Books Published in April 1985

New Books List: 393 titles

  • Yum Yum Slot Book

    Janet Ahlberg

  • Warrior Caste

    James Albany

    Following Hitler's directives, a crack SS unit moves into St. Felice, France, to capture and English fugitive, while Lieutenant Deacon and Sergeant Campbell desperately attempt to deliver the fugitive from the German gauntlet of death...

  • Holiday Tales of Sholem Aleichem

    Sholem Aleichem

  • The Lady Anne

    Elizabeth Evelyn Allen

    All This For Love... She was tall and lovely, a brilliant horsewoman, scholar, and businesswoman born of noble blood traceable to the English throne. Even so, her loving father and aunt had to offer a large dowry to secure to the spirited young gi...

  • House of the Spirits

    Isabel Allende

    Here, in an astonishing debut by a gifted storyteller, is the magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave...

  • Birthright

    Joseph Amiel

    Deborah de Kronengold discovers, upon the deaths of her mother and grandfather, that she is adopted, is turned out by her malevolent father, and moves to New York to build a financial empire that will destroy her father...

  • Hungry Men

    Edward Anderson

    Hungry Men, first published in 1935, is a Depression-era novel portraying an unemployed musician, Acel Strecker, who travels America as a hobo, taking odd-jobs when he can, and begging for food when he can’t. His experiences, both good and bad, pai...

  • The Only Daughter

    Jessica Anderson

  • Are We There Yet?

    Wendy Andrews

  • Anno's Hat Tricks

    Mitsumasa Anno

  • The Retreat

    Aharon Appelfeld

    The year is 1937. On a remote hilltop some distance from Vienna stands a hotel called The Retreat. Founded by a man who is determined to cleanse himself and his guests of all "Jewish traits," it is a resort of assimilation, with daily activities that...

  • Bear Shadow

    Frank Asch

  • The Apostle

    Sholem Asch

    Asch's next great trilogy (after Three Cities) dealt with the founders of Christianity & was comprised of The Nazarene (1939) The Apostle (1943) and Mary (1949). They were enthusiastically received by the English-language press, but not by the Yiddis...

  • Consider the Evidence

    Jeffrey Ashford

  • Applegate's Gold

    Todhunter Ballard

  • Lion's Fire

    Wade Barker

    Living amid the violence of the West Bank, Brett Wallace, the American Ninja master, joins forces with a beautiful Israeli police inspector to stop a series of maniacal killings that threaten to engulf the region in a nuclear holocaust...

  • Fling

    Pamela Beck

    A thirty-two-year old wife and mother of two, yearns to have a fling and finds her dreams fulfilled when two of her friends surprise her with an unusual birthday gift--the perfect candidate for a fling...

  • Loving Persuasion

    Emma Bennett

    Danella Jones hated Logan Spencer sight unseen. But business was business, and she couldn't let memories of her best friend's ill-fated romance intrude. She needed Logan's public relations expertise to promote Blaketon Pharmaceuticals without losing ...

  • Nowhere

    Thomas Berger

    Russell Wren is shanghaied into service by an organization alternately called "the Bunch, the Troop, the Pack, the Gang," who bombed his office and sent him off to Saint Sebastian, a small country tucked among the borders of Austria, Germany and Czec...

  • Forbidden World

    David Bischoff

  • Outsmarted

    Cassandra Bishop

    TOO SMART FOR HIS OWN GOOD .. . That was Will Hawkins, cowboy cum actor cum adman, and Theodora "Ted" Prescott intended to take him down a peg. Who did this hotshot cowpuncher think he was, trespassing on her turf as chief copywriter just because...

  • Stolen Thunder

    Natalie Bishop

    As assistant to the head of Victory Pictures, Jillian Welles was used to sticky situations. But Australian superstar Tristan Kincaid spelled trouble. His demands were as famous around Hollywood as his arrogant, sensual face. With one tragic marria...

  • Arizona Bride

    Rosanne Bittner

    SOUTHERN VIXEN When he gazed into Shannon Fitzgerald's emerald eyes, Bryce Edwards was lost in their shimmering green depths. Instantly the Army captain felt afire with desire and he resolved not to leave the Virginia belle until she completely su...

  • The Last Word

    Susan Blake

    Shelby loves to argue and always has to have the final word - at least that's what her boyfriend, Tom, says when he breaks up with her. When Shelby goes to summer camp, she begins to think that Tom may be right: everything she says gets her in troubl...

  • A Soldier's Legacy

    Heinrich Boll

  • The Impatient Blossom

    Rachel Bonner

  • Gammon

    Steven Bosak

  • The Gentle Infantryman

    William Young Boyd

  • At Nightfall

    Joan Bramsch

    It began as an eating contest between lovers, and before a winner was declared, barbecue sauce was everywhere! Suddenly Billy Theodore found herself under attack by a laughing Matthew Duncan, who seemed determined to rid her of her clothes! Billy had...

  • Mattie Silks

    Matt Braun

  • Flirting With Danger

    Joanne Bremer

    It was a mission impossible. Ever since a tragic accident had cost the lives of friends in the Himalayas, photographer Kate Muldoon had been unable to snap the shutter. Yet her editor at Earth History magazine insisted. Her subject: Dr. Sam Connery. ...

  • Long Way from Home

    Laurey Bright

    CAUGHT IN HER OWN TRAP ... Nicola Grey had told the lie only to soothe her battered ego. She had never expected it to get back to Jethro Vallance, the enigmatic man she had met on a cruise and whom she had claimed was the new love in her life. ...

  • An Old Scandal

    Caroline Brooks

    The Lady and the Thief Lady Leonora Ware knew the name of Lord Umberto all too well. Not only was this dashing blue blood a legendary rake even among the most scandalous circles of society, he was also the man who had slain young Leonora's husba...

  • Cambodian Hellhole

    Jack Buchanan

  • At Long Last Love

    Carole Buck

    For women of all ages, Chris Cooper's lean physique and knee-weakening charm inspire wanton lust. But Chris is Allie Douglas's boss, her buddy...not her lover. Why, then, has she begun to watch him with breathtaking intensity, burning wheneve...

  • The Snow Gods

    Herbert Burkholz

    Anton Prinz betrays his brother and journeys to America, and the two branches of the family--Austrian Prinzes and American Princes--compete through three generations to rule the world's ski business and ski slopes...

  • Jangle Twang

    John Burningham

    Illustrations of a boy playing musical instruments while a teddy bear dances are captioned with the words for the sounds the boy makes, such as boom, clash, scrape, and blare. Designed to provide an introduction to reading....

  • Women's Rites

    Beverly Byrne

    In the Boston suburb of Revere in the 1960’s, they are high school “Best Friends. “ “Barbie Korman, beautiful, insecure, and Jewish, becomes a model after graduation. Maria Trapetti, intense, brilliant, and molded by her Italian Catholic heri...

  • All the Days to Come

    Jo Calloway

    Stress psychologist Katherine Parrish often met resistance and resentment toward her work. But in renowned textile executive Phillip Holloman, she knew she faced her ultimate challenge. Driven, magnetic, he seduced her with his charm even as he resis...

  • Harriet and William and the Terrible Creature

    Valerie Scho Carey

  • The Mystery of the Hidden Trap

    Dale Bick Carlson

  • The Return of the Gypsy

    Philippa Carr

    EVERY WOMAN FOUND HIM IRRESISTIBLE. BUT ONLY ONE COULD WIN HIS HEART... He was Romany Jake, darkly handsome, mysterious, and very much the gentleman, even in his gypsy camp. To the pretty impressionable Jessica Frenshaw, he was so much more glam...

  • Stay Away from Simon!

    Carol Carrick

  • The Wild Ones

    A. Bertram Chandler

    They called the robomaid "Clockwork Kitty" until she informed them of her right name. She was a triumph of Japan's far-future robotics industry and she was a present to John Grimes as he set out aboard Sister Sue for a voyage to the planet called New...

  • Liar's Dice

    Conn Alan Charles

  • Love's Other Language

    Maggi Charles

    HIDDEN TRUTHS... All Penny Baldwin wanted was to clear up the mystery surrounding her friend Marita's death. Instead, she found herself enmeshed in a growing web of intrigue. In the closed -- and dangerous -- environment of international diplomacy...

  • No Last Song

    Ann Charlton

    She had made the wrong impression from the start Briony couldn't blame Sydney-tycoon Stanford Barron for being surprised when she began working as his aunt's gardener. After all, the last time he'd seen her she'd been the lead guit...

  • The Witch and Other Stories

    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

    Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - IT was approaching nightfall. The sexton, Savely Gykin, was lying in his huge bed in t...

  • The Supercharged Infield

    Matt Christopher

    Something strange is happening to the Hawks' infield.... Third baseman Penny Farrell is amazed by the sudden change in her teammates on the Hawks softball team. First Shari, and now Karen, have suddenly turned into super athletes -- just what her ...

  • Three Women

    Brenda Clarke

  • Starring First Grade

    Miriam Cohen

    Paul plays the part Jim wanted in the First Grade's production of The Three Billy Goats Gruff. On the night of the play Paul is struck with stage fright and with some discreet prompting Jim saves the play! The engaging group of multiracial children a...

  • A Fragile Love

    Hila Colman

  • Tog the Ribber Granny's Tales

    Paul Coltman

  • Captive Heart

    Phoebe Conn

    BOUND BY PLEASURE Celiese, the lovely slave girl, gasped when her betrothed emerged from the shadows. She had been secretly sent in her mistress's place to wed the much-feared Mylan. But instead of the cruel savage she had expected, he was a magni...

  • Gods, the Little Guys, and the Police

    Humberto Constantini

  • Passage at Arms

    Glen Cook

    The ongoing war between Humanity and the Ulat is a battle of attrition that humanity is unfortunately losing. However, humans have the advantage of trans-hyperdrive technology, which allows their climber fleet, under very narrow and strenuous conditi...

  • White Rose

    Glen Cook

    She is the last hope of good in the war against the evil sorceress known as the Lady. From a secret base on the Plains of Fear, where even the Lady hesitates to go, the Black Company, once in service to the Lady, now fights to bring victory to the Wh...

  • Valor in the Sky

    Lawrence Cortesi

  • Waltz Across Texas

    Max Crawford

  • Charade

    Evelyn A. Crowe

    PROTECTING HIM WAS THE EASY PART Kane Stone lived a life filled with danger and adventure -- just the man for Shasta Masterson. Assigning herself as his bodyguard brought her the excitement she thrived on, but the real challenge turned out to be ...

  • Comprador

    David Cudlip

    Ruston Culhane is a tough, shrewd American trader in the international commodities market with a bold plan to rescue a failing dollar before he and his country are both in ruins. His scheme, the most gigantic manipulation in trading history, jets him...

  • One-Man Army

    John Cutter

    Jack Sullivan learns that a murderous mastermind named Legion has hired a small army of street thugs to terorize, vandalize and force innocent tenants out of their apartments to created a dope and prostitution headquarters. The Specialist jumps at th...

  • Solomon Moon

    Bill Darrid

  • The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction

    Ellen Datlow

  • A Touch of Scandal

    Leslie Davis

    PASSION'S SECRETS Boston socialite Piper McLean found her life shattered by the scandal surrounding her wealthy husband's fatal accident ... for that tragic crash also claimed the life of a mysterious woman: his mistress. Devastated and al...

  • The Prick of Noon

    Peter De Vries

  • Death and the Mad Heroine

    S.F.X. Dean

  • Winterspring

    Sandy Dengler

    In the Great North Woods She Set Out on an Improbable Quest for Love... Linnet Mcleod -- Deep in her innermost being was a father-shaped void, formed by the man who had abandoned her as an infant. She must find him, if only to find herself... Sim...

  • Near World

    Carl Dennis

  • Lost Lady

    Jude Deveraux

    From England's bawdy wharves to Virginia's elegant mansions, their love was kindled by chance, flamed by passion.... Forsaken by her guardian, scorned by her fiance, ethereal Regan found safety in the strong arms of a stranger. Rough-hewn Travis,...

  • Made in Heaven

    Lily Devoe

  • Miss Armstead Wears Black Gloves

    Marian Devon

    OH, BOTHER! HER FIANCE WAS RETURNED FROM THE DEAD! Of course, he wasn't her real fiance. Miss Frances Armstead had only concocted the spurious engagement as a sop to her uncle, who was insisting that she marry that impossible wag Albert. Fortunate...

  • Dr. Bloodmoney

    Philip K. Dick

    Thermonuclear war has just ravaged the planet leaving only pockets of civilisation. Walt Danger-field, an astronaut, remains in space to broadcast music and culture and organize what is left of this peace-loving post-bomb society peopled by biologica...

  • Saratoga Headhunter

    Stephen Dobyns

    The decapitation of a former jockey hiding out in his house is just the beginning of Charlie Bradshaw's troubles. An old man dies in a fire, murder finds a stable owner, Charlie's Volkswagen is blown to bits. And while tracking down the vicious kille...

  • Many Brave Hearts

    Donald Douglass

  • Active Measures

    David Drake

    In 1999, the Soviets have made one of their own agents president of the U.S.A. and only one man and one woman can save the nation, and readers can win 10,000 dollars by providing correct answers to seven key questions...

  • Tomorrow the Glory

    Shannon Drake

    THE WOMAN She is Kendall Moore -- a spirited southern belle as proud as she is beautiful, driven by a cruel marriage-bed betrayal to risk her life in a dangerous gamble for freedom... THE MAN He is Brent McClain -- the Confederate agent who ...

  • Stanley Elkin's Magic

    Stanley Elkin

  • Friends and Lovers

    Emily Elliott

    He was the best friend she'd ever had -- and they'd never even met! But they'd worked together for three years...Naomi David, a gemologist in New York and Sid Goldman, a jeweler in New Orleans. They'd shared confidences, each had suff...

  • Season of Enchantment

    Emily Elliott

    Debbie Cheong, Chinese translator for the U.S. government, was determined to help her best friend escape Vietnam and join her American fiance. As a reporter, Debbie had already tangled with the notorious mercenary Ben Sako-- and didn't care to do it ...

  • Lone Star and the Moon Trail Feud

    Wesley Ellis

    JESSIE AND KI ANSWER ANOTHER CALL FOR HELP! E.E. Yates has never let anything stand in his way -- and he won't let a little trouble in the Moon Trail Canyon stop him from building his railroad. Bullets are flying and track is being blown into the sk...

  • Only You

    Janet Emerson

  • A Permanent Arrangement

    Laurel Evans

    ABBY HAD TO BE CRAZY to accept Max Grant's offer to run his highly disorganized country inn. But then she found herself looking into his penetrating blue gaze, extricating herself from the claws of his cat, and mindlessly agreeing to whatever he sai...

  • Longarm on the Nevada Line

    Tabor Evans

    Everybody knows that Snake Flat isn't for respectable folks. It's a hideout for sulty women, ruthless and cold blooded killers. Into this den US Marshal long, determined to capture Babe Warner. Babe has given the feds the slip for 8 years and now ...

  • Greek Gods

    Bernard Evslin

  • Limelight

    Terence Feely

  • Black Coral

    Nancy Ferguson

    A KILLER STALKS PARADISE. Here beneath the clear Caribbean waters lie the best scuba sites in the world. Here near this lush green cay is hidden fantastic black coral, a treasure beyond all imagining. Here romance beckons and creas fall away. Here if...

  • Match Wits With the Harvard Mba's

    Tom Fischgrund

  • Open Hands

    Rebecca Flanders

    Cameron knew he could never hold her for long... Jo Ella was like a hummingbird that brought shimmering beauty into his world for a moment then vanished. Over the years, their paths had crossed and recrossed, and though Cam understood Jo Ella's re...

  • Rocky Mountain Vamp

    Dirk Fletcher

    After nursing Kathleen, a woman he found raped, shot, and left for dead by a brutal gang of outlaws, back to health with his special brand of healing, Spur McCoy helps her exact revenge on the outlaws who victimized her, while trying to bring a group...

  • A Call

    Ford Madox Ford

  • North to Thule

    John Frye

  • A Sinless Season

    Damon Galgut

    Scott Berry, Raoul Dean, and Joseph Hamilton, three teenage runaways and vandals sent to Bleda Reformatory, come face to face with violence when one of the three is murdered and the surviving two seek the killer...

  • Mickelsson's Ghost

    John E. Gardner

    The critically acclaimed final masterwork of John Gardner: an American novel haunted with macabre and cerebral elements.

    The final novel by John Gardner, Mickelsson's Ghosts, originally published in 1982 just months before his untimely death in...

  • Point of Honor

    David Gethin

  • Purple Climbing Days

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    What's worse than a blue Monday? For Richard "Beast" Best, it's a purple Monday spent climbing a fat brown rope with fat brown knots. Beast wishes he could climb up that rope like Emily Arrow and Matthew Jackson. Just looking at it hanging down fr...

  • The Mystery of Ura Senke

    Shannon Gilligan

    When a valuable tea bowl is stolen from Ura Senke, the Japanese tea ceremony school, the reader sets out to recover the missing treasure, encountering the vicious Yakuza, kidnappers, and other deadly perils....

  • Ask Me If I Care

    David Gilmour

  • A Death for a Darling

    E.X. Giroux

    Cast, crew, and the lovely Erika Von Farr have taken over a Norfolk family estate to film a remake of Wuthering Heights when murder strikes and dashing barrister Robert Forsythe commences to unravel the mystery...

  • Woman Wanted

    Joanna McClelland Glass

    Woman Wanted is the story of a Boston Irish lass who moves to New Haven to housekeep for a widowed Yale professor and his troubled son.

    "A spunky tale recounted with high good humor," -- Publishers Weekly.

    "A steadily amusing muddle of collisi...

  • Leah's Children

    Gloria Goldreich

    Spanning decades and the globe, the remarkable odysseys of Aaron, Michael, and Rebecca were as compelling as the journey of their renowned mother, Leah. From the courageous struggle of the Hungarian revolution, to the dramatic strife of the civil ...

  • Leahs Journey

    Gloria Golreich

    Winner of the National Jewish Book Award of 1979, this classic novel of love and war is now available in ebook format for the first time! Violence shattered her golden world, and Leah's journey began... It swept her from the burning villages of old R...

  • Jacquelyn

    Jeffie Ross Gordon

    How can she think only of herself in these hard times? Living in Chicago in the 1930s, during the Great Depression, Jacquelyn Penelope Carleton sees poverty and suffering everywhere. But as the daughter of one of the richest families in the city, sh...

  • Island of Dreams

    Lucy Gordon

    NO MAN IS AN ISLAND ... When hard-edged businessman Jarvis Dacre bought Morag Lewis's beloved Scottish birthplace of Brannock Island and promised to begin "improving" it immediately, Morag resolved to do whatever was necessary to protect it. She a...

  • After Things Fell Apart

    Ron Goulart

    The time is a few decades in the future, the place is what used to be the United States of America, now disrupted by internal factionalism as well as a short-living foreign invasion. Out of this chaotic background, Ron Goulart has produced an imagina...

  • Stitch in Time

    John Gould

    The author offers his trenchant observations on the inhabitants of his Maine seacoast village in essays built around such questions as why a town of eight hundred inhabitants should have two churches and the advantages of giving a child a calf to rai...

  • Heart of Gold

    Liz Grady

    Dance Instructor Tess Maxwell has better reason than any woman alive to swear off men for the foreseeable future. What she doesn't foresee is fainting into the powerful arms of her newest pupil -- the endearingly awkward, but drop-dead handsome R...

  • Ain't Misbehaving

    Jeanne Grant

    Tall, dark, and ever so handsome, Mitch Cochran captivates gregarious Kay Sanders like no other man in Moscow, Idaho. He takes the craziest pleasure in doing the simplest things with her -- eating lasagna, playing touch football at midnight, wining a...

  • Life As Carola

    Joan Grant

    The second of Joan Grant's "Far Memory" novels, Life as Carola gives a fascinating glimpse into life in Italy just before the advent of the Renaissance. Through Carola's eyes, we see the beginnings of modern theater, and the tremendous extremes betwe...

  • Return to Elysium

    Joan Grant

    The sixth of Joan Grant's "Far Memory" novels, Return to Elysium is set in the second century BC among the islands of Ancient Greece as well as in Rome before its rise to imperial power. Lucina of Greece was orphaned at a young age and brought up by ...

  • Images

    Ginna Gray

    YOU CAN'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER, but Grant Sloane had Mara Whitcomb, acclaimed artist, read before he'd ever laid eyes on her. Soon, however, her emerald green eyes and fiery red hair added new colors to the inaccurate portrait he had ...

  • Silent Partner

    Judith Greber

    Tired of the constant moves, upheavals, and readjustments, Molly Michael, the wife of a corporate executive, issues an ultimatum--no more moves--a resolution that strains her marriage to the breaking point...

  • Dreams of Joe

    Billie Green

    Everyone in town had plans for Abby Fisher and Joe Gilbraithe -- throwing them together every chance they got -- but no matchmaker could guarantee they'd fall in love. Besides, the ex-pro quarterback had a romantic game plan all his own, and Abby...

  • The Model's Handbook

    Yvonne Greene

  • Ambush for Lassiter

    Loren Zane Grey

    Sentenced to twenty-five years in prison for a murder they did not commit, Lassiter and Borling make a daring break for freedom only to be betrayed, and Lassiter, when he finally makes it out, is determined to quench his thirst for revenge, in a stor...

  • The Heart Of The Rose

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Bronwyn is a kind and resourceful healer, ahead of her time, who cares for her aging father and two young sisters until her father is murdered by the king's men and makes all three orphans. She can entrance a man with her singing voice and the kindne...

  • Help the Poor Struggler

    Martha Grimes

    Around bleak Dartmoor, where the Hound of the Baskervilles once bayed, three children have been brutally murdered. Now Richard Jury of Scotland Yard joins forces with a hot-tempered local constable named Brian Macalvie to track down the killer. T...

  • Yedo

    Lynn Guest

  • The Viper Squad

    J.B. Hadley

    Mike Campbell, a Special Forces veteran, organizes a squadron of mercenaries to travel to El Salvador and rescue a wealthy American businessman's daughter....

  • Captain Maximus

    Barry Hannah

    Presents seven autobiographical short stories together with a screen treatment written for Robert Altman that recounts a dark, weird tale about female hardhats struggling to stay alive in Seattle, Washington...

  • Dream Games

    Karl Hansen

    The Dream Games The only humans left of Earth are aristocratic mortals, doomed to live out their perpetual youth as sex-cultists-lost in the euphoria of the dream game. Meanwhile, the all powerful computer Cybermind commands the galaxy with its army ...

  • Freeze Frame

    Arthur Hansl

    In Hollywood's golden age, she was a superstar. And a superbitch. Worshiped by fans, adored by critics, worth hundreds of millions at the box office. And in private a woman who would let nothing stop her from getting what she desired, whether a partn...

  • The Cochise County War

    J.D. Hardin

  • Lover's Lake

    Elaine Harper

    For some time now, popular and pretty Chrissie had been dying to get Adam Norwood, brightest of the Norwood triplets, to notice her. And now she had the opportunity. She had persuaded her parents to allow her to invite him, his sister and her boy...

  • Love's Good Fortune

    Louise Harris

    Did he care about her enough to marry her? Alicia Carrington knew when she commissioned the boldly innovative artist Dev Rafferty to do her portrait that he wasn't impressed by her money, or anything else about her, for that matter. He was ...

  • Passion's Price

    Barbara Harrison

    Katie Gallagher was a survivor Raised in the stifling poverty of New York's Hell's Kitchen, the golden-haired beauty quickly learned the value of money, the power of wealth, and the secrets of passion. Someday, she would have it all. And as the...

  • The Centauri Device

    M. John Harrison

    John Truck was to outward appearances just another lowlife spaceship captain. But he was also the last of the Centaurans ' or at least, half of him was ' which meant that he was the only person who could operate the Centauri Device, a sentient bomb w...

  • Honor's Fury

    Fiona Harrowe

    Amelie Townsend is the lovely golden-haired Southerner, a girl as loyal to the Confederate cause as she is to Thaddeus Warner, her childhood sweetheart.... Damon Fowler is the dashing, sexy Yankee who disrupts her very life and awakens delicious...

  • Mad Book of Revenge

    Stan Hart

  • One Last Mirror

    Andres Harvey

  • Texas Temptress

    Jean Haught

    NAKED FURY When honey-haired Jennifer Stewart awoke beside a half-dressed stranger, she bolted from bed and grabbed a gun. But as she sighted his heart in the rifle's crosshairs, the sensuous beauty couldn't help but notice his wide, powerfu...

  • Leadfire

    Steven F. Havill

  • The Mystery of the Pirate Ghost

    Geoffrey Hayes

  • Mad Masquerade

    Barbara Hazard

    THE UNHEAVENLY HONEYMOON John Haverfield, the Marquess of Vare, was in no hurry to take a wife--and certainly not one like the tomboyish, outrageously independent, thoroughly intractable young Lady Laura Lockridge. For her part, Laura wanted n...

  • The Wildcliffe Bird

    Constance Heaven

    The bohemian existance of Juliet and her father in 19th century Paris is abruptly ended one tragic night by a wrecklessly driven carriage. Juliet, left penniless, seeks refuge with her aunt and uncle and receives an offer of employment from Sybil Cha...

  • The Pearl

    Helme Heine

    Beaver's excitement at finding a mussel that doubtless contains a pearl is tempered by the realization that such a treasure could stir the greed of his friends, causing a chain of environmentally disastrous events....

  • Report from the Besieged City and Other Poems

    Zbigniew Herbert

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is an English writer (a doctor by training) of Irish origin, the author of numerous adventure, historical, journalistic, fantastic and humorous works. The creator of the classic characters of detective, science fiction and hist...

  • A Solitary Secret

    Patricia Hermes

  • You Know What Is Right

    Jim Heynen

  • Testament of Casper Schultz

    Jack Higgins

  • The Love Thing

    Burt Hirschfeld

  • Fortune's Daughter

    Alice Hoffman

    "This novel's great strength lies in its two heroines, who both find themselves drawn, without plans, hopes or full understanding, into the inevitably mythological process of pregnancy and childbirth....It is beautifully and matter-of-factly told."

  • The Rawhiders

    Ray Hogan

  • Temporary Wife

    Samantha Holder

    WEDDED TO AN EARL Paige's emerald eyes danced merrily when she imagined how the ton would receive that bit of news. For though a lovely lady of quality, Paige was hardly a la mode. Everyone knew she had turned down the offers of three Seasons ...

  • People of Illusion

    Geoffrey Holiday

  • The Tiger in the Tiger Pit

    Janette Turner Hospital

    In this powerfully dramatic saga, a mother works to reunite her children with their ailing tyrannical father and with each other. Her son is a psychiatrist, one daughter is tragically schizophrenic, the other a free-spirited concert violinist whose y...

  • Mountain Lamb

    Bill Hotchkiss

    Mountain Lamb, the most beautiful Indian woman of the Wind River Range, defies her tribe when she falls for Joe Meek, the Bear Killer, a mountain man and trapper, but their love is threatened by growing violence between the Indians and the white sett...

  • Tears of the Renegade

    Linda Howard

    BLACK SHEEP'S RETURN... The world stopped for Susan Blackstone when she looked across the crowded room and saw the stranger, and then her heart stopped when she learned his name. He was Cord Blackstone, the family black sheep, and her own cousin b...

  • Sarah's Child

    Linda Howard

    Sarah Harper had loved Rome Matthews silently for years. She had seen him marry her best friend, then lose his wife and sons in a tragic accident. When, years later, he turned to her for comfort and made her his wife, she felt that her world was at l...

  • Mayfair Rebel

    Beverley Hughesdon

  • Crossfire

    H. Edward Hunsburger

    Matt Cordell becomes embroiled with vicious outlaws, robbery, divided loyalties, old loves, and murder in the untamed town of Benson, Arizona, when an eastern society widow hires to find her kidnapped son...

  • The Adventures of Ali Baba Bernstein

    Johanna Hurwitz

    Eight-year-old David Bernstein discovers life is much more exciting when he calls himself Ali Baba Bernstein. Only Ali Baba would have dared to grab the class snail and escape to the boys' room for his own magic experiment. David would never have inv...

  • Two Crimes

    Jorge Ibarguengoitia

  • The Stranger Prince

    Margaret Irwin

  • I See

    Rachel Isadora

  • A Dangerous Precedent

    Lisa Jackson

    Kirsten McQueen's life had become on giant headline: "NEWSWOMAN SUES STATION FOR AGE DISCRIMINATION!" She had won the first round, but the network brought in its secret weapon for round two: Dane Ferguson, a high-powered attorney with...

  • Worlds Apart

    Kristin James

    NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET For Jessica Todd life meant the pressures of too much work and too little sleep. One day her body told her it was time for a vacation, but she never doubted that she would soon return to her high-powered world. Kyle M...

  • The Mysterious Cure, and Other Stories of Pshrinks Anonymous

    J.O. Jeppson

    This first collection of Jeppson's Pshrinks Anonymous stories features the reports of Manhattan psychiatrists, shared at a monthly professional meeting, about their patients' encounters with aliens, sentient computers, and time warps...

  • Fix-Up Service

    McClure Jones

    Nicky Russell's matchmaking talents are in demand by everyone in the ninth grade and even get her a nomination for class president, until a disgruntled Jill Powers interferes with Nicky's rise to the top...

  • What I Know About Boys

    McClure Jones

    Because she always had the answers, the girls from the dorm came to Greta for advice and support in matters of the heart. She knew everything about boys, she told them: how to attract them , how to evaluate them , which ones to date. Hadn’t she ...

  • New Adventures of Conan

    Robert Jordan

  • Out of the Shadows

    Janet Joyce

    THE SHADOW KNOWS When mild-mannered reporter Michael Hamilton created fictional hard-driving, hard-boiled detective Mack Dawson, he didn't know how hard it was going to be on him. When Mack's fictional adventures came too close to fact for...

  • Does Anyone Here Know the Way to Thirteen?

    Stephen Kaufman

  • The Celibates

    James Kavanaugh

  • Home at Last

    Barbara Kaye

    FATE KEPT THEM FREE FOR EACH OTHER Leah Stone was a single mother...but still a wife. In the six years since her husband had vanished, she had accepted her strange role, though she had missed Jim every day of those six years. When Leah met her ...

  • The Heir

    Christopher Keane

  • Love Signs

    M.L. Kennedy

    Have the stars made a terrible mistake? The strangest things are happening to Tracy. And strangest of all is that she always knows they're going to -- her horoscope tells her. She'd been right about so many things, it's eerie. The stars predict ...

  • Hey, Didi Darling

    Stephanie A. Kennedy

  • Dollar Sign on the Muscle

    Kevin Kerrane

    Numerous case histories and profiles of great baseball scouts accompany a discussion of the trade secrets of baseball scouts, the economics of scouting, player development, and the history of the profession...

  • Death Ride

    Leo Kessler

  • Trap

    Tabitha King

  • The Thrill of the Grass

    Thomas Kinsella

  • The Thrill of the Grass

    W.P. Kinsella

    From the author of Shoeless Joe -- the basis for the film Field of Dreams -- come baseball stories that capture the magic and wonder of the game.   No one can write about baseball with the same brilliant combination of mysticism and realism as W...

  • What's Inside: The Alphabet Book

    Satoshi Kitamura

  • Perfect Combination

    Sandra Kitt

    Dale took everything seriously--especially love! Dale Christensen was a visionary, pioneering medical advances that would someday restore happy, normal childhoods to sick and injured children. When Dale decided to take her first break from work, i...

  • Arrival and Departure

    Arthur Koestler

  • Captain Wonder

    Anne Kolaczyk; Ed

    Desperate to elude his pursuing fans, TV hero Captain Wonder, alias Mike Taylor, raced through the parking lot. When two little girls beckoned him into their camper, he dove in and slammed the door in relief! The twins were thrilled to be alone wit...

  • Queenie

    Michael Korda

    The award-winning author of Charmed Lives brings readers into the seductive and beguiling story of how being wrongfully accused of a crime led to a life of stardom in London for Dawn Avalon.Facing accusations for a crime she did not commit, Dawn Aval...

  • Widows II

    Lynda La Plante

    A novel which formed the basis of a Thames Television series. Four women hold up an armed security wagon and make their escape to Rio, leaving the bulk of the cash hidden in London. They are free and ready to start a new life, but the shadow of a man...

  • The Rivard House

    Edwin Lambirth

    From the floorboards to the rafters, the house reeked of Death. Josh Chronicle was a special breed of freelance investigator. He thrived on walking a tightrope between life and death. When a series of brutal murders took place in the abandoned Rivard...

  • Promise Me Rainbows

    Joan Lancaster

    Nora Flynn collects strays--but never the likes of affable hunk Alec Knowles. Nevertheless, she reluctantly helps him out one rainy night, invites him to her animal-adoption party ... and abandons herself to his glorious seduction! Preoccupied wit...

  • Pandora's Genes

    Kathryn Lance

  • The Gadget Factor

    Sandy Landsman

  • Ghost Island

    Carolyn Lane

  • The Artful Dodger

    Tommy Lasorda

    The story of Lasorda's experiences with the Dodgers over more than forty years--as scout, player, coach, and manager--is laced with legendary baseball stories and marked by a unique celebration of the sport...

  • Riddle of the Griffon

    Susan Lawson; Laura Hickman
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  • Comrades

    Paul Leaf

  • Wishing Star

    Alysse Lemery

    Alexa wasn't invincible--she just wanted to be Could one person renovate a rambling old house, manage a Wisconsin tree farm and raise a two-year-old daughter? For Trevor Stevens, the answer was simple: an ordinary person couldn't, but Alexa Santin...

  • Follow the Monsters!

    Sharon Lerner

    Illus. in full color. "Beginning readers can follow the Muppet monsters on their way to Sesame Street through simple vocabulary, large print, colorful monster illustrations, and a snappy text which rhymes."--School Library Journal. ...

  • Dushau

    Jacqueline Lichtenberg

  • Uninvited Ghosts

    Penelope Lively

  • Caverns of the Snow

    Ian Livingstone

    Deep within the Crystal Caves of Icefinger Mountains, the dreaded Snow Witch is plotting to bring on a new Ice Age. A brave trapper dies in your arms and lays the burden of his mission on your shoulders. But time is running out - will YOU take the ch...

  • Small World

    David Lodge

    Veteran rivals for an exclusive academic chair (recently endowed with $100,000 a year) do scholarly battle with each other in what the Washington Post Book World called a "delectable comedy of bad manners . . . infused with a rare creative exuberance...

  • Slocum's Stampede

    Jake Logan

  • Frenchman's Pass

    Warren T. Longtree

  • The Brotherhood of Diablo

    Jack Lovejoy

  • And Brave Men, Too

    Timothy S. Lowry

    Interviews with men who earned the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War recall the horrors and costs of the war, the men and women who died, and the difficulty of returning to a homeland caught up in anti-war fervor...

  • I, Anna

    Elsa Lwein

    After Anna, fifty, divorced, and lonely, is degraded and outraged by George, a man she has met at a singles' party, she kills him, and, in desperation, reaches out to police detective Bernie Bernstein...

  • Monterey

    Jack Lynch