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New Books List: 492 titles

  • Betrayal

    Greg Walker

  • Chicago Run

    David Robbins

  • Combat Stretch

    Don Pendleton

    DEATH ON THE WIND A cure for a raging disease suddenly goes wrong and becomes far worse than the disease itself. Inside an isolated research center, the new viral nightmare is contained by a Japanese scientist while he seeks a solution. If it gets...

  • Counterblow

    Don Pendleton

    HIGH STAKES The upsurge in high-grade heroin on the West Coast is ringing alarm bells all over Washington. It's clear there's a new player at the table, someone setting up a Turkish heroin pipeline through Pakistan. One man's war just found a new ...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Last Rites

    Jack Drake

  • The Nutmeg of Consolation

    Patrick O'Brian

    Shipwrecked on a remote island, Captain Aubrey and the crew of the Diane fashion a schooner from the wreck, only to have their makeshift vessel burned in an attack by Malay pirates. Their escape from this predicament is one that only the ingenuity of...

  • Seedling

    James Axler

  • The Soldier's Medal

    Donald Zlotnik

    Captain Luke Arrowood was a soldier's soldier. He had to be. He had a shamefully slack jungle firebase to shape up before the NVA ripped it up. He had higher-ups who hated an officer up from the ranks. He had racial strife among his men and an elite ...

  • 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 .. ....

  • And Soon I'll Come to Kill You

    Susan Kelly

    Freelance writer Liz Connors is receiving anonymous hate mail from some psycho. Someone she knows? When she receives the first death threat, Liz thinks it's somebody's idea of a sick joke. When they start coming weekly and grow steadily more graphic,...

  • 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? ...

  • Deep Trouble

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • Easy Marks

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy Drew investigates a scam involving computer fraud at Brewster Academy in this thrilling mystery....

  • High Survival

    Carolyn Keene

    AMERICA’S TOP TEEN DETECTIVES TEAM UP TO TOPPLE CRIME’S KING OF THE MOUNTAIN NANCY DREW and a small group of adventurers hike into the Wyoming wilderness to sharpen their survival skills. But the higher they climb into the remote and rugged Ro...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Secret in the Dark

    Carolyn Keene

    NANCY INVESTIGATES A CLASSIC CASE OF MUSICAL MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE Violinist Dierdre Thompson is vying for top honors in Seattle's most prestigious musical competition, but Nancy finds that something about the contest strikes the wrong chord. The c...

  • Sister Hood

    Monica Quill

    Offering shelter to Sister Mary Magdalene--the daughter of a shady Chicago businessman in town to testify in a murder investigation--Sister Mary Theresa Dempsey is soon investigating her colleague's murder when she turns up dead in a hotel bathtub...

  • The Experiment

    Bill Myers

    Denise and Josh are cross-dimensionalized to the land where they both begin to understand the Imager''s role in their lives. Josh overcomes his doubt and begins to understand that science often falls short of explaining the world and believing tak...

  • Kayla O'Brian and the Runaway Orphans

    Hilda Stahl

  • Little House in the Ozarks

    Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • The Portal

    Bill Myers

    With Denise's gift to Nathan of a strange red stone, an adventure to another dimension begins, culminating in Nathan's perilous entrapment, due to his own selfishness, and with parallels to Christian beliefs overall....

  • Asking for Trouble

    Mary Kay McComas

    Her Dream Date--or a Nightmare? Tom Ghorman was smart, romantic, funny, easily the best of the three video dates offered by Electra-love, but Sydney Wiesman wished she hadn't promised to go on the television show to describe their date--it had bee...

  • Bad Billy Culver

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    A BETRAYAL ... A DARK SECRET ... A LOVE THAT WOULD OUTLAST SLANDER AND TIME AND TABOO... Billy Culver grew up poor, handsome as the devil -- and twice as bad. Arlene Lambert grew up in a home full of the security and elegance only old money coul...

  • Blackie's Woman

    Rebecca Winters

    Too many secrets, too many lies Jennifer O'Brien, heiress to the O'Brien restaurant empire, was determined to throw off her reputation as a self-indulgent socialite. So she changed her life--and her name. She became Jenny Connelly, trai...

  • Blue Skies and Promises

    Kate Logan

    TWO FOR THE ROAD .... Between Portland, Oregon, and Portland, Maine, lay one great adventure. For Kelsey Sumner it was the transcontinental bicycle trek she'd always dreamed of. The only problem was that Kelsey had planned to make the trip alon...

  • Children of the Heart

    Sally Garrett

    She was tired of being a saint Running a foster home for troubled children was the hardest job in the world. No one knew that better than Trenace McKay. She'd taken care of nearly two hundred children. But after her husband left her, Trena ...

  • Children's Children

    Maisie Mosco

    Two families, bonded through hardship, but will they break over ideals?Shortly into the twentieth century, the Sandberg and Moritz families were thrown together in their adopted city of Manchester. Now, the grandchildren of those immigrants are on th...

  • The Dating Game

    Francine Pascal

  • Daydreams

    Marina Palmieri

    ONLY IN A FAIRY TALE... When Officer Jake Slaughter arrived home after a double shift in the streets of Miami, he wanted nothing more than to collapse in bed. But there was no mistaking sounds of an intruder in his own house. With his gun drawn, h...

  • Don't Look Back

    Celeste Hamilton

    For ten years, beautiful golden girl Cyndi Saint had been running... trying to escape the haunting memories of the night her carefree world had exploded into devastating tragedy. Then she met brash, irresistible Nick Calderaro. Tenderly, insistently...

  • An Early Enchantment

    Stephanie Wyatt

    When had Daniel Morgan returned? After having deserted Natalie so many years ago, Daniel Morgan was back. And it seemed he was here to stay. Natalie Gilmorton wished she could banish him from her mind and her life ... but with each new day, his hold ...

  • Easy Does It

    Pamela Roth

    Say it with flowers Adam Westover brought new meaning to those words! The smooth-talking entrepreneur strode into Diane Simmons's flower shop and ordered a "kiss-off" bouquet for his latest girlfriend. Hardly a romantic gesture, Diane mocked, but ...

  • First and Forever

    Katherine Kendall

    The Great Hubby Hunt Laura Daniels had everything she ever dreamed of--a big-bucks career, great friends and a huge New York apartment. Everything except a man. Then one moonlit evening, Laura glanced out of her office window and there he was. The...

  • For the Love of Lilah

    Nora Roberts

    Mystery and danger still swirled around Lilah Calhoun's ancestral home. The fabled lost emeralds continued to attract treasure hunters--and at least one dangerous criminal. And they had brought a man unlike any Lilah had ever known. Maxwell Quarterm...

  • Forever

    Theresa Weir

    THEY SAID HE WAS A LOST CAUSE But from the moment Dr. Rachel Collins first saw her newest patient, she knew her colleagues were wrong. For beneath the pain and defiance in Sammy Thoreau's stormy black eyes she sensed a vulnerability that tore at ...

  • 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...

  • Genuine Lies

    Nora Roberts

    IN HOLLYWOOD, A LADY LEARNS FAST: THE BAD CAN BE BEAUTIFUL, AND THE TRUTH CAN KILL... EVE BENEDICT. The last of the movie goddesses, a smoky-voiced sex symbol with two Oscars, four ex-husbands, and a legion of lovers to her name. The glamorous scree...

  • Golden Gamble

    Patrice Lindsey

    LADY LUCK The workings of a Las Vegas casino were all too familiar to Jessica Anne James. The smoke-filled rooms. The smell of bourbon. The clink of chips as they scuttled across felt-covered tables. Since her father had gambled away their family'...

  • 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 ...

  • Ice Lady

    Emma Goldrick

    Six years of running had brought Teresa to the ends of the earth -- to Greenland, to be precise. As a nurse with the United States Army, she was hiding herself amid snow and ice because this was the one place she didn't expect her ex-husband, Tim...

  • Intensive Care

    Francis Roe

    Glamorous, dynamic, and headstrong, Celine de la Roche has placed her life in the hands of the brilliant Dr. Caleb Winter, who must overcome his growing passion for his dying patient in order to save her life and make medical history...

  • 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...

  • Island Interlude

    Anne McAllister

    Was she free from the past? That's what Libby expected to discover when she returned to the Bahamian island where she'd had a brief summer affair with actor Alec Blanchard. Not that she regretted her son Sam's birth, but it was ti...

  • Jack and Jill

    Elise Title

    Marry in haste, repent at leisure... Straitlaced Jill Ballard had picked sunny, tropical Tobago `o indulge her fantasies and go wild. Little did she know she'd fall for Jack Harrington, the swashbuckling hero of her dreams. Caught in the spell of ...

  • 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...

  • The Leftover Girl

    Meg Hudson

    She'd been his leftover girl Janet Grayson had a full and satisfying life in Ellis Falls, Massachusetts. The young widow ran a successful chocolate business, was raising two teenage children and was even involved in town politics! Then her high...

  • The Letter of the Law

    Kristin James

    LOVE VERSUS LOYALTY Practical attorney James Marshall didn't believe in love at first sight--until he saw artist Adriana Cummings. When he met her, everything he'd ever heard about love made sudden, wonderful sense. James thought the differences b...

  • Life With Lindy

    Victoria Glenn

    AN EMBARRASSING PAST... Melinda Clarke had spent her whole life trying to escape her childhood image immortalized by her cartoonist mother -- that of Little Lindy, the outrageous heroine of a popular comic strip. No one would ever suspect that the...

  • Lion on the Prowl

    Kasey Michaels

    THE LEO MAN The proud, charismatic Leo man knows he's king of the jungle. Only a brave woman would enter his lair--one who's willing to tame the lion... ONE LEO MAN IN PARTICULAR Sophisticated Julia Sutherland had the courage to marry Max Ra...

  • Little Secrets

    Victoria Leigh

    An Enigmatic Seducer with Words... Ex-spy turned successful novelist, l. J. Carlson was dashing but difficult, a mystery man who drove Cassandra Lockland mad with a mocking glance or a wicked put-down. How could she be attracted to a man she could...

  • Losing Control

    Linda A. Cooney

  • A Matter of Honour

    Stephanie Howard

    Giles was missing! And Beth Carson had to find him. Her stepfather was dying, and without Gile's signature, her mother would be left homeless. But since coming to Italy, Beth had made no progress at all. Worse still, she had a shadow -- Si...

  • Maybe This Time

    Dee Holmes

    HIS PARTNER'S WIDOW... When intruders ransacked his dead partner's home, undercover cop Zach Stone knew where his duty lay. Widowed Elizabeth Healy and her baby daughter needed to be taken to safety. Then Zach would return -- alone, as alw...

  • The Molly Q

    Lass Small

    SPY VS SPY Georgia Bains's world had just turned topsy-turvy! She'd only been trying to deliver a package, a nice, normal thing to do. Instead, she'd somehow stumbled upon The Molly Q, a top-secret computer project. Then gorgeous, marvelous Luke M...

  • A Moment in Time

    Helen Mittermeyer

    A Naked Knight with Golden Eyes... Hawk Dyhart spotted the swimmer first, and then the sharks fin. Racing from his Barbados condo, he got there in time to pull the figure onto his water scooter and escape the danger... only to tumble headlong onto t...

  • Mornings at Seven

    Sally Goldenbaum

    MORE THAN BUSINESS Alex Brady and his young son were determined to tough it out alone -- no women allowed! But then, Alex was assigned a very new, very desirable business partner and suddenly the term "breakfast meeting" took on a whole ne...

  • No Lies Between Us

    Naomi Horton

    NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH Brynn Sinclair couldn't stand being lied to, and there was something about Laker Garrison that shouted honesty and trust. That was the only explanation she could think of for the impulsive way she'd hired the sexy car...

  • On Gossamer Wings

    Shirley Kemp

    Kimberley Harris didn't socialize She enjoyed her responsible job--it left her little time for anything else. And that was the way she liked it. Occasionally, she made an exception with safe, sensible Charles, who she supposed she'd pro...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 Real Thing

    Elisabet McHugh

    Change of heart... Katie Frazer can hardly believe it when Brian Parks, the heartthrob of the sophomore class, asks her out. It's a romantic dream come true -- until their Teen Living class is given a major assignment. The sophomores must carry ar...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • The Right Time

    Victoria Pade

    THE RIGHT TIME ... Evan Daniels's heart beat a mile a minute from the moment Alexandra Dunbar rang his doorbell. Without batting an eye, he hired her to devise a way of protecting his valuable timepiece collection. He was known as a hardheaded busin...

  • A Rose for Maggie

    Kathleen Korbel

    A SPECIAL KIND OF LOVE Allison Henley felt her life would be complete once she gave birth to her child. But it seemed her dream of having a family wasn't meant to be. Deserted by her husband, Allison was left to raise a child with special needs--a...

  • Secret Marriage

    Sondra Stanford

    Everyone in Mount Evergreen knew that Lancasters and Tarrants didn't mix. Everyone, that is, except Anne Lancaster and Simon Tarrant. They had pledged their love, first in their youthful hearts, and later, before a judge. Five years of shadowed se...

  • Serious Risks

    Rachel Lee

    I SPY... Computer programmer Jessica Kilmer's life altered the moment she realized classified documents had been stolen from her safe. But the real change came when she notified the FBI and met Special Agent Arlen Coulter. For even as Arlen reassu...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Soulbound

    Ruth Alana Smith

    Jake and Desiree had a lifetime of happiness ahead Then tragedy struck. Desiree almost drowned in the icy waters of Redd's Pond saving their two-year-old daughter from a similar fate. Now she lay in what appeared to be an irreversible coma. Jac...

  • Starlit Promise

    Petra Holland

    She had to learn to laugh again The frozen wintry shore of Lake Michigan was a perfect setting for Sara Davidson. Its bleakness matched her mood and gave her a perverse sense of peace. Then Professor Joe Fisher and his incorrigible spaniel, Rol...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Surprise of His Life

    Karen Keast

    Lindsey Ellison had a problem. She was in love . . . hopelessly in love . . . with Walker Carr. It would all be so lovely, so idyllic--if only he wasn't her father's business partner and best friend . . . and her godfather! And, of course, Lindsey co...

  • 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...

  • That Was Yesterday

    Vella Munn

    YESTERDAY'S TERRORS... Since her abduction, Mara Curtis's life had changed. Though she hid it behind a brave facade, she was still haunted, haunted by darkness, by solitude--haunted by memories of what she'd had to do to save her life. But Ree...

  • To Everything a Season

    Cynthia Freeman

    An unplanned pregnancy forces Betsy Bernstein, a young Jewish woman, into a hasty marriage with wealthy gentile Paul Forrest, and when World War II calls Paul to Europe, Betsy must care for her baby in a world of prejudice...

  • Where There's a Will

    Day Leclaire

    --- Re-issued as "Once Upon a Time" in 2012 "What do you mean she hid the will?" Handsome efficiency expert Julian--Mr. I've-got-a-system--Lord lived and breathed logic. Unfortunately, the situation at Willow's End fol...

  • The Wild Rose

    Doris Mortman

    From the old-world elegance of Budapest to the opulence of Manhattan and the glittering capitals of Washington, London, and Paris, comes a magnificent story- of lore and danger, passion and heart-stopping intrigue .... Katalin and Steven: even ...

  • 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...

  • A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing // Hazard Ranch

    Joan Johnston

    THE ALISTAIR-HAZARD FEUD WAS OVER Old Cyrus had passed on, and Nathan Hazard was prepared to take over his land. But then, Cyrus's greenhorn grand-niece showed up claiming ownership. She didn't know a thing about raising sheep, and Nathan wasn't a...

  • 2041 A.D.

    Jane Yolen

    Where will you be in the year  2041?



    The Drapery Defense League objects to Hamlet  because Polonius is stabbed while he's hiding behind a  curtain, rock'n'roll gangs roam the streets, a  scrumptious free confecton called swoodi...

  • Arabian Nights

    Jack Zipes

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Final Shadows

    Charles L. Grant

    In the stunning final volume of the World Fantasy Award-winning anthology, editor Charles Grant closes a decade of award-winning fantasy with a last spectacular anthology of more than 450 pages of richly satisfying reading. Includes works by Tanith L...

  • 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 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...

  • In the Shadow of the Oak King

    Courtway Jones

  • Krispos of Videssos

    Harry Turtledove

    UNEASY LIES THE HEAD Against all expectations, Krispos had won the crown of Videssos. But how long could he hope to keep head and crown together? For trouble was brewing in every quarter. Civil war erupted under. Petronas, the late Emperor's un...

  • Madouc

    Jack Vance

    "The World Fantasy Award-winning third volume of the Lyonesse trilogy brings attention to the faerie changeling Madouc. Where princess Suldrun once meekly endured the proprieties of Castle Haidion, Madouc defends herself with rotten fruit. Vexed, Kin...

  • The Mistress of the Jewels

    Diana L. Paxson

    SHE WOULD BE QUEEN . . . BUT SHE REFUSED TO BE A SORCERESS The Master of the Junipers looked into the innocent face of the future Queen and spoke softly. "The mind rules all. Were it not for our belief, this world of forms would not exist at al...

  • 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...

  • Palaces and Prisons

    Ron Miller

  • Rainbow Abyss

    Barbara Hambly

    THE WELL BETWEEN THE WORLDS When Rhion the banker's son met the Master Wizard Jaldis, Jaldis said, "Come." Rhion came, leaving everything behind to answer the call in his blood. And through long years of drudgery and persecution, he had no regrets...

  • Reefsong

    Carol Severance

    After narrowly escaping death in a forest fire, Angie Dinsman found herself under the control of the World Life Company. They promptly equipped her with webbed hands and gills—creating a half‑fish, half‑woman. Her mission is to unco...

  • Silent Stars Go by

    James White

    James White's own favouritie James White novel. He got the catchy title from listening to 'O, Little Town of Bethlehem' at a carol concert* The parallel-universe Hibernian Empire has risen to supreme power, with the help of applied Old World techno...

  • After-School Monster

    Marissa Moss

  • Alec and His Flying Bed

    Simon Buckingham

  • 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...

  • Alphabet Out Loud

    Ruth Gembicki Bragg

  • Amanda's Butterfly

    Nick Butterworth

  • The American Night

    Jim Morrison

    The celebrated lead singer of The Doors, Jim Morrison is a legend of rock and roll. The American Night presents Morrison's previously unpublished work in its truest form. With their nightmarish images, bold associative leaps, and volcanic power of e...

  • Ankle Grabber

    Rose Impey

  • Ask Allie?

    Alison Bell

  • At the Zoo

    Paul Simon

  • Aunt Ippy's Museum of Junk

    Rodney Alan Greenblat

  • Ava's Men

    Jane Ellen Wayne

  • Bailey's Window

    Anne Morrow Lindbergh

    Their disdain for their visiting cousin, Bailey Bond, soon turns to admiration when Anna and Carl discover that they are able to climb through the window Bailey has painted on the guest room wall and visit other times and places...

  • The Bear on the Moon

    Joanne Ryder

  • Beauty and the Beast - Little Golden Book

    Golden Books

  • Because of You

    Lisa Walker

    Misty, a teenager in a small midwestern town, marks her passage into adulthood during the 1960s and 1970s with recollections of the boys she has loved, her relationship with her parents, and her conflicting roles as dutiful daughter and outrageous re...

  • The Best Revenge

    Sol Stein

    A long-running argument over life, love, and the theater between playwright Ben Riller and his deceased father, Louie, acts as counterpoint to Ben's struggle in the midst of moral and financial ruin, personal redemption, and Broadway intrigues...

  • Best Teacher in the World

    Grace MacCarone

  • Between Two Worlds

    Joan Lingard

    Continuing the story of the Latvian refugee family begun in Tug of War , this sequel opens with the Petersons' arrival in Canada, ready to make a new start after their country was lost to the Soviet Union in WW II. The twins, Astra and Hugo, quickly ...

  • Big Sister Blues

    Marilyn Kaye

    When the instructor for the new Physical Fitness class at Camp Sunnyside turns out to be Sarah's older sister, Alison, Sarah feels her summer fun is over, especially when Alison decides to be as tough on Sarah as she is on the other campers...

  • Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

    Chris Matheson

  • Bingo

    A.L. Singer

  • Bingo Digest

    B.B. Hiller

  • Bingo!

    Beth Goodman

  • The Black Hole Affair

    Jeffrey Klein

  • Blue Orleans

    O'Neil Denoux

    BLUE ORLEANS �" LaStanza Novel #3 This is New Orleans �" 1982 The case is not only a ‘whodunit’ but also a ‘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 ...

  • Bodysnatchers

    Juan Carlos Onetti

    In the provincial Argentine town of Santa Maria, Larsen, a pimp, tries to create the perfect brothel, while Julita, a widow unable to accept the death of her husband, takes his younger brother as her lover...

  • 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....

  • Booster Boycott

    Francine Pascal

    Jessica and the other boosters--Sweet Valley Middle School's cheerleading squad--vow they will not allow Winston Egbert to join the squad, despite the fact that he is a fantastic gymnast who makes up terrific cheers...

  • Boys of Life

    Paul Russell

    Country boy Tony is seduced by a smooth-talking pornographer, who brings the young man to New York to star in and recruit younger boys into a string of increasingly violent sex films. An escape, a marriage and a murder follow the story's cinematic ar...

  • Burgoo Stew

    Susan Patron

  • Camper of the Week

    Amy Schwartz

  • Canal Dreams

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  • A Cry in the Woods

    Donna Ball

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    Elizabeth Laird

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  • Dear Family

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    Catherine Brighton

  • A Deputy Was King

    G.B. Stern

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    Mike Dumbleton

  • Diary of a Mad Old Man

    Junichiro Tanizaki

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    Neil Shulman

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    Judie Angell

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  • Double-Decker Double-Decker Double-Decker Bus

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    Glenn Hale

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  • The Dylanist

    Brian Morton

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  • Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Terror; Bullseye Chillers

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    Patty Wolcott

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    Oria Douglas-Hamilton

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    Roger Ebbatson

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    Richard Bausch

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    C.Y. Lee

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    P.G. Wodehouse

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