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New Books List: 424 titles

  • 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...

  • American Spy Story

    Neal Quint

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Worlds of the Federation

    Shane Johnson

  • 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...

  • Fire Lance

    David Mace

  • He Who Shapes, the Infinity Box

    Roger Zelazny

  • 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...

  • New Destinies, Volume VIII

    Jim Baen

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 Starwolves

    Thorarinn Gunnarsson

  • Steele

    J.D. Masters

  • 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 Time for Dragons

    Gary Gentile

  • 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...

  • War Day and the Journey Onward

    Whitley Strieber

  • Black Moon

    Alison Drake

  • 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...

  • Eyes in the Fire

    Deborah Grabien

  • Final Appeal

    Joanne Fluke

    JURY... JUDGE... EXECUTIONER... Michael Hart killed his wife--that was the jury's verdict. And for ten years, he's been locked away, balanced on the edge of insanity. Only now the nightmare seems over at last. He's escaped, holed up in a safe ho...

  • 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...

  • The Halflife

    Sharon Webb

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Murder in China

    Charlotte Epstein

  • 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...

  • Only When She Cries

    Edward Mathis

  • Payback

    J.C. Pollock

  • 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...

  • Playing for Keeps

    Jack Kendall

  • The Refuge

    Chaz Brenchley

  • 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...

  • Silver Bough

    Neil M. Gunn

    Archaeologist Simon Grant arrives in the Scottish Highlands to excavate a local burial cairn, hires a local simpleton to assist, and puzzles over the disappearance of the gold he discovers in the course of the dig...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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!...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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'...

  • 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...

  • All Our Tomorrows

    Ted Allbeury

    It could happened next year: as the politicians bickers, a neutral Britain’s decline accelerates into anarchy. The Prime Minister accepts the Russian offer to ‘help restore law and order.’ Faced with national breakdown he has no choice. Mill...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • General Murders

    Loren D. Estleman

    "With his usual knife-sharp prose in cutting form, Loren D. Estleman proves that he can carve a short story as cleanly as the full-length Amos Walker detective novels.Detroit''s favorite private investigator, Amos Walker, barrels through this collect...

  • 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 Mother Shadow

    Melodie Johnson Howe

    Maggie Hill just turned thirty-five and doesn't have much to show for it save a short-lived writing career and a broken marriage. Things don't get any better when her latest temporary employer, the wealthy Ellis Kenilworth, puts a bullet through his ...

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • The Old Silent

    Martha Grimes

    In the tenth murderous case for Richard Jury, the New Scotland Yard superintendent witnesses a killing in a West Yorkshire inn called the Old Silent, while his highborn , amateur colleague, Melrose Plant wishes to he could perform one as he drives hi...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Mystery Day

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Reader, I Murdered Him

    Jen Green

  • Skid

    Maud Farrell

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

    Robert S. Phillips

  • Death

    Bill Buford

  • Men

    Margaret Diehl

    Beautiful, talented Stella James explores the heady power of her own sexuality by seeking out anonymous sexual encounters. Though the men may long to see her again, by dawn Stella is always gone. She revels in the intensity and honesty of her encount...

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

    Shannon Ravenel

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Captive Innocent

    Allison Knight

    DECEPTIVE WITCH When Captain Quint McQuade first noticed the unescorted female aboard his ship, he guessed right away that she was a rejected mistress being banished from the colonies. And since the curvaceous beauty was certainly no virtuous maid, ...

  • 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...

  • The Falcon and the Flower

    Virginia Henley

    Promised to him in marriage, she vowed not to surrender her body or her soul. AN ANGEL WITH HELLFIRE IN HER HEART Astride her white palfrey, surrounded by a nimbus of silver-blonde hair, Jasmine was a vision to strike a man mute with desire. Bu...

  • 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...

  • Gently Love Beckons

    June Masters Bacher

    The sixth and final book in the Love's Soft Whisper series. June Masters Bacher takes you back to pioneer days in Gently Love Beckons. Courtney begins the journey to her childhood home back East in answer to a mysterious letter from her brother E...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • 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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  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Deadly Harvest

    Morgan Fields

    CHILDHOOD FEAR Nine-year-old Jodie McCullough knew there was something really scary in the quiet woods outside her Texas town. It was something that had nearly gotten her and two best friends; a living nightmare that their fathers didn’t believ...

  • Dragon Fall

    Lee Hindle

  • Dying Breath

    Robert W. Walker

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Sunglasses After Dark

    Nancy A. Collins

    Befriending the three members of a metal band, teenage loner Skinner is horrified to learn that Rend, Sunder, and Ripper are werewolves, eager to introduce him to their nightmarish world of murder, madness, and human flesh. Original....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Arizonans

    Bill Pronzini

  • 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...

  • Death List

    Bill Reno

  • Death's Caravan

    Jon Sharpe

  • First Claim

    Luke Short

  • 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...

  • Hardcase

    Luke Short

  • 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...

  • 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

  • Ramsey's Luck

    Will McLennan

  • 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...

  • The Seven Men at Mimbres Springs

    Will Henry

    This book is written by Will Henry. The best secret agent the South had was L L Henderson. She was also a beautiful woman and a counterspy for the Union army. Her men were dangerous hard cases: hired guns, drunks, drifters, a murderous freed slave an...

  • Shadow War

    Clay Dawson

  • 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 ...

  • Stringer on Pikes Peak

    Lou Cameron

    Even a newspaperman with Stringer MacKail’s brand of courage knows you can’t cover a stalemated miners’ strike without getting on somebody’s fightin’ side. But that won’t stop Stringer from trying to get some ink on the gold miners’ sit...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 Prizeâ€"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 “scenesâ€. 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