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New Books List: 492 titles

  • The Price of Paradise

    Kat Adams

    A MIRACLE MARRIAGE Confirmed bachelor Gibson Price-Murray had had it with his willful mother's never-ending crusade for an heir. He'd always balked at the thought of being married with children, but when he encountered the lovely Erin Holl...

  • I.O.U.

    Nicholas Adams

  • Heart of Darkness

    Richard Adams

  • Senator Love

    Warren Adler

    Fiona FitzGerald, senator's daughter turned Washington, D.C., homicide detective, is called in to investigate when the stunning wife of the Austrian Ambassador is kidnapped and murdered. Soon, bones belonging to a vanished young girl are discovered, ...

  • A Love Match

    Barbara Allister

    The Honorable Mr. Huntington? Stephen Huntington modestly told Miss Rosemary Wyatt that his only title was that of Honorable. But Rosemary could see that this did not stop this wealthy, charming devastatingly handsome gentleman from being the catc...

  • Rich As Sin

    Patrick Anderson

    Mickey, a tough but beautiful Texan and an undercover drug agent, vows to reunite with her twin sister, Jessie, from whom she was separated at birth, even if it means toppling the dynasty of Jessie's husband. Reprint....

  • Don't Rent My Room

    Judie Angell

    Lucy doesn't think it's fair that just because she's 15 she has to change her life to help fulfill her parents' dream--to run the Scottwood Inn in Cape May, Massachusetts. But when Lucy and her family arrive in Cape May, they settle i...

  • The Relic

    Evelyn Anthony

    Shortly before his death, Lucy Warren's Ukranian emigre father leaves her a legacy with the power to change the course of history - St. Vladimir's Cross, a jeweled relic whose owner, by time-honored tradition, has the right to rule Russia. His final ...

  • Santa's Favorite Story

    Hisako Aoki

  • Avenging Angel

    Anthony Appiah

    With the deaths of young Scottish aristocrat David Glen Tannock and world-renowned scientist Dr. Charles Phipps--both members of the elite Cambridge society known as "the Apostles"--barrister-sleuth Sir Patrick Scott suspects that one of the Apostles...

  • Bayou Passion

    Jane Archer

    HOT-BLOODED TROUBLEMAKER When an angry Drake Dalton burst into Selene Morgan's Love Potions apothecary shop, Selene stood ready for battle. Her New Orleans healing and midwifery trade was the only thing left of her family after the Civil War,...

  • Rosemary for Remembrance

    Christine Arness

    In this novel of romantic suspense, a young lawyer is drawn into a decades-old mystery . . .   An RT Book Reviews nominee for Best Contemporary Romantic Novel   Shattered by her husband’s tragic death, young lawyer Abigail ...

  • The Gypsy's Bride

    Rosalie Ash

    He was dark and mysterious, and his return brought back bitter emotions. Emotions Chessy would have given anything not to feel again. Saul Gallagher was possibly more devilishly handsome than before. The wild Gypsy streak in him had been replaced by ...

  • New Hugo Winners, Vol. 1

    Isaac Asimov

  • A Small Favor

    Elizabeth August

    A FAVOR FOR A FRIEND When Callie Benson agreed to do a favor for her family doctor and take an injured man into her home, she hadn't expected to get involved with the handsome, mysterious stranger. But Morgan Evans needed her support to overco...

  • Death Charge

    Richard Austin

    ALLIANCE OF TERROR Out of nuclear Armageddon come the Guardians--Americas last hope to prevent global domination by the Federated States. They're a combat elite of four trained men ... handpicked to handle the high-tech threat of post nuclear warf...

  • Seedling

    James Axler

  • Treasure Trunk

    Donna Ayers

  • Thump, Thump, Rat-a-Tat-Tat

    Gene Baer

    The marching band is in the distance. Big as ants. Loud as crickets. Here it comes! Big as crickets. Loud as birds. Coming closer! Louder and louder, brighter and brighter. Hear the drums! Hear the horns! The band is here, marching by. Thump, Thum...

  • Precious Pretender

    Stella Bagwell

    FRIEND ... OR FIANCE? Priscilla Parker's mother had it all wrong! Priscilla wasn't engaged. She didn't even have a promising prospect. But Prriscilla couldn't bear to disappoint her mother, so she asked her best friend, handsome, f...

  • A Rush of Golden Wings

    Cherith Baldry

    Back cover text
    Kneeling, Cradoc tore away tje plants and dead leaves. What he found was a locked metal box. Shaking a little, he reached out and lifted the lid. Inside was a book. So God's Word came again into the Six Worlds.
    br>Since this is ...

  • A Cry in the Woods

    Donna Ball

    Architect Laura Kane and her small daughter Christy moved to a new house that Laura designed in the tranquil Smoky Mountains. Then Christy's nightmares began. "Something bad" was lurking in the woods, Christy insisted.......

  • Jeremy's Tail

    Duncan Ball

  • Canal Dreams

    Iain M. Banks

    'Banks once again demonstrates his extraordinary dark powers of imagination' Sunday TimesHisako Onada, world-famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal. But Panama is a count...

  • A Scandal in Belgravia

    Robert Barnard

    AN INCONVENIENT CORPSE They met in the early 1950s, fledgling diplomats in the Foreign Office. Naive Peter Proctor was possessed by middle-class morality and ambition. Witty, reckless Timothy Wycliffe was an aristocrat whose shocking sexual appetite...

  • Mother's Helper

    A. Bates

    Becky gets to spend the whole summer on a beautiful island, babysitting one little boy who is no trouble at all. It’s a dream job. There’s even a possible romance developing with the boy next door. Her employer is one strange lady who doesn’t s...

  • The Duel of Dragons

    Gael Baudino

    WINGS OF DOOM were spreading destruction across the kingdom of Gryylth. Twentieth-century weapons were raining down upon an unsuspecting land where sharpened blades and pointed spears had always been the only true warrior's tools. And for Suzanne He...

  • The Fireman's Wife and Other Stories

    Richard Bausch

    “To read the fiction of Richard Bausch is to be hugely moved, to be in touch with the depths of experience, to be present at the creation of a monument to human worth.” ―Newsday

    Richard Bausch gets deep inside of people's lives. Richard ...

  • Tall in the Saddle

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    MR. AUGUST Man: Flint Carson Description: Lean. Hard. Tough. As proud and magnificent as the wild cattle he raises on his Texas ranch. Lesson in love: Never trust a woman, especially the high-society type. Fatal undoing: Ravishing Step...

  • Walt Disney's the Rocketeer

    Barbara Bazaldua

  • Ask Allie?

    Alison Bell

  • Sunset Dreams

    Cherie Bennett

    Determined to become a successful model, Sam ignores the warning signs when a photographer with dubious credentials takes photographs of her in revealing outfits and then asks her to go away with him for the weekend...

  • L.A. Snitch

    Marc Berrenson

    DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES Once a cop, always a lawyer, the twists and turns in Ben Green's hard-luck career have landed him a position as Special Investigator for the L.A.P.D.'s Internal Affairs Division. Under the thumb of a powerful police chief wi...

  • The Fortune Hunter

    Jo Beverley

    FOR LOVE AND MONEY Poor Amy de Lacy. Her father's death has left the family impoverished and she's the only one who can rescue them. Her older sister Beryl, sweet as she is, is just too plain to attract a husband. But Amy, with her stunn...

  • Eden Creek

    Lisa Bingham

    THEIRS WAS A MARRIAGE OF DARK SECRETS, STUBBORN PRIDE, AND UNEXPECTED ARDOR Betrayed by the only man she ever trusted, Ginny Parker hastily agreed to a new life in the untamed Utah wilderness, and a marriage that was prearranged. Orrin Ghant, a m...

  • Chapel of the Ravens

    Paul Bishop

    After losing his right eye during a particularly brutal soccer match against the West Germans, former goalie Ian Chapel becomes a coach for the L.A. Ravens and investigates the mysterious death of his predecessor. Reprint....

  • Dear Family

    Camilla Bittle

    Forced by the Great Depression to move back into Dorothy's childhood home--a disintegrating dairy farm--Dorothy and Ed Beane brave the trials presented to them by poverty, the Second World War, their son's absence, and their daughter's move to Califo...

  • Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

    John Blades

  • Devil Wind

    Catherine Blair

    Danger Was as Close as Desire High on the cliffs overlooking the sea, Devil Wind castle loomed dark and foreboding. This was Rochella's new home -- and she knew instantly that her husband, Lord Devlin, was equally unhappy with their arranged marr...

  • The Coconut Connection

    Cynthia Blair

    When the Pratt twins’ Christmas gift is a surprise trip to Hawaii, they expect a relaxing trip in paradise.  But Chris and Susan soon discover that a tiny island off Waikiki harbors a secret.  The clever, courageous girls can’t resist s...

  • Shadows of the Past

    Kathryn Blair (2)

    HEART'S EASE... Dr. Aurora Duvall could never ignore a cry for help. But she was astonished at how quickly she overcame her personal reserve and became completely embroiled in teenage Katie Thorpe's problems with her father. Eric Thorpe was usu...

  • Heroine of the Titanic

    Joan W. Blos

    "Told in exuberant verse, this story of `the unsinkable Molly Brown' is scattered throughout with wit, tall tales and exaggeration, much like the hearty heroine herself....Both appealing and accessible, this collaboration makes Molly Brown's love of ...

  • Feast of Bones

    Daniel P. Bolger

  • No Duress

    Miriam Borgenicht

    WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS .. . A tragedy turns into a living nightmare when health counselor Linda Stewart's adopted infant daughter is legally reclaimed by the baby's natural teenage mother -- and both are found dead two days later. Linda&...

  • Strong Temptation

    Barbara Boswell

    Her Bad-Boy Hero on a Harley... Caleb Strong was a hell-raiser from the wrong side of the tracks, impossibly sexy -- and everything a woman like Cheyenne Whitney Merrit knew she wasn't supposed to want! A "good girl" from a respected f...

  • Eye Spy: A Book of Alphabet Puzzles

    Linda Bourke

  • Orion in the Dying Time

    Ben Bova

    A sequel to "Orion" and "Vengeance of Orion". At the end of the Cretaceous Period, Earth is in the grip of the dinosaurs. Their leader is a reptile, worshipped by the Egyptians as a powerful god for thousands of years. His mission is to destroy the C...

  • The Women in His Life

    Barbara Taylor Bradford

    From the #1 New York Timesâ€"bestselling author of A Woman of Substance comes a billionaire tycoon’s lifelong search for the right woman’s love.   Born in Berlin and orphaned by World War II, Maxim Westheim is left to fend for himself. With ...

  • Alphabet Out Loud

    Ruth Gembicki Bragg

  • Dearest Grand-Ma

    Catherine Brighton

  • A Bad Spell in Yurt

    C. Dale Brittain

    Newly appointed Royal Wizard Daimbert, learning his king is under a fatal spell, must find out who in the castle has been practicing black magic--the young queen, her flighty aunt, the royal heir, or Daimbert's own predecessor...

  • Masquerade in Blue // Framed in Blue

    D.C. Brod

    When his pal, reporter Jeff Barlowe, is jailed for refusing to reveal the name of a source to the court, private eye Quint McCauley sets out to prove that Barlowe's source is not responsible for a recent murder. Reprint....

  • Emerald Nights

    Virginia Brown

    SHE KNEW ABOUT MEN LIKE HIM Back in the states, prim Bethany Brasfield would never have trusted a hard-drinking adventurer like Trace Taylor. Here in the Peruvian jungle, however, her life and that of her archeologist father were in Trace's call...

  • Alec and His Flying Bed

    Simon Buckingham

  • Take Care of Things, Edward Said

    Helen Elizabeth Buckley

  • Amanda's Butterfly

    Nick Butterworth

  • Wanted...Mud Blossom

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    Mud, Pap Blossom's loyal dog, has never before been in such deep trouble. Scooty, the school hamster Junior brought home for the weekend, is missing and the evidence points right to Mud. The only sensible thing for a dog to do is to head under the po...

  • Cybernarc

    Robert Cain

    1991, original mass market paperback edition, Harper Paperback, NY. 246 pages. The CIA has created Rod, a high-tech amalgam of advanced robotics, artificial intelligence, and more. In this action-adventure tale, Rod is asked to confront drug lords....

  • Surrender in Scarlet

    Patricia Camden

    Lovely, widowed Kaatje de St. Benoit feared for her life at the hands of Colonel Becket Thorne, the handsome and determined British soldier who demanded that she lead him to his sworn enemy, the ruthless Turk, El Muzir. For seven long years, hatre...

  • Fire Lily

    Deborah Camp

    SECRETS OF THE MIND. MYSTERIES OF THE HEART He swept into lovely Lily Meeker's sheltered world on a chill wind in a torrential rainstorm -- Griffon Goforth, the dark, enigmatic clairvoyant Lily's family had hired to locate her missing cous...

  • The Hero's Journey

    Joseph Campbell

    The great mythologist traces his own quest in conversation with the luminaries he inspired, now in trade paperbackJoseph Campbell, arguably the greatest mythologist of the twentieth century, was certainly one of our greatest storytellers. This master...

  • Part-Time Solution

    Charlene Canape

  • Ender's Game

    Orson Scott Card

    "INTENSE is the word for ENDER'S GAME. Aliens have attacked Earth twice and almost destroyed the human species. To make sure humans win the next encounter, the world government has taken to breeding military geniuses--and then training them in the ar...

  • Speaker for the Dead

    Orson Scott Card

    In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: the Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ...

  • Dust to Dust

    Lillian Stewart Carl

    After months of long-distance phone calls, Rebecca Reid is thrilled to be working with Michael Campbell again, this time on a dig at Rudesburn Priory in the Scottish Borders. It’s rumored that Robert the Bruce's heart was buried there, and that the...

  • A Touch of Blackmail

    Jeanne Carmichael

    HOME was where the heart was Though not under ideal conditions, Hester Martingale was pleased to inherit a home of her own, and would stay on permanently if she could. She was welcomed into the neighbourhood by the disturbingly handsome Earl ...

  • Christmas Always...

    Peter Catalanotto

  • The Wishing Tree

    Kim Cates

    Meeting baseball superstar Ryder Sloan was desperately ill Zakary MacCrea's most cherished dream -- and the Wishing Tree Foundation made it come true. Ellie MacCrea didn't dare tell her seven-year-old son she expected his irresistibly handsom...

  • Exceptional Clearance

    William J. Caunitz

    A deserted street off Brooklyn's Flatbush Avenue... a park on Manhattan's posh Upper East Side... a dressing room in a crowded Fifty-seventh Street boutique. Three young women are found murdered, victims of a serial killer, the only apparent link bet...

  • A Fish in His Pocket

    Denys Cazet

  • Virgin Fire

    Elizabeth Chadwick (1)

    As the proud owner of one of the few bathtubs in rough and tumble Spindletop, Jessica Parnell was besieged by oil drillers, speculators, confidence men, and riffraff-every one longing to take advantage of her precious facilities. But of all the grimy...

  • Inherit the Mob

    Zev Chafets

    “[A] hilarious, warm look at one of organized crime’s oft-neglected ethnic groups.” -- The New York Times Book Review William Gordon’s dear Uncle Max is dead. Dear, crooked, murderous, notorious Mafioso kingpin Uncle Max. But Pulitzer-winning...

  • Raymond Chandler: Four Complete Novels

    Raymond Chandler

  • Bonneville Blue

    Joan Chase

    A collection of stories features the tale of a divorced woman reminiscing with her ex, a husband consumed by home improvements, a woman's recollection of her odd bond with the school tomboy, and a small-town wife obsessed with a drifter. Reprint....

  • Endgame

    C.J. Cherryh

  • Her Grace's Passion

    Marion Chesney

    SHE WAS BY ALL RIGHTS A MERRY WIDOW, YET SHE FEARED HAPPINESS WOULD NEVER BE HERS... Matilda, Duchess of Hadshire, was a virtual prisoner of a cruel husband who romanced his mistress under her nose. Her only joy was dreaming of the handsome Earl o...

  • Tender

    Mark Childress

    "A big, all American, Technicolor dreamboat of a book...This is a great novel."
    STEPHEN KING
    In TENDER, novelist Mark Childress has redefined the American epic. He takes us on a wild ride through the last three decades as his fictional hero, Le...

  • The Sum of All Fears

    Tom Clancy

    The Gulf War is over. An Israeli nuclear weapon is missing. The balance of power in the Mideast--and the world--is about to change forever .. ....

  • Grounded!

    Chris Claremont

    WHERE DO YOU GO AFTER YOU'VE GONE TO THE STARS? Lt. Nicole Shea was once a top space pilot. She crushed a marauding Wolfpack--and established first contact with an extraterrestrial civilization. Now they've taken away her flight rating and reas...

  • The Case of the Paranoid Patient

    Anna Clarke

    A CRY FOR HELP The pitiful moans from beyond the thin hospital wall did not. interfere with Paula Glenning's recuperation. But the story behind the sounds was indeed disturbing. Why was the doctor dosing Margaret Leeming with so many tranquilizers? ...

  • The Undertaker

    Richard Clarke

    Constable Frank Butler has his hands full when a gang of marauders begins heading for his town, but the people of Peralta recommend the services of El Cajonero--the undertaker--an avenger Butler has a hard time believing...

  • Colorado Temptation

    Gwen Cleary

    HE HAD TO HAVE HER Locke Breckenridge had come to the Colorado mountains to get away from women and their highfalutin ways, but when Cornelia Lloyd Talbot settled her curvaceous form in town, he took one long look at her pouting red lips, her snappi...

  • Murder in My Backyard

    Ann Cleeves

    NO ONE IN HEPPLEBURN HAS A BAD WORD TO SAY 4 ABOUT ALICE PARRY... ...But here she is, murdered in her own backyard on a bitter St. David's Eve. And when detective Stephen Ramsay starts asking questions in the village, a more ambiguous picture begins...

  • Scrawny, the Classroom Duck

    Susan Clymer

    John, a third grader new to his school, becomes attached to a duck raised from birth by his class, and though the duck is eventually freed to live in the wild, John realizes he has been left a legacy of new friends made through the duck...

  • The Pumpkinville Mystery

    Bruce Cole

    The Pumpkinville Mystery relates how the idea of jack-o-lanterns got started out in the prairies during a time when a mysterious stranger rewarded kind townsfolk and punished greedy politicians.On a dark holiday night long ago a mysterious stranger a...

  • Terrible Eek

    Patricia A. Compton

  • Touch of Mistletoe

    Barbara Comyns

    Autobiographical novel of the life of an impoverished upper-middle class British girl from the 1920's through the 1960's. The heroine endures many hardships but bounces on, finding joy in art, friends and family--generally considering her life a grea...

  • Paws Before Dying

    Susan Conant

    MURDER STRIKES When Rose Engleman is found dead after a thunder-storm, lightning is blamed. But soon Holly Winter starts to think it wasn't an act of God that killed the elderly woman. Was it an act of vengeance? Jealousy? Hatred? Greed? Accompani...

  • Fire Under the Sea

    Joseph Cone

  • Losing Control

    Linda A. Cooney

  • Leather and Lace

    Ryanne Corey

    WILDE THING Caitlyn Wilde had run away! She'd fled the glitter of Las Vegas and the stifling concern of an overprotective guardian. For the first time in her life, the auburn-haired beauty was on her own. Her sunny outlook overcame all obstacl...

  • Leading Lady

    Kate Coscarelli

    THEY WERE BOUND BY BLOOD, SCANDAL AND EXPLOSIVE SECRETS... Laverne Ruthlessly ambitious and domineering, she'll beg, bribe, Hackmait -- and bargain away her daughter's innocence -- to make her the greatest star Hollywood has ever known... until a...

  • Shadow of a Doubt

    William J. Coughlin

    Detroit attorney and former alcoholic Charley Sloan lost his practice, his wife, and his fortune to booze. A chance at a comeback arrives in his former lover, Robin Harwell. She's now the desperate widow of a multimillionaire--and stepmother of the t...

  • Alley Urchin

    Josephine Cox

    A captivating historical romance of revenge, hatred, lust and true loveIt is 1870 and Emma Grady has spent seven years of servitude as a convict in Australia. Now, having earned her ticket-of-leave, she is held by chains of honour and friendship. Emm...

  • Miss Seeton Paints the Town

    Hamilton Crane

    A Sketch in Time Miss Seeton's rather unusual drawings for the Best Kept Village Competition may hold vital clues to a recent series of fires. At least, that's what Scotland Yard believes. And when two corpses turn up--and someone sets Miss Seeton...

  • In the Pond

    Ermanno Cristini

  • A Heart in Disguise

    Monette Cummings

    Could love be born from deception...? Disguised as her twin brother, the dashing Captain Warne, Lucinda arrived in London determined to secure his inheritance ... well aware that she was risking both their reputations. But she seemed to be doing a...

  • Point of Impact

    Jack Curtis

    When a sniper begins picking off seemingly unconnected London residents, Scotland Yard detective Robin Culley searches for a link between the victims, a search that takes him to the highest level of British politics...

  • Improbable Eden

    Mary Daheim

    A Tender Education Eden Berenger grew up an unwanted orphan in a loveless household, until the Earl of Marlborough claimed her as his flesh and blood-hours before his imprisonment for treason. To spare her father's life, Eden was forced to obey the ...

  • First a Dream

    Maureen Daly

    In this sequel to Acts of Love , a girl faces sundry trials and tribulations when her family moves to California to start a small-town newspaper and her boyfriend follows, taking a summer job at a nearby ranch. Ages 12-up. (Aug.)...

  • Lerza's Lives

    John Danica

    Posing as a big-time drug buyer, Philly FBI agent Joe Lerza--along with his buddy Nepp--enters a war between the town's Mafia, some rebellious punks, and a gang of bikers, all eager for control of the city's drug trade...

  • Rising Like the Tucson

    Jeff Danziger

    Amid the violence and confusion of the waning days of the Vietnam War, Lt. Kit and his men--abandoned by their own government and allies and surrounded by the enemy--hope for riches, ignorant of the possibility of defeat...

  • Naked to the Waist

    Alice Elliott Dark

  • The Russian Singer

    Leif Davidsen

    Danish diplomat, Jack Andersen posted in Moscow, becomes involved with the "so called" murder suicide of a prostitute, found dead, her wrists slashed, in the apartment of one of the embassy's secretaries...

  • A Question of Virtue

    Carolyn Davidson

    ONE MAGIC MOMENT Sara O'Brien had seen enough of New York City. It was one thing to let her best friend show her the highlights of the Big Apple. It was quite another to let Marcie drag her to a sophisticated Manhattan party. Although Marcie h...

  • Right Conclusions

    Helena Dawson

    He was a stranger to the island... And from the first moment Lorna ran into suave, sophisticated Martin Ritchie, she was convinced he was hiding something. Why, he might even be behind the awful resort development scheme that would ruin her belov...

  • Transport 7-41-R

    Terry Degens

  • Mamista

    Len Deighton

    As a group of Marxist revolutionaries in Spanish Guiana prepare to unseat their country's leader, a group of high-powered men in Washington prepare to keep the current government intact and capitalize on the small country's newfound oil. Reprint....

  • The Stud // Father Figure

    Barbara Delinsky

    He was perfect stud material Adventurer Spencer Smith was everything Jenna McCue required in a man -- tall, good-looking and virile. Spence was also rich, single and wouldn't want anything in return from her.. In short, Spence was the perfe...

  • Chingis Khan

    Demi

  • Blue Orleans

    O'Neil Denoux

    BLUE ORLEANS â€" LaStanza Novel #3 This is New Orleans â€" 1982 The case is not only a â€whodunit’ but also a â€whoisit’ - the case of a body dumped in a ditch along an isolated stretch of a deserted highway. The victim is shot in the back of ...

  • Angel Eyes

    Thea Devine

    SHE NEEDED HIS HELP Kentucky 1880. Angelene knew it was dangerous to run away, but she couldn't face a life of crime with her outlaw family. The handsome stranger who offered to help her on the trail was a godsend...and a temptation. She was hau...

  • Your Personality Quiz Book

    Karle Dickerson

  • Coal Mine Peaches

    Michelle V. Dionetti

  • For Our Children

    Walt Disney

  • Deep Trouble

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • Rainy Day Man

    Joan J. Domning

    The Rugged Rebel She'd Never Forgotten... Shane Halloran may have been trouble with a capital T when Merle Pierce fell hard for him in high school, but she never believed the sexy daredevil would abandon her. She devoted herself to her teenag...

  • The Elephant Family Book

    Oria Douglas-Hamilton

  • Last Rites

    Jack Drake

  • That Sweet and Savage Land

    Emma Drummond

  • Dial-a-Croc

    Mike Dumbleton

  • I Want a Blue Banana!

    Joyce Dunbar

  • The Mansions of Limbo

    Dominick Dunne

    Bestselling author Dominick Dunne, who chronicles the escapades, excesses, and eccentricities of high society for Vanity Fair, offers fifteen provocative portraits of some of the most luminous figures of the decade . . . profiles of the movie legend ...

  • Eliot

    Roger Ebbatson

    48p paperback, hardly used, pages clean and unmarked, 'Penguin English gives you, the learner, a step - by - step introduction to the literature which has made Penguin books so famous,' very good - and it is so much shorter!...

  • The Gnome's Engine

    Teresa Edgerton

    A Gnome from Hobb's Church--a town where Gnomes, Dwarves, and Humans work side by side, pursuing the arts, philosophy, science, and magic--is certain he can harness the power of the ancient ruins just outside the city...

  • The Storyteller's Goddess

    Carolyn McVickar Edwards

    The Storyteller's Goddess is a collection of more than 30 stories from 20 cultures that celebrate the goddess. They are organized around seven healing goddess principles and are inspired by traditional goddess lore and ancient artifacts. Each one is ...

  • Savage Persuasion

    Cassie Edwards

    CHEROKEE PRIDE When her family's cabin was attacked by Indians, lovely young Brietta fled into the wilderness, only to be captured by the most handsome man she had ever laid eyes on. Though he was a Cherokee brave, the smoldering heat in his d...

  • Hellfire

    Josh Edwards

    After a near-fatal attack by a band of outlaws led by an old friend of his, John Stone is brought back to the outlaws' hideout, where Sally Drake nurses him back to health, while her jealous boyfriend decides Stone doesn't deserve the chance to recov...

  • The Present

    Michael Emberley

    Arne Hansen, handyman supreme, has a problem: he can't decide on a birthday present for his nephew. He was going to give Tove a pocket knife with 17 blades, but the more Arne thinks about it the more he wants the knife for himself. Perhaps the old bi...

  • The Case of the Car-Barkaholic Dog

    John R. Erickson

    What happens when Hank the Cowdog finds himself stuck in town and facing the mean, monster Great Dane, “Rambo”? Rambo’s only weakness is that he’s a car-barkaholic. He just can’t resist chasing and barking at passing cars. Join Hank as he r...

  • Tiger with Wings

    Barbara Juster Esbensen

  • Motown

    Loren D. Estleman

    Working undercover in order to stop a consumer advocacy agency from putting Detroit auto companies out of business, ex-cop and car lover Rick Amery becomes involved in the conflagration of a black gang war. Reprint....

  • Sizzle

    Marcia Evanick

    The Too-Perfect Man... Eben James had come to his Lake Champlain house for peace and serenity, but instead the handsome accountant found himself bewitched by a golden-haired sprite who made him long to run wild, to believe in magic and telling for...

  • Longarm and the Lone Star Captive

    Tabor Evans

  • Longarm and the River of Death

    Tabor Evans

  • A Forever Man

    Sally Falcon

    BON VOYAGE! After the past year, Sandi Canin deserved this vacation cruise from Seattle to Alaska. Since her close call in a fire, she had worked hard to rebuild her business and mend her broken heart. And she'd been successful -- or so she...

  • Clowning Around

    Cathryn Falwell

  • Kent Montana and the Once and Future Thing

    Lionel Fenn

  • Wild Mountain Honey

    Carol Finch

    Determined to live on her own terms, away from her conniving step-parents, high-spirited Moriah Laverty fled 'civilization' and disappeared into the wild mountains of New Mexico. She vowed to live free and unfettered: all she needed was to master a f...

  • Sailboat Lost

    Leonard Everett Fisher

  • The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald

    Zelda Fitzgerald

    This comprehensive collection of Zelda Fitzgerald’s work -- including her only published novel, Save Me the Waltz -- puts the jazz-age heroine in an illuminating literary perspective.Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald has long been an American cultural icon. B...

  • What's Wrong With Valerie?

    D.A. Fowler

    Free from the clutches of her sadistic grandmother, Valerie hears the voices of the dead speaking to her from her typewriter and begins behaving oddly--taking in boarders who die mysterious deaths and disciplining her cousin's children in a bizarre f...

  • Irresistible Force

    Sharon Francis

    LOVE AND DUTY... Reporter Randy Muir was a crusader for good, old-fashioned values. She'd flown halfway around the world to get her story on how Japan's romantic tradition was being lost to progress, only to lock horns with handsome execut...

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    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

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    Nikki Grimes

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    Neil M. Gunn

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    Donna Guthrie

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    Isidore Haiblum

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    Glenn Hale

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    Barbara Hambly

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    Celeste Hamilton

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    Ben Hamper

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    Charles L. Harness

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    Karen Harper

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    Bryce Harte

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    B.B. Hiller

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    Linda Hilton

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    Karla Hocker

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    Margaret Hodges

  • The Strange Child

    E.T.A. Hoffmann

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    Petra Holland

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    Dee Holmes

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    Victoria Holt

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    Naomi Horton

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    Stephanie Howard

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    James Howe

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    Woodleigh Hubbard

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    Meg Hudson

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    John Hughes

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