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New Books List: 468 titles

  • Yummers Too!

    James Marshall

  • Your Move, J.P.!

    Lois Lowry

    "Spontaneous, natural, and humorous." -- The Bulletin    J.P. is in love, and it’s making him do all sorts of weird things. Like using deodorant, bumping into walls, and imagining he hears serenading violins. J.P. has even forgotten his ...

  • You're a Star, Snoopy!

    Charles M. Schyltz

  • You Better Come Home with Me

    John Lawson

  • World Beneath

    Penguin Books

  • A Woman's Touch

    Brenda Trent

    TO LOVE, HONOR AND CHERISH After escaping a doting father and a possessive husband, Shelly Hall wanted nothing to do with big, strong, overbearing males. So when ex-football player Troy Mayhan moved in next door, she knew the sexy hunk was exactly...

  • Woman of the Aeroplanes

    Kojo Laing

  • Wolf and Iron

    Gordon R. Dickson

    After the collapse of civilization, when the social fabric of America has come apart in bloody rags, when every man's hand is raised against another, and only the strong survive. "Jeebee" Walther was a scientist, a student of human behavior, who saw ...

  • Wizard of Wind and Rock

    Pamela F. Service

    Blending Arthurian legend with adventure and fantasy, this action-packed tale follows the young fatherless Merlin as he matches wits with the evil King Vortigern and discovers his remarkable powers and his destiny...

  • Window, Mirror, Moon

    Liz Rosenberg

  • Wind

    Leigh Allison Wilson

  • Win, Place or Die

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy goes to the Kentucky Derby -- where death is the dark horse. When Carson Drew invests in a Derby entry called Pied Piper, Nancy and Bess fly to the big event. The favorite is Toot Sweet, but during a workout an accident nearly takes the horse'...

  • A Wild Yearning

    Penelope Williamson

    THE PASSIONATE JOURNEY OF RESTLESS HEARTS Trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Boston, young Delia McQuaid dreamed of becoming a lady. Answering an advertisement for a mail-order bride, she headed north -- toward a remote Maine settlement,...

  • Wild Glory

    Andrea Parnell

    CONDEMNED BY DESIRE Amid the sober grays of her Puritan New England village, Glory Warren shone with a dazzling beauty that enchanted the men who saw her. . . and started whispers that she trafficked with the powers of darkness. The most lustful g...

  • The White Puma

    R.D. Lawrence

  • White Peak Farm

    Berlie Doherty

    Living on an isolated Derbyshire sheep farm, Jeannie is faced with grief over her grandmother's death, her sister's marriage, her brother's leaving, and a choice between a college education and the boy she loves...

  • The White Peacock

    D.H. Lawrence

    David Herbert Lawrence (September 11, 1985 â€" March 2, 1930) was an English writer. Much of Lawrence’s work was based off his family life, which featured tension between his father, a coal mine worker, and his mother who was a schoolmistress. Lawr...

  • White Lies & Alibis

    Tracy Hughes

    It had been an innocent seduction... Luke Wade had never touched her in any way but a brotherly fashion, yet even as a young teen, Kristen's pulse had raced whenever he was near. At night, she'd dreamed of being held in his arms, while dai...

  • A Whisper on the Wind

    Joan Smith

    Swept off her feet by dashing Fraser Audry, young Rosalie was dazzled by his suave good looks, disarming charm and lavish gifts. Their whirlwind courtship and the beautiful wedding in Paris seemed like a romantic dream come true. But upon returni...

  • Where's My Share?

    Valerie Greeley

  • When Rabbit Howls

    Truddi Chase

    A woman diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder reveals her harrowing journey from abuse to recovery in this #1 New York Times bestselling autobiography written by her own multiple personalities.Successful, happily married Truddi Chase began th...

  • Were You a Wild Duck, Where Would You Go?

    George Mendoza

  • The Wench Is Dead

    Colin Dexter

    Who lies in the grave? An innocent victim? A shoeless temptress? THE WENCH IS DEAD Confined to his hospital bed with a temperamental ulcer, an impatient Inspector Morse sees his slow recuperation as a tedious prison term at best. Until he cracks ...

  • Web of Love

    Mary Balogh

    LOVE -- IN THE PRESENT TENSE Enchanting young Ellen Simpson had been deeply in love with her husband Charles. Though many years older, he was everything she wanted in a husband -- strong, gentle, kind, good-humored, and warmly devoted. After hi...

  • Web of Deceit

    Amanda Browning

    She was a pawn to be used as he liked And in the circumstances, Eve had no choice but to go along with the pretense set up by Max Nilsson's schemes. A rich man's lover -- or a loving daughter trying to shield her family? Eve knew very w...

  • We Love Them

    Martin Waddell

  • We Are the Stories We Tell

    Wendy Martin

    A collection of twenty-six of the finest stories by the finest women writers to come out of the U.S. and Canada in the past fifty years. Organized by publication date, authors include Eudora Welty, Flannery O''Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Beattie, ...

  • Warsprite

    Jefferson P. Swycaffer

  • The Warriors of Spider

    W. Michael Gear

    The 20th anniversary edition of groundbreaking space opera that launched Gear’s sci-fi career First contact between two disparate space colonies -- one run by genetically-altered humans, the other by mysterious native warriors -- has the power to...

  • Warhorse

    Timothy Zahn

    The aliens were pacifists -- but all living things were their friends... When humanity first ventured out among the stars, it seemed that we were alone in the universe, the only tool-users in the galaxy--and thus were free to mold the very cosmos ...

  • The Walking Sands

    Gordon D. Shirreffs

  • Waiting for Rain

    Indiana Nelson

    Exiled as a child from her beloved Arizona ranch, Jewel McAllister grows up in Manhattan, brought up by her wealthy, dotty aunt, and begins a search through the world's rich and famous to find her true identity...

  • Waiting for Baby Joe

    Pat Lowery Collins

    Text and photographs describe what happens when Missy's brother Joe is born prematurely and needs special care in the hospital, disrupting family routines and causing Missy to feel confused and left out...

  • Waco Rides in

    J.T. Edson

    His only name was Waco ...A Texan who rode as an Arizona Ranger, being peace officer, detective and ready to handle any emergency.His duties led him to lock horns with a campaigning lady politician, to tangle with Curly Bill Brocious and his girlfrie...

  • The Very Bad Thing

    Ned White

    Hired by a software company to discover who planted the computer virus that is eating up their system, bookish detective Dred Balcazar's quirky case deepens when his own computer is stolen and his lovely date vanishes...

  • Undesired Princess and the Enchanted Bunny

    L. Sprague de Camp

    The Undesired Princess finds the overly practical Rollin Hobart transported to a far-from-sensible world, while in The Enchanted Bunny, ghostwriter Joe Johnson falls into the middle of a fairy tale. Reissue....

  • The Underground Man

    J.P. Hailey

    SPARE CHANGE? Actor-turned-attorney Steve Winslow attracts unusual clients. Winslow's not entirely surprised when the homeless man sitting in his waiting room turns out to he Jack Walsh, one of the richest amen in America, looking for advice about...

  • Under the Knife

    Tess Gerritsen

    Malpractice ... or murder? Dr. Kate Chesne knew that no surgery was ever routine, but when a colleague and friend perished on the operating table during a simple gallbladder extraction, her very profession was threatened. Had she misread an EKG .....

  • Under Prairie Skies

    Margot Dalton

    His love freed her at last. A BATTLE OF WILLS Allan Williamson might have been just a simple prairie farmer, but he went after what he wanted. And from the first day he met Mara Steen, his son's kindergarten teacher, he wanted her -- as ...

  • Uncommon Lives

    Catherine Whitney

  • Tycoon

    Terry Pringle

    From Algonquin Books, the original publisher...In his third and most ambitious novel thus far, Terry Pringle tells a fascinating tale of big business, vaulting ambition, and passionate love, steeped in the life and growth of modern-day Texas.From rev...

  • Two Queens of Lochrin

    Lee Creighton

  • Twenty-One

    Ward Just

    This masterly volumn contains the best shorter fiction written by Just over the last 25 years. "The working life, the war, politics, love affairs, and marriage seem to be the waters in which my boat sets sail," Just writes. He is intimately at home...

  • Trouble at Home

    Francine Pascal

    Is the Wakefield family coming apart? There's trouble brewing in the normally happy Wakefield household. Ned Wakefield has been asked to run for mayor of Sweet Valley, and Alice, his wife, doesn't like the idea. Tension mounts, and Jessica, Elizabet...

  • The Trick of It

    Michael Frayn

    He knows everything about her before they meet: the make of pen she writes with, her exact height, the various honorary degrees she holds. He knows more about her nine novels and 27 short stories than she does herself. Naturally―he has devoted h...

  • Treasure of Rudolfo Fierro

    St. George Cooke

  • Travelers By Night

    Vivien Alcock

    Determined to save an old elephant from the slaughterhouse, two circus children kidnap the animal and begin a dangerous journey, traveling by night across the English countryside to a safari park where they hope to find the elephant a home...

  • Torrents of Grace

    John R. Wimmer

  • To the Birdhouse

    Cathleen Schine

    In Cathleen Schine's comic novel To the Birdhouse, newlywed Alice Brody appears to have the perfect life. The one fly in the ointment is her mother's detestable boyfriend, Louie Scifo: champion of incredibly bad taste and a bona fide stalker. After A...

  • To Catch A King

    Jack Higgins

    In July 1940, Walter Schellenberg is ordered by Hitler to proceed to Lisbon to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, a mission which thrusts him into an unlikely partnership with a beautiful American woman and a burgeoning anti-Nazi underground mov...

  • Time to Kill

    Richard Fliegel

    THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE DAMNED... The blood-red Ferrari flashed by. When Detectives Shelly Lowenkopf and Homer Greeley finally caught in on the Bronx River Parkway, they found a nun behind the wheel, and an owner of record named Cesar Catalan, ...

  • The Time and Space of Uncle Albert

    Russell Stannard

    Book One in the best-selling ''Uncle Albert'' science/adventure series. Famous scientist Uncle Albert and his niece Gedanken enter the dangerous and unknown world of a thought bubble. Their mission: to unlock the deep mysteries of time and space.....

  • The Tiger's Lair

    Helen Bianchin

    "I've waited a long time for you, Sachi. Years," Dominic continued. "Watching, waiting for you to grow up, for the time when there'd be no one else you could turn to -- except me." Sachi Tarrant's only choice was to mar...

  • Ties of Blood

    Gillian Slovo

    Riva Cyn flees the pogroms of Russia to make a new life for herself in Johannesburg, and becomes the first remarkable individual in four generations of strong-willed women, whose fates are entwined with that of the Bopape family...

  • Thomas the Tank Engine ABC

    Rev. W. Awdry

  • Thirsty City

    Philip Quinn Morris

  • The Third Circle

    Bren Howley

    When Nikolai Chertkov returned home to the Soviet Union from German prison camp he juggled the roles of GRU translator and U.S. mole until the late 1960s. Warned just in time that he's about to be discovered, he flees Moscow in a trainload of Jewish ...

  • They Called Him a Killer

    Lewis B. Patten
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  • There Was an Old Lady

    Nick Bantock

  • Then Upon the Evil Season

    Noel Virtue

  • Terror Strike

    David Robbins

  • Temptation's Wild Embrace

    Rene J. Garrod

    READY FOR PASSION Widowed Baltimore beauty Sarah Williams was ripe for adventure. Vowing never again to be dominated by any man, she set out for the untamed California plains in search of the excitement she'd been missing all her young life. But...

  • T.J. Flopp

    Stephen Cosgrove

  • Symphony of Storms

    Robert E. Vardeman

    King Lorens must recover the stolen Demon Crown in order to restore the kingdom, but the Wizard of Storms is determined to have the crown for himself and sends an army of storm creatures to capture it...

  • Switchback

    Catherine Anderson

    Trust no one... When kidnappers stole Mallory Christiani's little daughter Emily, her world threatened to crumble. She'd been warned not to tell anyone -- not her family, not her friends and most definitely not the police. But, despite her...

  • Sweet Women Lie

    Loren D. Estleman

    Entangled in a scandal involving a Hollywood woman and a quarter of a million dollars, Amos Walker experiences a bittersweet reunion with his ex-wife and becomes trapped in a game of lies and murder. Reprint. NYT....

  • Sweet Tales

    F. Perez

  • Sweet Sleep: A Collection of Lullabies and Cradle Songs

    Christopher Headington

  • Sweet Silken Bondage

    Bobbi Smith

    NUN ON THE RUN Desperate to escape an arranged marriage, Reina Alvarez needed a way out of California fast, a way that would elude the ruggedly handsome and very determined bounty hunter her father had sent after her. What better way to hide her v...

  • Sweet Narcissus

    M.K. Lorens

    INTRODUCING WINSTON MARLOWE SHERMAN... By day, he's a bulky, suede-elbowed Shakespeare professor with subversively nontraditional notions. By night, he hunches over his trusty, rusty old Underwood typewriter and secretly becomes Henrietta Slocum-a...

  • Sunshine Enemies

    K.C. Constantine

    Rocksburg Police Chief Mario Balzic must probe a tangle of reluctant witnesses, local mob figures, and a not-so-holy minister when a brutal murder occurs in the parking lot of a controversial pornography shop...

  • Sunshine

    Jo Ann Algermissen

    A SPOONFUL OF LAUGHTER An alligator farm in Florida didn't exactly fit in with hard-driving New York advertising executive Rob Emery's career plans. Neither did a ray of sunshine named Angelica Franklin. But suddenly he had both on his han...

  • Summer's Promise

    Lucy Elliot

    The Guarded Heart When handsome French trapper Daniel Ledet stepped out of the frontier forest, he reignited desires Caroline Fielding had banished eight years before. Yet she thought that no man could ever love her--not since her fall from grace....

  • Suddenly, Paradise

    Jennifer West

    Nomadic Annie Adderly was running, hiding ... from the world, from her past, from the mysterious man who stalked her every move. The last thing she wanted was someone delving into her yesterdays. The last thing she needed was relentlessly sensual pol...

  • Study in Love

    Sally St. John

    It was just her bad luck, Jem thought She'd been born at the wrong time, in the wrong place. Now, though a talented sculptress, she lacked the funds to complete her art school studies. Then Darcy Lister came along. Handsome and mercurial, Darcy...

  • Strike Zone

    Charles Robertson

    In the fall of 1941, as Japan enlists the aid of the Nazis in its plan to bomb Pearl Harbor, a skilled Nazi saboteur is dispatched to destroy the Panama Canal and America's chances of reinforcing its damaged Pacific fleet...

  • Strike Eagles

    James P. Coyne

    Written in 1990, this book looks at a future cold war gone hot in an unspecified year. Concentrating on the team of Deadly Jesters and this missions they fly in their F16's. The rest of the war is mentioned briefly in passing, but not in detail. Bit ...

  • Stonewords

    Pamela Conrad

  • Still More of the World's Best Dirty Jokes

    Mr. J

  • Stiletto

    Greg Walker

  • Stamp Out Mad

    Albert B. Feldstein

  • Spy Shadow

    Tim Sebastian

    British agent James Tristram sets out to stop counterspies in England and Russia who are bent on toppling the government of the Soviet Union's progressive General Secretary, earning some Russian and English enemies of his own in the interim...

  • Spring Rider

    John Lawson

  • Spike Is Missing

    Elda Minger

    IT WAS NOTHING SHORT OF CATASTROPHE Spike, the million-dollar spokescat, had taken a powder. Ad exec Gillian Sommers was given the job of finding the fabulous feline before her biggest client got wind of the disaster. Despite Gillian's objecti...

  • Spell Bound

    Ru Emerson

    Young Prince Conrad had never seen such a beautiful maiden. Her name was Sofia, and she was bewitching, beguiling, and bewildering. It was as if she had cast a spell on him. But was it true love—or a dark, powerful sorcery as tempting and in...

  • Special Interests

    Linda Cashdan

    Reporter Cynthia Matthews learns that Senator Frederick Barker was offered campaign money from a special interest group, but publicizing that information might jeopardize her relationship with lawyer Jed Farber...

  • Space Hawks

    Sean Dalton

  • Something to Hide

    Patricia Robinson

    THEY WERE SIMPLY MAD FOR CHARLESTON ... So divinely quaint -- and nearly overnight it had become a tourist mecca, bringing the rich and chic who were buying up the old houses. Twenty-something Sage Eliot was feeling like a leftover from the ninete...

  • Some of the Adventures of Rhode Island Red

    Stephen Manes

    From the bestselling author of Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days! and the Academy-award-winning creator of Rolie Polie Olie comes the big tall tale about a pint-size hero:

    Meet Rhode Island Red, an egg-sized human who's the greatest hero ...

  • So Much for Dreams

    Vanessa Grant

    Dinah couldn't refuse a cry for help Without knowing if her car would survive the journey, or thinking about her lack of Spanish, she dashed off from Vancouver to Mexico. So it wasn't surprising that she herself needed rescuing, though ...

  • Snow Leopard of Shanghai

    Erin Pizzey

  • The Snares of Ibex

    Jo Clayton

    Aleytys had searched for her mother across the worlds of the inhabited galaxy. Her mother was of a super-race; her homeworld's location a secret. But Aleytys had become an expert star hunter, alert to clues and wary of danger -- and she knew that on ...

  • The Smuggler's Embrace

    Carolyn Chase

    SWEET SAVAGE SPLENDORS A cultured beauty with flowing, copper hair and deep blue eyes, Gretchen North is the most precious prize of the Bay Colony. Promised to a man she does not love, she flees Boston rather than submit to his touch, journeying t...

  • Smitten

    Janet Evanovich

    Single mom Lizabeth Kane wasn't exactly construction-worker material, but she truly wanted a job -- and Matt Hallahan found her radiant smile utterly irresistible! When the virile hunk with the perfectly tanned chest agreed to hire her as a laborer, ...

  • Smarten Up

    Roger B. Yepsen

  • Skinny Legs and All

    Tom Robbins

    An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations....It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around which spins this gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative novel, in which a bean c...

  • Six Figure Woman and how to Be One

    Lois Wyse

    This complete guide to business, management, and career development covers topics including salary negotiation, delegation of assignments and evaluating personnel, product development, corporate image, market research, and acquisitions...

  • Silk Roads and Shadows

    Susan Shwartz

    The Emperor of Byzantium is dying, and the silkworms cannot spin. Alexandra, beloved sister of the Emperor, must undertake an incredible journey to the Mysterious Empire of Chi'in to smuggle live silkworms into Byzantium--or die trying....

  • Silence in Solitude the Silence Leigh Trilogy

    Prue Scott

  • Shrimpboats and Gym Bags

    Sheri Cooper Sinykin

    Bo copes with the pressures of moving from California to Wisconsin, keeping his grades up so that he can remain on the gymnastics team, and competing against a talented but temperamental teammate. Includes a glossary of gymnastics terms and informati...

  • Sharpshod

    Lewis B. Patten
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  • Shadowlight

    Mike Jefferies

  • Shadow Warriors

    Dick Stivers

    WINNER TAKE ALL Behind the walls of a remote military installation in New Mexico, a select group of shadow warriors--covertly backed by Pentagon heavies--is secretly planning the most daring coup in America's history. Fed up with crime, corruption...

  • Seductive Wager

    Leigh Greenwood

    HE GAMBLED ON PASSION Brett Westbrook had earned his reputation as a gambler and a scoundrel. But even he was outraged when his latest opponent offered his own sister in place of the debts he could not pay. Brett was determined to rescue the poor gi...

  • Secret City, U. S. A.

    Felice Holman

  • A Second Loving

    Claudia Jameson

    Emma was at a loose end She'd come to America to nurse her brother back to health. Then she found he didn't need her -- his new girlfriend was only too pleased to help out. That's when Tor Pedersen stepped in and offered to show Emm...

  • Second Horseman Out of Eden

    George C. Chesbro

    Christmas time usually finds Mongo in a jolly mood; he and his brother Garth customarily celebrate the season by granting the wishes of needy children. But there is no joy in this year's task - the Frederickson brothers must race the clock to bestow ...

  • The Scandalous Marquis

    Julie Caille

    CAST IN THE SHADE Impoverished, orphaned Amanda Marlowe knew she was completely cast in the shade by her vain cousin Eve whose spectacular beauty and fortune bad brought even London's most infamous rake, the Marquis of Vale, up to scratch. But n...

  • Scandal's Child

    Ann Major

    MR. APRIL Man: Garret Cagan Reputation: Stubborn. Unforgiving. Avoid at all cost! Nemesis: The upper-crust Martin family--they were convinced he'd never be anything but trouble. Obsession: Tempestuous Noelle Martin--the only woman he'd ever ...

  • Say the Magic Word, Please

    Anna Ross

  • Savage Bliss

    Cassie Edwards

    SEDUCED BY DESIRE When beautiful young Amelia first came upon Gray Wing in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest, she was entranced by the virile strength of his bronzed, muscular body and the unbridled passion in his smoldering glance. With every...

  • The Salt Point

    Paul Russell

    From the award-winning author of The Coming Storm comes the brilliantly conceived and precisely rendered novel The Salt Point, a compelling novel of four people and their intermingled and unwinding desires.Anatole loves Leigh ("Our Boy of the Mall"),...

  • Rush

    Kim Wozencraft

    An undercover narcotics officer in Pasadena, Texas, Kristin Cates finds herself seduced by the lure of heroin and cocaine, the charm of her unscrupulous, streetwise partner, and the corruption of her fellow cops...

  • Running West

    James Houston

    Unjustly banished from Scotland, William Stewart and Thana, a beautiful Dene Indian girl, journey deep into the heart of the unexplored sub-Arctic wilderness, in a story of love and survival set in eighteenth-century Canada. Reprint....

  • Rosa's Dilemma

    Michael Underwood

    After receiving little assistance from solicitor Malcolm Palfrey on a malicious damage case, defense attorney Rosa Epton is furious when Malcolm fails to appear in court, but then she learns of her co-attorney's apparent suicide...

  • A Room Made of Windows

    Eleanor Cameron

  • Robbed Blind

    Roy Hart

    Stella Pumfrey had fallen down the stairs and fractured her skull. From all appearances, she had interrupted a common burglar, caught her slipper on the carpeted landing, and fell to her death. Inspector Roper immediately realizes the investigatio...

  • Robak's Run

    Joe L. Hensley

  • Roar and More

    Karla Kuskin

  • Road to the City

    Natalia Ginzberg

  • Riverboat Gold

    Jon Sharpe

  • River of Glass

    Deborah Bergman

    Haunted by a childhood tragedy and by the destructive secret she shares with her stepbrother, Tess Jordan settles in a small seaside town in Spain, where she rekindles her love for glassmaking and becomes involved with a group of Argentinian exiles...

  • Riptide

    Frances Ward Weller

  • Ripples

    Deborah Fowler

  • Ripe for the Picking

    Mary Tate Engels

    Their love was above the law When Brett Meyer returned to his father's New Mexico ranch, he received a hero's welcome--from everyone except Annie Clayton. The law-enforcement officer was recuperating from gunshot wounds, and he had plenty of time ...

  • Ride for Revenge

    J.R. Roberts

    When someone uses one of Clint Adams's old pals for target practice, the Gunsmith embarks on another quest for vengeance, this time heading south of the Rio Grande for an encounter with a bunch of bloodthirsty revolutionaries...

  • Rich or Dead

    Michael Cormany

    Kruger... Ex-cop and sometime rock musician, Dan Druger wasn't a typical private investigator. Scared of guns and attracted to lost souls, he go the cases that promised to litle money and too much danger. But his code of honor and street smarts gave ...

  • Return to Summer

    Emma Merritt

    IT BEGAN IN DESIRE Of all The Stanley Hotel's legends, none was more tragic than that of the whirlwind courtship and brief marriage of a famed Irish singer and a dashing race-car driver. History professor Kate Norris had always been fascinated ...

  • The Return of Mr. Campion

    Margery Allingham

    ‘Nowadays, the Mystery goes everywhere.’ In this fantastic collection of thirteen short stories, Margery Allingham explores both the Mystery and the other genres it has allowed her to write. From a Christmastime story and a portrait of her ...

  • The Rest Is Done with Mirrors

    Carolyn See

    Attending graduate school at UCLA, Edith and Walter Wong scramble for elusive grants, endure an impoverished lifestyle, cheat on each other, and become pawns of the federal government as they strive for academic excellence...

  • A Relative Betrayal

    Anne Mather

    Divorce had seemed the only solution There'd been no possibility of a reconciliation when Rachel's marriage to Matthew Conroy broke up. Not only had her husband looked elsewhere for love--but he'd looked to Rachel's own Cousin Barb...

  • Reasonable Doubt

    Philip Friedman

    Ex-federal prosecutor Michael Ryan has been estranged from his twenty-seven-year-old son Ned for three years when Ned is murdered. His daughter-in-law, wealthy socialite Jennifer Kneeland Ryan, has been indicted for the crime - Ned was bludgeoned to ...

  • Rainbow's End

    Kay Wilding

    HE DIDN'T LOOK LIKE AUNT MAUDIE Black-haired, blue-eyed Quint Richards answered the door of Miss Maudie's stately Georgia home. And when he explained that he lived there, Thea Cameron fainted. Weary and flat broke, Thea and her two sons had tra...

  • Quiller Barracuda

    Adam Hall

    British agent Quiller must extricate a Miami-stationed agent from a twisted enemy conspiracy that involves incredible mind-control technology and may reach as far as the President of the United States...

  • A Question of Risk

    L.M. Skakespeare

    Despite the looming threat of exposure and official retribution, James Ross-Gilbert, a corrupt Lloyds of London underwriter, continues to bleed the private wealth of his backers until he finally fears that they have nothing left to lose...

  • A Question of Guilt

    Frances Fyfield

    Cunning and evil, poisoned by a lifetime of love withheld, Eileen Cartwright has an unrivalled passion for revenge. When the rich, middle-aged widow falls in love with her solicitor, she cold-bloodedly arranges for the murder of his wife. It is a c...

  • The Pushcart Prize XIV: Best of the Small Presses 1989-1990

    Bill Henderson

    Acclaimed as the largest and broadest literary anthology, The Pushcart Prize once again offers an extraordinary collection of short stories, essays, and poetry first published by small presses and magazines from around the world....

  • Project Solar Sail

    Arthur C. Clarke

    SAILING TO DISTANT STARS is a dream that began with the publication of Arthur C. Clarke s classic short story "Sunjammer," in which he introduced the concept of space vehicles powered by sunlight. Scientists were so fired by the idea that their re...

  • The Private Worlds of Julia Redfern

    Eleanor Cameron

    Julia's fifteenth year is filled with jealousy, forgiveness, first love, and artistic satisfaction, all against a background of loving support from her adored uncle, adopted grandmother, and other family members....

  • Pretending to Say No

    Bruce Benderson

  • Prescott's Lady

    Clarice Peters

    She was determined not to repeat her mistake Lady Eleanor Whiting may have been the toast of the ton, but she was no fool. When Lord Peter Prescott, the handsome devil of a rake, was spotted with the mistress he had pledged to give up, Lady Eleano...

  • The Portable Malcolm Cowley

    Malcolm Cowley

  • Plunk's Dreams

    Helen V. Griffith

  • Play Dead

    Jahnna N. Malcolm

  • Plainsong

    Deborah Grabien

    A mysterious plague, which seems the precursor of even more astounding events, wipes out most all adults, leaving only the young and the animals alive, who develop an uncanny ability to communicate with each other...

  • Plague Year

    Stephanie S. Tolan

  • Places in the Heart

    Andrea Edwards

    Folks in backwater Edwardsburg had always made Matt feel like an outsider. Except sweet Tessa. Fresh as the morning sunshine, she'd shared his hopes, his uncertainties...his youthful passions. Still, he'd had to move on and Tessa had up and w...

  • The Pistoleer

    Justin Ladd

    At the height of Abilene's Fourth of July celebration, Marshal Luke Travis has his hands full with a vicious practical joker, a trouble-making politician, a wild gang of mule skinners, and the return of a deadly gunslinger on his mind...

  • Pig-out Blues

    Jan Greenberg

  • The Picture-Perfect Mystery

    Carolyn Keene

    A MASTERPIECE OF DECEIT A con artist has pulled off a near-perfect crime, switching contracts with famed local painter Lila Cramer. Nancy has just four days to catch the artful dodger, or Lila will have to forfeit her entire collection! But the s...

  • Picture Postcard

    Frederick D. Huebner

    Lisa Thayer, an attractive art dealer, asks Seattle lawyer Matt Riordan to investigate when she recives a hand-painted postcard she is convinced either came from her grandfather, a painter who supposedly died ten years ago, or a very skillful forger...

  • Pickle and Price

    Pieter Van Raven

    Tired of living with an abusive father and an unloving mother, who supervise a rural prison farm, thirteen-year-old Pickle and the released black convict he has befriended travel all the way across America in search of adventure, freedom, and a life ...

  • The Philadelphia Adventure

    Lloyd Alexander

    Spirited Vesper Holly has crossed mountains on camelback and narrowly escaped earthquakes. But even she is surprised when President Ulysses S. Grant appears on her doorstep and asks for her help.



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  • Petnapped!

    Virginia Vail

  • Passion's Sweet Revenge

    Jo Goodman

    SHE OWED HIM HER LOVE Some things never changed. The name on the playbill at Wallack's Theatre said "Katy Dakota," but for Logan Marshall no amount of face paint could disguise the unforgettable beauty of Mary Catherine McCleary, the girl who'd betr...

  • Paradise Island

    Mons Daveson

    SHE WASN'T INTERESTED IN ANYONE ELSE The memory of Alexis Markham had kept Clarissa from relationships with other men. Not that she'd made much impact on him back when she was an adoring girl barely out of the schoolroom. But to Clariss...

  • Paper Products

    James W. Hall

    In these funny, lyrical, and often sexy tales, James Hall’s people … eccentrics and misfits, diehards and outcasts … are both magical and hilariously real. The mayor of a fading Kentucky town changes its fate by renaming it Miami Beach and mes...

  • The Pandora Principle

    Carolyn Clowes

    A Romulan Bird of Prey mysteriously drifts over the neutral zone and into Federation territory. Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise investigate, only to find the ship dead in space. When Starfleet orders the derelict ship brought to Earth for...

  • Painkiller

    Steven Spruill

    Dr. Sharon Francis is a young resident at Adams Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., where her mother is a schizophrenic patient. Sharon's mother has this crazy fear that other patients on the psychiatric ward are being persuaded to sign themselves...

  • Owl in the House

    Bernd Heinrich

  • Out of the Blue

    Orel Hershiser

  • Our Happiness

    Tom Jenks

    An accidental killing and a crumbling marriage animate this stunning debut novel in the Southern Gothic tradition.
     
    “A sheriff's car, unmarked, the color of putty, flashed along the fence row, cruising by. We could see the roof and hood, t...

  • Only Human

    Kelly Street

    Defense was her game Offense was his Caitlin Stewart had had it with football. After the death of her husband, the coach at Tall Pines University, she wanted nothing more to do with the game. Raising her stepson and building her career were her p...

  • The Once and Future Spy

    Robert Littell

    A rogue CIA operative threatens a clandestine mission in this spy thriller by the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author of The Company.The Once and Future Spy is Littell at the top of his form, constructing a tale of espionage and counterespionage reve...

  • The Old Woman and the Jar of Ums

    Jill Wright

  • Official Secrets

    Lindsey Mitchell

  • Off the Record

    Joe Joyce

    Journalist Seamus Ryle sets out to revive his flagging career by investigating the bizarre death of an up-and-coming Irish politician, whose body washes up in Dublin harbor, and uncovers a high-level cover-up that could topple the Irish government...

  • Octagon

    Fred Saberhagen

    THEY CALL IT "STARWEB".... Players scattered across the continent are engaged in a game. Each player has certain attributes, including skill, strength, courage, cunning, and daring. Each has his kingdom. Each can ally with or attack any of the oth...

  • Northworld

    David Drake

    WORLDS AT WAR The Consensus ruled twelve hundred worlds--but not Northworld. Three fleets had been dispatched to probe the enigma of Northworld. None returned. Now, Commissioner Nils Hansen must face the challenge of this distant planet ... a gat...

  • No Thumping No Bumping No Rumpus Tonight!

    Nancy Patz

    Benjamin and Elephant set out one night to create a birthday breakfast for Benjamin's mother, and his understanding mother does her best to overlook the rumpus in her kitchen and to act surprised about her unusual breakfast...

  • No Next of Kin

    Doris Miles Disney

    Political columnist Fergus MacDonald suspects foul play when a congressional candidate and his lovely daughter, Andrea Langdon, begin receiving serious threats from Andrea's ex-lover, the lowly Seymour Boyd...

  • No Guarantees

    Melissa Malouf

  • No Guarantees

    Robyn Donald

    It was hard to keep a distance between them Because her late husband had made no secret of his hatred for Quinn Fraser, Camilla had tried to keep away from the man. But Quinn Fraser was an arrogant, superior aristocrat -- not the sort to respo...

  • Nightrose

    Dorothy Garlock

    ABANDONED! Katy suddenly knew that she, her sister, and her tiny niece were the only people left in a desolate Montana ghost town. Without a horse or a rifle, they hadn't a chance of crossing a wilderness crawling with outlaws, Indians, and griz...

  • Nightlight

    Michael Cadnum

    Paul Wright’s family sends him to find his cousin, a photographer whose subjects have become increasingly macabre. Paul investigates Len’s last known address, a cabin in California’s Napa Valley, only to discover the frightening and sinister tr...

  • Night, Winter, and Death

    Lee Hawks

  • Night Magic

    Charlotte Vale Allen

    MAGIC NIGHT IS the story of a cat who finds something that does not belong in his people's house - something flittery and skittery that turns the rest of the night mysterious and magical. What could it want? Hurricane the cat is going to find out!...

  • Night in Tunisia

    Neil Jordan

    Neil Jordan's brilliant first book of stories, which won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979, reveals a young writer already confident in the highly visual, tragic, dreamlike idiom that marks his later writing and film.
    First published when h...

  • Night Fever

    Susan Kyle

    SHE HAD NEVER LONGED FOR LOVE LIKE THIS... Rebecca Cullen didn't want to fall in love with Rourke Kilpatrick. At 24, she was saddled with the job raising her teen brothers, tending their Georgia farm, and earning a living--responsibilities that al...

  • The New Springtime

    Robert Silverberg

    The death-stars had come, and they had kept on coming for hundreds of thousands of years, falling upon the Earth, swept upon it by a vagrant star that had passed through the outer reaches of the solar system. They brought with them a time of unending...

  • New Europe

    Bill Buford

  • Never Say Goodbye

    Suzanne Carey

    DANGEROUS DECEPTION When American-born Kathryn Dane journeyed to Russia to find her grandfather, she never dreamed that a simple pleasure trip would become a waking nightmare. Within days of her arrival she was stripped of her citizenship, and she...

  • Nessa's Fish

    Nancy Luenn

    After hiding their fish to protect it from the wild animals, Nessa's grandmother falls ill, and Nessa must defend their catch from a fox, hungry wolves, and a big brown bear, in a vivid story of Eskimo life...

  • The Narrow Escapes of Davy Crockett

    Ariane Dewey

  • The Mystery Hideout

    Ken Follett

  • Mystery at the Meet

    Elizabeth Levy

  • My Sister the Creep

    Candice Ransom

    With Sisters Like Sharon, Who Needs Enemies? Now that Jackie's older sister, Sharon, has left for beauty school, Jackie is excited to start high school and finally be recognized as her own person. But even miles away at school, Sharon still hol...

  • My Life and Dr. Joyce Brothers

    Kelly Cherry

    In a novel created from twelve connected stories, Cherry writes with lightness and grace about life's most serious subjects. Her plucky heroine travels a bumpy road from dependence to self-help, with a beacon of humor guiding the way....

  • My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist

    Mark Leyner

    Welcome to Mark Leyner's America, where you can order gallium arsenide sushi at a roadside diner, get loaded on a cocktail of growth hormones and anabolic steroids, and support your habit by appearing on TV game shows. Welcome to a wildly post-Einste...

  • The Murder of Muriel Lake

    Shannon O'Cork

    With her famous flair for high drama, Muriel Lake -- bestselling queen of the dime-store murder mystery -- chose the annual Writers of Mystery convention to announce her impending divorce from fellow mystery author Jonathan Pells. Hours later Muriel ...

  • Murder in the Blue Room

    Elliott Roosevelt

    A MATTER OF DIPLOMACY Who bludgeoned a pretty young Press Office secretary to death -- right in the Blue Room of the White House? That’s what a shocked Eleanor Roosevelt aims to find out. A friend, a lover, and even a Rockefeller are being quest...

  • Munich Signature

    Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene

    One Signature Could Seal the Fate of Europe Under Hitler's Tyranny In Prague Counterpoint, Elisa Murphy and Leah Feldstein risked everything to stand against the tide of Nazi terrorism and to buy a chance at life for two small boys. When Elisa is at...

  • A Most Unsuitable Duchess

    Gail Mallin

    His future fortune could not compare to the wealth of love he felt for her HE had never thought to be grateful for his wicked temper No one could dictate that Marcus Richmond, Marquis of Dene, marry against his will. But his father had decreed...

  • The Moonbane Mage

    Laurie J. Marks

    FORMAL COMBAT was the art for which Laril lived. Heir to the position of the Aeyrie leader Ishta, Laril had spent years rebelling against future responsibilities. But now the youth had at last gone too far. For in an illegal fight-flying duel, Laril...

  • Montana Heat

    Dorsey Kelley

    MONTANA MAVERICK From the top of his low-riding Stetson to the soles of his dusty boots, sexy rodeo rider Nick Roberts was over six feet of lean, laconic cowboy .. . and reckless, rugged male. With just one look, widowed mother Tracy Wilborough de...

  • Money Trail

    William Jovanovich

    A special U.S. task force battles con artists, schemers of all sorts, and government bumblers as they attempt to launch a sting operation against several Florida banks suspected of laundering drug money...

  • Mistress of the Sun King

    Sandra Dubay

    WIFE TO A MARQUIS, MISTRESS TO A KING Abused by her brutal husband, lovely Athenais de Montespan yearned for the love of the one man in all France who seemed completely beyond her reach-.--handsome, sensual Louis XIV. As Maid of Honor to Queen Mar...

  • Miss Seeton by Appointment

    Hamilton Crane

    Losing Her Head Miss Seeton is off to Buckingham Palace on a secret mission ... to spy on a royal retainer who might be a Russian agent! But one mystery isn't enough for the indomitable spinster. Someone has warned her about a fabulous jewel heist...