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  • One Morning

    Canna Funakoshi

  • Georgia Music

    Helen V. Griffith

    A young girl finds a way to make her sick grandfather laugh again by bringing back the Georgia music they had shared the summer before. Luminous watercolors.—Kirkus Reviews. A sensitive portrayal of the vital connection between young and old....

  • The Imperiled Heiress

    Janice Kay Johnson

    She expected her luck to change--not to end ... Despite her newfound wealth, Miss Emma Denton had to admit that luck wasn't on her side. The team of horses that nearly trampled her to death had probably been frightened out of control. And perhaps ...

  • The Cat Who Saw Red

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    Something is amiss at Maus Haus. Not just the mystery of an unsolved "suicide" which hangs over the old mansion, but something ominous in the present-day residence. When Qwilleran moves in to work on his new gastronomical assignment, strange things b...

  • Pecos Bill

    Steven Kellogg

    "The anecdotes associated with Texas's fabled cowboy hero burst from the pages in rapid succession, Kellogg's robust illustrations enlarging and enriching the energetic text."--School Library Journal. "A read-aloud treat....One of Kellogg's best."--B...

  • Motor City Blue

    Loren D. Estleman

    "If I see my name in tomorrow's paper yours will be in the next edition. Bordered in black."

    Marla Bernstein is a pretty, dark-haired teenager? who also happens to be the ward of Ben Morningstar-a semi-retired mobster who prefers to keep family bu...

  • Death Notes // Put On By Cunning

    Ruth Rendell

    Sir Manuel Camargue, yesterday one of the most celebrated musicians of his time, today floats face down in the lake near his sprawling English country house. The consensus is accidental death -- but Inspector Wexford knows the stench of murder most f...

  • Live Flesh

    Ruth Rendell

    After ten years in prison for shooting -- and permanently crippling -- a young policeman, Victor Jenner is released to a strange new world and told to make a new life for himself. It's hard to fill the days, but at least there's one blessing -- he wa...

  • Group Sex

    Ann Arensberg

    Frances Girard is no longer interested in her mundane job and increasingly boring life, and she sees Paul Treat, and eccentric young threatrical director, as an irresistible chance to leave it all behind...

  • Niccolo Rising

    Dorothy Dunnett

    With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolo series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid m...

  • Peat Moss and Ivy and the Birthday Present

    Michael Berenstain

  • No-No the Little Seal: A Story for Very Young Children That Tells about Sexual Abuse

    Judith Feldman

  • Grey Wolf, Grey Sea

    Elizabeth Blanchard Gasaway

  • The Call of Home

    Melinda Cross

    Underneath, she was a woman in need of love Jessie'd had to make herself strong to cope with family obligations. But now she was free to pursue her wildlife painting. She headed back to her childhood haunt, to the cabin on her father's ...

  • Blind Date

    Emma Darcy

    "Men should be kept barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen." There, Peggy grinned mischievously, no man would "warm up" to an answer like that. Especially not Adam Gale, the sexiest celebrity in the country - bound to be a chauvinis...

  • The Apollo Man // Romance of Emva

    Jean S. MacLeod

    He said he had come back for a reason Six years ago, an ambitious Andreas Phedonos had deserted his island home of Cyprus and his childhood sweetheart, Anna. Now he'd returned, a charming and successful businessman. Anna, independent and wi...

  • The Secret Pool

    Betty Neels

    She needed time - away from him! Likable, sensible Francesca seldom met anyone she didn't get along well with. In fact, as ward nurse of a Costwold village hospital, she was considered perfect. Except, it seemed, in the eyes of Dr. van Ri...

  • Rude Awakening

    Elizabeth Power

    He was a man who built empires When Fleur Galaway's boss, Elliot Steadman, accused her of dipping into company secrets, she was shocked! Fleur--an industrial spy? Nothing could be further from the truth. But the determined and attractive ch...

  • The Marquess and Miss Yorke

    Rosina Pyatt

    "I am Miss Yorke--the infamous Miss Yorke!" Thus defiantly did Tiffy Yorke introduce herself to the marquess of Delamaine. She expected no more from him than from anyone else in England--condescension, contempt and freezing disapproval. Instead...

  • Red Storm Rising

    Tom Clancy

    A chillingly authentic vision of modern war, Red Storm Rising is as powerful as it is ambitious. Using the latest advancements in military technology the world's superpowers battle on land, sea and air for ultimate global control. It is a story you w...

  • Lythande

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    LYTHANDE WAS PLEDGED BY SWORD AND SPELL TO FOREVER FIGHT THE FORCES OF CHAOS... A Pilgrim Adept of the Blue Star, Lythande had mastered all the true magics of the world. But the power of an Adept was always bound to a Secret, and whoever discovere...

  • Fires of Destiny

    Linda Barlow

    She felt his pulsing warmth, his essence, his strong primal energy -- and her soul yearned for him to shower her with ecstasy... He wanted her desperately -- Alexandra could feel it with every sweet, slow, deepening kiss. That was why Roger Trevor...

  • Lythande

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    LYTHANDE WAS PLEDGED BY SWORD AND SPELL TO FOREVER FIGHT THE FORCES OF CHAOS... A Pilgrim Adept of the Blue Star, Lythande had mastered all the true magics of the world. But the power of an Adept was always bound to a Secret, and whoever discovere...

  • Rhapsody

    Michael French

  • The Memories of Milo Morai

    Robert Adams

    As peace ends hostilities between the Kindred clans, Milo Morai, the Undying High Lord of the Horseclans, and a select band of hunters set out to explore unknown territory and find themselves caught up in an ancient legacy of violence that threatens ...

  • The Unicorn Gambit

    David Bischoff

    Fine Fine Fine Fine Fine Fine Paperback Fine ALMOST NEW CONDITION, NEARLY PERFECT FOR IT? S AGE! INCREDIBLE SINCE IT WAS PUBLISHED SO MANY YEARS BACK. THIS IS A TREMENDOUS FIND, A GREAT BOOK IN THIS NEAR PERFECT CONDITION, THAT WAS PUBLISHED YEARS AG...

  • Little Sins

    Meredith Rich

    They are friends and they are lovers. Two women and one man searching for a special stardom, but bound together by a passion stronger than any wealth or fame. Lydia, the blue blood with a rebellious heart. Juno, part Navajo, with a desperate need ...

  • The Warrior Challenged

    Sharon Green

  • Forever Begins Tomorrow

    Bruce Coville

    Can the gang save the world before it’s too late? When it comes down to adults versus kids, who’s going to believe the kids—even if they are geniuses? That’s the problem the A.I. Gang faces when they find themselves ...

  • The Fiancee and Other Stories

    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

    Twelve stories deal with a young woman who decides to break with her smug fiance, a suicide inquest, a woman who murders her husband, a greedy merchant, a declining family of landowners, and a tactless host...

  • Six Feet of the Country

    Nadine Gordimer

  • The Figure in the Carpet and Other Stories

    Henry James

    The stories in this collection were written mostly between 1888 and 1897, a time when Henry James’s writing was concerned with the art of fiction and the position of the artist in society. The motif and title story, ‘The Figure in the Carpet’, ...

  • The Night We Ate the Sparrow

    Morris Lurie

  • The Pothunters and Other School Stories

    P.G. Wodehouse

    P.G. Wodehouse was a British writer best known for his humorous fiction.  Wodehouse’s long career produced many classics with his most famous works centering around Jeeves, the genius valet of Bertie Wooster.  This edition of The Pothunte...

  • Tale of a One-Way Street and Other Stories

    Joan Aiken

    We are taken to peculiar lands where all the magical things that only seem to happen in dreams really do happen. We meet strange creatures by going the wrong way up a one-way street. We learn about what a peculiar muddle your presents can get into wh...

  • Millie Cooper, 3B

    Charlotte Herman

  • Tough Chauncey

    Doris Buchanan Smith

    ... troubled kid. Small for thirteen but tougher than anyone except maybe his rival Black Jack Levitt, Chauncey finds himself hitting out irrationally (and usually physically) at everyone who comes near. Though he longs to live with his thrice-divorc...

  • Tales from The Wind in the Willows

    Margaret Gordon

  • Forget-Me-Not

    Paul Rogers

  • Forever Friends

    Candy Dawson Boyd

  • Dreams

    Peter Spier

  • A Horse to Remember

    Sam Savitt

  • Read-It-Yourself Storybook: A Collection of Seven Easy-to-Read Stories

    Leland B. Jacobs

  • Prisoner of Desire

    Jennifer Blake

    AS MARDI GRAS FLARED IN THE GLITTERING STREETS OF NEW ORLEANS, ECSTASY BLAZED IN A SMALL, STARK ROOM.... To prevent the duel she was sure would kill her sister's fiance, Anya Hamilton took as her prisoner the magnificently handsome Ravel Duralde. ...

  • Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius

    Michael Moorcock

  • Longarm and the Crooked Railman

    Tabor Evans

  • Lone Star and the Land Barons

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki are marked for murder in a ruthless power grab!They may be British lords and bankers, but a cloak of respectability can't disguise their treacherous plot. The power-hungry businessmen are scheming to buy up all the land rights of the Wy...

  • The Border Bandit

    Max Brand

    WANTED! Oliver Tay THE BORDER BANDIT WANTED: DEAD -- by a ruthless slave-owning Mexican silver tycoon. DEAD -- by a brave but fooli8sh commander of a U.S. Army garrison. DEAD -- by a great Comanche was chief. But WANTED: ALIVE -- b...

  • The Chilling Deception

    Jayne Castle

    COLD VENGEANCE GUINEVERE JONES - Besides being brainy, brave, and beautiful, she had an uncanny way with people. From the moment she found the gold gun in the mauve-and-black marble executive washroom, she knew Mr. Vandyke was in serious trouble. ...

  • 22 Indigo Place

    Sandra Brown

    Once James Paden had been the high-school bad boy --too dangerous to flirt with, but too gorgeous to ignore? Now Laura Nolan faced him as a woman, about to lose the home that had been a symbol of the good life in her small town to a man whose desir...

  • By Love Betrayed

    Ada John

    Reporter Lainie Wilson never stoops to deceit for a scoop--until she's forced to write an expose on reclusive millionaire Paul Reynard. Under false pretenses she hires herself out as a companion to "Americanize" his cloistered teenage daughter, then ...

  • Satin Surrender

    Carol Finch

    UNKNOWN DECEPTION Young and beautiful, Erica Bennet refused to obey her father's wishes and spend the rest of her life in an arranged marriage to the lecherous Sabin Keary. She had no knowledge of physical love, but she knew there was a man somewher...

  • Long Road Home

    Jean Faure

    It's dangerous to consort with strangers, but truck driver Erin Taliferro can't afford to refuse brawny Luke Reardon's offer of help. She'll warily share his fancy rig for the chance to repay her debts and leave the hard life behind. But Luke's myste...

  • Whispers from the Past

    Mary Haskell

    Californian Vicki Addison is finally ready to claim her ancestral New England home. But foxy Mark Rogers has bought it out from under her! Worse, the unscrupulous developer plans to sully the building's feminine grace with macho innovations. Though i...

  • On the Winds of Love

    Lori Leigh

    Not Even Royal Treachery Could Destroy Love's Perfect Destiny LOVE'S PASSIONATE ALLIANCE He was the most magnificent man she'd ever seen -- tall, dark, powerful, his muscular physique honed to perfection. and he was to become her h...

  • Heart's Echo

    Jan McKee

    ON THE KANSAS PLAINS, A BEAUTIFUL WIDOW FOUGHT THE JOY--AND THE PAIN--OF A LONG-AGO LOVE Lovely and penniless, Amanda Ames returned to her aunts cattle ranch ...and to the memories of a shattered dream. Jason Thorne, the boy who had broken her you...

  • Pocketful of Miracles

    Diana Morgan

    Ex-nurse Mallory Taylor hops a ferry to Nantucket, seeking to escape bossy doctors, and instead confronts the most overbearing one of all: Dr. "Mac" McClintock. Only he would have the gall to make her senses sizzle...then expect her to help deliver a...

  • A Question of Honor

    Ana Leigh

    A COMPELLING STORY OF UNQUENCHABLE PASSION She was running toward a forbidden marriage; he was destined for the dangers of war. But when lovely Raven Kirkland met fellow passenger Matthew Elliot aboard the ship that was carrying them from England ...

  • Lady Sherry and the Highwayman

    Maggie MacKeever

    She could harbor him from the law, but could she keep him from stealing her love? WHAT A LOSS TO THE LADIES OF LONDON--A MOST HANDSOME HIGHWAYMAN MUST BE HANGED! Celebrated writer Lady Sherris Childe is perhaps the only female in England eager ...

  • Lord Abberley's Nemesis

    Amanda Scott

    A DETERMINED YOUNG BEAUTY MUST PROVE HERSELF A MATCH FOR A LICENTIOUS LORD THE DISSOLUTE EARL AND THE RESOLUTE GIRL Adam Fortescue, the sixth Earl of Abberley, was the scandal of the county. This handsome lord had let his estate go to ruin and ...

  • Midnight Thunder

    Casey Stuart

    Stormy Ecstasy Gabrielle St. James tried to do her share toward reconstruction after the war, but the constant pain of seeing her beloved Vicksburg in ruin was more than the young beauty could stand. So she planned a desperate action, to rob a tra...

  • The Dance Master

    Norma Harris

  • Angel in Scarlet

    Jennifer Wilde

    Angela Howard was the toast of London -- a breathtaking vision every woman envied and every man longed to possess. Few would have dreamed this violet-eyed beauty was the precocious child of a country schoolmaster... the feisty girl who had spurned Lo...

  • Reckless Glances, Stolen Chances

    Lee Williams

    Sharing a sleeper on the night train to Paris with sexy leading man Kevin Tanner leaves gourmet chef Claudia Wells cooking tip a storm of forbidden fantasies. Even his proposition is tantalizing: He'll free her front the clutches of a slave-driving b...

  • The Fire Eaters

    Don Pendleton

    ACADEMY OF DEATH The bizarre killing of an ex-Vietnam buddy brings Mack Bolan to a military academy in California. In his role as survival instructor at the school, the Executioner uncovers a plot so sinister, it rivals any atrocity he has yet enc...

  • Wildwood

    John Farris

    Whitman Bowers has come to survey what was once the Langford estate, but is quickly drawn into the web of fear that surrounds the mountain. His old Army buddy Arn seem insane; claiming that the gloomy, thickly forested slopes of Wildwood conceal twis...

  • The Broken Worlds

    Raymond Harris

  • Inhuman

    John Russo

    ONLY DEATH CAN STOP THEIR SAVAGE HUNGER… At a secluded marriage counseling retreat in the Shenandoah Valley, six couples gather, unaware of the monstrous force about to strike. Overhead, a jet hijacked by terrorist flies toward Cuba -- until ...

  • The Reality Matrix

    John Dalmas

    SOMETHING VERY REAL IS THREATENING TO TERMINATE OUR PLANET. SOMETHING FROM OUTSIDE... Bill Van Wyk knows only that something is seriously wrong; statistical analysis proves it. Olaf Sigurdsson knows the approximate destruct time, but not what to d...

  • The Man the Worlds Rejected

    Gordon R. Dickson

  • Blood Ties

    Robert Asprin; Lynn Abbey

    KEEP ONE HAND ON YOUR MONEY AND THE OTHER ON YOUR SWORD! Welcome to SANCTUARY, a city of outlaws and adventurers in a world of war and wizardry, peopled with colorful characters created by today's top fantasy adventure talents, including: ROBIN...

  • Phaid the Gambler

    Mick Farren

    Phaid plays a deadly game of survival in a future, violent, post-holocaust Earth in which the human race has mutated into three distinct life forms and the planet is threatened by telepathic dogs and cats, reactionary androids, and savage climatic ch...

  • The Beasts of the Mist

    Robert E. Vardeman

    Sold into slavery! Davin and Goran rely on false friends and are forced to crew a merchant ship doomed to sail into the dark source of soul-devouring beasts lurking in the gray mists of Raemllyn's seas.BEASTS OF THE MIST chronicles a perilous journey...

  • The Man Who Never Missed

    Steve Perry

    Thirsting for intergalactic justice, Emile Khadaji, a former member of the brutal Galactic Confederation secretly plots with members of the Shamba Freedom Forces on the planet Greaves to bring the Confederation to its knees. Reissue....

  • Terror

    Frederik Pohl

  • Creatures of Light and Darkness

    Roger Zelazny

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    “Nobody else made myths real and valuable in the way Roger Zelazny could.”—Neil Gaima...

  • Zelerod's Doom

    Jacqueline Lichtenberg

  • The World in Amber

    A. Orr

  • The Nimrod Hunt

    Charles Sheffield

    THE NIROD HUNT IS .. . *One of the most stunningly original novels of 1986 *High adventure for high IQs *So far out that only a master of science fiction could have written it *So technically correct that only a master of science could have writte...

  • Test of the Twins

    Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Raistlin casts the magical spell that cost him so much. For him, the Portal opens. . . But, at the same instant, his twin brother, Caramon, operates the magical time-traveling device. The fields of magic shift and collide. Caramon and the kende...

  • Emerald Love, Sapphire Dreams

    Monica Barrie

    When Megan Teal agreed to hire and supervise a diver to search for a sunken galleon, she never expected a reunion with Pres Wyman, the "nerd" who'd become an Adonis. Alone on the Cervantes, the pulsing rhythm of the Caribbean rocked their hearts--...

  • Choices

    Jane Worth Abbott

    SHE WAS AT YET ANOTHER TURNING POINT... It wasn't exactly a midlife crisis, but falling in love with a younger man at the age of thirty-seven was the last thing Sara Fletcher had ever expected. Especially when the object of her affections was turn...

  • Serendipity Samantha

    Jo Ann Algermissen

    FLASH OF GENIUS It was brilliant! One look at her cluttered shop, one ride in her temperamental car, one gourmet dinner of peanut butter and jelly, and one long visit to her "when's the wedding?" parents would send Jack Martin running!...

  • Emerald Storm

    Rosalyn Alsobrook

    PASSIONATE TORRENT When defiant Patricia Morgan first gazed into Cole Gifford's striking blue eyes, raw desire raged in her blood. His lean physique made her want to trace his rippling muscles; his powerful arms made her want to drown in a whirlpool...

  • Man and Wife

    Judith Arnold

    Colin Grey was in need of a wife That was fine with Mickie Oliver, young entrepreneur and budding corporate giant, for she earned her living in Manhattan as a professional wife. For a fee, Mickie and Company cleaned, shopped and ran errands -- all...

  • Flight of Fancy

    Jane Atkin

    She'd landed a man on the run! Now Cydney Knight knew why David Bradley looked so familiar. She'd seen his face on a Wanted poster -- in the post office! Foolishly she tried to capture him to collect the reward -- only to end up harboring a w...

  • When We Touch

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    CODE NAME: BEAUTY After three years away from the agency, three years since josh was murdered, three years since she'd channeled her pain into world-class photography, the FBI wanted Blair Browning back to catch the mercenary responsible for her h...

  • Sun Dancer's Legacy

    Karen A. Bale

    SAD ENDINGS Much time has passed since Aeneva and Trenton Hawkins were wed--and much tragedy has hit their small family. Believing that both of their sons, Roberto and Nathan, were killed on a trip to San Francisco, they try to mend their broken hea...

  • The Long Road Home

    Georgia Bockoven

    CRISIS BROUGHT HIM HOME AT LAST A yellowed newspaper clipping had turned Craig Templeton's life upside down. He had thought his destiny lay on a ranch in Oklahoma, but he was actually a Kentucky blueblood, scion of a prominent family that had give...

  • Silver Thaw

    Natalie Bishop

    Three years earlier Blane Landers suffered the agony of watching the woman he loved endure indignity after indignity at the hands of her husband. Then, dead drunk, Neil Evans drove into a ravine, leaving Mallory alone, broke, but with acres of Oregon...

  • Man for Hire

    Parris Afton Bonds

    HE WAS A DESERT CHIEFTAN but he looked to the West for his women. Khalid Rajhi had risen above his primitive upbringing to become a man of the world, irresistible to women. Alyx came to him with a proposition that was also a plea. Her daughter ha...

  • Suspicion and Desire

    Joanna Brandon

    "This is who and what I am," Alida declared defiantly. Her mysterious disappearances had made Logan suspect she had another lover. He'd been prepared for the worst. But the raven-haired beauty who stood before him in fringed buckskin took him complet...

  • Promises in the Night

    Barbara Bretton

    Love in the eighties -- was it possible? Larkin Walker had always thought that the challenge lay in finding it. Her many tasks as director of The Learning Center on Long Island had always given her little time to eat, let alone socialize. Then Dr....

  • Only a Woman

    Bethany Campbell

    He ignored her, humiliated her -- what next? Reporter Scotty Morgan never dreamed her first sports assignment could be such a nightmare. Jed Quinn, the all-American basketball star turned coach refused to be interviewed by a woman. He'd com...

  • Destiny's Daughter

    Elaine Camp

    LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER? Banner O'Bryan hoped not. Why would she want to be like a woman who had deserted her husband and child for another man? Then Banner met Yuri Zaarbo, and her own long-repressed emotions began to surface. Suddenly she und...

  • Bylines

    Joyce Carlow

    Jo Gregory is a war orphan, one of countless victims of the 20th Centurys first genocide, the massacre of the Armenians. Jo is found in an orphanage by a war correspondent, who tells her story. As a result, she finds relatives among the Armenian comm...

  • The Queen of Hearts

    Megan Daniel

    ONCE WAS QUITE ENOUGH Mallorie French, Countess of Haye, had been married once--and that once was more than adequate for her. After the death of her charming but faithless young husband, she was determined to enjoy all the single bliss that her ti...

  • Diamond in the Rough

    Helen Conrad (1)

    The best was yet to come Marlo Santee's entire career in advertising was riding on one man -- California James. She needed just the right model to clinch her latest ad campaign, and Cal was perfect. She had to have him. But simply working w...

  • Char's Webb

    Kathleen Downes

    Keith Webb froze in astonishment as management consultant Charlotte Smith introduced herself. It was impossible that a figment of his imagination -- a woman he'd invented to discourage a young girl's crush on him -- could be so delectably alive, so ...

  • The Temptress

    Jude Deveraux

    With the blazing spirit of a true Montgomery, heiress Christiana Montgomery Mathison bravely defies the two men who abduct her. Forced into the primitive rain forests of the Washington Territory, she is swept into a thrilling adventure. Amid schemes ...

  • Sweet Pretender

    Violet Hamilton

    A PATRIOT'S HONOR As the belle of Philadelphia, spirited Sarah Ravensham had no fondness for the hateful British. But as a patriotic American, it was her duty to convey a certain document safely into the hands of Britain's prime minister -...

  • The Myth and the Magic

    Christine Flynn

    "THERE'S A UNICORN IN MY GARDEN." Stephanie had every intention of spending her summer soaking up the Southern California sun. But then the contractor building her new pool unearthed a mysterious fossilized skeleton, and Stephanie'...

  • Heart of the Wolf

    Regan Forest

    The secret had lasted nearly four hundred years... Leigh Galandale and her brother had come from America to the mist-shrouded Scottish village of Invergles for a gathering of the Clan MacDenin, to which they belonged. Shortly before Leigh's...

  • Until Now

    Sally Garrett

    SHE CALLED HERSELF AN UNCLAIMED TREASURE Old maid schoolteacher. That's how Kathryn Keith figured folks referred to her. And they were right. At thirty-five, she'd long since traded her girlish dreams for the constant affections of her pup...

  • The Maverick and the Lady

    Heather Graham

    Like a hero out of the Old West, he rode out of nowhere to save her from losing everything she owned. But from the moment Kane Montgomery swept into her life, Martine Galway was lost. In his arms she felt wild abandon, even as she wondered about this...

  • Matched Pair

    Carole Halston

    Their eyes met across the crowded blackjack table. He was the sophisticated; worldly man of her dreams, and she was the stunning, self-assured blonde of his fantasy. No one suspected rakishly handsome Nick Denton was a C.P.A. wearing his partner'...

  • Surrender to a Stranger

    Dallas Hamlin

    Brenna McKennon was desperate when she jumped from a window and escaped -- on her wedding day! And it was sheer, luck that Adam Chaney spotted her before she vanished beneath the waves forever. Brenna had always been sheltered -- by her father, her f...

  • The Perfect Match

    Anna Hudson

    He'd tried everything to gain her attention. When Rhett Bucannan began stripping on his hotel room balcony, Goldie Sullivan took notice. Suddenly her drive to do business at the Dress-for-Success seminar disappeared in a blaze of passion. In a wh...

  • Tender Betrayer

    Terri Herrington

    "It's not over, not by a long shot. I want you back!" he shouted, eyes blazing. The arrogance of the man! If Clint Jessup thought she'd run into his arms, he had some surprises coming. Eight months ago they were to have been married. He'd vanished...

  • Almost Forever

    Linda Howard

    Claire Westerbrook couldn't believe it. She had met a man like no other, a man who might very well be the man. He was sexy, witty, charming - and a total imposter. He was Max Conroy, and he had a job to do. His first interest wasn't in Claire; it ...

  • Love Undercover

    Sandra Kleinschmit

    DYNAMIC DUO Brittany Daniels wanted a big story--a scoop that would prove her investigative reporting skills and make her invaluable to the L.A. Examiner. But the only way she had a chance to get the inside dirt on a local mobster was to tag along...

  • Everlasting

    Iris Johansen

    Kira Rubinoff and Zack Damon had never met-but when their paths finally crossed, the Tamrovian princess and the powerful industrialist sensed they were not strangers. Desperate to enlist Zack's help in freeing a beloved friend from imprisonment, Kira...

  • Meant to Be

    Janice Kaiser

    SHE WAS A TRAVELER PASSING THROUGH HIS WORLD Diana Hillyer's life in Washington was fulfilling and safe -- and worlds apart from Honduras. But that's where she found herself when her dearest friend asked Diana's help in rescuing a t...

  • Jury of His Peers

    Debbie Macomber

    GUILTY--OF DESIRE Ted Thomasson was odious, vile and full of scruples--and if she'd disliked him at thirteen, that dislike paled when compared to the intensity of her feelings now. But thanks to fate--and jury duty--Caroline Lomax had to stare at th...

  • Swept Away

    Donna McDowell

    MOONLIGHT AND MADNESS From their first meeting in a moonlit garden, Amanda was swept away by Jarod Brandt. Sensitive, darkly attractive, Jarod was everything she'd ever dreamed of in a man. He was also engaged to another woman. Amanda refuse...

  • By Invitation Only

    Lorena McCourtney

    The mustache was phony... Everything else about construction boss Tal O'Neal was real -- any woman at the party would have sworn to that. His Rhett Butler costume emphasized his rugged physique, and his rakish smile would have done Rhett proud. It ...

  • Sweet Revenge

    Tate McKenna

    Sydney Jacques had revenge on her mind. She would prove to her ex-husband that she could make it without him. But was love with a handsome stranger part of her plan? Was she ready for Quinn Robinson, with his dangerously erotic appeal? He showed her ...

  • Serendipity

    Judith McWilliams

    Pure chemistry! That Marcus Blackmore and Ann Somerton first met in a laboratory was fitting - they were about to become living proof that opposites do attract. Though it took a small mouse named Serendipity to mix things up, nature them took over...

  • Black Magic

    Vella Munn

    Black sheep had a certain reputation Gabe Updike, well-respected owner of a Denver construction company, successfully lived it down. Lynn Tresca, however, seemed to bask in her reputation as a black sheep and troublemaker. Why else would she have ...

  • Silent Partner

    Paula Paul

    Nothing was as simple as it seemed... . When Lena Carter landed in Albuquerque, all she had in mind was doing research for her book and visiting her grandmother. But her plans were preempted. She found herself the unwilling houseguest of a prom...

  • Billion-Dollar Baby

    Elda Minger

    Roz was a champion of dogs in distress Her ability came naturally, but it forced her into an unnatural situation: for rescuing a tiny bundle pitched from a car, Rosalind Locklear was made executrix of a fortune and co-inhabitant of a Bel Air mansi...

  • The Glorious Quest

    Rita Rainville

    RUNAWAY! It couldn't be true! Kelly's free-spirited mother had run off--with the father of straitlaced Jase Whittaker. Obviously some nefarious influence was at work. Kelly would have to find her mother and bring her back to her senses. Jase ha...

  • Mister Lonelyhearts

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    The "Dear Ben" column should be scrapped! an incensed Chapel Barclay had written to the newspaper. Why, the man encouraged men and women to put romance in their lives at the expense of relationships based on a true meeting of the minds! But...

  • Good Time Man

    Emilie Richards

    METAMORPHOSIS Alex Granger--the same devil-may-care hunk who had lived unchallenged in Jessica Cassidy's daydreams--was still the same outrageously attractive man. But now he couldn't seem to decide if Jessica was still a pesky kid or a woman whom...

  • Best of Strangers

    Courtney Ryan

    It's uncanny! Her perfume gives him hives. His Rolex snarls her hair. Naturally, when she's dangling from a balcony in pink poodle pajamas, he's the tuxedo-clad passerby who endangers life and limb to rescue her. Jenny Shapiro and Tony Coulter have g...

  • A Permanent Arrangement

    Jane Silverwood

    He was 5.7 on the Richter scale! When Ben Gallagher moved in, the old neighborhood was shaken up all right. The affable bachelor made friends with every kid and dog on the street and charmed all the women. All the women except Paula Kirk. She w...

  • The Old Flame

    Alexandra Sellers

    ONCE THEY HAD BEEN LOVERS but Sondra had been too afraid to allow more, and she had broken the relationship off quickly because she knew Ben had the power to make her feel more than she wanted to feel. Now Sondra was prosecuting her first cas...

  • Treasure Hunt

    Maura Seger

    RELUCTANT PARTNERS... Lucas didn't want to take Emily with him on the dive to recover the sunken diamonds, but he didn't have much choice. Her company was paying the bill, so if Emily wanted to come along, come along she would. Never mind that he ...

  • Something About Summer

    Linda Shaw

    It could have been a movie with John Rambo or Lone Wolf McQuade. But Summer MacLean's adventure was all too real, starring Harris Chandler, to whom she was now handcuffed as he made his "getaway" from the train wreckage. The injured deputy had exc...

  • Moment of Truth

    Suzanne Simms

    V1VE LA DIFFERENCE! Why the devil was he so attracted to her? Michael Kincaid wondered. She was flamboyant and her wild red hair and painted eyes were certainly not his style. Yet she made him feel more alive than he'd ever felt before ... .....

  • Equal Shares

    Sondra Stanford

    Shannon Edwards was combat She'd just inherited fifty-one interest in a company she had known--or cared--about before. Suddenly, she found a business in trouble--and the sexiest man alive. It was an intolerable situation for Matt Tyson. He'd built...

  • Where There's a Will

    Joan Smith

    A WILLFUL EMBRACE .. . Just who was Joshua Edwards, anyway? And why was he trying to outbid Kathryn Colby for a painting her father had done years ago? With his jet-black hair and dark, dangerous eyes, he looked suspicious--and mind-blowingly hand...

  • Sweet Reason

    Sandy Steen

    AN ARGUMENT FOR LOVE Federal prosecutor Drew Kenyon was the most devastatingly handsome man Laine had ever seen. From the moment he'd walked into the Grand Jury hearing room, they had been linked by smoldering... passion. Now they were together in...

  • No Greater Love

    Jan Stuart

    He was the handsome stranger who rescued her on the beach at Malibu when a night of terror left her wandering confused and alone. But soon Glory Wentworth was shocked right back into reality. She yearned for the embrace of the powerful senatorial can...

  • Under the Sign of Scorpio

    Pat West

    Adam and Eve - in spite of their names they were worlds apart. Dark, handsome Adam Kane was cynical police inspector, Eve Darcy a warm, earthy astrologer. Eve had helped solve a series of crimes before, and now she was forced to work with Adam to fin...

  • River of Destiny

    Pat Winter

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  • Sweet Slow Death

    Lawrence Block

  • Heartless

    Stephen Cohen

    When he discovers his best friend shot to death, Eddie Margolis knows that he has to track down the killer, or no one will--the police don't care about junkies--and he enters the urban inferno of East Village junkie hangouts and Chinatown...

  • A Greenwich Killing Time

    Kinky Friedman

    America's most outrageous singer-songwriter turns gumshoe detective in this wild, witty and wisecracking debut novel. It's a hardboiled journey into the dark heart of the city - as hilarious and entertaining as Kinky himself. The place is New York Ci...

  • The Marine Corpse // A Rodent of Doubt

    William G. Tapply

    Boston attorney Brady Coyne is hired to look into the baffling murder of Stu Carver, who had been undercover in the guise of a vagrant in order to gather material for a book on Boston's homeless people...

  • The Rider of the Ruby Hills

    Louis L'Amour

    A WORD FROM LOUIS L'AMOUR "Almost four decades ago, when my fiction was being published exclusively in `pulp' western magazines, I wrote a number of novel-length stories, known back then as `magazine novels'. In creating them, I lived with my char...

  • The Warrior's Apprentice

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    Discharged from the Barrarayan academy after flunking the physical, a discouraged Miles Vorkosigan takes possession of a jumpship and becomes the leader of a mercenary force that expands to a fleet of treasonous proportions. ...

  • War Zone

    Richard Austin

    BLOOD IN THE STREETS The Guardians emerged from the ashes of World War III. Armed to the hilt, they were ready to bring the United States back to its feet. The President was still alive. And now, the time had come for the U.S. government to reesta...

  • Go Gently, Gaijin

    James Melville

    Gaijin means foreigner, and two dead ones make a puzzle for Superintendent Otani and his men. First, a member of Kobe's Arab community is killed. Then another Arab is found dead, an apparent suicide. The deaths seem to be connected, but Otani and his...

  • Bloody Murdock

    Robert J. Ray

    PI and ex-cop Matt Murdock is picky about the cases he takes on. Being a bodyguard isn''t his favorite gig, especially when the client is a high-handed number-cruncher like Ellis Dean. But Murdock is short on funds, and the case is a puzzler. It does...

  • Life's Work

    Jonathan Valin

    IT'S HOW YOU PLAY THE GAME.... Cincinnati Cougars' Billy Parks was All-Pro ... and missing. Harry Stoner's job was to find him and get him into shape for the season. But Billy's photo told Stoner he didn't like the man ... or the shape he was in. ...

  • Where Nobody Dies

    Carolyn Wheat

    It's bad enough when a twelve-year-old girl loses her mother. But to have her father arrested fin the murder is heartbreaking--and that's why Cass Jameson is putting every effort into proving Brad Ritchie's innocence. Even though he was her opponent ...

  • Passion's Fire

    Cassie Edwards

    DEFIANT BEAUTY With her budding beauty ana southern charm, Samantha Johnston was able to wrap many a young suitor around her finger. So when her father unexpectedly announced that he had arranged for her to marry a wealthy middle-aged neighbor, Sama...

  • A Bid for Independence

    Karla Hocker

    She didn't give a fiddle for the frippery of London! It was the piano she loved... Cherry Sinclair's parents had given their lovely daughter one year to fulfill her dream to become a successful concert pianist. If she failed, there was onl...

  • Alamo House

    Sarah Bird

    Women without men. Men without brains.... IN THE WAR BETWEEN THE SEXES, THEY WERE IN THE FRONT LINES.... Alamo House stood out among the Greek-columned mansions of Austin's frat row like a bald spot on a mink. Besieged by the raunchy frat ra...

  • Appointment with F.E.A.R.

    Steve Jackson

  • Jealous Lies

    Francine Pascal

    Backstabber... It's pledge season for Pi Beta Alpha, and everyone in the exclusive Sweet Valley High sorority expects Sandra Bacon to nominate her best friend, Jean West. But Sandra's tired of always hearing about Jean's perfect figure, terrific gr...

  • No Secrets

    Linda A. Cooney

  • Garden of Evil

    Bob Baker

  • The Pumpkin Principle

    Cynthia Blair

    Susan and Christine Pratt are particularly fond of autumn-the air is crisp, pumpkins are everywhere, and best of all there's Halloween! Chris is determined to make this Halloween dance extra special-after all, it is her senior year. There's a new guy...

  • Picture Perfect

    M.E. Cooper

    Dazzled... When Diana Einerson arrives in Rose Hill from Montana, John Marquette sweeps her off her feet with gifts and charm. But John's attention quickly turns possessive, and Diana begins to realize she's making a mistake. Then dashing Jeremy ...

  • Old Friends, New Friends

    Janet Quin-Harkin

  • The Physician

    Noah Gordon

    In the 11th century, Rob Cole left poor, disease-ridden London to make his way across the land, hustling, juggling, peddling cures to the sick -- and discovering the mystical ways of healing. It was on his travels that he found his own very real gift...

  • New Jersey

    Joseph Monninger

  • In the Season of the Wild Rose

    Clara Rising

  • Rampage

    Justin Scott

    Chris Taggart is a ruthless, driven, real estate entrepreneur whose buildings have changed the skyline of New York. Young, handsome, irresistible to women, Taggart has won it all with his bare hands and fierce ambition. But his dazzling success can n...

  • The Mantrap Garden

    John Sherwood

    Cella Grant does not have time for another commitment. But when this charming botanist and amateur sleuth extraordinaire sees the disarray at Monk's Mead, the famous English garden designed by Gertrude Jekyll, she has no choice but to become its ...

  • Four in Hand

    Sylvia Townsend Warner

  • The Man Who Changed His Name

    Eric Wright

    One nosy ex-wife. One dead lady who advertised for murder. Both were giving Inspector Charlie Salter the pre-Christmas blues. The rape/strangulation case of Nancy Crowell had reached a dead end months ago. And nobody was pushing to open a new avenue ...

  • Heart of the Order

    Tony Ardizzone

    A novel of passion and obsession, Heart of the Order is the story of Danny ("Kiss of the Wolf") Bacigalupo, a baseball player from the alleys of Chicago's North Side, whose life and career are shaped by a tragic childhood accident. Danny knows about ...

  • The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov

    Isaac Asimov

    This mystery collection presents many selections never before collected in book form and numerous selections chosen by the author himself from his famous "Black Widower" and "Union Club" series, as well as a wide variety of other stories...

  • Fidelio

    Rodger Bridwell

  • Steeldust

    J.P.S. Brown

    After his parents' ranch is sold by the bank, Bill Shane decides to begin his own operation using as collateral the deed to twenty sections of land that banker Richard Claire thinks was part of Bill Shane, Sr.'s holdings...

  • Tongues of Flame

    Mary Ward Brown

    These beautifully crafted stories depict the changing relationships between black and white southerners, the impact of the civil rights movement, and the emergence of the New South.Mary Ward Brown is a storyteller in the tradition of such powerful 20...

  • The Five Million Dollar Prince

    Michael Butterworth

    Together, London tour guide Horace Bunbury and con man Thomas O'Leary scheme to pull off a heist involving the sale of the Albert Memorial to a rich Texan for five million dollars, until hired hit men outmatch the devious duo...

  • Devine War

    Dennis R. Caro

  • The Flame Bearers

    Kim Chernin

    Influenced by her grandmother, a young woman named Rae grows up as a member of an ancient goddess-worshipping sect and is chosen to carry their most secret beliefs into a world of family and social rivalry...

  • Heartless

    Stephen Paul Cohen

    When he discovers his best friend shot to death, Eddie Margolis knows that he has to track down the killer, or no one will--the police don't care about junkies--and he enters the urban inferno of East Village junkie hangouts and Chinatown...

  • Missing Persons

    David Cook

    Hetty's success in tracing the long-lost son of a friend gives her a taste for detection and she sets up as a private detective. Among her adventures she saves the life of a little girl trapped in machinery and brings back to life her friend Edith, a...

  • Vacationland

    Christopher Corbett

    Chick Devine, bringer of good cheer, prognosticator, pundit, and promoter, and his band of merrymakers provide entertainment for the citizens of Maine with such diversions as Homarus Americanus, the scourge of Eggemoggin Reach, also known as Ernie th...

  • Period of Confinement

    Moira Crone

  • No Earthly Notion

    Susan Dodd

  • The House on Moon Lake

    Francesca Duranti

    Fabrizio Garrone is an impoverished but aristocratic translator who has been living a life of quiet desperation in Milan. He feels underappreciated and tormented by a persistent sense of having been cheated by life. But when he reads about a lost Vie...

  • Earth Invaded

    Nathan Elliott

  • The Liberators

    Nathan Elliott

  • High Art

    Ruben Fonseca

    Set in Rio, this novel looks at the underbelly of Brazilian urban society in which a lawyer, working on the murder case of two prostitutes, finds the case widening as details of sadism, cocaine smuggling, and multiple murders come to light...

  • Girl of Forty

    Herbert Gold

  • Toby's Toe

    Jane Goodsell

  • Lilian's Story

    Kate Grenville

    *NEW NOVEL RESTLESS DOLLY MAUNDER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024* FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AND WOMEN’S PRIZE-WINNING AUSTRALIAN NOVELIST As a child in twentieth-century Australia, Lilian Una Singer struggles to escap...

  • Unhallowed Ground

    Paul Guernsey

    The swamp that adjoins a small-backwoods Connecticut community retains an aura of evil and becomes the focus of seventeen-year-old Danny Moreno's search for his father and brother, who disappeared separately several years earlier...

  • The End of Summer Time

    Alec Gunn

  • Adam's Task

    Vicki Hearne

    Explores the idea of communication between people and animals--from the sophisticated experiments of Washoe to common household pets--and suggests a relationship between understanding animal consciousness and expanding human consciousness...

  • Creepy-crawly Stories

    Barbara Ireson

  • Ellen Bray

    Jane Julian

  • Demon Box

    Ken Kesey

  • Danny's Birthday

    Edith Kunhardt

  • The Quest for Saint Camber

    Katherine Kurtz

    THE IMPOSSIBLE SAINT Time after time, the legendary Camber--one-time Saint of the half-magic race of Deryni--had intervened in the affairs of young Kelson, King of Gwynedd. Yet Camber was known to have died two hundred years before! Now Kelson ...

  • The Dancing Men

    Duncan Kyle

    Evidence mounts that the grandfather of presidential hopeful John Leyden carried a terrible and deadly secret to his grave, a secret that now threatens to ruin Leyden, his political party, and his country...

  • Sea of Glass

    Barry B. Longyear

    A boy, who has known nothing in his brief life but love and darkness, forces open a window and sees for the first time the outside world, which also sees him: an illegal immigrant by birth. Arrested, his parents tortured to death, we see through Thom...

  • The Bad-News Man

    Mary McMullen

  • Dance for a Diamond

    Christopher Murphy

    Antonia Venn describes herself as a very average sort of female - certainly nothing to win the heart of a man of fortune or fashion. In a bid for independence and at a time when the waltz was born, she decides to open a dancing school in Bath, despit...

  • Alexander and the Blue Ghost

    Osamu Nishikawa

  • Grandpa Bear's Christmas

    Bonnie Pryor

  • Siege of Silence

    A.J. Quinnell

    American ambassador Jason Peabody is held captive with twenty-seven others by Jorge Calderon, a Cuban interrogator committed to getting him to reveal crucial information about United States policy, while Colonel Silas Slocum mounts an unorthodox miss...

  • Tiny Turtle's Thanksgiving

    Dave Ross