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  • Don Hepler

    A determined young girl loses her entire family in a single snap of a tiny piece of metal. A guilty cowboy roams the wilderness in an effort to confront his own personal demons. A cocky rich boy from the East learns some hard lessons while becoming a...



  • David Hagberg

    David Hagberg's High Flight is an espionage thriller featuring secret agents and high-stakes international political intrigue First electronics. Then automobiles. Now the Japanese are ready to strike at our largest industrial export--airplanes. Intri...



  • Charles Whiting

    Common Smith's most dangerous mission yet...Russia, 1924. Lenin, Communist Dictator of Russia, is dying. In the wings, his chief aides are jostling for power, and in the provinces revolution is brewing once more. Soviet Russia is on the brink of expl...



  • 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...



  • Nichelle Nichols

    The personal story of Nichelle Nichols, a well-recognized cast member from the original Star Trek series, covers such areas as her love affair with Gene Roddenberry, career, the historic interracial kiss, and personal relationships. Reprint....



  • John Peel

    After talking their teacher into organizing a field trip to the other side of the Wormhole, Jake Sisko and his classmates become alarmed when a Cardassian raider shoots down their runabout, trapping them on a planet run by plants. Original....



  • 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...



  • Susan Krinard

    A beautiful aristocrat risks a forbidden love ...with a dangerously seductive man born of an alien race. STAR-CROSSED At sixteen, Lady Ariane Burke-Marchand had loved Rook Galloway with all the passion and pain of unrequited love. It didn't mat...



  • Pam Rock

    A privileged passenger on the skyliner Moon Courier, Alena Yor was waiting for the journey to end and her new project as a high-ranking cartographer to begin when she first met virile officer Garner Rie. Handsome and courageous, Garner intrigued Alen...



  • Robert Sheckley

    ALIEN TREASURE: A MISSION IMPOSSIBLE This time the humans are taking the offensive! Stan Myakovsky is a once-famous scientist fallen on hard times. Now he dodges spaceship repo men and dreams of the marketability of his cybernetic ant. Then a woma...



  • George R.R. Martin

    Exposed by a reporter and her joker sidekick, the Cardshark Conspiracy plots to unleash the Black Trump, a biological weapon that destroys anyone with a wild card genetic structure, and time is running out for ace Mark Meadows. Original....



  • Timothy Zahn

    In Conquerors' Pride, Timothy Zahn, Hugo Award -- winning author of the New York Times bestselling Star Wars trilogy, unfurled an epic tale of drama and courage as the interstellar Commonwealth faced savage invasion by alien starships of unknown orig...



  • Andre Norton

    Preparing to travel through time in order to face a band of predatory aliens, Ross Murdoch plans to leap into the feudal period of Dominion, where he can help win a war that will bring defeat to the aliens. Reprint....



  • Lisanne Norman

    MIND-LINKED They had been brought together by mutual need when both their peoples were faced with the threat of the warlike Valtegans, an enemy bent on conquering any other race it encountered. She was Carrie, the daughter of the human governor...



  • David Pogue



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • Rick Shelley

    THE LUCKY 13TH The 13th Spaceborne is the elite fighting force of the Accord of Free Worlds. For decades the Accord tried to keep out of the war that divided the galaxy. But now they have no choice--it's fight or die. And the soldiers of the 13th ...



  • 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......



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Melissa Scott

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    In the far future, human culture has developed five distinctive genders due to the effects of a drug easing sickness from faster-than-light travel. But on the planet Hara, where society is increasingly instability, caught between hard-liner tradi...



  • 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...



  • William H. Keith Jr.

    TYRANNY. REBELLION. WAR.Treachery, tribulation, and a relentless slide into the bloody jaws of Armageddon! Insurrection sweeps through the fragmenting Federated Commonwealth, pitting Steiner against Davion forces, and civilians against their petty op...



  • 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....



  • Keith Laumer

    Two new powerhouses of science fiction, David Weber and Linda Evans, continue the amplified history of the Bolo, the nearly indestructible tank/artificial intelligence that changed the shape of the galaxy. David Weber tells the story of a Bolo, th...



  • Scott Lobdell

    Written by Fabian Nicieza. Art by Andy Kubert and Matt Ryan. Published in May of 1995, Softcover, 96 pages, full color. Cover price $8.95. If you want additional books, I ship as many books as you want for a low flat fee....



  • Marvel Book Group

    In the Age of Apocalypse, Cyclops serves under Sinister in his Slave Pens, where Dark Beast does genetic manipulation on the prisoners they keep. Can Cyclops reject the evil that he serves and will he have to kill his brother Havok to do so? Reprint...




  • Marvel Book Group

    Publisher's summary America is dead. What sits in its place is a gangrenous wound of a nation -- the American dream of the creature Apocalypse. These altered states of America have become a staging area for Apocalypse's next, best nightmare -- t...




  • 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...



  • Elizabeth Moon

    "The difficult we do immediately. The impossible may take a little longer:..." Booted from the fleet as her reward for saving a villainous superior from catastrophe, Heris Serrano has been marking time captaining a rich lady's interstellar yacht. ...



  • Donald E. McQuinn

    Rose Priestess Sylah's successful quest for ancient knowledge had shattered the unity of the Church and branded her a witch. Her only protection, and the only hope for a better future, lay with Gan Moondark, ruler of the united Three Territories. But...



  • James E. Reagen

    A party of six adventurers assemble at an inn and embark on their quest. Although they are well-developed characters who make their own way, they also interact with a deity who is surprisingly like a contemporary game-player--a story on two levels. O...



  • 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...



  • Brian Andrew Laird

    An adventure writer who loves the beauty and danger of the desert stumbles on illicit activities while on assignment, his photographer is killed, and he escapes--only to find himself surrounded by murders and next in line....



  • Alan Scholefield

    Dr. Anne Vernon has recently taken a job as the only woman in an all-male prison. Her role there is twofold: She must cater to the physical well-being of the prisoners and also investigate their mental problems - a job description that is as challeng...



  • Tom Grimes

    The murder of two policemen in a turn-of-the-millennium city sparks violent riots and multimedia controversies, and when it is revealed that the murders were spurred by an underground gangsta rap tape, the tape soars to the top of the charts on the r...



  • Michael Phillips

    Political unrest shakes the foundations of a war-torn country -- and of the McCallum family as they fight for their faith in the Secret of the Rose series.   Many years after their daring escape from a divided Germany, Sabina and Matthew McCallu...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Hannah Kuraoka

    The Baby-Snatcher He peered in the window, watching the baby sleep. The baby was sweet, very sweet. Unattended babies were hard to find, and he needed all he could get. He smiled as he pictured the terror the young mother would feel when she disco...




  • 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...



  • Sandra Scoppettone

    Murder is nothing new to Colin Maguire-he was wrongly accused of fatally stabbing his family in Chicago. The true culprit was never found. Once again in peaceful Seaville, Maguire is accused of committing a series of murders marked by bizarre symbols...



  • Richard Hoyt

    At the first U.S.-hosted World Cup, a package is delivered to German team manager Jens Steiner. Inside, Steiner finds one red and two yellow cards. Hours later, two of the team's hottest players are killed. Steiner realizes that in soccer the cards r...



  • Clare McNally

    Picking up the pieces of her life after a crazed psychopath brutally murders her lover and best friend before committing suicide, theater director Hayley suspects that the killer has returned from the grave to claim her...



  • Carl Hiaasen

    Two honeymooners wake up early, make love twice, and brace themselves for a spectacle they won't be watching from the sidelines. A seductive con artiste stumbles into a scam that 'promises more cool cash than the lottery. A shotgun-toting mobile home...



  • Leonard Gross

    In a fast-paced thriller, a wealthy Jewish police detective from San Francisco puts his own career--and the woman he loves--on the line when he enters the violent Californian underworld of immigrants from Hong Kong. By the author of The Last Jews...



  • M.J. Rodgers

    And then there was one... When psychologist Damian Steele killed off the nasty half of his dual-personality patient, he never expected that the 'widow' would file a wrongful-death suit. Nor did he expect that a breathtaking beauty would be his sav...



  • Terry Lawrence

    In boardrooms throughout Chicago, the traders call him the Vampire, for Gabriel Fitzgerald never sleeps. Instead the darkly handsome financier works deep into the night, parlaying his brilliance and energy into a rapidly growing fortune. But Gabe kno...



  • 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...



  • Sheryl Lynn

    The greatest danger was her own memory Fact: Twenty-five long years ago, Star Jones's parents had vanished. Now Star was haunted by dark images--were they nightmares or actual memories? With no real evidence, no family and no friends to help her, ...



  • Vickie York

    Derek Archer had been called a killer.. . He'd been hunted, stalked and pursued as a fugitive--until he'd vanished altogether. Shortly after the case against Derek Archer was closed, the man managed to escape and create a new identity. Then he set...



  • Meg O'Brien

    A WOMAN'S DESPERATE SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH PLUNGES HER INTO A WEB OF DECEPTION, DESIRE, AND DANGEROUS OBSESSION. Joanna Carr awakens in a hospital after six months in a catatonic state, only to be told that her beloved husband, David, has been bruta...



  • Francine Pascal

    Just when you thought it was safe . . . Convicted murderer John Marin is back! His one goal: to kill Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield. Using his cunning and ingenuity, he has escaped from jail and is stalking the California coast in search of his pre...



  • 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...



  • Diana Lord

    Abandoning Houston high society for a simpler life in Hawaii, heiress Carrie Debary marries marine biologist Alex Madison, only to be swept up in an affair with another man when Alex is seriously injured in an accident. Original....



  • Kelsey Roberts

    More than one man had a date with Destiny... Destiny Talbott, The Rose Tattoo's newest headliner, was head-turningly gorgeous, but her arresting allure brought on more than her share of suitors, including Wesley Porter, the boss's sexy son. But a ...



  • Lois Menzel

    SHE THOUGHT SHE'D FOUND THE PERFECT HUSBAND. BUT LOVE CAN THWART EVEN THE BEST-LAID PLANS. ... Celia, the last of the five Demming daughters to appear on the Marriage Mart, made the match that would be the envy of her elder sisters. For soon she w...



  • Dawn Lindsey

    At war with love Proud and beautiful Sorcha MacKenzie had been taught by her Scots father to hate the British with all her heart. That deep dislike flamed into fury when English troops invaded her family's new homeland in America and burned the na...



  • Mary Morrow

    A YOUNG LADY OF CHARACTER When orphaned Madeline Smythe returned to England and a home she had never seen, her mother's family had high hopes of using her as a pawn in an arranged marriage. But while Madeline might be from the wilds of Canada, she...



  • Rebecca Robbins

    Pursuing her obsession for ancient relics, young dilettante Phoebe Lawton plots to hide in the London Museum and "purchase" an Egyptian amulet, but her plan is thwarted by the appearance of archaeologist Sir Malcolm Forbes. Original....



  • Michelle Martin

    SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO HOLD HIM TO PROPRIETY--INSTEAD SHE FORCED HIM TO THE EDGE OF DISASTER! Ordered to marry the next man who offered, Melinda Mathley devised a scheme to provide so horrific a match that her father have to retract his demand. Her "...



  • Martha Kirkland

    Miss Sommes Under Siege Lovely Miss Columbine Sommes, better known as Colly, mocked the thought of marriage. Her season in the London marriage mart had convinced her that a single state was the best of all possible worlds. But now Lord Ethan Raym...



  • 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...



  • Lindsay Randall

    A SCANDALOUS PROPOSAL Meredith Darlington had long ago rejected the ton, preferring to be a true "Original "--a group of unconventional women. But now she was desperate to do a most conventional thing--marry. According to the terms of her papa's wil...



  • Dawn Aldridge Poore

    With her three sisters finally wed, Miss Roxanne Sydney is free to pursue her favorite pastime: a mystery! Accompanied by Miss Flora Rowe, her poor but proper traveling companion, Roxanne is off to uncover the grandest of all mysteries, the land of E...



  • Violet Hamilton

    Gwyneth Winword swooned -- and then she slapped Major Giles Fitzalen-Hill. The handsome, haughty British officer seemed to think that one stolen kiss would make her breathless. Well, in truth, it did, but Gwyneth would sooner die than admit it. Never...



  • Wendy Corsi Staub

    Dreading the new school year and struggling with a poor self-image, Brittany Butterfield is befriended by Nathan, a teenage guardian angel, who encourages her to think positively and pursue her dream of becoming a writer. Original....



  • Patricia Hickman

    Having fulfilled a seven-year sentence in the wilds of Australia, Rachel Langley finally obtains her freedom, but when her only friend is murdered by an unknown assassin, Rachel must flee for her life...



  • Jane Claypool Miner

    Spending a dream summer on the beaches of sunny California, Amber, an attractive and innocent teen, finds intrigue and romance with three young men, including Mike, who treats her more like a woman than she is ready to be. Original....




  • 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...



  • 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...



  • John Harvey

    Struggling through the daily beat during the Christmas season, police inspector Charlie Resnick investigates a woman's disappearance and realizes that it is linked to a sinister chain of events. Reprint....



  • 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 ...



  • Thomas Zigal

    IN THE SHADOW OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN THE FIRST BLOOD HAS BEEN DRAWN.... His deputy wears Birkenstocks. His childhood friend got rich on drugs. And his hometown has become a playpen of money, power, and sex. But hippie-turned-sheriff Kurt Muller sti...



  • 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...



  • Rebecca Paisley

    "I AM CALLED SPLENDOR WHILE I AM WITH YOU I WILL DO WHATEVER YOU DESIRE." Clad only in her ankle-length copper tresses, Splendor lay atop the twelfth Duke of Heathcourte, who was speechless at having been thrown by his horse and caught by a violet...



  • Constance O'Day-Flannery

    If there's one thing successful career woman Suzanne Griffin and her New Age friend Leslie agree on, it's that chivalry is dead and men aren't what they used to be. Until Leslie offers to conjure up a lover from yesteryear. Suddenly, there he is: Ian...



  • Victoria Pade

    THE CASE: An "accidental" heiress THE CLIENT: Maggie Morgan was dead. At least, that's what everyone told her. But as she pursed her lips and moved her muscles, she knew she was very much alive.... And in a heap of trouble! THE DETECTIVE: Viril...



  • 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...



  • Rosalyn Alsobrook
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    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.......



  • Joan Overfield
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    Tourist Gillian Brooke enters a quaint antique shop... and is suddenly swept into Victorian London, where a handsome scientist could be her only hope of returning home... or her one, passionate reason to stay....



  • Katharine Kincaid
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    Casey O'Donovan, Olympic show-jumper, falls from her horse and into another life -- her great-grandmother's. Now, she's about to be wed to a stranger whose precious love Casey could lose in a blink of time.......



  • Janice Bennett
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    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....



  • Bronwyn Wolfe

    WHERE ANGELS GO, LOVE IS SURE TO FOLLOW TWO LOST SOULS Patrick was in trouble, alone in turn-of-the-century Chicago and unjustly jailed with little hope for survival. And then the honey-haired beauty came to him, as if she had heard his praye...



  • 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....



  • Amy J. Fetzer
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    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....



  • Antoinette Stockenberg

    HE WAS THE DARK HERO OF EVERY WOMAN'S DREAMS Her face was covered with plaster and dust when he came calling-and she tumbled out of her attic crawl space into his arms. Jack Eastman was as arrogant, as effortlessly elegant as his Newport mansion, wh...



  • Eugenia Riley

    TIMELESS DESIRE The death of an unfaithful wife has left Jake Blarney with twin daughters to raise and a farm to run on his own. Desperate and angry, he challenges Destiny to bring him a new helpmate --- and is rewarded with a breathtaking gift from...



  • Barbara Benedict
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    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.......



  • 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....



  • Marcia Muller

    FLYING SOLO Now that private investigator Sharon McCone has struck out on her own, she needs all the clients she can get--even a shady character from her Berkeley days. T. J. "Suitcase" Gordon's made millions as a "turnaround man," a corporate tro...



  • Kirk Mitchell

    Investigating the murders of two people in the Nevada sagebrush country, U.S. Bureau of Land Management ranger Dee Laguerre fears that her chief suspect is a down-and-out cattleman for whom she still has feelings...



  • 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...



  • Robert K. Tanenbaum

    THE SYSTEM IS MURDER A diplomat is gunned down in midtown Manhattan. A girl is raped and thrown out a tenement window in Alphabet City. A Mafia muscle man is running rings around the law. A beautiful Yuppie's career is cut short with a knife. In a...



  • Ralph M. McInerny

    When the corpse of Edgar Bissonet -- a prosperous and influential businessman, but not the best golfer -- turns up at the seventh hole of the Wyler Country Club, lawyer Andrew Broom's hopes for a leisurely summer of golf and gossip quickly disappear....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Nancy Herndon

    Elena Jarvis is an officer in the Crimes Against Persons department of the Los Santos, Texas, police. She's got a sharp mind and a strong sense of justice. She's also got a condescending boss, a chauvinist partner, and an overprotective narc ex-husba...



  • Katherine John

    Dr. Tim Sherringham goes out on an emergency call early one morning and vanishes on the way from his flat to the hospital. Without trace.Daisy, his physician wife, is plunged into a nightmare of terror and doubt as she tries to discover what has beco...



  • Elizabeth Quinn

    HUNTER OR HUNTED? PREDATOR OR PREY? A trail of blood leads Dr. Lauren Maxwell, Anchorage-based investigator for the Wild America Society, to Alaska's remote Nowitna Wildlife Refuge to investigate the near-fatal shooting of her friend Belle Doyon. The...



  • Patrick Lynch

    A sudden outbreak occurs deep in the rain forest. A team of American biological-warfare experts is brought in to discover its source. They find only corpses - and riddles without answers. Because this virus feeds on its victims quickly silently, merc...



  • Graham Watkins

    Drs. Mark Roberts and Alexandra Walton's patients are addicted to their computers, and no one knows what could cause such an unusual number of educated, generally affluent individuals to succumb to the exhaustion and malnutrition this addiction has c...



  • Brent Monahan

    A tale of unholy passion and unearthly surrenderPrinceton University librarians Simon Penn and Frederika Vanderveen have rescued an ancient document from dark, destructive forces. But to reveal its dead prophecy they must decipher a dead vampire's di...



  • Ann M. Martin

    America's favorite baby-sitters are detectives, too! When a big baking contest comes to Stoneybrook, Claudia can't wait to enter. Her excitement is catching, and soon the whole BSC is involved. But Claud's very first cake falls, even though she...



  • 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...



  • Grif Stockley

    "GRIPPING . . . [Stockley] writes with wit, irony, and a good lawyer's intimate understanding of the daily life of the defense bar and the dynamics of trial. Illegal Motion reads like a thriller and reverberates like the news."

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  • John Martel

    Maverick small-town lawyer Seth "Cowboy" Cameron thinks he's struck gold when he and sweetheart Rosie Wheeler make it to San Francisco and he lands a job at the prestigious firm Miller & McGrath. Surviving on adrenaline and broken promises, he's soon...



  • 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....



  • Francine Prose

    Hunters and Gatherers, Francine Prose's withering look at the New Age, is a novel about men and women, power and friendship, sex and competition, and who does what to whom. Reeling from the shock of a failed romance, Martha, a fact checker at a ch...



  • Barbara Hodgson

    "I'm beside myself, I can barely write this the design on my left hand is now extended up my wrist ..."
    So deepens the enigma of The Tattooed Map, a richly illustrated and thoroughly captivating first novel by Barbara Hodgson...



  • Melody Morgan

    THE SPINSTER No one in the sleepy town of Grand Rapids, Ohio, would have ever expected to see shy Irene Barrett tearing up the local barroom. But after joining a women's temperance group the spinster schoolteacher found herself face-to-face with the ...



  • 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...



  • Theresa Michaels
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    “Raine Cantrell is a powerhouse writer whose emotional intensity keeps you enthralled.” -- Kathe Robin, RT Book Reviews Widowed and childless, Angie is named The Woman of Sorrow by Niko, a noble warrior of the Apache. But as passion ignites betw...



  • Cynthia Wright

    He promised to protect her, but he seduced her instead.... 1818: Adrienne Beauvisage was both outraged and intrigued by the dashing rogue hired to be her protector. She knew little of the danger that lurked in the beautiful English countryside.....



  • Nan Ryan

    STOLEN LAND, CAPTURED HEART Golden-haired Sabella Rios knew that she was the rightful owner of the Lindo Vista ranch in the lush cattle country of Southern California. But her legacy had been stolen by the father of handsome Burt Burnett, who now ...



  • Suzanne Simmons

    AN ANGELIC LADY The last thing the beautiful and determinedly unmarried Lady Alyssa Gray wanted at her ancestral home was a man. Yet the Queen had heard about the "haunting" of Graystone Abbey and was sending an emissary to investigate. Since Alyssa...



  • Elizabeth Stuart

    In an age of chivalry tainted by bloodshed and betrayal, two unlikely lovers are swept up by a passion strong as steel, sensual as velvet; and eternal as the stars... JOCELYN MONTAGNE Reckless, exotic daughter of a Celtic noblewoman and a Norma...



  • Christina Skye

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  • Katherine Deauxville

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  • Patricia Potter

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  • 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...



  • Philippa Gregory

    PEACE HAS COME -- IT IS TIME TO LIVE AGAIN Singer Lily Valance wants to forget the war. She vows to live for the present and enjoy the music and glitter of the frantic 1920s. Captain Stephen Winters joins in on the post-war frenzy, and falls in lo...



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  • Deborah Cox

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  • Juliet Landon

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  • 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...



  • Christina Cordaire

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  • 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......



  • Elaine Barbieri

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  • Elizabeth Gregg

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  • Laurel Ames

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  • Lisa Kleypas

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  • Kathryn Hockett

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  • Cassie Edwards

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  • 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...



  • Danelle Harmon

    WANTED When the last of a rare breed of racehorses faces extinction, Lady Ariadne St. Aubyn resorts to desperate measures. Cramming her brilliant red hair into a stableboy's cap, she steals the one-of-a-kind stallion from her wastrel brother -...



  • Carole Howey

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  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Valerie King

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  • Catherine Archer

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  • Linda Francis Lee

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  • Sara Orwig

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  • Sue Rich

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  • Dana Ransom

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  • Janice Kay Johnson

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  • Kathleen Kane

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  • Zoe Daniels

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  • Andrei Codrescu

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  • R.L. Stine

    Overwhelmed by his desire to own a particular sleek, white Cataluna car, Bryan becomes willing to steal and eventually kill for the object of his desire, unware that the vehicle harbors an evil nature that threatens to destroy him. Original....



  • Cameron Dokey

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  • Mark A. Clements

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  • Christopher Pike

    She didn't know what she had done. She awoke in the woods beside a dead body. There was a knife in her hand, blood on her clothes. Had she killed the young woman who lay beside her? She couldn't remember. She couldn't remember anything. Not even h...




  • Diane Hoh

    When the students at Salem University are terrorized by a vengeful stalker, Addie Adair, a co-ed who is working on an English paper at the computer lab, fears that she will be the next victim when she discovers a strange disk. Original....



  • R.L. Stine

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  • Pyotyr Kurtinski

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  • Jahnna N. Malcolm

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  • Margaret Frazer

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  • Robin Paige

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  • Richard Grayson

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  • Harold Adams

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  • Kate Kingsbury

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  • James D. Brewer

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  • Teri McLaren
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  • Elaine Cunningham
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    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...



  • Mary Kirchoff
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  • Don Coldsmith

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  • Elizabeth Fackler

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  • William W. Johnstone

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  • Terry C. Johnston

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  • James Reasoner

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  • Elizabeth Chadwick

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