Books Published in August 1984

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — AUGUST 1984

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New Books List: 370 titles

  • The Tender Melody

    Dorothy Leigh Abel

    Can Chris and Diana trust each other enough to overcome the obstacles they face to find an enduring love? When Diana arrange for her thirteen-year-old sister to meet Christ Jarrett, her favorite Christian performer, the surprise is even greater fo...

  • Superior Women

    Alice Adams

    A brilliant novel tracing the tangled, heart-warming and heartbreaking relationships of a group of intelligent and attractive young women as they grow to maturity over the course of four explosive decades in American life -- from the forties to the e...

  • Steal Away

    Candice Adams

    It was a long way from Silicon Valley to backwoods Tennessee, but Laurette Hailey was ready to escape the fast-paced California computer world to come home to the Smoky Mountains and let memories of a disastrous marriage fade into the summer air. ...

  • Love Exam

    Rita Aero

  • The Siege of the Dragonriders

    Eric Affabee

  • A Whisper in the Night: Tales of Terror and Suspense

    Joan Aiken

    Thirteen tales blending the commonplace and the bizarre focus on the encounters of young people with the supernatural as in the tale of an unpopular student who masters the powers of a ghostly artifact to seek refuge in a happier time....

  • Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris

    Susan Mary Alsop

    Hardcover book with dust jacket relates the history of representatives of the newly founded United States of America in Paris in the years 1775-1785. Notes; bibliography;index. 319 pages. Illustrated.Author is Susan Mary Alsop....

  • Fortune and Fury

    Leslie Arlen

    When lovely American heiress Diana Hayman disappears on her honeymoon in Russia, her uncle, CIA agent John Hayman suspects that lethal KGB operative Anna Ragosina is baiting a trap for him. SHE WAS AN AMERICAN HEIRESS WITH BORODIN BLOOD, A BEAUTIF...

  • Anger of Fear

    Jeffrey Ashford

  • Secrets of the Heart

    Jacqueline Ashley

    Only love could unlock the secrets of the heart Investigative reporting was Melissa McKee's lifeblood. Even, though she had given up her job with a top Washington, D.C. newspaper to move to Rockport, Maryland, Melissa still had a feel for news...

  • Banquets of the Black Widowers

    Isaac Asimov

    Six distinguished gentlemen (Ph.D.'s all) and one invited guest dine monthly at New York's elegant Milano restaurant. The Black Widowers, whose number includes the peerless waiter, Henry, have an uncanny ability to elicit from each guest a story that...

  • The Book Class

    Louis Auchincloss

    The author of Exit Lady Masham explores the lives of twelve members of a high society ladies’ book club in New York over the course of sixty years.“If I have a bias it is in my suspicion that women are intellectually and intuitively superior to m...

  • False Dawn

    Louis Auchincloss

    Traces the history, culture, and society of seventeenth-century Europe through the lives of such outstanding women as Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, Madame de Maintenon, Queen Anne, Queen Mary II, Abigail, Lady Masham, and others...

  • The Carnal Confessions of Catherine the Great

    Hillary Auteur

  • The Wasp Factory

    Iain M. Banks

    The polarizing literary debut by Scottish author Ian Banks, The Wasp Factory is the bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath.Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: T...

  • A Farewell to France

    Noel Barber

    Sonia Riccardi, impetuous and sensual, is a woman no man could resist. And Larry Astell, heir to a champagne fortune, knows their passion is the most important part of his life. Until war places in jeopardy all they held dear - love, family and count...

  • Bittersweet

    Nevada Barr

    An outcast teacher and her former student pursue life and love on the unforgiving frontier in the acclaimed author’s tender Western lesbian romance.Pennsylvania, 1870s. Schoolteacher Imogen Grelznik is unashamed of who she is, even if she’s had t...

  • Moon Deluxe

    Frederick Barthelme

  • Wings of the Morning

    Betty Beaty

    It was 1903, and golden-haired, aristocratic Amelia Jerningham was determined to make her mark on the world. Air travel and flying machines were still merely pipedreams, but the daring young woman knew she could make them come true. She had intellige...

  • The Moon in the Water

    Pamela Belle

    An historical saga set during the English Civil War and telling the story of two star-crossed lovers. This is the first of Pamela's civil war series. Pamela did extensive research into her writings to give an accurate portrayal of life in 17th cen...

  • Shadow Singer

    Marcia J. Bennett

  • Deadly Kisses

    Phil Berger

  • Promise of Love

    Ariel Berk

    NEVER BEFORE Carla Roche knew what it was like to be loved by a man. Hadn't she left her family and friends and risked everything to follow her husband to New York? And when Alec was gone, Carla was sure she would never feel as deeply about anyon...

  • Bare Acquaintances

    Karin Berne

  • Like Father

    David Black

  • Call Me Beautiful

    Shannon Blair

    It's just a silly beauty pageant...that's what Tina Steele tells herself when she's nominated as a candidate for Miss Spring Valley. Of course she's flattered, but she knows there are more important things to think about. As the pageant grows near...

  • The Digging Leviathan

    James P. Blaylock

    Journey to the center of the Earth …

    Giles Peach was unique. He was born with a neat set of gills on either side of his neck - and webbed fingers. He enjoyed reading (Edgar Rice Burroughs was his favorite author) and he liked to invent t...

  • Night of the Ripper

    Robert Bloch

  • Quimble Wood

    N.M. Bodecker

    Quimble Wood is the magical story of four little people's survival in the wilderness. When their box falls out of a car in the middle of a forest, the Quimbles are suddenly faced with the oldest of dilemmas: how to fend for themselves; how to get foo...

  • The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 13

    Baen Books

    Baen Books #55901-X, 1984. First printing in VG+ condition. Book store stamp at lower right corner of front fly. Stories by Frederik Pohl, Robert Silverberg, Ian Watson, Greg Bear and others. Cover by Jannie Wurts....

  • How to Get the Most out of CompuServe

    Charles Bowen

    A user's guide to CompuServe, the popular commercial information network. Screen-by-screen instructions map out the entire service, including full coverage of CompuServe Information Manager and third-party communications programs, such as TapCIS and ...

  • Morgette on the Barbary Coast

    G.G. Boyer

    Determined to exact revenge on Forrest Twead for killing his friend, Dolf Morgette will stop at nothing to capture the brutal killer, but as he tracks him to San Francisco, a city known for its rough clientele, Morgette must fight for survival while ...

  • Sue Barton Senior Nurse

    Helen Dore Boylston

    Here is a refreshing and authentic story of a nurse’s life. In it redheaded, vivacious Sue Barton finishes her training and goes on to the many experiences, both humorous and exciting, that a pretty young nurse can meet in a great modern hospital. ...

  • Web of Darkness

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    THE DARK MAGIC TOOK ALL SHE COULD GIVE The young priestess Deoris abandoned all she had once loved to follow the sorceror Riveda. He was a healer, esteemed by the Temple, but he practiced the. dark arts in secret. And when his forbidden rites requ...

  • Hello, Here I Am

    Willy Breinholst

  • Hello Mama, Hello Papa

    Willy Breinholst

  • The Cheerleaders

    Maggi Brocher

  • Hob's Daughter

    T. Alan Broughton

  • Just Deserts

    Dixie Browning

    Persia knew that there were more important things in life than dieting down to a size six. She knew that real men didn't care about thin thighs. And Marsh Randolph was a real man. Still, Persia hoped desperately that he wouldn't connect he...

  • Keepsake

    Eleanora Brownleigh

    HER GREATEST CHALLENGE... Beautiful, statuesque Mallory Kirk was a woman of ambition and accomplishment, a unique blend of determination and grace. She had struggled long and hard to build her career as one of New York's most successful interior dec...

  • Woman of the Century

    Eleanora Brownleigh

    Alicia Turner was a very special kind of woman. She had the beauty and wealth that came only with New York high society, and the courage and determination that came only from a demanding profession. She was a unique blend of fire and ice, passion and...

  • The Coventry Option

    Anthony Burton

  • Siren

    Dino Buzzati

  • Wild Rose

    Mary Canon

    When Rose Marie Jacguard, the South's most beautiful belle found herself swept into the strong Yankee arms of Bram Darcy, she was forced to admit that the fire-hot power of his lips was as dangerous as his dark reputation. But soon her traitorous hea...

  • Caverns of Fear

    M.V. Carey

  • The Ghost in the Lagoon

    Natalie Savage Carlson

  • The Great Escape

    Amanda Carpenter

    He was always just one step behind her Wherever Dee went, Mike Carridine followed. Not a bodyguard, not a lover, but a private investigator hired to track her down. She'd been running for nine months, attempting to elude him. Sooner or late...

  • Worthy Opponents

    Nicole Carr

  • The Accident

    Carol Carrick

  • Prima Donna

    Carroll & Graf Publishers

  • Assignment: Rio

    Nick Carter

  • Letter from Bronze Mountain

    Rosemary Carter

    Can you love and hate at the same time? It was unusual for Megan Westcott to put her trust in a stranger so quickly. But Roan was no ordinary stranger. He was the most extraordinarily dynamic man she'd ever met Without fear or hesitation, M...

  • Lily of the Mohawks

    Jack Casey

  • Double Dealing

    Jayne Castle

    She dangled the bait -- and he bit. Suddenly Samantha Maitland had the funds to finance the deal of her lifetime -- loaned by an angel with tarnished wings. From the moment they'd met at the posh California spa to his brash arrival at her islan...

  • Empires of Flux and Anchor

    Jack L. Chalker

    It was a world slowly recovering from a battle between Titanic forces of good and evil. A grand alliance had been formed to fight humanity's battle. For good had not won the final victory. The nine, rulers of hell, had formed their own empire and pla...

  • The Revenge of the Robins Family

    Thomas Chastain

  • Late-Blooming Flowers and Other Stories

    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

  • Pirate's Promise

    Ann Cockcroft

    FIRST, SHE REPLACED THE LADY'S MAID. THEN SHE REPLACED THE LADY. Heather Woode knew her future prospects were dismal. After her father's death in debtor's prison, she had signed papers of indenture and boarded a ship bound for the rebe...

  • Dynasty of Desire

    Virginia Coffman

    A DREAM OF INNOCENCE Jany Friedrich was a sleek, sensuous young woman who longed for romance and grandeur. And from the moment the impoverished Parisian beauty laid eyes on the handsome American heir to the fabled Lombard fortune, she believed her ...

  • Opium

    Tony Cohan

    Innocent family members are dragged into a world of violence and corruption when the Lin family of Hong Kong--long-standing kingpins of the illicit opium trade--is threatened by new competition from European syndicates...

  • My Darling Detective

    Hilary Cole

    Samantha and Joel Loring are perfect companions and enthusiastic lovers, with a boundless zest for life. But the realization that Joel's latest video game invention has been stolen by his best friend leaves Joel reeling...and Sam, a private detec...

  • Touched By Diamonds

    Colette Collins

  • The Bitch

    Jackie Collins

    FROM DAZZLING LAS VEGAS TO LONDON'S WILD DISCOS, FROM ATHENS TO HOLLYWOOD, JACKIE COLLINS REVEALS IT ALL...THE BITCH Fontaine baled reigns over the jet set, a sensational beauty, hard as a diamond, rich as a queen. Women envy her, men adore her, ...

  • By Any Other Name

    Marion Smith Collins

    She wanted to be loved for herself... When Gabby Constant's steamy romance novel hit the best-seller list, her life turned upside down. Not only was she launched on a whirlwind promotional tour, but Hunter Graham, her suave publisher, insisted...

  • Just the Two of Us

    Hila Colman

    After her mother's death, Samantha and her father, Lenny, become inseparable traveling partners as her father follows work, but when he proposes settling down, and introduces his new friend, Liz, Samantha feels alienated...

  • I Believe in You

    Barbara P. Conklin

    For the first time in her life, Penny Snow isn't looking forward to her summer vacation in Oregon. In the past, a visit to her grandfather's beautiful beach house meant lots of swimming, tennis, and carefree good times. But this summer Penny's grandf...

  • Forever Yours

    Arlene Cook

  • Nice Girls Don't

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Tory knew it wasn't nice, but she felt it was right. Tory Travis just wanted to play ball. But little things started to get to her. The boys' team went by in a bus while Tory and her teammates were squished into a station wagon. The boys were budg...

  • Two of a Kind

    Lori Copeland

    Running a Florida gift shop was a full-time challenge for spirited Courtney Spenser But when her lively widowed mother started chasing around town with seventy-year-old motorcycle enthusiast Clyde Merrill, the shop was suddenly the least of her worri...

  • Maid in Boston

    Paula Corbett

    FARMER'S DAUGHTER Red hair and a nose covered with freckles only made Kathryn Lambert appear innocent, Mitchell Grant realized after he made the supreme mistake of underestimating her. When he'd offered her a job in his Boston firm after seeing he...

  • Hopscotch

    Julio Cortazar

    "Cortazar's masterpiece ... The first great novel of Spanish America" (The Times Literary Supplement) • Winner of the National Book Award for Translation in 1967, translated by Gregory RabassaHoracio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in P...

  • Bumble B. Bear

    Stephen Cosgrove

  • Under Cover of Night

    Jasmine Craig

    Kristin married mild-mannered Grey Hamilton for his quiet strength and warm sensitivity--and because, in private, she discovered a man of masculine authority and virile self-control. But now his sudden reluctance to start a family... and a series of ...

  • Fifty Great American Stories

    Milton Crane

    A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike.

    The Classic Stories
    Edgar Allan Poe’s Ms. Found in a Bottle 
    Bret Harte’s The Outcasts of Poker Flat 
    Sherwood Anderson’s Death in the W...

  • 50 Great American Short Stories

    Milton Crane

  • The House of War

    Aileen Crawley

  • Beyond This Place

    A.J. Cronin

    Paul Mathry, a student about to graduate and embark upon a teaching career, finds out that his father was convicted for murder, a secret that his mother had hidden from him since his childhood. Driven by an intense desire to see his father, Paul set...

  • The Green Years

    Archibald Joseph Cronin

    The Green Years is a 1944 novel by A. J. Cronin which traces the formative years of an Irish orphan, Robert Shannon, who is sent to live with his draconian maternal grandparents in Scotland. An introspective child, Robert forms an attachment to his r...

  • Black Lace and Pearls

    Elissa Curry

    Stacey Kiroff is hardly a vamp. But when she graces the cover of High Rise magazine, clad in a black slip and pearls, her banking colleagues are scandalized. Now, determined to project a strictly professional image, she starts over as consultant to a...

  • The Psycho Soldiers

    John Cutter

    Jack Sullivan, the Specialist, tracks John Swenson, a vicious cult leader who escaped from a southern California asylum and is leading his bloodthirsty followers on a murder spree along the East Coast...

  • Doomfarers of Coramond

    Brian Daley

    Twenty-four hours ago, Gil MacDonald and his men had been fighting off an ambush in a Viet Nam jungle. Now, thanks to some kind of magic spell, they were in the middle of this fantasy land filled with flying dragons, wizard, crazy castles and disposs...

  • The Dancer

    Kristy Daniels

  • Overtures of the Heart

    Rhett Daniels

    Their love was a rhapsody in blue. Two promising music students, Ayn Remington and Gerick Grier, met at Juilliard. Their time together had the perfection of a clear, shimmering melody--as romantic as Chopin, as passionate as Beethoven. But it ended o...

  • A World Apart

    Emma Darcy

    She wanted love and marriage--not a fling It was one thing to match wits with Patrick Hagan on a TV talk show, where authors were expected to promote their wares in as frivolous a manner as possible. It was quite another to be madly pursued in the...

  • Wild Swan // A Wild Hope

    Celeste De Blasis

    Vibrant, multicharactered, an authentic tapestry of its times, here is Wild Swan -- a novel that spans continents and generations to tell the epic story of one passionate woman, and the many faces of love. Sweeping from England's West Country dur...

  • The Bones of Zora

    L. Sprague de Camp

    On the planet Krishna, Fergus Reith, his former wife, the lovely and sexy Dr. Alicia Dyckman, and famed paleontologist Dr. Aristide Marot search for the elusive Ozymandias and find themselves in the middle of a civil war...

  • The Unwelcome Suitor

    Marjorie DeBoer

    FIRST HE STOLE HER HAPPINESS -- AND NOW HE WANTS TO STEAL HER HEART Beautiful Elena Tyndale had once been the happy bride of dashing Captain Rodney Farnsworth, who had won her young heart with an impulsive, wildly romantic elopement. But her br...

  • Precious Objects

    D.G. Devon

  • There Are Alligators in Our Sewers and Other American Credos

    Paul Dickson

  • Beyond the Distant Shadows

    Patricia Dunaway

    A historical romance, a loving quest and a compelling destiny. Landra leaves the hustle and bustle of New York City to visit her sister in the quiet seclusion of their childhood home, Greenlea Mansion near New Orleans. Nothing had prepared her for th...

  • Passion's Tempest

    Nicole Duval

    Island Flame With her flawless, smooth skin and enticing, soft curves, lovely Chantal had the face of an angel - and the body of a seductress. And when the pirate captain Peter O'Flaherty raided her ship in the calm Caribbean waters, he swore to ...

  • One More Tomorrow

    Aimee Duvall

    In her fantasies Megan Lord was sophisticated, alluring, and completely in control. But real life kept catching her by surprise -- toppling her into swimming pools, popping out her contacts, setting her face-to-face with a teeth-gnashing Doberman...a...

  • Last One Home

    John Ehle

    Last One Home, the final book in John Ehle's masterful Appalachian series that traces the King family from The Land Breakers in 1779, as the first white settlers in the Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina, through the Great Depression in ...

  • Trivia Mania II

    Xavier Einstein

  • Native Tongue

    Suzette Haden Elgin

    "Originally published in 1984, this classic dystopian trilogy is a testament to the power of language and women''s collective action.In 2205, the Nineteenth Amendment has long been repealed and women are only valued for their utility. The Earth''s ec...

  • The Adventures of Ernie and Bert at the South Pole

    Dan Elliott

  • See You in September

    Carol Ellis

  • Lone Star and the Montana Troubles

    Wesley Ellis

    THE CARTEL STRIKES -- AND THE STAKES ARE HIGH... Beginning with a midnight ambush on the Starbuck ranch, the cartel launches its boldest attack yet: a shrewdly plotted takeover of the Montana copper mines. When they arrive in the company town, Jessi...

  • Dark Country

    Dennis Etchison

    "Etchison''s fiction is justly famous for its creepy ambience, and explores the terrain mapped out by Philip K. Dick, Thomas Harris, and any number of black and white horror movies. This is his legendary first collection, carefully corrected by the a...

  • Longarm and the Desert Duchess

    Tabor Evans

    A DESERT FORTRESS... Dead center of the Mojave Desert was not prime real estate. It was mighty peculiar that a Spanish Duchess had built herself a luxurious castle in that very place. And it was even more peculiar that the U.S. agents sent to inve...

  • The Seeing Summer

    Jeannette Eyerly

  • Range of Passion

    Paula Fairman

    Hilary St. John had always loved everything connected with the Turquoise Ranch. The Arizona spread was home to her even though her family lived there only by the grace of its mysterious owner. But then one day a dark stranger from the East walked int...

  • Special Someone

    Terri Fields

    Katie's plans for a super summer are destroyed when her parents whisk her off to Arizona. Katie doesn't know a single soul, and she's afraid it will be the most boring vacation of her life - until she meets Dave. For Katie, Dave's a dream come tru...

  • Desert Fire

    Rebecca Flanders

    Would their love be consumed or ignited by desert fire? Trucker Camp Campbell rescued Dusty Macleod as she was fighting off three amorous teenagers in the middle of the Nevada desert. Homeless and penniless, Dusty possessed nothing but a fiery tem...

  • The Key

    Rebecca Flanders

    How much would she risk to find the key? For Callier Lester, the dream was always the same. She would be so close to the warmth of home, just a step away, yet she couldn't have a key to unlock the front door. It didn't help that Callie tra...

  • The Founders

    Aaron Fletcher

    They came as outcasts to the shores of a savage paradise...and stayed to build an empire. William Pollard, the English adventurer who traded his heritage for the tattoos of a Maori chieftain. And Jessica Spencer, whose unyielding code of honor and re...

  • Wyoming Wench

    Dirk Fletcher

    Arriving in the town of Elk Creek, Wyoming, on an undercover mission to expose the brutality and madness of the town's sheriff, Spur McCoy gets a warm welcome in the arms of a blonde bombshell who distracts him from the task at hand. Reissue....

  • The Owl

    Robert L. Forward

    With darkness as his ally and the streets as his home, private investigator Alexander L'Hiboux, the sleepless victim of insomnolence, hunts the individuals responsible for the brutal mutilation of a shipping magnate's daughter...

  • Voyage to the City of the Dead

    Alan Dean Foster

    IRRITATING HORSEYE! Many worlds of the Humanx Commonwealth boasted of "natural wonders," but Horseye was truly unique--the planet, had the most spectacular river valley anywhere in the known universe and was home to three alien cultures. The fa...

  • Love Times Two

    Stephanie Foster

    Twin sisters Claudia and Cassie are looking forward to their family vacation on Green Lake. A whole month of boating, swimming, and exploring. They're sure it's going to be a terrific vacation until they discover they've both fallen for the same boy....

  • To Tame a Proud Lady

    Mary Fowlkes

    She was a fool, dreaming of love Katie had only one loyalty, to her family, and one duty, to keep her brood of young brothers together in their Missouri home. And if that meant entering into a convenient arrangement with computer tycoon Jason R...

  • Silken Longings

    Sharon Francis

    Priding herself on her business acumen and immunity to sensual temptations, Alix Delaney boldly flies to the Orient and secures a contract to market the famous silk of Asian-American mogul Gavin Arran. But Thailand's sultry breezes, colorful page...

  • Coming Home

    Alison Fraser

    It was all a terrible misunderstanding Alex Saunders loved little Nicki as though he were her own, but she was his aunt, not his mother. And she wasn't the hardened gold digger Andros Kostos thought she was when she arrived at his luxurious ho...

  • The Women's Room

    Marilyn French

    Feminist author Marilyn French's iconic and influential novel exploring the lives of women set in the rapidly changing world of the 1940s to the 1960s.“Mira was hiding in the ladies’ room. She called it that, even though someone had scratched out...

  • Perfect Mouse

    Dick Gackenbach

  • God's Mistress

    James Galvin

  • Love's Secret Garden

    Nona Gamel

    "You're just like your cactus garden--all dry and prickly. You could be green and tender if you'd relax and let nature take its course." Easy for him to say. Loma Phillips knew better. She'd wake to find herself once again at a man's mercy. Marri...

  • The Look Again . . . And Again, and Again, and Again Book

    Beau Gardener

  • The Look Again . . . And Again, and Again, and Again Book

    Beau Gardner

  • Murder and Magic

    Randall Garrett

    The Sidewise Award"winning series. “If you are looking for something different in the way of mysteries a few hours with Lord Darcy is a fun way to go” (Daily Kos).This alternate history series starring detective Lord Darcy and his sorcerer side...

  • Priestly Murders

    Joe Gash

  • North American Indian Masks

    Frieda Gates

  • Burning Book

    Maggie Gee

  • Beyond Valor

    Frank Geron

  • The Shadow and the Golden Master

    Walter Brown Gibson

    Lamont Cranston, the Shadow, matches wits with the Oriental master criminal Shiwan Khan, in the first book publication of two classic novels from the original pulp magazine, "The Golden Master" and "Shiwan Khan Returns"...

  • The Beast in Ms, Rooney's Room

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    It's September again. What does it mean for Richard "Beast" Best to be left back? It means being teased by his old friends while he's stuck facing the same old teacher in the same old classroom. He even has to take a special reading class with "babi...

  • Fatal Beauty

    John Godey

    Forty-four-year-old Juno Sultan, a determined Jewish woman, becomes caught in a maelstrom of international intrigue when she sets out to free her son from the terrorists who kidnapped him and his employer...

  • Passion's Bride // The Captain's Lady

    Jo Goodman

    "I am your prisoner," Alexis murmured bitterly when she found herself aboard an American naval vessel. But no man could hold her prisoner for long, not even the lean, green-eyed Captain Tanner Cloud whose slow, sensuous touch aroused a fire of passio...

  • Something out There

    Nadine Gordimer

  • Enchantment in Venice

    Lucy Gordon

    Hollywood superstar Adam Wakeman was the man of every woman's dreams. And he took full advantage of that fact. He had made love to many glamorous, gorgeous women, but he depended on only one: discreet, dependable, unflappable Susie Chadwick. O...

  • Smart Enough To Know

    Eileen Goudge

    She's a wildcat in disguise.... Elaine's closest friends -- Kit, Alex, and Lori -- are the only ones who know that she is also the rowdy school mascot, Wilbur the Wildcat. To the rest of the school, she is shy, soft-spoken Elaine Gregory "the Brai...

  • Hellquad

    Ron Goulart

  • Runner in the Street

    James Grady

  • Touch of Moonlight

    Liz Grady

    Serious-minded Sarah Templeton is horrified when her latest assignment to interview Newport's "Ten Sexiest Men" requires that she deceive the first candidate, superior court judge Brad Chandler, into going on a blind date. She's even ...

  • Arabian Nights

    Heather Graham

    When he appeared on his stallion, galloping over the hot sands, seizing her and sweeping her into a luxuriously carpeted tent in the oasis, Alex Randall wasn't afraid. She was furious. And her fury grew when she found he was no brigand but Dan D'...

  • Nightmares

    Charles L. Grant

  • Hard Love

    Cynthia D. Grant

    Stephen Ford, a high school senior, has fallen in love with Molly Doyle, who, at twenty-three, thinks he's too young for her, and tries to help prevent his friend Paulie from suffering a mental breakdown...

  • Journey to Stonehenge

    Fred Graver

  • The Perfect Match

    Ginna Gray

    THREE AGAINST ONE In all her considerable experience, Maggie Trent, television producer, divorcee and mother of a teenaged daughter, had never met anyone more attractive than the man she stumbled over making love to a gorgeous, brainless blonde. C...

  • The Seventh Swan

    Nicholas Stuart Gray

  • Promise of Spring

    Jean Hager

    Widowed and wary April DuBois thought she had everything she needed in Rusty her six-year-old son, and her chic Tulsa boutique. But from the moment Vic Leyland invaded her life, she was threatened by passions -- and fears she'd never known before...

  • Dangerous Enchantment

    Jean Hager

    She was irresistibly drawn to the arms of a stranger. But did love or danger await her there? For Rachel Drake, coming to a Florida seaside town was a chance for new beginnings. After the lonesome months nursing her invalid mother, Rachel longed ...

  • Desperate Yearning

    Dallas Hamlin

    Wildlife photographer Brianna Douglas was skilled in survival, skilled in martial arts. Kidnapped from her Denver apartment by a band of terrorists set on forcing her senator father to meet their demands, carried deep into the Rockies, she was clever...

  • Vengeance Valley

    J.D. Hardin

  • Secret Hearts

    Janice Harrell

  • Firefly

    Norma Harris

    As Sydne Rochelle's international empire of Firefly nightclubs teeters on the brink of an organized crime takeover, her personal life turns to chaos when the child she thought was dead and an ex-lover reappear...

  • Viriconium Nights

    M. John Harrison

  • Fire and Ice

    Catherine Hart

    From the storm-swept high seas to the sultry deep south, she fought his scorching desire... Beautiful and spirited Kathleen Haley set sail from England for the family estate in Savannah. On board ship, she met the man who would forever haunt her h...

  • Freaky Fillins

    David Hartley

  • Sheryl

    Ralph Hayes

  • The Singular Miss Carrington

    Barbara Hazard

    THE ODD ALLIANCE Miss Claire Carrington was the most independent young lady ever to scandalize the London ton with her refusal to bow to the dictates of fashion or the rules of ladylike deportment. Andrew Tyson, the Marquess of Blagdon, was the...

  • Job: a Comedy of Justice

    Robert A. Heinlein

    SOMETHING WAS OUT TO GET HIM After that firewalking gig in Polynesia, the whole world was suddenly changed around him. Instead of fundamentalist minister Alexander Hergensheimer, he was now supposed to be Alec Graham, an underworld figure in the m...

  • God Knows

    Joseph Heller

    Joseph Heller's powerful, wonderfully funny, deeply moving novel is the story of David -- yes, King David -- but as you've never seen him before. You already know David as the legendary warrior king of Israel, husband of Bathsheba, and father of Solo...

  • Love's Suspect

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