Books Published in June 1988

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JUNE 1988

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New Books List: 456 titles

  • Beauty and the Beast

    Chris Achilleos

  • More of the Straight Dope

    Cecil Adams

    "Smart, saucy answers...the kind of book you'd buy as a goofy present for your wackiest friend--and then keep."
    THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
    Since 1973, the redoubtable Cecil Adams has collected, corrected, inspected, and dissected thousands of re...

  • Man Who Met the Train

    Harold Adams

    On his way to Sioux Falls to work as a sign painter, Carl Wilcox comes upon a car wreck and rescues the sole survivor, 4-year-old Alma Ellison, whose mother dies in the accident. Partly because Alma seems to want him to stay, Carl accepts Judge Carls...

  • Released Into Dawn

    Kelly Adams

    When Annie Maguire finally sees the man she's been waiting a year for -- Esteban Ramirez -- she thinks he's a reporter and tells him to leave! She doesn't recognize Esteban, because wrongful imprisonment in South America has changed him. ...

  • Clan of the Cats

    Robert Adams

    Milo Morai and his Horseclans warriors take refuge from preying wolves in the ruins of an ancient tower, where they encounter The Hunter, a genetically-engineered creature determined to challenge Milo Morai in a battle to the death...

  • The Battle Begins

    Jerry Ahern

    ON THE EVE OF CHAOS HE'S AMERICA'S LAST LINE OF DEFENSE. Someone has organized the inner city's toughest gangs, trained and armed them with sophisticated weaponry and set them loose on the streets. By the time the police and politicos can act, it's ...

  • Surgical Strike

    Jerry Ahern

    America Has a New Policy For Dealing With Terrorists. FIGHT FIRE WITH FIREPOWER... Four men. Hand-picked specialists from America's military elite. Their mission: A daring raid on a Mideast terrorist stronghold. It's a covert operation to in...

  • The Year Before Yesterday

    Brian W. Aldiss

  • Arliss

    Llyla Allen

  • Demon of Undoing

    Andrea Alton

    The Imkaira called them 'Demons' - Demons of Undoing. They brought dangerous new thoughts and inventions, ideas that could topple the rigid Imkairan society. Shocked by the harm they were causing, the humans withdrew. Hundreds of years later they are...

  • Reasonable Doubt

    Catherine Anderson

    She had made a promise to a dying woman Nothing less would have convinced Breanna Morgan to return to the Crescent Moon claim -- to face the doubt she'd fled so long ago. But what she faced was not who she'd anticipated. Prowlers, vandals ...

  • Natural Obsessions

    Natalie Angier

    This classic work of science writing chronicles the search for the origins of cancer -- with a new introduction by the Pulitzer Prize�"winning author.In Natural Obsessions, acclaimed science writer Natalie Angier holds a microscope up to the agony a...

  • Death Shock

    Harrison Arnston

  • Send Me No Flowers

    Katherine Arthur

    He didn't want her; he wanted her help Samantha Bennet was thrilled to be ghostwriting Mark Westland's memoirs, despite some doubts about the aging actor's possible revelations. And when Blaize Leighton appeared on her doorstep dete...

  • Rebels

    Lorayne Ashton

    Drew McCormack, president of the co-op board is determined to stop his daughter's joining the all-male Patrician Club, while tennants try to force a doctor treating AIDS patients to leave the building...

  • Two by Astley

    Thea Astley

  • Our Times

    David Atwan

  • Disney Babies Nursery Rhymes

    Darrell Baker

  • Burning Tears of Sassurum

    Sharon Baker

  • Coming to Grief

    Clive Barker
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    This stunning collection of novellas and short stories by masters of the macabre brings to fans and newcomers an unrelenting spell of horror and suspense. These are tales that strike beyond sheer terror, as their disturbing visions capture the dark r...

  • Dance with Devil

    Tom Barling

  • Click

    Karen Lawton Barrett

  • Deadly Climate

    Richard Barth

    To celebrate winning a sleek new camper in a church lottery, septuagenarian sleuth Margaret Binton invites her friends Berdie, Sid, and Durso to share a winter vacation in warm, beautiful Miami. The Miami they find, however, is a district of dreary n...

  • Practice Makes Perfect

    Jahnna Beecham

    Kit Carson, ace reporter for the Queen Anne High Spectator, always has the latest scoop on who's dating whom. And when cute, witty Zach Taylor joins the newspaper's staff, Kit knows he's the right guy for her. They even team up to write a feature sto...

  • Curtain Call

    Elizabeth Bernard

    A matter of trust... Ever since Leah Stephenson arrived at the San Francisco Ballet Academy, devious Pamela Hunter has done everything possible to make her miserable. Now that they're rehearsing a pas de trois together, Leah doesn't know how she'll ...

  • The Year of the Monkey

    Carole Berry

    Bonnie Indermill Objective: A fulfilling career and a committed husband...or at least, a temp job to pay the bills and a date for the weekend. Experience: Assistant office manager, assistant fitness counselor, assistant fund-raiser, assistant d...

  • Hey, Mac, Where Ya Been?

    Henry Berry

  • East of the Sun

    Barbara Bickmore

    LILIANE. CAROLYN. COURTNEY. FOR HALF A CENTURY, THEY WOULD DEVOTE THEMSELVES TO SIMBAYO, THE PLACE THAT LIES EAST OF THE SUN. When twenty-year-old Liliane Wentworth set eyes on Dr. Baxter Hathaway in her family's parlor in 1926, she knew she would...

  • Tennessee Bride

    Rosanne Bittner

    ONLY THE WHITE INDIAN COULD SAVE HER FROM A LIFE OF SHAME... Raised in the harsh poverty of the Tennessee hills, Emma Simms hoped that one day she would escape to the excitement of Knoxville. Then her ma died, leaving her alone with her stepfather...

  • Crazy in Love

    Cynthia Blair

    It’s love at first sight for Rachel and Saul, who meet through their mutual friend Sallie.  But Rachel is Jewish and Saul is Puerto Rican �" a match Rachel’s parents don’t approve of.  Sallie, who wants the best for her two friends, ...

  • Chocolate Pie for Breakfast

    Mary E. Blakeslee

    Seventeen-year-old Louie Smith, a consumate cook, bakes a pie that earns him a ticket to a teenage cooking contest in Canada, where he meets new friends, learns about competition and honor, and realizes how much he misses Iggy, the girl-next-door...

  • Riding With Hannah and the Horseman

    Johnny D. Boggs

  • Women in a River Landscape

    Heinrich Boll

  • That McKenna Woman

    Parris Afton Bonds

    THE COWBOY AND THE LADY . . . Marianna McKenna was used to bright lights, big cities and the glamorous life of a Hollywood star, so it came as quite a shock when she became the victim of a tragic mistake and found herself living at the Mescalero C...

  • Baby, Baby

    Barbara Boswell

    Nick Torchia was the one man Candace Flynn had never been able to banish from her thoughts, the only man she'd ever cried over, her first love-but he'd come too close, touched too deep, and she'd driven him away. Now, three years later, he was back, ...

  • A Show of Hands

    Linda Bourke

  • Peacekeepers

    Ben Bova

    PEACEKEEPERS Created by the Athens Peace Conference in the wake of nuclear war in the Middle East, assigned control of every nation's orbiting nuclear hardware, the International Peacekeeping Force's brief is to prevent any military action across na...

  • Love's Savage Destiny

    Melissa Bowersock

    DIVIDED HEART The daughter of a white woman and an Indian brave, Catherine Boudry had spent the first thirteen years of her life among the Cheyenne. Restored at last to her mother's wealthy parents, Cathy blossomed into womanhood surrounded by all t...

  • Goblin Market

    Richard Bowes

  • To Be the Best

    Barbara Taylor Bradford

    Emma Harte's courageous and passionate granddaughter and heir, Paula McGill O'Neill, reigns as head of the family and it's elegant business empire. Possessed of Emma's strength and compassion, Paula has successfully lavished equal attention on the bu...

  • Faded Tattoos

    John F. Bradford

    It's been 17 years since the war ground to a halt and Lon Truesdale, a pilot stationed in Thailand, still hasn't returned. Will the clue of a 60's rebel turned fugitive be enough to turn the scene in to a long-awaited homecoming?...

  • Heads You Lose

    Christianna Brand

    In the English countryside, one of the well-mannered guests at Pigeonsford Estate may be a murderer in this series debut by an Edgar Award–nominated author.  As war rages in Europe, the citizens of London flee to the country. At Pigeonsfor...

  • The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    There's something rotten in the small town of Pickax--at least to the sensitive noses of newspaperman Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum. An accident has claimed the life of the local paper's eccentric publisher, but to Qwilleran an...

  • Palm Latitudes

    Kate Braverman

    Written nearly a decade after Lithium for Medea, Palm Latitudes, Kate Braverman's second novel and arguably her chef d’oeuvre, explores the intertwined lives of three women who await absolution and revelation in the bougainvillea- and violence-fill...

  • Honeymoon Hotel

    Barbara Bretton

    Fantasy was John's strong suit Applied to business, it turned his deliciously indulgent Love Cottages--complete with waterbeds and heart-shaped bathtubs--into the hottest honeymoon hotel in the Poconos. Applied to matters of the heart, it broke th...

  • Lenin: The Novel

    Alan Brien

  • A Guide to Western Civilization or My Story

    Joe Bob Briggs

    The author of "Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In" brings his distinctly western irreverent humor to a "100 per cent fact-free autobiography" covering his poor childhood, vision of a drive-in Jesus, and his philosophy of life--and sin...

  • Murder Most Gentrified

    Mary Bringle

    A corpse glimpsed through a window in a neighborhood slated for yuppie gentrification could mean witchcraft, or a sign that those who want to "improve" the neighborhood will go to any lengths--even murder...

  • What Paul Really Said About Women

    John Temple Bristow

  • Fallen Roses

    Laura Brooke

  • Apache Sunset

    Betty Brooks

    AN ICE PRINCESS When Katherine Carpenter opened her eyes for the first time after her accident, she thought that she should be afraid of the magnificent Indian warrior before her. Instead, she felt herself drawn to him like a bee to honey. His lea...

  • Sailor Dog Favorite

    Margaret Wise Brown

    Scuppers the Dog wants to be a sailor. He was born at sea and all he wants to do is go to sea. When Scuppers finally gets a chance to go to sea he is shipwrecked. But he doesn't let that bother him. He fixes his boat and goes back out to sea, this ti...

  • Hawk O'Toole's Hostage

    Sandra Brown

    Randy Price fought like a wildcat when the desperate, masked man abducted her, fiercely sweeping her onto his horse and racing away. What did he want with her and her young son, and why was her terror mixed with disturbing passion for this modern-day...

  • Along Came Jones

    Dixie Browning

    ONE LOOK WAS ALL IT TOOK Rex Jones had first seen her when she'd been barefoot and cane-pole fishing. He didn't know then that this was Tallulah Lavender, pillar of the Parrish Falls community. It didn't matter; he was hooked. Lu ha...

  • Miami War Zone

    Jack Buchanan

  • Family Politics

    John Buckley

  • The Barren Patch

    Sally Burton

  • Adulthood Rites

    Octavia E. Butler

    XENOGENESIS: The birth of something new--and foreign. CHILD OF A NEW PEOPLE The Oankali aliens have saved Earth. For a price. Oankali survival requires constant genetic exchange. .. and we are their new mating stock. The resisters reject the Oa...

  • By Reason of Darkness

    Jack Cady
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    This stunning collection of novellas and short stories by masters of the macabre brings to fans and newcomers an unrelenting spell of horror and suspense. These are tales that strike beyond sheer terror, as their disturbing visions capture the dark r...

  • Primrose

    Deborah Camp

    AMOROUS ALLIANCE Riverboat gambler Grandy Adams had a choice -- marry Zanna Hathaway or hang! He was an innocent man on his way to the gallows; she, a lovely young widow in need of a husband to protect her from a ruthless brother-in-law who was af...

  • Flirtation River

    Bethany Campbell

    Neither one was happy about the arrangement But Quint and Miranda had no say in the matter. Senator Mason insisted his "trouble-making" daughter remain under the protection of Quint Wilcox--until they discovered who'd been sending her ...

  • Next Time You'll Know Me

    Ramsey Campbell
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    This stunning collection of novellas and short stories by masters of the macabre brings to fans and newcomers an unrelenting spell of horror and suspense. These are tales that strike beyond sheer terror, as their disturbing visions capture the dark r...

  • The Silent Treatment

    David Carkeet

  • Surrender

    Emily Carmichael

    Alaine de Ste. Claire rode across the raw Normandy countryside, her thick blond hair floating behind her like a banner. The proud daughter of a lord, she had been raised to wage war and to rule, and she preferred her sword and her freedom to marriage...

  • Till There Was You

    Eleni Carr

    SHE COULDN'T BELIEVE HER EYES Lawyer Meghan O'Brien first noticed Justin Forbes at her health club. How could she miss him -- he'd been showing up to watch her work out for weeks. He obviously had her schedule memorized! But when Me...

  • Scandal at High Chimneys

    John Dickson Carr

    Matthew Damon was a loving father and figure of stern moral rectitude. Why, then, has a rumor of scandal followed him? Behind the drawn curtains at High Chimneys, Damon's mansion, a sinister presence had disturbed the household. And murder was done. ...

  • The Moon Gate

    Rosalind Carson

    WHY HAD ALYS BEEN LOST TO HISTORY? Allison Bentley was in Bermuda to find out what happened to her ancestor -- and to film a travel video. Tracing Alys Thornley was Allie's dying mother's last request. But it wasn't the only mystery...

  • Sword of the Prophet

    Jim Case

    They've got Iran on the run! Book 7 of Cody's Army by Jim Case....

  • The Scarlet Spinster

    Cleo Chadwick

    At twenty-four Miss Polly Rice was commonly held to be on the shelf. So it came as quite a surprise to her neighbors to hear that Sir Frederick Moresby, the so eligible and yet so elusive bachelor, had offered for her. Wasn't he aware of that rac...

  • Dance Band on the Titanic

    Jack L. Chalker

  • To Tame the Wind

    Sara Chance

    Jade Hendricks was independent, solitary, and liked it that way. Her job as a photojournalist took her to the world's hot spots, and she didn't need emotional attachments that would tie her down. She was as restless as the wind, and lived like there ...

  • The History Of American Sailing Ships

    Howard I. Chapelle

    As Hilary's home life deteriorates, her adventures with the book characters she reads about increases to the point where she knows she must learn to control her talents and involve herself more in the real world...

  • A Different Drummer

    Maggi Charles

    That grass-skirted woman was his wife! Millionaire Drew Delahunt had no idea why Christy had walked out on their comfortable life to waitress in Key West. He only knew he wanted her back -- whatever the cost. The price was steeper than he expecte...

  • For Love of Lacey

    Sandra Chastain

    Lacey Lee Wilcox knew that people did crazy things at weddings, so when Tyler Winter sparked afire in her veins with his reckless smile and kissed her long and hard, she felt an irresistible urge to melt against him, even if a free-spirited gypsy wit...

  • Miss Cayley's Unicorn

    Elizabeth Chater

    "SINCE WE DISLIKE ONE ANOTHER SO HEARTILY, WE ARE UNLIKELY TO INTERFERE WITH ONE ANOTHER'S PLEASURES OR PURSUITS." Considering the pressing circumstances of both bride and groom, it was a match made in heaven. Lovely Gina Cayley despe...

  • Wenatchie Bend

    Giff Cheshire

  • The Perfect Gentleman

    Marion Chesney

    WALKING INTO A LION'S DEN AND CLIMBING UP A DRAINPIPE HALF-NAKED WAS NO WAY FOR A LADY TO BEHAVE! From the top of his faultlessly groomed head to the tip of his fashionable shoes, Lord Andrew Childe was every inch the perfect gentleman. Ala...

  • The Return of a Native Reporter

    Robert Chesshyre

  • The Crystal Stair

    Grace Chetwin

  • Suddenly in Her Sorbet

    Joyce Christmas

    Formal dress and a sharp eye were de rigueur Thursday last, when Helene Harpennis, the busiest fundraiser in the social register, hosted a gala charity ball.
    Who could have guessed that the grandest of dames would fall victim to poisoned sorbet? P...

  • When the Tripods Came

    John Christopher

    Experience the beginning of the Tripods’ reign in this prequel to the classic alien trilogy ideal for fans of Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave and Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Shadow Children series.When it comes to alien invasions, bad things come in ...

  • X-Men: Savage Land

    Chris Claremont

    The Savage Land is a fantastic landscape of forgotten flora and fauna from many ares of prehistory. It is a place where primitive man raises his club against the most vicious predators ever to stalk the face of the earth. It is a land that can not ex...

  • Plain Sailing

    Douglas Clark

  • My Search for Ruth

    Anna Clarke

    A young girl, mysteriously orphaned, sets out to learn the truth about her identity and despite the attempts of everyone around her to surpress the truth, discovers the terror, murder, and passion that are her legacy...

  • American Negro Short Stories

    John Henrik Clarke

  • America Negro Short Stories

    John Henrik Clarke

  • The Arrowhead Cattle Company

    Richard Clarke

    Although the property Ben Moore wins in a poker game has potential for lucrative cattle ranching, Ben learns that its drawbacks include inheriting the previous owner's young grandsons and the family's bitter feud with powerful rancher Jess Hearst...

  • The Crystal Crown

    B.W. Clough

    A Crown With aMind of its Own...When Liras-ven Tsormelezok set off into his garden that morning, he knew he could claim some sort of royal ancestry-but then, so could most of the rest of the population of Averidan. Therefore, being named King while p...

  • The Name of the Sun

    B.W. Clough

  • The Presidio

    Mike Cogan

  • College Bound

    Jennifer Cole

  • Bitter Gold Hearts

    Glen Cook

    While the storm warden's away... her children will pay -- especially when someone's kidnapped that magical and merciless personage's son and heir, and when kidnapping's the game, Garrett's the name of the hardboiled human detective who's made nabb...

  • Realm of the Gods

    Catherine Cooke

    Magic-wielding priests and dangerous gods want him dead. After his escape from a sacrificial ritual, Arris returns to the Emperor and joins an invading army, while the gods conspire to defeat him and draw him into their mysterious realm. This is the ...

  • Freshman

    Linda A. Cooney

  • Mirage

    Louise Cooper

    AN ANCIENT CITY IS HAVEN Its glory is long forgotten and its walls are shrouded in pain and loss. The war that has ravaged this citadel is a neverending one, and the Sea People who seek to raze her walls will not stop until Haven is no more. Haven...

  • Mean to Me

    M.E. Cooper

    High stakes . . . Spirited gymnast Stacy Morrison has fallen for popular quarterback Zachary McGraw, but she's sure that he'll never share her feelings. To protect herself, she plays an old game -- she pretends that she doesn't want anything to do w...

  • Aces

    T.E. Cruise

    The Aces is the story of German pilot Herman Goldstein who emigrates to the U.S. and forms an air transport business which rockets to the forefront of the industry. First in an epic, three-volume series tracing an unforgettable family's rise to the t...

  • R. Crumb's Head Comix

    R. Crumb

  • All Risks Mortality

    Peter Cunningham

    Insurance adjuster Mat Blaney, suspicious when a race horse injured for several million dollars dies suddenly, investigates and discovers grand-scale insurance fraud, double-dealing on Wall Street, and a threat of nuclear devastation in Israel...

  • Always Love

    Emma Darcy

    There was no forgetting... To lose the man she loved to another woman, when she'd only just learned she was carrying his child -- Genevra's hurt had been unbearable. She'd kept thinking Luke would leave Australia and come back to he...

  • The New Thinking Annabel

    Alan Davidson

  • Too Hot to Handle

    Linda Davidson

  • Sex Education

    Jenny Davis

    As a project for an unusually open class in sex education, Livvie and her boyfriend David learn to care for a pregnant young neighbor, and as they become deeply involved with her and with each other, they learn about love and caring and eventually ab...

  • Mirror for Princes

    Tom De Haan

  • Cammy Takes a Bow

    Karen Strickler Dean

  • Lines of Light

    Giudice Daniele Del

  • Cookies and Crutches

    Judy Delton

    Thank goodness it's Tuesday! Every Tuesday, Molly Duff keeps her eye on the clock. She can't wait for the after-school meeting of Pee Wee Scout Troop 23. Even if it is a little difficult to earn a badge. First she tries to get a baking badge. S...

  • Camp Ghost-Away

    Judy Delton

    Donuts, donuts, a mountain of donuts. Molly Duff rubs her stomach. She'd like to eat them, but the Pee Wee Scouts are going to sell them. Door to door. To earn badges and help pay for a weekend at camp. Mrs. Peters, their troop leader, plus one mothe...

  • The Awakening

    Jude Deveraux

    Amanda Caulden led a sheltered life on her father's California ranch--until the day Hank Montgomery stormed into town. A hot-blooded union organizer with a taste for ladies and fine champagne, he sensed the fire smoldering beneath her prim, virtuous ...

  • We Hide, You Seek

    Ariane Dewey

    An ingenious lesson in camouflage featuring animals of East Africa. "Glowing landscapes lit with bright, joyous color that celebrates the tropical setting....This has a cheeriness that reaches right out and won't be ignored."--Booklist....

  • My Late Wives

    Carter Dickson

  • Timothy and the Big Bully

    Jeffrey Dinardo

  • Mickey Mouse Clock Book

    Walt Disney

  • Line of Fire

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Using the handy Dr. Lipschitz Guide to Parenting, Didi Pickles, her husband Stu, and all the adults in Rugrats offers humorous and helpful advice on preparing a child for the next born.

    Didi and Stu Pickles provide all the answers to another parent...

  • The Two Deaths of Senora Puccini

    Stephen Dobyns

    In a war-torn Latin American capital, a group of old friends gather at the home of Dr. Daniel Pacheco for their semiannual reunion. Kept prisoners by an emergency curfew, they wander into revelations of brutality and deception. The evening's centerpi...

  • Shake Down the Stars

    Frances Donnelly

    When love enriches as well as devastates, When tragedy is only a breath a way, When every vow is broken and passion burns in stolen moments...It can shake the stars from the sky. The hopes and passions of three unforgettable women. For them, the...

  • Deception's Fire

    Sandra Donovan

    ILLUSION'S ECSTASY Maeve Devlin suppressed a gasp at her own audacity. She couldn't join the wagon train without a husband and Claude Langley couldn't join without a wagon so she'd actually asked the handsome gambler to travel with h...

  • Creature

    Drake Douglas

  • Seafaring Woman

    Dorothy Dowdell

    Cast adrift from a shipwreck on her honeymoon, beautiful Lynn Whittaker lost her husband, one of San Francisco's prominent shippers. Barely alive, she was rescued by Captain Vic Morgado, and together they sailed to Hong Kong, where the magic of the O...

  • Things Hunting Men

    David Drake

  • Tis the Season to Be Dying

    John Keith Drummond

  • Angel's Wing

    Jill DuBois

    Stripped of her fortune and her pride, she stacked the decks as a ruthless gambler in the wild mining towns of the West... -- Laurel Adams was a passionate Southern belle who always got her own way. Rather than see her beloved home Sea Wind fall in...

  • The Spring of the Ram

    Dorothy Dunnett

    With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolo series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid m...

  • Timetrap

    David Dvorkin

    In a remote area of Federation space, the Enerprise picks up an urgent distress signal -- from a Klingon vessel! Tracing the S.O.S., the crew finds the Klingon cruiser Mauler, trapped in a dimensional storm of unprecedented power. Yet paradoxically, ...

  • More Than a Miracle

    Kathleen Eagle

    THE THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE . . . For the love of her son, Elizabeth Donnelly was going to sneak back to De Colores, an island paradise to the eye and a horror to the soul. There she would find her boy, a prisoner of the regime just as she had once ...

  • Witness at Large

    Mignon G. Eberhart

    Blood On The Beach They had gathered on the private island to enjoy the summer and each other's company. But that was before "the accident," before the pretty young girl called Sister found Tom on the pier, crouched over Mildred's lifeless and batt...

  • Emma's New Pony

    Amy Ehrlich

  • Oracles and Miracles

    Stevan Eldred-Grigg

    A BRILLIANTLY ORIGINAL 'FICTION' NOVEL ABOUT TWO WORKING CLASS SISTERS GROWING UP IN CHRISTCHURCH IN THE 1930S AND 1940S. FAG AND GINNIE LOOK AT THEIR LIVES, DESCRIBING THEIR FAMILY LIFE, THEIR SCHOOLING, THEIR FANTASIES (A STRONG ELEMENT IN THE BOOK...

  • Lone Star and the Deadly Stranger

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki are hunted on a bloody trail of vengeance!The bandit trail was deadly to start with. Add a wagonload of scrawny, greenhorn settlers, and dying was double easy. For outlaw gunslicks, it would be like shooting fish in a shot glass. But th...

  • The Name of the Game

    Rose Estes

    GREYHAWK... A mysterious and spellbinding boardgame has conquered the realm of Perrenland. The king has wagered his throne and lost, the beautiful Princess Linnea finds herself without a royal suitor, and the minions of neighboring Tusman are pois...

  • Blood Kiss

    Dennis Etchison
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    This stunning collection of novellas and short stories by masters of the macabre brings to fans and newcomers an unrelenting spell of horror and suspense. These are tales that strike beyond sheer terror, as their disturbing visions capture the dark r...

  • Summer of the Wolf

    Patricia Gardner Evans

    A GIFT FROM THE SEA . . . He washed up onto her deserted beach like so much flotsam, half-frozen and barely conscious. Before she even knew his name, Erin Mathias fell under his spell, and the more she got to know him, the more powerful that spell...

  • Longarm and the Quiet Guns

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm rides into the seemingly peaceful town of Salem, Texas, to find that the outlaw he is tracking down is dead, the townspeople cannot be questioned or trusted, and a beautiful and spirited Texan woman has her own plans for Longarm...

  • Longarm in the Valley of Death

    Tabor Evans

  • The Bottom Line Is Murder

    Robert Eversz

  • Fiesta!

    Barbara Faith
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    Annmarie Bannister was a dreamer, but never in her wildest dreams did she imagine herself getting involved with Diego Ortiz, a matador of all things! But, white The beautiful Mexican town of Santa Catarina, Annmarie learned that love and adventure ca...

  • Beyond Forever

    Barbara Faith

    A DREAM SO VIVID... The young Egyptian queen first appeared to Catherine in a dream...an exotic beauty clad in flowing robes and sandalwood beads, watching over the waters of the Nile for her returning lover. The dream gave way to reality when ...

  • Loving Without Tears

    M.J. Farrell

  • Bloody Rebellion

    Simon Farrell

    The reader must protect the King of France on the eve of civil war and must choose between family loyalties, which bitterly oppose the King, or royal duty, and the wrong decision could lead to the guillotine....

  • Jade Stalk

    Jonathan Fast

  • Getting It Together

    Ann Ferguson

  • Mirror Image

    Lucille Fletcher

  • Escape from Danger

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit Storybook

    Justine Korman Fontes

    Based on the film of the same name and illustrated with scenes from the movie which features both real and animated characters, the book relates the story of how a detective and a rabbit solve a murder mystery, outwit the evil Judge Doom, and rescue ...

  • A Shadowed Love

    Rachel Ford

    After all these years he still wanted revenge Charlotte had known that in a place as small as Stratford-upon-Avon, it was inevitable that she see Jude Renton again. But she loved the historic town, and business had doubled since her tour guide com...

  • Future Magic

    Robert L. Forward

  • Dead Young

    Topy Forward

  • Birches

    Robert Frost

  • Dying for Stardom

    Eileen Fulton

  • Yo, Poe

    Frank Gannon

  • Scorpius

    John E. Gardner

    When the body of a mysterious woman is found carrying the phone number of James Bond, Bond is called in by M to help the investigation. But before he can even reach headquarters he is nearly run off the road in a high-speed motorway chase. Someone wa...

  • Crucifax

    Ray Garton

    Bored and restless teenagers in San Fernando Valley, California, are drawn to a blond, charismatic newcomer named Mace, who offers them unlimited drugs and sexual experiences in exchange for his nighmarish demands...

  • Hello, Cat, You Need a Hat

    Rita Golden Gelman

  • Villain of the Piece

    Catherine George

    Her only hope was a man she loathed... Lucy's life was literally crashing around her ears. As a desperately struggling single mother of a ten-year-old son, she had no choice but to turn for help to the one man she despised more than any other....

  • Ronald Morgan Goes to Bat

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    "Ronald is an awkward but enthusiastic baseball beginner who is grateful to be on the team. Initially discouraged because he cannot hit the ball, Ronald eventually discovers his error . . . and he starts to improve. . . . The colorful, expressive ill...

  • Overdrive

    Michael Gilbert

  • Three Kittens

    Mirra Ginsburg

  • Moon in the Water

    Victoria Glenn

    MOONLIGHT SERENADE Jacob Van Cleef was the powerful man in tiny Half Moon Falls, and he didn't tolerate anyone challenging his authority -- until fiery Liza Langley breezed into town, calling him a yokel and poking her pretty nose into his bus...

  • Trouble

    Michael Glibert

    Explosives, destined for a terrorist bombing campaign, are being smuggled into the UK via the Channel coast. One plot is foiled but the security services suspect another. A seemingly unconnected problem occurs when there are race riots in London. How...

  • The Rocking Horse Secret

    Rumer Godden

  • The Power

    Howard Goldfluss

    Loren Sturdivan, the idealistic widow of a disgraced near-presidential candidate and occasional mistress of her late husband's running mate, schemes for election to New York's highest political office...

  • Rachel

    Leila Prince Golding

  • The Latimore Bride

    Emma Goldrick

    Talk about working together as a team! Ryan Quinn considered Mathilda Latimore a snoop when her father sent her to troubleshoot on the Latimore Railway problem in the Sudan, but he showed some sense by finally cooperating. Although, Ryan's ...

  • Every Time I Love You

    Heather Graham

    THE FIRST MOMENT HE SAW HER... The dark, handsome rebel had ruthlessly seduced exquisite Katrina Seymour. She fled her powerful Tory family to be by his side. But as revolution raged and a nation struggled to be born, heartbreaking betrayal and trea...

  • The Veranchetti Marriage

    Lynne Graham

    Kerry had betrayed his trust Four years ago, Alex Veranchetti, a strong-willed Italian tycoon, had abruptly ended their marriage -- wounded by the dreadful wrong he thought Kerry had done to him. Now he was back in Kerry's life, and intent on ...

  • The Harbinger

    Mark Graham

    When Nigel Mansell, beset with his own personal problems, investigates the death of a white labor official in South Africa, he finds himself caught in a web of intrigue and conspiracy more far-reaching than he could have imagined...

  • He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not

    Katherine Granger

    PERSONAL BEST She'd just finished her eighth book when her seventh hit the bestseller list; a TV appearance was mandatory. There were only two problems: Delta Daniels snacked while writing, so she'd blown up like a blimp, and...she wrote d...

  • Last Call of Mourning

    Charles L. Grant

    Yarrows do not die.People do.The family motto. Cynthia Yarrow laughs as she returns to Oxrun Station, her old hometown. The family is assembled to greet the prodigal—but they have changed in the years Cyd's been away.Cyd's mother cuts herself ...

  • Spinning Tales with the Dead

    Charles L. Grant
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    This stunning collection of novellas and short stories by masters of the macabre brings to fans and newcomers an unrelenting spell of horror and suspense. These are tales that strike beyond sheer terror, as their disturbing visions capture the dark r...

  • The Scorpio Man

    Sara Grant

    BURIED TREASURES Despite Nico Giordano's persistent interest in her, Melissa Wyatt was determined to remain immersed in her work. She'd come to the Mediterranean island of Elba to be an underwater photographer, not to be romanced by some r...

  • Velvet Vixen

    Keller Graves

    Megan McClanahan may have appeared fragile and angelic to strangers, but her family loved and accepted her as the firebrand they knew her to be. So when she announced her intentions to run her late father's gold mine in Colorado, no one stood in ...

  • The Image of a Girl

    Billie Green
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    Archaeologist Mike Nicholson couldn't understand his fascination with the picture on the side of the ancient ceramic jar. True, the woman was beautiful, but she was only an image, after all, despite the way she haunted his dreams. Then Faith Bowen wa...

  • Red Jack

    Martin H. Greenberg

    In a collection of tales, the spectre of "Red jack"--Jack the Ripper--is brought to life as authors conjure the misty streets of London, the rampant fear, and the grisly crimes of the notorious killer...

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Case of Sabina Hall

    L.B. Greenwood

    At the behest of a university acquaintance, Sherlock Holmes joins Dr. Watson on a mission of mercy to the bleak Bristol coast. But Holmes is not motivated by altruism, and when they reach Sabina Hall, his suspicions are justified. Miserly old Silas A...

  • Sarah

    Joel Groww

  • Gathering Storm, 1837-1868

    Bill Gulick

  • Lost Wallowa

    Bill Gulick

  • Benjamin Franklin Takes the Case

    Robert Lee Hall

    More than ten years ago, Robert Lee Hall made a startling discovery. Within a secret compartment of an old armoire once owned by his great aunt, he found a yellowing manuscript describing a series of mysterious criminal cases. What made these stories...

  • Raindance Autumn

    Phyllis Halldorson

    THE RIGHT KNIGHT When Rusty Watt swept Annelise Kelsey from her wrecked car, she longed to leave her hard- won cynicism behind and surrender to his rough charm, his disturbingly gentle touch. But after having been raised in poverty and shame, Rain...

  • Intensive Care

    Carole Halston

    A love match between a neurosurgeon and a salesclerk? Impossible, thought Ruth. She was flattered by the prominent physician's attention, but what could he possibly see in her? What David saw was Ruth's bubbly excitement, fresh outlook and...

  • Repetition

    Peter Handke

    Set in 1960, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's Repetition tells of Filib Kobal's journey from his home in Carinthia to Slovenia on the trail of his missing brother, Gregor. He is armed only with two of Gregor's books: a copy book from agricultural sc...

  • Stu's Song

    Janice Harrell

    My name's Langdon Devereux, but nobody calls me Langdon unless they're made at me. I'm a senior at Siler Galls High School, where the big concern right now is getting enough chicken wire for the prom decorations. I'm a pretty private person. I guess ...

  • You Can Be the Stainless Steel Rat

    Harry Harrison

  • The Great God Pan

    M. John Harrison
    in

    This stunning collection of novellas and short stories by masters of the macabre brings to fans and newcomers an unrelenting spell of horror and suspense. These are tales that strike beyond sheer terror, as their disturbing visions capture the dark r...

  • Forever Gold

    Catherine Hart

    CAPTIVE LOVE From the moment Blake Montgomery held up the westward-bound stagecoach carrying lovely Megan Coulston to her adoring fiance, she hated everything about the virile outlaw. How dare he drag her off to an isolated mountain cabin and hold h...

  • Witchcraft

    R.W. Hart

  • Truant State

    Nicholas Hasluck

  • It's a Secret!

    Deborah Hautzig

  • The Shapechanger Scenario

    Simon Hawke

    It was billed as the most realistic game scenario ever--Psychodrome's ultimate triumphat computer-generated fantasy. And, thanks to a few mind-controlling techniques, the average citizen was protected from the devastating truth: The game is real-...

  • Landing

    Cyndi Haynes

    A Nazi plan to infiltrate key institutions and to assassinate President Franklin Roosevelt challenges the ingenuity of the three Americans who can thwart it--government investigator Henry Wyatt Eaton, FBI employee Constance Aiken, and Leon Thomas, a ...

  • Having a Woman at Lunch

    Paul Hazel
    in

    This stunning collection of novellas and short stories by masters of the macabre brings to fans and newcomers an unrelenting spell of horror and suspense. These are tales that strike beyond sheer terror, as their disturbing visions capture the dark r...

  • A Colonel for Jenny

    Anne Henry

    Jenny was used to an empty nest Jenny Bishop's twin sons were off in college at nearby Oklahoma University. She was proud of her boys and that she had been able to raise them alone after her divorce. Now if she could only put them through college,...

  • The Ice Maiden

    Elizabeth Hewitt

    THE ALMOST PERFECT MATCH Miss Cassandra Tilton was blessed with beauty, birth, and wealth -- and cursed by a demanding disposition. She rejected the most eligible suitors much to her family's dismay. But now it seemed she had found the perf...

  • The Caves of Klydor

    Douglas Hill

    Soon after being exiled to the planet Klydor, five young people begin to suspect that their struggle for survival is somehow linked to the rebel uprising against the Earth's harshly authoritarian government....

  • Under World

    Reginald Hill

    When young Tracey Pedley vanished in the woods around Burrthorpe, the close-knit community had their own ideas about what had happened, but Deputy Chief Constable Watmough has it down as the work of a child-killer who has since committed suicide -- t...

  • A Thief of Time

    Tony Hillerman

    A noted anthropologist vanishes at a moonlit Indian ruin where "thieves of time" ravage sacred ground for profit. When two corpses appear amid stolen goods and bones at an ancient burial site, Navajo Tribal Policemen Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim ...

  • The Daughters of the Earl

    Jane Hinchman

  • Grand Illusion

    Joan Hohl
    in

    The time Dawn Kingsley and Bryce Stone spent in the majestic Grand Canyon had been the stuff of dreams and illusions--not the normal interaction of everyday life. But Dawn soon found that her love for Bryce had the power to turn the ordinary into the...

  • The Secret Horse

    Marion Holland

    When Nickie and Gail discover a half-starved, unwanted horse at the animal shelter, the two girls become determined to rescue him even if it means stealing him and hiding him in the deserted stables near Nickie's house...

  • Waiting to Vanish

    Ann Hood

    A family heals in unexpected ways in the wake of senseless tragedyAlexander Porter is on the phone with his six-year-old son when he is struck by lightning and killed. It is a freak accident, without meaning or justice.Alex’s sudden death disin...