Books Published in September 1989

New Books List: 505 titles

  • Piercing the Darkness

    Frank E. Peretti

    Bernice becomes a key player in PIERCING THE DARKNESS, Peretti's second nonstop thriller, when she meets Sally Beth Rose, an enigmatic woman with a dark past. A ruthless lawsuit against a struggling Christian school, a corrupt police force and school...

  • How to Haunt a House for Halloween

    Robert Friedhoffer

  • Speed Shift

    Tony Phillips

    In the postholocaust Mojave desert, the Turbo Cowboys participate in a race involving all cycle groups, the winners of which will be declared the best riders in the desert, and end up turning a dishonest team, the Iron Horsemen, into the authorities....

  • Deep Sea Death

    Nick Carter

  • The Stagecoach Thieves

    J.R. Roberts

    Somebody's knocking over stages on the Billings-Saddle City line as easy as a string of dominoes. Wells Fargo needs to stop the road agents pronto-and nobody fixes fast guns better than the Gunsmith. But this ain't the usual bunch of two-bit bandits ...

  • Cavanaugh's Island

    G.A. Carrington

  • 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...

  • Double Action

    Kit Dalton

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • No Turning Back

    Megan Lane

    An extremely reluctant participant, Valentine Smith draws more than overwhelming laughter with her performance at a bachelor party. She also draws the unwelcome attention of Raleigh Coseegan. Horrified by his interest, Val does her best to escape, di...

  • 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...

  • Scottish Rose

    Janis Laden

    PROVOCATIVE MISS The Duke of Milburne returned to Milburne Hall trusting that the new governess from up north--no doubt a dour, frigid sort -- had instilled the fear of God into his harum-scarum brood of siblings. But from his first glimpse of Miss ...

  • Wings of Desire

    Elizabeth Lambert

    His passion gore her wings, but... Marry daredevil flier and notorious womanizer, Linc Cameron? Never! Still, Cassie had no choice if she hoped to compete in the transcontinental aeroplane race. She'd have to wed her new co-pilot or forfeit the ra...

  • The Rake and the Reformer

    Mary Jo Putney

    PASSION'S PERILOUS PROGRESS Beautiful Alys Weston had found a refuge from heartbreak in a most unlikely post. Fleeing a treacherous suitor, she had become manager of an isolated country estate by masquerading by mail as a man. But now her m...

  • The Rake's Redemption

    Leslie Lynn

    IMAGINE A MERE KISS LEAVING HER SENSELESS! AFTER ALL, SHE WAS NO GREEN MISS.... SHE HAD BEEN MARRIED! It was not in Juliana's nature to lie. Yet, the only way to lure her exhausted, overworked brother to London was to insist she was on the mar...

  • Sapphire

    Patricia Matthews

    A NOVEL OF LOVE AND PASSION AS BRILLIANT AS THE PRECIOUS GEM FROM LONDON TO EXOTIC INDIA TO GLITTERING NEW YORK -- HER PASSION FOR GEMS LEADS HER TO FORTUNE...AND LOVE From the moment her eyes first catch the magical brilliance of the star sapp...

  • The Lilac Garland

    Nancy Richards-Akers

    TOO WELL DID SHE RECALL THEIR KISS.. . At an awkward seventeen, Lady Christina Braughton had been swept off her feet by the darkly dashing Lord Ramsey--only to find that she was the mere butt of a joke. At twenty-three, Tina had blossomed into a v...

  • Alexandra's Ecstasy

    Dana Ransom

    TROPICAL LOVE Headstrong Alexandra Seward knew just what she wanted from a husband--elegance, sophistication, romance. So why was she so drawn to rugged, unpolished Bicker Bandy? She'd known Bicker all her seventeen years, but suddenly something was...

  • Hidden Hearts

    Marylyle Rogers

    LOCKED IN HIS ARMS, SHE DEFIED A KING'S WILL AND HER EVIL GUARDIAN'S MIGHT . . . Hidden behind a cascade of water, Amicia peered out at the handsome rogue who drank from an icy forest pool. Startled by the nymph's reflection, Galen looked up into ...

  • Creole Captive

    Patricia Pellicane

    TRAPPED BY LIES When Louisiana-born Jasmine Du Maurier first saw the tall, rugged stableboy currying her horse, the jet-haired minx knew she'd found the perfect way to thwart her father's plans to marry her off: she'd wed this lowborn servant, lat...

  • San Francisco

    A.R. Riefe

    An spellbinding saga of the untamed west! California in 1849, where gold fever raged out of control. At Fort Point, westernmost outpost of the U.S. Army, Lt. Colonel Ewing Bracy fought to keep intact his command, and to keep order in a San Franc...

  • Arizona Caress

    Bobbi Smith

    HE WANTED NO PART OF HER Chance Broderick had little use for the uncivilized Arizona Territory. He only agreed to make the trip out there because his younger brother needed his help--desperadoes were aiming to rob him of the precious gold he'd t...

  • Forever, For Love

    Becky Lee Weyrich

    FROM THE SULTRY SPLENDOR OF TEXAS TO THE GLITTERING CAPITALS OF EUROPE, THEY WERE CAUGHT IN AN UNQUENCHABLE DESIRE! Pandora Sherwood's wild ways and uncompromising independence were the scandal of Galveston society. As tempestuous as the storm that ...

  • Lovers' Quarrels

    Joan Smith

    Her beauty was timeless...but on the marriage mart she was running out of time! Jane Halsey decided it was time to stop her firlish daydreams and face reality. She had to find a rich husband to end the financial woes plaguing her sister Belle and he...

  • They Call Her Dana

    Jennifer Wilde

    Born in the backwater bayous of Louisiana, beautiful Dana O'Malley fled the squalid farm and heavy work that had killed her well-born mother. With the pride and intelligence that was her heritage, Dana soon achieved wealth, fame...and the avid attent...

  • The Spirit Stalker

    Nina Romberg

  • Dead Line

    Don Pendleton

    OLD ENEMIES NEVER DIE An undercover Fed is murdered at Boston's Logan Airport while investigating a Mob-backed network of air cargo hijackings. When Mack Bolan learns that the agent was a friend, he returns home to renew his war of attrition again...

  • Blood of the Impaler

    Jeffrey Sackett

    THE BLOOD REMEMBERS...Malcolm Harker is heir to the family fortune - and he is about to discover the family curse. Sunlight burns his eyes, consecrated wine sears his throat, and dark memories fill his dreams. The answer rests in his name, his ancien...

  • The Suiting

    Kelley Wilde

    Bad Luck Made to Measure, Real Terror in Every Stitch While running for life from a loan shark, Jean-Paul Bouchette leaves a custom-tailored suit in an unlocked Toronto subway locker. An hour later, as Bouchette is killed, a timid clerk named Vic...

  • Tan Son Nhut

    Eric Helm

  • Satan's Serenade

    Brent Monahan

    Third-rate tenor Jack Horn unwittingly sells his soul to the beautiful Belinda Fausse, world-renowned diva, who promises him fame, but after her tragic death, Jack must pay the horrible price of his good fortune...

  • Coven

    Steven W. Rimmer

    Where once there had been flames, there remained only secrecy. Forgotten in the Welsh hills, the coven followed the traditions of the goddess and the ways of its ancestors. Through a tangle of deception, magic and a mystery long hoped forgotten, o...

  • Rapture

    Thomas Tessier

    When Jeff Lisker, a successful California businessman fixes on his old school friend Georgianne Slaton, now a Connecticut housewife, as the object of his desire, he is willing to go to any lengths to make her his own...

  • Black Horizon

    Robert Masello

    Pulled from the womb of his dead mother, Jack Logan was born lucky, a veritable miracle baby with a gift of second sight that helps him bring the dead back to life but that eventually leads to his exploitation and the horrible summoning from the soul...

  • The Nightwalker

    Thomas Tessier

    Bobby Ives doesn't mean to kill. When his first victim ends up beneath the wheels of a London city bus, he almost succeeds in convincing himself it was an accident. Until the day he sees the jogger and a strange and uncontrollable sensation begins to...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Ben Bova Presents Phylum Monsters

    Hayford Peirce

  • Conan the Indomitable

    Steve Perry
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  • The Blind Geometer

    Kim Stanley Robinson
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  • Phantoms on the Wind

    Robert E. Vardeman

  • There Are Doors

    Gene Wolfe

    There Are Doors is the story of a man who falls in love with a goddess from an alternate universe. She flees him, but he pursues her through doorways-interdimensional gateways-to the other place, determined to sacrifice his life, if necessary, for he...

  • Magic in Ithkar 3

    Andre Norton

  • Shaman

    Sandra Miesel

    DREAM An old woman and a humanoid otter from a parallel future guide Ria LaGarde into vivid dreams of realities that never were. FACT Ria's growing shamanic skills provide temporary refuge from her own bleak timeline, but the same powers threate...

  • The Jehovah Contract

    Victor Koman

    "THE JEHOVAH CONTRACT Victor Koman's Prometheus Award-winning novel is back in a new edition A dying assassin is given one final assignment and one last chance for survival. The job: find God Almighty and destroy Him. The payment: eternal life. With...

  • 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...

  • Being Alien

    Rebecca Ore

  • The White Raven

    Diana L. Paxson

  • 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 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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: ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • 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 ...

  • Lady Beware

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    Dan Westbrook had learned a bitter lesson about trusting women. No Strings Attached was now his credo; a casual affair with beautiful Brynna Haskell was all the up-front disc jockey wanted. But as he played his game of skilled seduction, his cherishe...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Desire's Deception

    Kathryn Kramer

    Sixteenth-century Scotland and the courts of Mary Queen of Scotts and her cousin Elizabeth I of England serve as a backdrop for the passionate coupling of Scottish lady-in-waiting, Kylynn Gowrie, and the handsome Englishman, Roarkee MacKinnon. Sco...

  • Lovers and Liars

    Brenda Joyce

    LOVERS... BELINDA -- The movie mogul's sensual, stunning daughter, she was determined to make it on her own as a screenwriter. Independent and driven to succeed, she never dreamed she'd be sidetracked by her own need for a Hollywood supers...

  • Send in the Clown

    Patricia Knoll

    Life with him was no circus "Don't worry about a thing," Kathryn rashly reassured her supervisor as the woman was rushed to hospital with pregnancy complications. "I'll look after your job. " But who, Kathryn soon wonder...

  • The Unwavering Miss Winslow

    Emma Lange

    SHE WAS TOO BEAUTIFUL FOR HER OWN GOOD NAME If Miss Jessica Winslow's remarkable beauty was a blessing, it was one very much in disguise. Every man who saw her wanted to conquer her, and as a paid companion in an aristocratic household, her positi...

  • The Bartered Bride

    Elizabeth Mansfield

    A Bride Most Dear Brokenhearted from a shattered romance, Lord Kittridge agreed to marry Cassandra Chivers for forty thousand pounds of her father's money. But he recalled having seen her exquisite face somewhere before--and he was sure Cassie had...

  • Adam's Way

    Cathie Linz

    NEVER TOO MUCH Professional problem-solver Adam MacKenzie was used to things going his way. Ills seminars on creativity were considered brilliant by some, crazy by others, but the result was always unequivocal success. Then soft-spoken Julia Trent...

  • The Way to a Man's Heart

    Debbie Macomber

    WORLDS APART Meghan O'Day couldn't understand what a sophisticated, good-looking man like Professor Grey Carlyle saw in her-a simple, self-educated waitress. They shared a passion for classical literature, and he kept returning to her diner, yet s...

  • A Living Legend

    Nancy Martin

    THE SCOOP OF THE CENTURY... ... and tabloid reporter Catty Sinclair was hot on the trail! She was looking for a living legend, but all she found was a gruff recluse on a secluded island. Naturally, Catty couldn't help wanting to know more -- what ...

  • Saving Grace

    Anne McAllister

    CAM'S LIFE WAS FULL OF SURPRISES Cameron McClellan had looked forward to this month at the beach. To get away from the business and spend some time with his ten-year-old son Kip. Who knew? Maybe by going back to the luxurious home he'd ...

  • Sweet Doro

    Dixie McKeone

    Twice the age, he was twice as appealing Four and thirty and a widow, Lady Dorothea Sailings thought nothing could surprise her any-more. But upon arriving in London from the country with her two young charges, Doro was met by Garreth Amberson, Vi...

  • Hide and Seek

    Cassie Miles

    It was a deadly game... A treasure in gold had disappeared, and Kate Deane was hot on its trail. But so were others. Kate was determined to get back the heritage left to her and her sisters, Linsey and Abby, by their father. The chase led from De...

  • Millionaire's Row

    Peggy Murphy Petkus

    A heartrending saga in the tradition of Belva Plain and Lewis Orde -- Exciled to America -- Lovely Sheila Cagney was torn from her family and forced to flee her belived Ireland when her fiance was sentenced to death for treason. Alone in an a...

  • Sutton's Way

    Diana Palmer

    Wyoming Wildcat Tragedy had sent music superstar Amanda Callaway to the Wyoming mountains to heal. What she found was another battle to fight... Quinn Sutton. Snowbound at his ranch, Amanda was glad Quinn was unaware of her real identity. With a c...

  • Sassy

    Doris Parmett

    Supermodel Sassy Shaw thought she was headed for a Nevada dude ranch for a peaceful vacation, but cattle rancher Luke Cassidy had other plans for his beautiful guest! Sassy felt a sizzling attraction to the tall, strong cowboy with the devilish smile...

  • Island Magic

    Laurel Pace

    PARLOE ISLAND WAS SEDUCTIVE Vanessa Dorsey's visit was a vacation, a temporary respite before she resumed her job hunt and got on with her life. But Great-aunt Charlotte's rambling old house needed tender loving care. The funny little donkey th...

  • The Devil's Dare

    Jean Reece

    Was he a rake or a rogue? What luck! To be rescued from an embarrassing accident by the biggest rake in London. Miss Elaine Farrington, twenty, a genteel beauty, could hardly find words to thank Lord Charles Dare, better known as The Devil's D...

  • A Promise Made

    Samantha Quinn (1)

    Along with a houseful of cherished childhood memories, Maggie Flannagan's late grandmother had left her a new next-door neighbor, lean, laconic Jake Wilder. Jake was quick to lend a helping hand and, in the dark of night, a shoulder to cry on. His co...

  • The Witching Time

    Fayrene Preston

    Something strange was going on in Hilary, Virginia -- Noah Braxton felt it the moment he arrived when a golden-haired, blue-eyed witch cast a spell and stole his heart! Rhiannon York beguiled the slightly staid but definitely sexy New York lawyer ...

  • Island Glory

    Emilie Richards

    Jared Farrell had specifically requested that a man be hired to manage Wehilani, his vast Hawaiian estate. Instead he got Glory Kalia, every inch a lady, the kind who sets men's pulses racing. She was also a more-than-capable manager, and so he l...

  • Full Circle

    Paula Detmer Riggs

    LEFT AT THE ALTAR . . . Pregnant and in love, Jillian Anderson had waited for her groom but had gotten only roses and a farewell note. Now she had a good job and a fine son, and she didn't need any man--least of all Trevor Markus. But Trevor ne...

  • Ticket to Nowhere

    Patricia Rosemoor

    She was in the wrong place at the wrong time On a fog-shrouded Chicago night, Eden Payne saw three men disposing of a woman's body. One of the men she recognized as a powerful politician. Unfortunately, he found out her identity, too. Now, to prev...

  • California Caress

    Rebecca Sinclair

    Hope Bennett was determined to save her brother's life. And if that meant paying notorious gunslinger Drake Frazier to take his place in a fight, she'd barter her last gold nugget. But Hope soon discovered she'd have to give the handsome rattlesnake ...

  • Kat's Tale

    Deborah Smith

    When Nathan Chatham watched Kat Gallatin take on her rival in the wrestling ring, he admired her talent, heart and sheer raw courage--and then risked his life to rescue her. Even though the feud between their families stretched back to the Civil War,...

  • Passion's Raging Storm

    Sylvie F. Sommerfield

    She was an angel of mercy...at the mercy of his passionate kiss! SHE ENDURED HIS TOUCH To the network known as the Underground Railroad, she was known simply as "the Guardian Angel." In reality she was Gillian Kendrick, a young Philadelph...

  • Glass Houses

    Anne Stuart

    WHAT WAS IT THEY SAID ABOUT THROWING STONES? All that stood between Michael Dubrovnik and the creation of Dubrovnik Plaza was a building that begged for demolition--and Glass House's obstinate owner. Michael had met his share of Park Avenue blu...

  • Macnamara and Hall

    Elise Title

    She was headed for a home run When Tracy Hall and Tom Macnamara got together to coach their kids' "Little League team, Tracy wasn't ready to play ball. She was leery of her new next-door neighbor's easy charm. And she wasn't about to be taken in b...

  • Straight from the Heart

    Mary Anne Wilson

    THE CAMERA NEVER LIES... . Bree McFarland was working on a photo essay about San Diego's homeless when she found herself staring through the lens at the bluest eyes she'd ever seen. Surely this man wasn't the seedy vagabond he seemed! He wasn't...

  • The Long Road Home

    Pat Warren

    With a huge debt to pay and a small son to support, Carrie Weston couldn't refuse Brock Logan's generous, if puzzling, job offer. But what exactly was the handsome attorney's relationship with her estranged father? And what on earth did either heartb...

  • Code of Silence

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    IT ENDED AS IT BEGAN--FOR LOVE'S SAKE For three years Anne Sinclair had been running from the law. She changed her name, her appearance and her address whenever neighbors got too curious or the law got too close. What she couldn't chang...

  • Compelling Connection

    Karen Young

    She'd always played by the rules Lauren Holt had been raised as a well-bred Southern lady--to do the proper things, make wise, safe decisions and--most importantly--to defer to her menfolk. So, when her husband had insisted that she bear him a...

  • Last Stand

    Jennifer West

    The scene was definitely movie material: Hollywood legend Kyle Dayton emerged from a sandstorm and swept Gillian McGuire off her feet .... Except that Gillian's life was hardly a film fantasy. She'd suffered both personal and professional disaster, a...

  • O'Brian's Daughter

    Diana Whitney

    FOR LOVE OR MONEY? Jeri O'Brian had come to Gold Creek to learn more about the father she'd hardly known, not to haggle over property with his partner. But the minute she laid eyes on Wade Evans, she knew he was trouble. The tight-lipped man of th...

  • Devil in Disguise

    Ann Williams

    TRY TO REMEMBER.... It seemed like providence when the stranger showed up on Caitlin Barratt's ranch. She needed help, and he needed everything: food, a shave, a job -- a name. Something had happened to his memory, and he had no idea who -- or wha...

  • Rose Red Rose White

    Marianne Willman

    Their passion conquered a kingdom. A Royal Pawn No sooner had Edward IV beheaded Lady Morgana's traitorous husband than he ordered her to wed his trusted knight, Ranulf the Dane. Furious with the King's matchmaking, the fiery Welsh heiress stru...

  • One Touch of Moondust

    Sherryl Woods

    MOONSTRUCK Down on her luck, ex-Wall Street dynamo Gabrielle Clayton agreed to move into Paul Reed's ramshackle but affordable apartment on one condition: no funny stuff. Then Gabrielle discovered she and Paul shared a good deal more than the rent...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Let's Rob Roy

    Gabrielle Kraft

    JERRY ZALMAN'S GOT A PHONE IN HIS CAR, A GIRL IN THE OFFICE AND A MAID AT HOME. SO HOW COME NO ONE WARNED HIM THAT HIS FATHER WAS IN TOWN? "Welcome to L.A., Dad," Zalman might say to his New York bred, hard-gambling, fast-talking father. Zalman mi...

  • Penny Pinching

    Susan Moody

  • Close-Up on Death

    Maureen O'Brien

    SPLIT IMAGE Actress Liza Drew was loved by everyone--friends, family, her lover, Paul, and her oldest friend Millie Hale who has the horrible luck to discover Liza's mutilated corpse. Ironically, upon Liza's death, Millie's and Paul's careers tak...

  • Unorthodox Practices

    Marissa Piesman

    ROACHES ARE TO NEW YORK WHAT EARTHQUAKES ARE TO L.A WHEN THERE AREN'T ANY, PEOPLE NOTICE. Mrs. Gross and Mrs. Kahn were both elderly tenants on West End Avenue. Both lived--and suddenly died--in buildings undergoing million-dollar co-op conversion...

  • An Eye for Justice

    Robert J. Randisi

    A collection of stories by noted private eye authors, this third anthology in the series contains works by George C. Chesbro, Max Allan Collins, Wayne D. Dundee, Sue Grafton, Rob Kantner, John Lutz, and Arthur Lyons...

  • Help I Am Being Held Prisoner

    Donald E. Westlake

    JAILED FOR A JOKEIt isn't easy going to jail for a practical joke. Of course, this particular joke left 20 cars wrecked on the highway and two politicians' careers in tatters - so jail is where Harold Künt landed. Now he's just trying to keep a low ...

  • Two Much

    Donald E. Westlake

    A ruse to bed a pair of twins quickly grows complicated

    Art doesn’t mean to tell Liz Kerwin that he has a twin. He’s on Fire Island, and she’s so beautiful that he’s willing to say anything for a chance at getting ri...

  • The Black Angel

    Cornell Woolrich

    In this classic crime novel, a panic-stricken young wife races against time to prove that her convicted husband did not murder his mistress. Writing in first person from the wife’s viewpoint, Woolrich evokes her love and anguish and, finally, d...

  • Night Has a Thousand Eyes

    Cornell Woolrich

    At first Jean Reid scoffs at the strange prophet in the roominghouse. But soon she falls under his spell, returning again and again to hear his predictions of the future. Finally the prophet warns her that death will invade her home -- and that Jean ...

  • Murder in a Cold Climate

    Scott Young

    When the mysterious connections between the disappearance of a small plane and the murder of a Native-rights activist are revealed, Inuit police inspector Matteesie Kitologitak of the RCMP must use his keen abilities to unravel the truth. Twists and ...

  • The Long Run

    Daniel Keys Moran

    Few survived the massacre of the Castanaveras "genies"--humans genengineered in a government experiment. Seven years later, the United Nations Peaceforce still searches for those who escaped. One of these is Denice, daughter of the world's most power...

  • 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...

  • Dragonrank Master

    Mickey Zucker Reichert

    GODSLAYER was the name Al Larson earned when, torn away from the midst of the firefight in Vietnam and catapulted to a time and place where the Norse gods fought a deadly war of their own, he was instrumental in the death of Loki, a key lord of Chao...

  • 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...

  • Shadowchase

    Martin Blank

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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?...

  • A Key to the Suite

    John D. MacDonald

    Corporate hatchetman Hubbard is on his way to an industry convention to carry out a termination - a fancy way of saying he's about to toss a man and his family out in the street. But the convention is a modern Sodom of cheating husbands and ambitious...

  • Frozen Assets

    James Leasor

    When Dr. Jason Love travels to Pakistan to appraise a rare car, he finds himself caught in a complex plot involving the body of a sixteenth-century English adventurer and leading ultimately to the Kremlin...

  • Force of Nature

    Stephen Solomita

    NYPD Detective Stanley Moodrow is up against a brutal adversary in this powerful and relentlessly engaging sequel to A Twist of the Knife. Less a man than ``a force of nature,'' drug-dealing Levander Greenwood has killed a cop, and is expected to kil...

  • Eye for an Eye

    Mark Schorr

  • Reckless Abandon

    Sharon Singer Salinger

  • The Source

    Brian Lumley

    Now available for the first time in hardcover, the third book in the Necroscope series traces the battle between Harry Keogh and the horrifying Vamphyri on their home ground, an alien landscape of looming towers, impossible cliffs, and ravenous vampi...

  • Walkers

    Graham Masterton

    'One of Britain's finest horror writers' DAILY MAIL
    An idyllic retreat? Or a madhouse soaked in blood? Only the Walkers can tell you...

    The Oaks is an idyllic, up-market country club " but its ornately carved walls hide ...

  • 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 ...

  • Lisbon

    Valerie Sherwood

    Beautiful young Charlotte Gayle hoped to be saved from a forced marriage by Tom Westing. In the strong arms and under the fiery kisses of this handsome seafaring adventurer. Charlotte had learned the power and passionate beauty of love. But elegant, ...

  • 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 ...

  • Sabrina

    Mary Kingsley

    A DELICATE DILEMMA All Sabrina wanted when she journeyed to Bainbridge Abbey was to find her long-lost family, not seek her share of their fortune. But His Grace Oliver Carrick, Fifth Duke of Bainbridge, was determined to think the worst of her ... ...

  • West End

    Laura Van Wormer

    From its broadcast center in Manhattan's wealthy Upper West Side, DBS - TV's newest network - is making headlines. Beyond the cameras, away from the sets, the careers of the industry's brightest stars are being built. Promises are made, others brok...

  • 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...

  • 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.-...

  • 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."...

  • Elizabeth's New Hero

    Francine Pascal

  • In Love Again

    Francine Pascal

    Reunion ... Todd Wilkins and Elizabeth Wakefield are back together! After living in Vermont for several months, the Wilkins family has returned to Sweet Valley. Now it's just like old times between Elizabeth and Todd -- only better. In fact, they've ...

  • Jessica on Stage

    Francine Pascal

    Bitten by the acting bug... Jessica Wakefield's latest dream is to become an actress. So when she discovers that Sweet Valley's own Mrs. Harrington is really Dolores Dufay, star of stage and screen, she can barely contain her excitement. With help ...

  • Sniper

    Theodore Taylor

    A Killer Stalks The Night

    The canyon is dark. Pitch dark. It is quiet. Deathly quiet, except for the howl of distanct coyotes and the occasional roar of one of the big cats. Fifteen-year-old Ben has been left in...

  • Love Times Three

    Carolyn Keene

  • Fell Back

    M.E. Kerr

    When a classmate at his exclusive private school falls to his death from a tower, seventeen-year-old John Fell is determined to find out whether the incident was suicide, accident, or murder....

  • Whispers from the Dead

    Joan Lowery Nixon

    Only Sarah senses the horror. The minute she steps through the door of her family's new home, she feels a smothering cold mist and hears the echo of a scream and a heartbreaking whisper in Spanish: "Help me!" Sarah feels compelled to find out who is...

  • An Ear for Danger

    Robert Arthur

  • 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...

  • Children of the Wind

    Kate Wilhelm

    Contains these novellas: Children of the Wind; The Gorgon Field; A Brother to Dragons, a Companion of Owls; The Blue Ladies; The Girl Who Fell Into The Sea....

  • 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 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...

  • The Deuce

    Robert Olen Butler

  • 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...

  • Discovery

    Thomas Hoving

  • Eden

    Stanislaw Lem

    From the author of Solaris, this novel of an encounter with an alien intelligence creates “a terrifyingly plausible picture of a world gone mad” (Kirkus Reviews). Six explorers -- the Captain, Doctor, Engineer, Chemist, Physicist, and Cybernetici...

  • Striptease

    Georges Simenon

    Celita is a stripper at the Monico, a nightclub in Cannes, as well as the long-standing mistress of Monsieur Leon, the nightclub's owner. She enjoyed her struggle to win him away from his wife, Madame Florence, but when a new stripper named Maud beco...

  • Mark

    Ellen Gunderson Traylor

    He was the man who saw it all: Jesus Christ, the early church, Paul's missionary journeys, and the events that changed the world. Mark, son of a Roman statesman, witnesses the week that changed history, when Jesus stays in his own home. From that tim...

  • The Sand Horse

    Ann Turnbull

  • 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...

  • Windhorse Woman

    Lynn Andrews

  • Now Now Marcus

    Martin Auer

  • 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

  • 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 ...

  • The End of the Road

    Tom Bodett

  • 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...

  • Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem

    Jennifer Carnell

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Arizona Panhandle

    Richard Clarke

  • The Temple Dogs

    Molly Cochran

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Bankroll

    Bruce Ducker

  • End of Term

    Alastair Dunnett

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Terry's Creature

    Deborah Gould

  • 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...

  • The Illustrated Wilkie Collins

    Peter Haining

  • 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 ...

  • Me So Far

    Donald Lamont Jack

  • Come Winter

    Douglas C. Jones

    Signed by author. No markings. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust jacket shows no wear. Dust Jacket is in mylar. All edges are clean. Dust Jacket is Unclipped. Very clean, crisp, and tight copy. Not Ex-Library. All books offered fr...

  • Good News from Outer Space

    John Kessel

    As the calendar counts down the months to the year 2000, millennial fever takes hold in the United States. George Eberhart, reporter for the biggest tabloid in the world, is on the track of what might be the story of the century--he has evidence that...

  • Big Game Hunting and Collecting in East Africa, 1903-1926

    Kalman Kittenberger