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New Books List: 424 titles

  • 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, ...

  • Skid

    Maud Farrell

  • The Arizonans

    Bill Pronzini

  • Style #1

    Leila Bercier

  • The Moon in Hiding

    Teresa Edgerton

  • 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...

  • Spells of Wonder

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

  • Ramsey's Luck

    Will McLennan

  • 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...

  • First Claim

    Luke Short

  • Hardcase

    Luke Short

  • Lone Star and the Diamond Swindlers

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki's search for gemstones leads straight into a trail of tombstones in the eighty-fifth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, a...

  • Longarm and the Rebel Killers

    Tabor Evans

  • Robbers' Roost

    Zane Grey

    A classic story of imperiled love on the western frontiers of nineteenth-century America.“He was a young man in years, but he had the hard face and eagle eye of one matured in experience of that wild country. He bestrode a superb bay horse, dusty a...

  • Across a Starlit Sea

    Rebecca Brandewyne

    SHE WAS CAUGHT IN A WHIRLWIND OF PASSION... TORN BETWEEN TWO MEN, TWO BROTHERS, AND TWO FATES As the wind tossed her tangled locks, Laura Prescott looked out into a future as bleak as the savage moors. The only daughter of a sea captain, Laura wa...

  • The First Rebellion

    Marion Chesney

    HIS KISS LEFT HER FLUSHED AND DISCONCERTED -- PERHAPS MEN WERE BEST AVOIDED AFTER ALL! The Earl of Tredair had his fill of balls, routs, and silly misses, and despaired of finding anyone out of the ordinary... Until he met Miss Fanny Waverley. ...

  • Restless Is the Wind

    Kimberly Cates

    HE HAD RENOUNCED ALL HOPE OF LOVE. SHE WOULD BRAVE ANY STORM TO POSSESS HIM. Lady Cecily Lansdowne was the exquisite jewel of London society, her violet-eyed grace acclaimed by the highest in the land. But it was Captain Ransom Tremayne who ignite...

  • Lady Sundown

    Nancy Bush

    IN A MAGNIFICENT NEW TERRITORY, SHE FOUGHT FOR HER INDEPENDENCE--AND WAS CAPTURED BY AN UNEXPECTED LOVE! As beautiful and reckless as the glorious Oregon wilderness, Lexie Danner was determined to claim the shining promise of her future. Not for h...

  • Renegade Hearts

    Carolyn Chase

    THIRTEEN COLONIES: Thirteen novels of sensual romance and breathtaking adventure about the men and women whose pioneering spirit forged this great American nation. BLAZE OF PASSION Alone and unprotected, beautiful Elizabeth Greening was forced ...

  • Oklahoma Kiss

    Jean Haught

    TOMBOY BEAUTY Expelled from finishing school, half-breed Blair Townsend made the most of her freedom by donning boy's clothes and riding hell-for-leather around her family's Oklahoma ranch. And when she came across what seemed to be one of the new s...

  • Night Shadow

    Catherine Coulter

    LOVES MAGIC COULD SAVE HER... OR DESTROY THEM BOTH! The brutal murder of her benefactor left Lily Tremaine penniless and responsible for the care of his three children. In desperation, she presented herself at the door of his cousin, Knight Winthr...

  • Walk in Beauty

    Sabina Grant

    WALK IN DANGER They were going West, the courageous young Elspeth and her beautiful but ailing married sister, leaving their civilized life in Boston for the uninhabited unknown. Elspeth told herself they were going for her sister's health, but when...

  • 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 ...

  • Scarlet Ribbons

    Judith E. French

    WHO WAS THIS HANDSOME SCOUNDREL...? The American Patriots knew Sarah Turner needed watching. Since her husband's disappearance she had been running King's Landing Inn, a known center of Tory plotting. Forest Irons, a magnetically handsome ...

  • The Willful Widow

    Pamela Frazier

    The world called him a traitor -- but her heart named him her own true love... Few were the tears shed by Lady Aurelia Vernon when her brutal husband met his match in a duel. Returning to her father's estate, the young widow put her brief marr...

  • The Devilish Marquis

    Karla Hocker

    The delectable tale of a playful rake, a clever miss...and a wicked game of hearts! "YOU'D THINK I WAS THE FIRST THE WAY YOU CARRY ON!" First, Nell Hetherington was rudely awakened in the middle of the night by an intruder looming over her bed!...

  • Lady Megan's Masquerade

    Cindy Holbrook

    MAN OF HONOR It was a point of honor with the Earl of Argyle never to take advantage of the "lower orders." The Earl was a rake--but a discriminating one, who only succumbed to the charms of his own kind. But there was something about his ne...

  • Moonlight Masquerade

    Michelle Kasey

    LOVEBOUND Beautiful young Christine Denham was on her way to her first London season when her coach overturned in a blizzard. When she recovered consciousness, she was lying in bed--and a man's hand was on her bare shoulder. Christine was in t...

  • Fallen Angel

    Catherine Hart

    The nuns called her Esperanza because her sweet face and ethereal beauty brought hope to all she knew. But no one at the secluded desert convent guessed that behind her angelic smile burned a hot flame of desire. Only one man could touch that smol...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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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  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Mean Streets

    Dick Stivers

  • Atlanta Run

    David Robbins

  • Dying Breath

    Robert W. Walker

  • Limbo System

    Rick Cook

    The demonic aliens had been trapped in a single planetless system for a million years. Now the Earthmen have uncorked the bottle......

  • Skeen's Leap

    Jo Clayton

    This fast-paced, gritty space adventure introduces the unforgettable Skeen, a hard-edged heroine and intergalactic thief trapped in an unknown universe.   Jo Clayton, creator of the popular Diadem Saga, introduces a delightfully unforgettable ne...

  • The Cage

    S.M. Stirling; Shirley Meier

  • War Day and the Journey Onward

    Whitley Strieber

  • 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 Name to Conjure With

    Donald Aamodt

    FROM PAPER-PUSHER TO GOD-STALKER Sandy MacGregor never asked to become a demon. But when a shifty sorcerer conjured him to the mystic realm of Zarathandra, he didn't have much choice. And in this world of high treachery and low wizardry, Sandy is ...

  • The Starwolves

    Thorarinn Gunnarsson

  • Petrogypsies

    Rory Harper

    In an alternate universe, organic, semi-sentient, alien engineered oil field drilling rigs roam the plains of Texas and the Southwest in search of petroleum. Petrogypsies is the first novel in Harper's series about the great drilling beast, Sprocket,...

  • The Planet of the Robot Slaves

    Harry Harrison

    A sequel to the author''s Bill, the Galactic Hero, published over 20 years ago, this book is the first of a new series of novels featuring Bill. With two right arms, an artificial foot, and a set of surgically implanted tusks, Bill sets out to fin...

  • Fire Lance

    David Mace

  • 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 ...

  • He Who Shapes, the Infinity Box

    Roger Zelazny

  • A Gathering of Heroes

    Paul Edwin Zimmer

  • A Time for Dragons

    Gary Gentile

  • 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...

  • Mixed Doubles

    Daniel Da Cruz

    UNFINISHED SYMPHONY In late 1990s California, Justin Pope had all the virtues needed for success: ambition, self-confidence, and not a little greed. All he lacked was talent, and that was never a problem -- he just stole the compositions of the long...

  • The Steerswoman

    Rosemary Kirstein

    Fascinated by the opalescent and perfectly smooth jewels--clearly no natural product--Rowan pursues the secret of their origin, a quest that leads her to secretive wizards who kill without compunction...

  • Quest for Apollo

    Michael Lahey

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Return Fire

    Charles Ingrid

    A GHOSTLY AVENGER is what Jack Storm is forced to become when Emperor Pepys betrays the Dominion Knights into an alliance with their long-time enemy, the alien Thraks. Convinced that the Thraks and not the mysterious invaders, the Ash-farel, are sti...

  • 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...

  • Kendermore

    Mary Kirchoff
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    THAT IRREPRESSIBLE KENDER Tasslehoff Burrfoot is snared by a lady bounty hunter, whose assignment it is to ensure the return of the light-fingered escape artist to his homeland. Beloved Uncle Trapspringer is being held prisoner by the venerable co...

  • Paper Stars

    Jo Ann Algermissen

    Lumberton's prodigal son, ruggedly handsome Duke Jones, was back, and residents were up in arms. Public opinion was clear: he was not welcome. Duke had tried to outrun his family reputation, but old memories died hard. The community outcry app...

  • Gale Force

    Jo Andrews

    LIKE A HURRICANE ... Jace Wyatt had learned the hard way to trust only himself. He was a loner who didn't believe in love, loyalty or forever. But when stubbornly optimistic Mattie Thornton offered him everything--no strings attached--he was tempt...

  • Something So Right

    Elizabeth August

    A MATTER OF TRUST Frank Davidson wasn't convinced that Laura Martin's brother had been framed for hijacking his trucks -- until Frank and Laura teamed up and caught the real culprits red-handed. He admired Laura's determination to brin...

  • When Fortune Smiles

    Sally Bradford

    Sharing rent was one thing Gretchen Batter was in dire financial need, so any roommate was a godsend. But when yuppie dentist Alex Carson moved in, lock, stock and jock equipment, she became suspicious. Obviously Arex didn't have to pinch pennies....

  • Beverly Hills

    Pat Booth

    Paula Hope arrives in Los Angeles, penniless and on the run from a violent and tragic past. Her great taste and style catch the eye of an international interior designer -- and her career and life seemed touched by the gods when she is asked to help...

  • The Princess and the Pauper

    Natalie Bishop

    One reckless teenage night, April Hollis tempted a boy from the wrong side of town, and it changed her life forever. Jesse Cawthorne was poor, but his kisses were rich with desire...April yielded her body, her soul -- and bore a child Jesse never kne...

  • Mother Knows Best // Sail Away

    Barbara Bretton

    DIANA'S LIFE WAS NEATLY PLANNED Author of the "Mother Knows Best" helpful-hints column, Diana Travis had a master plan: finish her book, lose ten pounds and on Labor Day begin hunting for Mr. Right. But Gull Cottage and twin toddler nieces were...

  • The Lost Moon Flower

    Bethany Campbell

    "Whitewater -- I want you." There. She'd uttered the words she'd sworn Aaron Whitewater would never have the satisfaction of hearing from her -- and she braced herself for a dose of his infuriating sense of humor. But once he re...

  • Race the Wind

    Noreen Brownlie

    THE FIRE INSIDE... Kali Rainwater didn't want to like devil-may-care Quinn Sullivan. He'd bought part of her land -- her legacy -- and though she'd needed the money, she simply didn't want to see the insufferable man again. But ...

  • Silver Swords

    Caryn Cameron

    "I Am Your Lord and Master Until Your Freedom's Bought..." Melanie McVey feared for her life from the moment she was kidnapped from her fiance's ship and held for ransom on a dreaded pirate island off the coast of Florida. But under the blazing ey...

  • Friends

    Stella Cameron

    FRIENDS ARE FOR KEEPS Tom, Shelly and Ben had been inseparable as children. Together they had survived all the terrors of growing up. Then they had become adults, and their friendship had faced a different challenge, their loyalties a tougher t...

  • Squeeze Play

    Anne Cavaliere

    DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER When sports psychologist Julia Archer signed on to help the sagging Boston Eagles baseball team, she never dreamed she'd be going to bat against the club's fiery manager. Not only was handsome Storm Donovan a natural a...

  • Fire in the Night

    Sara Chance

    Playing with Fire Detective Jon Kent was less than thrilled with his assignment to an arson case -- until he met his most promising lead, beautiful radio personality Tracy Michaels. Tracy fanned the fires of Jon's passion with a desire he couldn&...

  • The Snow Image

    Maggi Charles

    He'd pursued her through a raging blizzard, then served her vending-machine soup and his own brand of TLC in their motel shelter. Carla Logan knew then that snow would forever remind her of Jonas Davenport -- his dark good looks framed against a ...

  • Ecstasy's Masquerade

    Gwen Cleary

    HE WANTED NO PART OF HER... Hidden on a ship bound for the Montana territory, Elizabeth Hollis hoped she would finally find peace and freedom. However, when a mysterious, scheming young woman threatened to have the beautiful stowaway arrested unle...

  • Joker's Wild

    Sandra Chastain

    When her injured knee failed to heal,' Olympic, figure skater Allison Josey sought refuge in the Georgia home of her happiest childhood memories. Instead, she found Joker Vandergriff, a red-haired giant of a man who insisted on invading every part of...

  • Until October

    Margaret Chittenden

    He was a carefree fun-loving bachelor San Francisco chiropractor Nate Ludlow didn't believe in long-term relationships; thank you! Marriage was out of the question, and children made him positively nervous... Maddy Scott knew Nate's typ...

  • Ms. Maxwell and Son

    Toni Collins

    SPECIAL DELIVERY! Jack Spangler was a night owl and, snowstorm or no snowstorm, he didn't appreciate being interrupted in the middle of his work to take his pregnant -- and -- alone neighbor Katie Maxwell to the hospital. But off he went, sinc...

  • Thursday's Child

    Nancy Elliott

    Her guardian was no angel. Sheltered in a palace since birth, Elise St. James knew nothing of the world. Then political turmoil forced her to flee her home and she acquired a bodyguard -- one Logan Hunter, attorney by trade, adventurer by inclination...

  • Candle in the Window

    Suzanne Ellison

    She was a beacon in his dark life. Gary Reid was imprisoned in a notorious California correctional institution for a "crime" he refused to name as such. While working on a convict fire crew, he met Carly Winston, dedicated conservationist and fire fi...

  • Call Home the Heart

    Rebecca George

    Lovely eighteen-year-old Cassandra Harding and her soul-mate, Diccon, son of the Duchess of Stratford, vow to be together always. But the jealous Duchess has other plans for her son and arranges a marriage for Cassandra that will take her to America ...

  • Ivan Takes a Wife // Love Overboard

    Janet Evanovich

    Sinfully handsome schooner captain Ivan Rasmussen deserved to be called Ivan the Terrible, Stephanie Lowe decided. First he'd sold her a haunted house, and now he was laughing at her Calamity Jane cooking! She'd only agreed to work one voyage of his ...

  • Love Is a Gypsy

    Kerrie Gray

    SUMMER LOVE Spending the summer on picturesque St. Cecelia Island was not a vacation for ambitious Stephanie Morrison, but an opportunity to prove herself. She had planned on avoiding unnecessary distractions--like men and romance--until a disast...

  • Ben's Touch

    Carole Halston

    When Ellen Cumberland signed up for Ben Masters's summer class, she never dreamed she'd find the renowned potter so utterly irresistible. Brilliant, earthy, intense, sexy, he was every young girl's erotic fantasy in the flesh. But forty-y...

  • An Unmarried Man

    Sarah Hawkes

    She'd give him his just desserts Michelle Moens was a computer whiz, but men were a mystery to her. She couldn't fathom, for example, why the gorgeous and eligible Alex Lindfors would pretend her best friend--his sister--was his wife. Unless, of c...

  • Golden Threads

    Kay Hooper

    Imprisoned by fate -- and the FBI -- in a strange town with a new identity, Lara Mason longed to escape the painful memory of her father's murder. Playing Rapunzel in a local production would distract her, she hoped -- until broodingly sensual De...

  • Enemy Mine

    Kay Hooper

    DANGEROUS TERRITORY Tyler St. James was courting disaster when she teamed up with wily Kane Pendleton to hunt for the gold chalice. But being alone in the Colombian wilderness with a sniper on her tail made even a shaky truce with her fiercest ri...

  • Tigress

    Charlotte Hughes

    Caught in a freak snowstorm in the Carolina hills, Natalie Courtland was certain she'd freeze to death...until Nick Jordan came to the rescue and convinced her that Bigfoot had carried her off! Stranded in the woods with the ruggedly virile Nick,...

  • Buccaneer's Bride

    Jean Innes

    INFAMOUS SCOUNDREL As she stood at the bow of The Adventuress, Sarah Huxley wondered if she had made a terrible mistake. She had run away from an arranged marriage, leaving everything she had ever known, to seek a haven on a pirate ship. But even he...

  • Treasure Hunt

    Leona Karr

    Her father had left a puzzling legacy Linsey Deane was hit with some shocking revelations soon after her father's death. She learned that she and her two sisters had a brother they had never met. And that her father had left them a fortune in gold...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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'...

  • 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?...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Dead of Winter

    Michael Allegretto

    In frigid Denver, Lomax braves the mob to find a bookie’s missing daughterJoe Bellano never hurt nobody. A gentle barber who takes bets on the side, he’s muddling through life when his world comes crashing down around him. First heR...

  • A Series of Murders

    Simon Brett

    A SERIES OF MURDERS "AS AN ACTRESS, SIPPY STOKES WAS ABSOLUTE DEATH." From the vain leading man to the rock star making his acting debut to the aging writer whose books were being chopped to death on the set of the "Stanislas Braid" TV series, every...

  • The Mad Hatter Mystery

    John Dickson Carr

    A CAB-HORSE IN A BARRISTER'S WIG AND A CORPSE IN A TOP HAT The newspapers dubbed the thief the "Mad Hatter," and his outrageous pranks amused all London. But the laughter turned to horror when a corpse with a crossbow bolt through the...

  • The Silent Scream

    Michael Collins

    An odd gang of crooks hires Fortune to learn about a beautiful young woman.

    Most of Dan Fortune's customers are nervous. It takes fear to make normal people reach out to a private detective, and that is how he knows that his newest client, t...

  • The Slasher

    Michael Collins

  • The Hospitality of the House

    Doris Miles Disney

    Although they never met, Mandy O'Brien and Janet Avery had corresponded for years, but when Mandy finally does pay a visit, she is convinced that the entire Avery clan is plotting to kill Janet's grandmother--and her too...

  • The Organ Grinder's Monkey

    Richard Fliegel

    MURDER BEHIND THE BARS. EVEN FOR THE BRONX, IT'S INSANE... In the Allerton Avenue Precinct, homicide can mean plodding, patient police work, a slow sweaty routine. But serial murder is different. It's the crime longtime Sergeant Shelly Lowenkopf a...

  • Bodies Are Where You Find Them

    Brett Halliday

    A disappearing corpse draws Miami PI Mike Shayne into a deadly political conspiracy in this hardboiled mystery that inspired the film Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. A year after marrying the toughest PI in Miami, Phyllis Shayne longs for a few weeks alone wit...

  • Playing for Keeps

    Jack Kendall

  • 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...

  • Only When She Cries

    Edward Mathis

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • A Bouquet of Thorns

    John Sherwood

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Brain Fever

    Ron Dee

    Mirror image When Adam Reynolds woke up, he had no idea where he was. He didn't know the woman in bed beside him who kept calling him "Doug". And when he looked in the mirror, someone else's face was staring back at him... Living nightmare ...

  • Waterdeep

    Richard Awlinson
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Who will be the new gods? The God of Strife is dead, destroyed in his attack on Tantras, and Midnight and her allies have recovered the first Tablet of Fate--one of a pair of artifacts that will return the gods to their former glory and save the R...

  • 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...

  • Keeper of the City

    Diane Duane; Peter Morwood

    Under the careful guidance of the catlike mrem, the city of Niau has grown into a prosperous trading center. It lies, however, far to the east--on the very edge of the kingdom of Ar--ever vulnerable to invasion by the mrem's legendary enemies, the Ea...

  • Tower of Fear

    Glen Cook

    The Witch entered the temple as the men met. She gasped, unable to believe even now that she saw it. How had the man gotten through the citadel's defenses? What man could have earned such great power? Clouds of light and shadow contended. Larger t...

  • 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...

  • South Street Confidential

    Dick Belsky

    Stated First Edition. A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Soiling to the edges of the book's upper page block. Review copy with publisher's 8 1/2" x 11" folded letter laid in. Light wear to the letter's left edge....

  • The Refuge

    Chaz Brenchley

  • Coffin Underground

    Gwendoline Butler

    FOR THE TWISTED AND TALENTED, MURDER IS A GAME Scotland Yard Chief Superintendent John Coffin is properly skeptical of the evil reputation of the house at No. 22, Church Row. True, the house has seen violent death over the centuries. None of it...

  • The Dead Pull Hitter

    Alison Gordon

    For the first time in their history, the Toronto Titans are on a winning streak and headed for the World Series -- a dream come true for sports reporter and baseball fan Kate Henry. But when a pair of murders hits the team at its very heart, Kate fin...

  • Eyes in the Fire

    Deborah Grabien

  • Saint Valentines Night

    Andrew M. Greeley

    Top television investigative reporter Neal Connor finds romance and danger when he returns to his hometown of Chicago on assignment and reunites with his childhood sweetheart, the recent widow of his best friend...

  • Impact

    Stephen Greenleaf

    TOWER TO 617. YOU'RE OFF COURSE. RETURN TO ZERO ONE ZERO. INCREASE ALTITUDE TO THREE THOUSAND... TOWER TO SURFAIR. TOWER TO SURFAIR. WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED? LORD JESUS. I THINK THEY'RE DOWN.... With the crash of SurfAir 617 this powerful, brill...

  • Remains to be Seen

    Roy Hart

  • A Very Particular Murder

    S.T. Haymon

    Tiny Angleby was the site of a gathering of the world's greatest physicists celebrating the first man to advance the theory of a random universe. But it's a shame, muses Inspector Ben Jurnet, that the professor won't be able to enjoy the observance ...

  • Dead on Time

    H.R.F. Keating

    Dignified, hard-working Inspector Ghote, 'one of the great creations of detective fiction' (Alexander McCall Smith), is handed a case that has the potential to destroy his career in this classic mystery - with a brand-new introduction by bestselling ...

  • Katwalk

    Karen Kijewski

    Meet Kat Colorado, a thirty-something California PI. with nerves of steel and a passion for tipping the scales of justice in the right direction. Kat's friend Charity Collins dispenses hard-hitting advice in her syndicated column, "Consult Charity...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Payback

    J.C. Pollock

  • 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 Halflife

    Sharon Webb

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Clear and Present Danger

    Tom Clancy

    At what point does criminal activity threaten national security? When can a nation respond to it as to an enemy? These are the questions Jack Ryan must consider when he hears the awful news: Colombian drug lords, tired of being harassed by U.S. law...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Puzzle at Pineview School

    Carolyn Keene

    NANCY MATCHES WITS WITH THE GREAT PINEVIEW JEWEL THIEF With George as assistant coach, the all-girl Pineview soccer team has earned the right to compete for the prestigious Canadian Cup. But a valuable pair of brooches that were going to be sold t...

  • Year of the Zinc Penny

    Rick DeMarinis

    Now in paperback, The Year of the Zinc Penny is a contemporary classic. Trygve Soren Napoli is a ten-year-old just beginning to realize that he is alone in the world. Certain inescapable quirks tip him off: He cannot stop himself from repeating aloud...

  • Bad Boris Goes to School

    Susie Jenkin-Pearce

  • 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...

  • Interzone

    David Pringle

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Explorations

    William Butler Yeats / W.B. Yeats

  • The Great and Secret Show

    Clive Barker

    Armageddon begins with a murder in the Dead Letter Office in Omaha, Nebraska. A lake that has never existed falls from the clouds over Palomo Grove, California. Young passion blossoms, as the world withers with war The Great and Secret Show ...

  • Tangents

    Greg Bear

    A definitive overview of the work of a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author presents a selection of stories that includes the Hugo and Nebula-winning "Tangent" and "Blood Music," "Sisters," "Sleepside Story," and "Dead Run"...

  • Changing the Past

    Thomas Berger

    A novel of alternate realities from the Pulitzer Prize"nominated author: “Those willing to spend a few hours in his Twilight Zone will come away the richer” (Library Journal).   With a loving wife and son, a successful job as chief copy-ed...

  • Silver Wedding

    Maeve Binchy

    An occasion to celebrate, when Desmond and Deirdre Doyle must gather family and friends around them in remembrance of the twenty-five years of marriage they've shared. A moment of reckoning as an uneasy couple is forced to face a hapless daughter st...

  • A World of Difference

    Leona Blair

    On a bleak night in 1904, young Connor MacKenzie accompanies his mother to Brandon Hall, where she will be nurse to textile baron Rhys Brandon's motherless infant, Georgia. From the first, Connor's good looks and stubborn intelligence make him Brando...

  • In Memory of Angel Clare

    Christopher Bram

    The new novel by the bestselling author of Hold Tight, this brilliant comedy of manners set among a group of Manhattan sophisticates depicts the friends of a dead filmmaker trying to put their lives back together--a task made more arduous by the youn...

  • Bad Blood

    Anthony Bruno

    DEADLY RITUALS The young couple had been murdered with peculiar precision. .a single sword stroke that nearly cut their joined bodies in half. This bizarre homicide that crossed state lines led New York FBI agents Bert Gibbons and Mike Tozzi to a ...

  • Worse Than Death

    Thomas Bunn

  • Black Cherry Blues

    James Lee Burke

    Evil crept into Dave Robicheaux's bayou world one night and destroyed the woman he loved. Now it's threatening the life of his innocent child. Framed for murder, the Cajun ex-cop is traveling far from his Louisiana home to clear his name, to help a ...

  • Voices from Home

    Neil Caudle

  • Those Lake View Wives

    Charles Cohen

  • King of the Scepter'd Isle

    Michael Greatrex Coney

    A GNOME IN CAMELOT For the first time in remembered history, humans and Gnomes find themselves sharing the same Earth happentrack. But King Arthur has larger concerns as he watches the society he rules spiraling toward ultimate destruction. Little...

  • Killer's Wake

    Bernard Cornwell

    Despite the lure of the sea, the heir to an ancient earldom reluctantly returns to his British home to protect valuable paintings belonging to his family--a treasure that someone is willing to kill for...

  • A Gift of Life

    Henry Denker

    A meticulously researched medical novel set in a heart transplant center follows the decision-making process of a dedicated cardiologist who must choose between two very different heart recipient candidates...

  • Widows' Adventures

    Charles Dickinson

    Two widows take to the road across America in this ambitious novel by Charles Dickinson. Helene, who is blind, does the driving. Her sister, Ina, shows the way, and together they break free into the light they feared had gone out of their lives. They...

  • Self-Portrait of Someone Else

    Vincent Eaton

    Vincent Eaton's dark, angry and intense first novel uses police documents, psychological evaluations, interviews, straight narration and interior monologues to chronicle the self-destruction of Tim Buckles. At 28, Buckles appears at first to be leadi...

  • Murder in China

    Charlotte Epstein

  • Light

    Seymour Epstein

    George Light, the eponymous protagonist and narrator of Epstein's accomplished, thought-provoking novel, is appealing despite the faults he confesses to and reveals. George is a restless man whose career in TV has never had his full commitment. At 50...

  • Prince of the Blood

    Raymond E. Feist

    For twenty years, since the end of the Riftwar, the kingdom of Midkemia has enjoyed peace and tranquility. But now that-peace is suddenly in jeopardy. Prince Arutha, the heir apparent, has renounced his claim to the throne, and his twin sons, Borric ...

  • Monkey Bay

    Elaine Ford

  • The Wizard of Oz

    John Fricke

  • Black Watch

    Ernest K. Gann

  • Win, Lose or Die

    John E. Gardner

    When M receives word that a known terrorist organisation is planning to destroy a top-secret British Royal Navy aircraft carrier " currently hosting a summit of world leaders - James Bond is returned to active duty in the Royal Navy. Promoted from ...

  • Payment in Blood

    Elizabeth George

    The career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands when someone drives an eighteen-inch dirk through her neck. Called upon to investigate the case in a country where they have virtually no aut...