Simple Suburban Murder is the book that started it all--the debut novel of Lambda Literary Award winner Mark Richard Zubro.When a gay high school teacher starts investigating a colleague's murder, he finds beneath the calm veneer of his Midwestern su...
If the local critics were less than kind about the demise of King Claudius in the Rigby Repertory Theatre's equally earnest production of Hamlet, the flamboyantly handsome actor playing the part could hardly be faulted. For Algernon Jagat had given t...
UNDERCOVER ROMANCE Tori Burton was not the typical FBI agent. She seemed fragile and sweet, but her innocent blue eyes hid the tenacious mind and courageous spirit of a true investigator. Tori always got her man--but in the case of Adam Danaro, th...
Moonlight casts graceful shadows over the desk of the great ocean liner, Empress, as Sara Linwood witnesses the murder of her maid-and realizes the poor girl was her! What does a spirited yet terrified newspaper heiress do? Jump overboard - straight ...
THE MASTER OF DREAMS Poet laureate to the de' Medicis in Renaissance Italy, Ludovico Ariosto is a gentle man possessed of wisdom and great talent--his verses bring honor to his patron and make hot-blooded men weep for their sheer beauty. But in...
Perdita Whitney, a young Englishwoman, is catapulted into the midst of the tumultuous events surrounding the East India Company's attempt to move into Afghanistan and finds herself torn between the husband she esteems and the man she desires...
Charles Wright called his seventh collection Zone Journals to emphasize how the poems draw on time and place as their starting point. But despite the air of immediacy and informality, they are artfully composed, informed as always by Wright's profoun...
Nothing surprises Katie Stewart more than her "Personals" ad getting an overwhelming response -- and her handsome boss, sexy Ross Chandler, objecting. Claiming concern for her safety, Ross insists on screening her prospects and spying on her dates. T...
He presented a frightening challenge. Rachel Wells was young, but strong and mature beyond her years. Abandoned as a baby, brought up in foster homes, betrayed by her husband in a foolish early marriage, Rachel was used to hard knocks. So, her ...
CYANIDE APPETIZER When the Parent-Teachers Association president drops dead from a poison-laced canape, two investigating officers enlist the aid of the PTA's busy vice president, Susan Henshaw. Susan finds juggling car-pool duty and crime figh...
P.G. Wodehouse entices us into the demesne of Blandings Castle - an apparent paradise where it is eternal high summer, with jolly parties, tea on the lawn and love trysts in the rose garden. But for Clarence, ninth Earl of Emsworth, there is always s...
You can't go home again Melissa Lane knew that for a fact but she didn't have much choice in the matter when she was sent on a speaking tour to the Ohio hometown that she had left years ago and never wanted to see again. She had made a new life fo...
MY BODYGUARD Cade Garrison had been involved in two accidents in the past month, but he was convinced that was all they were. No one was trying to kill him, and he was sure hi didn't need any protection. Then he met Victoria Chase, and he quickly ...
FRONTIER BRIDE Filled with dreams of a better life, seventeen-year-old Genevieve Elliot made the perilous journey across the ocean to colonial Virginia. There, the British beauty fell passionately in love with handsome frontiersman Roarke Adair. T...
When history scholar Johanna Remington signed up for a ten-day trek with a wagon train, she envisaged immersing herself in discussions of manifest Destiny and losing herself in the glorious scenery. She never dreamed of losing her heart to sexy wagon...
Clara Batchelor is twenty-two. Her brief, doomed marriage to Archie over, she returns to live with her parents in the home of her childhood. She hopes for comfort but the devoutly Catholic household confines her and forms a dangerous glass wall of gu...
Was her world about to change? Holly's fiance, Morris Crawley, was the sweetest, most generous man on earth, she thought. An older, successful entrepreneur, he adored his refreshing bride-to-be, and even intended to give her the house of her d...
From the instant Kate Reynolds encountered flamboyant Andreas Pateras, she knew he was a practiced charmer--a skill he'd honed by romancing an endless string of summer tourists. But this wasn't tourist season, and being helplessly stranded on a Greek...
They needed more than love to make a marriage Wary of men since her tumultuous love affair with Luis, Carina did not relish the idea of returning to Portugal, in need of her estranged husband's help to find her younger sister. They had part...
All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty.From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko) in Poland to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops--i...
Although to outside eyes, her existence may seem beset by difficult circumstances, 18-year-old Hazel Woodus loves her idyllic life in the gorgeous Shropshire countryside, where she spends most of her time communing with the forest and woodland creatu...
A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY Former Olympic medalist Dan Kramer was famous not only for his downhill racing but also for his perfectionism and quick temper with the press. Journalist Laura Franklin believed that forewarned was forearmed, so she agreed to ...
SHE WAS STALKED BY THE TERROR OF A LONG-BURIED SECRET! Catalina’s beloved Mexico was a myth colored rosy of innocence and the passage of time. It had been twelve years since her father’s mysterious death had sent her and her mother fleeing to ...
She would never be the same again The Yukon had been good to Betsy Archer. Born and raised in Dawson City, she now ran a busy Klondike-style saloon. Her life was fun and full--she had no complaints. Then her world came crashing down the day she...
Francesca Nordonio, a beautiful heiress, and Josephine Lapoiret, the sensuous servant's daughter, become close friends and pursue love in Europe's elite social circles, until their individual ambitions threaten to tear them apart...
Burke works the darkest sides of the meanest city streets. Now those streets are even more shadowed by a Ghost Van snuffing teenage prostitutes. To stop it, pimps have given Burke a war chest stuffed with dirty money, and help in the fabulous form of...
Maggie and Ira Moran have been married for twenty-eight years -- and it shows: in their quarrels, in their routines, in their ability to tolerate with affection each other’s eccentricities. Maggie, a kooky, lovable meddler and an irrepressible opti...
Maximiliana Bartha,Max to her lovers, Mom to her son, Miliana to her friends) believes that it is in the cards for her to die a violent death. And she assumes that most probably her husband, Dominic Racatelli, from whom she fled six years ago,taking...
SHE WAS CAUGHT IN THE TIDES OF WAR AND PASSION "Alison," Miles whispered huskily. "I'm going to make you love me..." And as he claimed her lips, she melted into his arms, and to a wild passion that merged with his... Alison ...
Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and madness, the heartless sweep of history and a family ro...
Follows the British adventurer Robert Swan and two other explorers on an exciting and dangerous 900-mile trek to the South Pole, following in the footsteps of Swan's chidhood hero, Robert Falcon Scott, who made the journey exactly seventy-four years ...
Can Murder Be Witnessed Over The Phone? This question leads to a game of cat and mouse between one man, trapped by the homicidal implications of an impetuous act, and a most unlikely detective--shy, grandmotherly Evelyn Wade, who lives a thousand ...
A searing drama of passions and power plays within the walls of Hollywood's superstar hospital. CRITICAL CONDITIONS Dr. Hamilton Dodd, Bel Air General's top-ranking obstetrician, is far from optimistic about the prognosis for two of his celebrity...
SHE DARED TO GIVE HER HEART TO A DANGEROUS AND FORBIDDEN PASSION A STRANGER'S LOVE Rachel tried to avert her gaze as the stranger's brazen blue eyes raked her body from head to toe. Yet her innocence compelled her to steal another look-...
A wealthy lord has the price of a young beauty's hand -- but can he buy the key to her heart? THE BRAZEN BARON Beautiful young Lady Davinia Fitzhugh, the belle of the London aristocracy, found Lord Strachan, the Baron of Strangewood, quite ...
When her scientist husband is invited to offend the Lake Champlain Physics Institute, Sabina Swift, a Washington private detective, and her young apprentice, Vic Newman, find themselves in the middle of a brutal murder...
SWEET DREAMS OR DARKEST OBLIVION -- WHAT AWAITS? Years ago innocent little Allison had walked the woods of Mountain Oaks. Something savage, brutal, had happened there. She knew it. It haunted her. Why couldn’t she remember? Now married and pr...
A brilliant sixteen-year-old oddball, having trouble adjusting to his conventional high school, clashes with an emotionally disturbed teacher and comes upon some important truths about life and his place in it....
What begins as a hurried rescue mission for the G.I. Joe Team turns into a deadly game with Serpentor making the rules. Turning against his own side, the traitorous COBRA warrior has hatched a plot to oust COBRA Commander, destroy COBRA Island, and h...
Two centuries after the Boston Tea Party, harbor dumping is still a favorite local sport, only this time it's major corporations piping toxic wastes into the water. Environmentalist and professional pain in the ass Sangamon Taylor is Boston's modern-...
Andrea Darnell didn't want to fall for Joe Underwood, the handsome newcomer to Neptune, Nebraska. For one thing, her ex-husband hadn't left her with a very good impression of men. For another, Joe had lost his own children, and she was afraid her mai...
Oliver just wants to spread the word about wildlife conservation, but his plans go awry when the local prairie dog habitat is threatenedOliver Dibbs is passionate about animals, and he’s willing to do anything to help a good cause. The only pro...
His arrogance was insufferable Eden had never before met anyone as rude as Sterne Parnell. His reaction to her brother's wish to marry his ward was positively violent. How could he believe that gentle, enamored Thomas was after money? Obvio...
Sammy couldn't renege on a promise to her children Sammy Woods joined the Littleton, Colorado, chapter of QUIT. But with Jim Carter in the program, a very nervous Sammy found it harder than ever to stop smoking. Jim was an old flame who still mad...
Jordana - beautiful and brilliant. And brave enough to try what no woman had ever done - beat the best in the privileged and glitter-filled world of Grand Prix racing. Jordana had all she needed: the beauty, body, and bank account to catapult her int...
A lovesick lord and a love-shy lady -- 'twas a case of cross-purposes indeed! "YOU'VE PUT THE WEDDING OFF THREE TIMES ALREADY. IT's NOW -- OR NEVER." When Lord Belami posed this dilemma to his lovely fiancee, Miss Deirdre Gower, that lady was tr...
JUST A NEIGHBORLY WELCOME Felicia Tibbens didn't care that a drug bust was going on around her as she arrived at the Rocky Gulch airport to star their new job. However, she did feel a glimmer of concern when one of the posse insisted on patting he...
Set in the sixties and early seventies, this novel follows Sophie Spivack from her first sexual awakening in Hudson Heights, New Jersey, to her exploits with her best friend Melanie in Acapulco, California, and points in-between...
A love for all time Catherine Sternwood's Nantucket home was a quiet retreat from her busy life. The lovely old house breathed the serenity of its two hundred years, and, she quickly discovered, something more... Catherine was sharing the premise...
Take a look at a dark, deadly future where the game is hunting and the result is killing, human to human, with status, money, power, and sex as the prizes. The operation runs underground and Frank Blackwell is a new recruit who is destined to change ...
THE DEVIL'S DOMAIN Some people called the West God's Country--but they weren't talking about the Staked Plains of New Mexico. The only thing this vast sweep of barren land was good for was to die in, and its Comanche lords and outlaw gangs made th...
The Poems
Shakespeare’s greatest achievement in nondramatic verse was his collection of 154 magnificent sonnets that portray a tumultuous world of love, rivalry, and conflict among a poet, an aristocratic young man, a rival poet, and a myste...
Motherhood evokes a woman's most powerful and intimate feelings: a child is part of his mother in ways that friends, even husbands, cannot rival. In this extraordinary novel, Allie Yates, a gifted artist, lives with her gentle husband, Sam, on their ...
AS DIFFERENT AS NIGHT AND DAY... Wealthy Cara Herrington met blue-collar New York cop Mark Sabatini when she was attacked in Central Park. In that very first moment, she knew there was something special about this man. So what if she had money? M...
Voden, son of Borr Skullcracker and Vestla Ravenhair, had wandered far through countless realms in search of that Destiny foretold for him before his birth. Now he must return to the land of his father, to face one last terrible challenge of bloody a...
After having a close encounter with death, Iris loses the impetus for living until her first lover, her fiance from twenty years before, arrives dying of an incurable disease and holds her to an old promise to take him in...
The radiation-crazed bikers and mutant wildlife are more than enough to keep Martin Stone and his loyal pit bull busy as they search for Stone's missing sister April. But now, Stone's been targeted by an even deadlier enemy--Scalzanni, a psychotic Ma...
A heroine of the women's movement, George Sand lived an independent existence in Paris from 1831. Vivid and perceptive, this text gives her impressions of her early years in the city and of her ill-fated trip to Italy in 1833-4 with Alfred de Musset....
Akar Kessel, a weak-willed apprentice mage sets in motion events leading to the rediscovery of the magical device, the crystal shard. But is it merely an inanimate device . . . or is it capable of directing the defeat of Ten-Tbwns? Or have the bar...
Portrays the search for a remedy to the despair caused by political repression and the struggle against a historical precedent that destroys free will in a story set in Argentina during Peron's first years...
A bold beauty in no-man's land. A swindlers' lechery and greed drove luscious Treasure Ryan out of Tennessee in search of a new life with her kin down in Natchez. Only getting there meant a perilous trek down the wild and lawless trail they called...
The rat race wasn't for her Spirited Kara Tiernan had finally gotten away from it all--permanently. Secure in her Hawaiian paradise, she led a tranquil, idyllic life. That is, until Adam Lassiter, a dedicated, hardworking San Francisco police capt...
She had to find the murderer -- before he found her On the morning after the annual Christmas bash, Shelby Corbin woke up in the executive suite of Westbrook's department store. Beside her was Westbrook's co-owner, Dutch Vanleer. He was dressed in...
ARISTOCRATIC SEDUCER Headstrong and rebellious, beautiful Stephanie Wakefield would never give in to Cole's demands, She had her own plans for her future, and he didn't play a part in them. But the wealthy, sophisticated rake, with his dark hypnotic ...
Who was that masked man...? His trade was creating heroes, but comic book writer Mitch Dempsey had never seen himself as one. But something about Hester Wallace, the shy single mom who moved in upstairs, made him long to protect, honor and love her...
Les Roberts, the award winning Private Eye Writer, continues the series of mysteries in this adventure set in Hollywood, from the boardrooms of network television to the netherworld of dimly-lit bars. Screen actor Saxon, moonlighting as a detective, ...
He was a very giving man Persis Whitley, lifelong wanderer, had arrived in Missouri to save her great-aunt Cassie's farm from bankruptcy. She would stay until Cassie's future was secure. And the neighboring farm owner, irresistible Hugo MacAlliste...
Judy Monroe rode into Apache country with a dream of lost gold. The Gunsmith didn't have to go after her -- dead men can't spend gold or love women. But there he was, tracking her across the desert and into the Chiricahua Mountains. Maybe it was Judy...
She was much more than his secretary Theirs seemed the perfect boss-secretary relationship. He was all hard-nosed business; she was efficient and anticipated his every need. But the roles Max and Clea played so well in the office underwent a ra...
Tells the stories of a shepherd girl who wakes up to find herself in a dead world, a boy who discovers his shadow has a life of its own, a girl who goes back in time to save a new friend, an arcade game that turns out to be a battle between life and ...
Thanks to his wife''s money, Adam Marsh-Gibbon leads a charmed life writing poetry and novels celebrated mostly by his fellow residents in the town of Up Callow in Shropshire, England. His lovely wife Cassandra caters to his every whim, although perh...
In the turbulent years following Reconstruction, a Southern Belle was expected to be dutiful, delicate and demure. Spirited Camille Tranter was none of these. She could out-ride and out-shoot most every man in Greenville County... until she met darkl...
''The sweetness of her glance - or rather, my evil star already in its ascendant and drawing me to my ruin - did not allow me to hesitate for a moment''So begins the story of Manon Lescaut, a tale of passion and betrayal, of delinquency and misallian...
Demure Desiree Chandler knows she should avoid the reckless rake Chase Deveraux, but aboard the clipper Enchantress, it becomes harder and harder for Desiree to resist Chase's charm. She had been sold into marriage to repay her cousin's debts, but...
Being an American in ian wasn't something twelve-year-old Brandon Rogers liked to advertise. His father had left his Indian heritage behind when he went to college and Brandon had grown up in suburbia-just a regular kid. Who neededembarrassing mum...
THE SHELL SEEKERS is a novel of connection: of one family, and of the passions and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations. THE SHELL SEEKERS is filled with real people--mothers and daughters, husbands and lovers--inspired wi...
There was definitely a naked man asleep in Cassidy Cole's bathtub! With his ruggedly handsome face and "kissin' lips," Sagan Jones was a single woman's dream, and how could she resist a smoothtalking vagabond with roving hands who promised he'd stay ...
Featuring insightful, revealing interviews with many great literary minds, this anthology makes an incomparable collection of literary gossip, theory, and advice for anyone seeking to explore the literary landscape....
"Even while Randall was speaking, it was Pietro I saw, the tenderness in his dark eyes looking at me, the caress in his soft voice. In Randall's voice there was not a shred of emotion; nor was there any in his expression. How should I respond? Wha...
This is Kate's diary, the fiction of her life, scribbled at dawn in her garden shed. Strong yet helpless, full of laughter in the teeth of despair, she spares herself nothing as she charts the shifting, incandescent landscape of her imagination....
No life of her own ... Enid Rollins can hardly wait for her grandmother to come live with her and her mother. But when she arrives, Enid is dismayed that the kind, sprightly woman she remembered is now burdensome and demanding. Because Enid's ...
Birds of a feather... Ginny Lu Culpepper had such high hopes for her life in Sweet Valley. But after just one day of being ridiculed by her new classmates, she's beginning to wish she was back home in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. When Elizabeth...
The gift of tongues, prophecy exorcism. . . what might such concepts mean in a complacent backwater of North London? For Richard Bowen, adolescence becomes a nightmare when his parents join the charismatic movement and find a devil in his brother.Win...
HIS MASTERFUL TOUCH Lovely, innocent Talleha had every reason to be suspicious of all men. Two outlaws had killed her ma, and then a leering rancher had kidnapped her. But when the half-Indian princess first gazed upon virile Victor Maurier by the l...
When a young schoolteacher whose testimony put a man behind bars for assault in once again threatened, Detective Gary Reissing and Lieutenant Norah Mulcahaney must determine if the same man, now freed from prison, is responsible...
SHE HELPED HIM SEE HIS OPTIONS Tripp Wetherby's publishers deemed it essential for their award-winning author to participate in a cross-country treasure hunt promoting his latest mystery. Press coverage, autographings, big prizes--and total pa...
THAT SEASON IN LONDON... The handsome Viscount of St. Ryne had returned from a jaunt abroad to find every bachelor in the ton at sixes and sevens. All sought the hand of the lustrous Helene Monweithe, yet romantic pursuit was futile. Indeed, Helen...
Their forbidden passion blossomed in the wilderness: SHE'D SLAP HIS HANDSOME FACE When she fled Wyoming to escape her lecherous boss, golden-haired Silver Dupres was sure she'd be safe disguised as a boy on an expedition to chart the Colo...
Were Dutch doctors always so arrogant? First of all, Marc van Borsale insisted on driving Claribel home in his Rolls as she waited for the bus one day - then promptly delivered a lecture on how young women should not accept lifts from strangers. ...
Jimmy Novak is excited about spring vacation. He and his club, the "Rough, Tough, and Terrible" Thonkers, are planning to turn the Novaks' garage into a clubhouse for the whole week. But everything changes when Jimmy's cousin David comes to stay afte...
An assassin's bullet ended the veteran magician's act... And brought stunning Channing Stuart, a skilled amateur with four generations of magicians behind her, center stage. The object: to reclaim a piece of film stolen from the State Department. U...
A lost city and Inca treasure! It was an exciting, ambitious project organized around a theory of her explorer father's. Rylla was thrilled to be the expedition's official photographer. Then, at the last minute, illness forced Rylla...
WHAT WAS NAZISM DOING IN AMERICA IN THE 1980s? A LOT. Jack-booted stormtroopers. Mobs howling for racial purity. And on the podium, a man ranting and raving and holding his followers spellbound as swastika flags waved above them. Out of what he...
He had stripped her of all her defenses Vashti Hollis had always been in total control of her life--smoothly climbing the New Zealand corporate ladder by completely ignoring her emotional needs. Her mask of confidence was suddenly torn away, ho...
When aristocrat Amazon Penny Wanawake deputizes for her mother at a super de luxe hotel planning conference on Costas Kyriakou's private Aegean island, she expects boredom and backbiting. And perhaps a brief flirtation with her old friend Theo. But n...
Two male lovers, a legendary movie goddess, an estate caretaker, a repressed prep-school teacher, and a polyestered Beverly Hills agent mount an incredible scam in Paul Monette''s witty and wicked novel. Beth Carroll, a wealthy old lady cared for ...
It was obvious they had nothing in common Burt Thomson could control his fictional world, but real life was nothing to write home about. Divorced, he lived in the San Fernando Valley with his two sons, their enormous sheepdog, Wadsworth, and total...
Her new life as a prairie schoolteacher means hardship -- and love. Teaching in a one-room prairie schoolhouse in Nebraska in 1886 means more than giving lessons to 32 very different students. For 15-year-old Margaret, who has left Chicago to star...
The first Catholic priest in American history permitted to openly marry and begin a family without forfeiting his position as a priest tells the story of falling in love with Joan and their search for freedom despite the threat of excommunication...
THE TIME HAD COME Samantha Tyler never expected to see T. J. Hawkins again, but here he was--the retired football star--back in Chicago and in her restaurant. The attraction she'd felt for him as a teenager was still there, but Samantha knew bette...
How had life gotten so crazy? One day Mallory was an efficient small-town home economics teacher, comfortably dating the school principal. The next she was caught in a mad whirl--juggling two suitors; battling hitherto unknown feelings of jealo...
THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM Amidst the sweet-scented wildflowers of a ruined abbey, lovely young Glenna Chalgrove lay passionately entwined with the man who had stolen her heart. Her hair gleamed in the soft sunlight and her crimson lips parted ben...
AS ENGLAND GLOWED IN THE DAWN OF FREEDOM, A LORD AND A MAID FOUGHT FOR LOVE In a turbulent, perilous age, the mighty barons of England gathered against their liege lord…King John, debauched master of a licentious court, cursed ruler of their bel...
The grand admiral of the high seas adventure novel is Philip McCutchan, author of nearly 100 novels. Now, leading the first trade paperback edition of any of McCutchan's work, Convoy North portrays the popular Commodore John Mason Kemp battling World...
FOOL FOR LOVE When her long-lost twin appealed to innocent Sabrina Buchanan for aid in escaping an arranged marriage, the convent-bred lass was only too eager to help. But by the time she realized she'd been tricked by her sophisticated sister, the ...