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New Books List: 333 titles

  • The Witch Goddess

    Robert Adams

    The tale is set in precataclysmic North America, approximately 600 years after nuclear war, man-induced plagues, and worldwide seismic disturbances have thrown humanity into a brutal pre-industrial age. Much of California and the East Coast have sunk...

  • Some Other Summer

    C.S. Adler

    A thirteen-year-old orphan is baffled and upset when her long-time friend Jeremy comes to spend the summer on her uncle's horse ranch and seems to ignore her. Continues the story of "The Magic of Glits."...

  • Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Babe Ruth Baseball

    David A. Adler

    Fifth-grader Cam Jansen has the perfect chance to show off her amazing mental camera at the community hobby show -- especially at the Babe Ruth exhibit of baseball cards and other collectibles. But when the prized baseball, autographed by Babe Ruth, ...

  • Last Respects

    Catherine Aird

    MURDER AT EBB TIDE "Found drowned, my foot," said the pathologist two minutes after looking at the body. The unidentified young man pulled from the salt water near the fishing village of Edsway hadn't drowned after all. And he hadn't been a bather...

  • Royal Silk

    Marsha Alexander

  • Spring Fever

    Kerry Allyne

    Could any man do more damage than Corey? Even his own brother didn't want to see Corey Tavener when he returned home. Dale Freeman learned he had callously shirked his responsibilities eight years earlier, leaving the Queensland Gulf for green...

  • Castle Crespin

    Allen Andrews

  • Critical Path

    Michael Ansara

  • The Defector // Betrayal

    Evelyn Anthony

    A woman and a man have arrived at an English country house to spend a quiet weekend in the depths of Wiltshire. Surrounded by magnificent formal gardens they relax with drinks before dinner .The woman is Davina Graham, one of British Intelligence'...

  • Ogre, Ogre

    Piers Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    When a Nymph rides a Night Mare, Ogre beware!Smash knew all about ogres. After all, despite his having a human mother, Smash was an ogre himself. Ogres were not only huge and horribly ugly, as Smash was; they were also so stupid they could hardly spe...

  • Golden Shore

    Harvey Aronson

  • True Stories

    Margaret Atwood

  • The Powers

    William Bailey

  • Life Support

    Virginia Barclay

  • Death and the Princess

    Robert Barnard

    THE QUEEN WAS NOT AMUSED. Murder and royalty didn't mix. Princess Helena had only a distant claim to the throne, but when her friends and lovers began turning up dead, Buckingham Palace demanded to know why. The princess appeared to have a wildly wi...

  • My Lady of Cleves // The King's Choice

    Margaret Campbell Barnes

    My Lady of Cleves reveals the mesmerizing story of Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII's fourth wife, one of the rare women who matched wits successfully with the fiery king and lived to tell the tale. Written by world-renowned historical novelist Marg...

  • Trails to Glory

    Robert C. Barnes

  • The Descent of Anansi

    Steven Barnes; Larry Niven

    THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN... Its the American Revolution all over again. But this time its a rag-tag band of space colonists vs. The United States. And the fate of the world hangs by a thread--200 miles above the earth....

  • Daniel Boone: Westward Trail

    Neal Barrett Jr.

    The wilderness. It was a brutal force, a powerful magnet drawing Boone away from the woman he loved and the children he fathered … into the savage unknown. Rebecca Boone watched him go and waited for his return … her heart aching and filled wi...

  • Promise Me Love

    Lynn Bartlett

    She thought she could never love again. She was just sixteen when she met Neil Banning. Innocent of love and its deception, she was shattered to learn how cruelly her heart could be broken. Eden Thackery, the most desirable young lady among New Yo...

  • Giants in the Shadows

    Gloria Vitanza Basile

    The Manipulators In this shattering finale to the story of Val Erice and his relentless battle against worldwide conspiracy, we finally learn the dark secrets that have haunted his proud, self-made empire. The forces of IAGO, too, are unmasked and pr...

  • Fast Eddie

    Neil Bayne

  • Bob Fulton's Amazing Soda-Pop Stretcher

    Jerome Beatty

  • Bob Fulton's Terrific Time Machine

    Jerome J. Beatty

  • Jungle of Desire

    Antoinette Beaudry

    SHANGRI-LA Safely hidden in the far reaches of the lush Amazonian jungle lies a mythical paradise, peaceful and idyllic, isolated from civilization for over a century...until a band of vicious guerrillas invade the valley, greedily searching for dia...

  • The Creature Catalog: A Monster Watcher's Guide

    Michael Berenstain

  • Emerald Enchantment

    Nomi Berger

  • I Still Dream About Columbus

    Jack M. Bickham

  • All About Robots

    Mary Billard

  • Crossroads of Love

    Madeline Blackwood

  • Code of Arms

    Lawrence Block

  • Green Willow

    Barbara Bonham

    Almost from the first moment Selene Prescott arrived in Green Willow, she admires the handsome, intense young man who helps the new settlers adjust to life on the harsh frontier. As Selene's affection for Alex Berry deepens in to love, she comes to s...

  • Rum Colony

    Terry Nelsen Bonner

    AUSTRALIA A new land, A new way of life The recently discovered continent was many things to many people: For Annie Hollister, a young and spirited beauty it meant a chance for her family to overcome its past and make a new start...until the u...

  • Dangerous Promise

    Alyce Bowen

    IT HAD TO BE ALL -- OR NOTHING Stephanie had little choice but to accept Cade Steele's demand. As production coordinator she would be personally responsible to him while her company filmed on his ranch. But working with the formidable, deva...

  • Savage Embrace

    Alexis Boyard

    PRIMITIVE PASSION was what Sylviane felt when she first saw the powerful Indian warrior. Her heart raced with fear and her legs trembled in fright -- but she yearned to twine herself around him like a supple vine to a mighty oak. It didn't matter ...

  • Hawkmistress!

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    She had rejected her noble birthright and embraced the freedom only a man could claim. She was Romilly who lived among the beasts of hill and forest and communicated with them, who tried humanity and turned it down for its evils and jealousies. She h...

  • Murder Unprompted

    Simon Brett

    Here is another of Simon Bretts fascinating blends of crime and backstage drama. This time he provides what might be described as the biography of a playfrom the cradle to the grave. Murder Unprompted takes you from the author, to an unscrupulous pro...

  • Logic of the Heart

    Dixie Browning

    A SUMMER PARADISE Even though the trip was business, Emma looked forward to seeing the romantic island of Hatteras. Meeting the dark, handsome Dan Slater had not been part of her plans. But the situation she walked into grew as sizzling as the ...

  • Becoming a Heroine

    Rachel M. Brownstein

  • Catch a Falling Star

    John Brunner

  • Manshape

    John Brunner

    The interstellar Bridge System was the greatest invention in the long history of cosmic humanity Spread through dozens of planets, men and their societies had drifted apart in isolation until the Bridge came to link together humanity's multifold worl...

  • Polymath

    John Brunner

    Colonising a new planet requires much more than just settling on a newly discovered island of Old Earth. New planets were different in thousands of ways, different from Earth and from each other. Any of those differences could mean death and disaster...

  • Just Hold on

    Scott Bunn

    In their senior year, outsiders Charlotte and Stephen find each other and acceptance into the school's inner circle, but at times Charlotte's remoteness and Stephen's friendship with Rolf drive them apart...

  • Deathmate

    Martin Caidin

  • Morning, Rabbit, Morning

    Mary Caldwell

  • The Mountain Queen

    Chad Calhoun

  • To Catch the Wild Wind

    Jo Calloway

    From the moment he appeared on the beach -- tall, sun-bronzed, and impossibly handsome -- Kenda knew that she wanted him, loved him.... Kenda had survived the tropical storm that killed her father and destroyed his research lab. Alone on one of Fi...

  • Devil's Bargain

    Elaine Camp

    HE LURED HER INTO THE MAZE OF HIS HEART. Years ago, Alexis Walker had been easily wooed by the splendor of Greece and the charm of Drayce Tombazkis. Beneath the majestic columns of the Acropolis, they had shared a love that seemed blessed by the g...

  • Tomorrow's Journey

    Drusilla Campbell

    HOPEWELL SAGA The tangled destinies of the Hopewells and the Shawns are drawn to a startling and powerful climax...in this fourth and final volume of the HOPEWELL SAGA. Eben Hopewell - Bearing the guilt for the fate of a woman he never loved, c...

  • The Renegades

    Mary Canon

    Betrayed and driven... They were THE RENEGADES Under the tyranny of Cromwell's Puritan rule, the Irish fought vainly for their freedom. Caught in the struggle, Irish beauty Maggie O'Hara waged her own fierce war against marriage to a r...

  • Halloween

    John Carpenter

  • The Mendoza Manuscript

    Nick Carter

  • Power Play

    Jayne Castle

    Blackmail! Talia Haywood could hardly believe she was so desperate. But something about Kane Sebastian drove her to it: anything to get the information that only he could provide. She thought she knew his type: an arrogant industrial tycoon, the k...

  • The Cock, the Mouse and the Little Red Hen

    Lorinda Bryan Cauley

  • Blue Bear's Race

    Mirabel Cecil

  • A Fire of the Soul

    Ginger Chambers

    Safety -- that was what she needed most after the shock she'd received when she discovered that Carl, the man she'd thought was hers, was about to be married -- to her sister, Marla! A refuge -- but could she find it here on her uncle'...

  • Love's Tender Trial

    Maggi Charles

    When nurse Fern Morgan met Jonathan Delafield, she knew she had found someone special. She and the handsome district attorney struck sparks off each other from the first, but it was not until an injury placed him under her care that they learned ...

  • The Fantastic Saint

    Leslie Charteris

  • The Cage

    Susan Cheever

    Alone in their New Hampshire summer estate, magazine writer William Bristol and his suburb-bound wife, Julia, confront the fragmentation of their once-shared hopes amid the private-menagerie cages inherited from Julia's wealthy family...

  • Delicate Geometry

    Ken Chowder

  • Harvest of Desire

    Mary Christopher

    HIS WISH WAS HER COMMAND Katarin Jameson was spellbound. He was here, in the flesh, the Baron von Drachensberg -- tall, compelling and definitely interested in Katarin. When she'd returned to the land of her ancestors to run the family vineya...

  • Childrens Story

    James Clavell

    It was a simple incident in the life of James Clavell — a talk with his young daughter just home from school — that inspired this chilling tale of what could happen in twenty-five quietly devastating minutes. He writes, The Children's Stor...

  • The Cobweb Christmas

    Shirley Climo

    This beautiful picture book about the warmth and wonder of Christmas and the origin of tinsel on trees will leave children enchanted with the magical possibilities of the season.

    Everybody loves Christmas at Tante''s. The old lady decorates ...

  • Trails of Peril

    Ross Anton Coe

  • King of the Seventh Grade

    Barbara Cohen

  • Statues in a Garden

    Isabel Colegate

  • Claudine at School

    Colette

  • Girl Meets Boy

    Hila Colman

  • Family Happiness

    Laurie Colwin

    From the acclaimed author of Home Cooking comes a heartfelt novel about a midlife crisis and a woman tired of being taken for granted -- and a reminder that family, like happiness, can take many forms."Sheer perfection." -- Elin HilderbrandTo the re...

  • Satin and Steele

    Jaelyn Conlee

    Skye Anderson knew about love -- its pain and aching loss. As executive secretary at the Hayes Corporation, she had found safety in a cocoon of hard-working days and lonely nights. James Steele threw her into turmoil. Elegant and impossibly viril...

  • Robot Goes Collecting

    Ann Cook

  • The Orchids

    Thomas H. Cook

    Dr. Langhof, nearly forty years after his medical experiments for the Waffen SS, lives on in seclusion in the Republic, remembering--with no forgiveness or atonement--his descent into darkness and degradation...

  • A Tender Wilderness

    Christine Hella Cott

    SHE WASN'T A WOMAN WHO ACCEPTED DEFEAT Jessamine knew Bensen Everhart was annoyed with her. Too bad! She hadn't meant to dig up family skeletons -- but she had to research her historical novel, and that included his pioneer ancestry. St...

  • Forbidden Love

    Caroline Courtney

    Sir Hugh Abingdon was not the sort of man a properly bred youn girl would dare to meet alone... so Phyllida brought her chaperone. That was not enough for Bath society. To quiet the ensuing scandal, Phyllida was sent off to France into the protecti...

  • Texas Bride

    Catherine Creel

    WEDDING OF CONVENIENCE Ravishing Sarah Bradford was all alone in Wildcat City. The rough boomtown was full of brawny unbridled men and the Yankee beauty needed one man's protection. In name only Sarah became Mrs. Adam MacShane. And only then did she ...

  • Dear Shrink

    Helen Cresswell

  • The Case of the Kidnapped Angel

    E.V. Cunningham

    Masao Masuto is a Nisei detective on the Beverly Hills police force- a cultured stranger in an even stranger land of traffic-clogged freeways, artery-clogging fast food... and brutal murders. In The Case of the Sliding Pool, the collapse of a swimmin...

  • Animal Partners

    Patricia Curtis

    Discusses ways in which animals are trained to help the handicapped and to provide companionship for mentally retarded, ill, and elderly persons. Based on interviews with professional animal trainers, therapists, social workers, and teachers....

  • Kiss the Candy Days Good-Bye

    V.T. Dacquino

    The cars and horns. The colors combining. My lack of strength. Everything tried to keep me from getting home. But I made it. Finally the huge glass doors were in front of me. Through the glass I saw Harold. I pushed hard. Help me, I wanted to say. Bu...

  • The Second Time

    Janet Dailey

    How long could their love last? She had been an impetuous teenager when she had defied her love for Slater MacBride to marry a Texas millionaire, and she regretted her mistake. After eleven years of marriage without love, Dawn Lord was returning ...

  • A Family Album

    Frank V. Dawes

  • When Things of the Spirit Come First

    Simone De Beauvoir

  • Moon of Mutiny

    Lester Del Rey

  • The Names

    Don DeLillo

    Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters...

  • Orphan Army

    Lionel Derrick

  • Roses in Winter

    Joan Dial

    From the history of two generations touched by two great wars, comes a soaring epic of the human heart...of a girl born to a dying woman in the Great War's last dark hour, to live in England's most privileged splendor...of a young man who ran...

  • The Good-Guy Cake

    Barbara Dillon

  • The Belle of the Rio Grande

    Dorothy Dixon

    She was a dimpled, violet-eyed, black-haired beauty, who wore scarlet velvet dresses, white-plumed hats and two Navy Colts hanging from her shapely hips. She was Belle Starr, Queen of the Outlaws, and as she blazed her way through the wild frontier, ...

  • Child of Hell

    William Dobson

  • Time Safari

    David Drake

  • Tears and Laughter

    Rebecca Drury

  • Summer Magic

    Laura Eden

    SUMMER MAGIC ... For Alexa Jones this was to be a summer of rest and relaxation. But a vacation in Adam Carlyle's disturbing presence turned her world around. No more could she hold herself aloof from life, from men. Adam stormed her citadel, d...

  • Christmas Observed

    Owen Dudley Edwards

  • Annie and the Kidnappers

    Amy Ehrlich

  • Lone Star and the Border Bandits

    Wesley Ellis

    ACROSS THE BORDER! Nightriders are raiding the ranches near the Starbuck spread, so Jessie and Ki set out to raid the raiders. Then their trails split ...Jessie's leads to a remote U.S. Army outpost and the arms of a cavalry officer, while Ki's lead...

  • Little Company

    Mary Elmblad

  • The Samurai

    Shusaku Endo

    In 1613, with plans to open a trade route between Mexico and Japan, four Samurai and an ambitious Franciscan missionary embark on a journey that takes them to Mexico and Rome and back again to a Japan torn by strife...

  • Takeover

    Jonathan Evans

    A fight for control of the world’s largest hotel chain turns vicious

    Harry Rudd has put his past behind him. He has forgotten his impoverished roots, his carefree college days, and his life with Angela. Forgetting Angela has been the ...

  • Longarm in the Badlands

    Tabor Evans

    LAND IS MONEY IN THE GODFORSAKEN BADLANDS Interior is nothing but a two-bit town in the Dakota Territory -- a land where pistol-toting sharp-shooters make their own laws, and corrupt lawmen choose not to notice... But when two U.S. Land Office ...

  • The Riddle of Raggedrock Ridge

    Marilyn Ezzell

    EARTHSHAKING SLEUTHING Susan Sand and her best friend Marge Halloran are horseback riding on a tranquil autumn day. As they reach Raggedrock Ridge, boulders and rocks begin to tumble and splinter, and an earth tremor ensues, bolting Marge from her...

  • The Purple Book

    Philip Jose Farmer

  • Skeleton in Search of a Closet

    E.X. Ferrars / Elizabeth Ferrars

  • Love Has Its Reasons

    Olivia Ferrell

    LOVE HAS ITS REASONS. Cara Lang had been slumbering, waiting, though she hadn't known it until Sloan Montgomery stormed into her life and awakened the woman inside her. She shivered beneath his touch, gloried in his dazzling gaze and reveled in...

  • Texas Dawn

    Phillip Finch

    Three homeless and rootless Civil War veterans strike out for Texas where they start the Circle Three Bar, a sweeping cattle ranch that comes to dominate their lives and the lives of their descendants...

  • Taken by Storm

    Glenna Finley

    On a business trip to England, a beautiful young woman becomes a player in a perilous game of love… A Heartfelt Confusion Lovely American Rosemary Lewis never imagined that a simple buying trip to England could make her life so complicated. B...

  • Searching

    Jessie Ford

  • Land of Dreams

    Michael Foreman

  • Dark Angel

    Sean Forestal

  • Mantissa

    John Fowles

    In Mantissa (1982), a novelist awakes in the hospital with amnesia -- and comes to believe that a beautiful female doctor is, in fact, his muse....

  • Crib

    Harold Lee Friedman

    SHHHH. THE BABY IS ASLEEP... Right from the beginning, Joni Lawrence and her baby had a strange and wonderful connection her husband could not understand and could not share. Somehow she could speak to six-month old Stephen without words...without...

  • The Blaze

    Elizabeth Fritch

  • World of Dark Crystal

    Brian Froud

  • The Shadow Line

    Laura Furman

    When reporter Liz Gold fled to Houston to escape her family and her wrecked marriage, she investigates the twenty-year-old murder of the mistress of a prominent businessman and uncovers the truth about the murder--and herself...

  • The Nurse's Story

    Carol Gino

    The Nurse’s Story is a unique amalgam of real experiences and true stories, creatively merged into the character of Teri Daley, a young nurse with idealism, who feels a genuine “calling” to help others. Teri is a new nurse, a real ...

  • Controlled Cheating

    Larry Goldberg

  • Wilberforce Goes on a Picnic

    Margaret Gordon

  • Smile on the Void

    Stuart Gordon

  • Saigon

    Anthony Grey

    Four families--American, French, and Vietnamese--find their destinies intertwined as they endure fifty years of political turmoil, revolution, and war, in a story that traces the fate of Saigon from 1925 to 1975...

  • Shadow on the Trail

    Zane Grey

    In the days of the frontier West, it was not unusual for desperadoes and fugitives from justice to seemingly disappear from the face of the earth. Shadow on the Trail by Zane Grey, one of the bestselling authors of all-time, is the story of one such ...

  • The Lieutenants

    W.E.B. Griffin

    They were the young ones, the bright ones, the ones with the dreams. From the Nazi-prowled wastes of North Africa to the bloody corridors of Europe, they answered the call gladly. War. It was their duty, their job, their life. They marched off as boy...

  • The Time of the Witch

    Mary Downing Hahn

    Laura tells an old woman of her wish that her parents were back together again, without realizing that she is speaking to a real witch....

  • Life Sentences

    Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

    A woman who encounters tragedy unexpectedly has two choices. She can spend her life mourning. . .or she she can learn to live again. The choice Lindsay Howard made after her young husband's accident would outrage some people and inspire others. ...

  • Winds of Desire

    Jocelyn Haley

    SHE HAD UNDERESTIMATED THE POWER OF PASSION When Dr. Michael Stratton chose Tracey for his arts scholarship she cried for joy. At last she could quit waitressing and write full-time. But she didn't trust the attractive doctor's motives. Mo...

  • Our New Baby

    Jane Hamilton-Merritt

  • The Venetian Court

    Charles L. Harness

    The Plaintiff, Universal Patents, Inc., was heartless.The judge, Rex "Spider" Speyer was merciless. Ellen Welles' case seemed hopeless.Unless her lawyer could locate the mad creator of FAUST - the robot-inventor who'd given Universal Patents its stra...

  • Burton and Speke

    William Harrison

  • A Fatal Attraction

    Shirley Hart

    His eyes moved insolently over her, following the slim curves of her body down to the delicate instep of her heeled sandals. Amanda met his mocking gaze with cool eyes. She remembered him. The formidable Reid Buchanan, a man who changed women as e...

  • Where Passion Waits

    Virginia L. Hart

  • The Killing Connection

    Dane Hartman

  • Voices in the Dark

    James Haynes

    There is a fear which Christie cannot escape. Can she save herself from the grip of a power beyond her control?...

  • Blue Highways

    William Least Heat-Moon

    Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads.William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those lit...

  • The Flight of Bembel Rudzuk

    Russell Hoban

  • The Devil's Mistress

    Sarah Holland

    Alex Brent was a dangerous man! Natasha was horrified to learn he had been chosen for the starring role opposite her. Once they had been everything to each other, but he had chosen to believe the lies of Roger, his spoiled, willful brother. Ale...

  • The Bell Tree

    H.M. Hoover

  • An Improper Betrothment

    Henrietta Houston

    Nell Trant knew Sir Charles Grayson kept several light-skirts. She had jilted him for that very reason -- at their betrothment ball no less. A shocking scandal! Later she regretted her haste -- though she admitted it to no one... Now she is beside...

  • Easy Company and the Twilight Sniper

    John W. Howard

  • An Independent Wife

    Linda Howard

    AN INDEPENDENT WIFE... ...and determined to stay that way--that was Sallie Jerome Baines. Her husband Rhydon Baines had broken her heart and once, she had vowed, was enough. Then fate brought them together again, and the new Sallie fell for Rhy...

  • The Money, Honey

    Linda U. Howard

    A sweepstakes winning sweeps still-aspiring artist Matthew Morganstein into the upbeat world of high finance and tax shelters, but he longs for a return to the days of pre-monetary, idyllic, bohemian bliss with his Jewish-princess lover, Ariel...

  • Annie Joins the Circus

    James Howe

  • Trotsky's Run

    Richard Hoyt

    When the famous British traitor Kim Philby contacts a U.S. Agent in Moscow claiming to have important information, the CIA is cautiously interested. Their counterintelligence director Ara Schott, normally a desk man, goes along to Yalta to talk to Ph...

  • Apple Crunch

    Frederic V. Huber

  • Alice with Golden Hair

    Eleanor Hull

  • Marcus Whitman: Frontier Mission

    Greg Hunt

    A backwoods doctor and fearless adventurer, Marcus Whitman was respected and admired by all who traveled the Oregon Trail. By cart and wagon, on horse and on foot, the settlers came in increasing numbers…welcomed to the rich, verdant valley where W...

  • Tough-Luck Karen

    Johanna Hurwitz

    This fourth novel about the popular Sossi family focuses on 13-year-old Karen and the bad luck she encounters when she ignores her schoolwork for cooking and babysitting. "Skilled in making everyday occurrences interesting, the author has written a p...

  • Enchanted Island

    Jean Innes

    With the stars as her guide and nature's colors as her inspiration, lovely Shelley Rogers had made a name for herself as London's most gifted interior designer. Now she was off to the sun-bright Isle of Jersey to redecorate wealthy Alex Hart's enchan...

  • Promise the Earth

    Clive Irving

    Recounts the complex, protracted, and bloody events of the settling of modern Palestine, during and just after World War I, with an ensemble of characters that includes such near-mythic, historical figures as Weizman, Ibn Saud, and T.E. Lawrence...

  • Warlock of Firetop Mountain

    Steve Jackson

    FIGHTING FANTASY is the brilliant series of adventure gamebooks in which YOU are the hero! Decide which monsters to fight, which paths to take, who to trust and when to run. Can you survive the clutches of the hideous Bloodbeast, or defeat a noxious ...

  • Henry James

    Henry James

    In a penetrating examination of Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, What Maisie Knew, The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl, Hutchinson shows that, like the major American authors who preceded him, Henry J...

  • In Name Only

    Roxanne Jarrett

    HOW COULD SHE MARRY A STRANGER? Finally, Jill Carteret was going to Brazil. But she was not going to work in her uncle's company as she had planned. Instead, her uncle, now deceased, had arranged for Jill to marry his younger partner, Simon Todd. ...

  • Censors in the Classroom

    Edward B. Jenkinson

  • The Stone Maiden

    Velda Johnston

    The advertisement, complete with box number, appeared in New York newspapers: "Will anyone having information about an infant abandoned in Manhattan twenty-eight years ago please communicate." -- Katherine Derwith had placed the advertisement. In ...

  • When September Returns

    McClure Jones

    "MAYBE YOU OUGHT TO GO OUT WITH OTHER GUYS," Joanne's friends all told her. But she couldn't. She had fallen for Tim . Tim with his blond hair and crooked smile, Tim who called her gorgeous. She knew that she had another year of school, while Tim wa...

  • The Silken Web

    Laura Jordan (2)

    WITH SUMMER'S SWIFT PASSION, THEY MET AND LOVED... Beautiful fashion buyer Kathleen Haley was determined to resist Erik Gudjonsen, the magnetic blond photographer on assignment at the camp where she was a volunteer counselor. But soon she was ...

  • Some Things Dark and Dangerous

    Joan Kahn

  • Wildraith's Last Battle

    Phyllis Ann Karr

    She had been a God, lord of all forests and the creatures that dwell within, until a small and thoughtless act of cruelty brought heavenly justice upon her, sentencing her to the worst punishment of all: to become human....

  • Red Heat

    William Katz

  • Silver Rose

    David A. Kaufelt

    THE PASSION OF CASABLANCA THE DECADENCE OF CABARET THE LOST INNOCENCE OF…SILVER ROSE Rennie Jablonski -- she came back to Berlin, into the gathering storm to rescue her father. She stayed because there was no turning back. She stayed to beco...

  • A Scandalous Bequest

    April Kihlstrom

    A KNOWING YOUNG LADY Felicity Lyford harbored no illusions as to why both the debonaire Lord Harry Eastcott and the dashing Sir Anthony Woodhall might want her hand in wedlock. Their wealthy and eccentric old aunt, Lady Cora Meecham, had told them...

  • Night Vision

    Frank King

    Avenging herself on her former lover and protege, Dr. Helen Roth unleashes the energy behind the dream process to psychologically manipulate Paul Stanislaus into committing increasingly violent crimes...

  • Different Seasons

    Stephen King

    An unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge... a teenager becomes both the puppet and the puppet master of evil...four rambunctious young boys plunge through the facade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death, ...

  • Mixed Doubles

    Meredith Kingston

    Cynthia and Russ were powerful opponents on the tennis court and in every argument--but friends nonetheless. Then they went their separate ways. Reunited years later, both single once again, their comfortable companionship suddenly burst into a torri...

  • Autumn Beginning

    Kay Kirby

  • Slice of Life

    J. Kisner

  • The Day Before Tomorrow

    Gerard Klein

  • The Turtle Street Trading Co.

    Jill Ross Klevin

  • Monster

    Jeffrey Konvitz

    A monster stirs at the bottom of Loch Ness. For centureies it has lived in peace, rising to the surface, from time to time, to become a legend in the hills of Scotland. Now something has arrived to disturb it's tranquility - the violent, greedy thru...

  • Syndic

    C.M. Kornbluth

    There have been a thousand tales of future Utopias and possible civilizations. They have been ruled by benevolent dictatorships and pure democracies, every form of government from extreme right to absolute left. Unique among these is the easy-going s...

  • Steps

    Jerzy Kosinski

    This National Book Awardâ€"winning novel of power, libido, and morality is “a powerful and profoundly disturbing book” (The New York Times).   First published in 1968, Jerzy Kosinski’s classic vision of moral and sexual estrangement captur...

  • The Shadow Riders

    Louis L'Amour

    RIDE THROUGH THE SHADOW OF DEATH Dal and Mac Traven left Texas young and idealistic. They came back from opposite sides of a living hell, a war that had torn a nation in two. They wanted only to reclaim their old lives, but one man held their futu...

  • Tapestry of Love

    Cathryn Ladd

    TANGLED THREADS OF ROMANCE Beautiful young Callie Forbes could scarcely believe her good fortune when Owen Trenwyn hired her to help him catalog his precious art and antique collection. The job was a challenge, and her elderly employer treated Cal...

  • For the Love of Lori

    Veronica Ladd

    Andy and Lori neighbors and friends since kindergarten. They had never imagined that anything could come between them. Yet when they exchange their first kiss, everything changed. Would they ever be friends again? Or should they chance the bitte...

  • The Mace and the Plume

    Jeanne Lancour

    A courtly saga of love and triumph in the era of knights and kings, this is the powerful story of two young, proud women who share a common ancestry...shattered by the treachery and deceit of the men who would steal their lands. From the fief of Leau...

  • Passions

    Barney Leason

    Passions is a humorous look at the high-flying world of Parisian haute couture designers, foreign correspondents, political intrigue, and the demands of the big egos involved....

  • Manitou's Daughter

    Paul Joseph Lederer

  • The Blue and the Gray

    John Leekley

    THE BOND OF BLOOD MADE THEM A FAMILY. WAR MADE THEM ENEMIES. The Geysers and the Hales: one set of cousins sweated its living from the soil, the other from a small-town newspaper. One made its home in the South, the other -- only a few miles ride aw...

  • Yesterday's Tears

    Susannah Leigh

    SISTERS UNDER THE SKIN Faith Eliot came from England to the South Carolina plantation of Havenhurst to find out the truth about the mysterious death of her twin sister, Fleur. But when she arrived, she could feel Fleur's spirit come alive -- within ...

  • Water Dancer

    Jenifer Levin

    Several years after being ranked the top female marathon swimmer, Dorey Thomas determines to swim the as yet uncrossed San Antonio Strait and turns for training to Sarge Olssen, who lost his only son to the strait...

  • Shadow Like a Leopard

    Myron Levoy

    Ramon Santiago, a fourteen-year-old street kid and poet, records his thoughts in a notebook. He is skilled with words and skilled with his knife, when needed. Alone, he wants to join a street gang to be macho, but to prove himself, he must rob an eld...

  • Why Am I Grown So Cold? Poems of the Unknowable

    Myra Cohn Livingston

  • Spirit Woman War

    Warren T. Longtree

  • The Good Old Stuff

    John D. MacDonald

    The Good Old Stuff has been selected to give readers a taste of John D. MacDonald's great fiction. "The Simplest Poison" is a straight detective story. "Miranda" is psychological suspense. "Noose for a Tigress" is about a woman who wanted too m...

  • Cirak's Daughter

    Charlotte MacLeod

    A young woman investigates the death of her wealthy, estranged father in a small Rhode Island town in this novel by the author of the Peter Shandy Mysteries. -- Murder can happen anywhere, even in sleepy Meldrum, Rhode Island. And while the town’...

  • The Search for Anderson

    I.I. Magdalen

  • An Accidental Grace

    Irene Mahoney

  • The Haunting

    Margaret Mahy

    Nobody knew. Or did they? Barney's family seems ordinary enough...until Great Uncle Barnaby dies. Suddenly, an eerie, weird voice starts taunting poor Barney unmercifully. It won't leave him alone. Only his sister Tabitha, the aspiring novelist, s...

  • Dream Come True

    Ann Major

    SECRETS OF LOVE He had seared her innocence with burning desire. Now, six years after their divorce, Barron Skyemaster, superstar, tried to claim her again. But how could Amber face him after denying him the knowledge of his son-a son he had every...

  • The Counterfeit Husband

    Elizabeth Mansfield

    If only she could pretend forever... Camilla, Countess of Wyckfield, heaved her book at Thomas. "Why, you... you...!" "Bounder? Jackanapes? Dastard?" he supplied. "All of them! Get out of my sight!" She didn't s...

  • Contessa

    Helene Mansfield

    DEBUTANTE Valentina's debut into glittering Parisian society was everything she dreamed it would be. She flirted with the handsome Prince of Wales, drank champagne until she was dizzy with desire and danced until dawn glowed rosy pink over the br...

  • Light Thickens

    Ngaio Marsh

    "TURN, HELL-HOUND, TURN!" The fight. Leap, clash, sweep; hoarse, snarling voices. Macbeth is beaten backward, Macduff raises his claymore, and they plunge out of sight. A scream. A thud. Silence. Seyton carries his claidheamh-mor and on it, str...

  • Rawhide Woman

    Cort Martin

    BOLT WAS A WANTED MAN...WANTED BY HIS FAMILY THE LAW--AND BY A WHOLE LOTOF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN! On the trail to Fair Chance, Bolt gallops straight into the gunsights of Rawhide Kate. But before she can pull the trigger, Bolt lets her know he comes in pea...

  • Fevre Dream

    George R.R. Martin

    A THRILLING REINVENTION OF THE VAMPIRE NOVEL BY THE MASTER OF MODERN FANTASY, GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Abner Marsh, a struggling riverboat captain, suspects that something's amiss when he is approached by a wealthy aristocrat with a lucrative offer. Th...

  • China Winter

    Carole Maso

  • The Sphinx

    Graham Masterton

    A horrifying legacy is brought to life.
    Gene Keiller, a young politician with a reputation to enforce finds his world shattered when he meets a beautiful woman at a party; a woman with a terrifying and secret past.

    The Sphinx describe...

  • A Flame Too Fierce

    Jan Mathews

    Bereaved by death, betrayed by love, nurse Gin Selton seeks a safe, new life in Minnesota. But Noah Grady--whose reputation as a lover exceeds his renown as a physician--makes excessive demands at work that bring them into explosive opposition... unt...

  • Empire

    Patricia Matthews; Clayton

    A breathtaking novel of wealth, pride and passion on America's last frontier. From Alaska's boozing, brawling boomtowns to the graft-ridden pipeline andlawless frontier, the Cole dynasty was spawned from blood and money, cursed by the Midas touch....

  • The Runes of the Lyre

    Ardath Mayhar

    Created by the powerful Hasyisi, yet missing for centuries from its home world, the Lyre just hangs in a willow tree, waiting. Hasyih, the Heart of the Worlds, links contiguous dimensions, many worlds invisible to each other, yet accessible through d...

  • Dangerous Journey

    Margaret Mayo

    No doubt about it, Verna was inhibited She'd always kept her relationships with men light, friendly. Whenever stronger feelings threatened, her mother's biased cautions would come back to save her. But Verna had never before met anyone ...

  • When We First Met

    Norma Fox Mazer

    They Never Should Have Met -- But They Did... When Jenny meets Rob Montana she's happier than she's been in a long time. Theirs is the kind of love she thought existed only in movies. It seems that Jenny and Rob can talk about and share everything...

  • The Running Backs

    Robert McKay

    An 18-year-old goes from a reformatory to a small town high school, joins the football team, and tries to put his life in order. High school senior Jack Delaney, new in town, joins the football team as running back and rapidly becomes the school h...

  • Pennies for the Piper

    Susan H. McLean