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New Books List: 424 titles

  • A Gathering of Heroes

    Paul Edwin Zimmer

  • Egg Drop Day

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Mystery Day

    Harriet Ziefert

  • He Who Shapes, the Infinity Box

    Roger Zelazny

  • Explorations

    William Butler Yeats / W.B. Yeats

  • Cat Among The Pigeons

    Kit Wright

    A brilliantly funny collection of poems involving everyone's favourite anti-hero Dave Dirt, the extraordinary afternoon of a prawn and the mysterious tale of Zoe's earrings.Witty, touching and clever - this is a classic collection from the irreverent...

  • Seven in One Blow

    Freire Wright

  • Body and Soul

    Sherryl Woods

    FIT TO KILL... The aerobics instructor was very pretty, very popular...and very dead. Reporter Amanda Roberts was at the gym when the body was discovered on the steam room floor. Amanda smells murder--and a hot story--but her sometimes boyfriend, ...

  • The Green Leaves of Summer

    Ted Willis

  • Holy Treasure!

    David Williams

    A vicar's wife begins a campaign to save her husband's failing church from a shady group of land speculators and is promptly killed in a seeming accident, spurring financier and amateur sleuth Mark Treasure to action...

  • A Stroke of Genius

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    He wasn't in her job description Mallory Littlefield's gorgeous new boss, Elliott Fraser, was a certified genius--a member of an elite group of "brains" who were paid top dollar just to think. But the poor man was a complete incompetent when it ca...

  • Sweetbriar Spring

    Brenda Wilbee

    In 1851 two women kissed each other goodbye in a sweetbriar garden in Illinois. They wept for they knew they'd never see each other again. Louisa was moving to Oregon. "The sweetbriar!" Louisa cried. "They are God's promise of spring! Let me take som...

  • Blanco

    Allen Wier

  • Lord Byron's Doctor

    Paul West

    The alternately bawdy and diabolical story of Lord Byron, the Shelleys, and their bizarre circle of friends is recounted by Polidori, Byron's brilliant yet demented personal physician....

  • The Prophet of Akhran

    Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman

    Since time began, twenty Gods have ruled all the universe. Though each God possessed different abilities, each was all-powerful within his realm. Now one of the Gods has upset the balance of power, leaving the others scrambling for control in the new...

  • The Halflife

    Sharon Webb

  • Calm At Sunset Calm At Dawn

    Paul Watkins

  • Have Happy

    Mildred Pitts Walter

    It's Christmas time, and all the kids are talking about the presents they hope to get. It's also Chris's eleventh birthday--which he figures will get lost in the Christmas shuffle as it usually does. And this year, with his father out of work, there ...

  • Monday's Child

    Patricia Wallace

    Jill Baker was such a pretty little girl, with long honey blond hair And haunting gray-green eyes. Just one look at her angelic features could dispel all the nasty rumors that have been spreading around town. Like the crazy old country doctors story ...

  • Dying Breath

    Robert W. Walker

  • The Luck of the Irish

    Linda Varner

    MY WILD IRISH ROGUE After that corny brogue and a line chat was pure blarney, Mary Kate O'Connor vowed to steer clear of tall, dark and Irish Flynn Rafferty. She didn't intend to let any man get her into the tender trap of marriage and sway her fr...

  • Night Driving and Other Stories

    John VandeZande

    Each story in this collection is set in the beautiful yet stark Upper Peninsula of Michigan and focuses on such subjects as an overbearing entrepreneur, a farmer's son, a jealous lover, and an obsessive swimmer...

  • Mermaid's Song

    Alida Van Gores

  • Scaredy Cat

    Virginia Vail

  • An Unsuspecting Heart

    Linda Turner

    IN HOT PURSUIT Katie MacDonald was all too aware of the dangers she faced as a Miami police-beat reporter. After all, her closest friend had been killed while covering a notorious street-gang leader. The death had been ruled accidental, but Katie ...

  • Black Body

    H.C. Turk

    A novel of early nineteenth-century magic follows Aba--sorceress of white witchcraft--who is taken to England to protect her from the potency and consequences of her own powers, only to be cast into far greater challenges and danger...

  • The Girls Next Door

    Peter Turchi

    I beg to differ with the Publishers Weekly review. This is a beautifully written book. I found I would have to put it down periodically, to make sure I took the time to appreciate the flow of the story. There is a wonderful tension between the direct...

  • Yea! Wildcats!

    John R. Tunis / John Roberts Tunis

  • Be My Baby

    Brenda Trent

    AND THE LUCKY WINNER IS... Shy schoolteacher Eugenia Latrop couldn't possibly accept the prize she'd won from a local golden-oldies radio contest--to cohost the Fabulous Fifties Fun Frolic with handsome disc jockey Luke Newton. Though a nostalg...

  • Ravenmoon

    Peter Tremayne

    Set in a legendary Ireland of swirling mists and powerful magic, this is an adventure fantasy of heroes and gods and frightful creatures from the other world. Previous titles by this author include "Raven of Destiny" and the "Lan-Kern" trilogy....

  • All Through the Night

    Elise Title

    Revenge was cold comfort But it was all that Maggie Flemming had, She'd come to Geneva to track down her husband's assassin, the spy known as Isaac, and bring him to justice. Maggie had bet her life on her ability to expose Isaac -- and she knew s...

  • Houston, Houston, Do You Read?

    James Tiptree Jr.
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  • The Fourth Durango

    Ross Thomas

    The first Durango is in Spain, the second in Mexico, the third is a ski town in Colorado. The fourth is a minuscule beach town in California where a trio of ex-hippies--the tough and sexy mayor, her even sexier sister, and the shrewd police chief--no...

  • The Ripper's Apprentice

    Donald Thomas

    In the slum alleys of Lambeth in 1891 a sinister silk-hatted figure lurks in the shadows - but trade is there for the taking and a girl must make a living. Now, one after another, the girls who work the Waterloo Road wake in the morning to feel the s...

  • Mountain Man

    Joyce Thies

    MR. AUGUST... Who? Jeremy Kincaid Where? Holed up in a primitve fishing lodge in isolated Alaskan bush country. Why? To leave his big-city blues behind--and get back to basics. Complication! The luscious, long-legged blonde who just stepped off...

  • Couldn't I Start Over?

    Jean Thesman

    Shiloh, a fifteen-year-old smart-alecky know-it-all, is taught a few lessons when she befriends manipulative newcomer Lovey Sullivan, who steals her best friend, a prospective boyfriend, and a starring role in a musical festival...

  • One Man's Folly

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    BIRTH ORDER TELLS ALL... And middle child Mike Harrigan, from a prominent Texas clan, exemplified his birth order - a rebel, a pioneer, a superb negotiator...and a man intent on establishing a foster ranch for boys. Only child Diana Tomlinson ...

  • Marianne, the Matchbox and the Malachite Mouse

    Sheri S. Tepper

    When Marianne's parents died, leaving control of their fortune to her feared older brother, she struggled to make her way as a student in America - and her old home began to seem as unreal as a fairy tale, her childhood there as distant as a dream . ...

  • The Vulgar Boatman

    William G. Tapply

    Republican gubernatorial hopeful Tom Baron needs help. On the eve of a low-budget fundraiser, a local teenage girl is found strangled to death in the woods behind the high school. And Baron's son Buddy, the girl's boyfriend, is missing. With the l...

  • The Snail on the Slope

    Boris Natanovich Strugatskii

    The action of "The Snail on the Slope" unfolds in two planes; in a fantasy institution run by a stupid, mindless bureaucracy whose aim is to govern the fantasy forest that lives its own fear-ridden, shadowy life ruled by neither people or fate....

  • War Day and the Journey Onward

    Whitley Strieber

  • Beyond the Reef

    Todd Strasser

    Seeking adventure, Chris and his parents move from New York to Key West, but the thrill soon fades as Dad's obsession with finding sunken treasure angers some of the longtime residents and threatens to split up the family....

  • Cookie

    Todd Strasser

  • Mean Streets

    Dick Stivers

  • The Cage

    S.M. Stirling; Shirley Meier

  • The Surprise Party

    R.L. Stine

    WELCOME TO FEAR STREET Don't listen to the stories they tell about Fear Street. Wouldn't you rather explore it yourself...and see if its dark terrors and unexplained mysteries are true? You're not afraid, are you? Playing For Keeps It's been a...

  • Dark Rendezvous at Dungariff

    Lois Stewart

    I knew with a sudden chilling burst of intuition that I could wander through this strange town without once losing my way. I knew this place, deep in my bones. Glenna MacDougall was sure that the dawn of the twentieth century would find her still at ...

  • Farewell to Love

    Jessica Steele

    So it was all a great sham Meredith had loved Ryan Carlisle at first sight and had been swept off her feet in a dream of romance. The miracle was that Ryan loved her, too. The dream shattered on their wedding day when she accidentally overheard...

  • Seduction's Raging Flames

    Judith Steel

    Detective Lane Hollister had been hired to nab the crook who kept raiding the railroad, but he sure wasn't against mixing a little pleasure with his business. And that tall, blond and slender Trisha Bonner was a great way to pass the time until the t...

  • Sadie Rose and the Cottonwood Creek Orphan

    Hilda Stahl

  • Time-Out for Jessie

    Chris St. John

  • Apocalypse

    Nancy Springer

    A woman returns to wreak end-of-the-world vengeance on her Pennsylvania hometown  Disfigured since birth, Joanie Musser has endured decades of taunts and torments from the “normals” in Hoadley, Pennsylvania. Her only friend is a boy named Ba...

  • Queen's Gambit Declined

    Melinda Snodgrass

    William, Prince of Orange, learns that it is not political machinations but black magic that is keeping him from the throne, and he enlists the powers of The White Goddess to stem the rising tide of darkness...

  • Good Heavens! Andy Capp

    Reggie Smythe

  • Thrill of the Chase

    Joan Smith

    MYSTERY DATE Dawn Roberts decided to take a tour through Canada, hoping to meet the man of her dreams. But when her bus was searched at the border for stolen goods and gorgeous Nick Barnaby joined the group midway through the trip, Dawn knew her p...

  • Silver Splendor

    Barbara Dawson Smith

    Elizabeth Hastings seethed with fury. Lord Nicholas Ware had the effrontery to call her wanton... then try to seduce her himself. No man, no matter how handsome and powerful, should dare such an outrage. Yet no man had ever touched her as profoundly ...

  • Little Monsters

    A.L. Singer

    Brian Stevenson isn't too happy right now. He's new in town. He doesn't have any friends. Kiersten Deveaux, the smartest and the prettiest girl in school, doesn't even know he's alive. And now he's managed to get himself on the wrong side of Ronnie C...

  • Dead by Morning

    Dorothy Simpson

    A FROZEN STIFF In life he was Leo Martindale, the dissolute son of one of rustic Sutton-in-the-Weald's most genteel first families. Now he is a snow-covered corpse lying outside the seventeenth-century ancestral home he'd fled nearly twenty-fire y...

  • Whales

    Seymour Simon

  • Kate's Book

    Mary Francis Shura

    When Kate's father decides to sell their Ohio farm and move to Oregon, the family has many regrets. Nonetheless, they pull up stakes and begin the long journey across the plains. The bumpy roads, slow pace and cramped living conditions prove drea...

  • She Who Remembers

    Linda Lay Shuler

    In an ancient time of fear and superstition, she stood apart for her unusual blue eyes. In a land of great stone cities and trackless wilderness, she sought her own unique path. But in the eyes of the clan who accepted her--and the heart of the magic...

  • Eden Close

    Anita Shreve

    Andrew, after many years, returns to his hometown to attend his mother's funeral. Planning to remain only a few days, he is drawn into the tragic legacy of his childhood friend and beautiful girl next door, Eden Close. An adopted child, Eden had ...

  • Baba

    Tanya Shpakow

  • First Claim

    Luke Short

  • Hardcase

    Luke Short

  • A Bouquet of Thorns

    John Sherwood

  • Midnight Lightning

    Kevin Sherrill

  • Death's Caravan

    Jon Sharpe

  • Brothers in Battle

    Con Sellers

  • The Dauntless Miss Wingrave

    Amanda Scott

    Love is a secret weapon when a defiant beauty battles a domineering lord LADY VS. LORD Miss Emily Wingrave thought she knew exactly what she was getting into when she set out to defy the Earl of Meriden. She was well aware that Meriden was as ...

  • Off to School!

    Ann Schweninger

  • The Vampire

    Lester L. Schulman

  • Sophisticated Lady

    Candace Schuler

    She planned to show him what passion was all about On the surface, Samantha Spencer was the Sophisticated Lady, the embodiment of Gavino's exclusive new line of cosmetics. Cool and glamorous, she was exactly Nick Gavino's style. But first impressi...

  • Long Shadows

    Susan Saxton

  • Blind Chance

    Meryl Sawyer

    Every woman wants to be a star. Living every woman's fantasy, Alexa MacKenzie was catapulted into the glamorous international entertainment world. Featured in the film of her own best-selling novel, she never suspected that the one nude scene she...

  • Red Gunship

    Julian Jay Savarinn

    From the alleys of Berlin to battle-torn Afghanistan, two of the world's greatest chopper pilots race toward a terrifying aerial confrontation miles above the mountains of Nepal. Two men, one British and one Russian, use the most advanced equipment t...

  • Kate's Crush

    Susan Saunders

  • The Invincible Viscount

    Irene Saunders

    A YOUNG BEAUTY MUST OPEN THE EYES OF A LORD WHO IS BLIND TO LOVE Young Lady Francine Giles had known Lord Julian Whitehead for as long as she could recall. She and the handsome Viscount had grown up on neighboring estates, shared youthful games an...

  • Miss Lizzie

    Walter Satterthwait

    When her neighbor is brutally hacked to death, the infamous Lizze Borden becomes the prime suspect. In her search for the real killer, she uncovers not only the secrets that lie beneath the sleepy surface of a small seaside town, but finally the trut...

  • Forbidden Land

    William Sarabande

    THE SPELLBINDING EPIC ADVENTURE OF A TIME WHEN MANKIND TOOK ITS FIRST STEPS AND THE ICY WILDS CLAIMED THE EARTH Breathtaking, vivid, unforgettable--here is the third volume of the panoramic new series THE FIRST AMERICANS which began with Beyond th...

  • Happy Birthday, Dolores

    Barbara Samuels

  • Diary of an Affair

    Jeannie Sakol

    For DIARY OF AN AFFAIR, Jeannie Sakol uses an exciting cinematic approach. Reliving her own personal experience, she tells the story in a dramatic series of individual “scenes”. Each is told from the separate viewpoints of newly divorced Liza and...

  • Ten to Midnight

    Courtney Ryan

    Even though she's committed a major blunder, kidnapper-for-hire Stevie Knight is anything but sorry. Sweet hostage Mick Connover may be the wrong brother, but he's drop- dead gorgeous. First blindfolded, then kissed, then literally deserted by her, M...

  • Souls

    Joanna Russ
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  • Fallout

    Kenneth Royce

    An explosive secret about the Soviet space program lies deep in the mind of an amnesia escapee from a mental asylum, who roams the radioactive streets of Chernobyl while Soviet and British teams compete to catch him...

  • Pair of Hearts

    Myra Rowe

    THE WHEEL OF THE RIVERBOAT TURNED...AND CARRIED HER INTO THE DANGEROUS WATERS OF LOVE Beautiful Roxanne Willows sewed the gold she found on her stepfather's farm into her petticoats and bought a ticket on the Mississippi's most luxurious steamboat. ...

  • The Men Who Loved Evelyn Cotto

    Frank Ronan

    Was it any advantage to be loved by a man? This story tells of the loves of Evelyn Cotton, from the 1950s through to the 1970s, and their faults, though the man who chronicles her story loved her more than any of the others put together. This is the ...

  • Fears Point

    Michael Romkey

    Life is a struggle for Jonathan and Kelly Cain in Chicago until Jonathan's father, who abandoned him as an infant, wills him a Mississippi mansion called Fears Point, where the lifestyle is lavish but decidedly evil...

  • What I Have to Tell You

    Mary Elsie Robertson

  • Gabriel's Angel

    Nora Roberts

    ON THE RUN... No one was going to take her child away from her! Pregnant and alone, Laura Malone had been on the move for months. Finding herself snowbound with an angry, impatient Gabriel Bradley was not part of her plans. Gabe wanted to be a...

  • Brothers of the Gun

    J.R. Roberts

    It had been nigh on fifteen years since Clint Adams had seen his old friend Rick Hadley. But when a man you've called your blood brother since childhood asks for help, you don't turn your back. Especially not when he offers you a pretty square deal i...

  • Atlanta Run

    David Robbins

  • Heart in Hiding

    Emma Richmond

    The arrangement seemed ideal It would keep Verity in France until her next teaching course -- it would involve traveling to the pretty but remote village of Auray. Of course, her boss hadn't outlined the drawbacks of working for his friend...

  • Christopher's Story

    Elisabeth Reuter

    This picture book for young children tackles the subject of serious illness in children. Christopher has leukemia and needs special attention. His sister and some of his friends resent this attention until they learn more about his disease....

  • Death List

    Bill Reno

  • Bugg Bok Love Bugg

    Charles Reasoner

  • Promise of Summer

    Louisa Rawlings

    A rapturous story of a lovely young pickpocket in 18th century France who joins in a get-rich scheme and is swept up in danger, luxury, and perilous love. From the author of Stolen Spring and Forever Wild.

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  • New Stories from the South: The Year's Best 1989

    Shannon Ravenel

  • Millicent the Magnificent

    Candice Ransom

  • Everything Grows

    Raffi

  • American Spy Story

    Neal Quint

  • The Arizonans

    Bill Pronzini

  • More Wild Westerns

    Bill Pronzini

  • Interzone

    David Pringle

  • Amethyst Mist

    Fayrene Preston

    She was drenched, bruised, and utterly exquisite, with alabaster skin and eyes that glittered like amethyst--and Brady McCulloch drew her to him, determined to protect the woman from whatever had terrified her. But when she awakened to find her memor...

  • Rolling Harvey down the Hill

    Jack Prelutsky

  • Payback

    J.C. Pollock

  • Blessings

    Belva Plain

    At thirty-six Jennie Rakowsky's dreams were coming true. She was about to marry a wonderful man, her career as an attorney was skyrocketing, and she had never been more beautiful. And then the secret she had hidden for nineteen years threatened to sh...

  • The Republic Of Dreams

    Nelida Pinon

  • Sweet Bliss

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    Bliss Barton woke up with her first hangover -- and a half-naked hunk in her bed! Giving her s smile that would melt icebergs, Dutton McHugh found Bliss enchanting, a sleep-rumpled beauty with a halo of auburn curls -- and a feisty temper only he cou...

  • Triumph of the Night: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

    Robert S. Phillips

  • Street Killer

    Tom Philbin

    Four police officers-Joe Lawless, Barbara Babalino, Leo Grady, and Arnold Gertz-work to uphold the law at the tough Fifty-Third Precinct, a vicious, crime-ridden precinct that is the dumping ground for misfit police officers....

  • The Marquis of Bolibar

    Leo Perutz

    The brilliant Marquis engineers the fall of La Bisbal, a town fortified by German units of Napoleon's army, into the hands of a band of Spanish guerrillas, although no one knows his whereabouts or his real motive...

  • Blowout

    Don Pendleton

    OUT IN THE COLD Mack Bolan is on the avenging trail of a drug baron in Hamburg, when the sudden appearance of a big-time American syndicate hit man puts the Executioner on a lethal sidetrack. Evidence of a growing Mafia protection-extortion racket...

  • Haitian Hit

    Don Pendleton

    ISLAND HEAT Ravaged by years of tyranny, Haiti is a hellhole of poverty, disease and violence. The new ruling military junta plans to change that - with some assistance from the Mafia. The syndicate's proposed face-lift would turn the island into ...

  • Voices After Midnight

    Richard Peck

    Why is Chad so uneasy when his California family rents a town house in New York City? Once there he hears voices--late at night, after midnight in this strange house that's at least one hundred years old. Then he finds that his younger brother, Lu...

  • Night Rituals

    Gary Paulsen

    Right on the heels of his first adult novel (Murphy's Herd, a 1989 western, not reviewed) comes this skilled but derivative cops-vs.-serial-killer story from Paulsen, a prolific and two-time Newbery-winning children's author. Paulsen trumpets his new...

  • Miss Marjoribanks

    Margaret Oliphant / Margaret Wilson Oliphant

    Returning home to tend her widowed father Dr Marjoribanks, Lucilla soon launches herself into Carlingford society, aiming to raise the tone with her select Thursday evening parties. Optimistic, resourceful and blithely unimpeded by self-doubt, Lucill...

  • Love Finds a Home

    Janette Oke

    In Love Takes Wing, Belinda left her little prairie town, never dreaming that the excitement of living in Boston would leave her restless, lonely and empty inside. Wealth, literature, travel and romance touched her life with choices and decisions tha...

  • Love Takes Wing

    Janette Oke

    In Stretching Her Wings, Did She Leave More Than Her Home and Family? Belinda Davis is restless. As her friends get married and have children of their own, she wonders what God has in store for her. Her life as a nurse seems dull and routine. She cr...

  • Seasons of the Heart

    Janette Oke

    Oke writes with a special feeling about her characters and their time, reminding us of those family values that we hold dear. This heartwarming collection of four novels is a wonderful series of stories about an American family on the prairies of yes...

  • Pirate's Princess

    Constance O'Banyon

    A MAN'S PROMISE Ever since he'd been a boy of eleven, Captain Cord Meredith had kept his vow to his father that he would protect and defend little Jahane Beaudette, exiled princess of the island kingdom of Balmarhea. The rugged, seafaring Cord had...

  • Imperial Lady: A Fantasy of Han China

    Andre Norton

  • Moon Mirror

    Andre Norton

    A magical anthology of tales follows the lives and fortunes of a young girl learning to accept her psychic powers, an elderly seamstress with an extraordinary talent, a wizard's apprentice who possesses a single spell to stop evil, and other unusual ...

  • Wizards' Worlds

    Andre Norton

    For more than four decades Andre Norton has captivated millions of readers all over the world with tales of fantastical creatures, breath-taking adventures, and worlds of stunning wonder. Called "the Grande Dame of science fiction" by Life magazine a...

  • Pitcairn's Island

    Charles Nordhoff

    "A ""superb story of adventure and conflict"" (Saturday Review), Pitcairn''s Island follows the mutineers of the Bounty as they take refuge on the loneliest island in the Pacific.
    In the annals of seafaring there is no more fascinating account of...

  • On the Road

    Paul Nichols

  • Patience Is a Virtue

    Judith Nelson

    Forever at odds -- and forever in love... It was an all-out war from the first between the Marquess of Hamperson and his newly inherited ward, Patience Witherton. She was proud, high-spirited -- anything but patient. And she vowed to safeguard h...

  • The Love Conspiracy

    Susan Napier

    The uncertainty was unnerving Kathleen Kendon had cheerfully accepted her friend Todd's invitation to stay at the family home for the weekend - during which his Uncle Daniel was to announce his engagement. Only slowly did it dawn on Kat that s...

  • Speak, Memory

    Vladimir Nabokov

    Speak, Memory, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including Lolita, Pnin, Despai...

  • The Noose of Time

    Stephen Murray

    Schoolmaster Justin Hamilton is murdered by hanging, the victim of Emma, forced to abort his child to save his reputation; her jealous brother; a fellow teacher envious of Hamilton's youth and good looks; or his greedy half-sister...

  • Island Turmoil

    Annabel Murray

    Christos was part of her past His forbidding brother Dimitri had seen to it that Chryssanti's case of puppy love for Christos went nowhere. Now, however, on Chryssanti's return to Greece, Christos was showing a renewed but unwanted interest in ...

  • Hammer of Mars

    M.S. Murdock

    Reeling from a series of embarrassing defeats at the hands of Buck Rogers and the NEO freedom fighters, RAM unleashes its formidable powers. Knowing that he has no chance unaided against the corporate empire, Buck sets off in search of allies from th...

  • White Moon

    Vella Munn

    WHITE MOON WAS A PROMISE Lynn Walker was a championship barrel rider without a horse-her dream just out of reach. Bryan Stone had watched Lynn grow to womanhood. He understood her spirit and strength and knew she was destined for one thing--glo...

  • Tangled Webs

    Steve Mudd

    Wake up. You're living in .. . A GALAXY OF TYRANTS Adjudicator Umberto Phillips i$ one third of Sector 7's ruling Triune, and part of the Interstellar Union's innermost power elite. Or so he thinks. Then, one night on frontier world Landfall II, ...

  • A Little Bit Country

    Peggy Moreland

    HOME ON THE RANGE Seth Dandridge knew city slicker Roxanne Classen was trouble the moment he saw her coming toward his farmhouse. Was this well-dressed state representative a threat to his request for home schooling for his kids, or to his sanity?...

  • ORDINARY TIME

    A.G. Mojtabai

  • New at the Zoo

    Kees Moerbeek

  • Apache Junction

    Hank Mitchum

    Death rode the trail to Apache Junction as the embittered warrior Chago led renegade raids against the white-eyes stage line. From nearby Fort McDowell soldiers scoured the countryside for Chago, but the Army post was undermanned and riven with disse...

  • Movement

    Valerie Miner

    This novel in stories tracks ten years in the life of Susan, a journalist and feminist, during a time of transition in America Susan is an activist. And yet, though her political ideals form the center of her life, she questions her convictions. At...

  • Trespassing

    Valerie Miner

    A collection of stories touching on the lives and upbringing of women across the world, spanning Europe, America, Africa and Asia. The author is a political activist in America and her previous novels include "Movement", "Blood Sisters", "All Good wo...

  • Profane Men

    Rex Miller

    Sent into the Vietnamese jungle to destroy an outlaw radio station, a group of misfits and murderers faces even more danger when the mission is aborted and they are to be terminated with "friendly" fire...

  • Just Kate

    Linda Lael Miller

    TO LOVE AGAIN Kate Blake had decided to turn her life around. After dumping her useless fiance, she left her meddling family and her high-pressure job behind. Kate headed for Australia and freedom--and landed straight in the arms of powerful Sean ...

  • Star Struck

    Ann Miller

    Wealthy because of her inheritance of the Rigdon and Rigdon talent agency but haunted by her parent's murder/suicide, beautiful Brittany Rigdon attempts to rebuild the firm while dating an aggressive reporter only after her story...

  • The Sacred and the Profane

    William Michaels

  • Counting to Add: Math Workbook

    Ruth Merttens

  • War Birds

    R.M. Meluch

    I DON'T KNOW WHO WON THE BATTLE... I don't know who hit me or even if it was an intentional shot. There was no enemy-ship registering in that direction. I think it was a random hit. I thought my number was up, but I had an idea and anything was...

  • The Patron

    Trevor Meldal-Johnsen

  • Lady of Conquest

    Teresa Medeiros

    MORTAL ENEMIES, FATED LOVERS. Wielding a sword called Vengeance, Gelina O Monaghan could stand alone against the mightiest warriors of ancient Ireland-until she lost her heart to the one man she hated the most . . . Corm of the Hundred Battles,...

  • Ramsey's Luck

    Will McLennan

  • Woodrow's Trumpet

    Tim McLaurin

    The sleepy Southern town of Oak Hills, gradually transformed by the influx of new, younger residents, becomes the scene of a funny, tragic battle when long-time resident Woodrow Bunce refuses to conform to the town's new ordinances...

  • Return of a Hero

    Lindsay McKenna

    Marine captain Morgan Trayhern couldn't risk staying in the States, yet he didn't dare leave. Fragile, gutsy Laura Bennett had been injured saving his worthless skin, and a Trayhern never dodged duty. Despite the danger, he had to protect his sweet g...

  • Perfect Victim

    Christine McGuire

    “True crime at its most shocking, most harrowing, and . . . most thought-provoking.” -- Booklist

    In 1997 twenty-year-old Colleen Stan left home to hitchhike from Oregon to California. Seven years later she emerged from hell, the victim of...

  • Jason Cosmo

    Dan McGirt

    THE CASE OF MISTAKEN HEROICS Jason Cosmo is perfectly happy to be a woodcutter in the village of Hicksnittle until an inept bounty hunter claims Jason is the Mighty Champion and puts a price on his head--ten million crowns! Now Jason must escape a...

  • Goodbye Doesn't Mean Forever

    Lurlene McDaniel

    Jory Delaney has always had lots of money. But there's one thing she knows she cannot buy--and that's her best friend Melissa's life. Although Melissa's leukemia is in remission, it's hard for both girls to hold on to the possibility of a very bright...

  • Convoy East

    Philip McCutchan

    Charged with guiding a troop convoy through the war-torn Mediterranean, Commodore John Kemp finds his vessel under attack from German and Italian aircrafts and submarines and his ship's peace threatened by an unexpected cargo of Wrens...

  • St. George and the Dragon

    Geraldine McCaughrean

  • Only When She Cries

    Edward Mathis

  • Steele

    J.D. Masters

  • Go Away, Crows!

    Margo C. Mason

  • Good Dog, Rover

    Margo C. Mason

  • Winter Coats

    Margo C. Mason

  • Wager on Love

    Prudence Martin

    A HANDSOME RAKE MEETS HIS MATCH IN A LOVELY COUNTRY SPINSTER! A WAGER WON Only a rogue like Nicholas Ruxart would choose a bride on the basis of a careless wager. And only a rakehell like Nicholas would then fall in love with his betrothed'...

  • Hal's Own Murder Case

    Lee Martin

    On medical leave during the last month of her pregnancy, Deb, the mother of three adopted children, discovers that her teenage son, Hal, and his girfriend, Lorie, have hitchhiked to New Mexico for their spring break. Before Deb can locate the adventu...

  • Claudia and the Sad Good-bye

    Ann M. Martin

    Claudia has a sad good-bye to make. Her grandmother, Mimi, has just died. Claudia understands that Mimi was sick for a long time, but she's still mad at her grandmother for leaving her. Who will help Claudia with her homework... and share "special te...

  • Tourney Fever

    Kirk Marshall

    Finishing the season with an unbelievable 15-5 won-loss record, the Jefferson Patriots rank high as favorites in the State High School Tournament. Then disaster strikes -- Jeff Burgess, Brian Davis's experienced backup center, is laid up with a knee ...

  • Radio Daze

    Bevlyn Marshall

    Feminine, restrained Maggie Bloomer from Dixie was stunned to realize that infamously rude radio personality "Mad Dog" MacNair had flimflammed her into co-hosting his new show. And when macho Mac proved as sexy as he was insufferable; she was really ...

  • Fangs of the Hooded Demon

    Geoffrey L. Marsh

  • Gideon's Month

    J.J. Marric

    The month of May seemed to be starting quietly enough for Inspector Gideon of Scotland Yard. But no sooner had he begun to relax in the sunny weather than things started happening all over the great metropolis… From an army of children seemi...

  • Runaway Rabbit

    Ron Maris

  • You Don't Get a Carrot unless You're a Bunny

    Brian Mangas

  • Fortunes

    Jan Malcolm

  • The Courting of Philippa

    Anthea Malcolm

    ROMANTIC NONSENSE Miss Philippa was not the kind of young lady who spent her leisure embroidering or playing the pianoforte. Far from it; she was a very successful author of romantic novels. Thus she was chagrined to be snubbed by the handsome write...

  • Memory

    Margaret Mahy

    On the fifth anniversary of his older sister's death, nineteen-year-old Jonny Dart, troubled by feelings of guilt and an imperfect memory of the event, goes in search of the only other witness to the fatal accident and, through a chance meeting with ...

  • Fire Lance

    David Mace

  • The Courtyard

    Arkady Lvov

    THE COURTYARD Set in Stalinist Russia between 1936 and 1956, The Courtyard spans twenty of the most crucial years of Soviet history. In the southern city of Odessa, ten families share a common courtyard in a once grand but no...

  • The One and Only Anastasia

    Lois Lowry

  • A Dream of Old Leaves

    Bret Lott

    Bret Lott's powerful, insightful stories illuminate the everyday episodes that move us -- husbands and wives, parents and children, friends and neighhors -- along the intricate paths of intimacy. A little boy's first bad dream brings his father back ...

  • Slocum and the Plains Massacre

    Jake Logan

    THE PLAINS WERE WASHED IN BLOOD... A wagon train was wiped out -- and rigged by a mysterious party to look like an Indian massacre. Whoever's behind the bloody job left one young survivor -- and the kid's not talkin'. So Slocum brought the boy to ...

  • Masks of Rome

    Caroline Llewllyn

    THE FINE ART OF FORGERY EXPLODES INTO VIOLENCE DURING ROMAN CARNEVALE. At the end of an unhappy marriage, Kate Roy is falling in love with sun-warmed Rome. Her career as an art conservator is blossoming, and two exciting men are interested in her....

  • The Land of Our Dreams

    Nancy Livingston

    1989 St. Martins Press 1st American Edition hardcover with dust jacket as shown. Tight spine, clear, crisp pages, no writing, no tears, smoke free, light edgewear. Dust jacket shows wear/cuts/chips on corners/edges/spine. Fiction...

  • The Women's House

    Joan Lingard

    When a huge decrepit English house occupied by three close but different women is sold to a neighbor, who plans to turn it into a casino, a contest of wills ensues that joins the two camps in surprising ways...

  • Air Dancer

    Deanna Lindon

    For spirited flying ace Gypsy Gallagher, the sky's the limit. Painful memories of a fatal crash are her only worry; life is a carefree blessing. Until gorgeous reporter Keane McCready shows up. Assigned to cover her for his magazine, Keane is take...

  • Cyberstealth

    S.N. Lewitt

    CYBERSTEALTH PILOTS. THE BEST OF THE BREED. THE ONLY PROBLEM: ONE'S A TRAITOR ... Cargo's a down-and-dirty street kid with a crash-and-burn future--until the Bishop offers him a shot at the stars. A chance to fly a batwing, the ultimate in stealth...

  • One-Minute Jewish Stories

    Shari Lewis

  • Tumbling Ghosts

    Elizabeth Levy

  • World War II Codebreaker

    Peter Lerangis

  • Glade Manor Murder

    Elizabeth Lemarchand

    Superintendent Pollard must shatter the veneer of respectability surrounding members of an upper-class English family from the country, all prime suspects in the mysterious death of their long-time housekeeper. Glade Manor had been the home of the...

  • A Heroine of the World

    Tanith Lee

    "LIGHTNING STRIKES...." The fortune teller had spoken the words, shown her the cards that predicted she would become the focal point of great events. But now, a captive of those who had invaded her land, Ara could only wait, hoping to discover the t...

  • Nightwatch

    John Leax

  • Karatesaurus

    Robb Lawrence

  • Famous Americans

    Suzanne Lavert

  • Fast Hand

    Karl Lassister

  • Honor Bound

    Shirley Larson

    She was the same flame-haired spitfire At sweet sixteen she'd lived in half the fifty states, surviving on street smarts and a sense of humor that hid her vulnerability. Shelly Armstrong. Year ago. Justin Corbett had taught her everything -- every...

  • Casulties of War

    Adele Lang

  • Wind River

    Elizabeth Lane

    How Long could they deny their love? What Price Justice? Stella Brannon's expedition to Wyoming Territory turned into a nightmare when she accidentally killed a drunken intruder. Even jail couldn't protect a woman branded a wanton murderess fro...

  • Wildflower

    Jill Marie Landis

    True Love Blooms in the Wildest Hearts... DANI The spirited beauty with a heart of unsinkable courage ventured alone through the untamed Rocky Mountain wilderness of 1830. Dressed as a man, she duped unwanted attackers and survived the perils of ...

  • Quest for Apollo

    Michael Lahey

  • Far Forbidden Plains

    Christina Laffeaty

  • The Dissertation

    R.M. Koster

    This novel posing as a dissertation on León Fuertes, the fictional president of a made-up Banana Republic is “still fresh, funny, and disturbingly relevant” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   To fulfill his PhD requirement, Camilo Fuert...