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New Books List: 385 titles

  • Big Bird Color Game

    Golden Books

  • Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

    Chris Angelilli

  • Barney's Time for Counting

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Happy New Year! Kung-Hsi Fa-Ts'Ai!

    Demi

    Pop! Pop! Pop! Set off firecrakers! Enjoy the feasts and join in the Dragon Dances!Chinese New Year has arrived and these are just a few of the customs included in Demi's newest book, Happy New Year! Kung-Hsi Fa-Ts'ai!. The activities and traditions ...

  • Happy Valentine's Day, Miss Hildy!

    Lois G. Grambling

    Miss Hildy is a detective, sort of - with a cape, a magnifying glass, and a little black book for taking notes.  So when a strange Valentine's Day gift appears on her doorstep, Miss Hildy smells a mystery.  Luckily, her secret admirer is a terrib...

  • Once on This River

    Sharon Dennis Wyeth

    It is 1760. Monday de Groot and her mother, Lesley, a midwife, sail from their home in Madagascar to New York, to testify on behalf of Lesley's brother Frederick, who has been falsely imprisoned and taken as a slave. Because Lesley has the only paper...

  • The Pot of Gold with Sticker

    Jerry Smath

    Young readers are invited to help Lucky, a young leprechaun, find the magic clovers that will enable him to earn his own pot of gold by marking the plants hidden in the illustrations with the accompanying stickers...

  • Dragonseye

    Anne McCaffrey

    It's been two hundred years since the deadly Thread fell like rain upon Pern, devouring everything in its path. No one alive remembers that first horrific onslaught and no one believes in its return--except for the dragonriders. For two centuries the...

  • Christmas with Kathie Lee

    Kathie Lee Gifford

  • Paradise

    Toni Morrison

    The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present -- in prose that soars ...

  • Broken Wings

    Terri Blackstock

    LIVES. LOVE. A GOOD MAN'S NAME. ARE THEY THE COST OF TELLING THE TRUTH? Among the 151 people who died in the crash of Flight 94 was Mick Hammon, the plane's captain and Erin Russell's close friend. Herself a pilot, Erin narrowly missed being on t...

  • Love You to Pieces

    John R. Sansevere

    "Thistles are sharp...Roses are dead...I can't seem to get you...outof my head!" Kids who find the icky sentimentality of Valentine's Day revolting will savor sending these gleefully gruesome greetings. Includes a full set of punch-out valentines--fe...

  • The Great American

    Alex Abella

    Involved in a romance with Laura, a young revolutionary, Ohio Marine William Morgan, stationed in pre-Castro Havana, becomes caught up in the turbulent struggle against Batista, only to be faced with disillusionment, loss, and betrayal in the afterma...

  • The Visitation

    Sue Reidy

    The Flynn girls, just two of a seemingly endless number of Flynn children, are naturally curious about where their little siblings come from. Well versed in the bizarre lives and gruesome deaths of their favorite saints, they have yet to crack the my...

  • Faithful Are the Wounds

    May Sarton

    A professor’s suicide is the catalyst for this novel about politics and ideals set at Harvard during the 1950s When Harvard professor Edward Cavan commits suicide by throwing himself under a subway train, his death sets off shock waves both across...

  • Satisfied with Nothin'

    Ernest Hill

    Chronicles Jamie Ray Griffin's transformation from a naive young athlete to college football star at a newly integrated college to hard-driving, cynical adult determined to succeed despite the opposition of whites and the complacency of African Ameri...

  • R Is for Radish!

    Molly Coxe

    Radish is a wRiter, a Rapper, a jump-Roper, and a Raspberry pie eater. She is also a hysterically funny problem solver, à la Ramona Quimby. With wit, humor, and a style all her own, Molly Coxe has created an alluring, alliterative story!  ...

  • The Way You Look Tonight

    Carlene Thompson

    FOR BETTER Deborah Robinson lived on a quiet street in a small town with her handsome husband and darling twins. It was the picture-perfect life--until the day Deborah's husband vanished without a trace. OR FOR WORSE... Before he disappeared, St...

  • The Company of Knaves

    Simon Shaw

    Furious that a hated rival is up for knighthood in the New Year's Honors List, Philip Fletcher takes advantage of the untimely death of a fellow actor to use blackmail and get on the List too, but things do not go quite as smoothly as he had intended...

  • Call Me

    P-P Hartnett

    Call Me by P-P HartnettWhen Liam decides to begin answering the personal ads of London's gay papers, he is at first bemused and fascinated. After all, it is simply a way to entertain himself and pass the time.What Liam doesn't bargain for, however, i...

  • The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

    St. Martin's Press

    This long-awaited volume finally brings to light several cases of the world's most famous consulting detective that were originally suppressed to avoid scandal and embarrassment to the Crown, public figures, or to Holmes himself. Now, the truth is f...

  • The Robber and Me

    Josef Holub

  • Gehenna

    Lewis Gannett

    The second novelization of the phenomenally popular Fox television series, Millennium.

    Besides topping the Nielsen's each Friday night, Chris Carter's Millennium is quickly growing a loyal following and a remarkable presence on the Web. HarperPrism...

  • The Scarlet Thread

    Francine Rivers

    SIERRA MADRID Woman of today. Bold. Determined. Her lifei s about to be turned upside down. MARY KATHRYN McMURRAY Young pioneer on the Oregon Trail. She is filled with anger at being uprooted from her home. Two women, centuries apart, are...

  • Sunlight in Vermont

    Virginia Hart

  • The Disobedient Wife

    Elizabeth Power

    Love, honor and disobey? Kendal was devoted to her husband and baby son Matthew, but there was room in her life for a career, as well, wasn't there? Jarrad didn't think so. He expected Kendal to be a dutiful wife and mother -- while he had...

  • Surfers Move Over Einstein

    Margaret Springer

    Tatiana is fed up with always feeling second best. She is determined to win the prize for the best science project at the Science Fair, but doesn't believe she can compete with Hilbert McNair. Tatty wins and learns that rather than envying her friend...

  • Axiomatic

    Greg Egan

    A collection of science fiction stories that looks at the possible future includes stories of genetically altered dolphins that speak in limericks and a software program that allows users to design their own child...

  • Fabulous Harbors

    Michael Moorcock

    Eleven richly detailed and interrelated stories take readers into a remarkable expanding multiuniverse, soaring at dizzying altitudes from London squares and across turbulent seas to distant places where anything and everything can happen. Reprint....

  • Captives of Blue Mountain (Novelization)

    Wendy Pini; Richard Pini

    The saga of Cutter and the Wolfriders continues in the story of the Bird Spirits, creatures worshipped by humans, that are actually real, giant winged creatures who attack the tribe and carry away four of their kin to Blue Mountain. Reprint....

  • The Red Wyvern

    Katharine Kerr

    Katharine Kerr's richly imagined cycle of novels set in Deverry and the Westlands has earned a devoted following--and a reputation as the finest Celtic fantasy being written today. Now she returns to Deverry's war-ravaged past.. In a kingdom torn ...

  • Tymora's Luck

    Kate Novak; Jeff Grubb
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Before the Dawn Cataclysm, Moander the Darkbringer corrupted Tyche, Goddess of Luck. In a desperate attempt to preserve Tyche's goodness, the gods clove her in twain, creating two daughter goddesses: Tymora, Lady Luck; and Beshaba, Lady Doom. In the ...

  • Action Stations

    William R. Forstchen

    THEY PLANNED ON A NICE WAR... There had been a century of peace, and the politicians of Earth and its colonies were running on platforms of cutting "wasteful" military spending--all while Earth's military tried to keep aging and obsolete ships fly...

  • Prairie Fires

    Jake Logan

  • Money Town

    J.R. Roberts

    Denver is the place to be, all right. As soon as Clint gets into town, he plays poker, drinks beer, and shoots a man in self-defense. The same man who rode in on the stage with him that very morning. Name of Arlo Gentry, who Clint later learns stole ...

  • Durango Duel

    Jon Sharpe

    Known among the Mexicans as "El Gato"--The Cat--a notorious killer holes up with his gang in the Colorado mountains, waiting for Skye Fargo and a young gunslinger called the Durango Kid to try to pry them out. Original....

  • The Long Hunters

    Dodge Tyler

    When Lansford Stratton decides the wilderness will provide him with enormous power and riches and wages war on anyone who stands in his way, including mountaineers, settlers, and the Cherokee, Dan'l Boone must try to stop the senseless slaughter and ...

  • The Sacking of El Dorado

    Max Brand

    An exciting collection of stories includes restored and uncut typescripts and magazine appearances filled with adventures, hardships, and the glory of the Old West, from one of the most renowned Western writers. Original....

  • Oklahoma Outlaw // Wanted! Belle Starr!

    J.T. Edson

    In the violent and lawless days following the Civil War many infamous outlaws cut a bloody swathe across the West...John Wesley Hardin, Bad Bill Longley, Sam Bass, Frank and Jesse James, the Daltons...all rode and shot their way to notoriety....
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  • Longarm and the Voodoo Queen

    Tabor Evans

    When half of a deputy federal marshal's body is pulled from a New Orleans swamp, Longarm is sent to investigate and discovers that the truth about the case may lie in the hands of a mysterious voodoo-practicing Cajun beauty named Claudette. Original....

  • Loving a Lowly Stranger

    Christina Cordaire

    Instead of claiming the coal mines he inherited, Adrian Ashe keeps his identity a secret. For bitter reasons of his own, he takes a job in the mines, becoming a champion of the workers. As Adrian's deception grows, Lady Elise Danforth finds herself i...

  • Christmas Pie

    Emma Craig

    Pie in the Sky Unlike most girls her age, Polly MacNamara did not go out with friends to parties or on sleigh rides with charming beaux. She stayed home to take care of her ailing mother and only dreamed of a world of boundless riches and endless fu...

  • Every Dream Come True

    Barbara Benedict

    Desperate to save her family's plantation from financial ruin, Jude Latour hires bounty hunter Tucker Boone, a rascal with a reputation, to find her missing adoptive father and has her heart stolen in the process. EVERY DREAM COME TRUE Faced ...

  • The Lady Pinkerton Gets Her Man

    Jerrie Hurd

    HER WILL AGAINST HIS WIT Being a Lady Pinkerton detective gave Dayle Dobson an outlet for her restless energy and a whole other meaning to "getting her man." Smart and fearless, she arrived in a wind-whipped Wyoming mining town prepared to...

  • Wait For Me

    Stella Cameron

    A Forgotten Fiancee Gray Falconer went to the West Indies for four years -- not once did he write. When he strides back, without any explanation, and confident that she'll "forgive and forget," it's Minerva's turn to test his patience. An Unfor...

  • Kept By a Countess

    Pat Cody

    When the Scottish terrier first fell into Meriel Welwyn's hands, the Countess knew she'd found a diamond in the ruff. But even more perfect was the pooch's owner, the Earl of Hadham. Tall, dark and handsome, Douglas Jonys had a smile that set Meriel'...

  • Harmony

    Stef Ann Holm

    When prim deportment teacher Edwina Hungtington finds herself co-owner of a warehouse with rugged sportsman Tom Wolcott, togetherness in Harmony, Montana, is anything but. And as soon as they discover that they clash more than their choices of paint ...

  • Race the Dawn

    Katharine Kincaid

    THE RACE SHE DARE NOT LOSE... With mortgage payments long overdue and the bank threatening foreclosure, Maddie McCrory has to save the family farm--any way she can. That means following in her father's footsteps by racing his quarter horse stallion ...

  • The Lady and the Knight

    Lois Greiman

    As children three cousins have made a wish for true love upon a magical dragon amulet, little realizing how daring their destinies will be as Highland Brides. Alone in the world Sara Forbes has little left to her but the dragon amulet's glow, and ...

  • The Wild One

    Danelle Harmon

    The bluest of blood; the blackest of rogues; the de Montforte Brothers will take your breath away -- meet Lord Gareth: "They call me The Wild One, and for good reason. The devil only knows whether or not I am husband material. But I do know one...

  • Vows

    Rochelle Alers

    From This Day Forward... On a well-deserved vacation in exotic Mexico, sensible, practical accountant Vanessa Blanchard allows a maelstrom of desire to turn her world upside down. She's not sure why she dared to trust gorgeous, mysterious Joshua K...

  • Tomorrow's Treasures

    Rosalyn Alsobrook

    THE MAGIC OF THEIR LOVE LIVES ON... Cecelia and Collin Freeport once lived, loved and died in the rambling clifftop house they named Seascape. Sea Haven Village remembers Cecelia's healing work and how, at death, her soul was carried away in the...

  • Caroline's Promise

    Deborah Wood

    Love can fix just about anything... CAROLINE After the worst flood to ever hit Oregon City, her house was in desperate need of repair. But the December storm brought a bigger problem: two orphaned babies -- in desperate need of a mother's love. ...

  • Midnight Skies

    Crystal Barouche

    Finding that their attraction is mutual, Sela Clay, host of a top-rated nature show, and Jonathan Mokane, an African safari operator, embark on a romance together, only to discover that their newfound passion is threatened by a clash of cultures. Ori...

  • When Lightning Strikes Twice

    Barbara Boswell

    AFTER HIS HEATED CROSS-EXAMINATION... Dubbed the "Freezer Queen" for her cool professional reserve, attorney Rachel Saxon effectively uses her glacial demeanor to ward off everyone--from clients to suitors. But even at her frostiest, she is no mat...

  • Brighter Than the Sun

    Julia Quinn

    SWEETER THAN A DREAM Charles Wycombe, the dashing--if incorrigible-- Earl of Billington, needs a bride before his upcoming thirtieth birthday if he hopes to earn his inheritance. The vicar's vivacious, determined daughter, Miss Eleanor Lyndon, nee...

  • So Speaks the Heart

    Joyce Carlow

    LOVERS FOR A MOMENT IN TIME... Amid the exotic wonders of the Byzantine empire in 523 A.D., the beautiful healer Leandra is set apart. Her dreams foretell the future and see the truth. And the truth she sees about Alexander, a dashing charioteer, is...

  • Nick of Time

    Casey Claybourne

    London, 1997. Detective Nick DaCosta had lost nearly everything. His partner had been in a coma for almost a month. His badge was taken away. It seemed the only thing left was an old photo kept in his wallet, a picture of a paradise he's never seen. ...

  • The Changeable Rose

    Jessie Watson

    CAN SHE OUTWIT THE TABBIES OF THE TN...AND LAND A LORD? Clare Winchester was once the talk of the ton--the belle of the beau monde and quite the scandal. Her dresses were daring, her antics outrageous, and she was called "The Changeable Rose&#...

  • Crimson Lace

    Linda Francis Lee

    That night so long ago, New York's elite had stood in their elegant finest, quivering with shock, speechless, before the whispers had begun. Everyone, it seemed, had known that no good could come of Lily Blakemore. The scandal was devastating. The...

  • Sheik

    Connie Mason

    Princess Zara had been raised a warrior, always at her father's side in battle against the Arabs who had stolen, their land. So when she was taken prisoner by Sheik Jamal abd Thabit during a raid, she was determined not to succumb to his wishes. She ...

  • Season for Miracles

    Marilyn Pappano

    Emilie Dalton didn't mean to lie. After she fled with her two nieces and nephew from Boston, her car broke down in a small New England town, and the only shelter was a deserted house waiting for its new owner. So Emilie began a desperate deception th...

  • Swan's Way

    Becky Lee Weyrich

    HE DIED ON A CIVIL WAR BATTLEFIELD OVER A CENTURY AGO, BUT SHE NEVER STOPPED WAITING . . . Swan's Quarter, a grand old Virginia plantation nestled in the lush Shenandoah Valley, still echoes with the memories of another time. It is there, among the ...

  • Twilight

    Sherryl Woods

    HE WAS THE LAST PERSON SHE COULD TRUST...AND THE ONLY MAN SHE COULD TURN TO. Ever since her beloved husband Ken was gunned down on the mean streets of Chicago. Dana Miller has been living for one thing: to see his killer caught and punished. She g...

  • The Christmas Gift

    Laura Taylor

    He was the kind of man any woman would love to find under her tree... Jack Howell had been an outsider all his life in a world full of families, but when he returned to Kentucky to reclaim his past, he never expected to find a woman whose loneline...

  • Upon a Midnight Clear

    Catherine Mulvany

    He'd vowed to guard her body, but did he want to keep her safe--or keep her? Dixon Yano studied the woman who'd entered his office in a wig and dark glasses, and knew the obituary was a fake. Alexandra Roundtree wasn't dead, no matter what the pap...

  • Catching Fire

    Wynema McGowan

    THEY MADE A BARGAIN THAT UNITED THEIR SOULS WITH FIRE... Thora Gunn had fought her way across the wilderness to return to the Minnesota town of Two Sisters. She had come back to rescue the brother her rapscallion of a father had abandoned, only to d...

  • The Righteous Rogue

    Martha Kirkland

    A Dangerous Deception Miss Janine Morgan did not look her best, especially after slipping on the muddy road. Who would have known from her ragamuffm appearance that she was the sister of Sir Burton Morgan? And even worse, she had just lost her pos...

  • Lord and Master

    Rosemary Stevens

    THEY WERE DRAWN TOGETHER BY FATE, FELICITY--AND FELINES! Miss Daphne Kendall, infuriated at the mistreatment of a lovely cat, rushed to save the poor creature. But for Lord Ravenswood--a man determined never to let any woman influence him beyond c...

  • Hot Temper

    Evelyn Rogers

    HOTHEADED With the way she stood up to men, Temperance Tyler had more than earned the nickname "Temper." A widow embittered by a loveless marriage, she had left the gambling halls of Texas, hoping for better luck as a cook at Buckingham Ranch. The l...

  • Dark Wager

    Mary Spencer

    Lady Clara Harkhams wasn't a great beauty, but men clamored for her hand. She practiced the art of flirting with gay abandon, but she'd long ago given her body and soul to Lucien Bryland, the viscount she was promised to at birth. Now, after years ab...

  • Under the Mistletoe

    Elaine Coffman
    in

    When widow Holly Noel Winter, along with a nanny, housekeeper, six little girls and one baby boy, moves next door to resident scrooge Dr. Stan Levine, it's time for a war between the sexes. Unless Christmas brings peace on earth and a time for even a...

  • Christmas Angel

    Kat Martin
    in

    Despite having been on opposite sides of the war, Yankee doctor Josh Coltrane is unprepared for the continued bitterness of long-lost love Angel Summers. Can these two former sweethearts learn to forgive and forget the past?...

  • A Baby for Christmas

    Lisa Jackson
    in

    Lonely Annie McFarlane is having a blue holiday...until a baby in a basket is left on her doorstep. When a handsome man appears to claim the child, Annie faces losing the most precious gift she's ever been given...or getting another Christmas surpris...

  • Home for Christmas

    Katherine Sutcliffe
    in

    Virginia Valemere is barely hanging on to her prized horses. Her father's desperate need for medical attention may tip her over the edge. Virginia's enigmatic new neighbor Dr. Neil Ellison could wind up being her hope for salvation, or her ruin....

  • Tender Touch

    Lynn Emery

    Concentrating on her high-profile career rather than her broken heart, Jade meets Damon, wary of women after his wife's infidelity, and together they must try to clear Jade's name from involvement in a tabloid scandal and begin to build trust again. ...

  • Dangerous Waters

    Amy J. Fetzer

    THE DRAMATIC STORY OF A BEAUTIFUL, MODERN-DAY BOUNTY HUNTER IN SEARCH OF JUSTICE, AND HER DESTINY, IN THE ARMS OF A LAWMAN OF THE OLD WEST. Twentieth-century bounty hunter Victoria Mason plunges through a waterfall after a wanted man and finds her...

  • Easy Virtue

    Janice Kaiser

    LIFE IS NOT TURNING OUT HOW MARY MARGARET PLANNED. When her father was convicted of a violent murder she knew he didn't commit, Mary Margaret vowed to clear him. But now, eight years later, she is working as a showgirl in Reno and is in serious de...

  • Strands of Gold

    Kathleen Morgan

    Princess Arien had all but given up her chance at love when she'd made a vow of chastity years before, but the little man she met one day in the forest seemed to think otherwise. He told her the man of her heart was none other than the strongest and ...

  • Winter Rose

    Linda Windsor

    THE BIRTH OF A NATION 1775 Montreal. The first rumblings of the American Revolution reach Arissa Conway, a skilled herbalist carrying on the tradition of her physician father. But it is not until a mysterious stranger arrives at the family tavern ...

  • A Magnificent Match

    Gayle Buck

    Propriety or Pleasure It was a scandal! Although Megan O'Connell was quite beautiful and already nineteen, she would soon be on the shelf. Living a lonely life in rural Ireland was a far cry indeed from the exciting prospects of a London Season. T...

  • Love's Reward

    Jean R. Ewing

    An Elopement to Danger Fitzroy Mountfitchet, Viscount Tarrant, was used to getting his brother Quentin out of scrapes. But this was outside of enough! Quentin had eloped with no less than the Lady Joanna Acton, an earl's daughter whose older b...

  • Marriage a la Mode

    Elisabeth Fairchild

    A Scandal Over Love The ton was in an uproar! The King was bringing divorce proceedings against the Queen. And Lady Melody Bainbridge was doing the same against the cruel lord she had wed a few years before. Now forced to hide her face behind the ...

  • The Country Gentleman

    Cindy Holbrook

    She Was Aghast At His Country Manners. The Incomparable Lady Sarah, the darling of the ton, not only broke off her engagement to Ravenwich -- that dreadful rake and libertine -- but struck an even deadlier blow! During a visit to his country estate,...

  • Love Heals All

    Leslie Brannen

    As the sole veterinarian of Little Falls, Missouri, Cat Wills was devoted to caring for animals and racing horses. Ever the tomboy, she'd never thought about men much--until a handsome bachelor swept into town--and swept her off her feet... Flush ...

  • Imperfect Justice

    Catherine Arnold

    When criminal attorney Karen Perry-Mondori is hired by a big-time crime boss nabbed for drug possession, she assumes sheÆll once again be representing another client that she secretly feels is guilty. But he insists he was set up, and the incredible...

  • The Suspect

    Jerry Kennealy

    The action in Jerry Kennealy's latest thriller moves again at a lightning pace, as an acclaimed art collector is kidnapped, and her husband is the key suspect! The police think it's art fraud on a massive scale, and it's up to a falsely accused man t...

  • Tek Kill

    William Shatner

    When Jake Cardigan's boss, Walter Bascomb, is arrested for murder it looks like an open-and-shut case of jealous rage, but Cardigan, looking to clear his boss's name, begins a dangerous search for the real murderer. Reprint....

  • Mortal Pursuit

    Brian Harper

    Rookie cop Trish Robinson matches wits with a psychopathic killer named Cain as he holds a wealthy family hostage in their Santa Barbara estate--a man who harbors a deadly secret that may cost them all their lives. Original....

  • Death Fires

    Ron Faust

    In this shocking thriller set in Baja California, a movie cast and crew on location becomes the setting for murder and depravity. The Director: Visionary and perverse, he coaxes and prods his cast and crew as he tries to bend them to his will in the...

  • Deadly Silence

    Jodie Larsen

    A rising young attorney and a public relations specialist believe their futures are assured at a prestigious Oklahoma City law firm. That is, until they're brought together on an important case, with their research revealing the firm's chilling link ...

  • Medal of Honor

    H. Jay Riker

    It is the highest award a grateful nation can bestow upon its fighting men. To earn it, a soldier requires more than courage, more than dedication--valor that far surpasses that of his brothers-in-arms. Twenty years after the first Navy UDT frogman ...

  • The Dark

    Andrew Neiderman

    A MASTER OF EVIL... Los Angeles psychiatrist Grant Blaine's biggest worry should be whether or not his stunning wife, Maggie, will make full partner at her law firm. But his new patient, Jules Bois, pervades his every thought. Despite Bois' delusion...

  • Polymorph

    Scott Westerfeld

    A woman gifted with the ability to change her race and gender is shocked to discover a fellow "polymorph" in the New York City of the future and even more astonished to learn of his plan for global domination. Original....

  • Isaac Asimov's Christmas

    Gardner Dozois

    A collection of stories from the pages of Issac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine about how Christmas might look like centuries in the future, in alien lands, and the cold vastness of space features works by Connie Willis,,, Michael Swanwick,...

  • The Darkness of God

    Chris Bunch

    Joshua Wolfe has four sworn enemies: the Chitet cult, a power-mad baron, the Federation government, and the alien “virus” that is slowly invading the known universe.And he has one hope: the Ur-Lumina, the legendary power-enhancing crystal of the ...

  • Demon Rider

    Ken Hood

    The Hob Europe lies under the heel of the Khan, who swept across the West in 1244. And the Scottish outlaw Toby Longdirk lies under an even harsher rule--he is possessed by a hob, a demonic spirit neither good nor evil, but murderous as a child. ...

  • Steel Rose

    Kara Dalkey

    FAERIE TALES DO COME TRUE... Once upon a time, performance artist T.J. Kaminski would have done anything to be a success. Then she discovered the way to jumpstart her career: by conjuring something up in a secret corner of Pittsburgh's Schenley Park...

  • Alien Influences

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Bountiful is a sun-scorched, inhospitable planet, offering only one comfort to its small band of human colonists: the powerful intoxicant they create from native plants an export to other worlds. But an unspeakable disaster devastates the colony. Six...

  • Pilgrim

    Fred Saberhagen

    Tom Scheffler and Jerry Flint find themselves fighting for their lives millennia before they are to be born when a mysterious, looting time traveler known only as Pilgrim seeks to change the course of history for his own ends. Original....

  • Fox and Empire

    Harry Turtledove

    THE RELUCTANT EMPEROR Ever since the devastating Werenight that spelled the end of the Elabonian Empire, Aragis the Archer has been saying he doesn't want war with Gerin the Fox, also called King of the North. But the Archer is ambitious and feels...

  • Phases

    Elizabeth Moon

    THERE'S NOTHING INCONSTANT ABOUT THIS MOON No new author has burst upon the scene with such instant success as Elizabeth Moon, whose debut was the epic fantasy trilogy The Deed of Paksenarrion. But Moon, like such diverse talents as Anderson, Dick...

  • The Hunters

    Thomas S. Gressman

    UNITE OR DIE "Carry the fight to the Clans!" has become the rallying cry for the armies of the Successor States. Now, as the Great Houses launch an offensive against the Clan Occupation Zone, a combined armed task force, drawn from across the Inner ...

  • Razor's Edge

    Lisanne Norman

    THEY HAD JOURNEYED TO THE PAST TO SAVE THEIR PRESENT.... Carrie and Kusac--she a human telepath, he a Sholan one--have together formed a bond stronger than all the differences between their two races. They have survived the political manipulations...

  • Splendor

    Brenda Joyce

    She Played a Dangerous Game Carolyn Browne was a poor bookseller's daughter and an enlightened thinker, delighting London with her scathingly witty columns, written under the name Charles Copperville. Penetrating the ton's gilded salons in male di...

  • Knight's Rebellion

    Suzanne Barclay

    'Twas Said That The Sommervilles Love Only Once.... Yet Alys Sommerville was no heir to this legacy of passion, for the Fates had sent her along a different road. One that led straight into the arms of Gowain FitzWarren, the leader of a desperate reb...

  • Temple's Prize

    Linda Castle

    There Was More At Stake Here Than Money... Temple Parish knew it the minute Constance Cadwallender set foot in Montana. If he were saddled with 'little Connie,' how could he concentrate on winning the scientific prize that would make his ...

  • Wine Country

    Kathryn Kent

    From the peaceful mountains of the Rockies to the Eastern windswept shores, there are small towns where gentle hearts can find a home--and where true love is always right around the corner .. . On South Bass Island, Ohio, there were as many lonely...

  • Sleeping at the Magnolia

    Lisa G. Brown

    IF THE SHADOWY WALLS COULD TALK For 100 years, the Tennessee moon had shone down on the Magnolia Inn, the old hotel that Lainie Thorne's family has always owned. Nowadays the place is crumbling to nothing. Its walls hold only memories and secrets....

  • A Love So Splendid

    Linda Ladd

    SHE FOUGHT FOR FREEDOM Trinity Kingston believes in the American Revolution despite its terrible price. Now with her father imprisoned and their magnificent South Carolina plantation seized by the British, Trinity wants nothing to do with Lord Wil...

  • Stolen Moments

    Michelle Martin

    It was just after midnight when the Princess of Pop made her escape, leaving behind the syrupy-sweet ballads and the tyrannical manager who had made her famous. All Harley Jane Miller wanted was a vacation: two weeks on her own in New York before rec...

  • Staying Cool

    Catherine Todd

    MATCHMAKER MATED WITH MURDER When the guilty verdict came in, forty-something juror Ellen Santiago Laws was relieved. After all, she helped convict the murderer of Natasha Ivanova, a flashy matchmaker who brought love to overworked Southern Califo...

  • Fireworks

    Raeanne Thayne

    She was his forbidden desire, a flame in his heart and under his skin... . Too late for a quick getaway, Sam Wyatt groaned when he saw Rachel Lawrence's car drive toward the ranch house. She hadn't been back to Wyoming since her husband died fight...

  • Hunter in Disguise

    Kathy DiSanto

    A MYSTERIOUS HUNK WHOSE LETHAL SMILE PROMISED "DANGER AHEAD..." Candy Johnson was convinced the new gym teacher had more on his mind than volleyball! Sure, George Price had a face and body to die for, but what was a man with his muscles and moves ...

  • Look What the Stork Brought

    Dixie Browning

    Instant Father: former detective Joe Dana had a weakness for beautiful women - not pudgy babies! Earth Mother: Sophie Bayard knew all about natural childbirth - she just didn't expect a handsome stranger to practically deliver her baby in a vegetab...

  • The Surprise Christmas Bride

    Maureen Child

    ON THE FIRST DAY OF CHRISTMAS... Finding herself in bed with her childhood love after being jilted at the altar by another man wasn't exactly Casey Oakes's idea of a merry Christmas. But she knew she wouldn't have wanted to spend her &...

  • A Husband in Her Stocking

    Christine Pacheco

    SANTA LEFT...WHAT? Meghan Carroll said bah-humbug to Santa Claus and Christmas, until Santa's elves deposited a very handsome stranger on her doorstep. She'd sworn off men and marriage, and Kyle Murdock looked like another heartbreak-in-waiting. B...

  • The Best Little Joeville Christmas

    Anne Eames

    THE LITTLEST MONTANA MALONE... Jenny was pregnant! And the father-to-be had taken off for the hills - before she could tell him the news. Why had Shane Malone suddenly hightailed it off the Malone ranch? After their night of passion and all that h...

  • I Married a Prince

    Kathryn Jensen

    SECRET BABY HEIR TO A THRONE! How could a small-town librarian with her nose in books - not the tabloids - know that the man she'd fallen for years ago was literally a prince? Or that their love child was heir to a royal throne? All Allison knew was...

  • Santa Cowboy

    Barbara McMahon

    COWBOY GIVES GOOD LOVIN' THIS CHRISTMAS! Prim Deb Harrington didn't ask Santa for a tall, handsome stranger to charge into her office and tell her how to do her job! The too-sure cowboy made her feel in need of strong, masculine hands caressing her ...

  • Captive Star

    Nora Roberts

    LADY ON THE LAM It should have been a piece of cake. All he had to do was pick up some pretty little bail jumper who wasn't even bothering to hide. But cynical bounty hunter Jack Dakota soon discovered there was nothing easy about spitfire M.J. O'...

  • The Taming of Reid Donovan

    Marilyn Pappano

    THE ORIGINAL BAD BOY Reid Donovan had heard himself described that way so many times that it was impossible to think of himself as anything but. Then he met Cassie Wade - a woman who believed in him, and whose love made him almost believe in himse...

  • One Christmas Knight

    Kathleen Creighton

    FA LA LA LA... LABOR! Okay, maybe driving solo cross-country in her eighth month wasn't the most brilliant idea Mirabella Waskowitz had ever had. And maybe she should have turned back when she heard the blizzard warnings. But the feisty mom-to-be ce...

  • Stranger by Her Side

    Susan Sizemore

    SHE WASN'T IN KANSAS ANYMORE.... And the stranger standing beside Carrie Robinson was looking for more than just Oz. With eyes the color of amber and a body honed to smooth granite, he oozed sex appeal, power ... and danger. And she needed him! ...

  • Yuletide Bride

    Rebecca Daniels

    HE HAD GIVEN HER LIFE'S MOST PRECIOUS GIFT... Marcy Fitzgerald could never forgive Cruz Martinez for leaving her. Yet she couldn't forget him, either. The proof of their long-ago love lived on in her cherished child. A child who was now in danger....

  • A Family for Christmas

    Rina Naiman

    IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE MISTLETOE.... Why else would Julia Rourke be dreaming of sharing a home - a life - with a handsome cowboy and his beautiful baby girl? Why else would confirmed bachelor Tony Pellegrino be adding a nursery on to his ranch ...

  • Who's Afraid of the Mistletoe?

    Margot Early

    Who's afraid of the mistletoe? Sarah Calder, that's who. Why is she afraid? She can't really say... The answer is that Christmas means family, emotion, remembering the past. And kissing can mean the same things... But now Sarah nee...

  • Father Christmas

    Judith Arnold

    SOMETIMES A MAN NEEDS HELP LEARNING TO BE A DAD...THAT'S WHAT THE DADDY SCHOOL IS ALL ABOUT. Cops, kids and Christmas. When John Russo showed up at Molly Saunder's Daddy School carrying a not very well concealed weapon, she thought the worst....

  • Upon a Midnight Clear

    Lynn Erickson

    Bless the beasts and the children...especially at Christmas! After nearly a hundred years, there are wolves in Colorado again. And Brigitte Hartman, a field biologist working with the Fish and Wildlife Service, is one of the people responsible. Th...

  • A Child's Christmas

    Eva Rutland

    One child. One Christmas. Ten-year-old Eric Archer finds himself at a new school and living a new life. He's still despondent over the loss of his grandparents, and none of his teachers--except Monica Powell--seem to understand him. Eric's fath...

  • Santa in a Stetson

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    Santa never looked so good! Jo Cassidy had always had a weakness for cowboys - especially strapping, sexy devils like Russ Gibson. In one short night, he'd done more than make her weak - he'd love every inch of her...and then walked out. That was ...

  • Caught Under the Mistletoe!

    Kate Hoffmann

    Alaska. A place where could be men ... and women were scarce! For Tanner O'Neill, that was the whole charm of it. He'd had it with pushy females trying to con him to the altar. Then an eight-year-old stowaway named Sam showed up ... with his oh-so-...

  • My Jingle Bell Baby

    Leandra Logan

    What Alec wanted for Christmas... was some peace and quiet and an isolated Wisconsin inn. Saving a gorgeous damsel in distress, and her baby, was not part of the plan. What he got... was beautiful, passionate Sara Jameson in his arms. But there w...

  • The Grinch Makes Good

    Alison Kent

    HO-HO-HOLD ME! At the age of thirty-one, Brooke Bailey still believed in Santa Claus. She was determined to spread joy throughout her apartment building ... whether a certain neighbor wanted it or not. Indeed, for Dr. Duncan Cox, Christmas was ...

  • Christmas in the Country

    Muriel Jensen

    He'll be home for Christmas... Jeff James survived capture inspired by the memory of Liza deLane's apricot-glazed ham. And her luscious red lips. Now he's a free man, with one Christmas wish--to meet Liza, the new Martha Stewart, heroine of hearth, ...

  • Marley and Her Scrooge

    Emily Dalton

    Talk about the Christmas spirit! When Carl Merrick fell asleep at his desk on Christmas Eve, his business partner made an unexpected appearance in his dreams -- in baby-doll pj's and a come-hither grin! Now he was looking at Marley Jacobs in a...

  • Bells, Rings & Angels' Wings

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    HUMBUG! Libby Barnes wished Christmas would go away-along with her husband, Tyler. But would Santa answer a wish from Willow Hills, Indiana, population 400? Suddenly darkness fell, snow swirled and Libby could barely find her way home. But stra...

  • The Santa Suit

    Karen Toller Whittenburg

    The man in the red suit... had a lot to answer for, in Kat Harmon's opinion! He'd let her down and now her twins' head were filled - not with visions of sugarplums but kittens, dogs and a daddy! It'd be a cold midnight clear before that Christmas...

  • In the Bride's Defense

    Kelsey Roberts

    She needed this marriage to prove her innocence... and this love to save her life. LUCAS HENDERSON is a man with a mission. He'll stop at nothing to solve a friend's mysterious death by poisoning--even when his investigation leads him straight int...

  • The Dream Wedding

    M.J. Rodgers

    Dreams can come true. Dream specialist Michael Sands couldn't have conjured a more perfect dream woman than the beauty that lay asleep in her wedding gown under his Christmas tree. Nor could he resist kissing her awake. Briana Berry wasn't dis...

  • Undercover Christmas

    B.J. Daniels

    She Claimed Her Baby Was His Yet Chase Calloway swore he'd never met the mysterious pregnant woman who appeared at his family's ranch. True, an accident had blocked parts of his memory, but he wouldn't have forgotten the desire that flared betwee...

  • Their Only Child

    Carla Cassidy

    For Christmas, she wanted her family back For single mom Theresa Mathews, the Christmas holidays were extra special because of her son. And because in him she still held part of Sullivan -- the man she'd once loved. But now their child was mis...

  • Better Watch Out

    Dani Sinclair

    Christmas Stalking... J.D. Frost's kids fell in love with the lady in the ice-cream parlor. When he laid eyes on their new playmate, J.D., too, felt a sudden craving for sweets - a craving only Jackie Neeley could satisfy. But then the woman star...

  • Mistletoe Mischief

    Alyssa Dean

    A Christmas Elf? It happened to Josh Larkland every year. He'd be happily running his multimillion-dollar company, when the whole world would just go...nuts. It meant only one thing...Christmas! Not that Josh really minded Christmas -- h...

  • I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus

    Debbi Rawlins

    Santa wears a skirt? Noah Spenser felt like a fool sitting on Santa's lap. But his seven-year-old daughter, Mindy, had insisted. However, when he noticed that this Santa had padding in unexpected places, he wasn't so anxious to leave. Especially w...

  • Father and Child Reunion

    Christine Flynn

    A mother and child are held hostage .... A father searches frantically for clues .... Rio Redtree had never recovered from his teenage sweetheart's betrayal. Eve Stuart had left him without a word of explanation, and though six years had passed...

  • Her Secret Santa

    Day Leclaire

    Five-year-old River Sierra wants a mother - a mother just like the beautiful fairy in her storybook. So when J.J. Randell turns up on her daddy's doorstep it seems her wish has come true. Only River's daddy is less convinced. Raven Sierra has...

  • Desperately Seeking Twin...

    Marie Ferrarella

    A small, faded photograph had turned Blair Stephens' world upside down. She'd suddenly learned she was adopted -- and that, somewhere, she had a twin sister who was her spitting image! With nowhere else to turn, she hired the services of hunky Devin ...

  • Seducing Santa

    Beth Henderson

    ALL SHE WANTS FOR CHRISTMAS... Is Santa Claus. But not just any old Santa Claus. Roxanne Mercer wants the most beloved Santa for miles around to advertise her Christmas store. Unfortunately, she isn't the only person in town who thinks only on...

  • The Baby Came C.O.D.

    Marie Ferrarella

    THE BABY IN HIS IN-BOX Workaholic Evan Quartermain had no time for love. So when someone left a baby on his secretary's desk, claiming it was his, he was in shock. What did he know about babies? Single mother Claire Walker could see her handso...

  • Paternal Instincts

    Elizabeth August

    MARRY ME... For Romance-weary Roxanne Dugan, another loveless marriage seemed out of the question. But desperate to win custody of a special little boy, she proposed a marriage in name only to a virtual stranger with surprisingly paternal instincts...

  • His Brother's Intended Bride

    Carolyn Zane

    "I never met a woman I couldn't have...then I met my brother's intended bride!" --Buck Brubaker She had to land a wealthy Brubaker bachelor, so Holly Fergusson pretended to be engaged to one. But it wasn't her "fiance" who made Holly hot and bothe...

  • The Dad Who Saved Christmas

    Karen Rose Smith

    A CONVENIENT CHRISTMAS FATHER He claimed he was no Santa, so why had Nick Clark made Faith Hewitt's Christmas wish come true? After charming her son, single-handedly saving the Christmas pageant and making the usually staid Faith swoon at the most...

  • The Drifter's Gift

    Lauryn Chandler

    Star light, star bright, first man I see tonight... When a sexy drifter showed up at Danielle Harmon's farm, the struggling single mom suddenly dreamed of riding off into the sunset with this ruggedly handsome man. But though Sam Mclean was as c...

  • From Humbug to Holiday Bride

    Zena Valentine

    HER MIRACLE MAN Brenda Jane Dolliver didn't believe in much. Certainly not Christmas, or miracles...or love. But when she desperately needed a haven around the holidays, her one hope was a very unconventional minister.... Hamish Chandler was no...

  • Creole Bride

    Deborah Martin

    Glittering New Orleans was a sultry city of intrigue and danger. Here Camille Giron, orphaned daughter of a famous buccaneer and a highborn Creole woman, was called the Pirate Princess. And here the proud regal beauty would find herself living in ser...

  • Jacey's Reckless Heart

    Cheryl Anne Porter

    She rode hellbent across the West to catch a thief... Jacey Lawless is a different kind of lady -- fast with a gun, a natural on a horse, and wild of spirit. Her father had once been a desperado; her mother a Boston heiress. Now driven by grief af...

  • The Marquess

    Patricia Rice

    SHE SOUGHT PROTECTION When Dillian Whitnell sought refuge at Arimnede Manor, she never dreamed the price would be her virtue. But someone had already made an attempt on her cousin's life, and Dillian was determined to prevent another. Even if it mea...

  • Her Father's House

    Emma Sinclair

    Travellan...Her father's ancient Cornish home is the only constant in Jennie Veryan's young life, and Mark Curnow is her only love--though it seems she must lose them both. A proud and old family, the Veryans break up her romance with the land agent'...

  • Cade's Justice

    Pat Tracy

    Gideon Cade was bent on revenge Gideon Cade Was Consumed By One Desire, until the night the angelic Emma Step, all fire and fury, demanded entry to his home and transformed his life. But could she give the gift of her love to a man who harbored...

  • His Secret Duchess

    Gayle Wilson

    Mary Winters harbored a secret deep within her heart. She'd borne the duke of Vail a child and was determined that no one -- not even the noble love of her life himself -- would ever uncover the truth. Afire with the passion of youth, Nick Stanton ha...

  • Texas Baby

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    TEXAS BABY When Margaret Madison cuddled little Alison in her arms, she knew she wanted to be this needy child's mother. It didn't matter that she'd just turned forty-six. It didn't matter that she'd just married off her other "baby." But is ...

  • The Littlest Angel

    Sherryl Woods

    MOTHER-BY-ACCIDENT Angela Adams refused to have anything to do with her unborn baby's reluctant father, much less marry him! True, her pregnancy was unexpected, but Clint Brady didn't have to act so dazed when she announced her impending motherho...

  • The Cop and the Cradle

    Suzannah Davis

    ANYTHING FOR FAMILY Jake Lattimer couldn't believe that his newly discovered twin brother had dumped a wacky, feisty woman on his doorstep for safekeeping! From her snooping and unearthing heirloom cradles to her subtle sexiness, she was driving t...

  • Christmas Magic

    Andrea Edwards

    THE PETS WHO SAVED CHRISTMAS "What kind of cat burglar brings her kitties?" groused tough state policeman Mike Burnette. Then Mike learned that his irrepressible intruder was actually Casey Crawford, his new -- unwelcome -- housemate...f...

  • The Millionaire's Baby

    Phyllis Halldorson

    THERE WAS SOMETHING FAMILIAR... about the man Kate Brown had rescued from the ditch on that stormy night. But he couldn't even tell her his name. Kate had no idea that she had fallen for handsome millionaire Burk Sinclair -- a man who had spent...

  • Second Chance Dad

    Angela Benson

    Five months before Christmas, his old love gave to him...a child he never knew he had. But Dillon Bell had been betrayed once before by this woman; dare he believe Monique's son was truly his? Three months before Christmas, Dillon was embraci...

  • Christmas Rose

    Lacey Springer

    Her gentle love blossomed -- despite his cold heart. A SEASON OF HOPE Although Abby Wilson's hometown was decked out in holiday cheer, she could hardly revel in the season when her brooding boss, Gabe Kendall, had lost all hope. She was drawn...

  • A Matter of Trust

    Cheryl Wolverton

    SHE REFUSED TO BE FIRED... Elizabeth Jefferson wasn't like the other. The young sassy therapist refused to be fired and merrily defied Rand Stevens's demands. Since the accident that had robbed him of his sight, the handsome millionaire had a...

  • The Wedding Quilt

    Lenora Worth

    WEDDING DREAMS... The handmade quilt had been stored with care--along with Rosemary Brinson's cherished dreams. The wedding was called off and Rosemary vowed she'd never marry. Then Kirk Lawrence arrived, hired to renovate the historic town chu...

  • The Perfect Husband

    Lisa Gardner

    Jim Beckett was everything she'd ever dreamed of....But two years after Tess married the decorated cop and bore his child, she helped put him behind bars for savagely murdering ten women. Even locked up in a maximum security prison, he vowed he would...

  • Death Dines Out

    Claudia Bishop

    Hemlock Falls is a pretty little town in upstate New York. Sarah Quilliam, with her talent for business, runs the Inn at Hemlock Falls. Her sister, Meg, keeps the guests happy with her culinary abilities. But when it comes to murder, the Quilliam sis...

  • Face Off

    Emma Brookes

    Face Off by Emma BrookesWhen Suzanne Richards fled Omaha, she left behind her old life--and her work as a police consultant, forging psychic links with the most brutal serial killers. But she cannot run from her talent. And she cannot resist the plea...

  • The Holland Suggestions

    John Dunning

    Jim Ryan, the single father of a teenage girl, has a lot to live for. But something vital is missing from his life--a lost piece of his past, which haunts his dreams and robs him of sleep. When an anonymous delivery lands on his desk--a mysterious ph...

  • Muddy Water

    Sally Gunning

  • Murder in the Air

    Ellen Hart

    SERIAL MURDERThe yuletide revival of a vintage Twin Cities radio serial isn't just for fun--dealing as it does with the scandalous unsolved 1950s murder of beautiful Kay Collins. But an even deeper mystery intrigues radio personality Bram Baldric and...

  • Hung Up to Die

    Dolores Johnson

    DIRTY BUSINESS For Mandy Dyer, who had put away her painter's easel, cut her hair, and donned the life of a dry-cleaning entrepreneur, things were taking a turn for the best, and the worst, at the same time. Her main competitor, a man who played dir...

  • Unbound

    Julie Kaewert

    PUBLISH AND PERISH! Plumtree Press is about to launch a bombshell of a book--a fact-based novel about one of Britain's most revered authors, Marcus Stonecypher, a member of Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury Group. Angela Mayfield's shocking book reveals...

  • Midsummer Malice

    M.D. Lake

    Dead Men Tell No Tales Campus cop Peggy O'Neill is making her nightly rounds when she runs into Steadman George, the aging piano man who lives and works aboard the university's Showboat Theater, docked on the Mississippi. Tonight he has a tale to ...

  • No Place for Sin

    Sherry Lewis

    A man is lucky to live his life in a place like Cutler, Colorado. At least that's what Fred Vickery thinks--and he ought to know. A lifelong resident, Fred is seventy-three and still going strong. He plans to live in Cutler for the rest of his life--...

  • Pray For Us Sinners

    Philip Luber

    THE BEGINNING OF THE END . . .

    In 1972, when Veronica Pace was nine years old, she watched a masked intruder brutally murder her mother. Now a seasoned FBI agent, Veronica is determined to hunt down her mother's killer, still at large after tw...

  • Hit and Run

    Christopher Newman

    Detective Joe Dante lives in a downtown loft and hangs with an uptown crowd.  A cop who doesn't act, talk, or play like other cops, Dante's got Brooklyn-bred street smarts and a half-finished Ph.D. dissertation on his bookshelf.  But when a man i...

  • Hide and Seek

    Ian Rankin

    COME OUT, COME OUT, WHEREVER YOU ARE... At night the summer sky stays light over Edinburgh. But in a shadowy, crumbling housing development, a junkie lies dead of an overdose, his bruised body surrounded by signs of Satanic worship. John Rebus cou...

  • Misleading Ladies

    Cynthia Smith

    She's a sleuth with a penchant for the finer things in life -- and death... I work for only the rich and famous. After all, they're just as needful of my services and they do show their appreciation so much better than the less fortunate. ...

  • No Place Called Home

    Margaret Woodward

    After witnessing the violent death of his older brother, Sam, the seven-year-old son of a heroin-addicted mother, is placed in a foster home but is targeted by a ruthless drug dealer who is trying to keep Sam's mother from testifying. Original....

  • Savage Sun

    James Axler

    THE UNPROMISED LAND Time hasn't stopped after the apocalypse. After the long nuclear winter, a few continue the struggle for survival in the irradiated wastelands. Then, a new order emerges, with a directive to destroy whatever freedom remains in it...

  • Final Orbit

    S.V. Date

    Space program veteran Santy Santich suspects a NASA cover-up when an astronaut dies horribly on a routine space shuttle flight, but his place on the next shuttle is in jeopardy, and the countdown to liftoff with a killer has already begun. Original....

  • Firestorm

    Keith Douglass

    The first mission is simple. Lieutenant Blake Murdock and his SEALs must infiltrate a Chinese beach house and acquire top secret information from a CIA informant. During the raid, the spook goes belly-up, but the package is delivered. Mission accompl...

  • Politika

    Jerome Preisler

    IT IS 1999. The sudden death of Russia's president has thrown the Russian Federation into chaos. Devastating crop failures have left millions in the grip of famine, and an uprising seems inevitable. One of Russia's provisional leaders asks the ...

  • Havana Strike

    Jim DeFelice

    When Fidel Castro dies, his children fight for supreme reign but are deterred by guerilla rebels and the U.S. military, which offers technologically advanced tools to restore stability, until it is discoverd that Castro left behind a secret that coul...

  • Wireman

    Billie Sue Mosiman

    A homicidal maniac whose weapon of choice is a wire garrote is on the loose, and with every life he destroys, he becomes even more powerful and brutal, while an entire terror-filled city anxiously awaits for the police to find and capture the unknown...

  • Son of a Wanted Man

    Louis L'Amour

    Ben Curry knew it was a dog eat dog country and if you survived you had to have big teeth. From a secret fortress in the wild, broken canyon country his men rode hard and smart as far as Canada and Mexico, from San Antone to Los Angeles to pull jobs ...

  • The Last Noel

    Jean Hager

    MURDER STEALS THE SCENE Peace and goodwill go out the window at Tess Darcy's Community Church in Victoria Springs the minute out-of-town drama professor Sherwood Draper walks in the door. He's been asked to replace the former director of the annua...

  • Alien Resurrection

    A.C. Crispin

    At the farthest reaches of the solar system, aboard orbiting space station Auriga, the unthinkable has happened. Ripley awakes. Her last memory is of her fiery death on the prison colony Fiorina 361. And yet she is alive. Her questions grow as ...

  • Aftermath

    Levar Burton

    Now LeVar Burton achieves new renown in his widely acclaimed first novel--a powerful, thrilling adventure of human courage in a devastated, transformed America....

  • No Regrets // Sooner or Later

    Elizabeth Adler

    Sole heir to her family's once formidable fortune, Ellie Parrish Duveen divides her time between running her small restaurant and trying to take care of her beloved grandmother. The last thing she has time for is men.. "Dan Cassidy, formerly a New Yo...

  • Come the Spring

    Julie Garwood

    Cole Clayborne had always walked a dark path and flirted with a life of crime. While his three brothers chose to settle into married life, Cole rebelliously refused to be tied down. Now, an elusive stranger draws him into a shadowy chase that will br...

  • The Homecoming

    Marion Chesney

    WILL THE LAST BEVERLEY DAUGHTER MARRY FOR MANNERLING? Lizzie is the sixth and youngest daughter of the late Sir Beverley, the patriarch who gambled away their beloved estate, Mannerling. Each of Lizzie's sisters had been entrusted by their ambitio...

  • The Clark Gable and Carole Lombard Murder Case

    George Baxt

    While 1939 Atlanta is gearing up for the premiere of Gone With the Wind, Hollywood is experiencing a series of kidnappings targeted at star babies, with the dashing Clark Gable and his glamorous wife Carole Lombard on the case....

  • Shelter from the Storm

    Tony Dunbar

    In Shelter from the Storm, Dunbar once again brings us to the crazy and colorful city of New Orleans. This time it's Mardi Gras--and a violent storm drenches the city in chaos. As the water level rises, a dangerous gang of marooned bank robbers becom...