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New Books List: 424 titles

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • American Spy Story

    Neal Quint

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 Arizonans

    Bill Pronzini

  • Atlanta Run

    David Robbins

  • Baba

    Tanya Shpakow

  • 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 ...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Best Friends Get Better

    Sandy Asher

  • 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...

  • 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 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 ...

  • Black Moon

    Alison Drake

  • Black Watch

    Ernest K. Gann

  • Blackberry Ramble

    Thacher Hurd

  • Blanco

    Allen Wier

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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 ...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Bugg Bok Love Bugg

    Charles Reasoner

  • The Cage

    S.M. Stirling; Shirley Meier

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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, ...

  • The Case of the Crying Clown

    Laura Lee Hope

  • Casulties of War

    Adele Lang

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Cobweb Curtain

    Jenny Koralek

  • Codename: Ice Man

    Ned Bannister

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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 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

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Death

    Bill Buford

  • Death List

    Bill Reno

  • Death's Caravan

    Jon Sharpe

  • 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!...

  • 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

  • Dragon Fall

    Lee Hindle

  • 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...

  • Dying Breath

    Robert W. Walker

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • Everything Grows

    Raffi

  • Explorations

    William Butler Yeats / W.B. Yeats

  • Eyes in the Fire

    Deborah Grabien

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • Fast Hand

    Karl Lassister

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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&...

  • Fire Lance

    David Mace

  • First Claim

    Luke Short

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Fortunes

    Jan Malcolm

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 Gathering of Heroes

    Paul Edwin Zimmer

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Go Away, Crows!

    Margo C. Mason

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • The Green Leaves of Summer

    Ted Willis

  • 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 ...

  • 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 Halflife

    Sharon Webb

  • Halloween

    Caroline Feller Bauer

  • 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...

  • Happy Birthday, Dolores

    Barbara Samuels

  • Happy Birthday, Mole And Troll

    Tony Johnston

  • Hardcase

    Luke Short

  • 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 ...

  • He Who Shapes, the Infinity Box

    Roger Zelazny

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Highway Warriors

    Bob Ham

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • Imperial Lady: A Fantasy of Han China

    Andre Norton

  • 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

  • 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...

  • The Invincible Viscount

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    Janet Evanovich

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    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

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    Michael Greatrex Coney

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    Cindy Holbrook

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    Peggy Moreland

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    Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

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    Wesley Ellis

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    Tabor Evans

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    Paul West

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    Bethany Campbell

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    Janette Oke

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