Books Published in September 1988

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New Books List: 487 titles

  • We Think the World of You

    J.R. Ackerley

    We Think the World of You combines acute social realism and dark fantasy, and was described by J.R. Ackerley as “a fairy tale for adults.” Frank, the narrator, is a middle-aged civil servant, intelligent, acerbic, self-righteous, angry. He is i...

  • Taking Savannah

    Pepper Adams

    STILL MARRIED! After six years, Savanah Winslow had finally forgotten her whirlwind marriage to Beau. She had a very nice life taking care of her elderly aunts and the product of that disastrous relationship --her son, Kit. Then Beau arrived with ...

  • Stairway to Forever

    Robert Adams

  • Robert Adams' Book of Soldiers

    Robert Adams

  • Redeye

    Richard Aellen

  • Starting School

    Allan Ahlberg

    Janet and Allan Ahlberg''s classic, Starting School.

    From first day nerves to finding your peg, this reassuring read is full of humour and fun for children and parents alike. A classic picture book which offers advice and enjoyment for the whole f...

  • Home Is the Sailor

    Jorge Amado

  • A Spy in Isengard

    Terry Amthor

    Since your apprenticeship began, you have worked for the powerful and revered wizard, Saruman the White. But of late, you have grown troubled by what you see and hear within his mighty fortress of Isengard. Orcs and wildmen gather inside. You have se...

  • The House of Vandekar

    Evelyn Anthony

    THE MAGNIFICENT VANDEKARS... FROM THE TURBULENT THIRTIES TO TODAY, FROM THE PRIVILEGES OF WEALTH TO THE TRAGEDIES OF WAR, THEY WOVE AN INTRICATE WEB OF LOVE AND LIES THAT TRAPPED THEM ALL UNTIL THE TIME CAME TO BREAK FREE TO REVEAL THE TRUTH, AND PA...

  • White Light // Mazurka

    Campbell Armstrong

    In international bestselling author Campbell Armstrong’s page-turning thriller, counterterrorism agent Frank Pagan races against the clock to defuse a confrontation with the Russians that might change the map of Europe Escorting a hard-drinking, fu...

  • Rockabye Crocodile

    Jose Aruego

  • A Crime Remembered

    Jeffrey Ashford

  • Norby Through Time and Space

    Janet Asimov

    NORBY IS AT IT AGAIN! That lovable mixed-up robot is back--and in more trouble than ever! Along with his sometimes fearless human companion, Jeff Wells, Norby has gotten himself into more trouble than would seem humanly--or robotically--possible. ...

  • Journey into Space: Adventure Box IV

    Stephen Attalides

  • Planet of the Dinosaurs: Adventure Box III

    Stephen Attalides

  • Romeo and Juliet Together (and Alive!) at Last

    Avi

    Pete Saltz, the pudgy poet from S.O.R. Losers, has fallen hard for Anabell Stackpoole, and she likes him, too. But both are much too shy to do anything about it. It's Pete's friend Ed Sitrow to the rescue, as he and other eighth-graders at South ...

  • Men at Sea

    Brandt Aymar

    This huge companion volume to the popular anthology Men at War contains 60 selections about men who have challenged the sea, from such writers as Melville, Poe, Conrad, London, Hugo, and Hemingway, including short novels, excerpts from novels, and hi...

  • Three Books by Richard Bach

    Richard Bach

  • Another Spring

    June Masters Bacher

    Black clouds, fat with rain, bunched together to obliterate the sun. Lightning rent the black veil, followed so immediately by an explosion of thunder that the three in the ancient buggy knew the strike was close. Spring is in full bloom when the ...

  • Boy Wonder

    James Robert Baker

    Testimony by those that knew him document life and times of rebel filmmaker and Hollywood wildman Shark Trager, and of his stormy days and raunchy nights spent in pursuit of a twisted Californian dream...

  • Reckless Desire

    Madeline Baker

    "You say you love my daughter. I forbid it! You have no right to interfere in her life so long as she is bound to another." So spoke the great Cheyenne warrior Two Hawks Flying, and Cloud Walker knew his harsh words were only too true. Serenel...

  • Mountain Blood

    Will Baker

  • Passion's Disguise

    Rita Balkey

    REBEL RAKE Held prisoner by an arrogant stranger, beautiful Rumor Seton knew this man of many faces was dangerous. As Sir Oliver Mowbray, he had sold her to the English general. Disguised as a Mohawk, he had rescued her from certain death, but A...

  • Enchanter's Daughter

    Antonia Barber

  • Leaves of Fortune

    Linda Barlow

    Such is the cruel legacy that has plagued the strong, willed Templeton women since the eighteenth century: Helen Templeton, visionary founder of the Templeton Tea Company; Minerva Templeton, protector of Helens dream; and Delilah Templeton Scofield, ...

  • A Shiver of Rain

    Kay Bartlett

    DANGEROUS EMBRACE Rachel Brewer thought she'd stumbled into the pages of a spy novel, and she wasn't thrilled. Especially since the "bad guy" was her late husband, Jack, and the FBI agent was the intractable but sexy Luke Warren. Luke insisted ...

  • Highland Jade

    Stephanie Bartlett

    It was a time of simmering passion and sudden violence, an age of captivating mystery and turbulent dreams; It was a place of exotic splendor and hidden fires, a land of ancient tradition and proud nobility; She was a beautiful woman, a world away fr...

  • Spirits and Other Stories

    Richard Bausch

  • Without A Trace

    K.K. Beck

    Sunny Sinclair hasn't seen her fellow spy and
    wartime lover Alex Markoff since V-E Day. But their once-passionate love affair is about to come back to haunt her
    She must find her former lover For years, she has thought he was dead. But now, w...

  • Return of the White Witch

    Rob Bell

  • A Time and a Place

    Laura Gilmour Bennett

  • Temptations

    Elizabeth Bernard

    The glamorous life.... Leah Stephenson can't believe it. Her ex-partner, James Cummings, is back in San Francisco -- to star in a movie. And teenage ballet sensation Andrei Levintoff will appear in the same film! Leah and her friends are dying to fi...

  • Fuzzy Rabbit and the Little Brother Problem

    Rosemary Billam

  • The Witch's Handbook

    Malcolm Bird

  • Study Break

    Alison Blair

  • Land of Dreams

    James P. Blaylock

    When a boat-sized shoe and giant spectacles wash up on the shore, three of the town's orphans - Jack, Skeezix, and Helen - know there's something fishy going on; and the old ghost in the orphanage attic is inclined to agree. An evil carnival comes to...

  • True Colors

    Mary Blayney

    "HEY, MOM! TOM WINESKI'S RIGHT HERE IN JACKSON!" In Jackson? He was in her house! When single mother Janelle Harper woke up in her Wisconsin hometown, little did she know she would meet a man with enough sexual electricity to power the entire stat...

  • Mohan Alone

    Tracy Blezard

  • Random Walk

    Lawrence Block

    “Every now and then someone comes up to me at a speech or signing and says one of the two things. “I’ve liked all of your books.” I’ll be told ‘but there is one I couldn’t make heads or tails out of’. Or just the opposite: “I’ve ...

  • That Malcolm Girl

    Parris Afton Bonds

    COLLISION COURSE! Roberta Malcolm had spent her life on the Mescalero ranch, and all her dreams centered on the high desert, the stark beauty of the West and a cutting-horse operation of her own. Then Hollywood -- and Jed Pulaski -- came to Mesca...

  • Manstopper

    Douglas Borton

    There are four of them in the bloodthirsty pack. Cleo. Mr. Dobbs. Bigfoot. And their leader, Razor. They have been born and bred for one single purpose. To kill. And now they are loose and doing what they do best. You can run -- but you won't e...

  • The Whale's Footprints

    Rick Boyer

    When Doc and Mary's son Jack brings his friend Andrew Cunningham to Woods Hole and the guest is found dead the next morning, Jack is blamed, and Doc Adams becomes Cape Cod's temporary medical examiner to learn the truth...

  • Falling For You

    Carla Bracale

    Two left feet... Lacey Sinclair feels like the most unlucky person in the world. She's uncoordinated, unpopular, unattached -- uneverything. When she tries to impress Kevin Jamison, a boy she likes a lot, it's as though she's also invisible. To to...

  • Dilly Goes to the Dentist

    Tony Bradman

  • Simply Sam

    Deana Brauer

    LITTLE GIRL GROWN Samantha Smith was tired of Jake Silvercloud thinking of her as a pigtailed tomboy. Rakish, irascible Jake still called her Sam, while her girlhood crush on him had long since flowered into a woman's love. Suddenly Samantha was d...

  • The Cat Who Sniffed Glue

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    Living in the peaceful city of Pickax may be restful, but it certainly isn't dull. At least not for one of the most eligible bachelors in town, veteran newspaperman Jim Qwilleran. Having inherited millions, Qwilleran and his two feline companions,...

  • Mary of Jerusalem

    Gloria Howe Bremkamp

    A fictionalized account of the life of the New Testament's Mary Mark, the sister of Barnabas. It depicts the events that helped shape Christianity and offers a glimpse into the life of an important woman of the Bible....

  • Forever Violets

    Louise Brindley

    Charlotte Grayler is swept into an affair with handsome and aristocratic Rowan Tanquillan, but Rowan's position and wealth drive them apart, and Charlotte is left to build a new life for herself and her child...

  • The Fantastic Freshman

    Bill Brittain

  • Stories In An Almost Classical Mode

    Harold Brodkey

    These 17 short stories represent the best of Brodkey's work over three decades....

  • Regency Rose

    Caroline Brooks

    THE INFORMAL EARL The Earl of Llandath seemed intent on thoroughly disrupting young and lovely Miss Kate Vaughn's life. When this dark and handsome nobleman returned from abroad to reclaim his ancestral estate, he raised clouds of speculation abou...

  • Mandate of Heaven

    Kate Buchan

  • Brendan

    Frederick Buechner

    An acclaimed author interweaves history and legend to re-create the life of a complex man of faith fifteen hundred years ago. Winner of the 1987 Christianity and Literature Book Award for Belles-Lettres....

  • King Kong and Other Poets

    Robert Burch

  • Passion Star

    Mallory Burgess

    LOVE'S PERILOUS FLIGHT Calculating and brutal, Thomas Guilford posed an ultimatum to his beautiful young ward Laura Darby: Marry him and surrender her fortune, or risk burning at the stake like hundreds of other heretics under Bloody Mary's Catholic ...

  • Razzmatazz

    Patricia Burroughs

    DON'T TALK TO STRANGERS... . It was an adage that Kennie Sue Ledbetter had followed all her life--until the day she got stranded in the Reno airport with no way back to Texas. All she could do was hope and pray that Alexander Carruthers, the good ...

  • Cross with Us Rhino

    John Bush

  • Mannequin

    Robert Byrne

    A freight train leaking a paralytic nerve gas hurtles uncontrolled toward San Francisco, and the only woman who can stop the ruthless profiteer behind this devastating chemical terrorism is paralyzed, a victim of the gas...

  • Four Came Back

    Martin Caidin

  • I Need a Lunch Box

    Jeannette Franklin Caines

  • Stranger, You and I

    Patricia Calvert

    Bewildered by the news that his long-time pal, Zee, is pregnant from an encounter with a boy who cares nothing for her, seventeen-year-old Hugh finds their friendship severely tested as he tries to come to terms with his changing feelings and the des...

  • The Most Beautiful Place in the World

    Ann Cameron

    "Seven-year-old Juan lives in Guatemala, a place of stunning beauty and grim economic reality. Abandoned by his mother, Juan lives with his grandmother and shines shoes. He passionately wants to attend school, but fears Grandmother will say no. Final...

  • Stringer and the Deadly Flood

    Lou Cameron

    Everyone knows that Salton’s Sink is the driest patch of greasewood in the whole damned Colorado Desert. So when a slick land syndicate promises cheap water to a pack of greenhorn settlers, Stringer is more than a mite suspicious. One booze-thirsty...

  • Honor

    R. Wright Campbell

    Michael Karel, a police officer on the rise, stakes his honor on solving a murder case in Belgrade assigned to him by the Party, who, at the same time, is stopping him with lies, disinformation, and silence...

  • My Giant Treasury of Fairy Tales

    Jane Carruth

  • Falconhurst Fugitive

    Ashley Carter

    BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE, ONE CONSUMING PASSION… The world calls him Tommy Verder, white man. But his real name is Calico -- born to be used as a black male animal -- and he’s a fugitive Flaconhurst slave with a price on his head. His refuge...

  • Code Name Cobra

    Nick Carter

  • Cluck Cluck

    Patricia Casey

  • The Pancake Boy

    Lorinda Bryan Cauley

  • War of the Maelstrom

    Jack L. Chalker

    The Magic of the Changewinds.....could alter the shape of every man and beast in Akahlar. The Evil of The Inner Hells....could take this power away from the Storm Princess, and place it in the destructive hands of the horned demon Klittichorn....

  • Shadows of Vengeance

    David Charles

  • It Must Be Magic

    Maggi Charles

    Josephine Bennett never mixed business with pleasure. Her handsome new client challenged that policy. When Alex Grant criticized her untried nursery, then softened the blow with his sexy smile, Jo struggled to remain crisply professional. Inside, she...

  • Showdown at Lizard Rock

    Sandra Chastain

    SHE PUT HER BODY ON THE LINE, BUT HE WAS AFTER HER HEART... When King Vandergiff saw Kaylyn Smith standing on top of Lizard Rock protesting his company's construction of a private club around the town's hot springs, he knew he'd met his march! Sh...

  • Smuggler's Gold

    C.J. Cherryh

  • The Other Side

    R. Chetwynd-Hayes

  • Accused

    Deborah Chiel

  • Cathedral Mouse

    Kay Chorao

  • Harani Trail

    A.G. Christian

  • The 13th Directorate

    Barry Chubin

  • Crazy Heart

    Thomas Cobb

    At the age of fifty-seven, Bad Blake is on his last legs. His weight, his ticker, his liver, even his pick-up truck are all giving him trouble. A renowned songwriter and "picker" who hasn't recorded in five years, Bad now travels the countryside on g...

  • My Enemy, My Love

    Elaine Coffman

    A WILD SOUTHERN ANGEL She was the daredevil of Shelby County. No fine southern gentleman could tame beautiful Mourning Kathleen Howard until a dangerously handsome stranger rode into her life and took her breath away with a deep, burning kiss that d...

  • Aren't You Forgetting Something, Fiona?

    Joanna Cole

  • Sweet Dreams Clown Arounds

    Joanna Cole

  • Prime Time

    Joan Collins

    Joan Collins' dazzling first novel is a juicy tale of sex and revenge. Actress and singer Chloe Carriere has been up and down the celebrity ladder for more than 25 years but when a prime opportunity for superstardom arises she finds herself taking pa...

  • The Things I Did for Love

    Ellen Conford

  • Desperado

    Helen Conrad (1)

    FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS WAS AT STAKE! Jessie MacAllister wasn't about to pass up the reward offered on Michael Drayton, embezzler and jewel thief. She desperately needed that money to keep her ranch going. And she was ready to go after the fugit...

  • Crying Out Loud

    David Cook

  • Final Flight

    Stephen Coonts

    The most daring -- and deadly -- terrorist plot of all time is about to unfold aboard the supercarrier USS United States. If it succeeds, the balance of nuclear power will tilt in favor of a remorseless Arab leader. And it looks as if no one can stop...

  • Hold Me Tight

    M.E. Cooper

    Staying true . . . Kennedy High actress Lily Rorshack is not so sure she'll be able to remain true to her boyfriend, Jonathan, while he's away at college. She knows school plays have a way of creating romance. Then she hears her next co-star will be...

  • The Trouble With Thorny

    Lori Copeland

    Like father, like son Chelsey Stevens didn't know who was worse -- Thorny Bradford, the newest resident of Rosehaven, or his handsome son, Greg, whose estate was next door. As director of the upscale retirement home, it was Chelsey's responsibilit...

  • A Land of Mirrors

    Alfred Coppel

    Convinced by a late-night phone call that her husband, presumed dead for seventeen years, is alive and that her daughter is being held by terrorist kidnappers, Megan Wells flies to Rome where she becomes embroiled in international intrigue that reach...

  • Lost Daughter

    Michael Cormany

    A private investigator who doesn't carry a gun and whose idea of nirvana is playing his guitar while in a drug-induced stupor? If Chicagoan Dan Kruger is a plausible protagonist, then this debut novel is indeed refreshing. Cormany introduces the 30is...

  • Sharpe's Rifles

    Bernard Cornwell

    WHEN SHARPE RISES FROM THE RANKS TO TAKE COMMAND, HE FINDS HIMSELF WITH AN UNEXPECTED ALLY IN THE WAR AGAINST NAPOLEON It's 1809, and the powerful French juggernaut is sweeping across Spain. Lieutenant Richard Sharpe is newly in command of the dem...

  • Muldoon Territory

    Jane Corrie

    THEIR LOVE WAS TO UNITE THE CLAN... Summoned by the aging family matriarch, Sheena Muldoon Fairburn arrived in Canberra and was met with cold hostility by her distant cousin Brad Muldoon. It didn't help matters when he revealed the preposterou...

  • Firestorm

    William Coyle

  • Knave of Hearts

    Jasmine Craig

    Seven years ago, Matthew Deighton and Linda Petrie shared one night of searing passion. Then he left town, driven out by a scandal and narrow minds. Now he's back...and though branded a ne'er-do-well by the local busybodies, he confidently pursues Li...

  • Winter's Daughter

    Kathleen Creighton

    Nothing stirred Tannis Winter like the plight of the homeless, and she'd devoted herself to aiding the street people she'd chosen for her research. But when a mysterious-looking derelict began following her in her bag-lady disguise, she felt a moment...

  • Trouble

    Helen Cresswell

  • The Ninth Circle

    N.J. Crisp

  • Robert Crowther's Most Amazing Pop-up Book of Machines

    Robert Crowther

  • Boots and Saddles

    Chet Cunningham

  • Glory

    Jack Curtis

  • Herbert

    Ivor Cutler

  • Liars

    Helen Daniel

    'LIARS' LOOKS AT EIGHT CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN NOVELISTS - PETER CAREY, ELIZABETH JOLLEY, DAVID IRELAND, MURRAY BAIL, DAVID FOSTER, NICHOLAS HASLUCK, PETER MATHERS AND GERALD MURNANE - WHO ARE BREAKING AWAY FROM THE CONVENTIONAL NOVEL AND OPENING STR...

  • Dogtales

    Jack Dann

  • Last Debt at Newton

    Shiff Davis

  • Little Witch and the Riddle

    Bruce Degen

  • The Gunnywolf

    Antoinette T. Delaney

  • Fulfillment

    Barbara Delinsky

    The Montclair Emeralds and Fulfillment The tragic love affair between Diandra Casey's mother and Greg York's father had left them both a legacy of bitterness -- a legacy old Bartholomew York couldn't accept. Knowing these two were mea...

  • Grumpy Pumpkins

    Judy Delton

    Halloween is here. Parties, costumes, pumpkins. The Pee Wee Scouts listen to Mrs. Peters, their troop leader, tell them all about the holiday plans. First, a trip to Mr. Riley's pumpkin farm. Next, carving the pumpkins with a safe tool. Then, the big...

  • The Peacekeepers

    Gene DeWeese

    Exploring a deserted alien spaceship, Lt. Commander Data and Lt. Georgi LaForge suddenly find themselves transported light-years away--into the middle of a deadly conflict! While Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise search feverishly for the...

  • Night at the Mocking Widow

    Carter Dickson

    Letters containing vicious accusations are received by Stoke Druid residents, then timid Cordelia Martin is discovered drowned in the River Lea and the incomparable sleuth Sir Henry Merrivale investigates...

  • Pritcher Mass

    Gordon R. Dickson

    The only hope for mankind's survival after the contamination of the Earth lay in the Pritcher Mass, a psychic forcefield construction out beyond the orbit of Pluto. Created by the efforts of individuals with extraordinary paranormal powers, the Mass ...

  • Holy the Firm

    Annie Dillard

    "[This] is a book of great richness, beauty and power and thus very difficult to do justice to in a brief review. . . . The violence is sometimes unbearable, the language rarely less than superb. Dillard's description of the moth's death makes Virgin...

  • Living by Fiction

    Annie Dillard

    "Everyone who timidly, bombastically, reverently, scholastically--even fraudulently--essays to 'live the life of the mind' should read this book. It's elegant and classy, like caviar and champagne, and like these two items, it's over much too soon." ...

  • War of Worlds

    J.M. Dillard

  • Ursula's Gift

    R. DiSilvestro

    Attempting to cope with life as a werewolf, young insurance executive Stanley Merriwether gets engaged, begins therapy with a psychiatrist who moonlights as a murderer, avoids his big-game-hunter father, and meets a motherly vampire...

  • Disney Babies Good Night

    Disney Book Group

  • Mickey Mouse Movie Stories

    Walt Disney

  • Mamaw

    Susan Dodd

  • Cajun Nights

    D.J. Donaldson

    Young and vibrant New Orleans criminal psychologist Kit Franklyn has just been assigned her most challenging case yet -- a collection of victims with similarities that include driving old cars, humming nursery rhymes, committing murder, and then kill...

  • Blind Spring Rambler

    John Douglas

    In 1923, Bill Edmonson, an inexperienced detective, and his veteran partner, Frank Grant, journey to the mining town of Blind Spring, West Virginia, to investigate the murder of a Scottish prospector, a crime for which an Italian coalminer is sentenc...

  • Fevered

    Alison Drake

    On this February morning it looks like winter is about to heat up on Tango Key. Sometime in the night, Judge Henry Michael, his wife, and two small sons were murdered. Butchered. The quiet little Florida island is reeling in horror. But clues are ...

  • Abigail

    Joan Druett

    Born at sea and raised in early nineteenth-century New Zealand, strong-willed Abigail Sherman is the daughter of the American owner of a shore-whaling station. Trouble with the English authorities prompts Captain Sherman to set Abigail on board a shi...

  • Spock's World

    Diane Duane

    AT LAST--THE NOVEL STAR TREK FANS HAVE AWAITED FOR TWENTY YEARS! It is the twenty-third century. On the planet Vulcan, a crisis of unprecedented proportion has caused the convocation of the planet's ruling council --and summoned the U.S.S. Enterpr...

  • Goodbye, Sweetwater

    Henry Dumas

    Thunder's Mouth Press, 1988. Hardcover with dustjacket, 1st edition. Collection of short stories by the African American poet and author, who was shot to death by a New York City Transit police officer in 1968 at the age of 33....

  • Hot Pursuit

    Fran Earley

    She'd been given another chance Letting Raul Devlin slip by her was a mistake border patrol agent Tally Gordon couldn't afford to repeat. He'd been called a threat, a spy, a traitor, a patriot. He had as many roles as he had enemies, and more enem...

  • Passion in the Wind

    Cassie Edwards

    Prisoner of love... High-spirited Nadine Quinn's apprehension about her family's move to Australia quickly vanished when handsome Lloyd Harpster won passage on her father's boat for the long voyage. Swept off her feet by the charming Australian, N...

  • Savage Splendor

    Cassie Edwards

    Headstrong and stunningly beautiful, Jeanine fled to the lush forests of Minnesota, hoping to escape her uncle's brutal tyranny. Alone in the dark, untamed wilderness, she faces a danger far more startling. He was Lone Wolfe, a Chippewa Indian chief ...

  • Little John and Plutie

    Pat Edwards

    Although delighted to have the resourceful and courageous Pluto as his first real friend, nine-year-old John soon begins to realize how their rural South environment discourages a close relationship between blacks and whites....

  • Sweet Hoyden

    Rachelle Edwards

    Banished To The Country For The Season! 'Twas A Fate Worse Than Death! Pandora was outraged! Her first London Season as Lady Asheville and her husband deemed her conduct unbecoming to her new position. Worse, he'd prescribed a Season at Brocklesby ...

  • Missing from the Record

    Clive Egleton

  • Song of Love

    Rachel Elliot (1)

    She was stranded at Castle Mackenzie And it would have been a lovely place to be stranded -- except for the presence of its unnerving young laird, Roddy Mackenzie! Claire couldn't fault his hospitality and his infectious good humor. But his...

  • Platitudes

    Trey Ellis

    "Trey Ellis''s uproariously funny debut novel Platitudes, first published in 1988, takes on conflicts within the African American literary community. Dewayne Wellington, a failing black experimental novelist, and Isshee Ayam, a radical feminist autho...

  • The Big Nowhere

    James Ellroy

    The D. A.'s brass, a sheriff's deputy, and a rough-and-tumble bagman are unknowingly chasing a nightmare in this thrilling novel from the author of "some of the most powerful crime novels ever written" (New York Times). Los Angeles, 1950 Red crosscu...

  • Wheel of the Winds

    M.J. Engh

    “This unusual, enjoyable second novel by Engh (Arslan) is a charming picaresque adventure set on another planet. To this unnamed planet comes the odd-looking man known as the Exile. The Warden, Lethgro, has captured the Exile after his escape f...

  • The Silver Bears

    Paul E. Erdman

    THE SILVER BEARS involves a Swiss bank controlled by the Mafia, an ancient silver mine rediscovered in Iran, bullion smugglers on the Persian Gulf and an American speculator living in England. With his great storytelling gift and singular experience ...

  • Tracks

    Louise Erdrich

    Set in North Dakota at a time in this century when Indian tribes were struggling to keep what little remained of their lands, Tracks is a tale of passion and deep unrest. Over the course of ten crucial years, as tribal land and trust between people ...

  • Slime

    William Essex

  • Trust

    Rita Clay Estrada

    The Montclair Emeralds and Trust Growing up in a truck stop didn't mean Katherine O'Malley didn't aspire to more. Stomeday she was going to be top-notch secretary. And in the meantime she also planned to convince millionaire Clay Reynolds that-rough...

  • Rebound

    David Everson

    Just when Lincoln Heritage University's basketball team is winning big, a star player falls from the dome of the state capital building, and P.I. Robert Miles jumps in to investigate payoffs, point-shaving, drugs, bribery, and murder...

  • The Company Man

    Joe Clifford Faust

    Andrew Birch is a Company Man - a spy, a soldier, a saboteur... a corporate terrorist by any other name. He is one of the top operatives for Astradyne, one of the giant corporations that now rule the irradiated world he lives in. Among his peers, his...

  • Love in the Days of Rage

    Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    “The more I make love, the more I want revolution; the more I make revolution, the more I want to make love.†? In Paris, in May of 1968, revolution, and love are very much in the air. The barricades are going up, the students of the Sorbonne are ...

  • Betrayed

    Lenore Fleischer

  • The Sweethearts Dance

    Leonore Fleischer

  • The Scarebird

    Sid Fleischman

  • The Last Hero

    Peter Forbath

  • The Assassin Gambit

    William R. Forstchen

    Alexander the Great. Napoleon. The 47 Ronin. Long dead, but the future still rides on their successes at war!

    First there was war, then there were wargames, growing more and more realistic until the games themselves surpassed war as mankind'...

  • Island Heat

    Suzanne Forster

    IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT Justin Dunne had a mission, and if prowling around a supposedly haunted castle helped him find what he was looking for, then that was what he would do. A beautiful woman could only mean trouble -- and Lauren Cambridge was ...

  • Redbird

    Patrick Fort

  • The Black Sheep

    Susan Fox

    "So the black sheep has returned to the fold." Willa Ross knew she wasn't welcome in her hometown of Cascade, Wyoming. Especially not by Clay Cantrell -- who still held her responsible for the accident that caused the death of his sist...

  • Delicate Dilemma

    Pamela Frazier

    Even as a child, Alethea worshipped Jean-Claude. A handsome nobleman and scientist, he found refuge from the French Revolution in Alethea's small English village. And the young girl was utterly charmed. Then, Alethea went away to school and becam...

  • Her Mother's Daughter

    Marilyn French

    A rich and compelling story about four generations of magnificent women, Her Mother's Daughter celebrates the love, pride, sacrifice, devotion, and unheralded triumph of all women's lives. In Frances, Belle, Anastasia, and Arden, Marilyn French ha...

  • The Loremasters

    Leslie Gadallah

  • Nightshade

    Reg Gadney

    The possibility that Churchill had possessed a prior knowledge of the attack on Pearl Harbor leads SIS officer John Mahon into an investigation into his father's death and into a confrontation with a deadly secret that could destroy Anglo-American re...

  • Monster and the Tailor

    Paul Galdone

  • In The Heart Of The Whole World

    John Rolfe Gardiner

    High-school teacher Ray Sykes's passion for his daughter, Sonia, whom he follows from afar through her childhood, is complicated by her eventual presence in his class, her rebellious beauty, and her involvement in a teenage sex club...

  • Colorado Caress

    Rene J. Garrod

    When Jane Taylor first set foot in Leadville, Colorado, she expected to find another mining town full of sinners. But what Jane didn't count on was being led down the garden path herself -- by a saloon owner, of all people! Fleury Burns made Jane...

  • Comanche Cowboy

    Georgina Gentry

    REDSKINNED SNAKE Feisty, stubborn Cayenne McBride just had to get to her sick daddy's Texas ranch where some lowdown outlaws had holed up. And after she met the big, fearless half-breed Maverick Durango, she knew he'd be the perfect guide. B...

  • A Taste of Honey

    Jane Gentry

    WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY? Susannah Reid was content with her life...until Jefferson Cody hit town. She'd heard the worst about this rebel -- he was no gentleman and certainly wouldn't respect a lady. Susannah knew better than to let good old-f...

  • Fancy Feet

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    "Little kids don't go to jail."

    At least Stacy's hoping they don't!  It's not easy to be good all the time.  Stacy just had to try on the beautiful gold shoes her friend Jiwon brought to school to sell in the class store.  Now the shoes ...

  • The Anna Papers

    Ellen Gilchrist

    A writer’s suicide sends ripples through the world she left behind: “A wonderful book…moving and tender and tough and unsentimental, all at the same time.” -- Chicago Tribune An accomplished author with a string of devoted lovers, Anna Hand s...

  • Falling Through Space

    Ellen Gilchrist

    Journal selections describe the author's Mississippi plantation childhood, the influence of books, teachers, and artists on her development, and her thoughts about writing, life, and her grandchildren...

  • Unwilling Heart

    Sharon Gillenwater

    It was unthinkable that the dashing and impossibly handsome Earl of Beckford should have romantic intentions towards a mere sevant. But lovely Sloane Donovan was no ordinary governess. She could ride a high-strung thoroughbred as well as any man, cha...

  • Chain Saw

    Jackson Gillis

    WASHINGTON STATE -- The rugged heart of the Pacific Northwest, where timber -- and greed -- are king. Through dense forests, log trucks thunder down snaking mountain roads... sometimes with intent to kill. Who is Julie Mapes, really? Rugged former...

  • The Crystal Keep

    Sheila Gilluly

    The tranquility of Illyria is rocked by a wave of murder and hysteria brought on by the powers of the Dark Lord, and Queen Ariadne and her warriors search desperately for a weapon to beat back the dark forces...

  • One Hot Summer

    Eve Gladstone

    NOW SHE BELONGED Jemma Whiting was proud of her little printing shop on Main Street. It represented a fresh start after her humiliating divorce. And for Jemma and her son, charming old Ramsey Falls had truly become home. Hunt Gardner, however, ...

  • Iktomi and the Boulder

    Paul Goble

  • Pilgrim's Promise

    Emma Goldrick

    Valeria Brewster refused to be bulldozed! Just who did Bart Thomas -- judicial nominee for the Massachusetts Bench, and Valeria's employer -- think he was? So what if Bart suddenly needed puritan respectability, thanks to a snoopy Plymouth rep...

  • I Hear a Noise

    Diane Goode

  • The Game of Love

    Susan Gorman

    Junior year is going to be perfect for Cory Hughes. Not only is she going steady with Glenbrook High's football star, Clark Williams, she's also chairman of the pep squad. when Clark becomes the coach of the all girl football team Cory cant wait. ...

  • Mists of the Ages

    Sharon Green

  • Of Such Small Differences

    Joanne Greenberg

    John, who is blind and deaf, leads a life of isolation until he meets Leda on the job, and as their accidental involvement deepens into love, they must both accept his limitations and their unique relationship John Moon was 25, good-looking, and i...

  • Insignificant Elephant

    Carol Greene

  • The Loss of Heaven

    Ben Greer

    Traces the fortunes of the four grandsons of Harper Longstreet, the matriarchal head of a South Carolina newspaper empire, during the 1960s and the changes brought about when a beautiful young woman moves in with Harper...

  • Love Lines

    Frances H. Grimes

    Annie Thornton is at a loss for words. She joined a poetry workshop just to be near gorgeous instructor Padraic McKinnon, but he only seems interested in her writing. In desperation, Annie comes up with a fool-proof plan to catch Padraic's eye. But s...

  • The Judge Is Seeing Double

    Nancy Wright Grossman

  • Visions

    Martin A. Grove

    Jason Coleman fights to keep his position as the head of Parliament Television Productions and Gillian Audley plots her climb to the top of the network, in a story of ruthlessness and ambition in the television industry...

  • Assyrian

    Nicholas Guild

    In ancient Assyria, Tiglath Ashur and Esarhaddon, half-brothers, best friends, and rivals for the throne, share their women, secrets, and dreams as together they seek a destiny that will change the course of the empire...

  • Gord the Rogue

    Gary Gygax

  • Peanut Butter and Jilly Forever

    Dorothy Haas

  • Love and Dreams

    Patricia Hagan

    DRIVEN BY LOVE, CONSUMED BY DREAMS Perfect happiness seemed within reach for Jade O'Bannon and Colt Coltrane when sudden castrophe separated the newlyweds. Believing her husband dead, Jade began a perilous odyssey that would take her from a disastro...

  • The One Day

    Donald Hall

  • Zelda Strikes Again!

    Lynn Hall

    Five more episodes in the zany life of Zelda Hammersmith, in which she crashes a stranger's funeral, sneaks on board an airplane, causes her substitute teacher to collapse, and gets in all kinds of trouble....

  • Favor

    Parnell Hall

    Good old Stanley, always willing to do a favor. Stanley Hastings, the worst private detective in New York--maybe in the known universe--enters the big league. When asked to investigate Sergeant MacAullif's son-in-law, Stanley gets himself into troubl...

  • A Dark Horse

    Emily Hallin

    Wendy had a new boyfriend. For years she had been going around with Skooter, but she was the first to admit that he wasn't a boyfriend. How could he be? They'd been thrown together since childhood, and anyway, he was now wearing all those silly hats....

  • Find Waldo Now

    Martin Handford

    In this sequel to "Where's Waldo?" readers must find the bespectacled little man in the red-striped shirt as he travels among Egyptians building pyramids, marauding Vikings, Romans in the Colosseum, 1949 gold rush miners, and other populated historic...

  • The Man Who Died Laughing

    David Handler

    THIS PEN FOR HIRE. Once, Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag was the toast of the publishing world and husband of luscious Broadway beauty Merilee Nash. But fame and fortune left him as swiftly and surely as Merilee. Now Hoagy ekes out a living as a ghostwriter of...

  • What Feels Best?

    Anita Harper

  • Dear Dr. Heartbreak

    Janice Harrell

    Know-it-all alert! School newspaper editor Luke has talked Samantha into helping him with one of his crazy schemes. She’s to be the paper’s mysterious Dr. Heartbreak, dishing out advice to kids who write to her about their problems. At first S...

  • Hearts in Disguise

    Emma Harrington

    HEARTS AT PLAY Adriana Wedgewood tossed her red curls in disbelief. The invitation was as plain as the ink on the note she held in her dainty hand. Could she pack at once, it read, and join her father en route to England? Could she ever! All her y...

  • Gauntlet of Malice

    Deborah Turner Harris

    Not only is Caradoc a failed mage, now he is also a fugitive, accused of murder. Delsidor, the ruler of Garillon, has been fatally stabbed in Ambrothen Cathedral, and all signs point to Caradoc and a malevolent misuse of magepower. Evelake, the son ...

  • Bucolic Plague

    Frank Harrison

  • Death of a Dancing Lady

    Ray Harrison

  • The Phoenix Pact

    Michael Hartmann

  • Good Rockin' Tonight

    William Hauptman

  • The Wizard of Whitechapel

    Simon Hawke

    IT ALL STARTED WITH A DREAM... A telepathic dream shared by a bumbling young wizard and a beautiful, streetwise thief; a dream that called them to England to save the last survivor of Camelot. Only when they awoke, the nightmare became real. An...

  • Sky Strike

    Jack Hawkins

  • An Impossible Confession

    Sandra Heath

    MISS FAIRMEAD'S FOLLY Miss Helen Fairmead was an innocent in the ways of the world, so her older sister and sensible brother-in-law took pains to select for her a perfect suitor. His name was Mr. Ralph St. John, and he was everything a proper youn...

  • Picture This

    Joseph Heller

    Picture this: Rembrandt is creating his famous painting of Aristotle contemplating the bust of Homer. As soon as he paints an ear on Aristotle, Aristotle can hear. When he paints an eye, Aristotle can see. And what Aristotle sees and hears and rememb...