Books Published in February 1993

New Books List: 465 titles

  • Yuppie Scum

    Sean Breckenridge

    In a satire of the values of the 1980s yuppies, four young upwardly mobile professionals pack up their computers, portable phones, and other toys and drive to Manhattan in search of the friend who bankrupted them. A first novel....

  • You Can Always Trust a Spotted Horse

    Stephen A. Bly

    In nineteenth-century Nevada, after having been tricked into buying a beautiful spotted horse from a stagecoach robber, Nathan tracks the outlaw down and wrestles with the Lord about whether he should turn him in or spare him because of his family....

  • The Year of Fire

    Teddy Jam

  • Wrong-Way Rabbit

    Teddy Slater

  • Words of Farewell: Stories by Korean Women Writers

    Chi-Won & Chong-Hui Sok-Kyong

    The seven works here, whose three authors make their U.S. debut, are interesting primarily for their illumination of contemporary South Korean mores. In Kim Chi-won's ``A Certain Beginning,'' a Korean who moves to New York after her affluent husband ...

  • The Wood Nymph and the Cranky Saint

    C. Dale Brittain

    When the king goes off on vacation, leaving Daimbert in charge, the wizard is faced with the cranky saint of the shrine of the Holy Toe, a beguiling wood nymph, a plague of magical horned rabbits, and other crises...

  • With Cupid's Intervention

    Cindy Holbrook
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    Tisba Manton has always been more interested in botany than romantic folderol. But Valentine's Day takes on a special glow when she finally meets her match in the dashing Earl of Sayer....

  • Wipe Your Feet!

    Daniel Lehan

    Someone--or something--is leaving strange footprints all over Nancy's bathroom, even on the walls, and Nancy must investigate the puzzle of the mysterious tracks and discover the identity of her guest....

  • #5 iun Angus Straun series Winter Rules

    Barry Cork

    Cork's golf-loving inspector Angus Trum finds a new mystery as he plays host to an African head-of-state and then travels to Africa, getting involved with the building of that county's first golf course and the trade in smuggled cars....

  • Winter of Fire

    Sherryl Jordan

    A dangerous world...a powerful young woman. Elsha is one of the Quelled: a branded people, doomed always to mine coal to warm the ruling class, the Chosen. But Elsha has strange visions that set her apart -- and a strong spirit that condemns her to...

  • Winter Fire

    William R. Trotter

  • Winter Beach

    Terese Ramin

    ONE WOMAN ... Once Paolo Gianini's world had gleamed with sunlight and joy, and he'd embraced his bride fiercely, vowing never to let her go. Now, on a stark November beach, he met her again--Laura, the woman who'd haunted his bleak existence sinc...

  • Wings of Time

    Carol Duncan Perry

    If the thunder don't get ya, the lightning will Chicago, 1925: Al Capone and Bugs Moran, the biggest bootleggers of the century, want a certain suitcase stowed away on Shamus Fitzgerald's airplane. To get it, they'll gladly pump Shamus full of h...

  • The Wind from the Sea

    Constance Heaven

    Left orphaned and penniless by the horrors of the French Revolution, young Isabella de Sauvigny and her brother, Guy, seek refuge in England with their maternal uncle, Sir Joshua Bridges. Unfortunately, Sir Joshua has never been able to forgive his l...

  • The Wilder Heart

    Alicia Rasley
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    Writing Valentine verses for sailors' sweethearts bad always been a pleasure for Madeleine Gray... until she found herself falling in love with one of be; customers. But bow will she convince the dashing captain that she is his one true love?...

  • Wilde at Heart

    Janice Kaiser

    Live the Fantasy... Our deepest and dearest romantic fantasies are rooted in fairy tales, myths and legends. In these beloved stories of destined love, of true love conquering all, we recapture the magic of romance. Once upon a time there was a...

  • Wild Wind!

    Jane Archer

    From the talented pen of Jane Archer, author of such acclaimed historical romances as BAYOU PASSION, REBEL SEDUCTION, and the bestselling classic TENDER TORMENT, comes a story of breakneck adventure and stunning passion as thrilling as a windstorm ac...

  • White Death

    William Knott

    Ordered to repossess a luxury airplane from high-rolling deadbeats in the snow-covered Adirondacks, Repo Man Skip Tracewski realizes that he may have gotten in over his head when his partners fall victim to ""accidents."" ...

  • Where Are You When I Need You?

    Suzanne Newton

  • When the Bough Breaks

    Mercedes Lackey; Holly Lisle

    There are elves out there. And they drive too fast. But they mean well. And they win races. But driving hot cars isn't all they do. Sometimes they rescue children in peril. But this time it isn't just the child who is in peril. This time we all ar...

  • When Morning Comes

    Robin Leanne Wiete

    Rebecca Osborne was a beautiful young widow with a small child, alone but unafraid on the American frontier. Cain was the name of the man she sought, a white man who lived among the Shawnees, and whose powers of healing she desperately needed to trea...

  • Weird Henry Berg

    Sarah Sargent

    After his pet lizard, Vincent, hatches from Grandfather Berg's antique egg, young Henry Berg is amazed when Vincent sprouts wings and his eyes glow and Henry learns that he is raising a baby dragon. Reprint....

  • The Way of the Wicked

    Catherine Lanigan

    THE SINS OF THE FATHER They are heirs to a staggering fortune won through lies, greed and ruthless ambition--the children of Patrick Killian, who clawed his way up from poverty to build the gargantuan Emerald Chocolate empire in the lawless chaos ...

  • The Way Men Act

    Elinor Lipman

    Melinda LeBlanc, at 30, makes an untriumphant return to Harrow, Massachusetts, her recently gentrified hometown. She’s unmarried, romanced out, designing wedding bouquets for old classmates who hadn't known a fraction of her early popularity. So wh...

  • Waters Dark and Deep

    Jean M. Favors

    Tory Snow considers her penchant for "visions" to be a curse, but when she moves to Chantico Bay, all hopes of putting this chapter of her life behind her disappear when an unexpected trance entangles her in a mystery. Original....

  • Watchful Eyes

    Muriel Newsome

    A HAVEN FOR THE LONELY BECOMES A SANCTUARY OF TERROR... Blessed with the gift of second sight. Paulette Kirkwood was drawn to the chateau on the hill. Yet even she could not have sensed the danger that awaited her. The spirits of the Crecy mansion...

  • Warstrider

    William H. Keith Jr.

    THE ENEMY WAITS. ITS ORIGIN IS UNKNOWN. ITS MOTIVES ARE NOT RATIONAL. ITS WORLD IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE. IT IS NOT HUMAN. Dev Cameron was planning to join the Navy when he was drafted into the Guard--"groundpounders' consigned to do the dirtiest w...

  • Warning: Baby-Sitting May Be Hazardous to Your Health

    Cynthia Blair

  • The Wanderer

    Beverly Barton

    BACHELOR First impressions sure are deceiving! I was positive Leah Marshall was a snob--after all, she's one of the Marshalls here in Marshallton, Tennessee. She looked down her nose at me, with my scraggly hair, ragged clothes and hobo friends. I...

  • The Walls of Pedro Garcia

    Kevin McColley

  • The Walk Into Morning

    Mildred Barger Herschler

    While Chad, a Black slave from 1862 Louisiana, runs north to join the Union army and finds that hatred of Blacks is just as virulent there as in the south, Anna returns to the "security" of her plantation after hiding out in New Orleans...

  • Wagered Woman

    Christine Rimmer

    Prim-and-proper Delilah Jones was so ornery that her no-good daddy was gambling the mercantile to buy her a bridegroom. But bushy-bearded Sam Fletcher would have to be loco to bet on bedding the cantankerous spinster who'd long since branded him a ru...

  • Vital Parts

    Nancy Fisher

    When a super-model receives a mysterious gift promising eternal health and beauty, she enters a dangerous spiral of discovery leading to a remote town in Spain, where a brilliant doctor produces miracles at a terrifying cost....

  • A Visit Home

    Will Aitken

  • Vision of Death

    Patricia Matthews

    When the bodies of five illegal aliens are found in the desert, Casey Farrel, a member of the Governor of Arizona's task force on crime, is assigned to investigate the case. She finds that the trail leads back to two of the richest and most powerful ...

  • The Virgin Wife

    Elizabeth August

    "Virginity can be hazardous to your health...." The anonymous telephone message left Madaline MacGreggor-Smythe stunned. Who else but she and her husband-in-name-only knew the truth about her sham of a marriage? Surely not Colin Darnell, who'd jus...

  • The Villain's Lady

    Charlotte Maclay

    GRADY MURDOCK WAS A MOVER AND A SHAKER He drove into town with a trail of hot smoke behind him and a commanding presence that sweet Jennifer Sweetham tried to resist but found irresistible. When Grady took her hand in his, she felt electrified....

  • The Village Spinster

    Laura Matthews

    The Fallen Woman Beautiful and well-born Clarissa Driscoll lost her family home and social position when her reckless father died, leaving only gaming debts. That was bad enough--but it was even more painfully humiliating when the handsome, high-h...

  • Villa des Roses

    Willem Elsschot

    A tragi-comedy of manners acted out almost entirely within the walls of a small pension or boarding house in late 19th century Paris, which is run by an appalling Dutch couple. The novel consists of a series of cameo scenes that are both funny and cr...

  • Viking Ecstasy

    Robin Gideon

    A VIKING WARRIOR Respected by men and desired by women, Tabor was a seasoned conqueror who had yet to find a love match...until he saw the beautiful Tanaka on the slaver's auction block. Plucked from the hot banks of the Nile, Tanaka now stood in ch...

  • Vengeance in the Ashes

    William W. Johnstone

    A deadly new threat invades America from the south in the New York Times"bestselling author’s post-apocalyptic military thriller.   While ending the rule of slavers, thugs, and the cannibalistic Night People on the Hawaiian Islands, Ben Rain...

  • The Vampire' s Promise // Fatal Bargain

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Six teens spending the night in a haunted house must make a chilling choice in order to gain their freedom from the vampire imprisoning them--choose the one among them who will be the vampire's next victim. When you make a deal with a vampire, the...

  • Valorian

    Mary H. Herbert

    Nearly five hundred years before the time of Gabria, V the last remnants of the once great Clans struggle to survive under the cruel heel of the Tarnish Empire and its military governor. Only one man, Valorian, has the vision to dream of freedom and ...

  • Valley of Tears

    Don Bendell

    THE SHATTERING TRUE STORY OF THE SPECIAL FORCES COMBAT MISSION INSIDE THE SUPERHIGHWAY OF THE HO CHI MINH TRAIL.THE PLEI TRAP VALLEY: NVA STRONGHOLD. POW BASE CAMP. NEXUS OF THE HO CHI MINH TRAIL.Guarded by Soviet-made tanks, riddled with deep fortif...

  • A Valentine's Day Gambit

    Mona Gedney

    CUPID'S ROGUE Known by his cronies as "The Constant Lover," Hayden St. James found himself favored with enough charm to win any lady's heart. Thus, when he learned his friends were wagering as to whether he could win the affections o...

  • A Valentine Tangle

    Nina Porter
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    Ariadne, dowager countess of Ferndyn, never expected her peaceful existence to be overset by the arrival of several unsigned valentines. Will her secret admirer reveal himself at the Valentine Ball?...

  • A Valentine Bride

    Teresa DesJardien
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    Lady Christine Jordan had not hoped for much when she answered an advertisement for the position of wife to Baron Whittam. Could a Valentine's Day ceremony bring true love to this mismatched couple?...

  • Us

    Wayne Karlin

  • Until Your Heart Stops

    T.M. McNally

    "Stunning . . . Unforgettable . . ." Los Angeles Times
    The unexpected suicide of seventeen-year-old Walker Miller sends shock waves through the small community at Gold Dust High in Phoenix. There's Joe Jazinski, Walker's best friend, suddenly face...

  • The Undead

    Roxanne Longstreet

    A “fresh, intense, erotic, funny, and scary” novel of vampiric horror from the New York Times"bestselling author of the Stillhouse Lake novels (P.N. Elrod, author of Drawing Dead and Other Stories). After eight years of marriage, surgeon Mike B...

  • Uncommon Stock

    Terri Lynn

    THERE WAS NOTHING COMMON ABOUT DUNCAN McKEON He was a successful businessman, handsome, self-assured--and a complete jerk! At least, that was Blythe Summers's impression when Duncan stormed into her brokerage office and accused her of defrauding h...

  • An Uncommon Miss

    Melissa Lynn Jones

    It was an affair of the heart she could never resist! A SCOTTISH LASS Marry an English nobleman or lose her inheritance! How could Grandfather be so cruel? England held little appeal for a Scottish born lass such as herself, however common sense ...

  • Uncle Daddy

    Kasey Michaels

    Guardian father Gabe Logan would do anything to keep custody of his niece from her aunt, Erica Fletcher. He'd even invite the uptight businesswoman into his home. Convinced that Erica would run at the first sight of a diaper, he was surprised--and...

  • Two Hearts in Time

    Eugenia Riley
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    An antique valentine draws two lovers together from modern-day Texas and Dickens's London to heal the pain of loss and share the discovery of love's joy....

  • Two Hearts

    Mel Gilden

    As the winter doldrums set in at West Beverly High, Brandon falls for a beautiful figure skater, Brenda has the hots for an older guy in her exercise class, and Dylan is pursued by a friend from the past. Original. TV tie-in....

  • Twenty-Two Automatic

    Roy Maynard

    Emerson Dunn, detective, misadventurer, and managing editor of a small-town Texas newspaper, strikes again in the exciting sequel to .38 Caliber. Emerson gets in way over his head when he accepts a sleuthing assignment that leads to drug wars, drive-...

  • Twenty Ways to Lose Your Best Friend

    Marilyn Singer

  • Turn of the Cards

    George R.R. Martin

    The Rox is history and Mark Meadows is on the run, pursued by the CIA, the DEA, and the Wild Card mistress of the winds, Mistral. But the renegade biochemist has his own secret weapon: three personalities buried in his psyche, each possessing Ace pow...

  • Tropic of Deceit

    Christopher Larson

  • Trial by Water

    George Cuomo

    Just when he thinks everything is going his way in his new home of Trent, Massachusetts, transplanted New Yorker Florian Rubio finds his world turned upside down when his son is implicated in the deaths of two teens...

  • Treason's Gift

    Pamela Belle

    Newly settled into the St. Barbe ancestral home, Alexander and Louise St. Barbe find their happiness cut short by Louise's tragic miscarriage, and Alex turns to another woman for comfort, in a work set during the English Civil Wars....

  • Trail of Tears

    Fran Patton Statham

    Though educated in a white man's world, Laurel MacDonald, daughter of a powerful Cherokee chief, found fulfillment teaching at the mission school in New Echota, the capital of the Cherokee nation in Georgia. But her happiness was short lived. The bea...

  • Toying with Danger

    Drew Stevenson

    In the sequel to One Ghost Too Many, Sarah, Clark, and Frog investigate a monster supposedly seen at the old Harley farm, and their dangerous quest leads them to a mysterious man and a mad scientist....

  • The Touch of Max

    Kay Hooper

    MAX - POWERFUL, ENIGMATIC, A HERO WHO WAS DANGEROUS IN THE DARK He was rich, mysterious, and shockingly obsessed with a lady of secret sorrows, but was Maxim Bannister endangering his priceless gem collection by letting beautiful, haunted Diana La...

  • Too Familiar

    Caroline Burnes

    They say cats have nine lives... An ominous black cat crossed paths with Cassandra McBeth just as she discovered that her nightmares were tomorrow's headlines. A night stalker was about to bring terror to Gatlinburg, Tennessee...and to Cassandra. ...

  • Today Is Monday

    Eric Carle

    Learn the days of the week with bestselling author/illustrator Eric Carle through song!

    String beans, spaghetti, ZOOOOP, roast beef, fresh fish, chicken and ice cream are the delicious fare during the week in this popular children's song. Unti...

  • To the Rescue

    Kristina Logan

    In the doghouse ... Calm, cool and collected Jessica Blake hadn't come all the way to Southern California with her young son to end up in the doghouse--literally! Still, being rescued by sinfully sexy firefighter Reed McAllister had its moments. S...

  • To Love a Stranger

    Blythe Bradley

    TICKET TO PARADISE Most travelers came to Bellington Cay in search of paradise amid the warm tropical breezes and swaying palm trees. But when Diana Foster arrived after a grueling trip, only to learn that her reservation had been cancelled, she f...

  • To Love a Pirate

    Virginia Nielsen

    The Kindness of a Stranger When beautiful Creole Marie Dufret found Jacques Bonnard unconscious by the river, she was immediately drawn to him. But although her girlish fancy found him exciting, he was carrying information that condemned him as a ...

  • To Die For

    M.J. Rodgers

    Even in death she was beautiful Chief Detective Gabe Kincaid had known some gorgeous dames in his day, but the sight of Jennifer Madden's perfect dead body was breathtaking. After all, she was an ex-stripper turned society grand dame. Eden Isla...

  • Timeswept Love

    Catherine Creel
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    After being enchanted by the 400-year-old portrait of a handsome Scottish lord, Elizabeth MacKenzie awakens to find herself in the arms of the man of her dreams -- and in the throes of a glorious passion that threatens to devastate two noble warring ...

  • Three Wishes

    Harriet Ziefert

  • This Little Piggy

    Heather S. Buchanan

  • Thief of Hearts

    Penelope Thomas

    In the wake of a tragedy, impoverished Damorna Wells fled her Berkshire home only to be swept into the dangerous back streets of London. About to be sold into a life of crime, she was rescued by a mysterious stranger known only as Quentin. Tutored b...

  • That Old Zack Magic

    Beth Cruise

  • That Certain Style

    Eleanora Brownleigh

    When asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, young Nina Swope would always joke, 'An heiress.' Now a successful businesswoman in her own right, Nina was astonished when her childhood fantasy became reality. As the granddaughter of famed decorat...

  • Texas Mustangers

    Gary McCarthy

    A TEXAS-BOUND FAMILY STRUGGLING TO RECAPTURE THEIR DREAM... In the wake of tragedy, the surviving members of the Ballou family sought a new beginning on the Texas frontier. There, the Comanches shared their love and respect for horses -- taming the ...

  • Testimony

    Frank Palmer

  • Tender Victory

    Susan Macias

    RACHEL In desperation, she brought her young son to the ranch of the man she'd always loved. The man whom fate denied her. The man whose heart had turned against her. LUKE Once, he loved Rachel--only to be betrayed by her. Now she's back in his ...

  • Tempting Chance

    Erica Spindler

    CHANCE--He Put the Fire in Her Cheeks and Made Her Long to Run Wild.... Her boss was a brash, impossible perfectionist, but when Chance Michaels called her Red and insisted her legs were showstoppers, Elizabeth Waters blushed all over! With his cock...

  • Tempted

    Virginia Henley

    All men lusted for the firebrand they called Flaming Tina, famed for the molten fire in her hair -- and for the hot temper running fierce through the noble Scots blood of Lady Valentina Kennedy. Forced into marriage with the fearsome warrior of an en...

  • Temptations

    Paul Wilkes

    A refreshing, almost curious study of one very modern man's investigation of the spiritual life.LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEWJoseph is a well-known journalist who lives a very public life. Yet in is way he is a devout Catholic, drawn to the cloistere...

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III

    B.B. Hiller

  • Taylor's Ark

    Jody Lynn Nye

    THE ANIMALS OF NOAH'S ARK SAVED THE WORLD. CAN THE ANIMALS OF TAYLOR'S ARK SAVE THE UNIVERSE? Colony after colony, a strange epidemic is spreading. Dr. Shona Taylor is determined to find the cure before it's too late. And she is not alone. By her ...

  • Tattered Valentine

    Irene Loyd Black
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    Lady Lucinda Ellsworth had kept the Valentine given to her by a childhood sweetheart for the last 14 years. Now she was to see him again -- at a Valentine's Day Ball that could make all her dreams come true....

  • Targets of Opportunity

    Joe Weber

    Recruited to test pilot the Soviet-built MiG-17 the U.S. has captured, Marine aviator Brad Austin finds the mission more complicated than he anticipated when he must complete it behind enemy lines. Reprint....

  • Target for Murder

    J.F. Trainor

    Newly sprung form a South Dakota Correctional Facility, Anishabe princess Angela Biwaban throws her parole officer off her scent by accepting a new mission--to find the men who killed her best friend's husband. Original....

  • Target

    Mack Tanner

  • The Taming of Amelia

    Maura Seger

    A Woman's Place Driven to carve a piece of the wilderness for her own, Amelia Daniels would let no man deter her. Neither the straitlaced Elders of Puritan Boston nor a roving seafarer with hidebound ideas of a female's "proper place"! Even one as...

  • The Talismans of Shannara

    Terry Brooks

    THE ENDLESS QUEST The descendants of the Oven house of Shannara had all completed their quests. Walker Boh had restored the Druid's Keep with the Black Elfstone. Wren had restored the missing Elves to the Four Lands. And Par had found what was qui...

  • T.F. Benson and the Detective Dog Mystery

    David A. Adler

  • Swimming With Dolphins

    Erin Pizzey

    Escaping to the Caribbean island of Little Egg where she can come to terms with her unhappy past at the hands of a tyrannical mother and multiple abusive husbands, Pandora finds support and hope from the passionate Ben. Original....

  • Sweetheart

    Kate Daniel

    Dreams of love and romance fill the heads of McAllister's college students, especially Jessie, as Valentine's Day approaches, but when two women are found murdered, she becomes convinced that her roommate's boyfriend is the killer. Original....

  • Sweet Victory

    Beverly Lane

    Kit Randall found it hard to hold back her tears as the horses at Randall Farm were auctioned off. In the two years since her father's death, she'd tried her best to salvage the thoroughbred horse farm that had brought her family acclaim. But when sh...

  • Sweet Savage Dreams

    Cassie Edwards
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    In the wilds of Minnesota a beautiful white girl teaches a Chippewa brave the meaning of Valentine's Day, then realizes that she wants to give him her heart along with the gilt-and-lace card she has lovingly created....

  • Sweet Ivy's Gold

    Paula Paul

    The Sins of Ivy Barton A fire-breathing locomotive took Ivy to the Colorado gold fields. Behind her lay her shattered Southern innocence, ahead redemption in a rough and tumble promised land. There she met a ruthless gambler named Landon Runnels,...

  • A Sweet Addiction

    Charlotte Lamb

    BARBARY WHARF Love on the rebound? Sophie Watson had been abandoned by the man she loved. But she was determined not to allow the rejection to be the springboard for falling in love again--especially not with a man like Guy Faulkner. Not tha...

  • Surviving

    Henry Green

    A collection of work by Henry Green is introduced by John Updike and includes never-before-published short stories, pieces on London during the Blitz, journalism, book reviews, a play, and more. 10,000 first printing. $10,000 ad/promo....

  • Sunshine Riches

    Marilyn Forstot

    When the sale of ocean front property leads to her reckless spending, Victoria Gordon decides to consult financial advisor Matt Claussen, who Victoria thinks is nothing more than a stodgy banker. Original....

  • Sunburst

    Suzanne Ellison

    AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN Captain Drew Robelard's investigative mission at Fort Tejon was as potentially deadly as the fierce Mojave desert outside. He'd thought his life couldn't get more complicated, until love Mandy Henderson arrived and begge...

  • The Substitute Teacher

    Jordan Storm

    THE KILLER. Mary Margaret McCarthy is more than just another substitute teacher at Bayside Elementary in Queens, New York. She’s an instrument of divine wrath. Mary Margaret loves children. She knows that only she can save them. But first she mu...

  • A Stranger Here

    Thelma Hatch Wyss

    Sixteen-year-old Jada has always felt out of place in her family. So when she’s sent to spend the summer with her ailing Aunt May, she’s eager to find out more about her relatives. But Jada gets more than she bargained for when her search leads h...

  • The Stranger

    Ryanne Corey

    BACHELOR Here I was minding my own business, trying to catch some trout for dinner, and what did I end up catching -- little Miss Priss who lost her memory, but certainly not her attitude! She is one ingredient that won't spice up my backwoods...

  • The Stolen Heart

    Kit Gardner

    Fool for Love Jace McAllister had hands with, sin in their touch. And Phoebe Sinclair--for shame!--wanted those hands all over her. That the man was obviously an outlaw mattered little, for Phoebe was having the time of her life among these wild A...

  • Starlight Embrace

    Patricia Werner

    Devilishly handsome Marco Giovinco bowed as the audience gave him another standing ovation. The renowned matinee idol could have any woman he wanted, but Marco had no time for love...until he looked into the wide blue eyes of bewitching socialite Eli...

  • Star-Crossed Lovers

    JoAnn Ross

    WHERE NO ONE HAS GONE BEFORE Astrophysicist Bram Starbuck was determined to prove his fellow scientists wrong. They dismissed his theories on space travel, but they wouldn't after he returned from Earth. Only something went wrong, and he ended up...

  • Star Quality

    Jennifer Hall

  • Songs of Praise

    Kathleen Krull

  • Something Like a Love Affair

    Julian Symons

    A brilliant and disquieting tale of lust, infidelity, and mysterious murder from the distinguished British author and critic Julian Symons. Judith has the perfect life, with a handsome husband and no financial worries, yet she isn''t happy. Her frien...

  • Snatch Crop

    Gerald Hammond

    Gerald Hammond's latest romp through the Scottish Highlands proves that a Calder can take a new name, but she can't lose the investigative instinct that courses through the veins of this first family of amateur sleuthing.When Keith Calder's daughter ...

  • Snakey Riddles

    Katy Hall

  • The Smallest Stegosaurus

    Lynn Sweat

  • Slow Walk in a Sad Rain

    John P. McAfee

    The author draws on his own experiences as part of a U.S. Special Forces unit in Laos to devise a darkly comic, moving tale of the absurdities of the Vietnam conflict reminiscent of Catch 22. Reprint....

  • Skins

    Catherine O'Connell

    When a Manhattan model is found bludgeoned to death on top of her collection of silver fox, coyote, racoon, and mink coats, a veteran investigator teaches his new rookie partner that the solution to the case may not be as obvious as it seems....

  • Skin

    Kathe Koja

    Tess welds metal. Bibi molds flesh. Together, they make art that moves, dances, burns, and bleeds, and the Surgeons of the Demolition become the hottest ticket in town. But Bibi wants more, always more, no matter who gets hurt. And Tess needs to burn...

  • The Singularity Project

    F.M. Busby

  • Simply Unforgettable

    Pat Warren

    Seduced... A decade ago, young Luke Turner fled the Circle M like a thief in the night. Bereft, Shay McKenzie sought solace in marriage and motherhood, but always her heart longed for the proud, orphaned ranch hand who'd betrayed her tender love. ...

  • Simple Charms

    Anne McAllister
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    Twenty-three second graders couldn't be wrong - Jane Kitto needed a real man in her life, not just a secret admirer who, every Valentine's Day, sent her a tiny charm. Jane wasn't sure she agreed with her pint-size Cupids, especially when their candid...

  • Silver and Sapphires // One Night with a Scoundrel

    Shelly Thacker

    DANGEROUS SEDUCTION She is Princess Ashiana -- English by birth, she must prove her loyalty by reclaiming the ancient sapphire stolen from the sacred shrine. Posing as a slave girl, she seizes her opportunity with the man who now wears the jewel a...

  • Silk

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

    Defying her proper English family, young Coral Kendall, an heiress to the Kingscote silk plantation in northern India, adopts and raises an orphaned boy, but after the boy is abducted Coral must unlock the key to his true indentity...

  • Shotgun Law and Hellbound for Ballarat

    Nelson Nye

    In Shotgun Law, a lawman hopes to find a kidnapped woman in the midst of a range war, and in Hellbound for Ballarat, two killers get more than they bargained for when they peg Jack McCann as a greenhorn. Reprint....

  • Shot on Location

    Stan Cutler

    Anything can become a major production in Hollywood, especially celebrity murder. That's how still-tough-at-fifty something macho detective Rayford Goodman and young, gay, and talented writer Mark Bradley are thrown together once again to catch a kil...

  • Sheriff Slocum

    Jake Logan

  • Shell Game

    Melissa Crandall

    While on a routine mission to retrieve a research drone for recycling, the U.S.S. Enterprise encounters a Romulan space station adrift within Federation borders. Exploring the lifeless station, the crew finds ghostly apparitions flitting at the edges...

  • A Share in Death

    Deborah Crombie

    It was a peaceful holiday ... until a body washed up in the whirlpool bath. That's when Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid of Scotland Yard gets to work investigating murder amidst the secluded loveliness of a Yorkshire time-share. Together with...

  • Shameless

    Rosanne Bittner

    First Lieutenant Clay Youngblood was traveling from Texas to California on an assignment for the U.S. Army. He didn't need a Mexican outlaw - especially a beautiful one like Nina Juarez - to stir his sympathies and sidetrack his mission. Nina was as ...

  • Shadowrun

    Carl Sargent

  • Shadowplay

    Nigel Findley

    Sly is a veteran. She's run more shadows than she cares to remember, and has the physical and emotional scars to prove it. But no matter how violent it became, it had always been business as usual. Until now. Falcon is a kid. He thinks he hears th...

  • The Shadow of Sorcery

    Andrew J. Offutt

  • The Seventh Bearer

    John C. Boland

    Stockbroker Donald McCarry is on the French Riviera enjoying an undeserved vacation. His mission: to keep a golden-egg-laying client from squandering McCarry's potential earnings on a shaky movie deal. But then a deja vu brush with death starts to wa...

  • Serious Science

    Janice Lee Smith

  • Sensual Secrets

    Bill Adler (1)

    In the rare volume of French erotica, the reader will met Jacqueline, the most sought after model in Paris; Mireille, a temptress in a fur coat, suspenders and high heels; Jeanine, the most amorous young widow with exquisite taste...The true sexual n...

  • Seeing Red

    Roseanne Williams

    SHE'D ONLY TAKE CASH When Larinda Outlaw inherited a run-down drive-in, she thought her dreams had come true. Now she could get her hands on some cold, hard cash. Instead she got hot, sexy Cash Bowman. Although she would have loved to put her hand...

  • See Saw

    Anthony John

    While homicide detective Ira Berger races to find the killer who has been leaving a trail of bloody bodies throughout the city, homicidal genius Charles Maris searches for a way to get back at one woman from his past. Original....

  • The Secret at Solaire

    Carolyn Keene

    IN SEARCH OF A SABOTEUR, NANCY FINDS THAT EVERY DESERT TRAIL LEADS TO DANGER.... Nancy, Bess, and George are spending a week at the exclusive Spa Solaire outside Tucson, Arizona -- a place for relaxation, rigorous exercise, and complete beauty make-...

  • The Second Proposal

    Emily Maxwell
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    Once before Sir Richard bad proposed to Melinda Cuthbert and been refused. He bad sworn to cast the chit aside forever, but a very special Valentine's Day will bring them together again......

  • Screamers

    Franklin W. Dixon

    While attending a meeting of computer experts at Chicago's Evanco building, Frank and Joe Hardy must put their detective skills to the test when a gang of gunmen bursts in and kidnaps the owner of Evanco's daughter. Original....

  • Scoundrel's Desire

    Joanne DeLazzari

    PASSION'S FURY With fiery determination, Boston-bred Breanna Sullivan heads for her California birthplace to confront the man responsible for her father's disappearance. But from the soul-shattering moment she clashes with the dynamic Alexander Ki...

  • A Scandalous Courtship

    Barbara Reeves

    DEVOTED FRIEND For years Evan Ryder, Eighth Earl of Maitland, has adored lovely Virina Baret in silence. But now that Virina's soldier-husband has perished in the Peninsular Campaign, gallant Maitland is at long last free to voice his affections...

  • Savage Sunrise

    Cassie Edwards

    The Hunter of the Hinterland... As powerful and untamed as the majestic Mississippi, Yellow Thunder hated the white men who were selling his people into bondage. Determined to keep the notorious slaver Calvin Wyatt from destroying his tribe, the ...

  • Satellite Night News

    Jack Hopkins

    In the overcrowded solar system of the twenty-third century, Satellite News Channel will do anything to outscoop the fierce competition, especially with one of the biggest stories of the century brewing: the threat of interplanetary war. Original....

  • Sara's Homecoming

    Heather Conkie

    SARA STANLEY FINALLY RETURNS HOME TO MONTREAL, sadly leaving behind Avonlea and her new-found King family. But her joyful reunion with her father is cut short by sudden tragedy, and once again Sara is faced with the prospect of leaving home....

  • Saints Alive

    Anne Stuart
    in

    When Shannon Donnelly met divorce lawyer Patrick Lockwood in a crowded courtroom, the attraction was inexplicably instantaneous. They were complete opposites - him cynical, her sentimental - but there was no denying that sudden sizzle. What they didn...

  • Safe in My Heart

    Leigh Michaels

    She had seduced her boss! Katharine had exactly dragged Stephen Osborne into her bedroom, of course. Still, she bore the brunt of the responsibility. She had acted on impulse-something she never did. She had paid for the night of madness, though; she...

  • Sacred Hunger

    Barry Unsworth

    Winner of the Booker Prize A historical novel set in the eighteenth century, Sacred Hunger is a stunning, engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed in the British Empire as it entered fully into the slave trade and spread it throughout i...

  • Rushdie Letters

    Steve MacDonogh

  • A Rose at Midnight

    Anne Stuart

    Once a daughter of the aristocracy, lovely Ghislaine "Gilly" de Lorgny lives for the destruction of Nicholas Blackthorne--the notorious rake she holds responsible for the cruel loss of her virtue, family and fortune. Now that the rogue has reentered ...

  • Roommates and Rachel

    Kathryn O. Galbraith

    Mimi just cannot figure out why everyone fusses so much over her new baby sister, Rachel, until her mother brings Rachel to school and Mimi becomes the center of attention because of the baby. Reprint....

  • A Ring for Remembrance

    Georgina Devon
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    A failed elopement and a lost memory have kept Carolly Stanhope-Jones and Alexander Staunton apart for seven years. But this year's ball on Valentine's Day might bring back a lost, though not forgotten, love....

  • Ride the Wind

    Krista Janssen

    Astride her mare, her auburn hair wind-tossed, Deborah MacDonald proved she handled horses better than any lad in her clan's Glencoe home. Then, accompanying her father to Woburn Abbey near London, she came face to face with bold, aristocratic Cortez...

  • Richard Scarry First Words

    Richard Scarry

  • Return to Rocheworld

    Robert L. Forward

    Teamed up against a second aquatic race, the flouwen--the water-dwelling creatures found on a bizarre double planet--and an expedition of humans find that these new creatures are as unfriendly as they are intelligent...

  • Return to Love

    Martha Gross

    Bud and Jessie met at a joint high school science fair when they were seventeen. Their eyes met over the beakers; instant love. But young love rarely lasts. They went their separate ways, married, moved away. But they never forgot each other. Now,...

  • The Rescuer

    Peggy Moreland

    BACHELOR Romance was the last thing on my mind when I answered a 911 call from a little girl whose mother was unconscious. That changed when I broke down the door and encountered Marybeth, who was scantily clad, very much alive and utterly bewilde...

  • Reflections of Becca

    Lynda Trent

    IT WAS A MIRACLE! When Becca Chambers hired Tyler Hart to find her birth mother, he was reluctant to take the case--and for a very good reason. But there was something about Becca he couldn't put from his mind, despite his carefully nurtured preju...

  • Refinements of Love

    Sarah Booth Conroy

    A fictional recreation of the strange life and fascinating death of Clover Adams, wife of Henry, follows her in her role as Washington socialite and paints a portrait of the nation's capital in the Gilded Age...

  • Reckoning

    Jack Bodine

    Duane Braddock hopes to put his past behind him, but the son of a neighboring rancher who wants him dead and a ruthless Army officer who covets his wife could prevent him from finally settling down. Original....

  • Recipe for Death

    Janet Lawrence

  • Rebel

    Bernard Cornwell

    A POWERFUL AND EVOCATIVE STORY OF THE CIVIL WAR'S FIRST BATTLE AND THE MEN WHO FOUGHT IT When Richmond landowner Washington Faulconer snatches young Nate Starbuck from the grip of a Yankee-hating mob, Nate is both grateful and awed by his idealist...

  • Realms of Valor

    James Lowder
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    From the secret annals of Realms history come eleven never-before-published tales of valor, featuring the greatest heroes of that magical world -- Drizzt Do'Urden, Arilyn Moonblade, Adon, Elminster of Shadowdale, Jander Sunstar, and many others -- to...

  • Rabbits

    Blue Lantern Studio

  • Rabbit Surprise

    Eric L. Houck

    Johnny and Richard Fox are delighted when someone leaves a picnic basket containing four delectable rabbits and a magic top hat at their front door, until more and more rabbits appear out of the hat, including a big rabbit in magician's garb....

  • Rabbit Seeds

    Bijou Le Tord

    The wondrous changes of each season come to life for children as they follow a busy gardener's work. His planning, digging, tilling, raking, sowing, watering, and harvesting are depicted in lovely drawings that young readers will want to experience a...

  • A Quiche Before Dying

    Jill Churchill

    A Meal To Die For With the kids packed off on their summer road trips, it's an ideal time for Jane Jeffry to pursue other interests, so the harried suburban mom enrolls in a writing course at the community college. But when an obnoxious aged c...

  • Pure and Simple

    Peggy Nicholson

    A loose cannon in a chicken hat!' A loose cannon in a chicken hat!' That's what architect David Whittaker thought Kelly Bouchard was, with her campaign to reform the lunch menus of West Dartmouth's public schools and her collectio...

  • Psychamok

    Brian Lumley

    Brian Lumley is an international horror phenomenon, with books published in thirteen countries, including China, the Czech Republic, Germany, Japan, Russia, and Spain. More than two million books have been sold in his Necroscope series alone, but tha...

  • Promises

    Katherine Stone

    In PROMISES, she has created her most memorable cast of characters to date -- women and men whose lives intertwine in friendship and love, joy and tragedy, impossible dreams and heartbreaking betrayal::. ELIZABETH -- A dedicated trauma surgeon, he...

  • The Promise of Light

    Paul Watkins

    In The Promise of Light by Paul Watkins, it is 1921, and young Ben Sheridan's Irish-American father mysteriously dies in their small Rhode Island town. Determined to learn the truth about his family's cloudy past, he sets sail for Ireland, and quickl...

  • Promise Me Moonlight

    Carol Finch

    The feisty spitfire with the angel-pale hair stormed into Fort Smith, Arkansas with one thought in mind: to hire the best and bravest U.S. Marshal to escort her back to Oklahoma to protect her father's land claim. But the last thing Marshal Lawto...

  • Private Lies

    Carol Cail

    A young woman reporter sets out to investigate her boss's death and ends up solving a different crime, discovering unexpected romance along the way. ...

  • Prime Suspect 2: A Face in the Crowd

    Lynda La Plante

    The fast-paced follow up to Lynda La Plante’s first Prime Suspect thriller, Prime Suspect 2: A Face in the Crowd, reunites readers with Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison as she hunts down a mysterious killer hidden amidst London’s...

  • Present Danger

    Susan Andersen

    Aunie Franklin could still remember the murderous gleam in her ex-husband's dark eyes when he promised her: "You'll pay for leaving me, Aunie." So she fled Atlanta for the Pacific Northwest, praying he'd never find her. For she was starting her life ...

  • Power of Suggestion

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy and Bess are visiting Ned at college on the weekend of this year’s biggest frat party. But tragedy strikes when a research assistant is found dead -- and Parker, Ned’s fraternity brother, is the prime suspect. Parker was involved in a study...

  • Positioning

    Al Ries

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    ""One of the most important communication books I''ve ever read. I highly recommend it!"" —Spencer Johnson, author of Who Moved My Cheese? and co-author of The One Minute Manager

    ""Ries and Trout taught me everything I know about bran...

  • Portrait of Miranda

    Karin N. Mango

  • Point of Impact

    Stephen Hunter

    He was one the best Marine snipers in Vietnam. Today, twenty years later, disgruntled hero of an unheroic war, all Bob Lee Swagger wants to be left alone and to leave the killing behind. But with consummate psychological skill, a shadowy military ...

  • Poet and Dancer

    Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

    Jhabvala, winner of the Booker Prize as well as an Academy Award for screenwriting, has written a haunting tale of the complex and perilous relations between two young cousins, Angel and Lara.  A masterful novel which explores the dangers of love a...

  • A Play of Hearts

    Valerie King
    in

    Acting out Romeo and Juliet on Valentine's Day seemed just the thing to avert a dreaded elopement, but Miss Beth Ferrers hadn't counted on the arrival of Lord Brenton and his reaction to the play... and her!...

  • Pig Surprise

    Ute Krause

  • Picture Perfect

    Jill Marie Landis
    in

    A lady photographer is the last thing Sam Tucker needs on his cattle ranch. Emily Richardson wants to capture his life on film - and is stealing his heart as well. But the rancher's determined to keep love out of the picture...

  • The Phoenix in Flight

    Sherwood Smith; Dave Trowbridge

    Humans have colonized a thousand worlds and empires have risen and fallen. Now the Phoenix House rules the Thousand Suns from their planet Arthelion. And now the Emperor Gelasaar has won the mortal enmity of Eusabian, Lord of Vengeance, Avatar of Doi...

  • A Patchwork Child

    Brooke Astor

  • Paradise of the Blind

    Duong Thu Huong

    Written by one of Vietnam's most beloved writers, this is an exquisite portrait of three Vietnamese women struggling to survive in a society where subservience to men is expected and Communist corruption crushes every dream. "Astonishingly powerful ....

  • Paradise Junction

    Phillip Finch

    Looting the wealthy homes of exclusive Marin county in their spare time, Hays Teale and Caitlin Hames call on ex-con Sonny Hames for burglary pointers, and make an enemy of Rurak, whom they try to have killed before he gets them first. Reprint....

  • Paper Hearts

    Kathleen Kane
    in

    Perfect manners and fancy silk can't hide a tempestuous spirit, as Emma discovers when she learns to be a true lady -- and rekindles a true love....

  • Papa's Bedtime Story

    Mary Lee Donovan

  • Pagan Babies

    Greg Johnson

    From the fleeting optimism of Kennedy’s Camelot to the fearsome specter of the age of AIDS, this impressive, powerfully written debut novel follows the lives of two young people and their stormy relationship that parallels the moral confusion of Am...

  • The Paddock: A Story in Praise of the Earth

    Lilith Norman

    Illuminating the ways in which the land can renew and repair itself, the story of a plot of land--called a paddock in Australia--follows its history from its beginning as a lava field through the arrival of Aborigines and white settlers....

  • The Owl Who Became the Moon

    Jonathan London

  • Over the Rainbow

    Marjorie Eatock

    Fifty-something, divorced for years, courted by more than one attractive man, and thoroughly enjoying her job with a large insurance company, Marian can't figure out why she suddenly feels restless...vaguely discontented...blah. So when her work...

  • Over the Rainbow

    Marcia Evanick

    MITCH -- The Heat of His Smile Singed Her Lingerie... He looked too sexy and dangerous in jeans and a leather jacket to be the father of a student, but Hillary Walker ached to tangle her fingers in Mitch Ferguson's unruly hair -- and hold on t...

  • Over Back

    Beverly Major

  • Outlaw Women

    J.R. Roberts

    Benbow, Kansas. is shattered by a bank robbery -- by three of the strangest looking bandits the witnesses have ever laid eyes on. The deputy swears the felons are females -- and rounds up a posse to catch 'em. For once, the Gunsmith decides to min...

  • Our Times

    Robert Atwan

    Like its best-selling predecessors, the fifth edition of Our Times is built entirely around very contemporary selections from a wide variety of very recent periodicals on intriguing topics of very current interest -- more than ninety percent publishe...

  • The Other Side of the Mirror

    Maggi Charles

    Susan Evans had been in love with Kent Davenport ever since the heart-stopping moment he swept her on to the dance floor -- on the eve of his wedding to her twin sister. Now, eight years later, Elaine's ghost still hovered between them -- in the ...

  • Ordinary Miracles

    Linda Crew

    Since "ORDINARY MIRACLES" was first published in 1993, the range of treatments for combating infertility has expanded dramatically, but a generation of women having postponed childbearing has only added to the numbers of those in desperate need of...

  • The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court

    Peter Taylor

    "Taylor is a master of the short story form....[His] is an extraordinary gift, too often absent in contemporary fiction."
    THE BOSTON GLOBE
    In eleven lyrical, moving, and eerie tales, and three one-act plays Pulitzer Prize-winning author Peter T...

  • One More Valentine

    Anne Stuart

    HE WAS THE STRANGEST VALENTINE! When James Sheridan Rafferty died in the famed Saint Valentine's Day massacre, he'd no idea that Cupid's wicked angels would give him a second-chance ... in 1993. All he had to do was fall madly in love within fort...

  • One Dark Body

    Charlotte Watson Sherman

    Set in Pearl, Washington, One Dark Body is the story of Raisin, a twelve-year-old girl abandoned at birth by her mother and raised by foster parents along with other damaged and unwanted children. It is the story of her mother, Nola, who has returned...