For her thirty-fifth birthday, divorced Alice Meyers received news of her upcoming grandmotherhood, a pink slip, a thousand seed pearls to sew on her sister's wedding veil and a pistol pointed at her by a gorgeous, gun-wielding stranger who insisted ...
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...
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...
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...
A MAN WITH A PAST English teacher Paris Ford wasn't about to put up with losing classroom performances from members of Brockton College's championship-bound basketball team. She approached the new athletic director for help--and found herself face...
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...
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...
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, ...
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 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...
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...
Four people in a tug-of-love Liz Tall, dark and handsome -- I'd been waiting all my life for a man like Ben Malloy. Only Toni, my roommate and best friend, hadn't. She and I were like sisters -- always looking out for each other. Now th...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
NO OPTIONS A new faction of Irish freedom fighters known as the Curran Brigade is in fact a group of ruthless terrorists using patriotism as a front for a horrifying conspiracy. Financing a growing arsenal of sophisticated weapons by drug smugglin...
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....
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...
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.
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 ...
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...
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...
Where was the last missing orphan? Elderly communications magnate Owen Byrnside had assigned lawyer Jake Caine to track down three abandoned orphans, one of whom might be Owen's long-lost granddaughter. With the help of his beautiful and efficient...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"Riveting...CHICAGO LOOP is an icy tale brilliantly imagined."
THE BOSTON GLOBE
He knifes silently through the shadows of the steamy Chicago summer night, prowling for lonely souls who need his help. The desperate come to him, answering his ads...
Winner of the National Jewish Book AwardRody is in charge of the chicken coop on the kibbutz where he lives in Israel’s Jezreel Valley. He loves his job so much and makes the work seem so delightful that everyone wants a chance to tend the broo...
Fearless father... A VERY SPECIAL CASE To stuntman Cade Daniels, the biggest challenge of his life wasn't on a movie set--but fighting for custody of his baby son. And to win, he'd have to convince court psychologist Megan Lewis that jumping fr...
SEPARATE BEDS What was a nice girl like Halley Jernigan doing in a mess like this? Her assistant had absconded with company funds, her new apartment had been rented out from under her... and she had no one to turn to but Jay--her bossy ex-husband!...
Explores the legacy of civil war and despotic regimes crippling Arab nations and points to tribal culture and a complex code of shame, honor, and power-challenging that feed the onging political and religious battles...
The stolid landscape of Chicago suddenly turns dreamlike and otherworldly in Stuart Dybek's classic story collection. A child's collection of bottle caps becomes the tombstones of a graveyard. A lowly rightfielder's inexplicable death turns him into ...
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...
A happily married British historian enjoys a peaceful life until a figure from the past invades his dreams with violent erotic visions, forcing him into an affair with a student and jeopardizing his carefully constructed existence...
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 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...
This collection of ten short stories represents almost 30 years of the author's career, including some of his most popular works. The title story is about an ageing poet who cannot write as the times demand, but his mentally handicapped son can....
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...
New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes:
The playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibliographical and textual standards
Textual notes recording signi...
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...
NOBODY'S BABY Andrea Perrin couldn't believe the devastatingly handsome man who'd appeared at her door. A young widowed mother, Andrea was struggling to raise her child in a safe, healthy environment. Why was Slade Cutler, one of the w...
**Soon to be appearing on Netflix as "Obsession," starring Richard Armitage and Charlie Murphy**This New York Times bestselling novel, now in a brand-new edition, is a daring look at the dangers of obsession and the depth of its shattering consequenc...
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...
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 -...
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 ...
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...
Big business or motherhood? Emma Rainer was a tough corporate lawyer. But outside the office, her almost magical attraction for children dictated that she ought to be an earth mother. Currently a major contender for promotion, she'd been please...
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'...
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...
Even the youngest child can learn the Hebrew alphabet with this unique coloring book that features great big alphabet letters, their numerical equivalents, and a pronunciation guide based on familiar Hebrew words. (All Ages)...
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...
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...
Why had it taken an enemy to set her heart ablaze? The last time Seth had seen Kate he'd made it clear he couldn't wait to see the last of her. So why now, six years later, had he insisted that Kate handle the renovations to Montstowell, h...
Plan A--expose Warren! Plan B --fall in love? Warren Hunter had caused Miranda's family a great deal of pain. But he wasn't going to get away with it. Miranda had the perfect plan for revenge--a plan she hadn't hesitated to put into a...
PRICE OF PERFECTION Jason Starke had earned the name "Iceman" both on and off the ice. The Olympic gold medalist was a dazzling master of the silver blades--perfection on ice. But inside, Jason felt like an imposter, a showman who glided and twirl...
"Why did you marry me?" Cathy's voice was accusing. "You shut me out of every part of your life except your bed and your home. You don't share any of your dreams with me." When she married glamorous film director Tom Wes...
Clancy viewed things realistically It was easy enough for Ronan King to claim that Barrett Sutherland, his employer, had wanted this meeting for years. But Clancy couldn't believe that a father who really cared about his daughter could ignore ...
The author of the highly popular Hairdo serves up a new, wildly hilarious, critically acclaimed novel of life in Dixie. A breezy read that runs along on sass, spunk, and good old redneck raunchiness.--Kirkus....
When his license is suspended for failing to report a gunshot wound, former plastic surgeon Dr. Webb Smith gets a job working the night shift in an all-night medical clinic while he waits out his suspension...
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...
It was love, pure and simple That's what hit Margaret Brennan straight between the eyes when lawyer John Dailey stepped over her threshold. But her heart didn't pound for John -- it pounded for the two small bundles of joy he was carrying....
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...
The author of Upstairs, Downstairs continues her internationally bestselling mystery series. Antique dealer Doran Fairweather is absolutely elated to find a beautiful little oil painting portraying the doomed Pre-Raphealite Lizzie Siddal. When she di...
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...
Beyond the Mistwall, the Dark Lord gathers strength, turning his enemies' worst fears to reality with . . . THE DREAMSTONE Bith the sorceress and her companions - Cal the outlaw, Hathor the troll, and Endril the elf, have armed themselves with ...
Quest for the Black Elfstone In the three hundred years since the death of the Druid Allanon, the mysterious, evil Shadow-en have seized control of the Four Lands. The shade of Allanon summons the four scions of Shannara: Par, Coll, Wren, and Walk...
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 anthology of both traditional poems and well-known compositions, which retain traces of the old, pre-Christian religion which is essentially the worship of the goddess and her consort as well as witchcraft, traditional nature magic spells, pagan f...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Avowed enemies Mary-Anna and Sandra, whose mothers are best friends, find their relationship transformed during an outing to the city, when the two girls are separated from the adults and they must depend on each other for safety...
BLOOMS... That was the name Catherine Eliot gave the business that became her passion--the East Side flower shop from which she aped wealth and prestige by tapping into New York's taste expensive and exotic. This is Catherine's story--of her passion...
He was every woman's dream Like manna from heaven, Cal Buchanon's photograph landed on Tess Avery's desk. It would guarantee the success of the calendar project she'd been assigned. It would launch Tess in New York's advertisin...
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...
Dr. Eric Najarian. He's young, talented, and ambitious. He has all the qualities they're looking for at White's Memorial Hospital. He doesn't know he's being watched. Judged. An elite clique of medical professionals think he has what it takes to join...
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...
Teenage Maya and the other colonists on the planet Ceti try to resist being taken over by another hostile Earth colony on a neighboring world, while debating how to treat the native, possibly intelligent creatures called hlur....
THE SINS OF A FATHER The most ruthless oilman in America, Laz Kaminski doesn't just buy out his competitors, he ruins them. And when that rival is his only son, he becomes a man possessed with the need to win ...no matter whom he betrays or how he l...
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 ...
Festival for Three Thousand Maidensis set in the 1960s, the era of war in Vietnam and riots and assassinations in the US; however, neither of these places figure directly in the story, but both reverberate like distant thunder coming ever close to th...
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...
Surrounded by fire. When the fire broke out, Shona was listening to the radio and doing her homework. Kristian was riding his dirt bike. Jason was out in the woods. Somehow none of them heard the police evacuating everyone from their neighborhood....
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 ...
The Hot-Blooded Cowboy... Cade McCall wasn't the kind of man to answer an ad as mysterious as Rusty Wilder's--but he'd never needed a job as much as he did this one! When he met the feisty green-eyed rancher, whose wild red hair echoed her fiery spi...
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 ...
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. ...
Ned Quinn's impulsive response to a lonely hearts ad draws him out of his self-imposed solitude into the Australian outback and an unexpected affair. But Quinn suffers from schizophrenia, and his developing relationship with Jennifer Duncan is threat...
THE PISCES MAN If there's only one fish in the sea for you, catching the passionate Pisces man will require a special kind of bait--charm and perseverance! Reel him in slowly... . ONE PISCES MAN IN PARTICULAR Meticulous Steve Jamison was in a ru...
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 ...
From Dav Pilkey, creator of the New York Times bestselling Dog Man and Captain Underpants series, comes Dragon, the heartwarming hero adored by Dav's youngest readers!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early reader line, A...
Third in the Wraeththu Chronicles trilogy, 'The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire' concludes the first saga of the androgynous race that has become the dominant race on earth. Calanthe, erstwhile companion of Pellaz, (the har who has now become leader o...
Generation X is Douglas Coupland's classic novel about the generation born in the late 1950s and 1960s―a generation known until then simply as twenty somethings.
Andy, Claire, and Dag, each in their twenties, have quit pointless jobs i...
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...
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...
They would pretend to be strangers Only it wasn't working out quite that way. They couldn't ignore certain things they'd already discovered about each other. Liz knew the meeting should never have happened. Although she'd found it easy to commu...
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...
With the vast armies of the evil Anakhizer threatening Omara, Simon Wargallow and his allies, armed with the rod of power, journey deep into forbidden lands to discover the truth about the perils that endanger the world...
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.....
PACT WITH THE DEVIL The Courtney family blood has long run hot as hot as the passion and turmoil boiling in war-torn South Africa. When one of their own succumbs to the worst kind of evil, those ties are put to the ultimate test. Isabella Court...
HEART OF STONE Cash McQueen was a hard man, a man who believed in the land and nothing else. With the land, a man knew where he stood. It was different with a woman. There wasn't one alive who could be trusted--and Mariah MacKenzie was no exceptio...
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...
“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...
HARD-HEARTED TEXAN... Born into a sprawling ranching family, rugged Harden Tremayne was the toughest, wildest man ever to come out of Texas. And the loneliest. Until he met Miranda Warren, the lovely Chicago widow who aroused feelings too long de...
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...
NO WAY OUT College professor Brenna Hawthorne enjoyed her solitary existence--until the walls of her ivory tower began to crumble around her. One of her colleagues was missing, the FBI suspected her of espionage, and Special Agent Mitch Carlisle w...
UNEXPECTED PLEASURE Tess Rand had just had a rotten day! First, she arrived home to find unrequested workmen fixing her roof, then the kid next door knocked her over with his bike--sending purse, pizza and caged mouse to the ground. But things pic...