Books Published in September 1990

New Books List: 575 titles

  • ...To End All War

    Jerry Ahern

    IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY -- WOULD JOHN THOMAS ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE... ? World War III has reduced America's purpled mountain majesty to a battle-seared landscape of blasted rubble and toxic waste. A few tattered pockets of civil...

  • 28 Barbary Lane

    Armistead Maupin

    Armistead Maupin's uproarious and moving Tales of the City novels -- the first three of which are collected in this omnibus volume -- have earned a unique niche in American literature and are considered indelible documents of cultural change from ...

  • 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...

  • Affair in Biarritz

    Rachel Ford

    Jassy was overjoyed with her inheritance A beautiful villa in Biarritz -- and thirty percent of a famous perfume company. Then she met the fiery managing director, Alain Deville. "You, mademoiselle," he said, "are the most insupport...

  • Age of Iron

    J.M. Coetzee

    Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee tells the remarkable story of a nation gripped in brutal apartheid in his Sunday Express Book of the Year award-winner Age of Iron....

  • Airs & Graces

    Elizabeth Hewitt

    THE BEST LAID PLANS Lady Julia Halston had all she needed for total happiness. The youthful widow had beauty, wit, wealth and position. And if she chose to surrender single bliss, the handsome Sir Royden Tallboys would provide a superbly suitable ...

  • All Fall Down

    James Leo Herlihy

    A teenage boy’s image of his older brother is shattered by tragedy in this “remarkable first novel” by the author of Midnight Cowboy (New York Herald Tribune Book Review).   Some families get a reputation for being strange, and so it is wi...

  • All We Know of Heaven

    Phyllis Halldorson

    Ensign Heath Tanner had spent six years a prisoner of war -- six years of private hell. Throughout, visions of his angelic wife, Michaela, had sustained him. He'd dream of one day returning home, of Michaela welcoming him with open arms.... Fi...

  • Allie's Big Break

    Carrie Austen

  • The American Promise

    Milton Meltzer

  • Angel Vs. MacLean

    Cait London

    SHOWDOWN When J.D. MacLean had been a struggling widowed father with nothing to offer the woman he loved, he let Katherine Kelly go. Then her ultimate betrayal sparked his hungry climb to the top -- making him wealthy, powerful and able to give Ka...

  • An Answer from the Heart

    Claudia Jameson

    The company takeover was really unsettling Even worse, to Maxine, was the prospect of having Kurt Raynor as her new boss. She'd been quite content with things the way they were, so it was a shock to find the arrogant, dynamic Mr.Raynor ha...

  • Apache Captive

    Betty Brooks

    SHE WAS HIS WOMAN For four long years, Chama had kept his distance as the captive he called Fire Woman temptingly came of age. The raven-haired Apache warrior had jealously guarded her from the other braves, and now that he had paid the bride-pric...

  • Archie, Follow Me

    Lynne Cherry

  • Arrogant Invader

    Jenny Arden

    She thought she was perfectly safe from Jeb There had never been much love lost between Gwenyth Morgan and Jeb Hunter. Jeb might be successful, but he was also arrogant and ruthless, running her father's old quarry with a single-minded desire ...

  • 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...

  • Autumn Ecstasy

    Pamela K. Forrest

    HE MELTED HER RESISTANCE Linsey McAdams was lost. The Philadelphia beauty had finally eluded her kidnappers but now she was at the mercy of the ruggedly handsome frontiersman who owned the remote cabin where she'd taken refuge. Luc LeClerc offered h...

  • B Is for Bethlehem: A Christmas Alphabet

    Isabel Wilner

  • Baby Dot

    Margery Cuyler

    After failing to adjust well to the routines of the learning cave and refusing to go back, spoiled girl dinosaur Baby Dot finally returns and encounters another young dinosaur even meaner than she was....

  • 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)...

  • 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...

  • Bad Desire

    Gary Devon

    An innocent teenage girl sparks a psychopath’s obsessive desire in this chilling tale of suspense and serial murder. Beautiful high school cheerleader Sheila Bonner has a new dress for the prom and a football-player boyfriend who’s wild about her...

  • The Balmoral Nude

    Carolyn Coker

    BURIED TALENT Art expert Andrea Perkins reluctantly agrees to help a former and not fondly remembered lover authenticate and restore some Victorian-era drawings inherited by his wife. The artist is Cecil Fetherston, who hanged for the murder of hi...

  • Barracuda Run

    Gar Wilson

  • 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 ...

  • Baumgartner's Bombay

    Anita Desai

    A beautifully written, richly textured, and haunting story (Chaim Potok), BAUMGARTNER'S BOMBAY is Anita Desai's classic novel of the Holocaust era, a story of profound emotional wounds of war and its exiles. The novel follows Hugo Baumgartner as he f...

  • Be-Bop, Re-Bop

    Xam Wilson Cartier

    "Compelling...Ms. Cartier joins the ranks of Afro-American writers-among them Ralph Ellison and Ntozake Shange-whose works demonstrate the deep connections between music and narrative."
    NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
    Be-Bop, Re-Bop is the pulse of ...

  • 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...

  • Beaky

    Jez Alborough

  • Before I Go to Sleep

    Ann Pilling

  • 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...

  • Bert

    Mary Alys Skulavik

  • Big Bad Love

    Larry Brown

    "Larry Brown writes like a force of nature." -- Pat Conroy Larry Brown caught the rapt attention of readers and critics with the 1988 publication of Facing the Music, his prize-winning first collection of stories. The following year, his first novel,...

  • The Big Book for Peace

    Ann Durell

    The wisdom of peace and the absurdity of fighting are demonstrated in seventeen stories and poems by outstanding authors of today such as Jean Fritz, Milton Meltzer, and Nancy Willard, illustrated by famous illustrators such as Paul Zelinsky, the Dil...

  • The Big Garage on Clear Shot

    Tom Bodett

  • Birthday Party Mystery

    Marion M. Markham

  • Bitter Water

    Douglas Clark

  • Black Hills Blood

    Jon Sharpe

  • Blood Red Ochre

    Kevin Major

    An air of mystery surrounds Nancy, the new girl in David's class. She looks different, "foreign," and David finds her disturbingly attractive. At Nancy's insistence, they set out on a canoe trip to Red Ochre Island, a burial place of the Beothuk Indi...

  • Blood Sport

    Michael Newton

  • Blue Skies and Jack and Jill

    Hel Hodgman

  • Body

    Harry Crews

    Shereel Dupont--who abandoned her former name, Dorothy Turnipseed, when she left Waycross, Georgia, to seek fame and fortune with bodybuilder Russell Morgan--finds her new life threatened by the arrival of her corpulent, redneck family...

  • Bold Forager

    Tom Willard

  • Boo Who?

    Jahnna N. Malcolm

    When a purse snatcher starts stalking Deerfield, the girls must divide their time between trying to catch the culprit and rehearsing for the ballet, "Dracula," in which they have been cast as vampires...

  • Born to Be Wild

    Kris Cassidy

    TRAVELING MAN They called her the Wild Woman. As guardian of a menagerie of wild animals, veterinarian Jenny Grant was proud of her reputation. It had started years ago when the local parks commissioner had brought a wounded armadillo to her ranch...

  • Bouncing Dinosaur

    Emma Chichester Clark

    Freddy and William invite Boris, a lonely dinosaur, to come home to live in their village, but Boris's bad habit--bouncing--makes life miserable for everyone, until his bouncing proves useful in outwitting a prowling fox...

  • The Boy of the Bells

    Carly Simon

  • 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...

  • Breaking the Chains

    David Katz

    Describes slavery in the United States, the harsh conditions under which slaves lived, the active and passive resistance with which they fought for their rights, the revolts, and the involvement of slaves in the Civil War....

  • Brother Lowdown

    S.K. Epperson

    Homicide detective Simon Brith, a misogynist with a long-standing grudge against women, matches wits with the charismatic Brother Lowdown, another misogynist who brings wisdom to the homeless and death to the women of Wichita...

  • Buffalo Girls

    Larry McMurtry

    The Pulitzer Prize"winning author of Lonesome Dove chronicles the passing of the American West through the eyes of Calamity Jane in this western.In a letter to her daughter back East, Martha Jane is not shy about her own importance: “I am the Wil...

  • Bufo and Spallanzani

    Ruben Fonseca

  • Bugs Bunny and Friends

    Golden Books

  • 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...

  • By Invitation Only

    Catherine Craco

    TO MAKE THEIR DREAMS COME TRUE, ONE BROKE THE RULES. Raised as an aristocrat, Lily Pascal had French sophistication, exceptional artistic talent, and astounding beauty. The creative team she formed with her friends Marcy and Callie raked in profits ...

  • By the Book

    Christine Dorsey

    STARTING OVER When Charlotte Handley left the luxurious Richmond mansion of her ex-husband and moved to a small house in colonial Williamsburg, she vowed to establish her newfound independence. Her daughter Elizabeth, however, had other things in ...

  • C Is for Curious: An ABC of Feelings

    Woodleigh Hubbard

    Raging dragons, leaping cows, and baseball playing dogs all come together in this zany collection that explores a host of feelings from A(ngry) to Z(ealous). Brilliantly colored and brimming with endearing creatures, Woodleigh Hubbard's exuberant ill...

  • 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...

  • California Countdown

    Joe Dever

  • California Street

    Donna Levin

    Guilt is San Francisco psychologist Joel Abramowitz's business--and it is his second feeling after lovely, very rich Margot, his best friend's wife confesses she loves him. His first feeling is unabashed lust. But the next morning the lady vanishes, ...

  • Canadian Kiss

    Christine Carson

    NO MAN COULD TAME HER Sent halfway around the world from London to Vancouver to marry a stranger three times her age, golden-haired Sara Oliver had barely arrived when her husband was murdered -- on her wedding day. Sara vowed to track the killer do...

  • 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...

  • Captain's Bride

    Kat Martin

    A LUSTY MAN Captain Blackwell was a rake and rogue...a devilishly handsome scoundrel who used women and tossed them aside. Marriage was the last thing on his mind. Then a wealthy plantation owner invited the captain to his daughter's nineteenth birt...

  • Case of the Sticky Fingers

    Jack C. Harris

  • 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. Where are they?...

  • The Cat Who Escaped From Steerage

    Evelyn Wilde Mayerson

    As nine-year-old Chanah and her family journey from their native Poland to seek a new life in America, Chanah worries about the possible fates of her deaf-mute cousin Yaacov and of Pitsel, the cat she had rescued in Marseilles and smuggled aboard shi...

  • Catch the Sea

    Mary-Rose Hayes

    While her artist father is away trying to arrange a much-needed exhibition, thirteen-year-old Lily stays alone at the beach cottage in which they have spent the summer and discovers her own inner strengths and resources and some evidence of an artist...

  • Caught in the Act

    Betina Krahn

    SECRET PLACES... A shocking liaison accidentally observed opens floodgates of deception... and desire. HIDDEN COSTS... A rogue's game of passionate betrayal takes an audacious, unexpected turn when emotional debts come due. SWEET REWARDS....

  • 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...

  • The Chanukkah Guest

    Eric A. Kimmel

    Elderly Bubba Brayna is honored to serve the rabbi her renowned potatoe latkes, but when a bear shows up on the first night of Chanukkah instead of the rabbi, the nearly blind and deaf old woman does not notice the difference...

  • Chase

    Alejo Carpentier

    Perhaps Cuba's most important intellectual figure of the twentieth century, Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980) was a novelist, a classically trained pianist and musicologist, a producer of avant-garde radio programming, and an influential theorist of polit...

  • Cheating Hearts

    Carolyn Keene

    School newspaper editor Karen Jacobs' discovery of a cheating ring at River Heights High threatens her romance with popular Ben Newhouse, while Nikki Masters finds herself torn between two boys--British newcomer Niles Butler and old flame Tim Cooper...

  • Cherish the Dream

    Kathleen Harrington

    THE TRAIL OF DESTINY AND DREAMS... It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for naturalist Theodora Gordon. Leaving her affluent New England home, the bookish, gently bred beauty headed west to join a government expedition across America's last...

  • Child Proof

    Michael Z. Lewin

    Lewin introduces a new detective in Adele Buffington, a social worker in Indianapolis, who finds her hands full when someone starts attacking her and her colleagues and one of her cases goes missing. Lewin's previous novels include "Hard Line", "Out ...

  • The Child's Fairy Tale Book

    Kay Chorao

  • 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...

  • The Chocolate Files

    Mary Elise Monsell

  • Chocolate-Covered Ants

    Stephen Manes

  • Choices

    Shad Helmstetter

  • Christina Katerina and the Great Bear Train

    Patricia Lee Gauch

  • Christmas Boot

    Kady MacDonald Denton

  • The Christmas Sky

    Franklyn Mansfield Branley

  • City of Strangers

    Robert Barnard

    DEADLY NEIGHBORS Wynton Lane, with its imposing Victorian houses, is a bastion of respectability. Belfield Grove Estate is not. Belfield Grove harbors families like the infamous Phelans. Led by their foul-mouthed, beer-swilling patriarch, Jack, they...

  • Clifford's Happy Days

    Norman Bridwell

  • Close to Home

    Cynthia Blair

    When Jessica MacAllister takes time off from her career to move to the suburbs and become a full time wife and mother, it’s not all Ozzie and Harriet. Then her cigar-chomping real-estate agent is murdered, and she can’t resist investigating. Jess...

  • Cock-a-Doodle Dudley

    Bill Peet

  • Code Name Peregrine

    Sean Dalton

    Among the few things Salukans and Earthers have in common is a disgust for traitors. One thing Salukans don't share, however, is mercy for them. So when the Salukan agent "Sparrow" is desperate to defect to the Alliance, only the Space Hawks can hope...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • A Cool Kid - Like Me!

    Hans Wilhelm

  • Cordelia, Dance!

    Sarah Stapler

  • Counterfeit Madam

    Jon Sharpe

  • A Couple of Kooks and Other Stories about Love

    Cynthia Rylant

  • 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...

  • Creation

    Stephen Mitchell

  • The Crevasse

    Jerry Brown

  • 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...

  • Daddy's Home

    Paul Dale Anderson

  • 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...

  • Daredevil: Love and War

    Frank Miller

  • Dark Matter

    Garfield Reeves-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...

  • Dark Music

    Charlotte Lamb

    He was still furious at her desertion When Annis ran out of Raphael Leon's life two years ago, she didn't count on seeing the stormy composer again. Certainly not on a holiday in Greece. Suddenly thrown together in appalling circumstan...

  • 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...

  • The Dark Way

    Virginia Hamilton

  • 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 ...

  • Dawn and the Older Boy

    Ann M. Martin

    When Dawn meets Travis, she knows he's the perfect boy for her. Travis is good-looking, he eats health food, he's from California, and he likes Dawn! But Mary Anne and the rest of the Baby-sitters aren't sure about Travis. First of all, he's much ...

  • 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....

  • Deadly Illusions

    Samuel Marx

  • 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...

  • Dear Mr. Right

    Eileen Dewhurst

  • 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. ...

  • Death of a Busker King // The Death of an Irish Tinker

    Bartholomew Gill

    A body is found shackled to the upper branches of the tallest tree in Ireland. The victim is a "Tinker," one of the mysterious class of itinerant travelers who have roamed Ireland for generations. The murder bears all the signs of being the work of D...

  • Death Warrant

    Gary Hunter

  • 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,...

  • Delta Pavonis

    Eric Kotani

    Have we got a planet for you. And don't worry: nothing native to Delta Pavonis is likely to hurt you; humans are too alien to be tasty. At least that's what they said during orientation. Dierdre Jamail isn't quite sure she believes them -- she's neve...

  • 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...

  • Diamond of Deceit

    M.L. Gamble

    Dead men don't rob banks Bank executive Emma Kingston was on vacation when the vault blew up. A man was killed-and his identity strangely obliterated. A king's ransom littered the floor -- but not a thing was stolen. Philip Rowlands pro...

  • Diane Goode's American Christmas

    Diane Goode

    A collection of American poems, songs, and stories with a Christmas theme, including "The Peterkins' Christmas Tree," "Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus," "Away in a Manger," and "Christmas on the Banks of Plum Creek."...

  • Dinner with Fox

    Stephen Wyllie

  • Dinosaur Dances

    Jane Yolen

  • Disney Classics: A Treasury of Best-Loved Tales

    Walt Disney

  • Diva

    Carol Kane

    AN UNFORGETTABLE WOMAN WITH INSATIABLE DESIRES Maeve Devereux is blessed with a fiery Irish beauty that stirs men's blood, and a voice that leaves royalty in awe. Above all, though, she is a woman determined to be the most exalted opera diva of he...

  • Dodge City Trail

    Doyle Trent

  • Don't Spill It Again, James

    Rosemary Wells

  • 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 ...

  • Dream Man

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    The Hero Who Refused to Fall in Love... Max McKenzie figured the unusual ad fit his article on weird job offers, even if it seemed to belong in the personals column! Though he was one of the worlds most determined bachelors, he applied for the "ma...

  • Duncan's Bride

    Linda Howard

    WIFE WANTED... Reese Duncan lost half his ranch and all his dreams to his ex-wife, so when it came time for a family he did the logical thing: he advertised for a bride. She had to be willing to work, to bear his children and to settle for lovemak...

  • Dwight Eisenhower

    Jack C. Harris

  • Earth Song

    Catherine Coulter

    Philippa de Beauchamp, as impulsive as she is beautiful, flees her father's castle when she hears she'd to be wed to the repellent Baron de Bridgeport. But her daring escape in a wool wagon quickly becomes a misadventure and she winds up in the arms ...

  • East Is East

    T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle

    Young Japanese seaman Hiro Tanaka, inspired by dreams of the City of Brotherly Love and trained in the ways of the samurai, jumps ship off the coast of Georgia and swims into a net of rabid rednecks, genteel ladies, descendants of slaves, and the den...

  • Eastern Ghosts

    Frank McSherry

    Eastern Ghosts is the last volume of the American Ghost Series that covers the regions of the United States state-by-state. The others are Dixie Ghosts, Western Ghosts, Ghosts of the Heartland, and New England Ghosts, New York New Jersey, Pennsylvani...

  • 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...

  • Eclipse of the Kai

    Joe Dever

  • Edward Lear: King of Nonsense

    Gloria Kamen

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • Elephant and Crocodile

    Max Velthuijs

  • 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...

  • Eminently Suitable

    G. Bruce Boyer

  • Encore Murder

    Marian Babson

    Old rivalries result in murder when Evangeline Sinclair's old acting adversary, Griselda von Kirstenburg, announces her intention to write her memoirs, which will feature unflattering portrayals of Evangeline and Trixie Dolan, and steal the thunder o...

  • 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...

  • Epic of Kings

    Abolqasem Ferdowsi

    A translation of Ferdowsi's Persian epic poem (10th century AD) containing Persia's myths, legends and history. It is a vibrant portrait of an ancient civilization as well as an important work of medieval literature....

  • Escape from Cabriz

    Linda Lael Miller

    PRECARIOUS PREDICAMENT Kristin Meyers's second thoughts about her impulsive decision to marry the exotic prince of Cabriz escalated to panic on their wedding eve. As angry rebels stormed the palace and her royal fiance became a coldhearted strange...

  • The Exception

    Susan Trott

  • 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. • ...

  • Eye of the Needle

    Betty Huffmon

  • The Eyes of the Beholders

    A.C. Crispin

    After several Federation and Klingon ships disappear while traveling a newly opened trade route, the Enterprise is sent to investigate. Their quest leads Captain Picard and his crew to an eerie space graveyard full of ships of every size and descript...

  • Fair Trial

    Elizabeth Duke

    They came from two different worlds Although she'd grown up with a privileged background, Australian lawyer Tanya Barrington had worked hard to gain her qualifications and establish a successful career. It was unfortunate that she and arro...

  • Fairy Tales of Frank Stockton

    Frank R. Stockton / Frank Richard Stockton

  • False Face

    Welwyn Wilton Katz

  • Fantastic Four: Trial of Galactus

    John Byrne

  • Fifth Law of Hawkins

    Charles Durden

    He downs tequila as if it were water, smokes dope when he can get it, mouths off with no provocation, and beds any female who catches his fancy. This is Durden's hero Jamie Hawkins, writer and self-described commentator on life's absurdities. In fact...

  • The Final Club

    Geoffrey Wolff

  • Fire Fighters

    Peter Seymour

  • 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...

  • 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 First Christmas: With Four Classic Nativity Ornaments

    Joyce Patti

  • The First Man in Rome

    Colleen McCullough

    With extraordinary narrative power, New York Times bestselling author Colleen McCullough sweeps the reader into a whirlpool of pageantry and passion, bringing to vivid life the most glorious epoch in human history.When the world cowered before the le...

  • 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...

  • Five by Ten

    Cathryn Clare

    Flashback. Cory Vandergill used to have the world in her hands. Once featured in the highly acclaimed television series Five By Ten, she'd shone with bright promise. But a decade later, she'd become haunted by tragedy and scandal. There was no way ...

  • 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 ...

  • Fool and the Fish: A Tale from Russia

    Alexander Afanasyev

  • Forbidden Fires

    Madeline Baker

    Beautiful and hot-headed, Caitlyn had vowed to hate all Indians until the day she died. After all, weren't they the ones responsible for the senseless massacre of her beloved brothers? But when she gazed into the defiant eyes of the half-breed ...

  • 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 ...

  • Forever in Time

    Janice Bennett

    MODERN WOMAN Erika Van Hamel had been living alone on the tiny British island for two years when a stranger identifying himself as Gilbert Randall washed up after a boating accident. Although he was strikingly handsome, he wasn't exactly her typ...

  • Four Past Midnight

    Stephen King

    Four Times Fear Equals Total Terror....

    THE LANGOLIERS
    You are strapped in an airplane seat on a flight beyond hell.

    SECRET WINDOW, SECRET GARDEN
    You are trapped in the demonic depths of a writer’s worst nightmare.

    THE LI...

  • The Four Seasons of Brambly Hedge

    Jill Barklem

    Four stories, originally published separately, that follow the activities of the Brambly Hedge community of field mice through the four seasons, introduced by a 20 page "conversation" with the author about the origins and developments of the stories....

  • Freedom's Just Another Word

    Jennifer Mikels

    Professor Joshua MacKenzie smelled trouble... or was it spaghetti sauce? Both! Allison Gentry, the nomadic fellow roomer with whom he shared a bathroom, reveled in the graveyard shift, greeted the dawn with pasta, and thoroughly upset his cherished r...

  • Freshman Lies

    Linda A. Cooney

    KC has never met a guy worth her interest-- before Steven Garth. Wealthy and well-connected, he's got what KC wants. But they're arch-rivals, and KC goes into debt to hide her ordinary background. As their rivalry grows, so do KC's fears: What will s...

  • 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...

  • Front Runner

    Rob Allyn

    Two very different young men--Andrew Sebastian, born to privilege and wealth, and James Brackler, battling his way out of poverty and neglect--become deadly rivals in the high-stakes arena of Washington power politics...

  • Frozen Idol

    Helen Mittermeyer

    The Untouchable Superstar... Ten years had passed since Dolph Wakefield had given an outspoken gamine a lift in his Jaguar in the hills near Nice and succumbed to her innocent sensuality. He'd let himself fall in love with the wood sprite that was...

  • Full Steam

    Cassie Miles

    THE MAN AND THE MYTH His name was always spoken with a whisper of intrigue and curiosity...Jonathan Hillcroft, reclusive billionaire. Though Darcy Conway had wondered about the wild rumors surrounding this powerful man, she never thought she'd hav...

  • 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...

  • Game of Love

    Penny Jordan

    His game, her rules Tasha couldn't refuse to help--not when her favorite cousin's happiness was at stake! But pretending to be someone she wasn't was risky business.... Especially when it involved trying to fool Luke Templecombe. An...

  • Game's End

    Kevin J. Anderson

    The finale to the Gamearth Trilogy. Itâ,"s all-out war between the players and characters in a role-playing game that has taken on a life of its own. The fighter Delrael, the sorcerer Bryl, as well as famed scientists Verne and Frankenstein, use...

  • GARBAGE!

    Simon & Schuster

  • Gets a Job

    David McPhail

  • The Ghost In The Attic

    Emily Cates

    Dee Forest, 13, has barely recovered from her mother's accidental death when her grief-stricken father sends her to live, temporarily, with Aunt Winnifred. Dee hates leaving her familiar surroundings for the quaint inn her aunt runs on a New Engl...

  • The Ghost Inside the Monitor

    Margaret J. Anderson

    PHANTOM OF THE MONITOR Something weird is going on in Sarah's father's new computer store. When Sarah looks at her reflection in the monitor, the face she sees isn't hers! It belongs to a younger girl, named Pascale, whose tragic story mysteriously ...

  • 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...

  • Gideon's Art

    J.J. Marric

    As England's largest repository of art treasures, the National Gallery was one of London's most heavily guarded institutions. So when the museum reported that Velazquez's priceless painting "The Prince" had been stolen, Commander George Gideon of Sco...

  • 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 ...

  • The Glorious ABC

    Cooper Edens

    The illustration for each letter is taken from a book by one of twenty-eight different artists who flourished between 1874 and 1926. Brief biographies of each illustrator (Boutet de Monvel, Crane, Willebeek Le Mair, Dulac, Parrish, Brooke, Rackham, e...

  • Glow in the Dark Mother Goose

    Fran Manushkin

  • 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...

  • Good Morning - Good Night

    Emma Dryden

  • Good Night, Little Kitten

    Dennis Hockerman

  • Grandmother's Chair

    Ann Herbert Scott

  • Granny Is a Darling

    Kady MacDonald Denton

  • Granny Will Your Dog Bite?: And Other Mountain Rhymes

    Gerald Milnes

  • Greenfire

    Saranne Dawson

    As leader of her people, it was time for beautiful, flame-haired Nazleen to choose a mate, time to produce a daughter and heir. For generations, the women of her race had kept an uneasy truce with the warlike men around them, submitting to male desir...

  • 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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  • 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 ...

  • Gwenda and the animals

    Tessa Dahl

  • Half a Moon and One Whole Star

    Crescent Dragonwagon

    Up above the earth so far Hang half a moon and one whole star Hang one whole star and half a moon; Nighttime will be coming soon. And while a young girl sleeps, nighttime deepens all around her -- in the woods and garden, on the ocean, in the city, a...

  • Halloween Candy Mystery

    Marion M. Markham

  • Halloween Monster

    Catherine Stock