Books Published in May 1986

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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — MAY 1986

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New Books List: 389 titles

  • The Straight Dope

    Cecil Adams

    No molly coddle, he, Cecil Adams tackles the tough questions in life, including "Do cats have navels?" and "What are the real lyrics to 'Louie, Louie'?'" Uncompromising and always entertaining, he explodes myths, reveals shocking truths and answers o...

  • Fourth Floor Twins and the Disappearing Parrot Trick

    David A. Adler

    Identical twins Donna and Diane help their fourth-floor neighbors, twins Gary and Kevin, make a talking parrot disappear during a magic trick at the school talent show, but problems occur when the bird really vanishes...

  • Indiscretions

    Elizabeth Adler

    The Haven Women--born into Hollywood sin and scandal, they inherited their mother's passion... Venetian, Paris, India-three beautiful women, each named for the city or country in which she'd been conceived, each driven by passionate needs for su...

  • Jack and Jake

    Aliki

  • Mission Berlin

    Ted Allbeury

    German Colonel Munsel, an expert on Russian affairs, and British Captain David Mills are recruited to identify and defeat a band of ex-Nazis who are sabotaging various Eastern Bloc targets and making it appear as if the KGB is responsible...

  • Shade of the Tree

    Piers Anthony

    The estate was Joshua Pinson's inheritance from his oddball uncle Elijah: isolated in the deep Florida woods, with a half-built solar house stocked with enough supplies to weather a siege. Josh decided it was time to rake his two young children away ...

  • A Season of Peace

    G.E. Armitage

  • Surrender, My Heart

    Lindsay Armstrong

    India found love in the arms of an enemy Giles Ballantyne, heir to Ballantyne Enterprises, had treated India with contempt since the day she'd married his father. A fortune huntress, he called her, and worse. Suddenly, a year after her husb...

  • Special Delivery

    Judith Arnold

    Their relationship was wonderful and utterly unique For five years, Roberta Frankel and Kyle Stratton had written to each other regularly, yet they couldn't merely be called pen pals. They'd first met on a beach in Madison, Connecticut -- ...

  • The Right Time to Love

    Ann Ashton

  • A Fragile Deception

    Jane Atkin

    He thought she had the allure of a modern-day Cleopatra. She thought he had hidden crime connections. It was to follow this thread that Liz Patrick came to New Orleans, claiming to want to interview Michael Anton, brilliant D.A., and candidate for th...

  • Pilgrimage to Hell

    James Axler

    On a January day, a Presidential inauguration day, a one-megaton blast ripped through the Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C. Subsequent explosions around the globe changed the face and the shape of the earth forever. Out of the ruins emerged Deathlan...

  • Fuel-injected Dreams

    James Robert Baker

    Here is the cult classic whose central character is based on the legend of Phil Spector. So there’s this record producer Dennis Contrelle who was huge in the early 1960s, creating epic trash masterpieces from girl groups and surf bands, a verita...

  • The Past and Present of Solomon Sorge

    Judith Barnard

  • Brianna

    Linda Lang Bartell

    "LET ME LOVE YOU... " As he whispered endearments, his warm breath gently caressed her neck, sending shivers coursing through her His lips moved hungrily to possess hers, igniting a wildfire of passions deep within her. She was powerless to ...

  • The Angel Who Forgot

    Elisa Bartone

  • Heron

    Giorgio Bassani

    ''Exquisite. . . a classic tour de force'' The New York Times

    ''It struggled to keep itself aloft, to gain height. But then it suddenly gave up, and dropped as though it were breaking into many pieces''

    Early on a cold Sunday morning, ...

  • Great American Folklore: Legends, Tales, Ballads, Superstitions from All Across America

    Kemp Plummer Battle

    This compilation of more than 280 memorable tales from the American oral tradition features both popular and less-familiar folktales, legends, verses, ballads, superstitions, riddles, children's rhymes, ghost stories, and witty anecdotes...

  • Pirate's Pleasure

    Constance Bennett

    When lovely Alexa Wycomb learned the colonials needed a courier, she eagerly volunteered. No one would suspect a woman -- especially not one so fragile, young and innocent -- and she was determined to help the patriots' cause. Then she met her cont...

  • The Garish Day

    Rachel Billington

    Henry Hayes Middleton, a staunch product of a proper education, seeks his career in the Foreign Office and unconsciously conducts a spiritual search that is completed through a woman who would seem an unlikely influence...

  • Peep Show

    David Black

    Leo and Meg, counterculturists of the 1960s now a childless New York couple in their late thirties, meet Rebecca, a sixteen-year-old who pulls them into her nocturnal world of drugs, sexual menages, and after-hours punk clubs...

  • The Falls of Gard

    Laura Black

    The forced marriage of beautiful young Arabella Gordon to the enigmatic, distant Marquess of Gard threatens to blight her happiness until an ominous series of events makes happiness the least of her worries...

  • Believe It or Not Stories

    B. Blackwell

  • Duel of the Heart

    Sara Blayne

    BATTLE OF LOVE During his pain-wracked nightmare days after the Battle of Talavera, Rathbourne's recovery was as much due to the hauntingly serene beauty of a woman who called herself Gina as to her skillful nursing. She had given herself to him...

  • Like a Lamb to Slaughter

    Lawrence Block

    They are poor little lambs who have lost their way: a murderous madman feigning madness; a beautiful woman, dangerous to look at and lethal to touch; a shy little boy quietly testing his newfound power to destroy. In this ingenious collection, multip...

  • The Sky's the Limit

    Jill Bloom

    They were flying high Charlotte Frehling was all set to race around the world in a plane. There was just one thing she needed: a superb copilot who could practically read her mind. Out of hoards of applicants, Bobby Dupree was her man. Right fr...

  • Trouble in Triplicate

    Barbara Boswell

    Caine Saxon had to wonder: if good things came in threes, could the delightful Post triplets be too much of a good thing? His brother had been engaged to one until a furious argument broke it off. Now his own head was spinning over Juliet Post, who&#...

  • Act of Will

    Barbara Taylor Bradford

    Audra...a hospital nurse who knows the pain of poverty, who experiences great love and great sacrifice to forge her dream for the daughter she adores above all else. Christina...her brilliantly gifted daughter who rises to build a fashion empire, den...

  • The Outlaw Hearts

    Rebecca Brandewyne

    THE SAGA OF A RENEGADE, A LADY, AND A LOVE THAT BECAME A LEGEND Out of the Ozark's deep valleys the notorious Luke Morgan gallops toward destiny ... for on the train carrying the gold he seeks to steal is another treasure -- gray-eyed Jenny Leigh ...

  • The Brannocks

    Matt Braun

    THE WEST WAS THEIRS FOR THE WINNING Three brothers, coming from a defeated South. heading west to build new lives in the boom town of Denver. Earl Brannock, who would gamble on anything, be it a turn of a card or a woman's smile. Virgil Brannock, ...

  • Sea Island Yankee

    Clyde Bresee

    The author recounts his experiences as a small boy in the 1920's when his family, originally from Pennsylvania, moved to an island near Charleston, South Carolina where his father managed a large plantation...

  • Great Escape

    Paul Brickhill

    With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade tools, they sank shafts, built underground railroads, forged passports, drew maps, faked weapons, and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes.

    They developed a fantastic security sys...

  • Trapped in the Sea Kingdom

    Richard Brightfield

  • Forever Is a Long Time

    Pamela Browning

    It was a long way from Scot's Cove to Hollywood But in two years, Sharon Ott had learned enough about the world to know what Brad Fielding wanted. He was the new vice-president of a highly successful record company, and she was the label's hottest...

  • Guys Like Us

    Stuart Buchan

  • Swann's Song

    Carole Buck

    Thank goodness Megan Harper knows both kids and karate. Because if she accepts the job of nanny to rock star Colin Swann's young son, she'll also be performing double duty as their secret bodyguard. After the way Swann has compromised her -- ...

  • Opening Nights

    Janet Burroway

  • The Spanish Rose

    Shirlee Busbee

    NO GREATER LOVE He was her family's bitterest enemy...and now he stood before her, his magnificent body in chains, captured by her brother -- enslaved. But from the moment ravishing Maria Delgato gazed into Gabriel Lancaster's burning emer...

  • Kissing Cousins

    Diana Campbell

    THE ANGRY BRIDE Lovely Cecily Osborne knew how great a debt she owed to her handsome, high-born distant cousin, the Viscount Trowbridge. First Trowbridge saved her from the base designs of Mr. Dennis Drummond before that ungentlemanly gentleman...

  • Cherish This Moment

    Sandra Canfield

    SOME SAY LOVE IS INFINITELY PATIENT Writer Tracy Kent's rejection intrigued Senator Cole Damon almost as much as the woman herself. After all, the two of them got along professionally like a house on fire ... and, as Washington's most eligible bac...

  • Dreadnought!

    Diane Carey

    Star Empire is the Federation's most powerful new weapon--a dreadnought, first in a class of super-starships capable of outgunning a dozen Klingon cruisers, or subduing a galaxy. On the eve of her maiden voyage, Star Empire is stolen by terrorist...

  • Louanne Pig in Making the Team

    Nancy Carlson

  • The Dispossessed

    Don carpenter

  • Midsummer's Eve

    Philippa Carr

    ON THE MYSTERIOUS MOORS OF CORNWALL... Young, innocent Annora Cadorson falls in love with her neighbor, the charismatic Rolf Hanson, believing they will be wed someday. But then, one night, everything changes -- shattering Annora's illusion...

  • Angel's Walk

    Kathleen Carrol

    Suzanna knew there was no stopping him John Campbell Harris was like a human tornado, heading straight for the Kern River Valley, California--and for Suzanna Day. Suzanna wouldn't have been able to get out of his way even if she'd wanted to--she w...

  • The Book of Nods

    Jim Carroll

  • Open the Door!

    Catherine Carswell

  • Jack

    Brian Carter

  • The Cyclops Conspiracy

    Nick Carter

  • Baby Mouse

    Michelle Cartlidge

    Let's celebrate the new arrival in the mouse house! This book features a wonderful novelty surprise on each spread. With a mixture of lift-the-flaps and pull-out pieces, this is perfect for curious readers! Start by opening the welcoming card and joi...

  • Dressing Teddy

    Michelle Cartlidge

  • A Passionate Illusion

    Tory Cates

    Since the Spritzi soda ads, Lissa Bauer had painfully inched her way up the acting ladder. And now she was barely hanging on to her first big role as Jeannie Duncan, the heroine in the movie adaptation of Matthew Briggs's bestselling novel A High...

  • Cupid's Dilemma

    Ginger Chambers

    Julie Thornton returned from Europe in the nick of time. Her own mother was going to move in with Brad Channing's father. She was determined to put a stop to it. But from the moment she charged into Brad's life, demanding he control his father. Brad ...

  • Visible Light

    C.J. Cherryh

    IMAGES OUT OF TIME AND SPACE -- The terrifying, prophetic vision of a not-too-distant future here on Earth...An ever-changing journey through Gates in time with countless beginnings but only one End....A world where man and machine define life -- a...

  • The Find of a Lifetime

    Susanna Christie

    BETHANY JONES .. . She was determined to prove her theory that there was a connection between the Anasazi of southern Utah and the ancient Mayas of Mexico, and no one was going to stand in her way. MAX WERNER .. . Someone was stealing Anasazi ar...

  • Devil and Dr. Church

    F. Forrester Church

  • Sandenny

    Maryhelen Clague

    RUNNING FROM A STORMY PAST, HE FOUND SHELTER -- AND DESIRE -- IN THE PASSIONATE ARMS OF TWO WOMEN... Reckless, handsome Hugh Sandenny fled his England home for the sandy shores of Savannah -- and there he found his destiny in the passionate hearts...

  • First Impressions

    Kalindi Clare

    Kira was dazzled by Stav from the first moment that she saw him in art class. Had she grasped the whole picture, or was she losing her sense of perspective?...

  • Limit Bid! Limit Bid!

    Charles Clement

  • The Trip of a Drip

    Vicki Cobb

  • The Josefina Story Quilt

    Eleanor Coerr

    California,here we come!

    Faith's Pa says there's no room on a wagon train for Josefina, a chicken who's too tough to eat and too old to lay eggs. But Faith loves her pet. Can Josefina show Pa that she still has a few surprises left in her?...

  • Top Gun

    Mike Cogan

    Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a Navy F-14 pilot, finds that his impulsiveness leads to resentment among both students and instructors at Top Gun, the Navy's aerial combat school, and only his love for astro-physicist Charlotte Blackwood keeps him going...

  • Happily Ever After

    Hila Colman

  • Racso and the Rats of NIMH

    Jane Leslie Conly

    The superintelligent rats of MRS. FRISBY AND THE RATS OF NIMH are back! Racso, a young city rat, has run away from home to join the famous rats of NIMH in their secret community, Thorn Valley. Racso wants to escape a dark secret in his past -- and h...

  • Loving Fury

    Phoebe Conn

    A WOMAN'S DECEIT By night, blonde Angelique Devereau was an incomparable beauty, with lush curves and lissome legs. But by day, she was a retiring child, forced to disguise her age by a widowed mother scheming for remarriage. Then the blue-eyed mi...

  • Love's Elusive Flame

    Phoebe Conn

    SHE WAS HER OWN WOMAN With her golden-red hair and sparkling green eyes, there was no doubt that Flame was her own woman. She would find the man of Her dreams if it took forever - but she didn't have to wait long once she came up against the ...

  • Don't Blame the Music

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Seventeen-year-old Susan looks forward eagerly to her senior year in high school but finds her comfortable assumptions and optimistic expectations of life and people shattered by the return home of her older sister, a failed rock singer with a bitter...

  • Fortune's Kiss

    Barbara Cooper

    Adam Hardcastle had written and sent the fare for lovely Kate. He didn't want Kate's sister, but it was Charlotte who arrived. And for a girl who had come to New York to marry him, she wasn't all that complaisant or soft. For Charlotte, it was her c...

  • Bad Love

    M.E. Cooper

    A dangerous attraction . . . School's out and summer has finally arrived! Brenda can't wait to picnic, ride bikes, and spend time with her boyfriend, Brad. But when his long hours as a hospital orderly ruin the dates they'd planned, Brenda, angry an...

  • Hot on His Trail

    Lori Copeland

    He was her fantasy, the mirror image of the man she didn't marry years before. From the minute Officer Steve Hayden ticketed her for speeding, Cee Ann Masters was ready for the race. Too ready for the shy policeman who thought she was too fast for hi...

  • Brothers and Sisters

    John Coyne

    After their mother, Caitlin DeLacey is shot, Maggie and her brothers and sisters return home to investigate her mysterious death and discover, piece by piece, the terrible truths each one has hidden about her from the others. ...

  • The Last Adam

    James Gould Cozzens

  • Delilah's Weakness

    Kathleen Creighton

    Luke MacGregor couldn't have picked a worse time to crash-land his plane in her pasture, Delilah Beaumont thought furiously--after all, she was expecting the births of over ninety lambs at any moment, and she certainly didn't like treating a man's he...

  • The Cask

    Freeman Wills Crofts

    "One of the classics of modern crime fiction." --  The New York Times While London dockworkers are struggling to unload a shipment of French wine, one of the heavy casks falls, shatters and reveals its cargo -- sawdust, gold coins, and a fema...

  • C.L.O.U.D.S.

    Pat Cummings

    For his first assignment at C.L.O.U.D.S.--the department of Creative Lights, Opticals, and Unusual Designs in the Sky--Chuku creates a dazzling display of rainbows, sunsets, and cloud formations to appear over New York City...

  • Winter in Jerusalem

    Blanche D'Alpuget

    Danielle Green's reasons for returning to the city of her birth, Jerusalem, during the first Lebanon War are twofold: first, she is researching a screenplay that she hopes will make her rich; second, she is seeking a reunion with an autocratic Jewish...

  • Cherokee Fire

    Gena Dalton

    SABRINA'S STORY.. . It shocked Sabrina to discover that the upper-crust life she'd led represented only part of her heritage. To learn about the Cherokee traditions that were also hers by blood, she attended an intertribal powwow, aching to ...

  • Bestiary!

    Jack Dann

  • Out from the Shadows

    Andrea Davidson

    One man had been killed .. . would she be next? Greece was a choice location for an embassy post. Or so Janelle Lindsey had thought when she'd first arrived there. Then the body of Nikos Marinatos, a known smuggler, was found in her bedroom, and s...

  • Takeover

    Bart Davis

    “Bart Davis is a rare talent...His novels are extraordinary.†â€"Gerry Carroll, author of North SAR A HIGHSTAKES KREMLIN CONSPIRACY. A HIGHSTAKES INTERNATIONAL NIGHTMARE THE MACHINE In a dàcha outside Moscow, Vladmir Malenkov, the leader of the ...

  • Melting Point

    Kenn Davis

  • Prisoner of Passion

    Suzannah Davis

    Nick Randolph had vanished suddenly at the height of his career. It was K. C. Whitaker's job to find the artist--and his work--and bring him back to the wealthy art patrons of Dallas. Roaming the Ozarks wilderness in search of a recluse was not her i...

  • Dark Valley Destiny

    L. Sprague de Camp

    Synopsis: This is the definitive biography of Robert E. Howard, a giant of the pulp era, who created the archetypal brooding fantasy figure. To the general public, he is virtually unknown, but millions are familiar with the name and exploits of his m...

  • Best of L. Sprague de Camp

    L. Sprague de Camp

    Ballantine Del Rey paperback, second printing, 1986. Includes introduction, "L. Sprague de Camp -- Engineer and Sorcerer" (essay) by Poul Anderson, and these works: Hyperpelosity (1938); Language for Time Travelers (1938, essay); The Command [Johnny ...

  • The Commodore

    Jan De Hartog

  • Echoes of Oritumbe

    Arthur De Lima

  • I Never Asked You to Understand Me

    Barthe DeClements

  • Angel's Mother's Boyfriend

    Judy Delton

    Concerned when her mother begins receiving mysterious letters from Washington, D.C., Angel becomes increasingly anxious when she discovers that the letters are from a man that her mother met on vacation, a professional clown named Rudy...

  • Smiles of a Summer Night

    Delaney Devers

    April Jasper has had it with marriage. Yet her new employer, plantation owner Jules Robichaux, assumes she's on the prowl for a rich husband. Hired as nanny to his niece and nephew, April vows to ignore his insufferable arrogance. But Jules won't ...

  • Long Journey Back

    Robyn Donald

    Where she was concerned Trent had no scruples Nothing--not even Trent's divorce--could alter the fact that he'd cruelly jilted Melly in favor of a more advantageous marriage. His undeniable love for her only made his betrayal all the more ...

  • A Willing Surrender

    Robyn Donald

    She was bewilder by her own reaction Clary couldn't deny the attraction that flamed between herself and Morgan Caird when they met in England. But she didn't believe in love at first sight. Neither did she believe that a powerful, exper...

  • Children's Minds

    Margaret C. Donaldson

    Margaret Donaldson's seminal work on child development, first published in 1978, has become a classic inquiry into the nature of human thought.In this concise and brilliantly readable book, Margaret Donaldson shows that context is key when it comes t...

  • Ranks of Bronze

    David Drake

    THE ALIENS WERE LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD FIGHTERS, WARRIORS WHO COULD BE BRAVE WITHOUT BLASTERS, AND CONTENT WITH SHIELDS OF BRONZE ...WHAT THEY GOT WERE ROMANS GAIUS VIBULENAS: From a raw kid, he became an accomplished soldier--and a leader of men....

  • Simons Book

    Henrik Drescher

  • Travels in Hyperreality

    Umberto Eco

    A “scintillating collection†of essays on Disneyland, medieval times, and much more, from the author of Foucault’s Pendulum (Los Angeles Times).   Collected here are some of Umberto Eco’s finest popular essays, recording the incisive and...

  • Cunningham Equations

    G.C. Edmondson

  • Destiny's Darling

    Adrienne Edwards

    "Love will re-enter, bringing unspeakable joy," says Amir, Dot Biancardi's astrologer. But Fortune plays a dirty trick on her when she's auctioned off at a charity benefit -- and "bought" by her ex-husband Bart Easton! Dot ...

  • The China Card

    John Ehrlichman

  • Love Makes the Difference

    Emily Elliott

    Stockbroker Carol Venson's chic, fast-track life was on course -- until Harlan Stone stormed into her office. He was determined to prevent a "disastrous" marriage between Carol's teenage daughter and his son. Coldly she agreed. But th...

  • Lone Star and the Oregon Rail Sabotage

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki ride a train of terror into the bloodiest of battles in the forty-fifth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the ...

  • Arena of Fear

    Lynn Erickson

    First her vacation was sunny... Then it became a nightmare In Spain to visit her younger sister, Melanie Royce discovered that Cecily was friendly with a group of idealistic Basque students. Then Cecily was kidnapped for a half-million-dollar rans...

  • The Armlet of the Gods

    Lloyd Arthur Eshbach

  • Designing Heart

    Laurel Evans

    YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE Stella Ridgeway had no intention of getting mixed up with show people, except in a professional sense. She jumped at the chance to design the lighting for Broadway biggie Sam Forster's new play but would have been happy to dis...

  • Longarm and the Inland Passage

    Tabor Evans

  • Home Time

    Beverley Farmer

  • Marriage

    Susan Ferrier

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...

  • The C Trainer

    Alan R. Feuer

  • Triad

    Sheila Finch

    There was something strange about the Ann Bonny's mission to the unexplored world called Chameleon. Though only women were judged fit for space, Earth's Central Computer had for some reason placed a man among them -- an artist who was not docile like...

  • Obsessions

    Rebecca Flanders

    Driven by an obsessive need to succeed, Leigh single-mindedly builds her nightclub, Refractions, into the most glamorous and exclusive nightclub in the world, while Phoenix, a self-made millionaire, single-mindedly pursues the love of the elusive Lei...

  • A Boy of Her Own

    Lenore Fleischer

  • Men of Albermarle

    Inglis Clark Fletcher

    A sweeping panorama of life -- steeped in history, alive with unforgettable characters, rich in the legends of a nation! This is the story of Roger Mainwairing, a Caroline planter seeking a new life in a land torn by conflicts; Anne Evans, a torme...

  • Stolen Promise

    Christine Flynn

    UNDER LOCK AND KEY Stolen paintings? Brittany Elizabeth Chandler, respected art historian being charged with art theft. Yes she was house-sitting for the Barneses while they were in Europe, and no she didn't know the paintings they'd se...

  • Ivory Bright

    Elaine Ford

    Chronicles the story of Ivory Bright, a reclusive antique toy store owner in her late twenties, and Ray Bartlett, a middle-aged insurance manager, two unlikely lovers with no common interests and no shared past...

  • Vows of the Heart

    Susan Fox

    Veronica went home to be whole again An accident on her wedding day had left Veronica Spencer physically scarred. Emotionally shattered. So she returned to the one place she had ever felt secure -- Chapman Ranch, in the heart of Wyoming -- only...

  • Furlie Cat

    Berniece Freschet

  • Spells of Mortal Weaving

    Esther Friesner

  • Goldilocks and the Three Bears

    Miho Fujita

  • The Triumph

    Ernest K. Gann

  • Stillness and Shadows

    John E. Gardner

    This volume includes "Stillness," a short novel undertaken by the author and his first wife as an exploration of their pasts as individuals and as a couple, and "Shadows," an unfinished long novel about a drunk, amnesiac detective's search for authen...

  • The End of the World That Was

    Peter Goldman

  • Stolen Kisses

    Liz Grady

    With a little cunning and a lot of practice, Mattie Hamilton's certain she can pull off the museum heist and save her father's reputation. Which is why she's dangling from a balcony when tuxedo-clad thief Devlin Seamus Devlin neatly tackl...

  • Grimbold's Other World

    Nicholas Stuart Gray

    Mother Meg blew out the candle and closed the door behind her. A heavy weight landed on the bed and a husky voice asked, "Might I have your attention?" It is the black cat Grimbold who introduces the boy Muffler to the night-world, much more exciting...

  • Death En Voyage

    Richard Grayson

    'The English should confine their murders to their own country' is the view held by Parisians when Lady Dorothy Strathy, sister of the Earl of Tain, is discovered stabbed in her hotel room. This opinion is held by none more strongly than Courtrand, t...

  • To Battle the Gods

    Sharon Green

  • Fiery Hearts

    Julia Grice

    IN PROPER VICTORIAN BOSTON, ONE WOMAN DEFIED HER HERITAGE FOR A DARING CHANCE AT LOVE! Beautiful Sydney Talbot was the belle of Back Bay society, accustomed to every luxury. But she had a noble ambition--to help less fortunate women, the poverty-...

  • Search for the Breed

    Fred Grove

  • Room for Two

    Joan Grove

    Longing for a real home, for security, she'd bought an apartment impulsively, without her lawyer's advice. Now photographer's representative Tricia Reardon was stuck with Manhattan real estate she couldn't afford and couldn't occu...

  • Before the Wind

    Leslie Davis Guccione

    "What you need," her brother said, "is a wild, honest-to-goodness fling." Maybe he was right. For the past two years, Bay Chandler had concentrated solely on sailing charter boats in the Virgin Islands. It kept her busy -- and too exhausted to think ...

  • Over the Moon

    Elissa H. Guest

  • Colors to Know

    Karen Gundersheimer

  • The Best of Leigh Brackett

    Edmund Hamilton

  • Climate for Conspiracy

    Palma Harcourt

  • The Northland Marauders

    J.D. Hardin

  • After the Rain

    Madeline Harper

    She was no swooning damsel in distress The day, Emma Dixon reflected wearily, had been a disaster. A garbled telegram from her mother had sent her rushing off to the Yucatan. Now Emma was stranded in the middle of the jungle, a fierce storm impend...

  • Satin and Steel

    Catherine Hart

    IN HER ENEMY'S ARMS Returning to her father's Texas ranch after two years at an Eastern boarding school, silver-blonde, violet-eyed Laurel Burke was more beautiful than ever. As she stepped off the train, her gaze met that of rugged young rancher ...

  • Forward Pass

    Brooke Hastings

    What a mess. Liz Reynolds reluctantly did her friend a favor and appeared on a dating game show and not only won, but won big. A trip to Hawaii with every woman's fantasy--star quarterback, Zack Delaney. And there was more--because waitressing in ...

  • No Autographs, Please

    Sheila Hayes

    Thirteen-year-old Cici Starrett's dreams of stardom, based on her parents' ownership of the neighborhood movie theater and her grandmother's movie career, are given a shock by an actual glamorous movie queen....

  • The Turnabout Twins

    Barbara Hazard

    SO CLOSE AND YET SO FAR APART Lady Amelia Fairhaven and Lady Anne Fairhaven were twin sisters who shared more than their extraordinary beauty and their distinguished lineage as daughters of the Duke of Severn. They shared as well the same tastes, th...

  • People in Glass Houses

    Shirley Hazzard

    Only those who keep their wit and affections about them will survive the mass conditioning of the Organization, where confusion solemnly rules and conformity is king. As in our world itself, humanity prevails in the courage, love, and laughter of si...

  • Playing Games

    Eileen Hehl

    Whether it's trying to walk five dogs at once, or snapping a picture of her teacher when he's not looking, Kerry is a pro at getting into impossible situations. And the first time she meets Jon Madison is no exception. Kerry's attracted to the quiet,...

  • City Under the Sands

    Wallace Henley

  • Man of Two Worlds

    Frank Herbert

    From a New York Times bestseller, a sci-fi “novel of great charm and freshness, with improbable situations, weird complications, vital characters . . . †(Kirkus Reviews).   What if the entire universe happened to be the creat...

  • Kevin Corbett Eats Flies

    Patricia Hermes

  • Mccampbell's War

    Robert Herring

    In the Great Smoky Mountains, as Proffit McCampbell struggles to preserve his land, he must confront a man named Piper, a defrocked preacher with his own kingdom of power, who wants to settle an old score...

  • Vic Holyfield and the Class of 1957

    William Heyen

  • The Weaving of a Dream

    Marilee Heyer

    Stunning full-color illustrations complement this classic Chinese folktale about a widow who creates a magnificent brocade of a glorious palace, only to lose her creation when the wind spirits carry it off...

  • Imposters

    George V. Higgins

  • Barabas Run

    Jack Hild

  • Exiles of Colsec

    Douglas Hill

    A raw hatred of ColSec burned in Cord. Hatred for the huge, world-dominating organization which had callously bundled Cord and a group of drop-out kids into a defective spacecraft and launched them out to live or die on a wild planet.Luckily, cord an...

  • Exit Lines

    Reginald Hill

    Three old men die on a stormy November night: one by deliberate violence, one in a road accident and one by an unknown cause. Inspector Pascoe is called in to investigate the first death, but when the dying words of the accident victim suggest that a...

  • The Edge of the Earth

    Russell Hill

    Setting out to find sanctuary in an America plagued by greed, social decay, and environmental disaster, Evan Walker stumbles upon a country store in the Sierra Nevada mountains run by a family of refugees. Reissue....

  • Moondrop to Murder

    John Buxton Hilton

    Hired to keep tabs on Rawdon Neville, a retired British Colonel, Inspector Kenworthy and Neville embark on a sentimental journey through Neville's glory days of World War II until late one night, Neville gives the inspector the slip...

  • Dreamspinner

    Jane Hinchman

  • Lucia in Wartime

    Tom Holt

    "Across the Channel, the battle rages ... On the Tilling front, another battle is being fought-the constant war of wits and social ascendancy between Lucia Pillson and Elizabeth Mapp-Flint. Lucia, with her superior style, timeless elegance, occasiona...

  • Jacob's Season

    John Hooker

  • The Grinning Gargoyle Mystery

    Laura Lee Hope

  • The Hooded Man

    Anthony Horowitz

  • The Bard of Sorcery

    Gerard Houarner

    THE MAN WHO FLED When Tralane, an itinerant bard, was captured by the dread Sorcerer King, his only hope lay in stealing the Eye of Wyden. With that powerful amulet, he was able to escape to another variant world. But he could not so easily esc...

  • Solid As a Rock

    E.J. Hunter

  • Living Dogs and Dead Lions

    Lanny Hunter

    Haunted by memories of the war in Vietnam and the death of his best friend Tom Bishop, Joshua Scott visits Tom's widow, Claudia, who runs the family farm in Kansas, and together they confront the past...

  • Her Native Colors

    Elisabeth Hyde

    When Phoebe Martin, San Francisco lawyer and divorced mother, returns to her hometown in Vermont for the wedding of her oldest friend Molly, a tenth-grade science teacher, both women wrestle to cope with the changes in each other's life-styles...

  • Comrades

    Clive Irving

  • Heartwood

    Kristin James

    WITH THE SWIFT STROKE OF A PEN, ANNE HAMILTON WAS NO LONGER THE WIFE OF A WEALTHY SURGEON, no longer an elite member of Dallas society. Alone with her children, Anne was piecing together the fragments of their lives when a mysterious summons arrived ...

  • Green Fire

    Stephanie James

    STRAY CAT STRUT Flint Cottrell had been driven all his life by a restlessness that didn't allow any peace. He chased legends and treasures, wrote about them, sold his stories to magazines when he could, did odd jobs when he couldn't. But ...

  • Prisoner

    Vanessa James

    Nothing about the situation made sense! Julia loved living in Rome. And in her job as companion to Christina Contadelli, the daughter of a wealthy Italian businessman, she had adjusted to the elaborate security precautions surrounding them. The...

  • Injustice for All

    J.A. Jance

    VENGEANCE IS MINE The blonde on the beach was screaming. A dead man lay at her feet. It didn't take Detective J.P. Beaumont long to find out that the man had been murdered, and that both the lady and the corpse were members of the State Parole Board...

  • We Speak No Treason - 2

    Rosemary Hawley Jarman

    Richard of Gloucester, brother of Edward IV and the unfortunate Clarence, is no physical grotesque as Shakespeare or the Tudors would have him. Among the characters in this historical novel who witness a lean Richard in the buff is a gently reared la...

  • Almost Murder

    Roderic Jeffries

  • Lookalike Love

    Nancy John

    DOUBLE VISION Cleo Prince needed the money. Kent needed someone to replace Miranda Lacey right away. It seemed that the world's most up-and-coming model had walked out on Kent just as he was about to shoot an entire new advertising campaign. And s...

  • Barbarossa Red

    Dennis Jones

  • Three Across Kansas

    Jack Payne Jones

  • Saving Grace

    Roger William Jones

    When lovely, sophisticated Grace Yardley takes on the search for the murderer of her ten-year-old daughter, Detective Inspector Evans jeopardizes his promotion to help--and protect--the desperate woman...

  • The Other Side

    James Kahn

    Having escaped the horrors of their haunted Cuesta Verde home, the Freeling family moves to Phoenix only to find themselves tormented by a mysterious voice, a swarm of bees, a walking dead man, and other terrors....

  • Riversong

    Yvonne Kalman

    LOVE ONCE MORE for generations, Dorrie Bennington's family had been part of New Zealand, a pioneer land which enriched them with success, but plagued them with scandal and tragedy. Dorrie, orphaned from birth, was destined to spend her childhood in t...

  • Max on Fire

    Marilyn Kaye

  • The Ritual Bath

    Faye Kellerman

    Someone declares unholy war on the holiest of places when the quiet, ordered world of a yeshiva in the California hills is shattered by an unspeakable crime: a woman is brutally raped as she returns from the mikvah, the bathhouse where women perform ...

  • When the Bough Breaks // Shrunken Heads

    Jonathan Kellerman

    NIGHT TERRORS There is something spooky about this one, even for the dark side of L.A. A child molester's grisly suicide. A shockingly brutal double murder. A hidden network of perversion in high places. And a terrified seven-year-old girl who coul...

  • Cimarron and the Manhunters

    Leo P. Kelley

  • The Summertime Soldiers

    Susan Kelly

    Homicide Lieutenant John Lingemann investigates a series of murders in Cambridge, the responsibility for which is claimed by the remnants of a sixties terrorist group, and he and his lover, Liz Connor, become involved in the search for the criminals...

  • Trace Elements

    Kathryn Lasky Knight

    DEATH BY VENOM... Tom Jacobs' last act in this world was to die face to face with the limitless universe that had been his life's work. But what was he doing in the Nevada desert--and who would kill an astrophysicist with a rattlesnake? When a ...

  • The Private Life of Axie Reed

    John Knowles

  • The Sea Wife

    Laird Koenig

  • Up From Jericho Tel

    E.L. Konigsburg

    Jeanmarie and Malcolm meet Tallulah, the ghost of a once-famous actress, who sends them on a quest to find the Regina Stone--the diamond she wore until it was stolen when she died. But they soon find more than they bargained for....

  • Junior Karate

    Russell Kozuki

  • Curious George Saves the Day

    Nancy Krulik

  • Enigma

    Michael P. Kube-McDowell

    One hundred and fifty years have passed since Allen Chandliss discovered an “alien” signal.Earth is once again looking to the stars and the Unified Space Survey is busy exploring as well as establishing contact with lost human colonies.Me...

  • Man Riding West

    Louis L'Amour

    Eight stories deal with an old prospector, a drifter who encounters a gang of cattle rustlers, a coward who must prove himself, a young rancher who refuses to be driven from his new home, and a corrupt sheriff...

  • Tempest in the Tropics

    Roumelia Lane

    Her marriage was none of his business When Brance Mackenzie, a cool self-assured forestry man, ordered a halt to the logging enterprise at Springlands, Lindsey didn't intend to calmly stand by and watch the demise of her father's livelihoo...

  • In the Name of Love

    Jessica Lansing

    "... Finally, she would cast her doubts to the wind and open herself to this man. She would lose all inhibitions and let him take her at will. He would touch her in places she had never been touched before--the point of greatest heat deep within the ...

  • Die, Chameleon!

    Glen A. Larson; Robert Thurston

  • Addie Across the Prairie

    Laurie Lawlor

    Nobody said pionerring would be easy!

    Addie's a pioneer now in the vast Dakota territory, far from her friend Eleanor and Iowa. And now she must care for her youngetst brother as Ma, Pa, and the older boys and Mr. and Mrs. Fency leave to build a ho...

  • Recoil

    Roy Lebeau

  • Moonwind

    Susannah Leigh

    THEIR EYES MET AND HER HEART SAID "YES" -- EVEN BEFORE SHE FELT THE SLOW FIRE, DEEP INSIDE, BEGIN TO BURN.... Exquisitely beautiful Celia St. Clair was an innocent passenger on her way to Shanghai when the notorious pirate Brandon Christopher ra...

  • The Plot Against the Pom-Pom Queen

    Ellen Leroe

  • Do Lord Remember Me

    Julius Lester

    In a gray fieldstone house in Nashville, Tennessee, the Reverend Joshua Smith Sr.--the staunch and gentle man known to thousands in black churches throughout the South as the Singing Evangelist and to one white reporter as "the Colored Billy Graham"-...

  • If Not Now, When?

    Primo Levi

    “In Levi’s writing, nothing is superfluous and everything is essential.” —Saul Bellow

    A Penguin Classic

    In the final days of World War II, a courageous band of Jewish partisans makes its way from Russia to Italy,...

  • Smile Like Plast Daisy

    Sonia Levitin

  • Late Payments

    Michael Z. Lewin

    Lt. Leroy Powder is the most disliked cop on the force. He is also the best. This Powder novel has the abrasive head of the Indianapolis Missing Persons Bureau chasing the killer of paraplegics and trying to keep a protected witness from being murder...

  • Somerville and Ross

    Gifford Lewis

    Somerville and Ross were two extraordinary Irish writers. Cousins and products of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy world, they reacted both with and against their environment to present in their books a deceptively indulgent view of the Irish and English. ...

  • The Day of the Fox

    Norman Lewis