Books Published in May 1988

New Books List: 440 titles

  • Paint the Town Red

    Harold Adams

  • The Arsenal

    Jerry Ahern

    IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY-WOULD JOHN THOMAS ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE?Marshal Vladmir Karamatsov is dead, the victim of the fierce undersea battle for Mid-Wake. But with his arch enemy gone, John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Covert operations Off...

  • Yakusa Tattoo

    Jerry Ahern; Sharon Ahern

    A CHICAGO COP.A JAPANESE MOB WAR.A FIGHT FOR HONOR-AND SURVIVAL.HIS NAME IS 1S MULVANEY, AND HIS WAY IS PAVED IN BLOOD.A top Chicago mobster is ready to come clean. The deal: rescue his grandson from the Yakusa-the Japanese mafia. Suddenly, streetwis...

  • Esther's Trunk

    Jez Alborough

  • The Drackenberg Adventure

    Lloyd Alexander

    Who could resist a once-in-a-lifetime invitation to the Grand Duchess of Drackenberg's Diamond Jubilee Celebration? Not Vesper Holly! Off she goes, with her guardian, Brinnie, and his wife, Mary, and plunges into a plot involving a takeover attempt f...

  • Blue Emeralds

    Jo Ann Algermissen

    For Elaine Kramer, the green hills of North Carolina offered refuge from her painful past. Here, as a country midwife, she could forget the torment of a childless marriage and savor the satisfaction of coaxing babies into the world. Her life was on a...

  • Busy Things That Go Busy Book

    R.W. Alley

  • Beneath Wimmera Skies

    Kerry Allyne

    Mallory said goodbye to the glamorous life Being an international model had lost its appeal. She wanted only to go home -- to Avalon, the family farm in Australia. Then she discovered, if she wanted to stay there, she'd have to manage the plac...

  • The Year of the Ransom

    Poul Anderson

  • Bio Of An Ogre

    Piers Anthony

  • Prelude to Foundation

    Isaac Asimov

    It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural c...

  • The Golden Calves

    Louis Auchincloss

    A young Manhattan art museum curator goes to questionable lengths to garner success in this dramatic novel by the author of Diary of a Yuppie.In a world of opulent museums, lavish homes, and extravagant dreams, public spectacle pales before private i...

  • An American Nightmare

    Chuck Bainbridge

  • Body Cuts

    Elizabeth Baines

  • The Hawk's Tale

    John Balaban

  • The Cherry Migration

    Bruce Balan

  • An Unacceptable Offer

    Mary Balogh

    DOING THE UNTHINKABLE Miss Jane Matthews could not believe this was happening. Michael Templeton, Viscount Fairfax, the handsomest lord in the realm and the catch of the London marriage mart, was actually proposing to her and not to her exquis...

  • Consider Phlebas

    Iain M. Banks

    Bora Horza Gobuchul is a Changer, one of a near-extinct race who alter cell structure to become anyone they want--the most feared and sought-after spies in the universe. Horza fights on the side of the Idirans in a religious crusade against the smug...

  • Annotated Sherlock Holmes: One

    William S. Baring-Gould

  • Miss Piggy and the Big Gorilla

    Joanne Barkan

  • The Shibo Discipline

    Wade Barker

  • An Amicable Arrangement

    Elizabeth Barron

    "YOU CANNOT FORCE ME TO MARRY THAT DREADFUL MAN AGAINST MY WILL...THIS IS 1814!" Belinda Hanbury's blue eyes blazed with fury. She loved her father dearly, but this latest ploy against poverty simply would not do. Pretty Belinda would ...

  • Tides of Fortune

    Jack Beeching

  • Dance Of Gods

    Norma Beishir

    Passion takes Meredith and Alexander, for whom fame and fortune are seemingly guarenteed, from Malibu and Beverly Hills to New York and Paris, but an explosive secret threatens to destroy their glittery world with scandal...

  • The Lamp from the Warlock's Tomb

    John Bellairs

    A murderous surprise comes to light in this thrilling mystery featuring teenager Anthony Monday, from the author of The Dark Secret of Weatherend.   Ever since librarian Myra Eells bought an antique oil lamp, weird things have started to happen ...

  • Together Again

    Ariel Berk

    HAPPILY EVER AFTER Annie Jameson had never expected to see Keith LaMotte again, so when he turned up without warning, she was shocked. Past events had destroyed their young love, and after six years Annie had finally gotten her life back together....

  • Loving Rachel

    Jane Bernstein

    The parents of Rachel, born blind and brain-damaged, document the courage, love, humor, and faith they and their older daughter share with this special child and of the irrevocable changes their lives have undergone...

  • Model Student

    Alison Blair

  • This World Is Mine

    Stephanie Blake

    A THRIVING YOUNG NATION BUILT ON DREAMS, A REMARKABLE WOMAN DETERMINED TO WIN... She came to America from the streets of London. And though her childhood was beset by hardship and heartache, Holly Cavendish never lost hope... Using a pen-name, ...

  • Satin Chains

    Megan Blythe

    Johanna's heart was pounding with terror and frustration. Would this nightmare never end? Would she never regain her memory, never know the truth about her past? As she joined the secret struggle against the tyranny that was strangling her homeland, ...

  • London's Child

    Philip Boast

    Abandoned by his unmarried mother, a young foundling endures the hardships and poverty of the workhouse to become the powerful, wealthy owner of London's most famous store, in a story of love, ambition, and revenge set against early twentieth-century...

  • The New Confessions

    William Boyd

    In this extraordinary novel, William Boyd presents the autobiography of John James Todd, whose uncanny and exhilarating life as one of the most unappreciated geniuses of the twentieth century is equal parts Laurence Stern, Charles Dickens, Robertson ...

  • The Toynbee Convector

    Ray Bradbury

    From “one of science fiction’s grand masters” (Library Journal), a new reissue of Ray Bradbury’s The Toynbee Convector: a collection of twenty-two stories, including the continuing saga of H.G. Well’s time traveler and his Toynbee Convector...

  • After She Left

    Richard P. Brickner

  • Battle of St. Bart's: A Tale of Heroism, Connivance and Bumbling

    Brent C. Brolin

  • Xorandor

    Christine Brooke-Rose

  • Silver Tower

    Dale Brown

    From the bestselling author of Flight of the Old Dog comes this shattering novel of the ultimate Middle East crisis. Iran has been invaded. And America responds in a grueling counterattack by air, by sea -- and by a brave new technology that will red...

  • The Blue Dragon

    Diana Brown

    Young English missionary Marigold Wilder journeys to exotic nineteenth-century Korea and becomes caught up in the extravagance and ritual of the Hermit Kingdom, while, at the same time, finding herself attracted to American adventurer Mark Banning...

  • Adam's Fall

    Sandra Brown

    Lilah Mason could never resist a challenge, but the delightfully flamboyant physical therapist knew that Adam Cavanaugh was trouble with a capital T! Badly injured in a mountain climbing accident, Adam had lost hope of ever walking again, but sham...

  • Slow Heat in Heaven

    Sandra Brown

    A Hotbed of Forbidden Passion, Betrayals, And Sudden Desire -- Welcome To Heaven... SCHYLER CRANDALI, the adopted daughter of the most powerful man in town. She had run away a heartbroken girl, but came back a woman who knew exactly what she wan...

  • Harvest Home

    Pamela Browning

    Mark Sherrod is coming home to the Heartland A startling series of coincidences persuades Mark that he bears an uncanny resemblance to Tim Vogel. Hoping that he's finally found the brother he's never known, the family he's never had, Mark travels ...

  • Remembrances

    Eleanora Brownleigh

    REMEMBRANCES of yearnings she could not deny drew Caroline Worth back to New York at the turn of the century. After years abroad, she ached for something more than flirtation and frivolity ... and she found it in the brooding eyes of a handsome stra...

  • Strange Bedfellows

    Herbert Burkholz

    Ben Slade and three other "sensitives" employed by an American intelligence agency draw on their psychic abilities to investigate the disappearance of a Defense Intelligence Agency operative and the attempted assassination of the Soviet premier...

  • The Killing Zone

    Rex Burns

    Denver homicide detective Gabe Wager is confronted with the murder of a Black city councilman. When he learns that the victim has been stepping out with a white lady, Wager is under pressure to solve the delicate case before riot erupts....

  • The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    When Bingo has to keep a notebook for school, all he can come up with are questions. Like how could I fall in love with three girls in three minutes? But not even his teacher, Mr. Mark, has the answers. In fact Mr. Mark has been acting pretty weird l...

  • Oscar and Lucinda

    Peter Carey

    This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continent--a haven for misfits of both the animal and human kingdoms--could ...

  • Eric Carle's Treasury of Classic Stories for Children

    Eric Carle

  • My Beautiful Fat Friend

    Josephine Carr

    Our English teacher gave us an extra credit assignment over summer vacation. We can write our own mystery story, you know, a whodunnit. She said to try and find a real-life mystery and then make up stuff whenever we need it. But I'm not making anyth...

  • Abduction from Fort Union

    Lenore Carroll

  • Spykiller

    Nick Carter

  • Lethal Prey

    Nick Carter

  • Riders of the Winds

    Jack L. Chalker

  • Troubled Waters

    C.J. Cherryh

  • Cyteen

    C.J. Cherryh

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    The saga of two young friends trapped in an endless nightmare of suspicion and surveillance, of cyber-programmed servants and a ruling class with century-long lives—and the enigmatic woman who dominates them all. Narrators Jonathan Davis an...

  • Rainbird's Revenge

    Marion Chesney

    With Each London Season, and Enchanting Romance Moves into the Fashionable Town House at Number 67 Clarges Street. And there below the Stairs the Staff Has a Special Mission -- to Arrange a Match...to Hatch a Scheme...to Bring Love Home to A HOUSE...

  • Forever Love

    Margaret Chittenden

    THE WOMAN IN THE MIRROR It begins when bestselling author Andrea Cavenaugh goes to England to promote her new murder mystery, The Victim. An agitated older woman appears at her hotel door, claiming Andrea's book is identical to the manuscript her ...

  • Storm Center

    Douglas Clark

    Recovering from a gunshot wound, George Masters accepts a temporary assignment teaching at the Police College, and learns that a foreign police offical is the main suspect in a murder that may be connected to the college...

  • Blue Magic

    Jo Clayton

    THE CHAINED GOD has peacefully ruled over the land for as long as the people of Owlyn can remember. But now the Chained God has been challenged by the sorcerer Maksim and his cruel and demanding master, the god Amortis. With her people enslaved by t...

  • Orphan Game

    Barbara Cohen

    Vacationing at Long Beach Island, four cousins engage in a variety of activities, including pretending to be orphans, raising money for a trip to Atlantic City, and avoiding a whiny cousin named Miranda....

  • Eye of the Eagle

    Eric J. Collenette

    In the spring of 1944, aboard HM aircraft carrier Cyclops, Seaman Mortimer, his enemy the distracted Mallory, and pilot Lieutenant-Commander Potter nervously await official orders that will involve them in the Normandy invasion...

  • Falling Star

    Constance Conant

    To The Victor The Spoils: To the cunning mercantile princes of London, stunningly beautiful Victoria Chisolm was a formidable adversary, an extraordinary woman capable of controlling a vast empire; to Spotted Wolf and his savage tribesmen she was Le ...

  • You Never Can Tell

    Ellen Conford

  • Consenting Adults

    Lila Cook

  • Takeover Bid

    Sally Cook

    Dare she let him help her? When her father died, leaving her as president of Trenco, Janis Trench had to give up her fashion designing to run the small, ailing factory in Smithbury. Or else risk losing it entirely. But when the bank insisted ...

  • Playing Dirty

    M.E. Cooper

  • Pricksongs & Descants

    Robert Coover

    Pricksongs & Descants, originally published in 1969, is a virtuoso performance that established its author - already a William Faulkner Award winner for his first novel - as a writer of enduring power and unquestionable brilliance, a promise he h...

  • Shadow Chaser: From the Land of Barely There

    Stephen Cosgrove

  • Persnickity

    Stephen Cosgrove

  • How I Survived My Summer Vacation

    Bruce Coville

    When Stuart Glassman goes to a summer camp designed by genius director Gregory Stevens especially for kids who want to make movies, he has no idea what he's getting himself into. Sure, Stuart has the usual jitters about meeting new people and trying ...

  • Spacebase 2000

    Stewart Cowley

  • Devil and the Deep Sea

    Sara Craven

    "A year out of your life. What price would you ask?" Samma supposed that any other woman would surely slap the face of a man who would pose such a question. But Samma couldn't afford that luxury with Roche Delacroix. With her stepfa...

  • Rogue's Valley

    Kathleen Creighton

    STRANDED! Wild horse wrangler Sandy Stewart hadn't wanted anything to do with Jason Rivers from the start. He intended to bring civilization to the wilderness she was sworn to protect, and it offended every fiber of her being that she was assigned...

  • Perfect Family

    Sharon Daley

    Robert Gregory, his wife Margaret, and their three children are considered by friends and neighbors to be an exemplary family until, during the 1960s, the complex and unspoken forces that have bound the Gregory's together begin to fall apart...

  • The Little Wooden Farmer

    Alice Dalgliesh

  • The Lady Eve

    Dana Daniels

  • Bullfrog Grows Up

    Rosamond Dauer

  • Babar's Little Circus Star

    Laurent de Brunhoff

    Illus. in full color by the author. "Isabelle is upset because she's the smallest in the family. When the circus comes to town, the clowns observe her tumbling skills and ask her to star in a performance. Isabelle shines but after the performance, sh...

  • A Week in the Life of Best Friends

    Beatrice Schenk De Regniers

  • A Long Long Song

    Etienne Delessert

  • The Lurker at the Threshold

    August Derleth

    Ambrose Dewart returns to his ancestral estate and sets about restoring the mansion to his own tastes. In the process he comes across a document signed by his great grandfather invoking a sinister injunction to future generations: "Do not invite he w...

  • His Vision of Her

    G.D. Dess

    Set in the New York art world, this story of obsessive love, self-deception, ambition, and failure centers on the volatile romance between Stephen, a would-be writer who manages a downtown bookstore, and Gilberte, a beautiful and driven young photogr...

  • Shadow on the Sand

    Joe Dever

    In SHADOW ON THE SAND you are the quarry of a sinister foe, determined to eliminate you at all costs. Survive, and your adventure takes you on a quest for a long-lost Sommlending treasure - a treasure that contains the secret of your destiny. The fif...

  • Black Midnight

    Graham Diamond

    From the author of CHOCOLATE LENIN, THE THIEF OF KALIMAR, FOREST WARS, a thriller, police tale set in NYC. A woman detective is on the trail of a mad terrorist bomber. Chosen as a mystery/thriller selection by Amazon. 5 stars....

  • Mission to Universe

    Gordon R. Dickson

    General Benjamin Shore was heading for the stars under forged orders - and in defiance of the commands of the President. He was leaving Earth in an untested ship with a crew chosen by neccesity and with nothing but faith to guide him. His onlt yhope ...

  • Imperial Bounty

    William C. Dietz

    When Princess Claudia seizes the throne in her brother's absence and brings the empire to the brink of war, bounty hunter McCade must find the missing Prince Alexander before the Imperial Fleet stops him. Reissue....

  • The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars

    Thomas M. Disch

  • Here Lies...

    Doris Miles Disney

    FOUR SWEET OLD LADIES And one of them was a killer! Mrs. Amundsen, plump, stolid wife of a farmer who spent her life saying “Yes” to her domineering husband. Mrs. Hadley, her sour, unpleasant sister-in-law who had known only two months...

  • White

    Walt Disney

  • Yellow

    Walt Disney

  • Fetters of Gold

    Jane Donnelly

    Dinah wasn't a gold digger, and she'd prove it Yet convincing powerful entrepreneur Marcus Christophi of that wasn't easy. Especially with her fiance, Nic, Marcus's weak-willed younger cousin, suffering memory loss from an accident...

  • Heir of Rengarth

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    Silver-eyed is Irissa, last seeress of her Torloc race. She carries within her the child of her love, Kendric; together they have brought peace to Edanvant. When Irissa is struck down mysteriously, Kendric is convinced that it is the work of Geronfre...

  • Keepers of Edanvant

    Carole Nelson Douglas

  • Two Kids Make Breakfast

    Penny Dowling

  • Two Kids Tidy Up

    Penny Dowling

  • Two Kids Wash Up

    Penny Dowling

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection

    Gardner Dozois

  • Tango Key

    Alison Drake

    Florida's Tango Key has never been so hot. Especially now with multimillionaire and amateur archaeologist Doug Cooper turning up headless behind his beach house. It seems a number of people stand to gain from his demise, including a stunning young ...

  • Fleet

    David Drake

    PLEDGED TO PROTECT US ALL. Mankind has taken one step too far in exploring the galaxy--and run smack up against the Khalia. Vicious carnivores whose culture is totally different from our own, they take no prisoners. Ever. Just the occasional slave...

  • A Holiday Year

    C.G. Draper

  • The Marriage Hearse

    Larry Duberstein

    At 5 P.M. on a snowy night, Maurice Locksley, sometime literary stud, stops off at a Boston pub and there, with a glass of beer, launches a 10 1/2 hour journey into the riskier regions of the heart. First he’s off to dinner with his wife and 4-year...

  • Lifeblood

    Lee Duigon

  • Poor Dead Cricket

    W. Glenn Duncan

    Rafferty's Rule 39: Smiting the wicked sounds biblical, but mostly it's just good clean fun. Cricket Dawes is dead, and an explosive corporate dossier is in the wind. It's not the first time Rafferty's had a case wit...

  • The Burning Season

    Wayne D. Dundee

  • Allure

    Cheryl Durant

    Home, Husband, Children -- Every woman's dream? Not for Nora Rochester.

    Nora has no idea why she is compelled to withdraw from her family. Sometimes she fears being disappointed by them, and sometimes she just doesn't like to admit she has so lit...

  • Cards and Colts

    J.T. Edson

    All hell has broken loose in Mulrooney, and it is up to Dusty Fog to restore order. But it will be tough--especially with a pair of slick swindlers trying to bilk the whole town, a high-stakes card game threatening to explode, and a pair of shapely s...

  • Runaway Bride

    Rachelle Edwards

    MARRY HER STEP-FATHER'S GHASTLY CRONY? SHE'D RUN TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH FIRST! Not even a vicious beating could stop Clarinda Devereaux from fleeing her scheming step-father and her vile betrothed, Lord Frampton. But injured and delirious, she w...

  • Unknown Texas

    Jonathan Eisen

  • From Rockaway

    Jill Eisenstadt

    Timmy and Chowderhead and Peg are lifeguards. They spend summers sitting in those tall chairs, smoking dope and staring at the waves, swatting insects, tormenting seagulls. Winters they work shit jobs like unloading trucks at Mickey's Deli. At night...

  • Lone Star and the Comancheros

    Wesley Ellis

    DUSTY DEATH IN COMANCHERO CANYON! Jessie knew that the devastating drought would dry up the Circle Star's vast fortune. She had 8000 head of prime beef standing in the merciless Texas sun. And the buzzards were already gathering. They had one cha...

  • Words Unspoken

    Suzanne Ellison

    SHE WAS AN EXPERT AT COMMUNICATING Meredith Kelsey, an interpreter for the deaf, was glad to help a hearing-impaired marine biologist try to save a beached whale off the San Francisco coast. She hadn't counted on falling for another whale e...

  • Starlight

    Scott Ely

    As two soldiers, Jackson, a radioman, and light, a sniper, reach the limits of physical and psychological danger during the Vietnam War, they find that they can no longer distinguish hallucination from reality...

  • Folklore on the Land

    Duncan Emrich

  • The Grand Finale

    Janet Evanovich

    Divorcée Lingonberry Knudson had a talent for disaster, but when Berry climbed a tree to rescue a kitten, she wasn't prepared for the scrumptious hunk undressing in a nearby window -- or her dive downward that smashed Jake Sawyer's pizza...a...

  • Design for Love

    Jean Evans

    She was afraid to love again When Kate Langley discovered that her job as a reputable interior designer for Halliday's of London was in jeopardy due to a company takeover, she found herself face-to-face with the dynamic new company president, ...

  • Longarm in the Big Burnout

    Tabor Evans

  • A Zoo in Our House

    Heather Eyles

  • The Closet Hanging

    Tony Fennelly

    The gay aristocrat, Matt Sinclair, the scion of an old New Orleans family, is accused of murder. The victim was found hanged in a closet owned by Matt's family. And Matt can't account for his whereabouts due to temporary amnesia caused by an epilepti...

  • Beloved Betrayal

    Carol Finch

    SHE LOOKED LIKE A WITCH Despite the dangers, Sabrina Spencer was determined to go to New Mexico and find her father's killer. To protect herself from unwanted advances, the shapely blond actress donned a gray wig and veiled hat and swaddled herself...

  • Trust in Love

    Shan Finney

  • Trust

    Mary Flanagan

    A novel concerned with the lives of four interconnected people, Charles, Eleanor, Jason and Clover who each, in turn, tell their story of love - selfless, possessive, calculating, passionate - and trust - both broken and honoured....

  • Always a Spy

    Robert Footman

  • The Janus Man

    Colin Forbes

    Tweed, a spymaster in British Intelligence, must find out which of his four European sector chiefs is a traitor and, with the help of a journalist friend, designs an elaborate cat-and-mouse game to expose the double agent...

  • Dead End Trail

    Norman A. Fox

  • A Lifetime and Beyond

    Alison Fraser

    Just bring Kelly home -- please! The telegram Ryan Devlin received was brief, but it was enough to persuade Kelly to go with him to Australia -- to meet the father she'd never known. It was not an easy decision. Particularly as it meant bei...

  • Here Be Demons

    Esther Friesner

  • A Glimpse of Stocking

    Elizabeth Gage

    Assaulted and blackballed by Hollywood's most powerful mogul, young Annie Havilland flees to New York. Stardom seems a lost dream -- but she doesn't yet know the magic of her incandescent talent and astonishing beauty... On Miami's glamorous Gold Coa...

  • Don't Panic

    Neil Gaiman

    “It’s all devastatingly true -- except the bits that are lies” -- Douglas AdamsUpon publication, Don’t Panic quickly established itself as the definitive companion to Adams and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. This edition comes up...

  • Promises to Keep

    Sally Garrett

    SHE'D LEARNED TO SWALLOW HER PRIDE Callie Huff had always refused her family's help. Now, however, she knew that the only way off the welfare treadmill was education--and that meant returning to her parents' Kentucky home. Callie had promised h...

  • Daphne

    Rebecca George

    When Daphne Tierney, daughter of a newspaper baron, decides to become a journalist, her straitlaced and conventional fiance' forbids her to do so. It is 1878 and Daphne, reared on the principles of the "modern" woman, calls off the wedding. She then ...

  • Sir Francis Drake: His Daring Deeds

    Roy Gerrard

    Retells in poetry the daring adventures of the explorer who was the first Englishman to sail around the world; helped to defeat the Spanish Armada; and who, encouraged by Queen Elizabeth I, was a feared pirate in his time....

  • Dead Run

    Tony Gibbs

  • Tournament Tough

    Carlos Goffi

  • Busy People All over Town

    Golden Books

  • Honeymoon Hotel

    Sally Goldenbaum

    RIVAL HEARTS Photographer Sydney Hanover was impulsive by nature. But going to an auction to pick up an old lamp and coming home with the deed to an inn was extreme, even for her. And so was her reaction to her bidding rival, suave Brian Hennesy! ...

  • Hoodwink

    Paula Gosling

  • The Last White Man in Panama

    William Gough

    Product Description: Now REVISED as The First in a series of "Red & Jack" adventures KINDLE - ASIN: B004PVSNTA

    It's been a long time since Red Williams earned an honest dollar. A truly lovable con man, he lives in Panama with his girlfriend, A...

  • Electric City and Other Stories

    Patricia Grace

  • About Last Night...

    Nancy Gramm

    THE BEST-LAID PLANS Kate Connors went to Mitch Blake's honky-tonk to ask his help in getting their block cleaned up. The shops in the area needed the boost, and Kate was just the person to start the revitalization program. She expected Mitch t...

  • Shadows 9

    Charles L. Grant

  • A Capital Match

    Theresa Grazia

    AN AFFAIR OF STATE With bonnet in place, purse in hand, and traveling bags buckled, Deanna Perry was off to Washington. Possibly the prettiest Quaker lass in Philadelphia, her radiant beauty had unwittingly won the heart of every suitor intended f...

  • The Love Letters of J. Timothy Owen

    Constance C. Greene

    Tim wants to pen the ultimate love letter -- who better to teach him how than classic writers? When sixteen-year-old Tim meets Sophie and discovers One Hundred of the World’s Best Love Letters on the very same day, he is sure he has stumbled on tr...

  • Doctor Fischer of Geneva Or, the Bomb Party

    Graham Greene

    Dr. Fischer, an enigmatic millionaire, practical joker, and student of human nature, hosts notoriously decadent parties that serve as part of his experiment to see just how far the extremely wealthy will go to satisfy their greed...

  • Love Potion

    Jennifer Greene

    TENNESSEE MAGIC Chicago doctor Grey Treveran had seen too much life, too much death, and his belief in medicine was shaken. He had come to the mountains to relax, and he wasn't amused when an accident left him at the mercy of what he could only de...

  • Project Discovery

    Irving A. Greenfield

  • Good-Bye Wishing Star

    Vicki Grove

  • Distant Trails, 1805-1836

    Bill Gulick

    Years after Matt Crane fell in love with a Nez Perce woman and fathered a child with her while traveling on the Louis and Clark Expedition, his second son, John, comes face to face with Tall Bird, his illegitimate brother. Reprint....

  • Made in Heaven

    Suzanne Simmons Guntrum

    Out of sight, but never out of mind Diana Quick's life had changed completely. Her safe magazine job no longer satisfied her. Neither did waiting a home for her globe-trotting husband, Jac Royce. And so their reluctant divorce... Three year...

  • The Legend of the Veery Bird

    Kathleen Hague

  • Jack and the Fire Dragon

    Gail E. Haley

  • Rub of the Green

    William Hallberg

    Ted Kendall takes up golf to cope with his mother's death, and, after a sojourn at Ohio State and on the PGA Tour, he winds up at a prison on the Mississippi Delta, where he builds a two-hole golf course on a nearby swamp...

  • Painted Lady

    Diana Hamilton

    Would he use her to cover his bets? Ziggy Bellingham, young, independent and headstrong, was restless as a mime artist in London's Covent Garden. Yet the excitement of being hunted down by one Rafe d'Anjou and whisked away to meet her unkn...

  • In Search of J. D. Salinger

    Ian Hamilton

    Pursuing the elusive writer in documents and interviews with friends and acquaintances, the author has pieced together an extended study of Salinger, tracing his life from Park Avenue childhood to his encounters with literary fame...

  • After Midnight

    Lucy Hamilton

    THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE Thea Stevens had just started her job as Dodd Memorial Hospital's media coordinator, and she knew she had to prove herself by making the best nurse training films ever. It didn't help that Luke Adams, the supposedly unknow...

  • Golden Promises

    Peggy Hanchar

    She voyaged westward to claim love's fiery fulfillment THE CAMPFIRE CRACKLED AT THEIR FEET, AND AS ZACK BOLDLY CLAIMED AIMEE'S LIPS, SHE FELT AS IF THE LEAPING FIRE HAD REACHED OUT AND WAS CONSUMING HER WITH HUNGRY FLAMES OF DESIRE... Aimee Bon...

  • Riddle of the Seven Realms

    Lyndon Hardy

    The worst of the mess they were in, Kestrel knew, was that it was all his own fault. It all began when he had tried to cheat the lady wizard Phoebe with a load of worthless wood. When she insisted on testing his sample, the demon Astron had burst ...

  • A Season for Death

    Ray Harrison

    In a mystery set against the background of Victorian England, Sergeant Bragg and Constable Morton investigate a vicious blackmailer--and possible killer--stalking Britain's aristocracy, including the Prince of Wales...

  • Something Wicked

    Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

    A DEADLY THEATRICAL WHODUNIT COMES TO LIFE Everyone--including mystery, bookstore owner Annie Laurance--loves Arsenic and Old Lace. But something wicked is poisoning a local summer stock production as cast members stab each other in the back and...

  • Come to the Edge

    David Hart

  • Island Ecstasy

    Julia Hastings

    Huanani-As mysterious and beautiful as the tropical rain forests of her Hawaiian home, she was a woman whose untamed sensuality defied every Victorian taboo. James Carruthers -- obsessed with power, he longed to possess her, to flaunt her sultry...

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    Geoffrey Hayes

    Illus. in full color. "Otto and his Uncle Tooth take on their second detective case when Captain Poopdeck complains there have been four shipwrecks in a month. Readers will sail easily through the compact sentences and mostly one-syllable words as th...

  • Taffy Sinclair and the Melanie Makeover

    Betsy Haynes

    After losing a lot of weight, Melaine Edwards enrolls in a new modeling school with beautiful but snobbish Taffy Sinclair and the members of the Fabulous Five fear that Taffy, their arch rival, may steal one of their best friends...

  • Hello, House!

    Linda Hayward

    Illus. in full color. "A simple but delightful adaptation of an 'Uncle Remus' tale has Brer Rabbit pitting wits against Brer Wolf. Munsinger's large watercolor illustrations have fine line detail which communicates the expressiveness of the character...

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  • Heads, I Win

    Patricia Hermes

    Bailey's running for president of her fifth grade class, and she's got to win! She's even writing to the president of the U.S. for an endorsement. And her best friend Kevin is helping her concoct some wild schemes for winning votes. Anything to beat ...

  • Displaced Person

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  • The Trouble With J.J.

    Tami Hoag

    Just what Genna Hastings needed, a conceited creep of a new neighbor with rippling muscles, mile-wide shoulders, and a wicked Jack Nicholson smile that could melt stone! It wasn't often that women resisted star quarterback J.J. Hennessy, but he was r...

  • Blood Ride

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  • Minds, Machines and Evolution

    James P. Hogan

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  • Window on Yesterday

    Joan Hohl

    Her mind ablaze with thoughts of handsome historian Sean Halloran, Alycia Matlock drives to colonial Williamsburg, oblivious to the furious rainstorm around her. A shared love of history, an uncanny sense of being kindred souls, Alycia can think of n...

  • Golden Flames

    Kay Hooper

    Powerful, dangerous, broodingly handsome Falcon Delaney was a loner, a man of action who'd spent years pursuing a stolen cache of Union gold. When he awakened in a locked cellar and gazed into the enchanting eyes of Victoria Fontaine, he was bewi...

  • Outlaw Derek

    Kay Hooper

    Shannon Brown was running for her life! Touched by the fragile stranger, Derek Ross agreed to help her elude her pursuers. He never could resist a lady in distress, but the ferocity of his desire for Shannon stunned him... and mystified her. She'd kn...

  • Samurai Strategy

    Thomas Hoover

    Powerful Japanese industrialist Matsuo Noda has set in motion a chilling plan, an ingenious strategy that involves hiring Wall Street wizard Matthew Walton to head up a secret investment project. But Walton soon realizes he is a pawn in a takeover pl...

  • White Lies

    Linda Howard

    You don't argue with the FBI. So when they summoned Jay Granger to identify her gravely injured, heavily bandaged ex-husband, she agreed to keep a bedside vigil. Strangely, even unconscious, Steve Crossfield wasn't at all like the husband she reme...

  • Child of the Grove

    Tanya Huff

    Now available in a new ebook edition, the first novel published by Tanya Huff -- author of the acclaimed Blood Books series -- a tale of magic and betrayal in a realm where once-powerful magic is fading… and a girl whose gifts may be the key to ove...

  • The Story of the Stone

    Barry Hughart

    Set in a mythical, medieval China where folklore and history are indistinguishable, a dead monk, an ancientand now missingmanuscript, and a ghostly murderer entice the venerable Master Li and his faithful companion Number Ten Ox into the Valley of So...

  • Last Judgment

    Richard F. Hugo

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    E.J. Hunter

  • The Tides of Love

    Elizabeth Hunter (1)

    STAR-CROSSED It began as a friendly gathering of cast members at the local pub. But when the jocular laughter in the smoke-filled room gave way to screams and cries of murder, actress Ruth Gaynor was named as the prime suspect. In a single, fatefu...

  • Tomorrow's Rainbow

    Sara Hylton

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  • Chernobyl Syndrome

    Dean Ing

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    Hadley Irwin

  • A Delicate Balance

    Arlene James

    TIGER BY THE TAIL Rico Pardan wasn't fooled by Kylie Stevens's angelic blond hair and golden eyes. His new partner was a regular little hellcat, and he'd learned young that self-control was the key to handling a hot-tempered woman. But...

  • Guardian Angel

    Sandra James

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  • The Lake

    Ruby Jean Jensen

    The lake of placid water was framed in the forested hills of Arkansas. It was a beautiful place for a midnight swim. Ilene dived forward and began to swim. Jerry’s long body slipped beside her, his arms breaking the surface of the moon-touched dar...

  • Blackwater

    Paulette Jiles

    Stated First Edition in clean dust jacket. Clean teal boards with burgundy cloth spine, silver lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright, with clean endpapers. No na...

  • Man from Half Moon Bay

    Iris Johansen

    Surprise. Panic. Then desire like an electric shock filled Sara O'Rourke when she saw Jordan Bandor across the crowded room. For eighteen months she'd lived free of the man from the harsh, unforgiving Australian outback who'd swept her off her feet, ...

  • Wild Silver

    Iris Johansen

    Mysterious, enigmatic Prince Nicholas Savron had the face of a fallen angel, but Silver Delaney knew his devil's beauty was a snare, and she dared not be trapped by it. He understood she'd never yield to him without a struggle, but her hair like dark...

  • Fit to Be Tied

    Joan Johnston

    OPPOSITES ATTRACT Jenny Smith thought magazine critic Matthew Benson belonged in the Neanderthal era. Hadn't he written that women's equality was a dead issue? But she had a plan. All they had to do was tie themselves to opposite ends of a rope f...

  • Jolley

    Elizabeth Jolley

    A combination of Jolley's two short story collections, Five Acre Virgin and The Travelling Entertainer, these stories focus on people overcoming or being overcome by life's challenges. They are wise, funny, and often perverse works by a unique author...

  • Winter Palace

    Dennis Jones

    It is the final decade of the 20th Century, the dawn of a new era of repression and political murder in the USSR. But the Soviet leadership has made a startling pronouncement: Russia's Jews - two million men, women, and children - will be permitted t...

  • Stronger Than Yearning

    Penny Jordan

    HE WAS THE MAN OF HER DREAMS! The same dark hair, the same mocking eyes; it was as if the Regency rake of the portrait, the seducer of Jenna's dream, had come to life. Jenna, believing the last of the Deverils dead, was determined to buy ...

  • Force of Feeling // A Passionate Awakening

    Penny Jordan

    A searing passion left her scarred And since that devastating experience, when Campion had been like a newly opened flower crushed by a cruel hand, she had closed out that side of her nature. Now she was being forced to reopen it. Her literary ...

  • Paper Nautilus

    Nicholas Jose

    They wanted a love they could take into eternity.

    In a small town on the Australian coast Penny grows up to marry the boy who has waited for her. Few know the truth about her birth. Her uncle Jack is one, for he shared with her father not on...

  • French Kisses

    Ronald S. Joseph