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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — FEBRUARY 1995

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New Books List: 465 titles


  • Jill Barklem

    When three new babies are born to Poppy Mouse, she wishes for a larger house to raise them in and is surprised by her friends--Mrs. Crustybread, Mrs. Toadflax, and Lady Woodmouse--when they convert an abandoned tree stump into the perfect home....




  • Kelvin Gobble

    A charming play set brings a classic Easter tale to life and features Peter Cottontail, his adorable kids, house, factory, and lots of Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies to hide in tiny slots in a colorful, three-dimensional scene....



  • Nan Roloff

    When twin bunnies Clarence and Clarissa Cottontail set out to win a bicycle built-for-two in the Easter bonnet contest for the Alfaville Easter Parade, they have lots of competition from other animals who are putting together fantastic creations....




  • Bettina Paterson

    Duckling does not have much luck on her Easter egg hunt, but she fills her basket with something much better, in a delightful holiday board book that features charming rhymes and colorful pictures--just right for little ones' Easter baskets....



  • Bettina Paterson

    A sturdy holiday board book, die-cut in the shape of an Easter Bunny, introduces a dressed-up bunny who gets a sweet surprise when he delivers eggs to his friends and features delightful rhymes and bright, collage-style pictures....




  • Ryan Hughes

    Companions half-elf Jedra and ex-templar Kayan search for a mentor that will help them to develop their psionic powers, and are forced to compete against one another in a fight to the death for the gladiatorial games. Original. 75,000 first printing....



  • Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    The children of heroes. A fabulous quest to retrieve the Gray stone Gem. The legend of Raistfin's daughter. Many years ago, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman told the story of how the Companions of the Lance fought to save the world from sliding int...



  • H.L. Ross

    Illustrated in full color. Once a year, when the moon is full and spring is in flower, the rabbits brush away the cobwebs and bring a bygone carnival back to life! From the opening notes of the merry-go-round calliope to a finale of firefly fireworks...



  • J.R. Black

    Frustrated fifth grader Jesse fashions a voodoo doll of his boring, overbearing teacher as a joke, but when the doll comes alive to seek revenge, he finds there are worse things than too much homework. Original....





  • May Sarton

    "At long last in early June the Gordons were expected home at Dene's Court, the house in Ireland which Violet Dene Gordon had inherited." So begins May Sarton's evocative early novel about Violet Gordon's return, after thirty years, to her childhood ...



  • Gary Paulsen

    "An incredible sled-dog race through the Alaskan wilderness??—??a stunning journey of discovery and survival.

    Fueled by a passion for running dogs, Gary Paulsen entered the Iditarod??—??the eleven-hundred-and-eight-mile sled-dog ...



  • Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

    After a chilling threat against his young son, Senator Nick Schlafer struggles with unseen enemies, probes his teenage daughter's death under suspicious circumstances, and uncovers the dark underside of Washington politics and the horror of power gon...



  • Piers Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Leave Mundania. Enter the fabulous, wonder-filled land of Xanth. Gloha is the only creature of her kind in alt the world of Xanth, the beautiful offspring of a chance mating between a harpy and a goblin. As she grew to womanhood, she wondered whe...




  • Golden Books

    Fred and Barney think they have struck it rich when they find a magical green man from the planet Zatox, but greed gets in the way, in a colorful picture book featuring seven hilarious sound effects including "Yabba-dabba-doo."...



  • Alan Durant

    Alternating whole and half pages provide plenty of surprises in a tale of Snake and his search through the forest for something good to eat, starting with a mouse and ending with his efforts to consume an elephant....





  • Victor O'Reilly

    Bringing an end to the reign of the terrorist mastermind known as Hangman, Irish ex-soldier and war photographer Hugo Fitzduane is forced to protect himself from a fierce retaliatory group on the streets of Tokyo. Reprint....



  • Clancy Carlile

    "ABSORBING...[A] FAST-MOVING PIECE OF FICTION."

    --South Bend Tribune

    On the day before his wedding, Gypsy Smith, a mixed-blood black-Cherokee gunfighter and lawman, is brutally attacked by the Ku Klux Klan, mutilated, and left for dead....




  • Jan Burke

    Death has written to Irene Kelly...personally. Tenacious and daring, newspaperwoman Irene Kelly will brave any danger to track down a good story. But this time the story is stalking her. A letter from "Thanatos" reaches Irene's desk--a cryptic ...



  • Catherine George

    A woman alone? "I didn't imagine a woman like you would have reached your age without several men in her life...." Olivia's carefully cultivated veneer of indifference was usually enough to deter admirers. But Max Hamilton seeme...



  • Charlotte Lamb

    Pride comes before a fall.... Will Nerissa's love for another man come before her husband? Nerissa is married to Ben and she has tried to love him. But, since she was a child, Nerissa has also adored her cousin, Philip. Now Philip lies in...



  • Susanne McCarthy

    His father's mistress... Lacey Tyrell's relationship with Sir Clive Parrish was entirely innocent. The only people who didn't believe that were Clive's sexy stepson, Jon, and the journalists who were after Lacey's blood... Jon Parrish was deter...



  • Betty Neels

    An offer she couldn't refuse? "I wish to marry for the wrong reason, although perhaps they are no worse than many others, I am not love with you..." Tirus Taverner was a busy and successful medical man who lacked a wife. Arabella had applied f...



  • Catherine O'Connor

    Fee was bowled over by Grant's charisma and rushed headlong into marriage. But the old saying "Marry in haste, repent at leisure" soon proved all too true. She should have known that the handsome American would have an ulterior motive for...



  • Aileen Armitage

    Jericho Farm, high in the Pennines, has been in the Hemingway family for generations. Although life on the farm was hard, the place has a rugged compulsion for those who lived and worked there. But now James Hemingway was thinking of breaking wit...



  • Elaine Cunningham

    When his mother's life is threatened by a deadly illness, a young boy and his uncle begin a search for a unicorn and its powers of healing, and learn that certain forms of magic cannot be seized, but must be earned...



  • Jake Page

    The movie in progress is based on a true episode, the story of a Native American victory over Spanish invaders. But some Indians deeply resent the movie company's filming on tribal land. Shooting has just begun when a deadly real-life scenario rapidl...



  • Alan Furst

    September 1939. As Warsaw falls to Hitler's Wehrmacht, Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited by the intelligence service of the Polish underground. His mission: to transport the national gold reserve to safety, hidden on a refugee train to Buchares...



  • Robert James Waller

    Most people don't run out the back door of a place called The Rainbow Bar in Dillon, Minnesota, with someone they don't even know, get in a pick-up truck, drive all day, and end up in a motel room. But that's exactly what Jack Carmine and Linda Lobo ...




  • Sandra Benitez

    Winner, Discover Great New Writers Award. Winner, Minnesota Book Award for Fiction. "Profound.... a quietly stunning work that leaves soft tracks in the heart."--The Washington Post BookWorld "Merits placement beside some of the mesmerizing new liter...



  • Roger MacBride Allen

    A trade summit on Corellia brings Han Solo back to the home world he left many years before. Arriving on the distant planet with Leia, their children, and Chewbacca, Han finds Corellia overrun with agents of the New Republic Intelligence and finds hi...



  • Jim Murdoch

    A novel to tie in with the computer game "Rise of the Robots", launched by Time Warner in November 1994. It is set in the world as the game and loosely reflects its "plot". On the planet of Ti Creda, in the city of Metropolis 4, the robots, led by th...



  • Joseph Bruchac

    A retelling of a Native American folktale, enhanced by colorful pastel illustrations, chronicles the adventures of four Abenaki men who journey to Gluskabe, helper of the Great Spirit, to have their wishes granted....



  • Amanda Scott

    Highland Fling is Amanda's best story yet--a lovely blend of comedy and drama, true love and true grit. In the aftermath of the Jacobite rebellion, Maggie MacDrumin and Edward Carsley, fourth Earl of Rothwell, meet. She is Scottish. He is English. Sw...



  • Marjorie Bradley Kellogg

    Follow the adventures of the four elemental dragons and their human guides in the first book of the history-spanning Dragon Quartet fantasy series."In the beginning of the World, four dragons were raised from elemental energies and set to work creati...



  • Jake McMasters

    Clay Taggart and his wild Apaches are out for revenge, and it will take more than brute strength to defeat them--but a rival chieftain learns that the face of a friend can hide the heart of an enemy. Original....



  • J.R. Roberts

    Clint Adams could never turn down a friend in trouble. So when Delores Lake's telegram came, he was on the next train to New Mexico. Delores's husband and son had been shot down in their own ranch house -- and her grandson had been snatched by cold-h...



  • Jon Sharpe

    Hunting mad-dog killers in the Lone Star state, Skye Fargo receives a warm welcome from a hot-blooded beauty, but things turn deadly cold when he is framed for murder and the law is suddenly on his trail. Original....



  • Giles Tippette

    Acclaimed western storyteller Giles Tippette brings his unique brand of justice and revenge to the Arizona territories . . .When a man of few words rides into town, his shirt soaked with blood from the bullet still lodged in his side, the people of S...



  • Max Brand

    Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. This is one of his novels....



  • Wesley Ellis

    RANGE OF FIRE A stretch of Jessie's Circle Star ranch is crawling with trigger-happy settlers hell-bent on snatching her land. Jessie has the deed. But the squatters have Pleas Barstow. And he's known for getting what he wants...victim by victim! ...



  • Tabor Evans

    A PIECE OF CAKE...OR IS IT? Longarm's got an easy enough chore: catch a train to California, pick up a prisoner, and deliver him to Denver. His crime? Mail theft. Longarm jumps at the chance. All aboard for some R&R. But Buster Hoover isn't an ...



  • Hank Edwards (1)

    Shell Harper, the foreman of Rimfire Ranch, comes up against treacherous and powerful men who will do anything to seize control of valuable land as he attempts to preserve the ranch for the daughter of his benefactor and former mentor, Sam Gunnison. ...



  • Dirk Fletcher

    As the newly elected sheriff of Clearwater, Texas, Spur McCoy, in his quest to restore peace and order, must go up against ruthless cattle baron Doak Galloway, whose reign of terror is about to come to a deadly end, while succumbing to the charms of ...



  • Rebecca Baldwin

    After pretending that she and an old friend "William Starret" were engaged, Miss Sally Blythe was finally getting the attention that she deserved from the high and aloof Alex Quartermaine. Sally never realized that her simple scheme to get noticed wo...



  • Elizabeth Bevarly

    NATALIE BRANNON'S RECIPE FOR "HONEYMOON ON THE ROCKS" TAKE: One husband, usually aboard ship somewhere. ADD: One miniscule apartment--with a "sea view" that is only visible from atop the kitchen counter, but which comes fully equipped wit...



  • Claire Bocardo

    When Ivy Darling's third husband decamps with a bimbo, moving in with her long-widowed friend Flo Hunnicutt seems like a perfect plan. Ivy and Flo have been helping each other out of jams since high school even though they're as different as ...



  • Debra Falcon

    A MAN'S TOUCH. He is a man of mystery -- a man of many faces. Few know his true identity, none know his true desire. He will deceive you even as he sweeps you into a world where danger and irresistible passion meet... MIDNIGHT'S LADY. B...



  • Annee Cartier

    HE'S NOTHING A SEA DEMON SHOULD BE.... The Moonstormer! No two words can fill Golden Gaverly's heart with more hatred -- or terror. But none of the island legends of her youth have prepared her for this kind of a monster, who gives her chills o...



  • Jane Bonander

    SHE FLED FROM THE PAST TO A LITTLE WESTERN TOWN WHERE ANYTHING WAS POSSIBLE. EVEN LOVE. Susannah never meant to journey so far from Missouri, but she and her three-year-old son Corey wouldn't be safe until she found just the right place. Angel's V...



  • Emily Carmichael

    Olivia Baron scandalized the prissy matrons and knockabout cowboys of rugged Elkhorn, Montana, by practicing medicine. She knew how to be a good doctor. But she didn't know how to be a woman until she met Gabe Danaher. A tough, handsome miner, Gabe h...



  • Lydia Browne
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    Uncork a magical love potion -- and indulge in a taste of paradise... The thrill of sudden attraction...the heady bliss of falling...the ecstasy of surrender... Could one small bottle hold the timeless mysteries of love? Is Cupid's elixir trul...



  • Jeanne Carmichael

    SHE WAS BOTH FEARLESS AND FOOLHARDY -- A DANGEROUS COMBINATION! Verity Parnel was all that her name implied: truthful and just. And climbing into windows in the dark of night and robbing the men who had destroyed her father was a very truthful a...



  • Jean R. Ewing

    MARRY IN HASTE Virtuous Cornwall lass Helena Tretbaerin was desperate. Her fiance was dead and her father's recent demise had left her utterly penniless. Her only prospect was an offer from the odious new owner of HER family mansion -- a dista...



  • Nadine Crenshaw

    THE PLUNDER Young Princess Aasa trembled as the magnificent Viking warrior drew near. Olaf, the dreaded Norse King's golden-haired son, had come to claim her -- not for himself, but to warm his widowed father's bed. Yet as their eyes met, A...



  • Katherine Compton

    ENCHANTED Collin MacLaine won Luxley Manor fair and square in a card game, and he has arrived to take over the isolated estate where he plans to immerse himself in his writing. But he is not prepared for the enchanting beauty he finds dancing on th...



  • Christina Cordaire

    Refusing to get close to anyone except the nine-year-old neighbor boy she fiercely protects, Lady Sarah finds suspicion and intrigue in a blue-eyed stranger who saves her young charge from a near-fatal accident. Original....



  • Elaine Crawford
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    Uncork a magical love potion -- and indulge in a taste of paradise... The thrill of sudden attraction...the heady bliss of falling...the ecstasy of surrender...Could one small bottle hold the timeless mysteries of love? Is Cupid's elixir truly...



  • Kathleen Drymon

    The wagon train carries her west along the Oregon Trail...and toward her future. But Danielle Hansen isn't ready to settle down with the farmer she has reluctantly agreed to marry. She fears the loss of her freedom, and the surrender of her body and ...



  • Tanya Anne Crosby

    At her calculating brother's request, Dominique agrees to wed the Dragon Earl of Drakewood to end a family feud. But the Earl, who has secretly taken a vow of celibacy, tries to pair Dominique with his twin brother, Blaec. And, as Dominique's...



  • Kathleen Eagle

    Young lovers from starkly different lives and worlds, Clara and Ben Pipestone came together in passion and in tenderness. But their marriage could not endure deception -- or the betrayals of a tormented, searching soul. And now, though time and pain ...



  • Laura Lee Guhrke

    AN UNCONVENTIONAL WOMAN Beautiful widow Mara Elliot had little time for shining promises -- or impractical dreamers. If she couldn't save her small London factory, she would lose the chance of security she'd worked so hard to gain. But fro...



  • Shannon Drake

    NO PLACE FOR A LADY A dark family secret and a dangerous destiny hold Ann McCastle to the unforgiving western frontier. A beautiful and tempestuous saloon keeper, she has dreams of vengeance to keep her strong -- until Ian McShane rides into town...



  • Jo Ann Ferguson

    TO SEIZE THE NIGHT Beautiful Lady Audra Travers knew she dared the impossible. As the only surviving member of her powerful family, she fought to hold her vast manor lands against ruthless warlords and roving bands of brigands. But from the moonli...



  • Terri Herrington

    Carny Sullivan, suspicious about suave, handsome Logan Brisco and his charming ways, is drawn to him, despite her best intentions and her determination to expose his plans for her quiet Texas town. Original....



  • Robin Gideon

    A RUGGED RANCHER. A BEAUTIFUL WARRIOR. SWEPT UP IN A WORLD OF PERILOUS ADVENTURE AND THRILLING PASSION.. . Luke Prentice stared in stunned disbelief at the young woman standing before him. When the wealthy rancher sent for the best tracker money...



  • Elisabeth Fairchild

    Fateful Attraction It was lovely young Miss Margaret Dornton's first London season. That was why she knew nothing of the fearful reputation of the dark and handsome Evelyn Dade until it was terribly too late. To be seen in this notorious gent...



  • Sandra Heath

    The Infamous Earl "The Earl of Ennismount is the most despicable man in Britain." Beautiful widowed Lady Camilla Summerton meant every savage word of that 'scathing statement. She knew Dominic, the Earl of Ennismount, all too well. Dur...



  • Carole Howey

    Paris Delaney was out to make his fortune, and he figured cattle ranching was as good a way as any. But the former Texas Ranger hadn't even set foot in Chance, Wyoming, before his partner became smitten with the local schoolmarm. Determined to di...



  • Anne Hamilton

    Betrothed to the highly eligible Earl of Greystone, a man she secretly fears, Lady Angelica Winsford yearns for the exotic gypsy, Gitano, a secretive man who had shown her the true meaning of passion and stolen her heart during one magical night. ...



  • Aileen Humphrey
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    Uncork a magical love potion--and indulge in a taste of paradise... The thrill of sudden attraction...the heady bliss of falling...the ecstasy of surrender...Could one small bottle hold the timeless mysteries of love? Is Cupid's elixir truly magic...



  • Eileen Hehl

    Julia Maxwell is just beginning to relax into widowhood and looking forward to her long-awaited trip to Greece. The last thing she needs is a strange man marching into her garden, pushing a wheelbarrow with a sundial in it! -- But when she learns t...



  • Kasey Michaels

    IN A SOCIETY WHERE INTRIGUE WAS A DANGEROUS GAME THEIR PASSION WAS A WILD CARD LORD CHRISTIAN ST. CLAIR: Tall, eloquent, he was the ton's most prized bachelor--and a fraud. His elegant manners hid hip alter ego as the mysterious Peacock, champion ...



  • Ana Leigh

    THE DREAM THAT NEVER DIED Laura Randolph knows she's met her soul mate the moment she gazes into the sapphire blue eyes of Zachary Houston. For both, it is a miracle of perfect love... until Laura learns that her beloved Zach, father of her unborn...



  • Pam McCutcheon

    A Futuristic Romance set among the Apollo worshipping people on the planet of Delphi. She is the Golden Python, the most accomplished oracle on her planet. Yet Thena cannot foretell the danger one Terran man brings to her world--or the storm of desir...



  • Mickee Madden

    HE'S A SPIRIT... 1843. Lachlan Baird brings his bride to the house he'd built especially for her. But the honeymoon is cut short when Lachlan is murdered. He's been haunting the place ever since... SHE'S THE REAL THING... 1994. After years ...



  • Evelyn Richardson

    Lady Luck All London was abuzz about a gambler who seemed to have the devil's own luck in besting the best gamesters in town. None suspected that it was skill, not luck that took trick after trick, just as no one dreamed that this cool-headed ...



  • Constance O'Day-Flannery

    Three Sisters... The Sullivan sisters seem to have it all. They all grew up beautiful and their every dream came true--Allie's "Donna Reed" perfect marriage; Ginny's wealth and success; and Nancy's exciting life on the fast track of an advertising c...



  • Kate Moore

    LADY WITH A PAST Susannah Bowen was disgraced during a disastrous first Season--and has posed as a widow ever since to prevent further entanglements. Now she has been offered a home and independence -- if the shamed miss can steer her troublesome co...



  • Adrienne Ellis Reeves

    Deciding to finally live her own life after the deaths of her husband and mother, Emily Brooks undertakes a business venture that introduces her to author David Walker, a man who makes her realize that it is not too late to start over. Original....



  • Rebecca Paisley
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    Uncork a magical love potion--and indulge in a taste of paradise... The thrill of sudden attraction...the heady bliss of falling...the ecstasy of surrender...Could one small bottle hold the timeless mysteries of love? Is Cupid's elixir truly magic...



  • Connie Rinehold

    "NO RESPECTABLE MAN WILL HAVE YOU," HER MOTHER SAID. Rachel Parrish knew better. While growing up in her mother's house of ill repute, she'd learned that anything could be bought . . . even the kind of life that most people take for granted. Deter...



  • Jo-Ann Power

    AN UNDYING DREAM Odyssey House was the old Georgetown mansion that Washington reporter Stephanie Douglass had inherited --- along with its ghosts. Shadowy images seemed to glide through the gardens; the scent of flowers permeated her sleep. And a wa...



  • Mildred E. Riley

    From the dusty plains of Oklahoma to the silver hills of Colorado...from Massachusetts to the wide open spaces of Texas, acclaimed author Mildred Riley weaves a sprawling tale of passion and peril in a wild west romance where love can be the most thr...



  • Lee Scofield

    THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL Jennifer had worked very hard to put the scandal of her once privileged and pampered life in Philadelphia behind her. Yet when she settled as the schoolteacher in a quiet Kansas town, she never dreamed that a veritable str...



  • Olivia Sumner

    Before setting sail for Englan, Miss Jane Sterlin, the new owner of Lyon Hall, envisioned stone towers, a grand sweep of lawn, and servants in livery. Instead, she finds a crumbling manse, waist-high weeds, and a crotchety butler. However, Lyon Hall ...



  • Meryl Sawyer

    EVEN IN THE DARKNESS OF THE MOONLIT NIGHT HE SAW THE PASSION BLAZING IN HER GREEN EYES.... His kiss was hot and powerful, a primal act of male domination. She hated him, hated herself for responding to Mitch Durant, the man who stole her heart wit...



  • Evelyn Rogers

    A WOMAN OF SECRETS Haunted by memories of the terrible night that left her innocence shattered, Raven Chadwick prefers the world of make-believe to the cruel realities of everyday life. So she leaves her girlhood home of Savannah to pursue a stage c...



  • Katherine Sutcliffe

    Clayton Hawthorne looked exactly like his twin brother Trev. It should be simple, therefore, for the two to carry out their scheme to find a wife for Trey. Clayton, a notoriously dashing rogue, will travel to the misty Isle of Wight to captivate the ...



  • Rebecca Sinclair

    Stealing several valuable bonds in an attempt to escape a dangerous Denver tycoon, Hannah Clairborn is thwarted--and intrigued--by private investigator Clint Murdock, a hardened man who has difficulty resolving his job and his feelings for his quarry...



  • Joan Smith

    LADY CAROLINE ATTRACTED TROUBLE LIKE MOTHS TO A FLAME! Her romantic antics provided society with a good many minor scandals--which didn't stop the incomparable Caro from catching the eye of Lord Dolmain, a dashing widower. But as was custom...



  • Winifred Witton

    LOVE BY THE BOOK... After her papa's death left her nearly penniless, Celeste Moreau packed her portmanteau and sailed away from France. Once in Britain, she would heed the advice of her favorite novel and snare a duke (not a baronet, for they...



  • Jane Toombs

    A SWEEPING LOVE STORY OF TWO SISTERS...AND TWO DANGEROUS AND IRRESISTIBLE MEN. Rosalind...When her Michigan-bound steamboat is captured by Rebel soldiers, the eighteen-year-old orphan is intrigued by a black-bearded stranger who treats her gently....



  • Beverly Hastings

    Hoping to forget her husband's gruesome death, Vicky Hunter moves with her three-year-old son, Ben, to a remote beach house where they are hounded by anonymous calls and strange incidents until Ben is suddenly kidnapped. Reissue....



  • Michael Palmer

    Toby is eight years old. He's had an operation. Routine. It went fine. Now he's gone home. To terror. Months have passed. But Tbby still bursts-into tortured screams. Because something is very wrong. Tbby can remember every moment of the operation...



  • D.A. Hodgman

    Creating a special police unit to counteract a sudden rise in the local crime rate, Miami Chief of Police John Kearn masterminds a series of successful stakeouts, until the leader of the Shotgun Gang plots to get revenge. Original....



  • Don Pendleton

    A series of terrorist attacks between Lima and Berlin is revealed to be the result of a deadly plot, and the Stony Man team prepares a retaliatory three-pronged attack in the hopes of identifying the plot's source. Original....



  • Don Pendleton

    THE WILD HUNT An assassin known as the Huntsman is plying his lethal skills across the globe. Mack Bolan has taken down the killer--twice--only to have him resurface in another part of the world. Arms deals, counterfeit currency and the eerie,...



  • Jo Gibson

    BE MINE...AND DIE It's Valentine's Day at Hamilton High. Everyone's excited about this year's big dance, especially the six girls competing to be Queen of Hearts. One Student at Hamilton High is paying extra close attention to the contest. Be...



  • John Tigges

    Even a brute monster with incredible strength has a weakness, and Sasquatch discovers his at the hands of a beauty who cannot conquer his monumental strength, but is able to tame the savage beast within. Original....



  • Nancy Springer

    Going through a messy mid-life crisis, forty-year-old wife and mother Larque Harootunian gets carried away with her latest doppelganger--herself at age ten--who helps transform her into a young, strong, courageous, and gay man. Reprint....



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  • Esther Friesner

    STEAL FROM THE REAL Carl Sherwood had always dreamed of being a swashbuckling hero. Alas, buckling that old swash is not so easy when the word "computer geek" could have been coined just for you. And what's the use of being the sharpest AI softwar...



  • P.N. Elrod

    His first love. His only love. His undying love... When he died, Jonathan Barrett was buried. But it was not his fate to stay in the freshly turned earth--the legacy of a new vampire bloodline pulled him from that early grave. Is his strange desti...



  • Rose Estes

    Desperately searching for their stolen babies in the long-forgotten world beneath the streets of Chicago, Katherine Sinclair and her mysterious, nonhuman companion, Crystal, are drawn into the war between the Under Dwellers and the human race. Origin...



  • Steve Perry

    Abandoning his life on Earth after his lover is murdered, Venture Silk starts over on New Earth with Zia, a beautiful spy who is hunted by enemy agents for the secret she holds--the key to eternal life. Original....



  • Robert Weinberg

    Journeying to Las Vegas on a quest for his master, Merlin the Magician, Jack Collins seeks out Old Man in the Mountain, a demon force that plans to unleash a deadly biological plague and can only be countered with advanced mathematics. Original....



  • Judith Tarr

    Estarion, the embittered heir to the Endros empire, grieves over the murder of his father while journeying to the Golden Palace of Asanion, where conspirators wait to kill Estarion before he can claim the throne. Reprint....



  • Harry Harrison

    Caught during a failed robbery, Slippery Jim diGriz cuts a deal--to journey to a prison planet filled with homicidal maniacs to recover a lost alien artifact--that puts his freedom and his life on the line...



  • Robin Wayne Bailey

    Two brothers, hailed as saviors by the people of Palenoc, become separated in the land of menacing black unicorns and shimmering dragons and must reunite against the evil sorceress, Heart of Darkness, before their world is destroyed. Original....



  • Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

    Third book in the MERI trilogy. The events set in motion in THE MERI and TAMINY come to an explosive climax in the high mountain aerie of the Hildwild. Their Chieftain, Catahn has brought Taminy here to keep her safe, but is there any place safe for ...



  • Joel Rosenberg

    All Jason Cullinane - swordsman, baron, and son of the Warrior, Karl Cullinina - knew was that he had to find and stop his friend Mikyn. Mikyn, who had been his childhood playmate; Mikyn who knew all too well the cruelties of slavery; Mikyn, who had ...



  • Deborah Wheeler

    Venturing into dangerous territory against orders, Kardith and her missing friend's brother Terricel, set off to find Avi, leaving Laureal City in turmoil after an assassination and uncovering a secret beyond their wildest imaginings. Original....



  • Steve White

    Lt. Robert Sarnac thought the space academy had prepared him for anything. . . .A quick dazzling smile and Artorius was gone, riding along the lines and acknowledging cheers. Sarnac was left gaping after him, with barely enough time to settle back in...



  • J. Robert King

    "Wait! I've got a plan!" Rengie and Tholes have a scheme to get rich quick... . Little do they know they'll have to journey to the ice cap, ride cranky horses, joust warriors, fight frost giants, bargain with witches, use chickens to defeat dra...



  • Mike Resnick

    Authorized by the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, twenty-six original, ingenious tales by masterful storytellers are set in every age and feature a confrontation with Fu Manchu and Moriarty and a commission for a vampire, among others. Original....



  • Linda Anderson

    Dangerous Dreaming A child of the West Virginia mountains, Lilibet Springer dreamed of being more than a coal miners daughter. She would go to law school and carve a better future for her family and the land that had nurtured her. There was no place...



  • Audra Adams

    ONE STEAMY SUMMER NIGHT It was all Michael and Johanna had ever had. Before he broke her heart. Before she eloped with his brother. But the memory of those stolen passionate moments still tortures them both. TWO PEOPLE WHO CAN'T FORGET Now J...



  • Trisha Alexander

    The locket found clutched in her hand years before was the only clue Grace Gregory had to her past. But that alone had led her to a family of great wealth and power -- and to a man who, despite his unconcealed suspicion, made her long for far more th...



  • Carolyn Andrews

    WHO IS SUNNY CALDWELL? AND WHY DID SHE FIRE THE NANNY? Sunny Caldwell is a determined-to-succeed woman who owns a grocery-shopping service. She has two rules: 1. Business first. Personal life second. 2. Never get involved with a client. S...



  • Connie Bennett

    Was her ex-fiance a killer? Years ago, archaeologist Holly McGinnis had exposed Logan Tate as ruthless and unscrupulous. Now her own career depended on the very man she'd tried to ruin. Logan's dazzling smile bespoke forgiveness, and hi...



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    The only 'date' hunky bachelors Nicholas, Tristan and Alec have on New Year's Eve is consoling one another! Determined to find the woman of their fantasies by Valentine's Day, they each run a very special personal ad... Cocky Tristan Talbot knows...



  • Elizabeth Bevarly

    SINGLE MOM Olivia Venner liked exciting, reckless men. So why did wholesome Daniel McGuane suddenly look so yummy? A post-pregnancy hormone surge was the only explanation for her powerful attraction to Mr. Nice Guy. She would simply avoid Daniel u...



  • Patt Bucheister

    She made him burn hotter than a city in flames... He was brash, brilliant, and too damn sure of himself, but Brett Southern knew the worst: filmmaker Sam Horne was no gentleman! Determined to use her historic plantation for his documentary, he cha...



  • Kylie Brant

    UNDER SUSPICION Five minutes after meeting her new partner, Madeline Casey had to concede that Detective Cruz Martinez was the epitome of the perfect man. With his rock-hard body and killer smile, he could charm the ice off an igloo. But was the p...



  • Laurey Bright

    BROKEN VOWS To their friends, family and neighbors, Celine and Max Archer had a perfect marriage. Only the Archers knew they'd never been in love, and that nights of passion were few and far between. Still, both thought the other happy with the dr...



  • Bethany Campbell

    SOME FOLKS SAID IT WOULD NEVER BE THE SAME There was a new doctor in town, and he just wasn't their sort. Though Dr. Purdy said Sonny Dekker was the best, the man was a troublemaker. He was messing with the football team, risking boys' futures. An...



  • Debra Carroll

    DO YOU HAVE A SECRET FANTASY? Celebrity author and recluse Emma Jordan does. She's collaborating on a screenplay of her bestselling erotic thriller with talented, sexy-as-sin Sam Cooper. The last thing in the world Emma wants is any kind of involv...



  • Jo Anne Cassity

    A world of romance, pageantry, and adventure... comes to life in The Harmony Sentinel, in a weekly tale that keeps the whole town awaiting the next exciting episode. For Elnora Perry, the knights and ladies of long ago spark her daydreams of finding ...



  • Kay David

    ONE RECKLESS MOMENT It was so easy to make mistakes when you were from the wrong side of the tracks and crazy in love. Tye Benedict's youthful folly had cost him dearly. Now fate had given him a second chance with Cara Howard. But this time, T...



  • Kathy Clark

    The Ultimate Cinderella Story A random act of thoughtfulness -- a stranger's kind bequest -- and Shelly Lowell zoomed from rags to riches. Suddenly, this single mother's money woes were history. She felt as though she'd stepped into th...



  • Justine Davis

    A LEGENDARY ROGUE OF THE GALAXY -- AND HIS BEAUTIFUL CAPTIVE He is Dax, the skypirate hunted to the ends of the universe by the cruel interstellar Coalition. He has survived the destruction of his planet, but he can't escape the demons haunting his ...



  • Dani Criss

    From Forever Single... Megan McAllister wanted a fresh start -- with no emotional complications. But her new neighbor Sam Armstrong was irresistible...and so were the toddlers he was raising. To Beloved Wife and Mom? Despite her best intenti...



  • Caroline Cross

    FIRST COMES MARRIAGE... To U.S. Marshal Dare Kincaid, guarding an uptight schoolmarm was as exciting as watching water boil. But when the town gossip began buzzing about Victoria Cooper's scandalous behavior with him, Dare announced he was her hus...



  • B.J. Daniels

    Would she stand by her man...or suspect him of murder? Ever since J.D. Garrison had broken her adolescent heart when he'd skipped town years ago, the radio and the supermarket tabloids had been Denver McCallahan's only link to the man who'd becom...



  • Rebecca Daniels

    The Verdict As a girl, Raeanne Martin had always defended Rafe "Wolf Boy" Rawlings's mysterious history -- and loved his wild looks. Now, as a woman and public defender, Raeanne was up against Rafe in a murder case -- and still filled with desire ...



  • Emma Darcy

    "February the fourteenth...a day made for romance..." ST. VALENTINE'S DAY is a special day for lovers all over the world. And this year it has a special significance for Caitlin Ross. This year she is sure that David Hartley will admit...



  • Carol Devine

    THE COWBOY AND THE LADY When Zach Masterson returned home to sell the family ranch, he never expected a complication like Sarah Solomon. This prim-and-proper lady was running from something and needed his help. But Zach knew to beware. Alluring th...



  • Barbara Faith

    New York cop Sam O'Shaughnessy preferred his females big, brunette and lusty. The petite blonde he found stranded was none of the above. Yet the moment prim Lisa Collier straddled his hot black Harley, Sam was bewitched. Bothered. And definitely bewi...



  • Suzanne Forster

    His famous art photographs captured women at their most emotional, their most vulnerable. But was Nick Montera really a man of such seductive power? He was accused of a crime of passion, of enticing a model to reveal her most intimate secrets -- and ...



  • Patricia Gaffney

    Anne Verlaine's four year marriage to Geoffrey, Lord D'Aubrey, was a living hell. Her only comfort was her lovely new home -- the village of Wyckerley in the heart of Devonshire. And even more irresistible was her attraction to Christian Morr...



  • Kaitlyn Gorton

    Cooper Sanford was back -- and Hope Rowan had no place to run. Looking as devilishly sexy as when he left, Hope was more attracted to Coop than she'd ever been. But she wasn't the sweet innocent he remembered. A lot had happened since Coop ha...



  • Christine Grieg

    Rachel wasn't at all amused when her high-handed playboy boss Silas Tredeger suddenly decided to find her attractive and ask her to marry him. For three years he had treated her with as much enthusiasm as an efficient piece of office furniture! Y...



  • Laurie Grant

    Damsel In Distress Ranulf of Kingsclere had always been Aldyth's hero, even in childhood. Yet what cruel twist of fate had turned the perfect Norman knight into an arrogant stranger, a man impossible to love? Aldyth of Sherborne! The one woman ...



  • Madeline Harper

    TROUBLE TIMES TWO The Trouble with Anne... Annie Valentine was too serious. Sure, Cal Markham needed the PR expert to fix his bad-boy image. The tabloid articles were getting out of hand! But Annie got so fired up when she heard about the pater...



  • Phyllis Halldorson

    A Father's Wish Clay Rutledge needed help caring for his daughter--and like a miracle, Tamara Houston appeared. And though the handsome widower believed he'd never love again, day by day Tamara won his heart. Everything seemed perfect. Clay had foun...



  • Celeste Hamilton

    THE BRIDE Practically-never-been-kissed Lainey Bates had hooked herself the sexiest man in Tennessee. And as if marrying Adam Cutler wasn't a dream enough, she was gaining an adorable son. But there was a catch... THE GROOM Single father Ada...



  • Alexis Harrington

    TIDES OF PASSSION -- ON THE SHORES OF LOVE Beautiful China Sullivan told herself she hated Jake Chastaine. They had grown up in the same Oregon seaport -- but China's sheltered childhood and Jake's wild womanizing youth were worlds apart. Even worse...



  • Morgan Hayes

    ALI VAN HORNE. A pyschic. After "watching" the brutal slaying of her husband, a police detective, she just couldn't take it anymore. So she picked up the pieces of her life and fled to a small town in upstate New York. SAM TREMAINE. A ...



  • Kate Hoffmann

    Apartment for rent One bedroom Bachelor Arms 555-1234 Come live and love in Los Angeles with the tenants of Bachelor Arms. Meet colorful neighbors you'll bump into again and again. First, meet Tru Hallihan. He and his buddies at Bachel...



  • Lisa Jackson

    A TOWN SEETHING WITH SIN AND SCANDAL The youngest daughter of the town's richest man, Cassidy Buchanan was sixteen the summer all hell broke loose in Prosperity, Oregon....the summer she fell hard for Brig McKenzie, the handsome hell-raiser from t...



  • Geeta Kingsley

    Fantasy Groom If Jason Graham wanted custody of his daughter, he needed a wife--and Sara Adams was perfect for the job. She had charmed his little girl, but hadn't even tried to charm him--which was exactly how Jason wanted it. Marriage to sweet, sh...



  • Muriel Jensen

    Little Dusty Archer... ...needed a mom. Preferably one who looked like the Sun Queen -- a beautiful, and very cool lady from his Burn Starby comic books. She'd be the perfect match for his dad, the Mission Master. Sexy Shane Archer... ...



  • Arlene James

    SWEET-TALKING COWBOY MEETS... Joan Burton was no pushover for sweet-talking cowboys. But when Griff Shaw showed up on her doorstep, injured and alone, she had to take him in. But that didn't mean she'd fall for his seductive grin...or his soul-stirr...



  • Leona Karr

    Sister, Sister Alexa Widmire's sister Mia made the fatal mistake of looking for love in the arms of a man other than her mob boss husband. Now Mia would have to pay the price ... unless Alexa helped her. Alexa agreed to pose as her sister just ...



  • Patricia Keelyn

    Maddie Adams A woman on the rebound. With a broken engagement behind her, she's come home to put her life back in order-not to complicate it. But she hasn't counted on running into Nick Ryan, her once-best friend and first lover. Nick Ryan. A ...



  • Karen Leabo

    WITHOUT A TRACE Their disappearances had haunted Detective Caroline Triece for longer than she cared to remember--young girls in trouble who had simply vanished. She'd known with chilling certainty that something was very wrong, and now she had th...



  • Victoria Leigh

    He touched her soul without laying a finger on her.... Alex Hastings was more than Mr. Tall, Dark, and Interesting, Jacqueline Sommers decided--he was all her secret dreams of England rolled into one gorgeous hunk! Romancing her with flowers, tem...



  • Judi Lind

    Someone didn't want her to get married.... Written warnings made it clear that a trip to the altar could mean death for Mary Wilder. She quit planning her fairy-tale wedding to Washington, D.C.'s most eligible bachelor--long enough for her fiance ...



  • Lorna Michaels

    THE THREAT Dear Chad, I'm waiting for you. We'll be together soon. Rose, your phantom lover THE TARGET: Tall, dark and handsome, Chad Foster is hardly aware of the effect he has on women. The popular TV station manager is recognized wherever he...



  • Rebecca Hagan Lee

    She had everything she needed for her wedding day -- except the man o fher dreams... MARY A part-Cherokee schoolteacher, she agreed to marry one of the wealthiest bankers in Cheyenne, Wyoming -- just to have a secure future. Until another man c...



  • Debbie Macomber

    HIS SUMMER BRIDE That sparkly New Year's Eve in Vegas, dignified Judge James Wilkens impulsively rescued a most seductive damsel in distress. And one unforgettable night with Summer Lawton had him vowing to meet her at the same time, the same plac...



  • Doreen Owens Malek

    INDECENT PROPOSAL Years ago Ann Talbot had been forced to leave Heath Bodine without a goodbye. Now she was back, and though Heath still had the power to make her insides quiver with longing, he had changed. Yes, he was proposing marriage. But no...



  • Susan Mallery

    To hear Glenwood's womenfolk whisper, notorious Austin Lucas was temptation incarnate. Delicious as forbidden sin, he even tempted bashful, cherubic Rebecca Chambers. But, amid countless adoring females, he'd never notice the tongue-tied do-gooder. ...



  • Ann Maxwell

    DANGER AT EVERY TURN When an exquisitely crafted, authentic imperial Faberge egg mysteriously shows up at Laurel Swann's home studio, she knows it can only be from one person--her father, who has drifted in and out of her life for as long as she c...



  • Anne McAllister

    MR. FEBRUARY The rock: Ranch foreman Robert Tanner-a man who never let any woman get close to him. The hard place: The Bar C--the Wyoming spread he was used to running like it was his own. And in between was Maggie MacLeod--the unwanted, unw...



  • Glenna McReynolds

    "If you kiss me, l swear I'll never let you go...:" When he awakened and met the gaze of a sensual, silver-eyed angel, Jackson Daniels couldn't decide whether the tropical island was his prison--or sanctuary! Sugar was fascinated by the powerful w...



  • Judith McWilliams

    A GHOST OF A CHANCE Just one good deed was all it'd take for a certain rather lazy ghost to finally get into heaven and join his fiancee. And since the nice folks at the China View Inn figured a fake ghost would be good for business, well, maybe h...



  • Vella Munn

    The forests of the Pacific Northwest are lands of mist and rain, of towering trees and salmon-choked rivers. Where forest approaches sea, there live the Tillamook and the Nisqually, two tribes other by hatred. Madsaw, war chief of the Tillamook, k...



  • Helen R. Myers

    Willa 's new neighbor was watching her. .. . Her every move, her every breath. A horror writer with a mysterious past, Zachary Denton was an irresistible enigma. He claimed he only wanted to warn her, protect her--possess her. And like a butterfly...



  • Delia Parr

    She was a prisoner... Moriah Lane has been condemned by society and sentenced to life as an outcast for a crime she didn't commit. With only her faith to sustain her, she is determined to right the wrongs that have held her captive for four years......



  • JoAnn Ross

    A white-hot story of passion, revenge and obsession. Talent would take Alexandra Lyons to Paris and into the world of haute couture-a kaleidoscope of dreams, ambitions and bold sensuality. And it would take her to Hollywood, where her star burned ...



  • Deborah Simmons

    Lord Wycliffe Had Finally Met His Match. With golden hair and eyes of springtime green, Charlotte Trowbridge was the toast of the London Season. "An incomparable goddess" her dazzled admirers proclaimed. But the earl of Wycliffe knew she ...



  • Jean Stone

    In this moving novel about the power of second chances, Jean Stone proves that it’s never too late to go after the one that got away.   For every woman, there is a first love. And for Meg, Zoe, and Alissa, that love has never been forgotten. N...



  • Peg Sutherland

    TYLER STERNE WANTED TO BE A GOOD FATHER But when his ex-wife literally dropped his teenage son on his doorstep, he found he had a lot to learn about fatherhood. Things were difficult enough. Then his unconventional mother moved in after she and he...



  • Julie Tetel

    Laurence Harris Was Ready For A Challenge And a woman in need of help was one he was happy to accept. Particularly when that woman was Cathy Davidson, whose hair carried the scent of apple blossoms and whose lips were as sweet as honeyed wine. ...



  • Patricia Thayer

    That Night in the Rockies... Colorado cowboy Lafe Colter never refused a willing female. Until the night heartsore Michelle Royer let him kiss away her tears -- and her inhibitions. Lafe had nobly sent Michelle packing. He wasn't a man who make prom...



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    The only 'date' hunky bachelors Nicholas, Tristan and Alec have on New Year's Eve is consoling one another! Determined to find the woman of their fantasies by Valentine's Day, they each run a very special personal ad... Divorced Boston lawyer Nic...



  • Mary Anne Wilson

    THE WEDDING MARCH BEGAN... ...and the bride bolted. An eleventh-hour discovery about her would-be groom sent Annie Thomas on the run. She was desperate to reach her daughter before he did, when her car was run off the road by a reluctant savior in a...



  • Brittany Young

    Chilly British nobleman Alec Devereaux seethed with desire to reclaim his ancestral estate. Warmhearted American Tess Parish longed to gain custody of her orphaned kid sister and give Jenni a daddy. Via one sly document, both could achieve their dre...



  • Peggy Webb

    "Ready to be wooed, wildcat?" Helen Sullivan made her entrance in a red dress that fit like sin -- and Brick wanted to toss his ex-wife over his shoulder and make love to her until she confessed why she'd left him. He'd come seeking revenge, but ...



  • Tiffany White
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    The only 'date' hunky bachelors Nicholas, Tristan and Alec have on New Year's Eve is consoling one another! Determined to find the woman of their fantasies by Valentine's Day, they each run a very special personal ad... Alec McCord isn't losing s...



  • Karen Toller Whittenburg

    Heaven Sent... What Sam Oliver needed was a nanny to help with his five-year-old daughter. What he didn't expect was one to step out of his trash can and into his arms...naked! And claiming to be an angel from the Guardian Angel nanny service, no...



  • Jean Wilson

    Postponing her medical studies to pursue a mysterious vision that calls her back to her Indian homeland in Colorado, Dr. Sarah Callahan draws the admiration and passions of her guide, W. T. Elliot, an ambitious legislator. Original....



  • Carolyn Zane

    Double Take Suddenly Will Spencer was seeing his children's nanny in a whole new light. She was more vibrant than he'd ever realized and more desirable than he'd ever dreamed. Had the perfect woman been right under his nose all along? Double Trou...



  • Loree Lough

    Everything Valerie held dear has been ruthlessly vanquished by the Civil War. How could the God her family loved and worshipped take away her family and home? Struggling to survive, Valerie accepts a teaching position and is slowly drawn to the to...



  • Lydia Adamson

    SIT, HEEL MURDER! Veterinarian Deirdre "Didi" Quinn Nightingale has the birthday blues. It's her day, and it's been a disaster. First she's knee-deep in mud during a "bedside" visit to a stud pig. Then she's over her head in murder when she finds ...



  • Leo Axler

    When a mysterious midnight message contradicts a coroner's report of death by dog attack, funeral director Bill Hawley struggles against his own fear of dogs to uncover a ring of illegal dog fighting with the help of a sleuthing pooch. Original....



  • Carolyn Banks

    So Texas horsewoman Robin Vaughan isn't much surprised to find herself flat on the sidewalk the first time she leaves her hotel. More surprising is the young woman who picks her up. In her black fishnet stockings, Flora looks more like a hooker than ...



  • Rick Boyer

    When Doc Adams buys a purse adorned with genuine carved ivory for his wife Mary, he unknowingly purchases a ticket into the underworld of modern-day piracy. In this case, the treasure is the precious ivory of endangered elephants and walruses, and th...