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New Books List: 419 titles

  • Thieves at Heart

    Alina Adams

    A CRAFTY MISS... Pity poor Lark Talbot -- stranded by happenstance on Lord and Lady Raynes' doorstep in a torrential rainstorm, with nowhere to turn now that her employer is temporarily abroad. In truth, however, the unfortunate young thing is not ...

  • First Fruits

    Rochelle Alers
    in

    Every year, Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Year's Eve combine to create a season of hope and happiness, cherished memories and new beginnings. Now, this exciting Arabesque collection captures the spirit of the season in three heartwarming stories of pass...

  • The Farolitos of Christmas

    Rudolfo A. Anaya

    With her grandfather to ill to cut the wood for the traditional luminarias and her father in the hospital, it is up to Luz to create her own little lanterns, or farolitos, which she makes out of candles, paper bags, and sand, for a special Ch...

  • Tales from Jabba's Palace

    Kevin J. Anderson

    In the dusty heat of twin-sunned Tatooine lives the wealthiest gangster in a hundred worlds, master of a vast crime empire and keeper of a vicious, flesh-eating monster for entertainment (and disposal of his enemies). Bloated and sinister, Jabba the ...

  • Ground Zero

    Kevin J. Anderson

    FBI agents Mulder and Scully take on a radioactive case in this eerie thriller by the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author . . .Dr. Gregory, a renowned nuclear weapons researcher, is not only dead -- he’s been charred to a radioactive...

  • The Lost Ones

    Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

    JACEN and JAINA When the Empire died, they were born--a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia have grown strong with the Force, thwarting the evil Nolaa Tarkona and destroying the Emperor's plague. Now, with th...

  • A Fall in Denver

    Sarah Andrews

    Cantankerous geologist Em Hansen is moving up in the world-- from a drilling rig in the Wyoming badlands to the posh twelfth floor of Denver's Cattlemen's Exchange Building. She's about to find out how dangerous a desk job can be. On her very firs...

  • Timeless Love

    Judith Arnold

    A LIVING LEGEND... Flights of fancy were not Hope Henley's style. So why did she flee in terror after just one glance at the infamous mirror in Apartment 1-G--straight into the path of Morgan Delacourt's car? Having just arrived in L.A., Hope relu...

  • The Merlin Chronicles

    Mike Ashley

    Magic and adventure from the golden age of Arthurian legend, The Merlin Chronicles is a superb collection of stories by some of fantasy's bestselling writers. Enter into the darker realms of the age of the Knights of the Round Table, times when magic...

  • Time Scout

    Robert Asprin; Linda Evans

    Swearing off his time travel adventures and settling down to a quiet life as a hotelier, former time scout Kit is swept up against his will when a time wandering redhead arrives through a portal that is on the brink of collapse. Reissue....

  • Ride the Rainbow Home

    Susan Aylworth

    Meg Taylor has never thought of Rainbow Rock, Arizona as home. The daughter of a serial-marrying mother, Meg has lived in many places -- and most of them were kinder than this little town where she was the principal’s daughter. She returns after te...

  • The Valentine Child

    Jacqueline Baird

    Would Valentine play Cupid? When Zoe's baby arrived on February 14, it seemed only natural to call him Valentine! But as far as Zoe was concerned. Valentine had been the only romance in her brief marriage to Justin Gifford. And since Justin ha...

  • Cher Negotiates New York

    Jennifer Baker

    When Tai abruptly moves back to Brooklyn, Cher and Dionne follow her to New York and attempt to bring her back, while coping with a city that has a decidedly different fashion sense from their native California...

  • Sworn to Silence

    Jennifer Baker

    Sympathizing with her best friend's feud with Suzanne Wilis but unable to help because of her own dilemma, Victoria Hill wonders how much longer she can hide the truth that she knows who is responsible for a terrible car accident...

  • To Love Again

    Madeline Baker
    in

    Imagine a book - a love story - so hauntingly romantic, so emotionally powerful that it changes the lives of all who read it. Eleven of the greatest romance writers in the world have envisioned such a tale and brought it to life, creating a heartfelt...

  • Canby's Legion

    Bill Baldwin

    Ten years after the Earth becomes the galaxy's superpower, planet security deteriorates through corruption, and ex-commander Gordon Canby hatches a daring plan until he realizes that he may be fighting the wrong enemies...

  • The Defenders

    Bill Baldwin

    When the treacherous League of Dark Stars launches an attack against the Empire's helpless systems, Helmsman Wilf Brim and young Emperor Onrad must rally the surviving Starfuries in a desperate counterattack against devastating odds. Reissue....

  • The Betrothal Ball

    Mary Balogh
    in

    Imagine a book - a love story - so hauntingly romantic, so emotionally powerful that it changes the lives of all who read it. Eleven of the greatest romance writers in the world have envisioned such a tale and brought it to life, creating a heartfelt...

  • Murder Well-Bred

    Carolyn Banks

    San Miguel de Allende is a vacation paradise -- until murder takes a holiday.

    While her food critic husband, Jeet, checks out San Miguel's cuisine, equestrienne Robin Vaughan heads for the country to interview a famed dressage master. But Hans...

  • Loving Charity

    Elaine Barbieri
    in

    Imagine a book - a love story - so hauntingly romantic, so emotionally powerful that it changes the lives of all who read it. Eleven of the greatest romance writers in the world have envisioned such a tale and brought it to life, creating a heartfelt...

  • The Last Real Cowboy

    Becky Barker

    COMES A HORSEMAN... She'd always thought of him as the last real cowboy, the living embodiment of the frontier tradition of solitary pride and honor. And now this man she'd once loved and left was Jillian Brandt's last hope -- the one ...

  • Incarnations

    Clive Barker

    There has never been a storyteller quite like Clive Barker an erudite classicist who has created some of the most potent cinematic nightmares of our time; a prolific bestseller who combines a contemporary sensibility with the literary elegance of an ...

  • White Wedding

    Jean Barrett

    A Christmas Wedding... Lane Eastman had had an uneasy feeling about this wedding ever since she'd agreed to be maid of honor. She thought she knew why when her rogue of an ex-husband, Jack Donovan, turned up as best man. Snowbound in a Wint...

  • Intimate Betrayal

    Adrienne Basso

    TO THE MANOR BORN Independent Alyssa Carrington had run her father's estate for years. But before his death, he auctioned Westgate Manor to the highest bidder, leaving her penniless. With no means to support herself, she was at the mercy of the n...

  • Merry's Christmas

    Pamela Bauer

    Truly a Merry Christmas! Merry Mattson has come a long way in her life -- from poor and unwanted child to successful musician. One of her few ties to childhood is her continuing friendship with Holden Drake. He'd been not only her best friend ...

  • Thank You, Brother Bear

    Hans Baumann

    Drawing on Russian, Scandinavian, and Northwest Native American folklore, a multicultural tale shows how a young boy's kindness to animals is repaid when they help him get medicine for his ailing sister. Reprint....

  • Mary's Journal

    Evelyn Bence

    The fictional journals of the Virgin Mary offer insight into her experiences in raising a remarkable child in a dangerous world and adjusting to the awesome responsibilities of the miracles that punctuated her life. Reprint....

  • Friend and Lover

    Angela Benson
    in

    Every year, Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Year's Eve combine to create a season of hope and happiness, cherished memories and new beginnings. Now, this exciting Arabesque collection captures the spirit of the season in three heartwarming stories of pass...

  • Peterloo Shadows

    Joyce bentley

  • Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

    John Berendt

    Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to k...

  • The Berenstain Bear Scouts and the Humongous Pumpkin

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Trouble in Bear Country? It's the Berenstain Bear Scouts to the rescue! Papa Q. Bear just planted a special pumpkin seed guaranteed to grow the biggest pumpkin ever! Poor Papa. He should have listened to the Bear Scouts' warning. The seed is pa...

  • Cutthroat Island

    John Gregory Betancourt

  • A Pinch of Poison

    Claudia Bishop

    Hemlock Falls is a pretty little town in upstate New York. Sarah Quilliam, with her talent for business, runs the Inn at Hemlock Falls. Her sister, Meg, keeps the guests happy with her culinary abilities. But when it comes to murder, the Quilliam sis...

  • A Touch of Merry

    Irene Loyd Black

    AN ORPHAN IN THE STORM It took all Rachel Storm's courage to call at imposing Talbert Hall and pass herself off as a nanny. In truth, she had run away from an orphanage to search for the father she believed had abandoned her eighteen years before...

  • A Noble Deception

    Sara Blayne

    A LORD ASKED FOR HER HAND... Absolutely, positively, never would Lady Lucy Powell settle for an arranged marriage to Lord Lathrop, a man she had never even met. With her riot of red curls ant, sparkling green eyes, Lucy lacked the fair beauty of ...

  • God on a Harley

    Joan Brady

    The beloved modern classic about a woman who finds love -- and herself -- from an unexpected source.At thirty-seven, Christine Moore has an overwhelming case of burnout with a frustrating career, a few dead-end romances, and a less-than-perfect figur...

  • Heart's Awakening

    Paige Brantley

    An innocent woman... The year is 1399. The English court is a hotbed of political intrigue. Sancha de Servieres, lady-in-waiting to the queen, is the only one who knows the truth behind the murder of King Richard II. To ensure her silence, the consp...

  • Mystery Cats

    Rendell Braun

  • Walt Disney's Santa's Workshop

    Ann Braybrooks

    As Santa Claus flips through his list of every child in the world, he discovers that little Emily had not received any presents last year, and because Emily has been good all her life, he sets out to make this Christmas the best ever....

  • A Man to Die For

    Suzanne Brockmann

    WHAT WOULD YOU DO FOR LOVE? Carrie Brooks' answer: leave her home, her job, her very existence, to run away with a murder suspect, a man whose only prior introduction to her was as her kidnapper. She has no reason at all to trust him. After all, h...

  • Blue Shifting

    Eric Brown

    Journeys into a universe where mankind has found the stars but still must face his own mortality. In this universe, bodies are augmented or altered, zebra-men talk to unicorn-women and the laws of physics are overturned in the cobalt glory of the nad...

  • Invitation to a Funeral

    Molly Brown

    APHRA BEHN is an unusual woman by any standard, especially those of 167/6 London. A popular playwright and former spy, she does not bow to convention, does not always have the fortitude to turn a charming, but alcoholic attorney from her bed, and cur...

  • Jade Moon

    Virginia Brown

    AN EXOTIC JOURNEY.... Leaving America behind, Eden Miller accompanies her husband to Mexico on his obsessive quest for the Lost Jade City of the Yucatan. But the jungle takes him in one swift, terrifying blow ... leaving Eden alone amid the ruins of...

  • May Takes the Lead

    Bonnie Bryant

    May decides to prove to her big sisters that having a pony is not just for kidsHorses have always been the biggest part of May’s life. Her father was a horse trainer and her mom rode too. Even May’s best friends, Jasmine and Corey, share ...

  • Yankee Swap

    Bonnie Bryant

    A new adventure for the Saddle Club features Lisa's visitor, Merrill, who becomes convinced that the beloved Pine Hollow horse Barq is the only horse she can ride and decides to take Barq home to Maine with her....

  • Ring of Fire

    Cinnamon Burke

    RING OF DANGER When mine workers started disappearing from a distant asteroid, Ian St. Ives was sent undercover to discover who was responsible. But a fiery beauty imperiled his mission, even as she inflamed his desire. RING OF DESIRE Haven Wra...

  • The Coffin Tree

    Gwendoline Butler

    That summer when the old Docklands of London sweltered in the great heat... was the summer when John Coffin walked his Second City of London and felt that life was unraveling about him... Something had to be done and it was for him to do it. Two of C...

  • Neon Lit:perdita Durango

    Bob Callahan

    Adapted from a novella in Sailor's Holiday, this graphic novel introduces Perdita, a Tex-Mex femme fatale. It was one thing to turn an occasional trick to survive, but now Perdita's fallen in with a mysterious drug dealer, and they've kidnapped a gri...

  • Bride

    Stella Cameron

    SHE WAS INNOCENCE... Lady Justine Girvin, the Duke of Franchot's elegant spinster sister, decided to grab one last chance for happiness -- by doing something incredibly scandalous. Defying convention, she had traveled alone to a Scottish castle ...

  • Lone Survivor

    Will Camp

    The end of the Civil War, the return of rebel soldiers to the Texas Brazos River area, and a series of unfortunate events spark a blood feud between the Bartons and the Trimbles and set the foundation for the legend of the Palo Pinto Kid. Original....

  • Father by Marriage

    Suzanne Carey

    From Daring "Detective" Jake McKenzie's assignment was simple--find a client's lost granddaughter and bring her back. But the little girl's adoptive mother was not at all what he expected. Beautiful and trusting, Holly Yarborough hired him as a ha...

  • Cody's Christmas Wish

    Sally Carleen

    A Letter To Santa Brings... Arianne Landis ached to fulfill her son's Christmas wishes. But five-year-old Cody demanded Santa bring a father. And that Arianne couldn't buy! Then a blizzard blew...sleigh bells jingled...and a dashing stran...

  • Man Under the Mistletoe

    Debra Carroll

    UNDER HER CHRISTMAS TREE, THE ONLY PRESENT SABRINA CATES HOPED TO UNWRAP WAS MICHAEL WORTH... After a rocky beginning -- Sabrina almost had her boss, the new CEO of Worth's Department Store, arrested for shoplifting -- their relationship only ...

  • A Christmas Baby

    Janice Carter

    What child is this? The infant, carefully swaddled in a pink blanket, is oblivious to the fact that she's been abandoned in Nora Saunders's woodshed. She's also unconcerned about the blizzard raging outside or the fact that Nora knows nothing abou...

  • If He Hollers

    A.G. Cascone

    Ten years after a member of the "in crowd" disappeared while playing a baseball game, his friends reconvene for a birthday party, unaware that he has returned and is planning to kill them all one by one. Original....

  • Death Undertow

    Dennis Casley

    Legend had it that the still, dark pool, separated from the Cornish sea by only a great sand bar, claimed a victim regularly, so the locals nodded meaningfully when an Indian diplomat who was attending a seminar on rural development in the Commonweal...

  • The Frozen Heart

    Laura Cassidy

    Anne Latimer knew it was time for her to attend court as the queen's lady in waiting. Never short of suitors, Anne had yet to meet a man who could win her love. And when she became betrothed, she soon felt that she made the wrong decision. But the ma...

  • Horrors of the Dancing Gods

    Jack L. Chalker

    MORTAL DILEMMA
    An ancient evil was seeping forth from the Sea of Dreams: the Old Ones were rising from the depths to challenge both Heaven and Hell. Their assault boded ill for Earth, and worse for the magical land of Husaquahr, where magic was pl...

  • A Knight Among Knaves

    Robert N. Charrette

    The barrier between earth and the otherworld has been breached. Now supernatural beings battle multi-national power brokers, cyborg Feds are pitted against spell-wielding dwarfs, cyberjocks fight thaumaturges...and the reborn heroes of the Sword must...

  • Something to Talk About

    Deborah Chiel

  • The Bandit's Lady

    Maureen Child

    A DARING SCHOOLMARM From the minute teacher Winifred Matthews was captured by bank robber Quinn Hawkins, she couldn't have been more delighted! Fleeing from the law across Texas' wide plains, facing down danger at every turn -- it was the wild west ...

  • Wanted: Christmas Mommy

    Judy Christenberry

    Dear Santa, I'm just a simple cowboy who wants a housekeeper for Christmas. What I don't want is a wife! But ever since my ranch hands placed an ad, I've been up to my neck in wives. There are lots of desperate women in Wyoming --- you...

  • The Bookstore Mouse

    Peggy Christian

    He lives in a bookstore behind a large WALL OF WORDS.
    He eats DELICIOUS WORDS from recipes.
    He throws SHARP WORDS and POINTED REMARKS at his enemy.
    And one day he slips through the words into a story that is the greatest adventure of his...

  • The Lost Fortune of the Tsars

    William Clarke

    When World War I broke out in 1914 Russia's Romanov dynasty was among the world's richest families. Yet ever since the Bolsheviks executed Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra and their children at Ekaterinburg, the mystery of what happened to their ...

  • The Devil's Protection

    Susan Clitheroe

    Left rich and vulnerable when she inherits a fortune--and is placed under the guardianship of her disinherited scoundrel cousin--Geneva Hartwell finds her only ally in the handsome but haughty Lord Augustin Vance...

  • Snow Day

    M.T. Coffin

    Taking refuge in an old farmhouse when their school bus is caught in an unexpected blizzard, a group of students becomes terrified when they see the house's strange, red-eyed portraits just before all the lights go out. Original....

  • Renegade Nation

    Judd Cole

  • NYPD Blue

    Max Allan Collins

  • Fantastic Four: To Free Atlantis

    Nancy A. Collins

    Targeted by the evil Dr. Doom, who plots the destruction of Atlantis, Prince Namor the Sub-Mariner is rescued from certain death by the Fantastic Four, an act that sets off a deadly struggle at the ocean's depths. Original....

  • The Dawn of Fury

    Ralph Compton

    BLOOD DEBT AND BLOODY PAYBACK Nathan Stone experienced the horror of Civil War battlefields. But the worst lies ahead. When he returns to Virginia, to the ruins of what was his home, his father has been butchered and his mother and sister stripped, r...

  • The Wizardry Consulted

    Rick Cook

    Wiz Zumwalt Consultant Systems Analyzed * Dragons Defeated Call at the sign of the Red-Headed Witch CONSULT OR DIE! Back after too long an absence, Programmer and Systems Analyst Extraordinaire Wiz Zumwalt, The Man Who Tamed Magic, returns-...

  • Kindred Hearts

    Lori Copeland
    in

    Imagine a book - a love story - so hauntingly romantic, so emotionally powerful that it changes the lives of all who read it. Eleven of the greatest romance writers in the world have envisioned such a tale and brought it to life, creating a heartfelt...

  • Sweets from Strangers

    Simon Corrigan

  • Celtic Tales

    Nadine Crenshaw

    In the far, far west of ancient Eireland, the evil giant Balor and his forces of doom sweep down to destroy everything in their path, even as young princess Medb prepares for her wedding day. There, before her innocent gaze, monstrous Balor extinguis...

  • Kissed

    Tanya Anne Crosby

    Bewitched, Betrayed, Enraptured... Jessamine Stone's brother would marry her off to a covetous boor to salvage an impoverished estate. But Jessamine can love only Christian Haukinge -- the handsome lord to whom she was once betrothed. Assured that sh...

  • Outlaw

    Susan Lynn Crose

    Stealthy and dangerous as the name he bears, Wolf, outlaw knight of Abergwynn, has no quarrel with the struggling young beauty in his arms. He has come to Tower Dwyrain to take his revenge against her bridegroom, a brutal nobleman Wolf has sworn to d...

  • Ancient Irish Tales

    Tom Peete Cross

  • Ex-Zack-Ly

    Beth Cruise

  • Dragon Reforged

    Chrys Cymri

    Sentenced to walk the Changewinds as punishment for his crimes, Gonard leaves the safety of the Settlement and submits himself to the irradiated blasts of air that can make even the most intelligent of beings go mad. Seeking shelter from the winds...

  • Wall of Brass

    Robert Daley

    When the police commissioner of the city of New York is shot to death while jogging, the mayor gives Chief of Detectives Bert Farber ten days to solve the crime, but top players immediately begin to block the investigation. Reprint....

  • Dinosaurs II

    Jack Dann

    Twelve tales of primeval fantasy bring readers to the world of dinosaurs with the works of such notable writers as Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, Ursula K. Le Guin, Roger Zelazny, Jane Yolen, Lisa Tuttle, and Michael Bishop. Original....

  • Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears

    Ellen Datlow

    "Once upon a time ... " So begin the classic fairy tales that enthralled and terrified us as children. Now, in their third critically acclaimed collection of original fairy tales for adults, World Fantasy Award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri ...

  • The Captain's Daughter

    Peter David

    A Star Trek adventure set during The Original Series era from New York Times bestselling author Peter David!When Demora Sulu, an exemplary young Starfleet officer, suddenly attacks her commanding officer, who kills her in self-defense, everyone is st...

  • Gerrity's Bride

    Carolyn Davidson

    Emmaline Carruthers Shed More Than Her Clothes Under The Brutal Western Sun... Her 'citified' ways went next, along with her plans for a quiet, dignified life. Instead, she found herself bound to a hotheaded cowboy in a most inconvenient marriage...

  • The Heart Remembers

    Sandra Davidson

    With her wild, red-haired beauty and even wilder imagination, bestselling writer Destiny Davidson has never had the perfect lover...until the night she dreams of him. Then she awakens to discover that he is real, and that she has done the impossible:...

  • Wilderness of Mirrors

    Linda Davies

    Gorgeous, glamorous, and ruthless, Eva Cunningham, working undercover for British Intelligence, will employ any means, even her own body, to destroy drug lord Robie Frazer, only to encounter unexpected passion and high-stakes danger in her mission. R...

  • Voyage of the Storm

    Bart Davis

    A vintage attack sub rises from the grave to torpedo a deadly terrorist plot!Admiral Peter MacKenzie has stood at the helm of the most advanced submarines in the world -- the U.S. Navy's nuclear-powered lords of the sea. Now, when Hawaii and America'...

  • A Conspiracy of Eagles

    Bart Davis

    When a band of fanatical supremacists ignites a conspiracy that sweeps across three continents, journalist Ben Davidson uncovers the workings of the Hitler-linked Alderkinden and becomes entangled with an obsessed woman. Reprint....

  • Black Dragon

    Wally E. Davis

    MysteryLarge Print EditionThe California theme park where Gil Beckman works is drawing attention with its state-of-the-art improvements. Even a Japanese billionaire has noticed and plans to tour the park with the idea of starting one like it in Japan...

  • Rare Earth

    Cecil Dawkins

    THE NATIVE PEACE OF THE MOUNTAINS IS BROKEN BY MURDER. Gin Prettifield, who is part Indian, knows northern New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo Mountains. But she's never had to deal with an enraged bear or with the mangled body of a dying man. But wh...

  • When Dinosaurs Ruled The Basement

    William L. Deandrea

    TRAPPED...IN THE LAND OF THE DINOSAURS Twelve-year-old Jon, his little brother Michael, and his best friend Gemma have made a discovery so amazing no grown-up would ever believe it -- not without proof: a baby dinosaur is loose in the basement! I...

  • Miss Zukas and the Stroke of Death

    Jo Dereske

    RACE AGAINST DEATH Civic-minded librarian Miss Helma Zukas has reluctantly agreed to use her long-dormant skills as a canoeist to paddle down Washington Bay on behalf of the Bellehaven Library relay race team. But before Helma has a chance to test...

  • The Heiress

    Jude Deveraux

    Jamie Montgomery, an impoverished Elizabethan knight, is elated when he is assigned to escort Axia, the Lancaster heiress, to the castle of her betrothed. If only she will fall in love with Jamie--as Jamie's devoted older sister predicts--the family'...

  • Texas Outlaw

    Adrienne DeWolfe

    With her violet eyes and sultry smile, Fancy Holleday knew there wasn't a man alive she couldn't charm, seduce, or just plain outsmart. And that included federal marshal Cord Rawlins. The rugged lawman might have tracked her down, but it was a long w...

  • Pocahontas

    Walt Disney

  • Shock Jock

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Investigating the murder of a controversial radio personality, Frank and Joe come face-to-face with a gang of skinhead thugs known as the Bootstompers and are forced into multiple ugly confrontations. Original....

  • The Tiger in the Grass

    Harriet Doerr

    In her first collection of stories and pieces, Harriet Doerr explores the magical power of memory and brings us a wealth of unforgettable characters: eccentric eighty-two-year-old Great-Aunt Alice, who, empowered by a lucid memory, lived out her fina...

  • Kill Story

    Jerome Doolittle

    Tom Bethany, Jerome Doolittle's sardonic Boston sleuth, has been hailed as "the funniest thing to come down the Massachusetts Turnpike since Spenser" (Carl Hiaasen). Instinctively antiauthority, he's a powerhouse always ready to go a few rounds for a...

  • The Shaman Laughs

    James D. Doss

    On Native-American land, in a lonely, mystical place called the Canyon of the Spirit, prize livestock is being slaughtered as part of some strange and secret rite. Darkness is stalking the reservation, and Ute tribal policeman Charlie Moon fears for...

  • Relative Danger

    Charlotte Douglas

    Professor Alexandra Garrison's life is as sparkling and dreamy as the sun-warmed waters of coastal Florida. Then her twin brother, Nick, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist -- and the only family she has--is found brutally murdered on a lonely highwa...

  • The Carpenter's Lady

    Billie Douglass

    As the writer of a soap opera, Debra Barry had no trouble controlling the lives of her characters, bringing them grief or happiness with the stroke of her pen. But finding happiness for herself...that was a different matter. Graham Reid was the ca...

  • Too Rich

    Pony Duke

    A portrait of Doris Duke co-authored by her cousin highlights her often scandalous and excessive behavior, citing the controversial settlement of her estate and considering the possibility that she was murdered. $50,000 ad/promo. Tour....

  • The Cursed

    Dave Duncan

    THE WAGES OF GWIN War had killed Gwin's husband, and a plague of star sickness carried off her babies. Desolate, she nursed her stricken neighbors. But the few who would survive the sickness were doomed anyway. Every survivor would be cursed, a...

  • The Tudor Secret

    Carola Dunn

    It was simply mortifying! The orphaned Mariette has been extricating her ne'er do well cousin from scandalous situations for years, but losing the family ring to a card cheating nobleman is outside of enough. Never a woman to sit idly by, she cha...

  • The Cup of Morning Shadows

    Rosemary Edghill

    TOUCHED BY MAGIC When Ruth Marlowe finds a job as a librarian in Ippisiqua, New York, she hopes she will be able to put her much too exciting past behind her and settle down to an uneventful, if somewhat lonely, life in a quiet riverside town. But...

  • Savage Fantasy

    Cassie Edwards
    in

    Imagine a book - a love story - so hauntingly romantic, so emotionally powerful that it changes the lives of all who read it. Eleven of the greatest romance writers in the world have envisioned such a tale and brought it to life, creating a heartfelt...

  • Wild Thunder // Savage Rage

    Cassie Edwards

    TWO WORLDS, ONE LOVE Being sent to the Kansas Territory gave rebellious Hannah Kody what she longed for-freedom. She came to her brother's ranch to be his eyes, as his sight was failing. Yet his misfortune couldn't dim the joy she found in the lim...

  • Michael Jordan

    Nicholas Edwards

    An introduction to the life and career of Michael Jordan follows his early childhood struggles and his history-making sports triumphs, in an easy-to-read book that provides fifteen full-color photographs. Original....

  • The Science of Power

    Ru Emerson

    WOMEN OF CRAFT AND COURAGE... ...at great risk to herself, must call on all of her extraordinary gifts to combat a traitorous evil threatening to poison all that is decent in the land of Rhadaz. Under the cold-blooded rule of an emperor ,one mad, sh...

  • Six Snowy Sheep

    Judith Ross Enderle

  • Lizard Wine

    Elizabeth Engstrom

    All dressed up and looking for money, University of Oregon coeds, Elsie, Rebecca, and Tulie descend upon a cowboy bar in hope of conquests only to encounter a trio of psychotic hobos with murderous intentions...

  • The Faithful Gardener

    Clarissa Pinkola Estes

    Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., the internationally known poet, psychoanalyst, and author of the seminal classic Women Who Run With The Wolves (99 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, translated into eighteen languages, and a bestseller worldw...

  • The Last Girl

    Penelope Evans

    HE CAN'T Larry Mann, a lonely old lodger in a north London boarding house, is delighted when young, attractive Amanda moves in downstairs. Desperate for companionship, he brings her gifts, fixes her drinks--makes her want to like him. LIVE A shy...

  • Longarm and the Arizona Ambush

    Tabor Evans

    Tracking a lawman who has turned bad after fifteen years, Longarm hopes to stop Shaw before the man reaches Mexico, but once cornered in a deserted cabin, the outlaw proves more deadly than Longarm originally suspected...

  • Grover, Messenger of Love

    Joseph Ewers

    Here's a perfect way to say "I love you"--on Valentine's Day or any day! Grover discovers that playing Cupid is no easy task when he comes to the aid of a prince and princess who are separated by a cruel twist of fate--plus a very high brick wall! Â...

  • Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present

    Lillian Faderman

    This landmark work is the most complete compilation of its kind, offering an enlightened view of a diverse and long-neglected genre. Arranged in thematic sections are a generous and wide range of selections--fiction, poetry, and essays from writers p...

  • Daddy's Girls

    Zoe Fairbairns

    Three decades of great change...Three daughters in a crucible of family ferment... A family saga spanning three decades. It covers the lives of three sisters, growing up in a marriage where the father is violent and unfaithful, and the mother cov...

  • Asian-Pacific Folktales and Legends

    Jeannette Faurot

    These stories offer us an introduction to the complex oral traditions of the varied civilizations of one of the world's most fascinating regions. Exotic, clever, and poignant, Asian-Pacific Folktales and Legends invites you into a magically distincti...

  • Vanity

    Jane Feather

    As the stranger's arms closed around her, Octavia Morgan knew she'd just made the biggest mistake of her life. Picking pockets had seemed the only answer to her desperate plight. But now she'd been caught, and there was worse to come. For...

  • Rearview Mirror

    Ellen Feldman

    Hallie Fields is a successful freelance magazine writer whose work and personal life are beginning to dangerously blur. First Hallie finds herself - against her better judgment - getting involved with the subject of her most recent profile, the charm...

  • Baby's First Christmas

    Marie Ferrarella

    ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS... Okay, so Mommy didn't get pregnant the conventional way. After all, she's a woman of the nineties - and, unfortunately, all work and no play. And even though a sperm bank might seem a cold, artificial way to have a baby, ...

  • Second Honeymoon

    Sandra Field

    The runaway wife! Troy Donovan had struggled hard to get his life back together, only to realize that the best part of it had walked out the door a year before. He needed his wife back or out of his system for good. So he had tracked Lucy down and...

  • Bone Meal: Seven More Tales of Terror

    A. Finnis

    Seven scary tales include the title story, in which Eunice wonders about the mysterious bone meal that her father uses in his spectacular garden, a curiosity that increases when another of her boyfriends disappear. Original....

  • Pat Hobby Stories

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    A fascinating study in self-satire that brings to life the Hollywood years of F. Scott Fitzgerald The setting: Hollywood: the character: Pat Hobby, a down-and-out screenwriter trying to break back into show business, but having better luck getting i...

  • Abms 3

    Erin Flanagan

  • Shadow of the Wolf

    Rebecca Flanders

    To catch a killer TV journalist Amy Fortenoy knew the only way to catch the elusive "werewolf killer" was to dangle herself as bait. But when she got in over her head, sexy Ky Londen came to her rescue. Suddenly she was really in trouble. ...

  • Martinis & Mayhem

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    Murder By the Bay Cabot Cove, Maine's most famous mystery author, Jessica Fletcher, is excited about promoting her new book in glamorous San Francisco. She can't wait for drinks and dinner on Fisherman's Wharf, a ride on the cable cars, and a roma...

  • Forever After

    Bette Ford

    Forever His Haunted by shameful family secrets, Diane Rivers struggled long and hard to make a new life for herself. A successful career woman at last, her hard-won independence came at a price: building a future with the one man she desired most--m...

  • Tom and Huck

    Liz Fox

  • Christmas Star

    Roz Denny Fox

    STARR LEDERMAN. She was named after the Christmas star. She's a woman who knows her own mind and heart, a woman who values family and family traditions. So she's determined to give her almost-adopted daughter, SeLi, the most wonderful Christm...

  • The Golden Bough

    James George Frazer

    Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941) caught the popular imagination with his vast and enterprising comparative study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, which in its third edition numbered 12 volumes. Reissued here is Frazer's own single-volum...

  • Cain's Land

    Robert A. Frezza

    Solely because of his brilliant leadership and daring tactical skills, renegade Lieutenant-Colonel Anton Vereshchagin has been lured out of retirement by a representative of His Imperial Majesty's Japanese government -- the same government Vereshchag...

  • Blood Muse

    Esther Friesner

    Penned by such authors as Bill Pronzini, Jack Ketchum, Ed Gorman, and Larry Segriff, a collection of entirely original vampire stories set in the world of the arts features vampires as artists or as artists' obsessions....

  • Closer to the Sun

    Peter Gadol

    When Brad Gray loses his lover, he flees New York in an effort to rebuild his life, and house-sits in Encantado Canyon, a remote spot on the California coast near Los Angeles. From his vantage point, Brad discovers another rebuilding effort: a young ...

  • Out of Season

    Barbara Gamble

  • Holiday Husband

    Hayley Gardner

    There's a mysterious stranger granting Christmas wishes in a small Missouri town.... So "scroogy" Sharon Fontaine asks for the one thing she knows he can't deliver -- the man of her dreams. As if knock-your-socks-off marriageable m...

  • Yule Tide

    Catherine George
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    Judith's marriage to Nick Campion had been brief and turbulent. But, two days before Christmas, she found herself making her way to her childhood home with her estranged husband. The journey was destined to be stormy -- and not just because of the te...

  • One Day in the Alpine Tundra

    Jean Craighead George

    The Teton mountain range of Wyoming is the setting for this lightly fictionalized treatment, which perceptively describes the mammals, plants, climate, and geological features unique to the area directly above a mountain tree line. Detailed drawings ...

  • Final Design

    Noreen Gilpatrick

    Landing her own homicide case when a Liz Taylor look-alike is poisoned in her Seattle graphics studio, detective Kate MacLean suspects that one of the victim's three business partners is responsible. Reprint....

  • Shadow of Death

    Noreen Gilpatrick

    Policewoman Kate MacLean is assigned to investigate the death of a high school senior from a strict fundamentalist Christian school, and the deeper she digs into the tight-lipped religious community, the more horrifying the mystery becomes. Reprint....

  • Missing Daisy

    T.G. Gilpin

    In Missing Daisy, T. G. Gilpin makes us feel the panic of a mother whose little girl has vanished from a quiet public street in broad daylight, and the anguish when that child is found dead.The suspense builds when a twelve-year-old schoolboy whose p...

  • Mom Goes to Work

    Libby Gleeson

  • A Time to Dream

    Ruth Glover

    A time to be born, and a time to die, "Cassie heard the voice at her husband's funeral intone. A time to born she could understand. Even now the child, hers and Rob's, struggled within her body. Young, eager, optimistic, Rob and Cassie Quinn had join...

  • Peter Pan Little

    Golden Books

  • Disney's My Book of 1-2-3

    Golden Books

  • Choices

    Noah Gordon

    With Choices Noah Gordon brings to a close his great trilogy spanning the generations of the Cole medical dynasty. Beginning with the legendary 11th century doctor Robert J. Cole, each eldest son has borne the same name and middle initial, and som...

  • An Irresistible Flirtation

    Victoria Gordon

    It was too much, too fast, too...everything. Saunders prided herself on being a professional; she would never mix business with pleasure. But when tough, ruggedly handsome Ford Landell walked into her office, Saunders knew she was in danger of being ...

  • The First Lady

    E.J. Gorman

    WHAT IF THE FIRST LADY WERE ACCUSED OF MURDER? Times are hard for America's newest First Lady. Plagued by rumors of infidelity, her husband faces a tough reelection campaign while her teenage daughter is collapsing under the strain of nonstop medi...

  • Moonchasers and Other Stories

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    When two teenage boys befriend and escaped bank robber--because the robber reminds the boys of their idol, Robert Mitchum--the boys set in motion a chilling chain of events that will teach them about trust, brutality, and courage.

    Moonchaseres...

  • The Marilyn Tapes

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    In the wake of Marilyn Monroe's 1962 death, everybody from J. Edgar Hoover to the Mob tries to find missing tapes that have captured every scandalous moment the beautiful star shared with the Kennedy brothers. Reprint. K. PW. ...

  • Plant Life

    Joan S. Gottlieb

  • Fairy Tale

    Heather Graham
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    Imagine a book - a love story - so hauntingly romantic, so emotionally powerful that it changes the lives of all who read it. Eleven of the greatest romance writers in the world have envisioned such a tale and brought it to life, creating a heartfelt...

  • The Unfaithful Wife

    Lynne Graham

    The Marriage Mistake Leah's marriage to powerful Greek businessman Nik Andreakis was an empty sham, and she was determined to get a divorce. But Nik didn't want one. In the circumstances, Leah found that totally unbelievable. Why would he ...

  • Flowers for His Funeral

    Ann Granger

    A THORN AMONG THE ROSES Meredith Mitchell had plenty of time to regret having impulsively greeted an old schoolmate, Rachel Hunter, at the Chelsea Flower Show. She and Rachel had never been close, yet Meredith was suddenly caught up chatting with ...

  • Courting an Angel

    Patricia Grasso

    DANGER TO HER PEACE OF MIND LURKED IN HIS GRAY-EYED GAZE AND HIS DEVASTATING SMILE.... She felt his presence before she saw him, the black-clad stranger whose silver stare struck her dumb. He was the handsomest man she had ever seen... the husband...

  • Rage and Fire

    Francine Du Plessix Gray

    Acclaimed novelist and essayist Francine du Plessix Gray paints a spirited portrait of a woman who defied the rules and expectations of a misogynistic society to become one of its preeminent writers, as well as the intimate of such great literary fig...

  • For the Love of Grace

    Ginna Gray

    The daughter of a minister living in a small Texas town, widowed Grace Somerset-Ames has had more than her share of trouble. And now, without warning, Jake Paxton is back in town--and back in her life. The man Grace has secretly cherished since child...

  • A Place Called Home

    Elizabeth Grayson

    A NEW LIFE Livi Talbot's husband David gambled on a glorious dream called "Kentucky" -- until death cruelly claimed him on the Wilderness Road. Left widowed and pregnant, with two small children to care for, Livi vowed to be strong in ...

  • Happy Are Those Who Mourn

    Andrew M. Greeley

    Investigating a suspicious series of paranormal occurrences that others have attributed to the ghost of the late Monsignor Charles McInerny, Bishop Blackie Ryan uncovers a conspiracy involving millions in missing church funds. Original....

  • Angel Light

    Andrew M. Greeley

    Andrew M. Greeley's Angel Light is based on the Book of Tobis in the Old Testament, one of the sweetest love stories ever told. "I do not want ten million dollars. I do not want to visit Ireland. I do not want to end a Tobin family feud. And, above ...

  • A Tale of Troy

    Roger Lancelyn Green

    The story of Helen and the judgement of Paris, of the gathering Heroes and the seige of Troy; of Achilles and his vulnerable heel, reared by the Centaur on wild honey and the marrow of lions; of Odysseus, the last of the Heroes, his plan for the wood...

  • Knights of the Sword

    Roland J. Green
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The Knights of Sofamnia were the greatest order of chivalry in the history of Krynn. After a knight has achieved the Order of the Crown, he must then begin his training in the virtues of courage and heroism in order to achieve the Order of the Swo...

  • Elminster: The Making of a Mage

    Ed Greenwood
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    In ancient days, sorcerers sought to learn the One True Spell that would give them power over all the world and understanding of all magic... . The One True Spell was a woman, and her name was Mystra --and her kisses were wonderful. Priest Halivon T...

  • Burn, Missouri, Burn

    Randal L. Greenwood

  • Christmas Charade

    Kay Gregory
    in

    Going home for Christmas was always a joy for Nina -- apart from facing her father's annual matchmaking efforts! But this year it would be different. What she needed was a temporary fiance...and gorgeous, sophisticated Fenton Hardwick was the perfect...

  • Boris Bigfoot's Big Feat

    Gertrude Gruesome

    It’s tough to fit in when your feet stick out. Boris Bigfoot is the biggest kid in class -- with the biggest feet, to boot. But then Boris gets a kick out of soccer. When his team plays the big game, can Boris score the winning goal? ...

  • Maquisard: A Christmas Tale

    Albert J. Guerard

  • Still Water

    Sally Gunning

    Overburdened odd-job entrepreneur Peter Bartholomew is drawn into an undercover investigation in which he must protect fragile new bride Claire Simmons from a killer who may be among the people closest to her. Original....

  • Fountain of Death

    Jane Haddam

    "BRING YOUR BODY..." reads the health club flyer, "to the Fountain of Youth Workout Studio -- Be a New You for the New Year!" And co-owners leggy Magda Hale and her dashing husband, Simon, are busy signing up a slew of New Haven women eager to be yo...

  • Simply Heaven

    Patricia Hagan

    LEGACY OF LOVE Steve Maddox was determined to keep his oath to his friend Ned Ralston and bring Ned's estranged daughter, Raven, back to the family's Alabama plantation. But when he finally located the girl in Texas, Steve was in for some surprise...

  • Invitation to Love

    Shirley Hailstock
    in

    Every year, Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Year's Eve combine to create a season of hope and happiness, cherished memories and new beginnings. Now, this exciting Arabesque collection captures the spirit of the season in three heartwarming stories of pass...

  • The Bride and the Baby

    Phyllis Halldorson

    CHRISTMAS ANGEL, CHRISTMAS CHILD Was it a snowy mirage or some celestial messenger that steered Mariah Bentley to the tiny orphan stranded in the blizzard? All Mariah knew was that a miraculous Christmas baby now snuggled in her arms, and surely h...

  • 12 Monkeys

    Elizabeth Hand

    Sent back in time from the year 2035 to 1990 to prevent the apocalypse that destroyed most of the earth, James Cole lands in a psychiatric ward under the care of Dr. Kathryn Railly, who begins to believe his wild story. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Golden Treasures

    Catherine Hart
    in

    Imagine a book - a love story - so hauntingly romantic, so emotionally powerful that it changes the lives of all who read it. Eleven of the greatest romance writers in the world have envisioned such a tale and brought it to life, creating a heartfelt...

  • Bluegrass and Roses

    Lee Hayward

    Born poor but proud on a Kentucky tobacco farm, Drew dreamed of restoring Ashworth Farm to its former glory... of running a winning thoroughbred in the Triple Crown ... and of becoming Adam MacKenzie's wife. Heir to a powerful banking dynasty, Adam p...

  • Death on the Mississippi

    Peter J. Heck

    "Lovers of historical mysteries should rush out for a copy of Death on the Mississippi, the delightfully droll debut of Wentworth Cabot, newly hired secretary to the celebrated author Mark Twain. Twain lights up the pages as he gives his lectures, mo...

  • Batman Forever Golden Look-Look Book

    Andy Helfner

  • Mr. Angel

    Beth Henderson

    LOOKING FOR MR. ANGEL... Rella Schofield's two small children waited anxiously in their modest farmhouse. They needed help fast--but the guardian angel they'd been hoping for was running late! Suddenly, the door opened and in walked a decidedly mort...

  • Double or Nothing

    C.J. Henderson

    ONE LEAP, TWO BODIES... May 10, 1986: Sam Leaps into a hard-living trucker, faced with family and financial disaster. May 10, 1986: Sam Leaps into a brilliant university professor, a man who seems to have it all. Back at the Project, Ziggy a...

  • Heavenly Persuasion

    Lorraine Henderson

    "TAKE GOOD CARE OF MY LITTLE GIRL..." Lovely Jessica McAllister vows to honor her dying sister's final request. Determined to raise orphaned Maria as if she were her own daughter, Jessica never thinks she'll run into trouble in the form of the chi...

  • Letter of Love

    Virginia Henley
    in

    Imagine a book - a love story - so hauntingly romantic, so emotionally powerful that it changes the lives of all who read it. Eleven of the greatest romance writers in the world have envisioned such a tale and brought it to life, creating a heartfelt...

  • A Change of Heart

    Candice Hern

    Friend or Lover? Lady Mary Haviland knew better than to think she ever would wed. No gentleman would woo a woman as long on the shelf or as plain as she was. In fact, her lack of the usual enticements made it easy for her to develop uncomplicated ...

  • Whispering

    Jane Aiken Hodge

    When teenage Caterina Gomez returns from England to Portugal, she comes back to a beloved homeland, a distant father, and a scandalous past. Traveling with Caterina are her cousin Jeremy Craddock, a young Englishman seeking a cure for his ill health,...

  • The Immortality Option

    James P. Hogan

    Titan, Saturn's largest moon, was frozen and lifeless...but only by some definitions! Organic life had never evolved on its barren surface, but somehow Titan had become home to the Taloids, a race of self-aware robots who lived in competing city-s...

  • Mrs. Malory Wonders Why // Superfluous Death

    Hazel Holt

    DEADLY EVICTION When Dr. Cowley, the greedy local physician of Taviscombe, plans to turn a prime oceanside building, occupied by the very elderly Miss Graham, into a profitable nursing home, Mrs. Malory becomes worried about the fate of her dear f...

  • Freedom's Fruit

    William H. Hooks

    Illustrated in full color. An acclaimed author and an award-winning illustrator unite to create an enchanting conjure tale ideal for both folktale and African-American history collections.  Mama Marina is willing to risk everything and use her conj...

  • After the Night

    Linda Howard

    SHE RETURNED TO UNCOVER OLD SECRETS...AND NEW DESIRES -- FAITH DEVLIN -- A poor, outcast child in Prescott, Louisiana, she'd always adored the town's golden boy from afar. But he called her white trash that sultry Southern night when his rich, r...

  • Snake Eyes

    Richard Hoyt

    Trouble is piling up for cattle rancher Monty Hook. An outbreak of infectious anthrax forces him to slaughter hundreds of steers. His ranch is crawling with state police investigating the death of one of their own on Hook's land. Worse, the cattle ap...

  • Scholar of Decay

    Tanya Huff
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    When Aurek Nuiken travels to Richemulot to search for a spellbook that will save his endangered wife, little does he know that a beautiful woman, a family of wererats, and his own brother will cruelly conspire to turn the tables against him. As hideo...

  • Wishes

    Lisa Jackson

    Kate Summer's life flies apart when her husband and daughter are tragically killed. That same year, Boston debutante Bibi Sullivan gives birth to a son after a scandalous affair. Their lives dovetail when Kate is given the chance to adopt Bibi's chil...

  • Up North

    Charles Jennings

  • Merry Christmas, Mommy

    Muriel Jensen

    Dear Santa, I know I'm just a baby and no one listens to me, but I do know some things. Like what I want for Christmas -- Nate for a daddy. Now I just have to convince my mommy .... Garrett Joseph Endicott The one thing everyone in Riverview...

  • Riches of the Heart

    Margaret Johnson

  • A Glimpse of Forever

    Linda O. Johnston

    THE SEER Her wagon train stranded on the Spanish Trail, pioneer Abby Wynne searched the heavens for rain. Gifted with visionary powers, Abby sensed a man in another time gazing at the same night sky. But even she could not foresee that she would jou...

  • Hunted

    William W. Johnstone

    Legend. Outcast. Free Man.The natural enemy of every free man is his own government . . . The land of the free and the home of the brave is no longer a safe place for men like Darry Ransom. Once, he believed in the promise of a nation based on libert...

  • The Orchard Thieves

    Elizabeth Jolley

  • Elves Don't Wear Hard Hats

    Marcia T. Jones; Debbie Dadey

    There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the short construction workers building the school playground really be elves working on a secret present? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out! "I think you two hav...

  • Runaway Reindeer

    Marcia T. Jones; Debbie Dadey

    Meet the Tucker Triplets! Mr. Parker's class is in for triple trouble and laughs! Alex Tucker wants to win the holiday house decorating contest. And she wants Sam's dog, Cleo, to help. Sam is not happy about that. Being friends with the Tucker Tri...

  • Love, Janis

    Laura Joplin

    A revealing and intimate biography about Janis Joplin, the Queen of Classic Rock, written by her younger sister. Janis Joplin blazed across the sixties music scene, electrifying audiences with her staggering voice and the way she seemed to pour her v...