Books Published in September 1984

New Books List: 347 titles

  • Oh, Kojo! How Could You!

    Verna Aardema

    After trading his gold to Ananse for a dog that fetches firewood, a cat that catches rats, and a dove that collects tasty snails, Kojo is disappointed when none of the animals can do what was promised...

  • An Unlikely Trio

    Kasey Adams

    Jeni O'Brien had come to the campsite in the Utah forest hoping that Timmy, the child she was adopting, would join her before the vacation was over. She definitely hadn't come to meet a man. But when her sparkling green eyes met Brad Carey's deep bro...

  • Armageddon Conspiracy

    Jerry Ahern

  • Seg the Bowman

    Alan Burt Akers

    Here's a special treat for everyone who loves novels of high adventure on exotic worlds in the tradition of Burroughs and Norman. For this is such a novel, complete in itself, of Dray Prescot's fighting comrade, Seg, the finest archer of two worlds. ...

  • Sylvia Game

    Vivien Alcock

    During a trip to the seaside with her ne'er-do-well artist father, twelve-year-old Emily makes friends with a gypsy's son and the young heir to a stately home, who are struck by her resemblance to mysterious, long-dead Sylvia, a girl in a painting by...

  • Tales of the Flying Mountains

    Poul Anderson

    In a thrilling collection of hard science fiction stories, a master of speculative fiction envisions a volatile future when Earth’s colonies throughout the galaxy attempt to break free from home-world rule On a spaceship rocketing toward the st...

  • Rules of the Game

    Nicola Andrews

    Margaret Mary Hennessy hates Dunne Holborn on sight. It's bad enough that her assignment to design a total-environment game at a science-fiction convention has deposited her among rollicking Martians and disgruntled Ewoks. Now her company is fois...

  • Say Goodbye to Sam

    Michael J. Arlen

    It will come as no surprise that Michael J. Arlen's first novel is at once romantic, disturbing, and original, an artistic achievement of impressive subtlety and force.A famous father and his estranged son meet for the first time in many years on the...

  • The Lightning Touch

    Megan Ashe

    Kristin Cole vowed she would never get involved with another mountain climber. Her extraordinary talent had made her a better climber than her husband and ruined their marriage--even before a tragic fall claimed his life. Now the lightning touch of e...

  • An Item from the Late News

    Thea Astley

  • Indian Summer

    Patricia Baehr

  • Girl Inside

    Judy Baer

  • Villa Aphrodite

    Thomas Baird

  • Blow Your House Down

    Pat Barker

    'Blow Your House Down is swift, spare and utterly absorbing - you'll probably read it, as I did, in one tense sitting' NEW YORK TIMES 'A courageous and disturbing novel' ELIZABETH WARD, WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD 'Despite its black humour, it is a de...

  • Corpse in a Gilded Cage

    Robert Barnard

    MURDER IS ALWAYS RELATIVE. Not every man wants his home to be his castle. Such were the sentiments of Perce Spender when he found himself in the draughty drawing room of Chetton Hall. The sudden demise of a distant relative had transformed Perce f...

  • A Breed Apart

    Monica Barrie

    DEENA HARWELL She had been raised in the Kentucky bluegrass and she saw her chance to go back--as well as to rebuild her father's reputation as a trainer--if she could purchase Vindicator, a colt with championship potential. Her dream led her to ris...

  • Second Marriage

    Frederick Barthelme

  • Amaranth

    Nella Benson

    AGAINST THE EVIL THAT WOULD DESTROY INNOCENCE, HERS WAS THE GREATER POWER OF LOVE. TWINS They came into this world at the same moment -- identical in every way the eye could perceive, different in ways that were beyond understanding. Keridwen ...

  • Where the Heart Is

    Claudia Bishop (1)

    Theirs was a fairy-tale courtship: handsome tycoon Max Randall fell in love with painter Vicki Carrolton's self-portrait and vowed to make the real woman his wife. Now, after one year of conjugal bliss, Vicki has blossomed as both woman and artist, w...

  • Bride of the Wind

    Stephanie Blake

    Could any man tame her wild, wanting heart? LOVE, DESIRE, AND REVENGE IN AN UNTAMED LAND... From the treachery of a Texas prison to the dangerous beauty of the plains, from the harsh challenge of a herding trail, to the sprawling glory of a Wyo...

  • Toyland

    Wendy Boase

  • Castle

    Wendy Boase

  • Sue Barton Visiting Nurse

    Helen Dore Boylston

    The vivacious redhead and her friend Kit find positions with Visiting Nurse Service in New York City’s famed Henry Street Settlement House, where they must work with newborn babies, obstinate old people, immigrants without a word of English, blacks...

  • The Making of a Gunman

    Max Brand

  • Not Dead, Only Resting

    Simon Brett

    Meet Charles Paris: a washed-up actor with a taste for wine, women . . . and solving crimes! A binge-worthy cozy mystery series from the original king of British cozy crime, internationally best-selling, award-winning author Simon Brett, OBE. For fan...

  • Notes for Another Life

    Sue Ellen Bridgers

  • American Beauty

    Maggi Brocher

  • Harbor Lights

    Alice Brooke

    QUIET PLEASE .. . It wasn't that Jessie Morrow didn't enjoy being a librarian. She just didn't like the image that went along with it. Especially when she seemed to fit it. Long walks, good books, peace and quiet--that was why she'd moved to Maine...

  • Encore

    Carole Buck

    Called "the lion" by his ex-teammates, Sean Culhane had the lazy grace of a jungle cat -- and was equally dangerous when aroused. Dancer Melissa Stewart remembers it all too well when, clad only in bits of lace, she quite unexpectedly bumps i...

  • The Computer Nut

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    Kate's new friend is really out of this world -- he's an alien! When Kate sits down at the computer, nothing seems out of the ordinary. But suddenly a mysterious message flashes up on the screen. Someone who calls himself BB-9 is trying to get thr...

  • Hell Hound

    Jackson Cain

    Gentleman Jim Flynn, leader of the merciless, brutal Commancheros, schemes to free Torn Slater from a Texas jail and seize his loot, but Slater and his half-wolf, half-canine ally have very different ideas...

  • Scattered Roses

    Jo Calloway

    As the new executive assistant to the president of the DePriest Corporation, Olivia Wilkinson had made the magical leap to the top in just three short years. But it wasn't until the company signed on the legendary football pro Johnny Luck that Olivia...

  • Touched by Fire

    Jo Calloway

    She was the widow Charboneau, young, shockingly beautiful, and off limits to outsiders--the rugged drillers in the southern Louisiana oil fields. Anne-Marie was rich, but lived like a pauper under the thumb of her powerful father. No man had ever cha...

  • Rapture of the Deep

    Barbara Cameron

    SEA CHANGE Lori Fairchild poured her heart into her work with dolphins. She loved the clever, innocent creatures; with them she could communicate an affection she usually found difficult to demonstrate. As hard as it was for Lori to admit a n...

  • The Reluctant Abigail

    Miranda Cameron

    AND THEN LOVE BECAME HER MASTER.... Lady Gabriela Pennington came disguised as a servant to the country manor of her distant cousin Alina as a matter of family duty. She had to find out the truth about rumors that Alina was totally besotted with th...

  • Incarnate

    Ramsey Campbell

    Molly, a young television production assistant, and her lover, Martin, struggle for survival against a monstrous, diabolical force created by Molly and her fellow participants in a scientific experiment in prophetic dreaming...

  • New Terrors I

    Ramsey Campbell

  • Succession

    Joyce Carlow

    Clara Maria Tonelli is a woman of ideas, intelligence, and strength. Her father Agosto built a fortune in banking, lifting himself from the poverty of the Italian immigrant community to the power of Wall Street. But who would be his successor?Clara M...

  • Dynasty of Desire

    Carol Carmichael

    Wounded and dispirited, Ulysses Cade returns from the Civil War to the town of Royal Creek, to find his parents and sister dead. While his old friend Dr. Amos Thompson tends his injury, Ulysses encounters pretty Abby Lamont, who immediately falls in ...

  • Death Hand Play

    Nick Carter

  • The Kremlin Kill

    Nick Carter

    A forty-year dream is coming true, and the Geneva talks on the unification of Germany are underway. But there's dissension within the party old guard and AXE suspects a plot by hard-liners to kill the Russian delegate before an agreement is signed. N...

  • The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

    Lorinda Bryan Cauley

  • Run Out the Guns

    Robert Challoner

  • Harbor of Dreams

    Ginger Chambers

    She was struggling to keep her head above water. Her Houston area restaurant was floundering. Even worse, her fifteen-year-old sister and ward was growing up too fast. And when Kathy appeared with a man twice her age in tow, Ashley Stevens laid down ...

  • Passion's Prey

    Ginger Chambers

    Love didn't stalk her -- she had become passion's prey Dr. Sloan Adams provoked Lacy Stewart endlessly. Trapped beside the annoyingly handsome veterinarian on the flight from Boston to Austin, Texas, Lacy only wanted to be left alone. Sloan Adams,...

  • The Gossamer Fly

    Meira Chand

    When her English mother returns to England and her Japanese father claims his children for his homeland--and has an affair with their slatternly housemaid--a young girl is flung into loneliness and desolation...

  • Best Friends Forever

    Emily Chase

    Dana thinks country means quilts from cozy boutiques, and Faith can't imagine a town without hot pretzel vendors... But they find themselves home with Shelley in Iowa for the last weeks of summer, and small-town life is anything but humdrum! O...

  • Forty Thousand in Gehenna

    C.J. Cherryh

    "Set in the same future as #f r Inning Downbelow Station, but fully self-contain , i5`is a story on the classic theme of human underestimation of the alien. The 40,000 colonists on Gehenna are abandoned for political reasons. When the re-supply ships...

  • Sweet Masquerade

    Marion Chesney

    "YOU HAVE SOME EXPLAINING TO DO, MASTER FREDERICK," SAID THE EARL. "OR SHOULD I SAY...MISS FREDERICA." The tenth earl of Berham did not know what to do. An attractive 32-year-old bachelor, he was appointed guardian of one Freddie A...

  • Sebastian

    Mary Blount Christian

  • Ramona Forever

    Beverly Cleary

    What's going to happen next at the Quimby house? Things are changing quickly for Ramona, who finds that being a grown-up third-grader is hard work. Nothing is the way it used to be. Mr. Quimby worries about finding a teaching job, while Ramona wor...

  • No Other Love

    Katherine Coffaro

    Through all those years, there had been no other love The world called director Dario Napoli a genius, but for one week Eliza Rothcart had called him her husband. His sudden presence at Rothcart Productions was a bonus for the daytime drama Beyond...

  • Turn, My Beloved

    Helen Lewis Coffer

    CHILDHOOD SWEETHEARTS Everyone had always thought that they were a match made in heaven--from the time the boy Jess saved Merry's dog, to the night they attended the high school prom together. But when college plans drew them apart, Merry bega...

  • Lovers' Games

    Barbara Cohen

    Mandy has always refused to compete with her glamorous cousin Lissa, but the remarriage of Lissa's mother sets off a complex chain of events that catapult both girls into unexpected romantic relationships....

  • The Orlando Trilogy

    Isabel Colegate

  • Gods of the Greataway

    Michael Coney

    Millennia ago Starquin visited the Solar System. Because he is huge - some say bigger than the Solar System itself - he could not set foot on Earth personally. yet events here were beginning to interest him, and he wanted to observe more closely.So h...

  • Scenes from Later Life

    William Cooper

  • A Winning Combination

    Lori Copeland

    When Kayla Marshall met the shy, gentle salesman at Trahern Tool and Die, she knew she'd finally met the man she wanted to marry. Franklin's inexperienced yet curiously bold touch filled her with a passion unlike any she'd ever known. And...

  • Winning Ways

    Christina Dair

    Is former basketball superstar Ryan Bridges, now a college coach, charming Victoria Wallace because he's sincerely interested in her, or because she can steer a talented student to his team? Victoria's initial skepticism turns to disbelief wh...

  • 3-D Traitor

    Milton Dank

    Six junior high students investigate the appearance of the ghost of Benedict Arnold in the historical house of an elderly friend, who simultaneously is being pressured to sell her home by a number of people....

  • Operation Choke Point

    W.X. Davies

  • Garfield Loses His Feet

    Jim Davis

    The perfect holiday gift for fans of the flabby tabby!Can a cat with no feet . . . bounce into bed? . . . trot to the TV set? . . . race to the refrigerator?You can be sure that your favorite furry feline will find a way!...

  • Sons

    Robert De Maria

  • Death Gambit

    Jake Decker

  • Seventeen and In-Between

    Barthe DeClements

    At seventeen, things aren't so simple anymore. Elsie Edwards has been going out with Craddoc for three years now. He's the most popular guy at school and Elsie thought she'd always want to tie "Craddoc's girl." But now that she's seventeen, Craddo...

  • Finger Prints

    Barbara Delinsky

    In another life she was Robyn Hart, a journalist who saw too much and was willing to talk about it. Now she is Carly, with a new job and identity courtesy of the Witness Relocation Program. But even with a different name and appearance, Carly lives i...

  • The First Christmas

    Tomie DePaola

  • Too Many Boys

    Celia Dickenson

  • Frontier

    Disney Book Group

    Here is a very special Louis L'Amour book, a book to be treasured by his many fans and by a whole new audience of readers, for Frontier is an eye-opening celebration of the American land. 213 pages of text and colorful illustrations of the beautiful ...

  • Mickey's Christmas Carol

    Walt Disney

  • Legends of Jesse Dark

    Michael Doane

  • Rebel Heart

    Meg Dominique

    How could such opposites attract? Interior designer Tracey Gibbs and architect Patrick Moran were a winning team -- by day. After hours, Tracey preferred a quiet evening at home, while Patrick roared off in his sports car in search of excitement. ...

  • Reflections

    Michael Doster

    Fashion and glamour photographs. Photographs by Michael Doster; preface by Irene Krawehl; statements by Margaretha Ley and Werner Wunderlich. Second edition stated, actually second printing. 215 pages; full-page color and b&w plates throughout; 9.5 x...

  • Taste of a Dream

    Casey Douglas

    As rioting beset the Malaysian capital, two strangers sheltered in a basement -- and fell in love. The madness of the world was purged with the night. With the dawn they were separated.... Until four years later in Washington, when cultural advi...

  • A Woman's Empire

    Dorothy Dowdell

    THE SPECTACULAR OLD NORTHWEST AND TWO WOMEN WHO DARED TO CHALLENGE GREAT ODDS FOR THEIR DREAMS… CYRA -- She came as a bride to the timberlands of Washington to face the hatred of her husband’s brother -- the tyrannical Grant, who believed wome...

  • Espionage

    William Doxey

  • The Stalkers

    D.B. Drumm

  • The Roads of Earth

    Allen Drury

  • Savage Dawn

    Kathleen Drymon

    He was undeniably male Lisa should have been terrified of the awesome Indian who attacked her carriage and took her captive. Instead the touch of Silver Fox's hand was like magic against her silken skin and possession by his powerful flesh made...

  • As a Favor

    Susan Dunlap

    A call from an ex-husband is never welcome.  For Berkeley cop Jill Smith it wins a Nobel Prize for chutzpah.  Her ex wants a favor.  His "friend" and co-worker, Anne Spaulding, is missing.  Anne's ransacked apartment--complete with blood-spra...

  • The Glitter & the Gold

    Michael Dyne

  • I Love My Baby Sister

    Elaine Edelman

  • The Floating Outfit

    J.T. Edson

    Ole Devil Hardin's O.D. Connected Ranch was watched over by an elite crew of top hands called the Floating Outfit. Most of them were veterans of the War Between the States. They were skilled with rifle, revolver and knife. Folks in West Texas knew be...

  • Two Wheels for Grover

    Dan Elliott

  • Lone Star and the Mountain Man

    Wesley Ellis

    Strange things are happening in the Starbuck mines... When Jebediah Baker, an old friend of Jessie's father, is hanged by a mob, and the Starbuck manager in the town of Mule is killed with dynamite tied around his waist, Jessie and Ki head for Mon...

  • The Blue-Nosed Witch

    Margaret Embry

    The Blue-Nosed Witch was written by Margaret Embry, with pictures by Carl Rose, and originally published in 1956. It is a sweet little story that young children will enjoy. Blanche and her little cat Brocket are the cutest touch to this warm and fuzz...

  • Snowbird

    Lynn Erickson

    SOMETIMES ONE JUST KNEW... International intrigue was not the usual preoccupation of Willy Patterson, art gallery owner, world-class skier. But she could not refuse to help an old friend take refuge in the U.S. Hyde Vandemeer, quintessential CI...

  • Priority Affair

    Andra Erskine

    Her every instinct cried out "danger" when Fallin O'Hara first saw Preston Smithwick. The handsome financier had brought his motherless daughter to her stable for riding lessons and now he was invading her fantasies. Fallin reminded herself that she ...

  • The Land Beyond the Gate

    Lloyd Arthur Eshbach

  • Kill Zone

    Loren D. Estleman

    A remarkable new antihero, mob hit man Peter Macklin must end a hostage crisis on a tour boat in Lake Erie   Siegfried, a terrorist group made up of a killer, a bassist, an ex-marine, a demolitions expert, a Black Panther, a national guardsman, ...

  • Houses on the Site

    Stuart Evans

  • Longarm on the Painted Desert

    Tabor Evans

    HOT ON THE TRAIL OF DESERT DESPERADOES Five ruthless killers have nabbed a hefty army payroll and escaped along the famed Outlaw Trail through the Painted Desert -- the best hideout land in the West. This wasteland, famous for its beauty, can beco...

  • Angel Baker, Thief

    Jeannette Eyerly

  • Bedouin Bride

    Barbara Faith

    KATHERINE BISHOP She felt as if she were living a novel when she was kidnapped and carried into the Moroccan desert. RASHID BEN HASIR He had connections to two worlds: the civilized West, and the fierce East that was his heritage. They clashe...

  • The Way of a Transgressor

    Negley Farson

  • Computer Criminals; ... It Began at the World's Fair

    Steve Fawcette

  • Reckoning

    Phillip Finch

    After the death of their father in a plane crash, two brothers--playboy Matt Sample and his shy, hardworking younger brother, Billy--find themselves at bitter odds over the ranch they inherited and in love with the same woman...

  • And the Walls Came Tumbling Down

    Jack Fisherman

  • No Enemy

    Ford Madox Ford

    "This early work by Ford Madox Ford was originally published in 1929 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. Ford Madox Ford was born Ford Madox Hueffer in Merton, Surrey, England on 17th December 1873. The creative arts ran in ...

  • The Fourth Protocol

    Frederick Forsyth

    It is a time of political unrest in Great  Britain. And behind the Iron Curtain an insidious plot  is being hatched, a plan so incendiary that even the KGB is ignorant of its existence -- Aurora, the sinister brainchild of two of the world's most...

  • Portrait in Oil

    Charles Fox

  • The Whispering Gallery

    Richard H. Francis

    A cast of characters--two space-drifting astronauts, a paranoid solicitor, and an unhappily flatulent Manchester, among others--struggle with the paradoxes of modern life through nonstop episodes that include a nightmarish dinner party in Antarctica ...

  • Highland Flame

    Kathleen Fraser

    KINGDOM OF LOVE Alasdair Cameron wrapped the luscious vixen in his powerful embrace and let his eyes burn hungrily over her flawless body. Frances Murray was ripe for love -- a bursting blossom -- and this fiendishly handsome man sparked a strange...

  • Let's Hear It for a Beautiful Guy

    Bruce Jay Friedman

  • Bluebeard

    Max Frisch

  • A Heart Divided

    Elizabeth Fritch

    Rawlins was a magical name in the San Francisco of 1906, especially to the beautiful Felicity Adams. Swept off her feet by dashing Bryce Rawlins, she was awestruck by the wealth and power of the fabled family. But when she met Bryce's brother, sh...

  • Woz

    Doug Garr

  • Firefly Gadroon

    Jonathan Gash

  • Secrets and Desire

    Sandi Gelles

    As newly appointed president of Tannaco Oil, Michela Aberdeen commanded power and respect as a true oil tycoon. But when it came to Jet Lethbridge, her heart yearned to be ruled. He first swept into her life on the glittering streets of New York--...

  • Super Bowl Sunday

    Mitch Gelman

  • The Moghul

    Buck Gentry

  • Sir Cedric

    Jean Gerrard

  • The Water Is Wide

    Elizabeth Gibson

  • The Miracle Worker

    William Gibson

    NO ONE COULD REACH HER Twelve-year-old Helen Keller lived in a prison of silence and darkness. Born deaf, blind, and mute, with no way to express herself or comprehend those around her, she flew into primal rages against anyone who tried to help her,...

  • Fish Face

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Emily Arrow may be a poor reader, but she's terrific in math and is also the fastest runner in her class. In October school gets even better when a newcomer from Florida, Dawn Tiffanie Bosco, joins the class and sits next to her. When Emily sees tha...

  • Death and Mr. Prettyman

    Kenneth Giles

  • Steele's War: The Preacher

    George G. Gilman

  • Four-B Goes Wild

    Jamie Gilson

  • Not Meant for Love

    Victoria Glenn

    MAYBE IT WAS HIS EYES... Or maybe it was the chocolate Santa he gave her. Or the way he sat so companionably, eating her Christmas cookies. Or maybe it was the kiss under the mistletoe that had so disordered her senses. Whatever it was, Cassie ...

  • A Writer

    M.B. Goffstein

  • The Zukova Experiment

    Nathan Gottlieb

  • Cocktail

    Heywood Gould

    Unemployed, broke, and alone, journeyman bartender Brian Flanagan offers cynical observations on human foibles and frailties and records the desperate quest for happiness of one colorful group of characters...

  • Serena's Magic

    Heather Graham

    They made love under a witch's moon, strangers swept away by destiny's fires. From the moment he walked out of the forest and into her arms, Serena Loren knew they had met before, that this magnificent man had returned from the past to claim ...

  • The Zurich Numbers

    Bill Granger

    They are immigrants, working in American laboratories and universities. They are Soviet spies, forced into a network of terror, with their families dangling as hostages. When Devereaux--the November Man--uncovers the brutal scheme, the forces of both...

  • Temple

    Robert Greenfield

  • Above All, Love

    Jeanne M. Greenleaf

  • Forget-Me-Not

    Diana Gregory

  • The Lives of Rachel

    Joel Gross

    IN EVERY GENERATION, THERE IS ONLY ONE RACHEL... She is the firstborn daughter of a proud and ancient Jewish family, the heiress to a legacy of remarkable strnegth and courage. A NAME, A MENORY, A PROMISE From Judea to Arthurian England, fr...

  • Ladies

    Doris Grumbach

    "A tale told in delicate brushstrokes of a relationship in which two hearts came almost literally to beat as one."

    Newsday

    In the late 18th century, Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby defied all conventions of their Irish homeland and el...

  • The Point Team

    J.B. Hadley

    Special Forces veteran and mercenary Mike Campbell is hired to lead a suicidal mission into Vietnam to rescue an Amerasian boy....

  • The Diamond Waterfall

    Pamela Haines

    SHE HAD SOLD HERSELF FOR THEIR COLD SPARKLE... They had a sumptuous suite, in the finest hotel in Nice. the fireplace glowed, the big bed waited. It was their wedding night, but first Robert wanted to show her the Firth jewels. Kneeling beside Lil...

  • The Thesues Code

    Marc Hammond

    THE DEADLY QUEST Crete, 1942. Captain Roger Thomas's mission was to hold the Nazi forces on the ancient island at bay--in readiness for the Allied invasion that never came. Now Bill Thomas has returned to seek the truth about his father's death...

  • Fit to Be Loved

    Antoinette Hardy

    Katrina Bright had sweated through countless hours, bending and stretching, punishing her body to work off every ounce of fat. But from the moment Fletcher Ramsey ambled into the health club she had founded and informed her that he'd taken over the b...

  • Secret of the Sixth Magic

    Lyndon Hardy

    BEYOND THE FIVE MAGICS The laws of the five magics were being set aside. First to go were those of the high art of sorcery. Then true magic, upon which the commerce of all Arcadia depended, had been voided. And now even thaumaturgy, the engineerin...

  • Starworld

    Harry Harrison

    Starworld completes Harry Harrison's epic To the Stars trilogy with one of the most breathtaking space sequences yet seen in science fiction.The twilight planet of Halvmork is free. The Earth space fleet has left to guard the Homeworld and to prepare...

  • A Saving Grace

    Ken Hartnett

    The Pope's impending visit to Boston, possibly to discover a reputed saint-who may still be living--prompts the city's politicians, deal-makers, and journalists into various battles for power, influence, profit, and opportunity...

  • Anniversary Waltz

    Mary Haskell

    Movie-star handsome, impossibly sexy, tormentingly tender: Hank Lewis is everything Carol wants in a husband. It's the influence of Hank's mother, Maggie, she could live without. Breezing out of her fifth marriage, Maggie chooses to "recuperate" a...

  • Reasonable Doubts

    Brooke Hastings

    LAURA SILVER She was as rare and special a woman as her name implied, but the happiness that should have been hers had been destroyed by one man. GREGORY STEIGER was the son of that man, and her new employer. Laura was determined to best him an...

  • The Pimpernel Plot

    Simon Hawke

    Time travel wasn't just fun and adventure. Major Lucas Priest, a veteran of the Time Wars, was aware of the danger of operating in Minus Time. One false move, and the course of history is changed with incalculable consequences. Now Lucas is faced ...

  • Border Trumpet Wild

    Ernest Haycox

  • Uncle Traveling Matt's Adventures in Outer Space

    Diane Dawson Hearn

  • A Commercial Enterprise

    Sandra Heath

    SCANDALOUS SUCCESS Miss Caroline Lexham knew tongues would wag when she turned the elegant London mansion she had inherited into an aristocratic hotel. But she didn't expect that she risked far more than a fleeting breath of scandal. Her debauc...

  • Threshold

    Nancy Henderson

    Unable to face another Christmas with her happily married younger sisters, thirty-two-year-old Soren Benedict, attractive, intelligent, and a failure at choosing a man, finds romance at a deserted seaside resort...

  • Stark Raving Elvis

    William McCranor Henderson

    "Funny and revealing," Nikki Giovanni, New York Times"Nothing if not sure-handed,"  Philadelphia Enquirer"The first instance of a serious rock novel" - St. Louis Post Dispatch"A rich, comic, crazy picture of pop insanity...

  • Blue Fire

    Terri Herrington

    LOVE ON THE LINE "Weathergirl" Nicole Stevens vowed to win a top anchor spot. But TV station owner Barret Downing tried to keep her out of hard news. Having once tasted her love, how could he pave the way for her inevitable success when s...

  • Eric Hill's Crazy Wheels Mix or Match

    Eric Hill

  • You're Going Out There a Kid but You're Coming Back a Star

    Linda Hirsch

  • Pepper's Way

    Kay Hooper

    WANTED: MAN. Must be over six feet tall and weigh at least two hundred pounds. Must own large house on considerable acreage. Must like animals. Must have job with flexible hours. Preferably single. Call Pepper. The classified ad was provocative ye...

  • Of America East and West

    Paul Horgan

  • Dream Builder

    Naomi Horton

    SHADOW OF THE PAST Boston architect Lindsay Forrest had lived without Ryan McCrea for three years when he suddenly walked back into her life again -- the same dark, moody, brilliant master who had taught her everything she knew -- and had broken ...

  • Double Blinded

    Leslie Alan Horvitz

    LETHAL SEXA famous medical researcher suddenly falls over dead, leaving his mistress stunned...a superstar actor dies mysteriously after a weekend of wild lovemaking...a prominent U.S. senator becomes deathly ill after a one-night stand...a playboy d...

  • For Love or Money

    Mary Howard (1)

  • Take My Hand

    Anna Hudson

    Alexandria Foster was content to be the cool, collected executive secretary for Lady Jane's Beautiful Cosmetics -- until Sioux Compton besieged her all-woman world with his well-planned campaign. The tall green-eyed Indian was determined to become ch...

  • Killing Fields

    Christopher Hudson

    Seasoned American journalist Sydney Schanberg and Dith Pran, a Cambodian newsman, risk their lives and careers to reveal the true story of the war in Cambodia, in a story of honor, survival, and friendship amid the fires of war...

  • In a Lonely Place

    Dorothy B. Hughes

    A classic California noir with a feminist twist, this prescient 1947 novel exposed misogyny in post-World War II American society, making it far ahead of its time.Los Angeles in the late 1940s is a city of promise and prosperity, but not for former...

  • Mama Don't Allow

    Thacher Hurd

    Saxophone-playing Miles and his Swamp Band find a bevy of sharp-toothed, long-tailed alligators who love to listen to their music. But little do Miles and his band know what the alligators plan for them at the close of their jubilant all-night ball ...

  • Be Somebody

    Hadley Irwin

  • Chubby Bear

    Yasuko Ito

  • Khare // Cityport of Traps

    Steve Jackson

  • When You Speak Love

    BJ James

    It took a heartbreaking tragedy to bring Kelly O'Brian and Jake Caldwell together. Jake dried her tears with tender kisses, kept her close to his heart, and drew her into the warmth of his family -- a charmed circle of support. In Jake's mother Kel...

  • Greenhouse

    Dakota James

  • Three and One Make Five

    Roderic Jeffries

  • Touch the Horizon

    Iris Johansen

    With a madcap's bravado and a gypsy's soul, Billie Callahan had escaped from wild situations before -- but when a sandstorm gathered around her in the Sedikhan desert, she felt like Pauline in silent-film peril. Suddenly through the shifting...

  • Wildf Christys Choice

    Annabel Johnson

  • Wildf Christys Senior Year

    Annabel Johnson

  • The World of Christy

    Maud Johnson

  • Bloodrun

    Robert Kalish

  • Silver Shores

    Yvonne Kalman

    FAR DESTINY The Yardleys of San Francisco had never planned to go back to New Zealand. But now, young May Yardley, reared in the genteel luxury of a wealthy shipping family, would be forced to know the dark scandal that had driven her mother from...

  • My Name Is Geraldine

    Lee Michael Katz

  • Cimarron on Hells Highway

    Leo P. Kelley

  • Murder on High

    George Kennedy

  • A Compromising Passion

    Nell Kincaid

    As a high-powered theatrical agent, Andrea Sutton made it her business to turn people into stars. But when the rugged ex -- first baseman and magazine centerfold Jim Haynes came to her as a client, she was in trouble. Launching an athlete into an act...

  • Rex, Q.C.

    Dorothea King

  • Caretakers

    Tabitha King

    By all rights, they never should have known each other. Torie Christopher was a member of the Maine aristocracy, reckless and willful, wed to a blue-blooded doctor, and enjoying all the pleasures and privileges of wealth and position. Joe Nevers w...

  • Chubby Snowman

    Hitomi Kuroki

  • A Song in the Night

    Anne Lacey

    Hospital administrator Katie Brentwood had vowed never to get involved with a surgeon again. Then Dr. Bryce Emerson started working at the shock trauma center, and she knew she was in trouble. With just one glance, Bryce stirred in her the same vi...

  • Bride of Fortune

    Elizabeth Lane

    When spirited Agnes Joy marries Prussian Prince Felix Salm-Salm, she is swept up in an adventure that will carry her from America's Civil War to Mexico City, where the Austrian Emperor Maximilian and his tragic Empress, Carlota, hold their lavish cou...

  • Eden of Temptation

    Ruth Langan

    A VERY PROPER LADY He called her a little prude, likened her to the Victorian ladies who had come to his lush Hawaiian island in the nineteenth century. But she was no prude, Ann Lowry insisted, just because she dressed conservatively, kept to ...

  • The Earl's Season

    Emma Lange

    The Willful Widow Lady Juliana Whitfield was dazzlingly beautiful and fabulously wealthy. No wonder this young widow was the prime prize in the marriage mart. But Juliana shocked society and stunned a swarm of suitors by making it clear she never ...

  • Angels Never Sleep

    Rochelle Larkin

    She'd been content to live in the aura of her husband's love and fame. Then suddenly, tragically, Chris Ashley, the brilliant young playwright, was dead, and Alison was alone- alone with the terrible loss, the scandal, the hurt... It was Mitch, t...

  • The Return of Retief

    Keith Laumer

    PLANET AFTER PLANET FELL TO THE REE A vast and powerful race, the Ree needed breeding room for an ever-increasing population--and their expansion plans took no account of human territory. The farmers and miners of Tip Space were helpless against ...

  • Family Truths

    Syrell Rogovin Leahy

    LOVED BY TWO MEN, BETRAYED BY A THIRD. SHE RISKED LOSING EVERYTHING TO A HERITAGE SHE COULD NOT ESCAPE... Born to beauty. privilege and great promise, Judy Wolfe was a golden girl in the glittering sixties, destined to follow her distinguished fat...

  • Ice Cathedral

    George Leonard

    When loner Mark Kessler, trying to prevent the slaughter of birds in a wildlife sanctuary, kills a man, he experiences an unexpected pleasure in killing that drives him finally to retreat beneath the ice-covered water of Long Island's Great South Bay...

  • Modus Vivendi

    Deidre Levinson

  • The Room Upstairs

    Norma Levinson

    Leah Lazarus, a thirty-year-old woman, becomes deeply embroiled with her tenants, a colorful and eccentric group that becomes an extended family, and finds her caustic self-involvement transformed into empathy and fulfillment...

  • Call Of The Wild

    Carrie Lewis

    At the tender age of fourteen Annie had firmly decided that she preferred Monopoly to fishing , a bubble bath to swimming , soap operas and junkfood to roughing it and camp cookouts. How could her father have enrolled her in program Upward Reach, a s...

  • Wrongway Applebaum

    Marjorie Lewis

  • Felony Report

    Elizabeth Linington

  • Winner Takes All

    Cathie Linz

    Kenna Smith was convinced, a woman's place was in the house--the Wisconsin House of Representatives. Her high-powered campaign to win the primary proved it. She was not convinced that she needed a husband to improve her image, although her intrepid c...

  • Deathtrap Dungeon

    Ian Livingstone

  • The War of the End of the World

    Mario Vargas Llosa

    Deep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It is a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. There is no ...

  • Hat

    David Lloyd

  • Desert Rose

    Frances Lloyd

    HE WAS GORGEOUS .. . But Natalie hadn't meant to faint at Josh Forde's feet. She had arrived at his Australian outback ranch in a jolting truck that had destroyed all of her feeble attempts to hold on to her dignity--and her balance. Then Nata...

  • Wildfire Bestsellers

    Arnold Lobel

  • Slocum in Deadwood

    Jake Logan

    SLOCUM WAS HOT ON FUN-FILLED IDEAS! But little did he know he would run into an "upstairs girl" named Merry who had a few great ideas of her own. Merry caught Slocum in a compromising position that cost him ten thousand dollars. It wasn't going to be...

  • Hot Lead and Cold Steel

    John Mackie

    They're on the rampage!They're bad news wherever they go. Slogging their way through steaming jungles choked with blood. Digging out from the stone-cold tunnels of an underground tomb. To them, death is just a sick joke-a joke played on anyone dumb e...

  • That Wintry Feeling

    Debbie Macomber

    A PROMISE FULFILLED Cathy Thompson, a school teacher, needed a dramatic change in her life to forget a painful past-and her move to Alaska would certainly be a start. She didn't know that from the ruins of one love she would be led to the passiona...

  • Harland's Half Acre

    David Malouf

    The destinies of artist Frank Harland and young Phil Vernon intertwine in a haunting, evocative portrait of the life and work of the artist, childhood, family bonds, and the dark dimensions of vision, creativity, and passion that become the roots of ...

  • Sweet Splendor

    Diana Mars

    Ah, the peaceful solitude of cruising down the Mississippi River on a houseboat. Or so Dale Hayward anticipates--until she finds a nearly nude man in her bathroom! Rakishly Burke Sheridan, oil-company troubleshooter, invites her to share his shower. ...

  • French Rose

    Jacqueline Marten

    HE WANTED HER FOR HIS MISTRESS--SHE WANTED MUCH, MUCH MORE New York in 1780 was a city ravaged by war, occupied by British troops. Into this city of chaos came Alexander De Lacey--a gallant, dashing rogue and an officer in the ing's army. W...