Books Published in October 1980

New Books List: 253 titles

  • Good News

    Edward Abbey

    In Good News, Edward Abbey’s acclaimed underground classic, the West is wild again. American civilization as the twentieth century knew it has crumbled. In the great Southwest, a new breed of settler, whites and Indians together, is creating a new ...

  • Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the U.F.O.

    David A. Adler

    There's a mystery in the air! When Cam and her friend Eric see strange lights above the trees, they're sure that U.F.O.s have landed. When they investigate, they find that there's more to the alien invasion than meets the eye. Between Eric's camer...

  • Phantom Fisherboy

    Ruth Ainsworth

  • A Private Investigation

    Karl Alexander

  • Whatever Happened to Uncle Albert?: And Other Puzzling Plays

    Sue Alexander

  • Reunion at Pitereeka

    Kerry Allyne

    ''You should expect a few changes in him." Rebel refused to let the warning of local cattle rancher Chayne Cavanagh discourage her. She had traveled clear across Australia to find her missing brother, Vandal, and nothing could possi...

  • Love's Testimony

    Marianne Andrau

    The facts were utterly bizarre Daylight faded as Helen sat alone in her bedroom. She had never believed in ghosts...until her arrival at Engnacht Castle. She considered recent events. Were they truly psychic disturbances or the result of an o...

  • A Gift of Love

    Joan Walsh Anglund

  • Great Modern European Short Stories

    Sylvia. Angus

  • Brothers of the Range

    Burt Arthur

  • Ring Twice to Enter

    Mark Ashley

  • The Great Desert Race

    Betty Baker

  • 3 Women

    Faith Baldwin

  • Spring Story

    Jill Barklem

    ***WITH AUDIO NARRATION***Step into the exquisite, miniature world of the mice of Brambly Hedge in this beautiful new edition of the classic picture book.Wilfred woke early. It was his birthday. He had lots of lovely presents, but the best one was a ...

  • Winter Story

    Jill Barklem

    **WITH AUDIO NARRATION***Step into the exquisite miniature world of the mice of Brambly Hedge in this beautiful new edition of the classic picture book.It was the middle of winter and very, very cold. The mice of Brambly Hedge forecasted snow.And the...

  • Death of a Literary Widow

    Robert Barnard

    MURDER BY THE BOOK Oswaldston was a nasty industrial town in northern England, famous only as the home of the novelist Walter Machin. Machin had died after the war, leaving behind two obscure books and two extraordinary wives. Now all four had been ...

  • You and Me Babe

    Chuck Barris

  • Shadow of the Wolf

    James Barwick

  • Desert of Desire

    Antoinette Beaudry

    CAPTIVE LOVE At fifteen, Debrah was still a child at heart, when she was taken in innocence to serve the pleasures of a Phoenician soldier--a strong and virile warrior who brought her to the very brink of womanhood. But it was not by virtue alo...

  • The Beachcomber

    Patti Beckman

    WHO DID THE MYSTERIOUS BEACHCOMBER THINK SHE WAS? Mariette met him on a deserted beach and was unable to forget the passion he had roused in her. But at least her role as "Julie Long" in a local theater production helped to keep her mind o...

  • A Little Dab of Color

    William Bell

    Two Indiana farm youngsters decide to joust with their newly arrived grandmother and find that she is more than a match for them in this warm autobiographical portrait of rural life in the early part of the century...

  • Find the Changeling

    Gregory Benford

    SHAPESHIFTER! The Changeling could become anyone or anything-man, woman, child, animal. It was endowed with an inborn lust for disorder and destruction. Now it had chosen the plague-ridden planet of Alvea for its next mission-to throw an entire world...

  • The Devil's Necklace

    Juliette Benzoni

    Is there a character in literature more charming and compelling than the Frenchman of action, or a period more fascinating than the eighteenth century? On the heels of triumphant service in the American Revolution, Gilles Goëlo, Chevalier de Tour...

  • Samson

    David Langstone Bolt

    A portrayal of one of the great love stories, the legend of Samson and Delilah, vividly depicts the struggles of the man whose great strength and great secret destined him to deliver Israel, until he was seduced and betrayed by Delilah...

  • Fifty Stories

    Kay Boyle

    "Kay Boyle''s Fifty Stories is an eloquent testament to the possibility of living and writing with passion and honor. In Paris in the twenties, in Austria before and after the Anschluss, in New York, in occupied Germany, in California, Boyle has bee...

  • The Starmen of Llyrdis

    Leigh Brackett

  • Stories of Ray Bradbury

    Ray Bradbury

    An extensive collection of imaginative short stories by a National Medal of the Arts"winning author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and suspense.Fly to Mars and explore the mysteries of the red planet. Journey through time to futures ruled by ...

  • The Tokyo-Montana Express

    Richard Brautigan

    Though the Tokyo-Montana Express moves at a great speed, there are many stops along the way. This book is those brief stations: some confident, others searching for their identities.The "I" in this book is the voice of the stations along the tracks o...

  • The Shapes of Midnight

    Joseph P. Brennan

    Stay back! The shadow places shelter secrets that are best left undisturbed. Hear me! Or don't. For there are those obsessed with uncovering the witcheries that fester in man's foul heart. There are those who would invoke the awful powers that yet r...

  • The Dead Side of the Mike

    Simon Brett

    1991, mass market paperback reprint edition, Warner, NY. 199 pages. A Charles Paris mystery novel. Our continuing character is employed this time as a radio actor for the BBC. He comes upon a murder almost immediately and is forced to solve that crim...

  • Nine Lives: The Folklore of Cats

    Katharine Mary Briggs

  • Mother Goose Treasury

    Raymond Briggs

  • Dreaming Dragons

    Damien Broderick

  • Tumbled Wall

    Dixie Browning

    LYLE WOULD NEVER TRUST A MAN AGAIN. BUT THEN SHE MET THAD.... After her painful involvement with Stan, Lyle thought she would never dare to love again. When a tragic car accident claims the lives of her parents, an internationally renowned pian...

  • Godric

    Frederick Buechner

    Frederick Buechner's Godric "retells the life of Godric of Finchale, a twelfth-century English holy man whose projects late in life included that of purifying his moral ambition of pride...Sin, spiritual yearning, rebirth, fierce asceticism--these ha...

  • Dear Departed

    Anne Burton

    Did he murder his ex-wife or was he protecting someone? In any case, his behavior was peculiar. One moment Jim Fuller vehemently denied his guilt. The next moment he just as vehemently demanded that Richard Trenton not do a single thing to prove him ...

  • Babies Need Books

    Dorothy Butler

  • Congo War Cry

    Alan Caillou

    JUNGLE SLAUGHTER It was the only way. Colonel Tobin and his hand-picked warriors bought themselves a job that demanded total victory-the enemy had to be wiped out completely...eliminated! Only one complication in the battle plan: There were two enemi...

  • Melting Man

    Victor Canning

    A millionaire was very desirous to know the whereabouts of a certain Mercedes and was paying Rex Carver a lot of money to track it down. Then people started coming from everywhere trying to keep him from finding it. The search takes Carver all over E...

  • The Rainbird Pattern

    Victor Canning

    Elderly spinster Julia Rainbird, under sessions by medium Blanche Tyler, or "Madame Blanche", promises her a large sum of money to locate her illegitimate nephew Edward Shoebridge. She and her boyfriend George Lumley begin making inquiries around the...

  • Land of Laughs

    Jonathan Carroll

    For some, the magic of certain books lasts a lifetime. For Thomas Abbey, the works of reclusive children’s fantasy author Marshall France have been an essential part of his life ever since he was a boy.Son of a famous movie star, Abbey is now appro...

  • Death Mission: Havana

    Nick Carter

    CUBA,SI! Item: A robbery at Chase Manhattan turns up a bizarre clue -- the fingerprint of Warren Graves, CIA, deceased. Item: Margot Kidner has a list of ex-CIA agents with reason for revenge. How does she know that Nick Carter might be interes...

  • War from the Clouds

    Nick Carter

    ISLANDS OF DEATH! Nicarxa and Apalca -- idyllic island republics in the Caribbean. Until Don Carlos Italia, monk turned warlord and guerilla leader, chooses one of them for a hideout. In a bizarre struggle for power and influence in the Americ...

  • Twilight at the Well of Souls

    Jack L. Chalker

    THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD WILL END... The rift in the fabric of space was fast approaching the Well World, and time was running out. Troops all over the planet were gathering for the final battle. Nathan Brazil and Mavra Chang somehow had to re...

  • Zebra

    Howard Clark

  • Fly South to Danger

    Suzanne Clausse

    Was there anyone she could trust? Vania was warned of danger when she arrived in South Africa to search for her missing brother, Alan, a reporter investigating a drug ring. She met Guy Bertrand, another journalist, who said he would help her. B...

  • The Killer Swan

    Eth Clifford

  • The Broncbuster

    Mick Clumpner

  • First Grade Takes a Test

    Miriam Cohen

    Who's the smartest person in the first grade? When the teacher hands out a test, everybody can't wait to find out. But only lucky Anna Maria does well enough to move to a special class. Is getting the best grade all that matters?...

  • Accident

    Hila Colman

  • Henry Adams and the American Experiment

    David R. Contosta

  • The Various Light

    Alfred Corn

  • A Change of Light: and other stories

    Julio Cortazar

    The masterful Argentinian writer includes nineteen stories penned during the last seven years, tales about a couple's adventurous vacation in Africa, a disturbed man's erotic subway games, and other intriguing activities and situations...

  • Piemakers

    Helen Cresswell

  • Tarrisbroke Hall

    Jasmine Cresswell

    Marianne was a most unwilling bride... And the Earl of Tarrisbroke was an equally unwilling husband. But neither of them had any choice. Marianne Johnson, rich young widow of a merchant, could not destroy her family's one chance to be...

  • Congo

    Michael Crichton

    Deep in the heart of the darkest region of the Congo, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an eight-person field expedition dies mysteriously and brutally in a matter of minutes. Ten thousand miles away, at the Houston-based Earth Re...

  • Fatal Choice

    Jean D'astor

    Diana froze in terror as the gunman took aim Slowly, deliberately, he leveled the revolver at Paul. The blood drained from Diana's face, but she was powerless to help the man she loved. "Once I'm rid of you, Paul, I have nothing to ...

  • Amelia

    Megan Daniel

    THE MARRIAGE GAME All of London was wagering on who would warm the cold heart, cool the hot temper, and win the precious hand of young, wealthy, and beautiful Miss Amelia Clerville. But Amelia faced a gamble of her own as she came ever closer t...

  • Khaki Wings

    Milton Dank

  • There's a Bat in Bunk Five

    Paula Danziger

    Marcy's thrilled when her former teacher, Ms. Finney, asks her to be a junior counselor at a new creative-arts camp. This is Marcy's big chance to have a summer away from her family, at a new place where only Ms. Finney knows that she was once a fat ...

  • Up from the Country

    Pierre C. De Marivaux

  • Friendships, Secrets and Lies

    Babs H. Deal

  • Kitty in the Summer

    Judy Delton

  • The Creep

    Susan Dodson

    After her babysitting charge, ten-year-old Annie, is attacked by a child molester, Sabrina Russell decides, in spite of her shyness, to act as a police decoy to lure the man who has been accosting children in the streets of Pittsburgh. Brina wasn&...

  • Maybe You Should Fly a Jet! Maybe You Should Be a Vet!

    Dr. Seuss

    Unavailable for almost 20 years, a little-known Dr. Seuss book about careers gets a fresh new look! Wildly imaginative and told in rollicking rhyme, this beginning reader about careers could ONLY have been written by Dr. Seuss! Featuring a mix of ...

  • Facing West

    Richard Drinnon

    American expansion, says Richard Drinnon, is characterized by repression and racism. In his reinterpretation of winning the West, Drinnon links racism with colonialism and traces this interrelationship from the Pequot War in New England, through Amer...

  • Raid on the Bremerton

    Irving A. Eachus

  • Debt of Love

    Rachelle Edwards

    HER ONLY LOVE SPRUNG FROM HER ONLY HATE! Beautiful young Robyn Wentworth was shocked to discover, upon the death of her father, that she was a ward of handsome Sir Francis Derringham, the darling of London's Beau Monde. His suave manners and d...

  • The Best American Short Stories 1980

    Stanley Elkin

  • Longarm on the Old Missions Trail

    Tabor Evans

    CATTLE RAID ON THE CAMINO REAL... The cattle drive is a five-hundred-mile trek -- and a jackpot for rustlers with a hankering for Government beef. So Longarm's in the saddle again, secret troubleshooter for the run to California. It's a long, ...

  • The Gold of Troy

    Robert L. Fish

    To recover a lost treasure, an American and a Russian face off against a killerBerlin is lost, but the Nazis have not given up hope. As their soldiers battle the Red Army, a detachment of Russians search the bunker where Hitler's army stored the Reic...

  • Sports

    Leonard Everett Fisher

  • Chelsea

    Nancy Fitzgerald

    "DON'T YOU REMEMBER ME? IT'S MISS CECILY HAWTHORNE. I'VE COME TO STAY." Cecily Hawthorne never dreamed she looked like an artist's vision of Pandora. But to dashing society painter Devin Sheridan, Cecily, with her cascading...

  • Lusty Wind for Carolina

    Inglis Fletcher

    They lived the legends! On the bloody coast of Carolina, a new people struggle for survival as pirate ships choke their lifeline to the old worlds. As stirring as Raleigh's Eden and Men of Albermarle. The continuing story of the giants of the giants ...

  • Raleigh's Eden

    Inglis Clark Fletcher

  • Novel and Reader

    John Fletcher

  • My Brilliant Career

    Miles Franklin

    "My Brilliant Career" is the story of Sybylla, a headstrong young girl growing up in early 20th century Australia. Sybylla rejects the opportunity to marry a wealthy young man in order to maintain her independence. As a consequence she must t...

  • Too Deep for Tears

    Cynthia Freeman

  • Annals of an Abiding Liberal

    John Kenneth Galbraith

    The noted economist discusses some of the intrinsic problems of corporate power, questions of individual freedom and collective responsibility, the proper role of multinational corporations, and other topics of concern to both the marketplace and the...

  • The English Heiress

    Roberta Gellis

    A PASSION BORN IN REBELLION...A LOVE THAT FLAMED UP FROM THE ASHES OF WAR... LEONIE DE CONYERS - beautiful, aristocratic, her life shattered by a black night of bestiality, she lived in the shadow of the guillotine, stripped of everything she held...

  • Matanza

    Peter Gentry

    A TRIO THAT CHALLENGED THE IMPOSSIBLE -- AND DARED THE UNFORGIVABLE... MAGUIRE -- He was a drinker, a lover -- and deadly enough to keep alive... CORINNE -- She was rich, beautiful -- and another man's wife. Now she needed Maguire's help to fin...

  • The Galactic Whirlpool

    David Gerrold

    FROM THE LOG OF CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER LEONARD McCOY The young woman brought back aboard the Enterprise by Lieutenant Reilly's contact team is responding well to treatment: physically, there's no question she's going to be fine. I'm more worried ab...

  • Do Bananas Chew Gum?

    Jamie Gilson

    C.U.T.E? Why, anybody in the class could spell cute. Anyone, that is, except Sam Mott. Now everybody knows how dumb he really is. It doesn't matter that he can add like a whiz and has a nearly perfect memory. He can't even spell "cute." And no amount...

  • Where Does the Sun Go at Night?

    Mirra Ginsburg

  • Melvin and Howard

    George Gipe

  • Firelord

    Parke Godwin

    From the ruins of empire, a great king arises Enslaved for centuries, used and then abandoned by the Roman conquerors, Britain is a shattered land -- with petty warlords and tribal leaders fighting over its pieces like mongrel dogs. The time is ripe...

  • Jack the Ripper

    Richard Gordon

  • Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

    Cornelius Warren Grafton

  • Sweeps

    Bill Granger

    Plagued by the ratings war and his daughter's affair with Rudy Liebowicz, an executive in the news division, top network news anchorman Jeremy Heron suddenly finds himself involved in the murder of his old friend Simon Kinzie...

  • The Innocent Deceiver

    Vanessa Gray

    LOVE COULD BE SO TERRIBLY RIGHT--OR SO TEMPTINGLY WRONG When impetuous young Fenella Morland was banished from fashionable London to her family's country estate for thoughtlessly risking scandal with a masked stranger, her elders thought she would...

  • The Last Angry Man

    Gerald Green

  • The Man Who Called Himself Devlin

    William M. Green

  • Troika

    David Gurr

  • War of the Citadels

    David Hagberg

  • The Last Inheritor

    Geraldine Halls

  • The Invisible City

    Pete Hamil

  • Ray

    Barry Hannah

    “A shorthand epic of extraordinary power . . . A novel of brilliant particulars and dizzying juxtapositions” from the acclaimed southern author of Geronimo Rex (Newsweek).   Nominated for the American Book Award, Ray is the bi...

  • Winter of the Owl

    June Andrea Hanson

    Ignoring her parents' wishes, Janey, a teenager struggling for her independence, is determined to tame a wild, dangerous colt and her painstaking efforts are rewarded when the colt's life is threatened...

  • Wicklow Castle

    Mary Catherine Hanson

    It was as if Marieth had entered another world -- Tallagera, a country estate in Ireland -- a world surrounded by hills of heather, far from her little apartment in New York. An old friend had invited her to Wicklow Castle, where titled nobility r...

  • Master of the Five Magics

    Lyndon Hardy

    QUEST OF THE FAIR LADY Alodar was a mere apprentice thaumaturge, learning the least of the five arts of magic. As such, he had no right to aspire to the hand of the fair lady, Queen Vendora, not even when he saved her during the demon-inspired sie...

  • Death to the Dancing Masters

    Richard Harper

  • A Worthy Charade

    Vivian Harris

    Was the provocative Hope Bottomsly, the ingenious Betsy Hatfield -- or Miss Katherine Tarkington from the Blue Hills of Devon? That was for Lord Milford to discover! Kate had taken loving care of her sister and brothers since her parents' death. Now ...

  • Farmer

    Jim Harrison

    “A sensitive, powerful love story about a man on the cutting edge of life.” -- Richard Brautigan   In Farmer, Jim Harrison tells the story of Joseph, a forty-three-year-old farmer-schoolteacher who suddenly finds himself at a crossroads. Fo...

  • The Promised Land

    Ralph Hayes

    Burke and Shawn Flannery emigrated from Ireland to Texas. Texas was still part of Mexico in 1840's and a feud broke out between the farmers, who sided with the Mexicans, and the Texas ranchers who wanted freedom. The brothers soon found themselves ...

  • My Mom didn't kiss me goodnight

    Charlotte Herman

  • Alvin Fernald, TV Anchorman

    Clifford B. Hicks

  • Prison Bars

    Archie Hill

  • A Love to Remember

    Ida Hills

    Abandoned at the altar! Yes, Wendy Devin knew the thrill of being a bride... and the bitter disappointment of waiting in vain for the groom. But now the impish girl from California was in Thailand, with the past behind her, swept up in her new car...

  • The Marchington Inheritance

    Isabelle Holland

    It was the children who, innocently, started the train of events that was to have such a devastating climax. Every day, in a newly opened primary school next door to the Marchington home, the pupils would create a minor uproar under the elder Miss Ma...

  • Laughing All the Way

    Barbara Howar

  • Dewitt's Strike

    Greg Hunt

    A Ridge Parkman Western Ridge Parkman was in Dewitt’s Strike to do a job: get the little mining town’s gold to the railhead at Adobe City. With almost as many robbers as rocks along the trail to Adobe, he knew the job was going to be tough. But t...

  • Courting

    Darrell Husted

    Three beautiful sisters. Like lovely young buds waiting to flower. There was Faith, Hope, and Chastity. (Yes, Chastity.) Two of them had already found suitors, but Chastity wanted more than an arranged marriage. Already she felt the touch of passion ...

  • Pictures from an Institution

    Randall Jarrell

    Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women’s college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits. Randall Jarrell’s classic novel was originally published to ov...

  • Aztec

    Gary Jennings

    Gary Jennings's Aztec is the extraordinary story of the last and greatest native civilization of North America. Told in the words of one of the most robust and memorable characters in modern fiction, Mixtli-Dark Cloud, Aztec reveals the very depths o...

  • The Spanish House

    Nancy John

    HER HEART WAS BEYOND MENDING. For Lynn Forster, the restoration of fine paintings had always been a peaceful living -- until she went to La Casa Española, home of aristocratic wine-importer Brett Sackville. Lynn couldn't keep from falling ...

  • Roadrunner

    Naomi John

  • Tamara

    Elinor Jones

    AFRAID OF ECSTASY Tamara Warde was eleven when she saw her father killed and her mother ravished again and again by interlopers on their Caribbean plantation. From that moment, the act of love stirred terror in Tamara, even when she grew to exqui...

  • The Brotherhood of Satan

    L.Q. Jones

  • Great Expectations

    Landon Jones

  • Love's Frantic Flight

    Joan Joseph

    Survivor of unspeakable scandal, Prisoner in a loveless marriage Her lover had been kidnapped. Her father had sold her into marriage, with a money-gouging French scoundrel. Now, Jillian Wortley had received glorious news. Her beloved, Leslie Heref...

  • In the National Interest

    Marvin Kalb

  • Little Man

    Erich Kastner

  • The Conquering Clan

    Cody Kennedy

  • Wife by Contract

    Flora Kidd

    Knowing the truth deeply shook Teri Marriage to Damian Nikerios was the only solution to Teri's desperate situation. Her father's debt to him would be canceled, her family saved from ruin. Damian was the attractive son of a Greek millio...

  • Firestarter

    Stephen King

    You are about to meet the sweetest, most irresistible little girl you've ever known-8-year-old Charlie McGee. She's everything that a proud father like Andy McGee could want -- and all that he can fear. For Charlie was born with the most destructive ...

  • Orbit 21

    Damon Knight

  • Murder Now and Again

    J.A. Knipe

    In an outlying suburb of New York, Mike Hunt, successful and popular, is found dead with a bullet in his head. Detective Al Flint took the case and he and the small town of Smith's Corners would never be the same again. The town was secretive, the cl...

  • The Great Ape

    Fernando Krahn

  • The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

    Milan Kundera

    "An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level -- political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous." -- Newsweek"The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary cr...

  • Zulu Sunset

    Christina Laffeaty

    Africa was no place for a woman alone Especially a woman who had never been in rougher terrain than the English countryside! But Cassandra Hudson was determined to be united with the man she loved-Martin Coleman, a missionary dedicated to conve...

  • Compulsion

    Charlotte Lamb

    Should she believe a stranger's words? Lissa had never heard of Luc Ferrier before. But he was well-known as Lucifer at the hotel casino where she worked. All her instincts cried out that he was dangerous--not only as a gambler, but as a ma...

  • Nurse in the Woods = The House in the Woods

    Leslie Lance

    The House in The Woods would provide Cecil Lynton with everything she had to have: a home for her orphaned niece and a job for herself, which she desperately needed for their support. All she would have to do was accept the position of nurse-governes...

  • The Hunting Shack

    Gunnard Landers

  • Death Stalk

    Bob Langley

  • Edges

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    13 original stories, including: The Ballad of Bowsprit Bear's Stead, by Damien Broderick; Omens, by Carol Emshwiller; Touch the Earth, by Scott Sanders; The Other Magus, by Avram Davidson; Peek-a-Boom, by Sonya Dorman; Suzanne Delage, by Gene Wolfe; ...

  • Interfaces

    Ursula K. Le Guin

  • Spider Girl

    Peter Lear

  • The Sea Wolves

    James Leasor

  • The Duke's Ward

    Samantha Lester

    Oh, he was intolerable! Anastasia's green eyes flashed when she thought of her new guardian, the dashing Duke of Essler. Mischievous, teasing ... why, Nigel would say anything just to make her blush. Just returned from the wars, the duke was deter...

  • The Case of the Counterfeit Race Horse

    Elizabeth Levy

    A Jody and Jake mystery. A race to the finish! Jody and Jake are excited about their new jobs helping out at the stables of Mr. Barrett, a famous racehorse trainer and his jockey son, Peter. Jody is looking forward to a wonderful summer until a se...

  • The Birthday Murder

    Lange Lewis

    When her husband is murdered using a method from one of her books, a screenwriter becomes the main suspectA successful writer and a B-movie director seem like the perfect match in the Hollywood Hills and, with him working to produce her novel for an ...

  • Wilderness Champion: The Story of a Great Hound

    Joseph W. Lippincott

  • Mine for Keeps

    Jean Little

    Away at school, Sally Copeland has always dreamed of going home, but now that she’s there, she feels frightened and unsure of herself.Will her brother and sister accept her? Will she be able to do things for herself? And what will it be like to go ...

  • A Wayside Tavern

    Norah Lofts

    The Bull, a wayside tavern, weathers sixteen centuries of British history and its hardy Gilderson family proprietors serve every colorful wayfarer along the way and survive every misfortune, from palgues to Nazis...

  • Killer Plants of Binaark

    Jeffrey Lord

  • Jericho Man

    John Lutz

    IMAGINE IT AS BAD AS YOU CAN, SIR... AND THEN IMAGINE IT WORSE!What was once New York's proudest skyscraper is now a heap of ruins, littered with the bodies of the dead and the dying. Beyond it, like firecrackers on a string, the rest of the targets ...

  • Regency Ball

    Miriam Lynch

    "GUY WESTCOTT? WHY, HE HAS HAD MORE HANDKERCHIEFS THROWN AT HIM THAN CAN BE COUNTED. HE MUST BE THE MOST SOUGHT-AFTER MAN IN LONDON!" Elizabeth Dasey, whose aristocratic bearing and loveliness belied her humble position as governess to Guy...

  • My Lord, My Love

    Diana Lyndon

    BETWEEN SCANDAL, ROMANCE AND DANGER, CLARISSE DELICATELY DANCED. Clarisse Fosbert had no wish to go to London for her debut. But there was no crossing her mother's whim of iron, nor the logic that the family resources needed a bit of an infusion. ...

  • The Withdrawing Room

    Charlotte MacLeod

    Money problems are making pretty Sarah Kelling anything but a merry widow. Renting out rooms to Boston's upper crust seems the very proper way to survive genteel poverty on Beacon Hill--until the curmudgeonly old gentleman in the withdrawing room sui...

  • The Triad Imperative

    Dwight Martin

    After the American withdrawal from Vietnam, Michael Hudson is put in charge of an operation to appease Triad, an Asian group threatening the pro-Western Thai government, by retrieving a large cache of opium for them...

  • The Big Steal

    Tony Marzano

  • Winds of Gold

    Gary McCarthy

  • Murder in the Penthouse

    Peter McCurtin

  • Star Axe

    Duncan McGeary

    Kenlahar, the scorned and outcast apprentice healer of the House of Lahar, was the reluctant heir to the ancient and powerful Star Axe. His possession of the Axe brought the black forces of Toraq, the evil sorcerer King, down upon himself and his hom...

  • Bridal Trap

    Rena McKay

    BITTERSWEET MARRIAGE It had begun as a harmless deception, a white lie to ease the last days of Trevor Barrone's grandmother. Finally, Trevor was going to grant her dying wish and marry Robyn Christopher. And now Robyn found herself exchanging wed...

  • Something of the Night

    Mary McMullen

  • Fall of Worlds

    Francine Mezo

  • The Wizard's Daughter

    Barbara Michaels

    A penniless yet strikingly beautiful orphan, Marianne Ransom's indomitable spirit has enabled her to survive a cruel life on the backstreets of Victorian London. But it is her gift of second sight that carries her into the world of money and privileg...

  • The Delta Ladies

    Fern Michaels

    IN THE SMALL TOWN OF HAYDEN HE'S THE MAN'S MAN THAT EVERY WOMAN WANTS! Cade Harris always could drive a female to distraction. In high school, he was the sweetest sugar stick around, the guy the girls would scratch and bite to be with. Now, years ...

  • The Love Bombers

    Gloria D. Miklowitz

  • The Major's Lady

    Rosaleen Milne

    A marriage of convenience and a dashing Army major for a husband, the year is 1808 and when sixteen-year-old Dorinda Fane sails with her handsome aide-de-camp for French-held Portugal her dreams of happiness with this cousin whom she has loved since ...

  • A Bird in a Box

    Mary Milo

  • Golden Barge

    Michael Moorcock

  • This Golden Rapture

    Paula Moore

    FROM ENGLAND'S CLOISTERED COURTS... Kidnapped on the night of her betrothal to an infamous Englishman, her senses inflamed by the hypnotic ardor of a black-bearded pirate, Diane de Clovis sailed to her tempestuous fate in the New World. Her blond be...

  • Death in the Past

    Richard Moore

    There was no escape--no escape at all. He had walked into their trap. Now he was gazing helplessly down the barrel of a pistol. The question wasn't would they shoot, but when. "I'm not working alone, " he managed to say. "You can kill me, but the st...

  • Starfire

    Arlene Morgan

    When Peggy Wheaton first met Bill Tappan she thought he was an old woman. Later when she met him again, he had a child with him. He kept her off balance in other ways as well, and she didn't really like him, until one day she awakened and was in ...

  • Engaged to Jarrod Stone

    Carole Mortimer

    Jarrod was not a man to toy with Brooke Faulkner unleashed a storm when she set out to teach Jarrod Stone a lesson. A storm with more fury than she'd ever expected. But she was tired of hearing about all the women her boss had affairs with,...

  • Die Rich, Die Happy

    James Munro

  • Come November

    Virginia Myers

    He was running for the United States Senate. He had wealth, connections, a dazzling smile … everything but a wife. That's where Tildy came in. She'd pose as Stephen Talbot's fiancée. She'd get the money her family so desperately ne...

  • The Choice

    Harold Myra

    The award-winning author of Children in the Night tells of the first woman as she is caught between truth and death and between the radiant Shia and the being of abominations. Ultimately, it is the story of the decision that every one of us makes eve...

  • Lectures on Literature

    Vladimir Nabokov

    For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses. Edited a...

  • Amusement Park

    Robert Nathan

  • It's Just Too Much

    Jean Davies Okimoto

  • The Amazing Yo-Yo

    Ross R. Olney

  • Arrow in the Sun

    Theodore V. Olsen / T.V. Olsen

    Young soldier Honus Gant and beautiful Cresta Lee are the only survivors of a wagon train, and Gant must protect Cresta, a former Native American captive, from the legendary Cheyenne chieftain, Spotted Wolf, once Cresta's husband. Original.

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  • Desire

    William Packard

  • Dark Surrender

    Margaret Pargeter

    It was all like a horrible dream! Julie had received a proposal--but it wasn't the one she'd been hoping for. Brad's intentions were clear. "I want you so much, Julie. Come and live with me in London, be my mistress." Jul...

  • Gates to the Old City

    Raphael Patai

  • Jacob Have I Loved

    Katherine Paterson

    My twin sister was adored by everyone but me -- the one who should have loved her best. "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated...." With her grandmother's taunt, Louise knew that she, like the biblical Esau, was the despised elder twin. Carol...

  • Trail of the Apache

    Lewis B. Patten

    Frank Healy, and Indian scout, had made plen ty of enemies. But no one hated him more than the vicious Ap ache Kid. When the Kid escaped from prison and kidnapped Hea ly''s wife, Healy knew he was the intended victim. '...

  • Hand of Glory

    Glen Petrie

  • The Great Balloon Escape

    J-Urgen Petschull

    Details the incredible predawn escape to freedom aboard a homemade hot-air balloon undertaken by two East German families who, after cautiously obtaining the necessary materials, managed to sail over the heavily mined East German border...

  • He Ain't No Bum

    O.A. Phillips

  • Margaret's Story

    Eugenia Price

    From the Seminole uprisings to the Civil War, they fought for their bleoved plantation, their family, and their faith. . .Margaret Seton had loved the handsome young widower long before she become Lewis Fle...

  • Love's Folly

    Nina Pykare

    It was highly improper for a young heiress to flirt openly with a complete stranger. Beautiful Emily Penthorne was certainly at fault, but he was so handsome, so compelling, how could she resist? It was the height of the season, and she was en rou...

  • A Few Green Leaves

    Barbara Pym

    Barbara Pym was an incomparable chronicler of ordinary, quiet lives. With warmth, humour, precision and great vividness, she gave her best characters an independent life we recognise as totally familiar. In A Few Green Leaves, her last novel, her her...

  • Bloody Bay

    Sandra Riley

    Anne Bonny escaped into the arms of the ruthless pirate James Bonny. Totally commited to her love she even went so far as to take cutlass in hand and fight by his side.Bonny's viciousness became unbearable and anne turned her attentions to captain Ja...

  • Tarantula and the Red Chigger

    Mary Elsie Robertson

  • The Silverleaf Syndrome

    Eleanor Robinson

    The search for a lost boy becomes a bizarre encounter with biological horror! Christopher was, what doctors called, a freak of nature. Born with unusual deformities, he nevertheless possessed a fantastic strength. When his mother abandoned him, Chris...

  • Antinomy

    Spider Robinson

    SPIDERAMA HALF AN OAF--If you're buying a time machine, don't go to a discount house! SATAN'S CHILDREN--One way to save the world is to blow its mind. THE MAGNIFICENT CONSPIRACY-- A free lunch is always the most expensive kind. TIN EAR --...

  • A Philip Roth Reader

    Philip Roth

    Selections from nine novels following Goodbye Columbus, Roth's first book, including Letting Go, Portnoy's Complaint, and The Ghost Writer, chronicle Roth's satiric and sensitive examination of art, life, and personal crisis...

  • Second Wind

    Bill Russell

    The perceptive, controversial, and idiosyncratic basketball star recounts the decisive events of his life and career, offers an inside look at professional basketball, and sounds off about freedom, race, marriage, religion, and American culture...

  • Road Runner

    Russell K. Schroeder

  • The White Frame House

    Rae Sedgwick

  • Death of an Island

    Larry Shealy

  • The Searching Heart

    Anne Shore

    She was alone, jobless, and beached, thousands of miles from Montana, victim of the cruelest hoax of all. Perhaps it was Nancy Abbott's fault for falling in love with a picture of Henri Dutrec and offering to catalog his entire collection of pric...

  • Einstein Anderson, Science Sleuth

    Seymour Simon

    Adam Anderson is no ordinary sixth-grader--that's why everyone calls him Einstein. Einstein is such a whiz at science that he can solve any mystery or unravel any puzzle. Watch as he investigates a flying saucer, foils the school bully, and discov...

  • Einstein Anderson Shocks His Friends

    Seymour Simon

    Adam Anderson is no ordinary sixth-grader -- that's why everyone calls him Einstein. Einstein is such a whiz at science that he can solve any mystery or unravel any puzzle. Watch as he shocks the school bully, stops the Halloween horror, and meets...

  • Paradise Island

    Tracy Sinclair

    IT WAS A DREAM COME TRUE! Robin O'Neil had known only the sheltered life of an orphanage until she became a governess en route by luxury liner to Hawaii. But the time aboard ship was even more exciting because of a mysterious sailor who cavali...

  • Reaches of Heaven

    Isaac Bashevis Singer