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New Books List: 476 titles


  • James Herbert

    '48 by international bestseller and Master of Horror, James Herbert, explores a horrifying alternative end to the Second World War.In 1945, Hitler unleashed the Blood Death on Britain as his final act of vengeance.Those who died at once were the luck...



  • Jennifer Greene

    ABBY STANFORD WAS ONE SMART COOKIE... And she'd always given 200%--especially to her job. But there was more to life... There was home, family--and the love of a good man. So she filled her cozy house with the aroma of fresh-baked cookies. She cro...



  • Anne McCaffrey; Margaret Ball

    "SOMETHING'S ALIVE IN THERE!" She was just a little girl, with a tiny horn in the center of her forehead, funny-looking feet, beautiful silver hair, and several curious powers: the ability to purify air and water, make plants grow, and heal scars ...



  • Barry Unsworth

    Golden Umbria is home to breathtaking scenery and great art; it is also where Hannibal and his invading band of Carthaginians ambushed and slaughtered a Roman legion, and where the local place-names still speak of that bloodshed.Unsworth's contempora...



  • Andrew W. Marlowe

    AIR FORCE ONE  

    It is called the flying White House, the most tightly guarded airborne fortress in the world . . . until now.                      Terrorists have seized Air Force One thirty thousand feet above the ear...



  • Vivian Leiber

    VIRGIN BRIDE! Thirty-year-old Kate Lodge had been saving--and saving and saving--herself for marriage. So when her fiance ditched her cold, this Miss Goody Two-Shoes was just about ready to do something shocking with the first man she saw .... ...



  • Lawrence Schiller

    The riveting account of the O.J. Simpson murder trial is told in the uncensored words of Simpson's closest confidants and attorneys. American Tragedy reveals the answers to many of he case's unexplained questions for the first time. What happened ...



  • Phyllis A. Whitney

    Shining with intrigue, allure, and passionate suspense, Amethyst Dreams is Phyllis Whitney at her most spectacular -- a story bejeweled with hypnotic prose and spellbinding secrets... Seeking shelter from her own broken dreams, Hallie Knight answers...



  • Pamela Dalton

    IT'S A GIRL! Marriage to handsome Fabulous father Devlin Hamilton was a dream come true for Abby O'Reilly...evin if it was for convenience' sake. She was now a full-time mother to their merged little brood, and had a tall, strong husband to call her...



  • K.A. Applegate

    We can't tell you who we are. Or where we live. It's too risky, and we've got to be careful. Really careful. So we don't trust anyone. Because if they find us ... well, we just won't let them find us. The thing you should know is that everyone is...



  • S.T. Joshi

    Explore the marvelous complexity of Lovecraft's writing -- including his use of literary allusions, biographical details, and obscure references in this rich, in-depth exploration of great horror fiction from the acknowledged master of the weird, inc...



  • Kathleen Webb

    Anora King hadn't planned to pretend she was married, but her new neighbors in Boulder Springs, Colorado, leapt to that conclusion. For a struggling young woman, the deceit had its advantages until the sinfully handsome new marshal came to town. Jess...



  • Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    In this delightful follow-up to My Brother, Ant, Anthony comes face to face with a growling bear, pretends to be a dog, and hears a giant tapping on the window. These enchanting stories capture the relationship between Ant and his brother with warmth...



  • Lorenzo Carcaterra

    Boomer. Dead-Eye. Pins. Geronimo. Reverend Jim. Mrs. Columbo. Legends of the NYPD, they were great cops. The best cops. But they are cops no more. Now they are apaches, a renegade unit working on their own--reunited to bring down the most vicious cri...



  • Stephen Dedman

    Major Trouble in a Minor Key If he'd known all the trouble following her, itinerant photographer Michelangelo "Mage" Magistrale would have thought twice about helping the beautiful, distressed woman at the bus station. In return for a ticket she g...



  • Crystal Wilson-Harris

    OPPOSITE MINDS... Dakota Bennington is committed to her cultural heritage in everything from her traditional African clothing to her unforgettable sculptures. To her, corporate attorney Pierce Ellis is just another uptight, upwardly mobile professio...



  • John Saul

    John Saul, master of psychological and supernatural suspense, has created a terrifying serial thriller set in the New England town of Blackstone. From the old Asylum, an insidious evil has descended upon unsuspecting souls who fall within its looming...



  • Ann Shearer

    From the moment Athene sprang full-grown from her father Zeus's head, a new image of the feminine was born to Western consciousness. Starting from a penetrating analysis of the goddess's mythologies and beginnings, Ann Shearer examines how mainstream...



  • Ann M. Martin

    From Stoneybrook to Palo City, it's 3,000 miles of fun, friends, and adventure! It's BSC road trip time! Two RVs are parked in front of Claudia Kishi's house. Dawn's dad, Mr. Schafer, will drive one. Watson Brewer, Kristy's stepdad, will pilot the...



  • Duane Franklet

    Top troubleshooter Barry Shepard heads a courageous counter-assault that may spell difficult personal consequences when the world's largest computer company comes under assault by a demanding and brilliant criminal hacker. Reprint....



  • Easton Royce

    When Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate the bizarre,ritualistic murders at Grover Cleveland High School, they stumble upon a strange planetary phenomenon- one that might have a disastrous effect on two cheerleaders.But are Terri and Margi...



  • Anita Richmond Bunkley

    When a media spokeswoman realizes that her new employer, a chemical company, is responsible for sickening the inhabitants of her hometown, an African-American community in Texas, she faces a difficult choice. Reprint....



  • Frank Baldwin

    A young man searching for the perfect time, the perfect woman, and the perfect life finds the rush he needs to sustain him by gambling his paycheck every week--in this this fast-paced, funny excursion into New York's betting parlors, rock clubs, and ...



  • Peter Leslie

    Webster was reckless, unorthodox, a daredevil with no respect for authority and a tireless womaniser. But he got results, and as a Special Services major, that was all that mattered.

    His latest assignment: train a team of super-tough demolition exp...



  • Jack Ballas

    Once a rebel spy, Tom Fallon was spared the firing squad when the President of the United States needed his help. Now, he's a hired gun for the government, stealing shipments of gold from the French to help the cause of Benito Juarez in Mexico. H...



  • Scholastic Inc.

    Hop aboard and get ready for the ride of your life as bus driver Barney takes the whole gang to some of their favorite imaginary destinations. First stop, a castle just for Brett where he can rule in the land of make believe. Then, it's back on the b...



  • Garrison Allen

    Famous for its yearly Elizabethan Festival and annual Arabian Horseshoe, Empty Creek, Arizona, would truly be nowhere without a visit from a semi-professional baseball team. Barely out of the dugout, trying to break a hot losing streak, the Coyotes a...



  • Robert M. Quackenbush

    On his first solo flight, Batbaby gets caught in a rainstorm, is blown into Squirrel's tree, and gets into all sorts of trouble before he finally falls asleep. In the morning Batbaby returns home where he must go to bed again! With a sweet surprise e...



  • Cait Logan

    COME TO ME She dropped from the tree into his arms like a ripe peach, a fiery russet-haired beauty he wanted to devour. But mountain man Sam Taggart came to the Recht Montana homestead to hire a housekeeper, not find a wife. He was out to make his...




  • Annie Garrett

    WHAT IF YOUR DARKEST SECRET WAS THE ONLY THING THAT COULD LIGHT UP YOUR LIFE? Though she grew up in the poorest pocket of rural Appalachia, sophisticated, smart Ruby Maxwell now has everything: a national talk show with soaring ratings, an exquisi...



  • T.J. Bradstreet

    A teenage girl is happy for her aunt, who is dating Dave, a man who just might be the "one," but when strange things begin to happen to her aunt and then to herself, she becomes convinced that there is more to Dave than meets the eye. Original....



  • Connie May Fowler

    In 1965 Bird, christened Avocet, aged six, is living with her family in a Florida citrus grove. Daddy and Mama, who run a general store, fight frequently and drink too much; Bird and her older sister Phoebe are beaten equally frequently. Daddy is eve...



  • R.L. Stine

    Hope couldn’t wait to get to college. She was going to share a dorm room with her three best friends. Even better, her boyfriend, Darryl, would be living on the boys’ floor downstairs. Fear Hall was going to be a blast…until things take a terri...



  • Rennie Jones

    Declaring twenty years long enough to stay married to the same women, Roger Gainey decides to walk out on his wife, Sheila, his partner in an electronic retailing empire. She had been a college student whey they met; he had been a TV game show host. ...



  • Anne Laurence

    THE ROAD TO LOVE Cass Morrow tried to keep her eyes on the road, but her gaze kept straying to the rearview mirror of the limousine she drove for another glimpse of her newest passenger. Ben Wyden was exactly what you'd expect from a powerful bus...



  • Vivian Leiber

    THE BRIDE HAS AMNESIA The woman Dean Radcliffe had hired to care for his motherless children believed she was his wife! Having lost her memory, shy Susan Graves had been transformed into an exciting, passionate woman--who wanted him to claim his h...



  • Wilbur Smith

    As the choppy sea lanes of the African coast are rife with bloody battles over trade booty, Sir Francis Courteney and his 17-year-old son Hal embark on a seafaring quest for the treasure-laden galleons of the Dutch East India Company. But soon the ho...



  • Joan Smith

    A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME; One of those dashing rogues too attractive to ignore. Lord Harwell featured largely in Rosalind Lovelace's fantasies. But she had too much common sense to let dreams color her reality. Harwell was a friend and neighbo...




  • Albert Murray

    Murray gives readers the redefined essence of his lifetime meditation on the blues as this musical style informs American life. Here are incisive essays on writing, music, and art that go beyond the social-science fiction of Negrohood to describe in ...



  • Molly Liholm

    OH...BABY Vivacious, gorgeous, break-the-rules Kate Ross drove conservative, straight-arrow Robert Devlin crazy - or as crazy as he ever let himself get. But when the long-standing rivals were thrown the corporate challenge of their lives - saving...



  • Jan Pienkowski



  • David G. Hartwell

    Thirteen terrifying tales to take you on a heart-pounding journey to the dark side! Including:
    Bodies of the Dead by Ambrose Bierce: Is it your worst fear to be buried alive? Live your greatest nightmare in these four chilling tales. The Golden Ra...




  • Theodore V. Olsen / T.V. Olsen

    Bonner faces losing his mistress, his son, and his mountain ranch to a rich and powerful enemy, until the feared and hated rogue stallion, El Diablo Rojo, turns up once again and convinces Bonner he can win. Original....



  • Alison Kelly

    Parish Dunford worked hard on his cattle station: he was tough, rugged and definitely all male! And he was determined not to pamper his latest -- female -- employee.... Gina Petrocelli was addicted to life's little luxuries -- like hot showe...



  • Virginia Lanier

    The Sins Of The Past Must Be Paid For Again And Again And Again When Gilly Ainsley shows up on Jo Beth sidden's doorstep, the smart and feisty bloodhound trainer and tracker is stunned by the woman's bizarre tale of deception and manslaughter. Gilly...



  • Eileen Dreyer

    Only hard-hitting journalist Daniel Murphy, a fellow outsider, seems to share emergency room nurse Timmie Leary's anxiety over a mysterious series of deaths in a Missouri hospital. By the author of Bad Medicine. Reprint....



  • Ruth Jean Dale

    He bet breakfast in bed that he was irresistible ! As soon as Brooke met Garrett she knew he was a charmer. Women probably just rolled over when he petted them, much the same way her cats, traitors all, had responded to him. The best thing for ...



  • L. Neil Smith

    Bretta, Henry Martyn's daughter, is ejected from her spaceship and left for dead by her father's enemies, but the resourceful Bretta makes her way to a world of escaped slaves, where she vows revenge." At the Publisher's request, this title is being ...



  • Jessica Hart

    For better and for worse! Seth Carrington needed a girlfriend and Daisy needed a ticket to the Caribbean...it seemed like a fair exchange! But having survived Seth's extremely thorough interviewing technique -- which included kissing -- Daisy ...



  • Sandra Marton

    Three brides, three grooms -- and they cell meet at THE WEDDING OF THE YEAR Damian Skouras thought he was allergic to marriage, and Laurel Bennett didn't make it to the church on time .... But, still, they collided as guests at the Wedding of ...



  • Susan Spencer Paul

    THE BALDWIN BROTHERS DID NOT TAKE THEIR BRIDES CONVENTIONALLY Isabelle Gaillard had learned that the hard way when Sir Justin Baldwin had whisked her away bodily under cover of a moonless night. Now, though he'd been promised to another, she was his...



  • Anne Lesley Groell

    RETURN OF THE DEADLY DUO Anne Lesley Groell dazzled readers with her fantastic, action-packed adventure Anvil of the Sun. Now Jenifleur and ,Thibault, known as the Cloak and Dagger, are back to take on their first genuine assignment as full-fledge...




  • Michelle West

    TOR LEONNE -- the heart of the Dominion of Annagar, where the games of state are about to become a matter of life or death--and where those who seek to seize the crown will be forced to league with a treacherously cunning ally....Tor Leonne, ancest...




  • Bruce Coville

    A collection of spooky short fiction includes the stories of a pair of special dancing shoes that save the day, a boy and his dad who become custodians of a unicorn, and a family that tampers with powers it does not understand. Original....



  • Martin Caidin

    The authorized story of America's first and foremost space hero! Here, for the first time, is the true story of Buck's life in the future, as only he can tell it--from the moment of the terrible crash that should have ended everything to the moment h...



  • Lawrence Block

    Bernie Rhodenbarr, burglar extraordinaire and bookseller ordinaire, has left New York City to spend a wintry weekend at a cozy New England inn famed for its quaint atmosphere and, not coincidentally, its rare books. And there is no book rarer than th...



  • B.J. Lanagan

    After their parents are murdered by a band of marauding Yankees, Win and Joe Coulter join William Quantrill and his gang of bloodthirsty raiders to seek revenge on the attackers....



  • Patti Kim

    An extraordinary debut and exciting new voice in multicultural fiction, Patti Kim's A Cab Called ReliableWinner of the Towson University Prize for LiteratureNominated for the Book-of-the-Month Club's Stephen Crane Award for First FictionAhn Joo Cho e...



  • James Byron Huggins

    An undead super soldier possessed by the devil aims to destroy the world in this thriller from the international bestselling author of Dark Visions. HE WAS THEIR DEADLIEST KILLER The late Roth Tiberius Cain, legendary CIA hit man, is gone, but not fo...



  • Judith A. Lansdowne

    WILL A DARING ROMANCE LEAD TO FOLLY OR FORTUNE? The independent and beautiful Miss Camilla Quinn had never experienced the slightest interest in any of her suitors, even the Marquis of Lilliheun, surely the best catch of the ton. So she could sca...



  • Kit Garland

    SHE DARED TO LIVE LIKE A MAN She raced by him on her schooner Mischief, beating Fleetwing and its legendary skipper in a race at sea, proving that the ship she designed, built, and sailed was the fastest craft afloat. Then Dominique Willoughby offer...



  • Sheryl Lynn

    Hell has no fury like a woman scorned... Cattle rancher and single father Tristan Cayle had his sights set on one goal--traveling to Colorado to meet a woman he'd fallen for on the Internet. But the instant he arrived at the Elk River Resort, run ...



  • Della Rowland

    The Clue Club loves to solve mysteries. They are very good detectives and solve cases all over town. There are cases at school, the baseball field, and the park. Read the cases and try to figure out the solutions. The clues are in the stories or the...



  • Lydia Adamson

    While housesitting in the Hamptons, Alice Nestleton finds herself the primary suspect in the murder of Bea Verdi, a sensitive young poet, and she sets out to clear her name, with the help of some feline friends...




  • Fred Secombe

    This is an excellent value omnibus edition of the first three books in Fred Secombe's entertaining and nostalgic series. It is comprised of: How Green Was My Curate, A Curate for All Seasons and Goodbye Curate. Set in sleepy Welsh valleys at the clos...



  • Reid Mitchell

    The soldiers on both sides of the Civil War were united by a common history, and yet the legacy of this past was ambiguous, upholding both rebellion and union. Union and Confederate men went to war as Americans, convinced they fought an un-American, ...



  • Barbara Hall

    Struggling to understand the man beneath the charm, newlywed Lydia is forced to confront the forces that have shaped her husband, including his deceptively sleepy hometown of Fawley, magnetic cousin Kyle, and some long suppressed passions. 12,500 fir...



  • Lynda La Plante

    Prime Suspect, the enormously successful two-time Emmy Award-winning television series, established its writer and creator, Lynda La Plante, as one of the preeminent originators of realistic crime drama. Turning her talent from the screen to the page...



  • Roby James

    TRUTH OR DARE Gifted with a rare and amazing power over human minds, Class A talent Ronica McBride is ready to assume her lofty position in the Com's interstellar empire. Then a horrific incident leaves her stranded on a primitive planet without h...



  • J.H. Marks

    Completely obsessed with alleged government conspiracies, a New York City cab driver sees sinister plots and cover-ups in even the most ordinary of situations. He also has no hesitation to report them all to an acquaintance, a bright, yet skeptical l...



  • Roxanne Conrad

    When music teacher Abby Rhodes meets a devilishly handsome man on her doorstep in her small Texas hometown, she becomes possessed by his late mother, a woman she begins to believe was murdered by her son. Original....



  • Isobel Linton

    A DISCREET LADY Helen Sterling wandered through the glorious gardens of Cornell Castle in a veritable daze. An heiress whose fortune came from trade, she felt her behavior at this summer house party must be beyond reproach -- especially in view of...



  • G.D. Gearino

    A jaded newspaper columnist is jolted back to reality when a reader who had called him for help turns up dead two days later, and during his efforts to find out why, he begins to feel that he has been given a second chance at life...



  • Katharine Ross

    When sweet Violet moves to the woods, all her neighbors come visiting with yummy gifts.  Together they make a delicious dinner in this charming cumulative story ideal for preschoolers.  In a distinctive style that has an incredibly wide appeal, J...



  • Sally Stewart

    Londoner Francesca Campbell finds more than she bargained for in the remote Hebridean Island of Cullin, when she chaperons American travel writer Tod Harriman on a research trip for his latest tourist guide - and also helps him trace his family roots...



  • Sharony Andrews Green

    In a mixture of exuberant full-color drawings and short stories, the author celebrates the spirit, strength, and kinship of the African-American women who have affected her life, from grandmothers to girlfriends to imaginary doppelga+a5ngers. T...



  • Jacqueline Diamond

    Daddy by Chance Seven years ago, a masked and spellbinding stranger at a costume party swept Tara Blayne away for a night of dreamlike passion. Her son, Harry, was the very real result. Harry was definitely not your usual kid. His gift for maki...



  • Lucy Gordon

    "Daniel Raife was devoted to Phoebe, his teenage daughter. He'd brought her up single-handedly, and he wanted her to be a lawyer. But Phoebe dreamed of being a model. Lee Meredith knew all about being sixteen and headstrong -- she had eloped....



  • Anne LeMieux

    When Mary Ellen's best friend, Justine, returns from a year in Paris obsessed with her appearance and with food, Mary Ellen believes that Justine may have an eating disorder and must decide whether to ignore the problem or tell someone Justine is hea...



  • Jane Peart

    Craig Cavanaugh opened his briefcase and drew out the folder containing the manuscript. It was getting dark when he finished reading. No question, he thought, Kitty Traherne can write. Her face came back into his mind. He saw the pain in her eyes, he...



  • Eric Van Lustbader / Eric Lustbader

    Former New York City police officer Lew Croaker faces the most daunting choice of his life--whether to kill a man to provide his niece with the kidney she desperately needs, or hunt down the man behind the evil scheme. Reprint....



  • Amanda Ashley

    HEART OF DARKNESS In all his four hundred years, Rayven had never met a woman like Rhianna McLeod. She is a vision of light, or warmth, of everything he is not -- nor can ever be. Doomed to live forever in darkness and solitude, he knows all too ...



  • Elyse Guttenberg

    A young orphan drifting in the sea in an open boat, Allanaq is taken in by the tribe of the Real People, where he grows up and marries only to leave for the tribe of the Seal People, where he and his wife learn the ancient arts of magic. Original....



  • David Wingrove

    In the spring of 2232, hopes for a more humane world become manifest in the red-roofed houses of "China on the Rhine." There, Emily Ascher, once a freedom fighter, lives as Mama Em, mother to the orphans of a war-devastated land.

    But unto the ...



  • Margaret Chittenden

    For Charlie, managing Chaps, with its veritable menagerie of eccentric patrons, is one adventure after another. Especially when Zack Hunter, a former television heartthrob who's just too good-looking for his own good, decides to run for political off...



  • John Wells

    Hired by Bernie D'Angelo to find his brother, private eye Frank Sweeney traces Nick D'Angelo to Atlantic City, where he finds the missing brother burned to death and embarks on a desperate search for a killer...



  • A.J. Orde

    "Jason [is] a thoroughly engaging multidimensional character, whom readers will look forward to meeting again."
    --Publishers Weekly

    When Jason and his wife, Grace, find the remains of a young girl beneath the porch of their beautiful new ho...



  • James Sallis

    Mulholland Books takes pleasure in restoring to print an acclaimed novel of espionage and suspense by the author of Drive. David (as he's currently known) was a member of an elite corps of spies trained during the coldest days of the Cold War. For al...



  • Elizabeth George

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “One of George’s best . . . insightful, tense, and compassionate.” -- Entertainment WeeklyBalford-le-Nez is a dying seaside town on the coast of Essex. But when a member of the town’s small but growing Asian...



  • Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

    JACEN and JAINA When the Empire died, they were born--a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia have grown strong with the Force, thwarting the evil Nolaa Tarkona and destroying the Emperor's plague. Now, with th...



  • Keith Ablow

    Frank Clevenger is a forensic psychiatrist who hates authority, fears intimacy, uses sex as an anesthetic, is tortured by his professional mistakes, and can't free himself from the shadows of a brutal, alcoholic father and an absent, unfeeling mother...



  • Millie Criswell

    He was desperate for revenge With a heart of stone, former Texas Ranger Rafe Bodine set out across an unforgiving land to hunt the outlaw who murdered his family. Tortured by grief and guilt, he vowed there would be no jail cell for the killer, no s...



  • Kit Dee

    Even imprisoned and bound in chains, the magnificent Apache warrior is a fearsome sight -- yet as a doctor, Aurora Spencer cannot let his wounds go untended. And when she touches his powerful body and looks into his proud eyes, she is jolted by a con...



  • Arthur Hailey

    A death row confession sparks an investigation that will tear Miami apart in this “engrossing thriller” from the #1 New York Times"bestselling author (Booklist). Detective-Sergeant Malcolm Ainslie, a former Catholic priest, is about to sta...



  • Jeff Torrington

    The Devil's Carousel is a magical tour on the floor of the Centaur Car Company automobile plant. It is a place peopled by bizarre and memorable characters - Tombstone Telfer, who believes smiling causes cancer; Curly Brogan, the militant shop steward...



  • Mikhail Bulgakov

    After a long period of suppression, Milhail Bulgakov was discovered in the West in 1967 with the publication of his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita. Diaboliad and Other Stories is the only complete translation of his first collection of sh...




  • Iain Smyth

    Whoosh! Splash! Chug-chug! Brrrrrm! Dig in with the workers and their trusty backhoe as they fix a broken water pipe! Little fingers can pull the tabs, lift the flaps, and turn the dials to flash the lights, drill through the concrete, and dig with t...



  • Clarence Major

    A quietly influential force in African American literature and art, Clarence Major makes his Penguin Classics debut with the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of Dirty Bird Blues The PRH Audio book of Dirty Bird Blues by Clarence Major won a 2022...



  • Beth Nadler

    The only survivor of a plane wreck in the jungle, George is raised by apes, but at twenty-six years old, George finally comes face-to-face with humans when Ursula accidentally happens upon him during one of her safaris. Original. Movie tie-in....



  • Helen Cannam

    Home from the battlefields of Flanders to claim his inheritance, a young Catholic nobleman, Ludovick Milburn, finds an England on the brink of Civil War. the last uneasy days of peace, awash with rumour and apprehension,serve merely to deepen the est...



  • Richard P. Henrick

    During a routine training exercise near the Bahamas, the U.S.S. Lewis and Clark mysteriously vanishes and then reappears minutes later, wallowing in the gentle swells of the Pacific, halfway around the world, with only one incoherent sailor on board....




  • Judy Mercer

    It’s midnight and Ariel Gold has just arrived on Kiawah Island, a few miles south of Charleston, North Carolina. She’s come to her grandfather’s home for a break from LA … from gridlock and drive-by shootings and tremors … and from a proble...



  • Kat Martin

    previously released under title: Lover's Gold May 1991 Publisher: Diamond Books ISBN: 1557735050 ISBN13: 9781557735058 When a hired gunman came to her small Pennsylvania town, Ela...



  • Gwynne Forster

    She has to choose between her secret and a chance at love… Teacher Jeannetta Rollins is about to lose something infinitely precious…her eyesight. Only surgeon Mason Fenwick has the skills to perform the delicate operation to remove the tumor t...



  • Bonnie Bryant

    The Saddle Club girls are participating in a new kind of horseback activity -- endurance riding. They'll have to condition their horses and themselves for the grueling contest if they plan to make it across the finish line. But an annoying rider name...



  • John E. Heymer

    In this text, Heymer, a retired police officer, looks at spontaneous human combustion (SHC). He tells of how he once investigated a case of what he remains convinced was SHC and how this led to him delving into possible causes and the widespread sile...



  • Robert Elmer

    In 1868, after their father is wrongfully convicted and deported on the last prison ship to Australia, twelve-year-old Patrick and the rest of the McWaid family determine to stay together and follow him to the far-off continent...



  • Linda Needham

    THE DARKEST HEART His looming form blocks the firelight. His voice is like midnight fog, shivering along her skin. Yet Felicity Mayfield must marry hard, cold Hunter Claybourne, or go to debtor's prison. Boldly, she proposes a bargain to the wealthy...



  • Mark Jacobson

    In this magical jet-fueled saga, a Hollywood actor is granted a new face--and gets more than he bargained for. By virtue of his unique face, Taylor Powell is the greatest lover in Hollywood history. But he's sick of being "The Face, " so, after mirac...



  • Michael Slade

    When a shadowy assassin sets his sights on the elite members of Canada's Royal Mounted Police, two investigators finds themselves up against a demonic killer with ties to the occult. By the author of Ripper. Original....



  • Michael Walsh

    "JFK assassination buffs will enjoy bushwhacking their way through this labyrinthine debut…Walsh orchestrates a gripping tale of the horrors that were set in motion the day a president was murdered." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY In this powerful debut no...



  • James Koeper

    An international thriller follows John Sarikov, a New York journalist, on the trail of a vast conspiracy involving a Nazi concentration camp, the Kremlin, Russian criminals in New York, and a rogue policeman. Original....




  • Don Pendleton

    EYE OF THE STORM Advanced electronic and space-based surveillance capabilities enable the ultrasecret operations force of Stony Man Farm to monitor a volatile international climate. Now a storm is brewing in the Pacific, and the field commandos move...



  • Clark Carlton

    A city holds its breath.

    A terrorist planted a bomb somewhere under Los Angeles--just before he was frozen alive!

    To locate the bomb and stop the blast, supercop Sean Archer must literally trade faces with his archenemy, using sophisticated la...



  • Tony Gibbs

    Harbormaster Neal Donahoe and U.S. Coast Guard Lieutenant Tory Lennox investigate several related crimes, including the case of a local painter who was blinded by acetone and the death of an ambulance driver...



  • Nancy Springer

    The art of storytelling and the power of a mother’s love imbue this feminist fantasy novel -- a contemporary riff on the tale of the frog prince   Once upon a time there was a middle-aged woman whose husband dumped her the month after their tw...



  • Wayne Barton; Stan Williams


    Young Ethan Fairchild and his childhood friend, David Stuart, are heading for Oregon in ox-drawn covered wagons to make lived for themselves. between the two is beautiful Jessica Thorne, daughter of the train's strict leader. The pursuit of Jessi...



  • Tess Mallory
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    Four stories of fairy-tale romance include "MacBroom Sweeps Clean" by Emma Craig, "The Fairy Bride" by Tess Mallory, "The Trouble with Fairies" by Pam McCutcheon, and "Whatever You Wish" by Amy Elizabeth Saunders. Original....



  • Caroline Burnes

    The man had a way with cats -- and with women Animal trainer Brak Brunston was reputed to have a mystical link with his animals -- a connection so strong that even Ashley Curry felt its power the very first time she laid eyes on the man. When Bra...



  • Linda Shertzer

    Even the most sheltered heart can't hide from love... CALLIE Her aunt's death left her a farm to run--and no farmhands to help her... HARDEN Intelligent and proud, lie was looking for a job, not a handout... Callie knew that her do...



  • Melita Baker

    Laura Kearnan finds out that the woman she's always known as her mother is, in fact, her aunt. Her real mother, believed to have died in World War II, went to live on a remote island off the coast of Australia and has died only recently. Laura flies ...



  • P. MacFearson

    Buddy Sanders has been zapped fifty years back in time -- to take over the body of Shadyside’s greatest baseball player ever. But Buddy has a problem: He knows everyone on his team dies in a horrible accident after the championship game.If Buddy ca...



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

    The fate of one god hinges on the death of another -- and the bravery of a rag-tag band of adventurers -- in this classic Harpers novelWhen Joel became a priest of the new god Finder, he knew it meant forfeiting the honor and security of his position...



  • Justine Dare

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  • Chuck Carlock

    Chuck Carlock volunteered to become a helicopter pilot in August 1966, convinced that by the time he finished training, the Vietnam War would be over. Little did he know that he would see some of the war's most intense action, including the Tet offen...



  • Laurel Collins

    SHE WAS CALLED THE FIREBRAND... Caroline Harlowe is determined to have the two things men bare told her she cannot -- a voice, and the freedom to use it. Fervently committed to the abolition of slavery, she becomes one of the first women students at...



  • Shirley Kennett

    The room pulses with electronic life. His mind on overload, he activates the computer program that alters vital patient statistics -- and kills them, one by one... A busy St. Louis hospital uses its computer to issue medical orders for its patient...



  • Martin H. Greenberg

    A collection of original tales of contact between humans and extraterrestrials ranges from a military conspiracy to keep the public in the dark about such visits to an ancient Egyptian's brush with an interstellar empire. Original....



  • Peter Lance

    It happens every day in the City. Gas is poured. A match is lit. Buildings, bodies, and dreams go up in flames. Fire Marshal Eddie Burke, Jr., walks among the wreckage. A different kind of detective for a different kind of crime... A fire rages in...



  • John Briley

    Under the direction of the Israeli secret service, a beautiful American spy marries a rich Saudi, but when the Mossad calls her to action, she is torn between duty and a new-found love for her husband....



  • Lee Wilkinson

    It all started with a kiss... Bel was planning to marry Roderick, but then Andrew Storm, a complete stranger, turned her life upside down. Andrew skillfully and masterfully seduced Bel in ways she's only imagined in her dreams. He was a fir...



  • John Legg

    Jacques Maxwell, the illegitimate son of a slave owner and one of his slaves, runs away, ends up fighting in the war of 1812, and then signs on with the Missouri Fur Company, a decision that leads to many more adventures on the western frontier. Orig...



  • Kathleen Harrington

    BY DREAMS ENCHANTED A Cheyenne princess of mixed blood, Jennifer "Morning Rose" Elkheart eagerly accompanies her senator grandfather on his goodwill tour abroad -- dazzling London's high society with her vivacious charm and beauty. But t...



  • Jon Berson

    FBI agent Jennifer Szczymanski and train enthusiast Larry McBryde must overcome their initial suspicion of each other to track down a saboteur whose next target is one of the longest railway tunnels in North America...



  • Jessica Matthews

    Adopting a baby wasn't easy. Dr. Tristan Lockwood couldn't believe that he was offering to help Bethany Trahern adopt her much loved friend's orphaned baby, Daniel ... she was usually so nervous and inefficient around Tristan. But when ...



  • Phyllis Karas

    Twelve-year-old Benjy's life has changed since the tragic fire at his mother's animal shelter that had killed two greyhounds, and while he investigating a research clinic that he suspects of the arson, he realizes there are many sides to every story....



  • Lucy Gordon

    THE WOMAN HE COULDN'T REMEMBER Not long ago, Justin Hallwood had been a hard-driving, big-city executive. Now he was inexplicably drawn to the little village of Haven -- especially to Sarah Conroy, a lovely single mother with an adorable baby so...



  • Paul Cook

    When a bizarre epidemic threatens the inmates of the twenty-first-century labor camp run by planet Earth on the distant planet of Ra, one man's search for a cure leads him to uncover a colossal conspiracy. Original....



  • James F. David

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  • Sylvia Andrew

    HER ONLY TEMPTATION! Francesca Shelwood is mortified when Marcus Carne reappears in her life -- he stole the most magical, illicit kisses from the young, innocent Francesca! And she swore never to forgive him after being punished for her "want...



  • Julie Taylor

    Her name is Abbie. She is nineteen and she has had it with guys. Especially the wrong guys. 'Cause that's all she ever seems to meet. Oh, she likes guys just fine -- and they are kind of necessary, in a Mother Nature sort of way -- but she is just ov...



  • Paul Lindsay

    An Ebola-type virus unleashed at Disney World. Random car bombings on interstate highways. Children's medicine bottles laced with poison. All the work of a demented but brilliant terrorist determined to blackmail the White House and bring the U.S. go...



  • Jane Sughrue Giberga

    Crissy and her friends live the good life in Manhattan, as they all come from wealthy families and have access to the best places in town, butt when murder strikes and one of their friends dies, Crissy realizes what really counts in life....



  • Joan Hess

    YOU'LL DIE LAUGHING If you love to be skewered by rapier wit or prefer punch lines with your police procedurals, this delightful collection of screwball mystery stories will get you where you giggle. Fifteen of today's best writers gang up to make...



  • William Harrington

    For over twenty-five years, Columbo has been the most popular , and persistent, detective on television, drawing millions of viewers a week. William Harrington's compelling new novel pits the famous TV detectives against one of the most brilliant and...



  • Julie Ellis

    Susan didn't know if she believed in ESP. Greg, her new husband, made light of it. Yet ever since the plane had touched down in Geneva, Kathy, her six-year-old daughter, had been filled with terror, saying her mother would die if they stayed in Switz...





  • Elizabeth Bevarly

    DO OPPOSITES ATTRACT? They must, since years ago, the only thing high school freshman Georgia Lavender had in common with rough-and-tumble orphan Jack McCormick was the mutual wish to get Georgia out of the clutches of her controlling father. Geor...



  • Marcia Evanick

    He wasn't looking for trouble, but suddenly there she was... Levi Horst groaned with pleasure and frustration as he caught a whiff of Georgia De Witt's seductive perfume! His gorgeous employer was a delectable distraction, but he had no business f...



  • John Whitman

    Hoole, Tash, and Zak are in trouble. They've ruined one too many of the Empire's twisted experiments, and they're on the run from ultra-evil mad scientist Borborygmus Gog.



    They go to Nespis 8, an abandoned space station. There are rum...



  • M.T. Coffin

    Max offers to help two odd scientists who want to clone his brain, but after the procedure, his brain is transferred to a robot's body, and Max, now trapped inside a robot's body, must find a way to get his brain back into his human body. Original....



  • Alfred Coppel

    Threatened by an interstellar menace from beyond the galaxy, the great Goldenwing ship, Gloria Coelis, with her crew of Wired starmen and cats, heads to the advanced planet Yamato to enlist the aid of the greatest military power in the human galaxy. ...




  • S. Andrew Swann

    Psychologist Richard Brandon's recurring visions of a fantasy realm called Midland leads to forays into alternate worlds, in which four of his alter egos are enlisted by wizards in a struggle against evil. Original....



  • Rebecca Sinclair

    For the past six years, the residents of Nowhere, California have tolerated Lucy Hubbard as their self-appointed "lawwoman. " She stepped into her father's shoes with duty and determination--ignoring the skeptical whispers of the townsfolk. But these...



  • Cherie Bennett; Jeff Gottesfeld

    Coming back to New York to escape her former boyfriend, Harley, Lisha takes a job as an intern at the TV talk show Trash, but she soon realizes that Harley has followed her, calling her on the phone, sending frightening notes, and threatening...



  • Patricia O'Brien

    HER DREAM OF A PEACEFUL LIFE IS SHATTERED... Newly divorced and hoping to recapture a little of the security she knew as a child, radio talk show host Rachel Snow is buying the Chicago house she was raised in. But Rachel's illusion of safety ends...



  • Stephen R. Lawhead

    Drought, plague, and war have left the Isle of the Mighty battered and its heart, the beloved Arthur, grievously injured--until a secret relic is brought before the dying King; a Holy Grail that heals his wounds and restores his vigor. But soon ev...



  • Peter Prince

    "On St. Valentine's Day, 1865, the paddle steamer Laurentia, Captain Donald McDonough commanding, left the Inman Line wharf in East Boston bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Liverpool. Her sailing day was a Tuesday as usual. . . . ""

    A s the ...



  • Frederick Forsyth

    Collects some of the best short stories about aviation by this century's greatest writers, including H. G. Wells, Edgar Allen Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Len Deighton, J. G. Ballard, and Richard Bach. Reprint....



  • Beverly Lewis

    It's St. Patrick's Day, but Jimmy doesn't want to participate in the silly customs. Who will win in this brother-sister tug-of-war? Ages 7-10. Cul-de-sac Kids book 14....



  • Earl Faine

    An American Revolution tale about what happened to Ethan Allen during and after the time he captured Fort Ticonderoga back from the British, following his arrest and imprisonment by the British and attempts to return to America...



  • Elizabeth Harbison

    GREEN CARD WEDDING The only way nanny Maggie Weller could remain in the country was by marrying her hardheaded boss, who was exactly the kind of irresistible bachelor she needed to avoid. But she would do anything to ensure his little girl's happi...



  • Alison Pollet

    Tara Lee wants nothing more than to be a successful actress--and to spend the rest of her life with Lance Michaels, her boyfriend and lead guitarist of the hottest band in town. So when Tara lands a role on a major soap opera, it seems as if all her ...




  • Monica Quill

    When a serial killer begins stalking the streets of suburban Chicago near the convent of Sister Mary Teresa Dempsey, the enterprising nun turns sleuth and begins putting together the clues to help police detective Richard Moriarity find the killer....



  • Wendy Hornsby

    Investigative filmmaker Maggie MacGowen's past catches up with her when Vietnamese expatriate Khanh Nguyen asks for help in finding a man. Maggie's only link with the Vietnamese community is the one person she won't touch with a ten-foot pole--her ex...



  • Pamela Burford

    Capturing Lizzie was easy... Caleb Trent told himself that kidnapping Elizabeth Lancaster was for her own good. Besides, his little brother's last wish was for him to take care of the woman. As a rogue ex-commando, Caleb had no trouble "rescuing" ...



  • Trish Jensen

    Darcy's devilishly determined decree: The goal: To rid her family's company of all interlopers! The plan: To learn the business from the ground--oops!--the bottom up! The problem: An outrageously sexy stuffed shirt who stood in her way! Darcy...



  • Robin Wells

    RUNAWAY BRIDE A teary-eyed bride in a long, white getup and veil was on Luke O'Dell's property--with no husband in sight. Uh-oh! Runaway bride on her honeymoon alone at his Lazy O Dude Ranch! Luke knew too well what happened when he comforted a s...



  • Jasmine Cresswell; Margaret St. George

    AS SHE SEES IT. AS SHE SEES IT. BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY! DEV'S STORY, CATHY'S STORY. HE SAID -- Exotic and romantic presentations left his audience begging for more. And Devlin Gilpatrick's moneymaking TV show proved his formula was a winner....



  • Vicki Lewis Thompson

    He left a trail of broken hearts behind him... Mike Tremayne had come home. After eight years of drifting, he was finally ready to face beautiful Beth Nightingale, the woman who'd haunted his dreams since the night he left her. But running into Be...



  • Leah Hager Cohen

    Like Kaye Gibbons' Charms for the Easy Life and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, Cohen's hauntingly poignant story deals with remarkable women bonded by strength, loss and love. Told in the lyrical and captivating voice of eleven-year-old Mole, HEA...



  • Sara Jarrod

    Laura materialized first, floating into the room and settling near the empty fireplace. She was lovely, like a porcelain doll... "Welcome to Bliss House." Before Jill could find her voice to reply, an imposing gentleman appeared at Lau...



  • Aimee Thurlo

    Out of the fire... He'd saved her from the flames, but a was Sheriff Gabriel Blackhorse's own heat Lanie Matthews feared. The first time she looked into his night-dark eyes she felt a stirring of recognition, as though she'd come home. But Lanie w...




  • Muriel Jensen

    Love was just one life-threatening episode after another. Celeste Huntington is a murderer. Reporter Rob Friedman is determined to prove it before she can hurt anyone else. By default, he's now protector of a woman who'd rather throw herself in fr...



  • Don Pendleton

    RETURN FIRE A paramilitary fringe group linked to acts of right-wing terrorism has come under Mack Bolan's lethal assault. One leader is down, but the other. a hard-core mercenary, escapes the firelight in Idaho and regroups with an arms-smuggling...




  • Steven Saylor

    ANCIENT HISTORY HAS NEVER BEEN SUCH A MYSTERY... It is Ancient Rome, and Gordianus the Finder has a knack for finding trouble. Stalking about the city's twisting trails looking for clues and fording bodies, Gordianus has had his share of misadvent...



  • Richard Llewellyn

    The international-bestselling winner of the National Book Award and the basis for the Academy Award"winning film directed by John Ford.   Huw Morgan remembers the days when his home valley was prosperous, verdant, and beautiful -- before the m...



  • Suzanne Weyn

    In an effort to become "cool," Michelle changes her name, carries a guitar, and hangs out with "alternative" kids, until she realizes that she has begun lying to her friends and must decide who she really is. Original....



  • Suzanne Matson

    A moving first novel about the power of friendship to change lives, that will remind readers of Anne Tyler and Alice Hoffman. Renata, a waitress, has left her boyfriend Bryan without telling him he is about to become a father. She drives cross-countr...



  • Amanda Browning

    A daring deception... This time Natasha Larsen's identical twin sister has gone too far. She's abandoned her fiance, Chase Calder, while he's recovering from an accident! So what else can Natasha do but stay by Chase's bedside? ...



  • Carolyn Keene

    Investigating the mysterious death of photographer Gary Friedman, who died after a suspicious fall, Nancy covers the story for the Wilder Times while trying to work out her relationship with Jake. Original....



  • M. Scott Peck

    The author of The Road Less Traveled considers the spiritual journey of the soul after death in a fable that addresses the principles of faith, community, and finding a place in the afterlife. Reprint."...



  • R.D. Lawrence

    In the spring of 1983, award-winning field biologist, R.D. Lawrence, traveled to Michigan's Upper Peninsula to live among and observe a captive pack of untamed wolves. The result is an extraordinary look inside the society of a much-maligned, much-pe...



  • Antoinette Wrighton

    An orphan since the age of five, eighteen-year-old Iliani has led a sheltered life at Lourds Keep, under the guardianship of her father's old friend Edouard. Iliani sees her future in her marriage to Edouard's sun, certain it would he her father's wi...



  • Stephen Frey

    David Mitchell, fast-rising portfolio manager at the exclusive Sagamore Investment Managing Group, has just been handed his future on a golden platter. If all goes according to plan, a struggling plane-manufacturing company will win a coveted governm...



  • Celeste Hamilton

    YOUNG AND RECKLESS Neighbors in White Creek, Georgia were scandalized when local "bad girl" Spring De Witt ran off to marry her childhood sweetheart, John Nelson, the handsome scion of a well-to-do family. Wagging small-town, tongues whispered tha...