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New Books List: 570 titles

  • Virtual Death

    Shale Aaron

    Giving up her career as a near-death experience performer, celebrity Lydia Melmoth is unwilling to subject herself to another brush with death, until her mother's pressing need for money pushes Lydia into a comeback. Original....

  • Hell On Earth

    Dafydd ab Hugh; Brad Linaweaver

    They were creatures seemingly spawned straight from the pits of hell--demons, zombies, fire-breathing imps, all too horrifically close to the stuff of nightmare to be real. But they were. And on the inhospitable moons of Mars, Corporal Flynn "Fly" Ta...

  • Knee-Deep in the Dead

    Dafydd ab Hugh; Brad Linaweaver

    The Gates were there on Phobos when mankind first arrived. Inert, unyielding, impossibly alien constructs, for twenty years they sat lifeless, mute testaments to their long-vanished creators, their secrets hidden. Then one day, they sprang to life......

  • The Romance Reader

    Pearl Abraham

    Widely applauded when it was published last year, Pearl Abraham's debut novel The Romance Reader possesses that quality that distinguishes all great fiction -- a fresh look at the universal truths that bind us together. Like Chaim Potok, who revealed...

  • Hilda and the Mad Scientist

    Addie Adam

    When Hilda, a very helpful housekeeper, insists on helping Dr. Weinerstein because of his rheumatism, even though he does not want it, the weird scientist concocts a scheme to rid himself of her, with outrageous results. Jr Lib Guild....

  • The Ditched Blonde

    Harold Adams

    When amateur sleuth Carl Wilcox wanders into Greenhill, South Dakota, intent on earning enough money to get out of town, he finds himself investigating the "accidental death four years earlier of the lovely and popular Genevieve Sinclair...

  • Dr. Nightingale Goes the Distance

    Lydia Adamson

    ON A HIGH HORSE ... FOR MURDER Intending to forget about her sick cats and ailing cows for one night, Deirdre "Didi" Nightingale, DVM., is all dressed up for a champagne-sipping pre-race gala at a posh thoroughbred farm. She never expects death to...

  • Slow Dance Heart Break Blues

    Arnold Adoff

    "Adoff addresses his poetry to modern, urban teens in a gritty, hip-hop style. He manages to create poetry from the universal concerns of love and loneliness, the specific teen concerns of acne and braces, and unpleasant realities like selling and ta...

  • Injury Time

    Catherine Aird

    Sixteen short puzzlers from the inimitable Catherine Aird, author of the acclaimed C. D. Sloan Mysteries  A professional pickpocket and accomplished thief ignores his wife’s warnings and embarks on an adventure that will change his life -- per...

  • A Long Fatal Love Chase

    Louisa May Alcott

    "I'd gladly sell my soul to Satan for a year of freedom," cries impetuous Rosamond Vivian to her callous grandfather. Then, one stormy night, a brooding stranger appears in her remote island home, ready to take Rosamond to her word. Spellbound by the...

  • The Girl from Addis

    Ted Allbeury

  • Somebody's Baby

    Charlotte Vale Allen

    She was somebody's baby, but whose? A woman's entire life is turned upside down by her mother's deathbed confession: Snow Devane was stolen as an infant and is someone else's child. At thirty-one. Snow believes she has everything she wants--a s...

  • The Gift

    Rosalyn Alsobrook
    in

    Trapped in a car wreck, Crissy Townson makes a plea for deliverance -- only to awaken in a frontier town, where a handsome sheriff accuses her of helping to rob a bank.......

  • Playing to Win

    Laurel Ames

    SERA HAD ALWAYS LOVED A CHALLENGE, BUT TONY WAS PROVING TO BE DIFFICULT EVEN FOR HER CONSIDERABLE SKILLS! Despite her bookish exterior, Sera Barclay was an imp with outrageous charm and depths undreamed of by London's stuffy ton. A woman who wou...

  • On Thin Ice

    Susan Andersen

    FIRE AND ICE On the ice, Sasha Miller sizzles--seducing her audience with her spectacular skating moves, leaving her fans begging for more. Off the ice, she can't escape the loneliness of her life and her tragic past, or the loss of her skating pa...

  • August Magic

    Katherine Applegate

    Summer Smith is soaking up the rays of the hot August sun in the Florida Keys. But this summer's about more than just hanging out at the beach. It's a time to fall in love, and Summer's sure she's met the guy of her dreams...only which one is he? A...

  • Velvet Bond

    Catherine Archer

    LORD RAYNOR WAS NO MATCH FOR THE LOVELY WOMAN HE'D BEEN FORCED TO TAKE TO WIFE Though Lady Elizabeth Clayburn was no stranger to the flattery of men, the enigmatic Baron of Warwicke wielded a power over her more potent than anything she had ev...

  • A Homecoming for Murder

    John Armistead

    When the cheering dies, murder begins...

    In the town of Sheffield, Mississippi, football is next to godliness, and homecoming is the shrine.  But this year, as the homecoming queens--one white, one black--are crowned and families take their ...

  • Embrace the Night

    Amanda Ashley

    MASTER OF DARKNESS, MISTRESS OF LIGHT A creature doomed to wander the earth in eternal darkness, he searched the ages for someone to share the endless night of his existence, for that one woman who would recognize the man within the monster. An...

  • Trusting Sarah

    Cassandra Austin

    Two Lonely Hearts, Destined To Meet Again Sarah Tanton had headed west seeking the promise of a fresh start, and freedom from the memories that haunted her...Yet, little did she know that every step brought her closer to the man she'd loved and lost...

  • The Diamond Cat

    Marian Babson

    THE CAT WHO SWALLOWED MORE THAN A CANARY... A lifetime of craving more cuddly companionship than her hectoring mother has led fortyish Bettina Bilby to board her neighbors' felines for a long' holiday weekend: an expectant tabby, a pampered blue-e...

  • Sarah's Dilemma

    Judy Baer

    As they gather material on how handicapped people are treated for the student-run television news show at their high school, Sarah's friends gain insight into the difficulties she faces being confined to a wheelchair...

  • Silent Thief

    Judy Baer

    Strange symptoms dizziness, clumsiness, confusion have been plaguing Lexi Leighton's mother for weeks. Sometimes it appears as if her mom is drunk! Tripping over her feet, dropping food on the floor, wearing sunglasses inside the house what is go...

  • Children of Rebecca

    Vivien Annis Bailey

  • At Midnight

    Jennifer Baker

    A contemporary retelling of "Cinderella" finds high school junior Ella at the mercy of a rich and cold-hearted stepmother after the death of her father, until intervention by a fairy godmother helps her discover true love. Original....

  • Raptor Red

    Robert T. Bakker

    A pair of fierce but beautiful eyes look out from the undergrowth of conifers.  She is an intelligent killer...

    So begins one of the most extraordinary novels you will ever read.  The time is 120 million years ago, the place is the plains ...

  • Career Day

    Margaret Ball
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • Tattoo

    Dale Banks

    Seeking the ideal human canvas for the masterpiece of her career, tattoo artist Ashleigh Thomas meets him in a clandestine Los Angeles bar and is drawn into a world of power, pleasure, and possession. Original....

  • Behind the Scenes of the Indian in the Cupboard

    Lynne Reid Banks

  • The Indian in the Cupboard Scrapbook

    Lynne Reid Banks

    My name is Omri, and this scrapbook tells all about the most amazing thing that's ever happened to me. For my birthday, my friend Patrick gave me a plastic Indian figure and my brother gave me an old cupboard. When I put the plastic figure into the c...

  • Midnight Rogue

    Elaine Barbieri

    WILLING TO LOVE Her sheltered existence at a New Orleans convent school has protected Gabrielle Dubay from the world's harsh injustices... until the night a shadowy stranger steals into her bedroom and spirits her away to his ship. Gabrielle hide...

  • Winter Moon

    Elaine Barbieri
    in

    Set in different parts of the U.S. in the 1800s, each story focuses on a different season and each heroine's personality reflects the season's temperament. ELAINE BARBIERI - WINTER MOON Judd McBain was a widower, certain he would never love again...

  • Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street

    William S. Baring-Gould

  • No Comfort in Victory

    Gregory Bean

    HE LEFT THE BIG CITY TO BE A WYOMING SHERIFF. WIDE OPEN SPACES. HOME ON THE RANGE. MURDER IN THE CORRAL. Harry Starbranch saw a lot of corpses during his years as a homicide detective with the Denver police. Fed up and worn down, he went in search...

  • The Pumpkin Book

    Jim Becker

  • Whispers in the Night

    Barbara Benedict
    in

    Julie Ward is a woman without a memory. She finds it again when she enters an empty Long Island mansion -- and lands in a long-ago era where danger and a mystery lover are waiting.......

  • Sunset Tears

    Cherie Bennett

  • Amethyst Moon

    Janice Bennett

    ON AN EXOTIC PLANET OF ENDLESS OCEANS... The beautiful Princess Dia swims for her life through the violet seas of Kerrian. A savage uprising has killed her father and all but destroyed her beloved planet. Now Dia is her people's only hope for freedo...

  • Lion's Pride

    Janice Bennett
    in

    Twenty-two-year-old Jessica Howard is taken away from a northern California coastal town... in a ghost ship! Carried back to the Elizabethan Age, she finds a man who is more than a dream: he is her heart's desire....

  • For All Time

    Angela Benson

    When their happy dreams are challenged by the unexpected loss of a job, newlyweds Joshua and Gloria Martin find themselves confronting unexpected stresses that threaten to break up their happy marriage. Original....

  • Help Wanted

    David Bergantino

  • Anonymity

    Susan Bergman

    In 1983, award-winning poet and essayist Susan Bergman lost her father to AIDS. This gripping memoir of her family's struggle to cope with the loss of a husband and father--and come to terms with the shocking revelation that he had been secretly gay-...

  • The Raggly Scraggly No-Soap No-Scrub Girl

    David Francis Birchman

  • Virtuosity

    Terry Bisson

    Sid 6.7, a criminal personality developed for training policemen via virtual reality, manages to escape to the real world, and Parker Barnes, a former policeman convicted of killing his family's murderers, is released from prison to stop him...

  • The Pistoleer

    James Carlos Blake

    The award-winning author’s “fearless” debut novel chronicles the life of a legendary Texas outlaw with “a ruthless sensibility . . . spare and tough” (Publishers Weekly).   Some called him a Texas hero. Some called him t...

  • Dolly Is Dead

    J.S. Borthwick

    EVERYBODY LOVES DOLLY BEAUGARD... At least that's what Maine college professor and amateur sleuth Sarah Deane always thought. But when Dolly's bloated body washes ashore on the same spot as the drunken Gattling brothers the day before, the police ...

  • The Wilde Bunch

    Barbara Boswell

    MR. AUGUST Wilde Man: Rancher Mac Wilde desperately needed a woman's help. Not-so-wild Woman: Kara Kirby could be a wonderful wife, but would she agree to Mac's marriage proposal? Mac knew Kara hadn't come to Montana to find a husband! But ...

  • Secret Admirer

    Patricia Bourgeau

    Laura Reed feels safe and happy in Cape Christian, a little jewel of Victorian architecture and quiet streets on New Jersey's southern tip. The children's books she writes are earning her modest fame; her husband Jimmy's art gallery is flourishing; a...

  • Franklin and Me: A Book about Me, Written and Drawn by Me

    Paulette Bourgeois

  • On the Road of Silver

    Mark Bourne
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • Death Dream

    Ben Bova

    It's the ultimate adult playground. Cyber World  will use the latest technology in computer produced  virtual reality to provide thrills and chills  beyond any ever experienced at a theme park. Here  children of all ages will live out their w...

  • Chickamauga and Chattanooga

    John Bowers

    Revisiting two Civil War battles that helped turn the tide to the North's favor, this rich, evocative history of Chickamauga and Chattanooga recalls the violence and valor shown on this important battlefield. Reprint....

  • Ghostlight

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    What is the Truth? Truth Blackburn's father thought he knew what it was. Thorne Blackburn and his followers settled at Shadow's Gate, a magnificent old house in upstate New York, and sought the Truth about life through ritual and magic. One night,...

  • Sixteen in Nome

    Max Brand

    Nearing starvation, Joe May, a desperate, overgrown youth, accepts a job helping Hugh Massey, the owner of the most famous husky in Alaska, unaware that he has been made the bait his employer needs to lure a hated enemy into a deadly trap. Reprint....

  • No Virtue

    James D. Brewer

    Establishing a shaky truce based on honor and common interests, former Union officer Luke Williamson hires Confederate veteran Masey Baldridge when the first mate of his Mississippi paddlewheeler, an African American, is accused of murder....

  • A Faraway Drummer

    Robert Bristow

  • Laughter in Darkness

    Robert Bristow

  • No Man Knows My History

    Fawn M. Brodie

    The first paperback edition of the classic biography of the founder of the Mormon church, this book attempts to answer the questions that continue to surround Joseph Smith. Was he a genuine prophet, or a gifted fabulist who became enthralled by the p...

  • The West Virginian

    Sharon Brondos

    FAMILY COMES FIRST Charismatic frontiersman Jacob Barr has made a life for himself and his twelve-year-old daughter deep in the forests of West Virginia. But his success has brought him enemies, and now his home, Jacob's Well--the unique community...

  • Fire Beneath the Ice

    Helen Brooks

    He wanted passion, not commitment! Lydia's new boss was a powerfully charismatic man. But Lydia dared not surrender to the dangerously sweet attraction she felt toward Wolf Strade.... He might be icy cool on the outside, but he was all fire an...

  • Australia Lane

    Janet Broomfield

  • Tractor

    Craig Brown

  • The Killing Game

    John Brunner

  • Horse Magic

    Bonnie Bryant

    It's Halloween, and Pine Hollow Stables is getting some special visitors -- a group of city kids. The Saddle Club girls are planning a treasure hunt and trick-or-treating for the children. Best of all, Stevie Lake's old school chum, Dinah, has come t...

  • Wild in the Night

    Patt Bucheister

    He'd recognize her scent in a roomful of women.... She expected he'd be grateful that his office was no longer an impossible mess, but instead Paul Forge told efficiency expert Coral Bentley that he wanted all his junk back exactly where he'd left ...

  • Brothers No More

    William F. Buckley Jr.

    Bestselling author William F. Buckley, Jr., offers a terrific new novel -- in the gloriously gripping tradition of Howard Fast, Irwin Shaw, and Jeffery Archer -- of men and women caught between the force of history and the power of their ow...

  • Burning Angel

    James Lee Burke

    A gangster’s journal and a property dispute spell trouble for a Louisiana deputy in this hard-boiled murder mystery by a New York Times"bestselling author.The Fontenot family has lived as sharecroppers on Bertrand land for as long as anyone can r...

  • Miss Henderson's Secret

    June Calvin

    The Lord of License It was bad enough that the radical writings of the Earl of Dudley had filled Miss Eden Henderson with shocking notions of the immorality of marriage and the virtue of free love. It was even worse when the beautiful governess en...

  • Ashleigh's Diary

    Joanna Campbell

    Discovering a diary that she kept as a girl while growing up on her parents' farm, champion rider Ashleigh Griffin relives memories of the horses she once loved, including a spirited colt stolen by horse thieves.

    ...

  • Sauce for the Goose

    Robert Campbell

    Jimmy Flannery is as Chicago as the Cubs. He's a streetwise city sewer inspector, the Twenty-seventh Ward Democratic committeeman, and an amateur detective. He's also happily married and a new dad. Mary, his wife, suggests he improve himself by takin...

  • Happy Death

    Albert Camus

    The first novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author lays the foundation for The Stranger, telling the story of an Algerian clerk who kills a man in cold blood. In A Happy Death, written when Albert Camus was in his early twenties and retrie...

  • First Frontier

    Diane Carey

    While testing a new shielding device, the U.S.S. Enterprise is caught in the middle of a Klingon/Romulan battle. When the Enterprise crew rescues a lifepod, they are confronted by a Klingon who claims to know nothing of human existence. Convinced the...

  • An Improbable Wife

    Sally Carleen

    THE RIGHT MAN? Emily James was delighted with her new apartment, until she discovered her landlord was the grumpiest, most conservative, sexiest man in town! Whenever Carson Thayer 'discussed' her impulsive ways, all Emily could think about was how ...

  • No Place to Hide

    Gerry Carroll

    Two years after the United States has pulled out of Vietnam, the South Vietnamese Army wages a final battle that is headed for Saigon, and a skeleton crew of American officers is charged with evacuating the remaining American and Vietnemese personnel...

  • Peacekeeper

    Marisa Carroll

    NICK APOSTALIS -- OUR FOURTH STRONG MAN MAJOR NICK APOSTALIS REPRESENTED EVERYTHING SHE'D CAST OUT OF HER LIFE He was used to danger. He was a risk taker, a man who put hi life on the line for a cause. Kara Hartman had been widowed by on such...

  • Sam 'n' Tommy and the Snakeman

    Pauline Cartwright

    When 12-year-old Sam is lumbered with three-year-old Tommy, he's not very happy about it. However, when they have to survive the horrors caused by the Snakeman, Sam is glad of Tommy's company. In a lot of ways young Tommy is tougher than Sam himself....

  • Neptune Crossing

    Jeffrey A. Carver

    When John Bandicut sets out across the surface of Triton, he's hardly ready for the storm of chaos that's about to blow through his life. The alien quarx that soon inhabits his mind is humanity's first contact with an alien life. The quarx, part of a...

  • Priscilla Twice

    Judith Caseley

  • Latina

    Lillian Castillo-speed

    A collection of works by well-known and emerging Latina writers includes short stories, excerpts from novels, and nonfiction pieces from a range of contributors--Sandra Cisneros, Julia Alvarez, Denise Chavez, Ana Castillo, Cristina Garcia, and ...

  • Daughters of the Grail // Children of Destiny

    Elizabeth Chadwick

    Thirteenth-century France. Bridget has grown up mastering the mystical gifts of her ancestor, Mary Magdalene, whose unbroken female lineage has kept a legacy of wisdom alive for a thousand years. But the all-powerful Catholic Church has sworn to dest...

  • The Power of Love

    Elizabeth Chandler

    One month after Tristan's death, Ivy becomes aware of his presence as her celestial guardian, but she is unwilling to believe in the existence of guardian angels until Tristan's killer begins to stalk her. Original....

  • Red Earth and Pouring Rain

    Vikram Chandra

    Combining Indian myths, epic history, and the story of three college kids in search of America, a narrative includes the monkey's story of an Indian poet and warrior and an American road novel of college students driving cross-country....

  • Rider at the Gate

    C.J. Cherryh

    A forgotten colony lost on a planet of wild beauty and unimaginable danger. A people held together by a renegade band of outcast heroes, called to their destinies by alien dreams. A world of Riders and Nighthorses, their minds linked together on the ...

  • Monster House

    Richie Chevat

    YOU ARE TRAPPED IN A HIDEOUS HOUSE OF HORRORS You've taken shelter from the rain in an old abandoned mansion. But before you can even catch your breath, you find it's crawling with monsters. You have only until sunrise to locate a secret passage out-...

  • The Land of Nod

    Mark A. Clements

    Standing at the crossroads of middle age, knee-deep in divorce and decline, Jeff Dittimore finds himself looking back in time.Back past opportunities squandered and dreams unfulfilled; back to the days when he and his buddies lived with one foot in t...

  • The Blood Countess

    Andrei Codrescu

    A “brilliant” novel of Elizabeth Bathory, the notorious sixteenth-century Hungarian aristocrat who bathed in the blood of virgins (St. Petersburg Times). Turmoil reigns in post-Soviet Hungary when journalist Drake Bathory-Kereshtur returns from A...

  • The Real-Skin Rubber Monster Mask

    Miriam Cohen

    Jim loves his Halloween mask with all his heart -- until the night he wears it. When he sees it reflected in the big glass doors, suddenly his mask looks scary. Too scary. Halloween will be horrible! That's what Jim thinks, until his friend Willy com...

  • Bearer of the Pipe

    Don Coldsmith

    From his auspicious birth, Wolf Pup has demonstrated an instinct for the ways of the wild. Yet it is in the lodge of his grandfather Singing Wolf that he seeks his true calling medicine man and future bearer of the Story Skins, the pipe, and the sacr...

  • Ready . . . Set . . . Read and Laugh

    Joanna Cole

    There's nothing like humor to get children reading as well as laughing. What better way could there be to introduce them to the joys of reading than a superb treasury of humorous works by beloved children's book authors and illustrators?

    Crea...

  • Blood and Thunder

    Max Allan Collins

    Journeying to New York to protect a controversial presidential candidate from a death threat, Nate Heller is unable to succeed in his task and confronts the local authorities as well as the political elite during his investigation. Reprint....

  • Abilene Gamble

    Margaret Conlan

    Southern Belle. Living in the war-torn South, beautiful widow Samantha Winchester did all she could to keep hope alive for her family. Now she was heading west to be a bookkeeper in Abilene, Kansas. Northern Soldier. Stripped of his rank during t...

  • The Diary of a Rapist

    Evan S. Connell

    This unnerving work is a contemplation of the middle"class existence in a changing world, narrated by an unstable man held hostage by his deteriorating mental state.The story begins with the unhappy marriage of junior clerk Earl Summerfield to the ...

  • Pagan's Paradise

    Susan Connell

    She ached to get into trouble with him -- just once.... Jack Stratford was hold-your-breath handsome, a blue-eyed rogue who knew everyone in San Rafael, but photographer Joanna McCall refused to believe his warning that she was in danger -- except...

  • Spider-Man: Clone Genesis

    Gerry Conway

    This TPB collects material from Amazing Spider-Man #141 - 151 (Feb. - Dec. '75) and Giant-Size Spider-Man #5 (July '75). This trade paperback is VG to F with one crease on the front cover - book does lie flat. There are no markings or blemishes to b...

  • Golden Harvest

    Lori Copeland
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    Set in different parts of the U.S. in the 1800s, each story focuses on a different season and each heroine's personality reflects the season's temperament. ELAINE BARBIERI - WINTER MOON Judd McBain was a widower, certain he would never love again...

  • Loving Honor

    Christina Cordaire

    Love changes everything... AMANDA She returned to her family's Texas ranch to escape the fury of the Civil War in Virginia--and to care for her brother's ten-year-old daughter... REESE He came to the same ranch for different reasons--...

  • The Valentine Legacy

    Catherine Coulter

    In the early 1820s, horse racing was a down and dirty sport. James Wyndham, who owns racing stables in both England and America, finds his racing nemesis in red-haired Jessie Warfield, renowned hoyden and champion jockey, who knows as many dirty raci...

  • Carnival

    Vincent Courtney

  • A Tale from Camp Crypt

    Vincent Courtney

    When the other campers gang up on spoiled Walter Ridgemont III, a mysterious woodsman comes to his aid, but Walter soon discovers that the woodsman expects a terrifying reward for his services. Original....

  • Planet of the Dips

    Bruce Coville

    Finding himself and his crew on the silliest planet in the universe after a mischievous mad scientist fiddles with the spaceship wiring, Captain Blork is challenged to discover the planet's strange secret. Original....

  • From This Day Forward

    Deborah Cox

    MAIL-ORDER BRIDE Caroline Marshall had taken a terrible chance in marrying a stranger by proxy. Of course, Jason Sinclair wasn't really a stranger -- hadn't she fallen in love with him through his touching letters? But here, on a remote co...

  • Charlie and Tyler at the Seashore

    Helen Craig

  • It's the Thought That Counts

    Beth Cruise

  • Surf's Up!

    Beth Cruise

  • Daughter of the Drow

    Elaine Cunningham
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The child's mother will be leaving this house," Gromph Baenre told the elf-size golem. "See to it, and inform her family that she met with an unfortunate accident on the way to the Bazaar." The stone servant bowed and then disappeared into the wal...

  • Second Chance at Marriage

    Pamela Dalton

    For better, or worse... It had been a long time since Dina Paxton had shared her home with a man, but now she knew almost everything about her brazenly male housemate, Gabriel Randolph...including what he wore to bed! The young widow had resigned ...

  • Under Ground

    Michael Daly

    When Jack Swain, a New York City policeman, fatally shoots a teenage thief in the subway, his life changes forever, sending him on a dramatic journey through the city he thought he knew so well. Reprint....

  • The Amulet

    Zoe Daniels

    Part human, part beast, they rule the night. But this year, on prom night, the hunters will become the prey... HOLLY Divided by her human love and her animal hunger, she waged a war against the cult of the panther -- even if it meant destroying ...

  • Little Deaths

    Ellen Datlow

    A World Fantasy Award"winning anthology of erotic horror stories, including dark tales of desire by Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Dedman, Harry Crews, and others. The title of this acclaimed anthology comes from the French term “la petite mort,” a...

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

    Ellen Datlow

    The acclaimed collection of fantastic fiction features entries from established authors and talented newcomers--including Scott Bradfield, Charles de Lint, Nancy Kress, Tanith Lee, and Nicholas Royle--along with editors' summations of the year in fan...

  • The Incredible Hulk - What Savage Beast

    Peter David

    The superhero undergoes an experiment to transform himself permanently back into his human alter-ego, Dr. Robert Banner, in a new full-length, hardcover adventure novel by the author of the monthly Incredible Hulk comic book....

  • The Rancher and the Redhead

    Suzannah Davis

    OF BACHELORS AND BABIES What was rancher Sam Preston to do when he found himself saddled with an infant? Holler for his best pal, of course. A single gal like Roni Daniels might not have first-hand experience raising kids, but at least she was a w...

  • The Last Hero

    Alyssa Dean

    LAST OF THE TOUGH GUYS Wade Brillings: U.S. Navy. Hero with a capital H. Extremely practical. Wade found women a pleasant, occasional distraction. Until he met -- Cassandra Lloyd: Beautiful but completely impractical. Why, he was surprised she ...

  • The Crystal Heart

    Katherine Deauxville

    IT WAS A TIME OF POMP AND PAGEANTRY, ILLICIT DESIRE... Emmeline gave herself to a sensual stranger in a night aglow with candlelight and mystery. Then she sent him away. Wed by arrangement, Emmeline desperately needed to provide her aged husband wit...

  • Praying for Sleep

    Jeffery Deaver

    A storm-lashed night. A dangerously paranoid schizophrenic. a woman with a reason to be terrified. And a desperate search for the ultimate truth behind a shocking murder. Michael Hrubek has escaped from a mental hospital for the criminally insa...

  • Bronx Angel

    Ed Dee

    A wall in the Bronx has suddenly started seeping holy water, and the faithful mob the place, lining up for their share. When a car containing a dead local mobster pulls up in front of the crowd, the case seems simple. But in New York, nothing is easy...

  • The Magician's Quest

    Claire Delacroix

    HEIR TO AN ANCIENT LEGACY Yusef was a breed apart. Yet though his soul held the aura of kings, he fought against the savage stirrings in his blood, until the fate of a dancing girl entwined with his own, and released the timeless power of love......

  • For Destiny or Desire

    Angela Devine

    This is the story of Cleopatra, and of a love that changed history. It is a story of divided loyalties and frustrated ambition; the dilemma of a ruler who has to sacrifice her very self or sacrifice the identity of her country....

  • A Book of Opposites

    Walt Disney

    A book about opposites pits Percy, the pampered pug, against his mischievous nemesis, Meeko the Raccoon, as the rivals pair share ups and downs and ins and outs on the setting of the movie, Pocahontas. ...

  • Wrong Side of the Law

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Witnessing a bank robbery, Frank and Joe are baffled by the masked gang's near-perfect heists, and when Vanessa offers a surprising source of information, the Hardy boys must protect her from the gang. Original....

  • Ghost and Pete

    Dayle Ann Dodds

    The very friendly ghost Pete meets in the attic of his family's new house is more than willing to join him for a night of trick-or-treating.  And although Ghost is a terrible trick-or-treater, he turns out to be a terrific friend.  "A surefire ho...

  • The Magic Bicycle

    Berlie Doherty

    A boy discovers just how much persistence, hard work, and self-confidence it takes to learn how to ride a bicycle, but luckily he gets a little magical assistance from his shiny new three-speed itself...

  • Heart's Desire

    Cameron Dokey

    Obtaining an ancient Egyptian pendant that grants its bearer the ultimate desires of the heart, Jeannie wishes for everlasting love and finds it in a young Egyptian male whose restless spirit is reawakened from the past. Original....

  • Isaac Asimov's Ghosts

    Gardner Dozois

    Twelve spinetingling tales of the supernatural include stories of stolen lives and restless spirits and highlight the writings of such authors as Connie Willis, Alexander Jablokov, Ester M. Friesner, and Lisa Goldstein. Original....

  • Mortal Kombat

    Kevin Droney


    Once every generation, the tournament is held: the ultimate martial arts competition in which mortal warriors must fight against many supernatural opponents to defend the earth from evil forces.

    Now three young mortals have come to compete...

  • Oops-a-Daisy!

    Joyce Dunbar

    Four tales of childhood playtime and imagination include "What If?," "Nicky Comes to Play," and "The Best-Dressed Teddy," and the title story, which follows two best friends who accidentally bump heads....

  • Mouse Party

    Alan Durant

    Moving into an empty house and planning a big party, Mouse is surprised when an indignant Elephant arrives and claims that the house is his, and in order for the party to succeed, both animals must cooperate....

  • Disney's Winnie the Pooh's Nightmare

    Dennis Durrell

    Letting his imagination run wild with such colorful and menacing creatures as jagulars, woozles, and heffalumps, Winnie the Pooh is in for a very scary nightmare and wakes up just in time to avoid getting eaten up....

  • Lady Vengeance

    Sarah Eagle

    THE EARL AND THE INGENUE From the moment he first laid eyes on her, Marcus Knowles, Earl of Ashmore, knew that Celia Tregaron was the woman for him -- never mind the pistol she aimed at his chest. Celia wasn't interested in his opinion of her, tho...

  • Belgarath the Sorcerer

    David Eddings

    Bestselling authors David and Leigh Eddings welcome readers back to the time before The Belgariad and The Malloreon series. Join them as they chronicle that fateful conflict between two mortally opposed Destinies, in a monumental war of men and kings...

  • The Hidden City

    David Eddings

    WAR TO THE DEATH The Pandion Knight Sparhawk had bested the massed forces of the God Cyrgon upon the field of battle. But victory turned to ashes when the foul God's minions kidnapped Sparhawk's wife, the beautiful Queen Ehlana. Sparhawk must surr...

  • Enchanted

    Lucinda Edmonds

    At just 17, Madelaine Vincent is tipped as the most promising young ballerina of her generation. But in the bright and giddy world of 1980s London, when anything seems possible, Maddy's triumph suddenly turns to tragedy. Only courage will allow her t...

  • Not Quite an Angel

    Lucinda Edmonds

    Beautiful and talented, Cheska is an international movie star at the age of four. But things culminate later when her lover deserts her, leaving her desperate and full of hatred. It is up to Cheska's daughter, Alex, to find that her mother is no ange...

  • Savage Secrets

    Cassie Edwards

    Searching the wilds of the Wyoming Territory for her outlaw brother; Rebecca Veach was captured by the one man who fulfilled her heart's desires. But could she give herself to the virile warrior without telling him about her shameful quest? Blazin...

  • Something's Coming!

    Richard Edwards

  • Maureen Birnbaum in the MUD

    George Alec Effinger
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    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • Nanodreams

    Elton Elliott

    Anarchy and chaos rules in a world of nanotechnology in which virus-sized, self-replicating machines create any object, eliminate disease, reverse energy, and increase human intelligence, in an anthology featuring works by Poul Anderson, Greg Bear, a...

  • Far from the Storm

    Robert Elmer

  • Apache Springs

    Lynn Erickson

    The lawman was captured by another man's wife! Two high-profile guests die under suspicious circumstances at the Zimmermans' resort in Apache Springs, Arizona. Deputy U.S. Marshal Jed Mallory comes home to investigate, only to find that his old fl...

  • Aspen

    Lynn Erickson

    RULED BY WEALTH, FUELED BY PASSION Matt Connelly--A charismatic, scandal-ridden senator who'll do anything to protect his family. Lee Connelly--Matt's gracious wife, who deals with the clan the only way she can--through the numbing effects of a...

  • Longarm and the Kansas Killer

    Tabor Evans

  • Longarm and the Unwritten Law

    Tabor Evans

    When a man suspected of sleeping with a married woman is shot by the jealous husband, Longarm prepares for a simple arrest, until the husband, looking to escape his sentence, accuses Longarm of also sleeping with the woman. Original....

  • Flood Fish

    Robyn Eversole

  • Billy the Kid: The Legend of El Chivato

    Elizabeth Fackler

    "When young Englishman John Tunstall arrived in Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory, in 1876, he felt he had found the true frontier at last. Here was the toughest little spot in America, and he jumped eagerly into the game of getting rich. Lawyer M...

  • Scarlet Woman

    Barbara Faith

    Growing up on the wrong side of the tracks and then marrying the son of the wealthiest man in town had made Holly Moran the center of gossip. So she'd left home. But even now, years later, returning for a visit as a widow, Holly was stirring up m...

  • Backstage Pass

    Erica Farber

  • E-Mail Mystery

    Erica Farber

  • The Ghost of Goose Island

    Erica Farber

  • Haunted House

    Erica Farber

    When LC's report on Cornelius Van der Critter, who founded his hometown, is blown inside the front door of a house that everyone says is haunted, he and his friends make some ghost-fighting gear and set out to trap the ghost...

  • Mystery at Big Horn Ranch

    Erica Farber

  • Pizza War

    Erica Farber

  • Seafort's Hope

    David Feintuch

    October 12, 2194: The UNS Hibernia was bound from Earthport Station to the Hope Nation Colony, a cruise slated to take eighteen months. Seventeen-year-old Midshipman Nicholas Seafort was proud to be aboard. Though he'd done well at the Academy and...

  • The Women in Joe Sullivan's Life

    Marie Ferrarella

    From single, without children, to... Women? Sexy bachelor Joe Sullivan considered himself an expert. But little girls? What Joe didn't know about children would fill volumes. Yet suddenly the beleaguered uncle had three rambunctious nieces to raise. ...

  • Summertime Blues

    Amy J. Fetzer
    in

    When unconventional artist Kayla Fairchild stumbles into an abandoned Texan well, she also stumbles into a different century...as a frontier schoolteacher with a lesson to learn about love....

  • Canyon Moon

    Carol Finch

    SHE WAS RISKING EVERYTHING FOR A MAN... The accident that killed her father brought Elyssa Rawlins Cutler to a crossroads in her life. She took a fresh look at her fabulous corporate job in Oklahoma City and her on-and-off fiance who had the scruple...

  • Cat-Dogs

    A. Finnis

    A collection of seven short tales includes the title story, in which a hybrid creature that is part dog and part cat seems to be the ideal household pet, until it is discovered that the animal likes to hunt people. Original....

  • What Is a Friend?

    Josie Firmin

    Interactive fold-out flaps reveal a colorful cast of cats playing together, eating, cleaning up, fighting, making up, and having sleepovers, in a whimsical picture book that celebrates the joys of friendship....

  • Angel by My Side

    Erin Flanagan

    Trying to overcome the loss of her best friend, young Amelia is amazed by a series of strange events that make her suspect that she is being helped by a guardian angel, and her thoughts are confirmed by the appearance of Lily. Original....

  • Santa Fe Floozy

    Dirk Fletcher

    Spur McCoy, while enjoying the attentions of his latest paramour, will let nothing stand in his way of ending the White Brothers' reign of terror against secluded ranches and lone travelers. Original....

  • Brandy & Bullets

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    MURDER BY THE BOOK Cozy Cabot Cove, Maine, has a country luncheonette, but not much high culture. Mystery author Jessica Fletcher is the only writer in residence, but the renovation of the local Worrell mansion into an art colony may bring scores ...

  • Done Driftin'

    Janis Flores

    The Dunleavy Legacy Octavia Whitworth Dunleavy - formidable matriarch of the family - wants to hand over once-renowned Dunleavy Farm to her three grandchildren. Will they accept her offer? And will they be able to overcome old fueds and betrayals ...

  • Pocahontas Disney

    Justine Fontes

  • Pocahontas

    Justine Korman Fontes

    Ten unique sound effects and colorful illustrations tell the traditional tale of Pocahontas and how she saves the life of Captain John Smith, in an entertaining version based on the new Disney animated film....

  • Stories of the Old South

    Ben Forkner

    Focusing largely on the works of nineteenth-century authors including Twain, Poe, Kate Chopin, and George Washington Cable, this collection reveals the contribution of Southern writers to American literature...

  • 1945

    William R. Forstchen; Newt Gingrich

    The year is 1945. In Europe, the Third Reich reigns triumphant. The Soviet Union is a fragment of its former self, and Britain has accepted a dictated armistice. In the Pacific, after a brief, sharp war with Japan, America is the only significant mil...

  • The Old Grind

    Laura Frankos
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • The Boy's Tale

    Margaret Frazer

    SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN... Who could ever want to harm two young boys, ages five and six? When the boys are half brothers to Henry VI, King of England, the list is long and distinguished. A lady in their mother's household flees with the boys t...

  • Testament

    Valerie J. Freireich

    Treated like an outcast in a genetically engineered world, human throwback Gray Bridger hopes to escape Testament and the powerful Bridger matriarchy that plots to use Gray for its own devices. Original....

  • Greatest Show on Earth

    Vivian French

  • Lazy Jack

    Vivian French

    A humorous tale in the tradition of "Clever Hans" finds Lazy Jack searching for a job and making ridiculous mistakes as he applies the advice his mother gives him on previous days to the very contradictory objects of the present....

  • A Song for Little Toad

    Vivian French

    Lulling her young tadpole to sleep, a mother frog is advised by a sheep, duck, and nightingale that "baaa," "quack," and gentle lullabyes are sure-fire successes, but the baby frog will only fall asleep to the sound of croaking....

  • The Takeover

    Stephen Frey

    Investment banker Andrew Falcon is spearheading , the biggest hostile takeover in Wall Street history and counting on a staggering five-million-dollar fee if he can pull it off. But Falcon doesn't realize that he has stumbled onto the secret power of...

  • The Way to a Man's Heart

    Esther Friesner
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • Don't Give up the Ghost: The Yearling Book of Original Ghost Stories

    David Gale

  • The Best Man

    Phoebe Gallant

    ONE WOMAN -- Sometimes, a woman has to risk being daring and outrageous. For Esty Foster, that means getting out of her rut. Her job and her long-time relationship are going nowhere, her daughter has grown up... even her own mother has fallen in lo...

  • Fraternity

    John Galsworthy

    Famed English playwright and novelist John Galworthy, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932, first gained critical and popular acclaim for a series of novels and short stories called The Forsyte Saga, which followed multiple generati...

  • The Queen of the Tambourine

    Jane Gardam

    Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel of the Year: “Gardam’s portrait of an insanely imaginative woman in an elusive midlife crisis is impeccably drawn” (The Seattle Times).With prose that is vibrant and witty, The Queen of the Tambourin...

  • Party Til You Scream

    G.G. Garth

  • Cherokee Dawn T

    S. Dellin Genell

    With her seventeen-year-old hormones running amok and propriety and good sense consequently abandoned, Lacey Longbaugh heads into the Oklahoma Territory of the 1860s and finds dangerous romance with part-Cherokee Ridge Chekote. A PASSION BEYOND HE...

  • Grunts!: A Fantasy With Attitude

    Mary Gentle

    WHAT IS AN ORC? An orc is a fire plug of a fighting machine made of muscle, hide, talon and tusk, with a villainous disposition and a mean sense of humor. And, of course, an orc is a poor dumb grunt--the much abused foot soldier of the Evil Horde of...

  • Planetfall

    Scott G. Gier

    FIRST CONTACT...TWICE Genellan--a beautiful, Earthlike world where intelligent cliff-dwellers waited in fear for the day the warlike bear people would return... Genellan--the only refuge for a ship's crew and a detachment of spacer marines, aba...

  • Antiques

    Sharon Gillenwater

    Deeply wounded by the infidelity of his late wife, widower Grant Adams for years stuck to his vow to avoid all women-concentrating on his quest to regain the family land his father once lost. But when bright, bubbly antiques dealer Dawn Carson enters...

  • The Last Lieutenant

    John J. Gobbell

    OUTNUMBERED Under an unstoppable barrage of artillery, brilliant U.S. cryptographers crack the Japanese top-secret code, revealing their chilling plans for a doomsday attack on Midway Island. OUTGUNNED The Navy's high command responds quickly, m...

  • Limbo Search

    Parke Godwin

    Protecting planets from corporate exploitation, space veteran Charley Stoner receives a distorted summons that warns of a forthcoming alien invasion, and Stoner must lead an untested crew into combat against an unknown threat. Original....

  • Christmas Story

    Golden Books

  • Eight Classic Stories

    Golden Books

  • Fantasia

    Golden Books

  • The Nutcracker

    Golden Books

  • The World's Birthday

    Barbara Diamond Goldin

    Anticipating the forthcoming celebrations of Rosh Hashanah, young Daniel learns that Rosh Hashanah is to commemorate the world's birthday and decides to throw the entire world a great big party. Reprint....

  • Mommy and the Murder

    Nancy Goldstone

    DIAPERS, DIVORCE...AND MURDER After leaving her hectic Wall Street career and surviving the breakup of her marriage, Elizabeth Halperin is eager to begin again in the solitude of the Berkshires, with her eleven-month-old daughter, Emily. The last ...

  • The Difference

    Suzanne Goodwin

    Eleanor finds herself pregnant by an old friend, Hugo, while at Oxford. The couple marry and settle in Brazil where Eleanor is tempted into a passionate affair with a handsome Brazilian. She realizes too late how important her husband and child are t...

  • Too Damn Rich

    Judith Gould

    Sex, money, and a high-class auction house form the center of Gould's latest glitzy look at intrigues among the wealthy....

  • The Loop

    Nik Gowing

    A new war rages in Russia's post-communist climate of instability, where there are no loyalties and no laws. On one side, the new KGB, no longer backed by the communist government, is determined to retain the power and secret privilege it enjoyed in ...

  • Sweet Enchantment

    Elizabeth Graham

    FROM THE GLITTERING BALLROOMS OF CHARLESTON... Proud, high-spirited Calista Shelby is determined to keep Meadowmarsh, her family's sprawling island plantation. Her mother's will has made it clear: in order to do so, she must marry before h...

  • Miracle in a Shoe Box: A Christmas Gift of Wonder

    Franklin Graham

  • Crime of Passion

    Lynne Graham

    Her crime was to have loved him... "You go to pieces when I touch you.." However hard she tried, Georgie Morrison couldn't deny how physically attractive she found Rafael Bernaza. But four years ago he had devastated her emotions ...

  • The Thread of Life: Twelve Old Italian Tales

    Mary GrandPre

  • Three Billy Goats Gruff: Just a Friendly Old Troll

    Alvin Granowsky

  • The Bride Price

    Ginna Gray

    NOT THE MARRYING KIND... Hell would freeze before a mere female brought proud Wyatt Sommersby to his knees. The macho millionaire always got what he wanted -- and then moved on. But Maggie Muldoon proved immune to Wyatt's money, and indifferen...

  • Death Au Gratin

    Richard Grayson

    When a young chambermaid is found dead, bitten by a cobra concealed in the bed of notorious libertine Armand de Périgord, Inspector Jean-Paul Gautier is certain that she was not the intended victim. The charismatic de Périgord is very wealthy and h...