Books Published in September 1981

New Books List: 300 titles

  • The Cat That Was Left Behind

    C.S. Adler

    Chad doesn't think his new foster family will be any better than the others, but after getting to know them during a summer at the Cape and after meeting a stray cat, he begins to change his mind....

  • Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Television Dog

    David A. Adler

    Cam's caught in a canine caper! Cam and Eric can't wait to meet Poochie, the TV dog. But while they're waiting in line for Poochie's autograph, Poochie mysteriously disappears!. Can Cam's photographic memory rescue Poochie?...

  • The Stolen Lake

    Joan Aiken

    In this fantasy adventure, a young girl visits a land where birds carry off men, fish eat human flesh, and she must rescue a pilfered lake. Readers who have followed Dido Twite’s escapades in Black Hearts in Battersea and Nightbirds on Nantucket wi...

  • Wedding in the Family

    Susan Alexander (2)

    He took her proposal much too seriously Davina hadn't been home for two years, not since a serious family quarrel. Now she was invited back for her sister's wedding -- the perfect chance to heal the break. But how could she face them al...

  • Sometimes a Stranger

    Angela Alexie

    CHASING HER FREEDOM -- SHE FOUND LOVE AND TORMENT UNDER THE DAZZLING AEGEAN SKIES! Sensuous brunet to Andrea Carswell, a freelance writer on assignment in Greece, found Athens irresistible -- the black velvet nights, the jeweled seas. And then the...

  • Fantasy

    Poul Anderson

  • The Wishing Star

    Elizabeth Andrews

    Jessica Coopersmith, a young Englishwoman, comes to America to search for her cotton-merchant husband, who has mysteriously disappeared in the South, and finds life more complicated than she ever imagined...

  • Cottage Flowers

    Marie Angel

  • Heart of a Woman

    Maya Angelou

    Angelou's fourth autobiographical volume proceeds from her departure from California with her son, Guy, through her early years in Harlem and the civil-rights movement, to London and Cairo and the breakup of her marriage...

  • My Dear Innocent

    Lindsay Armstrong

    She just wished she could hate him Camira had grudgingly come to accept her new circumstances -- strangers living in her family's Queensland home and working the horse-training stables. She could even accept Marc Riley as Camira Lodge's...

  • A Willful Widow

    Rebecca Ashley

    She'd married in haste, repented at leisure, and now she was widowed withal. Beautiful auburn-haired Alamina Wilson could have set the ton on its ear, but she was done with the business of love -- until dashing Lord Arrelly took her life in his h...

  • A Choice of Catastrophes

    Isaac Asimov

    Isaac Asimov, scientist, author, and Earth-dweller, explores the many potential natural and man-made catastrophes that could change life as we know it, or erase us from the face of the Earth.
     
    Natural properties and laws might change at any...

  • Fortune

    Doug Bailey

    A FORTUNE in lost treasure. Words of magic that make heart’s soar with dreams " minds whirl with wonder. Off the coast of Key West, Florida two friends search for a 17th century Spanish galleon that foundered in a storm, strewing a king’s rans...

  • The Phantom Conspiracy

    Michael Barak

  • What Happened to Mr. Forster?

    Gary W. Bargar

  • Death of a Perfect Mother

    Robert Barnard

    Lill Hodsden was a monster. She rode roughshod over her daughter, wiped her feet on her husband, blackmailed her lovers, and smothered her sons with a mother’s love that left them screaming out for freedom. Lill set the hackles rising all over Todm...

  • The King's Bed

    Margaret Campbell Barnes

    This is the story of an inn-keeper's daughter and the natural son of a king. Because her family had served King Richard, and because the king spoke kindly to her when he stopped at her family's inn on the way to Bosworth Field, Tansy was devo...

  • Turkeys, Pilgrims, and Indian Corn

    Edna Barth

  • Sixty Stories

    Donald Barthelme

    A retrospective collection of Donald Barthelme's most notable writings includes "Me and Miss Mandible," "Views of My Father Weeping," "The King of Jazz," nine new stories, and other outstanding selections...

  • Peregrine

    William Bayer

    This novel won the Mystery Writers of American Edgar Award for Best Novel.Circling high over Rockefeller Center is a peregrine falcon, the most awesome of the flying predators. She awaits a signal from her falconer. It is given: the bird attacks, plu...

  • The Eye of the Beholder

    Marc Behm

    Eye of the Beholder is a cult classic that inspired both French and English film adaptations. Joanne Eris has a bad habit of marrying men that wind up dead. An unnamed private detective, simply known as "The Eye" is hired to investigate the death ...

  • Passionate Jade

    Georgianna Bell

    JADE BENEDICT An aristocratic beauty, she was abducted on the night of her first ball and carried to the dangerous backstreets of London - straight into its nest of scoundrels, harlots, and dark desires... NICK CASPAR Sensual, ruthless leader of...

  • Reinhart's Women

    Thomas Berger

    Thomas Berger's modern hero Carlo Reinhart is thrust into the strangest chapter of his life yet Carlo Reinhart's life has taken many turns. From his idealistic youth in Crazy in Berlin, to his entrance into adulthood in Reinhart in Love , throug...

  • Consequences

    Sheila Bishop

    The beautiful Lavinia was happily married until her encounter with Captain Stephen Milroyd. She flirted outrageously with him, unaware that her husband James, the Earl of Keynsham, was watching quite carefully. But then, James had his own secrets. ...

  • The Cunning

    Robert Bloch

    THE CHILLS That’s what they all felt that day. Warren Clark felt it as he watched his wife get ready to meet her lover. Joe Marks felt it as soon as Irene told him to expect company. Carrie Humphreys had the creeps so bad she kept looking over h...

  • The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo

    Judy Blume

    Lately second grader Freddy Dissel has that left-out kind of feeling. Life can be lonely when you're the middle kid in the family who feels like "the peanut butter part of a sandwich," squeezed between an older brother and little sister. But now for ...

  • Tiger Eyes

    Judy Blume

    Davey has never felt so alone in her life. Her father is dead -- shot in a holdup -- and the rest of the family has moved to New Mexico to try to recover. Climbing in the Los Alamos canyon, Davey meets mysterious Wolf, who can read Davey's "sad ey...

  • The Voyage Begun

    Nancy Bond

    Living in the not-so-distant future when the energy supply has been almost depleted, a teenage boy explores the deserted colonies near his father's Cape Cod research station and begins to understand the long-term effects of recent climate and weather...

  • Texas Spurs

    J.L. Bouma

  • Elves and the Otterskin

    Elizabeth Boyer

    THE RELUCTANT HERO Ivarr had been sold to the witch Birna. But now Birna was dead, slain by the evil sorcerer Lorimer. Ivarr was stranded in the land of the elves. His only chance to return to his own realm was to become a hero for a group of outcas...

  • Moonfire Melody

    Lily Bradford

    At long last Valerie Sheppard had it all: her own business--and Barry Raynor, her true love lost... and regained. Too soon she was pulled away to the wilds of Utah to rescue her headstrong young cousin Patty from romantic disaster. The object of P...

  • Swimming Book

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Jeff Kerwin had spent his early years in the Spacemen's Orphanage on Darkover. Yet he'd never felt that he belonged there, for he was haunted by dreams of the world surrounding the Terran city. After being shipped back to Earth, Jeff finally returns ...

  • The Revenge of Broken Arrow

    Max Brand

  • El Paso

    Matt Braun

    The Old West comes vividly to life in two novels from bestselling author Matt Braun -- America's authentic voice of the Western FrontierEL PASOIt is 1881. El Paso, Texas, is at a crossroads. A booming sin city crawling with corrupt politicians and gu...

  • Particle Theory

    Edward Bryant

    A collection of many of Ed's best works, including two Nebula Award winning short stories.Because of Ed's financial needs, almost all the profits from this book go directly to Ed. Donations to help with Ed's medical and other financial needs are also...

  • Charles and Elizabeth

    W.J. Burley

  • Full Moon

    Dougal Butler

    With Chris Trengove and Peter LawrenceIn 1967 Peter 'Dougal' Butler became a roadie for The Who and their mercurial genius drummer Keith Moon. Soon he would be Moon's personal assistant, chauffeur, and all-purpose wingman. The ride lasted a tumultuou...

  • Always a Catholic

    Robert Byrne

  • Erma

    Erma Calderon

    An enterprising Black woman chronicles the hardships, tragedies, and triumphs of her life--from a childhood of crushing labor and marriage at age eleven to her enduring relationship with the family who employs her...

  • The Painted Woman

    Chad Calhoun

  • Dragons of Darkness

    Orson Scott Card

  • Heritage of Blackoaks

    Ashley Carter

    Ferrell Baynard had come back to Blackoaks to claim his heritage--only to discover it had been stolen from him. Stolen by someone who had married the only woman he had ever loved... --A tumultuous novel of a mighty plantation without a master and ...

  • Taproots of Falconhurst

    Ashley Carter

    THE ROOTS GO DEEP AT FALCONHURST... Here, for the first time, is the story of Tige, Ham Maxwell's first-born son. Sired when Ham was only 15--out of a fair-skinned octoroon bed-wench--and sold into slavery along with the other blacks bred at Falconh...

  • Darya of Bronze Age

    Lin Carter

    Under the trackless sands of the Sahara lies Zanthodon. That vast subterranean realm is the final homeland of the one-time masters of the world's surface - great dinosaurs, mighty jungles and living bands of primitive peoples from Neanderthals to Anc...

  • Pleasure Island

    Nick Carter

    ISLAND OF PLEASURE The assignment would be simple: act as back-up man to two other agents. This would give agent N3 time to recover from extensive injuries received on a recent mission. But suddenly there is no time, because the bullets start f...

  • Right of Possession

    Jayne Castle

    "Wait for me;" he said. "When this is all over, I'll come for you." Reva had fled the danger, left South America, longing for him, never believing he would make good his promise. But he had. Just when she thought she had her life in order, when sh...

  • Light Another Candle

    Miriam Chaikin

  • A Very Good Hater

    Mary Challis

    He was callous, cruel and completely immoral... That's what the three women said. And they were willing to go to court to see that Robert was punished for what he had done. But Robert said that the women were total strangers to him--that he ha...

  • Commodore at Sea

    A. Bertram Chandler

  • Road to the Rim

    A. Bertram Chandler

    Meet John Grimes at the very beginning of a career that will lead him to fame and glory out at the edge of the galaxy, out where the laws of men are nonexistent, and those of nature itself are sometimes tenuous.Someday Grimes will be a Commodore ...

  • The Anarch Lords

    A. Bertram Chandler

    His wild career as a space pirate ended, Grimes faced his toughest assignment - he was "punished" by being made governor of the anarchists' own planet! John Grimes, living legend of the spaceways, had been in and out of some cosmic catastrophes b...

  • Royal Blood

    Alissa Channing

  • The Saint in New York

    Leslie Charteris

    Simon Templar is the Saint -- daring, dazzling, and just a little disreputable. On the side of the law, but standing outside it, he dispenses his own brand of justice one criminal at a time.

    In Prohibition-era New York, criminals rule the cit...

  • The Random Gentleman

    Elizabeth Chater

    NO ONE WAS GOING TO FORCE THE BEAUTIFUL BELINDA TO MARRY A MAN SHE HAD NEVER SEEN! She had been pledged to him since birth, but high-spirited Belinda Sayre rebelled against marriage to a stranger, even if he was the Duke of Romsdale. When she fled ...

  • Roast Eggs

    Douglas Clark

    When it appears that James Connal will be acquitted at his murder trial, Chief Superintendent Masters and Detective Chief Inspector Green investigate the case in an attempt to discover more evidence of his guilt...

  • Jihad

    Geoffrey Clarkson

  • Noble House

    James Clavell

    “Clavell’s biggest triumph yet . . . storytelling done with dash and panache . . . a rousing read.”—Washington Post

    The setting is Hong Kong, 1963. The action spans scarcely more than a week, but these are days of high...

  • My Circle of Bears

    Michele Durkson Clise

  • Nothing but a Pig

    Brock Cole

  • The Enticement of Cindy

    John Colleton

  • Jump Ship to Freedom

    James Lincoln Collier; Christopher Collier

    Young Daniel Arabus and his mother are slaves in the house of Captain Ivers of Stratford, Connecticut. By law they should be free, since Daniel's father fought in the Revolutionary army and earned enough in soldiers' notes to buy his family's freedom...

  • The Vet's Daughter

    Barbara Comyns

    Growing up in Edwardian south London, Alice Rowlands longs for romance and excitement, for a release from a life that is dreary, restrictive and lonely. Her father, a vet, is harsh and domineering; his new girlfriend brash and lascivious. Alice seeks...

  • We Interrupt This Semester for an Important Bulletin

    Ellen Conford

    Carrie takes up investigative reporting in an attempt to impress Chip, the editor of the school newspaper, but finds herself coping with both professional and personal crises when a southern belle sets her eye on Chip...

  • P.S. I Love You

    Barbara P. Conklin

    Nothing makes a summer special as falling in love ... When her parents divorced, Mariah lost her family. Now she's lost her hope for a special summer, because she must set aside her own plans to help her mother with a house-sitting job in rich, sn...

  • Cecilia

    Vivian Connolly

    SHE WAS AS WILD AS THE IRISH COUNTRYSIDE SHE RODE. Cecilia Annesley, with flaming auburn hair and a temperament to match, galloped over hill and dale, trying to help the poor--and earning a reputation for being quite improper. Aside from her "s...

  • Mackenzie's Woman

    Jan Constant

    Jenna was turned out into the night... And standing there in the darkness, she watched in horror as her Highland home was set ablaze. "Why?" she cried to the impassive stranger beside her. "Why burn it? Who are you? Why have you don...

  • Dwellers of Forbidden City

    Dave Cook

  • Hornswoggle Magic

    Otto Coontz

  • The Apocalypse Brigade

    Alfred Coppel

  • By Honour Bound

    Dorothy Cork

    HE THOUGHT HER A SELFISH SPENDTHRIFT. When Caroline Adams secretly shouldered her cousin's debt, she certainly didn't expect that it would entail marrying rich and cynical Steve Revellion. Not willing to let her cousin down, Caroline agree...

  • Grampa-Lop

    Stephen Cosgrove

    Old Grampa Lop loves to tell stories to the little bunnies of the burrow. Unfortunately, all of the bunny parents are suspicious and refuse to let the baby bunnies listen to his stories. A story about the need for respect for the silver hares....

  • The Trapper

    Stephen Cosgrove

  • Love of My Life

    Caroline Courtney

    Lord Desmond Shayne had gallantly rescued Jessica Court from highwaymen and had made her feel welcome in his home. Now he had asked Jessica's help as he struggled to win the hand of the beautiful Lady Olivia. Jessica knew Olivia to be as heartles...

  • The Girls Are Missing

    Caroline Crane

    AN IDYLLIC SUBURBAN LANDSCAPE BECOMES THE BREEDING GROUND OF A MOTHER’S NIGHTMARE Joyce Gillwood had fled the violence and danger of the city. With her husband Carl, her nine-year-old daughter Gail, and her newborn baby, she had moved to the saf...

  • Shahhat

    Richard Critchfield

  • Screwballs

    Jay Cronley

  • The Case of the Sliding Pool

    E.V. Cunningham

    A rare California deluge unearths a hidden body - and a decades-old crime

    Rain has spoiled Masao Masuto''s vacation. For six days the storm has trapped the Zen Buddhist detective and his family inside their Los Angeles cottage. By the morni...

  • Red Flight Two

    Milton Dank

  • Slaughter City

    Gordon Davis

    The First Battalion’s final midnight barrage blows the Nazis off the banks of the Moselle, thanks to Sergeant C. J. Mahoney and his kill-crazy sidekick Cranepool. After an R&R of both pleasure and pain, the Sergeant itches for action -- and act...

  • The Bunce

    Michael De Larrabeiti

  • Sauce for the Goose

    Peter De Vries

  • Rampage in Rio

    Lionel Derrick

  • Now Wait for Last Year

    Philip K. Dick

    From Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Award"winning author of The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- the basis for the film Blade Runner -- Now Wait for Last Year is the novel of an Earth caught in an interstellar war and of...

  • Saratoga Swimmer

    Stephen Dobyns

    Charlie Bradshaw is a regular, down-to-earth guy -- middle-aged, divorced, an ex-cop working as a security guard at a Saratoga stable. Then his boss gets killed. It shows Charlie what's behind those powerful and prestigious stable owners. But Charlie...

  • The Impossible Dream

    Dorothy Dowdell

    He offered her a working vacation on his Pacific estate so the lovely Kim Robbins could spend a few months with her ailing dad and still keep her independence. Kim never intended the stay to rekindle her love for Rancho del Mar’s young and galla...

  • My Sons, My England

    Dougal Duncan

  • Toblethorpe Manor

    Carola Dunn

    They called her Miss Fell for the spot where Richard Carstairs had found her--Daws Fell. He had carried her home in his arms; and from the moment she opened her sea-green eyes in bewilderment and pain, she had captured his heart. But who was she? ...

  • Mistaken Identity

    Laura Eden

    HE THOUGHT...! Alison Ramsey decided to make the last night of her Key West vacation something special. It started off beautifully when she met Matt Edwards -- and ended in disaster when he mistook her for an expensive call girl. Back home in u...

  • Angel Eyes

    Loren D. Estleman

    "I'm going to disappear, Mr. Walker. Very suddenly and very soon." Ann Maringer is a go-go dancer with a problem: her life is in danger, and she is certain that her end is coming soon. Her only hope is Amos Walker -- a hot-tempered, Detroit based pr...

  • Longarm on the Santa Fe

    Tabor Evans

    WHEN THE DESERT SUN DRAWS BLOOD... The Santa Fe: the most important railroad line in the country -- and the most dangerous. In the scorching heat of the desert, both the ranchers and the teamsters are fighting. No one wants the tracks laid. And ...

  • Malpractice

    John R. Feegel

  • What Do Wasps Say After Sex

    Matt Freedman

  • The Magic Show

    Gyo Fujikawa

  • Year in, Year Out

    Gyo Fujikawa

  • Caribbean Account

    Alan Furst

  • This Loving Land

    Dorothy Garlock

    SWEET PROMISES... DARK THREATS! Violet-eyed Summer was only a child when she heard the sweet words of promise -- "get all growed up, summertime girl, and I'll come and fetch you home." Now she had grown into a proud beauty and was s...

  • Space Skimmer

    David Gerrold

    Mass comes from a harsh world named Streinveldt, where the gravity is 2.5 times that of Earth and only genetically engineered people can reside. Mass is humanoid, genetically evolved to cope with greater pressures, stronger gravity, and heavier densi...

  • The Winter Worm Business

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Leroy Wilson has plans for a great winter. He and Tracy Matson, his pal and business partner, are all set to sell the worms they've collected to the ice fishermen, when his awful cousin Mitchell moves to town.



    The problem is that Leroy...

  • Long Shot for Rosinante

    Alexis A. Gilliland

    "A very polite and very incorruptible missile was aimed at the asteroid habitat Rosinante and determined to let nothing stop it on its assigned mission - the complete destruction of Rosinante and all its inhabitants Campbell Award winner trilogy con...

  • Vengeance at Ventura

    George G. Gilman

  • Misty and Me

    Barbara Girion

  • Second Nature

    Gordon Glasco

    When Alan, a successful forty-year-old surgeon and father of two children, becomes aware of immensely powerful sexual desires, his new feelings threaten his wife's identity and the security of their marriage...

  • Bridge to Yesterday

    Constance Gluyas

    War divides and love unties with random cruelty and sudden chance. Amid the rubble of war passion flowers. The West's began World War II as a family but ended it fighting alone. Jaime finds love in the arms of Nicholas a pilot risking his life ...

  • Teenage Survival Book

    Sol Gordon

    Telling You

    all the not to's -- don't

    smoke, drink, get high, have sex, stay out late --

    Seems not to

    help much.

    Because

    we haven't helped You

    discover just

    How to feel good about yourself.
    <...

  • Dream House

    Victoria Gordon

    She hadn't meant to fall in love with him Kaarin's uncle's publishing house needed Jackson Collier's new book, but Jack refused to sit down and write it. He was building a house instead! So Uncle Bill sent Kaarin to Southeaster...

  • Atlantis Fire

    Gary Goshgarian

  • Glitterburn

    Heywood Gould

    Following a trail that leads to the pleasure-ridden haunts of Hollywood, reporter Josh Krales investigates a string of murders perpetrated by a group of terrorists who are blackmailing America's wealthiest men...

  • Invisible Fire

    Pat Graversen

    SHE WAS A FAIRY-TALE PRINCESS OF A CHILD -- WITH SILKEN HAIR…SKIN OF GLOWING IVORY…AND EYES OLDER THAN EVIL… Lona was ten. An exceptional child in every way. Unusually quiet, to be sure -- and incredibly bright. To her mother Faye and her gr...

  • Devil Flotilla

    Edwin Gray

  • Holocaust

    Gerald Green

    The epic novel of two families and the genocide in Nazi Germany, by the writer of the blockbuster TV miniseries.   The Dorfs are “good” Germans, loyal to the new Nazi regime, with whom their son Erik, a promising lawyer, finds his ambitions ...

  • A Season in Between

    Jan Greenberg

  • Little Sister

    Yvonne Greene

    Just when she had something good of her own, her older sister stepped in, again.. . Cindy feels she's going to be second-rate all her life. Her older sister Christine has the pretty face, the good body and gets all the cute boys. Cindy just can't ...

  • It All Began With Jane Eyre

    Sheila Greenwald

    In a satire on teenage problem novels, a young girl's change in reading tastes from the classics to contemporary novels overstimulates her fertile imagination, which soon creates an elaborate melodrama involving her entire family...

  • Make Me a Star

    Chet Hagan

    GLITTER. MONEY. FAME. STARDOM. BOOZE. DRUGS. PAIN. STARDOM. THE DREAM. Marcia Caldwell is young, beautiful, talented, determined, and a dreamer. her dreams always end on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry, the mother church of country music. Dreams, tho...

  • Money Man

    H. Rider Haggard

  • Esbae

    Linda Haldeman

  • Meeting With the Past

    Caroline Halter

    MEETING WITH THE PAST Portugal! The quaint charms of Sintra and Cascais, the sophistication of Lisbon. Training as an agent for Globe Travel Unlimited, lovely Alex Jameson would see it all now... now that she was starting over after the sad collap...

  • Aesop's Fables

    S.A. Handford

    A collection of nine classic fables enhanced by detailed illustrations includes the stories of the City Mouse and Country Mouse, the confident Hare and determined Tortoise, and other moral-bearing animals of Aesop's world...

  • The Swing

    Emily Hanlon

  • Playing With Fire

    Laura Hardy

    SHE WAS LOST IN THE FIRE. Surprisingly, Dinah loved working for "Sir Gee," her autocratic boss. But working for his son was another matter entirely. Greg Randal had all of his father's arrogance with none of the older man's unde...

  • The Woman Who Went Away

    Firth Haring

    Wife, mother, and teacher Margot Delaunoy takes off for a vacation alone at her family's camp in the Adirondacks. But unfortunately, a seemingly gentle young man has gotten there ahead of her. A taut, suspenseful allegory of evil.-San Francisco Revie...

  • Contrary Cousins

    Judith Harkness

    TO THWART AN EARL was Lady Pendleton's dearest desire, and that was why she had taken it into her head to invite her two delightful young American nieces to England. Her brother, the pompous Earl of Cumberford, absolutely loathed the American branch...

  • No Two Sexes Are Alike

    Johnny Hart

  • Death on the Docks

    Dane Hartman

    FOR "DIRTY HARRY" CALLAHAN, IT'S A LABOR OF HATE WHEN HE BUSTS A LABOR RACKETEER! There are some guys in this world even dirtier than Harry Callahan. Like union czar Matt Braxton, the biggest deal on the docks. He's corrupt enough to be cozy with th...

  • Winner Take All

    Brooke Hastings

    HE WAS A MAN USED TO VICTORY. An unhappy marriage had cured Carrie Spencer of love forever. All she wanted from life was to control the small firm of Elliot Bay Electronic and be left strictly alone. But powerful entrepreneur Matt Lyle had othe...

  • Even If I Did Something Awful?

    Barbara Shook Hazen

  • Powder Burn

    Carl Hiaasen; Bill Montalbano

    Architect Chris Meadows has the bad luck to see an old girlfriend get hit by a car full of drugland hitmen. He has the worse luck to see the face of her murderers. Because in a town as violent as Miami, a witness doesn''t stand a chance--especially w...

  • The Case of the Four Flying Fingers

    E.W. Hildick

  • Surrender Value

    John Buxton Hilton

    Recently retired from Scotland Yard, Inspector Kenworthy investigates the apparent suicide of a respectable teacher and discovers surprising undercurrents in the teacher's quiet English village and in the emerging portrait of the respectable teacher...

  • Lilac Night

    Michael T. Hinkemeyer

  • Ragan's Law

    Ray Hogan

  • Made in Heaven

    Tracie Hotchner

  • Summon the Bright Water

    Geoffrey Household

    On a walk in the woods, a historian is drawn into a conspiracy of murder Piers Colet is about to fly to Spain when his plane’s engine catches fire. His research trip delayed, he decides to spend the week exploring the banks of the Severn, the ancie...

  • Snow Flame

    Susanna Howe

    THEIR VOWS WERE A HOAX, BUT THE BONDS OF DESIRE WOULD LAST FOR FOREVER! Bree Alexander needed a husband, at once, if she were ever to reach Colorado -- and her real spouse. So the flame-haired Southern belle en-listed the aid ofJem Tyler, the six-...

  • Closely Watched Trains

    Bohumil Hrabal

    A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers For twenty-two-year-old Milos, bumbling apprentice at a sleepy Czech railway station, life is full of worries: his burdensome...

  • The Tin Cravat

    Jack D. Hunter

    After defecting to the United States and gaining a crucial role in U.S. intelligence, Bruno Stachel, a German war hero, returns to Germany to thwart Nazi plans to maintain guerilla resistance even after the Nazis' imminent defeat...

  • Red Ice

    Mary J. Hutchinson

  • Address Unknown

    Malcolm Hutton

  • Close Relations

    Susan Isaacs

    Marcia Thinks She Has Everything. She's an attractive, sophisticated whiz-kid speechwriter in an exciting gubernatorial campaign. She lives in Manhattan with an excruciatingly handsome Irish bachelor who promises nothing less or more -- than to lov...

  • Mazes and Monsters

    Rona Jaffe

    THEY HAD ALWAYS HAD THE BEST OF EVERYTHING. KATE, JAY JAY, DANIEL, AND ROBBIE -- four beautiful, bright, gifted young people. Their families had given them everything the American Dream could offer -- but they cast it aside for a darker dream. Toge...

  • Devil Has Four Faces

    T.D. Jakes

  • Lucy's Cottage

    Margaret James

  • So Wild a Heart

    Veronica Jason

    Love Drew Her To One Man. Desire Bound Her To Another... Jacques Latour was all that beautiful young Angelique admired in a man -- courageous, idealistic, unselfish. Willingly she gave herself to this gallant revolutionary, and asked nothing in retur...

  • Heart of Deception

    Claudette Jauniere

    She could no longer trust her own emotions. Jennifer was crushed to realize her photographer fiance, Paul, had no intention of marrying her. He'd only been interested in managing her modeling career -- and her fees. Now he was nothing more than a bit...

  • The Rubout at the Onyx

    H. Paul Jeffers

  • Baja Oklahoma

    Dan Jenkins

    Dan Jenkins' second best-known novel, Baja Oklahoma, features protagonist Juanita Hutchins, who can cuss and politically commentate with the best of Jenkins' male protagonists. Still convincingly female, though in no way dumb and girly, fortyish Juan...

  • Vampyr

    Jan Jennings

    Supernatural passion...dangerous love...vampyrs are among us.Dr. Theo James: Tall, handsome, brilliant, he discovers that he is dying. He is ripe for the unexpected...and it arrives, in the person of...Valan: Slender, beautiful, rich, cosmopolitan--a...

  • Weedy Rough

    Douglas C. Jones

  • The Miramar Seduction

    Keeling Jordan

  • Meadowsong

    Phyllis Ann Karr

    "HE HAS ALREADY DECIDED IT IS NOT WORTHWHILE TO TEACH ME!" Sally Merryn was very pretty and almost eighteen. And all her life, her one passion had been to play the flute. The fact that she had little talent for such a sensitive instrume...

  • Baby Driver

    Jan Kerouac

  • Passionate Stranger

    Flora Kidd

    His music awoke a flood of memories "I never want to see you again. Never!" Sara remembered well her parting words to her Hungarian husband, Janos Vaszary, two years before. And now she was at a concert in California watching him onstag...

  • Canadian Killing Ground

    Axel Kilgore

    Hank Frost, the wise-cracking, one-eyed mercenary captain, takes on an easy executive protection job. The assignment is to ride shotgun on a seven-year-old genius en route to rejoin his father, a U.S. military aircraft expert working on a Top Secret ...

  • Cujo

    Stephen King

    THE ULTIMATE BEAST IS LOOSE -- AND STEPHEN KING IS SENDING HIM YOUR WAY! A big, friendly dog chases a rabbit into a hidden underground cave -- and stirs a sleeping evil crueler than death itself. A terrified four-year-old boy sees his bedroom clos...

  • Aloha, Yesterday

    Meredith Kingston

    Romantic excitement surrounded voluptuous Christine Hanover in sun-splashed Honolulu. Yet she lived in the dim, cool shadows of the Hanover mansion with her in-laws, devoted to the memory of her "hero" husband. But when Nick Carruthers, vital, sen...

  • The Sentinel

    Jeffrey Konvitz

    Jeffrey Konvitz’s New York Times"bestselling horror novel about a young woman descending into demonic madness who discovers it’s not simply in her mind Aspiring model Allison Parker finally moves into her dream apartment: a brownstone on Manhat...

  • Prince of Morning Bells

    Nancy Kress

    Long out of print, this novel by one of the major voices in contemporary science fiction and fantasy will enthrall you, charm you, and make you care deeply about two of the most engaging characters you're ever likely to meet between the two covers of...

  • Bestseller

    Joan kretschmer

  • Slocum's Raid, No. 32

    Phyllis Kronhausen

  • Flowers For Lisa

    Veronica Ladd

    Lisa Kelly’s interest in flowers earns her a summer job at Rick Brewster’s father’s florist shop. She is thrilled when she and Rick start dating but she worries that the relationship is only a summer fling. Beauty's more the way your fee...

  • Heartbreaker

    Charlotte Lamb

    Was the past ever dead and buried? Caroline left her alcoholic husband, Peter, in an act of desperation--to save herself and their little daughter from harm. Their three-year security was shattered when Nick Holt, Peter's cousin, turned up ...

  • A Nice Sound Alibi

    Philip Lauben

  • The Phantom Momma Strikes Again!

    Mell Lazarus

  • The Twelve Dancing Princesses

    Errol LeCain

  • Delusion's Master

    Tanith Lee

    When the world was flat and the gods had not yet restructured the universe, the cities and hopes of mankind hung upon the whims of the immortal lords of all diabolical powers. For these, such as Azhrarn, Night's Master, and Uhlume, Death's Master,...

  • The Case of the Wild River Ride

    Elizabeth Levy

  • Double Trouble

    Elliott Lewis

  • The Romanovs

    W. Bruce Lincoln

  • Pursuit of Happiness

    Florence Littauer

  • Slocum's Raid

    Jake Logan

    SLOCUM WAS AFTER AN ARMY PAYROLL WORTH HALF A MILLION DOLLARS. He had seven men to do it with, half of them fighting over the hot little blonde, the other half looking to kill him as soon as he turned his back. Then there were the federal troops scou...

  • Night of the Apache

    Warren T. Longtree

  • Sudden Thunder

    Warren T. Longtree

  • Sudden

    Warren T. Longtree

  • The Memory Book

    Harry Lorayne

  • Breeze Off the Ocean

    Amii Lorin

    Micki had tried to forget, but the memory of that weekend of abandoned passion lingered on. Wolf Renninger... he was all that his name implied -- devastatingly handsome, charming, lean...and hungry -- a beautiful male animal on the prowl. lie coul...

  • The Woman Who Loved the Moon

    Elizabeth A. Lynn

    HER FIRST AND ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION Containing the first, the favorite, the lyrical and lush short fiction of today's most celebrated new fantasy talent, the author of A DIFFERENT LIGHT and the winner of two World Fantasy awards in one year. ...

  • Sweet Seduction

    Maura MacKenzie

    BOUND BY THE PAST, SHE REJECTED LOVE -- UNTIL PASSION BETRAYED HER THE KEY TO HER FUTURE WAS LOCKED IN THE PAST Denise's new job was ideal--to a marine biologist, the research project in the Bahamas would be fascinating. And it would allow ...

  • The Fandango Involvement

    Thomas Mahon

  • Far from Shore

    Kevin Major

    Faced with instability on many sides, and living in an outport community in Newfoundland, fifteen-year-old Chris gropes for direction in a family broken apart by unemployment. Even his easy-going, humorous attitude fails to steady him as he stumbl...

  • Whispers of Love

    Barbara Max

    Shy Olivia Randall had expected excitement when she took the job as exchange editor in Elegant Life's London office, but her arrival plunged her into such confusion, she wanted to turn around and fly back to New York. An icy welcome had followed a...

  • The Jaws of Menx

    Ann Maxwell

    WHERE THE GODS TREAD, CAN MAN FOLLOW? Menx, the mysterious world where technology is taboo and reality is seldom what it seems. Menx is fast approaching the time when it must decide for or against membership in the Galactic Concord, and Rhane en J...

  • Dark Forces

    Kirby McCauley

  • An Indecent Obsession

    Colleen McCullough

    IN CARING FOR THE WOUNDED, SHE FOUND THE STRENGTH OF HER DUTY. To the battle-broken soldiers in honour Langtry's care, she was all they had. The beautiful nurse whose selfless devotion calmed the seething hostilities among them. Their one precious re...

  • The Janus Syndrome

    Steven E. McDonald

  • Eyes of the Hawk

    Lee McElroy

  • Rites

    George McKenna

  • Apache Warrior

    Steve Mensing

  • Marah

    Jean Merrill

  • Land Without Shadows

    Michael Mewshaw

  • Confessions of a Homing Pigeon

    Nicholas Meyer

  • Without Warning

    Fern Michaels

    ANGELA HAS VISIONS .. . tortured visions that haunt her sleep and terrorize her waking hours. Her socialite mother wants to commit her. Her wealthy father is too busy to deal with her. They refuse to accept what she knows is so, that she sees things...

  • The Pelican's Clock

    Robert Middlemiss

  • The Parrot Man

    Robert Middlemiss

  • The Shape of the Future's Past

    Chris Morgan

  • Animal Days

    Desmond Morris

    In this irresistible personal history the author of The Naked Ape and Manwatching tells the touching and often hilarious story of his early animal days. Long before he wrote his bestsellers son human behavior, Desmond Morris had already become a fami...

  • Night Wind

    Roberta Jean Mountjoy

    The passionate saga of an Indian princess whose soul belonged to her people... and whose heart lay captured in a stranger's hands! Night Wind was the rainmaker, the shaman, the chosen leader ofher tribe. She had killed the white man who raped her, ...

  • Hell Is My Heaven

    Jeneth Murrey

    Suddenly events shot out of her control When her married sister, Shirley, and the new baby had to move in with her, Kate Forrest reluctantly gave up schoolteaching for a more lucrative career in modeling. But she hadn't counted on Shirley&#...

  • Ramona's Daughter

    Virginia Myers

  • Oath of Fealty

    Larry Niven; Jerry Pournelle

    In the near future, Los Angeles is an all but uninhabitable war zone, wracked by crime, violence, pollution and poverty. But above the blighted city, a Utopia has arisen: Todos Santos, a thousand-foot high single-structured city, designed to used ...

  • Secret Love

    Denise Noel

    Love posed a strange threat Diane was shocked when she returned to her small hometown. An evil rumor that the village was cursed had spread like wildfire -- a rumor that was readily accepted after three men were mysteriously murdered. Every day...