Books Published in September 1982

popular books

BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — SEPTEMBER 1982

Best Reviewed
Best Reviewed

New Books List: 333 titles

  • House Of Danger

    R.A. Montgomery

    THE HOUSE OF DANGER IS YOUR BIGGEST CASE -- AND IT MIGHT BE YOUR LAST! You are a detective and psychic investigator. One day in your office/lab you receive a phone call: "HELP! I NEED YOUR HELP!" You quickly trace the call to a big, strange-looki...

  • The Lieutenants

    W.E.B. Griffin

    They were the young ones, the bright ones, the ones with the dreams. From the Nazi-prowled wastes of North Africa to the bloody corridors of Europe, they answered the call gladly. War. It was their duty, their job, their life. They marched off as boy...

  • The Mendoza Manuscript

    Nick Carter

  • Mercenary Kill

    John Quinn

  • Orphan Army

    Lionel Derrick

  • Paramilitary Plot

    Don Pendleton

    Warning: Black Death! The disappearance of a leading U.S. biochemist was handled routinely by the Department of Justice... until their agent on the case was found dead in Florida, his body ravaged by a plague bacillus. Enter Mack Bolan. The mur...

  • Murder Unprompted

    Simon Brett

    Here is another of Simon Bretts fascinating blends of crime and backstage drama. This time he provides what might be described as the biography of a playfrom the cradle to the grave. Murder Unprompted takes you from the author, to an unscrupulous pro...

  • All She Ever Wanted

    Linda Shaw

    ALL SHE EVER WANTED was to continue her mother's dream. To Victoria, the school her mother had run was everything. Then Clifford Pennington entered the picture, and suddenly she wanted something new--this virile lawyer whose touch awoke the passio...

  • Autumn Beginning

    Kay Kirby

  • A Boy to Dream About

    Lisa Quinn

    From the moment the dynamic young actor, Casey Dewitt , stepped on stage, Michelle fell under his spell. She was sure his golden hair and turquoise eyes would forever enchant her. At last she had met the boy of her dreams. ...

  • By Love Betrayed

    Anne N. Reisser

    She was a beautiful heiress far from home who dreamed of being loved for herself alone. Arrogant and powerful, he didn't ask questions. He commanded and took her trust, love, and passion - then left her with only her cold stubborn pride. They&...

  • Claudine at School

    Colette

  • Dangerous Journey

    Margaret Mayo

    No doubt about it, Verna was inhibited She'd always kept her relationships with men light, friendly. Whenever stronger feelings threatened, her mother's biased cautions would come back to save her. But Verna had never before met anyone ...

  • Dangerous Promise

    Alyce Bowen

    IT HAD TO BE ALL -- OR NOTHING Stephanie had little choice but to accept Cade Steele's demand. As production coordinator she would be personally responsible to him while her company filmed on his ranch. But working with the formidable, deva...

  • Devil's Bargain

    Elaine Camp

    HE LURED HER INTO THE MAZE OF HIS HEART. Years ago, Alexis Walker had been easily wooed by the splendor of Greece and the charm of Drayce Tombazkis. Beneath the majestic columns of the Acropolis, they had shared a love that seemed blessed by the g...

  • The Devil's Mistress

    Sarah Holland

    Alex Brent was a dangerous man! Natasha was horrified to learn he had been chosen for the starring role opposite her. Once they had been everything to each other, but he had chosen to believe the lies of Roger, his spoiled, willful brother. Ale...

  • Dream Come True

    Ann Major

    SECRETS OF LOVE He had seared her innocence with burning desire. Now, six years after their divorce, Barron Skyemaster, superstar, tried to claim her again. But how could Amber face him after denying him the knowledge of his son-a son he had every...

  • Emerald Enchantment

    Nomi Berger

  • Enchanted Island

    Jean Innes

    With the stars as her guide and nature's colors as her inspiration, lovely Shelley Rogers had made a name for herself as London's most gifted interior designer. Now she was off to the sun-bright Isle of Jersey to redecorate wealthy Alex Hart's enchan...

  • Eve's Delight

    Cindy Nemser

  • A Fatal Attraction

    Shirley Hart

    His eyes moved insolently over her, following the slim curves of her body down to the delicate instep of her heeled sandals. Amanda met his mocking gaze with cool eyes. She remembered him. The formidable Reid Buchanan, a man who changed women as e...

  • A Fire of the Soul

    Ginger Chambers

    Safety -- that was what she needed most after the shock she'd received when she discovered that Carl, the man she'd thought was hers, was about to be married -- to her sister, Marla! A refuge -- but could she find it here on her uncle'...

  • A Flame Too Fierce

    Jan Mathews

    Bereaved by death, betrayed by love, nurse Gin Selton seeks a safe, new life in Minnesota. But Noah Grady--whose reputation as a lover exceeds his renown as a physician--makes excessive demands at work that bring them into explosive opposition... unt...

  • Flight to Romance

    Tracy Sinclair

    SHE HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO FLY. When Kalim Al Kahira, one of the most influential industrialists in the world, requested that Jennifer Fairchild return with him to Egypt aboard his private jet, her career demanded that she go. But her job could n...

  • For the Love of Lori

    Veronica Ladd

    Andy and Lori neighbors and friends since kindergarten. They had never imagined that anything could come between them. Yet when they exchange their first kiss, everything changed. Would they ever be friends again? Or should they chance the bitte...

  • Harvest of Desire

    Mary Christopher

    HIS WISH WAS HER COMMAND Katarin Jameson was spellbound. He was here, in the flesh, the Baron von Drachensberg -- tall, compelling and definitely interested in Katarin. When she'd returned to the land of her ancestors to run the family vineya...

  • In Name Only

    Roxanne Jarrett

    HOW COULD SHE MARRY A STRANGER? Finally, Jill Carteret was going to Brazil. But she was not going to work in her uncle's company as she had planned. Instead, her uncle, now deceased, had arranged for Jill to marry his younger partner, Simon Todd. ...

  • An Independent Wife

    Linda Howard

    AN INDEPENDENT WIFE... ...and determined to stay that way--that was Sallie Jerome Baines. Her husband Rhydon Baines had broken her heart and once, she had vowed, was enough. Then fate brought them together again, and the new Sallie fell for Rhy...

  • A Lamp for Jonathan

    Essie Summers

    He was too near -- and not to be trusted Having Jonathan back in New Zealand was torture for Camilla. Five years had passed since she'd painfully broken their engagement, though she'd kept her knowledge of his dishonesty a secret. No ma...

  • Lesson in Love

    Tracy West

    The party was an unqualified success! And the best part had been lithe, handsome Mark James who had tumbled into Netta’s life and was now doing flipflops in her singing heart. Would he juggle it as expertly as he did those oranges? She didn’t car...

  • Life Sentences

    Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

    A woman who encounters tragedy unexpectedly has two choices. She can spend her life mourning. . .or she she can learn to live again. The choice Lindsay Howard made after her young husband's accident would outrage some people and inspire others. ...

  • Little Company

    Mary Elmblad

  • Logic of the Heart

    Dixie Browning

    A SUMMER PARADISE Even though the trip was business, Emma looked forward to seeing the romantic island of Hatteras. Meeting the dark, handsome Dan Slater had not been part of her plans. But the situation she walked into grew as sizzling as the ...

  • Love Has Its Reasons

    Olivia Ferrell

    LOVE HAS ITS REASONS. Cara Lang had been slumbering, waiting, though she hadn't known it until Sloan Montgomery stormed into her life and awakened the woman inside her. She shivered beneath his touch, gloried in his dazzling gaze and reveled in...

  • Love's Tender Trial

    Maggi Charles

    When nurse Fern Morgan met Jonathan Delafield, she knew she had found someone special. She and the handsome district attorney struck sparks off each other from the first, but it was not until an injury placed him under her care that they learned ...

  • Man for Hire

    Sally Wentworth

    Something in his past worried him Yet Rafe Hendrix was obviously not a man to accept defeat, and Charis immediately knew he was the one who could rescue her young sister. Jane had been spirited away by a religious sect, and Charis feared for he...

  • Man of Illusion

    Jill Moore

    APPRENTICE IN LOVE He threw off sparks of anger like shards of sharp metal, yet Cara stood her ground. She had no notion of what she was supposed to do or how to do it, but now she meant to stay. Pulled this way and that by a baffling cast of char...

  • Mixed Doubles

    Meredith Kingston

    Cynthia and Russ were powerful opponents on the tennis court and in every argument--but friends nonetheless. Then they went their separate ways. Reunited years later, both single once again, their comfortable companionship suddenly burst into a torri...

  • A New Tomorrow

    Irma Walker

  • Of Passion Born

    Suzanne Simms

    CHAUCER WAS HER FIRST LOVE. Professor Chelsie McBride was thoroughly acquainted with her subject: the sometimes humorous, sometimes bawdy Canterbury Tales that could make even her students blush. A respected professional in her field, she was no s...

  • Passion from the Past

    Carole Mortimer

    She had fallen for him at first sight When Laura learned she was to work for the handsome Gideon Maitland, she was overwhelmed. Since she was a very junior secretary, he would never otherwise have noticed her. But he had more than seen her. He ...

  • Power Play

    Jayne Castle

    Blackmail! Talia Haywood could hardly believe she was so desperate. But something about Kane Sebastian drove her to it: anything to get the information that only he could provide. She thought she knew his type: an arrogant industrial tycoon, the k...

  • Pride's Possession

    Jeanne Stephens

    Sara Dantan was her own woman, making her own way in the world, but Dr. Court Pride had plans to end all that. He planned to make her his woman, and the more she resisted, the more he enjoyed the fight. His kisses taunted her, his caresses torment...

  • Relentless Love

    Hayton Monteith

    After six years her secret was public knowledge, and the one man she had tried to avoid finally knew the truth: Rennie Gilbert, famed children's book author, was Lee Chatham, the wife who had deserted him so long ago. Price Chatham reeled her bac...

  • Return Engagement

    Kay Robbins

    Sparks flew whenever fiery-haired actress Tara Collins and domineering producer Devlin Bradley came within shouting distance. Who would have guessed they'd been engaged once before... Then circumstances force Tara to make a pact with her torment...

  • Satin and Steele

    Jaelyn Conlee

    Skye Anderson knew about love -- its pain and aching loss. As executive secretary at the Hayes Corporation, she had found safety in a cocoon of hard-working days and lonely nights. James Steele threw her into turmoil. Elegant and impossibly viril...

  • Searching

    Jessie Ford

  • Second Harvest

    Erin Ross

    HER LEGACY WAS WINE FOR REMEMBRANCE.... The fields of Kia Ora were all that remained of Alex's turbulent past, and Lindsay was bound to honor her husband's memory by taking an active part in the New Zealand vineyard. The exotic splendor of Kia Ora...

  • The Second Time

    Janet Dailey

    How long could their love last? She had been an impetuous teenager when she had defied her love for Slater MacBride to marry a Texas millionaire, and she regretted her mistake. After eleven years of marriage without love, Dawn Lord was returning ...

  • The Silken Web

    Laura Jordan (2)

    WITH SUMMER'S SWIFT PASSION, THEY MET AND LOVED... Beautiful fashion buyer Kathleen Haley was determined to resist Erik Gudjonsen, the magnetic blond photographer on assignment at the camp where she was a volunteer counselor. But soon she was ...

  • Spring Fever

    Kerry Allyne

    Could any man do more damage than Corey? Even his own brother didn't want to see Corey Tavener when he returned home. Dale Freeman learned he had callously shirked his responsibilities eight years earlier, leaving the Queensland Gulf for green...

  • Sultry Nights

    Ariel Tierney

    SULTRY NIGHTS Deserted by her husband, newscaster Annie Carroll ran her life with clockwork precision. No one could penetrate her defenses--until Ellis, a New Orleans art collector. Suave, sophisticated, sure of himself--and his women --he drew he...

  • The Summer Jenny Fell in Love

    Rosemary Vernon

    Jenny wants to fall in love--preferrably with someone handsome and rich! Having Craig and his mother rent rooms in her house doesn't exactly fall into her carefully made plans. Though he is awkward and insecure, Craig still knows how to get on her ne...

  • Summer Magic

    Laura Eden

    SUMMER MAGIC ... For Alexa Jones this was to be a summer of rest and relaxation. But a vacation in Adam Carlyle's disturbing presence turned her world around. No more could she hold herself aloof from life, from men. Adam stormed her citadel, d...

  • Sweet Bondage

    Dorothy Vernon

    SHE WAS DESIRE'S WILLING CAPTIVE. Maxwell Ross had set into motion a plan to avenge his younger brother. But he was wreaking revenge on the wrong woman, as Gemma Coleridge was only too happy to tell him -- at first. But soon, too soon, her heart o...

  • Sweet Surrender

    Donna Vitek

    AN INSURMOUNTABLE CHALLENGE Suzanne Collins had no idea what was in store for her when she left for Italy. Expecting a quiet visit with her father, she never dreamed she would end up falling in love with his business partner! But Jared Caine wa...

  • Tapestry of Love

    Cathryn Ladd

    TANGLED THREADS OF ROMANCE Beautiful young Callie Forbes could scarcely believe her good fortune when Owen Trenwyn hired her to help him catalog his precious art and antique collection. The job was a challenge, and her elderly employer treated Cal...

  • A Tender Wilderness

    Christine Hella Cott

    SHE WASN'T A WOMAN WHO ACCEPTED DEFEAT Jessamine knew Bensen Everhart was annoyed with her. Too bad! She hadn't meant to dig up family skeletons -- but she had to research her historical novel, and that included his pioneer ancestry. St...

  • To Catch the Wild Wind

    Jo Calloway

    From the moment he appeared on the beach--tall, sun-bronzed, and impossibly handsome--Kenda knew that she wanted him, loved him.... Kenda had survived the tropical storm that killed her father and destroyed his research lab. Alone on one of Fiji's...

  • The Touch of Passion

    Lynda Ward

    HOW COULD SHE RESIST THE POWER OF HIS KISS? Gemma Culver, as a woman and an artist, was moved by the sensuous beauty of Jordan di Mario's sculptures. She'd often fantasized about meeting the master of erotica, the man who could breathe sexual vita...

  • Virginia Clay

    Meredith Rich

    A woman juggles her exhilarating career, the love of a sexy, powerful man and her vicious stepfamily in this romance from the author of Bare Essence. As an underwater photographer capturing the international pearl trade, Clay Fitzgerald is no strange...

  • When September Returns

    McClure Jones

    "MAYBE YOU OUGHT TO GO OUT WITH OTHER GUYS," Joanne's friends all told her. But she couldn't. She had fallen for Tim . Tim with his blond hair and crooked smile, Tim who called her gorgeous. She knew that she had another year of school, while Tim wa...

  • Winds of Desire

    Jocelyn Haley

    SHE HAD UNDERESTIMATED THE POWER OF PASSION When Dr. Michael Stratton chose Tracey for his arts scholarship she cried for joy. At last she could quit waitressing and write full-time. But she didn't trust the attractive doctor's motives. Mo...

  • The Beast

    Robert Stallman

    A shapeshifter learns he’s not alone on earth in the finale of this acclaimed science fiction trilogy for fans of Ray Bradbury and Theodore Sturgeon. The shapeshifting beast’s human form has settled down in Albuquerque. Barry Golden is a ...

  • The Black Beast

    Nancy Springer

    THOSE WHO LIVED BY THE SWORD OF PASSION -- WOULD DIE BY THE SWORD OF LOVE! Frain and Tirell, princes of Melior, ventured together into mysterious regions of Vale in search of an army and the hope of victory. For his father's murder of the gentle, ...

  • Castle Crespin

    Allen Andrews

  • Darkchild

    Sydney J. Van Scyoc

  • Hawkmistress!

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    She had rejected her noble birthright and embraced the freedom only a man could claim. She was Romilly who lived among the beasts of hill and forest and communicated with them, who tried humanity and turned it down for its evils and jealousies. She h...

  • The Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World

    Ethel J. Phelps

  • Rapunzel

    Barbara Rogasky

    A wicked witch catches a man taking rampion from her garden, forces him to give her his daughter, Rapunzel, and imprisons the girl in a high tower until she is rescued by a prince, in a version of a classic fairytale first published in 1982. An ALA N...

  • The Runes of the Lyre

    Ardath Mayhar

    Created by the powerful Hasyisi, yet missing for centuries from its home world, the Lyre just hangs in a willow tree, waiting. Hasyih, the Heart of the Worlds, links contiguous dimensions, many worlds invisible to each other, yet accessible through d...

  • Time Safari

    David Drake

  • The Venetian Court

    Charles L. Harness

    The Plaintiff, Universal Patents, Inc., was heartless.The judge, Rex "Spider" Speyer was merciless. Ellen Welles' case seemed hopeless.Unless her lawyer could locate the mad creator of FAUST - the robot-inventor who'd given Universal Patents its stra...

  • Wildraith's Last Battle

    Phyllis Ann Karr

    She had been a God, lord of all forests and the creatures that dwell within, until a small and thoughtless act of cruelty brought heavenly justice upon her, sentencing her to the worst punishment of all: to become human....

  • An Accidental Grace

    Irene Mahoney

  • After Hours

    Edwin Torres

    This best-selling book was the basis for the thrilling film Carlito's Way starring Academy Award winners Al Pacino and Sean Penn, directed by Brian De Palma. Carlito Brigante, often described as the Puerto Rican Godfather, was just released early fro...

  • Alice with Golden Hair

    Eleanor Hull

  • All About Robots

    Mary Billard

  • Anger

    May Sarton

    The marriage of Ned Fraser, a Boston banker, and Anna Lindstrom, a singer on the brink of fame, is a battlefield of opposing temperaments.

    Emotional and forthright, Anna battles against Ned's crippling reserve. In the clash of these two strong...

  • Animal Partners

    Patricia Curtis

    Discusses ways in which animals are trained to help the handicapped and to provide companionship for mentally retarded, ill, and elderly persons. Based on interviews with professional animal trainers, therapists, social workers, and teachers....

  • Annie and the Kidnappers

    Amy Ehrlich

  • Annie Joins the Circus

    James Howe

  • Apple Crunch

    Frederic V. Huber

  • The Baby Uggs Are Hatching

    Jack Prelutsky

  • Bech is Back

    John Updike

    In this follow-up to Bech: A Book, Henry Bech, the priapic, peripatetic, and unproductive Jewish American novelist, returns with seven more chapters from his mock-heroic life. He turns fifty in a confusing blend of civic and erotic circumstances whil...

  • Becoming a Heroine

    Rachel M. Brownstein

  • The Bell Tree

    H.M. Hoover

  • Black Pope

    Mark Ramsay

  • Blue Bear's Race

    Mirabel Cecil

  • Blue Highways

    William Least Heat-Moon

    Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads.William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those lit...

  • Bob Fulton's Amazing Soda-Pop Stretcher

    Jerome Beatty

  • Bob Fulton's Terrific Time Machine

    Jerome J. Beatty

  • Burton and Speke

    William Harrison

  • The Cage

    Susan Cheever

    Alone in their New Hampshire summer estate, magazine writer William Bristol and his suburb-bound wife, Julia, confront the fragmentation of their once-shared hopes amid the private-menagerie cages inherited from Julia's wealthy family...

  • Can I Help?

    Anne Rockwell

  • The Captive Witch

    Julian Messner

  • Carnival in My Mind

    Barbara Wersba

  • Censors in the Classroom

    Edward B. Jenkinson

  • Child of Hell

    William Dobson

  • Childrens Story

    James Clavell

    It was a simple incident in the life of James Clavell — a talk with his young daughter just home from school — that inspired this chilling tale of what could happen in twenty-five quietly devastating minutes. He writes, The Children's Stor...

  • Childrens Ward

    Howard L. Weiner

  • The China Option

    Nancy Dall Milton

  • China Winter

    Carole Maso

  • Christmas Observed

    Owen Dudley Edwards

  • The Cobweb Christmas

    Shirley Climo

    This beautiful picture book about the warmth and wonder of Christmas and the origin of tinsel on trees will leave children enchanted with the magical possibilities of the season.

    Everybody loves Christmas at Tante''s. The old lady decorates ...

  • The Cock, the Mouse and the Little Red Hen

    Lorinda Bryan Cauley

  • Controlled Cheating

    Larry Goldberg

  • Cosmo Report

    Linda Wolfe

  • The Creature Catalog: A Monster Watcher's Guide

    Michael Berenstain

  • Crib

    Harold Lee Friedman

    SHHHH. THE BABY IS ASLEEP... Right from the beginning, Joni Lawrence and her baby had a strange and wonderful connection her husband could not understand and could not share. Somehow she could speak to six-month old Stephen without words...without...

  • Critical Path

    Michael Ansara

  • Crossroads of Love

    Madeline Blackwood

  • Dagger of the Mind

    Bob Shaw

    'The entire head had been stripped of skin, creating a nightmarish sculpture in gelled blood...' The hideous apparition that confronted John Redpath almost defied description. It was the beginning of a horrific ordeal that would cause him to question...

  • Dark Angel

    Sean Forestal

  • The Day It Snowed

    Ed Stevenson

  • Dear Shrink

    Helen Cresswell

  • Deathmate

    Martin Caidin

  • Delicate Geometry

    Ken Chowder

  • Doubles

    Tom Seligson

  • Escape from Sobibor

    Richard L. Rashke

    A story suppressed by the Nazis, the largest prisoner escape of World War II is here reconstructed from the diaries, notes, and memories of the six hundred Jews who revolted, three hundred of whom escaped the death camp Sobibor...

  • Eulalia's Island

    Carolyn Meyer

  • The Falcon Strikes

    Mark Ramsay

  • A Family Album

    Frank V. Dawes

  • Fast Eddie

    Neil Bayne

  • The Forsaken

    Cameron Read

    The Hamiltons move into a historic North Carolina mansion unaware that the ghosts of two dead sisters haunt it...

  • Foxx's Foe

    Zack Tyler

  • Frankenstein's Aunt

    Alan Rune Pettersen

    When Aunt Frankenstein arrives at the castle of her nephew, who created the monster, to restore that place to order and clear the family's blackened name, she encounters both Dracula and the werewolf and attempts to solve their problems too....

  • Girl Meets Boy

    Hila Colman

  • The Glory

    Judith Saxton

    A family saga which follows the fortunes of the Neylor family. Mark has come back to New Zealand, while Tina's family is growing up in England. Then the First World War breaks out, and lives are changed forever. From the author of THE BLUE AND DISTAN...

  • The Golden Hawk

    Frank Yerby

    They called him the Golden Hawk, Kit Gerado, whose tawny mane and fierce hungers were know and feared thoughout the Caribbean. As a young boy Kit Gerado had seen his mother murdered by the arrogant Don Luis del Toro. Now, as a buccaneer captain, he l...

  • Golden Shore

    Harvey Aronson

  • Good Son

    Craig Nova

    “The Good Son is the work of an artist in full command, and those of you entering it for the first time can only be envied.” -- From the foreword by Jonathan YardleyChip Mackinnon returns from World War II a changed man. After being shot down...

  • The Good-Guy Cake

    Barbara Dillon

  • Halloween

    John Carpenter

  • The Haunting

    Margaret Mahy

    Nobody knew. Or did they? Barney's family seems ordinary enough...until Great Uncle Barnaby dies. Suddenly, an eerie, weird voice starts taunting poor Barney unmercifully. It won't leave him alone. Only his sister Tabitha, the aspiring novelist, s...

  • Have You Seen My Son?

    Jack Olsen

    When her estranged husband disappears with their five-year-old son, Lael Pritcher embarks on a lonely, obsessed search that takes her through the northwestern United States, into Canada, and--finally--to Mexico...

  • Help! Let Me Out!

    David Lord Porter

  • Henry James

    Henry James

    In a penetrating examination of Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, What Maisie Knew, The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl, Hutchinson shows that, like the major American authors who preceded him, Henry J...

  • Hippos Go Berserk!

    Sandra Boynton

    The hippos meet up with their friends and enjoy an evening out at a party where chaos, fun, and wild times erupt, in a colorful counting book featuring a humorous rhyming text and enhanced by lively illustrations....

  • The Horrible, Impossible, Bad Witch Child

    Barbara Williams

  • How Little Porcupine Played Christmas

    Joseph Slate

  • I Love My Pets

    Anne Rockwell

  • I Still Dream About Columbus

    Jack M. Bickham

  • Idle Hands

    William O'Rourke

  • The Incredible Space Machines

    Joanne Ryder

    The first 14 pages of this book by Joanne Ryder, Paper Engineering by Ib Penick, Illustrated by Gerry Daly for Random House, contain excellent information about various kinds of rockets, satellites, people in space, the first men in space, astronauts...

  • Irma and Jerry

    George Selden

    I'M JERRY; IRMA'S A CAT Whiskers! In Connecticut things were never like this! Imagine me, mild mannered, philosophically inclined Cocker Spaniel that I am, staging burglaries and mad attacks and cheesing it (that's how Irma would put it; it means ...

  • Just Hold on

    Scott Bunn

    In their senior year, outsiders Charlotte and Stephen find each other and acceptance into the school's inner circle, but at times Charlotte's remoteness and Stephen's friendship with Rolf drive them apart...

  • King of the Seventh Grade

    Barbara Cohen

  • Kiss the Candy Days Good-Bye

    V.T. Dacquino

    The cars and horns. The colors combining. My lack of strength. Everything tried to keep me from getting home. But I made it. Finally the huge glass doors were in front of me. Through the glass I saw Harold. I pushed hard. Help me, I wanted to say. Bu...

  • Labor of Love

    Barbara Roush

  • Land of Dreams

    Michael Foreman

  • Liars in Love Dlt

    Richard Yates

    A collection of short stories--including "Trying Out for the Race," "A Compassionate Leave," "Oh, Joseph, I'm So Tired," and "Saying Good-bye to Sally"--explores troubled human relationships and family life...

  • Light on the Sound

    Somtow Sucharitkul

    The Inquestor Series was a classic science fiction series of the 1980s — and has now been reincarnated for the 21st century, with more adventures, more spectacle, and more extras. Tachyon bubbles, people bins and galactic empires — and pr...

  • Lightfall

    Paul Monette

    A strange urge drives Dr. Iris Ammons to leave her home and travel to a small California town, where she comes under the influence of a weird evil power. A modern epic of terror steeped in centuries of evil.

    ...

  • The Maid of the North

    Ethel Johnston Phelps

    The Maid of the North weaves together tales about a woman's right to freedom of will and choice. In this collection of mostly nineteenth-century folk and fairy tales, Ethel Johnston Phelps's heroines successfully portray women as being spirited, cour...

  • The Man Who Would not Die

    Thomas Page

    In an isolated mountain clinic, doctors work frantically to treat the body of Daniel Forrester, the shattered victim of a plane crash. Desperately trying to save his life, they place him in the latest medical machine.Strange things happen to Forreste...

  • Mantissa

    John Fowles

    In Mantissa (1982), a novelist awakes in the hospital with amnesia -- and comes to believe that a beautiful female doctor is, in fact, his muse....

  • Miss Bianca and the Rescuers Bo

    Margery Sharp

    1962 edition, 5 book set includes Miss Bianca, The Rescuers, Miss Bianca in the Orient, Miss Bianca in the Salt Mines and The Turret. All inside a sturdy protective box. A Disney movie was made from The Rescuers story....

  • The Money, Honey

    Linda U. Howard

    A sweepstakes winning sweeps still-aspiring artist Matthew Morganstein into the upbeat world of high finance and tax shelters, but he longs for a return to the days of pre-monetary, idyllic, bohemian bliss with his Jewish-princess lover, Ariel...

  • Monster

    Jeffrey Konvitz

    A monster stirs at the bottom of Loch Ness. For centureies it has lived in peace, rising to the surface, from time to time, to become a legend in the hills of Scotland. Now something has arrived to disturb it's tranquility - the violent, greedy thru...

  • Morning, Rabbit, Morning

    Mary Caldwell

  • Mother Goose

    Sesame Street

  • The Names

    Don DeLillo

    Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters...

  • Night Vision

    Frank King

    Avenging herself on her former lover and protege, Dr. Helen Roth unleashes the energy behind the dream process to psychologically manipulate Paul Stanislaus into committing increasingly violent crimes...

  • Nightwatch

    Barbara Shoup

  • The Nurse's Story

    Carol Gino

    The author's sixteen years of nursing experience have rendered up a straightforward account of back-breaking work, frustrating bureaucracies, hugh responsibilities with no authority, emotional conflicts, defeats, satisfactions, triumphs, and joys...

  • One Way Trip

    Walter Olesky

    In a world that keeps dealing nothing but bad breaks, stayoing out of trouble isn't easy. For Tom Delos forming the Guardians was his last chance to prove to himself and to others that he could achieve something. From now on, helping kids like himsel...

  • The Orchids

    Thomas H. Cook

    Dr. Langhof, nearly forty years after his medical experiments for the Waffen SS, lives on in seclusion in the Republic, remembering--with no forgiveness or atonement--his descent into darkness and degradation...

  • The Origin

    Irving Stone

    Darwin, the discoverer, did not mean to rock the world. He meant only to know the truth. But before he was done, Charles Darwin would shake the faith of centuries...would be reviled as a fiend, denounced as a madman - and finally hailed as a genius. ...

  • Our New Baby

    Jane Hamilton-Merritt

  • Passions

    Barney Leason

    Passions is a humorous look at the high-flying world of Parisian haute couture designers, foreign correspondents, political intrigue, and the demands of the big egos involved....

  • Pennies for the Piper

    Susan H. McLean

  • Perpetual Light

    Alan Ryan

  • The Powers

    William Bailey

  • A Presence with Secrets

    W.M. Spackman

  • Promise in Wind

    Perdita Shepherd

  • Promise the Earth

    Clive Irving

    Recounts the complex, protracted, and bloody events of the settling of modern Palestine, during and just after World War I, with an ensemble of characters that includes such near-mythic, historical figures as Weizman, Ibn Saud, and T.E. Lawrence...

  • Red Heat

    William Katz

  • Ride the Vengeance Trail

    William O. Turner

  • Roadside Picnic

    Arkady Strugatsky / Boris Strugatsky

    "

    Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left ...

  • Robot Goes Collecting

    Ann Cook

  • Round the Garden

    William Stobbs

  • Royal Silk

    Marsha Alexander

  • The Running Backs

    Robert McKay

    An 18-year-old goes from a reformatory to a small town high school, joins the football team, and tries to put his life in order. High school senior Jack Delaney, new in town, joins the football team as running back and rapidly becomes the school h...

  • Saigon

    Anthony Grey

    Four families--American, French, and Vietnamese--find their destinies intertwined as they endure fifty years of political turmoil, revolution, and war, in a story that traces the fate of Saigon from 1925 to 1975...

  • The Samurai

    Shusaku Endo

    In 1613, with plans to open a trade route between Mexico and Japan, four Samurai and an ambitious Franciscan missionary embark on a journey that takes them to Mexico and Rome and back again to a Japan torn by strife...

  • The Search for Anderson

    I.I. Magdalen

  • Shadow Like a Leopard

    Myron Levoy

    Ramon Santiago, a fourteen-year-old street kid and poet, records his thoughts in a notebook. He is skilled with words and skilled with his knife, when needed. Alone, he wants to join a street gang to be macho, but to prove himself, he must rob an eld...

  • Shadow on the Trail

    Zane Grey

    Traveling with a new name and a new face, Wade Holden, the triggerman responsible for the fall of the notorious Simm Bell gang, rides far and wide, carving out the life of a feared and respected gunman. Reprint....

  • The Shtetl

    Joachim Neugroschel

    Collectible, over-sized pbk. in Good Condition overall. First Perigee printing, 1982. Cover good (see photos provided), spine tight /sturdy, pages clean /unmarked. Minor crease on cover. Page edges has small brown spots (not mildew) on edges. Ships U...

  • Silver Rose

    David A. Kaufelt

    THE PASSION OF CASABLANCA THE DECADENCE OF CABARET THE LOST INNOCENCE OF…SILVER ROSE Rennie Jablonski -- she came back to Berlin, into the gathering storm to rescue her father. She stayed because there was no turning back. She stayed to beco...

  • Slice of Life

    J. Kisner

  • Smile on the Void

    Stuart Gordon

  • Some Other Summer

    C.S. Adler

    A thirteen-year-old orphan is baffled and upset when her long-time friend Jeremy comes to spend the summer on her uncle's horse ranch and seems to ignore her. Continues the story of "The Magic of Glits."...

  • Some Things Dark and Dangerous

    Joan Kahn

  • The Sphinx

    Graham Masterton

    A horrifying legacy is brought to life.
    Gene Keiller, a young politician with a reputation to enforce finds his world shattered when he meets a beautiful woman at a party; a woman with a terrifying and secret past.

    The Sphinx describe...

  • Star Struck

    Linda Palmer

  • Statues in a Garden

    Isabel Colegate

  • Steps

    Jerzy Kosinski

    This National Book Awardâ€"winning novel of power, libido, and morality is “a powerful and profoundly disturbing book” (The New York Times).   First published in 1968, Jerzy Kosinski’s classic vision of moral and sexual estrangement captur...

  • Summer Crossing

    Steve Tesich

    Hating East Chicago, Indiana, and the stunted lives it fosters, high-school senior Daniel Price sees a way out in his love for newcomer Rachel Temerson and then learns that the older man living with her is, in fact, her lover...