Books Published in September 1989

New Books List: 505 titles

  • The Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories

    Chinua Achebe

    Capturing the diversity of African writing from across the continent, this important anthology draws together well-established authors and the best of new writers.From the harsh realities of South Africa, elegantly described by Nobel Prize winner Nad...

  • After You've Gone

    Alice Adams

    Adams's new collection of 14 short stories exhibits many of the strengths and weaknesses of earlier efforts. That she is a fine wordsmith capable of insightful comment on the joys and sorrows of human relationships, there is no doubt. She is also ade...

  • Happy Hanukkah Rebus

    David A. Adler

  • Ten in a Bed

    Allan Ahlberg

    Every night a new fairy tale character shows up in Dinah Price's bedroom and every night, instead of becoming exasperated, Dinah swiftly deals with the visitors by turning their tales into twists that send them running....

  • A Touch of Chill: Tales for Sleepless Nights

    Joan Aiken

    The homely and the exotic mix in fifteen unique tales. The macabre and witty stories are a melange of horror guaranteed to send chills up the spine of any sleepless reader. Tales include: The cat flap and the apple pie.--"He".--Time to laugh.-...

  • Waves of Glory

    Peter Albano

    WAVES OF GLORY follows four British men of privilege watching the decimation of their generation in the trenches of the World War I battlefields. As the soldiers try to cope with blood, violence and death all around them, their world falls apart a...

  • Man in His Time

    Brian W. Aldiss

    A selection of 22 best science-fiction stories chosen by the author himself and representative of the full range of his 30-year career.

    The collection covers a wide range, from the day after tomorrow to the distant future, and from our own f...

  • The Meddlesome Ghost

    Sheila Rosalynd Allen

    Harry the ghost returns -- in a delightful new Regency Romance. In his lifetime, Harry was a rogue and a rake. Now he's a ghost -- visible only to those in love. He roams the halls of Steadford Abbey, atoning for his romantic sins by helping ...

  • On Grandaddy's Farm

    Thomas B. Allen

  • The Cheerio Killings

    Doug Allyn

    Lupe Garcia, a "cowboy" cop with a wild reputation, and Lamont Yarborough, an itinerant musician and acknowledged killer, clash as they investigate the murders of a series of seemingly unrelated women...

  • Longshot

    Anderson

    Leather, looks, and luck - put 'em all together, they spell Longshot! The non-mutant X-Man's first trip to Earth is reprinted here in its entirety, introducing the scintillating Spiral and the murky madness that is Mojo, menaces that threaten the Mar...

  • Stina

    Lena Anderson

  • Windhorse Woman

    Lynn Andrews

  • All about My Christmas

    Joan Walsh Anglund

  • Lullaby

    Jane Chelsea Aragon

    The notes of a lullaby, sung by a mother to her baby, are carried on the wind and by small animals over towns, lakes, hills, through the night, until returning on the breeze to the mother and child as a wake-up song....

  • This Time, Forever

    Jenny Arden

    Her marriage had been a mistake It had been an attraction of opposites with charming, cynical Jim Logan -- one that hadn't worked out. Now that Alexandra was happily engaged to Roxby, she could forget the past -- until she encountered Jim a...

  • An Ear for Danger

    Robert Arthur

  • I'm in the Zoo, Too!

    Brent Ashabranner

  • Teddy Teabury's Peanutty Problem

    Sandy Asher

  • Now Now Marcus

    Martin Auer

  • Broken Promises

    Judy Baer

    Lexi Leighton's friend Peggy has become Chad's close friend--very close--to the exclusion of everybody else. Despite the warnings, spending all their free time alone is bad news--for them and their friends. Then comes the day when the fun sto...

  • Journey to Nowhere

    Judy Baer

    Matt is Cedar River High's rebel wild, scary and mean. He's known around school for his fighting, and his messed-up home life seems to reinforce his actions. Matt is dangerous to himself, some feel he's dangerous to others, and his name has become sy...

  • The White Night

    Stella Bagwell

    MYSTERY LOVE When heavy fog forced Eve Crawford to moor her boat near the piney woods on the Texas side of the reservoir, she found compelling company in a darkly handsome stranger who told her to simply call him "Elliot." Conversation by ...

  • The Lake of Fire

    Robin W. Baily

  • First Love, Wild Love

    Madeline Baker

    FIRST LOVE From the moment she caught sight of him working on the road gang, Brianna knew the Indian was forbidden to her. He was a prisoner, a heathen, a savage male animal who would have no mercy on her tender youth and innocence. Yet one look in ...

  • Passion's Fury

    Rita Balkey

    He'd always wanted a woman like her.... Independent, feisty Hester Vail craved passion, excitement, and a man who would fulfill her wildest fantasies. So when she was packed of to Ohio for having, once again, disgraced her dignified, upstandi...

  • Hello America

    J.G. Ballard

    "This fable lifts a great freight of ideas effortlessly…The story of an expedition driven on by wishes of possession and power but guided internally by myths of America whose sources lie in the late 20th century." -- Guardian Following the energy ...

  • Lady With a Black Umbrella

    Mary Balogh

    SISTER KNOWS BEST Lady Daisy Morrison, at twenty-five, considered herself too old to marry. But she vowed that her young sister Rose would achieve the ultimate in wedded bliss. Certainly Rose had everything in her favor. Stunning beauty. Vast w...

  • Melusine

    Lynne Reid Banks

    What is the sinister mystery of Chateau Bois Serpe? Roger, his parents, and twin sisters arrive at this crumbling ruin in the wilds of France, anticipating a holiday that's "different." And so it proves, but not as they'd hoped. The owner, the strang...

  • Affliction

    Russell Banks

    "Banks has taken on a profound theme, the ruinous and awful affliction of violence that seems to live like a secret blood-disease handed down in men like Wade. . . . He turns it into a living art that can bring recognition and awe."  --  Lo...

  • The Going Down of the Sun

    Jo Bannister

  • Now and Forever

    Elizabeth Barnes

    A man out of the blue, champagne in hand Landing his hot-air balloon on her Vermont meadow, Angus 0'Neil literally dropped into Mari Scott's life. With him he brought a wondrous magic -- which alarmed her. Five years before, Mari had fl...

  • Secret Harmonies

    Andrea Barrett

    Andrea Barrett’s novels have received resounding critical acclaim, inspiring comparisons to Gail Godwin and Anne Tyler. In Secret Harmonies, she creates a wonderful portrait of a family struggling to make sense of their lives in the rural hills of ...

  • Midnight Chase

    Linda Benjamin

    HE WAS A LOWDOWN DRIFTER Feisty Abigail Graham had no idea she'd come upon a douldecrossed bandit when she found bullet-ridden Chase Cordell beside the road. All the sweet and tender brunette saw was a hurt and bleeding human being who would die wit...

  • Changes in the Wind

    Connie Bennett

    He was the right man at the wrong time Rachael Hubbard had crumbled after losing her husband and son. Unable to continue working on the comic book her husband had conceived. Rachael had fled to L.A. and a life-style than didn't require her to ...

  • The Keys to Tulsa

    Brian Fair Berkey

    It's an oil-fueled sprawl of a boomtown, where the Prayer Tower and the Sixty-Six Club ("girls-girls-girls") compete for pride of place. It's the moral frontier of Reagan's America -- and Richter Boudreau's hometown. There's scandal in Richter Boudr...

  • Shadowchase

    Martin Blank

  • The End of the Road

    Tom Bodett

  • Monsieur Pamplemousse Aloft

    Michael Bond

    The Channel Tunnel is all very well as a mundane means of crossing La Manche but there are those who still believe in airships as the luxury transport of the future. In a rare spirit of entente cordiale, the governments of France and Britain agree to...

  • Tomorrow Is a Brand New Day

    Debby Boone

  • Bailey the Big Bully

    Lizi Boyd

    Lizi Boyd has a talent for turning the common problems of childhood into unusual and funny stories that offer solutions to those problems without becoming didactic. Her latest book is about a bully who dominates all the kids in the neighbourhood....

  • The History Of Luminous Motion

    Scott Bradfield

    Fiction. First published in 1989, this long-neglected cult classic features revisions, and a new afterword, by the author.A novel as mysterious, beautiful, sad and frightening as contemporary American childhood itself—and, fortunately, a good d...

  • Nijinsky

    Catherine Brighton

  • Empire's Horizon

    John Brizzolara

  • Riding High

    Emily Brooks

    This is a light-hearted romantic story of two horse-crazy uppercrust families in upstate New York. The first novel from the writing team of Penelope Hall and Ann La Farge who write under the pen name of Emily Brooks....

  • Willy's Summer Dream

    Kay Brown

    Fourteen-year-old Willy, slow in school and ridiculed by other boys in his Brooklyn neighborhood, faces another dull summer with his mother until tutoring from an older girl and other special experiences help him develop a sense of self-confidence....

  • Beginner's Luck

    Dixie Browning

    MR. SEPTEMBER Specimen: Male; age 32; intense blue eyes hidden by thick glasses; gosh-awful beard; perpetual scowl; rear end worthy of the hall of fame. Native Habitat: Laboratory; alone, bent over a microscope. Mating Habits: Unexplored. Love: ...

  • Forbidden Paradise

    LaRee Bryant

    PASSIONATE PURSUIT Jordan St. Clair had come to South America to find her fiance and break her engagement, but when the overbearing guide she'd hired refused to lead her through the steamy jungle, she demanded her money back. To her surprise, t...

  • Elusive Gypsy

    Patt Bucheister

    Rachel Hyatt was a vision of startling beauty swimming in the river, Dr. Thorn Cannon decided -- but could this mermaid be the justice of the peace who'd married his aunt to some stranger and let the honeymooners head for Hawaii without informing...

  • The Master Cure

    Charles H. Buck

  • The Deuce

    Robert Olen Butler

  • Virus

    Peter Caine

  • Capital City

    Michael Feeney Callan

  • The Parasite

    J. Ramsey Campbell

    Twenty years after a game of Ouija ends in a ten-year-old's disappearance, Rose Tierney discovers that she has developed psychic powers that enable her to see into the future and travel without her body, but that make her vulnerable to an evil force....

  • Ridge

    Lisa Cantrell

    Yesterday five people lived in the old, half-ruined house that broods atop the cliff. Today they are all dead - except for a little girl with bright blue eyes... -- Who - or what - is the killer? What force could literally explode four human beings...

  • Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem

    Jennifer Carnell

  • Missing Beauty

    Teresa Carpenter

  • A Matter of Time

    Eleni Carr

    Kate Marlowe Her memories of a happy childhood in Kenya were marred by a brutal tragedy. She left, vowing never to return to that beautiful but savage land, and built a new life in New York City -- safe, successful, but lonely.... Alex Crane ...

  • Old Mother Witch

    Carol Carrick

  • Cavanaugh's Island

    G.A. Carrington

  • Code Name Casanova

    Dawn Carroll

    It was a tender trap... Kerith Anders didn't know she was being set up. She thought chauffeuring Daniel Avanti around La Vegas was simply good for business relations. The gorgeous Mr. Avanti did, after all, service her fleet of limos.... Actual...

  • Another Man's Ring

    Angela Carson

    Breaking things off wouldn't be easy Judi knew she didn't want to marry Robert -- but two sets of parents and the prospective bridegroom were firmly lined up against her. When she was offered a job in Thailand, Judi seized the chance to...

  • Deep Sea Death

    Nick Carter

  • Hong Kong Hit

    Nick Carter

  • The Heart of the Continent

    Nancy Cato

  • Demons at Rainbow Bridge

    Jack L. Chalker

    THREE UNIQUE EMPIRES THREATENED BY THE DISCOVERY OF ALTERNATE LIFE The Exchange are consuming the universe's resources through the powers of their cybernetic leaders. The Mycohlians are parasitic beings who, like a virus, can invade and take ov...

  • Tucker and the Bear

    Jane Chambless

  • What Am I Doing Here?

    Bruce Chatwin

    In this text, Bruce Chatwin writes of his father, of his friend Howard Hodgkin, and of his talks with Andre Malraux and Nadezhda Mandelstram. He also follows unholy grails on his travels, such as the rumour of a "wolf-boy" in India, or the idea of lo...

  • Divine Right

    C.J. Cherryh

    In a collection of short stories, the tangle-lilly plants proliferate throughout Merovingen--a clever plot by the Janists to spread forbidden technological knowledge to the canalers and the first step to a future revolt...

  • Simply to Die for

    Joyce Christmas

    Acting as temporary guardian to the niece of her friend, socialite Lynne Jordan, Lady Margaret Priam becomes involved in the mystery surrounding the murder of the young woman's mother four years earlier...

  • Catch That Pass!

    Matt Christopher

    Only one thing keeps Jim from being the best linebacker in the team - his fear of getting tackled. But his friend Chuckie knows Jim isn't a coward. With Chuckie's special courage as an example, can Jim find the strength to face his fears head-on?...

  • The Wayward Bride

    Daphne Clair

    So much for good intentions... Pierce Allyn regarded Trista Vandeleur as nothing but a mixed-up kid who had a nasty habit of chewing up young men and spitting them out. And he didn't particularly fancy being next on her list. Yet Pierce fou...

  • The Uncanny X-Men: Days of Future Past

    Chris Claremont

  • Arizona Panhandle

    Richard Clarke

  • I Hate Your Guts, Ben Brooster

    Eth Clifford

    SORRY, CHARLIE! When Charlie's shrimpy cousin Ben came to visit, no one told him that Ben was a genius. Then Charlie finds out that part of Ben's genius is for getting into trouble. Big trouble. Massive trouble. Enormous, horrendous, unbelievable tr...

  • The Temple Dogs

    Molly Cochran

  • Black Rain

    Mike Cogan

  • Song of the Rock

    Don Coldsmith

    The people of the plains are once more returning to the way of their ancestors now that the Spanish Hairfaces have been driven back to El Paso Del Norte, but there is unexpected danger on the old trail... SONG OF THE ROCK These are strange time...

  • The Copeland Bride

    Justine Cole

    All London knew her as "Her Highness", the fiery temptress who robbed men of their gold. But it was proud, untouched Noelle Dorian who was cruelly abducted by Quinn Copeland, the rugged American shipping heir, and, in one brutal act of passion, f...

  • The Arrowing of the Cane

    John Conyngham

    A series of fires on his South African sugar plantation and the discovery of an ancestor's Boer War diary force James Colville to face the disturbing contradictions of his privileged life and his liberal attitudes...

  • Silver Spike

    Glen Cook

    THE SILVER SPIKE ...embedded in the trunk of the scion of the godtree, it contains the essence of the maddest of the Ten Who Were Taken...the Dominator. Defeated by the Lady and cast from this world, all that was left of him was a foul trace of ling...

  • Streets of Fire

    Thomas H. Cook

    As the first of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s civil rights demonstrations proceeds through Alabama, a young Black girl is found murdered, and Detective Ben Wellman pursues the killer, unearthing more corpses as he goes...

  • Minotaur

    Stephen Coonts

    A SOVIET MOLE IS RAIDING PENTAGON SECRETS AT TWICE THE SPEED OF SOUND.... Fighter-jock Jake Grafton has survived his share of airborne death duels. Now he's grounded. As head of the top-secret Athena Project, he's now in charge of developing the n...

  • Merry Christmas Songs and Games

    Don Cooper

  • Hanukkah Songs and Games

    Don Cooper

  • Ira Wordworthy

    Stephen Cosgrove

    The badger proprietor of a country store, who fusses and fumes at the boys and girls that sit on his steps to read, changes his attitude entirely when young Rita Raccoon discovers his secret shortcoming and remedies it....

  • Mystery Mansion with Toys

    Linda Costello

  • Monster of the Year

    Bruce Coville

    DON'T THESE MONSTERS KNOW A JOKE WHEN THEY SEE IT? When Mike and Kevver announced their MONSTER OF THE YEAR contest, it was just a funny way to liven up a dull summer. Of course, not everyone starts a joke with a 12-foot high billboard. But not ev...

  • Herds of Thunder, Manes of Gold

    Bruce Coville

  • Stalking the Angel

    Robert Crais

    The blonde who walked into Cole's office was the best-looking woman he'd seen in weeks. The only thing that kept her from rating a perfect "10" was the briefcase on one arm and the uptight hotel magnate on the other. Bradley Warren had lost something...

  • Nectar at Noon

    Sheila Cudahy

  • Postman Pat's Day in Bed

    John Cunliffe

  • The Big Smith Snatch

    Jane Louise Curry

    When their pregnant mother gets sick on the eve of their move from California to Pennsylvania, the four younger Smith children find themselves in the custody of the city leaving their twelve-year-old sister Boo, with the help of eccentric old Auntie ...

  • Weird Wolf

    Margery Cuyler

    Harry Walpole knows something weird is going on: His palms sprout hair, his teeth grow into fangs, and he heads for McDonald's every time there's a full moon. Could he be...a werewolf? Looks like it runs in the family, and Harry's the next victim. Th...

  • Fat Santa

    Margery Cuyler

  • Shadow's Baby

    Margery Cuyler

  • Double Action

    Kit Dalton

  • The Nightingale

    Alison Darke

  • Garfield and the Haunted Diner

    Jim Davis

  • Acts of Homicide

    Kenn Davis

    The show must go on... Byron Kean's new play is sure to become a modern classic, just the thing that will save his family's financially troubled theater company - if it is ever performed. When money disappears from the theater's account, Kean hire...

  • Deadfall

    Patti Davis

    In her absorbing second novel, Davis ( Home Front ) brings home with praiseworthy restraint the horror of random violence against civilians in a civil war. Darren Laverty insists on accompanying her filmmaker husband Andrew on his trip to Nicaragua t...

  • The Great Ledge

    Peter Davison

    James Dickey, in reviewing Peter Davison's last book, Praying Wrong: New and Selected Poems, 1957-1984, said, ' Davison will not let things break him. His voice is his; he has earned it and can use it, and as a result is surely one of our better poet...

  • Babar and His Children

    Jean de Brunhoff

    Such joy in Celesteville Babar and Celeste have had triplets. The smallest, Alexander, has a knack for getting into predicaments. Between getting stuck in the treetops and being chased by a crocodile, he certainly keeps Babar on his toes, but the ki...

  • Lost In The City Of Lights

    Richard De Combray

    This elegantly clever novel of love and identity lost and found in Paris, the city of light, is a playfully sophisticated delight with subtle undertones. Kevin Korlov, an American expatriate sculptor suffering from a loss of inspiration, supports him...

  • The Pee Wee Jubilee

    Judy Delton

    The Pee Wee Scouts and their parents are off to Atlanta, Georgia, for the first-ever Pee Wee Jubilee. What does that mean? It means an airplane ride for everyone. (Sonny Betz really gets scared!) It means camping out, bonfires, sports, and crafts. ...

  • Mary and the Giant

    Philip K. Dick

    An early and daring novel from the Hugo Award-winning author about a young woman caught up in the glamor and dangers of 1950s CaliforniaMary Anne Reynolds is young, vulnerable, and looking for love in Pacific Park, California. During her brief affair...

  • Blood Warning

    John Dillmann

  • Body Count

    Mark Dixon

  • Famous Firsts in Space

    Edward F. Dolan

  • David and Bathsheba

    Roberta Kells Dorr

    David and Bathsheba is a spellbinding story of a gifted king and the woman he loved but could not have. Told from Bathsheba's perspective, author Roberta Kells Dorr bring to life the passion that almost cost David his kingdom and tested a people's c...

  • The Boy

    Paul Dowling

    With deadpan humour and suspense, this story follows the fortunes and misfortunes of the boy as he runs and jumps away from a menagerie of monsters. The text and cartoon-like illustrations follow his narrow escapes. Paul Dowling has written and illus...

  • The Glass Salamander

    Ann Downer

    Caitlin's training as a seer on the isle Chameol is interrupted by the return of the evil necromancer Myrrhlock, while her lost lover the Badger investigates an outbreak of madness in two of the lower kingdoms. Sequel to "The Spellkey."...

  • A Natural Curiosity

    Margaret Drabble

    An “engrossing” novel following three women as they confront the darkness and danger of their world, by the author of The Radiant Way (People).   Sweeping from smart London townhouses to a rundown embassy in the Middle East, from the splendo...

  • Rolling Hot

    David Drake

    The Troops Captain Ranson: she needed a rest; she'd been handed a disaster. Birdie Sparrow: he and the ghost haunting him were seasoned veterans. Hans Wager: the enemy didn't worry him as much as his own tank did. Dick Suilin: he started as a civi...

  • Velvet Savage

    Kathleen Drymon

    Trained as a Crow warrior woman, Kalina fought with knife and teeth against the hated Blackfoot enemy - until the fierce brave, Two Shadows, vanquished her in battle. When she tried to resist him, the arrogant, vengeful savage dumped her in the river...

  • Bankroll

    Bruce Ducker

  • In Lane Three, Alex Archer

    Tessa Duder

    Fifteen-year-old Alex struggles to overcome personal trauma and hardship as she competes with her arch rival for a place on the New Zealand swimming team participating in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome...

  • End of Term

    Alastair Dunnett

  • Medicine Woman

    Kathleen Eagle

    HE HAD COME TO HER IN A DREAM When Kezawin met James Garrett, a strange white man with powerful magic that he called "science," she knew she had seen him before ... in a mystic dream. Because of such visions, Kezawin's people called her Double Woman...

  • Violets Are Blue

    Andrea Edwards

    Widower Ryan Crawford's three rambunctious children had sent a procession of housekeepers packing. He desperately needed help putting the family's chaotic life in order, and throwing himself on the mercy of Valerie Dennison's home service...

  • Fire and Sand

    Sarah Edwards

    When Boston beauty Diana Graham is kidnapped by the treacherous Bey of Bizerte on her way to Tunis, pirate Garret Hamilton dares to liberate her from his enemy and capture her heart. Captive in a world of mystery and danger -- conquered by a passi...

  • Lone Star and the Texas Killers

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki take on a tough border town -- and turn the heat on a gang of cold-blooded killers in the eighty-sixth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on Ame...

  • The Christening

    Roger Elwood

  • Ed Emberley's Make-It-Yourself Christmas Tree Kit

    Ed Emberley

  • Best-Laid Plans

    Mary Tate Engels

    Her Honor was at stake When Holt Henderson walked into the office of Mayor Lacy Donahue, she knew he was her man. His talent at restoration would change the face of Silverton, revitalizing the small New Mexico mining town. And Halt's striking phys...

  • In from the Cold

    Lynn Erickson

    He was more than ready to come in from the cold Matt Cavanaugh's last assignment for the foreign service was his toughest. He had to protect his own father from assassination without blowing his cover. Worse, Evan Cavanaugh was at odds with Matt. ...

  • The Eyes Have It

    Rose Estes

  • Second to None

    Rita Clay Estrada

    Their union was both fated... and doomed Bargaining with the Bartholomew family for a loan was like bargaining with the devil. But Gina 0'Con would have sold her soul to restore the hotel Casa Manana to its former glory. She'd do it to avenge her ...

  • Passion's Savage Moon

    Colleen Faulkner

    A MAN'S OBSESSION When the half-breed Tshingee took the lady Deborah Montague hostage, all he intended was to secure the freedom of his brother from the white man's prison. As he led his high-tempered captive further into the Chesapeake forests, he ...

  • Budgie at Bendick's Point

    Sarah Ferguson

  • Budgie the Little Helicopter

    Sarah Ferguson

  • The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: A 40th Anniversary Anthology

    Edward L. Ferman

    The celebration of the mainstay of the genre has gathered the finest stories from the magazine's past six years, including works by Fritz Leiber, Harlan Ellison, John Morressy, James Tiptree, Jr., and Ursula K. Le Guin...

  • Feathers Like a Rainbow: An Amazon Indian Tale

    Flora

  • After Big Game in Central Africa

    Edouard Foa

    In less than four years Edouard Foa covered 7200 miles, mostly on foot--from the Zambezi delta on Africa's east coast to the mouth of the Congo on the west. He risked every form of tropical disease and death from dangerous game and the unreliability ...

  • Love's Fugitive

    Rachel Ford

    The situation was unbearable It was intolerable -- especially to an independent woman like Victoria. Exploring the French Pyrenees was meant to be a complete break for her after her recent traumatic experience. And it could have been an inspira...

  • Stories of the Old South: Southern Fiction from Some of Our Greatest Storytellers

    Ben Forkner

    Focusing largely on the works of nineteenth-century authors including Twain, Poe, Kate Chopin, and George Washington Cable, this collection reveals the contribution of Southern writers to American literature...

  • The Longest Journey

    E.M. Forster

    This bildungsroman follows the lame Rickie Elliott from the tortures of public school, to Cambridge, to a career as a struggling writer, and then to a life as schoolmaster married to the beautiful but unappealing Agnes Pembroke. On a visit to his aun...

  • Series Showdown

    Mark Freeman

    It's World Series time for the Rosemont rookies! Boston's power hitter Dave "DT" Green will be batting against L.A.'s new pitching ace, Magic Ramirez. Only one team can win -- but will frienship be the loser when the final pitch is thrown?...

  • How to Haunt a House for Halloween

    Robert Friedhoffer

  • Christopher Unborn

    Carlos Fuentes

    This inspired novel, Christopher Unborn, is narrated by the as yet unborn first child to be born on October 12, 1992, the five hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America; his conception and birth bracket the novel. A playfully savage ma...

  • Only in Sunshine

    Ann Gabhart

    Wendi wants her junior year to be her best ever, and that means getting Rod to notice her. Her best friend Tracy suggests that Wendi rebel against a biology project that requires the class to mount and label dead bugs. Wendi, who has always been fond...

  • Oktober

    Stephen Gallagher

    THE DOGS WERE USED IN TESTS. Beyond the experimental labs, the three operating theaters were used mainly for post mortem dissection. Security was tight. High in the Swiss mountains, the research station was only a small part of the giant Rising...

  • Sullivan's Challenge

    Sibylle Garrett

    HIJACKED! To Marianne Sullivan's stunned disbelief, her Paris-bound jet was taken over by terrorists. But nothing was more horrifying than seeing her ex-husband, diplomat Robert Sullivan, being taken hostage. Once she'd worshiped him as only a you...

  • Dance, Tanya

    Patricia Lee Gauch

  • Come Back to Me

    Catherine George

    Julia's new job was a step up in her career She was personal assistant to the autocratic Marcus Lang. That hadn't been Julia's main objective when she started--though she'd gone to a great deal of trouble to get the position. Sh...

  • Yuckers!

    Mel Gilden

    YUCKERS! WHAT SMELLS LIKE COTTON CANDY AND GOES THUMP, THUMP, THUMP?Stevie Brickwald is so gross. He even eats Yuckers! cereal, and everyone knows it's full of weird chemicals. Then Stevie mixes Yuckers! with a secret ingredient, and very strange thi...

  • Things That Go Bark in the Park

    Mel Gilden

    Class bully, Stevie Brickwald, is kidnapped by the ghost of his own ancestor and the Fifth Grade Monsters, C.D. Bitesky, Howie Wolfner, and Frankie and Elisa Stein, try to rescue him and lift the curse off the Wonder Hill Amusement Park...

  • Tom Glazer's Christmas Songbook

    Tom Glazer

  • Once in Love With Jessie

    Sally Goldenbaum

    EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY When Jessie Sager impulsively told a stranger she'd lost her job, she never expected him to offer to help. Matt Ridgefield explained he was used to finding work for his students -- but he looked more like a rugged cowb...

  • The Hiccup Cure

    Dara Goldman

  • Bought Woman

    Lucy Gordon

    Faye Stafford was being held prisoner as surely as if she were locked in a tower. A powerful man had discovered a condemning secret, and he'd forced her to become his fiancee. Then virile, cynical Jason Royce was assigned as her bodyguard, and Fa...

  • African Dawn

    Millicent Gordon

    Abandoning her pampered Connecticut existence, Allison Stewart travels with her husband to the wilds of Kenya, Africa, and, while he chases poachers and hunts animals, she must find the courage to face the political upheaval that threatens their worl...

  • Terry's Creature

    Deborah Gould

  • Hard Day's Work

    Margaret Gowar

  • Mama's Boy

    Linda Crockett Gray

  • The Lady's Revenge

    Vanessa Gray

    FICKLE FORTUNE It seemed that only yesterday Fenella Standish had been the happiest of young ladies, blessed by beauty and favored by fortune. She was the toast of the ton, and engaged to be wed to the man she adored--handsome, well-born Robert Th...

  • Squadron Alert

    Roland J. Green

    THE GUARDIANS OF PEACE GO TO WAR In the twenty-sixth century, the United Federation of Starworlds is sworn to protect the many planets under its sway at any cost. So when the call for aid is received from Victoria, a world divided between the Fede...

  • Columbus and Frankie the Cat

    Carol Greene

  • Wicked Wyoming Nights

    Leigh Greenwood

    INEXPERIENCED INNOCENT All Eliza Smallwood knew about men was to stay away from them. So when her guardian uncle forced her to sing in his Buffalo, Wyoming saloon, the untouched beauty was petrified with fear. Suddenly, a lean, rugged man shouldered...

  • Impulsive Butterfly

    Kay Gregory

    This butterfly had seared her wings Jet Kellaway had come to Hagan's Employment Agency with a history of flitting from job to job. She knew her background looked bad. But no matter how down on her luck she was, she wouldn't be patronized b...

  • The Rainbow Promise

    Lisa Gregory

    SHE WOULD BE HIS... ALWAYS AND FOREVER Beautiful Julia Dobson had known love years ago. And it had broken her heart. Now she was back in the little frontier town of her childhood, living in her brother Luke Turner's house, a stranger to the happin...

  • Fighting Caravans

    Zane Grey

    Clint Belmet's parents were killed in a Comanche raid when he was young, but that hasn't stopped him from taking a job leading freight caravans on the old Santa Fe Trail, from Saint Louis, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexicoa route that goes right thro...

  • Volleyball

    Bill Gutman

  • Not Starring Jilly

    Dorothy Haas

  • From the Ashes

    Chet Hagan

    Charles Dewey is dead. His beloved daughter, Alma May Dewey, runs Bon Marche. Under her firm control, the stud farms and racing string are even more successful that Charles could have hoped.But the 1850s are an unsettled time. Even the illustrious De...

  • Love and Honor

    Patricia Hagan

    THEIR DESTINY WAS WRITTEN ON THE WIND... Her heart beat with the fierce passion of the Coltranes. Her fiery golden beauty glowed with a brilliance that was her legacy... From the palatial grandeur of Spanish haciendas to the glittering exciteme...

  • The Illustrated Wilkie Collins

    Peter Haining

  • Mummy Stories of the Living Corpse

    Peter Haining

  • Scandalous Portrait

    Violet Hamilton

    AN ARTIST'S HEART Esme Sedgewick had always been indifferent to men, having devoted her passions to her painting, but the libertine Duke of Milbourne infuriated her as no other man could. He had accosted her on the stairway of the notorious co...

  • Tomorrow's Dream

    Peggy Hanchar

    During the Gold Rush in the frontier Yukon Territory, lovely Kate O'Riley gets more than she had bargained for when fate makes her a wife-in-name-only to adventurer Hogan O'Shea. “Kate, my sweet, sweet Kate,” Hogan whispered. His mouth pressed...

  • Signs of the Apes, Songs of the Whales

    George Harrar

  • A Little Excitement

    Marc Harshman

  • Butterfly

    Kathryn Harvey

    Above an exclusive men's store on Rodeo Drive there is a private club called Butterfly, where women are free to act out their secret erotic fantasies. Only the most beautiful and powerful women in Beverly Hills are invited to join... JESSICA-The l...

  • Grover's Lucky Jacket

    Deborah Hautzig

  • Christmas Goodies

    Esther Hautzig

  • Crocodile Creek

    Colin Hawkins

  • Out of the Blue

    Alaina Hawthorne

    WITHOUT WARNING Interior designer Janelle Towers's dream was finally about to come true. She'd soon be leaving the Hookeye Valley -- and the townsfolk who wouldn't take her seriously -- for good. Her plans were set. But then sexy game ...

  • Robin Hood

    Sarah M. Hayes

  • Prince Bear

    Helme Heine

    Recounts how in the olden days any bear in the forest could change into a prince and any princess could change into a bear, and how this happy balance was upset so that bears and princesses eventually could no longer trade places...

  • Tan Son Nhut

    Eric Helm

  • Old Wars

    David Helwig

  • King of the Road

    Paul Hemphill

    This odyssey of long-haul trucking on the open highway is also a probing study of a complex father-son relationship. Jane Hawkins, 69, retired trucker from Birmingham, Ala., hasn't driven a big rig in three years. Proud, defiant Jake is an alcoholic,...

  • The Market Square Dog

    James Herriot

  • Hidden Fire

    Phyllis Herrmann

    She was fire and ice, a prim and proper Boston governess yearning to be free. Who could blame Mary Margaret Simpson for being curt to the unruly-looking John Adams Worthington? Her wealthy cousins were now tragically dead and their young children, Ma...

  • Travel Tips from Harry: a Guide to Family Vacations

    Amy Hest

  • Skin Tight

    Carl Hiaasen

    Somebody wants Mick Stranahan dead. Mick is sure of this, because he has just had to spear an intruder with a stuffed marlin head and deposit the body in Biscayne Bay. But who would want to hurt a forty-two-year-old former Florida state investigator?...

  • The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

    Oscar Hijuelos

    The Pulitzer Prize winning modern classic of two Cuban musician brothers during the mambo-filled nights of 50's New York from literary trailblazer, Oscar Hijuelos.  It's 1949 and two young Cuban musicians make their way from Havana to the grand ...

  • Straight from the Heart

    Tami Hoag

    Jace Cooper was back in town, and Rebecca Bradshaw desperately wished she didn't have to face him! Seven years before, the impossibly charming, utterly tempting baseball player had taught her passion, then broke her heart when he'd left to play in th...

  • A Black Legend

    John Horton

    The Tupamaros thought terrorism in Uruguay would demand such strong repression by the government of Uruguay as to trigger popular revolution. Terror brought government reaction, as planned, but no revolution—the eventual defeat of the Tupamaros ...

  • The Ideal Man

    Naomi Horton

    HELP WANTED: HUSBAND Corporate recruiter Danielle Ross was looking for a very special man. Her client had a most unusual request -- she wanted the perfect husband. Months of searching led Dani to rancher Jake Montana, and she knew she'd found ...

  • Discovery

    Thomas Hoving

  • Traces of Indigo

    Jena Hunt

    Kendall MacKenzie runs her wildlife refuge single-handedly. And she likes it that way. So when her prize mountain lion escapes, forcing her to hire the expertise of ex-bounty hunter Chaz Dalton, she's less than pleased with the situation. Sure, h...

  • Badman's Climax

    E.J. Hunter

    Hot-blooded temptress Rebecca Caldwell and her lover, handsome teamster Win Harper, team up for passion and pursuit when Rebecca's old enemies, Chris Starret and his hardcase band, rob one of Harper's freight trains...

  • Russell And Elisa

    Johanna Hurwitz

    Sometimes Elisa gets in even more trouble than Russell! Elisa is almost four years old and ready for action, but Russell, who is seven, usually doesn't enjoy his little sister very much. Elisa does think of exciting games, like playing barbershop ...

  • Complete Story of the Three Blind Mice

    Jphn W. Ivimey

    In this version of the classic Mother Goose tale, turn-of-the-century British writer John W. Ivimey tells what led up to the terrible moment when the farmer's wife cut off the tails of the three mice....

  • Me So Far

    Donald Lamont Jack

  • Long Night Dance

    Betsy James

    Sixteen-year-old Kat, child of a scandalous, disastrous marriage between a Hill woman and an Upslope man, rescues a Rigi man from the sea during the week of the Long Night Dance and begins to realize a person's value does not come from his background...

  • The Red Cloak

    Betsy James

    In this free retelling of an old Scottish ballad, Jan, who is convinced her friend Tam is not dead but has only disappeared, follows the advice of a wise old woman and with the help of a red cloak releases him from capture by elves....

  • The Day Jake Vacuumed

    Simon James

  • A to Z Look and See

    Audean Johnson

    Illus. in full color. Dazzling art of familiar objects from apple to zebra makes this word book an eye-filling treat. Each page gives youngsters lots to look at, point to, talk about, and learn.  ...