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  • Jack Drake



  • Don Pendleton

    STONY MAN FIREPOWER The White House war on drugs has run into a snag. Customs and the DEA don't have the muscle to counter the bureaucratic stalls and paper shuttling. Now it's Stony Man's turn. The Feds are betting everything this time. The Execu...




  • Don Pendleton

    CITY OF FEAR New York, long a narcotics-trading hotspot, explodes with war. The Colombian cartel members, infamous kings of cocaine, are facing their fiercest competition yet. A new breed of heartless killers and dealers have swept in from Vietnam...



  • James Pruitt




  • Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    WHERE HAD ALL THE FLOWER CHILDREN GONE? What was nifty in the '60s was nasty in the '90s. Hippies were crazed eco-freaks out to save the earth by destroying the square world. And the image of a Haight-Ashbury angel named Sky Bluel played with atom...



  • James Axler

    WELCOME TO THE NIGHTMARE Generations after a near nuclear annihilation, America is a radiation-ravaged wasteland swarming with a thousand horrifically mutated life forms. Ryan Cawdor and his band of post-holocaust survivors barely escape a self...



  • J.D. Cameron



  • Tom Willard

    A seventy-year-old legacy of passion and death echoes around the island of Babadar. The U.S. and terrorists clash for military advantage of Phillipe Mondragon's rich island fortress, while a darker plot evolves that threatens to consume them all. Dra...



  • John Brosnan

    The Gene Wars have turned Earth into a blighted wasteland. Mile-long airships patrol the skies, exacting crippling tribute from the scattered ground communities. Threatened by mutant vegetation and predatory creatures, forced to the brink of starvati...



  • Paul Malone

    Sudden death is a way of life at the Drug Enforcement Administration -- in an endless full-frontal assault on America's toughest war: drugs. For Miami-based maverick Jack Fowler, it's a war he'll fight to the end ... in a world where trust is a dirty...



  • Carolyn Keene

    AMERICA'S HOTTEST TEEN DETECTIVES TEAM UP TO BRING AN AMERICAN SUPERSPY TO SAFETY The Berlin Wall has come tumbling down, and a major American agent -- code-named the Swallow -- wants to come home. On a top-secret mission for the Network, THE HARDY ...



  • Susan Conant

    DOGGED BY DEATH Holly Winter had her hands full with one dog: Still, when therapist Elaine Walsh is found dead, Holly eagerly adopts the orphaned Kimi--and vows to teach her some manners. But when questions arise about Elaine's death--following clos...



  • Antonia Fraser

    A THEATRE COMPANY TAKES CENTER STAGE--WHILE MURDER WAITS IN THE WINGS.... After her well-publicized affair with an international pop star, a celebrated actress returned to her family and her career with no remorse. Now the leading lady must pay fo...



  • Toni Brill

    MIDGE COHEN'S MOTHER HAS FIXED HER UP ... AGAIN What would it hurt to meet this nice Jewish doctor, a urologist even, and give him a try, she insists. But all Dr. Leon Skripnik wants from Midge, an erstwhile Russian scholar, is a translation of...



  • Annette Meyers

    Wall Street executive search specialists Xenia Smith and Leslie Wetzon investigate the death of Goldie Barnes, retiring head of the Luwisher Brothers firm, an assignment that confronts them with ethical conflicts and threats to their lives...



  • John Camp

    One stifling summer night in Longstreet, Mississippi, fourteen-year-old Darrell Clark ran home thinking about two things: the ice cream he couldn't wait to eat and an algorithm he was working on, a way to generate real time fractal terrain on his Mac...



  • Sharyn McCrumb

    “Sharyn McCrumb transforms mystery into astonishing literature.” -- The Cleveland Plain DealerForensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson gets a chance to revel in the rites of the old country at the annual Glencoe Mountain Games, the Scottish f...



  • Carolyn Keene

    The Internet...a world without rules, without boundaries. And it’s all just a click away...Ryan Corrigan is not what most people would call a “cool” guy. He’s usually called something more like geek or cyber-nerd. Maybe it’s because he and ...



  • Hamilton Crane

    Your Money or Your Life! It was a perfect day for a motor coach tour--until a gang of highwaymen blocked the road and robbed the passengers! A strange case, indeed. Especially when Miss Seeton steps in. Her sketches of the bandits, based on eyewit...



  • Crabbe Evers

    MURDER COMES TO BAT Picturesque, ivy-covered Wrigley Field, the Friendly Confines, has been the beat of veteran sportswriter Duffy House for decades. But the grand old shrine of baseball is not so friendly this June day for Dean "Dream" Weaver, th...



  • Patricia Sprinkle

    NO MORE MR. NICE GUY Prominent television personality Dean Anderson was as popular as he was respected, but he had incurred a good deal of animosity among family, friends and coworkers. Though the police are willing to rule his shooting death a su...



  • Val McDermid

    Two mysteries in one volume featuring the investigating journalist, from the Diamond Dagger Award-winning author.Final Edition When Alison Maxwell, a well-known Glaswegian journalist with an irresistible sexual attraction to both sexes, is found murd...




  • Bob Judd

    SPEED KILLS... Despite a stunning victory at the Monaco Grand Prix, Forrest Evers's racing career is in serious jeopardy. Having lost 12 million dollars to an unscrupulous media magnate, Evers's corporate sponsor has threatened to withdraw its fin...



  • Carolyn Keene

    The famous clock from the first Nancy Drew mystery returns in this thrilling adventure....



  • Kerry Tucker

    When Libby Kincaid returns to her hometown of Darby, Ohio, for her brother's funeral, her attempts to discover the truth about his death--which everyone insists was a suicide--lead her into encounters with a collection of bizarre characters...



  • John Sherwood

    When gardening expert and amateur sleuth Celia Grant accepts a commision at the country estate of Clintbury to design a fake Elizabethan garden for an eccentric client, she finds herself caught up in a household permeated with deception, intrigue, an...



  • Janifer C. De Vos

    Working with God's Guardians, Erin becomes involved in a plot by which Demont, one of the broken ones from behind the Purple Door, hopes to conquer Earth. Sequel to "The Purple Door" and "The Silver Glass."...






  • Judy Baer

    Lexi Leighton's friend Peggy is returning to Cedar River, and only Lexi knows the reason why she left to have her baby and give it up for adoption Lexi wonders whether Peggy will have changed and whether they'll still be friends.Meanwhile, Le...





  • Judy Baer

    Although Lexi doesn't like it, many of the kids in Cedar River have gotten into horror flicks, especially the not-so-nice Hi-Fives. Even her friend Binky is fascinated with them and has gotten hooked on the thrill. Cedar River is such a bore in compa...



  • Kat Adams

    TWO OF A KIND The cards had dealt Nickie Sheridan a shameful secret, and resisting the charms of a cunning, all too capable lawyer with a penchant for snooping was a must. Down to her last dollar, evicted and alone, Nickie had become the reluctant...



  • Francine Pascal

    Boy-crazy Amy Sutton has finally found the guy of her dreams-tennis star Tom McKay. But Tom's not at all interested in dating her. Amy just can't believe it and refuses to give up! Tom asks his friend Barry Rork to help him convince Amy that...



  • Rosemary Hammond

    He was one of the most respected lawyers in the state And Regan McIntyre wanted to practice law with him. But Nick Wainwright, she soon realized, had chauvinistic attitudes that belonged in the Middle Ages -- he believed a woman's place wa...



  • Dallas Schulze

    CHILD OF LOVE When Kelly Russell slipped away from her cruelly strict father one New Year's Eve, she never expected to give herself to Dan Remington, a man who offered her the warmth and loving she'd never known. But the new year brought cold r...



  • Kathleen O'Brien

    She had to get married However violently Darcy opposed her stepfather George, he would control her business and family until she married or turned twenty-five. When he cast a lustful eye on her younger sister Tessa, Darcy's choice was clear. ...



  • Gail Douglas

    Her Enemy...or Her Love? Clay Parrish was a troublemaker who'd come to the pretty town of Silver Rapids to bring change -- or at least Jennifer Allan suspected that the charismatic city planner was prepared to turn her world upside down! She&#...



  • Jan Hudson

    The Handsome Desperado... Holt Berringer was bigger than life, with sin-black eyes, movie-star teeth--and a white Stetson that proved this Texas Ranger was definitely one of the good guys! When Cory Bright dashed into the store for a Moon Pie, she...



  • Charlotte Bingham

    Meredith Browne came up the hard way, starting at the bottom as a child actress. Max Kassov, on the other hand, has always had everything. Despite their different backgrounds the two are very alike, and a mutual attraction deepens into a passionate l...



  • Laura Phillips

    HEARTTHROB It had not been an easy day for Beth Thompson. Edgar the crow had made off with Beth's favorite necklace, and Witch the cow bad-already trampled one of her herb gardens. Witch was still loose. on the farm when Beth's mother came toddlin...



  • Laura Leone

    HE'S THE ONE Private investigator Nick Tremain had accepted this case as a last-ditch effort to save his floundering agency. His prime suspects turned out to be a dotty astrologer and his daughter--an emerald-eyed beauty of a daughter! How could h...



  • Barbara Kaye

    Then A brief marriage, a beloved son-and then a war that was to destroy Kirsten and Grady O'Connor's life together--or so they thought.. Now A reunion brought on by David O'Connor's steely determination to find his father; an opportunity for...



  • Lauren Bauman

    He'd rescued her baby! Shanna Rhodes hadn't seen Derek Morgan since high school. But when Alicia, her newborn daughter, was snatched from her hospital room, Derek went into action. Within hours, he had tracked down and rescued the child. Shann...



  • Joyce Thies

    MR. APRIL Man: Jesse Hubbard--irresistible loner and proud part-owner of the Triple L Ranch. Nature: Wild at heart. Philosophy. Never to be tied down to any woman, until he met his provocative new partner. Jesse's longtime partner might have so...



  • Barbara Delinsky
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    ONE WEDDING -- FOUR LOVE STORIES FROM YOUR FAVORITE HARLEQUIN AUTHORS! The church is booked, the reception arranged and the invitations mailed. All Diane Bauer and Nick Granatelli have to do is walk down the aisle. Little do they realize that the ...



  • Cathy Gillen Thacker

    FIRST LOVES ARE NEVER FORGOTTEN The high-society Holbrook wedding posed an unusual problem for bridal consultant Amanda Stratton. How would she deal with the father of the bride--who happened to be Amanda's first love? High school Romeo to her ...



  • Clarissa McNair

    A FLASH OF DIAMONDS is a richly detailed novel of Geneva society in a jaded 1980s Europe. The story revolves around a Genevois private banker smugly 'managing' an elegant, competent wife and a clever, spoiled mistress. From Beacon Hill to the Beau Ri...



  • Emma Richmond

    It seemed like a heaven-sent escape Researching articles on Portugal's tourist attractions would bring welcome relief from recent events she'd endured. Then Kate discovered that Peter had also nominated her as his substitute in the Great P...



  • Donna Carlisle

    IN THE DOGHOUSE Lyn Sanders couldn't believe she'd thought working for her sister's pet-sitting agency would be easy. Now she was covered in dog hair and up to her ears in pet food. To make matters worse, she'd lost a client's ...



  • Nicola West

    Robert Milburn disturbed Fenella Though she couldn't possibly imagine why. Perhaps it was his piercing silvery-eyed gaze, or that his athletic body was confined, at least for the foreseeable future, to a wheelchair. Life had been an ordeal ...



  • Jessica Barkley

    TO LOVE AGAIN Years ago, Cassandra Malone had lost it all: her father, a prizewinning stallion and the respect of local vet Jarrod Fitzgerald. Jarrod had believed her late father had somehow caused the death of the champion steed--and nothing coul...



  • Linda A. Cooney

    Winnie's flipping out! She's lost Josh, she's flunking her classes, and her friends have dropped her. Will someone hear her cry for help before it's too late? A gorgeous movie star making a film on campus has fallen for Faith. She knows it's a fling...



  • Blythe Stephens

    HIGH SCHOOL SWEETHEARTS Ginger Howard had come a long way since she'd left her Colorado hometown to make it big in West Coast real estate. She had a successful business, seaside apartment, sophisticated wardrobe, upscale life-style . . . everythin...



  • Marcia Evanick

    The Sheriff Who'd Been the Town Bad Boy... When he was a teenager, Josh Langley had been every girl's fantasy--and every mother's nightmare! But the boy who'd once skipped town in disgrace now ran the police department--and still set hearts on fir...



  • Charlotte Lamb

    Temptation with a capital T Claudia had been warned -- working for Ellis Lefevre, the dynamic head of a multinational corporation, would be more than challenging. She knew he was a troublemaker, but then, that had been part of the job's appeal...



  • Ann Patrick

    OUT OF HER LEAGUE From the moment she heard his bumper clunk against her truck, Paula knew she was in trouble. To make matters worse, the careless driver was a lawyer--a movie-star handsome lawyer with thick blond hair and sea-green eyes. Matthew ...



  • Terri Herrington

    THREE WOMEN OF WEALTH AND PRIVILEGE ARE THE PAWNS IN A BATTLE FOR POWER, WHERE MONEY IS THE GLITTERING REWARD AND LOVE IS THE ULTIMATE REVENGE. In the elite world of Boston's rich and powerful, tycoon Nikos Dobias is its uncrowned king. His three ...



  • Judith Rossner

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar -- the epic family saga of four very different sisters and their Hollywood producer father.A spellbinding saga of the four daughters of larger-than-life Hollywood producer, Sam Pe...



  • Anne McAllister

    "HOW WILL I KNOW HIM?" The first time Diane Bauer asked herself how she'd recognize the man she would marry, she accompanied a college friend on a blind date--and met intense young grad student Nick Granatelli. For Diane, a smolderi...



  • Karen Van Der Zee

    "Life isn't always perfect." Parker Adams had tried to make Eve understand that. "No matter how well you plan, no matter how much money or power you have, life still demands adjustments," he'd told her. But Eve hadn'...



  • Doreen Roberts

    WEDDED BLISS? Policewoman Nicole Parker never dreamed her big break would involve pretending to be half of a honeymooning couple. If only the other half wasn't legendary Like Jordan...Why did he have to be so infuriating and yet so undeniable att...



  • Mary Kay McComas

    The Enigmatic Hero Cop... Baker staked his claim as soon as he spotted her across the shadowy room, capturing Kelly Branigan with a look that told her he knew all her secrets and challenged her to discover his! She had a rule about dating cops, bu...



  • Betty Neels

    The giddy social whirl was not for Serena She'd long ago resigned herself to looking after her invalid mother instead. Quiet, hardworking Serena was only too glad to be of service. Dutch consultant Marc ter Feulen changed all that when he b...



  • Kristin Morgan

    AN OLD-FASHIONED LOVE SONG When Zachary Benjamin learned the real reason his high school sweetheart had married his brother, the famous country-and-western singer felt a thirst for revenge that rivaled the deep pain of betrayal. He planned on sedu...



  • Katherine Stone

    Southampton. A place of casual elegance and simple perfection. Where the rich watch each other grow richer, and the whispers of scandal are as relentless as the rhythm of the sea. Here three beautiful, lonely women--Julia, Diana, and Casey--struggle ...



  • Lucy Keane

    Zelda didn't trust Aram an inch! His piratical eye patch, combined with the mysterious crates in his car, suggested he was involved in more sinister dealings than the buying and selling of carpets. But Zelda had to accept his help -- afte...



  • Darcy O'Brien

    A novel of a rebellious young actress in the early twentieth century, by the PEN/Hemingway Award–winning author of A Way of Life, Like Any Other.Back in the days when Shakespeare still meant something to a lot of people, I wanted to be a great ...



  • Anne McAllister
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    ONE WEDDING--FOUR LOVE STORIES FROM YOUR FAVORITE HARLEQUIN AUTHORS! The church is booked, the reception arranged and the invitations mailed. All Diane Bauer and Nick Granatelli have to do is walk down the aisle. Little do they realize that the mo...



  • Bobby Hutchinson
    in

    ONE WEDDING--FOUR LOVE STORIES FROM YOUR FAVORITE HARLEQUIN AUTHORS! The church is booked, the reception arranged and the invitations mailed. All Diane Bauer and Nick Granatelli have to do is walk down the aisle. Little do they realize that the mo...



  • Meryl Sawyer

    TO MAKE THEIR DREAMS COME TRUE -- ONE HID THE TRUTH Lauren had run away from the privileged world of her mother, Caroline Armstrong, for reasons she would never tell. Now the Ravissant Gallery could be her ticket to freedom and success...or it ...



  • Sarah Bird

    At thirty-eight, Trudy Herring is a dreamer, a sculptor of whimsical clay figures, and a permanent temporary worker at the San Antonio Museum of Folk Art. But all that changes when she agrees to incubate a child for Hillary Goettler (her boss) and Hi...



  • Dianne Edouard



  • Eileen Nauman

    A CENTURY OF AMERICAN ROMANCE When Abby Fielding is knocked into the frigid Bering Sea, she has only one thought: to save the planet's gentlest creatures from a whaler's harpoon. When Aleksandr Rostov dives from his helicopter into those arctic wa...



  • Debbie Macomber

    From the heart-stopping moment when their eyes met across the crowded lounge, Erin MacNamera knew life would never be the same. Lieutenant Brandon Davis was sexy, tender, strong--all she'd ever dreamed of in a man. But he was also Navy--and as a Navy...



  • Michelle Reid

    Taking over the business was just the first step Anton Lakitos wanted Nina Lovell, too. But she despised him. She was convinced that it was the arrogant Greek property developer who'd ruined her father's health because of his desire to...



  • Lass Small

    Sawbuck, Texas It wasn't much of a town. Overgrown. Gone to seed. Dry as dust. A real ghost town; if you asked the locals. Then why was a rich and powerful landowner like Frank Jones so eager to add Sawbuck to the vast Jonesland empire? Why had a ...



  • Nikki Benjamin

    Widower Mackenzie Harrow knew his Whispering Wind dude ranch could withstand the raging storm outside, but all hell would break loose inside if Maggie Connor didn't end her stay there soon. Her elegant voice and classy ways were just too attracti...



  • Ginna Gray

    A totally terrorized vacationing Abigail Stewart grabbed her tiny terrier and ran-to David Blaine's bachelor boat. But the supposedly reputable U.S. agent gave his stowaways a salty reception, swilling beer and singeing Abby right down to her sensibl...



  • Jacqueline Gilbert

    A moment of madness That's all it had taken Agnes to fall for Alexander Brandon, a man she'd met while vacationing in the Scottish Highlands. It would have been hard not to have been attracted to Alexander -- he was handsome, witty, car...



  • Jacqueline Baird

    Goldie's world had tumbled down But that was seven years ago and out of the ruins she had built a new life, with a new name. "Marie Doumerque" had no desire to be reminded of the past. So why had she fallen into Rayner Millard's...



  • Patricia Wilson

    One man in a lifetime was one too many Ross Maclean was as male as they got, filled with everything Helen Andrews hated and feared: masculine aggression, sexual power, unbending strength. Defense mechanisms went on full alert the moment she laid e...



  • Eleanor Rees

    He had the home team advantage Christy had to play the game by his rules, and they were entirely different than anything she'd known before. What had Brand Sutcliffe said? Something tells me, Miss Maynard, that what you need is a crash course ...



  • Stella Bagwell

    BEST-LAID PLANS... Running a boardinghouse had never been a problem for Claire Deupree -- until she rented a room to Madison McCrea. With his come-hither eyes and sexy drawl, this construction engineer made her feel more like a desirable woman tha...



  • Celia Brayfield

    Three remarkable women--friends from vastly different backgrounds who meet at Cambridge--vie for the heart of one of the world's most eligible bachelors, His Royal Highness, Prince Richard, Duke of Sussex. Reprint....



  • Judi Lind

    WHERE THERE'S A WILL... It all started with a ginger-colored feline named McLeish. When Quinn Rosetti found the lost, injured kit-ten, she didn't think twice about rushing it to the veterinarian. Quinn returned McLeish to his owner, the Elderly Mr...



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  • Rebecca Winters

    Had he betrayed her people? Courtney Blake valued her Miccosukee heritage deeply. Although she lived in Miami, she frequently visited the Everglades to see her mother's family, who still adhered to the tribe's old ways. Now Courtney was...



  • Frances Williams

    JOURNEY TO FREEDOM... Tara Morgan and Kent Masterson were loners--roaming the earth's far reaches, unafraid and unattached. When they were recruited to run top-secret CIA film out of China, they were forced to team up. But Kent had a mission of hi...



  • Caitlin Randall

    A PASSION FOR FASHION In the fashion industry, the house of Roses was known for its romantic approach to women's apparel. From the delicate lace to the dramatic lines, each Roses creation reflected the romantic spirit of designer Brett Fraser. But...



  • Paula Detmer Riggs

    FLAMES OF LOVE Regan Delaney was relieved she wasn't trapped alone in a raging forest fire. But could the mysterious man she found sprawled on the bed of her vacation cabin help her escape? The sexy stranger obviously had something to hide, but no...



  • Arlene James

    From the moment she felt herself lifted onto Rodrigo Aviles's saddle, Rebecca Harper knew she had definitely wandered off the tourist trail in Baja. Trekking across the desert on horseback with the don of a small mountain village certainly wasn&#...



  • Bethany Campbell
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    ONE WEDDING--FOUR LOVE STORIES FROM YOUR FAVORITE HARLEQUIN AUTHORS! The church is booked, the reception arranged and the invitations mailed. All Diane Bauer and Nick Granatelli have to do is walk down the aisle. Little do they realize that the mo...



  • Hilary Norman

    One hot Tuscan night of tragedy will rip the young Cesaretti family apart, orphaned by their mother's suicidal act of madness and scattered over the world to carve out their lives alone. FRANCESCA - Courageous, determined and irresistable, she faces...



  • Emma Merritt

    SHE WAS RAISED ON SOUL FOOD He promised champagne and caviar. Though Joel LeMaster looked like a beach bum, the marine biologist dangled a rich prize before Adria Gilby's astonished eyes. Joel claimed to have located the Golden Fleece, sunken g...



  • Norma Beishir

    Sloane Driscoll was an acclaimed novelist whose private life was far removed from the steamy fiction that made her an international star. Jordan Phillips was a world-class polo champion, a dynamic athlete who could have any woman he wanted. The...



  • Jeanne Stephens

    HOT SUMMER NIGHTS .. . Molly Sinclair braved the blistering heat of a West Texas oil town, determined to learn the truth about her father's "accidental" death. Masquerading as a waitress was the perfect ploy, for it allowed Molly to gather informa...



  • Patricia Edwards

    Basque marries Basque... Eight years ago, Teslyn O'Reilly left Bakers Creek, Oregon, to try to forget Zak de Neuville, who apparently wouldn't ignore his Basque heritage. Now she'd come home, hoping to save her estranged father's f...



  • Kate Jenkins

    It didn't add up! Family tradition dictated that Ashley Atwood would be the next maiden aunt. And that destiny was just fine with the dedicated number cruncher. Resolved to succeed at any cost, she'd never been tempted to fight her fate. T...



  • Lydia Lee

    THE ARIES MAN The amorous Aries man likes to take charge and control of everything--especially romance. What's a smitten woman to do? Stand in his way! ONE ARIES MAN IN PARTICULAR Newspaper editor Max Hunter had to cut costs, and astrologer Jane...



  • Peggy Webb

    HER WILD IRISH ROVER... Brawny wanderer Mick Flannigan had been Tess Jones's first lover, her best friend forever, and her husband -- until the day years before when he'd left her without saying goodbye! Now destiny had brought them both home to ...



  • Sandra Marton

    On the other side of paradise On Hina Beach, where heat waves hummed over the crashing emerald sea and palm trees swayed above hot black sands, Whitney had first tasted passion. Andy had been a Polynesian god--golden, magnificent, his kisses as...



  • Carla Neggers

    North versus South! Beth Stiles considered herself well rid of ex-husband Harlan Rockwood. So when she found him hiding in her attic, she ordered him out! Never mind a horse swindler was after him. This time, she wouldn't let that seductive Southe...



  • Bevlyn Marshall

    The last thing race-horse trainer Chad Barron needed was a pair of golden eyes watching his every move. Granted, he'd convinced Emily Holt not to sell her share of the horse she'd inherited from her estranged father, but the pretty accountant was tel...



  • Peggy Webb

    ROAD TO ROMANCE At the rate Bea Adams was going, she'd never get to her family reunion! Alabama was quite a ways off, and she was stuck on a dark mountain road with a car that wouldn't budge. Then a tall, blond, bearded stranger appeared in a batt...



  • Jayne Ann Krentz

    Swept off her feet... History professor Letty Conroy had led a quiet, scandal-free life--until she found out fiance Xavier Augustine had had her investigated and declared perfect wife material. They Letty set out to prove him wrong. She had some w...



  • Ellen James

    Not another domineering man! Christie Daniels had left her old life far behind. She'd finally realized her dream of opening a small bed and breakfast in New Mexico. Her father didn't approve, but then he never approved of anything his da...



  • Stella Cameron

    More than meets the eye Mike Kinnear thought Susan Ackroyd was the pushiest woman he'd ever met. The nerve--trying to tell him how to care for his daughter. The woman clearly had some sort of problem. For her part, Susan had Mike pegged as irre...



  • Rosemary Gibson

    "I have no intention of selling." Mike had made her position perfectly clear. She could not abandon her share of Kingston Air, the business her grandfather had built. And especially not to a cold, calculating business machine like Luke Dun...



  • Catherine George

    "You're not at all suitable for Miles." Janus Stanhope certainly didn't keep his opinions to himself -- he wanted Georgina to know he didn't approve of her engagement to his younger brother. Under the circumstances, Georgina...



  • Elizabeth Lowell

    THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER Nevada Blackthorn, segundo of the Rocking M Ranch, was born of a warrior breed. The blood of his ancestors had given him strength. Years spent in Afghanistan's bitter struggle for freedom had taught him hard lessons. N...



  • Christina Dair

    Charlotte Lambert always stuck to her guns, and she had no intention of wavering now. Her father's will gave her exactly eighteen days to find a husband or lose the family business -- and she wasn't about to do either! There just had to be a ...



  • Erica Spindler

    When sparks flew on a moonlit night, could they confess the secrets their hearts hid? A Knight in Slightly Tarnished Armor... Lance Alexander might have been named after the noblest of romantic heroes, but he was all business when it came to lo...



  • Jessica Steele

    The situation was bizarre Erith wasn't particularly keen on tracking down her self-centered step-sister. However, she'd agreed to help when Audra vanished into the wilds of Peru after announcing her engagement to Filipo, a man her family h...



  • Vicki Lewis Thompson

    Lila Kedge: Divorced mother of two with an all-consuming real-estate business--and no room for romance. Bill Windsor: A daredevil type with Paul Newman looks, and a passion for race-car driving. He lived hard and fast. A shipboard fling with Bi...



  • Hazel Holt

    THE CASE OF THE WICKED, LIBRARIAN The death of spinster Gwen Richmond seemed excessively nasty even for a most unlikable, snoopy woman. Her fatal burial under a collapsed shelf of rare books had forced the Bodleian Library to close and cast a pall...



  • Ellen Hart

    "A well-conceived cozy. She writes about characters, some of whom happen to be gay, rather than setting out to write a lesbian story."
    THE DROOD REVIEW OF MYSTERY
    In this sequel to HALLOWED MURDER, an old friend invites Minneapolis restaurateur...




  • Laurie J. Marks

    THE SPELL OF PEACE BROKEN.... The Walkers ruled the land, the Aeyrie soared the skies, and the Mer reigned over the seas. But each race had much which the others desired. And only in the community of Triad had all three peoples come together in se...



  • Emma Bull

    Sparrow's my name. Trader. Deal-maker. Hustler, some call me. I work the Night Fair circuit, buying and selling pre-nuke videos from the world before. I know how to get a high price, especially on Big Bang collectibles. But the hottest ticket of all ...



  • Grace Chetwin

    Mylanfyndra and her brother, Brevan, residents of a mesa ravaged by ice storms in the winter and fire storms in the summer, are made slaves to the townfolk following their grandfather's death, but their strange ability to rise in the air could help t...



  • William R. Forstchen

    Enemies on Earth and now allies in the world to which they have been transported, Mark Phillips and Ikawa Yoshio struggle against the magic of Gorgon, the demon-lord attempting to enslave both Haven and the worlds beyond...




  • Karl Edward Wagner

    The Mystic swordsman battles the prophet of an ancient cult of evil that began before the birth of man. Out of the blackness of an almost-forgotten past, the cruel cult of Sataki has come to life again. Orted Ak-Ceddi, a daring outlaw, is its prop...



  • Dave Duncan

    THE COMMONER'S QUEST Inos, the late king's daughter, had been kidnapped through the magic casement even as the Impish legions overrunning her tiny kingdom were storming the castle tower. Now she was a prisoner in a desert land ruled by a dockside ...



  • Nancy Luenn

    Living in a community that creates objects in gold, fifteen-year-old Aracco reluctantly sees no other future for himself but to be a master goldsmith like his father until he is selected to find a way to a legendary city whose streets are paved with ...



  • Sean Russell

    PLAGUE AND WARFARE have swept across the Orient, ravaging the ancient kingdom of Wa, devastating the royal line, and leaving a new dynasty on the throne--a new Emperor, Akantsu, filled with fear of all who might seek to wrest the Empire from his g...



  • Bruce Coville

    If Howard Morton and Freddie the Frog Killer were trying to hold you down so that Mary Lou Hutton could kiss you, you might run as fast as Jeremy Thatcher did the day he stumbled into Mr. Elives' Magic Shop. And if you stumbled into that strange sho...




  • Margaret Weis

    By calling a temporary truce, Derek Sagan and the rebels thwarted the alien Corasian invasion. Enemies once again, the rebels have resumed their defiance and Sagan has returned to his campaign to topple the corrupt galactic government. He plans to se...





  • Garfield Reeves-Stevens

    There is another world. It is the birthplace of all our nightmares. Vampires, werewolves, demons, deadly creatures that have no name or form ... they are all real. Galen Sword, born within that world was destined to be an adept warrior, heir to the V...



  • Jonathan Carroll

    Harry Radcliffe is a brilliant prize-winning architect---witty and remarkable. He's also a self-serving opportunist, ready to take advantage of whatever situations, and women, come his way. But now, newly divorced and having had an inexplicable ne...



  • Simon Hawke

    TERROR IN TOKYO! Tokyo, Japan, the twenty-third century: a thriving metropolis powered by a blend of technology and magic. But some inhuman entity is murdering women inthe Land of the Rising Sun, and Inspector Akiro Katayama, sorcerer agent in cha...



  • L. Dean James

    For one thousand years, the Red Kings have guarded the magical sword, Kingslayer, named so because it once killed its royal wielder. Only by the blue light of the Sorcerer's Stone can one control the mystical blade, and only one young prince, the las...






  • Roald Dahl

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  • Anne Fine

    Miranda's three children thoroughly enjoy their huge, overdressed baby sitter/cleaning woman who is actually their father in disguise, and they dread the day when their mother discovers Madame Doubtfire is really her ex-husband....




  • Robert Bausch

    When Charlie Wiggins, a thirty-five-year-old car salesman, is given the power of God for one year, he sets out to put the world to rights, but he soon discovers that even omnipotence has its limitations...





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    Anastasia Krupnik answers a personal ad, and by stretching the truth, finds herself in quite a predicament when the special "he" wants to meet her....



  • Theresa Nelson

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  • John Hersey

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    An artist working for the emperor becomes envious of the emperor's architect and plots his death, telling his king that a good architect is requested in Heaven, but the architect recognizes the trap and plots his revenge...











  • Matt Taylor

    Millionaire Lex Arnold's plans to build an amusement park in rural Appalachia are delayed by mysterious accidents and disasters on the mountain where the park is to be built, which is haunted by the spectral Black Dutch...



  • Eduardo Galeano

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  • Frank Rodgers

    Janet and Sam have the most energetic granny you'll ever meet. She goes jogging, fixes cars and now she's entering art exhibitions. But like Granny herself, her sculpture is larger than life. The local children think it's great, but what will the jud...



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    Everyone wants the Indonesian Oil Contract, but how far will they all go to achieve it? The Yanks are at it, the French, the Japanese, even the British. The 'it' is corruption. This book was a P.G.Wodehouse Humour Prize runner-up....



  • Francine Pascal

    Caroline Pearce is always bragging about her collection of porcelain dolls, but no one has ever seen them. Some of her friends, especially Jessica Wakefield, wonder if Caroline really has dolls at all.



    When Caroline opens her case to t...





  • Donald Harington

    A rape and a wrongful condemnation--a novel based on a true story. In Arkansas, 1914, a 13-year-old girl is raped in the backwoods of the Ozarks. On her testimony, a young mountaineer is convicted and sentenced to the electric chair. With his celebra...



  • Clive Barker

    Collected here for the first time are some of Clive Barker's favorite tales from the chilling horror series based on his mythology - a compendium of hellish tales of terror the movies don't dare unleash....




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  • Avigdor Dagan

    The story of four inmates in a Nazi concentration camp - a juggler, a dwarf, an astrologer and a hunchback. They survive the camp by amusing their tormentors. Then they must survive the shattered world after the war....




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    Pelham Grenville Wodehouse on born on 15th October, 1881 in Guildford, England to distinguished parents who were visiting the UK from Hong Kong where his father was a magistrate.After two years in Hong Kong Wodehouse and his two brothers were sent ba...



  • Michael Underwood

    A chance sighting in a caf in Amsterdam gives solicitor Rosa Epton an unwelcome shock. At a nearby table sits an ex-client who should be behind bars, having recently been sentenced to five years in prison. So what is Eddie Ruding doing in Amsterdam a...





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    Washed-up Hollywood producer Charlie Berns has mailed in his updated obit and is about to suck his Mercedes tailpipe and fade to black when a miracle materializes: his nephew, a wannabe screenwriter from New Jersey, has scripted the life story of Que...



  • Jean Rodgers

    Raymond does not want to start going to school, but once there he experiences the excitement of giving book reports, learning about dinosaurs and whales, taking part in a play, and writing a publisher about a mistake he finds in a reference book...



  • Ann H. Gabhart

    When twelve-year-old Ance spends a year at Coyote Point and frees a suffering coyote from a trap, he earns the wrath of the rancher who set the trap, and learns the truth about his father's disappearance years ago...




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  • Daniel Pollock

    Taras Arensky, a highly trained killer, is summoned to the White House to protect the Soviet president--who has defected to the United States--from Marcus Jolly, a soldier of fortune in the employ of the Soviet Union...



  • James A. Michener

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