Books Published in October 1988

New Books List: 494 titles

  • The Fool's Progress

    Edward Abbey

    The environmentalist author of Desert Solitaire presents an autobiographical novel of an aging man’s anarchic journey across America in search of home.The Fool’s Progress, the “fat masterpiece” as Edward Abbey labeled it, is his most importan...

  • Combat Command: Lord of Lances

    Mark Acres

    A Soldier of Fortune trapped in an alien world! You are Paul Nelson. Once he was a CIA mercenary. Then an operation went bad. Outnumbered. Outgunned. You faced certain death, until the alien spaceship appeared. It wasn't a rescue. Dropped on the dist...

  • Rushes

    Joanna Adams

  • The Silver Coach

    C.S. Adler

    Twelve-year-old Chris Wallace's life is so troubled by her parents' separation and her growing jealousy of her younger sister that she knows the little silver-wire coach is something special and magical the first time she sees it....

  • Fourth Floor Twins and the Sand Castle Contest

    David A. Adler

  • Out of Control

    Jerry Ahern

    AGAINST THE FANATICAL ENEMIES OF LIBERTY THEY WERE AMERICAS FIGHTING TICKET. As the race for Metro mayor heats up, the city explodes in a new wave of brutal violence. The radical FLNA has a simple strategy to insure their candidate's victory: bombing...

  • The Teeth of the Gale

    Joan Aiken

    Kidnapped! Felix Brooke has been summoned for a risky mission: to recover the kidnapped children of Dona Conchita, the cousin of his old friend Juana. But these are dangerous times in Spain, and the mission could be a trap. Felix warily sets off with...

  • One Reckless Moment

    Jeanne Allan

    She'd given in to impulse once... Instinctively Maggie had run -- run hard and run long -- from Nick's Colorado mountain cabin. Hadn't she always been Maggie the dependable, Maggie the sensible, the only one in her family who never ...

  • The Stalking Angel

    Ted Allbeury

  • My First Words from A to Z

    Gary Allen

  • Tales from the Darkside

    Tom Allen

  • Control

    Jack Anderson

    Street-smart investigative journalist Bert Stouffer has some hard-hitting questions about the widespread acquisitions of sex-and-scandal tabloid king Thad Catlett whose activities may cost America her freedom and Stouffer his life....

  • Christmas Is Love

    Joan Walsh Anglund

  • Some Enchanted Evening

    Jenny Arden

    "Can you deny the attraction between us?" Eve had to admit she couldn't -- and she was grateful for Zack Thole's financial backing, which had saved Hallam's Boatyard, her family's business. But she had no intention of being...

  • Sand Cake

    Frank Asch

    Baby Bear and his daddy “bake” a treat on the beach in this reissue of a classic picture book from celebrated and award-winning author and illustrator Frank Asch.On a family trip to the beach, Baby Bear asks Papa Bear, “If I make you a cake, wi...

  • The Horsegirl

    Constance Ash

    "BEWARE THE HORSE, ACCOMPLICE OF SORCERY AND WITCHCRAFT..." So the Alaminite girl Glennys had been taught by her people, plain, stern folk who worked to land under the dominion of the wealthy, pleasure-loving Nolanese, with the magnificent, pamper...

  • Azazel

    Isaac Asimov

    MEET AZAZEL... He's two centimeters tall. He's fiery red. He has magical powers strong enough to wreck a normal human's life...all with the best intentions, of course. George Bitternut, an eccentric linguist and deadbeat, stumbles onto an ancie...

  • The Package in Hyperspace

    Janet Asimov

  • A Star for Christmas

    Barbara Askinosie

  • One

    Richard Bach

    I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? ...

  • The Midnight Hour

    Donald Bacon

  • Where Time Ends

    Thomas Baird

    While camping in the Adirondacks teenage best friends Doug and Loop fall in with Ernie and her belligerent brother, as a Soviet missile attack heralds the beginning of a dangerous war with biological weapons and the entire country enters a state of c...

  • The Ungrateful Governess

    Mary Balogh

    THE ASTONISHED EARL The Earl of Rutherford was handsome, charming, rich, generous, and as adept at giving pleasure as he was avid in pursuing it. No wonder, then, that when he marked Miss Jessica Moore as the latest in his endless string of conque...

  • Code Name: Snowball

    Ned Bannister

    Five top teenaged cadets from military academies nationwide undertake a covert mission for the Pentagon--recover vital information from a crashed Russian spy plane in Finland before the Soviet strike force arrives at the snowy site...

  • Hard to Be Good

    Bill Barich

  • Weaveworld

    Clive Barker

    "CLIVE BARKER IS A SUDDEN MASTER OF THE HORROR GENRE....In Weaveworld, a prosaic Liverpool clerk named Calhoun Mooney falls into a magic carpet. He has entered the cursed and enchanted Weaveworld of the Seerkind, a people with the power to make magic...

  • At Death's Door

    Robert Barnard

    GRANDE DAME ... GRANDE DEATH The king of novelists, Benedict Cotterel, was in his bedroom, dictating how to leave his money. The queen of the theater, Dame Myra Mason, was in the local inn, eating crow and honey. Years ago their brief affair had r...

  • Lucky Thirteen

    Megan Barnes

  • The Belfast Connection

    Milton R. Bass

    Benny Freedman's interest in his Irish Catholic roots lands him in Belfast just in time for the funeral of Sean, his murdered cousin -- and in the cross fire of hate, prejudice, and terrorism tearing the city apart. Jumping into the hunt for Sean's k...

  • Cold Is the Sea

    Edward L. Beach

    Hailed as heart stopping and almost unbearably suspenseful, Edward L. Beach's third novel is set fifteen years after the end of World War II as the US Navy converts its fleet of conventional submarines to nuclear-powered ships. The book focuses on th...

  • Eternity

    Greg Bear

    Beyond the most staggering human achievement. Beyond ambition. Beyond war. There waits...ETERNITY It is an age of pain and wonder: on Earth, struggling from the ravages of nuclear war; on Thistledown, the amazing asteroid-starship from the far fut...

  • At the Edge

    Michael Behrens

  • Thinking of You

    Connie Bennett

    She was sure it couldn't work. Although Cassandra Preston's psychic powers had long since faded, she could foresee certain doom in a relationship with New York attorney Reed Whittier. To Reed, who was constantly keeping 'psychic' charlatans away from...

  • Promises to Keep

    George Bernau

  • Quest for the 36

    Stephen Billias

  • Just Like Jessica

    Judith Blackwell

    In her sister's shadow... Fifteen-going-on-sixteen-year-old Mary Sanford is tired of always being compared to her older sister, Jessica. Perfect Jess. She's smart, pretty, talented and popular, too. How can an all-around average teen compete with an...

  • Two Boys Too Many

    Janet Adele Bloss

    Bonnie Jean Tyler never thought that having two boyfriends who adored her would be a problem. Not only does she love every minute of their attention, but she truly likes both boys. The answer to her romantic dilemma is right before her eyes but she m...

  • River Road

    C.F. Borgman

    Leaving his rural Ohio roots and family behind, Eugene Goessier earns his independence and a growing reputation as an avant-garde writer and poet in New York and forms a passionate thirty-year relationship with an exotic Brazilian man...

  • Boola's Secrets

    Pamela Zanin Bradbury

  • Joey's Special Christmas Gift

    Pamela Zanin Bradbury

    Joey's teacher gave the class an assignment to "Imagine you are one of Santa's elves and your job is to make a toy that has never been made before. Then write a story telling about this wonderful new toy!" Joey wrote about a "Fuddy Buddy". His classm...

  • Clifford Wants a Cookie

    Norman Bridwell

    Using just six ingredients, Emily Elizabeth whips up a batch of sugar cookies for her hungry pet. Readers can make their own cookies with Emily Elizabeth's recipe, then cut them out in shapes of Clifford and a dog bone. Two-color illustrations....

  • Singular Women

    Freda Bright

  • Come Be My Love

    Annette Broadrick

    GETAWAY WEEKEND Gregory Duncan was looking forward to getting away from the pressures of his law practice by spending the weekend alone in his friend's country cabin. What he hadn't bargained on was another houseguest -- an obviously frigh...

  • Striped Holes

    Damien Broderick

    A COMIC SCIENCE FICTION MASTERPIECE!In the spirit of Monty Python, Arthur Schopenhauer and Douglas Adams, Striped Holes is science fiction with a sense of humor. Sopwith Hammil might be the nation's top chat-show host but his peace of mind is shatter...

  • Special Touches

    Sharon Brondos

    SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO MAKE OF HIM When Catherine Cantrell first saw Garrick Drexel, he was wandering along a Wyoming highway, a sophisticated city type lost in the wilderness. Only he wasn't lost; he was escaping. He told her he was looking f...

  • The Man Who Had Enemies

    H.B. Broome

  • Showdown at Little Big Horn

    Dee Brown

  • Witches Four

    Marc Brown

  • Santa Mouse, Where Are You?

    Michael Brown

  • In Her Day

    Rita Mae Brown

    For years a "lost" collector's item, here is the second novel from a brilliant young author testing her literary muscle, and it's bursting at the seams with Rita Mae Brown's trademark cast of characters and crackling quips. Written immediately a...

  • Bingo

    Rita Mae Brown

    Straddling the Mason-Dixon Line since before the Civil War is Runnymede. And it seems that ever since then, most people in the town have been inherently split: between good and bad, or love and sex, or male and female, or politics and sobriety. Nicol...

  • Golden Dolly

    Lizbie Browne

    "Jupiter's Kackstraws!" raged the gentleman as he picked himself up from the spot where his horse had thrown him. Even with his blue coat torn across the shoulders and his cream riding breeches spattered with mud, he was the most dangerously attracti...

  • The Asking Price

    Amanda Browning

    "Now's the time you start to pay." The vindictive words cut right through Sian's body. She wanted nothing more than to leave the bitterness of the past behind her, but evidently Blair Davenport wasn't going to let her. Blair...

  • Horse Crazy

    Bonnie Bryant

    SADDLE UP FOR GREAT RIDING -- WITH THE GIRLS OF PINE HOLLOW Twelve-year-olds Carole Hanson and Stevie Lake have been best friends ever since they met at Pine Hollow Stables. So when thirteen-year-old Lisa Atwood shows up for her first lesson dre...

  • The Real Thing

    Carole Buck

    Jacey Daniels is grateful for Malone Peters' friendship, especially when he agrees to play the part of her lover when a former crush comes back to town. The plan is to get caught kissing. Neither one ever expected pretense to ignite so very real a de...

  • Ghost Behind Me

    Eve Bunting

  • Jane Martin, Dog Detective

    Eve Bunting

    Detective Martin is on the trail of three canine mysteries--Charlie has been kidnapped a week before the dog show, two dogs are wrongly accused of harrassing a kitten, and Boo-Boo disappears during his daily walk in the park...

  • Measure of Deceit

    Caroline Burnes

    Someone was out to ruin her. Ann Tate was not going to stand by and let the dream of success for her horse breeding farm come to failure. With the arrival of Matt Roper and his mare at Singing Water Ranch, her dream of creating a Derby winner had...

  • Beans on the Roof

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    George Bean always wants to play on the roof of his apartmentbuilding. But only his older sister Anna can sit there, because she's writing a roof poem. Anna may be the first Bean to be in a book if the poem wins a contest at school.



    Ge...

  • Under the Jaguar Sun

    Italo Calvino

    “The thought . . . called up the flavors of an elaborate and bold cuisine, bent on making the flavors’ highest notes vibrate, juxtaposing them in modulations, in chords, and especially in dissonances that would assert themselves as an incomparabl...

  • The prospect of detachment

    Lindsley Cameron

    Settings range from Japanese villages barely touched by the twentieth century to SoHo's latest temple of trendiness. These fifteen stylish stories, gleefully examine the predicaments of characters who see themselves as reasonable beings marooned i...

  • The Message

    Stella Cameron

    Someone wasn't getting the message When Page Linstrom first set eyes on Ian Faber, it was two a.m. and she was delivering an order of truffle pate and champagne to his San Francisco town house. Ian was intrigued. Page kept her distance. But he did...

  • Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death

    Ramsey Campbell

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    Ramsey Campbell has won four World Fantasy Awards, ten British Fantasy Awards, and the Horror Writers' Association's Lifetime Achievement Award. Publishers Weekly calls Campbell ""a horror writer's horror writer,"" adding, ""His control of mood a...

  • Alice in La-La Land

    Robert Campbell

    In La-La Land, murder is an art - perfected in the neon night. She walked through the twilight glare, beautiful, redheaded, rich - and scared. She was prowling L.A.'s tenderloin search of Whistler, only to find him sitting in his favorite coffee shop...

  • Oliver and Company

    Jan Carr

  • Lookout's Big Adventure

    Jan Carr

    Talkatoo Cockatoo, desperately in need of a front page story for the Zooble News, decides to print Bravo Fox's tale of Lookout Bear's adventure in the Amazon jungle, not realizing that the story is not true....

  • House of Fear

    Leonora Carrington

    The events and locales of World War II Europe provide the setting for a series of four surrealistic autobiographical novellas that concern the author's romantic and artistic involvement with Max Ernest and her subsequent descent into madness...

  • Seventh Horse

    Leonora Carrington

  • Afghan Intercept

    Nick Carter

  • The Dream of Heroes

    Adolfo Bioy Casares

    Despite his secret protector's warnings, Emilio Gauna re-creates the situation that, three years before, led to a horrible encounter with a masked woman during Carnival 1927--an encounter he dimly remembers and never understood...

  • Diary of the War of the Pig

    Adolfo Bioy Casares

  • Barney Bipple's Magic Dandelions

    Carol Chapman

  • Pretty Polly

    Marion Chesney

    WHAT A PRETTY PICKLE SHE'D GOT INTO -- AND IT TASTED MORE SOUR BY THE MOMENT! Blessed with beauty, Mrs. Manners never bothered with the lesser skills of grammar and spelling. So, in order to entrap a second husband, namely the dashing Duke of ...

  • Refining Felicity

    Marion Chesney

    The School for Manners Amy and Effy Tribble had an impressive address, impeccable breeding, and a talent for matchmaking. But the funds for their School for Manners were frightfully meager when they advertised to "Bring Out a Wild, Unruly or U...

  • Craving for Women

    Sybil Claiborne

    Comical chaos ensues when Saul's routine of spending one day per week with each of his seven wives breaks down, the authorities discover his polygamous lifestyle, and Hollywood filmmakers plan to film his life story...

  • A Meeting With Medusa

    Arthur C. Clarke
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  • Equator

    Thurston Clarke

    Widely considered a jewel of contemporary travel literature, Equator is Thurston Clarke’s magnificent, witty account of his solo journey along the earth’s torrid midsection—a grueling twenty-five-thousand-mile odyssey that...

  • Shadow of the Warmaster

    Jo Clayton

    Though the odds are stacked against them, the rebels plot against the imperious Imperator and the Warmaster, a huge orbiting battleship that empowers him, and their chances of success increase with the arrival of an unexpected ally...

  • Butterfingers

    Sylvie Clouzeau

  • Rift

    Liza Cody

    The lure of Africa's Rift Valley was irresistible to Fay. A journey across it offered the prospect of extraordinary beauty and adventure and the perfect chance to prove her independence. The road from Nairobi to Addis Ababa is rough and rugged; the...

  • Island of Steel

    Stephen Cohen

    Private Eye Eddie Margolis is thrust into the world of high-powered New York law firms to investigate the disappearance of a junior partner and the suspicious goings-on with Gotham real-estate development...

  • Island of Steel

    Stephen Paul Cohen

    Private Eye Eddie Margolis is thrust into the world of high-powered New York law firms to investigate the disappearance of a junior partner and the suspicious goings-on with Gotham real-estate development...

  • Butcher's Dozen

    Max Allan Collins

    Award-winning author Max Allan Collins has skillfully woven fact and fiction to create a unique mystery series based on the life and exploits of one of America's most memorable heroes, Eliot Ness.The former Untouchable teams up with a rookie cop, a h...

  • Quarrel With the Moon

    J.C. Conaway

  • Prizzi's Glory

    Richard Condon

    A crime family goes legit -- sort of -- and enters politics, in this “razor-sharp satire on the American dream” (Publishers Weekly). If Charley Partanna is lucky, he can go a few months without falling in love. During these stretches, he’s able...

  • Hearts of Gold

    Phoebe Conn

    GOLD FEVER! Her corn-silk hairs bound by a rawhide strip, Lyse Selby galloped toward the desert as if the hounds of hell were chasing her. The circling buzzards told her someone lay wounded out on the sand, hut she never expected to find a tall, har...

  • Graveyard Rules

    Gary Cook

    When undercover narcs Ben and Barney are brutally worked over by drug dealers, they smell a set-up. Now they're out for justice--and revenge. But beneath the slick maneuvers of these deputy-sheriff partners, beneath their old-buddy banter and clownin...

  • The Heroes Return

    Hugh Cook

    MEET TOGURA: SWORDMASTER, DEATH DEALER, DRAGON TAMER, AND QUESTING HERO EXTRAORDINAIRE ...at least that's how would-be hero Togura likes to think of himself! Yet he can't fool the wise old wizard of Drum, who took him in, spruced him up, and taugh...

  • Camp Reunion

    Caroline B. Cooney

  • Junior

    Linda A. Cooney

  • Auction Affair

    Delinda Corbin

  • Gossamer

    Stephen Cosgrove

  • The Bargain

    Patricia Coughlin

    Fed up with unscrupulous males on the make, vulnerable Lisa Bennett devised an ice-princess routine that chilled even the hottest pursuit. But wily Sam Ravenal seemed determined to thwart her with a strictly-friendship act of his own. Just what was h...

  • False Pretenses

    Catherine Coulter

    Elizabeth Carleton. A beautiful and dazzling concert pianist. She seemed to have it all. But when her fabulously wealthy husband is murdered, Elizabeth stands accused--and not even her surprise acquittal in a cliffhanger trial can quiet the whispers ...

  • One Hour of Magic

    Melinda Cross

    "You'll be mine, not his." The words echoed in Holly's mind, reminding her that she was still simply the spoils of an ancient, bitter contest between feuding brothers. It seemed a cruel twist of fate that, having lost her belove...

  • The Fly Boys

    T.E. Cruise

    From generation to generation, they'd soar into a future as perilous as the skies themselves. Book 2 of Wings of Gold by T.E. Cruise...

  • Manhattan Massacre

    Chet Cunningham

    "Matt Hawke has come to New York City to attack New Control -- a new oriental syndicate with a white-hot pipeline to the Golden Triangle. They've outgunned the Mob and the old Chinese mafia, the Tong. But with the help of a beautiful dancer whose her...

  • Renegade Army

    Chet Cunningham

    Not content with bilking the tribes and the U. S. government out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, Saterlee recruited a ruthless, blood thirsty band of renegades to terrorize the territory. He was an Indian Agent hated by men of all colors, a burr...

  • Mr. Perfect

    Stefanie Curtis

    Shy Randi Hinton Can't believe it - a rumor's going around that handsome, popular Ned Taggert likes her! She barely has time to think about him, though, because she's so nervous about having to make a speech for English class before the entire studen...

  • Blood Beast

    Don D'Ammassa

    In the sleepy town of Managansett, a demonic gargoyle captures the soul of a young boy who willingly performs the gruesome tasks dictated to him by the monster in exchange for receiving all he has ever wanted...

  • Long Shadows

    Susan Saxton D'aoust

  • Execution Night

    Rick Dade

  • Matilda

    Roald Dahl

    For hundreds of kids "The Trunchbull" is pure terror -- for Matilda, she's a sitting duck. Who put superglue in Dad's hat? Was it really a ghost that made Mom tear out of the house? Only sweet, gentle Matilda knows. Because she's the one playing a...

  • Jack the Ripper

    Mark Daniel

  • East of the Sun and West of the Moon

    George Webbe Dasent

    K-Gr 4 Barlow has created vibrant watercolor and colored pencil illustrations to accompany the classic George Webbe Dasent translation of this popular Norwegian folk tale. Each full-page illustration and its facing page of text are bordered by two ba...

  • Blood in the Streets

    James Dale Davidson

  • The Great Christmas Contest

    Jim Davis

  • Louhi, Witch of North Farm: A Story from Finland's Epic Poem `the Kalevala'

    Toni Degerez

  • Cosmic Chickens

    Ned Delaney

  • Ambitions

    William Delligan

  • Savage Splendor

    Sue Deobold

    Prim and proper Annabeth Allan had gone west to civilize the red man, but when the other members of her wagon train succumbed to smallpox, she found herself at the mercy of the very savages she had come to tame. Part Indian himself, rugged Eben McDow...

  • The Cauldron of Fear

    Joe Dever

    The reader, given the title General by the King himself, must enter an ancient metropolis and gain control of the Lorestone of Tahou, choosing skills and weapons carefully for a fight to the death against the Darklord's armored legions...

  • The Maiden

    Jude Deveraux

    He was wise, strong, and brave. His destiny was to be king. She was young, beautiful, a warrior princess. Her destiny was to love him. But when first they met, it was not as princess and king -- it was as man and woman only, consumed by a passion ...

  • Merlin Dreams

    Peter Dickinson

  • Ends

    Gordon R. Dickson

  • The Best American Essays 1988

    Annie Dillard

  • Night of Clear Choice

    Doris Miles Disney

    Little Anne Talbot was snatched from the park while playing hide and seek. Then her family got into the grim game: the kidnapper hid the kid and the Talbot's had to seek for 15 years before a deathbed confession led them to a pretty teenager, also na...

  • On Wings of Flame

    Gail Douglas

    Seeing Jed Brannen again brought Kelly Flynn bittersweet memories. Everything had changed in the years since they'd first fallen in love, and yet nothing had changed. He was more impossibly gorgeous than ever, her Indiana Jones who'd roamed...

  • Torpedo Alley

    Del Dowdell

  • Ripper

    Gardner Dozois

  • The World As I Found It

    Bruce Duffy

    This “wicked, melancholy, and . . . astonishing” novel reimagines the lives of three wildly different men adrift in the 20th century: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, and G. E. Moore (Newsday). When Bruce Duffy’s The World As I Found...

  • But That Was Yesterday

    Kathleen Eagle

    LIFE WAS FOR THE LIVING Sage Parker knew what life at the bottom looked like -- alcohol had seen to that. Now he was living day to day, rebuilding his ranch and teaching his people that life on the reservation had a value all its own... Then into ...

  • Arizona Ranger

    J.T. Edson

    The man was tall, wide-shouldered, powerful-looking. His face was youthful, but his eyes were not.They seemed to reflect years of hard living and hard riding, years in which he had looked death in the face too often, but had always come out standing ...

  • Some Kind of Wonderful

    Adrienne Edwards

    Carolyn Rushford's all business when she orders Keith O'Neal to watch his language while coaching her daughter's soccer team . . . but Keith's masculine charm soon turns business into pleasure, and Caro finds herself agreeing to become his assistant....

  • Little Red Riding Hood

    Armand Eisen

  • Old Bones

    Aaron Elkins

    When the treacherous tides of Mont St. Michel claim the aged patriarch of the du Rocher family, the authorities accept the verdict of "accidental drowning." But the unfortunate event is followed too quickly by a strange discovery: the discovery of a ...

  • Shared Passions

    Lucy Elliot

    Kindred Souls Sydney Spencer had been taught to be a lady. But her rebellious spirit yearned for adventure, and her awakening heart, for love. Although John Randall knew that abetting escaped slaves was dangerous, he had to follow his conscience. ...

  • Lone Star and the Suicide Spread

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki help an old friend and touch off a powder keg of toruble!The interest on old debts can be murder! Jessica Starbuck owes her father's friend, Rawhide Avalon, a debt she can never repay. But when she gets the old rancher's telegram asking...

  • Lone Star in the Big Thicket

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki take on a wolf pack of back-shooting lumber pirates in a wilderness bloodbath in the seventy-fourth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on Americ...

  • Deviant Behavior

    Earl Emerson

    Seventeen-year-old Todd Steeb has been missing for eight days when his wealthy parents hire Seattle private eye Thomas Black to investigate. Faith Steeb is worried by her son's obsession with suicide, though her husband dismisses it as a youthful "de...

  • The Nursery Treasury

    Sally Emerson

    Emerson's collection of childhood folklore is arranged in a series of categories: baby games, rhymes to teach, story rhymes, and lullabies... While there are many fine 'Mother Goose' collections...the design, arrangement, and thoughtful illustrat...

  • A Victim Must Be Found

    Howard Engel

    In his sixth important case, Grantham's own Benny Cooperman finds himself mixed up in the art world. More out of water a fish can't get. After all, Benny only heard of Picasso last year and now he's hot on the trail of some missing paintings by Walla...

  • Shattered Dreams

    Charlotte Fedders

  • Guns for Grizzly Flat

    Peter Field

  • Lone Star Surrender

    Carol Finch

    THE STILL OF THE NIGHT When the rugged cowboy found a gorgeous, unconscious woman and her dead companion along a Texas dirt road, he knew he had to try everything to save the unlucky lady. He spirited her off to his mountain shack, gave her a potion...

  • Marriage by Decree

    Ellen Fitzgerald

    THE AUDACIOUS MISS OSBORNE Miss Alice Osborne was newly arrived from America and could not be expected to know the rules of Regency courtship and love. But her ignorance seemed certain to breed folly rather than bliss when she was drawn to not one...

  • Sir Dana: A Knight as Told by His Trusty Armor

    Dana Fradon

  • Killing in Dreamland

    James Frey

  • Sweet Silver Moon

    Elizabeth Fritch

    ROGUE STALLION Beneath the blazing sun of rough and tumble Virginia City, Lucy Hawkins and Dalton Bannister were forever at odds. The beautiful blonde held the unlikely position of town mayor, while the arrogant Texan thought the best place for an...

  • Wish Come True

    Ann Gabhart

  • Watch Out for the Turkey!

    Yvon Le Gall

  • Fear

    R. Patrick Gates

  • The Ark

    Arthur Geisert

  • Love Trouble Is My Business

    Veronica Geng

  • Remember This Dream

    Harold Gershowitz

  • All About Stacy

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    "Hurry," Mrs. Zachary said. "We're going to do something exciting." Stacy can't wait to start her new class project, making an "About-Me" box. Into it will go special things that she likes. Jiwon's putting a scrap of her old baby dress in her Ab...

  • Renegade

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    Renny Knight had a rogue's smile that could melt the socks off any woman -- why then did Jacqueline Train deny they were husband and wife? Two years earlier they'd made a deal: she'd wed the handsome roamer so he could claim his inherit...

  • Family

    Natalia Ginzberg

  • First a Friend

    Elizabeth Glenn

    Only she could lead him into a new beginning Widow Ali Markham's in-laws were trying to driver her crazy with guilt. Thankfully, while surveying the Stuart ranch in Buffalo Gap, she discovered the ideal hideout. Except that Alex Stuart, former...

  • Just Enough Is Plenty

    Barbara Diamond Goldin

  • The Storyteller and the Jann

    Stephen Goldin

    THE WAR BETWEEN LIGHT AND DARKNESS An evil whirlwind blows across the golden lands of Parsina. After a centuries-long imprisonment, the Man Aeshma has escaped from his a magic urn and returned with a vengeance, leaving nothing but destruction in ...

  • The Witches of Hopper Street

    Linda Gondosch

  • Big Top Pee-Wee: Life on the Farm

    Beth Goodman

  • Scarlet Lies

    Jo Goodman

    BEAUTIFUL SCHEMER Brooklyn Hancock was no stranger to dangerous situations. But finding herself at the mercy of a man she'd swindled was enough to make the blue-eyed adventuress a bit nervous. Particularly since her would-be mark was intimidat...

  • The Chinese Puzzle

    Harriet Graham

    In London of the 1890s, two children set out to find their guardian who has disappeared along with his friend, a master magician, and find themselves captive in an opium den with very dangerous characters....

  • Henry McGee Is Not Dead

    Bill Granger

    On the Alaskan frontier, the November Man searches for a mysterious individual, a master manipulator and treacherous link between opposing superpowers....

  • A Match Made in Heaven

    Katherine Granger

    "THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY!" For TV movie critic Gina Longford, being trapped in her house with an incredibly sexy man definitely had its advantages. But co-reviewer Colin Cassidy was a confirmed chauvinist, and newly liberated Gina had had i...

  • Stranded Heart // Make Love, not Music

    Vanessa Grant

    How dare he criticize her! Nicole found it hard enough to raise a teenage boy by herself and eke out an uncertain living as a charter pilot in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands. Dealing with Matthew Kealy, her arrogant, unkempt new ne...

  • Death on the Cards

    Richard Grayson

    When a homemade bomb explodes on a houseboat moored on the Seine, following two brutal stabbings in Pigalle, the Paris police receive a list of targets for assassination that includes the President of the Republic himself. Each murder will be announc...

  • Conan the Valiant

    Roland J. Green
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    In the Ibars Mountains the necromancer Eremius is raising a demon-spawned army, using one of the the fabled Jewels of Kurag. Snared in the court intrigues of Aghrapur, trapped by Lord Misrak, the King's deadly master of spies, Conan of Cimmeria must ...

  • The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Which Witch Is Which?

    Rhonda Chalek Greenberg

  • Desperate Deception

    Maria Greene

    LOVE'S DANGEROUS DISGUISE Bryony Shaw's world lay in shattered ruins, her beloved brother mysteriously killed, her ancestral home burned to the ground. Yet the strong-willed beauty refused to despair. Vowing revenge, she set out on a reckles...

  • Spellfire

    Ed Greenwood
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    The word brings to mind magic and dragons. Unthinkable energy. Magical energy that a simple scullery maid can't possibly control. Shandril of Highmoon, an orphaned girl, is bored. Her solution: run away, in search of adventure. What Shandril...

  • Runaway

    Stephen Gresham

    Lost Boys Mark Blackwood was only thirteen, but he was old enough to know his parents didn't need him around. They were too busy with their high-powered careers. And he was old enough to run away from home and find refuge in a place called Redempt...

  • Joe Eats Bugs

    Susanna Gretz

  • Mission Underground

    P.M. Griffin

    The immortal space saga of the STAR COMMANDOS continues. In the third volume of this compelling and endearing adventure series, Colonel Islaen Conner, her consort, former Arcturian Admiral and War Prince Varn Tarl Sogan, her old friend and former Com...

  • Men in Blue

    W.E.B. Griffin

    Griffin's bestselling series, The Corps and Brotherhood of War, have captured the pride and glory of the military community. Now he reveals a city police force with the same unique blend of realism, drama, and action. Here are the brave men and women...

  • Killing Time in St. Cloud

    Judith Guest

    Nick Uhler returns to St. Cloud after a lenghty absence, becomes ensnarled with members of the prominent Carmody family, and soon three murders, family feuds, and dark secrets threaten the town's very fabric...

  • The Haunted House

    Dorothy Haas

    It's no place for 'fraidy cats. Jilly's not having an ordinary birthday party this year. Instead, she and Peanut throw a haunted house party. There are plenty of treats and enough tricks to scare everyone silly. Peanut and Jilly invite their wh...

  • December Stillness

    Mary Downing Hahn

    QUESTIONS

    Sensitive and idealistic fifteen-year-old Kelly McAllisterfeels at odds with everyone around her. Her best friendhas suddenly turned boy crazy. Her talented mothercreates greeting card designs instead of real art, an...

  • Dance Down the Mountain

    Richard Hammer

  • Tender Betrayal

    Peggy Hanchar

    "Sarah," Tanner whispered harshly. His hungry mouth descended to hers in demanding kisses that left her breathless with desire... Beautiful, dark-haired Sarah MacKenzie knew that she should not dream of loving Major Lucas Tanner. This supe...

  • Three Times Handke

    Peter Handke

  • The Night-Light Mother Goose

    Cheryl Harness

  • Your Daily Horoscope

    Janice Harrell

    AQUARIUS: MAJOR CHANGES IN THE MONTHS AHEAD Senior year was supposed to be the best, right? Well, Samantha wasn't so sure about that. First, Luke talked her into helping him with one of his crazy schemes. She knew it could get her in real trouble....

  • Blue Fire

    Emma Harrington

    1850. THE WAGON TRAIL WEST WAS PAVED WITH PRECIOUS DREAMS, RAW DANGER, AND PASSIONATE NIGHTS. Meredith knew the journey tested even the boldest of men. But the golden land called California beckoned, offering a fresh beginning, a life of countles...

  • The Stolen Horse

    Sharon M. Hart

  • Crutches

    Peter Hartling

    Translated from the German by Elizabeth D. Crawford. Based on the author's own wartime experiences, a gripping and affecting novel of friendship between twelve-year-old Thomas and a man who has lost his leg and asks to be called Crutches. "Has the in...

  • Both Sides Now

    Brooke Hastings

    All buttoned-down Bostonian Bradley Fraser wanted was a stable life with a predictable woman. He must have been temporarily insane to fall for Sabrina Lang--globe-trotting adventuress and enticing con artist. Surely time would help him forget their r...

  • The Singing Ringing Tree

    Selina Hastings

    A prince seeks the Singing Ringing Tree to please a vain and selfish princess so she will marry him, but the quest is dangerous and results in great misery for both before true love puts everything to rights....

  • The Canterbury Tales

    Selina Hastings

    Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Canterbury Tales gather twenty-nine of literature's most endurin...

  • It's Easy!

    Deborah Hautzig

  • The Dracula Caper

    Simon Hawke

    A plague of vampires and werewolves falls on Victoria's England in the late 1800s -- but there's nothing supernatural about these creatures. They're genetically engineered monsters from the far future, dropped into the past as a devilish tactic in th...

  • O'Daniel's Pride

    Susan Haynesworth

    The Farmer Takes a Husband? Lera O'Daniel was determined never to lose the land that had been in her family for generations, but times were hard... until she met Miles Macklin, and it seemed as if all her troubles were over. Not only did he want ...

  • The Last Spring in Paris

    Hans Herlin

  • Power City

    Beth Ann Herman

  • Peter Camenzind

    Hermann Hesse

    Peter Camenzind, a young man from a Swiss mountain village, leaves his home and eagerly takes to the road in search of new experience. Traveling through Italy and France, Camenzind is increasingly disillusioned by the suffering he discovers around hi...

  • Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1988

    Edward D. Hoch

  • The Lords of Vaumartin

    Cecelia Holland

    Her assiduous research providing absorbing background details, Holland illumines the words of scholars and soldiers in 14th century France. Young orphaned Everard de Vaumartin is heir to his family's castle in Brittany, but he prefers to immerse hims...

  • Bump in the Night

    Isabelle Holland

    Martha Tierney is awakened from a routine hangover by a call revealing her young son's disappearance, and she battles to find him and rescue herself from alcoholism. The nightmare begins on November 12 when Martha Tierney faces what every mother d...

  • Josie's Beau

    Natalie Honeycutt

    Twelve-year-old Beau and his best friend Josie find themselves in all kinds of trouble--from a lack of money, to bully Matt Ventura, to a well-intentioned lie that has profound repercussions--due to Beau's new skateboard...

  • Shades of Gray

    Kay Hooper

    Devastatingly good-looking and charismatic, ruler Andres Sereno was ruthless when it came to his island of Kadeira--and to the safety of Sara Marsh. Abducting her was the only way he knew to keep her from his enemies--and the only chance he had to ma...

  • The Secret of the Stolen Puppies

    Laura Lee Hope

  • The Best American Short Stories 1988

    Houghton Mifflin Company

  • Babes in Toyland

    James Howe

  • Nighty-Nightmare

    James Howe

    SLEEP TIGHT...IF YOU DARE! An overnight camping trip! In the woods! With bugs and ticks... and worse. Chester the cat couldn't believe the Monroes were going camping on Saint George's Eve, the one night of the year when evil spirits come out to prey...

  • Mile-High Madam

    E.J. Hunter

  • The Tale of Thomas Mead

    Pat Hutchins