Books Published in March 1991

New Books List: 526 titles

  • Darcy's Utopia

    Fay Weldon

    Eleanor Darcy, a woman of marginal genealogy and looks that play better than they should, is married to the economist to whom the Prime Minister listens. Determined to rip apart the old order and start fresh, Eleanor becomes the serpent -- or angel -...

  • Fifth Freedom

    John T. Smith

  • Contamination

    John Vornholt

    The Enterprise crew is stunned when famed scientist Lynn Costa is murdered in one of the ship's science labs. She and her husband Emil were known as science's greatest ongoing collaboration and, together, they had received the Federation's highest ho...

  • Young Bleys

    Gordon R. Dickson

    YOUNG BLEYS is the newest volume in Gordon R. Dickson's masterpiece, "The Childe Cycle," a future history that has been thrilling readers for more than three decades. By the workings of chance Bleys Ahrens was born the genetic equal of Hal Mayne, ...

  • Fire Mask

    Charles L. Grant

  • Queen of Angels

    Greg Bear

    CRIME, PUNISHMENT--AND THE BORDERS OF THE MIND In a world of wonders, wealth, and "perfect" mental health, a famous poet commits gruesome murder...WHY? That crime, that question, leads a policewoman to a jungle of torture and forgotten gods; a ...

  • Achilles' Choice

    Steven Barnes; Larry Niven

    The gods of Olympus offered a fateful choice to the warrior, Achilles--a short, glorious life, or a long, dull one. Achilles chose glory. This is the story of the Eleventh Olympiad in the late 21st century--a contest not only for glory but for...

  • Blind Justice

    S.N. Lewitt

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    ""The Mary Damned went into hell with her captain and crew. But she comes back where the void is black to catch the likes of you.""

    The legend was sung aboard the Justica's prison ships, and told in spaceport bars. But everyone knew that t...

  • Call to Arms

    Alan Dean Foster

    For eons, the Amplitur had searched space for intelligent species, each of which was joyously welcomed to take part in the fulfillment of the Amplitur Purpose. Whether it wanted to or not. When the Amplitur and their allies stumbled upon the races ca...

  • Chanur's Homecoming

    C.J. Cherryh

    A FIRST CONTACT UNLIKE ANY OTHER When those strange entities called "humans" sent their first exploration ship into Compact space, the delicate power balances of the seven races of the Compact were catastrophically disrupted. And by giving shelter...

  • Dracula Unbound

    Brian W. Aldiss

    THE TIME IS THE FUTURE, THE TERROR IS TIMELESS Two men, one of the future, one of the past, embark on an astonishing and horrific journey. They chase the most elusive and deadly creatures ever to stalk the earth. Theirs is a trek of time, life, de...

  • Eye

    Frank Herbert

    Eye features the startlingly original collaboration The Road to Dune, a walking tour of Arakeen narrated by Frank Herbert and illustrated by acclaimed British artist Jim Burns. Also included is an introduction by Herbert describing his personal feeli...

  • Fire Crossing

    Cheryl J. Franklin

    THE TAORMIN MATRIX To the wizards of Serii the Taormin Matrix was the ultimate tool of sorcery. Three Immortal wizards had reversed the flow of time itself to set the matrix in its proper place, reopening a time/space portal which the people of Ne...

  • Fires of the Past

    Anne Devereaux Jordan

    The science fiction writers whose work appears here have very different--and at times very loose--ideas of what hometowns can mean, as each revisits his or hers in fictional form. In Harlan Ellison's ``Jane Doe #112,'' a man's home is where he finds ...

  • Glory Lane

    Alan Dean Foster

    THE FATE OF THE UNIVERSE IS IN THEIR HANDS Seeth, a bored punk rocker looking for excitement. Miranda, an air-head beauty who lives to shop. And Kerwin, a nerd who just wants to fit in. They're not friends, and they don't even particularly like...

  • The Hunter Returns

    David Drake; Jim Kjelgaard

    ALONE IN A LAND OF MONSTERS! Cast out by their tribe, Hawk and an injured girl must face tigers with six-inch fangs, packs of dire wolves-and most dangerous of all, a war party of brutish humans! But the folk of Hawk's tribe, straggling across ...

  • Infinity Gambit

    James P. Hogan

    Bernard Fallon is a former agent for British intelligence who has gone freelance. He is approached by his retired boss, Col. Marlow, who himself has joined Infinity Limited, a private group that works to liberate oppressed peoples from dictators a...

  • Jungle Assault

    P.M. Griffin

    Armed for justice, trained to kill they are the best of the best. Star Commandos. A military elite, forged in a galactic conflict. War's end marks the beginning of their mission: to protect human colonies from the blood-drenched clutches of post-war ...

  • Kif Strike Back

    C.J. Cherryh

    Chanur's Revenge. Kif power. Hani Pride... When the kif seized Hilfy and Tully, hani and human crew of the Pride of Chanur, they issued a challenge Pyanfar, captain of Pride, couldn't ignore, a challenge that was to take Pyanfar and her shipmates t...

  • The Lost Colony

    Kevin D. Randle

    ALL-ACTION SPACE COMBAT SERIES - JEFFERSON'S WARTHE LOST COLONYA young warrior risks his command—to free a planet of slaves. . . AN EMPTY WORLDAn entire civilization has vanished from a lush planet—cities intact, no corpses, no trace of...

  • Main Street D.O.A.

    David Peters

    ONE MAN HAS CREATED THE ULTIMATE FUTURE FANTASY WORLD. BUT ONE KILLER WILL TURN IT INTO THE ULTIMATE VISION OF HELL... MAIN STREET D.O.A. Super-showman Wyatt Wonder is the mastermind behind Wonderworld, a stunning, bubble-domed amusement park that ...

  • Paratwa

    Christopher Hinz

    Human colonists defend their planet from terrifyingly advanced assassins in this tale of fast-paced action and political intrigue.This is the third novel from award-winning novelist Christopher Hinz. Beginning where the critically acclaimed Liege-Kil...

  • Return of the Breakneck Boys

    Geary Gravel

    TO FLUSH THE ENEMY What fix-it man Howard Bell thought was the key to the executive washroom in Boston's new Matrix Building turned out to open a door into the Fading Worlds, stranding Howard smack in the middle of some very deadly alien wargames....

  • Robot Visions

    Isaac Asimov

    From Isaac Asimov, the Hugo Award-winning Grand Master of Science Fiction, comes five decades of robot visions: thirty-four landmark stories and essays -- including three rare tales -- gathered together in one volume.

    Meet all of Asimov’s ...

  • Run for the Stars // Echoes of Thunder

    Harlan Ellison

  • Space Pioneers

    Rick North

  • The Anastasia Syndrome

    Mary Higgins Clark

    Judith Chase -- a beautiful historian engaged to the next Prime Minister of Great Britain -- is at the top of her professional and personal life. But the streets of London are pulling Judith back to a time beyond her past. In a search for her childho...

  • Bones

    Joyce Thompson

    Not even her work reconstructing faces for the Seattle police from the remains of homicide victims has prepared Frederika Bascomb for her father's murder and mutilation at the hands of a faceless killer. Reprint. K....

  • Bones of Coral

    James W. Hall

    Like any big-city paramedic, Shaw Chandler had probably seen a thousand suicides. But he knows a murder when he sees one - and this time it's his own father. Suddenly he's got a metal canister marked 'U.S. Navy' in his hands, as he's dragged back to ...

  • Breaking the Ring

    Donna Walsh Inglehart

  • Cockfighter

    Charles Willeford / Charles Ray Willeford

    In the criminal underbelly of the 1960s rural South, a silent, iron-willed man is ready to sacrifice anything to rise to the top.A former professional boxer, actor, horse trainer and radio announcer, Charles Willeford (1919-1988) is best known for hi...

  • Cracking Up

    Ed Naha

  • Daphne Dead and Done For

    Jonathan Ross

    When a husband advertises for his missing wife, Detective Superintendent George Rogers investigates and must decide what connection a body, a missing attorney, and an underground tunnel have to the puzzle...

  • Death and Other Lovers

    Jo Bannister

    Light like a great pink chrysanthemum bloomed far away over the distant perimeter, hanging high in the quiet air. Others would describe it as a fireball and speak of the deep booming roar as the fuel tanks, full to capacity at the start of the plane'...

  • Death Below Deck

    Douglas Kiker

    Invited by old flame Bitsy Binford to visit her Cape Cod estate, Mac McFarland stumbles upon the corpse of Bitsy's son-in-law, Peter, a discovery that embroils Mac in a tangled web of dark secrets, greed, scandal, and murder...

  • Deeds of Trust

    Victor Wuamett

  • Emerald

    James Baddock

    Second in the Cormack and Woodward series. Based on a true story, Emerald is the fast-moving sequel to The Dutch Caper, showing Cormack and Woodward being flown into Berlin in order to bring out ‘Emerald', the mistress of a high-ranking member of H...

  • Immaculate in Black

    E.J. McGill

    A pair of married sleuths, attorney "Sherm" Sherman and his wife Becky, investigate the brutal rape and murder of a Tucson woman, and their search takes them to bridge tournaments, porn movies, and into a strange religious cult...

  • Jordon's Wager

    Frank C. Strunk

    Because Harry Buxton controls the economy of 1933 eastern Kentucky, people do not like Deputy Sheriff Berkley Jordan questioning him about the murder of the pregnant Bitsy Trotter and the suspicious death of abortionist Rachel Blackwell...

  • Missile Zone

    Herbert Crowder

    David Llewellyn, a former counterintelligence agent and special U.S. envoy to Israel, and his wife, Daniella, an agent for the Mossad, race against time to track down a gang of terrorists who have stolen a ballistic missile...

  • Nothing More Than Murder

    Jim Thompson

    Joe Wilmot can't stand his wife Elizabeth. But he sure loves her movie theater. It's a modest establishment in a beat-down town--but Joe has the run of the place, and inside its walls, he's king. Without the theater, he'd be sunk. Without his leaders...

  • Piano Man

    Noreen Gilpatrick

    Musician Paul Whitman is hired by a mysterious employer to restore old pianos on a lonely Puget Sound island, but someone is stealing piano strings, the accommodations stink, and the neighbors are unfriendly...

  • Resuscitation of a Hanged Man

    Denis Johnson

    Leonard English, a sad and intense young man recovering from a suicide attempt, moves to the Cape Cod resort of Provincetown to work as a disk jockey cum private detective. On his first day there, he encounters a beautiful young woman and falls despe...

  • The Russia House

    John Le Carre

    World powers clash for dominance as a beautiful Russian woman carries out a staggering mission and a derelict English publisher becomes the unlikely recipient of the Soviet Union's top defense secret. Reprint....

  • September Song

    Edward Mathis

    Texas private detective Dan Roman loves his ex-wife, even though she has remarried, and he must protect her from men against whom she had testified, despite a new husband who thinks protecting her is his job...

  • Slow Suicide

    William Jovanovich

  • Dead Ringer

    M.J. Rodgers

    It was a case of mind over murder Detective Wyatt Lockhart had a kind name for it: shock. But after the bomb exploded in a Washington supermarket, psychologist Claire Boland seriously wondered if she were losing her mind. Though the victim's fa...

  • Island of Dreams

    Patricia Potter

    DREAMS OF DESIRE As the winds of war blew across America, twenty-two-year-old Meara O'Hara felt safe in the privileged world of Georgia's enchanted Jekyll Island. Then she made a fatal mistake. She fell in love with the enemy. The seductive stran...

  • Under Venice

    Madelyn Sanders

    Clea knew about secrets That's why Clea Beaumont fled to Venice, where she leased an apartment in the Palazzo Corelli. There, Clea hoped to resolve the terrible mystery at the center of her life--or bury her secrets forever. Marcantonio Corelli...

  • Byron's Child

    Carola Dunn

    Jodie Zaleski meets Giles Faringdale, a lord no less, in contemporary Oxford -- only to find herself transported with him back to his ancestral home in Regency times. An impetuous and determined researcher, Jodie lands Giles and his ancestors in more...

  • The Duke's Design

    Margaret Westhaven

    The Irresistible Lord's Decidedly Improper Proposition Miss Matilda Graham made it clear what she thought of the Duke of Arden's proposition. Yet how could she refuse this lord whose looks, wealth, and charm won him any woman he wanted. Es...

  • An Easter Bouquet

    Therese Alderton

    A CYNICAL WAGER It was just the sort of absurd wager in which bored London fashionables delighted. In return for a prime piece of horseflesh, Lord Vyse the most decadent of town sophisticates, would pose until Easter as a virtuous Rector in a countr...

  • A Gentleman's Desire

    Mary Kingsley

    UNFORTUNATE CIRCUMSTANCES The Earl of Chatleigh was not a man easily taken in by manipulative misses, but he'd certainly botched things this time! Yet how was he to know that the beautiful young doxy in his bed at the Hart and Hind was of the Q...

  • An Independent Lady

    Lois Stewart

    She would not allow his iron will to rule her heart... A WILLFUL MINX Lady Araminta Beresford was quite capable of taking care of herself. After roaming eastern Europe and Syria -- often unchaperoned! -- she had little patience, upon returning to...

  • Lady Elmira's Emerald

    Winifred Witton

    They were in the suds in more ways than one IF he had to beg, borrow or steal, so be it When Lady Imogen Remlow stole a kiss in the gazebo, wearing a "borrowed" necklace, she had no notion that she had lost anything more than a touch o...

  • Lover's Knot

    Maria Greene

    A MATCHMAKING MASQUERADE The current fashion called for blond hair, blue eyes, and a superficial charm...and Amanda Bowen, with her quiet, dark beauty and penchant for book-reading, had been largely ignored by London's eligible bachelors. That...

  • Miss Gordon's Mistake

    Anita Mills

    The Hateful Lord Haverville Lovely Miss Kitty Gordon did not have to meet Lord Haverville to deeply detest the beastly Baron. For Haverville had forced Kitty's dearest friend, Jessica Merriman, into a monstrous marriage in name only - then left he...

  • Romantic Rebel

    Joan Smith

    Behind her enlightened words beat the heart of a true romantic... Left penniless and betrothed against her will, Emma Nesbitt vented her pique in a blast of purple prose that became the toast of emancipated women everywhere. And though she secretl...

  • The Somerville Farce

    Michelle Kasey

    The Domineering Duke The Duke of Gynde had everything ne needed to have and anything he wanted. He was superbly handsome, fabulously rich, immensely powerful, and absolutely used to always getting his own way. How could a lowly female like Mis...

  • The Willful Lady

    Eva Rutland

    He was no match for her, or so she had thought. SHE would not go willingly into his bed When it came to plain speaking and fierce pride, Miss Amelia Allen was no flat. The daughter of an artist, she was barely accepted by the ton, and no one&#...

  • B & E

    Dave Pedneau

    THE INCIDENT: An interrupted burglary on a peaceful Milbrook street ends in the stabbing of a citizen and the murder of a cop. And that's only the beginning of a criminal nightmare for special investigator Whit Pynchon. THE INVASION: Whit has go...

  • Hire a Hangman

    Collin Wilcox

    It is 10:16 P.M. when Dr. Brice Hanchett approaches his car, about to return home to his wife's bed from his mistress's. At 10:17 he is dead, shot twice in the chest. By 1:20 A.M., as the coroner's van pulls away, It. frank Hastings is almost certain...

  • Lieberman's Folly

    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    Sixty-year-old Chicago police detective Abe Lieberman is having all the troubles he can handle when Estralda Valdez, a stunning Mexican prostitute, comes to him with a proposition he can't refuse: Estralda will help him with valuable information if h...

  • Murder on the Iditarod Trail

    Sue Henry

    IDITAROD: A grueling eleven-hundred-mile dog sled race across a frigid Arctic wilderness--a tortuous test of endurance, skill and courage for a $250,000 reward. But this year, the prize is survival. One by one, the top Iditarod contestants are dyi...

  • Payment in Kind

    J.A. Jance

    AN EDUCATION IN DEATH The bloody corpses stashed in the broom closet of the Seattle School District building were lovingly entwined. It looked like a classic crime of passion to Detective J.P Beaumont--especially when Pete Kelsey admitted that his...

  • Prior Convictions

    Lia Matera

    Willa Jansson, a cynical ex-radical, figures the walking dead had more fun than she did last year. At least none of them were selling their souls to a corporate Los Angeles law firm, trying to make their resumes look good. After a year of misery, tho...

  • Say It With Poison

    Ann Granger

    MARRIAGE, MYSTERY, AND MURDER The wedding of her godchild Sara is reason enough for Foreign Service Consul Meredith Mitchell to return to England to stay with her cousin, Eve Owens, glamorous film star and mother of the bride. When Meredith arrive...

  • The Herb Gatherers

    Elizabeth Harris

    All his life, Rafe has been haunted. The tormented spirit of mysterious Alienor, a once beautiful young woman abandoned by her Crusader lover centuries ago, relentlessly follows him. In ways that he has never understood Rafe is cursed by her po...

  • The Knowing Crystal

    Kathleen Morgan

    THE KEY Exiled to a harsh land of criminals and renegades, Teran had learned to survive by his wits, his skills as a warrior, and his raw strength. There was but one hope to escape. If he surrendered the key to his govern collar, he would be allowed...

  • The Scent of Magic

    Margaret Chittenden

    It had to be coincidence... Vintage-clothing-boutique owner Casey Templeton did not believe in magic potions, even though the mysterious old woman at the antique fair assured her that the perfume in the beautiful glass bottle was guaranteed to giv...

  • Everything You Have Is Mine

    Sandra Scoppettone

    Lauren Laurano is surely not the first gay P.I. in New York City, but she is in a class by herself. Smart, stylish, and self-determined, she lives with her longtime lover, Kip, in a Greenwich Village brownstone. Their lives together usually simmer al...

  • The Fear in Yesterday's Rings

    George C. Chesbro

    A rash of hideous killings throughout the Great Plains seizes the imagination of the more lurid tabloid newspapers, which bray WEREWOLF! Hunters and gun buffs have been torn to shreds and partially devoured. Mongo enters the scene on a mission of ...

  • Murder Saves Face

    Haughton Murphy

    To save his old firm, Reuben Frost must find a killer in the heart of Hell’s Kitchen   It’s the last business day of the year and Tom Henderson is alone in the library of prominent Wall Street law firm Chase & Ward. He’ll be out the do...

  • Musical Chairs

    Kinky Friedman

    It’s the last week of December, a brooding time of year even for a hip, sardonic, New York cowboy/private eye. When a ex-Texas Jewboys guitarist comes to crash, Kinky’s gloom turns to horror: his ‘housepest’ gets savagely murdered in the show...

  • Sweetwater Ranch

    Geoffrey Norman

    TROUBLE ON THE REDNEXK RIVIERA You won't find northern Florida's steamy Panhandle on a picture postcard. But its sluggish streams and piney woods suit Morgan Hunt just fine. Some hard time in the slammer has left him on a short fuse. He needs slow...

  • Blood Rose

    William Heffernan

    Former New York City Detective Paul Devlin seeks safety in his new job as chief of police of a small Vermont town and finds a murder case hitting close to home when a serial killer targets the woman he loves. Reprint....

  • The Spotted Cats

    William G. Tapply

    With his client, Jeff Newton, a professional hunter, lying near death--the victim of an attack by an African cat--Brady must investigate the disappearance of Newton's priceless pre-Columbian treasure by himself. Reprint. NYT. PW. ...

  • Daylight Intruder

    Jerry B. Jenkins

    Someone has been entering Karlyn’s apartment for some unknown reason, leaving subtle hints of the visit -- a closet light left burning, a poster turned around to face the wall, an empty milk bottle in the refrigerator. Is Karlyn imagining these ...

  • Dogtown

    Mercedes Lambert

    A terrific debut mystery featuring the sisterhood's answer to Philip Marlowe--a pair of crime-solving cohorts whose Los Angeles makes Raymond Chandler's look like Disneyland. When Whitney Logan teams up with a street-smart Chicana prostitute, the res...

  • Old Black Magic

    Jake Tanner

  • The Spanish Kidnapping Disaster

    Mary Downing Hahn

    Twelve-year-old Felix is fascinated. She has never met a woman like Grace -- beautiful, mysterious, and a citizen of the world. If it weren't for Grace, the family's trip to Spain might have been pretty dull. The trouble started when Felix and her...

  • Forty Stories

    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

    If any writer can be said to have invented the modern short story, it is Anton Chekhov. It is not just that Chekhov democratized this art form; more than that, he changed the thrust of short fiction from relating to revealing. And what marvelous and ...

  • Hardware River

    Alyson Carol Hagy

    In seven stories that limn the distances between wishes and realities, Hagy ( Madonna on Her Back ) creates narratives that echo with a distinctly American voice. At the same time, these fictions explore their characters' sense of place in the landsc...

  • The Hermit of 69th Street

    Jerzy Kosinski

  • Hot Water

    Don Wallace

  • Joanna

    Lisa St. Aubin De Teran

    Three generations of women--Joanna, her mother, Kitty, and Kitty's mother, Florence--recount the developments and changes in their relationships with each other, in a chronicle that reveals the effect of Kitty's emotional instability on her mother an...

  • The Loves of Joao Vencio

    Jose Luandino Vieira

  • A Model World and Other Stories

    Michael Chabon

    From the wondrously talented author of The mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys comes a magnificent collection of ironic, understated tales that confirm his reputation as "the young star of American letters." -- Washington Post Book World. Here ar...

  • The Pushcart Prize XV: Best of the Small Presses 1990-1991

    Bill Henderson

  • The Road to Bobby Joe: And Other Stories

    Louis Berney

  • Ballenrose

    Mallory Burgess

    BLOSSOMING DESIRE Molly Flowers was torn between two strong and proud men. One was the elegant, immensely powerful Duke of Buckingham, whose golden wealth and warm praise made this poor flower girl blossom into an exquisite young lady. The other w...

  • Beneath a Texas Star

    Emma Merritt

    WORTHLESS YANKEE TENDERFOOT Beautiful Clementina Jones wore her sheriff's badge with pride. It had been her father's until he was shot in cold blood, and Clem was determined to use it to bring justice to his killer, and peace to Lawful, Texas. She h...

  • Bittersweet Destiny

    Luanne Walden

    Caitlan Webber was shocked to discover the seemingly lifeless body of a man near the Mississippi boardinghouse where she lived. But she was even more shocked to learn that the man was Rafe Bradrick whom fate had returned to her after years of lonelin...

  • Bold Rebel Love

    Christine Dorsey

    She yearned to betray him Fiona and her clan wanted no part of the revolution that was sweeping the Colonies. Fiercely loyal to the Crown, the spirited Scottish beauty was willing to risk her life spying on Colonel Zeke Kincaid, an arrogant Amer...

  • Bound by Ecstasy

    Kristal Leigh Scott

    She was his prisoner until she found the key to his heart! SHE WANTED TO HATE HIM Sadie Moran looked at her kidnapper and muttered an unladylike oath. Her stubborn streak had finally gotten the red-headed beauty in trouble -- big trouble. Her f...

  • Captive Dove

    Sonya T. Pelton

    SHE COULD NEVER FORGIVE HIM Lovely, emerald-eyed Tamara Anderson had never desired a man the way she desired the handsome half-breed, Daniel Tarrant. Willingly, recklessly, she surrendered to the bronze warrior's soul-searing embrace, never dreamin...

  • Captive Rose

    Miriam Minger

    A WARRIOR'S PASSION With the sheer strength of his muscular body, Crusader Guy de Warenne overpowered his captors and fled the hell-hole of the Syrian prison. Yet he couldn't leave Damascus without rescuing the lovely violet-eyed "slav...

  • Comanche Embrace

    Betty Brooks

    HE WAS HER PASSIONATE CHAMPION Lady Brandy Tremayne wished she had never gone on this blasted buffalo hunt! She'd been separated from the hunting party and was now frantic with fear. And just when she thought she'd die in the wilderness, she stumb...

  • The Covenant

    Hilda Stahl

    This first book of The White Pines Chronicles is a sweeping historical novel of Janet Cordell's struggle to find freedom in a land torn by the Civil War. It is also the revealing story of the lumber barons who amassed millions of dollars as they r...

  • Desperado Passion

    Patricia Pellicane

    HE ALWAYS GOT HIS MAN Marshal Tanner Maddox swaggered into Willowbrook, Nevada on business, but after encountering the beguiling Elizabeth Garner, his mind was fixed on the pleasures of her honey-smooth skin and temptingly-ripe lips. Lucky for him...

  • Dreams of Paradise

    Laura Simon

    In 1892, Hazel Merriwether, the refined 23-year-old daughter of an affluent Boston family, vacations with friends in Italy, where a gregarious Italian with the surprising name of Marco MacGregor appoints himself their tour guide. The following summer...

  • Enchantress

    Constance O'Banyon

    In the Turkish court of her stepfather, Brittany Sinclair was known as the daughter of the English Rose, that legendary beauty who had stolen Lord Simijin's heart. Raised between two worlds -- the proper English ways of her mother and the exotic sens...

  • Gideon's Fall

    Bronwyn Williams

    Gideon McNair Was The Devil's Own Angel True, Prudence and her brother had mistaken Captain McNair for a pirate, but that didn't give him the right to drag them off to his whaling camp and force them into slave labor. If the insufferable Gideon th...

  • The Golden Barbarian

    Iris Johansen

    FROM THE HALLS OF A PALATIAL PRISON TO THE HOT SANDS OF AN ENDLESS DESERT... Here is a timeless story of love and adventure set among hills of gold, warring tribes, and fabled kingdoms -- the story of a fearless princess and a barbarian sheikh.....

  • Highland Belle

    Patricia Grasso

    BEAUTIFUL HELLCAT Flame-haired Brigette Devereux had the face of an angel and the spirit of a wildcat. Wed by proxy to a savage Scot, the willful ward of Queen Elizabeth fled... straight into the arms of a wickedly handsome stranger, his eyes dark a...

  • Love's Sweetest Secret

    Gina Robins

    She found passion where she least expected it! SURPRISED BY LOVE Headstrong Liberty Jordan had fled the West Indies to escape an arranged marriage, only to find herself trapped into another engagement the moment she set foot on American soil. De...

  • Massachusetts

    Nancy Zaroulis

    A panoramic saga based on the history of the New England state begins as an orphan boy, Bartholomew Revell, steps off the "Mayflower," and follows his descendants through four hundred years of uprisings, witch-hunts, wars, and other challenges...

  • Morning Sky

    Constance Bennett

    The lovely widow Lacey Spencer has launched an unheard-of campaign to expose the crooked cattle rangers that are threatening to overtake her hometown. Even her sophisticated beauty and elegant demeanor cannot erase the townspeople's evident disapprov...

  • Nightingale

    Patricia Phillips

    From the grinding poverty of a remote coal-mining village...to the sensuous opulence of an Italian villa...the bright flame of their love never wavered... In the sweet spring darkness of the Welsh countryside, beautiful Mair Parry had given her inno...

  • Passion's Child

    P.J. Thomas

  • Pocahontas

    Susan Donnell

    A fictional portrait of a remarkable woman chronicles Pocahontas' role as mediator between Native Americans and the white settlers, her romance with John Smith, her journey to England and marriage, and her role as a founder of a prominent colonial Vi...

  • The Queen's War

    Jeanne Mackin

    In THE QUEEN'S WAR Jeanne Mackin transports the reader to the royal court of Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, at Poitiers. Cast off by her husband, who now shares his bed with his young mistress, Rosamonde, Eleanor presides over her court of love. A...

  • Raven at Sunrise

    Claudia McCormick

    A PASSION AS TURBULENT AS THE ANCIENT LAND WHERE IT WAS FORGED... High-spirited and bold, Brigianna ni Colym dared to defy her father's decree that she wed against her will--the highborn princess knew the plan was a thinly veiled barter. In fearfu...

  • Rugged Splendor

    Robin Leigh

    LOVER'S BOUNTY A sweet-talking scoundrel left Silver Matlock stranded at the altar, escaping with the meager remains of her family's fortune. Faced with financial ruin, the rebellious Colorado beauty turned to bounty hunter Jared Newman for help--en...

  • Seafaring Stranger

    Carolyn Chase

  • Season of Shadows

    Mary Mackey

    Beginning in the early 1960’s, Season of Shadows narrates the story of a 30 year friendship between Lucy Constable and Cassandra Quinn, two college roommates who are forced to go into hiding and change their identities when Lucy flees from an abusi...

  • Shadow Play

    Katherine Sutcliffe

    SHADOW HERO A god to the Indians of the Amazon, a lusty adventurer whose courage was renowned, Morgan Kane was in truth a rogue and a charlatan -- a handsome deceiver whose legend was more illusion. SHADOW PAST Leaving the glitter of London beh...

  • Stardust and Whirlwinds

    Pamela Litton

    Trial by Fire A land of broken dreams...In the dusty town of Santa Angela, the only law was the gun, and Amelia Cumming's no-good husband had died by it, leaving her with a debt-ridden mercantile business. Gunslinger Ross Tanner seemed anxious for h...

  • Stolen Love

    Carolyn Jewel

    THIEF OF HEARTS Elizabeth Willard had been the childhood friend of dashing Nicholas Villines -- until the difference in their ages and the vagaries of fortune thrust them part. When they met again, everything had changed. Poor relation Elizabet...

  • Surrender a Dream // The Bargain

    Jill Barnett

    Adelaide Amanda Pinkney was glad to bid Chicago farewell. After the bustle and crowds of the growing city, the news that her aunt and uncle had left her their California farm was like a dream come true. But Addie's idyll was shattered the mome...

  • Sweet Justice

    Jan McKee

    The Hunter... Morgan Rossiter - bitter, dark and hungry for justice - was searching for the accomplice of his brother's killer. Now he'd stumbled upon the woman his agents swore was his quarry. But could Jessica Miller be an outlaw's woman? Even Mor...

  • Sweet Southern Caress

    Wendy Garrett

    HE WAS HARD TO RESIST Fiery Alisa couldn't wait for her twenty-first birthday. Finally, the Georgia beauty would own Windlea and would be able to free her slaves and run the Sea Island cotton plantation the way it ought to be run. All she had to do ...

  • Thicker Than Water

    Kathryn Harrison

    Isabel is the troubled daughter of charismatic but reckless parents who hastily wed, divorced just as fast, and distanced themselves from each otherâ€"and their child. Left to her grandparents’ care, Isabel longs for her remote, glamorous mother an...

  • A Whisper in the Wind

    Madeline Baker

    THE BLACK HILLS, 1876 It was a land where a man could ride for days without seeing anything but fragrant pines, an occasional deer, or a lone eagle soaring in the limitless blue sky -- a land where the Indian still roamed wild and free -- a land t...

  • Wild Captive Fire

    Caitlin Adams Bryan

    A RICH MAN'S DAUGHTER He was the handsomest man she'd ever seen. It didn't matter that he was an outlaw who had kidnapped her at gunpoint, bound her wrists together, and carried her away on horseback to an abandoned trapper's shack...

  • Wild Lily

    Caryn Cameron

    The Fairest Flower... Virginia tomboy Lily Wilde was used to taking care of herself. Why should that change now that she'd come north to sedate Washington, D.C.? And why did infuriating and compelling Englishman Jordan Brant insist on meddling in ...

  • Back from the Dead

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • The Beyond

    Barry Harrington

  • Bleeder

    Gene Lazuta

    As part of an assignment, freelance writer Nick creates a horrific fictional character known as Nasty Andrew, but now the deranged killer has come to life, embarking on a cross-country bloodbath that seems to be heading straight for Nick...

  • The Burning

    Graham Masterton

    While investigating the death of his fiance+a7e, who burned herself to death with a smile on her face, Lloyd Denman learns that she has become a Salamander, a creature of fire and smoke-made flesh. Reprint....

  • Captain Quad

    Sean Costello

    Imagine you're a sudden quadriplegic, confined to bed and wheelchair, locked inside your head... Now imagine you're watching the person you've loved drift away, inexorably, despite your screams... How long would it be before your anguished howls b...

  • Devil's Gate

    Elizabeth Ergas

  • Dusk

    Ron Dee

    It settles over civilization with a blood red sun . . . over the landmarks of modern rational man, his freeways and skyscrapers, the yuppies, scumbags wannabes and pushers . . . over men and women yearning for someone else's flesh, and blood . . . Th...

  • The Fire Game

    R.L. Stine

  • The Fire Within

    Graham Watkins

    The winners had one thing in common, a lifetime of terrifying, blood-soaked nightmares. But now they hoped to escape all that, to cast off the pressures of civilization in a sun-drenched paradise by the sea. Soon, their inhibitions faded away; their ...

  • Lucifer's Eye

    Hugh B. Cave

    Evil stirs in the heart of paradise. To plantation caretaker Peter Sheldon. St. Alban is a lush Caribbean jewel . . . but suddenly, all is not what it seems . . . A crime wave is sweeping the villages . . . and a mysterious green fog is terrif...

  • Night of the Vampire Kitty

    Stephen Mooser

  • Out for Blood

    John Peyton Cooke

    THE PRICE OF ETERNAL LIFE Creatures of dark legend, they roam the Earth to feed on the living. A race older than time -- despised, feared and misunderstood -- immortal souls damned for all eternity. Now young Chris Callaway has joined their ra...

  • Something Out There

    Ronald Kelly

    It was passed down from generation to generation. The legend of the Dark 'Un, the strange beast that roamed Pale Dove Mountain. The dark monster that no one had ever seen -- at least not and lived to tell about it -- except, so it was said, old Fletc...

  • Unearthed

    Ashley McConnell

  • The Vampire Memoirs

    Mara McCuniff; Traci Briery

    “My friends and family have good reason to worry about this little diary of mine. But now that I’ve made my decision to write this, I don’t think I can, or should, go back. I am a vampire, you see…†Thus begins the remarkable saga of Mara ...

  • Watchers in the Woods

    William W. Johnstone

    THE HUNTED The idea sounded like such fun to Susan Benning. Camping in the pristine mountains of Idaho with her old high school gang right after their thirty-year reunion. Even the kids were looking forward to it. But something felt wrong the de...

  • Wurm

    Matthew Costello

    Twenty-seven years ago, five friends decided to play a game... But if it was just a game, why is there blood? If it was only in their imagination, why is it crawling toward them? If they thought it was dead, why are they still afraid? To ...

  • A First Class Murder

    Elliott Roosevelt

    DESTINATION:MURDER With horns blasting and crowds cheering, the great luxury liner Normandie steams out into the Atlantic -- her elegant staterooms graced by the rich and famous of the world, including America’s First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. ...

  • Song of the Saurials

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

    When the Harpers judged the Nameless Bard responsible for the death of his apprentices, they sentenced him to exile and obscurity. Now the Harpers are reconsidering their decision, but with the arrival of the monster Grvpht, Nameless's new trial diss...

  • Bannock's Brand

    Leo P. Kelley

  • Blood Rival

    Dalton Walker

  • The Comancheros

    Clay Dawson

  • The Cookcamp

    Gary Paulsen

    In 1944 a little boy is sent to stay with his grandmother. Grandma cooks for nine men who are building a road from Minnesota to Canada. Living in the forest is a great adventure. The little boy helps his grandmother, who gives him her love and del...

  • Desolation Point

    Jake Logan

    Cheated by some high-class cardsharps, Slocum is rescued by the lovely Evangeline Dunbar, who asks him to escort her on a perilous trek across the desert to Desolation Point, Utah, but he soon discovers that he has inherited a mess of trouble...

  • El Lazo

    Larry Jay Martin

    In the 1840s Alta California is on the verge of revolution. The Mexicans are struggling to keep their gracious life-style intact. The Indians have sworn to defend their tribal heritage against all invaders. Both are doomed by the inevitable war with ...

  • Flagstaff Showdown

    Chet Cunningham

  • Guns Don't Argue

    J.R. Roberts

    Ever since Clint Adams got the invitation from his old friend, Hank Sayles, he'd had an unsettling feeling that something in Plains was just plain wrong. Cattle rustling, ballot-box stuffing, bride selling. gunfighting...all in a town that was little...

  • Hannah

    Gloria Whelan

    “Just because I can’t see, strangers think I can’t hear either. Or they believe I am stupid.†Nine-year-old Hannah would do almost anything to go to school -- and to prove these strangers wrong. But the year is 1887, Hannah is blind, and h...

  • Hell and Hot Lead // Gun-Rider

    Norman A. Fox

    Renegade preacher Hank McGrath finds himself pitted against three ruthless men out to sabotage the railroad; and a gambler turned rancher joins forces with a gunslinger to defeat the ranching syndicate that wants to dominate Sleeping Cat Basin...

  • Lone Star and the Alaskan Renegades

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki ride a frozen trail of blazing bullets in the one hundred and fourth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the mar...

  • Madoc's Hundred

    Pat Winter

    VISIONS OF A GRAND AND GLORIOUS NEW WORLD Three centuries before Columbus, in the year A.D.1170, an exiled Welsh prince set sail across the Western Sea to escape the shackles of English tyranny. His name was Madoc, and all he had was courage, dete...

  • Man from Two Rivers

    Luke Short

    They wanted his land. They should have taken his life.He'd shot to defend his property. Now Hobe Carew was wanted by the law. First Hobe found an ally in a half-breed named Jim. Then he found a friend in a runaway girl and a good reason to come back ...

  • North of Esperanza

    G. Clifton Wisler

  • Rage in Chupadera

    Norman Zollinger

    Although his father, a legendary sheriff turned bloody renegade, has been dead for twenty years, young Corey Lane discovers that old hatreds die hard and that he must become involved if he is to prevent a genocidal conflict with the Apache. Reprint....

  • Railroad Renegades

    Jon Sharpe

    A motley crew of assassins known as the Blue Goose Gang plans to cut short the new President's career with a bullett, and it is up to Canyon O'Grady to protect the chief executive as he rides the rails to a meeting with fate...

  • Seize the Sky

    Terry C. Johnston

    SON OF THE PLAINS Few names of the American frontier resonate like that of George Armstrong Custer. His fiery temperament and grand vision led him to triumph in one season and tragedy in another. Now bestselling chronicler Terry C. Johnston brings t...

  • The Sixth Rider

    Max McCoy

    WINNER OF THE MEDICINE PIPE BEARER’S AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL FROM WESTERN WRITERS OF AMERICA THE MAKING OF AN OUTLAW They were kin to the infamous James and Younger clans -- the hard-riding, hard-shooting Dalton boys of Kansas, sir...

  • Son of a Fast Gun

    Hascal Giles

    The Jessups were ranchers. Then the hard-dealin' Morgan Hill got it in his head that there was only room for one rancher in Marverick Creek, and he was it. When Hill's mob turned up, Jericho John told 'em he'd die before he'd leave, and die he did....

  • Song of the Silent Harp

    B.J. Hoff

    Song of the Silent Harp, Book One of BJ Hoff’s acclaimed and bestselling Emerald Ballad series begins the five-book saga of three friends raised in a tiny Irish village devastated by the Potato Famine of the mid-1800s, as they struggle to survive a...

  • The Twisted Sword

    Winston Graham

    The Twisted Sword, the eleventh novel in Winston Graham's classic Poldark saga, now a major TV series from Masterpiece PBS.Cornwall 1815Demelza sees a horseman riding down the valley and senses disruption to the domestic contentment she has fought so...

  • Lady of the Mists

    Clara Wimberly

    She should never have come to Stillmeadows. Now, it was too late... "You don't belong here, Julia. And you never will." It took Julia a long time to get over her broken engagement to David Damron. But when she learned that he had married a we...

  • Across Town

    Sara

  • Addie Runs Away

    Joan Robins

  • Alice's Special Room

    Dick Gackenbach

    Alice tells her mother about her special room, where she can play with her cat who died, enjoy the warm beach in January, go sledding on a hot summer day, and do anything she has already done in the past...

  • Alistair Maclean's Night Watch

    Alastair MacNeill

    When the UN Anti-Crime Organization, a top-secret strike force, is called into action, Mike Graham, C.W. Whitlock, and Sabrina Carver track an unknown enemy responsible for a crime wave involving art theft, espionage, drug dealing, and murder...

  • All of You Was Singing

    Richard Lewis

  • All You Need

    Elaine Feinstein

    An insightful satire follows Nell Bolton, a woman in her forties with a husband in jail, a Valium addiction, and a tyrannical teenage daughter, as she fights for survival amidst the media, feminists, and the literary sharks of yuppie society...

  • The Animalia Wall Frieze

    Graeme Base

  • Annie and CO.

    David McPhail

  • April Fool's Day Mystery

    Marion M. Markham

  • As the Crow Flies: A First Book of Maps

    Gail Hartman

    Maps -- they help you get where you want to go. People use road maps to find their way. These maps show miles of highways that point out the right direction. But what about the crow? What kind of map does he use? Or the eagle, the rabbit, the horse, ...

  • Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later)

    James E. Ransome

  • Avenue of Eternal Peace

    Nicholas Jose

    Wally Frith, an Australian cancer specialist, heads for China to accept a post at Peking Union Medical College, but his immersion in the culture of Beijing is overshadowed by the disappearance of Professor Hsu Chien Lung, a respected cancer researche...

  • The Baby Blue Cat and the Whole Batch of Cookies

    Ainslie Pryor

  • Baseball & the Game of Life

    Peter C. Bjarkman

  • Baseball Stories 2: The Fox Steals Home/No Arm in Left Field/The Year Mom Won the Pennant

    Matt Christopher

  • Bear

    John Schoenherr

  • Becky Rides Again

    Carrie Austen

  • Bedtime Cat

    Lynn Reiser

  • Best Busy Year Ever

    Richard Scarry

  • Big Bird Plays the Violin

    Deborah Hautzig

  • The Big Pets

    Lane Smith

  • Billy Watson's Croker Sack

    Franklin Burroughs

  • The Birthday Tree

    Paul Fleischman

  • A Book Dragon

    Donn Kushner

    Nonesuch, the last in a line of dragons, uses his unique ability to change in size to survive for six centuries, during which time he observes such different humans as a medieval monk, an eighteenth-century London chemist, and a modern American books...

  • The Book of Babies: A First Picture Book of All the Things That Babies Do

    Jo Foord

  • Break Contact, Continue Mission

    Raymond D. Harris

  • Brooklyn Dodger Days

    Richard Rosenblum

  • Brother Night

    Victor Kelleher

  • The Bully on the Bus

    Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

    After stealing lunches and baseball caps, and generally terrorizing the first graders on the school bus, Brian the bully decides to torment Max and Charlie, a big mistake that lands the nasty sixty grader back in kindergarten...

  • A Cache of Jewels & Other Collective Nouns

    Ruth Heller

  • Can David Do It?

    Sandy Asher

  • Cape Cod

    William Martin

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Engrossing...entertaining...the perfect book to take to the beach." - Boston HeraldTwo families, both carried by the Mayflower across stormy seas... both destined to generations of proud leadership, shameful intrigue, and pa...

  • Carrot Delight

    Brian Mangas