Books Published in April 1980

New Books List: 208 titles

  • The Girl in a Swing

    Richard Adams

    Alan Desland, who feels himself to be an ordinary and unremarkable man, falls passionately in love with the beautiful but mysterious German stenographer, Karin, who is sent to assist him during a business trip to Denmark. To his astounded joy, she re...

  • The Patrimony

    Robert Adams

  • Morning Watch

    James Agee

    The Morning Watch by James Agee, like his A Death in the Family, which won him the Pulitzer Prize, is autobiographical. It describes the experiences of twelve-year-old Richard during the early hours of Good Friday and the early stages of spring, in a...

  • A Victory for Kregen

    Alan Burt Akers

    The ending of Prescot's stark adventures as a living chess piece in the city of blood games was to be as terrifying as the perils that had gone before. Because now that transposed Earthman had to fight his way back to his embattled Vallian homeland a...

  • A Lovely Tomorrow

    Mabel Esther Allan

    After her parents are killed by a rocket on New Year's Eve in London, 15-year-old Frue rebuilds her life in the wartime English countryside....

  • Promises

    Michael Patrick Allen

    During the Depression, Jess--eighteen, beautiful, and gently raised--promises her dying father that she will care for her little sister, Tillie, and enters a world of dark streets, shame, blackmail, and additional frightening promises...

  • Legacy of Danger

    Alix Andre

    The anonymous letter hinted at murder.... The letter had arrived a few months after her fathers death. The message was curt: Your father was murdered. Ask Adam Villier. So Dora had sailed for the Canary Islands determined to find proof that Vil...

  • Tempo Easy Crosswords No. I

    Jean Andrew

  • Then Came Violence

    John Dudley Ball

    Virgil Tibbs, the cool, highly-competent black detective of the Pasedena Police Department, returns one day to his bachelor apartment to find that it has been expertly stripped to the bare walls???not a thing remains to show that he has ever lived th...

  • The Blackstock Affair

    Franklin Bandy

  • The Cat I.Q. Test

    E.M. Bard

  • Falling in Place

    Ann Beattie

    An unsettling novel that traces the faltering orbits of the members of one family from a hidden love triangle to the ten-year-old son whose problem may pull everyone down....

  • The White Sea Bird

    David Beaty

    A battle of nerves between a British squadron-leader and a German sea-captain.Deep in a Norwegian fjord hides the German merchant-cruiser Groningen. Squadron-leader Guy Strickland knows it is there, but Military Intelligence refuses to take his word ...

  • The Success and Failure of Picasso

    John Berger

       At the height of his powers, Pablo Picasso was the artist as revolutionary, breaking through the niceties of form in order to mount a direct challenge to the values of his time. At the height of his fame, he was the artist as royalt...

  • Golem 100

    Alfred Bester

    Regina and her bee-ladies, bored members of the elite, while away the idle hours by playing at conjuring the Devil - a game which leads to horrifying consequences. Alfred Bester's other novels include "Tiger, Tiger", "Extro" and "The Demolished Man"....

  • The Fearns of Audley Street

    Audrey Blanshard

    The lovely Justina had no intentions of falling in love with the handsome Captain Moresby. She was already engaged to marry another -- the dashing viscount who promised to give up gambling if he could make Justina his wife. Now Justina found herse...

  • Glory Day

    Paul D. Boles

  • Celestial Chess

    Thomas Bontly

    In the twelfth century, the Devil walked the earth. And one medieval monk -- Geoffrey Gervaise, master of every forbidden are of church and darkness -- challenged him to the ultimate game of life, mind, and soul -- Celestial Chess. But the game was n...

  • Mean Maxine

    Barbara Bottner

  • The Sword and the Satchel

    Elizabeth Boyer

    THE IMPOSSIBLE QUEST Kilgore had long dreamed of great adventures and magic. But when f e alone proved able to draw the magic sword Kildurin he found himself embroiled in more than he had wanted. With the aid of a crotchety old wizard he set out f...

  • Hawk of May

    Gillian Bradshaw

    He renounced the evil of his own mother--but the Darkness will haunt him forever. He wields a sword of great magic--yet it brings fear to the one man he strives to serve. He rides a horse of fantastic abilities, from a land of myth--but would g...

  • Outlaws of the Old West

    Carl W. Breihan

  • The Cocaine Connection

    R.L. Brent

  • Island for Dreams

    Katrina Britt

    Could she fulfill such a condition? Only when she arrived on the island did Nora learn that part of her inheritance from Uncle Jake depended on her marrying a Manxman. There was no lack of candidates. Even, it was suggested, Jony Cesar, wh...

  • The Widow of Ratchets

    Owen Brookes

    Synopsis: The Widow of Rachets tells the slightly supernatural and highly ominous story of American Lyndsay Kramer Dolben, an attractive newlywed who arrives in England to rejoin her husband only to be immediately informed of his recent death. Overco...

  • Submarine Commander

    Ben Bryant

  • April Harvest

    Lillian Budd

  • Blackbird Singing

    Eve Bunting

    Pulled apart by his parent's stormy relationship, which comes to a climax when their crops are threatened by huge numbers of migrating blackbirds, 10-year-old Marcus struggles to come to terms with himself, his parents, and a complex ecological dilem...

  • The Spellstone of Shaltus

    Linda Bushayger

    An exciting fantasy in the tradition of Andre Norton and Marion Zimmer Bradley.

    When Lord S'Carlton killed the evil wizard Shaltus, he didn't realize the sorcerer had transferred his soul into the spellstone crystal that amplified his psyc...

  • The Night Swimmers

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    Retta, Johnny, and Roy have no parental rules to follow, so they’ve made up their ownAfter their mother passes away, Retta, Johnny, and Roy don’t have much parenting in their lives. Their dad is a country singer who keeps them well fed bu...

  • Mlle. Cecie

    Sarah Carlisle

    For so long Cecie had been merely a lovely child, to her cousin Peter a kind of little sister whom he had to protect. Now she was blossoming into a rare beauty and suddenly Peter found that his feelings were anything but brotherly. All might have rem...

  • The Saint to the Rescue

    Leslie Charteris

    Six more classic adventures: there’s a murky tale of blackmail at a candy convention; a chance to turn the tables on an unscrupulous real-estate broker; a confidence trickster with a keen grasp of math; a scientific invention that is too goo...

  • My Friend Jacob

    Lucille Clifton

  • I Am Joseph

    Barbara Cohen

  • The Amazing Memory of Harvey Bean

    Molly Cone

  • Hail, Hail Camp Timberwood

    Ellen Conford

    FIRST SUMMER AT CAMP Melanie hates the idea of camp, but she soon makes friends and finds it much more fun than she expected -- although she has to cope with one trauma after another! Mel doesn't even like to put her face in the water -- but ...

  • A Move in the Game

    Kathleen Conlon

  • Rear-View Mirror

    Caroline B. Cooney

    A warm October day, a car-and an excuse to drive. That ranks right up there with bread, wine and thou, thought Susan Seton as she sat in her snug little diesel automobile, a half-dozen doughnut holes in a white paper bag beside her and the fuel tank ...

  • Voices of Doom

    Basil Copper

  • Stranger at Midnight

    Coriola

    She had been warned that he was dangerous Diane decided to tell Martin the truth. "I'm engaged to Leo Marchand," she said. "His parents own Wildacres." She didn't dare add that they were all armed on the neighboring estate, because of the rumor of...

  • Outback Runaway

    Dorothy Cork

    Dale had come back looking for comfort But the secure world of Jackalass, the outback station she'd known as a girl, had changed. Instead of Aunt Beth to help her recover from her disastrous love affair, she found Trelawney Saber, an arroga...

  • Again Calls the Owl

    Margaret Craven

  • Fugitive Wife

    Sara Craven

    Running away had accomplished nothing! Briony Adair fled to her aunt's Yorkshire cottage as a refuge. Away from the pressures of her father's plans and the unexpected return of her estranged husband, Logan -- missing for a year, presumed d...

  • Truck

    Donald Crews

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    Truck is written and illustrated by the celebrated creator of Freight Train, Bigmama''s, School Bus, and many other classic and award-winning picture books for young children. Truck was named a Caldecott Honor Book by the American Library Associa...

  • Chomps

    Vic Crume

  • The Coast of Fear

    Jean D'astor

    A dream turned into a nightmare of terror Going to Paris seemed a wonderful chance for Jan Harcourt. But from the moment she arrived she was entwined in terror. First there was Damien Moale, the man who claimed to love her. Then there were the ...

  • My Uncle Oswald

    Roald Dahl

    Meet Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, Roald Dahl's most disgraceful and extraordinary character . . . Aside from being thoroughly debauched, strikingly attractive and astonishingly wealthy, Uncle Oswald was the greatest bounder, bon vivant and fornica...

  • Those Von Tallien Women

    Utta Danella

  • Black Horse Tavern

    Rebecca Danton

    A TRAITOR IN THEIR MIDST Maggie McNair had to work long hours in her stepfather’s tavern. And she had to be quick to escape the sharp tongue of the cook and the pawing hands of the officers. She hated her work, but she was good at it and besides...

  • Scarlet Night

    Dorothy Salisbury Davis

    Determined to rid her home of all vestiges of her husband's first wife, Julie Hayes begins hunting in the galleries of SoHo for a painting and becomes involved in a mystery involving the theft of a priceless painting...

  • The Children of Passion

    Genevieve Davis

    A fragile virgin at 15, innocent in the ways of men, Adriana Sforza married the wild and untamed Ludovico Orsini, the dark prince of the Italian court. Although he loved her dearly, his violent blood and insatiable hunger for Adriana made him take he...

  • Death Train

    Gordon Davis

    “If the Sergeant doesn’t stop those trains, D-Day goes down the drain!”The speaker was Colonel Fairbairn, special OSS advisor to General Omar Bradley, at a tense meeting of SHAEF only days before the planned Normandy invasion. Thus began yet an...

  • The Purple Pterodactyls

    L. Sprague de Camp

  • Trials of Windhaven

    Marie De Jourlet

    A magnificent series of our great American past, of our Southern heritage, and of a way of life that has vanished forever... Spanning several generations of the full-blooded and proud Bouchard dynasty that built Windhaven, this is the sweeping saga ...

  • Come Back to Love

    Joyce Dingwell

    Manny had fallen in love with love And in this mood she'd agreed to marry Justin Welsh. Fortunately she came to her senses before the wedding. The overbearing construction superintendent, Huw Grant, however, unaware of her change of heart, ...

  • Away All Boats

    Kenneth Dodson

  • Schultz

    J.P. Donleavy

    'J.P. Donleavy at his wildest, wackiest, sexiest best!' - Chicago Sun Times Schultz - Sigmund Franz "Isadorable" Schultz - descended from a long line of Prague Rabbis, born in the New England boondocks, fleeing an obscure furture in ladi...

  • No Way Out

    Jane Donnelly

    Lucy's problem wouldn't go away Bad enough that Celia, her identical twin, had jeopardized her marriage by having a brief holiday affair. Worse, she had used Lucy's name. To protect Celia, Lucy had reluctantly pretended to be the gi...

  • The Midnight Embrace

    Barbara Doyle

    It seemed like a perfect vacation, a chance for Terrace Connors to discover her roots in Ireland where she would be staying with relatives she had never met. If they were all like cousin Padrig, who greeted her at the airport with a quip and a smile,...

  • The House of Jackdaws

    Alice Dwyer-Joyce

    A young woman flees her unhappy Irish home for a nursing career in England but the financial collapse of her family's estate compels her to return-to serious illness and a handsome, mysterious young man. Who is the stranger who comes out of the ni...

  • Longarm in the Four Corners

    Tabor Evans

    TO ROAM THE RIMROCK DESERT TAKES A DIFFERENT KIND OF OUTLAW... In the sun-baked canyons a certain mail-stage has a habit of being held up. The gold bullion it carries disappears without a trace.... Duty calls Longarm to the wasteland hills to t...

  • Stone God Awakens

    Philip Jose Farmer

  • Secret at Ravenswood

    Caroline Farr

    "The Specter of Fear... seemed to lovely Alicia Baker to lurk in every shadowy passageway at Ravenswood, the English manor house where she had come to catalog a valuable collection of manuscripts. After only one night in the gloomy mansion, Alici...

  • Stateroom for Two

    Glenna Finley

    For a lovely young woman a European business trip suddenly becomes a holiday cruise to unexpected romance and danger… The Business Of Romance In love with a boss who didn’t seem to know she was alive, pretty Pippa Gordon had had enough. Whe...

  • Rulers of the City

    Thomas Fleming

    A large Northeastern city is embroiled in a busing controversy and Mayor Jake O'Connor, troubled by home and school associations, rejects diplomatic fence-straddling and opts for open, honest government--a fairy tale that might make it on TV but can'...

  • Dragon's Egg

    Robert L. Forward

    ONCE IN A WHILE, A NOVEL APPEARS THAT HAS EVERYTHING UNIQUE TO SCIENCE FICTION -- A BRILLIANT NEW IDEA HONEST EXTRAPOLATION OF REAL SCIENCE, A GRIPPING STORY WITH FASCINATING ALIEN CHARACTERS, AND THE INDEFINABLE BUT ESSENTIAL SENSE OF WONDER. SUCH ...

  • A Dollar to Die for

    Brian Fox

  • The Throwing Season

    Michael French

    A Cherokee Indian, Henry Chevrolet determinedly practices shot-putting, dreaming of the day when his skill and strength will win him an athletic scholarship to a college far away from the prejudices of his hometown...

  • The Big Red One

    Sam Fuller

  • The Moonless Night

    Jennie Gallant

    ROMANCE AND ADVENTURE WERE WAITING.... ...While Napoleon was being held prisoner aboard an English ship at Plymouth harbor. To the inhabitants of Bolt Hall, particularly the mischievous and beautiful Marie Boltwood, this lent an air of excitem...

  • Dragons of Blueland

    Ruth Stiles Gannett

    In this third and final installment of the classic My Father''s Dragon trilogy, Boris, the baby dragon, is excited to be heading home to Blueland and looks forward to reuniting with his family.

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  • Today Was a Terrible Day

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Follow the humorous mishaps of a second grader who is learning to read.

    Nothing's going right for Ronald -- he drops his pencils, inadvertently squirts water on Joy’s dress, mistakenly eats Jimmy’s sandwich, misses the ball during recess,...

  • Red Fury

    George G. Gilman

    DOUBLE Meandering through the scorching desert of southern New Mexico, Edge is ensnared in a seething conflict between white men and Apaches. Seems that years ago one of the local men was murdered for raping a squaw, and both sides are out for blo...

  • Friends in High Places

    Lucianne Goldberg

    Avenging herself on her former lover and protege, Dr. Helen Roth unleashes the energy behind the dream process to psychologically manipulate Paul Stanislaus into committing increasingly violent crimes...

  • Jacintha Point

    Elizabeth Graham (1)

    Laurel was in a state of shock Her father, taken on a mere suspicion that wasn't true, was languishing in a Mexican prison. Diego Ramirez was insisting she marry him so that he might use his influence to have her father released. "As his son-in-la...

  • Hercules

    Hardie Gramatky

  • Gun Trouble in Tonto Basin

    Zane Grey

    Not all outlaws are bad mend. Rich Ames didn’t set out to be a gunslingerâ€"it was forced on him. When two men roughed up his sweet sister, Rich reached for his trusty Colt and let loose on them. When the smoke cleared, Rich was the only one standi...

  • Chaia Sonia

    Don Gussow

  • Shrine of the Kuo Tao

    Gary Gygax

  • Tomb of Horrors

    Gary Gygax

  • Big Red

    John Haase

    Chief Engineer Frank Crowe directs the construction of Boulder Dam on the mighty Colorado and fends off the threats of interfering, penurious syndicate directors and of IWW agents determined to control the workers or destroy the project...

  • Souls Aflame // This Rebel Heart

    Patricia Hagan

    A NATION IN FLAMES A savage assault foretold the end of a way of life for Julie Marshall, whose brother Myles had been branded a traitor, whose home, Rose Hill, was threatened by the onset of war and greed, and whose destiny would bring her from bat...

  • Paladin

    Peter hamilton

  • Dustland

    Virginia Hamilton

    Justice, her two brothers, and a neighbor-the “First Unit”-bound by extraordinary mental powers, time-travel to a distant future where all is dust and the powerful beast Miacis rules. Jealousy threatens to destroy the unit and trap them forever i...

  • The Admiral's Daughter

    Judith Harkness

    A MOST UNLADYLIKE ACT OF MUTINY Ever since Maggie Trevor could remember, she had heard her father speak of his hatred for the aristocratic Ramblay clan. Naturally Maggie was shocked when that same proud and hot-tempered father suddenly meekly c...

  • Crashing

    Enid Harlow

  • The Flowers of the Field

    Sarah Harrison

    The million copy internationally bestselling novel of one family and the devastating effects of the First World War. 'Loved the book...a very moving and powerful read which had me in tears more than once. An easy 5 stars.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars...

  • Marxism

    Robert L. Heilbroner

    "Genuinely open-minded and inquiring. . . .it intelligently summarizes and shrewdly questions four central topics of Marxist thought―the dialectical approach to philosophy, the materialist interpretation of history, the socio-analysis of capital...

  • The Swordsman

    William C. Heine

  • On the Way to the Movies

    Charlotte Herman

    Freddie's older brother Simon agrees to take him to see a monster movie only because Freddie promises not to get scared, but all sorts of things happen even before they enter the movie theater, with some surprising results...

  • ANPANO: An American Indian Odyssey

    Jamake Highwater

    Cover clean, crisp, interior is clean with no marks, no underlining or highlighting, binding is tight, a very nice copy throughout__all books are wrapped and padded well__books ship same or next day with order tracking...

  • Passage to Dodge City

    Ray Hogan
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    Passage to Dodge CityWhen Starbuck signed on for the cattle drive from Texas to Dodge, he hadn't counted on the mysterious bushwhacker following his trail with deadly motives. And why? Wasn’t it hard luck enough with dry water holes, treacherou...

  • The Quartzsite Trip

    William Hogan

    In 1962, as Jack Paar leaves the Tonight Show and Richard Nixon abandons politics, P. J. Cooper, an eccentric English teacher, guides a group of high-school seniors on a journey of self-discovery during a vacation jaunt to the desert...

  • Return to Earth

    H.M. Hoover

  • Raider Battalion

    Edwin Palmer Hoyt

  • The Black Sheep Squadron

    Michael Jahn

  • Kingsley's Empire

    Michael Jahn

  • The Ballpark

    William Jaspersohn

  • Lying Low

    Diane Johnson

    A National Book Award finalist, this novel relates the events of four crucial days in the lives of four people sharing a rambling Victorian house, "lying low" and harboring secrets not meant to be shared. Theo Wait, a middle-aged former ballet dancer...

  • The Magicians of Caprona

    Diana Wynne Jones

    An enchanting fantasy by a master of the supernatural Tonino is the only person in the famous Montana household who wasn't born with an instinct for creating spells, but he has other gifts. His ability to communicate with cats just might help defend...

  • I Hate to Talk About Your Mother

    Hettie Jones

  • Early Disorder

    Rebecca Josephs

    Terrified of growing up and confronting her femininity and the prospect of independence, fifteen-year-old Willa Rahv, the sensitive daughter of an artistic, affluent Manhattan couple, embarks on a desperate course of selfstarvation...

  • My Lady Quixote

    Phyllis Ann Karr

    This merry tale of love, adventure, and deception plays out the tangled romance of pretty young Deirdre Chevington, who is engaged to one man and hopelessly in love with another. When Deirdre's lovely and clever aunt, Cassandra, decides to take a ...

  • Starting Out in the Thirties

    Alfred Kazin

  • The Olympic Sleeper

    Bil Keane

  • The Arranged Marriage

    Flora Kidd

    Leon was just a familiar stranger Roselle's marriage to Leon five years earlier had had a bizarre beginning. Now, it seemed, it would have an equally strange end. Her visit to Leon's vineyard in southern France was merely to ask him for...

  • The Monitor, the Miners and the Shree

    Lee Killough

    ROUTINE MISSION The team from the Department of Surveys and Charters wasn't anticipating anything special on Nira. DSC policy called for periodic studies of developing races on proscripted worlds, and it was merely time for another look at the win...

  • Save Me a Seat

    Rhea Kohan

  • Whispers

    Dean Koontz

    HE IS BACK Hilary Thomas knew terror as a child, but never anything like this. HE IS BACK She is beautiful, successful, a Hollywood writer living alone. And she is being stalked. HE IS BACK He is hunting her with a sick desire more ter...

  • Who Killed Christopher?

    Irina Korschunow

  • Storm Centre

    Charlotte Lamb

    She couldn't refuse a dying man's wish It took just one phone call to shatter Lauren's peace. A peace painfully acquired through the years since her bitter divorce from Andreas Keralides. His mother's frantic phone call was inte...

  • Earthblood

    Keith Laumer

    "An epic novel of humanity pushed to the brink of existence–and fighting back with a dash of grit and a sense of humor by Bolo and Retief series creator Keith Laumer and Rosel George Brown. Also includes the complete Laumer and Brown Niss unive...

  • The Best Laid Schemes

    Joyce Lee

    She couldn't compete with her dazzling older sister, Lorna, so Kate Ashworth agreed to go to London as companion to her cousin Serena, daughter of the Countess of Deverill. There she would devote herself dutifully to transforming the colorless Se...

  • Sabella

    Tanith Lee

    DRACULA? A mere figment of superstition, a thing that could not exist. SABELLA? A very real person, an enticing girl of flesh and warmth -- who detested the sunlight, who required the blood of young men to feed upon, who was all that Dracula was sa...

  • Love Match

    Roberta Leigh

    Beautiful Suzy Bedford was a serious journalist working on the biggest story of her career. She had no intention of falling into a brief affair with handsome Craig Dickson, a world champion athlete, even though he was the most charming man she had ev...

  • Wine of the Dreamers

    Susannah Leigh

    LOVE'S MYSTERIOUS MIRROR Meryt was a prized young beauty in the Egypt of the Pharaohs, whose life turned into a nightmare when she became a pawn in a royal game of ruthless politics and hideous passions. Aimee was a lovely, sheltered young lady...

  • Creator

    Jeremy Leven

    MEET THE CREATOR… Nobel Prize-winning biologist Dr. Harry Wolper, father of his own blackmailer, lover of a lustful 19 year old, and cloner of his late wife -- hovering on the brink of the secret of life .. . AND HIS MOST OUT-OF-CONTROL CREATION...

  • The Regulars

    Stephen Lewis

  • Love's a Stage

    Laura London

    She was a damsel in distress, rescued by a brash golden-haired stranger she knew only as David. Frances Atherton, a country parson's daughter, had a lot to learn about London's wicked city ways. But nothing, not even David's sinful charms...

  • Memory of Megan

    Marc Lovell

    Peace...and quiet...and sudden death... With a career on the skids and a nervous breakdown too close behind her, actress Stella Grifith needed a refuge, where she could hide from Hollywood and from Sam Cullen, her devoted, long-time boyfriend. Sur...

  • The Shadow Spy

    Nicholas Luard

    Blackmailed by British Intelligence, a down-and-out loner living in a London flophouse is coerced into assuming the identity of a man who never existed and into entering the world of international intrigue...

  • Runaway Road

    Stan Mack

  • Stolen Inheritance

    Anne Madden

    Deborah had been duly warned... Lord Mulgarth was incapable of lasting affection. Deborah must be careful not to fall prey to his charms. Of course he wanted her -- but in a way she could never allow. But she was extremely young and innocent ...

  • A New Life

    Bernard Malamud

    "An overlooked masterpiece. It may still be undervalued as Malamud's funniest and most embracing novel." --Jonathan Lethem In A New Life, Bernard Malamud--generally thought of as a distinctly New York writer--took on the American myth of the West as ...

  • Dingley Falls

    Michael Malone

    In the sleepy town of Dingley Falls, Connecticut, something funny is going on. Strange forces are pulling together the oddest of couples: a mild-mannered matron and a lascivious avant-garde poet; a sleek headmaster and a shy young curate; a hippie li...

  • The Long-Haired Boy

    Christopher Matthew

  • Name of a Shadow

    Ann Maxwell

    Planet With No Tomorrows Its landscapes are washed by waterfalls of prismatic colors; its lush plains-covered with turquoise aphrodisiac flowers. But soon there will be no flowers, no lovers, no tomorrows. The planet Malia has violated the Sole...

  • In the Desert

    Karl May / Karl Friedrich May

  • Rabbit Tales

    Eric McCormack

  • The Chinese Ultimatum

    Edward McGhee

  • Soldiers of Forty-Four

    William P. McGivern

    Sergeant Buell Docker and his fifteen-man mobile gun unit face some uncomfortable moments and decisions during the German Ardennes counteroffensive in December 1944, and Docker faces them again, months later, before a hostile board of old-line office...

  • Lookng for a Friend

    Rod McKuen

  • Anton B. Stanton and the Pirates

    Colin McNaughton

  • Cheyenne Manhunt

    Lester W. Merha

  • Beast and Man

    Mary Midgley

    Philosophers have traditionally concentrated on the qualities that make human beings different from other species. In Beast and Man Mary Midgley, one of our foremost intellectuals, stresses continuities. What makes people tick? Largely, she asserts, ...

  • The Destroyers

    A.W. Miller

  • The Love Pirate

    Paula Moore

    A WOMAN'S BODY, A BUCCANEER'S SOUL! From the savage shores of Ireland to the South Carolina wilderness, Sheena O'Sheel followed the father that she loved and the brother that she feared. But, even in America, living a life of privilege and opulen...

  • The Rail Rogues

    Glebe Morgan

    After the bloody shootout at the railroad, troubleshooter Slade Hollister thought his work was over. But the prisoners were on the loose again, led by the murderous giant Bull Seymour. Then Slade found himself with a passel of enemies with just one p...

  • Who's There?

    Bruno Munari

  • Valley of the Broken Cherry Trees

    Lensey Namioka

  • Last April Fair

    Betty Neels

    The job came along at the perfect time. Phyllida was overjoyed. Her job as nurse-companion was taking her and her patient to the Canary Islands...and away from her persistent ex-boyfriend Philip. But the trip was a disaster, and if not for the ...

  • The Patchwork Girl

    Larry Niven

    ONLY ONE PERSON COULD HAVE BEEN ON THE LUNAR SURFACE... Her name is Naomi Mitchison. She's the most beautiful woman on the Moon; she was also the only person who was outside on the lunar surface at the right moment to send a near-fatal laser beam int...

  • 209 Thriller Road

    Sam North

    Sam North's occupation involves him in writing books that make the Novel Shop's customers major characters in their own fantasy novels, and his life grows increasingly dangerous when the Novel Shop's first customer dies under suspicious circumstances...

  • Black Ivory

    Saliee O'Brien

    USED FOR PLEASURE SOLD FOR A PRICE Ravished by her jailor...sold naked at the slave market...forced to flee for her life and her honor...the radiant, pale-skinned Hester was destined to suffer heartbreak and outrage because her parents were slaves...

  • McElroy

    M.R. O'Connell

    Fiction. A very good hardcover copy. Light edge fading. Tight binding. Clean, unmarked pages. Good jacket; creased flaps; light fading with a bit of soiling. NOT ex-library. 445pg. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0393013588...

  • Pippa

    Megan O'Connor

    She was a willful girl, fleeing Ayleworth Hall, stern Aunt Emma, and her guardian, who was to arrive that very day with an eligible suitor in tow. Pippa would not be sold off, like baggage, to the highest bidder! But she did not get far before Lord A...

  • Ruthana

    Margaret E.Nettles Ogan

    They called her Ice Maiden and the name fit. With her classic blonde good looks and aloof air, she was a natural as a model. Ruthana Franklin was determined to make it on her own in Manhattan's glamor jungle. Without tricks. Perhaps that was why ...

  • Little Darlings

    Sonia Pilcer

  • Random Winds

    Belva Plain

    From a quiet turn-of-the-century village in upstate New York to elegant house parties in the English countryside ... from the bedsides of the rural poor to the frenetic emergency room of a Manhattan hospital... from war-torn London to luxurious lover...

  • The Kissing Gourami

    Kin Platt

    Max Roper is compelled to use all of his resources to stay alive long enough to last through the mystery of The Kissing Gourami. What starts out a fairly simple and even downgrading assignment, quickly becomes an obsessive search for a brutal killer,...

  • It's only rock and roll

    Bruce Pollock

  • Islands

    Marta Randall

    Nebula Award Finalist. She will never be one of them. When the immortality treatments failed, she knew her destiny would not be as glorious and carefree as the immortals. The immortals rebuilt the Earth after the great floods, but she is not one of t...

  • Bouquets for Brimble

    J.P. Reading

  • The Contaminant

    Leonard Reiffel

  • Trucks and Supertrucks

    Norman Richards

  • Silver Jasmine

    Janet Louise Roberts

    They called her Silver Jasmine Slender as a reed, and as ready as a fawn to flee at a man's touch ...yet seventeen-year-old Tess had mettle too, though it could not prevent her cruel stepfather from gambling away her honor in a card game -- or Morga...

  • Come Home to Love

    Paula Roberts

    CRISIS OF THE HEART "I Need a wife," Matthew Martin stated flatly, "a woman to run my home, be my hostess and, of course, share my bed." At any other time, Katherine would have refused such an impersonal offer. But she was forty years old, a widow, ...

  • Gamble With Death

    Liliane Robin

    She sat up in stark terror... ... as she remembered Claude's words: "A lethal poison that leaves no trace ... the victim dies after a few hours." Claude's sister had died that way.... Lisa had to know if the vial that held the ancient poison wa...

  • My Dear Jenny

    Madeleine Robins

    Jenny was not a beauty, but there was something about her that drew the enigmatic Peter Teverley. From the moment they met at the inn--where they suddenly discovered themselves embroiled in Emily Pellering's mysterious elopement -- Jenny found...

  • Firefighters

    Nancy K. Robinson

  • The Best of All Possible Worlds

    Spider Robinson

  • Walking Shoes

    Anne Rockwell

  • Oregon!

    Dana Fuller Ross

    WAGONS WEST Perilous snow-crowned peaks and silver rivers swollen to devouring torrents. Indian massacres. Foreign saboteurs. Three mighty nations clash on the fertile shores of the Pacific as America's first wagon train rides into the heart of cris...

  • The War Lord

    Barry Sadler

    Casca Longinus. Cursed by Christ on Golgotha. Condemned to outlive the ages and wander the globe a constant soldier. Forever fighting, surviving, waiting for Him to return. Travelling toward the rising sun, to the land of the Great Wall, Casca fin...

  • Dawn Wind

    Christina Savage

    High above the craggy coast of Maine stood Dawn Wind, home of the Blackheath clan, a proud New England dynasty as rugged and fierce as the stormswept seas it ruled. Now, despite ominous rumors of war the Blackheaths have gathered to celebrate thei...

  • Home Alone

    Eleanor Schick

  • The Gold Crew

    Thomas N. Scortia

    The nuclear submarine Alaska is sent on patrol with its radio rigged to receive prerecorded messages that will prompt its crew to fire dummy nuclear missiles in retaliation for a Soviet attack--but something goes wrong...

  • Man, Woman, and Child

    Erich Segal

    From Erich Segal comes an unforgettable story of love: the drama of a father and the son he never knew . . . and a marriage that must stand the greatest test of all.

    Bob and Sheila Beckwith had everything: rewarding careers, two wonderful da...

  • The Web Between the Worlds

    Charles Sheffield

    Rob Merlyn was the best engineer who had ever lived. That was why Darius Regulo, "The King of Space," had to have Rob for the most spectacular construction project in the history of the human race--even though Rob was a potentially fatal threat to Da...

  • Tender Is the Touch

    Anne Shore

    For Fleur, it was just the big break she needed. Fresh out of design school, she'd landed a dream assignment. For one month she'd study Mayan ruins in the exotic Yucatan, then she'd be off to her first showing of original fashions--by Fle...

  • Trouble Country

    Luke Short

    Sam Dana left off prospecting and went home to the Bar D. The spread wasn't being worked and a crew of hardcases hired by his brother Walt was guarding the place. Then word got out that Walt was selling stolen beef. Sam wasn't involved -- he could ha...

  • Fair Warning

    George Simpson

    America is set to finally end World War II with a devastating act--dropping the atomic bomb over Japan. But what if a secret mission was set in place to alter the course of history? In this fast-paced and imaginative thriller, the authors strike a br...

  • Carbonel and Calidor

    Barbara Sleigh

    “There are many kinds of magic…and once magic is in your blood it attracts more magic,” says the royal cat Carbonel at the start of Carbonel and Calidor. Sure enough, Carbonel’s human friends Rosemary and John soon encounter magic in the ...

  • Glitter and Ash

    Dennis Smith

  • Aurora

    Joan Smith

    Is the handsome, dashing man Aurora meets so unexpectedly in the woods really the long-lost Lord Kenelm Raiher? Or is he actually Kenelm's illegitimate half-brother, posing as the baron? Aurora, captivated in spite of herself, is determined to le...

  • The Gone Man

    Brad Solomon

  • The Candlesticks and the Cross

    Ruth Freeman Solomon

    The Russia of the Romanovs lies in the throes of death. Amidst the terror of the violence-ridden land, Boris Pirov -- golden Tartar, fabled hero, defender of Mother Russia -- has fallen in love with a beautiful, forbidden Jewess. Boris’ strength wi...

  • Two Lives, Two Lands

    Ruth Freeman Solomon

  • Last Night at the Brain Thieves Ball

    Scott Spencer

    A scientist is lured into a dark conspiracy in “the most frightening book since 1984,” by the New York Times–bestselling author of Man in the Woods (Library Journal). Paul Galambos is an ordinary professor of psychology, struggling ...

  • High Garth

    Mira Stables

    The last thing Ann Beverly expected when she left the home of her rich stepfather to earn her own living was to work as a housekeeper on a farm. But she soon came to love the Yorkshire countryside and was grateful for the kindness of Patrick, her emp...

  • Crying Wind

    Linda Stafford

  • The Empire Strikes Back

    Shep Steneman

  • Charade

    Peter Stone

  • Traders Cay

    Rebecca Stratton

    Her resolve to stay would not weaken As coheir to the lovely Caribbean island, Trader's Cay, Francesca Dale was determined to stay and fight for her rights. She was willing to share and share alike with the other heir, Antonio Morales, in s...

  • The Demon Count's Daughter

    Anne Stuart

    Young and free-spirited, Luciana longed to escape the superficial glitter of London and embrace the romance of Venice as her mother had done twenty years before. Now, like an irresistible enchantment, the Great City of Canals beckoned the tall, raven...

  • Freedom's Flame

    Dee Stuart

    The tumultuous saga of the American Revolution, of an infant nation swept up in the desperate struggle to free itself from England's bitter rule...A blazing novel of romance, intrigue, and danger...The story of Janine Mercer, a bold Philadelphia beau...

  • Romance in the Headlines

    Mary Ann Taylor
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    Falling in love with the publisher was not part of her assignment... TREACHERY OF THE HEART Pretty young Casey Dolan had been running the Berwick Courier ever since her uncle had become ill. When he was forced to sell the family newspaper to s...

  • The Harder They Come

    Michael Thelwell

    Like the acclaimed film of the same title, this lyrical, lilting, densely textured novel is based on the exploits of the legendary Jamaican folk hero and reggae star Rhygin. With passion and precision, Michael Thelwell recounts Rhyginââ,¬â"˘s journe...

  • Snow Falcon

    Craig Thomas

    New York Timesâ€"Bestselling Author: A suddenly uninhabited Finnish village sparks a mystery -- and foreshadows an epic threat . . .   An international agreement to slow the arms race is in the works, but not everyone is happy abo...

  • The Creatures

    John Rowe Townsend

    In search of a less restrictive way to live, two young people break away from their colony of Persons on the planet Earth, become involved with the inferior Creatures who inhabit Earth, and are thrust into the forefront of a revolution....

  • Chesapeake Cavalier

    Don tracy

  • Lucy

    Jennie Tremaine

    She was a lady's maid who longed to be a lady. How else could Lucy Balfour hope to win the favor of Andrew, Viscount Harvey, the toast of the town, who seemed ready to take a bride at last? There was only one way to command his attention, and it ...

  • The Ants

    Peter Tremayne

  • The Housewife and the Assassin

    Susan Trott

    Augusta Gray's decision to write an international jogging book carries her to San Francisco, the scene of her first extramarital affair, and her life is placed in jeopardy by her relationship with a new running companion who happens to be a high-pric...

  • The Terra Data

    E.C. Tubb

    Only Earl Dumarest himself believed that there was ever a planet called Earth. He had been seeking it a long time -- but nobody else at the crowded galactic centre believed in it. During his quest he had acquired some bits of information -- a Terrest...

  • Follow the Drum

    Judy Turner

    She listened, horrified, as her cousin spoke "It's true," Elmira warned. "Father is going to insist you marry the Earl of Chacewater. If you refuse he'll send you away!" Barbara's young heart twisted with anguish. To...

  • The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph

    Jack Vance

    Magnus Ridolph, at first glance, did not look like an interstellar troubleshooter. He was not tall and muscular, his skin had not been turned to a rugged color of bronze by the numerous distant suns he had visited, and his voice and manner seemed far...

  • House of Doom, House of Desire

    Sharon Wagner

    It was already dark when Olivia arrived at Dane House, the huge, ominous estate where her college roommate Amanda lived. Since she was summoned to the manor by Amanda's urgent and mysterious note, it seemed strange that her friend was not there to gr...

  • Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman

    Michele Wallace

    In her analysis of the sexual dynamics of the transition from civil rights to black liberation, Wallace charges that black leadership has defined itself in sexual rather than political or economic terms...