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  • The Angel Chronicles, Volume 3

    Nancy Holder

    "She's stronger than any Slayer you've faced. Force won't get it done. You gotta work from the inside. To kill this girl...you have to love her." For Buffy the Vampire Slayer, birthdays aren't all parties and cake -- hers tend to involve a life-or...

  • State of Siege

    Jeff Rovin

    Driven by greed, a group of U.N. peacekeeping soldiers becomes involved in activities on the wrong side of the law. When their tour of duty ends., the mayhem begins. The rogue soldiers - outfitted with stolen U.N. arms and ammunition devise a shockin...

  • Thunderhead

    Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child

    RUMBLES OF THE PAST On an abandoned Santa Fe ranch a young archaeologist finds a letter written sixteen years ago yet, mysteriously, mailed only recently. In it her father, long believed dead, hints at a lost city of gold that will make him famous-a...

  • Double Helix: Quarantine

    John Vornholt

    Like intertwining filaments of human and alien DNA, a ruthless campaign of revenge has threaded its way through the galaxy, touching billions of sentient beings -- and changing forever the life of Lieutenant Thomas Riker. Tom Riker, an identical dup...

  • Double Helix: Red Sector

    Diane Carey

    Like the biological weapons they employ, a sinister conspiracy has spread across the Delta Quadrant and across many years of Starfleet History. Now the mysterious menace surfaces again--to strike at the heart of the Romulan Empire. An artificial v...

  • Hard Merchandise

    K.W. Jeter

    Feared and admired, respected and despised, Boba Fett enjoys a dubious reputation as the galaxy's most successful bounty hunter. Yet even a man like Boba Fett can have one too many enemies.... When Boba Fett stumbles across evidence implicating Pr...

  • The Price You Pay

    Ashley McConnell

    In order to escape total annihilation, the people of M'kwethet pay homage to the evil forces of Apophis by providing their best and strongest specimens as host bodies to the Goa'uld for their young; when Colonel Jack O'Neill and his SG-1 team are str...

  • Starfighters of Adumar

    Aaron Allston

    The X-wing fighter pilots have earned their reputation as the Rebel Alliance's ultimate strike force by overwhelming enemies with their rapid-fire assaults. But now they are about to embark on a diplomatic mission that will prove to be even more haza...

  • Vulcan's Heart

    Josepha Sherman; Susan Shwartz

    2239. Now a diplomat for the United Federation of Planets, Spock agrees to a bonding with Saavik, his former protégé and an accomplished Starfleet officer in her own right. More than a betrothal but less than a wedding, the sacred Vulcan rite is at...

  • The Borders of Life

    G.A. Kathryns

    In the spellbinding tradition of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Borders of Life captures the soul of a small town on the edge of reality, where nightmares shimmer in and out of focus--and the supernatural is just a step beyond......

  • Acorna's People

    Anne McCaffrey; Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

    "WELCOME HOME, LINYAARI CHILD!" With the help of her "uncles" and the thousands of humans who love and admire her, Acorna has found her true people, the peaceful, telepathic Linyaari. But Acorna still has much to do before she can enjoy her new ho...

  • The Alien Years

    Robert Silverberg

    It Was The Worst of Times...

    Fifteen feet tall, the Entities land in cities across Earth. Ignoring humankind, they wall themselves in impenetrable enclaves, enslaving a few willing collaborators with their telepathic ...

  • By Blood Alone

    William C. Dietz

    PART HUMAN. PART ALIEN. ALL HERO. In a Ton gone ax, Colonel Bill Booly, with his mixed-blood and by-the-book attitude, is a misfit. So when he steps on some important toes, the brass is quick to make him pay. His punishment: assignment to the ...

  • Centaurus

    David G. Hartwell

    An original anthology of works from writers living down-under includes pieces by Peter Carey, Terry Dowling, Rosaleen Love, Sean McMullen, George Turner, Lucy Sussex, Greg Egan, Phillippa C. Maddern and A. Bertram Chandler. 15,000 first printing....

  • The Change

    John Peel

    These growing pains are...monstrous.

    Thirteen-year-old Lucas Wright is hiding out for his life. The space research station he and his family live on has been invaded by a dangerous alien. One by one each member of the station team has disappea...

  • Corporate Mentality

    Steven Piziks

    In the sequel to Company of Mind, Lance Michaels is sent out to reprogram a rogue hive of microscopic nanobots before a disaster can occur, only to discover that the hive is under the control of a psychotic child with plans to send the nanobo...

  • Cross the Stars

    David Drake

    THE LONG WAY HOME Hammer's Slammer Don Slade is coming home to the planet Tethys, to his son and the woman he loves. But the space between is dark and cold. And the stars he must pass shine their light on planets which beckon to the weary traveler...

  • Destiny's Shield

    Eric Flint; David Drake

    EVIL FROM BEYOND TIME The Malwa Empire squats like a toad across 6th century India, commanded by ruthless men with depraved appetites. The thing from the distant future that commands them is far worse. AN ADVISOR WITHOUT A BODY Those who oppose ...

  • Grotesque

    Ellen Steiber

    Stone Cold

    A serial killer is stalking the city, slashing his victims' faces before killing them. But when the murderer is caught, he claims to have been possessed by the spirit of an ancient, malicious gargoyle--one he fe...

  • Lost and Found

    Greg Cox

    The X-Men--mutant protectors of a world that fears and hates them. The Avengers--Earth's mightiest heroes, the greatest super-team ever assembled. When the Scarlet Witch of the Avengers and Rogue of the X-Men all disappear under mysterious circumstan...

  • Moon Shots

    Peter Crowther

    In honor of the thirtieth anniversary of Apollo 11's landing on the moon, a collection of original science fiction tales explores the moon once again, in tales by Brian Stableford, Alan Dean Foster, Robert Sheckley, Brian Aldiss, Gene Wolfe, and othe...

  • Starfish

    Peter Watts

    A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They send a bio-engineered crew--people who have been altered to withstand the pressure and breathe...

  • Through Alien Eyes

    Amy Thomson

    Bound to the human race by a lifesaving Link and a sacred pledge of honor, two members of the alien Tendu species leave the safety of their homeland and board a spacecraft headed toward Earth. Isolated from humans because of their alien bodies, custo...

  • Tiger in Sky

    Sheila Finch

    In the year 2345, young heroes have been yanked from 1999 to battle an alien menace. Soon they must seek help from the more distant past....

  • Vampires of Vermont

    Mark Sumner

    An ace reporter for the Global Query, Savvy McKinnon is sent to Vermont to interview an alleged vampire, Count Yorga, but when the supposed immortal drops dead, after biting her on the arm, Savvy must uncover the truth before she herself beco...

  • With the Lightnings

    David Drake

    A FRIENDSHIP FORGED IN HELL! Daniel Leary is a lieutenant in the republic of Cinnabar Navy with no money and no prospects since he quarreled with his ruthless, politically powerful father. Adele Mundy is a scholar with no money and no prospects...

  • Child's Play

    David Malouf

    In a sunlit piazza on an April morning, women throw buckets of water over the cobbles and men deliver trays of pastry to trattorie. In a barren room above, a fanatic watches, engaged in the details of his life's most important project: the assassinat...

  • Cradle and All

    Zachary Alan Fox

    When strange accidents begin happening to their eight-month-old son Alex, Kate McDonald--a social worker--and her husband Paul--a deputy D.A.--are accused of child abuse and are plunged into a nightmarish world that forces Kate to confront dark secre...

  • Cruel Justice

    Patricia D. Benke

    Until Proven Innocent Deputy District Attorney Judith Thornton has a full-time job before she ever gets to work. Every day she struggles as a single parent and caregiver to her critically ill mother, giving all she can and still feeling guilty tha...

  • Edge of Honor

    Richard Herman

    Madeline Turner, the first female U.S. President, has already weathered global crises during the first months of her administration. But the balance of power has suddenly shifted dangerously and dramatically in Europe--the Russian government has fall...

  • Essential Saltes

    Don Webb

    Matthew Reynman, an Austin used bookstore owner and fireworks devotee, investigates the strange disappearance of his late wife's ashes, finding himself suddenly deeply involved in an unlikely criminal world....

  • First to Fight

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Ghost Dance

    Mark T. Sullivan

    World-weary documentary filmmaker Patrick Gallagher finds himself drawn to local police officer Andie Nightingale as a series of grisly, senseless murders threatens to unlock evil secrets from the past and to reveal a dark legacy for which a maniacal...

  • The Hunted

    Jerry Kennealy

    When a young immigrant girl witnesses a horrific murder, she barely escapes...with a vital piece of evidence. Investigating the crime is an intrepid female San Francisco police inspector who bucks the system when it suits her. Before long, the inspec...

  • If Looks Could Kill

    Elizabeth Cage

    The Spy Girls are hightailing it to Asia to scope out "Luscious" Lucien West, a hypnotically hot guru with a way-devoted following. Lucien and his young American recruits are turning the tiny depressed country of Kinh-Sanh into a land of peace and ha...

  • Italian Fever

    Valerie Martin

    Part romance, part gothic suspense story, this is the compelling tale of an American woman's awakening as she tumbles headlong into a mystery, art, and eros -- from the bestselling, award-winning author of Property.  • "Spellbin...

  • Killing Me Softly

    Nicci French

    Alice Loudon has it all: a devoted boyfriend, a marvelous circle of friends, a challenging job as a research scientist. Then one morning, on her way to work, she exchanges a lingering look with a man so devastatingly attractive he takes her breath aw...

  • Night Mares

    Manda Scott / M.C. Scott

    Dr Nina Crawford of the University of Glasgow's Veterinary College - driven, fanatically dedicated, a survivor - is one of the most respected equine surgeons in the country. But now she seems to be losing her grip, on her operating theatre, on he...

  • Night on Fire

    Diana Deverell

    NO DARKNESS TO HIDE IN A U.S. Foreign Service officer specializing in counterterrorism, Casey Collins is in Denmark to locate and recover missing Stinger missiles that are being offered on the black market. But a dead body deposited in her Copenha...

  • Psi/Net

    Billy Dee Williams; Rob MacGregor

    On November 12, 1995 the CIA issued a report admitting that military and intelligence services had used psychics for spying or "remote viewing". Project Stargate, as it was called, is the premise of this nerve-jangling thriller.

    Former Air For...

  • Redemption

    Howard Fast

    Finding a love that he has never known with much younger Elizabeth, a woman he saved from killing herself, seventy-eight-year-old Ike Goldman is stunned when she is arrested for her husband's murder, in an intricately woven tapestry of suspense, love...

  • Saint Errant

    Leslie Charteris

    The female of the species is supposed to be deadlier than the male.... Simon Templar is about to find out if that's true.

    In this collection of stories, the Saint encounters nine fascinating women. Whether they need help, to be avenged, or ...

  • Sea Devil

    Richard P. Henrick

    Renegade Admiral Igor Starobin leads a new submarine to penetrate and destroy a U.S. Navy base that is the strategic core of NATO's defense advantage. The formidable "Sea Devil" becomes locked in a desperate battle against the super attack sub USS "B...

  • Solar Eclipse

    John Farris

    Bruised and bleeding stuntwoman Shay Waco and her eleven-year-old daughter have just survived a car crash and a sixty-foot drop through a nest of conifers. They enter a lone house for help and instead find a family sitting around a dinner table--with...

  • Solstice

    David Hewson

    With the new millenium's arrival, the climate on Earth is getting progressively hotter, a phenomenon that is driving the population to near mass hysteria. For a man and a woman drawn into the upper echelons of a worldwide scientific search, the appar...

  • The Tesseract

    Alex Garland

    An intricately woven, suspenseful novel of psychological and political intrigue, The Tesseract follows the interlocking fates of three sets of characters in the Philippines: gangsters in a chase through the streets of Manila; a middle-class...

  • The Twelve

    Howard Kaminsky; Susan Kaminsky


    Rescued from the smoking ruins of an Arizona cult, twelve children return to normal lives. Five years later, they disappear. And a killing rampage stains the land with blood...

    There were four severed hands...they were paired and arranged ...

  • Victims' Choice

    Michael McClister

    In Victim's Choice, the spectacular first novel by Michael McClister, Joe Colby is a successful TV newscaster and a recent widower. When he loses his two children to a rapist-murderer, there is little that can be done to assuage his crippling grief--...

  • Water Marked

    Helen Elaine Lee

    A note in the mail announcing "He's been alive. He died last week," summons Sunday Owens from Chicago to her native town. It's been five years since she's seen her sister, Delta, but more draws her to their childhood home than a desire for reconcilia...

  • Before I Sleep

    Rachel Lee

    JUSTICE GONE WRONG Five years ago Carey justice was a young prosecutor who helped convict an innocent man. Today she's the hottest talk show host on radio and won't rest until he is cleared--no matter what it costs her. She has exactly three weeks...

  • The Bride's Secret

    Adrianne Lee

    He disturbed her dreams, her waking moments, with his looks, his touch... Nikki Navarro came to Chris Conrad's isolated cliff-top mansion in search of the truth about her parents. Instead, she found Chris, the new owner... a lover beyond her wilde...

  • Expose

    Laura Van Wormer

    Two years ago Sally Harrington abandoned the adrenaline rush of working for a Los Angeles magazine to return home to Castleford, Connecticut. Now she works for the local paper, chasing leads from Crazy Pete Sabatino, the town's conspiracy theorist, a...

  • Father, Lover, Bodyguard

    Cassie Miles

    CAPTIVE HEARTS: From hostages to prisoners of passion -- Held at gunpoint in a mysterious crime, three women are soon bound by desire to the men sworn to protect them at all costs... Amanda Fielding remembered nothing of the crime she was suspec...

  • Her Eyewitness

    Rita Herron

    Her Alibi... Blinded in the line of duty, police officer Collin Cash received a transplant to regain his eyesight -- and woke to a vision of murder. He alone knew that the beautiful woman accused of the crime was innocent -- but who would believe he...

  • Keeping Annie Safe

    Beverly Barton

    SHE WAS HIS WOMAN.... Dane Carmichael was the last of a dying breed -- a gentleman through and through. And he was the only man who could keep Annie Harden safe. From the moment he laid eyes on stubborn, beautiful Annie, he knew she would be his.....

  • One Summer Evening

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    ONE SUMMER EVENING, A RECKLESS ACT OF LOVE CHANGED HER LIFE FOREVER... Now, nine year later, Cassie Wortham has returned to Louisiana, to the lush home of her parents, to the roots left behind in the wake of desperate acts. She's been living a nig...

  • The Other Daughter

    Lisa Gardner

    WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW CAN KILL YOU In Texas a serial killer is executed, taking to his grave the identity of his only child. In Boston a nine-year-old girl is abandoned in a hospital, then adopted by a wealthy young couple. Twenty years later,...

  • Tall, Dark and Deadly

    Heather Graham

    MARNIE LIVED FOR PLEASURE. DID SHE DIE FOR IT, TOO? She was a high-powered attorney with beauty, brains, and a brand-new dream house. Men found her irresistible. Women called her out-of-control. And when Marnie Newcastle disappeared one fateful ni...

  • Wanted: Cowboy

    Kelsey Roberts

    TOO BOLD, TOO ARROGANT, TOO SEXY... Barbara Prather ranted on and on about her cowboy protector -- but she couldn't seem to get enough of him! Cade Landry had kidnapped her for "her own good" -- and once they were holed up on his Montana ranch, she ...

  • Birds of a Feather

    Allison Lane

    A Brush with Passion Clad in spectacles and plain dresses, Joanna Patterson would make no impression at all on Lord Sedgewick Wylie, if she didn't keep running into him ... literally. The great arbiter of fashion for London society, Sedge had t...

  • Fascination

    Judith A. Lansdowne
    in

    In Judith A. Landsdowne's story, Fascination is the only word to describe beautiful heiress Miss Priscilla Pritkin's emotion after her first encounter with the scoundrel, Lord Hawksworth. If spirit is what it takes to tame a black sheep, then the Haw...

  • The Fifth Proposal

    Juliette Leigh

    A PLUCKY HEIRESS CAUGHT BETWEEN SUSPICION...AND DESIRE With a gasp of dismay, Shelby read the letter informing her of her grandfather's grave illness. He had lived alone at Wychwood for years, with only his valet, his dog, and of course, the famou...

  • A Husband for Holly

    Kathryn Kirkwood

    LOVE'S SECOND SEASON Four years ago, one waltz with a handsome costumed "pirate" told Holly she'd met the love of her life. One kiss, and she promised to meet him the next afternoon for a romantic tet-a-tet,. But never did she see his face, for th...

  • Midnight Waltz

    Barbara Hazard

    An Invitation to the Dance...and More In the short time Constance Ames had been at Moreston House, the proper country miss had found herself bedeviled by the most unusual circumstances. First were the anonymous, threatening letters hinting at her ...

  • Miss Jesmond's Heir

    Paula Marshall

    UNCOVERING SECRETS Inspecting the property recently inherited from his great-aunt, Jess Fitzroy found a youth and two children playing cricket on his grounds. The "youth" was the widowed Mrs. Georgina Herron, but, in behaving like a stern papa...

  • Seduction

    Janice Bennett
    in

    In Janice Bennet's spicy story of Seduction, Miss Amanda Grieves will do anything to save her brother from debtor's prison, even deal with the infamous Lord Rivenhall. When she wagers her honor with the dashing peer, she loses her heart as well....

  • Siege of Hearts

    June Calvin

    An Unexpected Courtship Amanda Garfield's beloved sister Penelope was a well-known beauty, and would surely be the first to marry. So when handsome Lord Jack Maitland arrived for a shooting party, Amanda assumed he had come to woo her sister. ...

  • Temptation

    Jeanne Savery
    in

    Jeanne Savery's tale Temptation tells of Miss Tenacious Smythe, who believes that Lord Brant has taught her all she needs to know about rakes. Once the wickedly handsome nobleman sets his sights on the innocent young lady, Tenny learns that a true ra...

  • Aaron Lets Go

    Katherine Applegate

    They've all grown up together on a tiny island. They think they know everything about one another...but they're only just beginning to find out the truth. Aaron lets go and gets into a fight at Ben's party because he's so desperate to win Claire's ...

  • Hindenburg,1937

    Cameron Dokey

    "Anna, promise me..." Her grandfather never finished his last wish as he died clutching their tickets for a trans-Atlantic voyage of the Hindenburg. But Anna Becker is certain he would want her to take the tickets and leave Germany before her rut...

  • Legend of the Celtic Stone

    Michael Phillips

    When a legendary stone is stolen from Westminster Abbey, Great Britain is set astir. Both the IRA and the Scottish nationalists are suspected. Amid the uproar, young politician Andrew Trentham embarks on a personal quest for answers. But the more he ...

  • Waiting for Morning

    Karen Kingsbury

    "I'm afraid there's been a car accident..." As Hannah Ryan waits for her family to return home from a camping trip, she realizes she has everything going for her -- a husband other women admire, two charming teenage daughters, and a loving Christian...

  • Transfer of Power

    Vince Flynn

    On a busy Washington morning, the stately calm of the White House is shattered by a hail of gunfire. A group of terrorists has descended on the executive mansion and gained access by means of a violent slaughter of dozens of people. Through the quick...

  • Bliss Jumps the Gun

    Bob Sloan

    New York City homicide detective Lenny Bliss's biggest mistake wasn't bungee-jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge. The mistake was handing his gun to the previous jumper, a young Chinese girl: she's gone. Bliss's wife has a successful career as a stand-up...

  • Known Dead

    Donald Harstad

    The ambush exploded in an Iowa marijuana field. The weapons were high caliber. The pot was high grade. And the reporters said afterward: "We have two known dead...." Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman knew the dead all right: One was a small-time doper, th...

  • Malice Aforethought

    J.M. Gregson

    A body is found in Broughton Ash churchyard - male, middle-aged, well-dressed, but with no identification. Only one fact is certain - he was murdered. Superintendent John Lambert and Detective Sergeant Bert Hook are engaged in a battle of wills on th...

  • Outlaw Mountain

    J.A. Jance

    Alice Rogers, an elderly widow, is dead, found murdered in the Arizona desert. It's easy enough to pin the killing on the teens caught driving her car across the Mexican border, but Sheriff Brady isn't about to let it go at that. Alice was something ...

  • Shell Game

    Carol O'Connell

    On live television, a man dies during the re-creation of a legendary magic trick in Central Park. Millions of New Yorkers believe it was an accident-but two people know it was not. One is an aged magician in a private hospital in the northern corner ...

  • And the Groom Wore Tule

    Lynn Kurland
    in

    Scottish nobleman Ian Macleod falls asleep in a medieval dungeon --- and awakens in a room filled with long white dresses. Jane Fergusson longed to create great fashions, but instead toils in a bridal shop. Will their fateful meeting over dressmaker'...

  • A Bride Most Common

    Angie Ray
    in

    A time machine hurtled Lucy Taylor back in time to Regency England --- and into the middle of a wedding to a dashing gentleman! Could she change history to save her future, without falling in love with a handsome new husband?...

  • Broken Vows

    Cory Daniells

    IN A WORLD OF DANGER AND DARK ENCHANTMENT, THE MOST TREACHEROUS MAGIC IS DESIRE.... Trained in the arts of war and possessed of extraordinary healing gifts, Imoshen was one of the last of the legendary T'En, an ancient race who'd ruled Fair Isle ...

  • Bushwhacked Bride

    Eugenia Riley

    JUMPING JEHOSHAPHAT! YOU'VE SHANGAHIED THE NEW SCHOOLMARM!" Ma Reklaw bellowed at her sons and wielded her broom with a fierceness that had all five outlaw brothers running for cover; it didn't take a PH.D. to realize that in the Reklaw household...

  • The Candlelight Wish

    Janice Bennett

    The first in an enchanting new trilogy introduces Xanthe -- an irrepressible fairy godmother and friend to young hearts. All she needs to commence her spellcraft is the ripple of water in a mirrored bowl and a gigantic white cat named Titus... Xa...

  • The Con and the Crusader

    Maggie Shayne
    in

    Fleeing thugs, con man Jack McCain jumps into a well --- and into the past. Mistaken for a criminal, he's headed for prison, until he's freed --- with a wedding proposal! The widow Hawkins marries him to get help for her farm, but the attraction betw...

  • Conyn's Bride

    Ingrid Weaver
    in

    On the eve of her wedding, museum curator Alanna Moore is cataloguing antiquities, when suddenly a Celtic warrior appears --- claiming to be her long-lost betrothed! Can she listen to her heart, and remember a love that was destined to be?...

  • Daughter of Camelot

    Quinn Taylor Evans

    A SORCERER'S LEGACY Orphaned by the only mother she had ever known, the fiercely independent Rianne had grown to womanhood outside Camelot's circle of wealth and power--unaware that she was heiress to a legacy of magic forged in the mists of Avalon....

  • Eternally Yours

    Jennifer Baker

  • Hope Everlastin'

    Mickee Madden

    ALIVE WITH LOVE In any other place it would seem impossible. But within the enchanting walls of Baird House, Beth and her beloved Lachlan are together again--reunited in another time, and in an embrace not even death can sever Blessed with a second ...

  • Love Potion #9

    Claire Cross

    Italy, August 1420. A gypsy named Lilith sees her lover hanged for a crime he didn't commit. On the gallows, he swears to return to her. Convinced that one day he'll be reborn, she searches for a fabled elixir -- rumored to grant immortality....

  • Midnight on Julia Street

    Ciji Ware

    The sultry allure of New Orleans comes to dazzling life in this enthralling tale of romance and mystery that sweeps from the modern heart of the Big Easy back to the shimmering city of a century past. Reporter Corlis McCullough's search for the truth...

  • Shadow of the Hawk

    Julie Miller

    A DANGEROUS FIELD TRIP Sarah McCormick had one last shot at adventure. Resigned to the life of a spinster, the prim schoolteacher planned to lead five teenage girls to the shadowy isle of Tenebrosa. There, in a tropical paradise, they would study an...

  • A Willing Spirit

    Cynthia Sterling

    What's a lovely widow to do when her dearly departed refuses to depart? Pony Springs, Texas. 1855. It's been nearly a year since Tessa Bright's husband passed away. But Will Bright never went away--and even with the guidance of the spirited compan...

  • Big Easy Backroad

    Martin Hegwood

    Martin Hegwood brings Dixie grit and flavor to a novel of a Florida Gulf mob murder that twists faster than a back swamp road. After drowning in a barmaid's sea-green eyes, P .I. Jack Delmas agrees to track down her missing pal--only to find him m...

  • Hot Water

    Herman Weiss

    SET A COURSE FOR MISADVENTURE... Joe Chelsea and Josh Novick can't seem to settle into their roles as retired NYPD officers, much to their wives' dismay. Instead of relaxing under the Florida sun, they're reliving their days on the force--and growin...

  • McNally's Dilemma

    Lawrence Sanders

    After finding husband number two in a precarious position with an attractive young lady, Melva Williams pulls the trigger--and readily admits to the crime passionnel. To shield her gorgeous daughter from the press and paparazzi, she turns to her long...

  • Money to Burn

    Katy Munger

    Fanning the Flames Casey Jones is a take-no-prisoners female PI who wouldn't be caught dead whining over a lousy boyfriend or asking for help. She's too busy lifting weights, running off at the mouth and making doughnut runs for her overstuffed bu...

  • Umbrella Man

    Doug J. Swanson

    Poor Jack Flippo. It's just his luck to stumble across a guy like Marty Dufrain--a big talker who claims to be in possession of a few black-and-white frames of history. The grassy knoll, the motorcade, the Book Depository. And something more. Someth ...

  • Warrior Circle

    Robert Westbrook

    When Howard Moon Deer's girlfriend Aria storms from his cabin in the middle of the night, he just considers it another conflict in their tempestuous relationship. But when he finds her Jeep abandoned down the road with no sign of her nearby, his inst...

  • Coffin's Game

    Gwendoline Butler

    PLACES IN THE MIND A series of random terrorist acts have struck the heart of Commander John Coffin's Docklands area. The body of a dead woman, rendered unidentifiable by her killer, is at first believed to be that of Stella Pinero, Coffin's wife....

  • Murder in the Marais

    Cara Black

    Aimee Leduc, the half-French, half-American detective in Paris, is approached by a rabbi to decipher a fifty-year-old encrypted photograph and deliver it to an old woman in the Marais, the old Jewish quarter. When she does so, she finds a corpse on w...

  • Murder on the Yukon Quest

    Sue Henry

    Jessie and her team of dogs are competing in the toughest dog sled race in the world--the Yukon Quest. Alone in the vast white wilderness, she's suddenly facing a danger worse than anything Nature has to offer. A young novice racer she met at the sta...

  • Muscle Memory

    William G. Tapply

    WHEN A HUSBAND'S LIE... Attorney Brady Coyne has found his bar buddy Mick Fallon-former Detroit Pistons' star-brooding in his beer. His wife Kaye's just stunned him with a file for divorce, and she's taking him for everything. What Mick needs is a we...

  • Crime Zero

    Michael Cordy

    What if the plague of violent crime could be eradicated from the earth forever? What if the cure was more lethal than the disease? The death penalty is no deterrent. Prison reform has proven useless. With violent crime on a steady rise, a powerful ca...

  • The Cure

    Kip Langello

    Jodie Simms lives for two things: her job as one of television’s top investigative journalists and her father, Carl, who is slowly losing his mind to the scourage of Alzheimer’s disease. Almost beyond hope, the best Jodie can do is hold her fathe...

  • Hocus Corpus

    James Tucker

    As chief resident of surgery at Pittsburgh University Medical Center, Dr. Jack Merlin knows that patient fatalities are a fact of life. But when four people die after successful routine operations, he has cause for suspicion. The victims have nothing...

  • The Berenstain Bears in the Wax Museum

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Excitement comes to Beartown! It’s summertime and the cubs of Bear Country School are thrilled when Madame Bearsaud proposes to open her world-famous wax museum in Beartown. But some of the elder bears, especially Gramps, are skeptical of the c...

  • Case of the Stolen Baseball Cards

    James Preller

    Yeesh! Eddie brought his baseball cards to school and now they are missing. It's time for Jigsaw to step up to the plate. He's no rookie detective! Solving this case is sure to send Jigsaw and Mila straight to the Detectives' Hall of Fame....

  • Fangs for the Memories

    Bill Myers

    MADCAP MYSTERIES WITH A MESSAGE New Edition! with a note by the author. Why is there a coffin-shaped shadow in the basement of the old Zanker house? What's with the high-tech, fancy black limo? Giant bats, late-night robberies, black capes . . . coul...

  • Goyim

    David Rosenbaum

  • Money Troubles

    Elisabeth McNeill

  • Murder on Route 66

    Carolyn Wheat

    The legendary Route 66 becomes the scene for an original collection of mystery tales by Carolyn Hart, J. A. Jance, Barbara D'Amato, Les Roberts, John Lutz, Judith Van Gieson, Earlene Fowler, Michael Allen Dymmoch, Eleanor Taylor Bland, and other dist...

  • Nark

    John Burns

    Max Chard is despatched - in great discomfort - to a couple's secret hideaway to get the exclusive on how their evidence convicted members of a safe-deposit robbing gang. But once there he quickly realizes there is more to this particular story then ...

  • A New York State of Crime

    Barbara Paul
    in

    CLEAN SWEEP Fans of Barbara Paul’s taut procedurals featuring NYPD’s Marian Larch get an extra treat with this original short story spotlighting Larch’s companion, Curt Holland. His effective " if not always exactly legal " computer invest...

  • A New York State of Crime

    Dorian Yeager
    in

    LIBATION BY DEATH Dorian Yeager’s inimitable Vic Bowering is back, looking for an acting job but landing another mystery when she’s hired as a bartender after the regular loses the gig to his own untimely death. Strange things are happening at M...

  • A New York State of Crime

    Michael Jahn
    in

    MURDER ON FIFTH AVENUE A killer is stalking the elegant stores on Fifth Avenue in a wave of murder that puts Captain Bill Donovan on the most perplexing case of his career. The list of suspects is as glamorous as the crime scenes in this crisp and s...

  • Acts of Malice

    Perri O'Shaughnessy

    Amid the sparkling snow-swept mountains of Lake Tahoe, Nina Reilly has made a home, juggling the demands of her one-woman law practice and raising a teenage son alone. Now Nina has taken on a case that will threaten everything she holds dear, drawing...

  • The Prosecution

    D.W. Buffa

    A superstar defense attorney, Joseph Antonelli has made his reputation by winning at any cost, watching the wheels of justice turn, outguessing every turn and every lurch. Now he's come out of retirement to win again. Only, this time his job is not t...

  • Missing women & others

    June Spence

    Selected by E. Annie Proulx for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories of 1997, and winner of the Willa Cather Award, June Spence is one of the most original new voices in fiction today. In her collection of short stories, Spence offers us rare...

  • Without Stopping

    Paul Bowles

  • The Accidental Bride

    Jane Feather

    The tale of an awkward young woman perched reluctantly on the verge of marriage. Soon she finds herself truly falling in love with her intended, and in the process discovers a daring new attitude within herself. Three unconventional women take a...

  • All I Desire

    Thea Devine

    DECEIVED BY BEAUTY Alexander Deveney, the Earl of Mere, was on an undercover mission to ferret out secrets from his deceased brother's wife, an enemy to Queen and country, and a courtesan available to any man for a price. He fully expected the ...

  • Bedazzled

    Bertrice Small

    Determined to elope with a peer whose name has been blackened by his murderous brother, Lady India Lindley boards a ship bound for Italy with her intended. But when the vessel is taken captive by Ottoman pirates, the independent beauty becomes a slav...

  • Birdsong Road

    Mary Louise Colln

    The war Between the States has torn the small valley community apart, with residents' still holding allegiances to both sides of the conflict. Charity Morgan, too, has strong feelings, hating the Yankees for what they've done to her family and home-b...

  • Blue Moon

    Jill Marie Landis

    An innocent girl of nineteen, Olivia Bond is on the run from an ugly and dangerous past. She finds herself alone, lost deep in the frightening world of an Illinois swamp. Then, out of the mist, comes a man to save her. A reclusive loner, Noah LeCr...

  • Briar Rose

    Kimberly Cates

    Rhiannon Fitzgerald never knew her true heritage -- or if her talent for healing was bequeathed by fairy magic, as her father believed. The gentle lass who roamed the hills of Ireland knew only that she must help creatures in need. But her sweet, she...

  • Bride of Trouville

    Lyn Stone

    Wedded by force, bedded by will... SHE WAS ALL HE HAD EVER WANTED When Edouard Gillet, Comte de Trouville, wed the beauteous Lady Anne of Baincroft, he thought he had found his heart's desire. But was the passion he had willingly declared f...

  • A Cajun Dream

    Cherie Claire

    AN UNLIKELY PAIR Amanda Rose Richardson was compromised beyond repair! Fearing she'd become an old maid, she had thrown herself at the town rogue. Now she was standing in front of a priest pledging marriage to Rene Comeaux, a darkly handsome Ca...

  • Captor of My Heart

    Donna Valentino

    While ministering to the sick in the English countryside, a lovely young woman and her father are abducted by a dashing aristocrat loyal to the deposed Stewart king as part of his scheme to regain his family's honor and destroy Cromwell. Their de...

  • Conor

    Ruth Langan

    An Honorable Rogue... Gifted with a smooth tongue and a sharp blade, Conor O'Neil sought to avenge the hardships his people had endured. But while he played a risky game of politics and power, Emma Vaughn played an even riskier game still. An...

  • Enraptured

    Katherine Deauxville

    A SURPRISE INTRODUCTION The twelfth duke of Westermere was enjoying a peaceful drive until an Amazonian beauty with disheveled golden-brown curls tossed herself into his coach. That alone would not have flummoxed Sacheverel deVries, but when the str...

  • Every Little Thing About You

    Lori Wick

    THE FIRST MEETING BETWEEN SLATER RAWLINGS AND Liberty Drake could hardly be called ideal. As acting deputy of Shotgun, Texas, Liberty is simply enforcing the town laws. But Slater, a former Texas Ranger with a restless spirit, is surprised to find hi...

  • A Gentle Magic

    Emma Craig

    LABOR OF LOVE Cattleman Cody O'Fannin has never shied away from an adventure in his life, so when a high-pitched scream rings out across the harsh New Mexico Territory, he rides straight into the heart of danger, expecting to find a cougar or ...

  • Gunslinger

    Connie Mason

    He blew into Trouble Creek on a raw April wind, a fast gun for hire to the highest bidder. But when Chloe Sommers offered him a job protecting her herd, she had no idea Desperado Jones had a hidden agenda as deadly as his Colt .45. All she saw was a ...

  • Highland Promise

    Hannah Howell

    Eric Murray was the youngest of his brothers, determined to gain his rightful inheritance after thirteen years of bitter dispute with his father's family. Starting out alone to confront his tight-fisted kinsmen, he encountered a chestnut-haired beaut...

  • Kisses Sweeter Than...

    Jean Wilson
    in

    Jean Wilson's "KISSES SWEETER THAN..." sizzles with the crackling, down-home flavors of late 19th-century Texas. Reporter Laura Leigh Westbrook's assignment is to follow a new cookbook author. But instead of a Miss, the chef turns out to be downright...

  • The Knight of Rosecliffe

    Rexanne Becnel

    In the dangerous, passionate times of the Welsh Border Wars, when sworn enemies locked in battle discover love can be more dangerous than hate.... In the wildwood surrounding Rosecliffe Castle, Welsh rebels plot to destroy their English interloper...

  • Lissa's Groom

    Jill Henry

    HE LOST HIS PAST Marshall Jack Emerson awoke to find himself injured and in a strange bed with a beauty claiming to be his fiancee. How could he remember proposing to Lissa Banks if all he could recall was his first name? Nothing seemed right exc...

  • Lone Star

    Evelyn Rogers

    It was as forthright and independent as the women who braved the rugged land, and sunset-haired Kate Calloway was as feisty an example of the breed as Cord had ever seen. A Texas woman. He had not dealt with one in a long time, but he recognized the ...

  • Lone Wolf

    Loree Lough

    At the tender age of eighteen, cowboy Kent McCoy was sentenced to ten years hard labor for a crime he didn't commit. When his time ends, he finds himself without family, home, or a single reason to believe in a merciful God. Like a lone wolf, he head...

  • Long Way Home

    Wendy Corsi Staub

    When it comes to matters of the heart, you can always trust your friends... When Cira Valentino was turned away at Ellis Island and forced to return to Europe without her family, she never thought she'd ever set foot on American soil. But fate had...

  • Loving Linsey

    Rachelle Morgan

    TEMPTING FATE The most superstitious lady in Horseshoe, Texas, Linsey Gordon is mistakenly convinced that she has less than three months to live, and she's determined to do one last good deed before she passes on. But playing matchmaker for her ti...

  • Magic and Moonlight

    Sharon Pisacreta

    Salome Hall would do just about anything to win her fiance back--even if that meant leaving behind her teaching job and the safety of Black Horse, Missouri, and working in a traveling magic act. But her small-town upbringing had not prepared her for ...

  • Moonlight

    Miranda Jarrett

    As proprietor of the most fashionable shop in Boston, Amelie Lacroix knows all about creating the elegant style and glittering gowns her wealthy clients adore. But Amelie herself has no time for flirtatious games with eligible men - until a magical w...

  • The Passionate One

    Connie Brockway

    They are the Merricks, two brothers and a sister, restless, daring, proud. English by birth, they came to Scotland with their father to occupy McClairen lands. And there each would find a love as wild and glorious as the Highland isle they claimed as...

  • The Rancher's Wife

    Lynda Trent

    ABANDONED Elizabeth Parkins had been left in the wilderness, alone and destitute, by a man she'd promised to love, honor and obey. Now fate had led her to Brice Graham, who offered her fulfillment of all her dreams. But the price, she soon learn...

  • Sarah

    Theresa Michaels

    Hunted --- Haunted --- A Man In Torment, Rio Santee had sought shelter with widow Sarah Westfall. But he could only repay her kindness with turmoil, for danger stalked him and those he loved. And from the first night he'd held her, she'd made his Apa...

  • Secrets of the Night

    Jo Beverley

    1760's Yorkshire, England Young Rosamunde Overton is forced into a daring deceit when her elderly husband's inability to sire an heir threatens everyone she cares for. Fleeing a scandalous masquerade, she rescues an injured nobleman, who just migh...

  • The Soft Touch

    Betina Krahn

    A SOFTHEARTED BALTIMORE HEIRESS Lovely but disastrously tenderhearted Diamond Wingate has terrible trouble saying "No": to the poor and unfortunate who beg at her gates; to entrepreneurs with big plans and no money; and worse, to the silver-tongue...

  • Someday My Prince

    Christina Dodd

    THE PRINCESS MUST MARRY Princess Laurentia leads a fairy-tale life, attending glittering balls and wearing beautiful gowns. But after the ball is over, Laurentia finds herself getting into bed...alone. She dutifully agrees to choose a husband, but...

  • The Stargazer

    Michele Jaffe

    Bianca Salva is the brilliant and beautiful daughter of a renowned physician. Ian Foscari is a handsome aristocrat notorious for his romantic conquests. Worlds apart in the circles of society, they have been brought together by an extraordinary intri...

  • A Taste of Fire

    Joyce Carlow
    in

    In Joyce Carlow's "A TASTE OF FIRE," Bostonian Michael Hamilton discovers the tantalizing delicacies of New Orleans. The year is 1803, and the sultry, decadent French Quarter is teeming with exquisite food and gorgeous women, but none more captivatin...

  • A Taste of Magic

    Julia Hanlon
    in

    Set in the wilds of frontier Montana, Julia Hanlon's "A TASTE OF MAGIC" unveils the simmering romance between two kindred spirits. Searching the countryside for asparagus, a plant with deep roots that express the commitment and security of true love,...

  • Tender Mercies

    Lauraine Snelling

    Is She Really Leaving Forever?Tracing the difficulties and joys of carving out a life from the Dakota sod in the second half of the 800s, Tender Mercies continues Snelling's Red River saga and will pull your heartstrings and make you feel the joys an...

  • Texas Indigo

    Holly Harte

    A HEALER'S TOUCH With the marriage of her dreams over, free-spirited Sheridan Kinmont vowed never to let another man into her heart and set out to make a fresh start by accepting a job as physician in Shafter, Texas. In a town this desolate, She...

  • To Tempt a Rogue

    Connie Mason

    Dreams and Desire Kitty O'Shay desperately dreams of marriage and a family. Yet whisked into the company of robbers when she finds herself orphaned, she sees no choice but to protect her virtue by dressing as a boy, until one man uncovers her ...

  • Unveiled

    Jenni Licata

    THE BODY AT THE BALL When a disguised courtier delivered him a secret message from Queen Anne, Alexandre Rawlings had no idea that he'd later find the man murdered. Standing over the victim was a mysterious woman in white, and one look at her lus...

  • Vicksburg

    John T. Foster

    If he always has the headache, why should you suffer?

    In the bestselling tradition of Bridget Jones's Diary comes this outrageous, hilarious look at love, marriage, and sex, introducing Anna Shapiro, who believes that surely there must be more...

  • The Wild Child

    Mary Jo Putney

    Bribed by Kyle, his twin brother, Dominic Renbourne agrees to take his twin's place for a few weeks at Warfield Park where he is to pay court to Lady Meriel Grahame, the orphaned heiress Kyle intends to marry. The last thing Dominic expects is to be ...

  • A Woman of Passion

    Virginia Henley

    Young Bess Hardwick knew that the only way to escape a commoner's life was to serve in a noble family and marry well. So the headstrong beauty set out for London and the Tudor court, the arena for the richest, most ambitious men, none more powerf...

  • Buzz

    S.R. Martin

  • Escape From Horror House

    R.L. Stine

    After things begin to move on their own and strange writings appear on the wall, it becomes apparent that a poltergeist has moved into their home in this latest edition to the Goosebumps series for middle readers. Original....

  • The Longest Single Note

    Peter Crowther

    From a shape-shifting serial killer wreaking havoc in a police station, to a dust-bowl werewolf roaming the streets during the Great Depression, a gripping collection of tales, ranging from fantasy to horror, introduces readers to many different worl...

  • Misty

    V.C. Andrews

    “We lived in such a perfect world. Why were we so imperfect?” All Misty ever wanted was a normal family. But like so many others, Misty’s parents didn’t stay together. Now they use Misty to hurt each other, to deliver tiny cruelties in an en...

  • Mr. X

    Peter Straub

    BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNER • The acclaimed thriller of supernatural horror from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story, Koko, and The Talisman. “Ghastly, hide-your-eyes horror; when Peter Straub turns on all jets, no one in th...

  • Return to Ghost Camp

    R.L. Stine

  • Sips of Blood

    Mary Ann Mitchell

    Book OneHistoires de Le Vampire Marquis de SadeAs a vampire, the Marquis de Sade has survived the French Revolution, the two World Wars, and the swiftly changing centuries. However, for how long can he survive the taunting and heckling of his Dominat...

  • Falconer and the Great Beast

    Ian Morson

    It is 1268. Oxford is forced to play host to the Tartars, a tribe from the East whose deeds have wreaked havoc in France and Germany. This time they claim their mission is a peaceful one -- they merely wish to gain audience with the king. But are the...

  • Graveyard Dust

    Barbara Hambly

    It is St. John's Eve in the summer of 1834 when Benjamin January--Creole physician and music teacher--is shattered by the news that his sister has been arrested for murder. The Guards have only a shadow of a case against her. But Olympe--mystical and...

  • A Head for Poisoning

    Simon Beaufort

    The second book in the critically acclaimed medieval mystery series featuring Sir Geoffrey MappestoneIn the year 1101, Sir Geoffrey Mappestone returns to his home at Goodrich Castle on the Welsh border. He is travelling in the company of a knight who...

  • Jade Palace Vendetta

    Dale Furutani

    In the second installment in the series, noble ronin Matsuyama Kaze continues the search for his lord's missing child, but when he saves a helpless merchant from a gang of killers, he realizes that everything is not what it seems....

  • Maid to Murder

    Kate Kingsbury

    WELCOME TO THE PENNYFOOT The London aristocracy has discovered the pleasures of seaside holidays in Badgers End, and it's Cecily Sinclair's job as the owner of the Pennyfoot Hotel to keep them comfortable and entertained. Detective work is not part ...

  • Saint's Rest

    Keith Miles

    While the Great Depression has tightened its grip on the world, there are still some who have money to fulfill all their dreams. One of these men is Hobart St. John, who wants a sixteen-room mansion in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park. For young Welsh ...

  • Too Soon for Flowers

    Margaret Miles

    AN OUTBREAK OF EVIL Spring, 1764. While the specter of smallpox stalks colonial Boston, much of the city seeks refuge in the burgeoning countryside. Restful, bucolic Bracebridge is one such haven, and young widow Charlotte Willett and her neighbor...

  • Baldur's Gate

    Philip Athans
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Bhaal Must Be Stopped! Someone is sabotaging the iron mines of the Sword Coast, pushing powerful toward a bloody war, and a young mercenary toward an unimaginable secret. Evil gods, giant spiders, murderous doppelgangers flesh-eating ghouls, an...

  • Young Hercules

    Mel Odom
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    When Hercules, along with his two friends, Iolaus and Jason--the crown prince of Corinth--embark on a mission to save Jason's kingdom, Hercules's half-brother Ares, the god of war, waits in the shadows to destroy him and his friends. Original. TV tie...

  • Apache War

    Peter McCurtin
    in

    In Hangman's Knot, Sundance is given a chance to escape a death sentence for killing a drunk in a barroom brawl by capturing an old friend, outlaw Joe Buck, while in Apache War, Sundance is sent to Fort McHenry, Arizona, to prevent an...

  • Beneath a Dakota Cross

    Stephen A. Bly

    IN SEARCH OF A NEW LIFE OUT WEST, BRAZOS FORTUNE FINDS HIS FAMILY ENDANGERED BY THE VERY QUEST HE HOPED WOULD SAVE THEM. With these simple words, Brazos Fortune sets out on his journey in the first of Stephen Blys new Fortunes of the Black Hills seri...

  • Blood Mountain

    Peter Brandvold

    Stranded in the rugged region of the northern Rockies, a wagon train of settlers falls prey to a vicious gang of outlaws, until one man who has nothing left to lose risks his life to stop them. Original....

  • By Honor Bound

    Dodge Tyler

  • Flint's Honor

    Richard S. Wheeler

    Sam Flint, a committed Old West journalist, returns with a dangerous attempt to start an honest newspaper as competition for the corrupt and powerful Silver City Democrat in the newly formed state of Colorado. Reprint....

  • In Honored Glory

    Robert Vaughan

    A historical novel about the Spanish American War follows General Joseph Murchinson and his son, Lieutenant Todd Murchinson, who is assigned as one of the white officers to the Buffalo Soldiers. Original....

  • Jesse

    Max McCoy

    Escaping a 1882 assassination attempt thanks to a switched identity, outlaw Jesse James survives to narrate the story of his life for Missouri's most famous storyteller, Mark Twain, in a vivid and engaging historical novel. Original....

  • Longarm and the Lady from Tombstone

    Tabor Evans

  • Marshal Festus

    Gary McCarthy

    With Marshal Matt Dillon laid up with a broken leg, Deputy Festus is in charge of the town, and now Festus has to face his first challenges--a gang of cowboys out to stir up trouble, and the townspeople of Dodge City who do not think that he is up to...

  • Maximilian's Treasure

    J.R. Roberts

    When the mayor of a small Mexican village catches the Gunsmith's good friend Pete in a compromising situation with his daughter, Pete is forced to shoot the man in self-defense, and now Clint has only three days to rescue Pete from the hangman. Origi...

  • Sioux Stampede

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo finds himself in over his head when he takes two dangerous jobs--delivering a herd of valuable Scotch Highland cattle to an ambitious rancher and training inexperienced troops as Indian fighters--either of which could get him killed. Origi...

  • Slocum and the Yellow Rose of Texas

    Jake Logan

    Slocum gets distracted by a pretty little flower -- who comes with thorns...Slocum has his eye on the dangerous Rose Miller. Besides being a real American beauty, Rose is rumored to be the mistress of a notorious train robber. But the minute Slocum g...

  • The Weight of Dreams

    Jonis Agee

    At seventeen, Ty Bonte has already learned some of life's harshest lessons. Abandoned by his mother after the accidental death of his beloved younger brother, Ty spends his days working on the family ranch with his violent, sadistic father and his ni...

  • Wind River

    Charles G. West

    A man's two worlds are about to collide in this classic western from Charles G. West...Robert Allred was born to a white family who abandoned him. Discovered by the Cheyenne, he was raised as one of their own, earning the name Little Wolf. When his t...

  • Amazing Lizards!

    Fay Robinson

  • Arnold

    Mick Inkpen

  • As It Is in Heaven

    Niall Williams

    A man content to let life pass him by, schoolteacher Stephen Griffin is about to experience a miracle. For a string quartet from Venice has arrived in County Clare and, with it, worldly and beautiful violinist Gabriella Castoldi, who inspires love in...

  • Auntie Peggy's Windmill and Other S

    Jennifer Rees Larcombe

    These beautiful stories from Jennifer Rees Larcombe capture the adventures of childhood, but also the difficulties, bringing children to a realisation of where strength can be found. AUNTIE PEGGYÕS WINDMILL is the story of two children and their ...

  • Bettypalooza

    Elizabeth Lenhard

    When Cher transforms hugely popular alterna-star Talia D'art--an angry young woman--into a happy pop singer who revels in her newfound Bettyness, her fans and agents are less then pleased, and Cher must remedy the situation. Original....

  • Beyond Mayfield

    Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

    When prejudicial acts begin to effect Meg's happiness at school, she starts looking forward to going back home, yet once there, she realizes that great changes are taking place and begins to see the world, including Mayfield, in an entirely new way....

  • The Big Con

    David Maurer

    The classic 1940 study of con men and con games that Luc Sante in Salon called “a bonanza of wild but credible stories, told concisely with deadpan humor, as sly and rich in atmosphere as anything this side of Mark Twain.”
     
    “Of all th...

  • Blood Ties

    Jennifer Lash

    Set mainly in Ireland, Jennifer Lash's dark, exhilarating novel is about the redemptive power of love. It tells of Violet Farr and her loveless marriage, her wild, unfathomable son and his illegitimate son, all of them bound together in a repeatin...

  • Broke Heart Blues

    Joyce Carol Oates

    The much-anticipated reissue of a novel that is one of Joyce Carol Oates’s personal favorites among her oeuvre; featuring a new afterword by OatesIN THE HEART OF A LANGUID JULY, ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD JOHN REDDY HEART drives a traffic-stopping, salmon-col...

  • Brought to You by the Number 1

    Sarah Albee

  • Can You Wave Bye, Bye, Baby?

    Elyse Gasco

    Daring, tough, and darkly humorous, these linked stories have at their centre the relationship between parents and children. As devastating in their emotional honesty as they are poignant and wise, these stories map the intricate terrain of adoption ...