BODY OF EVIDENCE In Kate Jasper's offbeat, totally California lifestyle, there's no such thing as "routine"--a routine visit to her chiropractor, for example, leads to cold-blooded murder when a dead body turns up on the examining table. There are...
In 1742, colonial American seafarer Admiral Edward Mainwaring is called on to defend the Royal British Navy against French and Spanish fleets at Toulon Harbor, a difficult test of his strategic acumen and swashbuckling skills...
“Richardson doesn’t scare me!” Mrs. Richardson had the reputation of being the meanest teacher in the whole school, but H.P. (that's Heidi Patricia) wasn't worried. She was a good student and sure she could win her over. But the very first d...
Karl Hallstrom's blood was boiling. The object of his ire was pretty Jaime Mitchell, the sweetly stubborn social worker who planned to put his feisty grandfather in a home. But his angry assault revealed a chink in Jaime's armor, allowing him a glimp...
Their books are overdue -- for a new home! First the Alcott School library springs a leak -- all over everyone! Then the roof caves in. And there is no money for a new roof. Does this mean the end of the library? Not if Peanut and Jilly have t...
The shame still haunted her After learning a shocking secret about her husband, Leslie Wilson had divorced him. A tranquil summer in San Diego with her friend Colleen's family would be just what she needed. Or so she thought. She hadn't co...
Will the Real Ira Please Stand Up? Imagine what it would be like to have a double! A double could go to school while you stay home. A double could clean your room while you're outside playing. It all started when Ira Fishman won a camera from a...
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...
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 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......
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...
Astrology's legitimacy is one of humankind's oldest debates. Having been banned in virtually every age and place around the globe, today astrology still attracts growing numbers of serious students, many of them armed with statistics and trained in ...
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...
This book features the word children are most likely to encounter during their first year of school. The book in the series include some of the best loved characters around. as well as retelling of favorite nursery tales....
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...
Battleground - Book IV - continues the saga of The Corps with the story of one of the epic conflicts of the Pacific, the bloody months spanning Midway and Guadalcanal. From aviators to Raiders, officers to dog soldiers, no quarter is asked, and none ...
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...
When a little bear neglects to drink the soup the other bears use to prepare for their winter sleep, she finds herself virtually alone, enjoying the solitary adventure until the wolves howl and she longs to join her slumbering family...
Reissued with an introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a stunning and disquieting novel of heroism and cowardiceA masterful novel that was a huge bestseller in Europe, The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman is a testament to the power of literature. Now wi...
She didn't trust anyone Crystal Elliott was the adult child of an alcoholic. As such, the guiding rule of her life was Don't Talk About It. Little wonder she had difficulty forming relationships. But she was almost ready to share everyt...
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...
George Plimpton is best known for taking to the arenas of professional sports and surviving to write about his experience--with grace, urbanity, and considerable good humor. But such classics as Paper Lion and The Bogey Man are only the most visible ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
THE THREADS THAT LEAD TO MURDER The beautiful handmade quilt Faith Sibley Fairchild buys at an estate auction promises to liven up her deathly dull vacation on Maine's Sanpere Island. THE OLD MAID'S PUZZLE Lovingly constructed by wealthy, deceas...
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...
Zero MacNoo, who abandoned his Arkansas home for Toronto, tries to organize a circle of support for a companion with AIDS while trying to avoid returning to Arkansas to face his crazed array of relatives and his mother's second marriage...
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...
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 ...
Return to the world of THE CIRCLE OF LIGHT... The magical universe where man, otter, bear, and dwarf together fought demonic forces of darkness in the struggle for their world. Here, in the twilight age of Atlanton Earth, you traveled with the might...
"Are you afraid?" Making friends isn't easy, Allan realizes, especially when you're the new kid in town. Since moving to Ocean View, Allan has spent most of his time alone, out at Silver Lake, watching the geese and the beautiful, graceful white d...
It was like pleading with a stone "We might not have as much money as you," Kara Tate said, confronting Jordan Stonehall, "but we've got every bit as much pride." If it hadn't been for stupid, macho Texas pride--and cruel f...
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...
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...
Fans of Rosamunde Pilcher, Maeve Binchy and Fiona Valpy will love this incredibly poignant and emotionally resonant novel of friendship and fate from multi-million copy seller and Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Sallis. WHAT READERS ARE SAYING!...
A pioneering spirit marked the hardy mountaineers of North Carolina, but an ugly violence ravaged this land of laurels and hills. A dread disease was killing rich and poor alike, and cruel blame fell on the proud Cherokee, the last great Indian tribe...
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 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...
IT'S A CASE OF MURDER, PLAIN AND SIMPLE--EXCEPT THE PRIME SUSPECT HAS BEEN DEAD THREE HUNDRED YEARS! After the violent death of his predecessor, a former tennis superstar finds himself the new lord of Lackland Court. But he's about to learn that ...
He fulfilled her wildest fantasies Ira Nicholson was the perfect lover -- and Diane Roberts wanted him. She was starting a new life, away from the demands of running a multimillion-dollar business. She had tried love once and failed miserably. Now...
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...
As she struggles to piece her life together after enduring a divorce and the death of her child, Janet begins to think she is going mad when she dreams of children in a nursery fire and then sees shadowy figures in the house next door...
Midwestern teen Crosby Rawson fights to be middle-class while coping with a father who keeps getting fired, a mother who smokes too much and isn't accepted by the "ladies" of town and a strange brother who constantly watches television...
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...
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...
UNFINISHED BUSINESS There's vermin on the streets of Chicago, and Mack Bolan is sent in as exterminator. He's got the right equipment... a .44 Magnum Desert Eagle and a lifelong vendetta against men like Hector Gurrola. The drug lord rules an e...
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...
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...
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...
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...
While thinking of a way to keep their friend, math genius Davey Johnston, from being transferred to a special school, the members of the gang investigate the disappearance of the hands from the museum clock...
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...
Renowned as a master of magical realism, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has long delighted readers around the world with his exquisitely crafted prose. Brimming with unforgettable characters and set in exotic locales, his fiction transports readers to a ...
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...
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...
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......
THEY MADE HIM AN ORPHAN. BUT HE MADE HIMSELF A MAN... The Brett clan had killed his family in a night of brutality and bloodshed that was little more than a blur in Paul Torridon's memory. Then they had adopted him for their own -- the spoils...
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...
A story that traces the bonds between four generations of resourceful Southern women through stories passed from one generation to another. A Cure for Dreams, a richly woven story that traces the bonds between four generations of Southern women throu...
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...
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...
Julian left the army and embarked on a career as an aspiring actor and sometime novelist, supporting himself as a bartender in a seedy pub frequented by other bohemians in London in the 1950s. It is through his job that Julian meets Anne and a friend...
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....
AMERICAN GIGOLO OR ABSENTMINDED PROFESSOR... At first, Jessica Day thought she had just imagined him. What was a tall, dark, handsome man in a tuxedo doing at the local college pub? But as she got to know him, Jessie realized that she could nev...
Wanda feels betrayed when her parents' glamorous boarder doesn't introduce her to Elvis Presley, and it takes a near-tragedy to reunite them and to help her face the truth about her family and herself...
The town of Atocha, New Mexico, is having trouble coping with technology. It is a place where the old values of family loyalty still hold sway, and where the Chief of Police can solve any crime because he knows everyone's secrets. But Atocha is about...
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
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...
Bella, a Protestant living on the borders between Northern Ireland and the South, has returned to the home she left after her brother's murder. It is both a study of relationships, and also a picture of what life is like when army patrols and bombs a...
Detective Chief Inspector John McLeish of New Scotland Yard tried to look sharp while his commander briefed him on a missing person. He'd just worked thirty-six hours, topped off by a blazing row with Francesca Wilson, who was racing to New York to b...
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...
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...
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 SHATTERING SAGA BEGUN IN THE TIME MASTER TRILOGY CONTINUES With his dying breath, Keridil Toln, High Initiate of the mystic brotherhood known as the Circle, warned his colleagues of a danger beyond their imagining. For a servant of Chaos had ...
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 ...
When seven nuclear weapons are hijacked from trucks in Texas and shipped to major American cities by Federal Express, agent Bill Hatch returns from retirement to help find the bombs before they reach their destinations...
A RACE OF GIANTS In Gwynedd lived the Deryni, that mysterious race of wizards with arcane mental powers. Often feared and misunderstood, they came to be persecuted by humans, forced into hiding lest their race be destroyed. They were a race of Hea...
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...
Captain Jefferson Davis "Oz" Carson and the Night Stalkers helicopter pilots are assigned to transport a prince across a terrorist-teeming Sahara Desert, where they must contend with kidnappers, assassins, and intrigue...
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...
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...
Different Worlds Dawn Avery: Biologist. Her work--her life--was the rain forests of Central America. Michael Garrett: Corporate analyst. His business -- his roots--were solidly in Western Canada. Then it happened. One hot, steamy night in ...
They were an unlikely pair Dr. Sergei Karol was no mere mortal. He was microsurgeon, the specialist who saved Polly Mechler's brother from a disabling injury. But Polly wasn't intimidated by the great Dr. Karol. She had her own claim to fame. She ...
Why did the guy eat two dead skunks for breakfast? Because live ones squeal when you stick the fork in. Gary W. Boone knows he was born to be a stand-up comedian. It's the rest of the kids in his class who think he’s just a goon. Then the Floyd...
Nancy meets her match -- in the game of love and in the art of crime. Nancy's in Chicago to cheer the Emerson College basketball team, led by co-captain Ned Nickerson, against their archrivals. But she can't believe her eyes. Has Ned saved his sli...
Casey Clinton was in a bind. Custody courts didn't favor single fathers, and he seemed perilously close to losing his beloved nephew. What he needed was a wife. And since his childhood buddy Joanna Vail had always stood by his side through thick and ...
Piri Thomas describes the passionate, painful search to validate his manhood. He has done it all in Harlem's mean streets and gone on from machismo to manhood, acquiring during the journey an understanding of man."-The NationFrom the Trade Paperback ...
From Dav Pilkey, creator of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dog Man and Captain Underpants series, comes Dragon, the heartwarming hero adored by Dav's youngest readers!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early reader line...
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...
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...
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...
It was a scandalous affair Prim and proper Kate Hightower did everything by the book. Yet she'd run away from her wedding rehearsal, leaving her fiance practically standing at the altar. New Orleans was the ideal place to soothe her shattered nerv...
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....
A women's group receiving hate mail turns to Emma Chizzit for advice, a situation that leads Emma into a problem involving rape, murder, and a dishonest ultra-right-wing couple who are influencing one of Emma's friends...
Assisting archaeologist John Maxwell in his search for a priceless artifact, Frank and Joe become alarmed when he disappears, and their subsequent investigation brings them up against several deadly hazards. Original....
Alain du Gard seemed to have everything Once Alex had joked about what it would take to get her to the altar--an Yves Saint Laurent wedding gown, an exotic sports car, a honeymoon in St. Lucia. Now she knew that money didn't matter to her--...
The Explorer was written by W. Somerset Maugham and first published in 1908. A story of the proud Allertons whose fortune has been squandered, and whose three-hundred-year estate Hamlyn's Purlieu stands to be lost to the family. Lucy and George Aller...
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...
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...
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...
The selfless love Tessa felt for her grandmother was a natural, ingrained thing; her pride in her family tradition an unquestioned duty, an essential part of being a Jasmyn. Why, then, as she grew up, did she occasionally yearn to be free of Barmote ...
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...
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...
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 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......
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...
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...
WHAT GUILTY SECRETS LAY COVERED IN BLOOD AND BULLETS?
This was no ordinary cattle drive through Sheriff Santiago Toole's Miles City in the Montana Territory. Three cowboys in the outfit had already stopped bullets, and the boss man Hermes Brag...
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. ...