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New Books List: 453 titles

  • My Grandma Has Black Hair

    Mary Hoffman

  • Beggar in Blanket

    Graham

  • Moon-Dark

    Patricia Wrightson

  • 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....

  • Family Farm

    Thomas Locker

  • The Gift

    Joan Lowery Nixon

  • The Dragon Nanny

    C.L.G. Martin

  • Gilbert's Gobstopper

    Mark Haddon

  • Perrywinkle and the Book of Magic Spells

    Ross Martin Madsen

  • 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 Age of the Common Millionaire

    Robert Heller

    A study of the new people and trends behind today's unprecedented creation of personal and corporate wealth illuminates the future of America's entrepreneurial society and draws rules and conclusions about getting and staying rich in the eighties...

  • The Hideout

    Sigrid Heuck

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Little Rabbit's Baby Brother

    Fran Manushkin

  • 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...

  • Falling in Love Again

    Marjorie Lewty

    Could she fall in love again? Tessa Durant thought she was seeing a ghost when she first looked into the stormy eyes of Alaric Brent, the dashing young president of Brent Pharmaceuticals. He was offering her a job as a chemist in the British co...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • What's in the Jungle?

    Peter Seymour

  • Wake Me When the Band Starts Playing

    Nancy J. Hopper

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Death of a Golden Girl

    Eileen Fulton

  • Free Frenchman

    Piers Paul Read

  • 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...

  • Four Hundred Billion Stars

    Paul McAuley

  • Red Ribbon Rosie

    Jean Marzollo

    Rosie's decision to cheat in order to win a race with her best friend, Sally, has disastrous results until her older sister helps her learn an important lesson about winning races and keeping friends....

  • When Monsters Seem Real

    Fred Rogers

  • Meet Mr. Snuffel-Upagus

    Liza Alexander

  • O'Diddy

    Jocelyn Stevenson

  • 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...

  • Pack 109

    Mike Thaler

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Secret Papers Camp

    Rose Blue

  • 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...

  • 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

  • Children of Long Ago

    Lessie Jones Little

  • Love and Hunger

    Vickery Turner

  • Between C and D

    Joel Rose

  • 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....

  • Deathstrike

    Nick Carter

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Slocum and the Gunfighters Greed

    Jake Logan

    SLOCUM WAS ON HIS WAY OUT OF TOWN. Then an old debt rode out of the past, looking to be paid. The brother of a man Slocum out-gunned in a fair fight was hungry for blood. No matter that the dead man was a lying. cheatin gambler. Turk knew that Slocum...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Longarm and the Utah Killers

    Tabor Evans

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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! ...

  • 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&#...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Djinn

    Graham Masterton

    Anna is mysterious and beautiful, so much so that clairvoyant Harry Erskine breaks propriety and asks her out to lunch at his godfather?s wake. When his godmother, Marjorie Greaves, reveals the strange behaviour of her recently-deceased husband, Max,...

  • Feast

    Graham Masterton

  • 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...

  • Nightmare Blonde

    Morton Wolson

  • 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

  • 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....

  • Three Corners to Nowhere

    Martin Caidin

  • 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, ...

  • Space Wars

    Poul Anderson

  • The Magnamund Companion

    Joe Dever

  • 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...

  • 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.

    ...

  • The White Serpent

    Tanith Lee

    A recognized master fantasist, Tanith Lee has won multiple awards for her craft, including the British Fantasy Award, the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, and the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Horror. The White Serpent return...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Rapture Deep

    Anne Lacey

    Thirteen years after fiery Stacy Thomasson betrayed him, Chris's gut still churned with buried rage-and something deeper he didn't dare admit. His gentle wife's dying request had brought Stacy back into his home, but Chris vowed his heart would remai...

  • 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. Wh...

  • 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'...

  • 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. ...

  • A Proper Proposal

    Dawn Lindsey

    LORD KINROSS, THE CONQUEROR Even before high-minded and fiery-tempered Miss Nicola Lacy met Lord Alexander Kinross, she had heard all too much about him. He was wealthy. He was handsome. He was charming. He had the best of tempers and the sunni...

  • Nothing to Hide

    Irene Leroy

    HIDDEN SECRETS Anne Goodwill returned to Noble's Run because of a promise and a vision--bits of a childhood memory scattered like pieces of an elaborate puzzle. Rob MacKenzie was a part of that vision. He'd been her hero back then, saving her from...

  • The Takeover Man

    Frances Lloyd

    LADY BEWARE The moment Nick Wedderburn came zooming into the parking lot, Kate Camilleri knew her dashing new boss was going to be trouble. First he appeared out of nowhere to become A. B. Promotions's new director. Then he presumptuously rescued ...

  • Fever

    Elizabeth Lowell

    FROM THE FRYING PAN ... Lisa Johansen, world traveler, had tasted the exotic and seen the extraordinary. But when a rancher called Rye came into her life, he ignited a feverish desire foreign to her mind, her body, her soul . . .. Rye was certa...

  • 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...

  • Sable and Secrets

    Nancy Martin

    JUST WHO WAS PLAYING WITH WHOM? Alex Varanov was determined to find out who was stealing fur coats from his father's Chicago-based boutique. And all the evidence pointed to salesclerk Caroline Conover. Too bad he was attracted like a moth to a ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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'...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 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...

  • Silver Linings

    Charles Cohen

  • 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...

  • The Tall, Dark Alibi

    Carol Jerina

  • 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 Honour of the Yorkshire Light Artillery

    Gerald Leintz

  • 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...

  • A Country Kind of Death

    Mary McMullen

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Mexican Tamale Mystery

    George Edward Stanley

  • The Haunted Mesa

    Louis L'Amour

    As part of the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials! The Navajo called them the Anasazi, the “ancient enemy,” and their abandoned cities haunt the canyons and plateaus of the Southwest. F...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Black Wizards

    Douglas Niles
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    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...

  • 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...

  • 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.

    ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Award Night

    Kristi Andrews

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Miracle at Clement's Pond

    Patricia Pendergraft

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • An American Memory

    Eric Larsen

  • Beautiful Islands

    Russell Martin

    Russell Martin's remarkable first novel brings to mind the wonderful early books of Larry McMurtry, wherein the gorgeous but unforgiving landscape of the American West is evoked as powerfully and majestically as the characters who inhabit it. Martin'...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Widow and the Parrot

    Virginia Woolf

  • 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...

  • 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...