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New Books List: 424 titles

  • You Never Believe Me: And Other Stories

    Davis Grubb

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

    Brian Mangas

  • Year of the Zinc Penny

    Rick DeMarinis

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

  • Yea! Wildcats!

    John R. Tunis / John Roberts Tunis

  • Worse Than Death

    Thomas Bunn

  • Worlds of the Federation

    Shane Johnson

  • World War II Codebreaker

    Peter Lerangis

  • 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...

  • 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 Women's House

    Joan Lingard

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

  • Wizards' Worlds

    Andre Norton

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

  • The Wizard of Oz

    John Fricke

  • Winter Coats

    Margo C. Mason

  • 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...

  • 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 â€" currently hosting a summit of world leaders - James Bond is returned to active duty in the Royal Navy. Promoted from ...

  • The Willow Garden

    Kathryn Grant

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • The Wild Weasels

    Cat Branigan

    THERE WAS NO TERROR LIKE A SAMLAUNCH. THERE WAS NO VENGEANCE LIKE A WEASEL... Every pilot knew the NVA was building radar-guided SAM missile sites, but Washington prohibited any strikes until the death rockets were up and blowing American fliers to p...

  • 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...

  • Widows' Adventures

    Charles Dickinson

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

  • Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf

    Tony Bradman

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • What I Have to Tell You

    Mary Elsie Robertson

  • Whales

    Seymour Simon

  • Wee Sing Christmas Book

    Pamela Conn Beall

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

    Joseph Campbell

  • Waterdeep

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

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

  • War Day and the Journey Onward

    Whitley Strieber

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • Voices from Home

    Neil Caudle

  • Voices After Midnight

    Richard Peck

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

  • Vietnam Spook Show

    Wayne Care

    This novel of Vietnam Naval Intelligence is so authentic and revealing it required clearance by the National Security Agency. For Intelligence Officer Craig Nostrum, love for Vietnam is haunted by the constant destruction he sees around him. Then he ...

  • 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 Vampire

    Lester L. Schulman

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Unicorn Calendar

    Michael Hague

  • 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...

  • Tumbling Ghosts

    Elizabeth Levy

  • Trouble At Alcott School

    Dorothy Haas

    Peanut and Jilly to the rescue! Miss Kraft's class is in an uproar. First, Elvis's mice escape, and if that isn't bad enough, Erin loses her beautiful gold locket! Poor Erin -- she wasn't even supposed to be wearing it to school. But is it reall...

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

    Robert S. Phillips

  • Trespassing

    Valerie Miner

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Tourney Fever

    Kirk Marshall

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

  • Time-Out for Jessie

    Chris St. John

  • A Time for Dragons

    Gary Gentile

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • Thunder from Heaven

    Brian Kelleher

    The XF-86 Sabre jet. It was the most sophisticated air weapon ever developed -- or so America hoped as the nation faced the chilling dawn of the Cold War. But first it had to be tested... in the perilous New Mexico proving grounds of the new age of a...

  • 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...

  • Three-Legged Horse

    Ann Hood

  • The Three Sillies

    Kathryn Hewitt

  • Those Lake View Wives

    Charles Cohen

  • 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...

  • 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, ...

  • Tangents

    Greg Bear

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Summer Dance

    Elizabeth Bernard

  • Style #1

    Leila Bercier

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Street Killer

    Tom Philbin

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

  • The 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...

  • Steele

    J.D. Masters

  • The Starwolves

    Thorarinn Gunnarsson

  • 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...

  • St. George and the Dragon

    Geraldine McCaughrean

  • 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...

  • Spells of Wonder

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

  • Speak, Memory

    Vladimir Nabokov

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

  • 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....

  • Souls

    Joanna Russ
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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • The Snake Oil Wars or Scheherazade Ginsberg Strikes Again

    Parke Godwin

  • The Snail on the Slope

    Boris Natanovich Strugatskii

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

  • 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 ...

  • The Slasher

    Michael Collins

  • Skid

    Maud Farrell

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • Short Subject

    Binnie Kirshenbaum

  • 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...

  • Shadow War

    Clay Dawson

  • 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...

  • Seven in One Blow

    Freire Wright

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Scaredy Cat

    Virginia Vail

  • Saturday Cousins

    Rebecca Caudill

  • 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...

  • Sadie Rose and the Cottonwood Creek Orphan

    Hilda Stahl

  • The Sacred and the Profane

    William Michaels

  • A Rustle in the Grass

    Robin Hawdon

    ''A peculiarly fascinating story.''
    The Guardian''s Polly Toynbee

    Above ground the countryside stretches quietly, majestically beneath the changing skies. Peaceful and untroubled, far from the wars and woes of man, nature moves through her...

  • Runaway Rabbit

    Ron Maris

  • Rolling Harvey down the Hill

    Jack Prelutsky

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Republic Of Dreams

    Nelida Pinon

  • 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 ...

  • Remains to be Seen

    Roy Hart

  • The Refuge

    Chaz Brenchley

  • 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...

  • Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830

    Marie De Stendhal

  • Real Estate

    Jane DeLynn

    Jack, an East Village artist, hides from his failures in the expensive but empty upper West Side co-op of his lover Lorraine, whose ex-husband and daughter round out a cast searching for satisfaction in material wealth...

  • Reader, I Murdered Him

    Jen Green

  • Ravenmoon

    Peter Tremayne

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

  • Ramsey's Luck

    Will McLennan

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Quest for Apollo

    Michael Lahey

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.

    ...

  • Profane Men

    Rex Miller

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

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Playoff Pressure

    Mark Freeman

    Now that the regular season has ended, the playoffs begin, and the major-league teams are duking it out . Boston is aiming for a place at the top, but Chicago is coming on strong, and L.A. is a sure bet for the play-offs. No matter who wins, there's ...

  • Playing for Keeps

    Jack Kendall

  • 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...

  • Pitcairn's Island

    Charles Nordhoff

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

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Payback

    J.C. Pollock

  • The Patron

    Trevor Meldal-Johnsen

  • 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...

  • Partners in Passion

    Rosemary Carter

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  • Partners

    Carolyn Bransford

  • 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...

  • Pair of Hearts

    Myra Rowe

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  • The Organ Grinder's Monkey

    Richard Fliegel

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    A.G. Mojtabai

  • Only When She Cries

    Edward Mathis

  • One-Minute Jewish Stories

    Shari Lewis

  • One Step at a Time

    Deborah Kent

  • 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 ...

  • One Magic Box

    Roger Chouinard

    When one magic box falls from the sky, everyone is puzzled, including the four policemen who come to inspect it, the five big monsters who sit on it to see if it will hatch and the ten flying saucers that hover over it to take a peek....

  • The One and Only Anastasia

    Lois Lowry

  • On the Road

    Paul Nichols

  • 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...

  • Oklahoma Kiss

    Jean Haught

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    Ann Schweninger

  • Now That I Know

    Norma Klein

  • 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...

  • Nijinski

    Catherine Brighton

  • Nightwatch

    John Leax

  • Night Shadow

    Catherine Coulter

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  • Night Rituals

    Gary Paulsen

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

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    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...

  • The New Teacher

    Miriam Cohen

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

    Shannon Ravenel

  • New Destinies, Volume VIII

    Jim Baen

  • New at the Zoo

    Kees Moerbeek

  • A Name to Conjure With

    Donald Aamodt

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

  • The Mystery of the Plumed Serpent

    Barbara Brenner

  • Mystery Day

    Harriet Ziefert

  • My Brown Bear Barney

    Dorothy Butler

  • Murder in China

    Charlotte Epstein

  • 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...

  • Movement

    Valerie Miner

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

  • The Mountain Walks

    Roland J. Green

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • More Wild Westerns

    Bill Pronzini

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • The Moon in Hiding

    Teresa Edgerton

  • Monkey Bay

    Elaine Ford

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Miss Marjoribanks

    Margaret Oliphant / Margaret Wilson Oliphant

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

  • 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...