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  • Home Free

    Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

  • Bored Blue

    Cynthia Jabar

  • Fortune's Light

    Michael Jan Friedman

    Dante Maxima Seven--a world known to its inhabitants as Imprima. A world where Madragi--huge social/economic entities wealthy beyond compare--control the fate of millions... Years ago, William Riker was part of the Starfleet delegation that opened...

  • Renegade

    Gene DeWeese

    For nearly a hundred years, the planet Chrellkan IV has enjoyed a peaceful relationship with the colony on the third planet of its star system. However, relations between the two worlds take a deadly turn as rebel colonists take over Chrellkan III an...

  • Tek Vengeance

    William Shatner

    While his girlfriend travels to Berlin to testify against the most dangerous TekLords, ex-cop Jake Cardigan is called to Brazil to speak to a witness and discovers that he has been tricked into leaving his lover's side. Reprint....

  • Vendetta

    Peter David

    The Borg--half organic being and half machine, they are the most feared race in the known galaxy. In their relentless quest for technological perfection, they have destroyed entire star systems, enslaved countless peoples, and, in a single brutal att...

  • Xenocide

    Orson Scott Card

    THE WAR FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THE PLANET LUSITANIA WILL BE FOUGHT IN THE HEART OF A CHILD NAMED GLORIOUSLY BRIGHT. On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different i...

  • To Stalk a Specter

    Simon Hawke

  • Best of What If?

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  • Beyond the Void

    Sean Dalton

  • Bloodname

    Robert Thurston

    TRUEBIRTH -- Born in the laboratory, these genetically engineered soldiers train to be the ultimate warriors. They are the elite pilots of the Clan's fearsome BattleMech war machines. FREEBIRTH --Born of the natural union of parents, these too are...

  • Chekhov's Journey

    Ian Watson

    In 1890 the Russian author Chekhov undertook an historic journey across Siberia to the convict island of Sakhalin. A hundred years later, in an isolated artist's retreat, a Soviet film unit prepares to commemorate his journey by using a technique th...

  • Confrontation

    Yoshiyuki Tomino

  • Deathscape

    David Peters

    MAN'S EXPLORATION OF PSYCHIC ABILITY-AND THE SEARCH FOR THE PERFECT WEAPON-HAVE PRODUCED A NIGHTMARE BEYOND BELIEF... DEATHSCAPE Chuck Simon's unique mind powers are strong enough to conquer an ordinary man. But now, biochemical dumping at a weapon...

  • Destination Mars

    Rick North

  • The Dream Compass

    Jeff Bredenberg

    First in the Merquan Chronicles, a science fiction adventure of a revolt against tyranny in a postapocalyptic world from “a writer to watch closely” (Roger Zelazny).
     
    Earth has been devastated in a long-forgotten...

  • Falcon Guard

    Robert Thurston

    A CLASH OF EMPIRES In 2786, the elite Star League Army fled the Inner Sphere, abandoning the senseless bloodshed ordered by the Successor Lords. Now, almost three hundred years later the Clans, heirs of the Star League Army, turn their eyes-back upo...

  • Inconstant Star

    Poul Anderson

    First you scream, and then you leap.... When humans and kzinti met, the kzinti introduced themselves with a scream-and-leap of joyous anticipation. But--surprise!--the monkey boys and girls of Planet Earth not only fought back but won! How, how coul...

  • Isaac Asimov's Aliens

    Gardner Dozois

  • K-9 Corps

    Kenneth Von Gunden

    Mankind's best friends - and the future's greatest heroes... The team: They are the best freelance space scouts in the galaxy; genetically altered dogs with enhanced senses and the gift of speech; they are Beowulf, Grendel, Mama-san, Anso...

  • Kent Montana and the Reasonably Invisible Man

    Lionel Fenn

  • The Khan's Persuasion

    Cynthia Felice

    RITES OF CONQUEST The exploitation of Cestry Prime was supposed to be a simple operation. But neither the Company nor their beautiful technician Sindon Liang counted on Rukmani Khan...and his incredible powers of Persuasion. The Khan can cleave sto...

  • The Last Recall

    Charles Ingrid

    With the earth devastated by an accident that has mutated the human race, the survivors attempt to breed back to purer bloodlines, while harassed by mutant bands and visited by generational starships sent from earth years before...

  • The Man-Kzin Wars

    Poul Anderson

    LARRY NIVEN'S KNOWN SPACE IS AFLAME WITH WAR! Once upon a time, in the very earliest days of interplanetary exploration, an unarmed human vessel was set upon by a warship from the planet Kzin -- home of the fiercest warriors in Known Space. This w...

  • The Marked Man

    Charles Ingrid

    Charles Ingrid''s prophetic two-book series tells the story of an Earth divided by genetics. Some are determined to return the human race to its original form. But others believe the world belongs to those who have been genetically engineered....

  • Nanoware Time

    Ian Watson
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    NANOWARE TIME The aliens came from Beta Hydri, bearing gifts for Earth: microscopic machines called "nanoware." Injected into the human bloodstream, they would open powerful realms of inner space. But even the aliens admitted there were demons in tha...

  • Nicoji

    M. Shayne Bell

    They owed their souls to the Company Store--Not if they could help it, they didn't! When Sam and Jake answered the call of American Nicoji and volunteered for off-planet agricultural jobs they thought they were turning in their dead-end lives on E...

  • On the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure

    Harry Harrison

    He's the perfect Spaceship Trooper: big, strong, and completely brainwashed. He's the perfect hero: willing to do almost anything to save his neck (perhaps one of the only body parts that's still his own). Bill is in the hospital, vainly hoping fo...

  • A Roil of Stars

    Don Wismer

    A COWARD DIES A THOUSAND TIMES, BUT A BRAVE MAN'S DEATH IS REAL!That and Never Volunteer could have been Ryne Sangre's dual mottoes, but now that the Wholeth Empire is reaching out to annex the worlds of the Polar Cloud, it's time for all able-bodied...

  • Timecrime, Inc.

    Debra Doyle

  • Transition

    Vonda N. McIntyre

    ROGUE STARSHIP When the U.S. government tried to claim the research ship Starfarer for the military, the crew risked all to hijack her. They did manage to escape...with a nuclear missile embedded in the hull. Yet, they kept to their original missi...

  • Winter World

    C.J. Mills

  • Apparent Wind

    Dallas Murphy

    Murphy's dour and reluctant hero Doom Loomis has come home from jail to inherit not only his father's yacht but an entire town, Omnium Settlement. Half underwater and still sinking, the strategically-located Omnium is a hot property wanted by two uns...

  • Bella Mafia

    Lynda La Plante

  • Big Fish

    Ken Grissom

    Hired to fix an exclusive sportfishing tournament, John Rodrigue discovers that his actions are merely a front for the dirty dealings of a big oil company, and he must make a daring rescue to save a hijacked oil platform...

  • The City When It Rains

    Thomas H. Cook

    Freelance photographer David Corman sees a chance to sell a story when a woman leaps to her death in New York's Hell's Kitchen, but as he investigates her life he inadvertently reveals shocking personal truths...

  • Clerical Errors

    D.M. Greenwood

    After Julia Smith interviews for a secretarial position at the Medewich Cathedral, she visits the chapel for a moment's contemplation, but instead finds the severed head of a controversial visiting priest...

  • Deadeye

    Sam Llewellyn

    Divorce lawyer Harry Frazer and transplanted Yank Fiona Campbell follow a trail of greed and international double-dealings from Scotland to Rotterdam to Geneva. By the author of Blood Orange and Death Roll. Reprint....

  • Deathwatch '39

    Jack Gerson

    As World War II is declared, two women on opposite sides of the Atlantic are murdered and Ernst Lohmann is assigned to track the prime suspect in an international manhunt that could alter the course of history...

  • The Drowner

    John D. MacDonald

    Events are set in motion by the death of Lucille Hansen who drowns in a lake. The cause of death is a mystery. Some claim it was accidental, although Lucille was a strong swimmer, while still others believe it was a suicide as she was on the verge of...

  • Easy Way Down

    Irving Weinman

    When Juan Montanares, the cocaine kingpin who bribed him years before, suddenly dies, free-lance gumshoe Lenny Schwartz finally feels he can breathe more easily, until Montanares's right-hand man assumes control of the cartel. Reprint....

  • Faith, Hope and Homicide

    Jessica Mann

    Undercover agent Tamara Hayland is led to the jungles of Brazil in search of clues to the suspicious suicide of Louise Dench, whose husband Robert Waugh had perished months before under mysterious circumstances--possibly involving native witchcraft...

  • Fire and Forget

    Bob Cook

  • The Fourth K

    Mario Puzo

    A PRESIDENTIAL DYNASTY. AN ARAB TERRORIST ATTACK. DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE. Mario Puzo envisioned it all in his eerily prescient 1991 novel, The Fourth K. President Francis Xavier Kennedy is elected to office, in large part, thanks to the legacy of hi...

  • Funnelweb

    Russell Braddon

    A hate-filled violin virtuoso enlists the aid of the world's deadliest spider, the Australian funnelweb, to serve his deranged will, and Inspector Cheadle is left trying to untangle mysterious strands of false leads before others die horribly...

  • Hard Target

    Christopher Hyde

  • Killer Diller

    Clyde Edgerton

    Listre, North Carolina, is jumping. The Sears twins, Ted and Ned (or is it Ned and Ted?), who run a Baptist college, have opened Nutrition House for overweight Christians. Meanwhile, their Project Promise is busy matching the educationally disadvanta...

  • A Long Cold Fall

    Sam Reaves

    A lifetime ago, Vietnam vet and Chicago cab driver Cooper MacLeish shared a night of passion with beautiful Vivian Horstmann. And now she's dead - just another police statistic in a violent, heartless town. Though the cops call Vivian's long, cold fa...

  • Looker

    Michael Kilian

    After a murder at the Plaza, a society columnist races to save a model’s life A daytime fashion show at the Plaza Hotel attracts the most beautiful, cynical, and useless people that New York society has to offer. Swimming among them is A. C. J...

  • The Mercenaries // The Cutie

    Donald E. Westlake

    SOME PEOPLE WILL DO ANYTHING FOR MONEY Mavis St. Paul had been a rich man's mistress. Now she was a corpse. And every cop in New York City was hunting for the two-bit punk accused of putting a knife in her. But the punk was innocent. He'd been ...

  • Miami Heat

    Jerome Sanford

  • Moscow Magician

    John Moody

    Viktor Nikolaich, black marketeer, becomes caught up in a subversive KGB/CIA plot as militiamen are murdered on Moscow's streets and Russian guards disappear from outside the US Embassy. He attempts to escape to the West but the KGB are never far beh...

  • Murder at Madingley Grange

    Caroline Graham

    Having agreed to manor-sit rich Aunt Maude's stately Madingley Grange, Simon Hannaford and his sister Laurie decide to put the gloomy old estate to profitable use. So they hire a bogus boozing butler and a cross-dressing maid, and assemble a motley g...

  • Murder at Midnight

    Mickey Alman

    Fresh from their first successful case, high school sleuths Dan and Alex must face a new challenge from the wealthiest kid at school, Quentin Esterhaus, who boasts that he can commit the perfect crime...

  • Murder Movie

    Jill McGown

    From the bestselling author of The Inspector Lloyd and Sergeant Hill Series...Frank Derwent , known in the business as FD, the multibillion-dollar director and Hollywood hotshot, has come to western Scotland to shoot a simple movie of love gone wron...

  • The Necro File

    Michael Newton

  • Parting Shot

    James W. Kunetka

    London, today. Construction workers make an extraordinary find: a crude atomic bomb, dating from World War II. Its discovery forces Deputy Home Minister Edmund Ramsden to scour the files of Britain's wartime intelligence for an explanation. What he l...

  • The Pendragon Caper

    Richard H.R. Smithies

  • Please Write for Details

    John D. MacDonald

    American bachelor Miles Drummond, living in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and running out of money, half-heartedly places an ad in a few US newspapers announcing a summer art workshop. Much to his surprise, thirteen students write for details, and arrive in Cu...

  • Reverend Randollph and Modern Miracles

    Terrence Smith

    At the posh Lake Forest mansion where Reverend Randollph and his colleagues form an interdenominational panal on miracles, "miraculous" paranormal murders are occuring, and the minister-sleuth must find an earthly explanation--fast...

  • Rough Justice

    Ken Gross

    Jack Mann, a middle-aged, honest detective, matches wits with crooked cop Tommy Day--a member of the special task force on organized crime and a secret employee of the Mob--as Jack tries to save the life of a D.A. targeted for assassination. Reprint....

  • The Secret Pilgrim

    John Le Carre

    The acclaimed novel featuring George Smiley, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies and The Night Manager, now an AMC miniseries  The rules of the game, and of the world, have changed. Old enemies ...

  • Slaughter Island

    Herb Fisher

  • The Sufi Fiddle

    Richard Bulliet

    To relieve the tedium of jury duty, recently divorced Castle Winter and a beautiful computer expert named Pansy borrow a piece of evidence, a violin engraved with Arabic writing, and suddenly find themselves pursued by several menacing characters...

  • Ten of Swords

    J.R. Levitt

    A loner private eye in the Sam Spade tradition, Jason Coulter is hired to find a teenager in Salt Lake City, a young girl who may be involved with the Church of the Four-Sided Triangle, a cult fond of ritual sacrifices...

  • Terminus

    Andrew Puckett

  • The Vespers Tapes

    Albert Dibartolomeo

    Vincent Vespers, a Philadelphia schoolteacher, meets a Mafia boss through his brother, the family black sheep, agrees to help write his memoirs, and finds himself pursued by various parties eager to steal the Don's confidences...

  • Villiger

    Julian Jay Savarin

  • Virus

    William Harrington

    When a computer virus threatens the country's computer network, Scott Vandenberg, a computer security expert, and Nancy Delacorte, a government agent, match wits with a techno-genius and a Columbian drug dealer...

  • Whisper...He Might Hear You

    William Appel

    After a near fatal knife attack, criminal psychologist Dr. Kate Berman vows to stay out of the most recent case involving a sadistic killer of women--until an old police buddy draws her into the investigation. Reprint....

  • Black for Remembrance

    Carlene Thompson

    Two decades have passed since Caroline Webb's five-year-old daughter Hayley was kidnapped and murdered. Now Caroline has a new husband, a new life, and a new daughter, Melinda. But the demons of her past refuse to stay buried... Bouquets of black ...

  • Good Intentions

    Joy Fielding

    Lynn Schuster didn't expect the phone call from Marc Cameron, the "other" woman's spouse. She certainly never expected to feel such a strong sexual attraction to him when he stepped into her living room that night ... and offered her the perfect way ...

  • The Jaguar's Eye

    Caroline Burnes

    She wasn't a typical tourist Hard work on the Maya excavation wasn't all that distinguished Celeste Coolridge. The villagers claimed a mystical tie to the fiery-haired stockbroker. They invited her to their secret rites. And when a man was mauled ...

  • The Property of a Lady

    Elizabeth Adler

    THE MAGNIFICENT IVANOFF EMERALD It surfaced at Christie's in Geneva, "The Property of a Lady" -- a lady now sought by powerful men intent on seizing a legacy that could tilt the world balance of power... THE TERRIFYING IVANOFF SECRET She lived l...

  • When Murder Calls

    M.L. Gamble

    What's a girl to do? Megan Summers, TV-ratings coordinator and mother of two, was just getting her life in order when a uniformed killer -- dubbed the Grim Reaper by the media -- donned a badge and caused chaos in the cozy hamlet of Melbourne...

  • The Antagonists

    Joan Wolf
    in

    The unique joys and passions that surround St. Valentine's Day are captured in an extraordinary collection of all-new stories by five of the most beloved and highly acclaimed Regency authors. Fair ladies ... courtly gentlemen ... romantic intrigue......

  • Autumn Rose

    Marjorie Farrell

    Lady of Mystery To the ton, Honora Dillon was a person beyond the pale, soiling her hand with ink to pander to popular taste. To the haughty Countess of Alverstone, Honora was an adventuress, trying to snare the Countess's son. To Miranda, H...

  • The Bath Quadrille

    Amanda Scott

    Two Could Play at the Marriage Game Lovely Lady Sybilla Calverton refused to show her rage when she spied her husband, the devastatingly attractive Earl of Ramsbury, in the arms of the notorious Lady Fanny Mandeville. Instead Sybilla chose to show...

  • Catch of the Season

    Barbara Benedict

    THE CHASE FOR LOVE To compete against twenty other women for a marriage proposal from that devilishly handsome bachelor, the Earl of Fairbright? The very idea was insane! But Andrea Grantham is coerced into entering the silly contest -- and, aft...

  • Change of Heart

    Julie Caille

    A LADY WITH A PAST For six years, Diana Farington Verney had buried herself in the country, far from the gossip surrounding her ill-fated, marriage and her late husband's demise. Indeed, London was be last place the lovely widow wanted to be, bu...

  • Fathers and Daughters

    Patricia Rice
    in

    The unique joys and passions that surround St. Valentine's Day are captured in an extraordinary collection of all-new stories by five of the most beloved and highly acclaimed Regency authors. Fair ladies ... courtly gentlemen ... romantic intrigue......

  • Feuds and Fantasies

    Rebecca Ashley

    SHE HAD NOT MATURED TO SEVEN-AND-TWENTY WITHOUT LEARNING THAT ROMANCE WAS A FLEETING THING.... If only she had not developed a tendre for William Haversly -- her fierce enemy since the duel in which he shot her brother. To make matters worse, Fion...

  • Golden Rose

    Mary Balogh
    in

    The unique joys and passions that surround St. Valentine's Day are captured in an extraordinary collection of all-new stories by five of the most beloved and highly acclaimed Regency authors. Fair ladies ... courtly gentlemen ... romantic intrigue......

  • Hearts Betrayed

    Gayle Buck

    Love's Table Turned Michele du Bois burst upon the London season as society's most dazzling beauty. Gentlemen swarmed around her like bees after honey -- only to have their dreams of marriage brutally dashed. Men were mere playthings to...

  • Lady Harriet Takes Charge

    Marian Devon

    TIME HEALS WOUNDED HEARTS? PERHAPS WHEN PIGS FLY! The gossip mongers had a field day when the newly betrothed Lady Harriet caught her fiance, Rawdon Melford, kissing another woman -- at their own engagement party! Eight years later, Harriet nev...

  • Lady Valentine's Scheme

    Emma Lange
    in

    The unique joys and passions that surround St. Valentine's Day are captured in an extraordinary collection of all-new stories by five of the most beloved and highly acclaimed Regency authors. Fair ladies ... courtly gentlemen ... romantic intrigue......

  • A Logical Lady

    Janice Bennett

    A SINGULAR SENSATION Miss Elizabeth Carstairs, in the ordinary way of things, was a level-headed young lady, not given to flights of romantic foolishness. But when Mr. Frederick Ashfield arrived at Halliford Castle, after two years on the Continent,...

  • Lucy's Scoundrel

    Barbara Neil

    She had thought to teach him a lesson, not learn one herself HER soft heart was her undoing Upon hearing of a libertine son whose errant ways were driving his poor mother to distraction, Lucy Bledsoe reluctantly volunteered to assist in a most...

  • The Marriage Brokers

    Irene Northan

    SHE would never have believed him to be such a slowtop When her brother informed her that to clear off his debts he had agreed to find her a husband, Miranda Branscombe was horrified, chiefly because she could not trust her rackety young brother&...

  • The Secret Benefactor

    Katherine Kingsley
    in

    The unique joys and passions that surround St. Valentine's Day are captured in an extraordinary collection of all-new stories by five of the most beloved and highly acclaimed Regency authors. Fair ladies ... courtly gentlemen ... romantic intrigue......

  • A Serious Pursuit

    Ellen Rawlings

    SCIENCE IS A SERIOUS MATTER ... BUT SO IS LOVE! Wishing to pursue his scientific studies undisturbed, Lord Justin Darvey kept his life simple--and the hiring of charming Elizabeth Hanley as a companion to his elderly aunt seemed just the thing. El...

  • Something to Die for

    James Webb

    It is a bloody game as old as nations and politics. And it has always been played with the lives of the most loyal and brave. Colonel "Wild Bill" Fogarty has been a dedicated soldier for most of his adult life---an able warrior who was bloodied but ...

  • Widows

    Ed McBain

    The beautiful blonde in the penthouse apartment was dead, her face and body laced with slashes from a paring knife -- grisly evidence of the terrible things the city can do to pretty young women. What sordid web of money, sex, and greed had ensnared ...

  • Bloodfire

    John Lutz

    At first Fred Carver agrees to help distraught Bob Ghostly find his missing, heroin-addicted wife, Elizabeth. But all it takes is a corpse, a narrowly dodged bullet, and the discovery that his client is Florida's most notorious drug dealer for the cr...

  • Breakdown

    Bill Pronzini

    The "nameless" San Francisco detective and his partner Eberhardt are trying to prove that their client Thomas Lujack did not mow down his business partner with his car. Although he suspects his client's guilt early on, the 58-year-old gumshoe spends ...

  • A Deadline for Murder

    Valerie Frankel

    WANDA'S A CLOTHESHORSE, A FLIRT, NOBODY'S FOOL--AND THE SLICKEST PRIVATE EYE ON 'NEW YORK'S MEAN STREETS! Wanda Mallory, P.I., is the tough-talking, chain-smoking, funky-chic owner of the Do It Right Detective Agency in Times Square, New York City...

  • Perchance to Dream

    Robert B. Parker

    "What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill. You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep..." Raymond Chandler wrote those immortal words on the final page of his first Marlowe t...

  • Rigor Mortis

    Mary Kittredge

    EDWINA CRUSOE, R.N. -- THE BEST MEDICINE FOR MURDER! Edwina Crusoe, top-notch nurse and super-sleuth, is called back to Chelsea Memorial when patients who survive routine operations start ending up in the morgue. With rumors flying of a "death a...

  • Book Case

    Stephen Greenleaf

    Brimming with sex, money, and scandal, the manuscript had all the makings of a blockbuster bestseller. And publisher Bryce Chatterton knew it, just as he knew that publishing the book was his last and only hope of keeping Periwinkle Press afloat. But...

  • Breach of Promise

    Roy Hart

  • The Buzzards Must Also Be Fed

    Anne Wingate

    Wrongly incarcerated for the murder of his family, a Texas man escapes to his hometown to kill the police chief, whom he suspects drove his wife to suicide, and finds Detective Mark Shigata in his place...

  • Death Of A Warrior Queen

    S.T. Haymon

    Detective Inspector Benjamin Jurnet is reunited with his true love, Miriam, but their romantic tryst outside the quaint English village of Lanthrop is rudely interrupted when they find a corpse in a sand dune...

  • Gideon's Fog

    J.J. Marric

  • Immoral Certainty

    Robert K. Tanenbaum

    First the rituals, then the blood, then He shall come into His power and rule in the name of Lucifer. And woe to any servant who does not bend her knee in homage.... A killer is working the streets of New York City, snuffing out the most innocent ...

  • Lady Left

    Robert Westbrook

    While vacationing with his family in Nicaragua, Rachmaninoff of the Beverly Hills police department becomes embroiled in a scheme to restore the Sandinistas to power. Masterminded by activist professor Cory Heard, the plan calls for digging up $1 bil...

  • Madness in Maggody

    Joan Hess

    A HOOT, A HOLLER ... AND A HOMICIDE No doubt about it, local gossips had finally gotten something right: a maniac was loose in Maggody, Arkansas (pop. 755). So Chief of Police Ariel 'Arly" Hanks, a.k.a. the local girl who did not make good in New ...

  • The Murders of Mrs. Austin and Mrs. Beale

    Jill McGown

    Both murder victims were dishy; both had rich husbands. Otherwise, Leonora Austin, struggling artist, and Rosemary Beale, ex-call girl, had nothing in common. Until the night they were both found br4tailliy murdered, with an open phone line between t...

  • The Old Contemptibles

    Martha Grimes

    It is a rainy day in London's Camden Passage when Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury meets a pretty and strangely troubled widow named Jane Holdsworth. He is drawn into a passionate affair with her--and becomes a suspect in a murder investigat...

  • The Other Side of Death

    Judith Van Gieson

    The "annual" Saint Patrick's Day party hosted by Tim and Jamie Malone in their small northern New Mexico community is their first in many years. But it also marks their last as they prepare to move to the Midwest. For Albuquerque attorney Neil Hamel,...

  • A Private Crime

    Lillian O'Donnell

    Manhattan's pleasant Upper East Side has always been safe from the city's drug wars-until a crackpot with an. AK-47 fires on a crowd at an open-air flea market, killing a teenage mother and her infant. The shocked neighborhood looks to Lt. Norah Mulc...

  • Vital Signs

    Robin Cook

    Where life begins, terror lurks... In the eyes of her envious peers, Marissa has it all: a superb professional reputation, a flourishing pediatrics practice, even a fairytale marriage with the man of her dreams - Robert Buchanan, an entrepreneur invo...

  • Angels in Arms

    Mike Ripley

    When his old friend Werewolf phones him with a desperate call for help, streetwise chancer Angel has no choice but to respond - and finds himself plunged into another hair-raising adventure! This time he is well out of his comfort zone, travelling fi...

  • The Animal Shelter Mystery

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now that they have a home with their grandfather, they've turned thei...

  • The Crabtree Affair

    Michael Innes

  • The Deserted Library Mystery

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather and are helping to save a...

  • Fatal Fortune

    Marian Babson

    EUROPE ON $50 A DAY. MURDER GRATIS. Dingy hotels with pushy concierges were not Hope Bradstone's idea of acceptable accommodations. But then again, running of to Brussels at the drop of a hat was hardly acceptable, either--especially when Hope's...

  • The Haunted Cabin Mystery

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather and are going to visit his ...

  • A Killing in Real Estate

    Robert Upton

  • New Crimes, Volume 2

    Maxim Jakubowski

  • The Old Motel Mystery

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather and they've gone on a vac...

  • Accident

    Wolf

    An East German writer is captivated by the healing and the destructive capabilities of technology, as she contemplates the medical knowledge that can save her brother's life and the devastation wrought by the Chernobyl disaster...

  • Angels on Horseback

    Norman Thelwell

  • Classic Tales of Horror and the Supernatural

    Bill Pronzini

    Here is a masterful collection of 41 of the genre's finest--and most chilling--tales, It is an indispensable volume of horror and the beyond, compiled by three of the field's top contributors and authorities and introduced by the current undisputed m...

  • Evenings at Mongini's: And Other Stories

    Russell Lucas

  • Liars Autobiography

    Graham Chapman

    Graham Chapman reveals what it was like to be part of the revolutionary and zany Monty Python teamRequired reading for Monty Python fans, this true and false memoir is Graham Chapman's own hilarious account of his life as a Python and as a homosexual...

  • Swallow Hard

    Sarah Gaddis

  • Temps, Volume 1

    Neil Gaiman

  • You Must Be Sisters

    Deborah Moggach

    The author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel pens “the happiest, saddest, funniest, most perceptive truth about growing up since The Catcher in the Rye” (Over 21).   Laura and Claire Jenkins were born just a few years apart, b...

  • Bayou Bride

    Bobbi Smith

    HE BOUGHT A BRIDE Wealthy Louisiana planter Dominic Kane was in a bind: according to his father's will, he had to find a wife within six months--or forfeit his inheritance and his plantation, Riverwood. When he caw the beautiful bondservant on the d...

  • Braden's Brides

    Caryn Cameron

    God's Country Before Abigail Rosemont even arrived on the lush Australian frontier of New South Wales, her longed-for life of adventure had begun -- with Duke Braden's searing kiss at sea. But New South Wales was a land divided -- by ri...

  • By My Heart Betrayed

    Olga Bicos

    HER BEAUTY WAS THE BAIT... Esmeralda MacClure knew that using her fiery beauty as a weapon was heartless. But her cousin's betrayal had stolen her family estate and now, forced to work as a seamstress, she has no choice if she wants to reclaim her...

  • Cheyenne Temptress

    Veronica Blake

    SHE'D CONQUER VICE Disarmingly lovely Jubilee Hart was one determined lady! She'd traveled all the way from the nation's capital to the vice-ridden frontier to speak out for woman's suffrage and to close down the gambling saloons. And the minute...

  • Colorado Captive

    Charlotte Hubbard

    SHE VOWED ETERNAL VENGEANCE Her lush beauty hidden by a disguise, eighteen-year-old Emily Burnham came to the rough-and-tumble mining town of Cripple Creek determined to catch the murderous scoundrel who'd shot her father. Then devastatingly han...

  • Dakota Dream

    Sharon MacIver

    BOUND BY PASSION Dominique DuBois was a golden beauty, and niece to General George Custer, stalwart enemy of Indian nations. She could not explain her fierce attraction to a shy and handsome private in her uncle's charge - she only knew that Jacob's...

  • Defy the Thunder

    Kay McMahon

    She vowed never to forgive him but she could not forget him She wanted a taste of adventure. But rebellious Alexandra Penbrooke stepped into a world of danger … and found herself tangled in the steely arms of Christian Page. A man who’s seeming ...

  • Desert Nights

    Susan Stern

    The Princess and the Pharaoh She was the privileged daughter of a king, envied for her delectable beauty. He was the all-powerful ruler of Egypt, worshipped as a god by his people. And when Shanda, unwilling, was sent by her father as a gift t...

  • Destiny's Will

    Elizabeth Ann Michaels

    AN ARROGANT STRANGER HELD HER FUTURE IN HIS HANDS... Cara Fairchild's beloved father left her penniless on his death, willing their estate to the Earl of Ellsworth, a man she'd never met. The imperious Earl sent curt orders for Cara to live with h...

  • Dream Lover

    Jean Innes

    SHE FOUGHT HIS ADVANCES... Lovely Breda Vivien was livid! The law threatened that unless she married, she might lose her beloved Cornwall estate. The proud, raven-haired Breda refused to barter herself to a man -- not even the rugged Richard Delacey...

  • Falcon on the Wind // His Stolen Bride

    Shelly Thacker

    CAPTIVE OF DECEPTION AND DESIRE Betrayed by a treacherous French "ally" dashing Sir Connor of Glenshiel boldly seized the high-born Lady Laurien d'Amboise from the steps of Notre Dame on her wedding day. The reluctant betrothed of his deceitful en...

  • Far Horizons

    Katherine Sinclair

    They were three very different women, each searching for happiness in the ever changing world of the nineteenth century. -- Bethany Newton - a victim of injustice, she was sentenced to an Australian prison and forced to leave her baby daughter in E...

  • The Fatal Crown

    Ellen Jones

    THEIR PASSION WOULD TEAR A KINGDOM ASUNDER It was a time of breathtaking pageantry -- of treachery and unbridled ambition -- when an aging King Henry I sowed the seeds of unrest and civil war throughout the land by naming his daughter, Maud, heir to...

  • Fiery Virginia Jewel

    Elizabeth Leigh

    His lessons in loving made her burn for his touch! SHE WAS WILLING TO LEARN High spirited Glynna O'Rourke was delighted when a distant relative invited her to spend a year in London, but now the Virginia beauty stamped her shapely foot in outra...

  • Fires in the Night

    Judith Hill

    MASTER OF PASSION Sand storms and scorpions would not stop Eudora Morrel from crossing the Sahara to find her father, though stories she'd heard of the Reguibat -- a fierce tribe of marauding outlaws -- were enough to send shivers up her spine. ...

  • Forgiving

    LaVyrle Spencer

    There's a place in every heart for forgiving.... SARAH She came to Deadwood, a rough and tumble western town, with an ambitious dream of starting a newspaper. But her journey had another purpose--to find her sister and mend the family tie that ...

  • The Fury and the Passion

    Paula Fairman

    Orphaned by the tragic death of her father, 17 year-old Stacey Pendarrow lives only to revenge herself on Clay Conway, the man she loved and trusted -- the young outlaw accused of murdering her father as they made their dangerous run for Wells Farg...

  • The Gift

    Julie Garwood

    England, 1816. A child bride, Lady Sara Winchester had grown into a winsome beauty, joyfully anticipating the day when her husband, Lord Nathanial Clayton, Marquess of St. James, would return to claim her at last. Charmingly innocent, she dismissed t...

  • A Golden Dream

    Carol Jerina

    DREAMS OF LOVE... For lovely Jennifer Avery, stationed with her career officer husband and two young daughters in Naples, marriage is no longer the joyous, fulfilling union it once was. Torn by her changing feelings for the man she married too you...

  • The Golden Swan

    Aileen Humphrey

    PASSION'S PROMISE ... Glorianna Kendell had always dreamed of the powerful embrace of a dark stranger, had imagined the intoxicating fire of his kisses ... and had feared that her dreams of passion would never come true ... Until Maxwell Ruther...

  • Green Eyes

    Karen Robards

    A SHADOW... The bold intruder crept through the silent mansion, determined to claim the fortune that was rightfully his. But Julian Chase was undone, his daring scheme thwarted by a bewitching silver-blond beauty with eyes that sparkled like preciou...

  • Hawke's Pride

    Norah Hess

    From the moment she laid eyes on him, Rue thought Hawke Masters the most insufferable man she'd ever met. Proud, arrogant, overbearing, he made it insultingly clear that although her grandfather's shotgun had forced him to wed Rue, nothing would make...

  • Heaven Sent

    Pamela Morsi

    THE PREACHER'S DAUGHTER When virtuous Hannah Bunch set out to trap herself a husband at the spinsterly age of twenty-six, she hardly dreamed shed be compromised by a smoldering, blue-eyed stranger. Her reputation shattered beyond all hope, she pro...

  • Legacy of Tregaran

    Mary Lide

  • Love and Triumph

    Patricia Hagan

    The sweeping conclusion to the Coltrane Saga PASSION, REVOLUTION, AND LOVE TRIUMPHANT All Russia was being consumed in the terrible flames of war as the centuries-old Czarist dynasty crumbled. A prisoner in the midst of chaos and destruction, ...

  • A Love So Wild

    Evelyn Rogers

    Lying Beauty... Adam Gase had risked his inheritance to rebuild a crumbling sugar plantation, but his dream was shattered after he was thrown into a Louisiana prison for crimes he did not commit. Now he was free, bent on revenge -- and he would start...

  • Lover's Moon

    Catherine Linden

    WILDERNESS OF DESIRE Fleeing the grinding poverty of her Scottish homeland lovely Keira MacKenzie had no choice but to indenture herself in return for passage to the New World. Never did she imagine that her bond would be sold to the highest bidde...

  • Midnight Bride

    Kathleen Drymon

    SHE'D ENSLAVE HIM WITH HER PASSION With her youth, beauty, and sizable dowry, Charleston-bred Kellie McBride had her share of ardent suitors eager to wed and bed her, but the headstrong miss was bewitched by the daring exploits of The Falcon -- ...

  • Moon Dreams

    Patricia Rice

    Love Passionate Promise Alyson Hampton was a scorned love child...until a vast legacy made her the fabulously wealthy Lady Hampton, pursued by the most rapacious fortune hunters in the realm. This exquisite innocent was in desperate need of rescue...

  • Moonwitch

    Nicole Jordan

    Night's Beauty... When sea captain Kyle Ramsey met Selena Markham on a moonlit beach, her ethereal beauty left him stunned. But when he discovered that she wanted him to make love to her, he was flabbergasted. Selena's fiance was betraying her...

  • Passion's Bold Caress

    Pamela Caldwell

    HE STORMED HER CASTLE Lady Ailee of Coldwell was not afraid -- merely outraged -- when the band of marauding knights laid siege to her castle. Donning chain mail armor and mounting a mighty destrier, she saw that her people were sheltered within the...

  • Passion's Chains

    Catherine Creel

    HE HAD BETRAYED HER Lady Eden Parrish stared in shock at the bare-chested, blue-eyed rogue who stood so proudly on the Bridgetown auction block-- he was none other than her husband, the despicable Roark St. Clair! Eden had been sent to Barbados in d...

  • The Raven's Bride

    Elizabeth Crook

    In 1829, Sam Houston was the thirty-six-year-old governor of Tennessee, a “beautiful…imperious giant genius of a man,” whose political horizons seemed limitless. The marriage of this charismatic, ambitious statesman to twenty-year-old Eliza All...

  • Rendezvous

    Serena Richards

    Their love was the greatest peril of all... Belle Varens... Beneath her silk gowns and frilly corsets beat the steely heart of a spy. Sinclair Carrington... A master of deception, he possessed dark secrets of his own. In the stormy days of the French...

  • Revenge So Sweet

    Diane Gates Robinson

    WAYLAID BY PASSION Golden-haired heiress Arielle Duplantier had no time for romantic dalliance! She had made a solemn vow: to find the man who killed her twin brother and stole her beloved plantation, farce the villain to pay for his crimes, and the...

  • Roses for Mama

    Janette Oke

    It had all turned out to be so strange, so ironic. Angela Peterson's family had moved west because her mother had not been well and the doctor said the cooler, clear air of the region might be easier on her lungs. Her father sold the farm and loaded ...

  • Southern Seduction

    Thea Devine

    CAUGHT BY FATE Cassandra Taggart was tired of obeying orders. Though her late husband's will required her to hire a man to run her Georgia plantation, the beautiful young widow was determined to manage things herself. To satisfy the lawyers, she i...

  • Spitfire

    Sonya Birmingham

    IMPASSIONED CRUSADER Enraged over the pitiful plight of local miners, feisty flame-haired Carrie O'Leary decides to take action. Gun in hand, she bursts into the offices of the Crested Butte Courier and kidnaps editor Matt Worthington, the handsome ...

  • Tempt Me With Kisses

    Phoebe Conn

    Daniel Aragon knew trouble when he saw it, and Harmony Russell was more than he could handle. The auburn-haired beauty was a temptation from the moment he spotted her on the San Francisco pier ... a temptation, and a torment. For her uncle was one of...

  • This Fiery Splendor

    Christine Monson

    While the sun set on the British Empire, they discovered that desire can be as unquenchable as a desert wind... The exquisitely beautiful daughter of an English missionary, Annalise Devon had a simple life-- until her dying father passed her desti...

  • The Thorn Bush Blooms

    Rosalyn Alsobrook

  • Catacomb

    Andrew Laurance

    Originally published as 'The Hiss'
    He was born with a great and terrible gift. he alone could see death's arrival, etched in the faces of death's chosen. And he alone knew that the dead did not die, nor did they escape the grave. Their voices coul...

  • The Cipher

    Kathe Koja

    Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and Locus Awards, finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award, and named one of io9.com's "Top 10 Debut Science Fiction Novels That Took the World By Storm." With a new afterword by Maryse Meijer, author o...

  • Cold Fire

    Dean Koontz

    In Portland, he saved a young boy from a drunk driver. In Boston, he rescued a child from an underground explosion. In Houston, he disarmed a man who was trying to shoot his own wife. Reporter Holly Thorne was intrigued by this strange, quiet savio...

  • Coven

    Edward Lee

    Born in darkness, they arise. Seductive angels of murder, madness, and horrors beyond imagining. COVEN Bathed in moonlight, they feed their darkest hungers in a festival of perversion and death, demented orgies that serve a cruel, unspeakable will......

  • Dark Twilight

    Joseph A. Citro

    They say it dwells beneath Lake Champlain. Some say they have seen it, viciously thrusting its serpentine head at the Vermont sky. Monstrous eel? Or frightening campfire tale? One man wants to know. Something has drawn him to a lonely island. Somethi...

  • Dawn of the Vampire

    William Hill

    Arising from the underwater depths, an ancient evil, armed with new power and an unquenchable thirst, awakens and vows to seek vengeance on the human race for trapping the vampires in a watery grave. Reissue....

  • Heartbreaker

    Nicholas Adams

    Dating five pretty girls at the same time, Wayne thinks he is the luckiest guy alive, until the girls being dying off one by one, and Wayne, the only thing they have in common, becomes a prime suspect. Reissue....

  • Huntsville Horror

    Bob Ham

  • Lizzie Borden

    Elizabeth Engstrom


    "Lizzie Borden took an axe . . ". Or did she? One hundred years ago, Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally murdered. Their youngest daughter Lizzie was arrested and tried for the killings and--shockingly to many--was found innocent.

    ...

  • Midnight Sun

    Ramsey Campbell

  • Mongster

    Randall Boyll

  • New Kid on the Block

    Nicholas Adams

    Looking forward to a visit from her pen pal, Amanda, Elizabeth plans to introduce her to everyone at Cresswell High, but the girl who arrives and claims to be Amanda is not at all what Elizabeth expected. Reissue....

  • Night Plague

    Graham Masterson

  • Perfect Little Angels

    Andrew Neiderman

    From the bestselling author of THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE. "A master of psychological thrillers!" -- VC Andrews A picture perfect town holds a chilling secret. Justine Freeman and her parents move to Elysian Fields to start anew, and the picturesque town s...

  • Rune

    Christopher Fowler

    When his father, his secretary, and even the thief who stole his car die under grisly circumstances, advertising executive Harry Buckingham comes under investigation and must go undercover to clear his name. Reprint....

  • Shock Totem

    Thom Metzger

  • Ski Weekend

    R.L. Stine

    WELCOME TO FEAR STREET Don't listen to the stories they tell you about Fear Street. Wouldn't you rather explore it yourself... and see if its dark terrors and unexplained mysteries are true? You're not afraid, are you? Snowbound! "Red" Porter wa...

  • Sleepwalker

    Michael Cadnum

    San Francisco Bay Area archaeologist Davis Lowry has everything -- success, a fascinating profession -- but he is troubled by a bout of sleepwalking. For a change of scenery, he travels to York, England, where a bog man has been unearthed. A series o...

  • Stallion

    Gordon McGill

    On the dark English moors, there is a legend of a fearsome horse-god, shipwrecked centuries ago with his Scythian masters…and then horribly sacrificed. It is a legend long forgotten -- but one that will never die… American Tom McEvoy and his f...

  • Tombley's Walk

    Crosland Brown

    The beast that walkslike a man feeds beneath a blood-red Texas moon.

    Billy Ed and Dory Barnes left the honky-tonk in Tombley''sWalk on a warm Texas night. They were looking for a little privacy. They neverreturned.

    Billy Ed''s body was...

  • Voodoo Fury

    Gregg Loomis

  • Where the Chill Waits

    T. Chris Martindale

    THERE ARE DARK PLACES IN THE FOREST...Cold, sun-starved places where man wasn't meant to go. But the hunters didn't—couldn't—know that. They just knew what their leader had told them that the expedition was meant to test their mettle, t...

  • Benjamin Franklin and a Case of Christmas Murder

    Robert Lee Hall

    When a popular merchant suddenly dies, only the perspicacious Ben Franklin suspects foul play, and his investigation forces him to employ his full array of mental powers against the shrewdest criminal minds in London...

  • Knaves Templar

    Leonard Tourney

    There is much that is entertaining in Elizabethan England, colorful and merrie for both Good Queen Bess and her people. But here are matters savage and murderous, too, and it is County Constable Matthew Stock, a humble clothier by trade, and his prac...

  • The Last Camel Died at Noon

    Elizabeth Peters

    The last camel is dead, and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, her dashing husband, Emerson, and precocious son, Ramses, are in dire straits on the sun-scorched desert sands. Months before, back in cool, green England, Viscount Blacktower.had approached th...

  • Venus in Copper

    Lindsey Davis

    The way Marcus Didius Falco sees it, no one can claim the monopoly on sleaze and corruption in the Eternal City because the competition is so keen. Most recently a Palace spy for the Emperor Vespasian, Falco is now in private service, trying to preve...

  • Conan the Guardian

    Roland J. Green
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    In ancient Argos, fabled city by the sea, Conan of Cimmeria discovers that behind a facade of law, the intrigues of trading houses can be no less deadly than the wars he had left behind. Even a merchant prince can dabble with sorcery, and the sch...

  • Crusade

    James Lowder
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The khahan and his mighty barbarian army have turned their sights on the civilized western nations of the Forgotten Realms. Only one man, King Azoun of Cormyr, has the courage and the strength to bring the western factions together and forge a crusad...

  • The Road of Kings

    Karl Edward Wagner
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Facing the gallows for defending his honor-by killing the captain of the guard-the mighty Conan jumps feet first into a rescue attempt of one of his fellow prisoners. When Conan learns his rescuers are the daring Rebels of the White Rose, he joins th...

  • Bad Blood

    Will McLennan