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  • Roots in the Outfield

    Jane Zirpoli

    Josh, the worst player on his baseball team, attempts to escape ridicule by staying with his father for the summer, but things at the lakeside cottage have changed with the addition of a new stepmother and stepsister....

  • Murgatroyd's Garden

    Judy Zavos

  • The Smoking Hills

    Carter Travis Young

    Set in the sweltering heat of the Arizona desert, a five-year trail of vengeance is about to come to an end. ...

  • Here at the Scenic-Vu Motel

    Thelma Hatch Wyss

    In his senior year at Idaho's Pineville High School, Jake finds himself in charge of six other teenagers who must board at the tacky Scenic-Vu Motel, since they live too far from town to commute from their homes to school every day....

  • The Parson's Pleasure

    Patricia Wynn

    Fate was too cruel. It had shown her an ideal man, than made it impossible for him to be hers... Claire had no interest in the young men of her set. After a disappointing London season, Claire Oliver returned to her family's country estat...

  • Moon-Dark

    Patricia Wrightson

  • The Widow and the Parrot

    Virginia Woolf

  • Never Let Go

    Sherryl Woods

    Hospital psychologist Mallory Blake had heard rumors that ace surgeon Justin Whitmore utterly lacked compassion. But when he reached out to one of her young patients, Mallory glimpsed the warmth beneath his frosty exterior. Why would such a caring ma...

  • The Count's Vendetta

    Sara Wood

    There was a price to pay for her freedom When her brother gambled away her inheritance, Jemma was left entirely in Count Vittorio de Vasari di Montevecchio's power. And he was a man bent on revenge. Three years earlier Jemma had fallen it love ...

  • Nightmare Blonde

    Morton Wolson

  • Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine

    Tom Wolfe

    "When are the 1970s going to begin?" ran the joke during the Presidential campaign of 1976. With his own patented combination of serious journalism and dazzling comedy, Tom Wolfe met the question head-on in these rollicking essays in Mauve Gloves and...

  • In the Year of the Tiger

    Bernard Wolf

  • Esme

    Dirk Wittenborn

  • Planet of Dead

    Donald Wismer

  • Last Warriors

    Walter Winward

  • The Hero

    Patricia Windsor

  • Caresse

    Joyce Wilson

  • Beloved Rogue

    Penelope Williamson

    HE WON HER IN WAR, TOOK HER IN PASSION, AND LOVED HER FOR ALL TIME AN ENEMY'S PASSION Beautiful, raven-haired Alexia Carleton was a young Englishwoman about to be wed when she was abruptly swept up and carried off by the daring and devilish Jam...

  • Cherry Ripe

    Claudette Williams

    SHE RAN FROM ONE MAN AND FELL IN LOVE WITH ANOTHER SHE HAD NO CLUE THEY WERE ONE AND THE SAME! Shauna Elton was beside herself! Imagine her own mother arranging her marriage to a man she'd never met! She'd run away! Surely she could find work as a...

  • Something About a Soldier

    Charles Willeford / Charles Ray Willeford

    Willeford joined the Army when he was 16, in the depth of the Depression, and was assigned to the Air Corps. He spent most of his three-year hitch in Manila, ``a place where interesting things can happen to a man.'' This memoir by the author of Miami...

  • Brain Death

    Sandra Wilkinson

  • Hero for the Asking

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    They had eyes only for each other Spring Reed's sister urged her to have a no-strings-attached vacation fling. "Crazy Clay" McEntire had already offered his services! But conservative optometrist that she was, Spring decided that twelve days with ...

  • The Pariah

    Collin Wilcox

    Austin Holloway is a TV evangelist with a crystal cathedral, a huge national following and major political ambitions. His family, appearing weekly on The Hour, includes an alcoholic wife and Elton, their psychotic son. In San Francisco, Holloway's pl...

  • Too Long a Sacrifice

    Yvonne Whittal

    What chance did she have to renew their love? Only days before their wedding, Julia had sent Dr. Nathan Corbett from her life. She'd lived with her deed for five long years--years filled with pain and guilt. Now suddenly he was back, and Ju...

  • The Darker Proof

    Edmund White

    The Darker Proof, an anthology of stories about suffering with the HIV virus, was first published in 1987 to critical acclaim. This updated version, which includes stories by Adam Mars-Jones and Edmund White, was published in 1988....

  • The Mortician's Birthday Party

    Peter Whalley

    After inheriting a fortune, mortician George Webster marries, moves into a big house, and takes a mistress, but soon after his gardener steals his mistress, George kills his wife and tries to cover up the murder...

  • Miss Dalrymple's Virtue

    Margaret Westhaven

    Who would ever suspect that a clergyman's daughter could become the paramour of a marquis? It was an outrageous idea! The penniless Miss Sophia Dalrymple was an authoress, and a good one, but the problem of finding a publisher seemed insurm...

  • Urn Burial

    Robert Westall

    Life is simple where Ralph lives, up in the Pennines. It's peaceful. Ordinary.Until one day, when out with the sheep, he finds something strange, too strange to be from Earth. The alien grave holds secrets of the past, but also draws Ralph into the m...

  • The Butterflies Of Freedom

    Tracy West

  • Secret at Orient Point

    Patricia Werner

    Could they fight the evil pulling them towards the same horrible fate as their parents? Were they destined for tragedy? Twenty years earlier, on the mist-shrouded North Fork of Long Island, Erika's mother was murdered by her lover. Erika's fath...

  • Satan's Island

    Sally Wentworth

    He seemed determined to ruin her holiday Storm desperately needed a break from her high-pressure singing career. She sought refuge on the primitive Indonesian island where her engineer brother worked. As an escape, it proved decidedly disconcer...

  • The Hearts and Lives of Men

    Fay Weldon

    It’s 1960s London, and the sexual revolution is in full swing in Fay Weldon’s enduring story of lust, marriage, family, art, avarice, ambition, betrayal, and true loveClifford Wexford and Helen Lally meet at a party and fall passionately ...

  • Johnnie Alone

    Elizabeth Webster

    Johnnie Cass comes from a broken home. His mother is well-meaning but is absolutely terrified of Big Joe, Johnnie's stepfather, who is a violent drunkard. Johnnie, who has been made partially deaf by his stepfather's continual battering, lives in a...

  • Catalan Christmas

    Anne Weale

    She'd been a fool to accept his proposal! Accompanying Diego Montfalco and his young daughter to his village-restoration project in Spain was a job that appealed to Lucinda Radstone. She'd grown fond of his little girl, and she loved Spain...

  • Devil Moon

    Margaret Way

    She'd feared this man from the first. Now the knowledge that he had power over her was devastating. A cruel despot of a father had left Sara Richardson emotionally scarred, and as an intelligent woman, she vowed to stay clear of such men....

  • Dixie Ghosts: Haunting, Spine-Chilling Stories from the American South

    Charles G. Waugh

  • Spacefighters

    Charles G. Waugh

  • Denner's Wreck

    Lawrence Watt-Evans

    The lost colony planet Denner's Wreck was found by a group of immortal, high-tech tourists who decided it would be fun to hang around for a few centuries playing at being gods for the low-tech descendants of the original colonists.One of the Powers, ...

  • Terminal Justice

    Victor Wartofsky

  • Torch

    Jill Paton Walsh

  • The Soup Stone

    Iris Van Rynbach

  • Love and Hunger

    Vickery Turner

  • Grandpa's Chair

    Terence Thornton

  • Rosemary for Remembrance

    June Thomson

    Low-key, lonely Inspector Jack Rudd is called in to solve a murder at a creative-writing summer school. Handsome, selfish bisexual Jake Nolan, a writer-director who spends his summers teaching playwriting to the adult students at the Morton Grange Sc...

  • Broken English

    David Thompson

    Convicted IRA terrorist Martin Burke is freed from jail by mysterious rescuers who want him to complete one last mission, and though the motives and identity of his liberators remain a mystery, Burke's fate seems tied to an assassination plot against...

  • Shadow Shark

    Colin Thiele

  • Was It Something I Said

    Jean Thesman

  • Pack 109

    Mike Thaler

  • Paper Airplane

    Fulvio Testa

  • Love Is the Winner

    Janet Templeton

  • Counterstrike

    Charles D. Taylor

    ASSASSINATION GAMEHis name is Duran. Cuba's fanatical successor to Castro, he poses the ultimate threat to Soviet power -- and American peace. Both countries want him dead. And while Soviet forces move to replace Duran with a political puppet, Americ...

  • A Fall of Princes

    Judith Tarr

    A DARK DESTINY Friends by chance, enemies by birth, Hirel of Keruvarian and Sarevan of Asanion were bound together by circumstances that made them hostages in the war that brewed between their two empires. Each prince was heir to a throne, and nei...

  • Junglewalk

    Nancy Tafuri

  • Mystic Rebel

    Ryder Syvertsen

    HE IS THE ANCIENT HOPE, AND THE PROMISE OF DOOM It was duty that first brought CIA operative Bart Lasker to the mysterious frozen mountains of Tibet. But a deeper obligation made him remain behind, disobeying orders to wage a personal war against ...

  • A Lethal Vintage

    Martin Sylvester

    In order to save his marriage, wine merchant William Warner opens his own investigation into the death of Jonathan Cassell, who may have been having an affair with William's wife, Claudine....

  • Living on the Ragged Edge

    Charles Swindoll

  • Lady Caro

    Marlene Suson

    Spirited and seventeen, the last thing she expected from marriage was love! THEIR MARRIAGE WAS IDEAL IN EVERY WAY -- EXCEPT HER HUSBAND'S HEART BELONGED TO ANOTHER! Handsome, rakish Ashley Neel needed a wife to give him an heir. Lady Caro...

  • Mrs. Demming and the Mythical Beast

    Faith Sullivan

    When Larissa Demming, a seemingly happily married woman, encounters Pan, a creature sprung from the pages of Greek mythology or from her own wild yearnings, it leads her to a confrontation with her hidden past and secret desires...

  • Men in Trouble

    Sarah Payne Stuart

  • Grand Design

    Patricia Strother

    Beautiful fifteen-year-old Theresa Pavan, pregnant and abandoned, arrives in New Orleans, prospers as a seamstress, and marries wealthy clothing manufacturer George Madison, but finds her luxurous life threatened when a handsome stranger appears...

  • Privileged Lives

    Edward Stewart

    In this classic thriller, bestselling author Edward Stewart weaves a complex tale of sex, money, and murder.

    In a private suite at a New York hospital, Beatrice “Babe” Vanderwalk Devens awakens from a seven-year coma. The social...

  • O'Diddy

    Jocelyn Stevenson

  • Involution Ocean

    Bruce Sterling

    A far-future Moby-Dick by the author of Schismatrix : A desperate addict on a bleak, arid planet boards a whaling vessel to hunt the drug he craves. The powerful narcotic syncophine, commonly known as Flare, comes from only one source: the oil ...

  • Mexican Tamale Mystery

    George Edward Stanley

  • Through All Eternity

    Sondra Stanford

    The quiet town of Cattail, Texas, had everything retired New York fashion model Lila Addison wanted: peace, tranquility and blessed solitude. At least, that's what she thought until she bumped -- literally! -- into big Jeffrey Chappel, a man fighting...

  • American Paradise

    Ryder Stacy

  • Vows

    LaVyrle Spencer

    One kiss... could change her life forever. Emily -- With her sky-blue eyes, big dreams, and strong will, she was engaged to a man whose touch left her aching for something more. Tom -- The new man in town, he was a handsome and infuriating de...

  • Aquila and the Iron Horse

    S.P. Somtow

    Equus Insanus, son of the intrepid Aquila, finds the civilized life of Rome tedious. So he is eager to return to his native land of Terra Novo to assist in the construction of Caesar''s latest fancy—a transprovincial railroad.

    But on ...

  • Hold Back the Night

    Beverly Sommers

    Someone wanted her dead but she didn't know why When waitress Karen Alling borrowed an expensive camera from the restaurant's Lost and Found, her world suddenly went haywire. Within twenty-four hours she was mugged and shot at--and that was just t...

  • Teacher's Pet

    Beverly Sommers

    When is a date not a date? When you don't dress up. When you ask your roommate along. When your companion has scored zero on the compatibility part of the test you and your friend have secretly given him. Arlie Cooper was almost positive she wasn'...

  • Squeak Saves The Day and Other Tooley Tales

    Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  • Looking after Din

    Peter Smith

  • Origin of the Crabs

    Guy N. Smith

    Rouse suddenly let out a piercing scream releasing him from the paralysis of sheer terror in which those malevolent red eyes had held him. In panic he turned and tried to scamble up the slippery rockface. But his feet could not grip; slowly he began ...

  • Marry Me Not

    Lass Small

    He had a way with words... and women When Kris Alden s flight for New York took off, so did her life. For sitting beside her was a Talkative Texan--with capital Ts--who could charm the horns off a steer. Doggedly he breached her Yankee reserve, an...

  • Moving In

    Alfred Slote

    Eleven-year old Robbie and his thirteen-year-old sister, Peggy, involve themselves in some elaborate schemes to discourage their widowed father's budding romance and to persuade him to move back to their old hometown....

  • Waving: A Counting Book

    Peter Sis

  • Enemies, a Love Story

    Isaac Bashevis Singer

    Almost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives: Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; Masha , his beautiful and neurotic true love; and Tamara, his first wife, miraculously returne...

  • To Sleep, Perchance to Kill

    L.V. Sims

    A computer genius is found dead, and Sergeant Dixie T. Struthers must determine if it was murder by getting information from the only known witness, a computer named Igor, and teaming up with an old enemy, as she risks becoming the next victim...

  • Excelsior

    Randall Silvis

  • Queensblade

    Susan Shwartz

    On distant Pennllyn, a barbaric fate awaits the Princess Gwenlliant. For here it is decreed that every queen must one day slay herself with the sacrificial dagger called Queensblade. This is the 3 volume in the Heirs to Byzantium....

  • Maximilian's Gold

    Gordon D. Shirreffs

  • Vassilisa the Wise

    Josepha Sherman

    Based on an authentic Russian folk ballad, this action-adventure story pits a clever and courageous woman against Prince Vladimir of Russia. “The rich, layered watercolors reflect the story’s origins; costumes are striking and the decorative patt...

  • A Rock & a Hard Place

    David Sherman

    The Marines of Combined Action Platoon T-9 are trapped between a Rock and a Hard Place. They can't run their patrols and keep Bun Hoi village safe from the Vietcong without their Popular Forces platoon, which had been taken away by the District Comma...

  • Disarray

    Linda Shaw

    With her wedding canceled, her reputation in tatters, her car in a ditch and her best outfit ruined, Barbara Regent was having a rotten day. Getting stranded in a ramshackle shanty with a dangerous stranger was not a wise way to cap off the evening. ...

  • Wildcat Wagon

    Jon Sharpe

  • Death of a Busy Body

    Dell Shannon

    VERY GOOD-BOOK/VERY GOOD-DUST JACKET, STATED 1ST EDITION: 1ST PRINTING as evidenced by print history number line ending in the number 1. Hardcover fiction. Book is NOT SIGNED OR AUTOGRAPHED. Dust jacket is protected by clear archival cover. Dust jack...

  • The Dispossessed

    Dell Shannon

    The Dispossessed is an historical novel set in Ireland in the middle of the 17th century, when Cromwell and his troops destroyed the Gaelic aristocracy and seized their lands. The survivors were given the option of 'To Hell or Connacht.' The plot is ...

  • Arabesques

    Anton Shammas

    A luminous, inventive, and deeply personal exploration of living in the liminal space between Jewish and Arab, ancient and modern, by a gifted Palestinian writer.Chosen by The New York Times as one of the best books of 1988, Arabesques is a luminous ...

  • What's in the Jungle?

    Peter Seymour

  • Catherine

    Maura Seger

    A breathtaking novel of two fated lovers whose pride and passion become a legand. THEY DARED TO CROSS A FORBIDDEN LINE FOR LOVE From the moment he saves her from a gang of Boston toughs, Catherine Bennington loses her heart to handsome Evan O&#...

  • Conflict of Interest

    Maura Seger

    DID HE REALLY WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH? This was just the kind of assignment tough-minded investigative reporter David Wilson loved: the in-depth coverage of a senator's run for the presidency. The only monkey wrench in the works was the candidate's...

  • Spy in Question

    Tim Sebastian

  • The Three Wonderful Beggars

    Sally Scott

  • Catch a Dream

    Celia Scott

    Jessica had to prove she only wanted justice After hearing Jessica Firbank's story, wealthy Andros Kalimantis immediately accused her of blackmail. Jessica, a sensible Brighton barmaid, was outraged but determined to get a fair settlement f...

  • Julie

    Vivian Schurfranz

    As the railroads open a new age, Julie opens her heart to first love. It's 1868 and in Crooked Branch, Utah, 15-year-old Julie Fulton is proud her family is helping build the first transcontinental railroad. With her father an engineer, and her moth...

  • Who Needs Glamour Anyway?

    Marion Schultz

    Christie Todd's mistrust of good-looking men extends to her father, who deserted the family nine years ago, as well as to Vernon Thatcher, the guy pursuing her, but she learns that appearances are deceiving...

  • Not A Free Lunch

    Helen Schulman

    A debut collection of short stories from a writer whose work has appeared in the leading small magazines, stories that focus on surprising characters who maintain vibrancy in the face of sometimes appalling odds...

  • Whispers 4

    Stuart D. Schiff

  • Hammerhead

    Julian Jay Savarin

  • Lauren's Big Mix-Up

    Susan Saunders

    When Stephanie invites the sleepover friends to spend the week in New York, they can't wait! After all, Stephanie used to live there and can show them all the fun places to go to! But, Stephanie's old friend turns out to be a snob and Lauren loses he...

  • The Vile Village

    Craig Sargent

    Caught in a radioactive rain storm, Martin Stone finds that he has entered a valley of death--where two flipped-out, murderous gangs are locked in a bloody struggle for control of the people and the land....

  • Shatter

    Michael Saenz

    In a future where all jobs are temporary, Shatter, a temporary policeman, must stop the world's biggest media conglomerate from drawing on its primary source of cheap creative talent--stealing other people's brains...

  • The Samurai

    Barry Sadler

    Casca Longinus. Cursed by Christ on Golgotha. Condemned to outlive the ages and wander the globe a constant soldier. Forever fighting, surviving, waiting f Him to return. Feudal Japan. A forbidden island, where honor is a warrior's prized possessi...

  • Candlemas Eve

    Jeffrey Sackett

    Simon Proctor isn't sure what the future will be, but it doesn't look good. His once soaring career as a musician and performer has plunged to rock bottom. He's running out of money, ideas, and hope...until two stunning women enter his life -- myst...

  • Almost Fifteen

    Marilyn Sachs

  • Cast in Wax

    Jenna Ryan

    Bremerhaven, Massachusetts, was proud of its macabre history But the haunted houses that attracted tourists were horribly eclipsed by the skeletons that turned up during detective Rhianna Curtis's visit to her hometown. Discovered behind a brick w...

  • Only Six More Days

    Marisabina Russo

  • Starik

    Jeff Rovin

    With the failure of Glasnost, an extremist ruler comes to power in the USSR, and dire warnings from a Soviet defector provoke Kremlinologist Joseph Rosenstock to launch a desperate scheme involving a plot to steal the body of Lenin....

  • The Bet's On, Lizzie Bingman!

    Rhea Beth Ross

    Lizzie's bet with her brother that she won't need help from any man all summer begins as a stand for women's rights in the 1914 setting of this novel, but it becomes hard to keep when Lizzie witnesses a murder and has her own life threatened....

  • Talley's Truth

    Phillip Ross

  • Not for Glory

    Joel Rosenberg

    Despite the fact that General Shimon Bar-El has been branded a traitor to the Metzadan Mercenary Corps, Inspector-General Tetsuo Hanavi is convinced that Bar-El is the only one who can help them win the war on Indess...

  • Between C and D

    Joel Rose

  • The Last Armenian

    Francis Rolt

    When her adoptive father Jo, the last Armenian living in the ancient city of Chittagong, Bangladesh, is killed in an auto accident, Shiuli is drawn to Charles, a young Englishman, and both become enmeshed in the tragedy of tribal warfare...

  • When Monsters Seem Real

    Fred Rogers

  • An Infinite Number of Monkeys

    Les Roberts

    Details the life and career of a private superstar--his years of struggle, his pivotal "Star Wars" role, his heartbreak and new love, and the box-office smash hits that required great acting and courage...

  • Spacer: Window of the Mind

    John Maddox Roberts

    Rescued by the crew of the freighter, Space Angel, Kiril, a street urchin, must use her telepathic powers to prevent the ship from being used as a pawn in an insane attempt to start an intergalactic war...

  • The Nevada Timber War

    J.R. Roberts

    Jeb Oatman is gobbling up prime Nevada timberland faster than a rat through a rich widow's pantry. And his hired guns ain't above cutting down any man that stands in his way. Now Clint has signed on to protect the ranchers of Pine Bluff from Oatman's...

  • New York Run

    David Robbins

    The Genesis Seeds: They were developed on the eve of nuclear destruction, a scientific breakthrough that promised abundant food for a ravaged and starving humanity. The Minister: The autocratic leader of a sinister community of scientists, he clai...

  • No Turning Back

    Christine Rimmer

    THE TURNING POINT They had met before--but under the worst of circumstances. The last time Caitlin O'Neill had seen Jake Strand, he'd been wearing little more than a smile. She'd hardly noticed; her world had been tumbling down around her. Since t...

  • Space Traders Unlimited

    Julia Riding

    Eking out a desperate existence as a renegade with the other Portkids who hide in the old tunnels under a spaceport on Mars, the teenager known as Streak stumbles on clues to the sabotage plaguing the entire solar system....

  • JACOB 2-2 & DINOSAUR

    Mordecai Richler

    When his parents return from Kenya with a cute little green lizard on his eighth birthday (he’s two times two times two), Jacob Two-Two is thrilled. But it isn’t long before Jacob realizes that his new pet Dippy isn’t a lizard after...

  • Powder River

    Bill Reno

    THE BADGE To a violent land, a frontier yet untamed, came a man who wore a badge of law and order. He faced the myriad dangers and paid the price in blood to become one of the most enduring heroic figures of the Old West. POWDER RIVER Powder Riv...

  • Eye of Heaven

    Michelle Reid

    She was gloriously happy -- too happy! The initial encounter between Alec Stedman, an arrogant photographer, and Jessica Christhanson, a fiery theater star, had sizzled with hostility. But in due time, the currents between them changed from anta...

  • Master of the Return

    Tova Reich

    In Mara, Reich, herself the scion of a rabbinical family, took aim at the mores of American Orthodox Jewry. Here, she casts her sly, sardonic eye upon those at the opposite end of the spectrum, so to speakIsraeli penitents. With vigor, irreverence an...

  • Surefoot

    Robert Reese

  • Big Time Tommy Sloane

    James Reardon

    Tommy Sloane is a winner. He's also the toughest, most arrogant know-it-all on the Job. A poor kid from New York, he hungers for the big bucks and fast life of pretty girls and handmade suits. And the police department offers him those opportunities....

  • Free Frenchman

    Piers Paul Read

  • Temptress

    Linda Raye

    Sparks fly when Professor Nick Logan and actress Amanda Brady meet, for he assumes she's the temptress she plays on TV Incensed, Amanda enrolls in his history course and pretends to be overwhelmed. And when Nick suggests a tutor, she chooses him! ...

  • After the War

    Frederic Raphael

  • Gold from Heaven

    Peter Rand

    Ivan and Ann Albrecht, twins who head the powerful and ruthless Albrecht dynasty, dabble in murder, deception, and cruel power games in their struggle to wrest control of the family business from Gretchen, their mother, who has plans of her own...

  • Blind Date

    Janet Quin-Harkin

    When Caroline chickens out on a blind date with the son of prominent socialites, Chrissy agrees to go in her stead--and pretends to be Caroline! Then Chrissy becomes increasingly involved in her fantasy past as a ballerina, and Caroline is not so sur...

  • Dreams of Flesh and Sand

    W.T. Quick

    Double En, the most powerful corporation ever created, and its founders, Nakamura and Norton, are two of the most brilliant minds in history. But now they have launched a private war against each other and winner takes all. While Norton is hidden dee...

  • Shadow in the North

    Philip Pullman

    Will the sea give up its dead? Sally Jjckhart, spirited heroine of The Ruby in the Smoke, is back! The year is 1878, and Sally, once again defying Victorian sensibilities, has gone into business for herself. When one of her clients loses a large s...

  • The Porcupine Mouse

    Bonnie Pryor

  • The Med

    David Poyer

    A powerful and fast-moving tale of the Navy-Marine Corps team in action, on a dangerous mission in the volatile Eastern Mediterranean.Cloaked by the mists of dawn, Task Force 61-- carrying tanks, aircraft, and over 5000 Marines-- steams toward Syria ...

  • Bridie and the Silver Lady

    M.S. Power

  • A Girl of the Limberlost

    Jean Stratton Porter

    This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setti...

  • Tapestry

    Belva Plain

    THE MAGNIFICENT SAGA BEGUN IN EVERGREEN CONTINUES Beginning in 1920, paralleling Hitler's rise to power, and encompassing World War II, Belva Plain's new novel weaves the threads of history into a brilliant tapestry. As vivid events plunge the wo...

  • Last Act

    Christopher Pike

    It was only a high school play -- until death walked on stage. Melanie was the new girl in town, a little lonely, a little bored. Then she auditioned for the school play and won the starring role. Suddenly she had a whole gang of exciting friend...

  • Spellbound

    Christopher Pike

    No one knew how the girl had died. They found Karen Holly in the mountain stream, her skull crushed. There was only one witness to the tragedy, Karen's boyfriend, Jason Whitfield. He said a grizzly had killed her. But a lot of people didn't believ...

  • Gone to Soldiers

    Marge Piercy

    This sweeping New York Times bestseller is “the most thorough and most captivating, most engrossing novel ever written about World War II” (Los Angeles Times). Epic in scope, Marge Piercy’s sweeping novel encompasses the wide range of people an...

  • Blood Heat

    Steve R. Pieczenik

    In 1989, an outbreak of bubonic plague draws Dr. Orestes Bradley into a web of bizarre events and alliances involving government officials, a Japanese war criminal turned respectable doctor, and the CEO of a pharmaceutical company...

  • January in July

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    Ever since a brief encounter with wealthy and beautiful January St. John had left him with a broken nose, Houston Tyler couldn't get the classy lady out of his head... or heart. He had to see January again--and prove she was out of his league! Then t...

  • Sound of Distant Cheering

    K.N. Peyton

    Rosy Weeks works for a local horse trainer at a once-successful stable, now fallen on hard times. In love with the morose owner and passionate about her favourite horse, Roly Fox, can Rosy turn the stable's fortunes around?...

  • Nocturne Murder

    Audrey Peterson

    Aided by Andrew Quentin, her dissertation director, and James Hall, a young barrister, graduate student Jane Winfield attempts to clear herself of the brutal murder of her lover, Max Fordham, an eminent British music critic...

  • The Deeds of the Disturber

    Elizabeth Peters

    When the body of a night watchman is found sprawled in the shadow of a rare 19th-Dynasty mummy case, panic ensues. For no one doubts that the guard's untimely demise is the work of an ancient Egyptian curse. No one, that is, except that tart-tongued ...

  • Contrary Lovers

    Clarice Peters

    She had always expected to marry for love! Davida and Lyall were shocked to discover their fathers had years ago engaged them in a secret marriage contract. Davida had no desire to wed rich, high-handed Lord Lyall, while he claimed the idea of...

  • Breaker

    Norah A. Perez

    Set at the time of the great strike of 1902, this novel traces the changes and conflicts in fourteen-year-old Pat McFarlane as he leaves school to work in the Pennsylvania coal mines that have so recently taken the life of his father....

  • Falls the Shadow

    Sharon Kay Penman

    "This day we fight for justice, for Christ's poor, for the weak of England, for the promises broken and the trust betrayed...." This was Simon de Montfort at his best, on the eve of the famous battle of Lewes. A man ahead of his time, he was a dis...

  • Miracle at Clement's Pond

    Patricia Pendergraft

  • Divided Loyalty

    Jean Paxton

    Lady Judith Hallowell gathered her skirts about her, scampered down the gangplank, and planted her dainty feet firmly on Yankee soil. America and England were close to being at war again, but that did not sway her. Weary of London's giddy social whir...

  • The Silent Snow

    Oliver Patton

  • A Half-Dozen Reasons

    Darlene Patten

    CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN... . Karen Wagner had finally found her fantasy man! Widower Grant Russell had it all--tall, dark and handsome, the man was a true prince. But he was the father of six children! Even though Karen loved kids, and she'd always w...

  • Shadow Over Bright Star

    Irene M. Pascoe

    'Died in an accident.' The terse words were scrawled on a returned letter that Jessica Winsor had sent to her father. Aghast, she journeyed to Virginia City to investigate, and was stunned to learn that she was suddenly very wealthy. Her father had w...

  • The Far Battleground

    F.M. Parker

    After the Texas Rangers' defeat of the Mexican Army at Mexico City in 1847, Ranger Thomas Cavillin is forced to hunt down a fellow officer leading a band of renegade cavalrymen on a pillaging spree through Mexican towns...

  • The Patch Boys

    Jay Parini

    Fifteen-year-old Sammy di Cantini, resident of a mining region of Pennsylvania, is determined to rise above his class, falls disastrously in love with a Protestant, and visits his Mafia brother in New York where he becomes involved in impossible stru...

  • Guilt by Association

    Marilyn Pappano

    HIS BROTHER'S KEEPER . . . Christopher Morgan's brother had been caught selling government secrets, and that made Christopher a suspect, too. After his eventual release, he headed for the mountains to rethink his life. That was where Shelley Ev...

  • Enamored

    Diana Palmer

    THE PAST FINALLY CAUGHT UP WITH HIM Diego Laremos had never forgotten the last night he'd spent with Melissa Sterling five years before. She'd fled their home after a bitter dispute, hoping to escape their unhappy marriage. He hadn't forgiven her ...

  • O Paradiso

    Conrad L. Osborne

  • The Object of His Affection

    Sara Orwig

    Even a near-collision with a stick of dynamite couldn't stop Hilary Wakefield from confronting Brink Claiborn face to face! The brash, impossible man had avoided her calls and ignored her letters--now he'd have to tell her why he refused to sell her ...

  • Sweet Desire

    Sara Orwig

    He kissed her with aching tenderness, sending tantalizing sparks of excitement through her. She shivered in anticipation.... When Comanches threatened golden-haired Caroline Brandon, a spirited young orphan fleeing the wreckage of the Civil War, a...

  • Cyborg Commando: The Ultimate Prize

    Pamela O'Neill

  • The Supernatural Tales of Fitz-James O'Brien

    Fitz-James O'Brien

  • Magic in Ithkar 1

    Andre Norton

    Mass paperback reprint of 1985 trade paper first edition. Collection of fantasy stories set against a common backdrop. First in series, followed by Magic in Ithkar 2, Magic in Ithkar 3, and Magic in Ithkar 4. Contents: Prologue, essay by Robert Adams...

  • Return to Deathwater

    Curtis Norris

    The reader steps into the role of hero or heroine, deciphers a mysterious poem, is whisked off to the forbidden land of Deathwater, solves the mystery of the island's name, traces a lost character, and comes face to face with the adventure's villian...

  • The Fortune Teller

    Marsha Norman

    From Personal Private Collection. May 1988 1st Edition. Has light creases on spine , binding is good and tight, pages are clean and intact, Tiny tiny shelve wear on cover edges. Few marks on cover. Pages Light tanning on pages. If you would like a pi...

  • The Northern Lights

    Howard Norman

  • The Hornbean Tree and Other Poems

    Charles Norman

  • Unnatural Causes

    Thomas Noguchi

  • The Gift

    Joan Lowery Nixon

  • Black Wizards

    Douglas Niles
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    Yet again, the Moonshae Isles comes under the threat of sinister and supernatural forces. A council of dark sorcerers has usurped the will of the High King. An army of ogres and zombies guided by Bhaal, the super-deity of death and destruction, th...

  • Child of blood

    Michael Newton

    Tony Kieu has grown to manhood with revenge in his heart. He's the illegitimate son of a Vietnamese woman and an American soldier, despised in his own land as a half-breed. Now, Tony arrives on the shores of his father's country. Here he will begin a...

  • Sole Survivor

    Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    WAS THIS THE WAY AMERICA ENDED -- NOT WITH A BANG BUT A FIZZLE? The Russians who invented it called it the Sword of Damocles-a device that silently sterilized men and women alike. And now the Sword was in the worst possible hands-the out-of-whack ...

  • Acastos

    Iris Murdoch

    In two Platonic diaglogues, "Art and Eros" and "Above the Gods," "Acastos, Plato's friend and a sturdy, able thinker, explains the meaning of goodness and the role of faith as they pertain to the modern world...

  • Blackie

    Roselyne Morel

  • Futility and Other Animals

    Frank Moorhouse

  • Bonanza City

    Hank Mitchum

    Bounty hunter Rory Darson figured it would be an easy job. Take Sonora Pike into Bonanza City, turn the killer over to the local sheriff, wait to collect the reward money, then drift on out. He'd done it many times before. But this time trouble came ...

  • Pigs Is Pigs

    Trevor Millum

  • Phantom of the Soap Opera

    Judi Miller

    DEATH PLAYS A MURDEROUS PART.... Wickedly seductive, Kristi Marlowe was the perfect Heather--America's favorite star on the top-rated daytime soap. She never suspected she was about to die.... Looking down at her pretty corpse, NYPD Detective The...

  • Popcorn and Kisses

    Kasey Michaels

    COMING ATTRACTIONS As the manager of America's oldest operating drive-in, Sharon Wheeler felt she was preserving an important part of the past. Her eyes saw a hundred old movies and a thousand dreams in the faces of the families who packed the pla...

  • Inheritance

    Judith Michael

    Laura Fairchild enters a charmed world when eccentric patriarch Owen Salinger takes her in as his protege and confidante. In the patrician circles of Boston's Beacon Hill, she acquires grace, culture - and a passionate lover in Owen's nephew, Paul. B...

  • Windsor Red

    Jennie Melville

    Policewoman Charmain Daniels' innate curiosity of feminist crime takes her on sabbatical from the force to research her thesis in historic Windsor. Her subjects are an odd group of six female ex-cons she's dubbed her Gang of Girls. But a series of...

  • The Reluctant Ronin

    James Melville

    When a beautiful foreign executive is found murdered carrying a photograph of Otani's daughter, son-in-law, and grandchild in her purse, no one is more surprised than the illustrious inspector himself. What could this gaijin want with his family? And...

  • Something Wonderful

    Judith McNaught

    This is the story of Alexandra Lawrence, an artless country girl, and her tempestuous marriage to Jordan Townsende, the rich and powerful Duke of Hawthorne. Swept into the endlessly fascinating world of London society, free-spirited Alexandra becomes...

  • Fatal Command

    Joseph D. McNamara

    FROM THE QUIET LIFE TO THE KILLING GROUND That morning Fraleigh, the high-tech boomtowns unorthodox new chief of detectives, had supervised a quiet stakeout. Now the mayors aide had been gunned down, and an innocent young woman was near death. There...

  • A Country Kind of Death

    Mary McMullen

  • Defiant Spitfire

    Kay McMahon

    FARMGIRL'S HERO Frantic that her jailed brother would be killed by the Redcoats, desperate Brittany Lockwood had no choice but to appeal to notorious Dane Remington for help. When the raven-haired captain agreed to take her part, the innocent blon...

  • Constance Stumbles

    Patricia C. McKissack / Pat McKissack

  • The Devil's Hand

    Jack McKinney

    SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT... It was 2020. Six years had passed since the destruction of the Super Dimensional Fortresses 1 and 2, that final tragedy of the First Robotech War. But Earth was on the mend now, and from the wreckage of those ships...

  • Daughters Four

    Dixie McKeone

    He was the ideal husband--for her sister! The Earl of Beresford was the perfect husband--wealthy, charming ... and wickedly witty. Veronica determined he should marry her sister Rachel. Sister Charlotte had also found the perfect man--for Veron...

  • An Assassin Prepares

    N.J. McIver

  • The Fifth Station

    Kevin McIlvoy

    In The Fifth Station, Matthew, the youngest of three brothers, has died at nineteen, inside a foundry smokestack in Illinois. The surviving brothers take their grief and misfortune to the desert landscape of New Mexico. There, one brother indulges th...

  • Lovespell

    Nelle McFather

    CRISLYN --- With hair as black as night, and eyes as blue as the summer sky, Crislyn was the most beautiful maid in the village of Ravensbridge. The women in the village whispered about her strange powers, but the men longed to possess her elusive be...

  • The Ladies of Missalonghi

    Colleen McCullough

    In this magical romance, set in a small town in Australia's beautiful Blue Mountains, Colleen McCullough spins a delightful tale of dreams that come true... of rebellious courage... of a plain young woman who shocks her narrow world as she transforms...

  • Stinger

    Robert R. McCammon

    Robert R. McCammon, one of the supreme masters of horror, takes us into a mind-bending landscape bursting with the most savage terrors imaginable. STINGER...an enemy more fearsome, more hideous than the most heart-stopping nightmares. STINGER...who r...

  • Four Hundred Billion Stars

    Paul McAuley

  • Unexpected Inheritance

    Margaret Mayo

    He was her first love--now she hated him When lawyers summoned her to St. Lucia to accept her inheritance, Alice Alexander was apprehensive. She and her mother had been disowned before Alice's birth, and Alice was bitter toward her unknown gra...

  • The Hunting Season

    J.K. Mayo

    After witnessing a murder in France, playwright Anthony Moore travels to Canada where he is pursued by kidnappers, a youthful band of terrorists, and a mysterious individual who stands to profit greatly from Moore's demise...