Books Published in January 1988

New Books List: 498 titles

  • Hard Rain

    Peter Abrahams

    Stephen King’s “favorite American suspense novelist” plunges a woman into secrets of the 1960s and ’70s as she races to save her daughter. Peter Abrahams (also known as Spencer Quinn, New York Times"bestselling author of the Chet and Bernie...

  • Anthills of the Savannah

    Chinua Achebe

    A searing satire of political corruption and social injustice from the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart"Achebe has written a story that sidesteps both ideologies of the African experience and political agendas, in order to lead us to a deeply h...

  • The Edgerston Audit

    Don Akenson

  • Mattie

    Judy Alter

    Young Mattie, poor and illegitimate, was introduced to an entirely new world when she was hired to care for the daughter of an influential doctor. By sheer grit and determination, she eventually became a doctor herself and set up her practice amid th...

  • Showdown

    Jorge Amado

    A classic Brazilian “Western” full of romance and adventure, violence and courage, and peopled with wonderfully earthy characters from the legendary author’s childhood.
     
    “Set in Bahia at the turn of the century, Showdown is brimming...

  • Deeds

    Joseph Amiel

    Thirty-six-year-old Ralph Behr is the third generation of Behrs involved in real estate development in New York. Wealthy and influential, Ralph is finalizing plans for the monumental Behr Center, a complex meant to revive Lower Manhattan's East Side,...

  • The Murderee

    Martin Amis

    Featured story is "The Murderee," by Martin Amis. Other contributors include: Raymond Carver Tess Gallagher Todd McEwen John Berger Angela Carter Don DeLillo Also included is "Death in Gibraltar," by Ian Jack...

  • Typecast

    Kristi Andrews

  • The Lord

    Soraya Antonius

  • Sinister Purposes

    Margot Arnold

    A mysterious, handsome American surprises pretty, blond Elizabeth Marchant in the English garden with an unusual request--to help an old school chum who is a prisoner of Libyan fanatics and holds information vital for U.S. national security...

  • Forecast of Love

    Katherine Arthur

    Alexis had little time for men Her single-minded dedication to a career had precluded a social life. She was a highly qualified economist, but as she was a woman, doors did not readily open for her. Jake Jensen's offer of a position was a s...

  • Victims

    Lorayne Ashton

    When J.B. Grandin, biographer of the late Madison Flagg, comes upon the writer's diaries, he becomes a target for a number of influential and wealthy people whose reputations will be ruined if the material is made public...

  • Author's Choice

    Elizabeth August

    TRAPPED BY LOVE Melinda Oliver was happily married...sort of. Circumstance had forced her into a temporary marriage with the dashing John Medwin, and now she had to maintain the facade of marital bliss. However, acting like a woman in love was the...

  • The Locked Room

    Paul Auster

    The remarkable, acclaimed series of interconnected detective novels – from the author of 4 3 2 1:  A Novel

    The New York Review of Books has called Paul Auster''s work “one of the most distinctive niches in contemporary lite...

  • The Last Forty-Eight Hours

    Norman G. Bailey

  • Mercenary Justice

    Chuck Bainbridge

    New York: Jove Books, 1988. Mass market paperback, about 7 inches tall, 186 pages. The fifth book in this adventure series. The men of the Hard Corps cut a bloody trajectory into the heart of Africa, where a small country is fighting for its life. Th...

  • Dark Desiring

    Jacqueline Baird

    His plan had worked -- she couldn't leave! Helen Coulthard arrived in Sicily prepared for a work-filled two weeks. It was only when her "boss" deposited her at Carlo Manzitti's villa that she realized her plight. Carlo Manzitti ...

  • Love Forevermore

    Madeline Baker

    The West -- it had been Loralee's dream for as long as she could remember, and Indians were the most fascinating part of the wildly beautiful frontier she imagined. But when Loralee arrived at Fort Apache as the new schoolmarm, she had some hard...

  • Running Wild

    J.G. Ballard

    Yet again J. G. Ballard’s inimitable clairvoyance is on display in this timely, powerful story of a community shattered by a massive act of violence. A massacre rocks a suburban utopia -- thirty-two adults murdered, and their children missing -- in...

  • The Kohga Ritual

    Wade Barker

  • Marisa

    Linda Lang Bartell

    BELOVED ENEMY Marisa de Brionne listened in stunned disbelief. Her father, a mighty Norman nobleman, had promised her hand to a knight of the defeated Anglo-Saxon armies. Brand Ericson was marrying only to secure his land -- wedding a spoiled and wil...

  • Friend of the Family

    Natalie Cilona Bates

  • Wee Color Wee Sing Dinosaurs

    Pamela Conn Beall

  • Sweet and Low

    Gail L. Becker

  • The Right Combination

    Jahnna Beecham

    Alexandra Clairborn's first day at Centennial High is more nerve-wracking than she wants to admit. She only knows two people in the entire school - her best friend Jill, and an obnoxious guy named Eric who wants to go out with her. Before the day is ...

  • In Alien Flesh

    Gregory Benford

    This collection of science fiction stories by the Hugo Award-winning author includes the classic title story as well as "White Creatures," "Doing Lennon," and "To The Storming Gulf;" by the author of "Artifact," "Timescape," and "Against Infinity"...

  • Share My Tomorrow

    Connie Bennett

    THEIR FUTURE RESTED ON HIS PAST Neal Grant was the most renowned submarine pilot in the business, and marine biologist Lillian Lockwood was thrilled to be working with him. Together they would explore ocean depths few had ever seen. Project Atlant...

  • Woodcutters

    Thomas Bernhard

    Fiercely observed, often hilarious, and “reminiscent of Ibsen and Strindberg” (The New York Times Book Review), this exquisitely controversial novel was initially banned in its author’s homeland. A searing portrayal of Vienna’s bourgeois...

  • Fireman Jim

    Roger Bester

  • Comanche Caress

    Cheryl Black

    COLORADO STALLION Frantic that she hadn't heard from her daddy in months, impetuous Ciara Davenport lit out of Dallas determined to track him down. But after her train was held up, her money stolen and her luggage lost, the hot-headed beauty wondere...

  • Class Act

    Alison Blair

    Freshman Angie Perelli becomes involved in a special ecology project, but Professor Stevens, the project sponsor, begins to pressure her for a romantic involvement, with threats of canceling the event if she won't give in...

  • Wave Me Goodbye

    Anne Boston

    Considers the often overlooked side of World War II, offering twenty-seven stories by women writers that render a sensitive portrait of life on the home front and the struggles to keep homes, families, and relationships alive...

  • Caprice

    George Bowering

    WITH A FOREWORD BY ARITHA VAN HERK. It''s the mid 1890s in Kamloops, British Columbia. Two men argue over a bottle of whisky and, in the struggle Frank Spencer, an American outlaw-turned-farmhand, kills Pete Foster, a French-Canadian and fellow farmh...

  • Betty's Wedding

    Michael Bragg

  • The Right to Remain Silent

    Charles Brandt

    Page-turning detective fiction from the author of I HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES / THE IRISHMAN who was himself a homicide investigator and prosecutor.Wisecracking cop Lou Razzi’s zeal, dedication and talent for extracting information from suspects make ...

  • Nobody's Baby

    Barbara Bretton

    TONY GRAHAM WAS ALL WRONG FOR THE JOB As they traveled the blue highways of Nevada, rolling into desert towns too small to appear on any map, Tony challenged Jill Wiley's authority, piqued her curiosity and made her uncomfortably aware of her own...

  • How to Care for Your Monster

    Norman Bridwell

  • Truman Capote

    John Malcolm Brinnin

    The author expands his reminiscences by documenting the renowned author's unfortunate shift in persona from prodigy to mascot for cafe society, in a memoir that draws on interviews with Capote himself...

  • Dead Man's Town

    Robert W. Broomall

    Desperately in need of a job, Jake Moran hires on as marshal of Union City, Kansas, bringing peace to the toughest town in the West--until he falls for the girlfriend of the town's biggest troublemaker...

  • Dinosaur's Travel

    Laurie Krasny Brown

  • Tidings of Great Joy

    Sandra Brown

    Ria Lavender hadn't planned on spending a passionate Christmas night in front of a roaring fire with Taylor Mackensie. But somehow the scents of pine tree, wood smoke, and male flesh produced a kind of spontaneous combustion in side her, and mor...

  • Sweet Summer Heat

    Katherine Burton

    SOME MEMORIES NEVER FADE... Summer and steam, heat and rain; an abandoned barn -- and one man, lean, dark, illuminated by a lightning bolt... Rebecca Whitney was no longer the innocent who'd surrendered to love one sultry day eight years ag...

  • The Blizzard of Eighty-Eight

    Mary Cable

  • I Need a New Lunch Box

    Jeannette Caines

    Being a younger brother is touch. Your older sister, just ready to start first grade, gets lots of new things--new shoes, a pencil case, a raincoat and umbrella, and best of all, a brand new lunch box. Lunch boxes come in all shapes and sizes, and th...

  • Little Duck and the New Baby

    Stephanie Calmenson

  • Where is Crystal Martin?

    C.K. Cambray

  • Stringer and the Hangman's Rodeo

    Lou Cameron

    Cheyenne, Wyoming, is a town that’s leaping into the twentieth century spurs first. Pretty soon Cheyenne will be just as newfangled fancy as any Eastern city. But the folks there still know how to have fun. First the rodeo -- and then the hanging. ...

  • Weathering the Storm

    Elaine Camp

    STORMSWEPT Simon Bienville had gone home to his roots in rural Oklahoma. He'd vowed never to return to California, to writing or to Marlee. They'd been partners in business and in love, and together they'd conquered Hollywood--until the pressures ...

  • A Horse of Her Own

    Joanna Campbell

  • Now I Lay Me down to Sleep

    Martha Campbell

    Everyone in the family will love these cartoons that take a humorous look at family life. Kids sound off on everyday living as adults try to cope with the miscues of the modern world in this ribtickling collection of funnies. Children should be seen ...

  • Malloy's Subway

    R. Wright Campbell

  • It's Mine!

    Rod Campbell

    Who does the green tail belong to? Who does the long nose belong to? Turn the pages to find out and meet lots of jungle animals. But watch out -- there's a really big pop-up surprise at the end!...

  • Emperor of the Air

    Ethan Canin

    The award-winning, bestselling debut collection of “beautifully crafted stories” from the acclaimed author of The Doubter’s Almanac (Chicago Sun-Times).   Highly acclaimed and wildly successful upon its debut, Ethan Canin’s now classic c...

  • Red Prophet

    Orson Scott Card

    Come home to the magical America that might have been, and marvel as the tale of Alvin Maker unfolds. The seventh son of a seventh son is a boy of mysterious powers, and he is waking to the mysteries of the land and its own chosen people....

  • Final Frontier

    Diane Carey

    This is the story of a hero--and a moment forever lost to history. It is a tale of Starfleet's early days, of a time before the STAR TREK we know. The story of a secret mission gone horribly wrong--and an instant in time when the galaxy stood pois...

  • Mystery of the Witches' Bridge

    Barbee Oliver Carleton

    Evil haunts the Witchs’ Bridge . . . the foggy marshes . . . the old Pride house! Now young Dan Pride has come to live there. Can he escape the terror that hangs over Witchs’ Bridge? That night, Dan sees a weird light, flickering out on th...

  • Autumnfire

    Emily Carmichael

    A CAPTIVE BEAUTY IN A WILD LAND At nine, Meghan O'Brian was snatched from a wagon train by Indians who raised her as their own. By nineteen, with flaming red hair and blazing green eyes, she had grown into the sensuous woman they called Autumnfire...

  • Passion's Peak

    Christine Carson

    A helpless captive of the Ute Indians, lovely raven-haired Sara knew it was only a matter of time before one of Bear Claw's lusty braves made her his squaw. Then a blue-eyed stranger rode into camp, and Sara threw away the last shreds of her pride. S...

  • The Andropov File

    Nick Carter

  • A Land Beyond the River

    Jack Casey

  • Wildf Superflirt

    Helen Cavanaugh

  • The Finer Things

    Faith Cavandish

    Laurel Reed, America's favorite game show hostess and wife of screen idol Graham Burke, must compete for the attention of her husband with his publicist, Elinor Bloodworth, and his former lover, Diana Scott...

  • Army Daughter

    Maggi Charles

    Ten years ago Kerry Gundersen lowly sergeant, confronted Jenny Smith, the general's daughter in a blaze of bullets and a clash of ranks. Poor, parentless and angry back then, Kerry was now a towering success, lacking only a classy decorator to fabr...

  • Exile's Gate

    C.J. Cherryh

    The fourth and final book in the epic Morgaine science fiction sagaMorgaine must meet her greatest challenge -- Gault, who is both human and alien, and also seeks control of the world and its Gate. She will meet the true Gatemaster -- a mysterious lo...

  • The Atheling

    Grace Chetwin

    Atheling: Anglo-Saxon for prince. 2047. Earth is dying after nuclear wars. As a new arms race builds, Pylar Fazhakian, an elderly leader of an Armenian mystic sect, appears at a Palo Alto defense installation claiming to have data that will give Pan-...

  • Out of the Dark World

    Grace Chetwin

    In the nightmares, Meg finds herself on a cold, gray landscape, drawn to a curtain of stars beyond which lies a horrible world where a frightened boy is trapped. At first his cries are confined to her dreams, but when she receives a message from him ...

  • The Grandmothers' Club

    Alan Cheuse

  • To the Highest Bidder

    Cathryn Clare

    TRESPASSING HEARTS She would do anything to preserve her ancestor's crumbling estate, but Janni Croft hadn't expected she would have to "squat" for her rights -- and she wouldn't be alone! Bart Danvers, ruthless but devastating...

  • Dragons at the Party

    Jon Cleary

    It is Bicentenary year and Australia is having the party of its lifetime. Detective Inspector Scobie Malone, hero of three previous Cleary books and the most human of cops, would much rather be out on Sydney Harbor with his family, watching the fun. ...

  • Don't Eat Too Much Turkey

    Miriam Cohen

  • Hank and Frank Fix-up the House

    Joanna Cole

  • All That Glitters

    Manning Coles

  • Dark Surrender

    Laurel Collins

    For 22 years Adrienne Dalton had led a charmed life, until her beloved father's death brought her to the isolated Maine estate of Wyndecliffe. Sheltered and naive, she never imagined she would become entangled in a blood feud between her benefactor, ...

  • An Ill Fate Marshalling

    Glen Cook

    King Bragi Ragnorson decides to join Chatelain Mist’s coup against the Dread Empire. Varhlokkur -- the King’s wizard -- tries to dissuade Ragnorson from this chosen path, but only the drum-beat of war is heard. The King’s Spymaster Michael ...

  • Mortal Fear

    Robin Cook

    At a large Boston clinic, a world-class biologist stumbles upon a miraculous discovery, a major scientific breakthrough. Soon, healthy, middle-aged patients are dying of old age. And the ultimate experiment in terror begins... ...

  • Kidnappping Courtney

    Joyce Cool

  • New Year's Eve

    Caroline B. Cooney

    What better night to take a chance at love? For the girls of SATURDAY NIGHT and LAST DANCE, it is a night of new hopes and beautiful dresses and bright dreams. Old loves will be remembered -- or forgotten. Plans will be made that will change their...

  • Sealed with a Kiss!

    M.E. Cooper

    All new couples . . . It's Valentine's Day, and brand-new couples at Kennedy High are ready for romance! ...

  • Rhubarb

    Stephen Cosgrove

  • Prodigy

    Arthur Byron Cover

  • The Columbus Option

    Richard Cox

  • Time for Yesterday

    A.C. Crispin

    Time in the galaxy has stopped running in its normal course. That can mean only one thing-- the Guardian of Forever is malfunctioning. To save the universe, Starfleet Command reunites three of its most legendary figures--Admiral James T. Kirk, Spock ...

  • Starlit Surrender // Angel In a Red Dress

    Judy Cuevas

    AT FIRST THEY KISSED From the instant she set her thick-lashed gaze on handsome Adrien Hunt, Christina Bower knew he was like no other male. He was as graceful as a panther, as confident as a lion-and as lusty as a tomcat. But no matter how much t...

  • A Dangerous Liaison

    Jocelyn Davey

    In a tale of power struggles, dark secrets, and jealousy in the world of publishing, Ambrose Usher stumbles upon a conspiracy surrounding the writing of a biography that would provide a revealing look at an unscrupulous tycoon...

  • The Lady Is a Champ

    Frances Davies

    Vive la difference! Rainey Archer had always wanted to be one of the boys. And thanks to hard work, she was close to realizing her ambitions. Then Quinn blew into town. Fresh from an assignment in the Peruvian Andes, the man took New York by storm...

  • Adventures of Max Latin

    Norbert Davis

  • Black Baron

    Joe Dever

  • White Warlord

    Joe Dever

  • Reckless Desire

    Thea Devine

    FLEEING FROM LOVE Kalida Ryland had always despised her neighbor Deuce Cavender, so she was shocked by his brazen proposal of marriage. The arrogant lady's man would never get his hands on her ranch! And even if Kalida had occasionally wondered how ...

  • Final Nexus

    Gene DeWeese

    Uncounted centuries ago, an unknown race from beyond our galaxy created a series of interstellar gates--shortcuts across our universe-and then disappeared, leaving behind no clues to their fate, or the operation of their system. Twice before, the Ent...

  • Ratking

    Michael Dibdin

    Winner of the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award, this chilling police procedural is a masterpiece of psychological suspense. Italian Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen is dispatched to investigate the kidnapping of Ruggiero Miletti, ...

  • Burial in Moscow

    Fred Dickey

    Nikita Khrushchev, whose death in 1971 was a hoax, and who is in hiding in Moscow, wants to defect to the west, and former CIA agent Jude Miller is blackmailed into bringing Khrushchev out of the Soviet Union...

  • Little Original Sin

    Millicent Dillon

  • Disney Babies Name the Colors

    Disney Book Group

  • Brother Against Brother

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • World of Wonders: A Trip Through Numbers

    Eileen Doolittle

  • Ondine

    Shannon Drake

    HE SAVED HER WITH CHIVALRY, HE LOVED HER WITH SAVAGERY -- SHE LURED HIM TO ECSTASY When handsome Lord Chatham rescued the golden-haired Ondine from England's gallows, he demanded only one thing in return...her hand in marriage. In gratitude, O...

  • Willow

    Wayland Drew

    A child, born with a mark on her arm--the mark, according to an age-old prophecy, of the one who will bring down Queen Bavmorda--becomes the evil Queen's greatest fear and Willow Ufgood, the magician, the child's only hope...

  • Beginnings

    Judith Duncan

    SHE HAD LEARNED TO RELY ONLY ON HERSELF Trust didn't come easily to Holly Simpson. Her husband had been an unreliable drifter, and Holly had been responsible, emotionally and financially, for their three young children. Holly had moved to the ...

  • The Sound of Wings

    Spencer Dunmore

    A near collision with an old-fashioned monoplane may have been a figment of jetliner co-pilot Adam Beale's disturbed imagination or a desperate attempt at communication by a daring aviatrix thought to have disappeared in the 1920s...

  • Fatal Charms and Other Tales of Today

    Dominick Dunne

    Dominick Dunne has met them all--stars and slugs, criminals and victims, the innocent and the hideously guilty. From posh Park Avenue duplexes to the extravagant mansions of Beverly Hills, from tasteful London town houses to the wild excesses of mill...

  • Three Days for Emeralds

    Mignon G. Eberhart

    MURDER AMONG FRIENDS... "Lacy, please come," Rose pleaded. Anxious and distraught, the young woman was convinced that she was being set up for murder and that only her old school friend could save her. Then Lacy poured her a drink--and watched i...

  • Picture Stories for Children: A Rebus

    Irmengarde Eberle

  • Angel in the Snow

    Glen Ebisch

    What were these kids up to? Charles Wood " a new student at North Hill Academy, who seemed to attract danger like a magnet. Maxwell Templeton- Charles’s roommate, an amateur detective and a very clever guy. Elaine Sharp " Charles’s dream ...

  • Cast a Cold Eye

    Marjorie Eccles

  • Hugh's Hues

    Cooper Edens

  • Young Ole Devil

    J.T. Edson

    Jackson Baines Hardin, known as Ole Devil, is assigned by Major Sam Houston to deliver a shipment of rifles to the Texas patriots fighting for independence...

  • Say It With Flowers

    Andrea Edwards

    Top-notch nurse Cristin OLeary's practical jokes kept the children's ward filled with warmth and laughter. She never guessed that one of her pranks would backfire into an unlikely romance with hospital hero Dr. Sam Rossi. Cristin kept tell...

  • Bright and Shining Tiger

    Claudia J. Edwards

    Blessed with magical powers but cursed by her ignorant fellow humans, Runa leads a life of exile and scorn until she discovers the abandoned fortress of Silvercat Castellum and the friendly tiller folk, who welcome her as their ruler and protector...

  • The Mistress of Langfort Court

    Marnie Ellingson

    Once an interloper, Allison Dane was now the dowager duchess of Langfort, a beautiful young widow returned to her husband's ancestral home. What right had she to the title held by the Incomparable Chloe, the beauty she had come to depose? To what len...

  • Lone Star and the James Gang's Loot

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki ride a blood-slick trail with the west's most wanted men in the sixty-fifth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- ...

  • In the Caves of Exile

    Ru Emerson

    The exiled Queen Ylia calls upon all of her magical powers in order to bring together the scattered survivors of her beleaguered kingdom, Nedao. This is the tale of the young Queen Ylia who chooses to accept the challenges disaster can bring. She fle...

  • The Palace

    Paul E. Erdman

  • House Calls

    Terry Essig

    HOME REMEDIES Andrea Comrades had always found it easy to keep men at a distance. But the day Greg Rennolds, M.D., stormed through her front door was the day she met her match. Greg's brash arrogance made Andrea fume as they argued over everything f...

  • Downriver

    Loren D. Estleman

    It's a new world for black ex-con Richard DeVries, back on the streets after a long, battering stretch in Marquette prison. Twenty years before, during the infamous Detroit race riots, DeVries had been set up by his accomplices on an armored car robb...

  • A Little Magic

    Rita Clay Estrada

    Her motives were pure As an earth-sciences teacher, Marissa Madison knew all about the natural order of things. Still, she was dismayed to find herself pregnant after a night of abandon with Adam Pierce. Though she'd acted out of love, Marissa feare...

  • Built to Last

    Laurel Evans

    HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS Allison Napoli was trapped in a Catskill resort where Saturday night excitement equaled bingo. Her high-powered career had her close to a breakdown, and her doctor had said to relax or else -- but her thoughts about hand...

  • Longarm and the Bloody Trackdown

    Tabor Evans

    Marshal Long tracks a young woman carrying some stolen land titles to Ridge City, where her suspects she has turned them over to land baron J.T. Roebuck, but nobody in town is talking and a gang of hired guns is threatening the marshall's investigati...

  • The Case of the Lost Look-Alike

    Carol Farley

  • Dig the Spurs Deep

    Peter Field

  • Not Just Another Pretty Face

    Peter Filichia

    Tired of beautiful girls with no personality, Bill Richards and his friends on the school paper decide to hold an "inner beauty" contest and meet many wonderful girls they had never noticed, including Mary Mulcahy...

  • When the Root Children Wake Up

    Helen Dean Fish

  • Doctor Death

    Herb Fisher

  • The Gambler's Bride

    Ellen Fitzgerald

    BEGINNER'S LUCK When the young and painfully innocent heiress Miss Caroline Dysart agreed to elope with handsome, well-born Charles Monatgue, she had no idea of what all of society was whispering: that Charles was using her as a pawn in a desperat...

  • Dodge City Doll

    Dirk Fletcher

    Sent by the Secret Service to Dodge City, where he must rid the town of bloodthirsty outlaws, Spur McCoy, guns ablazing, takes care of business while spending some quality time with Miss Lila, the Nightingale of the saloon circuit. Original....

  • Chance to Love

    Stephanie Foster

  • Downtime

    Peter Fox

  • Sandmouth

    Ronald Frame

  • Wolf Winter

    Clare Francis

    THE DEADLY CHILL OF WINTER WOULD DRIVE OUT SOMETHING FAR MORE LETHAL THAN A WOLF . . . In the chill of the Cold War, two Norwegians are shot dead after straying into Soviet wilderness, killings that will bind together three people in a web of trea...

  • The Virtuous Mistress

    Pamela Frazier

    Among the glitter of London society their love was a radiant scandal… She was an aristocratic beauty, a golden-haired orphan forced to flee Paris during the French revolution. And now, Eugenie was the toast of London. A ballet dancer at the Ki...

  • Fair Weather Foul

    Sean Freeman

  • Where the Air Is Clear

    Carlos Fuentes

    My name is Ixca Cienfuegos. I was born and I live in Mexico City. Which is not so grave: in Mexico City there is never tragedy but only outrage. Thus begins Carlos Fuentes's first novel, unfolding a panorama in which many people's lives depend on ...

  • Art and Psychoanalysis

    Peter Fuller

  • Night Soldiers

    Alan Furst

    BEFORE ARMIES CLASH, A SILENT WAR RAGES. THE WAR OF THE NIGHT SOLDIERS 1934. Europe is a short-fused powder keg, and from the East comes just the man to light it: Khristo Stoianev, a new recruit of Russia's elite intelligence corps, the NKVD. Khri...

  • Lightning Strikes Twice

    Jane Gentry

    TWO WRONGS To attorney Nola O'Brien it was clear-cut -- her client's car had gone out of control -- but Dr. Jake Rowan saw it differently. After all, his patient was the accident victim. This wasn't the first time Nola and Jake had ...

  • Even Pretty Girls Cry at Night

    Merrill Joan Gerber

    Shy , introspective Faye wears a black feathered jacket despite the summer heat is nick-named ‘Crow’ but the residents of a retirement complex. No one understands Faye’s problem except maybe Gertie. But as Faye, absorbed in her struggle to...

  • Dictionary of Demons

    Fred Gettings

  • Let There Be Light

    James Cross Giblin

  • Head Over Heels

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    The sultry laughter and tantalizing aromas that wafted across the fence from next door were enough to make a grown man cry, Buck Halloran thought -- or else climb eight-foot fences! But the renowned mountain climber was confined to a wheelchair, cast...

  • Greenbriar Queen

    Sheila Gilluly

  • Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle

    Dorothy Gilman

    Mrs. Pollifax and her beloved husband, Cyrus, are off to the Far East for pleasure. No more life-threatening danger for Emily Pollifax, thank you very much--her mind's made up. But when on the very morning she and Cyrus are leaving for Bangkok, the C...

  • Fatal Attraction

    H.B. Gilmour

  • A Truce with Time

    Parke Godwin

    Pat Landry struggles with professional and romantic failure and the ghosts of members of his late family as he tries to form a relationship with Lauren Hodge, a successful woman in control of her life...

  • The Baron

    Sally Goldenbaum

    Disguised as a glittering contessa for a glamorous mystery weekend, Halley Finnegan knew anything was possible -- even being swept into the arms of a dashing baron! She'd never been intriguing before, never enchanted a worldly man who stunned he...

  • My Brother's Keeper

    Emma Goldrick

    An amateur matchmaker shouldn't play with fire The Butterworth men meant the world to Mickey, especially Judge Butterworth, her dear stepfather. Caring for him in his Adirondack retreat had never been a sacrifice. Besides, this summer promi...

  • Belfriere

    Kathleen Gooding

    Bristol, 1840... A Bustling City of Merchant Kings And Rogues Here pretty Sarah Venables accepted a teaching position in the Lorimer household after the sudden and mysterious death of her father. Tormented by unanswered questions, Sarah found ...

  • Nobody Knows Me

    Jeffie Ross Gordon

    WILL THE REAL SAMANTHA PLEASE STAND UP AND PUT ON A CHICKEN SUIT? Samantha needed to be independent. Although she received a generous allowance from her parents, she wanted a job. So she went out and got one. And what a job it was --dressing up in c...

  • Something Borrowed

    Eileen Goudge

  • The Long Night of the Grave

    Charles L. Grant

  • Hawkhurst

    Christopher Green

  • Other Worlds of Isacc Asimov

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Secrets

    Jennifer Greene

    A PEARL BEYOND PRICE Laura Jackway sought perfection in every aspect of her life. She was content to spend her time developing the most flawless gem known to man: the pearl. Living with the world but not in it, Laura never sought excitement --...

  • Wideacre

    Philippa Gregory

    "I WANTED ITS SWEET EARTH WITH EVERY WAKING THOUGHT AND BREATH AND DREAM ...I WOULD HAVE DONE ANYTHING, COMMITTED ANY SIN, TO OWN WIDEACRE. " She lived in an 18th-century England where women were forbidden to inherit wealth or land. But Beatrice L...

  • Wilderness Trek

    Zane Grey

    American cowboy, Stirling Haselton, taking the blame for a shooting committed by a friend, is exiled to Australia and with one loyal follower, joins a party of ranchers and drovers making the long wilderness journey to the Elaberleys. Along the way c...

  • Replay

    Ken Grimwood

    Jeff Winston didn't know he was a replayer. Until he died. Then he woke up twenty-five years younger. And lived another life. And died again. And lived another life. Again and again and again... Maybe one of these lifetimes, he'll get it right....

  • Cross My Heart

    Phyllis Halldorson

    His scapegrace brother had fallen in love again, but all Clinton Sterling had were the barest statistics on the woman in question. A state senator running for reelection, he couldn't afford any bad publicity. So it was up to him to make sure one Mary...

  • Stray Shot

    Gerald Hammond

  • The Book of Mordred

    Peter Hanratty

  • The Immigrant

    Mark Harelik

    “[Mark] Harelik’s irresistible comedy-drama [is] one of the sweetest and coziest plays imaginable.” -- Houston Post 1909. The year that Haskell Harelik, a nineteen-year-old Russian émigré, arrives at the port of Galveston, Texas. Far from his...

  • Love's Gambit

    Emma Harrington

    Jessamy could outwit any man at chess...but could she win at the game of love? A LADY WITH PLANS... Lovely Jessamy Montgomery had come to Baltimore to meet that rough-hewn American who had inherited her late husband's fortune. With stratagems ...

  • Guauntlet Malice

    Deborah Turner Harris

  • Dark Obsession

    Fiona Harrowe

    He was everything a decent woman should avoid -- and everything a real woman could not resist! From the moment she laid eyes on him, beautiful Hannah Blaine knew dark, handsome Christian Falconer spelled danger. Though he could offer the impoveri...

  • Design for Murder

    Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

    When mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance is invited to stage a Mystery Night for the annual antebellum house tour of the Historical Preservation Society of Chastain, South Carolina, she instead finds herself the leading lady in a flesh-and-blood d...

  • Skateboard

    Cynthia Hart

  • Night of the Spring Moon

    Virginia Hart

    Love or friendship -- which had the greater claim? Tracy Whelan suspected that returning to her hometown of Council Grove, Missouri, had been a mistake. Everyone there still remembered the scandal, even though it was ten years in the past. But Tra...

  • My Father Doesn't Know about the Woods and Me

    Dennis Haseley

    My Father Doesn't Know about the Woods and Me is Dennis Haseley's beautiful portrait of a young boy's relationship with nature.As a child walks in the woods with his father, he seems to become like the many other animals in the forest, enjoying the g...

  • Think about Drugs and Society

    Richard Hawley

  • Where the Truth Lies

    Helen Hayes

    Returning from New York to attend the Oscar ceremonies, beloved actress Halcie Harper finds herself at the center of a murder that takes place at the Academy Awards while millions watch the live television broadcast...

  • Brought to Book

    Tim Heald

    Bognor tries to understand how a publishing magnate could have been crushed by smut. Before retiring for the night, Vernon Hemlock pours a brandy, lights a cigar, and takes a look at his cache of pornography. Far more than a wad of dirty magazines st...

  • Pel Among the Pueblos

    Mark Hebden

    A brief spell among the Pueblos, and a shoot-out under a moonless sky brings Pel his reward when the redoubtable Chief Inspector chases leads on a double shooting of two ageing crooks all the way to Mexico. This is Hebden’s eleventh novel in a seri...

  • Incident At Plei Soi

    Eric Helm

    A fact finding mission led by US Army Special Forces Capt. Mack Gerber is dispatched to the tiny hamlet of Plei Soi to determine the future of Camp A-337. The Americans find the village completely deserted with most of the inhabitants killed. - At ni...

  • Marine Sniper

    Charles Henderson

    The explosive true story of Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, a legendary Marine sniper in the Vietnam War.There have been many Marines. There have been many marksmen. But there has only been one Sergeant Carlos Hathcock.He stalked the Viet Cong behind enemy...

  • Survey of the Atlantic Beaches

    Don Hendrie

  • When Duty Calls

    Richard P. Henrick

    IN THE FROZEN WILDERNESS OF SOVIET RUSSIA, THE ULTIMATE WAR IS ABOUT TO BE WAGED From the tiny Russian coastal village of Posjet a terrifying force is ready to be unleashed. The world's first laser battle station, it is an awesomely effective weap...

  • Traits D'union

    Ralph M. Hester

  • Double Whammy

    Carl Hiaasen

    R.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye is fishing for a killer. Thanks to a sportsman's scam that's anything but sportsmanlike, there's a body floating in Coon Bog, Florida--and a lot that's rotten in the murky wa...

  • Doppleganger: A Chilling Tale of Suspense

    Eric Higgs

  • China Flyer

    Porter Hill

    The East India Company's Bombay Marines were the toughest and roughest bunch of soldier sailors on the Indian Ocean--and they did all of the Company's dirty work. But the Bombay Marines saved the dirtiest and deadliest missions for one man--Captain A...

  • Heart's Desire

    Edward Hoagland

    A collection of four new and thirty-one previously published essays, Edward Hoagland offers his observations on a remarkably broad range of topics, including life, love, marriage, children, suffering, the city, and isolation....

  • Solitude's Lawman

    Ray Hogan

    A stop at a small-town bank becomes the start of a life-and-death struggle for a young horse dealer when his money is stolen during a holdup. To a man like Cole Dagget, eight hundred dollars represents a lot of hard hours in the saddle -- and just e...

  • Easter Donkey

    Isabelle Holland

  • The Fall of Lucas Kendrick

    Kay Hooper

    Time was supposed to obscure memories, but when Kyle Griffon saw the sunlight glinting off Lucas Kendrick's hair, she knew she'd never stopped waiting for him. Ten years before, he'd awakened her woman's passion, and when he left without a word, her ...

  • The Amateur Cracksman

    Ernest William Hornung / E.W. Hornung

    A.J Raffles, a prominent member in London society and well-respected athlete, has a shocking secret identity; he is a notorious thief. Always chasing the thrill of a heist or pickpocketing, Raffles attends test cricket games under the slight guise of...

  • Dark Lucifer

    Stephanie Howard

    Why was he so set on destroying her? Jessica's world was perfect. She had a thriving antique business in a lovely, quaint village in Kent. She was engaged to a man who shared her interests and swore he loved her. But suddenly she had a bitt...

  • Hard-Riding Posse

    E.J. Hunter

  • Picture of Guilt

    Michael Innes

  • Silence Observed

    Michael Innes

    Respected Fine Art experts are deceived in one of the most intriguing murder cases Inspector Appleby has ever faced, beginning with Gribble, a collector of forgeries whose latest acquisition is found to be a forged forgery In the words of Appleby hi...

  • Long Ride Back

    John Jacob

  • Tarik's Mountain

    Dana James

    He was frightening in more ways than one Laura Jefford had her hands full to deal with Brent Lewis, an independent and arrogant journalist with a reputation for digging beneath the surface. And now he was here in Gibraltar, and the harbor-developm...

  • Tropic Gold

    Carol Jerina

    Journeying to Key West to inform roguish Jake Travis of his five-million-dollar legacy, professional heir hunter Lindsey Applegate risks both her life and her heart as, together, she and Jake are forced to flee the island...

  • Star Light, Star Bright

    Iris Johansen

    When the golden haired rogue in the black leather jacket dodged a barrage of bullets to rescue her, Quenby Swenson thrilled... with fear and with excitement. Gunner Nilsen had risked his life to save her, but when he promised to cherish her for a li...

  • Fool's Sanctuary

    Jennifer Johnston

    Miranda, a dying women, recalls the last weekend of her childhood--when her lover Cathal, a working class student and IRA soldier, and her brother Andrew, a British Army lietenant, visit simultaneously...

  • The Uninvited

    William W. Johnstone

    Spring in Lapeer Parish, Louisiana. The warm sun beat down on the good, rich farm land making the best bean crop the county had ever seen. But something was stirring beneath the full, lush, green leaves. Something that had survived hundreds of thousa...

  • Jeremy Blew It

    Rebecca C. Jones

  • Payment in Love

    Penny Jordan

    Heather dreaded seeing Kyle Bennett again Six years ago, her stupid, childish jealousy had driven him away from the only home he had ever known. But for her father's sake, now she must ask for his help. "What are you asking me for, Heat...

  • Strange Tomorrow

    Jean E. Karl

  • Make Believe with the Muppet Babies: A Storybook

    Louise Kates

  • My Funny Valentine

    Tessa Kay

    ONE LITTLE FIB LEADS TO ANOTHER... Meredith wanted to be a writer someday. She certainly had the imagination for it. In fact, her amazing talent for inventing things began to get totally out of hand. It started when Meredith bought herself a fancy,...

  • The Mardi Gras Mystery

    Carolyn Keene

    NANCY GOES ON A MARDI GRAS ADVENTURE AND FINDS HERSELF IN THE MIDDLE OF A MILLION-DOLLAR SCAM! When Brian Seaton invites Nancy and her friends to join the fun in New Orleans, they plan a glorious week of parades and parties in America's most roman...

  • Sisters in Crime

    Carolyn Keene

    A sorority girl's death pits Nancy against a campus killer Nancy's holiday at a California college with old friend Susan Victors turns out to be dangerous work. It seems Susan's sorority sister Rina Charles drowned mysteriously while scuba diving --...