Books Published in July 1992

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JULY 1992

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New Books List: 432 titles

  • The Dallas Deception

    Richard Abshire

    He drinks, smokes, lives out of his office and is always seriously short of cash. Square in the tradition of down-and-out PIs, Abshire's Dallas detective Jack Kyle (introduced in Dallas Drop ) is also a sensitive, modern guy, not yet 40, as up-to-dat...

  • All the Crazy Winters

    Deborah Adams

    CRIME IS BUTING OUT ALL OVER. First there's the spectacular blaze that totals the antebellum home of genealogist Oliver Host. Then the appalling murder of librarian Estelle Carhart, a lady too softhearted even to collect fines for overdue books. ...

  • Women of Sand and Myrrh

    Hanan Al-Shaykh

    A modern classic of Arab women’s literature -- and a poignant reminder of the enduring plight of oppressed women around the globe “Brilliantly drawn . . . Al-Shaykh is one of the Arab world’s most distinguished writers.” -- The Guardian ...

  • Death Race

    David Alexander

    When a top-secret military experiment goes sour and produces a supersoldier clone whose mission is to bring the United States to its knees, former counterterrorist specialist Nomad prepares for the battle of his life. Original....

  • Bastard Out of Carolina

    Dorothy Allison

    A profound portrait of family dynamics in the rural South and “an essential novel” (The New Yorker) “As close to flawless as any reader could ask for . . . The living language [Allison] has created is as exact and innovative as the langu...

  • Endless Seduction

    Rosalyn Alsobrook

    LOVE'S RESCUE Why was that man pointing a gun at her? Lovely Leona Stegall had troubles enough, what with trying to keep her family's mercantile afloat in the aftermath of the Civil War, but she certainly had no enemies! Then the gunman grabbed he...

  • Campfire Secrets

    Diane Ames

    When a camper in her charge almost drowns, Nicole is asked to leave the camp, but with nowhere to go since her jet-setting parents dropped her off and flew to Europe, the junior counselor must rely on the friendship of Eliot. Original....

  • The African-American Novel in the Age of Reaction

    William Andrews

    An anthology of three African-American literary classics features Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy, Charles W. Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition, and Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Sport of the Gods. Original....

  • A Woman of the Iron People

    Eleanor Arnason

    Earthborn Lixia, a vistor from her damaged planet, and Nia, a primitive outcast, exiled for committing a transgression unheard of in her society, unite by circumstance and travel together across a perilous continent. Reprint....

  • The Woman Downstairs

    Judith Arnold

    Who was the woman downstairs? Ex-cop Alex Fontana had come to Albright College to covertly investigate a charge of sexual harassment on campus. But he was having trouble keeping his mind off his mysterious neighbor. They'd never met, but every n...

  • Joy Baby

    Linda Phillips Ashour

    The pampered child of an Oklahoma oil magnate, Laydelle Hanks, known as Joy Baby, stands poised on the edge of maturity yet is forever pulled back into her world of wealth and privilege. 10,000 first printing....

  • Morningstar

    Peter Atkins

    Unable to resist covering San Francisco's most recent string of grisly murders--twenty victims in all--freelance journalist Donovan Moon investigates and discovers that, although the murderer is guilty of inhuman crimes, his victims are hardly innoce...

  • Kidnapping Kevin Kowalski

    Mary Jane Auch / M.J. Auch

  • Rodeo Rider

    Stella Bagwell

    THE ROAD NOT TAKEN Champion rider Jack Barnett had vowed never to return to the Broken Spur. Three years ago his wife had thrown him out. Rozlyn hadn't understood that the rodeo flowed in his veins. She'd made him choose -- her or the circ...

  • Lady Fair

    Cynthia Bailey-Pratt
    in

    A collection of romance tales by today's romance masters features a tale of love at a royal birthday party, the story of a chaperone's unexpected chance at love, and a tale of love at Brighton. Original....

  • Road Warriors

    Carin Greenberg Baker

    Turbotron versus Exacto? No, it's Michael versus obnoxious Todd Newman. Jeremy, Lee, and Michael Jenkins are psyched. Their mother's going to present Turbotron, the superstar superhero she created, at a comic book convention. And she's taking her...

  • Walt Disney's Cinderella

    Rita Balducci

  • Walt Disney's Dumbo

    Rita Balducci

  • First Season

    Anne Baldwin

    A FAHIONABLE DIVERSION Lord Jules Wakeford was one of the town's most eligible bachelors, an intimate of the Beau himself -- but prey to an increasing ennui with each new London Season. Then country heiress Laetitia Biddle entered society and began ...

  • The Darkest Hour

    Donna Ball

    Mistaken for someone else, Cathy Hamilton is set upon by a group of men intent on carrying out a terrible act, and she must soon rely on the assistance of police officer Dave Jenks....

  • Tomahawk Canyon

    Jack Ballas

  • Pink Vodka Blues

    Neal Barrett Jr.

    Murder Straight Up Waking up after a lost weekend in a cheap motel has left Russell Murray with a lot of unanswered questions. For instance, why do the Illinois cops want him for a triple murder? Who was the naked girl shot by the same two thugs who...

  • Killing Season

    Frederic Bean

  • My Sister, My Science Report

    Margaret Bechard

  • The Comedy Hotel

    Guy Bellamy

    Having secretly undergone a vasectomy, Max is surprised to hear that his wife is pregnant. This would be painful enough, but Max is off children altogether at the moment as all the teenagers he knows seem to be layabouts or criminals, with even his o...

  • Sunset Promises

    Cherie Bennett

    Return to Sunset Island in Sunset Promises, the revealing eighth book in the bestselling series about Carrie, Emma, and Samantha -- away from home in the ultimate summer job! Who would have thought “the girl next door” would have such luck with ...

  • Who Am I?: A First Book of Famous People

    Michael Berenstain

    Profiles the presidents who appear on United States currency, along with sixteen other famous personalities, including Martin Luther King, Chris Evert, the Marx Brothers, and Leonardo da Vinci, with portraits on each end sheet for children to test th...

  • An Unsuitable Man for the Job

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    THE BACHELOR AND THE LADY How could confirmed bachelor Ramsey Walker keep his mind on his work when a society beauty like Miss Alexis Carlisle was living upstairs? He could get the ravishing brunette out of his life once and for all, but the bette...

  • Stormfire

    Helen Bianchin

    Like a moth to flame... Powerful and ruthless, Jake Hollingsworth was a force unto himself -- dangerous and totally without mercy. He'd hated Lisette three years ago when she'd married his father. Clearly, his feelings hadn't change...

  • Breakfast at Wimbledon

    Jack M. Bickham

    Agent Brad Smith is assigned to protect a hot young tennis player from Irish terrorists when he uncovers an IRA plot to sabotage Wimbledon Stadium while Prince Andrew, Fergie, and thousands of spectators will be in attendance...

  • Renegade Lady

    Sonya Birmingham

    A dedicated revolutionary, Virginian Sassy Adair is mistrustful of the handsome and secretive Roarke MacLaren, a bold privateer who has fled to the colonies to escape a British prison. Revolution is in the wind in the American colonies--and emeral...

  • Winnie the Pooh and the Missing Pots

    Betty G. Birney

  • Disney's The Little Mermaid

    Betty G. Birney

  • Caress

    Rosanne Bittner

    Blake Hastings was chasing a dream --revenge on the vicious pro-slaver who murdered his father. The killer would be in Kansas, no doubt, the territory where good and evil were battling for the very souls of its inhabitants. But that dream paled for B...

  • Chocolate Is My Middle Name

    Cynthia Blair

    When Kelly is accused of stealing a bracelet from the trendy new store where she works, Carla and the rest of the Bubble Gum Gang begin investigating the crime in order to find the real thief and clear Kelly's name. Original....

  • Summer in Paris

    Cynthia Blair

  • Mars

    Ben Bova

    It is a world shrouded in mystery--a planet pocked by meteors, baked by ultraviolet light, and covered by endless deserts the color of dried blood. To this harsh and unforgiving planet travel the twenty-five astronauts of the international Mars mi...

  • Deadbolt

    Jay Brandon

    Grey Stanton once thrived in the hard-edged criminal courts. Now on sabbatical, he's writing a book and spending time with his wife and child on their peaceful Texas homestead. Out of the blue, a young woman stops by to ask questions about an old cas...

  • Little Ernie Loves Rubber Duckie

    Tom Brannon

  • Too Many Mice

    Barbara Brenner

    How do you get rid of the elephant that scared off the alligators that chased away the dogs that frightened the cats that got rid of the mice? There's only one thing that'll scare an elephant! Playful and fast-paced, this comical caper is perfect for...

  • Somewhere in Time

    Barbara Bretton

    She wanted a love that would last an eternity... ... And she was willing to travel across the centuries to find it. Emilie Crosse dreamed of a man who could inflame her senses and touch her soul. A man of commitment and passion. Through the m...

  • Stone Angel

    Helen Brooks

    "The female sex is not capable of deep emotion!" Enrico Meliora's emotions were carved in stone and just as hard. He was cynical about love, scornful of romance and burning with bitterness. He was like a fallen angel, and no woman had ...

  • Three Best Loved Tales

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • Let's Go Swimming with Mr. Sillypants

    Mary K. Brown

    When Mr. Sillypants, a funny-looking fellow wearing a funny-looking pair of pants, decides to take swimming lessons, he gets a case of last-minute jitters and must be persuaded. Reprint. Reading Rainbow....

  • Ladybug, Ladybug

    Ruth Brown

  • Horse Trouble

    Bonnie Bryant

    PANDEMONIUM AT PINE HOLLOW When Mrs. Reg, the manager of Pine Hollow Stables, goes away for a few days, The Saddle Club is determined to pitch in and keep things running smoothly. Lisa, Carole, and Stevie decide they know everything there is to kn...

  • The Deep Blue Sea

    Fiona Bullen

    Thrown together by tragedy, Eleanor Fawcett, a city girl, and her country cousin, John Campos de Serra, fall in love, but their illicit romance is hindered by Eleanor's insanely jealous father and John's sudden status as an outlaw...

  • The Maybe Garden

    Kimberly Burke-Weiner

  • The Butler Did It

    Delayne Camp

    He was a real prize! Ruben Crosscroft was not your typical butler, a proper old gent in black tails. The awesome Aussie arrived sporting athletic shorts and a T-shirt. Blue-eyed, virile, tanned--he was no sexless, wooden servant.. . . Which cam...

  • Power and Glory

    George Canfield

    A story of how greed fueled the construction of the first transcontinental railroad depicts the wheelings and dealings of the scrupulous and opportunistic men and women who found power and glory as they forged the future of a young nation....

  • It's Only Love

    Linda Cashdan

    Returning to the small town where twenty years earlier he spent a summer working in a factory, Rod Bingham, a successful writer, tries to recapture the magical feeling of that summer and the girl he left behind...

  • Bride Fire

    Elizabeth Chadwick (1)

    The Cowboy: As wild as the untamed prairie, Alex Harte had no place in his life for a woman. But when he rescued 17-year-old Cassandra from a cruel death in the wilderness, he had no choice but to allow her to join his rugged band of mustangers. And ...

  • Stalk

    Louis Charbonneau

    Survival is just the beginning.For three years, ex-CIA agent Barney McLean has been leading a quiet double life in Fortune, California. His peaceful retirement is shattered when two hit men break-in, looking for his long-time girlfriend Angie. But sh...

  • The Summer of Discontent

    Marion Chesney
    in

    In this Regency romance novella, a proper young English lady spends her summer getting into mischief by masquerading as a servant girl.Cassandra, or Cassie to her friends, sticks out like a redheaded weed amidst her family of tidy blooms. At Bramfiel...

  • Mistress of Mishap

    Cathleen Clare

    HER HEART'S MISADVENTURE Stunning country heiress Ellen Trevayne's loveliness is matched only by her appalling lack of grace. Her talent for creating catastrophes has convinced the hapless miss that she will never wed -- a certainty reinf...

  • Decked

    Carol Higgins Clark

    The daughter of a successful mystery writer and a P.I. with pizzazz, Regan Reilly is attending her class reunion at St. Polycarp's, England, when the long-dead body of her former roommate turns up under the bushes. It's a case Regan would lov...

  • The Feeding

    Leigh Clark

    In a desperate attempt to save their marriage, Robin and Matt Brenner packed up their two children and drove to the mountains of rural California for a much-needed vacation. They had rented a crumbling old house that sat atop an abandoned mine and ho...

  • Cupid's Calendar

    Norma Lee Clark

    Too Late for Love? Lovely Lady Ursula Liddiard was resigned to her single state. Though she was but five-and-twenty, the world of romance had passed her by during years spent nursing her ailing mother. What man could possibly want her now? Certain...

  • A Tail of Two Murders

    Melissa Cleary

    LOST DOG...FOUND BODY Who could have lost a beautiful Alsatian shepherd...with a bullet wound in his leg? Jackie Walsh's day began with a bang (and a bark) when she and her son Peter found Jake in their backyard. But things really heated up when Jac...

  • No Way Home

    Andrew Coburn

    The first murder seemed senseless. The second death a tragic accident. And the killer...a total mystery to Chief of Police James Morgan. Chief Morgan’s job had been, up to now, a cinch -- his principal occupation being to sexually service the dissa...

  • The Forever King

    Molly Cochran; Warren Murphy

    THE RETURN OF THE KING In a darkened house not far from the place where Camelot may once have stood, a madman schemes, plotting toward the day when he will wrest the cup that men call the Holy Grail from the boy who is its guardian. Arthur Bles...

  • All I Have Is Blue

    James Colbert

    In the sequel to Skinny Man, Ruth and Skinny save an eleven-year-old boy from drowning after the boat he is on explodes, but find themselves pursued by unsavory characters when the little boy disappears....

  • Visiting Hours

    Anne Coleman

  • Loving Someone Else

    Ellen Conford

    As the well-paid companion, house cleaner, and chauffeur to two eccentric elderly sisters, Holly Campion must endure her employers' idiosyncrasies and enjoy the attentions of their older, handsome nephew and next-door-neighbor Pete. Reprint....

  • The Beringer Heiress

    Jan Constant

    "I HAVE NO INTENTION OF ALLOWING YOU TO BESPORT YOURSELF IN A MANNER LIKELY TO PROVOKE GOSSIP." Newly returned from the Peninsula after the death of her father, Emma Beringer is shocked to find that her appointed guardian, Sir Julian, is not the o...

  • Freshman Promises

    Linda A. Cooney

    Will newlyweds Winnie and Josh make it to their one-month anniversary? When Kimberly discovers who her secret admirer really is, she may wish he had kept his secret! When Tri Beta president Courtney falls for Dash, will the fireworks burn Lauren? ...

  • Mean Streak

    Ilene Cooper

  • Big Hype

    Avery Corman

    Struggling to get his first novel published, writer Paul Brock seeks assistance from music business mogul Mel Steiner, who packages Paul as a celebrity, employing spin doctors and media specialists in a comic look at hype. 30,000 first printing....

  • Day of the Snake

    Matthew J. Costello

  • Pressure Point

    Dick Couch

    Delivering "a gripping insider's view of the secret world of nuclear security" (W.E.B. Griffin), Dick Couch's explosive novel poses the chilling and timely question: How safe are America's waterways from terrorist threat? Riding quietly at her moori...

  • Daye and Knight

    Patricia Cox

    MICHAEL'S KISS WAS EXPLOSIVE... ...And then Jo Knight heard fireworks. Michael's touch was electrifying...and then Jo felt hot. What did Michael feel? Although they had unexpectedly met -- and were forced to share the same living quarte...

  • Gone a Novel

    Kit Craig

    Clary Hale thinks she has finally escaped her horrible past and created an idyllic family life until one day her children wake to find their mother gone--kidapped by the psychopath who has been obsessed with her since her youth. 35,000 first printing...

  • The Bushido Incident

    Betty Anne Crawford

    With the Earth ruled by a vast, Japanese-dominated empire, So Pak, son of the Earth's finest historian, puts together a probe expedition and heads for the distant world of Zeta Reticuli to rescue two mining expeditiions. Original....

  • Rebel Wildfire

    Barbara Cummings

    Once again she captures the dangerous intrigue and blistering passions of Revolutionary America with the exhilarating tale of the spirited Colonial-born Savannah Stewart and the unyieldingly British-bred David Montgomery... England had bestowed we...

  • Cinderella Summer

    Elizabeth D'Anard

    Anne wants more out of life . . . Ever since Anne's father left their quiet island home years ago, she has longed to live an exciting "mainland" life. So when her father asks her to come live in Seattle the summer with his new family, Anne accepts...

  • Fireworks!

    Ruth Jean Dale

    Hell's Bells, Texas .. . 2,506 nice folks and a few old grouches. When Meg Taggart first saw that corny sign, she'd been a bride, enchanted by her cowboy husband, Jesse, and her new life. Now, after a five-year estrangement, Meg and Jes...

  • The Orc Wars: The Yngling Saga, Books I & II

    John Dalmas

    With the powerful telepathic tyrant Kazi heading west against Europe, with an army of Orcs at his back, it is up to neo-Viking Nils Jarnhann, the Yngling, to infiltrate Kazi's forces and assassinate him. Reprint....

  • Tumbleweed

    Margot Dalton

    Other men herd tried to rope her in Until she met Scott Freeman, Lyle Callander was about as likely to settle in one spot as tumbleweed in a windstorm. She had her heart set on only one goal: being the fastest barrel racer in the West. Now, for...

  • Showdown

    Sean Dalton

    An Old West adventure in the time travel series from the “masterful” national bestselling author of Lucasfilm’s Alien Chronicles (Extrapolations).   Unable to return to the twenty-sixth century, historian and time traveler Noel Kedran stru...

  • Baby Makes Five

    Lacey Dancer

    THE ART OF THE DEAL Her clients considered her bizarre-the eccentric woman who lived in an isolated house nestled in the Smoky Mountains. Caitland Fox didn't care what they said. An acknowledged genius in the computer field, she had chosen her sol...

  • Teen Idol

    Kate Daniel

    A string of accidents plague the set when a film crew arrives on her parent's ranch to film a movie, and soon Samantha Phillips begins to believe that her new boyfriend, the film's star, is to blame for the mischief. Original....

  • The Seduction of Keira

    Emma Darcy

    She was supposed to be a modern-day Delilah When Keira Mary Brooks returned to Sydney, her cousin Justin greeted her with open arms. It was not what she'd expected. Neither were Justin's plans. He wanted Keira to assume the alias Delila...

  • Timeless Land

    Eleanor Dark

    An outstanding literary achievement, meticulously researched and deeply felt, this portrait of the earliest days of the European settlement of Australia remains unrivalled. the year 1788: the very beginning of European settlement. these were times of...

  • Demon's Beach

    Nicole Davidson

    “THE DEMON IS AMONG US… LEAVE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!” The old lady’s voice shakes with fear as she speaks, and the eyes of her cat glow a savage green. But the ominous warning goes unheeded. The Archeology Club from Fort Johnson High has c...

  • Jade

    Gwen Davis

    Skyscrapers and sampans, opium-scented alleyways and penthouses tinged with the allure of perfume and money, Hong Kong beckons with the promise of a place where every desire--and every obsession--can be fulfilled. Now, as the British Colony hovers...

  • Bewitched

    Saranne Dawson

    THEY WERE CHARMED...When the fiery feud between two rival aunts -- and witches -- began to burn again, threatening to light up ancient Shrevesbury, Samantha Bridge's only hope was to consort with the enemy. Deke Jacobs was reputed to be a siniste...

  • Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told: Catwoman and the Penguin

    DC Comics

  • Pixilated Peeress

    L. Sprague de Camp

    Discovering the countess Yvette hiding behind a bush without any clothes on, Sergeant Thorolf is soon enlisted to take her to Rhaetia, a wizard, in order that he might change her form and help her elude her pursuers. Reprint....

  • The Field Day

    Seamus Deane

  • Nice Guys Finish Dead

    David Debin

    With one best-seller to his name, former sixties radical Albie Marx has been resting on his laurels for twenty years, but when his lover is found dead, he realizes that past glories will not help him beat a murder rap...

  • The Quicksilver Screen

    Don H. Debrandt

    With the advent of IRTV--infinite range television--humans can watch TV from alternate realities, which seems harmless enough until Virgil Jacobi discovers that someone in another dimension is using the technology to influence his world...

  • Monkey See, Monkey Do

    Barthe DeClements

  • Pee Wees on Parade

    Judy Delton

    What's the Fourth of July without a good old-fashioned parade down Main Street? The Pee Wees will get to ride real, live ponies down the street! Uh-oh. Molly can't remember ever meeting a real horse. She's seen pictures of them. She knows they are bi...

  • Tempted by Fire

    Thea Devine

    HE WAS HER VICTIM Amid the glittering decadence of the Brighton gaming hall, Jainee Beaumont coolly surveyed her prey. A year ago, lord Southam had taught her that women were objects to be fondled and toyed with as discreetly as the cards or dice....

  • Universal Soldier

    Dean Devlin

  • A Season for Scandal

    Marian Devon

    THE THREE COUSINS HAD AN IMPOSSIBLE REPUTATION TO UPHOLD AS THE DAUGHTERS OF THE INFAMOUS PERCIVAL SISTERS.... They were expected to make their come-outs together and repeat their mothers' triumphs. Unfortunately, it was only cousin Sylvia whose e...

  • The Trouble With Terry

    Jacqueline Diamond

    A MAN OF MANY CHARMS He could charm children and animals. He built mystical castles and spun golden fairy tales. His every day was a magical adventure. In short, Terry Vogel was impetuous, irrepressible -- and, some said, utterly irresistible. ...

  • No Mercy

    Franklin W. Dixon

    On the trail of the group of international supersmugglers responsible for their father's death, Frank and Joe Hardy are led on by a beautiful woman, pursued by a trained assassin, and face danger everywhere. Original....

  • The Unofficial Suitor

    Charlotte Louise Dolan

    Beauty for sale Lady Cassiopeia Anderby wished she were not an Earl's daughter and strikingly lovely, to boot. For her heartless half brother, Geoffm, Earl of Blackstone, was auctioning her blue-blooded beauty to the highest bidder in the marriage...

  • Irene at Large // A Soul of Steel

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    Alive and well despite the widely published accounts of her death, the irresistible Irene Adler and her husband, dashing barrister Godfrey Norton, are taking coffee with their friend Nell Huxleigh in a Parisian sidewalk cafe when a stranger dressed i...

  • All the Way

    Gail Douglas

    JAKE -- He Kissed Her as if Claiming What Had Always Belonged to Him.... He caused a rush of erotic heat when he called her Kitten and brushed her lips with one perfect peach rose, but Brittany Thomas wasn't sure she dared to admit that Jake M...

  • Plague of Change

    L. Warren Douglas

    REPUGNANT REDEMPTION beyond the antimatter barrier known as the Reef, the far-flung human colonies were dying out. Trade was decreasing, plagues ran rampant, societies had degenerated into mobs, and few ships were safe from raiders. Studying th...

  • Battlestation

    David Drake

    When the Fleet is challenged by an alien armada from the other side of the galaxy, the Fleet constructs the Stephen Hawking, an enormous mobile base for thousands of soldiers and warships. Original....

  • No Harm Intended

    Gloria Dyal

  • A Summer's Folly

    Sarah Eagle
    in

    A collection of romance tales by today's romance masters features a tale of love at a royal birthday party, the story of a chaperone's unexpected chance at love, and a tale of love at Brighton. Original....

  • A Double Deception

    Clive Egleton

  • Sophie's Attic

    Robin Elliott

    SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME Sophie Clarkson's beloved father had been gunned down in the line of duty. And when she became the killer's next target, her only protection came in the form of a ruggedly handsome, embittered agent -- a man whose ...

  • Lone Star and the Mexican Muskets

    Wesley Ellis

    The Apaches are on the warpath, and Jessie and Ki follow their bloody trail south of the border!Cutthroat Apaches are holding an entire Mexican town hostage for money, and unfortunately, Jessie and Ki forgot to bring along their moneybags. So they'll...

  • Hannah

    Suzanne Ellison

  • Blazing Star

    Suzanne Ellison

    WELCOME TO TYLER CHANGES ARE AFOOT... Tyler's got a new female police captain -- and everybody's talking! Come on down to Marge's and share the speculations of America's favorite hometown. SHE SEEMS TOUGH AS NAILS When Tyler's favorite son ...

  • Nightmare at Skull Junction

    Roger Elwood

  • Disaster Island

    Roger Elwood

  • Death Instinct

    Phillip Emmons

    With a serial killer on the loose in Phoenix, Cathy Riley experiences tremendous fear living with her aged and angry father, and Lieutenant Allan Grant counts one defeat after another as more and more people die. Original....

  • Strike

    L.L. Enger

    When gold is discovered near reservation land in Minnesota, former Detroit Tigers outfielder Gunsten Pedersen becomes enmeshed in a stand-off between a mining company and the Ojibwe tribe. Innocent people are murdered, and Gun must navigate the gray ...

  • Longarm and the Cimarron City Sellout

    Tabor Evans

    Sent to settle a war brewing between the soldiers and civilians of Cimarron City, U.S. Deputy Marshal Long discovers that Willard Sherman, a greed-crazed colonel, has plans to sell the city down the river. Original....

  • I Love Christmas: A Wonderful Collection of Christmas Stories, Poems, Carols, and More

    Carolyn Ewing

  • Alibi for an Actress

    Gillian B. Farrell

    Hired to protect Lucinda Merrill, the star of a low-rated soap opera, from an obsessed fan, struggling actress Annie McGrogan begins the job with enthusiasm, until Merrill's husband is murdered and Annie is named the number one suspect...

  • Blood! Said the Cat

    Louise Munro Foley

  • Dragonfly in Amber

    Diana Gabaldon

    From the author of Outlander... a magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland... For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter t...

  • Batman Returns

    Craig Shaw Gardner

    Batman has vowed to rid Gotham City of the dastardly Penguin and his slinky confederate, Catwoman--but while the Caped Crusader is repulsed by his umbrella-wielding nemesis, he is also tantalized by the darkly seductive Catwoman...

  • Dead Pigeon

    William Campbell Gault

    In his final case, Brock investigates the murder of his troubled college roommate Maybe Mike Gregory was too smart for football. When he and Brock Callahan roomed together at Stanford University, Mike was a second-stringer with the skill to go p...

  • For the Sake of Elena

    Elizabeth George

    Elena Weaver was a surprise to anyone meeting her for the first time. In her clingy dresses and dangling earrings she exuded a sexuality at odds with the innocence projected by the unicorn posters on her walls. While her embittered mother frette...

  • Gabrielle

    Albert Geurard

    American diplomat Thomas Randall's attraction to Gabrielle, a lovely and mysterious Parisian chambermaid, embroils him with kidnappers, Basque separatists, Colombian drug lords, Haitian exiles, and other chaotic causes. 15,000 first printing....

  • Flying

    Gail Gibbons

  • The Queen Against Karl Mullen

    Michael Gilbert

    Karl Mullen is a brutal South African secret policeman who is in Great Britain to seek the extradition of a black activist. His very presence in the country is a political embarrassment to the government. Then, there is an accusation of shoplifting a...

  • Sherwood

    Godwin Parke

    THE GRANDEUR, THE GLORY... THE LEGEND REBORN! In the dark time, with Saxon freedom crushed beneath the iron fist of King William the Conqueror, the cry for a champion resounds throughout the land--and Edward Aelredson, Thane of Denby, answers the ...

  • Dance of the Dead

    Christie Golden
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Larissa Snowmane is a dancer aboard a magical riverboat. For years the craft has traveled in Ravenloft, unopposed by the sinister beings that rule over the Dark Domains. When the boat arrives at the zombie-plagued island of Souragne, however, the ...

  • Ice Trap

    L.A. Graf

    Sent to the icebound planet of Nordstral to investigate a mysterious outbreak of insanity, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise TM find themselves drawn into another, even deadlier mystery upon their arrival. A team of research scientists has disappeare...

  • Nothing Less Than Love // No Time for Loving

    Vanessa Grant

    "Marrying you is the last thing I would choose to do!" Being solely responsible for managing the family business meant that there was little time for loving in Sarah's hectic life. However, when Alex Candon made the outrageous suggest...

  • Prime Suspect

    A.W. Gray

    The number one suspect in the Fort Worth police investigation into the murder of Marissa Hardin, Lackey Ferguson, the carpenter Marissa had met with the morning of her death, is determined to find the real killer...

  • Unnatural Diplomacy

    Martin H. Greenberg

    As human beings acquire spaceflight, they must enter into an uneasy alliance with the galaxy's elite races in a collection of stories by Karen Haber, Janet Kagan, Rebecca Ore, Harry Turtledove, and others. Original....

  • Flying Too High

    Kerry Greenwood

    Walking the wings of a Tiger Moth plane in full flight ought to be enough excitement for most people, but not Phryne Fisher, amateur detective, woman of mystery, as delectable as the finest chocolate and as sharp as razor blades. In this, the sec...

  • Red Swastika

    Martin Gross

    Aligned with Russian hardliners and a Middle Eastern dictator, the German neo-Nazi group Red Swastika stands poised to realize its vision of the Fourth Reich, and American intelligence agents must stop them. Original....

  • Tell Me How the Wind Sounds

    Leslie Davis Guccione

  • Woody's Twenty Grow Big Songs

    Woody Guthrie

  • Mythus

    Gary Gygax

  • The Story of Heathcliff's Journey Back to Wuthering Heights

    Lin Haire-Sargeant

    Out in the world on his own again, Heathcliff is groomed into a gentleman, encounters old rivals, and prepares to face his beloved Cathy again in a speculative novel on Heathcliff's three-year absence from Wuthering Heights....

  • The Threateners

    Donald Hamilton

    “Don’t worry, we’re not going to shoot you… yet.” A ruthless South American drug lord has a plan to bring the United States to its knees. A group of renegade American agents has plans to smash the kingpin and his cartel, by any means n...

  • Nebula Awards 26: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year

    Harcourt Brace

  • Dangerous Charade

    Madeline Harper

    Damsel in Distress Countess, actress, political activist--Steven Peyton had discovered that Maggie Hanson was a woman of many faces. Who was this enticing chameleon? Someone who could help him dissipate the mists of his shrouded origins? Regal ...

  • Lightwing

    Tara K. Harper

    ALONE AT THE TOP Kiondili Wae considered herself lucky to land a job as a research assistant on Corson Station. And not just any job, but the project of her dreams: the development of a faster-than-light ship drive. Her special talents--powerful t...

  • Catacombs

    Jesse Harris

    When Mack detects a terrifying horror buried deep beneath an amusement park, he discovers a dark underworld populated by the park's sideshow freaks and and malignant clairvoyant with evil powers. Original....

  • Southern Ghost

    Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

    Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand bookstore, is shocked to hear talk about her husband, Max, and a beautiful blonde. By the time she's faced down a hostile police chief and bailed Max out of the Chastain, South Carolina, jail, the lady has ...

  • Heat of Ramadan

    Steven Hartov

    Israeli Military Intelligence agents Eytan Eckstein and Benni Baum set out with their team to eliminate master terrorist Amar Kamil in Germany. But tragically, Eckstein kills the wrong man, is badly wounded himself and put out to pasture. Then, in a ...

  • Bitter Recoil

    Steven F. Havill

    OBSESSION TAKES AIM… It's undersheriff Bill Gastner's most difficult assignment: going on a healthy, relaxing vacation. This hardheaded lawman isn't sure he can survive the hiking, the nonspicy, unfried food and the lack of crimes to solve. So ...

  • Mountain Man's Fury

    Ralph Hayes

  • Whose Child Is This?

    Sally Tyler Hayes

    IT WAS HIS CHILD . . . IT HAD TO BE Bitter experience had taught J. D. Satterly that rich women were shallow and materialistic. But when he discovered that his ex-wife had left town with their child--the one she'd never told him about--he added "v...

  • Lucky in Love

    Eileen Hehl

    Sailor, take warning... When Maureen Butler discovers that Conor Davis, her pesky childhood playmate, has turned into a handsome hunk, she knows her annual visit to her grandfather's seaside home will be interesting. Maureen and Conor immediat...

  • Just Her Type

    Liz Henley

    A LONELY MAN Sydney Grayson would sooner sell her soul to the devil than her print shop to the likes of Reynolds Shepherd--no matter how tall, dark and intimidating he was. The man just wanted to bulldoze her family business and build something c...

  • Frankenstein

    Robert Henry

  • Siberian Transfer

    Hans Herlin

    Summoned to Omsk to hunt down the enormous Czarist gold reserve allegedly hidden by the White Russians, precious-metal geologist Oliver Quinn races against time to find the treasure before his nemesis, Ian Cutter, does....

  • Sam and the Moon Queen

    Alison Cragin Herzig

  • Letters from Rifka

    Karen Hesse

    Rifka dreams of a life in America, but she may never get there. Rifka and her family have fled Russia's brutal treatment of the Jews for a new life in America. But the path to freedom is full of terrible obstacles -- the humiliating scrutiny of do...

  • Eye of the Storm

    Jack Higgins

    Former allies in the IRA, Sean Dillon and Martin Brosnan have chosen different paths. Now Dillon is a terrorists for hire, a master of disguise employed by Saddam Hussein. Brosnan is the one man who knows Dillion's strengths and weaknesses...and bril...

  • Downtown Women

    Catherine Hiller

  • McKendree

    Douglas Hirt

  • The Stone Doll of Sister Brute

    Russell Hoban

  • THEY TIED A LABEL. . .

    Hilda Hollingsworth

  • Little Poss and Horrible Hound

    William H. Hooks

    “Beware the hound,” warns Papa Possum. But Little Poss seems to find himself face to face with Horrible Hound every day. Can Poss outsmart, outfox, and outrun Horrible? Find out in these three wild adventures, perfect for the young indepe...

  • Whispers in the Night

    Suzanne Hoos

    “You must come to Raven Manor!” So read the desperate message that convinced Britanny St. James that her friend Sorcha had met with foul play. But when she journeyed to the country estate to uncover the truth, she discovered that nothing there...

  • Awaken My Fire

    Jennifer Horsman

    AWAKEN MY FIRE Beloved throughout Brittany -- a courageous champion in her people's rebellion against the English crown -- beautiful Lady Roshelle of Reales is protected by a strange and powerful magic: death will claim any many who would have his l...

  • The Cellar

    Ellen Howard

  • Marimba

    Richard Hoyt

    James Burlane, ex-CIA and now working freelance for a high level government investigative committee, is on the surface the ultimate marimbeiro, a wild-haired, wok-toting adventurer with only a backpack to his name...Hoyt...knows the political intrica...

  • Rascal

    Charlotte Hughes

    DEACON -- He Wore Shamefully Tight Jeans and a Dangerous Grin... He hadn't been back to his hometown since he'd set the stage on fire as a country music star, but Deacon Brody had never forgotten how hard he'd struggled to make it out ...

  • Lucy And Tom Go To School

    Shirley Hughes

    Lucy has her school things ready. She has a new grey skirt, a pair of brown shoes, a pencil case and a satchel. Tom wishes that he had a satchel too. Full of warmth and good humour, the happy simplicity of childhood is captured in this richly illustr...

  • Death Sentence

    Gary Hunter

    When drug lords begin targeting cops in the nation's capital, Vietnam vet Garrick Travis teams up with a man he once vowed to kill in order to stop the drug traffickers dead in their tracks. Original....

  • Prussian Blue

    Tony Hyman

    Researching his investigative biography of ruthless CIA Director Andrew Carlson, John Brady receives an anonymous call that sends him on a hair-raising odyssey from New York City to the Maine coast. Reprint....

  • Awesome Animals

    Gina Ingoglia

    Describes the characteristics and behavior of the Komodo dragon, chameleon, tarsier, vampire bat, flying snake, koala, three-toed sloth, giant panda, musk ox, mongoose, black rhinoceros, and basilisk lizard...

  • Art Class

    Gina Ingoglia

  • Blackmaddie

    Jean Innes

    "Blackmaddie puts a curse on all those who try to escape her clutches" Summoned to Scotland by her ailing grandfather, Charlotte Brodie had anticipated a warm reception at Blackmaddie castle. Instead she was met with the hostility and rese...

  • Senator

    William Jaspersohn

    A photo essay shows readers how the U.S. government works with an in-depth look at daily life of Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey as he works with his constituents and with his colleagues on the Hill....

  • Sinful

    Susan Johnson

    DANGEROUSLY HANDSOME, RECKLESSLY AMOROUS, AND UTTERLY IRRESISTIBLE TO WOMEN... He was the most profligate rogue in London, but Sinjin St. John, duke of Seth, had never met a lady who could bring him to his knees ... until Chelsea Fergusson slipp...

  • Devil Creek Crossfire

    William W. Johnstone

    SIX-GUNS FROM HELL When Matt Bodine and his blood brother Sam Two Wolves headed into the small cowtown of Crossville close by Devil Creek, all they wanted was to stock up on vittles and give their weary mounts a breather. But they found themselves...

  • Baby Kermit's Playtime ABC

    Lily Jones

  • Law of Attraction

    Penny Jordan

    Judge and jury With both her professional and personal life in such a mess, Charlotte French realized she was lucky to land a position with the prestigious law firm of Jefferson & Horwich -- even as a junior partner. But Daniel Jefferson was like ...

  • Passionate Possession

    Penny Jordan

    He had misjudged her Lucy Howard didn't like arrogant men, and Niall Cameron certainly came into that category for her! He didn't even know her, but he quite happily jumped to all the wrong conclusions. She was rich, spoiled, uncaring and ...

  • Death Benefits

    Michael Kahn

    Savvy, sharp Chicago attorney Rachel Gold has been hired by Abbott & Windsor to clear a hefty but controversial insurance claim following the bizarre disappearance and messy suicide of Stoddard Anderson, one of the firm's managing partners in their S...

  • Death of a Russian Priest

    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    When Inspector Rostnikov arrives in the town of Arkush with Emil Karpo, the policeman nicknamed the Vampire, he finds a community stunned by the murder of the outspoken Father Merhum. But it is the priest's cryptic last words that make Rostnikov wond...

  • Dream Castle

    Andrea Kane

    He Was the Man of Her Dreams.... The Only Hope to End Her Nightmares A slender figure emerged from the evening mist along Scarborough beach, diamond-like droplets shimmering on raven black hair, and there before Braden Sheffield, Duke of Sherburg...

  • Good, Protected Life

    Joseph Kaufman

    Overweight and unhappy, twenty-two-year-old Yeshiva student Murray Orloff debates whether he should remain unfulfilled in the good, protected life his father espouses or remain spiritually rootless but at peace....

  • Rendezvous in Rome

    Carolyn Keene

    In the second book of the trilogy that began with Swiss Secrets, Nancy, Bess, and George are in the ancient, romantic city of Rome, and they have their hearts set on amore galore. Instead, they find themselves hot on the trail of a dangerous jewel th...

  • Spies and Lies

    Carolyn Keene

    AMERICA’S TOP TEEN DETECTIVES TEAM UP TO CORNER A KILLER INSIDE THE FBI NANCY DREW has gone undercover at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Her mission: protect Judy Noll, Bureau trainee, daughter of a powerful senator, and apparent target of...

  • Wayward Angel

    Vivian Keith

    SHE merely meant to serve him with his own sauce When Miss Annabelle Winthrop first met Camford Singletary, Earl of Westerbrook, she thought him the veriest beast. His supercilious regard was only second to his rag-manners, though she discove...

  • A Dream Like Mine

    M.T. Kelly

    Considering whether it is moral to use radical and violent solutions to stop the destruction of the environment, this dark novel portrays a succession of fights over land rights and pollution in northern Ontario. As tensions increase, a loca...

  • Spy in the Russian Club

    Ronald Kessler

    A look at the espionage of Glenn Michael Souther describes how the Navy man turned his back on his country to become a spy for the KGB, describing his relationships with women, his outrageous public behavior, and more. Reprint. AB. K. ...

  • A Summer Folly

    Mary Kingsley

    A MISCHIEVOUS WIDOW When the dashedly handsome Duke of Tremont summoned Anne Templeton home to England, the lovely young widow left Jamaica with a wary sigh. Seven years before, as a foolish green girl, she had jilted Giles Templeton in favor of his...

  • Men's Work

    Paul Kivel

    In a world that thrives on aggression and physical force, male violence has become an all-too-frequent response to the frustrations and anxieties that fill men's lives. As a result, the lives of women and children have suffered dramatically, as socie...

  • Dragon Tome

    Richard A. Knaak

    The awesome world of epic war -- where young Cabe Bedlam's magic battles sorcerers, mad lords, witches, demons, dark gods ... and the fiery, shape-shifting Dragon Kings. Now: the amazing saga of how the Dragonrealm came to be. Brave explorer Welle...

  • Passion's Timeless Hour

    Vivian Knight-Jenkins

    HEALING ANGEL A gifted and dedicated army nurse, Rebecca Ann Warren had committed herself to saving soldiers wounded on the killing fields of Vietnam. But when a freak accident propelled her back to a Civil War battlefield, and into the arms of a da...

  • Midsummer Night's Desire

    Kathryn Kramer

    Banished from Queen Elizabeth's court for a murder he didn't commit, Nicholas Leighton was thrust into the dangerous and deceptive world of London's theater, where shimmering illusions defied the senses and false identities were commonplace. Betrayed...

  • Till Death Do Us Part

    Rochelle Majer Krich

    A KADDISH FOR THE DEAD Beautiful Deena Vogler's devout adherence to the tenets of Orthodox Judaism has consigned her to a living hell. Her sadistic husband Jake refuses to grant Deena a get--the religious divorce that will set her free. But provid...

  • Hero over Here: A Story of World War I

    Kathleen Kudlinski

  • A Time for Wedding Cake

    Salvatore La Puma

    Pulsating with local color, this passionate novel of Italian-American life in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, tells the story of two Sicilian brothers, brothers, Mario and Gene Leone, looking for the American dream after WWII, but finding tragedy, betrayal, a...

  • Blackwood's Daughter

    Harriet Labarre

    On a lecture tour to promote her dead father's writing and to restore his reputation, Faron encounters some strange happenings in a quaint English university town that lead her to reexamine the circumstances of her father's death. Reprint....

  • Fires in the Snow

    Janis Laden

    A SCANDALOUS RAKE Adam, Duke of Marchmaine, watched in amazement as Miss Diana Rustin swept gracefully through the corridors of his family's manor. It was incredible that this vivid beauty bad just saved the lives of his sister and her newborn baby ...

  • The Downing of Flight Six Heavy

    Perry Francis Lafferty

    A routine flight from Washington to London turns into a nightmare for captain Len Hutcherson when the CIA orders him to hijack his own plane in order to transport America's newest strategic weapon to Scotland. Reprint....

  • Terrorism

    Elaine Landau

    Explores whether America is vulnerable to terrorism, profiling the world's most notorious terrorists and detailing how we can protect against this threat. By the author of Chemical and Biological Warfare....

  • The Trumpets of Tagan

    Simon Lang

    In peace or war, the starship USS Skipjack is the pride of the Federation, its brave crew trained and ready to explore the farthest reaches of the galaxy... or travel through time itself. Eisernon is home to a proud--but conquered--race of catlike...

  • Texas Healer

    Ruth Langan

    A Healing Heart... Dr. Dan Conway, wounded while saving a Comanche child from brutality, had been brought to a Comanche camp. His healing powers soon became legendary, yet he wanted no payment for curing the Indians of the "white man's disease." H...

  • God in Concord

    Jane Langton

    Thoreau's Walden Pond is coveted by greedy real estate developers--and the local retirement community is dangerously close to the line of fire. Homer Kelly is trying to cope with the changes in Concord: the influx of tourists, a boom in flashy bou...