Books Published in January 1988

New Books List: 497 titles

  • Points of Light

    Linda Gray Sexton

    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 ...

  • Marine Sniper

    Charles Henderson

    The explosive true story of Sergeant Carlos Hathcock, a legendary Marine sniper in the Vietnam War.There have been many Marines. There have been many marksmen. But there has only been one Sergeant Carlos Hathcock.He stalked the Viet Cong behind enemy...

  • Zodiac

    Neal Stephenson

    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-...

  • Agent of Change

    Sharon Lee; Steve Miller

    Fleeing the scene of his latest mission, Val Con yos''Phelium finds himself saving the life of ex-mercenary Miri Robertson, a young Tarren on the run from interplanetary assassins. Thrown together by circumstances, Val Con and Miri struggle to elu...

  • Final Frontier

    Diane Carey

    This is the story of a hero--and a moment forever lost to history. It is a tale of Starfleet's early days, of a time before the STAR TREK we know. The story of a secret mission gone horribly wrong--and an instant in time when the galaxy stood pois...

  • Final Nexus

    Gene DeWeese

    Uncounted centuries ago, an unknown race from beyond our galaxy created a series of interstellar gates--shortcuts across our universe-and then disappeared, leaving behind no clues to their fate, or the operation of their system. Twice before, the Ent...

  • Surrender the Galactica!

    Glen A. Larson; Robert Thurston

  • Time for Yesterday

    A.C. Crispin

    Time in the galaxy has stopped running in its normal course. That can mean only one thing-- the Guardian of Forever is malfunctioning. To save the universe, Starfleet Command reunites three of its most legendary figures--Admiral James T. Kirk, Spock ...

  • Corpseman

    Joel Henry Sherman

  • Everybody Comes to Cosmo's

    Ron Goulart
    • / Science Fiction
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  • Exile's Gate

    C.J. Cherryh

    The fourth and final book in the epic Morgaine science fiction sagaMorgaine must meet her greatest challenge -- Gault, who is both human and alien, and also seeks control of the world and its Gate. She will meet the true Gatemaster -- a mysterious lo...

  • In Alien Flesh

    Gregory Benford

    This collection of science fiction stories by the Hugo Award-winning author includes the classic title story as well as "White Creatures," "Doing Lennon," and "To The Storming Gulf;" by the author of "Artifact," "Timescape," and "Against Infinity"...

  • The McAndrews Chronicles

    Charles Sheffield

  • The Oregon Invasion

    Jayne Tannehill

  • Prodigy

    Arthur Byron Cover

  • Punisher: Assassin's Guild

    Jo Duffy
    • / Science Fiction
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  • Replay

    Ken Grimwood

    Jeff Winston didn't know he was a replayer. Until he died. Then he woke up twenty-five years younger. And lived another life. And died again. And lived another life. Again and again and again... Maybe one of these lifetimes, he'll get it right....

  • Sideshow

    W.R. Thompson

  • Skin Deep

    David Peters

  • Strange Tomorrow

    Jean E. Karl

  • A Truce with Time

    Parke Godwin

    Pat Landry struggles with professional and romantic failure and the ghosts of members of his late family as he tries to form a relationship with Lauren Hodge, a successful woman in control of her life...

  • All That Glitters

    Manning Coles

  • The Beast on Broadway

    Michael Wolk

  • The Brass Cupcake

    John D. MacDonald

    In Flower City, a sleepy resort town on Florida's Gulf Coast, wealthy Elizabeth Stegman is murdered in a jewel heist gone bad - her missing jewels insured for £750,000.It falls to hardboiled ex-cop Cliff Bartells to find the killer, retrieve the jew...

  • California Dead

    Jerry Oster

  • The Case of the Lost Look-Alike

    Carol Farley

  • Clemmie

    John D. MacDonald

    Clemmie, one of many classic novels from crime writer John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook.   Married, straitlaced, and struggling to rise out of middle management, Cra...

  • A Dangerous Liaison

    Jocelyn Davey

    In a tale of power struggles, dark secrets, and jealousy in the world of publishing, Ambrose Usher stumbles upon a conspiracy surrounding the writing of a biography that would provide a revealing look at an unscrupulous tycoon...

  • Dead Man's Mooring

    Bill Knox

  • Dead Men Don't Give Seminars

    Dorothy Sucher

    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...

  • Deeds

    Joseph Amiel

    Thirty-six-year-old Ralph Behr is the third generation of Behrs involved in real estate development in New York. Wealthy and influential, Ralph is finalizing plans for the monumental Behr Center, a complex meant to revive Lower Manhattan's East Side,...

  • Dirty Money

    Ray Russell

  • Doctor Death

    Herb Fisher

  • The Doom Campaign

    Mary McMullen

  • Double Whammy

    Carl Hiaasen

    R.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye is fishing for a killer. Thanks to a sportsman's scam that's anything but sportsmanlike, there's a body floating in Coon Bog, Florida--and a lot that's rotten in the murky wa...

  • Downtime

    Peter Fox

  • The Gold Gamble

    Herbert Resnicow

  • Hampton Heat

    Irving Weinman

  • Happy English Child

    Ursula Zilinsky

    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...

  • Hard Rain

    Peter Abrahams

    Stephen King’s “favorite American suspense novelist†plunges a woman into secrets of the 1960s and ’70s as she races to save her daughter. Peter Abrahams (also known as Spencer Quinn, New York Timesâ€"bestselling author of the Chet and Bernie...

  • Heroes Also Die

    Michael R. Geller

  • Incident at Parga

    Nancy Livingston

  • The Locked Room

    Paul Auster

    The remarkable, acclaimed series of interconnected detective novels – from the author of 4 3 2 1:  A Novel

    The New York Review of Books has called Paul Auster''s work “one of the most distinctive niches in contemporary lite...

  • Love in the Temperate Zone

    Laurali R. Wright / L.R. Wright

  • Lover and Thief

    Arthur Maling

    After a rich Chicago widow's young lover disappears and is later found murdered, private investigator Calvin Bix is drawn into a complex web of Chicago elite, ruthless killers, and an international money-laundering scam...

  • Mortal Games

    Pierre Salinger

  • Night Soldiers

    Alan Furst

    BEFORE ARMIES CLASH, A SILENT WAR RAGES. THE WAR OF THE NIGHT SOLDIERS 1934. Europe is a short-fused powder keg, and from the East comes just the man to light it: Khristo Stoianev, a new recruit of Russia's elite intelligence corps, the NKVD. Khri...

  • Picture of Guilt

    Michael Innes

  • Playing God

    Barbara Whitehead

  • The Right to Remain Silent

    Charles Brandt

    Page-turning detective fiction from the author of I HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES / THE IRISHMAN who was himself a homicide investigator and prosecutor.Wisecracking cop Lou Razzi’s zeal, dedication and talent for extracting information from suspects make ...

  • Rogues

    Peter Whalley

  • Running Wild

    J.G. Ballard

    Yet again J. G. Ballard’s inimitable clairvoyance is on display in this timely, powerful story of a community shattered by a massive act of violence. A massacre rocks a suburban utopia -- thirty-two adults murdered, and their children missing -- in...

  • Savage State of Grace

    Donald McKenzie

  • The Secret Country

    Frank O'Neill

  • Several Deaths Later

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    The popular game show Celebrity Circle is something of a graveyard for show-biz mediocrities, so Tobin, the five-foot-five movie critic with the fiery hair and the equally fiery temper, is less than thrilled to accept a guest stint as the show films ...

  • Shadow Man

    James W. Kunetka

  • Shield for Murder

    William P. McGivern

  • That Great Big Trenchcoat in the Sky

    Marc Lovell

  • The Third Life

    Caroline Gray

    Pounds. Everybody assumes that Julie knows where the money is and her life turns into a nightmare as the pressure to find the missing fortune increases. Twenty-one-year-old Julie Allen is the novel's heroine and naif, educated in a Swiss boarding sc...

  • Three Days for Emeralds

    Mignon G. Eberhart

    MURDER AMONG FRIENDS... "Lacy, please come," Rose pleaded. Anxious and distraught, the young woman was convinced that she was being set up for murder and that only her old school friend could save her. Then Lacy poured her a drink--and watched i...

  • Where the Truth Lies

    Helen Hayes

    Returning from New York to attend the Oscar ceremonies, beloved actress Halcie Harper finds herself at the center of a murder that takes place at the Academy Awards while millions watch the live television broadcast...

  • A Woman Run Mad

    John L'Heureux

    “Passions, the edge of madness, forbidden obsessions, runaway libidos and dangerous desires . . . a thinking man’s Fatal Attraction†(Chicago Sun-Times).   In A Woman Run Mad, John L’Heureux delivers a novel that is part c...

  • Crimson Holiday

    Patricia Rosemoor

    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...

  • Dead Reckoning

    Linda Walters

    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...

  • Scandalous Spirits

    Erin Yorke

    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 ...

  • A Touch of Magic

    Mary Ruth Myers

    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...

  • Wolf Winter

    Clare Francis

    THE DEADLY CHILL OF WINTER WOULD DRIVE OUT SOMETHING FAR MORE LETHAL THAN A WOLF . . . In the chill of the Cold War, two Norwegians are shot dead after straying into Soviet wilderness, killings that will bind together three people in a web of trea...

  • The Cotton Caliph

    Margaret Summerville

    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 ...

  • The Duchess and the Devil

    Sydney Ann Clary
    • / Traditional Regency
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    PROMISES KEPT Rescued from penury by her wealthy uncle Charles, Byrony Balmaine was all too well aware how much she owed the kindly old man. For this reason she had promised to marry, as soon as possible, a gentleman of her uncle's choosing. U...

  • The Gambler's Bride

    Ellen Fitzgerald

    BEGINNER'S LUCK When the young and painfully innocent heiress Miss Caroline Dysart agreed to elope with handsome, well-born Charles Monatgue, she had no idea of what all of society was whispering: that Charles was using her as a pawn in a desperat...

  • A Grand Deception

    Elizabeth Mansfield

    LOVE'S BOLD DISGUISE Miss Georgy Verney doesn't wish to upset her mother, but she can't bring herself to flirt with the gentlemen of the ton--much less accept a marriage proposal based solely on social status or financial gain. Then she finds hers...

  • Honor's Players

    Holly Newman

    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...

  • Larcenous Lady

    Joan Smith

    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...

  • The Mistress of Langfort Court

    Marnie Ellingson

    Once an interloper, Allison Dane was now the dowager duchess of Langfort, a beautiful young widow returned to her husband's ancestral home. What right had she to the title held by the Incomparable Chloe, the beauty she had come to depose? To what len...

  • The Virtuous Mistress

    Pamela Frazier

    Among the glitter of London society their love was a radiant scandal… She was an aristocratic beauty, a golden-haired orphan forced to flee Paris during the French revolution. And now, Eugenie was the toast of London. A ballet dancer at the Ki...

  • Wild Rose

    Katherine Kingsley

    LOVE'S CONFUSING CROSSROADS Young and beautiful Lady Bryonny Livingston had a clear choice in love. There was the imperious and arrogant Lord Julian Ramsay, who clearly had no use for a young lady like Bryonny, whose wit and fortune matched his...

  • Chance to Love

    Stephanie Foster

  • Sealed with a Kiss!

    M.E. Cooper

    All new couples . . . It's Valentine's Day, and brand-new couples at Kennedy High are ready for romance! ...

  • Typecast

    Kristi Andrews

  • Hidden Agenda

    Lia Matera

    Sudden Stop on the Fast Track Willa Jansson has always thought of herself as a right-thinking left-wing lawyer. But when her radical San Francisco law firm closes after the murder of its chief rabble-rouser, she does the next worst thing and takes...

  • Ratking

    Michael Dibdin

    Winner of the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award, this chilling police procedural is a masterpiece of psychological suspense. Italian Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen is dispatched to investigate the kidnapping of Ruggiero Miletti, ...

  • Beloved Captain

    Joann Simon

    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...

  • Blue Belle

    Andrew H. Vachss

    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...

  • Downriver

    Loren D. Estleman

    It's a new world for black ex-con Richard DeVries, back on the streets after a long, battering stretch in Marquette prison. Twenty years before, during the infamous Detroit race riots, DeVries had been set up by his accomplices on an armored car robb...

  • Not Enough Horses

    Les Roberts

    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, ...

  • Brought to Book

    Tim Heald

    Bognor tries to understand how a publishing magnate could have been crushed by smut. Before retiring for the night, Vernon Hemlock pours a brandy, lights a cigar, and takes a look at his cache of pornography. Far more than a wad of dirty magazines st...

  • Cast a Cold Eye

    Marjorie Eccles

  • Dragons at the Party

    Jon Cleary

    It is Bicentenary year and Australia is having the party of its lifetime. Detective Inspector Scobie Malone, hero of three previous Cleary books and the most human of cops, would much rather be out on Sydney Harbor with his family, watching the fun. ...

  • The Other Side of the Door

    Lillian O'Donnell

    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...

  • Pel Among the Pueblos

    Mark Hebden

    A brief spell among the Pueblos, and a shoot-out under a moonless sky brings Pel his reward when the redoubtable Chief Inspector chases leads on a double shooting of two ageing crooks all the way to Mexico. This is Hebden’s eleventh novel in a seri...

  • A Simple Suburban Murder

    Mark Richard Zubro / Mark Zubro

    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...

  • Who Saw Him Die?

    Sheila Radley

  • Mortal Fear

    Robin Cook

    At a large Boston clinic, a world-class biologist stumbles upon a miraculous discovery, a major scientific breakthrough. Soon, healthy, middle-aged patients are dying of old age. And the ultimate experiment in terror begins... ...

  • Adventures of Max Latin

    Norbert Davis

  • Good Place to Hide

    Alan Cullimore

  • Long Lines

    Remar Sutton

    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 ...

  • The Lord

    Soraya Antonius

  • The Moody Man // Shadow Play

    John Milne

  • Mystery of the Witches' Bridge

    Barbee Oliver Carleton

    Evil haunts the Witchs’ Bridge . . . the foggy marshes . . . the old Pride house! Now young Dan Pride has come to live there. Can he escape the terror that hangs over Witchs’ Bridge? That night, Dan sees a weird light, flickering out on th...

  • All But My Life

    Gerda Weissmann Klein

    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...

  • EVENING GAMES STORIES of PAR And

    Alberto Manguel

  • Heart's Desire

    Edward Hoagland

    A collection of four new and thirty-one previously published essays, Edward Hoagland offers his observations on a remarkably broad range of topics, including life, love, marriage, children, suffering, the city, and isolation....

  • The House with the Blind Glass Windows

    Herbjorg Wassmo

  • The Murderee

    Martin Amis

    Featured story is "The Murderee," by Martin Amis. Other contributors include: Raymond Carver Tess Gallagher Todd McEwen John Berger Angela Carter Don DeLillo Also included is "Death in Gibraltar," by Ian Jack...

  • Naming the Waves

    Christian McEwan

  • The Paradise of Bombs

    Scott Russell Sanders

  • Skateboard

    Cynthia Hart

  • Wave Me Goodbye

    Anne Boston

    Considers the often overlooked side of World War II, offering twenty-seven stories by women writers that render a sensitive portrait of life on the home front and the struggles to keep homes, families, and relationships alive...

  • Woodcutters

    Thomas Bernhard

    Fiercely observed, often hilarious, and “reminiscent of Ibsen and Strindberg†(The New York Times Book Review), this exquisitely controversial novel was initially banned in its author’s homeland. A searing portrayal of Vienna’s bourgeois...

  • Autumnfire

    Emily Carmichael

    A CAPTIVE BEAUTY IN A WILD LAND At nine, Meghan O'Brian was snatched from a wagon train by Indians who raised her as their own. By nineteen, with flaming red hair and blazing green eyes, she had grown into the sensuous woman they called Autumnfire...

  • Belfriere

    Kathleen Gooding

    Bristol, 1840... A Bustling City of Merchant Kings And Rogues Here pretty Sarah Venables accepted a teaching position in the Lorimer household after the sudden and mysterious death of her father. Tormented by unanswered questions, Sarah found ...

  • The Birthright

    Clayton Matthews

    An exciting saga of a proud and passionate family and their extraordinary adventures-as they fight for land, love and glory....

  • Comanche Caress

    Cheryl Black

    COLORADO STALLION Frantic that she hadn't heard from her daddy in months, impetuous Ciara Davenport lit out of Dallas determined to track him down. But after her train was held up, her money stolen and her luggage lost, the hot-headed beauty wondere...

  • Dark Obsession

    Fiona Harrowe

    He was everything a decent woman should avoid -- and everything a real woman could not resist! From the moment she laid eyes on him, beautiful Hannah Blaine knew dark, handsome Christian Falconer spelled danger. Though he could offer the impoveri...

  • Dark Surrender

    Laurel Collins

    For 22 years Adrienne Dalton had led a charmed life, until her beloved father's death brought her to the isolated Maine estate of Wyndecliffe. Sheltered and naive, she never imagined she would become entangled in a blood feud between her benefactor, ...

  • Defiant Enchantress

    Kit Prate

    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...

  • Destiny's Bride

    Jane Peart

    "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...

  • The Distant Kingdom

    Daphne Wright

    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...

  • Embrace the Day

    Susan Wiggs

    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...

  • Ivory Rose

    Kathleen McCall

    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 ...

  • Love Forevermore

    Madeline Baker

    The West -- it had been Loralee's dream for as long as she could remember, and Indians were the most fascinating part of the wildly beautiful frontier she imagined. But when Loralee arrived at Fort Apache as the new schoolmarm, she had some hard...

  • Love's Gambit

    Emma Harrington

    Jessamy could outwit any man at chess...but could she win at the game of love? A LADY WITH PLANS... Lovely Jessamy Montgomery had come to Baltimore to meet that rough-hewn American who had inherited her late husband's fortune. With stratagems ...

  • Margaret

    Jane Claypool Miner

    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...

  • Marisa

    Linda Lang Bartell

    BELOVED ENEMY Marisa de Brionne listened in stunned disbelief. Her father, a mighty Norman nobleman, had promised her hand to a knight of the defeated Anglo-Saxon armies. Brand Ericson was marrying only to secure his land -- wedding a spoiled and wil...

  • Mattie

    Judy Alter

    Young Mattie, poor and illegitimate, was introduced to an entirely new world when she was hired to care for the daughter of an influential doctor. By sheer grit and determination, she eventually became a doctor herself and set up her practice amid th...

  • Ondine

    Shannon Drake

    HE SAVED HER WITH CHIVALRY, HE LOVED HER WITH SAVAGERY -- SHE LURED HIM TO ECSTASY When handsome Lord Chatham rescued the golden-haired Ondine from England's gallows, he demanded only one thing in return...her hand in marriage. In gratitude, O...

  • Passion's Peak

    Christine Carson

    A helpless captive of the Ute Indians, lovely raven-haired Sara knew it was only a matter of time before one of Bear Claw's lusty braves made her his squaw. Then a blue-eyed stranger rode into camp, and Sara threw away the last shreds of her pride. S...

  • Reckless Abandon

    Jolene Prewit-Parker

    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...

  • Reckless Desire

    Thea Devine

    FLEEING FROM LOVE Kalida Ryland had always despised her neighbor Deuce Cavender, so she was shocked by his brazen proposal of marriage. The arrogant lady's man would never get his hands on her ranch! And even if Kalida had occasionally wondered how ...

  • Renegade Love

    Katherine Sutcliffe

    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-...

  • Scatter the Tempest

    Joyce McLean

    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...

  • Secret Splendor

    Gina Robins

    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 ...

  • Silver Rose

    Penelope Neri

    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...

  • Starlit Surrender // Angel In a Red Dress

    Judy Cuevas

    AT FIRST THEY KISSED From the instant she set her thick-lashed gaze on handsome Adrien Hunt, Christina Bower knew he was like no other male. He was as graceful as a panther, as confident as a lion-and as lusty as a tomcat. But no matter how much t...

  • Texas Captive

    Wanda Owen

    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...

  • Treasure's Golden Dream

    Myra Rowe

    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...

  • Wideacre

    Philippa Gregory

    "I WANTED ITS SWEET EARTH WITH EVERY WAKING THOUGHT AND BREATH AND DREAM ...I WOULD HAVE DONE ANYTHING, COMMITTED ANY SIN, TO OWN WIDEACRE. " She lived in an 18th-century England where women were forbidden to inherit wealth or land. But Beatrice L...

  • Wyndfell

    Lynda Trent

    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 ...

  • Allison's Baby

    Mike Stone

    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...

  • Beyond the Glass

    Antonia White

    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...

  • Doppleganger: A Chilling Tale of Suspense

    Eric Higgs

  • The Hunt

    James Howard Kunstler

  • I Need a New Lunch Box

    Jeannette Caines

    Being a younger brother is touch. Your older sister, just ready to start first grade, gets lots of new things--new shoes, a pencil case, a raincoat and umbrella, and best of all, a brand new lunch box. Lunch boxes come in all shapes and sizes, and th...

  • The Kill

    Alan Ryan

    WELCOME TO DEACONS KILL Jack and Megan left the pleasures of New York success for the peaceful life of a small town in the Catskill Mountains. But Deacons Kill is not at peace. A thing born of the mountains -- something ancient and angry -- stares...

  • Lightning

    Dean Koontz

    A storm struck on the night Laura Shane was born, and there was a strangeness about the weather that people would remember for years. But even more mysterious was the blond-haired stranger who appeared out of nowhere--the man who saved Laura from a f...

  • The Long Night of the Grave

    Charles L. Grant

  • The Sound of Wings

    Spencer Dunmore

    A near collision with an old-fashioned monoplane may have been a figment of jetliner co-pilot Adam Beale's disturbed imagination or a desperate attempt at communication by a daring aviatrix thought to have disappeared in the 1920s...

  • The Uninvited

    William W. Johnstone

    Spring in Lapeer Parish, Louisiana. The warm sun beat down on the good, rich farm land making the best bean crop the county had ever seen. But something was stirring beneath the full, lush, green leaves. Something that had survived hundreds of thousa...

  • The Queen's Head

    Edward Marston

    His name was Will Fowler, an actor in the esteemed theatrical company called Lord Westfield's Men, a vibrant young man flushed from the success of a recent performance at the Queen's Head theatre. So exuberant was he that he persuaded the resourceful...

  • The Crystal Shard

    R.A. Salvatore
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    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...

  • Apache Gold

    J.R. Roberts

    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...

  • A Bullet for Billy the Kid

    Nelson Nye

  • Dead Man's Town

    Robert W. Broomall

    Desperately in need of a job, Jake Moran hires on as marshal of Union City, Kansas, bringing peace to the toughest town in the West--until he falls for the girlfriend of the town's biggest troublemaker...

  • Deadly Deal

    Clay Tanner

  • Dictionary of Demons

    Fred Gettings

  • Dig the Spurs Deep

    Peter Field

  • Dodge City Doll

    Dirk Fletcher

    Sent by the Secret Service to Dodge City, where he must rid the town of bloodthirsty outlaws, Spur McCoy, guns ablazing, takes care of business while spending some quality time with Miss Lila, the Nightingale of the saloon circuit. Original....

  • Hard-Riding Posse

    E.J. Hunter

  • Hot on the Warpath

    Cort Martin

    Chief Standing Antelope's band of renegade Comanche are on the warpath, and word of the bloody terror reaches Bolt's Rocking Bar Ranch when young Veronica Morningstar rides in, in a state of shock. Her father's been scalped, her sister captured as a ...

  • Lone Star and the James Gang's Loot

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki ride a blood-slick trail with the west's most wanted men in the sixty-fifth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki -- ...

  • Longarm and the Bloody Trackdown

    Tabor Evans

    Marshal Long tracks a young woman carrying some stolen land titles to Ridge City, where her suspects she has turned them over to land baron J.T. Roebuck, but nobody in town is talking and a gang of hired guns is threatening the marshall's investigati...

  • Rogue River

    James Reno

  • Santa Fe Slaughter

    Jon Sharpe

    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...

  • Slocum and the Blood Rage

    Jake Logan

    SHE WAS MIGHTY PRETTY... AND MIGHTY HANDY WITH A KNIFE, TOO! Her name was White Flower. She was a beautiful half-breed. Pursued by white men and Apache alike. Slocum figured he'd look after her for a spell. And together they rode a bloody trail throu...

  • Solitude's Lawman

    Ray Hogan

    A stop at a small-town bank becomes the start of a life-and-death struggle for a young horse dealer when his money is stolen during a holdup. To a man like Cole Dagget, eight hundred dollars represents a lot of hard hours in the saddle -- and just e...

  • Stringer and the Hangman's Rodeo

    Lou Cameron

    Cheyenne, Wyoming, is a town that’s leaping into the twentieth century spurs first. Pretty soon Cheyenne will be just as newfangled fancy as any Eastern city. But the folks there still know how to have fun. First the rodeo -- and then the hanging. ...

  • Vigilante

    Gilbert Morris

  • Wilderness Trek

    Zane Grey

    American cowboy, Stirling Haselton, taking the blame for a shooting committed by a friend, is exiled to Australia and with one loyal follower, joins a party of ranchers and drovers making the long wilderness journey to the Elaberleys. Along the way c...

  • Young Ole Devil

    J.T. Edson

    Jackson Baines Hardin, known as Ole Devil, is assigned by Major Sam Houston to deliver a shipment of rifles to the Texas patriots fighting for independence...

  • Falcon's Haunt

    Carol Warburton

    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 ...

  • The Amateur Cracksman

    Ernest William Hornung / E.W. Hornung

    A.J Raffles, a prominent member in London society and well-respected athlete, has a shocking secret identity; he is a notorious thief. Always chasing the thrill of a heist or pickpocketing, Raffles attends test cricket games under the slight guise of...

  • Anthills of the Savannah

    Chinua Achebe

    A searing satire of political corruption and social injustice from the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart"Achebe has written a story that sidesteps both ideologies of the African experience and political agendas, in order to lead us to a deeply h...

  • Art and Psychoanalysis

    Peter Fuller

  • Artificial Intellg

    F. David Peat

  • Ascension Factor

    Bill Ransom

  • At the Ballpark

    Ken Robbins

  • The Atheling

    Grace Chetwin

    Atheling: Anglo-Saxon for prince. 2047. Earth is dying after nuclear wars. As a new arms race builds, Pylar Fazhakian, an elderly leader of an Armenian mystic sect, appears at a Palo Alto defense installation claiming to have data that will give Pan-...

  • Baby Colt

    Beth Spanjian

  • Bamboo Cannon

    Donald McCaig

  • Beach Day

    Fran Manushkin

  • Been Clever Forever

    Bruce Stone

    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....

  • Betty's Wedding

    Michael Bragg

  • Big Sister

    Janet Quin-Harkin

  • Black Baron

    Joe Dever

  • The Blizzard of Eighty-Eight

    Mary Cable

  • The Bones Wizard

    Alan Ryan

  • Breathing Lessons

    Anne Tyler

    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...

  • Bugs Bunny Calling!

    Cindy West

  • Caprice

    George Bowering

    WITH A FOREWORD BY ARITHA VAN HERK. It''s the mid 1890s in Kamloops, British Columbia. Two men argue over a bottle of whisky and, in the struggle Frank Spencer, an American outlaw-turned-farmhand, kills Pete Foster, a French-Canadian and fellow farmh...

  • Civil to Strangers and Other Writings

    Barbara Pym

    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...

  • Class Act

    Alison Blair

    Freshman Angie Perelli becomes involved in a special ecology project, but Professor Stevens, the project sponsor, begins to pressure her for a romantic involvement, with threats of canceling the event if she won't give in...

  • The Columbus Option

    Richard Cox

  • Come Thirteen

    David B. Silva

  • The Consolation of Nature, and Other Stories

    Valerie Martin

    Comprising of ten stories, this collection includes the title story about a family beseiged by a rodent of startling presence and "Sea Lovers," which explores the passions of both land and sea creatures...

  • David McPhail's Animals A to Z

    David McPhail

  • Day of Dog

    Archie Weller

  • Dear Bruce Springsteen

    Kevin Major

    In his letters to his favorite rock star, fourteen-year-old Terry reveals his musical aspirations and his problems coping with his parents' separation, communicating with girls, and finding his own place in the world....

  • Death Match

    Leo Kessler

  • Destination: Antarctica

    Robert Swan

    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 ...