Books Published in July 1989

New Books List: 435 titles

  • God's Equal

    Alain Absire

    Winner of the Prix Femina award in 1987, this historical novel is set a thousand years ago in France, and follows the story of Odilon de Bernay, who serves as page to Liebaut de Malbry. Absire's books have won several prizes - "Lazarus" was his seven...

  • Master of Fearful Depths

    Patrick H. Adkins

  • Binding Ties

    C.S. Adler

  • Justice Denied

    Jerry Ahern

    Holden is the only man that can stop the FLNA's master plan to take over America, leaving him to be the most hunted man in America. And, while the U.S. President lies wounded in a secret hideaway, even Holden can't stop the FLNA from putting their pu...

  • A Friend for Keeps

    Patricia Aks

    Carrie and Kim finally make it into the secret Sine Nomine club that promises to be an exciting, if slightly illegal, adventure. But when Carrie goes home for Christmas, her father has a new girlfriend, and Carrie needs more than a little help from h...

  • Say Cheese

    Vassily Aksyonov

    Max Ogorodnikov, a member of a satirical group of top-ranking Soviet photographers, scandalizes the underground resistance when he decides not to defect but to live like a free man in the Soviet Union...

  • Murder on the Glitter Box

    Steve Allen

    Steve Allen, Detective At Large Always a kindly soul, Steve Allen has agreed to step into the breach when Terry Cole, king of the late-night talk shows, takes a much-needed vacation. But he gets more than he bargained for when one of his guests drop...

  • The Fairies

    William Allingham

  • Dark Memories

    Kerry Allyne

    Teal had put the past behind her Dare Tremayne should have meant nothing to her now. Just a reminder of an impulsive, youthful indiscretion she would rather hadn't happened. She'd become a capable career woman in control of her own life...

  • Spellcaster

    J. Edward Ames

    BLOOD REVELS New Orleans. A hideous terror threatens this year’s Mardi Gras festivities. From the shadowy gloom of the French Quarter, a pair of cold, malevolent eyes stare out at the gathering masses with blood-chilling hatred. A silent street pe...

  • A Viking's Daughter

    John Andrews

    The daughter of a powerful Icelandic chieftain becomes leader of a settlement in Greenland, where her authority is challenged by the men of the colony, in a novel that recalls the glory days of the legendary Viking explores...

  • Freedom's Rangers

    Keith William Andrews

    "Science Fiction - Time Travel - Time Commandos, America's Last Hope. The U.S. has been siezed by the Soviets. KGB troops swarm across the country, prepared to kill millions of innocent civilians. Unless a top secret government project achieves the i...

  • The Apprentice Adept: Split Infinity, Blue Adept, Juxtaposition

    Piers Anthony

  • Turning Tables

    Judith Arnold

    THIS TIME SHE'D GONE TOO FAR Amelia's outrageous sister had incited a riot. Gotten herself arrested by the Wisherville, New York police. And hired a lawyer crazy enough to file a freedom-of-speech lawsuit on her behalf. Before an embarrass...

  • Funny Business

    Robert Arthur

  • Asimov on Science

    Isaac Asimov

  • The Christmas Lamb

    Anne Baird

  • If Wishes Were Horses

    Ivy Baker

  • The Monday Sheepdog

    Ivy Baker

  • Dartwood's Daughters

    Rebecca Baldwin

  • Ghost and the Gory Story

    Duncan Ball

    Inside the house where Arnold Taylor has lived for 65 years ?1 alive and 4 dead ?t'9291s business as usual. Tenants are fleeing into the night just as quickly as the old ghost can scare them out! And then Kit Corwin comes to town. Little does he real...

  • Tunnel Rats

    Cliff Banks

  • Brainfade

    Peter Barthelme

  • Wish Giver

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    HE WAS HER LAST CHANCE ... Glynis Hamilton would do anything to save her critically ill son's life, even if it meant confronting the man who'd caused her such bitter heartbreak six years before. Once Glynis had loved Cort McBride, but, consumed by...

  • Fatal Obsession

    D.B. Baylor

  • A Darker Magic

    Michael Bedard

    It began innocently enough with the discovery of an old flyer announcing a long-forgotten magic show held on Saturday, August 8, 1936. But since then, Emily and her teacher, Miss Potts, have been drawn into sinister and frightening shadows from a...

  • Trackdown

    Robert Vaughn Bell

  • The Lodestar

    Pamela Belle

    Former Library Book: Set during the brief reign of Richard III, this impressively crafted historical novel deserves attention from readers not normally drawn to the genre. Belle ( Wintercombe ) is of the school that regards Richard, Duke of Glouceste...

  • Emily's House

    Nikki Benjamin

    Major Joseph Cortez had ordered the retaliatory gunfire that raked several enemy soldiers...and one misplaced American, a civilian with a wedding band. Nearly a year later, Joseph was still haunted. He needed to be sure widowed Emily Anderson and her...

  • When I See Your Face

    Connie Bennett

    She wanted him desperately... But there were numerous reasons mystery writer Ryanne Kirkland couldn't consider a future with Hugh MacKenna, the charismatic private investigator from Los Angeles. Firstly, she was blind. And she didn't wa...

  • Hide and Seek

    Barry Berg

  • Karin

    Margareta Bergman

  • The Magic Mirror

    Algernon Blackwood

  • Lottie's Circus

    Joan W. Blos

  • Zaanan: Fatal Limit

    Al Bohl

  • Playing to Win

    Janice Boies

    When Shannon Nelson shows up at Fire Lake Soccer Camp for a two-week session, she can't believe her good luck. She'll be training with Gregg Warner, the high school soccer legend from her hometown in Michigan. A few pointers from Gregg and sh...

  • Ring, Rock and River

    Barbara Bolton

  • Ravished!

    Parris Afton Bonds
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    Nelli Walzchak was a take-charge nurse on the job, but her personal life was virtually nonexistent. A Mexican vacation changed all that when she found herself kidnapped by a dashing buccaneer who wanted her professional help, then asked her to stay o...

  • Spring Thaw

    Sally Bradford

    Picturing her face had kept him alive To Wing Commander Adam Campbell, hell and heaven weren't just philosophical concepts. Hell was the stark wasteland he'd inhabited as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. Heaven was the sustaining memory of Ce...

  • Aunt Nina, Good Night

    Franz Brandenberg

  • Catastrophe's Spell

    Mayer Alan Brenner

    SOMEONE WAS ON A POWER TRIP... . And far too many acquaintances of Maximillian the Vaguely Disreputable--Max, to his friends--were being unwittingly caught up in the sorcerous struggle. Now, the Great Karlini and his lovely wife had become stuck i...

  • Midnight Lover

    Barbara Bretton

    IN A ROUGH NEVADA BOOMTOWN, JESSE REARDON CALLED EVERY SHOT -- UNTIL BEAUTIFUL CAROLINE BENNETT STEPPED OFF THE STAGECOACH! Arriving like an exquisite mirage in a cloud of western dust, Caroline Bennett laid claim to her dead father's only leg...

  • The Circus Master's Mission

    Joel Brinkley

    A new presidency and an as-yet-unformed policy toward the Contras spur Colonel Eric Gustafson to create a secret plan that will lead the United States to invade Nicaragua, a plot that can be exposed only by journalist Christopher Eaton...

  • Day of the Cheetah

    Dale Brown

    Now, Dale Brown presents his newest, most electrifying adventure--a high-flying race for technology that will shatter the world. The Soviets have hijacked America's most advanced fighter plane, a marvel of technology called the DreamStar. Lieutenant ...

  • I Like Books

    Anthony Browne

    Available again in Dragonfly paperback editions, these adorable classics by Anthony Browne make perfect choices for very young children. Browne's irresistible little chimp is sure to instill a love of reading as he chronicles the many books he likes ...

  • Arizona Captive

    LaRee Bryant

    LADY KILLER Callie Nolan had hoped that her new position in Arizona as a governess would solve all her problems. But unfortunately she was wrong. Her life had become more complicated than ever because of one man in particular -- Logan Powers. Her ...

  • Mother West Wind's Neighbours

    T.W. Burgess

  • Old Creole Days

    George Washington Cable

    Published in 1879, this collection consists of seven short stories portraying Creole life in New Orleans. While glamorizing an exotic and enticing city, Cable also introduces social satire to round out the picture of this incredibly diverse locale. T...

  • Desperate Measures

    Linda Cajio

    Ellen Kitteridge was exquisite, an elegant beauty whose kissable mouth attracted Joe Carlini, but whose invisible sign read "Don't Touch." Devastated by a loveless marriage to a fortune hunter, she was unnerved by Joe's headlong pursuit, but the wild...

  • Holiday in Hell

    Nick Carter

  • It Happened One Morning

    Jill Castle

    SERENDIPITY It might have been a little sneaky of Collier Woolery when he signaled his dog to muddy Neysa Williston's dress, but he had to do something! This auburn-haired enchantress didn't belong with the stuffy boyfriend she was on her way to s...

  • Schoolroom In The Parlor

    Rebecca Caudill

  • Rosemoore

    Arthur Cavanaugh

    Unholy secrets scar the past of a Catholic girls school that represented a social and financial coming of age during the early twentieth-century, and alter the lives of the people caught in its orbit, including Louise Maguire, the determined nun who ...

  • Fame People

    P.J. Chaplin

  • Follow the Saint

    Leslie Charteris

    In these three stories, everyone's favourite criminal follows his nose and finds yet more trouble.

    In "The Miracle Tea Party," an attack on Inspector Teal leads Simon to discover a packet of Miracle Tea with truly miraculous properties. In "The...

  • Sex and Other Sacred Games

    Kim Chernin

    Sex and Other Sacred Games is an imaginative look at sexuality, in which a chance encounter in a Paris cafe sets off a parley, a heated discussion, an on-going dialogue, between a feminist and a femme fatale. While following the development of their ...

  • Refuge

    Rob Chilson

    A man without memory, in a city of robots gone wild. At his side, a mysterious woman whose own identity he has reconstructed, and whose memories of him may be true or false. The young man calls himself Derec. In the shattering climax to his quest he ...

  • Blind Justice

    Cathryn Clare

    MARTINEAU VERSUS MALONE Fledgling attorney Lily Martineau had had it with eighty-hour work weeks. She wanted a home and a family. That didn't include a man who put his career before everything else -- like Matt Malone, successful corporate law...

  • Ripper

    Mary Clark

  • The Deathless and the Dead

    Anna Clarke

  • Goat Dance

    Douglas Clegg

    From New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg comes a novel of heart-pounding suspense and supernatural horror. What secrets lie within the ancient place known as the Goat Dance?  "Douglas Clegg is a weaver of nightmares...Goat Dance is a...

  • Buffalo Run and Violent Maverick

    Walt Coburn

  • Disappearance

    James Cohen

    Pharmacist Adam Druit is hooked on the drugs he dispenses, but when his nine-year-old daughter disappears, he is jolted out of his stupor and embarks on a desperate hunt for the kidnapper as the line between stalker and stalked erodes...

  • The Wilder Way

    Hilary Cole

    Infuriating. Impudent. Frustrating. Meddlesome. Charming. Jane Walker can't say enough about her new -- and unwanted -- business partner, S. S. Wilder. All her best intentions to do her uncle proud, all her determination to be a great private inv...

  • A Gift from Saint Francis: The First Creche

    Joanna Cole

  • The Saga of Henry Starr

    Robert J. Conley

    Henry Starr was one of the most notorious criminals of the Old West, famed far and wide for robbing two banks in the same town at the same time -- a feat even the Dalton Gang couldn’t pull off. Still, Henry Starr was a reluctant outlaw.  An ho...

  • The Oracle

    Hugh Cook

    "WARS WERE NOT AS LIVELY AS STORYTELLERS PRETENDED..." Yen Olass could read dreams and tell the future. Even as chaos reigned in the city of Gendormargensis, the oracle's talent served her well. Indeed, as the city fell to battling warlords and im...

  • The Lake

    John Peyton Cooke

    Nobody went near Stink Lake. An ornamental pond in a park in the middle of town, it had died years ago. Now it was fetid with garbage, scummy with slime and weeds, noxious with chemicals known and unknown, foul with secrets long buried. Then one n...

  • You'll Hear from Us

    Marilyn Cooley

  • Drug Warriors

    Robert Coram

  • Pretty Women

    Kate Coscarelli

    After World War II, three young wives accompany their Air Force officer husbands to Tripoli--where one of the women is killed--and twenty years later the two survivors resolve to finally unravel her mysterious death...

  • Search for Omm

    Jonathan Cott

  • The Forever Choice

    Patricia Cox

    SHE WAS IN FOR A SHOCK Christine Donovan never expected to see Paul Cameron again. He was part of her past, someone she had long ago buried in her heart. But she had to return to Phoenix; she had to find out who was embezzling money from her aunt&...

  • Good Vibes

    Jay Cronley

    Happy to report that the book lives up to the hype. Although I found the opening a tad slow, the fun soon kicks in as Trotter and Looney head to the races, perhaps for the last time? If you are looking for lyrical writing or something literary in ter...

  • A Defiant Dream

    Melinda Cross

    There were many things Tana didn't know She didn't know why her father, whose ranch had been so prosperous, had failed. Whether it had been drought, disease or debts. Nor was she sure that she could turn things around. What she did know...

  • Word of Honor

    Evelyn A. Crowe

    Honor Marshall As a child in Houston, she had witnesses her mother's death in an air disaster. Years later when she found out it was murder, she vowed to hunt down the person responsible. Travis Gentry The secret service agent agreed to help...

  • Ride Tall, Hang High

    Chet Cunningham

    There's nothing like a smoking six gun in your hand to make you grow up fast! They were the youngest-and some said the most dangerous-gang in the territory. They were just kids, but the savagery of the untamed West made men out of them before their t...

  • Danger

    Debbie Cymbalista

  • Dracula's Brood

    Richard Dalby

  • Bounty Hunter's Moon

    Kit Dalton

  • Pirate's Mistress

    Kathryn Davenport

    HIS SEDUCTIVE TOUCH Joanna Reynolds was filled with glee when her ship was attacked by pirates. Now, she might not have to go to India to meet the husband she'd been forced to marry by proxy! But her glee turned to fury when she was taken prisoner ...

  • Wade Dives In

    Jim Davis

  • The Big Camp-Out

    Jim Davis

  • The Snow Party

    Beatrice Schenk De Regniers

  • El Guero

    Elizabeth Borton De Trevino

  • Manhattan Is My Beat

    Jeffery Deaver

    Five feet two inches of slick repartee, near-purple hair, and poetic imagination, twenty-year-old Rune hasn't been in Manhattan for very long. But she's crafty enough to have found a squatter's paradise in an empty TriBeCa loft, and a video store job...

  • The Masters of Darkness

    Joe Dever

  • A Knight in Shining Armor

    Jude Deveraux

    Dougless Montgomery couldn't believe it. She had tried to be the very essence of the modern American woman -- competent yet sexy, financially independent yet ready to love and be loved. She had planned this holiday tour with special care, wanting eve...

  • The Dandelion Caper

    Gene DeWeese

  • The Dick and the Devil

    Robert DiChiara

  • Black Alice

    Thomas M. Disch

  • Thick as Thieves

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • House of Cards

    Michael Dobbs

    The USA Today Bestseller from the Executive Producer of the hit Netflix series House of Cards.A dark tale of greed, corruption, and unquenchable ambition, House of Cards reveals that no matter the country, politics, intrigue and passion reign in the ...

  • Target

    David Drake; Janet Morris

    REFUGEE FROM ARMAGEDDON Sam Yates' job -- Commissioner of Security for United Nations lunar headquarters -- was a pretty boring one ... until mankind's first extraterrestrial visitor arrived on the moon asking for political asylum. Now, everyon...

  • Green Bananas

    Michael Drinkard

    An aspiring Earth Scientist, asked to become a sperm donor for the director of a daycare school, must deal with his own feelings about fatherhood, the reaction of friends and family, and his attraction to the would-be mother's housemate...

  • Brass Eagle

    Margaret Duffy

    Falklands Islands war hero Patrick Gillard, head of a special counterespionage section of the British secret service, teams up with his novelist wife, Ingrid Langley, and young Terry Meadows. The christening of the Gillards' son, Justin, is interrupt...

  • West of January

    Dave Duncan

    The Aurora Award–winning novel of a remote far-future world caught in a cycle of destruction, from the author of the Seventh Sword saga.   On the distant planet of Vernier, a single day lasts an eternity. Lifetimes pass before a region fu...

  • The Black Sheep's Daughter

    Carola Dunn

    Teresa Danville, raised in Costa Rica by her "black sheep" father, presents a challenge to the diplomatic skills of Sir Andrew Graylin. Niece of an English duke, Teresa was not raised to London society, but to wielding pistols and overseeing a coffee...

  • The Execution of Justice

    Friedrich Durrenmatt

    A respected professor is dead - shot in a crowded Zurich restaurant, in front of dozens of witnesses. The murderer calmly turned himself in to the police. So why has he now hired a lawyer to clear his name? And why has he chosen the drink-soaked, dis...

  • The Money Eaters

    Ian Edwards

    (It s the worst day ever for David and Briar when they move to the city. David misses the countryside and Briar hates leaving her horse behind. But there s no time to feel miserable - not when there is a baffling mystery to be solved. They team up wi...

  • A Fire in the Sun

    George Alec Effinger

    Once a small-time street hustler in the decadent ghetto called the Budayeen, Marid Audran has become a part of the system he has always despised, cut off from the life he once lived. He's traded his independence and his honor for a position as a cop,...

  • Loonglow

    Helen Eisenbach

    Young, handsome, and rich Clay Lee flees the boredom of his southern home to New York, hanging out in bars watching women, until he meets a stunning beauty in the process of dumping her lover--whose identity astounds Clay even more...

  • In the Red Lord's Reach

    Phyllis Eisenstein

    In the Red Lord's Reach continues the adventures of Alaric the minstrel as he moves north, seeking meaning for his life. He encounters the sinister Red Lord, the ragged fugitives from his reign of terror, and the wild and free nomads of the far north...

  • A Wicked Slice

    Aaron Elkins; Charlotte Elkins

    Lee Ofsted just makes the cut for the Pacific Western Woman's Pro-Am golf tournament. She's never hit the ball better -- but for some reason, her drives keep slicing. But this isn't the only mystery -- soon Lee discovers the body of the tour's star a...

  • Lone Star and the Mountain of Gold

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki follow the trail of some rough-riding freedom-fighters in the eighty-fourth 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 Little Lump of Clay

    Diana Engel

  • The Wedding March

    Terry Essig

    WITH MARRIAGE IN MIND Feisty five-foot Lucia Callahan wanted to marry, but she didn't want a husband to coddle her the way her too-tall family had. So she moved to Chicago, got a job at Statler Computing Group and tried to meet as many eligibl...

  • Longarm and the Day of the Death

    Tabor Evans

  • Shapes Mistaken

    Ross Feld

  • Looking for Home

    Jean Ferris

    Pregnant and confused, seventeen-year-old Daphne Blake goes to Lincoln, Ohio, where she takes a job as a waitress and finds a circle of friends that support her and help her come to several weighty decisions...

  • The Marrying Kind

    Glenna Finley

    ROMANTIC ENCOUNTER When red-haired beauty Jessica Webster arrived on secluded Orcas Island, the only thing she had on her mind was a little rest and relaxation -- a peaceful getaway from the pressures of her high-powered public relations job. But ...

  • Hostage One

    David Fisher

  • The Seven Days of Creation

    Leonard Everett Fisher

  • Parrot's Wood

    Erma Fisk J.

    “Jonnie Fisk has that rare gift of taking an engaging personality―inquisitive, observant, sympathetic, humorous, and above all indomitable―and conveying in intact into print. Within the first few pages of her books the reader feels that he h...

  • Divided Loyalties

    Janis Flores

    The magnificent Tudor mansion nestled in the PaloAlto hills represented everything Grant Lindstrom achieved. Wealth. Power. Success. A legacy of privilege for his children: GENE -- He married a rich daddy's girl but learned the trappings of w...

  • Commando Extraordinary

    Charles Foley

  • Web of Desire

    Rachel Ford

    It was an appalling coincidence! Ordinarily Camilla would have delighted in the chance to use her embroidery skills in restoration work -- even though it meant a trip to the Caribbean. But this island had been her family island, and the house, ...

  • Secrets of Tyrone

    Regan Forest

    Strange dreams haunted her Shadows on a staircase ... a hand without a body ... heartbroken, unearthly sobs. The images never varied through the years, nor the feeling of stark terror. The photograph Karen Barnett discovered in her mother's effect...

  • The Badlands Beyond

    Norman A. Fox

  • Suicide

    Dorothy Brenner Francis / Dorothy Francis

  • Charmed Circle

    Robin Francis

    ZOE'S LIFE WAS A SOAP OPERA At least it became one whenever her aunt Cora Piper got her hands on it. But "the doyenne of daytime drama" had outdone herself this time, renting Gull Cottage and finagling Zoe into baby-sitting its resident mynah bird...

  • The Radiant Warrior

    Leo Frankowski

    NEW LIGHT ON THE PAST Conrad Stargard, a 20th-century Pole marooned in 13th-century Poland, had just ten years to prevent the Mongol Hordes from slaughtering everyone in Poland. So he "invented" all the modern advances, things like prefabricate...

  • Hearing from Wayne and Other Stories

    Bill Franzen

  • Oxford Blood

    Antonia Fraser

    BLUE BLOOD SPILT AMONG THE SPOILED OFFSPRING OF BRITAIN'S BEST FAMILIES! Jemima Shore, Britain's most popular newswoman, is at Oxford University, reluctantly shooting a TV expose of the exotic life-styles of overprivileged undergraduates, among th...

  • Big-League Break

    Mark Freeman

    Well, it's official, sports fans! Roberto "Magic" Ramirez. Dave "DT" Green, and Glen "Scrapper" Mitchell have made it to the majors!

    Soon after they got promoted to their pro clubs' AAA teams, our three Rosemont aces got the "bigs call." DT Gr...

  • Frequent Flyer

    Kinky Friedman

    In Frequent Flyer Kinky is mysteriously summoned to a friend’s funeral but can’t help noticing that the body in the coffin is a perfect stranger. Now he’s on the trail of a missing person, a Nazi conspiracy, and a n elusive white tiger with blu...

  • Magic Mirror

    Mickey Friedman

  • Midnight Blue

    Dorothy Garlock

    WYOMING TERRITORY WAS NO PLACE FOR A LADY -- BUT MARA WAS ALL WOMAN Leaving her finishing school behind, Mara Shannon McCall returned to the lawless country of her birth, determined to reclaim the ranch that was her father's legacy. With a derrin...

  • The Bride

    Julie Garwood

    1102. By edict of the King, the mighty Scottish laird Alec Kincaid must take an English bride. His choice was Jamie, youngest daughter of Baron Jamison... a feisty, violet-eyed beauty. Alec ached to touch her, to tame her, to possess her... forever. ...

  • Heathcliff Strikes Again

    George Gately

  • The Web of Spider

    W. Michael Gear

    The conclusion to Gear's thriling Spider sci-fi trilogyThe Sirian rebellion had proved the catalyst for the rise of two powerful new forces in the galaxy. Ngen Van Chow, leader of the failed rebellion, had fled to a distant world, establishing a base...

  • Nevada Nights

    Georgina Gentry

    TEXAS TOMBOY When feisty Dallas Durango couldn't bear the stuffy Boston girls' school a minute longer, she fled as far West as her money would take her: to St. Joe, Missouri. There the runaway heiress discovered that women earned mere pennie...

  • Z Is for Zombie

    Mel Gilden

    A new neighborhood pizza parlor features live entertainment from a line of dancers who look remarkably dead, and when Ms Cosgrove becomes one of the entertainers, Danny, Barbara, and their friends from P.S. 13 must save her...

  • A Scent of Roses

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    The phone call Susan Miller had feared all her married life had finally come: her race-car-driver husband, Greg, had crashed! Miraculously, he was only bruised, but he'd completely lost his memory. Six months earlier, she'd left Greg, unwilli...

  • Shield's Lady

    Amanda Glass

    JOINED BY POWER AND PASSION! She was a cool confident businesswoman, a beautiful outcast from the East determined to regain her rightful status. He was a Shield, an intense mercenary respected and feared throughout the opulent cities and savage fr...

  • Snake Oil Wars

    Parke Godwin

  • Tempting Torment

    Jo Goodman

    SINFUL PLEASURES It seemed like a good idea. The handsome American was dying anyway. Why not marry him and flee England in the guise of Noah McClellan's widow? But Jessa Winter hadn't counted on Noah's will to live. Nor on his smouldering desires on...

  • A Pirate's Pleasure

    Heather Graham

    SHE WAS HIS DEFIANT CAPTIVE. With her flame gold-hair and azure eyes, Skye Kinsdale was a prize beyond compare. Betrothed to a lord she'd never met, she set sail for America sworn to reject him on sight until the infamous pirate Silver Hawk seized ...

  • The El Murders

    Bill Granger

    When the victims of two violent crimes begin to resemble criminals themselves, Terry Flynn of the Chicago police is forced to face some disturbing truths about his life and the criminal justice system...

  • Triplets

    Mollie Gregory

    The Wyman triplets had everything money could buy, and more … beauty, intelligence, talent and a devoted mother, determined to give her gifted children all the privileges of the good life. But most of all, Sara, Sky and Vail shared the special clos...

  • Demon's Eye

    Stephen Gresham

    While the Holmes, Davenports, and Bozics work to restore the old Blackwinter's Inn, a freak electrical accident triggers in thirteen-year-old Kevin Holmes a revelation of the ancient evil that will be unleashed if the stately inn is reopened...

  • Emily and the Enchanted Frog

    Helen V. Griffith

  • Snake Charmer

    John Griffiths

    Philip Nolan discovers the body of a seventeen-year-old former student in a New Mexico canyon, and he teams up with Police Lieutenant Jacobsen to find the killer after he reads the shocking entries in the girl's journal...

  • Cat's Cradle and Other String Games #2

    Camilla Gryski

  • The Blood Star

    Nicholas Guild

    Exiled by his brother, the Assyrian monarch Esarhaddon, Tiglath Ashur wanders the ancient Meditteranean in an attempt to avoid the killers sent after him, ultimately heading to another showdown with his brother...

  • Revenge of the Valkyrie

    Thorarinn Gunnarsson

  • The Grandfather Medicine

    Jean Hager

    Chief Mitchell Bushyhead, half-Cherokee and head of the four-man police force in Bushkin, Okla., gets his first homicide in 10 years when a prominent member of the Cherokee community is murdered. It's something of an event, not only because Bushkin's...

  • Quiller KGB

    Adam Hall

    Somewhere, behind the Iron Curtain, a top secret mission may change the ultimate fate of East and West Germany. It is code-named Operation Trumpeter. And it is now approaching zero hour -- when the Wall comes tumbling down....

  • Nightmare Logic

    Matthew Hall

  • Full House

    Steffie Hall

    Polo instructor Nicholas Kaharchek senses danger the minute he sees Billie Pearce. She represents everything he's so artfully avoided. Happy in her home life, a divorced mother of two, Billie is the epitome of stability. They have nothing in comm...

  • The Four Last Things

    Timothy Hallinan

    Simeon Grist knows LA inside and out-- the sex for sale, the chic seductions, every rip-off from City Hall to Venice. So when he's hired by a Hollywood recording company to shadow one Sally Oldfield, suspected of embezzlement, Grist discovers she's e...

  • Hold on, Geronimo

    Marilyn Halvorson

    Having lost the use of his right hand and gotten into a private war with his spirited cousin Kat, fifteen-year-old Lance thinks things cannot get worse, until a plane crash strands them together in a snowy Canadian wilderness....

  • Woman in the Dark

    Dashiell Hammett

    A young, frightened, foreign woman appears at the door of an isolated house. The man and woman inside take her in. Other strangers appear in pursuit of the girl. Menace is in the air.

    Originally published in 1933, Hammett's Woman in the Dark s...

  • Face Value

    Rosemary Hammond

    Five years was more than enough Christine Connors had decided to pack in her successful modeling career to pursue her real dream. She was going to teach deprived kids. Then, for the sake of her friends in the New York agency, she gave in to the...

  • Deception's Embrace

    Jeanne E. Hansen

    DESPERATE FLIGHT Katrina Montgomery had to run for her life. Her stepfather would kill to get the wealth she would inherit in just a few months -- but if she could survive until then, she'd have the power to fight him. So the terrified heiress...

  • The Bandersnatch

    Mollie Hardwick

    "The story's lively characters, antique lore, tension-laden plot, and feisty heroine add up to amiable entertainment."
    THE KIRKUS REVIEWS
    When antiques dealer Doran Fairweather purchases an ancient limewood carving of a rosy-lipped cherub in fl...

  • Love and Money

    Ruth Harris

  • An Imperfect Lady

    Sarah Harrison

    Adeline Gundry was raised to be a perfect lady in a perfect Edwardian world of rank and privilege. But she had other ideas. She wanted independence and passion. From her idyllic childhood in Devon to her glorious success as an artist, Adeline lives h...

  • Mountains of the Sun

    Evelyn Hart

  • So Sweet a Sin

    Brooke Hastings

    Forrbidden Fruit Impetuous Sophie Stoddard bristled when her uncle, the Earl of Wynbourne, entrusted her to the watchful care of stern Puritan merchant Edward Holt for the voyage to Boston. Soon, however, Sophie discovered the passionate side of t...

  • It Always Happens to Leona

    Juanita Havill

  • The Lilliput Legion

    Simon Hawke

    The Time Commandos face a new generation of General Drakov's bio-engineered hominoids -- but just how deadly could these tiny enemies be? Just six inches tall, the Lilliputian warriors are armed with laser rifles and a vast technology that threatens...

  • Against Taffy Sinclair

    Betsy Haynes

  • Story of Santa Claus

    Barbara Shook Hazen

  • Yesterday's News

    Jeremiah Healy

    MURDER ON DEADLINE "Perched on the edge of greatness," they said about the run-down port city of Nasharbor, Massachusetts. Of course, they were the same guys who were pushing a condominium development on the waterfront, and who might be tied up wi...

  • MacV

    Eric Helm

  • Spell of the Mountains

    Rosalie Henaghan

    "I'd sooner kiss a snake than you!" When Sophie had angrily insulted New Zealand hotelier Jon Roberts, she'd never expected him to respond with a wager. If he managed to wangle her cherished homestead motel away from her, he'd ...

  • Money to Burn

    Michael Hendricks

  • Chameleon

    Courtney Henke

    HER SCENT MADE HIM THINK OF EMBRACING BODIES -- AND SECRETS WHISPERED IN THE DARK.... It was Emma Machlen's scent Max Morgan noticed first -- a subtle, sultry smell of jasmine and spring grass that made him think of embracing bodies and secr...

  • The Best-Ever Good-Bye Party

    Amy Hest

  • Law of Love

    Sally Heywood

    She couldn't really blame Con It wasn't his fault he'd made her feel this way. It was her own fault for loving him. When she first met barrister Con Arlington, Kim didn't realize he was really Conan Arlington-Forbes, the man res...

  • The Second Shift

    Arlie Hochschild

  • Slow Dance

    Diane Hoh

    A handsome boy, A beautiful girl, A night to remember… Summer at the posh Drifting Dunes Beach and Tennis Club means romance, fun, and excitement. For Lauren, it means working on her tan, and finding the perfect boy (tall -- very tall) to t...

  • Thorne's Wife

    Joan Hohl

    Valerie Thorne loved her husband with passionate devotion. When they'd first met, Jonas's bewildering moods and stunning tenderness had breathed new life into her. Now, three years later, Valerie felt a deep desire to be his partner and his equal in ...

  • Taming of the Shrew

    Graham Holderness

    A robust and bawdy battle of the sexes, this ever popular comedy captivates audiences with outrageous humor as Katharina, the shrew, engages in a contest of wills–and love–with her bridegroom, Petruchio. Their boisterous conflict is set o...

  • Lavondyss: Journey to an Unknown Region

    Robert Holdstock

  • Turning Toward Home

    Joyce Hollyday

  • The India Fan

    Victoria Holt

    The daughter of the local impoverished vicar, sensible Drusilla Delany becomes fascinated with the wealthy Framling family--especially with the son and daughter, the handsome, mysterious Fabian, and the beautiful, impetuous Lavinia. Through them, she...

  • Box 66, Sumac Lane

    Edna Hong

  • Magic Embrace

    Jennifer Horsman

    When the infamous pirate Black Garrett learned his brother had been murdered because of a flirtatious chit, the surly rogue swore revenge. Tracking down the worthless wench, Garrett stole her aboard his vessel, planning to ruin her reputation and use...

  • Harold and Chester In Scared Silly

    James Howe

  • Darwin's Secret

    Richard Hoyt

    This is a wild, picaresque adventure story of a riverboat trip deep into the heart of the Amazon basin. When the exotic riverboat Barco Igaranha casts off from Belem, her passengers cannot possibly imagine what awaits them on the river. Nicholas Boda...

  • The Dreamtime

    Florence Hurd

  • Those Mysterious Dinosaurs

    Gina Ingoglia

  • Lasertown Blues

    Charles Ingrid

    Jack Storm was the last of the Dominion Knights--the human soldiers who defended their empire against an alien foe. Not only is Jack the sole survivor of the Thrakian invasion called The Sand War; he is also the owner of a unique battle suit--a suit ...

  • Death at the President's Lodging

    Michael Innes

    A Scotland Yard inspector holds the key when a college professor is shot behind a series of locked gates in this classic British mystery series opener. The usually quiet campus of St. Anthony’s College is abuzz with talk of murder. Someone shot Pro...

  • Dream of a Lifetime

    Arlene James

    CHANGE OF HEART Laney Scott had spent her entire life in the beautiful but remote Montana Rockies. Her only contacts with "civilization" were the summer visitors she capably guided on wilderness hunting trips. She was satisfied...until sop...

  • Angel's Caress

    Deana James

    ELLIE LOOKED LIKE HEAVEN After seeing nothing but blue-coated soldiers for months, sweet sixteen-year-old Ellie Crain was the sexiest sight virile Cash Gillard had ever set his battle-weary eyes on. And as a man unused to sensual deprivation, noth...

  • Foul Deeds

    Susan James

    A college campus becomes the scene of a series of bizarre murders linked by the presence of Shakespeare quotations left by the killer near each body, and Professor Tom Hammock joins forces with a female police detective to solve the case....

  • Magnificent Folly

    Iris Johansen

    Why was Andrew Ramsey watching her daughter Cassie from the cliff above the beach, Lily Deslin wondered with a sudden chill in her heart. When she discovered the secret they shared, she was shocked-and terrified he'd try to take her beloved child fro...

  • Adv Mole & Troll

    Tony Johnston

  • Blood Bond

    William W. Johnstone

    Two friends -- one white and one Cheyenne -- must choose sides as frontier tensions built to the Battle of Little Bighorn in this historical Western.   Young Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves became blood brothers on the day the rancher’s son sav...

  • Mademoiselle

    Merle Jones

  • Apocrypha of Crime

    Richard Jones

  • Equal Opportunities // Bound Together by a Baby

    Penny Jordan

    He came with the best possible recommendations Even so, if Kate Oakley hadn't desperately needed a nanny, she'd never have employed a man to look after a nine-month-old baby. Rick Evans, however, gave her the opportunity to make a stabl...

  • Getting Even

    Mavis Jukes

    Disaster becomes the result when ten-year-old Maggie Hunter--the child of divorced and feuding parents--sets out to even the score with an obnoxious classmate, Corky Newton, who has a taste for playing dirty tricks...

  • The Floating World

    Cynthia Kadohata

    "Maks the debut of a luminious new voice in fiction."
    THE NEW YORK TIMES
    Olivia, the young narrator of this beautiful novel, and her Japanese-American family are constantly on the road, looking for a home in the 1950s. Then traveling becomes a ...

  • Talent

    Howard Kaminsky

    "A solid entry in the high-glitz genre, with the Kaminskys' most attractive heroine and strongest storytelling so far." -Kirkus ReviewsDestined to become the head of her uncle's successful talent agency, Allison Morton encounters resentful co-workers...

  • Summer for Secrets

    Lou Kassem

  • Cabin Six Plays Cupid

    Marilyn Kaye

    Undaunted by their embarrassing initial failures to get their counselor, Carolyn, back together with her ex-boyfriend Teddy, the girls of cabin six implement their most desperate move, with truly disastrous results....