Books Published in December 1983

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — DECEMBER 1983

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New Books List: 278 titles

  • I'll Fly the Flags

    Melodie Adams

    FACT OR FICTION? Megan Farraday was a stickler for authenticity. First she isolated herself in a primitive hunting camp to provide a realistic background for her new novel. Then, when her frightened heroine threw herself into the arms of her ha...

  • Talons of Scorpio

    Alan Burt Akers

    To finish the job of destroying the hideous cult of the Leem was just one of the problems confronting Dray Prescot, Earthman on Antares' wonder planet. For he had also to rally all the world's forces to combat the onslaught that was on its way from t...

  • Inside Job

    Stella Allan

  • Black Christmas

    Thomas Altman

    Christmas in Murdock. A time of cozy safety, snowy sidewalks, and carolling children. But this holiday season someone is bating Sheriff Dunsmore in a bizarre and deadly game. Someone is stalking the young women he knows and loves...seducing them with...

  • The Sound of Anthems

    Marjory Alyn

    Eleven-year-old Jennifer is confused by conflicting loyalties to family, church, community, and country, in a story set in Belfast during the mid-1940s, before the current violence in Northern Ireland...

  • Out of a Dream

    Diana Anthony

    Michelle Smith was lost, alone, a woman in a dream, a violet eyes woman without a memory, but with a wedding ring on her finger. For her there were no hushed midnight calls, no yearning for the passionate, burning touch of one man, no morning kisses ...

  • Kamal

    D.W. Arathorn

  • A Craving

    Emily Arnold

    It's a relief to see you looking yourself, her best friend said. Polly was shocked- who else had she seemed to be? The truth was devastating: She was a woman drinking around the clock, battling her husband, endangering her children, jeopardizing her ...

  • Oasis Project

    David Stuart Arthur

  • A Mountain Man

    Megan Ashe

    For Kelly March, Eagle's Nest was a haven where she could prove herself both as a talented potter and an independent woman. She'd opened her crafts shop there to escape becoming just another executive's wife, but what she found waiting for her was fa...

  • Today and Tomorrow And

    Isaac Asimov

  • Winds of the Old Days

    Betsy Aswad

  • Winter Wife

    Jessica Auerbach

    A new baby, an unfamiliar city, and the most forbidding weather she's ever experienced. Amy just can't cope. On impulse, Amy and her husband upend their lives to move from New Haven to Minneapolis. Paul sees the move as an exciting adventure, bu...

  • Trapped in the Black Box

    R.G. Austin

  • Overnight To Distant

    Donald Barthelme

  • Great Gradepoint Mystery

    Barbara Bartholomew

  • Julie's magic moment

    Barbara Bartholomew

  • Global Two Thousand

    Gloria Vitanza Basile

  • It Must've Been the Fish Sticks

    Betty Bates

  • Marah

    Nina M. Bergman

    This is the story of the woman at the well, who gave water to Jesus. After He spoke to her, she went to the town and told everyone that this stranger knew all about her. It's mostly about her background before and after she met Him....

  • Border Legend

    Lee Bishop

    On his father's deathbed, proud Ricardo Montoya learns that he is really James Barringer, sole survivor of a massacre, and his attempts to claim his heritage lead him into a confrontation with famous Apache warrior Sky Walker...

  • Sweet Temptation

    Laurien Blair

    CANDY IS DANDY But an affair with architect Simon Farlow would be quicker--and more instructive. Lucy Whitcomb, proprietress of The Sweet Tooth, was in a hurry to learn about love. After twenty-five years of too much indulgence in her own wares, ...

  • Diana's Folly

    Jillian Blake

    RUN FOR THE ROSES... For Diana Jennings, the opportunity to cover the Kentucky Derby was made even more exciting by the fact that she had the inside track on a very exclusive story. But fellow reporter Beau Gatling challenged her at every turn and ...

  • Murphy Must Have Been a Mother

    Teresa Bloomingdale

  • Tough Country

    Frank Bonham

  • Ariel

    Steven R. Boyett

    IT HAD BEEN FIVE YEARS SINCE THE CHANGE... Five years since the lights went out, cars stopped in the streets, and magical creatures began roaming the towns and countrysides of Earth. Pete Garey, a young loner who survived the Change and the mad...

  • Ariel: A Book of the Change

    Steven R. Boyett

    Five years ago the lights went out, cars stopped in the streets, and magical creatures began roaming the towns and countrysides of Earth.

    Pete Garey, a young loner who survived the Change and the madness that followed, spent two years wanderin...

  • Red Sky at Morning

    Richard Bradford

    The classic coming of age story set during World War II about the enduring spirit of youth and the values in life that count. "A sort of Catcher in the Rye out West... What makes the book a true delight is the deadpan. irreverent humor with which ...

  • Waltz in Scarlet

    Muriel Bradley

    LOVE WEAVES A TANGLED WEB... From the Moment Christina Chandler began to inventory the Fabrian estate she fell under the spell of one of it's heirs, Matthew Warden. But Matthew was forbidden to enter the treasure-filled house until her work was comp...

  • Green Eyes

    Debra Brand

  • Innocent Revenge

    Cathleen Brew

  • Follower

    Henry Bromell

  • Days Without Weather

    Cecil Brown

  • Tempest in Eden

    Sandra Brown

    When uninhibited, flamboyant Shay Morrison accidentally walks in on Ian Douglas as he steps naked from the shower, she is slightly amused, sensually aware, but otherwise unperturbed. He, however, is clearly displeased. Why? Because his profession is ...

  • First Affair

    Monica Burchard

  • How Do You Say Goodbye?

    Margaret Burman

    Lisa knows she should break up with Lawrence. He's not right for her and she knows it. But Lisa's got a big problem - she can't say no. To anyone. So when Lawrence asks her to go steady, she accepts (sort of) even though she's just met Alex. He's the...

  • The Stone Pony

    Patricia Calvert

  • The Meddlesome Heiress

    Miranda Cameron

    As far as Diantha Cunningham was concerned, the handsome Viscount Rotherford was above all the son of the aristocrat who had treated her father like dirt -- and Diantha's return to claim ownership of the great estate that the Viscount was forced ...

  • The Counterfeit Countess

    Diana Campbell

    The Perplexed Pretender Lovely Miss Selina Hewson agreed to pose as wife to the handsome, high-living Earl of Worsham in order to gain access to the aristocratic society from which her wastrel father had been ejected years before. The Earl, for h...

  • Love Notes

    Joanna Campbell

    There's nothing Kirsten wants more than to be a concert pianist - unless it's Peter, the talented violinist she's met at the Greenacres Summer Music Program. It's almost too good to be true when they're assigned a duet and must rehearse every evening...

  • Secret Identity

    Joanna Campbell

    When Jena Maxwell meets Eric Bliss, she forgets her disappointment about not going to Europe for the summer, forgets everything that has been upsetting her. Eric is gentle, handsome, and Jena's falling deeply in love. But as their fabulous summer ...

  • Such Sweet Magic

    Rosalind Carson

    DESIRE BANISHED THE YEARS OF EMPTINESS Samantha Austin's return to Collins Island was haunted by memories of Jonathan Blake. Jon had been her first, her only love -- until the bitter argument that split them irrevocably apart. Samantha soon...

  • The Budapest Run

    Nick Carter

  • Serpent in Paradise

    Rosemary Carter

    She loved him -- and he despised her Sloan Garfield thought Teri a gold digger, and worse, out for everything she could get. An owner of vast South African vineyards on the Cape Peninsula, he had a lot to offer. But what he was offering was nei...

  • Starbright

    Damon Castle

  • This Wildfire Magic

    Sara Chance

    DREAM LOVER Desiree Beaumont literally dreamed up her ideas for her exquisite negligees, then simply put them down on paper. But when a dark-eyed man invaded those fantasies, the solution wasn't so easy ... especially when he stepped out of her dr...

  • Carolina Woman

    Justin Channing

  • When Voiha Wakes

    Joy Chant

    This is the tale of a love that shattered a world, between a woman destined to be queen and the young man who stole her heart with the magic of his music. Rahike was Young Mistress of Naramethe, an exotic land of spine and wine where women ruled and ...

  • Calculated Risk

    Elaine Raco Chase

    SONS AND LOVERS Shortly after Quintin Ward stormed into her office to accuse her of leading his teenage son astray, an overwhelming attraction drove Stephanie Brandt into the brash stranger's arms. How had she, president of one of Nashville...

  • Share the Dream

    Marian Chase

    IMPOSSIBLE LOVE The shadow of the past fell over the Cape Cod beach where they met. Carol Mason-Becker came to escape the memories of a marriage that had failed. Jim Ryan came to work, and to nurse private wounds so deep that it seemed the scars w...

  • Lady Lucy's Lover

    Marion Chesney

    "Why don't you take a lover, my dear? It would serve that feckless husband of yours right." "But I don't want a lover. I am in love with my husband." Poor deluded Lucy. She had married a gambler, a womanizer, and a drunk...

  • Old Love, New Love

    Jane Clare

    SHE WAS THREE YEARS OLDER -- and a lifetime wiser. Now she knew that a man like Tobin Furnival came along only once in a woman's life, but for Kee it was a lesson learned too late. Three years had gone by since she'd loved Tobin--and left ...

  • Soon She Must Die

    Anna Clarke

  • Dolphin Island

    Arthur C. Clarke

    A science fiction adventure for readers of all ages, from a winner of multiple Nebula and Hugo Awards.   In the near future, a cargo hovership makes an emergency landing in a rural part of the Midwest. An adventurous teenager, Johnny Clinton sne...

  • The PepperMint Gang and the Secret Golden Crosses

    Laurie B. Clifford

  • The Peppermint Gang and the Million Dollar Night

    Laurie B. Clifford

  • The Attorney Conspiracy

    C. Terry Cline

    Returned from Vietnam to a disintegrating family, ex-army intelligence officer Troy Bacon becomes involved with unusual allies, in an attempt to foil an assassination plot originating at the highest national level...

  • Man of the Shadows

    Don Coldsmith

    Eagles's father, Heads Off, leads the Elk-dog band by virtue of bringing to horse -- the "elk-dog" -- to the People. Eagle himself has mastered the ways of the horse, but now the warrior must learn survivor. His frightened, untrained mount, in pani...

  • Falling in Love Again

    Barbara P. Conklin

    Mariah's not one of those girls who's never been kissed. She had a boyfriend. Once. It seems like a thousand years ago. But Paul died, and Mariah thinks she'll never find anyone as special again. She hadn't counted on the school play, though. Somehow...

  • I Know My Love

    Vivian Connolly

    Katie Fitzmorris loves Brian, the king of the Irish stage, who chose her as his American queen. For three years his rapt pupil, she now has a chance to star in films -- and become his equal partner. But in Hollywood, Katie feels more than oceans s...

  • Alethea Brentleigh

    Eleanor Anne Cox

  • Fair Kate

    Elissa Curry

  • Lightning That Lingers

    Sharon Curtis; Tom Curtis

    He was the Cougar Club's star attraction, mesmerizing hundreds of women in the smoky glare of a spotlight, his hips swaying in the provocative motions of love. But in the dusty attic of a deserted mansion, Philip Brooks captivated his chosen lady...

  • The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More

    Roald Dahl

    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. An account of how the author came to be a writer. Selections from his writer's notebook augment stories juxtaposing fantasy and truth, peopled with outrageous and courageous characters....

  • A Ufo Has Landed

    Milton Dank

  • Night Moves

    Annabel Davis-Goff

  • Windhaven's Hope

    Marie De Jourlet

    Though the fires of the Civil War have cooled, and the dread tyranny of Reconstruction has passed into history -- buried hatreds are ready to flare anew... On a January night in 1883, a drunken band of raiders storm Windhaven Plantation, laying wa...

  • Starrigger

    John DeChancie

    Independent space trucker Jake McGraw, accompanied by his father Sam, who inhabits the body of truck itself, his "starrig," picks up a beautiful hitchhiker, Darla, and a trailer-load of trouble. One of the best of the indies, Jake knows a few tricks ...

  • Velvet Angel

    Jude Deveraux

    At last, the soaring, breathless, tumultuous climax of the Montgomery Annals ... She came to him as a precious gift, a naked angel rolled in a rug. Once he gazed into her green eyes, saw her tangle of honey blond hair, he was undone with passion...

  • The Gates of Rangitatau

    Robyn Donald

    The memory held nothing but pain Alex Thomassin was the last man Christabel Evans expected, or wanted, to see, a year after their disastrous night together. Here in the rugged north of New Zealand, she had another look, another life, even a dif...

  • The Wounded Sky

    Diane Duane

    A pretty alien scientist invents the Intergalactic Inversion Drive, an engine system that transcends warp drive--and the Enterprise will be the first to test it! The Klingons attempt to thwart the test, but a greater danger looms when strange symptom...

  • Never Love a Cowboy

    Jesse Dukore

    It was love at first sight... Bitsy is thrilled when she moves from crowded New York City to colorful Austin, Texas, and even more thrilled when she sees handsome Billy Joe riding his horse to school. For Bitsy, it's love at first sight. But even wh...

  • The Rootworker

    Glenda Dumas

  • The Queen's Messenger

    Robert L. Duncan

  • The Knave of Hearts

    Estelle Edwards

    The Mississippi pleasure cruise was a much-needed vacation for dedicated young lawyer Kate Sewell. Yet before the trip was over, she seemed perilously close to foundering on the shoals of love. A brilliant defense attorney, she could find no protecti...

  • Backfire

    Clive Egleton

    Andrew Magrane, a senior British SAS agent who is the victim of botched psychedelic-drug experiments, escapes from a hospital in Scotland, which he mistakenly believes to be a top-secret medical facility in Siberia, and Major Donaldson is assigned to...

  • Midnight Memories

    Emily Elliott

    Glitter! Glamor! Excitement! For ten years Cassandra Howard had made her living as a blackjack dealer on the Las Vegas Strip...and had been vaguely discontented until Jarratt Vandenburg walked into the Tropical Paradise to lose at the tables but win ...

  • Lone Star and the San Antonio Raid

    Wesley Ellis

    IT WAS AN OUTLAWS' CONVENTION Doc Holliday... Clay Allison ...John Harrow... and two hundred more of the West's worst badmen had gathered in a secret riverside camp -- and the cartel that had always menaced the Starbucks was behind it somehow. Their...

  • O.R.

    Barrie Evans

  • Longarm and the Custer County War

    Tabor Evans

  • How to Write a Romance and Get It Published

    Kathryn Falk

  • Little White Lies

    Lois Fisher

  • Falkone's Promise

    Rebecca Flanders

    They couldn't agree on anything! Dawn's assignment to write an article on Byron Boyd's Hebridean castle wasn't going to be easy. He was harsh, sarcastic, unlikable and clearly resented the prospect of tourists invading his home. ...

  • Boothill Brand

    Lee Floren

  • Revenge Silent Tomb

    J.J. Fortune

  • Earthly Splendor

    Sharon Francis

    When Ralf Traggart died, the country lost a brilliant politician...and Gwen lost a husband she loved dearly. To pay homage to his memory, she settles in his hometown, never expecting to meet a fabulous man there -- Jason Cornell. With a single, sultr...

  • Forever, Victoria

    Dorothy Garlock

    Beautiful Victoria McKenna ruled the Double M ranch as her private dynasty on the vast Wyoming high plains. If anyone dared touch her, a hundred guns stood ready to take revenge. But Mason Mahaffey defied the odds to lay his claim on the McKenna l...

  • Until Forever

    Sally Garrett

    SUDDENLY LIFE SHONE WITH BRIGHT PROMISE David McCormack and Samantha Roberts had played together as children under hot summer skies in Phoenix. That they should meet again and find love in the August of their lives was a miracle. David's home w...

  • Heathcliff in Concert

    George Gately

  • Fortune's Bride

    Roberta Gellis

    THRUST TOGETHER IN THE HEAT OF BATTLE, PASSION WOULD NEVER LET THEM PART.... ESMERALDA TALBOT -- Born in India, bound for England, she had survived shipwreck only to find herself stranded on alien soil and swept up by the winds of war. ROBERT...

  • Arapaho Revenge

    George G. Gilman

  • Ballinger's Rules

    Eve Gladstone

    HE WAS A MAN WITH A MISSION Art historian Caitlin Scott had been hired by Clovis International to turn Glenkiddy, an ancient estate in Ireland, into a luxury hotel. Her job was to achieve authenticity, and she supervised every detail, from the sc...

  • Taste of Love

    Elizabeth Glenn

    Lack of sight heightened his taste of love Briony Hammond had loved Patrick Donahue all of her life. They grew up next door to each other in Texas, with Patrick and her brother, Steve, always having little Briony tagging behind them, being a nuisa...

  • Son of the Morning and Other Stories

    Phyllis Gotlieb

  • Once in a Blue Moon

    Billie Green

    Arlie was reckless, wild, a little naughty -- but in the nicest way! Whenever she got into a scrape, Dan was always there to rescue and comfort her. He had been her first crush, her uncured case of puppy love -- and she was still his beloved albatr...

  • Little Sister

    Bette Greene

  • Murder, Mr. Mosley

    John Greenwood

    After 17 years, Brenda Thwaites Cryer returns to Parson's Fold with a shadowy past and a shadowy fortune. Now, she lay dead in Jackman's Cottage. And the only possible witness -- her invalid mother -- is missing. For Inspector Mosley, this case is a ...

  • Dragon Winter

    Niel Hancock

    Rumors abound that a terrible dragon winter approaches and Bramble Otter decides to consult with Old Bark, a feared silver bear, who may be the only one to remember the last such winter...

  • Bounty Hunter

    J.D. Hardin

  • Hold Fast 'Til Dawn

    Mary Haskell

    Jenny loved Larry's sun-bleached hair, his dazzling smile, his love for the sea--and his love for her and their children. Their marriage of fifteen years was as solid as the rock-hard muscles that enveloped her in the most intimate embrace each night...

  • Tinyburg Tales

    Robert J. Hastings

  • My Lady Domino

    Sandra Heath

    A penniless young beauty masks her face at the Grand Ball--but cannot shield her heart from a dashing lord. THE TENDER TRESPASSER Miss Adele Russell knew it was sheer folly to attend the Duke and Duchess of Bellingham's grand masquerade. A year...

  • Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls

    Hol Hecht

  • Love's Late Spring

    Lydia Hermann

    "Great Guns!" he thought. "She's beautiful!" John couldn't understand why he felt this way. She had always been there, as much a part of him as--as his mother. They had been friends for as long as he could remember. She was always just "Paula," hi...

  • A Choice of Enemies

    George V. Higgins

  • Heartbreaker Mine

    Ida Hills

    Ghosts from the past haunt the heartbreaker mine As a scientist, D'oro Griegos approached her work with precision and professionalism. When she was hired by Bret Johnson to work on ore samples from his California mine, D'oro felt up to the challen...

  • Tender Trap

    Charlotte Hines

    Could Lucy Travers' office computer describe Caleb Bannister's "ideal woman"? Lucy agreed to see -- on behalf of her moony-eyed best friend. Sure enough, the print-out revealed that Beth would be perfect for him. Imagine Lucy's su...

  • Dream of Falling

    Naomi Hintze

  • Saturday Night

    Marjorie Holmes

    First love, true love? Danny Keller -- on-again, off-again Danny -- has turned from Carly to his next love. All Carly’s friends, her family, everyone who knows Danny have been expecting this. Only Carly had hoped for the impossible. Still, Ca...

  • A Lasting Image

    Julia Howard

    She'd escaped him once before. Stacy Kemble, ace photojournalist, had led San Francisco -- she'd married another man! But Don Kemble was gone forever. And Stacy was well settled in the San Joaquin valley when Ward Fallbrook came back into ...

  • The She Devil

    Robert E. Howard

    This early work by Robert E. Howard was originally published in the 1936 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'She Devil' is one of Howard's spicy stories featuring the charcter Wild Bill Clayton. Robert...

  • Design for Desire

    Anna Hudson

    He took her for a brazen gold digger. He thought she'd come in answer to a personal ad for a Texas mogul's mistress! He was handsome, refined, as polished as a fine gem, but his insinuations were shockingly crass. A talented, independent designer,...

  • Gold Star

    Zach Hughes

  • Death on a Quiet Day

    Michael Innes

    From a British Golden Age author “in a class by himself among detective story writers,†Scotland Yard Inspector Appleby helps a student solve a murder (The Times Literary Supplement).On holiday in the English countryside with his fellow universit...

  • An Independent Woman

    Brenda Jagger

    Original title: The Sleeping Sword. Grace Agbrigg has ambitions beyond merely ornamenting the home of a rich husband. But high Victorian England is still almost wholly a man’s world in which women â€" rich or poor â€" must do the bidding of fath...

  • Body Guard

    Stephanie James

    HE WAS PROTECTING HER FOR HIMSELF Being saddled with a paid bodyguard for two weeks in Hawaii was not Sabrina's idea of a dream vacation. But her mother took the kidnapping threats seriously, like it or not, she was stuck with Jake Devlin as s...

  • The Bronzed Hawk

    Iris Johansen

    Kelly McKenna would get her story and prove herself to her editor -- even if it meant using a bit of blackmail. She'd try anything to get dashing inventor-genius Nick O'Brien to take her along in his experimental balloon to Mexico. And though Nick ...

  • Window to Happiness

    Nancy John

    BLACKMAIL LOVE... Dawn Lockwood could hardly believe it when she was promoted to chief window designer by Warren Hemingway, dynamic young owner of an elegant London department store. But a new job wasn't all Warren had in mind. He blackmail...

  • The Truth About Me and Bobby V.

    Janetta Johns

    Candy's finally in the right crowd. But there's a problem - she's the only one without a boyfriend. So she invents one, to stay popular with her new friends. But Candy's lie backfires when the gang wants her to bring her beau to a dance. Where can...

  • Fish Tales

    Nettie Jones

  • Reluctant Merger

    Alexis Hill Jordan

    She would never give in. Her father had meant the Emerson Mills Gazette to be a rural Maryland paper. Award-winning publisher Claire Tanager meant to keep it that way. It would never be part of Spence McCabe's new East Coast chain. But there w...

  • Forgotten Passion

    Penny Jordan

    His pride made him believe the worst! Five years ago, Lisa Hayward had fled her exotic island home of St. Martin's, leaving her just begun marriage in ruins. Back in London, she concentrated on raising her son, Robbie--Rorke's son The c...

  • Lost Worlds of Cronus

    Colin Kapp

    Mercury Shell, Venus Shell, Earth, Mars, Asteroid, Jupiter, Saturn. Each shell concentric, studded with artificial planets, each planet embedded in its shell, spinning like a ball-bearing. The whole Zeus-created in the service of Man but now beyond h...

  • Souvenir

    David A. Kaufelt

    In Nazi-occupied Paris, Floy Devon, a beautiful American turned French movie star, finds her life threatened when it is discovered that her aunt leads an underground Resistance group, flees the Gestapo, and finds love with the cynical Max Winterhagen...

  • The Love of Elspeth Baker

    Myron S. Kaufmann

    Elspeth Baker - vibrant, gutsy, irrepressible, single and pregnant. Her lover suggests a back-alley abortion. Her girlfriends recommend mustard and castor oil. Her long-suffering parents rush her to an expensive doctor. But Elspeth sidesteps them...

  • Freedom or Death

    Nikos Kazantzakis

  • Success to the Brave

    Alexander Kent

    It is the spring of 1802. The Peace Treaty of Amiens, signed only a few weeks earlier, is already showing signs of collapse as Britain and France wrangle over the return of colonial possessions won and lost during their long, bloody war. In the li...

  • Sizzle and Splat

    Ronald Kidd

    Sizzle -- Prudence Szyznowski -- is the star trumpet player for the Pirelli Youth Orchestra. Splat -- Arthur Hadley Reavis Pauling III -- is the talented new tuba player. But they may never get the chance to make beautiful music together, since the o...

  • The Disciple

    Laird Koenig

  • Patarran

    Jacqueline La Tourrette

    Loving a gypsy was forbidden, even though gypsies were vital to Patarran's destiny. Like her ancestor, Julia was to enraptured to care... In the late 16th century, the Lord of Patarran had defied tradition and fallen in love with Magdalena, a wild an...

  • Oak Island

    Gene Lancour

  • Mekong Massacre

    John Lansing

  • Greetings from Earth

    Glen A. Larson; Ron Goulart

    In the vast emptiness of space, the Galactica at last makes the long-awaited contact -- a spaceship of fellow humans from Earth! The Council wants to keep them under observation, but Apollo sets out with the Earthlings on a secret and perilous missio...

  • Heart's Paradise

    Lucy Lee

    TOGETHER THEY WERE AS WILD AS THE ROARING SURF When Cory Wells accepted a temporary job in Kauai, she hadn't planned on falling in love with the jewel-like island--or with the charismatic Buck Bower. Buchanan Bower--scion of one of Hawaii's old...

  • Serengeti Sunrise

    Georgette Livingston

    THEIR PASSION-FEVER RAGED HOTTER THAN THE SUN SHE WAS RAVISHED BY THE WILD WINDS OF TROUBLE... To veterinarian Morgan McCullough, Africa meant practically everything. So she couldn't welcome home the prodigal son, Joshua Thorn, the daredevil bu...

  • Sweet Bliss

    Daisy Logan

    Bliss McCord steps demurely from a fifth-floor window ledge into an unknown office--and encounters exuberant, overwhelming Cade Rankin, who claims she's an angel sent from heaven especially for him! As Cade woos her with passion, whimsy, and devil...

  • Slocum's Women

    Jake Logan

    SLOCUM'S PARADISE. A prairie settlement that has a free love philosophy and the women to back it up! It was just Slocum's luck to stumble on this paradise with an eight-man posse on his trail. And just his luck to find that none of his hosts knows wh...

  • Slocum Gets Even

    Jake Logan

  • The Tomorrow Testament

    Barry B. Longyear

    The entire Enemy Mine series gathered in one volume:

  • Death Wishes

    Philip Loraine

    The tiny village of Montferrat, near St. Tropez, is abuzz with speculation. Who will inherit the magnificent villa and fabulous art collection of the late, eccentric, pleasure-loving Edward Walden? Will it be Catherine (just arrived from New York), t...

  • Channel's Destiny

    Jean Lorrah

  • Anastasia at Your Service

    Lois Lowry

    Twelve-year-old Anastasia has a series of disastrous experiences when, expecting to get a job as a lady's companion, she is hired to be a maid....

  • Tea with the Black Dragon

    R.A. MacAvoy

    R. A. MacAvoy's Tea with the Black Dragon is the tale of a woman named Martha MacNamara -- brought west to San Francisco by her daughter's disappearance -- and of the man who changed her life: a mysterious Asian gentleman named Mayland Long who riske...

  • The Worldshakers

    Milt Machlin

  • Raven's Longest Night

    Donald MacKenzie

    Retired British Inspector Detective John Raven finds himself accused of murder and enmeshed in a web of blackmail, government intrigue, and patriotism while vacationing on the sunny coasts of Portugal and Spain...

  • Only a Dream Away

    Kathryn Makris

  • Destiny's Sweet Errand

    Deirdre Mardon

    Their lives became entwined in destiny's sweet errand... Claudia Cleary knew from the start that she was facing an uphill battle against red tape and bureaucracy when she began to search for her natural mother. Adopted at an early age, Claudia lov...

  • Tied Up in Tinsel

    Ngaio Marsh

    The acclaimed author brings us crime at a country-house Christmas party in “one of her best and most baffling mysteries†(Daily Express). It’s the Christmas season in 1972, and Agatha Troy is at a house party, enjoying the local holiday pageant...

  • Under The Mistletoe

    Michele Mathews

    Her father was shocked Her mother, surprised! The guests, astounded! Or so Megan felt when a handsome stranger took her in his arms and tenderly kissed her under the mistletoe. It was going to be the best Christmas vacation Megan had ever exper...

  • Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own

    Shawna McCarthy

  • Raid on Nightmare Castle

    Catherine McGuire
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  • Judge Benjamin: Superdog

    Judith Whitelock McInerney

    THIS DOG'S LIFE IS ANYTHING BUT DULL! Meet Judge Benjamin--200 lovable pounds of St. Bernard, sworn protector of the O'Riley family. Keeping up with full-time mischief-makers Seth, Kathleen, and Annie is a tough job, and Judge Benjamin has his paw...

  • Daring Proposal

    Tate McKenna

    Together they watched the torchlit procession ski down the mountain. Then they let the night carry them along on its own silvery magic. But it went too far... so much farther than Krystal intended. She'd wanted to lay seductive ground for a shrewd de...

  • Beyond All Stars

    Melinda McKenzie

    Ann Lafton was cool--a brilliant scientist, a daredevil pilot, and now a hand-picked astronaut. But working with Colonel Edward Saber, her mission commander, was sheer emotional chaos. Whenever he was near her, whenever he touched her, Ann's hard-won...

  • Fox's Lair

    Ian McMahan

  • Passion's Slave

    Kay McMahon

    THE HAWK was the image that came to Alanna's mind whenever she saw the sleek powerful master of Raven Oaks plantation. Beau Remington was the kind of man who would stalk his prey until he got what he wanted. He wanted lovely Alanna. Just one look...

  • What About the Baby?

    Clare McNally

    MOTHER. BABY. AND EVIL MADE THREE…Though little older than a child herself, Gabrielle Hansen is determined to give her baby all the love that had been denied her in the orphanage she called home. Except as the baby grows inside her, strange chants ...

  • Lots of Kisses

    John Meikle

  • Daddy Was Numb Runner

    Louise Meriwether

    Told from the perspective of a 12-year-old girl, this popular novel documents the disintergration of a black family in Harlem in the 1930s. A compelling, readable, occasionally funny work, it vividly illuminates the life of the ghetto, not just the d...

  • Fancy Free

    Suzanne Michelle

    HEIGHTS OF PASSION Terri King was in her element when she was soaring above the clouds, but movie star Ryder Jack preferred to be on the ground, surrounded by his adoring fans. Yet his kiss was a reminder of all the things Terri King thought she d...

  • Desire and Destiny

    Linda Lael Miller

    "MCFARREN CAN'T BE DEAD!" A bellow of primitive rage escaped Joshua Tanner. He felt possessed, demonic. The pleading of his sister went unnoticed. He had only one thought, one need. He had to find McFarren's daughter. But wou...

  • Sonora

    Hank Mitchum

    When gold fever raged through the California boom town there was usually enough money riding the stages to tempt an angel -- and the Sonora Kid was no angel. Hidden beneath his black silk hood he waged an unstoppable one-man war of violence and robb...

  • September Song

    Lisa Moore

    After her husband's death, beautiful, talented Lauren Rose had vowed never again to let anyone come between her and her career. Now, on a glamorous cruise aboard the Queen Elizabeth II, she was facing the supreme challenge of her life, as a dress des...

  • 1934

    Alberto Moravia

    Moravia is not simply painting the portrait of an age but also coming to grips through his art with the great questions of all ages - the erotic, love, death, and the purposes of life. 1934 recapitulates the major themes of his art and at the same...

  • Branded Heart

    Alice Morgan

    From first sight, he left her with a branded heart "Could you have an erotic dream about this man?" Joy Sanders questioned a friend while holding up a magazine advertisement. To Joy, the answer was yes. But dreaming about rodeo star Jake Travis...

  • Delaney

    Gilbert Morris

  • Black Thunder

    Roberta J. Mountjoy

    Night Wind, wise ruler of her beloved people... But could she tame the forbidden passion that raged within her tormented heart? The Chalanui lived in peace, and no one of her people would ever know the secret of Night Wind's rebel heart: The torment...

  • Death Therapy

    Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    FOR SALE: THE U.S.A.! Brain-dead mind-slaves in the U.S government have been stealing America's top secrets to sell to the top bidder. It's all the work of the sexy and sinister Dr. Lithia Forrester, whose brilliant mind control experiments have c...

  • Storm Child

    Susan Netter

    Book #17 of the Twilight series; 150 numbered pages. "Twilight: Where Darkness Begins" is an out of print teen horror series published between 1982 and 1987. There are 26 stand-alone books in the series written by various authors. The series was publ...

  • Midsummer Magic

    Kate Nevins

    While jogging along a mist-shrouded French beach, Diane James sees a man emerge from the sea like a god, his muscled body wet and gleaming. From that moment Greg Kimball brings enchantment to her summer days on the Brittany coast... But Diane is c...

  • Crimson Pagoda

    Christopher Nicole

    In 1890, when Constance Baird came to Imperial China, nothing could have prepared her for the strangeness or the splendor of this land and its people. Married to a stern missionary, Constance knew little of life... and even less of love. Her ravishin...

  • Starry Eyed

    Maureen Norris

    Never again! Nickie Monroe had vowed when her first collaborative writing venture proved a professional and romantic fiasco. But how can she resist world-famous tycoon Thomas Robinson Starr's challenging, lucrative offer to write his authorized biogr...

  • Fize of the Gabriel Ratchets

    Warren Norwood

    Return with contract diplomat Gerard Manley to the lost decade before the exciting adventures recorded in the Windhover Tapes. Recapture the intrigue, treachery and passion of his years as Consort to Fairy Peg,ruler of the Ribble Galaxy,and supreme C...

  • Savage Splendor

    Constance O'Banyon

    QUEEN OF LOVE As the wife of Tajarez, the mighty King of the Lagonda tribe, beautiful Mara Golden was respected and admired. But was she truly happy? By day she questioned her decision to remain in her husband's world. By night, when Tajarez crushed...

  • Rage to Love

    Maggie Osborne

    ISLAND OF DESIRE Beautiful, flame-haired Garnet Winters came from the chilly morality of 18th-century Boston to claim her plantation on the sun-drenched French island of St. Dominique. Nothing had prepared her for this place of nourishing beauty a...

  • Mountain Survival

    Edward Packard

  • A Mirror for Observers

    Edgar Pangborn

  • Storm in the Night

    Margaret Pargeter

    Julia's was a passionate nature A devastating warmth surged between Julia and her self-appointed guardian, Guy Guerard, the first time they met. Inexperienced in love, Julia let Guy take her to his estate in France, where she was paraded in vi...

  • Lone Haranguer Rides Again

    Brant Parker

  • The Perfect Choice

    Laura Parker

    It was April in Paris and love was in the air when Anna Foray met Count Rudi Andrassy. They were strangers in paradise, two seekers after beauty in the halls of the Louvre, and the night they shared was no less magical than the season and the setting...

  • Remember Me, My Love

    Valerie Parv

    She had always known he was still alive After three years of searching throughout Australia, Erin Wilding was certain she'd found her husband. Kirk had been missing and presumed drowned since crashing his plane into the sea off the Great Barri...

  • Playing with Fire

    Francine Pascal

    Too hot to handle... Watch out, Sweet Valley High! Once again, Jessica Wakefield has gotten her way. Fresh from her greatest social triumph, Jessica proceeds to sink her hooks into rich, handsome Bruce Patman, the most eligible, sought-after guy a...

  • Vengeance Rider

    Lewis B. Patten

  • The Land Endures

    Mary Pearce

    The year is 1919. Stephen Wayman decides to leave the hustle of his city law practice behind and take his wife and four children to the British countryside. There, at Holland Farm, they will experience all the wonders and hardships of farming life. A...

  • Embers of Desire

    Patricia Pellicane

    LADY OF POSITION ... INDIAN'S BRIDE ... PIRATE'S PRIZE ... Robust, beautiful, a young lady burning with inner fire -- this was Angelina Barton. Even her father's wealth and power could not force her to marry lecherous Walter McCray. So as the clou...

  • Stag Dinner Death

    John Penn

  • Tomb of the Shroud

    Lyn Phillips

  • The Follies of the King

    Jean Plaidy

    Edward the Second's first act on coming to the throne is to recall Piers Gaveston from exile, and the new king's devotion to the shrewd and avaricious young man soon becomes a scandal. It is assumed that when Edward marries one of the most beautiful ...

  • Hudson

    Helen Lee Poole

    When America was a vast wilderness of forests and waterways, Indians and trappers, a man and a woman met and fell in love. Their names were Abby Brewster and Edward Fournet. Managing to survive Indian raids and fighting armies of English, French a...

  • Ohio

    Helen Lee Poole

    Abby and Edward Fournet had come a long way since they were forced to flee New France into the raw western wilderness. But they were so much in love that it didn't matter where they lived as long as they were together. Beyond Fort Pitt, where they no...

  • Pony Express

    Donald Clayton Porter

    Legends were born and love was tested-- as a bold new spirit thundered across our nation....

  • The Valley of Bones

    Anthony Powell

    Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally p...

  • Anubis Gates

    Tim Powers

    An ancient Egyptian sorcerer whose powerful magic can change the history of the entire world! A modern millionaire with a sinister plan, who journeys back to England in 1810! A werewolf who switches bodies--then kills his victims to keep his id...

  • Ten-Boy Summer

    Janet Quin-Harkin

    If Jill wins the contest, she'll lose Craig forever... Jill's vacation gets off to a wild start when her best friend, Toni. thinks up a contest--- who can be the fist to date ten new boys! It seems like a great solution to a boring summer until th...

  • California Girl

    Janet Quin-Harkin

    Will she win her Olympic dream only to lose her love... In California, swimming was important and Jennie was determined to be an Olympic competitor. But at her family's new home in Texas, football is all anyone cares about. Jennie is alone, an outsi...

  • Love Match

    Janet Quin-Harkin

    Joanna's a 15-year-old super-jock who's not quite ready to trade in her sneakers and sweatshirts for three-inch heels and designer jeans. Then she joins the boys' tennis team...meets Rick...and decides she enjoys being a girl! But Rick's the no...

  • My Blue Checker Corker and Me

    Paul Radley

  • Hit Parade

    Rich Rainey

  • Laurie's Song

    Suzanne Rand

    Is she being used, or is she being loved? Laurie Adams isn't sure who she is anymore--a good student who writes beautiful poetry or a star-struck groupie for the local rock band. She's being pulled apart by two very different boys who are fighting...