Books Published in August 1994

New Books List: 521 titles

  • Beneath the Web

    Lynn Abbey

    As the Walensor Web, a magical artifact that joins together the souls of gods and humans, begins to die, only Berika, a young shepherdess with untried magical powers, can stop the destruction of her world. Original....

  • Dragon War

    Mark Acres

    Seeking to deliver their land from the reign of a tyrannical king, mortal thief Bagsby and elf-mage Shulana fulfill an ancient prophecy when they steal a set of mystical golden eggs and hatch the first dragons in more than five thousand years. Origin...

  • Dr. Nightingale Rides the Elephant

    Lydia Adamson

    MURDER AS HIGH AS AN ELEPHANT'S EYE Excitement is making Deirdre "Didi" Nightingale, D.V.M., feel like a child again. There'll be no sick cows today. No clinic. No rounds. She is going to the circus. But shortly after she becomes veterinarian on c...

  • Wacky Jacks

    David A. Adler

    Illus. in black-and-white. Super-sleuths Herman "Houdini" Foster and his cousin, Janet Perry, discover a mystery at school, and cards are not the only things to vanish. Has Houdini's skill in making things disappear transferred to the classroom pet? ...

  • Somewhere East of Life

    Brian W. Aldiss

    Burnell, a culture preservationist, travels throughout the world appealing to the masses to consider the detriment of war and human folly, and trying to locate a ten-year piece of his memory that has been stolen and sold as soft porn...

  • True Texas Love

    Thelma Alexander

    As the widow of a distinguished senator, Leigh Wright has spent the past three years accepting awards, serving on boards, and providing stability for her children. Now it's her turn to do something for herself: leave the Washington, D.C. limeligh...

  • What Will the Children Think?

    Trisha Alexander

    Caleb Mahoney was as seductive as sin - and entirely too tempting for widowed mom Margaret Desmond. The handsome bachelor was a few years younger than she, but no less mature when it came to other matters. With Caleb, Maggie suddenly found herself le...

  • Eggs

    Aliki

    A sea captain must depart in haste from the inn where he had eaten a meal of four fried eggs. He returns six years later to pay his debt and discovers that the innkeeper's menu has gone up considerably -- 500 gold pieces, he demands! But a clever law...

  • Keeper of the Stone

    Margaret Allan

    Maya was born to be keeper of the Mammoth Stone, the age-old talisman believed to protect the People of the Mammoth in their struggle for survival in the vastness of the prehistoric American West. But now another woman has taken her place, and Maya w...

  • Silver and Steel

    Susan Amarillas

    Worlds Apart Alex Moreau commanded respect both in the wilds of Montana and in Washington's political arenas. But when Mary Clancy rolled into town ready for a fight, Alex's ordered life was turned upside down. For here was a woman whose passion sti...

  • The Asylum

    John Edward Ames

    Welcome to the Cypress Island Clinic. Located on an isolated stretch of the Mississippi River, it is the brainchild of a brilliant chemist - an asylum for disturbed teenagers. No one really knows what goes on there. Except the patients. And for them,...

  • Who's Your Hot Star Dream Date?

    Amanda Anderson

    Provides a series of quizzes on the backgrounds and tastes of popular young male actors and singers--and a few of the characters they play--and suggests what they would be like as dates for the reader...

  • Eleanor

    Sylvia Andrew

    AN INDEPENDENT SPIRIT! Miss Eleanor Southeran was reliably informed that independence of mind was not a desirable quality in a young lady. But, convinced that she could not love any of the fashionable fribbles of the Ton, Eleanor had so far evaded...

  • Holy Terror

    Carolyn Anthony

    Religion and crime combine in twenty-six outstanding mystery stories by Agatha Christie, Tony Hillerman, John Mortimer, Ngaio Marsh, Frederick Forsyth, Ruth Rendell, Michael Gilbert, P. D. James, Ellis Peters, and Isaac Bashevis Singer, among others....

  • Heatwave

    Katherine Applegate

    Allowing herself to start caring for Tosh, Kate is alarmed when Justin returns, vowing to win her back, while Marta discovers that Dominic is responsible for the terrible event that changed her life, and Chelsea realizes she still needs Connor....

  • Stella's Bull

    Frances Arrington

    Although she has never seen--nor has anyone else--Stella's vicious bull, Mary Wilson knows that it is there, running amok every dark, rainy night, but when her schoolbook ends up behind the fence on Stella's land, Mary must confront her fears--and th...

  • Tractor Factory

    Steve Augarde

  • Mr. Vertigo

    Paul Auster

    An enduringly brilliant tale of trial and triumph, set in America in the 1920s, from the author of 4 3 2 1:  A NovelPaul Auster, the New York Times-bestselling author of The New York Trilogy, presents a dazzling, picaresque novel set in the late...

  • Rider, Reaper

    James Axler

    VENGEANCE TRAIL The red-baked mountains of New Mexico offer a peaceful interlude for Ryan Cawddr, and a reunion with Jak Lauren. But in the violent post-holocaust world of Deathlands, survival is a blood-soaked game--and Ryan's idyll becomes a mis...

  • Dark Angel

    Mary Balogh

    The Scandalous Suitor Miss Jennifer Winward was engaged to be wed. Even better, her husband-to-be was the dazzlingly handsome, impeccably upright Lord Lionel Kersey, the man of her dreams since girlhood. But Jennifer had never dreamed that a man l...

  • Alphabet Soup

    Kate Banks

    Illus. in full color. "A fantasy-adventure takes place at the lunch table when a disgruntled boy refuses to eat his soup and daydreams instead. His reverie is shaped by the letters he pulls out of his soup, forming words that come alive: bear, sword,...

  • Only for Love

    Elaine Barbieri

    When Gillian Haige's father dies, his only legacy is a mountain of debts. But never does the eighteen-year-old English beauty dream she'll end up in the dank hold of a ship bound for the Colonies ... as an indentured servant! And now her gentle twin ...

  • Maxi, the Hero

    Debra Barracca

    Maxi the taxi dog and his partner Jim, first introduced in The Adventures of Taxi Dog, once again make a virtuoso appearance in Mark Buehner's brilliant and joyous paintings depicting the warm and affectionate relationship between two best friends. H...

  • The Ancient One

    T.A. Barron

    When Kate travels to Blade, Oregon to spend a quiet vacation with her Aunt Melanie, she has no idea of the adventures that lie ahead. Blade, Oregon is the home of the magical Lost Crater, in which a grove of giant redwood trees has remained untouched...

  • The Bette Davis Murder Case

    George Baxt

  • Power Trio

    Philip Baxter

    Searching for a missing rock star, who has disappeared along with his music company's tapes just as they were preparing for a platinum release, recovery specialist Paul Desmond uncovers a bloody trail of bootlegging and murder. Original....

  • Forbidden Objects

    Valerie Townsend Bayer

    The third in the Marlborough Quartet of novels chronicling the secret history of the turbulent Forster family follows the hidden life and times of Emma, the most illustrious member of the clan, in a story of taboo, lust, and redemption....

  • Trail's End

    Frederic Bean

    Given the task of driving 1,200 longhorns from Mexico to Abilene along the Chisholm Trail, trail boss Buck Smith must contend not only with marauding outlaws, Indian attacks, storms, and stampedes, but also with his own unruly crew of cowboys. Origin...

  • Bloodletter

    Warren Newton Beath

    BRIGHT LIGHTS DARK PASSIONS After years of delays, the ultimate vampire movie is about to be filmed. But… The author is suicidal and possibly insane. He’s convinced his fictional vampire, the Bloodletter, is real. He may be right. The Bloo...

  • Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener

    M.C. Beaton

    Never say die. That's the philosophy Agatha Raisin clings to when she comes home to cozy Carsely and finds a new woman ensconced in the affections of her attractive bachelor neighbor, James Lacey. The beautiful newcomer, Mary Fortune, is superior in ...

  • Electric City

    K.K. Beck

    PRIVATE LIES A mousy, secretive researcher at a news clipping service who recently won $20,000 on Jeopardy! is missing. Who is Irene March? That's the answer (In the form of a question) facing Investigator Jane da Silva, who can collect on her ec...

  • Casting Couch

    Becky Bell

    Young Jason McIver is desperate to make it as a frontline actor. So, when he is invited to LA he is eager to seize his chance. Once in LA, Jason discovers a world of predatory feamales and he discovers that if he's going to make it, he has to first d...

  • User

    Bruce Benderson

    A New York City hustler with a special gift for reeling in customers, Apollo, 'a pale skinned mulatto with a mournful mouth' strips at a gay sex theatre in Times Square. He is one of the most seductive and disturbing creations in recent Ameri...

  • Wild Hearts on the Edge

    Cherie Bennett

    Sandra is torn when her real father, also a musician, comes for a visit, and her efforts to build their relationship are clouded by her family's opinion of him, her boyfriend's negativity, and alienation from her fellow band members. Original....

  • Sunset Illusions

    Cherie Bennett

  • Tori's Crush

    Cherie Bennett

    To prepare for the competition against Camp Bluewater, Tori becomes an assistant for the water ballet show, but she ends up doing all the work because Delores only wants to practice her solo, a situation that worsens when Tori falls for Delores's boy...

  • Fifty Ways to Be Your Lover

    Connie Bennett

    How did Matt Gallagher love her? With fuzzy stuffed animals and catered gourmet dinners... With fantastical origami swans... By having a maid magically appear at her door... By having a fife-and-drum corps serenade her down the street. Kate ...

  • New Kids on Campus

    J.P. Bergen

  • Media Madness

    J.T. Bergen

    Students at Middlefield Academy have different approaches to the projects for their new media class, creating intense competition among the newspaper, television, and radio journalists, and breaking up some old friendships....

  • Pumpkin Heads

    Lara Rice Bergen

  • Fireballs

    Dan Binchy

    In the continuing chronicles of Brulagh, the small southern Irish backwater first introduced in his internationally bestselling The Neon Madonna and The Last Resort, Dan Binchy delights again in the shenanigans of his now well-known characters in thi...

  • Hey, Cowboy, Wanna Get Lucky?

    Baxter Black

  • Bite of the Living Dead

    J.R. Black

    Josh has the scary job of trying to put some Zombies back to sleep, after he realizes that the decorations in his new backyard are really tombstones and their residents appear to be hungry for a human snack. Original....

  • A Vow of Penance

    Veronica Black

    SEASON OF PENANCE...AND MURDER. As the Lenten season of Penance is observed in the Convent of the Daughters of Compassion, Sister Joan finds herself struggling with her less-than-Christian feelings toward two very prickly personalities: the seriou...

  • Chutes and Adders

    Barbara Block

    Recently widowed Robin Light runs Noah's Ark, a Syracuse pet shop specializing in puppies and parakeets, bunnies and boas. Robin can't resist rescuing a stray kitten--or finding the vicious killer who set her up to take the rap...for murder. Deadl...

  • Natalya Gods Messenger

    Magda Bogin

    At the end of World War II, Rita, an unemployed riveter, purchases a palm-reading practice on New York's Lower East Side and is suddenly transformed into Natalya, God's Messenger, a true clairvoyant whose extraordinary gift costs her the man she love...

  • Three Is a Crowd // Three-Ring Circus

    D.B. Borton

    Cat Caliban relives the '60s in her search for a hippie killer. Not only does Cincinnati's smartest snoop and mother of three have to contend with her youngest daughter back home and in her hair, Cat also has an old friend who's been accused of murde...

  • Happy Birthday: A Pop-Up Treasury of World Birthday Legend and Lore

    Joan Bowden

  • The Blue Afternoon

    William Boyd

    "A perfect-pitch story of love and redemption" (The New York Times), Boyd's atmospheric new novel confirms his reputation as heir to the grand narrative traditions of Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham. In 1936 Los angeles, as her long-estranged fath...

  • Everything to Gain

    Barbara Taylor Bradford

    MALLORY KESWICK LIVED A PERFECT LIFE -- UNTIL THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPENED Mallory Keswick revels in the happiness she has found with her successful husband and their six-year-old twins. Living in Manhattan and Connecticut, she earns the love and resp...

  • Stand-In for Murder

    Lynn Bradley

    STRANGE BEDFELLOWS It all began when a very hung over Cole January stepped out of a warm bed and onto a stone-cold corpse -- a beautiful blonde in a slinky number that would have done his male ego proud if she had a pulse. She is identified as ...

  • Wait and See

    Virginia Bradley

    Eleven-year-old Amy Ryker, orphaned at two and raised by her grandfather, feels angry and abandoned, and when newcomer Violetta Mills, who has problems too, joins Amy's class, the two slowly become friends....

  • The Shadow of Silver Tip

    Max Brand

    Facing an enemy's return two years after leaving behind a wide trail of crime and murder, Sheriff Algernon Thomas struggles against an outlaw as untouchable as a ghost who threatens revenge against the cowboys of Silver Tip, and Thomas himself. Repri...

  • Prisoner of My Heart

    Paige Brantley

    Forced into a loveless marriage with King Philip's eldest son, Nicolette of Burgundy suddenly finds herself falsely accused of adultery... then imprisoned for life in the dreaded Chateau Gaillard! Her jailer is Laire de Fontenne, legendary commander...

  • My Dear Holmes: A Study in Sherlock

    Gavin Brend

  • On the Contrary

    Andre Brink

    The South Africa of 1739 provides the backdrop for the picaresque escapades of wandering adventurer Estienne Barbier as he searches for a lost treasure, seduces women, fosters rebellion, and tries to deal with the hypocrisy of the colonial leaders....

  • Web of Darkness

    Helen Brooks

    Getting even... Kane Steel had everything -- money, power. But it was all at the expense of Janie's father, and now she wanted revenge.... If only Kane wasn't as clever as he was handsome. No matter how hard Janie tried, she couldn'...

  • Shadows of Doubt

    Herb Brown

    At the behest of her birth mother, attorney and adoptee Kathleen Sullivan takes on the case of her newly discovered half-sister, Deb Garrison, accused by her husband of aborting her pregnancy and now indicted for his murder...

  • Riding Lesson

    Bonnie Bryant

    At first Carole, who has always wanted a sister, is delighted when Marie, the daughter of her father's girlfriend, comes to stay, but when Marie gets all the attention Carole grows jealous, and the Saddle Club tries to help....

  • Dixie City Jam

    James Lee Burke

    AS A CHILD HE WAS FRIGHTENED BY THE STORIES... It's out there, under the salt of the Gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana coast--a buried Nazi submarine. Detective Dave Robicheaux of the New Iberia Sheriff's office has known of its existence since chil...

  • Mind of My Mind

    Octavia E. Butler

    For four thousand years, an Immortal has spread the seeds of an evolutionary master race, using the downtrodden of the underclass as his private breeding stock. But now a young ghetto telepath has found the way to awaken -- and rule -- her superhuman...

  • Sarita

    Julie Caille
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    SENSIBLE SARITA Convinced that love is a myth, Lady Sarita aspires to a marriage of convenience...until she meets the darkly mysterious Robert, Marquess of Cheriton. From the moment they share a breathless kiss, reason falters...and romance flourish...

  • Neon Lit:city of Glass

    Bob Callahan

    From the creator of the highly acclaimed, widely successful graphic novels Maus and Maus II comes Neon Lit, an innovative series of graphic crime novels. First in the series is City of Glass, universally praised as a contemporary classic upon its pub...

  • The Baron and the Bookseller

    June Calvin

    The Innocent Seductress On the surface, Miss Gwynneth Dunlevvy seemed simply a sweet, shy young lady who ran a humble bookstore in the tiny town of Guilford. Few realized the ravishing beauty cloaked by her dowdy dresses. And no one knew of the le...

  • Pride's Last Race

    Joanna Campbell

    Race to the finish... Wonder's Pride has just had the best year of his life! First he ran to a stunning victory in the Breeders' Cup race. Then he was named Horse of the Year. Pride's trainers, Samantha McLean and Ashleigh Griffen, can't wait for the...

  • The Male Animal

    Suzanne Carey

    Marry in haste He says: "Sure, the attraction between Marcie and me is still incredible, but we just wanted different things from life. The quiet times at home were always the best ...just the two of us. Other people were the problem. If only ther...

  • The Gathering

    Isobelle Carmody

    Fifteen-year-old Nathaniel Delaney, a newcomer in Cheshunt, senses that something is very wrong and joins forces with a small group of new friends to defeat the age-old evil presence that holds the town in its horrific grip....

  • Deep Flight

    Scott Carpenter

    THE SWORD OF THE PACIFIC IS POISED TO STRIKE--IN A LIGHTNING BID FOR WORLD DOMINATION! Rick Tallman, Lieutenant Commander, USN, has been recalled to duty on the Steel Albatross, a sonar-proof stealth sub that has already revolutionized underwater ...

  • The Devil in Velvet

    John Dickson Carr

    Professor Nicholas Fenton enters a pact with Satan and goes back in time to bawdy, turbulent Restoration London to prevent a murder that is about to take place. But he falls in love with the intended victim and resolves to alter the course of history...

  • Black Beauty Keepsake

    M.J. Carr

  • Love Power

    Susan Carroll

    MR. MACHO Name: Jake Powers Turn-ons: Sleek, gorgeous women--like Liana Malone Turn-offs: Uptight, prissy women--like Liana Malone Favorite Romantic Interlude: Wine, candlelight, music--and Liana Malone Okay, so stressed-out lady engineers a...

  • Harry and Arney

    Judith Caseley

    The return of "Hurricane Harry" and the rest of the popular Kane family finds Mrs. Kane about to have a baby, which stirs up some contradictory feelings in young Harry, until he decides that it will be a boy....

  • Courting Season

    Jo Anne Cassity

    WAS IT TOO LATE FOR THEIR LOVE? MEGAN: She came to the bustling town of Boonville, Missouri, to work as a veterinarian -- and to seek out a man from her past... JIM: The deputy sheriff's life -- and his heart -- were overturned when Megan H...

  • Imagining Isabel

    Omar S. Castaneda

  • Truths and Roses

    Inglath Caulder

    Re-Released in 2012 as Inglath Cooper HOMETOWN HERO Super Bowl hero Will Kincaid was at a crossroads. After a serious knee injury brought an abrupt end to his football career, he returned home to contemplate his future. But once there, he fou...

  • Shields of Pride

    Elizabeth Chadwick

    Their love defied the treachery surrounding them.... 1173. King Henry's efforts to crush his rebellious sons ignite bloody border skirmishes throughout the land. Yet it is a time of triumph for mercenary Joscelin de Gael, the bastard son of th...

  • Disappearance at Harmony Festival

    Eileen Charbonneau

    Eagerly anticipating the Harmony Festival, where she is to perform with her friend, Rising Fawn Reed, Linda Tassel is baffled by Rising Fawn's disappearance and joins forces with Tad Gist to find her before it is too late. Original....

  • Face of an Angel

    Denise Chavez

    Last in a long line of long-suffering women, once-divorced, once-widowed Soveida Dosamantes reflects on her 30 years as a waitress at the El Farol Mexican restaurant. Looking back, she hears a rich chorus of Latino voices whose touching, funny and sa...

  • Back in Society

    Marion Chesney

    The Poor Relation hotel is the toast of London, its guests are paying hard cash, and its owners are preparing to sell up and return to a life of quality. But one last romantic adventure awaits them. Lady Fortescue and her friends, newly attired in...

  • Aloha

    Mark Christensen

    When the unbalanced Crawford brothers inherit a fortune, Frank schemes to set off an underwater volcano to create a private Hawaiian island, and sends Tod to the former Soviet Union to purchase nuclear explosives...

  • Debt of Honor

    Tom Clancy

    In retrospect, it would seem an odd way to start a war . . . The end of history. The new world order. Fine phrases, but as Jack Ryan is about to discover, history isn't dead yet - and only the nature of the threat is new. On the Pacific island of S...

  • Snagged

    Carol Higgins Clark

    Murder at a Miami panty-hose convention? It's a perfect case for a sleuth with panache and great legs. Coming to trendy South Beach for a wedding, Regan Reilly meets the bride's favorite relative, the seventy-something Uncle Richie. He's also headed ...

  • Tender Heart

    Gwen Cleary

    Pursued by her past... Forced into marriage with a wealthy stranger, Hannah Turner scandalized St. Louis society by running away from her brutal husband. Now, with nothing but a ticket West, Hannah boarded a train for Sacramento...never dreaming s...

  • Dark of the Eye

    Douglas Clegg

    A girl named Hope becomes the prey in a monstrous hunt in this chilling supernatural thriller from New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg. A tragic accident leaves young Hope Stewart with an extraordinary power that is both blessing and curs...

  • The Long Way Home

    Robert J. Conley

    Planning an expedition for gold, ruthless Spaniard Hernando De Soto journeys towards the northern tribe of the Cherokee, accompanied by Deadwood Lighter, an Indian slave who dreads the perilous quest but hopes for a chance to escape....

  • Starfire

    Phoebe Conn

    He is Dez Sanchez --- brilliant space pilot --- about to take on the greatest challenge of his career. She is Blaise Quinn --- beautiful rebel Skychild --- ready to risk her life to find her vanished twin brother. From the gentle planet Aurora to the...

  • When I Grow Bigger

    Trish Cooke

  • She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain

    Emily Coplon

  • The Seventh Sunrise

    Judy Cornwell

    Three women, their lives intertwined, are forced to live a lie. Zarah, an Eurasian, is denying her Indian origins; Sybil, a Jewess, is passing as a gentile; Leda, an Englishwoman, escapes a loveless marriage by mysticism. Fate takes each of the women...

  • The Dobie Paradox

    Desmond Cory

    Eccentric mathematics professor John Dobie and his rather more practical girlfriend, Dr. Kate Coyle, are braving an Atlantic gale to visit a patient in a local clinic when they find a comatose young girl lying by the roadside. Despite their best effo...

  • The Ghost in the Big Brass Bed

    Bruce Coville

    When sixth grader Nina Tanleven starts working at an antiques shop, she never expects to stumble onto a mystery -- or into danger. But that's exactly what happens when she and her best friend, Chris, go to pick up an antique wardrobe at old Miss Wats...

  • The Wrath of Squat

    Bruce Coville

    WHAT IS SQUAT’S EVIL PLAN? When Blork is declared a hero and invited to the Galactic Celebration, his old enemy, Squat, decides it is time to take revenge. With the help of his personal mad scientist, Squat hatches a plan to humiliate Blork in fro...

  • William Shakespeare's The Tempest

    Bruce Coville

    The fantastic monsters, spirits, and magic in the ever-popular play about love, justice, and revenge are introduced to young readers in a dramatic retelling of one of Shakespeare's most famous plays. By the author of The Unicorn Treasury. ...

  • Collinsville High

    Lynn Craig

    Katelyn tells her diary about her busy fall semester, including being elected to student council, deciding to keep God and prayer in the Forever Friends club, and realizing that she and her pal Jon are becoming more than just friends....

  • Dark Apollo

    Sara Craven

    Seduced! Nic Xandreou thought Katie was a gold digger, out to trap his brother into marriage. Camilla knew her sister better and was determined to champion her cause even if it meant a visit to Xandreou's stronghold on the island of Karthos. ...

  • My Fairytales

    Victoria Crenson

  • Mail-Order Outlaw

    Millie Criswell

    WANTED: BIDDABLE, PASSIVE HUSBAND... New York debutante Cassandra Templeton was bound and determined to get married -- to anyone besides the insufferable fool her domineering father had chosen for her. Her plan was ingenious and simple: she'd place ...

  • Deadlock

    William Cross

    Alex and Jenny Gregory come to the tiny rural town of Picksburg, West Virginia, in search of a peaceful life and a safe environment to raise children, but their dreams are transformed into a nightmare by a backwoods family with evil schemes of their ...

  • Love & Sleep

    John Crowley

    An occult historian’s journey of discovery continues in the second volume of this renowned literary fantasy series by “a deliciously elegant writer†(Kirkus).In The Solitudes, John Crowley introduced readers to Pierce Moffett, a scholar whose a...

  • Spilling the Beans

    Beth Cruise

    After Lindsay and her friends get the school newspaper going again, Scott decides to use his position as horoscope writer to help his friends get the dates of their dreams, only to discover that there is more to romance than astrology. Original....

  • Trouble Ahead

    Beth Cruise

  • Best Friend's Girl

    Beth Cruise

  • The Freshman Frenzy

    Beth Cruise

    The "Saved by the Bell" gang has moved on to college, but they soon discover that adjusting to campus life is not always easy, as they cope with classes, sports, homesickness, and romance gone awry. Original....

  • White Eye

    Blanche D'Alpuget

    Animal rights activist Diana Pembridge is embroiled in a tangle of scientific corruption and sexual scandal when her friend, scientist Carolyn Williams, is found murdered, and chief scientist John Parker will go to any lengths to protect his deadly s...

  • A Fit of Tempera

    Mary Daheim

    Framed Pity poor Judith McMonigle Flynn! Taking a much-needed break from Hillside Manor, she and irrepressible cousin Renie have barely set foot in their family's backwoods vacation cottage--and already they're having a brush with the local law. ...

  • Lament for a Dead Cowboy

    Catherine Dain

    A RUGGED LIFE...AND A SUDDEN DEATH Freddie didn't know what to expect when she arrived in Elko to attend a gathering of cowboy poets. What she found was actual cowboys--and cowgirls--reciting verse, drinking whiskey, and catching up with old buddies...

  • Face Up to Love

    Nikki Danner

    Always too busy with art to worry about boys or looks, Amanda Lindsay splurges on a complete make-over to attract handsome Jordan Michaels and suddenly becomes popular with the whole school, but at a high cost. Original....

  • The Ranger Man

    Sheryl Danson

    SHE LASSOED HIM IN THE PRODUCE SECTION! New York ad exec Julia Adams went shopping for the perfect mango -- what she found was the perfect man for her campaign. Chance Palladin had cowboy written all over him. His jeans were soft, his thighs were ...

  • Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection

    Ellen Datlow

  • Need

    Lawrence David

    In this novel of psychological drama and suspense, a psychiatrist, her patient and the psychiatrist's husband become involved in a love triangle. Dr. Pamela Thompson believes that Joan Dwyer's therapy is going nowhere. Joan can't get over the fact...

  • A Trusting Heart

    Helena Dawson

    'You keep insisting on how wrong I've been in my assessment of your character. Well, now you can prove it!' Armando Conti threw down the gauntlet to Jenny with all the arrogance and haughty disdain she'd come to expect of him. From...

  • In Self Defense

    Saranne Dawson

    And justice for all... A series of threatening letters triggered Jessica Aylesworth's recurring nightmares and spilled into her waking fears. As public defender, she believed passionately in law and order, but she'd do anything to save her...

  • Latin Satins

    Terri de la Pena

    The prize-winning author of Margins tells the joyous, spicy story of a group of Chicana singers--their love affairs, affection for one another, and dedication to their music--and tackles issues such as racism, homophobia, and AIDS. Original. ...

  • Leona: A Love Story

    Elizabeth Borton De Trevino

    At the age of sixteen, Leona Vicario, a heroine of the Mexican struggle for independence, falls in love with a lawyer who becomes a revolutionary, drawing her into a decision that will affect history, in a real-life historical love story....

  • Southern Cross

    Jim Debrosse

    An all-expense-paid trip to the Caribbean offers a much-needed distraction to Cincinnati investigative reporter Rick Decker. Justin Grammer, the black-sheep scion of one of Cincinnati's most socially prominent families, has disappeared from a cruise ...

  • Tricks and Treats

    Judy Delton

    As Halloween approaches, Mrs. Peters puts the Pee Wees to work earning their treats by writing scary stories, making costumes, and bringing food to the local food bank -- all for the less fortunate kids in town....

  • The Mortician's Apprentice

    Rick DeMarinis

  • Scorpianne

    Emily Devenport

    Determined to unlock the deadly secrets of illegal biotech research, Lucy finds herself with a new identity on a planet on the brink of rebellion, stalked by a mysterious assassin known only by the name Scorpianne. Original....

  • Deadly Engagement

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Searching for Sanjay, the son of a New York City jeweler, the boys learn that Sanjay is planning to elope with the niece of his father's archenemy, and that ten thousand dollars in gold is also missing. Original....

  • The Counterfeit Gentleman

    Charlotte Louise Dolan

    STOOPING TO BE CONQUERED Miss Bethia Pepperell owed her life to the dark and handsome stranger who called himself Digory Rendel and who had fished her out of the sea. That, however, did not mean she should give him her heart in return. It was unth...

  • Summer's Storm

    Denise Domning

    NEITHER SWORDS NOR BETRAYAL COULD STOP THEIR FORBIDDEN LOVE Lady Phillipa of Lindhurst had been a prisoner in her husband's castle since her arrival there as a child bride. His current absence gave her a respite from his cruelty and a chance to ve...

  • Cover Story

    Jane Donnelly

    "He's not my type!" Newspaper boss Adam Shofield didn't normally have problems attracting women. Rich, successful dynamic, he had most of the qualities that appealed to the opposite sex. But Millie was impervious to his charms...

  • Taratuta and Still Life With Pipe

    Jose Donoso

    These striking novellas are the witty crystallizations of José Donoso's concerns over a lifetime of writing.

    In them he poses many of the questions raised by his fellow Latin American writers, Fuentes, García Marquez, and Vargas Llosa: What ...

  • Seal Team Seven

    Keith Douglass

    OPERATION SUN HAMMER As twin torpedoes from a renegade Iranian sub streak into the hull of their escort ship, the crew of the Yuduki Maru looks on in horror... Their cargo includes two tons of weapons-grade plutonium. And now, with enough nuke ...

  • A Nice Steady Job

    Gregory Dowling

    When Sir Alfred Aimslet hires January Esposito to investigate the disappearance of his son, Piers, Jan's peaceful days of teaching English in Verona come to an abrupt end. Jan learns that Piers has lately been running with a crowd suspected of being ...

  • Jimmy's Snowy Book

    Paul Dowling

    In an imaginative follow-up to Jimmy's Sunny Book, Jimmy and his puppy return to play in the snow, as young readers can pull tabs to make the snow tumble down or make the sun melt the snow away....

  • Hear No Evil

    Susan Drake

    SHADOWS AND LIGHT Painting was Molly Light's passion, her refuge from a silent world. And her work had now won her one of the highest awards any artist could aspire to--and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to paint under the brilliant azure skies ...

  • The Door into Sunset

    Diane Duane

    Only Freelorn, the banished Prince of Arlen, can rescue the dying land of Arlen from the usurper king and the evil that threatens it, by rediscovering a missing ritual, lost at the time of Freelorn's father's murder. Reprint....

  • High Fall

    Susan Dunlap

    LONG WAY DOWN She was lithe, blond, and nineteen. And as she ran toward the edge of the cliff, stuntwoman Lark Sondervoil was running toward history: the first person to duplicate the famous gravity-defying Gaige Move, a sure way to Hollywood stun...

  • The Captain's Inheritance

    Carola Dunn

    WHEN LOVE TAKES COMMAND... Lady Constantia Roworth had no fortune and didn't give a fig about rank. But her father, the Earl of Westwood, expected his offspring to make matches that befitted their station -- or enriched the family coffers. Alas, Cap...

  • This Side Of Judgment

    J.R. Dunn

    Investigating two sloppy crimes, a murder and a bank computer intrusion, Washington COSSF agent Ross Bohlen finds a connection between the seemingly unrelated incidents in a cybernetically enhanced person who is presumed dead. Reprint....

  • Playland

    John Gregory Dunne

    A critically acclaimed best-seller set in the glamorous, gangster-dominated Hollywood of the 1940s tells the story of Blue Tyler, a child star who disappears from Hollywood and becomes a bag lady in New York City....

  • Dun Lady's Jess

    Doranna Durgin

    Finding a strange woman on their property, Dayna and Eric learn that she has been accidentally transformed from her original shape of a horse and desperately seeks her missing rider for fear that her human side will forget her purpose...

  • Savage Spirit

    Cassie Edwards

    Life in the Arizona Territory had prepared Alicia Cline to expect the unexpected. Brash and reckless, she dared to take on renegades and bandidos. But the warm caresses and soft words of an Apache cheiftain threatened her vulnerable heart more than a...

  • Moles Can Dance

    Richard Edwards

  • Leap of Faith

    Rachel Elliot (1)

    A modern-day pirate? Tessa has come to Jersey to rescue her friend Ralph Duval. But when his notorious brother Marc decides she's the perfect lure to bring Ralph out of hiding, Tessa begins to think she's the one who needs rescuing! Mar...

  • Cold, Cold Heart

    James Elliott

    He's a Russian defector given a new life in America by the U.S. government. Now he's exploded into violence--driven by a mad lust to kill young women.

    An embarrassed CIA knows it must stop him--and that only one man can do the job.  But form...

  • The Marriage Scheme

    Kathleen Elliott

    CUPID'S TANGLE While her friends dreamed of weddings, Georgia Canning aspired to scholarship. Indeed, the only marriage she imagined was one that would see her widowed mother safely settled. And since Mama and her admirer had yet to resolve th...

  • The Evening of Adam

    Alice Thomas Ellis

    This collection of short stories offers a series of insights into the failures of communication and expectation between men and women, and the complex web of motives which dominates our hidden, interior lives. Alice Thomas Ellis is the author of "The...

  • The Informers

    Bret Easton Ellis

    In this seductive and chillingly nihilistic novel, Bret Easton Ellis, bestselling author of American Psycho, returns to Los Angeles, the city whose moral badlands he first surveyed in Less Than Zero. His characters go to the same schools and eat at t...

  • Lone Star and the Sierra Diablos

    Wesley Ellis

    Ki's stalking a gang that's taken lives, land -- and Jessie!Kidnapped by the henchmen of ruthless Texas land baron Antonio Vargas after she witnesses his shooting, Jessie Starbuck's only hope of escape from her abductors and depraved gang leader Swan...

  • Moonlight Madness

    John R. Erickson

    Slim rescues an orphan raccoon, and much to Hank's dismay, everyone on the ranch is enchanted with the "cute" baby coon with the beady little eyes and amazing little hands. Yet little do they know that every time midnight rolls around, Eddy the Rac i...

  • Simple Passion

    Annie Ernaux

    WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA New York Times Notable BookIn her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion.Blurring the line between fact and fiction, a...

  • A Simple Twist of Fate

    Mary Ann Evans

    A man realizes that his baby is the result of his wife's affair and leaves her. Embittered, he lives by himself in a small town. A single mother collapses and dies, whilst her toddler finds her way into the man's house. He adopts her, not realizing t...

  • Longarm and the Gallagher Gang

    Tabor Evans

  • Longarm on the Santee Killing Grounds

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm tracks a killer arsonist responsible for the destruction of a Denver rooming house, the murder of its inhabitants, and the theft of a fortune in treasury notes into Santee country, where hostile Indians are primed to protect their land. Origi...

  • Scandal's Reward

    Jean R. Ewing

    DEVILISH DELIGHT Catherine Hunter was enjoying a last stroll on the moors before she left her father's vicarage to become a paid companion to Lady Montagu. Spying the approaching horseman, Catherine had only meant to warn him of the bog; instead, ...

  • Backtrail

    Elizabeth Fackler

  • A Man's Touch

    Debra Falcon

    He's strong, yet sensitive. Tough, yet tender. Rugged, yet incurably romantic. He's your perfect lover, your fantasy hero. Now, discover his most intimate desires and secret dreams as he sweeps you on a breathtaking journey into adventure ...

  • The Secret Code

    Erica Farber

  • Top Dog

    Erica Farber

  • Purple Kiss

    Erica Farber

    LC tries to find out who sent him a valentine signed with only a purple kiss....

  • Surf's Up

    Erica Farber

  • In Dolphin Time

    Diane Farris

    "A day you discover dolphins in your pocket is a day of wonder...a day of delight."So it is when the narrator of In Dolphin Time tries to make such dolphins comfortable in the tub, find the right foods (artichokes, anyone?) and listen to their storie...

  • Mother on the Wing

    Marie Ferrarella

    Happy Landings! Frank Harrigan was having a vacation nightmare, complete with lost tickets, an emergency landing and missed connections. But when sexy pilot Donna McCollough literally fell into his lap, his mishaps were instantly forgotten. Wid...

  • Harlequin and the Green Dress

    Laura Fischetto

    A beautiful gown forms the focus of activity for the zany characters that introduce young readers to the Commedia del l'arte and the history of comic theater, along with a map, a list of stock characters, and historical notes....

  • Silver Angel

    Phoebe Fitzjames

    Haunted by her tragic past, Boston-born-and-bred Bridey Calloway is a woman in search of a new life. That's why she just traveled all the way to Potluck, Arizona to claim her surprising, if modest, inheritance. But as the reluctant proprietress o...

  • Fisher

    Douglas Florian

  • Mindwarp

    James Follett

    There is a legendary place in the culture of Arama whose origins are lost in pre-history. It is a place outside the caverns of the free world, peopled with demons and the damned, a place called The Outdoors. Jenine and Ewen believe that it exists, an...

  • The Rogue's Revenge

    Olivia Fontayne

    A vengeful heart is surprised by love... After the tragic news of her brother's demise, Lady Penelope Ashington awaits the arrival of the new head of the household. Once ensconced in Laughton Abbey, Nicholas Bellington proves the most insuffer...

  • Beyond Malice

    R.A. Forster

    Defending her ne'er-do-well sister in what appears to be an open-and-shut murder trial, attorney Amanda Cross and her handsome assistant-for-hire must overcome an unfortunate lack of experience and even less fortunate lack of leads....

  • The Devil's Saddle

    Norman A. Fox

    Tracking the efforts of a gold-searching sharpshooter who holds the key to a legendary trove, rough-riding cowhands Rowdy Dow and Stumpy Grampis monitor her abduction by a murderous band, and uncover an unexpected treasure that promises danger. Reiss...

  • Foreign Foes

    Dave Galanter

    The Hidran race and the Klingon Empire have been at each other's throats for seventy years, and Captain Jean-Luc Picard has been asked to do the near-impossible: take the U.S.S. Enterpriseâ"¢ to the planet Velex to mediate a treaty that will end the ...

  • Seafire

    John E. Gardner

    James Bond is back in action, with Flicka von Grusse at his side and his licence to kill renewed once more. His target is Sir Maxwell Tarn: a businessman whose legitimate empire spans the globe, whose wealth is uncountable . . . and who appears to de...

  • I Never Knew Your Name

    Sherry Garland

    Saddened and puzzled by the suicide of a teenage neighbor, a small boy remembers the teenager playing basketball alone, feeding pigeons, and caring for a stray dog--and is sorry he did not try to make friends with him....

  • People of the Lakes

    Kathleen O'Neal Gear; W. Michael Gear

    Set in what will become Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky and Michigan, People of the Lakes is another spellbinding epic in New York Times and USA Today bestelling authors' W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear's North America's Forgotten past saga. Clan ...

  • Crime Story

    Maurice Gee

    A novel by an award-winning New Zealand author which spans politics and high finance, and asks questions about the perpetrators and victims of crime, and about the price of greed and personal isolation. It features a confrontation between a petty thi...

  • Peggy Sue Got Murdered // Girl Missing

    Tess Gerritsen

    IF YOU KNEW PEGGY SUE... M.J. Novak, a wisecracking, streetwise medical examiner, thinks she's seen it all. Then a red-haired woman named Peggy Sue mysteriously dies--the first victim of what may be an epidemic. M.J.'s only clue is a matchbook cle...

  • Shark in School

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    When his neighbor J. P. informs new student Matthew Jackson that the kids in their class are terrible and the teacher is known as The Shark, Matthew dreads beginning school and must tackle a difficult assignment. Reprint....

  • College Bound

    Mel Gilden

    A Malibu beach vacation follows the gang's struggles with their college acceptances and rejections, new romances, moving away from home, separation from each other, and prospects for the future. Original....

  • My Brother Blubb

    Mel Gilden

  • Visitations of the Night

    Richard Gilliam

  • Julian Jiggs to the Rescue

    Phoebe Gilman

  • Perfect Timing

    Theresa Gladden

    He made her believe she was beautiful -- and she was.... Jenny Johnson wasn't looking for a new husband, no matter how many hunks her sister sent her way, but Carter Dalton's cobalt-blue eyes mesmerized her into letting his daughter join h...

  • Adopted By the Eagles

    Paul Goble

    Stunning full-color portraits of the wildlife and landscapes of the Great Plains complement a dramatic retelling of a Lakota tale of treachery and adventure. By the Caldecott Medalist for The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses. ...

  • The Good Husband

    Gail Godwin

    "[A] BRILLIANT, WITTY AND PROVOCATIVE NEW NOVEL."
    --San Francisco Chronicle
    As a young woman, the brilliant and eternally curious Magda Danvers took the academic world by storm. Then, to everyone's surprise, she married Francis Lake, a mild, mi...

  • Christmas Story

    Josse Goffin

  • Halloween: Big Coloring Book

    Golden Books

  • Cynthia

    Leila Prince Golding

    Cynthia Carlson felt as though her life had fallen apart her long-time boyfriend had broken off their relationship, her college studies seemed lifeless-So when Cynthia is offered a position as a fire-watcher in a secluded forest tower, she jumps at t...

  • Fashionably Late

    Olivia Goldsmith

    All of designer Karen Kahn's dreams seem to be coming true. She's been honored with the fashion industry's most coveted award, her marriage is thriving, and some very impressive money is being dangled in front of her in a proposed buy-out deal. The o...

  • Wizard's First Rule

    Terry Goodkind

    A SWORD OF TRUTH TO DESTROY A PRINCE OF LIES Twilight has fallen upon the Three Kingdoms: a grey time that could foretell either dawn or descent into bitter night. Richard Cypher, woodsman and warrior, is chosen to bear the powerful Sword of Truth...

  • Seduced by Innocence

    Lucy Gordon

    Terri Wainwright's ice-princess fake hid a depth of passion that no man had ever touched -- but that Maurizio Vanzani could set afire with a look from his intense eyes. Still, Terri had no time to get involved with any man. She had cone to Venice...

  • A Few Dying Words

    Paula Gosling

    Every year, the normally staid citizens of Blackwater Bay celebrate Halloween with a carnival of madness and laughter â€" they call it the Howl. Practical jokes are the speciality of the day and every town in the county competes for the wildest ‘H...

  • Runaway

    Heather Graham

    "I accepted you as payment on a gambling table because you're incredibly beautiful and I want you for the same reason." His smoldering gaze claimed her long before a poker hand made her his. Tara Brent knew she could never escape this dark and br...

  • Where Old Bones Lie

    Ann Granger

    Meredith Mitchell has joined her friend, archaeologist Ursula Gretton, in the Cotswold village farmland, digging for the old bones of Saxon warriors. But it's the discovery of some very new bones that brings Inspector Alan Markby to the ancient buria...

  • Angels & Awakening

    Cameron M. Grey

  • Pretty Babies

    Julia Grice

    Placed in a seemingly ideal foster home after running away from her addict mother, young Dani discovers a terrible secret about her adoptive father that compels her to kidnap her infant sister. Reprint....

  • The Calling

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Faye Summer has been haunted by a three-thousand-year-old-murdered Egyptian princess, one of the five daughters of Nefertiti and the doomed pharaoh Akhenaton, since she was a young girl...and has glimpsed her desperate ghostly face in darkened mirror...

  • The Wind Casts No Shadow

    Roslynn Griffith

    Despite her best intentions, schoolteacher Frances MacDonnell -- stranded in the New Mexico territory -- is irresistibly drawn to half-Indian gunslinger Chaco Jones, the man who accidentally shot down her new husband. ONLY THE GUNSLINGER WHO KILL...

  • Gumpisms

    Winston Groom

  • Hurricane Hero

    Martha Gross

    Divorced eight years ago after a long and stormy marriage, Penny and Mitch Revere decide to be "civilized" about selling the Coral Gables house they still jointly own. They even plan a "reunion" dinner there... just for old times'...

  • The Book of Intimate Grammar

    David Grossman

    With The Book of Intimate Grammar, leading Israeli novelist David Grossman gives us the story of the greatest and most universal tragedy, the loss of the world of childhood. At twelve, Aron Kleinfeld is the ringleader among the boys in his Jerusalem ...

  • Saturday Market

    Patricia Grossman

    "This well-designed book successfully combines text and vibrant artwork to portray the cultural richness of the Zapotec people and bring to life a Saturday market in a town in Oaxaca, Mexico. The story is simply written in carefully crafted words tha...

  • All Fall Down

    Lee Gruenfeld

    Within hours after a passenger jet nearly crashes in a Washington State fog, the National Transportation Safety Board receives a demand for $5 million. The extortionist's threat: to electronically scramble the brains of virtually any aircraft flying ...

  • Better Place

    Barbara Hall

    A Southern novel in the tradition of Anne Tyler and Anne Rivers Siddons, A Better Place marks the adult fiction debut of one of television's most successful and creative writers In an attempt to discover why her life hasn't worked out the way she...

  • Go For It, Patti!

    Katy Hall

    Moving to Illinois from Texas, Patti hopes that she can make it onto the Paxton squad and continue the cheerleading she has loved all her life, but fears her partner's inability to perform a split will be a big problem...

  • Benjamin Franklin and a Case of Artful Murder

    Robert Lee Hall

    Ben Franklin becomes immersed in London's fashionable--and sometimes deadly--art world when Europe's most famous diamond disappears from an artist's studio and the wealthy Lady Shenstone hires the American agent to investigate. Reprint....

  • Waiting Game

    Diana Hamilton

    "Face the truth. You want me as I want you." Saul Ackerman changed his girlfriends as often as he changed his shirts. Rich, successful and attractive, he had no shortage of women waiting to share his life. And he assumed that Fenella was a...

  • Fabia's Choice

    Violet Hamilton

    HE WAS AN OFFICER...BUT WAS HE A GENTLEMAN? The calendar said Spring, but a cold wind chilled Dorsetminster's daffodils and Miss Fabia Thurston. Yearning for her balmy childhood home in the West Indies, the nineteen-year-old orphan took a miss...