzy of violence and ends in ...

  • Ultramarathon

    Jim Shapiro

  • The Game of X

    Robert Sheckley

    All secret agents need to look out for William Nye, now known as Agent X. His recruitment was simple and his legend is brilliant but unearned. Somehow, he thinks he's the best there is, and we all know how pride goeth before a fall. The master of SF ...

  • The Cannaway Concern

    Graham Shelby

    A novel of love and revenge in 18th century England. A young woman ha s cut her she off from everything she knows, and maybe even happiness until a stranger might be able to give her a second chance. In eighteenth-century Britain, the defiant Char...

  • Transmaniacon

    J. Shirley

    John Shirley’s Debut Novel!Ben Rackey, Professional Irritant: A man who is assigned to steal the Exciter -- a device that can amplify and release strong, hostile human emotions in anyone, anywhere. The Exciter can turn suppressed anger in...

  • The Facts in the Case of E.A.Poe

    Andrew Sinclair

  • Crown of Feathers

    Isaac Bashevis Singer

  • Satan in Goray

    Isaac Bashevis Singer

    As messianic zeal sweeps through medieval Poland, the Jews of Goray divide between those who, like the Rabbi, insist that no one can "force the end" and those who follow the messianic pretender Sabbatai Zevi. But as hysteria and depravity increase, i...

  • Different Families

    Alison Scott Skelton

    Philippa Hallsworth's noble British ancestry and Robert Zolenski's lowermiddle-class, Jewish-American background clash drastically after their passionate, wartime marriage, but, seventeen years after separating, the two meet for one fateful night...

  • The Cowards

    Josef Skvorecky

  • Comp Venus Equilateral

    George O. Smith

    The wacky adventures of the Scientists and other denizens of the communication space station 'Venus Equilateral'. This is Golden Age mad science at it's best, with rather wonderful futuristic vacuum tube technologies. Written mostly in the 1940s thes...

  • River of the Wind

    Kenn Smith

  • Turnabout

    Thorne Smith

    James Thorne Smith Jr. (1892-1934), was an American writer of humorous supernaturnal fantasy fiction. Best known today for his creation of Topper, Smith's comic fantasy fiction (most of it involving sex, lots of drinking, and supernatural transformat...

  • A Princess in Berlin

    Arthur R.G. Solmssen

    When American soldier Peter Ellis returns to Berlin in 1922 to study painting, he experiences all the opulent decadence of an upper-class romance and the lurid bohemian lifestyle of Berlin's art world...

  • Price to Be Met

    Jessica Steele

    She'd do anything to save her father! Aldona's father's life hung in the balance and she had to help him--even if it meant selling herself to a man she despised. Traveling with Lionel Downs to Malta as his wife was the price she mus...

  • Packages

    Richard Stern

  • Robin Hood: A High-Spirited Tale of Adventure, Starring Jim Henson's Muppets

    Jocelyn Stevenson

  • Muppets at Sea

    Jocelyn Stevenson

  • The Ghosts of Africa

    William Stevenson

    William Stevenson, author of the sensational bestseller, A Man Called Intrepid, recreates a towering saga from the annals of World War I -- the amazing novel of a man whose exploits rivaled the legend of Lawrence of Arabia, the visionary German offic...

  • The Vw Connection

    Mary W. Sullivcan

  • Damnation Reef

    Jill Tattersall

    A friend's mysterious accident brought her to this tropical paradise -- face to face with her first love, fearsome evil, and certain death. SUICIDE...SHIPWRECK...SUNKEN TREASURE... ...and the beautiful and independent Marina Derwent had yet...

  • Red Is for Shrouds

    Mary Ann Taylor

    Someone was killing redheaded girls Three of them had been savagely bludgeoned to death and the small town seethed in turmoil. Police Chief Emil Martin's job was squarely on the line. He had exactly one week to find the ruthless killer or the t...

  • The Seven Sexes

    William Tenn

  • London Snow

    Paul Theroux

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Sacred Sword

    Frank Thomas

    BENEATH THE DEADLY BLADE A dying man arrives at 221B Baker Street. An eccentric burglar scandalizes Sussex. The legendary sword of the prophet Mohammed surfaces, then disappears... This bizarre sequence of events propels Sherlock Holmes and Dr....

  • Fires of Lan-Kern

    Peter Tremayne

  • Sincerity and Authenticity

    Lionel Trilling

    Trilling studies late nineteenthand early twentieth-century European culture, looking at the whole range of Western thought from Rousseau and Jane Austen to Freud and Hegel to discuss and criticize the moral ideals of sincerity and authenticity...

  • Alvin Ubells Energy

    Alvin Ubell

    Provides information on energy audits, insulation, surviving a fuel crisis, making water heaters, air conditioners, lights, and how to make appliances run more efficiently, and taking advantage of tax credits...

  • Final Notice

    Jonathan Valin

    MAN WITH A BLADE She was perfect. She smelled of toothpaste, talc, and something sweeter than lilacs. And in that crazy season of autumn, when Cincinnati was ablaze in the bloodred color of fall, Kate Davis made Harry Stoner feel old, and a little...

  • Hugh Pine

    Janwillem Van De Wetering

    A VERY HUMAN PORCUPINE. It's the best-kept secret in Rotworth Forest -- the funny, white whiskered man in the floppy red hat is Hugh Pine, a porcupine. And a very smart porcupine at that. You see, Hugh dresses like a human because he thinks it's sa...