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New Books List: 545 titles

  • The ABC Exhibit

    Leonard Everett Fisher

  • Abracadabra to Zigzag

    Nancy Lecourt

  • The Ace of Hearts

    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...

  • Across a Wine-Dark Sea

    Jessica Bryan

    From the far reaches of the Black Sea to the shimmering isle of Crete, men whispered of their extraordinary beauty and their formidable skill with sword and spear. They were the Amazons. And for the slave takers who stalked the Mediterranean coast, t...

  • Across the Thlassa Mey

    Dennis McCarty

  • Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life

    Roald Dahl

    "Roald Dahl is one of the few writers I know whose work can accurately be described as addictive." -- Irish Times
     
    The sweet scents of rural life infuse this beautifully crafted collection of Roald Dahl’s country stories, but there is alw...

  • Alias Madame Doubtfire

    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....

  • Alien Minds

    Keith Laumer

  • All about Where

    Tana Hoban

  • Almighty Me

    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...

  • Alternate Birth

    Carl Jones

  • The Amazing Voyage of Jackie Grace

    Matt Faulkner

  • Amy's True Love

    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...

  • Anastasia at This Address

    Lois Lowry

    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....

  • And One for All

    Theresa Nelson

    Years ago Geraldine, her older brother, Wing, and his best friend, Sam, swore eternal friendship and everlasting loyalty to each other.



    Now it's 1967 and Wing, a senior, thinks the Marines and Vietnam have more to offer than school. ...

  • Antonietta

    John Hersey

    A saga of a magnificent violin, Antonietta, named after a beautiful woman who was the inspiration of Antonio Stradivari's later years. As Hersey brings Mozart, Berlioz, and Stravinsky to life, he offers us a marvelous celebration of the changing char...

  • Ants Can't Dance

    Ellen B. Jackson

  • Anything for You

    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...

  • Ara's Field

    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...

  • Aren't You Lucky!

    Catherine Anholt; Laurence Anholt

  • The Art Of Cartography

    J.S. Marcus

  • The Artist and the Architect

    Demi

    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...

  • As Right As Right Can Be

    Anne Rose

  • At Home

    Disney Book Group

  • Atonement of Mindy Wise

    Marilyn Kaye

  • Babar's Picnic

    Laurent de Brunhoff

  • The Baby Bargain

    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...

  • Baltimore Blues

    Lee Moler

  • Bargain With the Wind

    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. ...

  • Beach Boys

    Alison Page

  • The Beloved Woman

    Deborah Smith

    HER PEOPLE UPROOTED BY BROKEN PROMISES, HER HEART TORN BY CONFLICTING DESIRES... The Trail of Tears: The forced exodus of the Cherokee people from their homeland in Georgia to make way for the white gold miners and settlers. Katherine Blue Song'...

  • Beneath a Pale Moon

    Victoria Morrow

    Forced into a prearranged marriage by her imperious grandmother, Lady Cheryl de Clare refused to accept her fate as wife of the fearless Norman warrior, Lord Garret Montgomery. A Welsh beauty whose delicate features belied her fiery spirit and iron w...

  • The Best Laid Plans

    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&#...

  • Best of Enemies

    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 ...

  • Beyond the Outsider

    Colin Wilson

  • Beyond the Starlit Frost

    Rebecca Brandewyne

    RHIANNON, AN ORPHANED HUNTRESS, RAISED BY GREAT-HEARTED STRANGERS Her hair was flame, her eyes smoldering topaz, her fearsome gift a power waiting to be freed... ISKANDER: A SON OF THE ROYAL BLOOD, HIS QUEST WAS HIS DUTY -- AND HIS GLORY At d...

  • Big and Bright

    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...

  • The Big Freeze

    Michael J. Katz

    Andy Sussman and his wife, Susie, are drawn into danger on the ski slopes when a manuscript for a bad mystery novel, written by Andy's friend Murray Glick, turns out to be based on a real-life mystery involving the disappearance of a ski instructor's...

  • Biodegradable Soap

    Amy Ephron

  • A Birthday Bike for Brimhall

    Judy Delton

  • A Bite of Death

    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...

  • Black Crow, Black Crow

    Ginger Foglesong Guy

  • Black Dragon

    Victor Appleton

    SUPER HIGH TECH...SUPER HIGH SPEED...SUPER HIGH STAKES! He’s daring, he's resourceful, he's cool under fire. He's Tom Swift, the brilliant young inventor racing toward the cutting edge of high-tech adventure. But Tom's latest toy -- a high-flyin...

  • Black Dutch

    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...

  • Black Sun

    Terry C. Johnston

    Black SunTerry C. Johnston No one captures the glory, adventure and drama of the courageous men and women who tamped the American West like award-winning author Terry Johnston. His Plainsmen series brims with colorful characters, fierce battles and c...

  • Blood Knot

    David Alan Stamaty

  • Blood Money

    Jack Drake

  • Blood Rules

    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...

  • Blue Limbo

    Frank Lauria

    EVIL REIGNS FROM WASHINGTON TO MONTEGO BAY Beneath the cool blue waters of the Caribbean, a telepathic experiment aboard an American nuclear submarine goes hideously awry... A beautiful and gifted Obeah priestess is trapped between the unspeaka...

  • Bone Dance: A Fantasy for Technophilles

    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 ...

  • The Book of Embraces

    Eduardo Galeano

    "Eduardo Galeano''s is considered a passionate literary voice. In ""The Book of Embraces"", he employs parable and paradox, anecdote and dream, and fragments of autobiography to construct a passionate, ironic and joyful world view. The world reveals ...

  • Bored Blue? Think What You Can Do

    Cynthia Jabar

  • Bossy Steven

    Francine Pascal

  • Brace Yourself, P. J.

    Janice Harrell

  • Breaking Gentle

    Beverly Lowry

    A compelling portrait of the disintegration of the members of the Caldwell family, who have retreated to a horse farm from the city rat-race and their painful struggle to confront the problematic relationships they share...

  • Brighty of the Grand Canyon

    Marguerite Henry

    Long ago, a lone little burro roamed the high cliffs of the Grand Canyon and touched the hearts of all who knew him: a grizzled old miner, a big-game hunter, even President Teddy Roosevelt. Named Brighty by the prospector who befriended him, he remai...

  • Brothers in Blood

    Clark Howard

  • The Brutus Lie

    John J. Gobbell

    Reunited after thirty-five years of Cold War, brothers and bitter enemies Lofton and Dobrynyn pursue their individual goals of outwitting each other, unaware that their deaths have been ordered at the highest government levels. Reprint....

  • Buddy Boys

    Mike McAlary

    A shocking true story of corruption and crime in the ranks of the NYPD in the worst police scandal since the revelations of Fred Serpico In the 1970s, New York City’s 77th Precinct was known as “the Alamo.” In Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heigh...

  • The Bunk-Bed Bus

    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...

  • The Business

    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...

  • Buying the Business

    Bertram Henry

    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....

  • Called Home

    Robert Irvine

    The isolated town of Wasatch sits in Mormon country, a hard place where right and wrong are clear as night and day. But smoke from nearby mountain wildfires swirls menacingly through the streets, unsettling as the dark secrets so zealously guarded by...

  • Captain Britain

    Jamie Delano

  • Caroline's Mystery Dolls

    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...

  • Cat Morgan, Working Girl

    Marilyn Kaye

  • Catch a Rising Star

    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...

  • The Catiline Conspiracy

    John Maddox Roberts

    WE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE... It was a summer of glorious, triumph for the mighty Roman Republic. Her invincible legions had brought all foreign enemies to their knees. But in Rome, there was no peace. The fetid streets ran with the blood of murdered...

  • Celestial Bodies

    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...

  • Chance of a Lifetime

    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...

  • Changes

    Marjorie N. Allen

  • A Charmed Betrothal

    Irene Loyd Black

    BETROTHED TO A RAKEHELL Midwifery was hardly a fitting endeavor for a noblewoman, but Lady Skylor nevertheless chose medicine over matrimony. Independence, in her opinion, was far preferable to life as a lawfully wedded wife, no matter the superstit...

  • Cherokee Nights

    Genell Dellin

    He towered over her, his lean, hard frame dominating the room; his piercing eyes riveting her to the chair. Kingfisher Chekote was the most devastatingly handsome man Celina Hawthorne had ever seen. When King announced he was in need of a lawyer, it ...

  • Child of the Air

    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...

  • Choiring Of The Trees

    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...

  • Circles

    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...

  • Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Collected Best I

    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....

  • Clive Eats Alligators

    Alison Lester

  • Colors

    Philip Yenawine

  • Coming to Terms

    Anna Murdoch

    This novel, set in rural upstate New York, draws together characters from three generations with very different backgrounds and values. Uncle Percy, 72, is infirm, irascible, and poor. He has never married, and his only remaining family is a far-flun...

  • Command Decision

    J.D. Cameron

  • Complete Collected Stories

    V.S. Pritchett

  • Conan the Outcast

    Leonard Carpenter
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The ancient hierarchs of the desert city of Qjara did not want the young man called Conan of Cimmeria inside their walls with his strange, northland ways.He did not even worship the One True Goddess. yet some would ensnare him in the city's intrigues...

  • The Cool Blue Tomb

    Paul Kemprecos

    LIFE'S A BEACH -- UNTIL MURDER ROLLS IN WITH THE TIDE A 50-million-dollar salvage operation. An expert diver dead at the bottom of the sea. An elegant mermaid in a black Porsche--and an open invitation to dip into the troubled waters of her marria...

  • Cool Repentance

    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...

  • A Country of Old Men

    Joseph Hansen

    Dave Brandstetter’s best days are behind him, but for the sake of a frightened child, Dave takes on his very last case. The wear and tear of a life spent pursuing the truth into harm’s way is catching up with Dave. In fact, it has already caught ...

  • The Court Jesters

    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....

  • The Covenant of the Flame

    David Morrell

    As the earth is slowly defiled--by everything from oil spills to the extinction of animals--New York City reporter Tess Drake finds herself in the middle of a fierce battle between two covert armies. Reissue....

  • Crucible of Fools

    M.S. Power

  • The Cruellest Month

    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...

  • The Crystal Sorcerers

    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...

  • The Crystal Warriors

    William R. Forstchen

  • Cutter's Woman

    Virginia Lynn

    SHE WAS A WOMAN WHO MADE HER OWN LAWS... Writer of novels about renegade gunmen, J. Whitney Bradford yearns to meet the real thing -- and the legendary exploits of a half-Apache outlaw beckon her from New York to the dangerous frontier. From her fir...

  • A Damsel in Distress

    P.G. Wodehouse

    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...

  • A Dangerous Business

    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...

  • Dangerous Spaces

    Margaret Mahy

  • A Daring Dilemma

    Nina Porter

    A DANGEROUS GAME OF MAKE-BELIEVE ... Surrounded by her flighty sister and mother, the sensible Miss Delicia Dudley was perpetually entangled in embarrassing situations. Yet she loyally agreed to her sister Desiree's latest scheme and pretended to ...

  • The Dark Card

    Amy Ehrlich

  • Dark Crusade

    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...

  • The Dark Watch

    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."...

  • Dark Window

    Linda Crockett-Gray

  • Date With a Dead Doctor

    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...

  • Daydreams

    Mitchell Smith

  • The Deadliest Option

    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...

  • Deadly Justice

    Dale Colter

  • The Deal

    Peter Lefcourt

    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...

  • Death from the Clouds

    Shizuko Natsuki

  • Deep and Swift

    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...

  • Desert Fury

    James Pruitt

  • Die Softly

    Christopher Pike

    HE MAY HAVE PHOTOGRAPHED A MURDER. Herb just wanted to photograph the cheerleaders in the school showers. He planted his camera high in the corner where no one could see it, and rigged it to a special homemade timer. He did that Thursday night, an...

  • The Dinosaur Trackers

    Thomas Shadwell

  • Dinosaurs Are 568

    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...

  • Discovery at Coyote Point

    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...

  • Do You Sometimes Feel Like a Nobody?

    Tim Stafford

  • Don't Say a Word

    Andrew Klavan

    The thrilling novel from Andrew Klavan, Don't Say a Word , “A multi-layered thriller . . . Klavan never lets up . . . something for . . . all kinds of psycho suspense fans.” -- Entertainment Weekly Now a major motion picture starring Michael...

  • Don't Wake the Baby

    Jonathan Franklin

  • Donadieu's Will

    Georges Simenon

    After the death of Oscar Donadieu, a wealthy shipbuilder and tyrannical patriarch, his family--oldest son Michel, wife, Eva, and daughter Martine--begins to disintegrate, a process enhanced by the arrival of ambitious, angry Phillipe Dargens...

  • The Doomsday Wagons

    Jon Sharpe

  • Double Dare

    Robin Francis

    "I double dare you!" It's a child's game of challenge--with adult consequences. The romantic reunion of a pair of amateur sleuths, writer Jenny Spaulding and lawyer Peter Darien, is interrupted when Peter is asked to locate a missing TV actress...

  • Downriver

    Will Hobbs

    Will Hobbs’s classic tale of whitewater adventure is back in print with an exciting new look.No adults, no permit, no river map. After fifteen-year-old Jessie gets sent to Discovery Unlimited, an outdoor education program, she and six companions ...

  • The Drifter

    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...

  • Duel of Assassins

    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...

  • The Duke's Daughter

    Melinda McRae

    The Insistent Earl Elizabeth Granford firmly resisted Somerset Graham, the Earl of Wentworth, as he sought to uncover the secret she was determined to hide. Elizabeth also rejected the Earl's proposal of marriage most ladies would have leapt a...

  • The Eagle and the Raven

    James A. Michener

    In a story set against the backdrop of one of the most exciting periods of Texas history, a fireband renegade from Tennessee, Sam Houston, emigrates to the Mexican state of Tejas and helps lead the revolution of 1836, which resulted in the free sover...

  • Eight Hands Round

    Ann Whitford Paul

  • Elsinore

    Jerome Charyn

    Eager to find his girlfriend, Fay Abruzzi, who has been secreted away by her district attorney father, former hitman Sidney Holden agrees to come out of retirement and help millionaire Howard Phipps bring down the D.A. Reprint. PW....

  • Emerald Embrace

    Shannon Drake

    Martise St. James journeyed to the brooding Scottish castle to uncover the secret of her friend's untimely death. Lord Bruce Creeghan was her late friend's husband, a man whose stormy eyes aroused Martise's darkest suspicions -- and wildest desi...

  • Emily and the Dark Angel

    Jo Beverley

    TWENTY-SIX AND STILL UNCLAIMED Practical, capable and utterly unromantic, Emily Grantwich is spinsterhood personified. But her prim world goes scandalously atilt when she is inadvertently doused with perfumed powder hurled by a disreputable lady at ...

  • The Empress File

    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...

  • Escape!

    Clay Coleman

  • Escapes

    Joy Williams

  • The Evening News

    Arthur Hailey

    Terrorists target a TV anchorman and his family in the #1 New York Times"bestselling author’s novel set in the high-pressure network news industry. Anchorman Crawford Sloane, a respected reporter who made his name as a Vietnam War correspondent, ...

  • Everybody's Daughter

    Marsha Qualey

    Raised in a commune her own parents helped found, sixteen-year-old Beamer becomes frustrated by her close proximity to the commune's other members, until a forced examination of her life helps her understand how her unusual upbringing has shaped her ...

  • The Exact Image of Mother

    Patty Friedman

    Darby Cooper, the irrepressible survivor of Jewish guilt, Holocaust memories, and modern romance, narrates this dark comedy, set in Jewish New Orleans, about the complex relationships between mothers and daughters, love and betrayal, death and renewa...

  • Eyes of Prey

    John Sandford

    Lieutenant Davenport's sanity was nearly shattered by two murder investigations. Now he faces something worse... Two killers. One hideously scarred. The other strikingly handsome, a master manipulator fascinated with all aspects of death. The dark...

  • Faery Lands Forlorn

    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 ...

  • Family Blood

    David Ritz

    Three generations of an American family wage a bloody battle for control of the music industry in a work of suspense, crime, and intrigue set in Miami Beach, Hollywood, Las Vegas, Rome, New York, Detroit, and Chicago. Reprint....

  • Fat Glenda Turns 14

    Lila Perl

    As the end of the summer approaches, Glenda despairs at her rapidly expanding size, but a sudden career break with the All-Girl Modeling Agency, which specializes in overweight girls, gives Glenda the self-esteem she needs...

  • Fatal Exposure

    Michael Tobias

  • Father of the Bride

    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 ...

  • Father of the Bride

    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 ...

  • Feathered Dragon

    Douglas Niles
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    LAST HOPE OF THE TRUE WORLD! The greatest city in Maztica lies in ruins . . . a plague of hideous monsters descends across the land. From the ashes of destruction, a tenuous alliance forms. Legionnaires and native warriors fight side by side, d...

  • Few Die Well

    David R. Olson

    They were the Bulldogs - a platoon of helicopter pilots stationed along the west border, just a few klicks from Cambodia and Laos. Their names were Danly, Bookman, Barnes, Spradling, Gray, and Winters - and for all their differences, they were a team...

  • Fielder's Choice

    Multiple Authors

  • Final Cut

    Eric Wright

    IT'LL MAKE A KILLING AT THE BOX OFFICE .. . Acts of sabotage are throwing a major film off financial kilter. Inspector Charlie Salter finds his glamorous job as watchdog turning sinister as fake fire alarms, muggings, damaged equipment, stolen fil...

  • First Love Wild Love

    Carrie J. Taylor

  • A Flag Full of Stars

    Brad Ferguson

    It has been eighteen months since the Starship Enterprise completed her historic five-year mission and her legendary crew has separated, taking new assignments that span the galaxy. On Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk has married and started a new lif...

  • A Flash of Diamonds

    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...

  • Flashbacks

    Morley Safer

    A television journalist records his impressions of Vietnam during a 1988 trip to Southeast Asia, describing encounters with old friends and enemies, the impact of the Vietnam War on the region, and changes in the country since the war...

  • Flying Hero Class

    Thomas Keneally

    From the author of Man Booker Prize"winning Schindler’s Ark Palestinian terrorists hijack a flight from New York bound for Frankfurt that holds an unusual group of passengers: a troupe of dancers from the aboriginal Australian Barramatjara tribe....

  • A Foolish Dream

    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...

  • For Keeps

    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 ...

  • Forgotten Love

    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 ...

  • Fortune's Captive

    Elizabeth Turner

    WHISPERS OF SCANDAL. WHISPERS OF PASSION Lovely Juliana Butterfield was an innocent, only a week removed from the shelter of a convent...and filled with secret longings for a man's tender caress. Andrew MacAllister was worldly and sophisticated,...

  • Fourth of July Bear

    Kathryn Lasky

  • Frame-Up

    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...

  • Freddie's Spaghetti

    Charlotte Doyle

  • Freshman Secrets

    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...

  • Frog and the Birdsong

    Max Velthuijs

    New large paperback edition of this classic Frog story, dealing with the subject of death.
         One autumn day Frog discovers a blackbird lying motionless in the grass. Worried, he asks his friends what can be the matter....

  • Frontier Fire

    Barbara Cummings

    Enduring harsh winters and British taxation, widow Constance Proctor had overcome the dangers of homesteading New Hampshire's wilderness with cool composure and quick thinking.. until the day she met Jean Luis D'Epier. The handsome French tra...

  • Getting Mine

    Jean Femling

    From Mundane to Murder It begins as a routine case for insurance investigator Martha "Moz" Brant. Her client is involved in a minor rear-end collision. But when large claims are filed by the "victims," Moz gets suspicious. Especially when she meet...

  • Ghost Cadet

    Elaine Marie Alphin

    Twelve-year-old Benjy, in Virginia visiting the grandmother he has never met, meets the ghost of a Virginia Military Institute cadet who was killed in the Battle of New Market in 1864 and helps him recover his family's treasured gold watch....

  • Gift of Mischief

    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...

  • Gino Badino

    Diana Engel

  • The Glass Cockpit

    Robert P. Davis

    Lucky Doyle, resentful of how computers have been taking over the pilot's job, has been fighting a silent war against this "glass cockpit", but when his passenger plane is propelled at a nose-high climb by a collision with a private plane, the war be...

  • The Goblin Plain War

    Carl Miller

  • Going Solo

    Cynthia Blair

    Tiffany, sent to Wildwood to forget her college beau; Megan, a gifted flutist with dreams of leaving Buffalo for a big-city orchestra; and Allegra, whose famous parents got her into Wildwood, find friendship and fun at the prestigious Wildwood music ...

  • Goldclimbers

    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 ...

  • The Golden Duck

    Vivienne Wayman

  • Golden Temptress

    Patricia Roenbeck

    Raised to lead his people, sworn to protect them from any danger, Abuin had dedicated his life to battling opponents of the Protectorate. But the moment his men took the mysterious green-eyed woman from the enemy transport, he sensed there would be i...

  • The Golden U-Boat

    Richard Henrick

  • Good Republic

    William J. Palmer

    Baltic emigre Jacob Balthus's quiet London life is disrupted and his memories of the past are unleashed by an act of violence, a disruption that heightens when Balthus is invited home again by the renascent nationalist movement...

  • Granta 35

    Bill Buford

    Granta is a leading literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom. Initially founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University as The Granta, it was successfully relaunched as a magazine of "new writing" in 1979. Granta is a literary quarte...

  • Grave Responsibility

    Susannah Stacey

  • The Great World

    David Malouf

    Every city, town and village has its memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other people's battles - from Gallipoli and the Somme to Malaya and Vietnam. In The Great ...

  • Ground Zero

    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...

  • Guardian Spirit

    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...

  • The Gulf Breeze Sightings

    Ed Walters

    Although books, films, and TV continue to address the UFO phenomenon, there has been no satisfactory photographic evidence until now. Here, two witnesses give an absolutely riveting first-person account of the Gulf Breeze UFO sightings. 70 color phot...

  • Gumshoe Goose, Private Eye

    Mary Deball Kwitz

  • Gun Glory

    Hank Edwards (1)

  • Gun Trap

    Bill Reno

    Once, Jess Packard was the most feared and respected man in Aurora. As sheriff, he'd brought law to the tough mining town and controlled the simmering dispute between the Winnemucca and Young America mines. But that was before Judd Colden and his Win...

  • Gundown

    Will McLennan

    Matt Ramsey is hired to guard the town jail's sole prisoner, the son of the richest, most powerful man in the territory, who is determined to spring his son before he is tried for his girlfriend's murder...

  • Guns of Hanging Lake

    Luke Short

    Tony Braden's first sin was being an Englishman; his second was being rich enough to make a go of ranching. The good folks of Indian Bend ridiculed, robbed and cheated Braden. Then he was killed - knifed clean in the gut - and no one in town seemed t...

  • Gymnast Commandos

    Elizabeth Levy

  • Hangman

    Chris Bohjalian

  • Hank Prank in Love

    Jules Older

  • Happy Endings

    Adele Geras

    When sixteen-year-old Mel lands a role in a summer production of Chekov's Three Sisters, she is immediately caught up in the exciting world of the theater. Mel forms close bonds with the cast and crew, especially Clare, the costume and set designer. ...

  • Hard for Justice

    Joseph Meek

  • The Harriers

    Gordon R. Dickson

    Earth is but a memory...the real action these days is in The Magnicate, a league of all the human worlds in the galaxy. At the center of the Magnicate is the Hub, a huge artificial world from which control of Human Space flows. The Hub government is ...

  • Hawaiian Temptress

    Linda Windsor

    Lost overboard in a storm on her way to San Francisco, then stranded for days in a tiny lifeboat, Hawaiian heiress Kristen Caldwell awoke in the cabin of a rundown fishing vessel bound for Mexico -- in the arms of Ian Mackay, a devilishly handsome ha...

  • Hawaiian U.F.O. Aliens

    Mel Gilden

    "IT'S A MYSTERY, DUDE'.' The giant top hat on the beach was just the beginning. Because after it landed, someone started stealing blowfish spine necklaces, including one which had been a gift to Zoot Marlowe, hot shot alien detective. If the hat w...

  • Head Games

    Michael Newton

    By night he hunts human heads—a ruthless madman whose taste for grisly trophies has made screaming national headlines. By day he walks the streets, a trusted and popular member of a close-knit mountain community. Until some innocent woman pass...

  • A Heart in Jeopardy

    Holly Newman

    Bound by duty, torn by love ... Miss Leona Leonard had never attempted anything so daring before ... disguising herself as a man and rescuing Lady Christiana Deveraux from kidnappers. But her heart beat even more wildly at the sudden appearance of...

  • Heart on Fire

    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...

  • Hearts Collide

    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 ...

  • Henny Penny

    Stephen Butler

  • Her Father's Daughter

    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 ...

  • Hero!

    Dave Duncan

    Space opera at its finest and most action-filled, from the bestselling author of fantasy quests, epic tales, and swashbuckling adventures. Vaun, born a peasant in the stinking mud flats of Ult, a thriving colony planet, claws his way to survival and ...

  • Hide and Seek

    Ida Vos

    Eight-year-old Rachel Hartog, her sister Esther and her parents are forced to go into hiding as the Germans take over their town. At first they stay with Father Thijssen at the Rectory but have to be moved on because they have been discovered. Separa...

  • High Country Showdown

    John Legg