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New Books List: 492 titles

  • 100 Great Detectives, or, the Detective Directory

    Maxim Jakubowski

  • 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...

  • Afghanistan

    Alex Ullmann

    Trapped in his job as an editor at "Glee"--a glossy New York magazine founded by Russian emigre Kuratkin, father of his lover--Patrick fantasizes about a life of adventure as a correspondent in Afghanistan...

  • After-School Monster

    Marissa Moss

  • Against All Hope

    Laraine McDaniel

    Speak no evil... Alone on the desert's moonlit sands, Alexis Sinclair's partner became a murder victim in forty-five very silent minutes. Internal Affairs investigator Gage Morgan had uncovered no clues, no leads and no answers to the most disturb...

  • Alec and His Flying Bed

    Simon Buckingham

  • All Fall Down

    John Saul

    Something horrific is happening to the children of Eastbury, Massachusetts. Now, an entire town waits on the edge of panic for the next nightmare. There must be a reason for the terror. They all know it - but no one ever suspected....

  • 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...

  • Almost Forever

    Karen Harper

    "I need you, Lesley. I loved you from the first, as if it's always been for us. Tell me you believe me!" As the daughter of the fifth Earl of Malvern, Lesley Westram was dubbed "Scandal's Child" -- after all, her beautiful Italian mother got preg...

  • 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 The American Night presents Morrison's previously unpublished work in its truest form.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...

  • And Did Murder Him

    Peter Turnbull

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • The Angel of Pain

    Brian Stableford

    The second in the trilogy that began with The Werewolves of London, continues the chronicle of the fallen angels, who manipulate earthly events through human instruments. Twenty-one years after David's first mission, he is called upon again to discov...

  • Ankle Grabber

    Rose Impey

  • Apache Coffin

    John Legg

  • Arabian Nights

    Jack Zipes

  • Arizona Lovestorm

    Wendy Garrett

    HE WAS HARD TO RESIST Billie had her hands full, running the Star M ranch all by herself and dealing with Indian attacks, cattle rustlers, and sudden storms. So far, she hadn't found time for romance, but when a handsome, tawny-haired cowboy rod...

  • The Arkansas

    Jory Sherman

  • Ask Allie?

    Alison Bell

  • 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...

  • At the Zoo

    Paul Simon

  • Aunt Ippy's Museum of Junk

    Rodney Alan Greenblat

  • Australian Short Stories

    Carmel Bird

  • Ava's Men

    Jane Ellen Wayne

  • 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...

  • Babyface

    Norma Fox Mazer

    When Toni’s luck runs out, real life comes calling Toni and Julie were both born right after their parents moved in next to one another, and the two girls have hardly been separated since. Julie is tall and outspoken and stands up for herself, but ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Battlefield of Hearts

    Joanna Makepeace

    Coerced into marriage? NEVER! Rather than be forced into a loveless marriage, Aleyne Risby escaped, hoping to find the protection of her cousin. But during those troubled times of war, Aleyne was relieved, yet terrified of what would follow -- e...

  • Bayou

    Pamela Jekel

    OLIVA -- a headstrong Cajun beauty, she defied tradition to marry the man she loved, then seduced him back to her own beloved bayou; CELISMA -- the hauntingly lovely, fiercely loyal mulatto slave who tended the aging Oliva, then warmed the bed ......

  • 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,...

  • 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

  • Betrayal

    Greg Walker

  • Betrayal at Blackcrest

    Jennifer Wilde

    Spiderweb of Passion. The great, grim manor of Blackcrest held many secrets for beautiful young Deborah Lane. London and safety seemed worlds and centuries away as she tried to discover what had happened here to her lovely cousin, whose face and name...

  • 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

  • Bitterroot

    Richard S. Wheeler




    Barnaby Skye, along with his wives, agrees to take a Quaker missionary, Dr.William Penn Sitgreaves, his wife Abigail who accompanies him reluctantly, and his party, to Owen's Fort in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana, where the Qua...

  • The Black Hole Affair

    Jeffrey Klein

  • Black Light

    Daniel Hearn

  • 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...

  • Blood Mesa

    G. Clifton Wisler

    When wealthy landowner and town scion Abner Mills shoots four boys falsely accused of cattle rustling, the boys' uncle, Riley Rucker, plans his own form of justice, hiring a gang of gunslingers to seek revenge...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Boy's Life

    Robert R. McCammon

    Zephyr, Alabama, has been an idyllic home for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson...a place where monsters swim in the belly of the river, and friends are forever. Then, on a cold spring morning in 1964, as Cory accompanies his father on his milk route, t...

  • 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...

  • Brainstorm

    Steven M. Krauzer

    David McKay's mind-control powers make him valuable to the Facility, and they decide to train him as their new secret weapon, but David begins a desperate race to save his freedom, his mind, and his life...

  • A Bridge of Years

    Robert Charles Wilson

    Tom Winter thought the secluded cottage in the Pacific Northwest would be the perfect refuge -- a place to nurse the wounds of lost love and happiness. But Tom soon discovers that his safe haven is the portal of a tunnel through time. At one end is t...

  • Burgoo Stew

    Susan Patron

  • Bury Me Deep

    Christopher Pike

    THE DEAD BOY WOULD NOT GO AWAY. Jean is on her way to Hawaii for a week of fun in the sun. But the vacation gets off to a gruesome start. The boy sitting beside her on the plane suddenly chokes and dies. Jean tries to push the incident out of her...

  • Caesar's Time Legions

    Jeremy Kingston

  • Call to Arms

    P.M. Griffin

    The immortal space saga of the STAR COMMANDOS begins anew with the long-awaited, updated and revised edition of this classic Science Fiction series. Come along with Commando-Colonel Islaen Connor on her secret mis-sion to Vishnu of Brahmin, investiga...

  • Camper of the Week

    Amy Schwartz

  • 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 Car Trip for Mole and Mouse

    Harriet Ziefert

  • 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...

  • The Case of the Journeying Boy

    Michael Innes

  • 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? ...

  • Casualty Loss

    Jim Weikart

    After Donald Jasen and his wife are found dead in a burnt-out car, Donald's brother, Jay, has custody of their two children and finds himself involved in a mystery surrounding thousands of dollars in cash hidden in the trunk of Donald's car...

  • The Cat's Eye

    Marian J.A. Jackson

    Mystery Writers of America Presents Ignoring threats to her life, Miss Abigail Patience Danforth braves San Francisco's seamy underworld to solve a murder. Encouraged by Miss Danforth's decision to become the world's first female consulting detectiv...

  • 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....

  • Chicago Run

    David Robbins

  • 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...

  • Chingis Khan

    Demi

  • Christmas Always...

    Peter Catalanotto

  • Christmas Treasury

    Multiple Authors

  • Clowning Around

    Cathryn Falwell

  • Coal Mine Peaches

    Michelle V. Dionetti

  • 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...

  • Cold Shocks

    Timothy R. Sullivan

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Coromandel Sea Change

    Rumer Godden

    The Coromandel coast of southern India seems the ideal place for Mary and Blaise's honeymoon, but before long Mary begins to feel detached from her new husband and powerfully attracted to Krishnan, a local politician now in mortal danger...

  • 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 ...

  • Country Dance

    Margaret Westhaven

    The Perfect Stranger Beautiful Marianna Chapin knew next to nothing about the devastatingly handsome and charming "Mr. Henry Duke" who had bought the estate adjoining that of Marianna's stepmother. She knew only that this seemingly ...

  • The Cover Artist

    Paul Micou

  • The Crab Prince

    Christopher Manson

  • Crazy about Cats Poster Book

    Dodo Knight

  • Crazy Ladies

    Michael Lee West

    From Tennessee to New Orleans, from hippie Haight-Ashbury to a remote desert ranch, here is a novel full of love and laughter, pain and redemption, told in the women's voices of one special family, that are as rich and recognizable as our own. Living...

  • 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.......

  • 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....

  • Dark Crimes

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    Offers works by a variety of the best suspense authors and encompasses the breadth of modern suspense fiction, especially its darker and more ominous side, in works by Marcia Muller, Max Allen Collins, Robert Bloch, and others...

  • The Dark Towers of Trelochen

    Rachel Cosgrove Payes

    "How could she protect the child...when her own life was in deadly peril?" Orphaned and penniless, Tisha Hawkins had gratefully accepted the past as governess to Lady Trevelyan's small son. Her contentment was shattered when she witnes...

  • The Dating Game

    Francine Pascal

  • Daughter of Deceit

    Victoria Holt

    IT WAS DESPERATELY IMPORTANT THAT I DRAW MYSELF OUT OF THIS MAZE OF MISERY IN WHICH I WAS CAUGHT. Noelle Tremaston has led a charmed yet unconventional life as the daughter of the infamous Desiree, darling of the London stage. But the flurry and ...

  • Day Veronica Was Nosy

    Elizabeth Laird

    This is the story of Veronica - the nosy cow. The story is set in the country and features Duncan the Little Red Tractor, Stan the farmer and many more characters from Gosling Farm. A book accompanies the tape which has music and sound effects includ...

  • 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...

  • Deadly Rich

    Edward Stewart

    The brutal murder of socialite Oona Aldrich--the first in a series of killings among the city's beautiful people--shakes up the society set, and Lieutenant Vince Cardozo follows a trail to find the self-proclaimed "Society Son of Sam"...

  • Deadwood Dick and the Code of the West

    Bruce H. Thorstad

    Coffee Arbuckle, a Civil War veteran caught up in the madness of the Gold Rush, teams up with Mortimer Ridley, a fourteen-year-old boy fleeing the city's boredom, to fight lawlessness in the untamed West...

  • 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...

  • The Dear One

    Jacqueline Woodson

    An intriguing look at teen pregnancy from a three-time Newbery Honor winning authorFeni is furious when she finds out that her mother has agreed to take a fifteen-year-old pregnant girl into their home until her baby is born. What kind of girl would ...

  • Dearest Grand-Ma

    Catherine Brighton

  • 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...

  • Death in Uptown

    Michael Raleigh

    A killer terrorizes a diverse Chicago neighborhood in this “impressive first mystery” (Publishers Weekly).   Private investigator Paul Whelan’s specialty is tracking down missing persons. But when his good friend is found slain in an alley...

  • Deep Trouble

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • Delta Desire

    Diane Gates Robinson

    RESCUED BY LOVE Silver-haired Aimee Louvierre could scarcely bear to contemplate her future. Tonight, at a grand ball, she would be betrothed to the most hated man in New Orleans. But even as she awaited the dreaded moment, Aimee looked up-and into ...

  • A Deputy Was King

    G.B. Stern

    It is 1921, Toni Rakonitz has made a success of her fashion salon, but at 27 she is tired of being a business woman. She marries Giles on impulse and they pursue the pleasures of the Jazz Age. Only when her life begins to collapse does she accept her...

  • Desert Rose

    Linda Francis Lee

    MAN To fulfill a promise, Clay Wakefield must command a majestic Mexican ranch --- and its spitfire heiress. She was a wild filly, but it would be his pleasure to break her. WOMAN Arriving home from overseas, Lorena Cervantes found her beloved ...

  • 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...

  • Devil's Backbone

    Terry C. Johnston

    The Modoc Indians and American officials had been flirting with war in the Oregon Territory for some time. When Modoc chief Keintpoos murdered a Civil War hero during negotiations, the U.S. Army launched a deadly offensive against the rebel tribe. Be...

  • The Devil's Bounty

    Larry Jay Martin

    Gold fever has swept across California's Barbary Coast, and fires of passion, lawlessness, and violence burn in its wake. Nothing is forbidden and everything is for sale--human lives bartered for mounds of sparkling dust. John Clinton Ryan has come t...

  • Dial-a-Croc

    Mike Dumbleton

  • Diary of a Mad Old Man

    Junichiro Tanizaki

    Diary of a Mad Old Man is the journal of Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke. He discovers that, while his body is decaying, his libido still rages on -- unwittingly sparked by the gentle, kindly att...

  • A Distant Dawn

    Katherine Sinclair

    A rare and lasting friendship would lead them ever closer to… A Distant Dawn Since their days growing up together at Rathbourne Abbey, they were best friends, as close as sisters, and forever bound to a destiny of war and love, heartache and hop...

  • Doc Hollywood

    Neil Shulman

    En route to the job of his dreams, young doctor Otis Stone breaks down in the backwater town of Grady, Alabama, and must pay for his auto repairs by working in the emergency room of the local hospital...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Double Down

    Tom Kakonis

    Professional poker player Tim Waverly, hounded by the local crime boss and pursued by an assassin, stands to lose his life unless he can come up with the tremendous amount of cash he needs to buy himself out of trouble...

  • Double-Decker Double-Decker Double-Decker Bus

    Patty Wolcott

  • Dr. O

    Glenn Hale

    Dr. Maurice Ovierto was proud of his handiwork. He removed his little trophies with great care from his victims, wrapped them in surgical gauze and sent them by Express Mail only. Human flesh was much to delicate for regular mail... He wanted them...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Dylanist

    Brian Morton

    Sally Burke feels alienated growing up, eventually realizing that she is a "Dylanist"a rebel whose feelings are an end in themselvesleading to efforts to be of use in the world, in a new edition of the debut novel by the awardwinning author of St...

  • 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 ...

  • Easy Marks

    Carolyn Keene

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

  • 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...

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

    Lester L. Schulman

  • Eeeeeek!

    Patty Wolcott

  • Eighty-Eight Steps to September

    Jan Marino

  • The Elephant Family Book

    Oria Douglas-Hamilton

  • 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!...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Endgame

    C.J. Cherryh

  • Estero Bay

    Elisabeth MacDonald

    AN ELUSIVE LOVE Lucas Morgan had finally ended his wandering. In Estero Bay, California, he'd found peace and happiness. But he despaired of ever gaining the love and trust of fiery Californio Consuelo Estrada. How could he ever convince her that he ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Eye Spy: A Book of Alphabet Puzzles

    Linda Bourke

  • False Pretenses

    Martha Jean Powers

    A FATEFUL PROMISE... When they first met, Anthea Bowmont had been searching for a way to save her sister from a desperate plight--and Hawkins Chadwicke was a soldier, headed for a battle he felt sure would mean his demise. On that evening, Hawkins...

  • Famous Fantastic Mysteries

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Fast Lane West

    Peter Nelson

    Eager to locate her missing friend, Brigitte, Sylvia hitches a ride with a boy she barely knows and begins a hair-raising escapade that takes her from a runaway shelter in Washington, D.C., to Nashville, to New Orleans, and to Austin...

  • Feast of Bones

    Daniel P. Bolger

  • The Fenderbenders Get Lost in America

    Holly Kowitt

    Young readers are invited to find the Fenderbenders--Chrystal, Todd, their parents, and Maniac the dog--and other items in illustrations of the family's visits to New York, Washington, D.C., Miami Beach, the Texas State Fair, Mount Rushmore, and Los ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Fire Under the Sea

    Joseph Cone

  • Firekill

    Ron Stillman

  • The Fireman's Wife and Other Stories

    Richard Bausch

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    Maureen Daly

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    Katherine Kendall

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  • The Flat Man

    Rose Impey

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    Laura Parker

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  • For Our Children

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    Nora Roberts

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    Bruce Wagner

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    Theresa Weir

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  • A Forever Man

    Sally Falcon

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    Jo Beverley

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  • The Fortune Teller and Other Tales

    Jim Razzi

  • Free Spirits

    Linda Randall Wisdom

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    Alice Kahn

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  • Garfield's Tales of Mystery

    Jim Davis

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  • Gate of Rage

    C.Y. Lee

    Charles Hong escapes China to settle in Hong Kong in the 1940s, leaving behind his son and eventually reuniting with the boy after the opening of China, only to be drawn into China's freedom movement that led to the massacre at Tiananmen Square...

  • Genie and the Witch's Spells

    Alice Low

  • A Gentleman of Leisure

    P.G. Wodehouse

    Jimmy Pitt, rich, generous, popular American bachelor, has fallen in love with an unknown girl on a transatlantic liner. He bets a friend at the Strollers Club in New York that he can break into a house. Unfortunately he selects the house of Police C...

  • Genuine Lies

    Nora Roberts

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    Bobbi Katz

  • The Gilded Cage

    Edith Layton

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    Teresa Edgerton

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  • Goblin Walk

    Tony Johnston

  • The Gold Bug Variations

    Richard Powers

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  • The Gold Watch

    Bernice Myers

  • Golden Gamble

    Patrice Lindsey

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  • The Golden Heart of Winter

    Marilyn Singer

  • Golden Prospect

    Shirley Parenteau

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  • Good Morning, Good Night

    Ivan Gantschev

  • Goody New Shoes

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Gretchen's A-B-C

    Gretchen Dow Simpson

  • The Gringo Amigo

    Gary McCarthy

    Seeking his fortune in the California Gold Rush, Michael W. Callahan, soon nicknamed the "Gringo Amigo," finds a friend in a young Mexican man, Joaquin Murieta, and when an unspeakable act drives Murieta on a mission of revenge, only the Gringo Amigo...

  • Grounded!

    Chris Claremont

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  • Guess Who's Just Moved in Next Door

    Colin McNaughton

  • Gunman's Chance

    Luke Short

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  • The Gypsy's Bride

    Rosalie Ash

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  • Hank And Oogie

    Nicki Weiss

  • Harold and Chester In Creepy-Crawly Birthday

    James Howe

    A creepy-crawly surprise! Harold the dog, Chester the cat, and Howie the dachshund puppy are excited for Toby''s birthday. Because birthdays mean parties, and parties mean presents. And best of all -- cake. But when the pets find seven...

  • Harry Gets an Uncle

    Barbara Ann Porte

  • He Wakes Me

    Betsy James

  • 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...

  • Heart of Darkness

    Richard Adams

  • Heat: And Other Stories

    Joyce Carol Oates

  • Hellfire

    Josh Edwards

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  • Her Grace's Passion

    Marion Chesney

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