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New Books List: 453 titles

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Kota

    Richard Forsythe

  • Macgonigal's Raid

    Vernon Humphrey

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Combat Command: The Legion at War

    Andrew Keith

  • 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, ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Four Hundred Billion Stars

    Paul McAuley

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Three Corners to Nowhere

    Martin Caidin

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • A Country Kind of Death

    Mary McMullen

  • 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 ...

  • Donato and Daughter

    Jack Early

  • The Florentine Win

    Harriet La Barre

    Johanna March moves to Italy to teach aerobics but runs into difficulties when her employer dies, a male companion is murdered, and other crimes dog her due to her possession of a soccer pool ticket worth one million dollars...

  • The Honour of the Yorkshire Light Artillery

    Gerald Leintz

  • Little Odessa

    Joseph Koenig

    Sexy topless dancer Kate Piro finds it increasingly difficult to survive the dark underside of New York society surrounded by a pot-smoking boyfriend, a shady Israeli restaurant owner, an ex-cop, and other dangerous figures...

  • The Mason Codex // Unlawful Entry

    Jo Bannister

  • 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...

  • Miracle at Clement's Pond

    Patricia Pendergraft

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Silver Linings

    Charles Cohen

  • The Tall, Dark Alibi

    Carol Jerina

  • Terminal Justice

    Victor Wartofsky

  • 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...

  • Whisper

    William Marshall

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Love Is the Winner

    Janet Templeton

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • An Assassin Prepares

    N.J. McIver

  • Award Night

    Kristi Andrews

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Just Enough Light to Kill

    A.E. Maxwell

    In sunny southern California living is easy. And in Mexico, when you mess with the wrong folks, dying is easy too--as sexy, savvy RI. Fiddler finds out when he heads down to Tijuana. When a U.S. Customs agent who saved his life is killed, Fiddler hea...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Brain Death

    Sandra Wilkinson

  • 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....

  • Mexican Tamale Mystery

    George Edward Stanley

  • 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...

  • Between C and D

    Joel Rose

  • 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 Miracle Hater

    Shulamith Hareven

  • 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...

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

    Robert Coover

  • The Revolutionist

    Robert Littell

    The New York Timesâ€"bestselling author’s decades-spanning novel of two Americans in the Soviet Union: “Gripping . . . suspense, danger, [and] adventure†(Chicago Tribune).   This thrilling historical saga follows two young ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Caresse

    Joyce Wilson

  • 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&#...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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'...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • Summer Eyes

    Joan Lancaster

    Lovely, emerald-eyed Dominique left her pampered society life in the North to become the mistress of a sprawling Georgian plantation. And there, her golden beauty enslaved the soul of many a man. Adored by Alexandre, her handsome new husband, she lon...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

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

    Charles G. Waugh

  • 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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Nightmare Blonde

    Morton Wolson

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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

  • Maximilian's Gold

    Gordon D. Shirreffs

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Red River Revenge

    James Calder Boone

  • Ride for Trinidad

    Peter Field

  • 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 Smoking Hills

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