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New Books List: 424 titles

  • Atlanta Run

    David Robbins

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Law of the Lion

    Nick Carter

  • Mean Streets

    Dick Stivers

  • The Mind Invaders // The Archon Conspiracy

    Dave Hunt

    In a race against time, CIA agents and Soviet leaders scramble for the ultimate weapon...psychic power. Locked into the international intrigue is computer genius Ken Inman whose goal to contact mysterious entities turns into a nightmare when Archons ...

  • 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, ...

  • A Bouquet of Thorns

    John Sherwood

  • 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...

  • Final Scene

    Carolyn Keene

    When a handsome teen idol comes to Nancy's hometown, crime grabs the spotlight Film star Brady Armstrong is in River Heights for the premiere of his newest movie at the grand old Century Cinema. When Nancy's friend Bess decides to go backstage to ...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 Intruder

    Judy Baer

    Having made the big adjustment to life at Cedar River, Lexi Leighton thought her family had settled into a routine and life was normal again. She couldn't have been more wrong!

    Lexi senses that something's bothering her mother; she's so quiet a...

  • Nightwatch

    John Leax

  • Sadie Rose and the Cottonwood Creek Orphan

    Hilda Stahl

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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&...

  • Flawless

    Sara Craven

    Now, Carly thought, she'd get her revenge As a gawky, plain teenager, Carly has suffered bitter disillusion at the hands of Saul Kingsland. And she had waited for the right time. As an acknowledged beauty arid successful model now, Carly co...

  • Fortunes

    Jan Malcolm

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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?...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Melting Ice

    Rosalie Ash

    "Julius Korda is as cold as steel, as ascetic as a monk, and the only god he worships is the almighty dollar." From the moment they met, young, carefree, Victoria was infatuated with Julius. But Julius made it clear that as far as he was ...

  • Modern Women

    Ruth Harris

    Three spirited and ambitious women, representative of the changing times in which they came of age, reflect on the sexual, social, and economic liberation of the 1960s and their struggle for independence and self-fulfillment...

  • 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...

  • Mountain Lovesong

    Katherine Arthur

    It was a struggle she had to win! For Lauren, keeping her holiday lodge in California's Cascade Mountains a profitable business was becoming close to impossible. Yet somehow for her small son's sake she had to keep a roof over their heads....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Partners

    Carolyn Bransford

  • Partners in Passion

    Rosemary Carter

    Teri returned with such high hopes Lelaanie, her grandfather's cherished game park, was beset by problems. Her beloved grandfather had only a few weeks to live. And Rafe Matthias, his partner, was unwelcoming. Eight years ago when Teri left wit...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Sweet Illusion

    Angela Carson

    The job seemed an answer to prayer Nothing in Marion's previous experience, however, had prepared her for the extreme mental and physical pressure of working with the General Hospital's Flying Squad. And nothing had prepared her for Luk...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • The Ultimate Choice

    Emma Darcy

    She'd never run from anything before And Kelly wasn't about to start now. Horses were Kelly's life -- and when the sardonic new owner of Marian Park seemed set to ruin her career in show jumping, she was furious. More important, the...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Wild Passage

    Vanessa Grant

    Serena knew she was out of place A crew party was meant for those who were serious about sailing. All Serena really wanted was to absorb the atmosphere that had been her dead husband's dream. That is, until she met Neil Turner. She was stu...

  • 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...

  • A Little Class on Murder

    Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

    Invited to teach a class on mystery novels, offered for some strange reason in the journalism, rather than the English department of a local college, Annie finds that university politics become grist for the school's paper. Student editor Brad Kelly'...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • The Cage

    S.M. Stirling; Shirley Meier

  • A Gathering of Heroes

    Paul Edwin Zimmer

  • Great American Folklore: Legends, Tales, Ballads and Superstitions from All Across America

    Kemp Plummer Battle

    This compilation of more than 280 memorable tales from the American oral tradition features both popular and less-familiar folktales, legends, verses, ballads, superstitions, riddles, children's rhymes, ghost stories, and witty anecdotes...

  • 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...

  • Imperial Lady: A Fantasy of Han China

    Andre Norton

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Last Legends of Earth

    A.A. Attanasio

    Set in the artificial planetary system of Chalco-Doror, which is no more and no less than a vast cosmic machine, The Last Legends of Earth is a love story, a gripping saga of struggle against alien control, and an examination of the machinery of cr...

  • The Last Stand of the DNA Cowboys

    Mick Farren

    Minstrel Boy, Reave, and Billy Oblivion--the DNA Cowboys--find themselves plagued by their own problems as well as the nuisance of a barbarian horde bent on destroying what is left of the Damaged World...

  • 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......

  • Mermaid's Song

    Alida Van Gores

  • The Moon in Hiding

    Teresa Edgerton

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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,...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Quest for Apollo

    Michael Lahey

  • The Snake Oil Wars or Scheherazade Ginsberg Strikes Again

    Parke Godwin

  • Souls

    Joanna Russ
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  • Spells of Wonder

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Way of the Seeded Earth: Mythologies of the Primitive Planters

    Joseph Campbell

  • The Willow Garden

    Kathryn Grant

  • 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...

  • Acts of War

    Richard Holmes

    Through interviews, historical accounts, and numerous years of research, Richard Holmes examines the behavior of men in battle through the course of war.In this compelling attempt to explain the nature of war, the experience of a soldier during the d...

  • After the Rainbow

    Yvonne Kalman

  • The After-Dinner Game

    Malcolm Bradbury

  • Baba

    Tanya Shpakow

  • Bad Boris Goes to School

    Susie Jenkin-Pearce

  • Baseball Stories 1: Look Who's Playing First Base/Catcher with a Glass Arm/the Kid Who Only Hit Homers

    Matt Christopher

  • The Believers

    Rebecca C. Jones

    Unsatisfied with her mother's frequent absences from home and seeking love and security, Tibby believes she has found solace with members of a rigid fundamentalist sect, until a crisis forces her to make a difficult choice....

  • Best Friends Get Better

    Sandy Asher

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Black Watch

    Ernest K. Gann

  • Blackberry Ramble

    Thacher Hurd

  • Blanco

    Allen Wier

  • Brighten the Corner Where You Are

    Fred Chappell

    Brighten the Corner Where You Are is the riveting story of a day in the life of Joe Robert Kirkman, a North Carolina mountain schoolteacher, sly prankster, country philosopher, and family man. This novel from award-winning author Fred Chappell has wo...

  • Brothers in Battle

    Con Sellers

  • Bugg Bok Love Bugg

    Charles Reasoner

  • Calm At Sunset Calm At Dawn

    Paul Watkins

  • The Calvin Nullifier

    Gene DeWeese

    Dandelion, an intergalactic law-enforcement agent masquerading as an ordinary cat, joins forces with Calvin, his father, and his friend Kathy to repair malfunctions abroad an important space probe and to clear Calvin's father from suspicion of sabota...

  • The Case of the Crying Clown

    Laura Lee Hope

  • Casulties of War

    Adele Lang

  • Center Game

    Robert Andrews

    When the U.S. government refuses to believe data that reveal the secret build-up of Soviet weaponry, John Freeman, an analyst for a crack CIA unit, must venture into enemy territory to bring back the proof he needs...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • The Cobweb Curtain

    Jenny Koralek

  • Codename: Ice Man

    Ned Bannister

  • Cookie

    Todd Strasser

  • 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...

  • Counting to Add: Math Workbook

    Ruth Merttens

  • 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...

  • Crocodile Beat

    Gail Jorgensen

  • Dark Veil

    Nickolae Gerstner

    Certain that her scientist husband's suicide was actually murder, Madelon Farrell enlists the aid of a young boy with psychic powers claiming to have "witnessed" the crime, but even his powers are limited when someone begins stalking Madelon...

  • Dealers

    Gerald Cole

    A film tie-in of the film starring Paul McGann. A romantic drama with a contemporary city background, where Pascoe discovers he is merely another pawn in a game far bigger than any he could ever have imagined. The author's previous novelizations incl...

  • 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...

  • Disney Read Aloud Bambi

    Walt Disney

  • 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...

  • Dr.wooreddy's Prescrptn

    Colin Johnson

  • 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 ...

  • Dude Ranch

    Bonnie Bryant

    THE GIRLS OF PINE HOLLOW HIT THE SANTA FE TRAIL! The founders of the Saddle Club -- Stevie Lake, Carole Hanson, and Lisa Atwood -- gear up for the adventure of their lives when their friend Kate Devine invites them to her family's dude ranch. They wi...

  • 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 ...

  • Egg Drop Day

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Emma and Persuasion

    Roger Gard

  • Everything Grows

    Raffi

  • Explorations

    William Butler Yeats / W.B. Yeats

  • 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...

  • Famous Americans

    Suzanne Lavert

  • Fangs of the Hooded Demon

    Geoffrey L. Marsh

  • Far Forbidden Plains

    Christina Laffeaty

  • Fast Hand

    Karl Lassister

  • Garbage Juice for Breakfast

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    "Help Us Find Treasure" Dawn Bosco can't wait! Her camp counselor, Miss Perry, has just handed out clues for a treasure hunt. Dawn's itching to put on her Polka Dot Private Eye hat and find the hidden treasure. But her friend Lizzie Lee's hot on the ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Go Away, Crows!

    Margo C. Mason

  • Good Dog, Rover

    Margo C. Mason

  • Good Heavens! Andy Capp

    Reggie Smythe

  • 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...

  • Goodbye Emily, Hello

    Pat Derby

  • The Green Leaves of Summer

    Ted Willis

  • Halloween

    Caroline Feller Bauer

  • Happy Birthday, Dolores

    Barbara Samuels

  • Happy Birthday, Mole And Troll

    Tony Johnston

  • 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 ...

  • Highway Warriors

    Bob Ham

  • Houston, Houston, Do You Read?

    James Tiptree Jr.
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  • Hush, Money

    Jean Femling

    Concern for her injured ex-boyfriend motivates auto-insurance claims investigator "Moz" Brant to risk personal danger by checking out the suspicious circumstances under which a boat exploded, killing its "perfect" owner...

  • Illuminations

    Jonathan Hunt

  • 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...

  • Interzone

    David Pringle

  • Jane Eyre

    Susie Campbell

    This study is one of a specially developed series of critical essays on the major works of literature for use by students in universities, colleges and schools. This volume in the series provides close textual analysis of Charlotte Bronte's classic n...

  • The Jump-Off Creek

    Molly Gloss

    A widowed homesteader is determined to make a life in the unforgiving mountains of late 19th century Oregon in this “powerful novel of struggle and loss” (Dallas morning News).Acclaimed author Molly Gloss drew on pioneer diaries and old family st...

  • Junk in Space

    George Harrar

  • Karatesaurus

    Robb Lawrence

  • Kate's Crush

    Susan Saunders

  • 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 Kindness Cup

    Thea Astley

    The story of Taws, an Australian town about to celebrate its 20th anniversary. But one man is not about to celebrate. Returning from 15 years exile, he is intent on reminding the town of the brutal acts they perpetrated during their early years of se...

  • King's Day

    Aliki

    A day in the life of France's King Louis XIV, focusing on the elaborate ceremonies which took place when he dressed in the morning, ate his meals, conducted affairs of state, entertained, and finally, when he prepared to go to bed at night...

  • 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 Last of the California Girls

    Pamela Jekel

  • 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...

  • Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle

    Ellen Gilchrist

    Fiction from a National Book Award-winning author and “short-story writer of substantial gifts and reputation” (The New York Times).    From National Book Award Winner Ellen Gilchrist, a pillar of Southern literature hailed by...

  • Little Monsters

    B.B. Hiller

    A group of kids discovers that there really are monsters under the bed and that these creatures are busy playing video games, eating junk food, and getting into trouble for which children are invariably blamed...

  • 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...

  • Lone Tree

    Bruce Brown

  • Long Shadows

    Susan Saxton

  • 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....

  • Major Attraction

    Alison Blair