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  • Morning Glory

    Kasey Adams

    Something is driving captain Dan Anderson, a guilt Amber Daly doesn't understand. She boarded the Jenny D to assess the leaky freighter's financial standing. Instead, she's battling this stubborn, perplexing, all-too-beguiling maverick. Dan's moods f...

  • Back in the Real World

    Marvin Albert

    Pete Sawyer is a private eye of a different kind. The son of a World War II American pilot and a brave French resistance fighter, he grew up on both sides of the Atlantic -- though he prefers his sun-dappled villa on the Riviera to most other places....

  • The Waiting Heart

    Jeanne Allan

    Susan would not be bullied into love Burke Gerard dominated everything and everyone on his Colorado ranch. He expected to dominate the young city schoolteacher who because of an accident spent two snowbound weeks in his wild territory. Susan, howe...

  • Naroh's Task

    Barrie Anderson

  • Roma Mater

    Poul Anderson; Karen Anderson

    BEFORE THERE WAS AN ENGLAND, THERE WAS ROMA MATER .. . BEFORE KING ARTHUR, THE KING OF YS As with Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon and Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave, works with which all four volumes of THE KING OF YS will inevitably...

  • The Buffalo Nickel Blues Band

    Judie Angell

  • Statesman

    Piers Anthony

    This is the fifith in the series BIO OF A SPACE TYRANT, featuring the stages in the life of Hope Hubris, the Tyrant of Jupiter, and his beloved sister Spirit.Author Biography: Vol. 5 Statesman THE TYRANT FALLS Child of flame and terror, born and ...

  • Tilly's Fortunes

    Helen Asher

  • Garnet

    Helen Ashfield

    SHE WAS BOUND TO HIS PASSION... It took only a moment for Garnet Bradley, the violet-eyed beauty, and dashing Jonathan Heathcote, Earl of Derebrook, to spark a passion that would burn brighter than the stars. Although Jonathan must marry another ...

  • Mirage

    Jane Ashford

    She was beautiful enough to die for...Maybe that was why someone was trying to kill her. Geri has one of the most celebrated faces in the world. As a top model, the sleek svelte redhead is sought after by rock stars, movie moguls, and millionaires...

  • The Twelve Frights of Christmas

    Isaac Asimov

  • Dragon Tales

    Isaac Asimov

  • Dakota Dream

    Judy Baer

    "I don't trust men anymore, and there's not a man alive who's going to change my mind!" Katelyn Ryan had begun to believe she would never respond to a man's touch again, especially after her ex-fiance's smooth-sounding lies. She had come home to Med...

  • The Hard Corps

    Chuck Bainbridge

  • P.J.

    Andrea Balis

    P.J. finds herself involved in all kinds of trouble when she attempts to change her image as "Perfect Jessica," in the story of a young girl trapped between the pressures of perfection and her desire to be herself...

  • Mallory's Gambit

    Christian Balling

  • Blood in the Rain

    Margaret Barbalet

  • Thatcher Payne-In-The Neck

    Betty Bates

    After Thatcher's father and Kib's mother are killed in a plane crash, the matchmaking schemes of the two children to get their parents together have unexpected repercussions when their parents decide to get married...

  • Volume II of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories

    Steven Bauer

  • Operation: Jungle Doom

    Lynn Beach

  • Folk of the Air

    Peter S. Beagle

    While attending the revels of the League for Archaic Pleasurs, a group dedicated to the pleasures of the medieval period, Joe Farrell comes face-to-face with Nicholas Bonner, a spirit from the past and an ancient evil...

  • Murder in a Mummy Case

    K.K. Beck

  • A Distant Promise

    Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford

    NOTHING WOULD EVER BE THE SAME Everyone in Dallas thought award-winning advertising copywriter Emily Lattrell had it all. And modestly, Emily had to agree. Then the boyishly handsome and wildly successful Philip Manning walked into a brainstorm...

  • Wicked Stepdog

    Carol Lea Benjamin

  • Beloved Outlaw

    Linda Benjamin

    UNPRINCIPLED ROGUE One moment blonde Amanda Morgan as just a spectator at a hanging; the next she was thrust against the criminal himself, a shield to protect him as he made his escape! Threatened by death if she resisted one bit, the terrified be...

  • The Descent

    Gina Berriault

  • The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership

    Wendell Berry

    “Berry is a superb writer. His sense of what makes characters tick is extraordinary . . . Short stories don't get any better than these.” -- PeopleAs part of Counterpoint's celebration of beloved American author Wendell Berry comes this reissue ...

  • A Solitary Man

    Beverly Bird

    FIRST IMPRESSIONS aren't always the correct ones. Stephanie Carnsbrough was an heiress, so Jared knew she had to be snooty, flighty and completely self-centered. And Stephanie was sure Jared was cold and invulnerable, a man destined to go through ...

  • Just a Kiss Away

    Natalie Bishop

    Heir to the Cantrell family fortune after her husband and young son were killed, Callie fled to Martinique to escape from her late husband's scheming relatives. There she hoped find the peace she needed to pull life back together. Gavin Rutled...

  • The Piper

    Campbell Black

    Once the children laughed and played in the parks of Hamland, but that was before Mr. Zanzibar came to town. Dark master of illusion, he charmed, dazzled and won their love. Then a child disappears, and then another, and it is up to the sheriff to di...

  • Starstruck

    Cynthia Blair

    When shy, sixteen-year-old Lisa Wade wins a date with rock star Flash Robinson, she is swept away by her overnight popularity at Cleveland High, but an accident involving her best friend Wendy forces Lisa's reexamination of her priorities...

  • Captain Blood

    Michael Blodgett

    Beneath the "good life" veneer of Los Angeles, in an urban wasteland of drugs and death, a brutal enforcer stalks. An unforgiving avenger who strikes hard against killers, junkies, pimps, and pushers. He is an obsessed, self-appointed champion well v...

  • The Better Angel

    Larry Bograd

  • Still Life

    Miriam Borgenicht

    Sandy Fleming Didn't Have Any Enemies...Except One. David Bynam. Handsome, successful, he had everything a man could want, until a freak accident left him alone, bitter, and vindictive. He becomes a man who openly admits he wants to kill the man r...

  • Replica

    Richard Bowker

    Shana York, the brilliant young head of York Robotics is kidnapped and blackmailed into creating an android replica of Randall Forrester -- the president of the United States. If she fails, the price is death. If she succeeds, it could mean the end o...

  • The Picnic

    Martin Boyd

  • Substance of Things Hoped For

    John B. Breslin

    The Substance of Things Hoped For reflects the dynamism of the Catholic Church, and the cultural and theological tensions which both proceeded and followed the Second Vatican Council. It dramatically illustrates, in the words of master storytellers,...

  • Murderers Die

    Denis Brian

  • New Adventure of Mad Scientists Club

    Bertrand R. Brinley

    Take cover! The mad, mad, Mad Scientists' Club of Mammoth Falls is back in action.

    Since the publication of the Bertand Brinley's first book, THE MAD SCIENTISTS' CLUB, strange things have been happening. Mad Scientists' clubs have sprouted up, kid...

  • Doing the Voices

    Jeremy Brooks

  • The Search

    Tom Brown

    Continuing the story begun in his bestselling book The Tracker, Brown offers another tale of wilderness survival, based on the year he spent in the woods with only a knife and his famous survival skills. "His story is fascinating."--Roger Tory Peters...

  • A Winter Woman

    Dixie Browning

    A RARE BIRD Banker Cordelia Richardson spent her days with the most successful men in business -- but they left her cold. Then along came a half-naked handyman with holes in his sneakers, calluses on his palms and a chest that inspired awe, and sh...

  • The Demon Rake

    Gayle Buck

    A PAIR OF PROPOSALS Incredibly handsome Lord Damion St. Claire made no secret of his nature -- or of his intentions toward lovely young widow Lady Victoria March. He was the most incorrigible womanizer in all the realm and Victoria was merely anot...

  • Southern Nights

    Rachel Cading

  • The Night of His Life

    Blair Cameron

    She'd auctioned off antiques, but never bachelors. "Bid for Bachelors" was a brilliant idea for a benefit affair. The male pick of Portland would be put on the block and Lara Maitland would be the exquisite auburn-haired auctioneer. The prize of the ...

  • A Thousand Roses

    Bethany Campbell

    At Christmas anything was possible... "When the going gets tough -- get tougher!" That's what Perdita Nordstrand had learned growing up on the wrestling circuit with celebrities like Ravishing Ricky and Hugo the Horrible. So she wasn&#...

  • Days Of Loving

    Jean F. Capron

    What happens when a sleepy small town is selected as the setting for a taping of a popular soap opera? How do the natives take it when a slew of interesting characters invade their turf? How do two attractive girls cope with the arrival of just about...

  • Heartbreak Ridge

    James Carabatsos

  • Rose-Coloured Love

    Amanda Carpenter

    Why wouldn't he leave her alone? Why wouldn't Ryan Forrester accept the fact that Devan's writing career was over? She couldn't continue to write about something she didn't understand. It was that simple. Her books were ab...

  • Gathering of Eagles

    Angela Carson

    Winning meant everything to Sven Tay Hilliard knew Sven Diamond's motives from the start. The arrogant director of the successful British engineering firm was everything his name suggested -- hard and invincible, and he was using her to try to...

  • Operation Petrograd

    Nick Carter

    The Petrograd submarine, Russia's newest and deadliest war-toy, is NATO's worst nightmare. So, when a Russian naval officer offers the sub's plans and maintenance manual for sale, the CIA station chief in Tokyo jumps at the chance. Both get more than...

  • The Fatal Fortune

    Jayne Castle

    GAZING INTO HER CRYSTAL, THE PSYCHIC PREDICTED MONEY, BUT NOT MURDER. . . GUINEVERE JONES - Fortune-telling seemed a harmless game. But when it became clear that Madame Zoltana was making big profits by playing on her clients' fears, Gwen knew sh...

  • Four Comp Philip Marlowe N

    Raymond Chandler

  • The Man on the Train

    W.J. Chaput

    As Winston Churchill speeds across the landscape on a train to visit the President in Washington during the weeks after Pearl Harbor, Frank Kemper of Naval Intelligence discovers a deadly plot by a German spy...

  • Skeleton Key

    Steven Charles

    Jennifer and her friends at Thaler Academy are desperate to prevent the aliens from wiping out humanity, but after a brilliant plan backfires, they find themselves stranded in the heart of the aliens' lair...

  • Street Song

    Ann Charlton

    Cara Matheson had traveled the globe as a free-spirited musician, playing on street corners, dressing like a Gypsy and living the carefree bohemian life she loved. Mitchell Kirby, a wealthy Australian widower, was her complete opposite. A hardworking...

  • Something Old, Something New

    Emily Chase

    Will too many roommates spoil the wedding? Andy, Jane, and Toby are planning their housemother's wedding, but Dana, Faith, and Shelley, the old Baker 407 girls, have other ideas. Sparks are flying! Will six roommates, three old and three new, keep...

  • Black Harvest

    Lillian Cheatham

  • The Golden Child

    George C. Chesbro

    In the tranquil cloister of a Tibetan monastery sits the Golden Child, a magical boy of such purity and goodness that everyone he touches is imbued with his mystic grace. Down the mean streets of Los Angeles, Chandler Jarrell patrols, a wisecrackin...

  • The Sentinel

    Arthur C. Clarke

    EDITORIAL REVIEW: The best collection ever of Arthur C. Clarke's short fiction, including the stories on which 2001: A Space Odyssey and Childhood's End were based. The Sentinel is a magnificent retrospective showcase of Arthur C. Clarke's finest s...

  • Diadem from the Stars

    Jo Clayton

    Abandoned on an alien planet, a young woman gains remarkable powers from a mysterious artifact, in the first installment of a sprawling, unforgettable science fiction saga.   A magnificent combination of space opera and epic fantasy quest in the...

  • Lamarchos

    Jo Clayton

    Savage barbarians enslave Aleytys, the wearer of the Diadem, as she sails the stars in her quest to find her truth and her history in this science fiction adventure.   The second book in author Jo Clayton’s phenomenal Diadem science fiction sp...

  • Recipe for Love

    Kay Clifford

    She'd been tricked, pure and simple Vicky had been delighted when J. P. Duncan's letter arrived offering double the tuition for a place in the women's summer cookery course at Beauclare's. As the principal instructor, she volunteer...

  • Violets Are Blue

    Hilary Cole

    When actress Maggie London finally comes home, she never dreams she'll be facing Alex Graham across a community stage. Eight years earlier, pride and bitter betrayal ended their youthful passion. Now, she's determined to deny the love his violet gaze...

  • Making Waves

    Jennifer Cole

    Ashley Corbett, a newcomer to Vista High, quickly befriends Cindy, but when it finally becomes apparent that Ashley is trying to steal Cindy's boyfriend, Grant, it may be too late for Cindy's sisters to help....

  • Kiss and Run

    M.E. Cooper

  • Tug of War

    Lori Copeland

    Riding high in her silver Jaguar, hotshot ad executive Cass McCason came home to Reuter Flats, Texas. She'd gone far, but Luke Travers was determined to put her in her place. Seeing him again was an unexpected shock. The gawky boy had become a de...

  • Earth to Earth

    John Cornwell

    On a September day in 1975, amid the pungent smells of ripe apples and falling leaves, Robbie, Francis and Alan Luxton were found shot to death on the remote Devon Farm that had belonged to their family for hundreds of years. Reclusive, eccentric, an...

  • The Empty Beach

    Peter Corris

    The early 1980s found Cliff Hardy well established as a private investigator but still battling his demons. He has quit smoking and moderated his drinking. The memory of his brief marriage still haunts him along with other ghosts from his past. A cas...

  • Dark Paradise

    Mary Shura Craig

    Eager newcomers who cross the Pacific in pursuit of a dream. Proud natives who cling defiantly to ancient tribal rituals. All are called Hawaiians. This is their story…and the story of the mighty Jameson dynasty, which grows to wealth and dominance...

  • The Girl I Left Behind Me

    Dan Cushman

  • Fall of the White Ship Avatar

    Brian Daley

    Alacrity Fitzhugh is made commander of the White Ship, an advanced starship designed to trace the mysterious Precursor aliens and unlock their secrets...

  • The Unpredictable Man

    Emma Darcy

    He was skilled in the art of love The legacy of a house from her aunt gave Lyn the opportunity she needed to escape from her unloving, snobbish family. Now, on her own, she could pursue her art. Her new next-door neighbor was a pleasant surpris...

  • And in the Morning

    Elizabeth Darrell

    The Sheridan family fought for king and country through the Great War, when two of the brothers were killed in action. Now, two days before Christmas 1939, the one who survived against all odds faces another world war along with his family. Many year...

  • Desire Provoked

    Tracy Daugherty

    Desire Provoked is an amusing look at modern living, while also a meditation on fatherhood, marriage and ambition. The cartographer protagonist of the novel, Sam Adams, can't seem to map out his own life while he maps everything else for a living....

  • Last Election

    Peter Davies

  • Intimate Strangers

    Saranne Dawson

    Patrick O'Donnell had returned from the dead Ecstasy was called for, and gratitude that Patrick was alive and well. But, in plain fact, Megan was terrified of seeing Patrick again. They'd been newlyweds when he had been sent overseas, and the twel...

  • Heavenly Match

    Sharon De Vita

    Who Needs a Man? Molly Maguire wondered how she had let herself get into this mess. Jonathan Kent was supposed to be a simple date, just like all the others arranged by her Aunt Emily. Afterward, Molly would go home to her pet cat, Nickodemus, an...

  • Triton

    Samuel R. Delany

    "1976" copy. Shows some light signs of age, with some age yellowing and small amount of edge and spine wear. Little red dot on top edge. Front cover has a spine edge crease but spine is in great condition. Very good copy! Tight and clean. Ships very ...

  • The House with the Green Shutters

    George Douglas

    ReadHowYouWant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in Large and Super Large fonts in partnership with leading publishers. EasyRead books are available in 11pt and 13pt. type. EasyRead Large books are available in 16pt, 16pt ...

  • This Magic Moment

    Gregg Easterbrook

    Alternating between fictional narrative and brief essays, this humorous novel focuses on the failing romance of two worldly, contemporary Americans who stumble on a clue indicating they may have lived once before...

  • Behind The Mask

    Glen Ebisch

  • Return to Backsight

    J.T. Edson

    WANTED – DEAD$5000It might have been the normal poster put out by a law enforcement office that the Ysabel Kid held out, until the others read the name of the wanted man – Dusty Fog!“For five thousand dollars, every bounty hunter an...

  • Masters Next to God

    Bernard Edwards

  • Taming the Forest King

    Claudia J. Edwards

  • Brooke's Chance

    Robin Elliott

    BELIEVE IN SANTA CLAUS? They hadn't made Santas like that when she was a kid! A silly bet had landed Brooke on the lap of the sexiest Santa in town. One look into those blue eyes of his, and he almost had her believing in elves. But Chance ...

  • Lone Star and the Con Man's Ransom

    Wesley Ellis

    A joy-ride in a balloon lands Jessie in a head of trouble south of the border!Jessie and Ki are breathing a little easier with the cartel out of the way. That is, until a ballooniest lands on Starbuck property with the notion of using his contraption...

  • Killer on the Road // Silent Terror

    James Ellroy

    Martin Michael Plunkett is a product of his times -- the possessor of a genius intellect, a pitiless soul of brushed steel, and a heart of blackest evil. With criminal tendencies forged in the fires of L.A.'s Charles Manson hysteria, he comes to t...

  • A City Called July

    Howard Engel

    When a rabbi needs help tracking down a thief, it’s time to call on “one of the most enjoyable private eyes in crime fiction” (The Toronto Star).   Saul Tepperman of Ontario’s B’nai Shalom synagogue has known Benny Cooperman since his ...

  • Catch a Fallen Angel

    Paul Engleman

  • The Panic of '89

    Paul E. Erdman

  • The Best Things in Life

    Rita Clay Estrada

    The man was overwhelming! Honey Carter was aghast to find a three-year-old abandoned in her van, the victim of an attempted kidnapping. But she was really surprised when the child's father came to claim her. Single parent Beau McGuire was also th...

  • Longarm and the Bone Skinners

    Tabor Evans

    MEAN TOWN GUNDOWN Somebody in Pueblo was stealing worthless buffalo bones. U.S. Marshal Custis Long thought that was pretty funny, until a bushwhacker tried to blow his head off. Then two Texas gunmen died trying to take him. More killers showed u...

  • Rain in the Distance

    Suzanne Falkiner

  • Smuggler's Lady

    Jane Feather

    DECEIVING APPEARANCES Her auburn hair tucked into a severe chignon, dressed in a shabby brown bombazine, Merrie Trelawney was the picture of dowdy widowhood and sober respectability. No one would guess that those demurely lowered eyelids hid a spa...

  • To Tame a Man

    Rose Marie Ferris

    He was pure catnip to women! Big, blond, and beautifully built, he looked as if he lived by his wits rather than by the book. And it wasn't long before Ben Gallagher, the construction worker who'd become Anne Leyland's student, was teaching her the m...

  • The Other Me

    Terri Fields

  • De Mojo Blues

    A.R. Flowers

  • Blowfish Live in the Sea

    Paula Fox

  • Takedown

    Lance Franklin

  • Love's Tender Promise

    Kathleen Fraser

    His lips found hers and suddenly she was willing -- and wanting so much more... Maura Stirling had sworn never to love this man. She was the daughter of Scottish smugglers who professed allegiance to Bonnie Prince Charlie over the king...and he, K...

  • In the Company of Strangers

    Jayne Freeman

  • The Eye of Osiris

    R. Austin Freeman

    This early work by Richard Austin Freeman was originally published in 1911 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'The Eye of Osiris' is one of Freeman's novels of crime and mystery. The first story featuring his we...

  • Texas Bred

    Michael French

  • Lyrec

    Gregory Frost

    Lyrec and Borregad—Just a Man and a Cat...from Another Universe

    Lovelorn Lyrec and wise-cracking Borregad have been companions through world after world, adventure after adventure.

    They seek Lyrec''s lost lady, and vengeance fo...

  • Look Of Eagles

    Ann Gabhart

    Gillie had been only thirteen when she'd seen Dancer being born. Though she'd been around horses all her life, it had been mostly at the track, where there aren't any foals. From the first moment she'd seen him wobble about on his spindly legs, he'd ...

  • Passion Star

    Rita Gallagher

    HOW DOES A WOMAN CHOOSE, TORN BETWEEN HER HERITAGE AND HER HEART’S DESIRE?   Born as the comet blazed across the heavens, cursed by her mother’s dying breath, Lori Riley had been promised her father’s fortune and Windswept, his elegant Hud...

  • Apache Canyon

    Brian Garfield

    Will Brady. As a professional scout for the U.S. Army in Arizona, he has tasted the worst of the Indian wars and has no more stomach for fighting. But with only a few days remaining on his contract, the local Coyotero Apaches bust loose, spilling blo...

  • Lethal Assault

    Frank Garrett

  • An Evening Performance

    George Garrett

    There is a special joy in seeing a virtuoso at work, achieving the fulfillment of his art. In a prodigious literary career, demonstrating a virtually limitless range, George Garrett’s dazzling versatility has won high esteem and critical acclaim fo...

  • Don't Say a Word

    Barbara Gehrts

    Anna, a young girl growing up in a Berlin suburb during World War II, encounters the grim realities of war with the suicides of a Jewish schoolmate and her family, the death of her love on the Russian front and saturation bombings...

  • Why Can't I Fly?

    Rita Golden Gelman

  • Bedroll Bait

    Buck Gentry

  • The Clairvoyant Countess

    Dorothy Gilman

    Madame Karitska has a style all her own--a rare blend of psychic power, an exotic past, and an uncanny gift for common sense. But when a chance encounter with Detective-Lieutenant Pruden of the Police Department catapults her into the midst of a seam...

  • Floodtide

    Suzanne Goodwin

    Stella Vrendenburg grew to womanhood in a land torn apart by the Boer War, but the thunder and flash of guns on the distant horizon did not trouble her until her sixteenth year. When young Stella comes across a wounded English soldier, Rupert Flood C...

  • Murder in the Wings

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    Jack Dwyers, ex-cop turned amateur actor, is delighted when his agent lands him a role in a local production of Long Day's Journey Into Night. The real drama starts, however, when Michael Reeves -- the play's angry, bullying director -- is found mur...

  • The Wychford Murders

    Paula Gosling

    Twenty years ago, when he was a young man, Detective Chief Inspector Luke Abbot broke free from the chains of Wychford. He thought he had escaped his hometown for good, leaving his bad memories and broken heart behind. He never considered the possibi...

  • Heart of the High Country

    Elizabeth Gowans

    Ceci Bowen leaves her native England for the excitement of New Zealand and faces numerous experiences and difficult men that try her courage and strength, forcing her to shed her innocence in order to survive...

  • Morgan's Woman

    Iris Gower

    Set in South Wales at the turn of the century, Catherine Preece - young, courageous, lonely, and desperate for love - is trying to run a South Wales hill-farm single-handed, and to support the husband she never loved, now crippled and embittered afte...

  • Eden's Spell

    Heather Graham

    Was it dream or reality, this handsome mystery man who'd come to Katrina Denver's tropical island and swept her away on a tidal wave of passion? Mike Taylor, a trespasser, had appeared out of the blue to "rescue" her from a bizarre tr...

  • A Sweet Disorder

    Katherine Granger

    Cool, correct Tracy Holliday scorns cluttered closets and abhors sloppy routines. Which is why laid-back, rumpled Wade Montgomery poses a challenge she can't resist. Surely he doesn't really consider confusion fun and life a lark. Within a we...

  • The Orchard

    Charles L. Grant

    It was a warm evening in Oxrun Station. Perfect for a picnic... If only they hadn't chosen to visit the orchard. That was the last lovely, memorable time. The first death could have been an accident. But the suicide, the mutilation murder, the...

  • Stab in the Back

    Malcolm Gray

  • Destiny's Daughters

    Edith Pinero Green

    Divided by violence, scorched by desire, they triumphed in a time of fiery change... Mother, daughter, sisters, husbands, lovers -- they were dreamers and adventurers, ready to grasp the golden opportunities of Colonial America, ready to fight for th...

  • Paris Nights

    Yvonne Greene

  • Red President

    Martin Gross

  • Sun Dance

    Fred Grove

    Frank Chesney knew the Comanche country as no other white man did. To the Qua-ha-da Comanches he was “Bloody Knife,” and they lusted for his scalp. When this Texas woman came to him it was to ask his help. Her name was Henrietta Wagner, and her s...

  • The Scoundrel's Kiss

    Joan Grove

    They'd met in the elevator of her apartment building. Brian Scott had seduced her with astonishing ease. What madness had made Diane Morrison abandon her newswoman's armor for a reckless night of love? It was sheer folly. Especially in light ...

  • Forbidden Garden

    Diane Guest

    Patrick Kaiser, a journalist, moves to Nantucket to forget his recent divorce, but becomes caught up in the plight of the mysterious Ferrare family next door, who live in fear of Julian Ferrare, a famous conductor, and his insane sister, Elise...

  • Christmas in April

    Suzanne Simmons Guntrum

    Good things come in big, bold packages Caroline Douglas cursed the freak April blizzard that trapped her in Austin Perry's cabin in the Rockies. But even the barometer wasn't as volatile as her feelings for this burly miner! She had a busi...

  • Song in a Strange Land

    Diana Hamilton

    Once he'd made promises of love... Now Denzil Fox vowed eternal retribution. But for the life of her, Jet couldn't understand why. She was the one who'd been sorely deceived! Six years ago he'd said he loved her, wanted to marry...

  • Spring Thaw

    Gail Hamilton

    Their union was as inevitable as the seasons Christie O'Neill thought she'd captured on film every last living creature in Labrador. Until a somewhat wild inventor dropped into the picture.... And what a subject Paul Marwood was! Christ...

  • Kiddo

    David Handler

    “A witty and compassionate coming-of-age tale . . . a noble lesson in growing up.” -- The Hartford Courant The story of the adventures of Danny Levine, Mousey Stern, and Newt Biddle growing up together in Southern California back in 1962, Ki...

  • Brewer's War

    J.D. Hardin

  • Death Raid

    Richard H.R. Harper

  • Opera Today

    Meirion Harries

  • Warrick

    Marilyn Harris

    They lived a life others only dream of.... Imagine a huge Italia palazzo in the middle of the Oklahoma hill country, the heartbeat of an empire. Imagine an oil company worth billions, a dynasty that spans the decades of American legend. Imagin...

  • Double Jeopardy

    Brooke Hastings

    Ellie Landau couldn't pass up the invitation to a murder mystery weekend. It was even harder to pass up fellow player Jed Thorpe. Only Jed was the "killer," and Ellie wound up fighting for her life. Back in the real world, Ellie was th...

  • Blood Trails

    Jack Hawkins

  • Patrick and Ted

    Geoffrey Hayes

  • Paco's Story

    Larry Heinemann

    Paco Sullivan is the only man in Alpha Company to survive a cataclysmic Viet Cong attack on Fire Base Harriette in Vietnam. Everyone else is annihilated. When a medic finally rescues Paco almost two days later, he is waiting to die, flies and maggot...

  • Sisters

    Charles higham

  • Laura Jordan

    Dennis J. Higman

  • Wyoming Drifter

    Ray Hogan

    Dave Gunnison didn't drift up to Wyoming looking for trouble -- but he found trouble gunning for him. Bloodhound deputy sheriff Newton Thomas was on his trail for a Cheyenne bank robbery that Dave got fast-talked into. Thomas needed Dave as his ticke...

  • The Order of the Death's Head

    Heinz Hohne

  • Emerald Fire

    Nancy Holder

    Hawaii was Eden, Stacy Livingston thought -- a jungle of exotic flowers in a land that time forgot. When Keith Mactavish's lips touched hers in sensual invitation, she trembled...and she learned it wasn't only the fire goddess Pele who contro...

  • Gold in the Stone

    Diana Holdsworth

    A LONG TWO MONTHS Although excited about the archaeological dig in Jerusalem, Alexandra Cauldwell had serious reservations about working with General David McKellen. Charismatic, headstrong and clearly in charge, he had no time for detours--busine...

  • The Irish Bride

    Mary Mayer Holmes

    SHE WAS A TEMPESTUOUS BEAUTY CAUGHT BETWEEN LOVE AND DESIRE -- AND ONLY ONE MAN COULD SET HER FREE Hot-tempered, beautiful, and determined never to feel the pain of poverty again, Molly Deacon left Ireland seeking a bright new life in the New Wo...

  • Lady Liberty

    Naomi Horton

    UNEASY RIDER What had started as a harmless highway flirtation with a sexy mystery motorcyclist had ended in disaster. Genevieve hadn't meant to hit the bike, but it was raining, and she'd been in a desperate hurry. She'd stolen the pr...

  • Stories from the Arabian Nights

    L. Housman

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • Wolf Tickets

    Edward Hower

    Steven Fox, a young counselor in a girls' reformatory, battles to keep fear and intimidation from controlling the lives of his tough, but vulnerable girls and discovers a bond between himself and Katrina, the smartest, and most rebellious of the lot...

  • Murder of a Moderate Man

    John Howlett

  • Rebel Love

    Anna Hudson

    Jessica Hayes had a job to do and she intended to do it. Even though the brash Yankee Grant McDougal tried to block the installation of one of her Plantation Pools on his mother's Charleston estate. Obviously he questioned her competence. But whe...

  • The Spanish Gambit // Tapestry of Spies

    Stephen Hunter

    CHECKMATE The men who gave the orders had no choice. Florry was the only man for the job--so they gave him no choice but to go to a land that East and West had turned into a blood-slick battleground of terror and counter-terror. Florry's missio...

  • China Silk

    Florence Hurd

    A woman on top of the world -- facing the painful realities of her past...China. A grand mysterious land of fathomless tradition and historical revolution. And, to brilliant young executives like Marianne Oliver, a new frontier for American business,...

  • A Fair Breeze

    Ann Hurley

    SMOOTH SAILING The little New England town of Fairharbor seemed like the perfect place for Leah Mackey to sit back and relax, when she wasn't dealing with an obnoxious ten-year-old, a gossipy neighbor or a houseful of kittens -- or scouting th...

  • Woman's Selling Game

    Carole Hyatt

    Guides women in sharpening the selling skills that they use everyday, dealing with refocusing attitudes, making presentations, negotiating, handling unexpected reactions, taking risks, and other aspects of selling...

  • Jericho Falls

    Christopher Hyde

  • Demons of the Deep

    Steve Jackson

  • Trial by Fury

    J.A. Jance

    THE EVIL THAT MEN DO The body lay- amid the garbage behind a Seattle grocery store--a tall. well-built male--dead. Detective J.P Beaumont's twenty years on the force had given him a sixth sense about people--especially guilty ones. So when he foun...

  • The Case of the Fragmented Woman

    Cleo Jones

    When the bodiless head of volumptuous soap opera siren Hermoine Leanders is broadcast live on a local game show, bored housewives all over San Francisco get quite a jolt. Especially Mary Sable, who then finds Hermoine's foot set prettily in aspic in ...

  • Happy Easter Super Shape Book

    Josie Jones

  • Love's Legacy

    Rosemary Jordan

    Time enough for love - Love enough for all time. Young Megan O'Brien was as famous for her breathtaking beauty as she was her exquisite needlework. She could have married any man, but she had her heart set on handsome Patrick Gallagher, a fiery...

  • Feathers or Lead

    Nicholas Jose

  • Awake unto Me

    Jenna Lee Joyce

    He was virile even in sleep Beth Crosby's patient could neither move nor speak, but through his eyes she learned to love his spirit. And through her physiotherapy she learned to love his glorious body. Brian Towers, she knew, was a very special ma...

  • At Amberleaf Fair

    Phyllis Ann Karr

    At the last fair of the season, the toymaker Torin proposes to the beautiful sorceress Sharys, and watches his world shatter. Sharys refuses his marriage token because she has just accepted the proposal of his best friend, the adventurer Valdart. Tor...

  • White Water Terror

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy Drew is on a white water adventure that soon becomes a deadly game of cat and mouse. When George wins a rafting trip on a wild Montana river, Nancy and Ned agree it's time for a vacation. Bess is persuaded to go because there will be boys in...

  • Almost Like a Sister

    M.L. Kennedy

  • The Married Lovers

    Flora Kidd

    She had to stop running away from love In the magical city of Venice, Sandra Clarke impetuously married Marco Morosini. Then, just as suddenly, she left the wealthy executive and fled back to London believing that he had deceived her. Determine...

  • The Moon Goddess and the Son

    Donald Kingsbury

    The late-1980s launching of a mammoth, full-scale Soviet space station prompts the United States to a crash program that, by 2010, surpasses all Soviet endeavors, results in an unprecedented economic boom, and catapults humankind fully into space...

  • Tempting Fate

    Risa Kirk

    LOVING HIM WAS TEMPTING FATE Reya Merrill thought handling public relations for the controversial Geneticon account would cinch her promotion--instead it almost ended her career. The press had accused the genetic research laboratories of carryi...

  • Vanished

    Fletcher Knebel

  • Blood Hunt

    Will C. Knott

  • Floater

    Joseph Koenig

    A wildlife officer hauled the corpse from a stagnant pool near the Fakahatchee Strand in the Everglades. This "floater" was the ex-wife of Sheriff Buck White, now strangled and discarded in Florida's all-purpose dumping ground. White's remorse and...

  • Joe Jones

    Anne Lamott

    "If love is details, so is storytelling, and Anne Lamott excels at it. Her way with analogy, metaphor, and evocative detail is subtle; her ability to shift from the specific to the general to the specific again, superb.""-The NationJoe Jones is Anne ...

  • Whims of Fate

    Ruth Langan

    Once upon a time, a beautiful schoolteacher won a trip to a land of royalty and romance. A Mediterranean kingdom, Maurab was very far from Ohio--the place Kirsten Stevens called home. On a deserted beach during the twilight hour, Kirsten met Stefa...

  • Cambodia Kill-Zone

    John Lansing

    Major Robert Falconi's battle-hardened crew of jungle fighters are America's most effective killing machine in Southeast Asia. And when the big brass in Saigon uncover a secret Red plot to reinforce Cong units with combat teams from Iron Curtain coun...

  • Dennison's War

    Adam Lassiter

  • Ute Revenge

    Paul Ledd

    When the Utes burned down his cabin in the mountains, trapper George Lacroix was determined to get his revenge. So he stole a young Ute woman as his payment, knowing full well that her people would never forgive him...or forget that he had dishonored...

  • Oh, Promised Destiny

    Ana Leigh

    PARADISE LOST -- AND REGAINED Falsely accused of treason, beautiful Rachel Burke was forced to flee England for the shores of the Virginia colony. In that paradise, she hoped to make a new life for herself. But the paradise soon turned into a livi...

  • Microworlds

    Stanislaw Lem

    The author of Solaris critiques science fiction in a collection of provocative essays. Celebrated science fiction master Stanislaw Lem turns his always sharp and insightful pen to criticism in this bold and controversial analysis of the genre for whi...

  • Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

    Peter Lerangis

    Facing a courtmartial for having saved Spock, Captain Kirk and the crew of the "Enterprise" begin the journey home, but the voyage is interrupted by a mysterious intruder whose appearance threatens the existence of Earth...

  • Big Game Hunting in North-Eastern Rhodesia

    Owen Letcher

  • The Great Lady Tony

    Dawn Lindsey

    PRIDE GOES BEFORE A FALL WHEN A HEADSTRONG BEAUTY CLASHES WITH AN ARROGANT LORD A MOST DANGEROUS MATCH Lady Antonia Burke was the most outrageous beauty in all the realm. She was the despair of her proper papa, the agony of her swarm of suitors...

  • A Heart So Wild

    Johanna Lindsey

    Their hearts taught them to trust...their desire taught them to love. Courtney Harte gasped in disbelief. There, in a Texas newspaper, was a photograph of her beloved father...thought slain several years back in a savage Comanche massacre. The hon...

  • The Ghost of Thomas Kempe

    Penelope Lively

    The classic ghost story from Penelope Lively, one of the modern greats of British fiction for adults and children alike.When James'' family moves to a ancient cottage in Oxfordshire (with grounds that are great for excavations and trees that are perf...

  • Fatality at Bath & Wells

    Nancy Livingston

  • The Time of the Hero

    Mario Vargas Llosa

    The action of The Time of the Hero, Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa's first novel, takes place at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima, Peru. There, four angry cadets who have formed an inner circle in an attempt to ward off the b...

  • The Castaways

    Frances Lloyd

    A PIRATE'S EMBRACE Men! She'd been used and tossed aside, with no one but herself to blame. So Elly Frobisher left Sydney and went north to Queensland, feeling like a castaway after a disastrous shipwreck. No one could rescue her. She'd have to b...

  • Slocum and the Indian Ghost

    Jake Logan

    A WEALTHY WIDOW BELIEVES AN INDIAN GHOST has gotten sidetracked in her parlor on his way to the Happy Hunting Grounds. And, while Slocum is more familiar with spirits that pour straight from bottle to shot glass, the big Southerner feels there's defi...

  • Last Shot

    Philip Loraine

  • Good Spies Don't Grow on Trees

    Marc Lovell

  • Mistaken Identity

    Anne Hunter Lowell

  • Too Hot to Handle

    Elizabeth Lowell

    DEVIL INCARNATE OR ANGEL IN DISGUISE? Tory Wells arrived a Sundance Ranch with only her battered suitcase, little more than two dollars and a letter from a friend, promising her employment. An Olympic-class diver recovering from knee surgery, Tory...

  • Close Call

    Barbara Lucas

  • Kommando

    James Lucas

    The story of Nazi Germany’s special forces and their efforts to reclaim military, naval and aerial superiority is recounted in this WWII history. Though Germany’s Special Forces Command had stunning capabilities, its fearsome potential was squand...

  • Ship of Dreams

    Brian Lumley

    Once David Hero was an ordinary man living in the real world. Now he is trapped in the Dreamlands, cut off from the waking world. David Hero's dreams and nightmares have become his only reality.Led by wickedly beautiful Queen Zura, the zombie armies ...

  • Memories of an African Hunter

    Denis D. Lyell

    THE following pages contain my memories of many years spent in the African bush, where I did little else than hunt game and study their habits and tracks.In 1906 my friend the late Major (then Captain) C. H. Stigand and myself brought out Central Afr...

  • Danny's Girl

    Pam Lyons

  • A Boy Called Simon

    Pam Lyons