Books Published in May 1985

New Books List: 407 titles

  • The Last Romance

    Erica Abeel

    "The Last Romance" is about a woman who has been raised to put her man first; her own ambitions second. But in the world of New York's fast lane, love has become part of the success and power game -- and the only game in town....

  • Bears Forever

    Linda Williams Aber

  • Good Intentions

    Jane Adams

    Anne Manning, a divorcee and single parent for twelve years, finds herself increasingly unable to control her rebellious fourteen-year-old son, Billy. As a last resort, she reluctantly arranges to send him to his father, Don, for the summer. Despite ...

  • Wildfire

    Kelly Adams

    One moment Sean Feyer emerges from the lush forest and into ranger Molly Carter's life like the poet-naturalist she's always dreamed of. The next, they're pressed intimately against the earth as flames leap up around them -- and sparks of...

  • Blind Man's Bluff

    Michael Adams

  • Fourth Floor Twins and the Fortune Cookie Chase

    David A. Adler

  • Walk the Moons Road

    Jim Aikin

  • Witches of Kregen

    Alan Burt Akers

    When his new army was ready to march against the witch hordes, it rained frogs! It was a veritable heavy bombardment from empty skies! That's the sort of thing Dray Prescot was up against during the war of the Nine Unspeakable Curses!Dray was struggl...

  • Lair of the Lich

    Bruce Algozin
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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  • Merringannee Bluff

    Kerry Allyne

    To him she was her brother's keeper Taryn had always been strictly honest while touring the Australian carnival circuit with her games of chance. But she had doubts about her brother, Luke. And when he cheated the vengeful Slade Douglas and...

  • All or Nothing

    Rosalyn Alsobrook

    Randy Brinnad just didn't know his place Housekeepers were supposed to be women. Kind, deferential women who helped smooth the hectic lives of busy executives. Randy Brinnad didn't qualify on any account. Yes, he arrived at the Lovall's Shreveport...

  • Reach for the Sky

    Barbara Andrews

    Struggling young actress Libby Sloan had arrived in Arizona to play a small part in a big western movie. She'd had her eye on her opportunity -- not on Craig Wicklow: yet the cool, sardonic stuntman had clearly singled her out for a little on-loc...

  • Politician

    Piers Anthony

    POLITICAL PRISONER He awoke in a tiny lightless cell, groping for memory ... memory that had been erased. Hope Hubris, Jupiter governor, progressive populist, warrior hero, and presidential candidate ... a "memwashed" tool of the enemy. And if his c...

  • Come Home to Love

    Judith Arnold

    She could share his home, but what about his heart? Lissa Cavender had dealt with her share of crazy clients in the past, but Jared Stone astonished her. He had not gotten anywhere with her by telephone, so he just showed up one night at the class...

  • Norby and the Lost Princess

    Isaac Asimov

  • Reckless Heart

    Dee Austin

  • Trial by Fire

    Richard Austin

    AMERICA'S FUTURE IS IN THEIR HANDS Out of the ashes comes Americas fighting best. The Guardians, an elite four-man survival team trained to hair-trigger tautness, have been entrusted with freedoms last hope: the top-secret Blueprint for Renewal. ...

  • Hannie Richards, Or, The Intrepid Adventures of a Restless Wife

    Hilary Bailey

    The world-wide smuggling activities of Englishwoman Hannie Richards come into conflict, eventually, with her life in Devon with her gentleman-farmer husband and two children, and she begins an exciting new career...

  • Cimarron and the Prophet's People

    Lew Baines

  • By Love Possessed

    Linda Barlow

    Refusing to let vague threats disrupt her vacation in Mexico, flamboyant shipping magnate Diana Adams rejects the idea of a bodyguard ... especially when he proves to be black-mustached, darkly powerful Francis O'Brien, the lover she unwittingly jilt...

  • Death on the High C's

    Robert Barnard

    Opera singers are often described as being larger than life, and certainly this is true of Gaylene Ffrench. Her appetites for men, for food, for attention are gargantuan, and her ability to irritate is similarly outsized. So when someone electrocutes...

  • Lucky at Love

    Barbara Bartholomew

  • Captain Money and the Golden Girl: The J. David Affair

    Donald C. Bauder

  • Wilder Special

    Rose Bayner

    WHAT IS THE WILDER SPECIAL? Pizza with anchovies? A trip to the country? A human teletype? A pesty newshound who too often got caught nosing around in other people’s business? Or just the biggest surprise of Maxine Gallagher’s life? Maxine ...

  • A Treasury of Victorian Detective Stories

    Charles Willing Beale

  • Love Always

    Ann Beattie

    From an award-winning, national bestselling author comes a "ferociously funny” novel (The Los Angeles Times) about an advice columnist in Vermont whose life is about to be turned upside down. Lucy Spenser, the Miss Lonelyhearts of a chic count...

  • Great Jewish Short Stories

    Saul Bellow

    In this wonderfully entertaining collection edited by Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow, 28 stories by outstanding Jewish authors capture all the bold color and rich flavor of Jewish culture through the ages. Includes stories by Sholom Aleichem,...

  • Forever Eden

    Barbara Bennett

    Deep in the jungles of Mindanao, Cassandra Wellsley sought refuge--from the false values of her glamour-girl existence, from friends who could not understand, from herself. And in the routine of her life in the mission compound, she was content--unti...

  • Hendra's Book

    Hendra Benoit

    Some girls get boyfriends. I get psionic powers. Hendra made a big mistake. She touched a piece of satellite that dropped through the roof of the mall one day. Two other kids - Sal and Max - did the same thing. Now they've all got superpowers an...

  • Turtle Time

    Jeanne Betancourt

  • Fool's Gold

    Beverly Bird

    CAUGHT! Devon Jordan was devastated when she saw Clay Wyatt. A year ago she'd fallen hard for him--just before the bottom dropped out of her world. A year ago she'd been part of society, not catering its parties. Her bank account had been full ...

  • Letters from the Dead

    Campbell Black

    It was a dream vacation for two single mothers and their teenagers, awkward Tommy and lovely, gentle Lindy. Miles away from anyone, alone in a long-deserted house, with only the restless waves, the swirling sands, the winds that whispered in the nigh...

  • That Special Magic

    Laurien Blair

    LOVE NEEDS ALL THE HELP IT CAN GET! Ryan Davis and Dana Winter had been madly in love six years ago--the youthful, exuberant love of two kids in college. Now they were both successful adults: She tested products for a large food corporation; he...

  • Wrong Kind of Boy

    Shannon Blair

    Liz is thrilled when Laurence Chandler notices her. He's smart, sensitive, and creative. And he's not at all like her last boyfriend, Bud. Bud was a member of her crowd. He was cute, popular - and utterly predictable. Laurence wants Liz to star in...

  • Fear Round about

    George Blairs

  • The Best-Dressed Bear

    Mary Blocksma

  • A Gift of Wild Flowers

    Georgia Bockoven

    He was a challenging subject Assigned to photograph renegade banker Brian Robertson, Kelly Stewart didn't realize what she'd be letting herself in for. First off, she faced a four-day hike through the towering Sierra Nevada. Kelly had never backpa...

  • The McGuffin

    John Bowen

    A chance scene viewed through the rear window of his South Kensington flat, an incident that reminds him of a Hitchcock movie, involves film reviewer Paul Hatcher in a mystery that puts his life in desperate peril...

  • Players

    Laura Bradford (1)

  • Sword and Sorceress II

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    SWORD AND SORCERESS II What better guide could there be through the realms of witchery and wonder, of combat and danger, of romance and magic than the hand and mind of Marion Zimmer Bradley, author of the bestsellers CITY OF SORCERY, THENDARA HOUS...

  • Just a Kiss Away

    Joanna Brandon

    Robin Chandler knew it was crazy to go back to work at the Sentinel, but the idea of being a freelance field reporter again was incentive enough to make her willing to put up with anything. Even her ex-husband. She could handle the toughest assign...

  • A Shock to the System

    Simon Brett

    An ambitious executive is motivated by malice and murder in this darkly comic Edgar Award"nominated thriller by the author of the Charles Paris mysteries.   Graham Marshall is a respectable husband and father and dedicated London businessman. ...

  • Starfire

    Barbara Bretton

    Sara would have traded her fortune for some privacy... Sara Chance was a jet-setter. As the wealthy widow of the beloved Maxwell Chance, she led a glamorous, opulent life. Yet Sara was miserable. All the money in the world couldn't make up for her...

  • The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman

    Raymond Briggs

    BANG! BANG! BANG! went the guns of the Tin-Pot Foreign GeneralBANG! BANG! BANG! went the guns of the Old Iron WomanRaymond Briggs's visceral take on the Falklands War is uncompromising in its dark and moving satire of the build-up and aftermath of th...

  • Provocative Peril

    Annette Broadrick

    RISKY BUSINESS Three weeks on the scenic Oregon coast at the Tropicana Royale was Carolyn Kenniwick's dream come true. It was time to leave her gift shop behind and make a change. New clothes, a new hairdo, and a new attitude were going to mak...

  • The Wishsong of Shannara

    Terry Brooks

    Horror stalked the Four Lands as the Ildatch, ancient source of evil, stirred to new life, sending its ghastly Mord Wraiths to destroy Mankind. To win through the vile growth that protected the Ildatch, the Druid Allanon needed Brin Ohmsford -- fo...

  • Cherished Beginnings

    Pamela Browning

    Their views on childbirth were as different as day and night Maura McNeill needed a gynecologist, but not for the usual reasons. As a practicing midwife, she needed a doctor willing to sponsor her to a hospital and to be her backup in case of an e...

  • Beautiful Women

    C.D.B. Bryan

    A man who thinks he understands women, and particularly the woman in his own life, suddenly discovers he has not understood at all, as two marriages break up, the couples switch partners, and new relationships form...

  • A Parish of Rich Women

    James Buchan

  • The Alphabet of Grace

    Frederick Buechner

    With characteristic eloquence and insight, Buechner presents a three-part series of reflections that probe, through the course of one day, the innermost mysteries of life. Blending an artist's eye for natureal beauty, the true meaning of human encoun...

  • Seven Deadly Sins: A Collection of New Fiction

    Helen L. Burke

  • Young Rissa

    F.M. Busby

    Rissa breathes a sigh of relief as the ship lifts off. It seems she's escaped danger, and no one has recognized the scientifically altered being as the beautiful young heir to the Hilzein Establishment-or so it seems. Possessing the only force capabl...

  • Silk and Steel

    Cordia Byers

    She longed to plunge a dagger into his handsome back... She had mastered the arts of war, not love. Disguised as a man, she fought as fiercely as any Scots warrior. Then an English soldier with blazing blue eyes stormed her castle walls and exposed J...

  • The Ragged, Rugged Warriors

    Martin Caidin

  • If Mice Could Fly

    John Cameron

  • Love Letters

    Elaine Camp

    DEAR MAUDIE, What should I do about my philandering husband? My daughter's flirty boyfriend? My boring love life? Emmy Bakersfield, aka "Maudie," dealt with such questions every day. Her most intriguing correspondent wanted to know how to woo the ...

  • Midwinter's Night

    Jean Canavan

    THE LONELY SOBS OF A FRIGHTENED LITTLE GIRL MELTED THE VIKING WARRIOR'S FIERCE HEART But Aric's sympathy turned to rage when his stepmother announced he was to wed the child Christina when she came of age. Defiant, he fled his home to seek...

  • Convictions

    Taffy Cannon

    Two young women of aristocratic southern families establish a friendship that continues through their radicalized college years to the tempestuous years that follow and embroils them in the upheavals of the 1960s...

  • Angel in His Arms

    Suzanne Carey

    BOURBON STREET BLUES She was a jazz singer, come to New Orleans to learn the facts about the mother she so resembled-and had never known. Fate led Annie Duprez to Bourbon Street and into the arms of Jake St. Arnold, drummer, architect and part own...

  • Audition for Murder

    P.M. Carlson

    To escape New York City's public pressures and diminish Lisette's need for alcohol and drugs, actor Nick O'Connor and his beautiful wife accept roles in a university production of Hamlet, but someone in the cast wants Lisette dead...

  • The Troubadour's Romance

    Robyn Carr

    Pawn in a royal bargain, beautiful Felise Scelfton was handed in marriage to Sir Royce Leighton, the scarred and brooding lord of the grim keep of Segeland. And between them desire grew, bursting into a raging hunger that blazed at their merest touch...

  • Last Flight to Moscow

    Nick Carter

  • The Vengeance Game

    Nick Carter

  • Impetuous Marriage

    Rosemary Carter

    She was there to stop a marriage... Tracy made a wild dash for Umhlowi farm in South Africa to save her sister from an impetuous marriage. Instead she was distracted and delayed there by her prospective brother-in-law. Ryan Demant provoked in T...

  • Different Dreams

    Tory Cates

    Malou Sanders had always felt most comfortable in the world of animals and chose their company over that of men. So when land developer Cameron Landell threatened to sell the Texas ranch where her troop of Japanese monkeys made their home, Malou deci...

  • A Vision of Love

    Melanie Catley

    He'd stolen her dreams! She knew it the moment she walked into the Key West gallery and saw his paintings. It was uncanny -- as if a perfect stranger had seen into her very soul! But beautiful Christabel Bates had no idea that Jon White -- in spi...

  • Here Come the Boys

    Emily Chase

    They're letting boys into Canby Hall! Dana, Faith, and Shelley are in for a shock. Canby Hall has gone co-ed! Only three boys arrive, but who would have thought they could turn a girls' school upside down? Having boys on campus brings new fun, new...

  • The Earl and the Emigree

    Elizabeth Chater

    The Earl of Stone and Hammer has always led a peaceful and undisturbed life. That is until a gorgeous young French woman shows up on the doorstep of his home. She brings news that his brother, who has been missing for years, is dead in the streets of...

  • The Original Miss Honeyford

    Marion Chesney

    MISS HONEYFORD WAS SOUR ON ROMANCE Miss Honaria Honeyford was sent to London to save the family fortune by hunting a wealthy husband -- and being a loving if not entirely dutiful daughter, she obeyed. But if she was reluctantly willing to surr...

  • Monsters: Creatures of Mystery

    Nancy Christensen

  • Catcher with a Glass Arm

    Matt Christopher

    A young baseball player struggles to overcome his fear of a pitched ball, improve his throwing, and somehow redeem himself in the eyes of his teammates....

  • Star Attraction

    Eva Claire

    Shelley Tremayne was tired of men who treated love like a movie script and had gotten over Christopher Devon, an actor, who was far more in love with himself than with Shelley. She had even written a book, about their relationship; the names were cha...

  • Cafe Le Dog

    Matt Cohen

  • Change of Hearts

    Linda A. Cooney

    What do you get when you fall in love? Four couples: They met and fell in love. Some would stay together, some would break apart. But none of them would ever forget ... ...

  • High Voltage

    Lori Copeland

    Had she gone mad? Laurel Henderson hadn't expected the burden of inheriting her father's farm to fall squarely on her shoulders. And if Sheriff Clay Kerwin couldn't catch the culprits who were sabotaging her best efforts, her hopes of selling it were...

  • The Marburg Chronicles

    Alfred Coppel

  • Space Doctor

    Lee Correy

  • Devil's Daughter

    Catherine Coulter

    ENSLAVING PASSION His imperious blue eyes raked over her trembling body. She had never imagined that Kamal the savage sultan who dared make her a harem slave, would look so like a blond Nordic god. She had never dreamed that the warm, exploring t...

  • The Botticelli Madonna

    Richard Cox

  • Programmed for Love

    Marion Crane

    Katie's first computer course turns out to be full of surprises when the teacher assigns each student a secret computer pal. katie begins exchanging electronic letters with her mystery partner STX1150, and she's instantly intrigued. His letters ar...

  • Act of Betrayal

    Sara Craven

    She had reason to distrust him Jason Wingard's sudden reappearance in Laura's life proved how little she knew about her ex-husband. Three years ago when she'd fallen in love with him, she'd believed him to be a struggling artist...

  • Serious Assembler

    Charles A. Crayne

  • The Secret World of Polly Flint

    Helen Cresswell

  • The Ninth Dragon

    E.B. Cross

    Sam Borne, an American skilled in the art of the ninja, is pitted against General L.R. Laidlaw, a.k.a. Doctor Sun Sun, an underworld leader using the slave labor of American P.O.W.s to operate a heroin factory in the Vietnam jungle...

  • Gentleman at Heart

    Elissa Curry

    When former pitcher Jake Shepard, notorious for having decked a Yankee's manager, dubs free-spirited Alexis Celestine 'Sexy Lexie,' she wants to deck him. The scruffily dressed, tough-guy handsome, small-town Lothario is hardly her type -...

  • Barbary Coast Tong

    Tom Cutter

  • Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds

    Brian Daley

    QUEST PERILOUS Mankind was beginning its third leap into the Galaxy, but Old Earth had so long kept to herself that her people were unable to travel safely among the rough-and-tumble cultures that had evolved on distant worlds. That annoyed Ear...

  • Crisis at Valcour

    Dorothy Daniels

    The war between the states is over -- but Virginia Hammond's most heartbreaking battle has just begun. She was the most ravishing bride in the county and she had married the love of her life, Elias Birch. But when Virginia bore him another man's c...

  • Don't Play Games

    Emma Darcy

    Should she stake her future on him? Kate had been brought up to believe that promises were not to be given lightly, and despite her husband's lies and blatant infidelity, she'd managed to hold on to her integrity -- if not her ability to t...

  • Fantasy

    Emma Darcy

    Had she dreamed him up -- this man, this fantasy? Her fiancé's betrayal and her frenzied flight to a secluded beach near Sydney had been for Eve a nightmare -- until the moment a stranger held her in his arms and revealed a lotus land where l...

  • Wild Spenders

    Diana Davenport

  • Diamonds and Pearls

    Maggie Davis

    An Elegant World of Passions and Pleasures Was Suddenly Hers! Designer clothes, luxurious furs, priceless jewels, expensive cars, a mansion in Palm Beach, travel to exotic places... these were merely fantasies to Francesca until she discovered she...

  • Tales from the Thousand and One Nights

    N.J. Dawood

    The tales told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahriyar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature. From the epic adventures of "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp" t...

  • The Secret Country

    Pamela Dean

    THE SECRET COUNTRY was full of wizards, witches, unicorns, a magic ring, the Dragon King... But then the Secret Country became real--the magic was real, the intrigue was real, the sharp edge of a sword drew real blood. The game was getting out of...

  • Luna

    Delacorta

    Serge Gorodish, a classical musician turned confidence man, must rescue Alba, his thirteen-year-old partner, who has been kidnapped by an insane pychiatrist for the benefit of his even crazier patient...

  • When Midnight Comes

    Edith Delatush

    David Swenson had left without a word. Six months later he was back, expecting Marcy Brown to understand --and give him another chance. How could she trust him again? Yet with just one touch she was his, hating herself for being such easy prey for a ...

  • Angel in Charge

    Judy Delton

    Angel and her little brother have to cope with an incompetent babysitter and several crises while their mother is away. These tales of the trials and tribulations of ten-year-old Angel O'Leary are guaranteed to win many fans. A master at creating sho...

  • Wolfling

    Gordon R. Dickson

    One hundred years into the future, the first expedition from Earth reaches Alpha Centurai III and discovers that all life, including humankind, is governed by the Throne World and Earth is only a primitive outpost, but one man from Earth will show th...

  • Adrenaline

    James Dillinger

  • Walt Disney's Story Land

    Walt Disney

  • Ice Age Explorer

    Douglas Dixon

    Are you ready for the Ice Age? Travel back in time to the days of early man and identify a mysterious animal that our ancestors painted on a cave wall long before the dawn of recorded history! The Time Machine series challenges young readers to use t...

  • Woof!

    Danae Dobson

  • The Death of a King

    P.C. Doherty / Paul Doherty

    The fate of a king is not always glorious...The dramatic events of Edward II's death are told with masterful skill by acclaimed writer, Paul Doherty, in The Death of a King. Perfect for fans of Michael Jecks and Ellis Peters.England's Edward II so an...

  • Yesterday's Horses

    Jean Slaughter Doty

  • Azure Days, Quicksilver Nights

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    In the silvered moonlight Monte Carlo shimmered like a thousand precious gems, and Chrystal Remy stood alone, the glittering essence of the resort's timeless magic. Having bid for and won the services of Damon Dance to appraise her aunt's villa full ...

  • Practice Makes Perfect

    Kathleen Downes

    When they played racquetball, Pippi sensed Jeremy's controlled power, his lean body graceful as a jungle cat. But when they went for coffee later, the image vanished, replaced by that of her dear best friend. Always there for her each time a roma...

  • Silver City

    Sara Dowse

  • The Gaian Expedient: Part Two of the Earthring Cycle

    Wayland Drew

    Second book in the Erthring cycle, which also includes "The Memoirs of Alcheringia" (1984) and "The Master of Norriya" (1986). Wayland Drew (1932 - 1998) was a Canadian writer known for his environmental themes; his first novel, "The Wabeno Feast" (1...

  • Border War

    D.B. Drumm

    When Traveler sets out to visit Jan Knife Wind, the young Indian woman who had saved his life, he discovers that her village has been invaded by a vicious band of soldiers from El Hiagura, a despotic Central American nation...

  • See What I Am

    Roger Antoine Duvoisin

  • The Unknown Quantity

    Mignon G. Eberhart

    FATAL DECEPTION It was a bizarre scheme--and one Sarah should never have agreed to in the first place. Her wealthy oil baron husband wanted to secretly go abroad while a double, James Dixon, took his place at their country estate. Of course, Jam...

  • If You're Afraid of the Dark

    Cooper Edens

  • The Town Tamers

    J.T. Edson

    The towns at the end of the cattle trails north from Texas called for a special type of lawman. None of the peace officers available struck the Governor of Kansas as suitable to clean out the worst, most corrupt town of all. Yet it must be done befor...

  • On Sunday the Wind Came

    Alan C. Elliott

  • Less Than Zero

    Bret Easton Ellis

    Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age, in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too muc...

  • Lone Star and the Golden Mesa

    Wesley Ellis

    AN ANCIENT GALLEON OF GOLD ENTOMBED WITH A TERRIBLE SECRET The Napi is a peaceful Arizona tribe whose only possession is the desert valley where they live. But deep beneath the desert's surface, trapped centuries before, is a Spanish warship laden w...

  • Wings of Gold

    Suzanne Ellison

    SHE WANTED IT ALL -- BUT NOT ALL AT ONCE! The life of an astronaut-surgeon was incredibly demanding, but Dr. Erin Ness thrived on the challenge. And she was absolutely ecstatic when NASA appointed her to a history-making shuttle launch! Only ...

  • Blood Red Sky

    Anton Emmerton

  • The Floating Island

    Garrett Epps

    A treacherous journalist, a bumptiously brilliant grant seeker, representatives from the mysterious Temple of Ray, and the hapless organizers of a presidential campaign interfere with the back stabbing and status-seeking antics at Washington's Divisi...

  • Longarm and the Blackfoot Guns

    Tabor Evans

  • Bataan, the March of Death

    Stanley L. Falk

  • Silverthorn

    Raymond E. Feist

    A poisoned bolt has struck down the Princess Anita on the day of her wedding to prince Anitha of Krondor. To save his beloved. Anitha sets out in search of the mystic herb called Silverthorn that only grows in the dark and forbidding land of the S...

  • The Blue Star

    Robert Ferro

    Incandescent angels of love ... an electric voyage – The Advocate Two heroes, reflective Peter and Byronic Chase, indulge their youthful appetites in Florence. Over the next 20 years their paths diverge and reconverge. Chase marries into t...

  • A World of Difference

    Sandra Field

    Worlds apart -- in all but love What was wrong with her? Moira Tennant was at the pinnacle of her modeling career in a place where it mattered... New York! Yet something vital was missing in her life -- until she met Patrick Casey. "You'...

  • A Touch of Love

    Glenna Finley

    Heart’s Surprise When Barbara Stratton rented a tiny flat for her stay in London, she never expected to have to share the cramped quarters with a roommate…especially with good-looking photographer Kent Michaels…who had rented the same apartm...

  • The Three Passions of Countess Natalya

    Alan Fisher

  • Pale Rider

    Alan Dean Foster

    Gun-toting preacher Gabriel takes on ruthless, gold-hungry miner Coy Lahoud and a gang of gunfighters led by Marshall Stockburn, a dark spectre from Gabriel's past, to protect the independent miners of Carbon Canyon...

  • Passion's Dance

    Lauren Fox

    Both are battered but undefeated veterans of physically punishing careers -- his football, hers ballet. Yet Amelia Jorgenson insists she has nothing in common with "dumb jock" Randy Williams. Not even when she falls at his feet, and he tucks ...

  • Trauma

    John J. Fried

  • Rainy Day Man

    Rita Garitano

  • Wild Sweet Wilderness

    Dorothy Garlock

    NO MAN'S SLAVE! Berry was only eighteen - and a fresh-mouthed kid - when she left the wagon trails to find her father's claim in Missouri. She was happy to be free from her father's tyranny. But now with only her gentle young step mother beside her,...

  • Pearlhanger

    Jonathan Gash

    Agreeing to find Donna Vernon's missing antiques dealer husband only because he's broke, Lovejoy, an expert divvie, finds himself in the way of numerous antique bargains until Sidney Vernon is found murdered and Lovejoy is the police's prime suspect...

  • I'm Kissing As Fast As

    Joan Merrill Gerber

  • Trucks

    Gail Gibbons

    "60 trucks that haul, tow, lift, dig, rescue--and even sell ice cream!-- are featured in this book sized to appeal to the youngest readers.

    Learn about all the different things trucks can do-- they dig holes, push heavy loads, haul cargo, lift...

  • Say "Cheese"

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Hurray, it's June! The last month of school!



    Emily Arrow and the other children in Ms. Rooney's room are excited about the class picnic at the park. Mrs. Stewart, the student teacher, is even going to take class pictures.


  • In the Land of Dreamy Dreams

    Ellen Gilchrist

    In the Land of Dreamy Dreams, Ellen Gilchrist's acclaimed 1981 debut collection of short stories, introduced readers to a remarkable Southern voice which has sustained its power and influence through her more than 20 subsequent books. Gilchrist has a...

  • Death Cracks a Bottle

    Kenneth Giles

  • Surrender Mountain

    Joan Gimbel

  • Heart of Glass

    Victoria Glenn

    SHE HAD WALKED AWAY FROM A FORTUNE -- AND NOW IT WALKED BACK INTO HER LIFE. Mara Worthington left everything she had grown up with -- humiliation from a domineering father, grief over her dead brother, and the family fortune. Now a strange cl...

  • Heat

    William Goldman

    Las Vegas security officer Nick Escalante, an ex-Marine, chances on to a bizarre kidnapping threat and is plunged into a nightmare world of false identities, vicious grievances, and gruesome encounters...

  • The Trouble With Bridges

    Emma Goldrick

    He had a strange effect on her Get the facts straight and the names right, her foreign correspondent father had advised Samantha Clark when she began reporting. And Sam did. Somehow, though, every story featuring James Francis Clarke, the engi...

  • Coco Can't Wait

    Taro Gomi

  • Age of Consent

    Victoria Gordon

    This time he was part of the problem Helen was jobless and broke. So naturally Dane Curtis offered to help, as he always had in the past. "I knew you were a walking disaster area," Dane teased when they reached his farm in Tasmania. ...

  • Bushranger's Mountain

    Victoria Gordon

    It seemed the fulfillment of a cherished dream When Leith won a lottery and bought a rundown farm in Tasmania, she thought she finally had the time to devote herself to her pottery. But the farm presented problems too big for Leith to handle al...

  • Cyclone Season

    Victoria Gordon

    This man could create a whirlwind of his own Holly had only the vaguest idea of what to expect when she accepted her aunt's invitation to stay in the remote Pilbar Region of western Australia, and she was overwhelmed by the beauty and wildness...

  • Asterix and Caesars Gift

    Rene Goscinny

  • Monkey Puzzle

    Paula Gosling

    CLASS DISMISSED ON ACCOUNT OF MURDER.... Professor Aiken Adamson was not well liked. In fact, somebody disliked him enough to ensure that his malicious, nasty tongue never wagged again. When his corpse was found, his tongue was nowhere in sight. ...

  • Emperor, Swords, Pentacles

    Phyllis Gotlieb

  • Brainz, Inc.

    Ron Goulart

    Sylvie Kirkyard was co-owner of Brainz, Inc., makers of the world's finest androids. So when she was murdered, she came directly to Odd Jobbs, Inc. to find out who had done it. It seems that her firm had perfected a personality chip that guaranteed i...

  • Had I a Hundred Mouths: New and Selected Stories 1947-1983

    William Goyen

    Goyen's final collection of stories, putting together selections from his long career as well as some of his newer works. Published in tandem with a new novel after about a decade of publishing silence. The title story won an O.Henry Prize....

  • Hold Close the Memory

    Heather Graham

    After twelve painful years Kim Trent finally accepted the truth: Brian was dead. A widow with twin sons, she rejoiced in Keith Norman's love. They agreed to live together, to move toward marriage in steps...until Brian returned from the dead, a ...

  • The Loving Cup

    Winston Graham

    The Loving Cup, the tenth book in Winston Graham's classic Poldark saga, now a major TV series from Masterpiece PBS.Cornwall 1813A silver cup lies half-forgotten in a dank cave, amongst a pile of stolen goods. Yet the tiny vessel and its inscription ...

  • Tea Party

    Charles L. Grant

    After unknown buyers purchase Winterest a seventeenth-century stone mansion believed to be haunted, the neighboring residents receive and invitation to a tea party and find themselves caught in a whirlwind of supernatural vengeance and violence. D...

  • August People

    Ralph Graves

  • The Will of the Gods

    Sharon Green

  • I Love You More Than Chocolate

    Frances Hurley Grimes

  • Diamond in the Rough

    Joan Grove

    Little Miss Fix-It! She'd fallen off a ladder into his arms, dousing his hair with house paint. Now David Morris refused to believe that the petite woman in his arms was official handyperson, competent to paint his new apartment. What began as a ...

  • Ishmael

    Barbara Hambly

    The Enterprise is on a peaceful mission at Starbase 12 when a bizarre cosmic phenomenon causes a Klingon ship to suddenly vanish--with Spock aboard for the ride. Spock's last message from the Klingon ship is cryptic and frightening. The Klingons are ...

  • The Detonators

    Donald Hamilton

    A prim young lady needs a favor: help her father beat a bum drug rap. But when Dad’s boat detonates outside Miami Harbor, Matt discovers that young Amy isn’t as innocent as she looks. Lured to the Bahamas, he will discover an unlikely pack of fan...

  • Wolves and Coyotes

    Rosanna Hansen

  • Call of the Dove

    Madge Harrah

    As a staff designer for a prestigious greeting card firm in Kansas City, Bethany Clark had a keen appreciation for composition and color. Lately, however, her life had been a monochromatic study in gray. And while visiting the observation deck of a c...

  • Silken Savage

    Catherine Hart

    SHE WAS A WOMAN MADE FOR LOVE: HE WAS THE MAN DESTINED TO LOVE HER Captured by a party of Cheyenne as she was traveling with her family to join her fiance in Colorado Territory, beautiful young Tanya Martin refused to let her proud spirit be brok...

  • More Funny Laws

    Earle Harvey

  • A Spy in Winter

    Michael Hastings

    On the point of defecting, Alex Orloff, the Russian-born recruiter of Kim Philby, tracks down a double-agent murderer, but finds that Philby--threatening death to Orloff's daughter--holds all the aces...

  • Wordchanger

    Mary Haynes

  • Dixie Association

    Donald Hays

    Hog Durham, the ex-con first-baseman of the minor league Arkansas Reds, recounts the adventures of his motley team, composed of young Cherokees, two Cuban communists, a bunch of kids and a few old-timers, coached by one-armed ex-major-leaguer Lefty M...

  • A Perfect Likeness

    Sandra Heath

    THE CRUELEST OF CHOICES The handsome, elegant, and wealthy Sir Sebastian Sheringham had seen only a miniature portrait of Bryony St. Charles when he selected her to be his bride. It was clear to her that this man who had everything he wanted, inc...

  • Castle of Doves

    Constance Heaven

    In 1833, after the death of her dear father and her mother's hasty re-marriage, Charlotte accepts her cousin Clive's invitation to come to Spain with him as his wife's companion. During the trip, Charlotte falls in love with the mysterious Don Lorenz...

  • The Pushcart Prize IX: Best of the Small Presses 1984-1985

    Bill Henderson

  • Priscilla and Aquila

    Lois T. Henderson

  • If I Should Die

    M.R. Henderson

  • The Crimson Wind

    Max Hennessy

    Newspaperman Harley Marquis is sent to cover the impending revolution in Mexico in 1911, falls in love with the unpredictable Angelica Ojarra, and is swept up in the turmoil following the overthrow of Profirio Diaz...

  • Windsong

    Linda Herring

    Robert was Never Coming Back... How Could She Endure Life Without Robert? And Where was God When She Needed Him Most? Somewhere there had to be answers to the agonizing questions that plagued Beth Martin. The aching void in her heart could not be sat...

  • Amanda and the Witch Switch

    John Himmelman

  • Doll Baby

    Burt Hirschfeld

  • Tilt!

    Burt Hirschfeld

  • Someone Waiting

    Joan Hohl

    THE SUBJECT WAS MARRIAGE. Stacy Ernshaw went to Montana too interview a "professional housewife," Sandi Case, for Women First magazine. A few days with the Case family proved to Stacy that true love can create a perfect marriage. But a perfe...

  • Pillar of the Sky

    Cecelia Holland

    A novel of primitive England and the birth of the breathtaking monoliths known as Stonehenge, from “a first-class storyteller” (People). In a time before recorded history, on an island that many centuries later would come to be known as Britain, ...

  • Mountain Whippoorwill

    Suellen Holland

  • Children of Morrow

    H.M. Hoover

  • This Time of Darkness

    H.M. Hoover

  • Orange

    John Howlett

  • Criminal Tresspass

    Helen Hudson

  • Legend of the Sun

    Elizabeth Hunter (1)

    LOVE ON LOCATION Lucy had always been fascinated by Egypt. She had taken her degree in Egyptology and was qualified as an art historian and professor, but she preferred working in the field. When given the chance to front a series for television o...

  • Lizzie

    Evan Hunter

    Lizzie Borden, America's most celebrated murderer, comes to vivid life in this riveting and chilling book by acclaimed author Evan Hunter as the portrait of a notorious woman unfolds with shocking clarity.Lizzie Borden took an axAnd gave her mother f...

  • Beauty and the Beast

    Warwick Hutton

  • The Forever Dream

    Iris Johansen

    HE PROMISES NOTHING LESS THAN LOVE WITHOUT END Exquisite, radiant Tania Orlinov -- incomparable prima ballerina, renowned Soviet defector, she expresses the dreams of love only dance can reveal...but seeks none of them for herself. Brilliant, ...

  • The Moongate Wish

    Nancy John

    Make a wish as you step through the Moongate, then wait for it to come true. So went the legend on Bermuda. Erika Talbot was managing The Moongate Hotel, but a woman as career oriented as she was had no business listening to legends and making wis...

  • Rubicon One

    Dennis Jones

  • Time Fuse

    Penny Jordan

    The situation was explosive Selina Thorn arranged work with a prominent London QC not to break up his marriage -- the way her mother had once tried -- but to get to know her father secretly so that she could put her past behind her. She hadn...

  • You Owe Me // The Tycoon She Shouldn't Crave

    Penny Jordan

    Seeing Slater again would cause Chris pain Natalie had always known how desperately in love with Slater Chris had been, and she'd arranged things so that Chris would have to return to England and face the man who'd rejected her. For as a f...

  • Crossroads

    Jenna Lee Joyce

    He was a man of many faces Chandra Collins knew precisely what was underneath the conservative business suit Lincoln Young wore on the day they were introduced. After all, she'd spied this mild-mannered accountant racing across her property on...

  • Short of Glory

    Alan Judd

  • The Goonies

    James Kahn

    It's summer in the small seaport town of Astoria and The Goonies are restless. Big developers threaten to take over the town. Then Mikey finds an old pirate map and the kids take off to find the loot that can save their neighborhood. But they never c...

  • The International Garage Sale

    Stefan Kanfer

    Network correspondent Alec Lessing is assigned to cover the World Body, located in two buildings on Manhattan's East Side, where delegates from every nation vie to one-up each other and betrayal takes the form of a villianous plot...

  • School's Ok

    Josie Karavasil

  • The Woman in White

    Frederick R. Karl

  • Dark Thicket

    Elmer Kelton

    One of America's greatest Western storytellers, Elmer Kelton has been voted the greatest Western writers of all time by the Western Writers of America. Dark Thicket is one of his many classic tales of the history of his home state of Texas.Young Owen...

  • Gossip from the Forest

    Thomas Keneally

    Booker Prize Finalist: A “gripping” novel of the World War I armistice negotiations that set the stage for World War II, by the author of Schindler’s List (The Guardian). In November 1918, after four long years of murderous conflict, six men ga...