Books Published in August 1990

New Books List: 463 titles

  • 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...

  • The Endangered Mad

    Warner Books

  • 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, ...

  • 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...

  • Destiny's Lovers

    Flora Speer

    A fantasy-romance features a prisoner whose life is spared so that he can be used for eugenic purposes and who violates his orders by falling in love with a priestess who is supposed to remain a virgin. Original....

  • Blood Siege

    G. Harry Stine

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Fugue State // The Death of Dr. Island

    John M. Ford

  • 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...

  • Last Orders

    Brian W. Aldiss

  • Man-Kzin Wars III

    Larry Niven

    IT'S HOWLING TIME IN KNOWN SPACE Those war-crazed fur-balls from the planet Kzin just won't give up, even though the canny pseudo-pacifists from Planet Earth cut through the Kzinti like a laser through catmeat (once the humans rediscovered old tec...

  • No Future for Dragons

    Gary Gentile

  • 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...

  • X-Men Legends, Volume 2: Dark Phoenix Saga

    Chris Claremont

    Believe the hype: the Dark Phoenix saga is one of the greatest comics stories ever. Conceived by writer Chris Claremont and penciller John Byrne (credited as co-plotters, and aided immeasurably by inker Terry Austin), the story begins in The Uncanny ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • A Candidate for Murder

    Joan Lowery Nixon

    For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes A Candidate For Murder from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon.          A suspense novel set in the world of politics...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Curse the Darkness

    Lesley Grant-Adamson

  • Dick Tracy

    William Johnston

  • 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? ...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • The Girl with Red Suspenders

    Barbara Whitehead

  • Haunts

    John Douglas

  • Interloper

    Richard Martin Stern

  • 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...

  • Memories of Midnight

    Sidney Sheldon

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

  • The Orphan Soldier

    Ivan Ruff

    Given the task of setting up a network of spies for the West in Poland, British agent Lee Armor becomes trapped in a web of danger and deceit as he and Alice Lucas, the daughter of a British MP are pitchforked into a deadly battle for survival...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Zero Time

    Jack Anderson

    When Luke Cameron's father, who had been severely distraught at the loss of his ranch to a powerful corporation, is found murdered, Luke steps in to investigate and stumbles into the world of international terrorism...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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. ...

  • 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 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...

  • The Stolen Bride

    Jo Beverley

    Something is wrong. Lovely young lady Sophie Kyle fears her handsome fiance Lord Randal is having a change of heart about their upcoming marriage. Why else would the once notorious rake respond to Sophie's playful flirtations with a stuffy "B...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Saratoga Hexameter

    Stephen Dobyns

    The life of Charlie Bradshaw takes a literary turn when the private detective gets embroiled in three cases involving poetry. A colleague's death leads Charlie to a nursing home where a poem in iambic hexameter provides a clue to a series of mysterio...

  • 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 ...

  • 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&...

  • Sweet, Sweet Poison

    Kate Wilhelm

    The detectives. Charlie Meiklejohn and Constance Leidl were an unlikely pair of detectives. He was a former arson investigator, she was a psychologist. They had a knack for unraveling a mystery, and mystery always seemed to find its way to their door...

  • Blind Spot

    Randy Russell

  • Eat Your Poison, Dear

    James Howe

    Cafeteria food may be hazardous to your health. Poor Milo Groot -- he's sprawled on the cafeteria floor, his cracked glasses inches away from his white face. Could it be the apple chili dogs? Could it be poison? Kids at the middle school are dropping...

  • The Ghost on the Hill

    Grace MacCarone

    Whoo ooo oo The sky grew darker ... and darker ... and darker. The night animals began to stir. Whooo...whooo...whooo. The third-graders couldn't believe what they saw. There -- on top of the hill -- was a huge figure that stood as still as a s...

  • Going Wrong

    Ruth Rendell

    TILL DEATH DO US JOIN...Ever since they ran with the same London teenage gang Guy Curran has loved Leonora Chisholm passionately. He was a slum kid, and her parents lived in tasteful Kensington; she went to university while he made his jet-set fortun...

  • 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...

  • Long Shot

    Megan Stine

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Breaking Ice

    Terry McMillan

  • The General

    Bill Buford

  • Philadelphia Fire

    John Edgar Wideman

    One of John Wideman’s most ambitious and celebrated works, the lyrical masterpiece and PEN/Faulkner winner inspired by the 1985 police bombing of the West Philadelphia row house owned by black liberation group Move.In 1985, police bombed a West Phi...

  • Therapeutic Touch

    Janet MacRae

    A comprehensive instruction guide to the gentle, powerful, non-invasive healing technique being used increasingly both inside and outside the medical profession. Available to anyone searching to help others in pain....

  • Voyages Out 2: Lesbian Short Fiction

    Julie Blackwomon

  • The Animal Wife

    Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

    Set in prehistoric Siberia, a “psychologically acute and soaringly imaginative” novel by a New York Times"bestselling author (Publishers Weekly). In this novel by the author of Reindeer Moon, set in the Paleolithic age, Kori lives among his hun...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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&#...

  • Olivia and Jai

    Rebecca Ryman

    Headstrong young American Olivia O'Rouke--stifled by the restrictive British colonial society--finds forbidden romance and betrayal with Jai Raventhorne, the illegitimate half-caste son of an Englishman and a native Indian girl...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Scarlet Angel

    Elizabeth Thornton

    A CAPTIVE OF HIS DESIRES As the granddaughter of a highly placed French diplomat, Gabrielle de Brienne was a valuable political pawn. She was also the same Gabrielle who as a child had inadvertently taken from Cam Colburne, Duke of Dyson, the two ...

  • Shadows and Lace

    Teresa Medeiros

    PRISONER OF PASSION Rowena's drunken father wagered her life in a game of dice--and lost. Now, for one year, she must offer her services to the one man she feared most: Sir Gareth, the Dark Lord of Caerleon! More monster than man, Gareth had been ...

  • 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 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...

  • Tame the Fury

    Cait Logan

    An Uncompromising Woman No man could tame Rebecca Klein. She was as wild as the Washington outdoors - and unmistakably womanly in her beauty. Rebecca simply refused to be tied down like the other girls. An Unforgettable Man Matthew McKay was eve...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • The Wise Child

    Jessica Stirling

    Both Kirsty and Craig Nicholson sacrifice lovers to hold their marriage together for the sake of their crippled son. For a time all seems well until Kirsty seizes an opportunity to buy a small shop and makes a roaring success of her new career. Lonel...

  • 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...

  • Billy

    Whitley Strieber

    Imagine a horrifying glimpse into the dark soul of a psychopath. Imagine a mother and father who, in all likelihood, will never see their son again. Imagine a little boy’s terror after he is snatched from the safety of his home in the middle of t...

  • 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...

  • Children of the Knife

    Brad Strickland

  • The Devil's Coin

    Mark Manley

    A PRIZE FROM THE ATTIC There wasn’t all that much for Zac to do in the sleepy Wisconsin subdivision. The kids at school were cool, he guessed, but he didn’t like to hang around them on weekends. He much preferred messing around in his folks’...

  • The Eyes of Torie Webster

    Roy Sorrels

  • 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...

  • Island of Doctor Moreau

    Eric Vincent

  • The Jekyll Legacy

    Robert Bloch

    In a sequel to the classic "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," Hester Jekyll, the doctor's niece and heir, is suspected of murdering the missing doctor and is stalked by the police and a mysterious, misshapen man who may be a resurrected Edward Hyde...

  • Midsummer

    Matthew J. Costello

    When Alan Ward returns to Stoneywood with an infection that destroys one's body as well as one's soul, the pestilence spreads throughout the town, leaving a wake of evil that, if not stopped, will culminate at the midsummer carnival...

  • Monster of the Year

    Stephen Mooser

    The Creepy Creature Club has high hopes for electing one of their members, Melvin Purdy, to the office of school president, but Melvin's shyness may prevent him from giving the required campaign speech...

  • Othersyde

    J. Michael Straczynski

    Driven by his desire for revenge and empowered by the supernatural entity that calls itself the OtherSyde, Robert Obst, a dreamy reader of science fiction harrassed and tormented in school, sets out to hurt his enemies. Reprint....

  • Poison Pen

    James Kisner

    A SKEPTICS BOOK The folks at the séance hung on Tricia Mumford’s every word. They were believers. Everyone except Roger Kant: He was a skeptic. He didn’t believe in psychic phenomena, and he especially didn’t believe in Tricia Mumford, the ...

  • Scream Play

    Douglas Soesbe

  • See You Later

    Christopher Pike

    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Club -- now an original Netflix series!Mark has just fallen in love for the first time. The girl’s name is Becky and unfortunately for Mark, she already has a boyfriend. Mark tries his best...

  • Shaman Woods

    Morgan Fields

  • The Witch of Sixkill

    R. Karl Largent

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 Barlow Brides

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  • Baby Cougar

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  • Baby Duckbill

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  • Baby Grizzly

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  • Baby Stegosaurus

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  • Baby Triceratops

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  • Bear Hunt

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  • Blood on the Lotus

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  • Blueprints

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  • Boats, Boats, Boats

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