Books Published in August 1994

New Books List: 521 titles

  • Crimson Green

    Bruce Zimmerman

    THE WOULD-BE CHAMPION'S FINAL ROUND With twenty million television viewers glued to their seats, Brad Helfan is one stroke away from capturing the U.S. Open Champion-ship in a nerve-shattering upset. But in a sudden hail of gunfire, he comes in d...

  • Pete's Chicken

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Shadows in the Mist

    Karen Young

    THE O'CONNORS Ryan O'Connor wanted his privacy. He wanted to lick his wounds and learn to forget. What he didn't want was a boy, a dog, his grandmother, his ex-wife, Joanna, and another woman invading his island sanctuary. But that's exactly what ...

  • A Aga

    Jake Gordon Young

  • Whitefish Will Rides Again!

    Arthur Yorinks

  • Whispered Words

    Catherine Wyatt

    As the Chicago Daily Star's first female crusading reporter, Emily McKay vowed to expose the graft and corruption that ran rampant through the city. Yet from the moment she collided with Quinn Stoddard, Emily knew her battle was just beginning. Born ...

  • Time Fix: And Other Tales of Terror

    Don L. Wulffson

    A spine-tingling collection of eight horrifying tales reveals the scary side of normal reality, including a story of phone pranks played on an old lady and the tale of Dr. Feller's time-fix television, which sees the past and the future....

  • The Mountain Rose

    Jessica Wulf

    With her dog running alongside, Susannah eased her wagon down the Colorado mountainside high above the white waters of the raging river. In this valley she'd staked her claim to the future - and her cherished dreams of independence. She never suspect...

  • The Book Chase

    Jacqueline Woodson

    The young detective team from the public television program, Ghostwriter, is on the case when a prized family heirloom and a rare copy of Frederick Douglass's autobiography disappear at a family reunion. Original....

  • On Halloween Night

    Ferida Wolff

  • Countdown to Halloween

    Dan Witkowski

  • How to Haunt a House

    Dan Witkowski

  • Double Jeopardy

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    LOVE ME... As a one-man crusader against violence and abuse in a small desert town outside L.A., Assistant District Attorney Josh Brandon has helped a lot of women. Now he has a new admirer. She sends flowers. Leaves messages on his answering machin...

  • Bride of My Heart

    Rebecca Winters

    Guilty! Of loving a married man... Nickie's been in love with Miguel Aldabe--secretly, hopelessly in love--for as long as she can remember. Hopelessly because Miguel, who belongs to Nevada's close-knit Basque community, has been trapped in...

  • Breaking the Rules

    Ruth Wind

    IN TOO DEEP Mattie O'Neal was on the run. She'd stolen a car, cut off her hair, changed her name and was slinging hash in a small Arizona town. She thought she was safe--until Zeke Shephard walked through the door. His rugged, muscled body set ...

  • Lightning Strikes

    Jean Wilson

    Maggie had been warned that Colorado was a dangerous place. Now, alone by a campfire, she saw a stranger coming out of the shadows. He'd been shot, and he wanted food and a horse. But he was about to find something he wanted even more. Geoffrey Wexfo...

  • A True Blue Knight

    Roseanne Williams

    A BAD BOY WITH A BADGE Tomasina Walden avoided cops - especially ones that looked like Detective Brogue Donovan. In Tomasina's opinion, loving a man in a uniform wasn't worth the risk. So why did she have an irrepressible desire to see Brogue out ...

  • Wild Horses, Wild Men

    Ann Williams

    JURY OF ONE... Ty Yancy was a scorned man, a dangerous cowboy...a murderer! Or so the people of Rainville, Montana, thought. Everyone, that is, except Lee Ann Newley. For some reason she believed in him, despite the scandalous whispers that brande...

  • Gold and Glitter

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    WHAT IF... When cowboy Michael Spencer came to work for Libby Carter, she tried to quell her unwanted attraction to his rugged, sexy looks. His deep love for the young daughter he was raising alone make him even more appealing. But he was a man w...

  • Until Death

    Polly Whitney

    MURDER BEFORE DAWN "Morning Watch" TV co-anchor Connie Candela sits poised and ready for her cue. Her makeup and clothes are perfect. She doesn't fidget, or breathe. She is, in fact dead. Co-workers Abby Abagnarro and Ike Tygart are horrified--...

  • Arms of the Magnolia

    Amanda Wheeler

    When Rae Montgomery accepts a new consulting job, her passion for her new business partner involves her in scandal and extortion, and forces her to risk everything--as a witness for the prosecution--when her lover's fiance+a7e is murdered. Original....

  • Picture Puzzler

    Kathleen Westray

    Demonstrating why we cannot always believe our eyes, this collection of intriguing illusions features afterimages and blind spots, reversible pictures, and tricky comparisons. Kathleen Westray introduces young children to the wonderful world of optic...

  • Sunrise

    Chassie West

    Returning to her childhood home in North Carolina in order to escape the harsh realities of big-city police work, Leigh Ann Warren is unwittingly drawn into a local murder mystery involving a mall's construction on top of a cemetery. Reissue....

  • The Curse of the Calico Cat

    Ellen Weiss

  • Witch Dance

    Peggy Webb

    AN EXQUISITE WOMAN OF IVORY AND JADE She'd come to Witch Dance, Oklahoma, to bring modern medicine to the native Chickasaw people. But when Dr. Kate Malone saw the magnificent Indian rising from the river, naked as sin and twice as tempting, every t...

  • Deep in the Bayou

    Joanna Wayne

    Was he captor or savior? When Melissa Bentley was kidnapped at gunpoint by a man whose haunted eyes penetrated hers, whose hands shook as he held her captive, she thought she knew what she was up against. But when her abductor saved her life, she ...

  • Deadly Devotion

    Patricia Wallace

    WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS... It was a gracious home in a lovely San Diego neighborhood. The baby's expensive toys filled the nursery. But as Sydney Bryant moved around the room, videotaping every inch of space, she could feel the terror... see the blo...

  • A Sweet Refrain

    Margie Walker

    When jazz musician and widower Nate Padell returns from New York City to his small Texas hometown, an unexpected danger threatens his small daughter, sending him into the arms of Jenine Jones, a music teacher and onetime love. Original....

  • Legends of Khasak

    O.V. Vijayan

    This is the much-acclaimed first novel by one of India's greatest living writers, translated into English for the first time. A restlessness born of guilt and despair leads Ravi to embark on a journey that ends in the remote village of Khasak in the ...

  • Floating City

    Eric Van Lustbader / Eric Lustbader

    Deep within the Vietnamese jungle lies Floating City, a secret empire run on riches and murder. At its heart is Rock, an American Vietnam vet--a killing machine raised on war and rock-and-roll. Ruthless and bloodthirsty, he rules like a god supreme o...

  • Second Vision

    Ralph Vallone

    Realizing that he has died and now walks unseen throughout the world, former rich man Henry Somerset uses his new abilities as a spirit to extract revenge against those who wronged him in life and seeks the reason behind his death. A first novel....

  • Do-Over

    Rachel Vail

    Whit is furious with his father, disappointed with his best friend, and completely baffled by girls. For someone who doesn't quite know "how to get started" with girls, Whit moves quickly from his first kiss, to his first heartbreak, to his first rea...

  • Born Bad

    Andrew H. Vachss

    From a writer whose novels have been acclaimed for their unflinching exploration of evil comes a brilliant collection of short stories -- some never before published -- that distill dread back down to its essence -- and inject it straight into the re...

  • Spook Matinee And Other Scary Poems For Kids

    George Ulrich

    Twenty-two poems and pictures of pirates, ghosts, spiders and trolls are designed to inspire the giggles and the shivers in equal measure, and make perfect bedtime reading for ghouls and boys. Reprint....

  • Thornbeck

    Lynda Trent

    Pssion's Power Damaris Fleetwood, lady of Thornbeck, was born of sea, storm and magic. Or so it was whispered across her island keep. Certainly Gavin Rutledge, knight of the realm, doubted it not. For the merest glance from her bewitching eyes ign...

  • Esther

    Ellen Gunderson Traylor

    Esther never dreamed that one day she would sit beside the monarch of Persia as his queen. But, when the beauty and simple charm of this Hebrew girl sweep her to sudden greatness, she is destined to fill a role far greater than that of empress. God h...

  • The Wedding Knot

    Pamela Toth

    Kindergarten teacher Karen Whitworth knew how to handle troubled tots. But she was at a loss with one youngster's temporary guardian, rough-hewn rancher Daniel Sixkiller. The handsome Comanche was all brooding silences and fierce family loyalty - hun...

  • Tune in Tomorrow

    Tom Tomorrow

  • The Gents

    Bruce H. Thorstad

    Self-styled Western gentlemen Riley Stokes and Cass McCasland take a job protecting a shipment of Army gold and end up helping a Kiowa woman find her sister, who has been kidnapped by treacherous whiskey men. Original....

  • Wedding Song

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    KEEP YOUR LOVE FOR ETERNITY For generations, couples have been coming to Eternity, Massachusetts, to exchange wedding vows. Legend has it that those married in Eternity's chapel are destined for a lifetime of happiness. And the townsfolk are more ...

  • On Blueberry Hill

    Marcella Thompson

    The neighborhood ladies are matchmaking! They're convinced her new farm manager is the right man for Kate! She isn't. In the first place, he's only her temporary farm manager. In the second place, the man's hiding something. Unfortunately, whenev...

  • Alphaboo!

    Carol Thompson

    Kids can search for over 100 hidden letters throughout this spook-tacular All-Aboard alphabet book! There's a page for each letter, featuring an appropriately named monster and lots of objects in the picture that also begin with the same letter. Idea...

  • Revenant

    Melanie Tem

    Compelled by a hungry spirit to journey to the ghost town Revenant, a group of people grieving for their dead children and spouses find a second chance to contact them, and choose between the worlds of the living and the dead...

  • In The Tennessee Country

    Peter Taylor

    In 1916, a young boy, Nathan Longfort, is on the funeral train bearing the body of his grandfather, the Senator, from Washington, D.C., to Knoxville, Tennessee. The memory of this journey will haunt him for the rest of his life. On this trip, he m...

  • Fire Across Texas

    Susan Tanner

    Married to a fire-and-brimstone preacher, Hannah Barnes had given up hope of love and happiness. Then three gunmen killed her husband, and she feared she would lose her life as well. A former Texas Ranger, Jeb Welles was determined to save the tar...

  • Green Tales

    Beatrice Tanaka

  • Shadow

    Joyce Sweeney

    Haunted by visions, a teenage girl sees a window into what’s to come When Sarah’s cat, Shadow, is put to sleep, she feels the world crumbling around her. Shadow was her closest companion, and now, just like that, she’s gone. Sarah’s brother P...

  • Specters of the Dawn

    S. Andrew Swann

    Angelica Lopez, a moreau descended from genetically altered rabbit stock, finds refuge from her tough street life as a waitress in San Francisco, until Byron the fox drags her into a lethal underground of information peddling and murder. Original....

  • Happy Endings

    Katherine Stone

    A richly emotional take of two women haunted by their pasts...two women whose lives touch and connect as they search for that elusive happy ending... Raven: Beautiful, savvy and smart, she is the lawyer who brokers the multi-million dollar deals. Y...

  • Embers

    Antoinette Stockenberg

    WHAT KIND OF A WOMAN FALLS FOR THE MAN HER SISTER LOVES? Having turned her family's Victorian home on Maine's scenic coast into a charming inn, Meg Hazard worries about temperamental furnaces, peeling paint... and her restless younger sister, Allie....

  • Reunion on Neverend

    John E. Stith

    In Neverend's underground colony, a technological laboratory on the edge of the universe, science and courage are used to unlock the secrets of the cosmos, while one man journeys to his homeland to take up a long-forgotten battle. Reprint....

  • The First Horror

    R.L. Stine

    Twin sisters Cally and Kody Frasier aren't thrilled that their family has moved to Fear Street. They've heard the strange stories. They know about the centuries of nightmarish terror. But what they don't know is that they've moved into the one hous...

  • Sea View Hotel

    James Stevenson

  • Aunt Skilly and the Stranger

    Kathleen Stevens

    To a wily thief, old Aunt Skilly seems the perfect victim, but when the man tries to steal the quilts Aunt Skilly plans to sell, he discovers that he has underestimated her intelligence and self-sufficiency -- not to mention her pet goose....

  • Bachelor Daddy

    Sandra Steffen

    HOW TO BE THE PERFECT DADDY... Mitch Harris avoided commitment like the plague. He lived alone, dated sparingly and never gave away his heart. Until ...he discovered he was a father. Suddenly the responsibility of a precocious two-year-old had thi...

  • Angel's Kiss

    Judith Steel

    FROM THE SCANDALOUS SECRETS OF HER BIG-CITY PAST . . . As shots ring out along the dusty streets of Alder Gulch, Willemina Glenn ducks for cover. Had she spent every last penny fleeing St. Louis --- only to get herself killed in this wild Montana bo...

  • A Slight Detour

    Christopher Stasheff

    SUMMER STOCK The fledgling Star Company had scarcely landed for a quick visit to the prosperous colony planet of Citadel when they found themselves...well, grounded. To their dismay, Citadel proved to be a Puritan world where even the sight of fem...

  • Lassie and the Little Lost Sheep

    Stephanie St. Pierre

  • Lassie's Forest Adventure

    Stephanie St. Pierre

  • Final Resort

    Ian St. James

    Longing for a sense of self-worth despite his financial successes, Cyril Todd stakes his entire fortune on a potentially explosive investment that brings him face-to-face with danger on the lush isle of Majorca. Reprint....

  • The Drop-In Bride

    Margaret St. George

    HERE COMES THE BRIDE... First it was a red bikini top ... then a green stiletto-heeled shoe ... then a lacy garter belt. An odd collection to wash ashore on a secluded island in the middle of nowhere. Had Dax Stone been alone too long? Now all he ...

  • Baby, Come Back

    Erica Spindler

    The very handsome man sitting on Alice Dougherty's sofa and asking for her advice was none other than Hayes Bradford-the widowed father she'd once come so close to marrying. It seemed like yesterday that Hayes had broken her heart, yet it had been ...

  • Haunted Mansion

    Russell Spina Jr.

  • Beguiled

    Eboni Snoe

    After losing her job and her boyfriend in quick succession, all Raquel Mason wants is to escape her troubles for a few hours. But from the moment she walks into downtown Miami's hottest nightclub--where she is approached by two strange men--Raquel fi...

  • A Prison Unsought

    Sherwood Smith; Dave Trowbridge

    Brandon vlith-Arkad is safe on Ares, the Panarchic Navy's HQ. he sole heir to the Phoenix Throne must now fight a battle of symbols and deadly political intent, if he is to win the power to order the Navy into battle, to rescue his father, and win ba...

  • Regency Masquerade

    Joan Smith

    Posing as Lady Crieff, a saucy, rich widow, Moira is closing in on Lionel March, the notorious thief who tricked her family out of their fortune--but Daniel Hartly has his own reasons for pursuing the scoundrel--and Moira. Original....

  • Benny the Breakdown Truck

    Willy Smax

    Five hilarious stories filled with puns, jokes, and slapstick humor introduce the zany inhabitants of Mike McCannick's Smallbills Garage--Benny the Breakdown Truck, Alfie Romeo, Carmen Gear, and the others....

  • Midnight Fire

    Gloria Dale Skinner

    Ten years after a quick and desperate marriage to cavalryman Caden Maxwell, Flair Bowen is reunited with her dashing husband, but shameful secrets, past wrongs, and a dangerous enemy threaten to destroy their newfound love. Flair Bowen was very yo...

  • The Shorty Society

    Sheri Cooper Sinykin

    Seventh-graders Drew, Bo, and Kate, sick of being teased about being short, form the Shorty Society and begin to get back at their tormenters, devising pranks that humiliate them completely, and that maybe go a little too far....

  • Family Reunion

    Marilyn Singer

    A whimsical look at a family reunion presents a kaleidoscopic portrait of the colorful characters who make the gathering an ever-changing, entertaining experience--from fastidious Aunt Alicia to bug-lover young Max, to fun-loving Uncle Steve....

  • Bringing Up Father

    Maggie Simpson

    I NEED YOU, DADDY! The sadness in little Billy Lupton's eyes spoke his need more clearly than words ever could. But Nick Lupton, Billy's father, was fighting demons of his own - unanswered questions about his wife's death and about the strange...

  • Seeing Is Believing

    Elizabeth Shub

    Two folktales, one from Ireland and one from Cornwall, about Tom and his encounters with a leprechaun and piskies, which convince him that they are real. "The visual balance of text and illustration completes the elegance of the book." --Booklist...

  • Train Home

    Susan Richards Shreve

    "Magical . . . . A quirky, elliptical tale of obsessive emotions and double lives." The New York Times Book Review

    By the author of "Daughters of the New World," a unique and captivating tale of obsession, redemption and romance . . . in the mos...

  • Kiss of the Shadow Man

    Maggie Shayne

    The husband: Dylan Rossi had bitterly agreed to the divorce his ice princess of a wife wanted so badly. But that was before the accident that had stolen her memory-of him, of their awful marriage, of much, much worse... The wife: Someone was tr...

  • Prairie Fire

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo tangles with an arrogant English lord on a hunting trip in the American West and finds himself caught between a luscious lady's maid and the lord's stunning wife, while trying to keep the entire party safe from marauding Arapaho. Original....

  • Kindergarten Kids

    Ellen B. Senisi

  • In the Still of the Night

    Jennifer Selby

  • Waking Nightmare

    Alicia Scott

    DESPERATE SEARCH... Nightmares of the day her life had been shattered still haunted Maria Pegauchi. Now private investigator Sam Mathers was demanding that she help him find a missing child, bringing back the terror of the past full-force. Mari...

  • Snow Bride

    Dallas Schulze

    SHE'D ALWAYS WANTED TO MARRY HIM.... From the time she was a teenager, Colleen Bryan had loved Gunnar Larson. With his broad shoulders and sexy swagger, he'd been everything she'd ever dreamed of. And now, snowbound with him in the wilds of Wyomin...

  • Bridesmaid Blues for Becky

    Elaine L. Schulte

  • The Accident

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Diamonds and Toads

    Ellen Schecter

    FROM AMERICA’S MOST TRUSTED NAME IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION Every book in the Bank Street Ready-to-Read series is targeted at the individual abilities of children ages four to eight. The three interconnecting levels of the series are ...

  • Enchantment

    Coral Smith Saxe

    They called her the Hag of Cold Springs Hollow, yet Bryony Talcott couldn't cast a spell to curdle milk. Then she chanted an incantation to bring change into her life and, to her surprise, conjured up dashing Adam Hawthorne. Beneath his cool demeanor...

  • Circles of Fate

    Anne Saunders

    The engagement ring on her finger had not assuaged the keen romantic longing in Anita's eye. Will she find romance in Leyenda, her dead mother's island home? What is the mystery behind her engagement, and what strange compulsion is directing ...

  • Nosferatu

    Carl Sargent

  • The Highlander & His Lady

    Lisa Samson

    A somber revelation on her 16th birthday brings Jenny Matheson's carefully protected life in the Scottish highlands crashing down around her, as she learns the truth about who she really is. When she meets Kyle Maclachlan, Jenny knows she has found a...

  • The King is Dead

    Paul M. Sammon

    A collection of stories featuring the late Elvis Presley includes Joyce Carol Oates's "Elvis is Dead: Why are You Still Alive?," Harlan Ellison and Chet Williamson's tales of Elvis's dead-at-birth twin, and works by Clive Barker, Lawrence Block, and ...

  • Love Me Tonight

    Nan Ryan

    HER CHALLENGE The war had robbed Helen Burke Courtney of her money and her husband. All she had left was her coastal Alabama farm, a broken-down plow horse, a cat, and her pride, but she meant to fight to hold on to them all against her creditors......

  • I Don't Want to Go Back to School

    Marisabina Russo

    Summer was over. It was time for Ben to go back to school. But all he could think of were the terrible things that might happen. For instance, what if no one remembered him? What if he forgot to get off the bus on the way home? What if the teacher...

  • More Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children

    William F. Russell

    Gives parents and other adult readers the help they need to share the joy of reading. Contains 42 stories, poems, and excerpts from novels and plays, divided into 3 listening levels. "Even better than the first edition--and I loved that. A must book ...

  • Outside, Looking in

    Kathleen Rowntree

    Aston Favell is a picturesque village in middle England. The main concern of the ladies who count in the village are litter and the arrival of a Peeping Tom, fleeting glimpses of whom have been caught by some of the villagers. Other work by the autho...

  • Olivia

    Judith Rossner

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar comes the story of one family’s unfinished business and overcoming the weight of the past.Caroline Ferrante is a gifted chef who has just been tapped for her own cooking show. Bu...

  • Where's My Mom?

    Leon Rosselson

  • First Offense

    Nancy Taylor Rosenberg

    As a probation officer, beautiful Ann Carlisle knows what it means to walk a treacherous thin line between dangerous criminals who have scores to settle - and the system that seeks to punish them. But now an unseen assailant has shot and seriously i...

  • Love on the Run

    Jeanne Rose

    The Thrill of the Chase Tough-talking, darkly handsome and driving a sleek black sports car, Tony D'Angelo wasn't the man of Faith Murray's dreams. He was more like her worst nightmare. His prize Thoroughbred had been kidnapped. And he suspected ...

  • A Royal Murder

    Elliott Roosevelt

    First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt journeys to the Bahamas to visit the exiled Duke and Duchess of Windsor and uncovers dangerous plots involving Nazi plans for expansion, smuggling, defection, wartime profiteering, and murder. At FDR's request, Eleano...

  • Ahyoka and the Talking Leaves

    Peter Roop; Connie Roop

    A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People and recipient of the Florida Sunshine Award: In this absorbing chapter book, Ahyoka helps her father, Sequoyah, unlock the mystery of “talking leaves†to create the Cherokee alphabet Ahyoka is...

  • Calum's Way of It!

    Willie Robertson

  • Conan and the Treasure of Python

    John Maddox Roberts
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  • Lethal Ladies

    J.R. Roberts

    The Gunsmith isn't much inclined to settle down, so when he finds himself saddled with a building and a business after a high-stakes poker game, he makes tracks for Sheldon. Wyoming, to see just what he's won and figure out what to do with it. At ...

  • How I Spent My Summer Vacation

    Gillian Roberts

    After a tough year of teaching at Philly Prep, Amanda Pepper decides to go to Atlantic City with her friend, Sasha Berg. Yet a beach vacation turns deadly when a bludgeoned corpse shows up in her hotel room--and Sasha is the prime suspect. So Aman...

  • Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

    Tom Robbins

    When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you -- an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker -- are convinced that you’re facing the Weekend from Hell. Before the market reopens on Monday, you’re go...

  • The Heart and the Heather

    Nancy Richards-Akers

    LOVE WILD AND FREE Pledged to one another since childhood when eleven-year-old Malcolm Kirkpatrick married the infant Isobel and vowed to safeguard her life--these two spirited hearts were separated through the years. Malcolm, now a powerful Sc...

  • Enchiladas, Rice, and Beans

    Daniel Reveles

    Written with an undercurrent of magical realism, and spiced with the flavors that linger long in the memory, these tales from Tecate--along the dusty strip of the Baja California border--evoke a wondrous place where roosters crow in Spanish, affectio...

  • Origin and Cause

    Shelly Reuben

    Cable-TV mogul Stanfield Standish wrote the book and broke the rules in the news and entertainment industry. When his charred body is found inside the burnt-out remains of his classic 1930 Duesenberg sedan, his family files a $52 million damage suit...

  • Passion Becomes You

    Michelle Reid

    He wanted nothing more than her love... From their first meeting, Jemma Davis had known that forever wasn't in Leon Stephanades's vocabulary. she was inexperienced, but the passion between them was so powerful that she cast her doubts asid...

  • One of Our Own

    Cheryl Reavis

    OBVIOUSLY COYOTE, EARTH'S MISCHIEF-MAKER, WAS AFOOT ON THE RESERVATION, BEDEVILING NAVAHO POLICEMAN LUCAS SINGER.... The tiny orphan Lucas had rescued was clearly one of his own proud People. Yet feisty Sloan Baron, the waif's pretty spinster aunt...

  • Thunder Wagon

    James Reasoner

    Marshal Cole Tyler and his deputy, Billy Casebolt, must track down some cattle rustlers to keep peace in Wind River, Wyoming Territory, before the culprits can light the fuse that will set off a bloody massacre...

  • Allegra

    Alicia Rasley
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    ROMANTIC ALLEGRA Lady Allegra scarcely knows the handsome and dashing husband who returns to her from the war...yet she soon finds herself falling beneath his passionate spell. And when it comes to love, this is one battle Sir Nicholas pent intends ...

  • Texas Destiny

    Dana Ransom

    DESTINED TO SAVE HIM Wounded and left for dead by a band of savage Apaches, Texas Ranger Jack Bass thought his life was over -- until a white woman dressed in Indian clothing suddenly appeared. Before he could learn the identity of this green-eyed...

  • The B Book

    Brian Randall

    Brian Randall spent eight years building The B Book. Each of its lavish 46 color plates was painstakingly created by hand. The sets, the costumes, the spectacular photography, along with the punchy text unite in telling a riotous story and modern-day...

  • Hot Property

    Rita Rainville

    MR. SENSIBLE Name: Lucas McCall Turn-ons: Champagne, mangos in the morning and a curvy, tanned redhead Turn-offs: Dizzy women looking for their "MRS." Favorite Romantic Interlude: Has no strings attached One word comes to mind when I t...

  • Say Uncle

    Eric Shaw Quinn

    A gay, thirtysomething advertising executive, suddenly finds himself guardian of his infant nephew--possibly the most challenging job of his life--and is soon embroiled in a custody battle with the child's grandfather, a closed-minded, conservative s...

  • Core

    Paul Preuss

    One of the world's top scientific minds, Cyrus Hudder once made an astonishing discovery that inspired an obsession--one that cost him his family, his reputation...and, perhaps, his life as well. Now the planet teeters on the brink of catastrophe-...

  • Grass Dancer

    Susan Power

    Inspired by the lore of her Native American heritage, this critically-acclaimed novel from Susan Power -- an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe -- weaves the stories of the old and the young, of broken families, romantic rivals, men an...

  • Invasion

    Jerry Pournelle

    Escaping near destruction of their battle-demon species, the genetically engineered Saurons seek refuge on Haven, a dumping ground for the criminals of the CoDominium, whose population has been shaped by centuries of violence. Original....

  • Blow

    Bruce Porter

    BLOW is the unlikely story of George Jung's roller coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel-- the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. Jung's early business...

  • Here Comes Henny

    Charlotte Pomerantz

  • Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice

    Mark J. Plotkin

    The fascinating account of a pioneering ethnobotanist’s travels in the Amazon -- at once a gripping adventure story, a passionate argument for conservationism, and an investigation into the healing power of plants, by the author of The Amazon: What...

  • Mister Fred

    Jill Pinkwater

    When their favorite sixth-grade teacher decides to leave, the students at My Dear Watson Elementary School vow to drive away anyone who tries to replace her, but their reign of terror is cut short by the arrival of the highly unusual Mr. Goldberg Fre...

  • Summer School

    Nicholas Pine

  • Chaos in Wonderland

    Clifford A. Pickover

  • Amber, Sing Softly

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    In AMBER, SING SOFTLY, Joan takes us back to the Texas of 1875. Amber Prescott is a frontierswoman struggling to keep her homestead and family together, and the last thing she needs is a wounded gunslinger on her doorstep. Drifter Logan Wade knows he...

  • Confession

    Nancy Pickard

    Jenny Cain would never forget the hot Massachusetts summer day fate knocked at her door. Fate was a teenaged boy with rumpled clothes, a motorcycle, and a shocking byt credible story: Jenny's husband, Geof, was his biological father. The boy, David M...

  • It Had to Be You

    Susan Elizabeth Phillips

    TWO HEARTS COLLIDE The Windy City isn't quite ready for Phoebe Somerville -- the trendy, outrageous and curvaceous New York knockout who has just inherited the Chicago Stars football team. And Phoebe is definitely not prepared for the Stars' head ...

  • Bare Essentials

    Bonnie Jeanne Perry

    NEED With her father dead and the family business in danger, Skye MacKenzie will do anything to get her life back on track. Except_ reconcile with Logan Wolf, her handsome heartbreaker of an ex-husband! What Skye doesn't know is that Logan is determ...

  • The Sins of the Wolf

    Anne Perry

    Nurse Hester Latterly finds herself well suited for the position: accompany Mrs. Mary Farraline, an elderly Scottish lady in delicate health, on a short train trip to London. Yet Hester's simple job takes a grave turn when the woman dies during the n...

  • Blind Eagle

    Don Pendleton

    As conflict in the Middle East threatens to draw the United States into a world war, the Stony Man confronts a shadowy enemy with ties within his own agency, who possesses a powerful technology capable of rendering spy satellites inoperable. Original...

  • Wellfire

    Don Pendleton

    FLAMES OF WAR Long promised retribution for the Gulf War is set to explode throughout Oklahoma when a terrorist group plots to ignite the state's oil wells. Once the fiery carnage begins, it would be unstoppable. Mack Bolan must go under cover...

  • Where in America's Past Is Carmen Sandiego

    John Peel

  • October's Ghost

    Ryne Douglas Pearson

    Once, the arrogant leader of a small island nation brought the world to the brink of the Apocalypse. With-bold, decisive action, a young American President forced the aggressor to back down. But not every weapon was removed from the enemy's hands. ...

  • Even More Scary Stories for Sleep-Overs

    Q.L. Pearce

    Are the suspicious deaths of several students related to Robert's terrifying mental powers? How can Becky meet her pals for a reunion at the swamp--after she's dead? Around the campfire or hiding under the covers, kids can turn their campouts and slu...

  • Spare Change

    John A. Peak

  • Night John

    Gary Paulsen

  • The Best Friend Game

    Francine Pascal

    The competition between the Unicorns and the Eight Times Eight Club goes nationwide when the groups take their rivalry from Sweet Valley Middle School to the Best Friends television game show. Original....

  • Lois and the Sleepover

    Francine Pascal

    Everyone in the second grade always teases Lois Waller for acting like a baby. And now Lois really feels like a baby. Ever since her grandmother died, Lois' mother has treated her that way. Mrs. Waller barely lets Lois out of her sight. Then Jessica ...

  • The Love of Her Life

    Francine Pascal

    Love, loss, and another chance at freedom... Todd Wilkins begs Elizabeth Wakefield to come back to him. But Todd's not the one she wants. At last she's found the man of her dreams, and she's determined to have him. Mike McAllery is fighting for...

  • Steven's Enemy

    Francine Pascal

    When his sister, Jessica, falls for Ben Oliver, who usurped his starting position on the Junior Varsity basketball team and walloped him in the election for class treasurer, Steven Wakefield devises a blueprint for revenge. Original....

  • Michael's Gift

    Marilyn Pappano

    DARKNESS RISING Michael Bennett: A police officer driven almost past the edge of reason by the visions that were his unwanted gift. Valery Navaree: An innocent woman caught in a nightmare that didn't end when daylight came. Michael Bennett...

  • The Black Book

    Orhan Pamuk

    Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective novel-loving Ruya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband, Celâl, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celâl, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he find...

  • Nora

    Diana Palmer

    NORA NEEDED TO BE TAUGHT A LESSON...AND CAL WAS JUST THE MAN TO DO IT Nora Marlowe had come to Texas with visions of dashing cowboys and great adventure - but one despicable man with infernal laughing eyes put an end to her illusions. Cal Barton d...

  • Rogue Stallion

    Diana Palmer

    "I don't want kindness -- or your kind of woman." Sterling McCallum gave the plain, hard warning to Jessica Larson. The brooding rogue cop had a stone in place of a heart - and a past as mysterious as the case that had brought them together. But...

  • Carrie

    Carole Gift Page

  • Lion King: Best Friends

    Mary Packard

  • Tom and Pippo and the Bicycle

    Helen Oxenbury

  • Taming the Pirate

    Ruth Owen

    He whispered words of sin and promise in her ear... When Laurie Palmer heated his blood with the golden lure of her gaze and the wanton heat of her smile, she stirred to life the appetites of investigator Gabe Ramirez's buccaneer ancestors! She'd ...

  • A Proper Taming

    Joan Overfield

    A LADY IN NEED Orphaned and penniless, Portia Haverall is a comely young miss with few options. And an embarrassing encounter with oversized Lord Connor Dewhurst, Earl of Doncaster, further narrows her choices...to one. Forced by mishap and circumst...

  • Jan Ormerod's To Baby with Love

    Jan Ormerod

    "Ormerod once again proves how closely attuned she is to a baby's world....introducing him or her to the joys of verse....The book is a visual delight; a few deft brush strokes blossom into a familiar menagerie that includes a terrier, a hen and a co...

  • Button Soup

    Doris Orgel

    One old button and a pot of boiling water? What kind of soup is that? With Rag-Tag Meg as cook and Mandy as her trusted helper, it's a tasty concoction as well as a valuable lesson. A brand-new twist on a well-loved old folk take--perfect for...

  • Fireflies for Nathan

    Shulamith Levey Oppenheim

  • The Edge

    Mark Olshaker

    Investigating a series of brutal murders in Washington, D.C., homicide detective Sandy Mansfield's only suspect is a convicted killer who died eight months earlier, and she begins to question the late convict's surgeon brother. Reprint....

  • The Gift

    Constance O'Day-Flannery

    After raising her daughter on her own, successful career woman Julia Edwards finds herself alone for the first time in her life. So when she hears a sultry feminine voice calling out to her from the TV, she fears the solitude is starting to get to he...

  • Mallory's Oracle

    Carol O'Connell

    Jonathan Kellerman says Mallory's Oracle is "a joy." Nelson DeMille and other advance readers have called it "truly amazing, " "a classic" with "immense appeal." It is all of that, and more: a stunning debut novel about a web of unsolved murders in N...

  • Ladies Lunch

    Patricia O'Brien

    Five close women friends, an elite clique in Washington, D.C., live charmed lives in positions of power and importance, until one of the group mysteriously dies, ominous questions arise, and all of their lives are changed...

  • Come A-Smokin' and Horses, Women and Guns

    Nelson Nye

    In Come A-Smokin', Grete Marratt is falsely accused twice and runs from the law to clear his name; in Horses, Women and Guns, Jim Final escapes from prison and seeks revenge against the swindlers that framed him. Original....

  • Medicine Show

    Jody Lynn Nye

    IN CASE OF MEDICAL EMERGENCY, CALL TAYLOR'S ARK... It's the most unusual medical unit in the galaxy--and it makes house calls. A fully equipped starship lab, Taylor's Ark is run by Dr. Shona Taylor and a menagerie of very special assistants--inclu...

  • Dreamtime: Aboriginal Stories

    Oodgeroo Nunukul

    Australia's most famous Aboriginal writer offers reminiscences of her childhood on Stradboke Island off the Queensland coast, communicating her pride in her heritage, and presents a collection of traditional Aboriginal folklore....

  • Rainbow and Mr. Zed

    Jenny Nimmo

    In the sequel to Ultramarine, Nell McQueen uncovers the final mysteries about her past and the true meaning of her given name, Rainbow Nightingale, while spending time at the island compound of a secretive, wealthy misanthrope, Mr. Zed....

  • The Total Zone

    Liz Nickles; Martina Navtatilova

    High pressure, high risks, high profile: H the passwords of professional tennis. Nobody knows them better than Jordan Myles, tennis champ turned sports therapist, who helps players achieve the Total Zone, when the mind and body are in perfect harmony...

  • Don't Sit There!

    Jill Newton

  • Primal Instinct

    John Newland

    Paige Howard, a young worker at an Alabama animal research lab, is forced to fight back when she finds herself stalked by Kattrina Goodhand, the psychotic leader of a fanatical animal rights group. Original....

  • Dearest Mary Jane

    Betty Neels

    "The moment I set eyes on a handsome, rich man I shall marry him." So said Felicity, and as she was the glamorous sister with a successful career as an international model, Mary Jane had no reason to doubt her. Mary Jane was the stay at h...

  • Darnell Rock Reporting

    Walter Dean Myers

    DARNELL ROCK IS not the kind of kid who volunteers to write for the newspaper -- it sounds too much like homework. But this is Darnell’s last chance to pull himself together and make a positive contribution to his school. At first, Darnell would ra...

  • The Mystery of the Silent Nightingale

    Elspeth Campbell Murphy

    Choosing a silver locket with a nightingale engraving to give to her babysitter, who is leaving for college, Sarah-Jane is perplexed when an anonymous benefactor gives the sitter an identical necklace first and must discover the mystery person's iden...

  • The Mystery of the White Elephant

    Elspeth Campbell Murphy

    Attending the church swap-meet with an awful ornate mirror as their contribution, Timothy and his cousins find a white elephant cookie jar that they think will be perfect for Timothy's mother, and when it disappears, they must uncover a thief. Origin...

  • Northern Borders

    Howard Frank Mosher

    A New York Times Notable Book: A novel about growing up in a remote corner of Vermont, from the author Richard Russo calls “one of our very best writers.†  When six-year-old Austen Kittredge was sent up north to live on his grandparents’ ...

  • The Door under the Stairs

    Keith Moseley

  • Spook Creepy Cas Mini

    Keith Moseley

  • Spook Sme Body A Mini

    Keith Moseley

  • The Things in Mouldy Manor

    Keith Moseley

    This is a pop-up book....

  • Marrying Stone

    Pamela Morsi

    Meggie was a dreamer who'd spent her entire life in the tiny town of Marrying Stone. But though her life was simple, she was always sure that someday her prince would come. J. Monroe Farley arrived with his Edison listening box to record the tradi...

  • The Bucks of Goober Holler

    Gilbert Morris

    With fast-paced action, this favorite author blazes a trail to the Ozarks, where the Buck brothers make a home for themselves after their parents' death. Their outrageous capers lead to lessons about friendship, honesty, and faith in God....

  • The Phantom of the Circus

    Gilbert Morris

  • The Rustlers of Panther Gap

    Gilbert Morris

    With fast-paced action, this favorite author blazes a trail to the Ozarks, where the Buck brothers make a home for themselves after their parents' death. Their outrageous capers lead to lessons about friendship, honesty, and faith in God....

  • Loving

    Ann Morris

  • Wanted: Dude or Alive

    Kate Morgan

    HOMICIDE ON THE RANGE Dewey's mingling with the rich and famous at the _luxurious Los Lobos dude ranch--but she isn't there for the horseback riding and hiking trails. As a favor for a friend, she's looking for the prankster who's been causing probl...

  • Flying Tortoise: An Igbo Tale

    Tololwa Mollel

    Proud of his shiny, magnificent shell, greedy Mbeku the tortoise demands the best of everything from the other animals, until tired of his tricks, the birds decide to give him his comeuppance, in a traditional Igbo tale from Nigeria....

  • Jenny

    Marcia Mitchell

  • Bats and Other Animals of the Night

    Joyce Milton

    Illus. in full color. Explore the mysterious world of the crepuscular and nocturnal critters. Discover why bats can catch the tiniest insect on the darkest of nights, why cats' eyes seem to glow in the dark, and which creature seems to be calling for...

  • The Cottage at the End of the Lane

    Elaine Mills

  • I Am

    Rita Millios

    Part of a series which offers interest and instruction for first readers on familiar everyday activities, this book focuses on the identity of the child reader and is intended to interest and motivate....

  • Lust

    John Miller

    1994 Chronicle Books HB, 1st printing, full number line. Ideal pillow talk volume-what else could be expected from a book entitled Lust? Authors include:Sappho, Vladimir Nabokov, Anais Nin, Dante and even Peggy Lee's Fever....

  • Don't Be Cruel

    Cassie Miles

    The law thought they'd spent the night together--committing murder! Wheeler-dealer Gina Robinson would do anything to get ahead--even beg a crazy relative to sell her his Elvis memorabilia. But her uncle's isolated cabin, something had gone terrib...

  • Desperate Measures

    Fern Michaels

    An orphan whose wealthy uncle saved him from a life of poverty, Pete Sorenson has lived a fairy tale life--complete with a sweet princess named Annie who provides the emotional support that Pete needs to launch his career as a high-powered attorney. ...

  • Serendipity

    Fern Michaels

    SERENDIPITY transforms a heartbroken girl into a proud, sophisticated woman... Six years ago, Jory Ryan Landers fled Philadelphia after a brief, tragic marriage to wealthy Ross Landers. Now Jory has come home to make peace with the past. And to fa...

  • Pot of Gold

    Judith Michael

    On a beautiful spring day, a hard-working single mother's secret fantasy came true. Claire Goddard won sixty million dollars in the lottery. Claure quit her job, and indulged herself and her seventeen-year-old daughter in the shopping spree of a l...

  • The High Constable

    Maan Meyers

    A CITY WITH A HISTORY OF MURDER... It is the winter of 1808 and hard times have struck the once bustling port of New-York. President Thomas Jefferson's embargo has marooned seamen in the streets and sent dockworkers to the poorhouse. But could it ...

  • Lord of Thunder

    Emma Merritt

    Like the wind, the bold Norseman Michael Langssonn sweeps down from the north --- to punish the Scottish laird who dishonored Michael's family. However, duty and desire demand he briefly forgo his vengeful mission in order to rescue a beautiful maide...

  • Love's Timeless Hope

    Anne Meredith

    IT WAS THE LAST PLACE SHE EVER EXPECTED TO FIND HERSELF--IN THE YEAR 1876...AND IN LOVE... Romance novelist Rebecca Reynolds heads to Jefferson, Texas to research what she swears will be her last novel. Why should she perpetuate the myth of everla...

  • State of Siege

    Mike McQuay

    As violent revolution sweeps through the streets of Buenos Aires, the deposed Argentinian president seeks refuge in the U.S. embassy, putting the entire compound in deadly danger, while an unstable American agent threatens to unleash a lethal virus. ...

  • Quick Killer

    Jake McMasters

    Pursuing his quest for revenge in such a way that he has become a feared and hated figure to the settlers of the Arizona Territory, the White Apache meets his match in Quick Killer, a bloodthirsty army scout. Original....

  • Rodeo Nights

    Patricia McLinn

    Rodeo rider Walker Riley had loved his young wife with every fiber of his bronco-stomped body. But, hating his reckless ways, she'd up and left, and loneliness dwelled where his soul used to be. Now Kalli was back in Wyoming--for one brief summer--st...

  • The Child Queen

    Nancy McKenzie

    THE CURSED QUEEN On the night of Guinevere's birth, a wise woman spoke a fate of doom over the babe: she would be the gwenhwyfar, the white shadow--for though grow to become the greatest lady in the land, she would also betray her king, and be her...

  • Walks in Stardust

    Lynn Armistead McKee

    In a time long before the arrival of the Spaniards, Cimmera runs through the biting saw grass and shallow water of the untamed Everglades. She is frantic, remembering hazy images of battle, sorrow, heartache, and loss. Finding shelter from an angry s...

  • By My Lady's Honor

    Joanna McGauran

    SHE WAS HER ENEMY'S GREATEST CHALLENGE... She was a flame-haired beauty, a fiery adversary to the Norman warrior who invaded Stewart Castle, her demesne. Pledged to save her little brother, the clan's heir, Aylena Stewart sent six-year-old Ian to sa...

  • Wait for Me

    Mary Kay McComas

    "My heart will speak to yours, and time will stop...." A split-second tackle by Oliver Carey saved Holly Loftin's life during an earthquake, but only when their eyes met did he feel the earth tremble and her compassionate soul reach out to his. I...

  • Some Girls

    Kristin McCloy

    Claire moves from New Mexico to New York City hoping to find independence and some direction for her life. It's not until she meets her next door neighbor, the dazzling Jade, and begins to follow Jade's lifestyle that she feels connected to the city....

  • No Big Deal

    Ellen Jaffe McClain

    Humor and sensitivity mark an exploration of a controversial issue as young Janice Green does not understand why everyone in town, including her mother, is getting so excited about the rumors that her favorite teacher, Mr. P, is gay....

  • Nightfire

    Barbara McCauley

    MR. KNOW-IT-ALL Name: Thomas Kane Turn-ons: Being in charge Turn-offs: Do-good socialites Favorite Romantic Interlude: Turning a lesson in self-defense into a lesson in seduction Allison Westcott makes a big deal about her volunteer work b...

  • Stallion Valley

    Gary McCarthy

    To preserve their father's dream and save his precious thoroughbred horses, Ruff Ballou and his sister, Dixie, leave the post-Civil War South to seek a new life in Denver, only to become caught up in a search for murderous outlaws. Original....