Books Published in August 1983

New Books List: 305 titles

  • Assignment: Death Ship

    Will B. Aarons

  • Heartstrings

    Candice Adams

    Can a woman love two men at the same time?...

  • Who Killed the Robins Family?

    Bill Adler

    Mystery lovers are given a chance to unmask a killer and win a cash reward for the correct solution as they examine clues to the murder of eight members of the Robbins family...

  • The Rise and Fall of a Teenage Wacko

    Mary Anderson

  • Emerald Fire

    Barbara Andrews

    Everyone, it seemed, wanted to take charge of her life! One moment Kelly Valentine was safe in her modest Ann Arbor jewelry shop, thrilled at the chance to set an emerald for Brian Fort, heir to a fabled fortune. The next, they were being swept from ...

  • Forbidden Melody

    Nicola Andrews

    When Mark Haggard offers lovely Susannah James the chance to become an international model, she vehemently turns down the opportunity...and anything else he has in mind. But her angry refusal hides the shattering uncertainty she's felt about her ...

  • High Level Wellness

    Donald B. Ardell

  • The Loving Highwayman

    Helen Ashfield

    A KIRKDALE CAPABLE OF TURNING DOWN A WAGER? IMPOSSIBLE! When Alistair, Marquis of Lingard, is challenged to spend a month living the rough life of a highwayman, he is loath to refuse. After all, hasn't he the family notoriety to uphold -- that no ...

  • Emerald

    Helen Ashfield

    It was a man of careless morals and heartless lust who sullied the reputation of the lovely Emily Tregellan and forced her to flee her home on the Cornish coast -- into a life of a scullery maid. But her uncommon gift with a needle and thread were so...

  • Love's Revenge

    Jacqueline Ashley

    Would she have the courage to face love's revenge? "You owe me a child." Those words echoed over and over again in Alicia Farr's mind. When she first met famous author Ian Halsey in New York, she hardly thought she would find he...

  • The Union Club Mysteries

    Isaac Asimov

  • The Passionate Heart

    Iris Bancroft

  • One Little Boy

    Dorothy W. Baruch

  • The Ice House

    Nina Bawden

    'A darkly comedic tale of adultery that features a dangerously "good" and disciplined heroine' KIRKUS REVIEWS'Throughout her career Bawden has concentrated on the careful depiction of character, feelings and behaviour' GUARDIAN At fifteen, Daisy, con...

  • The Zen Gun

    Barrington J. Bayley

    THE ZEN GUN A novel about: The absolutely ultimate weapon that can ever exist... The sub-human who found it and tried to use it ... The beasts who manned humanity's last star fleet ... The widening rip in the space-time continuum ... The brief co...

  • Thunder at Dawn

    Patti Beckman

    As a stuntwoman, Ginger Lombard lived with danger, but nothing had prepared her for the greatest danger of all: falling in love...again. On the set of Thunder At Dawn she came face to face with her ex-husband, Link Rockwood, the man who had broken...

  • From the Beginning

    Kathryn Belmont

    Santina Fiore knew there was something different about Cal Macy. It wasn't just his rugged good looks, or the way the films he made captured the essence of people. Somewhere in his past there was a secret, a secret that had left him both vulnerabl...

  • Beneath the Willow Tree

    Emma Bennett

    Molten desire carried the heated message to every cell in her body. It would have blazed a path to her eyes, to burn brightly there, but Neal couldn't let him see.... Memories-- all they had were memories. A starry-eyed teenager and a magnetic you...

  • Slowly Slowly I Raise the Gun

    Jay Bennett

    Two weeks before he is due to receive his inheritance on his eighteenth birthday, Chris receives an anonymous letter informing him that his mother did not die a natural death and that he himself is in danger from the murderer....

  • The Dwarks--Book 1

    Michael Berenstain

  • Devotions

    Nomi Berger

  • The Auerbach Will

    Stephen Birmingham

    A poignant and unforgettable rags-to-riches family saga following three generations of a remarkable clan from downtown ghetto to Park Avenue opulence   Marrying Jack Auerbach was Essie Litsky’s salvation, enabling her to break free of her stri...

  • Terrible Thing That Happened

    Marge Blaine

  • Legion

    William Peter Blatty

    From a master of the genre, William Peter Blatty, comes Legion, the harrowing sequel to The Exorcist and the inspiration to the movie The Exorcist III.A young boy is found horribly murdered in a mock crucifixion. Is the murderer the elderly woman who...

  • The Seekers

    Terry Nelsen Bonner

  • Bewitched and Bewildered

    Norman Borisoff

    Michael loses his job, alienates his friends, and is afraid he is losing his mind when the beautiful and mysterious girl he has fallen in love with keeps appearing in front of him even though she is out of town on vacation...

  • Redneck Way of Knowing

    Blanche Mccrary Boyd

    This intoxicating book by the author of The Revolution of Little Girls combines autobiography, reporting, and the dressed-up lies we call fiction. An underground classic since its initial publication, it is the wildly funny personal testament of Blan...

  • Wizard and the Warlord

    Elizabeth Boyer

    THE MAGIC IN THE BOX Sigurd grew up with his grandmother, bothered only by the trolls that seemed bent on destroying their settlement. Then she died, leaving him a mysterious box he couldn't open and a confused warning against some dread warlord o...

  • Mystery Kidnapped Whale

    Marc Brandel

  • The Runaways

    Myron Brenton

  • No Guarantees

    Alice Brooke

    THE PROMISE Three years before, Kim Grayson had pledged her love to a young actor on his way to California and she remained as anxious as ever to keep her promise to join him. She saw the perfect opportunity to save enough for a fall wedding by ac...

  • Temptation's Kiss

    Sandra Brown

    Megan Lambert was shocked into realizing how hard Josh Bennett drove the employees at his ad agency when she lost her husband to the overwhelming pressure. She'd learned of Josh's power over women the night he nearly lured her from marriage with a ki...

  • Reach Out to Cherish

    Dixie Browning

    Jed Dancy was beginning to think it was time he settled down. All he needed was the right woman. He certainly didn't expect A. R. Kennel the freelance writer he'd hired to do a family history, to be that woman, because he'd assumed tha...

  • Beautiful Women, Ugly Scenes

    C.D.B. Bryan

    A man who thinks he understands women, and particularly the woman in his own life, suddenly discovers he has not understood at all, as two marriages break up, the couples switch partners, and new relationships form...

  • The Diamond Contessa

    Kenneth Bulmer

    Harry Blakey remembered a childhood secret - that there was a room under his folks' home which crossed into another world. When, finally as a war veteran, he came back to the old house, he investigated - and found his memory was true.There were indee...

  • Seven Men at Daybreak

    Alan Burgess

  • Mirrors of Love

    Jo Calloway

  • Illusive Lover

    Jo Calloway

    An officer -- and a lady! -- West Point graduate Susan Vance was determined to do her duty. But she would not succumb to her dashing new Commander in Chief First the playboy general promoted her to the rank of major. now he claimed her as his own....

  • A Scandalous Bargain

    Miranda Cameron

    LORD JUSTIN CARDYLE HAD RUINED VALERIA'S BROTHER. NOW IT WAS HER TURN. Valeria Stanton's older but definitely not wiser brother Harry clearly was no match for the Earl of Cardyle -- in drinking or gambling. The rakish Earl had led Harry to consum...

  • For Love or Money

    Elaine Camp

    Wylde Tremaine had been the love of Bethany's youth and she had carried the pain of his betrayal in her heart ever since. Business brought them together again, and the lush tropical setting in which they met made it very hard not to mix business w...

  • Runaway Rapture

    Wanza J. Campbell

    CARELESS PASSION Young, gorgeous Cynthia had suffered enough in her eighteen years, so when she met roguish Garrett Carver, she decided she'd take the chance fate offered and enjoy her life for once. Just a glance from his deep blue eyes made he...

  • Raven's Wind

    Victor Canning

  • Twin Spin

    Anton Cantwell

  • Pavilion of Passion

    Jocelyn Carew

    LOVE'S MASQUERADE Amid the silken swirl of ballgowns and the glitter of a thousand candles, no one at the French Court of Louis Napoleon guessed that the notorious Lady Thorne was really the young and inexperienced shopgirl Valetta Finch. Fate had...

  • The Death Dealer

    Nick Carter

  • Cathedral

    Raymond Carver

    PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Twelve short stories that mark a turning point in the work of “one of the true American masters" (The New York Review of Books).“A writer of astonishing compassion and honesty … His eye is so clear, it almost breaks ...

  • Man in Black

    Johnny Cash

  • Home at Last

    Sara Chance

    LONELY ARMS, LOVING DREAMS What began as a prank soon backfired as Jenny Brown, proprietor of the Garden of Eden Florists, delivered a bouquet of weeds to Knoxville's most eligible bachelor. Daniel usually kissed off his ladies with roses, but fin...

  • The Far Traveler

    A. Bertram Chandler

    The Far Traveler was hardly the sort of starship to use in the study of lost space colonies. Lost colonies were likely to be desperate, eccentric and otherwise unappreciative. And The Far Traveler was a rich woman's toy, constructed of gold and direc...

  • Heart's Victory

    Laurel Chandler

    Talent, beauty, ambition: Karen Meredith had it all. Yet twice her dream of becoming a prima ballerina had been shattered, once at her father's command, and once by the selfishness of her former fiance. Karen's own chance for stardom was past...

  • Best Laid Plans

    Elaine Raco Chase

    Meet Amanda Wyatt -- she had an eight year plan and accomplished so much more. Attractive, talented, she was a success whether she was designing high fashion or running her own elegant shop in New Orleans. And she had a friend with benefits relations...

  • Video Vixen

    Elaine Raco Chase

    "Good girls finish last, and I've always been at the head of the class." That's what Vixen Mallory would say, and Vikki Kirkland was saying it now...to Dan Falkner, ace reporter, who'd come to do a story on the soap opera -- an...

  • Emerald Love

    Elizabeth Chater

    INDIA...in the year 1856, a land of passion, wealth and power, seething with the undercurrents of violence as its people strove to throw off the yoke of British rule. But for innocent young Brittania Layton, returning to the land of her youth, India ...

  • The Marriage Mart

    Elizabeth Chater

    "I SHALL NOT ONLY TAKE YOU BACK WITH ME, ATHENA, I SHALL FIND YOU A SUITABLE HUSBAND. AND YOU HAD BETTER BE PREPARED TO FALL IN LOVE WITH HIM!" So spoke Athena's grandmother, who was about to take her bookish granddaughter to London an...

  • The Tree of Swords and Jewels

    C.J. Cherryh

    They said that Ciaran Cuilean was fey -- that he had the touch of the Sidhe on him, and on his lands. And it was true. Elvish blood ran in his veins, and he had been to that other world -- that parallel and magical land of Eald, where Arafel, the Lad...

  • Minerva

    Marion Chesney

    When the Reverend Charles Armitage, an impecunious country vicar in Regency England, announces that raven-haired Minerva, the eldest of his six daughters, is to have her coming-out in London, the news is not well received by the rest of the family. ...

  • Summer Song

    Rita Clay

    SHE WANTED A BABY . . . but she didn't want a husband, and Caro thought she had the ideal solution. With the help of her doctor and her lawyer, she would get the family she had always wanted. J.T. Cole had different ideas, however. He was perfect...

  • Dear Mr. Henshaw

    Beverly Cleary

    When, in second grade, Leigh writes to an author to tell him how much he "licked" his book, he never suspects that he'll still be writing to him four years later. And he never imagines the kinds of things he'll be writing about: Dear Mr. Henshaw, I ...

  • Belmullet

    Jocelyn Cobb

    When ten-year-old Maudie MacFarland arrives to stay at Belmullet, her aunt and uncle's Ontario farm, she is appalled by their free-spirited way of life and has difficulty getting along with her five exuberant cousins...

  • Molly's Pilgrim

    Barbara Cohen

    A modern Thanksgiving classic about an immigrant girl who comes to identify with the story of the Pilgrims, as she seeks religious freedom and a home in a new land.

    As Molly nears her first Thanksgiving in the New World, she doesn't find mu...

  • Letters from Colette

    Colette

    The first collection in English of the French author's savory, sparkling letters to such contemporaries as Ravel, Proust, and Cocteau, filled with her inimitably fresh, earthy viewpoints on Parisian life...

  • Barefoot on Jill

    John Colleton

  • Forbidden Joy

    Nina Coombs

    From the moment she'd first met dynamic physicist Stephen Blackford, brilliant Hester Mather's logical, analytical mathematician's world was changed forever. After the formal, unemotional life she'd shared with her scientist father, Stephen's boundle...

  • A Stage Set for Love

    Caroline B. Cooney

  • Outback Dreaming

    Dorothy Cork

    IT WAS A PROPOSITION SHE COULDN'T REFUSE. What could have possessed Darryn to accept Eyre Madison's outrageous proposal? She was to pose as Eyre's fiancee in return for the opportunity to photograph his ranch in the Australian outback...

  • An Orphan in History

    Paul Cowan

  • Fifty Great Short Stories

    Milton Crane

    50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction.

    The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katheri...

  • 50 Great Short Stories

    Milton Crane

    50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world's finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Fa...

  • Car

    Harry Crews

  • Yesterday's Son

    A.C. Crispin

    The Romulans attack the planet Gateway, where Federation scientists are studying the Guardian of Forever--the mysterious portal to the past. The Enterprise must protect the Guardian-- or destroy it. But Spock has already used the portal to journey to...

  • See No Love

    Monette Cummings

  • Lincoln County

    Tom Cutter

  • Stands a Calder Man

    Janet Dailey

    Webb Calder fought the newcomers who rushed to claim grasslands where Calder cattle grazed. But he could not resist Lilli--a proud and lovely young immigrant, loyal to the homesteaders' cause, and to her husband. Still, a Calder kept what he had a...

  • The Dangerous Edge

    Robert Daley

    Investigating the looting of the Nice bank in the 1954 French Riviera, a detective is baffled by the skill that went into the robbery and is drawn into a complicated web of mobsters, petty players, a corrupt millionaire, the CIA, and a woman. Reprint...

  • Touch the Stars: Emergence

    John Dalmas

    Compared to the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, the Hamilton Club remains far more sinister, conspiring since 1880 to enslave all of humanity.Apache aerospace industrialist, Jason Roanhorse, faces his...

  • Twisting Shadows

    Emma Darcy

    Her memories of him filled her with hate! Three years ago Mike Hunter--along with his smooth too-handsome cousin, Mark--had killed Jo's sister Killed her as surely as if they'd been driving the car that ran her down that awful night. Jo...

  • Windhaven's Destiny

    Marie De Jourlet

    Love, Lost and Found In the 1880s, America's Gilded Age, the Bouchard family struggles and survives - its fate inextricably tied to a nation moving west in search of a proud new spirit, north to opportunities in great cities. But the Bouchard lega...

  • King and Joker

    Peter Dickinson

    In the cavernous halls of Buckingham Palace, a series of pranks lead to murder in this mystery by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson Princess Louise and her father, King Victor II of England, agree that life has become painfully dull. When she’...

  • Yellowstone Jewel

    Dorothy Dixon

    Dressed in her white sombrero and soft buckskins, Calamity Jane was a magnificent sight. She was beautiful but tough, known to shoot, drink and swear as well as any man -- but she was every bit a woman. She had sweet dreams of romance, yearning for w...

  • Tiger Lady

    Joan J. Domning

    Who was this mysterious lover courting her on the office computer, sending her roses, nicknaming her Tiger Lady, his princess of love and desire? And how could he compete with the irresistible Larry Hart, who came to repair the computer and stayed t...

  • Lady Rogue

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    SHE'S AN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD TEMPTRESS blazing a trail through the drawing rooms, theaters, and gambling salons of eighteenth-century London, determined to destroy her father's name. SHE THINKS HERSELF QUITE WICKED and is sure she has no h...

  • Dance-Away Lover

    Casey Douglas

    SHE WANTED A LOVER--NOT JUST A PARTNER Since the tragic accident that had all but ended her career in ballet, Raine had feared she would never dance again. Choreographer Brandon du Rivage drove her mercilessly to erase that fear. He challenged the...

  • The Ice Age

    Margaret Drabble

    Just thirty-eight-years-old, Anthony Keating’s already survived both a divorce and a heart attack. He has left the BBC for the dangerous life of property speculation in the boom-and-bust 1970s, and is brooding on the oil crisis, galloping inflation...

  • Simon's Book

    Henrik Drescher

  • Beyond All Frontiers

    Emma Drummond

    She was seventeen, shy and naive, a proper Victorian gentlewoman imprisoned in what she believed was a loveless marriage. But Charlotte Scott was seduced by a land of endless, breathtaking magnificence...monsoons, mountains, sari-clad natives--the w...

  • Hold Back the Dawn

    Judith Duncan

    ONE SECRET DARKENED THEIR DAWNING LOVE When Leslie Kairns met oil man Steve McRory at a business lunch, the air between them sizzled. She found it difficult to concentrate on selling either her skills as a geologist or her revolutionary theory on ...

  • Here Comes Kary!

    Mary Jo Dunne

    “HE’S THE BEST LOOKING GUY IN SCHOOL!” All Kary’s friends told her. And he was -- Chuck Dante, star football player, Mr. Popularity, always accompanied by a gang of loyal boys, chased after by all the girls. And now he had included Kary i...

  • Silver Wings

    Richard Duprey

  • The Patient in Cabin C

    Mignon G. Eberhart

    The trip aboard the FELICE began as a pleasure cruise. Attractive young Sue Gates was certain that the yacht's owner Monty Montgomery intended to announce their engagement. Then Terror seized the ship. Monty almost lost his life when he was push...

  • The Grand Jubilee

    Suzette Haden Elgin

  • Bold Destiny

    Douglas Elliot

    Defying British might, the flame and thunder of buccaneer cannons scorch the sky as Cardinal Mazarin schemes to win the continent of North America for the French. Brave and spirited patriots Richard and Eliza Dunstable are fated to loves and destinie...

  • I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

    Harlan Ellison

    A collection of stories written and read by the master of science fiction and the supernatural. Harlan Ellison has won more awards for imaginative literature than any other living author, but only aficionados of Ellison's singular work have been a...

  • Circus of Fear

    Rose Estes
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

  • Longarm and the Bounty Hunters

    Tabor Evans

    BADLANDS BOUNTY Longarm loved old Heck Wilcox like a father. The one-time U.S. Marshal taught him everything he knew about the law -- but now, folks said, he'd become a self-appointed vigilante. When Longarm hears that his old friend is riding ...

  • Suder

    Percival L. Everett

  • Max

    Howard Fast

    The inspiring story of Max Britsky, who grew up in the slums of New York and became one of the most powerful men in the American movie industry.

    Max tells the story of the rise of Max Britsky, entwined with the film industry''s beginnings n...

  • Lovecrazy

    Judy Feiffer

  • Love's Sweet Promise

    Susan C. Feldhake

    JARED -- a brooding, tortured rancher, who guarded well his dark secret. MARGOT -- a tempestuous young rebel, vying for her own place in the sun. GUY -- gentle and dependable, yet capable of wild, untamed passion. KATHERINE -- a gem of flawless...

  • An Attraction of Opposites

    Sandra Field

    Could she ever heal the pain inside him? Joanna knew it, knew it as well as the verdant fields and woods of her beloved brother, John's farm, greening with the coming of spring: she loved the handsome newcomer, Stephen Moore. But there was ...

  • Stay, Sweet Love

    Aileen Fisher

    Summer boys almost never wrote to summer sweethearts after their ferries had carried them back to the mainland. Island girls often waited in vain through long, lonely months for letters that never came. But that would never happen to Ellen, for she ...

  • What the Old-time

    Allen R. Foley

  • Snow Princess

    Victoria Foote

    SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL, PROUD AND PASSIONATE Tatyana was a princess of the Russian nobility. Her land was a country of glaring contrasts -- the opulence of the court of St. Petersburg and the harsh existence of the Russian peasantry. Gregory Grandis...

  • The Pumpkin Shell

    James Forman

    Overweight, seventeen-year-old Robin Flynn finds his once secure life completely turned around by his mother's sudden death, his father's remarriage, and his own strong attraction to his beautiful but hostile stepsister...

  • Love's Unearthly Power

    Blair Foster

    Possessed by demonic passion: Gisela - Once she had tasted Johan's kisses, she was bound to him for all eternity, a willing victim on the sacrificial altar of satanic lust. Johan - His desire for Gisela transended time and space, driving him to e...

  • Flame Against the Wind

    Rosalind Foxx

    Ravishing, violet-eyed Margaret Brandon, sole heiress to a sprawling, lavish St. Croix plantation, had everything she ever dreamed of wanting...until her elegant English cousin arrived, determined to take her in marriage and to secure her fortune for...

  • Gentlemen of Adventure

    Ernest K. Gann

    This panoramic story of the early days of aviation and the daring men and women who flew the first aircraft focuses on the lives of comrades Kaffin Draper and Toby Bryant and Toby's remarkable wife, Lily...

  • Valley of the Shadow

    Brian Garfield

  • The Writing on the Wall

    Leon Garfield

  • Gilded Cage

    Catherine George

    Emily couldn't help herself -- didn't want to... Luc was the knight in shining armor who had come and swept her off her feet. How could she not imagine herself in love with him? Luc's lips touched hers for the space of a heartbeat. ...

  • 4B Goes Wild

    Jamie Gilson

    CLASS 4B IS OUT OF SCHOOL, OFF TO THE WOODS, AND INTO A LOT OF TROUBLE! It's Outdoor Education at Camp Trotter -- the last place Hobie Hanson wants to be! Just the idea of leaving home gives him woolly worms in his stomach. But once 4B is set loose...

  • The Days of Eternity

    Gordon Glasco

  • Nerve

    Marshall Goldberg

  • Fire in the Abyss

    Stuart Gordon

  • Tempestuous Eden

    Heather Graham

    What a fool she'd been! She'd given him more of her soul than she'd ever thought possible. Given him herself. She burned within, thinking of how she'd come to him, teased him, loved him, lain beside him in intimate abandon. Blair Morgan--daughter...

  • Soft Whisper of the Dead

    Charles L. Grant

    From the shadows of a windswept night comes a dark, elusive stranger...one who stalks the cobblestone streets of Oxrun Station, moving silently from victim to victim. One who sleeps by day and rises at night to satisfy a strange and evil thirst...the...

  • Kimberly Flame

    Julia Grice

    Stranded in the wild diamond boomtown of Kimberley young actress Dacey McKinnon had enough beauty and daring to save herself from disaster and start herself on the way to wealth and power. Yet nothing had prepared her for the irresistible charms of Q...

  • Haven

    Ruth Gruber

    Basis for the CBS Mini-series Starring Natasha Richardson.

    "The words leaped at me from The Washington Post. 'I have decided,' President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced, 'that approximately 1,000 refugees should be immediately brought from...

  • A Cool Day for Killing

    William Haggard

  • The Annihilators

    Donald Hamilton

    Matt Helm has got a good thing going with Elly. So a terrorist outfit really have picked the wrong woman when they kidnap her in order to leverage Matt into carrying out an assassination. Now, Helm finds himself in Costa Verde with one thin...

  • Against the Stream

    James Hanley

  • Sooner or Later

    Bruce Hart

  • The Christmas Story: Based on the Gospels According to St. Matthew and St. Luke

    Deborah Hautzig

    Illus. in full color. From the journey of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem, to the pilgrimage of the three wise men, this richly illustrated retelling of the birth of Christ celebrates the true meaning of Christmas.  ...

  • Our Hearts Divided

    Cynthia Hazinga

  • One, Two, Three: A Counting Book

    Stephanie Higgins

  • God Stalk

    P.C. Hodgell

    Welcome to the Holy City of Tai-tastigon, overrun with thieves and lousy with gods. Welcome to the House of the Luck-Brinders, where the ale flows, the jokes are ribald, and if you're lucky, you can see the Kencyr dance. She's a thief apprenticed to ...

  • The Vigilante and the Regulator

    Ray Hogan

    THE REGULATOR William Thompson was famous for clearing out rustlers from the range, so they summoned him to Oklahoma to clean up the No Man's Land of the Panhandle. He was warned to stay on the right side of the law in carrying out his duties - hard ...

  • In Comes Love

    Mab Graff Hoover

    A Heartbroken Young Woman --Two Handsome Strangers -- And the Healing Balm of the High Sierras... THE LADY IN DISTRESS -Misty O'Brien is running from her past when she literally stumbles into Royce Inn, an elegant, old-world resort miles outside ...

  • A Passionate Venture

    Julia Howard

    Madness! It must have been madness that drove cool, collected industrial-management consultant Dr. Kay Paget into the arms of her most troublesome client. She'd been hired to do a job and now he dared her -- a woman! --to do it. He infuriated ...

  • You Gotta Believe

    David E. Hubler

  • Innocent Seduction

    Cally Hughes

    Eileen Younger fell immediately in love with Talbot Wendell's boyish charm and sensual good looks. And she knew, as only a woman can, that he was attracted to her. Yet why did he act so strangely? Why was he so aloof? Why did he make cutting rema...

  • Shared Destiny

    Elizabeth Hunter (1)

    DISPUTED HERITAGE... After an absence of more than a decade, Barbara Nelson was happy to return to her native Kenya to claim her deceased father's home and farm. But Jonathon Grant, her father's handsome, arrogant partner, did not agree...

  • Rip-Roaring Russell

    Johanna Hurwitz

    Look out world, here comes Rip-Roaring Russell! Russell Michaels is growing up fast and a lot of new experiences are coming his way. Like going to nursery school where he loses, among other things, his two front teeth, and where he finds, among othe...

  • King Henry's Palace

    Pat Hutchins

  • Alter Evil

    Symon Jade

  • Willie Weirdie Bleeps Al Jaffee

    Al Jaffee

  • Secrets

    Elizabeth James

  • In the Cage and Other Stories

    Henry James

  • Serpent in Paradise

    Stephanie James

    Had she listened to a lover's lies? Amy Shannon met Jase Lassiter under the sign of the serpent, and she should have heeded the warning. At first he promised paradise, offering her nights of love and days of sheer delight. But the taste of ho...

  • For Practical Reasons

    Claudia Jameson

    Arturo showed desire but never feelings Carol, an eternal optimist, was determined to raise her dear little stepbrother after their parents were tragically killed. But Arturo Kane, her stepfather's nephew, claimed he was better suited financia...

  • Stormy Vows

    Iris Johansen

    Fiercely proud of her independence, Brenna Sloan felt her assurance crumble under Michael Donovan's forceful approach. They were both fighters--but Brenna wasn't strong enough to reach out for the love she needed, and Michael knew only how to...

  • The Predator

    Anthony John

  • Brian's Captive

    Alexis Hill Jordan

    Some Mata Hari she'd turned out to be! Her first attempt to get the goods on the playboy electronics wizard Brian Thmer had led from a socialite soiree to his Washington, D.C., hotel suite, where she'd turned a seduction scene into sheer mayh...

  • Single States

    Peter W. Kaplan

    An amusing - and often hilarious - look at the single life. Sections include: Monophobia ~ Single with Style ~ Technodating ~ Single in California ~ You and Relationships ~ Confessions of a Single Parent ~ The Media Wants YOU! ~ The Best Single Citie...

  • Call of Eden

    Barbara Kaye

    Could she change life-styles to follow the call of Eden? Jennifer Cameron worked long and hard as the fiction editor of the Fort Worth-based magazine Women Now. She was proud of the inroads she had made toward upgrading the contents of the journal...

  • Acts of Love

    Elia Kazan

    A beautiful and strongly sexual young woman seeks security and certainty within her husband's Greek-American family but is soon on the move again, toward an inevitable final reckoning.Kazan has crafted dozens of rasping dialogues--the way people real...

  • Opening Bid

    Marilyn Kennedy

    THE HIGHEST STAKES As a successful art dealer, Joanna Dillon knew how to identify a precious work of art, and she prided herself on her ability to outbid every other collector. At a quiet auction on a wintry night, one man dared to challenge h...

  • Aquamarine

    Madeleine Ker

    Uncle Roger's will was his last laugh Kate knew her beloved uncle had adored practical jokes, but this was too much! Roger had left his fabulously valuable island in the Aegean to Kate, his cousin Vera and someone named Carlo Castelli. The onl...

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    Flora Kidd

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    April Kihlstrom

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  • The Work of Her Hands

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  • The Valley

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  • Z-Lensman

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  • Haunted

    Charlotte Lamb

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    Elizabeth Lane

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  • The Crystal Heart

    Rochelle Larkin

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    Roberta Latow

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  • Accounting for Murder

    Mary J. Latsis

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  • Esp McGee and the Haunted Mansion

    Jim Lawrence

  • The Disdainful Marquis

    Edith Layton

    A most proper young lady longs to give her love to a dashing nobleman who wants only to buy it NO PLACE FOR A LADY Miss Catherine Robins took a position as companion to the Dowager Duchess of Crewe little suspecting what kind of strait she woul...

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  • Death and the Single Girl

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  • Missing in Action

    Bill Linn

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    Adrien Lloyd

  • Southern Pleasures

    Daisy Logan

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    Jake Logan

  • A sailor's war

    Sam Lombard-Hobson

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  • The Adventurers

    William Stuart Long

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  • A Stranger's Kiss // Gift of a Golden Isle

    Jenny Loring

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    Jack Lovejoy

  • Moonflower

    Lynn Lowery

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  • Claire

    Elizabeth Lyle

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    Ross MacDonald

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    Maura MacKenzie

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    Winifred Madison

  • The Daughters of Cameron

    Aleen Malcolm

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    James Marino

  • Shalimar

    Kamala Markandaya

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    Prudence Martin

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    Prudence Martin

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    Don Martine

  • Season of Desire

    Jan Mathews

    When strong-willed socialite Laureen Reisel inherits controlling shares in a near-bankrupt foot- ball team, she also acquires its star player, Vince DiMoro--who just happens to despise rich women. Tension crackles between them--and then Vince arro...

  • Dancer's Illusion

    Ann Maxwell

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    Ardath Mayhar

    Tyrnos needs no armies, no police, no enforcers, for it has its Soul-Singers. These carefully trained and strongly talented people travel the country, showing the truth of their souls to nobles and commons alike, often resulting in the removal or ref...

  • In the Secret State

    Robert McCrum

  • Orders for Cameron

    Philip McCutchan

  • Valley of Broken Hearts

    Rena McKay

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    Philip Michaels

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  • Poland

    James A. Michener

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  • Fletcher's Woman

    Linda Lael Miller

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  • Not by Bread Alone

    Naomi Mitchison

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  • Brief Delight

    Helen Mittermeyer

    From the moment she appeared across the crowded room, he had eyes only for her. Darius Chadwick felt his chest tighten with desire as Cygnet Melton, in golden silk, glided into his life. Their passion flared in a brilliant, unforgettable encounter....

  • Final Quest

    Richard Monaco

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  • Passion's Glory

    Anne Moore

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    Catherine Moorhouse

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    Stephen Mooser

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    Michel Morgan

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    Barbara Morgenroth

  • Pagan Enchantment

    Carole Mortimer

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