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New Books List: 453 titles

  • Second Chances

    Alice Adams

    In a moving and richly evocative novel about the remarkable capacity of the human spirit, Alice Adams brings readers into the beautiful community of San Sebastian, California, where a group of dear old friends have shared their lives for many wonderf...

  • The Last Slice of Rainbow and Other Stories

    Joan Aiken

    A collection of nine magical tales about strange lands inhabited by princesses and kelpies. Stories about everyday places where magical and mysterious things happen to ordinary children, include an oak tree falling in love with a girl and a boy's...

  • Warlord of Antares

    Alan Burt Akers

    His empire endangered by the diabolical schemes of the evil witch Csitra, Dray Prescot has been summoned by the powerful Star Lords. Warned by the Star Lords of a dread menace approaching from the South, Dray must take on all challengers to become th...

  • Vestments

    Alfred Alcorn

    Alcorn's intelligent, satisfying second novel (after The Pull of the Earth), concerns a successful Boston journalist whose smugly cynical view of the world is dramatically overturned by a calamitous series of events, a trial-by-fire that eventually l...

  • Meet Mr. Snuffel-Upagus

    Liza Alexander

  • Dream Train

    Charlotte Vale Allen

    Enter the elegant and mysterious world of the Orient Express... It's a plum assignment for photojournalist Joanne James, a ride on the Orient-Express with a stop in Venice for five days at the exclusive Cipriani Hotel -- all expenses paid. Yet...

  • Black Bridge China

    Thomas B. Allen

  • Of Love and Shadows

    Isabel Allende

    Isabel Allende transports us to a Latin American country in the grip of a military dictatorship, where Irene Beltran, an upperclass journalist, and Francisco Leal, a photographer son of a Marxist professor together discover a hideous crime.  They a...

  • The Mockingbird Song

    Berthe Amoss

    Eleven-year-old Lindy is confused and upset as she struggles to cope with her mean new stepmother, Millie, the imminent birth of Millie's baby, the abandonment of her mother, and a father who no longer seems to want her...

  • Space Wars

    Poul Anderson

  • The Dog and the Wolf

    Poul Anderson; Karen Anderson

    In the fourth and final book of the King of Ys series, Gratillonius and the Ysan survivors have one final chance to rebuild in the wake of inconceivable destruction As legendary as King Arthur’s Court and as mystical as Atlantis, the fabled kin...

  • Award Night

    Kristi Andrews

  • Upside-Downers

    Mitsumasa Anno

    Figures from two sets of playing cards, each of which seems upside down to the other, pursue their queer and quacky quarreling, until one of the kings points out that it is all a matter of point of view....

  • Anno's Peekaboo

    Mitsumasa Anno

  • Out of Phaze

    Piers Anthony

    Two worlds - the scientific Proton, and the magical Phaze - exist side-by-side. Now, Mach has crossed from Proton to Phaze, switching places with his counterpart, Bane. And both must learn to survive in environments alien to their own nature.

    ...

  • Twice upon a Time

    Allen Appel

    For the second time, historian Alex Balfour, who has a genetic disposition to time travel (Time After Time), finds himself in another era. Transported to the Philadelphia Exposition of 1876, Alex is befriended by a disparate group, including four bla...

  • Painting on Glass

    Jessica Auerbach

    Companions since childhood but refraining from deeper commitment, Rachel and Jake come to understand the meaning of their bond after Jake, refusing to fight in Vietnam, moves to Canada, leaving Rachel behind...

  • Pony Soldiers

    James Axler

    Ryan Cawdor and his band of post-holocaust survivors come face-to-face with a specter from the past: out of the swirling dust that was once New Mexico bursts a regiment of pony soldiers, led by a man with flowing yellow hair.

    Brandishing Colts an...

  • New Destinies, Volume VII

    Jim Baen

  • Digby and Kate

    Barbara Baker

  • Unhealthful Air

    Elliott Baker

    Down-and-out screenwriter Corey Burdick lands a job butchering F. Scott Fitzgerald stories for television, while trying to set up the perfect scam at the Santa Anita racetrack for his debtor bookie and develop a romance with sensuous starlet Bambi Do...

  • The Widow and the Wildcatter

    Fran Baker

    Chance McCoy had hair as black as Oklahoma crude and a devastating smile, and when fate drew Joni Fletcher to him, fiery emotion crackled between them with the speed of summer lightning. The spirited young widow reminded him of a wild oil well just b...

  • The Dove's Letter

    Keith Baker

    After finding a beautiful letter someone has left behind, a dove searches for the letter’s owner and touches the very heart of what it means to love and be loved....

  • Secrets of the Heart

    Mary Balogh

    PASSION BEFORE PRIDE Theirs should have been the perfect marriage. Sarah was as wildly in love with the Duke of Cranwell as he was with her...until, on their wedding night, Sarah was forced to reveal the secret of her past. And that, midst great p...

  • The Mason Codex // Unlawful Entry

    Jo Bannister

  • Henry

    Nina Bawden

  • Pattern Crimes

    William Bayer

    It begins when the strangely marked body of a young prostitute is found just outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. A similarly disfigured corpse of an American nun turns up. Then an Arab boy. As the list of victims grows, their only apparen...

  • Someday My Love

    Patti Beckman

    A FADED CORSAGE... was Kathy Ayers's only memento of her high school sweetheart, Dak Roberts. An Olympic gold medalist, he was the hero of Endless, Texas. But without explanation he'd left their small town -- and Kathy -- ten years ago. ...

  • The Houseguest

    Thomas Berger

    Chuck Burgoyne is no ordinary houseguest. The Graveses (father Doug; wife Audrey; son Bobby; and daughter-in-law Lydia) have gotten used to his polite manners and gourmet breakfasts. But one morning at the Graveses' summer home, Chuck fails to appear...

  • The Boy from over There

    Tamar Bergman

  • Pitchers Do Get Lonely: And Other Sports Stories

    Ira Berkow

    Assembles the best of the syndicated columnist's sports journalism of the 1980s, including stories about Pete Rose's record-breaking hit, the Chicago Bears at the Superbowl, and an imagined Freudian analysis of George Steinbrenner...

  • Second Best

    Elizabeth Bernard

    Now or never . . . Leah is miserable when she finds out that her good friend Katrina Gray may have to leave the San Francisco Ballet Academy due to financial trouble. Then a special scholarship competition is announced; if Katrina wins, she'll get t...

  • Let's Do It Again

    Janet Bieber

    Maggie St. Claire had met and married her Yankee scalawag husband in less than a week, but too soon she'd learned that Dave St. Clair was a reporter firs, forever roaming the globe in search of another story, a more dangerous adventure. After years o...

  • Deryni Challenge

    Stephen Billias

  • Airmail to the Moon

    Tom Birdseye

  • Empire

    Elaine Bissell

    SHE ROSE TO THE TOP OF A MAN'S WORLD, WITH FIRE IN HER EYES AND STEEL IN HER HEART Nan MacPherson Mead. Nothing could stop her from becoming the best reporter the world had ever seen.... Black Tuesday. Pearl harbor. Kennedy. She covered it all,...

  • If I Could Work

    Terence Blacker

  • The Pink Lemonade Charade

    Cynthia Blair

    The Pratt twins, Chris and Susan, travel with their schoolmates on a spring tour of Washington, D.C. The girls are especially eager to meet the Russian dancers for whom their school will host a party there. In return, the Americans will watch the bal...

  • Desperado Desire

    Veronica Blake

    AGAINST HER WILL When bandits held up her train and took her hostage, golden haired Krystal Colbert was terrified. But after a handsome stranger strode after her, caressed her familiarly, and stated she was his fiancee, the stubborn beauty was indig...

  • Secret Papers Camp

    Rose Blue

  • Red River Revenge

    James Calder Boone

  • Easter Day, 1941

    G.F. Borden

  • It's All in the Game

    Joanne Bremer

    SHE WASN'T JUST PLAYING AROUND. Crusading attorney Tildie Moore had had it with the hard-sell advertisements used by Fun Design, the company that manufactured the Star Power toys her kids loved. But getting Fun Design's irrepressible spokesman, Da...

  • Jacinth

    Laurey Bright

    SHE WAS AS COLD AS ICE... . Or was she? Entrepreneur Mark Harding found Jacinth Norwood an absolute enigma. How could any woman seem so cool, yet awaken such passion in him? He knew that when she was in his embrace she was far from indifferent, bu...

  • Who Knew There'd Be Ghosts?

    Bill Brittain

    Townsfolk walking by the abandoned Parnell mansion tend to quicken their steps -- especially if night is begining to fall. But to tommy and his friends,Books and Harry the blimp, the old house is the perfect playground for their imaginary games. ...

  • Hagar the Horrible: Hits the Mark

    Dik Browne

  • Fly Away

    Pamela Browning

    Tim Vogel is at odds with the Heartland And he is flying away from the tragedy that has befallen his family, away from the tradition of farming that has never stirred his soul. Traveling from county to county, state to state as he dusted crops, Ti...

  • Mexican Pet

    Jan Harold Brunvand

    "A uniquely entertaining book: edifying scholarship, diverting social history." -- Elaine Kendall, Los Angeles Times "[The book] captures the spirit of convivial storytelling and even encourages the activity. . . . Many readers . . . will be gratifie...

  • Invasion U.S.S.R.

    Jack Buchanan

  • The Luck of the Irish

    Patt Bucheister

    When Kelly McGinnis first spotted the mysterious woman stepping out of a limousine, he thought of soft music, moonlit nights, and satin sheets! Clare Denham tantalized him with her grace and humor. She was intriguing, contradictory -- and he had to h...

  • Rainbow's End

    Carole Buck

    When Pat Webster wins a membership to an exclusive spa, her goal is to shape up for a marathon, not snare the owner, Olympic champion and multi-millionaire Mike Taylor. Widowed with two sons, Pat's determined to make her own way. But Mike, alread...

  • Falling Free

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    AND SUDDENLY HE WAS FALLING FREE... Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: mind your own business, fix what's wrong and move on to the next job. Everything neat and according to spec, just the way he liked it. But all that chang...

  • Heaven's Prisoners

    James Lee Burke

    Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective's badge, is winning his battle against booze, and has left New Orleans with his wife for the tranquil beauty of Louisiana's bayous. But a plane crash on the Gulf brings a young girl into his lif...

  • What Wild Ecstasy

    Patricia Burroughs

    SHE PROMISED HIM FREEDOM The handsome outlaw in the jailhouse was Elizabeth Dougherty's last hope. She had to get out of Texas before she was wrongfully arrested for her husband's murder...and only someone as desperate as Boone Coulter wou...

  • A Memory for Tino

    Leo Buscaglia

    His first book specifically for children shows the joy possible as a result of thinking of others. Discussion questions for young readers follow the story. In 1996, A Memory for Tino was made into a movie sponsored by the Felice Foundation for free d...

  • Three Corners to Nowhere

    Martin Caidin

  • Silk on the Skin

    Linda Cajio

    Cass Lindley believed in never mixing business with pleasure, but when Dallas Carter came to enlist her support in ousting a crooked corporate head, she felt her resistance melt under the white-hot gleam in his eyes. Was the lingerie empire in which...

  • A Party of Two

    Stella Cameron

    She ran for her life Emily Smith's late-night job became a panicked run when she found herself being followed by a menacing shadow through deserted downtown streets. Even the sleek sports car that drew up alongside her caused her skin to crawl. Th...

  • The Second Mr. Sullivan

    Elaine Camp

    ALL IN THE FAMILY When is attention from a gorgeous man annoying? kelly Sullivan could answer that question in one word: ex-brother-in-law. She was finally starting to enjoy her hard-won independence, and the last thing she needed was another Sull...

  • Thinning the Turkey Herd

    Robert Campbell

    Sleuthing isn't part of the job description, but when it comes to Chicago politics, Irishman Jimmy Flannery, 27th Ward Democratic Precinct Captain and city, sewer inspector, knows where all the bodies are buried. So when an old alderman friend calls ...

  • The Widow's Club

    Dorothy Cannell

    Stylish, amusing, and deliciously wicked -- a superb murder mystery from the acclaimed author of The Thin Woman
     
    Divorce can end a marriage. Murder can do it better.
     
    Meet Ellie Haskell, née Simons, thin woman, newlywed, potentia...

  • Seventh Son

    Orson Scott Card

    Using the lore and folk magic of the men and women who helped settle a continent and the beliefs of the tribes who were here before them, Orson Scott Card has created an alternate frontier America where folk magic works, and has colored the entire hi...

  • Under Cover

    Donna Carlisle

    NOTHING BUT TROUBLE David Carey was a big-time crook, a criminal who always managed to avoid a jail sentence. Suave and self-assured, he was the kind of man who looked on his shady activities as nothing more than an exciting game. Teale Saunder...

  • Spooky and the Bad Luck Raven

    Natalie Savage Carlson

  • Harald and the Great Stag

    Carol Carrick

  • Deja Vu

    Patricia Carro

    BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT Ben Coulter left Lake Cumberland twelve years ago amid the scandal of unsolved burglaries and the protests of his heartbroken girlfriend, Carrie Landrum. Although everyone insisted it was puppy love, Carrie knew better. ...

  • Deathstrike

    Nick Carter

  • Rapture Effect

    Jeffrey A. Carver

    War between the stars. It was started by an AI, and few humans even knew there was a war at all. But now people are dying, not just robots and aliens—and the AI wants it to stop. But a war is easier to start than to stop, and the computer ca...

  • The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

    Michael Chabon

    The enthralling debut from bestselling novelist Michael Chabon is a penetrating narrative of complex friendships, father-son conflicts, and the awakening of a young man’s sexual identity. Chabon masterfully renders the funny, tender, and captiv...

  • Complications

    Prince Charming

    Three New York City women--an up-and-coming lawyer, a culinary consultant, and an unemployed actress--experience a series of hilarious misadventures while seeking acceptable men under the watchful eye of the puckish narrator, Prince Charming...

  • The Roommate and the Cowboy

    Emily Chase

    Who would ever think Jane would feel so at home on the range? Life on Toby's Texas ranch isn't exactly what Andy and Jane expected -- Texas is so big. And hot. And Toby's father isn't used to having three teenage girls around. When Jane meets a ha...

  • The Grange

    R. Chetwynd-Hayes

    Clavering Grange is ghost-ridden: a red-haired boy wanders the halls, plaintively asking to go home; an old soldier stalks the corridors, sword drawn, eyes gleaming with unholy glee. Where they walk, death and disaster follow. The Grange's evil twis...

  • Silver Linings

    Charles Cohen

  • Unicorns in the Rain

    Morris L. Cohen

  • Fleet of the Damned

    Allan Cole; Chris Bunch

    STEN'S LAST STAND Sten's luck was finally running out. He had barely scraped through Imperial flight school when he was assigned a tacdivision in the Fringe Worlds, where the Imperial officers were more concerned with the perfect fit of their dres...

  • Arizona Angel

    Phoebe Conn

    CONFEDERATE COWHAND When Lance Garrett hired on at the MacDowell spread, the handsome Southerner was sure he'd be taming broncs and roping steer. He nearly suit when he learned his job was to teach the boss's high-spirited daughter some ge...

  • Eye of the Sun

    Mike Conner

  • Joey's Case

    K.C. Constantine

    Mario Balzic has been dodging Albert Castelucci for months. There are only so many things a cop can say to a man whose only son has been shot to death. But Castelucci doesn't want Balzic's sympathy. He doesn't care that the death occurred in Westf...

  • Prom Date

    M.E. Cooper

    Lily Rorshack, a new student at Kennedy High, falls for Jonathan Preston, one of her classmates, but their relationship is jeopardized by Jonathan's mistaken belief that Lily may be part of a plot to hurt some of his friends...

  • A Night at the Movies; or, You Must Remember This

    Robert Coover

  • Top Marks

    Gayle Corey

    A textbook case of love at first sight Morgan Harris had everything she wanted. Teaching college gave her security, and raising three rambunctious children provided all the excitement she could handle. When detective Trace Standon enrolled in her ...

  • Calypso Magic

    Catherine Coulter

    His hungry lips met hers and the sensation built like raging fire... She wanted more... She wanted... Diana Savarol vowed to stay away from her cousin, the rakish and hot-tempered Lyonel Ashton, during her visit to London -- for she knew that ...

  • Sweet Songbird

    Teresa Crane

    Fleeing their Suffolk home in the wake of disaster, Kitty Daniels and her brother Matt arrive in the stews of 19th-century Whitechapel with nothing but the clothes in which they stand and, to each, a talent.Kitty’s voice may hold the key to escape ...

  • The Knockout Artist

    Harry Crews

    Crews’s novel about a boxer with the gift of knocking himself unconscious, with a new foreword by New York Times-bestselling author S. A. Cosby A Penguin ClassicA favorite of longtime Harry Crews fans, The Knockout Artist (1988) portrays Eugene Ta...

  • All We Need of Hell

    Harry Crews

    Chronicles the story of Duffy Deeter, a Florida lawyer obsessed with fitness and images of death; his wife Tish, a platinum blond having an affair with his law partner, and Duffy's girlfriend Marvella, a coke-snorting nymphet...

  • The Gospel Singer

    Harry Crews

    Sex and Salvation He had two priceless assets. Both were God-given. One was his voice. From coast to coast it held millions of TV viewers spellbound, hearing the gospel songs of Southland as they never had been sung before. The other was his...

  • The Trainmasters

    Jesse Taylor Croft

    Building a railroad through the Appalachians and rugged Pennsylvania territory, John Carlysle battles ruthless thugs hired by politicians and finds himself torn betweem the woman he loves and his burgeoning railroad empire....

  • Houston Hellground

    Chet Cunningham

    Former narcotics agent Matt Hawke, now known as the Avenger for his open warfare against the drug trade, goes after the leader of Houston's drug mob, who has taken a DEA man hostage and demanded Hawke's corpse as ransom...

  • Passion's Triumph

    Mary Daheim

    FROM THE TURBULENT GRANDEUR OF THE HIGHLANDS TO THE INTRIGUE OF ROYAL CASTLES... With the bold passion of lain Fraser's pirate blood and the breathtaking brilliance of Dallas's dark-haired beauty, their tempestuous daughter Sorcha confronted...

  • Bet You Can't

    Penny Dale

  • Break It Down

    Lydia Davis

    The thirty-four stories in this seminal collection powerfully display what have become Lydia Davis's trademarks -- dexterity, brevity, understatement, and surprise. Although the certainty of her prose suggests a world of almost clinical reason and cl...

  • Way I Feel . . . Sometimes

    Beatrice Schenk De Regniers

  • Baby Makes Three

    Sharon De Vita

    MOTHER OF THE YEAR "Wild Bill" Cody, writer of he-man adventure books, had a little problem -- he'd just won the Mother of the Year Award. As the single father of a two-year-old, Cody was proud and honored, but after he'd spent yea...

  • Wild Destiny

    Gina Delaney

    COMPELLING CAPTOR Having just arrived in Australia to start a new life, Christina Lapin couldn't imagine how she had ended up in a stranger's room in the middle of the night! And from the looks of the tall, broad-shouldered man whose stark blue eyes...

  • T.L.C.

    Barbara Delinsky

    His was a potent cure As if juggling two jobs, her studies and visits to Rowena Carlin weren't enough, Karen Drew was sick, miles from home in a blizzard and her car had died. Just when she thought things couldn't get any worse, she collap...

  • The Charm School

    Nelson DeMille

    On a dark road deep inside Russia, a young American tourist picks up a most unusual passenger--a U.S. POW on the run with an incredible secret to reveal to an unsuspecting world. The secret concerns "The Charm School," a vast and astounding KGB consp...

  • Shadow Over Nordmaar

    Dezra Despain
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    In Shadow Over Nordmaar, you are savagely beaten by unknown assailants and left for dead. When you regain consciousness, you have completely lost your memory. You can't even remember your true identity, it becomes clear that the future of Nordmaar de...

  • The Magnamund Companion

    Joe Dever

  • Heartsease

    Peter Dickinson

  • Too Many Traitors

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • Elizabeth Hen

    Siobhan Dodds

  • Snowfire

    Jessica Douglass

    A BOLD DESPERATE WOMAN... There was a price on Selina Hardesty's beautiful head. Accused of murder, she'd fled her husband's San Francisco mansion. Desperate for sanctuary, she never dreamed that within days she'd find herself in the northern wilds,...

  • Royal Poinciana

    Thea C. Douglass

    During the winter of 1896 and 1897, Madeleine Memory, the efficient and tranquil head housekeeper of a Palm Beach hotel for the well-to-do, finds her life drastically altered by a maverick playboy, Harrison St. John Loring...

  • Margaret Ziegler Is Horse Crazy

    Crescent Dragonwagon

  • Dagger

    David Drake

    Caravan master, warrior extraordinaire, Samlor hil Samt had come to the foul city of Sanctuary to protect his niece's claim in a secret inheritance. Yet something dark and savage lurked in the shadowed streets--born of the mystical dagger Samlor dare...

  • Men Hunting Things

    David Drake

  • Missing

    James Duffy

  • Change

    Maureen Duffy

  • Quintana & Friends

    John Gregory Dunne

    “Dunne has a wicked eye for the telling details, an uncanny ear for the revealing phrase.” -- The New York Times. Quintana & Friends gathers thirty-three brilliant essays written by a pioneer of New Journalism between 1963 and 1978. John Greg...

  • Outrage

    Dale A. Dye

    A fictional account of the events leading to the massacre of Marines in Beirut focuses on a gunnery sergeant on intelligence duty, a young corporal, and a young, beautiful Arab informant who discover the plot to bomb the barracks...

  • Undercover Run

    Lew Dykes

  • Donato and Daughter

    Jack Early

  • The Floatplane Notebooks

    Clyde Edgerton

    The Copeland family of Listre, North Carolina, goes back a long way. Meredith Copeland's father, Albert, keeps a sort of written family record in some notebooks he bought to log the flights of his home-built floatplane, a project Albert first underto...

  • The Making of Ironweed

    Claudio Edinger

  • More Than Best Friends

    Nancy Elliott

    WHAT WERE FRIENDS FOR? Katherine D'Angelo was on the run. Her husband had betrayed her trust not only in the arms of other women, but in their business partnership as well. And Katherine was certain that tie documents she had taken could prove...

  • Lone Star and the Lost Gold Mine

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie teaches a lession in frontier justice when swindlers go after a schoolmarm's gold in the sixty-eighth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's f...

  • Tales of Robin Hood

    Clayton Emery

    Danger gathers like storm clouds on the borders of Sherwood Forest. A demon-boar ravages the countryside. Black-robed monks ride the king's road. Witches weave spells in the night, conjuring death and mayhem. And who is the false Hood whose thugs rap...

  • Longarm and the Utah Killers

    Tabor Evans

  • Closing

    Zoe Fairbairns

    The lives of four women are dramatically changed when they sign up for the START-selling training organization and find their controlled lives, their ideals, and their notions of romance turned upside down...

  • Ride for Trinidad

    Peter Field

  • Chase a Rainbow

    Sandra Field

    She hadn't traveled this far to find a lover! Tascha Dennis hadn't crossed a continent for romantic adventure. She'd left Montreal for Whitehorse convinced that somewhere in the Yukon wilderness was the father she had never known. B...

  • Julia's Portion

    Ellen Fitzgerald

    THE UNLADYLIKE LEGACY Julia Carleton's relatives agreed on one thing: a mere female was not fit to manage the vast fortune that her father had left her. They would take control of it -- and take control of Julia as well. Julia, however, had...

  • Beauty of the Devil

    Julia Fitzgerald

  • Alice

    Sara Flanigan

    A story of inner strength, of ordinary people helping others overcome hardship with the extraordinary power of love. Young Ellie finds the courage to secretly teach a young deaf girl to speak, play, and count--transforming an entire town shadowed by ...

  • The Power Within

    Dawn Flindt

    All Tina Morton remembered of her disabling waterskiing accident were the muscular arms that buoyed her, the huge hand she clung to, the firm voice promising her sunny tomorrows. Brawny power lifter Joe Rustin was her rescuer -- her reason to recover...

  • A Summer Day

    Douglas Florian

  • A Different Breed

    Jessie Ford

    The Civil War is over. A way of life is gone. And Honey Radcliffe, a doctor's daughter bred in Southern plantation gentility, is determined to survive-even if it means trekking through the uncharted West, even if it means forfeiting her own desire ...

  • Kota

    Richard Forsythe

  • The Last Princess

    Cynthia Freeman

    Lily is the ultimate poor little rich girl, abandoned by her parents and sent to the best Swiss boarding school money could buy. Her parents have a society wedding in mind for her but then Lily meets Harry Kohle, an ambitious young writer.

    ...

  • Waldingfield

    Janine French

  • Bold Surrender

    Judith E. French

    In a time when women are seen and not heard, Ashley Morgan fights prejudice, nature, pirates, and the British Empire to hold on to her Maryland plantation, and her independence. And if success requires she hire a male overseer to ship her crops to En...

  • The Movie Lover

    Richard Friedel

  • The Fortress and the Fire

    Michael Jan Friedman

    Believed for more than one thousand years to have been slain, Odin Valfather is discovered alive in the realms of Aesir by his son, Vidar, who must use his enchanted sword to kill his father, or all that he has built on earth will be destroyed...

  • Remscela

    Gregory Frost

    Cu Chulainn, legendary defender of Ulster, tangles with a host of ancient Celtic villains who cast spells, bring war upon Ulster, and work in mystery, dreams, and enchantment to alter the warrior's fate...

  • Take One for Murder

    Eileen Fulton

    Beautiful Nina McFall, star of television's hottest soap, "The Turning Seasons," has an unerring instinct for stumbling into mystery and mayhem. When the show's despotic producer is murdered, Nina turns amateur sleuth, joining forces with Detective L...

  • Death of a Golden Girl

    Eileen Fulton

  • Kansas in August

    Patrick Gale

    A riotous dark comedy set in the backstreets of London about an unconventional love triangle, a lonely teacher, and a lost baby. Hilary Metcalfe is an English teacher who loathes his work so thoroughly that he requires a half bottle of scotch in orde...

  • Echoes and Shadows

    Judy Gardiner

  • Dream River

    Dorothy Garlock

    SHE FOUGHT AND RODE BETTER THAN ANY MAN... BUT WAS HELPLESS IN HIS ARMS Amy...I'll be back." For eight years Amy Deverall clung to the words Rain Tallman had whispered, as he kissed her and rode away. Smart as a whip, and as eager for life...

  • Work and Play

    Carlo Gebler

    Fergus Maguire, struggling to find meaning in the chaos of modern London, seems trapped in a dull job and a series of dead-end possibilities until his father's death spurs changes, and a girl named Jennifer walks into his life...

  • Roll Over!

    Mordicai Gerstein

  • Hemingway

    Christopher Cook Gilmore

  • Waiting for the Galactic Bus

    Parke Godwin

  • Dreaming

    Herbert Gold

  • Dumbo

    Golden Books

  • For Love Alone

    Lucy Gordon

    MEMORIES When Philippa Davidson awoke in an attractive, sunny bedroom, she realized she had no idea where she was -- or who she was, either. A face had haunted her, but when she opened her eyes she knew that the dark Italian man beside her was mor...

  • Children of Darkness

    Ruth Gordon

  • This Time for Real

    Susan Gorman

    The sparkle of her smile… Jody Bauer is thrilled at the chance to dance in her school’s production of Finian’s Rainbow. And when she’s told that she “just glitters onstage,” Jody beams with pride -- until her partner, handsome Jeff Rey...

  • Such Good Friends

    Lois Gould

  • A Sea-Change

    Lois Gould

  • Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth

    Robert Graves

    Robert Graves first came across the name of Roger Lamb in 1914, when Graves was an English officer instructing his platoon in regimental history. Lamb was a British soldier who had served his king during the American War of Independence, and whose cl...

  • A Lady of Property

    Vanessa Gray

    THE ELUSIVE HEIRESS As heiress to a wealthy estate, Miss Charlotte Forester was courted by Mr. Marcus North, a neighboring landowner whom she had never seen and who had never seen her. As a make-believe governess named Delia Wythe, she was purs...

  • The Jenny Summer

    Carol Greene

  • The Age of Wonder

    Michael Grieg

  • A Book about Pandas

    Ruth Belov Gross

  • To Catch a Crook

    Dorothy Haas

  • Bon Marche

    Chet Hagan

    It was a time of wonder and excitement, a time of beginnings: The British have just signed the surrender at Yorktown, and Charles Dupree, uncertain even of his age, has walked away from a French ship and into a new country. Here, no one will care abo...

  • The Silicon Mage

    Barbara Hambly

    Ambition of the Dark Mage It was impossible, Joanna knew. When she betrayed her lover Antryg Windrose to the Council, he had been sentenced to death. Then she had believed his brain was possessed by the Dark Mage Suraklin, though now she knew tha...

  • Silent Partner

    Celeste Hamilton

    Congressman's daughter Melissa Chambers heeded capital to turn her inherited mansion into Chattanooga's finest restaurant. Still, her personal declaration of independence demanded a backer who'd leave all decisions to her. Though iron-willed investor...

  • One Stolen Moment

    Rosemary Hammond

    Desire simmered in his cold gray eyes And nothing else. No hint of affection. And while Claudia found Julian's desire a heady experience, she knew it would quickly disappear. For once he knew of her physical handicap, he'd cast her aside i...

  • Scottish Stories of Fantasy and

    Peter Hanning

  • Shadow of the Cat

    Monique Hara

    Could she break the Mackintosh Curse? Castle Doom... That was what the locals called it. And with good cause. For the Mackintosh Curse hung over the sprawling, gloomy Scottish castle, so out of place in the southern Ohio wilderness, as heavily...

  • The Miracle Hater

    Shulamith Hareven

  • BJ On Her Own

    Janice Harrell

    It was a tough decision for a kid like B.J. to make, to leave home and set up on her own. She wasn’t exactly running away, just getting out of a bad situation. Anyway, she did it and she didn’t regret it for a minute. She found a grungy littl...

  • Dalva

    Jim Harrison

    From the New York Times"bestselling author of Legends of the Fall: a beautifully crafted story of one woman’s journey to find her son.   From her home on the California coast, Dalva hears the broad silence of the Nebraska prairie where she w...

  • A Pretty Place for a Murder

    Roy Hart

    A LOVELY CORPSE Vera Jackman was a lively young woman--daring enough to pose nude for a local artist, ambitious enough to have big plans for leaving the quaint village of Cort Abbas. Then her plans--and her life--came to a violent end. But Vera...

  • The Gift Horse

    Sheila Hayes

  • Happy Birthday, Moe Dog

    Nicholas Heller

  • Log Cabin in the Woods

    Joanne Landers Henry

  • Practice Makes Perfect

    Ann Herrick

  • Changes in Latitudes

    Will Hobbs

    Trouble In Paradise Sixteen-year-old Travis is looking for a good time. A vacation in Mexico with his mother, sister, and little brother might cramp his style, but he's willing to take that risk for a chance to cruise the beaches. Travis soon disco...

  • Summer of the Unicorn

    Kay Hooper

    SHE WAS BORN OF MYTH ... BUT THEY LOVED AS MORTALS They were of two different worlds and during one fateful summer, those worlds would converge in a spectacular mountain valley. Siri, warrior, sorceress and siren, the gorgeous Keeper of the last ...

  • Wake Me When the Band Starts Playing

    Nancy J. Hopper

  • Groosham Grange

    Anthony Horowitz

    There was no escaping it . . . thirteen-year-old David Eliot was a disappointment to his parents. But to be sent to Groosham Grange? Talk about no escape! Hidden away on a lonely island, Groosham Grange is a school that is unknown to the outside wor...

  • Petook: An Easter Story

    Caryll Houselander

    Petook and Martha, proud parents of twelve chickens, are visited by a stranger, and years later, they learn the meaning of Easter when they witness that stranger lifted onto a cross, as another batch of Martha's eggs hatch...

  • Ride the Pink Horse

    Dorothy B. Hughes

    During Fiesta, three desperate men converge in a perilous New Mexico town It takes four days for Sailor to travel to New Mexico by bus. He arrives broke, sweaty, and ready to get what's his. It's the annual Fiesta, and the locals burn an e...

  • Out and About

    Shirley Hughes

    The internationally acclaimed Shirley Hughes offers a treasury of seasonal poems that evoke the day-to-day experiences of the very young.

    In this joyous collection of poems, Katie and her little brother, Olly, are ready for whatever each day o...

  • Above the Clouds

    Tracy Hughes

    WHERE DID SHE FIT IN THIS TRAGIC PUZZLE? When air safety investigator Addison Lowe met pilot Annie Russell at a Miami airport, he felt torn. Part of him wanted to comfort her over the plane-crash death of her best friend, and part of him wanted to gr...

  • Macgonigal's Raid

    Vernon Humphrey

  • Unsettled Account

    Eugenia Huntingdon

    Des chats mignons qui pètentPour les amoureux des chats et des pets, quoi de plus amusant que de pouvoir colorier tous ses types préférés ? ce livre de coloriage est rempli de chats qui pètent, de chatons mignons qu...

  • Teacher's Pet

    Johanna Hurwitz

    Cricket has always been the teacher’s pet. Cricket Kaufman isn't popular with her classmates. She's too busy being the teacher's pet. Cricket always knows the right answer. And the teacher always picks her to go on important errands. Now that Cri...

  • The Duck Shack Agreement

    Muriel Jensen

    One plus one equaled three... It was a match made in heaven. Rachel Bennett and Brian Tate loved each other; he adored her young daughter. The Oregon coastline was an idyllic place to live, and Rachel's balloon delivery service was booming. What m...

  • The Tall, Dark Alibi

    Carol Jerina

  • Mists of Heaven

    Yvonne Kalman

    Set against the background of New Zealand in the mid-nineteenth century, MISTS OF HEAVEN is an enthralling story of passion, devotion and determination as a group of settlers struggle to carve out a life for themselves in a beautiful but but untamed ...

  • Fatal Attraction

    Carolyn Keene

    Romance takes a deadly twist when Nancy's archrival falls for a ladykiller Newspaper publisher Frazier Carlton comes to Nancy with a delicate problem. He wants her to check out his daughter Brenda's new flame -- and he wants it kept secret. The tr...

  • Combat Command: The Legion at War

    Andrew Keith

  • Only Fiona

    Beverly Keller

    Fiona Foster makes things happen. Only Fiona could turn two weddings topsy-turvy over a bug. Only Fiona could cause a hamster panic at the mall on the busiest shopping day of the year. And only Fiona could think to crusade for a poor, cramped fish in...

  • The Homeward Heart

    Kathy Keller

    Amidst the fluttering ribbons and falling rose petals of an old English May Day beautiful, strong-willed Rorie Shelbourne struggles to make sense of an old Gyspy woman's cryptic message: "There be two forces afoot, my dearie. One ye must avoid an'...

  • Portraits

    Julia Jay Kendall

    Torn Between Suspicion and Desire... Afterward, Claire would say that every moment had been counted, every step measured. That summer she had neither sought love nor expected it, yet it had come to her--lush and full-blown--in the dazzling presenc...

  • Sailing

    Susan Kenney

  • Honor This Day

    Alexander Kent

    Antigua, 1804. Once again Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho is aboard his beloved, battle-scarred ship Hyperion. And on this mission, death stalks him more closely than ever. In his aging vessel, he intends to brave the guns of French and Spanish defe...

  • Bumble Cat: How She Came to Be

    Phyllis Forbes Kerr

  • Marked for Murder

    William X. Kienzle

    "Readers will be turning the pages into the wee hours of the night, trying to solve the mystery along with Tully and Koesler." -- West Coast Review of BooksHas the Detroit Police Department found the perpetrator of one of the most gruesome serial mu...

  • The Cotillion

    John Killens

  • Rusty Fertlanger, Lady's Man

    Christi Killien

    Fourteen-year-old Rusty, an unathletic daydreaming artist who is only on his high school wrestling team because he needs the physical education credit, faces the ultimate humiliation when he is scheduled to wrestle a girl in a public match...

  • Vargr-Moon

    Bernard King

    In ancient Sweden, Hather Lambisson, falsely honored as the killer of Starkadder, leads a party on a desperate quest to kill the murderous Vargr, a creature spreading deadly sorcery across the northern land...

  • Ooops

    Suzy Kline

  • The Legend of Huma

    Richard A. Knaak
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    "TO THE WEST HUMA RODE, TO THE HIGH CLERIST'S TOWER ON THE BACK OF THE SILVER DRAGON AND THE PATH OF THEIR FLIGHT CROSSED OVER A DESOLATE COUNTRY WHERE THE DEAD WALKED ONLY, MOUTHING THE NAMES OF DRAGONS." For the first time in the best-selling...

  • Willow Embrace

    Allison Knight

    She craved her freedom--but was a slave to his touch. SHE WANTED HER FREEDOM Sincere Amy Sanderson believed in the independence of all men so strongly that she risked her own liberty as a conductor for the Underground Railroad. But the young wo...

  • Gypsy Enchantment

    Patricia Knoll

    "You think I've cast a spell on your uncle?" Ben Andrews returned to San Diego to find his Uncle Hank completely changed--and he blamed Tonia Meier, the very attractive gypsy he discovered at the family's San Diego beach house. ...