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New Books List: 361 titles

  • Asking for Trouble

    Miranda Lee

    The real thing Serina hasn't seen Aaron Kingsley for eleven years, but she hasn't forgotten him. When they meet again, it's clear that what had begun as a schoolgirl crush has blossomed into a mature adult love. He shares the attractio...

  • Piranha

    James B. Adair

  • T.F. Benson and the Eye Spy Mystery

    David A. Adler

    When a jewelry store in T.F.'s neighborhood is burglarized and the police drop the case ater determining that the burglary was an inside job, T. F. decides to take the investigation into his own hands. Original....

  • Love Knots

    Patricia Aks

    Carrie finds out that her friend Molly's brother, Keith, has been dating her as part of a bet, and she sets out for revenge....

  • The February Trouble

    Neil Albert

    Disbarred lawyer turned PI Dave Garrett, a Vietnam veteran who suffers from flashbacks, works the Lancaster, Pa., area. Desperately needing cash after a court order halts payment on the high fee from his last case, he takes a suspicious new assignmen...

  • When Somebody Needs You

    Trisha Alexander

    It had to be Elise. The beautiful young Cajun woman standing in the rainswept New Orleans street simply had to be the key to the dark mystery that had brought journalist Jack Forrester all the way from Texas. And whatever Desiree Cantrelle said - and...

  • Tall Story

    Margery Allingham

    Eighteen succulent mysteries from the Queen of Crime, guaranteed to baffle the most ingenious of armchair detectives - and even, at times, the imperturbable Albert Campion himself. Enjoy Margery Allingham at her witty best as she spins delicious t...

  • Heart Waves

    Gloria Alvarez

    TALK OF THE TOWN When WFKN was sold, Peyton Adair anticipated some changes at the radio station she managed. But she didn't expect the new owners to bring in a fast-track golden boy like Cassidy -Sloane. The hotshot announcer may have been the tal...

  • Cry of the Wild

    Catherine Anderson

    She was out of her element and someone -- or something -- was hot on her trail. When her brother disappeared, last seen leaving a forest lodge, Crysta Meyers left the big city behind her to join in the search for her missing twin. The haza...

  • The 4 O'Clock Murders

    Scott Anderson

    An account of the crimes of Ervil LeBaron describes how the self-proclaimed prophet used outlawed Mormon tenets of polygamy and blood atonement to purge the Mormon church of many members. 17,500 first printing. National ad/promo. Tour....

  • A Darling Amazon

    Sylvia Andrew

    Marriage is a desperate thing... Julia Marchant had made a fool of herself over Hugo, Marquess of Rostherne, when she was still a green girl. Now he had come back into her life because of a white lie she'd told her ailing father -- a lie that ...

  • Mutant Beach

    Victor Appleton

    Hoping to feed the world's starving people, Tom begins using growth hormones on fish, but when hideous giant fish lay siege to the shore at Laguna Peqena beach, many believe that Tom is to blame. Original....

  • The Season of Loving

    Helen Archery

    A PERFECT LADY From the moment Merrie Laurence arrived in a whirlwind of holiday cheer, Moorsedge Castle would never be the same. Song and laughter filled the castle's once silent halls and everyone's heart grew joyous. Then the handsome...

  • Sweet Light

    Judith Arnold

    SNOWBOUND WITH A STRANGER They went down on an icy mountain. It was a miracle they survived. For Alana Halpern, flying Judd Singer was supposed to be a quick favor, and then home for Hanukkah. But when her plane went down in New Hampshire, it ...

  • Blood on the Forge

    William Attaway

    Praised by both Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, this classic of Black literature is a brutal depiction of the Great Migration from the Jim Crow South This brutally gripping novel about the African-American Great Migration follows the three Mos...

  • Fury's Pilgrims

    James Axler

  • The Best Christmas Ever

    Stella Bagwell

    Christmas bells, wedding bells Sergeant Nick Gallagher had come home to the Gallagher farm to be in a Christmas wedding. But the carefree bachelor had only planned to be his brother's best man, not a groom! Nick had never thought about settling do...

  • Another Country

    James Baldwin

    From one of the most important American novelists of the twentieth century -- a novel of sexual, racial, political, artistic passions, set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France.“Brilliant and fiercely told.” -- The New York TimesOne of The Atl...

  • Nobody Knows My Name

    James Baldwin

    From one of the most brilliant writers and thinkers of the twentieth century comes a collection of "passionate, probing, controversial" essays (The Atlantic) on topics ranging from race relations in the United States to the role of the writer in soci...

  • Bright Shark

    Robert Ballard; Tony Chiu

    1968...IN THE MURKY WATERS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN, AN ISRAELI SUB-MARINE VANISHES WITHOUT A TRACE, BURYING ITS TOP SECRET CARGO. 1988...ON THE MONITOR OF A U.S. RESEARCH SHIP, THE EERIE VISION OF A HIDEOUSLY SHREDDED SKIN DIVER'S SUIT AND THE IMAGE...

  • A Christmas Promise

    Mary Balogh

    THE BOUGHT BRIDEGROOM Eleanor Transome found her father's wealth a dubious blessing, for he was determined that she wed a nobleman. Lord Randolph Falloden, on the brink of ruin, could not resist the lure of cold cash, despite his passionate al...

  • That Fat Hat

    Joanne Barkan

    A high-interest story, tested for vocabulary and sentence length, is accompanied by a letter from an education specialist offering valuable advice to parents on how to read to their children. Original....

  • Tender Warrior

    Linda Lang Bartell

    HE WOULD CONQUER HER Though Rolf de Valmont had expected to find the scars of battle across Northumbria, nothing could have prepared him for the wanton destruction of his fellow Normans and the Scavenging Scots had left in their wake. Now it was hi...

  • The Teachings of Don B.

    Donald Barthelme

    "Barthelme . . . happens to be one of a handful of American authors, there to make us look bad, who know instinctively how to stash the merchandise, bamboozle the inspectors, and smuggle their nocturnal contraband right on past the checkpoints of day...

  • Hard Luck

    Frederic Bean

    Desperate for work, Dan Willis unwittingly accepts a job on a ranch whose owner, Logan, is involved in shady dealings, and soon Willis is falling in love with Logan's wife, a virtual prisoner in her own home...

  • Voice of the Wild

    Patricia Beard

    An anthology of nineteen stories featuring nature's creatures includes the writing of Rudyard Kipling, Alistair Graham, Isak Dinesen, Jack London, William Faulkner, Farley Mowatt, Elspeth Huxley, and Antoine de St. E+a7xupe+a7ry....

  • Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death

    M.C. Beaton

    AH-H-H... THE CLOUDLESS PEACE OF THE BEAUTIFUL COTSWOLDS... After Agatha's years of slaving to promote other people's success, her new life in a picture-book English village is a dream come true. And how better to make friends than by entering th...

  • Promises to Keep

    Nina Beaumont

    Two Lonely Hearts Maximilian von Berg was a man pursued by ghosts, chimeras of guilt from his past that would permit no love in his future. Driven and alone, he found solace in the cause of freedom. But when he drank from the depths of Felicity...

  • Christmas Journey

    Rexanne Becnel

    SOMETIMES BLESSING COME IN UNEXPECTED PACKAGES Charles Montgomery seems to have everything -- money, health, intelligence, the perfect family. But everything is not enough. His wife is threatening divorce. His children are spoiled rotten, And he ...

  • It Must Have Been the Mistletoe

    Nikki Benjamin

    All auto mechanic Dominic Fabrino had in common with prim professional Martha Townsend was the clunker of a car she entrusted to his skillful hands. He'd do well to remember that the lady herself was strictly hands-off. Her kind demanded high-tes...

  • Sunset Paradise

    Cherie Bennett

  • A Dangerous Intrigue

    Janice Bennett

    DANGEROUS INTRIGUE Lady Henrietta Galbraith had always thought of herself as calm and level-headed, but the death of her fiance at her betrothal ball threatened to overset her completely. Though she'd had little regard for Cousin Desmond she nev...

  • Night Cries

    Laurien Berenson

    Every Mother's Worst Nightmare The day her daughter Amanda is born, Jesse Archer's dream comes true. But four months later, when her precious baby is snatched from her crib in the middle of the night by an intruder, Jessie's dreams turns into a migh...

  • Jake's Christmas

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS... Attorney Jake Raglan didn't mind attending a wedding -- as long as it wasn't his own. But when ravishing Rebecca Bellamy caught his niece's bouquet, she also caught his eye. The counselor practiced love the ...

  • Santana Rose

    Olga Bicos

    THE GOLDEN LADY Mercedes de Dreux, exquisite wife of a powerful Creole plantation owner, was the epitome of the gracious lady. But beneath her polished surface struggled a soul in torment, haunted by past sufferings, dedicated to the destruction o...

  • Colorado Passion

    Veronica Blake

    Lance Farlo didn't have time for women -- not decent ones, anyway. Known as the most deadly gunhand in the West, the rugged range detective had a war to fight--against his own father, the wealthy cattleman who'd abandoned him as a child. But ...

  • Memories

    Lucy M. Boston / L.M. Boston

  • Private Lessons

    Barbara Boswell

    GRAY -- Nobody Wore Jeans Better or Looked Hotter Than He Did.... Gray McCall remembered the pretty high school student who'd had such a crush on him, shed nearly flunked his biology class -- but now Elissa Emory was a knockout, all delectable...

  • Masters of the Louvre

    Richard Brightfield

    Traveling with parents and tutor, the reader becomes involved with the artists whose new style will sweep the globe and meets such famous figures as Picasso, Degas, Braque, Rousseau, and Rockwell. Reprint....

  • Southern Reason, Western Rhyme

    Sharon Brondos

    AN IRRESISTIBLE FORCE Born and raised on a ranch in Wyoming, Tinsley Cole could handle a horse as well as anyone. She was used to speaking her mind, getting her way and taking care of herself. Then she came to South Carolina for a visit and collid...

  • The Big Lonely

    Sam Brown

    An honest cowboy looking to make an honest wage: that was Coy Bell. But when he hired on with Walter Davis at his ranch outside Decatur, Texas, Coy got more than he bargained for. He never meant to fall in love with the boss's wife, but when Laurel M...

  • Conglomeros

    Jesse Browner

    A wealthy and world-weary New York dilettante travels to the woods of Romania and brings back Conglomeros, the world's most perfect and beautiful living thing, but his obsessions with his find send the creature off on an adventure...

  • Struck by Lightning

    Patt Bucheister

    MICHAEL--A Rough-Around-the-Edges, Hot-Tempered Montana Cowboy... A mysterious plot of his father's had brought him to England, but rancher Michael Knight knew he'd be staying for a while when he watched Cassidy Harrold jump a fence with reckless ...

  • Oren Bell

    Barbara Burgess

    Oren Bell is an underachiever, while his twin, Latonya, is a powerhouse, and their little sister is a genius. Their house has its own ghost. And their Detroit neighborhood is dangerous and getting worse.



    Still, seventh grade is cool: O...

  • Shark Bait

    Robert Cain

    On the verge of capturing the notorious Djabal, ROD, a high-tech robot, and Drake, his teacher, are asked to rescue Drake's girlfriend, Dr. Heather McDaniels, kidnapped by a powerful drug lord. Original....

  • When Morning Comes

    Patricia Calvert

    Eager to escape from the oppressive foster home in which she has been placed, Cat Kincaid decides to put her plans to run away on hold when she meets Hooter Lewis, a seventeen-year-old farmboy. Reprint....

  • Scarlet Kisses

    Patricia Camden

    PASSION'S FURY Capturing the heart and mind of the unscrupulous Comte Achille d'Agenais is only the first step in Countess Eleonora's elaborate plan of vengeance. But her unsuspecting prey sees only a dazzling Hungarian beauty with who...

  • Topaz Dreams

    Marilyn Campbell

    THE MAN FROM INNERWORLD Fierce and cunning, Falcon had always denied his emotions, believing they would sap his incredible strength. Then the empath set out to find the ring that could destroy his futuristic world, and he ran into an unexpected set...

  • Cruel Miracles

    Orson Scott Card

    "I believe that speculative fiction--science fiction in particular--is the last American refuge of religious literature. Real religious literature, I think, explores the nature of the universe and discovers the purpose behind it. When we find that pu...

  • The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: 1st Annual Edition

    Carroll & Graf Publishers

    An anthology of mystery and crime stories features the work of Ruth Rendell, Sue Grafton, Faye Kellerman, Marcia Muller, Robert Bernard, Sara Paretsky, Charlotte McLeod, Nancy Pickford, Bill Pronzini, and Lawrence Block....

  • Beguiled

    Dawn Carroll

    WOULD HE BREAK HER HEART AGAIN? Liana Castillo had sworn never to return to her hometown. She couldn't face the painful memories of a horrifying night of violence. For fourteen years she'd kept her vow -- until Max Valentin threatened to p...

  • Keeping Christmas

    Marisa Carroll

    A REASON TO CELEBRATE When Katie "Smith" and her baby son, Kyle, appeared at the Owens family home one night during a snowstorm only weeks before Christmas, it seemed a bizarre twist of fate, Katie looked exactly like Jacob Owens's dea...

  • Crossroads

    Marisa Carroll

    WELCOME TO TYLER CAN YOU BELIEVE THE NEWS? Something odd is going on at Worthington House. Several of the elderly residents have died--but is it of natural causes? Questions multiply as an investigation of these baffling event's engrosses America...

  • Homespun Hearts

    Carla Cassidy

    Damsel in distress When Dooley James glimpsed a lovely young woman being held at gunpoint in the apartment across the way, he reacted as any strapping Southern gentleman would -- he dashed to the rescue. Funny...his feisty neighbor didn't seem...

  • Deathscape

    Michael Cecilione

  • The Birth of Flux & Anchor

    Jack L. Chalker

    The powerful foundation to the spellbinding Soul Rider saga. The strange and haunted place called World has been a land divided between the stability of Anchor and the chaos of Flux—a land of near magic, where reality yields to madness. It is i...

  • The Vow

    Lindsay Chase

    IN A TIME WHEN A WOMAN'S PLACE WAS IN THE HOME, ONE BOLD DREAMER DARED TO FOLLOW HER HEART... Married to a man she didn't love, Hannah Shaw dreamed of more -- in an age when women accepted their lives without question. But from her wedding day H...

  • A Governess of Distinction

    Marion Chesney

    HE REQUIRED A DRAGON WHO COULD BRING HIS CHARGES UP TO THE SOCIAL MARK! Having inherited a Gothic horror of an estate and a pair of fifteen-year-old brats to marry off, Lord Percy Hunterdon despaired. Even he realized that, short of a miracle, fin...

  • Undercover Tailback

    Matt Christopher

    Parker Nolan, a notorious liar, is sure he saw someone photographing football plays from the coach's secret book. None of his Kudzu teammates believe him, even though the opposing team has predicted the Kudzus' every move in the last two games. Park...

  • Parliament of Blood

    Scott Ciencin

    THEY WERE RUNNING FROM A NIGHTMARE...RUNNING FOR THEIR LIVES They were wanted. The Parliament had decreed it: Make Them Pay. Danielle Walthers and her adoptive mother, Samantha, had committed terrible crimes against the vampires, and the powerful hi...

  • And Then Came Morning

    Daphne Clair

    True colors Amber's art gallery in Sydney demands all her time and energy, leaving little room for anything--or anyone--else. Especially overbearing, temperamental artist Joel Matheson. She wants his paintings--not his undivided attention. He&...

  • Storm Front

    Barbara Clark-Cross

    When wealthy recluse Bret Hampton offers her a job as his personal assistant, marine biology student Lisa Marlowe is thrilled to have the paycheck. But her dream job quickly turns into a nightmare when she moves into Hampton Hall, Bret's remote, cast...

  • The Basket Bride

    Phyllis Coe

    One beautiful woman -- and the three men who would cross swords to win her FROM A CHILLY PARIS CONVENT TO STEAMY NEW ORLEANS... Spirited orphan Minette Marsan was meant to make a marriage for the glory of France and the betterment of Louisiana....

  • Daughter of the Reef

    Clare Coleman

    The daughter of a chief, Tepua sailed away from her island home to fulfill an obligation of marriage. But she never reached her destination. Her boat was ravaged in a storm -- and after a fierce struggle for survival, the black-haired maiden was wash...

  • Saving Casey

    Karen Mueller Coombs

  • Promise Me Today // Sisters of Mercy Flats

    Lori Copeland

    THE THREE WILY AND BEAUTIFUL McDOUGAL SISTERS COULD SWINDLE A MAN FASTER THAN IT TOOK TO LASSO A CALF. But their luck was running out when the wagon hauling the sisters to jail came under attack by Comanches. Then a dumbfounded Abigail watched a...

  • Shooting Script

    Gordon Cotler

    When the man who claims he wrote Byron Saldindger's hot new TV script is murdered, the desperate scriptwriter finds himself the only suspect, with his only alibi gone missing and his life in peril. Reprint....

  • Gypsy Summer

    Patricia Coughlin

    Surely back home in tiny Pleasure, R.I., where nothing but the seasons ever changed, Jennifer McVeigh and her fatherless sons would find safety from further trauma. If only roving Rex Lovell hadn't rolled back into town.... Once, Pleasure'...

  • Lake Shore Drive

    Patrick Creevy

    Unending terror--in his twenties, that is what Chicagoan Peter Roche endured in every waking moment. Shattered by his father's harrowing death from cancer, and the incomprehensible destruction of his lifelong friendship with John Lemaster, Roche lau...

  • Destiny and Desire

    Nadine Crenshaw

    1915. The United States was a nation on the brink of war. It was a time of uncertainly and hope, when three young women journeyed to the glorious city of San Francisco, determined to follow their passions and their dreams -- Thais -- Beautiful an...

  • Prime Time

    Barbara Cummings; Jo-Ann Power

  • Dead Man's Medal

    Jack Cummings

    Leather-tough Army scout Jim Beatty high tails it over the border though a hail storm of hot lead to rescue Ruby, Mrs. Wills's beautiful maidservant, from a band of hot-blooded Apache warriors. Reprint....

  • Blood Roots

    Richie Tankersley Cusick

    Drawn to her ancestral home, a young woman uncovers a dangerous legacy Olivia always wanted to be part of a big family, but all her life it’s been only her mother and her. As Olivia grew into a young woman, her mother’s erratic behavior turned...

  • Crime for Christmas

    Richard Dalby

  • Ribbons and Rawhide

    Lisa Dane

    Looking for her big break as a producer, Laura takes a job producing a TV series about southwestern ghost towns, but her ambition is pushed aside when she meets Jake, a rebellious photographer. Original....

  • Fog City

    Rebecca Daniels

    STRANGERS Caitlin MacKenzie was an ordinary bookstore clerk from the suburbs -- the kind of woman who didn't get taken prisoner in her hotel room by a tough, good-looking stranger. Yet here she was, scared to death as Michael Seger spoke of na...

  • Dark Heritage

    Emma Darcy

    Had she found her identity or her destiny? Rebel had been fortunate to be adopted-by the James family. The Australian clan fully supported her search for her mother's roots--even though it took her to England. But when Rebel arrived at Dave...

  • The Book of Love

    Cathy N. Davidson

  • Ranchero

    Clay Dawson

  • The Last Human

    Tom De Haven

    The Epicene has been destroyed and its creator defeated. Snatched from the battlefield by the shadowy Gray Men, Jack, the King's Tramp, and his companions from Earth find themselves in a strange and treacherous labyrinth outside time. Here, in the Un...

  • Path of the Sun

    Al Dempsey

    A richly textured chronicle of the huge, brawling expansion of America during the 1880s features such prominent characters as rail magnate James Hill, future president Teddy Roosevelt, and labor pioneer Samuel Gompers. Reprint....

  • Night Run

    Robert Denny

    An American pilot trapped behind Russian lines winds up flying for the Soviet Air Force and becomes involved with one of the "Night Witches," a female Soviet regiment who silently glided vintage biplanes at night, bombing German positions....

  • The Last Dream

    Gordon R. Dickson

  • Rigged for Revenge

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • Bear Hug

    Jerome Doolittle

    In a purer world, Dr. Denton Somerville would have been a responsible fiduciary trustee. But when both he and his Sunbanc Savings and Loan bite the dust, a group of Boston Irish retirees find themselves three hundred thousand dollars the poorer. Ente...

  • Flame-Out

    Keith Douglass

    SOVIET RESURRECTION. ARMED AGGRESSION. In the wake of a hard-line military takeover, the Soviet Union is reborn. With blitzkrieg speed, the new Red menace streaks into a terrifyingly aggressive posture. Norway is invaded. Finland is crushed. And ...

  • Home Fires

    Dixie Dubois

    THE HUNGER IN HIS EYES When Leara left Columbus, Indiana, at the age of eighteen, she was running for her own survival. She'd learned that life wasn't worth living in her father's house, under his iron hand. Her only regret was that Ga...

  • They Never Came Home

    Lois Duncan

    Dan and Larry’s hiking trip ends in a missing persons search. Can Joan find her brother before it’s too late? When high school buddies Larry Drayfus and Dan Cotwell take a backpacking trip into the Mogollon Mountains, nobody is concerned when ...

  • Duty and Dishonor

    Dale A. Dye

    Obsessed with the legend of Salt and Pepper--two American G.I.s, one black, one white, who reportedly defected to Russia--Staff Seargeant Wilhelm Pudarski goes against his superiors on a mission to find them. Original....

  • Scandalous Journey

    Roberta Eckert

    Scandal Awaited Miss Eugenia Dudley On Her First Day Beyond The Addington School For Young Ladies. Wagging tongues had a delightful day when Miss Dudley and her new guardian, Lord Grahame, were forced, en route from the school, to take shelter alone...

  • Lone Star and the Trail of Murder

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki blaze a deadly path to corner a pack of purebred killers!The blackhearted boss of a ruthless stickup gang makes life difficult for Jessie and Ki when he guns down a friend of Jessie's father....

  • Hoffa

    Ken Englade

  • Elfwood

    Rose Estes

    The defense of Castle Elfwood, hidden in an enchanted forest in Albion, from barbarians and the unearthly Orcs depends on four young people--a lord, a magician, a druidess, and an orphan--in the first book of the series. Original....

  • Metahorror

    Dennis Etchison

  • Longarm and the Shoshoni Silver

    Tabor Evans

  • Dead Ends

    Ann C. Fallon

    DROP DEAD It began with an ordinary drip, just a bit of water seeping through Cromlech Lodge's dining room ceiling. Proprietor Kevin Conlon curses the poor timing, for his posh country inn is just serving tea. But the guests' repast is rather more...

  • Red Orc's Rage

    Philip Jose Farmer

  • Beware of the Dog

    E.X. Ferrars / Elizabeth Ferrars

  • An Image of You

    Liz Fielding

    Their eyes met across a crowded room... But the sparks that flew were not sparks of attraction. In fact, the only thing that flew was a bag of flour -- covering Lukas Karel in white powder as Georgette Bainbridge scored a direct hit. Georgett...

  • Day the Fifth Grade Disappeared

    Terri Fields

  • The Journey

    Ida Fink

    In the autumn of 1942, two young Polish women flee the ghetto and embark on a journey into the heart of enemy territory, working as hired laborers in the factories, farms, and villages of wartime Germany....

  • The Summer Stars

    Alan Fisk

  • Susanna Siegelbaum Gives Up Guys

    June Foley

    Susanna is certain that she will be able to win the bet she made with her best friend, Annie, and stay away from boys for three months, but as the weeks drag on, she begins to question her willpower. Reprint....

  • Golden Threads

    Rebecca Forster

    Hugely talented and fiercely ambitious, Char Brody was consumed by one desire: making it big as a clothing designer in the high-powered world of international haute couture. Even that magical chance meeting with the handsome, dark-eyed photojournalis...

  • Inadmissible Evidence

    Philip Friedman

    For tough New York City prosecutor Joe Estrada, the law is his life. And he's not about to let millionaire real-estate tycoon and community hero Roberto Morales slip out of a murder charge--not again. Morales is being retried for the rape and murder ...

  • Mirror to the Sky

    Mark S. Geston

    Secretive, enigmatic beings, they came to Earth to live among humanity in quiet, aristocratic isolation. But now, after years of silence, the "gods" have decided to share their art.Across the vast galactic void come great ships bearing the fruits of ...

  • The Rootin' Tootin' Bugle Boy

    Patricia Reilly Giff

  • Sick Friends

    Ivan Gold

    Ivan Gold's first novel, re-released to accompany his triumphant return with Sams in a Dry Season. Introducing Jason Sams, a New York playboy and author, Sick Friends draws fictional and real experience into a story full of wit, imagination, verbal i...

  • In Days of Awe

    Eric K. Goodman

  • Fathers and Sons

    Giles Gordon

    A collection of the best English short fiction features stories by Fay Weldon, Alice Munro, Brian Aldiss, Angela Carter, Seamus Deane, Mavis Gallant, Edna O'Brien, and Salman Rushdie, as well as unknown writers....

  • Heaven and Earth

    Lucy Gordon

    Sagittarius man Bruce Venables seemed like a proper English schoolteacher, but Helena Walker knew better. He was a footloose and fancy-free bachelor at heart, and agreeing to become temporary headmaster of Easthaven School was the only kind of commi...

  • 32 Cadillacs

    Joe Gores

    In Steubenville, Iowa, an old man attempts to get on a department store escalator but takes a death-defining freestyle tumble instead. A few hours later, in the San Francisco Bay area, brand-new Cadillacs begin disappearing. In come the street-smart ...

  • Forever

    Judith Gould

    Desire and Deception. Tragedy and Triumph When a brutal murder catapults investigative journalist Stephanie Merlin into a deadly hunt for the killer, she finds herself caught up in a web of lies and deceit that spans decades and stretches across t...

  • Cold in the Earth

    Ann Granger

    EVIL UNEARTHED Progress has overtaken the charming English village of Bamford in the Cotswolds -- and Chief Inspector Alan Markby resents the heartless desecration of his boyhood home. But when a bulldozer uncovers the corpse of a mystery man buri...

  • After All This Time

    Vanessa Grant

    To Charles, marriage was just another contract.... After all this time of quiet admiration and even more secret desires, Carrie Brooke finally had her wish come true. Charles Kantos, her employer and the man of her dreams, proposed! But no matt...

  • A Cast of Killers

    Gallagher Gray

    T. S. Hubbert and his octogenarian Auntie Lil become involved in the Hell's Kitchen soup-kitchen poisoning of an old woman and, with the help of a motley crew of theater has-beens and wannabes, hunt the killer. Reprint....

  • Safelight

    Linda Crockett Gray

    Rikki Lundquist lives with her adopted children in the lush Florida Keys, while she pursues a career as a photographer. And she's doing quite well on her own--thank you very much--until the sick threats start. Now suddenly, one man wants to kill her...

  • Snowdrops for a Bride

    Grace Green

    Free to love When Strome Galbraith appeared at Nairne's cozy bed-and-breakfast, Nairne couldn't miss the aura of unhappiness surrounding him. But as a widow trying to manage a group of troubled teenage boys, she simply didn't have the ...

  • Cat Crimes 3

    Martin H. Greenberg

    Like foosteps in an empty alley or screams in the dead of night, cats and mystery fit purr-fectly together. CAT CRIMES 3 is an eerie collection of eighteen original spine-tingling tales about cats, humans, and the curious company they keep. For fans ...

  • It Had to Be You

    Jennifer Greene

    MR. DECEMBER Hot Guy: Wickedly sexy Samuel Shepherd. He's downright dangerous... Fiery Redhead: Valerie Shroeder. Underneath that cool exterior beats the heart of a temptress .... Spontaneous Combustion: If you generate enough heat, it's bound ...

  • gather

    Bill Guick

    The discovery of gold could forever change the destinies of John Crane and his newfound half-brother, Tall Bird, as their sons, an Army officer and a Nez Perce warrior, take opposite sides in the coming struggle. Reprint....

  • Dragons on the Town

    Thorarinn Gunnarsson

    The comic sequel to Humans, Beware! finds Sherlock Holmes living incognito in New York, helping save the spectral Jenny Barker from being transformed into a magic dragon by an evil sorceress. Original....

  • A Portrait in Time

    Priscilla Gurney

  • Hot Spell

    Linda Guss

    Shelby Langstaff made a living writing profiles about the rich and famous, and in the process she'd learned to be wary of those with power and privilege. Yet when Shelby's aunt left her a valuable piece of property in Kentucky, she found herself a me...

  • The Ups and Downs of Carl Davis III

    Rosa Guy

    In a series of letters to his parents and friends, twelve-year-old Carl relates his anger and confusion as well as his gradual change of heart about being sent to a small Southern town to live with his grandmother...

  • The Necropolis: And the Land of Egypt

    Gary Gygax

    The Necropolis campaign scenario is an epic adventure which sweeps the Heroic Personas across the dramatic landscapes of Earth's most magickal kingdom, Egypt. From a hidden evil in a desert village, to tribes of raiders in the wilderness, to the secr...

  • A Forever Kind of Love

    Patricia Hagan

    The War Between the States was over, but it had torn their world apart. Clint McCabe came back branded a traitor. He'd dared to swap his gray uniform for blue. Enchanting Dancy O'Neal had spent the war years in Ireland, dreaming of going home. Determ...

  • Ravenmocker

    Jean Hager

    Molly Bearpaw, an investigator for the Native American Advocacy League, looks into a suspicious death at the Country Haven nursing home and discovers an array of suspects driven by greed and money. Reprint....

  • Return Trip Ticket

    David C. Hall

  • Hard Aground

    James W. Hall

    450 years ago a treasure ship went down. In Miami, the heat hasn't let up yet... Hap Tyler sailboards on Biscayne Bay, hears voices, seduces young women, and lives on the edge of history in his family's old-money mansion amid Miami's pastel glitz. Bu...

  • The House on Wiffen Cove

    F. Jacqueline Hallquist

    FATAL LEGACY From the moment she arrived on Saturday Island to claim her inheritance, someone tried to drive Kimberly D'Ahl away from the clifftop mansion overlooking Puget Sound. The beautiful young widow hoped to live there and paint, to banish pa...

  • Dog Wizard

    Barbara Hambly

    The Citadel of Wizards was under siege. Deep in the Vaults beneath the walled city, Gates into inhuman realities were opening and closing without warning. Monsters emerged from other dimensions; and ancient, malign magics came to life under the influ...

  • Nightshade

    Laurell K. Hamilton

    After two hundred years of civil war the planet Oriana is dying. Most of the surface vegetation is gone, the air is nearly unbreathable, and the people themselves are dying. Now, the two warring factions have finally sat down to talk peace, and Capta...

  • Edge of Fear

    Michael Hammonds

    He selects his victims carefully. Plans his moves down to the last detail. This time, he chooses one he knows -- but she doesn’t know him. Soon, she will. Soon he will bring her to the edge… Life was finally starting to come together for Sarah...

  • Once in Every Life

    Kristin Hannah

    SHE DARES TO LOVE A MAN WHO DOESN'T DARE LOVE... Tess Gregory's brilliant career as a researach scientist hides her longings for a husband and child. Though deaf, she is a free spirit -- a woman full of life and love. She is struck down all too soon...

  • Every Man's Hand

    David Harcombe

  • Desert Flame

    Anne Harmon

    THE GREENHORN A former librarian, Emily lift civilized Connecticut for the untamed West--and discovered an untamed passion that burned inside her like the Arizona sun... THE GUNSLINGER Zack had been hired by Emily's uncle to keep order on this r...

  • A Man to Believe in

    Deborah Harmse

    JAKE--A Gorgeous Blue-Eyed Hunk Who Made It Hard to Say No... He was every woman's fantasy of. a tall, dark, and wickedly good-looking pirate, and at the costume party. Cori McLaughlin couldn't believe she was paired for charades with Jake Tanner...

  • Shiver

    Brian Harper

    From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Michael Prescott, author of FINAL SINS and COLD AROUND THE HEART, comes a terrifying story of obsession and murder. On a bad night in L.A., shy and timid Wendy Alden survives a terrifying encounter with a ...

  • Gold and Lead

    Clint Hawkins

  • Confidences

    Penny Hayden

    THEY WERE THE CLOSEST OF FRIENDS They were four talented women who shared their dreams and disappointments... in men, in love, in life. But it was the confidences they didn't share that could devastate them--and change the course of their lives f...

  • Lucy Boomer

    Russell Hill

    A down-and-out college professor in search of a future drives a ninety-three-year-old woman through a highway culture of bars and motels and back across a century of unrecorded American history. Reprint....

  • Able Gate

    Douglas Hirt

    Ruthless badman Barrister McClain has sworn to avenge his brother's death - and that means nailing the hide of Able Gate to the barn wall. But big-name gunfighter and secret Cavalry agent Gate is laying low up Montana way, undercover as the mild-mann...

  • Furies

    Janet Hobhouse

    A SELECTION OF THE LOST BOOKS CLUB
    An exhilarating, fiercely honest, ultimately devastating book, The Furies confronts the claims of family and the lure of desire, the difficulties of independence, and the approach of death.
    Janet Hobhouse's ...

  • November

    Janet Hobhouse

  • Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1992

    Edward D. Hoch

  • Sammy's Fantastic Journey's with Early Heroes of the Bible

    Daniel J. Hochstatter

  • Without Price

    Dee Holmes

    PROTECTING THE INNOCENT... Terrified by the attempted kidnapping of her nephew, temporary guardian Katherine Brewster accepted protection from private investigator Sloan Calder. Then she found out their cover was that of a married couple, and her...

  • The Convocation

    John R. Holt

    Years after her mother had died a horrible, excruciating death at the hands of her "family," a sick group of demon worshippers, Beth Tremaine finds herself summoned, as her mother had been, by the evil forces...

  • Sunny Says

    Jan Hudson

    KALE--A Sexy Devil Who Liked the Taste of Danger--and Her Lips... Worldly, rugged foreign correspondent Kale Hoaglin expected Little Miss Sunshine when he met his television station's weather reporter, but Sunny Larkin was a sassy surprise whose s...

  • Apache Promise

    Janis Reams Hudson

    HE SAVED HER LIFE... Taken hostage by Indians, Angela would do anything to escape. And rancher Matt Colton seemed her only hope -- even if he insisted that the only way he could save her was by making her his bride -- in name only, of course. But al...

  • Systemic Shock

    Dean Ing

    When China and India join forces to launch a nuclear strike against the United States, one young man discovers, in the chaos that follows, that the only people who can survive in the new world order of the 1990s are killers...

  • Twelve Days of Christmas

    Joanna Isles

  • Diamond Head

    Marian J.A. Jackson

    Encouraged by the envious Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to choose a more suitable profession, mystery novelist Abigail Danforth goes to Hawaii and becomes involved in both a diabolical plot and the murder of Queen Liliukalani's niece...

  • The Man With the Midnight Eyes

    BJ James

    IT WAS DESTINY... A chance encounter in an elevator had left Jazz Talbot breathlessly yearning for a spellbinding stranger... a man she never expected to see again. But fate intervened and brought her together with Dare McLaclin. The small-town do...

  • Tough Love

    Dean James

  • Acts of Love

    Deana James

    The man who murdered her father lies dead, but Miranda's victory is hollow ... and brief. Now she and Shreve are fugitives, stalked by an implacable enemy, forced by her obsession for vengeance to live a drama more dangerous than any they have enacte...

  • Without Due Process

    J.A. Jance

    A maniac broke into the home of Officer Benjamin Harrison Weston--then brutally snuffed the model cop, his wife and his children. But five-year-old "Junior" Weston was hiding in a closet...and somehow avoided the psycho's bloody blade. Everyone lo...

  • Shadows in the Watchgate

    Mike Jefferies

    When American model Tuppence Trilby takes up residence in the quaint quarter of Norwich, she catches the eye of a crazed taxidermist, intent on using his skills to preserve her beauty for eternity. Original....

  • Jesus' Son

    Denis Johnson

    American master Denis Johnson's nationally bestselling collection of blistering and indelible tales about America's outcasts and wanderers.Denis Johnson's now classic story collection Jesus' Son chronicles a wild netherworld of addicts and lost souls...

  • The Test

    Stacie Johnson

  • Final Atonement

    Steve Johnson

    JUDGMENT DAY Rabbi Avraham Rabowitz lay in a pool of his own blood, a prayer shawl stuffed down his throat, and his beard shaved off. The question for gay New York police detective Doug Orlando wasn't who hated the right wing religious sect leader...

  • Them

    William W. Johnstone

    Jake Silver was a teenage misfit, a misunderstood genius who'd been cruelly tormented by his own sadistic father and others in his little Louisiana hometown. Jake was the perfect disciple for THEM. They'd come from another world;disembodied beings...

  • Witch of the North

    Courtway Jones

    Against the background of fifth-century England, Morgan la Fey--King Arthur's beautiful half-sister--is forced to leave the man she loves and raise a family of sons who help her establish a flourishing personal realm. Reprint....

  • The Hero Game

    J. Sydney Jones

    Jailed for fighting against facism in Spain, Irish hero Jack Kavanaugh reluctantly agrees to work for the Nazis in return for his release, and soon he finds himself a pawn in an assassination plot. Original....

  • Roses at Dawn

    Laura Jordan (1)

    FLOWERING ROMANCE When landscape architect Margo Sanders received the surprise bequest of a lovely old Colonial house in the Berkshires, her dream of creating her own garden was about to blossom and grow. But her new neighbors were determined to t...

  • Wildstar

    Nicole Jordan

    PASSION'S GAMBLE There's fire in Jessica Sommers' hazel eyes. She's out to get the scoundrel who shot her father, and she needs a hired gun to help her protect the family silver mine. Garrett Devlin arrives in town just in time to take on the job....

  • Twilight Mist

    Ann Justice

    Kate...In a time when women didn't dare such things, the spirited beauty yearned to succeed in the offices of her father's Milwaukee brewery. Romance was not part of her plans - until she met . . .Ryan...His heroism in the Civil War helped win him re...

  • Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown

    Marvin Kaye

    Gathers stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Willa Cather, Barry N. Malzberg, Theodore Sturgeon, Stephen Crane, H.G. Wells, E.F. Benson, H.P. Lovecraft, Jack London, Bram Stoker, Richard Matheson, and Jack Vance...

  • The Silence of Angels

    Karen Keast

    HE WAS BACK Silently, Katy McKellen looked into the rugged face of her husband and felt nothing but rage. Because, not quite a year ago, he'd failed her...left her alone in her greatest hour of need. Quietly, Connor looked back into the passio...

  • Ride into Yesterday

    Christopher Keegan

  • Update on Crime

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy goes undercover as an investigative reporter after threats are made on the life of handsome WRVH-TV News anchorman Hal Taylor. The evening news is filled with violence, ambition, and greed -- and that’s just behind the camera! Can Nancy get t...

  • The Nutcracker Ballet Mystery

    Carolyn Keene

    AN EVENING OF BALLET LEADS NANCY INTO A DANCE WITH DANGER! Madame Dugrand's Dance Academy is in rehearsal for The Nutcracker Ballet, and it could be a huge hit this year. Shana Edwards, a recent graduate who has made a big splash in New York, is ret...

  • My Sister's Keeper

    Nora Kelly

    Sexism has always been a part of life at the University of the Pacific Northwest, but it's never been so blatant as the latest series of sick pranks directed against campus women. When Rita Gordon, a brilliant student and feminist leader, is denied a...

  • Special Delivery

    Jerry Kennealy

    Polo's millionaire friend Raymond Singh hires him to deliver a cashier's check for $60,000, as well as a letter and an audiotape (both in Hindi), to his cousin Gurbeep "Gordy" Singh in London. After finally connecting with the elusive Gordy, Nick acc...

  • Why Me?

    Deborah Kent

  • The Bruges Engagement

    Madeleine Ker

    DESTINATION: Belgium ATTRACTIONS: delicate lace, luscious chocolates, spired palaces and Jan Breydel Art expert Geraldine Simpson was awed by the Breydel estate's collection of masterpieces. But businessman Jay Breydel was only interested i...

  • Heart of Midnight

    J. Robert King
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Revenge. The word rings in Casimir's mind. He has laid his plans for a decade--ten years among the scruffy children, the rats and the fleas of an orphanage. At last Casimir sets his intricate scheme into motion, seeking glorious revenge upon the man ...

  • Partners in Love

    Susan Kirby

    With Christmas coming, Shawna Cayley decides to form a business partnership with her brother and his best friend, Chuck McCurdy, but despite Shawna's efforts to win Chuck over, he continues to treat her like a kid sister. Original....

  • Why Do Birds

    Damon Knight

    It is the early 21st century, and Ed Stone says he's been in suspended animation since the 1930s--put there by aliens who have sent him on a mission: convince the nations of the world to build a massive vault, in which humanity's billions will lie in...

  • Nora and the Great Bear

    Ute Krause

  • Escapade

    Susan Kyle

    SHE WAS FIGHTING FOR HER INHERITANCE...AND RISKING HER HEART Amanda Todd wondered if other battles had been fought on lush, breeze-kissed Lawson Island in the Bahamas. Her father's death had made her co-owner of a nearly bankrupt San Antonio newsp...

  • Freedom Flight

    Mercedes Lackey; Ellen Guon

    UNITED THEY FLY, DIVIDED THEY FALL Ralgha nar Hhallas, captain of a war cruiser, noble lord of the Kilrathi Empire -- and a rebel.... Captain K'Kai of Firekka, first of her winged species to leave her planet for the stars.... Captain Ian St....

  • A Gift for Murder

    M.D. Lake

    Silence the Poison Pen The discovery of Cameron Harris's body has stunned the university. But some members of The Tower Writers' Collective are more than a bit relieved that the poison pen of the bestselling author has been silenced. Tamara Meade,...

  • Something's Watching

    Simon Lake

    Fifteen-year-old Tara Fraiser is horrified when she realizes that the "thing" that has been mugging people close to her has been heard to whistle the same tune whistled by the monster her father told her about as a child. Original....

  • The Venetian Mask

    Rosalind Laker

    Enduring friendships and long-held vendettas come alive against the splendor and decadence of eighteenth-century Venice. In 1775 Venice -- known to outsiders as "the brothel of Europe" -- the tradition of mask-wearing has allowed adultery and debauc...

  • Too Close for Comfort

    Charlotte Lamb

    BARBARY WHARF Ashamed of the past Afraid of the future Irena Olivero had made front-page news after joining the Sentinel. Shy, demure and extremely beautiful, she turned heads wherever she went--and every eligible man at the paper wanted her. ...

  • The Holiday Murders

    Marsha Landreth

    When one of her corpses turns out to be a client of the Federal Witness Protection Program, Sheridan medical examiner Dr. Sam Turner finds her work the object of scrutiny by none other than her stepson, a foreign correspondent...

  • But Where Is Love?

    Abbe Lane

  • Red Tide

    R. Karl Largent

    With a cadre of top-ranking Soviet officials plotting to overthrow the heirs of Gorbachev and Yeltsin, Commander T. C. Bognar must use his high-tech equipment to defeat his foes' cunning. Original....

  • Hotel Morgue

    Janet Lawrence

    Contemplating an investment in Hotel Morgan, run by widow Ulla Mason and her attractive stepson Alex--Darina Lisle becomes distracted from her financial doings when her beau, Detective Sergeant William Pigram takes on a pretty partner....

  • A Wholesale Arrangement

    Day Leclaire

    The Bride needed the groom. The Groom wanted the bride. A Wedding was the only solution! A marriage of convenience. A business arrangement. A temporary measure. Andrea Constantine wasn't surprised when her former fiance, Thor Thorsen, propos...

  • An Outrageous Proposal

    Miranda Lee

    Laura wasn't surprised when she saw Dirk Thornton with a glamorous brunette: her estranged husband's reputation as a womanizer was well-known to her. But she was shocked by her feelings for Dirk--they weren't dead at all and, what was mor...

  • Cherokee Thunder

    Rachel Lee

    TWO LIVES DEPENDED ON HIM Micah Parish: Deputy Sheriff. Six feet, four inches of solid muscle. Half-Cherokee. Tough, proud, a loner. Faith Williams: Mother-to-be. Fragile-looking blonde running for her life. Quiet, scared of her own ...

  • Dark Dance

    Tanith Lee

    Drawn to the ominous house of Scarabae by the promise of passion, Rachaela soon finds herself a prisoner of her own desire, seduced into a dark and dangerous existence by a lover who bears her family name. Original....

  • Angel Hunter

    Ana Leigh

    His firm, sensuous lips pursed around an expensive cheroot, Ruark Stewart waited impatiently as the lavish paddle wheeler made yet another stop along the banks of the great Mississippi. But when he caught sight of the spirited black stallion and the ...

  • Firestreak

    Mike Linaker

    For fans of Blade Runner, Robocop, and I, Robot! In mid-21st century America - over-populated cities harbor ordinary citizens who are oppressed by money manipulators, drug pushers and daily violence. And beyond the cities lay vast wastelands of chemi...

  • Names of the Mountains

    Reeve Lindbergh

  • The Serpent Beguiled

    Betina Lindsey

    The bride of dashing British explored Ada Dunraven, her marriage was in name only, carried out to fulfill her father's desperate deathbed plea. For years reclusive Lilith had secretly loved this reckless adventurer who had lived out her fantasies in ...

  • Angel

    Johanna Lindsey

    A TOUCH OF HELL Hoping to cool off a twenty-five-year-old feud between two neighboring families, Cassie Stuart only succeeds in pouring kerosene on the flames. Both sides have warned her to get out of Texas pronto... or they will burn her father'...