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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • After the War

    Frederic Raphael

  • 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 Age of Wonder

    Michael Grieg

  • Airmail to the Moon

    Tom Birdseye

  • Alice

    Sara Flanigan

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

  • All We Need of Hell

    Harry Crews

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

  • Almost Fifteen

    Marilyn Sachs

  • An American Memory

    Eric Larsen

  • American Paradise

    Ryder Stacy

  • Anno's Peekaboo

    Mitsumasa Anno

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • An Assassin Prepares

    N.J. McIver

  • Award Night

    Kristi Andrews

  • 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...

  • 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'...

  • Beauty of the Devil

    Julia Fitzgerald

  • Beggar in Blanket

    Graham

  • 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...

  • Bet You Can't

    Penny Dale

  • 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....

  • Between C and D

    Joel Rose

  • 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....

  • BJ On Her Own

    Janice Harrell

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

  • Black Bridge China

    Thomas B. Allen

  • 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...

  • Blackie

    Roselyne Morel

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Bon Marche

    Chet Hagan

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

  • 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 ...

  • A Book about Pandas

    Ruth Belov Gross

  • The Boy from over There

    Tamar Bergman

  • Brain Death

    Sandra Wilkinson

  • Break It Down

    Lydia Davis

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

  • 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....

  • Bridie and the Silver Lady

    M.S. Power

  • 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...

  • Bumble Cat: How She Came to Be

    Phyllis Forbes Kerr

  • The Butterflies Of Freedom

    Tracy West

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Caresse

    Joyce Wilson

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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&#...

  • Change

    Maureen Duffy

  • Changes in Latitudes

    Will Hobbs

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

  • 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...

  • Chase a Rainbow

    Sandra Field

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Children of Darkness

    Ruth Gordon

  • Children of Long Ago

    Lessie Jones Little

  • Clara and the Bookwagon

    Nancy Smiler Levinson

    Papa will not allow Clara to learn to read -- he says "Farm people like us do not have time to read." But when the traveling bookwagon, with persuasive Miss Mary at the reins, arrives at their farm, Papa realizes he must change his mind. Based on the...

  • Claudia and the New Girl

    Ann M. Martin

    Claudia has always been the most outrageous kid in her class...until Ashley Wyeth comes along, Ashley's really different -- she wears hippie clothes, has six holes in her ears, and is the most fantastic artist Claudia has ever met. Ashley says Cla...

  • 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...

  • Combat Command: The Legion at War

    Andrew Keith

  • Complications

    Prince Charming

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

  • Confessions of a Teenage TV Addict

    Ellen Leroe

  • 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...

  • Constance Stumbles

    Patricia C. McKissack / Pat McKissack

  • 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...

  • The Cotillion

    John Killens

  • 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 ...

  • 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 Country Kind of Death

    Mary McMullen

  • Cyborg Commando: The Ultimate Prize

    Pamela O'Neill

  • 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...

  • Dalva

    Jim Harrison

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

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Death of a Golden Girl

    Eileen Fulton

  • Deathstrike

    Nick Carter

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • 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, ...

  • Deryni Challenge

    Stephen Billias

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Digby and Kate

    Barbara Baker

  • 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. ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • Donato and Daughter

    Jack Early

  • 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 Dragon Nanny

    C.L.G. Martin

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Dreaming

    Herbert Gold

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Dumbo

    Golden Books

  • Easter Day, 1941

    G.F. Borden

  • Echoes and Shadows

    Judy Gardiner

  • Elizabeth Hen

    Siobhan Dodds

  • 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,...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Esme

    Dirk Wittenborn

  • Excelsior

    Randall Silvis

  • 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...

  • Eye of the Sun

    Mike Conner

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Family Farm

    Thomas Locker

  • 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...

  • Fatal Attraction

    Carolyn Keene

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

  • 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...

  • Feast

    Graham Masterton

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • First Clash

    Kenneth Macksey

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Flood of '64

    David Long

    Slavery in the United States lasted more than two centuries. The adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in December 1865 abolished slavery after the American Civil War.The first slaves were forcibly removed from Africa by Briti...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Fortress and the Fire

    Michael Jan Friedman

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

  • 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...

  • Four Hundred Billion Stars

    Paul McAuley

  • Free Frenchman

    Piers Paul Read

  • Friends

    Elieba Levine

  • Futility and Other Animals

    Frank Moorhouse

  • The Gift

    Joan Lowery Nixon

  • The Gift Horse

    Sheila Hayes

  • Gilbert's Gobstopper

    Mark Haddon

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Gospel Singer

    Harry Crews

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

  • 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...

  • Grandpa's Chair

    Terence Thornton

  • The Grange

    R. Chetwynd-Hayes

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • Hagar the Horrible: Hits the Mark

    Dik Browne

  • 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...

  • Hammerhead

    Julian Jay Savarin

  • Happy Birthday, Moe Dog

    Nicholas Heller

  • Harald and the Great Stag

    Carol Carrick

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Heartsease

    Peter Dickinson

  • 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...

  • Hemingway

    Christopher Cook Gilmore

  • Henry

    Nina Bawden

  • Herb 'n' Lorna

    Eric Kraft

    Herb Piper lives with his clever and vivacious wife, Lorna, in the tranquil, seaside Long Island town of Babbington. Herb sells Studebakers, putters in his basement, fancies himself an inventor, and struggles against his habit of making bad investmen...

  • 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 Hero

    Patricia Windsor

  • 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 Hideout

    Sigrid Heuck

  • 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...

  • 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'...

  • Honor This Day

    Alexander Kent

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

  • The Honour of the Yorkshire Light Artillery

    Gerald Leintz

  • The Hornbean Tree and Other Poems

    Charles Norman

  • The Houseguest

    Thomas Berger

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

  • Houston Hellground

    Chet Cunningham

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

  • 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...

  • If I Could Work

    Terence Blacker

  • In the Year of the Tiger

    Bernard Wolf

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Invasion U.S.S.R.

    Jack Buchanan

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Jenny Summer

    Carol Greene

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Journey of Discovery

    Jessica Marchant

    "Annabel Blythe, by all that's wonderful:" But it wasn't wonderful to Annabel. The sound of that voice took her back ten years to the few passion-filled weeks shared between a love-struck young woman and a dazzling globe-trotting r...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Junglewalk

    Nancy Tafuri

  • 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...

  • Kansas in August

    Patrick Gale

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

  • King Matt the First

    Janusz Korczak

    A child king introduces reforms to give children the same rights as adults....

  • The Knockout Artist

    Harry Crews

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

  • Kota

    Richard Forsythe

  • 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...