Books Published in July 1987

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JULY 1987

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New Books List: 402 titles

  • A Dangerous Proposition

    Melodie Adams

    INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE Blake Marlow was used to undercover investigations. He'd spent years on the vice squad in Florida putting plenty of men and women behind bars. Then why was this suspect, one Cassandra Wyatt, giving him sleepless nights? R...

  • Robert Adams' Book of Alternate Worlds

    Robert Adams

  • Magic of the Glits

    C.S. Adler

    "A coming-of-age novel with a refreshingly different twist. Heartwarming but never sentimentalized and thoroughly believable."-Cyrisse Jaffee, School Library Journal "Adler infuses her first book with sympathy and sharp insights, and she writes with...

  • Long Teeth

    Marvin Albert

    Pete Sawyer is a private eye of a different kind. The son of a World War II American pilot and a brave French resistance fighter, he grew up on both sides of the Atlantic -- though he prefers his sun-dappled villa on the Riviera to most other places....

  • Made in America

    Jo Ann Algermissen

    RETURN TO SENDER Blayne MacCaffrey's telegram was straightforward enough: WILL BE IN RALEIGH JUNE 30 STOP WANT TO SEE CHILD STOP WILL CALL UPON ARRIVAL STOP. Sunny Peiper just had one problem -- there was no child! When Blayne had walked out ...

  • Seeds of Treason

    Ted Allbeury

    Intricate and compelling … Ted Allbeury is one of the most skilled wordsmiths we've got, ranking with le Carré, Deighton, Forsyth, and Gardner. — The Gloucester Citizen, U.K. Ted Allbeury is one of our best spy writers, quiet, though...

  • Sympathy for the Devil

    Kent Anderson

    Censured by some critics for its brutality but heralded by others as a modern-day classic, Sympathy for the Devil is a terrifying, intoxicating journey through the violence, madness, and insane beauty of battle. It traces the story of a hardened Gree...

  • Fair Game

    Susan Andrews

    It was the date of a lifetime Julie Turner wished she had never agreed to be a contestant on Love Life, a popular TV dating game. And she never thought she would win. But now she and Marcus Allen, star of daytime TV, had to spend a week together i...

  • Dragon's Gold

    Piers Anthony; Robert E. Margroff

    When Kelvin was a child, his mother read to him from the Book of Prophecy and he asked what the poem meant. Now he was about to learn.

    The Kingdom of Rud languishes under the heel of a usurper; an evil sorcerer has taken the throne in the name...

  • Reluctant Wife

    Lindsay Armstrong

    "We made a bargain," Adam reminded her Roz knew that Adam had married her without loving her. He needed a poised and beautiful hostess -- but her need was even greater. A fire had killed her beloved grandfather and destroyed her home, leav...

  • Commitments

    Judith Arnold

    In the seventies it was called bad Karma Andrew Collins, self-avowed cynic, and Kimberly Belmont, optimist, seemed destined to remain antagonists forever. They barely exchanged a word at their college paper's fifteenth anniversary bash. But shortl...

  • A Question of Honor

    Jacqueline Ashley

    Helping people was a matter of honor to Frances McPhee Despite that, Frances wished she'd never agreed to accompany her ailing uncle to his Oklahoma cabin. Frankly, Uncle Fergus was a cantankerous old mule, though even he was preferable to the oth...

  • Belle Marie

    Laura Ashton (1)

    THEY CROSSED THE BOUNDARIES OF DESIRE TO EXPLORE THEIR OWN SECRET PASSIONS The DuMontaignes were the cream of Louisiana society, rulers of a magnificent Creole dynasty, and owners of the beautiful plantation Belle Marie. Yet power and wealth led ...

  • Young Witches & Warlocks

    Isaac Asimov

  • Little Myth Marker

    Robert Asprin

    FROM THE VERY BOTTOM OF THE DECK... Skeeve's dealt himself a fine mess of trouble this time. First he bluffs his way into a high-stakes game of dragon poker and, by some miracle, wins. Then, still flush with luck, Skeeve heads straight for the kin...

  • Double Bucky Shanghai

    Alice Bach

  • Love's Beautiful Dream

    June Masters Bacher

    Spring had returned to the Columbia Valley, wrapping Courtney Glamora in the soft blossoming dreams of her love for Clint Desmond and their upcoming June wedding. But what begins as a beautiful and blessed time for Courtney and Clint is marred by a t...

  • The Squire

    Enid Bagnold

    Written in 1938, this novel about a woman having her fifth child is unique in its focus on the process of birth. Whilst others consider pregnancy and motherhood, this novel is rare in its treatment of the few days before and afterwards....

  • The Happy Foreigner

    Enid Bagnold

    Fictional account of the author's experiences working as a volunteer driver in France during the First World War. Contrasts the duties and demands of the heroine's external life, with the freedom and excitement of her internal life during a w...

  • Major Andre

    Anthony Bailey


    A look at Benedict Arnold's conspiracy to surrender West Point to the British, told from the point of view of a leading participant, the charming and talented professional military man, amateur actor, and poet John Andre, who is compelled by his ...

  • Gabriel's Lament

    Paul Bailey

  • White Heat

    Chuck Bainbridge

  • Basil of Bywater Hollow

    Jill Baker

  • Journey to Membliar

    Sharon Baker

    Planet of cataclysm and chaos, Naphar is a fantastic world of Night Demons, exploding trees, screaming plants and living gems. Where three races, all products of genetic engineering-the gigantic Rabu, the manikin Kakano and the unseen Beloved-battle ...

  • The Constant Heart

    Mary Balogh

    THE ROGUE'S RETURN Miss Rebecca Shaw had lost her heart once in her young life -- lost it and had it broken. At last it had mended -- mended enough for her to say yes when the handsome, high-minded young Reverend Phillip Everett asked her ...

  • Athena

    Franklin Bandy

    Athena von Dietrich had been found not guilty of murdering her husband. The members of the jury, however, were suspect: Someone, at least one, had accepted a bribe. Everyone on the jury was tainted. For Jonathan Michaelis, the allegations meant th...

  • Success Stories

    Russell Banks

    In Sucess Stories, an exceptionally varied yet coherent collection, Russell Banks proves himself one of the most astute and forceful writers in America today. Queen for a Day, Success Story, and Adultery trace fortunes of the Painter family in there...

  • Perfect for Paris

    Danielle Barlette

  • The Cherry Blossom Corpse

    Robert Barnard

    ROMANCE IS MURDER Passionate, inflamed, searing -- the vocabulary of the trade. But the words also described the irritation felt by Scotland Yard's Perry Trethowan when he was persuaded to attend the World Association of Romantic Novelists' conventi...

  • Deadly Justice

    Dallas Barnes

  • The Tidewater Tales

    John Barth

    "Tell me a story!" Katherine Shorter Sherritt Sagamore orders her husband Peter Sagamore -- and so lets loose a flood of tales that floats them both past encounteres with their own lives and loves, entanglements with the CIA and toxic waste, and fant...

  • Fool's Music

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    KIDNAPPED! Lauren DeCoty hadn't expected to be greeted by gunmen when she opened her hotel room door. She was in France on assignment, and what reason would anyone, especially the Palestinian Nationalist Front, have for kidnapping a top fashion m...

  • Saint

    Christine Bell (1)

  • Shaft 235

    Robert D. Bennett

    When Harry Burroughs, a Canadian journalist, disappears while investigating rumors of a secret opal mine in the Australian outback, Beau Lamont and Betty Raffin, fellow reporters, decide to take up the search...

  • The Wanting

    Campbell Black

    It was the perfect summer home for Max and Louise and their twelve-year-old son. The California pine forest was peaceful, silent, isolated, and the old couple who lived nearby just loved to entertain young Denny. It was perfect... Until Louise mad...

  • Tomorrow's Love Song

    Georgia Bockoven

    How could one long-lost letter change her life? Amy Feinstein was stunned to uncover a long-buried truth. Her father had been the victim of a scam. He'd been cheated out of half ownership in a now fabulously prosperous firm. For this Amy vowed rev...

  • Strangers from the Sky

    Margaret Wander Bonanno

    IT BEGAN WITH ENTERPRISE--THE NATIONWIDE BESTSELLER THAT TOLD OF THE LEGENDARY "STAR TREK" CREW'S FIRST ADVENTURE TOGETHER. NOW HERE IS THE SECOND GIANT STAR TREK NOVEL. IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: United at last after countless years of warfare,...

  • A Different Kind of Love

    Michael Borich

    A teen girl and her mother in Southern California are visited by the mother's younger brother, a drummer in an up-and-coming rock band who decides to stay with them for a while, but his affectionate behavior toward her confuses young Weeble.  Is it ...

  • Friends and Relations

    Elizabeth Bowen

    Elizabeth Bowen’s deceptively simple novel opens with the weddings of two quietly conventional sisters: Laurel to Edward, and Janet to Rodney. Ten years later, one intense week is all it takes to unravel the couples’ peaceful lives as a long-conc...

  • Gay Priest

    Malcolm Boyd

  • Morgette and the Alaskan Bandits

    G.G. Boyer

    192 pp. A fine, tight, unread, unmarked copy in a fine, bright, unclipped dist jacket. A very readable novel by a controversial author who may have been better off writing fictional novels than the history of Wyatt Earp and Tombstone, Arizona!...

  • The Nativity

    Juliana Bragg

  • With No Reservations

    Joan Bramsch

    When Ann Waverly first saw the enigmatic stranger he resembled a bedraggled mountain man; her second meeting with Jeffrey Madison was decidedly more risque! But, dressed in rumpled fatigues or merely wrapped in a sheet, Jeffrey awakened in her a long...

  • Realm of Chaos

    J.H. Brennan

  • Search for the Rainbow

    Sharon Brondos

    HER ONLY CRIME HAD BEEN TRUSTING HER HUSBAND But Bill Woburn didn't know that. All the police lieutenant knew for certain was that he'd helped convict Julie Chandlar's ex of some heinous crimes--and that she was still an object of suspicion. Ju...

  • Perfect Strangers

    Amanda Browning

    She must not lose him a second time! Doctors had ordered Zoe Winthrop not to try to see Ross Lyneham. His amnesia following the accident had robbed him of all memory of her. But Zoe was compelled to find out if there was still a chance for happine...

  • All Our Yesterdays

    Stuart Buchan

  • Passion Rose

    Mallory Burgess

    WAR OF THE HEART Around them swirl the masked and splendid revels of King Richard III s treacherous court. Yet it is Dai Griffyth, a traitor to the Red Dragon of Wales and Red Rose of Lancaster, who fires Tallie's blood with desire's hunger ...

  • Getting Home

    F.M. Busby

  • Sky of Ashes, Sea of Flames

    Kimberleigh Caitlin

    TWO LOVERS CONSUMED BY THEIR DESIRES. ONE ENEMY, SWORN TO DESTROY THEM... With burnished hair of fire and a temper to match, Meaghan O'Leary was the most beautiful lass in all of Wicklow. Pursued by the diabolic Lord Radcliffe, she would only ...

  • Rescuing Diana

    Linda Cajio

    His was the face she'd seen only in her dreams, Diana Windsor marveled when Adam Roberts walked into the room. He was her knight in armor, her very own Indiana Jones... but how could she be rescued from firebreathing dragons in the real world? Capt...

  • Peter Capstick's Africa

    Peter H. Capstick

    Peter Hathaway Capstick is a name synonymous with excitement, danger, and high adventure. Sportsman, adventurer, raconteur par excellence, Capstick has been recognized as a modern-day master of African hunting literaturea successor to the works of He...

  • The Return of the Wild Geese

    Daniel Carney

  • Angel in My Backpack

    Mary Lou Carney

  • The Everlasting Covenant

    Robyn Carr

    The Everlasting Covenant is a tale of peril and romance, great courage and forbidden love. The setting is fifteenth-century England, during a time of confusion and bloodshed. As the Wars of commence, the York versus Lancaster battle for the throne ov...

  • Blaze of Glory

    Michael Carreck

  • Forced Entries

    Jim Carroll

    "The sensational sequel to the bestselling memoir The Basketball Diaries

    During the early 1970s, Jim Carroll was a young and rising star in the crazy and creative downtown scene in New York City. He worked at the Factory for Andy Warhol and d...

  • Remembered Magic

    Marisa Carroll

    A LASTING BEWITCHMENT BOUND THEM TOGETHER Amanda and Evan had struggled in the early days of their marriage. Though they'd lived in a rundown New York apartment, they'd transcended their circumstances, enthralled as they were by the magic ...

  • On Other Days While Going Home

    Michelle Carter

    Annie, an eighteen-year-old rebel, leaves her aunt's home in San Francisco in search of a place to belong, encounters the unfamiliar world of men, links up with a community of musicians, and gets involved in drugs and in trouble with the law...

  • East of Hell

    Nick Carter

  • The Shadow Dancers

    Jack L. Chalker

  • The Almost Summer Carnival

    Emily Chase

    One strike, and they might be out. Everyone is working hard on the big annual Almost Summer Carnival when the Canby Hall maintenance crew goes on strike! The headmistress wants to close the school and cancel the carnival, but Toby and Andy persuad...

  • Legions of Hell

    C.J. Cherryh

  • Miss Fiona's Fancy

    Marion Chesney

    THE WILD WAGER It was a challenge that Miss Fiona Grant could not resist. The Misses Penelope Yarwood, Euphemia Perkins, and Letitia Helmsdale all smugly informed her that the Marquess of Cleveden was at once the most eligible and the most elusive...

  • Tales of the Dark

    Lincoln Child

  • No Escape

    Daphne Clair

    "What sort of woman can walk out on a baby?" Karen Lacey flinched inwardly at Drew Bridger's angry question. For years she had tortured herself wondering the same thing. When eighteen-year-old Karen fled from her husband, Drew, and ...

  • Carousel of Love

    Kathy Clark

    Her whole life rode on an exquisite antique carousel. It was her legacy, her future, and all her hope. And his Galveston bank was her only chance to raise the money she needed to buy and restore it. One look at blue-eyed silver-blond Julie Lafferty a...

  • No Telephone to Heaven

    Michelle Cliff

    A brilliant Jamaican-American writer takes on the themes of colonialism, race, myth, and political awakening through the experiences of a light-skinned woman named Clare Savage. The story is one of discovery as Clare moves through a variety of setti...

  • The Trolley Car Family

    Eleanor Lowenton Clymer

  • Minnesota Strip

    Michael Collins

    Hired to track down a missing kid bent on avenging the brutal murder of a beautiful Vietnamese refugee, Dan Fortune finds himself deep in a nasty network of white slavery, narcotics and hired killers. The bloody trail of bodies gets uglier and more c...

  • Wife for a Night

    Helen Conrad (1)

    She might have been in jail. Instead, she was luxuriating in a villa overlooking Lake Tahoe, playing "wife" to the man she'd tried to rob. Janet Sawyer was only trying to reclaim the cat Matt Tarrington insisted was his. But he'd caught her breaking ...

  • The Rah Rah Girl

    Caroline B. Cooney

    What’s wrong with being a cheerleader? Marcy’s family is disgusted when she decides that more than anything, she wants to be a cheerleader. And the harder Marcy tries to make the squad, the less understanding her family is. Anybody can be a ch...

  • Bye Bye Love

    M.E. Cooper

    The end of an era... Graduation time is finally here, and most of the seniors at Kennedy High are ecstatic to be leaving math tests, gym class, and school lunches behind. But not Phoebe. She's so confused about graduating, she doesn't know what to...

  • Beach Party

    M.E. Cooper

  • Something New

    M.E. Cooper

    During her cousin's wedding, Amy forgets about her boyfriend Colin after she meets a handsome usher named Todd, but when the wedding is over, Amy discovers that her feelings for Colin and Todd have become confused...

  • Up for Grabs

    Lori Copeland

    When it came to journalism, Kenlyn Grant could sniff out a hot scoop with the best of them. And when gossipy neighbors decided that the devastating stranger in town was C.I.A. with a sinister mission, she was deputized to ferret out the facts. Travis...

  • Fifty

    Avery Corman

  • Sleep Tight

    Matthew J. Costello

    SWEET TERROR It started with a little boy. A little boy who sneaked out to go to the pool and was never seen again. Old Miss Waverly disappeared soon afterward. And then that hotshot student vanished into thin air. Things like this just didn't hap...

  • Wild Paradise

    Patricia Coughlin

    Pampered young beauty Liz Randolph, captured by a band of treasure-seeking grave-robbers in the Central American jungle, rages against the group's leader Zach McCabe -- until she finds herself stirred with feelings she's never experienced bef...

  • Her Honor

    William J. Coughlin

    After giving up a promising, though demanding route to a political career, cool, ambitious Kathleen Talbotthe "Ice Queen" of the public prosecutor's office accepts a judgeship in its place. Her powerful father is so infuriated by her choice that he s...

  • Ground Zero

    Richard Cox

  • The Monkey's Raincoat

    Robert Crais

    When quiet Ellen Lang enters Elvis Cole's Disney-Deco office, she's lost something very valuable--her husband and her young son. The case seems simple enough, but Elvis isn't thrilled. Neither is his enigmatic partner and firepower, Joe Pike. Their s...

  • Flintstone Kids Buried Treas

    Victoria Crenson

  • The Family on Coppins Bridge

    Elizabeth Daish

  • Varkaus Consp: Grassy Knoll

    John Dalmas

  • Santa Claus Book

    Eileen Daly

  • The Ram Of Sweetriver

    Colin Dann

    The Sweetriver flock has survived the terrible storm which destroyed their valley. But can they survive the long, hungry journey to find new pastures? Jacob, the ram of Sweetriver, must use every ounce of his courage to fend off danger and keep the f...

  • Demons

    Jack Dann

    A collection of fourteen fantastic and frightening tales from such renowned writers as Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, and Jack Vance, featuring worlds inhabited by darkness, wicked devils, dark tords, playful imps, and shapechangers...

  • The Pretenders

    Gwen Davis

  • Wild Dawn Fever

    Melanie Davis

    SHE COULD HAVE ANY MAN--BUT ONE.... Wild Desire. Even as a young girl, carefree and spirited on her parents' Argentina ranch, Dawn Cesares was breathtakingly beautiful, her body hinting of the voluptuousness to come. And now that she's twenty, no ...

  • Obsidian

    Dianne Day

    AN ANCIENT MANSION BETWEEN RIVER AND SEA. A WORLD WHERE LOVE COULD FLOURISH--OR DIE. Charpentier...the graceful plantation house, glowing like molten copper in the storm-washed evening sun, seemed to rise from the river's black and brooding water...

  • Journey to Boc Boc

    Oscar De Mejo

  • Azrael

    William L. Deandrea

    Allan Trotter goes head to head with the Angel of DeathAllan Trotter’s counter-espionage service began at birth: His father, the head of an ultra-secret intelligence wing of the US government, deliberately conceived him with a gorgeous Russian ...

  • Christain Mother Goose Tales

    Marjorie Ainsborough Decker

  • Christian Mother Goose Tales

    Marjorie Ainsborough Decker

    Christian Mother Goose ® has been a treasured building block in Christian child development for over 25 years. These Biblically-inspired Christian childrens nursery rhymes are morally-based adaptations of traditional mother goose rhymes. Christian M...

  • Cardinal Rules

    Barbara Delinsky

    He'd had a flock of women Corey Haraden wasn't nicknamed "the cardinal" for his red hair alone. Nor for his nesting instinct! Which was precisely why Corinne Fremont was determined to quash his amorous advances. But Corey was eq...

  • Brain Child

    J.B. Dibble

  • Alnilam

    James Dickey

  • Snow White Finds a Home

    Disney Book Group

  • Pinocchio Learns the Truth

    Walt Disney

  • Edge of Destruction

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • Deadly Force

    Mark Dixon

  • Nightcap

    Margaret Dobson

    SHE'S KNEE-DEEP IN DANGER... AND HEAD OVER HEELS IN LOVE. Jane Bailey dreamed of a Hawaiian vacation with Phillip, her partner in detection...and, she hoped, romance. His kisses would be more torrid than the tropical breezes, his touch more sensua...

  • No Earthly Notion

    Susan M. Dodd

  • Shawnee Alley Fire

    John Douglas

  • Oh Say Can You Say?

    Dr. Seuss

    Tongue twisters abound in this classic Dr. Seuss Beginner Book! Bed Spreaders spread spreads on beds. Bread Spreaders spread butter on breads. And that Bed Spreader better watch out how he's spreading . . . or that Bread Spreader's sure going to bu...

  • Angel's Fire

    Connie Drake

    After escaping the confines of the convent, Meagan couldn't wait to begin living her life. On the brink of womanhood, Meagan yearned to taste life's pleasures one by one. She longed to experience the kind of heated passion only a young lover could br...

  • A Captive Freedom

    Emma Drummond

    Leila Duncan, toast of the 1896 London stage, and Vivian Veasey-Hunter, officer and nobleman. Vivian, who, because of a technicality regarding his birth, is known as "The Gentleman Bastard," is instantly smitten with the stunning and talented Leila, ...

  • Ms. Faust

    Chris Dubbs

  • Carved in Stone

    Kathleen Eagle

    Sky Hunter left Hollywood and headed for the hills. The serenity of the Rockies would clear his mind and help him make some hard decisions. He didn’t expect to run head-on into the only woman for him. Author Elaina Delacourte went to the mountai...

  • Ransom in Jade

    Fran Earley

    Her conscience was her undoing.... Ten years ago, as a live-for-the-moment college student, Melinda Harding had committed an act of folly while vacationing in the Guatemalan Highlands. Now, on her second visit, she intended to right the past wrong...

  • Kill Dusty Fog!

    J.T. Edson

    Because of Dusty Fog's success in leading the Texas Light Cavalry, General Trumpeter, a Union officer, orders that he be killed or captured...

  • A Horsewoman in Godsland

    Claudia J. Edwards

  • A Hand to Execute

    Randy Lee Eickhoff

  • How Dear the Dawn

    Marc Eliot

  • Silver Sands

    Robin Elliott

    I FIZZLED OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF A KISS Froze up. It's time to go to bed with him and pool! Nothing. Any suggestions? Cam Porter stared at the computer screen, stunned by the intimate nature of the SOS. He became alarmed when the anonymous damse...

  • Dabble Duck

    Anne Leo Ellis

  • The Rising of the Moon

    Peter Berrisford Ellis

    Recreates a fascinating turning point in history through the eyes of two brothers, Gavin and John-Joe Devlin, when an army of twenty-five-thousand men tried to establish an Irish Republic-in-Exile on the soil of British North America in 1866...

  • Lone Star and the Tong's Revenge

    Wesley Ellis

    A secret society of Chinese warriors sentences Ki to death in the fifty-ninth 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 -- the martial ...

  • Love, Dating And Other Disasters

    Arlene Erlbach

  • Longarm and the Rocky Mountain Chase

    Tabor Evans

    After word reaches the U.S. Marshal's office that the murderous Coulter gang is planning to strike a train hauling a shipment of gold dust, Longarm joins the gang under an alias to discover the details of the hold-up and warn the sheriff...

  • Charles in Charge, Again

    Elizabeth Faucher

  • Adventures in Babysitting

    Elizabeth Faucher

    Chris's plan for spending a romantic evening with her boyfriend while she babysits falls through after she is stood up, shot at, chased by car thieves, sings in a blues club, and scares off a street gang called the Black Lords...

  • Night Hunter

    Robert Faulcon

  • Beloved Enemy

    Jane Feather

    DEFIANT BEAUTY Ginny Courtney faced the tall intruder with cool mockery in her wide gray eyes and prayed he would not sense her fear. She could not let this Roundhead colonel cast her out of her home! For the sake of the royalist fugitives hidden ...

  • Double Nocturne

    Cynthia Felice

  • A Vote for Love

    Terri Fields

    Donna Newbury wants to be accepted at the Art Institute of America. When she needs extra credit at school, she volunteers to be the art coordinator on Tad Gordon's campaign for student body president. To Donna's surprise, she soon finds herself more ...

  • Secret of Love

    Glenna Finley

    Freelance reporter Miranda Carey embarks on a travel assignment aboard a European cruise ship and is surprised when her arrogant publisher Mitch Emerson turns up. Then, mysteriously pushed down a flight of stairs, she senses danger. When Mitch forces...

  • Basil & Josephine Stories

    C.P. Fitzgerald

    Fourteen of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-loved and most beguiling stories, together in a single volume

    In 1928, while struggling with his novel Tender Is the Night, Fitzgerald began writing a series of stories about Basil Duke Lee, a fiction...

  • A Streak of Luck

    Ellen Fitzgerald

    TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE It seemed a dream come true when handsome, charming Gervais Fenton, Lord Sayre, asked for Lady Rachel Villiers' hand in marriage. Not only did Rachel adore Gervais at first sight, but marriage to him would free her from the web...

  • Time and Tide

    Thomas Fleming

    Time and Tide begins with the Navy cruiser, Jefferson City, looming out of the dawn, fleeing a night of terror and death, the bodies of crewmen floating in water-filled compartments below decks. She has deserted her sister ships at the Battle of Savo...

  • Mr. Lonelyhearts

    Suzanne Forster

    LOVE LETTERS To Amy Dwyer, Scott "The Hunter" Robinson was a Superman -- a dedicated reporter who'd risked his life more than once to get his story. But now Superman was grounded -- he was sitting out a leg injury and writing an advice...

  • Into the Out of

    Alan Dean Foster

    Earth is being invaded by the shetani. The potential savior is an African elder named Olkeloki who is capable of fighting evil in this world and the spirit one. But to be successful he needs the help of government agent Joshua Oak and a feisty ...

  • Maniac

    Stuart Friedman

    DEMENTIA Tormented by madness, Joel Danton was trapped in the twilight world between reality and fantasy. He could hear the terrified screams of young women--his victims?--taste their blood on his lips and feel the ultimate ecstasy as they died in...

  • The Orphan and the Doll

    Tracy Friedman

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  • The Death Tape

    Kate Gallison

    When Nick Magaracz's supervisor in the Treasury department of the State of New Jersey asks him to investigate the payment of a dead man's estate tax, he little thinks that Nick will uncover a whole platoon of domestic terrorists who are dead only to ...

  • Wild Conquest

    Rene J. Garrod

    INNOCENT VICTIM It was to be her very first trip by herself to the big city, and Rausey Bauer couldn't contain her excitement. But then a man she had never seen in her life grabbed her, pushed her into his coach and had his driver hurry them out of ...

  • Charon's Ark

    Richard Gauger

  • Touch Me in the Morning

    Catherine George

    She wrote of romance but longed for love Theo lived a double life. From nine to five, the horn-rim-bespectacled, prudish "Miss Grace," ever-efficient secretary to ladykiller James Hackett, earned enough money to support the after-hours rea...

  • Cupid's Campaign

    Kate Gilbert

    Reedsville's dognappers must be stopped! And animal rights activist Allie Tarkington's found the man to do it--Frank Wade, a dashing, drop-dead handsome prosecutor with political ambitions. Frank's afraid the association might tarnish his bright futu...

  • First Mates

    Joanna Gilpin

    Her future beckoned...but so did he Julie Thorne wanted one last glimpse of her childhood haven before selling it. But what she saw there gave her pause. The scenery had definitely changed. Down by the water stood a breathtaking man, muscular, bro...

  • Artists' Helpers Enjoy the Evenings

    M.B. Goffstein

  • Cinderella and Her Animal Friends

    Golden Books

  • Bambi and His Forest Adventures

    Golden Books

  • Just Good Friends

    Lucy Gordon

    CURTAIN CALL The marriage was over. The time had long passed in which Antonia could survive in actor Flynn Rawley's shadow, and she'd set out to create her own role as director Toni Locksley. Now, four years later, she still couldn't f...

  • Temporary Shelter

    Mary Gordon

    In this collection of short stories, the author portrays the magnified misunderstandings of childhood - the frustrations of truths witheld, the jealous need for belonging and yet for privacy. She observes the guilt and confusion death brings to the l...

  • Murder on the Aisle

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    Tobin, the co-host of a movie review program, finds himself in trouble after his partner is found murdered moments after an on-camera argument, and it is learned that he was having an affair with his partner's wife...

  • The Dream Sleepers and Other Stories

    Patricia Grace

  • Waiariki

    Patricia Grace

    Patricia Grace's popular first collection â€" sensitive stories of Maori life which explore Maori spirituality and values and pursue relationships between people, family and races. Also available as an eBook...

  • The Face of Death

    Lesley Grant-Adamson

    Claimed by Peter Dulton at the hospital where she is being treated for amnesia, Carol slowly begins to realize that this man, who learned of her plight in the newspaper, has a terrible secret of which she has unwittingly become a part...

  • The English Bride

    Theresa Grazia

    "I HAVE PUT THE ENGLISH TO ROUT!" Arrogant, stoutly patriotic, as well as one of the most handsome and sought-after bachelors in New York, Jonathan Trescott proclaimed his triumph as Lady Lavinia Crossley fled tearfully from the glittering drawing r...

  • East and West

    Gerald Green

  • Minx

    Jennifer Greene

    NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH When workaholic Kathryn Price inherited her uncle's mink ranch, she knew she didn't want to keep it. But she couldn't bring herself to do away with the stock, either, so she decided to set the feisty creatures free. Gra...

  • One Boy At a Time

    Diana Gregory

    Wendy Fong thinks her boyfriend's new popularity has gone to his head. Now that Jay Hammond is Stanford High's new swimming hero, he's become insufferable! Just to teach him a lesson, Wendy decides to break up with him until he goes back to being the...

  • Heart's Possession

    Veronica Gregory

    DANGEROUS LOVE At eighteen, poised on the threshold of womanhood, Jessica's world is suddenly shattered in one terrible moment of truth. Cruelly torn from her childhood home and the only family she's ever known, she agrees to a marriage she hopes wi...

  • The Captain's Seduction

    Joan Grove

    Melanie Ford felt like a spy -- but a spy caught at her own game. She wasn't looking for romance. She was collecting evidence to prove a point: Cruise ship officers, and especially captains, were confirmed womanizers. And her published article wa...

  • Summer

    Lisa Grunwald

    Jen, the daughter of a famous sculptor, narrates the story of her family's summer on Sanders Island and their struggle to accept that their mother is dying of cancer and to summon the strength to let go of her...

  • Travels with Dubinsky and Clive

    David Gurewich

  • Death Mask of Pancho Villa

    George Guthridge

    When the peasants and townspeople of Mexico revolted against the corrupt government from 1910-1923, their leader was the legendary Pancho Villa. Your mission is to go back in time and find the missing plaster cast that was made of Villa's face right ...

  • Wild Pitch

    A.B. Guthrie Jr.

    From a Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning novelist of the American West comes the first installment in a mystery series as entertaining as the Montana sky is big A self-made cattle baron with a bad habit of letting his stock graze on his neighbors’ property,...

  • Getting Married Buff

    Susan Haley

  • Grover's Just so so-Stories

    Nancy Hall

  • To Choose a Wife

    Phyllis Halldorson

    Wedding Jitters Vito Donatello called it a match made in heaven. His son, Marco, needed a wife. His goddaughter, Susan, needed a husband. And he needed lots of grandchildren to carry on the Donatello name -- and run Minnesota's largest superm...

  • Witches of Wenshar

    Barbara Hambly

    A Prevalence Of Demons Once, it was said, Wenshar had been a city of witches, summoning and controlling demons for their evil magic. Wenshar had been destroyed, and the witches were supposedly no more. But in nearby Tandieras, Kaletha claimed to h...

  • The Distant Stranger

    Palma Harcourt

    Twenty-five years after an abortive and fatal attempt to escape East Germany, a letter found in a dying woman's purse leads ex-soldier Hugh Merryck on a dangerous quest from Bonn, to Paris, New York, and Toronto...

  • Parson's Pleasure

    Mollie Hardwick

    THE EXQUISITE 300-YEAR-OLD CLOCK WAS A FIND THAT ANTIQUE DEALERS WOULD KILL FOR. So when Doran Fairweather's feckless partner stutters out a lame explanation of how he acquired this masterpiece of clockmaking, she is sure it is stolen. Unless she ...

  • Counterfeit of Murder

    Ray Harrison

  • Psychodrome

    Simon Hawke

    Arkady O'Toole, a down and out gambler, agrees to participate in psychodrome, a mercenary conflict broadcast to jaded viewers, but someone from the past threatens to end his participation and his life...

  • To Sail Beyond the Sunset

    Robert A. Heinlein

    Maureen Johnson, the somewhat irregular mother of Lazarus Long, wakes up in bed with a man and a cat. The cat is Pixel, well-known to readers of the New York Times bestseller The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. The man-is a stranger to her, and besides ...

  • Superman: The Man of Steel

    Andrew Helfer

  • The Hobo Woods

    Eric Helm

    After spending one year back in the World, U.S. Special Forces Captain Mack Gerber returns to Vietnam smack in the middle of a political boondoggle. Although the Americans have firm evidence of a major enemy buildup in the Hobo Woods region, they are...

  • Chapterhouse: Dune

    Frank Herbert

    THE FINAL CHAPTER OF THE BESTSELLING SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURE OF ALL TIME! The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now, the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's power, have colonized a green world-and are turning it into a desert, m...

  • The Berkut

    Joseph Heywood

    A lost classic by beloved novelist Joseph Heywood that helped put the writer on the map, THE BERKUT begins at dusk as SS Colonel Gunter Brumm parachutes silently through the sulphuric haze in the smoldering ruins of Berlin, past the Soviet troops tha...

  • 110 Shanghai Road

    Monica Highland

    Shanghai...breathtaking birthplace of dreams and destinies...exotic mecca of wealth and pleasure...proud land of tradition torn by turbulent times, and threatened by passionate men and women who leave no rules of love or war unbroken. -- In the day...

  • This Side of Tomorrow

    Ruth Livingston Hill

  • The Lockhorns

    Bill Hoest

  • Christmas Cat

    Isabelle Holland

  • And Venus Is Blue

    Joan Hood

  • Waterman

    Doug Hornig

    Craik, a disillusioned intelligence agent, settles in Brawlton, Virginia, but soon learns that the quiet fishing community is controlled by Judge Holder, an ominous figure who moonlights as a gun runner...

  • No Walls Between Us

    Naomi Horton

    AND THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN Juggling her four-year-old son and a fledgling business, with a madman reconstructing the other half of her house at six in the morning, Paige MacKenzie found herself dangerously close to going crazy. So when she h...

  • Siege

    Richard Hoyt

    SIEGE is a welcome find, the characters cleverly drawn . . . It is cynical, humorous, violent, and Byzantine. In other words., it admirably reflects the current world state of affairs. —Baltimore Sun A PIECE OF THE ROCKGibraltar-there's no way...

  • Sweet Talkin' Lover

    Anna Hudson

    He'd always had the power to infuriate her. She'd been an overeater all through her childhood, trying to stifle her anger and hurt. But now, newly slim, sleek, and stunning, Danielle Brewster had come home. Why did George Garavelli's horrendous nickn...

  • Suite for Calliope

    Ellen Hunnicutt

    At the center of a vicious custody battle, Ada Cunningham, a young musician, runs away and finds herself at a circus where she discovers a meaning to her life that transcends suffering and gives birth to art...

  • Solar Kill

    Charles Ingrid

    SAND WARS! The Thrakian invasion had swept from world to world, turning once-fertile planets into vast, desert wastelands. To halt these world destroyers, the Dominion Empire sent in its finest warriors--the Knights. In their powered battle armor,...

  • Great English Short Stories

    Christopher Isherwood

  • Snowbound

    Lisa Jackson

    Teacher Bethany Mills was certain the past was buried -- until ruthless Brett Hanson dug it up again. The private investigator had tracked Bethany to Oregon and was hell-bent on recovering the fortune her ex-husband had embezzled in Boise. Though Bre...

  • Heroes of the Army

    Bruce Jacobs

  • The Boy Next Door

    Arlene James

    BEST GIRL The boy she'd once worshiped, Jeff Paul Logan, had returned after twelve years, and Veronica Champlain cringed at the memory of her teenage crush. Her white knight had ended up hurting her. Now, with the responsibility of raising ...

  • The Thistlewood Plot

    J.G. Jeffreys

  • Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise

    Shane Johnson

  • Trail of the Mountain Man

    William W. Johnstone

    THE MOUNTAIN MAN KNOWS WHAT GOLD DOES TO MEN'S SOULS! When gold is discovered near the little town of No-Name, Colorado, the citizens are overjoyed at their good fortune...until trouble gallops down Maine Street on a horse straight out of Hell. Fo...

  • Season of Yellow Leaf

    Douglas C. Jones

    Follows fifteen years in the history of the Comanche people, from an 1838 attack by a Comanche raiding party on Madoc's Fort in Texas, to a surprise assault by white soldiers on a Comanche settlement in 1853...

  • Substitute Lover // The Seduction Charade

    Penny Jordan

    He needed a make-believe lover It was such a strange request--Gray Chalmers asking Stephanie to pose as his lover to help him resist the attractions of a beautiful but married woman. Gray knew Stephanie, knew she didn't even like being touc...

  • L. A. Superlatives

    Roy Kammerman

  • Dragonfire

    Andrew Kaplan

    WHERE DEATH RULES, ALL IS PERMITTED. The Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia. A forbidden world of rival warlords, opium smugglers, and deadly secrets hidden in ancient ruins. Now this world is about to explode into war, and only a lone American age...

  • Ghosts of Night and Morning

    Marvin Kaye

  • Wings of Fear

    Carolyn Keene

    A desperate call from an old friend brings Nancy to Seattle to investigate a possible murder....

  • Baby Grand

    Joseph E. Keene

    DEVIL’S TUNE The baby grand was a beauty. From its gleaming rosewood finish and it 88 mother-of-pearl keys to the flawless workings of its inner hammers and dampers, the piano was a masterpiece of exquisite craftsmanship. Sometimes, late ...