Books Published in May 1984

New Books List: 340 titles

  • If I Were King of the Universe

    Danny Abelson

    Poor Junior Gorg is tired of doing all his chores. He's tired of tending the royal garden, sweeping out the castle, and polishing his father's armor. What Junior really wants is to be King of the Universe....

  • Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Monster Movie

    David A. Adler

    Cam Jansen, her friend Eric, and her parents are anxious to see the monster movie Shoe Escape. The first half is terrific, but the second half is ...gone? Someone has stolen the reel of film. The theater manager is sure he's spotted the thief. But...

  • The Ninety-Nine

    Jerry Ahern

  • Atrocity

    Jerry Ahern

  • Slate

    Nathan Aldyne

    Boston’s hottest new gay bar is making a killing in this mystery first published in 1984 that’s “screamingly funny in the gayest way!” (The New York Times). Daniel Valentine is a gay bartender. Clarisse Lovelace is his straight pal. From Bost...

  • Inlet of the Heart

    Bea Alexander

    SHELTER FROM THE STORM Tucked away on a peaceful inlet along the Atlantic coast, the little town of Marietta had always been Terry Durant's home. Now one man was planning to destroy it all. Nick Sterling's bulldozers were ready to flatten the town...

  • Midsummer Morning

    Helen Ashfield

  • The Noble Imposter

    Mollie Ashton

    VERITY COX WAS YOUNG -- BUT NOT FOOLISH Verity knew very well that her father's wealth made her the target of every fortune hunter when she bravely left the comforting protection of her family's country estate for her first season in Londo...

  • Norby's Other Secret

    Janet Asimov

  • Courtesans the Forbidden Diary of Lucrezia Borgia

    Hillary Auteur

  • Cruise of a Death Time

    Marian Babson

    CROSS THE OCEAN BLUE. IF YOU CAN GET THERE ALIVE. Welcome to the Empress Josephine and a transoceanic experience of good food, lavish entertainment, fun, and surprises--lots of surprises. The first comes when a key officer fails to make the saili...

  • Crystal Blue Desire

    Monica Barrie

    KATLAIN MORGAN After a career in advertising left her heart and her confidence shaken, Kat returned to Florida and her life as a charter captain. But she was far from being the captain of her own destiny. BAYLISS GRANGER He knew more about Kat's...

  • Southern Women

    Lois Battle

    100% Satisfaction is Guaranteed! There are no problems in page content and in the paper. You will be the first to open the book cover. For Used condition books in our store; It shows signs of wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition...

  • The True Sea

    F.W. Belland

    Set in the Florida Keys in the years from 1909 till 1925, "The True Sea" tells the story of a boy growing into manhood against the drama of the construction of the Overseas Railroad. Henry Flagler's railroad, which ultimately linked Key West to the r...

  • Mapp and Lucia

    E.F. Benson

    A brilliant and subtle comedy on the social rivalries of a small village between the wars. Lucia is probably the greatest creation of E. F. Benson, a social climbing socialite from the small village of Riseholme. A beautifully written and sharply obs...

  • Trouble for Lucia

    E.F. Benson

    The final instalment in the wonderful Lucia series. Lucia must yet again lie, trick and deceive to maintain social position as the queen of Tilling. Lucia is probably the greatest creation of E. F. Benson, a social climbing socialite from the small v...

  • Concrete

    Thomas Bernhard

    Instead of the book he’s meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this dark and grotesquely funny account of small woes writ large, of profound horrors detailed and rehearsed to the point of distraction. We learn of Rudolph’s si...

  • Greek Island Magic

    Gloria Bevan

    Her faith in him was badly shaken Adam seemed to mean it when he said, "You could try believing in me for a change." But Liz had believed in him. Out of greed, he'd tried to charm her into selling the Greek villa she'd inherited...

  • Baker's Hawk

    Jack M. Bickham

  • Hangman's Territory

    Jack M. Bickman

  • Fascination

    Jackie Black

    She'd been warned. Star quarterback Jack Thayer pulled no punches. His philosophy was strictly "love 'em and leave 'em," and Colby Dalton, he insisted, was just not "his type." But from the first moment they met, Colby ...

  • Surrender in Moonlight

    Jennifer Blake

    HE WAS LIKE A FIRE IN HER BLOOD. SHE WAS LIKE A FEVER IN HIS SOUL. From the moment they met and made love in a strange, deserted house, Lorna Forrester, a twenty-year-old New Orleans beauty, and Roman Cazenave, a daring blockade runner, were obses...

  • Sound of Gunfire

    Frank Bonham

    The miners were blasting the haylands into mud, the ranchers were ready to blast the miners out and the Snake warriors were waiting on the ridgetops with blood-hungry lanches. All that stood between the Oregon Territory and a three way war was F Comp...

  • Evaristo Carriego

    Jorge Luis Borges

  • Orion

    Ben Bova

    John O'Ryan is not a god . . . not exactly. He is an eternal warrior destined to combat the Dark Lord through all time for dominion of the Earth. Follow him, servant of a great race, as he battles his enemy down the halls of time, from the caves of o...

  • Horizons

    Kate Bowe

    SIMON WASN'T THE NINE TO FIVE KIND Years had passed since Kit Adams's last encounter with Simon Blake -- enough time to erase the memory and the disillusionment of a few enchanted days in San Diego. Kit's cherished photojournalism a...

  • The Penny Ferry

    Rick Boyer

    The first case is history. That's the famous trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, Boston's pair of immigrant anarchists executed for a murder many still say they never committed.

    The second case makes history -- at least for Doc Adams. John Robinson, ...

  • Budding Prospects

    T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle

    An “irresistible” (Los Angeles Times), “riotous” (The Seattle Times) novel about the adventures of three men growing marijuana in Northern California, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tortilla Curtain“Consistently, effortle...

  • The House Between the Worlds

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    WORLD WALKER OR'TWEENMAN Fenton was only a 'tweenman, without body or shadow; his body lay back in the laboratory where Dr. Garnock was experimenting with a new drug. Yet Fenton was in the fairy world of the Alfar, helplessly watching the Faerie Q...

  • Sword and Sorceress

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    The author of the marvelous Darkover novels and of the bestselling Arthurian novel THE MISTS OF AVALON, has assembled this corona of heroic fantasy wherein women of courage and wizardry challenge the evils and dreads of an ensorcelled world. Here ...

  • Love, Bid Me Welcome

    Joanna Brandon

    "It's a small world," he murmured, coming up behind her, leaning over and taking her mouth in a hungry kiss. Astonished, Samantha Jordan found herself gazing at Drew Kingston, the man she'd hoped never to see again. So he was Houghan Freight's "si...

  • Ashton Horror

    Laurie Bridges

  • Song for Satawal

    Kenneth Brower

    A SONG FOR SATAWAL is a lyrical portrait of science and sorcery in Micronesia, outrigger canoes steered by starlight, monitor lizards, tattooed grandmothers, Yapese crazies, and ghosts. The cluster of tiny islands in the vast Pacific emptiness southe...

  • Journey to Quiet Waters

    Dixie Browning

    ROUGEMONT WAS HER CHILDHOOD HOME. Lovely auburn-haired Ivy de Coursey knew that even the sale of her beautiful family estate, Rougemont, could not take away the happy memories the house held for her. But Ivy had not taken into account the unset...

  • Against All Odds

    Eileen Bryan

    Lea McKenna, private eye, had nailed Las Vegas casino czar Tony Cappa in divorce court with evidence she now believed to be as false as his venomous ex-wife. It was too late to make amends, but it was a perfect opportunity to salve her conscience whe...

  • The Young and the Soapy

    Jamie Callan

  • Heartbeats

    Jo Calloway

    Who was she -- Florence Nightingale on a shiny black motorcycle? An angel of mercy in a crash helmet? No, Holly Hamilton was simply the nurse-practitioner from the county home health care system en route to an urgent call. Holly had taken to Alab...

  • The Adventures of Cap'N O.G. Readmore to the Tune of "the Cat Came Back"

    Manny Campana

  • The Voices of Marrakesh

    Elias Canetti

  • The Jonah Man

    Henry Carlisle

    A chronicle based on the events that inspired Moby Dick recounts the experiences of Captain Pollard and the crew of the whaling ship Essex, who, after being cast adrift by a destructive whale, sacrifice a crewman to survive and face s...

  • Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Ron Carlson

    “Ron Carlson’s novel is in the coming-of-age tradition, with the contemporary attributes of humor and cool. . . . I liked Larry for his unpretentiousness, his wry, caring angle on experience.” -- New York Times In this tender, comic novel, Lar...

  • Enchanted Encore

    Rosalyn Carroll

    "Heaven help me from a man like him..." Costume designer Vicky Owens had no defenses against the roguish Irish eyes and commanding presence of director Patrick Wallingford. She couldn't resist his fiery embrace years ago in London. She couldn't r...

  • The Golden Savage

    Anne Carsley

    When Lia is kidnapped by Paon, the handsome Lord Commander of Crete's navy, she finds herself falling in love with him against her will Captured...by love When Paon, Lord Commander of Crete's navy kidnapped her, Lia vowed no man would tame her...

  • Touched by Lightning

    Helen Carter

    After her tragic first romance, quiet, elegant Joanna Greer vowed never again to give herself to a man unless he was trustworthy, committed, and interested in marriage. But when rugged, charismatic Cliff Duquesne swept into her life, her good intenti...

  • Norah's Ark

    Ann Cartwright

  • The Legacy of Lucian van Zandt

    Kate Chambers

  • Table for Two

    Josephine Charlton

    WAS SHE TO BID FAREWELLTO "BON VOYAGE"? For years Hadley Bainbridge had enjoyed her role as celebrated restaurant critic for "Bon Voyage." But now her boss was threatening to take it all away if she didn't play according to his romantic rules. ...

  • Lady Be Bad

    Elaine Raco Chase

    THE LADY WAS DETERMINED TO GET HER MAN She was the Face of the Century -- exclusive model for Kingman Cosmetics. Marlayna O'Brian's world was golden. Then the invitation arrived. Noah Drake was getting married. Noah Drake, the man who'...

  • The Reformed Rake

    Elizabeth Chater

    "YOU ARE BOTH TOO TEMPTING BY FAR FOR OUR JADED CITY TASTES. GO AWAY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THERE ARE TOO MANY SERPENTS LURKING IN THE BEAU MONDE." Ever since Lord Philip Sandron had married Miss Thalia Temple (called Tally by her intimates) his fri...

  • Deirdre and Desire

    Marion Chesney

    MISS DEIRDRE ARMITAGE WAS LIVELY AND BRIGHT. SO, NATURALLY, SHE SHRANK FROM DESIRE. What clever woman would want a man like Lord Harry Desire? Why, he was clearly a lummox -- languid, vain, and bland. Not even his beautiful face could redeem him. ...

  • Take Hold of Tomorrow

    Daphne Clair

    Stella had hired temptation personified Stella Rawson controlled Rawson Electronics, not as a decorative figurehead, but as the competent businesswoman her husband Mark's untimely death had forced her to become. She was livid when board mem...

  • Kitty Quinn

    Norma Lee Clark

    Kitty Quinn, a beautiful, talented young actress, is threatened by the ruthless passions of Sir Julian Woodgate, and her only safety lies in the protection of actor Jack Northcote, her friend and mentor. She lived for the theater… She had forgot...

  • Carnadyne Horde

    John Cleve

    TGO, the Galactic super-police group called The Gray Organization, can't be bothered with minor traffic-cop offenses - "mere" piracy, slavery, mindrunning (illegally trying to boost along "backward" planets). Until Marekallian Eks, Mindrunner, puts ...

  • Beloved Pirate

    Ann Cockcroft

    LOVE WITHOUT RHYME OR REASON Jared Tanner was as intoxicating as champagne. And try though she might to abstain, Laura found herself drunk with desire for him. She knew that the famous author had earned his reputation as an unscrupulous lover and ...

  • Dynasty of Dreams

    Virginia Coffman

    The Lombards, an aristocratic San Francisco family, find themselves caught up in the danger of World War II in Europe and the Pacific, the turmoil of the post-war period, and the turbulence of the 1960s...

  • Headless Roommate

    Barbara Cohen

  • The Black Company

    Glen Cook

    Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hardbitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead. Until t...

  • Out of Control

    Lori Copeland

    Despite all her attempts to avoid another heartbreaker like Quinn Daniets Erin Holmes was drawn to Price Seaver with a destructive, consuming passion. How could she have expected to meet Quinn's double while baby-sitting her best friend's five-year-o...

  • Notes from a Child of Paradise

    Alfred Corn

  • Scalpel

    Ira Corn

  • Love Match

    Rianna Craig

    Stubborn and proud, she didn't see they were a love match Houston was Chelsea Norquist's home and advertising was her field. She knew nothing about boats, and intended to spend only a few days in Biloxi, signing the papers formalizing the sale of ...

  • Night Flame

    Sarah Crewe

    There's steel in Sharon Dysart, forged by a childhood on the wrong side of the tracks. When she returns to Pennsylvania's Otawnee Valley, it's not as the daughter of a mill worker, but as an expert consultant to SomerSteel's heir, the...

  • Homecoming

    Ann Cristy

    After her terrifying ordeal in the Middle East, Cassa Welles is coming home. A tall, dark beauty, she has a fervent love for the country whose freedoms she has been denied -- and a heart-stopping ache to feel Dan's arms around her once again. He ...

  • Cheap Shot

    Jay Cronley

  • Lady With a Past

    Elissa Curry

    Theater veteran Elizabeth Bradford is mortified when she finds herself accidentally trapped inside a stage prop -- with a virile stranger! Soon, however, her embarrassment is replaced by a sensual awareness she's thought long dead...by a throbbin...

  • Kiss Me Cait

    Elissa Curry

    Caitlin and John Matthews shared something special -- a crackling quick wit and heady, sensual chemistry. But when Cait's cousin needed her in Belfast, and the State Department called John to the world's hot trouble spots, they parted...thoug...

  • Deep Six

    Clive Cussler

    A TRAIL OF VICIOUS MURDERS... A MAZE OF STOLEN CARGOES... A PLOT AS COLD AND RUTHLESS AS THE SEA! A deadly tide of poison flows into ocean waters. A ghost ship drifts across the empty northern Pacific. A luxury Soviet liner blazes into a funeral p...

  • A Mountain to Stand Strong

    Peggy Darty

    It was like scaling a mountain--this business of being a woman in the world of television. And like a mountain climber, Casey Green knew she could get hurt. Casey's ascent to the top was almost dizzying--from neophyte reporter at Channel 6 to man-...

  • Love Thy Neighbor

    Frances Davies

    As vice-president of Chicago's exclusive Hallard's department store, Nell Carlton has an unerring eye for style. It's love she has difficulty recognizing... Until S. F. Shea, her apartment-house neighbor, storms across her foyer and into her life....

  • Ceremony of Innocence

    S.F.X. Dean

  • Killed on the Ice

    William L. Deandrea

    Matt Cobb deals with love and murder on the rinkIn the last installment of the popular Matt Cobb series, the TV network’s expert troubleshooter, faces a literal case of cold-blooded murder. At two in the morning, he stands in a Manhattan ice ri...

  • Death's Little Sister

    Jake Decker

  • Henry's Special Del

    Michael Delaney / M.C. Delaney

  • First Hit of the Season

    Jane Dentinger

    From the author of Murder on Cue and Dead Pan comes another great murder mystery starring Jocelyn O'Roarke, actress/singer/sleuth. This time a caustic critic has been murdered and O'Roarke must discern whom among his many detractors was angry enough ...

  • The Roaring River Mystery

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • Man Around the House

    Rhonda Dixon

  • The Memoirs of Alcheringia

    Wayland Drew

  • Whispers of Passion

    Sandra Dubay

    SWEET, SWEET JASMINE The peaceful idyll of lovely Jasmine DuPre's youth is shattered when she is sent away from her beloved home in Virginia to France, where a brilliant marriage has been arranged. Torn from the arms of Barrett Paxton, the man she l...

  • Reach the Splendor

    Judith Duncan

    HE LOVED HER TOO MUCH TO MARRY HER For Dr. Robin Mitchell, marriage was the ultimate expression of love. For Dr. Paul Wilcox, it signaled the beginning of the end. He had seen too many disastrous marriages -- his parents' included. Neverthe...

  • Angel

    Carola Dunn

    HEIRESS IN DISGUISE Lady Evangelina was lovely, the daughter of a marquis, and the reigning beauty of the London season. Of course she was deluged with marriage offers...but how could she ever be sure that her suitors were sincere? Determined ...

  • A Falcon for the Hawks

    Clive Egleton

  • Star Anchored, Star Angered

    Suzette Haden Elgin

  • Lone Star and the Apache Revenge

    Wesley Ellis

    WITH HIS MIND SET ON VENGEANCE ... James "Two Wolves" Campbell had only one thing in mind: to kill the man who had poisoned his people and used the Apaches to spread terror in the West. In him, Ki met his match in battle, and Jessie found some of t...

  • Stalking The Nightmare

    Harlan Ellison

    Pure, 100-proof distillation of Ellison. A righteous verbal high! Here you'll find twenty of his very best stories and essays (including the four-part "Scenes from the Real World), an anecdotal history of the doomed TV series, The Starlost, he create...

  • Cool Shades

    Amy Ephron

  • Indiana Jones and the Lost Treasure of Sheba

    Rose Estes

    The reader assumes the role of the son of a kidnapped scientist and makes a series of choices which will determine how Indiana Jones can find the missing Dr. Ballentyne, uncover a fabulous treasure, and stop the Fascist forces in Ethiopia....

  • Longarm and the Steer Swindlers

    Tabor Evans

    SOMEONE'S DUPING THE U.S. GOVERNMENT! A ring of outlaws is swapping Grade-A cattle for diseased runts. But who is responsible, and just who is the Real McCoy? Somebody better find some answers, pronto, or the cattle industry could be completely wi...

  • Sky Riders

    Erika Fabian

    HE LOVED THE CHALLENGE OF A DANGEROUS WOMAN Kirk Russell had courted death many times, flying close to wildfire as an Alaskan bush pilot. Tracy also knew the unnerving captain of her company's most recent and treacherous operation had loved ...

  • Wind Whispers

    Barbara Faith

    WRITTEN ON THE WIND... In the ancient Yucatan the God of the Wind had once watched as two lovers ran headlong into tragedy. Would that story be enacted once again? Joanna Morrow and Carlos Quintana met to work on a mural celebrating Mexico's past...

  • Jew Suss

    Lion Feuchtwanger

    "The Book; yes, their Book. They had no state, holding them together, no country, no soil, no king, no form of life in common. If, in spite of this, they were one, more one than all the other peoples of the world, it was the Book that sweated them in...

  • Everythng but Tues&sun

    Peter Filichia

    Fifteen-year-old Amy Dunning must choose between two boys--dependable, hard-working David Roth and the dashing Scott Keough--and discovers that she must make some value judgments about honesty, integrity and morality....

  • Boxes! Boxes!

    Leonard Everett Fisher

  • The Hey Hey Man

    Sid Fleischman

  • It Was the Nightingale

    Ford Madox Ford

    This early work by Ford Madox Ford was originally published in 1933 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. Ford Madox Ford was born Ford Madox Hueffer in Merton, Surrey, England on 17th December 1873. The creative arts ran in h...

  • The Final Reflection

    John M. Ford

    Klingon Captain Krenn is a ruthless war strategist. But on a mission to Earth, Krenn learns a lesson in peace. Suddenly he must fight a secret battle of his own. His Empire has a covert plan to shatter the Federation. Only Krenn can prevent a war--at...

  • Flight of the Dragonfly

    Robert L. Forward

    MISSION TO A DOUBLE PLANET. Powered by a revolutionary, laser-driven lightsail, the first manned interstellar probe would reach the bizarre double planet that circled Barnard's Star in a mere twenty years. The world's finest scientists had fought des...

  • The Day of the Dissonance

    Alan Dean Foster

    Clothahump, the wizard, is dying. All that can save him are rare medicinal powers to be found across the Glittergeist Ocean, past distant Snarken, Jon-Tom, the Spellsinger, sets out on the most perilous pilgrimage of his still-young career, armed wit...

  • Who Needs Enemies?

    Alan Dean Foster

  • Woman of Three Worlds

    Jeanne Foster

    A courageous young woman heads west in search of a new home in this stirring saga from a Spur Award"winning author. The Civil War robbed Brittany Laird of her family, her home, and her past. She has no choice but to set out for Fort Bowie in the Ar...

  • Princess

    Alison Fraser

    Adam was now her adversary Serena Templeton was not a sleeping princess. She was a tragic little figure existing in a shadow world that she had constructed as a fortress to pain. Then Adam Carmichael pierced her defenses and established himself as...

  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

    Michael French

  • A Public Affair

    Eleanor Frost

    Never trust a politician. That's what Barbara Danbury told herself when she first became involved with Morgan Newman. But the handsome Chicagoan, a dynamic, rising political star, was like no other man Barbara had ever met. And she believed him when...

  • The Day We Bombed Utah

    John G. Fuller

  • Necessity

    Brian Garfield

    "Necessity is the mother of invention and Madeleine had to invent something, all right: herself. She was on the run, in the fast lane, moving from town to town across the States, changing her identity, once, twice, as many times as necessary. Necessi...

  • Devil Within

    Catherine George

    Flying down to Rio It wasn't just the title of an old movie for Claudia March, but something actually happening -- to her! She'd been accepted for the position of governess to a mining engineer's daughter in Brazil, and no one could...

  • Good King Harry

    Denise Giardina

    Set against the sweeping backdrop of medieval England, Good King Harry brilliantly brings to life one of the most fascinating, conflicted monarchs in history: Henry V. Evoking the sights and sounds of fifteenth-century London, acclaimed author Denise...

  • The Almost Awful Play

    Patricia Reilly Giff

  • Rapture's Embrace

    Valerie Giscard

    LOVE'S INNOCENT FLAME When her jealous aunt sold her to the lecherous Charles Langford, lovely Katherine Cameron knew she had to escape her cruel fate. But she had no idea her savior would be a tall, handsome American captain and that his powerfu...

  • House on the Marshland

    Louise Gluck

  • Waiting for Cordelia

    Herbert Gold

  • Treasure Diver

    Julius Goodman

  • Me And The Bad Guys

    Shirley Gordon

  • Hours to Cherish

    Heather Graham

    The Bahamians called her Cat emerald-eyed empress of her own island, Tiger Cay. Since the accident that had left her a despairing widow, ravishing Catherine Miller had become a match for any man who sailed the sea. Until the devastating stranger appe...

  • Home Is the Sailor

    Robin Lee Graham

  • To See the Daisies...First

    Billie Green

    One moment Ben Garrison felt that his life was headed nowhere; then a woman wearing only an oversized trenchcoat, who had no idea who she was or where she belonged, changed everything! Ben named her Sunny for the open, loving way she faced the world...

  • Chosen of Mida

    Sharon Green

  • Days to Remember

    Donna Grundman

    He loved her from the first moment he saw her diving nude into the moonlight river - Mattie, his brother's wife. In the seven years Morgan Henderson had been gone, some things had changed, but not his brother Allen's obsessive jealousy and ruthless a...

  • Reflections

    Lorinda Hagen

  • Terror in the Sunlight

    Jean Hager

    Chilton, a small southwestern town, seemed far too peaceful to be the scene of a triple murder. Yet it had been, and after a year, the peace was beginning to return though the murders remained unsolved. Gwen Potter, the pretty high school English ...

  • Something Lost, Something Gained

    Carole Halston

    Megan was convinced she could have it all: a husband, children, and an exciting writing career. But that was before her marriage to photographer Case Ballantine shattered along with her hopes. Now, two years later, the husband she still longed fo...

  • Land of Gold

    Mary Ann Hammond

    JULIE LEIGHTON GAZED THROUGH TEAR-FILLED EYES AT MATTHEW THORN. Usually, the cynical Thorn was anything but a comfort to Julie. But now she needed his strength even though she would not admit that she needed him. Her only desire was to see that...

  • The Last Starfighter Storybook

    Lynn Haney

  • Sweet Passion's Pain

    Karen Harper

    The daughter of a disgraced earl, she matched wits with a prince. It is the fourteenth century, the height of the Medieval Age, and at the court of King Edward III of England, chivalry is loudly praised while treachery runs rampant. When the lovely a...

  • Foreign Bodies

    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

    A woman obsessed with her desire for the love of a homosexual man rebounds between the glittering world of artists, dealers, and collectors and her own staunchly middle-class milieu in a search for "ordinary human happiness"...

  • Dance While You Can

    Claire Harrison

    "A dancer is married only to her art." Carrie Moore, the Manhattan Ballet Company's beautiful and brilliant prima ballerina, believed completely in that maxim. Love interfered with concentration and undermined a dancer's discipline...

  • Deathworld Trilogy

    Harry Harrison

    A legendary science fiction story, this trilogy, brought back into print in one single volume, presents hero Jason dinAlt as he discovers three separate planets. dinAlt finds excitement and intrigue as he investigates Pyrrus, a strange place where al...

  • A Flower That's Free

    Sarah Harrison

    As exotic and beautiful as her beloved Kenya, Kate Kingsley returned to the cozy warmth of her English family. From the champagne and gaiety of 1930's London to the momentous Berlin Olympics to the heroic days of Dunkirk, she scorned convention and r...

  • Bittersweet Afternoons

    Fiona Harrowe

  • Suspicion and Seduction

    Shirley Hart

    She'd escaped her manager, fled the grueling demands of a highly successful acting career, and embarked on an idyllic vacation. Nothing appealed to Gabriella Ford more than a lazy week alone with her father on the Dixie Lee. But even as she prepa...

  • Pope Joan

    E.L. Hastings

  • Sunflower Forest

    Torey L. Hayden

    Bestselling author Torey Hayden's new novel poignantly tells of a daughter's attempt to grow up in the shadow of her mother's haunted past. Warm, melancholy and evocatively rendered this book captures the essence of a family touched by sadness. A ha...

  • The Calico Countess

    Barbara Hazard

    THE INDEPENDENT YOUNG LADY AND THE INSUFFERABLE EARL When Miss Lorna Jarrett met Peter Truesdale, the Earl of Norwell, they detested each other at first sight. The Earl was certain he had never met a young lady so unbending in manner and so sh...

  • Sweeney Astray

    Seamus Heaney

    Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibne. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at the Battle of Moira. Heaney's translation n...

  • Banana Blitz

    Florence Parry Heide

  • For Ever and a Day

    Rosalie Henaghan

    Their love belonged to another time After four years, Stephanie was almost certain she'd buried any love she'd once felt for Dare Nayton. He'd been quick to think the worst of her then, and just as quick to cancel their marriage plans....

  • Private Screenings

    Lori Herter

    She was a true peach. Former Miss Georgia, first runner-up in the Miss America Pageant, Dale Chastain had parlayed her looks, talent, and brains into an education and the job of her dreams--movie reviewer for WNBS-TV Chicago. And he was Sloane Avery,...

  • Dark Side of the Street

    Jack Higgins

    The Organization was all-powerful, and the Baron''s word was law. A sinister villain''s network, raking profits from all fields of crime. But one man is ready to storm them, and bring ''Babylon'' crashing down....

    For Harry Youngblood, it mea...

  • The Time of the Hunter's Moon

    Victoria Holt

    SHE KNEW TWO MEN. ONE WAS A MURDERER. ONE WAS A LOVER. Cordelia Grant wonders if she is dreaming after she sees a handsome stranger in the forest at the time of the hunter's moon, the time the legends say a girl will see her future husband. Hau...

  • Something Different

    Kay Hooper

    Take one irrepressible mystery writer named Gypsy, add a slightly smashed VW called Daisy, a piratical cat named Corsair, toss them into the path of a cool architect with a glint in his eyes -- and stir up more romantic excitement than one sleepy se...

  • The New Vigilantes

    James D. Horan

  • The Bounty

    Richard Alexander Hough

  • Taking a Chance

    Anna Hudson

    He gazed deep into her eyes with delight -- just as she'd hoped he would. For Dr. Charles Franklin, optometrist, a dream had come true. Beautiful Johanna Jenkins had returned to St. Louis and walked boldly back into his life. He'd been her...

  • A Treasure to Share

    Cally Hughes

    For five years Adelina Kildaire has been happily married to ruinously gorgeous Samuel Grady. But when Addy's helper, Mis Pru, finds a man and moves to Tahiti, she leaves Addy to cope with her design business alone. Now, two children, a pregnant model...

  • River

    Ted Hughes

  • Day Stole Mary

    Terence Hughes

    Aboard the "Queen Mary," carrying Winston Churchill to a meeting with Roosevelt and one thousand Nazi prisoners bound for American camps, a fanatic German agent executes a plan to kidnap Churchill and change the course of the war...

  • Dreams of Sleep

    Josephine Humphreys

    Alice Reese knows that the cheerful sounds of her family eating breakfast mask a ten--year marriage falling apart. As Alice and her husband, Will, struggle to understand--and perhaps recapture--the feelings that drew them together in the first place...

  • The Bride

    Margaret Irwin

    The story of the romance between the Marquis of Montrose, the soldier-poet who fought so magnificently for Charles I, and the enchanting, wayward Princess Louise, sister of Rupert of the Rhine....

  • Gospel Acc to Chegem

    Fazil Iskander

  • Morning Star

    Kristin James

    CATHLEEN RICHARDS She had grown up a part of the Nashville music scene, but the fame and fortune her father had earned had dwindled with the years. Now she was on the verge of fame and a fortune of her own, discovering her own talents and the secret...

  • Lady Raine

    Carol Jerina

    "I THINK YOU'RE UP TO YOUR ARISTOCRATIC LITTLE NECK IN SOMETHING SHADY. " Captain Quentin Slade struck a most unusual bargain with a lady who called herself "Mrs. Cavanaugh." The terms were generous and his instructions were...

  • No Red Roses

    Iris Johansen

    When singer Rex Brody took Tamara Ledford in his arms, he knew suddenly that the lady he'd been singing to all along was no longer just a hopeful fantasy. But could he convince her that his feelings were as sincere as the powerful desire that swept ...

  • Dream of Yesterday

    Nancy John

    When Kirstie Kaye first met Adam Prescott he held her passionately in his arms until she couldn't help but love him -- then thrust her away when he learned how young she was. When they met again Kirstie was old enough to love, but Adam was to...

  • Megan's Book of Divorce

    Erica Jong

  • The Inward Storm // Reclaimed by the Ruthless Tycoon

    Penny Jordan

    Their marriage had gone up in flames Jake Harvey was every woman's secret type. During their brief and volatile union, Kate had been wildly jealous, dangerously insecure, and he'd never reassured her with words of love--only of desire. ...

  • Conan the Magnificent

    Robert Jordan
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Amid the savage crags of the Kezankian Mountains, Conan is stalked by the sultry huntress Jondra, sought by the lovely thief Tamira, caught between the Army of Zamora and Brythunian warriors seeking revenge. The mighty Cimmerian must battle hordes of...

  • Mr. Surie

    O.K. Joshee

  • If You Believe in Me

    Janice Kaplan

  • Death in Cyprus

    M.M. Kaye

    Turquoise seas, sun-kissed castles, and unnatural death --this is Cyprus The excursion is to be twenty-year-old Amanda Derington's first trip on her own. But even before she reaches Cyprus, on a ship buzzing with romantic intrigues, jealousies and...

  • Danger on Ice

    Carolyn Keene

    In Austria to watch a mutual friend participate in an ice skating competition, the Hardy brothers and Nancy Drew find themselves involved in a dangerous international adventure when their friend is kidnapped after winning a gold medal. The reader's c...

  • The Mysterious Image

    Carolyn Keene

    WHEN A FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER IS ACCUSED OF THEFT, NANCY DETECTS A FRAME-UP Dallas Curry, a successful advertising photographer, has been accused of stealing ideas from his rivals. At the same time, Clare Grant, Curry's former client and an actress ...

  • Secret Cargo

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy Drew and the Hardy brothers run into danger when they try to prevent the sabotage of an anti-pollution campaign. The reader controls the outcome of the story by choosing different ways of advancing the plot....

  • The Feathered Serpent

    Carolyn Keene

  • Secret of the Knight's Sword

    Carolyn Keene

    In England to discover the secret of the Silver Knight in Bromley Hall, Carson Drew and his daughter Nancy encounter Frank and Joe Hardy in their hotel and the four proceed to unravel the mystery. The reader's choices determine the direction of the i...

  • Enemy Match

    Carolyn Keene

    NANCY IS DRAWN INTO A DANGEROUS GAME WHEN A TENNIS MATCH TURNS INTO A DEADLY DUEL OF WITS Tennis star Nina Ford desperately needs Nancy's help. Nina's father, falsely convicted of fraud and sentenced to five years, has mysteriously vanished on his...

  • Cimarron and the Vigilantes

    Leo P. Kelley

  • The Street of the Fountain

    Madeleine Ker

    Which was the real Zoltan Staadhal? Was it the lethal figure who'd threatened Rose in the mountains of eastern Turkey, or the urbane and elegant professor of archaeology who welcomed her into his beautiful home in Istanbul, and treated her lik...

  • Friend of the Heart

    Dianne King

    Loving him wouldn't be easy From the moment Sarah Montgomery gazed into Bryce Benedict's hazel eyes she was smitten. What did it matter that he was her client? Or that she was already dating the most eligible bachelor in San Francisco? Her heart w...

  • The Q Factor

    Philip Kirk

  • Changing Pitches

    Steve Kluger

    Thirty-six-year-old Scotty MacKay, a former Cy Young Award winner and left-handed pitcher for the Washington Senators, attempts a comeback--with the aid of his best friend and catcher, Buddy Budlong--by developing a curveball...

  • Black Cat Raiders of World War II

    Richard C. Knots

  • Uneasy Alliance

    Jayne Ann Krentz

    He had a definite eye for beauty Meeting Torr Latime was the last thing Abby Lyndon expected from her Japanese flower-arranging class. He was dynamic, good-looking, sexy - and he created much better floral arrangements than she did! He was also th...

  • The Hills of Homicide

    Louis L'Amour

    For the first time in book form, here is a collection of Louis L'Amour detective stories--vivid tales as memorable and exciting as his beloved frontier fiction. Each story is personally selected, with an introduction, by the author. In the dark a...

  • Wildstar

    Linda Ladd

    INNOCENT TEMPTRESS She fought fiercely and screamed in terror as the tall blond stranger stepped from the shadows, swept her into his arms, and carried her into the night. She was Starfire, a silvery-haired beauty raised by the Cheyenne. She ha...

  • Emily Dickinson Is Dead

    Jane Langton

    The Belle of Amherst is losing her fans one by one.... The guests at the Emily Dickinson Memorial symposium are all passionately devoted to the poet Professor Peter Wiggins is eager to revitalize her image (and his own career) by exposing a verb c...

  • Required Writing

    Larkin

    The appearance of Philip Larkin's second prose collection - reviews and critical assessments of writers and writing; pieces on jazz, mostly uncollected; some long, revealing and often highly entertaining interviews given on various occasions - was a ...

  • The Monitors

    Keith Laumer

  • The Shape Changer

    Keith Laumer

  • The Guardian of the World

    Camara Laye

  • Red Jack's Daughter

    Edith Layton

    An unsophisticated young miss dazzles three eligible bachelors with her beauty -- and her fortune HER HEART WAS DIVIDED IN THREE Jessica Eastwood’s country sweetheart, Tom Preston, wanted her to be the free and independent spirit that her ga...

  • End of Illusion

    Amanda Lee (1)

    Two's company, three's a crowd, and four...? What, Kate Davenport asked herself, was four? She was a widow with a ten-year-old son who needed a man's influence. Morgan Chandler was divorced and had a teen-aged daughter who was in need of a woman's ha...

  • Head in the Clouds

    Carrie Lewis

    Suzie is terrified of flying and to conquer her fear decides to learn how to fly with the help of her great aunt and a gorgeous young instructor. Maybe this will give her the courage to set her apart from her siblings! However will Suzie’s fear...

  • How to Meet a Billionaire

    Davis Lilly

  • Close Associates

    Catherine Linden

    BUSINESS BEFORE PLEASURE Elena Perry promised herself that no man would ever dominate her life as Brian Mortimer had when he deserted her for a more advantageous match. She was proud of her new-found independence, proud of her career in real estat...

  • Wakefield's Passion

    Catherine Linden

    Discovery and Desire The soft sand dunes and tiny fishing villages of Cape Cod were so different from London that Monica immediately fell in love with her new home. Her new job at Wakefield and Wyatt Antiques was another matter entirely. Here e...

  • A Gentle Feuding

    Johanna Lindsey

    Clan hatred fired their blood...yet in their hearts burned the wild and tender flames of desire HE WOULD NEVER LET HER GO-- AND SHE WOULD NEVER SACRIFICE HER INNOCENCE TO SHAME... In trembling fear, she dared to refuse him, though her gentle b...

  • The Dancing Cats of Applesap

    Janet Taylor Lisle

    In order to save Rigg's Drug Store from going out of business, Melba Morris convinces Miss Toonie to lead a parade featuring the store's one hundred dancing cats in the hopes that it will draw customers....

  • Wages of Sin

    Tom Lord

    Ash Tallman and his partner Vivian Valentine, Pinkerton agents, try to find out who has been stirring up a deadly Texas feud...

  • The Ragged Edge

    Giles A. Lutz

    A fight with the conductor of a train and a run-in with a pretty redhead unexpectedly change the lives of two brothers looking to start a new life in South Dakota....

  • Spanish Serenade

    Mary Lyons

    Just who did he think she was? Spanish singing sensation Rafael Valverde thought Alexia was his nephew's mother and he treated her accordingly--with utter contempt! He belittled Alexia's devotion and sacrifice to her family in the years when th...

  • The Tutor's First Love

    George MacDonald

  • A Flash of Green

    John D. MacDonald

    James Wing was only trying to help his friend's widow. At least that's what he told himself after he warned Kat Hubble that the beautiful bay that she and her neighbours had struggled to save was now going to be sold to developers. He knew he shouldn...

  • Green Hell

    John Mackie

    Hell’s First Team! They crawl through jungle. Claw through caves. Slog through swamps. Nothing can stop them. And every moment their minds are dominated by a single thought: kill, or die. They take the impossible jobs no ordinary outfit will touch....

  • Undercover Dreamer

    Debbie Macomber

    When Meggie O'Halloran landed a job in Portland, she felt that her prayers had been answered. A new career and a new home were just the thing to set her on her feet again. But her new neighbor Quinn Donnelly, was another story altogether. He was an u...

  • One of the Guys

    Kathryn Makris

  • Weekend for Us

    Kathryn Makris

  • Strangers by Day

    Vicki Malone

  • Agatha

    Edna Mae Manley

    When she returns to London after years in the country to rescue her young sister from an improper liaison, Agatha Winslow finds herself surrounded by admirers despite her lameness and the fact she had been jilted...

  • The Fires Within

    Aimee Martel

    WHERE THERE'S SMOKE ... It was hard to make a good impression when everyone wished you weren't a woman, but firefighter Isabel Dailey was determined to try. It didn't help matters that her superior officer, Lieutenant Mark Grady, had the most beau...

  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

    Les Martin

    PALACE OF PERIL The greatest adventurer of them all, Indiana Jones, is back -- and in deeper danger than ever. With him are a beautiful nightclub singer named Willie Scott and a spunky Chinese boy named Short Round. Together they descend into an ...