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New Books List: 453 titles

  • You Can Love a Stranger

    Charlotte Lamb

    Maddie couldn't forget his voice One midnight, the stranger's thrillingly masculine voice spoke on Maddie's phone-in radio show. She was intrigued, but she cut him off, acting by instinct. The next morning, as a favor to her boss,...

  • Work and Play

    Carlo Gebler

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Wildcat Wagon

    Jon Sharpe

  • 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...

  • The Widow's Club

    Dorothy Cannell

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

  • The Widow and the Wildcatter

    Fran Baker

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

  • The Widow and the Parrot

    Virginia Woolf

  • Who Needs Glamour Anyway?

    Marion Schultz

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

  • Who Knew There'd Be Ghosts?

    Bill Brittain

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

  • 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...

  • Whispers 4

    Stuart D. Schiff

  • Whisper

    William Marshall

  • When Monsters Seem Real

    Fred Rogers

  • What's in the Jungle?

    Peter Seymour

  • 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...

  • Way I Feel . . . Sometimes

    Beatrice Schenk De Regniers

  • Waving: A Counting Book

    Peter Sis

  • Was It Something I Said

    Jean Thesman

  • 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...

  • Waldingfield

    Janine French

  • Wake Me When the Band Starts Playing

    Nancy J. Hopper

  • Waiting for the Galactic Bus

    Parke Godwin

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Vestments

    Alfred Alcorn

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

  • Vassilisa the Wise

    Josepha Sherman

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

  • Vargr-Moon

    Bernard King

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

  • Urn Burial

    Robert Westall

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

  • 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....

  • Unsettled Account

    Eugenia Huntingdon

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

  • Unnatural Causes

    Thomas Noguchi

  • Unicorns in the Rain

    Morris L. Cohen

  • Unhealthful Air

    Elliott Baker

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

  • Unexpected Inheritance

    Margaret Mayo

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

  • Undercover Run

    Lew Dykes

  • 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...

  • Two-Moons and the Black Tower

    Ardath Mayhar

    Two-Moons-in-the-Sky, an Iroquoian warrior woman and Dreamer, is transported into the strange world of medieval Britain by a dark sorcerer, Lallius, who lives in a black tower. Lallius wants to enslave his captive, whom he regards as primitive, but l...

  • Twice upon a Time

    Allen Appel

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

  • The Trouble With Grammary

    Betty Levin

    Markka's longing for a conventional existence is threatened by the art projects of her stubborn sculptor grandmother, whose scrap metal collection offends the other citizens in their small Maine village...

  • 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....

  • Torch

    Jill Paton Walsh

  • 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 ...

  • Too Many Traitors

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • Too Long a Sacrifice

    Yvonne Whittal

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

  • 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...

  • To Catch a Crook

    Dorothy Haas

  • 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...

  • The Three Wonderful Beggars

    Sally Scott

  • Three Corners to Nowhere

    Martin Caidin

  • This Time for Real

    Susan Gorman

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

  • 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 ...

  • Terminal Justice

    Victor Wartofsky

  • 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! ...

  • 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'...

  • Teacher's Pet

    Johanna Hurwitz

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

  • Tapestry

    Belva Plain

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

  • Talley's Truth

    Phillip Ross

  • The Tall, Dark Alibi

    Carol Jerina

  • Tales of Robin Hood

    Clayton Emery

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

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Sweet Songbird

    Teresa Crane

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

  • 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...

  • Surefoot

    Robert Reese

  • The Supernatural Tales of Fitz-James O'Brien

    Fitz-James O'Brien

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • A Summer Day

    Douglas Florian

  • Such Good Friends

    Lois Gould

  • 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...

  • Starik

    Jeff Rovin

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

  • Squeak Saves The Day and Other Tooley Tales

    Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  • Spy in Question

    Tim Sebastian

  • Spooky and the Bad Luck Raven

    Natalie Savage Carlson

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Spacefighters

    Charles G. Waugh

  • Space Wars

    Poul Anderson

  • 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....

  • The Soup Stone

    Iris Van Rynbach

  • Sound of Distant Cheering

    K.N. Peyton

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

  • Sophie and Simon

    Marie-France Mangin

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • Sole Survivor

    Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

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

  • 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,...

  • The Smoking Hills

    Carter Travis Young

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

  • Smart Guys

    Carrie Lewis

  • 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...

  • Silver Linings

    Charles Cohen

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Silent Snow

    Oliver Patton

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Shadow Shark

    Colin Thiele

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth

    Robert Graves

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

  • 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...

  • Secret Papers Camp

    Rose Blue

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Second Best

    Elizabeth Bernard

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

  • A Sea-Change

    Lois Gould

  • Scottish Stories of Fantasy and

    Peter Hanning

  • Satan's Island

    Sally Wentworth

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

  • The 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...

  • Sailing

    Susan Kenney

  • 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 ...

  • Rusty Fertlanger, Lady's Man

    Christi Killien

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

  • Royal Poinciana

    Thea C. Douglass

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

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • The Roommate and the Cowboy

    Emily Chase

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

  • Roll Over!

    Mordicai Gerstein

  • A Rock & a Hard Place

    David Sherman

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

  • 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...

  • Ride for Trinidad

    Peter Field

  • The Revolutionist

    Robert Littell

    The New York Times"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 ...

  • Return to Deathwater

    Curtis Norris

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

  • The Return

    Richard Maynard

  • Remscela

    Gregory Frost

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

  • 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...

  • Red River Revenge

    James Calder Boone

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Quintana & Friends

    John Gregory Dunne

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

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Priceless Love

    Laurie Lykken

    A bid for love… Going out with star football player Rick Shaefer makes Karen Williamson feel really special. It’s easy for her to dismiss his arrogant behavior just for a glimpse of his dazzling smile. But when Rick breaks his promise to buy h...

  • 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...

  • Practice Makes Perfect

    Ann Herrick

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Porcupine Mouse

    Bonnie Pryor

  • 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...

  • Pony Soldiers

    James Axler

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

    Brandishing Colts an...

  • Planet of Dead

    Donald Wismer

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Pigs Is Pigs

    Trevor Millum

  • Phantom of the Soap Opera

    Judi Miller

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

  • Petook: An Easter Story

    Caryll Houselander

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

  • Perrywinkle and the Book of Magic Spells

    Ross Martin Madsen

  • 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...

  • The Patch Boys

    Jay Parini

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

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • Paper Airplane

    Fulvio Testa

  • 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...

  • Pack 109

    Mike Thaler

  • Outrage

    Dale A. Dye

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

  • 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.

    ...

  • Out and About

    Shirley Hughes

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

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

  • 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 ...

  • Ooops

    Suzy Kline

  • Only Six More Days

    Marisabina Russo

  • Only Fiona

    Beverly Keller

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

  • One Stolen Moment

    Rosemary Hammond

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

  • One Minute Stories of Brothers and Sisters

    Shari Lewis

  • Of Love and Shadows

    Isabel Allende

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

  • The 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 ...

  • O'Diddy

    Jocelyn Stevenson

  • O Paradiso

    Conrad L. Osborne

  • 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...

  • Not for Glory

    Joel Rosenberg

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

  • Not A Free Lunch

    Helen Schulman

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

  • The Northern Lights

    Howard Norman

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Nightmare Blonde

    Morton Wolson

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

    Robert Coover

  • 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...

  • New Destinies, Volume VII

    Jim Baen

  • 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 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • My Grandma Has Black Hair

    Mary Hoffman

  • Murgatroyd's Garden

    Judy Zavos

  • 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...

  • Moving In

    Alfred Slote

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