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New Books List: 410 titles

  • Strangers in Paradise

    Lee K. Abbott

  • A Partnership With Death

    Clifton Adams

    William Richter -- as rough and gritty as the landscape he inhabits -- tries to make a go of cattle ranching in Texas with three of his Civil War buddies. Richter and his friends work hard to succeed, but still find they have to turn to wealthy Henry...

  • Barbarians 2

    Robert Adams

    This collection of heroic fantasy tales features characters of amazing strength and courage, gods and beasts, beautiful maidens and evil sorcerers, in works by Norton, Saberhagen, Leiber, Howard, and others...

  • Tesseract

    Joseph Addison

    Mark Johnson, a young executive in the great Tyson financial empire, is charged with an unusual and dangerous assignment--to bring peace to one planet and discord to another, to save both civilizations from destruction...

  • Mid-Wake

    Jerry Ahern

    Faced with a new enemy empire, can one man survive? John Rourke, CIA-trained weapons and survival expert, was fighting for his life-underwater! There had been other survivors of the nuclear nightmare that had devastated the world generations before. ...

  • The Red Parcel

    Linda Alberti

  • Trust in Love

    Jeanne Allan

    Now they were two of a kind Once there'd been a special bond between them -- Kate, the goody-goody, and Ty, the town rebel. So when high-fashion model Kate Bellamy sought refuge from scandal in her Nebraska hometown, she hoped for Ty's sup...

  • Orphan of Creation

    Roger MacBride Allen

    In the most unlikely of places—a burial ground in Mississippi—an anthropologist stumbles across a stunning secret that will put the very definition of humanity suddenly in doubt. Are the bones buried there the remains of humans, or ape...

  • Set Up

    Kristi Andrews

  • First Grade Can Wait

    Lorraine Aseltine

  • Cachet // First Impressions

    Jane Ashford

    A series of robberies at the palatial houses featured in Anitra MacBride's prestigious magazine Cachet implicates her staff. Anitra, totally baffled, accepts help from a total stranger, an Englishman she detests on sight but for some strange reason t...

  • A Lady's Lament

    Rebecca Ashley

    IT WAS LAND SHE PRIZED MOST DEARLY... ONLY TO FIND THAT LOVE MADE THE GRASS GROW GREENER. Really, it was quite shocking. Wexham Farm was a discredit to the countryside and ruined the effect of Cynthia Thornbury's carefully tended land next door. I...

  • Titans

    Lorayne Ashton

  • Isaac Asimov Best Science Fiction

    Isaac Asimov

    Isaac Asimov Best Science Fiction (Signet) - The Universe That Asimov Built ! Isaac Asimov is a name that immediately evokes images of robots and intersteller empires, of super computers and of daring missions.......

  • Mind Transfer

    Janet Asimov

    A robot with human essence and a scientist's family escape to a space colony, after the scientist is murdered by human fundamentalists on Earth, and create a society in which humans, robot/humans, and aliens, peacefully co-exist...

  • Martha Calhoun

    Richard Babcock

    Sixteen-year-old Martha Calhoun runs away from her home in Katydid, Illinois after a misunderstood incident with the nine-year-old boy she was babysitting.  She discovers a great deal about herself while on the road with a boy she does not ev...

  • The First Olympics

    Ben M. Baglio

  • The Outsider

    Stella Bagwell

    COME IN FROM THE COLD Just when Faith Galloway needed help on her ranch, a mysterious stranger appeared and offered his services. Luke Chandler knew all about cattle, but it was soon obvious he was more than an ordinary ranch hand. Why did he want...

  • Weaveworld X

    Robert L. Barker

  • Dance with Death

    Tom Barling

  • Lockestep

    Jack Barnao

    John Locke is a professional bodyguard in Toronto whose years serving in the British SAS force gave him a taste for adventure while disposing him against bullies and terrorists. He's hired by the RCMP to accompany a mob-connected drug dealer to Mexic...

  • The Heart of the Rose

    June Barraclough

    The Yorkshire home of the Hardow family, Fontaynes Castle, is still run along feudal lines, and presided over by the aging though formidable Earl. Young Ann Tessyman travels a vast distance from the isolated countryside of her birth to take a job ...

  • Rest of Our Lives

    Hall Bartlett

  • Augustus Carp, Esq.

    Henry Howarth Bashford

    It is customary, I have noticed, in publishing an autobiography to preface it with some sort of apology. But there are times, and surely the present is one of them, when to do so is manifestly unnecessary. In an age when every standard of decent cond...

  • Winds Blow Free

    Robert Vaughn Bell

  • A Tangled Web

    Janice Bennett

    MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE Miss Celia Marcombe's dark eyes flashed with righteous indignation. She was not a commodity to be traded or bartered to a man as insufferably arrogant as Trevor Ryde, despite what her high-handed grandfather decreed! If...

  • Yaril's Children

    Marcia J. Bennett

  • Changing Partners

    Elizabeth Bernard

    Friends or rivals... When handsome teenage ballet star Andrei Levintoff arrives at the San Francisco Ballet Academy, Alexandra Sorokin falls in love. Alex has known Andrei since her childhood days in Russia. Alex is convinced she and Andrei are me...

  • Hangman's Territory

    Jack M. Bickham

  • Heart's Surrender

    Rosanne Bittner

    FORBIDDEN LOVE When young, blond Andrea Sanders moved to the hills of Georgia, she was terrified that she lived next door to the Cherokee. But when she first saw the muscular, handsome warrior Adam, she was even more afraid of the turbulent passions...

  • Making the Grade

    Alison Blair

  • Breezy

    Leda Blumberg

  • Sharing Secrets

    Barbara Boswell

    Sexy heartbreaker Rad Ramsey knew women found him irresistible, but he'd always enjoyed the chase too much to keep the ladies whose hearts he captured. Then sweet, serene Erin Brady came tantalizingly near -- and he felt his cherished control slippin...

  • Fourth Man

    Andrew Boyle

  • Down the Long Wind

    Gillian Bradshaw

  • Suddenly at His Residence

    Christianna Brand

    While the Blitz bombards London, the boisterous grandchildren of Sir Richard March have descended upon Swanswater Manor in Kent for a family gathering and the finalising of the patriarch's will. Disgruntled by the behaviour and life choices of his he...

  • Operation Torch

    William Breuer

  • Passion's Siren

    Betty Brooks

    After four years as a prisoner in a Mexican bordello, beautiful Heather O'Day was free. Now no man would ever dictate to her again. but her freedom was short-lived once she was put under the protection of the strait-laced rancher who had agreed to be...

  • Conspiracy of Knaves

    Dee Brown

    Dee Brown’s captivating novel based on the true story of the Chicago ConspiracyDee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, turns to the Civil War for this rollicking tale of romance and intrigue. The story is based on the undercover sch...

  • Rodeo Love

    Fern Brown

  • Final Performance

    James Brown

    Mike, an actor with a promising future, desperately tries to protect his younger brother Jay from the destructive influence of their mother, a convicted arsonist, but is driven to suicide, leaving Jay to struggle alone toward self-discovery...

  • Fate Takes a Holiday

    Dixie Browning

    MEANT TO BE Sophie Pennybaker hadn't meant to tempt fate, but she had...in every sense of the word. Her boss, Lafayette "Fate" Ridgeway, was determined to find out more about his imperturbable, unflappable, completely professional secr...

  • Total Eclipse

    Tony Buchsbaum

    After the accidental death of a friend, New Orleans teenager Deed Smith realizes the shallowness of his casual, fast-lane lifestyle, attempts suicide and is rescued by a small circle of friends who spark a triumphant recovery...

  • Passion Fire

    Mallory Burgess

    Her childhood devastated by the political treachery of Henry VIII's reign, Brie found safety with English nuns. Yet by seventeen, she had grown into a fiery, flame-haired beauty who yearned for the romance and adventure lacking within the convent...

  • Chester the Chick

    Jane Burton

  • Ginger the Kitten

    Jane Burton

  • Freckles the Rabbit

    Jane Burton

  • Jack the Puppy

    Jane Burton

  • Jujitsu for Christ

    Jack Butler

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    Jack Butler''s Jujitsu for Christ--originally published in 1986--follows the adventures of Roger Wing, a white born-again Christian and karate instructor who opens a martial arts studio in downtown Jackson, Mississippi, during the tensest years o...

  • Yesterday's Daughter

    Patricia Calvert

    Raised by a loving grandfather and strict grandmother after being abandoned by her mother, illegitimate sixteen-year-old Leenie O'Brien is resentful and resistant when her mother, Mary Alice, returns and tries to get to know her daughter...

  • Some Die Telling

    Stella Cameron

    The job was waiting but her sister wasn't Ellen Shaw arrived in London, England, to take her ideal job--managing an antiquarian bookshop--and met her ideal man. Strong and solid, warm and loving, Hugh Weston, the shop's owner, was a powerful man. ...

  • The Breeze Horror

    Candace Caponegro

    A space shuttle carrying highly toxic waste collides with a meteor over New York, releasing lethal elements into the earth's atmosphere that turn ordinary human beings into hideous--and dangerous--creatures...

  • Callipygia

    Lin Carter

    WELCOME TO TERRA MAGICA . . .

    Terra Magica, the fabulous land next door to our own Terra Cognita, is where trolls and monsters, warriors and wizards vie over virtuous maidens and the wealth of kingdoms . . .

    Callipygia the Amazon and her stal...

  • Dragonfire

    Nick Carter

  • Hellfire in Haiti

    Jim Case

    Cody, Hawkeye and Caine are up against a thousand men as they rescue Rufe from an ex-Green Beret training terrorists in the Haitian highlands. And Cody knows they had better rescue Rufe soon, before he's tortured to death by a demented man who lives ...

  • Masks of the Martyrs

    Jack L. Chalker

    ENIGMATIC SOLUTION Even before the renegade pirates of the giant spaceship Thunder had collected all five of the rings that would eliminate the threat of Master System forever, Hawks knew that they still faced even greater problems. The shapechange...

  • Shadow Watch

    Sara Chance

    TAKING CHANCES To Lacy Tipton, the assignment had all the right ingredients: a wealthy island community, a string of unsolved robberies and very few leads. As a private investigator, she was familiar with the scenario. What she hadn't expected...

  • Silver Glove

    Suzy McKee Charnas

  • Help Wanted!

    Emily Chase

    Suddenly it’s all work -- and no fun! With a little help from photos of her family’s Boston mansion, Jane has gotten the girls of 407 the perfect summer job. It’s getting a big, old house cleaned up, repaired, and decorated before the owners...

  • Too Hot to Handle

    Sandra Chastain

    Matt Holland had driven for miles to make Callie Carmichael a proposition -- was it his fault she got the wrong idea and sent her ravenous pet goat after him? He wanted her classic convertible, not her cuddly, freckled body... at least until he got ...

  • Jungle of Steel and Stone

    George C. Chesbro

    JUNGLE OF STEEL AND STONE, the second in the 'Veil' series, was based on a true story, an incident reported in The New York Times about a tribe in the Kalahari desert that was disintegrating, physically and morally, as a result of its idol/god being ...

  • The Paper Princess

    Marion Chesney

    "YOU ARE NOT GOING TO MARRY ME OFF TO ANYONE, LEAST OF ALL TO AN ANCIENT GENTLEMAN WHO HAS BEEN MARRIED TWICE BEFORE!" Not long after this heated exchange, London was aflutter to have in their midst the exquisite Princess Felicity of Brasn...

  • Captive's Promise

    Jeanne Cheyney

  • Tales of the Dark 3

    Lincoln Child

  • Sebastian (Super Sleuth) and the Purloined Sirloin

    Mary Blount Christian

  • A Kiss Is Still a Kiss

    Colleen Christie

    LOVER'S LEAP When Margo Shephard accidentally tumbled into a handsome stranger's lap, it seemed the perfect opportunity to discourage her persistent ex-fiance. But when the cooperative stranger met her request for help with a soul-stirring kiss, M...

  • Dark Conqueror

    Mary Christopher

    Wild and high-spirited, Frey was but seventeen when a headlong ride through the brambles and thickets of Ketilfiord landed her in the strong arms of a powerful Norman knight. Torn between her Saxon hatred of the invader, and the firestorm of desi...

  • The Treasure of Plunderell Manor

    Bruce Clements

    After failing to extricate the whereabouts of the Plunderell fortune timid seventeen-year-old Alice Plunderell, young Laurel Bybank, along with Alice, is imprisoned in an abandoned monastery by Alice's tyrannical aunt and uncle, Lord and Lady Stayne...

  • 0.25138888889

    Mark A. Clements

  • Stranded

    Ann Coleridge

    This volume is part of a series of easy reading for GCSE/Key Stage 4 containing a selection of accessible, modern short novels and stories. The series is intended in particular for those teenage readers who find other books difficult or heavy-going. ...

  • Neon Mirage

    Max Allan Collins

    In 1946 Chicago, Nathan Heller—president of the flourishing A-1 Detective Agency—is hired to protect racing-wire gambling chief James Ragen, who is nonetheless shot down on the streets of Chicago. Not one to take such an affront sitting d...

  • Red Rosa

    Michael Collins

    Who shoots a bag lady? the policeman asked. No one had the answer - yet. In this riveting novel set in 1988 New York, private investigator Dan Fortune faces a tough question: Who'd want to murder Rosa Gruenfeld, nearly ninety years old and a life...

  • Beyond the Stars

    Phoebe Conn

    Their Love Burned Brighter Than the Distant Stars... Alone and lost in a land of desolate sands, flame-haired Kara anxiously searched the horizon, for she knew this remote place had once been a prison colony of rogues, outcasts, and killers. Then ...

  • Complicity

    Elizabeth Cooke

    Amanda and her daughter Massie return to the family's neglected and remote summer retreat after the death of Amanda's retreat after the death of Amanda's mother and struggle to face the painful truths about their relationships with family members and...

  • The New House

    Lettice Cooper

  • Fenny

    Lettice Cooper

    The offer of a summer post as governess to the granddaughter of a famous actress seems a dazzling prospect to Ellen Fenwick, far removed from the fireside teas and prize-givings of her Yorkshire high school. And the Villa Meridiana, surveying the ...

  • Take Me Back

    M.E. Cooper

    After a reckless kiss with Zach at the Valentine's Day dance, Holly dreads that her boyfriend Bart will find out, which is exactly what happens when Roxanne, angry because she is excluded from the Kennedy crowd, reveals the truth...

  • The West Door

    Alfred Corn

  • Redcoat

    Bernard Cornwell

    A CITY AT WAR In 1777 Philadelphia was the cultural center of an emerging nation. It was there that the course of history would be determined. The British took possession of the city without firing a single shot; but they quickly discovered that h...

  • Shady Lady

    Patricia Coughlin

    For years Kara McFarland had done precisely as she pleased within the idyllic confines of her Bahamian retreat -- including practicing karate on her kitchen chairs and tickling the ivories at 4:00 a.m. So how dare lean, mean interloper Max Ellis chal...

  • Comparative Strangers

    Sara Craven

    It was outrageous. He couldn't be serious! One day Amanda Conroy was happily engaged to Nigel, a flamboyant British car rally driver, the next she was the reluctant fiancee of his stern, laconic older brother, Malory Templeton. As if she h...

  • The Prince and the Patriot

    Kathleen Creighton

    Nicholas Francia was known as a charming playboy who could have been a pirate or prince -- but Willa Caris met his fierce gaze with defiance. She had dedicated herself to keeping the Brasovian crown jewels from being returned to that European nation...

  • The Dynamiters

    Milt Creighton

  • Cursed to Death

    Bill Crider

    In tiny Blacklin County, Texas, a curse is nothing more than a four-letter word hollered in a barroom or muttered in the heat. So Sheriff Dan Rhodes is more curious than concerned when he dutifully responds to a complaint of witchcraft.When Dr. Samu...

  • A Wild Wind

    Evelyn A. Crowe

    THIS TIME HE WOULDN'T LOSE HER Ash Bartlet had spent most of his childhood getting Shannon Reed out of tight spots, so he wasn't surprised to find himself halfway up a mountain rescuing her once again. What did shock him was how much he...

  • The Unsuitable Chaperone

    Corinna Cunliffe

    A SURFEIT OF SUITORS Beautiful young and widowed Lady Laura Firle had one too many men ardently eager to make her his wife. The upright and honorable Sir William Watkins offered everything a woman could want, except perhaps excitement. The noto...

  • The Shroud and the Grail: A Modern Quest for the True Grail

    Noel Currer-Briggs

  • Love Detour

    Stefanie Curtis

    For Beth learning to drive is enough of a challenge. But with Craig, her driving teacher and steady boyfriend, making jokes at every turn, it's nearly impossible! Beth always loved Craig's terrific sense of humour, but now his wisecracks are driving...

  • Man With a Gun

    Robert Daley

  • The General's President

    John Dalmas

    The worldwide Crash of 1994 made 1929 look mild, a market adjustment. Meanwhile the Middle East and South Africa are coming apart, and the Soviet Union is hovering in scavenging mode. While in the Land of the Free there is smoke in the streets. And m...

  • Close Scrutiny

    Pat Dalton

    Ordered to take a vacation after nearly being killed in the line of duty, Honolulu-based FBI agent Niera Pascotti joins a cruise of Tahiti, Bora Bora, and other Polynesian islands. Soon, magnetic, alluring Cort Tucker leads her emotions to mutiny aga...

  • The Cosmic Blueprint

    Paul Davies

  • The Honorable Prison

    Lyll Becerra de Jenkins

    Because of the moral stand taken by her father, a newspaper editor who has persistently attacked the military dictator ruling their Latin American country, Marta and her family find themselves prisoners of the government....

  • Greenmantle

    Charles de Lint

    Not far from the city there is an ancient wood, forgotten by the modern world, where Mystery walks in the moonlight. He wears the shape of a stag, or a goat, or a horned man wearing a cloak of leaves. He is summoned by the music of the pipes or a ...

  • Stop Copying Me!

    Alicia Garcia De Lynam

  • Kitten Kids and the Haunted House

    Tomie DePaola

  • Kitten Kids and the Treasure Hunt

    Tomie DePaola

  • Scarlet Sorcerer

    Joe Dever

  • Emerald Enchanter

    Joe Dever

    The adventure begins-- for one player: Enter the magical world of the Emerald Enchanter.Star pupil of the beloved and powerful wizard Silvarion, you have formed an uneasy alliance with the Scarlet Sorcerer to help your master steal the evil Deathlor...

  • Guided Tour

    Gordon R. Dickson

  • Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny

    Isak Dinesen

  • 101 Dalmatians Escape

    Walt Disney

  • Perfect Getaway

    Franklin W. Dixon

    It is the ultimate criminal operation. For a huge fee, Perfect Getaway Travel Ltd., will provide a clean escape from the police. To crack the ring, Frank and Joe pose as a pair of crooks looking for a safe hideout. But when they finally manage to rea...

  • The Sweetest Trap

    Robyn Donald

    "You'll be quite safe with me." Initially these simple words comforted Cressida, narrowly saved from the terrifying storm at sea that had taken her father's life. Physically and emotionally she needed the security of her rescuer, L...

  • Windarra Stud

    Elizabeth Duke

    The smile was devastating It did wonders for Blade's face, Kelly admitted grudgingly, wiping away the cynical lines and the usual derision. It did something to her heart, as well, and that she could not allow. For Blade Ryan was the enemy. ...

  • China Dawn

    Robert L. Duncan

  • Our House on the Hill

    Philippe Dupasquier

  • Dear Daddy

    Philippe Dupasquier

  • Blue Eyes, Black Hair

    Marguerite Duras

  • Candles in the Night

    Kathleen Eagle

    Mikal Romanov was a dreamer, an idealist, a man who'd dedicated himself to making the world a better place. But idealism was no recommendation to sensible Morgan Kramer. Her father had been a dreamer, too, and his dreams hadn't left him time for anyo...

  • In Shadow of Peacock

    Grace Edwards-Yearwood

    Terry McMillan, author of Momma, comments on In the Shadow of the Peacock: I was moved no end by In the Shadow of the Peacock. The sheer power of Yearwood's story makes you feel as if you've been privy to everyone's secrets and desires. [It] is ...

  • Lone Star and the Master of Death

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki tame a town about to explode in a bloodbath of hate!A deadly double-threat awaits the Lone Star duo high in the Colorado Rockies. When Ki comes to the aid of a lovely lotus blossom from his past, the last thing he expects is to be stalk...

  • Angelwalk

    Roger Elwood

  • Black Hearts and Slow Dancing

    Earl Emerson

    Mac Fontana is content being fire chief in a small town in Washington state. He's not looking for trouble -- and he's certainly not looking for murder. But, as acting deputy sheriff, that's exactly what he finds. The investigation of the gruesome de...

  • Dropout Blues

    Arlene Erlbach

  • The Demon Hand

    Rose Estes

    GREYHAWK... In search of the gemstones, deep in the salt caverns of the island of Dramidja .. . The wolf-shaman Mika, the enchanted princess, the faithful Tamlur and the brave companions, all frozen in time .. . Meanwhile . . . a certain li...

  • Misfire

    Jonathan Evans

  • Whatever It Takes

    Patricia Gardner Evans

    WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE, there's always a price to pay. So Sarah Harland discovered when her five-year-old twins introduced her to Matthew Weston. She'd thought he was a figment of their fertile imaginations, a fantasy father to substitute for the re...

  • Longarm and the Hangman's Vengeance

    Tabor Evans

    Walking some sorry varmint up the gallows steps to the wrong end of a rope wasn't Marshal Long's ideal way to start the day. But the Great Costello wasn't just any outlaw. As a train robber he was a washout-but as an escape artist he was a whirling w...

  • Say Hello Again

    Barbara Faith

    Photographer Bree Petersen had traveled the world, meeting all kinds of people. But when her high school class had its reunion, she returned to her roots, Key West, and her childhood friend, Miguel Rivas. Once a poor Cuban refugee, Miguel was now ...

  • What Should We Do About Davey?

    Julius Fast

  • Chase the Dawn

    Jane Feather

    BELOVED ENEMY Fleeing a fiery inferno, beautiful Bryony Paget fell unconscious into the arms of a handsome stranger. She awoke with no memory of her proud aristocratic past--only the stirrings of reckless desire kindled by the ebony eyes of her my...

  • Faerie Tale

    Raymond E. Feist

    Phil Hastings was a lucky man--he had money, a growing reputation as a screenwriter, a happy, loving family with three kids, and he'd just moved into the house of his dreams in rural upstate New York. Life was wonderful, full of magic--and about to b...

  • The Tenants of Time

    Thomas Flanagan

    Volume 2 of Thomas Flanagan’s Irish History Trilogy The second volume of Thomas Flanagan’s best-selling Irish-history trilogy (which begins with The Year of the French and closes with The End of the Hunt) is set at the turn of the twentieth ...

  • Moscow Crossing

    Sean Flannery

    When a Russian courier is shot and killed in Helsinki, his last words are "A letter from Anna." This mysterious message leads CIA investigator Jack Horn into a tangled maze of shocking truths: a clandestine affair, murder, betrayal, and a devastating...

  • The Haunting Possibility

    Susan Fletcher

  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Make the World Laugh

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • Roger Rabbit Different Toon

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • The Scholars of Night

    John M. Ford

    John M. Ford's The Scholars of Night is an extraordinary novel of technological espionage and human betrayal, weaving past and present into a web of unbearable suspense.Nicholas Hansard is a brilliant historian at a small New England college. He spec...

  • A Walking Shadow

    Regan Forest

    Terry's working vacation nearly scared her to death The ghost town of Jerome, Arizona, was an eerie combination of decaying buildings and gloom-shrouded streets. Pleased to have found the perfect setting for her latest comic strip, Terry Morse set u...

  • Maori

    Alan Dean Foster

    A sweeping historical novel set in nineteenth-century New Zealand from the #1 New York Times"bestselling author. The only son of a poor British coal miner, Robert Coffin sets sail for the far ends of the Earth in search of his fortune, leaving...

  • Love's Perjury

    Marina Francis

    He was the baby's uncle .. . That much was true. But David Farnham thought Diana was the mother of his brother's child--and that was a lie she prayed he'd go on believing. Otherwise he might use the Farnham wealth and power to seize...

  • Family Attractions

    Judith Freeman

    In 1857, at a place called Mountain Meadows in southern Utah, a band of Mormons and Indians massacred 120 emigrants. Twenty years later, the slaughter was blamed on one man named John D. Lee, previously a member of Brigham Young's inner circle. Red W...

  • Valley of Lights

    Stephen Gallager

    When the brain-dead begin rising from their hospital beds and children are found murdered and horribly mutilated, Phoenix police sergeant Alex Volchack begins a search for the supernatural force he believes is responsible...

  • Mob War

    Frank Garrett

  • Silken Caress

    Rene J. Garrod

    TOO BRAZEN TO TRUST Ever since her former fiance had ruined her good name, flaxen-haired Nicollette Barrington had vowed she'd never be vulnerable to a man's charms again. Advertising herself as a shady lady, the young innocent drugged her ...

  • Past Convictions

    Cinda Gault

    They disagreed about everything that mattered. Juveniles Officer Kara Ridgeway could confidently place an adolescent in any registered facility in the city. Except one -- Aiken House. But to her dismay, only Peter Aiken's group home had a spot when s...

  • Goliath

    Paul Geddes

    Instructed to locate the step-daughter of a high ranking British government official, Mark Egerton finds himself framed and suspended from the case, and retired detective Ludovic Fender is enlisted to solve the puzzle...

  • Hangtown Hustle

    Buck Gentry

  • A Boy's Pretensions

    Anthony Giardina

  • Marty

    Eva Gibson

  • Trouble

    Michael Gilbert

    Explosives, destined for a terrorist bombing campaign, are being smuggled into the UK via the Channel coast. One plot is foiled but the security services suspect another. A seemingly unconnected problem occurs when there are race riots in London. How...

  • Pet of Frankenstein

    Mel Gilden

    Big trouble develops when young Frankie Stein decides to impress his father by reconstructing the pet dog of his infamous great grand-uncle and drags his friends--C.D. Bitesky, Howie Wolfner, Danny, and Danny's sister--in on the plot...

  • All's Fair

    Eve Gladstone

    IT WAS ALL OR NOTHING Mayor Katie Jellicoe had written dozens of letters, made hundreds of calls, but businessman Adam Hartivan refused to see her. She needed a division of his San Francisco company to locate in Marblesea, Massachusetts, or her ch...

  • Violet Fire

    Jo Goodman

    INNOCENCE LOST Shannon Kilmartin looked up at her handsome rescuer and shrank from the desire in his deep brown eyes. Had he saved her from drowning only to ravish her? After fleeing the advances of her cruel stepfather, Shannon had vowed never to...

  • Peacock in Jeopardy

    Katharine Gordon (1)

    Sarah Longman is rescued from a disastrous marriage by young Indian ruler Sher Khan II, and her husband, seeking revenge, joins enemy forces in a conspiracy to steal the fabled Peacock jewels....

  • The Goldfish Bowl

    Laurence Gough

    An elusive serial sniper is on the loose in the dark, rain-swept streets of Vancouver, Canada. Maverick veteran detective Jack Willows and his new partner, the beautiful Claire Parker, are assigned to bring him--or her--in. But the case takes a...

  • Pete and Roland

    Bob Graham

  • Desire's Fury

    Keller Graves

    Rafe Jericho had been ready for a pleasant diversion not for love. But once he'd stolen a kiss from the vivacious golden haired beauty, he knew he wanted to share his life with her. That was before he learned that all she wanted to share was his land...

  • Bino

    A.W. Gray

    Bino Phillips, a tough Texan crime lawyer, links the murder of his seedy underworld client to the assassination of one of the most prominent politicians in Texas. As a result, Bino finds himself the most unpopular man in the state, but this does not ...

  • Tangerine

    Linda Crockett Gray

    The spirit of a young pianist murdered forty years before by William Wattson, real estate magnate, pillar of the community, and one-time numbers runner and drug dealer, lives on, possessing her piano and a woman who wil be the instrument of her reven...

  • Mendocino

    Judith Greber

    The small town lay in the rugged North Coast territory of California. Into a wilderness of beauty and refuge, Russian Nicolai Beriankov came with his Indian wife and children from Fort Ross. There, in 1844, he built a great redwood house where he beg...

  • Sometimes Paradise

    Judith Green

    Enter the inner circle of an exclusive world of privilege and wealth. Enter the glittering society of the ultra-rich who shuttle between New York and the capitals of Europe, from the grand mansions of Palm Beach to the sprawling hunt-country estates ...

  • Peeper and the Giant Easter Egg

    Rhonda Chalek Greenberg

  • Honey Bunny's Easter Surprise

    Rhonda Chalek Greenberg

  • Fourteen Vicious Valentines

    Rosalind M. Greenberg

  • What Me, Mr. Mosley?

    John Greenwood

  • House on Carroll Street

    Mollie Gregory

    Pursued by a vicious Senate-sponsored witchhunt, her career destroyed, Emily Crane stumbles onto an ugly conspiracy that has already cost one man his life and she becomes trapped in a maze of high-stakes corruption...

  • The All of It

    Jeannette Haien

    “A quiet little stunner, written with the sure hand of an artist and the ear of a seasoned storyteller.” -- St. Louis Post-DispatchJeannette Haien’s award-winning first novel relates the seemingly simple tale of a parishioner confiding in her ...

  • The Perfect Woman

    Libby Hall

    It wasn't love at first sight Whenever they met, designer Kim Troussard never really hit it off with Sean Stevenson. He'd always preferred a more traditionally feminine woman, definitely not one whose undeniably luscious body came complete with a ...

  • Murder at San Simeon

    Robert Lee Hall

  • Captivity Captive

    Rodney Hall

    Partially based on a never-solved triple murder committed in Australia in 1898, this novel, narrated by the bookish Patrick Murphy, chronicles the grisly events brought about when the self-enclosed Murphy family turns on itself...

  • Deliver Us from Evil

    Allen Lee Harris

  • Dino Riders and the Volcano Machine

    Jack C. Harris

  • Picture of Defeat

    John Harris

    It is 1943 and Naples has been looted by the Allies and Axis powers alike, its priceless art treasures coveted by some of the most corrupt criminal minds in Europe. But under the orders of Field Security, Tom Pugh must save the paintings of Detto Ban...

  • The Best of Me

    Cynthia Hart

  • Spring Imperial

    Evelyn Hart

  • Friday the 13th Part 2

    Simon Hawke

  • Optics

    Jeff Hecht

  • Capture the Sun

    Shirl Henke

    A SPLENDID, SAVAGE LOVE She was a flame-haired beauty forced to wed a man twice her age. Brought to the wilds of Montana, Carrie belonged to a rich and powerful husband who wanted an heir - and a woman to bed at whim. Yet while her young body serv...

  • The Penal Colony

    Richard Herley

    It is 1997. The British government now runs island prison colonies to take dangerous offenders from its overcrowded mainland jails.Among all these colonies, Sert, 25 miles off the north Cornish coast, has the worst reputation. There are no warders. S...

  • Blind Conspiracy

    Arnaldo Hernandex

    THE MISSION: OPERATION BLUE It was a special priority project and the stakes were high. The top-secret American facility, the Blue Cube, was the target and expert computer programmer Greg Elliot was the ticket inside. And the way into this man's l...

  • Wife Wanted

    Terri Herrington

    FINDING MS. RIGHT Tycoon Joe Dillon thought applying business principles to his personal life was the logical way to find his ideal mate. And his public advertising campaign did net him eight thousand willing applicants. But all those trilingual b...

  • Child's Play

    Reginald Hill

    When a battered Ford Escort containing one very dead Italian turns up in the police car park, Peter Pascoe and his bloated superior Dalziel, are plunged into an investigation that makes internal police politics look like child's play....

  • Dinah and the Green Fat Kingdom

    Isabelle Holland

    Tired of being teased because she is fat, twelve-year-old Dinah takes refuge in a fantasy kingdom in which the fattest people are the most beautiful until she finds new friends that make the real world more bearable...

  • The Nerve of Abbey Mars

    Judith Hollands

    Abbey Mars is one of the worst spellers in her class, but she's also one of the most popular girls. A new boy, Jackie Oliver, teases her constantly and even uses the Valentine post office to send a mean, unsigned letter. So Abbey strikes back with a ...

  • Expecting Someone Taller

    Tom Holt

    All Malcolm Fisher did was run over a badger. Unfortunately the badger turned out to be Ingolf, last of the giants. With his dying breath he reluctantly gave Malcolm two gifts of power and made him ruler of the world....

  • Lucia Triumphant

    Tom Holt

    "In postwar Britain, the quaint town of Tilling is feeling the pull of both the modern world and its Norman past. Elizabeth Mapp-Flint, in yet another bid to wrest power back from her social rival Lucia Pillson-now the town''s mayor-purchases a motor...

  • Unmasking Kelsey

    Kay Hooper

    When Kelsey answered a mysterious call for help from a small southern town, he was prepared to charm or seduce Elizabeth Conner into telling him what he needed to know. But once his primitive male instinct sensed the wild spirit hidden beneath her de...

  • Triumphs

    Houghton Mifflin Company

  • Celebrations

    Houghton Mifflin Company

  • Quick Silver

    Clark Howard

    An “intense, deeply haunting” saga about love, money, and murder, set amid Nevada’s mining and gambling booms (Publishers Weekly).   In the aftermath of World War I, three veterans -- Mike, Jim, and Buck -- meet a seductive woman named Rub...

  • Amber Flame // His Bonnie Bride

    Hannah Howell

    BELOVED ENEMY Captured in a border raid and held for ransom by the fierce Scottish clansmen who were her ancestral enemies, bewitchingly beautiful Storm Eldon knew her fate only too well. Tavis Maclagan would not harm her -- the arrogant knight ha...

  • The Day Before Dawn

    Meg Hudson

    SHE WANTED THE TRUTH Kris Sothern's brother had devoted himself to the navy. But when he killed himself after his latest tour of submarine duty, Kris was determined to seek out the man who had declared him fit to serve. To her, he was little more ...

  • Crestwood Heights

    Christopher Hyde

    Poor Kelly Rhine, her heart leads her mind while her instincts tell her otherwise. Big trouble ensues. She is a struggling New York City graphic artist who gets what any artist would wish for-a windfall. Her uncle Nathan Sommerville leaves his entire...

  • Binstead's Safari

    Rachel Ingalls

    Another glorious tale of female empowerment from the author of Mrs. Caliban After getting a haircut in London and a few new outfits (“she bought two pairs of shoes and began to enjoy herself”), Millie, the neglected American wife of an academic p...

  • The Return

    Evan Innes

  • I Be Somebody

    Hadley Irwin

  • I'll Cry When I Kill You

    Peter Israel

    An attorney tries to protect a science fiction writer from a galaxy of would-be killers Thirty minutes north of Central Park, Philip Revere finds himself in a world of spacious lawns, jogging suits, and extreme, unabashed wealth. He has come to confe...

  • Under a Desert Sky

    Arlene James

    STARS IN HER EYES The desert was everything to Jamie Goff. She'd grown up in the arid wilderness; it was the only home she'd ever known. So it was fitting that her first real kiss would be under a desert sky. But why did it have to happen with Bro...

  • Crimson Obsession

    Deana James

    TWILIGHT FANTASY All for vengeance, flame-haired Cassandra MacDaermond disguised herself as an older woman to hire on as a servant to pernicious Edward Sandron. The diabolically handsome man owned the gambling hall where her father had lost a fortun...

  • Playing Safe

    Claudia Jameson

    She hadn't invited him to change her life! The quiet life at Allinson Manor appealed to Grace. With one heartbreak behind her, socializing had stopped being a priority in her life. But the arrival of new neighbors, Greek tycoon Demetrius Kn...

  • Improbable Cause

    J.A. Jance

    A NEW TWIST TO JUSTICE The dentist was sitting bolt upright. Mouth opened wide. Stone-cold dead. There was no lack of suspects--the brutalized wife, the pretty, sexually abused dental assistant, an ex-con who was a very intimate friend of the wido...

  • Dr. Adder

    K.W. Jeter

    Set in a future where the United States has largely broken down into reluctantly cooperating enclaves run by a wide variety of strongmen and warlords, with a veneer of government control that seems largely interested in controlling technology. Dr. Ad...

  • This Fierce Splendor

    Iris Johansen

    Scottish beauty Elspeth MacGregor travels to Hell's Bluff to hire Dominic Delaney to lead her to the magical lost city of Kantalan, but at first he refuses -- the last thing he needs is to join a virginal scholar on a dangerous quest. But Els...

  • Slammers Down!

    Todd Johnson

  • Blood Valley

    William W. Johnstone

    COTTON COMES TO DOUBTFUL Lawmen don't last long in the town of Doubtful, Wyoming Territory. The last one quit, another ended up in a hangman's noose, and one more was backshot by the hired guns at the Circle L Ranch. But the town of Doubtful ha...

  • Metrophage

    Richard Kadrey

    New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey’s first novel -- the cult classic dystopian cyberpunk tale -- now back in print after twenty years in a special signed, collectible edition.Welcome to the near future: Los Angeles in the late 21st ce...

  • Think Fast, Mr. Peters

    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    In a fun series with “shades of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett,” a 1940s PI must find out who’s gunning for Peter Lorre (TheSan Diego Union-Tribune).   Scaly-voiced and bug-eyed actor Peter Lorre has become one of the mo...

  • Wyoming Gunsmoke

    Robert Kammen