Books Published in September 1986

New Books List: 475 titles

  • The Not-Quite-Ready-For-Prime-Time Bandits

    Barbara Adams

    Minnie O'Reilly and Willow Eichenberry investigate the theft of valuable equipment from the television station when teenager Lennie Farini, a young delinquent on parole and assigned to the station, is accused of the crime...

  • The Twisted Witch and Other Spooky Riddles

    David A. Adler

  • Freedom Fire

    Elizabeth Evelyn Allen

    Golden hair hidden beneath a cap, vibrant beauty disguised by plain gowns, Rebecca Rayburn was defiantly independent. Never, she vowed, would she accept the cowardly Tory her father wanted her to wed. Instead, she turned to the deep New England harbo...

  • Rogue Powers

    Roger MacBride Allen

    A revised and updated audio edition of Roger MacBride Allen''s two novels The Torch of Honor and Rogue Powers. These two audiobooks tell the story of the first interstellar war—a war interrupted by the First Contact with a friendly, and very...

  • Torch Honor

    Roger MacBride Allen

  • The Red Menace

    Michael Anania

    A recreation of the 1950s focuses on the life of a teenager growing up in an Omaha housing project as he deals with McCarthyism, the Soviet menace, fast cars, sexual fantasies, and the realities of poverty, violence and broken lives...

  • The Kissyfur Treasury

    Dina Anastasio

    Tells the stories of how Kissyfur and his father left the circus, how the new nanny turned out to be an alligator in disguise, how Kissyfur tries to impress his new friends, and how Kissyfur and his friends escape from a magic land...

  • Juma and the Magic Jinn

    Joy Anderson

  • After Doomsday

    Poul Anderson

    The only survivors of an annihilated human race must find one another somewhere in the cosmos and unite to destroy the alien aggressors who obliterated the Earth in this classic science fiction adventure After a three-year mission, the American stars...

  • Bomber Crew 369

    William Anderson

    Product Description Foreword: In 1944 the European skies became the battleground for the most deadly aerial assault in the annals of military history. The U.S. Army Air Corps had the mission of breaking the back of the Axis powers by the sustained de...

  • Trapped by Desire

    Barbara Andrews

    They were victims of a robbery, strangers linked by passion and fear. Matt Nichols offered her comfort, protection, arms too strong to resist. Easily hurt and slow to heal, Jennie Martin had vowed never to risk her heart again. But Matt took charge f...

  • One Way to Ansonia

    Judie Angell

  • With a Tangled Skein

    Piers Anthony

    Here in this third complete-in-itself novel of the Incarnations of Immortality, Piers Anthony weaves a fascinating plot as tangled as any skein of fate. This is Anthony at his most ingenious, with another gripping fantasy of the struggle of the incar...

  • Battle Circle

    Piers Anthony

    Battle Circle is a trilogy of science fiction novels by Piers Anthony. Originally published separately, the trilogy was later combined into a single volume.[1] The three novels are: 1. Sos the Rope (1968) 2. Var the Stick (1972) 3. Neq the Sword (197...

  • Ghost

    Piers Anthony

    When Space Captain Shetland, commander of an experimental deep-time ship, happens upon a ghost universe, his crew are shattered into beings of pure will, and he must help them to regain their humanity...

  • Standing on the Outside

    Lindsay Armstrong

    She didn't expect a happy ending ... Tallitha Jones practically trembled when she heard she was being sent to replace Miles Gilmour's secretary. The Brisbane businessman's unpredictable temper was well-known. But after her initial c...

  • On Love's Trail

    Judith Arnold

    He gave her fresh carrots and black-eyed Susans Hiking the Appalachian Trail, Gretchen Sprague hadn't planned on inviting a Super Hunk to cozy up in her tent. So what if this man knew all about edible plant life? Why had she chosen one of natu...

  • Sapphire

    Helen Ashfield

    SHE WAS TRAPPED BY POVERTY -- AND ONLY ONE MAN COULD SET HER CAPTIVE HEART FREE... Beautiful raven-haired Sapphire Grant was but a penniless, parson's daughter in a poor Mining village. Yet her loving spirit and laughing eyes were treasured j...

  • My Lady Rogue

    Kathryn Atwood

    THE EMBRACE OF BURNING INTRIGUE... THE LURE OF REMEMBERED PASSION Ariel de Juilers Greystone... beautiful, clever...a woman of many talents, she was London's leading actress -- and she was about to assume the most important role of her life ....

  • Diary of a Yuppie

    Louis Auchincloss

    In this novel by the author of Honorable Men, a hot-shot corporate lawyer will sacrifice anything for success in 1980s Manhattan.Bob Service is a thirty-two-year-old crack lawyer with blood as cold and clear as a five-dollar martini. His god is power...

  • A Fine Madness

    Elliott Baker

    "A FINE MADNESS is about a creative spirit's struggle for survival in an analytical society. Samson Shillitoe, is (according to Shelly's definition) one of ""the unacknowledged legislators of the world."" But poetry does not rule our world and his ob...

  • The First Snowdrop

    Mary Balogh

    The Abandoned Bride The handsome, elegant Alexander Stewart, Viscount Merrick, wed young and innocent Miss Anne Parrish in haste--his hand forced by circumstance and honor. But now his duty was done-and it was Anne who had to repent at leisure. Me...

  • The Return of the Indian

    Lynne Reid Banks

    In THE INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD, Omri discovered a wonderful, magical world when a three-inch-high Indian named Little Bear came to life. Now, in THE RETURN OF THE INDIAN, Omri tries to see his friend Little Bear again, and lands in the middle of a who...

  • The Romantic and the Realist

    Barbara Bartholomew

    WILD, WILD WEST Romance novelist Meredith Gage went to Texas to research some facts about the wild West. But what turned up could have stepped right out of one of her romance plots! With his bronzed skin and gentle Western drawl, Gene Crawford cer...

  • Dirty Money

    Milton R. Bass

    ROOT OF EVIL Benny Freedman liked having six million bucks in the bank. But there was one hitch. The Mafia claimed it was theirs, and were willing to write out their claim in Benny's blood. Which left Benny in the clutches of some very cool killers, ...

  • Everybody Say Cheese

    Betty Bates

  • On My Honor

    Marion Dane Bauer

    "On your honor?" Joel's father said. "You won't go anywhere except the park?" "On my honor," Joel repeated. During a bicycle trip to the state park, Joel dares his best friend, Tony, to a swimming race in the dangerous Vermillion River. The boys ...

  • Hush-a-Bye Baby and Other Bedtime Rhymes

    Nicola Bayley

  • Distant Fire

    Martin Bell

  • Double Dare

    Laurien Berenson

  • When the Sun Rose

    Barbara Helen Berger

  • No Plan for Love

    Ariel Berk

    FIRST COMES BABY.... Marketing consultant Valerie Sherman didn't like Brian Hollander. She was every bit his equal -- but Mr. Bedroom Eyes Casanova's condescending, patronizing attitude infuriated her! So she didn't know whether to laugh or explod...

  • Dark Enchantment

    Helen Bianchin

    ''I'm ready to spread my wings and fly." All her life Kris Laurensen had been trapped in the silken prison of her family's immense wealth. Decisions were made for her by her stepmother and her dynamic guardian, Jared Chayse -- ...

  • Rapture's Gold

    Rosanne Bittner

    A YOUNG WOMAN'S FEAR At seventeen, strong-willed Harmony Jones had made it to Cripple Creek all by herself. Now all she needed to reach her inherited claim was a guide--but the only one she could find was the devastatingly handsome Buck Hanner. H...

  • Fiery Obsession

    Lynne Blackman

    SEDUCED BY NEED. CAPTURED BY DESIRE. Innocent and lovely Sloan Hyland's dreams of sensual passion - and fears that they will never come true - are all she knows . . . until her uncle Dean, a powerful New York art dealer, takes her with him on a fe...

  • Privilege

    Leona Blair

    During the turbulent decades between the world wars, Ema, a beautiful woman whose life is forged from a single passion, transforms the lives of everyone she touches, including her husband, lover, children and friends...

  • Resident Alien

    Clark Blaise

  • Change of Heart

    Susan Blake

    Jealous over the popularity and beauty of her older sister, Amy, Hilary Mason devotes herself to artwork, which in turn leads to romance, but when tragedy befalls Amy, it results in Hilary's growing feelings of guilt and unhappiness...

  • Always, Amber

    Barbara Boswell

    When his uncle insisted that Jared Stone cozy up to Amber Aames to learn if her family's bank was planning to takeover of his, Jared was indignant -- but intrigued enough to meet the golden-haired lady in question. When Jared entered her gift shop, ...

  • Prometheans

    Ben Bova

    Down with Pessimists!In a rich mix of fiction and science, fact and speculation, Ben Bova presents the Promethean pioneers whose technologic genius fuels our dreams --- and our future.Discover the exciting adventures of Sam Gunn --- first man to rig ...

  • The Daisy Ducks

    Rick Boyer

    Leader of the Daisy Ducks, a team of commandos in Vietnam, Roantis had stashed a fortune in Kowloon at the war's end. He wants Adams to help him retrieve the loot, but before they can plan the trip, the veteran is almost a dead Duck from a sniper sho...

  • The Beacon at Alexandria

    Gillian Bradshaw

    In the Fourth Century A.D., independent and determined young Charis is forbidden to become a doctor because she is a woman. Disguising herself as a eunuch she flees Ephesus for Alexandria, then the center of learning. There she apprentices to a Jewis...

  • King Bird Rides

    Max Brand

  • Sixgun Legacy

    Max Brand

  • Bloom County Babylon

    Berkeley Breathed

    "This first big ""bible"" of Bloom County includes comics from the earlier collections: Loose Tails, ''Toons for Our Times and Penguin Dreams and Stranger Things. Eighty full-color pages including the wonderful Opus ""hairy fishnuts/Hare Krishnas"" s...

  • The Castle of Darkness

    J.H. Brennan

  • The Gorilla Signs Love

    Barbara Brenner

  • The Twelve Days of Christmas

    Louise Brierley

  • Black Grail

    Damien Broderick

    A millennium from now, global warming has gone into retreat as the Sun's dynamics convulse. The great ice returns, driving humankind back to its primitive origins. Here, bands of brutal warriors wage war in the bitter cold. Xaraf Firebridge, powerful...

  • Give and Take

    Sharon Brondos

    LOVE WAS ALL ABOUT GIVE AND TAKE Performing a striptease for a group of women was embarrassing for Kyle Chambers, but he'd "do anything for charity." Of course, he didn't know that Charity Miller was in the audience. Her laughter brought them t...

  • Where Enchantment Lies // A Chance Encounter

    Beth Brookes

    Taylor Grant, burned-out big-city reporter, can't believe his eyes. The gypsy sprite kneeling beside him, as fresh and winsome as a child, has healed a heart-attack victim simply by touching him! It's a terrific story--hut Katie Riordan's not talking...

  • The Circling Years

    Janice Young Brooks

    ONE WOMAN'S SECRET SHAME Beautiful Grace Thorne seemed a perfect wife to her powerful husband and the ideal of all a lady should be. Only she knew the shocking secret of her girlhood. Only she knew the need that threw her into the arms of armament k...

  • Players

    Brenda Broomfield

  • Ridge of Gold

    James Ambrose Brown

    Depicting Johannesburg's beginnings in the 1880s as a sprawling town of shacks and shanties, saloons and whorehouses, and mansions and mining magnates, this story describes the men and women whose drive and energy helped to create the city of Johanne...

  • Our Cat Flossie

    Ruth Brown

    With simple text and captivating illustrations, Ruth Brown has created an entrancing picture book about her own cat Flossie - a book that children will find irresistible!

    Ruth is also the author of The Big Sneeze and A Dark, Dark Tale.
    ...

  • Storm of Passion

    Virginia Brown

    ISLE OF DESIRE The crashing waves swept young Kerry O'Connell onto the Caribbean isle, the sole survivor of a shipwreck that left her an orphan. Here she would blossom into a woman as wild and lovely as the tropical flowers, as sensual as the warm...

  • Damsel in Distress

    Amanda Brownfield

  • Cody's Honor

    Carole Buck

    Cody Merrill -- His very name unsettles Geneva, inspiring guilt, shame and yearning. But southern honor demands they never speak of her troubled marriage to his step-brother...of the painful legacy of womanly doubt it left behind...or of the desire t...

  • Sixth-Grade Sleepover

    Eve Bunting

    A night in the cafeteria. Janey loves being in the sixth-grade reading club. She gets to read lots of exciting books, plus all of her friends are R.A.B.B.I.T.S. (Read A Book; Bring It To School). But then the Rabbits find out that they are going to ...

  • The Kingdom of the Wicked

    Anthony Burgess

    "Anthony Burgess' dazzling evocation of the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity. From the sexual antics of Tiberius to Caligula's excesses, from the burning of Nero's Rome to the eruption of Vesuvius, Burgess has fashioned a brillia...

  • King and Castle

    John Burke

  • Way of the Bull

    Leo Buscaglia

    A stirring story of Leo Buscaglia's travels from Japan and Hong Kong to Cambodia and Calcutta on his personal quest for discovery, searching for the bull--the Chinese symbol of life--in himself and all of us, the bull that must remain untethered and ...

  • Blossoms Meet the Vulture Lady

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    What's Junior Blossom up to this time?



    When we first met Junior in The Not-Just-Anybody Family, he was trying to fly with his homemade wings. Now, having recovered from two broken legs, he's ready to startle the world by inventing the ...

  • Zoboa

    Martin Caidin

    Mitch Bannon, a stunt pilot and part-time NASA security aide, works against time to stop ZOBOA, a fanatical Arab terrorist organization led by Sadad Jabal responsible for the hijacking of four atomic bombs, before the launch of the space shuttle "Ant...

  • The Dissolute Duke

    Miranda Cameron

    THE MAN SHE HATED TO LOVE Miss Celeste Robinson quickly came to the conviction that the Duke of Malvern was thoroughly, completely, absolutely despicable. Not only was this outrageously handsome, shockingly high-living gentleman notorious for his ...

  • All That Sparkles

    Stella Cameron

    Some people would kill for diamonds.... Paula Renfrew was proud to follow in her father's footsteps as a diamond finisher for the House of Kohl in Amsterdam. But years ago her father had been implicated in the theft of a valuable gem. And now tha...

  • Wish Too Soon

    Lainey Campbell

  • A Victorian Marriage

    Muriel Canfield

  • Seven Worlds

    Mary Caraker

    Though couched as a novel, really more like a sequence of connected short stories. Following the career of a teacher who seeks her work out among far flung colonies and alien planets, each chapter features a new world, with distinct cultures and pitf...

  • My Very First Book of Heads and Tails

    Eric Carle

  • The Grouchy Ladybug

    Eric Carle

    Progressing through a series of brilliantly colored die-cut pages, a bad-tempered braggart becomes a nicer, happier, better-behaved bug. The arrangement of the book also introduces concepts of comparative size and telling time. Full-color illustratio...

  • All Around Us

    Eric Carle

  • Body Glow

    Donald Carleson

  • Foundling

    Carol Carrick

  • Supply of Heroes

    James Carroll

    At the height of World War I, Douglas Tyrrell leaves Ireland and his wife to fight in the English army, and his sister meets a revolutionary who is determined to fight for Irish independence, even if it means siding with the Germans...

  • Wart, Son of Toad

    Alden R. Carter

  • Saints and Strangers

    Angela Carter

    An absolutely unique voice...It would be an impertinence to call these eight delightful concoctions stories...A virtuoso Mendelssohn of fiction. -- The New York Times Book Review Drawing on American history, literary legend, and folk tale, Angela Ca...

  • Death Orbit

    Nick Carter

  • Ultramarine

    Raymond Carver

    "Carver's gifts as a storyteller shine through his poetry" (Los Angeles Times) in this collection that moves from the beauty of the world to thoughts of mortality and family and art. One of Raymond Carver’s final collections of poetry, this co...

  • Leaving Locke Horn

    Dorothy Casey

  • Man in White

    Johnny Cash

    The only novel written by the legendary songwriter and performer, Johnny Cash -- the incredible story of the apostle Paul.In this historical novel about the life of Paul before and after his conversion, discover the passionate, fiery, and destructive...

  • The Captain's Woman

    Melanie Catley

    Captain Ross Morgan couldn't refuse the challenge of a beautiful woman or a race at sea. Captain Alexandra Boudreaux offered both. They embarked on a perilous voyage, battling each other and the open sea. Their first searing kiss sealed an unwrit...

  • Shake a Palm Branch

    Miriam Chaikin

  • Sound the Shofar

    Miriam Chaikin

  • Great Timber Race

    Tim Champlin

  • The Painted Cage

    Meira Chand

    Based on a true story, Meira Chand's" The Painted Cage" explores the tragedy of a Victorian woman who becomes the victim of her own sensuality.

    In Yokohama, Japan, on the morning of January 5th 1897, the trial begins of Amy Redmore, charged wi...

  • Portrait of the Enemy

    David Chanoff

    Here is the story of the "other side" of the Vietnam War--of the Vietcong and North Vietnamese--which has been largely untold until now. In this remarkable piece of oral history, the story emerges of the ordinary people of both North and South Vie...

  • Yesterday's Tomorrow

    Maggi Charles

    Who'd believe Susan Bannister, of Susan Bannister, Inc., wanted to spruce up a dingy concession stand in an alligator-infested Florida State Park backwater? But one ride aboard Alligator Annie, several unnerving smiles from Chris McGrath, its silver-...

  • The Deception Trap

    Ann Charlton

    She couldn't miss this opportunity! Teressa had plotted revenge against Ashe Warwick for years. She had no compunction about deceiving him now. It helped that the now slim, glamorous Teressa bore little resemblance to the awkward, overweigh...

  • Making Friends

    Emily Chase

    Opposites don't always attract. Jane Barrett, a proper Bostonian, likes classical music, conservative clothes, and -- most of all -- privacy. She wasn't expecting to share a room this year. Now she's got two roommates! Andy Cord, a black girl f...

  • Directed Verdict

    Thomas Chastain
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  • The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories

    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

    GRISHA, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping through the keyhole. In the kitchen something extraordinary, and in his opinion never seen before, was taking place. A big, thick-set, red-haired pea...

  • Veil

    George C. Chesbro

    When Veil Kendry was born, a brain infection almost ended his life. That illness has left him with a supernatural power that is both a blessing and a curse. Veil dreams with a clarity unknown to nature; his dreams bring him to the edges of time and i...

  • The Tamarack Tree

    Patricia Clapp

    Orphaned at thirteen, Rosemary Leigh was transplanted from England to Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1859. Four years later, to distract her from her fear as cannonballs batter the besieged city, Rosemary writes about what she has been through.

    ...

  • Fatal Rose

    Ernest Clark

  • Lucky Day

    Mary Higgins Clark
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    Bill Regan had a feeling that today was his lucky day. Nora Barton didn't share the feeling. She saw Bill at the newsstand every morning, but today, as she locked eyes with the normally sullen old man, Nora sensed something different -- today, Bi...

  • Too Dangerous to Love

    Sandra Clark

    Falling in love was risky at the best of times But Storm's aunt had unknowingly bequeathed her niece an added danger. The Welsh tower house Storm had assumed would be hers after her aunt's death, in reality, belonged to Carlo Llewellyn, a ...

  • Thrump-O-Moto

    James Clavell

  • April in Love

    Laurie Clifford

  • River of Swans

    Don Coldsmith

    Pale Star of the Elk-Dog band, cruelly abducted from the People as a child, has grown into a cunning and courageous woman, Married to a scout named Brule, she has won the respect of the Fran-coy at faraway Fort Mishi-hgan for her beauty and story...

  • Shutter of Snow

    Emily Holmes Coleman

    In a prose form as startling as its content, The Shutter of Snow portrays the post-partum psychosis of Marthe Gail, who after giving birth to her son, is committed to an insane asylum. Believing herself to be God, she maneuvers through an institution...

  • When the Stars Begin to Fall

    James Lincoln Collier

    Everyone in Timber Falls knows that his family is trash, and sometimes Harry White thinks he’ll always be trash. But he can’t help getting angry. After all, what had he and his sister, Helen, ever done to anybody? When he discovers the local carp...

  • Nice Weekend for a Murder

    Max Allan Collins

    When Mallory journeys to a New York mansion to meet his fellow mystery writers for a game of who-done-it, he witnesses a real murder, a snowstorm cuts off the outside world, and all of the evidence disappears. Reprint....

  • Halo

    Paul Cook

    The mysterious alien artifact called the Halo came quietly and mysteriously and then sowed the earth with seeds that threatened to destroy humanity by destroying their souls. **** But the aliens had underestimated the human spirit and a band of Moon-...

  • Hoop of the Nation

    John Byrne Cooke

  • Second Chances

    Linda A. Cooney

  • Coming on Strong

    M.E. Cooper

    Too Hot to Handle... When Holly Daniels meets Bart Einerson, it's obvious he's got his eye on every girl at Kennedy High. And plenty of them return the attention of this dark-haired, blue-eyed cowboy. Holly knows what kind of guy Bart is, and she's ...

  • I Am the Universe

    Barbara Corcoran

    Twelve year old "Kit" Esterly enjoys writing stories and enters a competitive writing contest at school. Unfortunately, her world is split apart when Kit learns her mother is seriously ill. During the writing contestand her mother's illness, Katherin...

  • The Aristocrat

    Catherine Coulter

    What would an American football star do if he suddenly found himself an English lord? It wasn't something pro quarterback Brant Asher had ever bothered to think about --until the day he learned of his inheritance. He was now Viscount Asherwood, h...

  • Blade of the Guillotine

    Arthur Byron Cover

    IT IS THE YEAR 1794. You have traveled back to France during the Reign of Terror. You have been accused of being a traitor to the French Revolution. An angry crowd has sent you to the guillotine to be executed. Should you attempt to convince the c...

  • A Window in Mrs. X's Place

    Peter Cowan

  • Double Dealings

    Kathleen Creighton

    ONCE A SPY... Rose St. James thought she had left espionage behind, but they called her out of retirement to take one last assignment, and they wouldn't let her refuse. She had to investigate Jade Castle, a man of wealth and power, a man wi...

  • Hunter's Prey

    Jasmine Cresswell

    He was the hunter, she was his prey As the young bride of Congressman Luke Caine, Beth found life demanding and difficult -- in everything except their shared powerful physical passion. When that passion resulted in pregnancy, she was elated. ...

  • Prince of the City

    Robert Daley

  • Gunpoint

    Kit Dalton

  • Footprints in the Sand

    Erin Dana

    As daughter of a renowned investigative reporter, Lynn O'Rourke was no stranger to eccentric behavior. But she'd met her match in willfull, prize-winning journalist Brian Devereaux. Notorious womanizer, ruthless soldier of fortune, he was arrogance i...

  • This Place Has No Atmosphere

    Paula Danziger

    A gorgeous new package for Paula Danziger’s backlist with an introduction from Ann Martin!In the year 2057 people live in malls, take classes in ESP, and get detention from robots. Fifteen-year-old Aurora loves everything about her life. She’s pa...

  • Don't Ask Me Now

    Emma Darcy

    Only one man was offering the forever kind of love Four years ago, Cathy Lawrence's hopes of marrying Anthony Pryor-Jones had been humiliatingly crushed. The country girl from Armidale had been deemed no match for Anthony, whose family sat ato...

  • Fortune's Hunter

    Frances Davies

    Over three continents Glenda Woods has secretly sought him: mystery writer, man of the world ... her first and only love. Alas, cruel fate abruptly ended their romantic idyll of years ago. Now, quirky destiny summons Glenda to a dear friend's aid ......

  • Where the Dark Streets Go

    Dorothy Salisbury Davis

    Father McMahon is struggling to write a sermon when a boy runs into his office. A man in his tenement is dying, the boy says, and it is too late for a doctor or the police. In the basement of the apartment house, Father McMahon kneels beside the bloo...

  • Till Death do Us Part

    Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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  • The Golden Threshold

    Harriette De Jarnette

    GENTLE HEART, RESTLESS SPIRIT Eloping with handsome Rand d'Arcy was the fulfillment of a romantic dream for Caroline Suffolk; not even the prospect of the long, dangerous trip by wagon train from her Alabama plantation to the western plains could d...

  • The Tiger

    Lisa St. Aubin De Teran

    The servants said that even the waters of the Orinoco obeyed Misia Schmutter,the white-haired old lady, so proud of her Prussian ancestry, who treatedthe world like her slave. She had seen a glint of her own ruthlessness in hergrandson Lucien's eye. ...

  • The Lonely Wolf

    Marolles Chantal De

  • Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You

    Barthe DeClements

    "Bad Helen" Helen thinks this year might be better than most. There are some neat people in her grade: her friend Louise, Leon, Jack Hanson , even Elsie Edwards. But Helen's teacher turns out to be Mrs. Lobb. Lobb the Blob makes things so hard for ...

  • On the Third Day

    Michael Delahaye

  • Jasmine Sorcery

    Barbara Delinsky

    He was cause for excitement All along Pepper MacNeil's mail delivery route, people were buzzing about "him" -- the new man in the neighborhood. But no wagging tongue prepared her for the gorgeous male -- lean, tanned, gleaming with swe...

  • The Scarlet Storm

    Marguerite DeMoss

  • You Mean I Have to Stand Up and Say Something?

    Joan Detz

  • The Adventures of a Two-Minute Werewolf

    Gene DeWeese

  • The Forever Man

    Gordon R. Dickson

    The ancient starship La Chasse Gallerie is found drifting perilously in space. Despite heavy damage from alien Laagi warships, incredibly the ship is till intact and the voice of its pilot, Raoul Penard, comes through loud and clear. But Petard died ...

  • Saratoga Snapper

    Stephen Dobyns

    With his detective agency facing hard times, Charlie Bradshaw moonlights as night manager at a Saratoga Springs hotel. Victor, his partner, snaps pictures of the happy tourists. But not all the tourists are happy with this self-styled Saratoga Snappe...

  • World's Fair

    E.L. Doctorow

    Winner of the National Book Award • “Marvelous . . . You get lost in World’s Fair as if it were an exotic adventure. You devour it with the avidity usually provoked by a suspense thriller.†-- The New York TimesHailed by critics from coast to...

  • Pentagon

    Allen Drury

  • The Texas Assassin

    J.T. Edson

  • Regency Masquerade

    Rachelle Edwards

    WAS EVER A BRIDE SO SADLY USED-- THE GROOM GETS KILLED ON HIS WEDDING NIGHT! So much for Miss Sabina Jenkins's glorious rise from lady's companion to wife of a rakehell English peer. And his vast fortune is cold comfort indeed! For with all her...

  • Dawn's Gift

    Robin Elliott

    FUN ON THE FARM? Ex-jet-setter Dawn Gilbert had traded glamour and riches for the peaceful country life: doll-making and mending, punctuated by a little skinny-dipping.... Returning after years spent as a "foreign diplomat," Creed Maxwell Parke...

  • Lone Star and the Gulf Pirates

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki fight for their lives in a vicious sea battle in the forty-ninth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the martial...

  • Mission to Venus

    William Emms

    The Doctor is counting on YOU to help win a nerve-wracking game of trust, treachery, and terror in Mission to Venus. Traveling in the TARDIS, you and the Doctor materialize with a crash in a most unusual place: the belly of an in-flight spaceship....

  • The Beet Queen

    Louise Erdrich

    Orphaned fourteen-year-old Carl and his eleven-year-old sister, Mary, travel to Argus, North Dakota, to live with their mother's sister, in this tale of abandonment, sexual obsession, jealousy and unstinting love...

  • Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

    John R. Erickson

    Guilty until proven innocent? Who -- or what -- has been killing chickens on the ranch? And what is Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, going to do about it? Using his top-notch law enforcement skills, Hank launches one of the hardest-hitting...

  • Rubicon Beach

    Steve Erickson

    A “brilliant” novel about an alternate America that has been split in two (San Francisco Chronicle). In a dystopian Los Angeles, Cale is a newly released political prisoner under surveillance. Beset by dark visions and relegated to workin...

  • Any Man's Death

    Loren D. Estleman

    Former Mob hitman Peter Macklin is back in a third adventure, in which Macklin must protect a controversial Detroit preacher with a contract on his head--and hope the hitman isn't his own teenaged son. Estleman holds a Western Writers of America Aces...

  • Longarm on the Siwash Trail

    Tabor Evans

  • Return to Summer

    Barbara Faith

    There could never be anything between Sarah Maxwell and Andres Navarro. Fifteen years ago, innocent Sarah had made love to Andres's brother--and had given birth to his child. Sarah's pride had kept her silent. She'd left the Navarro's lush ranch b...

  • Quest for the Demon Gate

    Bill Fawcett

  • The Glory Hole Murders

    Tony Fennelly

    After a slightly grisly startthe victim was slowly murdered by mutilationthis first novel quickly turns into a solid, fast-moving mystery with a very cleverly disguised villain. H. R. Loomis, suburban family man, very public Mr. Nice Guy and possible...

  • Innocence

    Penelope Fitzgerald

    “A delectable comedy of manners†set in 1950s Florence, by the Man Booker Prizeâ€"winning author of The Bookshop (The Boston Globe).   It’s 1955, and Italy is still struggling a decade after the end of World War II. So are the Ridolfis, a ...

  • Bang Bang You're Dead

    Louise Fitzhugh

  • After the Storm

    Rebecca Flanders

    America's favorite fantasy was the world's biggest pest To millions of American women who watched Code Zero every Monday night, smooth-talking, steely nerved Kevin Dawson was the ultimate sex symbol. To Dr. Kate Larimer, he was the ultimat...

  • The Exile of Sergeant Nen

    Stephen Fleming

  • Toil of the Brave

    Inglis Fletcher

    1779! Revolution raged across the Carolinas, dividing family against family, as the fires of war enguled the lives of Albemarle's aristocracy. Against the epic backdrop of a new nation's struggle for survival, there unfolds the story of an...

  • The Vintage Years

    Rebecca Fontaine

  • Desert Rain

    Regan Forest

    Their love was an oasis Keith Martin made himself a hero the night he rescued Laura Caldwell from a would-be attacker. He also became the subject of her tantalizing fantasies. Laura didn't need her skill as a psychologist to diagnose her respo...

  • Into the Sea of Stars

    William R. Forstchen

  • Swansong

    Richard H. Francis

  • The Last Dream

    Lucy Freeman
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  • New York by Knight

    Esther Friesner

    THE STREETS OF MANHATTAN...WHERE DRAGONS WALK BY NIGHT Now the showdown has begun. On a planet called Earth and the city known as New York, knight and dragon confront each other in one final battle. As the deathly dance begins, the city of asphalt...

  • Aura

    Carlos Fuentes

    This eBook edition of Carlos Fuentes' novel includes only the English translation by Lysander Kemp. The Spanish text is not included.Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs. There Felipe meets ...

  • The Hydra Head

    Carlos Fuentes

    Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's leading novelist, author of The Old Gringo, Terra Nostra and The Death of Artemio Cruz, has produced what is probably the first Third World spy thriller, an action-filled, quick-paced novel of intrigue as contemporary as a he...

  • The Lover of Horses and Other Stories: And Other Stories

    Tess Gallagher

  • Wayward Wind

    Dorothy Garlock

    A Spitfire Woman... A Savage Land... And A Rough Riding Man Determined To Tame Them Both Lorna's violet eyes glittered with the joy of riding fast and free across Light's Mountain, the Colorado range that was her birthright and fiercest pa...

  • The Rope Dancer

    Roberta Gellis

    HER HEART DANCED ON THE WIND...AND FLEW ON THE WINGS OF A LOVESONG Theirs was an enchanted age of pride and passion, of color and pageantry--where danger followed in the path of betrayal...where desire flowed untamed...and love knew no adversary.....

  • Sir Cedric

    Roy Gerrard

  • Love From the Fifth-Grade Celebrity

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Casey Valentine can't wait for the new school year to begin. She's sure she will be elected president for the second year in a row. And the best news is that her good friend Tracy Matson is moving to Casey's town. They'll be in fifth grade together!<...

  • Drunk With Love

    Ellen Gilchrist

    “There is not a single dud in this brilliant collection…crisp stories about marriage, blood, booze and death and the wayward passions fomented by them.†-- Time Out From joyous moments to near insurmountable grief, National Book Award-winning a...

  • Checkpoint

    Eve Gladstone

    The game of diplomatic intrigue was deadly.. . As an economics adviser for the United States Mission, Marti Holland attended many diplomatic receptions at the United Nations. But never before had she heard two men discuss plans for the assassinati...

  • The Homing Instinct

    Elizabeth Glenn

    He'd grown into one helluva man Kelly West's return to Texas could have made headlines: Soap Star Faints in Arms of Her Ex-Heartthrob! And Matt Kendall was now the town doc. He swiftly diagnosed flu and offered his services.. . . Their ...

  • Man by the Fire

    Victoria Glenn

    HOME, HEARTH AND A MAN BY THE FIRE... They were all that Sarah had ever dreamed of, all the things a woman could ever want in life. But the efficient life of Sarah Weiss was far from perfect. As a respected physicist, she could handle theorems ...

  • A Deadly Rhyme

    Gloria Gonzalez

  • Seaswept Abandon

    Jo Goodman

    FLOODED WITH DESIRE When green-eyed Rae McClellan agreed to be a courier for the Colonies, she never dreamed that on her very first mission she'd coldly kill one man-and hotly love another. But one thing led to another in the boisterous Redcoat ta...

  • Gone With the Wish

    Eileen Goudge

    Sixteen-year-old Ashley Calhoun journeys back through time to a pre-Civil War plantation, where she encounters a young girl named Violet, who will become her own great-great-grandmother--if Ashley can keep her from marrying the wrong boy....

  • Life of the Party

    Eileen Goudge

  • Dark Splendor

    Liz Grady

    Dating consultant Jill Maxwell prides herself on socially savvy matchmaking. So how did she get stranded in the Callahan Tunnel with hostile, denim-clad cabbie Benjamin Lucas, who audaciously pegs her a highbrow snob? Though pride goads Jill to pu...

  • White Rani

    Caroline Gray

    When beautiful, strong-willed Alexandra Wantage impetuously married American photographer Clarkson Hale, it marked a beginning of an adventure that would take them from the privileged circles of British society to the savage, sultry wilderness of Mal...

  • Glory Bound

    Billie Green

    Alan Spencer knew his blind date with an important client's eligible daughter would be a disaster -- weren't all such arranged encounters? But from the moment he met Glory Wainwright and looked into her sapphire-blue eyes, he began to believ...

  • Simple Gifts

    Joanne Greenberg

    When a government agency persuades the Fleurises, a poor family who live unchangingly on a Colorado ranch, to turn their ranch into a tourist attraction, they learn that authentic does not necessarily mean real...

  • Hard to Get

    Yvonne Greene

    Kelly Blake, an overnight success as a teen model, lands the coveted position of Balmour's Girl, the TV model for Balmour's department store, but when things go wrong at the taping of the first commercial, she finds she still has a lot to learn about...

  • Teddy Bears ABC

    Susanna Gretz

  • Teddy Bears 1 to 10

    Susanna Gretz

  • Love and Fury

    Patricia Hagan

    Lovely Briana de Paul trembled in horror ... and yet it was her only hope of salvation. To raise money for her ailing brother, she was being forced to impersonate her best friend Dani Coltrane -- and claim half of the huge family fortune for herself....

  • World of Unicorns

    Michael Hague

  • Wait Till Helen Comes

    Mary Downing Hahn

    Twelve-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother, Michael, have never liked their seven-year-old stepsister, Heather. Ever since their parents got married, she's made Molly and Michael's life miserable. Now their parents have moved them all to the ...

  • Crystal Paradise

    Johanna Hailey

    SHATTERED DREAMS Aurora thought she had finally found contentment when she was held in her lover’s arms. But that happiness was short-lived when Frayne had to leave her to continue on his quest for adventure, this time to find a perfect crystal ...

  • An Honest Lover

    Phyllis Halldorson

    JACK OF ALL TRADES He was the stranger who accidentally caught her hand in a self-closing door. He had tended her bruises with gentleness and caring. Lark Carlisle stared at Jonathan Nolan as she applied for his housekeeping job. The man had haunt...

  • Fourth and Goal

    Edward M. Hallowell

  • Dance For Diplomats

    Palma Harcourt

  • Iron Trail to Death

    J.D. Hardin

  • With Love From Rome

    Janice Harrell

  • Bird Brain

    Joyce Harrington
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  • Jump!: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

    Joel Chandler Harris

  • Confessions of a Prime Time Kid

    Mark Jonathan Harris

  • Laura and Edmund

    Sarah Harrison

  • Laura and Old Lumber

    Sarah Harrison

  • Laura and the Lady

    Sarah Harrison

  • Laura and the Squire

    Sarah Harrison

  • The Devereaux Legacy

    Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

    Would the truth release her--or destroy her? Raised in Texas by her late paternal grandmother, Leah Devereaux Shaw had never been told about the circumstances of her parents' deaths nineteen years ago. When she visited Devereaux Plantation in Sout...

  • A Green Journey

    Jon Hassler

    "Hassler's characters have old-fashioned values and typical human failings; they make this a novel to restore your faith in humanity."
    LOS ANGELES TIMES
    Agatha McGee is following a dream, though it might be late in the game. She's just retired ...

  • The Lantern Keeper's Bedtime Book

    Geoffrey Hayes

  • Dealing in Futures

    Joe Heldeman