I read this book when I was a teen and it must have made an impression because I still remember it. Unlike some of the other books featured on Throwback, Snow Bound has had a lot of buzz on Goodreads with 317 ratings and 57 reviews.
I felt it appropos, given the massive snowstorm across the eastern half of the country today, to feature this book. The basic plot is two teens become stranded in a remote area of upstate New York in a snowstorm and must find a way to cooperate with each other to survive. Both are woefully unprepared but somehow find out a lot about themselves.
This is a survival story but it is also a finding yourself and personal growth story. The protagonists, Tony and Cindy, find out a lot about themselves and grow significantly over the course of their experiences. The book is short (144 pages in the paperback) but is gripping and, from multiple reviews, accurately describes the perils of upstate New York in winter if you happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Harry Mazer wrote 22 novels for young adults, all of which can be characterized as "realistic" fiction. His wife was Norma Fox Mazer, also a prolific author of young adult fiction, including a Newbery Award. Their daughter, Anne Mazer, is also an author.
Snow Bound is recommended for reading in front of a warm fire with the wind howling outside and the snow deep on the yard and fields. It is available on Biblio.com for as little as $3.97.

Romance and Mystery are by far the two largest genres of fiction. Harlequin capitalized on this with their Intrigue series.
Romantic Suspense was first popularized in the 1950s and 1960s with the likes of Mary Stewart, Victoria Holt, and Phyllis Whitney. Harlequin launched Intrigue, with contemporary timelines and characters, in 1984. 
The Intrigue series, like other "harlequin" series, developed subseries within, usually based on a family (The McKenna Legacy), an organization (The Colby Agency) or a location (The Rose Tattoo). The subseries could be written by a single author, as our example today where all 12 volumes in The Rose Tattoo subseries were written by Kelsey Roberts, or multi-author, like the Colby Agency subseries.
Her Mother's Arms combines an adopted heroine looking for her biological mother, a sexy ex-CIA agent, and someone looking to kill the heroine for the truths she may uncover. As with most serial romances the story unrolls quickly and ends predictably but it is a fun ride. Intrigues run to about 250 pages, still well within a single evening's sitting.
Her Mother's Arms is a typical example of the genre and the series. It gets a 4.0 rating on Goodreads. Her Mother's Arms is available on Biblio for as little as $3.97.

On Throwback Thursday I will bring a brief re-introduction to a book out of print.
Last week it was a serial romance; this week I push back even further, to 1964 with a hard-boiled espionage thriller from Edward S. Aarons, Assignment Sulu Sea. This book was originally published in 1964 and went right to paperback. It was reprinted three more times, all by Fawcett - 1968, 1974, and 1981. It is the 20th book by Aarons featuring CIA agent Sam Durrell. It has a 3.54 star rating on Goodreads.
This novel, like the other 41 in the series, was set outside the U.S. and in the same temporal period as it was written (i.e. the 1960s). So the themes are the Cold War themes of the day. Aarons sold over 23 million books in the Durrell series, rivalling, at the time, Ian Fleming's James Bond novels in popularity. 
Assignment Sulu Sea is short, only 160 pages, so can be read in an evening. Durrell finds himself in a mystery with a missing submarine, friends in unexpected places, murder, and political intrigue in a Pacific island chain. It can be bought for as little as $5.63 on Biblio.

Let me start by saying that, although I own a Kindle, I still prefer the feel of a paper book in my hands. It is my plan to provide periodically a review of a book that is no longer in print but is available in the secondary market for a reasonable amount. 
Let me further inform you, before we get any further along, that I used to own a used book store with the largest collection of serial romance novels in New York, as far as I can tell.
Romance novels, at least since the early 1970s in the United States, have been massively successful and the primary success, until recently, in terms of actual titles and copies printed, was in the serial romance category, colloquially known by the name of the powerhouse publisher as “harlequins”. Each title typically had only a single print run and was released once, as part of a group of books, or “series” that were similar in format and level of eroticism and adventure.
By design then almost all serial romances are no longer in print and often were printed in relatively small numbers per title. One such title, from the Temptation series, is Alyssa Dean’s Manhunting in Miami. Dean wrote 6 novels for the series in all and Manhunting in Miami is probably her best. She got 4 stars from Romantic Times when the book came out and has an overall rating of 3.57 stars on Goodreads. Described as “lighthearted and humorous” it involves a professional woman who hires an investigator to find her husband candidates who will satisfy both herself and her upper-crust family.
Manhunting in Miami is available for as little as $4.75 from Biblio.

Alison Cragin Herzig and Jane Lawrence Hall spin a short, lively middle grades Halloween tale. A mysterious masked man and his two large dogs move in next door to Casey. She and her friends Cats and Benny think he must be some villain hiding from the law. But in a childhood adventure full of the wild plans and innocent pitfalls of childish imagination they find that the truth is both more frightening and more sympathetic and happy than they had imagined.

Herzig and Hall do a wonderful job in this unsung story. The characters are real, the plot quick and tight, and the story, though a bit dated, brings home the honesty of disability and prejudice against appearances. 

The book is a recommended read for middle grades readers.