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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — DECEMBER 1989

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New Books List: 409 titles

  • Deathgrip

    Jerry Ahern

    A death grip is strangling our precious liberty as martial law marches across the land. The President has been murdered, and the Big Lie told the American people -- that David Holden and his Patriots are guilty! But there is one hope: evidence exists...

  • Attack of the Seventh Carrier

    Peter Albano

  • Bedside Manner

    Jo Ann Algermissen

    WINNING WAYS... Dr. Kristie Fairbanks had spent a lifetime trying to gain her father's respect and admiration. When he reluctantly let her assume management of the Fairbanks Care Centers, she saw her chance to prove herself. But then he hired hos...

  • Therapist

    Richard Alleman

  • The Crime of the Century

    Kingsley Amis

    When a series of murders performed by a killer with a peculiarly thin blade take place in London, Detective Superintendent Bill Barry is recalled from retirement. Doctors, psychologists, lawyers and politicians join in the hunt, but the biggest crime...

  • The People's Republic

    Paul Fusey Amor

  • Intense Involvement

    Jenny Arden

    "I never give up on a challenge!" Brave words, but Elise was beginning to wonder whether her job as physiotherapist to the domineering Luc de Rozanieux would end in her resignation -- or her dismissal. She knew the dangers of getting in...

  • One More Night

    Lindsay Armstrong

    Disturbed, angry, and at odds That just about summed up her reaction to Rick Emerson, Evonne thought bitterly. Ever since she'd first laid eyes on him. When she agreed to do her employer a favor, she'd expected to be helping a young, u...

  • Pat's Promise

    Sandy Asher

    More than anything in the world, Pat would love for her father to come to visiting day at Miss Drew's Ballet One class so she can show him how she dances, but Pat's parents are divorced and Pat's dad seems to have something more important to do that ...

  • Stealers' Sky

    Robert Asprin; Lynn Abbey

    THE GRAND FINALE OF THE THIEVES' WORLD ADVENTURES! Welcome to SANCTUARY, a city of outlaws and adventurers in a world of war and wizardry, peopled with colorful characters created by today's top fantasy adventure talents, including: LYNN ABBEY ...

  • Devil's Deal

    Richard Austin

    HELL ON EARTH The Guardians emerged from the ashes of World War Ill. Their mission: to restore post-nuclear America to its former glory. Armed for justice, these guerrilla freedom fighters are civilizations last hope in a savage wasteland. Now-...

  • Silent Tears No More

    Judy Baer

    Lexi Leighton's friend Binky is interested in a guy at school but feels out of it. Her clothes, her hair everything seems out of style. The perfect solution seems to be a babysitting job that will allow her to get a new wardrobe. Everything begins to...

  • Jeremy Quacks

    Bruce Balan

  • The Gilded Web

    Mary Balogh

    TWOFOLD TEMPTATION Dark-haired and beautiful Miss Alexandra Purnell had a problem that most young ladies would have adored. Not one but two handsome lords had offered her marriage - and Alexandra had only to choose between distinguished Edmund Rai...

  • Tunnel Rats: Mud and Blood

    Cliff Banks

  • Magical Hands

    Marjorie Barker

  • Gorgon Child

    Steven Barnes

    IN THE NIGHTMARE FUTURE OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ONLY THE STRONGEST SURVIVE Raised on the streets of a devastated twenty-first century torn by plagues, riots, and social decay, Aubry Knight was trained to be a lethal killing machine. Betrayed b...

  • Night Secrets

    Jerry Barton

  • The Great Male Conspiracy

    Betty Bates

    Twelve-year-old Maggie vows to have nothing to do with the male sex when her brother-in-law deserts her older sister and their baby, her father becomes wrapped up in his research, and Todd, a classmate, teases her unmercifully...

  • To Weave Tomorrow

    Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford

    There were boundaries around Daniel's heart Jamie Forrester had come to the Texas-Mexican border town with a head full of dreams, determined to help the youngsters she taught find a brighter future. But some children were illegals, and Jami...

  • Sherlock Holmes in Gibraltar

    Sam Benady

  • A Tempting Miss

    Janice Bennett

    DRESS REHEARSAL Miss Augusta Carstairs was overcome with mortification every time she recalled her last encounter two years before with Major Edward MacKennoch. What had possessed her to so shamelessly try to induce him to kiss her, she couldn't...

  • And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees

    Michael Bishop
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  • Brass Cross

    Bruce L. Blackie

  • Adam Blair

    Adam Blair

  • Father Christmas

    Mary Blayney

    'TIS THE SEASON Annie VerHollan would have done anything for her adorable eight-year-old nieces -- even put up with their Scrooge of a father. So what if she'd loved Daniel Marshall -- and hated him -- for ten years! When the handsome widower offere...

  • Bernie Entertaining

    Larry Bograd

  • The Edge of the Wood

    Alan Bold

    "Rarely has any collection of short stories had such a range as this. Satire, slap-stick comedy, pathos, realism, fantasy, murder are all here, and all told in fine, concise prose. We expect that from Alan Bold, one of Scotland's outstanding poets an...

  • Dream Date

    Carla Bracale

  • 29/29

    Nick Bragger

  • Predator's Waltz

    Jay Brandon

    A PAWN TICKET TO DEATH Pawnshop owner Daniel Greer is losing everything. In the seedy and rapidly changing Houston neighborhood where he built a solid business, a new Vietnamese competitor is stealing his customers. Desperate and too trusting, Gre...

  • Mrs. Scrooge

    Barbara Bretton

    ALL PATTY WANTED WAS A FATHER OF HER OWN Normally, chemistry didn't present a challenge to ten-year-old genius Patty. But man-woman chemistry was a different thing, and it had Patty stumped. Patty thought she only had to find the perfect fa...

  • Earthfall

    Jerry Brown

  • A Whole New Light

    Sandra Brown

    Cyn McCall desperately wanted something to happen, to shake up her life and turn it around -- but when Worth Lansing tempted her to share a weekend in Acapulco, did she dare go? Her husband Tim had died more than two years before, and Worth, his busi...

  • The Ravishers

    Gerald A. Browne

  • Waverly Place

    Susan Brownmiller

  • Horse Show

    Bonnie Bryant

    THE SADDLE CLUB GIRLS GET SET FOR SOME BIG CITY EXCITEMENT! Stevie, Carole, and Lisa are thrilled when they get the chance to attend the American Horse Show in New York City with Mrs. Reg and their teacher Max. Not only is it the most important horse...

  • Giotto

    Mario Bucci

  • The Devil's Mode

    Anthony Burgess

    Included in this collection are eight short stories and a 110-page novella, "Hun", about the life and loves of Attila and his fight against the patricians of Rome. The author has written over 50 books including "Any Old Iron", "Earthly Powers" and "A...

  • Coffin in Fashion

    Gwendoline Butler

    Scotland Yard's eminent Detective John Coffin was a mere sergeant. Anticipating a promotion, he now buys a house that needs repairs and proves a catalyst to dire events. Workmen find the body of an adolescent boy under the floor--and Coffin, though i...

  • Star Bright

    Martin Caidin

    Burning with the pure raging fury of countless suns, energy feeding on everything it touches, growing. Project Star Bright, top secret nuclear experiment, is now beyond control. Is this the way the world ends?...

  • Unforgettable

    Linda Cajio

    As James Farraday rode past on his polo pony, Anne Kitteridge sighed. The man was impossibly handsome, with Robert Redford's jaw, Cary Grant's smile, and a delectably muscled body that would make any woman melt! She'd known him all her life, had once...

  • The Snow Garden

    Bethany Campbell

    She was filled with Christmas dread -- Why did Hedy's new home have to be on Holly Street -- where everyone "Made a big deal of Christmas" -- and right next door to irresponsible maniac extraordinaire, Ty Marek? "If there'...

  • Nibbled to Death by Ducks

    Robert Campbell

    Jimmy Flannery is a tough, red-headed little Irishman--a Chicago sewer inspector, Democratic precinct captain, and part-time sleuth with a heart of gold. In NIBBLED TO DEATH BY DUCKS, he returns from vacation to discover that Chips Delvin, his sewer ...

  • Maneaters

    Peter Hathaway Capstick

  • Prentice Alvin

    Orson Scott Card

    Orson Scott Card, author of the bestselling science fiction novel Ender's Game, also created a series to satisfy fantasy readers.Prentice Alvin Young Alvin returns to the town of his birth, and begins his apprenticeship with Makepeace Smith, committi...

  • Final Performance

    Robert Carley

  • Some That Smile

    Robert Carley

  • Here Comes Kate!

    Judy Carlson

  • The Case of the Constant Suicides

    John Dickson Carr

  • The Demoniacs

    John Dickson Carr

    ONE WAS DEAD, THE OTHER ALIVE… One was a vile old bawd who lived in a brutal world that suddenly turned on her. The doctor said she died of fright -- but her killers knew better… The other, lusty and young, escaped from a brothel only to fa...

  • Hell-Bound Express

    Nick Carter

  • The Mooncalf Murders

    Noel Vreeland Carter

  • Campground Caper

    Mel Cebulash

  • Double-Dyed

    Raymond Chaplim

  • Scoundrel's Caress

    Carolyn Chase

    THIRTEEN COLONIES Thirteen novels of sensual romance and breathtaking adventure about the men and women whose pioneering spirit forged this great American nation. PRISONER OF DESIRE Lovely Caroline McLeod, penniless and proud, had staked all h...

  • Game of Hearts

    Sally Cheney

    APPEARANCES CAN BE DECEIVING When governess Josephine Foster arrived at Westover Manor, she thought it rather odd to find herself presented to the young master as a worthy object for his affections. But since the man was the devilishly handsome De...

  • The Blue House

    Naishan Cheng

  • Music Box

    Deborah Chiel

    When the government accuses her father of being a Nazi war criminal, successful Chicago lawyer Ann Talbot steadfastly defends him, but as the facts of the case emerge, she is torn between loyalty and conscience...

  • Repulse Monkey

    Dick Cluster

    Stated First Edition. A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Soiling to the edges of the book's upper page block. Review copy with publisher's folded, 8 1/2" x 11" letter laid in. Rubbing along the upper edges of the letter....

  • Monster Valentines

    Joanna Cole

    Rosie and Prunella cannot agree on how to celebrate Valentine's Day because Rosie is a friendly monster and Prunella is a mean monster. The humorous sequel to Monster Manners and Monster Movie. Full color....

  • Double Life A.Jones

    Hila Coleman

    Angela, a sixteen-year-old girl from a poor neighborhood in New York City, learns not to judge people by their socio-economic class after she reluctantly accepts a scholarship to a fancy boarding school....

  • The Dragon Never Sleeps

    Glen Cook

    THE VOICE OF THE DRAGON ECHOED ACROSS CANON SPACE... "Surrender or die!" For four thousand years the Guardships had issued that dictat. Built and armed by great mercantile houses, their computer cores alive with the engrams of great past leaders, ...

  • A Beautiful Place to Die

    Philip R. Craig

    A GREAT PLACE TO VISIT... BUT YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO DIE THERE During his career as a cop on the back streets of Boston, Jeff Jackson saw enough of the evil that men do to last a lifetime. So he retired to the serenity of Martha's Vineyard, to spend...

  • Storm Force

    Sara Craven

    Jay Delaney, on camera, had a dynamic appeal Offscreen, his blend of magnetism was even more potent. Not that Maggie was interested. She'd had enough problems in her life recently, and the last thing she wanted was an uninvited guest to dis...

  • Edin's Embrace

    Nadine Crenshaw

    WAR HUNGRY VIKING The crash of a wooden club and the howl of a Norse cur forever shattered innocent Edin's dreams of marrying her childhood sweetheart. And when the svelte young beauty found herself in the grip of her betrothed's killer, Edin vowe...

  • The Confessions of Aleister Crowley

    Aleister Crowley

  • Hardball

    Barbara D'Amato

    FOR A SOFT-SPOKEN GRANDMOTHERLY TYPE, LOUISE SUGARMAN HAD A LOT OF ENEMIES... As head of Common Sense, an organization to repeal Illinois' drug laws, Louise had earned the wrath of the PTA, police and church groups all over Chicago. Free-lance jou...

  • The Colorist

    Susan Daitch

  • The Lizard War

    John Dalmas

    It's a thousand years after World War III and Earth lies supine beneath the heel of a gang of alien sociopaths (they look like snakes with legs) who like to torture whole populations for sport. The Lizards could not have conquered us in our heyday, b...

  • Going Out in Style

    Gloria Dank

    Wealthy Bella was the first to go. You could say she was a fashion victim. Bella Whitaker was quite sure her night on the town would be a night to remember. Her black velvet gown was all the rage, her diamond earrings opulent without being ostentatio...

  • Pulse

    William R. Dantz

    A top-secret biological warfare project begins killing off the citizens of a small Maine town and then resurrecting them as flesh-eating zombies, and Susan Cullen, who uncovers the blunder, must figure out a way to stop the carnage...

  • The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection

    Ellen Datlow

  • The Best Gift of All

    Andrea Davidson

    ALL SPENCE WANTED WAS A MOTHER TO LOVE Spence Carruthers had a room full of toys, a live-in grandfather who knew all about fishing, and a father who'd forgotten how to count his blessings. Mark Carruthers had run so hard and so long from childh...

  • Satin Dreams

    Maggie Davis

    STUNNING BEAUTY INSATIABLE AMBITION. EXPLOSIVE PASSION. She had it all. She was known throughout ultra-chic designer circles as Alix, the hottest American fashion model in all of Paris. Women envied her dazzling success. Men worshipped her stre...

  • Hellhole

    Clay Dawson

  • Sweet Adeline

    Sharon De Vita

    FOR YOU I PINE... Searching high and low for her grandfather in a Las Vegas casino was no easy task for Adeline Simpson -- she'd never even been out of Muncie, Indiana, before! Grandpa was nowhere in sight, but Mac Cole was. Adeline never imag...

  • Montana Man

    Barbara Delinsky

    He gave her direction Picking up a hitchhiker in a blizzard was a dangerous thing to do, but Lily Danziger was already living on the edge. Having run from the so-called security of New England society, she and her newborn were on their own -- dest...

  • That Which is Crooked

    Doris Miles Disney

    Wally Howard was prissy and puny, and he knew too well what it was like to be the runt of the litter. It was a dog's life, all right, but Wally was not about to roll over and play dead. Some of the tricks he knew were a bit extraordinary--because...

  • Sankov Confession

    P.S. Donoghue

    A routine debriefing assignment for field operative Brent Graves turns into an international maze of deception and murder when a Soviet defector reveals sensitive information that could topple entire nations. Reprint....

  • Can't Quit You, Baby

    Ellen Douglas

    “It is rare when a book this fine enters the world of contemporary American literature.†â€" The Boston Globe

    Two women share a Mississippi household for fifteen years, rolling out piecrusts and making conversation. Cornelia is rich, whit...

  • Seaserpents!

    Gardner Dozois

  • Precog

    Lee Duigon

  • Every Woman Loves a Russian Poet

    Elizabeth Dunkel

    Kate Odinokov, an attractive 33-year-old advertising executive, contemplates suicide in this readable, if unremarkable, first novel, but admits, ``I could never kill myself: I love clothes too much.'' Already infatuated with her handsome Italian ther...

  • Two Corinthians

    Carola Dunn

    Lord Pomeroy's sister plays the matchmaker when she pairs her brother up with the spinsterish horticulturist Claire, who is herself Cupid for her sister, Lizzie, and the charming George Winterbourne, who, in turn, has designs on Claire...

  • The Magic Of Myrna C. Maxweather

    Sandra Dutton

  • The Raiders

    Tom Early

    FRONTIER GLORY! Texas, 1825. A vast, untamed land. From the open prairie to the timberline, settlers hungrily staked their claim in the savage territory. Some were willing to settle the land under Mexican rule -- but they faced rebellion and betra...

  • The Rake's Revenge

    Rachelle Edwards

    Cornelia Faraday considered herself all but betrothed to St.John Drimmer, her father's gentle curate, when she was whisked off to fashionable Tynings to make her social debut. -- Cornelia cared nothing for the beau monde, and even less for some of ...

  • Lone Star and the Gamble of Death

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki track down a stolen train -- and find a freight load of danger!How in tarnation could an entire train disappear into thin Nebraska air-along with the army payroll it was carrying? That's what Colonel Marshal Harrison wants to know -- an...

  • Longarm and the Deadly Jailbreak

    Tabor Evans

  • All for Nothing & Another Story

    W.P. Farnfield

  • Tomorrow We Die

    Elisaveta Fen

  • Nightwalker

    Sidney Filson

  • Alias Madame Doubt

    Anne Fine

    Miranda's three children thoroughly enjoy their huge, overdressed baby sitter/cleaning woman who is actually their father in disguise, and they dread the day when their mother discovers Madame Doubtfire is really her ex-husband....

  • In Full Possession

    Helen Flint

    British author Flint makes her U.S. debut with this slender tale whose implausibility is unredeemed by the febrile brilliance of her taut, idiosyncratic prose. Television repairman Benedict Ashe, age 38, lives in Sheffield with his dying mother, Bet,...

  • The Taboo Spy

    Walter Flohr

    Bored with her marriage, senior CIA officer Madge Feuer begins an affair with a handsome young Jamaican military officer, unaware that the Soviets intend to use her illicit liaison in a bloody, ruthless bid for power...

  • Renegade

    Christine Flynn

    Ellie Bennett had always wanted more than just to live under the collective thumb of her model-citizen family. But in Aubrey, Oklahoma, you did what was expected of you. Oh, she'd secretly dreamed of defiance, but her dream had never become a reality...

  • A Suitcase in Berlin

    Don Flynn

  • The Willow Cabin

    Pam Frankau

  • The Winged Horse

    Pam Frankau

  • Makeshift Marriage

    Janet Franklin

    A PRACTICAL ARRANGEMENT Carefree Rachel Carson's life had changed when she suddenly became sole guardian of her orphaned niece and nephew. For their sake, she'd deferred her dreams, taken a steady if unexciting job and converted her one-be...

  • The White Horse

    Margaret E. Frere

  • Taking the Veil

    James Friel

    A story about a priest with a grudge, a father with a secret, a red-headed lesbian called Sonny, a blond young lover called Andreas, a woman hanged with her own tights and a girl who thinks she is a car. James Friel is the author of "Left of North"....

  • South Texas

    Anne Gabrielle

  • Texas Garlands

    Sarah Gallick

  • Biggest Valentine

    David Gantz

  • The Ghost of Tintern Abbey

    Henry Gardner

  • Aspects Of Love

    David Garnett

    A young boy, a beautiful actress, an elderly aristocrat - troubled desire and tangled emotions flowering against the glowing backgrounds of Southern France, Italy and Paris, in perilous defiance of the barriers of age. Such are the 'aspects of love' ...

  • Dead Fix

    Michael R. Geller

    Jockey Ken Eagle is mystified when a wealthy racehorse owner keeps buying worthless horses and transforming them into winners. Are his techniques genuine - or is there another more sinister reason for his success?...

  • Marci's Secret Book of Flirting: Don't Go out without It

    Jan Gelman

  • Death Squad London

    Jack Gerson

    Former German police inspector Ernest Lohmann is called in by Maurice Kovel to investigate the mysterious "suicide" of Kovel's daughter, whose body has been discovered in the Thames, in a mystery set in 1936 London...

  • The Closer We Get

    Ruth Glick

    Elena Castille The petite artist had traveled all the way to Santa Barbara to marry the man she loved. When Stephen suddenly spurned her affections, she was distraught. Pride wouldn't let her return home to Venezuela. Stephen Gallagher A min...

  • Who's Afraid of Haggerty House?

    Linda Gondosch

  • The End of It

    Mitchell Goodman

    The End of It is a novel about an American fighting in Italy during World War II....

  • The Tijuana Bible

    Ron Goulart

    After a dying man appears on his back porch, Jack Deacon becomes unavoidably involved in a series of bizarre coincidences--plots against a beautiful woman and a chase up the California coast--that culminate in his pursuit of the Tijuana Bible...

  • Fire Queen

    Deborah Grabien

    Maeve, Queen of Connacht. . . Warrior, ruler, lover. She was everything men wanted. . . And her enemies feared most. At fifteen, the flame-haired queen was renowned throughout the Celtic world for her two-handed prowess in battle and her haunting, ot...

  • Make Room for Nanny // The Millionaire's Nanny

    Carol Grace

    BREAKING THE RULES Maggie Chisholm was determined to be the perfect nanny, and she gave all to her six-year-old charge. But nothing in her training had prepared her for the boy's sexy father. Garrett Townsend was undeniably masculine -- and Ma...

  • Death of a Hollow Man

    Caroline Graham

    A BLOODY DISASTER... The players of the Causton Amateur Dramatic Society (CADS) were well rehearsed and ready for their opening night production of Amadeus. But no one was prepared for the leading man to give his all to the climactic scene. With o...

  • Halfway to Heaven

    Katherine Granger

    ALL WORK AND NO PLAY Lindsey Andrews wanted to be Publicity Director at Wentworth Enterprises so she could see her late father's dream come to life. But after arriving at the interview, having lost her heel and limping like a lame duck, she co...

  • Dialing the Wind

    Charles L. Grant

    Night in Oxrun Station From the dark porch of a lightless house the music rises, seeking those listeners desperate for love...for only they will hear the hidden secrets of this very special song. Four people are trapped by their innermost desir...

  • Views from the Oldest House

    Richard Grant

    As the sinister Chief Administrator attempts to forcibly resettle a ``post-Dissolution'' America, a young student named Turner Ashenden stumbles upon the inhabitants of the enigmatic Bad Winters Institute of Science and Philosophy and throws a psychi...

  • All About Women

    Andrew M. Greeley

    You're in for an unforgettable experience when America's master storyteller turns his enormous narrative gifts to the passionate, haunting subject of the American woman, searching for--and often finding--love and faith... in Andrew M. Greeley's All A...

  • Bad for Each Other

    Billie Green

    Getting assigned to interview Dylan Tate was an incredible coup for Keely Durant -- the spectacularly handsome actor and sax player hadn't talked to the press for years -- but how could she tell her editor that five years earlier she and this her...

  • New Frontiers, Vol. 1

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Forever Love

    Maria Greene

    He found her lying beside the fallen coach, an exquisite beauty...quite dead. Then her body mysteriously vanished -- until, days later, still haunted by her memory, Carey McLendon looked across a crowded salon and saw her once again -- radiant with l...

  • The Fate of an Eagle

    Irving A. Greenfield

    John Wesley Anderson attempts to supplement his wealth, his art collection, and his mistress with political power, a maneuver that involves Anderson's use of his CIA contacts but that backfires when the Agency decides to terminate him...

  • Any Similarity to Persons Living

    Berkley Publishing Group

  • Holding Pattern

    Kali Hale

  • Emma Chizzit and the Queen Anne Killer

    Mary Bowen Hall

    SALVAGED Not one to spend her golden years rocking and reminiscing, Emma Chizzit is owner and one-woman crew of A-1 Salvage, looking for collectibles or hauling junk from old houses. Sure, some people get edgy--a woman her age in a battered pickup...

  • Dream Again of Love

    Phyllis Halldorson

    A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE... Years ago, Flynn Warren had taken one look into Mary Beth's terrified blue eyes and had known exactly what to do. The grief-stricken young woman was alone in the war-torn country, and it was up to Flynn to get her ...

  • Hanged Man in the Garden

    Marion Halligan

  • Changes

    Emily Hallin

    Meg encounters resistance and competition in her relationship with Stanley--from his mother, who would rather he dated debutante Daphne Wainwright, and from Wanda Zetterquist, who wants Stanley for herself....

  • Antaeus: Essays

    Daniel Halpern

  • Unfinished Business

    Carole Halston

    Though their tempest-tossed marriage had long since ended, Peter Roussell never got over fiery Tess Davenport. Back in New Orleans, he knew he had to see her again, had to claim her once more -- or forever exorcise the passion that ruled his life. ...

  • Atlanta Burn

    Bob Ham

  • The Diamond's Sparkle

    Celeste Hamilton

    MULTIFACETED LOVE Altruistic attorney Liz Patterson had little time for romance, a fact deplored by her Aunt Eugenia. Eugenia had given her niece heirloom diamond earrings -- no more brilliant than Liz herself, she'd said. Now Eugenia had found her ...

  • Betrayal of Love

    Diana Hamilton

    "A divorce? Is that what you want?" After four years apart, Leon's reappearance was an intrusion into Felicity's successful new life. She'd done her best to forget him. Leon Draker might not have changed much in that time, b...

  • The Book of Ruth

    Jane Hamilton

    PEN/Hemingway Award Winner: An “enthralling†novel of a woman trapped within a tragically dysfunctional family (Entertainment Weekly).   From the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author of The Excellent Lombards and A Map of the World, this is â...

  • Walk Tall

    Jean Hamilton

  • Two by Handke

    Peter Handke

  • Boomerang

    Barry Hannah

    Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Prize for his first novel Geronimo Rex and twice nominated for the National Book Award, Hannah ( Hey Jack! ; The Tennis Handsome ) again exhibits his antic imagination and spare but striking prose style. In his eighth book,...

  • Wild Times at West Mount High

    Janice Harrell

    Middle-class America goes Hollywood at West Mount High, where Susan Brantley finds an anonymous love note, the rest of the kids are concerned with cars, and everyone attempts to put up with an uptight principal....

  • The Devil's Spy

    Michael Hastings

  • Shining Still

    Richard Hawley

    Two gifted teenagers, Juliana and Paul, deeply and irrevocably in love, struggle to cope with parents who want to discourage the relationship for the couple's "own good" and discover that they must make the ultimate decision about their lives for the...

  • Spies on the Devil's Belt

    Betsy Haynes

    Captain Brewster's boats cross Long Island Sound to raid British garrisons near Setanket, and fourteen-year-old Jonathan, resentful errand boy and self-appointed spy, experiences unexpected intrigue, danger, and heroism...

  • Queen of the May

    Emily Hendrickson

    THE LADY WORE BREECHES Young Lady Samantha Mayne had no desire to be a proper young lady. Let her cousin Emma dress in fashionable gowns, attend glittering balls, and hunt a mate in the marriage mart. Samantha preferred to aid her brother George's...

  • The Dragon's Revenge

    Courtney Henke

    J. D. Smith watched the woman with the wild chestnut hair and sky blue eyes coach a football team of tough youths and wondered how it would be to tangle with the dragon lady! He longed to kiss Charly's defiant mouth, to watch her eyes change colo...

  • Be Still My Heart

    Patricia Hermes

  • Final Covenant

    Arnaldo Hernandez

  • A Rage in Harlem

    Chester Himes

    A Rage in Harlem is a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling New York City’s roughest streets in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. 
     
    For love of fine, wily Imabelle, haple...

  • Blind Man with a Pistol

    Chester Himes

    At once grotesquely comic and unflinchingly violent: the final entry in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, set in New York in the sweltering summer heat. “A sensual, surreal, cartoonishly violent and breathtakingly bawdy comic universe.†...

  • The Crazy Kill

    Chester Himes

    From “one of the most important American writers of the 20th century†(Walter Mosley) comes a classic thriller in the trailblazing Harlem Detectives series, in which love and jealousy erupt into violence.  One early morning, Revere...

  • The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1989

    Edward D. Hoch

  • Hell to Hallelujah and Ride to the Gun

    Ray Hogan

    In two complete novels, John Mosby is instructed by Robert E. Lee to blow up the Mogatawny Bridge to sever the Union's supply lines, and Dave Stanbuck fights to prevent Butcher Jaffick from taking over the entire Mangus Valley...

  • Christmas Stranger

    Joan Hohl

    CHRISTMAS EVE 1889 Shots rang out along with the peal of church bells. U.S. Marshal Matthew Hawk fell wounded onto the snow -- not ready to die. He'd just determined to make himself a better life, find a wife, maybe start a family. But Matt ha...

  • Nerve of abby Mars

    Judith Hollands

  • Savage Tides

    Mary Mayer Holmes

    His passion took her where she had never been...his secrets threatened to destroy them both! THE POWER OF THE OCEAN HELD THEM IN ITS SWAY. THE POWER OF THEIR LOVE WOULD FACE THE MOST SAVAGE TEST OF ALL... At 24, Philadelphia-born Augusta Mayhe...

  • The Secret of the Stolen Clue

    Laura Lee Hope

  • A Treasury of Yiddish Stories

    Irving Howe

    Collecting fifty-two Yiddish short stories into a single volume, this anthology of tales about life in the shetl and other aspects of the Jewish experience includes some of the most important literature produced by Jewish writers in the last two cent...

  • The Virgin's Heart

    Coral Hoyle

    He had lost her once He would not lose her again When Roxanne Costain arrives at Rammsford Abbey in the West Country, she is none too pleased to discover Alexander Monk there. Four years ago, she had broken their engagement and had vowed never to ...

  • Kids

    Trevor Hoyle

    After a brief stay in the hospital, little Danielle returns home with an evil gleam in her eye and a destructive energy that cannot be tamed, and soon no adult is safe from his or her own seemingly possessed progeny...

  • Hunter in the Dark

    Monica Hughes

  • Tombstone Temptation

    E.J. Hunter

  • Shadows

    Shaun Hutson

    As psychic investigators probe hidden areas of the mind, and as New York writer David Blake studies the methods of a miracle healer, they unwittingly release forces from deep in the human psyche--horrifying forces capable of incredible destruction...

  • Shadowlight

    Jackie Hyman

    The Radiants have long ruled the city of Ad-Omaq through their powers as adepts. Yet they are not the only magic wielders in the land. There is an older race, a horned people born of the mountains and drawing strength from nature itself. And to the R...

  • Not Just a Witch

    Eva Ibbotson

    Hecate Tenbury-Smith, who calls herself Heckie, is an animal witch. Even as a child she could give people whiskery snouts and thick black fur, and so her parents enrolled her in a school for witches -- good witches, that is. Now, a recent graduate, H...

  • Confirm or Deny

    Graham Ison

  • Tender Trap

    Lisa Jackson

    With his itch to travel spurring him on, young Colton McLean had vowed to wear blinders against sweetly tempting Cassie Aldridge. But one moonlit Montana night, passion had galloped out of control--and she'd tried to rope him into marriage. Refus...

  • Tales of the Tinners Way

    Beryl James

  • A Carol Christmas

    Muriel Jensen

    THE CHILDREN WANTED A FAMILY TO BELONG TO It was their last Christmas together. Housemother Carol Shaw wanted to make it special for Frank, Nicky, Dorcas, Kathy and Candy -- children who'd never had a family and faced an uncertain future in foster h...

  • 7 x 7 Tales of Seven

    Hanna Johansen

    A seven-year-old boy identifies with sevensleepers, little squirrel-like creatures who sleep for seven months, and he insists on doing everything in sevens, including going to bed at seven o'clock, eating seven potatoes, and taking seven minutes to w...

  • Cat's Eye

    William W. Johnstone

    SCARTCH. PURR Night after night the soft cat noises drifted through the isolated A-frame where famous author Dee Conner retreated to write her romances. Was it another harmless prank pulled by one of her fans? Or with it something much more sini...

  • Mercedes and the House of Rainbows

    Alan Jolis

  • The Darkest Heart

    Brenda Joyce

    SHE WAS CALLED THE BELLE OF THE SOUTHWEST Beautiful Candice Carter enjoyed the attentions of every eligible man in the New Mexico Territory, until her reckless heart led her to near death in the desert. But rescue came from a savage...Jack Savage,...

  • The Wild Horse Family Book

    Sybille Kalas

  • Castle of Crushed Shamrocks

    Lee Karr

    Blood Seeped Into the Flagstones... Aileen O'Connor grew up in England, believing that her soldier father had died fighting Napoleon and that her mother's native Ireland was a gentle, romantic land of shamrocks and leprechauns. Then, when she was...

  • Your Friend Annie

    Carole Katchen

  • Secret Lives of Edmo

    Lucy Kavaler

    The Edmonts, an aristocratic couple living in the puritanical and priggish 1890s, rebel against Victorian mores--Melanie by opening her boudoir to a steady stream of lovers, and Wallace by seeking a divorce...

  • Letters of Love

    Judy Kaye

    It wasn't an ordinary nurse-doctor romance It began with their confrontation over nurses' rights, since Kate Matthews was the nurses' representative at St. Mike's in Fargo, North Dakota, and Dr. Chase Kincaid had just been appointe...

  • The Ghost of Craven Cove

    Carolyn Keene

    MYSTERY IN THE MISTS.... Nancy, Bess, and George have been invited by their former grade-school teacher June Braden to spend their vacation on the coast of Maine. Miss Braden's brother, Karl, was recently lost at sea and is presumed dead, but his da...

  • Wrong Chemistry

    Carolyn Keene

    The Dean of Emerson College enlists Nancy to investigate the thefts of a valuable substance being used in a top-secret experiment. But when Nancy discovers that the experiment involves biological mutations, she knows she must find the culprit before ...

  • Gathering Storm

    Brian Kelleher

    THE SECRET WARRIORS -- They were America's top test pilots -- but the test they were making now would never make the headlines. They had to sneak America's newest air weapon -- the F-86 Sabre Jet -- into the skies over Korea to see if it stood up aga...

  • Marian's Christmas Wish

    Carla Kelly

    A VOW NOT TO LOVE Miss Marian Wynswich had not been raised to be a proper young lady. Instead she had been educated to be as good as any man in everything from reading Greek to playing chess. Thus it was with dismay that she saw what falling in l...

  • Southeast of Mandalay

    Frank Kenmore

    Colin Smallpiece, a James-Bond-like master spy, college professor, champion athlete and lover, travels to Burma's Golden Triangle to reclaim three United States nuclear warheads from a band of communist guerrillas...

  • African Short Stories

    Joan S. Kenna

  • Tiger's Eye

    Madeleine Ker

    He was tall, dark and dangerous Blaize Oliver was also a high-powered businessman who was out of Leila's league. Not that it mattered--she was only interested in her temporary role as his personal assistant. At least that's what she told h...

  • Passion's Far Shore

    Madeleine Ker

    He preferred experienced women And that Dorothy wasn't. The trip to Japan wasn't her main reason for accepting the job as little Pearl's governess. Quite simply her warm heart had gone out to the motherless child. She hadn't kno...

  • Old Turtle's Winter Games

    Leonard Kessler

  • Lady Lu

    Elisabeth Kidd

    No one, least of all Richard Wetherell, could predict what Lady Luisa Ingram would do next. When she turned up in Kent on the eve of Richard’s engagement to a local girl, he was exasperated but not surprised. Will the combined efforts of their frie...

  • Pearl

    Tabitha King

    Pearl Dickenson comes to Nodd's Ridge only to claim an inheritance but unexpectedly decides to stay, upsetting the tiny New England town's equilibrium with her exotic beauty. Settling in, she buys a local diner and turns it into a thriving gathering ...

  • Death of His Uncle

    C.H.B. Kitchin

  • Ice Dragon

    Richard A. Knaak

    He was a novice warrior, young and untrained, yet Cabe Bedlam fought the fierce shape-shifting Dragon Kings who sought to rule the world of man. Wielding his magic sword against their glittering scaled armor, he drove them back into their petty Drago...

  • Blood Line

    Alanna Knight

    Prior to a visit to Scotland from Queen Victoria, an unidentified corpse washes up on the rocks below Edinburgh Castle, the first in a series of baffling events that result in some suspicions that may have international repercussions...

  • The Baby Who Would Not Come Down

    Joan Knight

  • Love's Brazen Fire // The Paradise Bargain

    Betina Krahn

    She made him want her... but would he ever love her? SHE HAD TO PERSUADE HIM Barter was a way of life in Rapture, Pennsylvania and Whitney (Whiskey) Daniels learned long ago that everything has its price. So when an officer of the new federal g...

  • Jack Galaxy, Space Cop

    Robert Kraus

  • Brainrose

    Nancy Kress

    When Caroline Bohentin, Joe McLaren, and Robbie Brekke undergo Previous Life Access Surgery, the journeys into their separate pasts turn out to have an interwoven, horrifying relevance to the future of humankind...

  • Digging Up

    Nancy Krulik

  • The Spanish Tragedy

    Thomas Kyd

    New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes:

    The playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibliographical and textual standards
    Textual notes recording signi...

  • To Dance With Kings

    Rosalind Laker

    1664. The humble French village of Versailles is forever altered by the building of a dazzling palace by Louis XIV. Here, a loving and ambitious woman grasps a reckless promise and vows her peasant daughter will grow up to dance with kings. Thus b...