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  • Halloween Rain

    Christopher Golden; Nancy Holder

    As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. One girl in the all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers. Around Sunnydale, they say a scarecrow saturated wit...

  • Headhunters

    Mel Odom

    Jack Slater and his Shadowrunner team are hired to penetrate the high-tech security around a funeral home and retrieve the corpse of a double agent--a hot property that holds the key to an assassination. Original....

  • Escape from Thyferra

    Ryder Windham

    The Rebel forces have found an Imperial conspiracy involving contaminated bacta, a deadly substance that can poison entire planets. In order to stop the Empire, the Rebels travel to Thyferrra....where they are trapped by a squadron of stormtroopers! ...

  • Her Klingon Soul

    Michael Jan Friedman

    Even light-years from the Klingon Empire, the Day of Honor remains an occasion of great importance. And sometimes honor is found in the most unexpected places... B'Elanna Torres has never cared for the Day of Honor. Ashamed of her Klingon heritage, s...

  • Jedi Bounty

    Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

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

  • Retribution

    Bill McCay

    The survivors of the tragic war on Abydos stagger back to Earth through a smashed StarGate," through a storm of treachery, greed, defeat, and bitterness. Some are prisoners. Some are outcasts. All know the final war has yet to come. The titanic, p...

  • Star Wars Han Solo: At Stars' End

    Archie Goodwin

    Collects Classic Star Wars: Han Solo at Stars' End (1980) #1-3. Adapting Brian Daley's classic novel! For fans of the film -- fans of all ages -- this is one worth waiting for. Searching the galaxy for a rogue shipbuilder to repair the Millenium Fa...

  • Star Wars Log Book

    Chronicle Books

  • Treaty's Law

    Dean Wesley Smith; Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    The Day of Honor is celebrated throughout the Klingon Empire. But every tradition had to begin somewhere.... Signi Beta is an M-class planet ideal for farming. The Federation wants Signi Beta, but the Klingon Empire has the stronger claim. Captain...

  • Brian Boru

    Morgan Llywelyn

    One thousand years ago, during the Viking Age, an extraordinary young man was born in Ireland. His people, plagued by warfare, were weary not only from the Vikings' brutal raids along the coast, but also from the continuous warring among local chieft...

  • Double Edge

    Dennis Etchison

    While working on a docudrama about Lizzie Bordon, Jenny Marlow's in-laws are inexplicably murdered, a black wreath is sent to her door, a channeler sees a frightening vision, and death begins to stalk the people in Jenny's life. Original....

  • Shadows

    Jonathan Nasaw

    Jamey Whistler, the Oxford-educated secret vampire from The World on Blood, returns with a Romanian vampire-arsonist-hit-man in pursuit of him and his former lover, Selene Weiss, a high priestess of Wicca. Reprint....

  • A Small Dark Place

    Martin Schenk

    Without jobs, without savings, without hope, the Wiley family has fallen on hard times. Until they hear the story of a little girl who slipped down an abandoned mine. Americans respond with prayers. And cash. Now the Wileys hatch their own desperate ...

  • Threshold

    Bill Myers

    From the realms of science, the paranormal, and Bible prophecy emerges a novel for our times: fast-paced, carefully researched . . . with a warning none can ignore.

    Some say Brandon Martus has a mysterious ability to see into the future, to ...

  • Alien Bounty

    William C. Dietz

    McCADE'S AN INTERSTELLAR BOUNTY HUNTER -- AND THIS TIME HIS QUEST IS THE HOLIEST RELIC IN THE GALAXY... For years only the thinnest barrier kept the II Ronnian Empire from launching full-scale war on mankind. Now that barrier is about to crumble: ...

  • The Clandestine VS the X-Men

    Marvel Book Group

    Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Marvel Enterprises; First Edition edition (October 1997) Language: English ISBN-10: 0785105573 ISBN-13: 978-0785105572 Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.7 x 0.3 inches Shipping Weight: 1 pounds...

  • Control

    Everett Owens

    Mulder and Scully are in pursuit of a mysterious and powerful man who calls himself ‘Pusher.' Mulder thinks the man is a bizarre homicidal maniac who's able to convince his victims to kill themselves. But when Pusher learns that the FBI is on to hi...

  • First Victory

    Scott G. Gier

    INVASION ALERT! The murderous alien force tore into hyperlight drive on the heels of an interstellar peace-seeking voyage. The creatures were determined to find the humans' home planet. Their first conquest? The beautiful, Earthlike Genellan. L...

  • Forever Peace

    Joe Haldeman

    2043 A.D.: The Ngumi War rages, fought by "soldierboys"--remote control war machines run by soldiers hundreds of miles away. Julian Class is one of these soldiers, and for him, war is indeed hell. The psychological strain of being jacked-in to his so...

  • The Merro Tree

    Katie Waitman

    In the far reaches of our galaxy, the artist will face the ultimate censorship. Mikk of Vyzania, the galaxy's greatest performance master, commands stages on all the myriad worlds. His sublime, ethereal performances are unforgettable, drawing on t...

  • The New Hugo Winners, Volume 4

    Gregory Benford

    Presents the Hugo winners for 1992, 1993, and 1994 in a collection that includes contributions by Isaac Asimov, Charles Sheffield, Connie Willis, Harry Turtledove, Nancy Kress, Lucius Shepherd, and others. Original....

  • The Planet Hunters

    Dennis Brindell Fradin

    In a text illustrated by full-color and black-and-white photographs, the author of "We Have Conquered Pain" tells a fascinating story about the men and women throughout history who have been part of the extraordinary hunt for other planets....

  • Quicker Than the Eye

    Ray Bradbury

    The internationally acclaimed author of The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury is a magician at the height of his powers, displaying his sorcerer's skill with twenty-one remarkable stories that run the gamut fro...

  • Rising

    S.M. Stirling; James Doohan

    STILL READY TO LEND A HAND -- Introducing Flight Engineer Peter Raeder--He's already lost a hand, and if he can't find the traitor on his new ship, he'll lose much more! Peter Raeder became the Commonwealth's first ace pilot in the Molly war....

  • Spider-Man: Revelations

    Todd Dezago

  • A Thousand Words for Stranger

    Julie E. Czerneda

    MIND-BLOCKED! Ambushed by unknown assailants, cut off from her escort, and on the run with no memory of who she was, what she was doing on the world known as Auord, or why she was driven by a compulsion to find a specific ship and head for an unkn...

  • Timequake

    Kurt Vonnegut

    At 2:27 P.M. on February 13th of the year 2001, the Universe suffered a crisis in self-confidence. Should it go on expanding indefinitely? What was the point?...

  • You Only Die Twice

    Ryan Hughes

    Lo Wang: The Shadow Warrior. The darkness made whole, the night made flesh. Master of all martial arts. Master of all explosive weapons. These talents are of little use to Lo Wang, trapped beneath the rubble of a collapsed mountain. As his air and...

  • Birthright

    Andrew Coburn

    A haunting novel based on the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh's baby speculates on what would have happened if that the child had grown up in the family of his kidnappers, never knowing who he was until he was about to run for governor. 35,000 first ...

  • Bob the Gambler

    Frederick Barthelme

    A New York Times Notable Book In this darkly funny story, Ray and Jewel Kaiser try (and push) their luck at the Paradise casino. Peopled with dazed denizens, body-pierced children, a lusty grocery-store manager, and hourly employees in full revolt, t...

  • Capitol Venture

    Barbara Mikulski

    Co-written by the U.S. senator from Maryland, a mystery follows her fictional alter ego, Norie Gorzack, as she untangles a sinister web of campaign finance skullduggery, union corruption, political machination, and murder...

  • Codes of Betrayal

    Dorothy Uhnak

    When police officer Nick O'Hara's child is murdered, caught in the line of mob fire, Nick knows who is responsible, but as the half Irish and half Italian grandson of a mafia don, his hands are tied, or so he believes. Reprint....

  • Delusion

    Joanna Elm

    When Emma Kane turns up dead in her Main Line mansion, no one is free from suspicion, least of all her husband of twenty-five years, New York media mogul Jack Kane. Too many people would love to see Jack Kane out of biusiness permanently, including a...

  • Excalibur

    Bernard Cornwell

    In The Winter King and Enemy of God Bernard Cornwell demonstrated his astonishing ability to make the oft-told legend of King Arthur fresh and new for our time. Now, in this riveting final volume of The Warlord Chronicles, Cornwell tells the unforget...

  • Fire in the Canes

    Glenville Lovell

    Fifty years after the end of slavery, the tired West Indian village of Monkey Road is awakened when a beautiful woman and her teenage daughter arrive, forever changing their lives and the villagers, in this mystical and magical story. Reprint....

  • Grace, the Pirate

    Kathryn Lasky

  • Maggie

    Ann M. Martin

    What is happening to me? I'm useless. I can't sing. I can't keep up my grades. And I'm a liar....

  • The Magician's Assistant

    Ann Patchett

    Sabine -- twenty years a magician's assistant to her handsome, charming husband -- is suddenly a widow. In the wake of his death, she finds he has left a final trick; a false identity and a family allegedly lost in a tragic accident but now revealed ...

  • Malice Intended

    Ron Handberg

    Minneapolis anchorwoman and single mother Maggie Lawrence must take her colleagues into her confidence when proof of her darkest secret is revealed to her and someone begins to sabotage her career. Original....

  • The Matarese Countdown

    Robert Ludlum

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   “First-rate suspense.” -- People   Twenty years ago, top agents from the CIA and KGB banded together to bring down the Matarese Circle, an international cabal of power brokers and assassins whose sole objec...

  • Murder at Wittenham Park

    R.W. Heber

    Wittenham Park Manor. Dark, imposing, and impossibly expensive to maintain. The cash-poor Lord Gilroy has tried everything to raise some capital, to no avail. When Lady Gilroy goes bankrupt, Lloyd's calls in its debts, and an unethical realtor threat...

  • Out West

    Fred G. Leebron

    In this “coolly effective”...noir-flavored novel, two people who meet by chance in San Francisco’s Tenderloin get ambushed by their pasts and drawn into “a tense meld of murder and folly” (San Francisco Chronicle).
    ...

  • Perfidia

    Judith Rossner

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar -- the troubling story of a mother and daughter whose hostility and co-dependence may result in their deaths.In Perfidia, Maddy yearns desperately for the approval and love of her ...

  • A Rift in Time

    Michael Phillips

    From best-selling author Michael Phillips comes a gripping novel about an archaeologist who discovers Noah's Ark and searches for the Garden of Eden. A great book for all readers, especially those with an interest in end-times fiction like the Left B...

  • Senatorial Privilege

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    When a teenage girl is brutally murdered, revered Iowa Senator David Cummings sees to it that a local youth is convicted of the crime, and only District Attorney Amy McGuire can uncover a deadly scandal. Reprint....

  • Signal to Noise

    Carla Sinclair

  • Star Bright!

    Andrew M. Greeley

    It's beginning to look a lot like an American Christmas: unpleasant relatives, miserable travel, a slobbering dog-and one "harmless American of Irish origins," Jack Flanigan, who is reluctantly falling in love with a young Russian woman studying at H...

  • Underworld

    Don DeLillo

    A finalist for the National Book Award, Don DeLillo’s most powerful and riveting novel -- “a great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner” (San Francisco Chronicle) -- Underworld is about the second half of the twentieth century...

  • Amber Beach

    Elizabeth Lowell

    A dazzling tale of high adventure and larger-than-life characters in the story of a legendary treasure that inspires consuming passion and treacherous betrayal ... the fabulous lost fortune that was once the Russian Czar's exquisite, world-renowned A...

  • Angel with an Attitude

    Carly Bishop

    A five-hundred-year-old passion simmers on... As far as Angelo could figure, it must have been the sight of the orphaned baby that caused Isobel Avedon, his one true love, to turn irrevocably mortal. Isobel had always wanted a baby...his baby. ...

  • Before the Fall

    Patricia Rosemoor

    SEVEN SINS Conquer the sin and find true love. At least, that's the theory. But would it hold true? Or would these sins live up to their deadly billing? Could love be her salvation? Indicted for a crime she didn't commit, Angela Dragon is dete...

  • Duty and Dishonor

    Merline Lovelace

    A lifetime of duty..A moment of dishonor...Duty and Dishonor A LIFETIME OF DUTY Julia Endicott, daughter of the legendary Iron Man Endicott, has gone from Army brat to Air Force Colonel. Her highest goal will be met with a long-awaited promotion ...

  • Father and Child

    Rebecca York

    He found out he was a father... One glance at the doe-eyed girl in the photo melted the icy walls around Zeke Chambers's heart. Till then, he'd kept his past secret, his feelings hidden. But now he had to reach out -- for the help he needed to res...

  • Finding Laura

    Kay Hooper

    MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL It's an antique mirror that can reveal secrets ... or tarnish the truth. And for struggling artist Laura Sutherland, buying it is only the first step into a dark maze of lies, manipulation -- and murder. It brings Pet...

  • Little Girl Lost

    Adrianne Lee

    Would she lose her little girl if she regained her memory? When they survived a fiery bus accident, Jane Dolan and her infant daughter were given a new beginning--and new memories. But five years later those memories were challenged when Jane saw ...

  • No Regrets

    Pat Warren

    In a small town, a killer stalks ... Insurance investigator Ben Whalen has a tough job to do in the small town of Riverview on Michigan's upper peninsula. Looking into the deaths of two longtime friends insured for millions, he was a stranger to b...

  • Ritual Sins

    Anne Stuart

    A WOUNDED WOMAN Rachel Connery is a woman with a mission--to destroy Luke Bardell, the charismatic man who seduced millions of dollars from her dying mother, thus robbing Rachel of her inheritance. Now Rachel wants revenge--and she's willing to e...

  • The Devil's Bride

    Penelope Stratton

    'TWAS A MARRIAGE ALMOST MADE IN HEAVEN... Even before Lord Rupert Glennister arrives in Bath, he is the subject of dark and devilish rumors. But after he steals a kiss from the virtuous Calvina Bracewell, dreadful repercussions ensue. With nowhere...

  • Foolish Fancy

    Dawn Lindsey

    The Irresistible Earl Miss Frances Dean, known to friends and family as Fancy, had very firm ideas about a woman's rightful place in the world. As far as she was concerned, a woman should be educated, independent, and never, ever bow to the ty...

  • A London Season

    Patricia Bray

    A Country Miss With eight siblings and a bankrupt estate, Jane Segwick happily accepted her aunt's invitation to a London Season. Here was a chance to find a wealthy husband and get them out of the suds. But Jane's blunt country ways were considere...

  • Lord Wyland Takes a Wife

    Joy Reed

    Forsaking All Others... She had thought him an incorrigible wastrel, a man deserving of her contempt. Instead, Mary Grant found the new Lord Wyland to be fair, just--and handsome. He offered her everything she wanted to stay on at Wyland Manor to he...

  • A Marriage of Convenience

    Barbara Allister

    Between Two Fires Beautiful and spirited Jane Stanfield had made her choice between her two childhood friends, the dashing Lord Langston and the devoted Stephen Middleton. She had chosen to listen to Langston's impassioned proposal and turned ...

  • Mayhem & Miranda

    Carola Dunn

    There was an old woman...with a matchmaking plan that could turn a lady's life upside down! "Sir, you are no gentleman," were Miranda Carmichael's first words to Peter Daviot -- after he had the audacity to kiss her. Indeed, Peter ...

  • Moonlight Masquerade

    Joy Reed
    in

    GOBLINS, GHOSTIES, AND A MAGICAL EVE TO FALL IN LOVE... The frost is on the pumpkins and the harvest moon shines bright when Halloween brings romance to the London townhouses and grand estates of Regency England. Now lords and ladies meet to make ...

  • The Perfect Bride

    Eileen Putman

    Haunted by Love Amanda Fitzhugh was now far too levelheaded to be seduced by men's sweet promises or silken caresses. Handsome, heartless Lord Ramsey had once shattered her lofty notions of romance and brought her most firmly down to earth, where ...

  • The Soul of Indiscretion

    Karla Hocker
    in

    GOBLINS, GHOSTIES, AND A MAGICAL EVE TO FALL IN LOVE... The frost is on the pumpkins and the harvest moon shines bright when Halloween brings romance to the London townhouses and grand estates of Regency England. Now lords and ladies meet to make ...

  • Spellbound

    Jo Ann Ferguson
    in

    GOBLINS, GHOSTIES, AND A MAGICAL EVE TO FALL IN LOVE... The frost is on the pumpkins and the harvest moon shines bright when Halloween brings romance to the London townhouses and grand estates of Regency England. Now lords and ladies meet to make ...

  • Bad Land

    Jonathan Raban

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • Startlingly observed, beautifully written, this book is a contemporary classic of the American West. • "As good a book as I have read about rural America in a very long time." -...

  • The Best Man

    Shari MacDonald
    in

  • Daisies Are Forever

    Sydell Voeller

    Daisies are Forever, is an environmental contemporary romance published by Books We Love.April Heatherton, history teacher and volunteer firefighter, is determined to protect the land she holds dear, particularly the grave of an unknown pioneer woman...

  • Heaven's Song

    Marilyn R. Kok

    Nick Meyers, a single father and doctoral student, and Cassie McCormick both need time to recover from upsetting pasts, but their lives are destined to come together when a murder, child abuse allegations, and falsified data bring them under investig...

  • Impasse

    Laurel Oke Logan

    Esther Branson, a broadcast news anchor, questions her role in the stories she reports, and when Jon Shepherd, a local teacher is asked to resign for teaching creation science instead of evolution, both Esther and Jon must decide between standing up ...

  • Klondike Fever

    Suzann Ledbetter

    LUST FOR GOLD Gold. Only it had the power to draw a flood of humanity to the most savage territory in America--the Klondike, a world of daring and danger. Here women would sell their bodies and men would sell their souls as they all gambled on strik...

  • The Letter

    Richard Paul Evans

    In the final episode in The Christmas Box collection, David and MaryAnne Parkin find a mysterious letter at the base of their child Andrea's grave that eventually returns joy to their marriage, which had been strained in the nineteen years si...

  • Lions of the Desert

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

    Lions of the Desert opens up in 1915, over a year after the conclusion of Arabian Winds. Nurse Allison Wescott arrives in busy Cairo to serve the British military confronting Kaiser's Germany and their ally, Turkey. In Cairo, Allison meets Major Bret...

  • Mystery at Christmas

    Laura Krause
    in

  • Walker's Point

    Marilee Dunker

    Amanda Kelly, an antique dealer, the mother of two daughters, and the wife of a man with more interest in his work than in her, has a chance meeting in New York City that causes her to revisit Walker's Point, where she had spent her childhood summers...

  • Wish List

    Lisa Tawn Bergren
    in

  • A Change of Gravity

    George V. Higgins

    The day of judgment has come for Daniel Hilliard. Even though a flamboyant series of marital infidelities drove him out of the state senate in 1984--he's been cooling his heels ever since as president of Hampton Pond Community College--prosecutors th...

  • Anton Reiser

    Karl Phillip Moritz

    In Anton Reiser, the critic and educator Karl Philipp Moritz (1756-1793) turned his early life into fiction and, according to his translator Ritchie Robertson, created 'one of the most memorable experiences German literature has to offer'.A masterpie...

  • Bad Medicine

    Aimee Thurlo; David Thurlo

    Set on the Navajo reservation packed with Native American wisdom, Aimee and David Thurlo's Ella Clah novels are written with a sharp eye for conflict between the traditionalist and modernist ways of life. Former FBI Agent Ella Clah is now a special i...

  • Black and Blue

    Ian Rankin

    A murdered oil-rig worker. A copycat serial killer dubbed "Johnny Bible. And a reopened investigation that doesn't bode well for Detective John Rebus or his mentor, Inspector Lawson Geddes. Rebus's Scotland, along with his malt-soaked psyche, is ridd...

  • The Case Has Altered

    Martha Grimes

    Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury returns, in Martha Grimes's newest atmospheric tale o f murder and suspense. Timeless, peaceful, and remote, the watery Lincolnshire fens seem an unlikely setting for murder. But two women--a notorious act...

  • Dreaming of the Bones

    Deborah Crombie

    DREAMING OF THE ROSES After twelve years, the last person Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid expects to hear from is his ex-wife Victoria. But this is no social call. In her biographical research on troubled poet Lydia Brooke, Vic's uncov...

  • Sleeping With the Crawfish

    D.J. Donaldson

    A DEAD MAN CAN'T BE IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE...EVEN IN NEW ORLEANS Strange lesions found in the brain of a dead man have forensic pathologist Andy Broussard stumped. Even more baffling are the corpse's fingerprints. They belong to Ronald Cicero, a li...

  • Still Water

    John Harvey

    When the battered body of a young woman is discovered, the second corpse that is found, Charlie Resnick becomes involved in the case because his lover had been acquainted with the victim and her abusive husband and investigates the brutality that som...

  • Vengeance in Death

    J.D. Robb

    In a time when technology links the law and the lawless, predators and prey can be one and the same... He is an expert with the latest technology ... a madman with the mind of a genius and the heart of a killer. He quietly stalks his prey. Then h...

  • Annie's Hero // By Magic Born

    Maggie Shayne

    WHEN A LOVE DIES Sweethearts since childhood, Annie and Richard shared an unparalleled love filled with tenderness, passion and joy. Until the tragic day Richard vanished --- presumed dead after a terrible car accident --- leaving his adoring wife p...

  • Cat Magic

    Lynda Trent
    in

    A collection of spine-tingling, heartwarming romance treats sweetened with a touch of the paranormal includes the story of a skeptical reporter who investigates a New Orleans medium and imbibes a mystical love stronger than any potion. Original....

  • Crystal Memories

    Ginny Aiken

    Winona, Minnesota, 1997. Amelia Baldwin was thrilled to be costuming a vaudeville revival at a beautiful old theater. She loved clothing and homes and things from another time. But Amelia had no idea that she herself would soon become a part of the p...

  • The Enchanting

    Sandra Davidson

    No man can resist her bewitching spell. But Lady Raena Caldwell has been raised among people who would never accept her special gifts. Taught to hide her sensual powers, she is suddenly called upon to captivate and wed Sir Valor Godwin in order to fu...

  • Everything She Does Is Magick

    Maggie Shayne
    in

    The way to a man's heart? Some say kindness, some say food, some say flirting, or being good. But when mortal ways miss the mark, casting spells can conjure up sparks... When a trio of matchmaking witches chooses unsuspecting little Nathan McBride...

  • Firelight

    Linda Sandifer

    From the moment she saw the fiery red stallion on the cliffs near her reservation, Phoenix Shapell knew it was the supernatureal Fire Horse of her dreams. But while the spirited half Navajo beauty set out to tame the elusive animal, an angry flint-ha...

  • The Inscription

    Pam Binder

    UNDER THE MIST-SHROUDED WATERS OF A SCOTTISH LOCH, AN IMMORTAL WARRIOR FINDS THE WOMAN OF HIS DREAMS-AND A LOVE THAT DEFIES THE AGES. In a stunning debut novel, Pam Binder evokes the Highland mysteries of Loch Ness to create a shimmering love stor...

  • Long Ago and Far Away

    Marylyle Rogers

    In Ireland of 1127, the Fairy Kingdom is more than a beautiful tale to lovely young Hildie. It's the realm of Kieron, whom Hildie loves above all mortals. As a child she rambled at his side, listening with breathless wonder to his stories of magic an...

  • Loving Spirits

    Lark Eden
    in

    A collection of spine-tingling, heartwarming romance treats sweetened with a touch of the paranormal includes the story of a skeptical reporter who investigates a New Orleans medium and imbibes a mystical love stronger than any potion. Original....

  • Mr. Wrong!

    Mary Anne Wilson

    Melanie Clark - is "setling down" and "growing up" - is starting to crave commitment - is learning to love "Mr. Perfect" Sam Harrison - doesn't ever want to - breaks out in hives at the thought - is definitely Mr. Wrong! It's been hard wo...

  • Saving Sirena

    Susan Krinard
    in

    The way to a man's heart? Some say kindness, some say food, some say flirting, or being good. But when mortal ways miss the mark, casting spells can conjure up sparks... Save cat, get witch: When a rescued black cat turns into a beautiful, ever-so...

  • Second Time Around // Woke Up Dead

    Tina Wainscott

    "I never got a chance to tell Sam I love him!" These are young Jennie Carmichael's dying thoughts. A tragic accident is ending her life -- and she's never told her boss, private eye Sam Magee, how much she loves him. She was too timid -- why would...

  • The Shadow King

    Stobie Piel
    in

    A collection of spine-tingling, heartwarming romance treats sweetened with a touch of the paranormal includes the story of a skeptical reporter who investigates a New Orleans medium and imbibes a mystical love stronger than any potion. Original....

  • Shadows of Camelot

    Quinn Taylor Evans

    He is the secret son of Merlin...separated from his true family by time and treachery, heir to a magic that belongs in a shining moment when the earth was good, green, and perfect, when there was a place called Camelot... Truan Monroe was raised a...

  • A Spell of Mists and Roses

    Amy Elizabeth Saunders
    in

    The way to a man's heart? Some say kindness, some say food, some say flirting, or being good. But when mortal ways miss the mark, casting spells can conjure up sparks... Banished to a cursed castle, an arrogant nobleman seeks the help of a beautif...

  • To Mend A Spell

    Lisa Higdon
    in

    The way to a man's heart? Some say kindness, some say food, some say flirting, or being good. But when mortal ways miss the mark, casting spells can conjure up sparks... When a young would-be witch carelessly places a curse on a handsome sea c...

  • When Midnight Comes

    Lori Handeland
    in

    A collection of spine-tingling, heartwarming romance treats sweetened with a touch of the paranormal includes the story of a skeptical reporter who investigates a New Orleans medium and imbibes a mystical love stronger than any potion. Original....

  • Yesterday's Gold

    Bobby Hutchinson

    With her wedding to Mr. Right only two weeks away, Hannah Gilmore had more on her mind than traveling to a ghost town. Yet there she was, driving her widowed mother, an incontinent poodle, and a bossy nurse through a torrential downpour. And just whe...

  • 23 Shades of Black

    K.J.A. Wishnia / Ken Wishnia

    A mystery with brains. A heroine with guts. And a city full of attitude... Meet Filomena Buscarsela -- a street-smart cop who's finding that New York City is a far cry from her native Ecuador. She might be out of her element, but she's totally in sy...

  • Charm City

    Laura Lippman

    As a practiced reporter until her newspaper went to that great pressroom in the sky, P. I. Tess Monaghan knows and loves every inch of her native Baltimore, even the parts being slobb:,red on by the sad-sack greyhound she's minding for her uncle. It'...

  • Deception Pass

    Earl Emerson

    As a rebellious teen, Lainie Smith hooked up with a drifter named Charlie --and she may have been an eyewitness to murder in the shadow of cliff-walled Deception Pass, where the water runs river-swift and turbulent. When justice--and the executioner-...

  • On This Rockne

    Ralph M. McInerny

    On the football-obsessed campus of Notre Dame, Marcus Bramble, a wealthy alum with an unhealthy passion for the sport, says he'll contribute $10 million if it's put toward a memorial to Knute Rockne, the university's legendary football coach. When Ma...

  • Witness to Evil

    Janet Dawson

    Private investigator Jeri Howard can scarcely believe that someone is actually paying her to go to Paris, even if it is only to fetch a wild teenager home. But the wanderer, eighteen-year-old Darcy, turns out to have a serious reason for her unauthor...

  • aka Jane

    Maureen Tan

    Plagued by memories of her lover's murder, burnt-out MI5 operative Jane Nichols moves to Savannah, Georgia, and devotes herself to writing hard-boiled private eye novels, however, amongst Savannah's historic houses is an enemy from her past....

  • The Radio Red Killer

    Richard A. Lupoff

    Bob Bjorner is the last of the "red hot lefties" at radio station KRED in Berkeley, Calif. His paranoia makes him bring his personal lock to keep intruders out of the studio while he's on the air--but they get to him anyway! He opens his lunch, takes...

  • Ring Game

    Pete Hautman

    Directed by a family friend who wants him to investigate his daughter's fiance, ex-cop Joe Crow finds himself caught in the middle of a conflict between the would-be groom and the man's murderous cult. Reprint....

  • The Eternity Cure

    Howard Olgin

    Dr. Laura Antonelli is at the top of her profession, and things couldn't be worse. Although no one can come close to her skill and innovation in the field of laparoscopic surgery, her difficulties with the bureaucracy of her HMO make it difficult to ...

  • Nightkill

    F. Paul Wilson

    Jack Nacht knows how to take risks and believes in justice, even if it's of the skewed sort. He's one of the best at what he does - and what he does is kill people for a living. But it's a young man's game and he wants out. His instincts are right....

  • The Angel Tapes

    David M. Kiely

    On a clear summer day in Dublin, O'Connell Street is crowded with pedestrians when a bomb explodes directly beneath a black taxicab, sending several people to a horrific death. Police investigators led by Blade Macken, a weathered detective superinte...

  • Artist's Proof

    Gordon Cotler

    Ex-cop Sid Shale took early retirement from the NYPD and now relishes the peace and quiet of home -- a beach front bungalow in a small Long Island village where the latest "crime spree" is a rash of bicycle thefts. Sid now has two responsibil...

  • The Best American Mystery Stories 1997

    Houghton Mifflin Company

    For many years, some of the most vital, creative, and exciting fiction published in America has been in the field of mystery, crime, and suspense. Now Robert B. Parker and Otto Penzler - both Edgar winners - have assembled the best that 1996 had to o...

  • Cam Jansen and the Scary Snake Mystery

    David A. Adler

    Cam's got a whole new m-hiss-tory to solve! Cam, Eric, and Mrs. Jansen are spending an eventful afternoon in the big city. First a snake is let loose on the steps of the library. Then Mrs. Jansen's bag is stolen -- with her video camera inside. Co...

  • The Case of the Barking Dog

    Della Rowland

    In eight mind-puzzling mini mysteries, young detectives are challenged to locate humorous clues that help them figure out what happened in such settings as a rollerskating rink, a birthday party, and a tree house. Original....

  • Claudia and the Mystery in the Painting

    Ann M. Martin

    America's favorite baby-sitters are detectives, too! Claudia is helping Rebecca Madden prepare to sell her grandmother's house. Grandmother Madden was a famous artist, and finding more of her valuable paintings would help Rebecca and her family a ...

  • Flower Net

    Lisa See

    The first body was found in ice: the U.S. ambassador's son, entombed in a frozen lake outside Beijing's Forbidden City. Thousands of miles away, in the heat-baked hold of a Chinese smuggling ship, another corpse is uncovered, this one a Red Prince, a...

  • The Gigantic Ants and Other Cases

    Seymour Simon

    Match wits with Einstein Anderson, a twelve-year-old whiz kid who uses science to solve the most mind-boggling of mysteries. This book contains ten baffling puzzlers combining basic science skills with downright fun.Here you'll find:The Speedy SnakeT...

  • The Halloween Horror and Other Cases

    Seymour Simon

  • The Howling Dog and Other Cases

    Seymour Simon

  • The Mystery of Loch Ness

    Rebecca Price Janney

    The Impossible Dreamers travel to the Nauticus museum to see the Loch Ness Monster exhibit, and in the middle of the virtual reality ride, find themselves transported back to Loch Ness, Scotland, in 1934....

  • The Time Machine and Other Cases

    Seymour Simon

    In ten illustrated, chapter-length, joke-filled cases, junior scientist Einstein Anderson solves such mysteries as how to make catsup pour faster using elementary principles of science. Original title: Einstein Anderson Tells a Comet's Tale. ...

  • What Mommy Said

    H. Paul Jeffers

    During a swimming accident, nine-year-old Sebastian Duncan stops breathing. While others attempt to resuscitate him, he has a near-death experience, wherein he meets his mother, who died the previous year from an overdose of sleeping pills. She tells...

  • The White Elephant Caper

    Georgette Livingston

  • The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Sixth Annual Edition

    Joan Hess

  • The Defense

    D.W. Buffa

    Dynamite defense attorney Joseph Antonelli has never lost a case--or felt the sting of conscience for letting the guilty go free. "I can deceive anyone," he says, "and no one more quickly or more completely than myself." Now the man he most admires, ...

  • The List

    Steve Martini

    Steve Martini turns his talents on the seductive world of entertainment, where a lawyer-turned-novelist has concocted the ultimate scheme to outwit the biggest players in New York and Hollywood. Nothing will stop her rise to the top. And nothing will...

  • The Velocity of Money

    Stephen Rhodes

    Young Manhattan attorney Rick Hansen has ascended to the top of the financial ladder by landing himself a plum position at the blue-chip-global investment firm of Wolcott, Fulbright & Company. Here on "the Street," he is in close proximity to the peo...

  • Mourning Dove: A Story of Love

    Larry Barkdull

    Originally self-published, this poignant story tells of nine-year-old Hannibal, who, having recently lost his parents, moves in with his widowed grandfather and enjoys the warm, subtle teachings of a man who is humble yet loved by all. Tour....

  • My Autobiography

    Kevin Keegan

    From growing up in Doncaster through to his part in the resurgence of football in the North East, Kevin Keegan has often been in the media spotlight, but has revealed little of what motivates him or what he's really like. This autobiography seeks to ...

  • Variable Cloud

    Carmen Martin Gaite

    Sofia is a mother of three grown-up children and trapped in a loveless marriage to Eduardo. Mariana is a successful psychiatrist, incapable of forming stable relationships with men. The two women fill notebooks with their insights and recollections, ...

  • All Through the Night

    Connie Brockway

    A WOMAN COMPELLED In the glittering world of Regency England, Anne Wilder played a dangerous game. A widowed lady by day, by night she became a masked thief preying on society's elite. She roved high above London's black rooftops, compelled by pha...

  • The Bargain

    Jane Ashford

    It's more than ridiculous, it's damned embarrassing and inconvenient...for a scientist with his reputation to be called in to get rid of a ghost. But when the Prince Regent summons Lord Alan Gresham to London to solve the mystery of a hauntin...

  • The Beckoning Dream

    Paula Marshall

    Pretend Marriage...Real Danger! The only way actress Catherine Wood could ensure her brother's release from jail was to accompany "Tom Trenchard" to Holland on a spying mission, while pretending to be his wife! With his roguish charm Tom made no b...

  • Beloved Captive

    Lauren Wilde

    Isabel trembled in fear when the Comanches raided her hacienda and stole her away. Held tightly by a young warrior astride his horse, she was terror-struck by what awaited her in the New Mexican desert...until she saw her abductor's face and a sh...

  • Captain Jack's Woman

    Stephanie Laurens

    April 1811. They meet in a clash of swords, drenched in the moonlight of Britain's rugged eastern coast: Captain Jack, his handsome features etched in silver and shadow; his powerful physique compelling "Kit" Cranmer to surrender. He is her dream...

  • Chasing Rainbows

    Victoria Lynne

    SHE TRIED TO ESCAPE... The crowd cheered as the bandit was hanged--until his hat flew off, revealing the truth: the condemned man was a woman. But the noose was loose, the rope was frayed, and within seconds Outlaw Annie fell to the ground, rescued ...

  • Embrace the Wind

    Chelley Kitzmiller

    Ginny Sinclair moves to Tucson to help her father start a newspaper and finds herself drawn to the handsome but feared Bonner Kincaid, a half-Apache man intent on avenging his people, who saves her from a violent skirmish. Arizona Territory. Tucs...

  • Emma's Orphans

    Loree Lough

    Emma Wright knows the loneliness of being an orphan. Maybe that's why her Maryland home seems to attract children left parentless by accident or by the recent Civil War. It is hard to care and provide for them on a nurse's salary, and finding Christi...

  • The Forever Man

    Carolyn Davidson

    Tate Montgomery Needed A New Life And Johanna Patterson was the kind of woman who could make him leave the past behind. But, how would he ever convince this reclusive spinster to open up her heart to him and his boys? It seemed to Johanna that ...

  • Frozen Desire

    James Buchan

    Novelist Buchan, a former correspondent for the Financial Times, traces the meaning of money since its beginning. He discusses money in its various formats, emphasizing that money itself is not just an object but "an outcome of a vast mountain of soc...

  • Gold as the Morning Sun

    Sylvia Halliday

    The Civil War is over, and the West is booming. Callie Southgate's father has brought his family to the rough-and-ready town of Dark Creek, where fortune beckons to those brave enough to follow...and where Callie's future has been bartered to...

  • Harper's Bride

    Alexis Harrington

    A WIFE FOR SALE... Stung by humiliation and fear, Melissa Logan realized she had been sold to pay her husband's debt. Marrying Coy Logan to escape her wretched homelife had been a terrible mistake. Worse off than ever, she was penniless with a n...

  • The Haunting of Sarah

    Anne Logan
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    Louisiana: the enigmatic bayou, the moss-draped river trees, the ghostly city of New Orleans, a setting for devilish intrigue and dangerous love. Four talented authors who make their homes in this mysterious state conjure tales of three desperate wom...

  • Hawk's Lady

    Catherine Archibald

    Haughty young Kaylyn D'Arcy only wanted what was best for her little sister, Celia, when she traveled to the imposing fortress of Hawkhurst. For the brother of Hawkhurst's dark lord had wooed Celia, and Kayln was determined to make him do the honora...

  • Heart of Alaska

    Kathleen Sage

    Innocence Lost... Bet Goldman has known Jesse Wheeler all her life. When she was a crippled child, he taught her to ride his stallion, Firestriker, giving her the strength to walk for the first time. When she was a young girl, they shared Christma...

  • Highland Secrets

    Amanda Scott

    Proud Highlander Diana Maclean refused to yield to the English king... or to any member of her family's enemy: the treacherous Clan Campbell. Instead, determined to free her imprisoned mother, she steals into a castle dungeon right under the nose of ...

  • Jade

    Norah Hess

    THE RANCHER Kane Roemer headed up into the Wyoming mountains hell-bent on fulfilling his heart's desire. There, amid the majestic peaks, the rugged horseman fell in love at first sight -- with a white stallion that had no equal anywhere in the West....

  • The Lieutenant's Lady

    Rae Muir

    Lieutenant Matthew Hull was dashing, tall and heartbreakingly handsome. He was also the son of a disreputable lady. And Tildy MacIntryre knew the escape he offered her from a loveless marriage led straight into a snare of passion that no true lad...

  • The Lightkeeper

    Susan Wiggs

    Once, the sea took everything he loved... Jesse Morgan is a man hiding from the pain of his past, a man who has vowed never to give his heart again. Keeper of a remote lighthouse along a rocky and dangerous coast, he has locked himself away from e...

  • Love in a Chinese Garden

    Rachel May

    An adaptation of a medieval Chinese love story follows two young lovers who must overcome the obstacles of an ambitious mother, an arranged marriage, separation, and danger to find true happiness together. he news of a marauding group of mutinous...

  • The Maiden's Sword

    Ethel Herr

    Pieter-Lucas and Aletta find their marriage plans and their love for each other tested when they become caught up in the Dutch revolt against Spain's repression. Pieter-Lucas and Aletta struggle to find their way in a world at war. Pieter-Lucas be...

  • The Monk

    Meagan McKinney
    in

    Louisiana: the enigmatic bayou, the moss-draped river trees, the ghostly city of New Orleans, a setting for devilish intrigue and dangerous love. Four talented authors who make their homes in this mysterious state conjure tales of three desperate wom...

  • Mountain Bride

    Susan Sawyer

    The Dissolute .Nobleman Banished for his reckless ways, Lord. John Winslow embarks for the New World, and the colony of "Second Sons." With nothing but his tide and his wits, the handsome, arrogant Englishman must make a fresh beginning, and his f...

  • The Neglectful Guardian

    Anne Ashley

    SARAH PEMNINGTON HAD BEEN IGNORED FOR LONG ENOUGH ! Sarah had waited years for the absent Marcus Ravenhurst to make an appearance and check up on his ward. But life under the care of her cousin had finally become intolerable. So much so that she h...

  • Night In Eden

    Candice Proctor

    Bryony Wentworth's life is shattered when she is unjustly accused and sentenced to indentured servitude in New South Wales. Broken in body - but not in spirit - she fights for light, and for her life, wanting no part of the man who would save her, Ca...

  • The Offer

    Catherine Coulter

    Dear Reader: Phillip Mercerault and Sabrina Eversleigh first appeared in AN HONORABLE OFFER, a Regency romance published in 1981. The title has been changed to THE OFFER to reflect its new status as an historical romance, and the novel has been re...

  • Out of the Night

    Deborah Martin
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    Louisiana: the enigmatic bayou, the moss-draped river trees, the ghostly city of New Orleans, a setting for devilish intrigue and dangerous love. Four talented authors who make their homes in this mysterious state conjure tales of three desperate wom...

  • Pagan Desires

    Veronica Ashley

    The Swan The daughter of a famous seer and a Byzantine military commander, Phaedra has made the swan her emblem as she creates potions rumored to drive men mad with desire. All the city knows of her elixirs, but few know her secret: she possesses ...

  • Raspberry Island

    Willa Hix

    From the peaceful mountains of the Rockies to the Eastern windswept shores, there are small towns where gentle hearts can find a home -- and where true love is always right around the corner... Jenna Guildenbergh has known little excitement in her...

  • The Reckoning

    Jeanette Baker

    WHEN LOVE DEMANDS AN ANSWER, WHEN THE HEART CANNOT BE DENIED, THERE IS A TIME AND A PLACE FOR...THE RECKONING Lady Alexandra Winthrop, the toast of London and beloved granddaughter of the Duke of Leicester, was an Indian captive. She had daringly ...

  • Ruby

    Ruth Langan

    The Town Sheriff and the Town Tease... Ruby Jewel was a flirt of the first order who flouted authority at every turn, but she couldn't charm her way past Marshall Quent Regan. Quent had vowed he'd make Hanging Tree's heartbreaker toe the line, eve...

  • To Love a Stranger

    Connie Mason

    MARRIAGE ON THE RUN Wild and rowdy Pierce Delaney and his two brothers are notorious throughout Dry Gulch, Montana, for attracting all sorts of trouble. Now a misunderstanding has left Pierce with a bullet in his back, forcing him to take refuge in ...

  • To Marry a British Lord

    Judith O'Brien

    Now, with her signature mix of love and laughter, Judith O'Brien crosses new boundaries by sending a lively belle from the war-torn South into the dazzling world of Victorian England's aristocracy--where she intends to wed, if not wisely, at least ve...

  • To Tame a Warrior's Heart

    Sharon Schulze

    The Lady Catrin Had Survived A Nightmarish Past Now her willful ways had plunged her headlong into danger -- and into the arms of Nicholas Talbot, a man whose very presence stirred up emotions she had long thought buried forever. He Alone Could...

  • The Wager

    Rexanne Becnel
    in

    Louisiana: the enigmatic bayou, the moss-draped river trees, the ghostly city of New Orleans, a setting for devilish intrigue and dangerous love. Four talented authors who make their homes in this mysterious state conjure tales of three desperate wom...

  • Wild Masquerade

    Lisa Bingham

    Though the most sensible of the Pegigrue sisters, Constance has long harbored a romantic dream of working in the theater. But she never expected that a string of disasters would leave her stranded in New York -- and in debt to scandalously successful...

  • Winter Dreams

    Trana Mae Simmons

    Before she gets married, Laura wants to race her huskies across Alaska, and hires Sandy, in desperate need of a job, who accepts the position to train her dogs and realizes that she is his kindred spirit. Laura Goodman wants one last opportunity t...

  • Bureau of the Lost

    John Peel

    Down at the Lost & Found Department in Eerie, something's missing: the Missing People! A power failure has released them from their cryogenic storage chambers, and now Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Amelia Earhart and many more a...

  • Christopher Pike's Tales of Terror

    Christopher Pike

    Three short horror tales include "The Third Hand," in which a make-out artist receives otherworldly help; "Dark Walk," in which a stroll turns deadly; and "Revenge," in which Ted decides to kill his ex-girlfriend. Original....

  • Gothic Ghosts

    Wendy Webb

    A collection of new, original ghost stories blends the Victorian Gothic and modern fantasy genres and includes tales by Bram Stoker Award-winner Nancy Holder, Nebula Award-winner Esther M. Friesner, and best-selling author Rick Hautala....

  • Heart of the Hunter

    R.L. Stine

    A medicine woman tells Jamie Fier the love potion she gave him will cost him. Now Jamie finds himself transforming into a wolf -- and if his true love sees him in this form, he will remain a wolf forever....

  • Hospitals Make Me Sick

    Fred E. Katz

    While on a trip in the mountains, Scotty injures his elbow. But to their amazement, Scotty, his brother, Michael, and their cousin Deanna find that the hospital might be hazardous to their health! The chief doctors - Dr. Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll -...

  • Inhuman Fury

    M.C. Sumner

    Evil comes in many guises and keeps its most terrible powers in reserve. Kenyon and Harley have only seen the merest glimpse of what Billie can do. When they believe they have dealt her a fatal blow, she invokes the ultimate ancient force. In the Ext...

  • Into the Dark

    R.L. Stine

    A Deadly Attraction Paulette Fox refuses to let her blindness stop her from living a full life. But one thing she's never done is fall in love -- until now. Paulette knows Brad Jones is the only guy for her. Even when her friends see Brad commit a ...

  • Return to the Carnival of Horrors

    R.L. Stine

    IT’S THE RIDE OF YOUR LIFE... AGAIN! Oh, no! Could it be? Yes. You're back at the Carnival of Horrors! You escaped the first time. But Big Al, the evil carnival manager, wants your second visit to last forever! You've got to get out of there -- ...

  • Scare Bear

    Gene Hult

    Tired of being treated like a little kid, Tim throws away his teddy bear, Baby Curly, and is horrified when the teddy bear comes to life and seeks revenge on the boy who would cast him aside. Original....

  • The Scream Factory

    Kelly O'Rourke

  • Slave of My Thirst

    Tom Holland

    Dr. John Eliot's search for a missing friend leads him to the seductive Lilah--who will not rest until she has coaxed Eliot's most monstrous impulses out into the open--in this mesmerizing tale set in the back streets of 19th-century London....

  • Violin

    Anne Rice

    In the grand manner of Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice's new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival mansion in present-day New Orleans to dazzling capitals of the modern-day wor...

  • Wear and Scare

    M.T. Coffin

  • Werewolf Skin

    R.L. Stine

    IT'S A FULL MOON...DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR WEREWOLF IS? Picture this -- Alex Hunter, photography freak, hanging out in Wolf Creek. Who lives in Wolf Creek? Alex's uncle Colin and aunt Marta. They're professional photographers. Uncle Colin and Au...

  • When Shadows Fall

    Brian Scott Smith

    Martin doesn't believe his aunt's sudden death was an accident, and he and his buddies are determined to find the truth. But when he starts sneaking around the house of his aunt's friends, he witnesses a blood-drenched satanic ritual with a young gir...

  • The Witches' Monkey and Other Tales

    David Lubar

    A boy discovers his neighborhood has turned into a Land of the Lawn Weenies. Sound peculiar? How about zombies behind the counter of your local hamburger stand? A roadside motel where the guests are on the menu? A party where everyone who turns up is...

  • Blood Red Roses

    Margaret Lawrence

    It is 1786, and summer has come to Rufford, Maine. As the hay ripens and roses perfume the air, the horrors of the recent war of Revolution seem to be fading. Then a series of murders rocks the town, and it is up to Hannah Trevor to employ every hit ...

  • Except the Dying

    Maureen Jennings

    As the unforgiving cold swirled around the girl's unclad body, the bleakness of malice reflected in her lifeless eyes. There was something more sinister than the frigid Canadian weather responsible for Theresa Laporte's death, and Detective Willia...

  • London Blood

    Robert Lee Hall

    A group of young lords dedicated to the pleasures of the flesh may have a killer among them, and the inimitable Benjamin Franklin must come dangerously close to their protective fraternity to find the truth....

  • Murder and Misdeeds

    Joan Smith

    Another mystery and, perhaps, another chance at love . . . Once again the indomitable Berkeley Brigade, a group of daring young aristocrats, returns to the scene of the crime--and to affairs of the heart. As the dashing Marquess of Luten and the beau...

  • A Psalm for Falconer

    Ian Morson

    When the body of a dead abbot is found fifteen years after his disappearance, the current abbot becomes the prime murder suspect, but Falconer is visited by the wraith of an ancient hermit who reveals the true treachery behind the crime...

  • The Silent Cry

    Anne Perry

    Deep in London's dangerous slums, Victorians transacted their most secret and shameful business. For a price, a man could procure whatever he wanted, but it happened now and then that the price he paid was his life. Now, in sunless Water Lane, res...

  • Faun & Games

    Piers Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    The magical and mirth-filled land of Xanth holds many, marvels. But now an extraordinary new aspect of this remarkable realm unfolds as young Forrest Faun's quest takes him to a tiny planet hidden in the heart of Xanth. There, with a delightful "day ...

  • Lord of the Necropolis

    Gene DeWeese
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    For a century and a half, Azalin had been lord, and prisoner, of the greatest domain In Ravenloft. For a century and a half, he had searched and fought for his freedom, and now, at last, it was at hand. To gain his long-sought freedom, all he had ...

  • The Wayward Knights

    Roland J. Green
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    The heroic conclusion to the tale of Sir Pirvan the Wayward! Despite his humble beginnings, Sir Pirvan has managed to ascend to the highest orders of the knights of Solamnia. Along the way, he has become known as the founder of an obscure group of...

  • Yon Ill Wind

    Piers Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    This Xanth villain is full of hot air. “Anthony’s unflagging sparkle, verve and wordplay spin everyday trials of Mundane life into storytelling gold” (Publishers Weekly).   A fickle flux in the fabric of space has allowed a horrendous hurr...