Books Published in August 1990

New Books List: 463 titles

  • This Little Baby

    Tony Bradman

  • Snuggle Piggy and the Magic Vlanket

    Michele Stepto

    The creatures sewn onto Snuggle Piggy's magic blanket, who come alive at night and dance with him in the moonlight, are endangered one stormy night when the blanket is left outdoors after being washed....

  • Fox's Dream Sandcastle

    Keizaburo Tejima

  • The House That Jack Built

    Colin Hawkins

  • Garfield's Scary Tales

    Jim Kraft

  • Spook Dr Under Stairs

    Keith Moseley

  • Be Brave, Baby Rabbit

    Fran Manushkin

  • The Big Book of Monster Masks

    Angela Holroyd

  • The Uncertainty Principle

    Bruce Aidells

  • The Cat Who Lived High

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    The colorful Casablanca apartment building is in danger of demolition--but not if Jim Qwilleran can help it. He's determined to restore the building to its original grandeur So he- moves in with Koko and Yum Yum--and discovers that the Casablanca is ...

  • My Mother Got Married: And Other Disasters

    Barbara Park

    In this sequel to Don't Make Me Smile, Charlie Hickle's life has become a three-ring circus. Why did his mom have to get remarried anyway? He wants things back the way they used to be -- right now!...

  • The Yellow Button

    Anne Mazer

  • Appelard and Liverwurst

    Mercer Mayer

  • Curses! Broiled Again!

    Jan Harold Brunvand

    From the master folklorist and sly wit, Jan Brunvand, comes a collection of all-new urban legends. Did your cousin's wife's dentist's daughter go to the tanning parlor once too often and had her insides cooked? Has your husband's brother's nephew tea...

  • Mary Swann

    Carol Shields

    Mary Swann submitted a paper bag of poems to newspaper editor Frederic Cruzzi just hours before her husband hacked her to death. Who is Mary Swann and how could she have produced these works of genius? Four local characters, including the local libra...

  • Children of the Night

    Mercedes Lackey

    The Gypsy boy had asked for Di's help--called on her for magical assistance--and she could not refuse, especially after he was slain practically on her doorstep. But the vampire Di finds cradling the body isn't the killer--he's the Gypsies' protec...

  • Bear Hunt

    Anthony Browne

  • Nine Stories to Celebrate the Season: Precious Moments of Christmas

    Golden Books

  • Real Scoop

    Elle Wolfe

    When Cara Knowles, the editor of the sixth-grade class newspaper and an unmitigated gossip, stonewalls Quinn McNair from reporting for the rag, Quinn starts her own underground paper, but her hot lead story could hurt a close friend...

  • The Kahlil Gibran Engagement Calendar for 1991

    Sail Magazine

  • The Spitfire

    Bertrice Small

    THEY CAST THEIR DESTINIES TO THE WINDS OF DESIRE.... The year is 1483. Beautiful Lady Arabella Grey, young cousin of England's King Richard III, glories in her betrothal to Sir Jasper Keane, protector of Greyfaire Keep, her ancestral home on the t...

  • The Defense

    Vladimir Nabokov

    Nabokov's third novel, The Luzhin Defense, is a chilling story of obsession and madness. As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive,  distracted, withdrawn, sullen--an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up ches...

  • After Dark, My Sweet

    Jim Thompson

    A classic crime novel about a kidnapping scheme gone wrong from Jim Thompson's, America's "Dimestore Dostoevsky." William "Kid" Collins was once a respected boxer. Now he's a drifter, on the run after escaping from a mental institution.One ...

  • Just Like Max

    Karen Ackerman

  • Hector and Prudence - All Aboard!

    Bruce Koscielniak

  • The Fox and the Kingfisher

    Judith Mellecker

  • Roses Have Thorns

    Betty Neels

    Sarah wasn't pleased to see Radolf Nauta again It was his fault she'd lost her job at the hospital and had been forced to look elsewhere for work. She hadn't expected to meet him in this new environment. Radolf was just the sort of...

  • Embers of the Heart

    Rosanne Bittner

    A Land Ravaged by War... A Woman Torn by Divided Passions For more than three long and lonely years, beautiful Anna Kelley waited... never knowing whether her beloved husband, Darryl, was dead or alive, wondering if the bloody Civil War that was d...

  • The Devil's Web

    Mary Balogh

    REKINDLED DESIRE The last time Madeline Raine had seen James Purnell, she had been but a chit of a girl, and at his mercy. Purnell had held her helpless in his arms - but protectively above the abyss of her own dangerous hunger for him. He had...

  • A Natural Attachment

    Katherine Kingsley

    THE SHOCKING LORD SEATON Miss Eliza Austerleigh was a retiring young lady, living quietly on her country estate. But she knew all too well what manner of man Lord Edward Seaton was. She had met Lord Edward only once, but that was enough to lear...

  • The Assassini

    Thomas Gifford

    It is 1982.  In the Vatican, priestly vultures gather around the dying Pope, whispering the names of possible successors.  In a forgotten monastery on Ireland's gale-swept coast, a dangerous document is hidden, waiting to be claim...

  • Threshold

    Janet Morris

    Joe South, a young test pilot heading home from a mission, awakens in his ship to discover that he has traveled five hundred years into the future and landed on the planet Threshold, where he soon finds himself embroiled in the dangerous, deceptive, ...

  • Little Hippo Starts School

    Maryann Macdonald

  • Great Russian Short Stories

    Norris Houghton

    From romanticism to realism, nineteenth-century Russian fiction gave the world masterworlds of the imagination from such authors as Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gorky, and Turgenev. This outstanding collection now allows readers to exp...

  • All About Football

    George Sullivan

    Explains the game of football, presenting its history and profiles of leading players....

  • A Tree Still Stands

    Yale Strom

  • Target

    Eric Helm

  • Pockets of Resistance

    Will Sundown

  • Back to 'nam

    Jack Buchanan

  • Scalpdancers

    Kerry Newcomb

    A BLACKFOOT SHAMAN Lost Eyes was abandoned by the spirits, derided by his people, and driven in shame from the village of the Scalpdancers. But then, lying near death, he heard the spirits speak. They gave him mysterious powers, revealed his new name...

  • Slocum Busts Out

    Jake Logan

  • The Deadly Stranger

    Will McLennan

  • Helldorado

    J.R. Roberts

    If there's one thing Clint Adams can't abide, it's cold-blooded killing. So when some greedy claim-jumper lays low his old mining pal in Nevada's bushwhacker territory, the Gunsmith vows to bring the scurvy vermin to justice. But that's not so eas...

  • King of the Mountain

    David Thompson

    For the first time in eBook the best-selling WILDERNESS series:King of the MountainNathaniel King left New York City in 1828 to venture into the vast, unexplored regions beyond the Mississippi because his uncle had promised to share with him the grea...

  • Summer of the Smoke

    Luke Short

  • Tarnished Badge

    Will Camp

  • Lone Star and the Bounty Hunters

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie's been cheated by a dirty dealer -- and now she's accused of murder in the ninety-seventh 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, and...

  • No Finger on the Trigger

    J.T. Edson

    When the Fuente brothers learned that Waxahachie Smith was investigating their criminal activities, they decided that drastic action was called for. As far as they were concerned, the best way to stop a Texas Ranger -- short of killing him -- was to ...

  • Longarm in the Osage Strip

    Tabor Evans

    THE WILDEST WEST OF ALL The Osage Strip is ten pounds of trouble in a five-pound sack. It's home to the exiled Indian Nation -- and a haven where outlaws can lie as low as a sidewinder's belly button. Now Longarm's had word that the Strip is harbo...

  • Sunset Pass

    Zane Grey

    Trueman Rock is a daring young cowboy and rider. Six years ago he had to leave the cowtown of Wagontongue because of a history of gunfights and run-ins with bad hombres. Since then, he''s become a man who only uses his gun when he needs to, on rus...

  • Sixgun Duo

    Ernest Haycox

  • The Barlow Brides

    Justin Ladd

  • All's Fair

    Donna Bell

    A Heart Torn Asunder by True Love... Five years after her debut, beautiful Lady Priscilla Calvert had cultivated a solid reputation -- as a flirtatious heartbreaker with a fiery temper no man had yet tamed. And though a string of bachelors compet...

  • The Frustrated Bridegroom

    Barbara Allister

    A QUESTION OF DUTY Emily Cheswick refused to believe her stepmother Lucretia when that spiteful lady said that Anthony Hawksleigh would never marry Emily. Lucretia declared that the handsome, wealthy Hawksleigh would want a mate far more dazzling ...

  • Passion's Prize

    Barbara Ankrum

    Rereleased as: Holt's Gamble Her fate was in the cards... Kierin McKendry was humiliated when the cold-hearted owner of her indenture papers used her as a tempting ante in a game of poker and lost her to a rugged, dark-haired stranger. But she ...

  • Beloved Savage

    Sandra Bishop

    SWEET SURRENDER Susannah Jacobs had learned to do anything to survive--even submit to the bronze-skinned warrior who now held her prisoner. Her powerfully built captor could try to make her his woman, but she vowed to deny him the pleasure of a re...

  • My Gallant Enemy

    Rexanne Becnel

    BY BATTLE OR SEDUCTION HE VOWED TO WIN HER Castle Orrick's massive gates swung open, and an arrogant knight rode into the royal home of Lady Lilliane, eldest daughter of Lord Barton. Coming to claim her was Corbett of Colchester, to whom she&#...

  • Scarlet Scandals

    Carol Budd

    She's fabulously rich. He's a high society gardener. They're about to discover passion--and danger--in their own backyard. Georgette Richards lived almost peacefully on Scarlet Street, San Francisco's exclusive enclave for the very rich and rather ec...

  • Wildfire

    Virginia Brown

    HOSTAGE TO PASSION With her big blue eyes and copper hair, young Jennifer Allison never knew how beautiful she was -- or how her beauty could kindle a man's passion. Until today. Today she is abducted from her sleepy Texas town by Kane Ransom,...

  • Ecstasy's Gamble

    Amy Christopher

    SHE WAS AT HIS MERCY -- It was sheer desperation that made Jessica Carlton try to cheat a man like Damien Trevor at cards. The raven-haired beauty needed the winnings to keep her greedy stepmother from selling her into a loveless marriage, but the ha...

  • Dream's Desire

    Gwen Cleary

    SHE CAPTURED HIS SOUL Captain Michael Domino had no room in his heart for any mistress but the sea. For years, he'd sailed his merchant ship along the California coast in search of the man who'd nearly destroyed him, and at last revenge was within h...

  • Heartland

    Rebecca Brandewyne

    He was notorious and dangerous... She was primly proper and beautiful... With his six-shooter slung low on his hips and his bold, lazy smile, Slade Maverick looked as if he were riding to a showdown. Rachel Wilder couldn't believe the famous guns...

  • Danner's Lady

    Nancy Bush

    Searching for her past, she rode into the Oregon wilderness...into the arms of a man she dared not love! As ravishing and wild as the magnificent Northwest Territory part-Indian healer Miracle Jones searched for the father she'd never known, c...

  • The Scandalous Lady Wright

    Marion Chesney

    Marriage to a loathsome brute was vile enough -- now she was accused of his murder! The ton regarded Sir Benjamine Wright with utmost honor and respect. Yet Lady Emma knew her husband was, in fact, a drunken, jealous brute who delighted in humili...

  • Quicksilver

    Sandra Dubay

    When China Clairmont met Gabriel St. Jon in the rose-scented twilight of her cousin's garden, no one could have guessed they'd known each other before, in what seemed like another lifetime. Then she had been a common serving girl, not a fine lady in ...

  • Glengarrick's Heir

    Katherine Flixton

    Bundled into a chaise with a cloak over her head, Elaine Fielding was enraged to find herself once again unwillingly in the company of Lord Spendale, the much-sought-after heir to the Earl of Glengarrick. Had he forgotten her furious slap when he kis...

  • Lady Maryann's Dilemma

    Karla Hocker

    A MATTER OF LOGIC Level-headed Lady Maryann Rivington had never seen a love match that didn't end in disaster. She was determined to wed for all the practical reasons -- lineage, security, and the comparatively exalted status of the married wo...

  • The Mistress of Moontide Manor

    Lee Karr

    "Go back! Go back before the tide turns!" A chilly winter mist rolled in from the ocean as Joellen James made her way along the boardwalk of Atlantic City, past darkened pleasure palaces and abandoned bath houses. Penniless and alone, Joellen was...

  • Cheyenne Sunrise

    Constance O'Banyon

    Alana Caldwell cursed the white blood that ran through her veins! The blue-eyed half-breed had known nothing but joy among the Cheyenne, but the white man had destroyed her way of life, and now the overbearing Captain Nicholas Ballinger had arrived t...

  • Wyoming Star

    Elisabeth MacDonald

    Ravishing and rebellious, she was born with the vision of her Indian ancestors -- and the power to live her dreams. In the untamed vastness of the west, she was destined to find love ... and the priceless gift of a noble people... Driven by a h...

  • Southern Nights

    Marcia Martin

    IT WAS EVERY WOMAN'S DREAM COME TRUE ... A dazzling inheritance. A sprawling family estate. And a seductive, irresistible man. Adopted at birth, Maggie Hastings knew nothing of her true family's past. Suddenly, she was heir to a fortune--the ma...

  • Kiss of Fire

    Wanda Owen

    SPIRITED FILLY Born and raised in backwoods Virginia, Tawny Blair knew that her dreams of being swept off her feet by a handsome nobleman would never come true. But when she met Lord Bart Montgomery, Tawny saw at once that reality could far surpas...

  • Denver

    Sara Orwig

    DENVER, the mile-high city where ambition soared to the sky and spread to the horizon, fed by a flood of gold and silver, and fueled by the power and passion of men and women who dared anything to gain everything. DENVER, where handsome and tough ...

  • Gold Coast

    Mary Pershall

    SUN-DRENCHED SCANDAL. LOVE-SCORCHED SECRETS. AND ONE WOMAN WHO DARED TO LIVE IT ALL ... Jessica Bellamy was a glamorous young lawyer--stunning, sophisticated and successful. Then she faced the biggest challenge of her career ... A worker's myst...

  • Gabrielle

    Leta Tegler

    TURNCOAT'S REWARD Headstrong Gabrielle St. Claire knew nothing of politics--until secret documents found in her possession falsely branded her a traitor to the Confederacy. Exiled from her New Orleans home, the pampered belle was furious to discov...

  • Wild Texas Promise

    Victoria Thompson

    SHE HATED THE RUDE GUNSLINGER ALL DAY -- BUT WANTED HIM ALL NIGHT... DEFIANT SPITFIRE Rugged Linc Scott had hired on at Eden Campbell's ranch to protect it from cattle-rustling landgrabbers, but he soon realized that Eden Campbell herself was hi...

  • Texas Dawn

    Vivian Vaughan

    Stella Duval stared at her Yankee captor with tears of joy sparkling in her emerald green eyes. The beautiful Texas blockade runner had often dreamed of seeing Captain Logan Cafferty again -- but not like this. In the glorious days before the war, th...

  • The Edge of Light

    Joan Wolf

    There once was a king's reign when England's fate was forever decided, when the Danes swooped in to conquer, and one splendid ruler stood between savagery and a glorious new dawn. The Edge of Light is the magnificent tale of those faraway times, of t...

  • Yellowstone Run

    David Robbins

  • Bloodchild

    Andrew Neiderman

    When their newly-adopted baby begins growing abnormally quickly and bearing two sharp little teeth, the Hamiltons are understandably perplexed, but only teenaged Colleen senses the evil that has arrived in their quiet little town...

  • Grim Reaper

    Duncan Long

  • The Eyes of Torie Webster

    Roy Sorrels

  • The Witch of Sixkill

    R. Karl Largent

  • Outbanker

    Timothy A. Madden

  • The Usurper

    Angus Wells

    Kedryn, the young prince prophesied the sacred Book of Kyrie, has led the Three Kingdoms to victory over the barbaric northern Hordes commanded by the demonic Taws, the fire-born Messenger of the war-god Ashar. But victory had a terrible price. Ke...

  • Triplet

    Timothy Zahn

    When a young researcher ventures through a mysterious planetary system, dangerous secrets come to light in this novel from a Hugo Award–winning author.  Grad student Danae Panya’s dream assignment has been approved. She’ll stud...

  • Hammer of the Sun

    Michael Scott Rohan

    IN A TIME BEFORE HISTORY -- IN A WORLD LONG FORGOTTEN Seven winters of peace have come and gone since fledgling mage and Mastersmith vanquished the Power that enslaved a lost city. But in a time of healing, seeds of disaster are nurtured in the ...

  • First Power Play

    John J. Miller

    As the New Earth Organization rebuilds an Earth A shattered by the Martian Wars, NEO sympathizer Kemal Gavilan receives a corpse and a cryptic message from the asteroids. The Mercurian prince sends master pirate Black Barney to find out what he can, ...

  • White Jenna

    Jane Yolen

    Nebula Award Finalist: A long-awaited savior joins forces with her dark twin to confront the evil threatening their land in the second book of the acclaimed epic fantasy the Great Alta Saga Grown to young womanhood in the mountain region of the Dales...

  • Awakening

    Yoshiyuki Tomino

    Gundam is to Japan what Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are to the United States--an animated television series that became a cultural phenomenon. If this novel is any indication, the primary appeal of Gundam lies in its warrior robot hardware, specific...

  • Dawn Song

    Sharon Green

  • Dragonwall

    Troy Denning
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The barbarian horde has breached the ancient Dragonwall and now threatens the oriental land of Shou Lung. Powerful as they are, the Shou army's only hope lies with Batu Min Ho, a young general who is himself a third generation descendant of Tuigan ba...

  • Fugue State // The Death of Dr. Island

    John M. Ford

  • The Shield of Time

    Poul Anderson

    Manse Everard is a man with a mission. As an Unattached Agent of the Time Patrol, he's to go anyplace --and anytime!--where humanity's transcendent future is threatened by the alteration of the past. This is Manse's profession, and his burden: for ho...

  • No Future for Dragons

    Gary Gentile

  • The Cleopatra Crisis

    Simon Hawke

    Cleopatra. Queen of the Nile ... mistress to Julius Caesar... lover of Marc Antony ... and terrorist saboteur? The Time Commandos travel to ancient Rome to unravel the mystery of a strange prophecy -- one that not only tells Caesar to -Beware the ...

  • Blood Siege

    G. Harry Stine

  • Viperhand

    Douglas Niles
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    TOTAL DESTRUCTION! Erix, the former slave girl, and Halloran, the legionnaire, flee from the waves of catastrophe sweeping Maztica. The God of War feasts upon chaos while the desperate lovers strive to escape from enemies on all sides. Finally ...

  • The Galactic Silver Star

    Kevin D. Randle

    DAVID STEVEN JEFFERSON IS NOT A HERO YET It had been his first combat mission. He was newly commissioned, untried--and frightened. Too frightened to say no when a gung-ho fellow officer proposed a plan of attack ...a plan that the young second lie...

  • Division of the Spoils

    Roland J. Green

    REBEL STRIKE Both Federation and Alliance forces had considered the resolution of the conflict on Victoria a diplomatic triumph. But now an unknown force struck a double blow, taking out an Alliance cruiser and then bringing down the ship which the F...

  • Island of Doctor Moreau

    Eric Vincent

  • Cimarron Glory

    Pepper Adams

    THE BOSS'S DAUGHTER Rancher Ross Forbes had paid his dues and now worked hard for the man who'd given him a second chance. But repaying that kindness didn't mean sharing stolen kisses with his boss's beautiful daughter. Though Ross longed to have ...

  • A Lady in Disguise

    Mellyora Ashley

    UNDREAMT-OF ADVENTURE Lady Briana Rosewynn secretly hoped to be the first in her village to encounter her reclusive new neighbor, the duke of Brocco. Instead, it was merely a handsome servant by the name of Darnier who came upon her in her favorit...

  • Playing by the Rules

    Connie Bennett

    Alex Devane He swore he'd never again carry a gun. The former police lieutenant had seen and done too much to ever want to be reassociated with violence .... Ivy Kincaid She helped make Alex see he would only be helping people by working to ...

  • Relentless

    Patt Bucheister

    The Irresistible Journalist... Women had always come easy to Nick Lyon, because he seemed not to need them -- but years ago he'd hurt Dionne Hart, and now he needed her help! Heiress to a great business empire, shed vanished from his life at the...

  • Talisman

    Laurien Berenson

    He was in the doghouse! As far as Kelly Ransome was concerned, she and Eric Devane had only one thing in common -- a very large, very playful Rottweiler puppy. Kelly had been hired by Eric to train his pooch, but she was beginning to think Er...

  • Humble Pie

    Pamela Browning

    SOMETHING BIG WAS AFOOT The news came rocketing out of the Cascade Mountains: Bigfoot lives. Anthropologist Anne Springer immediately raced to Shula, Washington -- where she was forced to share a wilderness guide with a researcher's nightmare....

  • Another Whirlwind Courtship

    Barbara Boswell

    TWICE SHY... After jilting the President's son, Chelsea Kincaid found herself on the run from the press and from the first family! Her only hope: formidable Cole Tremaine, who offered to hide her at his mountain estate. But independent Chelsea had...

  • Sheep's Clothing

    Kate Bradley

    INTIMATE STRANGERS A bullet-filled chase through the dark woods left investigative journalist Drew Carter injured and weak -- and convinced he'd died and to heaven when he awoke in a blond angel's isolated cabin. B Elizabeth Johnson was very rear ...

  • All We Know of Heaven

    Barbara Bretton

    THEIR FIRST MEETING WAS AT DEATH'S DOOR The bride who smiled at him from the white Rolls-Royce had the innocent face of an angel. Jack Flanagan stared, transfixed. In the next moment, the car burst into angry red flames. Jack pulled her from th...

  • Storm Warning

    Kathryn Brocato

    SHELTER FROM THE STORM Devon Rayburn had always been strictly off limits Though his tall, muscular build and sunstreaked hair had warmed the hearts of every red-blooded girl in Winnie, Texas, Devon had been spoken for. Until now Gospel singer V...

  • Change of Pace

    Sharon Brondos

    ROUGH AROUND THE EDGES She was the daughter of a Georgia senator, under doctor's orders to take a break from the hectic pace of Washington's political whirl. When Police Chief Sam Cassidy first saw the long-legged blond sitting in his offi...

  • Guests of the Emperor

    Janice Young Brooks

    SURVIVAL TRIUMPHANT Privileged and innocent, they thought they were protected from the ravages of the Second World War. But when Singapore fell early to the Japanese, there was no escape, and hundreds of British and American women were sent to an ...

  • Twice in a Blue Moon

    Dixie Browning

    MR. AUGUST Name: Tucker Owen Address: The wrong side of town. Marital status: Bachelor-and proud of it! Future plans: to remain single, especially since his childhood sweetheart ran off to marry another man. Years had passed since town ...

  • The Morgan Women

    Beverly Byrne

    An assortment of dynamic, willful characters ranging from noble to despicable render Byrne's ( A Matter of Time ) latest novel a satisfying tale about two generations of a Boston doctor's family. Emma, wife of gynecologist Joshua Morgan, finds the le...

  • Virgin Territory

    Suzanne Carey

    SHOULD SHE OR SHOULDN'T SHE? It was every man's nightmare . . . and it was coming true for hard-hitting newspaper columnist Phil Catterini. Lovely Crista O'Malley wanted him to change her status as the last virgin in Chicago, and if he didn't hono...

  • Frontier Rogue

    Carolyn Chase

    Thirteen Colonies: New York Charity Jane Carpenter, a golden-blond beauty with striking blue eyes, knows she is fully capable of running the Niagara fur-trading business she will some day inherit from her father. But Thorn Durham has his doubts. T...

  • Silent Enchantment

    Lacey Dancer

    LADY OF THE MIST When Atlanta executive Alex Kane bought a cottage in the backwoods of Georgia, he hoped the solitude would restore his health. He never expected to encounter country splendors that would heal his heart. She first appeared in a ...

  • A Sparrow Falls

    Marion Smith Collins

    IN A DIFFERENT LIFE, THEY WOULD NEVER HAVE MET. BUT IN 1942, THEY ARE BOUND BY WAR - AND BY THE MEN THEY BID GOOD-BYE.... During World War II, and elegant Seattle hotel became the residence for Navy families whose men were fighting in the Pacific...

  • A Little Inconvenience

    Judy Christenberry

    The War Was On It was not the type of story Elizabeth Broadhurst usually covered, but when the call came from her editor, she couldn't say no. Wealthy entrepreneur Jason Harmon had been secretive and camera shy for ten years. Now that he had agr...

  • The Heart Mender

    Kathleen Creighton

    DAMSEL IN DISTRESS Jenna McBride needed rescuing, and Reno was her knight in shining armor. Well, make that a defender in black leather, riding a motorcycle instead of a white stallion. Jenna was mesmerized by this dangerous man. He was everything...

  • A Country Chit

    Emily Dalton

    THE battle of the century concluded on the field of love "Kitty" Whitchurch was the epitome of a high-spirited young filly whose energy and independence constantly provoked the upper ten thousand. Despite her extreme reluctance, Kitty ...

  • Two for the Price of One

    Madelyn Dohrn

    Growing up in foster homes, Courtney Hughes learned two important lessons: don't let anyone push you around, and don't risk leaving another child in the same predicament. That ruled out men and motherhood -- making money would have to do. The...

  • Choices of the Heart

    Barbara Faith

    As miles of track unfurled behind her, Susan Alexander looked forward to the warm, remote haven of the Mexican mountains. Alone, afraid, and as vulnerable as a woman could be, she would surely find shelter there. Indeed, fate put a handsome strang...

  • Prairie Cry

    Dawn Flindt

    In a windswept, forsaken corner of the world, Hayden Conover forged an uneasy alliance with Tomara Metcalf. He didn't know her, didn't trust her, but he had to work with her long enough to bring her murderous relatives to justice. Then he'd put the f...

  • Make Room for Daddy

    Andrea Edwards

    Overworked and once burned by love, dyed-in-the-wool romantic Kelly Farrell had become the neighborhood matchmaker rather than seek a man of her own. She promptly checked out all newcomers for her deserving friends, and strong, silent Ben Peterson, c...

  • Earthbound

    Rebecca Flanders

    She wanted him body and soul For the first time in her vagabond life, Maggie Castle had a real home. It was her dream come true -- a stately brick Victorian with hardwood floors, paneled walls and fireplaces that begged her to curl up in front of ...

  • Hidden Messages

    Regan Forest

    Bewitched, bewildered...and lied to! When Laurie MacDonald saw the Loch Ness monster, she thought she'd discovered Scotland's greatest mystery--until she met Eric Sinclair. Park Gypsy, part rogue, all sex appeal, he evoked a wild and primitive res...

  • The Devil and Ms. Moody

    Suzanne Forster

    The Mysterious Outlaw... Raw physical power had never appealed to Edwina Moody -- until she was mesmerized by the man in black leather known as Diablo! Hired to find the missing heir to a fortune, she'd followed his trail to Blackie's Bar, w...

  • Free to Dream

    Janet Franklin

    TIME FOR LOVING How could Andrea MacLarson survive the four weeks of unscheduled time her late aunt's bequest of a mountain hideaway required? The driven accountant never expected to last more than a couple of days at the isolated ski resort.....

  • Between Two Moons

    Eve Gladstone

    The lion and the lamb Thirty-one years old and already president of Lambs, the most fashionable woman's specialty store in Manhattan, Kelly Aldrich has it all -- until her store is sold to the notorious Campbell brothers. For the first time...

  • The Golden Raintree

    Suzanne Simmons Guntrum

    A CENTURY OF AMERICAN ROMANCE Innocence cloaked the sleepy Indiana town where Christine Brick enjoyed girlhood. The Quaker farm girl knew sun-dappled afternoons sitting under the Golden Raintree dreaming of James Warren, all-American boy. It was a...

  • Broken Blossom

    Jennifer Greene

    SECOND CHANCES Kelsey Whitfield needed someone she could trust, someone who could help her find the daughter she'd lost so long ago. That was all she wanted from life -- a chance to make up in some small way for the mistakes she'd make in the pas...

  • Reilly's Return

    Tami Hoag

    The Sexiest Man on Earth... The fan magazines called Pat Reilly the Hunk from Down Under, the man-of-action movie star who made strong women tremble, but young widow Jayne Jordan had fled Hollywood--and the attraction that burned between her and her...

  • Firefly

    Stef Ann Holm

    WILD LAND -- WILD LOVE To lovely young Kristianna, the virgin land of the Wisconsin Territory was ripe for the plow; she and the other Swedish immigrants had worked hard to carve homesteads out of the vast wilderness, and they saw nothing wrong in c...

  • The Turquoise Heart

    Ellen James

    A man of mystery in a land of mystery! Annie Brooke had never met anyone like Derrek F. Richards. With his forthright ways, his easygoing charm, she found him as unfamiliar and exciting as the New Mexico landscape. Annie had come to Santa Fe to r...

  • Golden Paradise

    Susan Johnson

    A woman unlike any other The Countess Lisaveta Lazaroff seemed to fear nothing--not war, not marauding bandits, certainly not the scandalized whispers of polite society. And from the first, Prince Stefan Bariatinsky was fascinated by her beguiling...

  • Falcon's Cry

    Leona Karr

    In the wilderness, the most dangerous predator is man Home to the majestic peregrine falcon, the San Juan Mountains were an idyllic backdrop for blossoming love. But aerie warden Corey McCalley sensed a strange tension in Ross Sinclair that kept h...

  • Night Spice

    Karen Keast

    Rori Kelsey's sultry voice made "Night Spice" the hottest radio show in steamy New Orleans, but her on-air sizzle was a sham compared to her unnaturally chaste existence. And now even her professional success had soured: menacing poison-pen letters w...

  • Wanted: the Perfect Man

    Terry Lawrence

    Rebel in a Three-Piece Suit... Steve Rousseau was a real Prince Charming who offered Cally Baldwin a drink, a steak, and understanding immediately after shed dumped the latest jerk in her life--too bad she'd decided at that moment to give up men!...

  • Promise of Marriage

    Kristina Logan

    WEDDING BELL BLUES Whoever said opposites attract must have been talking about Kate Marlowe and Barrett Fox. Her life's work was bringing people together, and his was tearing them apart. The pretty wedding consultant and the sexy divorce lawyer sh...

  • The Waylaid Heart

    Holly Newman

    A loving heart cannot be deceived Although her marriage to Mr. Waddley had been passionless, the beautiful widow Cecilia vowed to unmask the man responsible for her husband's untimely demise. Suspecting that the culprit traveled in society circles...

  • Laughter on the Wind

    Bay Matthews

    Rambler's Rest was home to Molly O'Connor--even the plantation's ghosts felt like family. Nearly destitute, she'd risk anything to stay on--anything--including marriage to her dangerously sensual stepbrother... . The sweet irony was not lost on cy...

  • Always

    Jo Morrison

    A woman for all seasons Jodi and Tanner had been lovers for eight summers. And Tanner had spent eight lonely winters hoping she'd come back and stay on the farm--to no avail. Now all he wanted was to forget her... and Lara Jamison was just the one...

  • Maggie's Man

    Jackie Merritt

    BATTLE OF WILLS The Holloway ranch was cattle land. Always had been. Always would be. And nobody was going to tell Maggie Holloway any different - least of all Sloan Prescott. If he thought he could mosey in and let his sheep graze all over her pr...

  • Follow the Heart

    Anita Mills

    "Please, Adam -- give me this night to remember forever," Sarah pleaded. And she pulled his head down to hers, parting her lips eagerly beneath his... Sarah Spender could barely believe the good fortune that brought gallant and handsome Captain A...

  • Through the Looking Glass

    Joyce McGill

    WHO WAS LISA GILLETTE? Her best friend was dead--killed in a tragic automobile explosion intended for her. And now time was running out for orphan Lisa Gillette, who was haunted by shadowy images of a childhood she couldn't remember. She had to pi...

  • Invitation to a Wedding

    Helen R. Myers

    MYSTERY MAN Workaholic Blair Lawrence would have done anything to avoid attending her brother's wedding with a blind date set up by Mom--even go so far as to invite as her escort the gentle, serious man who watered her company's plants. But what w...

  • The Eagle of Solamenza

    Annabel Murray

    It would be difficult to conceal her identity. Yet Diana found when she went to Italy in search of her adopted Cousin Julia, that it was necessary. Conte Giacomo Ortoni's contempt for English girls was plain -- and probably extended to those from...

  • Connal

    Diana Palmer

    SHY BRIDE... Penelope Mathews had spent her entire adolescence worshipping the elusive C.C. Tremayne - from afar. Until one night, trying to protect the mysterious loner from his once yearly bender before he landed in a Mexican jail, Pepi was forc...

  • Preston Harper, M.D.

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    The Brash Baby Doctor... Handsome pediatrician Preston Harper wanted a baby, but not a wife--until delicious, distracting Dinah Bradshaw appeared in his office carrying Jenny, the child who'd made her an instant mom! He'd carefully mapped out his bu...

  • Through Thick and Thin

    Anne Peters

    WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH... Lisa Hanrahan was hardly what department store owner Daniel Jefferson Morgan, Jr., had expected. Why would anyone hire the pint-size ragamuffin as a security agent? From the moment she'd told him to get out of her way,...

  • Cajun Caress

    Ashland Price

    Shipping heiress Caroline Brenton was raised in Louisiana bayou country, far from the chaos of the rebellious colonies and close to her beloved Cajun traditions. But when she used the family business to smuggle weapons to the revolutionaries, she put...

  • The Promise

    Fayrene Preston

    The Ruthless Son of a Powerful Dynasty... Conall Deverell was stunned by Sharon Graham's demand: that he honor a promise made by his grandfather to her great-aunt--and that the favor she wanted was that he make her pregnant! Ten years before, he'd...

  • The Man in Lower Ten

    Mary Roberts Rinehart

    Angel or Demon? The first time Lawrence Blakely saw Alison West was in a photo. Her face was angelic, her eyes shining, her lips softly smiling. The next time he saw her was on an express racing through the night. She was the same girl -- yet t...

  • The Best of Friends

    Alexandra Sellers

    PARTNERS IN CRIME Solving yesterday's crimes was her specialty, but now reporter Lou Patch had a modern-day mystery on her hands. Somebody she cared about -- a good girl who'd gotten mixed up with the wrong crowd -- was missing, and Lou had to f...

  • Trophies

    Ainslie Sheridan

  • The Miss and the Maverick

    DeLoras Scott

    A tempestuous alliance. Carrie O'Brian was not a thief. After all, the wagonload of goods she taken from two-timing Steven Bishop had been bought with her money. Why then did the disreputable-looking Luke Savage have to be her only hope of ...

  • Silver Caress

    Charlotte Simms

    INNOCENT IN AN UNTAMED LAND Orphaned Felicity Howard's life changed forever the day she stepped off the train in Silverton, Colorado. Her strict convent upbringing had not prepared the Philadelphia beauty for the sights that greeted her eyes -- pr...

  • The Lemon Cake

    Judith Stafford

    Magic and mischief had come to Town! NO wonder she insisted on serving the lemon cake! Who ever heard of firing off four young ladies in one Season? The prospect did nothing to dim Lady Jeffrey's indomitable spirit and unflagging optimism. ...

  • Jade's Passion

    Laura Taylor

    FIRE AND ICE Jade Howell had struggled to make her dream of a center for homeless children become a reality. There wasn't room in her life for a man--especially Reed Townsend, the virile construction foreman she secretly found irresistible. From t...

  • Tides of Splendor

    Luanne Walden

    One brief encounter with handsome, enigmatic Devlin Cauldwell was enough to leave Kyra Raybourne with haunting memories. Ravishingly beautiful Kyra never expected to see him again. Yet, months later in Georgia, fate brings them together! His myste...

  • Stormy Weather

    Irma Walker

    On a dark and stormy night.... Stormy Todd found herself out in the cold. Unfairly evicted from her home, she did what a mother had to do--secretly installed herself and her kids at the beach house of her landlord, real estate developer Guy Harris...

  • Small Town Girls

    Pamela Wallace

    Bright, powerful, and accomplished, Kate, Val, Barbara, and Shelly live in a world of film industry soirees, parties on Malibu Beach, and European tours--until a twenty-year-old secret returns to haunt them. Reprint....

  • Starlight, Star Bright

    Kelly Walsh

    A case of divided loyalties Miami marketing researcher Ivy Austin had her hands full caring for her late husband's daughter, her widowed father and her high-spirited brother, Scott. But family-oriented Ivy wouldn't have had it any other way. S...

  • The Arrogant Lord Alistair // A Woman of Little Importance

    Sheila Walsh (1)

    A bold beauty gives an overbearing lord a lesson in manners -- and love. The Outrageous Upstart Miss Charity Wynyate had little more than nerve on her side when she appeared at the doorstep of Ashbourne House. Yet she demanded that the haughty ...

  • A Summer Kind of Love

    Shannon Waverly

    Would past secrets keep them apart? Joanna Ingalls had planned a quiet summer at the family cottage on Martha's Vineyard. She was emotionally drained after her husband's death and desperately needed some time alone with her live-year-old s...

  • Happy Medium

    Karen Toller Whittenburg

    CARLY ABBOTT COULDN'T RESIST A CHALLENGE Armed with only her boundless zest for life and her twenty-volume Mr. Fix-It Guide, Carly was looking forward to being owner/ manager of the ramshackle Winton Arms Apartments. She was charmed to hear abo...

  • After Hours

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    They were two of a kind Executive assistant Angie St. Clair knew the office gossips said she and her boss, Rhys Wakefield, were made for each other; they were both cold, intimidating workaholics. But Angie's impersonal facade was her only protecti...

  • Life Line

    Rebecca York

    Love eternal ... murder infernal There seemed to be something very odd about the Sterling Clinic ... and when her former patient died in an apparent suicide, psychologist Abby Franklin determined to find out what. Abby locked horns with the dea...

  • A Fete Worse Than Death

    Joyce Christmas

    A social climber scales her last ladder in this Lady Margaret Priam Mystery, where just before one of her own soirees, Lady Ross is unceremoniously strangled. A guest of the party herself, Lady Margaret Priam quietly figures things out on her own. Th...

  • A Clear Case of Murder

    Warwick Downing

    David Reddman, a new attorney with the National Association of Special Prosecutors, is called in to convict a vicious killer, despite the machinations of a crooked judge, a town's dark secrets, and someone who is out to stop Reddman for good...

  • The Arabian Pearl

    Marian J.A. Jackson

    Mystery Writers of America Presents Miss Abigail Patience Danforth's cross-country journey is interrupted by train robbers who steal Marshal Bill Tilghman's foundation sire, an Arabian priceless as a pearl. Fresh from her heady success at retrieving...

  • Ropedancer's Fall

    M.K. Lorens

    WINSTON MARLOWE SHERMAN... By day, he's a bulky, suede-elbowed Shakespeare professor with subversively nontraditional notions. By night, he hunches over his trusty, rusty old Underwood typewriter and secretly becomes Henrietta Slocum--a mystery nov...

  • Gideon's Power

    J.J. Marric

    Gideon is trapped. He was tracking down all the mysterious happenings—the frequent power failures, the raging factory fire that took lives, and the murdering of children. How could he solve them if he himself was caught in a mind-boggling tr...

  • Gideon's Sport

    J.J. Marric

    The trouble with horse racing is that some people bet on the outcome — and others try to control the outcome. Gideon receives a suspicious call from the police superintendent in charge of London''s toughest district. At first he believes it&...

  • Salmon in the Soup

    Meg O'Brien

    SHE'S ONE CRIME REPORTER WHO CAN HOLD HER OWN WITH ANY MAN. A SMART LADY IN A TOUGH BUSINESS. BUT THAT'S OKAY--SHE MEANS BUSINESS ...Mystery usually follows murder, but when Baby Cakes Sloan bites the bullet, everybody in Rochester already knows whod...

  • Follow That Blonde

    Joan Smith

    An artist targeted for death. An agent soon to be rich. A young woman caught in the middle. BEAUTY BLOOD. AND BULLETS... He looked just the way an artist is supposed to look. Eyes softly passionate, like black velvet. Hands long-fingered, lik...

  • The Man Who Tried to Get Away

    Reed Stephens

    Running away from yourself never works. You'll always catch up."Donaldson, at his trademark best, fleshes out the characters to the max...and it's all wrapped around a well-paced, cleverly-plotted mystery that will leave readers wanting more." --Char...

  • Interloper

    Richard Martin Stern

  • Bad Medicine

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    A child's death hits everyone hard, and Sparky Weed's parents blamed his physician, the beautiful Dr. Miranda Trobridge. From the start, attorney Charlie Moon sensed something sinister behind the malpractice case against her. A second untimely death ...

  • Survival in the Ashes

    William W. Johnstone

    HELL ON THREE SIDES Nuclear and germ warfare have reduced America's amber i waves of grain to a savage wasteland. Amid a world of smoldering ruin, few men have the awesome courage or specialized skills to fight back, to rebuild. Ben Raines, famed ...

  • I, Vampire

    Michael Romkey

    "WOMEN ARE MY WEAKNESS. Or to be more accurate, I should say they are my greatest weakness, for I have many. Travel. Books. Classical music. Art. Excellent wine. And, formerly, cocaine. I admit these things without a sense of guilt. I am, as my frie...

  • The Lost Years

    J.M. Dillard

    What exactly happened to the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise after the end of their five-year mission? How did that mission end? What did they do before they were reunited for the adventures captured in the STAR TREK movies? Even the casual STAR TREK f...

  • Down the Stream of Stars

    Jeffrey A. Carver

    INTO THE HEART OF THE GALAXY Willard Ruskin could never have foreseen the outcome when he engineered a supernova to create a gateway into the inner reaches of the galaxy. Ruskin gave his life in that project, but he would not be the last to die in...

  • Dead Man's Hand

    George R.R. Martin

    Chrysalis, the glass-skinned queen of the Joker underworld, has been found brutally murdered in her popular restaurant, the Crystal Palace. Now two men are out to find her killer: Jay Ackroyd, the Ace private investigator who discovered her ruined bo...

  • Gossamer Axe

    Gael Baudino

    BAND OF WONDER A doorway between worlds opened, releasing Christa, her harp--and her quest. Imprisoned for centuries, she had escaped from the faery Sidh and the musician Orfide, weavers of spells and schemes. But the doorway had shut too quickly, l...

  • Son of the Hero

    Rick Shelley

    THE BUFFER ZONE That was what they called the seven kingdoms that stood between the mortals' world of Earth and the realm of the immortal elves. When Gil Tyner planned to celebrate his twenty-first birthday with his parents, he didn't have the faint...

  • The Valhalla Testament

    Jon Land

    THREAT In Nicaragua, a devious conspiracy is gathering its forces. The deaths of a few are merely the prelude to the annihilation of millions. Into the middle of this maelstrom walks an unsuspecting American named Jamie Skylar. TOTAL DESTRUCTION ...

  • Crackdown

    Bernard Cornwell

    Drug pirates stalk their victims in the treacherous waters of the Bahamas, then return to their fortress island of Murder Cay like primal sharks after a kill. Then comes skipper Nicholas Breakspear with the son and daughter of a U.S. senator. What sh...

  • Statute of Limitations

    John Buckley

    Blackmailed by his drug-running former roommate, a presidential speechwriter faces a series of events--complicated by his CIA operative father and a dimwitted Senator--that threaten both his career and the administration for which he works...

  • Down River

    Stephen Gallagher

    JOHNNY MAYS, IMAGINE THE MORAL CONSCIENCE OF A SELFISH CHILD IN THE FRAME OF A PLAIN -- CLOTHES COP. THE CITY: HIS PLAYGROUND. WE, THE CITY-DWELLERS, HIS TOYS. AND JOHNNY NEVER HAD A TOY HE DIDN’T BREAK. But now Johnny’s dead, isn’t her? ...

  • Curse the Darkness

    Lesley Grant-Adamson

  • Freeze Frame

    Marjorie Dorner

    On sabbatical in England, college professor Beth Conroy unwittingly snaps a picture of the infamous Cambridgeshire Strangler just as he approaches his latest victim and suddenly becomes next on his list. Reprint....

  • Haunts

    John Douglas

  • Still Among the Living

    Zachary Klein

    The first book in Zachary Klein's acclaimed Matt Jacob series, named a New York Times Notable Book, STILL AMONG THE LIVING introduces the unforgettable private eye in a case that stays with you after you turn the last page.Boston P.I. Matt Jacob has ...

  • Home Secretary Will See You Now

    Graham Ison

    Detective Chief Superintendent John Gaffney of Scotland Yard's Special Branch investigates the murder of Elizabeth Lavery, wife of a British cabinet minister, and learns that she posed a threat to a politician, a peer of the realm, and several crimin...

  • Getaway Blues

    William Murray

    Recovering from a long streak of bets on horses that couldn't lose but did, Shifty Lou Anderson is more than happy to augment his meager income by playing part-time chauffeur to an elderly oddball millionaire--especially since most of the driving tak...

  • Memories of Midnight

    Sidney Sheldon

    Set in London and Greece, this is the sequel to Sidney Sheldon's The Other Side of Midnight....

  • The Girl with Red Suspenders

    Barbara Whitehead