Books Published in September 1990

New Books List: 575 titles

  • Deadfall in Berlin

    R.D. Zimmerman

    Through hypnosis, a Chicago actor travels thirty years back in time to war-torn Berlin, where, in an act of incredible betrayal, his mother was gunned down by a killer whose identity is only just beginning to emerge. Reprint....

  • Knight of Shadows

    Roger Zelazny

    The one real world, of which all others-including our Earth--are but shadows... AMBER The magnificent epic adventure of magical realms and royal intrigue continues, as Merlin, heir to miraculous powers, is forced to choose a definitive allegian...

  • Admit to Murder

    Margaret Yorke

    When Louise Vaughan disappears on her way home from choir practice in the village of Feringham, her parents and their dear friend Norah are devastated. No trace of her is ever found. But twelve years later, Detective Marsh rekindles the investigation...

  • Ugh

    Arthur Yorinks

  • Dinosaur Dances

    Jane Yolen

  • The Murderer Next Door

    Rafael Yglesias

    To protect the child she loves, Molly Gray must cooperate with a killer in this critically acclaimed novel from a master of contemporary American fiction Molly Gray never trusted Ben Fleiss, her best friend Wendy’s abusive husband. When Wendy&r...

  • Dinner with Fox

    Stephen Wyllie

  • The Ghost Show

    Sharon Dennis Wyeth

    Nine-year-old playwright Annie K. gathers all her friends to put on a Halloween play called "The Ghost Show" for the neighborhood, in a story accompanied by a play for readers to perform and tips on costumes and props...

  • The Robin Hood Ambush

    William F. Wu

    In a future where time travel is common and Time Patrolmen insure that time tourists do not tamper with history, Bob, Will, and Alan travel back to the time of King Richard the Lion-Hearted and pose as Robin Hoods...

  • Dealing with Dragons

    Patricia C. Wrede

    Princess by Birth. Adventurer by Choice. Meet Princess Cimorene -- a princess who refuses to be proper. She is everything a princess is not supposed to be: headstrong, tomboyish, smart.... And bored. So bored that she runs away to live with a drago...

  • Game of Hearts

    Leonora Woodbury

    When the stakes are seduction and love--Cupid is not above stacking the deck! Only the boldest of men would flirt with Persephone Welton. Why, her hard-drinking, hard-gambling husband was hardly cold in his grave! Still, the maddening Peter Ramsey...

  • The Final Club

    Geoffrey Wolff

  • Elfwyn's Saga

    David Wisniewski

    "An original saga, inspired by Viking lore, that explains the origins of the northern lights....Wisniewski's prose resonates with the majesty of legend, and his handsome, dramatic cut-paper illustrations add dimension to a splendid tale."--Publishers...

  • Castaways in Lilliput

    Henry Winterfeld

    When their life raft at last comes to ground, Jim, Peggy, and bossy Ralph rejoice. But this island is not like the world they left behind. The entire island is filled with miniature villages, roads, even cities with skyscrapers. The kids would love t...

  • Trouble at Timpetill

    Henry Winterfeld

  • Curtain of Stars

    Patricia Wilson

    Takeover! Alexandra had heard all the rumors about her new boss, Kyle Maddison. He was supposed to be a shark, a corporate raider. The kind of man who puts profits above his employees. She expected that working for him would be difficult, but t...

  • Brady's Law

    Mary Anne Wilson

    IN A LONELY PLACE Brady Knight was a man alone -- and that was the way he wanted it. A cop's life was hard and dangerous, and there was no place in it for a woman. But Jayne Spencer was more than a woman. She was a lady. And with a world of troubl...

  • Barracuda Run

    Gar Wilson

  • Look! the Ultimate Spot the Difference Book

    April Wilson

  • B Is for Bethlehem: A Christmas Alphabet

    Isabel Wilner

  • Surprise in the Wardrobe

    Val Willis

    All the kids at school have amazing things--from a rabbit munching lettuce in a box, to a birthday cake hidden inside a desk--but no one can match Bobby Bell and the extraordinary surprise in his wardrobe...

  • Mazeway

    Jack Williamson

    A novel by a winner of the Grand Master Nebula Award. In this sequel to Lifeburst Earth is a shattered civilization and its inhabitants are descending into savagery. They are obliged to select a champion to prove the worthiness of their species in...

  • Bold Forager

    Tom Willard

  • Elements of Chance

    Barbara Wilkins

    You are Valerie Penn, married to the richest man in the world. Your life is a whirl of private jets, charity balls, priceless antiques, mansions in London, New York, Paris, Beverly Hills. You are loved passionately, showered with gifts...and then it ...

  • A Cool Kid - Like Me!

    Hans Wilhelm

  • Outlaw Heart

    Quinn Wilder

    Was he a true desperado? Sarah was stranded alone in the Canadian wilderness with a disturbing stranger who refused to reveal anything about his background or livelihood. He'd said only one reassuring thing to her, "You're not the type...

  • Turkey on the Loose!

    Sylvie Wickstrom

  • A Song For Silas

    Lori Wick

    Amy thought love would never pass her way again. She didn’t know how close it was...until she met Silas. He is an answer to prayer for her injured father, Grant Nolan, who welcomes him with open arms. The brotherly way Silas feels toward Amy soon...

  • Scout's Honor

    Diana Whitney

    A WOMAN NAMED JOSIE McGEE... Single parent Cruz Erickson couldn't believe that the fiery-haired female in the leather duds and red motorcycle helmet was his eleven-year-old son's new Scout leader. With her wild coppery curls and outspoken ideas ab...

  • House of Mirth

    Tom Wharton

    Born in 1862 into an exclusive New York society -- against whose rigid mores she often rebelled -- Edith Wharton bridged the literary worlds of two continents and two centuries in her rich and glamorous life. The House of Mirth (1905), her tenth book...

  • Out of the Night

    Patrick Whalen

    The strangers came under cover of darkness and camped high on the hill just west of town. Then the deaths began -- horrible savage, beyond comprehension -- one every night for five nights. When two young boys disappeared, the enraged townsfolk of Rav...

  • Don't Spill It Again, James

    Rosemary Wells

  • The Little Lame Prince

    Rosemary Wells

  • Seasons of Swans

    Monica Wellington

  • An Egg Is an Egg

    Nicki Weiss

    The simple text and bold illustrations describe the natural changes within a young boy's world. A well-conceived introduction to the way things change. . . . Even young children can discuss the concepts put forth here.--Booklist. Full color....

  • The Lost King

    Margaret Weis

    A galactic revolution has toppled the Starfire dynasty, and swept into power the harsh Democratic Republic. To support the murdered king is now punishable by death. But on distant worlds, the few surviving Guardians carry a dangerous secret: Somewher...

  • Night over Day over Night

    Paul Watkins

    As Sebastian Westland journeys from childhood to the bloody proving ground of men, he loses everything by which he knows himself: his past, his innocence, finally his name. His struggle to survive a war he scarcely comprehends is rendered in the urge...

  • Lady in Silver

    Rebecca Ward

    The cynical Earl of Brandmere has the rug pulled out from under him by the outrageous Miss Campion. "YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVE I WOULD RATTLE AROUND AS A GHOST. WHAT UTTER FUSTAIN!" Despite her protests, Suzanna Campion's scheming uncle...

  • Mysterious Hubbub

    Amanda Walsh

  • Desire

    Amy Wallace

    The future of Lily van Velsen, San Francisco pearl doctor and gemologist, looks assured, given her recent engagement to her goodnatured colleague Alan Purdue. But once she begins reading the diaries that recount many of her ancestors' illicit romance...

  • The Price You Pay

    Hannah Wakefield

    COMPROMISING POSITIONS The murder of prominent journalist Amanda Finch raises many questions. For eminent psychiatrist David Blake, the question is why his wife was found beside the body of a Chilean exile -- who just happened to be a former mental p...

  • Saddle a Whirlwind

    Eugene C. Vories

    Journeying to Texas to escape some trouble in Colorado, Clint Austin becomes involved in the problems of Becky Major and her family as they struggle against overwhelming odds to hand on to their debt-ridden ranch...

  • Moscow - 2042

    Vladimir Voinovich

    The year is 1982, just two years before that made famous by Orwell. An exiled Soviet writer discovers that a German travel agency is booking flights through a time warp to a variety of tempting sites and dates in the future. Moscow? The year 2042? Ho...

  • Elephant and Crocodile

    Max Velthuijs

  • Oliver Pig at School

    Jean Van Leeuwen

  • A Matter of Trust

    Mark Vakkur

  • Ben Cooper, U.S. Marshal

    Phillip Underwood

    United States Marshall Ben Cooper tracks the Chambers gang, a deadly group of cutthroats responsible for a bloody trail of terror, torture, and murder that claims the life of Hap Hinkle, after the outlaws kidnap young Christie Hinkle...

  • Murder at the National Cathedral

    Margaret Truman

    Murder didn't stop Mac Smith and Annabel Reed from falling in love, or from getting married at the glorious church on the hill in Washington, D.C., the National Cathedrals But the brutal murder of a friend drags them from their newlywed bliss into an...

  • The Exception

    Susan Trott

  • Dodge City Trail

    Doyle Trent

  • Moses: The Deliverer

    Ellen Gunderson Traylor

    Moses comes alive as the brilliant young prince of Pharaoh's court, a man torn between a secret love for his Hebrew kinsmen and his dedication to Egypt. His life takes a radical turn when he slays an Egyptian and is forced to flee his royal heritage....

  • Old Enough to Know Better

    Pamela Toth

    Maybe it was because she'd just turned forty, but teacher Maureen Fletcher felt something was missing from her life. Yet surely that "something" wasn't marriage and motherhood. Surely it wasn't night student Bailey McGuire! Completely inept at domest...

  • The Coffin Ship

    Peter Tonkin

    'A master of seagoing adventure.' Clive CusslerThe giant supertanker Prometheus sits at anchor in the Persian Gulf, holding 250,000 tons of crude oil. Somewhere on board is a crew member who is determined that the ship not make it to its destination ...

  • Under the Gypsy Moon

    Lawrence Thornton

    “Beautifully lyric . . . [Lawrence Thornton’s] prose is finely honed and his touch sure.” -- Chicago Tribune The year is 1936. The tide of fascism is overwhelming Europe. In Spain the Guardia Civil wages war on the citizens. Spanish-German nove...

  • Meteors in August

    Melanie Rae Thon

    Lizzie Macon--whose sister, pregnant by an Indian, has been banished from the family--represses her sexuality and becomes involved in charismatic religions in this exploration of religious and racial prejudice in a Montana mill town...

  • Past Reckoning

    June Thomson

  • A Woman of Our Times

    Rosie Thomas

    A woman who dreams of everything and more... a woman who wants to have it all... But Harriet Peacock has everything. What more could she possibly want? She has come a long way. From small shopkeeper and betrayed wife, she has made herself the Cit...

  • Ho-Limlim: A Rabbit Tale From Japan

    Keizaburo Tejima

  • Highland Captive

    Susan Tanner

    Hers was a beauty no man could resist . . . his was a will no maiden dared thwart. From the moment she became his highland captive, it was only a matter of time before they came together in an explosion of desire. Highland laird and English lady, ...

  • The Orchard Book of Nursery Rhymes

    Zena Sutherland

  • Where Love Dwells

    Elizabeth Stuart

    IN HER CAPTOR'S GENTLE EMBRACE, SHE WOULD FIGHT HER HEART'S FIERCEST REBELLION... -- In an age when duty was sovereign, the highlands of Wales resounded with the clash of arms as Welsh lord and English knight met in bloody conflict. And amid the r...

  • Lulu Goes Swimming

    Susanne Strub

  • Fairy Tales of Frank Stockton

    Frank R. Stockton / Frank Richard Stockton

  • Halloween Monster

    Catherine Stock

  • Halloween Party

    R.L. Stine

    WELCOME TO FEAR STREET Don't listen to the stories they tell you about Fear Street. Wouldn't you rather explore it yourself...and see if its dark terror and unexplained mysteries are true? You're not afraid, are you? Invitation To Terror The invitat...

  • Stepwives

    Phillis Stevens

  • Dark Matter

    Garfield Stevens

    LAPD Detective Katherine Duvall risks everything as she singlemindedly pursues a savage murderer--Anthony Cross, the world's greatest theoretical physicist and a brutal serial killer who kills in order to understand the link between life and death...

  • Twice Told Tales

    Daniel Stern

    This may be the most unusual love story in contemporary fiction -- the love affair between an American writer and five great writers of the past. Daniel Stern reinvents six great literary works and puts his own signature on them in this imaginative ...

  • Definitions of a Horse

    Jaci Stephen

    In this first novel from the "Evening Standard" TV reviewer Jaci Stephen, an out-of-control comprehensive school is depicted as if it were a stable, and the education it provides as a process of horse training. In fact the headmaster, Kenneth Salman,...

  • Consider the Lemming

    Jeanne Steig

    From the award-winning children’s book duo, Jeanne and William Steig, comes a wildly wily collection of poetry all about the…peculiarities…of the animal kingdom!Consider the lemming: No hawing or hemming No dilly or dally No silly or shally The...

  • Joe Hill

    Wallace Stegner

    Blending fact with fiction in this masterful historical novel, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner retells the story of Joe Hill -- the Wobbly bard and labor activist who became the stuff of legend when, in 1915, he was exec...

  • A First Time for Everything

    Jessica Steele

    A little excitement was what she wanted So Josslyn's sudden assignment to Egypt came as a delightful surprise. Pity she couldn't say the same about her new boss. Thane Addison. An overbearing, domineering slave driver. And yet, sometime...

  • Santa Fe Fantasy

    Judith Steel

    When lovely gunrunner Adeline Montclair rescues Captain Trace Randall, and then falls into his heated embrace, she doesn't realize that he has been riding the Santa Fe trail to find out who has been supplying rifles to the Comanches Adeline Montcl...

  • The Warlock Rock

    Christopher Stasheff

    IF MUSIC BE THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE...ROCK ON! Mysterious, floating crystals have captured the eyes --and ears--of the good folk of Gramarye, young and old alike. Enchanting, yes. But what exactly are these strange, musical rocks ... and where did they...

  • Cordelia, Dance!

    Sarah Stapler

  • Tree House Hideaway

    Hilda Stahl

  • Where's That Turkey Lurking?

    Stephanie St. Pierre

  • Northern Fire, Northern Star

    Scotney St. James

    WILLFUL WANTON Rhys Morgan exploded in anger when he finally met the mail-order doctor he'd hired--"Alex" Mackenzie was a woman! No matter what her credentials, the tantalizing female had no business attending to the needs of a raucous bunch of ha...

  • Mrs. Minetta's Car Pool

    Elizabeth Spurr

  • Rhyme or Reason

    Erica Spindler

    The Passionate, Privileged Physician... Dr. Walker Chadwick Ridgeman was bold, confident, a devilishly handsome man of science who liked order and sense--why, then, was he so drawn to a lovely seductress with flaming hair and dreamer's eyes that s...

  • Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Disgusting Sneakers

    Donald J. Sobol

    A stolen teacup...An extra set of footprints...Four very strange words...A pirate's treasure...And a race to find a cheater in Idaville's annual disgusting sneaker contest!These are just some of the ten brain-twisting mysteries that Encyclopedia Brow...

  • Shine Hawk

    Tom Smith

    Returning for a confrontation after seven years exile, Billy Crew discovers his best friend is now married to Billy's former lover, and the three set out on a journey during which they run afoul of the law...

  • Wren to the Rescue

    Sherwood Smith

    All her life Wren has hoped for an adventure. Now she has one—with a kidnapped princess, a handsome prince, and a magician. What does it matter if the princess is only Tess, her best friend from the orphanage; if the prince is a youngest son...

  • The Little Karoo

    Pauline Smith

  • Noly Poly Rabbit Tail and Me

    Maggie Smith

  • Cousin Cecilia

    Joan Smith

    HER MATCHMAKING SKILLS WERE UNEQUALED -- YET SHE HERSELF HAD NO USE FOR MARRIAGE! Once a thriving place to land a husband, Laycombe had tuned into a marital desert with the arrival of Lord Wickham. The rake's corrupting influence had led all...

  • The Turkeys' Side of It

    Janice Smith

  • The Loner

    Lass Small

    MR. SEPTEMBER Name: Clayton Masterson Residence: An isolated mountaintop cabin near Gasp, Wyoming. Population: 30. Companions: Television, a pet wolf and Great-Great Grandad's fiddle. Clayton Masterson preferred being on his own, so he ...

  • Risk 'n Roses

    Jan Slepian

    In 1948, newly-moved to the Bronx, eleven-year-old Skip longs to shed her responsibility for her mentally handicapped older sister and give her whole attention to her new friendship with the bold and daring girl who sems to run the neighborhood....

  • Bert

    Mary Alys Skulavik

  • Death in a Serene City

    Edward Sklepowich

    Venice called to Urbino Macintyre--intoxicating him with a blend of majesty, history and decay. Strolling past her magnificent palazzos and picturesque canals, the expatriate American writer knew he could love none other--and vowed to remain always. ...

  • Old Jim Canaan

    Margaret Skinner

    Set in the years between 1914 and 1921, Margaret Skinner's rollicking, often hilarious fictional saga of the fortunes of several generations of an Irish-American family draws on the swirling life of Memphis, Tenneseess, to tell a story that usually g...

  • Beach Ball

    Peter Sis

    "A stiff breeze blows Mary's beach ball along the water's edge for miles and miles. People, objects and animals appear and disappear as Mary gallops from page to page, chasing the ball....Sis's inimitably cheerful illustrations fuse a riot of unsulli...

  • No Mail for Mitchell

    Catherine Siracusa

    Illus. in full color. "The pleasure of personal letters is dramatized in this brightly illustrated story. Mitchell, a kindly dog, delivers letters to all the animals in the village, but there's never any mail for him. Then he falls sick, and to his d...

  • The Girl Most Likely to

    Tracy Sinclair

    In school, Kate Beaumont had been something of a shrinking violet, hardly noticed and seldom asked out. But she refused to shrink from attending her class reunion, even if she had to hire a date! With heartstoppingly handsome Garrett Richmond on her ...

  • Little Nightmares, Little Dreams

    Rachel Simon

  • The Boy of the Bells

    Carly Simon

  • GARBAGE!

    Simon & Schuster

  • Dangerous Interfaces

    Robert Silverberg

    Collects stories by Silverberg, Anne McCaffrey, Christopher Stasheff, and Robert Sheckley, dealing with a futuristic society in which humans have computer-generated slaves with the personalities of long-dead historical figures...

  • Recon by Fire

    John Sievert

  • King's Oak

    Anne Rivers Siddons

    He would make her whole againLeaving behind a disastrous marriage, Andy Calhoun moves to the small town of Pemberton, Georgia, "in search of banality." What she discovers, though, is not serenity, but Tom Dabney, a passionate and magical man.An exube...

  • Station West

    Luke Short

    Lieutenant Haven is ordered to retrieve or destroy a shipment of Army uniforms bound for Fort Stambaugh in order to prevent them from falling into the hands of the outlaws who have intercepted all of the town's recent gold shipments...

  • The Right Number of Elephants

    Jeff Sheppard

    " In] a joyous twist on the counting-book concept, a girl decides how many elephants are needed to pull a train out of a tunnel, paint the ceiling, go to the beach. . . .Bond's well-executed illustrations project] a contagious sense of movement. A p...

  • Black Hills Blood

    Jon Sharpe

  • Counterfeit Madam

    Jon Sharpe

  • Fire Fighters

    Peter Seymour

  • What's in the Deep Blue Sea?

    Peter Seymour

  • What's in the Prehistoric Forest?

    Peter Seymour

  • Rain Talk

    Mary Serfozo

  • Greg's Microscope

    Millicent Selsam

    Greg makes fascinating discoveries about things he finds at home when he looks at them through his new microscope. ‘An accurate and entertaining book for beginning independent readers.' 'BL.

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  • A Rats Tale

    Tor Seidler

  • Take a Good Look

    Tor Seidler

    After an insightful remark from his brother, Paul Motley begins screenwriting after a move to Manhattan. There, he meets an attractive and childish actress and waitress. After taking a job at the same restaurant to be closer to her, Paul is forced to...

  • Many Kinds of Magic: Tales of Mystery, Myth and Enchantment

    Bill Scott

  • Grandmother's Chair

    Ann Herbert Scott

  • Lord Lyford's Secret

    Amanda Scott

    A BOLD BEAUTY MUST DEFEAT THE DESIGNS OF AN OVERBEARING NOBLEMAN Lovely Lady Gwenyth Traherne knew that her dearest friend, Miss Pamela Beckley, was far too beautiful for her own good and too vulnerable for her own safety. Thus when Pamela said th...

  • The Rose Thieves

    Heidi Jon Schmidt

    The Rose Thieves gives us the Vanderwald family: flamboyant, hot-tempered Lila, who feels trapped living in a small New England town; her sentimental, eternally optimistic husband, a failed futures-market investor; and their children. An affectionate...

  • The Year of the Panda

    Miriam Schlein

    Daxiong mao is rare and mysterious, like a god, living in the midst of the mountains. Strange things are happening on Lu Yi's farm. First, some men from the Chinese government ask Lu Yi's father to sell the property that has belonged to the family...

  • Throw a Hungry Loop

    Dona Schenker

  • Lauren's New Address

    Susan Saunders

    Who wants to live in Nightmare Mansion? Lauren's family is moving to a new house! Her father has found a big, old, run-down place that he hopes to transform into a beautiful home. Lauren is miserable! Moving to "Nightmare Mansion" means being f...

  • October

    Al Sarrantonio

    THE DYING SEASONIt's a time of ripe apples and falling leaves, a time of raging bonfires and leering jack-o'-lanterns, a time of homecoming for human and demon both.OCTOBERProfessor Kevin Michaels has returned to the picturesque town of New Polk to f...

  • Dark Secrets

    Glenda Sanders

    Something was terribly wrong When schoolteacher Vanessa Wiggins first reported screams coming from her backyard, the local sheriff dismissed her concerns. Maybe it was her new house settling or wolves baying at the moon. He convinced her no one ha...

  • North Country Night

    Daniel San Souci

  • Echoes of the Fourth Magic

    R.A. Salvatore

    THE LEGEND COMES TO LIFE When a U.S. submarine set out from Miami and was drawn off-course by the murderous magic of the Devil's Triangle, Officer Jeff DelGiudice survived the terrifying plunge through the realms. But his good fortune had a shocki...

  • Homeland

    R.A. Salvatore
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Travel back to strange and exotic Menzoberranzan, the vast city of the drow and homeland to lcewind Dale hero Drizzt Do'Urden. The young prince of a royal house, Drizzt grows to maturity in the vile world of his dark kin. Possessing honor beyond t...

  • Murder in a Good Cause

    Medora Sale

    When the rich and glamorous Clara von Hohenkammer collapses dead at a dinner party, Toronto Police Inspector John Sanders is called in to lead the investigation. With a house full of guests to interview, Sanders’s investigation is complicated by th...

  • To Sleep

    James Sage

  • The Trouble with Santa

    Elizabeth-Ann Sachs

  • A Couple of Kooks and Other Stories about Love

    Cynthia Rylant

  • Southern Cross

    Jenna Ryan

    Was it her imagination? At NORStar Space Park, fantasy became reality. There, robots ruled the far reaches of the galaxy, and good battled evil. At NORStar, dreams came true... . But so did nightmares. Especially for Kristian Ellis, who witness...

  • The Capricorn Quadrant

    Charles Ryan

    A sophisticated Soviet bomber malfunctions during its maiden flight, threatening to detonate all nuclear warheads within a thousand-mile radius, and the government calls on reclusive Cas Bonner to defuse the bomb...

  • No Sign of Murder

    Alan Russell

    Beautiful, deaf heiress, Anita Walters, spent her days involved in cutting-edge primate research--teaching a gorilla named Joseph to communicate through sign language. By night she ran wild with a dangerous crowd. And six months ago she vanished. ...

  • Snack Attack: A Tasty Pop Up Book

    Lynette Ruschak

  • The Battlemaster

    Christopher Rowley

    ntil bad investments robbed him of all but the poorest of his family estates, Count Geezl - "Emperor" - Karvur had ruled the debauched nights of the planet Wexel. Now circumstances forced him to take his sadistic pleasures among the uncouth peasants ...

  • Seasons of Death and Life

    Maggie Ross

    Memoir of the author's sojourn in the American wilderness where she takes a job as a caretaker and meets some extraordinary characters who become her teachers and companions. Here she receives healing from these people and from the land....

  • Happy Blanket

    Ross

  • A Good Baby

    Leon Rooke

    During the night of a storm, an Appalachian girl delivers a baby and disappears. Next morning, Raymond Toker finds the baby under a bush and takes to the mountain roads to find her a home. While Turner carries out his quest, the child's father, Truma...

  • Ashana

    E.P. Roesch

    It is the 1790s, and the old ways of Alayeksa are perishing, crushed by a collision of cultures. Russian fur traders are claiming the rich Alaskan wilderness for imperial Russia, and forcing the proud Native Americans into slavery.

    Beautiful A...

  • Mississippi Mistress

    Gina Robins

    SHE WOULDN'T GIVE IN Nobody was going to tell Cori Pierce what to do or when to do it. Outraged by her father's murder and the loss of her inheritance, she vowed to avenge the crime and earn her independence, even if it meant signing on as...

  • SPQR // The King's Gambit

    John Maddox Roberts

    FOR THE SENATE AND PEOPLE OF ROME... They were evil times for the great Republic of Crassus and Pompey-- when vicious gangs ruled the streets, routinely preying on plebeian and patrician alike. So the garroting of a lowly ex-slave and the disembow...

  • Philly Stakes

    Gillian Roberts

    With Christmas fast approaching, Amanda Pepper's class of spoiled prep-school brats have given schoolwork the heave-ho. As a lesson in the true holiday spirit, Amanda plans to have her students cook and serve a meal to the homeless. But the simple me...

  • My Day

    Penelope Rippon

  • In Pursuit of the Green Lion

    Judith Merkle Riley

    THE GREEN LION ...the secret of turning base metal into gold, contained in a book of alchemical code... THE GREEN LION leads the beautiful and indomitable Margaret of Ashbury -- witch, healer, friend to man and ghost -- on a perilous journey to ...

  • So You Want to Be a Star

    Randi Reisfeld

  • Jilly's Ghost

    Dian Curtis Regan

    Still longing for her first kiss, fifteen-year-old Jilly finds relief from loneliness in the form of a ghost who haunts her backyard, but her nerdy neighbor is intent on exposing the ghost and ruining Jilly's new-found happiness...

  • Peeping Thomas

    Robert Reeves

  • Children of the Shroud

    Garfield Reeves-Stevens

    CHILDREN OF GOD? OR SPAWNS OF SATAN? They mysterious shroud of Turin. They say it holds the actual image of Jesus. And something more…something equally miraculous…the genetic key to a race of superior beings. In their hands lies the power f...

  • Dark Matter

    Garfield Reeves-Stevens

  • I Was Dora Suarez

    Derek Raymond

    One of the most shocking crime novels of all time

    In what may be Derek Raymond’s most talked-about novel—indeed, in what may be one of the most talked about crime novels ever—the reader is immediately plunged into the horrif...

  • Noah's Ark

    Jane Ray

  • The Price of Ransom

    Alis A. Rasmussen

    She crossed an ocean of stars in her search for freedom

    Though the revolution is won, Lily Ransome and the crew of the Forlorn Hope are renegades, pursued by the forces of the liberator they gave their blood to proclaim.

    Now their only ...

  • One Moment of Magic

    Rita Rainville

    STRANGER THAN FICTION Novelist Amy London was a creative genius when it came to love--on paper. Her active imagination conjured spellbinding romance for her readers, but she had doubts about finding a happy ending of her own. Then wealthy, good-lo...

  • A Change of Seasons

    Carin Rafferty

    SHE COULDN'T FORGET No one ever needed Sam Dillon as desperately as Liana Stevens. The award-winning photographer's pictures had inspired Sam's laughter and tears--but lovely, lithe Liana was frozen in a perpetual winter. Sam lured Liana out of...

  • Sarah Cobb

    Catherine M. Rae

    When her arranged marriage to Henry Cobb, an affluent widower twice her age, ends with his untimely death, Sarah Cobb turns to Henry's son William for emotional support, but their blossoming love is threatened by an agonizing Cobb family secret...

  • Summer Heat

    Janet Quin-Harkin

    Having learned not to expect too much from life, Laurie Beth's plans to marry her high school boyfriend and start a family in her small farm community are upset by the arrival of Dylan, a motorcyclist who teaches her to write poetry and dream...

  • Singularities

    W.T. Quick

    W.T. Quick give corporate warfare a new name in his esteemed novel, Singularities... "Luna Inc. would live, he promised himself dourly. Even if he, the last of the Schollanders, died in the survival effort. It was in his genes, maybe, as Auntie Elain...

  • Surrender

    Amanda Quick

    At four and twenty Victoria Huntington thought herself quite adept at fending off fortune hunters...until she came under siege from Lucas Colebrook, the darkly disturbing new Earl of Stonevale. Amidst the brightly plumed birds of the ton, Lucas was a...

  • Treasury of Humor

    Robert M. Quackenbush

  • Women of Darkness II

    Kathryn Ptacek

  • Wedding Bell Blues

    Heather Graham Pozzessere

    UNHOLY MATRIMONY If Kaitlin O'Herlihy got one more wedding invitation, she was going to scream. Suddenly everyone she knew--including her grandmother, for heaven's sake!--was getting married, and it was making a shambles of her well-ordered existe...

  • The Gulf

    David Poyer

    Aboard the guided-missile frigate U.S.S. Turner Van Zandt, Lieutenant-Commander Dan Lenson and his dedicated crew take on a daring assignment: escort a convoy of supertankers through the mine-filled Persian Gulf. For Lenson and his men, however, the ...

  • Busy O'Brien and the Great Bubble Gum Blowout

    Michelle Poploff

    Ten-year-old Busy O'Brien sets out to save the town's Meal Mobile, a project threatened by a lack of funding, by setting up a bubble-gum-blowing contest with the first prize being lunch with the mayor--Busy's mother...

  • Before I Go to Sleep

    Ann Pilling

  • Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving

    Dav Pilkey

    From Dav Pilkey, creator of the New York Times bestselling Dog Man and Captain Underpants series, comes a tall tale of tall-tailed toms!

    On the night before Thanksgiving, a group of children visit a turkey farm and meet Farmer Mack Nug...

  • Wiseguy

    Nicholas Pileggi

  • Sati

    Christopher Pike

    Those who meet Sati, a beautiful and mysterious young woman who claims to be God, are somehow changed by the experience but it is Michael, the trucker who takes her in, who unravels the heartbreaking mystery of her origin...

  • Pet Food

    Jan Pienkowski

  • The Calico Countess

    Phyllis Taylor Pianka

    SHE was the answer to his prayers and he had no intention of letting her go Emily Merriweather Harding had little idea that when she rescued the tipsy, grimy, aging ragamuffin from a gang of youthful thugs, she had rescued a countess. Claiming...

  • Backlash

    Don Pendleton

    RUNNING INTERFERENCE Following a tip on a drug run off the coast of Miami, Mack Bolan kicks open a hornet's nest. A dead courier turns out to be a government spook working free-lance for a Nicaraguan power monger, who is running drugs to finance t...

  • Tiger Rose

    Sonya T. Pelton

    DECEPTIVE DEVIL Promised in wedlock to a British aristocrat, prim, sheltered Daniella Rose Wingate accompanied the elegant stranger down the aisle, determined to forget the swashbuckling adventurer who had kissed her in the misty woodland grove and ...

  • Daughter of Grace

    Judith Pella; Michael Phillips

    After a shocking discovery in Miracle Springs, Corrie's world is turned upside down. But as the community grows and their cabin becomes a home, she feels the Hollisters are finally learning how to be a real family. Deep down, she knows she isn't old ...

  • Cock-a-Doodle Dudley

    Bill Peet

  • Playing the Dozens

    William D. Pease

    When the man accused of killing a cop is found hanging in his cell, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Holden investigates a bizarre case involving drugs, money, sex, and corruption. Reprint. NYT....

  • Woodsong

    Gary Paulsen

    For a rugged outdoor man and his family, life in northern Minnesota is a wild experience involving wolves, deer, and the sled dogs that make their way of life possible. Includes an account of the author's first Iditarod, a dogsled race across Alaska....

  • The First Christmas: With Four Classic Nativity Ornaments

    Joyce Patti

  • Friend Against Friend

    Francine Pascal

    Betrayed ... Andy Jenkins and Neil Freemount have been best friends for years. They hang out together, double-date, and help each other math their homework. But bully Charlie Cashman sets out to make life miserable for Andy, just because Andy...

  • Trick or Treat

    Francine Pascal

    BOO!



    It's almost Halloween, and identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield have two great costumes to choose from: a witch outfit and a princess dress. Both girls want to be the princess. This becomes a problem. And the result is ...

  • The Twins Get Caught

    Francine Pascal

    Against their better judgment ...



    Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield can't wait until Saturday night.  Their friend Aaron Dallas is throwing "the party of the year" at a new teen club called The Hangout.  Everyone from the sixth grade...

  • Sugar Ships

    Bonnie M. Parsley

  • Fires in the Sky

    Philips Parotti

    In the years directly preceding the Trojan War, when Trojans fought with their Mysian neighbors, Dymas, a young commoner whose father had been a hero, finds his brilliant future threatened by royal scandal, impossible love, and unhappy marriage...

  • The Doubletree

    Victoria Pade

    To the Victor, the Spoils Glenna Ashe had to get out of town fast. The advertisement for a frontier wife seemed an answer to her prayers--until she confronted the handsome, brooding widower she was soon to wed. Then even a cold Chicago jail began ...

  • Twelfth Child

    R.V. Over

  • Flawed Hero

    Elizabeth Oldfield

    It was a bit of a culture shock Especially to Abby, a lifelong landlubber, who now found herself running a cruise business in Granada. Of course it was only temporary--just until she helped her aunt sort out a few problems she was having with the ...

  • Fire on the Border

    Kevin O'Donnell

    HER FIGHTER ARROWED TOWARD THE ALIEN SHIP... Lieutenant Darcy Lee could not tear her gaze away from the giant alien vessel displayed on the screen. The enemy's defenses had to be manipulating gravity in a way that Terran researchers had never susp...

  • Ready for Blastoff

    Rick North

  • Kiss in the Hotel Joseph Conrad

    Hilary Norman

    In this collection of seven stories, an old Eskimo woman believes her lost son is living in a jukebox, an adolescent boy visits the annual reunion of shipwreck survivors, and a Hollywood couple keep their memories alive in a collection of Hawaiian sh...

  • N-Space

    Larry Niven

    On an L.A. talk show Arthur C. Clarke was once asked to name his favorite writer. His answer was: "Larry Niven." Countless others agree. The Baltimore Sunand Kirkus Rfillews have both dubbed Niven "the premier writer of hard SF," and Gregory Benford ...

  • Blood Sport

    Michael Newton

  • Forever and Beyond

    Penelope Neri

    Their love was timeless...their passion would last forever! SHE WOULD ALWAYS BE HIS Badly in need of a change, newly divorced Kelly Michaels traveled to Arizona to forget her troubles and put her life in order. But instead of letting go of her pa...

  • Forever in His Arms

    Penelope Neri

    Whispers of war between North and South were riding the wind the summer Jenny Delaney fell in love with Tyler Mackenzie. But high in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, it was still possible to believe in fairy tale endings...even though Jenny knew in ...

  • The Witch's Eye

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    Lynn Morley and her best friend, Mouse, thought their lives would be back to normal after Mrs. Tuggle's house burned down. But now Lynn's little brother, Stevie, is acting strange, and when Lynn confronts him in his room, she discovers that the witch...

  • The Eye

    Vladimir Nabokov

    A farcical detective story and a profoundly refractive tale about a Russian émigré living in prewar Berlin who commits suicide after being humiliated by a jealous husband, only to suffer even greater indiginities in the afterlife. • ...

  • Back to the Drawing Board

    Bill Myers

    Meet Nick Martin, a normal kid with an unusual friend--the lively, animated McGee! These companion books to the award-winning videos develop the themes to a greater degree, presenting kids with important values. (Ages 8 to 12)...

  • The Song of the Christmas Mouse

    Shirley Rousseau Murphy

  • Sussex Summer

    Lucy Muir

    Had she been foolish to hope for more than friendship? When Captain Edward Tremaine returned from the Peninsular War, the first sight to greet his weary eyes was the natural beauty of Miss Jane Hampton tending to her English country garden. Dr...

  • The Planet Beyond

    Steve Mudd

    On the deceptively utopian planet Seelzar, Alyssa Montoya struggles against a powerful, corrupt elite to save her brother, but her efforts bring her close to the heart of an ancient secret that would rather self-destruct than be discovered...

  • Help for Mr. Peale

    Barbara Morrow

  • A Slay at the Races

    Kate Morgan

  • Secrets of Scary Fun

    Stephen Mooser

  • The Sword of the Dawn

    Michael Moorcock

    In Michael Moorcock's vast and imaginative multiverse, Law and Chaos wage war in a never-ending struggling over the fundamental rules of existence. Here in this universe, Dorian Hawkmoon traverses a world of antique cities, scientific sorcery, and cr...

  • The Chocolate Files

    Mary Elise Monsell