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New Books List: 232 titles

  • The Artemis Sanction

    Ashley Aasheim

  • The Death of a Legend

    Robert Adams

    OUT OF THE JAWS OF DESTRUCTION When the Witchmen caused the earth to move and called forth the fires from the mountain's inner depths, the Moon Maidens, Ahrmehnee, and Thoheeks Bili's troops barely escaped with their lives. Driven by the flames in...

  • Mission Code: King's Pawn

    Pamela Allen

    By June 1943, the Balkan countries needed a strong leader - one who could stand up against the Germans. But the country's divided guerrillas each had their own idea of who that man should be - so did General Patton. On orders from the General, spec...

  • Bird of Paradise

    Winter Ames

    In the cool mountain heights of Panama, fair, delicate Sara Mancini is determined to succeed with her agricultural experiments on the Thoreson coffee plantation. Soon, though, the young widow's toughest task is to resist the magnetism of Eric Thoreso...

  • Walk To Survival

    D.J. Ameson

  • The Emerald Pool

    Marianne Andrau

    She abandoned her pride for love Amanda had followed Robert Alvares all the way to Brazil after admitting to herself the truth -- she loved him desperately. Now she was going to show him just how much. Her quest led her to the Emerald Pool, a r...

  • Desperate Love

    Alix Andre

    Despair forced her to take bold action. Grace Montclair boarded the train, shocked by her recent discovery. The man she'd fallen head over heels in love with hadn't mentioned that he was married. Now her only desire was to escape the memory of his im...

  • Badenheim, 1939

    Aharon Appelfeld

    In the summer of 1939, prosperous members of the Jewish middle class flock to the resort town of Badenheim, oblivious to the ominous political and military events that will transform them into de facto prisoners in their familiar resort...

  • Gone to Her Death

    Pierre Audomars

  • The Twelve Deaths of Christmas

    Marian Babson

    All London was dreaming of a white Christmas, but somewhere on the West End a killer was dreaming of bloody murder. Already dead was a solicitor in Middle Temple, a newsagent in Upper Soho, and two tots in Regent's Park Lake. As the holiday grew clos...

  • Best Friends

    Consuelo Sarah Baehr

  • Sometime after the Equinox

    Jorj Bent

  • Marriage Bed

    Constance Beresford-Howe

    Meet Anne Graham, mother of two young children, young, attractive, heavily pregnant -- and alone. Things have not worked out at all the way Anne intended. Her promising academic career was cut short by an unexpected pregnancy and an early marriage....

  • The Storm and the Splendor

    Jennifer Blake

    FORTUNE'S CHILD...DESTINY'S WOMAN Julia Dupre was the proud belle of New Orleans when she first fell under the mocking gaze of Captain Rudyard Thorpe. His self-assurance angered her, his insolence enraged her, yet he ws the one man who could help ...

  • Heart of the Glen

    Lily Bradford

    Scouting for antiques, Julie Boland roams the narrow lanes of Scotland's verdant highlands. And she encounters Ian Fraser, a wickedly handsome, devilishly sharp-tongued Scotsman who is irresistibly attractive. But when she learns he's jilted his ...

  • Holidays on Stage

    Virginia Bradley

  • Streets of Gold

    Karen Branson

    Fourteen-year-old Maureen and her family, refugees from the Irish potato famine of the 1840's, arrive in New York and struggle to make a place for themselves in an environment more hostile than they had imagined....

  • Big Bear, Little Bear

    David Brierley

    Brierley succeeds in escaping from John le Carré's shadow and turning out a book marked by a full measure of originality. New York Times George Orris is a half-Czech British agent working covertly in Prague in 1948 when all of his fellow spies a...

  • Winter Blossom

    Dixie Browning

    BLISS GOT EVERYTHING SHE WANTED, UNTIL SHE WANTED JAMES! Bliss Bonner had enjoyed her quiet life in London. That was before she met James Etchison. James demanded that she keep her playboy brother, Benji, away from his sister. But Benji's impulsiv...

  • Killing Wonder

    Dorothy Bryant

  • Jesus World

    Jamie Buckingham

    Have you ever wondered what Disney World would be like if it were centered on Jesus instead of cartoon characters? Would it be a good thing? Or would there just be as much fantasy as any other theme park run by robotics and remote controls? Is it OK ...

  • The Hot Car

    Lou Cameron

    This was no ordinary hot car. The Berkeley no-nuke radicals who ripped off the nuclear plant thought they were being so smart when they stashed the cobalt-60 in the radiator of their white Lancia Scorpion. First Edition Avon Paperback 78949...

  • Memory Boy

    Victor Canning

  • Horn of Africa

    Philip Caputo

    When Vietnam veteran and foreign correspondent Charlie Gage is recruited by the shadowy Thomas Colfax to assist with something called Operation Atropos, he has no idea he is about to be enlisted for guerilla warfare in northeast Africa. Once he reali...

  • The Winged Lion

    Anne Carsley

    LUSTS AS SEARING AS THE DESERT SUN The beautiful daughter of a wandering scribe, CeLa wanted only life and freedom. Brazenly, she defied the power-mad priestess of Lagash. Fleeing the temple death-pits, she swore an oath of service to the mighty Sar...

  • Demons and Daggers

    Lin Carter

    Come enter the amazing realms of magic and mythic fantasy, where wizards and magi conjure up astounding powers and spells against fearsome demons of the Shadow Worlds. Thrill to five daring exploits by the masters of heroic fantasy as their protagoni...

  • Stamp Twice for Murder

    Betty Cavanna

    The beautiful hill town of Vezelay, a jewel in the Burgundy countryside of France, is the location of this atmospheric mystery. To this idyllic spot come an American girl and her family to claim their legacy of a small cottage left to them by a dista...

  • A Child Is Missing

    Paul Charlot

    An open window . . . an empty crib . . . A family's nightmare begins . . . again! Forty years after the crime that shocked the nation, the son of an executed man is compelled to re-enact his father's hideous deed -- and a famous flier's son finds hi...

  • Promise to Pay

    Daphne Clair

    Could she trade sex for financial security? Why was Roxanne's father encouraging his business competitor's attraction for her? She saw no need to pander to the businessman's ego. Sebastian Blair's electronics firm was the largest i...

  • Game Set and Danger

    Anna Clarke

  • The Dastardly Murder of Dirty Pete

    Eth Clifford

  • Thanksgiving

    Terry Coleman

  • Song for Two Voices

    Barbara Corcoran

  • French Entrapment

    Ned Cort

  • Intermezzo

    Eleanor Anne Cox

    SHE WAS ALONE She had only her music, talent, and ambition to become a great concert pianist. A woman of gentle birth, Adela now lives as a companion and piano instructor in the household of her cousin, Lord Waterston. A cold, powerful patron of t...

  • Hobgoblin

    John Coyne

    Scott Gardiner--shattered by his father's death, harassment by classmates, and his mother's involvement with a colleague researching the heritage of an ancient castle--slips gradually into a horrifying world of dreams. Scott Gardiner is already sh...

  • Dark Summer Dawn

    Sara Craven

    The invitation held a pointed challenge Lisa didn't have the heart to refuse her stepsister's request. Julie had never been very good at organizing matters, and she simply couldn't handle her wedding plans alone. But Lisa had no ide...

  • Black Widow

    Christina Crawford

    The murder of Buck Simpson leaves Vivian--ruthless, unscrupulous, and a pathological liar--a wealthy widow free to indulge her whims and make life brutal for the son she cares nothing about and the stepdaughter who has always been her rival...

  • The Blackwood Bride

    Jasmine Cresswell

    The heartless scheme of a heartless man... To inherit his father's wealth, Viscount Blackwood had to marry. But he wanted a very brief marriage, one that would not interfere for long with his pleasures. So he decided to marry a dying woman ...a...

  • Unknown Shores

    Joseph Csida

  • The Visitor

    Jere Cunningham

    Fourth Printing, 1981. Clean and unmarked text. Pages are age toned. Spine is lightly creased. Cover has a small corner bend. Minor edge wear. Tight, solid, clean, square. NF+. We post pictures 24 hours after listing. So if you do not see a picture t...

  • That Carolina Summer

    Janet Dailey

    A strange compulsion seemed to grip her... Annette Long couldn't resist introducing herself to Josh Lord, the strikingly attractive owner of the resort where she was vacationing. In her utterly confident manner, she assumed he'd be more th...

  • Deep Cover Blast Off

    Lionel Derrick

  • Love Alone

    Patricia Dillon

  • Cast a Tender Shadow

    Isabel Dix

    She had married a total stranger! Romantically adventurous by nature, Kate eagerly flew to France to marry wealthy Antoine Savoney-Morlet at his family chateau. Little did she suspect that his possessive mother would never allow that match--unt...

  • The Four-Headed Dragon

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • The Infinity Clue

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • The Submarine Caper // Deadly Chase

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • The Stoic

    Theodore Dreiser

  • Rivers

    Michael Eden

  • Fortune's Child

    Rachelle Edwards

    EVERYONE KNEW THEY'D MAKE THE PERFECT MATCH -- OR PERFECT ENEMIES. No doubt wagers were being taken when Lord Rossington returned to London to brazenly ask for the hand of the lady he had jilted nine years before. Now it seemed all of England sto...

  • Secret Places

    Janice Elliott

  • Longarm and the Comancheros

    Tabor Evans

    THEY CALLED IT NO MAN'S LAND. ONLY THE RATTLERS SURVIVED. Llano Estacado. Parched plains. Burning, barren land between the Panhandle and Big Bend, Texas. Comanchero country in the old days. And now word was out that the white outlaw traders were b...

  • A Man

    Oriana Fallaci

  • Beyond Desire

    Claudette Fayet

    He'd kill before he'd let her love again. Denise was astounded when Guy, her husband, suddenly returned home. Six long years had passed since he'd deserted her, and her feelings had altered drastically. Any love she'd once felt for him had died in th...

  • Promises to Keep

    Rose Marie Ferris

    "I'm sorry," she said gently. "Do I know you?" "Before you took off without saying good-bye, I thought you did. You're my wife." Julie's eyes widened incredulously as she studied the handsome face, searching ...

  • Return Engagement

    Glenna Finley

    Memories of love... For beautiful set designer Kelsey Dodge, returning to Santa Fe brought back everything she had tried so hard to forget. The scandal over her stepbrother Russ, killed in an auto accident and accused of treason because of classi...

  • Bounty Hunter

    Aaron Fletcher

  • Tackle 22

    Louise Munro Foley

  • Welcome to Paradise

    Rose A. Forrest

  • Tar-Aiym Krang

    Alan Dean Foster

    THE DEADLIEST ARTIFACT OF A DEAD WORLD -- KRANG The last vestige of the last culture of TAR-AIYM, the long-dead planet, was Krang. It magnetized the adventurous, the curious...and the greedy. And killed them all. Or turned them into its livin...

  • Medicine Men

    J.L. Fraser

  • Merton

    Monica Furlong

  • Who's in Charge Here Yearbook 1981

    Gerald gardner

  • Paragon Man

    Christian Garrison

  • Passionate Imposter

    Elizabeth Graham (1)

    Anger blinded her to the hidden risks Natalie instinctively fled to the refuge of her father's British Columbia ranch when her job in Vancouver suddenly collapsed. She'd be able to sort out her confused emotions. But she found life ther...

  • A Glow of Candles and Other Stories

    Charles L. Grant

  • Alesia

    Eloise Greenfield

  • Time Jumper

    William Greenleaf

  • All The Way To Wit's End

    Sheila Greenwald

  • Beloved Intruder

    Jocelyn Griffin

    INSTEAD OF PEACE SHE FOUND PASSION London life offered Penelope a tempting proposition. Theater designer Nigel Burnett wanted her beside him as he skyrocketed to fame. Only his terms struck Pen as immoral. So she escaped to her peaceful Lakelan...

  • Edith Jackson

    Rosa Guy

  • Premature

    Mary Hanner

  • Waiting Games

    Bruce Hart

  • Loneliness Is Rotting on a Bookrack

    Johnny Hart

  • Let There Be Reign

    Johnny Hart

    Johnny Hart (1931-2007) was born and raised in Endicott, New York. Johnny created the comic strips, "B.C." and the "Wizard of Id". Launched in 1958, B.C. was written and drawn by Johnny. With the release of the Wizard of Id in 1964, drawn by cartooni...

  • Long Death

    Dane Hartman

  • Caroline

    Barbara Hazard

    YOUNG, LOVELY--AND AN OLD MAID? Forthright, sensible, attractive Caroline Draper. How could she have gone through two London seasons to no avail? Lovely Caroline, with her sparkling brown eyes and soft brown hair, thought herself well on her way t...

  • The Sun He Dies

    Jamake Highwater

    Nanautzin, chief orator of Montezuma, describes Mexico before its conquest by Cortes and evokes the character of Montezuma himself, torn between his dignity as an Aztec leader and his belief in the return of the white god Quetzlcoatl...

  • Way of a Man

    Margery Hilton

    She wasn't at all like he insinuated Abby had misgivings about being an escort girl, even for one night. But her roommate was in a jam and begged her to help out. Unfortunately, against strict company rules, Abby's date wanted more than...

  • The Men of Dallas

    Burt Hirschfeld

  • Black Marquis

    Margot Holland

    She stared in horror as the soldier spoke His leader, William of Normandy, had conquered England's Saxon king. And now the soldier was telling Lady Elfrida that the lands of her noble father were forfeit to William. In fury she spat, "Y...

  • A Woman of Fortune

    Will Holt

    THE PASSIONATE ODYSSEY OF HER LIFE TOOK HER FROM THE TEEMING LOWER EAST SIDE TO THE GOLDEN HEIGHTS OF SUCCESS -- AND THE HELL OF THE HOLOCAUST Sabine. She was both blessed and cursed by beauty and ambition. She turned her family's run-down mountain ...

  • A Separate Development

    Christopher Hope

    Harry Moto must pass as a "coloured" on the underside of society, following a sexual escapade with the rich which forces to live as a fugitive. This is the first novel of Christopher Hope, who is better known for his poetry and as a winner of the Cho...

  • Easy Company and the Headline Hunter

    John W. Howard

  • The Centurions

    Damion Hunter

    The unputdownable and action-packed story of Ancient Rome.Correus and Flavius are half-brothers, sons of a brilliant general. One, son of a slave, is a born warrior destined to excel. The other, a nobleman by birth, must struggle relentlessly to succ...

  • The Gay Phoenix

    Michael Innes

    When tycoon, Charles Povey, is killed in a bizarre boating accident, his corrupt, look-alike brother, Arthur, adopts his identity and his financial empire. But the charade becomes complicated when one of Charles''s many mistresses sees through the...

  • The Programmer

    Bruce Jackson

    Bored, dissatisfied, and engagingly imaginative, computer programmer Eddie Argo decides to strike back at the system and--together with a voluptuous counterculture cohort--reprograms into an anti-establishment Robin Hood fantasy...

  • The Seventh Man

    John Jakes

  • When the Idols Walked

    T.D. Jakes

  • The Sapphire Sky

    Kristin James

    A BEAUTIFUL TEXAS HEIRESS AND THE PRICE SHE PAYS FOR LOVE! Stunning, green-eyed Morgan Stone, daughter of an oil tycoon, found that the exclusive parties, country-club dances, and posh fashion shows of Dallas high society left her as cold as the k...

  • A Man for Always

    Nancy John

    TRAPPED WITHOUT A PAST! She felt that she couldn't be Jayne Stewart. Yet they told her, after the plane crash that robbed her of her memory, that that was her name, and she could only accept and tremble. She trembled with humiliation, for J...

  • Please Love Me...Somebody

    Maud Johnson

    When Julie Talbott father dies it brings about some unexpected changes moving to another state , starting in a new school and having to make new friends. But Julie’s shyness is mistaken for snobbery and when she attempts to launch a campaign to...

  • Marriage Without Love

    Penny Jordan

    They had shared a beautiful affair Then Briony had learned the shattering truth. Although she had been deeply in love with Kieron, a reporter then, he had wanted her only for a newspaper scoop. It was painfully ironic to Briony that his calculated...

  • Tiger Man // Craving Her Boss's Touch

    Penny Jordan

    It wasn't her job that he was after... Radio Wyechester was failing, and no one could hide the fact much longer. As advertising controller, Storm Templeton stood to lose a lot. She had worked long and hard to garner clients for the station. ...

  • Captive Witness

    Carolyn Keene

    Is absent-minded Professor Bagley a spy on a secret mission? That's what he reveals to Nancy when he desperately needs her help during their student tour of Europe. Their tour leader is also the leader of an important plan to help ten orphaned childr...

  • The Kachina Doll Mystery

    Carolyn Keene

    When Nancy arrives at the McGuire’s fitness ranch in Arizona, she discovers that the future of the ranch is being threatened by unexplained accidents. Teaming up with a ghost, Nancy begins her search for a precious collection of ancient Kachina dol...

  • The Swami's Ring

    Carolyn Keene

    When an amnesia victim arrives at Rosemont Hospital in River Heights, Nurse Lisa Scotti contacts her friend, Nancy Drew. The young man was found injured, at the bottom of a cliff, with no identification and no memory of what happened to him. A thorou...

  • The Twin Dilemma

    Carolyn Keene

    When a top fashion model disappears shortly before a benefit fashion show, Nancy’s aunt asks her to fill in and model the beautiful designer clothes. Then the clothes disappear too -- and Nancy is hot on the trail of another exciting mystery. As...

  • No Rest for the Dying

    James Kelly

  • Song of the Horse

    Richard Kennedy

  • The Villains

    Charlotte Keppel

    A haunting tale of the marshes. Left penniless by their parents' death, Nanette and Leonie go to live with their frosty aunt at Cudden Hall, where they come face to face with secrets, danger, and high passion....

  • Shreiber's Choice

    Dan Kirby

  • Rockabye

    Laird Koenig

  • Doctor's Orders

    Albert Kovetz

  • Shark Africa

    Bruno Krauss

  • Camber the Heretic

    Katherine Kurtz

    DARK AGE DESCENDING Camber of Culdi, most powerful of the, magical Deryni race, was worried. Twelye years before, he had "died" and assumed the form of Bishop Allister Cullen, in order to guide .the human king Cinhil and ensure peace between Deryn...

  • Perfect Passion

    Patricia Lake

    She had ruled love out of her life Fay's every instinct urged caution from the moment she met writer Gabriel Winters, even though his clear gray eyes reflected his deep attraction to her. Love, Fay reminded herself, had taught her a bitter les...

  • The Girl from Nowhere

    Charlotte Lamb

    Did giving your heart only invite rejection? Suki Black didn't know the answer to that question. She was too frightened to find out, just in case it was true. She'd known rejection in childhood, and she knew she didn't like it. But ...

  • Honesty

    Linda Lauren

  • Miss Peach Two

    Mell Lazarus

  • The Golden Notebook

    Doris Lessing

    "The Golden Notebook is Doris Lessing's most important work and has left its mark upon the ideas and feelings of a whole generation of women."  --  New York Times Book ReviewAnna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who n...

  • Ultra Goes to War

    Ronald lewin

    Ultra - the code word for the greatest secret of World War II - was the method by which the Allies intercepted German radio transmissions and broke their coded contents.

    Author Ronald Lewin was the first historian to utilize actual Ultra int...

  • Against the Wind

    Meredith Lindley

    ALL WAS NOT SMOOTH SAILING! When Molly Weston was sent by her employer to take a weekend cruise with Brett Sterling, a wealthy California playboy, she thought that it would be just a business trip. Brett, however, did not see it as such, and he w...

  • Desires Legacy

    Robert Liston

  • Outlaw Blood

    Jake Logan

  • Daddy's Girl

    Beverly Lowry

  • Fair Impostor

    Miriam Lynch

    The glittering world of London's ton lived to the fullest heights of excitement. Lady Emily Mardenvail--a beautiful heiress, bored and mischievous, confined to a dull country life. Emily's only hope of amusement is to convince her cousin Gracia to...

  • The Sardonyx Net

    Elizabeth A. Lynn

    Starcaptain Dana Ikoro was out a load of credits when someone stole the dorazine he was smuggling onto the slave world of Chabad. Caught in a desperate attempt to recover his property, Dana is arrested and sentenced to ten years of slavery on the dus...

  • Miss Pickerell Tackles the Energy Crisis

    Ellen MacGregor

  • The Clinic

    Charlotte Mallory

  • The Reluctant Flirt

    Elizabeth Mansfield

    A reckless young gambler learns why love always holds the winning hand Philip's strong arms tightened about her, and his lips pressed against hers with an intensity that seemed, to Augusta, as genuine as her own. "I... b-beg your pardon, " he ...

  • Ragged Regiment

    George Marion

  • The Guns Of Taos

    Cort Martin

    A STUNNING REDHEAD IN A LAWLESS TOWN AROUSES MORE THAN BOLT'S INTEREST! BOLT WAS A WANTED MAN... WANTED BY HIS FAMILY THE LAW--AND BY A WHOLE LOT OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN! There is no law in Taos except Reed Curtin's law--you'd best get out of town while y...

  • Everybody Everybody

    Judith Martin

  • Passion's Flight

    Marilyn Mathieu

    Hot-blooded, headstrong Sheldon Whitney meets his match in the cool, composed young widow who works for him in his London ad agency. Beverly Milford knows she's driving Sheldon mad, yet she can't afford to be anything but remote and efficient around ...

  • Darling, No Regrets

    Davidyne Mayleas

  • Taking Terri Mueller

    Norma Fox Mazer

    Fourteen-year-old Terri has lived with her father since the death of her mother in a car accident when she was four. Father and daughter move often, the reason for which becomes clear when Terri finds out that her mother is not dead, and that she was...

  • The Hunters

    Peter McCurtin

    Big game hunter Edward Manning has come all the way from England to hire Sundance as a guide on a hunt for wild grizzlies. But Manning soon tired of stalking his four-legged prey, and set his sights on the one thing he had never hunted before—a...

  • Fletch and the Widow Bradley

    Gregory McDonald

    Fletch and the Widow Bradley

    When Fletch finds a wallet with $10,000 in cash inside, he doesnâ,"t realize itâ,"s the last piece of good luck heâ,"s going to see for a while. Because when he calls in to the News-Tribune, he disco...

  • Paint Me Rainbows

    Fern Michaels

    JILL BARTON HAD BEEN LOOKING FOR AN ESCAPE FROM LOVE When she drove into Logan Matthew's artists' colony, Mill Valley. Recently jilted at the alter, Jill pretended to be a writer so that she could retreat into this seemingly safe haven. But L...

  • Forecast for Love

    Kristin Michaels

    A STORMY KIND OF LOVE Pretty Holly Meriweather could hardly believe her good fortune when she landed the job of weather forecaster at the local television station. But when she found herself falling for handsome station owner Drake Wimberly, her f...

  • Lady Nell

    Sandra Mireles

    Before she could protest her cruel fate, she was married to Andrew, Lord Melford. Poor gawky Nell-only sixteen and already deserted by her rakish groom for India, a continent away. Eight long years later Andrew returned with barely a memory of the gi...

  • A Westward Love

    Elizabeth Monterey

    A Savage Land and a Savage Love! Claire Hayes was an Englishwoman with pale blonde hair and dark, burning eyes. Soon she was crossing the wild, wide American continent. Its roughness would strengthen her, and five men would help make her a woman: ...

  • The Priest of Love

    Harry T. Moore

  • Two Women

    Alberto Moravia

    FIRST PUBLISHED in English in 1958, Two Women is a compassionate yet forthright narrative of simple people struggling to survive in war. The two women are Cesira, a widowed Roman shopkeeper, and her daughter Rosetta, a naive teenager of haunting beau...

  • Heirlooms

    Carole Morgan

  • Regina V. Rumpole

    John Clifford Mortimer

    "Rumpole is worthy to join the great gallery of English oddballs ranging from Pickwick to Sherlock Holmes, Jeeves and Bertie Wooster" -J. W. Lambert in the Sunday Times What have a tea-leaf, a swede and a rotten egg got in common? The answer of cours...

  • Merlin's Godson

    H. Warner Munn

    Across the Seas of Darkness Camelot was gone and Arthur lay in the sleep of the forever undead. Only a small band of loyal men were left, guided now by the magical wisdom of Merlin. United, they braved uncharted seas toward the mysterious Lands of t...

  • Butcher Baker

    Richard Natale; A.J. Glueck

  • Brainchild

    Andrew Neiderman

  • Guardsman of Gor

    John Norman

    From kidnapped collegian to a woman's slave, from landless fugitive to warrior-captain, the life of Jason Marshall on Earth's orbital twin was a constant struggle against the naked power and barbaric traditions of glorious Gor. Now, in the heat of...

  • Merlin

    Robert Nye

    In this rollicking, bawdy extension of the Arthurian legend, Merlin refuses to act out his role as an antichrist and engages, instead, in mischievous, frequently outrageous tricks involving Arthur and his knights...

  • Childwold

    Joyce Carol Oates

    A lonely middle-aged eccentric named Kasch falls in love with a beautiful fourteen-year-old girl named Laney and becomes fatefully involved with her family, inhabitants of the distant, impoverished, but enchanting region of Childwold...

  • Unholy Loves

    Joyce Carol Oates

    Looks at the lives of the men and women of a prestigious upstate college, including Albert St. Dennis, Professor of Poetry, and the people he meets--Brigit, a divorcee, and Alexis, a pianist and composer...

  • Assassins

    Joyce Carol Oates

  • A Better Class of Person

    John Osborne

  • The Circus

    Edward Packard

  • The Best Laid Plans

    Gail Parent

    A rollicking novel launches all-out sexual warfare when Roberta Anderson is determined to have a baby and assembles, but cannot convince, seven of her most gene-advantageous lovers to comply, within one weekend...

  • Ghost Rig

    Cliff Patton

  • Second Person Rural: More Essays of a Sometime Farmer

    Noel Perrin

    A collection of essays on the practice and philosophy of country life yields advice for sometime farmers, explores the differences between country and city, and considers the problems all transplanted city-dwellers must deal with...

  • Saint Peter's Fair

    Ellis Peters

    St. Peter's Fair is a grand, festive event, attracting merchants from miles around--each one eager to sell luxurious clothing, fine wines, or treasures of silver and gold. But on the eve of the Fair one such merchant, Thomas of Bristol, is found w...

  • Night of the Willow

    Maureen Peters

    Lucy Mary O'Malley leaves Lancashire to marry Prince Chang Lee, son of a Mandarin and, in the Forbidden City of Peking, she faces the Dragon Empress, Boxer rebels, and repeated threats to her life and her love...

  • Call Me Heller, That's My Name

    Stella Pevsner

  • A Midsummer Night's Death

    K.M. Peyton

    Jonathan doesn't like Robin, the English master at his boarding school. It's not his inability to control his classes that he dislikes, nor even his incompetence as a teacher - it's his complete indifference to the feelings of anyone but himself. ...

  • Takeover Barons Wall

    Richard Phalon

  • The Fuzzy Papers

    H. Beam Piper

  • Earth in Twilight

    Doris Piserchia

    Laredo Space Base hadn't sent a ship to Earth for hundreds of years before the Project Deep Green survey craft was launched. Only one thing was known: the planet humankind had so long ago vacated was a wasteland with nothing on it but poisonous flora...

  • Renno

    Donald Clayton Porter

    MIGHTY IN PEACE -- Sworn to preserve peace on America's first frontier, Renno, the magnificent Iroquois Sachem, valiantly sought to conquer the rising tide of blood and treachery. As the French set tribe against tribe, brother against brother, Renno...

  • Matt Reagans Lady

    Brinker M. Post

  • The Compadres

    Dan Price

    There were fortunes to be made in Texas. With a fast horse, a faster gun, and a trigger-quick mind, Lynch planned to hit paydirt with the biggest cattle rustling deal the Lone Star Territory had ever seen. The only obstacle was Wesley Hunt, a range d...

  • To Find My Son

    Ron Putterman

  • According to Guiness

    Random House

  • Her Father's Daughter

    Anna C. Ready

  • Funeral Games

    Mary Renault

    Alexander the Great lies dying. Around his body gather the generals, the provincial satraps and the royal wives, already competing for power and land. Only Bagoas, the Persian boy who loved him, wants nothing. In the struggle for succession, it seems...

  • The Fires of Oakheath

    Andrea Robbins

    Surely the North could not oppress the South as unfairly as Allison's father swore to oppress her! How dare he dictate whom her husband would be? How could he try to smother her untamed spirit? Her father would have her marry wealthy neighbor Lanc...

  • Lionheart

    Martha Rofheart

    The life and times of Richard the Lionheart and the Plantagenets--Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Richard's brothers--is recreated against the backdrop of the medieval religious crusades and family conflict....

  • King of Kielder

    Margaret Rome

    Could she really marry Colt Kielder? The very idea was repulsive to Rowan, but when her brother unexpectedly sold their home, Falstone Castle, to hated Scotsman Colt Kielder, Rowan had to do something to retain her rightful heritage. "Some ...

  • The Eternity Stone

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  • Stages of Love

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  • The Owlsfane Horror

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  • Turkish Rondo

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