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  • Destroy The Liquidator

    Ryder Windham

    The Imperial Star Destroyer Liquidator is quickly approaching the Rebel base on Yavin Four. It is part of an Imperial plan to control hyperspace -- and crush the Rebellion. To prevent the Empire from carrying out this evil deed, the Rebels must loc...

  • Marooned

    Christie Golden

    When an alien pirate abducts Kes, U.S.S. Voyager takes off in hot pursuit, but the first rescue mission fails disastrously; an ion storm forces the shuttle to crash on an unknown world. Now Captain Janeway and her Away Team must embark on a hazardous...

  • Star Trek: New Frontier

    Peter David

    Recommended by Jean-Luc Picard, Captain Mackenzie Calhoun takes command of the U.S.S. Excalibur, manned by a crew that includes members from Star Trek: The Next Generation, for a daring voyage....

  • Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

    Chris Angelilli

  • Illegal Alien

    Robert J. Sawyer

    When a disabled spaceship enters the Earth's atmosphere, fear is quickly replaced with awe. Seven members of the incredibly advanced Tosok race are welcomed by the world with open arms, and the people of Earth put their best face forward. Then a popu...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • Amalgam 97

    Marvel Book Group

  • Black Mist

    Orson Scott Card

    Japan has long been one of the key players in business, technology, and culture...and now some of today's finest writers have created these all-new novellas envisioning how its influence will change the world! Calling on their expert knowledge of Jap...

  • The Civilisation Game and Other Stories

    Clifford D. Simak

    This seventh collection to be assembled by the editor Francis Lyall, is mainly to show Clifford D. Simak's early use of ideas that fascinated him, and, with one exception, bring together stories which have been unavailable since they were first publi...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • The Golden One

    Deborah Chester

    Here is an epic set in a far distant universe--a saga of faraway planets and of races strange and more fantastic than any ever seen on our world. Yet their struggles are universal: for justice, for freedom, for peace. Lucasfilm's Alien Chronicles is ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Son of Origins of Marvel Comics

    Stan Lee

  • 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....

  • The Academy

    Ed Ruggero

    When a senator launches a smear campaign against West Point as a means of landing the presidency, five people--including Major Tom Gates and his calculating wife--become caught up in the ensuing maelstrom, which exposes the academy's flaws. Reprint....

  • Amalia

    Ann M. Martin

    Adjusting well to her new school, Amalia Vargas makes a new group of friends and is soon living by a new set of rules, but her life spins out of control when her boyfriend will not let her break up with him. Original....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Double Identity

    Steve Zettler

    Former Secret Service agent Joe Bradlee goes undercover for the FBI as a man who could pass for his double--the key witness in a high-profile trial and the target of an international team of assassins. Original....

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Forbidden Summit

    Payne Harrison

    When NORAD intelligence officer Frank Hannon reports four unidentified aircraft in the skies over North America, he is puzzled by the lack of response from his superiors--until he realizes he has discovered the ultimate government secret. Original....

  • The Gypsy's Warning

    Cheryl Zach

    Science-minded Jamie and psychic Quinn put their heads together to find the ghost who communicates with a gypsy at an old mansion, and when valuables start disappearing, they suspect that something more sinister is going on...

  • 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...

  • In the Name of a Killer

    Brian Freemantle

    A Russian Militia Colonel and an elite FBI agent join forces to track down a serial killer on the loose in Moscow after a U.S. senator's niece becomes his latest victim. Originally titled The Button Man. Reprint....

  • Jeremiah: Terrorist Prophet

    Michael A. Smith

    In this first book of a trilogy, Jeremiah, who claims to be a modern-day religious prophet, attempts to create a following by killing the "evil ones"--pedophiles, bullies and rapists, prison inmates, stock market manipulators and crooked politicians....

  • Left in the Care of

    Dinah Kung

    A Hong Kong novel like no other, Left in the Care Of is a sparkling tale of suspense about a mother's worst fear. Along a shaded residential lane overshadowed by Victoria Peak, a little English boy is discovered dead by his Filipina babysitter. When ...

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • The Poison Tree

    Tony Strong

    The handsome student who lived at 57 West Street died there too, his brutal murderer never brought to justice.  For Terry Williams, returning to Oxford University to complete a doctorate in detective fiction, the house's macabre history simply mean...

  • A Question of Belief

    Margaret Yorke

    After being accused of a rape he did not commit and being ostracized by his community, Philip Winter seeks cover with an Animal Rights group, until another woman crosses his path with revenge on her mind....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Channel X

    Francine Pascal

    Don't touch that dial...

    SVU STUDENTS:  EARN CASH JUST FOR WATCHING TV!

    When Nina Harper and Bryan Nelson see the sign, they think it's too good to be true.  All they have to do is watch television with electrodes strapped to their ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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&#...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • Bridget: The Fling

    Wendy Corsi Staub

    Setting out for college in Seattle, leaving her old boyfriend, Grant, behind while he copes with his father's death, Bridget soon discovers the problems of keeping a long-distance romance alive. Original....

  • Heather's Change of Heart

    Zoe Cooper

    Heather has met the man of her dreams, but when her future mother-in-law completely takes over the wedding plans and her fiance+a7 Reggie refuses to stop flirting with other women, Heather starts to have second thoughts about her dream come true. Ori...

  • The Bellows Falls

    Archer Mayor

    When asked to investigate a small-town police department in Bellows Falls, homicide detective Joe Gunther becomes determined to separate myth from reality as he delves deep into a world of deceit, domestic violence, corrupt cops, drugs, and murder...

  • 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...

  • Ransom for a Holiday

    Fred W. Hunter

    While vacationing in a picturesque Michigan guest house, homicide detective Jeremy Ransom and his partner Emily Charters, just recovering from open-heart surgery, become involved in a dangerous murder mystery that has haunted the inn's owner for two ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Easy

    Phillip Depoy

    CHECK OUT THE MAJESTIC DINER AT 3 A.M. LOOK FOR A MAN NAMED FLAP AND A WOMAN NAMED DALLIANCE... Flap Tucker isn't like other private eyes. He's a mystic, a finder of lost things, a veteran of a foreign war who lives on the wrong side of town and ...

  • 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. ...

  • When Last Seen Alive

    Gar Anthony Haywood

    Having more clients than he can use isn't generally Aaron Gunner's problem, but it happens that the PI is already on a case when beautiful Yolanda McCreary appears on his doorstep to offer him a second one. Her brother, Elroy Covington, apparently ru...

  • The Burning Plain

    Michael Nava

    Still reeling after the death of his former lover, criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios unwisely falls for a young actor whom he had successfully defended on trumped-up burglary charges.

    But just hours after a date with Rios, the man is brutally...

  • 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...

  • In the Shadow of the Arch

    Robert J. Randisi

    Brooklyn-born Detective Joe Keough, arriving for a new job in St. Louis, quickly becomes drawn into two cases--one involving a little boy--and a trail of abductions and murder. By the author of Blood on the Arch. Reprint....

  • 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 ...

  • Murder on 34th Street

    Edward I. Koch

    It's Christmas in New York and Mayor Ed Koch, the Big Apple's most engaging sleuth, goes undercover as none other than Santa himself, to catch a mad killer who's turning a season of merrymaking and mistletoe into one of mayhem and multiple murder. ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Survival of the Fittest

    Jonathan Kellerman

    When a slightly retarded fifteen-year-old girl dies on a school trip, LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and his friend psychologist Alex Delaware are stumped. There's no sign of a struggle and no evidence of sexual assault. Just an innocent young girl--dea...

  • Baby-sitters' Christmas Chiller

    Ann M. Martin

    America's favorite baby-sitters are detectives, too! As Christmas approaches, there's a chill in the air -- not from the weather, but from the mysterious goings-on in Stoneybrook. Someone is breaking into houses in Kristy and Abby's neighborhood...

  • The Best of Sisters in Crime

    Marilyn Wallace

    Compiles some of the all-time best stories from the popular Sisters in Crime anthologies, with works from Elizabeth George, Nancy Pickard, Joan Hess, Joyce Carol Oates, Susan Dunlap, Sara Paretsky, Marcia Muller, Carolyn G. Hart, and Dorothy Cannell,...

  • 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...

  • An Embarrassment of Corpses

    Alan Beechey

    Scotland Yard is hunting the worst kind of serial killer -- one with a sense of humor.When children's book author Oliver Swithin, reluctant creator of the notorious "Finsbury the Ferret," finds an old friend's body floating in a Trafalgar Square foun...

  • Render Up the Body

    Marianne Wesson

    Disillusioned sex-crimes prosecutor Cinda Hayes abandons the D.A.'s office to run a rape crisis center, only to be torn between her roles as a women's advocate and death penalty opponent as she is drawn into the case of a death-row inmate convicted o...

  • Eyes of Night

    Beth Amos

    A woman is missing. There is no evidence of foul play, but certain small, disturbing signs indicate that the young mother didn't leave of her own volition. The only answer to the mystery lies locked in the mind of her terrified, silent child. When ...

  • 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 Perfect Witness

    Barry Siegel

    They used to be partners - Greg Monarch and Ira Sullivan, a couple of do-good lawyers in central California. But it all went bad for Ira. Bad enough that he wakes up in jail one day staring at a death sentence for murder. Only Greg Monarch has a pray...

  • Presumption of Guilt

    Lelia Kelly

    Dynamic Atlanta lawyer Laura Chastain has developed a hard-earned reputation for waging uncompromising courtroom battles, inciting tabloid headlines, and making enemies on both sides of the law. Now, basking in the glow of her latest legal triumph, s...

  • All I Need Is You

    Johanna Lindsey

    Headstrong Casey Straton inherited her mother's beautiful eyes and her father's stubborn temperament. So when she is denied the responsibility of running her grandfather's ranch despite her unladylike prowess at roping, riding and shooting the high-s...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • Christmas Angel

    Kat Martin
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    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?...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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'...

  • 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...

  • Home for Christmas

    Katherine Sutcliffe
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    Evelyn Rogers

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    Sarah Westleigh

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    Cheryl Anne Porter

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  • Kept By a Countess

    Pat Cody

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  • Knight's Rebellion

    Suzanne Barclay

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    Lois Greiman

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    Jerrie Hurd

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    Leslie Brannen

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    Linda Ladd

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    Christina Cordaire

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    Patricia Rice

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    Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

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    Katharine Kincaid

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  • The Scarlet Thread

    Francine Rivers

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  • Sheik

    Connie Mason

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  • Splendor

    Brenda Joyce

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  • Temple's Prize

    Linda Castle

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  • Wait For Me

    Stella Cameron

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  • The Wild One

    Danelle Harmon

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  • Wine Country

    Kathryn Kent

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  • Winter Rose

    Linda Windsor

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    R.L. Stine

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  • Circus F.R.E.A.K.S.

    M.T. Coffin

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    Betsy Haynes

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  • Lost in Stinkeye Swamp

    R.L. Stine

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  • Lost Soul

    M.C. Sumner

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  • Monster Blood IV

    R.L. Stine

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  • The Old Myers Place

    Kelly O'Rourke

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  • Parents from the 13th Dimension

    Katy Hall

  • Trapped

    R.L. Stine

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  • The Clark Gable and Carole Lombard Murder Case

    George Baxt

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  • The Lucifer Contract

    Maan Meyers

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  • The Prince and the Prosecutor

    Peter J. Heck

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    Carole Bugge

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  • Tymora's Luck

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

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  • Amistad

    Joyce Annette Barnes

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  • Durango Duel

    Jon Sharpe

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  • The Long Hunters

    Dodge Tyler

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  • Longarm and the Voodoo Queen

    Tabor Evans

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  • Money Town

    J.R. Roberts

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  • Oklahoma Outlaw // Wanted! Belle Starr!

    J.T. Edson

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  • Prairie Fires

    Jake Logan

  • The Sacking of El Dorado

    Max Brand

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  • Son of a Wanted Man

    Louis L'Amour

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  • Abuela Mobile

    Arthur Dorros

  • Agape Agape

    William Gaddis

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  • Alien Scream

    Chris Archer

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  • Amistad

    Alexs D. Pate

  • Anthology of American Literature

    Paul Lauter

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  • Attack of the Killer Potatoes

    Peter Lerangis

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  • Autumn Thunder

    Michael Kosser

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    Scott Fujikawa

  • Barbie Loves Spring

    Willie Lew

  • Barney Goes To The Doctor

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Barney's Book of Hugs

    Sheryl Leach

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    Stephen White (2)

  • Barney's Halloween Party

    Scholastic Inc.

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  • Barney's Happy Valentine's Day

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Barney's Trick or Treat

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Be Mine

    Justine Wittich

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  • Big Bird Color Game

    Golden Books

  • Black Mutiny

    William A. Owens

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  • The Brentford Chain-store Massacre

    Robert Rankin

  • Call Me

    P-P Hartnett

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  • Castor and Pollux: The Fighting Twins

    Laura Geringer

  • Chelli, Be Mine!

    Allen

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    Kathie Lee Gifford

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    Joanna Campbell

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  • Clark The Toothless Shark

    Corinne Mellor

  • Cody and Quinn, Sitting in a Tree

    Kirby Larson

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    Nicholas Jose

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  • Deadline

    James Reston Jr.

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  • Desire

    Hugo Claus

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  • A Distant Hero

    Emma Drummond

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    Jan Carr

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  • The Dreaming Tree

    C.J. Cherryh

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  • Empire of the Soul

    Paul William Roberts

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  • The Fairy Lair

    Anne LeMieux

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  • Faithful Are the Wounds

    May Sarton

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  • Gehenna

    Lewis Gannett

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

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  • A Gift of Love

    Jude Deveraux

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  • The Great American

    Alex Abella

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  • Great Race

    David McPhail

  • 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...

  • The Haunted Spaceship

    Brad Ferguson

    Accused of seeing things until another cadet also witnesses the ghostly image, Geordi La Forge meets the ghost of their spaceship's former captain, who bears an important message as the ship nears an asteroid belt. Original....

  • Hit Men

    Lee Gutkind

  • Home Alone 3

    Todd Strasser

    "This is my neighborhood and this is my house..." Eight-year-old Alex Pruitt gets stuck at home with the chicken pox. There's nothing to do except play with his telescope, or mess around with the stupid toy car that his cranky neighbor gave him as...