Books Published in November 1988

New Books List: 439 titles

  • I Know I'm a Witch

    David A. Adler

  • The Ordeal

    Jerry Ahern

    As the Soviet army advances on the few areas of civilization left after World War III, John Thomas Rourke, alone with helplessly crippled Natalia deep in hostile territory, attempts to fight off the enemy battalions...

  • Zayni Barakat

    Gamal Al-Ghitani

    First published in 1971, this novel is set in the early 16th century in the Egypt of the Mamluk dynasty, the warrior caste dominant for over 700 years. The author was a war reporter in the Middle East, and has written six collections of short stories...

  • The Last Smile

    Marvin Albert

    Pete Sawyer is a private eye of a different kind. The son of a World War II American pilot and a brave French resistance fighter, he grew up on both sides of the Atlantic -- though he prefers his sun-dappled villa on the Riviera to most other places....

  • Miami Mayhem

    Marvin Albert

    It seemed a routine little job.... Just return a high-flying heiress to her worried papa. But some of a man's worst messes start out as routine little jobs. This one really hits the pedal, with a body on the floor of Tony's office, the head smashed b...

  • Seasons in Flight

    Brian W. Aldiss

  • Ruins

    Brian W. Aldiss

  • Careless Whispers

    Rochelle Alers

    Whispers abound at Westgage Publishing where Dyana Randolph is the star reporter...murmurs about Dyana's relationship with the retiring editor-in-chief Michael...rumors that the magazine is about to go under...gossip that the new, talented and handso...

  • Enemies

    Nicholas Allocca

    When David Bailey, an American bush pilot, is blown off course by a brutal Alaskan storm, he finds himself trapped in the enemy territory of Soviet scientist Vadim Samsonov, where he must fight for his life...

  • Man of the High Plains

    Kerry Allyne

    Finch Carmody was totally wrong for her! A rugged homesteader from the Australian high country, Finch exuded too much raw masculinity for Blythe's taste. Comfortable, calm Nathan was more her type. Unfortunately, though Nathan wanted her, h...

  • The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell

    Jorge Amado

  • Cera's Adventures

    Amblin Entertainment

  • Littlefoot's Adventures An Activity Book

    Amblin Entertainment

  • Raw Pain Max

    C. Dean Andersson

    PLAY TIME Her name is Trudy McAllen. On stage she is Raw Pain Max, a whip-toting Amazon who captivates thrill-hungry audiences nightly at the Safe Sex Club. REAL TIME Her name was Elizabeth Bathory. Legend knows her as Countess Blood. In the...

  • Deadly Sleep

    John Applegate

    A FATAL COMPULSION Paul Anderson had a problem. He was afraid to go to sleep. He was afraid that if he let himself fall asleep, even for a moment, he might do something terrible. Like give in to the strange compulsion that drove him to take the bu...

  • The Winter Mittens

    Tim Arnold

  • Through Eyes of Love

    Katherine Arthur

    He insisted forever could never be When newspaper editor Tish Holmsworth saw Nicholas Morgan at a concert in Laketown, New York, she found herself instinctively drawn to him. Disfigured in Vietnam, Nicholas was now the much-talked-about local recl...

  • Ice and Fire

    James Axler

    Snakefish, California, is rich in the currency of post-holocaust America gasoline.

    Almost leveled by the Soviet missiles that annihilated most of the West Coast, Snakefish is in the midst of a reconstruction, financed by a commodity far more valu...

  • Scorched Earth

    Chuck Bainbridge

    Spine has creasing and age wear. Front cover has a bottom corner crease and a spine edge crease. Initial on front inside cover page and facing page has priocing and stamping. Age yellowing on pages. No other marks than stated and good copy for "1...

  • Arabella and the Beast

    Rebecca Baldwin

    Arabella Ivers is not the sort of woman who turns down opportunities -- she simply hasn't had very many; then a man known as the Beast wins her as a payment for her father's gambling debts. Heroine: Arabella Ivers ...

  • The Zakka Slaughter

    Wade Barker

  • City of Passion

    Dallas Barnes

  • Seven Summits

    Dick Bass

  • Beany Wakes up for Christmas

    Lisa Bassett

  • Demented

    B.W. Battin

  • Walking on Sunshine

    Pamela Bauer

    IT WAS LIKE TRYING TO DETHRONE A KING! Smilin' Sam Sweeney was the Twin Cities #1 weatherman. Exuding charm and neighborliness, he captivated viewers -- including Lauren Prescott , the #2 forecaster in town. And she'd been hired to unseat ...

  • Death of an Outsider

    M.C. Beaton

    IT'S A WONDER SOMEONE DIDN'T MURDER WILLIAM MAINWARING LONG AGO. Nobody in the Scottish town of Cnothan had liked the abrasive Englishman, and now that he has been murdered--in a most original fashion--nobody much minds. Constable Hamish Macbeth's...

  • Only Make Believe

    Marilyn Beck

    Beautiful Ann Peters has what it takes. In a land of glittering illusion, she makes (and breaks) the future of young Hollywood hopefuls.... controls million-dollar film projects... and hides a wicked web of secrets so shocking, so scandalous, so wild...

  • Passages

    Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford

    SHE BELIEVED NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE Shannon Eberle's stubborn dreams had catapulted her to the height of fame and fortune in New York City. But when the lights went out on Broadway, she found herself in darkness, longing for the bright starry night...

  • You Get What You Pay for

    Larry Beinhart

    Tony unearths a corruption scandal linking the mafia to the inner circle of the president himselfIn New York, some tenants will do anything to land a rent-controlled apartment.  Tony Cassella is investigating one such tenant—a man who&rsqu...

  • Wintercombe

    Pamela Belle

    When the Puritan Parliament defies King Charles I in the seventeenth century, an estate keeper's young wife must protect her home and children when her husband joins the battle and must confront her growing feelings for a Royalist officer...

  • Midnight Masque

    Janice Bennett

    SECRET DOCUMENT It was nothing unusual for Lady Leonora Ashton to transport government documents to her father from the Home Office. But on this particular afternoon a gust of wind scattered the papers, and suddenly an important page was lost. A doc...

  • Madison Avenue Murder

    Liza Bennett

    Not only was Ramsey Farnsworth, star art director for P & Q ad agency, late for the shoot, but the client was getting ornery and the photographer was nearing a fit. Seems Ramsey, Peg's boss, is dead, carved up on his kitchen floor. Peg's apartment is...

  • After the Dinosaurs

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

  • Crazy Christmas

    Jeanne Betancourt

  • Texas Bride

    Rosanne Bittner

    Tell Me You Don't Love Me. Tell Me You Don't Want Me... The Texas sun kissed her hair with gold; the Western sky gave its luminous blue to her eyes. Rachel Rivers was the most beautiful woman Brand Selby had ever met. He noticed her tremb...

  • The Double-Dip Disguise

    Cynthia Blair

    Identical twins Christine and Susan Pratt spend the summer on idyllic Seagull Island with their grandparents. Chris works at an ice-cream parlor, while Susan babysits for the island’s wealthiest family, who live in a spooky Victorian mansion. But b...

  • Sea Witch

    Sara Blayne

    DARING DECEPTION Sabra Tyree knew she was walking a treacherous tightrope. For weeks at a time, she sailed the seas as the captain of the rebel privateer Nemesis, eluding British frigates like the formidable Black Swan -- then returned to her carefu...

  • Echoes and Shadows

    Lee R. Bobker

  • Crossing Signals

    Janice Boies

    All’s fair in love and war… When Amy Tyler accompanies her best friend Laura on a double date to a rock concert, the last thing she expects is to hit it off with Laura’s date. Although Laura has no interest in Ben Richardson, she’s still f...

  • Big Beast Book: Dinosaurs and How They Got That Way

    Jerry Booth

  • Cuts

    Malcolm Bradbury

    Looking to strike it rich with television gold, an English media tycoon enlists the help of an unassuming novelist to script his small-screen epic, to disastrous -- and hilarious -- effect The year is 1986, and the cuts imposed by Margaret Thatcher...

  • Imperial Purple

    Gillian Bradshaw

    Set in early Christian times, the tale of the weaver Demetrias portrays her entrapment in a treasonous plot against the Byzantine emperor and her fight to protect her family and self as the battle for Constantinople rages...

  • The Nighthawk Trail

    Max Brand

    In a life-or-death challenge south of the Rio Grande, Speedy, disguised as a peon, gains entrance into Bardillo's outlaw army with a plan to retrieve Nighthawk, the famous racing stallion Bardillo had stolen...

  • The Big Game Hunters

    Michael Brander

  • Operation Dragoon

    William B. Brewer

    An interesting account of the invasion of Southern France in WWII - the other D-Day. The full dramatic story of the largest operation of its kind in the European War: an Allied seaborne and airborne assault that eventually involved a million troops....

  • Brain Dead

    Linda Brieno

  • Christmas Magic

    Annette Broadrick
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    For Natalie Phillips, returning home revived painful memories. It was in Portland, years ago, that she last Tony D'Angelo, the only man she'd ever loved. But fate--or was it the magic of Christmas'?--helped heal old wounds as Natalie and Tony discove...

  • Baby-Sitter on Horseback

    Fern Brown

  • The Lenient Beast

    Fredric Brown

  • A Matter of Crime, Volume 4

    Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

  • A Matter of Crime, Volume 3

    Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

  • Time Out

    Patt Bucheister

    Under a pile of teddy bears lay the prettiest free spirit Stone Hamilton had ever met -- but how could a clockwatcher like him fall head over heels for a woman with all the time in the world? Whitney Grant was spicy oil to his sparkling water, and no...

  • The Righteous Rakehell

    Gayle Buck

    TURNING THE TABLES Justin Avery, Viscount of Kenelm, pretended nothing to young Lady Catherine Talbot when he proposed. He asked for a marriage of convenience, leaving him free to pursue the libertine life that made him the most notorious lord in ...

  • Space Rock

    Jon Buller

    Illus. in full color. "The unusual purple rock that Bob has found begins to talk, telling him that it fell out of a space ship and needs Bob's help to return to the planet Kal-dor. The subject matter will help lure problem readers and the simple voca...

  • Kezzy

    Patricia Burns

  • Etheldreda

    Moyra Caldecott

    Etheldreda, Princess of East Anglia, Queen of Northumbria and Abbess of Ely, was a remarkable woman who lived in restless, violent times when old beliefs were dying and new ones were struggling to emerge. Pagan clashed with Christian as the seven kin...

  • Loner With a Gun

    John Callahan

  • The Late Lord Latimer

    Diana Campbell

    THE BEST-LAID PLAN Beautiful Kate Morrow should have been the happiest of young ladies. Instead of being a friendless chit alone and afraid in an England she barely knew, she was accepted in the best society and engaged to the handsome Earl of Halst...

  • Way of the Animal Powers

    Joseph Campbell

  • The Cat's Meow

    Robert Campbell

    It's having the graveyard at old St. Pat's Church sold and slated to become a gas station...and Father Mulrooney's recently deceased cat raising the old priest's hairs with blood-curdling howls from the grave...and signs of satan worship turning up o...

  • Rehearsal for Murder

    P.M. Carlson

    Maggie Ryan and her actor-husband Nick struggle to learn the ropes of parenting, but their lives are turned upside down when the star of Nick's play, is killed and Maggie is implicated in a kidnapping...

  • Do Not Touch

    Lark Carrier

  • Bullet Creek

    L.S. Carroll

  • Lady Defiant

    Anne Carsley

    She dared not trust him, yet could not resist him. -- RAPTURE'S CAPTIVE -- Spirited and lovely, Luisa of Marmoor had been forced by royal decree to wed a man she did not know. Vowing to rule her own fate, she set off for London to seek justice o...

  • The Children of Hamlin

    Carmen Carter

    The Hamlin Masaacre--every Starfleet officer knows the tale...The tiny Federation outpost of Hamlin was destroyed, its entire adult population ruthlessly slaughtered, before the first defense shields could be raised. Even worse, the colony's children...

  • Countdown to Armageddon

    Nick Carter

  • Smoky's Bandit

    Barbara Catlin

    Reformed smoker Tyler Reynolds thought helping his old friend Jerri "Smoky" Davenport "kick the habit" was a perfect ruse for dropping in on her retreat. But what a hellcat on wheels! Why, if he didn't know how cantankerous giving...

  • Tackle Without a Team

    Matt Christopher

    Unjustly dismissed from the football team for drug possession, Scott learns that only by finding out who planted the marijuana in his duffel bag can he clear himself with his parents....

  • Return to Sender

    Dick Cluster

    Diagnosed with cancer, Alex Glauberman feels he has little to lose and accepts a mysterious mission to deliver a package, which he then must race against time to retrieve before it can reach its destination...

  • Angel of Vengeance

    Anthea Cohen

    As a Staff Nurse, Agnes Carmichael was insignificant, awkward, even pathetic - but it would be unwise to ignore her, or to stand in her way. Now she is a Sister, with a better job at a different hospital and is present when a case of suspected child...

  • Christmas Revolution

    Barbara Cohen

  • Alabama Nights

    Brenda Cole

    Would their love survive? When her parents divorced, Stacy had made up her mind to live on an old farm in the country with her aunt and uncle. But her mother didn’t agree. She though the only reason Stacy wanted to be there was to be with Lane...

  • Boy Next Door

    Jennifer Cole

  • The Missing Tooth

    Joanna Cole

    Illus. in full color. "Best friends Robby and Arlo dress alike and do most of the same things. However, their friendship is in jeopardy over a bet about who will lose the next tooth. Realistic, humorous illustrations provide ample reading clues on ev...

  • Star of the West

    Constance Conant

    STAR-CROSSED DESTINY Innocent and childlike, Raine was nothing but a bedraggled waif when Lance Randall rescued her from a San Francisco saloon full of brawling miners. Singleminded in the pursuit of his business, ruthless in the pursuit of his...

  • Does Anybody Care about Lou Emma Miller?

    Alberta Wilson Constant

  • The Hidden Temple

    Catherine Cooke

    Now the commander of the Queen's armies, Kyellan prepares the royal city for an oncoming attack, while Briana faces rebellion from her own priestesses. In the aftermath of the war with the wizards, danger threatens the newly reborn Wizards' College. ...

  • Senior

    Linda A. Cooney

  • Conspiracy

    Parley J. Cooper

  • The Last to Go

    Rand Richards Cooper

    Viewed from the perspective of each family member over a thirty-year span, a family of the 1950s--Daniel and Mary Ellen Slattery and their children--goes through changes of the heart as the fabric of their domestic life unravels...

  • Shades of Winter

    Susan Coppula

    LADY GENEVIEVE DE MACY HAD A KINGDOM AT HER FEET, BUT SHE WANTED MORE.... Her father was Lord Jaufre de Macy, the powerful Dark Knight. Without Mercy. Her childhood playmate had been Henry II, Plantagenet King of England. The noblest knights of B...

  • 50

    Avery Corman

    Doug Gardner is witty, sensitive and a man whose life is falling apart. A combatant in the battle of the sexes, he must cope with the problems of joint custody, sharing his son and daughter with his liberated ex-wife.

    By the author of Krame...

  • The January Zone

    Peter Corris

    Politician Peter January is having trouble staying alive so he hires Cliff Hardy to help him. Hardy dislikes the role of politician's 'security consultant' but he dislikes bombers, hit men and hatemailers even more. Protecting January leads to protec...

  • Christmas Ghosts

    Kathryn Cramer

  • The Wind's Reward

    Barbara Cummings

    Marisa Brady severs ties with her working-class family to build a successful yachting equipment corporation with her wealthy husband, but upon his death she must start over and fight the love she feels for a scheming rival...

  • Sheep's Clothing

    Celia Dale

    On the trail of two women who rob the elderly after surreptitiously dosing tea with sleeping pills, Detective Inspector Wally Simpson has a more serious case on his hands when one of the elderly victims die...

  • Euryale

    Kara Dalkey

    Fantasy, magic and romance deftly woven into a story of gods and monsters, dark secrets and strange omens . . . Veiled against the world, and served only by the blind and short-sighted, a mysterious woman comes to Republican Rome to gain the answer t...

  • Miss Pennington's Choice

    Megan Daniel

    Two Men in Love--and One Very Confused Young Lady... The aristocracy of all Europe had convened for the Congress of Tienna, the undisputed revel of the century. Glittering balls, routs salons were the order of the day, and no one glittered more br...

  • Cool Breezes

    Linda Davidson

    Pamela Easton possesses looks, money, brains, and a snobbish air that keeps boys at bay, but Russ Stevens is determined to get to know her and Pamela--still stung by her parents' divorce--is determined not to get hurt...

  • P.S. I Love You

    Frances Davies

    He could talk the moss off a stone The perfect voice-over voice -- that was Hurley Fitzgerald's toe-curling Irish baritone. And advertising whiz Maureen Cunningham envisioned using it to sell everything from Porsches to peanuts. That Hurley, h...

  • Joe Gosh

    Tom De Haven

  • Italian Knights

    Sharon De Vita

    SMOOTH, SUAVE SAL It was time for Annie Milano to get on with her life. She'd been a widow for two years, and her late husband's friend and partner, Sal Giordiano, had assigned himself the job of her protector. Though he was tailor-made for the ta...

  • A Pee Wee Christmas

    Judy Delton

    It's a special Christmas for the Pee Wee Scouts--Mrs. Peters is about to have a baby!...

  • Demi Reflective Fable

    Demi

  • Ecstasy's Hostage

    Thea Devine

    SHE WAS HIS PRISONER Elizabeth Barnett had been bringing the jail's only prisoner his dinner for weeks, but his cold, dark eyes still unnerved her. And his lean, wiry body always seemed poised for escape...or attack. Elizabeth was careful not to...

  • The Sleeper

    Eileen Dewhurst

  • The Oracle Doll

    Catherine Dexter

  • Capers and Rainbows

    Jacqueline Diamond

    Life, love and the work ethic Brite Cola president Jonas Ameling and Brite heiress Whitney Greystone didn't share the same priorities. That didn't stop Whitney from secretly loving Jonas, but it put a real damper on their relationship. Since Jonas...

  • Saratoga Bestiary

    Stephen Dobyns

    A priceless painting of Man o' War has been stolen from the Racing Hall of Fame...A gambling party hosted by Charlie's friend Victor is held up at gunpoint...Small-time grocer - and big-time bookie - Pellegrino is found dead at his cash register. And...

  • The Whyte Harte

    P.C. Doherty / Paul Doherty

    The suspicious death of the Richard II prompts an unground movement known as the White Harte...The turbulent times of the 15th century are perfectly captured in Paul Doherty's gripping mystery, The White Harte. Perfect for fans of Ellis Peters and Su...

  • Mascara

    Ariel Dorfman

    Mascara delves into the dark terrain of identity and disguise when the lives of three people collide. A nameless man with a face no one remembers has the devastating ability to see and capture on film the brutal truths lurking inside each person he e...

  • Counterprobe

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    Little did Dr. Kevin Blake know, when he first encountered the amnesiac Jane Doe, that she was a "probe" sent from an alien world to gather intelligence about humankind. As he began to unlock her memories he discovered two extraordinary facts: that s...

  • An Honorable Defense

    David Drake; Thomas T. Thomas

    WARNING: THIS BOOK TAKES NO PRISONERS Introducing CRISIS OF EMPIRE THE SERIES David Drake has conceived a future history that is unparalleled in scope and detail. Its venue is the Universe. Its domain is the future of humankind. Its name? C...

  • Look-Alikes

    Henrik Drescher

  • The Strange Appearance of Howard Cranebill, Jr.

    Henrik Drescher

  • Schoolhouse

    Lee Duigon

  • Snowstorms in a Hot Climate

    Sarah Dunant

    Marla's best friend, Elly, left England two years ago on a soul-searching trip through South America. Except for receiving a few postcards, Marla has not heard from her since. Then, Marla receives a strange letter from Elly begging her to fly to New ...

  • Central Heat

    David Dvorkin

    The disk, thin and gray, was undoubtedly alien. Scientists gathered on the moon to track its enigmatic course through space. But their fascination soon turned to horror... FOR THE DISK PASSED BEFORE THE SUN AND BLOTTED IT OUT. COMPLETELY. On Ea...

  • The Twelfth Moon

    Kathleen Eagle
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    Sergeant Luke Tracker had come home for Christmas expecting to find the prejudice and poverty that had always characterized reservation life. Instead he found lope Spencer, who spent her days teaching the tribe's children the ways of the white man's ...

  • The Marathon Rabbit

    Mike Eagle

  • Cut One, They All Bleed

    J.T. Edson

    Folk claimed that if you cut one member of the notorious Cousins family, they would all bleed—and come looking for revenge. Marshal Tune Collier had shot Brock Cousins in a bank raid, and now he was waiting for the evil, cold-blooded Cousin cla...

  • Ghost of a Chance

    Andrea Edwards

    When widowed Holly Carpenter moved into a creaky old house, she became reluctant landlady to an elusive poltergeist and a flesh-and-blood handyman. And what flesh! But though Zach Phillips patched leaky pipes and captivated Holly's mother and daughte...

  • Heart Mountain

    Gretel Ehrlich

    A “dazzling first novel” about Japanese Americans and their Wyoming neighbors in the era of WWII internment camps (Chicago Tribune). A renowned chronicler of life in the West, Gretel Ehrlich turns her talents to a moment in history when American ...

  • Temptation

    Lawrence Eisenbery

    Sam, a happily married New York press agent with dreams of becoming a writer, leaves his wife and child behind when he travels to Hollywood and becomes involved in a sordid relationship with TV actress Beth Raines...

  • The Crystal Palace

    Phyllis Eisenstein

  • Journey Back to Love

    Rachel Elliot (1)

    Did he remember the past they'd shared? When movie star Slade Keller requested a rare interview with the London magazine She Speaks, he asked specifically for staff writer Leigh Daniels. Leigh didn't relish the assignment. Five years ag...

  • Flight of the White Wolf

    Melvin Richard Ellis

  • Brown's Requiem

    James Ellroy

    Beneath the slick, glittering surface of L.A., an underworld of depravity and wickedness reins. Fritz Brown is a part-time private eye and full-time repo-man who gets his kicks listening to classical music. But the waters get too deep for Brown ...

  • Prize Pig Surprise

    Lisa Campbell Ernst

  • Thanksgiving

    Janet Evanovich

    When Megan Murphy discovered a floppy-eared rabbit gnawing on the hem of her skirt, she meant to give his careless owner a piece of her mind -- but Dr. Patrick Hunter was too attractive to stay mad at for long! With his husky bedroom voice he teased ...

  • Eternal Bliss

    Christopher Fahy

    Twenty-eight-year-old Alan Swan knows he’s fine, it’s the rest of the world that is warped -- deceitful and false. As soon as he’s released from the mental hospital, he starts to partially set things right by abducting the woman of his feverish...

  • Flower of the Desert

    Barbara Faith

    PASSION FLOWER From the moment he tossed her over his shoulder and stormed from the Princeton frat house, Jasmine knew Raj Hajad was a no-nonsense man who took what he wanted. He was, after all, Moroccan--and he'd been sent to bring jasmine Hasir ...

  • Seven Spears of the W'Dch'Ck

    Lionel Fenn

  • Five-Alarm Affair

    Marie Ferrarella

    TOO HOT TO HANDLE With his blond hair and wall-to-wall shoulders, Wayne Montgomery looked every inch the knight in shining armor. And when the heroic fireman attacked the inferno in Aimee Greer's kitchen, he found his damsel in distress. Th...

  • Just Say the Word

    Karen Field

    SHE HAD LOST CONTROL OF HER LIFE As a graphologist, Michelle Lennox helped people understand themselves and make appropriate life choices. So why had she herself gained thirty pounds? And why was her own life such a mess? Enter Craig Delmore, c...

  • What's in a Name

    Peter Filichia

  • Molly Dear

    Stephen Fine

    The "autobiography" of the most notorious, troublesome, and spirited android of the twenty-first century tells of her travels from Hollywood to Mars, reveals the presence of a lunar mafia, and presents an endearing extra-terrestrial being...

  • Redwood Delta

    Ron Flesch

  • Murder in A-Flat

    Don Flynn

    New York "Daily Press" reporter Ed Fitzgerald investigates the brutal slaying of violinist Erik Halcorsen and becomes immersed in the surprisingly shadowy world of classical music in his quest for Halcorsen's stolen Stradivarius...

  • Heaven Sent

    Regan Forest

    No rocking chair for her Susan Hancock's life wasn't over yet! Though she'd spent her first forty-two years being responsible -- building a business, raising a child -- she had no intention of gracefully fading into old age. And replac...

  • The Gunsight Kid

    Norman A. Fox

  • Cold Feet

    Patricia Weaver Francisco

    Returning from a six-year Canadian exile, a Vietnam draft-dodger finds himself estranged from friends, family, and his past, but a relationship with a carefree young girl may allow him to redeem his life...

  • The Right Mistake

    Janet Franklin

    Jessica had never felt so alone. One moment she was calmly scouting out a campsite, the next she had tumbled over a bluff. Wedged precariously against a rain-slick boulder, she knew only a miracle could save her. Seth didn't look like a miracle, b...

  • A Setting for Murder

    Eileen Fulton

    Soap opera star turned sleuth Nina McFall and police detective Dino Rossi have a hunch that a red-jewelled brooch is connected with a recent murder, and Nina's investigation leads to a killer who will do anything for the brooch...

  • Emerald Sea

    Tonya Gabriel

    Maya - exquisitely beautiful, innocently sensual, she was a pirate's daughter, a creature of the sea who feared no man and would have no master. Roark - arrogant and domineering, he ruled the South Seas paradise until Maya became his slave. For year...

  • Long Ride Home

    W. Michael Gear

    Theo Belk is the quintessential gunfighter: rootless, ruthless, and deadly. In the fierce and lawless Western frontier of 1874 these traits were what was needed to stay alive. Haunted by the ghosts of the men he's killed, there is one man he has s...

  • Major League Murder

    Michael R. Geller

  • Chess With a Dragon

    David Gerrold

    From the Hugo and Nebula Award"winning author of The Martian Child: “This playful, intricate game of survival . . . is one of Gerrold’s best books.” -- Publishers Weekly   The human race has been played for a fool. T...

  • Thanksgiving Day

    Gail Gibbons

  • Men of Kent

    Elizabeth Gibson

  • B-E-S-T Friends

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    That's what Stacy thinks the new girl Annie is.  And having to be Annie's partner in class is  horrible too. Annie stores her snack in the wrong place,  and she has no front teeth. Her whistling scares  away the birds outdoors. Annie just doe...

  • After the Fine Weather

    Michael Gilbert

    When Laura Hart travels to Austria to visit her brother, vice-consul of Lienz in the Tyrol, she briefly meets an American who warns her of the mounting political tension. Neo-Nazis are stirring trouble in the province, and xenophobia is rife between ...

  • Be Shot for Sixpence

    Michael Gilbert

    A gripping spy thriller with a deserved reputation. Philip sees an announcement in 'The Times' from an old school friend who has instructed the newspaper to publish only if they don’t hear from him. This sets a trail running through Europe, with mu...

  • Anna L.M.N.O.

    Sarah Glasscock

    Twice-married, love-shy, West-Texas beautician Anna finds her quest for self-determination and independence thwarted by her customers' thoughts, troubles, concerns, despairs, ambitions, griefs, desires, and losses...

  • Chantilly Lace

    Sally Goldenbaum

    HEAD OVER HEELS Rosie Hendricks was sure the Fates were conspiring against her. In one day she'd lost her apartment and her job, and instead of getting time to regroup, she was stuck having dinner with elderly, eccentric Esther Forest and her deva...

  • A Woman of Spirit

    Lucy Gordon

    IF THE SPIRIT MOVES YOU... Paranormal investigator Dr. Damaris Sherwood believed an old Victorian castle was the perfect place to find a fascinating phantom. What she encountered instead was over six feet tall, ruggedly real -- and intent on sabot...

  • The Dime Detectives

    Ron Goulart

    Traces the history of detective fiction pulp magazines from their origins in the nineteenth-century dime novels to their heyday in the 1920s and 1930s, profiling many pulp writers who went on to achieve greater fame...

  • Where Is Sarah?

    Bob Graham

  • Grave

    Charles L. Grant

    Josh Miller has a talent for finding things. So far, the things people have asked him to find - antique tables, old movie posters - have been innocuous enough. And Andrea Montague, the daughter of a local writer, may be his most interesting find so f...

  • For Fear of the Night

    Charles L. Grant

  • Lawman's Lady

    Keller Graves

    Talented Rella couldn't deny the fierce attraction she felt for virile Cort Ramsey, but the innocent stage star couldn't forgive him for assuming her guilt. Unwilling to have a man who distrusted her, Rella decided to put her abilities to the test an...

  • By Honour Bound

    Valerie Gray

    SHE WAS BOUND BY PRINCIPLE TO ONE MAN, BUT BOUND BY HER HEART TO ANOTHER. Lady Anne Farleigh promised her dying father she would consent to marry the dour merchant, Simon Pontefract. Twice her age and in desperate financial straits, he was so ins...

  • Love Song

    Andrew M. Greeley

    Beautiful Assistant D.A. Marie Lyons and attorney Conor Clarke fall passionately in love, but Clarke's crimetainted past threatens Lyon's career and their relationships unless he can prove he had been framed and win her back...

  • The Captain and the Enemy

    Graham Greene

    Victor Baxter is a young boy when a secretive stranger known simply as “the Captain” takes him from his boarding school to live in London. Victor becomes the surrogate son and companion of a woman named Liza, who renames him “Jim&rd...

  • The Puppetmaster

    Liz Greene

  • A Perfect Beast

    Kay Gregory

    Mr. Riordan set her teeth on edge High-school biology teacher Rosemary Reid had always handled irate parents with professional aplomb -- until Jonathan Riordan turned up. He'd come furiously to the defense of his difficult daughter, Tamsin. An...

  • Lassiter on the Texas Trail

    Loren Zane Grey

  • The Necessity of Empty Places

    Paul Gruchow

  • Dance of Demons

    Gary Gygax

  • Those Who Hunt the Night

    Barbara Hambly

    STALKER BY DAYLIGHT Location: London Time: The period of Sherlock Holmes Subject: Vampires The vampires had been living in London since the time of Elizabeth I, but now they were being ruthlessly murdered by someone who ripped their coffins ope...

  • A Wanderer's Return

    Niel Hancock

    Return to the world of THE CIRCLE OF LIGHT... The magical universe where man, otter, bear, and dwarf together fought demonic forces of darkness in the struggle for their world. Here, in the twilight age of Atlanton Earth, you traveled with the might...

  • Sun Blind

    Gwen Hansen

    Meet Sheila McCarthy, an ordinary teenager who likes cheeseburgers and Bon Jovi. But it is her love of science that brings her to the laboratory of eccentric inventor Dr. Reit -- and to his latest machine: a transporter into parallel worlds! Sheila a...

  • Obedience

    Joseph Hansen

    With retirement just out of reach, Dave Brandstetter investigates the killing of a Vietnamese immigrant.As an insurance investigator, Dave Brandstetter has spent his life unraveling suspicious deaths. Now, well into middle age, he has decided to reti...

  • So Long, Senior Year

    Janice Harrell

    GRADUATION BLUES Who says senior year is one big P-A-R-T-Y? Just ask the kids in the In Crowd for the real scoop. Samantha doesn't want to say goodbye to any of her friends, especially her guy, Pip. Pip can't stand the thought of Sam dating th...

  • Death of an Honourable Member

    Ray Harrison

  • Defy the Sun

    Mallory Dorn Hart

    THEY SHAPED THE DESTINY OF AN EMPIRE WITH THE URGENT DESIRES OF THEIR HEARTS A pounding at the inn's door; a quickening of the pulse, and the brash, young cavalier, burst, upon the lady in her chamber. With a sudden stolen kiss the moment was ove...

  • A Fox in the Night

    Roy Hart

    The ravaged, waterlogged body of a beautiful, rich widow brings Superintendent Roper into a convoluted case with as many facets as the human psyche. Hannah Blezzard is a mystery. Behind the doors of her elegant home, no clues to the real woman exis...

  • Animal Orphans

    Sharon M. Hart

    Tim becomes the caretaker of Spirit and Tawny, two orphaned panther cubs, at the animal rescue farm, but Spirit dies and Tim, now strongly attached to Tawny, must weigh his fondness for the panther against its need for freedom....

  • Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment

    David G. Hartwell

    Forty-four tales of fantasy and the fantastic include works by Robert Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, Ray Bradbury, Samuel Delany, Poul Anderson, Ursula Le Guin, L. Frank Baum, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain...

  • Eight Nights

    Brooke Hastings
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    Rebecca's children had suffered enough from workaholic parents. She couldn't allow it to happen again, no matter how drawn she was to her hard-driving boss, David. Besides, neither of them could find time for loving when they worked eight days a week...

  • Mine!: A Sesame Street Book about Sharing

    Linda Hayward

  • The Raging Fire

    Constance Heaven

    This story describes the love between a Russian village girl and a high-born English doctor which is forged and tested by the fires of revolution and war. While the cab waited to take her to the station she stood in the apartment that held all she...

  • Moon Cusser

    Eric Helm

    Someone is using the airwaves to lure U.S. soldiers into deadly traps. This mysterious radioman knows the commo system and speaks like an American. Each time he calls in air support, the chopper crews are found badly mutilated or dead. The psy-war...

  • A Country Miss

    Emily Hendrickson

    CAMPAIGN OF CONQUEST Miss Charity Lonsbury's love for the handsome Marquess of Kenrick seemed utter folly. Charity was poor as a church mouse, Kenrick was rich as Croesus. Charity was unschooled in the ways of the world, Kenrick moved in t...

  • Cactus Flower

    Shirl Henke

    The Republic of Texas! It was big, rich, and free...and where eighteen-year-old tomboy Charlee McAllister hoped to join her brother on a ranch in San Antonio. Yet when she got there, he was dead, killed in a tragic "accident." Penniless, ...

  • Outlaws

    George V. Higgins

    In a story set in and around Boston from 1970 to the present, Outlaws explores the ambiguity of contemporary lawbreakers and high-level corruption. It examines international violence through the reactions of the many characters to Sam Tibbetts a drug...

  • Mermaids on the Golf Course: Stories

    Patricia Highsmith

    The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with this work that reveals the chilling reality behind the idyllic facade of American suburban life. The stories collected in Mermaids on the Golf Course are among Highsmith's most mature...

  • The Ghost Squad and the Menace of the Malevs

    E.W. Hildick

  • Cradle Kill

    S.A. Hillman

  • An Honorable Affair

    Karla Hocker

    "I WISH I NEED NOT BEHAVE LIKE A LADY!" Penelope Langham was all peaches and cream, but such stray thoughts made her blush bright red. At twenty-three, she was a model of feminine reserve and a dutiful niece to the aunt she lived with -- y...

  • The Lion Family Book

    Angelika Hofer

  • Tight Case

    Edward J. Hogan

    Edward Fleming, a special narcotics agent in New York City on the verge of making the biggest bust of his career, confronts the Mafia, crooked double-agent cops, and a wife who is threatening to leave him...

  • Alexander and the Dragon

    Katharine Holabird

    Illus. in full color. "A soothing story for youngsters who want to make peace with nighttime enemies. Illustrations in watercolor and pen-and-ink are especially good at expressing Alexander's fears."--School Library Journal.  ...

  • Velvet Lightning

    Kay Hooper

    VICTORIA AND FALCON SAIL IN HOT PURSUIT OF MARCUS TYRONE, THE ONLY MAN ALIVE WHO CAN REVEAL THE GREATEST SECRET OF THE CIVIL WAR. BUT WILL THEY REACH HIM IN TIME? A handsome rogue whose recklessness and courage had made him a fortune as a blockade...

  • Glamorous Powers

    Susan Howatch

    The time is 1940. Jonathan Darrow is an Anglican priest when he receives a shattering vision and knows he must leave the monastery that has been his home for seventeen years. As he plunges into the temptations of the real world, a crisis sends him in...

  • Water Witch

    Jan Hudson

    Beautiful geologist Max Strahan had been hired to search for water beneath the rocky Barton ranch in the Texas hills, but would her special talent with a willow dowsing stick help her find what no one else had? When Sam Garrett climbed in the window ...

  • Celestial Hit List

    Charles Ingrid

    One galaxy isn't big enough to hold Jack Storm in his quest for truth. Amber has been subliminally programmed to kill—and Jack is just as determined to stop her. His skill and his battle armor may not be enough to succeed. Both their pasts...

  • The Discerning Heart

    Arlene James

    MAID IN HEAVEN To private maid Cheyenne Cates, working at famous, reclusive Tyler Crawford's mountainside estate seemed a dream come true -- even if the price of employment was spying on the mysterious man and his young son for his estranged s...

  • Captive Angel

    Deana James

    SHE SWORE TO STAY WED Abandoned, penniless, and suddenly responsible for the biggest tobacco plantation in Colleton County, distraught Caroline Gillard had no time to dissolve into tears. The previously pampered, indulged mistress of the South Carol...

  • Possession

    Peter James

    A terrifying novel of a young man who is willing to defy everything. Even death...Fabian Hightower has been killed in a car crash. At least, that is what a policeman is asking Alex, his mother to believe. But Alex knows she saw him that morning - at ...

  • Unconditional Love

    Claudia Jameson

    Coralie was dismayed at her lukewarm welcome . . . Getting established in the south of England as an interior decorator, even one with a unique specialty, wasn't going to be easy. Particularly when one of the clients was architect Jake Samu...

  • A More Perfect Union

    J.A. Jance

    A LESS THAN PERFECT CRIME The front-page photo was a gruesome heartstopper--a young woman plunging from a skeletal skyscraper, sheer horror frozen on her beautiful face. An accident? Suicide? Detective J.P. Beaumont didn't think so. Especially whe...

  • Suddenly, Sunshine

    Kate Jenkins

    Mr. Wrong was all right... When Laine Randolph signed up for a goal-setting seminar, she had only one objective -- marital bliss with Mr. Right. No doubt classmate Colin Murphy was the least likely to fit the bill, if his disposition was as outrag...

  • Such a Good Baby

    Ruby Jean Jensen

    Felicia, at age 14, gave birth to a beautiful child that took the name Jeremy. Despite Felicia's attempts to explain that she had done nothing to cause the pregnancy, her mother refused to believe her. Mrs. Stewart, desperate to protect their reputat...

  • Sweet Jeopardy

    Carol Jerina

  • Passion's Song

    Carolyn Jewel

    American orphan Isobel Rowland learns she is the illegitimate daughter of an English aristocrat only when her father at last locates her and brings her to England. Her father intends to find her a husband, and if she can catch the interest of Alexand...

  • Satin Ice

    Iris Johansen

    TO SAVE THE CHILD ETAINE, SILVER AND NICHOLAS MUST BATTLE THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS BUT WILL HIS DEFEAT COST THEM THEIR LIVES? In the glittering, endless white nights of a Russian summer Silver Delaney felt isolated, alone, even in the shimmering cry...

  • Murder Under the Mistletoe

    Jennifer Jordan

    DEATH OF AN ANGEL Christmas at The Grove promises to be a lovely English country affair--friendly folks, delicious food, a perfect getaway for its holiday guests. For Dee Vaughan, unemployed journalist turned temp and her mystery-writer husband, B...

  • Lovers Touch

    Penny Jordan

    Lady Eleanor de Tressail was simply mortified Bad enough that before his death, her old-fashioned grandfather had ensured that their impoverished estate wouldn't have to be sold--by arranging her marriage. But to Joss Wycliffe of all people--t...