Books Published in February 1990

New Books List: 412 titles

  • The Fall of Hyperion

    Dan Simmons

    Now, in the stunning conclusion to the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. On the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that ...

  • Ace in the Hole

    George R.R. Martin

    Since a strange alien virus created the superhuman beings known as Aces and Jokers four decades ago, they have struggled for respect and recognition. Now they are key players in a presidential convention torn by hatred and dissent as assassins stalk ...

  • Bluebloods

    David Drake

  • Cat's Gambit

    Leslie Gadallah

    Book 2 in Leslie Gadallah's trilogy of interstellar intrigue, The Empire of KazThe world of Orian has been overrun by the Kaz, who are bent on exterminating the Oriani. Only a few Oriani have escaped and struggle to eke out an existence on alien plan...

  • Crossing Enemy Lines

    R.A. Montgomery

    Their discovery of the vaccination serum to stop the Death Enzyme, an AIDS-like virus, threatens to divide the members of TRIO as Matt and Mimla disagree over the strategy for the serum's use, and David becomes caught in the middle...

  • The Fair in Emain Macha

    Charles de Lint
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  • Flight of Icarus

    Donald Lehmkuhl

  • Force of Arms

    G. Harry Stine

    The Warbots combine human brainpower with mechanical brawn to fight a battle on three fronts against Japan, China, and the Soviet Union for control of an island that is overflowing with mineral resources...

  • A Gift upon the Shore

    M.K. Wren

    “A poignant expression of the durability, grace, and potential of the human spirit” set in a post-nuclear dystopia where words are worth killing for (Jean M. Auel, author of the Earth’s Children series).   By the late twenty-first cen...

  • Mars: The Red Planet

    Mick Farren

    When superstar TV journalist Lech Hammond heard rumors that the Martian Soviets had uncovered an alien artifact, he shipped out to Mars to investigate. But the KGB had the discovery under wraps, and with a serial killer on the loose and wild men ramp...

  • A Passage of Stars

    Alis A. Rasmussen

    Lilyaka Hae Ransome answered to no man. Born to a powerful clan on the storm-wracked colony world of Unruli, she'd grown up willful, independent, strong. The only person who held her respect was the enigmatic man called Heredes; who tutored her in hi...

  • The Stars Must Wait

    Keith Laumer

    In the year 2002 a young Air Force Lieutenant Commander prepares for his role as Backup Navigator for the historic Callisto Mission. Before leaving Earth for space, "Jack" Jackson will be placed in a state of suspended animation, and will be awakened...

  • Strange Attractors

    William Sleator

  • Strings

    Dave Duncan

    SWORN TO RUN Alya's hunches were never wrong. So the scientists of 4-I were happy to promise her a place in the next offworld colonization team if she agreed to assess the potential of the latest worlds they had discovered. Then She met Cedric, th...

  • Summertide

    Charles Sheffield

    SUMMERTIDE BLUES It was just before Summertide, the time when the twin planets, Opal and Quake, would orbit closest to their sun, subjecting both--but Quake in particular--to vast tidal forces. And it was to be the most violent Summertide ever, du...

  • Traitors from Within

    R.A. Montgomery

  • White Lotus

    John Hersey

    Not too far from now, in a world very like our own, the oppressors have changed places with the oppressed.  After their defeat in the Yellow War, the white people of America are thrust into a brutally altered reality. They are hunted like w...

  • The Cambridge Theorem

    Tony Cape

    A police detective is drawn into intrigue while investigating a mathematical genius’s murder: “A combination of P.D. James and John le Carré.” -- Austin American-Statesman When Simon Bowles commits suicide, no one is surprised. A graduate stu...

  • Dead Giveaway

    Joanne Fluke

    In the Nevada mountains, an avalanche traps the residents of a luxury building indoors -- while a killer walks among them -- from the New York Times"bestselling author.  One By One . . .   Ellen Wingate thinks she’s hit t...

  • Death Trap

    John D. MacDonald

    In life, Jane Ann never had much use for a halo, but in her violent death she finally earned one. When they found a suspect, everyone relaxed except Hugh MacReedy.Maybe he should have stayed out of it, but MacReedy owed a big debt to the patsy they w...

  • Exes

    Dan Greenburg

    After one night stands, she feels powerless, humiliated, and weak. She hates them--the playboys and triflers, especially the married ones. So she begins to take her own twisted revenge on the men who have used her--every last one. "An engrossing tale...

  • Exit Wounds

    John Westermann

    With his Thirteenth Precinct partners, Orin Boyd sets out to patrol a crime-ridden Long Island town and must confront the burnout, gunfire, and loss of idealism that are occupational hazards for police...

  • The Face on the Milk Carton

    Caroline B. Cooney

    No one ever really paid close attention to the faces of the missing children on the milk cartons. But as Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl with her hair in tight pigtails, wearing a dress with a narrow white collar--a thre...

  • False Profit

    Robert Eversz

  • Four Steps to Death

    Diana Ramsay

    Fancy footwork is required of dance instructor Maggie Tramayne when she finds her friend Nina skewered with one of her own kitchen utensils, and she must sidestep both the police and the killer's next culinary surprise in order to survive...

  • Incident at Badamya

    Dorothy Gilman

    IT'S TIME FOR ME TO GO, GEN. IF YOU CAN GET TO RANGOON THERE'LL BE HELP GO TO NEW YORK--I COULDN'T--AND GOD BLESS YOU After he writes these words, Gen Ferris's missionary father commits suicide. The year is 1950, and suddenly orphaned at sixteen, ...

  • More Anatomy of Murder

    Dorothy L. Sayers

  • Murderous Remedy

    Stella Shepherd

  • My Dead Brother

    Rex Anderson

    Houston's Lieutenant Gould turns up new evidence about the murder of the thoroughly rotten Gene Morris, a crime for which his partner went to jail and everybody has a motive and an alibi, except for Gene's brother Mel, who is investigating and gettin...

  • Nobody Lives Forever

    Edna Buchanan

    Death held no secrets for Miami Homicide detective Rick Barrish. But this time, it was different. The victims were his next door neighbors, murdered by an insane serial killer. And if the pattern continued, his beautiful but troubled girlfriend, Laur...

  • O'Farrell's Law

    Brian Freemantle

    On the eve of a vital CIA assignment, an agent''s hesitation leads him to the brink of disaster

    His grandfather was a lawman too. That''s how Charles O''Farrell rationalizes his work. He keeps a picture of his ancestor by his bed, a faded se...

  • Peregrine Dream

    Ray Ring

    The second Henry Dyer novel captures the stark beauty of the Arizona desert, as Dyer pursues and captures a kidnapper of two peregrine falcons; but when the poacher has his throat cut, the birds disappear and things start getting complicated...

  • Probable Cause

    Ridley Pearson

    A police detective struggles to outwit a twisted killer in this “breathless” crime novel by the New York Times"bestselling author of Undercurrents (Chicago Tribune).   Carmel, California is a scenic, peaceful tourist haven where James Dewi...

  • Razzle-Dazzle

    Ed Naha

    WELCOME TO CALIFORNIA, MR. BROSKEY. NOW LEAVE. Lt. Kevin Broskey has cracked a mass-murder case and brought down a porn king, but now he's persona non grata in the Bay City Police Department. The reason: Broskey's got a thing about guys who kill c...

  • Take the 'D' Train

    Frank King

  • To Killashea

    Norman Flood

    A cozy house party in rural Ireland is shattered by the killing of the host, and the mystery deepens when Detective Quaid learns that all the guests, including the victim's daughter, have a motive for murder...

  • Triple-O-Seven

    Ian R. Jamieson

    Bumbling secret agent 0007 reemerges from forced retirememt to intercept a supply of deadly new poison gas before it falls into evil hands, but a pack of villains whose methods are as bizarre as their monikers is determined to defeat him...

  • Black Mesa

    Aimee Thurlo

    Sacred land... To the Tewa tribe, Black Mesa was a land for secrets and for ritual. Navajo FBI Agent Justin Makai had traveled a long way to reach it -- to see his old friend John Romero -- only to find the Tewa man missing and John's beautiful A...

  • Palm Springs

    Trina Mascott

    Palm Springs is an historical novel, a magical love story, a dynamic family saga, and a lyrical ode to the desert. In Palm Springs, Paris, Rome and Mexico, the novel chronicles the joys and sorrows of Ginger McKinntock, her movie star sister, and the...

  • Past Tense

    Tina Vasilos

    A slipped word could spell d-e-a-t-h Tony knew that the elegant woman who'd fainted the lobby of his posh London hotel had disguised her origin, her identity, her accent. But she couldn't disguise the fear in her eyes. For months, Samantha Smit...

  • The Singing Stones

    Phyllis A. Whitney

    It begins one momentous October day when an unexpected letter arrives, inviting Lynn McLeod to the Virginia Blue Ridge home of Stephen Asche, her former husband. Stephen's daughter - by another woman - is troubled and needs her help. Lynn is a clinic...

  • Animating Maria

    Marion Chesney

    THE SCHOOL FOR MANNERS If you have a Wild, Unruly, or Undisciplined Daughter, two Ladies of Genteel Birth offer to Bring Out said Daughter and Refine what may have seemed Unrefinable. We can make the Best of the Worst. Amy and Effy Tribble plac...

  • Beau Guest

    Judith Nelson

    Katherine Farthington was determined that her devious uncle, the unscrupulous Edward Farthington, would not sell her family home. When Uncle Edward brought the urbane Nicholas Markham and the Duke of Bellingham, prospective buyers, to Farthington Ha...

  • Fair Fortune

    Rebecca Ward

    IF HIS HEART BELONGED TO ANOTHER, WHY DID HE KISS HER WITH SUCH LONGING? With her mother's failing health and their rather reduced circumstances, Margaret Hannay had little choice but to grin and bear her position as a paid companion to the very d...

  • Frivolous Pretence

    Anthea Malcolm

    ONLY A CAD WOULD DOUBT A LADY'S INNOCENCE! A LADY'S INNOCENCE When secret information about the scandalous divorce trial of Queen Caroline fell into the wrong hands, Demetra Hawksley was incensed to learn that she was suspected of betra...

  • Honor Besieged

    Gayle Buck

    FAIR GAME What chance did infinitely inexperienced Miss Theresa Thaleman have to attract as cynical and amorously successful a gentleman as the handsome, wealthy Duke of Ashford? What chance did this naive newcomer to London society have to def...

  • The Infamous Rake

    Norma Lee Clark

    Dilys Byrn had been an inexperienced, easily infatuated young girl when she fell head over heels in love with handsome and dashing Lord Travis Gallant. But Dilys had reached the reasonable age of marriage now, and should have had enough good sense to...

  • Logic of the Heart

    Patricia Veryan

    WAS SHE FALLING IN LOVE WITH A MAN WHO COULD ONLY BRING HER HEARTACHE? Susan Henley had inherited the Highperch Cottage legally--if somewhat notoriously--and no insufferable baron would cheat her out of the dear old place! She would fight Valenti...

  • The Love Match

    Marion Chesney

    BY DAY SHE CHAMPIONED WOMEN'S RIGHTS, BUT BY NIGHT SHE DREAMED OF ROMANCE No young lady was more devoted to the teachings of that infamous bluestocking Mrs. Waverley than her adopted daughter Felicity. However, unlike her mentor, she vowed to ...

  • Lucinda

    Blanche Chenier

    She owed him more than gratitude Lucinda Edrington was in a coil. In order to escaper debtor's prison, she had to auction her Dorset home. Her new neighbor, Lord Sarne, was helpful in the extreme. But Lucinda was not unaware that another lady had ...

  • Miss Osborne Misbehaves

    Marian Devon

    IF THE GENTLEMAN WAS NOTHING BUT A COMMON THIEF, WOULD HE STEAL HER HEART AS WELL? Desperate to avoid her father's odious matchmaking scheme, Miss Eliza Osborne boards the Brighton coach for a visit to her beloved aunt. She quickly realizes, howev...

  • The Poor Relation

    Cathryn Huntington Chadwick

    OUT OF THE SHADOWS Petite, unassuming Kate suspected that her beaux would really prefer to pay court to her beautiful, spirited younger sister -- especially dashing Captain Mark Verelst, the man Kate secretly loved. Even when Mark offered for her, K...

  • A Promise of Spring

    Mary Balogh

    THE PAST IMPERFECT Lovely Grace Howard had every reason to be devoted to Sir Perry Lampman. This wealthy and gallant gentleman rescued her from poverty by making her his bride. Even more nobly, he did not withdraw his proposal or his affection whe...

  • A Suitable Connection

    Cindy Holbrook

    HER INNOCENCE INTRIGUED HIM Ravenstoke wasn't fooled for a moment by the ragged urchin he found perched in the tree near Grantham Hall. Any idiot with eyes could see the frightened creature was a girl...and a dashed pretty one at that. But once ...

  • The Vicar's Daughter

    Eva Rutland

    He never expected to fall in love with his own wife! The viscount married the vicar's daughter! Lord Domenic Stanhope was handsome, charming, wealthy and possessed of a roving eye. To him marriage meant freedom to pursue his amorous affair...

  • Body of Opinion

    Susannah Stacey

    SOME GUESTS DON'T KNOW WHEN TO LEAVE... The party at the Manor had been a smash, and rock star Ken Cryer was feeling, well pleased...until he found golden Alix Hamilton in his bed. Despite her seductive pose, Alix didn't fancy Ken, or anyone else....

  • Diamond in the Buff

    Susan Dunlap

    DEATH BY PATCHOULI OIL The complaint of a nude, sunbathing dentist who claimed he was attacked by a eucalyptus tree had ruined sassy Berkeley cop Jill Smith's plans for a lazy summer after-noon, She would have chalked up the "assault" to another i...

  • The Good Fight

    Lia Matera

    Attorney Laura Di Palma is in complete control of her high-profile life--she's about to become a partner, signed lithographs decorate the walls of her spectacular San Francisco apartment, and her Mercedes is paid for. But control turns to utter chaos...

  • New Orleans Mourning

    Julie Smith

    FESTIVAL OF MURDER It's Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and as the gaudy Rex parade proceeds down St. Charles Avenue, hysterical revelers crowd the street to see the King of Carnival. This year he's the prominent Chauncey St. Amant: upper-crust, yet do...

  • Best Wishes

    Julie Kistler

    IT TOOK ONLY A WISH Known as the Grande Dame of the Rockies, The Stanley Hotel had its share of legends. But when a mysterious stranger gave front-desk manager Hayley Austin a golden apple, she didn't know she was about to make hotel history. T...

  • A Loving Spirit

    Annette Broadrick

    MR. FEBRUARY Name: Michael J. Donovan. Official Status: The sexiest man on the Missouri Highway Patrol. Pitfalls To Avoid: Love and marriage. Irresistible Obstacle: Gorgeous Sabrina Sheldon--working mother, suspected drug smuggler--and all w...

  • Burn Marks

    Sara Paretsky

    Someone knocking on the door at 3 A.M. is never good news. For V.I. Warshawski, the bad news arrives in the form of her wacky, unwelcome aunt Elena. The fire that has just burned down a sleazy SRO hotel has brought Elena to V.I.'s doorstep. Uncoverin...

  • The Stone Veil

    Ronald Tierney

    The 69-year-old semi-retired private detective reluctantly takes the case of a Mrs. William B. Stone who seems to have lost track of her husband. Shanahan, who finds his once lonely life complicated by an attractive younger woman, nevertheless finds ...

  • A Wreath for the Bride

    Lillian O'Donnell

    Newlywed Mary Langner's body surfaced in the icy waters of Rockaway, New York, one day after her husband reported her missing from their cabin. Angela Doran is murdered on the one-month anniversary of her marriage. P.I. Gwenn Ramadge, hired by Mary's...

  • Mom Meets Her Maker

    James Yaffe

    I HAD THE PERFECT GIFT FOR MOM THIS YEAR. A MURDER. Not only was Dave's mother a great cook, but she had an amazing knack -- between the chopped liver and the strudel -- for solving his most difficult murder cases. Possibly because no detail, no mat...

  • Pure Murder

    A.M. Pyle

    Cincinnati homicide detective Cesar Franck investigates the difficult case of a murdered dermatologist with a cocaine habit and powerful friends, including a news anchorman, a TV news director, and the police lieutenant who is Cesar's boss...

  • Why Isn't Becky Twitchell Dead?

    Mark Richard Zubro / Mark Zubro

    One would think teaching would be a quiet profession. But not in Chicago, thinks high school teacher Tom Mason when he hears that one of his students has been accused of killing his girlfriend. As a friend of the boy's family, Tom is asked to help cl...

  • The Copy Cat Mystery

    Carol Adorjan

    It Was Going To Be A Lo-o-o-o-o-ng Summer! As far as Beth Carew was concerned, this summer was a major BOMB -- and it was only just getting started. First her friend Paul backed out of their pet-sitting business. Next the sweet old Goodalls next ...

  • Death Notice

    M.S. Karl

    Twenty-nine years after his conviction for murder, Cory Wilde comes home to tiny Troy, Louisiana, frightening everyone in town for different reasons and drawing newspaperman Pete Brady and his girl into investigating a new murder in town...

  • Disheveled City

    Gaylord Dold

    One cold winter a woman is found dead on her kitchen floor. Unfortunately, detective Mitch Roberts had once had a brief affair with the woman and becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation.Gaylord Dold is the author of fifteen works of ficti...

  • Double Jeopardy

    Elieba Levine

    Identical twins who share strange psychic powers, Tom and Tim Hanley choose different life paths--Tom becomes a New York City detective while Tim becomes a psychopathic killer who harries women, leading to a bloody--and blood--confrontation...

  • The Jelly Bean Scheme

    Cynthia Blair

    A voodoo priestess, a pirate’s treasure map, a new friend’s unexplained disappearance… When Chris and Susan Pratt travel to colorful New Orleans for a history competition, they find themselves embroiled in another thrilling adventure. Will the ...

  • Reel Trouble

    Robert Arthur

  • Seeing Is Believing

    Carter Dickson

  • Sisters in Crime 2

    Marilyn Wallace

  • Some Die Young

    Jeanne Hart

    END OF INNOCENCE The murder of twelve-year-old Lisa Margolin sends shock waves through the quiet coastal community of Bay Cove. Detective Carl Pedersen has little to go on until he begins to suspect that Lisa's best friend, Meredith, is spending t...

  • Heart Songs and Other Stories

    Annie Proulx

    Before she wrote the bestselling Brokeback Mountain, Annie Proulx was already producing some of the finest short fiction in the country. Here are her collected stories, including two new works never before anthologized. These stories reverberate with...

  • Keeping the Faith

    Carol Clewlow

  • The Paris Review Anthology

    George Plimpton

    Venerable at 35 and justly venerated for its unequalled mix of fiction, poetry, interview and essay, the Paris Review remains the single most important little magazine this country has produced. A glimpse through the table of contents of this new ...

  • Seduction and Betrayal

    Elizabeth Hardwick

  • Deceptive Desires

    Wanda Owen

    Tiffany Renaud loved her life as the only daughter of a wealthy Parisian industrialist. She had suitors, servants and a ball gown in every color of the rainbow. The last thing she wanted was to cross the ocean on a cramped and stuff ship just to visi...

  • Desire and Deceive

    Cordia Byers

    FREEDOM IS HER DREAM, BUT LOVE IS HER DESTINY. Megan Wakefield refuses to wed the man chosen for her by King Edward, and so disguises her loveliness to ward hint off. Heiress to an impoverished estate, she must rob to feed her staff, yet the spiri...

  • Empire of Heaven

    Linda Ching Sledge

    Rulan, healer and concubine, warrior and spy, finds herself torn between three different men--Hung, the half-mad revolutionary leader; rebel hothead and poet Pao An; and Manchu general Li--in a saga set during the Taiping Rebellion...

  • Fire and Ice

    DeLoras Scott

    Ruby lips and a diamond heart. A Modest Proposal Widow Jessy Turner knew that she had better take Cort Lancaster up on his offer, or lose the diamond-and-ruby necklace Cort had won from her no-good husband. The heirloom was the one thing that J...

  • Flame Across the Highlands

    Katherine Vickery

    Two powerful clans at war. Two lovers consumed in desire's fierce embrace... A GALLANT WARRIOR AND A REGAL CHIEFTAIN'S DAUGHTER SURRENDERED TO PASSION'S BLAZING GRACE... Amid the ancient splendor of the glens, Brianna of the Clan M...

  • Fortune's Lady

    Robin Leanne Wiete

    "I want you, Marianne, I want you so much," he said. And suddenly pleasure and pain, fear and anticipation all blended together for her. "Yes!" she cried out joyously. "Oh, Nick, yes...!" The untamed nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest offered be...

  • Gentle Savage

    Kathleen Drymon

    RELUCTANT CAPTIVE London belle Valentine Prescott rebelled at the idea of spending a year in America with a horde of savages, but she'd promised her mother, Sky Eyes, that she'd live a year with her people, the Blackfoot Indians. Still, sh...

  • Heart Song

    Barbara Hargis

    BITTER ENEMIES, TENDER HEARTS... Eliza Nolenberg trembled with fear and outrage over the prospect of losing her beloved niece, Daisy, to a stranger. Wealthy businessman Nate Truesdale had seduced and abandoned Eliza's late sister eight years earli...

  • The Heart's Disguise

    Lisa Ann Verge

    IN THE SCENTED DARKNESS OF HIS LAIR, A WILY PIRATE STOLE HER INNOCENCE. Disguised as a lad, raven-haired Adriana Joubet hired on as cabin boy to the notorius Sea Wolf. She knew the Englishman was a traitor who preyed on his own countrymen, and she...

  • Heritage

    Heather Hay

    It was a time for dreams, when an ambitious man could build a fortune from his modest beginnings. When his lovely daughters could dream away the summer of 1901, surrounded by the luxury of their newfound prosperity, and when the heart was free to ima...

  • Lacey's Way

    Madeline Baker

    Lacey Montana was alone in the world except for her father, so when he was sentenced to twenty years in Yuma Penitentiary, she had no choice but to follow the prison wagon. The long trek across the plains had barely begun when things took a surprisin...

  • Liberty's Lady

    Caryn Cameron

    Let Freedom Ring! As the American colonies rose up against the oppression of Mother England, spirited journalist Libby Morgan fed the fires of rebellion and invoked the wrath of the Loyalists. Thus she was bound to clash head-on with the prime tar...

  • Lovestorm

    Judith E. French

    "YOUR ARE MINE...A GIFT FROM THE SEA" With those words, the dark-haired, bronze-skinned stranger, clad only in a loincloth, swept her up in his powerful arms.... She was Elizabeth, beautiful and pampered, the daughter of a powerful earl, shipwr...

  • Masque of Enchantment

    Charlene Cross

    IN THE SCOTTISH BORDERLANDS, SHE WOVE A DESPERATE FICTION -- ONLY TO DISCOVER HER HEART'S DEAREST DREAM! Accused of murder, actress Alissa Ashford fled London for Scotland in the drab garb of a prim governess. Her employer, Jared Braxton, was su...

  • Masque of Sapphire

    Deana James

    FATED TO MEET Judith Talbot-Harrow left England with a heavy heart. She was going to America to join a father she despised and a sister she distrusted and she felt lonelier -- and angrier -- than she ever had in her life. She was certainly in no moo...

  • Montana Woman

    Rosanne Bittner

    In a Nation Divided, One Woman Would Conquer the Land with Unbridled Spirit, The cruel tides of the Civil War leave young Joline Masters widowed, with a vast Kansas farm to manage on her own. She learns to accept her loneliness, and she's not afra...

  • My Darling Melissa

    Linda Lael Miller

    THEIR PASSION WAS AS FREE AND SPLENDID AS THE TOWERING WILDERNESS OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST... Devastated on her wedding day by a shattering revelation, Melissa Corbin turned to a stranger with a brazen bargain: she would take his name in exchange fo...

  • Night Storm

    Catherine Coulter

    THE UNTAMED DESIRE OF, TWO WILD HEARTS... Fiery, free-spirited Eugenia Paxton swore she'd make a pact with the devil himself if it meant saving her father's shipyard from destitution. But a partnership with the wealthy British sea captain Alec Car...

  • Passion's Tender Embrace

    Robin Gideon

    Rough Seas of Desire Half-dressed Illyana Zacarious was furious when brash, arrogant Clay McKenna entered her hotel room. The spoiled Greek beauty had called “Come in” thinking it was her father, not this infuriatingly handsome American! Angry...

  • Pirate's Wild Embrace

    Linda Windsor

    Betrothed to a man she detested, fiery Shannon Brennan vowed to escape the tempestuous pirate stronghold where she'd been raised since infancy by her fierce buccaneer father. In order to putt off her daring scheme, she had to convince devilishly hand...

  • Seduction

    Amanda Quick

    Townsfolk called him devil. For dark and enigmatic Julian, Earl of Ravenwood, was a man with a legendary temper and a first wife whose mysterious death would not be forgotten. Some said the beautiful Lady Ravenwood had drowned herself in the black, m...

  • Stormspell

    Faye Summers

    STORMSPELL -- Catherine Presentine came from a family of ne'er-do-wells, villains who would stoop to anything for gain. So when Charles de Morney returned to Creighwell Hall to find the beautiful young widow in control of his inheritance, he was ap...

  • Sunswept

    Leigh Bristol

    From a Past of Shame...Came a Future of Desire All of Sydney, Australia, called Maddie Burns the most beautiful and most unattainable woman in the city. After her arrival from England, she had built her family's, tavern into the dining establishme...

  • Sweet Betrayal

    Lauren Wilde

    With fury raging in his heart, Texas Ranger Adam Prescott rode into Mexico, determined to capture the pillaging general who called himself the Chaparral Fox. Anita's blood boiled as the arrogant American undressed her with his eyes. He was he...

  • Turn of the Dice

    Janet Edmonds

    Abigail Broughton, sold as an indentured servant to a spurned lover in colonial Williamsburg to offset her father's debts, risks her freedom on the luck of another wager as she seeks happiness in the New World...

  • Victoria's Ecstasy

    Gwen Cleary

    WEAK, DODDERING COWPOKE Proud Victoria Torrington was short of cash to run her shipping empire, and the last investment she could liquidate was a godforsaken ranch along the Sweetwater River in uncivilized Wyoming. Traveling to America to meet he...

  • The Weeping and the Laughter

    Noel Barber

    In a colorful saga set against the broad sweep of history and the many figures that people it, the Korolev family flees the chaos of the Russian Revolution and settles in France, where they live and love under the shadow of a new war...

  • When Angels Fall

    Meagan McKinney

    DEVIL'S KISS It was five years since Elizabeth Alcester had laid eyes on her former stable boy Ivan Tramore . . . five years since her world had collapsed in devastating ruin around her. Now, penniless and desperate, she finds herself at the mercy o...

  • When Passion Calls

    Cassie Edwards

    BROTHERS AND RIVALS Heartbreakingly lovely, Melanie Stanton had been promised to Josh Brennan for as long as she could remember. But marriage was the last thing on her mind until Josh's long-lost twin returned to take his rightful place raising Te...

  • Ancients

    R. Karl Largent

  • Button Bright

    Michael Kurland

    WHEN BUTTON GRAMM WAS TWO YEARS OLD she went far away from the nasty place, and she lived in a nice house with her mommy and daddy, and nobody bothered her for years and years. WHEN BUTTON WAS ELEVEN she was hiding under the house when the two s...

  • Fall into Darkness

    Christopher Pike

    They said she murdered her best friend. The trial is for murder. Ann Rice is dead. Her best friend, Sharon McKay, stands accused. But there is no body. And the three witnesses to the crime only heard what happened, and did not see it. Nevertheless...

  • Funland

    Richard Laymon

  • Gilgul

    Henry W. Hocherman

    The day of a wedding--ostensibly the happiest day of a person's life--becomes for Karen Gordon, memorable for another reason when she is possessed by a hideous evil and turned into a mass of putrefying flesh...

  • Siege

    Domini Taylor

  • The Snow

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Who's next? Christina has survived her first semester away from home, overcoming more than just homesickness. She has survived the Evil. Until now. Now winter has arrived, with screaming winds and blinding snow. The cruel Shevvingtons, with who...

  • Soulcatchers

    Jan Lara

    The police are baffled by the continuing disappearances of children from coastal towns all over South Carolina, but one young woman suspects foul play that involves occult rituals and kidnappings perpetrated by a very wealthy family...

  • Thorn

    Fred Saberhagen

    Europe, 500 Years Ago Vlad Tepes, Prince of Wallachia, hunts royal prey -- a renegade Princess. Ordered to kill the woman, he tracks her across the continent -- but finding her, Dracula loses his heart. The United States, Today Undead, Vlad Tepe...

  • The Unseen

    Joseph A. Citro

    One the most rugged mountains, in the deepest woods of Vermont, they say nothing human lives… But in the darkest shadows, something huge, something feral has been waiting. Watching. Protecting the land. Guarding against intruders. Now, as it ...

  • Web of Dreams

    V.C. Andrews

    The family curse arises in the final Casteel novel from the #1 New York Times"bestselling author of Flowers in the Attic -- now a Lifetime movie series event.Leigh VanVoreen had to escape from Boston’s Farthinggale Manor. The foul secret she harb...

  • Bertie and the Seven Bodies

    Peter Lovesey

    The second entry of the Bertie, Prince of Wales mystery series, featuring future King Edward VII, Albert Edward, as an amateur sleuth solving suspicious murders in Victorian England.Bertie, Prince of Wales, is delighted to be invited by Lady Amelia, ...

  • Conan the Free Lance

    Steve Perry
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy


    Fate tosses the dice for Conan of Cimmeria, and they come up...death. Dimma, the Mist Mage, knows nothing of the muscular Cimmerian, but the vile necromancer's plans require his death. Thayla, beautiful Queen of the Pili, would rather take Conan ...

  • Avengers

    Chet Cunningham

  • The Cattle Baron

    Justin Ladd

    The widow Electra Talmage is leaving Abilene to return to her peaceful homestead near Coffeyville. Dr. Aileen Bloom agrees to accompany her there, and they're joined on the journey by Deputy Cody Fisher, who is taking a prisoner to Arkansas. When som...

  • Colorado Killers

    Jake Logan

    TEN STEPS AHEAD OF DEATH They escaped from the vengeful eye of Kevin McDonald and the seamy trap of his bordello...and tumbled right into Slocum's path. Any other time, Slocum would be mighty pleased to find himself in the company of four young be...

  • Desert Desperados

    Jon Sharpe

  • The Far Tribes

    Richard S. Wheeler



    There are many legends of great mountain men, hunters and trappers who manage to survive on their own in the harsh landscapes and forests of the West. The frontier is full of adversity, from blood-hungry natives to the vicious beasts of th...

  • Farrell's War

    Bill Reno

  • Galveston Gunman

    Bill Crider

    Bushwacking loner Lee Strate and lifting his hard-earned stake of $5000. Wounded and left for dead on a trail somewhere near Houston, Lee is saved by Jack Farmer, a free black man, who tends Lee's wounds and agrees to help recover the money. In Houst...

  • Go In and Sink!

    Douglas Reeman

    February 1943. As the balance of the war slowly shifts in Britain's favour, Lieutenant-Commander Steven Marshall brings his battle-scarred submarine into home port. Captain and crew are exhausted after fourteen months' continuous service, but...

  • Growing up Western: Recollections of a Time Gone By

    Clarus Alexander Brown

  • Kate's House

    Mary Francis Shura

    Eleven-year-old Kate and her family are in Oregon at last and Kate is having a difficult time adjusting to her new life. The dark woods are frightening, and her best friend Tildy wants to return to her mother back East. But by Christmastime, Kate'...

  • Lone Star and the Arizona Gunmen

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki round up an army to end a bloody range war in the ninety-first Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- the martial a...

  • Longarm and the Devil's Stagecoach

    Tabor Evans

  • Madoc

    Pat Winter

    ONE OF HISTORY'S GREATEST UNTOLD STORIES A.D. 1170--Embittered by the tyranny of the English monarchy, Welsh prince Madoc sailed with ships of settlers across the Western Ocean in search of a new home. Three centuries before Columbus, he landed on...

  • North Platte

    Hank Mitchum

  • Recoil

    Brian Garfield

    Years after going into hiding, a witness must run from the mob againFred Mathieson was not an ordinary witness against the mob. He was never in the organization, and didn’t testify against gangster Frank Pastor to save his own skin. Mathieson is a ...

  • Revenge in Little Texas

    Jason Manning

    Sheriff Clem Brackett faces trouble in the Nebraska cowtown known as "Little Texas" when cattle baron Tyler Kane rides into town looking for a local card hustler who made the mistake of killing Kane's brother...

  • Silver Rock

    Luke Short

    TULLY GIBBS WAS A KILLER ... A bullet sang, and Tully Gibbs hit the dirt. Tully was a killer -- trained, highly skilled, merciless. But he was pinned down, exposed to the hail of rifle fire: shots slamming past his ear, spraying the bitter dust into ...

  • Wagon Train to Hell

    J.R. Roberts

    The Sioux were at peace with the white man, thanks to Chief Running Arrow. So Clint Adams was mighty surprised to see the small wagon train under attack by the Indians. He was also surprised to hear the blast of Spencers, the most powerful firearms i...

  • Where the River Runs

    Richard S. Wheeler

  • Wildhorse Range

    Allan K. Echols

  • 27 // The Hunt

    William Diehl

    As the world trembles with the approach of World War II, a woman dies at the hands of Hitler''s henchmen. Her murder forever changes her lover, Francis Scott Keegan, a relentless anti-Nazi mercenary, who becomes locked in a desperate cat-and-mouse ga...

  • Ada, or Ardor

    Vladimir Nabokov

    Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist.  It tells a love story troubled by incest.  It is also at once a fairy ta...

  • Afterlife

    Paul Monette

    A powerful exploration of the way AIDS reshapes relationships and lives Afterlife is a haunting and unforgettable story of men facing loss and seeking love, movingly capturing the moment in the 1980s when the AIDS epidemic was completely devastati...

  • Agatha Christie Trivia

    Richard T. Ryan

  • Amazing Dinosaur Facts

    Peter Barrett

  • Amazing Space Facts

    Dinah L. Moche

  • America's Heros

    Robert Coram

  • Amy Said

    Martin Waddell

  • Angels on Toast

    Dawn Powell

    Everyone in Dawn Powell's New York satire Angels on Toast is on the make: Lou Donovan, the entrepeneur who ricochets frantically between his well-connected current wife, his disreputable ex, and his dangerously greedy mistress; Trina Kameray, th...

  • Animals in the Wild

    Joanne Ryder

  • Animals of the Night

    Merry Banks

  • Arctic Memories

    Normee Ekoomiak

  • Aurora's Motive

    Erich Hackl

    A fictionalized recreation of the tragedy of Aurora Rodriguez who--having raised her daughter to carry on her own socialist ideals and seeing her torn between politics and passion--ended the young woman's life...

  • Autographs! I Collect Them!

    Michael Frith

  • Backfire

    Christopher Newman

    In 1963, a beautiful young girl dies in the middle of an abortion on a cold table in a motel room. The cover-up is quick, quiet and -- for almost thirty years -- worth every penny. Now it's 1991. At the dawn of a presidential campaign, the old secret...

  • Barney Bear's Pizza Shop

    Lawrence Difiori

  • Baseball's Best

    Michael E. Goodman

  • Beautiful Losers

    Barbara Wersba

  • Bert and the Magic Lamp

    Michaela Muntean

  • Big Bird Gets Lost

    Patricia Thackray

  • Big Bird's New Nest

    Tom Cooke

  • Big Bird's Square Meal

    Emily Thompson

  • Biggest Dinosaurs

    Michael Berenstain

  • Bison

    Daniel Granin

  • Booker Meets the Easter Bunny

    Jim Davis

  • A Border Station

    Shane Connaughton

  • Bugs Bunny Stories

    Golden Books

  • Busy Day

    Cyndy Szekeres

  • Bye-Bye, Baby

    Janet Ahlberg

  • The Case of the Borrowed Baby

    Susan Meyers

    Fifth-grade sleuth P.J. Clover and her colleague, Stacy Jones, must find a stolen necklace and a lost doll within two days or P.J. will lose her entire T-shirt collection and Stacy's bike will be destroyed...

  • The Case of the Disappearing Dinosaur

    Laura Lee Hope

    The Bobbseys take their dog, Chief, to the lumberyard to buy materials to build a dog house. While at the yard Chief digs a hole and burys a bone. When the Bobbseys go to give the bone back, it turns up missing again....

  • The Case of the Missing Mouse

    Susan Meyer

  • The Case of the Stolen Laundry

    Susan Meyers

  • China Wind

    Dan Guenther

  • Chuck Wood and the Woodchucks in the Big Game

    Marilyn Sadler

  • Cinnabar

    Robert B. Oxnam

  • Come by Chance

    Madeleine Winch

  • The Comedians

    John L'Heureux

  • Confessions

    Diana Silber

    Four college chums go on to lives of success and personal fulfillment, but someone out there knows the private weakness that each woman harbors and is bent on terrorizing this frightened group of friends...

  • Crew Chief

    Jesse Mcleod

  • Cry Spy

    William Hood

    Alan Trosper, hero of Hood's Spy Wednesday, steps back into the world of counterespionage when his friend, Peter Gandy, is murdered. Gandy's death has all the characteristics of a Moscow Center hit, but did Moscow do it?...

  • Cry Uncle!

    Mary Jane Auch / M.J. Auch

  • Crystal Maze

    Arnold Brown

  • Dawn's Wicked Stepsister

    Ann M. Martin

    Now that Dawn and Mary Anne are friends and sisters, Dawn wants them to do everything together -- share a room, talk all night long, wear each other's clothes. But living with Mary Anne isn't exactly what Dawn expected. Mary Anne brags about havin...

  • A Day in the Country

    Liza Alexander

  • Dear Miss Mansfield

    Witi Tame Ihimaerawi

  • The Deeds of the Desperate Campers

    Judith Hollands

    Summer camp may not be the ideal breeding ground for future stars, but when the meanest girl in camp finds her teddy bear drawn and quartered, solving the crime may bring the sisters fame as junior detectives....

  • Dog, Horse, Rat

    Chris Davis

  • Don't Blame Me!

    Paul Rogers

  • Duel on the Diamond

    Tommy Hallowell

  • Economies of the Heart

    Christopher Zenowich

  • Eminent Domain

    Dan O'Brien

  • The End of Lieutenant Boruvka

    Josef Skvorecky

    In this collection of stories, Lieutenant Boruvka, a Prague cop, confronts Soviet troops and opposition from every corner as he continues to track down murder suspects in most influential positions and jeopardizes his career in doing so...

  • Ernie and Bert's Different Day

    Andrew Gutelle

  • Essays In Disguise

    Wilfrid Sheed

    The author's third collection of essays discusses literary figures such as Hemingway and Salinger, fatherhood, Ronald Reagan, television, politics, American humor, the Catholic Church, and other topics...

  • A Family Affair

    Judith Saxton

    A sweeping family saga travelling from England to China at the beginning of the 20th century. It is 1900 and Adeline Warburton and Arnold Haslington have fallen deeply in love. But though both are from wealthy families, their social status is too far...

  • Favorite Fairy Tales and Verses

    Darcy May

  • Favorite Two-Minute Stories

    Cyndy Szekeres