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New Books List: 589 titles

  • Merry Xmas Mr. Larry

    Larry Hollingworth

  • The Lucifer Deck

    Lisa Smedman

    CONJURED KILLER RUNNING WILD ON THE NET Life on the streets of 21st-century Seattle can be tough, especially for a young ork like Pita. And it gets a lot tougher when she witnesses a corporate mage murdered by the violent spirit he just conjured fro...

  • Medusa's Child

    John J. Nance

    At 10,000 feet, Captain Scott McKay gets the nerve-shattering news: aboard his Boeing 727 is a ticking time bomb--and not just any bomb. It's the Medusa Project, a thermonuclear monster that could wipe out every computer chip on the continent, oblite...

  • Total Control

    David Baldacci

    TOTAL HEAT Sidney Archer has the world. A husband she loves. A job at which she excels, and a cherished young daughter. Then, as a plane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes. And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can ...

  • The Bacta War

    Michael A. Stackpole

    They are the galaxy's most elite fighting force. And as the battle against the Empire rages, the X-wing fighters risk life and machine to protect the Rebel Alliance. Now they must do the impossible: capture a hostile, fortified world--on their own. ...

  • Mudd in Your Eye

    Jerry Oltion

    Mudd claims to be a changed man, but Kirk has his doubts. He knows that Mudd has to be running some sort of scam, but what is he up to? Kirk must find out soon - before the peace gives way to unending war. After millennia of warfare, the planets P...

  • Shards of Alderaan

    Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

    JACEN and JAINA When the Empire died, they were born--a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia have grown strong with the Force, thwarting the evil Nolaa Tarkona and destroying the Emperor's plague. Now, with th...

  • Starlog

    David McDonnell

    A must for all Trek fans, this all-star collection celebrates the guest-list of TV's most enduring and influential science fiction series. Here are the fascinating inside stories from such stars as Ricardo Montalban, Whoopie Goldberg, Christopher Llo...

  • Sword of Ice: and Other Tales of Valdemar

    Mercedes Lackey

    Mercedes Lackey's very first novel, ARROWS OF THE QUEEN, introduced readers to the magical land of Valdemar. In this ancient realm, beset by war and internal conflicts, justice is dispensed by an elite force--the legendary Heralds. These unusual men ...

  • Angels Unaware

    L. Elizabeth Storm

    A LEAPER EARNS HIS WINGS... September, 1981. A little girl named Teresa Bruckner is visited by an angel--a man in strange clothes, who says his name is Al. He sings her a lullaby and promises to come back someday, before vanishing in a flash of bl...

  • Battle Hymn

    William R. Forstchen

    THE BLOODY PRICE OF FREEDOM Swept through a time-space warp at the height of the Civil War, the 35th Maine found themselves stranded on an alien world. Now William R. Forstchen has written an all-new Lost Regiment adventure with an even more treac...

  • The Bavarian Gate

    John Dalmas

    Returning to Earth in the hopes of settling down to a quiet farmer's life, mystic warrior Curtis Macurdy is dismayed when one of Hitler's psychic recruits discovers the Bavarian Gate and unleashes the militaristic Voitusotar on the Allied forces. Ori...

  • Destiny's Road

    Larry Niven

    2730 A.D., planet Destiny Wide and smooth, the Road was seared into planet Destiny's rocky surface by the fusion drive of the powered landing craft, Cavorite. The Cavorite deserted the original interstellar colonists, stranding them without hope o...

  • Global Terror

    Martin Delrio

    When an everyday robbery gives way to a sinister plot to launch two nuclear missiles at Latveria and thus spark a Third World War, Spider-Man tackles his arch-enemy and the mastermind behind the plot, Dr. Octopus. Original....

  • Hulk/Pitt

    Peter David
    • / Science Fiction
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  • Hunting the Corrigan's Blood

    Holly Lisle

    When professional locater Cadence Drake is violently warned to stay away from a prospective job, she and her partner Badger become determined to recover a stolen hyper spaceship, and they encounter smugglers, thieves, and killers...

  • Infectress

    Tom Cool

    Arabella, war-name Infectress, is beautiful, smart and sexy--and she has a solution to the world's overpopulation problem. She's a high-tech terrorist who intends to hack human DNA to create a supervirus: New Age Dawn. It will kill 98% of humanity. B...

  • Interspace

    Stephen Bury

    A near-future thriller in which a shadowy coalition bent on controlling the world economy attempts to manipulate the president of the United States through the use of a computer bio-chip implanted in his brain....

  • Intimate Lies

    Barrett

  • Lords of the Seventh Swarm

    Dave Wolverton

    On a planet of strange and horrific alien creatures and plants, colonized by a few even stranger humans, the insectoid Dronons have cornered Gallen, Orick, and Maggie. They have come for Maggie because she is their Golden Queen. For the Dronon she is...

  • The Modern Fantasy by Women

    S. Susan Williams

    Fantasy long has been a vehicle that women have used to express their creative diversity and free themselves from a male-dominated literary establishment. This collection contains 38 short stories written by women from 1941 to the present. It include...

  • Voyage

    Stephen Baxter

    In this sci-fi alternate history, JFK’s planned mission to Mars embarks on an intrepid journey -- “a wonderful, patriotic tale of lost possibility” (Kirkus).In Voyage, Stephen Baxter imagines how, if President Kennedy had lived, America mi...

  • With Full Honors

    Donald E. McQuinn

    HONOR AND REDEMPTION Captain Lannat was fiercely loyal to his emperor and the elite corps o1 Rifles. But that loyalty was put to the test when he was assigned to mentor Prince Casey of Paro. For that backwater planet was crucial to the success of a ...

  • Andorra

    Peter Cameron

    For mysterious reasons, a man forsakes his American life and arrives in a strange country called Andorra. He settles into the grand--and only--hotel in its seaside capital, and gradually makes the aquaintance of this tiny city's most prominent reside...

  • Bag Men

    John Flood

    A priest lies dead on the tarmac of Logan Airport.  Hours later, first assistant DA Ray Dunn is standing in the well-appointed living room of his boss, sipping a Bushmills under photographs of the Cardinal, the governor, and Ted Williams, getting t...

  • Blind Pursuit

    Brian Harper

    A killer kidnaps a beautiful psychologist in the Arizona desert in the hopes she can cure him of his deadly compulsions, while her twin sister struggles to save her from a man who possesses a terrifying secret about their family. Original....

  • A Crime in the Neighborhood

    Suzanne Berne

    A New York Times Notable Book. Set in the Washington, D.C., suburbs during the summer of the Watergate break-ins, Berne's assured, skillful first novel is about what can happen when a child's accusation is the only lead in a case of sexual assault an...

  • The Devil's Footprint

    Victor O'Reilly

    Hugo Fitzduane had stared into the face of evil--and survived. An Irish ex-soldier and war photographer, he defeated the legendary Hangman and his vengeful Japanese lover, "The Lethal Angel." Now he must pay the price. In a congressional office in Wa...

  • Dream Girl

    Brian Rieselman

    Seeking help at the Albion sleep disorders clinic for recurring nightmares, Diana learns that her psychic powers become stronger when she is with fellow patient Catherine, and the friends uncover a terrible hospital secret. Original....

  • Embers of Death

    Stella Shepherd

    Baffled by a series of unexplained fires in empty properties, D.I. Montgomery and Sergeant Bird of Nottingham begin to see both a motive and pattern when a pharmacy is torched and a charred body is found in the wreckage....

  • Gallows Hill

    Lois Duncan

    The crystal paperweight should have been clear, but it was not.

    Handsome, popular Eric Garrett decides that Sarah Zoltanne is just the right person to play a fortune-teller at the high-school fair.  Sarah is surprised and pleased.  After a...

  • Hole in the Water

    Robert Kearney

    In the shadow of his father's death, Chuck Hausman has come home. With his new wife, Gretchen. His stepdaughter, Kara. And a dark past he cannot escape.

    For on a desolate island in Lake Superior, the people who have known Chuck longest revile ...

  • Jury Double

    Edward Stewart

    NYPD homicide cop Vince Cardozo must unmask a cunning killer in bestselling author Edward Stewart’s powerhouse tale of crime and punishmentWhen it comes to the dark side of humanity, Vince Cardozo has already seen plenty. But his encounter with cul...

  • Manhattan Nocturne

    Colin Harrison

    AT NIGHT IN THE CITY, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. EVEN THE TRUTH. For Porter Wren, the city is the story: of millionaires on the make and strippers on the clock. Of a young woman with perfect teeth and a tragic past. Of a brilliant filmmaker's body found ...

  • The Murder Lover

    Ellen Rawlings

    DANGEROUS AFFINITIES



    Elspeth Goldman and Rachel Crowne have a lot in common. They are both young, divorced, and Jewish. They look alike and share the same suburban Washington, D.C. community. But there's one big difference: Rachel is a...

  • My Drowning

    Jim Grimsley

    Jim Grimsley returns to the Southern landscape evoked so powerfully in his previous award-winning novels, Winter Birds and Dream Boy, to tell an unforgettable story of a woman's search for the meaning of a dream that has haunted her throughout her li...

  • Naked Came the Manatee

    Carl Hiaasen

    In South Florida, everyone wants to get a head. But not just any head. A very famous human head--severed and snugged away in a cryonic container. A head that could spark a revolution and change the course of history.

    Everybody wants a piece of...

  • The Poet

    Michael Connelly

    Death is reporter Jack McEvoy's beat: his calling, his obsession. But this time, death brings McEvoy the story he never wanted to write--and the mystery he desperately needs to solve. A serial killer of unprecedented savagery and cunning is at la...

  • The Price of Blood

    Chuck Logan

    In the last 20 years Phil Broker has pulled himself together. A good, tough undercover cop in Minnesota, he knows the difference between a sucker punch and a lucky break. And although he's put his Vietnam years behind him, the grown daughter of his o...

  • Sacrifice

    Mitchell Smith

    When his daughter becomes the latest victim of a serial killer lurking in the Florida swamps, Tyler Pierce, a reformed criminal, devises a plan to circumvent the corrupt local authorities and catch the notorious Sweetwater Killer. Reprint....

  • Skylar in Yankeeland

    Gregory McDonald

    Skylar go home! A rogue and a rascal--the trumpet playing, lady-killing toast of Greendowns County, Tennessee--Skylar Whitfield's talented lips have won him the affection of many a local belle. Now they've won him a scholarship to a prestigious No...

  • A Story of Scorpions

    Gabriel Everett

    "A BREATHTAKINGLY ACCOMPLISHED NOVEL, A PASSION PLAY FOR OUR TIME."
    --Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

    Alex Leonard entered Alson Pierce's home with a rope, a knife, and a gun and savagely murdered Pierce's wife and child. Now, Reverend Pierce ...

  • Twilight of Heroes

    Ralph Peters

    THE TRUTH CAN'T HIDE IN THE HEART OF DARKNESS A U.S military team on a mission of mercy is massacred in a remote Bolivian village --with no trace of the killers. A colonel awaiting retirement makes it his final mission to fight for the truth...onl...

  • The Wagon Wars

    James A. Ritchie

  • When Dreams Cross

    Terri Blackstock

    Justin Pierce's brainchild, Khaki Kangaroo, is exactly the cartoon theme Andi Sherman needs for her world-class amusement park, Promised Land. In turn, Andi's park is the opportunity that can rocket Justin from obscurity to success. For both of them,...

  • Where Trouble Sleeps

    Clyde Edgerton

    1. How would you characterize Stephen's relationship with each of his parents? With his church and his religion? 2. What prospects of stability are offered to the community by the church? Instability? 3. How is the church important to Jack Umstead? 4...

  • And After That, the Dark

    Charlotte Hughes

    It's happening... again. As a teenager in a South Carolina backwater--on a night when the air was hot and as thick as amber--Emily Wilkop watched as a man was brutally murdered. For fifteen years she kept still ... and paid a devastating price for...

  • The Defendant

    Gay Cameron

    Defendant and father... With her law degree in one hand and her little boy's in the other, Audrey McKenna excitedly returned to her hometown of Tabbs Corner, Virginia, to start fresh. But then she learned her first client would be none other than ...

  • Fever Dreams

    Laura Leone

    SHE's RICH, SOPHISTICATED, AND DEDICATED TO THE FAMILY BUSINESS. HE's RUGGED, SEXY, AND INTO RISKY BUSINESS. THEY'RE AS DIFFERENT AS TWO PEOPLE CAN BE. IT's A PERFECT MATCH. It would be just her luck to travel to tropical Montedora with the one man ...

  • Man Without a Badge

    Dani Sinclair

    He'd been stripped of everything... Detective Sam Moore had lost his badge, his job, his dignity. Now he was a fugitive, headed both for Marly Kramer's horse farm and for Marly's young charge, an eleven-year-old eyewitness to the murder of which ...

  • A New Year's Conviction

    Cassie Miles

    In steamy New Orleans, three people witnessed the same crime, testified against the same man and were then swept into the Witness Protection Program. But now there's new evidence, and these three witnesses are about to come out of hiding... EYE WITNE...

  • Night Whispers

    Lynn Erickson

    THE PREY: Anna Dunning is walking a fine line between security and mind-numbing terror. The phone calls are becoming more frequent -- a stranger whispering horrible, obscene promises. She knows he is watching her...stalking her. And he's gett...

  • No Way Out

    Tina Vasilos

    She had secret reasons for entering his life... Bicycle courier Jenny Gray only pretended not to know Theo Zacharias. She'd entered his life determined to get to know the man--his habits, his haunts, his best-kept secrets. Jenny believed Theo m...

  • Shadow and Silk

    Ann Maxwell

    With her stormy marriage at last behind her, Professor Dani Warren has found contentment is an expert in the study and preservation of antique textiles. Yet from the moment she touches an ancient piece of silk in Lhasa's Thieves Market, nothing in he...

  • Too Close for Comfort

    Eve Gaddy

    He kissed her hard and hungry -- as if he knew it made her his... Jack Corelli had vowed to keep Marissa Fairfax alive to testify, but guarding the cool trauma surgeon meant long hours in close quarters with a woman who challenged him to break a...

  • Unforgettable

    Meryl Sawyer

    "I CAN MAKE YOU LOVE ME." They met at the edge of a Maui rain forest, at the far side of Paradise. In the midst of a raging tropical storm, Greg Braxton found her unconscious, at the bottom of a cliff. She clung to him fiercely, passionately, and ...

  • With Every Breath

    Beverly Bird

    Fleeing from her deranged ex-husband, Maddie Brogan returns with her child to an island off the coast of Maine where she spent her early childhood. Although Maddie has no memory of the tragedy that made her leave so long ago, the islanders will never...

  • The Babe and the Baron

    Carola Dunn

    SHE WAS A WISTFUL WIDOW WITH A BABE ON THE WAY... It wasn't all that shocking when Lady Laura Chamberlain's ne'er-do-well husband met his untimely end. Far more scandalous was Laura's precarious predicament: She was left without a sp...

  • A Comfortable Wife

    Stephanie Laurens

    ANTONIA WAS NOT GOING TO DWINDLE INTO AN OLD MAID.... Miss Antonia Mannering had made plans, and Lord Philip Ruthven played a large part in them. They had been childhood friends, but had not seen each other for years. She knew Philip was popular w...

  • A Garden Folly

    Candice Hern

    The Fortune Huntress It was a stroke of luck that lovely Catherine Forsythe and her stunning sister, Susannah, were invited to a month-long house party on the estate of the Duke of Carlisle. It was their golden chance to snare spouses who would re...

  • An Inconvenient Marriage

    Jeanne Carmichael

    SHE HAD NO INTENTION OF REMAINING IN ENGLAND--MUCH LESS MARRYING AN ENGLISHMAN! An American miss with a mind of her own, Gillian Prescott was miserable in England, homesick, and heartsick at her father's admonition to find a proper English gentlem...

  • Indiscreet

    Mary Balogh

    A beautiful, young widow seemed like easy prey for the Viscount Rawleigh. In the country visiting his twin brother, Rex longed for a little diversion. But Catherine Winters was a lady of virtue, and she roundly rejected his improper proposal to becom...

  • The Infamous Earl

    Margaret Summerville

    A Perilous Pretense Georgiana Morely could see only one way to wed the devastatingly handsome but dismally penniless Lord Thomas Jeffreys. She had to convince her disapproving parents that she would otherwise make an even more disastrous match--wi...

  • An Infamous Proposal

    Joan Smith

    SHE DESIRED NOTHING MORE THAN A BIDDABLE HUSBAND... Emma, having gone at seventeen directly from her papa's home to her husband's arms, is now widowed at age twenty -- and quite naive in the ways of the world: in particular, how to find h...

  • The Lady's Mummy

    Bess Willingham

    CAN AN ANCIENT CURSE BE LIFTED... Egyptologist Cassandra Russell was the proud owner of an unusual collection of ancient artifacts--along with an adorable pet monkey. But her most treasured possession was the priceless sarcophagus of an Egyptian Que...

  • Scandal and Miss Smith

    Julia Byrne
    • / Traditional Regency
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    SCANDAL FOLLOWED PHOEBE SMITH WHEREVER SHE WENT... After several years of taking care of the unruly Deverell children, Phoebe had had enough! She would go to their guardian, the reclusive Sebastian Deverell, and resign. But no sooner had she met the ...

  • Sweet Tranquility

    Donna Bell

    A daring escapade lands a lady in trouble... and in love! Tranquility Hartford yearned for romance and adventure. Instead, her mother decreed she must be married -- within two weeks! Tranquility, who was anything but serene, always had the ton a...

  • The Would-Be Witch

    Rita Boucher

    A Bewitching Young Lady Miranda Wilton had everything a young lady needed to shine in society -- birth, beauty, and breeding. But though she cast her spell on a swarm of suitors, both her proud mother and powerful brother demanded the final say in...

  • Journey to the Crimson Sea

    Jim Kraus

    Authors Jim and Terri Kraus conclude their trilogy of Treasures of the Caribbean in Journey to the Crimson Sea. The 17th-century Caribbean island of Barbados hosts this unique story of love, loyalty, and adventure. The meaning of forgiveness is teste...

  • Love's Ransom

    Lisa Samson

  • Passages of Gold

    Jim Kraus

  • Hornet's Nest

    Patricia Cornwell

    Meet the police department of Charlotte North Carolina. And find out why they call it the 'Hornets Nest of America.' Andy Brazil, an ambitious young reporter for The Charlotte Observer and an eager - sometimes too eager- volunteer cop; Police Chief J...

  • Hyde

    Dan Mahoney

    NYPD Detective Brian McKenna is back where he belongs -- hunting down a mysterious killer who preys upon the city's most forgotten members. At first blush, it seems as if these homeless men have frozen to death on city streets. But this succession of...

  • Killer

    Christopher Newman

    When maverick New York detective Joe Dante is ambushed in the middle of the street out of revenge, the lieutenant begins his hunt for killer who had come after him, following a trail of dead bodies closer to his quarry--and a shattering betrayal. Ori...

  • Trunk Music

    Michael Connelly

    Following on the heels of his extraordinary New York Times bestseller, The Poet, Edgar Award-winning author Michael Connelly brings you Trunk Music, his most electrifying Harry Bosch novel to date-a taut, complex thrill ride that confirms Connelly...

  • Winter's Gold

    William Heffernan

    New York Police Detective Paul Devlin investigates the alleged suicide of a famous socialite at her ex-husband's apartment, a case that takes him from the glamourous lives of the glittering elite to the dark evil of the criminal underworld. Reprint....

  • Adam's Kiss

    Mindy Neff

    A face she'd never seen... Adam Walsh's chiseled features rivaled that of a sculptured god, his strength did, too. He'd bent steel with the power of fifty men - even shattered the king-size wall around Molly Kincade's heart. Eyes she'd always r...

  • Angel's Child

    Kathryn Jensen

    THE MAN IN HER FUTURE Angel wannabe Zach Dawson had one last job to do on earth -- find Caroline North a man to father her child. For the child she was to bear was destined for greatness, and the man who would love Caroline needed to be someone very...

  • Carried Away

    Sue Civil-Brown

    WHERE THERE'S A WILL... Danika Hilliard's eccentric old benefactor, Morris Feldman, carried his healthy sense of humor to the grave...and beyond, apparently. He left his opulent Florida villa to the pretty, if prissy, schoolteacher and aspiring au...

  • Dark Rapture

    Michele Hauf

    DARK DESIRE California dreamer Scarlet Rose has a secret: she has fallen madly in love with seductive Sebastian DelaCourte. But the dark, gypsy-wild rock idol whose ravenous kisses send Scarlet's blood racing also harbors a secret...a consuming sec...

  • Daughter of Light

    Quinn Taylor Evans

    She possesses a strange and mystical power - a gift of prophecy that allows her to move freely through time and space. She is Cassandra of Tregaron, the third daughter of Merlin, fabled sorcerer and great friend to King Arthur. Blue-eyed, beautiful, ...

  • Eternal Vows

    Alice Alfonsi

    1897, New Orleans French Quarter, Rosegate Mansion It was midnight, and the drums were beating near Congo Square. As the incessant, driving rhythms filled the sultry Louisiana air with primal yearnings, a beautiful young bride restlessly awaited ...

  • Maiden Voyage

    Judith O'Brien

    A journey across the sea to Ireland, where a young, thoroughly modern American woman has inherited a charming eighteenth-century townhouse, and an unforeseen destiny... Maura Finnegan is utterly taken with the quaint, romantic nature of her new h...

  • Out of Time

    Marilyn Campbell

    HE MADE A PACT WITH THE DEVIL It was 1965. Newspaper reporter Luke Templeton, convicted for a murder he did not commit, was waiting to be put to death. Desperate, Luke was willing to do anything to live, even sell his soul to the devil. SHE HAD T...

  • A Pocketful of Paradise

    Kathleen Kane

    A WOMAN WHO WORKED THE LAND On her remote Colorado ranch, Rebecca Hale struggled to raise her small son alone. The last thing she needed was a drifter on her land--a drifter with no horse, no gear and no memory. A MAN WHO HAD TOUCHED THE SKY ...

  • Shades of a Desperado

    Sharon Sala

    A LOVE THAT WOULDN'T DIE Night after night, the visions kept Rachel Brant from sleep -- a hard-eyed outlaw straight out of the old West, claiming her as his woman, taking her passion as his due. And though she knew it was madness, still she longe...

  • Stronger Than Magic

    Heather Cullman

    SHE WAS ENCHANTED Five hundred years ago beautiful Alys Faire was taken captive by fairies. Now she was being offered a chance for freedom by saving the soul of Lucian Warre, the cold- hearted Marquess of Thistlewood. All she had to do was match h...

  • Sunlight, Moonlight

    Amanda Ashley

    TWO HEROES AS DIFFERENT AS NIGHT AND DAY... TWO LOVE'STORIESAS DIFFERENT AS DAWN AND DUSK... SUNLIGHT He came from across the universe -- a tawny, powerful stranger more perfect than any mere mortal. Yet when Micah crash landed on earth, not eve...

  • Sword of MacLeod

    Karen Fox

    AN OLD FASHIONED MAN When his daughter left their antiquated world to find the legendary sword that could save them from doom, Beckett MacLeod was forced to go after the wayward lass, leaving his planet for the first time. To find her, Beckett enli...

  • The Turquoise Sun

    Linda Sandifer

    SOMEWHERE IN TIME... 19th-century archaeologist Tanya Darrow is excavating the primeval cliff dwellings of the long-vanished Anasazi tribe -- and uncovers an expedition led by rival archaeologist and notorious playboy Keane Trevalyan. Determined to ...

  • All That Glitters

    Jerry Kennealy

    Nick Polo's latest case finds him on familiar San Francisco turf where a Russian antiques dealer has hired him to locate Anna, the stunning holder of a valuable Mongol paitza - a dog tag of sorts originally worn by Ogodie Khan. Using no more than a d...

  • Gone Fishin'

    Walter Mosley

    In the beginning, there was Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins and Raymond "Mouse" Alexander--two young men setting out in life, hitting the road in a "borrowed" Ford headed for Pariah, Texas. The volatile Mouse wants to retrieve money from his stepfather so he ...

  • Love for Sale

    John Leslie

    It must be something in the air. First, reclusive circuit judge Just Watson - a distant cousin who is now, by attrition, Gideon Lowry's closest living relative - announces that he's retiring from the bench and getting married. Then Casey, Gideon's so...

  • Murder Can Wreck Your Reunion

    Selma Eichler

    A CRAVING FOR THE TRUTH Private eye Desiree Shapiro has as much a talent for murder as she does for whipping up--and polishing off--a cold lemon souffle. And New York's chubbiest detective is certainly putting all she's got into solving the death ...

  • The Bone Collector

    Jeffery Deaver

    Lincoln Rhyme was once a brilliant criminologist, a genius in the field of forensics--until an accident left him physically and emotionally shattered. But now a diabolical killer is challenging Rhyme to a terrifying and ingenious duel of wits. With p...

  • Flesh and Bones

    Paul Levine

    Miami Dolphins linebacker-turned-lawyer Jake Lassiter returns in the seventh Lassiter mystery from acclaimed South Florida writer and former lawyer Paul Levine. In Flesh & Bones, Jake takes on a seemingly unwinnable case. When Miami model Chrissy B...

  • Survival Instincts

    Marissa Piesman

    STARTING OVER IS MURDER.... Jonathan and L.A. are history. For Nina Fischman, there's nothing like that good old Manhattan malaise. She's back from the coast and moving in with Ida. Yes, Nina's coming home to Mama -- and murder. Sure, she remem...

  • Tequila Mockingbird

    Paul Bishop

    When a highly decorated detective of the LAPD's ultra-secretive Anti-Terrorist Division is murdered by his wife in broad daylight, it appears to be an open-and-shut case of domestic violence turned deadly. But Fey Croaker discovers circumstances are ...

  • Twenty Blue Devils

    Aaron Elkins

    REMAINS OF THE COFFEE MAN Gideon Oliver, the Skeleton Detective, is in Tahiti for a case that is not exactly his cup of... well, tea. After two close calls, an "accident" has killed the manager of the Paradise Coffee plantation. producer of the wo...

  • Until Death Do Us Part

    Christine McGuire

    Prosecuting a defendant who is charged with attempted murder by intentional infliction of HIV, deputy D.A. Kathryn Mackay begins a deadly race against time when a bomb explodes in the courtroom, a situation that is complicated by personal problems. O...

  • Brothers

    Ben Bova

    What if, instead of being transplanted, hearts, livers, and kidneys could simply be regrown like a lizard's tail? This turns out to be a faint possibility in Arthur Marshak's genetic lab. He encourages his research staff to pursue it, but political a...

  • Infinity's Child

    Harry Stein

    THEIR FIRST CHOICE Sally Benedict is having a baby. After years of trying, after scores of tests, Sally and her husband are thrilled. But someone is watching, someone who knows all about Sally's unborn child--right down to her unique genetic code. ...

  • Pandora's Helix

    Ken McClure

    Dr. Michael Neef, consultant in pediatric oncology at a large city hospital, is cautiously optimistic when he is given the go-ahead to carry out gene therapy trials on some of his terminally ill young patients. For the biotechnology company involved ...

  • The Whole Truth

    Janice Kaplan

    Dr. Sarabeth Love thinks she's achieved her dreams when she begins working for a prestigious Boston medical practice. But something goes terribly wrong. A beautiful young socialite dies after Sarabeth delivers her child, and the whole city wants to k...

  • Claudia and the Lighthouse Ghost

    Ann M. Martin

    America's favorite baby-sitters are detectives, too! When the Hatts, old family friends of the Kishis, come to stay at Claudia's house, things get pretty cramped and tempers flare. The Hatts own the old Stoneybrook lighthouse, which has lately bee...

  • The Firehouse 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 are helping to ...

  • The Ghost of KRZY

    Bill Myers

    Madcap MYSTERIES with a MESSAGE! - What is that eeire glow inside radio station KRZY during the middle of the night? - Why is equipment mysteriously vanishing? - And what about those strange voices - human, but not quite? So begins the hilari...

  • The Growling Bear 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 visiting Yellows...

  • The Mystery at the Alamo

    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 are visiting th...

  • The Mystery in San Francisco

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    The Aldens are thrilled to be with their Aunt Jane and Uncle Andy in San Francisco. When they visit Fisherman''s Wharf, their friend Charlie invites them aboard a fishing boat. But strange things are happening on the wharf, and it seems as if someone...

  • The Mystery in the Old Attic

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    The Aldens are exploring an old house in Michigan. When they arrive at the mansion, they can't wait to start looking through all the rooms. They find an old diary that tells that a diamond and pearl ring is hidden in the house....

  • The Niagara Falls Mystery

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    This is the Boxcar Children's first trip to Canada, and they are very eager to explore Niagara Falls and all of the attractions in the area. They are even more thrilled when a friend of Grandfather's asks if they want to help out in his souvenir shop...

  • The Outer Space 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 are visiting an...

  • The Perfect Body

    Amanda Matetsky

    NOT YOUR AVERAGE EVENING OUT Finding a strange woman in the trunk of her car is definitely not Annie March's idea of the perfect ending to a long day. Not only that, but the young stranger has a perfect body -- well shaped and sexy from head to toe ...

  • Publish and Perish

    Sally S. Wright

    Millions of mystery novels are purchased every year, and only the Bible has outsold the number of copies purchased of Agatha Christie's titles. Now, author Sally Wright introduces to the Christian marketplace an intriguing new mystery series which fo...

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  • The Soccer Mystery

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    The Aldens are all on the same soccer team, and know that winning isn''t as important as having fun. But is someone trying to ruin the soccer league? Practice balls get deflated, a goalie''s gloves are ruined, and a player is locked in the locker roo...

  • Naked Justice

    William Bernhardt

    As Tulsa's first black mayor and a former college football hero, Wallace Barrett was a city treasure - until he became the prime suspect in the gruesome murder of his wife and two daughters. Seen splattered with blood and fleeing his house after the ...

  • Silent Witness

    Richard North Patterson

    Attorney Tony Lord left his hometown and the bitter memories of his girlfriend's murder behind. Now, twenty-seven years later, he's pulled back to Lake City to defend his closest high school friend against a charge of homicide. Sam Robb, the marri...

  • Because They Wanted To

    Mary Gaitskill

    A collection of startling and breathtaking stories about people struggling with the disparity between what they want and what they know.A New York Times Notable BookA man tells a story to a woman sitting beside him on a plane, little suspecting what ...

  • Echoes of an Autobiography

    Nuala O'Neill

  • Magnum

    Russell Miller

    This book is a biography of Magnum, told largely in the words of its photographers. It offers a unique perspective on half a century of world history from an extraordinary group of men and women who were front line witnesses at virtually every major ...

  • Spitting Distance

    Jon Wright

  • The Sun at Midday

    Gini Alhadeff

  • Three Wogs

    Alexander Theroux

  • Wilson's Island

    Stephen Blanchard

  • Against All Odds

    Barbara Riefe

    Excited about their upcoming trip to California, Lucy Scott Mitchum and her husband Noah never expected the many difficulties and great dangers they had to endure on their way to begin their new life in the West. Lucy Scott Mitchum was not sure ho...

  • Albert's Destiny

    Birdie L. Etchison

    Albert Galloway is infactuated with Rosie Malone. His feelings for her give him hope that he may soon settle down and raise a family. But, Rosie's heart will not be tamed by any man, and before long Albert's hopes begin to fade. Albert is working ...

  • Angel Face and Amazing Grace

    Lori Copeland

    While most of the women in town suddenly developed little ailments that needed the new doctor's immediate attention, April Truitt only developed a big urge to throttle him. The overbearing Gray Fuller represented everything she vowed to fight until ...

  • Anna's Hope

    Birdie L. Etchison
    • / Historical Romance
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    Anna needs to be loved. Anna Galloway has arrived on the sparsely populated North Beach Peninsula in Washington State to continue her career in nursing, but there is no hospital and the only doctor, Dr. Wesley Snow, is brusque and judgmental. Anna...

  • Beguiled

    Alice Borchardt

    Just as her sister, Anne Rice, makes vampires and witches come alive, Alice Borchardt brings the turmoil and splendor of medieval France to breathtaking life in a spellbinding epic tale of magic, passion, and destiny.... Elfin is a woman of the pa...

  • Black Hawk's Feather

    Carolyn R. Scheidies

    Lady Laurel Comfrey has every intention of avenging her father's murder-by herself. But that is before the plot thickens, and she discovers that her prime suspect may also be conspiring against her beloved king. Far worse than that revelation is L...

  • A Child of Promise

    Jill Stengl

    Harry Jameson, an itinerant joiner, longs to settle in one place, marry, and raise a family. So far, God has planned otherwise, but then Harry's latest woodcarving job brings him into the vicinity of Castle Trent...and into the desolate life of Ishma...

  • County Fair

    Ginny Aiken

    Love is a prize to share... WILLOW After a flood left her penniless, her only hope of survival lay in winning a prize for her ewe in the York, Pennsylvania, County Fair... DANIEL This handsome Irishman had his eye on Willow, but as the owner ...

  • Crosswinds

    Shirley Rhode
    • / Historical Romance
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    The war may be raging in Europe, but Nettie Homes feels defeated within the safety of her once loving home. Her husband, Derrick, would rather fight in the frontlines than witness another traumatic miscarriage. Derrick and Nettie have lost two babies...

  • Dangerous Angels

    Amanda Scott

    A carriage accident leaves Miss Charlotte Tarrant clinging to the side of a cliff, holding on for dear life. In one terrifying instant, her safe, pampered world is gone. Until Le Renardeau--the Fox cub--becomes her unlikely savior. Looking like the ...

  • The Diamond Slipper

    Jane Feather

    Dear Reader, What comes to mind when you think of a diamond slipper? Cinderella, perhaps? That's what Cordelia Brandenburg imagines when her godparents arrange a marriage for her with a man she's never met--a marriage that will take her to Versail...

  • Dream Lover

    Virginia Henley

    He came upon her as she swam in her secret crystal cave, the rugged stranger who stole her heart, then haunted her dreams when he disappeared. Emerald FitzGerald Montague thought her life was over when she was forced to marry another man, a man she d...

  • Edge of Destiny

    Darlene Mindrup
    • / Historical Romance
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    Something in Chara's incredible eyes convinced Decimus that he had to do anything to free her from the bitter life of slavery from which he himself had recently been freed. But being tied to a slave will make his flight from Rome that much more diffi...

  • The Emperor's New Clothes

    Victoria Alexander

    COSTUMED BEAUTY Ophelia Kendrake had barely finished conning the coat off a cardsharp's back before she and her adopted sister stumbled into Dead End, Wyoming, and received a welcome fit for a queen. Mistaken for the Countess of Bridgewater, ...

  • Escape on the Wind

    Jane LaMunyon
    • / Historical Romance
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    Amanda Chase, a Boston society reporter, would rather write hard-hitting stories that make a difference in the world than marry and have children. She has heard rumors that the rosy stories of Germany's new leader may not be true. She wants to go the...

  • Every Wish Fulfilled

    Samantha James

    EVERY DREAM DENIED The Earl of Stonehurst's beautiful but lonely orphaned ward, Heather Duval has resigned herself to spinsterhood--devoting her energies solely to overseeing the earl's grand country manor. Then Damien Tremayne arrives to disrupt he...

  • Fall From Grace

    Megan Chance

    A WANTED WOMAN Lily lost her childhood the day the Sharpe gang murdered her parents and "adopted" her. They brought her into their world, and taught her how to be ruthless and smart. Soon, Lily the Cat was wanted by the law. But, in an act of reve...

  • Falling Water Valley

    Mary Louise Colln
    • / Historical Romance
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    Bethany Andrews' father had finally found a place for them to call home. But that was before he was called to doctor the Confederate Army and before raiders regularly tormented the people of the beautiful valley, frightening away their minister and c...

  • Fire Hawk's Bride

    Judith E. French

    A FORBIDDEN PASSION A squire's rebellious daughter, Katherine Miles's future is forever changed during a frantic chase through an English forest -- when she is rescued from a pack of wild dogs by a civilized Cherokee "savage." The ha...

  • Flame

    Connie Mason

    "I NEED A HUSBAND AND I NEED HIM NOW!" When her brother was accused of murder, Ashley Webster headed west to clear his name. Although the proud Yankee was prepared to face any hardship on her journey to Fort Bridger, she was horrified to lear...

  • Forsaking All Others

    Gail Link

    FOR RICHER OR FOR POORER Anthony Chambers would inherit half of his Great Uncle Cedric's sprawling Australian homestead on one condition: He must leave England behind and spend a year living at the homestead with his uncle's live-in companion, Annie...

  • Harvest Moon

    Judith Saxton

    Laurie, son of a local ne'er-do-well lordling, and John, son of the well-to-do Hovertons, grow up like brothers on the Hoverton's Bees-wing Farm in England in the early 20th century. The boys revel in their country lifestyle, befriending Foxy Lockett...

  • A Heart for Home

    Norene Morris
    • / Historical Romance
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    Once their dreams were as sweeping as the endless Texas landscape. But now, in the fall of 1889, on the Circle Z Ranch they call home, the three surviving Langdon brothers and their families face a more complex world than ever before. A world where d...

  • Heaven at Sunrise

    Leona Karr

    As her ship rose above the waves, Alana Landsbury's spirits fell. Promised in marriage upon her return home, she had come to this remote outpost in the Shetland Islands as an unpaid missionary. Some said the petite nurse wouldn't last the year; some ...

  • Innocence Undone

    Kat Martin

    Jessica Fox wasn't always the beautiful, composed young woman who is the toast of the London ton. Born in poverty, Jessica wandered the streets until fate found her a guardian in the aging Marquess of Belmore. Now, it is fate she tempts with her long...

  • The Lady Rose

    Joyce Williams
    • / Historical Romance
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    Rosamund Schmidden's ears burned at the conversation taking place in the scullery, a conversation she couldn't help overhearing. "I wonder how Miss Rosamund will like finding herself the prize for winning her papa's war?" Waves of confusing em...

  • Logan's Lady

    Tracie Peterson
    • / Historical Romance
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    Traveling across the prairie with her father, sisters, and the man her father has promised her hand to in marriage, Lady Amelia Amhurst would have foregone spending the summer of 1875 in America and returned to their regal estate in England-if only h...

  • Lord of the Isle

    Elizabeth Mayne

    He Was The ONeill, or so claimed those expecting him to drive the English from Ireland's shores. But Hugh O'Neill was uncertain what destiny demanded of him-until he rode to the aid of Morgana Fitzgerald, a woman with a price on her head and a passio...

  • Lucky Bride

    Ana Seymour

    Parker Prescott had no intention of ever settling down, but Molly Hanks was the kind of woman who could stop a man in his tracks --- with or without her buffalo gun! Molly knew a smooth-talking drifter when she saw one. A man with charm like that ...

  • Magnolia

    Diana Palmer

    A love as sweet and seductive as the magnolias and peach trees of Georgia... Atlanta in 1900 was a city of contrasts: a bustling place where commerce and high society flourished amid the languid rhythms of the sultry South. Claire Lang loved her ...

  • My Heart's Desire

    Patricia Grasso

    "LET ME WORSHIP YOU WITH MY BODY." Blythe hungered for his caresses, knowing only time and sweet seduction would win the hardened heart of Roger Debrett, Earl of Eden, the man she'd married--to save him from hanging for the murder of his first wif...

  • My Sweet Folly

    Laura Kinsale

    His letters began with "My sweet Folly..." Over seven years, the innocent correspondence between Folie Hamilton and her husband's cousin in India, Lieutenant Robert Cambourne, transformed into a secret passion. After Folie's husband died, Robert beca...

  • My Valentine

    Tracie Peterson
    • / Historical Romance
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    He is the son of a prominent New York family, his future and his wife-to-be secure and glittering. She is the daughter of a Jewish tailor, her future full of the hopes and dreams of any nice Jewish girl living in the teeming Lower East Side of the la...

  • The Perfect Gentleman

    Danice Allen

    TEACH ME... Samantha Darlington's father had been a model of respectability, but Samantha was his secret shame, the illegitimate daughter he'd kept hidden on a remote island for all of her seventeen years. Now rescue by her legitimate half-sister Am...

  • Prairie Rose

    Susan Kirby

    A New Beginning... For seventeen-year-old Libby Watson, the unexpected news of an inheritance seems heaven sent. The general store in a small Illinois town bequeathed to Libby by her uncle will free her ailing father from the deadly coal mines and o...

  • The Promise of Rain

    Sally Krueger
    • / Historical Romance
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    Ruth Jone's family was among the settlers who came to Kenya at the turn of the century to carve farms and towns from the wilderness. Ruth leads a lonely existence with her bitter father in the hills above the town of Cambellburgh. Her future is witho...

  • Raven's Vow

    Gayle Wilson

    A SCANDALOUS ARRANGEMENT American merchant John Raven had stolen the toast of the London season out from under the ton's very nose! He had offered the lovely Lady Catherine Montfort freedom in exchange for marriage and she'd accepted --- despite her...

  • The Return of Chase Cordell

    Linda Castle

    Chase Cordell Was Coming Home Linese had long awaited her husband's homecoming, but the hero that returned from the war was not the dashing rogue that had captured her in a whirlwind courtship. Who was this man with haunted eyes who could stil...

  • Return to Tulsa

    Norma Jean Lutz
    • / Historical Romance
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    Erik and Clarette Torsten are committed to each other and to God. After all, together they survived the race riots back in Tulsa. So surely they can face a little small-town prejudice in Erik's home town. But when a flood drives their small wee...

  • The Rising Son

    Darlene Mindrup

    Keiko Tochigi, the California-born daughter of Japanese immigrants, is looking forward to her high school graduation. That is until the death of her father's old friend brings his mysterious son to their farm to collect on a marriage contract the two...

  • Something Wicked

    Jo Beverley

    It was a night of danger and intrigue. Disguised as the mysterious beauty Lisette, Lady Elfled Malloren anticipates only fun and flirtation at the Vauxhall Gardens Masquerade. Instead, the dark walkways lead to an encounter with treason, a brush with...

  • Song of the Dove

    Peggy Darty
    • / Historical Romance
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    Elisabeth has always known that she isn't the natural daughter of Mary and Jed Greenwood, despite the fact that they raised her since finding her as a baby. But she never guessed that her true identity could cause her so much grief. Is it possible th...

  • Song of the Highlands

    Sharon Gillenwater

    After an inheritance makes him the Earl of Branderree, Scottish military piper Kiernan Macpherson finds himself thrust into the unfamiliar, glittering world of Regency England's aristocracy. His greatest surprise, however, comes when he wins a run-do...

  • Strong As the Redwood

    Kristin Billerbeck
    • / Historical Romance
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    Forced by an overbearing stepfather to take a teaching position in the wilds of California's logging country, Rachel Phillips vows to make the best of her situation. But, when she innocently peaks the interest of the town's most eligible bachelor, ha...

  • The Sun Still Shines

    Linda Ford
    • / Historical Romance
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    Bessie wanted to live in Toronto, but it was her duty to accompany her ailing husband to live on the Alberta prairie, where it was hoped the clear air and sunshine would make him well. She was horrifed at the primitive living conditions, but it was h...

  • Tempting Tess

    Joyce Adams

    A DANGEROUS WOMAN Attractive as she was, Tess Fontana was not going to ensnare Texas Ranger Zack Mackinzie in her seductive web. Not a woman who could also be a cold-blooded killer. Mackinzie had followed her father's traveling carnival to Virgi...

  • Threads of Love

    Judith McCoy Miller
    • / Historical Romance
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    Her godly mother is dead and her bitter father wants his freedom. What's left for Delphinia Elizabeth Hughes? Hired to be a nanny for five orphaned children and a housekeeper for their uncle, Delphinia begrudgingly leaves her childhood home in Illino...

  • A Time to Love

    Carol Mason Parker
    • / Historical Romance
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    The people of Waterville, Maine, are getting on with life and love, but when will Emily and Robert ever have their own time to love? She never expected that God would lead Robert to serve in a small mission church far away in the wilds of Pennsylvani...

  • Tulsa Trespass

    Norma Jean Lutz
    • / Historical Romance
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    Tessa Jurgen knows all too well that prejudice and hatred do not vanish overnight. Because of her past the man she loves has been falsely arrested and thrown in jail. Because of her past she cannot forgive herself or her adversaries, and she cannot b...

  • Valiant Heart

    Sally Laity
    • / Historical Romance
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    Orphaned, Amanda and Sarah Jane Shelby are left without hope in the bustling town of Independence, Missouri. Sarah Jane reacts to their situation with a positive and adventurous attitude, while Amanda, being the oldest, takes their predicament with a...

  • The Waiting Time

    Eugenia Price

    Bostonian Abby Banes thought marrying much older Eli Allyn would be a romantic dream: he would make her the pampered mistress of a plantation on Georgia's glorious seacoast. But she wasn't prepared for the realities of slavery or aching loneliness. A...

  • Where Leads the Heart

    Colleen Coble

    Everyone in Wabash, Indiana, is rejoicing in the aftermath of the Civil War-except for Sarah Montgomery. The war has taken what she held most dear. Receiving official notification that her fiance' Rand Campbell, is dead, Sarah agrees to marry Ben Cro...

  • Winter Hearts

    Maureen McKade

    THE LAWMAN Sheriff Matt Brandon senses something mysterious about the lovely new schoolteacher, Libby O'Hanlon, and he resolves to keep an eye on her. Although the curves Libby hides under her drab clothing stir long-dormant desires, it's the compas...

  • Attack of the Killer Ants

    Betsy Haynes

    Disgusted by the multitude of red ants that threaten the school picnic, Ryan and Alex go on an ant-squashing spree only to be targeted by a huge, hairy monster of an ant that wants to make the boys into slaves. Original....

  • The Evil House

    Christopher Pike

    Adam and his group of supernatural-fighting friends encounter a force of particularly potent power and begin a desperate struggle to save Spooksville--and themselves--from a fate worse than death. Original....

  • Execution of Innocence

    Christopher Pike

    Sharing a love that most people envy, Charlie and Mary find their lives shattered when Mary is unfaithful and Charlie turns murderous, a situation that has Charlie on the run and Mary ostracized by her peers...

  • The Gunpowder Plot

    Antonia Fraser

    A bestselling historian's account of the Gunpowder Plot.With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives t...

  • House of a Thousand Screams

    P. MacFearson

    Uncle Solly has left Jill and Freddie’s family a house -- a house full of evil....

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    M.T. Coffin

  • More & More Tales to Give You Goosebumps

    R.L. Stine

    "Will Aunt Vera's book of magic spells spell scary trouble for Kari? Is Jeffrey a musical genius or is the old guitar he stole really haunted? Are Mike and his brother Ray house-sitting for a monstrous ghost?"...

  • The Runaway

    R.L. Stine

    She can't run away from her past. Shadyside. It sounded like such a nice town, the perfect place for a runaway like Felicia. Nobody here would know about her dark powers. Nobody would know what she had done. For once, she could be a normal girl. S...

  • Scream of the Evil Genie

    R.L. Stine

    Reader beware--you choose the scare! GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS!As usual, it was a pretty long day at school. So before you do your homework you decide to grab a soda. But when you open the can, out pops a genie who offers you three wishes. She seems p...

  • The Thing Under the Bed

    Daniel Ehrenhaft

    After Otis finishes eating under his covers, he throws his garbage under his bed, but when it begins to stink, makes weird noises, and something slimy slithers across his floor and slides back under the bed, Otis worries that he may be the thing's ne...

  • Water Rites

    Guy N. Smith

    IN THE VILLAGE OF HOPWAS, THERE IS A BARBED WIRE FENCE AROUND THE OLD RESERVOIR. An elderly derelict living in the Hopwas woods has seen them gather under the chill of the moon. He has heard the haunting echoes of their strange midnight chants. A re...

  • Jane and the Man of the Cloth

    Stephanie Barron

    Jane and her family are looking forward to a peaceful holiday in the seaside village of Lyme Regis. Yet on the outskirts of town an overturned carriage forces the shaken travelers to take refuge at a nearby manor house. And it is there that Jane meet...

  • A Letter of Mary

    Laurie R. King

    Late in the summer of 1923, Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the illustrious Sherlock Holmes, are ensconced in their home on the Sussex Downs. giving themselves over to their studies: Russell to her theology, and Holmes to his malodorous chemical...

  • Murder on the Flying Scotsman

    Carola Dunn

    In the fourth installment of Carola Dunn's cozy mystery series set in 1923 England, diligent Daisy Dalrymple sets out for Scotland on assignment for Town and Country magazine--and finds herself sharing a rail compartment with squabbling would-be heir...

  • Skin Deep, Blood Red

    Robert Skinner

    Even At Ten Grand, The Price Of The Soul Is Never An Easy Sale... Chance Tartaglia, a cop with a nasty reputation for embezzling, pimping, and drug-dealing has been found shot to death. To nightclub owner Wesley Farrell--who knows all about secrets-...

  • Conan and the Death Lord of Thanza

    Roland J. Green
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Few places are as desolate as the Thanza Mountains on the border of Nemedia and Aqilonia. few area are so remote, so dangerous, or so inaccessible...which is why Conan chose these mountains as the perfect spot in the world for Conan to be.

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  • Arizona Gun Law

    J.T. Edson

    When Stone Hart's wealthy ranch becomes the target for greedy outlaws, his only chance of defending his stretch of Spanish Grant County lies in the a hard-hitting, fast-shooting Texan crew that includes the Ysabel Kid and Calamity Jane. Original....

  • The Arizona Strip War

    Jake Logan

    WAR IS HELL Slocum's running hard and fast from bounty hunters -- a pair of no-good thugs who'd love to make a buck by bringing him down. And he'll hole up anywhere until things cool off -- even a ranch that's at the center of a brutal cattle war ...

  • Bonnie Belmont

    John Salisbury Cochran