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New Books List: 478 titles


  • Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard

    Susan and Sarah wonder what's in that mysterious room in Great-great-aunt Flossie's house, but nobody knows for sure -- not even Mommy. At last they get to hunt for the missing key and find out what's in Aunt Mary's room: among other treasures, a fam...



  • Mark Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A Vast and Deadly Labyrinth... Beneath the city of Waterdeep lies a city of another sort, created by a mad wizard in ages past. Its subterranean byways are home to all manner of creatures, human and otherwise. When Artek the Knife is offered release...



  • Martin Booth

    Space station "Mir IV" is on day 171 of its mission, encircling the Earth every 89 minutes. Yet, since day 36 it has carried only one passenger, the remaining cosmonaut from a 4-man crew. It is clear that ground control has abandoned his mission and ...



  • Christina Dodd

    A LADY'S CHAMPION Only a threat to her life could have made strong-willed Lady Alisoun hire Sir David of Radcliffe to protect her castle. Although he had once been a hero and master swordsman, the good life had been a little too good to the lord, ...



  • Sharon Kendrick

    Once wasn't enough Harrison Nash was convinced he only needed to make love with Kimberley once, and she'd be out of his system for good. Kimberley Ryan knew Harrison wasn't looking for commitment--but she couldn't help loving him. ...



  • Catherine Marshall

    Christy looked at David in surprise. Something in his expression sent a shiver of excitement mixed with uncertainty through her. Could it be. . . ? Christy should be thrilled when David, the handsome minister, proposes marriage. So why do thoughts o...



  • Marcia Leonard

    With all the Brownies bringing their favorite foods to a surprise party for their troop leader, Jo Ann worries that her contribution will be too "Chinese" for the occasion, until her grandmother comes to the rescue. Original....





  • Molly Coxe

    For more than ten years, parents and educators have relied on Step into Reading books to help teach children to read. Early Step into Reading books are targeted specifically to emergent readers, emphasizing big type, m inimal text, and bold, bright i...



  • Barbara Brenner

    When Oka-san, a brown-and-gold duck, selects the Mitsui Office Park as the perfect spot for her nest, people flock from downtown Tokyo to watch the ducklings hatch. A modern-day Make Way for Ducklings, set in Japan....





  • Leslea Newman

    A young girl looks forward to Friday nights with her grandmother, Bubbe, but soon Bubbe can no longer take care of her apartment and moves in with the family, and Friday nights still remain the best nights of the week....



  • Catherine Lewis

    “Dry Fire captures the heat and streets of North Florida with admirable precision. The character of cop Abigail Fitzpatrick is a convincing mix of someone who is absolutely jaded and yet capable of utter astonishment. If Edna Buchanan has a long...




  • Tessa Krailing

    Dom does not like his new school. His classroom is old, draughty and dark, and people say it is haunted by a green hand. Dom wants to know what the green hand is, and why it keeps writing rude things on the blackboard....



  • Sue Welford

    When Sabra's mother is posted to Damos, Sabra decides to go along for the ride to get away from earth. She soon finds herself entranced by the mystery of the alien planet and by the Sea-Sirens that sing of Damo's past. But Damos is threatened by disa...



  • Cathy Maxwell

    A DEPT OF HONOR A SCANDALOUS DUTY The reckless and impoverished heiress Phadra Abbott swore that no amount of scandal would stop her from finding her spendthrift explorer father. Not even her forbiddingly handsome guardian Grant Morgan could stand in...



  • Ben Bova

    Two hundred years ago, Adela de Montgarde, the brilliant astrophysicist, conceived the centuries-long plan to forestall the death of Earth's sun, thus preserving the original genetic material of the Empire of the Hundred Worlds-and of the Emperors wh...



  • Roderick Beaton

    Ancient history, family past, present day - all collide in this intricately woven first novel about three generations of one family, set against seventy years of political turmoil in Europe. At the outbreak of World War I, renowned archaeologist L...



  • Martin H. Greenberg

    H.P. Lovecraft is one of the most influential modern horror writers. Lovecraft's fiction is a category unto itself. Eschewing the traditional werewolves, vampires, and ghosts of most horror fiction, he wrote of dread Elder Gods and cosmic, earth-s...



  • Ethan Mordden

    "We have traded tales, my buddies and I; of affairs, encounters, secrets, fears, self-promotion-of fantasies that we make real in the telling." In this, the first volume in Ethan Mordden's acclaimed trilogy on Manhattan gay life, he introduces a smal...



  • Steven Nightingale

    There are places of sure enchantment: Nevada's Great Basin - the classic Western high desert - is one of them. It's a wilderness, with good bars in little towns far out in the long quiet valleys. In one of those bars, in the town of Eureka, in the ...



  • G. Brian Karas

    Mr. Carey's neighbors are always offering him advice on how to rid his garden of the snails that eat holes in his plants. But Mr. Carey mysteriously says, "I see it in a different light." Then one night the neighbors see that the snails make gleaming...



  • Harry Kemelman

    The rabbi looks into a professor’s death, in the New York Timesâ€"bestselling series that’s “the American equivalent of the British cozy†(Booklist). Retired from his job at the synagogue in Barnard’s Crossing, Massachusetts, Rabbi Small no...



  • Michael Lassell

    Thanks to its inviting small format, appealing design, and involving selection of erotic poems, this is the perfect book for the gay gift market. It includes contributions by such authors as W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Hart Crane, Allen Ginsberg, Te...



  • Patricia Aburdene

    "Excellent and insightful. Aburdene and Naisbitt show how women are revolutionizing American society."
    U.S. REPRESENTATIVE PAT SHROEDER
    As women assume power in all facets of public and private life in the 1990s, the quality of every woman's li...



  • Gerry Pearlberg

    For Valentine's Day or any other day when the time seems right, this is the ideal gift book for the lesbian market. The focus is on the 20th-century and contemporary poet, and the contributors include Chrystos, Gertrude Stein, May Swenson, Pat Califi...



  • Lynne Graham

    P for predator, P for passionate, P for prey! These words came to mind when Bella thought of Rico da Silva. The international financier was definitely a predator -- hadn't he pounced when her defenses were down? Passionate? Their lovemaki...



  • Rosalie Ash

    Becky and Matt had married because they had no choice; or so it seemed at the time. Two years later Becky wants her freedom, but Matt has other ideas! His kisses fill her with a deep longing for his love, and Becky realizes she yearns for a marriage ...



  • Rosemary Badger

    The tenderest trap of all. Jack was the man who had ruined Kelly's business, and yet in fighting him she had come to love him. He had tried to make amends by offering her work as his cook -- OK, it wasn't exactly her usual line of business, b...





  • Camille Yarbrough

    A history of the African-American spiritual and its unique cultural significance discusses the origins of these songs in the music of slaves who used the songs as expressions of hope, fear, sorrow, and freedom. By the author of Cornrows. ...



  • Laura Whipple

    Beautiful full-color collage illustrations complement an anthology of poetry about such mythological creatures as centaurs, mermaids, and the yeti by Anne McCaffrey, John Gardner, Myra Cohn Livingston, X. J. Kennedy, and other notable writers. Reprin...



  • Sebastian Faulks

    Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford p...



  • Piers Paul Read

    The author of Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors draws from a palette of love, theft, politics, and murder to create a thrilling new novel. Set in 1991, after the fall of the Wall, and one year later in Moscow, The Patriot tells of a Russian sec...




  • Rochelle Krich

    Murder is always heinous, but when two Los Angeles women attorneys are found dead with their tongues cut out, it's downright gruesome. And for criminal defense attorney Debra Laslow the killings are even more horrifying ... because she's suspected of...



  • Allison Higa

    An entertaining toy cellular phone with sound and light effects accompanies a helpful guide that teaches young children basic telephone facts and manners, with an interactive text that tells youngsters when to call home, how to make dates with friend...



  • Jean Waricha

    In this wedding-story picture book, Barbie is the maid of honor at her cousin's wedding. Her little sister Stacie is the flower girl. In spite of careful preparations and a sunny wedding day, Stacie tears her dress by mistake just before the ceremony...



  • Donald G. Phillips

    STEFAN THE TERRORIZER An ancient evil has slumbered for centuries, passing from generation to generation, until one day a man discovers the truth of his genetic heritage--and proclaims himself Star Lord of the Inner Sphere. Disguising his army of ...



  • Paula Volsky

    In a fragile alliance, the natives are stirring uneasily under their foreign rulers. Rebellion is brewing, and at the heart of the conflict lies the bloody and powerful cult of the god Aoun, whose followers will stop at nothing to rid their land of a...



  • Sean Russell

    THE LODESTONE The secrets of the Mages had been lost with the passing of Erasmus Flattery, a man of Talent who had served the last known Mage. It seemed to be the dawn of a new era--a time of reason, science, and exploration. And Tristam Flattery,...



  • Nelson Nye

    The Lost Dutchman was the most fabled gold mine of the Old West. Since Jacob Walzer struck gold in the Superstition Mountains of southwestern Arizona, hundreds of hopefuls had risked everything to comb the deadly mountains for it -- and many never ca...



  • Jack Ballas

    Kurt Buckner reluctantly takes on the task of escorting Melanie Corbin through the dangers of the Colorado Territory, protecting her from the three men who would do anything to insure her death. Original....



  • Jason Manning

    Setting out across the harsh desert in order to forge a new path to 1837 California, daring mountain man Hugh Falconer leads his band of roughnecks and outcasts through the dangerous land against menacing odds. Original....



  • Lee Morgan

    Captain Boyd McMasters is sent in by the Cattleman's Protective Association when rancher Ben Allison is threatened by vicious rustlers who may have been hired by a powerful scoundrel from across the Rio Grande. Original....



  • Jon Sharpe

    Lured into the desolate Unitas mountains by a beautiful woman's promise of a big payoff, Skye Fargo encounters a crew of mysterious murderers and a gang of religious fanatics called the Destroying Angels. Original....



  • Dirk Fletcher

    Secret Service agent Spur McCoy is torn in three directions when the government directs him to track down bank robbers, a gang of desperados tries to murder him, and a beautiful woman demands his attentions. Original....



  • Jake Logan

    Hired by a wealthy professor and his gorgeous assistant to take part in an expedition to prove the existence of the legendary Bear Lake Monster, John Slocum begins to suspect that something is very wrong, especially when his old nemesis Haskell shows...



  • Ellen Archer

    A PAST SHE CANNOT REMEMBER... They told her that her name was Selena Vale, that she lived in a grand English manor in the scenic Maryland countryside -- and that she was the wife of a very wealthy man. But to Selena -- her memory shrouded in am...



  • John Legg

    Swearing vengeance on the men who killed his trapping partners and stole their possessions, Alex Campbell pursues a cold trail in the dangerous high plains and finds help from legendary mountain man Kit Carson. Original....



  • Mary Lynn Baxter

    A FAMILY... The Whitmore name in Austin, Texas, meant wealth, power, and ruthlessness. Run by patriarch Fletcher Whitmore, the family commanded respect--and fear. Then eldest son and senatorial candidate Phillip Whitmore was killed was shot and kill...



  • Carole Buck
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    MEET THREE WOMEN WHO HAVE SPENT YEARS UNLUCKY IN LOVE. NOT ONE OF THEM IS PREPARED FOR A PASSION OF LEGENDARY PROPORTIONS... With boyfriends ranging from a hypochondriac to a fiance who fancied himself as a kept man, spunky Southerner Cleopatra Mu...



  • Mary Balogh

    The Uncommon Commoner Miss Cora Downes was only a merchant's daughter. But when she saved a duke's son from drowning, her reward was entry into London high society. Cora had a style of beauty and mode of manners that made her a fish out of water i...



  • Karen A. Bale

    A GENTLEMAN Wild, free-spirited Rio McKinnon had known John MacGregor since childhood. Now, as her wedding to the wealthy rancher's son approached, she wondered if there was something missing from her life: Excitement. Danger. Passion... A GUNSL...



  • Deborah Camp

    Framed and shot for a murder he did not commit, Blackfoot Storm-In-His-Eyes is rescued and nursed by beautiful Tess Summar, whom he resists because of her white heritage, until he hopelessly falls in love. She is Tess Summar, who dares to defy the...



  • Marsha Canham

    THE PIRATE WOLF He was French by birth, half English by blood, and reported to be all larceny by nature. One of Queen Elizabeth's legendary sea hawks, the rogue nobleman Simon Dante nearly lost his life when his partner turned coward and betrayed ...



  • Dorothea Donley

    He was a perfect prospect...But for which young lady? Although Nelly is unquestionably plain and hopelessly practical, her parents entertain hopes of a brilliant marriage for her beautiful sister Verena. And indeed, Verena's London season is quickly...



  • Candace Camp

    Simon "Devil" Dure is as cynical about love as spirited Charity Emerson is innocent of it. But she is certain she can meet his wifely expectations, and he is charmed and amused enough to believe her. Their ensuing engagement is as shocking as...



  • Mary Chase Comstock

    Never one to give in to the vapors, spirited London beauty Marianne Gardiner regarded her scandalous predicament with accustomed aplomb. She was with child and, as the father was soon to wed another, Marianne was quite prepared to make her way alone....



  • Christina Cordaire

    Lessons of love can be the hardest to learn... FRENCH Fired for being a suffragette, she thought she'd never teach again ... until her favorite aunt and uncle got her a job in Colorado. KYLE He thought he was hiring a tough young man to t...



  • Kate Donovan

    LOVE..for Molly Sheridan, descendant of a lost race of sorcerers, dreams were a doorway into supernatural worlds...opening places in the soul she never knew existed. When she met and married seductive mythology professor Matthew Redtree, she discover...



  • Christine Dorsey

    ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A BEAUTIFUL QUEEN... ...who lived in a tiny European kingdom. But she wasn't happy. Cassandra, ruler of Breslovia, was much too young to be head of state and fur too lovely to be married off to a pompous, self-centered...



  • Emily Hendrickson

    The Best Laid Plans Lovely Lady Juliana Hamilton had bold plans indeed. She intended to follow in the footsteps of her late father, who not, only was a lord of the realm, but was also one of the finest architects in it. She would complete his grea...



  • Jo Ann Ferguson

    SHE HAD FAITH AND HOPE... At six-and-twenty, Miss Charity Stuart, daughter of Bridgeton's late minister, was on the shelf. But she believed that her pretty younger sister could still snare an aristocratic suitor--especially when the invitation a...



  • Lark Eden

    ANCIENT SECRETS...TIMELESS LOVE When Lyric Solei fled the bustling city for her summer retreat in Salem, it was a chance for the lovely young psychic to escape the pain so often associated with her special sight. She decided she'd use her free tim...



  • Peggy Hanchar

    SHE ANSWERED THE WILD CALL OF THE HIGHLANDS AND THE TRAITOROUS YEARNINGS OF HER HEART... The pawn in a game between greedy men, Lillias McGinnis had been abducted by a rival clan and made the child bride of the chieftain's rebellious son. Fina...



  • Patricia Hagan
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    Pennsylvania, 1850. With the assistance of her guardian angel, a wealthy spinster searches for the ideal husband. But she soon learns that earthly perfection is no substitute for a passion straight from paradise....



  • Suzanne Forster

    She was raised in a world of wealth and privilege. But that wasn't enough for Augusta Featherstone. It would take more than her family's trust fund to earn the freedom and respect she longed for so passionately. Her beauty could turn a man's head. He...



  • Sherrilyn Kenyon

    BORN OF FIRE Awakening from a drugged sleep in a cold cell, the princess Kiara finds herself a prisoner of the merciless marauders who threaten her father's planetary kingdom. Miraculously, a rescuer appears, but behind his fearsome mask is the hands...



  • Judith E. French

    A MOTHER'S SACRIFICE Pride, courage and a steadfast devotion to her two small children have kept Elizabeth Fleming strong throughout her years of captivity. And now a handsome stranger has appeared to free the stunning, copper-haired beauty from t...



  • Layle Giusto



  • Carla Fredd
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    ENJOY A COLLECTION OF STORIES THAT ARE IDEALLY SUITED FOR THIS SPECIAL SEASON OF HEARTS AND FLOWERS. IN ALL THREE TALES, LOVERS FIND EACH OTHER WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM CUPID. ONCE THEY DO, ROMANCE IS LIKE A BOX OF VALENTINE'S MY CHOCOLATES: SWEET; DE...



  • Lorraine Heath

    The story of one man whose quiet strength in his convictions makes an entire town believe -- and of one woman who rebuilds a shattered life and a broken heart. Of one person fighting to forget the past. And one vowing... ALWAYS TO REMEMBER Refu...



  • Carole Howey

    Hoping to maintain ownership of her horse ranch, no-nonsense beauty Missy Cannon enters a battle of wills with Flynn Muldaur, who has won half the ranch in a gambling bet and seeks to obtain the rest. Wild at Heart Missy Cannon was a woman wh...



  • Emma Jensen

    THEY COULD FOOL THE PUBLIC, BUT NOT THEIR HEARTS. . . . Lord Tarrant needed a woman. Aurelie Carollan needed a place to hide. Her advertisement and his offer seemed to ensure that both parties would get what they so desperately desired. He woul...



  • Bobby Hutchinson
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    Indiana,1889. Divine intervention helps a country doctor and a rural beauty realize that, while duty is important, life is meaningless without laughter and love....



  • Kathryn Kramer

    She is Devondra, daughter of "Gentleman James", a highwayman who steals from the wealthy to give to the poor... But now, with James captured and condemned to death, Devondra enters into a desperate bargain. To save her father from the hangman's noose...



  • Brenda Jackson
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    ENJOY A COLLECTION OF STORIES THAT ARE IDEALLY SUITED FOR THIS SPECIAL SEASON OF HEARTS AND FLOWERS. IN ALL THREE TALES, LOVERS FIND EACH OTHER WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM CUPID. ONCE THEY DO, ROMANCE IS LIKE A BOX OF VALENTINE'S MY CHOCOLATES: SWEET; DE...



  • Mandalyn Kaye

    When her dear friend Aiden, the Duke of Albrick, returns home from the Peninsular War, Lady Sarah Erridge realizes that the years apart have changed him. No longer the carefree youth she'd adored, Aiden is scarred by haunting memories of battle -- an...



  • Connie Mason

    A PIRATE'S PASSION He is Morgan Scott, an English nobleman once held captive on the high seas by the brutal Spanish master and crew who murdered his family. Now he sails the seas as a British privateer, taking his revenge by attacking and plunde...



  • Linda Madl
    in

    Colorado,1885. A rugged rancher and fiery filly have always longed for one another, but it takes a heaven-sent messenger to set them on a trail to fulfillment....



  • Fern Michaels

    IF YOU HAD JUST ONE WISH, WHAT WOULD IT BE? A brilliant career, two adoring husbands--none of it is enough to erase the memory of Ariel Hart's one true love. Back when she was plain, starry-eyed Aggie Bixby, a dark-eyed boy touched her heart . ....



  • Patricia McAllister

    THE RAVEN AND THE HAWK As proud and stubborn as the clan she springs from, as wild and unpredictable as the waters she sails, she is any man's equal on the high seas. Sworn to defend her homeland against English tyranny, she bravely confronts the ...



  • Curtiss Ann Matlock

    THE END OF THE ROAD The first moment Will Starr saw Ruby Dee D'Angelo step out of her Ford Galaxie, he knew she would have to go. Hired as a nurse for Will's ailing father, she was too young and beautiful to be stuck in the middle of nowhere with ...



  • Barbara Metzger

    BALD LIES Audrina is desperate to ensure that Lord Blanford not only notices her beautiful cousin but marries her as well. However, Max's head is beset by larger worries than matrimony--though he is curiously diverted by the antics of the flame-ha...



  • Felicia Mason
    in

    ENJOY A COLLECTION OF STORIES THAT ARE IDEALLY SUITED FOR THIS SPECIAL SEASON OF HEARTS AND FLOWERS. IN ALL THREE TALES, LOVERS FIND EACH OTHER WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM CUPID. ONCE THEY DO, ROMANCE IS LIKE A BOX OF VALENTINE'S MY CHOCOLATES: SWEET; DE...



  • Patricia Phillips

    The daughter of a nobleman and a common peasant, Rosamund believed she was doomed to marry a simple swineherd. Then a desperate ruse swept the feisty lass from her rustic English village to a faraway castle. And even as Rosamund posed as the betro...



  • Nadine Miller

    A Compromising Position Miss Emily Haliburton could not hope to match her cousin Lady Lucinda Hargrave in either beauty or social standing. Certainly she could never compete with the lovely Lucinda for the hand of the devastatingly handsome, daunt...



  • Sandra Marton

    When Manhattan businesswoman Kathryn Russell inherits Charon's Crossing, her first instinct is to sell it. A busy career woman didn't need a tropical island getaway. But destiny brings Kathryn to Charon's Crossing discovers that her new possession is...



  • Teresa Medeiros

    An enchantress from seventeenth-century Massachusetts collides with a future beyond her imagining...and with a handsome cynic who's about to learn a lesson in the power of love. AN EXQUISITE ENCHANTRESS LOST IN TIME Arian Whitewood hadn't qui...



  • Laura Parker

    Transforming Madeline Foucant, an impoverished, convent-bred beauty, into England's most famous courtesan as part of a bet, Sebastian D'Arcy, the rakish Marquis of Brecon, is drawn despite himself to his own sensuous creation. Original....



  • Emma Merritt

    NOW . . . Seeking a cure for a mysterious new virus, devoted doctor Beth Balfour travels to a far-off Scottish castle to find a remedy described in an ancient text: a delicate, silvery flower called Nightlace. It exists, to her dismay, only in the p...



  • Sue Rich

    Ten years have passed since the ruthless Boggs brothers massacred Jessalea Richardson's entire family. Now seventeen, the courageous beauty disguises herself as a boy and sets off to find the murderers and deliver her own brand of justice. Armed with...



  • Susan Elizabeth Phillips

    WEDDING DAY Pretty, flighty Daisy Devreaux can either go to jail or marry the mystery man her father has chosen for her. Arranged marriages don't happen in the modern world, so how did the irrepressible Daisy find herself in this fix? Alex Mar...



  • Rebecca Paisley
    in

    MEET THREE WOMEN WHO HAVE SPENT YEARS UNLUCKY IN LOVE. NOT ONE OF THEM IS PREPARED FOR A PASSION OF LEGENDARY PROPORTIONS... With boyfriends ranging from a hypochondriac to a fiance who fancied himself as a kept man, spunky Southerner Cleopatra Mu...



  • Paula Detmer Riggs
    in

    MEET THREE WOMEN WHO HAVE SPENT YEARS UNLUCKY IN LOVE. NOT ONE OF THEM IS PREPARED FOR A PASSION OF LEGENDARY PROPORTIONS... With boyfriends ranging from a hypochondriac to a fiance who fancied himself as a kept man, spunky Southerner Cleopatra Mu...



  • Connie Rinehold

    HE DEFIED THE BOUNDARIES OF TIME . . . He thundered out of the moonlit mist, out of her dreams, and onto the deserted English road leading to the inn she had crossed the ocean to claim. Dark and brooding astride his dappled silver steed, he watched ...



  • Jocelyn Raines

    In one unexpected turn of fate everything changed. Her Marriage. Her Future. Her Heart. Caroline Shaw had been a poor rag doll of a girl in golden Palm Beach, Florida. But her dreams were rich, formed by her wide-eyed visits to her mother's place ...



  • Jeanne Savery

    ROSES ARE RED, A LADY IS BLUE Lady Anne Montmorency is an enigma. She hides her magnificent hair beneath a dreadful cap, moves into the garret of her sister-in-law's elegant mansion, and refuses to attend a single London soiree. In fact, confirmed b...



  • Nan Ryan

    FROM LOVE TO HATE She was a blue blood. His ran dirt poor and red. That didn't matter to them. But it did to those whose devious trap destroyed their young love. FROM INNOCENCE TO ECSTASY As the Civil War raged, a different kind of war exploded ...



  • Susan Sizemore

    A LOVE FOR ALL TIME Don't fraternize with the locals. Every member of the Time Search time knew that was the cardinal rule of team travel. But when Libby Wolfe was swept back to medieval England, she met the one man who could make her ignore it. Ba...



  • Mary Lou Rich

    In the heart of Texas lives a family as big and bold as the state itself The Daltrys are as different as they come, each with his or her own strengths--and weaknesses. Every time a Daltry turns twenty years old, they are presented with a task by thei...



  • Lynda Trent

    Caught up in a case in which a child's life is at stake, beautiful attorney Kirby Garrett finds her obsession threatening her relationship with her husband, while her sister, Mallory, trapped in a loveless marriage, seeks refuge in a series of love a...



  • Katherine Sutcliffe

    Trey Hawthorne had once been the most eligible man in Northern England. A notorious rogue, the young Duke of Salterdon had a line of admirers that could stretch all the way around his magnificent estate. But after being wounded, Trey suddenly found h...



  • Bobbi Smith
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    Tennessee,1865. A Yankee soldier and a Southern belle are ready to start their own civil war--until a heavenly visitor draws up terms of surrender that will bring them anal bliss....



  • Elizabeth Neff Walker

    LOVE IN THE SHADOW OF LOSS In San Francisco's prestigious Fielding Medical Center, Dr. Roger Janek was known as a brilliant, dedicated specialist in the operating room. But in his private life, he was locked in mourning for his beautiful wife, Ker...



  • Lauren Wilde

    Georgianna Mead fled the staid respectability of 19th-century England to seek adventure in Spanish Florida, an unsavory frontier where Seminole chiefs traded with smugglers. Now, with a dangerous raid imminent, she is forced once more to take to the ...



  • Evan Hunter

    Successful psychiatrist David Chapman decides to stay in the city and work while his wife and children vacation on Martha's Vineyard. All is not tranquil in the city, however. A chance meeting with a Broadway dancer evokes his every erotic fantasy. B...



  • Max McCoy

    Fresh from a ride on a Nazi submarine, Indiana Jones is persuaded by a beautiful missionary to search for her missing father in Mongolia. Professor Angus Starbuck has discovered a dinosaur bone in the Gobi Desert. But unlike other such discoveries, t...




  • Tanith Lee

    Left homeless in the wake of a series of family tragedies, sixteen-year-old Annie Ember is shipped off to serve as a scullery maid on the exotic Smolte estate, where she is introduced to a dark, decadent, and perverse world. Reprint....



  • Connie Laux

    Working at Pine Lake Park despite their fear of the local curse of the blood moon, Kate and her best friend Al find their nightmares coming true when a young man is killed just before the arrival of the evil magician Max Kettering. Original....



  • Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

    The magic of Polia is broken, the delicate connection between its male and female elements, sundered. Blame for this and other calamities both natural and political has long been laid at the feet of the White Mothers-rare adepts who can handle both m...



  • Lynn Abbey

    Aristocratic twin siblings--Kyle, a young Hart-lord, and his sister Kiera, haunted by a dream of Rapture--set out to solve the mystery of the Siege of Shadows, a golden throne rumored to hide the mystery of life. Original....



  • Tracy Hickman

    Here's the long-awaited solo novel--the first of an imaginative interstellar trilogy--from the co-author of the New York Times bestselling Death Gate saga, Tracy Hickman.With more than ten million copies of the Death Gate novels in print, Tracy Hickm...



  • Ian Hammell

    Swept into the perilous, magical world of Kulthea, the Shadow World, by a mysterious storm that rips through their house, Brion competes with his treacherous wife, Kella, for the safe return of their missing son. Original....



  • Tom Deitz

    United by a strange shared experience in 2024, Kevin Mauney, his estranged sister Carolyn, and Thunderbird O'Conner are charged with resolving a multi-species conspiracy that has risen from the ocean's depths. Reprint....



  • Janny Wurts

    Tricked once more by his wily half-brother, Lysaer arrives at the tiny harbour town of Merior, to find that his brother’s ship yards have been meticulously destroyed and abandoned. But where is Arithon? The forces of light and shadow circle and fei...



  • Douglas Niles

    Queen Danis and farmboy-turned-knight Holton join their friends--a dwarf, a giant talking owl, and an absent-minded mage--on a quest to destroy the Crown of Vanderthan, a powerful artifact of the immortals, and save their world. Original....



  • Roby James

    The Sting was what made Ronica McBride special--that, and the years the interstellar government called the Corn had invested in teaching her how to use it. Class C talents could use the power called gathering to control their own bodies; the less com...



  • Charles Platt

    Trained to evaluate computer errors, Tom McCray serves as the Protektor to a pacifistic system that serves the entire known universe, but a band of hardcore cyberpsychos sabotage the system by turning virtual reality inside-out. Original....



  • Mercedes Lackey

    THE HOUR OF CHOOSING IS AT HAND.... In "Lammas Night" a young weaver of spells is persuaded to bide a while in a small village, to make-their village spells and keep the Dark at bay. As part of their persuasion, the villagers have given her the hous...



  • Norman Partridge

    Focusing on the world of drive-in theaters, B-movies, and steamy windows, a collection of first-run tales includes the titles "The Blood on Satan's Harley," "The Thing from Lover's Lane," and "59 Frankenstein." Original....



  • Felicity Savage

    The remaining survivors of the old order began to plan their rebellion against the god Pati - and only one person could lead this revolt - Humility Garden. She vowed to retake Salt from the Divinarch, even if it meant giving up the very thing which k...



  • Michael A. Stackpole

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