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New Books List: 489 titles

  • The Book of Fours

    Nancy Holder

    "We're Slayers, girlfriend. The Chosen." -- Faith From a place of nightmares -- which Buffy and Faith share -- a terrible evil invades Sunnydale, setting off disaster. Clearly, the big evil is linked to the Slayers' nightmares, which revolve arou...

  • Haunted

    Jeff Mariotte

    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends... FEAR FACTOR Cordelia's getting her first big break -- as a contestant on yet another twist on "reality programming." The catch? She has to spend five days and four nights in a so-called haunt...

  • Alternate Gettysburgs

    Berkley Publishing Group

    An anthology of twelve original short stories and four essays explores the role and implications of the Battle of Gettysburg in American history as it presents an alternate history approach to the subject in works by Harold Coyle, Doug Allyn, Jim DeF...

  • Mindquakes: Stories to Shatter Your Brain

    Neal Shusterman

    From award-winner Neal Shusterman-author of The Dark Side of Nowhere and Scorpion Shards-comes a spectacular collection of stories that are by turns terrifying, comic, darkly inventive, thought-provoking, and always just slightly off-center.
    ...

  • Money Wanders

    Eric Dezenhall

    Jonah Eastman, disgraced Presidential pollster, is summoned home to Atlantic City by his ailing grandfather Mickey Price--a legendary Atlantic City gangster and owner of the Golden Prospect casino. When Mickey dies, Jonah is "persuaded" by mob boss M...

  • Panic Room

    James Ellison

    They have no way in. You have no way out.

    When recent divorcée Meg Altman and her ten-year-old daughter, Sarah, move to New York City to start fresh, they buy the former Upper West Side home of an eccentric millionai...

  • The Treatment

    Mo Hayder

    Now a major motion picture: A boy’s abduction reawakens a haunted past for British detective Jack Caffery in this “deliciously chilling thriller” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   In a quiet residential area in London, a couple is dis...

  • Warning Signs

    Stephen White

    SOMETIMES THE WARNING SIGNS COME TOO LATE... The brutal slaying of Boulder's controversial D.A. strikes deep in the heart of everything clinical psychologist Alan Gregory holds dear: After all, Alan's wife, Lauren, worked for the dead man. When...

  • X Men: The Fall of the Mutants

    Chris Claremont

    The body count rises higher than ever as the X-Men and their allies face war on every front! X-Factor comes up against their deadliest challenge in Apocalypse. The New Mutants lose one of their own! And after the Marauders slaughter the Morlocks, the...

  • Changer of Worlds

    David Weber

    WELCOME AGAIN TO THE MANY WORLDS OF HONOR Lady Dame Honor Harrington--starship captain, admiral, Steadholder, and Duchess--has spent decades defending the Star Kingdom of Manticore. But it's a big universe, and Honor's actions affect a lot of live...

  • I Dare

    Sharon Lee; Steve Miller

    Lee and Miller's eagerly awaited conclusion to the Agent of Change sequence of their Liaden Universe series. This long-awaited culmination of the Locus best-selling Agent of Change sequence of Sharon Lee and Steve Miller's internationally acclaimed ...

  • Immortal Coil

    Jeffrey Lang

    He is perhaps the ultimate human achievement: a sentient artificial life-form -- self-aware, self-determining, possessing a mind and body far surpassing that of his makers, and imbued with the potential to evolve beyond the scope of his programming. ...

  • Local Custom

    Sharon Lee; Steve Miller

    The first of the seven books set in the Liaden Universe tells a rich and sweeping story of warring families and star-crossed lovers in a fantastic, other-world galaxy.

    "I was mesmerized, awed, and totally entertained. I am hooked by the Liad...

  • Miracle Workers

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    Need to build a subspace accelerator while under attack by a deadly local predator? Need to rescue a starship from interphase without getting trapped there yourself? Call in the Starfleet Corps of Engineers team, specifically the crack team from the ...

  • The Only Witness

    Jude Watson

    The second-to-last title in this hugely successful middle-grade series.

    After the death of his truest love, Qui-Gon is finding it hard to continue on as a Jedi knight. But when he and Obi-Wan are sent to protect awitness willing to testify aga...

  • Star Wars Tales Vol. 1

    Marvel Book Group

    Collects Star Wars Tales (1999) #1-4. Collecting the first four issues of the anthology smash sensation, Star Wars Tales contains thrilling stories featuring Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Han Solo, Emperor Palpatine, C-3PO, R2-D2, Lando Calrissian an...

  • Behind the Eyes of Dreamers and Other Short Novels

    Pamela Sargent

    In an untamed garden, a woman discovers the price of freedom Aniya is a perfect creature. Using the power of the Net, she has banished all of her painful memories, allowing herself to live in a state of perfect contentment on a far-future Earth. In o...

  • Hunting the Snark and Other Short Novels

    Michael D. Resnick

  • Immersion and Other Short Novels

    Gregory Benford

  • In Another Country

    Robert Silverberg

  • Belarus

    Lee Hogan

    It's a planet ripe for a new vision-of a glorious past that once was, and could be again. Andrei Mironenko, a powerful magnate in the Star republic, believes the pristine planet of Belarus is uninhabited and unspoiled.

    He didn't dig deep eno...

  • Blade 2: Bloodhunt

    Marv Wolfman

  • Bones of the Earth

    Michael Swanwick

    Modern technology is pitted against ancient dinosaurs in this scientific thriller James Rollins calls “Jurassic Park set amid the paradox of time travel.”   Paleontologist Richard Leyster is perfectly content in his position with the Smithso...

  • Captain Britain

    Alan Moore

  • Channeling Cleopatra

    Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

    Powerful. Beautiful. Seductive. Cleopatra had it all. And soon any woman will be able to share her secrets, her wiles, her ways with men--for a price. Genetic research has advanced to the stage of "blending," the transplantation of cellular memory fr...

  • Essential Wolverine, Volume 1

    Matt Idelson

    SC, TPB, in cello, Used-Like New, Featuring the talents of Chris Claremont, John Buscema, Peter David, Arvhie Goodwin, and John Byrne. Published in October of 2001. Softcover, 528 pages, B&W. Cover price $14.95....

  • Lion's Blood

    Steven Barnes

    In ancient times, Carthage destroyed Rome, Europe remained tribal, and the New World was colonized by Islam. Now in 1863, bordered by fierce Azteca to the south and the red men's nations of the west, Bilalistan is a vast, rich land of mosques, kraals...

  • Manifold: Origin

    Stephen Baxter

    “One of the best SF writers in the business . . . [Manifold: Origin is] filled with marvelous scientific speculations, strange events, novel concepts, and an awe-inspiring sense of the wonders of the universe.” -- Science Fiction Chronicle In ...

  • Pandora's Legions

    Christopher Anvil

    IS IT TOO LATE TO NEGOTIATE A SURRENDER? The Centran Empire was both benevolent and complacent. Benevolent, even as it overwhelmed every new inhabited planet it encountered with its military might -- but once the planet was pacified, its inhabitan...

  • Reunion

    Alan Dean Foster

    Using his enhanced empathic abilities, Flinx finesses his way into a top-secret security installation on Earth. Once there, he bamboozles a sophisticated AI program into releasing classified information about the Meliorare Society, the sect of renega...

  • Rewind

    Marilyn Kaye

    No one can identify the cause of the mysterious disease. There’s evidence that the bacteria infected human genes as much as a million years ago. Back in the prehistoric age. Back when dinosaurs roamed the land. Back when cavepeople communicated in ...

  • Shiva Option

    David Weber; Steve White

    DEFEAT WAS NOT AN OPTION! The war wasn't going well. The "Bugs" had overrun planet after planet . . . and they regarded all sentient species as convenient protein sources. Defeat was not an option. The Grand Alliance of Humans, Orions, Ophiuchi, a...

  • Snowfall

    Mitchell Smith

    Snowfall features another sharp-tongued, uncompromising heroine, Catania Olsen. She is the doctor for and spiritual guardian of a band of hunters who live at the edge of a great Wall of ice in what was once Colorado. In the country of the Trappers, b...

  • Transcension

    Damien Broderick

    Aleph is a machine mentality overseeing a future Earth largely bereft of humans, most of whom have sublimed into a virtuality.Remaining are the smug but cautious adherents of science. Amanda, still a teen at age 30, is a skilled violinist and mathema...

  • Twilight of the Mind

    Michael Ely

    In the conclusion of the trilogy based on the popular computer game, set a century after the events of Dragon Sun, civilization braces itself for a final reckoning between the fanatical Believers of Sister Miriam and the technological power o...

  • X-Men: Poptopia

    Joe Casey

    The X-Men have survived hatred, loss of life, and along the way helped save the world more than once. Still, they can never find peace as they all strive to achieve Professor Xavier's dream that man and mutant can peacefully coexist.

    A wild, new ev...

  • Absolute Zero

    Chuck Logan

    In the icy jaws of an early winter, three big-city professionals joined Phil Broker on a canoe trip across Minnesota's remotest lake. Nature's unexpected fury battered and nearly killed them. But it was Man who left one of them worse than dead . ...

  • Adam and Eve and Pinch Me

    Ruth Rendell

    Minty’s boyfriend, Jock, was killed in the disastrous train wreck at Paddington, shortly after he borrowed all her savings. Now he has come back to haunt her. Zillah lost her estranged husband, Jerry, in that same accident. She is not convinced he ...

  • The Analyst

    John Katzenbach

    Happy 53rd birthday, Doctor. Welcome to the first day of your death.When a mysterious letter bearing these threatening words is delivered to Dr. Frederick Starks, his predictable life is thrown into chaos. Suddenly, the psychoanalyst is plunged into ...

  • The Apprentice

    Lewis Libby

    The Apprentice takes place in a remote mountain inn in northernmost Japan, where a raging blizzard has brought together wayfarers who share only fear and suspicion of one another. It is the winter of 1903, the country is beset with smallpox and war i...

  • Coincidence

    David Ambrose

    A wrong number here, a case of mistaken identity there, a chance meeting with a stranger who knows your best friend. Most people dismiss such things as trivial, unimportant. Mere coincidence. Or could there be a hidden pattern in these seemingly rand...

  • Deadly Sources

    Janet Boling

    Undersheriff Mark Browning and newspaper editor Sarah Carpenter have enough on their hands trying to keep their romance a secret. They're supposed to be adversaries, not sweethearts. But when the sheriff is murdered in their Michigan resort town shor...

  • Death Rites

    Bruce Elliot

    A woman's nightmare Night after night, Michelle Ransom is trapped in a terrifying dreamworld where the faceless bodies of murdered women haunt her, drawing her ever closer to the edge of madness. Is it all in her mind...or all too real? A cop's r...

  • The Dream of the Broken Horses

    William Bayer

    One hot summer afternoon a quarter century ago, a wealthy socialite and her young lover were gunned down in a cheap motel room on the outskirts of the Midwestern city of Calista. Forensic sketch-artist David Weiss has been haunted by the notorious...

  • The Glass Palace

    Amitav Ghosh

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND LOS ANGELES TIMES“A rich, layered epic that probes the meaning of identity and homeland -- a literary territory that is as resonant now, in our g...

  • Gramercy Park

    Paula Cohen

    New York City, 1894. To Gramercy Park, bordered by elegant town houses, cloistered behind its high iron fence, comes Mario Alfieri, the world's greatest tenor. Poised for his premier at the Metropolitan Opera, the summit of society, the handsome Al...

  • I Was a Rat!...or the Scarlet Slippers

    Philip Pullman

    "I WAS A RAT!" So insists a scruffy boy named Roger. Maybe it's true. But what is he now? A terrifying monster running wild in the sewers? The Daily Scourge is sure of it. A victim of "Rodent Delusion"? The hospital nurse says yes. A lucrative fai...

  • The Ivory Coast

    Charles Fleming

    It is 1955 in Las Vegas. Sammy and Satchmo are headlining the big hotels - where the casino operators and the color bar say a black man can't buy a drink or a meal or a room. Until now. The Chicago mob man Mo Weiner is bankrolling ex-boxer Worthless ...

  • Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands

    Susan Carol McCarthy

    To this day, my family is in disagreement as to precisely when the nightmare began. For me, it was the morning Daddy and Luther discovered Marvin, beaten, shot, and dying, in the Klan's stomping grounds off Round Lake Road. My brother Ren disagrees. ...

  • A Murder of Promise

    Robert Andrews

    Two women have been found stabbed to death in a public park. Washington homicide detectives Frank Kearney and Phelps want to close the case quietly without a media circus. Impossible. Victim #3 has just turned up--like the two before her--with a fing...

  • Parts Unknown

    Lynne Heitman

    Black market airplane parts put countless lives at risk in this terrifying thriller: “The best white-knuckle ride I’ve taken in a long time” (Lee Child).   Alex Shanahan has accepted a new job with a Detroit start-up airline when the death...

  • Payback

    Melinda Metz

    Just want to get over it. She touches your fingerprints. She knows your thoughts. Yana was my best friend -- and Yana wanted me dead. I should hate her for what she tried to do. But the people who stole what she loved most -- they did the same ...

  • Raymond Chandler in the Marble Orchard

    William F. Nolan

    The year is 1936, and Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Erle Stanley Gardner have taken to solving crimes as amateur detectives. As narrated by Chandler, their latest adventure begins in East Los Angeles, with the discovery of what is apparentl...

  • The Shadow Club Rising

    Neal Shusterman

    The Shadow Club doesn't exist anymore. The group of second-best kids used to play anonymous practical jokes on their rivals, until things spiraled out of control. Now Jared and the ex-Shadow Club members are having a hard time shaking their reputatio...

  • Someone to Kill

    Kurt Corriher

  • Sweetmeat

    Luke Sutherland

    In London's Delphi Restaurant, Bohemond - black, French, obsese, lonely and a wondrously talented head chef - has drawn on mythological symbolism to begin preparing the perfect wedding meal for his boss Hermione and her womanizing fiance Paris. But w...

  • Unknown Destination

    Maya Rasker

    In the realization that my language is powerless to describe what has happened in the seven years since I first met her, I am compelled to recount the story of my wife, the beautiful Raya Mira Salomon, who disappeared on the night of August 31, 1997,...

  • Venom

    Jeffrey Ames

    COME INTO MY PARLOR To those hunting him, he is the Fiddleback--an inhuman predator with a taste for human prey and an appetite for torture. SAID THE SPIDER TO THE FLY To his victims, he is a nightmare come to life at the moment of death. His mo...

  • Violence, Nudity, Adult Content

    Vince Passaro

    Will Riordan, lawyer, husband, and father, is a modern man, and this is the story of his awakening and return to humanity -- a powerful tale of New York City and of modern faith, family, and redemption....

  • The Wheat Field

    Steve Thayer

    "I am an old man in love with a ghost. "...That's the kind of line that can really grab a reader. Steve Thayer uses it at the beginning of The Wheat Field, a novel as haunting as its opening suggests.... The old man in this time-shifting narrative...

  • Dark of the Night

    Dee Davis

    When she was only eight years old, Riley O'Brien survived the unimaginable: the deaths of her mother and sister. As a result she vowed never to desert her father, a brilliant young congressman whose star was on the rise. Now, twenty-one years later, ...

  • In the Blink of an Eye

    Julie Miller

    FROM OUT OF DARKNESS The mysterious explosion at the crime lab had cost one man his life, and had pitched Mac Taylor into perpetual darkness. Now, as the evidence mounted against the temporarily dismissed forensic expert, one person had dedicated ...

  • Out of Control

    Suzanne Brockmann

    Savannah von Hopf has no choice. To save her uncle's life, she goes in search of Ken "WildCard" Karmody, a guy she barely knew in college who is now a military operative. She must convince him to help her deliver a cache of ransom money into the hand...

  • Private Investigations

    Jean Barrett

    TALL, DARK AND...DETERMINED TO "INVESTIGATE" THE GIRL NEXT DOOR! With his slow, seductive smile, broad shoulders, and massive chest, Dallas McFarland was a threat to any woman's heart, especially plain-Jane P.I. Christy Hawke's! Except Christy's pro...

  • Secret Sanctuary

    Amanda Stevens

    THE HAVEN WITHIN... With his darkly handsome looks and edgy attitude, Officer Cullen Ryan could spark a woman's deepest fantasies. He'd never looked at brainy, virginal Dr. Elizabeth Douglas that way. But when the former town outcast strode into the...

  • True Valor

    Dee Henderson

    Air Force pararescueman Bruce "Striker" Stanton spends his life rescuing pilots downed behind enemy lines, and Grace Yates flies an F/A-18 Hornet for the Navy. On their dangerous jobs away from home, they exchanged love letters. Now a fight between S...

  • Wedding Captives

    Cassie Miles

    TIME WAS RUNNING OUT... Thea Sarazin thought she was attending her friend's wedding at a remote castle in the mountains, but when she arrived, destiny had other ideas. Her senses were on red alert when she discovered that one of the wedding guests w...

  • Lady Rogue

    Amanda McCabe

    When impoverished Alexander Kenton falls deeply in love with Georgina Beaumont, an independently wealthy artist, he learns some difficult lessons about marriage-and money... Although she is not one of the ton, independently wealthy Georgina Beaumo...

  • Miss Grantham's One True Sin

    Melynda Beth Skinner

    What happens when a lovers' masquerade becomes real? WORDS MAY DECEIVE... Marianna Grantham's status-hungry parents are bent on buying their way into Polite Society through their daughter's marriage to a peer -- any peer. When the Mar...

  • A Much Compromised Lady

    Shannon Donnelly

    WILL A NOTORIOUS RAKE BE HER KEY TO RESPECTABILITY? Glynis Chatwin has dreamed of becoming a respectable lady for as long as she can remember. Uncovering evidence of her stolen birthright is her only aim when she hides in a deserted bedchamber--bu...

  • My Lady Valiant

    Valerie King

    Can A Determined Young Lady Bring A Rake Up To Scratch? Anne Delamere is outraged. The fact that the infamous rogue, the Earl of Staverton, has broken another heart is not surprising, but the idea that he has trifled with her cousin, Cassie, is be...

  • A Perfect Mismatch

    Catherine Blair

    SHE AIMS TO BE HIS PERFECT MATCH... Celia Jordan has loved Lord Dorian Leydon for as long as she can remember -- and now that he's been jilted by a social climber, she's ready to set her sites on him in earnest. Since he's never paid the...

  • A Rake's Redemption

    Donna Simpson

    Can love reform a rogue? A GOOD DEED UNDONE? Phaedra Gillian, spinster daughter of a rural vicar, has found an unconscious gentleman by the roadside. Taught to be a good Samaritan, she takes into her home the greatest temptation of her life! Fo...

  • The Soldier's Bride

    April Kihlstrom

    A Marriage of Convenience Lisbeth Barlow has never much cared for the notion of marriage--all duty and appearances and submitting to one's husband. But when Lord Thomas Kepley arrives one morning to ask for her hand, he has none of those conventio...

  • Born for Each Other

    Darlene Gardner

    Annie Kubek is heartily sick of her mother insisting that she and Michael Reeves were born for each other. The ludicrous becomes the preposterous when Michael visits Annie's beloved rural community twenty-five years after they shared a crib.

    No w...

  • Dolphin Song

    Wilma Fasano

    Cass Chase loves her job running a dolphin show in a Los Angeles marina. Ever since she broke up with Australian Jack “Digger” Coady, her work has been her only life. Digger shared her passion for dolphins, and she can’t imagine falling in l...

  • The Dream Factory

    Janet Leigh

    When Eve Handel, one of the few women in Hollywood with the power to make or break a star, is hospitalized due to a life-threatening illness, those closest to her become concerned for their reputations, because Eve's journal full of dark secrets is m...

  • Girl From the South

    Joanna Trollope

    Gillon Stokes - red-haired, intelligent, vulnerable - comes to London to escape from the demands of her wealthy, conventional, socially superior family in Charleston, South Carolina. An art historian, she has a chance meeting with Tilly, whose long-t...

  • The Happy Room

    Catherine Palmer

    Three adult siblings are reunited when one of them is hospitalized with a life-threatening illness. As Julia and Peter face the reality of their younger sister's condition, they are also forced to face unpleasant truths about growing up as missionary...

  • Mark of the Earl

    Lois Carnell Alexander

    Delia Annette Stripling grew to girlhood as a shepherdess in the beautiful Cotswold Hills of England, knowing nothing of her true heritage or how she came to have a small nick in one ear. She was adopted by Bera and Hut Stripling, who raised her as t...

  • Our Yanks

    Margaret Mayhew

    Perfect for fans of Donna Douglas, Rosie Clarke and Katie Flynn, a heart-warming saga set during World War II from bestselling author Margaret Mayhew.READERS ARE LOVING OUR YANKS!"Omg this book was everything and more than i expected. My ideal book a...

  • Rivers of Gold

    Tracie Peterson

    HER DESPERATE HOPE HAD BEGUN TO FADE... Separated from her travel companions and presumed dead, Miranda Colton finds herself under the care of Teddy Davenport, a studious botanist from England. Though grateful for his provision, Miranda longs to f...

  • A Rose by the Door

    Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford

    Every summer visitors come to Bea Bartling's home in Ash Hollow, Nebraska, to see the historic yellow rosebush that had been a famous trail marker for wagons on their way west. And every night Bea prays she will find a special face among those at her...

  • Silent Lady

    Catherine Cookson

    The woman who presented herself at the offices of the respectable firm of London solicitors was, the receptionist decided, clearly a vagrant who had been sleeping on the streets. The clothes that hung on her frail body were filthy, and she seemed una...

  • The Tender Vine

    Kristen Heitzmann

    They hoped their return would offer the chance for a fragile love to grow... Carina DiGratia Shepard longs to leave behind the painful memories represented by the town of Crystal, Colorado, and start anew in the California vineyards of her youth. ...

  • A Trade Wind Season

    Kathleen Mix

    The idea of spending the winter working in a tropical paradise is too tantalizing for Melissa Catterly to resist. On an impulse, she accepts a job as a gourmet chef aboard a sixty-five foot sailing yacht bound for the Caribbean.

    When the boat set...

  • Warmth in Winter

    Lori Copeland; Angela Elwell Hunt

    WELCOME TO THE ISLAND OF HEAVENLY DAZE…Where Guardian Angels Keep Watch over a Community off the Coast of Maine. The guardian angels of Heavenly Daze Island really have their hands full when two of the town's quirkiest citizens, Vernie and Salt, t...

  • The Wedding Album

    Marian Wells

    Two Beloved Novels in One Special Edition! Encounter the Bittersweet Story of a Young Woman Seeking Both Hope and Love

    Historical fiction at its finest, The Wedding Album captivates both the mind and the emotions as it brings to life an important ...

  • In Good Hands

    Bill James

    Fear Grips The drug underworld after two principals in the trade are murdered, and even A.C.C. Desmond Iles is under a cloud of suspicion. Now the chief players start closing in on a fortune, while Iles, Chief Constable Mark Lane, and Detective Chief...

  • The Last Hand

    Eric Wright

    Feeling old and expendable as the soon-to-be-retired head of the Toronto PD Special Affairs Unit, Charlie Salter is handed a cold murder case that requires a certain seasoned finesse. The victim is one of the city's prominent attorneys, stabbed to de...

  • The Mummy's Ransom

    Fred W. Hunter

    CURSE OF THE MODERN WORLD In a philanthropic push to sidestep his negative image as a destroyer of Chicago's famous landmarks, real estate mogul and Chilean expatriate Louie Dolores brings an exhibit of ancient Chinchorro mummies to his huge downt...

  • Thunderbird

    Susan Slater

    CLOSE ENCOUNTER The fiery crash of a Stealth fighter on a New Mexico reservation and the disappearance of a young Navajo woman put psychologist Ben Pecos on a sinister trail leading into the world of military cover-ups, UFOs and aliens. Tribal ...

  • Fantasy Lover

    Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Dear Reader, Being trapped in a bedroom with a woman is a grand thing. Being trapped in hundreds of bedrooms over two thousand years isn't. And being cursed into a book as a loveslave for eternity can ruin even a Spartan warrior's day. As a lov...

  • Midnight Embrace

    Amanda Ashley

    ANALISA... He whispers her name, and it echoes back to him on the wings of the night. She is so young, so alive. She radiates warmth and goodness, chasing the coldness from his being, banishing the loneliness from his soul. In four centuries of prow...

  • Out of the Blue

    Katherine Deauxville

    Maryellen isn't sure whether to call the Men in Black or the men in white coats -- all she knows is that she is having an incredibly alien experience. The voice that comes out of her mouth isn't hers (she certainly wouldn't swear like tha...

  • The Shadowing

    Joan Overfield

    Evil is the first word that comes to mind when Anne Garthwicke arrives at Castle MacCairn. Duty bound to help her father appraise the holdings, she has no choice but to stay. And her trepidation deepens after meeting the laird. Proud and powerful, he...

  • When the Halo Falls

    Kathleen Kane

    It was strictly against the rules for Patience Goodfellow to fall in love with Brady Shaw, saloon wonder, ex-gunfighter, and ladies' man. But Patience knew he had a heart of gold. She should. She had been his guardian angel since he was eleven years ...

  • Murder in the Central Committee

    Manuel Vazquez Montalban

    ";Montalbán writes with authority and compassion€"a le Carré-like sorrow.";€"Publishers WeeklyThe lights go out during a meeting of the Central Committee of the Spanish Communist Party; Fernando Garrido, the general secretary, has been murdered...

  • Save The Last Dance For Me

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    SNAKE IN THE GRASS W hen presidential candidate Richard Nixon decides to make Black River Falls, Iowa, a campaign stop during the summer of 1960, the county's most powerful judge, Esme Ann Whitney, wants the town to gleam like polished silver. So...

  • Sinister Heights

    Loren D. Estleman

    Detroit PI Amos Walker steps into a lethal family feud when the beautiful widow of a powerful industrialist hires him to find her late husband’s illegitimate children Leland Stutch was building automobiles before Henry Ford ever dreamed up the Mode...

  • A Smile on the Face of the Tiger

    Loren D. Estleman

    In Estleman's latest novel, Amos Walker is back on the streets of Detroit as he investigates the mysterious death of an ageing pulp fiction writer....

  • Splintered Bones

    Carolyn Haines

    She may be a Mississippi belle, but Sarah Booth Delaney is no pampered daddy's girl. Unwed and over thirty, Sarah has her own set of problems--like coping with regular hauntings by her great-great-grandmother's nanny, a busybody of a ghost who's set ...

  • Criminal Element

    Hugh Holton

    Chicago police sergeant Joe Donegan came to the department with a plan. To him the police badge was a license to steal, a free ride, and an easy way to get whatever you want, whenever you want--without suffering the consequences. And when City Counci...

  • Don't Leave Me

    Clare Curzon

    "When Daniel Winterton's ambitious wife, Caroline, went missing from their country home, leaving her daughter with her nanny, Mike Yeadings was involved as a sergeant in the investigation. He had hopes that the case would advance his career, however ...

  • Ghost Towns

    Betsy Thornton

    When former investigator Chloe Newcombe swapped her fast-paced New York City lifestyle for the solitude of the Arizona desert, she figured she was getting herself a peaceful life. But working as a victims' advocate has taught her that even the smalle...

  • Tropical Heat

    John A. Miller

    "[Miller] draws the 1950s perfectly. . . [Tropical Heat] is a finely crafted, superbly written novel that deserves wide readership." -- Publishers Weekly, ** starred review ** When an army officer is found dead in the small Virginia town of Hopewell,...

  • Space

    Mary Pope Osborne

    It’s a new kind of adventure for Jack and Annie! Join them as they research space and find out the facts behind the fiction! ...

  • Meltdown

    James Powlik

    A DEADLY SECRET LIES BURIED BENEATH THE WORLD'S LAST FRONTIER Dr. Carol Harmon has taken her research vessel, the Phoenix; deep into one of the most forbidding places in the world, the ceaselessly shifting Arctic icescape. In one frightening momen...

  • Angel Fire

    Lisa Miscione

    The bloody murder of her mother when she was a teenager made Lydia Strong into a woman obsessed with bringing brutal killers to justice. Now thirty years old, she is a reclusive bestselling true crime writer and investigative consultant whose intuiti...

  • Bermuda Grass

    Keith Miles

    Alan Saxon is helping to design a golf course at a new hotel in Bermuda. When his daughter, Lynette, agrees to spend a week on the island with him, he envisages an idyllic holiday. He is soon disillusioned. To begin with, Lynette brings a fellow-stud...

  • The Cat Next Door

    Marian Babson

    A suspenseful tale of murder and mystery in a dysfunctional British family: “Babson is as easy to read as ever” (Kirkus Reviews).   Margot has come back to England from America to show solidarity with her extended family in the midst of a sc...

  • The Panda Puzzle

    Ron Roy

    P is for Panda. . . . There’s pandemonium in Green Lawn! The town is building a new park for a panda and her baby. But as soon as the pandas arrive, the baby is stolen! All the panda-nappers want in return is a million dollars. . . . Can Dink, Jos...

  • Secret Laundry Monster Files

    John R. Erickson

    Suspicious sounds coming from near the clothesline, leads to a midnight investigation of the ranch. Before he knows it, Hank finds himself caught up with his old friend Eddy the Rac -- and face-to-face with one of a dog’s greatest enemies: the drea...

  • Sky Blues

    Vicki Hendricks


    Desperate, lonely, and dying for a thrill, Destiny Donne is perfect prey for a risk-taking skydiver in sexy noir master Hendricks' best novel since Miami Purity.

    Destiny-Desi for short-is a large animal vet in the sticks of central Florida...

  • Whodunit?

    Norma Seely

    Fog settles in and a leisurely drive turns frightening for mystery writer Annie Kirk when the car she's in is forced off the road. She and the driver, Brendan Marshall, are unhurt, but they're also unprepared for the bizarre events that take place as...

  • Women Before the Bench

    Berkley Publishing Group

    This ingenious anthology of legal drama and suspense features all-new tories by some of the top writers in the field, featuring:
    Perri O'Shaughnessy
    Margaret Maron
    Margaret Coel
    Jonnie Jacobs
    Taffy Cannon
    Michael A. Kahn
    C...

  • Conflict of Interest

    Nancy Taylor Rosenberg

    Joanne Kuhlman is a razor-sharp Assistant District Attorney, the kind of prosecutor who shows no mercy to the guilty and gets her conviction. That changes when she finds herself in the unfamiliar position of feeling sympathy for a defendant--a young ...

  • Motion to Kill

    Joel Goldman

    MOVING TARGET Richard Sullivan was at the top of his profession, a rainmaker in a powerful Kansas City law firm--until his body washed up on the shores of a Missouri lake. Now the questions about his death, and his life, are reverberating through a f...

  • The Summons

    John Grisham

    Once Judge Atlee was a powerful figure in Clanton, Mississippi--a pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years. Now the judge is a shadow of his former self, a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling...

  • The Twentieth Wife

    Indu Sundaresan

    An enchanting historical epic of grand passion and adventure, this debut novel tells the captivating story of one of India's most controversial empresses -- a woman whose brilliance and determination trumped myriad obstacles, and whose love shaped th...

  • The Captain's Return

    Elizabeth Bailey

    In a village near Steepwood Abbey, a captain -- thought lost in the war -- returns to his home. But things are not quite what they seem.... Captain Henry Colton is stunned to find his lost love living the quiet life of a widow -- with a small dau...

  • Captive of the Harem

    Anne Herries

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  • Carpetbagger's Wife

    Deborah Hale

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  • Cash

    Linda Devlin

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  • Come Midnight

    Veronica Sattler

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  • Coming Up Roses

    Alice Duncan

    Let Me Call You Sweetheart Rose Ellen Gilhooley didn't get to be a star in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show for nothing. Bareback riding and shooting, along with some pretty sharp instincts, have taken her worlds away from the sleepy Kansas t...

  • The Crimson Brocade

    Susan K. Downs
    in

    From the day Han Shiren first learns of her arranged marriage to Shin Dewan, she dreams of the time when her betrothed will return to China and take her for his bride. Yet she fears her father's desire to see her wed to a Christian man may come to na...

  • Dearest Enemy

    Pamela Griffin
    in

    Love soars beyond castle turrets. Deep in the Black Forest of Germany a tradition begins and continues across many generations. The "dance of love" is timed to the beat of ancient customs, and hearts are drawn to its rhythms. Brigetta is surrou...

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    Janette Oke; T. Davis Bunn

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  • The Doctor's Homecoming // Wyatt

    Kate Bridges

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    Josie Litton

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    Carolyn Brown

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  • Falcon's Angel

    Judith E. French

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    Judith McCoy Miller
    in

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    Margo Maguire

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  • Just Beyond Tomorrow

    Bertrice Small

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    Isolde Martyn

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  • A Length of Silk

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman
    in

    Always the obedient daughter, Zhao Hanshi has defied her parents by accepting Christianity. Now she must leave her homeland or be forced into a godless marriage. Stowing away on a merchant ship carrying Chinese silk and other treasures, she quickly r...

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    Deborah Johns

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  • My Lady's Temptation

    Denise Hampton

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  • Noble Intentions

    Katie MacAlister

    HEAD OVER HEELS IN LOVE Noble Britton had suffered greatly at the hands of his first wife, and he refused to fall into the same trap again. This time he intended to marry a quiet, biddable woman who would not draw attention to herself or cause sca...

  • The Nuremberg Angel

    Irene Brand
    in

    Love soars beyond castle turrets. Deep in the Black Forest of Germany a tradition begins and continues across many generations. The "dance of love" is timed to the beat of ancient customs, and hearts are drawn to its rhythms. As a Hessian soldi...

  • One Man's Honor

    Lynn A. Coleman

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  • One Wild Rose

    Geri Borcz

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  • Outcast

    Kathryn Hockett

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  • A Place Called Trinity

    Delia Parr

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  • Pride and Prudence

    Malia Martin

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  • Queenmaker

    India Edghill

    The only woman in the Bible who is noted to have loved a man, Queen Michal was King David's childhood sweetheart, his first wife, and daughter of his great friend and greater enemy, King Saul. Married to and then abandoned by David at age 14, Michal ...

  • The Reluctant Reformer // A Lady in Disguise

    Lynsay Sands

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  • The Renegade's Heart

    Stobie Piel

    Melanie Ann Muessen rides through the sunburnt plains of New Mexico Territory to photograph its inhabitants in their natural surroundings. What she discovers is a village in crisis. Years before, Rafael de Aguirre became the Renegade and protected th...

  • Savage Moon

    Cassie Edwards

    Night after night she saw him in her dreams. A warrior, his body golden bronze, his hair raven black. He knew he was the one destined to make her a woman, the one who would bring her the love she'd lost so many years before. As a mere child of ten...

  • The Sheriff and the Outlaw

    Kim Comeaux / Kimberley Comeaux

    Nothing much ever happens in the peaceful East Texas town. But Billy Ray's simple, well-ordered life is forever complicated by his first arrest of a thief who turns out to be a young woman disguised as a boy. At her trial, Victoria "Tori" Nelson's...

  • So Wild a Heart

    Candace Camp

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  • Sweet Violet

    Corinne Everett

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  • Timeless Love

    Judith O'Brien

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  • When Angels Camp

    Dianne L. Christner
    in

    Love soars beyond castle turrets. Deep in the Black Forest of Germany a tradition begins and continues across many generations. The "dance of love" is timed to the beat of ancient customs, and hearts are drawn to its rhythms. Christian, a knigh...

  • Wicked

    Beth Henderson

    Working as an amateur photographer in San Francisco's sordid Barbary Coast, Lilly Renfrew stumbled upon the grisly stabbing of a prostitute. Fleeing the murder scene with the killer fast in pursuit, she crashed into a man as handsome as sin who vowed...

  • Wild and Wicked

    Lisa Jackson

    Every eye in the great hall was on Lady Apryll. In a clinging white gown, she floated through the revelers-like a wanton angel, inflaming the interest of Lord Devlynn. Brazenly he took her in his arms and promised her ecstasy. Before the night was ov...

  • Beneath the Moors and Darker Places

    Brian Lumley

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  • Coffins

    Rodman Philbrick

    Physician Davis Bentwood, making a lengthy housecall at the Coffin family mansion on the coast of Maine, finds the newborn grandson of Captain Cash Coffin, stiff and cold as a block of ice, in a cradle not ten feet from a roaring fire. Young Davis ca...

  • Dark Magic

    Stephen Gresham

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  • The Death Artist

    Dennis Etchison

    A thrilling collection of twelve stories, filled with the author's trademark terror and suspense, plunges readers into a nightmare world of the cursed and the damned where nothing is what it seems. Reprint....

  • The Lecturer's Tale

    James Hynes

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  • Rituals

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

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  • Willow

    V.C. Andrews

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  • The Case of the Murdered Muckraker

    Carola Dunn

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  • Death at Dartmoor

    Robin Paige

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    Kate Kingsbury

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  • Southampton Row

    Anne Perry

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  • The Golden Orb

    Douglas Niles
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

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  • The Jewel of Turmish

    Mel Odom
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

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  • Brothers of the Gun

    Cotton Smith

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  • Dead and Buried

    J.R. Roberts

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    Peter Brandvold

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  • The Devil's Trail

    Robert J. Conley

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  • Enemy Women

    Paulette Jiles

    For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War between the States is a plague that threatens devastation, despite the family's avowed neutrality. For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family and forces her and ...

  • Fingersmith

    Sarah Waters

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  • Gambler's Row

    Les Savage Jr.

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    Max Brand

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  • Longarm on a Witch-Hunt

    Tabor Evans

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  • Miracle at St. Anna

    James McBride

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  • Open Range

    Zane Grey

  • Pacific Polecoats

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo prowls the Pacific Northwest in a fight for a family fortune...Skye Fargo rides into a war between two rival English clans-and discovers that when you mix family feuding with power and passion, there's no such thing as too many lies, too l...

  • The Playmaker

    J.B. Cheaney

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  • Shadow Valley Rising

    Stephen Overholser

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  • Slocum's Warpath

    Jake Logan

  • Stage Trails West

    Frank Bonham

    Working on a stage trail isn't just a job for Grif Holbrook, it's in his blood. Grif's a hard-bitten but soft-hearted veteran who's worked as a troubleshooter and shotgun guard for the Butterfield line for years. These four exciting novels recount Gr...

  • Time and Chance

    Sharon Kay Penman

    It was medieval England's immortal marriage--Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II, bound by passion and ambition, certain to leave a legacy of greatness. But while lust would divide them, it was friendship--and ultimately faith--that brought bloodshed i...

  • Vengeance at Quiet Creek

    Art Isberg

    Raffe Latimer spent five long years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Each day he dreamed of the moment when he could return to his ranch in Placer City, Oklahoma, and find the men who framed him for the crime. Eager to get their hands on the...

  • Voices in the Hill

    Steve Frazee

  • Wall of Guns

    Jim O'Mara

    Carolina Steele built her ranching empire the hard way-with lies, lawyers, and outright murder. But as she takes the last steps to secure her power, a gunslinger with a grudge uncovers her dastardly plans-and prepares to shoot her empire to the groun...

  • The Years of Fear

    Fred Grove

    During the roaring twenties, the oil rich Osage Indians of Oklahoma were among the wealthiest people in the US. Every can man and no-account drifter had a plan to get their hands on some of that money....

  • Punisher, Volume 2: Army of One

    Garth Ennis

    A white skull on a field of black. In the Marvel Universe, no symbol inspires fear in the hearts of criminals like the stark calling card of the Punisher. His wife and children killed in a mob shootout, former serviceman Frank Castle wages a one-man ...

  • 101 Ways To Get Away With Anything!

    David Levithan

    I got away with it and you can too!* NEED USEFUL TIPS ON DRIVING YOUR PARENTS CRAZY? Or advice on talking to someone you like without making a total fool of yourself? How 'bout a how-to on dealing with an off-the-wall teacher? Ever needed to fake ...

  • 10th Grade

    Joseph Weisberg

    Jeremiah Reskin has big plans for tenth grade -- he wants to make some friends and he wants to take a girl’s shirt off. It’s not going too well at first, but when he meets a group of semibohemian outcasts, things start to change. Soon he’s nego...

  • Achilles

    Elizabeth Cook

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  • Ah-Choo!

    Margery Cuyler

    Follow a sneeze from the farmer to his wife--and then to all of the barnyard animals--in this humorous, original paperback that the youngest children will adore!

    What do the farmer, his wife, and the farm animals all have in common?

    AH-...