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New Books List: 492 titles

  • Bingo Digest

    B.B. Hiller

  • The Coconut Connection

    Cynthia Blair

    When the Pratt twins’ Christmas gift is a surprise trip to Hawaii, they expect a relaxing trip in paradise.  But Chris and Susan soon discover that a tiny island off Waikiki harbors a secret.  The clever, courageous girls can’t resist s...

  • Blood Mesa

    G. Clifton Wisler

    When wealthy landowner and town scion Abner Mills shoots four boys falsely accused of cattle rustling, the boys' uncle, Riley Rucker, plans his own form of justice, hiring a gang of gunslingers to seek revenge...

  • Feast of Bones

    Daniel P. Bolger

  • Cybernarc

    Robert Cain

    1991, original mass market paperback edition, Harper Paperback, NY. 246 pages. The CIA has created Rod, a high-tech amalgam of advanced robotics, artificial intelligence, and more. In this action-adventure tale, Rod is asked to confront drug lords....

  • Last Rites

    Jack Drake

  • Betrayal at Blackcrest

    Jennifer Wilde

    Spiderweb of Passion. The great, grim manor of Blackcrest held many secrets for beautiful young Deborah Lane. London and safety seemed worlds and centuries away as she tried to discover what had happened here to her lovely cousin, whose face and name...

  • Betrayal

    Greg Walker

  • Genuine Lies

    Nora Roberts

    IN HOLLYWOOD, A LADY LEARNS FAST: THE BAD CAN BE BEAUTIFUL, AND THE TRUTH CAN KILL... EVE BENEDICT. The last of the movie goddesses, a smoky-voiced sex symbol with two Oscars, four ex-husbands, and a legion of lovers to her name. The glamorous scree...

  • The Oregon Strangler

    J.R. Roberts

    When Clint Adams drifts into Placerville to do a little gunsmithing, he's counting on a peaceful, uneventful stay. But when he meets up with his old friend Bat Masterson, he knows there won't be a dull moment. Bat's got himself a human money-making m...

  • Deadwood Dick and the Code of the West

    Bruce H. Thorstad

    Coffee Arbuckle, a Civil War veteran caught up in the madness of the Gold Rush, teams up with Mortimer Ridley, a fourteen-year-old boy fleeing the city's boredom, to fight lawlessness in the untamed West...

  • Gunman's Chance

    Luke Short

    A tale of big Texas, of cattle, ranges and saloons; of punchers, cowboys and Ute Indians; and where the possibilities of fulfillment are as endless as the desert, and just as unpredictable. Jim Garry is a hard, embittered cowboy, who believes there i...

  • Longarm and the Lone Star Captive

    Tabor Evans

  • Longarm and the River of Death

    Tabor Evans

  • Eden Creek

    Lisa Bingham

    THEIRS WAS A MARRIAGE OF DARK SECRETS, STUBBORN PRIDE, AND UNEXPECTED ARDOR Betrayed by the only man she ever trusted, Ginny Parker hastily agreed to a new life in the untamed Utah wilderness, and a marriage that was prearranged. Orrin Ghant, a m...

  • Bayou Passion

    Jane Archer

    HOT-BLOODED TROUBLEMAKER When an angry Drake Dalton burst into Selene Morgan's Love Potions apothecary shop, Selene stood ready for battle. Her New Orleans healing and midwifery trade was the only thing left of her family after the Civil War,...

  • Rosemary for Remembrance

    Christine Arness

    In this novel of romantic suspense, a young lawyer is drawn into a decades-old mystery . . .   An RT Book Reviews nominee for Best Contemporary Romantic Novel   Shattered by her husband’s tragic death, young lawyer Abigail ...

  • Fire Lily

    Deborah Camp

    SECRETS OF THE MIND. MYSTERIES OF THE HEART He swept into lovely Lily Meeker's sheltered world on a chill wind in a torrential rainstorm -- Griffon Goforth, the dark, enigmatic clairvoyant Lily's family had hired to locate her missing cous...

  • Colorado Temptation

    Gwen Cleary

    HE HAD TO HAVE HER Locke Breckenridge had come to the Colorado mountains to get away from women and their highfalutin ways, but when Cornelia Lloyd Talbot settled her curvaceous form in town, he took one long look at her pouting red lips, her snappi...

  • Her Grace's Passion

    Marion Chesney

    SHE WAS BY ALL RIGHTS A MERRY WIDOW, YET SHE FEARED HAPPINESS WOULD NEVER BE HERS... Matilda, Duchess of Hadshire, was a virtual prisoner of a cruel husband who romanced his mistress under her nose. Her only joy was dreaming of the handsome Earl o...

  • Virgin Fire

    Elizabeth Chadwick (1)

    As the proud owner of one of the few bathtubs in rough and tumble Spindletop, Jessica Parnell was besieged by oil drillers, speculators, confidence men, and riffraff-every one longing to take advantage of her precious facilities. But of all the grimy...

  • Angel Eyes

    Thea Devine

    SHE NEEDED HIS HELP Kentucky 1880. Angelene knew it was dangerous to run away, but she couldn't face a life of crime with her outlaw family. The handsome stranger who offered to help her on the trail was a godsend...and a temptation. She was hau...

  • Almost Forever

    Karen Harper

    "I need you, Lesley. I loved you from the first, as if it's always been for us. Tell me you believe me!" As the daughter of the fifth Earl of Malvern, Lesley Westram was dubbed "Scandal's Child" -- after all, her beautiful Italian mother got preg...

  • Savage Persuasion

    Cassie Edwards

    CHEROKEE PRIDE When her family's cabin was attacked by Indians, lovely young Brietta fled into the wilderness, only to be captured by the most handsome man she had ever laid eyes on. Though he was a Cherokee brave, the smoldering heat in his d...

  • Wild Mountain Honey

    Carol Finch

    Determined to live on her own terms, away from her conniving step-parents, high-spirited Moriah Laverty fled 'civilization' and disappeared into the wild mountains of New Mexico. She vowed to live free and unfettered: all she needed was to master a f...

  • The Prize

    Julie Garwood

    1066. In the resplendence of William the Conqueror's London court, the lovely Saxon captive Lady Nicholaa was forced to choose a husband from the assembled Norman nobles. She chose Royce, a baron warrior whose fierce demeanor could not conceal his ch...

  • Secret Fires

    Linda Hilton

    HE TAUGHT HER ABOUT DESIRE The widow Glorianna Johnson was plain old Anna to the town of Greene, Wyoming, but to Grant Brookington, the golden-eyed temptress couldn't be anything but Glory. Her creamy skin and lush curves could lead a man stra...

  • The Valiant Heart

    Anita Gordon

    BRIENNE By birthright, she was Baronne de Valseme--but the black-haired maiden was robbed of her legacy by plundering Norsemen. Now she returns to her former home, to be offered against her will as a bride to the enemy.... RURIK A powerful blond...

  • The Luck of the Devil

    Barbara Metzger

    SHOULD SHE STRANGLE THE RAKE... OR AID HIM WHOLEHEARTEDLY IN HER OWN SEDUCTION? Though Miss Rowanne Wimberly had come to be appreciated for both her charms and her sizable dowry, it was her innocent yet very public flirtation with the notorious a...

  • The Rake's Reward

    Mary Kingsley

    A LADY'S DILEMMA Lady Cecily Randall was no green girl to be seduced by a handsome face. The eminently dutiful daughter of the Duke of Marlowe, she'd been groomed to make a suitable match. So when the rather humorless Marquess of Edgewater p...

  • The Gilded Cage

    Edith Layton

    A DAZZLING BEAUTY IN A. CITY OF SPLENDOR AND SIN Post-Civil War New York was a golden city where wealth waited for the bold and everything had its price. It was here that well-born but impoverished Lucy Markham sought fame and fortune on the stage...

  • The Dark Towers of Trelochen

    Rachel Cosgrove Payes

    "How could she protect the child...when her own life was in deadly peril?" Orphaned and penniless, Tisha Hawkins had gratefully accepted the past as governess to Lady Trevelyan's small son. Her contentment was shattered when she witnes...

  • For Love's Sake Only

    Laura Parker

    Regina, the raven-haired beauty... the green-eyed gamin of the moors... First orphaned, then wed and widowed in a week, she'd been a wife in name only. She fled London and the cruel uncle who sought to control her new fortune, thinking to reclaim her...

  • False Pretenses

    Martha Jean Powers

    A FATEFUL PROMISE... When they first met, Anthea Bowmont had been searching for a way to save her sister from a desperate plight--and Hawkins Chadwicke was a soldier, headed for a battle he felt sure would mean his demise. On that evening, Hawkins...

  • Wild Scottish Embrace

    Rebecca Sinclair

    SHE'D PROTECT HER CASTLE Marea MacKenzie's lifelong dream was about to come true: she was ready to mount a campaign to reclaim her clan's Kilclearnon Castle--stolen ten years ago in battle by the brutal Grahams of England. But on the eve of the lo...

  • A Distant Dawn

    Katherine Sinclair

    A rare and lasting friendship would lead them ever closer to… A Distant Dawn Since their days growing up together at Rathbourne Abbey, they were best friends, as close as sisters, and forever bound to a destiny of war and love, heartache and hop...

  • Rapture Untamed

    Rochelle Wayne

    DANGER AND DESIRE SPARKS AN EVERLASTING LOVE! Caroline Hanley had no memory of the terrible day her parents were murdered and she was abducted by a renegade band of Apaches. Living among the Indians as one of them, she was resigned to marrying a b...

  • Chicago Run

    David Robbins

  • Combat Stretch

    Don Pendleton

    DEATH ON THE WIND A cure for a raging disease suddenly goes wrong and becomes far worse than the disease itself. Inside an isolated research center, the new viral nightmare is contained by a Japanese scientist while he seeks a solution. If it gets...

  • Counterblow

    Don Pendleton

    HIGH STAKES The upsurge in high-grade heroin on the West Coast is ringing alarm bells all over Washington. It's clear there's a new player at the table, someone setting up a Turkish heroin pipeline through Pakistan. One man's war just found a new ...

  • All Fall Down

    John Saul

    Something horrific is happening to the children of Eastbury, Massachusetts. Now, an entire town waits on the edge of panic for the next nightmare. There must be a reason for the terror. They all know it - but no one ever suspected....

  • What's Wrong With Valerie?

    D.A. Fowler

    Free from the clutches of her sadistic grandmother, Valerie hears the voices of the dead speaking to her from her typewriter and begins behaving oddly--taking in boarders who die mysterious deaths and disciplining her cousin's children in a bizarre f...

  • Krispos of Videssos

    Harry Turtledove

    UNEASY LIES THE HEAD Against all expectations, Krispos had won the crown of Videssos. But how long could he hope to keep head and crown together? For trouble was brewing in every quarter. Civil war erupted under. Petronas, the late Emperor's un...

  • Grounded!

    Chris Claremont

    WHERE DO YOU GO AFTER YOU'VE GONE TO THE STARS? Lt. Nicole Shea was once a top space pilot. She crushed a marauding Wolfpack--and established first contact with an extraterrestrial civilization. Now they've taken away her flight rating and reas...

  • Reefsong

    Carol Severance

    After narrowly escaping death in a forest fire, Angie Dinsman found herself under the control of the World Life Company. They promptly equipped her with webbed hands and gills—creating a half‑fish, half‑woman. Her mission is to unco...

  • Madouc

    Jack Vance

    "The World Fantasy Award-winning third volume of the Lyonesse trilogy brings attention to the faerie changeling Madouc. Where princess Suldrun once meekly endured the proprieties of Castle Haidion, Madouc defends herself with rotten fruit. Vexed, Kin...

  • The Shining Ones

    Paul Preuss

    [A] combination of mystery and science fiction almost reaching the level of Isaac Asimov's classic LIJE BALEy-Daneel Olivaw novels. -CHICAGO SUN TIMESThe concluding volume in a series of science-fiction thrillers evolving from the works of Arthur C. ...

  • The Kinslayer Wars

    Douglas Niles
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The leader of the Wildrunners, Kith-Kanan, commits the ultimate heresy and falls in love with a human of intriguing background. His twin brother, the firstborn ruler of all Silvanesti elves, Sithas, declares war on the Ergothians, and Kith-Kanan must...

  • Man-Kzin Wars IV

    Larry Niven

    A WINNING TRADITION... Welcome to the hottest pocket in Larry Niven's Known Space: the time of the assault on pacifist humanity by berserker felinoids from the planet Kzin. This time humanity's representatives to the Warrior Race are Donald Kingsb...

  • Under Fire

    Kenneth Von Gunden

  • The Gnome's Engine

    Teresa Edgerton

    A Gnome from Hobb's Church--a town where Gnomes, Dwarves, and Humans work side by side, pursuing the arts, philosophy, science, and magic--is certain he can harness the power of the ancient ruins just outside the city...

  • The Mistress of the Jewels

    Diana L. Paxson

    SHE WOULD BE QUEEN . . . BUT SHE REFUSED TO BE A SORCERESS The Master of the Junipers looked into the innocent face of the future Queen and spoke softly. "The mind rules all. Were it not for our belief, this world of forms would not exist at al...

  • Matadora

    Steve Perry

  • White Wing

    Gordon Kendall

  • A Bad Spell in Yurt

    C. Dale Brittain

    Newly appointed Royal Wizard Daimbert, learning his king is under a fatal spell, must find out who in the castle has been practicing black magic--the young queen, her flighty aunt, the royal heir, or Daimbert's own predecessor...

  • A World Lost

    James B. Johnson

  • Kent Montana and the Once and Future Thing

    Lionel Fenn

  • Call to Arms

    P.M. Griffin

    The immortal space saga of the STAR COMMANDOS begins anew with the long-awaited, updated and revised edition of this classic Science Fiction series. Come along with Commando-Colonel Islaen Connor on her secret mis-sion to Vishnu of Brahmin, investiga...

  • Rainbow Abyss

    Barbara Hambly

    THE WELL BETWEEN THE WORLDS When Rhion the banker's son met the Master Wizard Jaldis, Jaldis said, "Come." Rhion came, leaving everything behind to answer the call in his blood. And through long years of drudgery and persecution, he had no regrets...

  • Silent Stars Go by

    James White

    James White's own favouritie James White novel. He got the catchy title from listening to 'O, Little Town of Bethlehem' at a carol concert* The parallel-universe Hibernian Empire has risen to supreme power, with the help of applied Old World techno...

  • Way of the Clans

    Robert Thurston

    HIGH-TECH BARBARIANS In the 31st century, the BattleMech is the ultimate war machine. Thirty meters tall, and vaguely, menacingly man-shaped, it is an unstoppable engine of destruction. In the 31st century, the Clans are the ultimate warriors. ...

  • The Price of Paradise

    Kat Adams

    A MIRACLE MARRIAGE Confirmed bachelor Gibson Price-Murray had had it with his willful mother's never-ending crusade for an heir. He'd always balked at the thought of being married with children, but when he encountered the lovely Erin Holl...

  • Emerald Nights

    Virginia Brown

    SHE KNEW ABOUT MEN LIKE HIM Back in the states, prim Bethany Brasfield would never have trusted a hard-drinking adventurer like Trace Taylor. Here in the Peruvian jungle, however, her life and that of her archeologist father were in Trace's call...

  • A Small Favor

    Elizabeth August

    A FAVOR FOR A FRIEND When Callie Benson agreed to do a favor for her family doctor and take an injured man into her home, she hadn't expected to get involved with the handsome, mysterious stranger. But Morgan Evans needed her support to overco...

  • Devil Wind

    Catherine Blair

    Danger Was as Close as Desire High on the cliffs overlooking the sea, Devil Wind castle loomed dark and foreboding. This was Rochella's new home -- and she knew instantly that her husband, Lord Devlin, was equally unhappy with their arranged marr...

  • Shadows of the Past

    Kathryn Blair (2)

    HEART'S EASE... Dr. Aurora Duvall could never ignore a cry for help. But she was astonished at how quickly she overcame her personal reserve and became completely embroiled in teenage Katie Thorpe's problems with her father. Eric Thorpe was usu...

  • Precious Pretender

    Stella Bagwell

    FRIEND ... OR FIANCE? Priscilla Parker's mother had it all wrong! Priscilla wasn't engaged. She didn't even have a promising prospect. But Prriscilla couldn't bear to disappoint her mother, so she asked her best friend, handsome, f...

  • Tall in the Saddle

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    MR. AUGUST Man: Flint Carson Description: Lean. Hard. Tough. As proud and magnificent as the wild cattle he raises on his Texas ranch. Lesson in love: Never trust a woman, especially the high-society type. Fatal undoing: Ravishing Step...

  • Strong Temptation

    Barbara Boswell

    Her Bad-Boy Hero on a Harley... Caleb Strong was a hell-raiser from the wrong side of the tracks, impossibly sexy -- and everything a woman like Cheyenne Whitney Merrit knew she wasn't supposed to want! A "good girl" from a respected f...

  • Surrender in Scarlet

    Patricia Camden

    Lovely, widowed Kaatje de St. Benoit feared for her life at the hands of Colonel Becket Thorne, the handsome and determined British soldier who demanded that she lead him to his sworn enemy, the ruthless Turk, El Muzir. For seven long years, hatre...

  • A Touch of Blackmail

    Jeanne Carmichael

    HOME was where the heart was Though not under ideal conditions, Hester Martingale was pleased to inherit a home of her own, and would stay on permanently if she could. She was welcomed into the neighbourhood by the disturbingly handsome Earl ...

  • The Wishing Tree

    Kim Cates

    Meeting baseball superstar Ryder Sloan was desperately ill Zakary MacCrea's most cherished dream -- and the Wishing Tree Foundation made it come true. Ellie MacCrea didn't dare tell her seven-year-old son she expected his irresistibly handsom...

  • A Question of Virtue

    Carolyn Davidson

    ONE MAGIC MOMENT Sara O'Brien had seen enough of New York City. It was one thing to let her best friend show her the highlights of the Big Apple. It was quite another to let Marcie drag her to a sophisticated Manhattan party. Although Marcie h...

  • Leather and Lace

    Ryanne Corey

    WILDE THING Caitlyn Wilde had run away! She'd fled the glitter of Las Vegas and the stifling concern of an overprotective guardian. For the first time in her life, the auburn-haired beauty was on her own. Her sunny outlook overcame all obstacl...

  • Improbable Eden

    Mary Daheim

    A Tender Education Eden Berenger grew up an unwanted orphan in a loveless household, until the Earl of Marlborough claimed her as his flesh and blood-hours before his imprisonment for treason. To spare her father's life, Eden was forced to obey the ...

  • A Heart in Disguise

    Monette Cummings

    Could love be born from deception...? Disguised as her twin brother, the dashing Captain Warne, Lucinda arrived in London determined to secure his inheritance ... well aware that she was risking both their reputations. But she seemed to be doing a...

  • Sizzle

    Marcia Evanick

    The Too-Perfect Man... Eben James had come to his Lake Champlain house for peace and serenity, but instead the handsome accountant found himself bewitched by a golden-haired sprite who made him long to run wild, to believe in magic and telling for...

  • The Stud // Father Figure

    Barbara Delinsky

    He was perfect stud material Adventurer Spencer Smith was everything Jenna McCue required in a man -- tall, good-looking and virile. Spence was also rich, single and wouldn't want anything in return from her.. In short, Spence was the perfe...

  • Rainy Day Man

    Joan J. Domning

    The Rugged Rebel She'd Never Forgotten... Shane Halloran may have been trouble with a capital T when Merle Pierce fell hard for him in high school, but she never believed the sexy daredevil would abandon her. She devoted herself to her teenag...

  • A Forever Man

    Sally Falcon

    BON VOYAGE! After the past year, Sandi Canin deserved this vacation cruise from Seattle to Alaska. Since her close call in a fire, she had worked hard to rebuild her business and mend her broken heart. And she'd been successful -- or so she...

  • Irresistible Force

    Sharon Francis

    LOVE AND DUTY... Reporter Randy Muir was a crusader for good, old-fashioned values. She'd flown halfway around the world to get her story on how Japan's romantic tradition was being lost to progress, only to lock horns with handsome execut...

  • Mornings at Seven

    Sally Goldenbaum

    MORE THAN BUSINESS Alex Brady and his young son were determined to tough it out alone -- no women allowed! But then, Alex was assigned a very new, very desirable business partner and suddenly the term "breakfast meeting" took on a whole ne...

  • Life With Lindy

    Victoria Glenn

    AN EMBARRASSING PAST... Melinda Clarke had spent her whole life trying to escape her childhood image immortalized by her cartoonist mother -- that of Little Lindy, the outrageous heroine of a popular comic strip. No one would ever suspect that the...

  • Bad Billy Culver

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    A BETRAYAL ... A DARK SECRET ... A LOVE THAT WOULD OUTLAST SLANDER AND TIME AND TABOO... Billy Culver grew up poor, handsome as the devil -- and twice as bad. Arlene Lambert grew up in a home full of the security and elegance only old money coul...

  • Children of the Heart

    Sally Garrett

    She was tired of being a saint Running a foster home for troubled children was the hardest job in the world. No one knew that better than Trenace McKay. She'd taken care of nearly two hundred children. But after her husband left her, Trena ...

  • Arizona Lovestorm

    Wendy Garrett

    HE WAS HARD TO RESIST Billie had her hands full, running the Star M ranch all by herself and dealing with Indian attacks, cattle rustlers, and sudden storms. So far, she hadn't found time for romance, but when a handsome, tawny-haired cowboy rod...

  • Don't Look Back

    Celeste Hamilton

    For ten years, beautiful golden girl Cyndi Saint had been running... trying to escape the haunting memories of the night her carefree world had exploded into devastating tragedy. Then she met brash, irresistible Nick Calderaro. Tenderly, insistently...

  • Starlit Promise

    Petra Holland

    She had to learn to laugh again The frozen wintry shore of Lake Michigan was a perfect setting for Sara Davidson. Its bleakness matched her mood and gave her a perverse sense of peace. Then Professor Joe Fisher and his incorrigible spaniel, Rol...

  • Maybe This Time

    Dee Holmes

    HIS PARTNER'S WIDOW... When intruders ransacked his dead partner's home, undercover cop Zach Stone knew where his duty lay. Widowed Elizabeth Healy and her baby daughter needed to be taken to safety. Then Zach would return -- alone, as alw...

  • No Lies Between Us

    Naomi Horton

    NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH Brynn Sinclair couldn't stand being lied to, and there was something about Laker Garrison that shouted honesty and trust. That was the only explanation she could think of for the impulsive way she'd hired the sexy car...

  • The Leftover Girl

    Meg Hudson

    She'd been his leftover girl Janet Grayson had a full and satisfying life in Ellis Falls, Massachusetts. The young widow ran a successful chocolate business, was raising two teenage children and was even involved in town politics! Then her high...

  • The Letter of the Law

    Kristin James

    LOVE VERSUS LOYALTY Practical attorney James Marshall didn't believe in love at first sight--until he saw artist Adriana Cummings. When he met her, everything he'd ever heard about love made sudden, wonderful sense. James thought the differences b...

  • Where There's a Will

    Day Leclaire

    --- Re-issued as "Once Upon a Time" in 2012 "What do you mean she hid the will?" Handsome efficiency expert Julian--Mr. I've-got-a-system--Lord lived and breathed logic. Unfortunately, the situation at Willow's End fol...

  • Bayou

    Pamela Jekel

    OLIVA -- a headstrong Cajun beauty, she defied tradition to marry the man she loved, then seduced him back to her own beloved bayou; CELISMA -- the hauntingly lovely, fiercely loyal mulatto slave who tended the aging Oliva, then warmed the bed ......

  • A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing // Hazard Ranch

    Joan Johnston

    THE ALISTAIR-HAZARD FEUD WAS OVER Old Cyrus had passed on, and Nathan Hazard was prepared to take over his land. But then, Cyrus's greenhorn grand-niece showed up claiming ownership. She didn't know a thing about raising sheep, and Nathan wasn't a...

  • The Surprise of His Life

    Karen Keast

    Lindsey Ellison had a problem. She was in love...hopelessly in love...with Walker Carr. It would all be so lovely, so idyllic -- if only he wasn't her father's business partner and best friend...and her godfather! And, of course, Lindsey coul...

  • First and Forever

    Katherine Kendall

    The Great Hubby Hunt Laura Daniels had everything she ever dreamed of--a big-bucks career, great friends and a huge New York apartment. Everything except a man. Then one moonlit evening, Laura glanced out of her office window and there he was. The...

  • A Rose for Maggie

    Kathleen Korbel

    A SPECIAL KIND OF LOVE Allison Henley felt her life would be complete once she gave birth to her child. But it seemed her dream of having a family wasn't meant to be. Deserted by her husband, Allison was left to raise a child with special needs--a...

  • Desert Rose

    Linda Francis Lee

    MAN To fulfill a promise, Clay Wakefield must command a majestic Mexican ranch --- and its spitfire heiress. She was a wild filly, but it would be his pleasure to break her. WOMAN Arriving home from overseas, Lorena Cervantes found her beloved ...

  • Serious Risks

    Rachel Lee

    I SPY... Computer programmer Jessica Kilmer's life altered the moment she realized classified documents had been stolen from her safe. But the real change came when she notified the FBI and met Special Agent Arlen Coulter. For even as Arlen reassu...

  • Little Secrets

    Victoria Leigh

    An Enigmatic Seducer with Words... Ex-spy turned successful novelist, l. J. Carlson was dashing but difficult, a mystery man who drove Cassandra Lockland mad with a mocking glance or a wicked put-down. How could she be attracted to a man she could...

  • Blue Skies and Promises

    Kate Logan

    TWO FOR THE ROAD .... Between Portland, Oregon, and Portland, Maine, lay one great adventure. For Kelsey Sumner it was the transcontinental bicycle trek she'd always dreamed of. The only problem was that Kelsey had planned to make the trip alon...

  • Golden Gamble

    Patrice Lindsey

    LADY LUCK The workings of a Las Vegas casino were all too familiar to Jessica Anne James. The smoke-filled rooms. The smell of bourbon. The clink of chips as they scuttled across felt-covered tables. Since her father had gambled away their family'...

  • Estero Bay

    Elisabeth MacDonald

    AN ELUSIVE LOVE Lucas Morgan had finally ended his wandering. In Estero Bay, California, he'd found peace and happiness. But he despaired of ever gaining the love and trust of fiery Californio Consuelo Estrada. How could he ever convince her that he ...

  • Smuggler's Woman

    Candace McCarthy

    Bran Donovan rued the day suspected Tory spy Molly McCormick had been captured and smuggled aboard his ship. With her wild raven tresses flowing about her shoulders and her sweet curves barely covered by a buckskin tunic, the half-breed beauty made s...

  • Asking for Trouble

    Mary Kay McComas

    Her Dream Date--or a Nightmare? Tom Ghorman was smart, romantic, funny, easily the best of the three video dates offered by Electra-love, but Sydney Wiesman wished she hadn't promised to go on the television show to describe their date--it had bee...

  • Against All Hope

    Laraine McDaniel

    Speak no evil... Alone on the desert's moonlit sands, Alexis Sinclair's partner became a murder victim in forty-five very silent minutes. Internal Affairs investigator Gage Morgan had uncovered no clues, no leads and no answers to the most disturb...

  • Lion on the Prowl

    Kasey Michaels

    THE LEO MAN The proud, charismatic Leo man knows he's king of the jungle. Only a brave woman would enter his lair--one who's willing to tame the lion... ONE LEO MAN IN PARTICULAR Sophisticated Julia Sutherland had the courage to marry Max Ra...

  • That Was Yesterday

    Vella Munn

    YESTERDAY'S TERRORS... Since her abduction, Mara Curtis's life had changed. Though she hid it behind a brave facade, she was still haunted, haunted by darkness, by solitude--haunted by memories of what she'd had to do to save her life. But Ree...

  • A Moment in Time

    Helen Mittermeyer

    A Naked Knight with Golden Eyes... Hawk Dyhart spotted the swimmer first, and then the sharks fin. Racing from his Barbados condo, he got there in time to pull the figure onto his water scooter and escape the danger... only to tumble headlong onto t...

  • The Right Time

    Victoria Pade

    THE RIGHT TIME ... Evan Daniels's heart beat a mile a minute from the moment Alexandra Dunbar rang his doorbell. Without batting an eye, he hired her to devise a way of protecting his valuable timepiece collection. He was known as a hardheaded busin...

  • Daydreams

    Marina Palmieri

    ONLY IN A FAIRY TALE... When Officer Jake Slaughter arrived home after a double shift in the streets of Miami, he wanted nothing more than to collapse in bed. But there was no mistaking sounds of an intruder in his own house. With his gun drawn, h...

  • Golden Prospect

    Shirley Parenteau

    Had She Truly Lost Her Senses? After all, the idea of a prim store clerk trekking off to the Klondike disguised as can-can girl was a crazy notion, to say the least. But the moment Julia Ames discovered her long-lost father's whereabouts, she knew...

  • Rainbow

    Patricia Potter

    A FLIRT WITHOUT CONSEQUENCE Heiress Meredith Seaton was the talk of Vicksburg, Mississippi. But Merry's appearance as a vain, simpering Southern belle concealed a sharp mind and a burning mission--one that could place her life in jeopardy were it di...

  • The Molly Q

    Lass Small

    SPY VS SPY Georgia Bains's world had just turned topsy-turvy! She'd only been trying to deliver a package, a nice, normal thing to do. Instead, she'd somehow stumbled upon The Molly Q, a top-secret computer project. Then gorgeous, marvelous Luke M...

  • For the Love of Lilah

    Nora Roberts

    Mystery and danger still swirled around Lilah Calhoun's ancestral home. The fabled lost emeralds continued to attract treasure hunters--and at least one dangerous criminal. And they had brought a man unlike any Lilah had ever known. Maxwell Quarterm...

  • Talk of the Town

    Irene Saunders

    War of Whispers Beautiful Miss Catherine Hayward was in growing danger from the sharp tongues and inventive imaginations of London society. Her widower father was far off in a foreign war. Her younger brother was perilously close to ruining his fu...

  • Whisper of Midnight

    Patricia Simpson

    WAS HE A MAN OR A MIRACLE? A deafening computer surge, a burst of lasers, and he appeared. Was he a hologram, a bizarre energy field endowed with manly mass? Or was he, as Jamie Kent dreaded, the ghost of Hazard McAllister, legendary Scots bluebea...

  • Soulbound

    Ruth Alana Smith

    Jake and Desiree had a lifetime of happiness ahead Then tragedy struck. Desiree almost drowned in the icy waters of Redd's Pond saving their two-year-old daughter from a similar fate. Now she lay in what appeared to be an irreversible coma. Jac...

  • Secret Marriage

    Sondra Stanford

    Everyone in Mount Evergreen knew that Lancasters and Tarrants didn't mix. Everyone, that is, except Anne Lancaster and Simon Tarrant. They had pledged their love, first in their youthful hearts, and later, before a judge. Five years of shadowed se...

  • Country Dance

    Margaret Westhaven

    The Perfect Stranger Beautiful Marianna Chapin knew next to nothing about the devastatingly handsome and charming "Mr. Henry Duke" who had bought the estate adjoining that of Marianna's stepmother. She knew only that this seemingly ...

  • The Tender Texan

    Jodi Thomas

    A SHOCKING PROPOSITION Bold and beautiful, Anna Meyer dared to walk into a campsite full of Texas cattlemen . . . and offer one hundred dollars to the man who'd help her forge a frontier homestead. A RECKLESS AGREEMENT On the brink of manho...

  • Winterhall

    Faye Summers

    THE END OF INNOCENCE Born on the same day as Queen Victoria, eighteen-year old Julia Forrest led a sheltered life, free from the torments of the wicked world around her. But when her mother was suddenly killed, the lovely young ingenue was cast i...

  • Jack and Jill

    Elise Title

    Marry in haste, repent at leisure... Straitlaced Jill Ballard had picked sunny, tropical Tobago `o indulge her fantasies and go wild. Little did she know she'd fall for Jack Harrington, the swashbuckling hero of her dreams. Caught in the spell of ...

  • Easy Does It

    Pamela Roth

    Say it with flowers Adam Westover brought new meaning to those words! The smooth-talking entrepreneur strode into Diane Simmons's flower shop and ordered a "kiss-off" bouquet for his latest girlfriend. Hardly a romantic gesture, Diane mocked, but ...

  • Free Spirits

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Alex Cassidy thought being single and turning thirty was an awful combination. The only thing worse was waking up the morning after her birthday bash with a hangover. And just when she thought she'd hit rock bottom, she opened h...

  • Blackie's Woman

    Rebecca Winters

    Too many secrets, too many lies Jennifer O'Brien, heiress to the O'Brien restaurant empire, was determined to throw off her reputation as a self-indulgent socialite. So she changed her life--and her name. She became Jenny Connelly, trai...

  • Whispers in the Night

    Rebecca York

    Rest in peace Ravenwood was the name of a nightmare Laura Roswell didn't understand. Yet the forbidding mansion was eerily familiar. Laura never guessed the dark secrets it sheltered until a spectral voice awakened her from a recurring dream o...

  • Senator Love

    Warren Adler

    Fiona FitzGerald, senator's daughter turned Washington, D.C., homicide detective, is called in to investigate when the stunning wife of the Austrian Ambassador is kidnapped and murdered. Soon, bones belonging to a vanished young girl are discovered, ...

  • L.A. Snitch

    Marc Berrenson

    DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES Once a cop, always a lawyer, the twists and turns in Ben Green's hard-luck career have landed him a position as Special Investigator for the L.A.P.D.'s Internal Affairs Division. Under the thumb of a powerful police chief wi...

  • The Case of the Paranoid Patient

    Anna Clarke

    A CRY FOR HELP The pitiful moans from beyond the thin hospital wall did not. interfere with Paula Glenning's recuperation. But the story behind the sounds was indeed disturbing. Why was the doctor dosing Margaret Leeming with so many tranquilizers? ...

  • Murder in My Backyard

    Ann Cleeves

    NO ONE IN HEPPLEBURN HAS A BAD WORD TO SAY 4 ABOUT ALICE PARRY... ...But here she is, murdered in her own backyard on a bitter St. David's Eve. And when detective Stephen Ramsay starts asking questions in the village, a more ambiguous picture begins...

  • Miss Seeton Paints the Town

    Hamilton Crane

    A Sketch in Time Miss Seeton's rather unusual drawings for the Best Kept Village Competition may hold vital clues to a recent series of fires. At least, that's what Scotland Yard believes. And when two corpses turn up--and someone sets Miss Seeton...

  • A New Kind of Country

    Dorothy Gilman

    Novelist Dorothy Gilman, author of the bestselling Mrs. Pollifax series, had reached a point of no return in her life. With her sons in college, Ms. Gilman was searching for something unknowable, unnameable . . . until she bought a small house in a l...

  • Black Light

    Daniel Hearn

  • The Cat's Eye

    Marian J.A. Jackson

    Mystery Writers of America Presents Ignoring threats to her life, Miss Abigail Patience Danforth braves San Francisco's seamy underworld to solve a murder. Encouraged by Miss Danforth's decision to become the world's first female consulting detectiv...

  • Prime Suspect

    Lynda La Plante

    A dark and riveting race against the clock, Prime Suspect is an unforgettable introduction to this bestselling series from Edgar Award-winning and internationally bestselling author Lynda La Plante.The moment Jane Tennison takes over Scotla...

  • The Devil's Bounty

    Larry Jay Martin

    Gold fever has swept across California's Barbary Coast, and fires of passion, lawlessness, and violence burn in its wake. Nothing is forbidden and everything is for sale--human lives bartered for mounds of sparkling dust. John Clinton Ryan has come t...

  • Apache Coffin

    John Legg

  • Legacy

    Michael Jan Friedman

    A routine survey of the planet Alpha Octavius Four turns disastrous as Spock is attacked and poisoned by a huge creature and Kirk's landing party is trapped underground by a violent earthquake. As Spock fights for his life in sickbay, Scotty organize...

  • Red Genesis

    S.C. Sykes

    A DRAMATIC NEW SERIES OF BOOKS AT THE CUTTING EDGE WHERE SCIENCE MEETS SCIENCE FICTION The future is already here.... Computers, the space shuttle, biogenetics--what was once the domain of science fiction is now business as usual. Developments ...

  • A Bridge of Years

    Robert Charles Wilson

    Tom Winter thought the secluded cottage in the Pacific Northwest would be the perfect refuge -- a place to nurse the wounds of lost love and happiness. But Tom soon discovers that his safe haven is the portal of a tunnel through time. At one end is t...

  • Death Charge

    Richard Austin

    ALLIANCE OF TERROR Out of nuclear Armageddon come the Guardians--Americas last hope to prevent global domination by the Federated States. They're a combat elite of four trained men ... handpicked to handle the high-tech threat of post nuclear warf...

  • Time's Fool

    Patricia Veryan

    HE FEARED SHE WAS A WANTON, AND SHE'D HEARD HE WAS A LIBERTINE.... Captain Gideon Rossiter, his handsome face pale from his war experience, returned to England after six years to find naught as he had left it. His father was accused of bank fraud...

  • No Duress

    Miriam Borgenicht

    WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS .. . A tragedy turns into a living nightmare when health counselor Linda Stewart's adopted infant daughter is legally reclaimed by the baby's natural teenage mother -- and both are found dead two days later. Linda&...

  • Avenging Angel

    Anthony Appiah

    With the deaths of young Scottish aristocrat David Glen Tannock and world-renowned scientist Dr. Charles Phipps--both members of the elite Cambridge society known as "the Apostles"--barrister-sleuth Sir Patrick Scott suspects that one of the Apostles...

  • Shadow of a Doubt

    William J. Coughlin

    Detroit attorney and former alcoholic Charley Sloan lost his practice, his wife, and his fortune to booze. A chance at a comeback arrives in his former lover, Robin Harwell. She's now the desperate widow of a multimillionaire--and stepmother of the t...

  • Motown

    Loren D. Estleman

    Working undercover in order to stop a consumer advocacy agency from putting Detroit auto companies out of business, ex-cop and car lover Rick Amery becomes involved in the conflagration of a black gang war. Reprint....

  • Lerza's Lives

    John Danica

    Posing as a big-time drug buyer, Philly FBI agent Joe Lerza--along with his buddy Nepp--enters a war between the town's Mafia, some rebellious punks, and a gang of bikers, all eager for control of the city's drug trade...

  • The Loud Adios

    Ken Kuhlken

    The Loud Adios is set on the home front during World War II. Tom Hickey is in the army, an M.P. working the Tijuana-San Diego border, when a farm boy draftee about to ship overseas begs for help rescuing his sister from a gang of German and Mexican N...

  • The Song Dog

    James McClure

    “Afrikaner Tromp Kramer and Bantu Sergeant Zondi [are] two detectives who are as far from stereotypes as any in the genre” (P. D. James, bestselling author of Death Comes to Pemberly).   The year is 1962. Young Lt. Tromp Kramer of the T...

  • Sister Hood

    Monica Quill

    Offering shelter to Sister Mary Magdalene--the daughter of a shady Chicago businessman in town to testify in a murder investigation--Sister Mary Theresa Dempsey is soon investigating her colleague's murder when she turns up dead in a hotel bathtub...

  • Death in Uptown

    Michael Raleigh

    A killer terrorizes a diverse Chicago neighborhood in this “impressive first mystery” (Publishers Weekly).   Private investigator Paul Whelan’s specialty is tracking down missing persons. But when his good friend is found slain in an alley...

  • Deadly Rich

    Edward Stewart

    The brutal murder of socialite Oona Aldrich--the first in a series of killings among the city's beautiful people--shakes up the society set, and Lieutenant Vince Cardozo follows a trail to find the self-proclaimed "Society Son of Sam"...

  • Vengeance

    Ian St. James

    Summoned to a private Greek island, businessman Tom Lambert is offered the challenge of a lifetime--to take the reins of billionaire Maurice Stanton's empire--a job that brings passion and intrigue. Reprint....

  • And Did Murder Him

    Peter Turnbull

  • The Sum of All Fears

    Tom Clancy

    The Gulf War is over. An Israeli nuclear weapon is missing. The balance of power in the Mideast--and the world--is about to change forever .. ....

  • Point of Impact

    Jack Curtis

    When a sniper begins picking off seemingly unconnected London residents, Scotland Yard detective Robin Culley searches for a link between the victims, a search that takes him to the highest level of British politics...

  • In the Shadow of the Oak King

    Courtway Jones

  • The Fortune Hunter

    Jo Beverley

    FOR LOVE AND MONEY Poor Amy de Lacy. Her father's death has left the family impoverished and she's the only one who can rescue them. Her older sister Beryl, sweet as she is, is just too plain to attract a husband. But Amy, with her stunn...

  • The Impertinent Miss Bancroft

    Karla Hocker

    SHE SPEAKS HER MIND Free-spirited Sophy Bancroft has been dismissed from several posts for "impertinence and unauthorized, irresponsible acts." But now, as she begins her seventh attempt as a governess, she vows that, this time, she'll c...

  • The Relic

    Evelyn Anthony

    Shortly before his death, Lucy Warren's Ukranian emigre father leaves her a legacy with the power to change the course of history - St. Vladimir's Cross, a jeweled relic whose owner, by time-honored tradition, has the right to rule Russia. His final ...

  • I.O.U.

    Nicholas Adams

  • Mother's Helper

    A. Bates

    Becky gets to spend the whole summer on a beautiful island, babysitting one little boy who is no trouble at all. It’s a dream job. There’s even a possible romance developing with the boy next door. Her employer is one strange lady who doesn’t s...

  • Sunset Dreams

    Cherie Bennett

    Determined to become a successful model, Sam ignores the warning signs when a photographer with dubious credentials takes photographs of her in revealing outfits and then asks her to go away with him for the weekend...

  • Deep Trouble

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • Maze in the Heart of the Castle

    Dorothy Gilman

    He Was Only Sixteen When Tragedy Struck....

    His name was Colin, and although he still couldn't believe it, his parents were gone, both dead from the plague. Scared, confused, and angry, he sought out a monk who told him about a haunted castle ...

  • Easy Marks

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy Drew investigates a scam involving computer fraud at Brewster Academy in this thrilling mystery....

  • High Survival

    Carolyn Keene

    AMERICA’S TOP TEEN DETECTIVES TEAM UP TO TOPPLE CRIME’S KING OF THE MOUNTAIN NANCY DREW and a small group of adventurers hike into the Wyoming wilderness to sharpen their survival skills. But the higher they climb into the remote and rugged Ro...

  • The Dating Game

    Francine Pascal

  • The Real Thing

    Elisabet McHugh

    Change of heart... Katie Frazer can hardly believe it when Brian Parks, the heartthrob of the sophomore class, asks her out. It's a romantic dream come true -- until their Teen Living class is given a major assignment. The sophomores must carry ar...

  • Booster Boycott

    Francine Pascal

    Jessica and the other boosters--Sweet Valley Middle School's cheerleading squad--vow they will not allow Winston Egbert to join the squad, despite the fact that he is a fantastic gymnast who makes up terrific cheers...

  • Losing Control

    Linda A. Cooney

  • The Secret in the Dark

    Carolyn Keene

    NANCY INVESTIGATES A CLASSIC CASE OF MUSICAL MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE Violinist Dierdre Thompson is vying for top honors in Seattle's most prestigious musical competition, but Nancy finds that something about the contest strikes the wrong chord. The c...

  • 2041 A.D.

    Jane Yolen

    Where will you be in the year  2041?



    The Drapery Defense League objects to Hamlet  because Polonius is stabbed while he's hiding behind a  curtain, rock'n'roll gangs roam the streets, a  scrumptious free confecton called swoodi...

  • Caesar's Time Legions

    Jeremy Kingston

  • Babyface

    Norma Fox Mazer

    When Toni’s luck runs out, real life comes calling Toni and Julie were both born right after their parents moved in next to one another, and the two girls have hardly been separated since. Julie is tall and outspoken and stands up for herself, but ...

  • Rich As Sin

    Patrick Anderson

    Mickey, a tough but beautiful Texan and an undercover drug agent, vows to reunite with her twin sister, Jessie, from whom she was separated at birth, even if it means toppling the dynasty of Jessie's husband. Reprint....

  • A Scandal in Belgravia

    Robert Barnard

    AN INCONVENIENT CORPSE They met in the early 1950s, fledgling diplomats in the Foreign Office. Naive Peter Proctor was possessed by middle-class morality and ambition. Witty, reckless Timothy Wycliffe was an aristocrat whose shocking sexual appetite...

  • Slobcat

    Paul Geraghty

  • The Cover Artist

    Paul Micou

  • Bodysnatchers

    Juan Carlos Onetti

    In the provincial Argentine town of Santa Maria, Larsen, a pimp, tries to create the perfect brothel, while Julita, a widow unable to accept the death of her husband, takes his younger brother as her lover...

  • Windfall

    Maxine Paetro

    A bequest of seven million dollars and a Great Gatsby-like mansion on Long Island spells trouble for New York literary agent Harriet Braintree's relationship with her stockbroker boyfriend, Dean, until fortune intervenes once again...

  • The Angel of Pain

    Brian Stableford

    The second in the trilogy that began with The Werewolves of London, continues the chronicle of the fallen angels, who manipulate earthly events through human instruments. Twenty-one years after David's first mission, he is called upon again to discov...

  • The Wives Tale

    Alix Wilber

    Four generations of Dufore women try to make the best of their odd circumstances as they put up with Gran Marie's insomnia, Uncle Ab's tendency toward spontaneous combustion, Rich's second sight, and Paul's transformation into a fish. Reprint....

  • Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit? A Hare-Raising Mystery

    Gary K. Wolf

    It's a hoot. Wolf obviously gets as big a kick out of the convoluted plotting and the exaggerated private-eye lingo as he does the interactions between humans and Toons. The ingredients make a rich confection for anyone addicted to pop culture.
    W...

  • Canal Dreams

    Iain M. Banks

    'Banks once again demonstrates his extraordinary dark powers of imagination' Sunday TimesHisako Onada, world-famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal. But Panama is a count...

  • Chapel of the Ravens

    Paul Bishop

    After losing his right eye during a particularly brutal soccer match against the West Germans, former goalie Ian Chapel becomes a coach for the L.A. Ravens and investigates the mysterious death of his predecessor. Reprint....

  • Masquerade in Blue // Framed in Blue

    D.C. Brod

    When his pal, reporter Jeff Barlowe, is jailed for refusing to reveal the name of a source to the court, private eye Quint McCauley sets out to prove that Barlowe's source is not responsible for a recent murder. Reprint....

  • Inherit the Mob

    Zev Chafets

    “[A] hilarious, warm look at one of organized crime’s oft-neglected ethnic groups.” -- The New York Times Book Review William Gordon’s dear Uncle Max is dead. Dear, crooked, murderous, notorious Mafioso kingpin Uncle Max. But Pulitzer-winning...

  • Raymond Chandler: Four Complete Novels

    Raymond Chandler

  • Bonneville Blue

    Joan Chase

    A collection of stories features the tale of a divorced woman reminiscing with her ex, a husband consumed by home improvements, a woman's recollection of her odd bond with the school tomboy, and a small-town wife obsessed with a drifter. Reprint....

  • The Undertaker

    Richard Clarke

    Constable Frank Butler has his hands full when a gang of marauders begins heading for his town, but the people of Peralta recommend the services of El Cajonero--the undertaker--an avenger Butler has a hard time believing...

  • Fire Under the Sea

    Joseph Cone

  • Alley Urchin

    Josephine Cox

    A captivating historical romance of revenge, hatred, lust and true loveIt is 1870 and Emma Grady has spent seven years of servitude as a convict in Australia. Now, having earned her ticket-of-leave, she is held by chains of honour and friendship. Emm...

  • Rising Like the Tucson

    Jeff Danziger

    Amid the violence and confusion of the waning days of the Vietnam War, Lt. Kit and his men--abandoned by their own government and allies and surrounded by the enemy--hope for riches, ignorant of the possibility of defeat...

  • The Russian Singer

    Leif Davidsen

    Danish diplomat, Jack Andersen posted in Moscow, becomes involved with the "so called" murder suicide of a prostitute, found dead, her wrists slashed, in the apartment of one of the embassy's secretaries...

  • Mamista

    Len Deighton

    As a group of Marxist revolutionaries in Spanish Guiana prepare to unseat their country's leader, a group of high-powered men in Washington prepare to keep the current government intact and capitalize on the small country's newfound oil. Reprint....

  • The Present

    Michael Emberley

    Arne Hansen, handyman supreme, has a problem: he can't decide on a birthday present for his nephew. He was going to give Tove a pocket knife with 17 blades, but the more Arne thinks about it the more he wants the knife for himself. Perhaps the old bi...

  • Wild Apples

    Lucinda Franks