Books Published in January 1989

New Books List: 496 titles

  • Embrace Me Sweet Stranger

    Candace McCarthy

    Their love burned with a scorching flame. Passion on Demand Lovely Amanda Hamilton longed to be her own woman, but her stern and unyielding father had promised her hand to Randall Fiske. Amanda vowed never to give herself to this man she neithe...

  • The Ipcress File

    Len Deoghton

    Britain's top scientists begin to vanish, and one man can find out what's going on, but his identity must remain a secret if he intends to safeguard the secrets of the West, sniff out treason, and live to tell the tale. Reprint....

  • The Giant's Shadow

    Thomas Bontly

    An American teacher goes to Germany to escape his failing marriage and drinking problem, finds himself the prime suspect in a muder, and becomes ensnarled with international intelligence forces and a beautiful, dangerous woman...

  • The Warrior Lives

    Joel Rosenberg

    KARL CULLINANE IS DEAD...OR IS HE? When Karl Cullinane, warrior, champion of the forces fighting the Slavers Guild, and Emperor, is declared dead, Jason, his son and heir, must take on the responsibilities of leadership. Now, trying to fill his fa...

  • Changing Gears

    Linda Davidson

    Jed Mason, popular but lacking romance in his life, joins Russ Stevens' volleyball team in hopes of drawing the attention of Russ's sister Leslie, who insists she and Jed are nothing more than friends....

  • My Mother's Boyfriend and Me

    Alice Jacoby

    A Manhattan loft becomes unbearably small for three when Laurie's mother invites Blue, her twenty-seven-year-old boyfriend, to move in and fifteen-year-old Laurie finds herself the target of Blue's advances...

  • Full Throttle

    Tony Phillips

    Five boys who escaped from a government resettlement camp hide out in the post-nuclear desert, where they build dirt bikes, but when they ride into Traintown, they end up fighting for their own freedom and to restore law and order to the area...

  • Is This the End?

    Craig Sargent

    In this riveting climax to The Last Ranger series, Martin Stone may have finally met his match when the fate of the earth falls into the hands of madmen. Stone is forced to battle for his life against a death squad of human and inhuman killers to sav...

  • Family Secrets

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    SHE DARED TO BECOME ALL THAT A WOMAN YEARNS TO BE Jake Whitaker was the movie kingdom's most brilliant and powerful producer, until his life ended in a violent car accident. Now his lovely daughter Lindsey, with her tumbling auburn hair and natura...

  • Blood and Wine

    Penny Colvin

    HER PRIDE WAS FORMIDABLE, HER LOVE UNDYING... HER SAGA, UNFORGETTABLE It was 1940. Nazi troops plundered the French country' But radiant, willful Michou Valette stood fearless in her father's great vineyards. Someday these lush lands of St. Emilio...

  • Into the Pit

    Warner Lee

  • The Way of Spider

    W. Michael Gear

    The thrilling sequel to Gear's groundbreaking sci-fi debut, The Warriors of SpiderRebellion on Sirius threatened to become the spark that would set the galaxy ablaze, bringing on the destruction of the Directorate-run empire -- a tyranny powered by a...

  • Winner Take All

    J.R. Roberts

    Max Holloway had never lost a horse race and never had a woman cheat on him...until the Gunsmith came along and humiliated the former Pony Express rider on both counts. Beat his horse. And bedded his gal. Now the Gunsmith will have to pay. Hollowa...

  • Message from a Dead Man

    J.R. Roberts

    It was a snake-bit journey from the start. Riding across the most godforsaken expanse of nothing in all of Arizona, Clint comes across a gut-shot stranger. And granting the dying man's last wish brings the Gunsmith nothing but trouble... Soon Clin...

  • Lone Star and the Death Merchants

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki take on a pack of crooked gamblers in a deadly game of chance...One by one, the town's citizens are cashing in their chips, leaving grieving widows and gambling debts. It is up to Jessie and Ki to turn the tables on some crooked card sh...

  • Tracks of the Hunter

    John Callahan

  • Longarm and the Medicine Wolf

    Tabor Evans

    Considered a living legend, Texas Sheriff Gus Hackett makes it to retirement before someone blows him away and although the local law calls it an accident, Longarm sees it as murder and swears vengeance...

  • Yellowhorse

    Dee Brown

  • Longarm and the Indian Raiders

    Tabor Evans

  • Longarm and the Renegade Sergeant

    Tabor Evans

  • Brittany

    Linda Lang Bartell

    LOVE'S PRIZE She was a young French woman living a quiet hell until her husband's family brutality forced her to strike back -- and flee before her crime was discovered... Assuming a new identity, she called herself Brittany and took wo...

  • Storm and Fire

    Kelly Adams

    Just who, Emma Kendrick wants to know, does Joel Rivers think he is? First he punches out her nephew's football coach, then he sends Emma's sister into a flabbergasted rage by telling her she doesn't know how to raise her son! As if that&...

  • Lucifer's Lady

    Rachelle Edwards

    WITH THE BREEDING OF A LADY, AND THE MANNERS OF A HOYDEN, AMANDA HAD A LOT TO LEARN. Amanda Westwood detested the arrogant Marquess of Glendarvon after he ruined her gamester father. And although Glendarvon paid her way through school, no word of ...

  • Pirate's Wild Paradise

    Kate Douglas

    UNEXPECTED SURRENDER Daughter of the infamous Henry Morgan, beautiful Jamie Morgan could hold her own against any pirate on the high seas...except Franco DeCortega. The handsome Spaniard bested her with his saber, then spared her life at the risk ...

  • The Dandy's Deception

    Philippa Castle

    "FIRST LOVE IS BEATING IN MY HEART... AND FOR A FOP!" With her blue-eyed beauty, charm, and youth -- not to mention a splendid dowry -- Ullainee Pollinger came to her first Season expecting to be able to pick and choose among London's bachelors. ...

  • Windsong

    Judith E. French

    LOVE'S DECEPTION It had been a daring and dangerous deception, but Linna O'Neill had made it to America, fleeing Ireland with the legendary Irish rebel Rory Desmond, now an American colonial. Rory believed he was marrying a young heiress - not her...

  • From This Day Onward

    Elizabeth Kary

    While The War Between the States consumed our nation in flames of bitter opposition... a single, fateful moment brought two strangers, two enemies, together on a northbound train ... Jillian Walsh, a beautiful Yankee widow, never expected to find...

  • A Rogue's Masquerade

    Valerie King

    A DIRE CHARADE To save her village from utter ruin, sporting-mad Kate Draycott set out to wed the wealthy poet, Lord Ashwell. In order to win him, the country spitfire masked her earthy nature with a patina of refinement. However, she was not prepar...

  • Charleston Tangle

    Joan Overfield

    AN EXCHANGE OF HEARTS Dark blonde hair, pale grey eyes and a slender figure graced Abigail Caldwell Ross with a china doll beauty, yet she was a woman of great strength. At twenty-five, Abby managed her late husband's cotton plantation efficiently...

  • Sweet Revenge

    Nora Roberts

    IT'S NEVER TOO LATE FOR REVENGE... At twenty-five, Princess Adrianne of Jaquir, daughter of a fabled Hollywood beauty and an equally fabled Arab playboy, lives a life most people would envy. Beautiful and elegant, she spends her days dabbling in ch...

  • The Hermit's Daughter

    Joan Smith

    FLIRT WITH THAT JACKDAW LORD MONSTUART? WHY, SHE'D RATHER COZE WITH A WEASEL! But Miss Sally Hermitage was hellbent on seeing her dear sister happily wed-even if it was to Monstuart's ward. No matter to her that the arrogant gentleman was ...

  • Twisted Path

    Don Pendleton

    GUERRILLA WAR Aggressive, primitive and violent, the Shining Path murders in the name of freedom. Fanatical terrorists who are trying to destroy Peru's government, the Path's "low budget" warfare has suddenly turned high-tech--someone is selling t...

  • Moving Target

    Don Pendleton

    DIRTY MONEY One of America's most powerful corporations is selling war, reaping huge profits by dealing in arms with anyone who can pay the price. No intelligence source has been able to find out who or what is behind the shadowy dealer. With t...

  • Influence

    Ramsey Campbell

    Now a major Netflix movie."This is a chilling work and the fullest treatment of one of Campbell's recurring themes - the psychic violence family members wreak upon one another." Publishers WeeklyQueenie is the ageing matriarch of the Faraday family, ...

  • Siren

    Linda Crockett Gray

    WOMEN ARE ALL ALIKE… Chris Martin has long, silky blond hair. Her emerald eyes are magnetic. Her smile is a caress. She has a terrific figure and she loves children. What more could Michael Fuller want in a woman? But Chris has a young niece ...

  • Blood Thirst

    L.A. Freed

    BLOOD THIRST follows the transformation of Angela Trenton as she becomes a vampire. Attacked and left to die, she is faced with uncertainty and fear as her body begins to change. She is aided by another vampire named Elijah, and he becomes her mentor...

  • American Ultimatum

    Ryder Stacy

  • Dragon's Jaw

    Eric Helm

  • Evil

    Richard O'Brien

  • Ancient Heavens

    Robert E. Vardeman

  • The Glass Warrior

    Robert E. Vardeman

  • Dragon's Knight

    Carol L. Dennis

    THEY ARE HUMANS--AND DRAGONS. HEROES--AND FRIENDS. MAGICAL--AND MIGHTY. AND SO ARE THEIR KIDS! NOW A LAND OF GODS NEEDS THEM ALL... Jarl Koenig thinks his children and witch-wife, Mirza, are safely vacationing on the wonderworld Realm. Until Faf, ...

  • A Multitude of Monsters

    Craig Shaw Gardner

    "A fun romp. The field needs more humorists of this caliber." (Robert Asprin)

    While seeking a cure for his malady of magicks, the suffering sorcerer Ebenezum and his hapless apprentice are rudely interrupted by militant monsters with a cause...

  • Streams of Silver

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

    "Yer eyes'll shine when ye see the rivers runnin' silver in Mithril Hall!" Bruenor the dwarf, Wulfgar the barbarian, Regis the halfling, and Drizzt the dark elf fight monsters and magic on their way to Mithril Hall, centuries-old birthplace of Bru...

  • The Earth Lords

    Gordon R. Dickson

  • The Tides of God

    Ted Reynolds

  • Silverglass

    J.F. Rivkin

    SPELLS, TREACHERY, AND ADVENTURE The life of a sword-for-hire was often uncertain, but brazen and beautiful Corson brenn Torisk would have no other. When Corson's services as a guard were engaged by the Lady Nyctasia, it seemed that fortune was f...

  • Bug Life Chronicles

    Phillip C. Jennings

  • Will of the Wanderer

    Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman

    Since time began, twenty Gods have ruled all the universe. Though each God possessed different abilities, each was all-powerful within his realm. Now one of the Gods has upset the balance of power, leaving the others scrambling for control in the new...

  • Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion

    Malcolm Hulke

    The Doctor and Sarah arrive in London to find it deserted. The city has been evacuated as prehistoric monsters appear in the streets. While the Doctor works to discover who or what is bringing the dinosaurs to London, Sarah finds herself trapped on ...

  • The Way of Spider

    W. Michael Gear

    The thrilling sequel to Gear's groundbreaking sci-fi debut, The Warriors of SpiderRebellion on Sirius threatened to become the spark that would set the galaxy ablaze, bringing on the destruction of the Directorate-run empire -- a tyranny powered by a...

  • Meddlesome Miranda

    Jane Ashford

    THE APPRENTICE ADVENTURESS Miss Miranda Dennison was a properly brought-up young lady with an improper appetite for adventure. She found it in abundance on the isolated estate of Baron Philip Highdene. There was the darkly handsome, brooding ba...

  • Long Time Coming

    Sandra Brown

    Marnie Hibbs recoiled in shock as Law Kincaid crossed her yard, fury in his arctic blue eyes. What was the fair-haired hero of the, space program doing here, and why did she still find him so heart-stoppingly handsome she couldn't breathe? Fo...

  • Knight Sparks

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR .. . Carly Mitchum was serious about being a cop, so the hassling she got from her male colleagues might have been no more than an occupational hazard--if only Rance Knight hadn't seemed to share their views. Rance wasn't j...

  • Wild Horse Canyon

    Elizabeth August

    LOVE THINE ENEMY For years the Colberts and Randolphs had battled over Wild Horse Canyon. Now feisty Maggie Randolph had to marry to keep her inheritance, and Joe Colbert was a willing bridegroom -- as long as the canyon was her dowry. It was a pe...

  • Montana's Treasure

    Janet Bieber

    GUNSMOKE Finding herself at the wrong end of a loaded rifle in a strange new frontier wasn't Amanda Lukenas's idea of a warm welcome. She and her young son had come all the way to Montana to visit her ancestors' homestead site before Amanda sold t...

  • Cinnamon Wharf

    Janice Young Brooks

    A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN'S RISE IN A WORLD OF MEN -- A SWEEPING SAGA OF PASSION AND POWER SHE VOWED TO BECOME MORE THAN AN ORNAMENT OF VICTORIAN SOCIETY As a child, beautiful, red-haired Mary Beecham was plucked out of poverty and placed in the la...

  • Thin Ice

    Dixie Browning

    FIRE AND ICE Maggie Duncan had left the high-powered business world and a failed marriage for her grandfather's cabin and a new "career" carving bird decoys. She'd found peace in her solitude -- then Sam Canady arrived. Sam want...

  • Once and for Always

    Stella Cameron

    HER PAST READ LIKE A FAIRY TALE Once upon a time a girl named Caitlin McBride went to Wales and fell for a lad named Trevor Morgan .... Now Caitlin lived in Beverly Hills. She had a troubled teenage daughter and a dead marriage. She'd returned ...

  • Mariah

    Sandra Canfield

    Mariah Small-town Louisiana stifled her restless spirit; like the wind, she was destined to be free. Mariah is an enigma to the people of Calloway Corners, who could never comprehend her essence: both wanton and innocent, worldly and naive. Ford...

  • Free Fall

    Jasmine Cresswell

    A sequence of three suicides with only one thing in common -- they had all been roommates of Liz Meacham. And Liz was the only person in Denver who was convinced that they had all been murdered. Was she being set up to be the next victim? Her only ho...

  • Blood and Wine

    Penny Colvin

    HER PRIDE WAS FORMIDABLE, HER LOVE UNDYING... HER SAGA, UNFORGETTABLE It was 1940. Nazi troops plundered the French country' But radiant, willful Michou Valette stood fearless in her father's great vineyards. Someday these lush lands of St. Emilio...

  • Dancy's Woman

    Lori Copeland

    Lauren Vandis was sent to the boondocks of Mississippi with one essential mission: She had to persuade Coyle Dancy not to sue her family. And if it means helping her ailing father, Lauren was willing to pour on the charm, thick as molasses, sweet as ...

  • On the Run

    Leigh Daniels

    Someone was stalking her The house in Carmel was the perfect retreat for working on her detective novel, but suddenly Sarah O'Shaughnessy found herself in the middle of a thriller come to life. It had to be a case of mistaken identity, but no one ...

  • Ghost of a Chance

    Jacqueline Diamond

    They say that ghosts have unfinished business Footsteps sounded in the empty rooms. Her nephew heard voices in the night. And the resident ghost buster of Orange, California, wanted to televise a seance in her living room. If Cheri Louette admitte...

  • Labor of Love

    Madelyn Dohrn

    Schoolteacher Kara Reynolds had moved to the remote Lake Erie island to deliver her baby in peace -- and in private. The last thing she needed was some protective male asking too many questions. Still, bush pilot John Brickner was rock solid. Maybe i...

  • Flirting With Danger

    Gail Douglas

    Cassie Walters knew all about Bret Parker's image as a womanizing power broker, but when she replaced her sick employee as butler at one of Bret's glamorous parties, she was mesmerized by the dangerously appealing charmer -- and he was spellb...

  • Stranger on the Shore

    Carol Duncan

    HE'D COME LOOKING FOR HER ... Sarah Wilson knew that her special gift set her apart and made her easy prey for the morbidly curious, the skeptical. So when the stranger breezed into town, she figured he was just another thrill seeker. She certainl...

  • Manhunt

    Janet Evanovich

    Alexandra Scott: Wilderness Woman. It had a terrific ring to it, but Alex felt a sudden twinge of terror. She'd traded in her Wall Street job and fancy condo for a cabin in the Alaska woods, and there was no turning back! She'd wanted to esca...

  • Silver Noose

    Patricia Gardner Evans

    HANG 'EM HIGH... The only reason Jesse McClintock wasn't dangling at the end of a rope, executed for a crime he hadn't committed, was that he'd traded a quick death for what could very well be a slow one: working on the ranch owned by widow Mirand...

  • Courtney's Conspiracy

    Christine Flynn

    PLAYING CUPID Steve Powers couldn't figure out what had gotten into him. He usually liked the quiet type, but he was completely smitten by Courtney Fairchild, who was impulsive, carefree and boisterous. When she cooked up a scheme to pair his fath...

  • The Passions of Kate Madigan

    Suzanne Forster

    TEACHER'S PET Ty Raphaell was the most breathtaking man drill instructor Kate Madigan had ever encountered, and when he stepped into her reserve officer training class, she knew her work had been cut out for her. The rules against fraternizati...

  • The Periwinkle Brooch

    Kate Frederick

    Deborah Conway was well aware of her position. Left penniless and alone, she had no other choice but to accept the post as a ladies' companion to Lord Charles Denton's sister. But from the moment she set foot into the baron's home, she kn...

  • Rebel's Return

    Sibylle Garrett

    WHAT PRICE LOVE? When reporter Toni Prescott accepted an assignment in remote, revolution-torn Afghanistan, she knew that danger came with the territory. What she hadn't anticipated was her response to Ahmed Khan -- a man as magnificent and untame...

  • The Verdict Is Love

    Phyllis Houseman

  • Compromising Positions

    Carole Halston

    Though hardworking single mother Susan Casey sometimes dreamed of diamonds and furs, mainly she wanted a secure future for her children. She was certain she could awaken sleepy Old Mandeville and shower new prosperity on herself and her neighbors. ...

  • A Fine Spring Rain

    Celeste Hamilton

    One rainy spring night they'd shared both a miracle and a tragedy. Since then, Sam Bartholomew's sad blue eyes had haunted Dr. Merry Conrad's dreams, and she'd wondered if the handsome young widower had given his children another moth...

  • Rumor Has It

    Tami Hoag

    Nick Leone was a walking hunk poster, a Yankee heartthrob with a mysterious past and a rogue's smile that dared Katie Quaid to unmask him! The exquisite Southern lady had her own deep secrets, and when Nick heard the tremble beneath her smooth, sweet...

  • Angel of Passion

    Kathryn Hockett

    UNRELENTING DESIRE When Angelica Howe left the safety of the convent to track at the mission in Santa Barbara, she would never leave believed shed become a hostage in a Mexican banditos' camp. Now her only trope was that leer brother would pay...

  • Window on Today

    Joan Hohl

    With her new art gallery a hit and her two best friends in town to celebrate, Karla Janowitz couldn't be happier. The absolute last thing she needs in her life is a man to complicate it. Then accomplished artist Jared Cradowg shows up -- gorgeous, de...

  • An Innocent Man

    Sandra Kitt

    No good deed goes unpunished Jane Lindsay found him unconscious in the snow, his car having skidded off the icy Montauk, Long Island, road. She took him home. Nursed him back to health. And how did Brett Chandler repay Jane for saving his life? ...

  • China Star

    Karen Keast

    SWEET VENGEANCE Death was too good for the scarred marauder who'd slain Trinity Lee's mother. She would destroy Madison Brecker's railroad first -- drain his lifeblood drop by treacherous drop -- then move in for the kill. After years of bitter ...

  • Gift of Fire

    Jayne Ann Krentz

    They were destined for passion -- and adventure! Troubled thoughts haunted Verity Ames when she considered the uncontrollable passion that bonded her to Jonas Quarrel. The world saw him as a Renaissance scholar. Few people knew about the first a...

  • Brighton Intrigue

    Emma Lange

    MISS BENNINGTON'S BATTLE Miss Ariane Bennington had to suspect that Damien de Villars, the wealthy and worldly Marquess of Chatham, was merely using her in a game of intricate intrigue involving the elegant, dangerously attractive Comte de Triens....

  • Destiny's Interlude

    Jan Lesoing

    Philippa had fled St. Louis and the hated husband she'd been forced to wed. Now, armed with a new name, a new identity, and a new profession as a schoolmarm, the lissome blonde had come to Bluffsview, Nebraska the last place on earth he'd loo...

  • Lord of the Glen

    Frances Lloyd

    WEB OF DECEPTION As ace reporter for a popular magazine, Nicola Sharman would do anything to get a story. Her latest impossible mission was to interview a world-famous but reclusive nobleman. Nicola', plan to penetrate the mysterious hermit's Scot...

  • Once Forgotten

    Jan Milella

    MEMORIES OF LOVE . . . Claire Brady had never expected to return to Minneapolis or to see her ex-husband, brilliant physician Jack Brady, again. But their little girl was ill, and Jack was the child's only hope, so Claire had come back to the plac...

  • Monkey Business

    Cassie Miles

    She went ape over him Anthropologist Erica Swanson had great respect for the intelligence of chimps. So she wasn't at all surprised to find runaway Sheena had ended up in the arms of Nick Barron. Even Erica herself couldn't have chosen a more desi...

  • Twilight Over Eden

    Nicole Monet

    DARKEST BEFORE DAWN Three years ago, Amber Stevenson had left her fiance. Now Joe Morrow stood in the Las Vegas casino she managed, asking why. Their young love had been fiery and true, but then she'd learned the bitter truth about her past. For h...

  • Shades and Shadows

    Victoria Pade

    Tyler Welles had been the star protegee of the world's foremost contemporary painter until gossip, tragedy and scandal drove her into seclusion. Now, four years after Movado's suicide and the disappearance of his final paintings, she was preparing to...

  • That Fontaine Woman!

    Helen R. Myers

    THE TIE THAT BINDS District Attorney Adam Rhodes had been on the warpath ever since Diana Fontaine came back to town. She was one hell of a defense lawyer and she was a Fontaine--one of the family Adam believed had single-handedly ruined his paren...

  • Savage River

    E.P. Murray

    Awaiting young Michaella Chattilion was a future as rich and shining as the gold that drew a generation west. But to possess it, she would be forced to leave civilization behind - and begin a perilous trek into a land as untamed as it was rife with m...

  • A Winning Battle

    Carla Neggers

    There was a place for everything When Page B. Harrington found a cheeky message on her answering machine, she smelled a rat. Christopher O. Battle, a nationally syndicated columnist, was challenging her to organize him, But she knew the highly irr...

  • Serenity Cove

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    When ruggedly virile Nick Capoletti emerged from the shower wrapped only in a towel and a knock-em-dead smile, Pippa Pauling felt lightheaded with longing and tempted beyond resistance! No man this sinfully gorgeous had ever come to the cozy mountain...

  • So Close to the Flame

    DeWanna Pace

    She was as fearless as a man ... but every inch a woman... The Indians Called Her "Fire Woman". Candle O'Keef's hair was as fiery as her temperament, and her courage inspired the team of men with whom she battled against the wilderness. Making ...

  • Reluctant Father

    Diana Palmer

    MR. JANUARY ... Name: Blake Donavan Description: Tough. Formidable. Lonely . . . Fears: Surprises, like the unsmiling little girl who suddenly appeared on his doorstep and called him "daddy;" Meredith Calhoun, the one woman who could melt his he...

  • Lord Rogue

    Patricia Rice

    Alicia could feel the passion in his lips as he moved them in feather-light caresses across her mouth. Even when he deepened the kiss, she still craved more... Alicia Stanford thought she could never trust a man again after she had been so terrib...

  • Loving Jack

    Nora Roberts

    What was a man to do when he came home and found a strange woman in his hot tub wearing nothing but exotic jewelry? If he was conservative architect Nathan Powell, he suggested -politely- that she get dressed...and tried not to notice that Jackie M. ...

  • Murphy's Law

    JoAnn Ross

    He was too good to be true Hannah Greene didn't know what had hit her. She'd gone from pampered darling of Connecticut society to manual laborer cum restaurant owner in New Chance, Arizona--overnight. She wasn't sure of anything anymore, except Mu...

  • Gypsy

    Glenda Sanders

    Once a Gypsy... Anna Maria Jones had left her Gypsy roots behind, but not her passionate nature. Sheriff Thomas Banning was determined to stir up both. And despite Anna Maria's resistance, he succeeded where a lesser man would have failed. Not ...

  • Losing It

    Beverly Sommers

    Holly Benson was in a pickle It started when Holly's ex held her New York Weight Watchers meeting hostage. The group was happy as a clam to get its mind off dieting. And though her ex didn't succeed in winning Holly back, the pretrial publicity be...

  • Like Strangers

    Lynda Trent

    Lani Cameron was shocked to see her "dead" husband stand before her, dirty, disheveled, but very much alive. Having been cruelly shut off from the world for five long years, Bryan had come home, bent on revenge . . . and desperate to pick up living w...

  • Perfect Match

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    Lynn O'Brien had heard it all But even this private detective was startled by a friend's request--to get more information on the "anonymous" father of her son conceived through artificial insemination. Lynn completed the investigation, believing s...

  • Traitor's Kiss

    Terri Valentine

    Loyal To His Lust There was only one way Rhys Winghurst knew of to relieve the pressure of his latest undercover assignment a romp in the hay with a beautiful lady. The red-blooded male was impressed when the innkeeper sent up the voluptuous lightsk...

  • Heart of the Matter

    Linda Varner

    JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED .... Conservative Dr. Scott Hotter was a man with priorities. The first thing he wanted was to marry the "girl next door" and have the family he'd missed while growing up. The perfect wife would be fairly predictable--...

  • Crystal Clear

    Irma Walker

    Marma was determined to steer clear of Steve Riley, the exciting reporter who had captured her heart when she had let her guard down. Marma Duncan know she should stay away from charismatic reporter Steve Riley. Steve, ever the pragmatist, can't acce...

  • Hallie's Destiny

    Peggy Webb

    Hallie Donovan was a gypsy angel, a rodeo queen with a heart as big as Texas, and no woman was more delectable--or lethal--to Josh Butler! He'd seen what havoc bewitching women could wreak in a man's life, but Hallie was danger worth courting... and ...

  • A Man Called Travers

    Brittany Young

    THE GREAT OUTDOORS At her best friend's wedding, New York socialite Eden Sloane got her first taste of Australia's great outdoors--and met Jack Travers, the irresistible brother of the groom. He was as rugged as his ranch land, and before she knew...

  • All My Tomorrows

    Karen Young

    THEY WERE AS DIFFERENT AS DAY AND NIGHT To emergency room doctor Jess Brannigan the world was black and white. Guidance counselor Carly Sullivan rejoiced in every brilliant hue that colored her experience. Thrown together on a New Orleans grand ju...

  • Nebraska Fire

    Lauren Wilde

    RILED RANCHER What had she done? And why had she ever thought it would work? Taking her best friend's place as a tutor to Alex Cameron's nephew had not been a good idea, not at all. And now, staring into the virile rancher's smoldering steel-gray eye...

  • Blind to Love

    Rebecca Winters

    "I'm not the man you married." But to Libby, her husband was the same, despite the accident that had left him blind. He was still the Vance Anson who'd created a successful mining empire in Kenya, still the loving husband whose kis...

  • Heartland

    Sherryl Woods

    AFTER ALL THESE YEARS. . . Long after Steven Drake had left, he still haunted Lara Danvers's dreams. Now he was back, offering to buy part of the farm Lara had fought so hard to keep. She'd never forget how he'd seduced her as a teenager to get he...

  • Swindle

    George Adams

    "Charlie Byrne`s favorite prop girl, Ginny Rowen, messes up a job, explaining later that her mind was on $50,000 she had turned over to a couple she now suspects are running an investment scam. Almost simultaneously, Byrne falls for Ginny. Intent on ...

  • Lady in Cement

    Marvin Albert

  • Variant

    Alan Engel

    After an ailing Russian boy turns up at a hospital in Paris desperate for treatment for the rare disease called Progeria, officials find that the Russians have pioneered a DNA-modifying technique capable of producing people of inordinate intelligence...

  • Private Murder

    Al Guthrie

    Formen private detective Mac McKenzie finds himself the prime suspect in the murder of his inquisitive next-door neighbor, and his own investigation into the crime becomes complicated when he falls for the victim's sister...

  • Atascadero Island

    Gaylord Larson

  • One Bang-Up Job

    Gerald Laurence

  • The Twisted Cross

    Mack Maloney

    FREEDOM'S CHALLENGE The savage Russian sneak attack that reduced the United States to a nuclear-blackened wasteland is now history. Under the leadership of a fearless jet fighter pilot, the armies of freedom have rescued their besieged nation from...

  • Survivors

    Jean Lorrah

    Treva--a human colony on the hinges of known space. Isolated from the rest of the galaxy, at last report they were on the verge of becoming... a true interstellar community --a full fledged member of the Federation. But now the Enterprise has receive...

  • Weasel's Luck

    Michael Williams
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    THE SIGN OF THE WEASEL IS TUNNEL ON TUNNEL, ENCHANTMENT ON ENCHANTMENT. HE DIGS BENEATH HIMSELF, AND IN DIGGING DISCOVERS ALL ROADS INTO NOTHING. THE CALANTINA, IX:IX Weasel's luck was not always good. Galen Pathwarden, known affection...

  • Brothers in Arms

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    PEACE HAD BROKEN OUT ALL OVER THE PLANET... Which made it tough, to be a mercenary captain. If his enemies would just leave him alone, Miles Naismith decided bitterly, the, Dendarii Free Mercenary Fleet would collapse all on its own. But Miles'...

  • Vienna Prelude

    Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene

    No one is safe... IN 1936 NAZI DARKNESS DESCENDS UPON EUROPE. Every person is only one step away from being swept into the nightmarish tide of evil. Blond Elisa Lindheim, a violinist with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, adopts an Aryan stage name...

  • Prague Counterpoint

    Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene

    She had escaped the Nazi terror. But a nation's priceless treasures were compelling her to return. In Vienna Prelude, Elisa Lindheim risked her life helping others escape pre-World War II Austria. The climactic ending finds her safely in Czechoslo...

  • Perfecting Fiona

    Marion Chesney

    Amy and Tribble can only ponder why Miss Fiona Macleod was placed in their charge at their School for Manners. For there seems to be nothing about the young heiress that needs perfecting. She is demure, refined -- and turned many a handsome head at h...

  • Too Deep for Tears

    Kathryn Lynn Davis

    Dashing English diplomat Charles Kittridge relished the abundant pleasures of the world...and in his far-flung wanderings, he left behind three remarkable daughters. ALISA ROSE, a beauty of the Scottish highlands endowed with their father's lust ...

  • Black Gold

    Iris Gower

    On one side are the mine-owners, men like Sterling Richardson, his weak corrupt brother Rickie, and Luke Proud, a newcomer to the saga. On the other are the Murphy brothers, miners and rabble-rousers, the Llewellyns and Jim O'Connor, the charismatic ...

  • Smoke and Mirrors

    Barbara Michaels

    BEYOND THE SMOKE, BEHIND THE MASK... The fast-paced world of politics was both exhilarating and daunting to young Erin Hartsock - she came to Washington, D.C., to join the campaign of a charismatic congresswoman. But Erin's enthusiasm turned to d...

  • Goldilocks

    Andrew Coburn

    Goldilocks is vintage Coburn, the Coburn of Sweetheart, The Babysitter, and Love Nest. This is a story of a New England town where all the deals have been quietly cut, the cops have traded their souls to crime bosses, and the crime boss of crime boss...

  • The Man in the Green Chevy

    Susan Rogers Cooper

    Meet Milt Kovak, divorced, overweight, mid-40s Chief Deputy of Prophesy County, Oklahoma. When his sleepy little burg and the surrounding towns suddenly get some horrific murders, Milt's cool intuition and great people-skills are put to the test. S...

  • The Booster

    Eugene Izzi

    Plot twists and suspenseful characters mark the story of a professional thief, a booster who is called upon by the mob to do a job that involves avenging a Chicago policeman's murder and breaking into the Sears Tower...

  • Night Angel

    Kate Green

  • Jade Woman

    Jonathan Gash

    Lovejoy, connoisseur of valuable antiques and beautiful women, is on the run, fleeing both the law and the lawless in England. Traveling to Hong Kong seems a wise move, and soon Lovejoy is settled in there, checking out antiques and making good use o...

  • Death Beyond the Nile

    Jessica Mann

    A tour group in Egypt visit an archaeological dig on an isolated island in the Aswan Dam. Before they leave two people have died. Tamara Hoyland, the heroine of other Jessica Mann novels, who is with the group to watch over one of them, decides to in...

  • If I Should Die Before I Die

    Peter Israel

    To save his boss’s wife, a clever lawyer must unmask a silent serial killer Another woman has died, just like all the others who have been targeted by the so-called pillow killer -- her life snuffed out without a sound. He smothers each of them car...

  • The Killing Game

    M.R. Henderson

    CASTING CALL FOR MURDER It's the make-or-break chance of a lifetime for Jeanne Donovan. New to West Hollywood, she lands a job as assistant director of a can't-miss film about a serial killer. Only someone is playing out the script a bit too cl...

  • Quarry's Contract

    Robin Hunter

  • Lullaby

    Ed McBain

    A babysitter is viciously raped and murdered, her beautiful infant ward, smothered to death, an 87th Precint Detectives Meyer and Carella must locate the killer while gang warfare complicates their search...

  • Death's Bright Angel

    Janet Neel

    DEATH'S BRIGHT ANGEL introduces two of the most compelling characters on the contemporary mystery scene: Detective Inspector John McLeish, a 6'4", ex-rugby playing Scot, and Francesca Wilson, sister of a rising pop star, civil servant, and divorcee, ...

  • Salty Waters

    Stephen Murray

    Tracy Ashford loses her title as local beauty queen when her nude poses for a newspaper are discovered, and soon after her body washes up on the shore, leaving Detective Inspector Alec Stainton to track down her killer...

  • Target Stealth

    Jack Merek

    When a KGB agent carrying top-secret United States aerospace plans for the radar-invisible "Stealth Bomber" is captured by Iranian terrorists, General Scott Cartwright becomes America's sole hope of stopping the kidnapper's plans for destruction...

  • Utmost Good Faith

    L.M. Shakespeare

  • Beanball

    Tom Seaver

    Seaver, the former all-star pitcher for the Mets, Reds and other teams, and Resnicow, author of eight whodunits, including Edgar-nominee The Gold Solution , set their baseball mystery novel in the near future. Just before the first game of the World ...

  • White Flower

    Philip Ross

  • Toxin

    Rob Swigart

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    In ""Vector,"" Rob Swigart introduced Detective Cobb Nakamura of the Kauai police and microbiologist Chazz Koenig in a potent thriller mixing myth, science and murder. ""Toxin"" returns to the tiny Hawaiian island with a gripping novel of a local...

  • Treasure in Oxford

    David Williams

    Merchant banker Mark Treasure, arriving at the annual governor's meeting of the Moneybuckle Architectural Endowment only to be confronted by murder, undertakes his own investigations, despite clues that implicate one of his fellow governors...

  • Fatal Impressions

    Wayne Warga

    When Rachel Sabin and Jeffrey Dean, owners of a Los Angeles art gallery and rare book shop, purchase a rare Stella print, they inadvertently become ensnarled in an international web of forgery and murder...

  • The Day Before Midnight

    Stephen Hunter

    The countdown begins when welder Jack Hummel is abducted from his suburban Maryland home and whisked to the South Mountain MX missile site--a top-secret nuclear complex now taken over by paramilitary terrorists. All that stands between the Uzi-arm...

  • My Father Immortal

    Michael D. Weaver

  • Who's Afraid of Beowulf?

    Tom Holt

    Digging up the remains of an ancient band of Vikings, archaeologist Hildy is astounded when they rise from the dead, bearing an appetite for seagulls, a twelve-thousand-year-old grudge, and a thirst for war. ...

  • Viscount Vagabond

    Loretta Chase

    FROM DISTRESS TO DISASTER Catherine Pelliston simply would not abide by her father's wishes and marry the slovenly Lord Browdie. But her escape through the streets of London only seemed to lead her from bad to worse. First, she was robbed. And ...

  • The Rich Shall Inherit

    Elizabeth Adler

    Millions of dollars will belong to the person who can prove he or she is a descendant of the mystery woman called Poppy Mallory. Millions of lies have been told along California's Gold Coast, in Paris's demimonde, and Italy's dangerous underworld, t...

  • Trading Hearts

    Susan Blake

    Best friends since grade school, Val Cassidy and Petey Boyd have always shared their secrets. But Val can't bring herself to share one special daydream: attending the Valentine's Day ball with recent transfer student Jason Talbot. Then Val's romantic...

  • Taking Charge

    Francine Pascal

    MAKING CHANGES... Even though Jessica and Elizabeth don't always see eye to eye, they know their problems aren't half as bad as those of their classmate, Patrick Morris. At least the twins have one big, happy family. Patricks's parents seem to be th...

  • Children of the Maker

    Lucy Cullyford Babbitt

    As far as Paragrin and Cam, mortal rulers of the Melde Colony, are concerned, theirs is the only colony that exists on earth. They have no way of knowing that Jentessa, their Half-Divine Ruler, has a sister, Magramid, who is the Half-Divine Ruler of...

  • Give Yourself a Fright

    Joan Aiken
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    Readers beware! Mischievous ghosts, ancient curses, and monstrous spirits inhabit these thirteen spine-tingling tales. Enter a world of fantasy where a blast of a whistle brings a boy from the past, where a ghostly awl perches night after night at th...

  • Skyborn

    Marcia H. Kruchten

  • Rebel from Alphorion

    Robyn Tallis

  • A Twist in the Tale

    Jeffrey Archer

    Archer's ( Kane and Abel ) talent as a raconteur is evident in these 12 distinctive short stories, all of which have surprise endings. Many center on human failings such as jealousy, obstinacy, pettiness or prejudice; 10 are based on "known incidents...

  • No Easy Place to Be

    Steven Corbin

  • The End of Tragedy

    Rachel Ingalls

  • Baby Dreams

    Maxine Paetro

  • The Things We Do for Love

    Benjamin M. Schutz

    Private eye Leo Haggerty takes him from Washington, D.C., to a lush if lethal tropic isle. Leo has hired rock promoter Nick Ballantine to guard singer/lyricist Jane "Doe," nee Summers, the target of an unknown murderer. Checking on members of Jane's ...

  • A Country of Strangers

    Susan Richards Shreve

  • The Dieter " Limited First Edition"

    Susan Sussman

    Barbara Avers has it all, a high-power attorney/politician husband, great kids, beautiful home - and a two pack a day cigarette habit. Suddenly, her best friend dies and Barbara honors their lifelong friendship by flinging away her last car...

  • A Gravestone Made of Wheat

    Will Weaver

    A Gravestone Made of Wheat is a poignant and lyrical story of land, love, and the American immigrant experience. Now an award-winning indie film distributed by 20th Century Fox. Available everywhere on DVD. http://www.sweetlandmovie.com/ Excerpted fr...

  • Penfriends from Porlock

    A.N. Wilson

  • When the Killing Starts

    Ted Wood

    Yet again, vacation rolls around for Reid Bennett and he passes it up for a case. This time, Norma Michaels offers Reid $25,000 to find her son, Jason. Reid heroically takes the job because he seeks to stick it to Colonel George Dunphy, a corrupt mil...

  • Success

    Martin Amis

    In Success Amis pens a mismatched pair of foster brothers--one "a quivering condom of neurosis and ineptitude," the other a "bundle of contempt, vanity and stock-response"--in a single London flat. He binds them with ties of class hatred, sexual riva...

  • Apes and Angels

    Philip Appleman

  • Cat's Eye

    Margaret Atwood

    Returning to the city of her youth for a retrospective of her art, controversial painter Elaine Risley is engulfed by vivid images of the past. Strongest of all is the figure of Cordelia, leader of the trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce ...

  • Wittgenstein's Nephew

    Thomas Bernhard

    It is 1967. In separate wings of a Viennese hospital, two men lie bedridden. The narrator, named Thomas Bernhard, is stricken with a lung ailment; his friend Paul, nephew of the celebrated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, is suffering from one of his...

  • Wycliffe and the Tangled Web

    W.J. Burley

    A beautiful girl goes missing, and Wycliffe must untangle a mystery to solve a murder . . .A beautiful schoolgirl goes missing from a Cornish village on the day she has told her boyfriend and sister she is pregnant. The possibility that she has been ...

  • The Magic Toyshop

    Angela Carter

    From the master of the literary supernatural and author of The Bloody Chamber, a startling tale of the redemptive power of physical and emotional love
     
    One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morni...

  • Intimacy

    Susan Chace

    As the daughter of a Catholic mother and a Jewish father, thirty-seven-year-old Cecilia grows up obsessed with the Church's rituals and her own overwhelming sense of guilt. She pursues her own bizarre form of penance by rubbing herself with poison iv...

  • Echo of Lions

    Barbara Chase-Riboud

    From the author who brought Sally Hemings to vibrant life for millions of readers comes another controversial and fascinating historical figure -- Joseph Cinque. Here is the story of a black man desperate to return to his country, and a white man try...

  • V For Victor

    Mark Childress

    It is 1943 in Mobile, Alabama. While the world prepares for war, sixteen-year-old Victor -- sent to care for his grandmother -- yearns to be part of the unfolding patriotic adventure. Victor's wish comes true, and he embarks on a suspenseful series o...

  • The Quick

    Burt Cole

    In the not-too-distant future, Shaman, a superhuman mercenary, races back to the United States from the South Seas when a civil war tears the country apart, and he plunges into both sides of the conflict...

  • Working for Love

    Tessa Dahl

  • The Lyre of Orpheus

    Robertson Davies

    “The final Cornish Trilogy novel from an author who “tells terrific stories that twist around and double back on themselves in surprising ways” (The New York Times).   There is an important decision to be made. The Cornish Foundation is th...

  • Alaska

    Allen Drury

  • Miss Hartwell's Dilemma

    Carola Dunn

    Amaryllis Hartwellâ,"s Academy for Young Ladies has been a life saver. After her father caused a scandal, and left her without funds, she made the Academy her refuge and her causeâ,”employing her dear aunt and devoted governess and creating...

  • Winterchill

    Ernest J. Finney

  • The Tale of the Turnip

    Jim Forest

  • South Will Rise at Noon

    Doug Glover

    Hot on the heels of Douglas Glover's Governor General's Award for fiction for his riotous novel, Elle, Goose Lane has brought back into print Glover's hilarious novel, The South Will Rise at Noon, originally published in 1988.

    At the centre...

  • Share of Honor

    Ralph Graves

  • Size

    A.W. Gray

    Size Brandon, an ex-con, small-time hood and con artist, runs for his life when the FBI begins to pressure him to testify against his best friend, Texas gambler Pecos Jimmy Fontemont, and Pecos Jimmy decides to eliminate the unwilling potential witne...

  • The Afternoon of a Writer

    Peter Handke

    In Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke's The Afternoon of a Writer, a writer, fearful of losing his abilities and hence his connection with the world, takes an afternoon walk and has several encounters that reaffirm his confidence......

  • Owning Jolene

    Shelby Hearon

    From the time she was seven, Jolene Temple has been a pawn between her feuding parents, each of whom has become practiced in kidnapping her from the other. She has been left emotionally suspended between two philosophies of life: that of her stolid, ...

  • Truck Dance

    Olive Hershey

  • The Crosshatch Men

    Ray Hogan

    Crippled by an accident and at the mercy of the cheating overseer of his ranch, Curt Ramsey appeals for help from his estranged brothers, who must run a gauntlet of Indians and outlaws to reach the ranch. Original."...

  • Monoosook Valley

    Elisabeth Hyde

    In a small New Hampshire town, 35-year-old Shirley Morrison is raising two teenagers (from a marriage that ended with her husband's death in a freak boating accident) and running her business, the Curly Q beauty parlor. The year is 1971, and drugs, s...

  • Midnight

    Dean Koontz

    The citizens of Moonlight Cove, California, are changing. Some are losing touch with their deepest emotions. Others are surrendering to their wildest urges. And the few who remain unchanged are absolutely terrified -- if not brutally murdered in the ...

  • The Third Eagle: Lessons Along a Minor String

    R.A. MacAvoy

  • Harriet Goes to the Circus

    Betsy Maestro

  • Earthmaker's Tales

    Gretchen Will Mayo

  • Tales from the End of Time

    Michael Moorcock

    ronic and exquisitely funny tales from the End of Time - Volume 11 of The Eternal Champion, the Millennium Uniform Editions of Michael Moorcock's fantastic fiction. - This is the Tales of the Eternal Champion series compilation of the Legends of the ...

  • American Appetites

    Joyce Carol Oates

    Finally returned to print in a beautiful new trade paperback edition, American Appetites is classic Joyce Carol Oates -- a suspenseful thriller in which the happy facade of an affluent suburban couple crumbles under the weight of tragedy and scandal....

  • Blood Race

    Mark Olshaker

    During the 1936 Berlin Olympics, American David Keegan and German Karl Linderhoff compete for a gold medal and for the love of scientist Miranda Wolff, while British agent David Tennyson races to stop Wolff's work--or kill her...

  • Hangings

    Bill Pronzini

    The sleepy town of Tule Bend came alive with terror after a drifter was found hanging. The constable knew his job was on the line if he didn't do something. When more swinging bodies appeared he knew he had to move fast because he was next on the han...