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New Books List: 371 titles

  • Crazy in Love

    K.J. Adams

    When Peters Ashcroft, the straightlaced society boy of Governor's High, accompanies her to a fancy ball, Jazz Blum--who has been heartbroken and has sworn off love--finds herself falling in love all over again. Original....

  • A Precious Gift

    Jayne Addison

    Matchmaking man Widow Angie DeFranco wasn't looking for a new love in her life. Her two little girls kept her busy enough. And then there was her brother-in-law Sonny-their silly arguments about dating always made her laugh. But when would Sonny g...

  • Death Watch

    Jerry Ahern

    In the years following World War III, the Nazis prepare for a final attack on the Trans-Global Alliance, and ex-CIA cover operations officer John Thomas Rourke is determined to stop the Nazis. Original....

  • Love Evergreen

    Ginny Aiken

    Deep in the forest, she discovered a secret place-and a secret love... In the lush green sanctuary of the northwestern woods, Cecelia escaped her loneliness and discovered a world of quiet beauty. But one day she found she was not alone...as she ...

  • The Story of Zahra

    Hanan Al-Shaykh

    Zahra’s mother uses her as a cover for her meetings with a lover; Zahra’s strict father mistreats her for being complicit in her mother’s affair. Fleeing from Beirut in search of solace, Zahra stays with her uncle in West Africa -- and then use...

  • God's Adamantine Fate

    Colin Alexander

    Meet Dr. Zeke Schwartz, dedicated, handsome pediatric oncologist. Enter Meldrum Products, giant pharmaceutical firm that has promised lots of grant money to Zeke. When three local kids turn up with a rare form of cancer, Zeke suspects that a chemical...

  • Passion for Hire

    Rosalyn Alsobrook

    FANTASY LOVER The only daughter of a wealthy, overbearing Texas timberman, Julia Thornton was determined to live life on her own terms. So she hired a rugged stranger in a daring scheme to help her obtain her coveted freedom. But pretending to be in...

  • The Scarlet Thread

    Evelyn Anthony

    THE PRICE OF POWER AND THE COST OF LOVE A THREAD OF PASSION AND BETRAYAL, ROMANCE AND VENDETTA, INTRIGUE AND SUDDEN DEATH, RUNS THROUGH TWENTY YEARS, THREE CONTINENTS, AND THREE LIVES ANGELA. The tender English girl who finds her secret marriag...

  • Addams Family Values

    Ruth Ashby

  • Deep Empire

    James Axler

    Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior-survivalists find a refuge from the horrors of the post-holocaust world at a marine research center created to study dolphins, until they discover that the dolphins are being trained as killers. Original....

  • Recycled

    Jo Bailey

    When Jackson County Medical Center agrees to perform a liver transplant on a drug dealer about to turn state's evidence, security supervisor Jan Gallagher must do her best to protect the patient from those who would prefer him dead...

  • Bristle Face

    Zachary Ball

  • Saving Grace

    Jill Barnett
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    It was McNab vs. McNish in the craziest clan war Scotland had ever seen! But when a fiery Grace McNish takes the wrong man captive, all is fair in war - and in love....

  • Slay Ride

    Nick Baron

    Andrea wishes that Tom Markham and his jock buddies would stop tormenting her with humiliating comments and cruel pranks, and she soon gets her way when an evil Guardian Angel begins murdering the boys. Original....

  • Flux

    Stephen Baxter

    Imagine a race of submicroscopic humans, genetically engineered to live in the universe's most hostile environment, the turbulent superfluid mantle of a neutron star Imagine that the memory of the superbeings who created them has been kept alive f...

  • Death of a Travelling Man

    M.C. Beaton

    Hamish Macbeth's life is going to pot. He's been promoted (horrors!), his boss is a dunce, and--to add insult to injury--a sinister self-proclaimed gypsy and his girlfriend have parked their rusty, eye-sore-of-a-van in the village. Hamish smells tro...

  • The Christmas Wish

    Rexanne Becnel

    IF YOU LOVE SOMETHING... After seventeen years Lucy Ann Vargas has come home to claim the only thing she can't buy -- the daughter she never met. To the world she is the legendary model Lucia V But in Waverly, the town she deserted in shame, she...

  • Live from New York

    Dick Belsky

  • Horse Soldiers

    Don Bendell

    BLUECOATS VS. REDSKINS--WHICH SIDE WAS THE CHIEF OF SCOUTS ON? In the embattled Oregon Territory, Christopher Columbus Colt was a wanted man. General O. O. "One-Arm" Howard, commanding the U.S. Cavalry, wanted this legendary scout to guide his for...

  • The Moon Stops Here

    James Gordon Bennett

    The world of 1969 comes to life in a sequel to My Father's Geisha, as fourteen-year-old Teddy, worried about his family's disintegration, joins his mother, sister, and cousin in a cross-country California trip that brings out different dreams...

  • Final Mask

    D.R. Bensen

  • The Berenstain Bears Accept No Substitutes

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    CUBS VERSUS SUB EQUALS BIG TROUBLE Is Brother Bear teaming up with that awful Too-Tall to torment the new substitute? "Hey," says Brother. "You're supposed to have a little fun with a substitute. What's the harm in a few pranks?" But when the pran...

  • Romantic Notions

    Lisa Tawn Bergren

  • Deirdre and Don Juan

    Jo Beverley

    The Rogue Proposes "Don Juan," the dashing Earl of Everdon, was abandoned by his wife shortly following the wedding--and his scandalous behavior is considered an understandable response. Now newly widowed, the errant earl is most eager to ma...

  • Sismo

    Marcia Biederman

  • Crazy Bosses

    Stanley Bing

    Jam-packed with new anecdotes, updated references, and modernized jokes, Stanley Bing’s seminal investigation of what makes bosses crazy is now revised for a new generation.Fans of television’s The Office and the cult film Office Space will love ...

  • Revenge of the Computer Phantoms

    J.R. Black

    Mike Willis's life is transformed into a nightmare when a computer game comes to life, releasing Thor, a powerful action hero who likes life outside the computer, and a host of evil computer phantoms into the real world. Original....

  • The Rebellion

    Cynthia Blair

  • Sherlock Holmes: Fact or Fiction?

    Thomas S. Blakeney

  • Emerald Dreams

    Caroline Bourne

    There destines collide in a rough and tumble frontier town in Alaska… The headstrong beauty sworn to solve the mystery of her father’s death and the jaded adventurer who will lead her across uncharted territory … and into searing temptation. D...

  • To Save the Sun

    Ben Bova

    A young woman approaches the Emperor of the Hundred Worlds with a plan to save Earth--through astrophysics and engineering--before the Sun explodes and wipes out the last genetically unaltered humans in the universe. Reprint....

  • The Black Lynx

    Elizabeth Boyer

    "MASTER, I HAVE FAILED..." Illmuri, the apprentice wizard, gale his report. The Skylding clan had been destroyed, their treasure lost forever. Only Skyla, the witch-girl was left alive--at the mercy of her own rampant magic and a clan of vengeful e...

  • Masques

    Patricia Briggs

    After an upbringing of proper behavior and oppressive expectations, Aralorn fled her noble birthright for a life of adventure as a mercenary spy. But her latest mission involves more peril than she ever imagined. Agents of Sianim have asked her to g...

  • Daddy's Angel

    Annette Broadrick

    Who was Noelle St. Nichols? Hardworking rancher and single father Bret Bishop didn't have time to wonder. Lovely and efficient, Noelle was perfect as a temporary housekeeper. And she actually enjoyed helping his children get ready for the holidays...

  • Doc Wyoming

    Sharon Brondos

    DIXIE SHELDON, M.D. -- Bright, compassionate, eager to begin her medical career. And the folk in Seaside, Wyoming, are happy to have her as their family doctor. All except one... SHERIFF HAL BLANE -- Was he afraid that if she treated his mother, D...

  • A Heartless Marriage

    Helen Brooks

    Marriage on trial! From playboy lover... When gorgeous millionaire Raoul de Chevnair chose Leigh Wilson as his bride, it seemed he'd left his flirtatious bachelor days behind for good. But had he? Their marriage had scarcely begun before his ...

  • Savage Destiny

    Amanda Browning

    He was just using her! Five years before, Pierce had married Alix one day--and rejected her the next. And why? Because she had been his route to a fleet of ships and his revenge. He had been passionate and she had been in love--but once was enough...

  • Merry Christmas, Baby

    Pamela Browning

    BAH HUMBUG! To Jake Travis, Christmas was just another day. The rough-and rugged carpenter knew little about jolly old elves in sleighs pulled by reindeer, even less about the care of newborn babies left alone in mangers, and nothing at all about...

  • The Desperate Viscount

    Gayle Buck

    A Convenient Proposal Sinjin St. John is confident that he will one day become a duke, and all the pieces of his comfortable life are in place: he will marry a beautiful society miss and continue his pleasure-seeking lifestyle of gambling and wome...

  • Granta 45

    Bill Buford

    The latest edition of one of the most impressive international literary magazines of our time. Granta readers around the world, numbering more than 140,000, savor the work of contributors such as Doris Lessing, Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Joan Didio...

  • The Panther and the Rose

    Mary Burkhardt

    Sheltered by a seemingly over protective family, Amy Stockwell nevertheless ran her import empire with all the skill and efficiency of her late father. Her confinement to a wheelchair and her constant poor health did not diminish her prowess in the b...

  • Thrice Familiar

    Caroline Burnes

    Once Patrick Shaw was the happiest man in the world, as owner of both Beltene, the most famous breeding Farm on the Emerald Isle, and of Limerick, the pride of its stables. But that was before the family fortune was lost to a green-eyed she-devil...

  • Ghostwright

    Michael Cadnum

    Hamilton Speke is a successful playwright and composer -- an extraordinary creative force. He lives and works on an estate south of San Francisco, secure in a woodland sanctuary where, to his surprise, he receives a visitor from his past, an old frie...

  • Knight's Beloved

    Pamela Caldwell

    Magnificent in battle, Aymer de Valence, Earl of Godric, was a knight without equal until the cruel defeat of the English army at Bannockburn left him broken in body and spirit. Only one woman dared to come to his aid -- headstrong, independent Phill...

  • The Man Who Came for Christmas

    Bethany Campbell

    SkyRim Ranch, in Bison County, Nebraska Abbie Hale--She's a rancher's daughter. She loves her family's ranch, loves the ranching life. But now that her grandfather's dead, her father's selling SkyRim, and this will be Abbie'...

  • Sierra's Steeplechase

    Joanna Campbell

    There’s no hope for Sierra... Every trainer at Whitebrook Farm has given up on Sierra. The spirited colt just doesn't seem to have the patience for racing. Then Sierra jumps effortlessly over an enormous fallen tree, and Samantha McLean, the hea...

  • Stardust Dreams

    Marilyn Campbell

    The time is the future. The passion is timeless. Cherry Cochran, a beautiful actress from earth who witnesses a murder, is suddenly swept toward the remotest stars in the spaceship of her mysterious abductor, the handsome Gallant Voyager. Cherry does...

  • How Do You Hug an Angel?

    Mary Lou Carney

  • The Heart Remembers

    Lenore Carroll

  • Miss Prentiss and the Yankee

    Susan Carroll

    "IF IT IS WAR YOU WANT, LADY, I SHALL BE HAPPY TO OBLIGE YOU." The infernal man! What devilish design did this barbarian Yankee portend -- besides waving the gauntlet at her? A truly superior governess did not lose her temper or allow hers...

  • The Littlest Matchmaker

    Carla Cassidy

    Do you still believe in... Everywhere Julie Casswell turned, she saw glittering reminders of Christmas -- and the child she had lost. Desperate to be alone, she headed for a mountain cabin. Then her car skidded on an icy road.... A little angel...

  • Domination

    Michael Cecilione

    At Domination, New York's trendiest downtown club, reporter Kelly Mitchell becomes the prize in a ancient tug of war between two vampire masters--one of whom wants to enslave her soul, the other to destroy her body. It's called Domination. It's Ne...

  • Big Bird's Red Book

    Roseanne Cerf

    A classic Sesame Street Little Golden Book from 1977, celebrating Big Bird and the color red!A classic Sesame Street Little Golden Book from 1977 is back! Big Bird wants to show readers what the color red looks like. As he searches his bottomless sho...

  • Reluctant Lovers

    Elizabeth Chadwick (1)

    THE CHICAGO GIRLS Plain or pretty, shy or sultry, they all showed up on Kathleen Fitzgerald's doorstep looking for the same thing -- a husband! THE MATCHMAKER'S MATCH Ever since her first appearance in Breckenridge, Colorado, Kat had be...

  • Echoes of the Well of Souls

    Jack L. Chalker

    Nathan Brazil had been the guardian of the Well of Souls, where the Well World's master control lay. But now the universe faced a threat more grave than mere destruction: An unnamed and utterly alien entity had somehow been released from its ancient ...

  • Romantics Anonymous

    Lauryn Chandler

    Mistletoe rematch Cynthia James had learned the hard wad wild romance and intense attraction were basis for marriage. Levelheaded detachment was the key to a successful relationship -- and her miss passion's pitfalls. Lane Lincoln hadn't seen h...

  • The Snares of Death

    Kate Charles

    A Book of Psalms Mystery The ancient battle between High and Low Church breaks out anew in a little English town. The first casualties for High are the statues and rosary beads of the church of St. Mary the Virgin. For Low, it is the reformist vic...

  • The Goblin Mirror

    C.J. Cherryh

    Things weren't right in the little kingdom of Maggiar, so the princes Bogdan and Tamas set off to seek an answer to the kingdom's troubles in the world over the mountain, a world they knew only from legends. But that glorious place was great no more....

  • When the Spirit Is Willing

    Margaret Chittenden

    PHANTOM MATCHMAKER! Priscilla Burbage was no ordinary ghost. Winsome and mischievous, she had a penchant for causing trouble. And Laura Daniels was her latest victim. When Laura first moved into her old Victorian house in Port Dudley, Priscilla...

  • Stand by Your Man

    Kathy Clark

    HORSE SENSE--TEXAS STYLE! Crystal Creek...where power and influence live in the land, and in the hands of one family determined to nourish old Texas fortunes and forge new Texas futures. THE VET'S' WORKING OVERTIME So thing sinister is going on ...

  • War Party

    Judd Cole

  • The Coming of the Surfman

    Peter Collington

  • Bloodlines

    Susan Conant

    Normally Holly Winter wouldn't be caught dead in a place like Puppy Luv -- a mall pet shop that's no doubt an outlet for the puppy mill industry and a hotbed of forged papers, broken promises and mistreated animals. But a hot tip on a malamute pup su...

  • The Way South

    Robert J. Conley

    A native American author's series of novels about the Cherokee people continues with the tale of Carrier, whose trading trip south brings him into contact with hostile bands and with strange men from across waters who call themselves the Espanols....

  • Tangled Hearts

    Phoebe Conn

    Carol and her two lifelong friends, Aimee and Suzanne -- all single now -- couldn't very well show up at their high school reunion dance without escorts, so Carol proposed a plan: they'd find dates...somewhere. Suzanne invited her plumber, an...

  • Mall Purchase Night

    Rick Cook

    WALPURGIS NIGHT WAS NOTHING TO THIS When Andy Westin became a security guard at Black Oak Mall he had no idea what he was getting into. During daylight hours the place seemed ordinary enough -- although there is just the occasional flicker of moti...

  • The Wizardry Cursed

    Rick Cook

    "I HAVE A WHAT ON MY SIX?" Once upon a time, Major Mick Gilligan, USAF, didn't believe in Magic. Nor, had he been told of it, would he have believed in the elf Lisella, or cared that she had cursed master programmer Wiz Zumwalt, late of Cupertino ...

  • Freshman Holiday

    Linda A. Cooney

    Let's fall in love... There's just one little problem. One of the dreamy guys KC, Winnie and Kimberley fall for is holding Lauren hostage. Is it: Dashing Jean-Paul Devereaux? Is he using KC to get to Lauren's money? Rex Taylor? Kimberley is bowled...

  • Uncle Chuck's Truck

    Hope N. Coulter

  • Wild Texas Rose

    Catherine Creel

    SHE WAS TOO WILD EVEN FOR THE GREAT STATE OF TEXAS.... Callie Rose Buchanan had a face and figure that would tempt any man - but also a fierce independence that no man could challenge. A trip to Europe was arranged to land this fiery cowgirl a hus...

  • Promise of Eden

    Millie Criswell

    Beauclaire Guarded by ancient oaks, graced by delicate dogwood and surrounded by sprawling tobacco fields, Beauclaire sat proudly on the scenic banks of the Rappshonnock River. One of Virginia’s most coveted plantations, it was also Eden Fairchi...

  • Angels in the Light

    Margot Dalton

    MIRACLES CAN HAPPEN Abby Malone did not believe in miracles. And she certainly didn't believe in near-death experiences. Which was why she was unenthusiastic about having to do a story on the topic. But then Brad Carmichael reentered Abby's lif...

  • Invaders!

    Jack Dann

  • Body and Soul

    Peter David

  • Philadelphia

    Christopher Davis

    When Andrew Beckett is fired from a prestigious Philadelphia law firm because he has AIDS, he convinces Joe Miller, a small-time personal injuries lawyer, to represent him against his former employers...

  • Garfield Big Fat Hairy Joke Book

    Jim Davis

    Fresh from the funny papers, here is Garfield, all-around jokester. In this hilarious book, you''ll find jokes of all shapes, species, and sizes. There are jokes about food and eating, other pets, Garfield and his pals, and knock-knocks, of course. S...

  • Angel Eyes

    Suzannah Davis

    A prisoner in the house of her overbearing father, beautiful Beth Ann Linder has already been wrongly branded a "fallen woman" by the good folk of Destiny, Arizona. And her bruised reputation suffers further damage when she accidentally shoot...

  • Capture the Night

    Geralyn Dawson

    STOLEN ROSE Pursued by a powerful and evil man, beautiful Madeline Christophe was forced to flee France with an assumed name and a kidnapped baby. Desperation drove her into a hasty marriage of convenience with a ruggedly handsome stranger, an arran...

  • MagicNet

    John DeChancie

    SCHUYLER "SKYE" KING'S LIFE TOOK A TURN FOR THE TRULY BIZARRE THE NIGHT HE HEARD A DEMON DESTROYING A FRIEND ON THE TELEPHONE... And now the cynical and somewhat inept English professor finds himself unwittingly hooked onto MagicNet--an astonishin...

  • Love and Infamy

    Frank Deford

    On the eve of World War II, two friends--Cotton Drake, an American raised by missionary parents in Japan, and Kiyoshi, a Japanese living in Hawaii--become caught up in conflicting loyalties, treachery, and forbidden romance. 35,000 first printing....

  • Tall, Dark and Lonesome

    Debra Dixon

    ZACH--A Confident Cowboy Who Staked His Claim, Then Dared Her to Deny It... He was the perfect symbol of the West, columnist Niki Devlin decided, but rugged trail boss Zach Weston made her forget to breathe! Still pained by the scandal that haunte...

  • Poisoned Paradise

    Franklin W. Dixon

    The Hardys head for the jungles of South America in order to help their friend Ed Yanomana, the son of a Venezuelan tribal chief and an environmentalist, who is framed for the kidnapping of an American businessman. Original....

  • The World Beat

    Gaylord Dold

    Mr. Winks and readers everywhere can only be impressed and delighted with this new adventure of Dold's vulnerable and complex private eye, Mitch Roberts, a thoughtful and sensitive man who can be tough when tested. For while The World Beat is a novel...

  • Fever

    Joan J. Domning

    ALEC -- A Charismatic Swashbuckler Whose Games She Wanted to Learn... With his pirate's grin and Hawaiian shirt, Alec Golightly wasn't Bunny Fletcher's idea of a corporate executive, but the stylish dynamo enjoyed the sizzle of his int...

  • Single Mother

    Jean Ann Donathan

    It had been nearly ten years since teenaged Rachel Michaels and Clay Wylerson were the best of pals. Ten years since they were lovers--only for one night. But that was all it had taken.... Clay adored Rachel, but he had private promises to keep. B...

  • Kissing the Witch

    Emma Donoghue

    Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time. Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances--sometimes treacherous, somet...

  • Mazatlan

    P.S. Donoghue

    Former DEA agent Jack Novak is hired to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a TV evangelist, who disappeared during a tour of Central America, a case that takes Novak to Mazatla+a7n, Mexico, and into a confrontation with drug kingpins....

  • Head Lock

    Jerome Doolittle

    The Reverend Howard Orrin is on a pilgrimage, and he's just a few steps shy of his mecca. It would seem a long way from his family-oriented Virginia theme park, Lordland, to a seat in the Senate, but The Reverend has been riding the high-speed rai...

  • Double Vision

    Kathleen Dougherty

  • Knight of Fire

    Shannon Drake

    HE CONQUERED HER REALM... AND HER HEART With gentle words and sensuous kisses, the steel-eyed Norman invader, Bret D'Anlou, vanquishes beautiful, defiant Princess Allora of the Far Isle. But one love must ultimately be sacrificed in the treacherous ...

  • Dark Mirror

    Diane Duane

    Stardate 44010.2: the twenty-fourth century. One hundred years ago, four crewmembers of the U.S.S Enterprise crossed the dimensional barrier and found a mirror image of their own universe, populated by nightmare duplicates of their shipmates. Bare...

  • A Wizard Abroad

    Diane Duane

    To give Nita a vacation from magic--and to separate her from Kit, her partner in wizardry--Nita's parents pack her off for a monthlong stay with her eccentric aunt in Ireland. But the Old World is even more steeped in magical doings than the United ...

  • Beyond All Reason

    Judith Duncan

    REFUGE! With two young sons to look out for and her vengeful ex on their trail, Kate Quinn thought the Circle S looked like the perfect place to hide out. They could build a new life, a safe life. And if love never came her way, so what? But sh...

  • When Heroes Die

    Penny Raife Durant

  • The Magic of Christmas

    Andrea Edwards

    When pigs flew. When snow filled Death Valley. When three-hundred-pound chickens came to roost in Mentone, Indiana. That's when grouchy single father Peter MacAllister would risk falling in love again. Why, between long-distance parenting and his...

  • Iron Road

    Hank Edwards (1)

    As two rival railroads race to drive a spur through Wolf Creek Pass--a direct line to the rich Colorado gold and silver mines--tempers flare and stakes rise. Federal Judge Clay Torn must stand up against vicious saboteurs who think their political co...

  • A Deceptive Clarity

    Aaron Elkins

    Chris Norgren--museum curator and Renaissance art expert--heads to Berlin to help mount a sensational exhibit: twenty priceless Old Masters, once thought to be lost forever, and recently found by U.S. forces. But the occasion turns chilling when:Chri...

  • The Summer House

    Alice Thomas Ellis

    "A work of astonishing illumination and delight...so edgy, bright and subversive about women's inner lives and experience." -- Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review A New York Times Notable Book In The Summer House trilogy, three very different ...

  • Lone Star and the Death Mine

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki are trapped in an underground slave camp!En route to Fort Younger to help a friend beat a trumped-up murder charge, Jessie and Ki encounter the real killers, who intend to keep the duo from proving their friend's innocence....

  • Lone Star and the River of No Return

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki play hide and seek with a killer -- if they lose, they die!When one of Jessie's prospecting scouts is pumped full of lead, Jessie and Ki set out to hunt for the killer, braving deadly waters along the way....

  • Longarm and the Dead Ringers

    Tabor Evans

  • Magician: Apprentice

    Raymond E. Feist

    A WORTHY PUPIL...A DANGEROUS QUEST To the forest on the shore of the Kingdom of the Isles, the orphan called Pug came to study with the master magician Kulgan. But though his courage won him a place at court and the heart of a Y lovely Princess, h...

  • No Deadly Drug

    Tom Ferguson

    Suspicious of the lethal side effects of a new FDA-sanctioned wonder drug, Dr. Gabe Austin and his assistant investigate the firm that produces the drug, and they discover a network of greed, bribery, and cover-ups. Reprint....

  • Christmas Every Day

    Marie Ferrarella

    JUST PASSING THROUGH Nik Sinclair needed a temporary accountant, and Sara Santangelo was a temporary kind of woman. Never mind that when he said day, she said night. Nik could put up with anything for a few weeks, including a maddeningly feisty an...

  • Shadowlands

    Lenore Fleischer

    He was C.S. Lewis, eminent philospher, world-famous author of The Chronicles of Narnia, pillar of the Church of England, with no room for a woman in his life. She was Joy Gresham, radical divorcee from New York, Jewish-born but a Christian convert, w...

  • Kansas City Chorine

    Dirk Fletcher

    In Kansas City Chorine, Spur McCoy goes after the man who is robbing Kansas banks, and in Plains Paramour, Spur pursues a hangman bent on killing former Union army soldiers, while sampling the considerable talents of a sexy suffragett...

  • Daughter of the Dawn

    Christine Flynn

    A STRANGER AT THE DOOR Colonel Caid Mattock was a man alone, and that was exactly the way he wanted it. There was no room in his life for any woman -- and that went double for the fragile, exotic beauty who had just landed on his doorstep, trailin...

  • Promise Me Tomorrow

    Catriona Flynt

    After moving west and marrying an old friend, Norah Kelly is shocked to lose her new husband, and she is forced to make a life for herself alone in the rough town of Holbrook, Arizona. Would he hang up his guns if she surrendered her heart? Norah ...

  • Fifty Best American Short Stories, 1915-1965

    Martha Foley

  • Fifty Best American Short Stories

    Mary Foley

  • Bridge Across Forever

    Regan Forest

    The bridge of sighs When Ellen Cole visited Wrenn's Oak, she was charmed by the legend of the ancient stone bridge that lay at the heart of the little Welsh village. Doomed lovers, a witch's curse... A lovely old fable, nothing more -- unt...

  • Betcha Can't Read Just One

    Alan Dean Foster

  • The Spoils of War

    Alan Dean Foster

    The Weave was on the verge of winning a decisive victory after a milennia of war, thanks to their new allies from earth. But then the birdlike Wais scholar Lalelang found evidence that Humans might not adapt well to peace. Researching further, she un...

  • Flesh and Blood

    D.A. Fowler

  • The Way the Words Are Taken

    Robin Fulton

  • Voyager

    Diana Gabaldon

    Twentieth-century time traveler Claire Randall faces a possibility both fearsome and exhilarating. Having returned to her own time, pregnant and brutalized by her trip through the standing stones, she makes a new life for herself, training to become ...

  • Dancing on the Volcano

    Anne Gay

    The leader of a group of colonists who have to battle with their predecessors on a colony planet to survive, comes to realize that something in the air or earth of the planet enhances the immune system - people die only of accidents. By the author of...

  • Nevada Dawn

    Georgina Gentry

    A DANGEROUS RENEGADE...A BEAUTIFUL DEBUTANTE...AND A PASSION THAT KNOWS NO BOUNDS! The notorious outlaw called Nevada didn't ride for gold...he rode for vengeance. But this night he'd found a treasure beyond compare: Her name was Cherish. ...

  • Under the Eye of God

    David Gerrold

    RULE OF BLOOD Once they had been humanity's last best hope: a race of genetically engineered killing machines known as the Phaestor and their army of deadly Moktar Dragons. Now, the enemy long vanquished, the Phaestor themselves have become the enem...

  • Back from Tuichi

    Yossi Ghinsberg

    The author describes how he and three of his friends set off without a map through the jungles of Bolivia, and how, after an accident, he was left alone to endure a three-week struggle for survival against nature's elements. 12,500 first printing....

  • The Shining Light

    Ruth Glover

    Life in the big city was comfortable for Worth and Abbie Roon. But as with so many others at the turn of the 19th century, the promise of land and a new life in the West was a shining light that beckoned, illuminating hearts and imaginations. For Wor...

  • The Velveteen Rabbit

    Golden Books

    Nursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that are old and wise and experienced like the Skin Horse understand all about it.

    Like the Skin Horse, Margery Williams understood how toys--and people--become real throug...

  • In My Toy Box

    Golden Books

  • Animals ABCs

    Golden Books

  • The Missing Chapter

    Robert Goldsborough

    Robert Goldsborough returns with his seventh stunning Nero Wolfe novel. Follow along into Wolfe's famed West Thirty-fifth Street brownstone, where the corpulent orchid-tending genius devours meals, books, and murderers with a passion - and where this...

  • Scarlet Season

    Laura Gordon

    Christmas stalkings She was hanging the stockings by the chimney with care--when she witnessed a hit-and-run that left the victim near death. Cassie Craig abandoned her beautiful window display to call for help, but by the time it arrived, the man...

  • Dead Man

    Joe Gores

    Swept away from his loving family when his computer investigations make him the target of a mysterious enemy, Eddie Dain resurfaces as a trained killer with deadly instincts and a drive for revenge. Reprint....

  • The Sharpshooter

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    ED GORMAN WRITING AS DANIEL RANSOM THE SHARPSHOOTER When the powerful and blood-hungry Jeremiah Belden went gunning for revenge against Evelyn, the beautiful woman he blamed for his son's death, only Mitch Coldwell stood in his way. But the troubl...

  • A Perfect World

    Dewey Gram

    An escaped convict takes a child hostage and discovers that, because of his mother's religious faith, the fatherless boy has not been permitted to enjoy himself. They build a father-son relationship during their flight from Red Garnett, a Texas polic...

  • Masks of the Phantasm

    Geary Gravel

    All across Gotham City, mobsters are dying -- murdered. At the scene of each killing, witnesses see a mysterious masked figure in a long dark cloak. The word spreads through the city like wildfire...Batman has crossed the line, become a criminal in t...

  • Forever

    Ginna Gray

    Brawny, blue-eyed builder Reilly McCall was nothing but a shallow skirt-chaser. TV correspondent Amanda Sutherland knew that for sure--he'd been chasing her forever. But that hardly made him a forever kind of guy. Amanda knew better than to trust a m...

  • Mountain Magic

    Suzanna Gray

    A LESSON IN LOVE... ELIZABETH She came from Chicago to teach in a place called Devil's Hollow -- and was instantly drawn to a ruggedly handsome mountain man... LOGAN The last thing he needed was a prim little schoolteacher underfoot -- es...

  • Deadly Admirer

    Christine Green

    ILL WIND Nurse Vanessa Wooten is being stalked. Desperate and terrified, she consumes a fatal overdose, but manages to get to the hospital and into the capable hands of Kate Kinsella, part-time nurse and private investigator. Kate is intrigued--th...

  • Down Among the Dead Men

    Simon R. Green

    THE WITCH'S SIGHT was their first warning of danger. The four Rangers had been sent to check on the border fortress which had fallen mysteriously silent. What they found defied explanation...but all too soon the nightmares that reigned here would ...

  • Frankenstein: The Monster Wakes

    Martin H. Greenberg

    The nightmarish creature created by Victor Frankenstein takes on new life in a collection of stories by Max Allan Collins, Barbara Paul, Daniel Ransom, Brian Hodge, Rick Hautala, and other masters of the horror, fantasy, and science fiction genres. O...

  • Roses in the Night

    Kay Gregory

    "Kisses are out. How about roses?" Clayte O'Neill was determined to come up with the perfect romantic gesture, but Georgina was equally determined not to be impressed! Clayte might be wickedly handsome but, as a dynamic tycoon, he w...

  • Privileged Lies

    Mollie Gregory

    They were the best of friends in law school. Nadine became a top Washington attorney...Della used the law to fight for social change... Faye became a film producer...and Tot, a reporter. Then, the deception of a secret affair threatened to break up t...

  • Daydream Believer

    Nicole Grey

  • The Cutting Hours

    Julia Grice

    A sculptor and her sixteen-year-old daughter realize that they are being stalked by an obsessed teenage boy who takes his time deciding which of them he will choose for his victim before an opportunity to strike arises. Reprint....

  • One Kiss

    Martha Gross

    At home, a husband from hell pushed her around and never made love to her. At the office, her boss from hell made her do all the work and never gave her any credit. Her mother was right: she was mousey. Drab. A doormat. No wonder people could meet he...

  • Fourth House

    Martin Gross

    When two brilliant scientists--pioneers of weapons technology--are found dead, ex-CIA man John Davidson convinces the president that the scientists were murdered and that the killers are from the KGB. Original....

  • Troubled Water

    Sally Gunning

    Peter Bartholomew's plan to romance his ex-wife Connie takes a detour when the couple discovers the bodies of two wealthy spinster sisters, and Peter uncovers family secrets as he seeks the truth about the murder. Original....

  • The Return

    Diane Haeger

    Her heart pounding with fear and longing, Charlotte Langston set sail from India for England, the homeland she had not seen for so many years...desperate to find the man whose love had once made her life a paradise... How well she remembered the day ...

  • Charlie Chan Is Dead

    Jessica Hagedorn

  • The Power of Love

    Rosemary Hammond

    Shelley nursed a secret love for Jim Carruthers She would do anything she could to help his election campaign -- anything, that was, except seduce Blake Fowler, the owner of the News-Tribune. Shelley understood the power he wielded but had no inte...

  • Savage Justice

    Ron Handberg

    A phone call from the woman he loved twenty years before plunges Twin City anchorman Alex Collier into an investigation of Emmett Steele, a judge about to be confirmed for the Minnesota Supreme Court. Reprint....

  • If You Believe

    Kristin Hannah

    HE NEVER INTENDED TO STAY. SHE COULDN'T BEAR TO LET HIM GO. Mad Dog Stone was a carefree drifter, a man who loved life on the open road and never looked back. Mariah Throckmorton was lonely and frightened, hiding from a past filled with heart...

  • The Call of the Wendigo

    Robin Hardy

  • Cadillac Flight

    Marshall Harrison

    Brilliant flier Major "Donkey" Sheehan, Captain James Broussard, a pilot destined to return to Vietnam, Captain Andrew Pritchard, the golden boy, and coldly ambitious Major Richard Stark battle enemy MiGs. Reprint....

  • Home Before Dark

    Beverly Hastings

  • Not for Love

    Pamela Hatton

    Never say never Maddy Brook's first experience with the opposite sex had altered the course of her life, and she had no intention of getting involved like that again. James Thornfield's last experience with the opposite sex had made him...

  • Colorado Angel

    Jean Haught

    FROM NEW ORLEANS TO THE SILVER FIELDS OF COLORADO Lovely Angela Langford had left the ruins of her life in Louisiana to search for her long-lost father amid the vast canyons and snow-capped mountains of Colorado. But a stagecoach disaster left her s...

  • The Wizard of Lovecraft's Cafe

    Simon Hawke

    HIT MAN, COP...OR WIZARD? Undercover cop John Angelo had enough to worry about, posing as a contract killer to infiltrate the mob. Then a necromantic ambush results in his death, and Angelo comes back as something more than what he was ... a blend...

  • The Outcast

    Simon Hawke

    A Tribe of One .. . Cast out to die in the Athasian desert, a half-breed child is rescued by a wandering druid and brought to a hidden temple in the Ringing Mountains. Raised by the mystical villichi, Sorak learns the Way of the Druid and the Path...

  • Tuesday's Child

    Barbara Hazard

    CAN A VERITABLE ANGEL FIND HEAVEN WITH A MOST DEVILISH GENTLEMAN? Once firmly in the mainstream of London society, the Simmons family has fallen on hard times. Now, with an ailing father and a menagerie of waifs and unfortunate souls to feed, Miss...

  • Scarred

    William Heffernan

    Detective Paul Devlin comes out of early retirement to match wits with a vicious serial killer who first disfigures and then, after allowing them to suffer months of agony, brutally murders his victims. By the author of Blood Rose. Original....

  • Mask Of The Phantasm

    Andrew Helfer

  • With Deadly Intent

    Louise Hendricksen

  • Key West Tales

    John Hersey

    Alternating a tale of the past that has become a part of Key West legend with a contemporary story that reflects the pulse of life there today, Hersey weaves in these stories a brilliant human tapestry of the place that means a great deal to him. Fro...

  • Eternity

    Lori Herter

    ENDLESS PASSION After years of loneliness, Veronica found the love of her life--and sensual delights beyond imagining. A man of unholy secrets and hidden desires, David de Morrissey freed himself from his cursed past to find new happiness with Ver...

  • A Christmas Bride

    Brenda Hiatt

    'TWAS NOT THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY Christmas had always been a special time for Holly Paxton. Not only was it her birthday, but it was the day she had married Hunt, Marquess of Vandover. This year should have been even more special--the first Ch...

  • Sammy's Tree-Mendous Christmas Adventure

    Daniel J. Hochstatter

    Children will delight in finding Sammy, his shepherd, and other interestig people among the detailed, lively pictures in this colorful book. Not mere observers, kids actually participate in the story, making the lessons presented here more meaningful...

  • To Love and to Cherish

    Anne Hodgson

    VOWS OF POSSESSION Escaping a world of loneliness and cruelty, Brianda Breedon's only source of comfort was her beloved stallion, Dakota. But when her cruel brother lost Dakota in a wager to John Fauxley, the Earl of Manseth, she was determined to...

  • Murder for the Prosecution

    Blair Hoffman

    Before she can argue before the California Supreme Court in a death penalty case, Deputy Attorney General Rachel Brandwyn is slain with a weapon from a murder trial, leaving two of her colleagues to ferret out the killer...

  • Guilty

    Diane Hoh

    Ever since her boyfriend died in a tragic canoeing accident, Katie Sullivan is convinced that the accident was her fault and that she should have died instead of her boyfriend--a decision already reached by someone else. Original....

  • A Scandalous Affair

    Stephanie Howard

    Love, lies and deception! When Luisa Baker gate-crashed Roth Elman's exclusive party, it was with the noblest of reasons. She had to find her sister, Rita, and she was sure the charismatic millionaire held the key to her disappearance. And ...

  • Kissed by a Rogue

    Charlotte Hughes

    CORD -- A Brash, Black-Eyed Flirt Whose Lips Left Her Breathless... With a smile that promised wicked pleasures, Cord Buford dared the town's pretty new physician to give him a physical -- anything to get Dr. Billie Foster's soft hands on...

  • Beethoven's 2nd: The Movie Storybook

    Francine Hughes

  • The Deadliest Games

    Janet Hutchings

    P. D. James, Andrew Vachss, Joyce Carol Oates, and other popular writers contribute sixteen unconventional stories of psychological suspense in which the line between good and evil, hero and villain, is blurred....

  • A Deeper Sea

    Alexander Jablokov

    In the year 2015, a dolphin researcher with dubious motives removes the barriers impeding human/delphine communications and transforms the ocean-dwelling creatures into cybernetic weapons of destruction. Reprint....

  • Risk to Love

    Lynn Jacobs

    Stranded! Alix had worked hard to become a top-notch journalist. So she wasn't about to let the interview of a lifetime escape her -- even if it meant flying thousands of miles to track down the elusive Jake Hunter. But the cynical tycoon w...

  • Another Time, Another Place

    BJ James

    MR. DECEMBER Man: Robert Bruce McLachlan. Woman: Jennifer Burke, once his lover...later his wife. Marriage: Over, or so he thought. He hadn't seen her for years, not since the beautiful, headstrong woman he'd married had left him. But now she w...

  • Three's a Crowd

    Dean James

    While Alison butts heads with co-worker Amanda over Amanda's budding romance with Alison's housemate, Billy, Rhonda contemplates canceling her upcoming wedding to Mr. Right and Jane and Michael struggle to hold onto their marriage. Original....

  • Home for Christmas

    Ellen James

    Kiss a tall, dark Texan under the mistletoe! Robert Beltramo was back in Texas, and Gwen Ferris was stuck with him -- but only till Christmas! He'd come to claim his inheritance -- half of her restaurant. Though what a wildly successful advert...

  • Providence

    Miranda Jarrett

    DESPERATE Shunned by respectable society and plagued by memories of her past, Ananiah Snow had no one to turn to when her father disappeared. Samuel Colburn was her only hope, but the stubborn sea captain was proving hard to convince. Sam Colburn ...

  • Forty Guns West

    William W. Johnstone

    A FRIENDLY PLACE... During a trip back east for a family reunion, Preacher learns that even the civilized midwest can attract a motherlode of trouble...especially when a gang of local bully boys decide to pick a fight. Now wealthy landowner Elam Park...

  • Stalker's Moon

    Bruce Jones

  • An Alluring Deceit

    Melissa Lynn Jones

    AN INNOCENT MISS Masquerading as an errand boy seemed the perfect solution to Mattie Serinier's financial woes ... until an accidental encounter with the debonair Earl of Staffield nearly proved to be her undoing. Mistaking her for a lad was one thi...

  • Touch Me With Fire

    Nicole Jordan

    Love With a Proper Stranger With her violet eyes flashing with determination and her raven-haired loveliness disguised under drab servants' clothes, Blaise St. James flees her privileged life rather than be married off to some proper-but-cold Engl...

  • Odd One Out

    Lou Kassem

    When Alison Grey's boyfriend, football star Nic Chandler, tries to go all the way with her and then, feeling rejected, spreads a rumor that he has succeeded, Alison exposes Nic's lie but learns the hard way the price of speaking up. Original....

  • To Dance with the White Dog

    Terry Kay

    In this “hauntingly beautiful story about love, family, and relationships,” a mysterious dog helps an elderly man in his final days (Archbishop Desmond Tutu).   After Sam Peek’s beloved wife Cora dies, his children are worried about him. A...

  • Stage Fright

    Carolyn Keene

    The play's the thing and Nancy's the star . . . when arson takes the stage! Famed actress Evelyn Caldwell has put her career and her money on the line. Her ambition is to transform a Connecticut barn into a big-time theater. But the play she has i...

  • The Case of the Twin Teddy Bears

    Carolyn Keene

    On the trail of a teddy bear thief, Nancy unwraps double-dealing and double crosses! Bess is working during the Christmas rush at Beary Wonderful, a toy and teddy bear shop, when the holiday season takes a sudden scary turn. The owner’s prized coll...

  • Miss Billings Treads the Boards

    Carla Kelly

    Playing a Perilous Part Miss Katherine Billings was cast in a most unlikely role for a vicar's daughter. But beautiful Kate was an impoverished orphan--and her only escape from a lecherous employer's embraces was to go upon the stage. It was dange...

  • Hope Will Answer

    Susan B. Kelly

  • Vintage Polo

    Jerry Kennealy

    Baroni Vineyards is opening a new sparkling-wine facility. Private investigator Nick Polo tags along to the gala with reporter Jane Tobin. Amidst the fun, Nick takes a case at the behest of Angelo Baroni. Someone is sabotaging his vineyards: a tank o...

  • The Voyagers

    Paul King

    As Portuguese sailors voyage to a fertile island paradise they call Madeira, Tom of Bristol walks caravan routes toward the Orient, Sandro Cavalli is sold into slavery, and Pedro Da Costa hopes to sail to the dreaded Cape. Original....

  • For My Lady's Heart

    Laura Kinsale

    The beautiful and mysterious princess came to the young knight's rescue -- and bestowed upon him two precious emeralds. From that day, she was his sworn lady... Though Melanthe had saved the handsome Englishman, she could not save herself. Sh...

  • Love's Timeless Dance

    Vivian Knight-Jenkins

    A DANCE THROUGH TIME The pressure from her company's upcoming show was driving Leeanne Sullivan completely insane. But the talented choreographer refused to believe she could be rehearsing a Scottish dance in her studio one minute--and in the seve...

  • Itsuka

    Joy Kogawa

    “Profoundly political, exquisitely intimate, Itsuka reverberates with longing and hope.” -- The Canada Times
     
    Already a Canadian bestseller, the sequel to Joy Kogawa’s award-winning novel Obasan follows the character Naomi Nakane into...

  • After Midnight

    Susan Kyle

    A POWERFUL MAN CAN MAKE A WOMAN STRONGER...OR BREAK HER HEART Nicole Seymour had lost at love before - a first marriage that was such a fiasco she had never even had a proper wedding night. Then Kane Lombard strolled down a South Carolina beach a...

  • Murder by Mail

    M.D. Lake

    THE MAKINGS OF A SCANDAL Someone is sending vicious hate mail to Paula and Lawrence, fellow campus cops and good friends of Peggy O'Neill. The anonymous letters attack the couple's interracial relationship and punctuate the writer's fanatical judg...

  • The Sugar Pavilion

    Rosalind Laker

    During the French Revolution, Sophie Delcourt and Antoine, a four-year-old French noble, escape to England, where Sophie must guard Antoine's identity while she builds a confectionery business, joins the British royal circle, and comes to love two ve...

  • The King's Women

    Dinah Lampitt

    The ill-starred beginnings of Charles VII, eleventh child of a mad king and a notoriously depraved queen, were hardly a lineage that would equip him to bring splendor and greatness to the Kingdom of France. But Charles had a secret weapon in the extr...

  • Puppy Love

    Wendy Larson

  • Feathers and Lace

    Karen Leabo

    THE LONG HOT SUMMER Zach Shaner might have been a ranch owner, but only by default. So what if he had been born in Rocky Ridge? There was still no way he was going to spend his summer broiling in the sun on a...he didn't even know what kind of ran...

  • Heartthrob for Hire

    Miranda Lee

    Roy Fitzsimmons had those rugged good looks that women would die for. So why was he pursuing Kate? Kate Reynolds was more at home in the boardroom than the bedroom. She had always thought she didn't have what it took to charm a man... The...

  • Lost Warriors

    Rachel Lee

    BORN IN THE U.S.A. Billy Joe Yuma: A Vietnam veteran who came home fighting for his sanity--and barely won. Wendy Tate: A beautiful woman and a damned good nurse--who had been just learning to flirt when Yuma was lacing up combat boots. Mede...

  • The Passionate Rebel

    Helene Lehr

    “IF YOU FORCE ME TO MARRY HIM, I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU!” Passionate in her support of the American patriots, beautiful Gillian Winthrop was horrified to learn that her grandmother meant her to wed a traitor to the cause. He body might yearn f...