Books Published in December 1985

New Books List: 312 titles

  • Faces of a Clown

    Jane Worth Abbott

    SHE WAS A FOOL -- FOR LOVE Making others laugh was the raison d'etre of professional clown Laura Fenton. All she wanted in exchange was the sight of a less troubled brow or sad eyes suddenly alight with joy. That and enough cash to keep her small ...

  • The Commander

    Paul Ader

  • Omens of Kregen

    Alan Burt Akers

    PRESCOT'S GREATEST CAHALLENGE! Striving to save his strife-torn empire of Vallia from the Nine Unspeakable Curses, Dray Prescot has faced a plague of murderous werewolves and attack by the witch hordes. Now he must conquer the bloodthirsty for...

  • The Fire Within

    Laine Allen

    In one breath he scares her witless, rescues her from tumbling off a cliff, and silkily tries to seduce her! To waitress Cara Chandler, flagrantly sensual millionaire Lou Capelli is a man to avoid. Yet her mischievous, matchmaking boss repeatedly hur...

  • The True Bride

    Thomas Altman

    "Ellen Campbell is eight months pregnant. Her husband loves her very much. This should be the most joyous time of her life. Yet terrifying things are happening, and all her deepest fears are coming true... Someone is watching her. At the supermarket....

  • The Intruder

    Thomas Altman

    One by one, the women of the fashionable community of Las Cosimas begin to die, some in compromising positions. Tobias Manning, ex-cop and now community security officer, worries for beautiful, bored Caroline Cassidy, whose new lover's face looks fri...

  • Sesame Street Counting Book

    Dina Anastasio

  • Encore Marmaduke

    Brad Anderson

  • Executive

    Piers Anthony

    To pursue his ultimate goals, the tyrant of Jupiter disguises himself as a rebel leader in this sci-fi saga from the New York Times–bestselling author. He was shaping his times as no one before him dared, mercilessly scourging an entire planet ...

  • Farewell to the Sea

    Reinaldo Arenas

    In this brilliant, apocalyptic vision of Castro's Cuba, we meet a young couple who leave the dreariness of Havana and spend six days at a small seaside retreat, where they hope to recapture the desire and carefree spirit that once united them. In a s...

  • Love Me Not

    Lindsay Armstrong

    "So, what am I going to do?" It was a question Leonie couldn't quite answer. But suddenly, she knew she couldn't go through with her plans of revenge against Guy Richardson. She'd been going to try to make him fall in love w...

  • Young Sherlock Holmes

    Alan Arnold

    ON HIS FIRST MURDER CASE, A BRILLIANT SCHOOLBOY IS SWEPT INTO A PERILOUS ADVENTURE! YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES When his friend the eccentric professor mysteriously dies, sixteen year-old Holmes suspects foul play. The eager detective drags his new ...

  • Kohn's War

    Fredric Arnold

    Fighter pilot, Fred Kohn, a nineteen-year-old Jewish boy from Chicago, finds himself fighting not only the Nazis but also a fellow officer and pilot, who is an implacable anti-Semite, in this autobiographical novel of World War II...

  • Flowing to the Sky

    Judith Arnold

    In just one day her life spun out of control Brooke Waters had to be talked into the event -- it wasn't her style to attend a big bash in Central Park, especially when it was held for people with unusual names. Nor was it like her to be attrac...

  • Teddy Teabury's Fabulous Fact

    Sandy Asher

    Can Teddy save his town from bankruptcy? FACT: Teddy Teabury's parents run Thistledown Inn, but ever since the superhighway was built, both traffic and business have been, slow in Thistledown. FACT: Teddy's armed himself with an amazing arsenal...

  • A Chance Encounter

    Mary Balogh

    THE MOCKING MARQUIS Miss Elizabeth Rossiter was finished with love forever - after a disastrous episode that had left her with a broken heart and a reputation that would be ruined should her scandalous secret be revealed. She had sought safety by ...

  • Ashes of the Past

    Monica Barrie

    When Blair Sanders first met famous playboy author Sean Mathias, she'd already been well-acquainted with his work. As head of 1,er own literary research company, she had investigated two of his previous novels, but was still surprised when Sean reque...

  • The Hidden Hand

    J. Sidlow Baxter

  • Yes is Better Than No

    Byrd Bayler

  • Attack of the Insecticons

    Lynn Beach

  • Dateline: Washington

    Patti Beckman

    The Chronicle's chief editor knew sparks would fly when he teamed up his two best reporters. Combine Bart Tagert's expertise at probing into political hanky-panky with Janelle Evan's zeal for investigation, and he'd blow the lid off the hottest story...

  • Teacher's Pet

    Ariel Berk

    A LOVING LESSON Cecily Adams left Long Island to begin again. She'd lost her husband, and the only way to forget was to leave it all behind. Her teaching certificate was her ticket to freedom. She was settling into life as a high school teacher...

  • False Lead

    Claire Birch

  • Yangtze Valley and Beyond

    Isabella Lucy Bird

  • Those Harper Women

    Stephen Birmingham

    Edith - the grande dame, daughter of old Meredith Harper himself. From the mansion under the blue skies of St. Thomas, she had watched her mother try to break into the ranks of the old money, and then lost her own daughter to the restless, golden soc...

  • Tin Woodman

    David Bischoff

    TIN WOODMAN, the novel, served as the basis of the authors' screenplay/screen story for the Star Trek: Next Generation third-season episode, Tin Man.Div Harlthor is a misfit by anybody's definition, a young man gifted with such strong psychic powers ...

  • String of Pearls

    Natalie Bishop

    Brittany Daniels and Devon Gallagher were utterly devoted...at one time. Passion had fused them together, but a painful experience turned mutual desire into mutual distrust. Her career as a top model and his drive as a top investigative reporter k...

  • Climb the Highest Mountain

    Rosanne Bittner

    Ever since her gaze locked with Lone Eagle's over a crimson campfire, young Abigail Trent knew her fate lay with the virile Cheyenne scout. She had married him, borne him children, and endured all the hardships of the rugged frontier. But even though...

  • The Catch of the Season

    Jackie Black

    Freedom meant everything to Catherine James. And freedom meant money. When her father died and it looked as if Amalgamated Oil would fall into the hands of her inept younger brother, she had to act. Cato Cassidy, her father's partner, had to be lured...

  • Where's That Duck?

    Mary Blocksma

  • The Matthias Ring

    Rebecca Bond

    Had the man she loved put her in danger? When Lauren Malin went to Budapest in hope of adventure and romance, she got more than she'd bargained for. On her way home, she was harassed by Hungarian customs agents. Strange events continued once Laure...

  • Long Tomorrow

    Leigh Brackett

    One of the original novels of post-nuclear-holocaust America, The Long Tomorrow is considered by many to be one of the finest science fiction novels ever written on the subject. The story has inspired generations of new writers and is still as mesmer...

  • Free Amazons of Darkover

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    FROM THENDARA TO THE HELLERS AND BEYOND... Return with Marion Zimmer Bradley and the Friends of Darkover to the planet of the Bloody Sun, the world of Darkover, where powerful families gifted with rare mental powers of loran rule the land, where T...

  • The Stallion Man

    Joan Bramsch

    His eyes smoldered from magazine ads, his lips murmured seductive invitations across the airwaves. But in the flesh, Hooker Jablonski -- the real-life model for Stallion Man cologne -- was more gorgeously devastating than Juliet McLane had ever drea...

  • Kinch

    Matt Braun

  • Too Much Too Soon

    Jacqueline Briskin

    Three sisters. Vastly different...equally talented...stunningly beautiful...destinies forever entwined by the one man who opened their eyes and their hearts to TOO MUCH TOO SOON....

  • Interior Designs

    Pamela Browning

    Was love worth the risk? With the opening of her exclusive interior-design boutique Cathryn Mulqueen thought she'd attained all her goals -- she was chic, successful, a local celebrity whose photograph appeared regularly in the West Palm Beach...

  • Killer Station

    Martin Caidin

  • Through the Eyes of Love

    Jo Calloway

    She loved running her life the way she -- and she alone -- saw fit. Leigh-Anne Dancer enjoyed the independence of owning her own flower shop in her native Alabama. But her neat, ordered world was shattered when she saw someone jump from a train and f...

  • Hook, Line and Sinker

    Elaine Camp

    FISH OR CUT BAIT.. Roxie would have to tell Sonny the truth someday. True, she was a reporter for Sportspeople, but an expert fisherwoman? Never! Why had she agreed to the deception? Were an interview with the country's top angler and her boss'...

  • Down the Garden Path

    Dorothy Cannell

    In a charming English village, nothing is what it seems ... Tessa Fields is a young orphan determined to uncover her true origins. With the help of the Misses Tramwell, two endearing elderly ladies, and the reluctant assistance of her secret love,...

  • Tender Is the Night

    Helen Carter

    Forceful, dynamic Chris Carpenter fascinates Toni Kendall. But she wants more than a fling, and a man wilds named his boat The Siren, his dinghy The Flirt, and his cat Romeo hardly seems ready for commitment! Moreover, Chris is her superior at Lytel ...

  • The Get Along Gang and the Crybaby

    Susan Chapman

    How can the gang get Portia Porcupine to stop crying? She cries about every little thing? Montgomery Moose has a funny idea. So join the gang and join the fun. The Get Along Gang helps children learn the importance of getting along....

  • The Runaway Debutante

    Elizabeth Chater

    HER FOOLISH FATHER HAD GONE GAMING AGAIN -- AND HAD LOST HIS DAUGHTER IN THE BARGAIN! Barely out of the schoolroom, Matilda Mountavon is presented with odious news: her rakehell father has gambled away the family fortune and the only settlement he c...

  • The Winter Heart

    Lillian Cheatham

    She'd gone from one predicament to another Meg had taken the blame when her young stepsister, Carol, provoked a tragic accident. And in the ensuing publicity she, and not Carol, had been branded a cheap little adventuress. So when novelist Si...

  • The Education of Miss Patterson

    Marion Chesney

    THE GRIM GUARDIAN For lovely young Miss Patricia Patterson, life seemed a delightful dream -- until the spectre of her guardian, Lord Charles Gaunt, cast a shadow over her carefree days of idleness and enchanting evenings of dazzling balls and del...

  • Hold on to Forever

    Francine Christopher

    "YOU DON'T GIVE AN INCH, DO YOU?" Garth D'Anno was used to getting his own way. What he wasn't used to was women like the unyielding Katie O'Connell--especially when he found out she was the new high-school wrestling coach. Garth had expected a...

  • Guilty Parties

    Dana Clarins

  • Fatal Run

    Ernest Clark

  • Chiaroscuro

    Peter Clothier

  • The Court of a Thousand Suns

    Allan Cole; Chris Bunch

    Having fought his way from slave labor on a factory world to commander of the Eternal Emperor's bodyguard, the most dangerous weapons Sten has encountered in Prime World are the lies of Court politicians. When a bomb goes off, however, he discove...

  • A Glimpse of Sion's Glory and Other Stories

    Isabel Colegate

  • Without a Hitch

    Marion Smith Collins

    He sent her into a tailspin It was glorious to be footloose, buzzing along the interstate toward a new life in Florida. Libby Hamilton could think of nothing else -- until she caught Holt Whitney's grin in her rearview mirror. He was glorio...

  • Kingdom Come

    Jarrod Comstock

  • A Stroke of Genius

    Helen Conrad (1)

    Mimi Markman had found a haven of peace and quiet at Cypress Retreat -- the artists' colony on the California coast. She'd come to work on her sculpture -- hidden away from the world. Then composer Jeffrey Lane moved in next door. The grand p...

  • Tears of Gold

    Helen Conrad (1)

    Could he create an illusion of love? The day Pamela Starbuck encountered mystery-man Michael Donovan panning for gold on her property, her heart had been heavy with the burden of having to sell the home her family had treasured for generations. ...

  • Temptations

    Linda A. Cooney

    Beautiful but shy Holly Harris is thrilled when Eddie Santiago asks her to the prom, but she fears that scheming Nadia Lawrence's false announcement that Holly's father is a millionaire might have prompted Eddie's invitation...

  • The Initiate

    Louise Cooper

    Down all the ages the twin powers of Order and Chaos have been locked in an eternal struggle for control of the worlds of men. Somewhere beyond the realms we know, in a time when Order as triumphed, a child is born; a nameless outcast destined to ...

  • Shuttle Down

    Lee Correy

  • Aftershocks

    Catherine Coulter

    RIGHT PLACE, WRONG TIME When Dr. Elliot Mallory met Georgina "George" Hathaway, almost everything seemed to be right. They liked the same jokes, shared a love of sports, and the chemistry that drew them together was the most powerful he'd ever kno...

  • Fire Song

    Catherine Coulter

    Dear Reader: Lord Graelam de Moreten is a warrior, a man both hard and ruthless, a man who takes what he wants and never looks back. Kassia de Lorris of Brittany is gentle yielding, untested in the ways of men. She cheats death only to find her...

  • American Revolutionary

    Arthur Byron Cover

    IT IS THE YEAR 1774. You have traveled back to the American Revolution. A stranger grabs you and accuses you of being a British spy. He looks familiar, but you're sure you've never met him before. Should you find out more about this mysterious man...

  • What's Bred in the Bone

    Robertson Davies

    Second in the Cornish Trilogy following The Rebel Angels. “An altogether remarkable creation, [Davies’] most accomplished novel to date.†-- The New York Times  Shortlisted for the Booker Prize   Francis Cornish was always good at kee...

  • First Things First

    Barbara Delinsky

    Love was easy... in paradise Chelsea Ross was devoted to finding missing children. But Samuel Prescott London, the son of a wealthy Boston socialite, was not the usual runaway--he was a forty-year-old executive! Discovering Samuel's hideaway ou...

  • River Lady

    Jude Deveraux

    In a chance encounter on Virginia's riverfront, Leah, a beautiful waif, unwittingly captured the one man she had always loved! Handsome, well-born Wesley, in an unexpected twist of fate, becomes Leah's reluctant husband. Determined to forge a n...

  • Steel Brother

    Gordon R. Dickson

  • Old World, New World

    Mark Dintenfass

  • Wise Grandmother Duck

    Disney Book Group

    Donald and his nephews head to Grandma's farm for a vacation and, when they arrive, learn that Grandma has lost her farmhand. With much work to do, the boys pitch in eagerly, but that is not Donald's idea of a vacation. He develops mysterious complai...

  • Cold Dog Soup

    Stephen Dobyns

    Michael Latchmer, instructed to bury the corpse of a date's pet dog, finds himself on a Dantesque adventure with a Haitian cab driver who claims that he can get money for the dog's body. ''This is a ludicrous, occasionally amusing romp,'' said PW , a...

  • Winning Hearts

    Gloria Douglas

    It was well worth the wait When top model Elizabeth Jackson was sixteen, she had been helplessly in love with John Logan. That is, until the rugged cattleman had spurned her childish advances. But six years later, things were different. Six years ...

  • Golden Flame

    Dorothy Dowdell

    ONE GOLD MINE. TWO MEN. A WOMAN WHOSE DREAMS WILL NOT BE DENIED. Stylish San Francisco, 1894. A world of fabulous balls and high society. But for beautiful Dorcas Hamilton, whose grandfather has all but bankrupted the family with his investment in...

  • Not Exactly a Brahmin

    Susan Dunlap

    DEATH BY CADILLAC Telegraph Avenue ain't what it used to be now that gentrification has gotten under 'way. But Jill Smith, the junk-food-loving, smart and savvy Berkeley cop, hasn't changed. Chugging along in her vintage VW to fetch a pint of choc...

  • Retrieval

    Colin Dunne

  • The Two Mrs. Grenvilles

    Dominick Dunne

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • â€œMurder most swank . . . required reading.†-- Vanity FairWhen Navy ensign Billy Grenville, heir to a vast New York fortune, sees showgirl Ann Arden on the dance floor, it is love at first sight. And much to the...

  • If You're Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow

    Cooper Edens

    If tomorrow morning the sky falls...have clouds for breakfast. If you have butterflies in your stomach...ask them into your heart....such are the unconventional solutions offered to lifes problems in If Youre Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Ra...

  • Stronger Than Passion

    Emily Elliott

    Her South Texas hometown was far from the heady heights of New York's modeling world, but Maureen Garteiser had left the fast lane behind. At thirty, she craved new beginnings: her own beauty salon -- and a husband and family to make her life com...

  • Lone Star and the Alaskan Guns

    Wesley Ellis

    GUNFIGHT ON THE GLACIERS Starbuck's prime scout has turned up dead in the frozen capital of the newly formed Alaskan territory, and Jessie and Ki know the cartel can't be far behind. There's a wild and dangerous wealth to be had in this savage new l...

  • Moonlight Serenade

    Laurel Evans

    LIFE IN THE SLOW LANE was fine with Emma. She loved running a radio station in the small Connecticut town. So when television producer Simon Eliot invited her to give a speech in New York, she refused. But when Simon kept returning on weekends, E...

  • Longarm and the Stagecoach Bandits

    Tabor Evans

    GHOST RIDER! Black Jack Slade was supposed to be dead, hanged long ago by a vigilante gang in Virginia City -- but did they really do the job? Somebody's still robbing the Julesburg Stage on its hardscrabble run up to Holyoke. Somebody who knows whe...

  • Islands in Turquoise

    Barbara Faith

    SHE NEEDED SOME TIME ALONE Marisa Perett was on her way home when Hurricane Bertha swept through the Florida Keys, leaving destruction in her wake. When Marisa rescued newsman Michael Novak from the sea, his effect on her was just as devastating....

  • Hearts Don't Lie

    Terri Fields

    Michelle just can't get into a holiday mood. Her boyfriend, Steve, is on a school ski trip in Colorado - with his bubbly ex-girlfriend, Heather. Michelle wants to believe in Steve's love, but Heather is very pretty, and the Colorado mountains are ver...

  • The Big Pasture

    Clay Fisher

    The blows that fate hands tough thinking, tougher acting, money seeking Stark knock him down but not out and soften him up for a new start with loyal friends -- and a loving wife. He takes his vengeance out on Nella, learns she has double crossed him...

  • The Apache Kid

    Clay Fisher; Will Henry

  • Warbonnet

    Clay Fisher; Will Henry

  • Journey to Atlantis

    J.J. Fortune

  • Write On!

    Dorothy Brenner Francis / Dorothy Francis

    Vonnie was moving again. It was always a heartache and a challenge. This time she was less concerned about her diabetes, for she had picked up an exciting new skill. She knew it would be of help in setting new goals and in making new friends. Sure en...

  • Revolution

    Richard Francis

  • Love's Redemption

    Kathleen Fraser

    Sinful Seduction. A lock of Hilary Pembroke's glorious red hair fell over the strong hand tracing a tantalizing caress along the low bodice of her satin gown. Suddenly Patrick Lyle tightened his powerful embrace, preventing her from pulling a...

  • The Last Frost Affair

    Joy Freeman

  • Video Fever

    Kathleen Garvey

    ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS! Film and video should have been Nell's favorite class, but it was spoiled for her by the insistent, infuriating comments of Daniel McEnroe, who seemed to think of himself as Mr.Video in person. As a budding scr...

  • Heathcliff Life

    George Gately

  • School for Slaughter

    George G. Gilman

  • Revenge Ride

    George G. Gilman

  • The Rebel of Rhada

    Robert Cham Gilman

  • Rent-A-Bride Ltd.

    Emma Goldrick

    There had to be a catch... "You're not to be afraid," the stranger on the flight from Denver reassured Stacey. And suddenly her predicament seemed less overwhelming. His warmth and strength instilled courage in her as if by osmosis. ...

  • Razor Game

    James Grady

  • Hemingway's Notebook

    Bill Granger

    Everyone is looking for it on St. Michel in the Caribbean. Here the president is a raving lunatic, the "Black Police" have the run of the capital, guerilla forces mass in the hills, an organized crime syndicate plans its own takeover, and U.S. agent...

  • Shattered Moon

    Kate Green

  • Its Me Christy

    Phyllis Green

    Every girl in sixth grade is allowed to wear pantyhose but Christy! So Christy decides to steal a pair. And she gets caught! For punishment she has to spend a whole week with her "bad" grandmother - a truck driver and very tough old lady whom Chri...

  • It's Me, Christy

    Phyllis Green

  • Gateway to Xanadu

    Sharon Green

  • Beyond Blame

    Stephen Greenleaf

    Berkeley, California. Birthplace of the free-speech movement. Site of campus sit-ins. Home to flower children. And now, two decades later, a city of murder. Psychologist Dianne Renzel has been killed-not just murdered, but mutilated in her own bed...

  • The Missing Mr. Mosley

    John Greenwood

    While Inspector Mosley, is away, a series of bizarre events, including the disappearance of Janie Godwin, an eccentric old woman, plagues the peaceful village of Hempshaw End, and Detective-Superintendent Grimshaw and Sergeant Beamish are at their wi...

  • Evil Stalks the Night

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Twenty years ago psychic Sarah Summers fled from the evil that lurked in the woods behind her childhood home after it killed most of her family, but a nasty divorce and financial hardships forced her back when nothing else could have. With her son, J...

  • Summer Dreams

    Bill Gutman

    This jock-romance features a pair of runners. Kim has a hard time adapting to big-time competition, and Derek realizes he may be at his level of incompetence in the fast company of Olympic High. A few minor characters float through the plot, which is...

  • A Child's Book of Prayers

    Michael Hague

    Michael Hague's beautifully illustrated, best-selling collection of traditional prayers. From "The Lord's Prayer" to "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep," the nineteen verses included are familiar, comforting, and appropriate for even the youngest child, whi...

  • The Final Diagnosis

    Arthur Hailey

    The #1 New York Timesâ€"bestselling author’s classic novel of life and death drama inside a major American hospital -- “easy to read and hard to stop reading†(Kirkus Reviews). Change is in the air when a new board chairman sets out to mod...

  • Northlight // Quiller

    Adam Hall

    QUILLER --The Bureau's top intelligence agent. Quick, deadly, he moves into the world's hot spots at a moment's notice. His mission: get in, get the job done and -- if he can -- get out alive. DEADLY DECEPTION Murmansk -- On the eve of a summit m...

  • Dragonsbane

    Barbara Hambly

    THE MAN WHO SLEW A DRAGON When the Black Dragon seized the Deep of Ylferdun, young Gareth braved the far Winterlands to find John Aversin, Dragonsbane--the only living man ever to slay a dragon. In return for the promise of the King to send help t...

  • Machine

    Denis Hamill

  • The Love War

    Paula Hamilton

    Jaimey Carson -- disk jockey and star of the city's hottest call-in radio program, "Romance on the Airwaves" -- was San Antonio's number-one matchmaker. Until the station's new owner arrived, determined to make radical changes -- ...

  • Nebula Awards: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 1985

    Harcourt Brace

    An anthology of the best in science fiction for 1984, selected by members of the Science Fiction Writers of America, features a work by the winning novelist, award-winning shorter pieces, and an essay on the year in science fiction...

  • Nebula Awards: SFWA's Choices for the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy 1984

    Harcourt Brace

    An anthology of the best in science fiction for 1984, selected by members of the Science Fiction Writers of America, features a work by the winning novelist, award-winning shorter pieces, and an essay on the year in science fiction...

  • The Tincup Railroad War

    J.D. Hardin

  • The Crystal Dove

    Mollie Hardwick

  • Orinoco Adventure

    Elaine Harper

  • John Creasey's Crime Collection, 1985

    Herbert Harris

    This outstanding collection features stories--some previously published, some published here for the first time--from such masters as P.D. James, Peter Lovesey, Antonia Fraser, Julian Symons, and many more...

  • Perils of P. K.

    Navia Hayden

  • Fire in Paradise

    Betty Henrichs

    She thought she'd had enough of football to last her a lifetime. A bad marriage to a star football player had left journalist Ashley Buchannan with a love and knowledge of the game but a healthy distrust of the men who played it. Yet the offer of...

  • The Day Fort Larking Fell

    Will Henry

  • Fourth Down Death

    Michael T. Hinkemeyer

    At Pater Noster University, a co-ed is murdered, a local woman has visions of the Virgin Mary on the golf course, and Sheriff Emil Whippletree finds himself in conflict with America's best football team...

  • The Goddess Game

    Burt Hirschfeld

  • A Much Needed Holiday

    Joan Hohl

    A CHRISTMAS ANGEL For Kate Warren, Christmas was a time of indifferent parents and empty feelings. So when she saw the beautiful child lost among the holiday shoppers, she vowed to give the neglectful parent a piece of her mind. But she was unp...

  • Shining Moment

    Diana Holdsworth

    ONCE IN A LIFETIME a woman like Kate Brenner came along. Derek Langley had been smuggled out of. Russia when he was a child. Now he had a chance to go back to rescue the father he dearly loved. Kate was a member of the acting troupe that was to pr...

  • Whoppers

    Nancy J. Hopper

  • Enter Frederick K. Bower

    Anthony Horowitz

  • Fatal Attraction

    Imogen Howe

  • The Beetle of Aphrodite and Other Medical Mysteries

    Michael Howell

    Twelve recreated medical cases--from Robert Bruce to the Marquis de Sade--demonstrate how doctors throughout history have had to become detectives to track down the elusive causes of infectious diseases and unexplained deaths...

  • Target

    Stephen Hunter

    Walter Lloyd. Middle-American. Easy-going Texan. Soon to face the biggest test of his life when his past comes to haunt him with a vengeance. Donna Lloyd. Housewife. Kidnapping victim. She'd do anything for her family. Now she'll learn that they'l...

  • Devil's Gambit

    Lisa Jackson

    Tiffany Rhodes's problems with her breeding farm started long before she met Zane Sheridan, a horse breeder with a reputation for shady dealings. Yet she couldn't help feeling relieved when Zane offered to buy her out. Though Tiffany didn't trust...

  • Expensive Sins

    Paula Jacobs

  • Promises and Lies

    Susanne Jaffe

    Hers was a Cinderella story in search of a happy ending. As a shy girl in a small Midwest town, Valerie Cardell longed to escape her hateful life-and the violent familywho abused her with their tyrannical jealousies and bitterness. But she shocked th...

  • Now or Never

    Arlene James

    HANDYMAN From the first moment she laid eyes on him, Mary Judith thought there was something suspicious about Nolan Tanner. Why was her brooding new tenant so secretive about his background? Though his past was shadowed, Nolan always made the futu...

  • A Summer Smile

    Iris Johansen

    He appeared in her life with the unexpected force of a desert sandstorm, sweeping her from terrifying danger into the sweet haven of his arms. Daniel Seifert was a fierce man, used to taking whatever he wanted, but Zilah, the spirited woman he'd ...

  • Jackeen J. O'Malley for Congress

    Crockett Johnson

  • The Merry Month of May

    James Jones

    A family of intellectuals comes apart at the seams during the 1968 student revolts in Paris The Parisian student revolts of May 1968 shook the countryand the European continentto its foundations. In a tradition-obsessed nation where the old-gu...

  • Desire for Revenge

    Penny Jordan

    Sarah believed in love at first sight One enchanted evening at a masquerade ball Sarah French fell in love with a sapphire-eyed stranger. "I want to make love to you," he murmured. As if in a dream Sarah answered, "I want it, too......

  • Edge of Reckoning

    Marianne Joyce

    Was he the man of her dreams...or part of a nightmare from her past. A Dangerous Passion. Sara Holliday was determined to uncover the long buried secrets of her childhood. Twenty years ago her beautiful mother had suddenly disappeared in the wi...

  • The Courier

    Derek Kartun

    Released from prison to carry out a perilous mission, Quinton is given the task of transporting the French Treasury for Paris to Portugal in his vintage Bentley to keep the money from falling into the hands of the Nazis...

  • Like the Lion's Tooth

    Marjorie Kellogg

  • Troy Chimneys

    Margaret Kennedy

    FIRST PENGUIN BOOKS EDITION. 1985 trade paperback. Margaret Kennedy (The Constant Nymph). A Victorian gentleman is forced by illness to entertain himself with the family archive, and he uncovers the Regency-era correspondence and diaries of one Miles...

  • Eyas

    Crawford Kilian

  • The Hahnemann Sequela

    Harold King

  • A Machine Called Indomitable

    Sonny Kleinfield

    Profiles the scientist who adapted for clinical use a nuclear magnetic resonance scanner that can detect the difference between a cancer cell and a normal cell by its chemistry, and which may replace X-rays, surgery, and CAT scans....

  • Jewel of the Moon

    William Kotzwinkle

    Fifteen short stories, ranging from the Italian Renaissance and czarist Russia to a double amputee singing on the streets of New York. The much-anthologized title story has been called the most erotic ever told....

  • The Legend of Weathertop

    Heike Kubasch

    The War of the Ring is over, but evil things live on. High on Weathertop, the ancient and revered site known as Amon Sûl, Orcs gather to attack travelers on the Great East Road. Within the peak lies a secret passage to the Deeps, great caverns benea...

  • Labyrinth

    Jon Land

    "The Committee" has masterminded a fiendish, far-reaching plot rooted in the highest corridors of power. Code name: Tantalus. Tantalus -- all the more daring because it is so obvious -- strikes at the very lifeline of humanity. Its aim is enormous, h...

  • September's Dream

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    IN AN ICY WILDERNESS, A DELICATE BEAUTY DARED TO LOVE--THE TOUGHEST MAN IN THE YUKON! Lovely September Malloy traveled from San Francisco to Alaska with one dream-to find her renegade gold miner father. Then she was robbed by a smooth con man, and...

  • The Nightmare Machine

    Glen A. Larson; Robert Thurston

  • Home Free

    Kathryn Lasky

    Fifteen-year-old Sam Brooks wants to move back to his home town in Indiana from Massachusetts, until he joins an old wildlife photographer in a fight to save the Quabbin Reservoir, a bald eagle refuge from developers...

  • Conte's Run

    Adam Lassiter

  • Triangle

    Adam Lassiter

    It's Dennison's toughest assignment: shut down the Golden Triangle drug connection for good. But to stop the deadly stream of white poison from seeping onto U.S. streets he must first eliminate the kingpins....

  • Orchids for Mother

    Aaron Latham

  • Lawyers for the People

    Elizabeth Levy

  • New Man

    Carrie Lewis

    IT WAS A CHANGING WORLD… But Rick wasn’t at all sure that he wanted to be a part of it. He wasn’t really the type to glory in a challenge and to thrive on risks. Yet the very first day of the fall term he would be initiating a project that c...

  • Love Only Once

    Johanna Lindsey

    WHEN LOVE IS BOTH TORMENT AND ECSTASY... Her life changed forever the night she was abducted from a dark London street and carried to a stranger's townhouse. At first Regina Ashton was amused, then outraged at the arrogance of this bronzed, golde...

  • Afternoon of An Autocrat

    Norah Lofts

    Sir Charles Augustus Shelmadine was an autocrat. He ruled his village with a firm but kindly hand--instructing his tenants on their crops, their children and their love affairs. And when he died and the new Squire came, the village stirred uneasily. ...

  • Six-Gun Bride

    Jake Logan

  • The Death Hunters

    Warren T. Longtree

  • Power and Seduction

    Amii Lorin

    In raw November Tina Merritt returned to her seaside home in Cape May, New Jersey, seeking solace, escape. But there was no escape from Dirk Tanger, who held the key to her trust fund--and to a lock on her heart. She tried to hate him, to blame him f...

  • The Destiny of Isabelle Eberhardt

    Cecily Mackworth

  • Maid of Honor

    Charlotte MacLeod

    A young woman must escape family conflict -- and find her own identity -- in order to track down a thief in this novel by an acclaimed mystery writer. -- Persis Green’s existence has been overshadowed by the looming prospect of her older sisterâ€...

  • They Stood in the Door

    Don Macnaughtton

  • Christmas Masquerade

    Debbie Macomber

    CHANGE PARTNERS Jo Marie first met Andrew, her dream man, in the crush of a Mardi Gras parade. But by Christmas, he was introduced to her as someone else's fiance. Yet Jo Marie noticed that Andrew and his intended didn't always act like...

  • A Lust for Danger

    Margaret Malkind

    Their brief encounter was flash-fire passion shared in the face of death. Sylvia Goddard hadn't even seen Hank Weston's face as they hid in the dark hut, escaping the gunfire of the Paraguayan police. She knew only the comfort of his hands, his kind ...

  • Some Women Dance

    Helene Mansfield

    THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL Theirs was a world of dazzling splendor, and they were its stars. Show girls in Europe's most spectacular extravaganza, they danced in the glamour capitals of the world to the wild applause of princes and dukes. Showered wi...

  • Everything We Wanted

    Lindsay Marcotta

  • Hero at Large

    Aimee Martel

    RESCUE MISSION When Leslie Allen went to the Air Force Pararescue school, it was to report on the operation to her employer, the Department of Defense. She knew she would encounter opposition because she was a woman, and because the school guarded...

  • From This Day Forward

    Sandra Marton

    It hadn't been a storybook marriage But all the same Caitlin had been shattered when her husband dies. She threw herself, heart and soul, into building up Justin's business, determined to further the prospects she had always held dear. ...

  • The Three Little Kittens

    Jean Marzollo

  • An All-Consuming Passion

    Anne Mather

    Morgan didn't play Holly's kind of game Morgan Kane arrived on Pulpit Island in the Caribbean with strict instructions: collect his boss's daughter and bring her back to London. Holly Forsyth had no intention of leaving her job at t...

  • Shady Lady

    Jan Mathews

    Catherine Coulton strikes a deliberately provocative pose. It's hot and her feet hurt, but she's got a job to do--arrest the man for solicitation. Instead, she kisses him back for all she's worth...and is fighting mad when she learns he's Nick Samuel...

  • Tame the Restless Heart

    Patricia Matthews

    HER HEART CRIED OUT FOR ONE MAN, BUT SHE WAS HOSTAGE TO ANOTHER. HER NEW, EXCITING WORLD GLITTERED WITH AS MUCH PROMISE AS HER DEEP NEW LOVE. Lovely, talented Laura Purcell married the wrong man for the wrong reasons. Soon she is cut adrift fr...

  • A Chance of Rainbows

    Anne McAllister

    It was different when it was your own life Lainie Tucker couldn't believe that Griffin had left Los Angeles. After a whirlwind courtship and seven short months of marriage, how could he leave? Lainie would have counseled one of her clients to ...

  • D.C. Death March

    Mike McCray

  • Louisiana Firestorm

    Mike McCray

    The Black Berets have met the enemy—and he lives next door!Letting a struggling Chicano gas company run its pipeline across their Louisiana land struck the Black Berets as a good idea—especially once Cowboy got an eyeball on Isabella Cifu...

  • The Red Man Contract

    Mike McCray

    The Black Berets are back—and headed straight into a massacre.In Mesa County, Nevada, the tide of history was about to change. A tiny tribe of Indigenous Americans had just beaten the white man in his own court—and won title to some of th...

  • Skinner

    Richard McEnroe

  • A Bug in the System

    Seth McEvoy

    Unfairly accused of stealing money from automatic teller machines and tampering with school data banks, Chip, the android boy, searches for the true culprit while fending off Erin's schoolgirl crush on him...

  • Find the Kirillian!

    Seth McEvoy

    More than an app! You make the decisions! You are an Interplanetary Spy. Your mission is to capture Phatax, the Kirillian. He is a ruthless criminal who has stolen the Royal Jewels of the planet Alvare and kidnapped its young prince. You must recover...

  • Spies Like Us

    Gordon McGill

  • The Exile Waiting

    Vonda N. McIntyre

    Center, sole surviving city in a storm-torn Earth, is like some hilltop city of the Renaissance, only wholly underground, and quarried out of a limestone cave system. The ruler is a Medici figure gone to seed: it's a hierarchical, free enterprise soc...

  • Of Earth and High Heaven

    Melinda McKenzie

    Dr. Brooke Bryant had her feet on the ground but wanted to test her daring theories miles above it on a NASA space station. But first she had to get past top astronaut Harry Pritchard-and when she found herself in an intense affair with him, she had ...

  • Imaginary Lands

    Robin McKinley

    A collection of short fantasy tales includes works by Patricia McKillip, Jane Yolen, Joan Vinge, Peter Dickinson, James P. Blaylock, P.C. Hodgell, Robert Westall, Michael de Larrabeiti, and Robin McKinley...

  • Country Mouse and City Mouse

    Patricia C. McKissack / Pat McKissack

  • My Science Project

    Mike McQuay

  • The Death Ceremony

    James Melville

    Inspector Otani submerges himself in a murder at a ceremonial tea in James Melville's latest, highly praised mystery. Martin's....

  • Pursuit in the Wilderness

    Jan Michaels

    A deadly game was being played out... Blythe Daniels had looked forward to spending a week camping in the Adirondack mountains. After reaching the shelter high up in the woods, she discovered that someone else was there--a man wearing a shoulder h...

  • State Secrets

    Linda Lael Miller

    Holly Llewellyn's life was suddenly swept away in the current of controversy. She was an honest, hardworking cookbook author. But her brother was a fugitive who left Holly with his young son, calling only to ask for money. And Holly's cousin was a...

  • Tempest

    Helen Mittermeyer

    "I'm not giving up this marriage without a fight!" Ross Tempest vowed, and his wife Sage shivered at the fury and hurt in his voice. Married very young to the dynamic industrialist, Sage felt she'd never belonged in his life. His family had cowed her...

  • Renegades of Luntar

    Roger E. Moore
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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  • Two in a Huddle

    Diana Morgan

    Selena Derringer, reluctant new co-owner of the worst team in the National Football League, is drowning her sorrows with tequila when a dark stranger takes advantage of her muddled state to wangle a job as quarterback! Though supposedly past his a...

  • Knight's Possession

    Carole Mortimer

    Could he slay all her dragons? After years of watching her mother's gullible heart drive her from one man to the next, Laurel had decided to marry, for sensible reasons. She didn't believe in fairy tales, knights in shining armor and happy...

  • The Bustan

    Sa'di S. Shaikh Muslihu-D-Din

  • Finding the Center

    V.S. Naipaul

  • The Counterfeit Secretary

    Susan Napier

    Ria was tired of leading a double life James Everett, the domineering head of Everett Communications, had never found a secretary who could meet his impossible standards--not until Ria Duncan came along. James demanded cool efficiency and exclu...

  • Eye of the Beholder

    Charlotte Nichols

    BELOW THE SURFACE Beneath her beautiful exterior, Daina Wellsfry hid a bitter past. Her father had always tried to manipulate her and refused to understand her commitment to the handicapped children she taught. But Daina found in them something sh...

  • Soft Lies, Summer Light

    Peggy Nicholson

    THE SCHEME WAS ABSURD: IT WOULD NEVER WORK! Tricking little old ladies was not Alison Eriksen's strong suit. And posing as a lady's companion for the sake of a dubious painting was not her idea of a fun summer. Despite fake credentials ...

  • Blind Duty: Call to Arms

    Frederick Nolan